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O p e n H o u s e M cG ill opened its d oors to the public last w eek en d , as part o f M on treal's 3 5 0 th an n iv ersary ce le b ra tion. T h e Open H o u se is a triannual even t. T h e even t featured sh o w ca ses and exh ib its fo r the M on treal public to see. F o r th ose o f you w ho m issed it, be sure to be at the n e x t one in 1995.

In s id e T h is W e e k N e w s: U n p le a s a n t a tm o sp h e re su rro u n d s H IV te s tin g a t H e a lth S e rv ice s, sa y s tu d e n ts.

S ee page 3 O p /Ed : M cG ill a d m in istra tio n should ta k e resp o n sib ility for s tu d e n t sa fe ty .

S ee e d ito ria l, pag e 6 F e a tu re s : L a w y e r A la n D ersh ow itz opens h is fam o u s m o u th . See page 9 E n te rta in m e n t: F re e U k ra in e 's f irs t fe a tu re film d o cu m e n ts th e h o lo ca u st o f forced fa m in e .

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In cooperation with The BritishCouncil, the Department of English is presenting British nov elist P.D. Jam es speaking on “Murder and Mayhem: TheCraftof the Detective Novel.” 4:00 pm in Leacock 132.

Le Département de langue et littérature françaises de l’Université McGill organise le Vie Colloque in ternational sur Le Moyen Français: “La Grande Rhétorique” qui se tiendra â Montréal les 5 et 6 octobre. Débat sur la langue et la littérature françaises des X lV e et XVe siècles. Pavillon Peterson, 3460 rue McTavish. Renseignements et inscriptions: Prof. G. DiStefano, 398-6892. Wednesday. October 7 The McGill Outing Club is presenting a slide show of Dave’s climbing trip toNepal today at7:30pm in Leacock 132.

Amnesty International meets every Tuesday at 6:30 pm in the Shatner Building, room 435. For more info, call 286-0502.

The Indian Progressive Study Group will hold its second meeting today at 7pm in the William Shatner building, room 435. We will be dis cussing issues concerning India and South Asia. Everyone is welcome.

The M cGill Graduate Christian Fellowship is present ing a series of talks and discussions analyzing “How God Communi cates Through Scripture.” Today’s topic is Contextual Analysis-debate style. 7:00 to 9:00 pm, downstairs back lounge of Thomson House. For more information, please con tact Sara Kelly at 484-6729, or James Anglin at 284-4898.

Thursday. October 8 The McGill NO Committee has finally arrived! All interested are invited to our first meeting, at 4:00 pm, Shatner B09/10...See you there. Friday. October 9

The Centre for Develop ing Area Studies, in cooperation with the Political Science Depart ment, presents Enayetullah Khan, former ambassador of Bangladesh to China and Burma, speaking on “Bangladesh at the Crossroads.” 12:00 pm, 3715 Peel, Seminar

The Yellow Door Coffee House presents live music every Fri day night at 8:00 pm. After sets by two or more featured performers, there will be an “open stage.” Tonight: Open Stage Night, a full evening of open

The McGill Graduate Pro gram in Communications presents John O’Neill, from York University, speaking on “Eating Time: The Semi otics of Fast Food.” 2:00 pm, GPC Building (3465 Peel), room 202. For more info, call Pierre at 398-4110. Ongoing... READ THIS! The Red Her ring wants your entry in our Horrible Haiku Contest. Any bad 5-7-5 line poem is eligible. After you’ve written a haiku, get some friends together and write a story about that funny idea you threw around last weekend. Then bring it to us ! Our office is in room 406 of the Shatner Building, or you can put it in our mailbox by the SSMU desk. Dead line November 9. If you have ques tions, call at 398-6816. O-fish-ial apologies go out to Ari Maidenbergcongratulations! Don’t tread on Her ring... Walk-Safe Foot Patrol: We are now in service. Call us for a walk home, we’re waiting to hear from you. Monday-Thursday 6:30pm-12:30 am, Friday and Saturday 6:30 pm-2:30 am. 398-2498. The McGill Association of International Students is offering assistance with voting absentee. Drop by the MAIS office in Shatner 403, or call Ian at 499-2027. The Pillar is awaiting your ar rival. SUBMIT NOW to SSMU mailbox. Deadline is October 14.

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N e w s S t u d e n t s c r it ic iz e M c G ill H I V t e s t in g B Y A M Y M C B R ID E A N D B E N O IT JA C Q M O T T E

Unsatisfied with the HIV te stin g th ey re c e iv e d at McGill, students have ques tioned the testing procedure offered by M cG ill Health Services. One couple complained to the T r ib u n e last week they were left feeling frustrated and humiliated after attempting to go through the test procedure. A ll students involved wished to remain anonymous and the T r i b u n e has agreed not to reveal their identities. After requesting the test from a d o cto r, M ark w as questioned about his sexual and drug practices. "He asked me if I had been involved in any homo

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inaccessibility but also the in e v ita b ly discriminatory nature of the hiring practice in e ffe ct because of the office's loca tion. Situated on the third flo o r o f the P o w ell S tu dent Services Building, the o ffice is in a c ce ss ib le b ecau se the building lacks an elevator. "It's in a cce ssib ility renders it impossible for qualified disa

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sexual activity or intravenous drug use," stated Mark. After telling Mark that any unpro tected sexual contact would not affect his HIV status for at least three months, Mark said the doctor decided not to ad minister the test. M ark com plained the doctor's approach made him feel uncomfortable and igno rant. "His whole manner of questioning seemed degrad ing," stressed Mark. "I thought he was throwing labels on me. It just seemed unprofessional. " Judie» M ark’ s partner, complained of similar treat ment during her HIV test. "T h e lab te ch n icia n seemed to imply that I was irre sp o n s ib le ," Ju d ie e x -

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bled candidates to apply for the p o sitio n o f ODS coordinator," claimed Hamil ton. "It is purely a matter of discrimination by McGill in the hiring process for the co ordinator of the ODS." Hamilton approached the Human Rights Commission in order to address the issues of inaccessibility and systematic discrimination he and other disabled students feel have long been ignored at McGill. "Nothing concrete has been done up till now, but hopefully this complaint will make those who have not expressed their dissatisfaction speak up," Hamilton elabo rated. "This issue of discrimi nation has not been adequately addressed, and I find it in credible that individuals at an institution like M cGill would find it difficult to see this issue clearly." ODS acting coordinator Peter Cooperman admitted the location of his office posed a definite problem. "The fact that ODS is located on the third floor means

r ig h ts ill there is no way of transporting wheelchairs for those students who are mobility-impaired," he explained. "It does create an extra burden. To overcome this prob lem , the ODS has a conference room on the ground floor of the Powell Building in which our counsellors meet with these students." Since the position of ODS coordinator has never been occupied by a person with a disability, Student Services administrators have never had to deal with the discriminatory nature of the hiring policy due to the building location. "This has never been an is s u e ,s ta te d Chuck Adler, McGills manager of Physical Resources. "There have never been any disabled applicants to the position before. I feel that there is a more pressing issue at hand, and that is our concern that the needs of disabled students are not being met." Dean of Students Irwin SEE

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Inform ation com piled by campus groups such as Walk-Safe Net work, the McGill Coalition Against Sexual Assault, and the McGill Sexual Assault Centre indicate that at least ten sexual assaults have taken place in the McGill Ghetto area since August 22nd. It is believed that three assailants are operat ing in the ghetto area, all of whom are armed with knives. Three attacks are reported to have taken place on the night of September 25th, all attributed to the same individual. One assailant is be lieved to be operating in the Pine and Parc inter change area, although as saults have also been re ported in the areas of Pine and University, and the Upper Residences area. Walk-Safe has also obtained information sug gesting that one assailant stalks his intended targets, apparently attacking near to their intended destina tions, even in daylight hours. "We cannot overem phasize the importance of not walking alone at night, " said a concerned and angry Walk-Safe spokeswoman Fiona Deller. One assailant is de scribed as black, about 5 ’8 " ; with a husky build. A second is described as white, English-speaking, between 28-34 years old. No description was avail able on a third assailant. Although police have confirmed much of the in formation compiled by the McGill groups, details re main sketchy. Persons walking home after dark are en couraged to use the W alk-Safe foot patrol service. Walk-Safe can be reached at 398-2498.

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A motion proposed by student senators to increase Senate's size in order to ensure fair student representation was rejected in last Wednesday's Senate meeting. Instead, Sen ate voted to send the issue back to its Nominating Committee, where student senators have until November to submit an other proposal to redistribute Senate student representation. The Post-Graduate Students’Society (PGSS) applied for its own Senate seat last year after the split of PGSS fro m S tu d e n ts’ S o cie ty (SSM U ) in 1991. When the PGSS motion was referred to the Nominating Committee in March 1992, the committee attem p ted to re d istrib u te student representation while maintaining the total number of student senators. The motion proposed by the Nominating Committee would have taken three Senate se a ts aw ay from u n d e rg ra d u a te s. T he counter-proposal submitted by stu d en t sen a to rs la st Wednesday would have added two student representative seats. But it would have also forced the appointment of two acad em ics or librarians to maintain the principle of aca

demic majority for the body. Many members of Sen ate voiced concern over in creasing the body's member ship.

"L et's think carefu lly about how we spend our time," urged Leggett. Dean of Students Irwin Gopnik did not have a prob-

In response to the recent es calation in the number of assaults in the McGill area, the Women ’s Cau cus staged a T ake B a ck the G hetto march last night. Demonstrators gathered on the steps of the McGill Arts Build ing and proceeded through the Milton gates to march through the streets of the student ghetto. The marchers passed by Ste. Famille and Milton and the Pine/ Parc interchange, two of the more dangerous sections in the ghetto. Leaders of various women’s groups on campus organized the march because they were alarmed by the high number of crimes oc curring in the areas surrounding McGill. The Montreal Urban Com munity police and the McGill Sexual Assault Centre have received re ports of numerous stabbings, harassments, a rape at knifepoint, and one attempted abduction since the beginning of September.

fu r th e r s tu d e n t in p u t [keeping 19studentsenators]." Other academic members of Senate expressed concern that the Nominating Commit tee proposal did not address

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V ic e -P rin c ip a l ( A c a demic) William Leggett ar gued that adding two academ ics to Senate would affect the quality of education by de creasing the number of hours the two new members would be able to devote to teaching or research.

lem with the committee's pro posal. "The report of the Nomi nating Committee is a reason able approach to the problem [of student representation]," argued Gopnik. "It isn't bad considering that the size of Senate should stay the same

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"We think it is outrageous, and we don’t think students should have to put up with it anymore," insisted Sexual Assault Centre Co-coordinator Mary Margaret Jones. "People walk in fear. They are afraid to go home at night." The McGill Coal ition Against Sexual Assault (MCAS A) believed that the protest would heighten awareness of dangers to students, particularly those who reside in an area that is so convenient because of its proximity to the university. "The violence has gotten out of control," explained MCAS A co ordinator Amy Ridley. "Attacks are happening both at night and in day light." Ridley expressed hope that media attention might improve safety in the ghetto. Organizers also hoped that Take B a ck the G hetto would help empower students with a sense of unity. Walk-Safe Network Coordi nator Fiona Deller felt the walk would make students feel safe for a brief period of time.

