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The McGill Tribune, March 3-8,1993

What's On Wednesday, March 3

The McGILL MEDICAL FRATERNITY Presents

A LECTURE B Y

Environmental Awareness Week: panel discussion Waste Man­ agement in Montreal: Is Incinera­ tion the Answer? Arts Council Room 160. 6:00-8:00 pm.

Thursday. March 4

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Tuesday, March 9,1993 at 7:00 pm McIntyre Medical Bldg., Rm 522 (Palmer-Howard Amphitheatre)

David Bordwell, James Ledoux Professor of Film Studies at the Uni­ versity of Wisconsin speaks on The Limits of Convention in Film Style.

Leacock 232,4:00 pm.

LBGSC: The Lesbian, Bi­ sexual, and Gay Studies Collective will meet at 7:30 pm on the third floor of Thomson House. All people interested in research and issues pertaining to ‘gay studies’ are wel­ come.

Environmental Awareness Week: Environmental Showcase.

Shatner Ballroom, 10:00 am-3:00 pm.

Dr. Yaacov Ben-David from the Sunnybrook Health Science Centre in Toronto speaks on Molecular and Cel­ lular Function of Oncogenes and Anticogenes in Multistage Friend Erythtoleukemia. 12:00 noon, room 903 McIntyre Medical Sciences Build­ ing.

The Graduate Program in Com­ munications presents: Derrida and Marx. A speech by Professor Gayatri Spivak fromColumbia University. 7:00 pm., Leacock 232.

All Welcome - FREE Q & A Period and Reception to follow lecture

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Friday. March 5 Mark Holder, an alumus of both McGill and Columbia’s graduate jour­

nalism program will be holding an information session for those inter­ ested in applying to the Columbia School of Journalism in the future.

Arts 145 at 3:30 pm.

The McGill Medical Fraternity is having a Bowling Night. We’re meet­ ing at 7:30 pm., at the Medical Annex, 3708 Peel. All welcome.

McGill Latin America Aware­ ness Group and Concordia Latin America Committee present Cuba and the New World Order, a talk by Pro­ fessor Alberto Alvarez Garcia. 4:30 pm. in Leacock 26.

Monday. March 8 Murray Fraser, from the Cancer Research Center at the University of New South Wales in Australia speaks on Endo-exonucleases from E. coli to man: biological roles and relatedness to the single strand-spe­ cific endonucleases.

The Graduate Program in Com­ munications presents: Television in the Northern Frontier of Mexico: a New Form of Cuture. A speech by Professor Soledad Robina of the Instituto Latino-Americano de Estudios Transnacionales—Mexico. 4:00 pm., room 202, 3465 Peel Street.

McGill Latin America Aware­ ness Group, in association with Inter­ national Women’s Week and Associa­ tion Mères de la place de Mai Groupe d’appui de Montreal presents Our Dream, a talk by Argentinian writer Leopoldo Brizuela. 7:00 pm, Arts 160.

Also, Frida Kahlo: self Representa­ tion Identity and Subject, with Concordia art history professor Janice

Helland. 4:00 pm. Leacock 232.

For International Women’s Day, the International Relations Society presents a panel discussion on Gender Relations in an International Per­ spective. WithMarie-LouiseCôté, law­ yer for Saudi Arabian refugee Nada. (other speakers TBA)7:00 pm. Leacock 26 Info: Stephanie Parkin 398-682/ Shatner 430.

Ongoing:

Amnesty International meet­ ings. Every Tuesday at 6:30 pm.

Shatner 435. For more info: 398-1519.

Monday nights. 8:30 pm. Yel­ low Door (basement) Folk Music So­ ciety. Come check it out, or call Stephanie at 933-1330 for info.

Persons with disabilities. On­ going support group for McGill stu­ dents, faculty, and staff. All welcome.

Call Peter or Donna at 398-3601 or 398-6009 for more information.

Do you or some one close to you have AIDS? Please do not feel that you are alone. AIDS Community Care Montreal offers the following support groups. Call 393-0075. All calls are confidential. 1) HIV+ men’s group. 2) HIV+ heterosexual men’s group. 3) HIV+women’s group. 4) bereavement group. 5) family, friends, and partners group. 6)children’splay therapy group.

The McGill Medical Fraternity is organizing a Spring Charity drive.

Food, clothes, toys, books, and house­ hold items are being collected in the McIntyre Medical Building.

The Red Herring.. .does not have a humourous announcement this week.

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The Students' Society of McGill University will be hosting its Third Annual Awards Banquet on March 19, 1993. The SSMU this year has taken great strides to ensure that the awards presented this year are done as fairly as possible. With this in mind the SSMU needs your help to ensure that the aforementioned goal is accomplished. Listed below are the awards and their criteria.

Please submit nominations for awards by March 10, 1993 - 5 :00 P.M. TT'''''-/X/V:X •X T •

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C ou n cillor o f th e Year - This student must be a student representative to the SSMU council. Any councillor nominated should be nominated based on their attendance to SSMU council meetings, their participation at council, and their participation in committees o f council. Councillors will be selecting this student at the March 11th council meeting.

Senator o f th e Year - This student must be a student representative to the University Senate. The student senator nominated should be advocated based on his/her attendance at Senate meetings, attendance at Senate/Board Caucus, and participation in major issues before Senate.

SSMU G roup o f th e Year - This award is given to any SSMU recognized service or dub that has done outstanding work during the 1992/1993 academic year.

Any submissions must indude how the group feels that their organization fits the following criteria: 1) membership, 2) organization and management of their group, 3) dedication and enthusiasm of membership, 4) * of events and/or activities, 5) visibility, 6) effective promotion of their group, 7) improvement over the previous year, and 8) has improved student life at McGilL i rf f i î wtoâaSa®^

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Faculty G roup o f th e Year - This award is given to any group that is recognized by any of the 15 faculty undergraduate associations. Any submissions must include how the group feels that their organization fits the following criteria: 1) membership, 2) organization and management of their group, 3) dedication and enthusiasm of membership, 4) * of events and/or activities, 5) visibility, 6) effective promotion of their group, 7) improvement over the previous academic year, and 8) has improved student life in th eir faculty.

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SSMU Event o f th e Year - Any event that has been organized by the SSMU vis-a-vis Programming Netowrk, and has taken place during the 1992/1993 academic year can apply. All nominations must describe how this event fit the following criteria: 1) student attendance and participation, 2) organization, 3) publicity campaign, 4) whether event was memorable. : : Faculty Event o f the Year - Any event that has been organized by a faculty, undergraduate society (directly or indirectly) can be nominated for this award. All nominations must describe how their faculty fits the following criteria: 1) faculty member involvement, 2) organization, 3) visibility - publicity campaign, and 4) whether students in general became aware of their faculty's existence.

SSMU Awards o f Contribution - Five awards will be presented to students who have made a substantial contribution to the SSMU. All applicants will be evaluated based on the following criteria: 1) quality of work, 2) time commitment to the SSMU, and 3) extent of contribution.

SSMU Social A w areness Campaign o f th e Year - Any Serial Awareness Campaign Nominations should fit the following criteria: 1) bringing important social issues to the attention of the McGill community and raising jthe public awareness o f this particular issue, 2) initiative, 3) publicity campaign, and 4) schedule of events. Any Faculty group, SSMU group or other student groups can apply for this award.

SSMU C om m unity Project Award - This award is given to those projects that have benefitted the Montreal community at large. Special attention shall be made to the following criteria: 1) benefit to the society at large, 2) McGill student involvement, 3) publicity campaign, and 4) organization. Please note that this award category includes any charity fund-raising drives.

The group, faculty or person may nom inate them selves for an award The following m ust be submitted: 1) on a sheet of paper indicate what award Is being applied for, 2) in a half page to a one page summary indicate why you or your group should receive the award applied for (follow criteria) Please subm it c /o Awards Selction Committee, Maria Keenan at the SSMU Front Counter, in the Shatner Building.

Deadline is MARCH 10th.

A student may nom inate another student, group or faculty for an award . w You can subm it the nam e of the student, group or faculty that you are nom inating and a num ber Where they can be contacted to the following person: Committee, at the SSMU front counter in the Shatner Building.

Deadline for these nom inations Is MARCH 8th.

c /o Maria Keenan, SSMU Awards Selection

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Judicial Board ruling upholds CRO decision

BY RICH LATOUR

A February 16 Students’ Soci­ ety (SSMU) Judicial Board ruling unanimously upheld the society’s coChief Returning Officers’ (CRO) de­ cision to allow presidential candidate Amy Ridley into this week’s SSMU presidential campaign, despite the fact Ridley’s nomination form was submit­ ted one day late.

Ridley submitted her nomina­ tion form with its required 100 signa­ tures on February 11 in her bid to become SSMU President in next week’s student elections. Ridley told co-CROs William Stee and Regina Yang that personal reasons had pre­ vented her from getting her nomina­ tion form in on time. Stee and Yang accepted her form in late.

Their decision prompted an ap­ peal to the SSMU Judicial Board— the ultimate interpreter of the SSMU Con­

stitution— by U2 Arts student and current Arts Undergraduate Society VP Finance Corey Cook, who argued the CROs did not act “with all due dili­ gence and impartiality,” as required by Section 11.1 of the SSMU Constitu­ tion.

“The CRO does not have the power to re-open the nominations,” Cook stated to the Board. “There are no ‘maybes’ or ‘extenuating circum­ stances’in the constitution for theCROs to re-open nominations. The authors of the constitution would have [other­ wise] put in a ‘maybe’ clause, but there is nothing to show that was their in­ tent.”

Cook also claimed the only ex­ ception for the CRO extending the nomination period was provided for in Section 2.2, which enables the CRO to extend the nomination period “by five working days if fewer than two candi­ dates are nominated for that position.”

McGill students protest P alestin ian hunger strike

But Stee clarified that he and Yang had not extended the nomination period as such, but had rather accepted Ridley’s late on the basis of the ex­ tenuating circumstances of her ap­ peal.

“We did not extend it. There was no public declaration of the sort,” stated Stee to the Board.

Stee also explained that the lim­ its provided for in Section 2.2 with respect to the CRO’s ability to extend the nomination deadlines was not ex­ clusive.

“That’s not the only reasonthere’s nothing in the constitution that says it is the only reason,” said Stee.

“There are many situations that cannot be covered for in a constitution or by­ laws. It calls for judgment.”

Yang brought up the fact that the CROs permit candidates’ debates to take place, despite the fact nothing provided for debates in the constitu­

tion.

Cook also brought up the claim that he felt Ridley had misled the CROs in explaining her situation. Cook re­ counted how he had been sitting in The Alley on Feburary 11, the morning after the nomination forms were due, and that he had overheard Ridley claiming she had decided to run in a bid to stop incumbent President Jason Prince from winning re-election.

But Ridley denied those accu­ sations.

“A case has been made about Jason,” said Ridley, who refused to divulge the exact nature of her extenu­ ating circumstances to the Board. “I said I would be the best candidate and I hope anyone who is running for a position such as this would feel the same way [about themself].”

Yang stated that she and Stee had no reason not to believe Ridley’s reasons, and accepted her nomination

form to “enhance the electoral process to have another candidate, not detract from it .”

In its ruling, the Board rejected Cook’s Section 2.2 arguments that the CROs did not have the constitutional power to accept Ridley’s nomination form.

“The CROs do have the discre­ tion to extend particular deadlines un­ der extenuating circumstances,” stated Mark Piibe on behalf of the four-mem­ ber Board. “This Board is in no posi­ tion to overturn their decision.”

Cook was graceful in his ac­ ceptance of the Board’s decision.

“I wouldn’thavecomeifldidn’t think my principles were right,” Cook told the Tribune. “But I’ll respect their decision.”

Campaigning for this year’s elections continues throughuntilMonday, while voting will take place next week, Tuesday through Thursday.

PSC, Hillel show up at council

BY JANE WHITE AND RICH LATOUR

A year-high 40 students, most Arafat disagreed, arguing that from the Palestine Solidarity Commit­ the violation of human rights and the tee (PSC) and McGill’s Hillel House, showed up at the February 18 Stu­ denial of due process to the deportees Two weeks ago, several students are the issues which need to be ad­ dents’ Society (SSMU) Council meet­ ing, and participated in a 90-minute held candlelight vigils protesting a 3- dressed. day hunger strike held by the Palestine “Even if they [deportees] were debate with councillors following SSMU President Jason Prince’s in­ Solidarity Committee (PSC).

Hamas supporters, noneof this has been volvement in what many consider a The hunger strike, held the pre­ proven for sure,” he defended. ‘They vious week, was organized to protest [Israel’s government] claim they are politically divisive issue.

The PSC had requested that the expulsion of 415 Palestinians from terrorists. There have not been more the West Gaza Strip into a zone be­ hyena-like human rights violations than SSMU officially endorse its Feh.9-11 tween Lebanon’s southern border and those committed by the Nazis against hunger strike, which took place in the Shatner Building to protest the expul­ Israel. the Jews, but even these Nazi animals The protest vigils were held out­ had a right to due process of law where sion of 415 Palestinians from Israel.

But Hillel was opposed to such side of the Shatner University Centre they were found guilty and served their a motion, and, along with councillors, and at the Roddick Gates, with demon­ terms in prison, whatever these may condemned Prince for his outspoken strators wearing placards bearing the be.” views on the issue. names of victims of terrorist violence in Liebman did not feel the school “Does Mr. Prince honestly feel Israel. should be involved in this conflict.

Howard Liebman, an Israeli ac­ “We saw danger in SSMU in­ that students will completely separate him from this council?” demanded tivist involved inTAGAR, a worldwide volvement in the PSC hunger strikes.

Zionist organization, felt the hunger People are generally unaware of the Architecture Rep Greg Schron during Question Period. “I’m not arguing' strike only addressed one side of the fundamentalist threat facing Israel and about [Prince’s] right to participate, deportation issue. we felt they should know about this but is that appropriate action for the “It is an attempt by the PSC and issue,” he explained.

GUPS [General Union of Palestinian Arafat maintained SSMU sup­ president of SSMU?” Prince stated he felt an elected Students] leadership from outside to port was necessary. muster up support for the Palestinian “I definitely believe the univer­ official should still be able to maintain side,” stated Liebman. “It was done sity, council, or SSMU should take a personal and political beliefs.

“I’m sure we have some differ­ effectively, but did not address the real stand on this issue, given the precedent issue. It offered strictly a Palestinian of condemning South Africa in 1985 for ence of opinions,” responded Prince.

“I’m not trying to represent students of PSC P r e s id e n t Y o u s s e f A r a fa t perspective.” its human rights violations. It is further PSC President Youssef Arafat my belief that we are dealing with a McGill. I’m not trying to represent b y S tu d e n ts ' C o u n c il disagreed with this assessment of the human rights issue, not a political de­ members of this Council. These are my used for the Palestine-Israel issue. beliefs.” situation. bate as many of the pro-Zionist groups “This council should not be But Science Rep Aubrey ‘The Hillel and TAGAR decided on campus would have us believe,” he turned into a forum for an Israeli-Arab Kassirer alluded to a letter Prince wrote to hijack the whole event and redefine it exclaimed. debate,” noted Schron. from its proper context of human rights Both Liebman and Hillel Presi­ to the February 16issueofthe7>/bime, Senate/Board Rep Robert violations against Palestinians and re­ dent Daniel Koffler expressed satisfac­ in which Prince described what SSMU Valdmanis agreed with Schron. was doing about the PSC’s request, introduce it as an attempt by the SSMU tion with the response to the vigils.

“In a recent Tribune poll, there and his personal stand on the issue.

[Students ’ Society] to endorse and sup­ ‘The support we got was great. I was some 66 per cent of students who Kassirernoted that Prince signed did not believe SSMU should take po­ port Hamas and other terrorist organi­ was personally stopped while wearing a the letter as “SSMU President,” and zations,” he claimed.

Mamie Himmelman button, and people sitions on political issues,” stated asked whether this constituted a con­ Valdmanis.

Liebman defined the objectives told me that they knew her and that they of the rally. supported what we were doing,” ex­ flict of interest.

Councillors refused to grant PSC “I made it very clear that SSMU ‘The purpose of the rally is to try plained Koffler, referring to Canadian President Youssef Arafat speaking had not acted on this yet,” defended rights because the PSC had not submit­ to educate people about the wave of Marnie Himmelman who was killed by Prince, whose overnight participation fundamentalist terror in the Middle East, Islamic fundamentalists in Israel last ted a notice of motion. in the strike waived the $50-an-hour to sensitize, to understand that these summer.

Science Rep Aubrey Kassirer porter’s fees to keep the building open.

