The McGill Tribune Vol. 12 Issue 3 by The Tribune

IMPORTANT A N Y O N E w ith a p re s c rip tio n d ru g p ia n .

Oct. 6' September 22-28,1992

Published by the Students' Society of McGill University

W a lk -S a fe F ia s c o C om plications and delays involving W alkSafe N etw ork's telephones and offices spark intense controversy in the Shatner Building. G eneral A ssem bly W orkshop C oordinator A m y Ridley resigns her position to protest President Jason Prince's handling o f the affair, w hile executive com m ittee m em bers express disapproval w ith Prince's W alkSafe role. see page 3

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News: P resid e n t P rince's G eneral A s sem bly role raises council an d executive eyebrows.

see page 4 Op/Ed: Ju d y Rebick an d h e r supporters should vote YES on the co n stitu tio n al deal,

see editorial, page 6 Features: McGill program em phasizes job p lacem ent for the in tellectually h a n d i capped.

see page 8 Entertainm ent: Lou D iam ond Phillips ch ats ab out h is music, h is new movie, and the N atio n al League E ast.

see page 12 Sports: Cross country leaves Y anks in P la ttsb u rg h dust.

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T u esd ay . S ep tem b er 22 The M cG ill A lp in e Ski T e a m is having a general m eeting at 6:30 pm in the Currie Gym. For info call 847-1533. A m nesty In te rn a tio n a l is having its first m eeting today at 6:30 pm in the Shalncr Building, room 435. For m ore info, call 286-0502. The first m eeting of the In te rn a tio n al R elatio n s Society o f M cG ill will be held at 6:30 pm in the FDA Auditorium . All welcom e. For info, contact Stephanie Par kin at 934-6314. S.A.L.S.A. presents the Nicaraguan R elief Fund Auction of Baseball M em ora b ilia , w ith sp e cial g u est D e n n is “ El P ré sid e n te ” M artinez from the Montreal Expos. Today, 11:00 am - 1:00 pm, G e n ’s Pub. For info, call Bruce W alker at 3987387.

organizing around the issue of violence against women. O ur aim s are to prom ote personal growth and to stim ulate discussion and action around w om en’s issues. V ision’s first m eeting is today, 12:30 pm , Shatner 436. O p en R o a d challenges current dom inant developm ent ideology. C om e d is cuss, debate and dissent today at 5:00 pm in the Shalncr Building, Multicultural Lounge. Y outh In itiativ es P ro g ra m s tu d e n ts interested in participating in McGill D evelopm ent Projects abroad should com e to a m eeting at 7:00 pm in the Shatner Building cafeteria. Questions, call Jane at 284-6360 o r 982-6996. The M cG ill O u ting C lu b is having a m eeting at 7:30 pm in the Leacock Build ing, room 132,.

M a x w e ll C u m m in g s le c tu r e r K en n eth A rro w is giving a public lecture entitled Excellence and Equity in Higher E ducation. 6:00 pm , Leacock room 232.

The In d ia n P ro g re ssiv e S tu d y G ro u p is having its first m eeting of the tenn today, 6:00 pm, Shatner Building, room 435. Everyone is welcome; we will be discussing and planning the fall program . For further info, contact Nityanand Dcckha at 284-3651.

The Faculty o f Music presents the O rc h e stre S in fo n ic a d ell “ U n iv e rsila ” Cattolica del S. Curore- M ilano at 8:00 pm, Pollack Hall, 555 Sherbrooke St. West. Free adm ission. For info call 398-4547.

V olunteers needed for A lcohol A w areness W eek. Com e to a recruitm ent m eeting today at 4:00 pm , Shatner Building room B 09/10,or call Julie D zerow iczat3986779.

W edn esd ay , S e p te m b e r 23 A C C E S S M cG ill, d edicated to representing disabled students on cam pus, is having its first m eeting. Shalncr, room 104, at 5:00 pm. All welcome. Q u e b e c P I R G ’s B e tter W aste M anagem ent project presents Lu Blain, chair o f NYPIRG, speaking on Toxic W aste and Environm ental Racism. 7:00 pm, room 110 in the Arts Building. V ISIO N is a Q uebec P1RG group

T h e Jew ish S tu d ies S tu d en t Soci ety is having its opening m eeting today at 4:30 pm in the student lounge, basem ent of the Jew ish Studies Building, 3511 Peel St. Everyone taking at least one Jewish Studies course is encouraged to attend. M cG ill’s forem ost literary m aga zine, S criv en er, will be holding its first m eeting today at 5:00pm . Com e to thethird floor o f the Arts Building and drop by the office... w e’ll bcm illing around. If you can ’l come, feel free to drop a note in our box alth c Porter’s office.

C u ltu rc fe s t 92 needs people to contribute articles to their three special is sues o f the Daily. They may be about any thing that concerns any aspect of multiculturalism , cultural experiences, anecdotes, political issues, etc. T hey should be approx. 3 -5 pages, and can be subm itted on disk or in hardcopy. The Daily office has offered use of their facilities if you do not have a com pu ter. Call Nicole at 285-2178 or Emily at 9352055.

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'lh e M cG ill Film Society presents ”2001: A Space O dyssey", at 7:30 pm in Leacock 132.

Ongoing... Iluzzah! It’s lim e once again to enter the Red H e r rin g ’s H o rrib le H aik u C o n test, featuring a celebrity ju d g e (we hope) and lolsa lolsa bad prose. Send us your worst, either to our m ailbox by the SSML desk, or to o u ro fficc in Shatner 406. For info cal] 398-6816. Ed Herring lives...

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24 C K U T -R a d io M c G illis having an in te r v ie w w orkshop at 6:00 pm in the Shatner B u ilding, room B15. Call 3986787 for info. In coop eration with the British C ouncil, R ic h a rd F oulkes, Professor of English at Leicester University, will speak on “Acting Shakespeare; Acting S h aw ” today at 4:00 pm , Arts Building room 160. F orm oreinfo, call 398-6558. C o m h a lta s C e o lto ir i E ir e a n n presents an evening o f Irish traditional m u sic, song and dance. 8:00 pm , Concordia U niversity C oncert Hall, Loyola Campus, 7141 Sherbrooke St. W est. Admission is $10.00. For info and tickets, call Joan M cCarthy at 486-6516, Patricia Bums at 484-3313, or Joe M ell at 935-3961.

W e’re back! lh e R ed H e rrin g , M ontreal’s one and only hum our m agazine, is now accepting subm issions until thc9 lh of Novem ber. Thai m eans funny writing or funny drawing. Bring all subm issions to our office, Shatner 406, o r to the mailbox by the SSM U desk. Spread Herring... M cG ill P la y e rs’ T h e a tre presents Star Trek: “W ay to Eden” and “I, M udd” , 8:00 pm T uesday- S aturday, 3rd floor, Shatner Building. Tickets: Studenls/seniors - S5.00; general adm ission - $10.00. Call 398-6813 for info and reservations. Until Sept. 26.

Friday, Septem ber 25 T he M o n tre a l S ex u al A ssa u lt C e n tre is recruiting concerned, bilingual women interested in becoming volunteers on the telephone crisis 1ine. Training session takes place today, tom orrow, and Sunday, and the 3rd and 4th of October. For info, call 934-4504 o r 934-0354, extension 229.

A ctivity g ro u p fo r c h ild re n aged 8-12 needs volunteers. G roup m eets every Friday between 4-6 pm. If y o u ’re interested, call Keith at 931-7820.

'lh e M cG ill Film Society presents "Beauty and the Beast" at 7:30pm in the FDA Auditorium.

The M cG ill F'olk M usic Society. M eet us dow nstairs at the Yellow Door, 3625 Aylm er, anytim e, at or after 8:30 pm. Tea, tunes and talk. All m usical levels, abilities and am bitions welcom e.

Saturday. Septem ber 26 Unity Canada is sponsoring a pub lic m eeting on the topic: C a n a d a ’s C o n sti tu tio n al P roposals- Y es o r N o? Panel in cludes M cG ill’s Professor Stephen Scott. 7:30 pm , John Rennie High School, 501 St.

lh e M cGill Film Society presents "Lethal W eapon 3" at 7:30 pm in the FDA Auditorium.

lh e M cG ill A ssociation of I n te r n ational S tu d en ts is offering assistance with voting absentee. Drop by the M A IS office in Shalncr 403, o r call Ian at 499-2027.

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The McGill Tribune, September 22-28,1992

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Walk-Safe furious over damaging delays BY C H R IS ALAM D e la y s in S h a tn e r B uilding room allocation and ph o n e connections have left W alk -S afe N etw ork (W SN ) coordinators angry and fru s trated w ith S tu d e n ts’ Society (S S M U ) P r e s id e n t J a s o n P rince. W S N is in the m iddle o f a recru itm en t drive to increase sta ff fo r its new foot patrol program . P rogram c o o rd in a tors contend that Prince in ter fered w ith room allocations fo r clubs and SSM U groups in the S hatner B uilding o v er the sum m er. T he lack o f a phone line, fo r exam ple, has ham pered the success o f that drive. R oom assignm ents are usually handled by the SSM U V P Internal. A ccording to W S N C o co o rd in ato r Paul Johnson, V P Internal Julie D zerow icz had arranged for room allocations,

including W a lk -S a fe ’s m ove into room 410 o f the Shatner B u ild in g . H o w e v er, D zerow icz w as not allow ed to p r o c e e d , a c c o r d in g to Johnson. “ Jason P rin c e d ecid ed that it [room allocations] w as not acceptable anym ore and decided to intervene in the process,” he explained. A pparently P rince and D zerow icz w ere not in ag ree m ent over the interpretation o f SSM U policy w hich denies room allocations to clubs o r groups w hich are d iscrim in a tory or p o litic a l in nature. Furtherm ore, P rince told the Tribune, D zerow icz w as not follow ing the correct SSM U procedure. A s a result, Prince c h a n n e lle d th e p r o c e s s th ro u g h S S M U E x e c u tiv e C o m m itte e a n d F in a n c ia l M anagem ent C om m ittee. Jo h n so n said P rin c e 's actions has had disastrous e f fects for W SN .

