The McGill Tribune Vol. 10 Issue 9

In s id e

T h is W e e k

Fiesta flounders

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Organizers cancel Friday night concert.

Municipal mess

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Montreal's city council proves confusing.

Hip-hop report card

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Newcomer Laquan rises to the head of the class.

Rudby Heartbreak Oct. 30 - Nov. 5, 1990

Published by the Students' Society of McGill University

Volume 10 Issue 9

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McGill loses in overtime to Bishop's.

A th o l Fu g ard ...see entertainment page

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what’s on NOTICES D u rin g the w e e k o f Oct. 29 -N o v . 2 y o u c a n s u p p o r t the C h ild r e n s ' C r u ­ s a d e o f P eru b y s to p p in g b y the tab le in the U n io n L o b b y d u r in g FIE ST A W E E K a n d d o n a tin g an y fo o d a n d / o r m o n ey . T -sh irts w ill a lso b e a v a ila b le fo r sale.

T h e P illa r M a g a z in e is curren tly se e k in g su b m iss io n s for an u p c o m in g issu e. D ead lin e is N o v e m b e r 10th, 1990.

A n y su b m issio n o n an y to p ic in an y fo rm a t w ill b e a c c e p te d fo r c o n sid e ra ­ tion. W e a ls o n e e d s ta ff m em b ers.

P le a se se n d su b m issio n s to 3479 P eel S treet, 3 r d flo o r o r call u s a t 398-4183.

T h e R ich a rd F. S a lisb u ry M em o rial L e c tu re sh ip S e rie s p re se n ts M ichel P a ra d is, P r o fe sso r o f L in g u istic s at M cG ill U n iv e rsity . T h e lectu re w ill be " T w o L a n g u a g e s In O n e B rain : N e u ro ­ lin g u is tic A s p e c ts o f B i l i n g u a l i s m " , h eld in L e a c o c k ro o m 232 at 4:00 p.m .

T U E S D A Y , O C T O B E R 30 E lija h H a r p e r w ill b e s p e a k in g at 11:00 am a t the U n io n B allroom . T he M an itob a M L A w a s the in d iv id u al w ho

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sto p p e d M eech th is su m m e r. T ick ets at S a d ie s, $ 2 ./s tu d e n ts , $ 4 /g e n e r a l.

Q u é b e c PIR G p re se n ts A r n o ld B e n ­ n e tt 's T e n a n ts ' R ig h ts C lin ic in the lob b y o f the U n io n B u ild in g b etw een 11 -1. F o r m ore in fo c all 398-7432.

Q u é b e c PIR G w ill b e h o ld in g a P u b lic A c tio n C o m m itte e M e e tin g a t 5:30 p.m . in the E ato n B u ild in g in ro o m 550.

M cG ill U n iv e rsity A n th ro p o lo g y D e p artm e n t is p re se n tin g P ro fe sso r R o b ert C a m e ir o (C u r a to r o f S o u th A m eric an E th n o lo g y , A m e ric an M u ­ s e u m o f N a tu r a l H isto ry , N e w Y ork) w h o w ill be s p e a k in g o n " T h e O r ig in a n d E v o lu tio n o f th e C h ie f d o m " in L e ac o c k ro o m 738 fro m 4:30-6:00 p.m .

F ie s ta F a sh io n S h o w . M u ltic u ltu ­ ra l d e s ig n fro m a ll o v e r th e w o rld at 7 p m in th e U n io n B allroom .

TH U RSD A Y, N O VEM BER 1 T h e M cG ill S o ciety o f M o n treal a n d T h e M cG ill A sso c ia te s p re se n ts Dr. A n ­ toin e H a k im o n " I m a g in g th e B r a in " a s p a rt o f th e F o o d For T h o u g h t lu n ch ­ e o n se rie s. F o u n d e r's R oom , U n iv e r­ sity C lu b o f M o n treal, 2047 M a n sfie ld S tre e t a t 12:00 n oon . $15.00.

M u ltic u ltu r a l S m o r g a s b o r g at 5:30 p m in th e U n io n B u ild in g $ 8 .0 0 /stu d e n ts, $ 1 2 .5 0 /g e n e ra l, $ 5 .0 0 /ch ild ren & sen io rs, tickets a t S a d ies. P rofession al E n te rta in e m e n t fro m 3 c o u n trie s...P re sen te d by F iesta.

M c G ill E n tr e p e n e u r s' C lu b p r e s­ e n ts B ru ce K a u fm a n , C E O o f G r o u p e

P r a k a s h D ia r th e la w y e r f o r S o u th A fr ic a 's S h a r p e v ille S i x a t 4 p m in th e U n io n B a llro o m . T ic k e ts a t S a d i e s $2/ stu d e n ts, $4. g e n e ra l M cG ill Film S o c ie ty p re se n ts "T h e R o c k y H o rro r P ic tu re S h o w "in L e a ­

ROOTS RO UNDUP ...fro m V ancouver

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F ie sta B e n e fit f e a tu r in g " T h e S a t a lite s " . T o ro n to R e g g a e b a n d fu n ­ d r a is in g fo r U n ic e f in the U n io n B a ll­ ro o m sta rtin g a t 8:30 p m .

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McDonald-Currie Lectures

K a u fe l S e cu rity A la rm in L e a c o c k 232 a t 5:30 p.m . A ll w elcom e!

C en tre for D e v e lo p in g A re a S tu d ie s is p re se n tin g " I n v o k in g T r a d itio n in W o m e n s' O p p re ssio n : S o c ie ty & P ro p ­ erty in G o r e d e m a V illa g e , Z im b a b w e " a t 12:30 p.m . a t 3715 P eel Street, S e m i­ n a r ro o m 100.

M cG ill F ilm S o cie ty p re se n rs " S h e 's G o tta H a v e I t " in F D A A u d ito r iu m at 7:30 p.m .

T h e M cG ill D iv isio n o f C h ild P sy ­ ch ia try h a s in v ited D r. K y le P ru ett, C lin ic a l P r o fe sso r o f P sy c h ia try a t Y a le U n iv e rsity to g iv e a p u b lic lectu re o n " F a th e r a n d C h ild :P r o b le m s a n d S o ­ l u t io n s " a t 8 :00 p.m . in F D A A u d ito ­ riu m in L e a c o c k B u ild in g . A d m issio n is free.

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th ro u g h u n til 4 :30 p.m .

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M c G ill f o r th e E th ica l T r e a tm e n t o f A n im a ls w ill b e h o ld in g a m e e tin g at 4:30 p .m . in ro o m 410, s tu d e n t u n ­ ion. P lan n in g fo r v e g e ta r ia n festiv al, a ll w elco m e. Info 276-0914.

W o m e n 's F ilm N ig h t in F D A A u d i­ to riu m w ill be sh o w in g E le k tr a T r ie s T o S p e a k a n d A S p y in th e H o u se R u th B u ilt a t 7 p.m .

M cG ill F ilm So ciety p r e se n ts " V e r ­ t ig o " in L e ac o c k 132 a t 7:30 p.m .

T h e French C a n a d a S tu d ie s P r o ­ g r a m m e p r e se n ts a co n fere n ce o n " L a R é v o lu t io n T r a n q u ille :T o w a r d s a R ein te r p r e ta tio n " in L e ac o c k ro o m 232.

S e ssio n I is fro m 9:00 a.m . to 12:00.

S e ssio n II b e g in s a t 1:30 a n d ru n s

V e g e ta ria n F e stiv a l. N o v . 5th to9 th , 11:00-3:00 p.m .. U n io n B u ild in g , ro o m 1 0 7 /8 . Free fo o d s a m p le s , c o o k in g d em o n stratio n s, in fo rm a tio n ,d isp la y s, b o o k s, ta lk s a n d film s. Info, call M E T A 276-0914.

M c G ill P h o to S o c ie ty (M U P S ) w ill b e h a v in g a m e e tin g a t 4:30 p.m . P le a se b rin g slid e s to this slid e w o rk sh o p .

T h e D e p a rtm e n t o f S o c io lo g y p r e s ­ en ts D r. D en ise C o u tu re , A sso c ia te P r o fe ss o r o fS o c io lo g y a t U n iv e r s it e d e M o n trea l, le c tu rin g o n " T e c h n o lo g i­ c al C h a n g e a n d th e H e a lth P r o fe s ­ s i o n s " . L e a c o c k ro o m 738 fro m 3 :0 0 to 5:0 0 p .m . A ll w elcom e.

-R O C K

Blues Bar 3461 Ave du Parc

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O c to b e r 3 0 - N o v e m b e r 5 , 1 9 9 0

n e w s The Sattalites: Fiesta’s star attraction cancelled

BY STEPHANIE SMALL Fiesta's Friday night benefit concert was cancelled due to lack of support from Students' Society administration, organ­ izers say.

The Sattalites were to have capped off McGill's week-long "Festival of Nations" with con­ cert proceeds going to UNICEF. But Fiesta Chair Patricia Park cancelled the concert last Fri­ day when Students' Society support staff questioned whether the event would lose money.

Park feels she was pressured into cancelling the concert be­ cause Program Director Karen Diaz thought the event would lose money.

"I felt I was being intimidated into saying no (to the concert)," Park said. "They have more

experience, this is my first year programming and it's not my money."

Bu tDiaz insists "the students have the final say in the end."

Fiesta's budget was drawn up during the summer, before Park was aware she would be able to book the reggae band from Toronto. The band would have cost $3000, plus sound and light and one night's accomo­ dation in a hotel.

Fiesta coordinators believe the concert would have made a profit.

"They're a very established band," Coordinator Susan Viv­ ian said. "Last year when they were in Montréal they sold out at Café Campus (at the UniversitédeMontréal).They also won the Junos last year."

But Diaz pointed out that the

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Students give but don’t get The extra $6.4 million students dished out this semester due to the tuition fee hike has not lead to a proportionate increase in academic services for students.

Only "$2.8 million (of the $6.4 million) more will be spent on faculty academic services," Vice-Principal (Administration and Finance) John Armour said. The rest of the money will be paid towards the deficit, interest costs, salary increases and mid­ year contingency funds.

