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It's been nearly a year since McGill's Faculty o f Law was rocked by the Rick Jones scandal; yet, his effect on staff and students remains. In this issue, the Tribune looks at how conartist Roger Benjamin allegedly stole admis sions files, application cheques, and students' property under the alias o f Rick Jones. See p a g e 3
In s id e T h is W e e k News: Students staged a sit-in at the Daily office last Thursday to protest an allegedly anti-Semetic article. S ee page 4 Op/Ed: Given his views on excessive executive stipends, coupled with his poor per formance recently, SSMU President Jason Prince should, in good conscience, refuse to pick up his own next paycheque... S ee editorial, page 6 Features: How does McGill fit into Montreal? Does McGill have a responsibility to its surrounding commu nity? What, if anything, do students owe to Montreal? The responses to these questions reflect the diver sity of opinion and back ground to be found here. • See page 10 E ntertainm ent: Packed with HOLE'S punch, an interview with student playwright Adam Sternbergh. See page 14 Sports: The women's ski team takes the provincial title as McGill finishes second overall at the Quebec Championships at Stoneham last weekend. See page 18
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W Tuesday. March 23 Amnesty International meets every Tuesday at 6:30 pm in Shatner building room 435. All wel come. For more information call 398-1519. The Scarlet Key Society and the McGill Choral Society present an AIDS Awareness Evening featur ing speeches and an AIDS benefit concert. 7:00 pm, FDA Auditorium. The Centre for Developing Area Studies presents Jacques-René Kuyena speaking on currency sub stitution in Zaire. 12:00 pm, 3715 Peel, seminar room 100. For more information call 398-3507. Wednesday. March 24 McGill Improv performs free every Wednesday at 7:30 pm in the Alley. The McGill Medical Fra ternity is holding an informational Open House from 11:00 am-4:00 pm in Shatner 310. All students are in vited to drop in to ask questions and to find out more about our student organization. The Faculty of Music presents a chamber music concert by McGill String and Mixed Ensem bles. 8:00 pm, Redpath Hall. For more information call 398-4547. Thursday. March 25 Discussion on the mythical, the fictional and the historical in the
work of Carlos Fuentes. 4:00 pm, Peterson Hall, 3rd floor. The International Relations Society hosts the International Forum. In light of His Excel lency Mikhail S. Gorbachev’s visit to McGill, the focus issue will be “The Fall of the Russian Empire- Final Act?” Any and all individuals welcome. 3:00-5:00 pm, Shatner 401 (Multicultural Lounge).
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Sunday. March 28 Scrivener Magazine presents a special reading, the last in this year’s series, with Tom Pow from Scotland and Ciaran O’Driscoll from Ireland. Free. 8:00 pm, Thomson House, 3650 McTavish.
The International Stu dents’ Association of MacDonald Campus presents International Night, “A Cultural Fusion”, at Centennial Centre Ballroom21,lll LakeshoreRd., Ste-Anne de Bellevue. Buffet dinner, cultural show and danc ing. Admission $8.00. 6:00 pm. For more information call 457-6103.
A two-day Levi’s Sale be gins today: recycled, coloured, and new Levi’s, as well as T-shirts and jackets, will be available. 10:00am-7:00 pm, Shatner 107. The Faculty of Musicpresents the Hyper Music Labora tory from Nagoya, Japan. 8:00 pm, 555 Sherbrooke St. W., room C-209. Free. For info call 398-4547. The Faculty of Music presents the McGill Trombone and Tuba Studio. 8:00 pm, RedpathHall. Free. For info call 398-4547. Onttoinir...
The Folk Music So ciety meets every Monday at 8:30 pm in the basement of the Yellow g Door. Come check it out or call O Stephanie at 933-1330 for info. £ y The James Bay Coaw lition meets every Monday at 4:30 “ pm in Shatner 435. For info call • 495-1482. w
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The Faculty of Music presents Jeffrey Reusing, organist. 12:15 pm, Redpath Hall. Free. For info call 398-4547.
contacter Vcronik a 487-3088.
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The Faculty of Music presents McGill String and Mixed Ensembles. 8:00 pm, Redpath Hall. Free. For more information call 398-4547.
The Yellow Door Coffee House presents live music by Michael Adams with Beverley Druzin. Admission $2.00. 8:00 pm, Yellow Door, 3625 Aylmer. For info call 398-6243.
Opera McGill presents “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”, featur ing the McGill Symphony Orchestra. Tickets $ 15/$ 10 at Pollack Hall Box Office. 7:30 pm, Pollack Hall, 555 Sherbrooke St. W. For info and ticket orders, call 398-4547.
11:00 am-1:00 pm in the Shatner Bldg. See sign in lobby for location. Open Road presents a Popu lar Education conference on Power and Social Change: an Introduction 5/*to Participatory Education Tech5 niques. 9:00 am-5:00 pm, Stratheam Intercultural Centre, 3650 Jeanne Mance, room 212. Registra tion 9-9:30 am, $5.00. For more info call 284-6587.
The Biochemistry Department presents Andrew Storer speaking on “Unravelling the Molecular Basis for the Catalytic Mechanism of Cysteine Proteases.” 12:30-1:30 pm, McIntyre Medical Bldg., room 903. The Classical Music Club meets today at 6:00 pm in the Strathcona Music Bldg., room C-204. All newcomers are welcome. For more info, call Nigel at 284-4485. Pour plus de renseignements, veuillez
The McGill Medical Fra ternity is organizing a Spring Char ity Drive. Food, clothes, toys, books and household items are being col lected on the first floor of the McIntyre Medical Building until March 31. Persons with disabilities: Ongoing support group for McGill students, faculty and staff. Call Peter or Donna at 398-3601 or 398-6009 for more information. Do you or someone close to you have AIDS? You arc not alone. AIDS Community Care Montreal offers the following support groups: HIV+ Men’s Group; HIV+ Hetero sexual Men’s Group; HIV+ Wom en’s Group; Bereavement Group; Family, Friends and Partners’ Group; Children’s Play Therapy Group. Call 939-0075. All calls are confidential.
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“R i c k J o n e s ” r a t t l e s M c G i l l L a w ' s b o n e s B Y S T E V E S M IT H AND RAM RANDHAW A
Recent revelations of an impersonation scam at McGill’s Faculty of Law dur ing the 1991-92 academic year have surfaced, in which a student assumed a false iden tity and allegedly stole appli cations and cheques from the faculty. When he enrolled at the Faculty of Law in September of 1991, Roger Benjamin as sumed the identity of Rick Jones, a second-year transfer student from Dalhousie Uni versity. After cancelling sev eral meetings with Associate Dean (Academic) David Stevens, Benjamin finally ap proached Stevens in early Oc tober to apply for an exemp tion from a course. Stevens noted that Benjamin’s file did not contain an official tran script from his previous uni versity. Due to his late appli cation, the faculty had ac cepted a facsimile copy of his transcript from Dalhousie. At this time, the lack of an offi cial transcript appeared as the only indication that something was wrong with Benjamin’s situation. The reality behind “Rick Jones” was exposed in De cember by a visiting student from the University of British Columbia’s (UBC) Faculty of Law. The student had been friends with Benjamin while he was attending UBC Law School under the name Richard Pearson. Benjamin (a.k.a. Pearson) is alleged to have posed as his roommate in order to obtain a credit card. Apparently, Benjamin even used the card to pay when he invited his roommate and friends out on several occa sions. Benjamin notonly stole his roommate’s car and stereo but also accessed his room mate’s bank account, which he used to pay off his credit card expenses. After running into Benjamin in the halls of the McGill Law Building, the visiting student immediately notified the dean. Ip early January, the fac
ulty received a letter from UBC with a picture of Richard Pearson. After identifying Benjamin, Stevens and Asso ciate Dean (Admissions) Rosalie Jukier immediately contacted McGill Security. They discovered Security had been tracking Benjamin for bouncing cheques at the Law Bookstore. According to Sam Kingdon, Associate VP for Physical Resources, McGill’s security service alerted Mon treal Urban Community (MUC) police immediately. “We worked directly with the MUC police, who immediately put an investi gator on the case,” said Kingdon. Soon after the warning from UBC, Stevens received a call from the Bank of Mon treal saying that someone was trying to cash 15, $40 cheques which had been made out to the faculty. “I told them not to cash them, and I gave them the number of the head of secu rity,” Stevens told the Trib une. In light of the police’s inability to assign officers to patrol the Law building, McGill Security hired a full time private security officer. Benjamin had a number of run-ins with security, the last of which occurred in midApril. In a struggle with two security guards, Benjamin managed to escape and has not been seen in Montreal since. Jukier emphasized the faculty was a real victim in the affair. “Where we suffered so terribly was that he was steal ing applications,” she ex plained. Benjamin had allegedly been stealing the files of stu dents applying to the faculty before they reached the ad missions office. From these files, Benjamin obtained ap plication cheques as well as the personal data necessary to apply to different universi ties. With this stolen infor mation, Benjamin could as sume the identities of various
applicants. The repercussions of Benjamin’sactivities were se vere. According to Jukier the faculty did all it could to en sure that none of the appli cants suffered from theft of their applications. “We did our best to track down the people who had ap plied, and we accepted every one who would have other wise been accepted. It took a lot of effort on our part to mitigate the damage,” she elaborated. “I think we did a fabulous job of damage con trol.” In response to fears raised over Benjamin’s in volvement with the Law Stu dent Association’s (LSA’s) Computer Committee, chair man Dan Shapp asserted that Benjamin’s involvement with the system could not have ad versely affected any students. However, at the time of Benjamin’s involvement with the committee, a computer was stolen from the lab for the first time in its history. Dean of Law YvesMarie Morissette commented that security improved as the case progressed. “They [security] may have initially underestimated the seriousness of the situa tion, but security got better and better as the case went along,” he stated. Although police action may have appeared perfunc tory, Morissette noted that the nature of the case did not make it a serious police affair. “They were giving it the attention they normally wouId for this kind of a (property) offence. It was non-violent, and it was probably a low priority case from the police point of view.” Although warrants for Benjamin’s arrest had been issued in British Columbia, no Canada-wide warrants had been issued. Benjamin could not have been arrested in Montreal until a warrant was obtained locally, which did not occur until after he had fled the city. It is suspected that Benjamin used the files sto
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len from McGill in an effort to gain entry to other univer sities. Despite Jukier’s warn ings to other law schools across Canada, Benjamin was accepted at Queen’s Univer sity in Kingston this academic year as first-year law student Christopher Dunn. According to Queen’s University Law professor Don Stewart, Benjamin’sgirl friend did not begin to doubt his identity until December. Queen’s LawFaculty officials discovered through a records check in early January 1993 that Benjamin was not who he claimed to be. “He went to Toronto over Christmas and didn’t come back, but we managed to get him arrested and brought back to Kingston to face charges,” Stewart ex plained. Benjamin pleaded guilty earlier this year to a charge of personation, for which he was sentenced to one year in prison. He is currently being held at the Quinte Regional
Detention Center in Napanee, Ontario, awaiting trial on fur ther charges of fraud and for gery. Stewart mentioned that attempts are being made to link Benjamin’s McGill, Queens and UBC charges. What success Roger Benjamin did enjoy has been attributed to his affable per sonality. Jukier commented that the thing that made Benjamin a great con artist was his friendliness. “You really get taken by him. He has a great personal ity,” explained Jukier. The Rick Jones affair has been deemed a ‘nightmare’ for McGill’s Faculty of Law. Though jokes abound among the faculty’s students, it is undeniable that Benjamin’s manipulation of the staff and student’s trust has had a pro found impact. “He was a con-man across the board,’’commented Morissette. “He hasn’t left fond memories with the staff of this institution.” .41-
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B Y M IC H A EL B R O A D H U R S T A N D AMY R ID L E Y
A group o f200 to 300 angry students and several Montreal Jew ish community leaders demon strated outside the offices of the McGill Daily Thursday afternoon. They were protesting the Daily's publication of an allegedly antiSemitic article in its special anti racism issue published March 15. The article in question was a fullpage opinion piece by the Pales tine Solidarity Committee (PSC) entitled “Racism and Zionism; Myth or Reality?” The Jewish Students’ Coa lition, an ad-hoc group of students responsible for organizing the sitin at the Daily office, presented a list of demands to the editorial board of the newspaper, including the creation of a new editorial po sition of Jewish Affairs Editor. The Daily locked its doors, forcing the demonstration to pro ceed in the hallway outside. Daily Coordinating Editor Dan Robins defended the closed-door policy. “We were told 150 angry people were coming, and we have a lot of expensive computers in side,” he said. Daniel Koffler, President of Hillel, spoke to the crowd. “Reading that article— 1 have never been so crushed,” he said. “We won’t stand for it.” Robins apologized, claim ing that the content of the anti racism issue was out of his con trol. “We didn’t get the articles [for the issue] until four or five in the afternoon Friday. At that point it was too late to try and figure out what the other things were that
should be figured in,” he said. Robins claimed that an article by Lisa Gruschow on anti-Semitism was intended for the Monday is sue. It appeared Wednesday. Robins answered questions from protesters regarding the Dai ly's editorial policy on publishing anti-Semitic material. “The article we published is not anti-Semitic,” he claimed. Despite the large and vocif erous protest, Jonathan Glick, President of the Progressive Zion ist Caucus, was against the idea of a demonstration. “We should move towards a meaningful dialogue with Arab students and other ethnic groups. The only way to break [racism] down is to talk,” he argued. “My Zionism has to include respect for Palestinians.” Other students, such as U2 Political Science student Michael Kantor, argued that the Daily is selective in the groups it chooses to criticize. “If you’re not gay, environ mental, or anything radical, if you’re not oneof those three things, the Daily won’t support you,” he said. Rabbi Reuben Poupko, Chairman of the Canadian Jewish Congress’ Executive Committee, was present at the sit-in. “We’ve been locked out of ihc McGill Daily for much longer than just today,” he said. Robins suggested that con tributions to \hcDaily by the Jew ish community would be a solu tion to their concerns. “I agree that the big problem is that anti-Semitism wasn’t in cluded [in the issue],” he claimed. He was asked if, as a result, Zion ism would be included in the fu
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ture anti-racism issues. “Zionism is not antiSemitism,” he argued. Robins maintained that the Daily has been fair in their cover age of the issue of anti-Semitism. “We’ve also printed lots of pro-Zionist things. Our letters col umn is open to all McGill stu dents,” he remarked. Robins also mentionedthcDaily’s ‘HydePark’ section as offering students the opportunity to voice their con cerns. David Lewkowict, a McGill graduate present, was not so opti mistic about the policies of the Daily. “It’s not my responsibility to make sure that all views are printed. It’syours,”hesaid to Rob ins.
