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Tuesday, October 20 The Centre for Developing Area Studies, as part of the Gender Issues in South Asia Seminar Series, presents Dr. Akhtar Naraqi, speak ing on "The Dynamism and Thought of the Contemporary Persian Poetess Furugh Farrukhzad." 12:00 pm, 3715 Peel Street, Seminar room 100. For info call 398-3507. Eco McGill presents Rainfor est Week. Well be having tables with information on rainforests and pre serving them. Leacock Building, all day. The Faculty of Arts, as part of the McDonald-Currie Lectureship Se ries, presents Professor Renato Barilli of the University of Bologna, Italy, speakingon "Cultural Materialism and the Origins of Postmodemity." Recep tion from 5:00-6:00 pm in the Com mon Room of Old Chancellor Day Hall, 3644 Peel. Lecture from6:00-8:00 pmin theMootCourt of NewChancel lor Day Hall, 3644 Peel. All welcome. For info, call 398-4216. Amnesty International has meetings every Tuesday at 6:30 pm in Shatner 435. For more info, call 286-0502. The McGill Graduate Chris tian Fellowship is presenting a series of talks and discussions analyzing "How God Communicates Through Scripture."Today's topic is “History of Attitudes to Scripture." 7:00-9:00 pm, downstairs back lounge of Thomson House. For more information, please contact Sara Kelly at484-6729or James Anglin at 284-4898. Wednesday, October 21 1992 Book Fair, today and tomorrow, 9:00 am-9:00 pm. Thou sands of new and used books on sale in Redpath Hall. Bargains galore. Every one welcome, free admission. For info call 398-4534. ACCESS McGill meeting at 5:30 in Shatner 104.

The Faculty of Arts presents an informal lecture by Professor Renato BariUi of the University of Bologna, Italy, to the Department of Art History. The subject is "William Blake - The First Post-Modern?”4:30 pm. Arts W215. For infocall398-4216. St. Martha's In The Base ment presents Film Night (and pizza!) at 5:30 pm, 3521 University (The UnitedTheological College). Everyone welcome. For info call Roberta Clare, Presbyterian-United Church Chap laincy, 398-4104. QPIRG still looking for vol unteers interestedinputting together a Green Plan on Environmental Policy at McGill as well as those wanting to work directly on issues of waste manage ment in campus cafeterias. Everyone welcome at our meeting today at 5:30 pm, Eaton Building room 505. McGill Young Alumni presents "Building a Better Cookie," a speech by Michael Eskenazi, owner and founder of M. Félix and Mr. Norton. 6:00-7:00 pm, Leacock 232. Everyone welcome, free admission. For info call 398-4534. The Pillar... Due tonumerous phone calls from die-hard writers, po ets and artists we have decided to ex tend our deadline for submissions. Submit until today at the Pillar office, 3479 Peel, 3rd floor, or in our mailbox at the SSMU desk. Thursday, October 22 The McGill James Bay Coa lition is coordinating an information session and discussion about Hydro Quebec projects that are underway. Come andfindout what'supwithJames Bay II and other projects. Invited speakers: law student with special in terest in James Bay and reps from the Grand Council of the Cree. 7:00 pm, location TBA but probably Leacock 232. Please call 495-1482 for info.

1992 McGill Book Fair ends today. 9:00 am-9:00 pm, RedpathHall. For info call 398-4534. TheFaculty of Music presents Kevin McMillan and Paul Stewart performing works by Schubert and Liszt as part of the CBC-McGill Radio Concert series.7:30 pm. Pollack Hall (555 Sherbrooke St. W.), free admis sion. Fot info call 398-4547. The Centre for Developing Area Studies, in cooperation with the Aga KhanFoundationCanada, presents Mr. Abed speaking on the "Problem of

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or more featured performers, there will be an open stage. Tonight: Crazyface with TB A. Admission $2.00. For info call 398-6243.

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The FacultyofMusic presents the McGill Wind Symphony, con ducted by Tom Talamantes. 8:00 pm. Pollack Hall, 555 Sherbrooke St. W. Free admission. For info, call 398-4547.

McGill Drama and Theatre Pro grams production of "The Castle,"

Tickets go on sale today for the

The Canadian Studies Pro gramme and the Faculty of Law present Ovide Mercredi, National Chief of the Assembly of First Na tions, speaking on "To Heal the Peo ple, To Heal the Nation." 2:00 pm, Leacock 132. McGill's Car ibbean Students Society welcomes all of its mem bers to an informative and entertaining general meet ing today at 6:30 pm in Shatner 107/108. Patties for sale after the meeting. The Bio chemistry Department presents a seminar by Dr. Daniel Koiakofsky, Uni

Land, Women and Education in Bang ladesh." 10:00 am, 3715 Peel Sl, semi nar room 100. For info call 398-3507. As part of the Anthropology Speakers Series, Professor Emmanuel Désveaux of the Laboratoire d'anthropologie sociale, Paris, will be speaking on "From Rock Paintings to Norval Morrisseau: Ojibway Vision and Graphical Repre sentation." 4:30-6:00 pm, Leacock room 738. The McGill Film Society presents "Dead Poets Society" at 7:30 pm in the FDA Auditorium. Admis sion is $3.50 non-members, $1.00 for members, children and seniors. Friday, October 23 The Yellow Door Coffee House presents live music every Fri day night at 8:00 pm. After sets by two

