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Police respond to ghetto violence While police and adminis­ tration officials sat in stony silence last fall, McQill students faced a barrage of sexual assault reports appearing in campus newspapers.

While the sheer number of reports received by McGill's Sexual Assault Centre (MSAC) and WalkSafe network indicated a serious problem, official police statistics implied a safe and secure ghetto area, raced with MSAC'S statistics. Police Station 25 Director Quy Lavoie has recently moved to address the McQill area safety situation.

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Inside This Week N ew s: S tudent ad-hoc com m ittee sees need for race relations policy a t McGill.

S ee p a g e 3 O p/E d: I t is tim e for S tu d en ts’ Society to change th e way it m an ­ ages its money, or we’ll all pay.

S ee e d ito r ia l, p a g e 6 F e a tu r e s : Recent incidents of gay bashing inspire aw areness cam ­ paign, b u t is th ere a corresponding rise in aw areness am ong th e MUC police?

S ee p a g e 9 E n te r ta in m e n t: The radio sta r is long dead.

The M ontreal M useum of A rt presents Bill Viola’s video in sta lla­ tions for $2.75.

S ee p a g e 13 S p o rts : Too often overlooked: the Tribune profiles high-achieving swim m ers P aul W atson and A ndrea Nugent.

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The McGill Tribune, February 2-8,1993

What's On

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Tuesday. February 2 As part o f L ib eratio n W eek, VISION presents two films about the situation of F ilip in a women. “ K ab ab aih an-F ilip ina Portraits” and “ Brow n W om en B lond B a b ie s " by film m ak er M arie B o ty . D iscussion following with filmmaker. Rim & munchies are free as usual. 7 :00 pm, Burnside 426.

The Q ueb ec P ub lic In terest R esearch G roup (Q P IR G ) Annual General Meeting/Volunteer Appreciation Wine and Cheese tonight at 6:00 pm. All are welcome. Bring your own mug!

Inter-faith dialogue: A group of students meet to discuss “Views of God.” B ilks Bldg., 3 5 2 0 University, Drop-In Centre, 12:30-1:30pm. Everyone welcome.

For info call Roberta Clare at 398-4104.

The Faculty o f Music presents G E M S (G rou p o f E le ctro n ic M usic Stu d io). 8 :0 0 pm. Pollack Hall, 555 Sherbrooke St. W . Free. For info call 398-4547.

Wednesday. February 3 T ak e back the A lley! M cGill Improv has .returned, every Wednesday night at 7 :30 pm in the Alley.

The McGill Students for Literacy will be hosting the first annual Learner Awards Night to recognize the achievements of the adults who have been studying with our program. Learners and tutors welcome.

RVC West Lounge, 7:3 0 pm. For info call 398-5100.

The McGill Christian Fellowship, the C h in ese C h ristia n Fellow ship, Newman C entre and the Chaplaincy sponsor a celebration o f “Christ at McGill.”

Everyone is invited. Leacock 132,7:30pm .

Lunch hour film: “Fair Trade”, an examination of women’s efforts to enter the marketplace in Tanzania. Presented for CIDA’ s International Development Week.

Centre for Developing Area Studies, 3715 Peel. 12:35 pm.

Liberation Week. Today: Discus­ sion series part. 2-”Why are people on welfare?” Given by members o f Montreal Anti-Poverty coalitions and the Faculty of Social Work. 7:00 pm, Thomson House, 3650 McTavish.

The Faculty of Music presents the McGill Wind Symphony. 8:00 pm, Pollack Hall, 555 Sherbrooke St. W. Free. For info call 398-4547.

TheFaculty of Music presents Rachel Taylor, harpsichord.

8:00pm, Redpath Hall.

Free. For info call 398-4547.

The Yellow Door Coffee House presents Sto ry tellin g From V arious Traditions, followed by an open stage period.

T on igh t: M ik e B u m s (Irish ta les).

Admission $2.00. 8:00 pm, Yellow Door, 3625 Aylmer. For info call 398-6243.

Student Council meeting at 6:00 pm, Shatner 107/108. Debate will include discussion of possible questions for this

Saturday. February 6

Thursday.

February 4 Lunch hour film: “Where Credit is Due”, an examination o f fisherw o m en’ s efforts to gain access to credit and financial support on the Kenyan Coast. Presented for CIDA’s International D evelopm ent W eek.

C en tre fo r Developing-Area Studies, 3715 Peel, 12:35 pm.

Liberation Week event: Discussion of the debt crisis and economic development, given by Ernie Shibli of the Social Justice Committee and Jean-Louis Arcand of U of M. Sam osas and other refreshm ents provided. 7 :00 pm, Burnside 426.

The McGill Film Society with Amnesty International presents, “Kiss of the Spider Woman”. 7:30 pm, Lea 132. $ 3 .5 0 non-m embers, $ 1 .0 0 members, children and seniors.

As part of the C B C -McGill Radio C oncert Series, the Faculty of Music presents M USICS McGill and the McGill Percussion Ensemble. 7:30 pm, Pollack Hall, 555 Sherbrooke St. W. Free. For info call 398-4547.

Together wecanchangeourworld International Development Week

(Lesbians, Bisexuals and Gays of McGill) in the Shatner Ballroom. All invited. 10:00 pm-3:00 am. Admission $5.00.

The Faculty of Music presents Les Agrémens. 8:00 pm, Redpath Hall. Free.

For info, call 398-4547.

The McGill Film Society presents “A RiverRuns Through It”. 7:30 pm, FDA Aud. $3.50 non-members, $1.00 members, children and seniors.

Jason Beckmakeshis singing debut at the Alley, performing original tunes with guest musicians and singers. Admission $2.00 students, $ 4.00 others. 9:30 pm.

year’s student referendum. All are wel­ come.

Friday. February 5 The Caribbean Students’ Society of McGill General Meeting. Please come out to support the club and help with the Cultural Show preparations. After we will be going to Beaver Lake for ice skating.

6:30 pm, Shatner 107/108.

The Yellow Door Coffee House presents: Bradley Doucet with Andy Sheppard. Admission $2.00. Yellow Door, 3625 Aylmer. For info call 398-6243.

Liberation Week: Benefit film showing of “El Salvador. AnotherViemam”.

Suggested donation $2.00. CDAS, 3715 Peel. 7:00 pm.

D an ce sponsored by L B G M

Come play with us! McGill Improv offers free workshops every Saturday from 11:00 am-1:00 pm in the Shatner Building.

Look for signs to find room number.

McGill Squash Club Open: Two divisions (A & B ); prizes for top 3 in each division. Refreshments provided. $5.00 non-members, free for members. Noon at gym. For info, call 284-6395 or 845-3156.

A IESEC McGill presents a free seminar on “Starting Your Own Small Business" sponsored by Samson Bélair & Deloiue Touche. 10:00 am-4:30 pm, Bronf rm 301. For more info call 398-6821.

The McGill Film Society presents “O f Mice and Men”. 7:30 pm, FDA Aud. $ 3 .5 0 non-m embers, $ 1 .0 0 members, children and seniors.

Jason Beck and friends perform loud original music at the Alley, 9:30 pm. $2.00 students, $ 4.00 others.

Monday. February 8 The Biochemistry Department presents James Chafouleas of Bio-Mega speaking on “Studies on Calmodulin Binding Proteins During the Cell Cycle."

12:30-1:30 pm, McIntyre, rm 903.

The Jam es Bay Coalition meets every Monday at 4:30 pm in Shatner 435.

For info call 495-1482.

The Folk Music Society meets every Monday at 8:30 pm at the Yellow Door, in the basement. Come check it out or call Stephanie at 845-7601 for more info.

Ongoing...

The Red Herring awaits. The games are afin... enter any of our three contests (photos, Hoffa story, or Urban Myth), or just write something Hi larious and bring it to Shatner 406. We also have a mailbox by the Schmoo desk. Call 398-6816 to chat with us, and rememberalldeadlines! March 5 forpholos, March 15 everything else. Fish Fry! L A T IT U D E S: the McGill Journal of Developing Area Studies is now accepting papers and photoessays. Submissions should cover any aspect of developing areas studies.

Place in Latitudes mailbox at the SSMU office. Deadline: Feb. 5. Formore info call 847-0549.

Submissions are still being accepted for Montage magazine. Bring any essays, interviews, or reviews concerning any aspect of English (with your name and phone number) to the mailbox in the Arts Bldg.

Porter’ s Office, or to the DESA office.

Persons with disabilities: Ongoing support group for McGill students, faculty and staff. Call Peter or Donna at 398-3601 or 398-6009 for more information.

Do you or someone you know have AIDS? Please don’t feel you are alone.

AIDS Community C are Montreal offers the following support groups: HIV+ Men’s Group; HIV+ Heterosexual Men’s Group; HIV+ W om en’s Group; Bereavem ent Group; Family, Friends and Partners’ Group; Children’s Play Therapy Group. Call 939-0075. All calls confidential.

McGill-Québec lance son 2eme Concours Littéraire. Prix à gagner dans 2 catégories: Poésie (sujet libre) et Nouvelle (5 0 0 0 m ots, dactylographiée, double interligne). Date d’échéance: 1er mars. A vos plumes! Renseignements: contacter Lawrence au 733-7328 ou Yannick au 744-4480.

Students and staff memebers at McGill have been active in international development for many years. If you would like to learn more about some recent involvements you are invited to the following presentations and discussions:

Wednesday, Feb. 3 12:00 - 14:00 Otto Maass Chemistry Room 428

Febmryl to 7,1993

Wednesday, Feb. 3 11:00 - 13:00 MS Faculty Lounge Macdonald Campus

Staff Presentations Staff Presentations Prof. A. Casault

N eighbourhood Regeneration (Beÿing) China R . Alward

Rural Renewable Energy Thailand Tuesday, Feb. 2 12:00 - 13:00 Leacock Room 324

S. Owuor

Staff Presentations

ESL Teacher Training Costa Rica

Small Urban Centres Kenya Prof. D. Smith

Dr. J . Pickering

Community Health Project Ethiopia Prof. G. Ratzer

Computer Assisted Learning Zimbabwe

Wednesday, Feb. 3 16:30 - 18:00 Leacock Room 738 Prof. D. Attwood

Prof. V. Raghavan

Post Harvest Engineering India Prof. H. Monardes

Dairy Management Upgrading Brazil Prof. M . Scott

Sensory Impairment, Nutrition & Infection Guatemala Prof. B . Simpson

Food Science & Technology Ghana Thursday, Feb. 4 15:30 -1 7 :0 0 Shatner Room 425/26

Grassroots Development Prof. J . Whitehead

Student Presentations on

Women in Development Prof. J . Galaty

Sponsored by the 1992-93 CIDA Youth Program Community Cooperative Development Association Project and McGill International.

Pastoral Societies in Africa

Kenya, India, Pakistan, Costa Rica

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new s Police Station 25 reacts to ghetto violence

BY BENOIT JACQM OTTE Last autumn, McGill students were bombarded with a steady flow of reports concerning sexual assault and violence in the McGill student ghetto and surrounding areas.

Incidents reported to the M cG ill Sexual Assault Centre (MSAC) and Walk-Safe Network, two student organizations commit­ ted to increasing student safety, were published in McGill campus news­ papers. These reports, along with a ghetto postering campaign that al­ legedly employed scare tactics to warn women to “Beware!” for their safety and a slew of mmours, com­ bined to create an atmosphere of tense apprehension.

From early September to midDecember, MSAC received 36 re­ ports of unwanted sexual attention.

Six cases of rape and 11 reports of sexual assault were included in these figures. For all of 1992, Montreal Urban Community (MUC) Police Station 25 received reports of four sexual assaults and one rape. Station 25 is responsible for the area of downtown Montreal that encom­ passes most of the ghetto, extending east to Park Avenue.

Station 25 D irector Guy Lavoie explained that, according to available police statistics, “there is no [sexual assault] problem in the McGill ghetto.”

Faced with the number of MSAC reports, Lavoie acknowl­ edged the presence of a disturbing communication problem between police and those confronted with unwanted attention.

“A lot of crimes are not re­ ported with us,” he explained. “The Sexual Assault Centre has [informa­ tion on] six rapes [in the period], we have none.”

Lavoie recently discussed the

disparity in report numbers with M SA C co-coord inators M aryM argaret Jones and Dot Wojakowski.

“They [police] realized their statistics are completely off,” ex­ plained Wojakowski.

While noting that many of the harassment incidents reported to MSAC are not criminal in nature, Lavoie has taken several steps to address the ghetto safety problem.

Police cars have been instructed to increase the amount of time they patrol the ghetto between calls. Butafterhis meeting with the MSAC coordina­ tors, Lavoie has moved to sim­ plify the sexual assault reporting procedure to policeforthosewho have sought sup­ port at MSAC. In stand­ ard MUC police procedures, those reporting un­ wanted sexual at­ tention must first explain their cases to two uni­ a ssa u lt. formed police of­ ficers and are then directed to a po­ lice investigator. Assault survivors who report to MSAC will be able to speak directly to an investigator.

“A lot of people don’t like to report to uniformed police,” Lavoie explained. “By bypassing the offic­ ers in uniform, maybe we will have more crimes reported.”

Lavoie also explained that of­ ficers will refer any McGill student reporting an incident to MSAC for

support services. The director fur­ ther stressed that police officials treat the needs of assault survivors as the most important factors affect­ ing their investigations.

“The well-being of the victim is our first concern,” he said. “We won’t investigate a woman’s case when she is in a state of shock.”

Lavoie denied that police of­ ficials sometimes withhold safety information from the public in order

October 30 meeting.

"We discussed very generally the need for better cooperation with Station 25," he said.

Tavenas indicated the agree­ ment to maintain ongoing commu­ nication with the station would ben­ efit both the McGill community and police operations.

"We are talking about [hold­ ing] regular meetings with Station 25," he told the Tribune.

to engage in undercover operations that attempt to lure assailants into striking again.

“That’s something we never do,” he stressed. “We go public in every crime.”

Last autumn, Lavoie met with several McGill administrators to dis­ cuss issues of student safety in the campus area. McGill VP Planning and Resources François Tavenas explained the issues addressed at the

Lavoie claimed he has “very good relations” with McGill secu­ rity, explaining that the two organi­ zations discuss any potential secu­ rity problems.

While Lavoie praised the ef­ forts of MSAC and Walk-Safe Net­ work, he questioned how effectively Walk-Safe protected ghetto residents from violent sexual assault, espe­ cially in light of MSAC statistics.

“If five qut of six rapes are

done by acquaintances, will WalkSafe prevent this type of crime?” he asked, referring to MSAC figures which indicate that between Sep­ tember and December, onl y one rape reported was com m itted by a stranger.

Jones argued that Walk-Safe and MSAC have brought the issue of sexual assault to the forefront.

“Above all else, these groups are raising awareness about the epi­ demic of sexual assault in our soci­ ety,” Jones said.

Both MSAC coordinators ex­ pressed satisfaction with the out­ come of their recent meeting with Lavoie.