Armour presented his financial report to Senate last week. He blamed the "horrendous, pessimistic situation" that McGill is in financially on underfunding from the provincial govern­ ment. McGill's accumulated deficit is estimated at $76 million.

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"A lot of these people aren't going to sponsor anything at McGill again. Whoever is in charge of Fiesta for next year will have quite a job," Vivian said.

SSMU VP Finance Jane Howard called the cancellation of the band "a disaster" and speculated on what it would mean for next year's Fiesta week budget.

not support a student event where the proceeds are going to a good cause?" Vivian asked.

Organizers are worried the cancelled concert will affect the rest of the week negatively.

band has played at McGill twice, and only succeeded in drawing a crowd of about two hundred people the last time they were here.

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"I'm doing it for the students.

I just want them to have a good time," Park said.

Organizers question why SSMU support staff would not endorse the funding for the concert.

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"When there's a massive error, I think JMC (Join t Manage­ ment Committee) will be a little more reluctant to be suppor­ tive," Howard said.

Park says she may have been able to get support from the Students' Society Executive,but she "never got a chance to talk to them".

Neither the VP Finance nor the VP Internal were aware this weekend that Park had can­ celled the concert.

"Usually we can negociate something or work something out," VPIntemal Joanna Wedge said.

One of Fiesta's planned key­ note speakers, Stephen Lewis, also cancelled because he broke his hip. □

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"Everything rode on this concert. People (sponsors) gave more money once they realized there was a concert," Park said.

Much of the sponsorship for other Fiesta events hinged on the fact the Sattalites were coming.

"The radio station CJFM had already started giving out tick­ ets and was going to give plugs for Fiesta all week long," Viv­ ian said. "Coca Cola (sponsor­ ship) was very dependent on the Sattalites coming. LabatFs did free postering and they may

SSMU to spend $80,000 on renovations Students' Society will spend at least $80,000on renovations to make more efficient use of its office space.

According to SSMU VP Internal Joanna Wedge, the increase in staff, uses of the office and student use require the office to be made more space efficient. Students' Society particularly wants to increase the size of the lounge to accomodate larger student gatherings and thoroughfare.

"It's very possible that the plan brought forward by the archi­ tects may go over $80,000," SSMU VP Finance Jane Howard said.

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Students fear views wiii be distorted Students fear "leading questions" in the survey they were asked to fill out during last week's referendum may lead to a distorted representation of their political views.

SSMU wants to use results of the questionnaire on the future of Québec along with discussions from tomorrow's public meeting to compile a brief to be presented to the BélangerCampeau Commission on the Constitutional Futureof Québec.

"I'm concerned about how my answer will appear in the re­ sults," said George Claydon, U2 Arts. "The wording of the questions leave the results up to huge interpretation."

"I could just imagine an article saying 'McGill students want Québec to separate'," Claydon said.

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E d it o r ia l

Getting beyond father knows best Under the trusteeship which has been in place for the past fifteen years, the staff of the Students' Society are not responsible to their employers. By employers, I mean students ... the members of "our'' Society.

"Who's running this institution - Scott's or students?" queried one patron in response to the Alley's change of character last week. We know students are supposed to run Students' Society, but under the trusteeship, their job is made difficult, if not impossible.

38.5% of the Students'Society budget is spent on operations including staff salaries.

Each Arts, Science, Management and Engi­ neering student contributes $21.56 to the operations of the Students' Society - in large part the salaries of the 12 individuals em­ ployed full time to facilitate SSMU operations.

There is no means for those staff members to become accountable to students because their job descriptions are not available to students, or even to Council.

The result is the weakened functioning of the Society. The main reason to hire staff in a student-run organization is to provide conti­ nuity, to balance the irregularity of student schedules and to provide a store of knowledge to off-balance the high annual turnover of students.

All of these roles are designed with one philosphy in mind: that staff is a resource for the students who run an organization. As such, staff should be accountable to the students whom they serve.

Envision, if you will, the problems commu­ nicating the role of staff as a resource for students if the staff is accountable only to other staff members. Without a job description to aid them, how are students supposed to know what it is reasonable to ask someone?

Given the intermittent contact that is the rule of student life, it is impossible to have a full sense of what a staff member does without a job description to outline the parameters of ex­ pectations. This confusion cannot make any staff member's job easier.

Students also tend to assume the status quo of job performance represents the fulfillment of the staff member's job. In either case, with­ out access to the relevant information, it is im­ possible for students to judge job performance

by any objective standard to which both they (or their predecessors) and the assigned staff member nave agreed.

Under the trusteeship, all Students' Society employees are, in fact, university employees ana, as such, their job descriptions are confi­ dential, according to the terms of their union contracts.

Only a staff member's direct supervisor and the Students' Society Executive can see the description. They are not available to anyone else - including Council, co-workers, or stu­ dents outside tne Executive who work closely with the staff.

At this point, it may seem like a digression to draw attention to the reasons for which most students' societies were formed. The reason was to contest what was then the prevailing notion that the University could or should act "in paterfamilias" - essentially 'father knows best' - with respect to the students. That the interests of students are different from the interests of the University has been demon­ strated innumerable times in the area of politi­ cal representation. A most recent example woulj^pe tv»ition.fre hikes: students' interests were poTrepresented by the University's position.

It follows that students' administrative needs are not served by the University's administra­ tive processes either: the issues raised by staffing are a case in point. The University exists for students, but it is not a student run organization and as such is only indirectly responsible to students.

The Students' Society as an organization and all the component parts of tne machine - is supposed to be directly accountable to stu­ dents. But the trusteeship prevents direct functional accountability.

The Students' Society has been in a strong financial position for several years. There is no reason that there cannot be a student board to audit the Students' Society. The Society's function - to serve and represent its members, students - is impeded by this anachronistic trusteeship.

The Society must be made accountable to students for its management.

-Kelly Gallagher-Mackay

O c to b e r 3 0 - N o v e m b e r 5 , 1 9 9 0

E d it o r ia l

A re y o u h e re to g e t a G P A (or an e d u c a tio n )?

Over a week has passed since the deadline for with­ drawal from A and D term courses. Students who have only now come to realize that they are over their heads have little recourse. If a student appeals in good faith, she or he may be accused by the dean of, "playing games", argj > (§jyusifying the reasons É^wjj^Withdrawing earlier".

We need not blindly accept this situation: IT DOES NOT HAVE TO BE LIKE THIS. McGill's treatment of stu­ dents is antediluvian.We stu­ dents are treated as children; we are patronized and be­ littled. The university's rules are arbitrary and inflexible, and recourse is not only difficult, but frequently insulting.

Not all schools treat stu­ dents in this manner. Nor can McGill argue that its rule structure is in any way connected to its academic prestige. Brown College is one of the many American schools at which students are able to withdraw from courses until the last day of classes. There is no penalty of failure for this action.

Would this system allow free reign to avoid penalty for lack of effort, by allowing students to avoid low marks?

The student is already penal­ ized by having spent her or his time and money on a course which she or he will have to either repeat or sub­ stitute. This system allows for the ability for students as rational adults to weigh consequences and based on that process, make respon­ sible decisions about their academic needs.

By creating a process which systematically denies students responsibility for decision making in their own lives, the University creates graduates without the ability to make decisions for themselves. In­ stead, the students expect ir­ rational and arbitrary systems to dictate the course of their lives. Students will be willing to accept vague, threatening warnings about the cost of change as a justification for the existence of a system.

Furthermore, withdrawal policy is not the only area in which McGill lags behind other institutions. Schools like Columbia afford to their students the opportunity allow students to elect to defer examinations without justification. The decision of the student to defer her or his examination is not without its own penalty: exams must be made up at some later date,

when other work pressures will make study difficult.

At McGill, a high GPA is a requirement in order to change programmes. Buta student's aptitute in one area of study does not determine their possibility of attaining excellence in another. McGill never gives the student a chance to prove herself or hiself.

These alternatives are not extreme: furthermore, there are schools which have gone to extremes to enact their belief in the idea that students are at university to get an education and not just a grade. Haverford College, near Philadelphia, operates on a Quaker tradition of student honor. Students are permitted to write their exams when they like, where they like; with no supervision.

There are those who argue that a system which trusts students as much as Haverford's leads to graduates with unrealistic expectations of the world. That view is but stuff and nonsense. Universities exist as a means of improving society. University graduates who learn to take responsibil­ ity for themselves and others are doubtless more valuable to society than graduates who have learned only how to exploit an arbitrary system.

The time has come for the university to stop treating us as high school students. We pay for this service.

There are those who argue that because society pays the bulk of the cost of our educa­ tion, we students should not be the sole judge of what kind of system would serve our needs. Again: nonsense. It is not beneficial to society to pay for a student to fail a course.

Society benefits from educa­ t in g students, not from giving them grades.

Students are here to get an education. We are adults who are capable of deciding how we can best get that educa­ tion.

We have representatives on the Board of Governors and in Senate. We have to ask what is keeping them from intro­ ducing reforms. We cannot accept as an answer "that is how the system works." We should be prepared to back up their actions with protest about not only accessibility to education but the quality of education that we receive.

If we show the university we are capable of decisive behaviour it will stop treating us like children.

David Gruber

O c to b e r 3 0 - N o v e m b e r 5 , 1 9 9 0

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op/ ed D o n ’t Blame teachers!

"There are plenty ofpeople in Canadian universities who are the worst teachers in the world and who are promoted solely for their research,'"

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- Stuart Smith, Chairper- son of a cross-Canada in­ quiry into the quality and relevence of a university education. The inquiry neld hearings in Montreal last week.

ROBERT STEINER

Welcome, Mr. Smith, to the oldest game on campus.

Older than football, betterknown than soccer, more dangerous than dry-land training for the high-diving team. Welcome, sir, to "Blame The Teacher."

"Blame The Teacher" has probably been played as a student version of "Pass The Buck" ever since a bunch of illiterates got together to found Oxford. But it is tak­ ing a turn for the absurd in Québec. Two weeks ago a group of McGill computer students signed a petition complaining that their pro­ fessor's Russian accent was too thick to understand.