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versity of Geneva Medical School, on Paramyxovirus RNA synthesis and mRNA editing. 12:30 pm, room 903 of the McIntyre Medical Sciences Building. The McGill Film Society presents "Spinal Tap" at 7:30 pm in the FDA Auditorium. Admission is $3.50 non-members, $1.00 members, chil dren and seniors. Saturday, October 24 The International Relations Society hosts the International Forum today from 12:00-2:00 pm. The forum will include a discussion of interna tional affairs. The focus issue will be: The impact of the Canadian referen dum on international affairs. All are welcome. The McGill Film Society presents "Rush" at 7:30 pm in the FDA Auditorium. Admission is $3.50

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which will be performed in November. Tickets are available at Sadie's and Paragraphe Bookstore. For info call Maria Tariello or Tracy Pecora at 398-6558, or the Drama Hotline at 398-6070. The Biochemistry Depart ment presents a seminar by Dr. Lee Wall from L'Institut du Cancer de Montréal on "Regulationofbeta-globin expression during erythroid differen tiation." 12:30 pm, room 903 of the McIntyre Medical Sciences Building. Ongoing... As the deadline swiftly ap proaches, the fish begins to perspire nervously. The Red Herring is anx iously awaiting your uproarious con tribution to the magazine or a lamenta bly bad haiku for the Horrible Haiku Contest. Don't make us extend our deadline! We're serious! Yeah! Sobring submissions post haste to our mailbox by the Smew desk or to Shatner 406. And as always, call 398-6816 for info andrecipes. Dis ain't no dead Herring...

Montage, the McGill English Department magazine, is now accept ing submissions. New and old material is accepted for poetry, literature, fic tion, theatre, drama, and film/communications. Submissions will not be re turned so please make copies. They can be brought (with your name and phone number) to the DESA mailbox in the Arts Building porters office, or to the DESA office in Arts 305. Tuesday Night Café Theatre presents "Cosmetic Surgery" from Oct. 21-31 atMorriceHall, 12:00pm.$1.00 admission. It is being performed in tandem with "No Exit," also running from Oct. 21-31 at Morrice Hall. 8:00 pm, $6.00 adults; $4.00 students and seniors. For information and reserva tions, call 398-6600.

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R eferend um P o ll R e su lts

T r ib u n e How will students vote? Number of students polled Total # of students voting 'Yes' Total # of students voting 'No' Total # of students undecided

360 233 (64.7%) 73 (20.3%) 54(15.0% )

Francophone student vote # of francophone students polled Total # voting 'Yes: Total # voting 'No' Total # of students undecided

69 34 (49.3%) 28 (40.6%) 7(10.1%)

The non-francophone student vote # of non-francophones students polled Total # of students voting 'Yes' Total # of students voting 'No' Total # of students undecided

F o r Y o u r S a fe ty In f o r m a t io n

291 199 (68.4%) 45 (15.5%) 47 (16.2%)

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General: Will a 'No' vote lead to separation? No vote will lead to separation: 159 (44.2%) No vote will not lead to separation: 155 (43.1%) Undecided: 46 (12.8%) Francophone: No vote will lead to separation: 23 (33.3%) No vote will not lead to separation: 39 (56.5%) Undecided: 7 (10.1%) Non-francophone: Will a 'No' vote lead to separation? No vote will lead to separation: 136 (46.7%) No vote will not lead to separation: 116 (39.9%) Undecided: 39 (13.4%)

M cG ill students confound pollsters B Y G E N E V IE V E B E A U C H E M IN A N D J A N E W H IT E

Attitudes against the Charlottetown Accord may be hardening across Canada, as in dicated by recent polls, but a T r i b u n e poll suggests that McGill students will buck the No trend. An overwhelming 65 per cent o f McGill students polled said they will vote Yes in Mon day’s referendum, with only 15 per cent undecided. The num bers are contrary to last Friday’s G l o b e a n d M a il poll, which had No supporters outnumbering Yes supporters by nine percent age points across Canada. An Angus-Reed/Southam poll re

leased on the weekend found No forces ahead in six provinces. Obviously, McGill opin ion differs from the rest o f Canada. During the last two weeks, 360 students from 12 different faculties and nine provinces responded to the T r ib u n e poll. Aside from the ov er whelming majority o f Yes sup porters, another surprise was the divided M cGill francophone vote. With 69 francophones sur veyed, Yes voters were 8 per centage points ahead o f No vot ers. With their incredible Yes support, McGill students differ greatly from other Quebec stu dents. Numbers from thc G l o b e ’ s

poll reveal that two thirds of Quebec students support the No side, almost the exact opposite to the T r i b u n e poll results. There is national dissent over whether or not rejection of the Accord means a rejection of Quebec. Almost as many stu dents at McGill believe a No vote in October will lead to Que bec separation as those who don’t. However, Francophone students are 24 per cent less in clined to believe that a No vote is a vote for sovereignty. Contrary to expected re sults, Quebec students were substantially more supportive of a Yes vote than students from Ontario. 74 per cent of Quebec students intend to vote Y es, while

only 52 per cent of Ontario stu dents feel the same. As to an explanation for McGill students'preponderance to vote Yes, Poli teal Science Professor Chris Manfredi could only speculate. "This is the first genera tion to grow-up within the re gime of official bilingualism, and perhaps this makes them [stu dents] more sensitive to Quebec's aspirations," offered Manfredi. But Manfredi cautioned that McGill students don’t nec essarily represent broader Cana dian trends. "Both English and French students at McGill are not a ran dom selection of the population," explained Manfredi. "They're a self-selected group."