“I am not discounting the po­ lice,” said Wojakowski. ‘They are more accessible than we give them credit for. They really are on the side o f the survivor.”

Wojakowski and Jones also stressed the necessity for greater police sensitivity and awareness to the needs of assault survivors.

“They have to follow up on • their realization that they are indeed g in need of raising awareness amongst g their officers,” said Wojakowski. y While Lavoie admitted the «gMUC police had to address these issues, he argued that change was forthcoming in the department, al­ beit slowly.

“The process [of change] doesn’t go as fast as we would like,” he noted.

He also encouraged all those confronted with unwanted sexual attention of any magnitude to report the incidents to the police.

“In more serious crimes, I think it’s a must to report to the police, for herself [the survivor] and for the next potential victims,” he explained. “If the crimes are not reported to us, there is nothing we can do to prevent crime.”

Students address racial harassm ent a t McGill B Y MARK COHEN McGill student leaders have recently formed an ad hoc commit­ tee on race relations to persuade the university to change the way it deals with issues of racial prejudice and harassment.

“There is currently no race relations p o licy ,” said Ruth Promislow, an organizer of the ad hoc committee and the Students’ Society (SSMU) representative to the Joint Senate-Board Committee on Equity (JSBCE).

The JSBC E is responsible for “ameliorating the role and status of women and other under-represented groups in the University,” according to terms of reference.

“The first step we want the university to take is to establish a race relations committee and a policy,” Promislow explained.

Annette W erk, M c G ill’s ombudsperson, agreed that the uni­ versity’s current procedures fail to address these issues in an adequate

manner.

“I think we need a more clearly stated policy than we have,” she stressed, adding that the university needed to create an efficient mecha­ nism for addressing racial harass­ ment complaints similar to the process which deals with sexual har­ assment.

“Most universities have a ra­ cial harassment policy and a racial harassment office,” she emphasized.

Section 2.1 of M cGill’s Char­ ter of Students’ Rights states: “Every student has a right to equal treatment by the University; this right must not be impaired by discrimination based on race, colour, ethnic or national origin, civil status, religion, creed, political convictions, language, sex, sexual orientation, social condition, age, personal handicap or the use of any means to palliate such a handi­ cap.”

For Promislow, however, the university’s guidelines on racial dis­ crimination remain inadequately de­ fined.

“Racism involves the curricu­ lum, comments in class and the way things are phrased,” she said. “A professor will be more receptive to a white person than to a person of colour. We want the university to define racism.”

Promislow added that exclud­ ing the experiences of people of col­ our from the curriculum is a form of racial harassment.

But Nityanand Deckha, an­ other member of the ad hoc commit­ tee and a coordinator of McGill’s Anti-Racism Working Group, argued that addressing racial harassment and changing the curriculum are sepa­ rate issues.

“There should be an advisory group on the academic side to deal with curriculum reform and a sepa­ rate thing for harassment,” he said.

Rose Johnstone, chair of the JSBC E, was reticent about the need to overhaul the curriculum to include the experiences of visible minori­ ties. “If you’re doing English litera­ ture up to the 17th century, I think

you’re going to have a hard time,” she noted.

The ad-hoc committee is cur­ rently gathering data on the extent of racial prejudice and harassment at McGill, to be discussed at its next meeting on February 4. Committee members emphasized that the lack of a race relations policy means that those facing racism rarely register complaints.

“We don’t really have any evidence,” admitted Deckha.

The committee distributed a race relations survey in last week’s Tribune in order to gauge students’ experiences. The survey asked stu­ dents about their experience with racism in the classroom.

“W e’re aware racism occurs quite frequently,” said Promislow.

“But we need proof on paper.”

Promislow added that even if the survey demonstrated little evi­ dence of racism at McGill, the com­ mittee would go ahead with its plans to lobby the university to take action.

“Even if [the survey’s evi­

dence] is minimal, it still means there’s a need for a race relations policy,” she said.

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In the past week a man claiming to sell magazine subscriptions throughout the ghetto has attempted to push his way into women’s apart­ ments, according to a report received by the M cGill Sexual Assault Centre (M SAC). No description of the individual is currently available.

If you have any further information concerning this in­ cident, or any other assault or incident, please call the Mon­ treal pol ice department, MSAC (398-2700), or the W alk-Safe Network (398-2498).

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Tribune poll results

P O L L CO M PILED B Y G E N E V IEV E BEAUCH EM IN . SAN CH ARI C H A K R A V A R T Y .T R IS H S N Y D E R , AND JA N E W HITE 219 students responded to the following questions: 1. Do you approve or disapprove of the executive’s overall performance?

APPROVE 10% 15% 10% 15% 17%

President Jason Prince VP Internal Julie Dzerowicz VP External Jeff Percival VP Univ Affairs Monique Shebbeare VP Finance Susan Nickerson

DISAPPROVE 31% 12% 15% 8% 11%

DON’ 59% 73% 75% 77% 72%

2. Each of the executives have indicated two important projects he/she has worked on throughout their terms. Do you believe their projects have been successful, unsuccessful, or do you lack enough information to decide?

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SSMU more accessible to students— General Assembly 2. Increasing student rights and

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1. Better student housing conditions

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and controlling condo conversions 2. Creating a better relationship with

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control, esp. of student services and fees VP INTERNAL: 1. Revamping SSMU club status 2. Implementing Frosh group leader training VP EXTERNAL:

McGill’s Government Relations VP UNIVERSITY AFFAIRS: 1. Initiating a review of the sexual

Once again, there were few surprises from the annual Tribune Poll, which took a random sampling of 219 students and asked them to rate the performance of the Students ’ Society (SSMU) executive. The ma­ jority of respondents were unfamil­ iar with the individual members of the executive and their undertakings throughout their terms.

Ninety-one per cent of those students polled were unable to name their facul ty representative to S SM U Council.

SSMU President Jason Prince attributed the students ’ apparent lack of information to a communication problem on the part of theexecutivc.

“One of the problems with being on the executive committee is that you spend a lot of time working on the committee, and inadequate attention is spent getting the mes­ sage across to the student body,” explained Prince. “I think we could have done a better job communicat­ ing with the students. That’s what we planned at the beginning of the year.”

U2 Management student Rola Zaarour agreed and expressed skepticism towards the policies on which executives are working.

“The fact is, these people claim they are doing things, but the ordinary student never sees any ac­ tion,” she complained.

Another respondent explained his list of “don’t know” answers as a

simple lack of interest in student poli­ tics.

“I don’t get involved...I just go to classes more or less, I just live in the city,” admitted U 1 Arts student Chris Hancock.

The executive with the lowest success rate was Prince, closely fol­ lowed by VP External Jeff Percival.

VP University A ffairs Monique Shebbeare and VP Finance Susan Nickerson both achieved gen­ eral approval among those respond­ ents with an opinion.

Prince’s poor results may be partially linked to problems associ­ ated with the General Assembly, his main undertaking of the term, which 38 per cent of respondents labelled unsuccessful.

Shebbeare’s efforts to initiate a review of McGill’s sexual harass­ ment policy received the highest suc­ cess rate of any project undertaken by an executive, 41 per cent, and may have positively contributed to her low disapproval rating.

While a staggering number of the students polled conceded they were unable to name their faculty representative to Council, a few of­ fered guesses ranging from Elmer Fudd to Zsa Zsa Gabor and Eric Lindros.

When asked to provide the identity of their representative to council, one engineering student promised: “For a price, I ’ll do any­ thing!”

harassment policy at McGill 2. Helping to implement a pass/fail

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Dzerowicz? Righteous.

An impromptu visit by 28 engineering students sporting diapers and sucking soothers at last week’s Students’ Society (SSMU) Council meeting took VP Internal Julie Dzerowicz by surprise.

Dzerowicz was in the process of outlining a motion on the SSMU Programming Network, expected to be voted on at next week’s meeting, when Senate/Board Rep. Leslie Parchumchuck gave the studepts speaking rights.

After asking Athletics Rep. to council James Stewart if he was related to famous actor Jimmy Stewart, the wannabe engineers clustered around Dzerowicz and serenaded her with the Righteous Brothers’ tune, “You’ve Lost That Loving Feeling”.

Although the true purpose for the visit remains a mystery, some speculated that Dzerowicz’s Programming motion was what caused the students to break into song.

One of the changes highlighted in the motion is for all revenues from Welcome Week’s Open Air Pub to be handed over to SSMU. In the past, faculty sponsors of the event received part of the profit.

When asked for comment, an embarrassed Dzerowicz had only one word.

“Wow,” she sighed.

VP FINANCE: 1. Reestablishing SSMU financial priorities— balancing the budget and revamping club funding

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S tu d en t Council rejects stu d en t services fee increase

BY STEV E SMITH Last Thursday, McGill’s Stu­ dents’ Society (SSM IJ) Council voted to reject the proposed student service fee increase of four dollars per term, citing what they perceived to be systematic overbudgeting in Student Services.

SSMU President Jason Prince, a student representative on the Com­ mittee on the Coordination of Stu­ dent Services (CCSS) financial sub­ committee, initiated the motion. The sub-committee recommends changes of the annual budget to the Dean of Students who makes the final deci­ sion on student service budgets.

F unding shortages m ay delay gym construction

BY MICHAEL BROADHURST Although M cGill students have been paying $7.50 per term for the past ten years to finance the con­ struction of a new athletics building, the university is considering post­ poning the next phase o f groundbreaking for another year.

The Stud ents’ Society (SSMU) plans to lobby the univer­ sity to continue with the current con­ struction schedule, but because of financial shortages, the university will likely delay construction until the spring of 1994. Construction is currently scheduled to begin this March.

At last Thursday’s SSMU Council meeting, Athletics Rep. James Stewart presented a motion that urged the university to proceed with construction plans. Stewart’s motion passed, with Music Rep. Mar­ tin Van Galen offering the only 'nay'.

The student body agreed in a March 1982 referendum to cover 17 per cent of the construction cost through an increase in student fees for a fif­ teen-year period.

“The fact that [students have] already given over $4 million is one of the greatest reasons to support the project,” stated Stewart.

McGill’s Director of Athlet­ ics Robert Dubeau noted in a presen­ tation at council that Phase I of the project, the new pool, is nearing com­ pletion, and should be ready for stu­ dent use sometime in March. Phase II, which includes the proposed field house, may be postponed indefi­ nitely.

According to Dubeau, the uni­ versity lacks approximately $6 mil­ lion for the field house, but he added that org ani zers of the McG i11T wen ty First Century Fund have made the

new athletics facilities a priority of their fundraising efforts.

SSMU President Jason Prince is a member of the Building and Property Committee of the Board of Governors, the committee that will decide the immediate fate of the ath­ letics facility on Wednesday.

“Financial roadblocks ...con­ strain the university,” Prince explained, cautioning that the universitymaynotbereceptivetotheSSMU motion.

At the council meeting, Ar­ chitecture Rep. Greg Shron concurred with Prince, but emphasized council should “remind the powers that be that [the project] is a priority.”

VP External Jeff Percival sug­ gested the university does not con­ sider the new field house crucial, and wondered why students continue to pay a considerable levy to fund a project that the “university considers third priority, behind the new engi­ neering building and the new Stu­ dent Services building.”

Prince responded by arguing that the proposed engineering and Student Services buildings are being financed through direct grants from the provincial government, whereas the athletics facility must be paid for through McGill’s own fundraising interests.

Dubeau stressed the recession has produced low construction costs, and that “not to go ahead with the project may be a severe impediment to ever going ahead with the con­ struction.”

Dubeau argued that the uni­ versity’s failure to provide their share of the costs is due, at least in part, to the spiralling construction costs of the late 1980’s which drastically in­ creased the original estimate of $15 million to the current proposed cost of $29 million.

Prince explained that the ef­ the athletics budget, explaining the fective participation of student rep­ athletics department appears to resentatives to the CCSS is ham­ overbudget in smaller areas to create pered by a chronic lack of detailed a “slush fund” for reallocation in information concerning budget pro­ other areas which may exceed projections and actual figures.

“Although the proc­ ess has improved signifi cantly, there are still changes which must be made if stu­ dent reps are to be five,” argued Prince, example, although we asked for budget and actuals from the previous year, members of the finance [sub-] com­ mittee have yet to receive them.”

P rince and PostGraduate Students’ Society VP Finance Bob Collins, the two student representatives on the CCSS sub-committee, sought a zero per cent increase in student service fees and voted against the 5 per cent increase which was eventually approved. Both AthleticN D ire c to r R o b e rt Dubeau | were determined to find al­ p re se n ts to co u n c il. ternative sources of revenue ! and ways of reducing costs. jected budgetary needs. He argued “What we want is more accu­ the athletics budget could be notably rate budgeting and more account­ reduced by eliminating expenses like ability so we can make a proper as­ the varsity teams’ travel budget. sessment,” contended Prince. “With “Why should the general stu­ greater accountability, it would be dent body pay for a service that is easier to determine where costs can only enjoyed by an élite group of be cut.” athletes?” asked Prince. “The Alumni Prince expressed concern with Association is the greatest supporter

of these teams. Perhaps they could fund this area of the athletics budget ” Athletics D irector Robert Dubeau, responded that the Asso­ ciation is doing all it can to help McGill athletes.

“We are constantly going after the Alumni Association for support, but the $ 8 0 ,0 0 0 that th ey ’ve contributed doesn’t cover all of the co sts," stated Dubeau.

“There is only so far we can go with the alumni, and we ’ve done very well. ” Athletics Rep. to ,m council James Stewart ex« «pressed concern with jjj Prince’s proposal to cut the • athletics budget, arguing 6 the budget should be left alone ”Athletics is a sag cred trust and shouldn’t be 2 touched,” asserted Stewart.

“What McGill students are currently paying is low compared to other univer­ sities, and what the univer­ sity itself contributes is even lower.”

S te wart abstained from voting on the issue until council could ob­ tain a proper analysis of the univer­ sity’s contribution to student serv­ ices budget. McGill currently con­ tributes only 10 per cent of the total budget, while students contribute ap­ proximately 60 per cent.

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Op/Ed

6

The McGill Tribune, February 2Æ, 1993

E ditorial A bankrupt financial philosophy H ere w e go again. T h e Students S o cie ty (S S M U ), M cG ills' very ow n O lym pia and Y ork, is providing students w ith w hat should be listed on our transcripts as a six-cred it course in how not to m anage your fisca l affairs. Iro nically , the m oney w hich we pay for this course is the sam e m oney w hich our executives use to dem onstrate fiscal m ism anagem ent.

T ak e, for exam ple, Sadie's— M cG ill's ritzy version o f the dépanneur. B u t the difference betw een the average dépanneur and Sad ie's is that w hen your local co m er store loses too m uch m oney... it closes. Sad ie's, on the other hand, is considered a service provided by S S M U fo r students (and w hat an e x ce llen t service it is— how could w e possibly pursue higher education w ithout easy access to M ars bars, penny candy, and C osm opolitan ?).