Last week the Vice-Principal of Bishop's University suggested that undergradu­ ate programs have disapE eared because researcneen professors don't want to teach them. Apparently the problem isn't just in Quebec, though. Mr.Smith says it's some kind of national crisis.

All of which has got me wondering - what is the dif­ ference between a bad teacher and a bad class? My guess is that there's not much of one: teachers don't have time to teach and students - this will sound dumb- don't really have time to study. I'll get to what I mean in a moment.

Let7s first go over some of the classic complaints just to make sure there is a prob­ lem (forgive the arts Dias).

M y teacher is so boring! I know this one really well. I get up an hour early this year because I know I can

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snooze for two hours in her class. Occasionally I miss her odd version of the Catherine the Great and the Horse anecdote, complete with accents. But then again, she never notices I'm sleeping. She's like the other teachers who Just don't care about stu­ dents! This is the guy you see coming out of the Faculty Club during his office hours. "I like this university," he might say, "nice buildings." Somehow you're certain he was behind that movement to ban students from the li­ braries and to start the school day at 8 a.m. His lecture notes have worked well for him for two dec­ ades and there's no need to change them now - except that Rhodesia is now spelled with a Z. At least he's sort of better than the other prof, who's nice but Just doesn't have a clue!

She seems to be a good second-rate intellectual. I could get into a conversa­ tion with her about any­ thing except the subject she's teaching. She knows nothing about the Anthro­ pology of Mud. And I refuse to believe that everything about this field is somehow related to Stephen Hawkin's Brief

History of Tim e.

These situations, or ones like them, do exist and our profs may get more tenure points for publishing than teaching, but I wonder if most ofus work hard enough to grasp the subtelties of the expertise they get from research.

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In Jam es Stew art's article "W hen tow els are off" his assertion that "the problem is not one of sexism but a p layer's p riv acy " not only further illustrates the ignorance with which he w rote the article, but also exem plifies the subconscious form s o f sexism that d o exist within ou r society.

After consulting different dictionaries to deter­ mine the true m eaning of sexism itbecam e very clear that prohibiting fem ale reporters from entering player's locker room s w as in fact a sexist action.

Sexism is defined a s "prejucice or discrim ination (the m aking of distinctions- often unfair- in distrib­ uting out treatment, service...) u su. again st women, based on gender". In light of this definition, the iden­ tification of a problem solely with w om en reporters in the locker room is undeniably sexist. To su g g est it is a m atter o f privacy fails to ad d re ss the real issue.

The controversy extends well beyond the peace in which a player is entitled to while changing- w hat locker room is peaceful w ith any reporter in it? - but rather the im plications of a team bein g able to decide whether or not a w om an will be perm itted into this territory. T o m e, this is another dem onstration of m ale oppression a s w ithout equal access to locker room s, w om en lose equal access to a carreer in sports repproting. What form of m edia is goin g to hire or send a fem ale to cover stories where they run the risk of not being able to cover a story in the sam e detail and depth as a com peting station with a m ale re­ porter?

Stew art's noble attem pt to p ay heed to w om en's equal ability in reporting raises the question in m y

m ind a s to how the accopm plishm ent of the the task at hand differs for m ale or fem ale reporters. To my understanding, the job descritions are thr sam e, ren­ derin g m ale qu alm s about their presence som ew hat ill-founded.

This is another illustration of fem ales as scapegoat for the m ale problem . Fem ale reporters are a s much a part o f a profession required to fill the postion to the best of the their ability a s the fem ale chiropractor w ho m ay have to be consulted regarding an injury.

If the "q u e stio n isa sitcky one " I m ust ask for w hom ?

Fortunately, professional sporting organizations like the N FL have considered the serious ram ificationsof a non-equal access policy, the result being som ething to be ap p lau d ed , not condem ned. This controversy ap p ears to rem ain solely within the confines of a few m ale pysches dem onstrating only how much futher we have to g o before sexism will forever be abolished. Your argum ents that: "I'm sure a team of fem ale athletes w ould not appreciate a m ale reporter w altzing into the d ressin g room as they scam per (defined a s "to run about playfully as a child d oes ") out of the show er unclad "or why w ould a w om an w ant to enter a m ale locker room", are irrelevant to the larger issue at hand. If athletes areon ly dem anding peace and privacy, locker room access should be restricted to all reporters. Athletes deserve to exercise their individual right to privacy, how ever restricted access to fem ale reporters is no solution to this controversial issue, but rather a scape­ goating tactic. Perhaps this is w hy your opinion will "u p se t a lot of w om en."

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Sports deserves coverage

L e tt e r s t o t h e E d it o r

Not reverse sexism

It w as with a mixture of shock, disappointm ent and, frankly, anger, that I learned of CRUT-FM 's recent decision not to program live broadcasts of McGill Redmen football gam es.

I w as a m ember of the program m ing committee as Radio M cGill's Sports Director when the station applied to the CRTC foran FM licence. In o u rfo u n d in g Prom ise of Perform ance we designated 2 3 / 4 hours per week of s p o r t s a c t u a l i t y (Live Spo rts) program ­ ming.

Providing services to the com munity and broad­ cast training were alw ays the major goals of Radio McGill when I served as an executive. H ave those goals changed over the last two years?

A s I understand the latest im passe, C R U T s current program m ing committee believes that the broadcast quality of regular telephone lines is not good enough for the FM airw aves and have suggested that the Live Sports proposal not be approved until the sound qual­ ity is enhanced.

The Live Spo rts broadcasts were done through regu­ lar phone lines for the past tw o seasons and not one complaint w as directed tow ards the sports depart­ ment. The quality w as good enough for two years of successful broadcasts and for the M ontreal com m u­ nity.

It w as never the aim of Radio McGill to be "profes­ sional radio" and I w ould challenge the program m ers to call any of their show s "professional sounding".

That fact has alw ays been irrelevant and I w ould question why the C R U T program m ing committee now deem s it relevant to L iw Spo rts broadcasting.

T o the Tribune: This letter is written in response to Heather Juergensen w ho seem s to have m isunderstood the very basic concept of affirmative action. A f­ firmative action is not about excluding people, rather, it is about both affirm ing as positive people w hoare habitually discriminated against, and trying to redress this discrimination by im plem enting policies to better their place in a discriminatory society. H eather's com parison of a W omen's Union to a "M en's C lub" is as ridiculous a s her idea of "reverse sexism ." To say that there is or can be such a thing a s reverse sexism is much like saying that there is such a thing as racism against whites. 'Racism ' against whites and 'sexism ' against men lacks the institutional, ideological and societal back-up that racism against people of color and sexism against women have (a few exam ples of this support are: the KKK, whites-only golf clubs, the Montréal police, the "M ohaw k C risis," the percentage of tenured women faculty members at McGill, rape, sexual harassment, the porn industry...to continue w ould be an insult to anyone's intelligence).

Whether one is actively racist/sexist/hom ophobic or not is in some w ays irrelevant. There are those people and groups who are more virulent or hateful, but the existence of sexism , racism, and hom opho­ bia in out society is all pervasive. A ffirm ative action can scarcely confront this let alone reverse it. A "m en's club" is not an exam ple of affirmative action, nor a place where oppressed persons can escape the discrimination and harassm ent o f the larger society. Rather, it is the forefront of that larger society: it encapsulates and concentrates that power. (Many of such "m en's clubs" didn't and still do not just disallow women, but also refuse m embership to men of color, Jew ish men and gay men, either by principle or by practice).

Such a m isunderstanding can perhaps be explained by false ideas of "universal equality" that render specific oppressions either invisible or insubstantial, and the people that suffer from them even more isolated in the larger white m ale normative society.

Sincerely, Ju lie Craw ford U3 Arts

each per year tow ards the CR U T operating budget.

Don't the students have the right to expect McGill sports to be aired on the school's ow n radio station?

The McGill sports aren't broadcast anywhere else.

Shouldn't am ateur sports be considered a s alternative — the sam e type of program m ing that CR U T has a m andate for?

The McGill University adm inistration loaned more than $200,000 to Radio McGill in order for the station to g o FM. Shouldn't CRU T feel that it has an obligation to the school to stick by its a greement to broadcast McGill sports, as outlined in a proposal that the CRUT program m ingcom m itteeacceptaf unam inouslv .in p r in ciple, this past A ugust?

A s I understand it, the broadcast staff and produc­ tion crew were in place, a sponsor had even paid a $200 deposit (of a $400 committment) to Bell C anada for a phone line which w as installed.

11 all boils dow n to providing services. Radio McGill has been providing Live Spo rts broadcasts of McGill events ever since it received its FM licence. It's a service that h as an audience, that never violated CR U T prin­ ciples. The radio station has an audience that wants it.

Doesn't C R U T want them?

Y ours truly, R en M u ss (form er Sports Director, CRU T-FM 90.3 and sports w riter for the M cG ill Tribune) M ontreal, Que.

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Executive ignores Students included on exam spy system review committee improvement efforts

BY SASHA C H A P M A N Two students will sit on a five person working group set up by Senate to study a com­ puter monitoring system de­ signed to curb cheating on ex­ ams.

VP Academic Samuel Freedman offered to create the working group in response to student and staff outrage over the computer program.

Freedman presented the com­ puter monitoring system to Senate as part of a series of rec­ ommendations to prevent cheating on exams. Other rec­ ommendations included mul­ tiple versions of exams and al­ ternate row seating. The com­ puter program is designed to identify students sitting near

one another who have identical wrong answers.

Until the working group reports its findings at the end of the school year, results of the computer monitoring system will not be used as evidence against students in disciplinary proceedings.

But the computer program "will be used for monitoring exams (to verify the effective­ ness of the other recommenda­ tions)," Freedman said.

The working group will re­ view the accuracy of the com­ puter system. "It's a good idea to check it out independently from the people who devised it," said Freedman.

Students' Society VP Univer­ sity Affairs Deborah Pentesco said the formation of the work­

ing group was "very encourag­ ing" because "students were unable to sit on the original working group. There is a need for a clarification of the pro­ gram."

The McGill Professor who created the program that the university has already used maintains an inquiry will only be initiated if the odds are "approximately one million to one" that collaboration has not taken place.

