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A d v e r tis e y o u r e v e n t f o r fre e! T h e d e a d lin e f o r s u b m is s io n s to W h a t's O n is T h u r s d a y a t noon.
Tuesday. November 5th McGill Faculty of Music Gala Concert. Top candidates at the time o fl 991 performance examinations. Pollack Hall, 555 Sherbrooke W., at 6:30 and 8:30 pm. The McGill Latin America Awareness Group presents a discussion on Feminism: North and South with Nelly Martine and Krishna Ahooja-Pate in Lea 232 at 7:00 pm. A wine and cheese will follow. Wednesday. November 6th McGill Faculty of Music Concert. The McGill Wind Sym phony presents a Mozart Con cert at 8:00 pm in Pollack Hall, 555 Sherbrooke W. Thursday. November 7th McGill Faculty of Music Concert. The McGill Sinfonietta and McGill Chamber Singers present works by Mozart. Pol lack Hall, 8:00 p.m.
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McGill Improv Comedy Nite at the Alley. Your sugges tions make the show! 8:30 p.m. Free admission. The Department of English presents Barbara K. Lewalski and ProfessorWilliamR. Kenan of Harvard University to lec ture on "Milton and the Poetics of Experience" at 4:00 pm in Arts 160.
The McGill Anthropology Speakers Series presents Pro fessor Jean Comaroff of the University of Chicago speak ing on "The Empire's Old Clothes: Commodities and Colonial Subjects" at 8:15 at Concordia University, Hall Building, 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W., Rm 938. Student's Society Council
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n e w S t u d e n ts ’ S o c ie ty BY RICH LATOUR Students' Society's (SSMU) 'Yes' Committee is facing no opposition to this week's refer endum question about opting into a drug prescription, health and accident insurance plan. If McGill students vote this week to adopt the plan, it would cost $43.80 a year, plus applicable taxes. The package would includeacomprehensiveaccident reimbursement plan, and pre scription drugs, including oral contraceptives. "Obviously not a big portion of the students fel t it was neces sary to mobilize against the plan," said SSMU President
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Scott Mitic. "The plan received adequate publicity through Council and the student press. If there had been significant opposition to the plan, a 'No' Committee would have been formed." Premiums at other schools range from $40.15 a year at the University of Ottawa to $69.12 a year at Western. Like McGill, these institutions' premiums al so include oral contraceptives. "In terms of competitivity, [$43.80] is a very good price," said SSMU VPFinanceand 'Yes' Committee Chairman Lev Bukhman. "Oral contraceptives can be very expensive, in some cases prohibi tively so. We don't want to deny something so basic
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BY MICHELLE WILLIAMS A decision regarding the proposed closure of the Faculty of Dentistry is expected today from the Subcommi ttee on Plan ning and Priorities (SPP) of the Academic Policy and Planning and Priorities Committee (APPC). There is a consensus among individuals involved in the issue that the process in volved in the debate so far has been legitimate. "I think that the process is fair," stated Dean of Dentistry Ralph Barolet. "There are very honest people involved and I have faith in them." Sujit Choudhry, the student representative to the APPC, fel t that criticisms of the process expressed in motions issued by the Students' Council and the President's Council were fair, and useful in setting precedents which could guide university procedure in the future. "I feel that the subcommittee has made every effort to look at the issue. A vigorous approach has been adopted and the de liberations have been taken very seriously." Choudhry worked exten sively with Students' Society (SSMU) VP University Affairs Rosalind Ward-Smith in draft ing a SSMU motion opposing the Dentistry closure. He cited mixed messages from the uni versity as a reason why the Students' Council could not approve of the proposed clo sure. "The Faculty has come under review for a number of points over the past seven or eight
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sults of the referendum. "We are talking about a lot of money people are voting on," said Mitic. "If students don't have a say about that much of their money, then there is an apathy problem of a propor tion of which 1was not aware." Lastyear'sreferendum to join the Fédération étudiante univ ersitaire du Québec (FEUQ) as well as last year's SSMU elec tions yielded only a 11% turnout. According to the SSMU Constitution, referenda quo rum to change student fees is 10% .
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years. Research was an issue in earlier reviews, but in 1989-90, it was not. To then cite the Faculty's lack of research as a reason for clos ing the Faculty in 1991 was unfair," he said. Barolet's only criticism of the process of looking into closure was with the presence of academics on the subcommittee involved. "We are being bombarded on many questions concerning fi nances because W ill D e n tis tr y 's f i g h t to s t a y a liv e p r e v a il? [the academics] are not aware of the financial implications," he explained. "The right people may not be [on the subcommit tee]. Maybe there should have been two committees, one aca demic and one financial." A c a d e m ic P o lic y a n d P la n n in g a n d P r io r itie s Tom Rougas, President of the C o m m itte e s tu d e n t r e p r e s e n ta tiv e Dentistry Students Association, agreed that the financial stand S u jit C h o u d h r y ing of the Faculty should not be judged by academics. He was opposed to the fact that McGill VP Planning and Physical made a strong case for remain public until a written report has Development François Tavenas bers' votes may be biased," he ing open. been approved by the SPP, waschairing the subcommittee said. McGill VP Academic William probably near the middle of Despite these doubts, how meeting. Leggett, who presented the pro November. If the proposal to ever, Rougas remained hope "[Tavenas] is part of the Prin posal for closing Dentistry, close the Faculty is passed, it cipal's Advisory Group (PAG). ful. He predicted some changes could not be reached for com still has to be approved by the No member of the PAG should within the program, and the ment. full APPC and the McGill chair the meeting. The Princi survival of the Faculty. Barolet Although a decision is ex Senate, most likely in pal has explicitly endorsed the was also optimistic, and be pected today, it willnotbe made January. □ proposal and therefore, mem lieved that the Faculty had
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Election fever at M cGill: PG SS, A SU S, and BY CHRIS ALAM
In order to keep our readership up-to-date, the Tribune presents the following brief synopsis of recent and current electoral happeningsatMcGill. Three-way race for ASUS Science-member-at large position Three candidates are compet ing in the election for Arts and Science Undergraduate Society (ASUS) Science-Member-atlarge. The position became vacant when Rizwan Dewji, ex-ASUS VP Finance, resigned earlier this year. Hispost was subsequently filled by the former VP Admini stration, Susan Nickerson. For mer Science-member-at-large Rebecca Lindley then replaced Nickerson as ASUS VP Admini stration. With the possibility of a break-up of the ASUS into two separate Arts and Science fac ulty societies, the position of Science-member-at-large may play an increasingly important role. "\ think that this year is a critical year. It is important [for the Science-member-at-large] to be as representative of the stu dents as possible. I think that this year [the break-up of the ASUS] will happen," said Amy Pressman, one of the Candida tes
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for the position." Joanne Thompson, another candidate, was not certain that a break-up would occur this year, although she felt that it could be useful and productive if the two faculties went their separate ways. The third candidate, Jeff Perry, agreed with Thompson that people need to be more informed about the potential break-up of the Society. "All the preparations need to be done this year. 1 think we need to negotiate and lobby," he said. Nickerson, however, seemed less concerned, noting that if the issue does go to referen dum, it will not be until March. Voting continues today through Thursday. EdUS Presidential elections postponed Although the motion to im peach former Education Under graduate Society (EdUS) Presi dent Paul Gracia and his subse quent resignation left a void in the EdUS Executive, the Soci ety will be unable to elect a successor as early as it had hoped. "Elections have been post poned due to the resignation of the CRO (Chief Returning Of fice)," explained EdUS Rep to Students' Society (SSMU) Anik
Palestinian Cultural Exhibition in rem em brance o f the 74th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration E v e n t s a n d a t t r a c t i o n s w ill in c l u d e ... • Palestinian literature,posters, traditional clothing and food for sale • Video documentaries will be shown • Pamphlets and other informa tion about the Palestinian predicament will be available • A Debkeh dance troupe will be performing Admission is free - Everyone is welcome Union Building iky £4 3480 McTavish Ballroom (Rm 301 ) November 5th, 10:30am - 9:00pm
E d U S in t h e p o l l i n g b o o t h Low. Although Olga Patrizi was elected to the position in an emergency Ed US Council meet ing on October 17, she has since resigned. Nadia Verucci as sumed the office last Wednes day. "[The CRO election] was not put through council properly so she didn't feel right with that," said Brigid Douglas, act ing EdUS President and VP Finance, explaining Patrizi's resignation. The election will not be held concurrently with other elec
choice made by RACSQ. As far as McGill is concerned, this is an example of the role that our university can and should play in Quebec," stated Michael Temelini, PGSS President in an October 30 press release. Bob Collins, PGSS VP Fi nance, concurred.
tions and a SSMU referendum this week, but will be delayed by at least another week. PGSS Vice President elected President of RACSQ Eugenio Bolongaro, V.P. Ex ternal of the Post Graduate Students' Society of McGill (PGSS) was elected to the Presi dency of the Regroupement des associations des cycles supérieures du Québec (RACSQ) on October 26th. "We are honoured by the
"We think it is a great honour for the PGSS. We should be making sure that we can be representing our students as well as possible in [the RACSQ]," he said. □
N e w s B r ie fs McGerrigle-ga te continues... Sides involved in th e D on M cG errigle affair are either not talking, or choosing th eir w ords very carefully, follow ing th e placem ent of an ad v ertise m ent in last w eek and this w eek's Tribune re g a rd ing th e u n iv ersity 's position on th e case. M cG errigle w as fired as S tu d en ts' Society's (SSMU) Executive D irector last D ecem ber for fail u re to m eet the term s o fh is job description. M cGer rigle has since reassum ed d u tie s in M cGill's De p artm en t of A thletics, b u t has continued to collect his salary from SSMU since D ecem ber. An article in the O ctober 1-8 issue of the Tribune q uoted SSMU P resident Scott Mitic as stating to Council that M cG errigle had been "incom petent" in his duties. T he McGill U niversity N on-A ca dem ic Staff A ssociation (MUNASA), M cG errigle's equivalent to a union, then had the U niversity pay for a clarification ad, w hich stated th at M cGerrigle had an "un b lem ish ed " record at McGill. W hile stan d in g by SSM U's side of the story, Mitic hesitated to com m ent on the ap p aren t d is crepancy in attitu d es of the u n iv ersity and SSMU reg ard in g M cGerrigle. "The u n iv ersity is free to h av e an opinion on any m atter it chooses," stated Mitic. "[But] Students' Society m aintains [its] position." Both M UNASA P resident T revor G arland and theassociation's law yer,G eorges M arceau, refused to com m ent as to w hich side of the d isp u te was correct. "The u niversity has placed [the ad] an d it says w hat it has to say. It is im p o rtan t th a t all this ends soon," said M arceau. M cGill's Legal A dvisor, Reynald Mercille, was unavailable for com m ent.
