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O n th e R h o d e s a g a in Students Megan McNeill and Carellin Brooks win the coveted Rhodes scholarship, becoming the 100th and 101st such winners from McGill.

After undergoing the rigorous application and interview process, the Saskatoon and Vancouver natives emerged victorious and they did it on their own terms.

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In s id e T h is W eek N e w s : C oncordia U n i­ v e rsity S tu d e n ts ' A ssocia­ tio n (CUSA) C o -P resi­ d e n t ch allen g es ac cu sa­ tio n s of fin an c ial im p ro ­ p rie tie s a s T oronto Do­ m inion B an k freezes th e asso ciatio n 's accounts.

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S ee e d ito ria l, p a g e 6 F e a t u r e s : A few p ra c ti­ tio n e rs of th e a r t ôf E lvis g a th e re d on h is b irth d a y a t S ta tio n 10. So w h a t goes on in th e m in d s of th e m en in th e ju m p su its?

S e e p a g e 10 E n te r ta in m e n t: The n ex t, N e x t G eneration, Deep Space N in e is stu ck b etw een a rock a n d a w orm hole.

S e e p a g e 14 S p o r t s : A w in n in g w eek en d for M cGill a th le tic s - b a sk e tb a ll, hockey a n d tra c k & field kick off th e new sem ester.

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7:30 pm, FDA Auditorium. Ad­ mission $3.50 non-members, $1.00 members, children and seniors.

Rosemarie Vanderhooft. 8:00 pm, Redpath Hall. Free admission. For info call 398-4547.

Tuesday. January 12 The Latin American Awareness Group is having its

low Door, 3625 Aylmer. For info call 398-6243.

M cGill’s Students’ Or­ ganization for Alumni Relations (SOAR), a newly formed organi­

The McGill Film Society presents “M anufactur­ ing ConsentN o a m Chom sky in the M ed ia.”

7:30 pm, FDA A u d ito riu m .

A d m is s io n $3.50 no n ­ members, $1.00 m em ­ bers, children and seniors.

zation, will be holding a meeting at 7:30 pm in B09/10 of the William Shauier University Center to dis­ cuss events for this term. For more information, contact Dan Holland at 398-5000.

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first meeting today at 5:00 pm in Shatner 425-426. All welcome.

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So you want to be on the radio? Come down to CKUT-Radio McGill 90.3 FM in Shauier B15 and fill out a volunteer applica­ tion form. General orientation held today at 6:00 pm.

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(Q P IR G )’s General Inter­ est M eeting for this term is today at 6:00 pm in Leacock 232.

The keynote speaker will • be Grand Chief Joseph in t e n t io n a l Friday. .January 15 Norton of the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake. Bring your own mug The Caribbean Students’ because food and drink will be available. For info contact Hafiz Society of McGill is having a gen­ eral meeting today at 7:30 pm in Maherali at 398-7432.

Shatner B09/10. All are welcome.

The Faculty of Music After the meeting there will be a presents John Ellis and Marc video night.

Couroux. 8:00 pm, Redpath Hall.

The Yellow Door presents Free admission. For info call 398the first coffee house of 1993. Per­ 4547. formers include AdrianeClark with The Garden Bards. Open stage to The McGill Film Society follow. $2.00 admission. The Yel­ presents “Colour of Pomegranate”.

W ednesday. January 13 The McGill Outing Club meets today at 7:30 pm in Leacock 26. Coming up for the weekend of January 16-17 are: Cross-country ski school, downhill and telemark skiing at Mt. Orford, and winter camping from the house. For info call 398-6817.

Amateur Radio Club of McGill University (ARCMU) is having its first meeting of 1993 today at 6:00 pm in McConnell Engineering rm. 437. New mem­ bers welcome. W e’ll teach you how to get your license and get on the air. For more info call Andrew at 4 8 1 -1582 or e-m ail Silver Gee470.ee.mcgill.ca The Faculty of Music presents a M aster’s Recital by

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Monday. January 18 The Folk Music Society meets every Monday at 8:30 pm at the Yellow Door, in the basement.

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CUSAset back by financial foibles and funding freeze

BY AMY MCBRIDE The Toronto Dominion Bank (TD) has frozen the Concordia Uni­ v ersity S tu d e n ts’ A ssociation (CUSA) accounts due to recent fi­ nancial book-keeping difficulties.

After a six-month analysis, the au­ diting firm of Arthur Andersen & Co. reported that CUSA is missing cheques, lacking documentation for certain financial transactions, and therefore cannot properly account for tens of thousands of dollars of CUSA expenditures.

A uditor G iovanni T agliamonti, in charge of the CUSA report, sent letters to CUSA direc­ tors, pointing out material weak­ nesses in accounting standards. The letter noted a lack of accountability and claimed that duties had not been carried out with reasonable care and skill. The problems were attributed to poor financial management.

A January 7 Montreal Gazette article listed several problems with CUSA’s r'ecords which were alleg­ edly presented in the confidential auditor’s report, outlining major or­ ganization foibles by CUSA. The Association’s vice-president of Stu­ dent Life Tony Nicholas was cau­ tious when commenting on the arti­ cle.

“I will not confirm or deny the information leaked about the audi­ tor’s assessment of the problem,” stated Nicholas. “However, I will

say that we are following his sugges­ tions as best we can.”

The auditor’s suggestions re­ main undisclosed.

CUSA co -P resid en t Phil Toone expressed anger concerning the Toronto Dominion Bank’s deci­ sion to freeze CUSA’s accounts and believes the freeze is a direct result of the recent Gazette article.

“Geoff Baker’s (the Gazette reporter) alarmist article was slan­ derous, libelous, and takes non-ex­ istent quotes from an auditor’s report which doesn’tyet exist,’’complained Toone.

But Baker defended his arti­ cle.

“Phil Toone can say whatever he wants, but everything taken from both the report and from an inter­ view with Charlene Nero [CUSA Co-President] is 100 per cent accu­ rate,” Baker told the Tribune.

Regarding CUSA’s recent ap­ plication for a loan, Toone stressed that CUSA applied for the loan in an effort to pay for a failed fundraiser two years ago.

“We do not need the loan due to overspending, but because we are anxious to com pensate for the $50,000 CUSA lost because of our mismanaged ‘Envirorock’ concert,” insisted Toone.

Toone noted that CUSA can­ not receive a bank loan until the audit statements are finalized.

“Currently CUSA is in over­

draft, paying credit card rates, since no loan has been granted us,” he explained. “In order for us to guaran­ tee a loan, we must ask Concordia University to write a letter to the bank which states that CUSA still receives student fees and can there­ fore successfully pay off a loan.”

Many possible causes for the current financial crisis have been offered. One reason for financial dis­ organization includes frequent em­ ployee turnover. According to Nero, last year the association frequently changed comptrollers, which could account partially for the accounting backlog.

Toone stressed he felt CUS A’s auditing and banking problems had been blown out of proportion by the media.

“Like many student organiza­ tions, CUSA is simply more con­ cerned with activism than with fi­ nancial precision,” Toone claimed.

“We are taking all of the auditor’s criticisms to heart now,” he added.

The 1991-92 audit, under way for six months, has yet to be com­ pleted. In comparison, the 1990-91 audit was completed within two months.

Toone said that A rthur Andersen & Co. had not paid as much attention to CUS A ’s audit dur­ ing the 1990-91 audit. “They [the firm] decided to become more scru­ tinizing due to CUSA’s accumulat­ ing deficit,” he explained.

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Opt-out refunds finally available but claims slow: SSMU health plan

BY CH R IS ALAM Although Students’ Society (SSM U ) VP F inance Susan Nickerson has now made arrange­ ments for students who opted-out of the Student Prescription Drug and Accident Insurance Plan in Septem­ ber to receive their scheduled re­ funds of $13.73, some students re­ main concerned that the plan is not working as smoothly as in the past.

Students who opted out of the

plan were supposed to receive re­ fund cheques in October, but a com­ puter disk containing a list of stu­ dents enrolled in the plan was late in arriving from McGill’s Registrar’s Office. The cheques, to be issued by the Seaboard Life Insurance Com­ pany, were then expected to arrive in late November, but have yet to arrive at SSMU offices.

As a result, SSMU will issue refund cheques to students who re­ quest them at the SSMU offices. The

process will take less than one busi­ ness day if students make the request before 11:00 a.m.

Nickerson explained the rea­ son behind the continued delay.

“Seaboard Life tells me that S tudents ’Society sent them only part of the money for the health plan,” she said, explaining that the balance of the money was retained until SSMU calculated the cost of implementing the plan.

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licity and accounting or secretarial work directly related to the imple­ mentation of the plan are borne by Seaboard. But Nickerson believes that the partial payment of $ 100,000 to Seaboard was more than enough to cover the cost of opt-outs.

“I’m disappointed in the cus­ tomer service that we received from Seaboardfortheopt-outs...They were waiting for the balance of that money before they sent us the opt-out cheques. It’s making me really, re­ ally angry,” explained a frustrated Nickerson.

She also noted that SSMU’s recent incorporation process had caused some delays, and that she had not expected the list from the Regis­ trar’s Office to arrive so late. How­ ever, she was not overly concerned by the situation.

“I knew the money would get to them [opt-outs] eventually...[But] I really thought it was going to be easier,” she noted.

However, some students who did not opt-out of the plan are con­ cerned by the length of time which it now takes for reimbursement of medical costs.

“They [Seaboard] seem to be a lot less efficient than last year,” said Vikki Saunders, a U3 Music student.

Saunders noted that while claims were reimbursed within a week a year ago, it now takes three or four weeks for the process. Saunders is temporarily hospitalized andmakes insurance claims of approximately

$200 a month. Although the delays do not leave her financially strapped, they do concern her.

“You don’t have a lot of dispensible income,” she said. “I am...working a part time job and I also have OSAP (a loan from the Ontario government). But it [the de­ lay] is a problem for me.”

Saunders finds the health plan beneficial, but felt that SSMU may not be doing enough to act as a liai­ son between students and Seaboard.

She cited the delay caused by the late computer disk, which backed claims up by a month.

“We weren’t notified at all by SSMU. It was Seaboard Life. I cer­ tainly think SSMU should do some­ thing to change that.”

Saunders’ concerns are ech­ oed by a number of other students, including Debbi Best, a U3 Music Education student.

“It’s not a week [for process­ ing claims], it’s definitely more than a week. Last year it was definitely faster,” said Best.

She too noted that the October delay came as a surprise.

Nickerson was equally sur­ prised by this apparent slowdown in claim processing efficiency.

“I don’t know anything about that. This is the first complaint I have heard about it,” she claimed.

Nickerson hypothesized that the delays might be caused by an increased number of people using the plan, but was unsure and prom­ ised to look into the situation.

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McGill to review its Sexual Harassment Policy

BY JANE WHITE A rigorous review of the sexual harassment policy and procedures at McGill will soon be underway follow­ ing a December decision by the Com­ mittee on Regulations Concerning Complaints of Sexual Harassment (Regulations Committee).

Student representatives on the committee are gratified with the deci­ sion to create a subcommittee that will carry out the extensive review.

“I think it’s a significant step in the right direction,” commented Stu­ dents’ Society (SSMU) VP University Affairs Monique Shebbeare. “We’ve wanted a review for a long time and now it’s going to happen. It’s up to the work group to take it from here.”

The subcommittee is expected to be assembled by the end of January and will be composed of a representa­ tive from the McGill Association of University Teachers, a representative from the McGill University Non-Aca­ demic Staff Association, a sexual har­ assment assessor, Ombudsperson Annette Werk, and McGill’s legal ad­ visor Raynald Mercille.

In addition, four students will sit on the committee from the SSMU, the Post-Graduate Students’ Society,

the Macdonald Campus Students’ So­ ciety and die McGill Association of Continuing Education Students.

Regulations Committee student representative Fiona Dcller, who along with Shebbeare, has been advocating a review of the policy since last Septem­ ber, is pleased with the composition of the subcommittee.

“I was pleasantly surprised that the committee was so open to the crea­ tion of a subcommittee and they took our recommendations for people who should be on the committee,” said Dellcr.

As part of the in depth review on the Sexual Harassment Policy, the sub­ committee will consider submissions from interested faculty, staff and stu­ dents, recent relevant court cases, policy and procedure at various other universities, and related reports sub­ mitted to the committee.

Although not part of the official motion, Shebbeare is hopeful the sub­ committee will also conduct a series of workshops with students to discuss their impressions and possible revi­ sions of the entire process.

Two student reports have al­ ready been submitted to the commit­ tee. Women and the Law, a law faculty caucus, has compiled an eight-page legal recommendation claiming the

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Sexual Harassment Policy does not comply with several requirements from The Charter of Students’ Rights and Responsibilities. The report asserts that the McGill Policy could technically be declared invalid by the Senate Advi­ sory Council on the Charter of Stu­ dents’ Rights.

The University Legal Advisor Raynald Mercille, who will sit on the subcommittee, expects legalities to play a key role in the Policy review.

“This is one of those subjects where every second sentence relates to a legal issue,” contends Mercille.

Another student report submit­ ted to the Regulations Committee was written by Dcller last summer. The report makes numerous recommenda­ tions, and draws extensively from poli­ cies atolherCanadianuniversities.One suggestion heralded by women’s groups on campus is that advocacy be provided to complainants in the form of an impartial counsellor.

“The work Fiona did over the summer and her dedication since has had a lot to do with the momentum of this student initiative to review the policy,” commented Shebbeare, who believes the current process is confus­ ing.

“What I want or what I’d like to see is that every student who has a sexual harassment complaint under­ stands the process at McGill and all of their options,” explained Shebbeare.

“I want the policy to be user-friendly.”

An interim report from the com­ mittee is expected mid-March.

The signing of the contract for this Saturday’s Blue Rodeo concert was held up last week due to a mix-up between executives of the McGill Students’ Soci­ ety (SSMU) and the Arts Undergraduate Society (AUS).

While problems developed be­ tween the two organizations concerning the concert they had collectively agreed to co-sponsor, AUS President Mark Luz ex­ plained that the disagreements were “all really a matter of confusion.”

The misunderstanding involved AUS’s unwillingness to split the possible loss which promoting the event might take after ticket sales. AUS VP Finance Corey Cook claimed that "with Kim Mitchell (a concert held in the fall term), the SSMU lost over $10,000.”

With only $3,000 left unaccounted for in its Internal Affairs budget, the AUS B lu e R o d e o lu n e » up to was not prepared to split the potential loss p la y M cG ill c o n c e r t . the event might incur.