As a result, Professor David Harpp's program "nearly al­ ways gives results that are almost impossible to chal­ lenge," Chief Invigilator Alain Tichoux said.

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“No” Committee contests marginal referendum results

BY S H A N N O N ALDING ER McGill students may not join the provincial student federa­ tion they voted to join during last week's referendum.

The "N o " Committee is con­ testing the results of the refer-

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According to the letter, the late opening of the Post-Gradu­ ates' Thomson House polling station last Tuesday, "Yes" Committee posters in the im­ mediate vicinity of atleast three polling stations and at least one hand written subliminally proFEEQ sign violated electoral

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endum to join the Fédération des étudiantes et étudiants du Québec (FEEQ) on the grounds that several electoral regula­ tions were violated. Because membership passed with only 52% approval of the 11% voter turnout, the committee is argu­ ing the violations may have affected the referendum results.

Of the 2195 students who voted, 1035 students supported membership, 951 rejected membership, 186 had no opin­ ion and 23ballots were spoiled.

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The Thomson House polling station did not open at noon last Tuesday as was scheduled due to defective polling station equipment. When Thomson House staff were informed that the station would only open

two hours later, they opened it themselves at 1:15 using their own equipment.

"N o " Committee members say lunch time is Thomson House's busiest time of day and therefore many graduate stu­ dents may not have been able to vote because of the delay.

"It must be held in mind that many graduate students who only come on campus at irregu­ lar intervals would have lost their democratic right to vote if they had arrived at the adver­ tised polling time on this par­ ticular day," the letter to the Judicial Board stated.

But SSMU VP External Alex Usher says the delay had little influence on overall voting re­ sults because "only about 15 people" actually voted at the Thomson House polling sta­ tion.

Chief Electoral Officer Eric Steinman would not comment on the referendum until his official report is filed. But he did admit Usher "is way off. At least 50 people voted (at Thom­ son House)."

The "N o" Committee is also accusing the "Yes" Committee of negligence in removing campaign posters from the SEE REFERENDUM ...

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The Executive of Students' Society of McGill University (SSMU) does not have time to help improve the quality of the university education for which we are paying. At the hearings of the new Commission of Inquiry on Canadian University Educa­ tion in Montreal last seek, there was no one to repre­ sent the needs of McGill's undergraduate students.

"N o one had time to present an adequate brief," VP Exter­ nal Alex Usher said.

But surely the Executive feels that the Commission's mandate is worthwhile. All over Canada, students, professors, administrators, ile and the are submit­ ting testimony. They are looking for ways to improve teacher training, course evaluations ana the re­ search-teaching balance, among other things. The Commission will make spe­ cific recommendations on these topics and support them with documented research next fall.

This Commission should be one of SSMU's top priori­ ties.

But it isn't. It seems that our Students' Society Execu­ tive has become cynical in its old age and has decided that making concrete changes in teaching is a pipe dream. If that's the case, the Executive has miscalculated.

This Commission has enough credibility to make itself heard. Stuart Smith, former Ontario Liberal Party leader and former Chairman of the Science Council of Canada is Chairing the com­ mission. Its other members include the former presi­ dents of the University of Alberta and the University of New Brunswick and the former Principal of Queen's University. The present principals and rectors of Canadian universities will have to take notice; it is their organization, the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada (AUCC) that is sponsoring the Commission.

Governments will also be lis­ tening to the Commission's recommendations. They are under pressure, especially from the private sector, to improve the quality of uni­ versity graduates. They will also be particularly happy to hear recommendations that do not include massive infusions of money.

"I don't want my report to be the kind of report which says that money is the prob­ lem and money is the an­ swer," said Smith.

Government support will be important. The federal government does not have jurisdiction over education but it does have some control over transfer pay­ ments to the provinces.

Provincial governments are even more crucial, as the Ex­ ecutive's commitment to

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O u t s id e LARA FRIEDLANDER make the Fédération des étudiantes et étudiants du Québec (FEEQ) a viable President of the Canadian Society for the Study of Higher Education and Director of McGill's Centre for Teaching and Learning, said that "if any­ one can do this [improve the quality of university educa­ tion], this Commission can."

So if all other group» are taking the commission seriously, what is stopping the Executive from malting a statement representing the needs of McGill students?

Are they skeptical that the Commission» recommenda­ tions will be implemented?

Implementation could be a problem, especially in light of possible faculty opposi­ tion. Teachers are not going to support recommendations that endanger their jobs even if they dont like the present "publish or perish" system.

Jack Lightstone, Concordia's Associate Vice Rector, Academic (Research), who helpied present a brief to the Commission last week, said if Smith's recommendations condemn the present re­ search-teaching balance, "he is likely to alienate the universities rather than help us work together."

Lightstone warns that "fac­ ulty unions may...feel that they have major vendettas against thenrr and "are likely to be defensive" if they think public opinion is being used against them.

Smith is aware of this pos­ sibility. "The faculty are in a very important position at universities," he said. "I suspect it would be very difficult to make changes even if they [the Administra­ tions] wanted to without the agreement of faculty."

This is exactly where SSMU's participation is needed. An apathetic Stu­ dents' Society will help E rofessors resist change. The xecutive should be doing its best to raise student ex­ pectations for and encourage faculty commitment to better university education.

The Executive has lost sight of its priorities. It fully commits itself to FEEQ, a student organization whose mandate is doubted by almost half (if not more) of the students it represents and whose ability to lobby the government is debatable, but it does not even bother to testify before a commis­ sion that has enough credi­ bility to achieve change.

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Availability of early exam schedule delayed again

BY CORY G N A Z Z O Students inconvenienced by the late posting of exam sched­ ules will have to wait yet an­ other year before exam dates are available before registration.

Last fall Senate approved a recommendation that a short­ ened ten day exam schedule be printed in time for early regis­ tration by 1991. Such an exam schedule would have been possible only if classes in 199091 had begun at 8:30 am. But both plans were postponed a year due to administrative dif­ ficulties with class scheduling.

In order to provide exam dates at registration, exams must be tied to class times, according to Associate Dean of Engineering James Pro van.

Provan served on a working group on class timetabling ana room scheduling. The group consisted of faculty representa­ tives and two students. It com­ piled a series of recommenda­ tions during the summer of 1989 which Senate passed that Octo­ ber. But by April 1990, the rec­ ommendations had been post­ poned a year.

McGill wants to change the current single study day pro­ ceeding a tnirteen day exam schedule to a four day study period preceeding a ten day

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exam schedule. Such a change would tie exam times to class times.

But the success of the ten day exam period depends on the rescheduling of classes to 8:30.

"Until one problem is solved, we cannot solve the other," Associa te Dean of Science Roger Rigelhof said.

Classes will begin at 8:30 next fall in all faculties except Law. According to Provan, start­ ing classes at 8:30 will increase the number of morning time slots, which is themostpopular time for classes. This measure is aimed at preventing courses with several sections from meeting at different times on different days.

A shorter exam period poses the problem of the shortage of space available for writing exams.

Students currently write most final exams in the Currie Gym­ nasium and the Arts Building because lecture halls do not provide sufficient table space.

Pro van believes this problem can be solved by using specially designed boards place over the desks of two seats in amphithe­ atres and rooms like Leacock 132.

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Students w ill have to w ait another two years before exam schedules are available before registration, could be almost doubled with the use of amphitheatres for final exams.

Rigelhof believes exam scheduling is complicated at McGill because there is no limit to enrolment in many classes.

"If we put a limit on the

number of students in each course then we could go ahead and schedule everything in advance," he said. "W e are not like other universities that close classes when enrolmen tge ts too high."

If the exam schedule was

provided before registration, as it is in most North American universities, it would "allow students to reduce exam con­ flicts and for those not from Montréal, to book tickets home more easily," SSMU President Kate Morisset said. □

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Alley caught in the middle of identity crisis

BY SARAH BORINS The Alley is in search of an "identity" and is looking into renovation options ranging from changing the cafe into a dépanneur or an ice-cream parlour.

"The problem is that the Al­ ley does not appeal to the ma­ jority of students," Students' Society (SSMU) VP University Affairs Deborah Pentesco said.

Pentesco believes the Alley may undergo a complete change of face by next year.

"W e have examined various possibilities for the (Alley) space, such as making it more like a dépanneur or ice-cream parlour," Pentesco said.

"The Alley is making surveys over the year todetermine what the Alley ought to be," SSMU VP Internal JoannaWedge said.

According to Pentesco, part of Scott's Food Service's man­ date is to provide the Alley wi th a new image.

"The intent of dealing with Scott's Food Service this year was to give an identity to the Alley," she said.

The first change Alley patrons noticed upon returning to McGill this fall was the newly painted two-tone mauve walls, while the carpet and chairs if

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Last week the lights were dimmed in the Alley and can­ dlelight became a part of the first a ttempt to provide the area with a new decor.

"W e received a spontaneous petition from the Alley clien­ tele complaining about the darkness," Operations Man-

"I'm worried it will just become another lame-O Gert's. This sucks."

- Alley patron Graham Fante ager Tazin Mohamed said.

Mohamed admits the dim lighting was installed in order to discourage people from us­ ing the Alley as a read ing room.

But he also links the new at­ mosphere to the amount of smoke in the bar.

"W e have placed candles on the tables because they are supposed tobeasmokeeaterof

some sort," Mohamed said.

"Because of the new smoking policy at McGill there are only two places to smoke in the Union Building, so there is a disproportionate number of smokers here."

"W e have concluded (after this period of experimentation) that we want to take a more direct and honest approach.

Right now we are in the process of making a brief for the SSMU to address the smoking prob­ lem."

Mohamed believes the Al­ ley's "identity", and any reno­ vations that may result, hinge on the smoke problem.

Few students who frequent the Alley find any problem wi th its old identity.

"I'm worried it will just be­ come another lame-O Gert's.

This sucks. Who's running this institution - Scott's or the stu­ dents? It's a sell-out. We're sell­ ing our souls to Scott's on a silver platter," Alley regular Graham Fante said.