"Sad ies was no t originally conceived as a profit-m aking serv ice," explained S S M U V P F inan ce Su san N ickerson. T his service, w hich is legally defined as non-profit, lost about $ 1 6 ,0 0 0 last year.

B u t when Sadie's loses this m uch m oney, it doesn't go bankrupt.

Instead, S S M U subsidizes it to keep it open.

Now it m ay b e very easy for a

few executives to sign a few papers and keep Sad ie's afloat, but it m ight b e n ice if they stopped to consid er that the m oney w hich they are signing away is ours. And the log ic w hich guides them to use our m oney in this fashion is alm ost beyond understanding, although it appears to go som ething like this: students have no t spent enough m oney at Sad ie's to keep it in the black , therefore we should spend their m oney at Sadie's for them.

"W e have to evaluate Sad ies very closely to see i f it is a viable operation," added N ickerson. No

kidding.

H orrified y et? D on't w orry, it gets w orse. In order to k eep S S M U operating, N ickerson and V P U niversity A ffairs M oniqu e Sh ebbeare have 'respectfully' subm itted a three-part referendum question for co u ncil approval. T h e idea behind the first tw o parts o f this question is that students w ill vote to approve a $ 0 .5 0 increase in S S M U fees (per person) for W a lk -S a fe, another $ 0 .5 0 for other student clubs and interest groups, and $ 2 .5 0 for the repaym ent o f the So ciety 's debt to M c a i l U niversity and for the building o f reserves.

G reat. $ 2 .5 0 for d eficit servicing. It is apparently not enough that w e have federal and provincial governm ents taking our m oney to

pay o f f their d eficits, now som e little hokey-pokey bunch o f paper pushers w ants to play the sam e gam e too.

N onetheless, S S M U executives are quite prepared to tell students (in a very earnest and proud tone o f voice) about all the wonderful services that they provide for ju s t $ 5 6 per student per year. No doubt. B u t they have also provided a great big $ 6 1 8 , 0 0 0 debt to the university.

A nd as to the first o f the aforem entioned fee increases, it was ju s t last Thursday, in one o f those vibrantly effectiv e co u ncil m eetings, that S S M U President (and I use that title lo o sely ) Jason P rin ce stood up and com plained about the universi­ ty's athletics budget, noting that the team travel budget is doing nothing but funding élite athletes and is thus a big w aste o f m oney from w hich others can not benefit.

W ait a m inute. R aisin g fees a d ollar to fund various special interest groups does exactly the sam e thing.

T h o se who are not part o f the various sp ecial interest groups or who do not use their serv ices w ill no t benefit from the extra d ollar that our student governm ent (and I use that term p ejorativ ely ) wants us to give them.

O r from the other $ 5 6 w e already pay, for that matter.

S o one has to ask whether paying $ 5 6 dollars a year is really worth it to students. A ccording to

this w eek's T ribune poll, an average 7 1 .2 per cen t o f students don't know if their execu tiv es are doing a good or bad jo b , and an average 6 3 .4 per cen t don't know i f two o f the undertakings w hich each executive counts am ong their m ost important has been su ccessfu l or unsuccessful.

And if students don’t know, they probably don't care.

It seem s m ore than a little unfair to demand m oney o f students who don't really care w hether the services provided exist or not. So here’s a better idea: don't demand any m oney o f them . L et them send their m oney w here they w ant it, o f their ow n accord. That's the point o f the W a lk -S a fe referendum , w hich attem pts to circum vent S S M U by getting direct funding from each student. T h e D a ily operates the sam e w ay. T h e T ribune, Sadie's and other services, clubs, and groups should operate in the sam e way— getting funding from students d irectly by w ay o f referendum , funding drives, or m em berships.

B e ca u se if individual students doled out their m oney to every special interest group that showed up at their door the sam e way S S M U doles out our collectiv e funds, w e would all be in debt too.

C H R IS N. A L A M

L etters to th e E ditor Offended...

I am writing in view o f the piece,

L ie s ...

A s a c o -c a p ta in o f the M anagem ent W inter C arnival team Obscene Cutlery, I feel compelled to write the Tribune in defence o f Ms. Chakravarty’s article and its blatant misrepresentation o f our Buns and Bellies skit. Though one o f our objectives when the team gathered to write the skit was to be somewhat shocking, the accusation that our skit depicted a female student being “forced” to engage in simulated intercourse clearly was not in our skit.

The female student’s character was loudly saying “Y es, Y e s” throughout the scene.

Our skit was a depiction o f hell in which all characters were willingly participating in all sexual activity both centre stage as well as in the background even when one sex was more dominant than the other.

Yes, there were scenes o f male dominance in our skit but the Tribune neglected to mention the scenes o f female dominance that were also clearly shown in our skit.

U n d ou bted ly , there is no hum our whatsoever about rape. It was obviously in poor jo u rn a listic sty le that M s.

Chakravarty offended many readers through her lies. B y reporting falsely on how ou r sk it w as o ffe n s iv e , she hypocritically offended many through her article’s lies.

As for the skepticism behind our skit having racist elements, we discussed the controversial line before presentation and concluded that it wasn’t racist as it didn’t demean or slander any race. Right or wrong, an apology is sent out to those who were offended by the line.

M atthew Freed U1 M anagem ent

“ Management carnival skits offensive, claim students” which appeared in the Tribune’s Jan. 26th publication.

A lthou gh I found the en tire “ B U N S & B E L L I E S ” e sc a p a d e disturbing, what shocked me most o f all was M U S Presid ent G eorge R iz k ’s argument.

“Carnival is not an event which doesn’t offend people, but that allows people to be offensive.”

I find it intriguing that Mr. Rizk feels he has some sort o f authority to excuse such distasteful simulations o f oral sex and violent scenes o f sexual intercourse as being all in the good spirit o f Carnival.

The skit was not just in bad taste.

It was degrading and offensive. Jam ie Watts and theObscene Cutlery team made very poor judgment in performing such obscenities, yet it cannot go unsaid that they could have easily been misled to believe that that was what Carnival was all ab o u t: “ F R E E D O M T O B E O F F E N SIV E ”.

Although the participants saw it as a jo k e, those, like m yself, who found it offensive are far from laughter. Rather, I am embarrassed that my faculty would defend such a crude and tastele ss exhibition.

T a ra D u ff U2 M an agem en t-M arketin g

Mislabelled...

In your last issue o f The M cG ill T r ib u n e , the “ N ew s” c o v e r story described an incident in the Management W inter Carnival wherein U1 student Jam ie Watts allegedly “pushed a female

student to the ground, forcing her to engage in simulated intercourse.” The author o f the article even went so far as terming the whole scenario “simulated rape.” Now, I ’m all in favour o f the “ ‘N o’ Means ‘No’”campaign, and in borderline cases, I inevitably find m yself siding with the victim. Conversely however, I cannot find room, even in the m ostliberal definition, to construe as rape any situation where the victim is moaning “Y es, yes, yes!” while lying in concerted ecstasy on the floor. I might also add that it was Debbie Lebovic [the victim ], who wrote the scene.

Your paper has labeled a U1 student, at the very least, sexist and insensitive to the legitim ate fears o f women in society. Since your article, he has been openly accused o f being a misogynist (the wording was varied, but the meaning was consistent) by many people, some o f them his friends. Sad but true, all the more because it ’s the result o f inaccurate reporting.

The article quoted someone who said, “He picked her up and slammed her down... You heard that ‘ bam !’ [o f her head hitting the flo o r.]” Mr. W atts, somewhatinebriated, fell as he was trying toput Debbie Lebovic [the victim] down.

From my perspective, it was obvious that it was his elbow hitting the floor, not her head. Ms. Lebovic says her head never hit the floor, and it could not have, as it was cradled in his arm.

Quoting the article, “Management W inter Carnival is an annual event composed o f 25 activities, including a cancerauction and snow sculptures.” True enough, but didn’t the carnival also include ‘ B allro o m o f B e e r ’ , where competitors had to chug three beers, time and time again until they vomited - at which point they had to passionately kiss som eone ? The carnival may have had some pious objectives, but the activities themselves were, in several instances, vile and disgusting.

Was the skit offensive? Certainly, but was it entirely out o f place? Arguably, it was not. The M U S President said, “Carnival is not an event which doesn’t offend people, but that allows people to be o f f e n s iv e .”

R e m o v in g the double-negative; carnival is an event

which offends people, it allows people to be offensive. If you have a person with that attitude heading the organization, how can you attribute blame to a U1 student who doesn’t know any better?

T h e U 1 M a n a g em en t team , “Obscene Cutlery,” crossed the bounds o f common courtesy, and o f simple human decency - but they did it because they were led to believe that crudeness would be rewarded. I am profoundly disturbed that you could allow an article to be printed which specifically labels a U1 student a m isogynist as a result o f inaccurate and biased reporting.

M c G ill

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Puffin...

As a long-time teacher o f B asic Materials o f Western Music, one o f the courses reviewed in your recent article “The Bird Course: Fact or Fiction,” 1 would like to take the opportunity to answer your allegations concerning the course’s fowl character. I don’t want to get into too much o f a flap over this, but 1 feel I cannot simply duck the issue, thus robin our side o f a well-preened defence.

I may be gull-ible, but I can vulture for the fact that this course (BM W M ) is no feather-weight. Why in just the first lesson, we progressed so quackly that some o f my students felt they had spent a night-in-gale force winds ! But those who survived until eleven o ’clu ck were hen-somely rewarded. Indeed what was achieved by the remaining names on the

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The McGill Tribune, February 2-8,1993

Sexual A ssault Awareness W hat?

Based on last week’s attendance, a far more à propos title for Sexual Assault Awareness Week is Sexual Assault Awareness What? . The conscientious planning of informational and consciousness-raising material went unappreciated yet again.

Those of us who plan these events often blame ourselves: The advertising wasn’t good enough; the posters not visible enough; announcements not widespread enough. But reflecting back on past years and all the different campaigns designed to bring people out and educate them on sexual assault and related problems tells a different story. Admittedly, the greatest advertising campaign in the world would not make a significant difference.

What it seems to boil down to is despite the shock any one person feels about the increasing violence in the ghetto, blatant sexist or homophobic sentiments expressed in the classroom, or the Anita Hill Trial, very few people are willing to devote even a couple of hours of their lives to doing anything about it.

People simply do not want to get involved. I would argue that this is yet another form through which these crimes proliferate.

For instance, last Thursday night there was a panel discussion on the current sexual harassment policy at McGill. Pat Wells, one of the Sexual Harassment Assessors at McGill, outlined the current policy and discussed how, in her opinion, it works marvelously.

Panelist Lisa Lifshitz, a member of the Women in Law organization, led a very engaging discussion of the problems regarding McGill’s current policy from the legal standpoint. Even for the non-legal student; it became blatantly apparent how outmoded and dangerous the sexual harassment policy is for complainants, and how slim the chances of students exacting justice at McGill would be if they had the misfortune of being sexually harassed here.

Though drastically under-attended, the event did feature a contingent of students who represented CARES, a new group formed on campus as a reaction to a horrifically insensitive situation currently happening at Molson Hall. A student, after sexually harassing a fellow student in Molson, was officially told to leave residence by the principal. As it turns out, this alleged harasser’s legal council checked into the law— something that the University had neglected to do when it wrote the policies outlined in the Green Book— and found out that it is

1T'SCRIMIIUAL

BY HARGAN RIDLEY

completely out of the University’s jurisdiction to make this decision.

So the offending student remains in residence, despite his alleged crimes, and much to the to the chagrin and contrary to the safety of the many other students who live in residence.

Parenthetically, I might mention that the University has informally invited all students who find the current situation not to their liking to leave, as did the survivor.

The question and answer period saw inquiries made and advice given about this situation as well as other areas of concern.

One man outlined how he himself had attended one of the University-offered lectures for Teaching Assistants on sexual harassment (lectures which incidentally happen very infrequently). He detailed how completely insensitive and inadequate it was on many fronts and asked what was being done to update these critical talks.

Another person asked why the principal had ultimate veto over any decision of the Sexual Harassment Assessors when he himself had not heard any of the testimonies. Someone queried why there was no appeal mechanism, as in any legal trial, or why one is prohibited from switching assessors if they are not comfortable with the one they have. Someone asked what, if anything, was being done about these many problems, and when results could be expected.

The evening was very informative and conveyed not only the serious problems that the McGill community faces regarding the inadequate policy but offered concrete solutions to how these problems could be rectified. But very few heard.

No one from the administration came to note the grievances and possible solutions.

No professors came. One Teaching Assistant came and so did a handful of students.

It is not a good idea to wait until you are sexually harassed or assaulted (or someone you love is) before you find out how severely defective McGill's policies are. If you choose to do so you’ll be in for a nasty shock to compound your pain.

There can be as many Sexual Assault Awareness Weeks as there are minutes in a day or days in a year; but if no one participates, the problem will remain. It’s everybody’s problemand time that everybody took responsibility for it.

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More letters to the E ditor rooster was something to crow about (and I ’m pigeon this to you straight).

Now about the authors o f that little peck-adillo you recently published: my fellow flock leaders and I have seen neither beak nor tail o f those two song birds (Amreen Omar and Heidi Rubin) in any o f our BM W M aviaries. If they were flitting about in there, they must have been hiding at the bottom o f the pecking order. Thus we have our suspicions that they know not w hereof they chirp.

T h ey ’re simply parroting o ff some old hear-say, ju st as any cockatoo’ll do. So since squawk is cheep, we would like to see them put their chicken feed where their bills are (to use a BM W M turn of phrase) and try our final assignment: write a sixteen-bar melody in period form (or a 32- bar small ternary i f they have the gizzards); harmonize it convincingly (using I, ii, IV , V , vi, and vii in root or six-three position) and provide it with a well written piano accompaniment. As any turkey can tell you, this is no poultry a c c o m p lish m e n t.

My s p e c ia lly paper-trained puppy M ax and I will mark the com pleted assignm ents as they deserve.

Brian Black B Mus (M cGill), A .R.C.M ., L.G .S .M . (London) M ax D.O.G. (M ontreal), C.A .N .I.S. (Oxon-Valdes)

In absentia...

I wonder i f G eo ff Gibson was actually at the Good Cookies concert he reviewed in the Jan. 26th issue o f the Trib.

I f he was, I wonder why someone who seems to have a moderate command o f the English language was unable to express a single intelligent criticism of the music he heard.

G ibson tells us that the Good Cookies “don’t know if they’re Seattle, country, folk, punk or C eltic.” He calls this “an identity crisis”. Most people call this originality.

F in ally , G ibson explains that “they” com e across as “simply confused”.

In reality the only “simple” thing about the Good Cookies music was G ibson’s review o f it. The only confused thing was Sim ple Gibson.

Incidentally, I have no idea what to m ake o f G ib s o n ’ s com m entary “Positioned at various strategic positions around the bar, all six members o f the Good Cookies could be seen discussing the finer points o f music with attractive women.” Is this some kind o f criticism?

Is it a jo k e - because attractive women can ’ t discuss “the finer points o f music”?

Would it have been O K i f they were ugly?

I f you have nothing to say, don’t print it.