“ W e ’v e p ro b a b ly lo st interested m em bers and vol unteers and alienated an in es tim able n u m b er o f students,” w orried Johnson. W SN sp o k esw o m an F io n a D e lle r w a s e q u a lly concerned and angry. “ F or an organization that is as im portant as W alk-S afe and that relies upon student volunteers, this is com pletely unacceptable...It is definitely hurting us. It is a phenom enal h indrance.” W S N ’s ph o n e n u m b er has been heavily pu b licised , but the lack o f a phone has m a d e th is e f f o r t u s e le s s . D eller told the Tribune that M cG ill phone operators are receiving several calls a day for W alk-S afe, but that c a ll ers have no way o f contacting the organization, o th er than through the W o m e n ’s U nion. D e lle r a lso su g g e ste d that S SM U executive support has been lacking.

W o r k sh o p C o o r d in a to r r e s ig n s in p r o t e s t B Y C H R IS A L A M General Assembly workshop coordi nator Amy Ridley resigned from her posi tion last Wednesday. Ridley was frustrated and angry with what she perceived to be a culpability on the part of Students’ Society President Jason Prince in Walk Safe Net work’s phone and room allocation difficul ties. The Workshops were designed by the SSMU executive over the summer to create motions that will go to the proposed Gen eral Assembly. Ridley, who is also the co-coordina tor of the M cGill Coalition Against Sexual Assault (C A S A ), issued the following statement to the Tribune: “I am resigning from the workshops that Jason Prince has designed...I am no longer going to participate working on the workshop committee specifically oriented on safety. The whole reason for participat ing was to ensure the researched problems on safety on campus at McGill would be formally addressed at the General Assem bly. Now we find that Jason Prince has held back his support of the move of WalkSafe to room 410 (of the Shatner Building) His disagreement with the rest of the execu tive has inhibited the installation of WalkSafe’s permanent phone number, which is

“T hey keep saying it is a priority...the bottom line is we cannot operate w ithout a room and a phone. T o say we are a priority is not enough...Jason [Prince] as president could m ake it a p rio rity ...an d he could have done it by the b e ginning o f S eptem ber if he had w anted to.” But P rince said that he w as unaw are o f the problem until the first w eek o f classes, at w hich point he called an em ergency executive m eeting to solve the problem . “ W e did try our best once w e realized there was a crisis,” he explained. “T his has given m e no end o f pain but I really do th in k th a t J u lie [D z e ro w ic z ] s h o u ld h a v e forseen the problem . Had we know n about the problem in advance we w ould have been able to act in tim e to solve it.” P r in c e f e lt th a t D zerow icz should have taken in to a c c o u n t the fac t that

p h o n e h o o k - u p s c a n be backlogged at the start o f term . “T he ex ecutive co m m it tee does not have pow er ov er Bell C anada,” he noted. D zerow icz stressed that the concerns raised by P rince over room allocations w ere raised late in August. H ad they been raised earlier, she su g gested, they m ight have been solved in tim e to avoid the crisis. “ W e are really trying to pull as m any strings as w e can to get that ph o n e in ,” she stated. In a related developm ent, A m y Ridley resigned from her position as G eneral A ssem bly W orkshop C om m ittee c o o r d inator to protest the situ a tion. P lease see R e sig n a tio n , b e low. P lease also see D isp u te, b e low.

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BY TRIBUNE NEWS ST A FF on all of our literature and on the back of the phones in the Shatner Building. As a result As frustrations mount over the delay in we are losing volunteers everyday. It re instituting Walk-Safe Network’s (WSN) room flects badly on one of the most well-or and phone allocation, a dispute regarding where ganized and enduring student organizations responsibility for the debacle lies has erupted. for safety on campus. And as co-head of While the four Students’ Society CASA, I can not work in tandem with (SSMU) vice presidents and members of WSN someone who has specifically by his actions pin the blame on SSMU President Jason Prince, inhibited the implementation of student the president retaliated in kind. Prince explained that the delays have safety on campus. been caused by the implementation of proper procedure in the process, which, he claimed, It is critical that W alk-Safe’s phone VP Internal Julie Dzerowicz did not initiate. number be hooked-up as soon as possible.” j Furthermore, he believed that Dzerowicz A clearly-distressed Prince responded was misinterpreting SSMU policy which de by defending his position and suggesting nies room allocation to “religious or political that he was not responsible for the situation. groups.” In a letter to three groups on campus, “I really think this could have been Prince explained that contrary to his desires, avoided had the V P Internal [Julie Dzerowicz was planning to use this policy to Dzerowicz] been aware of the time delays exclude several groups from Shatner Building involved...It is very upsetting...first of all office space. Prince also promised to stand firm and that Amy [Ridley] did not come to me to represent the needs of the groups and to go to talk about it. Lauding Ridley as a capable and or SSMU council to overturn any decision of the executive committee should the other four ganized individual, Prince noted that he executives stand in his way. wished her to return to her position. In an attached memo circulated to ex Prince also stressed that he will begin ecutives, Prince suggested that Dzerowicz had ‘damage control’, in an effort to restore been negligent in her duties. “I would... like to discuss why Julie did confidence in the SSMU executive among not submit her proposed room allocation plan those affected by the Walk-Safe fracas. “I will be going out and talking with to FMC [Financial Management Committee], required by the Policy Manual,” Prince them. But it is not just me who will do that,” as wrote. he explained, suggesting that other SSMU But Dzerowicz had a different view of executives should join him. the situation, and insisted that any delays were

caused by Prince’s actions in executive com mittee. “The executive said go ahead [with the proposed room allocations], Jason was the only one who said no.” Furthermore, Dzerowicz was extremely upset with Prince’s conduct. “I think he has stepped over my mandate [as VP Internal], I think he has stepped over a lot of my responsibilities,” she explained. The confl ict between the vice presidents and the president has become blatantly obvi ous to outsiders. “His [Prince’s] own executive is slam ming him,” noted Fiona Deller, WSN Spokes woman. “He [Prince] is not a team player,” added WSN Financial Co-coordinator Paul Johnson. While Prince tolerates the views of out siders, Dzerowicz's comments left him in censed. “1 would beg Julie to read the policy manual, the [SSMU] constitution, and the by laws,” he said, regarding her performance so far this year. “Members of the executive should begin to understand and recognize the impli cations of their positions and begin to act as responsibly as they can if they have not up until now.” A visibly-upset VP Finance Susan Nickerson responded by saying, “I do not think he is in a position to comment on that.” All the executives assured the Tribune that they had been acting responsibly. “I was totally following my job [de scription] but I guess Jason decided to disa gree with us and go out on his own,” said Dzerowicz.

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The McGill Tribune, «September 22-28,1992

B Y BENOIT J A C Q M O T T E

Students’ Society (SSMU) President Jason Prince lias been dis tributing a student petition which requests the Council Speaker to call a General Assembly on October 8th, before the issue has been addressed and debated by Student Council. Several councillors expressed concern at September lOlh’s coun cil meeting over the implementa tion of die General Assembly, and council voted to postpone debate on the issue until its next meeting on September 24th. “I think there is a bit of funny business going on here,” Athletics Rep. James Stewart argued. “If you consider what happened in the last council meeting, what Prince is do ing is extremely inappropriate.” The petition distributed by Prince and other students explains that the General Assembly’s agenda will consist of resolutions created by open workshop groups and stresses that the Open Forum proc ess responsible for creating the as sembly is mandated by the SSMU Executive Committee. “As a member of the Open Forum Coordinating Committee acting under a mandate from the [SSMU] Executive Committee, 1 was one of the people circulating

the petition,” commented Prince, when asked to explain his role in collecting the required 200 student signatures needed to request the as sembly. But several vice presidents expressed concern over Prince’s in volvement in distributing the peti tion, arguing that he was neglecting his duty of informing and advising council about the General Assem bly process. “I am appalled,” explained SSMU VP Finance Susan Nickerson, "because I think the president’s actions have shown a lack of faith and respect for his council and the executive.” VP University Affairs Monique Shebbeare argued that the executives had not given the Open Forum Committee any mandate to implement the assembly process. “Our approval was always contingent upon council’s under standing and full support of the General Assembly process,” she stressed. VP External Jeff Percival elaborated on Shebbearc’s com ments. “If we [the executive] give formal approval to a process it is fully conditional on council support and approval.” Prince defended his actions,

claiming that the assembly process was never intended to involve the council. “The idea was always to go to students,” he explained. -“The idea all along was not to get a coun cil-initiated Gen eral Assembly.” H o w e v er, Prince did define a rolefor councillors in the assembly process. “I hope councillors as in dividuals and as students will see VP's Julie value in the proc ess,” he described. “Rather than oppose the exercise, I hope they will join and get involved.” Nonetheless, several coun cillors expressed dissatisfaction with Prince’s actions concerning the petition and the assembly proc ess. “A president is constrained by his office, by council,” argued Arts Rep. Jonathan Ablett. “A stu dent gathers signatures for a peti tion. This can only hurt the drive for

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change.” Stewart was irate, and intends to make his views heard at council. “You can be assured there will be fireworks at the meeting next Thursday...Prince better have some good answers.” Explaining that councillors had many questions and concerns relating to the assembly process, Senate Rep. to Council Robert Valdmanis stated, “Jason is in

danger of creating the impression that he is going behind our backs.” But Prince is less concerned with the council process than the importance of proceeding with the assembly. “The Society is democratic and should respond to the needs of its members,” Prince stated in defense of the assembly. “The Gen eral Assembly is the most demo cratic mechanism we can have.”

New fraternity to colonize McGill BY A L E X USHER AND BRENDAN B ISSE LL

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Kappa Sigma, an Americanbased fraternity with four chap ters in Canada, has decided to try to ‘colonize’ M cGill by opening a new chapter on campus. The fra ternity, whose headquarters are in Charlottesville, Virginia, already has Canadian chapters at the Univerities of Alberta, Toronto, Calgary, and British Columbia. Mitchell Wilson, executive director of Kappa Sigma’s inter national headquarters, said that member chapters had expressed interest in having a new chapter open at M cGill due to the univer sity’s respected academic reputa tion. In its effort to colonize M cG ill, Kappa Sigma sent the McGill Tribunean advertisement with a silhouetted man in a shirt

and ti e with the caption,’The most W A N T E D man in the country”. The Tribune, in accordance with Students’ Society policy on the non-recognition of fraterni ties, refused the advertisement. Wilson said that the frater nity’s ideals are “scholarship, leadership, fellowship and serv ice.” Despite this motto, the Uni versity of Alberta’s chapter reput edly trashed its house once its members learned that the build ing had been condemned. Rob Palm, president of M cG ill’s Inter-Fraternity Coun cil (1FC), said dial Kappa Sigma contacted him last semester about coming to McGill. “I told them that the McGill administration wasn’t exactly helpful in helping new fraternities to get themselves established, but that wc [the 1FC] would lend them a hand if they needed it.” Wilson was asked about the

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fraternity’s policy with regard to sexual assault, an issue that has affected McGill fraternities in the past. He said that the fraternity held a leadership seminar at its headquarters this summer addressing such topics as alcohol consumption, drug use and dale rape. Sylvia Dilorio, a co-founder of the M cG ill Sexual Assault Centre, was not impressed by the fraternity’s advertisement. She told the Tribunethat although the advertisement was likely gim micky, it was obviously ‘macho’ and had implicit sexual connota tions. In addition, Wilson stressed that the practices such as hazing and having“liitlesisters” (women involved with the chapter in such facets as decorating lockers and making breakfasts after parlies) has been prohibited by Kappa Sigma. When told about the possi bility of a new fraternity on cam pus, Students’ Society (SSM U) President Jason Prince had an un ambiguous reaction. “McGill stu dents have made it very clear that frats aren’t welcome at McGill. SSMU has very clear policies about fraternities - we do not en dorse fraternities because of their discriminatory nature.” “We need fewer frats, not more,” Prince added.