After a meeting with SSMU General Manager Guy Briscbois on Thursday, the AUS agreed to pay half the loss on the event up to a total of $3,000 and the contract was signed.

Cook expressed optimism regarding the concert’s ability to attract ticket buyers.

He figured that the loss AUS would be required to pay would “be about $ 1500 at most.”

Be true to your school Last term, the Graduates’ Society of McGill created the Students’ Organization for Alumni Relations (SOAR) to help promote McGill through its alumni.

Modelled on successful American student alumni associations, SOAR aims to move beyond fundraising events. The group was created as the student branch of the Graduates’ Society (not to be confused with the Post-Graduate Students’ Society), and all McGill students are eligible to work in SOAR. “Send O ff’ programs, receptions held at graduate society branches across the country to welcome first year McGill students, have already enjoyed success. Other activities sponsored by the organization include the high school recruitment program (McRAP) and the promotion of alumni and student events on campus, such as Home­ coming Street Fest ‘92.

The main goal of SOAR is to inform students of the purposes and activities of the Graduates’ Society and to show how McGill graduates can promote the university once they have earned a degree.

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Controversial TA vote resolved

News Briefs CKUTantenna safe...at a price CKUT is on the verge of reaching an agreement with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) on a new lease for its antenna on Mount Royal. The deal, if passed, would break a three-month long impasse between two sides which at one point threatened to silence the campus radio station.

The CBC had originally threatened to remove the CKUT antenna on December 1 if the latter did not agree to a new lease worth 510,500 a year plus a share of CKUT’s subcarrier revenues. CKUT had previously been paying $3,200 a year.

According to CKUT Spoken Word director Rebecca Scott, the CBC has dropped its demand for a share of the subcarrier revenues but it appears that CKUT will still face an increase of 250 per cent in its rent.

The new agreement will likely be signed sometime this week.

Safety A u d it results finally released A fte r a c o n t r o v e r s ia l u n io n v o t e , M cG ill T A s ta k e t h e ir ta s k s to t h e t a b le .

BY MARK COHEN Despite some recent contro­ versy, McGill teaching assistants (TAs) and demonstrators have voted to unionize.

According to the results of a referendum held last month by the Association of Graduate Students Em­ ployed at McGill (AGSEM), 53 per cent of the 875 TA s and demonstra­ tors voted to unionize and affiliate themselves with the Quebec Federa­ tion of Teachers and the Confédération des Syndicats Nationaux (CSN), the largest of Quebec's three labour alli­ ances.

Referendum organizers needed at least 50 per cent of all eligible to vote in favour of the union for the referendum to be valid.

Though the decision to union­ ize passed by a relatively slim margin of three per cent, union organizers expressed satisfaction with the results.

“In terms of the total votes cast, it’s a huge majority,” said Malt Pol­ lard, a TA in the German department and one of the chief organizers of the vote. “It confirms our mandate.”

Of the 640 votes cast, 464 were in favour of a union, 169 against, and seven ballots were spoiled.

Official approval of the union is expected shortly from the Quebec Labour Commission.

After the initial three-day vot­ ing period ended November 26, AGSEM organizers argued the vote should be extended because not enough voters had cast their ballots.

They cited Quebec Labour Code Arti­ cle 38, which stipulates that all eligi­ ble voters are legally responsible to vote.

The university objected to reo­ pening the polls, but the Quebec La­ bour Commission sealed the ballot boxes before the votes were counted, and later ruled that the referendum vote could beextended two moredays.

The additional voting took place December 16 and 17.

McGill legal advisor Raynald Mercille said the university now ac­ cepts the referendum results.

“The university is happy that the process was orderly and our TAs and demonstrators democratically made their will known,” Mercille slated. “The university’s behaviour is regulated by the law. We objected to the extension, but we defer to justice.”

Both the university and union organizers agree that the ball is now in AGS EM’s court.

Jean-Pierre B ourdeau, an AGSEM coordinator, explained the next step for the union is to call a general assembly of all TAs and dem­ onstrators to begin formulating the demands it will make to the univer­ sity, Bourdeau said it would take a couple of months to get the union organized, but was optimistic that the

university would meet its demands.

“I don’t see a problem in guar­ anteeing certain standards and rights and benefits to all TAs and demon­ strators,” he said.

Bourdeau dismissed concerns voiced by some TAs that the union will go beyond the mandateof dealing with student issues to participate in larger political debates through its af­ filiation with the CSN. He emphasized that this affili­ ation did not mean that the union would be supporting Quebec sover­ eignty if CSN chose to do so.

“That would have nothing to do with our union,” Bourdeau said.

“We haveno political platform. We’re a bread and butter organization and an autonomous union.”

The results of the Campus Safely Audit were released last month, eight months after the survey itself was undertaken. The report contains few surprises; more lighting and better signage were identified as priorities in almost every building examined in the study.

The report contains neither a list of safety priorities on campus, nor a budget or timetable for implementation. Instead, a new Safely Committee chaired by VicePrincipal (Planning and Resources) François Tavenas will be formed to oversee the effort.

The report also had some harsh things to say about the safely of the Shatner Building, which is ran by the Students’ Soceily (SSMU). Specific areas of concern were the lack of adequate emergency assistance in the building, the poor quality of overall maintenance, and the abundance of potential hiding places.

SSMU VP University Affairs Monique Shebbeare said the SSMU executive had not yet met to discuss the audit, and have yet to budget any money for the implementation of its recommendations.

P U B L IC N O T IC E The Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples is seeking applications for employment from post-secondary students from across Canada who will be employed in Ottawa from April 1st to September 1st, 1993.

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Editorial Recent and somewhat feverish speculation that Prime Minister Brian M ulroney will not lead the Progressive Conservatives into the next federal election seems to have raised the hopes of a great number of Canadians. In examining everything from the rejection handed to the PM in Octo­ b er’s referendum to last w eek’s cabinet shuffle, analysts suggest that the era of Mulroney may be on the wane. One can only imagine what excitements and delights the Canadian political élite could dredge up following a Mulroney demise. One can also only wonder— given what the political élite usually come up with— why that would be something to hope for.

But other than the possi­ bility that Mulroney is either bored with or tired of the rigamarole of Canadian politics, there seems little impetus for him to step aside when one takes into account the other side of the House.

Despite the fact that the PM ’s style of leadership may not be as attractive to the voters as when they handed him majorities in 1984 and 1988,

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Mulroney: nothing to fear but himself there is little reason to suggest that the style of leadership offered by the other two major federal parties represents any great threat to him.

On the one hand, Liberal leader Jean Chrétien appears hesitant to define his party’s platform in a substantive fashion, apparently willing to base his strategy on the PM ’s unpopularity. On the oilier hand, the constant whining of Audrey McLaughlin, combined with the unpopularity of O ntario’s Rae government, have meant that the federal NDP has been unable to make substantial gains in the polls despite the PM ’s unpopularity.

The PM should be ecstatic.

A tough campaigner, as he has shown himself to be in (lie past two elections, with a defined platform is likely to have an edge over a man who believes his opponent’s unpopularity is his best chance. Chrétien should examine the recent record of President George Bush if he wishes to verify the futility of all-negative cam ­ paigning. And the PM might have to worry about McLaughlin if she spent as much lime formulating her own policies as she docs complain­ ing about others’. This hardly

seems to be the case for a woman whose policies are seemingly driven by nothing rfiore than a knee-jerk reaction to dismantle all that is Tory.

Essentially, Canada suffers from a complete lack of accept­ able leadership from its three m ajor political parties. For this reason, Mulroney has no need to step aside. Although the Progressive Conservatives will surely be rebuffed by the voters after eight years, it is unlikely that there is anyone else in his party who could face the voters with any greater degree of success. Joe Clark has the vibrant personality of road kill and a losing track record to boot. Voters probably wouldn’t have time to get to know Kim Campbell before the election.

John Crosbie would....nah. At least M ulroney might be able to hang on to a few seats in Quebec.

Canadians, who are cur­ rently attempting to deal with a weak economy, should not be content with some United Nations ranking of countries which put Canada in first place.

They must search for and demand a leader with a vision who has some idea of how to maintain such a status. A case in point: with the signing of the

North American Free Trade Agreement, Canada belongs to the w orld’s largest trading block. Without a strong leader with defined policies, Canada may easily founder between American multi-nationals and Mexican cheap labour. If Canadians do, as their discon­ tentment with the status quo suggests, want better political leadership, it is time for them to make that fact abundantly clear to the political élite.

Turner, Broadbent, Clark, Chrétien, McLaughlin, Mulroney. Recent history would suggest that Canadians have not made a desire for capable leadership clear enough. Like him or not, the last major party chief to offer charisma and leadership was Pierre Trudeau. Evidence of this may be found in the sizeable impact that Trudeau’s comments had in die referen­ dum. The respect that Trudeau commanded and apparently still does is something that Canadians are as likely to find in their current three major federal party leaders as they are the Holy Grail.

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Comment Back in October, some of you might vaguely remember signing a “W om en’s Safety Petition.” This note is meant as a follow-up to the petition. It was a private initiative organ­ ized by m yself and another student, Amy McBride.

I would like to first thank all of the students and staff who supported the petition; within a relatively short period of time, approximately 1,500 signatures were collected.

In brief, the petition called for the MUC police to provide more specific information to the public about sexual as­ saults and incidents of vio­ lence aganist women in Montreal and particularly the McGill Ghetto. It also called for the police to intensify their patrol of areas where women had already been attacked.

The patrol responded to the letter, and on December 14, Amy and I met with Guy

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G e ttin g th e v io le n c e o u t in th e o p e n Lavoie, the director of Station 25. To be honest, I was not looking forward to the meeting; I expected Lavoie to be conde­ scending and dismissive, but instead found him to be very approachable, sincere and concerned. He explained the situation as the police see it, using a map on which the sites of reported assaults, both “minor” and more serious, were marked. According to police statistics, the number of as­ saults in the McGill Ghetto have not gone up in the past year.

Lavoie seemed confused and concerned about what he perceived as a sudden and explosive concern for w om en’s safety on the streets; there has been a lot of media coverage on the subject in the last few months, he has been inundated with letters from concerned individuals, and even City Hall has been on him to do some­ thing. He told us that more visible and more regular police

patrols were being done in the Ghetto area, if only to make people feel more secure.

Amy and I explained to Lavoie how we perceived the situation: the police had been reluctant to release information to the general public, there were scattered rumours and an alarming number of reports made in the McGill media about assaults on and around campus; many women had started obeying an unofficial curfew and were staying home after dark.

In the early months of school this year, a number of assaults apparently happened and, while many McGill students were made aware of them, they have gone unre­ ported to police. This is a serious communication prob­ lem. We suggested to Lavoie that the police get in touch with the McGill Sexual Assault Centre and the Walk-Safe Network and perhaps create a liaison with them, because

these two groups in particu­ lar have received reports of assaults that have not been reported to police.

Lavoie suggested that normal police procedure for handling assault cases could be simplified for women who had already gone to the Sexual Assault Centre.

Normally, two regular officers must make a report on the case before it goes to an investigator. This does not solve the problem of violence against women, but it is a small step forward.

I realize that no one can be forced or should feel coerced into reporting an assault to police, but I encourage survivors of assaults to go to the police and file reports, no matter how “minor” the incident.

L et's get the violence on record.

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Cock-a-doodle-flush This is the Year of the Rooster and welcome to it.

As this year will assuredly be better than the last, which was the Year of the Rat or Snake or some other unsa­ voury cellar-dwelling beast, I think we can confidently greet the coming 353 days with a robust “Cock-adoodle-doo!” Or, if you reside in Quebec or any other French-speaking community, let loose a loud “Coco­ rico!”— the wake-up call of the francophone rooster.

(Extended CliffClavenesque digression: In fact, roosters around the world greet the dawn in distinctive native tongues. In beautiful historic Greece,the rooster rouses his masters with “Kikipikou!”; in Spain, the Scrabble-ready “Quiquiriqui” fills the morning air; in Denmark, its the tongue-twisty “Kykkaliky!” All of which proves that most roosters can speak more languages than 1 can, are probably much more intelligent than they have been given credit for, and undoubtedly resent that their most prominent ambassador is Foghorn Leghorn.)

Not only is this the beginning of 1993, but according to historian John Lukacs it’s the fourth year of the 21st century, as the 20th century ended in 1989. No one told me at the time, and I can’t help feeling that I missed a great party.

To help me through this coming year, my father stuffed my stocking with “Life’s Little Instruction Book.” This collection of truistic homilies ( a sort of 511 Commandments for those who consider Robert Fulghum a Great Western Thinker) ranges from the genuinely useful (“85. Never encourage anyone to become a lawyer." "401. Don t ever watch hot dogs or sausage being m ade”) to the unsettlingly alarming ( “26.

I f in a fight, hit first and hit hard.” “112. Never argue

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with police officers, and always address them as 'officer.'”)-, from the unusu­ ally paranoid (“566. Don’t flush urinals with your hand— use your elbow ”) to the completely inexplicable (“277.

Take your dog to obedience school. You ll both learn a lot.” Note: Those who have mastered sitting and fetching may disregard #211.)

Of course, author H. Jackson Brown, Jr. missed a few very important tidbits (512. Never pay S7.95 for a book which you can read in 20 minutes. 513. These aren’t the droids you’re looking for.) He does, however, provide a gem of advice in #315: “Don’t bore people with your problems. When some­ one asks you how you feel— say ‘Terrific, never belter.’

When they ask, ‘How’s business?’ reply, ‘Excellent, and getting belter every day.’”

What a relief. Think what a burden this moral truth must lift off the shoulders of;Tor example, the gay and lesbian citizens of Colorado. When asked their feelings on the recently-enacted anti-gay legislation, these Coloradonians can simply reply “Terrific! Never better!”

So you see, despite the “boring” problems which you feared might hamper the universal enjoyment of the coming year, we can all in fact face the future with a plaidcovered bookload of confi­ dence. To all of you out there, from still-recovering Rodney “disregarder of # 45” King to LAPD officer “regarder of # 26” Koon, from soon-tobe-ousted Boris “Terrific, never better” Yeltsin to already-ousted George “Excellent, and gelling better every day” Bush: flush with your elbows and have a cocka-doodle-doo year.

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Tuition hikes and aid cuts While an announcement regarding the size of this year’s tuition hike in Quebec is at least a week away, students in the rest of Canada got coal in their stockings from provincial governments over the Christmas break.