When pressured about a spe cial issue on the subject of antiSemitism, Robins maintained that there was not enough time left in the term. U3 Management stu dent Tanya Rutman offered to co-ordinate an issue with a Daily staffer. D aily news writer Jonathan Dcsbarals agreed to work in tandem with her on the project. However the concilliatory attitude of the Daily angered Yousef Arafat, Co-ordinator of the PSC. “I agree that the McGill Daily should apologize for not having had published an article representing the Jewish concerns but beyond that they do not have the right to apologize for the con tent of the article,” he stated.
Arafat asserted that the PSC was discussing the relationship of Zionism and racism. He defended the PSC position, citing authors such as David Ben Gurion and Theodore Hcrzcl as sources. “Ninety percent o f the arti cle is the opinion of Jewish Israe li’s,” he maintained. Elliott Halperin, a Continu ing Education student and organ izer of the rally, reiterated that there are two sides to the ArabIsracli conflict that the Daily should bring to light. “In Canada it’s my privilege to be free of racism. The Daily would never print material that is anti-black or anti-women, but they’ll publish anti-Jewish mate rial,” he said. “Why does it come so easily and so naturally?”
N ational P a rty student group formed at M cG ill B Y B E N O IT JA C Q M O T T E
Three McGill students who currently sit on the Quebec Elec tion Strategy Committee of the recently created National Party of Canada are seeking to establish a National Party student group at McGill. U3 Arts student Irving Gold, U3 Education student Dean Karalekas, and U3 Arts student Jeff Monachello, who formed the executive of the McGill Students for the No group during last October’s Charlottetown Accord referendum, are applying for Stu dents’ Society club status and of fice space for the National Party of McGill. The efforts o f G old, Karalekas, and Monachello appear to be some of the first actions taken by the party in the province. “We as the McGill group plan on having a large event which may very well be the first National Party
event in Quebec,” Gold slated in reference to a kickoff event he and his fellow executive members are planning for the student group. As federalists who oppose free trade, the three became inter ested in the party founded four months ago by Winnipeg busi nessman Mel Hurtig after attend ing a recent party meeting. “We went to the first meet ing with an open mind, but we were prepared to walk out if we didn’t like what we saw ,” Karalekas stated. All three stressed that they were impressed by the party’s grassroots approach which has at tempted to garner input from the public on such issues as political reform. “It is the first party that rep resents a fundamental change,” Gold claimed. While admitting he was unaware of these McGill efforts,
Hurtig expressed enthusiasm for the creation of campus party or ganizations and stressed the party platform was student-friendly on the issue of tuition fees. “Our party is firmly com mitted to the idea that there should be no tuition fees at the post-sec ondary level,” Hurtig told the Trib une in an interview from his office in Winnipeg. Hurtig added students would be asked to pay for their educa tional expenses after they had ob tained a steady income. Hurtig explained the party promoted a strong federal Canada, bilingualism, a thorough overhaul of the political process, the repeal of the North American Free Trade Agreement, and the creation of a full employment strategy. “We think the Tories have been ruining the economy of this country,” he commented. While the party refuses to
accept financial support from cor porations, both Hurtig and party co-founder Bill Loewen expressed confidence this restriction could beovercomeby appealing directly to the public. “I think people are fed up that people are trying to buy elec tions,” Hurtig claimed. “We are getting a lot of peo ple who have never participated in politics before,” added Loewen. He stressed that the Charlottetown referendum result demonstrated that financial prowess does not necessarily result in easy political victory. “The financial underdogs did put up a battle and in fact won the day,” he remarked. When asked about the state of his own bilingualism, Hurtig admitted his French was “abys mal” but was working with a tutor to improve his skills. He asserted that the party will field a number of candidates in Quebec who will
be francophone. “We expect Que bec to be a very important part of Canada,” Hurtig staled, adding that he hopes to speak in Montreal at the end of April. Gold stressed the student organization will work to estab lish links with other Quebec stu dents. “We will be reaching out to the francophone universities. We will try to create some kind of movement among students,” he stated. Gold was confident the party would achieve strong results in the upcoming elections, as he claimed the National Party was the only party able to communi cate with and represent the inter ests o f most Canadians. “Canadians through Charlottetown were screaming to be heard,” he said. “Our politi cians have lost complete touch with the people.”
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No pensk etch ? Ju d icial B oard ru le s for N ew VP E x te rn a l election BY B R E N D A N B IS S E L L
At a March 17 meeting of the Students’ Society (SSMU) Ju dicial Board, the Board overturned the results of the March election for the position of Vice-President External. The Board rendered its judgement following an appeal made by Alexander Boldizar, who lost in the original race for VP External to Andrew Work. Boldizar made the appeal to the Judicial Board after a similar appeal to the Chief Returning Of ficers (CRO). was turned down. All CRO decisions can be appealed to the Board according to the SSMU constitution. Boldizar’s grounds for ap peal stemmed from the fact that his picture was not included in the pensketches of candidates which were printed in the March 3-8 is sue of the Tribune . Copies of this issue were distributed at polling stations by the CROs for voter convenience. In a written submission to the Board, Boldizar stated: “The pensketch and photo graph are the deciding factors for many voters who are not familiar with any of the candidates at the time of voting. The lack of either one projects an image of compla cency and apathy, both of which
are qualities undesirable in an SSMU executive candidate.” Boldizar had lost the elec tion to Andrew Work by a rela tively slim margin, 95 votes out of some 2492 votes cast (48 per cent to 52 per cent), which he claimed prompted the appeal. “If 1 [had] lost by 10 per cent then it would have been okay,” he stated. “It’s kind of frustrating— that’s why I am following through on the appeal.” During the hearing, the Board established that Boldizar had met all deadlines, and that the Tribune advertising office had been responsible for the lost pho tograph. Boldizar had spoken wi th the CRO’s when ihcTribune was pub lished without his photo, and agreed that he would settle for his photo appearing at the polls in the Tribunes made available to voters. CRO Regina Yang then pasted 50 copies of Boldizar’s picture into papers for distribution at polling stations. Boldizar spoke with the CRO’s again on the last day of voting to complain that his pic tures were not in the papers at the polling stations. Apparently the number of corrected copies was insufficient, and new Tribunes without Boldizar’s picture had re
placed them. When asked why he had not called for a new election before the results were an nounced, Boldizar stated that he had hoped to overcome the cam paign difficulties. The CROs later admitted to the Board that they would have told Boldizar to wait for the results anyway before calling a new election. In their presen tation, the CROs main tained they had done all they could to rectify the situation, and noted N o w y o u su e h im , b e fo r e y o u d id n 't i B o ld iz a r g e s t ic u la t e s to th e that “a re-election J u d ic ia l B o a r d . candidates, and were thus respon cision to let the results stand was based on a picture...would put the sible for ensuring that they did not based on experience. society [SSMU] back a few thou Work also noted that the advantage one party more than an sand dollars.” They also stressed Tribune could have reprinted the other. While being sensitive to the that the pensketches and pictures pensketches, as they had been a “financial exigencies under which “are an extra service” and that they the SSMU is now operating” the paid advertisement made by the aren’t crucial to the fairness of an Board held that the best interests CROs. As a result, the end deci election. of students lay with another vote to sion to overturn the election (and In the third presentation be ensure fairness. Work’s victory) was likely aided fore the Board, the other VP Exter The new elections, which are by Work’s demonstration that the nal candidate and winner, Andrew CROs could have done more to expected to cost $3000-4000, are Work, stated that the appeal was to be held Minch 30th and 31st. correct the problem. not based on something counter to Campaigning will take place from In the Judicial Board’s deci the consti tution. Work asserted that the 23-30. The, Tribune will not sion, the board ruled that the CROs the issue of whether the photo af be charging for the "new election" had institutionalized the fected the results was a question of pensketches in offering them to advertisements. discretion, and that the CROs' de
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Don't vote for another inbred politician. Vote for someone who had once been an apathetic student but finally got fed up enough with SSMU bumbling to do something about it. It's time we pulled the SSMU back from the hands of bureaucrats and got something done. For instance impressing on the government recent studies ihat show McGill generates more than ten times as much revenue for Quebec as we receive in funding. A competent VP External would nail these facts to the Premier's front door, and do his best to put a stop to our constant fee increases. Iwill.
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Editorial In light of students’ overwhelming rejection of Students’ Society (SSMU) President Jason Prince and his Equity slate in the SSMU elec tions two weeks ago, it is far too easy to make the president an easy target, given what little he has accomplished this year. But, while Prince is still president until April 30, he has made himself curiously scarce around the office and has missed some very important meetings since the last week of February. Prince’s electoral loss, coupled with his now lame-duck status until President-elect Mark Luz takes office May 1, does not give him a reasonable excuse to simply ignore his duties without paying a price. Of course, his reaction to the loss is no surprise. It seems Prince always acts in such a manner when things don’t go his way. Take how he dealt with last semester’s General Assembly fiasco, for instance. Prince wanted to manipulate the whole process in his quest to turn SSMU into a leftist, grassroots political organization. Indeed, Prince dreamt in technicolour of a day when SSMU would take stands on issues of broad social and political concern, such as abortion, Quebec’s right to self determina tion and Nationair employees’ right to strike. But Prince spent $200 of
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The Stale Prince of the S h atn er Building We want our money back students’ money on General Assembly advertising without Council’s approval and he was subsequently served with a near-unanimous vote of non-confidence by Council for his contravention of the SSMU Constitution. When Council set up an ad-hoc committee to coordinate a new and revised General Assembly, Prince seemed suddenly and shockingly disinterested in the whole process. This was a direct result oT the fact that things had not gone Prince’s way, and he had been forced to compromise. A parallel can be made between his attitude towards his job last semester and in the past month. Consider what he has missed in the past four weeks: •An important March 1 SSMU Policy Review Committee (PRC) meeting, of which he is chair, which approved criteria for space allocation of SSMU clubs in the Shatner Building. When the document, which was unanimously passed by PRC, reached council for approval on March 4, Prince criticized it and was the only councillor to vote against its implementation. He should have properly raised his objections to the document at the PRC meeting a few nights before. •A March 4 meeting between the SSMU Executive Committee and the society’s auditors, in which the
enormous workload they take on, but he has no objections to milking students of their money (in the form of his own stipend) when he doesn't even show up to work. True, Prince turned back $2,000 of his stipend this yqar and used the money to create an empowerment fund for disadvan taged groups on campus. While this is indeed a noble cause, Prince cannot legitimately use this as an excuse for not fulfilling the requirements of his job descrip tion. There is still the matter of the other $8,000... Clearly, if $1,300 is a waste for the purchase of promotional pens for the society, as Prince often preached during his cam Things may be getting back paign, then his March stipendon track for Prince, however. He approximately $430- is just as has at least been present at SSMU much a waste of students' money, Council meetings. Furthermore, there were unconfirmed sightings of due to his recurring absences during that period. him in his office last Thursday for Were Prince con the first time in almost a week. And he was definitely at work on Friday, cerned about wasting students’ money on executives who don’t appearing at an Executive meeting deserve it, then he would refuse to for the first time in a month. But what remains dishearten pick up his April 1 paycheque, and remain consistent with that ing and disillusioning about Prince principle. is that, with the lackadaisical If, on the other hand, Prince attitude he evidently holds for his intends to keep the money and run, job, he has failed to practice what then Council should act and he has been preaching. During his remove his choice in the matter. campaign. Prince promised to reduce executive stipends by up to $2,000, from approximately $10,000 to $8,000. Apparently, Prince objects to RICH LATOUR executives getting paid for the issue of SSMU’s corporate struc ture and its payment of taxes was discussed. This is information a president should know first-hand. •A March 8 Senate/Board Caucus meeting, and a crucial March 10 Senate meeting, which both dealt with the issue of student representa tion on Senate. When asked about his absence at Senate in Council, Prince replied he had missed the important meeting because he was at home sleeping... •Every Executive Committee meeting between March 1 and 18. In addition, his attendance at executive meetings has been relatively lax all semester.