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The McGill Tribune, September 22-28,1992

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With men excluded from walking for ihe first time ever, the Take Back theNight march be came an all-female event last week. The issue has sparked controversy between women’s groups on campus who by-andlarge did not participate in the annual event. This is the first year that the Concordia Women’s Collective (CW C) has organized TakeBack the Night, a night march designed to empower women. Participants walk together after dark from Pare Laurier to Parc Lafontaine, two notoriously dangerous areas According to CW C Pro gramming Coordinator Naomi Matsushita, the new policy of ex cluding men was meant to empha size female solidarity. “It is an acknowledgement of the violence against women to reclaim the space and to make a powerful presence in the space,” explained Matsushita. “If men re ally care about this issue, they have to start organizing them selves rather than tagging along once a year.” Three groups directly opposed to the decision were the McGill Caucus for Women and the Law, the McGill Sexual Assault Centre, and the McGill

Coalition Against Sexual Assault (M CASA). “We believe that the only way to combat issuqg about sexual assault is to include men,” stressed co-head of M CASA Amy Ridley. “Men arc not only part of the problem, they arc a critical part of the solution. We were forced not to participate [in the march] al though fundamentally we did not withdraw our support.” “ We cannot condone a Women’sCollective decision that alienates not only all men, poten tial survivors themselves, but also women whose politics do not con form to the Collective’s agenda,” concurred Sexual Assault Centre Co-coordinator Mary-Margaret Jones. A meeting in early Sep tember outlined the new deci sion to exclude men from the march. Margot Lacroix, full-time Coordinator of the Concordia Women’s Centre, believed that some agreement concerning the decision had been met at that time. But Ridley disagreed with this assessment. “ When we went to the Women’s Collective, it became apparent in the first couple of minutes [a decision had been made] when we saw in the fuchsia Byers that the translation of ‘All Women W elcome’ was ‘Pour Femmes Seulement’,” explained Ridley. “Our policy at M CASA

is...an agenda which includes men.” The M cG ill Women’s Un ion also did not participate in the march, but for different reasons. Explaining that she found the decision made at the Septem ber meeting puzzling, Union Co ordinator Carellin Brooks also stressed that she did not entirely disagree with the decision. “I wasn’t at the meeting where it was decided, but the de cision was not made in a consen sual manner,” stated Brooks. “Women’s Union is made up of many different individuals, and the decision [to participate] is personal.” “I believe that it is a good thing that there are no men,” she continued “For every man that needs to take back the night, whether he is homosexual or of a certain ethnic background, there is a woman who is subjected to that much more violence and fear.” W alk-Safe Network Co coordinator Fiona Deller ex pressed concern with how CW C approached the issue. “The decision was adopted without consent,” insisted Deller. “An objective was just handed down. It [the decision] has alien ated so many people because of how it was handled.” While not anticipating the level of controversy raised by the

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decision, the CW C argued that in previous events women had re quested that men not be included. “'TakeBacktheNightis not a

mixed march in other Canadian cities,” insisted Lacroix. “It is supposed to be about women tak ing back the streets at night.”

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A new policy governing the use and abuse of alcohol in the W illiam Shatner Univer sity Centre has been submitted to the S tu d en ts ’ S ociety (S S M U ) council. The policy regulates the use of alcohol at G e rt’ s, the A lle y , and the Shatner Building Ballroom and in v o lv es a com prehensive training program for bar and security staff members. As part of an increased commitment to alcohol aware ness, S S M U V P Internal Julie Dzerowicz initiated the policy to reduce the risk of alcoholrelated accidents at the build ing.

“W e are doing everything we can to minimize the occur rence of excessive drunkenness and a c cid e n ts,” e x p lain e d Dzerowicz. The policy focuses on the liability clause attached to S S M U ’s new liquor license which can be revoked if there are more than three alcohol-re lated accidents. In an effort to reduce li ability, Dzerowicz has devised a mandatory training program for all bar staff and security of G ert’s, the Alley and the Ballroom. The training is in tended to instruct staff on emer gency first aid and CPR. Staff w ill also be trained to deal with intoxicated patrons and how to

recognize signs o f intoxication. “You can’t predict what might happen when people are drinking and for this reason I ’m not placing a lot o f faith in the tra in in g ,” adm itted Dzerowicz. “The program is designed to prepare them as much as possible and to teach them to think straight in d if ficult situations.” Bar staff at both G ert’s and the A lley feel that the pro gram is a positive step towards responsible drinking and should encourage staff confidence in stressful situations. “A lot o f us are new to the situations, and we all have something to learn from a pro gram like this,” enthused Gert ’ s

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bartender Darrel McGrath. S SM U is also sponsoring an Alcohol Awareness W eek in October, an activity which many feel reflects the increased inter est in responsible drinking. “I believe that many stu dents are unaw are o f the responsibilities that come with the privilege of alcohol con s u m p tio n ,” stated A lc o h o l Awareness W eek Coordinator Chris Alam. “W e arc not at tempting to restrict or deter students from consuming alco hol, we just want them to be aware of the implications and concerns associated with that right.” B ut some students re

mained unconvinced that S S M U dem onstrated sincere motivations in the formulation of the new policy. “It seems a little contra dictory that S S M U should sponsor a campaign like this on the one hand, yet continue to coordinate events that encour age extreme consumption o f alcohol, like the Welcome W eek pub crawls and the W inter Car nival pub crawls,” argued U 4 Arts student Rose Nelson. “I mean, w hat’s the message here? I think council should figure out what line they are taking on alcohol.” Council is expected to vote on the proposals on October 1st.

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O p /E d Editorial R e b ic k e t a l. s h o u ld p r a c tic e w h a t t h e y p r e a c h The N ational Action C om m ittee on the Status of W om en (N A C ) thinks the new constitutional deal is bad. So bad, in fact, that it is w illing to join such perversely diverse com pany as the Reform Party and the Bloc Q uébécois in fighting the deal. The grounds for the N A C ’s com plaints, as outlined by its outspoken leader, Judy Rebick, are essentially twofold. The first is that gender equality does not appear in the so-called “C anada clause”; that is Section 2a of the new constitution. It will rem ain, however, w here it has been for the last 10 years, in section 15 of the C harter of Rights. Elem entary rules of com m on law w ould seem to indicate that as long as a new section of a constitu tion (such as section 2a) is not directly contradictory to another section (section 15 of the C harter), then the

Comment The posters cut a vivid swath of fuchsia and black. On Thursday, Septem ber 17, M ontrealers were exhorted to join together to reclaim their streets at the annual Take Back The N ight M arch. U nfortu nately, the invitation re m ained a lim ited one. Only in small print did the posters warn “pour fem m es seulem ent”, curi ously translated into Eng lish as “all women w el com e”. Because o f this qualification, the M cGill Sexual Assault Centre did not m arch this.year. There were a num ber o f reasons why we did not participate in this year’s event, which was organized

earlier paragraph still stands. G ranted, it w ould be nice if gender equality was put in section 2a. It w ould give us all a little m ore faith in the com m itm ent o f our elected leaders to the princi ples of equality. B ut the new w ording is not the end of the world. Rebick, on the other hand, is treating the om ission as the Canadian equivalent of apartheid. The second cause for the N A C ’s com plaint is its perception that the deal threatens social program s such as child care. This is because the deal allows provinces to opt out of national program s while still receiving federal cash to run their own program s. W ell, w elcom e to the real w orld, Judy. U nder a strict reading o f the BNA Act, half o f C an ad a’s present social program s are already constitutionally suspect. M oreover, granting the federal governm ent the

exclusively by the C oncordia W om en’s Collective. A valued m em ber of our executive, who works to help women recover from sexual assault, could not attend the M arch with the rest of us, by virtue of his gender. More fundam entally, while each of us supported the principle of wom en-only events, we felt the M arch was m eant to be a public affair, to include all those individuals who want to assure wom en safe conduct at night and in public places. W e were angry at the unilateral decision-m aking of the Concordia W om en’s Collective who, without consulting other w om en’s groups, im plem ented a highly exclusionary policy, prejudi cial not only to men but to women who neither see the necessity of such a decision nor agree with it. Historically, m en who wanted to express their

powers it needs to implement such national proposals, especially in the present political climate would be akin to waving a big red flag at Quebec marked "drop dead". Surely if the executive of the NAC had even briefly studied the history of the American civil rights move ment, it would know that legal equality means little if society is still breeding inequality. It is inappropriate for the women’s movement to attach so much importance to matters which are essen tially technical, legal argu ments. By concentrating its efforts in the fight for equal ity on the legal side, rather than on constructing a broadbased, grass-roots move ment, the NAC is creating the impression that the women’s movement is being narrowly led by a group of white, upper-middle class professionals. Judging from the storm

solidarity with the proponents of Take Back The Night have been allowed to walk with women, albeit at the rear of the March. We fail to under stand why this position was altered this year, or how the presence of a few men could possibly have subverted or detracted from the larger message of female empower ment. Far more “damaging” was the divisiveness and factionalism such a narrow conceptualization of the March encourages. Instead of excluding those men who support the goals of Take Back The Night, we applaud the efforts of both women and men who are actively involved in ending sexual abuse and assault. Lest we resort to cliché, while we assert that men are part of the problem, they can also be part of the solution. By arbitrarily deciding to

o f criticism that has landed upon the NAC (m uch of it from its own supporters) as a result of its decision not to support the new deal, it seem s as though the group con sulted very few people before taking its decision. This is also inappropriate com ing as it does from a group that so adam antly opposed the closed-door process o f M eech Lake, dom inated by white, upper-m iddle class males. C onsultation, com prom ise and cooperation are three key concepts R ebick and her closest supporters ought to practice. A fter all, they have preached these values often enough. N ot to do so would be so very... male.