In Alberta, the provincial government authorized an in­ crease of 27 percentin tuition, though that province’s tuition fees remain the lowest in the country at about S1200 for a full-time student. Over 700 post-cards were delivered to Education Minister John Gogo’s office demanding his resignation.

In British Columbia, the New Democratic government raised some eyebrows by hiking tuition fees by 18 percent. The provincial NDP had promised in the 1991 election campaign that their government would freeze tuition. That promise was kept in their first year in power, but this year’s increase almost entirely recoups the revenue that the government lost by implementing the freeze

last year.

For Ontario students, the worst news came not from tuition hikes (which were held to a comparatively mild seven percent), but from the axing of student grants. The Ontario Student Assistance Plan (OSAP) had been considered one of the more generous in the country because of its policy of giving students grants before loans, but OS AP administrators have been told by the government to cease ail grants. To compensate for the cutback, the government has, however, quadrupled the amount of money available for student loans and loosened the eligibility criteria for those loans.

While the Ontario budget cuts were widely criticized, one element of this year ’s education budget was 1argely overlooked. The Ontario government has provided a small amount of money for a pilot project in income-contingency tuition payments. This method of fee payment, used in Australia and endorsed here in Quebec by the Federation Etudiante Universitaire du Québec (FEUQ), allows students to defer payment of tuition fees until they have graduated _______ and are earning a certain minimum income.

Manitoba Prez in impeachment debacle University of Manitoba Student Union (UMSU) President Paul Kemp is facing impeachment because of a recommendation, made on behalf of the Union, that students should contribute 25 percent of the cost of their education in the form of tuition fees.

Two Arts students, Malcolm Rogge and Jonathan Esztcrhazy, collected over 1100 signatures asking for Kemp’s impeachment. UMSU by-laws require only 1000 signatures to trigger an impeachment referendum. A vote on Kemp’s impeach­ ment is not assured, however. The speaker of UMSU Council, Alison Saunders, has been asked to consider whether potentially misleading or debatable wording in the petition might be cause for invalidation. Should she take too long, the question will become moot, as Kemp’s term ends February 10.

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On th e Rhodes to Oxford

BY JE F F P E R C IV A L

M cG ill students M egan McNeill and Carellin Brooks have been awarded Rhodes Scholarships to attend Oxford University next year, becoming McGill’s 100th and 101st Rhodes recipients.

The scholarship was estab­ lished by British empire-builder Cecil John Rhodes, whose 1903 will stipulated that only men should be considered for the award.

McNeill, 20, is currently completing a Joint Honours in Po­ litical Science and East Asian Studies. The Saskatoon native is co-president of the McGill Save the Children Fund as well as an active supporter of the Yello w Door community service organization.

According to McNeill, her passion for studying Chinese as­ sisted her candidacy.

“I think that studying Chi­ nese made me unique (in the pool of candidates),” she told the Trib­ une. “The Rhodes committee was looking for different people.”

M otivated to apply for Rhodes by a Grade 12 trip to Ox­ ford, McNeill intends to study law at Oxford with the long-term hopes of pursuing an international law career combined with her love for

Chinese culture.

“I hope to continue with my Chinese studies at Oxford,” she said, “but my program may make that difficult to pursue.”

McNeill also intends to con­ tinue with Save the Children in addition to helping develop and promote adequate sexual harass­ ment and assault policies at Ox­ ford.

Brooks, 22, is finishinga Joint Honours in English and Anthropol­ ogy with a minor in Women’s Studies. She is a coordinator with the McGill Women’s Union, a vol­ unteer with the Union’s baby-sit­ ting project for single mothers, and co-host of CRUT’s Dykes on Mikes, a show aimed at the local lesbian community.

Born in Vancouver, Brooks spent her childhood under the pro­ tection of the Children’s Aid Soci­ ety. She asserts that her experi­ ences in foster care inspired her to speak out on child welfare issues.

When Brooks began com­ peting for the scholarship, an inter­ viewer at McGill advised her to conceal the reference to Dykes on Mikes in her application, lest her sexual orientation negatively af­ fect her chances.

But Brooks believes that her

lesbianism in fact contributed to her candidacy.

“I think this shows the selection committee is mov­ ing in a progressive direction,” she said.

“The Rhodes com­ mittee saw it as just another interesting and positive factor in my application.”

She is elated to be able to use Cecil Rhodes’ trust money to change the legacy of colo­ nialism and sexism which she believes his activities fos­ tered.

“This is areal step forward for the scholarship,” she said. “I’m happy to have re­ ceived an award which was re­ stricted to men until only recently.

This makes up somewhat for the many bitter women a generation ago who didn’tevenhaveachance.”

Women were first made eli­ gible for the award in 1977.

Brooks intends to pursue a Master of Philosophy in Contem­ porary English Literature at Ox­

ford. A former writer for both the Ottawa Sun and the McGill Daily, she also hopes to continue writing as much as possible. “I like the freedom to speak out on feminist and child welfare issues,” empha­ sized Brooks.

Rhodes scholarships are awarded annually to 75 students around the world for academic ex­ cellence, leadership, and commu­ nity involvement. They are worth

$24,000 a year for two to three years of study. Canadian students compete for 11 scholarships, and for the first time in the history of the award, both Quebec winners this year are women.

Previous Canadian winners of Rhodes include Ontario premier Bob Rae, former federal Liberal leader John Turner, Gazette editor Norman Webster, and McGill phi­ losophy professor Charles Taylor.

The m en who would be King

BY ETHAN S A C K S

Sometime between the pe­ riod when he sang with fire in his belly and the period when he could barely fit his belly into his sequined leather jum psuit, Elvis made the transition from superstar to legend.

No longer is he remembered as the bridge to blues and gospel for a white audience weaned on country. No, Elvis has gained his immortality through collectors’ plates, velvet wall hangings and of course, his legion of imper­ sonators.

On the night of what would have been Elvis’ 58th birthday, five of these pilgrims gathered at Station 10 to spread (on very thick) the gospel of the King to the unenlightened on Earth.

“W e’re here to make Elvis live. Elvis lives because of us, because he lives in us,” said Elvis impersonator Kevin Geroux, who had forgotten some of the lyrics to the song “Trouble” earlier in the show. “After being buried for so many years you forget some of the words,” he explained.

What motivates these men to gyrate their pelvises in what has become the world’s most draw n-out roast? Som e, like

Louvis Dizley, do it for the enjoy­ ment and the chance to win one hundred dollars.

“This is my last one,” he promised. “I figure it’s about time 1hang up the hair and the sideburns and the leather and go home to my real band.”

Others like Alain Elvis Mr. Love (his stage name) see this as their mission in life.

“I feel very special (on stage); I sing Elvis and there is only Elvis,” explained the tenyear v eteran , w ho v isite d Graceland in 1985. “It is my job altogether to bring Elvis back.”

Then there are those like contest winner Armando Namtal, who “feel the spirit of the King.”

The Elvis im personator contest is held four limes a year, in both semi-final and final formats, to honor both the King’s January 8 birthday and the anniversary of his death in August (probably to getthe greatestuse outof the bar’s giant Elvis porcelain bust).

Station 10 manager Larry Vitas thought up the idea as a joke five years ago and has enjoyed watching the emergence of this microcosm of Graceland. “ It should be a national holiday,” he asserted. “You can have Elvis flying through the sky

in a pink Cadillac giving gifts to kids. There is Christmas, then ex­ actly one week later there is New Year, and then a week later to the day is his birthday.”

M ontreal apparently was ripe for this invasion of Elvis.

“Quebec is the Elvis imper­ sonator ca p ita l— statistica lly speaking, there are more Elvis impersonators here than anywhere else in the world,” mused David Julian, the keyboardist for the Graceland Rhythm Kings who provided the music for the imper­ sonators.

Em cee N eil K ushnir of CHOM agreed. “ I ’m always, amazed at the number of people who come to these events,” he said.

There is more to the role of Elvis impersonator than just the trademark sideburns, however.

There appear to be some emo­ tional scars that come from wear­ ing the gold lounge jackets and tacky sequined jumpsuits.

“P aranoia,” said im per­ sonator Scott Roughton, who won the bar’s last Jim Morrison imper­ sonation contest and is waiting for his chance at Janis Joplin. The main thought on his mind when performing is “oh my God, what is the audience looking at?”

How would the King react to this backhanded tribute? Poet Jim White, who opened the night with several of his poems includ­ ing the soon to be immortalized classic “Yes That Was Elvis,” summed it up best.

“I believe Elvis is flattered

looking down from heaven. I’d say he’s flattered 80 per cent of the time.”

Vitas is not quite sure that the King won’t one day enter the contest, himself. “I think I saw Elvis in ‘86 pumping gas in Thun­ der Bay, Ontario.”

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Classified job offers—employees beware!

B Y K A T H E R IN E BROW N A t this tim e o f year, m any s tu d e n ts a re d e s p e r a t e l y scram bling fo r funds to cover tu itio n and living costs. H u n ­ gry fo r cash, they turn to the h e lp w an ted sectio n o f the classifieds. A q u ick perusal o f th e section reveals ads for u n ­ b e lie v a b ly e a s y , w o rk - a tho m e, p art-tim e jo b s fo r huge a m o u n ts o f m o n e y , w h ic h w ould naturally appeal to stu ­ den ts w ith little cash or spare tim e on th eir hands. T hese o f­ fers seem too good to be true, and m ost o f th e tim e, they are.

A lexis D iam ond, a stu ­ d en t at C o n co rd ia U n iversity, answ ered such an ad over a y ear ago fo r w hat she en v i­ sioned as h er d ream job: re ad ­ in g scripts fo r p u b lish ing and m ovie com panies.

“I ’m interested in w rit­ ing m ovies, so I th o u ght that this w ould be good experience in th e field. It w ould give m e a c h a n c e to see s c rip ts ,” e x ­ p lain ed D iam ond. An added bonus was th at the ad claim ed “ freelance read ers” could earn u p w ards o f $40 ,0 0 0 sim ply by read in g scripts and subm itting th eir ow n opinions on them .

D iam ond approached the sch em e w ith som e trepidation.

“I w as curious, but this sounded v e ry s u s p ic io u s to m e . It s o u n d e d lik e to o m u c h m o n ey ,” she recalled.

The lo n g - d i s t a n c e nu m b er listed in the ad was a reco rd in g th at told h er in a

long, draw n-out sales pitch that she could earn over $100 p er script read. T hese w ould be sent to h er free o f charge from m ovie and publishing houses.

H ow ever, th ere w as a catch. T o begin h er ideal jo b , D iam ond w ould have had to send $35.00 to the firm to re­ ceive a m anual w hich w ould tell h er how to read scripts w ith a critical eye. M ore im ­ p ortantly, the m anual gave a list o f publishing and m ovie c o m p a n ie s to c o n ta c t fo r scripts to read. T he com pany offered a 90-day m oney back guarantee if, after w riting to five com panies, she w as not satisfied w ith the results.

D ia m o n d w as fu rth e r disappointed to learn from one o f h er w riting teachers that m ost com panies em ploy th eir ow n professional script re a d ­ ers and therefore w ere not in need o f “ freelance read ers” .

A lth o u g h she did no t pursue the opportunity any fu rth er than the initial phone call, she was left w ary o f job offers that sound too good to be true.

“It discouraged m e from using the classifieds,” she said.

N ew spapers do their u t­ m ost to avoid g iving advertis­ ing space to fraudulent or su s­ picious firm s. T he G azette and The M irror both check the firm s w ho advertise in their papers for the veracity o f their claim s.

“W e leave it up to our o w n d i s c r e ti o n ,” c la im e d

L o u is O ’K e e fe , c la ssifie d s m an ag er for T he M irror. “If there is inform ation w hich is w ithheld by the clien t w hich w e norm ally require, then we w ill investigate further in term s o f w hat they are doing and w hen they are doing, and w hen w e do receive com plaints we do follow up by contacting the clien t and requesting any in­ fo rm atio n about w hy the com ­ p lain t has arisen .”

A c c o rd in g to E v e lin a M ichaels, a classifieds re p re­ sentative w ith77ie G azette, the p ap e r “looks into every one o f o u r ads and w e co n su lt w ith the O ffice de la protection du co n so m m ateu r.”

T he O ffice de la p ro tec­ tion du co n so m m ateu r (C on­ sum er P rotection O ffice) o f the Q uebec g o v ern m en t receives and in v estig ates co m p lain ts about firm s.If a com pany asks fo r m oney through an ad, they m ust apply fo r a perm it, w hich can be rev o k ed if com plaints w arrant it. T he O ffice also publishes inform ation on dif­ ferent types o f schem es, as a form o f w arning to the co n ­ sum er.

A cco rd in g to the O ffice, hom e assem bly and w ork-ath o m e jo b s th a t re q u ire the w o rk er to pu rch ase m aterials from the em p lo y er are not le­ g itim ate, sin ce firm s obtain m oney from the sale o f m ateri­ als. A p am p h let on hom e em ­ p loym ent p roduced by the O f­ fice states “ legitim ate firm s supply m aterials at no cost to the w orker” . The pam phlet also

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th o se w ho d ecide to explore hom e em p lo y m en t as a w ay o f e a rn in g e x tra c a s h s h o u ld ch eck w ith the C o n su m e r P ro ­ tectio n O ffice to en su re the legitim acy o f the enterprise.

An alternative source o f in form ation is the B etter B u si­ ness B ureau o f M ontreal. T he B u reau m ain tain s ex ten siv e files on rep u tab le firm s as w ell as th o se ab o u t w h ich c o m ­ plaints have been received in the past.

I f there is any doubt about the actual ex isten ce o f an o p ­ e r a tio n , th e D ire c tio n d e s en trep rises keeps a list o f all ex istin g co m panies o p eratin g in Q uebec.

instructs th o se seeking hom e e m p lo y m e n t to “ b ew are o f com panies that req u ire a re g is­ tration fee and th at oblige you to purchase m aterials” . In these situ a tio n s , th e re v e n u e o b ­ tained m ay not be w orth the investm ent, esp ecially fo r stu ­ dents.

T he O ffice also advises p eople search in g fo r em p lo y ­ m ent through the classifieds “to take extrem e care” w hen co n tactin g firm s th at operate by m ail only, those that p ro ­ vide only a post office box as an address, and those w ho d e­ m and m oney before services are actually rendered.