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"That's all we can really do," Deller argued. "We can’t stake out the neighbourhood or try to catch the perpetrators ourselves. But maybe we can make everyone feel less vulnerable for at least one night." T ake B a c k the G hetto fol lowed last month's controversial T ake B a c k the N ight march organ ized by Concordia women ’s groups, in which men were barred from attending. Because of this policy, many women's organizations at McGill chose not to participate. Men were allowed to take part in last night’s march. "We felt unable to ideologi cally reconcile an event from which men were excluded," explained Ridley. "We believe men are cru cial to solving this problem." Organizers stressed that the ghetto march was not a reaction to the Montreal-wide demonstration organized by Concordia. Instead, it was intended to respond to McGill's safety problem and bore no relation to the controversy surrounding Take B ack

other possible student society reorganizations thatcouldalso w arran t stu d en t se n a to r redistributions. "Should [other faculties] decide to secede from SSMU, we would com e back with the same question," elaborated physics professor Nicholas

DeTakacsy, who added he had no problem with Senate in creasing by two members. But Employment Equity Director Honora Shaughnessy argued that the Nominating Committee failed to garner significant student support. "I am disturbed by the fact [the] student senators are opposed to this document," stated Shaughnessy, who sug gested that since so many stu dents had a problem with the proposal, it should be referred back to the com m ittee for further consideration. Student senators were adamant in their criticism of the Nominating Committees proposal. "The students will have to decide how they will lose those three seats— we have to decide who to cut," explained VP U n iv e rsity A ffa irs Monique Shebbeare. " A year of our term will be spent trying to figure out who will stay and who will go instead of doing what we should be doing on Senate, that is, representing students." Microbiology professor Michael DuBow proposed that the matter be referred back to the Nominating Committee to await further student input, a motion which passed by a large majority.

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an annual event, Jones was hesi tant. "On the one hand,we hope that it will become a tradition," she elaborated. "But we hope that it wont have to come to that." Deller em phasized that the dem onstration was designed to create a sense of em pow erm ent for McGill stu dents. "We feel as though the ghetto is being stolen from us, and we want to gain back control as soon as the N ight. possible," she When questioned about the stressed.

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GACCÜ! Another SSMU œmmittee causes controversy — ^ B Y J A N E W H IT E AN D B IL L LUXEM BURG

Last Thursday's Students S o c ie ty (S S M U ) co u n cil meeting created a new Gen eral Assembly Coordinating Committee (G A C C) to over see the implementation of a proposed November 4 general assembly, despite doubts from some councillors regarding the impartiality of the new body. The GACC was designed as a compromise solution to c o n flic ts betw een S S M U President Jason Prince and his council over the format and agenda of a general assembly, which would involve students in formulating Society policy. The committee will co ordinate the activities of three workshop committees charged with bringing forth motions to be discussed at the assembly. The three workshops will cover the areas o f Student

Rights, Quality o f Education, and External Affairs. In creating the G A CC, council decided to reject the proposed coordinators for two of the committees. Ted Runcie and John Saunders, who had previously been involved in the workshop process as coor dinators, were denied posts in the new organizational scheme due to concerns over their im partiality. "According to the m o tion which was presented to council, the coordinators are supposed to be impartial," said Athletics Rep James Stewart. "John Saunders w rote an opinion piece in the M c G ill D a ily which clearly indicated where he stood on the General Assembly." S c ie n ce Rep. A u b rey K assirer was further co n cerned that two students had been named as coordinators before other students had the

opportunity to apply for the positions. "It's not in the spirit of the d e m o c ra tic p ro c e s s ," Kassirer said. V P F in a n ce Susan Nickerson defended the origi nal proposal. "I do feel th at th ey [Saunders and Runcie] were involved from the very begin ning," she argued. "The deci sion [to include them] was based out of respect for their previous efforts." "I think that they're capa ble and they've been involved in the process up to now," countered Prince. "But I un derstand that John Saunders has been selected as someone that council is not com fort able with as a coordinator." Saunders viewed the de cision as an attempt by coun cil to control the assembly process and was surprised by Runcie's dismissal.

"Ted didn't even express a public opinion on this mat ter," said Saunders. "I don't know where they're going to find another three students who are impartial, because everybody has opinions." Despite the debate over coordinators, there is a feeling that the atmosphere of ten sion over the General Assem b ly , w hich led to a non -con fid en ce m otion in Prince two weeks ago, seems to have dissipated. "I think we've got things moving along now and the process is a lot more solid than it was previously," enthused Stewart. "Everyone is under standing everyone elses point o f view. There is no bickering within GA CC." G A CC members include Stewart, Prince, Nickerson, Arts Rep. Jonathan Ablett, Science Rep. Rebecca Lindley and Council Speaker Sadeka Hedarlay.

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O p /E d E d ito r ia l To those of us not keenly attuned to the controversy surrounding the installation of the Walk-Safe Networks telephone system, all the Students Society’s recent internal bickering may seem like a tempest in a teapot. When coupled with the apparent rise in violence in the student ghetto, however, the issue widens to include not only the politically-savvy, but all McGill students. What seems to be a shocking apparent lack of concern for student safety on the part of the McGill administration makes it imperative that Walk-Safe be up and running. Last evening’s Take Back the Ghetto march is another reaction to this current wave of assaults. The march was both a unified response to an increas ingly dangerous situation and a gesture of angry defiance against the fear provoked by Ghetto violence. Unlike last month’s Take B ack The Night march, where fragmentary dissent was rife, Take Back the Ghetto showed McGill student groups rallying together to reclaim the student ghettos streets. It was an opportu-

It's safe to assum e th a t students are not nity to demand a minimum level of public safety for all its residents. Interest and support from the university administration was glaringly absent at last night’s march. This is particularly aston ishing in light of McGill's sup posed commitment to improving campus safety, as seen through last springs safety audit. Clearly, the university should realize that there are danger areas on the campus; weak lighting and ill-placed shrubbery can effectively conceal attackers, especially after dark. And yet, a full six months after the audit was completed, no concrete plan for improving campus safety has been announced; none seems imminent. By implication, the adminis tration is failing to provide either information or adequate protection for its students. This in turn raises the issue of who must assume responsibility for public safety when students are on and around campus. While personal responsi bility is still the hallmark of the intelligent person, there should be some systematic institutional concession to providing safe passage through campus. There is also no reason why

McGill's commitment to student safety should arbitrarily end at the Milton Gates. Surely an institution that willingly involves itself in such non-academic areas of student life as health, financial aid, housing, and employment could extend its concern for student safety beyond the immediate perimeter of campus. In a Sept. 11 cover letter intended to support Walk-Safe’s corporate sponsorship drive, Dean of Students Irwin Gopnik does not even acknowledge that Walk-Safe addresses students'safety concerns. Instead, Gopnik refers dismissivelv to these legitimate fears as " [stu dents] who feel the need for company on their walk home.” No wonder the university is not funding the program. The university has made it clear that until it is good and ready, it will not make any safety audit findings public. This attitude is frighteningly reminiscent of a well-publicized incident last year, where the MUC police practiced a policy of not informing residents that a series of violent sexual assaults were occurring in certain municipalities. The official rationale for this

police behaviour was that releasing the information would have caused hysteria and panic in those municipalities. Perhaps McGill is taking a leaf out of the MUC police's book, by not only refusing to release critical information on campus safety, but also turning a deliberately blind eye on safety issues which directly concern its students. The practical upshot of this stance is that once again, it is entirely up to pro-active student-run groups like Walk-Safe to ensure a minimum standard of public safety to users of McGill's services. How ironic that despite McGill's commitment to enhanc ing knowledge and awareness in its academic programs, it is bouncing the ball squarely back into the students court as far as safety goes. Talk about a preparatory course about the harsh realities of the real world.

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Comment Until last month, I had never been a victim of racially-motivated police harassment. I had heard about other peoples’encounters with the police, read countless newspaper articles on police brutality against blacks, and watched television with the rest of North America as one black man was beaten by five white police officers in Los Angeles. I had always wondered whether my turn would be next. It so happens that my turn came on September 21 1992 at 2 a.m. My younger sister had come into town for the weekend so I had decided to take her to Ballatou, a club on St. Laurent. We were not dressed suspiciously, nor were we among hoods(any black person dressed in basketball shoes, baggy pants and a team jacket). Neither my sister nor I had been drinking or doing drugs. We were not disturbing the peace. We were walking down St. Laurent, two black women, unsuspicious, unaware and unarmed.