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exclude men without consult ing other city wide w om en’s groups, the Concordia W om e n ’s C ollective sent a m es sage that reverse sexism is fai more im portant than dealing with the problem of violence in our society. And that is why we were not there. M ary M argaret Jones Dot W ojakow ski Lisa Lifshitz Nicole Caliniou Ruth Prom islow Andrew Sofin Karen Sloat M cGill Sexual Assault Centre

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Op/Ed

The McGill Tribune, Septem ber 22-28,1992

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In reference to your editorial of September 9-14, 1992, I am disgusted by your facile and ignorant dis missal of Marc Lépine as “merely a crackpot.” Firstly, your edi torial did not need the reference at all: personally I do not see much of an “eerie resem blance” between Lcpine’s and Fabrikant’s acts other than that they both took place in a university. Secondly, no one ever dismissed Lépine as a crackpot. A concerted effort to do this was made by the mainstream press, many organized religions and politi cians alike. But all the double speak and convoluted rationalizations in the world cannot change the facts: the Polytechnique massacre was a pre-meditated, calcu lated act of misogyny, of hatred towards women. That Lépine was pathologically homicidal docs not alter the fact that he was a product of the misogynist patriarchy that is our society. Kindly think before writing your editorial in future, to avoid such irresponsible references, as well as to avoid your eerie resemblance to a partisan bureau cratic newsletter. Stephen Targett IJ4 Music K n o w le d g e a b le ...

Adam Sternbcrgh should learn to check the facts before pontificating (“Smurf City USA”, September 15-21 ). His assertion that “last year’s electoral prom ises of a student-run, co-op cafeteria were merely the empty rhetoric of soulless political hopefuls” demonstrates a total ignorance of what happened. In fact, the decision not to have a co-op cafeteria was made by last year’sout-going executive and council, long before any candidate supporting the co-op could take office. As everyone who was here last year knows, the people who kept the co-op from happening were the Lev Bukhmans of the world, not the progressive stu dents who ran against the business-as-usual clones. O f course, Adam’sprimary target is current SSMU President Jason Prince, the only candidate supporting the co-op who was elected. As a member of the group that worked on the co-op proposal, I can attest that Mr. Prince threw himself heart and soul into supporting the project. He spent several long nights helping to refine the financial projections; he organized the circulation of the petition supporting the campaign; and he argued forcefully both in the Food and Beverage Committee and at the fatal Council— all before he even took office. When he did take office, the decision against the co-op was already irrevocable, and negotiations wiili cafeteria companies were already under way. But Mr. Prince had already kept his promise of working to support the co-op, and he continues to be part of the group still working on the new idea of a student-run food co-op. Mr. Prince has also worked for three years in the

Student Housing Triangle, which exists to develop student co-op housing. The very day Adam’s column appeared, I was meeting with Mr. Prince to discuss three new properties on Bcrri Street that could be turned into co-ops. If Adam’s skills include working as well as carping, perhaps he would like to join us at the next meeting? Daron Westman P h.D .7 Chairperson of the Board

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This November 3rd many Americans will be going to the polls to cast their vote for president. Shortly thereafter, it will be declared that the next president of the United States of America is _. It is not a hard and fast rule that election results demonstrate the true wants of the people. With the electorate compris ing only about 50% of the total eligible population, it may make one wonder who would be in office if the full 100% (or more realistically, 75%) voted. US citizens abroad, particularly students, may feel alienated by the lack of information available about the issues concerning them. One result of this would be to fail vote in an election. This, combined with an already widespread trend of apathy among university-aged students, equals a formula for abysmal voter turnouts. Such is the case this November, I suspect. Let us pull ourselves out of this thirty-year old rut and begin again, by empowering ourselves for the issues of tomorrow. The McGill Association of International Stu dents is organizing a voting absentee drive to aid you with the process of registering and filing for absentee ballots. Take this opportunity to involve yourself in an ongoing political process. Get involved now, before the issues of concern grow too widespread to handle. Ian White MAIS V n d e r s t a n d i n g . ..

Re the review (Sept. 15) “Putting an end to sexism with humour?” by Patricia Boal. For the record, I didn’t “tell women to be quiet.” At the beginning of the post-performance discussion, I asked the 190 or so women present if they could allow the few men in the audience to speak first, since my show, “I Don’t Understand Women!” was aimed at men and I honestly wanted to hear their reactions. As one woman in the audience put it, my request was a “symbolic silencing” and I admitted later, it was a mistake. However, after several men spoke, women look over and continued to speak out for the rest of the evening, well after Patricia left. I learned much from all the feedback, including how important this show really was for women, as well as for men.

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Criminal misconceptions Karl was very beautiful. He was going to a modeling interview die morning I met him and was quite absorbed in the agenda of selecting an outfit with “impact”. When I shook his hand, I had no idea. The fact that he was gay was pretty obvious but it’s not like a person wears a sign that says “Hi, I tested positive for H IV ”. A friend of a friend, Karl was up visiting for the weekend and after the outfit extravaganza we all had tea and chats. I found him to be warm, silly and utterly charming. After Karl et al. had left for the day my friend told me he was H IV positive and had been diagnosed two years earlier at age eighteen. Suddenly, I was overcome with an intense sadness and my breathing shallowed. AIDS? That this beauti ful young man will most likely die, sooner than later, was an unbelievable truth. This was the first time I had met someone who was H IV positive. Some hours later a very strange event caught me completely off guard. I ’d ducked into the Student Union building to get some coffee and when I came out I shared it around with these friends. I took it back from Karl and had a sip and abruptly found myself won dering if I had just given myself a death sentence. I became quite fright ened that this sip from the cup might have put me at risk though I knew full well that one can not become H IV positive through saliva or from toilet scats or hand shakes, hugs and kisses. I was forced to ask myself why, and despite what I knew to be true,

IT'S CRIMINAL BY HARGAN RIDLEY

I remained upset for some time after, unable to reconcile these facts with my doubts. The reality of AIDS itself is pretty strange; the separation that one makes between being H IV positive and having AIDS is only a worsening of the same condition. H IV positive means that you are “scro-positive”; meaning your white cell blood count has dropped below a certain level. In Canada, it is when your “C V ” count is at 300 and in the United States a person has until they are C V 200 before they are diagnosed. This means that a person with AIDS in Canada can move to the United States and no longer be considered to have the “sero-status” of AIDS and then move back and once again be diagnosed as having acquired AIDS. It has been said that when you meet some one who is H IV positive that you too are forced to deal with this fact as though you are H IV positive. Face to face with someone who you know has been forced to confront their own mortality changes you. It gives you this same perspective on life as finite and fragile. The pain of the experi ence is in part a despair for this person’s condition but it is also the fear that emerges for one’s own life- that this person could just as easily be you. Your blood may have any given ratio of red to white cells. But having met Karl I have realized that we are all in fact H IV positive.

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Project provides employment for the intellectually handicapped People w ith intellectual h a n d ic a p s a re u s u a lly overlooked w hen it com es to hiring— even w hen the jo b is one they are capable o f doing. A t M cG ill, a program initiated by the W est Island R é a d a p ta t io n C e n tr e is w orking tow ard a netw ork o f s u p p o r t. P ro g ra m c o o r d i n a to r s h o p e th a t i n t e l l e c t u a l l y c h a lle n g e d w orkers will be allow ed full participation in a vocational m ilieu. C a r o ly n W a lk e r , an ed u cato r w ho has been with the pro ject since its M arch 1991 in c e p tio n , s a id th e in itiative provides a w eekly s c h e d u le a n d m e a n in g fu l w ork for eight people with in te lle c tu a l h an d icap s w ho w ork at M cG ill. In W alker's opinion, the project's goals will have been m et w hen the w o rk er becom es self-supporting. W hile W alker is pleased w ith th e s u c c e s s o f th e program , she acknow ledges certain difficulties, such as the shifting character o f cam pus organizations and the project's lack o f a perm anent base o f operations. "W e h a v e te m p o ra ry sp ace at the V o lu n tee r B ureau, but w e don't even have o u r ow n phone," said W alker. T hese conditions m ake netw orking difficult, and she spends m uch o f her tim e pre serving existing jo b s as well as p roposing new ones.

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In recent w eeks, W alk er has been a s s i s te d by M icheline Paquin, w ho is both a supervisor at R oyal V ictoria C ollege and a social w ork student doing an internship w ith the M cG ill R éadaptation Centre. "W e've got to increase cam pus aw areness," stressed Paquin. "W e need to recruit volunteers and support sta ff fo r th e s e i n d iv i d u a l s . U nfortunately, there has been a negative response from som e people. T h ere is still a stigm a attached to [ th e i n t e l l e c t u a l l y c h a l lenged]." Both W alk er and Paquin b e lie v e th at e x p o su re and interaction are the best m eans of a d d r e s s in g p u b lic ignorance. "Students constitute the fu tu re c o m m u n ity ," c o m m ented W alker. "H opefully th eir ex p e rien c e s here will

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m ake them m ore open to hir ing [people w ith intellectual handicaps] w hen it's in their pow er." In o r d e r to g e t th e exposure they need to secure their future p articipation in the w o rkforce,the in te lle c tu ally handicapped are forced to m ake certain concessions. N one o f the clients are paid fo r their w ork, receiv in g only w elfare in return. W a lk e r p o in te d o u t, how ever, that these in d i v id u a ls w o u ld n o t, u n d e r norm al circum stances, have a jo b at T. She added that if her clients w ere paid it m ight threaten other people's jobs. T h e w orkers them selves seem ed to be pleased w ith the arrangem ent. M air R eynolds w orks in the S hatner B uilding cafeteria cleaning trays and supplying the m ilk a n d cutlery counters.