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Too sexy for politics To what extent does sexual politics factor into elections? Kim Campbell is about to find out. W om en in politics have a precari ous tightrope to walk. But at least they do n ’t have to do it in high heels. To date, women in politics have not been sexy. In fact, it seems the the furthest thing from a female politi cian ’s mind must be sex— and this significant lack o f sex m ust be bla tantly obvious. For success in politics her sexual status m ust be pre-determined. It’s a formula: a) She can once have engaged in sex but now does not (has kids that call her m other).b) She can never have had sex: Can you imagine M argaret Thatcher...? This is accom plished by the ‘ball breaker’ personae. The third and final option c) is suspension o f sexual activity for the duration o f political life. Not inter ested. Period. This reasoning m ight offer a more plausible explanation for all o f us who have been unsatisfied with the “the ratios are changing but it takes time, honey” explanation for the significant lack o f women in politics. W here this theory hits the hardest is at the very top. This is not to say there has never been sexual politics. Trudeau was a suave and debonair tribute to this fact. The difference was a m an that was m isted to rule by his sexual desires and stay at the helm; but a woman? For many voters, especially Canadians, its hard to imagine an obviously sexual woman in full control, both literally and figuratively. There have been many studies com m issioned to look at women who make it to the top o f their field. R esults often indicate that these wom en have had to exert particular
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characteristics: am bition, selfishness, and an aggresive attitude with others as well as them selves, never leniency. It is often said that they supress their nurturing “ fem inine” side. W omen in politics are no different than women who will m ake it anyw here else in this respect. The one additional dem and for politicians is o f a public personae on which their success or failure is hinged. Kim Campbell is no excep tion to this rule. B.C. New Democrat MP Lynn Hunter described Campbell as “the M adonna o f Politics”. One woman pointing to another w om en’s sexuality as a basis for judgem ent? Come on ladies, get it together. I was not surprised to see the British m edia describe this candidate for head o f state as “dew y-eyed, sexy and pow erful”. I guess they are looking for a follow up act to their self-created national dom inatrix, Maggy. The now-fam ous “ bare shoul dered” photo, taken at 43 behind her legal robes, far from proves that sexy women may have a place in politics. Playing up C am pbell’s sexuality is nothing but an attem pt to undermine her candidacy. How many times will a Globe and M ail colum nist refer to Campbell as “coy” or describe the twice-divorcée as “crushingly am bitious”? W hy is she forced to declare publically that she was never a m em ber o f M ensa- a club whose m em bership is based on extraordinary IQ levels. Since when is it a negative factor for a politician to be exceptionally bright? Surely this does not indicate C anadi ans are threatened by an intelligent woman. L et’s get our priorities straight in Canada. W e can be the exam ple to the United States who m uz zled the intelligent woman. Vote on our next Prim e M inister not be cause o f the shape o f her legs but on the effective ness o f the plan she offers to deal with C anada’s growing national debt. D on’t let McGill political elections fool you; Canadians are prepared to let the m ost com petent wom an head the show. So when elec tions roll around sit back, breathe deep and concen trate.
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L e tte rs to th e E d ito r C r itic iz in g ? ? ? Re: Nick Benedict’s letter (Tribune, March 16-22) Dear Mr. Benedict: (1) You missed the point of my com m ent I did not state that the candidates for VP External were playing “dirty politics”. Read it again. (2) Slander usually means the deliber ate misrepresentation of a person or issue. Am I wrong in noting that Mr. Work was formerly Vice-President of the Young PC organization on campus? If that is slanderous, then please tell the Young PC’s who gave me that infor mation. (3) What gives me the right to comment? First, I am a student at McGill. Secondly, I careaboutthequality of the student politicians that represent not only me, but potentially make decisions about the projects I have worked hard on. (4) I did not criticize the VP External candidates as a candidate. [In fact, I was impressed by thepoliteness of their campaigns — but that’s not the point. (Again, see #1)] I see that the editors of both the Daily and the Tribune made comments about the candidates during the campaign. I guess I somehow don’t have that privilege in your books. Mr. Benedict, when they take away my studentcard 2nd membership at SSMU that’s when I’ll stop criticizing SSMU politics. A lot of people thanked me for writing the com ment... others may think I’m self-righteous. Fine. I care about who will be potentially working on campus safety issues, tuition fees, and representing SSMU outside McGill. Mary-Margaret Jones U3 Religious Studies
P i x i e ... C'mon Kate. You've called me a pixie and we haven't even had the pleasure of being introduced so that I can figure out what kind of wood nymph you are. I'm upset, always having had an affinity for Puck myself. And in case you hadn't noticed, you feminist journalist you, there's a whole article in last month's Ms. about how female politi cians are sick of being noted for their attrac tiveness, physical stature, and marital status rather than for their competence and ideas. Celia Moore U2 Arts
D i s c r i m i n a t i o n . .. In the Daily of Match 17, Lisa Grushcow wrote, "The fight against oppression is a fight againt all forms of oppression. "Amen! And while issues of racism and anti-semitism do share the common origin of human intolerance (a.k.a. pig-headedness), so do many other forms of discrimination. When student groups are continuously criticized solely because of a word in their name, that is oppression. However, that is the daily experience of the McGill Medical Fra ternity and its 200 female and male members from all faculties. Oppression is also when people in posi tions of authority (eg. some McGill Daily editors and writers) react to a student or ganization by telling it to change its name, simply because they would prefer it that way. They cannot cite anything offensive in our principles orpractices, but their personal hatred for a word is supposedly reason enough to judge us. That is called prejudice!
When a student government- recog nized group has to defend its right to adver tise in the McGill papers (a right accorded freely to otherrecognized groups) because of a word in their name, that is discrimination. When McGill Medical Fraternity post ers in the Union Building which are stamped for posting are tom down, that is oppression as much as it was when the LBGM Dance poster was removed by Gert's patrons. When students approach our mem bership drive table (with one female and male representative) and accuse us of being sexist and discriminatory, that is intolerance. When two students who are organizing a lecture on eating disorders (Friday March 26) under the banner of the Sexual Assault Centre of McGill request our members to support them financially and volunteer our time to help, they are being tolerant and understanding. Thank you Tamara and Dot. Others have a lot to leam from you. Lisa Sa roll U2 Arts Roland Orfaly Med-1
O p in io n a te d ... Thank you so much for your opinion ated review (Dance of the spandex plum fairies, Mar. 16). It must have been very laborious to think of such an original title for such an unoriginal article. A constructive criticism would have been appreciated, but what was written is simply a bad article. If you so claim to be challenged by art, it is a shame you could notgetpast such superficial things as the size of the theatre and the costumes not to your liking. First of all, the Contemporary Dance Ensemble is a group of diversely trained dancers, some with more experience that others. We do not all have one style nor strive to train everyone to adapt to one style. People have come together out of passion and love for music, movement...dance. Our performances were to share this passion with others, to show our different styles, and to experiment with music and the different languages in dance. It is pathetic that so much emphasis was placed on the costumes, i.e, the lycra which was not suited to your taste. However, allow me to reiterate some basic facts; we do have a limited budget and we used our resources creatively. Secondly, we never claimed to be professional dancers and unlikeLaLaLa Human Steps, Alvin Ailey and (correctly known as) Les Grandes Bal lets Canadiennes or Les Ballets Jazz, we are not paid dancers and neither do we engage in pursuing a career in dance. We're not a pro fessional dance company, neither are we masquerading as one. Finally, with respect to the choreog raphy to Tori Amos; the dance was a power ful one and was received with great enthusi asm contrary to your opinion of it being a poor choice for the discriminatory university student of today. Since you found most of the production contrary to your own per sonal taste, one can only wonder why you didn't use one of those long dark breaks between numbers to quietly slip out. God knows you wouldn't have been missed. Nicole Piller U1F Arts
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Clouds of doubt fall on Weston Pool BY TRISH SNYDER Cloudy water, monthly shut downs and outdated facilities at the Garfield Weston Pool have left pool users and employees concerned about their safety and questioning the pool’s future. According to synchronized swim team member Melinda War ren, the pool water is very cloudy and the filter backs up almost once a month, resulting in a shutdown. A thletics D irector Bob Dubeau acknowledged the recent lack of water clarity, and explained that a chemical imbalance leaves the water cloudy, but does not af fect its quality. “In no way was it ever a prob lem physically or medically to use Weston Pool,” claimed Dubeau. Another member of the syn chronized swimming team Yvonne Schut was supportive of pool man agement, and claimed Weston’s problems are age-related, rather than the result of negligent testing pro cedures. “I know they try to keep it clear,” Schut emphasized. “I think it needs to be stressed that Weston facilities are old and that the pool is being used by more people than it was meant for.” But lifeguards currently on staff are concerned, and claim the pool may not be safe.
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budget, we did explore that but there is no way to have an extra line put in,” she explained, adding that there are already two phones “very close to the pool”. Dubrule maintains that she did arrange for training sessions last fall but the guards say they were poorly attended and not compul sory. Another guard was worried
about responding adequately to a worst-case scenario, like a spinal injury. Only one lifeguard is on duty at a time, and the newly ac quired spinal board requires two qualified people to operate it. U3 part-time Management student and former Weston 1ifeguard Sophie Legault argued thatall locker room and security personnel should have a minimum bronze medallion
certification to ensure qualified help in an emergency. Legault pointed to inadequate identification of life guards and an under-supplied first aid kit as additional violations of National Lifeguard Service stand ards. “Basic supplies like band-aids and gauze are constantly missing. They have $800 for a new sound system for the synchro team but they won’t spend $45 for a decent first aid kit,” complained Legault. Dubrule stood firm and in sisted that training and supplies were all up to city standards. “These are all things that per haps were not up to snuff last year. This year there has been extensive training so these accusations are not true. What I can’t understand is why there’s this attack on the pool on this very week each year,” re marked a defensive Dubrule. Legault provided her sum mary of the situation. “The pool is not hazardous for the public. A sa matter of fact, it is in good condition for its age. But if an accident were to happen, the lack of established procedures would make the difference between a good and bad rescue,” Legault said.
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Student leaders optimistic about club funding situation B Y M ICHAEL BR O A D H U R ST
Students’ Society (SSMU) will face a major funding problem for its clubs and interest groups in the upcoming school year. As a result of SSMU’s decision to make political and religious interest groups eligible for funding, there will be roughly 80 groups request ing money next year, almost twice as many as this year. It is not yet clear if there will be a similar increase in the portion of the SSMU budget allocated for club funding to cover the increase in requests. SSMU VP Finance Sue N ickerson stressed that no decision will be made about club money until all other budgetary issues are
considered. “We’ll have to sit down next month and evaluate the situation,” she said. VP Internal Julie Dzerowicz has been hard at work with the Clubs Reps this year to establish a new policy for club finances, and she hopes that this year’s council will be able to put that policy in place before the end of their term. “The policy as it exists now is thatpolitical and religious groups are eligible for funding based on criteria that has to be brought to counci 1. That hasn ’t happened yet,” she stated. Despite the apparent crisis faced by next year’s clubs, current Clubs Reps Patrick Perreault and Eddy Saad were optimistic about
the year to come, suggesting that clubs couldbe funded on a “projectby-project” basis. Perreault ex plained how such a system might work. “Clubs will get an amount of money, anywhere from $50 to $ 150 in September to allow them to do their publicity and attract new members,” he said. “Any further money will be allocated on a project basis, meaning SSMU will have to be more selective.” SSMU President-elect Mark Luz and Perreault agree that one of the keys to the successful imple mentation of the new system is encouraging clubs to pursue coop erative ventures that are more costeffective than single club events. “I like the idea of a project-by
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project basis. It will eliminate a lot of wasteful spending, and we should be able to get clubs working to gether,” Luz said. VP Internal-elect Cornell Wright hopes that clubs will be able to bring in more funds for SSMU next year, and suggested there are ways to make money. “We’re going to try to take in more money with new events that motivate people to come out. Clubs don’t have to be a drain,” Wright asserted. W ithout new sources of money, Wright noted that next year might be a difficult one for some clubs. “The [funding] process will be inclusive. We have x number of dollars, and x number of groups,
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and if that’s all there is, then we’re just going to have to make do,” he stated. Luz agreed, arguing it was unlikely that any clubs would es cape the financial problems with out some damage. “I think every club is going to be affected. We’re going to have to prioritize everything based on clubs and what they give back to the McGill community,” he argued. Saad believes that classify ing clubs is the only way to ap proach the situation. “First, we re-classify groups into services and interest groups. What groups are services will be determined every year by council. Services will obviously continue to get funding,” he noted. Dzerowicz and Saad agreed that it would be best for clubs if a new policy were in effect before next year. “I’d like to see it implemented this year, rallier than waiting another year. Next year’s council should work on improving it, not produc ing the same report,” suggested Saad.