Walk-Safe Network (WSN) and the McGill Sexual Assault Center (MS AC) have been author ized by the survivors of recent assaults to release the fol lowing information, in order to raise awareness and help increase personal safety. On October 18th, a woman’s body was discov ered in an alley between St. Urbain and Clark Streets just above Prince Arthur. Police believe the body was dumped there. “Signs of violence” were discovered around the woman’s neck, according to the police. While the coroner investigating the case refused to comment on whether the woman had been sexually assaulted, a police detective did acknowledge that the woman was found with her sweater on backwards as if someoneelse haddressed her. The woman is described as approximately 30 years old, about 5 ’4 ” in height with red hair. On October 14th at 6:00 p.m., a woman was walking on Prince Arthur Street between Hutchison and Lome when a man started to follow herand began verbally harassing her. He became in creasingly aggressive and walked quickly towards her. When she crossed the street, he continued to followed her on the opposite side until the comer where he turned. The man was described as black and spoke English with a heavy, possibly Caribbean, accent. On October 14th at 12:30 a.m. a woman was mugged while walking west along Prince Arthur Street between Ste-Famille and StUrbain. A man grabbed her from behind and pulled her onto the street. She resisted him and he grabbed her handbag and ran off into a nearby alley. The man was described as white with dark hair. Anyone involved in an assault is advised to report the incident to the Montreal police, MSAC (398-2700) and the WSN (398-2498).

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groups, political and religious groups are ineligible for fund ing and o ffice space. In order

frustrated with his com m ittee ’ s attempts to gain funding and o ffice space from Stu d ents’ S o c ie t y ( S S M U ) . A r a fa t claim ed the P S C executive has run into red tape over S S M U ’s

litical influences on its opera tions, the P SC revamped its constitution last year. “W e were told [last year] that two words in our constitu tion, ‘prom oting’ and ‘plight’,

recognition was again rejected. “T he V P Internal has re fused tim e and tim e again to explain why we are deemed [political ],” argued Arafat, who also claim ed that Dzerow icz

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policy as it exists now ,” she acknowledged. “Itis extremely unfortunate that the P SC is caught in the middle o f this w hole issue. They have every

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D en tistry rinsed, sp a t and paid th e ir bill B Y RAM RA N D H A W A

With overwhelming support from faculty members, alumni, and the McGill com munity, McGill’s Faculty of Dentistry succeeded in meet ing the terms mandated by Senate last year for its contin ued existence. In January, Senate ap proved a recommendation to shut down the faculty unless nine stringent conditions were met by September 30,1992. In a report presented to Senate by the Academic Policy and Planning Committee last Wednesday, VP Academic William Leggett announced the faculty had succeeded in implementing the required conditions by the deadline. “The faculty was not at that time [in January] meeting the expectations of the univer sity as outlined in our mission statement,” said Leggett in a press conference last Thurs day. Principal David Johnston added that the closure was proposed as part of a series of recommendations to help McGill “balance its budget and reaffirm its commitment to in ternational standards of excel lence in all our programs.” “After eight months of discussing, planning, negoti ating and fundraising, the Faculty of Dentistry has suc

D e n t i s t r y ta k e s a b it e o u t o f $ 8 -1 0 m i l l i o n p r o je c t e d e x p e n d it u r e s a n d s ta y s o p e n

ceeded in meeting the condi tions,” elaborated an enthusi astic Johnston. Designed to lower the estimated eight to ten million dollars that would have been required to maintain the fac ulty, the conditions addressed such issues as the renewal of full-time staff, making the dental clinic financially inde pendent, and reducing the parttime staff budget. In order to achieve these

goals, part-time staff mem bers took a 15 to 20 per cent pay cut, one-third of the full time staff accepted early re tirement, and the dental clinic raised its fees by 20 per cent. Assistant professor and practicing dentist Norman Miller, who is also a parttime staff member, remarked that the wage decreases were readily accepted. “[Our wage] doesn’t re ally pay for our parking here,”

he explained. “We give our time as a donation.” According to Leggett, the early retirements, were in cluded in the conditions in or der to accomodate researchoriented staff. Leggett expressed his approval that the process was carried out with a “positive spirit.” But at last week’s Senate meeting, political science pro fessor Sam Noumoff voiced

ER R ATU M In a n e w s sto r y la s t w e e k e n title d "P re scrip tio n p la n o p t-o u t n u m b e rs c a u s e concern," i t w a s e rro n e o u sly s ta te d t h a t th e u n d e r g r a d u a te s p a y $43.80 p er s e m e s te r for th e S tu d e n ts ’ S o c ie ty P r e s c r ip tio n D r u g a n d A c c id e n t In s u r a n c e P la n . In fa ct, th e s tu d e n ts p a y $43.80 p e r y e a r for th e plan.TTie

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his concern that a fee increase at the clinic could prevent former customers from con tinuing to use the service. Dentistry Dean Ralph Barolet countered that although the clinical fees have been raised by 20 per cent, the clinic still charges only half of what practicing dentists charge. With these amendments, and with the renewal of a lease agreement with the Montreal General Hospital (MGH), the initial $8-10 million in pro jected expenditures was re duced to $1 million. After the threat to close the faculty was made public in the summer of 1991, Miller helped launch the Committee to Save McGill Dental School. Dentistry alumni donated over $1.5 million in gifts and pledges, which will be used to refurbish the MGH clinic. Miller stressed the im portance of the atmosphere of cooperation that pervaded the faculty. “I would like that the legacy of this experience of ours be to the community that we do not have to accept deci sions [which] sometimes don’t seem proper,” he argued “The community at large can have an impact on what seem to be institutions that don’t neces sarily have to listen to the community.”