She said she likes her jo b a lot. R obert L eszkow icz, who w orks in a m ailroom in the L eacock B uilding, thinks his jo b is going well. Jeffery Paris, presently em ployed at G ert's, did not like w orking at the O pen A ir Pub earlier this m onth because he felt there w ere too m any people. H e is pleased to be in G ert's less congested atm o s phere, w here he likes to w ash the tables. T he arrangem ent seem s to suit their cow orkers as well. D aryl M cG rath, a bartender at G ert's, w elcom ed the o p p o r tu n i ty to w o rk w ith som eone like Jeffery. "I get along well with him and so does the rest o f the staff. I think this is som ething w e need to be d o in g ," he stated. O n th e w a ll o f th e b in d in g r o o m a t M c G ill P rinting Services hangs a cer

tificate from the R éadaptation C entre congratulating the staff f o r p r o v id i n g a p o s itiv e w orking en v iro n m en t fo r one o f their clients. G ary G arside has been w orking there since M arch 1991. H e w as the C entre's first placem ent at M cG ill. M ore than a year later, he has few com plaints. "I like the peo p le and the job[s] I do," said G arside, w ho does everything from stuffing e n v e lo p e s a n d s ta p l in g b o o k le ts to a s s i s ti n g o n deliveries. A n im portant reason fo r his success is the support he h a s r e c e iv e d f ro m h is co-w orkers. "H e's ju s t like one o f the guys," said C laude P errym an, w ho has w orked w ith G arside since his arrival. "G ary gets along w ith everyone and he does a good jo b . I hope he stays until retirem ent."

Advocacy groups successful in keeping belugas out of Biodome BY N A D Y V IR G O N A T h is sum m er's op en in g o f the M ontreal B iodom e, a w ild life and ex o tic anim al sanctuary, has p ro v en a fi n ancial and p o p u lar success, w ith a tt e n d a n c e to p p in g 7 0 0 ,0 0 0 v isito rs since June 20th. H ow ever, the display o f arctic b e lu g a w hales, a key f u tu r e a tt r a c t io n f o r th e B io d o m e, has been blocked by C ity H all fo r at least one m o re year.

D e m o c ra tic C o a litio n c ity c o u n c i l l o r M a r v in R o tran d w as largely re s p o n sible for stalling the initiative. H e sp earh ead ed an e x te n s iv e , t w o - y e a r r e s e a r c h p r o je c t i n v e s t ig a t in g th e B io d o m e 's re a so n s fo r im p o rtin g the b e lu g a s. H e p r e s e n te d h is f in d in g s to M a y o r Jean D oré at a series o f pu b lic m eetings early last w eek. " A c tio n o n th e is s u e c a m e su rp risin g ly quickly. [O ur findings] in terested the

m ay o r v ery m uch. H e w as v e ry o p e n o n th e issu e ," R o tran d said. D oré has ag reed to im p o se a o n e -y e a r m orato riu m on the issu in g o f perm its to the B iodom e fo r the capture o f b e lu g a s in H u d so n Bay. A n in d ep en d en t fea si b ility study w ill also be co m m issio n e d to in v estig ate the B io d o m e's d e clared research m an d ate. T he sanctuary's o f ficials h ad c la im e d that ac q u irin g the b e lu g a s w ould allow scien tists to study the

anim al's physiology. T his re search co u ld resu lt in sig n ifi c a n t b reak th ro u g h s aim ed at s a v in g th e e n d a n g e r e d S a in t-L a w re n c e R iv e r belugas. A n o th er m ajor objective rev o lv ed around public e d u cation. D isplaying the w hales w o u ld in c r e a s e p u b lic aw aren ess, one o f the sanc tu ary 's stated goals. R o tra n d w id e ly c o n sulted anim al rig h ts and a d v o cacy groups in co m p ilin g his project.

"I d isc o v e red th a t the B io d o m e's rea so n s fo r im p o rtin g th e b e lu g a s w e re w eak," R o tran d said. "T hey w ere o u tw e ig h e d by h ealth c o n sid e ratio n s fo r the a n i m als." R otrand also scoffed at the B io d o m e's e m p h a sis on research. "If they w anted to do valid research , w hy have they refu sed to sub m it th eir research pro to co l fo r in d e p en d en t zo o lo g ical ev alu aSEE NO BELUGAS, PAGE 1 0

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The questionnaire that circulates at every Blood Donor clinic in Canada directly addresses the applicant's sexual orientation. It also states that any man who has had sexual relations with another male is not welcome to donate blood. Critics charge that this policy perpetuates the stereotype of gay men as the sole carriers of the AIDS virus The question aimed at gay males also entirely ignores the AIDS risks which women face. "The question should not be posed exclusively to gay men," slated McGill Blood Drive Coor dinator Cynthia Benjamin. "To question only gay men ignores the monogamous rclationsh ips and safe sex practices of many gays. The question should be whether or not any applicant, gay or straight, has had any form of unprotected sex." Gay men who respond honestly to the Blood Donor questionnaire are informed that they cannot donate blood. They are also told that a file will be kept on them to ensure they do not donate anywhere else in the country. While this practice is intended to reduce the Red Cross risk of

C o o r d in a to r receiving HIV-positive blood from donors, the policy stigmatizes gay men and scares away many who would be safe, potential donors. "Montreal has the highest womens AIDS rate in Canada, yet in addressing only gay men the Red Cross questionnaire continues to ignore the dangers and risks women face," commented Benjamin. "Gay men are denigrated and women are written out of the equation entirely." Benjamin stressed that although the Red Cross policy is discouraging, any gay man who wants to donate and who practices safe sex should not be dissuaded. Many people have fears about contracting the AIDS virus cither through accepting blood or through donating. Benjamin states that both practices arc safe. "The Red Cross tests every single bag of blood received, and donating blood is a 100% safe ac tivity," she insisted. Benjamin and her co-chairwoman Karen Cheong have certain guidelines or recommendations for anyone considering donating blood, whether they be straight or gay. "Anyone who believes that they may be at risk should not

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donate. Anyone who is unsure should, donate their blood to research, and anyone who believes that they are not at risk should definitely, definitely donate," they advised. Even blood which is targeted for research is desperately needed, so only those who feel that they are definitely at risk should refrain from giving. Benjamin and Cheong are organizing a petition to protest what they feel is the Red Cross' homophobic and sexist phrasing of the donor questionnaire. François Malo, customer service manager for the Red Cross, was sympathetic to the concerns expressed by Benjam in and Cheong. "There are regulations throughoutCanada. [Currently] they are being studied and hopefully they will soon be dropped, but it won't be for at least a year,” he explained. "The Red Cross is interested in serving the public. We are of course eager to hear public opinions, and we will take the petition very seriously."

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fe m in is m

w ith d r a w su p p o r t? T h e m a r ch

w o m e n u n ite , ta k e b a c k th e

w a lk th r o u g h str e e ts th a t a re

C e n tr e h a d to b r in g p o lit ic s o f

n e e d e d p e o p l e , a n d I t h i n k it's

n ig h t a n d u s e d n o is e m a k e r s —

u s u a lly th r e a te n in g , a n d th e y

t h i s s o r t i n t o it . I g a t h e r t h a t

a p ity th e C o a lit io n c o u ld n 't

and

w h en

w e n t th r o u g h

b e tter

c a n d o th is u n e s c o r t e d b y m e n .

th e y

tr a n s c e n d its d if f i c u lt i e s w ith

a lle y s w e m a d e e x tr a n o is e . I

u n d e r s ta n d th e im p a c t o f la st

A ls o , w h e n y o u c o n s id e r th e

w o m e n -o n ly p o lic y o r th e fa c t

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c r e a se th o se n u m b ers.

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p r o te st

o th e r s to sh a r e th e e x p e r ie n c e .

p r o p r ia te .

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w a lk in g ,

w ith

w o m e n 's

fr o m th e w o m e n 's m o v e m e n t,

C o n c o r d ia w ith o u t c o n s u lt a

th e r e w e r e m a n y o ld e r w o m e n

is s u e s , b u t an e v e n t lik e th is

w o m e n o n ly , a n d a ls o t h e fir s t

b u t I h o p e m e n c a n a ls o u n

t i o n , a n d I 'm s u r e t h e y h a v e

c h e e r in g fr o m s id e w a lk s an d

h e lp s . I k n o w th e s tr e e ts s till

m a r c h fo r m a n y o f th e s p e c ia l

d e r s t a n d h o w im p o r t a n t it is

fa ir

b a l c o n i e s in s u p p o r t . A l s o , a s

a r e n 't

g r o u p s in v o lv e d — lik e in c e s t

fo r w o m e n

w h y ta k e th is o p p o r tu n ity to

w e

th in g s c a n c h a n g e .

s u r v iv o r s .

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d id

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to d o

th in g s o n

c h a n g e s a ffe c t th e e x p e r ie n c e

str ee ts w e

fo r y o u ?

a re o n e s I w o u ld u s u a lly a v o id .

L .B .:

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and

say

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th in k b y r e p r e s e n tin g d if f e r

w a n te d w ith o u t fe a r . T h e fa c t

e n t a s p e c ts o f w o m e n 's e x p e

th a t it w a s o t h e r w o m e n g i v

r ie n c e , th e s e g r o u p s g a v e a

in g m e th a t f e e l i n g i s a v e r y

g r ea te r

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p u r p o se to th e m a r c h e r s. I a ls o t h in k it w a s a g o o d keep

th e m a r c h

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H ow

f e e l a b o u t th e M c G ill S e x u a l

fo r w o m e n

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e ty o f M o n tr e a l, w a s e q u a lly

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b e lu g a s a n d p u t t in g t h e m in a

p e r so n fo r Z o o c h e c k C a n a d a .

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th a t t h e r e i s a b e t t e r w a y ."

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t io n in t h e s e a w a y . T h e r e is c o r r e la tio n

p r e s id e n t

M c G ill fo r th e E th ic a l T r e a t

b e lu g a is d y in g d u e to p o llu

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b e lu g a ,

s u b s p e c ie s ," s h e s ta te d .

w h a tso e v er

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(M E T A )

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w ild ]

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J o a n n a D u p r a s , p u b lic r e la

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p r o p a g a t io n o f th e s p e c ie s ."

m a is

H a r r is d o w n p la y e d th e im p o r ta n c e

(S P C A ),

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s a n c tu a r ie s .

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P a g e 11

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g ra m s,

su m m er

th e

la s t

days

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th e m s e lv e s

back

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and

tw o

M c G ill H is t o r y g r a d u a te .

w r o te th e te st, h a d p r e p a r ed

l o g i c a l r e a s o n i n g s e c t i o n s ) , it

T a m m y S tr o n g , a fo u r th y e a r b io lo g y m a jo r w h o p la n s

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G R E,

M C A T

m e a s u r e

A s b o th th e L a w S c h o o l

c o n s id e r e d

s k ills th a t a re

A d m is s io n T e s t (L S A T ) an d

e s s e n tia l

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s u c c e s s in l a w

fo r

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W h ile m o s t stu d e n ts are s p e n d in g

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You have to review all the sciences you learned in high school, and then study the first year undergrad science program courses, as well as second year organic chemistry,— Rena Lovensky, U1 Science, on the MCATs.

th e fir s t y e a r u n d e r g r a d s c i

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stu d y .