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F e a tu re s W h at does McGill, an d its stu d e n ts, give to M ontreal? BY CATKIN N O R R IS
McGill has been called the “Harvard of the North” by Ameri can ivy-leaguers, and “Toronto on the hill” by embittered Montrealers. But to what extent does McGill actually have a “ghetto mentality?” Do McGill students function solely as part of a university community, or do we contribute to Montreal? Perhaps the immediate, ob vious response to the latter ques tion is ‘nok We are 60 per cent anglophone and 30 per cent of us are out of province or international students. Many of us pack up and leave Quebec upon graduation. SSMU P resident Jason Prince explained that: “McGill is an ‘ivory tower’ on many levels. The word ‘ivory’ embodies this w hite, institu tio n alized and anglophone establishment. “This university is viewed by the student movement, the city, and the province as an enclave, and an appendage to the city of Westmount. McGill is not repre sentative of Montreal along class lines and language lines.” But just what do we expect from a university after all? Do those Yale intellectual-types give any thing to the New Haven commu nity? Should we expect McGill to represent the population and poli tics of the province? “Yes, we are responsible,” said Prince. “We must enact mecha nisms to encourage a certain kind of population, one which breaks down language barriers by increas ing the French population at this school.” However, many other McGill figureheads are disturbed at the as sumption that students never tran-
scend the Crescent St.-ghetto-PlaPrince pointed out that in the past umbrella organization which sup teau area of the city. For them four years the percentage of ports English language educational McGill’s contributions to Montreal francophone students has “plum services as part of an agenda to are often defined according to the meted” from 34 per cent in 1989 to preserve the culture of anglophones academic and institu in Quebec, disa tional services the greed. school offers According to Gretta Cham Don Miles, direc bers, Chancellor of tor of Education at McGill, rejected any AQ: “McGill may suggestion that look like an Ivy McGill exists in a bub League-ish school, ble. bu t it does represen t “McGill is eve the community and rywhere in Quebec,” is open to die city’s she said. “If you just francophone popu look at what students lation.” do; going to Crescent On the other St. and living in the side of the political ghetto, you get a false spectrum , the impression. Lots of Société de Saint people in the student Jean de Baptiste’s body are very actively political platform, involved.” according to Vice Principal spokesperson M. P lanning and R e Pierre Alain Cote sources François Noir, “wants Que Tavenas agreed. “ I bec to be French have the sense that while preserving McGill students arc the rights of the fairly well incorpo anglophone com rated into Montreal munity.” society,” he said. ® “McGill is in According to j* harmony with Bill Tavenas, there is “no g 101,” he stated, ghetto m entality” m “and is seen as a among the student *5 teaching institution body, and “the univer * that has strong ties sity is contributing to to this city and prov and living in the cul ince. McGill has tural diversity of the been opening up to M ontreal en v iro n T h e lt o d d ic k g a te s - a n o p e n in g o r a s e a l? the French commu ment.” nity, but slowly.” If we evaluate McGill’s role 20 per cent in 1993. It should be noted, however, in Montreal from political and lin “McGill is definitely not rep that the linguistic breakdown of the guistic perspectives, the first im resentative of Quebec population,” McGill student population places pression is that McGill is an over he stated. the French in a minority position: whelmingly anglophone world. But Alliance Quebec, an 20.4 per cent French, 58.2 per cent
English, and 21.4 per cent ‘Other’. As a powerful Quebec insti tution, McGill’s involvement in Montreal is extensive. “We are very Montreal, and are very integrated in decision making areas in this city,” said Chambers. “We are asked daily for expertise and, over the last 10-15 years, have been engaged in in creasing cooperation and collabo ration with Quebec.” McGill has been “a vital cog in the wheels of Montreal’s for tune,” claimed Chambers, citing such events as the recent UNESCO conference as closely linked to the university. And McGill cannot be con sidered an ‘ivory tower’ in every respect. Forexamplc, the French Lan guage Department, at McGill at tempts to collapse the linguistic disparities by al lowing international students to pay Canadian fees if they take a Major or Honors De gree in the French department. The cultural and geographi cal diversity at McGill places it in an unstable position in Montreal, and the population turnover and emigration does place McGill in a bitofa vacuum. But, ultimately itis M ontreal which distinguishes McGill from its academic counter parts, and the need to give back to Montreal is a concern for many students. “There are some groups at McGill who are very involved,” said Prince. “QPIRG, for example, has done a tremendously good job in coalition with a dozen popular Montreal organizations. They are a good example of how we can build links with the Montreal commu nity.”
Lawful Entry: the Tribune guide to subletting without fear BY M A JA L G . A G U IR R E
As spring comes to Mon treal, hundreds of university stu dents living off-campus are faced with the prospect of subletting. To students leaving for the summer, subletting is the most practical way to eradicate an undesirable finan cial burden. Ronaldo Dacanay, U3 Man agement, has successfully sublet in the past. “Although subletting is not a simple task,” he remarked, “it does not have to be an unpleasant experience—providing you, as the prospective ‘sub-landlord’.become fully aware of what the process entails.” As a prospective ‘sub-landlord’, it is crucial to become in formed about the legal responsi bilities involved. “Students are anxious about the whole process because of the risks involved,” noted Cristina Mejia, U3 Art History. “The ‘sub tenant’ may not pay the rent, or theft might occur. You, as the offi cial tenant, must deal with the con sequences.” Staffers at the McGill Legal Clinic suggested one should read
up on the legal procedures before subletting. A pamphlet entitled “Subletting”, published by the Régie du logement and available at McGill’s Off-Campus Housing Service and the Legal Clinic, gives
a helpful overview. The pamphlet emphasizes that the original tenant is always responsible for the lease, the rent and the apartment in general. Once they have found an appropriate
person (preferably after checking references), they write their land lord with the person’s name and address. The landlord must respond in ten days, and can only make a refusal on reasonable grounds. If
this occurs, one can ask the Régie to cancel their lease from the date of notice. The pamphlet advises that rent be kept negotiable, to make it easier to attract prospects. A writ ten and signed contract is also highly recommended—preferably one that restates the conditions and terms of the original lease. A Régie operator explained, however, that the Régie will rec ognize a contract, even in the ab sence of a written document, if legal action is necessary. As the pamphlet explained, the ‘sub-landlord’ is responsible for repair work and other amenities, yet still re mains legally responsible to the original landlord if they fail in their obligations. Once legal aspects are con sidered, the next step is to find a ‘sub- tenant’. The McG il 1Off-Cam pus Housing Center provides a ‘list ing service,’ for McGill students who wish to sublet their apartments. A form must be filled out provid ing necessary information about S E E S U B L E T T IN G , FA G E 13
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BY ETHAN S A C K S
The McGill Daily either is a champion of issues that would oth erwise go unrcported or a sensation alist paper that straddles the line of tastefulness, depending on to whom one talks. Last week, Coordinating Editor Dan Robins and Coordinating News Editor Fiona McCaw agreed to take a break in their daily deadline rush and give some insights regarding to the dy namics and philosophy behind the paper. They stressed, however, that they were speaking as individuals, and that their vie ws in no way repre sented the views of other Daily staff members. ON WHAT MAKES A GOOD NEWS STORY Fiona McCaw: A good news story will focus on a specific event relevant toor interesting to students. When we think of students, our idea of our audience is not only people at McGill, but people at McGill who are poor, people at McGill who arc women, who arc lesbian, gay, bi sexual, who arc people of color, and so on. We don’t sec the university as set off from the community, which is why we cover so many commu nity issues and events. And we use stories from other universities be cause what goes on across the coun try does have an impact on students here. We don’t cover as much about
to shock people, and those who pro the activities of the SSMU as does read the Daily, your friends are go test are people who don’t like to be the Tribune, because that’s not our ing to talk about the penis on the shocked. mandate. The activities of a few cover of the Daily Français and people in the Union building aren’t you’re going to come down to the ON WHERE THE LINE IS office and demand your money back. really of interest to most students. DRAWN Dan Robins: One thing I’d [Sensationalism] isnot, I would say, like to mention is a piece in the characteristic of our whole approach. D.R.: March 17th We ran a story issue; the ar- y * I wrote last tide on the PHI term on por w h i t e nography that supremacists comes off the who were in computers. We vited to speak had some at U of T. We graphics sentto read that on us by people the CUP ex who were in change and terested in us we thought showing ‘we have to women tied up print th is’ and being even though forced to have it was really sex with dogs, long. We and we refused printed it be to prim them. cause it was F .M .: crazy that [Our policy is] such a thing the rejection of would hap IV c're g o o fl e n o u g h , w e 'r e s m a r t e n o u g h , an il d a r n it p c u p le lik e u s. violence, sex pen. ism and racism. F.M.: We try and make our issues accessible and very exciting. ON SENSATIONALIST ON PUBLISHING MULTIPLE Yes there are things there for shock LABELS ISSUES A WEEK value. I think it is very important to D.R.: I think doing something print, for example, penises, because F.M.: You just have to learn for shock value isn’t an illegitimate they don’t get shown [otherwise]. to hustle. We have all sorts of [tem thing to do. Sometimes it can be It’s just to challenge the hang-ups poral] space; it has its flexibilities very useful. 1 don’t think we do it that people have. It gets them to and we do abuse it sometimes. Peo very often—it’s an easy thing for think about it. ple have to follow a specific sched D.R.: Ijust think there isroom people to grab on to. If you don’t
ule, but at the same time our sched ule gives us time to respond to spot events, and we get things done quickly. D.R.: It’s something you get used to—I can’t understand why anyone else wouldn’t do it. F.M.: Often special issues we do with outside groups become dif ficult. They somehow think layout happens with the touch of a button [affecting the deadline]. ON WHAT ISSUES RECEIVE THE MOST CONTROVERSY D.R.: Palestinian issues are the ones we get the most flack from. J ust about everyone has written [in] about our coverage of Palestine and we really haven’t covered it that much this year. F.M.: The Daily has been critical of Israel, and of other nation states, for years. I do believe that there were problems with the article [that caused the sit-in March 18], but we’re not going to stop printing articles that condemn violent ac tions of nation states. As I said to the protesters at our meeting, I do apologize for any exclusionary be haviour towards Jewish voices. But at the same time, some of the pro testers were selling lies about us. We were accused of soliciting proPalestine letters for every pro-Israel letter we received, and that is not true. No one here has the time to solicit letters.
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Moving house? Don’t dump w hat you don’t w ant—donate BY K A TIE R O B S O N
As the year draws to a close, many students (especially gradu ates) wonder about what to do with everything they have accu mulated over their time in Mon treal. One option is, of course, selling off unwanted items, but because there are so many organi zations in need, donating becomes the charitable choice. A few guidelines apply to donations; most perishable food cannot be accepted, nor will or ganizations take dented or rusty cans. If you want to donate perish able items, call ahead to verify that an organization can use them. Clothing, furniture and appliances should be in good condition, be cause if you would not want to wear it, sit on it or use it, it is probable that neither would any one else. Some places can make minor repairs on certain items, but it is best to ask before giving some thing in need of attention. Many organizations pick up big items, but they need a good deal of no tice— do not expect a furniture van to be at your house immedi ately after you make a call. In the
listings below, it is noted what m ost organizations take, and whether or not they will pick up items. Benedict L abre House 308 Young 937-5973 It takes non-perishable food, men’s clothing, some items of fur niture, kitchen accessories and small appliances. It will accept perishable items, but please call before to check. It will pick up items, but only larger items (i.e. furniture) and it would like a few days notice. Its hours are Tuesday, Saturday and Sunday 9am to 4pm, and Wednesday and Thursday 9am to 7pm. Bon Jo u r Toi 1187 St. M athieu 932-7396 It takes women’s clothes, and is especially interested in larger sizes. It also takes linens (table cloths, sheets), and kitchen acces so rie s and appliances. It cannot pick up items. Its hours are Mon day to Friday, 9am to 4:30pm.