"If those frocks (worn by Scott's staff) are indication of the direction they're going in, I'll tell you what direction I'm going in - straight out the door," Siobhan Liddell said □

Université de Montréal

Directeur ou directrice L'École d’architecture de la Faculté de l’aménagement annonce la tenue d’un concours pour le poste de directeur ou de directrice. Le mandat de 4 ans est renouvelable.

Fonctions Gestion des ressources humaines et matérielles confiées à sa responsabilité; coordination et développement des programmes en architecture de paysage aux trois cycles: participation à l’enseignement et à la recherche à titre de professeur.

Exigences Satisfaire aux critères de nomination au rang de professeur agrégé: Ph.D. ou maîtrise avec expérience professionnelle en architecture de paysage ou dans un domaine connexe; expérience d'enseignement universitaire; contribution reconnue en recherche ou en pratique professionnelle. Présenter des qualités d'animateur et de gestionnaire. S'intéresser activement au milieu de la pratique professionnelle.

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by various influences," Legal Information Clinic Director Cameron Young said.

Pentesco is also "concerned about presumption of guilt that this type of program assumes."

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"Statisticians presume that statistics are an accurate way of dealing with social problems.

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Even if the working group finds the program is statisti­ cally reliable, many students and some professors are still wary of using a computer pro­ gram to monitor students.

"I am philosophically op­ posed to the computer moni­ toring system and believe it will have an overall detrimental effect on the student popula­ tion," Acting Dean of Students Lynne Butler-Kisber said.

"Tests of probability always

contain a margin of chance.

How can it differentiate be­ tween who studied together, who was taught together and who copied from whom?" But­ ler-Kisber asked Senate last Wednesday.

Critics of thecomputermonitoring system also question the appropriateness of using sta­ tistics to determine student behaviour.

"Statistics deal with random events," Pentesco said. "W e are not dealing with a random event but a human thought

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doubt," said Science Senator Sujit Choudhry. But with the statistical information from the computer program, there is a "shadow of a doubt" even when the odds are one in a million.

Choudhry acknowledges that "cheating is a problem at this university". But he believes

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Tichoux believes the com­ puter system would act as an effective and cost feasible de­ terrent to cheating but main­ tained, "I don't like that kind of police-state atmosphere.' □

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But FEEQ VP Undergradu­ ate Affairs Robert Fabes says the "N o" Committee could be accused of similar negligence.

"They should make sure their own house is clean before ac­ cusing the "Yes" Committee," Fabes said. "I saw a "N o" Committee flyer tacked toa wall in the vicinity of a polling sta­ tion. I'm not saying they did it intentionally because I know it is difficult to remember where each poster and flyer was hung."

Usher attributes any such negligence to polling clerks.

"If the polling clerks didn't take down posters then it's not our fault," Usher said.

But according to regulations, the committee that puts up posters is also responsible for removing them.

The "N o" Committee also charges that hand written signs reading "VOTE for FEEQ refer­ endum" could be quickly read as VOTE for FEEQ therefore influencing students' votes.

The Judicial Board has ap­ proximately two weeks to de­ cide firstif electoral regulations were violated and then if such violations influenced the refer­ endum results.

The "N o" Committee's ap­ peal comes as no surprise to "Yes" commi ttee campaigners.

"I'm not in any way surprised that they're contesting the ref­ erendum," Usher said. "I'm just surprised that (those factors) are all they're contesting."

He attributes the "N o" Com­ mittee's appeal to the ongoing feud concerning PGSS secession from SSMU. "It has been clear from the start that a 'no' vote was not no to FEEQ but rather no to SSMU," Usher said.

"It was kind of expected. It's all part of the game," Fabes said.

Usher believes the Judicial Board will overrule the appeal.

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"But if the Board upholds the appeal, McGill will continue its interim membership (in FEEQ) and we'll go back to the polls in March," Usher said. "We'll vote again if we lose membership on a technicality. But I don't think

we will."

Usher does not believe the narrow margins of victory both at McGill last week and at the Université de Montréal the week before will undermine FEEQ's strength or legitimacy.

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fo c u s Making a choice: Enumerated but unsure for whom to vote? Confused by city politics and the number of municipal parties in MontrĂŠal? Don't know who's running in your constituency? Understanding these and other issues is essential to making an informed choice in the upcoming election.

Electoral map show ing districts around M c G ill - see next page fo r listin g of candidates.

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Montréal council still governed from above

BY SARAH LEVINE Montréal was declared a nuclear-free zone over a year ago. Nevertheless, such a pol­ icy has not yet been imple­ mented, and the topic is still in the "discussion stage" in a city council committee.

The numerous signs pro­ claiming the anti-nuclear pol­ icy are a particularly visible example of general confusion and lack of accountability that charcterizes city policy, accord ing to Karen Herland, Québec PIRG's full-time Municipal Profile Project Manager.

"They made a campaign promise going into the last elec­ tion to make the city into a nuclear free zone. The first thing the committee did was put up the signs. We're still waiting for them to move the arms manu­ facturer from the 'Green space'."

Support for promises for improved accountability and grassroots participation swept the Montréal Citizens' Move­ ment into power during the last election. Nevertheless, Mon­ treal's civic government is still characterized by an indecipher­ able structure and decision making by an unaccountable elite.

Virtually all decisions are taken by Mayor Doré and his executive committee. This committe is made up of seven unelected councillors, each of whom is responsible for certain aspects of city administration.

The MCM has also" set up five commissions to receive consultation and handle hearings on different aspects of city plan­ ning, such as community de­ velopment and economic de­

velopment. It sounds very open, but nothing decided by them (the commissions) is binding," said Herland.

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happens between the time a commission hears evidence regarding a decision and the time actual executive decision­ making takes place. "The ex­ ecutive committee is completely detached from any lower body."

The commissions produce reports on various problems within their areas of expertise.

The reports are, in theory, ac­ cessible to the public.

"But anyone who wants to get their hands on any docu­ mentation has to have a lot of money and a lot of time. It costs $.25 per page to get a report copied, and the only way to get what you want is to go and search for it yourself. There is no retrieval system. It is liter­ ally impossible to get a copy of the city budget," Herland said.

When it first entered office the MCM also set up twelve "neighbourhood councils" to handle municipal complaints.

"They are arbitrarily placed,

and no one knows what happens with a complaint after it has been brought to one of these councils," Her­ land said.

"These councils are where questions and complaints are con­ stantly being referred.

They can sometimes handle small, neigh­ bourhood problems, but no one who works in these offices has any idea of how to deal wi thlarger questions," she added.

The M CM claims that the commissions and councils have put more input into the hands of the public.

However, confusion and lack of a clear mandate for these bodies has actually perpetuated much of the status quo.

After thirty-plus years, many former MCM members were disillusioned by the lack of change from Civic Party rule has lead to disillusion. In 1986 the MCM was a, "party of grassroots activists who prom­ ised to be an antidote to the previous gov­ ernment's elite struc­ ture." The failure of the party to fulfill many of its campaign promises has lead to the defec­ tion of a number of members, and to the forming of the Demo­ cratic Coalition, and Municipal Parties.

Nevertheless, the Doré ad­ ministration can claim to have

been somewhat more demo­ cratic than its predecessor.

"Drapeau [the Civic Party mayor who was defeated by Doré] used to decide everything himself. He even decided on the party membership," Her­ land said.

The newer parties in thiselec-

tion have renewed promises of increased openess and consul­ tation at city hall. The failure of the M CM to live up to similar promises made four years ago has led many to doubt that any party can effectively change the city's decision making structure. □

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BY LISA H ARRISON A N D D A V ID GRUBER

Representatives from each of the five municipal parties met to present their parties' positions on issues of concern to the City of Montréal ata Québec PIRG-sponsored candidates debate last Thursday. Outlined below are some of the more interesting responses to the topics raised.

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Democracy All parties recognize the need to involve more citizens in local politics.

Nick Auf Der Maur, candidate for the Municipal Party of Mon­ treal, suggested "the evolution of a borough system, similar to the format used in Toronto, to replace the existing hybrid sys­ tem" All of Montréal is divided into districts except for some incorporated cites, such as Westmount..

All candidates focused on decentralization of government as the most obvious solution to the decision-making problem.

They wished to give the neigh­ bourhood councils far more say in the decision-making process.

Montréal Citizen's Movement candidate, John Gardiner, re­ minded the audience of the establisment of the Access Mon­ tréal offices set up throughout the city.

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Montréal has a long tradi­ tion foreign to most North American cities: the city-only political party. Because these parties are not affiliated with more widely known provin­ cial or federal parties, few voters know the history of the parties, or for wha tthey stand.

The following is a brief guide | to the six parties running for the fifty council seats, and the mayoralty, in the upcoming municipal election.

of the suburbs.

Candidate for Ecology Mon­ treal in Jeanne Mance, Dimitri Roussopolous, attributed part of the problem to the fact that Montréal has become, "a circus of spectacles. We merely host one festival after another." He sug­ gests that city planners put an accent on ecological concerns to maintain the attractiveness of the downtown core.

Nick Auf Der Maur relates the problem of suburbanization to the, "extrodinary high taxation of central city business ventures."

He believed people are moving their businesses and, conse­ quently, their homes to the sub­ urbs.

A second concern is the exo­ dus of middle class citizens have left the urban core for the haven

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affordable housing are also key problems in the downtown area.

John Gardiner claimed "only 25% of Montrealers own their homes," and suggested "those who cannot afford the market be awarded some form of guaran­ teed housing."

Roussopoulos recalling his own experience with the Milton Park cooperative housing proj­ ect in the 1970's, and expressed his interest in seeing more such projects formed.

Safety Concern is also escalating for the rise in violence against women.

In defining the city's responsi­ bility, Sam Boskey, of the Demo­ cratic Coalition of Montreal, outlined the need for a socially accepted program similar to Alcoholics Anonymous, for "councelling individuals with tendencies toward violent out­ bursts."

Nelson Morin, of the Civic Party of Montréal, suggested, "an improved definition of the po­ lice role, and more emphasis on social services such as shelters for battered women."