Daily editorial may have resulted in prank calls An editorial p ublished in th e McGill Daily O cto ber 21 p ro testin g the slashing of th e Southern Af rica C om m itte's b u d g et m ay h av e resulted in ob
scene calls being directed at a m em ber of th e Stu d en ts' Society Council. The editorial encouraged stu d en ts to protest the b u d g et cuts by contacting m em bers of Council, and listed the hom e p h one nu m b ers of som e C ouncil m em bers. At least one Councillor blam es the publication of the p h o n e num bers for an obscene call w hich the Councillor received. "I'm p retty sure [the p h one call] w as directly re lated to [the publication of the editorial]," th eC o u n cillor said, explaining that the call occurred only after the num bers w ere published. The C ouncillor w ished to rem ain anonym ous. Peter Clibbon, N ew s Editor of the McGill Daily, w as apologetic. "If w e had know n that the persons w ould get p ran k p h one calls w e w o u ld n 't have published [the num bers]," he sa id . "W e did n 't print th e first nam es of th e people for that reason specifically." T he Daily has since apologized in p rin t for the publication of the p hone num bers.
M cGill Debating Union successful again D uring th e w eekend of O ctober 25th and 26th, H art H ouse College of the U niversity of T oronto hosted its annual d ebating to u rn am en t th at at tracted 68 team s from all over N orth America. McGill w rap p ed u p five of the top seven spots in th e in d iv id u al speakers rankings, w ith McGill stu d en ts Jill H andclm an an d Jeff Blum com ing in first and second. "McGill, continuing its tradition of excellence w hich p roduced the 1991 w orld cham pion team , d om inated this im p o rtan t to u rn am en t," said Jeff Blum, P resident of the McGill D ebating Union. McGill team s placed second, third, and sixth in overall team rankings. The McGill d u o of Elaine St. John and Jill H andelm an, d ebating the issue of Q uébec sovereignty, lost to a team from O ttaw a U niversity in the final round. T he D ebating U nion is now p rep arin g for a fren zied w eekend of hosting its an n u al H igh School D ebating T ournam ent N ovem ber 8th an d 9th, and is searching for o ver one thousand judges.
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The U niversity of W estern O ntario's S tu d en ts' Council last w eek ad o p ted a race relations policy, becom ing the first stu d e n t council in C an ad a to d o so. O ver the last three years, racism has been a h ot topic for stu d en ts at W estern, w here Professor Phillipe Rushton teaches. R ushton is an an thropologist w hose theories reg ard in g the "ranking" of races on an evo lu tio n ary scale are w idely denounced as racist. T he new policy states th at the S tudents' Council does not recognize the tolerance or prom otion of any racist theory or doctrine, an d com m its the Council to p roviding a confidential service for com plaints of racism on cam pus. Peter Ewart, spokesm an for the A cadem ic Coalition for Equality, said th e coalition is ecstatic w ith the council's decision. "This policy states very clearly th at stu d en ts are u p set w ith racism an d th at stu d en ts will w ork to end racism ," he said. - P A U L V E R A ,W e s te r n G a z e tte
E c o n o m ic s C h a ir Jo h n M c C a llu m a d d re sse s c h a n g e s in d e p a r tm e n t a t la s t F r id a y 's m e e tin g .
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Several changes initiated by a committee of professors at a November 1 Economics Depart ment meeting will increase the selection of courses offered to undergraduates, and make student requirements more readily understandable. Changes proposed at the meeting included the introduc tion of a Management minor for Economics students, changes in honours and majors credit requirements, and a mandate for professors to de velop proposals for new courses. In addition, the basic economics course, 200D, will be split into two courses, one covering microeconomics, the other dealing with macroecon omics. "We have made structural changes to add to the quality of the education we offer," said Economics Chair Professor John McCallum. "Myobjectistooffer good courses for students, not necessarily to please Professors Allen Fenichel and Robin Rowley." Professors Fenichel and Rowley made statements to the M cG ill Daily October 7 criticiz ing the quality and attitude of the department. An October 11 departmental meeting de nounced the criticisms as"false," and passed a motion requesting that the professors retract their statements. Rowley and Fenichel, who have not complied with the motion, did not attend last Friday's meet ing and were unavailable for comment. Nich Preovolos, Co-President of the Economics Students' Association (ESA), felt that the proposals of the meeting
proved Fenichel and Rowley wrong about the attitudes the department has toward under graduate teaching. "There were no revolution ary changesat today's meeting, but themodifications proposed give students more flexibility," Preovolos said. "The passion ate debate about undergradu ate issues at the meeting dem onstrates that professors do care about undergraduate educa tion. To say that teaching is
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Changes in OSAP unlikely A m uch-heralded reform of the O ntario S tudent A ssistance Plan (OSAP) m ay be cancelled or p ostponed d u e to a lack of money. The N D P govern m en t in O ntario com m issioned a stu d y of OSAP last sum m er, as a first step to in tro d u cin g an overhaul of the system . H ow ever, Richard Allen, the M inister of Colleges and U niversities, has now stated th at the governm ent "h a sn 't got enough m oney" to m eet all the proposals an d recom m endations contained in the original study. T he stu d y 's recom m endations included m ore flexibility in loan repaym ent, m ore realistic estim ates of a stu d en t's cost of living, and m ore sensitivity to the needs of m ature, part-tim e and n ative students. T hese had all been long standing d em an d s of the O ntario Federation of S tudents (OFS). York Federation of Students VP External, Rob Centa, w h o w as a m em ber of the govern m en t com m ittee th at p rep ared th e original report, said, "If the changes are n 't m et [the com m ittee] w as a w aste of tim e and m oney by th e m inistry." -C H R IS T IN E F. D E L E O N , Y o rk E x c a lib u r
Queen s rugby players in naked “Zulu ” dance. A m onth-old incident in K ingston, w here 20 Q u een 's a n d W aterloo ru g b y players danced naked in the streets in a sti ange "Z ulu" ritual, is gaining publicity as the players begin apologizing to local residents. The incident occurred at a Septem ber 29 house party in the Q u een 's stu d en t ghetto. T he players involved w ere m ostly rookies. The Q u een 's team captain, A ndrew A rm strong, explained th at al th o u g h the "Z ulu celebration" had been a tradition am ong Q u een 's players, it w as "som ething w e've tried to stam p o ut of Q u een 's rugby. C ertain alum ni m em bers th o u g h t it w as tim e to bring back the trad i tion, and the rookies d id n 't know any better." The team w as quick to atone for the rookies' indiscretion. Since the incident, they have apologized to residents, organized a volunteer program in local schools, and run a clean-up effort after alum ni week. T he team has also taken steps to ensure th at fu tu re post-gam e parties will take place at licensed establishm ents rather than at stu d en ts' houses. - B R O C K M A R T L A N D , Q u e e n 's J o u r n a l
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Don McGerrigle was the Executive Director of Stu dents' Society, a post with broad responsibilities and a $52,(XX) a year salary until last November, when eight members of SSMU Council initiated a motion to remove him on grounds of incompetence. This decision was the result of long, careful thought and the best legal advice. More importantly, it conformed entirely to procedures which the Uni versity Senate had ap proved for removing an Executive Director when that body ratified the SSMU Constitution. In the wake of the McGerrigle incident, McGill's Non-Academic Staff Association (MUNASA) launched a fe rocious attack on Students' Society. The night before the council voted to remove McGerrigle, MUNASA's lawyers tried to intimidate the SSMU
M c G e r r ig le Executives by sending them bailiff-delivered letters (cc'ed to Principal Johnston himself), threatening to sue them indi vidually if they attempted to dismiss McGerrigle. Despite McGerrigle's subse quent dismissal, nothing came of the threat. The University administration, however, continued to pay McGerrigle nine months' salary out of students' money. This action was followed by a demand that the Students' Society incorporate. The strongarm tactics of MUNASA have frightened the administration, especially since SSMU's unincorporated status means that the Univer sity assumes legal liability for some of Students' Society's actions. To distance itself from future nastiness of this kind, the administration wants SSMU to incorporate. If any proof of McGill's cra ven submission to MUNASA is needed, just check the ad vertisement the University placed in this edition of the
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McGill is concerned, Don McGerrigle has an unblem ished record. The Executive Director was responsible to SSMU Council. Council voted by at least a two-thirds majority to re move McGerrigle from his post on grounds of incompe tency. So much for McGill's attention to job descriptions. So much for supporting the Students' Society. The University hasn't been subtle in persuading Stu dents' Society to incorporate, either. Two important staff positions at Students' Society (Executive Director and Operations Secretary) have remained vacant for over six months. This suggests that the University is refusing to allow SSMU to staff those positions until the question of incorpo ration is resolved - to McGill's satisfaction. This is a breach of contract on the University's part, since its letter of agreement with SSMU categorically prohibits
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S tu d e n ts ’ S o c ie ty the University from interfer ing in the hiring process in this manner. Because the Uni versity is blatantly disregard ing that document, the SSMU Executive is being forced to renegotiate that letter of agreement a full two years before it comes due. The University's motives seem clear, if despicable. What is incomprehensible is why the SSÎylU Executive is so hell-bent, not only on capitu lating to the University's demands, but in promoting the idea of incorporation as its own initiative. The present Executive has made frugality a watchword, yet it is championing incorpo ration, a venture with some prohibitively high costs. Right now, SSMU does not have to pay the GST, insurance on Cert's, rent, heating or air conditioning costs on the Union Building. All this could change if SSMU became incorporated. ft comes down to this: McGill is so terrified of