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E d ito ria l Students are sensing that there is something awkwardly amiss in the M cGill ghetto. Not only is the Walk-Safe Network getting up to fifty calls per night for walks home, but local media have lately begun a series of reports on our campus’ safety. Safety became a critical issue for students at the onset of the school year, when a woman was violently sexually assaulted at knifepoint 20 yards from her front door near Milton and Ste. Famille. A wake of weekly reports has since followed, ranging from muggings to sexual harassments; students are stunned. It would seem as though the whispers we all heard first year about the ‘dangerous M cGill ghetto’ have been given loud and undeniable voice, making everyone a little uneasy, includ ing the M U C police. The increased reporting of ghetto violence has exposed a quirky anomaly. From week one, verifying reports with the M U C

E d ito ria l If recent polls are accurate (except the one in this week's Tribune), Canadians will over whelmingly reject the Charlottetown constitutional proposals in next week’s referen dum. But in the few days left before the vote, Canadians should carefully rationalize about the consequences of voting No. Rejecting this deal will not make any of Canada’s federal problems go away; regional tensions will only exacerbate. The West will still want a Triple E Senate, while Quebec will still want more powers and its distinct society. Aboriginals will still desire recognition of self-government, while Ontario will still want a social charter. Saying No thanks to this accord will not lead to another one upon which Canadians can build. Compromises will have to be made in any future constitutional talks. B y analyzing the varying positions of No side leaders, one can easily see that they are far more interested in attacking than building a consensus. Just look at the different interests of its leaders: right wing Reform Party Leader Preston Manning; left wing feminist leader Judy Rebick; radical federalist and centralist Pierre Trudeau; Quebec sovereigntists Jacques Parizeau and Lucien Bouchard. By comparison, at the national and provincial levels, politicians on all sides have abandoned petty partisan and opposition politics to overwhelm ingly come out in favour of the

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police has been a frustrating, time-consuming and unexpected hassle for the Tribune. Sketchy with the details of even well-known cases, police are reluctant to release anything more than the basic facts. Clearly, this is stonewalling at its most rigid. This paternalistic approach to withholding information which ‘would only create undue paranoia’ means that students may unwittingly walk down the same street where an assault occurred the night before. This translates into a dangerous, false sense of security that does nothing to encourage students to take their safety seriously until it’s too late. Media sensationalization of tragic deaths like Chantal Brochu’s, while creating a momentary safety anxiety which none of us can ignore, inevitably leaves us with the impression that violent crime is random and unpreventable. Ulti mately, we are left powerless, knowing grisly details about a stranger’s murder and remaining ignorant about crimes in our own

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back yard. But students can tolerate it no longer. Reports of ghetto crime flow weekly to the M cGill Sexual Assault Centre. Innumerable eyes now keep watch on the ghetto, in the form of Walk-Safe volunteer patrols. Patterns of crime are emerging from the reports, provid ing students with descriptions of attackers as well as highlighting the most dangerous ghetto areas. Far from being paranoid, the M cGill community is becoming well-versed in campus crime and safety. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said about the M U C police, who are often the last to know about weekly incidents. While M cGill students take more control of their personal safety, very little is being done to dole out justice to the perpetrators of ghetto violence. The problem is twofold. First, students often don’t report what they see as ‘minor’ incidents that happen in the ghetto to the police. Secondly, it follows that the police force remains by-and-large unaware of all but the most serious crimes

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that occur and is unable to link less dramatic events, such as verbal harassment, in any meaningful way. The result is that offenders can lurk in relative obscurity for long periods of time near campus, camouflaged by the comings and goings of thousands of students. The police are far from perfect; but they are not the only safeguards available to us. As a community of students, we are often dissatisfied with traditional systems. Educated to critique and analyze, students are professional thinkers. We should be able to institute more innovative and imaginative structures, like the Walk-Safe Foot Patrol, to ensure our own safety. J A N E W H IT E E R IC B O E H M M E L IN D A D O D D B E N O IT J A C Q M O T T E A U B R E Y K A S S IR E R A L IS O N K O R N D O R IS L E E K A T IE R O B S O N M A D Y V IR G O N A

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accord, a rarity in the Parliamentary system of government. Prime Minister Mulroney’s oft-repeated challenge for the nay sayers to come up with a better deal themselves is a legitimate one. Indeed, it is doubtful that this generation of political leaders will ever be able to duplicate the deal based on compromise and consen sus unprecedentedly reached by the group of 17 federal, provincial and aboriginal leaders at Charlottetown. The fact is, what Judy Rebick thinks would make a better deal is not necessarily on a par with Manning’s conception of a better deal. Trudeau’s criticism (that Quebec got too much) is clearly at odds with Parizeau’s (that Quebec did not get enough and sold out).Yes, Rebick and Manning, as well as Trudeau and Parizeau, would have to compromise to keep the country together. Not a likely possibility. Canada cannot surivive if single interest groups treat these or any future constitutional talks as zero sum, ‘they-won-we-lost’ games. The No side accuses Yes of fear-mongering when economic arguments are made regarding the consequences of a No vote to the economy. But these potential consequences should be considered in a rational manner when voting. According to a recent Royal Bank of Canada analysis of the economic consequences of a No vote, Canadian living standards would drop by 5 per cent. Unem ployment would increase by 720,000, the average family income would decrease by almost $4,000 a year by the end of the decade and