Req/cling Aware of an increasingly vocal environmental movement, none of the parties oppose recycling programs. However, there was disagreement as to what pro­ grams would be most effective in reducing the city's waste prob­ lem.

John Gardiner stated that ex­ isting programs are not very ef­ fective. He claims, "effective re­ cycling programs only exist in 5% of the city". He laid emphasis on continuing incineration.

Nick Auf Der Maur proposed "recycling bins in office build­ ings since 60% of all waste is paper" and emphasized the economic feasibility of such a plan.

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1. M ontréal Citizen's Movement-MCM (Rassem­ blement des citoyens et ci­ toyennes de Montréal-RCM) The MCM was established as a grassroots organization in 1975 in response to the Civic Party's thirty year strangle­ hold on the municipal gov­ ernment. In the 1978 election, the MCM elected several can­ didates, and set up an opposi­ tion in council to the Civic Party. N o MCM candidates were elected in 1982. Finally, in 1986, running on a platform of increasing citizen involve­ ment and accessible govern­ ment, the MCM won an over­ whelming majority, taking fifty-six of fifty-eight seatsand the mayorality.

Many councillors have since become disillusioned with the party and have left to form other groups or parties.

Incumbent Jean Doré is run­ ning for mayor at the head of a full slate of candidates.

2. Montréal Civic Party (Parti civique de Montréal) The Civic Party ruled the cityforoverthirtyyears, under the direction of charismatic Mayor Jean Drapeau. Drap­ eau brought the city Expo, the Olympics, the metro, and underground shopping.

However, the party also brought the city tremendous debt, and inconsistent devel­ opment, while enduring countless charges of corrup­ tion. The party was soundly defeated in 1986.

Today's Civic Party has pro­ nounced itself a changed being. Drapeau is gone; and his sucessors have renounced his autocratic decision-mak­ ing practices.

Civic is seen as the most pro­ business and pro-develop-

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The party is running a full slate of candidates, and its mayoralty candidate is Nicole Gagnon-Laroeque.

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3. Municipal Party of Montréal-MPM (Parti municipal de Montréal-PMM) The M PM has been described as "Nick Auf Der Maur's baby."

Auf Der Maur has, at one time or another,beena part of every local party except Montréal Ecolo­ gique. Auf Der Maur and a grou p of other former MCM and Civic Party members formed the party as an alternative to the authori­ tarian and elitist practices of their former parties, and to the greater progressivism of the Democratic Coalition.

The Municipal party is seen as being somewhat to the right of the MCM and somewhat to left of the Civic Party. The party advo­ cates greater decentralization of government, within the frame­ work of practical policies.

The MPM is runninga full slate of candidates. Alain André is running for mayor.

4. Democratic Coalition of M o n tréa l-D C M (C oalition démocratique de MontréalCD M ) The DCM was formed in 1989 by four former MCM councillors who had individually left the party over the previous year. The four were disatisfied with the in­ creasingly repressive party disci­ pline of Mayor Doré's executive, and the failure of the party to live up to its grass-roots billing. In 1989, they formed their own party and have since been successful as a progressive opposition in coun­ cil.

The DMC would like to con­

tinue to serve as an opposi­ tion party, and is not running enough candidates to win a majority in council. The can­ didate for mayor is PierreYves Melançon.

5. Montreal Ecologique The Montréal Ecologique party is Montreal's 'green party'. Concerned citizens began organizing the party last summer. Like the DCM, this party doesn't wish to take power, but form a "critical opposition" in council. Mon­ tréal Ecologique is running only twenty-one candidates and no mayoralty candidate.

6. White Elephant Party of Montréal (Parti éléphant blanc de Montréal) The White Elephant party was formed a year and a half ago as a protest party. Party members feel that the main­ stream parties do not take the voters at all seriously once they are in office. The party sees itself as a vehicle to ame­ liorate the political process.

The White Elephants hope thata strong showing for their candidates will send a mes­ sage to the mainstream par­ ties that they must change their ways. The party is quite serious, bu td oes not have any plans for the long term.

White Elephant has a de­ tailed platform which is pro­ gressive, advocating a pro­ gram somewhat to the right of the DCM and somewhat to the left of the MCM. The party is running fifteen candidates, plus Michel Bédard as candidate for mayor.

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New possibilities for voters with Montréal Ecologique

BY A N D R EA CURTIS There are some new kids on the municipal block and they are proposing changes that threaten to shake up Montréal city poli­ tics. While their platform is compelling, Montréal Ecolo­ gique will have to prove their mettle in practise.

The party's goal, "for the time­ being anyway, is not to become the administration," said spokes-

"what is missing on city council is a sense of urgency...the city has the economic clout to initiate and deal with such programs as waste management. The argu­ ment from economic infeasibil­ ity is a ruse of the municipal government."

Montréal Ecologique points to the lack of an effective oposition

tions."

Montréal Ecologique has only twenty-one candidates running in the fifty possible ridings.

Roussopoulos claimed "if elected (he) would not be a rep­ resentative of the district but rather a delegate, a mandated spokesperson, which involves a more organic relationship with

"...what is missing on city council is a sense of urgency..."

Dimitri Roussopoulos, Montréal Ecologique

person Andrea Levy. I .cead, they wish to form a "critical opposition" to the government in power. Criticizing the number of career politicians and oppor­ tunists in the ranks of political candidates, this "green" party emphasizes the neighbourhood and places a high premium on citizen's concerns.

The "greening" of the city en­ tails much more than encourag­ ing environmental awareness.

Rather than make lists of elec­ tion promises, Montréal Ecolo­ gique has established five basic principles which form their plat­ form: «Decentralization and participatory democracy •eco-feminism • social and environmental ecology •social and economic justice •non-violence Despite convincing enthusi­ asm on the part of the party's members, these principles ap­ pear more like rhetoric than real policy. In a debate last Thursday, Nick Auf Der Maur (Municipal Party candidate in the Peter McGill district) accused Dimitri Roussopoulos (Montréal Ecolo­ gique candidate in the JeanMance district) of being withou "concrete solutions" to the city's problems.

Party members do not agree.

Although they make no prom­ ises, the party is proposing a number of policies including a comprehensive recycling pro­ gram, the expansion of green spaces throughout the city and the transformation of the ParkPine interchange into an ordi­ nary intersection.

When questioned about the economic feasibili ty of his party's proposals Roussopoulos claimed

D im itri Roussopoulos is the Montréal Ecologique candidate for Jeanne-Mance. on city council as the reason why the Montréal Citizen's Move­ ment (M CM ) government has been able to avoid fulfilling their election promises of 1986. In that year, the M CM swept fifty-six of the fifty-eight possible seats.

Roussopoulos explained that "with a few Greens in municipal politics to bang away at the ears of the politicians, change can be effecteid. It is backbone and reso­ lution that will make it happen.

Approaching things in a piece­ meal fashion, politicians often, don't see the important connec-

activists in the community."

Participatory democracy is one of Roussopoulos' primary concerns and he admitted "we the citizens can not trust anyone who is elected to maintain their original platforms unless the people continue to be vigilant."

He promotes checks and constant evaluations by citi­ zens on the activities of politi­ cians. "Getting people active in the four years between elections is essential," says Roussopoulos. □

M cGill D E A N O F T H E F A C U L T Y O F A R TS The second term of office of Dean Michael P. Maxwell of the Faculty of Arts will come to an end on 31 May 1992. Accordingly, an Advisory Committee to review the Deanship has been established.

The D ean o f A rts supervises and administers the programs, budgets and all activities of the Faculty.

Appropriate scholarly and administrative experience is required; facility in French is desirable.

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Innu confront the Canadian government with peace to Low-Level Flights overNitassinan.

The testing entails aircraft flying at tremendous speeds 100 feet above the ground and 50 feet above the water. The test­ ing effects approximately 10,000 natives living in an area spanning 100,000 square kilo­ metres.

The Innu claim the Canadian government is illegally renting the Innu lands to NA TO coun­ tries to practice war techniques.

The Band insists that it never signed a treaty handing over Nitassinan to theCanadian gov­ ernment. They have lived there for over 9,000 years, and claim that they therefore have a valid claim to assert control over the land.

Innu Chief Mapel Ashini called overflight testing "an invasion [of our homeland] by the air forces of various NATO countries."

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BY TARA BEAL Natives are increasingly disatisfied with their efforts to force the federal government to lis­ ten to their concerns.

Maurice Panashue, a native activist, claimed "the Innu do not exist in the eyes of the Government," and their opin­ ions are not considered in a matter that effects their lives to such a great extent.

"I think the government is trying to destroy all native, peaceful people," Penaschue said.

He personally experiences more than 20 flights a day over his community (which consists of 900 people) and "each flight sounds like a bomb going off and it scares our children."

In all, there are approximately 7,000 of these flights per year.

The Innu say the number is to in­ crease to 18,000 by next year.

According to Penashue, low level flight testing is damaging to the environment. "Ido not recognize my homeland, " he said. The deafen­ ing noise from the aircraft is harming the caribou popu­ lation and dead fish are washing ashore in the test­ ing areas. Since the traditional lifestyle Innu representatives stopped through M cG ill on their Freedom Walk to of the Innu is de­ discuss low level flight testing. pendent on hunt­ ing and fishing, the Innu feel as a justification. ness of the plight of the Innu that the government is unecesBut unlike the Mohawk N a­ and enlarge their range of sup­ sarily sacrificing their whole tives of Kahawhake and Kaniport. Last week's panelists were culture. satake, the Innu natives of all participants, making a stop Unnecessarily, according to subartic Canada will not resort at McGill. The Walk, a peaceful Penashue "because tensions are reaction to a potentially violent to weapons in their fight against lessening in Europe." He thinks the federal government. situation, began in their home­ NATO has less need than ever Instead, the Innu have organ­ land in August and will end in before to be developing new ized a Freedom Walk which a protest on Parliament Hill in November.

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Esteemed playwright Athol Fugard (centre) meets the press to discuss the material in his new p la y .

Fugard’s art is made for the Market

BY ROBERT STEINER When asked to describe My

Children M y Africa, South Af­ rica's best-known playwright answered with a question.