tions she m akes m ay actually be true. P erhaps a w om an victim of sexual h arassm en t w o u ld not be "taken seriously". P erhaps the m ale P rincipal is incapable of re n d erin g a pro p er judge m ent on the seriousness of the case. Perhaps the victim 's credi bility w ould be questioned. But as a re ad e r of the article, w h y should I take her w ord for it? Surely her a rg u m e n t w ould be m uch m ore convincing i f she used a real exam ple and p o in ted out, like any good reporter should, the m an y specific incidents w here this horrible sce nario has actually occurred. H er blanket condem nation of the McGill system unfo rtu n ately rings h ollow because it is sim ply fo u n d ed u p o n the precario u s conditional statem ent of "If I w ere to..." W hen she argues that the system is "intim idating" because only five form al com plaints w ere lodged last year, she is once again ju m p in g to conclusions. Som eone m ight argue, using
the very sam e m ethod, that the system is p e r fect because there w ere o nly five cases of sexual harassm ent last year. O ne ab su rd arg u m en t deserves another. My point is not to suggest that M iss Borins' general arg u m en t is faulty. She is correct to d ra w attention to the shortcom ings of M cGill's p rocedures concerning victim s of sexual as sault. U nquestionably it is in need of radical reform . My p oint is to sou n d a note of w arning. If we are going to change the system , w e m u st m ake sure that the issues are not re d u ce d to cam py, readable, articles that sm ack of sm u g self-right eousness a n d d o n 't reflect the legitim ate, welldeveloped tools of the fem inist m ovem ent. The
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MUNASA that it has ignored SSMU’s legal right to dismiss an employee, and refused to honour its own agreements, in order to get SSMU to incorpo rate, and to get MUNASA off its back. SSMU, instead of playing dead, could fight this breach in Senate, since the right to fire the Executive Director is still the primary issue. It's our money involved; our thousands, wrongfully paid to McGerrigle by the University after his legal dismissal; our future millions that will have to be paid for the increased costs due to incorporation. It's up to Students' Society to stop the administration and they're doing a lousy job of it right now. It's time for the Executive to come clean, and stand up to the bullies in the McGill administration. Alex Usher Rich Latour Massimo Savino
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November 5 - 11 , 1991
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T a k in g c a r e o f s t u d e n t s ’ fin a n c ia l "We are being very conser vative and fiscally tight this year." -Lev Bukhman., VP Fi nance, S S M U From the M cG ill Daily, Oc tober 21, 1991 II;:
The SSMU Executive taught its members a harsh lesson in économies when it passed a frugal budget just over a week ago. Now it is time for those members to show tha t they ha ve learned that lesson. Voting against the pro posed Student Prescription Drug and Accident Insur: anee Plan is the way to do just that. The Plan, another example of financial foolish' ness sponsored by our Ex ecutive, deserves to be soundly defeated at the polls. The fact that Bukhman, who so often preaches sound financial management, would pres ent such a Plan, suggests tha t very little thought has gone into the proposal, as even a cursory examination reveals immense flaws. The contention that uni
versity students need life in surance is ludicrous. Life insur ance is an investment designed to provide for dependents, should their benefactor pass away. Five thousand dollars is a ridiculously small amount of li fe insu ranee, and fe w s tud en ts havedependents to begin with. Similarly, the proposed acci dent insurance is of little value: $15,000 for the loss of both hands would hardly come close to compensating for the loss of income incurred by a student over a lifetime as a result of such injury. The philosophy which guides the proposed Plan is simply silly. The idea that students should subsidize each other's health care costs through this Plan suggests that students bear some sort of responsibility for each other's health. Clearly that should not be the case. Nor is it the duty of any given student to be burdened with the financial concerns of any other student, be they health related or otherwise. The health care of an individual student is not a group concern. It is the individual's.
YetthisPlanundcrmines that very no tion. 11suggests that a community must subsidize an individual's oral contraceptives, for example, although it is abundantly clear that this prescription drug is mostly a matter of private choice and not a public concern. The purchase of insur ance is an investment of a personal nature. Insurance packages should be tailored to personal needs. Not only is this impossible when dealing with a group of approximately 13,000 stu dents, but it is also fright ening to think that any of those 13,000could be forced into such an investment. Just as health care and in surance are matters of pri vate concern, so are people's wallets and invest ments, and an individual has the right to choose. Unfortunately, that right will be revoked if 50% of students vote 'yes' this week. It is time to show the SSMU Executives that their lessons in financial respon sibility have been learned. Chris Alam
Letters to the Editor d an g er of neglecting rigorous analysis is the that it invites the sta n d ard response from the m ale institutions that w om en are sim ply fabricating their plight and that sexual h a rass m en t is not really a serious issue. T houghtful and insightful deconstruction of patriarchal in stitu tio n s cannot be replaced by w hat is essentially the m ost banal form of sloganism w ith o u t discrediting the w o m a n 's m ovem ent in general. Evan Solomon M A2 E d N o t e : M r . S o lo m o n , y o u a re lu c k y t h a t so m eo n e o n th e E d B o a rd k n o w s y o u . O t h e r w is e , y o u r le t t e r w o u ld h a v e b een des tin e d to o b liv io n , s in c e y o u n e g le c te d to in c lu d e y o u r p h o n e n u m b e r.
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D ear Editor, In Allan T ait's editorial regarding his support for the JM C 's bud g et cuts this year (Septem ber 29-N ovem ber 4, 1991), he m akes a good case for their fiscal conservatism . H ow ever, we, the m em b ers of the McGill Folk M usic Soci ety w ould like to p o in t o u t som e areas w here his arg u m en t falls short. SSMU has w isely decided to o p p o se the closing of M cGill's D entistry school. A lthough the McGill adm inistration has p re sen te d valid reasons for doin g so, based prim arily on M cG ill's en o rm o u s debt, the stu d e n ts and the M ontréal E nglish-speaking com m unity at large resent the m an n e r by w hich the decision w as both m ade and is being im ple m ented. O n a sm aller scale, (w e asked Council for a su bsidy of S440), we, the m em bers of the Folk M usic S ociety, feel that w e have been treated w ith sim ilar lack of regard for the
p u rp o se o u r g ro u p serves. S tu d en ts' Society has, u p u n til this year, p ro v id ed u s w ith S55 a m onth for the u se of the space at the Y ellow Door. It is im p o rta n t to recognize, M r. Tait, th at the g ro u p 's affiliation w ith the Yellow D oor is based on m ore than m ere "pianos a n d m usic stan d s". T he Yellow D oor w as extablished in 1903 strictly by a n d for th cM cG illco m m u n ity .S tu d e n t n eed s and life tran scen d the four w alls of the U nion Building; the Yellow D oor recognizes those needs. Joining u s any T uesday evening (after 9 pm ) in o rd e r to realize th a t situ atin g us in the U nion B uilding w o u ld not be a re-location b u t a dislocation. JM C has d ecided to p a y half of o ur ren t this year, w ith the assu m p tio n that by next year w e will be fully financially autonom ous. As w as d e m o n stra ted in detail to Council at their m eeting last T hursday, this will m ean the eventual dem ise of the group. We w ould like to a d d ress the JM C's, a n d A llan T ait's, com m itm en t to w hat Lev B ukhm an h a s called a "m oving to w ard s the financial auto n o m y of stu d e n t groups". If our stu d e n t gro u p s are expected to be financially autonom ous, a n d one of our stu d e n t p ap ers is req u ire d to pay $14,000 in re n t to the S tu d e n ts' Society, w e w o u ld like to kn o w w here it is o u r stu d e n t fees are going, if n o t to w a rd s the prom otion of stu d e n t life o r the stu d e n t journalistic voice. M cG ill's debt is astronom ical. So, relatively speaking, is SSMU's. H ow ever, w e feel that any debt, how ever large, sh o u ld not give either ad m inistrative body licence to m ake decisions w hich u n d e r m ine the value of our d en tistry school, o r o u r stu d e n t groups. Stephanie Hodnett Coordinator, M c G ill F o lk M usic Society
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N o o ne likes cheaters. They u n d erm in e the integrity of the entire academ ic process, by attacki ng th e principle t ha t p er form ing w ell should b e based on honest effort. C heating is reg ard ed as a serious academ ic offense in the university, and is punishable by failure, or even expulsion. H ow ever, in spite of these penalties, cheating re m ains a problem at McGill and other universities. In O ctober 1990, the McGill Senate considered a package of p ro p o salsto reduce cheating on m ultiple-choice tests and finals. Some of the preventative m eas ures w hich w ere ad o p ted in cluded random ized seatingand m ultiple versions of tests. H ow ever, an attem p t to use a co m p u ter program w hich ana lyzed answ er sheets in o rd er to detect suspected cheaters m et w ith great resistance, o ver fears of how accurate a program it was. After a som ew hat heated debate, Senate decided to set u p a w ork g ro u p to stu d y the program further. It's likely that it will be rep o rtin g back to Senate in early spring. Use of the com puter program is coordinated by Profs. D avid H arp p an d James H ogan of the Dept, of C hem istry, and is actu ally the last stage in a four-part process. First, all test papers in a class are paired in every pos sible com bination, an d the degree of sim ilarity betw een th e p a irs co m p u ted . P airs w hose sim ilarity is greater than norm al are highlighted. A second analysis selects pairs for w hom the n u m b er of questions answ ered identically w rong, as a p roportion of the num ber of questions w hich both stu d en ts an sw ered incorrectly, is very high. These are usually the sam e pairs th at w ere identi fied in the first step. In the th ird step, suspects from th e first tw o are located on an exam ination seating plan. If the tw o stu d en ts w ere sitting together, then th e p rogram is used. It com putes the probabil ity th at the stu d en ts could have answ ered the questions w hich they d id in com m on by chance, an d com pares this w ith sim ilar probabilities calculated from a sam ple for the entire class. Thé suspects are generally w ay off the probability curve. Steven Fraser, w ho used to stu d y at McGill, charged that the p rogram can pick up "false p o sitiv es." By ru n n in g the probability program on the en-