415 deportees are members of groups A petition opposing the coun­ presented a notice of motion which “[In the letter] I talk about the execu­ causing terrorist violence in the Middle cil’s decision topass a resolution against would propose that SSMU not take tive and council— it would be absurd positions on political issues that do not East. Secondly, when the President of the deportations was circulated around to leave [my title] off. the SSMU was approached to pass an campus on Thursday 18. It was organ­ affect McGill.

“It was perfectly within my anti-Israel policy condemning ized by the Student Coalition for a Just Commenting on the debate, stu­ rights to state my personal points.” deportations, wethoughtstudents should Peace in the Middle East and collected dents from the gallery were divided.

Some councillors were dis­ know who was deported,” he stated.

517 signatures in a few hours.

“This is a student council. We turbed that council time was being

BY SANCHARI CHAKRAVARTY

is r e fu s e d s p e a k in g r ig h t s

should discuss [the Arab-Israeli con­ flict] because there are at least 500 Arabs in this university,” U3 Manage­ ment student Edward Maui told the Tribune. “We should have discussed this. It’s just going to come back next time and council will probably post­ pone it again.”

But U1 Arts student Micha Gottlieb agreed with the majority of councillors in their decision not to dis­ cuss the situation.

“I think that they made the right decision because council is not the place to be discussing a complicated issue such as this,” said Gottlieb.

“Council should arrange a proper de­ bate.”

Kassirer’s motion is intended to go back to each faculty student asso­ ciation for discussion, and is expected to return to council at a March 18 meeting.

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McGill Tribune, March 3-8,1993

N ew s B rie fs Prince misquoted; he ’s only “tem porarily insane”

Southern Africa Committee may be next...

During Question Period at Students’ Society’s (SSMU) February 18 meeting, Athletics Rep James Stewart asked SSMU President Jason Prince whether he still felt capable of carrying out his presidential duties, in light of a February 9 Daily article in which Prince pleaded “insanity.” Prince, an ardent supporter of zero tuition, had pleaded insane following his suggestion at a February 4 Senate meeting to increase student fees in order to better support McGill’s libraries.

“I was misquoted,” exclaimed an excited Prince in response to Stewart’s question. “I only pleaded temporary insanity...”

Responding to a question from Architecture Rep Greg Schron, VP University Affairs Monique Shebbeare acknowl­ edged the Southern Africa Committee (SAC)— an official committee of council— will most likely come up for review in the near future.

Schron complained SAC selects its own chairs instead of going through the Internal Nominating Committee like all other committees of council. Schron also wondered why it had submitted only one report to council and questioned its support of the February 9-11 Palestine Solidarity Committee hunger strike to protest Israel’s deportation of 415 Palestinians.

“SAC is basically a club with a really,really big budget,” noted Schron. “It’s about time we eliminatedS AC as a commit­ tee and let it function as a club.”

Shebearre defended the committee’s performance this year, and said it had tried to communicate with council as much as possible.

“I think that even if they haven’t been acting like a committee we all know this is an issue we will pursue,” stated Shebbeare.

Nickerson clears up Red Herring issue to council Clubs Rep Olga Patrizi asked SSMU VP Finance Sue Nickerson to clarify the Red Herring’s situation, following a February 16 Tribune article that reported the SSMU’s humour magazine may be on the chopping block due to re-prioritization.

“I was quite surprised to have read what I did about the Red Herring,” stated Patrizi. “Is Students’ Society seriously considering cutting the Red Herring'}” N ickerson responded by pointing out she had mentioned that the SSMU Executive was looking at the priority of each group, and not just at the Herring.

“When we come up with something concrete, I’ll bring it to council,” promised Nickerson.

Dzerowicz “forgets ” the purchase o f banner VP Internal Julie Dzerowicz admitted during Council Question Period that she had forgotten about last semester’s purchase of an all-purpose banner to promote society activities, to be hung behind the Shatner information kiosk.

Dzerowicz admitted her mistake when Clubs Rep Edward Saad— who is running for Dzerowicz’s position in next week’s student elections— noted that a new banner had been provided for last month’s Alcohol Awareness Week.

“That’s a tough one,” responded Dzerowicz. “I’d for­ gotten we had bought the other banner.”

Dzerowicz promised she would find the money neces­ sary to purchase another banner—at an estimated cost of $ 150200—in time for this week’s Environment Awareness Week.

Dzerowicz “loses” Shatner photo VP Internal Julie Dzerowicz also admitted during Ques­ tion Period that she had lost an 8 X 10 inch glossy picture of William Shatner that was to have graced the information kiosk.

Following last year’s referendum to name the building in honour of Rescue 911 host William Shatner, council passed a motion to have SSMU’s stationary reflect that change, and that the society post Shatner's portrait.

“Last year, council and the students voted for the Shatnerization of this building, and you voted for it [as thenClubs Rep to Council],” said Arts Rep Jon Ablett toDzerowicz.

“Why is there no Shatner picture in the kiosk?”

Dzerowicz later responded that she had received the picture—only to have misplaced it.

“He has gone where I cannot find him,” admitted Dzerowicz. “I’ll have to order another one, andl apologizefor this awful delay. It hasn’t honestly been one of my top priorities.”

THE TRIBUNE IS LOOKING FOR COLUMNISTS FOR NEXT YEAR. SUFFICIENTLY RECTANGU­ LAR WRITERS WHO ARE INTERESTED SHOULD SEE THE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF IN B-0IA

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The Post Graduate Students' Society (PGSS) Wednesday, March 10,1993 at 6 p.m.

Thomson House 3650 McTavish Street

Come meet the candidates for the positions of Vice-President, Internal Affairs; Vice-President, Finance; and Senator (Professional).

Find out what the current PGSS Executives and Council have been doing for you, as a graduate student, this year.

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You can also meet the PGSS members who have been acclaimed to the positions of President; Vice-President, University Affairs; and Vice-President, External Affairs, as well as the representatives to the Board of Governors.

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President V.P. Production V.P. Finance V.P. Public Relations Technical Director Administrative Assistant

Bring another graduate student with you!

Refreshments will be served I f you have any questions regarding the Annual General Meeting, please contact the Vice-President, Administration at

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TODAY’S RESULTS INCLUDE: • Arts ’93 • M acdonald C am pus ’93 TOTAL $20,200 as of February 26,1993 Vs

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Elections 95 Presidential candidates divided on issues The McGill Tribune, March 3-8,1993

BY BENOIT JACQMOTTE

Most candidates in this year’s wide-open race share many of the same goals but differ on some key issues.

The candidate’s experience and their positions on equity issues and on whether to address issues of broad so­ cial concern will affect how students vote next week.

Incumbent President Jason Prince is attempting to win re-election this year after what he acknowledged was a difficult term. Running on an ‘Equity’ slate with four other candi­ dates, Prince wants to create a VP Eq­ uity position to address equity issues within the society and the university level.

Prince wants increased student representation on key decision-making bodies, such as the Budget Planning Group and the Coordinating Commit­ tee on Student Services (CCSS). He also plans to roll back SSMU executive salaries to what he considers more realistic levels.

In last year’s election, Prince promoted the General Assembly as a forum in which to address issues of

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broad social concern. “Our primary role is to take a stand on issues such as these,” Prince said. “Students are the consciousness, for God’s sake, of this civilization. If we are not taking aposition on these issues, who is?”

U2 Science student Belinda Grondin explained her reasons for run­ ning. “I was frustrated with the work­ shops of the SSMU General Assem­ bly,” she says. “It’s hard to work within the system.” Grondin said her involve­ ment in the Frosh program and the Ahletics Department would guide her in the position.

She plans on coordinating a se­ ries of informal workshops based on the General Assembly to gamer stu­ dent imput.

While she agreed to the princi­ ple of equity promotion. Grondin did not support the creation of the VP Eq­ uity position. Citing the society’s cur­ rent financial situation, she says the issues could be dealt with effectively within the current SSMU framework.

Grondin expressed concern that SSMU would divide its members by addressing social issues. “We should represent all students as best we can,

U n c r o w d e d fie ld s fo r U n iv e r s ity & E x te r n a l A ffa ir s

BY ALEX USHER

The positions of External Af­ fairs and University Affairs are the ‘political’ positions on the SSMU Ex­ ecutive. Unlike the essentially admin­ istrative portfolios of Finance and In­ ternal Affairs, these two Executives must concern themselves almost en­ tirely with lobbying both government and the university on issues like tuition fees and equity.

University Affairs The race for VP University Af­ fairs this year is between ‘Equity’ can­ didate Deborah Gomes and Ruth Promislow.

Gomes, whose experience lies mainly in work with the Black Stu­ dents’ Network, says her priorities are promoting racial and gender equity at McGill. As VP University Affairs, Gomes says she would fight for more equity in faculty hiring and pressure the university for the establishment of a racial harassment policy.

Like other members of her slate, Gomes believes that the portfolio has become too big, and that a new posi­ tion of VP Equity should be created to deal with Equity issues separately from the broader academic issues that the VP University Affairs must deal with.

However, when asked to describe how she would increase the effectiveness of student representation in Senate on such issues. Gomes declined to answer.

Ruth Promislow’splatform, like Gomes’, lays a heavy emphasis on equity. Promislow is also promising to work for better day-care for McGill students. She stresses experience as the main difference between herself and her opponent.

“I’ve worked on sexual harass­ ment issues through the Sexual As­ sault Centre and as a member of the Senate-Board Committee on Equity. I founded the ad-hoc committee on ra­ cial relations and initiated the racial harassment survey, the results of which will be brought to the Committee on Equity. I hope students will under­ stand [the differences between herself and Gomes] when they vote.”

External Affairs The campaign for External Af­ fairs is significantly different from any of the other SSMU races this year.

Neither Alexander Boldizar nor Andrew Work, the two External hope­ fuls, has any experience at SSMU, and neither is affiliated with either of the two slates contesting the election.

Alexander Boldizar’s approach to the job of VP External is signifi­ cantly different from those taken by his predecessors. He believes thatMcGill’s poor bargaining position within Que­ bec stems from the school’s image as an “élite. English institution”. His solu­ tion is for the VP External to act as an ambassador for McGill.

“I would try and attract francophone students by going to CEGEPs and telling students that McGill allows them to write their pa­ pers and exams in French,” Boldizar said. “Lots of them don’t know that. If they come to McGill, it will help dispel that negative image.”

Boldizar also promises to bring attention to McGill’s financial plight by telling politicians that the univer­ sity injects half a billion dollars annu­ ally into the Montreal economy.

“McGill does so much for Quebec and we get nothing back. I want to change that.”

Andrew Work’s campus expe­ rience comes from his involvement with the Korean Society and as a VicePresident of PC McGill. His two main goals are increased campus safety and helping McGill students get govern­ ment funding for their projects.

“As VP External, I will lobby the police and City Council to ensure that there is a constant police presence in the ghetto,” Work promises. He says he will also work with the MUC to ensure better lighting in the ghetto.

Work’s position on tuition fees is somewhat equivocal. He says he has no opposition to tuition fees rising at the rate of inflation, but will go along withSSMU’s ‘no-hike’policy because he sees it as a good bargaining posi­ tion.

and that means not taking a position on issues that don’t concern students di­ rectly,” she said.

Citing his experience as a CEGEP student leader and a member of several planning committees of the Engineering Undergraduate Society, U2 Engineering student Dan Lazaratos believes he can be an effective presi­ dent. He claims improving communi­ cation with students will be one of his main goals in office.

When asked to explain how he planned to address student concerns in Senate and in CCSS, Lazaratos admit­ ted he lacked information to adequately answer. While acknowledging his rela­ tive inexperience in SSMU affairs, he argues this may work to students’ ad­ vantage, as he may be able to bring fresh ideas to the office. Lazaratos wants to address disabled student services, academic advising to students, increase support for campus safety groups, and increase funding for clubs.

Lazaratos did not express strong support for the VP Equity position.

"With the [SSMU] debt, I don’t know if it would be feasable to create the position,” he said. When asked if he would support SSMU addressing so­ cial issues, Lazaratos expressed his reticence. ‘Taking a stand [on social issues] would alienate a portion of the students," he said.

As Arts Undergraduate Society

President who sat on CCSS and other committees this year, Mark Luz has extensive knowledge of the university.

Luz wants to increase political repre­ sentation of students, especially by strengthening Presidents’ Council, the body of faculty student presidents.

“I want to coordinate a united student effort to pressure the university to change policy on CCSS and other critical student issues,” he says. As well, Luz wants to organize a forum which would address club concerns, overhaul the financial status and spending priorities of the society, and stresses communication between the society and its members.

On the VP Equity position, Luz does not believe the creation of another position is the best approach to the problem. “In better financial times, it might be a consideration,” he explained.

“I think we can take care of these issues under the existing framework.” Luz also feels SSMU should avoid taking a stand on issues which do not affect students, especially divisive issues.

Coalition Against Sexual As­ sault coordinator Amy Ridley views the president’s role as a facilitator be­ tween the VP portfolios, explaining she intends to work closely with the vice presidents on important issues.

Her platform goals also include work­ ing for a thorough overhaul of the sexual harassment policy.

She plans on initiating council reform which would allow an incom­ ing council to meet in the spring to make key budget decisions. Currently, many of these decisions are made by the outgoing council: new councillors face a de facto budget situation when they return in the fall.

Citing current executive ineffi­ ciencies, especially in relations with clubs and services, Ridley plans to ini­ tiate an overhaul of the current SSMU executive structure, reducing the number of VPs to three. The VP Inter­ nal and External positions would be eliminated, and their portfolios, along with the equity issues portfolio, would be handled by officers working under the President, the VP University Af­ fairs, and a VP Operations.These offic­ ers would receive stipends rather than salaries.

‘The executive has been far too autonomous rather than responsible to those students who have elected them,” she elaborated.

If passed by students in a fall referendum, the reforms could be in place by the spring of 1994.

Ridley felt the society’s energy would be better spent on issues other than social matters. “The priority of the SSMU executive is to focus on issues that concern students, in their capacity as students, first and foremost,” she said.

VP Finance candidates don’t want to be VP Debt

BY RAM RANDHAWA AND STEVE SMITH

With Students’ Society McGill University (SSMU) in a possibly pre­ carious financial situation, the position of SSMU VP Finance is key to the society’s future viability. The three main issues confronting this year's candidates are the repayment of SSMU ’s debt to the university, the loss of university accounts as revenue over the summer months, and the possibil­ ity of rising premiums for the Student Health and Accident Insurance plan.

Faced with these problems, the candi­ dates for this position, Tatiana Glad, Patricia Harewood, and Paul Johnson, need a platform that will overhaul the society’s financial policy and place SSMU on the road to recovery.

In an attempt to repay a $618,000 debt to the university, SSMU will pro­ pose a five dollar increase in student fees in a student referendum to be held next week. Johnson, a third-year engi­ neering student and finance coordina­ tor for Walksafe, argues that this finan­ cial crisis is the product of shoddy management on the part of SSMU’s staff and executive and has expressed a desire to increase the Society’s ac­ countability to students.

“Students need proof that we’re going to manage this money properly before we get i t ," he explained.

Glad, a second year Manage­ ment student, voices similar concerns about accountability and adds change is required if SSMU is to maintain its current level of services.

All three candidates agree that a reassessment of priorities is needed. In light of their recent financial distress, SSMU has reduced funding to clubs. A recent Council decision removed a pro­ posal for a $1.00 per year increase for

club funding from the same referen­ dum addressing debt repayment, demonstrating a shift of priorities away from a growing number of clubs.

Harewood is running on the Equity slate and believes club funding is a priority.

“I think there should also be a social consciousness with regard to our fiscal responsiblity,” explained Harewood. “Interest groups have had consistent cutbacks and I think that is just a scapegoate, that isn’t where the real problem lies.” Harewood advo­ cates slashing executive stipends to create financial room for an executive VP Equity position.

Both Glad and Johnson suggest financial management training for clubs to help keep them afloat. Glad further recommends project-by-project funding.

When asked about the referen­ dum, Glad expresses her support for the debt repayment plan.

“We’re in aprecarious financial situation, and the only way we can avoid cutting existing services is to adopt therepaymentplan,” she warned.

Similarly, Harewood believes the repayment plan is a mandatory measure to put SSMU on firm finan­ cial ground.

To deal with this financial slump, Johnson proposes maximizing profits from organizations that exist now as well as creating new sources of revenue, such as a Sadie’s Tabagie in Leacock. However, the Tabagie in the Shatner has drained $51,000 from SSMU funds over the last two years, and its role as a profit generator has come under question.

When questioned about the ex­ pected SSMU cash flow difficulties over the summer months, Harewood proposes to financially tap into the

private sector.