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BY K ATIE R O B SO N

Each year, scores of students heed the siren call of sunny beaches, and leave McGill and Montreal be­ hind for one blissful week. Unfor­ tunately, in their eagerness to get out of the frigid urban setting, many students do not pay enough atten­ tion to the details of their travel arrangements, and their eagerly anticipated week off becomes a nightmare.

Bela Constantino, manager of Voyages Campus in the Union B uilding, advocates advance preparation for any student inter­ ested in going south.

“Anyone interested in trav­ elling should thoroughly research the place they’re going to,” she advised. “Mostpopular destinations have tourist offices in Montreal, Toronto or Ottawa, and will send out brochures and information.”

“Students should ask as many questions as they want— they shouldn’t assume anything. If they don’task, they might(forexample) find themselves without the proper documentation and not be allowed on the plane,” she continued.

Many types of arrangements exist; travellers can put together trips on their own, can go with a trip organized by another student, or

can participate in a professional package tour.

If students do organize their own trips, they run the risk of being taken advantage of by unscrupu­ lous operators eager for a share of the student market. Most popular destinations are geared towards group tours, and so individuals can find themselves ignored or pushed aside. Though a self-directed trip can offer more freedom, it also ne­ cessitates extra research, especially when it comes to determining total cost.

“Prices you see advertised are often deceptive,” cautioned Constantino. “There are always ex­ tras to be factored in— taxes, regis­ tration charges and so on. Plus, if you are an inexperienced traveller, you may forget to account for all possibilities. Then when you’re abroad and something goes wrong, you’re on your own.”

Because February is a peak time for most popular Southern lo­ cations, it is a good idea to be abso­ lutely sure of accommodations be­ fore departure. However, if travel­ lers take care of arrangements themselves, they are in greater dan­ ger of being left without a decent place to stay if the original arrange­ ment falls through.

While most student-run trips

are legitimate, and are arranged through registered wholesalers, others are not. The Better Business Bureau and most travel agencies can help determine whether or not a student-run tour is linked with a dependable organization.

Alana Burman, a U2 McGill student, is organizing a trip through InterCampus, which is a registered agency. She w ent on an InterCampus trip two years ago, and her positive experience helped her decide to become a trip organ­ izer herself.

“I feel confident working with this organization,” she said.

“Because I know they’re trustwor­ thy, I’m willing to have my name associated with them.”

Burman’s trip assures ac­ com m odation, and also has a planned schedule of activities, which are optional for all partici­ pants.

“This way, if you don’t know the area that well or if you didn’t have time to read up on it, you have something to do. If you want to go out on your own, you are always free to do so,” she said.

Therefore, many students who desire a more secure arrange­ ment turn to prearranged “pack­ age” tours. Often arranged by pro­ fessional travel agencies, these tours

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tend to be a bit more expensive but are the most secure way of travelling.

“You still have to be careful about price, because there are often hidden costs, but an agency provides security,” said C onstantino.

“There are company representatives at the destination, and it’s in their best interests as businesspeople to make sure their cus­ tomers are satisfied.”

O f course, even the most secure plans can fall apart.

C onstantino ca u ­ tioned students never to change money on the black market, be­ cause they could be cheated, given coun­ terfeit currency, or caught by the police. Also, most package tours do not include the departure tax, so travelers mustremember to reserve cash for this (usually US$10).

Constantino also suggested that, if at all possible, students travel with a clear credit card in case of emergency.

Most package tours have an extremely rigid refund policy. If the full amount is paid less than 45 days before departure, there is vir­ tually no hope of a refund. Cancel­ lation insurance can be obtained, but is applicable only in the case of illness or extreme emergency. De­ posits are almost always non-refundable. So when it’s time to pay the bill, a student must be (as Constantino said) “ 100% sure— there can be no last minute change of heart.”

Jackie MacDonald of the Better Business Bureau provided a

few guidelines about obtaining re­ imbursement if the accommoda­ tion was not up to promised stand­ ards or if another guaranteed ele­ ment of the trip was unfulfilled.

“There’s not much you can do at the time,” she said. “ But keep a careful record of any problems you have, the names of people you were dealing with, and even take pictures if, for example, the hotel room you’re in is obviously not what was promised. Then when you return, you can apply for reim­ bursement.” Complaints can also be made through the Belter Busi­ ness Bureau or the Consumer Pro­ tection Agency.

Both she and Constantino agreed, however, that with advance preparation these sorts of problems are unlikely. So, in addition to es­ says and midterms, southbound students should be working on their holiday.

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The Om budsperson acts as an impartial arbitrator in m atters involving com plaints/concem s of students, with a view to avoiding the need for more formal grievance procedures already existing at the University.

Candidates for this position should be members o f the McGill Faculty who have garnered the acquaintance and respect of both tne staff and student body, and who are familiar with University policies and procedures. Facility in both English and French is desirable.

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Candidates and nom inations for the position should be forwarded to Dr. W.C. Leggett, Vice-Principal (Academic), F. Cyril James Building to oe received no later than January 31st, 1993. Terms of reference for the position are available from the Vice-Principal's office in confidence upon request.

Features W alking in a w inter w onderland The McGill Tribune, January 12-18,1993

BY S T E V E C H A O

The Husky dog days of win­ ter are once again avalanching down upon us. Along with the ice, slush and dreariness, there are pa­ pers, mid-terms and labs, all lead­ ing to stress, stress and more stress.

Here are a few winter activi­ ties that will get you away from all the pressures to enjoy a few hours or a day of fun in the snow and sun.

From the end of January through early February, you can join in celebrating the tenth anni­ versary of Montreal’s “Fête des Neiges.” This winter carnival, only minutes away from the McGill campus by bus and metro, prom­ ises over 125 events and activities, including cross-country skiing, skating, and ice sculpture contests.

Different attractions are featured at Ile Notre-Dame, Ile SainteHélèneand Old Montreal. For more information, call 872-0210.

For those who enjoy skating, there are a variety of places open this winter. The McGill Depart­ ment of Athletics has set up out­ door skating arenas on lower campus and in Molson stadium.

Skating is free for all McGill stu­ dents. However, plan to take advantageof this offer in mid-January after Mother Nature provides us with some colder weather.

Nearby Mont-Royal park, located on Remembrance Road, also offers outdoor skating week­ days from 3:30 pm to 10:00 pm, Saturdays from 9:00 am to 10:00 pm and Sundays from 1:00 pm to 8:00 pm. The park is home to a host of activities including cross coun­ try skiing and tobogganing. It is also a great place to take a night stroll. Pierre Bonin at the public relations department would be happy to give you more informa­

tion at 872-6211.

When the temperature dips below sub-human levels, however, you may think about heading for indoor rinks. McConnell Winter Stadium offers recreational indoor skating on Tuesdays from 3:30 pm to 4:30 pm, Saturdays from 6:15 pm to 7:15 pm, and Sundays from 12:45 pm to 1:45 pm.

The newly-built Ice Amphi­ theatre (a.k.a. The Bell Amphi­ theatre) is located at 1001 de la Gaucheticre Ouest. M ontreal’s premier indoor skating site, this complex (at Bonaventure Metro station) offers both skate rentals and skate sharpening. Recreational skating times are 11:30 am to 8:15 pm on Mondays and Tuesdays and 11:30 am to 10:00 pm the rest of the week.

On Saturdays, however, the illicit-sounding ‘adult skate’ be­ gins at 5:00 pm and continues until midnight. The cost for skating is $4.50 per person. For information on the cost of skate rentals and skate sharpening, call 395-0555.

If you’re thinking about hit­ ting the slopes for a day, Jean Francois Couture of the Quebec Tourist Office suggests taking a Grayline coach to Jay Peak in Ver­ mont, Sloncham in Quebec, Morin Heights or Mont Saint-Sauveur in the Laurcntians. Buses run on Fri­ day, Saturday, and Sunday.

Travel time to Jay Peak is estimated to be about an hour and a half, while Stoncham’s is lengthier at two and a half to three hours.

Morin Heights and Mont SaintSauveur are the closest resorts, being only thirty to forty-five min­ utes from downtown Montreal.

While cross-country skiing is of­ fered at most resorts, only SaintSauvcur features it at night. Prices range from $29.00 to $45.00. For

? M c G ill Director - Centre for University Teaching and Learning The University seeks a D irector of the Centre for University Teaching an d Learning for a five year term beginning Ju n e 1, 1993T he m andate of the Centre is to: (1)

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Interested individuals having a strong record of teaching and scholarship and a commitment to advancing the quality of teaching at McGill are asked to submit a curriculum vitae and names of references to: Dr. William C. Leggett, Vice-Principal (Academic), 504 James Administration Building, McGill University, 845 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal, Quebec H3A 2T5.

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celebration include the return of M ike M andel, hypnotist ex trao rd in aire (Jan. 12), a fundraising breakfast to benefit Walk-Safe (Jan. 12), Casino Night (Jan. 14), ski day at Mont Blanc (Jan. 15) and a concert by the mel­ lifluous Blue Rodeo, who will be performing Jan. 16 in the Shatner Ballroom. Some events arc free; more information on dates and prices can be obtained by calling 398-6778. Be true to your school.

For a real workout, spend an evening cheering the Canadiens at

bus schedules, reservation, and more information you can call 3843639.

MontTremblant, which pos­ sesses Eastern Canada’s highest vertical drop, is by far the most popular place to go. However, the resort is about three to three and a half hours away, so plan for a weekend trip. This skier’s paradise should not be missed.

Of course, there’s always the infamous McGill Winter Carnival, featured on campus from January 8-16. Some highlights of this year’s

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the Forum as they march toward another Stanley Cup. The Forum is located at Atwater Metro. Although notoriously expensive, tickets are usually available right up to game lime. Call 932-2583 for dates and prices.

This is only a glimpse of what you can do in and around Montreal, Canada’s greatest win­ ter wonderland. For more informa­ tion, take a stroll to the Quebec Tourist Office located at 1001 Dorchester Square or call them at 873-2015.

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E ntertainm ent To cowardly go where we’ve all been before

BY TRIBUNE ENTERTAINMENT STA FF

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine is the newest addition to the Star Trek entertainment empire. The

brand-spanking-new science fic­ tion television series aired its two-hour pilot on Tuesday Janu­ ary 5 worldwide (January 8 in Montreal.) Deep Space Nine is a spinoff of the tremendously suc­

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cessful and acclaimed Star Trek: The Next Generation.

DS9 is billed as the replace­ ment for The Next Generation, which will be cancelled at the end of the current television season.

The popularity of the show ’s characters meant its own demise; huge salaries due to their own success coupled with special ef­ fects expenses led to the need to pare down and start again after more than 150 episodes.

The original Star Trek was aired by NBC for 79 episodes from 1966 to 1969. The original crew continued to dominate the schlock science fiction genre for six feature films from 1980 to 1991. The aging cult figures were able to make guest cameos in The Next Generation . This is a tradi­ tion set to continue as DS9 and TNG are set concurrently in the 24th century.

T he p ilo t b eg in s w ith Starfleet assuming command of a vacated Cardassian space station in orbit around the Planet Bajor.

The provisional government of the newly freed Bajoran people have asked that the federation protect the planet from the contin­ ued threat o f the Cardassians.

The crew of Deep Space Nine is made up of younger inex­ perienced Starfleet officers. The commanding officer is played by Avery Brooks.

C om m ander B enjam in Sisko is reluctant to be stationed at Deep Space Nine because he is a single parent. The exchanges between Jake Sisko and his father

are nothing short of lame; neither acts very w ell.

The second-in-command is played by Nana Visitor, who is of Bajoran descent and opposes Starfleet in­ volvement in her planet’s affairs.

Odo, the shapeshifting se­ curity officer is played by Rene A u b e rjo n o is (C lay to n from Benson). Terminator 2 technology has been purchased to transform Auberjonois’ character from hu­ manoid to chair to car. Odo’s foil is Quark, a Ferenghi barkeep.

Quark runs the space station’s en­ tertainment: the bar, a casino, and a holographic brothel. The last is an example of the evil, dark side of space which DS9 is suppposed to reveal.

The remaining members of the cast are the Chief Science, Medical, and Engineering Offic­ ers. The Science Officer is a Trill, a symbiotic creature with a fe­ male body and 300-year-old male mind. The Medical Officer is a human doctor specializing in al­ ien medicine, looking for heroic excitement. The final lead is Chief Miles O ’Brien. The only holdover from the Enterprise o f TNG; OBrien has been promoted from Transporter Chief to Chief of Op­ erations of the new space station.

The adventure which occurs on the pilot is simple. The space station’s crew discovers a perma­ nent wormhole, very close to the site of Bajor. A wormhole is a tear in the fabric of the universe which connects Bajor to a distant gal­ axy, many light years away. The stability of the new wormhole sets

the stage for Deep Space Nine to become an important centre for scientific study.

The special effects are ex­ cellent as well they should be.

DS9 is the most expensive show ever produced. Production costs are estimated at $ 1.7 million dol­ lars per one-hour episode.

In g e n e ra l, the ac tin g seemed stilted. This show lacked the biting wit and humour for which the previous members of the Star Trek family were known.

However, this can possibly be at­ tributed to the pilot’s need to in­ troduce the new characters and develop them.

The earlier shows and mov­ ies were able to assume a certain amount of insider knowledge. This enabled characters such as Spock and Data to become cult figures.

No such character is apparent in this pilot. Spock’s popularity de­ veloped because of his refusal to display emotion, while Data’s de­ rives from his lack of feelings.

This phenomena could be mir­ rored in the uncertain sexual iden­ tity of the Trill, Lt. Dax. Beyond all of its deficien­ cies, DS9 follows a proven for­ mula for success. Diehard fans will continue to watch and if the writers are able to keep up the wit of the previous series while con­ tinuing to come up with interest­ ing and intriguing storylines, this scries will only surpass its pred­ ecessors success.

StarTrck: Deep Space Nine will air M ondays at 8:00 on CFCF-12.

ing: pussy.” But, after all, this is A1 Pacino and even if his character is a chauvinist, we don’t have to stop drooling over him.

Charlie, meanwhile, is pre­ occupied with his own private school adolescent angst. A wit­ ness to a school prank, Charlie has been given an ultimatum by school administrators: rag on your friends or we won’t get you into the al­ mighty Harvard. The headmaster, a sinister version of Ed Rooney (of Ferris Bueller), is that clichcd fascist who, according to most public school grads, reigns over all exclusive academies o ’ excel­ lence. Charlie’s scholarship status makes him particularly vulnerable to the preppie vultures. What to do?