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It is n o t th e e n d o f th e

s k ills .

H e ld b i-y e a r ly , th e s ix -h o u r

w o r ld

e x a m in a tio n

any

is a ls o d iv id e d

fo r stu d e n ts w h o fa il

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s e c tio n s :

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T h e M cGill T rib u n e, ( S e p t e m b e r 2 2 - 2 8 , 1992

__________ E n t e r t a i n m e n t ___________

Lou “Diamond” Phillips calls from the road B Y K A T E G IB B S

On September 28, Texas R and B band “The Pipefitters” featu ring Lou “ D iam on d ” Phillips will be playing La Brique. No hokey “La Bamba” revival, The Pipefi Iters have been around for the last ten years. Front m an Ph i11ips is fam i1iar with Canada. He has spent the last five months filming Spirit o f the W olf in Montreal and the Northwest Territories. With a budget o f thirty million dollars, it will be the most expensive Cana dian production o f all time. Th eTribune had the pleas ure o f talking to Phillips about his music, his new movie and the National League East. A nicer guy you’ll never hope to meet Tribune: Your band “The Pipefitters” have no demo tape yet. How do you best describe your music? Phillips: It’s hard to cat egorize and w e’re still evolving. It’s Southern fried rock roots music. Tribune: I understand you do covers and originals. Phillips: It’s mostly origi nal material. We only have two covers left in our set. It’s stuff so

old, people think we wrote it our selves, like “The Milk C ow ’s C a lfs Blues”. Tribune: Y ’all arc from Texas, do you have a Texas sound? Phillips: Yeah, you really can’t get away from your roots. In some ways, it’s very obvious blues and country influences. Tribune: Is it Tex-çss or Tex-ass? Phillips: It depends on how you feel about the state. Texas is a lot like Canada in its variety. I’m from Corpus Christi on the coast; it’s a lot like Florida. Aus tin has a great music scene, Dal las and Fort Worth have boots and hats. Tribune: I read Jazz by Toni Morrison recently. It’s very clever; the whole book is struc tured like a piece o f music. Morrison implies that the way people interact is as selfish as jazz musicians- you play together for a while and then someone breaks away and does his own tiling. I don’t believe a band could function like that. Phillips: Our band would certainly fall apart. One com ment people often make about us is how tight we are. People don’t

often go off on tangents. I foot the band with Chris (we split the lead vocals) and try not to take the spotlight. Obviously I am rec ognized for that “other thing” I do. Tribune: Your fame as an actor must make a difference to how your audience receives your music. Phillips: It certainly does. It’s really nice when we get large crowds and I can introduce my friends. There are always people who think I’m doing it to make an extra buck or [those] who have no idea how we formed or our genesis. Tribune: Other actorshave tried to cross over to music-Bruce W illis and Don Johnson come to mind .La Bamba introduced you as an actor/musician. Has it le gitimized your reception asamusician? Phillips: It did. A lot of people think I did my own sing ing in La Bam ba. It was actually David Hidelgo from Los Lobos. Tribune: You’re an actor, writer, director, and you’re in the band. What are other Pipefitters’ day jobs? Phillips: Most o f the guys are professional session musi

cians. I met Bill and Sherman Allan ten years ago in aclingclass. Our drummer played with the Commodores for three years. T rib u n e : I understand Shadow o f the W olf recently completed production. P h illip s: I t’s based on Agakuk by Yves Thérieux. The most famous Canadian novel is about to become the most expen sive Canadian film. It may be the best film I’ve ever made. The Montreal [production] was abso lutely nuts. They turned a rock quarry in downtown Montreal into an Inuit village, a 200 meter pool served [as the scene] for a whale hunt with huge fibreglass ice floes. We also worked in Frobisher Bay. Tribune: Y ou’re a braver man than I. Phillips: It was minus sixty. It was very trying. Tribune: I’m sure Canadian critics will challenge the fact that you are not Inuit or Canadian. Phillips: Film is not neces sarily documentary. There are al most one hundred Inuit in speak ing roles. The director was look ing for someone to arrive on lime, learn his lines and work hard. When you spend thirty million dollars, you need a name. There

really were only three or four actors in the world who could pull that off. John Lone might have done it. I’m not Mexican, I’m not Navajo. An actor is an actor. Tribune: Talent has no borders. Phillips: I hope you are right. Olivier would never have made a black version o f Othello. There never would have been an all black West Side Story. Il l was restricted to my blood line I would never work. I’m Filippino, Chinese, Hawaiian, Scottish, Cherokee. I have to understand [that] when I act and direct, I give a certain com munity ils due. I feel it is my responsibility. Tribune: Now that you’ve spent some time in Montreal, who’s your pick for the Na tional League East: the Pirates or the Expos? Phillips: I’d have to go with my gut feeling. It’ll be the Expos.

Still available fo r Monday night’s show, tickets are $10. In Canada, Spirit o f the W olf is schedulcdfor a mid-January re lease.

Young Buns III and the wild,wild Wasp B Y K A TR IN A O N S T A D AND LAURA W ILLIA M SO N

The previews for this film invoke one thing: cheese. A film dealing with the topical issue of anti-Semitism starring Encino Man? Brie, anyone? O ddly enough, though, School Ties is actually a tasty, dairy-free experience. The story is a typical ‘fish out of water’ tale. We follow David Greene (Brendan Fraser), a small town football star, as he is thrust into the world of a Living Poets Society, circa 1955. But the Golden Boy is Jewish, and he soon discovers the towel-snapping, bull-patting male bonding of this privileged academy is imbued with a subtle racism. This leads David to with hold his background from his peers. The oily nature of the tyr anny David encounters raises this film above the usual ABC Movie of the Week fare. As contrasted with the overt prejudice of the biker thugs who terrorize him in his working-class home town,

David cannot use his fists to ward off the insidious slurs of his new upper class peers. While the poster-boy qual ity of this group of nubile young private-school boys may lead us to expect Young Buns III (and we do gel some extraneous shower scenes), the calibre of acting in this film farsurpasses theexpected Judd Nelson School of Intense Hair-Flipping. U nfortunately, director Robert Mandel (of that video favorite FIX) accosts his hot young actors with a voyeuristic eye. Even the most Tiger-Beatminded among us can only lake so many minutes of Brendan Fraser brooding in his best imita tion of Rodin’s Thinker. Despite the posturing dem anded by Mandel, Fraser is the best thing about this film. Guess what? This UCC boy can act! But on the Quality Meter, sad to say, both the directing and editing are far less impressive. At times, both are disjointed and amateurish. Key details such as inconsistent time lapses, and dis parities of colour and film quality between (and sometimes within)

scenes, are distracting. They leave one wondering whether this film was shot with a 7-11 video cam era and edited in the director’s basement. In fact, most of the film’s problems seem to lie with the director. To make his point, M andel often ch o o ses the

schlockiest route possible, such as when, moments before a greasy biker brawl, Greene pouts past a marquee reading Rebel Without a Cause.. Du-uh, thanks. By no means is School Ties a great film, but despite a simplis tic Hollywood approach to a com plex issue, the moral tale here is a

timely one. Its pertinence does not spring only from the recent spate of overt anti-Semitic inci dents in Germany and here in Montreal, but rather from its ex ploration of the quiet ways in which we all harbour prejudice. This film rales a 3 out of a possible five. Babe factor: 5.

P r e p a r i n g l o r a b a c k a llc ^ s c r i m m a g e , F r a s e r loosens his S c h o o l T ics.

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K im M itch ell: H e w as a w ild p a rty N ow that Kim Mitchell is in his early forties, the “ageist” might consider changing his title from Grand D addy to Granddaddy o f Canadian rock. Despite the pitiful smatter ing o f fans in the Ballroom atlast w eek’s concert, nothing could dampen M itchell’s showman ship. He pumped out hit after FM hit, under a light show that could rival the Big Bang. Parroting the choruses o f "I am a wild par-tay” and “Easy to Tame”, the crowd redeemed its small size with its enthusi asm. With true “K im ’s World”

aplomb he sang “Patio Lanterns” while making the international gesture forsex (pointed finger in and out o f cupped hand). Even during the con cert’s quieter moments, Mitchell was as irrev erent as any teen. As colourful on stage as off, Mitchell met the Tribune prior to the show. Tribune: When did you get your first guitar? Mitchell: My parents gave me one when I was five. Tribune: Were your par ents musical? Mitchell: Nope, just goes to show there’s one in every bunch. T rib une: Were you a rocker

in high school? Mitchell: Shit, yeah. 1 was 17 years old, quit school and home, moved to Toronto. Tribune: Patio Lanternsa high school antheriL You tapped the best o f high school experience: sweaty palms and slow dancing. Were those patio lanterns ever the stars in your sky? Mitchell: That song makes us [all] feel nostalgic. But you have to remember that we [Kim Mitchell and band] have a rock and roll side to us too. Tribune: You are billed as the quintessential Canadian rock and roller. What makes you Canadian? Mitchell: Creativity is not

in these venues? Mitchell: There’s no heavy message, nothing standing in anyone’s way. Em helping eve ryone escape. 1 wan 1 to take everyone to Rocklandwonderland. Tribune: I had a look at your speakers in the Ballroom. They arc three times my height. You guys are going to blow the windows right out. M itchell: Your sch ool’s paying us good money and w e’re gonna fucking let you have it. Tribune: Once all these Frosh weeks are over, where do you go in the winter? Mitchell: Being a summer person I go from one virus to another. Seriously, I write [mu sic], I’m “Dad”. Tribune: It seems impossi ble to survive in the music indus try and not make videos. Mitchell: The day videos slop selling records will be the fucking death of videos. T.V. has raped and pillaged once again. We got to start using the left side of our brains again.Live concert filming is where I feel comfortable. It’s the true test of a band. Tribune: How did you get so darn small in “Go For a Soda”? They fit you in a fridgeMitchell: They shot me on one monitor and the refrigerator on another. They brought it together- we saw it as it hap pened. Tribune: My roommate thinks you look like Michael Bol ton. Do you have any words for Jen? Mitchell: (joking) That’s funny ‘cause w e’re cousins. You know how Michael Bolton’s marriage broke up? I fucked his wife. T rib u n e: D o es your Canada include Quebec? Mitchell: What? T rib u n e: D oes your Canada include Quebec? Mitchell: If they want to. Arc you graduating next year? Tribune: Yeah. Mitchell: The best school is the street-Oh, listen to me, I sound like your Dad.