“We’re going to have to go out as SSMU and ask for big sponsorships because there’s no other way that we’ll be able to deal with this lack of cash,” asserted Harewood.

The Student Health and Acci­ dent Insurance plan is another issue that has been plaguing SSMU. As optout numbers continue to rise, the expe­ rience of other universities forbodes an increase in premiums for those stu­ dents in need of coverage. Glad em­ phasizes that the efficacy of the plan cannot be evaluated until students are made aware of it and given an opportu­ nity to get used to it. She disagrees with raising premiums.

“Lots of student’s aren’t aware of the plan’s benefits,"she said. “It’s a matter of getting out there and promot­ ing it, of public relations for SSMU.” Harewood also believes many students are unaware of the plan’s of­ ferings and that more education is necessary. “I don’t think it is clear what the students are getting,” she stressed.

While Johnson agrees with the need for increased access to informa­ tion about the plan, he forsees prob­ lems. Johnson argues that after SSMU reduced red tape, making it easier for students to opt out, the smaller number of students partaking in the plan will force Seaboard to increase premiums.

He suggests researching Seaboard’s justification for increased fees.

SSMU’s financial crisis has made the issues of reprioritizing and accountability to students the most pressing to the three candidates for,VP Finance. With the financial future of SSMU in question, the importance of electing a candidate capable of effec­ tively dealing with these issues be­ comes a major concern.

The McGill Tribune, March 3-8,1993

Op/Ed Editorial One thing that isn’t news is that the world is in a state of ecological crisis. But if we truly look at the state of the world, if we truly scrutinize our way of life, we would see that the situation is greater than merely a “crisis”. The way things are going today, the Earth’s infinite vitality and vibrancy will be soon gone (and that includes humans too).

Don’t place your faith in science as our salvation for newer, cleaner forms of life. Salvation this way is a chimera. Our fundamental problems will remain, despite the introduction of, say, cleaner fuels.

Science can't resolve our main problems. These come from somewhere beyond science, from our entire perspective on the world.

The simple facts are: there are just way too many people in this world, and with the so-called triumph of capitalism, the entire world is myopically drawn to the holy grail of economic growth.

Unlimited growth cannot work in a finite world. It’s that simple.

Recycling our bottles and carrying

The E-Z guide to environmental salvation our own coffee cups just isn’t enough to change this fact.

Despite this, we can’t give up.

We are probably the last generation that has a chance to turn things around. To continue as we are, and resign ourselves to ultimate destruc­ tion is to abdicate our responsibility to pass on a living Earth to our descendants.

What can we do? The answer isn’t clear. But what is certain is that our way of life must not only be modified, it must be completely altered.

The first step is to accept plurality, which is truly the organic way. The answers cannot lie solely within the structures of our world that have led to our environmental destruction. If there are answers, they must be found in voices that have been silenced or ignored. Embrace any movements that seek to free voices, and bring change to the most people possible.

Just as the fact that our faculties are predominantly male means we are missing a significant number of the brilliant researchers and educa­ tors we could have, by ignoring other voices we are missing some of the

best ways to remedy all facets of our way of life. Any attempts to preserve the status quo means only the interests of those in power are heard.

Look at the thinning ozone layer, or the destruction of our rainforests, or the ravaging of land for dams to see that the old way of doing things is not the right way.

Listen to vegetarians who still remain marginalized and ignored after centuries. Theirs is truly the sole sustainable diet in our urbanized environment (for manifold reasons, but notably because of the enormous waste of land and resources to produce the meat-centred diet).

Examine socialism or some better democratization of power that places both power and responsibility in the most hands possible. Affirm a wiser perspective that understands that profit for the few is not the way to run the world that we all use.

Look to which societies have consistently lived in a sustainable way for guidance. (And is it mere coincidence that these societies have been systematically oppressed by the European way of life?).

Note that this also means there is not, nor can be any doctrine of

Comment Cut the deck, Quebec There may still be snow outside but summer is approaching.

Hitherto deprived Montreal gamblers will no longer be re­ stricted to betting on the chances of Expos games under a retractable roof being rained out or on the date the Big O will implode. This year with summertime will arrive the new government-operated casino on lie Notre Dame.

The provincial government is hoping to create jobs and raise revenues while attracting a high class of people, including tourists, and keeping out the low-lifes and unsavoury types one finds in the sleazier gambling towns south of the border.

This is no doubt admirable, albeit unrealistic. Sure, most students walking around campus react with flippancy to the prospects of a casino in Montreal, being more preoccupied with avoiding stepping on pigeons and looking out for

plummeting chunks of snow without ruminating over these deeper issues.

Yet the face of our fair city could be transformed in a matter of a few months with a rapidity that would make Michael Jackson swoon.

While the Liberals have remained optimistic, Montreal police are worried about mob-related activities such as drug-dealing and loan­ sharking. It is hard to be convinced that the only bandits will be of the one-armed variety.

Moreover, anyone who has ever been anywhere remotely close to Las Vegas knows that harlotry tends to follow on the heels of gambling like... like bad analogies follow elaborate set-ups. This despite Mayor Doré’s assurance that it's damn hard to prostitute yourself on lie Notre Dame in mid-February (maybe if you lose the moustache, Jean).

Ah, but never mind the requisite riff-raff, what about the people who come to play, the gamblers qua gamblers? The government hopes to

lure many wealthy American and Canadian tourists as well as moneyed Montrealers. They promise to hire bilingual staff, so anglophones who figure out the French-only highway signs will feel right at home if and when they get there.

But the relative isolation of the casino leaves some people wonder­ ing about whether visitors will spend time (and dollars) in the city itself.

There are also some rules which might irk big-shot bettors, such as the $500 maximum single wager and the prohibition of alcohol at the gaming tables.

One wonders whether the money raised will come from exotic foreigners or rather from a ragtag assemblage of local yokels, country bumpkins from Vermont, Okies from Muscogie, and other adventurous skinflints willing to forego the weekly bingo match in order to soak up the ambience whilst investing fifty cents each in a slot machine.

Maybe the crème-de-la-crème of

environmentalism. Such a view can only lead to the same intransi­ gence of spirit that led to our situation now, where we fail to ignore the signs of crisis around us.

It could be said the answer doesn’t lie in those voices either.

But a greater openness (and more equitable sharing of power arid resources) can lead to the neces­ sary awareness in enough people that an unsustainable lifestyle is unthinkable and even immoral. In this way, environmentalism and the fight against sexism, racism, homophobia and other problems are radically linked.

These are certainly fine platitudes, but they can mean much more. A consciousness which has learned to be open to a broader scope of views can more easily shed the preconceptions that have led to our situation today.

And it is precisely this radical shift in awareness that will be necessary.

ERIC BOEHM

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Plattsburgh society will frequent the venue, but I wouldn’t go further than that.

Moreover, there exists a persuasive fear that the casino will be a magnet for compulsive gamblers. Loto-Québec, who is running the casino on He Notre Dame (rhymes with “Deal un autre game!”) has promised to implement unspecified measures to crack down on this sort of thing, although these are likely to be as useful as subtitles in a porno.

But why be so pessimistic.

For those of you bold enough to laugh in the face of statistics and drop ice cubes down the vest of probability theory, I urge you to go out there and try your luck. At least it’s more fun than paying taxes.

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Letters to the Editor Brilliant...

Thank-you, butespecially Chris for your brilliant yet strangely appeal­ ing editorial of days past (Enough of your little whining, Feb 16). Not often are we treated to coherent editorial in the Trib. More so the surprise when it’s downright on the mark.

Also condemnation of tribe member Amy Ridley came as a pleas­ ant surprise. As a favoured target of mine in the past, I hardly expected to see her shot down by her own ilk. What a happy familly we all are.

No but seriously folks, the tribe are to be commended for this all too rare bit of incisive nastiness. There are those who feel we shouldn’t say mean things about each other lest we injure our poor little egos. But I sing the same song too loudly...

So back to the family. I will finish with salutations to you Chris, may you continue in your fine form cutting away the waste bracken where it festers, and to you fairest Michael Broadhurst (in tangential reference/ deference to you Daily letter) an invi­ tation to our next leather P.J. TechnoLove In. To you all, crank me like bad ecstasy on a lonesome Saturday night.

Roses, Jimmy Pharbes BA U2

Speaker...

After question period at the last meeting of theMcGill Student Council on Thursday, February 18th, council began discussing an item on the agenda entitled “Palestine Solidarity Commit­ tee Request”.

The item had no documents or motions attached to it and was there­ fore the subject of some procedural discussion. Mr. Prince, the President of SSMU, asked to grant speaking rights to a member of the gallery so that the member of the gallery may discuss why the Palestine Solidarity Commit­ tee considered making a request to council.

The Speaker did not entertain the motion made by Mr. Prince to grant speaking rights because there was no motion before council on which a mem­ ber of the gallery or council could speak. The Speaker asked Mr. Prince if it was his intention to forward any motion on the subject of the meeting.

Mr. Prince said that he did not intend to forward any motion. The Speaker sug­ gested that a motion to take time from the meeting for discussion of the Pales­ tinian issue would be adequate reason for granting speaking rights to mem­ bers of the gallery who wished to speak on the subject. No motion was moved on the subject and the Speaker closed

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discussion on the item. There were over forty members of the gallery present for the consideration of this item; most of them left as soon as council moved to the next item on the agenda.

Before beginning the next item on the agenda, councillor Kassirer, a representative from Science, made a notice of motion, councillor Kassirer informed council that at the meeting of March 18, he will move a motion to the effect that council not consider mo­ tions having to do with international political issues.

If you are interested in any other issues, speak with councillors, whose offices are in Room 104 of the Shatner Building, and attend the next meeting on Thursday March 4th at 6:00 p.m. If you have questions about the proce­ dures of council, leave a note for the Speaker of council at the Students’ Society (SSMU) desk in the Shatner Building.

Adam Atlas Speaker of SSMU

Anger...

I wish to express my anger at Jason Prince’s letter published in the Tribune dated Feb. 16-Mar. 2. First, if the Students’ Society has a position, or no position on an issue, it is Jason’s job to convey that position, and not his own. As an elected official represent­ ing the student population, he should have no personal opinions published, unless they coincide with SSMU policy.

EspeciallyifsignedJasonPrince, Presi­ dent SSMU. Second, the fact that SSMU did not sponsor, condone, or even partici­ pate in the PSC hunger strike came as a gigantic surprise to me, as the SSMU logo and the words STUDENTS’ SO­ CIETY OF MCGILL UNIVERSITY were clearly placed on the lower righthand comer of the pamphlet handed to me in the Shatner Building (the Stu­ dents’ Society building -1stress again) a few days before the strike.

World politics are not the issue.

Jason Prince has, yet again, blatantly violated both his mandate as SSMU president, and the trust of the students he was elected to represent, by writing this letter to the Tribune. The issue here is not that of political correctness, or human rights violations, but of po­ litical mandate violations on Mr. Prince’s part.

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Fat men and small worlds Ah, winter in Hochelaga. It’s like living in the wrong end of a Club Med commercial.

Why exactly did those first settlers decide to pound in their tent pegs at the foot of MontRoyal? Didn’t they wonder if things might be a tad wanner further South? Maybe they arrived in July; but in that case, those Thinsulate-deprived pioneers would have been wiped out by the first week of October.

Subsequent wayfarers might have arrived the next summer, but you’d think that when they noticed the skeletal remains of the first batch, they’d have fired up the wagon train and kept right on moving.

Having followed in the footsteps of those original foolhardy Montrealers, McGill students are given one scant week in February so a privileged few can escape to warmer climes, enhance their melanomas and read tomes no more chal­ lenging than the complimentary inflight magazine.

Some venture so far as to visit the continent’s most notorious February celebration, Mardi Gras in New Orleans.

Translated literally, Mardi Gras means Fat Tuesday, which may seem like an unusual name for a week of revelry (though only slightly stranger than “Reading Week”).

Consider, however, that Mardi Gras takes place in the same country which dropped a bomb named Fat Man, aired a TV show entitled “Jake and the Fat Man” (a bomb in its own right), and boasts a restaurant named Bob’s Big Boy (not just anybody’s big boy— BOB’S big boy); the mascot of said restaurant being a fat boy.

Mardi Gras is roughly the equivalent of Quebec’s own Cameval, which, translated literally, means “Carnival”.

Cameval’s mascot is another fat boy named Bon Homme. Bon Homme, translated literally, means Good Man. We have the Good Man; they have the Fat Man. Think about it.

At least Mardi Gras is an event which exists in and of itself, and draws tourists. This is an anomaly in North America. Most North American tourists flock to “attractions” (eg. amusement parks, wax museums, Chuck E. Cheese’s) which exist specifically to attract tourists—sort of like bug zappers with postcard shops.

Canadian author, selfappointed generational spokesman and brand-name dropper Douglas Coupland astutely described this phenomenon: Adventure minus Risk = Disneyland. Sight-seeing becomes site-seeing.

Europe is a continent with many nice things to look at and experience, most of which were

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North America also has nice things to look at and experience, but no one seems to want to experience them. Instead of On the Road, we want At La Ronde.

After all, why bother having real experiences when simulated ones offer much nicer souvenirs? (“My parents went to Three Mile Island and all I got was this lousy birth defect.”)

The ultimate attraction for the modem tourist has to be Niagara Falls’ Tivoli Miniature World. Besides the clever name (hold it up to the mirror), Tivoli offers visitors all the wondrous sights of the world in a safe, easily-digested, miniaturized environment: the Eiffel Tower, Leaning Tower of Pisa, Grand Canyon etc. Just imagine the savings in airfare; and if you keep the dog out of the pictures no one will know the difference.

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Elections 93

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v e r y s im ila r r a c e s ; e a c h r a c e h a s

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r a c e th e r e w i l l b e a t le a s t o n e c a n ­

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Prince and the Equity slate

BY ALEX USH ER AND BENOIT JACQM OTTE

After a tumultuous term in of­ fice, Students’ Society (SSMU) President Jason Prince is trying to do what no other SSMU President has done before: achieve re-election.

However, his second bid for office will be a very different campaign.

This time, he has joined forces with three other candidates for the Execu­ tive Committee to form what they call the “Equity” slate.

The making of a slate

The slate, consisting of Prince (President), Deborah Gomes (VP University Affairs), Patricia Harewood (VP Finance) and Isabelle Fieschi (VP Internal) says it is com­ mitted to equity for club funding, equity in SSMU and university hir­ ing, and equity in McGill’s curricu­ lum. The group also says it wants to create a new Vice-Presidential posi­ tion of VP Equity to deal with these issues, and would hold a referendum on creation of this position next No­ vember.

The formation of the slate is a response to Prince’s difficulties in achieving his goals this year—a situ­ ation which he perceives to have arisen because this year's executive "thwarted" his proposals. In a docu­ ment co-authored with McGill PhD. student and fellow Housing Triangle Cooperative activist Daron Westman, Prince claims last year has demon­ strated that “real structural and attitudinal change at SSMU cannot be accomplished if reformers hold less than a majority on the executive committee.”

The key question hanging over the slate is inexperience. Apart from Prince, no one on the slate has any experience at Students’ Society. Stu­ dents who have been involved in issues relating to equity , notably Ruth Promislow, were approached

by Prince to join his slate, but de­ clined because they did not wish to link themselves with Prince.

Prince: The record in office

Prince argues he is the candi­ date who has the necessary experi­ ence to effect real change at Stu­ dents’ Society. When discussing stu­ dents’ struggles on Senate and Sen­

ate committees, Prince declared: “One of the things I think people should consider when they go to vote is continuity. Nobody else running is as closely involved as I was.”

However, opponents say that Prince’s experience is precisely the reason he should not be re-elected.

Prince won election last year with essentially a three-point platform: student co-op cafeterias, “openness”, and more grassroots student input through General Assemblies. His record on the three does not sparkle.

On the issue of cafeterias, Prince’s election promise was some­ what disingenuous: most of the work on the new cafeteria contract was done before he even took office.

Nonetheless,hedidresearch and pre­ sented a proposal on the subject to last year’s council—a proposal that was voted down, effectively block­ ing further progress on the matter.

Since Marriott’s received the contract in May, Prince has done little follow-up work on the project.

“I think it would be a good idea to begin amassing that kind of informa­ tion in the event we need to act quickly on it, or in the event we would want to do that as part of the next phase [of food service],” Prince stated. How­ ever, he concedes that he has not researched the issue since he col­ lected information on existing co-op programs last summer.

As part of his “openness” plat­ form, he declared that minutes of ExecutiveCommitteemeetings(apart from legally sensitive conversations) would be public documents, but such minutes have been unavailable since August. “That the work hasn’t been done [to provide these documents] is a purely technical difficulty,” Prince said in his defence.