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So, when I first noticed that a police car appeared to be slowing down beside us as we walked, I assumed that the officers were checking the area out and not looking to check out any victims. I did not pay any attention to it. It was only after the police officer stuck his head out of his car and said, "She's too young", pointing to my sister, that I realized that he must be address ing us since we were the only people in the direction he was pointing. Nevertheless, I continued to ignore his accusations and I told my sister to pick up the pace. He continued to follow us and we turned around and walked in the opposite direction in an attempt to lose him. But he turned his car around and followed. By this time, I was confused. I couldn't believe this was happening to us, I did not know why this was happening. In a fit of frustration, I shouted to him that it was none of his goddamn business how old my sister was, at which point he slammed his brakes and his door and ran in front of us, gun

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in holster, hand on holster, demanding that my sister present her I.D. She refused and he then demanded that I show him my I.D, because of course, as he said, he was just trying to protect my sister. I refused and it was at this point that two other officers arrived at the scene of the crime and surrounded us. I thought to myself, why is it that you need two other police officers to help you to get my I.D? I knew that it was not my I.D. that he wanted. It was our blackness. To him I was a black bitch, a nigger, a nobody. The other police had obviously been summoned to protect my sister. In the end I presented him with my I.D. He said it was inadequate and I didn't have anything else so I turned my back towards him waiting for one of the police officers to become trigger-happy and accidentally shoot me or my sister in the head. But I felt nothing as I walked away with my sister from the scene of the crime. What happened to my sister and me is not an isolated case. Black people are harassed

and brutalized here in Mon treal on a regular basis. They are told they look suspicious or they are harassed and then told by the police that they are just doing their job. If their job entails shooting black people down, they are doing a very good job indeed. I do not want to be told that I am exaggerating. I am a black woman and I have lived my life under this exaggerated oppression. If this police officer had tracked us down in a dark alley, we may have met a different end. I would like to be able to have open forums in which people could voice their frustrations and think about possible ways to deal with this problem. It was only after Stephen Lewis' report on racism that people began to realize that there is a problem. Well, I’m not Stephen Lewis, but I am telling you that something has to be done about this problem now. What are you going to do about it? PATRICIA HAREW OOD

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W h o 's A f r a id o f W e lt a n s c h a u u n g ? Yesterday, a friend of mine called me up with an unfinished paper due at 5:00 pm. She was so completely hysterical that I fig ured that it would take the better part of the remaining time to work through that disposition. It set me thinking about how perverted the whole school experi ence has become. The idea that a person whose present occupation in life is to study and further their understanding of particular texts and develop techniques of dis cussing them, could become completely debilitated by that very thing they were trying to accom plish, was a completely amazing inconsistency. Not that the same thing hasn ’t happened to me, often. “The whole point is to learn,” I told my friend, and though it took a while for her to care, eventually my observation was noted. This argument, of course, does not extend to those people who fly by the seat of their pants, attempting to whip off papers the night before without having done any reading. These people have a different kind of hopelessness. We’ll also ignore the bum bling middle ground of those who don’t know whether to skip class for a frozen yogurt in the Shatner Building or go see a movie at the Loews instead of doing mid-term review because, lets face it, that’s pathetic. Working on a paper and not suceeding is not a futile exercise but one that is part of your experi ence of university. It furthers your understanding of what in future you must focus on: a perceived weakness. This example relates to an overall understanding of the uni versity experience. It tries to pit the mental struggle of attempting to comprehend higher reasoning over and above conducting a quest to locate and sign up for every “Art of Listening-esque” course avail able. Contrary to all available evidence, subjective marking and stressful exams are not the reason

1T'S CRIMINAI■ B Y H ARQAN R ID L E Y one comes to university. But the fact that this misconception is widely held actually makes strange sense. The effort to educate many simultaneously translates into a tendency to tame the individual mine; to turn it out to mirror and understand the patterns of all the other minds of the present age. A person only has to realize that there is no ultimately correct answer for any of it and affirm the struggle to strive, to seek, to yield but not to find. The value lies in the process itself; the special chemistry that rises as morning mist off water from lectures, labs, papers, new books, old books, fourth floor McLennan, philosophies, the bookstore, interpretations, the Arts steps, Paragraphe, and greeting fellow students with a cheery hello. What is most valued cannot be understood in each of these things separately. Apart from specific theories or the Periodic Table, university is a setting for an inves tigation of an enlightened vision of self. Developing a “worldview” or Weltanschauung becomes the rhyme and reason in the under graduate’s life. It is not necessary to go to university to understand this proc ess but for many it is a last chance. A chance that, in the contemporary institutional environment of the university, they might miss. Far from affirming one’s progress in life, truth or a good grade are illusory and self-limiting. They detour you from your clan destine raison d ’etre. Whether one knows it or not, a life that has not engaged in a conscious pursuit of Weltanschauung is a wasted life, one that has not attempted to in terpret itself, its purpose, its role, or its place in the terrible chaos.

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Responsible... In her “Babble On” column for the week of September 9 to 15, Kate Gibbs accused the Red Cross of prejudice because they will not accept blood from men who admit to a history of homosexual sex. In so doing, Gibbs has taken a health issue and twisted it into a gay rights debate. The policy adopted by the Red Cross has nothing whatsoever to do with homophobia and everything to do with a dictate from Health and Welfare Canada. I would urge your readers to call the Red Cross as I did, and verify that the prevalence of HIV from blood in the homosexual community is 16.8%, as compared to .004% with the restrictive mandate in place. The Red Cross is acting responsibly. Their concern is with public health, not in attacking a segment of that public. If Gibbs were to be a recipient of blood instead of a donor, I wonder whether her feelings would stay the same. Janet Paulette Graduate Diploma of Management Continuing Education

Saddened... While I was reading the September 22 issue of the Tribune I detected the odor of old sneakers. I realized that this was, in fact, the reek of yellow journalism when I read the September 24 issue of the Daily. To find that the Tribune, which prides itself on its “professionalism,” had obscured the true cause of the Walk-Safe debacle truly saddened me. By not saying that the cause was President Prince’s objection to the granting of space to the Zoroastrians while denying the Islamic Culture Society space, the Tribune worked to mold opinion against Jason Prince. To lie through omission o f facts in a newspaper article is truly offensive. Perhaps such articles should be placed on the Op-Ed page in the future. Or perhaps we should find an editorial staff committed to reporting the truth to the members of the society that pays their salary, rather than pursuing personal vendettas. Michael Fleischner U3 Engineering

Ed. Note. Although the Tribune was aw are o f the situation as Mr. Fleischner describes it, our reporters were unable tofin d a source, especially among members o f the Students Society Executive (who w ere wary o f creating a conflict), who would provide confirmation o f

the situation. To run such a story without a source or confirmation would have been unethical and worse than yellow journalism. The Tribune encourages students such as Mr. Fleischner to share any such information with us, so that we may share it with others. Further more, the Tribune’s Editorial staff are not salaried, although we do receive very small stipends.

Correcting... Re. the opinion of Irving Gold and Kate Berry concerning the Charlottetown Accord (Tribune, Sept. 29-Oct.5). While I respect the right of these two enthusiasts to their own opinion concerning the amendment of Canada’s Constitution, they commit certain factual errors in the process of chastising Mr. Usher and Mr. Latour for theirs, and in so doing mask the weakness of their own argument. Their first claim is that s.21 (a) of the Accord, guaranteeing Quebec 25% of House of Commons seats in perpetuity, is “an aberration to the democratic system as we know it.” However, perhaps the writers do not know all that much. Section 51 of the Constitution Act (1867), as amended (which outlines the existing Canadian “democratic system”) also guarantees the number of Quebec seats, and dictates that all provinces’ representation in the Commons be determined in relation to this fixed number. Continuing, they assert that the Accord affords Quebec special status with regards to the election of its Senators, and that the potential appointment of Quebec Senators by the National Assembly “is an undemocratic slap in the face to all Quebecers”. In fact, however, s.7 of the Accord grants to every province the option of selecting Senators either by popular vote or by the provincial legislature. Moreover, it is mind-bogglingly naive to suggest that, compared to the situation in the existing constitutional order, this option is undemocratic. Currendy, Senators are selected according to s.24 of the Constitution A ct (1 8 6 7 ), which directs the Governor-General, “in the Queen’s name”, to appoint (not elect) them to this position. It is only constitutional convention which allows the Prime M inister’s involvement in the appointment process, and of course even this does not approach democracy. So, Mr. Gold, Ms. Berry, although you lament that “the only thing that this deal would put an end to is Canada as we know and love it”, it is crucial that you recognize that the Canada you know and love is an aristocratic Canada, and that therefore it is you who are effectively the opponents of democracy, and not the editorialists against whom you lash out.

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N e w s Open House Engineering visitors catch sight of gyrating breasts Open House visitors to the McConnell Engineering Building were treated to much more than just robotics dem onstrations last Friday. A videotape highlighting the sports activities of engineering students contained a five-second neck-to-navel close-up featuring a woman baring her oil-covered chest and gyrating to music. When confronted with this video clip, Engineering Undergraduate Society (EU S) Senate Rep. Leslie Parchomchuk reacted unequivocally. "I am shocked!" she exclaimed. "I have never seen anything that is so blatantly sexist since I have been here." While EUS Sports Rep. Dave Rudd acknowledged that the incident was a total mistake, he stressed that the tape had been made in 1989 and that no one was aware of its contents. "We should have looked this tape over," conceded Rudd." I didn't know it was still around." Parchomchuk insisted that the mentality in the faculty regarding sexism has changed since 1989. "Engineering has a different mentality about what is socially acceptable and correct and how to treat women," she elaborated. "The people who made the tape are no longer here."

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addressed a Ph. D student's allegations that she was barred from campus without a hearing following her claim that she was sexually harassed by her thesis advisor. While noting that attorneys were dealing with the issue and that the terms of their discussions do not permit a greater public discussion than that mentioned in the G azette, Leggett emphasized that procedures for non-academic offenses under the Code of Student Conductand Disciplinary Procedures had been strictly followed. The student was placed on conduct probation by the dean of her faculty, after allegedly having made death threats.

Last chance for students who want a Referendum vote This is the final week for students to get their name on the electoral list for the upcoming referendum on the Charlottetown Accord. Canadian citizens who have been residing in Quebec for at least six months and have not yet been enumerated must contact the office of the Directeur Général des Elections by the October 10th deadline in order to be eligible to vote. The office is located at Hotel-Dieu Hospital at the comer of St.Urbain and Pine Avenues. Call 873-7200 for more information.

VP responds to grad student who claims she was barred from campus

Americans: your chance to vote GOP, Donkey, or Indie

In response to a story that appeared in the G azette last Tuesday, Vice Principal (Academic) William Leggett read a statement at last Wednesday's Senate meeting in which he

Out of the estimated 900 American students at McGill, so far only 30 have filled out the standard federal application for the upcoming Bush/Clinton/Perot election.

Information booths will be set up in the lobby of the Shatner Building every Monday and Wednesday for the next two weeks so that students may be advised of the proper procedures to follow when registering their vote from abroad. Concerned with the low voter turn-out among American students, Ian White of the McGill Association of International Students (MAIS) urged all students to cast their ballot in this year's election. "It just takes five minutes," enthused White." Even if you're frustrated with the way things are [in the U.S.], you have to register your vote. Otherwise, you're not counted in the electorate, you're nobody."