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C entre des Femmes de M ontreal 3585 St. U rbain \ 842-4780 It takes clothing, non-per ishable food, kitchen accessories, dishes, small appliances, books and magazines. It cannot pick up items. Its hours are Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm. Chez Doris 2196 de M aisonneuve W. 9372341 It takes clothing, unused toi letries, small appliances, books and magazines. It does not pick up items; its hours are Monday to Thursday, 8:30am to 4pm; Friday 8:30am to 1:30pm; Saturday and Sunday 8:30am to 3pm. Le Bon Dieu dans la Rue 1240 Island, Pt. St.-Charles 9380888 It takes non-perishable food, kitchen items, small appliances, T.V.s, radios, and some furniture. It can airange pick up if necessary, but call ahead. Its hours are Mon day to Friday, 9am to 5pm.
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PUBLIC NOTICE TRANSPORT CANADA IS LOOKING FOR TRAINEES TO BECOME AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS. Transport Canada will be holding information sessions on air traffic control; a rewarding career that offers many benefits. These sessions will be held at the Palais des Congrès de Montréal, 201 Viger Avenue West, Room 4 0 8 , Montreal, Que., on Thursday, March 25. Sessions conducted in English will be held at 1:30 p.m., and 6:00 p.m. Sessions in French will be held at 9:00 a.m., 11:00 a.m., 3:30 p.m., and at
8:00 p.m. Sessions include presentations by members of the profession. Im mediately following the presentations, you may have an opportunity to take an aptitude test (2-3 hours) to quality for a position.
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TRAINING ■ Six to seven months at the Transport Canada Training Institute (TCTI) in Cornwall. ■ Additional training in your region from three to 24 months, depend ing upon location. ■ Training allowance starts at $230 per weeks. If you want to find out more about a career in air traffic services, come to an information session in your area, or call 1-800-667-INFO
(1-800-667-4636). Transport Canada is an equal opportunity employer.
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Le Chaînon 4373 L ’Esplanade 845-0151 It takes clothing, kitchen items, and small appliances. It can not pick up items. Call for hours; it accepts donations any time. Les Glaneuses 3944 Place Jeanne D ’Arc 524-2496 It takes non-perishable food, clothing, furniture, small and large appliances and books. It can pick up large items from Tuesday to Thursday from 9am to 12pm; call ahead. Its hours are Monday to Friday 9am to 4pm.
Old Brewery Mission 915 C lark 866-6591 It takes non-perishable food, clothes, small appliances and fur niture, and books. It can repair some items. Call ahead for pick up. Its hours are Monday to Fri day, 9am to 4pm, and it is open weekends for donations.
N azareth House 1197 Seymour 933-6916 It takes food, clothes, small appliances and furniture, and will pick up certain items if given no tification. Call to check times for donations. NDG Anti-Poverty G roup 6525 Somerled 489-3548 It takes non-perishable food, clothes, linens, knickknacks, kitchen items, small appliances and furniture. It can pick up Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 9am to 12pm, with 2 days notice. It is open for donations Monday to Fri day 9am to 5 pm. Salvation Army H ead O ffice: 1620 N o tre Dame W. 935-7475 It takes non-perishable food, clothes, linen, dishes, kitchen items, appliances and furniture. It can do some repairs. Call for pick up two weeks ahead if possible; drop boxes are available around Montreal, and information is avail able at the head office. Its hours are 8am to 4pm. Share the W arm th 2623 Rushbrooke, Pt. St.-C harles 933-5599 It takes non-perishable food, clothes, appliances and some fur niture. It does pick up items, for a $2.00 charge. Its hours are Mon day to Friday, 9am to 4:30pm; Saturday 11am to 3pm. St. M ichael’s Mission 137 President-K ennedy 844-8727 It takes non-perishable food, men’s clothes, kitchen items and books. It cannot pick up items. Its hours are Monday to Friday, 8am to 1pm Sun Youth 4751 St. U rbain 842-6822 It takes clothes, small appli ances and some furniture. It will pick up bigger items, if it has 2 weeks notice. Its hours are Mon day to Friday, 9am to 6pm. Welcome Hall Mission 1490 St. Antoine W. 935-6395 It lakes non-perishable food, clothes, dishes, appliances and furniture. It will pick up larger items with a few days notice. Its hours are Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm.
S u b le ttin g CONTINUED FROM F AG E IO the apartment (rent, location, duration of availibility and attractive features). This form is then filed, and the sublet list is shown to interested parties. “Weusuallyget 1200 listings in one summer and have an 80 per cent success rate,” stated Center employee Paul McCabe. “People are usually willing to compromise to meet a subletter’s needs because of the fear of losing money.” Kate Brown, U2 Political Sci ence, used the service last year but was not able to sublet her apart ment. “People came to visit but did not call back, and I had to pay rent for empty housing throughout the summer,” she recalled. Because of this risk, McCabe strongly stressed the importance of further advertising. He suggested placing ads in the G azette or M ir ror, posting notices on campus and, if possible, in other universities and cities. The two types of ‘sub-ten ants’ should also be kept in mind. Some seek housing only for the summer, but others are seeking long term solutions, housing which may extend past the end of your lease. If this is the case, and you do not want to renew the lease, a ‘sublet transfer of lease’ may be arranged, requir ing the expl icit consent of your land lord. “This is an easier option, as transferring the lease would mean that you are relieved of legal re sponsibility. It is also an ideal situ ation for those not planning to re new their lease,” clarified Sarah Fowlie-Fleischmann, the coordina tor of Concordia University’s OffCampus Housing Center. The McGill Legal Clinic stressed, however, the importance of informing the landlord that you do not want a renewal of your lease. This must be done at least 3 months before its expiration if a lease trans fer is not negotiated. In terms of the ‘sub-tenant,’ the Régie highly rec ommends checking references and keeping the name and address of the person as precautionary meas ures. In addition, the McGill Legal Clinic suggested that telephone ac cess should be term inated or switched to the ‘sub-tenant’s’name (which can be done over the phone) to prevent being left with an unpaid bill. They also advocated not leav ing valuable possessions behind.
Defying the Hippocratic Oath: Doctors and Sexual Abuse FORUM
BY LIZZIE SA UNDERSO N
“I will try to very rapidly draw you a picture of how Lite problem [sexual abuseof patients by doctors] has been presented in Quebec”. So said Dr. Remi H. Lair in his opening statement at last Wednesday’s medical forum, entitled “Can You Trust Your Doctor?” Dr. Lair works as a Syndic for T he C o rp o ra tio n Des Médecins Du Québec. His job is to in vestigate com plaints of sexual abuse in the medical com munity, presenting cases to the ‘Comité de Discipline,” where they will be examined. Seconds after completing his opening remark, the doctor fulfilled his promise to illustrate the p ro b le m — lite ra lly — by pulling an obscene caricature on screen. The picture featured an aroused doctor with his pants down, approaching a seductively clothed patient. Not only did the doctor thus succeed in drawing “a rapid picture,” he managed to sell it. The audience, consisting largely of McG ill students, roared with laughter. Yet sexual abuse in the medical profession is a serious issue. According to law student Tara Shewchuk, a member of the McGill Sexual Assault Centre. One in ten physicians have sexu ally exploited at least one patient. It is only recently, however, that
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this issue has begun to command considerable attention. The recent number of con victions within the medical com munity have identified the sexual abuse of patients as a social prob lem. O f these convictions, per haps the most sensational is the “pelvic-bonding case,” which involvedOttawaphysician Michael Smith. The pelvic-bonding case is indicative of the common factors which contribute to patient ex ploitation. According to speaker Pierre Assalian, Associate Pro fessor in the Department of Psy chiatry at the Montreal General Hospital, the first factor is that patients are prone to establish trusting relationships with their doctor. The second factor is that his relationship results in a power imbal ance, in which the patient is extremely vulnerable. Assailan described Smith’s behavior: “He would press his naked pelvis into her face, as part of the bonding.” Like his col league Lair, Assalian then pro ceeded to make light of the issue, stating, “ Bondé is french for pe nis [the literal translation i s ‘erec tion’].” Again the audience was amused. Despite the doctors’ poor taste in humour, the data they presented spoke for itself. Assalian’s data showed that of the patients who had been abused by doctors, “90 per cent had showed ill effects,.11 per cent were hospitalized, and 1 per cent had com m itted suicide.”
Such abuse generally results in mistrust of the medical commu nity, self-doubt and psychoso matic symptoms. ‘T here are three types of abusers,” continued A ssalian. “T h e r e ’s the d e n ie r, the rationalizer and the repentant.” The denier is the most likely to be a repeat offender. They claim that the incident exists only in the patient’s head. The rationalizer adm its that the incident o c curred— but for the benefit of the patient. The repentant, on the other hand, claims to recognize their unethical behavior. Sexual abuse in the medi cal profession is a breach of trust. It violates the Hippocratic Oath by which physicians swear toelhical professional behavior. Dr. Lair added that the nature of unethical behavior may include “attitude, words, gestures, advances and sexual relations.” Lair detailed the process ex ercised by the medical establish ment. Initially, the patien ^en d s a written complaint to the corpo ration. The complainant is then interviewed and given support. An investigation is conducted which involves the analysis of medical records and an interview with the physician, as well as any potential witnesses. Experts on sexual abuse are consulted and the committee holds a discus sion, the result of which can be a formal complaint to the Commit tee on Discipline. ‘T h e issue may be sexual abuse, but the real question is
whether professionals are ad equately regulating themselves,” stated M arilou M cP h ed ran , Chairperson of the Ontario Task Force on sexual abuse of Pa tients. McPhedran firmly believes that it is not possible for profes sionals to self-regulate in the in terest of the general public. Her criticism of the medical estab lishment’s handling of cases is that the patient’s perspective is not adequately represented with respect to the disciplining of of fenders. She further believes that rehabilitation and a temporary suspension of license is not enough. M cPhedran directed the audience’s attention to the caricature employed by Dr. Lair. “W e must question how this kind of gross caricature stere otypes what is really an attempt to humorize and sexualize this problem of sexual abuse. Sexual abuse is not sex; sexual abuse is not funny.” W ednesday’s forum was an effort to educate through awareness. Unfortunately, the medical community— as repre sented by the forum— has im peded this awareness by attempt ing to draw rapid pictures ac companied with base humor. One would hope that the picture dis played by the doctors will not be exhibited in the social gallery. Sexual abuse is not art— nor is it entertaining.
Voicing o u r ex p erien ce th ro u g h o u r bodies Social Analysis
In r e c o g n itio n o f the upcoming fo ru m (M arch 26) on body image, "Voicing oùr expe rience through our bodies", the Tribune asked the co-ordinators o f the M cG ill Sexual Assault C entre, D ot W ojakow ski and M ary-M argar et Jones, to com m ent upon w hat they see as causing eating disorders and problem s with body image. O ne hundred and fifty DONTWAITANYLONGER, CALLTHE... thousand women die each year JJ"C 0 M P (1 T E R D O C T O R "® in North Am erican from eating WE CAN... disorders. Ms. m agazine re (g) UpqetdEYou» System( Moiiu*boA*d, RAM) ported that at least 50 per cent of 0 InsveB*»dCoNfkfUtc HmkJmak./ SoTtuhre university wom en are bulimic (g) CustomizeYou*SysiiMtoYou*Needs or anorexic. S e lf m agazine re 0 DefaqMLNTAndOrc^nue You*H**d Disk ported that 60 percent o f wom en CALL US AT : 5 2 5 - 9 5 9 8 have serious trouble eating. A •AREAOFEXPERTISE.W INDOW S.DOSANDOCRENMRO»*«ENTS re cen t su rv ey o f u n iv e rsity
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wom en found that 30 per cent thought they had an eating dis order. The ideal o f the thin, white, young, able-bodied, straight fe male is an image that reflects the realityof only three per cent of the female population. Thirty years ago, the average model weighed eight per cent less than the average woman. Today, the superm odel weighs 23 per cent less. Carcinogenic breast im plants and the inability to m en struate (caused by eating disor ders) raise the questions, what is a woman, and w hy are we exalt in g th is p o p u la r im ag e o f wom an? This distorted image of fem ale beauty is both om nipres ent and deadly. W om en o f col our are tw ice removed from tod a y ’s b e a u ty id e a l. T h o se wom en o f colour who do adorn the pages o f fashion m agazines
a re “ e x o tif ie d ” o r “ w h ite w ashed”— they have Caucasian features and light skin. Clearly, w om en’s realities are not re flected in the media. Eating disorders are touted as an experience o f white, upper class women. This dangerous and dam aging claim is not the case, and it contributes to the p e r p e tu a tio n of th e “glam ourization” o f eating dis orders. T his term “g lam o u r ization” refers to m uch o f the m edia’s response to disorders; the m edia prom otes the idea that eating disorders are a socially desirable behaviour for women because they represent the way to the beauty “ ideal”. Have you heard that die Tw iggy look is “in” again? T he glam ourization o f eating disorders is dangerous because it is fatal. W om en who do not participate in this self
abuse o r those who sim ply ac cept their natural bodies are seen as weak, lazy, unfem inine, “let ting them selves go” and devi ant. N aom i W o lf’s “ b eau ty m yth” thesis obscures the social and familial factors which con tribute to the developm ent of eating disorders. By focusing on the “beauty m yth”, we deny the realities o f wom en and m en with eating disorders. This su perficial theory glosses over the issue itself: self-esteem , selfworth and insecurities are key factors. This fo ru m w ill occur F ri day, M arch 26 at 7:30pm in Leacock 132, and w ill feature Dr. Blake W oodside,C arlaR ice and other speakers, as w ell as a Fearless Friday Feast. A dm is sion is fr e e and everyone is w el come. Free fo o d !