Prince’s General Assembly was a hot topic at Council in the fall term, leading to a near unanimous vote of non-confidence against Prince. At issue was Prince’s han­ dling of the General Assembly and its workshops. Councillors claimed that Prince had breached the consti­ tution, and the upper echelons of the SSMU were dissatissfied with his conduct. VP University Affairs Monique Shebbeare accused Prince of manipulating the mandate which the executive committee gave to Prince to put together the General Assembly. But students present at that particular council meeting disa­

greed. “I think there was amandate to humiliate or put Jason in his place,” said a General Assembly Workshop co-ordinator at the time.

Prince continues to maintain that the motivation behind the Gen­ eral Assembly—a step towards a more politically active and aware SSMU—is crucial.

“We are not living in a vacuum, we are members of a broader soci­ ety,” said Prince. “I think it is appro­ priate that we should take a position on issues broader than ‘traditional’ student issues. There are no bounda­ ries to the positions a students’ asso­ ciation could take.”

The prospects

Prince’s defence for his diffi­ culties in delivering on his promise for change this year is that other executives and councillors blocked his initiatives without seeking com­ promise. The Equity slate hopes that as a team, they can avoid such prob­ lems. Considering the animosity which Prince has often faced from his fellow executives and councillors this year, this approach appears le­ gitimate.

However, the following ques­ tion then arises—if only one or two Equity candidates win, would there be a replay of the stalemate seen on this year’s exec?

C u r r e n t SSM U P r e s id e n t J a s o n P r in c e g u n s fo r r e - e le c t io n

The answer to this question is unclear. Deborah Gomes, the slate’s University Affairs candidate, says that they are “running as individuals as

The other slate

BY ALEX USHER

While Jason Prince’s “Equity” slate will be the only group listed as such on the Students’ Society elec­ tions ballot, there is another group of candidates who will be running as a de facto slate without actually declaring themselves as such. Presidential can­ didate Mark Luz, VP Finance candi­ date Paul Johnson, VP University Affairs candidate Ruth Promislow and VP Internal candidate Megan Stephens Will be campaigning together under the slogan “The future is fading.”

“We decided not to run as an official slate because we have indi­ vidual talents and individual ideas,” said Promislow. She added that al­ though they would like to be elected together, the group felt it was best to each be elected “on their own merits”.

Though the four will have a common poster and pamphlet design, they will not to have a common slate name following their own names on the ballot. This decision will give them a great financial advantage over the Equity slate. Each will be able to spend $300 on their campaign for a total of $1200; the Equity group, as an official slate, is limited to $650.

The group’s platforms share some territory with the Prince slate, notably with a similar strong stand on equity. However, the group will be contrasting its extensive experience in equity issues and SSMU politics with the relative inexperience of the Equity slate, notably at the positions of Finance and University Affairs.

Prince’s candidacy, on theotherhand, provides the Equity slate with much deeper experience in a leadership role.

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Women with AIDS: the forgotten victims A Current Events Analysis

B Y C Y N T H IA B E N JA M IN

“Angela” was in her mid­ twenties , married and had just had given birth to a boy... a relatively stereotypical scenario. But Angela’s situation was dramati­ cally different from what one ex­ pects it to be. Almost immedi­ ately after giving birth, Angela’s husband, afraid of what blood tests would show, told her he had been unfaithful and was HIV-positive.

Six weeks later, so was Angela.

This woman is real, a friend of mine. And while her story is a tragedy and a scandal, the bigger scandal is institutional. Angela is a victim of the myth that women can’t get AIDS. Her husband didn’t worry about giving it to her because women didn’t get AIDS. Not “good” women anyway...

In Montreal, hundreds of women have died from AIDS. Hundreds more live with AIDS, and these numbers are growing here and nationally. Many women don’t even consider themselves at risk or realize that they are already carriers of HIV. They also do not know that the transmission rate from men to women is several times higher than the reverse.

The problem goes further.

Women who wish to have HIV testing are continually denied it, as they are still not considered a “high-risk” group. Those who eventually do test positive for HIV are continually denied access to

research programmes and treat­ ments.

The reasons for this are two­ fold. First, women are denied test­ ing because the way in which they manifest AIDS symptoms are dif­ ferent from the standards recog­ nized by the health system— standards based upon men’s reac­ tions. A chronic yeast infection, for example, is typically mani­ fested in women with AIDS, but men obviously do not exhibit this symptom. Therefore, this symp­ tom does not ‘count’, and those who show this sign will not be put on a waiting list for treatment pro­ grammes.

Women are denied access for another reason as well— their lives are not valued in their own right, but primarily as fetal incu­ bators. This reproductive facility is one of the reason cited for witholding AZT from us. Per­ sonally, given the choice between furthering my gene line (that would have a 50 per cent chance of having HIV transmitted to them) or dying...?

The fact that we are not of­ fered the choice should be consid­ ered criminal. We are told we should just accept that the govern­ ment knows what’s best for us.

Haven’t they always looked out for our best interests?

For women, this type of situation is further compounded by social isolation. On average, women have lower incomes and cannot afford all the additional

expenses incurred when trying to maintain a heathy immune system.

More women with AIDS have families to tend and less help and support around them. Many of the women with AIDS are already discriminated against as they come from “lower-class” backgrounds, or are women of colour.

In Angela’s case, what are her options? She is the primary care-giver for her child; her in­ come is not sufficient enough to support hersel f and her child alone.

Her husband is ill and wrapped up in his own world. She suffers in isolation and humiliation, and faces each day with the man who has sentenced her to death.

The only way to help the fight against AIDS is by address­ ing the concerns of all parties in­ volved, and this includes women.

Women’s centres and clinics des­ perately require volunteers to help women with AIDS and other ter­ minal illnesses, as well as their children. It is important that we reach out to these women to offer support and assistance.

The next step is to write your local MP and the Minister of Health and Welfare to demand that women as a group be recog­ nized; that AZT be publicly funded and available; that a separate re­ search programme specifically addressed to women be estab­ lished; and that women’s shelters continue to be funded and ex­ panded to deal with this growing epidemic.

“Here I sit on my licking bio­ logical clock and the only thing I’ve known in my entire life is that I want to have a child.” This quote, voiced by a single woman in The Big Chill, prefaced her decision to ask a friend to help her become pregnant.

Obviously, the concept of family no longer has a clear-cut, 1950’s definition. Both women and men may raise children as single parents today. But now, women have many more options than they once had. They may ask a friend to act as surrogate father or undergo artificial insemination to virtually conceive a child on their own.

A single woman asking a close friend to help her conceive has been the focus of many televi­ sion shows lately. Sam and Rebecca of Cheers were doing it; Roxanne on L A . Law did it. But in consid­ ering a friend to be a potential surrogate father, difficult questions are brought to the surface.

As Sandra Cole (U2 Science) explained: “I would feel uncom­ fortable asking a friend to help me become pregnant because there could be problems later if the father wanted to be involved in the child’s life. A contract could legally spell out rights over the child, but this would degrade the friendship.”

Family creation of this kind also produces intriguing responses from men. “I might consider it,” said David Hopkins (U3 Manage­ ment). “I would have to know the mother well, talk to her about the decision, and feel she was balanced and capable of providing for a child.”

Other men felt it was an “egocentric” decision on the part of a woman. But Cole countered this by saying, “Of course it’s selfish.

Even married couples decide to have children for “selfish” reasons.

The overriding criterion is whether the woman is able and has the means to raise a child.”

A second option for single women considering conceiving is artificial insemination, where sperm is placed in the patient’s cervix.

Most hospitals use this procedure only as treatment for married cou­ ples experiencing male infertility.

But some private clinics and many gynecologists will perform artifi­ cial insemination on both married and single women.

“This procedure can be very effective, depending upon ovula­ tion normalcy,” affirmed Dr. T. Tulandi, McGill professor of ob­ stetrics and gynecology at Royal Victoria Hospital.

However, it generally takes from six to twelve months for a woman to be impregnated, with a cost of $100 to $200 per cycle.

“The risk for women is small be­ cause donors are so well-selected,” Dr. Tulandi added. Those with a family history of hereditary disease are rejected.

Also, sperm samples are fro­ zen for six months, being checked throughoutthis period for HI V. The woman is given basic information regarding hair colour, eye colour, and ethnic background. For those who want‘above-averagechildren’, a Californian sperm bank offers ‘designer’ sperm, including dona­ tions from top athletes, actors and Nobel prize-winners.

Certainly many questions arise from a single woman’s deci­ sion to conceive a child on her own.

The absence of a father-figure and its effect on the child is an impor­ tant issue. But once the initial decision is made, it seems the choice between surrogate father­ hood and artificial insemination comes down to the difference be­ tween the pros of knowing the child’s father and the cons of future parental rights.

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The McGill Tribune, March 3-8,1993

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Features

Message to Oprah: write a book Surviving the slump; how volunteer organizations keep on rolling

BY N A T A L IE R A W L IN G S

Self-help manuals and the recovery movement have begun to encounter criticism lately for being too simplistic and appealing to the lowest common denominator. The fact is, many (but not all) self-help books have become commercial­ ized in this way.

According to Dr. David Sinyor, a clinical psychologist at the Royal Victoria Hospital, this trend towards commercialization is not all bad. His advice for people who are thinking about investing capital in their mental well-being is to wait and look at popular consen­ sus. However, he added a qualifier to this comment. “ You can suppose that a book written by someone who has been evaluated by the scientific commu­ nity and who has come out with a positive evaluation will be okay.”

The message is— be careful of publishers’ gimmicks.

Most self-help writers (some of whom are in no way accredited) have little control over what is placed on the dust jackets of their books. Very little research is con­ ducted on the effect of these books on patients. The promises and statistics on the cover, while not necessarily blatant lies, may not be an accurate reflection of the truth. “Anybody who says any­ thing too strongly is wrong,” said Sinyor.

Helena Aalto, Communica­ tions Manager at Coles, revealed the factors which influence book­ store buy ers. S he explained that the Coles buyer studies trends, and evaluates customer needs and in-

terests by reading mainstream magazines and “checking the country’s pulse” in other ways, to determine what to purchase for the stores.

Other factors that make up the buyer’s decision include the author’s reputation and previous sales. The author’s exposure to the public through television, radio programs and the print media is also important. Sales statistics from Coles are confidential, but Aalto noted that interest in self-help manuals increased during the 1982 recession, as it seems to be doing now.

One reason people buy selfhelp manuals is because they do not want to go into therapy. This fact, combined with active campaigning on the part of publishers, seems to lead to people buying books that a therapist would not necessarily recommend.

Dr. Sinyor has started a bib­ liography of recommended titles.

The primary criteria is “usefulness as reported by present/former pa­ tients.” Staff were asked to initial and list titles patients mentioned as having been helpful.

Titles such as Don’t Say Yes When You Want to Say No by Fensterheim and Baer, When I Say No I Feel Guilty by Smith, The Road Less Travelled by Peck, Becoming O rgasmic by Heim en and Lopiccolo, and For Each Other by Barbuch were recommended.

However, according to sales assistants at Prospero Bookstore in Cours Mont-Royal and Coles on Ste-Catherine, current best-sellers include Are You the One For Me? by de Angelis, The Silent Passage:

Menopause by Sheehy, When Food is Love by Roth, The Road Less Travelled by Peck, Creating Love: the Next Great Stage o f Growth by Bradshaw and Awaken the Giant Within by Robbins.

Why the discrepancy be­ tween what is selling and what is recommended? A partial explana­ tion for this inconsistency is that therapists will recommend a book because a patient needs it, not be­ cause the media is focusing on a particular ailment.

Although there has been some research into the efficacious­ ness of self-help books, evidence of their success is still lacking. One study of panic disorder patients showed that the patients who were assigned to read a self-help book did slighdy better than those who wentinto therapy; 73 per cent of the biblio-therapy subjects showed clinical improvement in symptoms as compared to 67 per cent of therapy subjects and 36 per cent of wait-listed subjects.

The fact that thepatients were assigned the book as therapy prob­ ably made itmore likely they would follow the exercises it contained, noted the study’s co-founder, Dr. George Clum. Those who casually read the manual might not have followed the program to the letter, he added.

The exaggerated claims made by publishers is a problem for the self-help manual industry. There are calls to adhere to the guidelines regarding distortion of information laid out in the American Psycho­ logical A ssociation’s Ethical Standards o f Psychologists. Even here, the message is: buyer beware.

R ussia and the terrible twos

BY MATTHEW SIN G E R

On Thursday, February 18th Russian academic Prof. Andrei Zorin delivered a lecture entitled “The Origins of Russian National­ ism and the Current Identity Cri­ sis” at Thompson House. While the lecture was presented by the His­ tory department, Zorin addressed many general issues facing con­ temporary Russia.

Zorin asserted that current fears of right-wing nationalists gaining power in Moscow are blown out of proportion. He said that most of the nationalist debates were tak­ ing part in relatively small political and academic groups. He felt these debates did not reflect the feelings of most of the Russian people.

“The people are sick and tired of political demagoguery- they have had too much of it,” stated Zorin.

Many Western commenta­ tors fear that Russian nationalists, some of whom see the Orthodox Serbs as their ethnic and spiritual kin, would force the Russian lead­ ership to obstruct a settlement of the troubles in the Balkans. Zorin cited these fears as an example of an issue which has been overblown by the media.

“The problem has been de­ liberately over-exaggerated by Russian politicians. People on the streets do not care about, or sup­ port, the Serbs,” Zorin claimed.

A large part of the lecture focused on the 19th century origins of Russian nationalism. Zorin saw a fundamental symmetry between pre-Revolutionary Russian nation­ alism and Soviet nationalism. He felt the primary attraction of both movemen tswasa“messianic” view of the place of Russia in the world.

This view centered around ideol­ ogy, not ethnocentrism. In preRevolutionary Russia the ideology was: “[Russian] Orthodoxy, [Tsar­ ist] autocracy, and nationality.” In the Soviet days the ideology was Communism, with the Soviet na­ tion at the vanguard of a world revolution.

However the appeal of this kind of nationalism wore off, particularly after the debacle of the Soviet war in Afghanistan in the 1980’s. Zorin feels that this is what led to the unravelling of the Soviet Union after the coup in 1991. “ [The Russian] people didn ’t want messianism- just a state of their own.” Zorin claimed that Rus­

sian liberals, such as Russian Presi­ dent Boris Yeltsin, had adopted this sentiment as part of their platform.

Zorin also challenged the traditional view that the Russians would be unable to adjust to the free market and capitalism, and that Yeltsin’s “shock treatment” eco­ nomic policies would lead to chaos.

He felt the Russians were coping very well, as witnessed by the lack of riots over price hikes in excess of 5000 per cent.

Reaction to Zorin was gener­ ally positive. Igor Kramnik, a Rus­ sian scientist who has been living in Montreal for two years, said he liked what Zorin had to say. How­ ever, he noted that Zorin “repre­ sents an intellectual stratum, which is not 100 per cent of the public opinion.”

Professor Zorin is a member of the Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sci­ ences in Moscow. He is in North America for six months as a guest of Harvard University’s Russian Research Center. His talk on Rus­ sian nationalism followed a lecture given a day before about the place of the poet in contemporary Russia, which was sponsored by McGill’s Russian department.

B Y D E B B IE C H O W It’s the beginning o f the se­ mester, you’ve got some time on your hands and you feel like do­ ing some good. So you volunteer for an organization, and all goes well until, say— midterms? As work piles up, time gets shorter and before you know it, your vol­ unteering commi tments have been long forgotten. What happens then?

Traditionally, volunteerbased organizations such as the Walk-Safe Network and the Vol­ unteer Bureau experience surges o f interest at the beginning o f the year, only to find a gradual de­ cline that reaches an all-time low during exams. This year, for in­ stance, Walk-Safe co-ordinator Fiona Deller found that despite the program’s 45 0 volunteers, during the Christmas examina­ tion period there were so few vol­ unteers available that Walk-Safe was forced to abandon its regular schedule, and resorted to arrang­ ing group walks from the library.

Likew ise, Volunteer Bu­ reau coordinator Mark Gerstein experienced problem s before Christmas when he needed help with the Christmas food drive.

“The problem isn ’t that there’s a lack o f interest; rather, it’s that people have so little time,” he claimed.

The question then becomes: how do organizations maintain continued interest during busy periods? One o f the most impor­ tant features Gerstein cited in maintaining support is to keep tim e com m itm ents relatively small.

“Some o f the more success­ ful programs at the Volunteer Bu­ reau, such as the food and cloth­ ing drives, are based on a oneshot, short time activity,” he said.

Paul N ic h o l, head d is­ patcher for Walk-S afe, found that reducing time commitments for dispatchers improved overall at­ tendance.