View from the Gates BY SUJIT CHOUDHRY tire class, he found suspects w ho could not have possibly cheated because they w ere not sitting next to each other. H arp p countered that charges w ould have never been brought against these students. N onetheless, these criticisms seriously question w h eth er evi dence from the program should be presented at d isciplinary hearings. H ow ever, the p ro gram m ay have an o th er use. H arp p has show n th at w hen scrambled tests and random ized seatings w ere u sed, no cheaters w ere found. An im proved p ro gram could be used as a m eans to m onitor the effectiveness of these preventative m easures. H ow ever, Senate policy is not being follow ed for m an y m id term exam inations. In the past tw o w eeks alone, m ultiplechoice m id term s w ere held in w hich either the seating w as not random ized, m ultiple versions w ere not given, or both. In Senate last year, som e p ro fessors feared that ap p ly in g the regulations to m id term s w ould require too m uch w ork on their part. C ertainly, if an entire class of students can be asked to spend an extra half-hour in lab, then professors can surely spend an extra h o u r or tw o m aking the arran g e m en ts for a "cheatproof" test. In the d ebate over cheating, it is som etim es forgotten th at stu d en ts are the greatest o p p o nents of academ ic dishonesty, because it h u rts them directly. U nder the Charter of Student Rights, stu d en ts have the right to "fair and reasonable" ev alu ation. This provision should be expanded to include the right to w rite exam s in w hich ad e q u ate precautions have been taken to prevent cheating. Q
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to persist, it is complicated and compounded by increasing and repeated events. It is not enough simply to call attention to and address each of these instances. The significance of addressing the individual incidences is nothing less that paramount, but a grander scheme must be designed. Perhaps it can command the immcd iate a tten tion it deserves when the status quo is legiti mately identified as 'a threat to both men and women'. This is not a call to arms for the forma tion of a united militant femalemale front. The agenda to deal with the problem of sexual harassment is two-fold. Firstly, people must come to recognize the structural problem inher ent in governing systems and in our own academic institu tion of McGill. We would not be precedent setting, as other institutions walk ahead of us with strong policies, dictating codes of proper behavior and enforcing them with conscientious fervor. However, we should accom pany the academic community in aiding the struggle shared by all communities. New policy and attitude changes should be made that will reduce the inci dences of sexual harassment instead of encouraging them. Still, this is only half the neces sary agenda for contemporary society. Upon examination, it is counter-intuitive that every body can know sexual harass ment goes on,bu t to prove such incidences is difficult, if not impossible. Shrouded in suspi cion of women and alienation iof men, we find an environ
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ment where the current lexicon is insufficient, demanding evi dence and physical proof, be yond a doubt, when there is none. Secondly, people must come to realize that there is no reason for this kind of fear to be felt by anyone or any group. We sim ply need to recondition our collective body to understand this newly identified symptom with terminology that encom passes everyone. It has been said many times that morality, as a social ideol ogy, arises to serve the domi nant class interests. Unless we succeed in fundamentally al tering the attitudes in our soci ety which have built this ob struction, this barrier to pro gression and fair treatment of all people, then we may chase our tails forever. The road is unmarked. Allow intuition and morality to be your personal guide. Stop this oppression around you, and in you. Allow people to conduct their lives in freedom, free of imposed will. As well, offer sympathy for those who have victimized others, as they, too, are victims of an unwittingly contributing society. Care for us who have been harmed bv J the forceful will of others. Sexual harassment as an ex ample of the society's obstruc tion to freedom is very telling, for without a universal defini tion, we are unable to see be yond the obstructed path. We must find a new vision, for everyone, soon, that we might progress safely into a new ep och. A. RIDLEY POLITICAL SCIENCE U3
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Thinking about South African justice W h y t h e d e m a n d fo r a c o n s t it u e n t a s s e m b ly ? Compiled by Network edi tors from the Dome, Official student newspaper of the University of Natal, Durban (South Africa). In his speech at Concordia U n iv e rsity on September 22, W alter S isu lu noted d ry ly that what is occu rring in South A f rica presently is "talks about talks". Thevarious racial,party, and economic interests are n e g o tia tin g about how to n e g o tia te South A fric a 's fu tu re . The central issue is who should design the new co nstitution: The non-white m ajority ? Blacks and w hites equally ? The first o f the follow in g a r ticles is draw n from a South A frica n student newspaper, and promotes a sim ple majoritarian system as ju s t. The sec ond looks at some of the fu n d a mental issues raised by the South A frican piece. It notes that, in such a racially-divided environm ent, it takes more than mere dem ocracy to create a ju st society.
All political parties in South Africa, besides the right wing, accept the need for a non-racial and dem o cratic South Africa. This implies that the ma jority of South Africans advocate a universal, nonracial franchise (one person, one vote, on a common vot ers roll) and the prohibition of all racially discriminatory laws. Democracy further re quires that the government be representative of the ma jority of the population and that the rights of each indi vidual be protected consti tutionally. In order to ensure that these objectives beachieved, it is imperative that the rep resentatives responsible for drawing up a future nonracial, democratic constitu tion are popularly chosen by the people. Such delegates must translate the will of the people into constitutional proposals and be account able to the people for their
actions. O ne w id e ly a ccep ted means of ensuring that this happens, is through the es tablishment of a constituent assem bly. A constituent assembly is a democratic forum elected by the people, with the mandate to draw up a new constitution. It is a way to guarantee that the in terests of the majority of the electorate are reflected in the new constitution. The constituent assembly would be com posed of rep resentatives elected on the basis ofoneperson one vote, on a common voters roll. However, each party which registers candidates would have to demonstrate a cer tain acceptable degree of na tional support to qualify for election to a constituent as sembly. In this way, small, arbitrary parties hoping to form a broad conservative alliance to frustrate majority power would be excluded. This way it would be the
people who decide whether the racists or tribabsts, pas or present, would represent them at a constituent assem bly. This concept is supported by the African National Congress (ANC), the Pan Af ricanist Congress (PAC), the Azanian Peoples Organiza tion (AZAPO), theSouth Af rican C om m unist Party (SACP), and the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU). What about a multi-party conference? Another possible solution to the problem of drawing up a new constitution is a multi-party conference. This system calls for the partici pation of all political parties to draw up the new consti tution. However, the partici pants would not be dem o cratically elected, and massbased and minority parties would sit as equals in the multi-party conference, with equal power to determine
S o u t h A fr ic a a n d lib e r a l d e m o c r a c y Dave Outerbridge is a M cG ill
j Masters student studying politi- African constitution. The con stitution-makers will be en ! cal theory. trusted to design an institu Today, in a strife-ridden tional framework (representa tive institutions, suffrage, iand just south of Botswana, i a concerted effort is being rights, courts, etc.) which will j made to transform a modern promote and perpetuate a po industrialized society into a litical order with justice as its j liberal democracy. The soci- end. Discovering and promoting I ety is South Africa, and its transformation will require a justice in a society where racial particularly innovative im hatred isa first principle will be plementation of liberal demo excruciatingly difficult. One perspective is that jus cratic principles. The most pressing question tice is inherent in the basic ten in present-day South Africa ets of liberalism and democ seems to concern peace: how racy; the institutionalization of to put an end to racist ex universal suffrage, representa tremism, to political violence? tive government, and constitu However, the lack of peace is tionally-protected rights, will merely emblematic of a far lead to freedom and justice in deeper problem. Severe in South Africa. This sounds rea justice is rigidly institution sonable, but it is a naive view, alized in to South African law. because it neglects the issue of Blacks are voteless and right race. What is democracy anyhow? less, unlike their white coun Essentially, it is rule by the trymen. It is this question of justice majority of voting citizens. which is at the crux of the cur Clearly, given the predomi rent "negotiations about how nantly non-white South Afri to negotiate" the new South can population, it would be
nearly impossible to have a democratic government which would not be racially-biased. Simple democracy would re sult in blacks ruling over whites — a reversal of the existing in justice. Consider the issue of rights. Simple American-style protec tion of individual rights would also serve to perpetuate injus tice. While the protection of minority rights is deemed just in liberal democracies; in South Africa this would serve to pro tect the rights of racists and tribalists, at the expense of the liberal majority. Moreover, it would protect the rights of the wealthy white minority against redistributive policies designed to raise blacks out of their pov erty. A tension exists here be tween individual rights and societal justice. U1timately, the problem with implementing liberal demo cratic principles in South Af rica is that liberal democracy is blind to race. It is blind, also, to already-existing injustice in
the content of the new con stitution. If it is delegates at a multi party conference who draw up the constitution, the re sult will be that minority groups affect the constitu tion with a power which does not reflect their repre sentation in the country. The democratic processes of the constituent assembly, on the other hand, ensure that parties are voted into the assembly not merely because they happen to be political parties, but because they actually have a consid erable proportion of the popular vote. A constituent assembly will ensure that the party with the most "grass roots" support and thus rep resenting fhe majority of South Africans will have the most effect on the develop ment of the new constitu tion. However, the ANC is not opposed to a multi-party conference if that were the popular decision.