Health Insurance O pt-Out period ends Tuesday Today is the last day for students to opt-out of the student health insurance plan which is mandatory for all students who do not have private drug coverage. A financial statement, detailing the plan from its inception in January of this year until August 1st, was presented in last week's Students Society (SSMU) Council meeting. The statement indicated that students have claimed $63,680.42 in prescriptions which left Seaboard Life Insurance Company a net profit of $263,644.68. SSMU VP Finance Susan Nickerson insisted that it is still too early to judge the plan's success. She stressed that the numbers did not accurately represent the current financial situation since many student claims were expected to have been submitted in September. "There is no way to get an accurate idea of how this plan is working unless we give it a year," Nickerson empha sized.

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plained. "She said, ‘Just be cause it [the test] com es out negative doesn't mean you can go on [in the same manner] afterwards. I got the feeling she thought I was a slut and that if the tests were negative, I would carry on in an irre sponsible manner." Judie argued that the doctors and technicians in volved in the process should concentrate m ore on educa tion and less on moralizing. "Instead o f imparting safe sex knowledge, she [the technician] treated me as if I knew nothing," insisted Judie. "I felt like my intelligence and good

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work." "Often a patient’s per

allegation that she had been judgmental during Judie's test. "I'mquite surprised," she

that I wanted to be checked for HIV, he snapped at m e," she claimed. "The doctor said to m e ,‘Y o u d o n ’tju stcom ein

ception is blurred when he or she com es in for the test," he continued. "Y o u r perception

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here and ask for an AIDS test; it could change your life. Do you think you’d ever get life insurance?"' Sally felt that the doctor

claimed. "I never judge the

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should have p laced m ore positive emphasis on the im portance of the procedure.

ately if they have reason to complain about his staffs be

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haviour. M ichel Chateauvert, a

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patients through the process and to advise them on whether

vided by Health Services. "C onsidering that we

testing is always difficult to

or not they should take the

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administer, Director o f Stu dent Health Dr. Pierre Tellier defended the performance of

test," stated Chateauvert. "I may suggest to the patient to not have it done, but if they

"the complaints that are reg istered with us are more than balanced by the letters of

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Gopnik also explained that he had never had to face the problem of a disabled applicant. "No one applied for the job who was disabled," argued Gopnik. "If they did, we would have helped them in every way possible. However, I am not going to co m m en t on a hypothetical situation." Hamilton explained why he chose not to specifically name any defendants in his action. "The action will be lodged either against the university or Dean Gopnik," he stated." That decision will be determined by advice from the Quebec Human Rights Commission." In the past few years, M cG ill has taken steps to become more accessible to its disabled stu d en ts. D evelop m en ts in the accessibility program include the recently acquired mini-bus for mobility-impaired students and the ramps at Thomson House and the S h atn er Building. Student fees provided for the majority of funding for these improvements.

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F e a tu re s C o n t r o v e r s ia l l a w y e r D e r s h o w it z s p e a k s B Y D A V ID A B IT B O L A m erican law yer Alan Dershowitz recently spoke at a Com bined Jew ish Appeal fundraising function at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel. Dershowitz is recognized as the best-selling au thor o f Chutzpah, and a professor of law at Harvard. Over the last five years, Dershowitz has repre sented a number of well-known clients; Mia Farrow, Mike Tyson, Leona Helmsley and Klaus Von Bulow. Not exclusively a celebrity lawyer, Dershowitz was recognized by the Jewish Appeal as a liber tarian. Over the course of his speech and in a subsequent interview, Dershowitz addressed a number of contemporary topics.

Dershowitz on Pat Buchanan: [In an essa y ], W illiam Buckley notes, “It’s amazing that a man like Pat Buchanan can survive today. 20 years ago he wouldn’t be on CNN, he wouldn’t be in a hun dred newspapers- he would be dis credited because o f his anti semitism.” Two cheers for W illiam Buckley, but hold your third cheer. About a month after writing that essay, he was on national televi sion, on the eve of the New Hamp

shire primary, and he, the man who called Buchanan an anti-semite, was asked, “If you were a Republi can voter in New Hampshire, who would you vote for in the upcoming e le c tio n ? ” and he said “ Pat Buchanan”. That shows you the degree of toleration. Believe me, William Buckley is a decent man, he would never vote for B uchanan because he was an antisemite, but he would vote for him as a protest vote, in spite of the fact that he was an antisemite, forgetting that many voted for Hitler in Germany, not because of his anti-semitism, but because of his economic policies. They simply didn’t disqualify him because o f his anti semitism.

Dershowitz on Noam Chomsky and Holocaust Denial: I have a colleague at M.I.T., just down the road from Harvard. He’s supposed to be a brilliant lin guist. His name is Noam Chomsky. That ignoramus said recently that there is not an anti-semitic imp)' cation in denying the Holocaust. And he wrote an introduction to a

book by Robert Faurisson, a pro fessional Holocaust denier, saying the same thing. Faurisson says that the Holocaust is a hoax perpetrated on the world by the Jewish people. When somebody says all the Jew ish people have lied, there’s no anti-semitic implication? Can you imagine somebody saying women really enjoy being raped and

beaten? There’s no anti-woman implication in that? ‘Blacks en joyed slavery’- there’s no antiBlack implication there? The man doesn’t know the simplest use of the English language!

Dershowitz on the Supreme Court of Canada’s reversal of Ernst Zundel’s guilty verdict :

I think it was an understand able but tragic mistake for Ernst Zundel to have been placed on trial, because in the end it gave him far more attention and publicity than he would otherwise have received. I think it would have been far better to devote the energy that went into the prosecution of Zundel to the marketplace of ideas, towards efforts to persuade the Cana dian public of the falsity, and indeed the perversity of Zundel’s views. I have enough faith in the mind and the fairness of the Ca nadian people to be lieve that we will win that battle in the mar ketplace o f ideas. Censorship has never stamped out bad ideas or good ideas. A l though I understand the arguments on the other side, I also understand how deeply offended people are by the kind of hate speech that Zundel specializes in.

Dershowitz on the Middle East Peace Process: Yesterday [Sept. 21] in Jeru salem we saw renewed terrorist

attacks by members of the extreme Palestinian groups who don’t even want to see peace talks go forward. The real question is, does Israel have a bargaining partner? Is there a legitimate opportunity to bargain with Palestinians who can then control their own electorate? The Arab people are not used to elec torates, they’re not used to voters or voting. It’s going to be very difficult to see whether or not a peace process can really go for ward.

Dershowitz on the Government of Quebec’s Language Policies and the upcoming Referendum: It’s very hard to come from out of town and comment on spe cific laws. From the tradition I come from it seems to me that in a mul tilingual country there should be rules toencouragemultilingualism. I think people ought not to have restraints placed on the use of lan guage, and in general, therefore, I would support a more open and multilingual, multicultural ap proach. But I think it takes chutzpah to make that kind of point because I ’m really a stranger to this com munity. I love Canada, so I ’d love to see Canada be strong and sur vive, and I think I ’d vote yes in the upcoming referendum.

B S N T u t o r in g s e r v ic e a id s M o n t r e a l y o u t h B Y AN REEN OMAR Seven years ago, the Black Students’ Network (BSN) initiated a tutoring service for African-Canadians studying at various schools in the Montreal region. The serv ice, which originally included only two schools, has now expanded to include Shadd Academy, Corona tion Elementary School, Lachine High School and several commu nity centers, such as Youth in Mo tion and T yndale St. Georges, both located in Little Burgundy. Bangaly Traoré, a U3 Com puter Science student and a mem ber of the Coordination Commit tee o f the tutoring service, said there are a variety of reasons lead ing to the lack of representation of black students at McGill and other universities. “The V ille-M arie Social Services published alarming sta tistics in 1984, revealing that 59 percent o f the children receiving social services in Quebec are black,” he stated. “When these kids are removed from their nurturing households and placed in environA d ria n H a rew o o d an d B a n g a ly T r a o r é

ments thataren’tconducive to edu cation, they become mere statistics in the system and their opportuni ties for success become limited.” One of the goals set for the tutoring service is to increase awarenessof opportunities, the oth ers being to facilitate academic suc cess and to serve as big brothers and sisters. “Black children are stream lined into special education causes, which immediately demoralizes them,” Traoré commented. “These kids are often not exposed to the same environment as other students from other backgrounds because of socio-economic factors. There fore, when they begin the educa tion system, they don’t have the same foundation. That is the rea son for their level of performance at school.” The BSN is also concerned with what Traoré terms “the un true, outdated curriculum circulat ing in schools, which portrays nonEuropeans as savages incapable of contributing towards academia.” Many of the students who

require tutoring are new residents of Canada who have just come from the West Indies and Africa. These students only speak English, and are pushed into French schools. In addition to adjusting to new academic and cultural envi ronments they must also face the challenge o f a new language. The tutoring service has proved suc cessful in making an impact on many of them. According to U3 Arts student Adrian Harewood, the serv ice also provides a chance for McGill students who have been through the system to share their knowledge. “Students at an institution like McGill can easily become con sumed by McGill activities— for four years they can stay in a twoblock area,” he stated. “For me, tutoring was a way of really using my university experience to bring something to another person, some thing of value and import.” “I think it is imperative for university students to reach out into the community— it’s a way of get ting back into the real world.”