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E ntertainm ent G etting educated w ith School of Fish BY M ICHAEL BR O A D H U R ST
Alternative band School o f Fish recently released their sec ond album, Human Cannonball. They are currently touring in sup port o f that record and checked in at Montreal's Club Soda Thursday night. The Tribune caught up with guitarist Michael Ward between his daily workout and the show: T ribune: You’ve offered several stories to explain the name of the band. What’s the story of choice right now? MW: The story of choice at the moment has vaguely to do with the NASA space program in the States, but being that I’m across the border right now, it’s kind of top secret, and we shouldn’t talk about it all that much. Tribune: What do you con sider your greatest musical influ ences? There’s some evidence of R .E .M ., as well as Sixties psychedelia, but what else would you suggest has influenced you? MW: On our first album there was a bit more of 60’s psychedelia, and the Kinks and the Beatles; on our new album it’s a bit more hard-edged, based on the cli mate, particularly the economic climate. W e’ve tried to get away from the pure pop for a more hardedged sound. I personally listened to a lot of country, then Kiss, and then more hard rock. Josh (guitar ist Clayton-Felt) was a little more into folk and the Beatles. Then I did music school, listened to jazz and stuff. We listen to lots of other stuff to get away from the rock thing.
Tribune: You’ve said that Human Cannonball was a con scious effort to free up perceived limitations about what you think the band is about. What were those limitations? MW: Just a certain sound we were going for, everything from melodic and chord structures to drum machines. And now, after touring with the first album, any hard and fast rules we had about the band we’ve done away with. Tribune: Youalsodescribed the new album as a “reaction” to your first album. Were you un happy with that album? MW: I never was really that thrilled with it, but it wasn’t really anyone’s fault. It was hard to come up with something that worked. Tribune: A lotof people tout you as an “up and coming” band, particularly since the success of “3 Strange Days”. How do you feel about success, given that a lot of bands in the “alternative scene” scorn success? MW: That fear of success is a double-edged sword. W e’re all just rock ‘n’ rollers. The idea of having lots of adulation and wor shippers is scary, but fear of suc cess is just a big fat pose. Every body wants to be a two-bit rock star for their entire career. You look at a guy like Neil Young, who doesn ’t look like he’s got a lot of money, but he does; he’s just a together, cool guy. Who’s on the other side? [pause] U2! I hate those fucking guys. They’re just fat, bloated rock stars that fly around in their jets and preach to people. Fame can be a corruptive thing. Tribune: How about the la-
S c h o o l o f F ish is a m o t le y c r e w (M ic h a e l W ard , s e c o n d from th e le ft).
bel “alternative”? It can be a death sentence for some bands. MW: I don’t worry about it. They’re gonna call you something, and it all stinks unless they call you “great”, and thatpretty much stinks too. Tribune: Whatdo you think of the Seattle scene? MW: Like any scene, it’s good and bad. It’s good because of the attention itplaces on new bands from places other than L.A. and New York. But there are lots of scenes. It’s about Minneapolis, Austin, Texas, Chapel Hill. Who cares? New bands in the spotlight, great! That’s the important thing.
Tribune: On your first al bum, one song, “King of the Dol lar”, borrows from theStones’ “Sat isfaction”. How do you feel about artists like Mike Edwards of Jesus Jones, who believes that technol ogy is the wave of the future in music? MW: Anybody who disses sampling is a bit offline. No matter how far technology advances, there will always be hippies who attack it. As long as no one’s getting ripped off,, anything that revitalizes mu sic is great. Even Garth Brooks, I guess. Tribune: If you could pick someone to spend three strange
days with, who would it be? MW: Gerald from the Best kissers in the world. Tribune: Two words for you — Michael Bolton. Any reaction? MW: My mom saw Michael Bolton on the Oprah Winfrey show, and she said he reminded her of me. [laughs]. Oh God Mom — shows how out of touch she can be. I think he sucks, but I remember when he was a guitar slinging rock star in the Midwest — totally Billy Squier. 1 don’t get any pleasure from saying Michael Bolton sucks. He does. His voice sucks, too. But who cares?
No point to N ikita’s retu rn BY MIKA B A R E K E T
You’ve already seen Point o f No Return. It was released a couple years ago and was called La Femme Nikita. It is the current fashion to take classic French cult films and remake them for Ameri can audiences. Sommersby is an other such copy. It is not hard to imagine Jean de Florette remade w ith N ick N olte in G erard Depardieu’s role, or Winona Ryder as Betty in Betty Blue. Hollywood must be out of its own storylines. All that aside, director John Badham (War Games, Saturday Night Fever) did an excellent job with Point ofNo Return, and thank fully did not make a mockery of Juc Besson’s La Femme Nikita. For those who have not yet seen the original, and can not tol erate subtitles, Point o f No Return is well worth seeing for its inven tive plot, high-tech style, and bril liant acting. B ridget Fonda (Singles, Scandal) plays Maggie, a scruffy
drug-addicted misfit, who after killing a police officer is put on death row. At the last moment, a covert government agency saves her from execution and transforms her into a sleek and sophisticated killing machine who must kill wealthy mafia-types on command. Upon com pletion of her training she is released from the confines of the underground assasin training camp and thrown into the real world with a new name and a new look. At that point, her new life begins. She falls in love with J.P., a comical, yet sen sitive photographer played by Dermot Mulroney, and learns that she can not keep her ultra-secret life from alienating J.P.. Point o f No Return is unique in two ways. First, the opening scenes were filmed with a new Kodak film stock, which brought the relative darkness to the screen without losing visual clarity. This was accomplished, and for that reason renders the first few scenes better than those in La Femme
Nikita. However, these scenes were less-enthralling than in the original. What they made up for in film quality, they lost in substance. The second interesting note to this movie is that it was filmed in sequence in order to acheive a m ore au th en tic resp o n se to Maggie’s transformation by the cast. This did not go unnoticed. The actors seemed just as excited about Maggie’s different perso nae as was the audience. The film is chock-full of w onderful ac to rs. As Bob, M aggie’s teacher and mentor, Gabriel Byrne (Miller s Crossing, Lionheart) was very convincing. His role called for someone both tender and tough. He played the two roles naturally. Distinguished actress Anne Bancroft (The Gradu ate, Agnes o f God) put in a much more heartfelt performance than did her predecessor in La Femme Nikita . Mulroney is as attractive as he is loveable, and his sensual deep voice would m ake any woman shudder. Although his past
performances in Young Guns and Longtime Companion, to name a couple, went largely unnoticed, Point o f No Return should make him one of the next most sought after actor. And of course, a word must be said about the waif-like Bridget Fonda. Much skepticism sur rounded her acting abilities, but she pulled it off. Anne Parillaud though, looked much tougher in the initial scenes, and seemed to be more comfortable holding a machine gun. Likewise, Harvey Keitel (Thelma and Louise, The Bad Lieutenant) could have been much more fearsome as Victor the Cleaner. Both La Femme Nikita and Point o f No Return use their im aginative plot (in the singular be cause they are the same) to delve into the theme of the woman war rior. It is refreshing to see a female character take control of her life, balancing prowess with beauty. It tells us that a woman can be both and still come out a winner, or at
least not be seen as either airhead or aggressive she-male. Few mov ies are able to carry such a mes sage and still manage to appeal to the general public. Buffy the Vam pire Slayer tries to do the same, but trivializes feminism to such an extent that all you can do is laugh (or cry). It may not be cool to see remakes, and in most cases that feeling is justified (The Vanishing for example), but Point o f No Re turn is well-worth seeing for the sheer entertainm ent factor. If you’ve seen La Femme Nikita, all the surprises are gone, but it is still fun to compare it to the original. It has a great soundtrack comprised mainly of the smooth voiced Nina Simone, and my personal favour ite, L7’s “Everglade”. Not only that, but Point o f No Return does for ravioli what Truth or Dare did for Evian and 9 H2 Weeks did for honey. So drop all snobbery, sit back and fanta size about Dermot (or Bridget, 1 guess).
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A d am S te rn b e rg h te lls th e H O LE sto ry B Y K A T E G IB B S
which may at first glance seem super ficially similar to in that deals with frustration and violence. My fear is that people might end up lumping together with all the other “LOOK - BLOOD!” type-mov ies which abound. But whereas amovie like —which Ihated— falls in love with the graphic and gra tuitous macho-crotch-grabbing vio lence that it portrays, is about the reasons for this type of violence— sort of a look at what happens when people watch a movie like and think it’s a viable reaction to an unsatisfactory situation. Tribune: What, if anything, is inherently Canadian about ? AS: It’s set in a fictional North ern Ontario town which one of the characters refers to as “Shitstain, On tario.” Because it’s about violence, and has a—gasp—gun in it, a lot of people have labelled it ‘American.’ But this sort of violence is just as big-a problem in Canada. In Montreal, we are espe cially aware of that. Tribune: You area transplanted American—to what degree docs your work illustrate the personality of the author? AS: I was bom in Pennsylvania — Allentown country. And you know...the graduations hang on lire wall, and they never really helped us at all. I was raised from three in Canada, but it was inToronto, which is about as close as you can get to an American city in Canada. But still, I have spent the last 19 years of my life in Canada. 1figure my experiences are as “Cana dian” as anyone, whatever that means. Tribune: As aplaywrite, to what
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degree do you search for a metaphor within a story? AS: I usually start with some real-life event which I think is curious or interesting. The incident several years ago where that maniac went into a McDonald’s in [California] and mur dered several dozenpeoplereally stuck in my mind, just because it was so tragic, and really illustrates both how banal things can be-M ayor McCheese, Hamburgler, Filet O’ Fish—and how extreme and psychotic people can be come. Everytime I eat in McDonald’s, I think about that incident, and about the seven year-old boy who lay mo tionless outside the McDonald’s for the whole twelve hours or so pretend ing to be dead, next to his friends who were dead. But he survived. Anyway, the point is that reallife is the best metaphor for real-life, in that we are able to be empathetic and we do feel for other people, despite the evidence to the contrary. Tribune: Can it come as any surprise that the Waco, Texas, David Koresh stale mate story is already in production? AS: I think that’s a little differ ent, in that it’s just blatant sensational ism. There’s no attempt to understand why this sort of thing happens—why someone in our society can and would armhimself to the teeth and pull a stunt like this. Too often people write it off to the “lone nut” theory, which hap pened with Marc Lépine and Fabrikant, and may help people sleep better at night, but it doesn’t address the real problems, and doesn’t get us closer to finding solutions. Tribune: With so many cul
tural anecdotes which define our age in HOLE nature and volume, how do you pro pose to channel all your ideas co hesively? Write the great cross-border novel andgive Douglas Coupland what for in the process. AS: The trick is to bring to gether these fragments which bom bard us and try to make some sense of them. Of course, that’s a pretty tough trick — much harder than say, making the Magic Kingdom disappear. Sometimes it’s best to let the au dience try to put the pieces to gether. It’s a process we do everyday. Which isn’t to say that there’s no plot or story or charac ters etc. It’s just that there’s no easy answers or attempts to say “this is why peo ple do these things.” I think a good play will entertain people while they’re in the theatre, and leave them with something to ar gue about on the HOLE r e q u i r e s a n a u d ie n c e of 2 5 -m in iin u m . way home.
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F a l l D o w n G o B o o m l a n d s o n f e e t a t G e r t ’s B Y AM Y R ID L E Y
Five years ago Graham Powell(guitar and vocals), Maury La Foy(bass and vocals) and Sean Kozey (drums) started a high school band in Regina. Maury and Sean moved out here for McGill’s Jazz program so the band-and Grahamfollowed. Alley’s and Apartments, their first independent cassette, was
released that year. 1993 they antici pate the release of their third, as of yet untitled, album. I had a little chat with Graham before Fall Down Go Boom played on Friday night at Gert’s. He’s so nice. Tribune: So you have a new album? Graham : This is the stuff we want to talk about. This is our third. We recorded it at Morin Heights.