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society. In South African soci ety, then, the principles of lib eral democracy will have to be adapted somewhat, to accomo date for racial distinctions. A possible solution would be to create représenta tive insti tutions which are not simply democratic, but which would gi ve su fficient représenta tion to distinct racial groups within society (somewhat analogous to the American Senate, with its equal representation of the unequal states). With regard to rights, justice will require more than merely the assertion of individual rights for all. What must be considered is the historical in justice which has been perpe trated against native South Africans. The collective rights of non-white South Africans as a whole are at issue here. Some type of affirmative action pol icy will be necessary to help non-whites overcome their present economic and educa tional disadvantage. To raise the issue of rights, of
course, is to raise the issue of their protection. Ignoring for the moment the question of adjudication (Who will de fine constitutional rights? Black judges? White judges?), what is essential for the fu ture peaceand justiceof South Africa is an equitable consti tution. A constitution needs to be created which has as its first principle the achieve ment of racial harmony. 11is "negotiations about ne gotiating" such a constitu tion, which are presently taking place in South Africa. Negotiating about how to create justice out of injustice is not easy in this case, where certain negotiators have prof ited from the injustice for so long. What is crucial to rec ognize, however, is that jus tice will not result from blind adherence to principles un suited to South African soci ety. In this modern age, lessthan-modern principles must be adapted in order to ensure a just society. □
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Many women are too fright' ened to answer questions in the lecture room, are too afraid to leave a dead end job for an other of higher calibre, or are just simply scared to walk through downtown Montréal alone at night. These women may be victims of manfear. According to Elsa Scheider, a professor at Concordia Univer sity, manfear is the fear of male violence. "[Male violence] plays a dominant role in maintaining a
D e n tis tr y BY R I C H L A T O U R T he fate of the McGill D entistry faculty will be decided today. If closed, it w ould be only the second faculty in M cGill's 170-year his to ry to m eet such a fate. W hile there have been clo su reso fd ep artm ents before, (pharm acy, op to m e try an d railw ay engineering for exam ple), the only McGill faculty to close its doors w as the Faculty of C om parative M edicine and Vet
male-dominant structure. Manfear is experienced by women who are simply too scared to stand up for them selves as a result of the message that is delivered by a male-ori ented society," she said. "This type of negative mes sage comes from all areas of society. It can be found in many homes, schools, movies, books and on the streets." The idea of manfear as a topic of concern is not entirely new. Throughou t the seven ties i t was a popular subject for many
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litical and nurturing forces to become an important fighting force against male dominance "It can also be eliminated by the softening of male empathy towards women, the enforcementof stricter societal bounda ries on sexual assault, and the changing of resources so that women have a more fair share," she added. Professor Scheider noted that although in the last few dec ades the amount of violence towards women has not de creased, other barriers have
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ence, D entistry felt that it should be able to offer one as well. D en tistry has o p erated solely o ut of McGill since 1904 and w as gran ted Faculty status in 1908. Since then, it has rem ained th e sole A nglophone D entistry Faculty in all of Q uébec. W hen it w as sh u t d o w n , th e FCMVS w as considerably y o u n g er than D entistry. Its 36-year history as a d ep a rtm en t and faculty h o w ever, w as indeed rich. By 1889, 50 stu d en ts w ere en rolled in th e program , b u t could only obtain a certificate to practise veterinary m edicine. T he M ontréal V etrinary C ollege w as tu rn ed into the Faculty of C o m p arativ e M edi cine and V eterinary Science for the
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1890-91 academ ic year, m aking it possible to obtain a degree in v et erin ary m edicine. As Phil Teigen, a researcher at the N ational L ibrary of M edicine in B ethesda, M ary lan d d o c u m ented, how ever, th e ncw ly-created faculty fell victim to changing priorities, declining enrolm ent, and decreasing d em an d for veterin ari ans in general. T he lesser n u m b er of v eterinarians w as largely d u e to the invention of electricity an d the replacem ent of horses by autom obilies. As the need for horses d e creased, so d id the need for v eteri narians. Like McGill D entistry today, the V eterinary School w anted to place
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As Science Member at Large (SML), Iwould support splitting the .Arts and Science Undergraduate Society(ASUS) inti (he Arts and Science councils ( council could thenfocus on science students), compiling an anticaiendar (publicly accessible student course evaluations) and creating awareness of Ibe ASUSand its actions. •nly 13%of the students vote. This implies that most students'are unaware ol Ibe fact that the SML represents all science students hi the ASUS. The.ASUShas anoperating budget ol about flit,Ml (paidlor by students). Shouldn't you knowwhere your money is spent' .Above all'get involved tndVOTE! Myname is Jeanne Thempson and I'min secondyear in Uie Bielecv faculty. Iamrunning far (be sitieri of 'Science Member at Large' an Ibe LSI'Scouncil skilly, (his is a voice for science students intbeir students' society. Youwill find me to be very personable and enthusiastic, someone «bo will be genuine in tbeir effort to doa goodjob representing you. Iknowi have a lot tocontribute to(be ASUSand to science students at McCill. Hopefully you'll knowtoo.
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I amvery interested iu being involved within my student government in order to help affect changes that would benefit the students in this faculty, such as creating an Inter-Faculty sports league. I also believe that since an attemptIs being made (his year to separate the Arts and Science faculty into two distinct entities, it is important that there be vocal and enthusiastic council members- theseire two qualities which I promise to impart. I have been extremely involved in a vast array of activities,! therefore have a number of venues with which to garner suggestions and I am always available to provide a means oi recourse to the ISO, I would welcome the opportunity to represent the science undergrads to council. Vote Amy Pressman for Science Member at Large.
m a n fe a r been pushed back. The evidence of this progression is seen in the increased number of battered women sheltersand women stud ies programs at universities. "The mere fact that manfear was not recognized as an issue twenty yearsagoisanindicationofprogress," she said. Q Professor Scheider will be speak ing Friday November 8 at 7:30 p.m. in the Frank Dawson Adams Audito rium in an interuniversity confer ence arranged by the Coalition Against Sexual Assault (C A SA ).
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Canada's much-lauded 'cultural mosaic' is very much in evidence on the McGill campus. Among the thousands of students who flock to the university each year, a large proportioncome from diverse cul tural and ethnic back grounds. The great num ber of students of different ethnic and cultural back grounds at McGill make this campus unique. "McGill is a very inter national university. There are so many different na tionalities and back grounds. You learn a lot M u ltic u ltu r a l is m is a C a n a d ia n r e a lity . more when you ha ve such a broad hoping to strengthen their al- nity. Julie Dzerowicz, Club Rep to cross-section of people. You might ready-establishedculturalidenhave one impression of a part of titv, while others are discover- Council and co-coordinator of the world, but if you talk to some ing their roots for the first time. Culture Fest, explained that the "The cultural groups have an festival provides an opportu one from there, you see a clearer picture of what's going on," ex important function on campus. nity for clubs on campus to plained Jillian Griffith, Vice-Presi Instead of being pressured into express pride in their cultures. While McGill's cultural di dent of the Caribbean Students a uniform Canadian identity, [people have] the choice to in versity will be on display durSociety. AtMcGill thereareanumberof corporate theirethnicityintoan ingCulture Fest, multiculturalclubs which emphasize the uni multicultural identity," said ism is very much in evidence versity's multicultural composi Natalia Olynec, President of the throughout this country. As tion. Through campus activities Ukranian Student's Association Alan McConnell, President of such as speakers, debates and and a co-coordinator of Cul the McGill Irish Society ex plained, "We live in a multicul parties, these clubs provide the ture Fest. tural society. That is recognized student body with a forum for by the government and is an On November6and 7, McGill cultural and informational ex change. "The fact that SALSA will be kicking up its heels at obvious reality to anyone walk(Spanish and Latin America Stu Culturefest, a celebration of ing the streets of Montréal, Q dents' Association) is a purely McGill'smulticultural commu- Toronto or Vancouver." social group has attracted a lot of Canadians who have a minimal C E N T R E D E M IC R O -IN F O R M A T IQ U E F o r exposure to Latin culture, but IEC y o u r sendee want to find out what it'sall about. s in c e Both sides learn a lot from each 1983 « e « 7 AVENUE O U PARC. MONTRÉAL. QUÉBEC. H 2 V « 7 other," said Albaluz Uyehar, PresidentofSALSA. "1'vemadea 1 lot of friends from other parts of 1 Meg RAM 1.2 Meg Floppy the world. McGill has so many Meg Hard Disk (SEAGATE ST-157A) SYSTEMINCLUDS: 45 SVGA Card (ATI INTEGRA 512K) different ways to integrate all SVGA Monitor (SAMSUNG CVB4587) Bilingual Keyboard : 101 keys cultures, and introduce different cultures to each other. 1think that's AT 2 8 6 / 16 M h z S 1 13 5 .0 0 very reflective of Canada." AT 3 8 6 SX / 1 6 M h z 1 2 3 8 .0 0 A T 3 8 6 SX / 2 0 M h z 12 7 9 .0 0 The clubs offer their members a AT 3 8 6 / Z S M hz 1 4 0 5 .0 0 sense of cultural identity and A T 3 8 6 / 3 3 M h z , 6 4 K C a c h e 1 6 0 6 .0 0 belonging. Some students are AT 4 8 6 SX / 2 0 M hZ 2 0 0 3 .0 0
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BY JEANY PARK AND DIANE SOLENKA What do you get when you cross M urder She Wrote, the Twilight Zone, your Riverside Shakespeare and a touch of an old Carol Burnett show? The excellent result is AnnMarie MacDonald's Goodnight Desdemona, Good Morning Juliet,
a feminist reworking of Shakespeare.lt is social satire at its finest, skillfully presented so that the viewer is never blatantlyhit over the head with a pedagogical message. The play revolves around an eccentric, lonely and endearing Canadian academic, Constance Ledbelly, whose doctoral the sis, (at Queen's, no less), at tempts to prove that Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and Othello were first wri tten as comedies. Constance's life lights up when she is magically projected into each play to solve the mystery of authorship and