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B Y K A REN C A R S T E N S

W hile mature students make up a solid one-third of M cG ill’ s population, their backgrounds and interests are

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as varied as the reasons they

support families. “ I think I am much more

cam e back to school. There are equal numbers

serious about my studies now than when I was younger” ,

o f men and women registered in the Continuing Education

stated Tserese Schm oocherBabcock. “Now I know I can ’ t

program. The average age of

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vated. “Mature students often com e with defined goals of

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though the oldest ever regis tered was 9 0. The Centre for Continuing Education defines a mature student as anyone 18

equivalent. G a lin a S im a ita s , 6 7 years old, is enrolled in a B A

Schm oocher-Babcockis

program in Russian Studies.

years. “As a student, you don’t

Her main reason for coming

get your children in there—

back to school (after retire ment at the age of 60) is a

it’s basically for staff,” she explained. P ro f e s s o r M a rg a re t

thirst for knowledge. “W hen you retire,” she said, “time is yours. I feel that to be productive and not to

M itchell, Education, agreed that having mature students

deteriorate and not to get old

in class is a plus. “There are certain things

in a hurry you have to do

we learn through life that we

V a n

S e r t im

W hile m ovie-goers were lined up to see one o f the two new motion pictures celebrat

gical evidence showed that several gold alloy spear

ing Christopher Colum bus’

h ead s

voyage to the A m ericas last T u esd ay n igh t, Ivan V an

A m erica matched the gold

w h at he dubbed “Colum bus’ accidental stumble in the Carib bean.” D ra w in g

ju s t m a d e a n i m p o r t a n t d i s c o v e r y . T T rom out of the # -/ millennia, a simple i crystal formation is sparking a new generation of interest. It's the start o f a wonderful adventure — the discovery of the excitement of science. It’s a significant moment. Now more than ever, science and technology are essential to our businesses, industries, and way of life. To ensure our continued future well-being at

home and in rhc work! marketplace. wC need to encourage and support our future scientists. last year. Shell donated o ' er one million dollars to fund scholarships, science fairs and scientific organiza tions across Canada. It’s one way we’re helping to encourage the development of science and technology — and build a strong future for our country.

fro m

eyewitness accounts of African settlements in the Am ericas by such notables as Ferdinand C o l u m b u s

(C h ris to p h e r’ s so n ), Van Sertima launched into a two -hour plus barrage o f facts to sup-

h e lp s !

fou n d

Sou th

to copper ratio found in Af rican spearheads. Hybrid cotton plants with Ameri-

wise it falls asleep.”

t im

e ly

o n

]

dismissed the notion o f black A f ricans being capable o f a transAtlantic journey. The cotton dis co v e ry , for exam p le, w as e x plained by assuming that either the seeds floated across the ocean or migratory birds ingested them and excreted the seeds after a in ter-continental flight. “Tests show that migratory birds do not eat cotton or ------- jackbeans for lunch,” e x plained Van Sertima. M o r e o v e r , c o tto n

‘The more we become aware of other people’s roles in history, the more we realize that there are no biological limitations”- Ivan Van Sertima

seeds sink in water and would lose their potency before reaching shore. Dispelling the m is conceptions o f any A fri can technological lag that would prevent such an un d ertak in g , the sp eak er pointed to often o v er looked evidence o f early _____

-------

eye cataract surgery and iron smelting in African

can cotton traits were dis

cultures, advances made long before their European coun

duced his most damning evi

covered on the coast of W est A frica by Portugese explor ers, while jackbean plants

terparts. M ore significantly, a 1448 map o f the Atlantic Ocean complete with the outline o f B ra

dence. Om lecs (giant carved

(indigenous to A frica) were

zil was discovered in Africa.

human heads) discovered in Panam a and other Central American countries depicted

found in Central Am erica. Despite such impres

Even without the naviga tional knowledge African cultures such as Egypt possessed, a trans-

military helmets and dread

sive sources o f evidence, the historian/literary critic/ anthropologist/author stressed

Atlantic voyage was possible be cause of oceanographical factors

locks. Ancient Peruvian craft incorporated the Egyptian-

that a predominantly white scientific com m unity has

alone. “There are three currents in

port his thesis. W ith a slide presentation of South American statuettes and artwork, the speaker pro

A fricanoid facial features, S h e ll ©

le c tu r e

style bird and plumed ser pent crowns o f African art. In addition, metallur

B Y ETH AN S A C K S

Sertim a opened his lecture “ T he A frican P resen ce in Early A m erica” by dis mantling the myth of -------

J a s o n , S a ra a n d K a te h a v e

ices.

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T a k in g

c a r e

BY ST EV E CHAO

o f b u s in e s s : jo b “ T h e re ’ s nothing out

h u n t in g

o n t r e a l

on her window for hire around

will be whoever’ s application

physical

noon two months ago. “ B y three o ’clock,” she

ments were filled last week and the M cGill bookstore has been bombarded with appli

education

depart

student, job prospects are

from the (un)em ploym ent

said, “ I had a huge stack [of

is on top,” she explained. L eia Gillespie, a first year student who is bilingual

looking bleaker all the time.

applications]. I couldn’t be

and has three y ears’ retail

cations.

As Bob Conyers, director of

front. “I ’ve applied at several

lieve it. I had a lady com e in

working experience, found

the student employment cen

different places for bartending

with twelve years’ experience.

B u t, the em ploym ent situation is not com pletely

tre, noted, there has been a s'evere decrease in job offers over the last few years. As a result, students are frustrated

and waiter jobs. I ’ve looked all around campus, downtown Montreal, and even out in the suburbs. The recession is hit

It was phenomenal. I didn’t know who to choose from .” Other employers throughout Montreal expressed the same

that there exists a hierarchy for student employment. “I was applying to work in a store, but when the lady found out that I was from B .C.,

hopeless. Conyers noted there has actually been an in crease in requests for student labour this fall. In general,

and pessimistic about their chances. Due to cutbacks in the

ting hard— especially for stu

shock and alarm at such re

she said that m ost likely I

employers look for students

dents.” Layoffs in all sectors of

wouldn ’ t get the job because I w asn’t from M ontreal.”

with experience (at least five to six months), who are co n

eco n o m y, even businesses

the workforce have been nu

sponses to signs reading “for hire”. Rachel Kotick, an em

Gillespie believes this

fident, have a good working

ployee at Sadie’s Tabagie, has seen between sixty to

hierarchy p laces bilingual

attitude, and are flexible with

students from Montreal at the peak and foreign students in the cellar.

regards to schedule. Bilin gualism is also a strong

F o r the average McGill

th e r e ,” re p o rte d M a rc o D eBono, U 1 Biochem istry,

that are doing relatively well

merous and competition for

are exercising caution by ask

e x is tin g jo b s is fie r c e . Adrienne Destounis, manager

ing present employees to work overtime instead of hiring new workers.

o f Y a Y a ’s, a restaurant in the student ghetto, placed a sign

a hundred applications. “Right now w e’re not hiring, but when we are, it

To make matters worse, on-campus opportunities are

asset. M any part-tim e and permanent jobs are still avail able, though the pay is usu

now virtually non-existent.

ally low.

Jobs that were open in the

v e

o f

C o lu m

the Atlantic that will carry any thing caught in a storm 2 0 0 miles off the coast o f A frica straight to the A m ericas unless the fishes

b u s

q u in c e n t e n n ia l

get to it first, or it has a m o tor,” asserted Van Sertima. In 1969, a successful trans-At lantic vovaee was made in a

reconstruction o f an ancient Egyptian papyrus boat pow ered only by sail. W hile the speech was w ry ly p u n ctu ated with tales o f diffi culty that his intel lectual crusade has faced, Van Sertima a ls o sh ared m o re

muffin with a coffee 2 0 0 0 M ansfield

: rT ' 9 V ' - n _c J i 3 ® . y s_e _d _ ^ c o m b i n a t i o n

w it h a n y o t h e r p r o m o t io n

p erso n al in sig h ts. “ W h en I w ent to stu d y in E n g lan d (from Guyana), I was ashamed to be A frican . W e w ere tra in e d to ashamed.”

A nyone

w ho

avoided Newhouse A u d ito riu m that night fearing an ab s tr a c t in te lle c tu a l discussion missed the proverbial papyrus boat. The im plica tio n s c u t m uch deeper, especially for students brought up on a E u ro -c e n tric view o f history. “The more we b e co m e a w a re o f other people’s roles in history, the more .-

we realize that there a re no b io lo g ic a l lim itation s,” noted Van Sertima.

Iv a n V a n S e r tim a

C o n su lt the O m b u d s p e r s o n She can listen, advise, give inform ation and make recom m en dations —it’s an independent confidential service. If you’re feeling caught in the system and d on’t know w here to turn c a ll O m budsperson, A nnette W erk 3 9 8 -7 0 5 9

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E n te r ta in m e n t Y a n c h u k

B Y A LE X U SH ER

th e

E is e n s te in

K i l l i n g F i e l d s and the terror

o f th e

U k r a in ia n

special treatm ent by the au

R e v o lu tio n

firing squad only to return to

Soviet Union united perish

o f M i s s i n g — such a com p os

thorities; beatings in addi

die in the flickering lights of

before his eyes as scenes o f

The forced famine in the U k ra in e in 1 9 3 2 - 3 3 w as

ite provides som e idea o f the devastating em otive pow er

tion to starvation. Despite be ing offered grain and flour,

his parishioners’ hom es. T h e film ’ s c lim a c tic

m ass slaughter faded into the unloading o f bodies into a

nothing less than a holocau st.

o f this film. T he film follow s the

M yronrefuses to disclose the

scene shows Y anchin’s debt

burning m ass grave. If there

whereabouts o f the chalice.

to earlier directors both for

had been any doubt about the

Katrannyks, a simple peas ant fam ily with an elderly grandmother, a young girl

H erein lies the m o vie’s por

eign and dom estic. The vil lagers, desperate for grain, m arch in David L ean fash ion th ro u g h the sw irlin g

outcom e o f that vote, it m ust have been erased by the time the final credits rolled.% There have been few in

snows towards the grainery

dictm ents o f a political sys tem as devastating as F a m tion o f gaunt, sallow -eyed

T hat winter, Stalin’s attack by food “requisitioning” on Ukrainian nationalism and the k u la k s (rich peasantry) resulted in the deaths o f ap proxim ately 7 million peo

and two boys. The portents o f the famine com e fast and

trayal o f the central dilemma facing Ukrainians under the Com m unist regim e; food for ob ed ien ce, sustenance for atheism , and, in the m ost

ple. It co m es as no great sur prise, then, that the first m a

fu rio u s. T h e co m m u n ists break up a church service.

metaphorical sense, the bread

where they fall, Odessa stepsstyle, under a hail o f bullets

jo r feature film to com e out

The collective farm chair

o f the flesh for the blood o f

from the P eop le’s Army.

o f Ukraine since the country

m an com m its suicide when

the chalice. M yron, like the

achieved independence late

he receives an order to co n

Ukrainians o f today, rejected

The

c o m p a r is o n

i n e - 3 3 . Y anchuk’s presenta

starving peasants wandering

Eisenstein is by no m eans

purposelessly through the

last year deals with that trau

fiscate the v illa g e ’s grain

the choice.

inappropriate; Yanchuk, like

“ Dawn o f S ocialism ” co lle c

m atic event. O les Yanchuk, is a celluloid

stocks. Com m isars begin a brutal house-to-house search for foodstocks. The rapidity

As th e fa m in e p rogresses, the m ovie be c o m e s m o re d is jo in te d .

Eisenstein, is a propagandist as well as a chronicler. The m o v ie ’s prem iere w as on

m onum ent to the victim s o f

o f these sequences and the

Scenes run into one another

Ukrainian television, where

tive farm, beneath banners urging them to “ fulfill the P arty ’s plans” was part o f C om m unism ’s death-knell.