1.25 million Canadians would emigrate elsewhere by the end of the century. It doesn’t take the average high school economics student long to realize that investors would not want to put money into a country with such a shaky political climate, that a No vote will not do anything for the falling Canadian dollar. Such warnings are not the product of fear-mongering; the fact is Canadians, rightly or wrongly, are voting for economic and political stability just as much as they are voting on a legal text. The No side’s argument that Canadians are voting on uncertainty by not knowing where the agree ment will lead the country in the future is moot. Aside from the fact that the Canadian and American founders did not know where their constitutions would lead their countries in the future either, it is incomprehensible how can the No forces could risk even greater uncertainty by rejecting the accord and propelling Canada into a future of both political and economic instability. Admittedly, in order for the Yes side to win next week, their leaders have to effectively rebut blatant myths propounded by the No side. Equality provisions will not be threatened by the Canada Clause, as Trudeau and Rebick will have some believe. Equality rights are enshrined in Trudeau’s own baby, the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. There is nothing in the present agreement that suggests otherwise. The granting of self govern ment to aboriginals and distinct

society status to Quebec are statements of recognition of difference. Aboriginals and Quebecers are distinct, not superior. They will continue to have the same rights as all Canadians within the context of the Constitution. Their recognition is a statement of fact about Canada: if the country is to continue to exist as a whole, then its collective traditions will have to be recognized. To vote in favour of this accord does not signify support for the politicians who drafted it. To vote in favour of this accord is not to support the political process. Hopefully, in the week ahead, Canadians will rally and vote for the right reasons, in recognition that the accord accomplishes unprecedented progress by bringing competing visions of the country together under one document, and that it ensures political, economic and social stability. Only a Yes vote will legitimize the constitution by bringing Quebec aboard. Most significantly, only a Yes vote will enable constitutional talks to continue, but under the guise of a renewed, united and more prosper ous Canada, not a divided and weakened one. It is naive to believe that a No vote could ever accomplish the same.

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There has been a growing number of men's movements cropping up all over the continent and, until a few days ago, I had not heard a convinc ing argument as to why they should exist. Why should men have a particular group to meet and talk about their place in the contemporary world when the structure of every organization upholds the strategic position of men? Let’s face it they've had 2000 years to freely discuss their place. What was particularly upsetting was the fact that these men's organizations exclude women. I had serious problems reconciling this fact ideologically with making advances towards a non-sexist society. Yet the recent argument I heard was not only sensible but compelling on a certain level. However, a friend had an argument that initially got my back up: Men talk differently when women are around, he said. That, I retorted, is pre cisely the problem; men should learn to speak comfortably in the company of both men and women about emotional issues. Furthermore, if men are able to have progressive discussion only in the false conditions of a male environ ment, how in the hell can you translate that into the real world of two genders? But his view was not for the bearskin-hugging-howling at the moon type organizations nor was it for the “let’s be sensitive” Café-au-lait drinking groups like last year's experi mental and deeply flawed Place for Ethan. Instead, my friend stressed the importance of men addressing issues of sexism, and violence in our society in any forum. He pointed out that a group of men who intentionally discussed these issues in an attempt to work though an opinion separate from the standard Paramount Studios version is necessary. If a male-only group facilitates this process, then so be it. Thus, the argument follows that men need to redefine— outside of societal parameters— a new relationship between one

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another before they can integrate this perspective with women. In Foucauldian fashion, men need to reflect on the basis of contemporary attitudes towards the roles of the sexes and realize that the formula version is cramped and confin ing. The environment for women is littered with nega tive potentialities which are unrecognized as the landmines they represent. Both men and women are required to suc cessfully identify and elimi nate these conditions of discrimination and privilege. I would rather see men learn to confront society's entrenched attitudes, such as sexism and its many repercus sions, openly and without hesitation in the gendered world in which we live. But perhaps there is something of a choice to be made between an enduring status quo perspec tive and having men who struggle to reinterpret the values of the modem world with relation to the evolving role of the sexes. So let us allow some slack. This does not necessarily advocate ihdXcarte blanche be given to any Bly-inspired congregation to redefine feminism for themselves on their terms. In fact it is much simpler than that; the world has an escalating level of violence and aggression. Many people, men included, would like to free themselves from the bondage of patriarchal structures: structures which keep us all in the competitive mindset, pitting people against one another in a hierarchical ordering of attributes (white, male, English), structures which keep us all in check. I realized that a person must necessarily open their mind to all approaches, gender specific or otherwise, as long as the commitment legiti mately wages the struggle for a transformation to real equality. So Paul, your argument didn’t fall on deaf ears. Talk with all people or talk just among men, but please talk.