to discover her true identity. Constance's trip into Shakespeare's plays provides a forum for her to question and mock some long-held assump tions inherent in the famous playwright's work. For ex ample, what would happen if someone proved to Othello that Iago was lying, or if Othello was in actuality a self-absorbed bore? What if Romeo and Ju liet's wedding night was, at best, a disappointment? Would they still be compelled to a passion that could lead to a double suicide? The addition of even wackier twists than this intensifies the level of comedy. Banuta Rubess, director of the original production in 1989, felt that "the real story happens in the zone of the unconscious mind. Constance stews in her office like base matter in an alchemical dish; she reaches the nadir of her existence, and this allows her to reconsider her life, her self, as if in a dream. But if
P e n e tr a tin g BY NICK JONES AND J ASON HRENO EricJTalk Radio ) Bogosian's one-man play, Drinkingin Amer ica, opened last week at The Alley, the first production to be featured in a series of Wednes day night shows. Starring Stewart Glen, the performance is more a collec tion of thirteen different char acter sketches, or what Bogosian calls "chunks of personali ties," than an actual play. There is no beginning or end, just a series of separate male stories linked by the themes of excess and hunger for power. The transitions from charac ter to character are abrupt, much like, as Bogosian says, "turning channels" on televi sion. There are no set-ups or resolutions, just disturbingly vivid portraits of men con trolled by their own illusions in an excessive and self-destruc tive society. The characters range from bums on the street to a sleazv
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L.A. show-biz agent to a willfully superficial suburban yuppie. Injected with gritty realism, Bogosian's script is both brutally powerful and intensely funny. Having to assume thirteen di fferent personae in a little over an hour is, by any standard, a challenge for an actor and something that Stewart Glen just manages to pull off. At times his performance is a little unconvincing, due to his faulty accents, but he is so good in other scenes that the audience is likely to be forgiving. In the character of a reckless New Jersey street tough, Glen takes the audience with him through the debauchery of the previous night's road party. He créa tes such a vivid picture that the viewer feels a part of the bizarre and violent ride. Between each character the lights blacken and when they come up after a few seconds, there is yet another personality on stage. After a few dark min utes listening to the ramblings of a heroin addict, the lights go
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sound and lighting which lend a magical theatricality to the play. The sets and costumes are not only imaginatively func tional, but play an important part in the sheer aesthetic qual ity of the show. The only real disappointment with the play is that by its end, the viewer is left wishing to see
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how Constance would handle Macbeth, Hamlet or any other Elizabethan tragedy. Goodnight Desdemona is successful in its mission, prompting the audi ence to wittily and playfully question the works of the Bard. q
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down and Glen emerges as a smug and happy guy who has "no problems", a nice house, a Volvo, a loving wife and child, a good job and a "condo-slashinvestment-slash-retirement place in Florida." The juxtaposition of a penni less drug addict and a subur ban yuppie may leave some scratching their heads, but for Bogosian these two characters have the same problem, with different symptoms. They both live by their illusions, which are simply manifested in dif ferent ways. Of course, Bogosian's thesis allows him to question people's codes of belief and ideas of the truth. But this inquiry is not critical to the purpose of the play, which is more to stir things up than sort them out. Clad in jeans and a t-shirt and using only a bottle, a micro phone and a telephone as props, Glen's achievement, for the most part, is highly provoca tive. Unfortunately, The Alley is not the best venue for such a
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Good Night Desdemona, Good Morning Juliet by Ann-Marie MacDonald, directed by M ary Walsh, runs at the Centaur The atre from October 29 through December 15. Tickets are between $15.00 and $27.00-, For more in formation, call 288-3161.
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through thefrighteningbowels of the American male psyche. This is a ride worth taking. □ Drinking in America runs at The Alley every Wednesday at 9pm until December 4.Admission is free, but a donation is suggested.
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E g o y a n ’s l a s t e s t m o r e t h a n BY KATRINA ONSTAD & LAURA WILLIAMSON While the thronging masses stayed home (perhaps antici pating Vanilla Ice'scinema tic debut), director Atom Egoyan's The Adjuster opened to a near-empty theatre Fri day night. For the daring few in attendance, the film offered an engrossing look at the breakdown of communica tion in contemporary techno logical culture. The film gets off to a slow and rather confusing start. The opening scenes are dis jointed and esoteric, and may leave audience members scratching theirheads. Patient viewers will, however, see a plot emerge. The central story concerns Noah Render (Robert De Niro look-alike Elias Koteas), an insurance adjuster whose te dious job involves itemizing possessions lost in house fires. To his bereaved clients, Noah is "an angel", but he knows differently. The real Noah is
horrifyingly aloof from the tragediesof hisclients, whether they're filling out forms together or hav ing sex. "It'sbecomeso weird," he says, "deciding what has value and what doesn't." What doesn't have value in the frigid climate of The Adjuster is interpersonal warmth and com munication. Embodying this theme is Noah's relationship to his wife (Arsinee Khanjian); their distance makes Kiefer and Julia look positively loving. A secondary plot revolves
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sonal dissatisfaction and dis torted notions of sexuality ex plode. It is via the recurring motif of modern technology that Egoyan plays out his themes. The film itself is textbook post modern. Under the pretext of a movie within a movie, for ex ample, a character actually ad justs the perpetually self-con scious camera. The audience is not allowed to forget that the world in this film—and the dysfunctional characters who inhabit it— are a product of
technology. This world is one of human isolation in which communication by non-me chanical means seems impos sible. The Adjuster is a complex film which resists summary,but this should not deter the audience. The acting is superb and the Greenaway-esque cinematog raphy is astounding. For some thing simple, don't worry — the Ice-man cometh. But for something challenging and probably more en tertai ni ng, the Egoy-man is here. □
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B illy B a t h g a t e : a t e p i d , t e d i o u s t o r m e n t BY DEBBIE ZINMAN
Tom Stoppard's screenplay oftheE.L. Doctorow novel Billy Bathgate is your typical mob ster movie, minus the mean mob, the glamour and the in trigue. Any potential for a 1930's N ew York gangster-style film is lost in the stagnant dramatization of power struggles, which come across as insipid bickering between the film's main characters. Dutch Shultz, the king mob ster (Dustin Hoffman), and Billy, the kid (Loren Dean), are fascinated by each other at first glance. Dutch agrees to take Billy on as a mob apprentice. Unfortunately, thisinitial spark which ignites the sage-student relationship never develops. Hoffman, in an attempt to portray a tough gangster guy, sports a greasy hair-do and squints a lot. His puckered lips and muttered speech, however, fail to characterize him as a reigning mobster meanie.
Dutch's character comes across as timid, not because he is shorter than hisfamiglia cronies, but because of Hoffman's ten dency to slip out of a fearless strut and into his Rain Man shuffle. Billy, who is supposed to be Dutch's side-kick, spends the majority of his time sweeping floors and serving drinks, which tend to get thrown back in his face. When Billy pur chases his first gun with the money Dutch gives him, he holds the weapon in his hands, and glows with an aura of in vincibility - an accurate symbol of the way in which the men in this film gain power and con trol. Big mouths get silenced with big guns and anyone who makes a peep at the wrong time has little chance of doing so again. The only memorable charac ter in Billy Bathgate is Mrs. Preston (Nicole Kidman), a mob-babe who does not com ply with the confines of such a role. Mrs. Preston may present herself as a showpiece, but she
Dustin Hoffman's puckered lips and muttered speech fail to characterize him as a reigning mobster meanie.
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is callous, and calculating, and gets what she wants. Particu larly in the moments when she and a younger man engage intimately, Mrs. Preston (à la Mrs. Robinson) is the one in control. She functions as more of a master than a meek mistress. She corrects men's grammar, she defies orders and she is up
tomoretwo-timingand schem ing than all the male leads put together. The film has many of the usual mob-style qualities. In one scene, Dutch kills an inno cent man with his bare hands in an attempt to reveal his ruth lessness. Unfortunately, this moment merely mimics The Untouchables and Goodfellas,
rather than injecting fear into Dutch's audience. Neither mob members nor viewers seemed to shudder much. The whole movie leads up to a less-than-tense court scene which isanti-climacticand dull. Although Billy Bathgate made it to the big screen and features a few big names, this movie is really no big deal. Q
W h o ’s a f r a i d o f t h e V i o l e n t F e m m e s ? BY DAVID NORTH The Violent Femmes are not exactly on the verge of super stardom at this point in their career. In fact, they probably
won't get much bigger than they are right now. Nonetheless, at The Rialto last week, they proved that after almost a dec ade, they can still thrill an audi ence like few other bands.
The three musicians seem to have resigned themselves to the reality of their status. Their atti tudes towards the screaming fans ranged from indifference to disbelief, sometimes in the
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span of one number. Gordon Gano, about as happy to be on stage as a twelve-year-old forced to sing Christmas carols before relatives, had the ador ing fans under his thumb from the opening chord. A full set and two encores later, the crowd still couldn't get enough of the Femmes, destined to go down in history as the darlings of angst-ridden teenagers everywhere, as well as anyone else who gets a kick out of sarcastic and intelligent music. One of the best things about the show was that the band drew extensively and unabash edly from its first two critically acclaimed albums. This would seem to be a logical move, since these are the records that de fine the band to this day. Even more remarkable was that the Femmes could play the hi ts they wrote ten years ago without looking pathetic or over the hill. Naturally, the crowd ate up numbers such as Kiss Off, Blis ter In The Sun, and Add It Up. Material from the group's most recent studio effort Why Do Birds Sing? was received with equal enthusiasm. Much to the band's apparent surprise, fans sang out loud to many of these tunes. In among these early and late songs was a smattering of the more popular numbers from the Femmes' moderately suc cessful albums in between.