They’ll be nine songs—a full length thing-a-ma-jigger. Tribune: Got a favorite tune? Graham : Oh, they are all so good. Ha. Tribune: You write them? Graham : Maury and I both write our songs; about half and half. Tribune: best gig? Graham : Just lately. The last two gigs at Foufounes and Club
Soda. Finally people are coming out to see us. T ribune: What kind of crowd do you get? Graham : Same crowd. Our crowd, I guess. 1 always wondered what the crowd would be like at Foufounes but its the same people. Kasia’s always there. The Montreal crowd has been really good to us. Tonight should be interesting.
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Tribune: Why Gert’s? Be cause they asked? Graham : Exactly. We want to get more people to hear us. We got to play to a few more people. Tribune: Is there a political issue that speaks to your heart? Graham : Sure, we’re quite political. But we try to sing what we know about; what we think about. We don’t wan’t to be preachy. Tribune: Do you put out a message? Graham: The biggest mes sage we put out is positivity-not to be confused with naiveté towards problems- but solutions. Not just sitting around talking about prob lems but coming up with something positive. We’ve tried to write songs with a message but it comes out preachy. We only want to do it if it’s from the heart. It’s probably easier to write an article because the voice is the person who reads it. But music is. different because you write it and then sing it with your voice. Tribune: You also interpret the message. Graham: Ya, and it’s not that you’re not sinccrc-it’sjust tough to sound sincere. I’ve never known how to de scribe that. Say. if there’s a benefit for something that we believe in than we play it. That’s how we’re political. Tribune: Like for instance? Graham: We played for an Amnesty International benefit and for an Aids Awareness benefit. It’s a good way to do it if you can’t find a voice. It’s hard to sing about these issues because it’s not our voice. Like feminism; three men don’t feel right about speaking for it. Same with racism-we don’t feel right- because it’s not our voice— but we do feel strongly about it. We could write pretty good tunes about parking tickets, though. Tribune: You get a lot? Graham : Ya, far too many. Tribune: What about the sun? [There’s a big sun that the band puts up on stage with a calm smile and a yellow spot] Graham : Ya, it’s nice hun? It’s our symbol of positivity. Only now we’re worried that with the dangers of the ozone layer being destroyed that the sun is becoming threatening. But it’s just that damn ozone layer. The sun is still beauti ful and positive. Tribune: Warm. Graham : Ya, just sitin’ up there doing it’s own thing.
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H ey Joe! D on't it m ak e you w a n t to go to w ar S T E P H A N IE FLO UCAULT
If it was Joel Schumacher’s intention to coin a new catch phrase with his film Falling Down, he certainly succeeded with me. The overall shallowness of the film combined with the constant repeti tion of this one phrase really did have me thinking about “going home”. Falling Down is the story of an average working guy who goes ballistic living in the urban pres sure cooker that is Los Angeles. This is where problems begin for the film, however. D-fens (Michael Douglas) never quite loses it to the degree that I had hoped he would. He wastes a lot of ammo on inani mate objcctsand remains uncontroversial to the very end. The only person directly snuffed by D-Fens is a skewed Nazi whose murder could be characterized as a public service by most. If you want to see a man who just can’t take it anymore blowing off steam through multiple slay-
ings of innocent victims, you will not find it in Falling Down. If you want to sec an examination of the factors leading to this particularly North American brand of urban madness, you will not find it in Falling Down. What you will find in this film is fairly formulaic charcter and plot development and a very weak analysis of what makes a man go mental. All the typical urban annoyances - bumpy race relations, aggressive panhandlers, exhorbitant prices, gang violence arc played out in a typical, unin spired manner. The only way this film could have been more cliche is if D-Fcns had been cast as an expostal employee. Schumacher is able to give his film some depth with the addi tion of a subplot headed by good guy Prcndcrgast (Robert Duvall),a desk jockey cop on the verge of retirement, who decides to go after D-Fcns. However, the parallels between their respective situations arc left largely undeveloped. If you must sec this film, do
so on a Tuesday night. For a look at an urban dweller who does deliver in lash ing out, a good alter native to F alling Down is the 1970’s film Joe, available on video. Set in Greenwich Village in the age of free love and what Joe considers to be too many free lunches, the film tells the story of a disgruntled fac tory worker with a “well balanced” gun collection and an itching to use it. Unlike Schumacher’s D-Fens, Joe has a clear idea of who is re sponsible for “screwing up the cul ture”. It’s those damn hippies! Joe (Peter Doyle) is out to settle the score, even if he does have to make do with less sophisti cated firepow er than Falling Down's D-Fens. What Joe lacks in finesse, he makes up for with effi cacy. While D-Fens is acting out pent-up aggression with no rhyme or reason, Joe is greasing up the rifles and going after who he con siders to be the culprits: those long-
haired kids who do nothing but “screwin’ and groovin’”. Peter Doyle’s portrayal of Joe in all his blue collar glory is a fine piece of acting and his use of the language of the time is infi nitely amusing. Despite a some what slow beginning, Joe suc ceeds in providing us a picture of an average man gone loco and gi ves
us the reasons why, something Falling Down does not do. Joe is probably also more socially rel evant at this lime than Falling Down is, considering the mushrooming number of white, middle class, hypersensi live,ethnic lextile-wearing youth to be found on city slrcets.all over North America.
Sub-pop superb BY K ATR IN A O N S T A D
King Missilegotmorepress last week than East Timor has ever gotten. So, after the Mirror cover story, Gazette coverage, and major radio play, the question is, did the novelty-punk act from New York —best known for its hit Je sus Was Way Cool— live up to the hype? The crowd at Club Soda last Friday seemed undivided and largely conquered. The first thing I noticed about King Missile is that they would not have thrived in the Duran Duran era of video goodlooks = popularity. No prettyboys-they, lead singer John S. Hal I took center stage in a button-up black shirt (what, no Sub Pop tshirt?) and frumpy hat that barely contained his hockey hair. Sur rounded by equally slouchy and hairy cohorts, it was clear this show was about music, not flan nel. And the music was indeed happening. The most successful songs seemed to be the novelty ones, songs which Hall would in troduce with a wry whine, “This one’s called Sex With You is All I Want” (or Cheesecake Truck, or The Evil Children). Then, clutch ing the mike and staring blankly
into the distance, he’d do the King Missile Thing. The Thing seems to consist of a near brilliant spoken word over top of a huge sound, 1ike polished garage metal. Although frequently hilarious, Hall has a persona of nerdy vulbcrability that makes his wailing of lines like, “This is even worse than being alive,/This is worse than I thought,” carry a certain poignancy. Angst, but without the Morrissey poseur crap. When not singing, Hall would wriggle about the stage like Iggy Pop — which looked a bit weird on his dougy, grad-student like frame, but was actually kinda endearing— or make little forays into the audience. The be-toqued and happy dance floor crowd seemed to overwhelm the gener ally underwhelmed Hall, who said with what resembled sincerity, “Gccz, you guys arc all screaming and dancing and everything. Where we come from, this never happens.” Hal 1was defin ilcly the center of attention, and his absence from the stage was duly noted. For ex ample, the show waned heavily with some excessive guitar postur ing in the middle of the set when Hall was off chatting with some audience members.
Speaking of guitar solos, the Monks of Doom opened with a brief set. The Monks are known prim arily as the less famous Camper Van Beethoven spin-off (Cracker is the popular one, the one that has the intrinsically im portant lead singer element). But actually, the Monks were an ex perimental side project for bassist Victor Krummenacher long before Camper Van split up. While I found their mostly instrumental set smart and —seriously— entertaining, a guy I was with leaned over in the middle of one particularly long woofer/tweeter explosion and said, “Ex-members of Camper Van Beethoven? Morelikeex-membcrs of Rush.” Touché! B ut I just have to admire any band of overtly talented musicians that dares to stray beyond the threechord realm which is so hip in alternative circles today. Yes, the Monks’ songs were long, and the music was a bit cerebral for the Club Soda setting, but they were actually trying something that doesn’tresembleNirvana. Because of that, and because of the great cha-cha intro to a Pink Floyd cover, I praise the Monks of Doom. They set the tone for a worthy Friday night, one that made the hype be lievable.
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S p o rts A ski-riffic season BY C R A IG B E R N E S
Try as it might, the McGill ski team came up just shy of first place, as it closed out its season last weekend in the Provincial Finals at Stoneham. McGill’s women finished first overall while the men were fifth. The combined totals gave McGill a second-place finish in the final standings, duplicating last year’s performance. “We lost a few good people from last season,” said team cap tain Sean Sofin. “But we also got quite a few good rookies. We had figured we’d be around there [sec ond].” In Friday’s Giant Slalom, M cGill’s Sophie Marcoux was fourth in 2:05.95. While GS is not exactly a team specialty, Martha McDougal 1placed ninth and Sandra Cole was twelfth for McGill. Laval’s Isabelle Dupont won the race in 2:02.14. The Slalom on Saturday promised better things for McGill on both men’s and women’s sides. Eric Bedard finished fifth for McGill on the men’s side, while Louis-Philippe Berti and Sofin were 17th and 18th respectively. “It was possibly my best run ever,” said Sofin. “My goggles
slipped halfway down the run, but I was able to get rid of them and keep going.” Despite his result, it is doubt ful that racing sans goggles will catch on. The women’s race saw a plethora of lop finishes for McGill. Marcoux again led the way, com ing second in 1:49.11. RookieJill Taylor was third in 1:52.33. McDougall finished sixth, Cole ninth, Julia Hogan tenth, Erica Panet 15th. Dupont won again in 1:48.42. The season had started well for McGill; the team was in first placeoverall until the fourth raceof die year. “After Mte.SteMarie [races], Laval took over the [overall] lead. We just couldn’t pick it up,” Sofin added. “We stayed with them all year, but couldn’t pass them.” McGill’s women were in first place for the entire season. When nearly half of the top ten skiers overall are from your school, you stand a pretty good chance of win ning the season. “Our women basi cally kick ass,” said Sofin. The overall standings were based on racers’ top six finishes. Marcoux was third overall behind two Laval skiers. Julia Hogan was sixth on die circuit widi consistent
racing all year. T aylor and McDougall were eighth and tenth overall, respectively. Cole was twelfth; Panet 17th. The women’s team should remain strong next season as all of the top racers re turn. The men’s overall standings saw Eric Bédard in twelfth for McGill. Bédard consistendy placed in the top fifteen, and will be missed next season. In order for McGill to challenge for top spot next season, the men will have to come on strong.
Rookies like Jonathan Royter(21st overall) and Michael Blank will look to improve on excellent show ings this year. Other than the legen dary Pavel Pochobradsky, Blank was the only McGill medalist in six years with his third-place finish at Mt. Orford. “Michael is a really good GS skier,” said Marcoux, “except his skis keep coming off. He needs new bindings.” Alas, such is the ski team’s funding situation, similar to many of McGill’s teams.
“What we really need is for some good skiers to come to McGill. It’s very lough to make a good racer. What we can do here is make good skiers better,” said Marcoux. With most of the top Quebec pros pects attending French universities, McGill relies on non-recruited rac ers from out-of-province, which makes its showing all the more impressive. Discounting the flying headgear and loose skis, it was a good year by any standard.
The tre e -p la n te r’s guide to spring tra in in g B Y JA M IE D E A N
So you have a tree planting job, and you know that it can be pretty demanding, butwhatcan you do now to prepare? While some planters do not do any physical exercise over the winter, most suc cessful planters are either naturally active orpurposely train before they head off for the summer. “Last spring I followed the rowers’ training schedule, which
included weight training for the whole body and sit-ups,” said vet eran B.C. planter Shelagh Jones, who has worked for Brinkman and Mudslide. “General endurance is the key. Out west you especially need strong leg muscles to climb up steep slopes and over logs.” Melony Jamieson, who has planted for Broland for three years in Ontario, also feels training is important. “It is to your advantage to get
in shape now,” she said. “In the first two weeks, those out of shape tend to hurt themselves. I cannot guar antee that being physically fit will make you a great planter, but I can say that those who develop injuries were unprepared. I recommend stretching, running and general weight training,” added Jamieson. Some experienced planters suggested rather unusual methods to simulate a typical day. “ W alk up the m ountain
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(preferably not on die road) in a thunderstorm, carrying a knapsack full of encyclopedias, wearing a pair of boots that are just a little too big,” recommended reluming thirdyearplanter Jodie Bcaumontof New Forest. Crew bosses also sec the benefits of physical preparation— especially since their revenue de pends on their crew’s productivity. “Flexibility is vital,” said Outland foreman Chuck Fisher. “Back and shoulders should be stretched, then strengthened with w eights. To prevent w rist tendonitis, do wristcurls in thegym orplay squash. Everyone should do some sort of aerobic exercise, such as running or cycling, and those going out west might climb stairs or bike up hills,” advised Fisher. Mike Naylor, Project Man ager for Coast Range in B.C. con curs. “I encourage weight training for the legs and running to develop stamina,” Naylor said. “Legs arc the most important part because you are walking so much. Upper body strength is not so necessary but a strong back is an asset. Play ing hackey-sack now may be the best thing to limber up and it can easily be taken along for the summer.” H owever, experienced shovel-tuckers will tell you that the job calls for more than simple fit ness. Gerry Booker, who manages
Roots Reforestation in Prince George. B.C., said her experience has shown her that plan ling requ ires more than a strong body. “It’s not the physical aspects of planting so much as the mental concentration: those who quit usu ally can’t motivate themselves or handle the isolation in the field,” Brooker noted. But like everything with tree planting, nothing is etched in stone and everyone has their own meth ods. Catherine Triggs, who planted for two years with Arbor and is returning for her second season as crew boss, admits that her training is not very extensive. “I don’tdoanything,’’Triggs declared. “ In the first week you die anyway and by the end you are completely burnt out. But to get a feel for planting, I would suggest that you put at least fifty pounds of bricks into a bag and walk through the forest in apair of heavy boots and a rainsuit, while it is raining.” While tree planting can be demanding, it can also be fun and financially rewarding. Each planter controls, to a large extent, his or her summer earnings. While everyone has their own secret, winter couch potatoes are more likely to become summer couch potatoes, and those who are active during the winter are more likely to have an easier and more productive summer.