regional. The only things that borders do is to create coloursmusically. T rib u n e: What makes Bryan Adams “Uncanadian”? M itchell: How can the Governor-General honour some one [with the Order of Canada] and the CRTC turns around and slaps that on him? Amazing how a health plan can root you down. Tribune: ( Whatever) You seem to be in demand every Sep tember. You like playing Frosh week? Mitchell: I love the atmos phere of plastic cups and water [beer] before it’s urine. T rib un e: Why do you think your music is so successful

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Following Timothy Findley: Culturama hosts one of Canada’s greatest B Y S TE P H A N IE HODNETT

Culturama is a name which invokes images of suburban strip malls and polyester pantsuits. Maybe Culturama participants are all competing for a brass-plated trophy to be won by the contestant who attends the most lectures. However, despite its tacky name, this series of lectures pre sented by Canadian Cultural Pro grammes brings several literary giants to Montreal each year. Last year Culturama hosted Robertson Davies at McGill and last Mon day Timothy Findley read from his latest novel to a packed room at Place des Arts. Findley is the author of six novels and two short story collec tions. He has won the Governor General’s Award for The Wars, a novel published in 1977 which has been translated into at least nine languages. On this occasion Findley read from his latest novel Head hunter, which will be in book stores sometime in the Spring of 1993. It has been noted about Findley that much of his work involves the “fictionalization of history.” Not Wanted on the Voy age. retells the biblical story of the Great Flood, while The Wars fo cuses on the life of Robert Ross, a Canadian soldier in the First World War. According to this model, Headhunter might well be de scribed as “the fictionalization of fiction.” Characters from such works as Conrad’s H earl o f Dark ness and Shelley’s Frankenstein con verge with the lik es o f Flaubert’s Madame Bovary and

Fitzgerald’s Jay Galsby to explore the consequences of human ambi tion. Findley seems to have cre ated a literary scholar’s fantasy of sorts; it will be interesting to see the degree of irony he employs in handling die almighty canon. After the reading, Findley fielded questions from a crowd com posed of uniformed high school students on a field trip and those who can only be described as “lccture-attcnders” presumably vying for the coveted brass-plated Culturama trophy. Aside from friendly queries about his cats (Findley has 60), and his schoolteaching career (Findley has never taught school), one individual wanted to know if Findley could forsce any trends in the Canadian novel. To which lie replied, “When dealing with anything created, trends are death. The most I can say is that I hope Canadian novel ists will continue to push against trends.” Findley also took the time to entreat his audience to attend Michael Ondaatje’s reading at Place des Arts on October 26. Ondaatje’s latest novel, entitled The English Patient, has been short-listed for England’s Booker Prize. Only four Canadian authors have ever made the short list, and so far none has won it. Tickets for the reading cost $5.00 and can be reserved by calling 842-2112 or 937-7937.

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D o u g la s C o u p la n d You’re in the Alley with your tofu dog, cigarettes and that numb sense of boredom that ac companies you everywhere. You have no direction, and what good would direction be anyway, since direction implies some sort of future, and you sure as hell don’t have one. You are overeducated and underutilized by the society that created you, but just doesn’t have a place for your B.A. in the NeoFem inist Sem iotics of Historiographic Metafiction. You’re a Gen Xer, babe. This is the Slacker vision articulated in Douglas Coupland’s first novel, Genera tion X. After a brief reading at Paragraphe Books last week, Coupland told the huge, plaidclad audience that he never be lieved his epigraphic little book would be the smash — dare we say “phenomenon”?— it has be come. The omnipresent reduc tions of the post baby-boom ex istence to a cultural cliche are a tribute to its popularity: “Oh, you’re twenty-two and reading Camille Paglia? How X.”. So a new book by Coupland allegedly concerning the angst of a different generation is welcome, if for no other reason than to end the Generation X me dia onslaught.

Shampoo Planet tells the story of Tyler Johnston, a twentyyear-old whose rebel lion against his hippiedippy upbringing means becoming a ho tel management stu dent living in his al falfa-sprout m om ’s basem ent. Or, in Couplandspeak, he’s a “Global Teen” (read: Reagan-era ambitious mall rat) hanging in his “Modemarium” (read: Swedish furniture, no sand candles). Yes, the King of Cute is back with a ton of pithy little phrases to replace those that lit ter the margins of Gen eration X. Some are clever, while some stick in your craw like Billy Ray Cyrus. But thank God for the lingo, because these phrases unify a plot as thin as the paperback version of this big-print novel

will be. Over a six-month period, Tyler tries to land a job with the evil “Bechtol” corporation, and goes Lhrough a scries of mundane adventures/cncounters to get it. The plot of Shampoo Planet, like that of Generation X, moves through a collection of characters out storytelling each other. Sometimes the stories are hi larious, even insightful, such as when Tyler hooks up with his granola-head dad in Lhc Redwood forests. Dad asks: “What’s MTV? I don’t like designer drugs.” Fre quently, though, the vignettes bear an uncanny resemblance to a Spy magazine send-up of the author. Yet the guilty pleasures which made Generation X such a hit are still there. Shampoo Planet is fast paced and colloquial. It’s actually fun to read, both despite and because oflhosc disconcerting glimmers of recognition Coupland is so good at. Anyone who has ever been to a mall and secretly enjoyed it will revel in his descriptions. But haven’t we heard this all before? The only difference be tween the Gen Xers and the Global

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Teens, aside from the chrono logical one, seems to be the youngsters* aversion to smok ing, somehow linked to their more materialistic outlook: “Poor people cat lousy food. They smoke,” says Tyler. Underneath this “poverty blows” altitude, the Teens arc stilll racked with the same fears of life in a technological age that bum out the Xers: “Poverty isn’t what freaks me out, Mom. What freaks me out is what if the world ever turns bad? There arc no safety nets. No wisdom. Just fear. Fear and stigma.” True enough; but if Coupland really wants to avoid the stigma of being the Toni Basil of literature, he better take his oh-so-familiar subject mat ter somewhere new in his next effort.

Shampoo Planet is only available in hard back. $20.00.

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T h e McGill T rib u n e. S e p t e m b e r 2 2 - 2 8 . 1992

S p o r t s

C ross-coun try leaves Y an k ees in dust BY CRAIG BERINES Led by all-C an ad ian Linda Thycr's firsl-placc finish, McGill's cross-country runners cruised to team victories on both the m en’s and w om en’s sides at la st w e e k e n d ’s C ardinal Invitational Cross-country meet in Plattsburgh. Taking it easy in the first meet o f the year, Thyer’s win ning time o f 18:38 in the w om e n ’s 5K was a minute ahead o f teammate M acve Muldowney and was her eighth consecutive win. The one-two finish was more than enough momentum for the win over a field that included local U.S. schools like C la rk so n and SUNYPlattsburgh. M cGill finished with 34 points to St. Lawrence C ollege’s 74. Scoring in cross-country is based on points for order o f finish with the low est total score winning. McG ill’s football team used a similar scoring system on Saturday. The results are encourag ing in more ways than one. Along with Tanja Taivassalo, rookies Christine Bergeron and Jen Rosman (sixth place) com prised M cG ill’s five scoring runners. Bergeron was running in sixth place when she followed

a St. Lawrence C ollege runner and veered from a p oorlymarked course. Bushes notwith standing, Bergeron placed thir teenth in her first race for M cGill. Along with Muldowney, who is beginning to com e into her own, the big story has to be Thyer. In her third year o f M edi cine at M cG ill, Thyer began to gain serious recognition last sea son when she was a CIAU silver medalist at both the cross-coun try and track and field meets. “S h e’s such a hard runner — everyone on the team basi ca lly has h uge respect for Linda,” said fifth-year m en’s vet Paul M cCabe. “She and M aeve are both very focused and very strong physically and mentally.” W hile Thyer ran at the Canadian Olympic trials in the summer, M uldowney put in a strong showing at the Track Nationals in preparation for this season. M c G ill’s m en w ere a pleasant surprise in N ew York. With a sixth-place finish from Mark Colem an and seventh from rookie Jerry Zaborsky, M cGill took the m en’s title with 49 points to St. Lawrence’s 54. “St. Lawrence had tw o runners ahead o f our top guy,” said head coach Dennis Barrett.

“We clearly had a stronger team — w e bunched our runners to gether better.” Steve Shigeishi, Pat M erren and M cC ab e rounded out M cG ill’s scoring five, which had four runners in the top 12. This Saturday, M cGill hosts several top schools in its annual Mount Royal race. On the w om en’s side, W est ern is expected to be M cG ill’s biggest obstacle to winning its first home meet in years. The men are chasing two strong teams in Sherbrooke and the University o f N ew Brunswick. “Sherbrooke has been strong for years, and w e will be chasing them later,” said Barrett. “But this w eek we are focusing on knocking off U N B .” One step at a time is a necessity for a m en’s team looking to emerge from the en o rm o u s sh a d o w of M cG ill’s women. In contrast to previous seasons, many o f M cG ill’s runners trained with outdoor clubs this summer to improve their conditioning. The re sults are already visible; what would normally have been a difficult race in Plattsburgh turned into a M cG ill sweep. The cross-country team

is gearing up for the CIAU Na tio n a l m eet in N o v em b er. Hosted for the first time by M cGill, this means automatic qualification for both men and

women. With Thyer gunning for gold and M uldowney in her final year, M cGill cross-coun try could go where no team has gone before.

C r o s s - c o u n t r y : p r a c t i c i n g to w in.