A lexander Pless U 2 A rts

Quenjlous...

G e o ff G ibso n ’s review o f the Good Cookies/Fall Down Go Boomshow at Club Soda has changed my life. 1 hadn’trealized that I ’ve become a sleazy R ock & Roll egomaniac. I repent.

Since G eo ff was so interested in our sex (?) lives, he might appreciate an update. I admit, I met a vile seductress that night, who inveigled me into asking

her for her phone number and walking her to her car. G eoff, she’s 2 0 and lives with her mother; what do I do?

Stephen Sinclair Good Cookies

Misguided...

Please help us. W e ’re suffering from identity crises. W e ’re disturbed to report, that for some reason, despite our frequent therapy sessions, we still found ourselves enjoying the Good Cookies show o f January 23rd. W e’re obviously blind to the fact that a band needs to present a united front o f attitude to be enjoyable. W e liked the fact that the G o o d C o o k ie s w ere co m p le te ly unpretentious, talented, and tight enough to tackle a variety o f musical styles and switch instruments without flying into a fit o f insecurity. W e thought they were clever and innovative, musically and lyrically, with ju st the right amount o f twang. W e are sorry to surmise that the women G eoff was keen on chatting up that night spent the evening with their friends from the band (note to G eoff... our therapist suggests that you are projecting). The sad fact is we liked the Good Cookies so much we ’re likely to go see them again the next time they play.

Could you ask G e o ff to write another article to stop us, and other misguided souls who heard good things about that night, from supporting these confused womanizing creeps? Thank you.

Geneviève Heistek Rebecca Scott C K U T -F M

Elucidating...

W e are writing to clarify and expand on some o f the points brought up in “Catching up with M cG ill’s Q P IR G ” in the News B riefs section o f the Tribune.

L ast year, five students were acclaimed to the Board o f Directors o f Québec PIRG during the March elections.

T his fall, one student had resigned because o f other commitments. W e were still able to meet quorum at this point because our co n stitu tio n states that quorum is maintained as long as a majority o f elected board members are present. In November, six more students were acclaimed to the Board in campus elections, bringing the total to nine. This January, another board member resigned, leaving eight active members on the Board.

Québec PIRG has never formally committed itself to participate in the upcoming elections referendum, but we w ill p a rticip a te as usual in the campus-wide elections that are held in March. We realize the importance o f giving students the choice o f supporting our organization- the $3 per semester fee is refundable. Any student may claim a refund by coming to the Québec PIRG office (located in Room 505 o f the Eaton Building) from February 1 to February 19between 1:00pm and5:00pm . Québec P IR G enjoys a unique status among community groups in Montréal because it does not have to devote a significant portion o f its budget and resources to raising funds, therefore permitting us to increase our active work.

Québec PIR G is committed to remaining accountable to its general m em b ersh ip . O ur A nnual G en eral M eeting (A .G .M .) w ill be held on Tuesday, February 2,-1993 at 6 :0 0 pm in L eacock 232. The audit for the 1991-92

fiscal year will be presented along with summaries o f the m ajor achievements o f the past year. Board members, staff members and project coordinators will be available to answer questions. This year’s A .G .M . will also feature a Wine and Cheese Appreciation Evening for all o f our active volunteers. Every member o f Québec PIRG is strongly encouraged to attend this meeting.

Hafiz M aherali, C oord in ator K atya R . Epstein, Board M em ber

Agenda-setting...

Every year the SS M U holds a student referendum The purpose o f the referendum is for Council to acquire the approv al o f the s tudent body for i mportan t a c tio n s such as fe e in c r e a s e s or amendments to the SSM U Constitution.

This year’s referendum will take place on March 9, 10 and 11, at the same time as the SSM U elections for the 1993-1994 session. In order for Council-initiated questions to appear on the ballot they must be approved by Council before February 10. There is only one Council meeting scheduled between now and February 10 and it is on Thursday, February 4 at 6 :0 0 pm in Room 107/108 o f the Shatner Building. During this meeting Student Council will decide whether questions on the following topics will appear on the ballot in this year’s referendum: -Increasing student fees by 5 0 cents per semester per student to provide approximately $ 1 5 ,0 0 0 o f funds for the W alk-Safe Network.

-Increasing student fees by $3 per semester per student to provide extra funding for student interest groups and pay o ff the Student So ciety ’s debt to M cG ill University.

-Eliminating the studentinsurance plan for international students.

-Changing the terms o f reference o f the M cG ill Programming Network.

-Creating a new Student Society E x e c u tiv e p o s itio n e n title d Vice-President in charge o f Equity Issues.

The position would earn its holder approximately $ 1 0 ,0 0 0 per year, as do all five o f the current executive positions on the Student Society Council.

If you are interested in any o f the above issues, or would like Council to consider other issues not yet on the agenda, speak with Student Councillors whose offices are in Room 104 o f the W illiam Shatner University Centre and attend the next Student Council meeting on Thursday, February 4 in Room 107/ 108 o f the Shatner Building at 6 :0 0 pm. If you have any questions on the procedures o f Council please leave a note for the Speaker o f Council at the Student Serv­ ices counter in the Shatner Building.

Adam Atlas Speaker of Council

The McGill Tribune, February 2 -8,1993

News

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International opt-out, m ore fees: referendum

BY TRIBUNE NEWS STA FF Students’ Society (SSMU) VP Finance Susan Nickerson and VP U niversity A ffairs M onique Shebbeare submitted a proposed ref­ erendum question for the upcoming election period to SSMU council last Thursday. The question asked stu­ dents to approve a series of fee in­ creases as well as allow international students to be exempted from the Student Prescription and Accident Insurance Plan.

Students will be asked to ap­ prove an increase of $0.50 per se­ mester for the Walk-Safe Network (WSN). Nickerson explained that WSN executives requested that their fee increase be separated from the other two included in the referendum question, in order to ensure that WSN would receive funding regardless of its relationship to SSMU or SSM U’s financial status. Initially, all funding questions had been grouped together.

“Walk-Safe is a service that we feel is necessary to maintain as long as p o ssib le,” explained Nickerson.

She noted that WSN operat­ ing costs are close to $10,000 and that the group owns approximately $18,000 of equipment. Equipment depreciation, approximately 10 to

20 per cent of the total cost, must be included in the W$N budget.

Students will also be asked to approve a $3.00 increase in fees, $0.50 of which will be earmarked for student clubs and groups, and the other $2.50 of which will go to re­ payment of SSM U’s debt to McGill University and the building of a re­ serve fund.

“There will be more clubs eli­ gible for funding next year and our resources are not increasing,” said Nickerson of the $0.50 increase, ex­ plaining that restrictions on the funding of political and religious groups are being relaxed.

The $2.50 will aid in a repaymentplan towards SSM U’s$618,000 debt. Currently, SSMU has $600,000 in a reserves fund, $200,000 of which it will use to service the debt, and $400,000 of which it will maintain for emergency expenses.

The $2.50 per semester or $5.00 per year increase will raise approximately $300,000 towards the debt. Nickerson hopes that the other $118,000 can be recovered else­ where.

Students will also be asked to approve the exemption of interna­ tional students from the S SMU health insurance plan. International stu­ dents, by virtue of their status, are

already insured.

Nickerson believes that by exempting international students from the plan, the processing of other opt-out claims should be simplified.

Recently, long delays have occurred in the opt-out process, and students who opted-out in October only be­ gan receiving their refund cheques.

“This [international student exemption] system should make it [the process] much easier and faster,” suggested Nickerson.

At Thursday’s council meet­ ing, Senate Rep. Robert Valdmanis suggested that all students should be asked if they want to opt-out of the health insurance plan. But Canadian students who still wish to opt-out will not be able to do so along with the international students, according to Nickerson.

“It would be almost impossi­ ble to exempt students in advance,” said Nickerson, explaining that the university’s computers had limited abilities to distinguish between groups of students.

Both Canadian and interna­ tional students will have a say in whether international students will be exempted, as the question involves a change in SSMU fees and must thus be addressed to all members of the Society.

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BY ARNOLD KWOK Students groups at McGill re­ cently received visits from two prominent politicians, former Lib­ eral leadership contender and Mem­ ber of Parliament Paul Martin and External Affairs Minister Barbara McDougall.

More than 120 students gath­ ered to hear McDougall speak at a PC McGill-sponsored event. She discussed several key issues, includ­ ing her views on the recently pub­ lished United Nations (UN) Agenda for Peace report, released last June

by UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali. “[Boutros-Ghali] talked about peacemaking, which is essentially going in where there is a conflict, and where there is no agreement between the parties,” explained McDougall.

“There is a broadening of the con­ cept of world peacekeeping. [We are] looking at preventative diplomacy....building democratic institutions that provide stability within the society.”

Many Canadian ideas were incorporated into the UN report, which is expected to have an impact on peacekeeping strategy around the world.

“That means that not only will there be an increased demand for peacekeepers- Canada now provides about 10 per cent of thepeacekeepersbut there will also be a demand for monitoring elections, helping coun­ tries to build an independent judicial system , [and] a system of constitution al... and parli amentary development.”

Martin, the other political speaker who addressed students last week, spoke to a crowd of 60 stu­ dents at a meeting co-hosted by the Entrepreneurs’ Club and Young Liberals of M cG ill. Discussion centered around the extent to which

government should be involved in private business.

“Let business run the show.

Government can’t pick winners or losers, but the losers can certainly pick the government,” stated Martin.

“Businesses can get out of losses [relatively easily]. It is harder for the government to close a plant.”

Martin advocates giving gov­ ernment grants to small and medium­ sized businesses, as well as support­ ing university and college research projects financially, many of which benefit private corporations.

“There should be a massive effort to [support] businesses that have a [unique] technology,” stressed Martin.

In addition, he expressed his approval for strict environmental regulations and labour standards.

Martin also revealed some important objectives that may be on the Liberal Party election platform.

“I don’t believe the party gov­ erning the country should take on 150 things,” Martin asserted. “We have to make priorities.”

He indicated that some of the priorities may include an education program for children called Head Start, a national college apprentice­ ship program for vocational train­ ing, a ‘re-industrialization plan’ which focuses on research and de­ velopment funds for universities, and finally, a push for Canadian busi­ nesses to venture into the global market.

Both Martin and McDougall will be involved in preparing their respective parties for the upcoming national election.

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F eatu res “Bashing Back” against hate crimes B Y CA TH ER IN E F O R T E R S cattered am ong the “Women Beware” signs still dot­ ting the ghetto one now finds new posters summoning gays and les­ bians to "bash back." These post­ ers advocating empowerment arc promoted by the Montreal Gay and Lesbian Community Centre, and are part of the awareness campaign against recent incidents of gay­ bashing.

A cco rd in g to D ouglas Buckley of theactivist group ACTUP, eleven hate crimes culminat­ ing with murder have occurred over the last two years in Montreal.

The commonly reported sites of such attacks are Montreal parks known as gay hangouts, such as Mont-Royal and Lafontaine, and the streets and alleys which zigzag across the gay village (which is bordered by B erri, Papineau, Sherbrooke and René-Lévesque).

“A lot of the attacks occur in the gay area,” reported François L ’Allier, spokesman for the Mon­ treal Gay and Lesbian Community Centre. “Most of the victims are attacked at two or three in the morn­ ing when they are exiting a gay bar.”

While lesbians and gays arc working together to combat this homophobic violence, the victims of physically violent hate crimes have, for the most part, been men.

“W e don’t know of any [physical |attacks on lesbians, yet

abuse,” said L ’Allier. Neverthe­ enced by gays over the last three less, most activists discount this years. lack of statistical proof.

“The gay line will keep the Most of the victims of the facts filed for the Human Rights reported attacks have stated that Commission as proof for the in­ the aggressors are young white quiry,” stated Pepin. “It is believed males travelling in packs. that there is no great aggression “They are around sixteen to towards seventeen years old and often involved in white power groups repressing both the gay and Jewish community.

We have heard it often has to do with initiation into the group, where the boys have to victim­ ize around ten peo­ ple an evening,” said L ’Allier.

Yet this de­ scription does not account for all of the aggressors.

“They are-_____________ homophobics, not' Signs of a risin g a w a re n e s s co m e that directed at Jews and black peo­ necessarily neo-Nazis. We are at­ ple. W e must prove that aggres­ tacked by all kinds of people,” commented Steve Pepin, another sion against gays exists.” member of the Centre.

The need for such numerical The Quebec Human Rights records arises from the fact that Commission has launched an in­ most hate crimes go unreported. ternal inquiry into the situation, Fear or distrust of the police shared which will be presented before the by the majority of the gay commu­ president of the commission on nity has kept many victims from coming forward and pressing April 1. In order to provide statis­ charges. tical information for this review, “The police are not at all the Centre has established a new svmDathctic: most of us arc afraid hotline to record all accounts of

member of Lesbians, Bisexuals and Gays of McGill.

“The police and gay com­ munity of Montreal have a bad relationship. They [the police] do more harassing than protecting,” agreed Buckley. “W e have a

police torce.”

This fear has been exacer­ bated by what is perceived to be the lack of attention given to these hate crimes by the police.

M UC P o lice C onstable Michel Beaudoin of Station 33 claimed that a lack of victims com­ ing forward makes police work more difficult.

“Statistically speaking, there is no such thing as gay crime, or siavs beine more exoosed to vio-

that it doesn’t exist, it’s just that we are not informed of more than ten per cent of the attacks.”

“W e work on priorities, de­ cided on facts, based on com­ plaints. W e can’t base interven­ tions or preventions on hearsay.

The main problem is among the gay community itself. We won’t be of great help if they stay under­ ground,” he concluded.

It is this fundamental prob­ lem, the lack of information and communication,' which is being addressed by the new hotline.

“We have received news of ten cases since we opened three weeks ago,” confided Pepin.

Furthermore, although the MUC does not openly recognize these hate crimes as a separate problem, Beaudoin did reveal that the MUC tentatively plans to in­ stall a new patrolling unit which would concentrate on protecting the gay village.

“W e are going to renew an experience next summer where two officers volunteered themselves to act as community relation officers in the gay village,” he revealed.

This proposed policy, when combined with the new empower­ ment and awareness campaign, provides the victims of such crimes with a glimmer of hope. Gay com­ munity leaders hope that if enough victims are inspired by the slogan "break the silence and tell your story", the Human Rights Com­ mittee will be forced to launch a

PAAL attack alarm s: friend or foe?

B Y C H E R Y L D EV O E The publicity accorded as­ saults against women in the McGill community has created not only an atmosphere of concern but appar­ ently a new market for entrepre­ neurs as well. One new product being aimed at the McGill commu­ nity is apersonal attack alarm called PAAL. The electronic device is de­ signed to emit a 107-decibel alarm which is activated by disengaging an attached cord. It is suggested that the PAAL be worn on a belt.

The advertising campaign for PAAL has been aggressive. Post­ ers have been displayed in build­ ings around campus and an adver­ tisement ran in the Tribune earlier this year. Five more ads are sched­ uled to follow throughout the se­ mester. The Tribune was also ap­ proached to write an article pro­

moting the product.