"Can we South Africans, in defiance of the prophecy of doom, pull off a miracle?" Athol Fugard asked reporters in Montreal two weeks ago, after watching rehearsals of the play at the Centaur theatre.

Fugard continued, "Can we create a useful society or will violence be our only course?"

Fugard admitted he does not know the answer. But when his play threw the question to an audience at the Johannesburg's Market Theatre last year, the audience and actors hinted at one.

After a performance some weeks into the premier run of Fugard's play, one of the actors was questioned as to how eas­ ily he could play a role written by a white man.

"The words came to me as if they were written in my own mouth," the actor replied.

Fugard told reporters he has a good ear for idiom. But his desire to make South Africa's problems personal concerns for his South African audiences likely had as much to do with the success of M y Children. This

virtue of its anonymity to be such a potent symbol of appall­ ing tragedy at that time in South Africa. Fouryears later the story told me 'deal with me now'."

Fugard adds that his stories can personalize South Africa's problems because his charac­ ters combine the good and bad that exists in that society.

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"I got the idea forMy Children from a two inch story in a local newspaper about the necklac­ ing of a teacher who had stayed at hisdeskin defianceof a school boycott. It seemed to me by

"People have asked me why I haven't done a play about Mandela or (South African President F. W.) DeKlerk," he said.

"If they are as good men as they appear to be, then they are not interesting dramatic material."

The fact that Fugard's plays

have achieved such an astound­ ing level of acceptance in a predominantly Black society may be attributed as much to the work's first venue as to the sensibilities of its author. The Market Theatre is rooted in an old produce market building between the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, the trains con­ necting Johannesburg to Soweto and a working class Afrikaner neighbourhood.

The district serves as a com­ pound for the South African community which emerges there. A familial atmosphere prevails as colourlines are abol­ ished for the sake of commu nal cooperation. Theintimacyof the Marketdistrict tore down apart­ heid censorship years before FW DeKlerk arrived on the scene.

While Canadians, Americans and the British argue about colour-blind casting the M a r ket builds itself on that prac­ tice. Emerging Black writers,

some of whom have taught themselves to read, present their first works to the Market alongside the country's artistic establishment. It is a practice Fugard calls "artistic apartheid in reverse".

A touch of that magic is al­ ready evident here in the ex­ cited reaction of the Centaur company presentingMy Chil­ dren M y Africa . Until the Mon­ tréal run, Fugard has directed each version of the show. The play is in the competent hands of the Centaur Theatre's co­ founder, Maurice Podbrey.

"It's immersing, its brilliant and incredibly exciting. When I read it for the audition, I knew right away it was a have to have," one actor said.

Podbrey added thatFugard's play "gives us a window on South Africa and a window on ourselves. It shows how the crisis has thrown up issues that affect our lives." □

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Hip Hop 101 : A midterm report on hype and tripe

BY THE ICEBERGH Welcome, students, to Hip Hop 101. In a world which in­ cludes such colourfully monickered performers as Just ICE, Ice Cube, Vanilla Ice, Ice T, King Tee, B Kool, B Sharp, The Jaz, Jazzy Jeff and Def Jef, not to mention MC 900 FootJesus, dis­ tinguishing the hype from the tripe can be a confusing and frustra ting process for the prodigous booty-shaker. But rap fans can take heart. The final marks are in for the most recent pleth­ ora of butt-moving grooves to tumble forth from rap's horn of plenty, and here is the report card:

Failing Grades: Vanilla Ice, To the Extreme Bros, meets Rob Base. Vanilla Ice is a soulless pretty boy straight outta' Horida who proves that in this day and age, anyone with good hair and a drum machine can get a record contract. Thedance tracks, with such thought provoking titles

The token love song, inspirationally entitled " I Love You/' is simply embarrassing. as "Ice Ice Baby," "Yo Vanilla" and "Havin' a Roni" are hack­ neyed and hopeless. The token love song, inspirationally en­ titled "I Love You," is simply embarrassing. "Rasta Mon," a whiny and ill-advised romp into the world of reggae, stands out as particularly awful. On an album as consistently and uniformly insipid as this one, that is quite a feat. To the Ex­ treme 's only redeeming feature is Ice's choice of samples, which are plundered from some of the funkiest disco hits of the late seventies and early eighties.

They cannot, however, save Vanilla Ice from drowning in a tepid pool of his own musical ineptness. E Technotronic, Trip on This !

The Remixes These remixes are uninspired, and besides, is there anyone out there who can stomach hearing Pump Up the Jam even one more time? One expects more from the group which introduced the verb "stumping" into the English

language. D

The Birds and the B's: King Tee, A t Your Own Risk King Tee is down with the Compton posse, which means another album full of violent revenge fantasies, female deg­ radation,and America's favour­ ite twelve-letter word. In other

There is still enough locker room language and naughty references to various bodily appendages to earn this album a promi­ nently displayed warning label. words, this is gangsta' rap. But hardcore N W A fans will proba­ bly be disappointed by At Your Own Risk. By the standards of 2 Live Crew or the Geto Boys, this is extremely mild stuff. King Tee is hoping to do for gangsta' rap what the Fresh Prince did for rap as a whole a few years ago; that is, dump it in the lap of Mr. and Mrs. Middle America.

Don't get the wrong id ea. There is still enough locker room lan­ guage and naughty references to various bodily appendages to earn this album a promi­ nently displayed warning label.

But songs such as "King Tee Production" and "On the Dance Tip" place a definite emphasis on melody and danceability tha tis forei gn to most hardcore LA rap groups. It's easy to lis­ ten to much of King Tee, but whether or not an audience exists for thisbrand of watereddown gangsta’hip-hop remains to be seen. It seems likely, however, that when rap fans discover that King Tee stands for King Tame, this extremely unrisky album will sink into obscurity. B Simply Majestic featuring B Kool, Dance to the Music (Work

Your Body) Despite the distressingly unoriginal title, this special maxi-cassette delivers the goods. If this Canadian hiphouse groove doesn't move you, start looking for a com­ fortable and serene rest home.

B Kool proves another worthy addition to the growing pool of impressive Candian rap talent.

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Head of the Class: Laquan, Notes of a Native Son This is the pure dope. Notes of a Native Son is one of those rare debut albums which combines

What makes this album all the more amazing is the fact that Laquan is just sixteen. a powerful, complex sound with a unique and confident voice. At first glance, Laquan may look like another late arrival on the Afrocentricity

bandwagon, hoping to hit the jackpot by parroting empty rhetoric. But Laquan is worth a second look. Tracks such as

"Swing Blue, Sweat Black" features Delta Blues genuis Robert Johnson sampled over a furious horn arrangement.

"Now 's the B' Turn", "Let the Vibes Flow" and "Imprison the President" exhibit an angry intelligence which proves that Laquan's inclusion of Malcolm X among his influences is more than just lip service. What makes this album all the more amazing is the fact that Laquan is just sixteen. While this may lead one to believe that someone else is pulling the strings, does it really matter if Laquan doesn't write his own lyrics? After all, neither does

Chuck D. The true stars of this album are producers Bret "Epic" Mazur and Richard "Wolf" Wolf. Though live studio bands have gone the way of the dodo in the rap world, Wolf and Epic utilize a core of talented funk, jazz, and R&B musicians to create a multi-layered sound which is both hard and melodic.

"Swing Blue, Sweat Black" features Delta Blues genuis Robert Johnson sampled over a furious horn arrangement. The result is a high-powered funk track that is refreshingly complex as well as downright groovy.

Notes of a Native Son belongs along side De La Soul's Three Feet High and Rising and Queen Latifah's All Hail the Queen as one of the most impressive debut albums of recent years.

Considering the musical and lyrical maturity of his first effort, one can only marvel at what Laquan might achieve once he emerges from puberty. A □

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His newest offering is Grave­ yard Shift, based on a short story by the same name. It is a dark, wet little romp through life, love, and violent death by mastication at a textile mill in Gates Falls, Maine. The film sports perhaps the longest pre­ credit introductory sequence in history, which firmly estab­ lishes the major force of the movie- in this case, rats. The mill is infested with the bright­ eyed little beasts to the point

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Hall (David Andrews), is a drifter who has come to the mill to "make a fresh start" (working at a textile mill in Maine?). Andrews' perform­ ance is laden with what he probably calls "intensity", which means he says little, but gives lots of hard, piercing stares. Similarly serious is Macht's portrayal of the evil mill foreman Warwick. This

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character is more verbose and plays a reasonable villain, and drives a really nice Cadillac, but his nastiness is of the re­ strained variety which we have all seen before.

The only actor who even at­ tempts to break the strain of

shallowness running through the film is Dourif, as the exterminator, Tucker Cleveland. Cleveland, a shell - shocked Vietnam veteran, brings some camp humour into the movie, with a fair degreeof success. However, his long soliloquy about Viet Cong torture techniques (the longest uninterrupted stretch of speech in the film) quickly degenerates from shocking to disgusting to painful.

The standard horror film plot is rarely effective these days, and with as staid a formula as this, Graveyard Shift can only offer us more of the same old stuff. It isn't really scary (unless the audience has a pathological fear of rats), the viewers are just waiting for the giant rat-bat-thing to munch up its next victim. Surprisingly, the body count is kept fairly low at nine. Although this pales next

to such recent gore-fests as "Total Recall", the film manages to pack a great deal of splatter into nine deaths (plus a great scene in which an irate lover pulverizes Warwick's Cadillac). The effect in which victims are enfolded in the "creature's" wings is especially excellent, and the final sequence of the giant rat-bat-thing getting chewed up by the cotton picker is truly grotesque.

Despite its extremely evident gore value, "Graveyard Shift" is fighting a tired format with a rather ridiculous weapon. The rat-bat-thing, especially as it is set against the cute, inquisitive (if cannibalistic) real rats, just isn't that frightening, and we see too much of it for the filmto be suspenseful or shocking. If you want to watch a movie about vermin problems, rent Food of the Gods. □

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Two teams challenge each other to a variety of games, in which players spontaneously create scenes based on audience sug­ gestion. The audience also votes on which scenes are best.