Jack teaches Charlie those good old values of integrity and courage and warns the boy not to sell out. The Colonel has found a new mission in life - to keep his young protégé from descending into “that long grey line of Ameri­ can manhood.” The true meaning

of lead ersh ip triu m p h s, all-American style.

Both O ’Donnell and Pacino are m asterful in this m ovie.

O ’Donnell transforms a potentially bland and colourless character into a believable and charming one.

However, Pacino is the real star of the show (obviously) and preserves his well-deserved reputation. This is Oscar-central.

The dialogue is also surpris­ ingly good. Some of the lines, had they been delivered by Kevin Costner or Patrick Swayze, would sound like a bad AT&T commer­ cial. But, ahh, Pacino pulls off even the most Hallmark of senti­ ments: “There are two kinds of people in this world; those who stand up and face the music and those who run for cover.”

I left this movie the same way I left The Black Stallion 10 years ago - elated. Life is good - if even for a brief Hollywood mo­ ment - and it’s hard to muster up the artsy cynicism necessary to criticize this movie.

Scent of a bad title B Y C A T R IN M O R R IS

There are two kinds of mov­ ies today: those you see at the Rialto which give you intellectual brownie points; and those which you shamefully savour. You do laugh. You do cry. You love every minute of it and tell no one. Scent o f a Woman is one of these.

If you have any taste you probably shunned this movie be­ cause of its heinous and smarmy title and your disgust is laudable.

Whoever was in charge of the translation from the original manuscript was a graceless per­ vert. Nevertheless, Scent o f A Woman, through excellent acting and a witty screenplay, redeems itself.

C olonel Jack Slade (A1 Pacino) is an estranged and de­ spondent blind veteran whose frustration mounts when he can­ not satiate his lust for life and babes. Ostracized by his brother, and “passed over” by the Army, Slade is one miserable guy.

Enter Charlie Simms (Chris O 'D onnell — CU TE GUY ALERT), a “scholarship kid” at the Baird (Exeter) Academy for Boys. This is the private boarding school of Dead Poets Society and School Ties. An onslaught of rich brat packers with Daddy’s con­ nections and credit cards stream out of the ivy-covered 18th cen­ tury dorms.

Charlie is oh-so-alienated because of his family’s tenuous financial status, and as his buddies cruiseofftoSugarbushforaSl 200 ski weekend. YoungChaz, inneed of cash for his plane ticket back to Hicksville Oregon, lands a week­ end job watching over Slade.

Much to Charlie’s surprise, Slade has planned a trip to New York City, “freakshow central” for a final “tour of pleasures.” It’s a testosterone fun fest: five-star hotel, Jack Daniels,a stretch limo, and a high-class call girl. As the finale to this joy ride, Slade plans to “blow his brains out.”

Charlie witnesses the depth

of Jack’s depression when the Colonel says “ I’m no good...I never have been.” Jack’s disillu­ sionment rests on his awareness of the corruption and demoralization, which infest America - a case of crap on your buddy, cheat on your wife, call your mother on Moth­ er’s Day...It’s all shit.”

Scent o f A Woman (sorry to mention the title again) traces, in a soul-stirring but predictable man­ ner, the growing friendship be­ tween this ill-matched pair. In Jack, Charlie finds the father he never had. In Charlie, Jack finds the youthfulness and companionship he so desperately needs.

But, let’s face it, this plot is nothing new. Take some fabulous middle-aged man, give him a handicap and an attitude, and we women will swoon. We will for­ give his sexism and rudeness. And, make no mistake, Jack Slade is a sexist scumbag.

And, yes, he actually does say, “There are only two syllables in the whole world worth know­

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Entertainment

A rtists capture perceptions of women

BY MICHAEL NEWMAN

The H isto ric F em ale: Re-Presenting Archival Photo­ graphs, an exhibit by five Montreal artists now on display at Galerie 3, concerns itself more with current feminist ideology than with any interpretation of women’s history.

The exhibit’s underlying philoso­ phy involves a need for women to appropriate their collective image, both physically and intellectually.

Each of the five works present photographs of women (in one case, a photograph of a paint­ ing of a woman) which have been removed from their original con­ texts, and most of the pieces are elaborately modified.

The effect is didactic, though revealing, and forces an explora­ tion of common perceptions and attitudes. However, this exhibit’s power is short-lived, as it consists of only five works.

Moira Egan’s Asylum In­ mates is a collection of faces, mounted behind mirrors, taken from old photographs of women deemed criminal, insane, or devi­ ant. Egan’s work, which is prob­

ably the exhibit’s most powerful, is as much a portrait of her audi­ ence as it is of her subjects, as viewers cannot help but see them­ selves in the seemingly crazed stares of the appropriated faces.

This representation of wom­ en’s psychology is a compassion­ ate debunking of the “hysterical woman,” and thematically it is the exhibit’s most pronounced piece.

Nina Levitt’s Embrace is a collection of archival photographs which she interprets in terms of lesbian sexuality and popular no­ tions of the feminine form. The thesis behind Embrace is more re­ visionist than the other artists’ works, and it speaks of the need to explore lesbian history and, more generally, the history of women’s sexuality.

Sorel Cohen’s work,Noli me Tangere, ju x tap o ses an Ektachrome detail reproduction of Manet’s Olympia with an image of the Bourse, the Parisian stock ex­ change. In this huge reproduction, Olympia’s hand seems to reach out, caressing the edifice, upon which the words NOLI ME TANGERE are superimposed.

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The political question of physical relations surrounds the piece, and it is probably the collec­ tion’s most aesthetically alluring work. However, thematically, Noli me Tangere is unrealized, and its power is lukewarm.

The ex h ib it’s two other pieces are more esoteric and less captivating. Cheryl Sourkes’ Fata Scribunda explores mythology and the image of the soothsayer, super­ imposing reproductions of ancient art and sym bols such as the yin-yang, on wom en’s bodies.

S o u rk es’ work is thought-provoking, but its presen­ tation is awkward and the overall effect is garish and unconvincing.

Cheryl Simon’s piece is a group of photographs from news­ papers of yesteryear, including representations of Jack the Rip­ per’s victims. Her work is simplistic and reductionist, and offers little interpretation.

The Historic Female: Repre­ senting Archival Photographs is showing until January 29 at Galerie 3, 4710 St. Ambroise, Suite 101.

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BY MICHAEL BR O A D H U R ST INCESTICIDE - NIRVANA (Geffcn) Kurt Cobain and his bandmates in Nirvana took the music world by storm with 1991 ’s Nevermind, and die follow-up to that album has been anx­ iously awaited. Incesticide is not a new Nirvana album, however, but rather a compilation of B-sides and rarities that the band recorded before it became a household name.

Starting out the collection are “Dive” and “Sliver”, the two tracks that appeared on Nirvana’s first single release for Sub-Pop Records. From these songs through to “Aero Zeppe­ lin”, Cobain’s tribute to Seventies gui­ tar rock, Incesticide provides the lis­ tener with an interesting journey

through the bands early days.

Among the more interesting songs on this album is the scintillating “(New Wave) Polly”, a guitar-heavy version of the acoustic song that own­ ers of Nevermind should remember.

Unfortunately for Nirvana fans, the new album that you’re waiting for is due for a spring release, and Incesticide is designed to bridge the gap between the two albums.

Still, if what you want is a taste of early Nirvana, their debut album Bleach is probably a better acquisition.

For hardcore Nirvana fans, or even for those who find it necessary to follow the-Cobain-Courtney Love saga as closely as possible, Incesticide is worth a listen. But there isn’t a “Smells Like Teen Spirit” on this album, so if that’s what you’re looking for, wait until the band’s new album appears in March or April.

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quartet, and Pimer’s continuing devel­ opment as a songwriter is evident on this release. The songs on Grave Dancers Union are more introspective and less dependent on power chords than previous Soul Asylum releases, though the first single “Somebody To Shove” is a notable exception.

Still, Pirner provides the band with material that places it on unfamil­ iar ground, and the results clearly dis­ play the abilities of this band. From the quiet ballad ‘The Sun Maid” to the pure pop of “Without A Trace” guitarist Daniel Murphy, drummer Grant Young and bassist Karl Mueller support Pimer’s lead vocals without missing a beat, and the result is one of the best albums the band has ever produced.

Chart success is unlikely, if only because Soul Asylum is simply not rec­ ognizable enough to gain that much attention, but if you’re looking for a band to spice up a stagnating musical collection, check this album out.

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GRAVE DANCERS UNION Soul Asylum (Columbia) Grave Dancers Union repre­ sents Soul Asylum’s return from a two-year hiatus in which the band spent most of its time in legal battles with its record company. Now contentedly signed with Columbia, songwriter David Pirner and his band have re­ leased one of the surprise records of 1992.

Their last album, 1990’s Soul Asylum and The Horse They Rode In On brought acclaim to the Minneapolis

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oceanfront property and deep-sea fish­ ing. In fact, neither city gained much attention for anything, at least until a few years ago when major record companies finally realized that one didn’t have to live in New York or Los Angeles to be credible as an artist.

Suddenly, Seattle became the toast of the music industry, with bands like Pearl Jam, Nirvana and Alice In Chains leading the way, and defining what is now known as “grunge” music.

Despite die pejorative nature of that label, grunge-rock is the latest fad in music, and Halifax has produced the first Canadian member of the posse, Sloan. Their debut album, Smeared, stands next to the best Seattle bands, and once again proves that Canadian bands can compete in the international * * 1/2 music market.

Beginning with the SMEARED - Sloan (DGC) tongue-in-cheek “Underwhelmed”, In the past, comparisons between Sloan embarks on a sonic assault de­ Seattle and Halifax were limited to signed to captivate the listener. Like Nirvana, they rely on hook-heavy grunge that borders on middle-of-the-road pop. The band dis­ W e lc o m e ^ a c k plays its diversity with the album’s tracks, including the ballad “What’s McGILL There To Decide?” and sprinkles the with brilliant melodies and NIGHTLINE album flawless harmonies, particularly on 598-6246 “500 Up” and “I Am The Cancer”, two outstanding tracks.

Smeared is rough around the W e 'r e S t i l l L i s t e n i n g . edges and by no means perfect, but it is G iv e u s a c a ll a stunning debut album, and estab­ lishes Sloan as a band to watch for in 6 p .m . - 3 p .m . the future. which the band strives to explain the meaning of every song, assuming that listeners are incapable of deciphering the oh-so-simple lyrics - very little about this album is striking.

Regrettably, the Dysfunctions show considerable promise on which they fail to deliver. Torn is an average album by a band that probably can do better. Live performances around Mon­ treal have proven them to be a capable outfit, but some of their edge is lost in the studio.

Torn could be better, but in fair­ ness to the band, it could have done much worse. Even so, if the Dysfunc­ tions hope to stick around, the bands next effort will have to be much better than this one.

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BY JE N N B R A D L E Y

A s one o f the heralded holiday m ovies, Hoffa falls decidedly short o f its mark.

U n fo r tu n a te ly , Jack N ich o lso n ’s excellen t por­ trayal o f Jimm y H offa is lost in the mire o f Danny D eV ito’s attempt at artistic cinem a­ tography.

The m ovie chronicles H o ffa ’s rise as the leader o f the International Brother­ hood o f Teamsters through a s e r ie s o f fla s h b a c k s by H o f f a ’s righ t-h an d m an, B obby

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rem iniscent o f look in g at scen ery p ictu res o f your Grandma’s trip through the

entire m ovie, the use o f bla­ tant “art” shots is more dis­ tracting than enriching.

heads as he yelled, “You can’t handle the truth” from A Few G ood Men TV com ­

namism is absent because he cannot control the rhythm o f the m ovie.

prairies. A d d ition ally, for som e reason D eV ito chooses to use the fakest looking in­

D espite the w eaknesses o f D e V it o ’ s d ir e c tio n , N icholson is vibrant. At first

m e r c ia ls . S o o n , th o u g h , N icholson’s adoption o f bluecollar dialogue makes Hoffa

A s a biographical film that follow s the em inently more excitin g JFK, H offa

door sets imaginable. It is

it is hard to accept the m ov­

im possible to concentrate on

ie ’s benevolent portrayal o f

three dim ensional and free !from that baggage. Nicholson

lacks the same momentum.

Although N icholson is com ­

the hunting scene which sets the stage for H offa’s dem ise becau se o f the laughable background. Throughout the

Hoffa because o f N icholson’s usual bad-guy roles. M ost p e o p le have N ic h o ls o n ’s voice vibrating through their

idoes carry the m ovie, but his performance is lost in D e V ito ’s haphazard direc­ tion. N ich olson ’s usual dy­

pelling, he cannot make up for the fact that H offa itself is boring.

6 out o f 10.

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D eV ito). The fact that the story is told through B obby’s recollections glorifies Hoffa so much that when he goes to prison for fraud and em bez­ zlem ent, am ong other things, you actually feel sorry for him. Regardless o f whether you are familar with H offa’s alleged ties with the mob, his notoriety can ’t help but make you wonder how accurate this depiction o f Jimmy H offa rea lly

is . H o f f a ’s tie s to

D e la s s a n tr o (A rm an d Assante) are made to appear as essentially innocent when everybody know s that the only way one secures VIP treatment from ‘the fam ily’ is by doing them favours that are never entirely legal. U n­ fortunately, the m ovie fo ­ cuses on the less interesting aspects o f H offa’s career and glosses over the criminal e l­ ement o f his dealings.

The m ovie is long, and it feels that way; D eV ito is better suited to acting than he is to directing. H e spends considerable time trying to create a m ovie o f artistic cam eos which makes for a choppy, slow m ovie that is

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Hicks is real funny

BY A L Y C IA R O S S 1T E R

Bill Hicks is a comedian with his own style of hard-hitting cyni­ cism armed with plenty of shock value. A star of the 1991 Just For Laughs Festival in Montreal, Bill Hicks has made ten appearances on “ Late N ight with David Letterman,” has cut two albums, Dangerous and Relentless, and has had hisownHBO special. Recently, the Tribune had the opportunity to talk with Hicks, one of this year’s five nominees as Club Comic of the Year for the American Comedy Awards.

Tribune- You’ve been writ­ ing comedy for over fifteen years.

Do you find that the emergence of a politically correct mindset some­ times affects audiences’ reactions to your material?

Hicks- I’ve never been con­ fronted with a politically correct mindset. What exactly do you mean?