Stalin’s policies. Despite the o ccasio n al technical lapse

ch o p p y use o f hand-h eld cam eras m ake the story seem

as th e d ire c to r tak es us th ro u g h th e flig h ts and

it was shown the night be fore the independence refer

B ut it is also the birth-wail o f

and flight into the sentimen

hokey and contrived, but the

glim pses o f m em ory o f those

endum last Decem ber. The

old. Oles Yanchuk, and F a m

tal, this is the m ost over w helm ing m ovie to co m e

tale quickly m oves to a higher

o vercom e with the hysteria

effect o f this film on the out

i n e - 3 3 , can justly claim par

level when the Katrannyks

o f starvation. First the grand

com e is inestim able, but one

entage to the new Ukrainian

along on any continent for

are asked to hide a gold ch al

m other dies and then the chil

can easily im agine Mikhail

state.

y e a rs. Im ag in e the lan d

ice from the Com m unists.

dren, one by one, begin to

G o rb a ch e v w a tch in g the

M yron Katrannyk, the

w aste aw ay . T h e v illag e

father, is then selected for

priest m ystically survives a

show that night and seeing the possibility o f keeping the

F a m i n e - 3 3 , directed by

scapes o f

D r. Z h iv a g o

, with

the m ass slaughter o f the

l a

t ’e m

th e

c a m e ra

in v a d e s

th e

w o r ld

o f

a new state breaking with the

F a m i n e - 3 3 rates a 9 out

o f 10.

r a

B Y K A T R IN A

these ‘journalists’ get those

film -m aker asks him what

stars. “These are the Jesus

hear what the stars think, be

O N STA D

photos that reveal hitherto unknown realm s o f human

right he has to Fox-hunt, the photographer looks blankly at

Christs and Buddhas of our

cause you actually relate to their sense o f bombardment. I

consciousness, causing one to e x cla im , “ W o h , M adonna

the cam era and says, “I don’t think about questions like

never thought I ’d identify with

that I gotta shoot him.” T h is is not the n ext

jogs. W h o ’d have thunk it?”

that.” Such lack o f reflection is

ror in the viewer. Do we re ally want “DeNiro W ith W a ter Jug” to represent the twen tieth century?

S ch w arzen egg er-ian catch

M a la fo n te th ro u g h the mean streets o f New Y ork as he stalks his prey. And stalk

exactly what this film mourns.

F o r this reason, the film

‘E m for being yet another art-

But B la s t 'Em doesn’t merely slap the wrists o f those who

is ultim ately a bleak one. While it shows the “assault

film legitimization o f the E n q u i r e r m entality, like last

ing is the name o f the game here, as Torontonian director

take the photos, it subtly

photographers” (the diction ary definition of paparazzi)

year’ s T h e P la y e r (w e may

the celebrity photo hounds re sponsible for those guilty su permarket peaks into the likes

Joseph Blasioli makes per

living up to their name, it

post-modern qualities o f the

fectly clear. The documen tary chases its subject with

in the culture o f images which pervades our lives. After all, even those with a tattered

doesn’t get the celebrity per spective, or even delve into

text, but on a more primal level, we just want to watch

o f P e o p le ’ s fa ces colum n

the

a g g re s s io n

Nietzsche casually gracing

the lives of the photographers

John Cusack chow down at

(“Didjya see Jack? Someone

Malafonte uses to stakeout a

their L ev i’ s could offer an

themselves.

S p a g o ).

call the Hair Club for Men ! ”). B la s t ‘E m is ostensibly

truly peeved Micheal J.F o x with F o x y B ab y, am ongst

opinion on the W oody/SoonY i affair. B la s t ‘E m implies

At first, these seem like oversights which weaken the

P l a y e r , B la s t

other celebrities. M att, Sigourney, Tom and Nicole, David and Iman

that in this Hollyworld, peo ple d o n ’ t think, they just w a tch , and y earn to be

film . B u t after a hundred

tendenices the viewer may be

minutes of flashbulbs popping and vicious stakeouts (it’ll

harbouring. It is so flagrantly critical, and successful at be

but really, it’ s about us. Y es, w e, the sheepish W o od y watchers and Madonna mon

— all the cool kids are here, and sought by the paparazzi

watched. Early in the film, one

make your skin crawl to wit ness the pure joy on the face

ing so, that you may actually read that Constitution article

with a near-religious venge

paparazzo theorizes that in

o f the p h otograp h er who

before the People section of

gers, are given a strong and

an ce.

a ir-

two thousand years, future

snapped the last shots o f an

your next issue o f M a c l e a n ’s.

utterly entertaining reprimand

punchin’ mad that F o x w on’t

civilizations will exhume not

emaciated Garbo a day before

B la s t 'em rates a 7 out o f

in B la s t ‘E m , as we watch how

pose for him ,but when the

literature or art, but photos of

dying), it’ s unnecessary to

“H e ’s a very pleasant, soft-spoken guy. I feel bad

phrase, but the voice o f V ic tor M alafonte, paparazzo at large. T o those less versed in Italian, Malafonte is one of

a d o cu m en tary about the sleazy world o f Malafonte and his equally shameless cohorts,

B la s t

sam e

‘E m

M a la fo n te

fo llo w s

scolds all o f us for taking part

time,” he says, instilling hor

M adonna, but it happened here. Some may criticize B la s t

intellectually con sid er the

B u t u n lik e T h e ‘E m ’ s attack

sucks dry any voyeu ristic

10.

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M ed eam aterial: love, b e tra y a l and g yratin g m yth BY SUSAN BREKELM ANS

engineers further bloodshed in an attempt to help her new

n ation o f C h ris to p o u lo s ’ studies o f the potential o f dance in theatre. “I wanted to see how much o f the body can speak,” explained Christopoulos. In this p rod u ction , the body

love gain his throne. Once exiled, Jason be trays Medea, divorces her and marries someone else. The majestic Medea, cast down by grief, now com m its an other bloody act, this time for her own cause. To revenge herself on Jason, she kills not only his young new bride but her own children as well. This is not a pleasant or easy story. This is a world where passion is monumen tal, where issues o f power, gender issues, love and be trayal are played out on a grand scale. Actions affect not only individals, but countries

speaks volumes. M uller’ s play is a mono logue, spoken by M edea as she recalls her story. W e see a powerful woman- a priestess and a Princess niece o f the Great W itch Circle - falling helplessly in love with the hero Jason, who has com e to her country to steal its greatest treasure, the Golden Fleece.

as well. M edea’s monologue provides a framework for the storm of emotions communi cated by the dancers. They take their cues from the story and amplify the love of Medea and Jason, the violence o f their several b etray als and the dreams of Jason’ s new bride, all with their bodies . The main characters are

She murders her brother, be

enlarged through the co n frontations with their younger selves. The dancers m esm er ize and draw the view er into

M ed e a m a te ria l is Hermann M uller’ s adaptation o f the M edea myth, opening Tuesday, October 6 at Play ers’ Theatre. D irector Stacey Christopoulos and The Other Theatre group use M uller’ s text as a jum ping-off point for a riv e tin g e x p lo ra tio n o f

m ovem ent

th e a tre .

M e d e a m a t e r ia l is the culm i

trays her father as well as her country— all for Jason. She makes further sacrifices and

the experience with the force and beauty o f their m ove ment. One memorable scene involves the young boy-hero Jason in a tormented dance with the aging, grizzled war rior he later becomes. The spectators are not permitted to sit back and let the narra tive unfold. W hat emerges through the movements o f the actors on satge is not simply a story but an invita tion to participate. For d ir e c to r Christopoulos, myth is a de parture from her usual inter ests. She generally explores social issues in her projects, but h as found th at M e d e a m a t e r i a l highlights v e ry m o d ern c o n c e r n s . Myths, she feels, are valu able to us as metaphors, and the story o f M edea speaks as stomgly now as it did centu ries ago. M e d e a m a t e r ia l rates a Murder maternal, media material : Medeamaterial 7 out o f 10.

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E n t e r t a in m e n t DISCLAIMER

B Y T R E N T N O R R IS AND E R IC BO EH M

Sinead O’Connor Am I not your girl (Ensign Records) Covers of classics are al most impossible. The only other artist in recent memory to at tempt a sucessful solo album in a similar vein is David Lee Roth. O ’Connor has recorded by torchlight, risked and lost. This collection of covers is a bland, unorthodox third offering from the Bald Waif. She admits in quirky lowercase letters that these “are the songs that made me want to be a singer.” Her formulative tastes run from Rogers and Hart to Andrew Lloyd Webber. Credit where credit is due -O ’Connor applies breathy vo cals to songs tried and true. The album echoes of “You Do Some thing to Me” off 1990’s R e d H o t a n d B lu e . She exchanges the “Hot” for “Hop” with “I Want to be Loved By You.” Too heartfelt to be ironic, and sung too straight to be inter esting.

Michael Bolton Timeless (The Classics) (Columbia Records) I wanna baloney sannich anna Coke an the new Bolton. All the crusts have been cut off T im e le s s . In fact nothing on this album produced by David Fosterhas any kind of edge at all. The whole thing reeks o f Stetson and Margarita mix. Sounding tense without pos sessing any musical tension, he sings them fast and they are gone. Despite his angst-riddled deliv ery, Bolton is not crying tears of blood; more like tears of ketchup. Singing the annoyingly fa m iliar “You Send M e” and “Yesterday,’’Bolton attempts to associate himself with the God Parents of Soul. Furthermore, it’s embarrassing that Motown greats such as the Four Tops sing back up on “Reach Out I ’ll Be There.” The album concludes with the unfortunate “White Christ mas.” All comparisons to Bing are purely intentional and purely delusional. Artificial and non-organic, Bolton’s music is truly T im e le s s . Peter Gabriel US (Geffen Records) Ecumenical, yet true to

Gabriel’s own vibe, U S is aproper Peter Hammill noun. Fireships The negative ions, not (Capitol Records) strong enough to save his mar Well at least his wife likes riage, helped Gabriel to forge a him. Closer to fifty than to a hit rare and beautiful album. album, Hammill is an aging New The first track, ‘‘Come Talk Ager. to Me”, is a plea reminiscent in As soulless as Michael Bol sentiment o n ly of Daniel Day ton. Hammill’s saving grace is Lewis’ “Stay alive! I will find you” in the trailer for T h e L a s t o f th e M o h ic a n s . The song introduces the listener to a renewed and introspec tive Gabriel, backed by the likes of Sinéad O ’Connor, Daniel Lanois, and the ques tionably talented Peter Hammill. “Digging in the Dirt” is a rare example of integrat ing the exotic without decontextualizing it. Gabriel is able to borrow djembe drums from Senegal and re tain their identity. The jacket features the work of ten international art ists. Each was invited to cre ate a piece inspired by a dif ferent song. The result is as varied and mellifluous as the music. An identifiable mixture o f S o and P a s s i o n , U S sounds great and it’s good for you too. Sinéad O'Connor, am I not your

that he doesn’t claim to have soul. The album is made up of the standard ten tracks; however, their insufferable length is up wards of five minutes each. With lyrics like “Fast forward on the handicam video", F i r e s h i p s makes the listener ask, “Peter, who is your muse? Anthony Berman?