However, both the aggres­ siveness of the product’s promo­ tion as well as the language used in the advertisement itself, have been deemed offensive by some. The most prominent print in the adver­ tisement reads: “How a scream can save your life.”

Sadie’s Campus Shop is one outlet for the product. However, manager Rob Werbin does not feel the aggressive advertising cam­ paign takes advantage of women’s fears.

“I’m selling [PAAL] as an awareness product. W e’re [Sadie’s] not in it for the profit,” said Werbin.

“W e’re interested in improving stu­ dent life, in creating a better atmos­ phere.”

Lorraine Garrett, the inde­ pendent product distributor for Sadie’s, designed the advertisement in collaboration with a representa­

tive o f the Students’ Society (SSMU). The body of the ad reads: “The Quorum PAAL personal at­ tack alarm has been designed to be your discreet companion and very effective protector. Take your PAAL with you wherever you go...”

When questioned on the choice of words for the advertise­ ment, Garrett deferred responsibil­ ity. ‘‘That paragraph is taken right from the brochure [designed by Quorum], We raised it right from there to save ourselves work,” stated Garrett. She did not say where the choice of language for the headline originated.

Garrett added, however, that she understood how some might be offended by the wording.

“Because people are more aware, because of the paranoia, they may have read more into this than actually was there.”

Amy Mulberg, aU 2 Biology student, disagreed.

“It [the ad] say s it ’ s a protec­ tor. It’snotaprotector. Beingaware and fighting back are going to pro­ tect you,” said Mulberg.

She voiced another concern about the product.

“I think these products tend to provide a false sense of security.

That’s the really big thing. It’s total bullshit that that’s going to protect you. It’s ridiculous.”

Garrett asserts that PAAL is not meant to be the solution to security problems.

“I just felt that this is one method, but that education is where it all starts. I don’t want women purchasing these and feeling that it’s the answer to their problems,” she insisted.

“It’s to provide a sense of having a distraction to escape an altercation,” added Werbin.

Although Garrett lives in Ottawa, she chose McGill (over Carleton and the University of Ot­ tawa) as the first university at which to market the product. She denied that this was because of the high profile of assaults in the McGill community, stating that her deci­ sion was the result of a suggestion from a friend.

“I was directed to the Wom­ en’s Union, who directed me to the McGill Sexual Assault Centre, who directed me to SSMU and in turn to Sadie’s.”

According to Werbin, stu­ dent response to the advertising campaign has not been overwhelm­ ing.

“Initial sales have been slow, as with any new product introduc­ tion,” said Werbin. Under the ex­ pectation of increasing student in­ terest, however, he has placed an order for more PAALs.

Features Charity puts on its dancing shoes

The McGill Tribune, February 2-8,1993

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BY KATHERINE BROWN On March 11, McGill students will be able to trip the light fantastic at the Faculty Club while helping the university’s cancer centre. For the first time McGill’s Volunteer Bu­ reau has organized a semi-formal Charity Ball to benefit the school’s Comprehensive Cancer Centre.

The Ball will be supported by donations from various corporations and individuals, some of whom have had personal experiences with can­ cer. There will also be a drawing at the door; possible prizes include a plane ticket and a television set.

Shawna Goodman (U3 Art History), a coordinator of the event, has been stunned by the level of support for the project.

“The response has been in­ credible, absolutely overwhelming.

People are giving donations. It’s like an outlet. Cancer is something that we’re in contact with. It’s among our peers.”

Goodman has felt the need for such an event since arriving at McGill and, judging by the overwhelming response, is surprised that it hasn’t been attempted before. The Volun­ teer Bureau is so enthused that it has considered the possibility of making the Ball an annual event.

Goodman hopes the Ball will become an intrinsic part of the cam­ pus social scene.

“I want this, like the Red and White Ball, to be a tradition at McGill,” she affirmed.

In addition to raising funds, Ball organizers hope to raise student awareness about the centre, as it is one of the leading facilities for can­ cer research in the world.

The Comprehensive Cancer Centre was formed three years ago to bring together all oncological-related activities at the university. It deals with all aspects of cancer research, including research into cancer pre­ vention. The only comprehensive cancer centre in Quebec, it serves

each of the four McGill teaching hospitals.

At first, the centre offered three or four of the most advanced treat­ ments for the most common cancers.

It has since expanded to offer 36 state-of-the-art treatments to cancer patients at the McGill teaching hos­ pitals. To monitor the effectiveness of the treatments, the centre has to keep a large amount of data, which requires sophisticated equipment.

The Charity Ball will help to ease some of the financial burden, though the task is far from easy. The strain is compounded by thefact that Quebec is the only province besides New Brunswick that does not have a fund set aside for cancer research.

Dr. Brian Leland-Jones, head o f the Department o f Oncology (which incorporates the Comprehen­ sive Cancer Centre) explained why money has become such an issue.

“Quebec is in a uniquely weak situation for funding, which means that without donations like the

Bronfman Clinical Research Centre [whichnow forms the facility’s base] or without these balls and various fundraising activités, we would not be able to run any of these programs,” asserted Leland-Jones. He cited the fate of one treatment program (whose funding ran out) as an example of the difficulty of finding adequate funds for his projects.

“One of our patients died of skin cancer at the age of 27. His sister organized a fundraising dinner, which raised sufficient money for us to keep this drug development program run­ ning for the next, crucial year. That was the only way we had of immedi­ ately funding this piece of research, until either a granting agency or a pharmaceutical com­ pany picked up the development of this new drug.”

Leland-Jones was extremely enthusiastic about the Charity Ball.

“It’s so wonderful to see the reaction of our students and staff and to see people begin a committment at

that age with a promise to continue doing it on an annual basis,” he said.”It’s wonderful to see someone recognize the desperate need that we have for cancer funding at thepresent time. We desperately, desperately need money to fund basic cancer research.”

Tickets are $25 and will be available at S adie’s starting F eb.

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Literacy programs: sharing the key to language

BY N A JA L G . AGUIRRE Fostered by an environment that depends on literacy, most uni­ versity students are sheltered from the reality of illiteracy. While a stu­ dent agonizes over an appropriate word in a term paper, 25 per cent of Montreal’s adult population cannot read. In fact, 16 per cent of Canada’s total adult population cannot handle most of the written material they are confronted with in everyday life.

The United Nations has de­ clared 1990-2000 the International Literacy Decade, confirming that the concern for literacy is universal and relevant in today’s society. At McGill, this concern is being advo­ cated by McGill Students for Lit­ eracy, one of the first student-run literacy groups in Canada.

“The response to the group within the McGill community has been phenomenal. People are always calling. It allows students to bring something back to the community, which is very positive and reward­

ing,” remarked Alysha Trinca, a graduate student and co-chairper­ son of McGill Students for Literacy.

The group’s main objective is to increase literacy within Montreal’s adult population through one-on-one tutoring sessions between McGill tutors and “learners” from the com­ munity. However, many other projects have developed that involve the group. Currently, two of the group’s approximately 80 trained tutors, Claudine Campbell and Sharon King, areworking with young women at the Shawbridge Youth Detention Centre, a program they initiated two years ago.

“It’s encouraging to see other students taking their own initiative, recognizing that there is a need for a certain program and implementing it themselves,” said Stephanie Garrow, the group’s other co-chairperson.

At the end o f last year, Concordia University initiated its own literacy group with which the McGill group has remained in close contact, helping with training ses-

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sions, functional concerns, and coordinating their ef­ forts.

“We would like to see universities throughout the country make similar efforts so that we could all network together,” re­ marked Garrow.

Looking towards the future, the group is endeavoring to raise more awareness in literacy is­ sues by inviting more speakers, holding work­ shops and seminars, and having their own tutors be­ come more educated and involved with specific is­ sues in the literacy move­ ment.

“It’s not only tutor­ ing that’s important but u t e r a c y also promoting awareness, as there are so many people who are ignorant of the facts,” stated Garrow.

She explained that training ses­ sions that are held in the fall are intended to teach potential tutors “to become sensitive to the issues of literacy and how to facillitate the learner’s development.”

“We use an approach we call ‘student centred’,” she continued.

We don’t have a curriculum that we present to potential tutors but take a more holistic approach, whereby the

tu to rin g - a k ey to th e kingdom . tutors deal with what is relevant in the learner’s life. Wecarefully match up tutors and learners and it’s been successful so far.”

Michelle Fuss, B.A. U2, be­ came a tutor last year and she found training a positive aspect of her ex­ perience.

“It stressed that every tutor is an individual, which helped when I started tutoring,” she commented.

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“Working with the group and with Greg has been rewarding, as I know that I am giving help to some­ one that changes their entire outlook in life,” emphasized Fuss.

The group is now looking f o r McGill students o r staff to tutor in the summer. Interested parties should contact the group soon f o r the train­ ing session in M arch. The office is Eaton 403; phone398-5100.

The McGill Tribune, February 2-8,1993

Features MP Berger discusses difficulty of toeing the party line B Y ARN O LD KW OK

T his is th e s e c o n d installment o f an ongoing series o f interviews with local mem­ bers o f Parliament. This week, the Tribune talks with David B e r g e r , L ib e r a l MP f o r Westmount. St. Henri.

T r ib u n e : L ib eral Party leader Jean Chrétien is currently clarifying his platform on House of Commons reforms, which in­ volve more ‘free votes’. The last time you voted against the party, you were fired from the shadow cabinet. Do you care to com ­ ment?

D .B.: W ell, I like to see the final draft before I get too e x ­ cited. On a matter of principle, I think there has to be some way to

free up party discipline because not every subject involves the confidence of the government.

W hat are major subjects? The co n stitu tio n , the fre e trad e agreement. In the final analysis, while in theory you are making the rules less stringent, on most major issues you ’ll still toe the party line. I have to wait for what Mr. Chrétien has to say.

T rib u n e: W ere you toeing the party line when you changed your p o sitio n on the Charlottetown Accord?

D .B .: [Long pause] How am I going to answer that ques­ tion? The answer is yes. Y es, because the leader has taken a position in favour of it and if I had to campaign against it, I would have to resign as member of the Liberal caucus. I suppose

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I really w asn’t prepared to do that. On the other hand it’s not just my leader who is for the agreement but a strong majority of my constituency. Perhaps it didn’t hurt either to be on the same wavelength.

T rib u n e: How are you go­ ing to vote on the constitutional amendment in New Brunswick [guaranteeing the coexistence of lin g u is tic co m m u n itie s of anglophones and francophones]?

D .B .: I don’t know when

yer] Deborah Coyne, [Gazette colum nist] W illiam Johnson, and, at one point, the Newfound­ land Attorney General. If at­ tem p ts are m ad e at sh o rtcircuiting debate, I think it is the kind of procedure which got so many people upset and mistrust­ ful of their politicians. If I have the opportunity to speak in the House, perhaps I will use it. I want to listen to the arguments and hear what people have to say.

tions are uppermost in people’s minds. People are concerned about their jobs. The difficulty is that new econom ic policies are not creating as many jobs as the old ones lost. The unemploy­ ment rate is about 12 per cent in Montreal W e have a federal debt approaching $ 4 0 0 billion, and a federal deficit o f $ 3 2 or $ 3 3 m il­ lion.

T rib u n e: W hat will be the Liberal P arty’s response to the econom y?

[the bill] is coming up for a vote.

I am concerned about its haste. It was submitted on the last day of the session [in December], I be­ lieve there was one speaker from each party. No opportunities were providedfor hearings. Ihear people have concerns about it— people like [constitutional law­

T rib u n e: W hat are the is­ sues that will be important in your riding in the com ing elec­ tion?

D .B .: Mr. Chrétien is to deliver a number of policy issues in the next two months. I know there will be a concentration on issues which are dear to my heart; issues which deal with changes in the econom y, training, educa­ tion, research and development, and investment mechanisms.

D .B . : Maybe we can take a note out of Bill Clinton’s book and adopt as a slogan for our cam paign: “It’s the econom y, stupid.” I think econom ic ques­

Gérald Tremblay speaks on the future of Quebec FORUM B Y J E F F P E R C IV A L The eco n om ic recession continues to affect North America.

Bearing in mind the importance of new industrial strategies, McGill’s Government Relations office in­ vited Q uebec Minister of In­ dustry, Trade and T ech n ol­ o gy G érald T re m b la y to sp eak last Monday.

Tremblay’s sp eech , en ti­ tled “Quebec’s Industrial Clusters Strat­ egy,” focused on the policy the Liberal government sees as a means to a prosperous and secure future for all Quebecers.

The presentation began with a 20-minute video detailing the components of the proposed strat­ egy. The video asserted that in an increasingly competitive global at­ mosphere, collective action is the only means to econom ic success.

The strategy itself consists of two types of industrial clusters, broken down according to Que­ b e c’s present industrial strengths.

The five categories in which Quebec can be considered glo­ bally competitive are aerospace, pharmaceutical products, informa­

tion tech n olog ies, e le ctrica l power, and metal and mineral processing.

There are also eight clus­ ters which are strategically im­ portant to the future o f Quebec: surface transportation equipment, p e tro c h e m ic a l and p la stics processing, agrifood products, habitat and construction, fashion and textiles, forest products, en­

vironment, and cultural indus­ tries.

According to Trem blay’s plan, all of these clusters are

linked with one or more of the others. Therefore, a large number of jobs in any one cluster will be directly affected by activity in another cluster.

The government’s goal is to solidify Quebec’s mastery of the competitive clusters. By do­ ing so, it can then concentrate on more strategic areas.

Tremblay emphasized the importance o f young people to Ins strategy.

“W e must return to schools and universities to tell our youth that if they want a high-quality job in the future, these are the key sectors,” he said.

F u rth e rm o re , T rem blay added that opportunities already exist.

“I ’ve got 8 3 ,0 0 0 jobs to fill but not enough people to fill them,” he bemoaned.

In his eyes, better training is needed to ensure that Quebec will be able to fill the estimated 5 2 0 ,0 0 0 jobs that the industrial clusters strategy will create. When asked who should pay for this

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ters this month, at which time the effectiveness of the strategy will finally be seen. Tremblay prom­ ised the audience the study would then become “the bible o f Que­ b ec’s long-term econom ic strat­ egy.”

The real highlight of the presentation was perhaps Gérald Tremblay himself. Rumoured to be one of the contenders for the future leadership of the Quebec Liberal Party, Trem blay’s great enthusiasm for this new strategy and for his ability to sell it was evident. Constantly emphasizing words like “transform ,” “d y­ namic” and “change,” he chal­ lenged the audience to get in­ volved in his vision of Q uebec’s econom ic future.

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“W e are at the limits of taxation and cannot increase the deficit,” he said.

The minister stressed that a change of culture, attitude and mentality is needed on the part of all Quebecers if the government is to create “industrial synergy.”

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E ntertainm ent Zen and the art of installation maintenance

BY KATE GIBBS The components o f Bill V io­ la’s art are much like his name; commonplace and musical. This American artist is undoubtedly the star o f “Vu?”, the current (and unfortunately titled-perhaps it translates well?) collection of video installations at the Montreal Museum o f Contemporary Art (MMCA).