“At the end o f last semester and the beginning o f this one, we had difficulties filling all the shifts,” he said. “W e solved the problem by reducing the number o f hours we asked dispatchers to work, from two shifts a week to one. W e had to expand our volun­ teer base and recruit new dis­ patchers, but now, especially be­ cause people are settled into their new routines, w e aren’t having

majorproblems fdling time slots.”

Yet programs run by the Volunteer Bureau such as soup kitchens, tutoring underprivileged children, and aid programs in homes for seniors, demand only an afternoon or dinner shift, but remain constantly in n eed of help.

Sarah Bakkin (U3 Science) has, over two years, volunteered at a soup kitchen and a wom en’s shel­ ter.

“At both places, I found that they were always inneed o f help,” she stated. “I think it’s because places like shelters or hospices aren’t high-profile organizations.

People don’t hear about them, and they aren’t big enough to carry out major volunteer drives.

A lso, because these places are understaffed, volunteers get wor­ ried they’ll be expected to make a major commitment. But really, that shouldn’t be a worry; any time a person can spare is help­ ful.”

Clearly, the nature o f the service and contribution are im ­ portant factors as well in main­ taining volunteers. The success­ ful McGill Nightline finds that the majority o f its volunteers tend to stick with the program.

“I find it challenging and rewarding, and it’s a direct way o f helping the McGill commu­ nity,” said one Nightline volun­ teer. (Nightline volunteers prefer to remain anonymous).

With Walk-Safe, volunteers are involved in a direct, highly accessible service which may be personally and ev en so cia lly gratifying.

“Many volunteers say they joined because they think it’s a good cause, or because they use the service themselves, and that keeps them com ing in,” said Nichol.

“If students enjoy them­ selves and really feel that they are making a difference, then they are more likely to continue with their volunteer w ork,” added Gersten.

So if you are involved in volunteer work, or want to get involved, then make sure to look carefully at the nature o f the con­ tribution and organization, the amountof time involved and your own schedule before making any commitments. Volunteering your time is always a good idea- but remember that volunteers are needed all year round, even dur­ ing exams.

ELECTIONS PRESIDENT

Belinda Grondin

I am Belinda Grondin, a psychology student, in the final stages of completing my BSc. I have been involved with many aspects of McGill life, such as: living in residence, dedicating time to the athletic dept., as a group leader, as well as volunterring for several fund raising events. M y motto is 'get things done,' and this will stand foremost in my mind whatever the issue. I will make it my first priority to have all SSMU related matters addressed in a matter which you, the student, would be most benifitted. Finally, as a student I found past SSMU leaders to have closed, pre-programmed minds- This should stop now. So if you the student fell a need for an open mind with a personal touch - stand up and vote! _______________________________________

VP FINANCE

Paul Johnson

Next yeor, the V.P. Finance will be responsible for raising up to $ 1 0 0 ,0 0 0 for SSMU. To accomplish this, we need to thouroughly reprioritize the way in which we spend students' money, while we expand our revenue base with investments such as a copy centre in the Union Building.

The V.P. Finance must have a solid background in fundraising and the ability to cut costs while maintaining a high standard of service. As this year's financial coordinator for WalkSafe, I worked with community and undergraduate associations to finance a $ 3 3 ,0 0 0 operation with a cost of only $ 5 ,0 0 0 to the student body.

VP EXTERNAL

G. Andrew Work McGillites live in ocodemia's ivory lower, not o vacuum.

This platform proposes working solutions to student problems: 11 Student Safety, regarding women

must te gddreaed.r; Meetings with local Surete will: 1) increase ghetto patrolling, ii) create student patrols.

The V.P. Ext. budget will fund WolkSafe.

2) Student Outreach will: i) have McGillites who have received extra-university funding aod undergraduates to do likewise ii) setup M cG ill environmental groups with relevant governmental ogencies.

3) Fiscal Responsibility: guarantees V.P. Ext. budget overruns are paid for by my stipend, preventing students paying for mismanagement.

M y extensive organizalional/policy-making experience, with many McG ill organizations, w ill enoble me to achieve these goals.

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Residence Council, and Arts rep to SSMU, I w ill continue to work to unite student efforts, achieve financial recovery and give SSMU bock to the students.

VP FINRNCE

Alice Rhee I am a political science major in my second yeor. I'm running for VP Administration of the AUS in hopes that I'll be able to contribute to my faculty and the students in it. The Arts faculty is a broad and diverse group that has found a unique voice since the AUS w as established last year. I'm convinced that AUS sponsored activities w ill bring unity to th faculty w hile carving a distinct place for us on compus. M y administrative experience ranges from food banks and children's charities to student politics. Foremost, bring my enthusiasm and organizational skills to you.

VP FINRNCE

Tatiana Glad

A lexander Boldizar

Don't vote for another inbred politician. Vote for someone w h o hod once been on apathetic student but finally got fed up enough with SSMU bumbling to d o something about it. It's time w e pulled the SSMU bock from the hands of bureaucrats and got something done. For instance impressing on the government recent studies that show M c G ill generates more than ten times as much revenue for Q uebec as w e receive in funding. A competent VP External would noil these facts to the Premier's front door, and do his best to put a stop to our constant fee increases I will.

David Potter

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Michael Boyd

As AUS financial comptroller and finance council member I was involved in helping create the accounting system in this, the inaugurol year of the Arts Undergraduate Society. N o w that the AUS has established itself, I would like to provide Arts students with more direct benefits from their society. M y main objectives as Vice-President of Finance w o uld be to include Arts student course evaluations in the Arts handbook, as well as establish a new, profitable Sadies in the Leacock Building.

Finally, with your vote, I wish to propose the building of a fund for the long term growth of the AUS.

EQUITY. I donoted $ 2 0 0 0 from m y stipe d isa dvantaged student groups rejected $ 10 0 ‘ s of dollars of of frills, and o p posed trresponsibl spending, like $ 1 .3 0 8 fa ' SSM pens.

I pushed the environment o ol'cy University C entre, fair funding student clubs, responsible invest for M ;G ill. I organised a Spec against oppression, and ieseor< anti-condo brief.

Vote Equity for a Students’ Cour with a social conscience, for open executive meetings, for fair resource a llo ca tio n , and for fiscal responsibility.

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openness.

A s VP Finance, I w ill achieve three goals. First, cut stipends for the executive (this money could be used for the w o rk STUDENTS are doing).

Second, club funding must be a priority. In 1 9 8 8 , SSMU o ffice expenses w ere $ 3 4 2 0 0 0 Last year, dffice expenses com e in at $ 4 4 6 0 0 0 . In 9 1 / 9 2 , SSMU overspend in N e tw o rk b y $ 7 0 0 0 0 , and this year they m ay overspend b y more than $ 4 0 0 0 0 . A ll 3 0 clubs overspent by a mere $ 3 0 0 0 !

Is this the w a y to prioritize?

Finally, w e need a team committed to transforming the volues o f M c G ill University (Africona Studies Program, hiring equity). Vote EQUITY.

PRESIDENT SUS

Allyson Davies M y role in Inter Resident Council in first year, my position as V. P. Administration this past year and my position as Science Representative to SSMU have spurred my interest in University politics. The SUS needs changes which will begin with establishing independence through an increased presence.

SUS will provide more Social events, in particular a Winter Carnival. Also, 1am committed to providing academic aid through extensive peer advising.

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more job opportunities which will be achieved through direct involvement in McGill's Career and Placement Services. As Science President, I will reach these goals.

PHESIQEP BUS

Joe Wong

M y post experiences such os Chairperson of AUS Winter Carnival, AUS Internal, and volunteering for the Frosh Week Program have been rooted in action. In this respect, my platform is rooted in a thoughtful plan of action, nol political rhetoric. My mandate is to bring more positive exposure to the still relatively new AUS. M y platform includes implementing a publicity committee under the Communications Director; implementing the AUS Sadies immediately in Leacock; including charily events; publishing student course evaluations in the AUS directory; strengthening the Academic portfolio through more collective AUS support and fiscally prioritizing departmental journals, events, programs etc.

Angie Scrannage The VP Academ ic Affairs must w ork to create a stronger, more difined link between students and the university, and to promote "community spirit" amoung arts students. I w ill accomplish these goals in various ways. Published course evaluations must be the first step in creating more informed students. Student-designed course descriptions and an academ ic grievance hotline w ill enable students to choose couses confidently. Finally, a paper-reading committee w ill provide students with guidance and feedback on essays. 'Students helping students' w ill foster a more informed and integrated arts community.

Jason Princ Lost year, w e elected o Présider w o u ld fight for on open, progre: Students' Society. This ye a r has proved he ca n 't d o it alone VC

EQUITY is devoted to fiscal responsibility, opposed to descrim inotion, and committed to

Effective financial management entails a basic restructuring of funding criteria and reprioritization of budget outlays. W e must look at the needs being met and those that are not. Unless we grasp these cold hard facts, we will never achieve the simplest of moves.

SSMU must make a concerted effort to infrom students on issues of importance, especially in view of the increasing demand for accountability from the SSMU. W ith past financial management experience and a good understanding of SSMU issues, I am prepared to deal with these matters and make sold decisions to ensure the future viability of the SSMU.

VP EXTERNAL

PRESIDENT

Dan Lazaratos

The Students' Society thrives on the participation of its members and needs to make itself more accessible to the to the general population. The backbone of the Society, the clubs, must be ensured that money w ill be fairly allocated to encompass their increasing number next yeor. Campus safety has become a paramount issue, I feel that furthering the cause of the Walksofe Network, increasing awareness, and installation of more Tights and telephones would increase safety on campus. Student should not feel unsafe on their own compus. W e must ensure that equity issues are not ignored, and dealt with try each exective position. Strong student leadership is essential to move towards the future. I recognize and will push for a tightly knit executive that has strong communication ties with council members that, in turn will only serve to strengthen the SSMU. VOTE LEADERSHIP VOTE DAN LAZARATOS

Next year is the most critical year in SSMU history. W e cannot continue to waste students' time and money. The time has come to elect a president w h o can lead, unite and support the council. W e need a president w ho w ill listen to the real concerns of M cG ill students (dub funding, student services, campus safety, sexual harassment); a president with successful experience. W ith my experience as President of Arts Undergroduolte Society, Inter-

Tanya Bouchard

As VP Internal of AUS, my primary goal would be the strengthening of the society as a whole through increased departmental interaction. The first steps in this program would be the improvement of The Pillar and deportment journals, as well as holding a Career Week that would benefit students of all disciplines. I intend to expand the Arts Directory so os to include course evaluations and any additional pertinent information which would moke the AUS more accessbile and useful to students.

AUS would also be promoted through social and academic events, with more attention being given to charity events.

PRESIDENT

Mark Luz

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Winter Carnival; these responsibilities have made me better qua for this position.

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Undergraduate Society, I looking forw ard to repress the AUS and all Arts stud^ the Students' Society next This year's executive has worked hard on many prc and by my role as Arts Re intend to see that a contin for this now council is maintained. Next yeor, however, w ill be a new a difficult year for SSMU . F the challenges to come, my experience and dedication will ensure an active and effective voice on council for all Arts students.

19 9 3 PRESIDENT

Deborah Gomes

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VPINTERNAL

Amy Ridley

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W e must make our views ond beliefs known to the public through direct action. If you ore dissatisfied with your situation you must obtain the pow er to change it ; I

Jana Taylor

Josh Abiscott

As a candidate for Vice President of Administration of the Science Undergraduate Society, I w ould like to w ork on clearing up the great mystery to many Science students about what the SUS is all about and what it has to offer b y helping to organize more SUS related events such os guest lecturers, a W inter Carnival, and a buddy advising system for first year students.

The creation of a SUS directory and newsletter with contributions from all deportments w ould be projects which w o uid help bring the faculty together. I have >erved on the SUS this year in the position of Secretary and am (veil a w are of the issues facing the Society in the upcoming year.

'PFINANCESOS Tracey Solomon

H i! For those w h o don't have a due as to w h o I am, my name is Josh Abiscott and I'm a third year physiology student.

For those that know me, well that's cool. O ne of my ideas is to creole a comprehensive booklet containing summaries of 2ÜI course évoluai ions for as many science courses os possible. Also I could help you out if you thought o prof was ?•- v l shafting you or something, m Finally, I wont science to be more fun, so I think motivation n SUS winter carnival longer thon 1 and I'll make it happen.

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Corey Cook

As Y i< « -P re s id e n t o f F inança for the Arts Undergraduoie Society, I am looking forward to aiding next year's council in decisions that affect operation of the AUS. It is important that o sense of continuity be maintained from year to year to ensure that projects that were slartedthis year are continued into the next; [Sadie's in Leacock, published course evaluations). I hope that my experience as o member of this year's executive and on various committee's [Faculty of Arts Academic Committee, SSMU Foou and Beverage Committee] that I can effectively represent issues that are of the utmost importance to our faculty.

Megan Stephens

David Morgenstern

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^ honorspoti-sci student I'vecometo knowolotobout theworkingsofthe Artsfocullyinrelationtotherestoftheuniversity. IwontloseetheArtsprogram retainitsdominanceofMcGill, kxjthacademicallyondsociallyand, withyour support. Ilookforwardtorepresentingoilotsundergradsonstudentcouncil.

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ranked M c G ill number one, but how do w e rank ourselves?

SSMU manages a sprawling building ond sizable student fees, yet so many students feel uninformed and un involved.

I'm running because I don't wont to occept this as an

unfortunate fact of M c G ill life.

W e ow e it to ourselves to do more. W e must personalize this campus, inform our students, and build a student organization that inspires us to be not just students of a school, but citizens of a community.

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Edward Saad

Overthepost threeyears, Ihavebeen 1)Clubrestructuring: Increaseclub involvedinSSMUinseveral ways, funding, ona perprojedbasis. mostdirectlyasthisyear'schairof Officespaceallocationin SSMUWinterCarnival. accordancetoclubneeds.

MyvisionforVPInternal'smandolein 2)Communications: IncreaseIhe thenextyearincludesthreemajor levelsandmeansofcommunication areas: betweentheStudents' Councilondthe student body.

Restructuring: 3)Studentsafety: Increasestudents' • Creatingonessentialserviceslaius safetyonandoffthecompusby forgroups. promotingaworenessofSSMU • Fundingclubsona bosisonneed, services(WalkSafe, SexualAssault withmoreemphasisonspecial projeds Centre, Woman'sUnion...etc) andnotjustwhat thehistorybooks dictole. ex p e r ie n ce • ChongingtheShatner Buildingpolicy SSMUClubreptocouncil; EUS toallowWalkSafetooperate7daysa council rep.

Financialmanagement, PolicyReview,Environmental, andEngineeringStudents' RespvnsibWProgrammingandContinuityintrainingprograms Academiccommitteemember. implementedthisyear arethetwoother key areasofconcern.

OrganizedandvolunteeredfornumerousSSMUandEUSactivities.

Withyoursupport, Ihopetoimplementchangewherechangeisneeded

raDEMICSUS Carolyn The 1 9 9 3 -1 9 9 4 academic year w ill be my third and final year, in the Faculty of Anatomy.

Presently I sit on the Faculty of Science committee, which is an 'umbrella' committee dealing with course requirements and student standing. I am interested in helping the S.U.S. develop and become a helpful resource to the science student body. M y primary goal, if elected an Academ ic vicepresident, is to improve the advising system within the faculties, and provide better peer counselling.

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M y name is Isobelle G irord ond I wish lo fulfill the position of SUS representative lo SSMU for the 19 9 3 -1 9 9 4 mandate. I om currently in my U2 year of o B. Sc. in Physiology Next yeor, I fully intend to devote my outmost efforts in the reach of o stronger symbiotic relationship between the tw o societies. M y enthusiasm ond dedication towards the Faculty of Science w ill certainly provide me with the necessary tools to accomplish this task.

Cornell Wright

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StudentCouncilsafewyearsbock wentwayever budget. Sadly, we, T" thecurrentstudentshavetopayoffthe ^ $600,000debt. Wecan't affordto a/erspendthiswayanymore, orwe'll gobankrupt. Lastyear'sCouncil .i madehugestepstofiscalstability, 111,1 f\ andthiswascontinuedthisyear I X* * I i wont topublicizethebudgeting process, sothatstudentsknewwhere theirmoneyisgoingandgive recommendationsastohewtheythink ______________ theirmoneyshouldbespent.