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Adam Stembergh is a fledgling journalist who will never progress if he continues to write such mis informed drivel as 'Perots and Cons’ (Oct. 14). M r. Stembergh's cute.use of hyperbole does not obscure the fact that Perot's economic plan, in its entirety, has been around since July, longer than Clinton's or Bush's. In fact, one would almost wonder whether there would be a publicized plan from either candidate if it were not for M r. Perot. Furthermore, the individual aspects of H. Ross Perot's economic plan are not new but have been in Washington for years. He admits this freely, but mourns the fact that there have been few political leaders with backbone enough to implement them. Perot does not represent the last bastion of de mocracy, but does represent a feeling among Americans that action needs to be taken in order to alleviate the debt burden. This is especially true in a political climate where leaders who have worked to alleviate it are opting out of public service (i.e. Warren Rudman of the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings B ill) rather than put up with the endless political posturing on Capitol Hill. In a country that has quite possibly the highest per capita number of televisions and has been investing in fiber optic technology that will allow extraordinarily quick exchanges of information between people and their elected representatives, the idea of an electronic Tow n Hall is not outrageous. M r. Perot's infomercial describing his view of the economic situation was the highest rated television show the evening that it was aired. This shows a genuine American interest in the policies of and challenges to its government. Despite the charge of a sub-literate American electorate by Alex Usher and Chris Alam in a previous Features piece in the Tribune, most Americans can and do interpret the facts that they receive. Furthermore, with regards to fears of manipulation of these facts in the television medium, as we have seen in the McGill Tribune so far this year, it is just as easy to grossly misrepresent the facts in print.

Michael Fleischner U3 Engineering

Factual... Big hair: troll (other examples: Dave Ley) Big ears: Perot (other examples: Dumbo) Big dork: Stembergh (other examples: the an noying guy in just about every conference) First, let's get the facts straight. There are more than three candidates. In many states, you can vote for the Natural Law Party or Lyndon LaRouche. Also, what with David Hasselhoffs phenomenal popularity in Czechoslovakia, perhaps you shouldn't be so rash when talking about Andrew Ridgeley's solo career. And of course you can tell the two major party candidates apart - Clinton is the one with a hair helmet, and Bush is the one who supports himself with the flag to make up for a lack of backbone. Just like I can tell the difference between you and your highly paid colleagues at Time, Newsweek et. al - one group (let's call them the profes sionals) works under an editorial staff, the other (let's call them you) works under Rich Latour. Y ou also seem to be behind the lines in telephone technology. If you watched more infomercials, youd know that, besides 976 lines, there are 900 and 800 numbers, and it's toll-free to call 800 numbers. (This is how you can order free Books of Mormon for your friends.) I guess you're too busy calling 1-976-JoJo to see how stars chart out your eunuchness to discover this whole new world just a phone call away. And anyway, you wouldn't want to suspect that the electronic town meeting idea m ig ht require televisions in publicly-accessible locations. Or, for that matter, that he could ever get this idea through Congress. By the way, it's not that Lazarus refused to die. He was raised from the dead. If your parallel between he and Perot is at all accurate, then you must believe that his volunteers convinced him to run. O r maybe you're just bad with metaphors.

Don McGowan Dip. Env. 1

Your editorial piece, "Fear and loathing of Charlottetown", by Mady Virgona and Reform Party supporter Chris Alam, reflects many of the lowest, most anti-Quebec feelings held by members of that party. T o criticize federal party leaders for beaming and smiling at Quebecers, and to praise those parties that do not care to take into account the legitimate concerns of one quarter of Canada's population, is nothing less than narrow-minded bigotry. The distinct society clause and the guarantee of 25 percent of Commons seats are simply a recognition of Quebecs unique position as the only French-speaking region in North America. As for the argument of representation by population, I have never, ever, heard anyone complain about the fact that Prince Edward Island has had a guarantee of four seats since it joined Confederation. O f course, P.E.I. has a W ASP-ish anglophone majority, so its probably not as bothersome to Reformers as Quebec. A ll citizens in Canada are equal, but some are different in their needs. Not so long ago, a policy of enforced conformity led to native children being taken away to residential schools where they were beaten for speaking their own languages. The Reform Party ap pears to want to treat Quebecers the same way. It is for the good of all Canadians, including Quebecers, that we must vote Yes on October 26.

Alex Ng Federal Secretary, New Democratic Youth of Canada U3 Arts

Tenuous... The editorial in the October 14 issue (Fear and loathing of Charlottetown) clearly illustrates that Chris Alam and Mady Virgona have at best a loose grasp on Canadian government. Their justification for a N o position is tenuous at best. First, they assail the accord for recognizing Quebec as a distinct society within Canada, under the pretense that Novà Scotia is as deserving of this rec ognition because of its culture's relationship to that of British Columbia. Not only does this trivialize the nature of the distinct society debate, but it overlooks the fundamental base upon which this clause is founded: that Quebec culture is distinct from the rest o f Canada, and that it is the French language is what differentiates it. Secondly, they argue the double majority re quired in the Senate assumes francophone senators possess greater wit and intelligence than their English counterparts. This argument is infantile at best, because a comprehensive understanding of Canadian consti tutional theory clearly illustrates that this provision was included in the Charlottetown Accord in order to prevent the Senate from enacting legislation which affects the French language without consulting francophone representatives. Thirdly, Prince Edward Island is currently guaranteed four seats in the House of Commons, a proportion which is clearly not commensurate with their percentage of the Canadian population. (Roughly 1 in 250Canadians live inP.E.I., while 1 in75M Pshail from that province.) They make no mention of this, but find it significant that Quebec is given a similar guar antee. Funny that. Finally, they characterize Quebec as a power broker, failing to notice the historical power Quebec has exercised over the rest of Canada, like its role in electioneering to the unwritten rule that a certain number of cabinet ministers in any federal government must be Québécois. Obviously, Alam and Virgona have been inculcated by the rhetoric of - to use their own term - half-wits such as Preston Manning and Jacques Parizeau. You have not criticized the Charlottetown A c cord nearly as much as you have slapped the province of Quebec in the face, which is certainly more offen sive than a flawed accord.