E x p lo rin g m etap h y sical boundaries B ill Viola challenges common sensory conceptions of “interior” and “exterior” as y in and yang. His current sponsors include the Andy Warhol Foundation-and rightly so—Bill Viola examines the mundane with the materials o f popular media: video and stereo.

As an undergraduate at Syracuse University, Bill Viola experimented with electronic mu­ sic, attracting the attention o f John Cage for more than 4 minutes and 33 seconds and a 33rd. Bill Viola has not sacrificed the auditory component o f his work for the visual. Sound is as important as image in his work.

Interest in the video o f Bill Viola has increased since his re­ ceipt o f the Maya Deren Award from the American Film Institute in 1987. T heexhibitof Bill Viola’s recent work at the MMCA is not the only international exhibition of its kind this year. Nonetheless, resident curator Josée Bélisle as­ sembled 5 very large installment projects and an interesting group o f short films taking advantage o f the generous space o f the gallery and local interest in avant-garde

film.

Encounted by visitors who use the main entrance is the inter­ active installment project “Reasons for Knocking at an Empty House” (1982). Dedicated to Phineas P. Gage, “Knocking” is a suitable in­ troduction to the themes of subjec­ tive experience.

In 1848, Phineas P. Gage was the victim o f an on-site acci­ dent in Vermont. The twenty-five year-old, at work on the railroad, was hit by a thirteen pound, threeand-a-half-foot iron bar when an explosive device ignited prema­ turely. The bar punctured his left cheek and lodged itself in the fron­ tal lobe o f his skull.

M iraculously, G age was cognitive minutes after the explo­ sion and returned to work in a matter o f weeks.

Although physically fit fol­ low ing the a ccid e n t G a g e ’ s behavior was irrevocably changed.

Doctors reported, “the balance be­ tween his intellectual faculties and animal propensities seemed to have been destroyed.” Unable to hold his job, Gage toured the United States as a side-show act display­ ing scars and bar. The novelty val ue of Phineas Gage is still exploited

by Harvard Medical School where his skull and bar are displayed.

At the MMCA, the nature of the treatment o f G age’s memory is more cerebral. The visitor enters the cavernous room and encoun­ ters a heavy wooden chair fitted with ear phones adjacent to the sleepy face o f a man on a TV screen. Proof is in the pudding o f this method artist; the man on the

screen is B ill Viola himself who went without sleep for three days and nights.

Whetted with the peculiar story o f Gage, viewer curiosity is high. The empty chair is like a swing set: no instructions are nec­ essary, one sits instinctively in the chair and wears the ear phones.

Broadcast to the participant are in­ terior noises o f the adjacent seated man: m agnified sn ifflin g and breathing. The internal rhythms of the seated visitor are wordlessly invited to match those o f the sealed figure, and a process o f transfer occurs. The visitor becomes the artist.

When an unidentified figure hits the projected figure on the head with a rolled up magazine, the sound o f the connection is mag­ nified four times. The resulting thunder is audible on both sides o f the ear phones. Boundaries of experience are exchanged and examined.

The other four installments are similarly engaging. The most effective piece is “Passage” (1987).

Bill Viola has slowed the 26 minute video tape o f a four year-old's birthday party to one sixteenth of its regular length. The resulting six hour tape has been magnified and is viewed as the participant walks down a specially constructed tun­ nel. Disoriented, the viewer must exchange the mundane for the unu­ sual.

Most o f the accompanying literature is enough to turn the most eager gallery-goer o ff Bill Viola. Most o f the material writ­ ten by Bill Viola himself reveals

"R easo n s f o r K n o ck in g a t an E m p ty H ouse" - B ill V iola a soul as sy m p ath etic as Morissey’s. Bill Viola explains the necessity of black walls for his pieces, “this is the colour of the inside o f your head.” Fortunately, pamphlets are optional and Bill

Viola’s conceptual work speaks for itself.

Bill Viola is a thought p r o ­ voking afternoon at the MMCA an d doubly so f o r the low, low p ric e o f $ 2.75 until M arch 1 4 .1 9 9 3 .

Schmaltz of the Wolf—Aka:yz/c&

BY MIKA BAREKET W ith the e x c e p tio n o f D a rb n a n , no movie has made me laugh as hard as I did during S h ad ow o f the Wolf. Unfortu­ nately, this $35 million Canadian production was not intended to be a comedy, but an adventure film.

Filmed in Northern Quebec, S h ad ow o f the W olf, or A gagu k as it is known to francophone audi­ ences, is based on the bookAgagn/fc, written by celebrated Québécois author Yves Thériault. The story is told from the perspective o f an Inuit male named Agaguk. After killing a white bootlegger in a bout o f anger, Agaguk leaves his people, takes his 'woman' and sets o ff to build a new home in the tundra.

Meanwhile, an RCM P of­ ficer arrives at the home o f the Shaman, who just happens to be Agaguk’s father, and begins to probe into the murder mystery.

The Shaman kills him, Agaguk returns, the Shaman takes the

blam e for both m urders, and Agaguk continues the fam ily legacy to become the new Sha­ man.

In betw een these o ccu r­ rences are plenty o f hunting in­ terludes.

To hear o f this, the most expensive Canadian movie ever made, it sounds like a great id e a that is, a native story told from the native perspective. Albeit some­ what o f a cliché, with T he L ast o f the M oh ican s and D a n ces with W olves (two veritably manipulat­ ing movies) I was hoping this Na­ tive American adventure story would be different. Much to my dismay, I was dead wrong.

S hadow o f the W o lf is ju st about the corniest film ever. It is two-hours worth o f Cheez-Whiz.

As Agaguk, Lou Diamond Phillips was painfully bad. When not grunting or banging on walls he was invoking that L a B am baesque feel to the movie. He was as animated as Brian Mulroney. As his wife, JenniferTilly was equally

passionless. This is most unfortu­ nate because her role as faithful yet strong-minded 'woman' could have withstood more weight and depth.

Perhaps the saddest casting jo k e was in Jap an ese-leg en d Toshiro Mifune as Agaguk’s fa­ ther. After serving as one o f Ja ­ pan’s greatest actors o f all time, starring in such Kurosawa clas­ sics as R a sh om on and T he Drum B oy , M ifune’s subtle charm is lost am id st the sch m a ltz in ess o f S h ad ow o f the W olf. Not only that, but he looks about as Inuit as my Aunt Louise.

This o f course is not his fault, but that o f the casting director, who also erred in the inclusion of M r. D o n ald -I-h av e-to-h av e-acam eo-in -every-m ov ie-Su th erland as the R C M P oficer. It is as though he is continuing his role as the deranged outcast from both B a c k d ra ft and J F K —at least in those movies he had some good lines.

All the hoped-for, mind­

blowing special effects were dis­ appointing. Take, for example, the $10 million whale scene. It was hardly notable. A faint recollec­ tion leads one to believe it looked completely and utterly fake. Even the blood on Agaguk’s face, after fighting the dreaded w olf looked like some Heinz product. As if anyone in Montreal this winter wants to see snow blowing in the wind. In fact most o f the effects look artificial, and if not, then they are too boring to mention.

If nothing else, viewers ex ­ pect to be blown away by veteran composer Maurice Jarre’s musi­ cal score. What it was, and this can be said about the movie as a whole, was an overly keen, bombastic nightmare. Not only was it pre­ dictable, but it was too loud and overbearing.

O ne final problem with S had ow o f the W olf, although this time it is with post-production, is the confusion o f the title name.

Granted, Agaguk is not an English word, but then it is not a French

word either. Why then should it be more difficult for anglophone audiences to respond to the origi­ nal title than for francophones?

Are English-speaking audiences more commercially-minded, or less willing to accept ethnicity?

This discrepancy in the title may be construed as strange and insult­ ing.

I can however say that some good did come out o f S had ow o f the W olf. I had a hearty chuckle, sadly, at the sheer com iness o f it all. It was also a great opportunity for me to try Sour Patch Kids for the first time. Only half-w ay through the movie did I realize the appropriateness o f these child­ shaped candies— sugar-coated, sour and after two hours o f con­ sumption, vomit-inducing.

It would have been nice to see Canada spend an outrageous amount o f money on something worthwhile. But alas, that day has yet to arrive.

Shadow o f the W olf c o n ­ tinues to stink at the Im p erial.

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Entertainment Beck no Bach, but beckoning back

Drop the name Jason Beck in M cG ill’s artsy quarters, and you’ll get responses along the lines of, “Oh, that jazz guy.” But to some­ one who measures the success o f a gig by the number o f bruises she can count on her corpus the next groggy mom, a night of jazz at the Alley is about as appealing as building ice sculptures with man­ agement students. For many musi­ cal thrill seekers, the word 'jazz' conjures up fearful im ages o f turtlenecked philosophy majors bursting into ‘spontaneous’ ap­ plause at the most pretentiously appropriate moments.

Lucky for those o f us with­ out berets, Jason Beck, M cG ill’s resident Jazz Guy, is equally wary o f the ever-earnest jazz world.

“Purists, I hate 'em ,” the engaging Beck told the Tribune in a brief interview this weekend.

After a string o f successful appearances last year, the twentyyear old M cGill music student re­ turns Friday and Saturday to the Alley. Playing all new material, B eck will be accompanied by bassistDaveSzigeti,and drummer John Fraboni, two guys whom Beck calls “musically amazing," despite their

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A ccording to B e ck , this weekend’s shows will be the rock n’ roll rebel cousin to last year’s more traditional jazz/funkfê te s . No ’Candle in the Wind Velveeta crap’ allowed; this piano centred event will combine intelligent pop with a jazz touch, but the operative word will be VOLUM E. “The premise,” says Beck, “is Jim i Hendrix on piano.”

Tribune: So what can we expect from these shows?

Jason Beck: A real mix. All stuff I wrote. The idea behind it is that I wanted to make the piano a respectable pop instrument again. I don’t want it to be this Elton John, Tori Amos tinkly shit...

Tribune: What’s wrong with Tori Amos? I noticed you dissed her in your press release as well.

JB : I don’t actually hate her music. I just think she’s definitely part o f that school that reduces the piano to those cheezy prints o f the piano with the rose on it. Y ou know, like, “Wow, how beautiful!” The piano has become such a safe, wimpy instrument, but I think it can be a bad-ass, nasty instrument.

I saw a video o f Jerry Lee Lewis, and while I don’t really like that

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music, I couldn’t believe it cau se kids w ere p ra c tica lly moshing. It’s like a mosh pit front o f the stage, they’re going nuts. I don’t necessarily want to recapture that musical feeling, but I want to recapture that feeling in the audience. I don’t think it has to be: 'okay, now it’s time for a bal­ lad, so I ’ll go over to the piano,' then: 'now it’s time for the hard shit, so I ’ll go over to the guitar.'

Tribune: So people shouldn’t come expecting a jazz show?

JB : It’ll be jazz influenced. 1 think jazz is a great form o f music, but no one really cares about it anymore. It’s so backward look ing. Most jazz musicians don’t listen to any jazz recordings after 1970,itjustexistsforitself. Because the problem is that people started incorporating pop music, like Miles Davis with B itc h e s B r e w , and people don’t like it. They think pop music is a lower form o f music tainting this great art form. Purists what’s up with them?

Tribune: I bet that attitude goes over really well in the department at M cGill.

JB : The music department very anal, it relies on labelling. I English or whatever, you can writ a paper, and sort o f hide secondary sources. But in music it’s just you, and people get doubly insecure, so they’re likely to find a cubbyhole to fit into: 'I’m in this bag, or this one.' And everyone gets labelled. I never get called for jazz gigs because people saw me doing what I did last year, a more funk influenced jazz, and I ’ve gotten pigeonholed as that guy who does the sell-out pop stuff.

T ribune: So is getting away from jazz an act o f rebellion?

JB : Not really. It’s just thata common attitude I ’ ve found in jazz musicians is that they see jazz as a higher form than pop. But I think the best jazz musicians are as good as the bestpopmusicians. The best country musician is as good as the best classical musician. Music is music and if you’re good at what­ ever genre you play, you’re just good.

Tribune: Typical question here, but what are your influences?

JB : I ’ m a huge Stevie W on­ der fan, seventies Stevie Wonder.

He was the first person to take funk, like the James Brown sixties thing and combine it with great songwriting, the Beatles stream.

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D ave S zeg eti, Jo h n th e G ra n t F r a h e r r i a n d Ja s o n B eek .

So you have these two streams of pop music: the songwriting, then the groove, which isn ’t about songwriting, but feeling. I ’m sort o f trying for the same thing. I love rap music because it’s groove ori­ ented, but my other hero is Elvis C o s te llo , w h o’ s very much songwriting oriented. So at some point in my future I’d love to com­ bine the two aesthetics.

Tribune: Are you nervous to be singing for the first time?

JB : Yes, I ’m really nervous.

Singing is so naked, and I ’ve al­ ways been able to hide behind the piano before. Nervousness is new to me, but I’ll be playing at the same time. It’s not like I ’m the typical “lead singer” And Joanne Solomon will be singing too, she’s incredible.

Tribune: Why should peo­ ple go see the shows?

JB : Because they should support McGill music. And it’ll be loud.

Tribune: And it’s only two

bucks.

JB : Yeah, very cheap. And because the Alley1is one o f a kind in Canada. Run by and for stu­ dents, where musicians can come and play any kind o f music they want.

Tribune: Plus, the Alley is the only live music venue left in greater Montreal at present, right?

JB : Practically. But the Al­ ley has decided they’re not going to pay m usicians anymore, that they just get the door. It means that in the future, it’ll be hard to get to­ gether a big band, because each person would get about five dollars a head after expenses. It’s frustrat­ ing. There’s a lot o f exciting music going on, but no one hears it be­ cause they can’t get gigs.

Tribune: What are you lis­ tening to these days?

JB : Same as everybody else.

I think rap is the most exciting music right now. I ’m listening to Arrested Development, Cypress Hill, Beastie Boys. But the thing with rap is, I know I ’ll never try it.

I might incorporate some o f the aesthetic, but...

Tribune: No rap in the show? • JB : No, definitely not. I think I know my limits. [attem pts rap v oice:] MC JB on the M -I-C No, no, no. [laughs] Ja so n B eck , Jo h n F rab on i an d D ave Szegeti p erform in the A lley, F ebru ary 5 -6 at 9:30. T here is a co v er c h a rg e o f $2.00.

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bad films happen to good plays When a play is adapted for film, it may lose both its original cast and its integrity in the name of box office success.

On the surface, S arafin a! seems to have it all: music, politics, child actors. It’s enough to make a Disney exec shudder with delight.

But if one remembers Newsies (does anyone remember Newsies'?), one knows that a movie can’t survive without substance.