IwaselectedasScienceSenatorlastyear, andIhaveservedonanumberof SSMUcommittees. IaskforyoursupportsothatIcanworktowardsthese goals.

m m 'The purpose of the Society is to unify and represent all of its members, and to protect and promloe their w elfore and interests.' SSMU Constitution Article 2.1 In keeping with this philosophy, I endeavor to represent the Science student body interests in order to enhance our voice on campus I have experience working for the SSMU and therefore om well informed of the pertinent issues concerning all students. I am confident (hot my knowledge and assertiveness will" manifest itself well in relaying our common purposes.

M cGill is a great university, but there is always room for improvement.

Celia Moore

REPÏ0 COUKai Jennifer Small

This hos been o very important year for the new Science Undergraduate Society, but there remains o lot to be done.

It is crucial that w e build on our past accomplishments ond realize new ond offordoble goals. To ensure o strong fulure, w e need effective representation for the science students to the SSMU. I om dedicated ond look forward to playing on active role os liaison between the SUS ond SSMU. I w ill moke sure the interests ond issues pertinent to science students are given the attention they deserve.

The McGill Tribune, March 3-8,1993

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Entertainment Guerilla poet on campus will shock the monkeys B Y K A T IE R O B S O N

Poems have been turning up in odd places across McGill campus. They are not in books or on blackboards, but rather painted on banners, stuffed in envelopes and attached to party favours. Anyone who has come across these offerings know only that they are the work o f a “gue­ rilla poet”.

Though the artist respon­ sible wishes to remain anony­ mous, he agreed to talk to the Tribune about his projects, his motivations, and his ideas about artists and their audience.

T r ib u n e : Why do you call yourself a “guerilla poet”?

G.P.: Because, in a kind o f indirect way, I was inspired by the Guerilla Girls [a New York City based anonymous collective]. A couple o f years ago, a friend of mine started doing things he called “throwa­ ways”, because he really ad­ mired the Guerilla Girls. He wrote poems and left copies of them on the Metro; he made poems into posters and put thejn up along St. Laurent. I found what he was doing fascinating; he was changing the way peo­ ple experience everyday space.

But I thought his efforts were kind o f diffused, and that they could be more powerful if they were focused on one area.

T r ib u n e : Why did you ch oose to concentrate on

McGill?

G.P.: McGill is such a straight campus— you know

first was an envelope stamped “OCCUPANT’, that looked like a real industrial presentation. I

the semester. I put it up on a Friday night; someone immedi­ ately stole it and took it to

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what I mean? It’s great to give people here a little nudge. At McGill, you’re really breaking open space when you put some­ thing in it; you’re changing the way people see som ething they’ve seen every day. Also, the campus is central, which really makes it easier— there’s a concentrated audience.

T r i b u n e : H ow many projects have you done so far?

G.P.: I’ve done three. My

put love poems in the enve­ lopes, and left them all over campus. Actually, it was kind o f strange; the day I did that the Daily did a piece on the Gue­ rilla Girls. It was an interesting coincidence— possibly a good omen.

The second project was a banner, again with a poem writ­ ten on it, that I tied to the goalposts outside McLennan Library just before the end of

Molson stadium. I went to secu­ rity to get it back, and they were really helpful. They had no prob­ lem at all with what I was doing, because I wasn’t damaging the space at all. The banner was up for the last day of class.

For the third project, I at­ tached poems to party favours and put them all over McGill. I chose party favours because they’re so spontaneous— they made people have a direct rela-

Amos & Andrew ju s t doesn’t get it

BY A LE X USHER

H o lly w o o d ’s unblem ­ ished record in dealing with “se­ rious” issues in a ham-fisted and flat-footed way is in no way threatened by the new Nicolas Cage movie Amos & Andrew.

Writer-director E. Max Frye simply does not have the talent necessary to combine humour with intelligent social commen­ tary.

The film opens with a Pulitzer-winning black play­ wright and academic, Andrew Sterling (Samuel Jackson), driv­ ing his shiny Mercedes towards his new home on Long Island.

Through a semi-believable com­ edy o f errors involving an ag­ ing, dope-smoking hippie turned corporate law yer (M ichael Lemer) and an overzealous county sheriff running for po-

litical office (Dabney Coleman), the cops end up surrounding Sterling’s house and opening fire on him.

White cops firing at an innocent black man. Hysteri­ cal.

Enter Nicolas Cage as Amos Odell, doing the loveable Neanderthal routine he’s been doing non-stop since Raising Arizona. Dabney Coleman en­ lists this small-time con in a scam to help cover up the fact that he has a Rodney King situ­ ation on his hands. Then the press shows up, the Sheriff’s plans go awry, and a basic Three’s Company series of ad­ ventures ensues.

The film’s slapstick rou­ tine is well-handled, but starts to wear thin towards the end.

The well-drawn characters of Odell and the Sheriff, played

with panache by the veterans Cage and Coleman, provide the rest of the film’s humour. Un­ fortunately, there’s only so far a film can go in the absence of a decent plot; especially when annoying pseudo-social com­ mentary keeps popping up.

One example in particular reveals the depth of the movie’s shallowness. Amos confronts Andrew late in the film with the accusation that he is “the whit­ est black man I know”. After a brief tussle on the lawn, Andrew replies that “there may be some truth” in what Amos said.

Up until this point in the movie, Jackson has portrayed Andrew as a bright, eloquent writer who keeps his rage con­ cerning racial relations in America tightly controlled and focused. What is “white” about this? The eloquence? The fact

that he’s a Pulitzer-winner? His academic career? To white trash lik e A m os, this m ight be “white”, but why on earth should anyone agree with him?

The problem with this movie is not the fact that it offers commentary; rather, it’s because the movie is obvi­ ously meant to be commen­ tary. Scenes involving an A1 Sharpton clone (Giancarlo Esposito) offer similarly mis­ guided and inane commentary on black protest. This is a civil rights movie that just plain doesn’t get it.

If you’re a Nicolas Cage fan who is willing to suspend all vestiges o f critical thought for an hour and a half, go see this movie. If not, wait for the video.

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tionship with the poem.

T r ib u n e : You’ve chosen to keep your identity secret.

How do you think that affects p eople’s reception o f your work?

G.P.: I think it makes the whole process more intimate, in a kind of ironic way. I mean, it’s as if anyone who reads my poetry is participating in a se­ cret, in a conspiracy. Anonym­ ity doesn’t make my work im­ personal; for example, I put my thumbprint on all the envelopes.

You can’t get more personal than that.

Also, if I remain anony­ mous, it extends the artistic proc­ ess. The audience has to create a person, their own version of me, and so they become in­ volved in an act of creation that follows mine. I mean, after the party favour project, I heard people talking about it, and they all thought I was a woman. I thought that was fantastic.

T r ib u n e : How do you feel when you hear or see people involving themselves with your work?

G.P.: I love to see people interacting with what I ’ve done.

My work shouldn’t be politi­ cized; itshould be enjoyed. Once people do that, they own the poetry. That’s what happened with the party favours. And it happened with the banner project— I went back at night to see how it was going, and I overheard people talking and laughing about the poem. It’s interesting— remaining anony­ mous keeps me equal with the audience. Our relationship is the same from both sides; I don’t know who they are and they don’t know who I am.

Sometimes, people who know me ask why I’m doing this, and that question surprises me. I mean, I never thought I’d have to account for any of this. These poems are to be ex­ perienced, notexplained. When the audience doesn’t know me, they don’t ask for an explana­ tion.

T r ib u n e : Where do you see these projects leading? What are you going to do next?

G.P.: I can’t really say. I do have plans but I don’t want to give anything away. I’d like to say, though, that I would love it if other artists picked up on what I’m doing. This campus is begging to be a canvas, for any­ thing and everything people want to do.

The McGill Tribune, March 3-8,1993

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W altzing M atilda B Y M IK A B A R E K E T

It seem s to be the cur­ rent trend. A low-budget for­ eign film arrives in North Am erica and steals all the m edia attention away from overly hyped mammoth H ol­ lyw ood prod u ctions.W esaw it happen with The C rying G am e, and now with Baz Luhrm ann’s S tric tly B a ll­ room from Australia.

Both film s are deserv­ ing o f such attention. What B allroom loses in profun­ dity, it makes up for in charm.

The fact that it stars Paul Mercurio as the studly, but sensitive (gasp) hero is just an added bonus.

The basic storyline does not sound exciting, yet one must not be fooled by its sim ­ plicity. An attractive ball­ room dancer (Mercurio) has but a few w eeks before the dance com petition o f his life.

H e wants to add som e o f his ow n m oves to his routine, and in a fit his partner leaves him stranded. The only per­ son available to dance with him is Fran (played by Tara M orice), a plain-looking be­ ginner with an over-protec­ tive father.

Sound familiar? What differentiates B allroom from such m ovies as D irty D a n c ­ ing and that smash hit Salsa is that it sm iles at them, with­ out being an outright lam ­ poon. It is also very witty and naturally the dancing is killer.

At tim es, B allroom goes to the low est depths o f tacki­ ness, but by the end, ball­ room dancing is elevated to a level of, uh, beauty?

Perhaps this is why Ball­ room w as v o te d ‘m ost popu­ lar film ’ at Cannes this year,

beauty builds as he falls deeper in love with her. It is a clever trick.

Pat T h o m p so n as M ercurio’s eccentric mother is perfectly melodramatic. All the roles are perfect paro­ dies, yet at no point are they frivalous. They all tell a cer­ tain truth about human na­ ture. The m ovie is much wiser than it pretends to be.

Sure, w e ’ve all seen this C in d erella/U gly D u ck ling story before. B allroom is hardly a new approach to this theme. It is also obvious from the start exactly how the m ovie w ill end. It’s sole pur­ pose is to entertain, and make you feel all happy happy joy joy, yet it is not corny nor manipulating. W e can only hope that ballroom dancing will not becom e the latest m ovie-inspired dance craze.

L a tin -'h ip hop w as bad enough.

Strictly B allroom rates a 7, 8 cha-cha-cha.

and has already done unex­ pectedly well at the box-of­ fice. In order to be audiencefriendly the fo cu s o f the m ovie shifts from dancing to human dynam ics. The over­ all feel is one o f lightness and fun. It is also surprisingly emotional. Betw een all the laughing, a few tears may be shed during a tender scene.

Paul Mercurio, on the other hand, is very easy on the eyes. His dark smoldering looks, Australian accent, not to mention his tight buns, are more than enough. And then, there is his dancing. Mercurio is actu ally a w ell-k n o w n modern dancer and choreog­ rapher. There is som ething about a man who can dance that drives w om en wild. He is both gracefull and strong.

And, unlike his unfortunate A m e r ic a n co u n te rp a rt, Patrick Sw ayze, he does not have a horse face. When he delivers the line “Remember when I said that the Rumba is pretend love? W ell, I was w rong,” one can hear the other women in the audience breathing heavily.

Tara M orice performs acting miracles in B allroom as she transforms herself from hom ely to unconventionally pretty. In fact, at the begin­ ning o f the film she is hardly noticeable, and is seen mostly as an annoyance. The more M ercurio’s character notices her, the more the audience d o es. H er character, and

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BY TIM CLINCH

For five bucks, you can do your laundry. Or you can see an eleven year-old seduce Hitler, a woman in love with a corpse, and Jesus with a vibrator.

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student written, directed and acted plays. The annual festival gives young playwrights a chance to experiment, and offers audiences a guided tour through this theatri­ cal laboratory.

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diacy. And if you don’t like the play you can tell the people who made it to their faces.”

Featuring two plays a night for six nights, the Festival is a crucial venue for new voices in an increasingly sparse English Montreal theatre scene.

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MDF and the “Write on the Edge” Festival - but the MDF is the only festival in which you can submit a script and someone will pro­ duce it,” said Mauro Casiraghi, author of Tell Them. “And it’s totally independent. I like that.”

Of course, the festival for­ mat means no on-stage elephants, helicopters or crashing chande­ liers. For some students, how­ ever, this is part of the incentive.

Casighari added, “Small produc­ tions with limited means but a lot of ideas is the direction theatre should be going in.”

While these limited means may disappoint anyone who thinks good theatre consists of circus acts with musical numbers on rotating stages, those looking for innovation, risk, and choice can find it at the Festival.

“It’s like Cineplex Odeon, but theatre - lots of variety,” said Seth Abramovitch, director of M istah Ted - He Dead.

Abramovitch promised his play offers “something to offend eve­ ryone - and there’s nothing like the live theatre experience for good tasteless comedy.”

“To see theatre should be a completely different experience than anything e lse ,” said Casiraghi, when asked why any­ one’s five spot should go towards the MDF and not a rental of Ferngully; The Last Rainforest.

“It’s not for the élites. (The MDF, notFerngully). But it’s definitely a different experience.”

A large part of this experi­ ence, for performers and audi­ ence alike, is watching the birth of a brand new, bouncing piece of theatre. “Putting on a new play is

like raising a child,"said Madelyn Kent, whose Annihilation Skit examines the grip of the past on the present (and has the eleven year-old and Hitler). “The initial audience is a large part of that process.”

Like kids, plays can turn out bad. But as Neal Colgrass, author of Mistah Ted explained: “It could be bad, but at least it’s going to be different.” For further incentive, Ask N ot’s author Jonathan Bernstein noted, “What else is playing in town? Hamlet?

Everyone knows that story.”

Chris Tracy, director of Tell Them, described the appeal of the MDF as a chance to “see our own peers’ work - to see what’s going on in our own societies’ work­ shops and imaginations.” Hagar Scher, director of Annihilation Skit, promised a Festival full of raw and jarring experiences.

Or you can do your laun­ dry.

The MDF is playing at Player’s Theatre all this week.

City of Men Pissing and Annihi­ lation Skit show Wednesday, March 3 and Thursday March 4th. Tell Them and Mistah Ted He Dead play on Friday, March 5th, and Ask Not and Trial and Error close the Festival on Satur­ day, March 6th. Adjudications and discussion will follow the Thursday, Friday and Saturday productions. Tickets are $5 for students and $10 for the general public. STE-NA laundromat at Villeneuve and Clark offers one washer load for $1.00, and 25 cents for five minutes of dryer time. Open 8 to 8.

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Karaoke kings and kweens arise! Your time is now!

BY LIZZIE SA U ND ERSO N

The torch of home enter­ tainment has once again been passed on to the North American family. Gone are the Trivial Pur­ suit nights of the eighties; ex­ hausted is the Wheel of Fortune home game. Today’s passion is karaoke: a politically correctform of entertainment the whole fam­ ily can play!

In an effort to demystify the Japanese phenomenon, the Tribune contacted several drinking establishments with advertised karaoke events.

Among these were the Shado Bar, le Pub Zoom, Carlos & Pepe’s, Gert’s and le Tycoon.

The failure of either the Shado Bar or le Pub Zoom to answer the telephone (both lines had been disconnected) begs one of two questions. Is the staff too engrossed in karaoke at 3 pm on a Monday afternoon to accept phone calls? The second ques­ tion is this: Is there a staff?

Greg Forget, general man­ ager at Carlos & Pepe ’s, informed the Tribune that the restaurant’s Monday night karaoke would no

longer be available. “Karaoke wasn’t popular, maybe because we didn’t offer any door prizes,” he reasoned.

Despite Carlos & Pepe’s attempt to increase Monday night liquor sales with the new form of entertainment, Forget com­ mented: “It just wasn’t feasible; it failed to bring in the people.”

Similarly, McGill’s very own Gert’s advertised karaoke throughout the fall semester.

However, the lack of anxious karaoke enthusiasts soon brought about its demise.

And yet many a student will tell you that they’ve experienced karaoke firsthand and enjoyed it.

Jacquie Jordan (U2 History) told the Tribune : “Karaoke is an interesting form of entertainment for people who don’t like to dance but enjoy showmanship.”

Ana Serrano (U3 English) agreed with Jordan.”It’s particu­ larly popular in the Philippines.

Social gatherings tend to involve a performance and karaoke en­ hances the social integration,” Serrano said Le Tycoon, located on Sherbrooke Street west, is a ha­ ven for karaoke kings and kweens.

Unlike the aforementioned bars, Le Tycoon presents karaoke seven days a week and is ex­ tremely successful. ‘“The singers are mostly McGill students,” noted ‘Ming,’ one of the owners of the club.

“They like to sing and we give them a place to practice- a place for Star Search.”

Ming further acknowl­ edged that professional scouts are often among the crowd in search of new talent.

Is Le Tycoon the exception to the karaoke rule? The mass media would have you believe oth­ erwise. Rather, the media has responded to the karaoke demand with yet another 90s phenomenon: infomercials.

Perhaps you’ve had the fortune of viewing the thirtyminute ad for ‘Karaoke Classic’ (imagine the voice of Don Pardo if you will!) Catch phrases include: “it brings unity to the

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Amazingly, this message is delivered all in one breath!

Perhaps the ‘Karaoke Clas­ sic’s’ 1-800 number has led to the downfall of many a karaoke bar.