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Thursday night Judy Rebick, president of the National Action Committee on the Status of Women (NAC) and Madeleine Parent, NAC’s Quebec regional repre sentative, came to McGill to ex plain NAC’s position on the refer endum. NAC has emerged as one of a distinct few national representa

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tives for the No campaign amid a flurry of controversy. Rebick explained the climate in which NAC decided to vote No in the referendum. “It was a difficult decision to oppose the Charlottetown Accord but we believe that it represents a setback for women’s groups and for other equality seeking groups.” NAC’s opposition revolves around four main issues: the Canada

Clause; cutbacks to social pro grams; the question of gender equity in the Senate and the con cerns of native women. Rebick characterized the Canada Clause as a “a deliberate attempt to weaken the Charter” by having a direct effect on all equality rights. “Originally we thought it was inadvertent but the factthat disadvantaged groups like minorities, disabled people and

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women are discriminated against by this clause is no longer any secret,” said Rebick. “We pointed it out to the Min isters two months ago,” she claimed. As for the threat to social pro grams, Rebick elaborated how the accord was worse than Meech Lake. “The opt out clause allows any province with a program or initia tive compatible with national ob jectives to opt out with compensa tion from the national agenda.” “If Quebec has a policy for women to have more babies... this is compatible with the federal policy on child care,” Rebick explained. Under these conditions, a national child care policy would be impossi ble to implement, according to Rebick. Addressing gender equity in the Senate, Rebick stressed the fact that women make up only 13 percent of the House of Commons 21 years after The Royal Commission on the Status of Women issued theirreport which committed Canada to gender equity. “It is not an issue as to whether women can make it on their own merit or that some women haven’t broken through the barriers in the system,” explained Rebick. “But the electoral system is biased against minorities and women.” Parent primarily addressed the concerns of native women.

B o u r a s s a woos th e stu d e n t vote B Y R IC H L A T O U R

It would be illogical to break up a country like Canada, which was recently selected as the best country to live in by a United Na tions committee, by voting No in next week’s referendum, Quebec Premier Robert Bourassa told an overflow audience at Concordia University last Thursday. “On the 26th of October, if you want to strengthen Canada you vote Yes; if you want to weaken Canada you vote No,” said Bourassa, who was addressing ap proximately 500 mostly Yes-side supporters. Another 200 were turned away at the doors and forced to listen on speakers outside the auditorium where the Premier was speaking. During his presentation, which was sponsored by the Concordia’s Political Science Stu dents’ Association, Bourassa in sisted the results of a No vote would economically weaken the country as well. “You cannot say that inves tors would be reassured by a No [vote],” Bourassa told the students. “I’m not talking about the Apoca lypse but the country would be weakened.” Bourassa was questioned by seven students on issues ranging from aboriginal self-government to the question of protecting mi nority rights.

Alex Ng, federal secretary for the NDP Youth Wing, won dered how the Charlottetown Ac cord would affect the federal gov ernment’s ability to fund national social programs. The Premier defended the Charlottetown provision that would allow provinces to opt-out of fed erally-funded national programs and be compensated by setting up similar programs meeting national objectives.

“Canada is a very large country, therefore we have regional priorities that could differ from province to province,” Bourassa responded to Ng, who is a U3 Arts student at McGill. “But we will have national objectives. It’s an equilibrium between the centrifugal forces which are developing within [Canada’s] common market,” he continued. One audience member, Robin Porter, told Bourassa that he had been leaning towards the No side, but changed his mind and had decided to vote Yes after listening to the Premier speak. “From the number of people supporting it [the accord], I can support it to help keep the country together,” Porter told reporters af terwards. Donald Chatrin, a currently unemployed Montrealer, made dramatic statements to the

Premier in which he called the No forces racist because of their opposition to the accord and its distinct society provisions for Quebec. Chatrin asked how a Yes vote might affect the province’s unemployment rate. “How can a vote for the Yes side [help] the economy so that youth like me can find jobs,” Chatrin asked. Bourassa was vague in his response, stating simply that a Yes vote would restore confidence of investors in the economy. “Don’t think that we can return to negotiate [a new deal with a No vote],” warned Bourassa. “It took 125 years to reach this point.” ButConcordiaU3 Arts stu dent John Pomeroy asked Bourassa how Anglophones in Quebec could be reassured by voting Yes, which would entrench the concept of distinct society in the constitution. “What can I say to these people so that they are not afraid to come on board,” asked Pomeroy. Bourassa argued that Que bec has symbolically been recog nized as a distinct society within Canada since Confederation. “We have had.de fa cto recognition of Quebec as a dis tinct society, now we will have it de jure," he responded.