Tribune- Did it ever occur to you that your“pussy ”jokes might be deemed offensive by some?

Hicks- No, I think pussy is a great word. You gotta remember words like that are all just words.

Pussy gets a great reaction out of people. I think the politically cor­ rect should be hunted down and killed. I’m not racist. I don’t try to be offensive. I just do what I think is funny.

Tribune- So you don’t do d ifferen t shtick fôr different crowds?

Hicks-1 talk to an audience the way I talk to my friends. If they

don’t like it, if they don ’t wanna be friends with me, then fuck ‘em.

That’s their problem. I don’t sec them as the enemy - sometimes people just want to be the enemy.

T rib u n e- You played in Great Britain most of last year. Do you find British, American and Canadian audiences very differ­ ent?

Hicks-1 like the British the best. I have more success over there. They have a sense of irony and sarcasm that Americans lack.

America’s problem is that it’s run by a bunch of fundamentalist Christians who think that Ameri­ ca’s the greatest thing. I don’t fall for that. As far as lean see, America is becoming more and more of a wilderness, a wilderness full of thick necks and red faces. I like British and Canadian audiences.

They share my sense of antiAmericanism.

Tribune- It seems you spe­ cifically direct your attacks on an ignorant, Southern hill-billy sort of mentality, yet you yourself are from Georgia and Texas. Are you denying your roots?

Hicks- Actually, mostof that material comes from experiences I’ve had in the North. I guess I just bought into a stereotype and it was a cheap shot to attribute it to Southernness.

Tribune- You like to criti­ cize Reagan and Bush, how do you feel about Clinton?

Hicks- They’re all the same.

I mean in America there’s one party, the Business Party. All they’re out for is to maximize profit. They’re

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T ribune- You’ve worked with several media, which is your favorite?

Hicks-I never come across the way I want to on T.V. I really like studio work. With an album you can work ‘til every thing’s right, then open yourself up for attack.

T rib u n e - W hat are you working on right now?

Hicks- I’m doing a concept album called Arizona Bav. Ari­ zona Bay’s gonna be what’s left when L.A. falls into the ocean after an earthquake. It’s an album about hope for the future. It’s got a show we taped live in Austin, Texas, plus this kind of jazzy guitar sound I’ve been working on for years. I talk about stuff like the L.A. riotshard-hitting, but with this wistful, dreaming music in the background.

I wanted to do comedy that al­ lowed people to leave with some­ thing to hum to.

Tribune- Sounds like your leaving the typical stand-up rou­ tine- sex, drugs, women, airportsfor something new. Is there pres­ sure to conform to those topics until you’ve gotten your break?

Hicks-1 never really thought about it that way. I guess I could have done this earlier, but I wasn’t feeling the urge to do it. Comedi­ ans j ust deal with issues people can relate to, that’s why there’s some common territory.

Bill Hicks will be appearing this Friday and Saturday nights, January 15-16, at Club Soda, 5240 Park Ave. Doors open at 7:00 for the 8:00 shows. Tickets are on sale for $15.50 at the Box Office (2707848) and Admission Outlets (7901245).

Malle responsible for Hart's Damage

BY K A TE G IB B S

In movie history 1992 will be remembered as the "Year of the F atal F em m e” . R oseanna Arquette’s naughty nanny “reined” at the box office until dethroned

by Sharon Stone’s portrayal of a knickerless novelist. In the name of vengeance, an aerobicizcd “psycha” could kill a cheating boyfriend vith a precise stiletto faster than he could scream, “Run to the hills, it’s Crazy Hcddy”.

Thankfully, French director Louis Male (Au Revoir les En­ fants) has forgiven the general popul us the bad taste demonstrated last year and deemed adult movie­ goers mature enough to view his latest film Damage.

True to the plot of Josephine Hart’s best-selling novel of the same title, Damage tells the story of a man whose obsessive love for his son’s fiancee ultimately jeop­ ardizes his public and private lives.

British govemmentminister, Dr. Stephen Fleming (Jeremy Irons) meets Anna Barton by chance at a party. Their initial wordless connection is bound to be the most televised clip of the film.

It is not only an exhilerating indi­ cation of the magnatism but it is the only piece of film which features the two principles alone in a situa­ tion suitable for younger viewers.

The narrative bowls along and in only a matter of movie minutes until son, Martyn (Rupert Graves), a journalist, bring Anna home for . dinner. Malle’s even direction al­ lows all participants-including the audience- in this ever-uncom fortable meeting the faimessof first impression. Credibly, Anna ap­ pears as bewitching to Dr. Fleming as she does untrustworthy to his wife (Miranda Richardson) despite familiar protestations by Martyn, “she’s different when we ’re alone”.

Indeed once Anna has initi­ ated a rendcz-vous with Stephen, the nature of which is never second guessed, she proves just how dif­ ferent she can be. Folio wing explict exposure in films such as The Un­ bearable Lightness o f Being, the physicality of Mile. Binoche’srole is intense but not surprising. Re­ moving all evidence of British stiff upper lip with his clothes, Irons however performas as few have seen him do before. The violence of clandestine union dramatises the urgency and sickness of their ob­ sessive love affair. The love scenes in Damage prove that it is impos­ sible to yam on the floor without paying cinematic homage to Last Tango in Paris.

Shortly after Martyn is pro­ moted to deputy political editor, he and Anna announce their engage­ ment. Consequently the son is re­ sponsible for reporting the activi­ ties of his father to the public. Con­ flicts of interest seem tragically unavoidabe and raise Damage far above many sex melodramas.

Connections between char­ acters lie at the film’s core and images of character fill the screen.

The film ’s attem pt to explain Anna’s character is however its only failing. Having once been the object of doomed desire, Anna is convinced she will never love without loss. David Hare’s heavyhanded script demands Anna warn Stephen, “damaged people are dangerous”. Anna’s impossibly luxurious lifestyle and strange No Man’s Land accent are explained awa as resulting from an interna­ tional, itinerant childhood. Acute performances from the cast, par­ ticularly from Miranda Richardson over come the script and keep the story compelling.

Damage opens in Montreal next week and rates a 6 out of 8% Nonoxynol 9.

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Sports M artlets feather nests of success MARTLETS LAVAL

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BY RICK EVANS Four games into the new year, the McGill Martlets basketball team is sporting a fabulous 15-1 record, and are ranked fourth in the nation. The oneblemishon theMartlets’ otherwise perfect record was a loss to Winnipeg at the Concordia Invitational Tour­ nament, which is no shame in itself, given the number one national rank­ ing of the Winnipeg team.

McGill got their fifteenth win last Friday night against the Laval RougeetOrattheCurrieGym. Led by fifth yearplayer JaneRoss’s 14points and junior Martina van der Vlist’s 13 points, the Martlets fought to a 62-52 victory.

While much of the game was played in an uncharacteristically me­ diocre way, it was highlighted by several periods of inspired play by the McGill players. Debby Morse showed at least four flashes of no-look passing brilliance, both on the fast break and driving through the lane. Other passes into the low post demonstrated the potential of this McGill squad to elevate their play to an impressive level.

In the end, however, it was mostly Laval’s inability to score against a McGill defense which re­ mained equal to the task that decided the outcome in the game. Even so, the

win was not secure until the final seconds, as Laval made a gutsy effort to pull within seven points with four minutes to go. However, the Martlets moved to a spread, clock-absorbing offence, and closed out the game.

Friday night’s win followed on the heels of a championship in McGill’s 14th annual Montreal Ga­ zette Martletlnvitational Tournament, January 2-4. In a 89-54 victory over McMaster in the first game, Jane Ross once again led the team in scoring with 18 points. In their second win, a 78-28 dismantling of an inferior Ot­ tawa team, Debby Morse headed the scoring with 14 points, as well as leading with 10 rebounds. In the championship game, McGill once again faced cross-tow n rival Concordia, and once again Morse came through big leading in scoring and rebounding with 23 and 15 re­ spectively. Her performance in the last two games netted Morse the MVP award in the tournament.

Needless to say, this is a much improved McGill squad from previ­ ous years. Despite losing star guard Tina Fasone, the Martlets have man­ aged to elevate their play to another level.

According to co-captain and fifth-yearplayerRoss, thisyear’s team “has a lot more depth” than any of the other four teams she has played for.

“As well, everyone coming out at the beginning, working hard, and being in shape was important.”

Looking back on the first part of the season, Ross points to the vic­

tory over Queen's at the Dalhousie Classic Tournament early on as their best game. “We played the whole forty minutes with high intensity in a tough match. That was probably our best win so far.”

Looking ahead to the second half of the season, Ross indicated that Laval’s talent and Concordia’s scrap­ piness are the key things to pay atten­ tion to in league play. “Laval is a more talented team than Concordia, but Concordia is a very scrappy. If weean concentrate on actually playing bas­ ketball against them we should be able to win.”

This year McGill will also be playing four games against teams from Manitoba, including the University of Manitoba (twice), Brandon Univer­ sity, and Winnipeg University. This last game will certainly be very im­ portant for the Martlets, since Winni­ peg is the only team they have lost to.Winnipeg may quite likely still be first-ranked when the Martlets host them here in Montreal later this se­ mester. While the first task is to take the Quebec University Basketball League Championship, it is difficult not to anticipate a trip to the national championship tournament at the end of the season.

Coming up January 15 is an­ other bruising match against Concordia for both the women’s and the men’s teams. The games will be played at the Currie Gym, with a 6:30 p.m. start for the women and an 8:30 p.m. start for the men against the sixthranked Concordia’s men’s team.

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Redmen sta rt term with a win and a tan REDMEN 81 LAVAL 55

BY A LISO N KORN Playing in a packed gym last Friday, a tanned and tight-knit Redmen basketball team bounced back from three holiday losses in Florida to crush a frustrated Laval squad 81-55. Despite the absence of

skyscraperDoug McMahon (6’ 11 ”), sidelined with a knee injury sustained down south, McGill was able to suc­ cessfully redistribute the scoring duties. Todd McDougall scored 24 points and grabbed eight boards, whileJon Campbell tallied 18 points.

Bruce Bird led rebounders with 11 boards, and Ryan Schocnhals had nine.

“We were pretty scared going in to this game without Doug,” said

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rookie forward Kevin McGuire, who contributed four points to the win.

“But Todd stepped up his game and Jon Campbell played well,” . Indeed, the Redmen so dominated this match­ up that they quickly looked to their bench and by game’s end, had put every player on the floor.

The lone bright spot for the haphazard Rouge et Or was 6 ’3” rookie Frantz Eric Elysée, who was clearly in a class of his own. Elysée,

who dunked twice and went coastto-coast a few times, appeared dis­ gusted by the inferior play of his teammates, not to mention the lop­ sided score. It was hard not to feel some pity for this thwarted athlete, who scowled as he checked the clock.

But it was not so much Laval’s ineptitude as M cGill’s relentless press that gave McGill the upper hand. The more frustrated Laval became, the cooler McGill emerged.

Said Campbell: “we’re under control [and there was] no panic.”

“The plan was to play our twothree zone and extend it up the floor,” explained Schildroth. Our players got very confident in it and played how we thought we could play. It set up a situation where Laval was run­ ning at us, fouling us, and we were often at the foul line.”Jon Campbell in particular took advantage of this and went 10 for 14 from the foul line.

Indeed, Campbell’s name was heard fairly often over the public address system Friday evening, for along with his 18 points, he collected four personal fouls.

Although the Redmen were soundly trounced in each of their three Florida games, winning was not the sole objective of their week long stay in Pompano Beach. The team lost to the Miami Dade North Falcons, the Broward Community College Seahawks, and the Miami Dade Kendall Jaguars at the First

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“We hadn’t practiced for a month because of exams. You have to take those games and results with an open mind,” Schildroth said. “It was very good for us to play with those teams that are small and ex­ tremely quick. It’s excellent prepa­ ration for Concordia. That’s what we can expect for Friday. We have to deal with quickness,” he noted.

“W e’re a different team after that trip.” said McDougall.

“We got to go to the beach together [Ft. Lauderdale] and also played against some very good teams.

The games were very different from what we play in the Quebec league.

I found it was less physical under the basket, and the American teams completed every play. When they put up a shot, you knew it was going in.”

M cG ill’s next gam e will against first-place Concordia this Friday, January 15, at 8:30 p.m. at the Currie Gym. After overwhelm­ ing last place Laval, it should be interesting to follow the Redmen as they deal with a team that tops the standings.

“We have seven rookies and we’re only going to keep on getting better and better,” said Schildroth. “[But] I don’t know if Concordia can kick it up much higher than they are now,” he predicted.

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The McGill Tribune, January 12-18,1993

Muldowney wins, Concordia iced by Redmen

BY CHARLES THOMAS Last Sunday, the McGill Track team competed in its first meet of the year at the Dartmouth Relays in Hano­ ver, New Hampshire. Top perform­ ances were turned in by Maeve Muldowney, who won the 800-mctre, Ian Fallas, who placed fourth in the mile and Linda Thyer with a fifth place • finish in the mile.

Ever sincemid-December when the team’s indoor training facility (Centre Claude-Robillard) was shut down for maintenance, the McGill runners had been anxiously awaiting the debut of their competitive season.

According to head coach Dennis Barrett, the meet served principally to evaluate the point at which each athlete is in her or his training program.

“It’s an evaluation to see where we are,” he said. “It's good to be on a decent track to see how we can do.”

Barrett emphasized that not having adequate training facilities hampered the team’s efforts to get into peak racing condition.

“The biggest obstacle we had was not having a track. We were not able to do specific endurance—the kind of work you need to get competitive,” he said.

Fourth year veteran sprinter Jamie Cohen holds the same opinion.

“I’m a bit behind where I want to be right now. Not being able to do the appropriate work at this juncture in the season has a lot to do with it.”

Despite these limitations, the McGill representatives fared quite well and managed several top ten finishes in a meet that featured many of the best schools in the northeastern U.S. as well as a few top Canadian schools.

On the women’s side, perennial high performers Maeve Muldowney and Linda Thyer once again proved their mettle with Muldowney easily winning the women’s 800-meire race in a time of 2:20.10 and Thyer placing fifth in the women’s mile run in a time nFS-ftl Q8 B arrett was pleased with Muldowney’s good showing.

“Good for Maeve,’’hesaid. “It’s always a confidence booster to win early in the season. Even though her time wasn’t great, it was a good start.”

While agreeing with B arrett that her time was relatively slow, the obvi­ ously pleased mid-distance runner felt that she could have done better with even stronger competitors.