Perhaps the masses have pur­ chased machines of their own, rather than venturing out into the public eye, which is why karaoke failed at the Shado bar, Le Pub Zoom, Carlos & P epe’s, Gert’s....and even the Peach Pit. Perhaps karaoke fiends have chosen to remain in the closet... or better yet, in the shower.

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Sports Martlets reclaim provincial track title

BY T RIBUNE S P O R T S STA FF

When someone reclaims something they had previously lost, it is often tempting to dis­ cuss the event in terms of re­ venge. However, McGill Track team head coach Dennis Barrett does not use such terms of ag­ gression to characterize his team.

The only emotion on Barrett’s mind after last weekend’s pro­ vincial track championships in Sherbrooke must have been one of satisfaction as double indi­ vidual gold medalists Mélanie Choinière and Kristen Fry led the Martlets to the overall team title.

The women’s champion­ ship banner comes back to McGill after last year ’s loss to Sherbrooke interupted an eight-year winning streak. Meanwhile, the Redmen finished a distant second behind Sherbrooke in the m en’s standings despite golds from

Jean-Nicolas Duval, François Léonard and the 4x800m relay.

Though they had only one competitor in the field events and none in the hurdles, the small contingent of McGill women was so dominant in the middle dis­ tances that the Martlets often ended up being each other’s biggest competition.

That was the case in the 600m and the 1000m where Choinière barely edged Maeve Muldowney for the gold medals.

Not to be outdone, the veteran Muldowney took first in the 1500m final.

With a gold medal guaran­ teeing a spot in the CIAU National Championships to be held at the Toronto Skydome on March 9th and 10th,Choinièrewillbeabusy athlete over those two days.

Barrett is optimistic about her chances for a medal.

“It’s hard to say what her chances are, hopefully she’ll get in the top three or four,” he said.

Choinière, who last week was ranked first nationally in the 600m, is a bit nervous about her first CIAU championships but feels that it will be a good op­ portunity to perform well.

“I’m pretty nervous becau se I don’t know what I can do—I can at least get good times,” she commented.

Now in her last year of track at McGill, Kristen Fry will be competing in her fourth straight national championships. Fry took golds in both the long jump and the shotput this weekend.

Fry was one of McGill’s best last year, bringing home a silver medal from the CIAU’s in the long jump, but she is a bit apprehensive about making any predictions about her perform­ ances this year.

“I ’d like to medal again this year, but my training hasn’t been going well; I ’m not progressing and others are,” she stated. “The distances [between the winning

jumps] are so small that if someone has a good day, it could be anyone’s medal,” added the versatile athlete who also plays on McGill’s varsity volleyball team.

Other gold medallists on the women’s side were the steadily improving Kelly Fallon in the 3000m, and both the 4x400m and 4x800m relay teams.

Due to their lack of depth, the women had not expected to take home the championship but that made this victory even sweeter.

“I didn’t think we could win,” said a pleased Fry. “Our numbers [of athletes] are always too small, so it was a big sur­ prise,” she said.

Also suffering from a lack of depth and injuries, the Redmen placed well, finishing second overall to Sherbrooke in the standings.

Gold medal winners were François Léonard in the 600m,

Jean-Nicolas Duval in the 1000m and the men’s 4x800m relay team.

Despite not performing as well as the women on the indi­ vidual level, the men will be sending a larger group to the Skydome because all three McGill m en’s relay teams (4x200m, 4x400m, 4x800m) will compete.

The McGi 11contingent will include Linda Thyer (3000m, 1500m, 4x800m), Kelly Fallon (3000m, 4x800m), Maeve Muldowney (1500m, 4x800m), Mélanie Choinière (1000m, 600m, 4x800m), Kristen Fry (long jump, shot put), François Léonard (600m, 4x400m, 4x800m), Jean-Nicolas Duval (1000m, 3000m, 4x800m), Jimson Lee (300m, 4x200m, 4x400m), Tarik Ramouch (4x400m, 4x800m), Allen Tissenbaum (4x200m), Jamie Cohen (4x200m) and Charles Thomas (4x200m, 4x400m, 4x800m).

Chasing goats gave Thyer a great start

BY C H A R L E S TH O M AS

On March 28th, McGill Cross Country team members Linda Thyer and Jean-Nicolas Duval will compete in the World Cross Country Championships in Amorietta-Etxamo in the Basques region o f Spain. Both runners qualified for the Canadian team at the Canadian trials in Victoria, B.C. in January. Thyer finished fourth in the women’s 6km race while the 18-year-old Duval won the 8km junior men’s race. This week the Tribune profiles Thyer, while next week’s featured ath­ lete will be Duval.

In her three years with the McGill cross-country squad, Linda Thyer has not lost a single race on the Quebec university cross country circuit. With a sil­ ver medal at last year’s CIAU championships, a fourth place finish at the Canadian trials and now a place on Canada’s team for the world championships, Thyer has established herself as a contender to be reckoned with on the national and international levels.

Along with such success has come some media attention, but in a fashion that is very telling about the kind of person Linda Thyer is, mostreporters feel com­ pelled to mention more than just her athletic achievements.

Some have described her as the “nicest person you would ever L.

want to meet in the world”. Still others (i.e. Pat Hickey of the Gazette) imply that she could raise their children. Many seem con­ tent to simply state that “she doesn’t have a pretentious bone in her body”.

That has always struck me as an odd comment because if pretention were a bone, Thyer would have to be like one of those rubber chickens that Johnny Carson was so fond of.

At a glance the athletic Thyer quickly dispels any refer­ ences to Tonight Show props but comments about her endearing personality are not so easily dis­ missed.

When pressed for details about her performance at the Ca­ nadian trials, Thyer candidly confesses to an attitude that doesn’t often have a place on the competitive playing field.

“I don’t think of myself asa super-competitive person,” she said. “I race best when I’m re­ laxed. Thai’s the way I felt in Victoria. I was thinking ‘wow, it’s great to be here’—I wanted to smile but I thought ‘no, I have to get focused’. I wanted to wave to friends [who came to see the race].

I think it will be the same way in Spain; I won’t be so nervous, just glad to be there,” she added.

“I really don’t deserve to be here; this is just my third year of cross country, some people have been running for ten years. I feel that I’m taking their places,” she

said, almost embarassed.

So self-effacing is Thyer about her training that many have labelledher a ‘natural’ or ‘gifted’ athlete. While there is no ques­ tion that she has great ability, such a characterization doesn’t give justice to the way Thyer lives her life.

She is not one of those ath­ letes who separates training from the rest of her day. Speaking with Thyer, one gets the impression that everything she does is part of a whole; training is a part of her lifestyle. Thyer does not see run­ ning as something that interferes with other activities but as some­ thing that complements them, something to be enjoyed. The Academic All-Canadian claims that even her medical studies benefit from it. “[Running and school] re­ ally complement each other; when you feel healthy, it’s a lot easier to work and study,” she said. “Even if I wasn’t competing, I’d rim; I just enjoy it. Maybe that’s why I think that I’m taking someone’s place [on the national team] who takes it seriously,” she added.

This holistic approach is something that she learned grow­ ing up on her parents’ Nelson, B.C. farm.

“My parents were very ac­ tive—we hiked a lot, we skied; they encouraged us to be active, but the emphasis was never on competitiveness,” said Thyer.

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race in grade 12, Thyer admits that she actually started running during grade school, on the farm, “loused to go out after din­

ner and run after the goats; I’d chase them for a while and then they would chase me,” she said, laughing.

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Redmen Hockey Basketball Redmen, Martlets ousted by O ttaw a set for run at Nationals in overtime MARTLETS LAVAL

REDMEN 3 (OT) CONCORDIA 2 OTTAWA REDMEN OTTAWA REDMEN

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the game, outshooting the Gee-Gees in every period and finally totalling almost twice as many shots as their opponents. But the puck would just not go in for the Redmen. For the third consecutive Redmen game, the score was deadlocked at 2-2 at the end of regulation time.

Ottawa opened the scoring at 13:35 of the first, but McGill came back to tie up the game as Vecchio scored his eighteenth of the season, assisted by Jordy Tedford and Vigneault with just six seconds re­ maining in the period. The teams traded goals in the second with Tedford scoring for McGill, assisted

by Vecchio. The third period re­ mained scoreless, but McGill had several excellent chances which that they could not convert.

“We had them on the ropes, but we didn’t capitalize. We had the opportunities, but we just couldn’t score. We showed charac­ ter and courage and we have noth­ ing to be ashamed of by this result,” said head coach Jean Pronovost after the game.

In the overtim e, McGill dominated, but Ottawa scored. The Redmen hit posts, put pucks too high over a sprawling Ottawa keeper and sailed shots wide.

McGill outshot the Gee-Gees 14-4, but at 5:43 of the second overtime period, the puck went in for Ot­ tawa.

“If you look at the overtime, we should have won, but they put the puck in,” said team captain Vigneault. “The guys have played great over these past three games; they were our best games of the year. We have improved so much over this year and the next couple of years should be great. We were just unlucky this time.’

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BY CRAIG BERNES McGill’s basketball teams are peaking at just the right time, and if the last two weeks are any indication, McGill will be playing ball for a little while longer.

After two solid weeks, the Martlets will take their 11-1 league record and number seven national ranking into the QUBL final on Sat­ urday. It is the first time in five years that McGill has finished First in the league, earning the right to host the final.

The Martlets had a perfect two weeks, beating everyone in the league handily. Last Friday, they hosted Concordia and won despite them­ selves.

The game began with McGill jumping out to an 11-0 lead that they would keep throughout the game. The Martlets continually took it inside against the overmatched Stingers forwards; it was only some untimely turnovers that kept McGill from, say, doubling Concordia’s score. With the talent chasm between the two teams, the game was well in hand Fifth-year forward Jane Ross had 18 points for McGill. “We had tc work harder than they did today, and that’s exactly what we did,” Ross said.

On Sunday, the Martlets blew out Bishop’s 74-52 to close but the season; all-stars Martina Van der Vlist and Vicky Tessier had 20 and 18 points respectively.

The Redmen continued to im­ press, racking up wins over Bishop’s and Laval and coming very near an

Luck was not on the McGill Redmen hockey team’s side last week. After defeating Concordia in a sudden-death quarter-final match, the Redmen were eliminated from the Ontario Universities Athletic Association (OUAA) playoffs by Ottawa in two straight games that were both decided in overtime.

Having finished the regular season in fourth place in the OUAA East Division, the Redmen hosted Concordia last Tuesday. Whether it was nerves or a simple lack of preparation, both teams were life­ less for the first period. Concordia did manage to get two first period goals, including a short-handed one, bu t then McGill woke up and started to gain the upper hand.

Marc Vigneault redeemed himself after a ten minute miscon­ duct penalty by notching his thir­ teenth goal of the season at 15:08 of the third. But it was rookie Mike Buffone who was the hero of the night for the Redmen. Having scored just three goals during the whole season, he notched two, one late in the second, and the game winner at 7:54 of the overtime.

“It was a great team effort all around, to come back. We knew that we had the momentum going into the third and overtime peri­ ods,” said Buffone after the game.

It was a different story when the Redmen travelled to Ottawa on Thursday to take on the first-placed Gee-Gees for the first game of the best of three semi-finals. The game featured a bench-clearing brawl at the end of the overtime period, a McGill goal that was disallowed, and a continuous paradeof Redmen through the penalty box.

Ottawa won on an overtime goal that McGill disputed. “The puck never went in,” asserted Redmen goalie Patrick Jeanson.

David Vecchio and Buffone notched the goals for McGill in the losing cause.

On Saturday night, a matter o f inches again separated the Redmen from a win. Before a ca­ pacity crowd, McGill dominated C o n c o r d i a a n d M c G i l l t r a d e d K it s a n d g o a ls u n t i l B u f f o n e s c a le d t h e S t i n g e r s ' f a t e

upset of number-one ranked Concordia on Friday.

The Stingers led 10-3 early before McGill went on a 16-0 run.

Though McGill was taking bad shots, the Stingers’ shot selection was atro­ cious. And McGill was the only team grabbing any rebounds. Rookie Rick Varisco’s three-point touch (six on the day) was instant offence for the Redmen. Every time Concordia came close, McGill responded with a surge of their own, and the Redmen led 3427 at the half.

The second half saw Concordia quicken the pace as their full-court press began to pay dividends. While this was hardly the same McGill team that was victimized for easy scores early in the season, Concordia’s press gave the Stingers a few key baskets.

The score was tied just four minutes into the half.

Rather than folding, the Redmen followed Concordia’s im­ proved shooting in the second half.

Or rather, Varisco followed it. With 28 points, he was the only McGill player consistently making baskets.

McGill’s hard work on defence kept the Stingers within reach, and with 4:24 left, McGill led 59-58.

The team’s consistent play is no longer a surprise. After winning a total of two games last season,

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McGill's record in the league this year is 8-4.

With their strong showing, the team will try to create some March madness of its own. Counting a re­ spectable loss to Winnipeg, McGill has played the number one team in the country five times. Although never winning, they have acquitted them­ selves very well, thank you. They outscored Winnipeg in the second half. Two weeks ago, they lost to Concordia by two.

Their second-place finish is the best in three years, and McGill will host Bishop’s in the QUBL semi­ final Friday at 7:30 pm.

The Martlets will host the QUBL final Saturday at 2:00 pm. in the Currie gymnasium.

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Swimsuits ’93 At last! My Sports Illus­ trated swimsuit issue is here!

For those of you sports fans who are not lucky subscribers, I have prepared a review of the best-selling edition that reaches one in five American homes.

To secure my own copy was well worth staying in Montreal for the break, because you never know which one of my lascivious neighbours might pinch my personal porno mag from my broken mailbox.

Perspiring with anticipa­ tion, I turned to Swimsuits ’93.

After all, I am in the market for a new swimsuit. My stodgy and sensible Speedo could use some spice. Was there a m onokini in here for me?

And how joyously did I greet the news that models of today are now becoming “big”.

They are. Big...breasted.

The magazine features voluptuous Vendela—is that a first or a last name? We aren’t told, and it doesn’t matter.

Swimsuit director Jule Campbell’s captions are as horrifying as the photographs.

As two women model bathing suits atop a glacier in Alaska, Campbell boasts, “Vendela and Richardson give new meaning to the term ‘sangfroid’.” (Not to mention giving new meaning to the concept of hypothermia.)

Turn the page, and it’s two northern huskies chasing “a snow leopard—or is that Vendela” through the snow.

Yes, in her purple leopard swimsuit and fluffy fur boots, Vendela could easily be mistaken for a leopard. They must have airbrushed the purple blotches off the rest of Vendela’s frost-bitten skin.

But still, Vendela’s face is one of pure joy. To have icicles forming in all my mucous membranes would make me shiver in ecstasy, too. Maybe it’s a frozen grin.

We leave Alaska to thaw out in Martha’s Vineyard.

Historically, the links between beautiful females, water and Chappaquiddick have not been overly life-affirming. Yet, Ingrid Seynhaeve is reclining in a wagon clearly christened “CHAPPAQUIDDICK LAND­ ING.” Don’t accept rides from famous men, Ingrid.

After a change of outfit,

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Female do w n hille rs rule the m ountain

On February 23, the QSSF released its selections for basketball all-stars. McGill placed two Martlets and one Redman on the honorary squads.

Rookie Vicky Tessier and junior Martina van der Vlist were named to the women's all-star team, while the feats of McGill’s co-captains Jane Ross and Debby Morse, were largely ignored. Ross did, however, gamer an Hon­ ourable Mention.

In addition to making the all-star team, Tessier was voted Rookie of the Year and league MVP. Tessier is currently in second place in the league in scoring and rebounding. The first-year Chemistry student was also QSSF Female Athlete of the Week two weeks ago, which recognized her 14 points and 7 rebounds in McGill’s 66-55 victory over Laval on February 19.

Martlet head coach Chris Hunter was named QUBL Coach of the Year for the second time in three seasons.

Junior forward Todd McDougall, a two-time Aca­ demic All-Canadian,was named to the men’s all-star team, which also featured three players from the Concordia Stingers. McDougall is currently fourth in the league in both scoring and rebounding.

Last weekend, the Alpine Ski team competed on two slalom courses at Mont Blanc. On Saturday, McGill placed four women in the top 15, led by Jill Taylor in 5th and Julia Hogan in 7th place. No McGill men placed among the top15 as Hugo Haley’s 23rd place finish was the best among McGill males.

On Sunday, there were five McGill women among the first 15, as Sophie Marcoux finished 4th and Martha McDougall came 6th. On the men’s side, Jonathan Roeter was 8th and team captain Sean Sofin was 22nd.