Director Darrel Roodt’s ver­ sion of the hit Broadway musical details the 1986 revolt against apart­ heid that took place in Soweto, South Africa. When tyrannical soldiers as­ sert their dominance over a poor black community, its citizens are forced to rebel. In the struggle, hundreds are tortured and killed, causing a state of emergency to be declared in South Africa. Yet seen through the eyes of Sarafina, a high school student who worships ANC leader Nelson Mandela, the revolt becomes a jour­ ney toward both freedom and matu­ rity.

The movie quickly establishes the distorted world of Soweto, in which a white government inflicts its hatred upon blacks (and sometimes corrupts other blacks to help). How­ ever, even as the film increases its power by focusing on the incident, that power is drained by the lack of a basis for South African life before and after the violence. The picture is so horrific that it makes it hard to be shocked.

The children of Soweto are caught in a cycle of violence. When they decide that force is the only way to get their message across, pacifist Sarafina must face her own potential for hatred.

That she does, and beautifully.

Leleti Khumalo reprises her original role on Broadway with both grace and dignity. As the students’ history teacher, however, Whoopi Goldberg’s inclusion among unknowns seems strange. The whole time Goldberg is on the screen, it is impossible to for­

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get that she lives in Hollywood; her African accent is unwieldy compared to the rest of the cast.

In this role, she, like pal Robin Williams, seems to have perfected the technique of benign acting; she merely smiles and glows (see also her role as Guinan on Star Trek). In many ways, her teacher is the counterpart to Williams’ in D ead Poets Society, yet the inspirational power attributed to her seems inconsistent with the way her role was written. She is denied depth and screen-time, which also hampers her ability to fully inhabit the character.

Director Roodt seems to have filmed Mbongeni Ngema’splay itself; few changes have been made for the screen. Yet despite artistic integrity, the two mediums don’t mix well.

Serious and violent scenes continue for less than a few minutes when suddenly (and awkwardly) everyone breaks out into calypso-tinged song.

Even a funeral feels like Club Med. The two aspects of drama and music continually undercut each other, de­ pleting both of their potential. Poor editing also plagues the film, hinder­ ing the beauty of the music and the intensity of the struggle.

The play has been retained in most of its original form, but it does make it less effective as a film; that which makes it a tour-de-force on stage hurts it on celluloid. There are loose ends throughout the movie. A character named Joe is rumoured to be a serious threat to the establishment, then forgotten for the rest of the film.

Yet if for no other reason, this movie must be seen for the self-af­ firming performance of Khumalo and her young co-stars, many of whom are actually from South Africa. It seems ironic that while Mandela has been free for four years and apartheid banned for two, the music these chil­ dren make is only now being widely heard.

Sarafina! rates a 5 out of 10.

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Barry Levinson’s Homicide, only in Baltimore you say?

BY KATE GIBBS Just as TwinPeaks belied David Lynch’s West Coast sympathies, the premiere of Barry Levinson’s televi­ sion program looks to make his home town Baltimore the Seattle of Prague.

After the success of Diner (1982) everything Levinson touched turns to Baltimore, and Homicide is no excep­ tion. However, his touch is not Midas— rumour has it his latest holiday release Toys was best left under the tree un­ touched.

Thankfully those of us high on the opium of the masses (with cable) will watch anything.

Following the Superbowl, Barry Levinson ’s Homicide: Life on the Street aired on NBC last Sunday night. The series is based on the nonfictional ac­ count, Homocide: A Year on the Kill­ ing Streets, written by David Simon, a reporter for the Baltimore Sun. Judg­ ing from the hour-long pilot. Homicide looks like a show with a difference; a cops and robbers show without the cops and robbers.

The first character encountered within the scope of the camera is police detective Steve Crossetti (Jon Polito from Miller's Crossing). Combing for clues, Crossetti muses: “Life is a mys­ tery, just accept it...the quest is what matters— not finding but looking.”

The “looking” done by the hand­ held cameras is controlled enough to avoid sea sicknes s while retaining grass roots feel. Time lapses are executed with splices of the Film 101 calibre.

Indeed some of the drive-by sequences look like they might have been in­ cluded in a Cougar, pardon me Mellencamp video—very “R-O-C-K in the U.S.A.” The cerebral pretext is rein­ forced with snappy dialogue. Clichés are kept to a dull roar. It is difficult to ignore lines like “life is a veil of tears.”

The first episode of Homicide quickly established the personality conflicts within the precinct which appear to be the crux of the series.

Beau Felton (Daniel “yet an­ other” Baldwin), the white cop with a foul attitude, is quickly paired with Detective Frank Pembleton (André Brauger) the preppy black policeman.

Felton’s apparent underlying racism allows these two characters to spark off one another such that it is unfortu­ nate that his look; (polo shirt no tie) is

very Crockett.

Pembleton, on the other hand, is at first taste totally above board. How­ ever, he manages to ‘convince’ an of­ fender that he would be better off without legal counsel. Equating inter­ rogation with “an act of salesmanship” smacks of Tin Men (also by Levinson) does it not?

The least-likely member of the cast is gritty stand-up comic Richard Belzer as Detective John Munch. Get­ ting angry at a lying suspect, Munch turns on the poor kid with a barrage of “I ’m not Montel Williams!” Manipu­ lating the identity of this contemporary talkshow host as a metaphor for sec­ ond-rate is so Nineties.

The content is character and production value is totally post mod­ em (to’ po’ mo’). The cast is littered

with so many eclectic personalities that Homicide begins to look like a John Waters movie, but that’s OK, Waters is another Baltimorian.

Perhaps H om icide is best watched as a herald of better syndi­ cated television to come. More big screen film producers are following in the footsteps of the likes of Lynch, Lucas, and Levinson and are producing/directing TV shows. Even the likes of Robert DeNiro look to be getting a little boob tube action in his upcoming Tribeca, a compendium of New York stories. As long as the future is as free of Sophia Coppola as possible, it sounds pretty good.

Homicide will air on Wednes­ days 9-10pm on NBC. As real as a day at the spa with a Beverly Hills teen, Homicide rates a 90156 out o f 90210.

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Sports Doc Harvard and theNuge: Profiles of Excellence B Y PAM ELA TR A V ER S

F o r P au l W atson, nick­ n a m e d ‘H a r v a r d ’ by h is team m ates, and Andrea Nugent, otherw ise known as ‘N uge,’ the term s ‘e x c e lle n c e ’ o r ‘o v er­ achievem ent’ have b eco m e es­ sentially en g rav ed into their p ortfolios. B oth integral m em ­ b ers o f the M cG ill Varsity Swim Team , they hav e b ecom e accu s­ tom ed through numerous years o f h ard w ork, p ersev eran ce and n a tu ra l a b ility to c o m p e te against C an ad a’s as w ell as som e o f the w orld’s best swim­ ming athletes, and a re key to a n o th e r top ten fin is h f o r M cG ill’s Varsity Swim Team in on e o f the m ost com petitive o f in ter-colleg iate sports a t the CIAU level.

y e a r’s U .S . O lym pic T rials, which is distinguished as one of the toughest w orld-class co m ­

arises from studying all day.”

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petitions o f its kind.

W as ton is currently ranked 26th in the world for his 100m backstroke and 49th in the 20 0 m backstroke and has yet to lose a 100m backstroke race this sea­ son.

Aside from his achieve­ ments as an athlete, W atson has consistently distinguished him ­ self academ ically as well. He

h a v in g a tte n d e d M c G ill, W atson has m erely followed in the footsteps o f his family. But he was attracted by m ore than M cG ill’ s reputation and M on­ treal’s culturally diverse setting.

“The medical education or training I will receive here is better than that which I could have received in the States as here there is a greater emphasis on ‘hands-on’ training which I feel is integral to a com prehen­

A s for the ‘N u g e,’ whose com petitive swimming career has lasted but nine years, the last eight o f which have been w ith the C anadian N ational Team , life in the fast lane only seem s to be getting faster.

Nugent, who com es from M ontreal, has not only been an integral m em ber o f two C om ­ monwealth G am es squads, but has also competed in the past

entered Harvard as a sophomore because o f advanced placem ent

Paul Watson, “Doc Harvard” W atson, a third-year medi­ cal student at M cG ill, is no stranger to high perform ance.

N ot only did he finish a fouryear biology degree at Harvard U niversity in three years, he com peted at the N C A A Cham ­ pionships for two out o f his three years with H arvard ’s varsity swim team .

In his first year at Harvard, the Arm onk, N Y native won the gold medal in both the 1 00 and 2 0 0-y ard backstroke events at the E astern Championships and qualified in both his second and third year for the N C A A Cham ­ pionships, where, in his final year, he managed to place 13th in the 2 0 0 -y a r d b ack stro k e event.

Although forced to take a year o ff from com petition in 1 9 9 1 , his first year o f M edicine at M cG ill, as C IA U rules de­ mand, his second and, now, third-year with the M cG ill var­ sity swim team have been par­ ticularly successful.

In his past two years he has won every 50m backstroke event, ev e ry 100m . backstroke event but two, and lastly, every 2 0 0 m b ack stro k e ev en t but three. He has broken every M cG ill backstroke record and numerous other pool records at various m eets throughout Que­ bec and Ontario. He placed sec­ ond and third in last year’s CIAU Championships in the 100m and 2 00m backstroke events respec­ tively, and com peted in last

from high school and won a Harvard Scholarship each year thereafter.

In his past two years in M cG ill M edicine W atson has remained in the top ten per cent o f his class, making both the A cadem ic All-Canadian H on­ our R oll and the P rin cip al’s Honour list. Veritably an om i­ nous acad em ic-ath letic p res­ ence in com parison to the aver­ age university student, W atson remains a conscientious, m od­ est individual who finds the balancing o f his m edical stud­ ies and swim training challeng­ ing.

“It’s not easy, as it leaves little time for other ‘things’ so com m only associated with the university life ,” W atso n re ­ m a rk e d . “ M e d ic in e its e lf doesn’t leave m e a great deal of time to go out a lot and with swimming on top o f that, the re ’ s even less time. But swimming is a great sport, it helps m e e s­ cape from my hectic academ ic schedule and allows for the re­ lease o f a lot o f the tension which

sive m edical training or educa­ tion,” he noted.

“H e ’s probably one o f the best student-athletes M cG ill Athletics has ever had and al­ though he has yet to be recog­ nized as such by either the Ath­ letic Aw ards Banquet or the A thlete-of-the-W eek honours, the team holds him in very high esteem ,” stated m en ’s team cap­ tain W ade M itchell. “N ot only are his feats in workout and at m eets astounding but his capa­ bilities as an academ ic keep us all m otivated and geared to­ wards high-performance in eve­ rything we d o.”

“Paul is an essential co m ­ ponent o f our team as his dedi­ cation to both his studies and to sw im m ing is exem plary to both the rookies and veterans on our team ,” com m ented head coach Fran çois Laurin. “Although his schedule doesn’t allow him to attend every w orkout, every time h e ’s in the w ater he gives 110 p ercent and this really gives the other sw im m ers the impetus to train just as hard.”

two O lym pic G am es, She won a bronze medal in 1 9 8 8 as a part o f the w om en’s 4 X 100m med­ ley relay team and, as captain of the 1 9 9 2 w om en’s squad, an 1 1th in the 50m freestyle, 16th in the 100m freestyle and sixth as part o f the 4 X 100m medley relay at last sum m er’s Olym­ pics in Barcelona.

She has travelled exten­ sively with the National team competing in various W orld Cup events, where she has consist­ ently placed in the top three in both the sprint freestyle and butterfly events. She is currently the Canadian record holder in both the 50m and 100m free­ style events and has yet to lose a race in the 50m , 100m , 200m freestyles or the 50m and 100m butterfly events at the C IA U level in her past three years of competition.

A s a part o f M cG ill’s var­ sity swim team from 1 9 8 9 until 1 9 9 1 , Nugent helped the team maintain its top-ten status in the cou n try. D uring 1 9 9 1 - 1 9 9 2 , Nugent joined the University o f

C algary Swim Club in order to train with m ost o f C anada’s N a­ tional team in preparation for the upcom ing O lym pics. H av­ ing successfully com peted in Barcelona, she has now returned to M cG ill to com plete her stud­ ies in m odem languages and once again aid the swim team on its drive to the C IA U ch am ­ pionships. The m ix o f the rigor­ ous training schedule o f sw im ­ ming with her academ ics in­ v o lv e s c o m p r o m is e , s a y s Nugent.

“Balancing it all really de­ pends on what level you ’re co m ­ peting at,” Nugent observed.

“Here at M cG ill it would be almost impossible to com pete internationally, as the academ ic standards and demands are far too gruelling to permit long pe­ riods away during the middle o f a sem ester. Com peting at the C IA U level just within Canada and primarily within Quebec and Ontario makes scheduling a lot easier so I can m anage to balance my studies with sw im ­ ming and stay on top o f things.

F o rtu n a te ly , F ra n k [c o a c h François Laurin] is very acco m ­ m odating to the sw im m er’s needs and in many cases sacri­ fices much o f his own time to m eet adverse schedules and keep m yself and others up with the training program .” “ Andrea has a great work ethic, she knows what to do and when to do it, “ says Laurin. “ W h en it c o m e s to w o rk , whether in the pool or in her courses, she knows how to fo­ cus and get the job done. W hen she does have an international meet in the middle o f the se­ m ester she is able to schedule her academ ics accordingly and is always there to com pete to the best o f her ability.” said Laurin.

O f all C IA U sports, sw im ­ ming is one o f the highest in calibre as all com petitions in­ volve swimming againstnationally ranked and w orld-class ath­ letes. The C IA U C ham pion­ ships in M arch is billed as one o f the fastest and most com peti­ tive meets in North A m erica as many a Canadian and world record has been set at this meet.

M ost, if not all the medal win­ ners are m em bers o f the C ana­ dian National Team and from this m eet the FIS U (Interna­ tional Federation o f University Swimming) team is chosen for the W orld University Games.

M cG ill V a rs ity S w i m Team ’ s next m eet is the Quebec Championships, February 1314.

The McGill Tribune, February 2-8,1993

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M artlets not th at bad after all MARTLETS BISHOPS

A fter w itnessing the domination, the question be­ com es not “when did McGill get so good?” but “ how can Bishop’s be so B A D ?” . This is a team that would possibly be better if they played with­ out sticks.

T o be fair, B ish o p ’ s hockey is going through a rough patch. Without the star players most teams have, the Polar Bears have had trouble remaining competitive, but have endured murmurs of the program being dropped.

Martlet captain Fournier was honest. “I respect Bish­ op ’s for even icing a team and keeping their program alive. T hey’ve had a lot of trouble.” Of course, ‘alive’ is a very subjective term.

That is not to say that the Martlets are enjoying their finest season. On Sunday af­ ternoon, they travelled' to Concordia and were thrashed 12-2 by the Stingers. Team sc o rin g le a d e r B re n d a Benson scored both McGill goals.

“W e tried a little differ­ ent game plan,” said Martlet coach G eoff Phillips. “W e covered their stars and forced them into taking shots from

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The M cG ill M artlets hockey team cam e out of last weekend with mixed reviews.

A fter a 5-1 rout of Bishop’s on Friday night, the team trav­ elled to Concordia and lost big.