The on-stage characters of the three musicians meshed fantas tically. Bassist Brian Ritchie was the joker, hamming it up when ever he had a solo, (knee up on the speaker, head thrown back in ecstacy), looking like he just stepped off the set of Spinal Tap. Across the stage, percussion ist Victor DeLorenzo was all business, re-adjusting his drums and microphone before allowing the concert to begin. DeLorenzo stood up for the entire show, playing two bon gos and an amputated drum kit, all with two steel brushes and a proficiency that would put most Montréal mountain drummers to shame. But it was Gano who gar nered the most adulation from the young crowd. Small and unassuming, he resembles the harmless fellow in poetry class. His onstage persona is incredi bly complex and attractive; he always appears miserable or in pain. At the end of each song he would dart to the back of the stage, seeking refuge in a bottle of Evian. Wednesday's show was about as good as The Violent Femmes are capable of sound ing. While the songs themselves were tigh tand al ways smoothly execu ted, there was just enough spontaneity in between num bers to make the audience feel CONTINUED ON PAGE 15
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S o c c e r t e a m s c lin c h p r o v in c ia l c h a m p io n s h ip s BY A L ISO N K O RN A N D PAUL CO LEM A N This past w eekend, in bone-chill ing cold at M olson Stadium , both McGill's W om en's and M en's Soc cer te am s clinched Provincial C ham p io n sh ip s in h ard-fought overtim e victories against Concor dia. At the end of regulation time, each gam e rem ained a scoreless standoff. W hile the M artlets w ere able to break the stalem ate in the dying m inutes of overtim e, the R edm en's fate had to be d eter m ined by p enalty shots. T hro u g h o ut both m atches, the officiating w as contentious. T he M artlets The M artlets once again captured th e Q uebec U niversity W om en's Soccer L eague C h a m p io n sh ip Saturday, defeating the Lady Sting ers 1-0. Both team s appeared uninspired at th e beginning. At the outset C oncordia seem ed to have a slight e d g e on th e M a rtle ts , w h o struggled to connect on passes, finish off plays and capitalize on opportunities, 'T h e first fifteen m inutes w as really a lot of nerves, an d after that 1th in k w e really fought h ard," said p la y e r/a s s is ta n t coach D ebbie M urin. The crossbar proved to be C oncordia's ally, as it rejected no less than four McGill blasts over the course of the day. "W e could have p u t it aw ay a few tim es," said QUWSL Coach of the year T ony lachetta. "It's the
final score that counts th ough, th a t's it." A brilliant d isplay of g o alten d ing by rookie C arolyn Teng, and a disallow ed Concordia goal p re served the im passe w hich necessi tated the overtim e period. "W e w ere p repared to go into overtim e and we w ere p repared to take penalty shots," said veteran All-Star Sarah C artw right. League scoring leader N atalie loanidis 'took hom e the hard w are' S aturday, receiving both gam e and League MVP honours. H er w in ning goal d u rin g the final m inute of overtim e w as assisted by rookie sensation K athryn D urand. "It w as one of those things that just hap p en s so fast - y o u 're w atchin g th e clo ck th e w h olegam e," said loanidis. T h e ball cam e o ver there and 1 placed it an d just took th e shot." T he M artlets w ere not inclined to take Concordia lightly. "I think that [losing to C oncor dia 4-1 d u rin g the reg u lar season] w as m aybe a good om en because th at w ay w e realized that w e just co u ld n 't w alk in h ere an d easily ta k e th e g a m e a w a y ," sa id C artw right. "It m ad e u s w ork re ally hard this w eek in practice an d it paid off." The M artlets travel W ednesday to G uelph U niversity to com pete in the N ational C ahm pionships. T he Red m en T he Redm en also got off to a slow start, plag u ed by n erv o u s
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photo: Jerem y Albcrga ness and disorganization. "W e h ad a little difficulty keep ing the ball d o w n at th e beginning b ut w e m anaged to get things u n d er control," said ro o k iem id field er Joe M artucci. "I th in k th e nerves thing is all before the gam e, once y o u 're out there you get right into i t an d there's no tim e for an y nerves," ad d ed freshm an striker Erik Lee. "W hat h ap p en ed w as th a t w e w eren 't controlling the passes an d w e let them play their ty p e of gam e w hich is a kick and run, u n lik e o u r gam e." T hisscrappy "kickand ru n " style created little in the w ay of offence for either team . A scoreless tie at th een d of regulation tim e persisted
th ro u g h the overtim e period. 'T h e y defen d ed well. In the w hole gam e w e had th ree chances m aybe. T he big di fference w as that their goalie played a lot b etter this tim e around," said veteran d e fender Rolf G ronas. The provincial cham pionship cam e to be d eterm ined by penalty shots. Rookie Michael D ugueeventually potted the w inner for McGill w ith a final score of 4-3. O u tsta n d ing goal ten ding from fifth-year Bert Lee d u rin g the crunch secured the w in for the Redm en. H is stalw art perform ance in the nets w as the natural continuation of his bench m ark season in w hich he earned 6 sh u to u ts and m ade QUSL First
Team All-Star. T he Redm en will need to raise both the intensity and org an iza tion of their gam e en ro u te to the national cham p io n sh ip s in K ing ston this week. They will likely encounter a different style of play w hen they m eet sq u ad s rep resen t ing Eastern O ntario and W estern C anada. "1 think it's the n atu re of the Q uebec leag u e," said G ronas. 'T h e y 're fast gam es b u t not really technical. At the national level w e will be m eeting a n u m b er of team s th at play a m ore elegant style of soccer. They should let us pass the ball aro u n d a little m ore."
M a r tle ts t o t e lu n c h p a ils , p la y fir e w a g o n h o c k e y BY C H R IST O PH E R TAYLOR T he M artlets m ay h av e lacked a few goals in F riday's 7-4 loss to the C égèp d e St. L aurent (CSL) Patrio tes, b u t they certainly d id n 't lack an y heart. As Red Fisher w ould say, they rem em bered to bring their lunchpails. First year coach Geoff Phillips w as pleased despite th e outcom e, w hich d ro p p ed the team 's record to 1-1. 'T h e w ork ethic w as am azing. It w as an extrem ely good effort on o u r p art," he said. O ne reason for th e loss w as the overall strength of the Patriotes. T hey areb ig , talented, a little nasty, an d are slated as divisional favour ites. T he CSL forw ards set u p shop so effectively that by the end of the gam e, their mail w as being for w arded to th e McGill slot. This w as a problem , as th e M ar tlets c o u ld n 't clean house in front of the net. Phillips attributed this to th e loss of the injured D iane Playle an d K erry Paquette, noting that th e absence of th e tw o starting d e fensive players w as particularly painful in the first period. W hat th e period offered was som e real firew agon hockey, where th e w ide-open play created a 4-2
The social dance in fro n t o f the ne t d id n 't help M a rtle t goalie N atalie Lapenta, b u t she playe d solidly, stopping a couple o f bre aka w r 's and m aking a phenom enal save in the ih ird p e rio d that s till has the rin k rats buzzing. photo: Akos Hoffer Patriote lead. "T hat's hard to com e back from, especially against such a strong physical team ," Phillips said of the deficit. T he social dance in front of the net d id n 't help M artlet goalie N a talie Lapenta, b u t she played sol idly, stopping a couple of b reak a w ays and m aking a phenom enal save in the third that still has the rink rats buzzing.