Victory and vindication for women’s rugby BY D EREK D ESJA R D IN S

The Martlet Rugby Club blew past Bishop’s 52-0 and dumped John Abbott 16-0 in their league opener, a doubleheader at John Abbott College on Sunday. Coach Stephen Kaplan didn’t mince words in the min utes before his team’s match with the Bishop’s Gaiters. “ Y eah, I’m nervous. Seven seniors have graduated and there are seven people playing today who have never played on the A squad,” com mented Kaplan. ’’You never know how good the opposition is going to be.” As it turned out, Kaplan had little to worry about. It’s doubtful that even a cyclone

could have kept the M cG ill women from their appointed task. After a seven try run in the first half, the team was sitting on a 45-0 lead. “Sitting” aptly de scribed the team ’s effort in the second half o f the game, as the sole try from wing Lani Block, added to her two others in the first half. Block claimed that “pudding for breakfast” was re sponsible for her remarkable game. AlisonTraynorthoughtshe knew the reason for the rela tively lax second-half perform ance: “Cockiness in the second half,” she said. Backs' captain Val Mat thew concurred. “It wasn’t the toughest o f oppositions so we still don’t

know what w e ’re capable of.” Other tallies came from Tray nor with two, outside center Sharon Jefferson, inside center M ichelle Walter, and scrum-half Shannon Levere. The team was looking for ward to its next match against the comparatively stronger John Abbott team, owing to their sur prise upset at Abbott’s hands in last year’s provincials. Canadian National Team hooker Nancy Cox promised that they would match up to their stronger de fence. “ W e’re definitely deter mined to kick some ass,” said Cox before the game. She lived up to her boast by scoring a first half try and was joined by flanker Karine M orin’s second half score and

fly half Jennifer H all’s two penalty conversions for a 16-0 score. It was not a gentle match, however. Second row Jodi Jones was forced to leave the game after reinjuring a shoulder she had damaged at Oxford earlier this year. T h e team w as a lm o st unanimous in its b elief that its play had improved from the first game. “The scrums were much tighter; it was almost like scrum lesso n s,” said flanker Cindy Hendrickson. Prop Beth W ylie was more excited about the second win o f the day. “The team really connected on the last game and it showed because we won,” she said.

After the Abbott game, Kaplan gave a clue as to what fans can look forward to for the rest o f the season. “The overall speed o f the team is what’s going to carry us through the entire season,” he remarked. “In every game we are the smaller team but, hope fully, our technical skills will pull us through.” Martlet Rugby will travel to Bishop’s this Sunday to meet what must now be a quaking Gaiters squad.

Also inweekendaction, the women’s B team emerged with a 1-1 record as they lost to the newly-formed M acDonald Col lege team byascore o f 15-0, and reversed the fig u re s to beat Marianopolis 15-0.

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The McGill Tribune, S e p te m b e r 22-28,1992

P a g e 17

C o n c o r d ia s h o c k s M c G ill w i t h l a s t - m i n u t e c o m e b a c k BY DAN KUZM AROV

After a 17-yard field goal by the Stingers’ Paul Geary cut the deficit to 2 points, yet another turnover, this time a fumble recovery in the end zone by the Rcdmcn’s Benoit

The Rcdmcn lost what seemed to be a sure win against Concordia with only 36 seconds to go in the 6th annual Shrine Bowl game at Molson Stadium Saturday after noon. C o n c o r d i a quarterback A ndy P cterk in stunned a crowd o f 6,100 fans as his 3 yard touchdown pass to Andre Bolduc gave Concordia a 25-24 victory over McGill, in agame which was domi nated by the Rcdmcn. P e t e r k i n , Concordia’s player o f the game, completed 10 o f his 30 passes for 127 yards and a touchdown. He ran for 94 yards on 16 carries including a touchdown run o f 1 yard at 13:20 o f the fourth quarter, setting the stage for the dramatic finish. T he gam e w as sloppy from the start, with Concordia capital izing on 2 high snaps by the Rcdmcn and con F o o tb a ll Hodmen fum ble a w in . vertin g them into a touchdown and a safety for an Major, gave McGill a21-121cad early 9-0 lead. That didn’t hold at the half. up very long, as McGill con Both fourth quarter scores verted a Concordia fumble into were the results o f McGill fum a three yard touchdown run by bles, and were aided by crucial Dclando Hawthorne, and fourth pass interference penalties. With year quarterback Justin 2:30 left in the game and McGill Raymond connected with Alex leading by 12 and appearing to Trepanier on a 38 yard touch be in total control, Concordia’s down pass on the first play o f the Sean Leroy recovered a David second quarter to give McGill a Hinchcy fumble at his own 39 and returned it 42 yards to the 14-9 lead.

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player oflhc game with 3 catches for 75 yards, including the 38 yard touchdown reception. A l though clearly upset with the lough loss, he seemed deter mined to find something posi

extra effort at the end o f the game to win.” Coach Charlie Baillic reit erated the same message. “The only thing to do is to look for the positive things and build on them. We had a good 55 min utes, the defence played w ell, and D

sneak. On its next possession, M c G ill fu llb a c k D elan d o Hawthorne fumbled, and after another pass interference pen alty gave Concordia a first down from the M cGill 8 yard line, the stage was set for the dramatic finish. A le x T rep an ier, a U3 Physical Education major from Trois Rivières, was M cG ill’s

tive from it. “ It w as u n b e lie v a b ly tough,” he said. “We feel like w e ’ve been robbed. We can only use this as a source o f m o tivation. It’s a good lesson for us, we have to remember this feeling o f losing and give that

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Hawthorne had a successful com e back (from in ju r y ).W e ’re a young team and with that com es m ista k es. W e ’ll just have to play a little smarter.” Quarterback Justin Raym ond, who completed 12 o f his 22 passes for 153 yards and a to u ch d o w n , re fused to pin the blame on any indiÎ5 vidu al, stressing o that it was a team £ „ loss. Y ou c a n ’t % blame it on any in dividuals,” he said. “We should have never been in that situation at the end. We were just flat. W e’ve got to lift our heads and go down to Bishops and try to beat the first place team.” The Rcdmcn will travel to Bishops this Saturday to play the Gaiters at 1:00 p.m.

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How “professional” are professional sports?

Sports

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S p o rts N o te s R edm en R u g b y stun U Q T R

The sports world is the dinosaur o f professions. But it seems as though the only thing professional about “professional” ath letes these days is that they are paid a colossal amount of money for what is decidedly unprofessional conduct. Why do we revere these figures and allow society to bend its rules for them? Perhaps the most benign example o f athletes' illicit pursuits o ff the field is vandalism. Any group of professionals-at a confer ence, for example— which decided to vandalize their hotel for kicks, would soon find themselves shunned within their field. But alas, for too many “professional” athletes, such lawlessness is precisely their field. With alarming fre quency, allegations of harassment, drug abuse, assault and rape are being voiced against football, baseball, hockey players, among others. When anony mous professionals are caught with drugs they face firing, a fine, or time in jail. Well-known, “professional” athletes, by contrast, know their team will spread its influential, protective wings and give them at least a second chance, and some times a third or fourth. These overgrown men are treated like little boys with an ovcrly-gcnerous allowance. The problems of attitude and money Iced off each other, and have their roots in high school. Frenzied, delirious pep rallies before the "big game " set the scene. Why do we venerate those with athletic prowess and scorn the academic hotshots? Back in Grade 1 3 ,1 wondered why there was such fanfare surrounding our basketball game, when what 1 really could have used was a pep talk before my Biology exam. This distortion is only magnified as athletes reach the major leagues. Sur rounded by a slobbering media, adulatory men and women, and impressionable

HITTINGTHEWALL BY ALISON KORN

young kids, they become larger-than-life idols to many. Is it any wonder the players think they’re above the law? Recently, about 20 members o f the Cincinnati Bcngals o f the National Football League were ac cused of raping a 90-pound single mother. While half of them "scored" in the incident, the rest cheered their teammates on. Last year, four New York Mels were ac cused o f raping a Florida woman during spring train ing. Even players on our beloved Habs have been accused o f harassment and violence towards both men and women. Indeed, a friend o f mine was approached in a Mon treal bar a few weeks ago by a New York Met who presented himself with: “Don’t you know who 1 am?”. He was surprised and annoyed to hear the answer “No!” as though an affirma tive response would imply wide-ranging consent. This attitude is supple mented by an exorbitant salary. Football and baseball players in particular arc paid millions of dollars a year to throw or catch a ball, to run with or without a ball or knock the lights out o f others attempting any o f the afore mentioned ball-associated activities. This has utterly no relation to reality. Doctors who spend their days saving lives earn many times less than the average ball player. They may earn three million dollars a year to be on a losing team. The Bcngals, for example, won no more than 30 per cent o f their games last year. Clearly, too many "professional" athletes are losers both on and off the field. May this breed o f overpaid, underachieving athlete — like the d in o sa u r become extinct.

The Redmen Rugby second XV over whelmed a weak UQTR team 33-5 on Sunday at McGill’s “home” turf at parc lc bcr. Jcp Stuchbcry tallied two tries, while Dan Benoit and Dan Maloney scored one try each. McGill’s second XV now competes in the Quebec University Rugby League, which was dominated by the first XV until last year. The first XV competes in the Quebec Rugby Federation’s second division, for the O ’Neill cup, and will play the University of Ulster at Colraine on Wednesday at 5:00 p.m. at le ber. The second XV will travel to Bishop’s this Friday to meet Bishop’s first team, while McGill’s developmental team will meet the Gaiter’s sec ond team.

Field hockey: L o n g on road, sho rt o n goa ls The Martlet field hockey team travelled to Sudbury this weekend for Laurentian Universi ty’s invitational tournament and came away with a 1-2 record. On Saturday, McGill was shut out by both Queen’s and Carlclon by identical scores of 1-0. The Martlets ended the scoring drought on Sunday as they beatTrent 2-0. Goals were notched by Nilu Singh and Stephanie Wollin.

Te rry Fox Run brings o u t the dentists Over400 McGill students turned out for the annual 10K Terry Fox run on Mount Royal on Sunday. Of these, the majority were from the

faculty of Dcntisry. McGill students raised ap proximately SB,000 in the effort.

Squash racket starting again After a fifth-place finish in 1991, the McGill Varsity Squash Club is seeking bronze this year. “W e’re looking to establish a well-balanced squad this year,” said playcr/coach David Bchm. The team, which lost Mike Purdcn, Dave Diestcl, Phil Lapin and Mark Evans this season, will be bolstered by the return of Mohammed Abdcl-Hamid, who worked with the New Zealand national team in England and Spain this summer. Tryouts will lake place next week, and inter ested players should attend the meeting this Thurs day at 7:00 p.m. in Room 305-306 of the Currie Gym.

M c G ill Cricket m en's league makes history The McGill Cricket club capped an unde feated season and won the Quebec Cricket Federa tion “C” league championship on Saturday with a six-wicket victory over the KVSCM Selects. In the morning session, 10 KVSCM batsmen were dismissed by the McGill bowlers for a miniscule total of 61 runs. Shalcndra Mathur, who took three wickets for fifteen runs, was McGill’s top bowler. In the afternoon, McGill made short work of the KVSCM bowling. Needing only 62 runs to win, the McGill side achieved this total while only giving up four wickets. McGill’s undefeated season is the first in the 80- year history of the Quebec Cricket Federation.

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