The Martlets led Bish­ op ’s wire-to-wire. McGill led the game 2 -0 only 1:4 0 into the gam e, with goals scored

by A ly so n F o u rn ie r and B re n d a B e n so n . M o n ica Cerm igniani’s slapshot off the goalie’s face and Mélanie B o u rq u e ’ s secon d -p erio d goal put McGill up 4 -0 be­ fore Bishop’s snuck a goal in, doubling their offensive production for the season.

With two goals for and 145 goals against, this year’ s plus-minus leader will prob­ ably not be a Bishop’s Polar Bear.

W endy Bain closed out the scoring, and the Martlets had themselves their second the point. U n fortu n ately, victory of the year. Consid­ that’s where they scored a lot ering the team is out o f the o f their goals.”

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“It can be disappointing because a lot o f scores don’t reflect the quality of our p la y ,” said C erm ign ian i.

“With our lack of experience, we get caught on small er­ rors, and the other team runs up the score,” she said. “ W e w ere able to shadow Laura (Leslie) and Kathy (M orrison), and we were effective, for the most part. It was not a poorlyplayed gam e,” Cermignani added. The pair of Concordia snipers were kept to a goal apiece.

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Choinière pulverizes field; relays come togeth er

BY CH ARLES THOM AS Following the fortunes of the McGill track team is like going to a good magic show: whenever you think the curtain is about to go down, someone either pulls something out o f their hat or crawls out o f the woodwork and surfaces to everyone’ s surprise.

Tw o weeks ago, Jimson L ee and Allan Tissenbaum emerged as that surprise.

And so the scenario was repeated again last weekend at the Cornell Invitational Track meet in Ithaca, N Y , where two other newcomers to the M cGill track team, M élanie Choinière and Tarik Ram ouch, shone to lead the team to its best meet so far this season.

Despite the absence of many o f the team ’s big guns (L in d a T h y e r, M aeve M u ld o w n ey and Je a n Nicholas Duval among oth­ ers), McGill cam e up with its best team effort o f the year, placing each relay team in the top three. The w om en’s 4 x 8 0 0 m team took first place in 9 :5 0 .5 , the m en’ s 4 x 4 0 0 m relay won their race in 3 :2 3 .2 and the m e n ’ s 4 x 8 0 0 m team ’s 8 :0 9 .3 was good for third.

B e st individual p er­ formers were Choinière, first in the w o m e n ’ s m ile in 4 :5 9 .4 9 , Jimson Lee with a silver in the m en’s 200m in 2 2 .4 , and Christian Murray with a fourth-place time o f 1 :57.4 in the m en’ s 800m .

Choinière was most im­ pressive as she completely obliterated the field in the

mile, winning the gold by a margin o f over 100 metres.

The first-year psychol­ ogy student— who had run 1500m races before but never the mile— said that pre-race jitters may have helped her run a fast time. “ I was very nervous be­ fore the race,” said Choinière.

“I w asn’t too sure how to pace m yself— I looked at my watch four times in the first lap. I know I ’m not supposed to do that, but after [that], I just ran [based on] the way I felt. I really felt good in the race.”

Choinière also led off the v ic to r io u s w o m e n ’ s 4 x 8 0 0 m relay team, and her solid debut left assistant co ach M alcolm B alk im ­ pressed and optimistic about what the rookie can add to M cG ill’ s impressive wom­

en’ s mid-distance team. “ M é la n ie w as v e ry strong; [she] definitely brings depth to the team,” said Balk. “ She’ s got a lot o f speed and she’s very com petitive.”

In describing their team, Balk and head coach Dennis Barrett often talk about com p e titiv e n e s s . B u t if the coaches were to talk about senior Christian Murray, they would surely utter the word perseverance.

After three years of frus­ trating injuries, the fourthyear physiology student is finally healthy and is em erg­ ing as one o f the team ’s best hopes for provincials.

Murray attributes some o f his success to the team ’s close-knit atmosphere and to good physiotherapy. “The physios have really helped this year,” said Murray. “The

injury-free thing is a big part o f it, but the big thing is that m y training p artn ers Ian [Fallas], Pat [M errin] and Steve [Shigeishi] are very competitive; that helps us run faster.”

The m eet’s most excit­ ing race was, fittingly, saved for last. In the m en’s 4 x 4 0 0 m relay, McGill pulled off an upset, beating U .S. power­ house Syracuse for the gold.

The race saw both teams e x ­ change the lead four times before M cG ill’ s Ram ouch made a surprise m ove on the inside with less than 100 m e­ tres to go for the com e-from behind win.

The team ’ s next meet will be on February 13 at the C o rs a ire C h a p a ra l Invitational at M on treal’ s Centre Claude-Robillard.

Flakes...taste them again for the first time B Y ANDREW R O S S White weekends like the last are a big bonus for M cG ill’ s Nordic Ski Team, whose season is just waxing into full gear this month.

Snow availability, says team president Jean -M arc Benoit, is the most unpre­ dictable factor the team has to deal with.

“This winter the weather has been totally bizarre. W in­ ter has stopped and started three or four times this sea­ son,” he explained.

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Gatineau Park north of Ot­ tawa, one of the best ski cen­ tres in the country, was cho­ sen as the alternate destina­ tion, but freezing rain pro­ voked a mid-week change of venue to Hardwood Hills near Barrie, Ontario. Tw o days later, the group returned to Gatineau for another day.

T o the casual observer, it would not seem to have been the m ost auspicious training camp. Benoit said the reviews were favourable despite the travelling.

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Even when the snow does fall, otherchallengesrise up before the skiers hit the trails. Like the trails them­ selves.

“Our training centre is the mountain [Mt. Royal], and maintenance o f the trails does not seem to be a big priority for the city people,” B en oit surm ised. “ A few times there has been gravel dumped on [parts of] the trail.

W e don’t know why.”

The city did clear a trail wide enough for ‘ skating’style skiing but according to

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Benoit, it was a “very rocky piece of ground” that would only be useful with a lot of snow cover. However, last weekend’s deluge of snow will probably do the job.

M cG ill’ s N ordic Ski Team also suffers acutely from the lack of an intercol­ legiate circu it. Ironically, while Quebec has arguably the m ost vibrant cross-coun­ try ski community of any province, this does not in­ clude university competition.

“Laval [University] is the only other university with a ski team. But Quebec is a great skiing province,” club vice-president Steve Gentles elaborated. “The Coupe du Quebec races are really fast and competitive. T h ey’re the top Quebec competitions.”

T o c o m p e te in the Coupe du Québec races re­ quires registration with the Fédération de Ski du Québec (FSQ ). W hile on board last year, the McGill executive w asn’t impressed with the support it was given by the FSQ , especially regarding the possible organization of an intercollegiate race on MtRoyal.

W hile collective racing and intercollegiate competi­ tion would seem to be funda­ mental characteristics o f any university athletic team, the

onus of performance in cross­ country lies with its indi­ vidual members, not all of whom are interested in rac­ ing p e r se.

Although B en oit’s per­ sonal dream is of a racing team, he acknowledges the actual team concept is loose and rewards don’t usually com e in the form o f racing victories. Practices are vol­ untary and coaching is given informally by members of the team, including form er na­ tional team members.

“W e were trying to think of a word like ‘com petitive’ to describe our attitude but without the connotation o f feeling a need to win races." he explained. “I wish there was a word to describe that.”

Last week, club skiers com p eted in O ttaw a and Gatineau Park, in their first intercollegiate races in recent memory. Some of the best national-calibre Ontario uni­ versity skiers participated, and the M cGill skiers put on a strong showing despite in­ hospitably slushy conditions.

N ext weekend Benoit will lead a dozen skiers to the Winterlude events in Ottawa.

Benoit himself finished fifth in last year’ s triathlon - an event that comprises legs of speed skating, skiing andrunning.

The McGill Tribune. February 2-8.1993

Sports Notes T h y e r a n d D u v a l to c o m p e t e in w o r ld c ro s s ­ c o u n t r y c h a m p io n s h ip s M c G ill cro ss-co u n try ru n n ers L in d a T h y e r and Je a n -N ic h o la s D u val h a v e b e e n n am ed to C a n a d a ’ s team fo r the w orld c ro ss -co u n try ch am p io n sh ip s to b e held M a rc h 2 8 in S p ain . T h e team w as sele c te d last w eek e n d at th e C a n a d ia n tria ls in V ic to r ia , B .C .

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M c G i l l s q u a s h v ic tim s o f t h e n u m b e r s g a m e T ie b re a k ers re a lly g o t th e b est o f th e M c G ill squ ash tea m last w eek en d as th e team ended up in sev en th p la ce at the O U A A c h a m p io n ­ ship tou rnam ent held at R y e rso n C o lle g e in T o ro n to .

D e sp ite h a v in g tied ev en tu al sec o n d -p la ce fin is h e r Q u e e n ’s 3 - 3 in th e first round, the M c G ill re p resen tativ es w ere releg ated to the c o n s o ­ latio n round b e ca u se , in the e v en t o f a tie, th e w in n er is d eterm in ed by a cou n t o f the total n u m b e r o f g am es w on and lo st— Q u e e n ’s c a m e out o n top b y tw o ind ividu al g a m es. M c G ill’s Ju lia n S k in n e r p u lled a c a lf m u sc le w h ich a ffe cte d the o u tco m e o f the w h o le Q u c e n ’ s -M c G ill series.

R e le g a te d to the c o n so la tio n sid e, th e team o n c e ag ain lo st a 3 -3 tie b re a k er, th is tim e to fifth -p la c e M cM a ste r. T h is tim e, b o th te a m s w ere tied in n u m b e r o f g a m e s w on and lo st, and p la y e rs ’ total ind ividu al p o in ts had to b e com p ared .

In the fig h t fo r sev en th p la c e ag ain st h o st team R y e rso n , M c G i ll ’s lu c k fin a lly ch a n g ed . T h e R e d m e n lam b asted the R a m s 6 - 0 .

F ir s t p la c e w ent to W e ste rn , w ith Q u e e n ’ s and T o ro n to tak in g seco n d and third.

M c G ill ’ s R ich a rd W h iteh ea d m an ag ed h is b e s t e v e r p e rfo rm a n ce , g o in g u n d efeated throu gh ou t the to u rn am en t, w h ile D a v e B e h m , M o ­ h am m e d A b d el H am id , A nd rew T h o m p so n and G ra e m e B u rt had id en tica l 2 -1 re co rd s. T h e in ju red S k in n e r h o b b led to a 1 -2 reco rd .

T h e tou rn am en t is th e last hurrah fo r gradu atin g p lay ers B e h m , A b d el H am id and S k in n e r.

L a s t c h a n c e m e e t i n g f o r p r o s p e c t iv e s a ilo rs T h e M c G ill sa ilin g clu b w ill h av e a gen eral m eetin g o n F eb ru a ry 11 th at 7 :0 0 pm in ro o m 3 0 5 at th e C u rrie G y m fo r all m em b ers w h o w ish

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COMMITTEES Communications Committee 3 Students at large This committee is comprised of the President, the Vice- President of Internal Affairs, the Program Coordinator, two Councillors, and three members-afforge. The main objective of the committee is to foster communication between the membership-atlarge and the Students' Council and committees.

le a g u e p la y , re c e iv e d 2 4 p oints fro m ro o k ie V ic k y T e ss ie r . O th e r M a rtle ts in d o u b le d ig its w ere J a n e R o s s ( 1 5 ) , Jo s é e D e lo re tto ( 1 4 ) , and D e b b y M o rse (1 0 ).

T h e R e d m e n a lso b e a t B is h o p ’s , but b y a sig n ific a n tly le ss e r m arg in : 6 0 - 5 3 . T h e w in snapped their e ig h t-g a m e lo sin g streak ag ain st B is h o p ’s (M c G ill h a d n ’ t d efeated B is h o p ’ s in fiv e y e a rs), and g a v e M c G ill a 5 - 2 re co rd in le a g u e p lay . T o d d M cD o u g a ll led the R ed m en w ith 2 0 p o in ts and 11 rebou n d s. J o n C am p b ell added 14 p o in ts and B r u c e B ird had 10.

C o n co rd ia h o sts M c G ill in a d o u b le-h e a d e r o n T u e sd a y , F e b . 2 .

T h e w o m en w ill p la y at 6 : 3 0 and th e m e n at 8 :3 0 .

O n F rid a y , M c G ill h o sts L a v a l— w ith id en tica l g a m e tim es.

H o c k e y R e d m e n t ie a n d lo s e o n t h e r o a d R o o k ie d e fe n ce m a n D an n y B a in sco red th e ty in g g o a l at 1 8 :1 1 o f th e third period as the R ed m en c a m e b a ck fro m a 5 -1 d e fic it to tie the U n iv e rsity o f W a te rlo o 6 - 6 la st Satu rd ay.

O th e r M c G ill g o a ls c a m e fro m M a rc L u s tig ( 2 ) , G u y B o u c h e r, D av id V e c c h io and M a rk S h e w fe lt. M c G ill o u tsh o t W a te rlo o 3 7 - 2 9 , in clu d in g a 2 0 -3 b a rra g e in th e third. P a tric k Je a n s o n w as b e tw een the p ip es fo r the R ed m en .

O n S u n d a y , M c G ill lo st 1 1 -2 to W ilfre d L a u rie r. N o t s in c e a 13 2 lo ss o n O c to b e r 2 9 , 1 9 8 0 to C o n co rd ia had M c G ill g iv e n up th is m an y g o a ls in le a g u e p la y . D a n n y B a in and D a v id V e c c h io sco re d tw ic e fo r M c G ill, w h o w as ou tshot 4 0 - 3 1 . G o a lie P au lo M ig u e l to o k th e lo ss.

T h e 7 - 7 - 3 R e d m e n w ill h o st W e ste rn at 3 p m Satu rd ay and W in d so r a t 3 p m S u n d ay .

Environment Committee 2 Students at large This committee is to coordinate and oversee all Students' Society programs, activities, and lobbying efforts designed to pro­ tect the environment, and to ensure the continued development and implementation of relevant Students' Society policies.

Food & Beverage Committee 2 Students at large The Food and 8everage Committee is responsible for reviewing policy and recommending and/or acting on suggestions and/or complaints made regarding the food service provided to students.

Polity Review Committee 3 Students at large This committee consists of SSMU President, 3 Councillors the General Manager and 3 Students-at-large. The mandate of the committee is to review all previous policy inscribed in the SSMU policy manual and to recommend changes to counci.

Tribune Publications Board 2 Students at large The Tribune Publications Board is responsible for managing and controlling the finances and legal affairs of the McGill Tribune and for guaranteeing that the objectives of the Tribune are met.

William Shatner University 2 Students at large Centre Committee The William Shatner University Centre Committee is responsible for establishing long term plans for the William Shatner Univer­ sity Centre, including renovations, expansions and leases. The William Shatner University Centre Committee is also responsible for dealing with any issues pertaining to the operation of the William Shatner University Centre.

Deadline is Feb. 12,1993, 5 pm.

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