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The McGill Tribune, March 23-29.1993
H itting the oval BY A LEX USH ER
T hough their hom e field on the M acD onald cam pus is cu rren tly u n d er tw o feet o f snow , and the team can do nothing but wait for the m ercury to rise before they start prac tice, the M cG ill C ricket Team is already busy planning its second season in the Q uebec C ricket Federation. L ast year the team , m ade up m ostly o f international stu dents at M cG ill, stunned the Federation by going undefeated and w inning the “C ” division crow n. This year, the team will m ove up to the “B ” division, w here the com petition is ex pected to be m uch stiffen T he te a m ’s su cc ess is breeding greater interest in the team . K u m p csan S an d rc segaran, last y ear’s Club p resi dent, said the C lub may field a second team , m oney perm it ting. That team w ould start in the “ C ” division, just as last y ear’s team did.
The team ’s financial situ ation is far from ideal, how ever. The team m ust pay $ 1350 in league fees (tea included) for each team it fields, and eq u ip ment costs last year w ere u p wards o f $2500. W ith no sup port from M cG ill’s D epartm ent o f Athletics, the team m ust fund itself, and has done so largely through sam osa sales in the S hatner B uilding. H ow ever, recent rum blings on SSM U C ouncil about restricting the sale o f baked goods within the building have raised concerns about the future o f such in com e. “ M o st o f o u r m o n e y com es from sam o sa sa le s,” S an d rcsag aran said. “ W e ’re going to have big problem s if that goes through.” The rcgularseason begins in m id-M ay and lasts until early O ctober. M cG ill is the only university squad in the league, w hich is made up m ostly of team s from M ontreal cultural com m unities and som e m ulti
T h e u n d e fe a te d M cG ill C r ic k e t T e a m a fte r its c h a m p io n s h ip v ic t o r y .
ethnic pick-up teams from cor porations such as Rolls-Royce. In addition to their regu lar season play, the McGill team will be returning to the NorthAmerican University Cricket Tournament in Ohio. There they hope to put in a better showing than last year, where they were deafeated by the eventual winners, the Univer
sity o f Cincinnati. The team is also trying to encourage the developm ent of a new inter-university cricket league by sponsoring its own eight-team tournam ent in late M a y . U M a s s (A m h e rs t), M .I.T ., W aterloo and T oronto have a lr e a d y a c c e p te d in v i ti a t i o n s to p la y , an d S andrasegaran is enthusiastic
about the prospects for the fu ture o f inter-university play in the region.
“We already play some frien d ly m atches with Concordia,” he noted. “But there’s tens of thousands of crick et players in North America, and it should be pos sible to get a cricket league going at the university level.”
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At the end o f April, McGill Badminton team member Robbyn Hermitage will participate in the national badminton championships in Charlottetown, P.EJ. The sec ond-year elementary and second ary physical education student is one o f Canada ' s top players and is likely to be chosen as a member o f the C anadian team fo r the upcoming World championships, to be held in Birmingham, England in late May and early June.
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By her own adm ission, Robbyn Hermitage is a very com petitive person. “I’m a very competitive in everything— I don’t let anyone win,” says the Montreal native now living in Kitchener, Ontario. She’s right. In three years, Hermitage has yet to lose a Quebec Student Sports Federation (QSSF) singles badminton game—a streak that extends to 48 games. But this is just a blip in a list of achievements that is as endless as the ice cream flavour list at Baskin Robbin’s. From the age of 12, Hermit age has won the Ontario singles championships in various age
groups an incredible seven times. This year, Hermitage took gold in the singles at the QSSF champion ship. It is in doubles competition, however, that she has been most successful at the national level and that suits her just fine. “I prefer playing dou blcs and mixed,” said Hermitage. “All my early success was in singles but doubles is a different game— it is more intelligent. It’s a game of anticipation, reflexes, racket speed as opposed to foot -speed,” she added. Last year, Hermitage and formerMcGilldoublcspartnerKim Barnes were undefeated in QSSF competition and took gold at the provincial championships. However, it is with her club team doubles partner, Milaine Cloutier, that she has progressed farthest. This season, the duo has won two gold, two silver and a bronze on the national badminton circuit (Air Canada Grand Prix). Their performance at those tournaments and at the upcoming national championships determine whether they will get to compete at the world championships. Canada will send five men and five women to Birmingham
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and with only two women ranked higher than H erm itage and Cloutier, the pair’s performances to dale should earn them a spot on the team. Hermitage sees the world championship tournament as a stepping stone towards fulfilling a childhood dream. “I’m going for Lhc experi ence,” she said. “When 1 was first interviewed [by the media] when I started playing, I said I wanted to make it to the Olympics. I’m start ing to think I’d like to go to the 1996 [Summer] Olympics.” “I’ve won 48 games [in the QSSF] but it is nothing compared to World’s or the national circuit,” she added. Even though she would ben efit from the atmosphere and com petition at the national badminton training centre in Calgary, Hermit age prefers to slay in Montreal. “I’m against people who get good and leave the circuit,” she said. “I play [here] because it helps the University [and] it also helps the circuit— it helps people raise their level of play,” Hermitage commented. Her commitments, however, arc not limited to McGill; they ex tend beyond the University and into the community at large. Even with daily practice and a full course load (she is one of the only players at her level to study full-time), she finds the time to coach junior players at the Mon treal Amateur Athletic Association (M.A.A.A.). When asked about her fami ly’s contribution to her success, Hermitage jokes: “When 1 told my parents I would be doing ibis [in terview], they told me ‘Don’t for get to thank your parents’.” Although her parents can kid around about their part in their daughter’s success, Hermitage se riously acknowledges both their encouragement and the support of McGill badminton team coach Frank McCarthy. “This year he [McCarthy] got me a scholarship [Foundation Award],” she said. “I haven’t been able to make a whole lot of prac tices— he’s put up with me,” said Hermitage.
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The McGill Tribune, March 23-29,1993
H onouring “stu d en t leaders”... HITTINGTHEWALL BY ALISON KORIN
especially unfair. SSMU President Jason Prince’s claim that “élite varsity teams get an awful lot of funding” represents a bureaucratic vision of athletics. Yes, Mr. Prince, varsity teams arc “élite”. There is competi tion to win a spot on a varsity team. If exclusion is suppos edly unfair, consider how it's hard to participate in student’s council unless you’re popular or cute enough to gel elected. SSMU Athletics Rep. James Stewart’s motion to council last week, which was intended to show SSMU’s support of a full Athletics program at McGill was, according to Stewart, “harped about for so long that they ended up missing the point.” Councillors apparently engaged in a lengthy debate about the priority of funding for different Athletics activities. Stewart’s motion was one of pure rhetoric, and even that was stalled and twisted before it was finally passed. Can the pasty-faced Shatncr Building dwellers not even extend a simple show of moral support to McGill’s athletes? Councillors who know little or nothing about the Depart ment of Athletics should make a trek up to the Currie Gym to confirm for themselves that the funding given most of McGill’s teams is not extravagant (football and Redmen hockey excepted, naturally). How nice it would be if SSMU folk would recognize that “student leaders” exist outside the Shatncr Building, and pick up the tab for the Athletics Banquet as a way of saying thanks for contributing, in a non-burcaucratic way, to the university. Or at the very least, SSMU could save student money in their building by charging a fee for their fiesta. Why should anybody gel a free dinner? If athletes don’t, bureaucrats shouldn’t. This masturbatory excess is just boring.
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‘Tis the season of balls and banquets. By the end of this school year, I will have attended two very different soirées: the Student’s Society (SSMU) Awards Banquet and the Athletics Banquet. The former is free for all “student leaders”, while the latter forces athletes to fork over $28 for the privilege of attending a banquet in their honour. The discrepancy leaves me dumbfounded... and broke. Last Friday’s SSMU gala event, held in the Shatncr ballroom was, to be sure, not on the level of the glitzy sports banquet, which will be held April 2 at the Delta Hotel. But SSMU’s self-indulgent chow-down led me to ponder the notion of “student leader”. Looking around the Shatncr Ballroom, I saw more strangers than leaders. If it’s leaders you’re looking for, every team has a few. How many McGill athletes qualify as “student leaders”, and as such, deserve a free chicken dinner? I’d argue that many McGill atheletes contributed more to the school than did the legions of paper-pushers in the Shatner Building. Do SSMU executives, who each recieve a $10,000 stipend, really need free crudités and booze in this age of fiscal restraint? I’m sure they already collect their “fair” share of perks without such a selfindulgent excuse for a party. Now I enjoy prancing around in toe-pinching pumps and a short skirt, don’t get me wrong. But I see no reason why Shatnerites’ doing so should be financed by student fees while the athletes’ event must be paid for by the athletes themselves, half of whom have spent all year fundraising just so they can compete. And don’t forget that McGill’s athletes have little time to get rich from a part-time job, since most of their “spare” time is devoted to training and studies. Unlike some student politicians who take as little as two subjects per term, compet ing athletes must take 12 credits per term to be eligible. So the $28 Athletics Banquet price tag ($32 for guests) seems
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C a n d id a te s fo r m a jo r a th le tic s aw ards a n n o u n c e d The Department of Athletics has announced the nominees for the major sports awards for 1992-93, which will be presented at the Athletics Banquet on April 2. The Dr. Gladys Bean Award is given to the female McGill student who has brought most credit to the University by reason of her athletic achieve ments. The nominees are: Melanie Choinicre (CrossCountry and Track & Field); Robbyn Hermitage (Badminton); Gayle Noble (Soccer); Andrea Nugent (Swimming); Vicky Tessier (Basketball); and Linda Thyer (Cross-Country and Track & Field). The Muriel V. Roscoe Award is given to the female student in her graduating year or in her final year of eligibility for proficiency and leadership in athletics. The nominees are: Julie Bastion (Badmin ton); Jane Ross (Basketball); Jerrilin Spence (Syn chronized Swimming); Kristen Fry (Volleyball and Track& Field). The Major Stuart Forbes Trophy is awarded to the male McGill student who has brought most credit to the University by reason of his athletic achieve ments. The nominees are: Bruce Bird (Basketball); Chris Drysdale (Soccer); Courtenay Shrimpton (Football); and Paul Watson (Swimming). The Richard W. Pound Award is given to the male student in his graduating year or final year of eligibility for proficiency and leadership in athletics. The nominees are: Rolf Gronas (Soccer); Charlie Kime (Rugby); Wade Mitchell (Swimming); and
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Doug Naudie (Football). The Martlet Foundation Team of the Year Trophy is given to the McGill intercollegiate team which has brought the most credit to the University by reason of its athletic achievements. The nominees are: Martlet Alpine Skiing, Martlet Basketball, Martlet Cross-Country, Martlet Soccer, Martlet Track & Field.
R e d m e n V o lle y b a ll to r e m a in n o n fu n d e d After delaying a decision on the fate of men’s volleyball, the Deapartment of Athlctics'Performance Review Committee decided last week not to elevate the team to Level II status. The team will remain at “club” level, with no monetary support from the Department of Athletics. The main factor, according to Committee Chair James Stewart, is the lack of male anglophone volleyball players in Quebec to supply McGill’s team. “It’s difficult to get francophone players to come to McGill,” Stewart stated, noting that powerhouse Laval lures many male francophone players. There is apparently a good supply of female volleyball players in Quebec, which it is hoped, will stock the Martlet volleyball team. The Martlets, a Level I team with a full time coach, have not won a single match since the elevation of their new status two years ago. This season the team did, however, win several games—an im provement over last year.
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