“I feel that had the field been a bit stronger, I would have gone with the field—that was my plan. I could have gone three or four seconds faster, but I think it puts things in a positive mind frame. It is very early in the season so I ’m not concerned with the time right now.”

The men also were pleased with their showing. The standouts were Ian Fallas and the men’s two mile relay team (4x880-yards). Fallas used a strong finishing kick to earn fourth place in the mile run in a good early season time of 4:18.79. The relay team also placed fourth in their race in a time of 8:06.54.

“The overall effort was good; people ran aggressively in the relay,” said mid-dis tance coach Malcolm B alk.

However, he expects much more from the team as the season progresses.

“A number of runners who were injured, Shaun Goho and Joshua Lall for example, will definitely lift the performance. In the past, we’ve run into a combination of injuries and bad luck, butrightnow everyone is coming off excellent summers and a strong cross-country season—guys like Pal Merrin—and those who were injured are coming back—I'm thinking of a guy like Christian Murray who has been able to put five straight months of training for the first time in three years.”

From Balk's perspective, the meet focuses people’s attention on the work to be done.

“One thing this meet does for everybody, [is] it sets benchmarks, it focuses everybody’s attention, it serves the purpose of waking people up— focusing the competitive juices.”

Barrett believes that perform­ ances will only get better.

“I think performances will im­ prove when we get back indoors (Cen­ tre Claude-Robillard shouldreopen for training January 18) It’s put us at a great disadvantage compared to other teams,” Barrett said.

Although it’s hard to fault the McGill track team for its enthusiasm, it still remains to be seen whether the women have the depth to take back the provincial championship they lost to Sherbrooke last»year after a ten-year winning streak or whether the men have the elements to give the powerful Sherbrooke men’s team a run for its money.

The team’s next competition will be in Sherbrooke on January 2324.

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BY JAMIE DEAN LastSunday’shockey game was not a stellar example of consistency for either Concordia or McGill, but it will be remembered by the Redmen for three reasons: McGill’s 7-5 win evened the cross-town rivalry to one win apiece; the win proved that the Redmen can mount an effective power-play; and it proved that the Redmen are capable of rallying from behind.

‘This is a new beginning for us, a landmark,” commented Redmen leading goal scorer Guy Boucher. ‘The rookies are playing great and we are really coming together as a team. To­ night we not only applied what we have been doing in practice, but played with heart and character.”

Last semester, the Redmen power-play was anything but powerful.

With the man advantage, the Redmen managed to capitalize only 16 per cent of the time, for 25 goals., while giving up five shorthanded goals to their oppo­ nents. But in Sunday’s game, five of the seven Redmen goals were scored on the power-play, the team gave up no shorthanded and they successfully killed all their penalties except one.

McGill spumed more statistics on Sunday. In 1992, McGill almost always lost when their opponent scored first and consistently went on to lose when they trailed after two periods.

Concordia’s two quick goals in the first

four minutes and the Stingers’ two goal lead at the start of the third period seemed to foreshadow another loss. But McGill rallied back for three goals in the first period and four more in the third to erase Concordia's leads. Scoring for the Redmen were Marc Vigneault, Jordy Tedford, David Vecchio, Todd Marcellus, Luc Latulippe. Marc Lustig and Jim Reynolds. Patrick Jeanson earned the win in net.

“It was not a great game for us, but we did come out with a win. We played well in the second half of the first and in the third period. We have a good team, which can do well if we work hard and apply coach Pronovost’s system, but we need to be more consist­ ent in the future,” said Redmen captain Vigneault.

Pronovost was happy with the win and saw many positive aspects in the Redmen game. ‘This game showed that if we work hard, play as a team and maintain our intensity, we can beat anyone,” he said. “We have a young team and the fact that we came from behind will be a good character-builder.”

TheConcordia win was McGill’s second of the new year, following an exhibition win against Quebec’s colle­ gial (CEGEP) all-stars at McConnell Arena January 5. That game was a clean contest between two teams with quite different reasons for wanting to win.

The college all-stars wanted to look good for prospective coaches and their many cheering fans, and McGill was determined to show theyoungsters their proper place.

The CEGEP All-Stars went ahead early and continued to press

thoughout the the match. With the score tied 4-4 and only one minute remaining in the game, McGill’s Mike Grady se­ cured the win for the Redmen. Scoring two goals each for the Redmen were Stacey McGregor and Vecchio, in­ cluding an empty net goal in the dying seconds of the game. Marc Vigneault added a single. G uy Boucher topped off a lucrative holiday by receiving a pair of Rollcrblade skates for being McGill’s game MVP. These two wins follow the team’s rather lacklustre 4-5-1 OUAA league record (5-12-1 overall) in the 1992 portion of the season, and their results of their two holiday tournaments. At the UBC Father Bauer Classic, held just after Christmas., the Redmen lost 5-2 to Manitoba and twice to UBC (4-2 and 82). On January 2 and 3, at the Middlebury Holiday Classic, McGill lost to Con­ necticut College 5-4, then beat Ameri­ can International College 6-4.

At the Middlebury Tournament, Boucher netted five goals and two as­ sists, and was named tho the All-Tournament Team. And he has also been named one of McGill’s three stars in four of McGill’s last six games.

The losses over the holidays did not seem to trouble either coach Pronovost or the players. “We were out to have fun and play some good hockey.

Since we have no superstars, our strength lies in teamwork. Over the holidays we really began to come together as a team,” said Boucher.

The Redmen host Ryerson this Friday at McConnell Arena at 8 p.m. and Queen’s on Saturday at MacDonald College at 3 p.m.

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The McGill Tribune, January 12-18,1993

Sports Swim team gets fast and fit in Florida

BY A N D R E W R O S S

The members of McGill’s varsity swim team spent the last two weeks of the Christmas break at training camp in Freeport, Ba­ ham as. The team returned to Montreal tanned, trim and ready to swim this semester’s schedule of meets which includes the provin­ cial as well as CIAU champion­ ships.

By all superlative accounts, the trip to the Caribbean went more than swimmingly. Men’s captain Wade Mitchell was particularly excited with the camp.

“It was excellent, one of the best we’veever had,’’said Mitchell.

“The training camp really makes the season and people were swim­ ming fast. W e’re in really good shape,” he said.

Team coach François Laurin concurred and praised the facilities, atmosphere and perks available to the team in Freeport.

“We have two swimmers on

the team from the Bahamas and they suggested we take a look at the Freeport club,” said Laurin.

“Also, there are a lot of McGill alumni in the Bahamas and they made us feel comfortable. A lot of people were noticing us there, and we were even on the news.”

W omen’s veteran captain Monica Bienefeld acknowledged the recuperative aspects alongside the physical training.

“Things tend to die down a bit over Christmas. The workouts are pretty hard, but you can get to the beach every day. It’s a good way to get back in the water.”

But coach Laurin was care­ ful to deep-six notions of a tanning holiday, inevitably associated with two weeks in the Caribbean.

“Some people think it’s a vacation. But the team swims from 6 to 8 a.m„ then eats, rests, and goes at it again in the afternoon.

They also do some dryland and weight training. It’s not easy,” he insisted.

Laurin credits the trip with developing the team’s psychologi­ cal edge, easily as important as physical conditioning.

“I think we did a bit more than j ust swim,” he said. “The team learned to swim at different stress levels. They were in a foreign country with unfamiliar surround­ ings. That’s stressful and similar to the situation they will find them­ selves in at the provincials and nationals. They responded quite well.”

Success at the CIAU national championships is the goal for Laurin and his team. And he em­ phasized the higlr standards that McGill swimmers are required to achieve.

“The CIAU championship is ranked among the top five meets [of its kind] in the world. The level that we compete at is very high.

Also, Canada’s World University Games team will be chosen after the meet. It’s a great trip for the athletes and so the competition will

be tough.”

Four McGill swimmers have already made the national standard that qualifies them for the CIAU championship, including Olympian Andrea Nugent, backstroker Paul W atson, and rookies Leanne Shapton and Leo Grepin. Nugent and Watson were not with the team in Freeport; she was competing in China and he training at his home­ town club in Armonk, N.Y. Nugent was part of the Ca­ nadian national team that partici­ pated in two stages of the World Cup swimming series held in Shanghai and Beijing. She will swim at the Winternational meet in St. John, N.B., during the spring break before peaking for the CIAU championships in March.

Third-year medical student Paul Watson will be seeking to overcome the 2/100ths of a second deficit that cost him the gold at last year’s CIAU meet. Watson is ranked second in the CIAU and 20th in the world short-course

Politically correct or perfidiously “We’re still very much catering to a male white AngloSaxon population. We need to do more for the women’s program and ethnic diversity.”

This was how Director of Athletics at the University of Toronto, Dr. Ian McGregor publicly explained the recom­ mendation to drop funding for 12 varsity teams. In the next breath he alluded to the lack of ping pong tables at U of T— after all, 20% of Toronto’s undergraduates are of Asian origin.

To suggest that the recom­ mendations were made to ensure racial and gender equality is a blatant lie. The real culprit, of course, is the finan­ cial squeeze faced by schools today. Although no one’s suggesting lack of money isn’t a factor, to disguise the recom­

mended cuts as progressive political choices is both sicken­ ing and transparent. Two contra­ dictions (among many) easily expose the transparency of McGregor’s revolting claims.

Contradiction # 1 :1 was assured by U of T ’s Sports Information Officer Paul Carson that “football is probably the most ethnically diverse of any team”. If Carson’s statement is accurate, slashing football would eliminate exactly the ethnic diversity the school claims it is seeking.

Contradition #2: “Doing more for the women’s program” seems to include recommending that the women’s hockey team be discontinued. Toronto’s team, which has won the Ontario championship every year for as long as anyone can remember, consistently supplies Canada’s (world champion) National Team

with top-notch players and a head coach. “If you can’t run it well, you don’t run i t That’s our attitude here,” says Carson.

Clearly, the only legitimate rationale for slashing sports has to do with finances. But even within the fiscal reasons there are illogical recommendations. For example, cutting 17 intramurals would save the school a paltry $7,400. Meanwhile, the men’s hockey budget is slated to remain at $157,000, and the estimated $5,000-$7,000 the women’s hockey team needs is just too expensive. Certainly, the foot­ ball’s financial realities are even starker: closing Varsity Stadium and discontinuing football are expected to produce a minimum savings of $450,000.

Besides the results this will have on the University of Toronto, the effects of such recommendations will have

national reverberations. Some have suggested that the drastic moves by U of T will create a domino effect, giving other schools that may have been considering cutting athletics the guts to do so. But, claims Carson (a.k.a. McGregor’s mouthpiece), “nobody is using us as a justifica­ tion for making decisions. I haven’t noticed since our an­ nouncement a stampede in any direction.” Funny. Football coaches Charlie Baillie of McGill and Doug Hargreaves of Queen’s publicly expressed precisely the opposite opinion. As Baillie was quoted by The Gazette, “it could trigger a chain reaction...”

Austerity measures are nothing new to McGill. In 1971, all funding for athletics was scrapped, leaving teams scram­ bling for resources. Through self­ financing and alumni donations, they managed to avoid decima-

standings.

These veteran swimmers are backed up by a young team made up primarily of rookies and second year students, including rookies Leanne Shapton, ranked fourth in the nation in 100-metre breast­ stroke, and 17-year-old sensation Leo Grepin.

Laurin is elated with the prospect of showing off his team of the future in McGill’s renovated Currie Pool, scheduled to re-open in April.

“We’re all excited. W e’re looking forward to next year when we’ll have a lot more space and most important of all, a home pool.

Travelling is rough on the athletes and McG ill [supporters] hardly ever get to see us. Next year we’re going to try to organize a big meet with the top teams in the country.”

This weekend the McGill swi m team goes around the mountain to Université de Mon­ treal for their first meet of the sea­ son.

HITTING THE WAL L

BY ALISON KORN

tion. Swimming even managed to win the OUAAs. Funding was reinstated the following year.

And, as members of McGill’s alpine skiing, fencing, rowing, synchro, squash, rugby, track & field and men’s volley­ ball teams know all too well, history repeated itself again, for them at least, in 1991. ‘Reclassi­ fication’ meant they lost all university funding and were relegated to the status of ‘clubs’.

Two years have passed and it’s time for McGill’s cyclical review. Teams will be assessed on such criteria as the team’s performance record, an estab­ lished university league, and fundraising, alumni donations, or gate receipts. It’s possible that you’ll see some severe changes next year.

So before you extend all your pity to U of T ’s athletes, save some for our own. Soon, your favorite team or the team your friend plays on or the team you know you could be on but just don’t want to or even the one you are a member of could end up on the chopping block.

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Principal’s Athlete Academic Honour Roll announced The first Principal’s Student-Athlete Aca­ demic Honour Roll recognizes excellence in both academics and athletics. These stu­ dents have achieved a CGPA of 3.5 out of 4.0, are full-time students, and are fuU members of a sports team or club.

B.A.

Elizabeth Stamp Football

B.Eng. B.Sc. B. Sc. M.Sc.(Biology)

1992 McGill Principal’s Academic Honour RoU for Student-Athletes

Dale Bracewell Mike Germann Doug Naudie J.P. Vcri

Badminton

Hockey

Sebastien Gilbert-Renald B.Sc. Derek Holt B.A.

Monica Cermignani Micheal Grady Stacey McGregor Marlin Raymond Anne Marie Sawkins David Vecchio

Basketball Annabelle Ambroise Cam Mathison Todd McDougall

B.Eng. B.Eng. B.Eng.

Cross Country Maeve Muldowney Jacqueline Neufeld Mohan Radhakrishna Melissa Whittaker

M.A.(French) B.Sc. B.Sc. B.Sc.

B.Sc. B.Com. B.Ed. M.A.(Phys.Ed.) M.A. B.Sc.

Kristen Pederson Johnathan Ponesse John Spaiks Amanda Spencer B.A. William Tinmouth Anthony Tremain Steven Woodside

B.Sc. B.Sc. B.A. B.Sc.

B.Mus. B.Eng.

Rugby Paul Benoit Nadine Hanna Jodie Jones Melanie Maclnnis Maureen MacMahon Jeremiah McGrath Kevin Richard Heather Secord Matthew Tennant

B.Sc. B.Sc. B.Sc. B.Sc. B.Sc. B.A. B.Eng. B.Sc. B.A.