O th er stan d o u ts included Coffeyesque d efen d er Brenda Benson, w ho had tw o goals, forw ard M on ica C erm ignani, an d the num ber one line o f captain K athy M orri son, T asm anian Devil Jocelyn Bar rett, an d M cGill's C hairw om an of th e Boards, A lison Korn. M orri son, th e tw o -sp o rt w o n d er who ten d s to d ek e o p p o sin g players rig h t o u t of th eir psyches, had n o th in g b u t praise for her line-
m ates. "It's by far th e best line I'v e ever played on. Jocelyn is incredible. You tell h er to do som ething once, an d she does it, and does it well," she said. The second period w as an em o tion-filled slugfestin w hich McGill closed the gap to 4-3, before Patri ote C arolihe D ube scored the sec ond an d third goals of w hat w ould be a four-goal night. The th ird was
a m uch tig h ter checking affair, and only som e m issed o p p o rtu n ities prevented the M artlets from eve n ing the score. M orrison, w ho n et ted a slapshot of w hich A1 M a d n nis w ould h av e been p ro u d , w as lukew arm about the perform ance. "I d o n 't th in k w e played to o u r potential. W ecan w o rk harder, and we can play a lot sm arter," she said, although she is optim istic ab o u t the season, especially in contrast to last y ear's d rain in g 615-2 cam paign. "You can see things starting to click. You can really see people im p ro v in g an d getting hockey sm art. T here are so m any better things ahead." A bout th e prospect of facing the Patriotes again, Phillips said the d evelopm ent of basic skills is cru cial for a team stocked w ith rookies an d transform ed ringette players. "W e're going to have to beat them on skill, not strength," h e said . T he M artlets' next test is a N o vem ber 9th hom e gam e against John A bbott, a sm all, quick team that will p ro v id e a contrast to the P atriotes' b ru isin g style. If the M artlets continue to play w ith such heart, the traditionally overlooked w om en's team could tu rn McGill hockey on its ear, and teach people a thing or tw o ab o u t intensity. Q
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The McGill Redmen travelled back to the swamp in Lennoxville to take on the #4 ranked Bishop's Gaiters in the first round of the Conference play offs this weekend. After tying Bishop's and proving that they could shut down their air attack, McGill looked like they had a big chance for an upset. "We need a big day from our Quarterback, and our defense really has to play well", said of fensive co-ordinator Ron Tondino before the game. The large hometown crowd which had donned lumberjackets and workboots before as sembling at Coulter Field Sat urday, witnessed nothing of the
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sort as the Bishop's offence bombed the McGill defence in a 59-23 victory. Gaiter quarterback Silvio Martel, utilized all of his offen sive weaponry en route to completing 27 of 36 for 460 yards, 4 touchdowns and one rushing touchdown. The OQIFC all star quarter back, gained an incredible amount of yardage while mar shalling the offence for only three quarters. "Silviohad the greatest game I've ever seen by an OQIFC quarterback", said a disap pointed McGill pivot Justin Raymond. "He spread it out so well, he used all his receivers. He was just unstoppable!" The Gaiter star tore the
b e n e a t h McGill defense to shreds while helping post a 47-17 score by the time he left the game. McGill dearly missed it's leading tack ier, Randy Burns. The McGill defensive backfield having shown improve ment over the last three weeks, apparently forgot to show up for this game. They blew cover ages and looked confused in many situations. As a result, the Bishop's offencecollaborated for691 yards. "The defense lacked the in tensity it takes to win playoff games", said former Defensive end and Vanier Cup member, Paul Kerr.'Tt seemed as though they thought they had a game to play next week." Although the McGill defense
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played atrociously, the offense shone at times. Pint-sized Steve Papp re turned a punt 85 yards in the first quarter for a touchdown, also capping a drive with a 28 yard reception for a major. Papp gained 281 all-purpose yards "If you give him just a little room, he's going for a touch down", said Redmen centre J.P. Veri. "He really came to play today." Veriand the rest of the McGill offensive line blocked well enough to free Marc Thiffeault on a few screen plays in the second half, but it wasn't enough. Veri was nominated for the Russ Jackson Award once again and will represent the Ontario-Quebec Conference
at the Vanier Cup Awards in Toronto later this month. Bishop's All-star Linebackers, Ray Bernard and Eric Edwards, were dominant on defense. "We were out-matched to day," said Veri. "The Gaiters simply played better than us, they read well and they'll probably go to the Vanier Cup." While Bishop's ventures in quest of the Vanier Cup, the Redmen have all winter to ponder where they went wrong. McGill goes into hibernation with a mediocre 2-5-1 record. However, despite injuries and mid-season departures, the Redmen managed to make the playoffs for the first time since 1989. □
W o m e n c a p t u r e p r o v i n c a l t i t l e in c r o s s c o u n t r y BY S A R A H H A L E
The women's cross country team raced over the Plains of Abraham outside Québec City on Saturday, October 26 to capture the provincial title for 1991. Led by first place finisher Linda Thyer, a 2nd year Med student at McGill, runners Maeve Maldowney, Georgia Tzavellas, Jacqui Neufeld, and Kelly Sallon took 2nd, 4th, 7th, and 8th place, respectively, over the 5km course. Tanja Taivassalo and Anneke Scheddeboom crossed the line 6th and 7th to solidify the McGill women's title as Provincial Champions and earn them the chance to compete in Victoria, B.C. for the National Championship to be held November 16th. The top eight teams from across the country compete at the 5 km Nationals, one club each from the Québec, Eastern, Western, and Coastal confer ences, two from Ontario, as well as two wild-card entries.
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McGill's top 8 runners will be flown to B.C. on the 15th, spon sored by both McGill Athletics and the CI AU. Due to injuries on the team, McGill's competing athletes have not yet been determined. However, with a talented group of runners to choose from, McGill will be sending one of its strongest teams ever. "This year's team is fairly competitive," said Head Coach Denis Barrett, "Competitive enough to place in the top 5 at Nationals." "Among each of the runners there is an inner personal wish to do well. There is a reason why we're doing so wel 1. We're in it for the right reasons," said Leslie Virtue. Optimistic about a top 5 fin ish this season, McGill Women's Cross Country will have a large number of return ing runners next year. "Most teams train and com pete year round" said Coach Barrett, "so mostly our girls have been encouraged to com
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pete in our indoor track pro gram." A strong performance dur ing the cross country season usually indicates thata fast track
team will competein the spring. For next year's club, however, the most important thing is to keep running. With the present level of confidence and dedica
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This weekend marked the end of the 1991 season for the Men's and Women's Rugby Football Clubs. The Men's first and second XV's defeated Bishop's to become the Québec University Rugby League (QURL) Champions for the second time in three years. In contrast, both the Women's First and Second teams lost in the semi-finals to John Abbott and Concordia respectively. Men's coach and player Hart Caplan was exultant after the game, stating, "Even though McGill Athleticsgaveup on us, we still fought hard and won." Fight hard they did, as they battled the elements and a 9-0 deficit at the half to take the Championship from a deter mined Bishop's side. Caplan led the comeback charge with a try, while league-leading scorer Paul Doherty(30 points in 5 games), nailed a penalty kick in windy conditions to bring the Firsts to within 2. Captain Steve Robb scored the winning try in the dying minutes of the game, on a heroic effort amidst scrambled play. The Second XV game was not so close, as the team trounced the Gaiters 20-0. Tries were scored by Dan Benoit with two, David Laurie, and Dave Meloche. Bill Weaver added two conversions to up his sea son total to 21, and Captain Mark Ridley set the pace for the game with intelligent and aggresive play. "Strong forward play has been a major factor in the suc cess of our team throughout the year," said Club President and Second XV team prop Charlie Kime. "Today [Ridley] inspired us to keep that up." The QURL Champions will travel to Cambridge, Mass, on Friday to meet Harvard in the annual Covo Cup match, which is played in honour of Peter The following is a paid represent the editorial policy
B i s h o p ’s Covo, a former Professor of Engineering at McGill. When Harvard travelled to McGill in the fall of 1874, it marked the first intercollegiate competition for an American team on foreign soil. The last time McGill travelled to Har vard, in 1989, it was defeated 14-11 in a tight match. The Redmen proved too strong for the Crimson last year, winning 35-0 on the home turf. The Women's First XV lost 63 in a disappointing game against John Abbott, a team the Firsts dominated during the regular season. They finished second overall with an 8-2-1 record and were expected to face Concordia in the final. Co-captain Michelle Walter cited the teams inability to take advantage of the extremely windy conditions as a major factor in the loss. "In the second half Abbott had the wind at their backs," she said. "They gained good field position by kicking, and then scored on two attempts at posts." The Martlets did not give up, and in the dying minutes they forced their way to within five feet of the Abbott line. How ever, they could not add to Allison Traynor's penalty kick before the final whistle sounded, ending an otherwise successful season. Concordia ultim ately trounced John Abbott 26-0 in the anti-climactic champion ship final. The Women's Second XV, who finished first in their divi sion, started their playoff drive by beating Bishop's, the last place team in the first division to decide who would face Concordia in the other semi final of the first division However, the eventual cham pions proved too strong for the MartletSecondsdespite strong runningin the backs. At game's end the Stinger's were up 26-0. □ advertisement. It does not of the M c G ill Tribune
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M o o s e c a llin g Maybe it started in the days when football players didn't wear helmets. Or perhaps it i began when the television age firstdragged thesweatingathlete on air for some mid-game interrogation beneath hot stu dio lights. "Duh, Hi Mom...we're j number 1" At any rate, that was a long time ago. A bygone era. The predominant concep tions of sport allude to a primi tive subterranean world ruled by the reigning monarchs of muscle - the oafish football team Captain and the bubble gum chewing Head Cheer leader. 'Moose' crushes beer cans on his head during the off-season while 'Buffy' has her neato friends over for slumber parties. We joke that most athletes wear their IQ scores on their jerseys, that they major in underwater basketweaving. Moreover, media represen tation of the intelligence spec trum eternally promotes the brain versusbrawn foil. Oscar Madison and Felix Unger. 'Biff' and Marty McFly. Personal grooming and sports are apparently incompa table. Intellectuals perspire. Ath letes sweat. Co-ordination and the so cial graces don't mix. An appreciation for the fine arts precludes strength and flexibility. Scholars attend the theatre to cut through clever subtext. Jocks cut through the lineup at the snack bar. I think the fact that the engi neers arc the only faculty on campus to have its own or ganized sports leagues really says something about the in telligence/athleticism rela tionship. And what about the 'absent minded professor' conven tion? Surely in a world where we all must be athletic or sed entary, there is some room left for sagacity. We can't all be stupid. These societal divisions re ally get my goat. (Not that 1 actually have a goat, but if I did have one, it would beoutta there like...well, anyway) It's really a sign that there is something inherently wrong when a simple; "Hey...waddaya say we play some sports?" sends a good share of the room into nervous convulsions. Everyone recalls the horror
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of being picked last to partici pate in playground sports. It's universal because it usually had nothing to do with innate athletic ability, but rather hinged on whether or not you had a smelly egg-salad sand wich for lunch, or had mo mentarily outgrown the hem of your pants. No two kids develop coordination within their growing bodies at the same time. At the same time, no two kids happen to know this, and thus a stereotype is born. Lingering emotional scars dictate two defense sys tems for the mature adult looking to avoid a mild recurrance of schoolyard horrors. The first is a deplorable at tempt to render the sports world the domain of unedu cated boors. The second of course, is the expression of pure and un abashed fear. As if I had just launched a personal attack rather than an innocent invitation, ashen faces respond; "No, thanks, I'd be just aw ful. I don't know that much about sports." Help me understand here. By asking, d id Isuggest tha t: a) I was so good as to shame any teammate; and b) "I'm only looking for seasoned professionals," ? Lighten up folks. Sure, 1 dabble, but I really suck. Excellence in one field is achieved at different costs to different peoples. For some it leaves very little time for any thing beyond the subject of their principal attentions. For others, each pursuit is complimentary. These people are called 'well rounded indi viduals' and are the envy of society, even though they ap parently boast two negative attributes. Stupidity is not running, jumping, or catching, or... Stupidity is the adherence to outworn typologies and the underlying ignorance under lying these stereotypes. Most of all, stupidity is an imbal anced lifestyle in this age of health awareness.
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