BY SARAH JANE JOH NSON The On the Spot comedy troupe is keeping busy these days, improvising like there is no tomorrow, or at least until tomorrow, at the Come­ dy works Club on Bishop Street.

They started a twenty-four hour marathon Monday night for the benefit of Sun Youth, an or­ ganization committed to keep­ ing kids off the streets.

While many of its members will be familiar to afficionados of McGill Theatresports, On the Spot is in fact a separate group, which formed by mitosis from the McGill troupe only six months ago. According to member Scott Faulconbridge, the group is still slowly drifting away from the affiliation.

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Faulconbridge said, "When people hear what we're all about, they say we can't be any good because we make it up, but we convince them other­ wise".

This marathon is one way to convince people thattheirspontaneity is funny. The marathon was a popular event when the troupe was still part of Theatre­ sports. The On the Spot players agree that Sun Youth is a wor­ thy recipient of this benefit.

"It's an organization that needs a bit of a pick-me-up around Christmas and it's known to be a very good or­ ganization. However, it any­ one else asked On the Spot to perform, we certainly would."

The marathon is currently in session at the Comedyworks Club at 1238 Bishop Street. The club will accept a cash or food donation in lieu of the regular five dollar admission.

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ers ( Blood Simple, Raising Ari­ zona) have written a smart,

As thecompetitive Christmas season nears, and the top Hol­ lywood hucksters start to wheel and deal for those shiny gold statues known inexplicably as Oscars (perhaps a sly Sesame Street allusion), the early au­ tumn crop of films will gradu­ ally dwindle away. Here is an overly critical look at many of the movies that can still be seen before we get blitzed by the Rocky V and Godfather ///pub­ licity campaigns. Miller's Cross­ ing and Gooafellas top the list and should not be missed while Mr. Destiny and Avalon should not ever be thought about.

snappy script to accompany cinematographer Barry Sonnenfeld's poignant, brilliantly constructed images.

Miller's Crossing: Joel and Ethan Cohen, two of the most exciting and original American filmmakers, have created this masterful examination of mafi­ oso life in an unnamed Eastern city set in 1929. Featuring Gab­ riel Bryne and Albert Finney as part of an exquisite ensemble cast, the movie is a stunning portrait of the relationship be­ tween love and machismo.

Miller's Crossing is the most visually gripping film made in a long while. The Cohen broth­

Gocdfellas: Another capti­ vating slice of the mafia lifes­ tyle. Martin Scorsese suc­ ceeds in cap­ turing a grue­ some, cold re­ ality without exploiting its violent nature.

Great perform­ ances by Ray Liotta, Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci.

the best of them while Patrick Swayze shows that he can do more than dirty dance with the best of them.

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year. No, check that: this dec­ ade. The conclusion of the film, in which we learn "the truth", is staged like a French Farce which might have been funny two hundred years ago but somehow just doesn't cut it anymore.

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tion for him, though it stings to be putting any emphasis on the dam Academy Awards.

Listen Up - The Lives O f Quincy Jones: The frenetic lifes­ tyle of one of the most influen­ tial people in the music indus­ try is the subject of a compel­ ling documentary. The work is well executed for the most part, perhaps a bit too thinly spread.

The focus shifts too frequently, mirroring the subject's many colourful ventures, but results in failure to fully examine much of anything. Still, if you like Quincy Jones, or merely that type of music, this will prove fascinating and quite illuminat­ ing.

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F ant as i a: Remains the classic it al­ ways was. See it, if only for the animation and the music.

Albert Finney (left) and Gabriel Byrne star in Miller's Crossing, a hand-clapping, knee-slapping gangster odyssey.

Pump U p The Volume: Christian Slater gives a solid performance in a difficult role, but the plot is short on focus and the whole affair reeks of a bad DeGrassi High episode.

Ghost: A leftover from the summer group, this movie ac­ tually has a bit of life in it. Demi Moore shows she can cry with

he does enough to avoid spoil­ ing this movie.

The Unbelievable Truth: About to be featured on the Rialto schedule - don't believe the hype. This low-budget film, made mostly on low interest computer loans from the local bank, features possibly the worst acting seen on screen this

After Dark M y Sweet: This movie is easily the sleeper film of the summer. Perhapsbecause of the lack of any big name stars involved, the movie has not received much critical attention.

It deserves a chance. The lead, played by Jason Patrie, gives the performance of a lifetime.

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Avalon: Avalong. Way too long. Way too long and com­ pletel*', utterly insignificant. If you shed tears at the drop of a dime and you are looking for loose change, then this is for you. Barry Levinson, the man who brought us Diner and Tin Men, takes his 1950's Baltimore nostalgia trip one leg too far and creates a sappy soap opera tha tis hopelessly flat and sleepinducing.

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BY R O M A N COOPER

The McGill Redmen rugby team battled to the bitter end before falling to the Bishop's Gaiters 9-3 in the dying sec­ onds of extra time in the Québec championship match played on a wet and windy Sunday after­ noon at the Momtreal Irish Rugby Club field in Sainte-Jolie.

The Redmen, who had lost key forward props Kibben Jackson and Dave Campbell to injuries, were dealt another serious blow when team cap­ tain Matt Tennant went down with a knee injury in the early minutes of the game. However, despite these losses, the make­ shift front line of B.C.Douglas and Kevin Richards "played great" according to coach Sid Sanford. So did Fadi Ayoub, who replaced the injured Ten­ nant in the first half.

Coach Sanford did not wish to dwell on the team's injuries as a liability in the game. In the end, "it was simply a matter of Bishop's forwards outgunning ours."

The Gaiters applied early pressure, at the half they were ahead 3-0 on a penalty kick by Graham Beattie. The score could have been much worse for the Redmen who suffered nine penalties in the half. The defense, however, played su­ perbly, repeatedly stopping the Bishop's offensive. Coach San­ ford empathized with his rear­

ranged frontline "which fought hard and came away with a lot of crucial goal line stands."

Gaiters' Head Coach Bill Robson captured the tone of the game, noting "the adverse weather conditions made the gameintoa forwards game, and in the end our forwards were

able to overpower theirs."

The second half resembled the first. The Redmen backs were unable to penetrate, while the defence once again stopped the Gaiters from scoring with even more goal line stands.

Second year player Rob Buffman adequately summed

up the half: "it was a gritty, inspired performance by an undersized McGill pack."

The Redmen did manage to tie the score in the second half, as early penetration led to a successful penalty kick by George Thio. A tough goal line stand in the dying seconds of

regular time by the Redmen forced the game into extra time.

In the extra time, the Redmen were again on the defensive, as the offence was neutralized by Bishop's strong front line. The SEE R U G B Y . ..

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Veteran Olivier inspires Redmen in hockey opener

BY PAUL COLEM AN

Marco Parenteau (26) tries to slip one by the Ottawa goalie in Friday night action.

The McGill Redmen met the Ottawa Gee-Gees Friday eve­ ning in a 4-4 overtime tie at McConnell Winter Stadium, launching the OU A A home sea­ son.

An exuberant gathering was thoroughly entertained not only by the thrills on the ice, but also by the musical antics of the rookie organist.

Head Coach Jean Pronovost had put the boys through a vigorous week of training, punctuated by a gruelling 45 m inuteskateduringTuesday's practice. Apparently 'Prony' made very clear his demands for 'performance', as individu­ als, and as a team.

As the Redmen skated onto the ice Friday eveni ng, they not only faced off against a strong

squad from Ottawa, but also a dem anding mandate to play d isc ip lin e d hockey. The Redmen as a team had to gel quickly, because they are em­ barking on a short, unforgiving season.

McGill opened up the scor­ ing at 15:53 of the first when veteran w in ger M arc Lajeunesse potted his 59th ca­ reer goal on a feed from fourth year centre Paul Grech. Ottawa tied things up early in the sec­ ond on a wrap around effort thatbeatstartingbackstop Scott Taylor, while Patrice Tremblay responded with his first of two power play goals of the eve­ ning. The gam e's 42 minutes in penalties were evenly ditributed between the two teams.

SEE H O C K E Y . . .

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October 30- November 5, 1990

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sports Redmen basketball to have new Post Mortem look under hoops this year Sidelines T h e M c G ill R e d m e n fo o t­

b a ll t e a m w i l l b e h a n d i n g in

BY M A R K BRENDER

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M c G i l l fa n s s h o u ld b e u p s e t w i t h t h e t e a m 's r e s u lts . T h e y d e s e r v e d a b e tte r p e rfo r m a n c e . M e a n ­ w h i l e , th e o t h e r t h r e e te a m s

a n d R o n T o n d i n o th is y e a r

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W e s t e r n a n d T o r o n t o a r e a ll h e a d i n g t o th e p l a y - o f f s th is w eeken d.

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s ta c le t o w h i c h th e p l a y e r s

heartbreaking loss RUGBY FROM PAGE24

f o u g h t l o s s . " H e a ls o n o t e d th a t

g a m e w a s n e a r l y lo s t la te in th e

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th e R e d m e n g o t a l u c k y b r e a k

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P a u l H o r s e ’ Brousseau lays one in d u rin g a Redm en p ra ctice.

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k ic k a t t e m p t h it th e g o a l p o s t.

c o a c h in th a t h e f o u n d th e g a m e

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"e m o tio n a lly

p e r i o d n e a r i n g its e n d , a t r y b y

c i a l l y w i t h th e lo s s o f T e n n a n t

d r a in in g , e s p e ­

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a n d th e fa c t th a t m a n y p l a y e r s

v e r s i o n g a v e B is h o p 's th e Q u e ­

w e r e p l a y i n g p o s i t i o n s f o r th e

b e c c h a m p io n s h ip .

fir s t t i m e . "

C o a c h S a n fo r d f e l t th a t th a t

T h e R e d m e n w i l l c o n c lu d e

h is t e a m g a v e th e G a it e r s fa r

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sports ------------ S p o r t s N o t e s ------------

Tribune Scoreboard

Martlets to defend soccer title

Field Hockey (OWIAA Championships)

T h e M c G i l l M a r t le t s a d v a n c e d t o th e Q u e b e c c h a m p io n s h ip w i t h a 2-0

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