As a result of these races, McGill women remain in first place, while the men slipped to fifth. McGill also tops the team standings.

The team’s next race will be the giant slalom this weekend at Mt. Ste. Marie near Ottawa. The finals well be held on March 19-20 at Stoneham.

BY ALISON KORN

“Ingrid fishes for compliments in a net T-shirt and string bikini from Gottex ($340).” Ah! Is that a nipple I see, poking through the fishnet? $340 for a shirt with holes in it.

We’re also treated to Woman as Sea Nymph(o): “Like mirages in the morning mist, Britta and Stacey material­ ize by the pool...” In other words, they drift in and out of existence. Pity all women aren’t so recyclable.

And then there’s Britta in the arched-back pose, ready and waiting to be boinked from behind. Down on all fours, Britta says “a maillot is the hands-down choice for pebblebeaching” but her stare says much more. Grrrrrrr. All those pebbles must be hard on the knees.

And my personal favorite, which I call ‘Kentucky Fried Chick’: “salted [breaded?] by sand...Amber Smith is bathed in light as mellow as her name.”

Arms ominously resembling drumsticks, all ready to be plunged in the deep-fryer, it’s the edible woman. Shake ’n’ Bake, anyone?

And who could overlook the final frame, featuring Woman as Driftwood: “Like treasure washed ashore by the tide, Kathy sparkles in the sand.”

Kathy, die treasure, seems to have lost her top in the surf.

I still hadn’t found a swimsuit for me, but friends told me there were more swimsuits to be seen in copy-cat magazines. Thank goodness, because that monokini from Darling Rio just doesn’t do me justice. Seeking other options, I scoured la Maison de la Presse Internationale for Sport maga­ zine and Inside Sports, but Sport was sold out and Inside Sports was sealed in plastic.

Strategically placed beside Penthouse, Inside Sports apparendy contains swimsuit scenes too titillating for the unpaying public.

Where is sunburned Bertha, beached with bad blisters?

I thought the point was swimsuits. I guess it’s flesh.

Redmen soccer coach qu its After six seasons as head coach of the McGill Redmen soccer team, Claudio Sandrin announced his res­ ignation on February 11. Among the highlights of Sandrin’s time at McGill are: five CIAU national championships appearances, five QUSL Coach of the Year awards, a 49'13-14 overall record, and the CIAU men’s soccer Coach of the Year award for 1990-91.

Sandrin, who teaches at Laurier Macdonald High School, is leaving coaching to spend more time with his family.

V olleyball continues to m aintain the status quo On Friday February 19, the Redmen volleyball team losttoBishop’sinthreegames: 15-7,15-5,15-13.The men then travelled to Laval for the playoffs where they fell to Laval 15-5, 15-6, 15-4.

On Sunday, February 21, the Redmen defeated King's College from Halifax 15-7,15-6,14-16,15-11 in an exhibition contest.

Among the highlights of the season for the Redmen was the Ryerson tournament January 8-9, where setter Steve Lloyd was named to the all-star team. Middleblocker Jason Duncan, who also played on the Redmen Rugby team this year, finished an illustrous five-year career.

Head Coach Ian Jordan stated that fundraising ef­ forts have interfered with his players' GPAs and training.

"I'mashamed that McGill doesn't give kids the opportunity to play in a funded team," he said. "It's discouraging to anyone new who wants to play."

The Martlet vollyball team has ended its season with a disappointing record of eight losses and zero wins.

M a rtle ts w ip e o ff th e ir skates fo r another ye a r The Martlet hockey team found itself with a spring break on its hands for the first time in a few years as McGill finished fifth in the QW1HL, missing the playoffs.

On Friday, February 19, the women lost to John Abbott College 7-0, then reversed their fortunes against Bishop’s on Saturday the 20th with a 7-0 victory over the Lady Gaiters.

Monica Cermignani paced the Martlets with a hat trick; Jocelyne Barrett compiled one goal and three assists, and Mélanie Bourque had one goal and one assist. Kara Shoults and Wendy Bain also notched one goal apiece.

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McGill Fencing: it’s Escrimel Personal best performances, renewed university competition and a bumper crop of new fencers are giving a resurgent thrust to fencing at McGill.

McGill Fencing team assist­ ant coach James McCullough, a tenyear veteran of McGill fencing, has seen a real surge in participation at McGill that is perhaps reflective of a national trend.

“We’ve had more people competing over the last two years than ever before,” he declared. “The [national] base of fencing has grown incredibly. Basically every province has a fencing organiza­ tion.”

At McGill, much of the team is recruited from novice fencers in the McGill Athletics Instructional programme. McCullough says they are encouraged to compete as soon as possible—even after a few months.

“We really encourage people to get into competitive fencing,” he explained. “People can compete af­ ter the first semester of Instructionals and fence [competitively] three times a month if they want to.”

Julie Desbarats, a doctoral student in Immunology, is just such a product of Instructionals. She enrolled in Instructional Fencing I

in September and just began com­ peting in foil this semester as a member of the women’s foil team that placed an impressive third in January ’s Carleton Invitational. And just last week Desbarats finished third of eighteen fencers ata tourna­ ment in Ottawa.

“You learn a lot more in a concentrated environment [like that of the tournament],” she observed.

“You see very different fencing styles that you might not see at your own club.”

McGill Fencing also attracts fencers with experience. Freshman history and philosophy student Adam Bradley is one of McGill’s up and coming sabre specialists. Like many other McGill fencers, Bradley is taking advantage of his time in Montreal to work with the best fenc­ ers and coaches in the country.

Bradley finds sabre competition of the highest calibre at the Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf club.

“Brébeuf is the top club for sabre. The top eight or nine sabre specialists in the country fence there,” he explained. “It’s Olympic quality.”

High-level competition and excellent coaching are paying off for Bradley, who placed 14th of 44 fencers in January’s Robert Desjardins fencing tournament. His placing qualified him for elevation

to the coveted ‘B’classification next year.

Despite the absence of a Que­ bec university league, McGill fenc­ ers do not suffer for lack of compe­ tition. They can and do take advan­ tage of a vibrant extramural ama­ teur scene that includes both novice and elite athletes. McGill team coach Allan Dunkley considers this scene essential for developing competi­ tive fencers.

“There is no lack of tourna­ ments,” Dunkley concurred. “You could fence fifteen tournaments a year.” But he added that “by just fencing university tournaments you are going to hit a plateau and won’t improve.”

Nevertheless, McGill fencers have been impressed by the organi­ zation and collegial atmosphere of the Ontario university fencing cir­ cuit and hope to join it next year.

Dunkley expects that if they dojoin, they will put in strong team show­ ings.

“In previous years we’ve been very strong—easily first or second in the Ontario-Québec region,” he said. “It’s been up and down this year.

We’re not as powerful...[because] we’re less ex­ perienced.”

In McCullough’s words, “It’s a very good scene.”

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S ta c e y G r ill "I'm really excited about representing the Arts Faculty in a Senate seat. The tw o criterion for Arts Senator are speaking out and speaking about. As a M c G ill Debating Union member and Chair of Exhibition Debates, I have learned to speak out on important campus issues. M y experience os a M cG ill Sexual Assault Center volunteer, as Canadian Campus Safety Conference fundraising coordinator, has familiarized me with the M cG ill Administration, and important issues (campus safety, sexual assault, race relations). I'm not only a good talker but a great listener Any questions please don't hesitiote to come find me. Thanks for your support!"

P a tric k P e rre a u lt

S a ra h G o w er

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th e results o f course evaluations to b e m ad e pu b lic to students.

There is still a b t o f w o rk to be done: A safety a u d it o f the cam pus w a s c om p le te d recently, on d w e need to lo b b y the adm inistration to im plem ent its recom m endations to im prove safe!, o n cam pus, a n d to ask th e adm in istration to fund W alk-S afe .

The procudures fo r c o m p b in in g a b o u t sexual harassment need to b e looked a t a n d im p rove d. There needs to b e on ad v o c a te to counsel c o m p b in o n ts w h o d o n 't d e c id e their cose.

ENSURE THAT M c G ill IS FINANCIALLY AC C O U N TABLE T O UNDEGRADUATE STUDENTS. 2 . ENSURE THAT M c G i ll IMPROVES O N SERVICES IN S U C H AREAS A S LIBRARIES A N D W HEELC H AIR ACCESSIBWTY. 3 . PUSH FOR A M cG U L AUDIT O F E N VIRO NM EN TAL RESPONSIBILITY. 4 . IN F O R M SC IENC E STUDENTS OF SENATE ISSUES BY NEWSLETTERS OR D ISC U SS IO N .

5 . O R G A N IZ E W O R K S H O P S T O PROMOTE SC IENC E LITERACY IN M O N TRE AL AREA._____________________________ __

U ndergrods recently m ade a pro po sal to o l i o * students to take som e elective courses on a pass-foil basis, so os to a l i o * skjdents to concentrate on learning, w itho ut w o rryin g a b o u t their GPA. I ask for you r s u p po rt so that I co n continue to w o rk to w ards Ihr goals.

R a je s h J o s h i

B ra d le y R o m a n e k

The Board of Governors is the final decision making authority for M cG ill Policy. An effective student voice requires a solid understanding of the issues confronting Students Society as w ell as the Senate. I was on Student Society's Policy Review Committee as the Arts Representative and am aw are of students' needs and interests. I worked to gel environmental investment policy at the administration level. I hove the understanding that the Representative to B O G needs Sometimes, my eyes even pop back in.

Senote... (hot is the M c G ill Senate- th e b o d y that tries to form adm inistrative p o licie s to run this ptoce. They d e c id e h o w the libraries should b e underfunded, ove rpriced student services, tenure decisions, etc. Through a m yriad o f subcom m ittees, they try to go vern this bureaucratic nightm are. S orry to p a int such a do rk picture, but these o f you w h o hove ever h o d a n y de olin gs w ith the (mal)functional parts o f M c G ill adm inistration kno w w h a t I mean.

But th e Senate i£ im p orto nt to ^ x jr lives - it's you r m oney on d your university they're fid d lin g oro un d w ith l Personally. I'd ab o lish tuition fees, have o w ett-m ointoined cam pus, nice persons w o rkin g in James A dm in .- but I'd be living a pip e dream ! I'm just asking you for the op po rtun ity to address som e o f these issues: just remember, these pe o p le seem to ap p ro ve every SSMU fee increaseH IG H W A Y ROBBERY, or th e mast odious form o r usury o t besll You ca n trust me to v o ic e o most reasonable o p in io n on this matter (o f theft).

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REP TO BOARD OF GOVERNORS

H i, I'm RAJESH JO S HI o U 2 c iv il w h o 'd like to be your Rep. to

Born to Bruce and Ruby Romanek of N iagara, Ontario, Bradley enjoys to play Bocce and Chess.

He served on Student Council (executive) for tw o terms in High School w h ile playing basketball on the inter-varsity team. After completing O A C requirements in four years, he entered AAcGill University for a M echanical Engineering degree.

He enjoys rolling dow n hills, raising chickens, petting cats, flying kites, music, E-AAail, parcels, Dills, vegetables and working on the farm. W h ile working he eats things like peaches. He has never had a headache and is a strong believer in the Canadian welfare system and universal accessability.

Please subm it to-. W illiam Stee and Regina Yang, C RO s.

As Science Senator, my main objective will be to enhance communication between the science students and myself, to be a true student representative. Also, as member of the Joint SenateBoard Committee on Technology Transfer this year, I have layed the groundwork for Science Student Research Bursary Program that I will carry through to fruition via membership on SUS. Furthermore, through membership on APPC, I have lobbied for the introduction of PASS/FAIl courses at M cGill • as senator, I will ensure their implementation. However, most of all, my role will be to respond to your needs and concerns as they arise, which, I believe, is a student representative's primary priority.

M y n om e « Emmanuel C ho rru ki, a n d I'm currently o n e o f the Science Senators. W e 'v e acco m plishe d a lot on Senate this \» a i • I think the m ajor o n e w a s pe rsua ding the adm inistration to o t to *

Experience: o p po s ed o n d a jb m itle d counter-proposol to residence fee increases as SSMU rep to Senate Residences Subcommittee; responsible for adm inistra five o n d fin a n c ia l d etails o f SSMU Program m ing N e k v o rk as O ffic e M a n a g e r; author o f Safin H all C o u n c il constitution

Hello, with o year's experience on Ed. U.S. council, I am already familiar with the duties that is entailed in this position. As a Senator I still be part of Ed. U.S., and have office hours, as my first duty is to be in touch with the issues, And the people that I w o uld represent in the senate. I look forward to initiating special projects, briefing education students on senate decisions, ond most importantly, I w ill be open to student input, ond sensitive to student concerns.

S c o tt K a p o o r

E m m an u el C hom ski

Pu su in g : B. Sc (M ic ro b io lo g y & Immunology)

M a rc ia J a m e s

I am in Honours history and I became involved in student life cs the Chairperson of Activities N ight in 19 9 1 and os a member on the executive of the Entrepreneurs'Club from '9 9 1 to 199 3. Being on elected Representative for M c G ill clubs to the SSMU Council, I gained experience in representing people and getting things done with bureaucracies. I also sit on the RAISE committee of the ALMA MATER FUND. W ith other Faculty members, I w ill work on Senate to advocate the importance of the undergraduate level in Arts and to defend student interests regarding equity, safety, courses, and M cG ill service fees.

Student safety on and around campus. W alksafe.

Sexual harassment. Libraries. Scholarships ond student aid. Tuition fees. Pass/Fail elective courses. M o re honours, majors and minors between departments and across faculties. M ore arls courses in African Studies, Cultural Studies, W om en's Studies, inter and multi disciplinary studies.

The decisions on all of these issues and more are m ade through the M c G ill Senate. The faculty and administration must start listening to the students and acting in our best interest. Next year w ill be my last year at M c G ill and I am determined to see real action on these issues a nd many more.

Representing McGill's largest faculty, it is imperative that an Arts Senator be well acquainted with the wide range of issues dealt with at the Senate level.

Some of the issues I would like to pursue next year include pass/fail courses, more flexible programs and improvement of McGill's libraries.

M y experiences in covering Senate as News Editor and Edilor-in-Chief of the AAcGill Tribune, coupled with my participation on Senate’s Academic Policy and Planning ond Timetabling and Student Records Committees over the past two years have given me the well-rounded base necessary to be an effective representative of Arts students.

B X T J E M

change.

I am a third year arts student w h o is currently the secretary of the Arts Undergraduate Society, and an executive member of the Sociology Students Association. Because I have been involved in functions such as W elco m e W e e k and the Blood Drive, and because I have also participated in numerous intramural sports, I have become very_^ fam iliar with the different facets of the university. I believe that the Senate should devise more updated policies on issues such as equity, discrimination, and sexual harassment, should continue to support library improvement, and should give students more input in university affairs and decisions.

First, let me say that I am moderate in the extreme.

I understand the Senate ond have sat as student representative on tw o Senate committees ond two sub-committees: Timetabling and Student Records Committee, Honourary Degrees and Convocations Committee, Subcom m ittee of Student Records W orking Group, and the Sub-Committee on Convocation Ceremonies.

I realize the importance of a strong student voice and promise this: if elected to Senate, I pledge to each ond every one of you that as G o d is my witness, I'll never go hungry again.

T I C B

M onogement Senator should be informed and willing to make the effort to understand university issues. I con provide this, ond, in addition, be occessbile to you, the monogement student, inensuring your concerns ore heard ot the Senate level.

M y experience as Treasurer of Douglas Hall has shown me how to deal with practical problems.

Conversations with several students both in and out of monogement hos indicated to me that there exists o lot of room for improvement ot M cG ill, ond I would be o capable initiator of your views for

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The "you need a strong voice in Senate" is a cliche, bul it really is true. As senator, I w ould present all that is important to the faculty effectively and efficiently. As well, I w ould introduce my own ideas, such as getting better lightling in the lobby and allow ing old exams to be put on file in the library.

The senate is the body that decides most of M c G ill's academ ic and financial policies, yet nobody but the senators themselves really know what is going on. Therefore, when something important is happening in the senate I w ill put the information in M anagement's W hat's N e w Just remember to vote!

Hi there! Senate business include equitable hiring practices and curriculum changes. Students have a strong voice on Senate. It can be stronger. Last summer, Senate decided to raise the MBA application fee from $ 2 0 to $ 100. W as our voice heard?

I fought condo conversion which hurts students, designed a feasibility study for student coop cafeterias, and educated students about tenants' rights. M y experience includes SSMU's Food and Beverage and External Affairs Committees.

I shall work hard for Management students. After all, we students make this university great, not vice versa, and we should have a stronger say in the running of its affairs.

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