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The Two Solitudes: The seems desper ate not to divulge any informa tion which might lead one to conclude that a “No” vote in Quebec would not be the end of civilization as we know it. Last Friday’s front pages of L e D e v o ir and L a P re s s e both contained headline stories quoting two prominent New York brokerage houses saying that a “No” vote is not likely to affect Canada’s ability to attract foreign investors. This is fairly important information. After all, the dollar’s slide and the 50% jump in interest rates over the past two weeks have been due mainly to our glorious Prime Minister’s rants linking a “No” vote to economic catastrophe. The G azette, however, only managed to mention this fact in the eighth paragraph of a story about how high interest rates would cost the federal govern ment $500 million extra dollars on the new issue of Canada Savings Bonds. Perhaps the G azette was waiting for Jacques Parizeau to express his theory that the Royal Bank of Canada is involved in some sort of conspiracy to lower the dollar. In Saturday’s Gazette, the lead paragraph of a story entitled “Bourassa, PM lash out at Trudeau” tells of an outraged Mulroney and Bourassa lashing back at the blistering attack of an ex-prime minister. The second paragraph notes that the dollar closed below eighty cents on Friday, for the first time in four and a half years. It would not be unreason able to expect, from the proxim ity of these two paragraphs, that some sort of connection might be made on the editorial page. Instead, however, we discover that Trudeau—whose view points are barely addressed in the news story, who is attacked in the news story by such intellectual greats as Rae, Bouchard, and Ghiz, and for whom the G azette could only find former Alliance Quebec president Eric Maldoff as a supporter—is a man who skirts too many realities. Perhaps the G azette has skirted too many unbiased stories. A second editorial sug gests that a "Yes" vote would put an end to the economic hiccup that Canada has experi enced in the past week. Having M o n trea l G azette

accused Trudeau of ruthless distortion of the facts in the first editorial, the pot has called the kettle, well, at least grey. There is no guarantee that a "Yes" vote will bring political and thus economic stability. As many political leaders in this country have explained, the approval of this accord does not necessarily mean the end of constitutional negotiations, hence, no assured end to politi cal instability. One begins to wonder if Norman Webster’s reporters lag far behind the capabilities of their French counterparts. Or perhaps French reporters feel less of a need to misrepresent the issues in order to get the vote to go their way on Oct. 26th? South of the Border: One of the reasons the American elections are so boring this year is the lack of good symbols. This may sound incredibly shallow, but it’s true. The 1980 election had the hostages in Iran as a symbol of America’s declining status. The 1984 election had all those Los Angeles gold medals to symbol ize America’s resurgence. The • 1988 election had Willie Horton to signify to all white parents that they’d have to lock up their daughters if the Democrats got elected. Desert Storm came too early. The closest we’ve come to a bona fide symbol in this election is the fictional Murphy Brown. Symbols, though manipu lative, are useful in defining and focusing attitudes about a wide variety of issues. This is espe cially important in a basically sub-literate culture like the United States. Without these symbols, “substantive” debate about things like marginal tax rates, capital gains taxes and special economic zones turn into meaningless babble for the average voter. Yet the emergence of Murphy Brown as a symbol seems to be the red u ctio a d a b su rd u m of the television medium. Symbols were devel oped when television became popular as essentially a sort of visual catch-phrase. Now this year’s catch-phrase is itself a television image. Thus it is not surprising that the three candidates have been packaging themselves in such placebos-in-the-name-ofculture as L a rry K in g L iv e , T h e A rsen io H a ll Show , and G o o d M o rn in g A m erica .

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_______________ S p o r t s _______________ M c G ill football co n tinu es sk id at h a n d s of Q u een ’s B Y C H R IS T O P H E R R IG N E Y

The McGill Redmen foot ball team suffered a heartbreaking loss to the Queen’s Golden Gaels, after an unsuccessful second half comeback in play Saturday after noon at Molson Stadium. In the 164th contest between the two rivals, the Gaels emerged with a 27-17 victory in front of 6 200 fans, the sixth consecutive win for Queen’s over McGill since 1988. In a sloppily-played game

filled with turnovers and penal ties, the Gaels took advantage of a first quarter Redmen miscue. Pinned in his own end zone, punter Andrew Boon had his punt deflect off the crossbar of the uprights, with Queen’s pouncing on the ball at McGill’s 22-yard line. A oneyard quarterback sneak by the Gaels’ Tim Pendergast led to a 70 Queen’s lead 7:24 into the game. Noting the success that his backs were enjoying, Queen’ s coach Doug Hargreaves continu ally stressed the rushing segment of his offence. The following two

Queen’s possessions were capped off by 23 and 21-yard field goals by Queen’s kicker Jamie Gallo way, giving the Gaels a 13-0 lead. The absence of their own ground game prevented the Redmen offence from getting in to gear as the statistics reflected -1 yard rushing for the first half. With his team trailing 20-0 at halftime, Redmen head coach Charlie Baillie knew that his team was in dire need of an offensive spark. FrançoisGauvin, whose pre vious action this season had been limited to a single quarter during

preseason play, replaced Justin Raymond going into the second half to provide that spark. On the first possession of the second half, Gauvin led the offence on a drive that included three completions to wide receiver Alex Trépanier and a 27-yard strike to Redmen rookie Jay McHarg. The drive concluded with a 27-yard field goal by Wes Barbour at the 11:11 mark of the third quarter. Barbour, a second year defensive back, assumed kick ing duties when punter Boon was struck in the eye with debris thrown from the stands. Gauvin went on to complete nu merous key passes to Trépanier and in side receiver C o u r t e n a y Shrimpton. At 7:04 of the third quarter, Gauvin hit Shrimpton with a 10-yard touchdown pass to halve the Gaels’ lead, 20-10. After the keyed-up Redmen defense thwarted the Gaels’ attack, Gauvin again completed a 25-yard pass to Shrimpton, and a 19-yard touch» down toss to | Tiépanier at 4:13 of £ the third quarter, o grabbing back 17 2* points from the ** Gaels’ 20-0 halftime lead ten minutes into the third quarter.

The Gaels’ offensive line, however, resumed the exceptional blocking that had helped them build their early lead, opening holes for Elberg and running back Paul Beresford. Beresford had consecu tive rushes of 20 and 31 yards while Elberg scored on a 16-yard touchdown run at 13:28. The ensu ing conversion by Jamie Gallo way, making the score 27-17, closed the scoring for both squads for the remainder of the game. Despite throwing three interceptions, Gauvin completed 17 of 28 attempts for 270 yards with a pair of touchdown tosses Gauvin, although extremely upset with the loss, was excited to be given an opportunity to showcase his abilities. “I think the coach just felt that we needed a change,” he said “I was just happy to get in and to have some success. They didn’t blitz too much in the third quarter, so we were able to pick on their coverage and complete a numbc of passes. Gauvin’s success also raises questions about who will startnext week’s key matchup against the Concordia Stingers. These are questions that coach Baillie isn’t ready to answer just yet. “The decision of who’s go ing to start next week is a tough one. Next week’s game is critical. That’s probably going to be the playoffs for us,” he said. “We mus win that one.” Up for grabs Saturday after noon is the Shaughnessy Cup when the Redmen travel to Loyola to meet Concordia at 1:00 p.m.

Redm en soccer ties U Q T R in last-m inute comeback B Y A N D REW R O SS

The CIAU fourth-ranked McGill Redmen took on the sixthranked UQTR Patriotes in the second half of a home-and-home series in soccer play last Friday at Molson Stadium. A last-minute Redmen comeback from a 2-0 deficit earned them a 2-2 tie with les Patriotes. At the opening whistle, M cGill’s starting eleven put their potent talent and domi nating game on display. With possession o f the ball, the team made long passes that tested the Patriotes line early, while without the ball, McGill checked enthusiastically and quickly ended the few UQTR

possessions. But McGill let go o f its initial momentum after a mere ten m inutes. T all U Q TR midfielders started to shut down their M cGill opponents with physical and aggressive play. The Redmen defended well, but a constant inabil ity to bring the ball out o f their own end cost them. The Patriotes capitalized on their first scoring opportunity in the 22nd minute, as a halfback swooped behind the Redmen line to head a penalty-kick cross off the post. The Redmen only threat ened sporadically for the rest of the half. In an attempt to offset the UQTR height advantage and provide some stability in the mid

dle, Redman Chris Drysdale was moved up and replaced by midfielder Joe Martucci at the sweeper position midway through the first half. The Redmen pressed their attack into the second half but were repeatedly rejected. This, coupled a UQTR sojourn in front o f the Redmen net on a series o f anxiety-causing comer kicks, made it clear that the Patriotes smelled victory and were deter mined to catch it at Redmen ex pense. Thirteen minutes into the half, lax Redmen marking and a dose o f luck were the ingredients o f a blistering shot from 25 yards that found a home in the top left comer of the Redmen net and put

UQTR ahead 2-0. The setback inspired the Redmen to regain some of their lost intensity, but they made no headway on the scoreboard. The Patriotes, excited by the prospect o f ending M cG ill’s four-year regular season undefeated streak, cheered every throw-in and tackle. Thematch degenerated into a series o f unorganized rushes by isolated forwards against isolated defencemen. Chris Drysdale slapped a shot past the Patriotes keeper in the 87th minute, cutting the Patriotes’ lead to 2-1. It was almost too little, too late, until striker Dave Rossman planted the tying goal in the UQTR net. As the Redmen and

their fans went nuts, the Patriotes stood with their heads bowed in disbelief and watched their hardwon victory evaporate. Redmen assistant coach Nick Del Grosso took care to see the game in more sober terms. “Aggressive play is every thing in this league,” he said after the game. “We were missing it tonight. Tonight was just luck. Three shots in the game - all in the last five minutes - and two go in. Very lucky, not champion ship soccer.” Although the Redmen are fourth in the country, their record contains only one win. M cG ill ch allenges Concordia at L o yo la this Wednesday at 8:00 pm.