Rowing

Soccer

M. Eng. M.Eng. M.A.(Pys. Ed.) B.Sc. B.Com. B.A. B.Eng. B.S. B.Ed. B.Ed. M.Eng. B.Sc. M.Sc.(Chem.)

Peter Botos Barbara Bruckert Sarah Cartwright Johnathan Drysdale Micheal Dugue Daniele Greco Rolf Gronas Stephanie Hart Natalie Ionidis Julia Maughan Micheline Reimbold Caroline Teng Martin W'hittaker Squash David Behm Micheal Purdon

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Swimming Erica Panet Pavel Pochobradsky

B.Sc. M.A.(Phys. Ed.)

Caroline Ahmarani Monica Bienefeld

B.A. B.A. B.Sc. B.Sc. B.Sc. B.A. B.Sc. B.Sc. Med.

Synchro Swimming Nathalie Audet Michelle Elizov Cassandra Robertson

B.Sc. Med. B.Eng.

Track & Field Shaun Goho B.Sc. Thornton Painter M.A.(Ed Admin) Volleyball Christina Meidinger Robin Petri Linda Probyn Mike Germann

Skiing (Alpine~l Tim Blaskovich Rachel Carson Nancy Cox David McKenzie

Sarah Clark Tracy Darling Christina Echols Katrina Einhom Irina Ghcna Wade Mitchell Mark Sherman Walter Strapps Paul Watson

B.Sc. B.Sc. B.Sc. B.Sc.

Fencing Paul Lampman Richard Lee

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Sports Notes Pool may soon be in view Administration officials including Principal Johnson and Chairman of Athletics Richard Pound participated in a ceremo­ nial “hosing” of the new Currie pool at what Athletics Director Bob Dubeau called “a sneak pre­ view involving McGill people, architects, contractors, and sub­ contractors.” The pool has been expanded from 25-yard 6-lane format to 25-metre 8-lane regu­ lation short-course length, and is now of a depth allowing for the safe use of the diving boards.

The pool is scheduled to open before final exams this semester.

Dubeau is hopeful that the university will commit to ac­ cepting bids for the new athletics fieldhouse to take advantage of the slack construction market, and that excavation, Phase III of the athletics facility development plan, would begin as soon as possible. If this timetable is achieved then students may be able to use the new sports facility sometime during the 1994-95 school year.

V-Ball falls to powerhouse Lavai The M artlet volleyball team travelled to Laval on Sat­ urday and lost to their hosts 3-0, by scores of 15-10,15-0. and 159.

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DEPARTMENT OF ATHLETICS

Campus Recreation Instructional Athletics Program • WINTER 1993 Coordinators:

Philip Quintal, Marla Gold, G erry Dubrule

The Instructional Program provides an opportunity to use the Depart­ ment's facilities and to acquire or improve athletic skills. Members of the staff of the Department of Athletics, as well as part-time instructors, teach in the program.

Courses are open to all FULL-TIME MCGILL STUDENTS. Full-time McGill Students are entitled to register for courses at the member's fee.

STAFF, FACULTY, and GRADUATES holding a gym membership card (available in the General Office of the Currie Gym) may also register for course at the member's fee.

• In many courses space is limited. First come, first served.

COURSE

DAY

TIME

COST # OF MEMBERS WEEKS NON-MEMBERS

AQUATICS RED CROSS PROGRAM Yellow, Orange, Red Tuesday 19:00 - 20:00 $24/45 (Beginners) Saturday 10:30-11:30 $24/45 Maroon/Blue Monday 17:30-18:30 $24/45 (Intermediate) Saturday 11:30-1230 $24/45 Green/Grey/White Tuesday 19:00 - 20:00 $24/45 (Advanced) Saturday 12:30-13:45 $26/47 GENERAL Aquadses Tues. & Thurs. 13:30-14:15 $35/75 (Water Exercises) Swim Fit Tues. & Thurs. 20:00 - 20:45 $35/75 (Cardio-Respiratory Endurance) Stroke Improvement Thursday 19:00 - 20:00 $24/45 Friday 17:30-18:30 $24/45 SPECIALIZED Diving Wednesday 17:00-18:00 $25/45 1M Elementary Lifesaving 1,2,3 Saturday 11:30-12:30 $25/45 (Introduction to Program) Synchro Swim Star Program Monday & 17:30-1830 $35/75 Beg. to Adv. Wednesday 17:00-18:00 CERTIFICATION PROGRAMS Bronze Medallion Saturday Class 13:00$42/62 (Prerequisite 14:00 plus Lifesaving 1,2,3 Pool 14:00exam or equivalent) 15:30 fee Bronze Cross Monday Class $47/67 (Prerequisite - Bronze 19:15-20:30 Medallion) Pool 20:30 - 22:30 S.C.U.BA. Tues. & Thurs. Class $230/260 (Good Swimmer 19:30 - 20:45 Screen Test Required) Pool 20:45 - 22:45

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8 8 8 8 8

8

8

6

DANCE Ballet II Ballet I Jazz I Jazz I Jazz II Jazz III Social Dance II Social Dance I Social Dance I Social Dance I

Tues. & Thurs.

Tues. & Thurs.

Mon. & Wed. Tues. & Thurs.

Mon. & Wed. Mon. & Wed. & Friday Monday Monday Wednesday Wednesday

19:00 - 20:15 20:15-2130 16:30-17:45 08:30 - 09:45 17:45-19:00 19:00 - 20:15 18:30 - 20:00 19:00-2030 20:30 - 22:00 19:00 - 20:30 20:30 - 22:00

$42/82 $42/82 $42/87 $42/87 $42/87 $65/110

8 8 10 10 10 10

$32/52 $32/52 $32/52 $32/52

8 8 8 8

FITNESS Action Aerobics Action Aerobics Action Aerobics Action Aerobics (STAFF) Action Aerobics (SUPERFiï) CardioFunk CardioFunk

Mon. & Wed. Tues. & Thurs.

Tues. & Thurs.

M/W/F

16:30 -17:30 12:00-13:00 16:00-17:00 12:15-13:15

$32/77 $32/77 $32/77 $83/128

10 10 10 14

COURSE Cardio Funk II Circuit Training Low Impact Low Impact Low Impact Low Impact Low Impact Low Impact Adv. Low Impact Adv. Low Impact/Step.

Step Aerobics Step Aerobics Step Aerobics Step Aerobics Super Step Super Step Weight Training Weight Training Weiqht Training Weight I raining Weight Training Weight Training Weight Training Clinic Weight Training (PRIVATE) Personal Fitness Appraisal

$57/102

10

$30/75 $32/77

10 10

If space permits, staff, faculty and continuing education students may participate in the Instructional Program without purchasing a membership: • •

A non-member rate will be charged.

Registration for this group only, will begin Thursday, January 14th.

REFUND PO LIC Y: An administrative fee of $5.00 will be charged for withdrawal prior to the start of a course. No refunds will be given after the start of a course. To claim a refund, the course receipt must be presented.

TIME

COST # OF MEMBERS WEEKS NON-MEMBERS

Tues. & Thurs.

Tues. & Thurs.

Mon. & Wed. M/W/F Tues. & Thurs.

Tues. & Thurs.

Tues. & Thurs.

MW/F Tues. & Thurs.

Saturday Mon. & Wed. Tues. & Thurs.

Tues. & Thurs.

Tues. & Thurs.

Tues. & Thurs.

Saturday Monday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Saturday Sat. Jan. 23 & Sun. Jan. 24 by appointment by appointment

19:15-20:15 18:00-19:00 08:00 - 09:00 12:15-13:15 11:30-12:30 13:00-14:00 17:00-18:00 17:00-18:15 17:00-18:15 11:30-12:30 08:30 - 09:30 12:30-13:30 17:15-18:15 18:15-19:15 16:00-17:15 10:00-11:30 08:30-10:00 20:00 - 21:30 08:30-10:00 20:00 - 2130 08:00- 09:30 09:00-10:30 10:00-1130

$32/77 $32/77 $32/77 $45/85 $32/77 $32/77 $32/77 $52/97 $45/85 $20/45 $47/92 $47/92 $47/92 $47/92 $50/95 $32/77 $26/39 $26/39 $26/39 $26/39 $26/39 $26/39 $16/29

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$26/39

call 398-7011

$35/45/60

Wednesday Wednesday Saturday Jan. 23 & 30 ‘includes CPR Heart Saver "Those with CPR Heart Saver CPR Basic Sat., Feb. 13 & Sun., Feb. 14 CPR Re-Cert Sat., Feb. 13 Fencing I Tues. & Thurs.

Fencing I Tues. & Thurs.

Fencing II Tues. & Thurs.

Golf Monday Golf Wednesday Hockey I Tuesday Friday Hockey II Skating Wednesday Skating Saturday Mon. & Wed. Tai Chi Yoga I Mon. & Wed. Yoga I Mon. & Wed. Yoga I Mon. & Wed. Yoga I Tues. & Thurs.

Yoga I Tues. & Thurs.

Yoga II Tues. & Thurs.

08:30 - 09:30 09:30-1030 09:00-17:00

$37/52 $37/52 $85/90* $70/75"

6 6 2

09:00 -17:00 10:30-17:00 09:00-17:00 08:00 - 09:00 19:15-20:15 20:15-21:15 12:00-13:00 15:30-1630 15:15-1630 14:15-15:45 14:15-1530 10:45-12:15 16:00-17:00 08:00 - 09:00 17:00-18:15 18:15-19:30 16:00-17:15 17:15-18:30 18:30- 19:45

$78/85

2

$37/45 $37/77 $37/77 $37/77 $26/41 $26/41 $27/47 $32/52 $26/41 $32/52 $42/87 $26/66 $37/77 $37/77 $37/77 $37/77 $37/77

8 8 8 6 6 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8

$52/97

10

$52/97 $42/87 $42/87

10 10 10

10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 5 5 5 5 5 5

VARIA Archery Archery Basic First Aid

MARTIAL ARTS Aikido

Mon. & Wed. 17:30-19:00 & Friday 17:00-18:30 Mon. & Wed. 13:15-14:00 Tues. & Thurs. 18:15-19:15

DAY

• There will be absolutely no one admitted to a class once it is full.

• You must register in person with a full-time McGill student I.D. card or a gym membership card.

• Classes start the w eek of January 18th, unless otherwise indicated.

Judo Kung Fu Shorinjiru I

Tuesday & Friday Mon. & Wed. Tues. & Thurs.

Mon. & Wed.

18:00 - 20:00 17:00-19:00 17:30-1930 14:30-16:00 18:15-19:45

COURSE

DAY

Shorinjiru II Shotokan Tae Kwon Do I Tae Kwon Do II Women’s Self Defence I Women's Self Defence I Women's Self Defence II

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$42/87 $42/87 $63/108 $63/108 $42/87 $27/52 $27/52

10 10 10 10 10 10 10

$26/41 $26/41 $26/41 $26/41 $26/41 $26/41 $26/41 $26/41 $26/41 $26/41 $26/41 $26/41 $26/41 $26/41 $26/41 $26/41 $26/41 $26/41 $26/41 $26/41 $26/41 $16/18 $5/8 $26/41 $26/41 $26/41 $26/41 $26/41 $26/41 $26/41 $26/41 $26/41 $80/85

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Saturday 09:00-10:30 Saturday 10:45-12:15 Sunday 10:45-12:15 Sunday 13:00-14:30 Jan. 30,1993 13:00-16:00 Saturday 5 trips Full Days

$35/50 $35/50 $35/50 $35/50 $15/18

4 4 4 4 1

$125/140

5

Wed., Feb. 24 5 trips Fri., Feb. 26 Wednesday Friday Saturday Sunday Sunday Sat., Feb. 6

$30/35 $240/260 $42/50 $85/90 $85/90 $85/90 $85/90 $85/90 $80/85

1 5 1 6 6 6 6 6 1

Friday 09:30-10:30 Friday 08:30 - 09:30 Monday 09:30-10:30 Monday 14:30-15:30 Tuesday 08:30 - 09:30 Tuesday 09:30 -10:30 Tuesday 15:30 -16:30 Wednesday 14:30-15:30 Wednesday 15:30-16:30 Wednesday 16:30-17:30 Friday 08:30 - 09:30 Friday 09:30-10:30 Friday 14:30-15:30 Friday 15:30-16:30 Saturday 09:15-10:15 Sunday 11:00-12:00 Monday 08:30 - 09:30 Monday 15:30-16:30 Thursday 15:30-16:30 Saturday 10:15-11:15 Sunday 12:00-13:00 by appointment call 398-7011 Sat., Jan. 30 10:00-12:00 Monday 13:30-14:30 Monday 15:30-16:30 Wednesday 11:30-12:30 Friday 08:30 - 09:30 Friday 09:30-10:30 Saturday 08:30 -10:00 Monday 14:30-15:30 Wednesday 12:30-13:30 Friday 10:30-11:30 Friday 15:00-17:00

1 6 6 6 6 6 4 6 6 6 6

OUTDOOR PURSUITS Cross Country Skiing Cross Country Skiing Cross Country Skiing Cross Country Skiing Cross Country Ski Clinic Cross Country Ski Excursion Cross Country Ski Day Downhill Ski Excursion Downhill Ski Day Equestrian Equestrian Equestrian Equestrian Equestrian Ice Climbing

R EG ISTR ATIO N W ILL CO N TIN U E TH R O U G H JA N U A R Y 29TH, 1993 DURING REG ULAR O FFIC E H O U R S

Full Day Full Days Full Day 20:00 - 21:00 16:00-17:00 14:00-15:00 13:00-14:00 14:00-15:00 07:30-15:30

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19:45-21:15 15:30-17:00 15:30-17:00 14:00-15:30 16:00-17:30 10:00-11:30 11:30-13:00

COST #0F MEMBERS WEEKS NON-MEMBERS

RACQUETS Badminton I Badminton II Squash Intro Squash Intro Squash Intro Squash Intro Squash Intro Squash Intro Squash Intro ■Squash Intro Squash Intro Squash Intro Squash Intro Squash Intro Squash Intro Squash Intro Squash Inter Squash Inter Squash Inter Squash Inter Squash Inter Squash Private Table Tennis Clinic Tennis Intro Tennis Intro Tennis Intro Tennis Intro Tennis Intro Tennis Intro Tennis Inter Tennis Inter Tennis Inter Tennis Indoor (Rockland)

R E G IS T R A T IO N In fo r m a tio n :

Mon. & Wed. Tues. & Thurs.

M/W/F MW/F Tues. & Thurs.

Saturday Saturday

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