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B Y D E R E K D E S JA R D IN S

A potential preview of this /ear’s Quebec women’s rugby :hampionship was exhibited on Sunday with the McGill women ieing edged out by last year’s jrovincialchampion Concordia, 2-0. McGill was derailed last ;eason on their way to the finals >y a fluke loss to John Abbott in he semi-finals and never got to neet Concordia for the gold. Concordia fullback Linda vfiller had admitted feeling unure about whether or not her earn could handle M cGill’s peed. “Before the game I was eally nervous. This is our big gest rivalry and the strongest ompetition we ’ll meet this year. vlcGill is faster and their backs ire quicker,” she said. McGill’s superior speed umed out to be a moot point, as he ball stayed among the forvards most of the game. One vlcGill back who did get to show 1 er stuff with the ball was wing arlene Bacchiochi. “It was a forwards’ game. N e were winning scrums but we :ouldn’t get past their fly and crum halfs,” said Bacchiochi. The biggest reason for this vas the fact that Concordia’s crum half is National Team

player Natasha Wesch. “It felt really good beating them,” Wesch said. “They tried to intimidate us but their strat egy failed.” The terror game was played on both sides of the ball, how ever. “She kept bringing the scrum down and really tried to scare us. She doesn’t scare me,” said McGill prop Tori Oakman, who had to face up against Concordia’s National Team prop Josée Laçasse. Oakman felt that McGill improved as the game went on. “We started out slowly but the forwards got it together in the second half,” she said. "We need to communicate a lot more. W e’re wasting energy on rucks and mauls when the ball is al ready out.” Although players from both sides agreed that the teams were evenly matched, there was a bit of bravado from some of the Lady Stinger forwards after the game. “We played an excellent game. Our pack was strong. The game was played among the for wards and we dominated there,” said flanker Kelly Mackay. Concordia number eight Jen Purves was even more

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are easily remedied. The score is not a reflection of the game.” Tomorrow, the Martlets face John Abbott.

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O p tim ism abounds M a r t le t v o lle y b a ll: v e t e r a n s for m en's vo lleyb all s e e k n e w b e g in n in g B Y R IC K E V A N S

The McGill men’s volley ball team gives definition to the term “underdog”. The sport was reinstated at the school only five years ago, and the team has been without funding or adequate gym space for the last two years. To add to the adversity fac ing them, Laval (national champi ons in 1990 and 1992), Université de Montréal (third nationally in ’92), and Sherbrooke (perennial top ten finisher) are three of the other four teams in McGill’s divi sion, so the competition is fierce. Despite these obstacles, as sistant coach Tommy Yee ex pressed confidence in his team this season. “This is our strongest team since the program was reinstated in ’87,” said Yee. “We hope to finish at about .500...and then ad vance in the playoffs.” The team has five veterans returning from previous years along with a bright crop of rook ies. The returning players average more than three years of experi ence at the university level. They will be led by fourth-year veteran Chris Guenette, with captain and setter Steve Lloyd. Lloyd, a third year player, said that in the coming season, victories over Bishops should be

“a given,” and that “Sherbrooke looks ripe for the picking this year.” “If we can win our matches against these teams, we stand a good chance of advancing through to the finals in March,” he esti mated. Coming together and jell ing as a team will not be as easy for these athletes as for some of McGill’s more privileged athletic teams. Since the reclassification of teams in the Athletics depart ment two years ago, men’s vol leyball has been a club team, re ceiving no funding from McGill and only limited gym space. Team members have had to conduct fundraising drives like the recent ice cream stand on cam pus, and last year’s coupon books. As well, they have had to contrib ute their own money in order to meet the basic costs of equipment and travel. The team practices once or twice a week at a high school some distance from the campus. There remains optimism this season will be an improvement over last year. ‘The team is confident be cause of the continuity of having veterans at key positions,” said Lloyd. The season and home opener for the Redmen will be October 30 at the Currie Gym against Laval.

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Led by the experience of nine returning players, and en hanced by the physical potential o f five rookies, the M cGill Martlets volleyball team expects to be a force to contend with in the 1992-93 season. Head coach Rachèle Béliveau emphasized the height and physical strength of this year’s crop of rookies and suggested that they may play a role in improving on last year’s last-place finish. “They have very good physi cal potential, but need a year of

The Martlet field hockey team travelled to Toronto this weekend for their third OWIAA tournament. On Sunday, the Martlets lost to Waterloo 1-0 and tied Western 1-1. Rookie Christy Love scored for McGill, who is now 14-2 in league action. McGill will play next at its own McGill Invitational Tournament, October 17-18.

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On Saturday in Sherbrooke, cross country runner Linda Thyer’s tenth consecutive victory led the McGill women to a meet sweep of the 4.0K race. Melanie Choiniere placed second, and Maeve Muldowney came third, while Kelly Fallon and Tanja Taivassalo finished sixth and seventh respectively. On the men’s side, the Redmen finished behind Sherbrooke, with McGill runners securing spots five through eight in the 8.0K race. Ron Sherman, Joshua Lall, Paul McCabe, Mark Coleman and Stephen Shigeishi were all within 18 seconds of each other, with Coleman and Shigeishi tied for eigth._________________

ful league that includes U. de Sherbrooke and Université de Montréal. However, she is confi dent that the leadership of veteran Sheila Huang (power hitter) from Montreal, and the skills of new comer Jillian King (middle) from St. John’s, Newfoundland, will bolster the team through to an improved showing this season. “We aim to finish among the top three in Quebec this year,’ said Béliveau. The Martlets’ season will begin on Sunday, October 18, when they will host the McGill Invitational tournament.

Redm en Rugby trounce U Q T R B Y S IR O H B O S N O C H

On Sunday, McGill’s Sec ond XV crushed the Trois Rivières Patriotes 39-0on Sunday afternoon, in a very one-sided affair. “We were intense,” said an impressed limey team captain Mark Ridley. “We played the best rugby I’ve seen played in the colonies.” The scoring was opened with an impressive penalty kick by Chris Hobson. In a rarely seen one-man first half show, Hobson then added a try on an amazing run and then converted it with a beautiful kick. Marky Mark, a one time pro vincial 100 metres champion, was quick to add McGill’s second try with a flashy side-step that left UQTR Coach Poilu Troudemais scratching his head.

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experience at the varsity level,” she said. Standing at the forefront of this force, Béliveau is certainly no stranger to the sport of volleyball nor to the coaching arena. Béliveau, who has been involved in the sport for approximately 20 years, played on the National Team and for the University of Sherbrooke during the 1980’s. She later went on to coach at Sherbrooke and is now entering her second season as head coach at McGill. Béliveau is expecting a great deal of competition from a power-

“That was one of the best moves I’ve ever seen,” he com mented. Hobson converted the try with a beautiful kick from the side of the field. Sam Lupton rounded out the first half scoring with a brilliant eight man pick up play and again, Hobson converted with another kick. Second half scoring was opened by another run by Hobson, although he was unable to convert this time due to the wind. Marky Mark added McGill’s fifth try us ing his patented sidestep to bewil der UQTR defenders. Veteran winger Tristan Jackson scored the final try, in a flash of speed set up by fullback and club president Dave Laurie’s perfect spiral pass.

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said Oyvind Larsen, McGill’s experienced Norwegian winger. [“The score would have been much higher if the fullback would just pass the ball more.”] Coach Steve Penner was clearly satisfied with the 39-0 win. “We played well,”he said. “I couldn’t have asked for more ex cept maybe better running passing, kicking, rucking and mauling. Other than that we put on an excel lent show.” The Redmen First XV will travel to Ottawa to face the Carleton Ravens while the Second XV, now tied with Bishop’s for first place in the Q.U.R.F.L., will have the week end off to prepare for next week’s faceoff with Concordia. b a k f r a ,"

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Fo rb es F ie ld ... W hat is th is sh it? Up at Forbes Field, a definitely pungent odour hangs in the air. The plateau of mud behind McConnell Hall is the practicing grounds for McGill’s men’s and women’s rugby teams. While the McGill Safety Office maintains that the field is safe to play on, an unusual number of male and female rugby players are out of commission with infec tions that may have oc curred as a result of wallow ing in sewage-infested mud. When it rains, a cocktail of human waste emanating from the illustri ous McConnell Hall resi dence sewers mysteriously finds its way on to the field. While this process has not yet been captured on videotape, the stench alone leaves little doubt as to the ultimate resting-place of the bacteria. For the past three years, players have com plained about Forbes’ foul smell. This season, how ever, marks the first time anyone has been sidelined as a result of the perilous practice surface. Both rugby teams have lost players to simple cuts that have grown infectious. These athletes are now on antibiotics. The Redmen, in particular, have lost between seven and ten players. Some have open sores which simpy fail to heal; another has an ear infection with impetigo-like symptoms. One player was told that his infections were serious enough to cause heart problems had he not sought treatment. The Martlets have several players with full blown impetigo, which is a contagious skin disease that causes blistering. The ladies are forced to wrap their sores in order to play “safely.” The players have been assured by the Safety Office that the field is safe for rugby play. The official word is that the infections were simply present among

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thing of one or a few players and were transmitted to others through the brutal physical contact that is a hallmark of rugby. All players have been asked to bathe more frequently, do more loads of laundry, and immedi ately disinfect all flesh wounds with peroxide. Whether or not this recent slough of infections stems directly from the nearby sewage or from a “staphylococcus infection” — as McGill’s Safety Office has called it — merely floating among team members, is debatable. So why is there such a huge epidemic of infection this year, precisely when Forbes is at its stinkiest? Is it merely coinci dental that both the women’ s and men’s rugby teams had players with such infections, and that these very players happened to come in to contact with so many others? “It’s a blind ing coincidence that all of us have this,” remarked one afflicted rugby player. Both teams have joined forces and drafted a petition calling for attention and action on the matter. When rugby players com plain, you know something has go t to be wrong. It is an outrage that two of McGill’s most successful teams are forced to endure these conditions. While healthy engineers hog the pristine lower campus field, rugby’s ailing athletes are left to dive face-first in to a cesspool. “In a perfect world, that would be our field,” an infected Redman told me. Forbes Field still reeks, especially on a warm day. The rugby clubs are bitter. And McGill’s stu dent-athletes continue to endanger their health as they pursue the game they love.

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OCTOBER 26: THE CONSTITUTIONAL REFERENDUM

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