“The Native Women’s As sociation is recognized yet native women have been consistendy re fused. They have been excluded [from this whole process].” Parent believes that their ex clusion will have disastrous re sults. “One cannot expect results to be in the interest''' of native women,” she said. Rebick claimed a Yes vote would lead to further disunity among Canadians. “It means we have to fight that much harder to achieve equal ity. It means that the poor has to fight that much harder and that the gap between the rich and the poor grows.” Rebick maintained that AC has a far from “traitorous” position as portrayed by the national media. “What is important is not whether this deal is perfect but whether it advances social justice and equality and in our view it moves us back.” “This style of élite male leadership is no longer acceptable in Canada” said Rebick, who be lieves that the No position repre sents a greater dissatisfaction than just with the specifics of the ac cord. “It is about a rejection of a patriarchal élitist political system that doesn’t represent people.”

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As next week’s referendum on the Charlottetown Accord ap proaches, many questions remain unanswered concerning students ’ eligibility to cast their ballots. The qualifications and procedures for voting, especially as an out-ofprovince student, are both rigor ous and confusing. To qualify to vote in the Quebec referendum as a Cana dian citizen of voting age, a per son must have been domiciled within the province for the last six months. However, as the school year is only six weeks old, many students will find that they do not meet the residency requirements. As an alternate method of voting, students can cast a ballot in the prov ince of their permanent residency either by voting in per son or by proxy, provided they have been enumerated in that dis trict. The proxy option allows someone voting in their home dis trict to cast the student’s vote on their behalf. This is accomplished by obtaining an Elections Canada form (EC 1070) from the McGill Registrar’s Office. Once com pleted and certified by the Regis trar, the document is sent by the student to a candidate living in the student’s home riding. Upon re ceiving the form, the candidate must then submit it to the local electoral office by October 23, whereupon they are issued a cer tificate (the EC 1080) which al lows them to cast a vote on the student’s behalf. According to Cathy Walton of the Registrar’s Office, the number of students pursuing this

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News B rie fs Woman’s body dumped in McGII ghetto alley The body of a woman was discovered in an alley Sunday morning between St. Urbain and Clark Streets near Prince Arthur. Montreal Urban Community police have not yet identified the woman, but they indicate that there were “signs of violence” around her neck. Coroner Thérèse Sourour would not com ment on whether the woman had been sexually assaulted, but Detective Claude Caussignac re vealed that the woman was found wearing her sweater backwards and appeared to have been dressed by someone else. Although empty bullet casings were discov ered near the body and several gunshots were reported Friday night or Saturday morning, police believe the woman’s body was dumped in the alley sometime Saturday night or Sunday morning. Po lice do not believe the gunshots and casings are related to the woman’s death. Caussignac described the woman as approxi mately 30 years old, about 5 ’4 ” in height with red hair. She was wearing black sweat pants, a black sweater, no jacket, and no shoes, leading police to believe she was dumped. While autopsy results have yet to be released, at least two women have died of strangulation in Montreal since the end of August.

method of voting is slim. “Over the past two or three weeks, an average of twelve stu dents per day were here,” she stated. The alternative of voting by proxy is only available to full time students. Part-time students residing in Quebec for less than the required six months will have to return home to cast their votes in the referendum. Strangely enough, these alternatives allow some students to vote twice. Out-of-province students who have been domi ciled in Quebec for the past six months are eligible for enumera tion both at home and in Mon treal. Yet officials from Elections Canada and Elections Quebec seem hesitant in acknowledging this eligibility quirk. Susie Montien, speaking for Media Re lations Personnel of Elections Canada, claims that Canadian federal law prohibits citizens from voting twice. “According to the Legisla tion Act, the process of voting twice is illegal,” elaborated Montien. Lise Dallaire of Elections Quebec Media Relations was un sure of the legality of voting twice. “I imagine that people would be honest about voting,” offered Dallaire. However, the Quebec ref erendum is being administered separately from the federal refer endum and was enacted under its own provincial law. As it stands, the Legislation Act of Canada has no legal bearing on the Que bec referendum, enabling cunning Canadians, especially savvy stu dents, to legally vote twice.

Campus safety makes the 6 o’clock news The Montreal media has recently highlighted the problem of campus safety by focusing its cameras on the Walk-Safe Network (WSN) as well as the McGill Sexual Assault Centre’s Outreach Program. A Pulse News tory featured WSN during the 6and 11 o’clock news reports last Thursday evening by CFCF-12 reporter Caroline Van Vlaardingen. The report featured interview clips with WSN Coordinator Fiona Deller as well as footage of a team o f walkers escorting a woman to the McLennan-Redpath Library. Deller was enthusiastic about the recent at tention WSN has received, and described it as an opportunity to increase awareness on safety issues. “I’m thrilled!” exclaimed Deller. “It means not just coverage for us. It means that people

recognize that programs for campus safety are important, which is encouraging.” CBC television’s City Beat Newswatch pro gram will also be attending to safety concerns at McGill with a scheduled November report on Outreach. A City Beat crew will be taping at a McGill fraternity this Thursday where Outreach will host a discussion designed to raise awareness about date-rape. Encouraged by the coverage, Outreach Coor dinator Ruth Promislow hopes that the report will raise the program’s profile on campus. “I’m happy about [the report] because hope fully more groups will hear about [Outreach’s] service and we can reach a lot more students on campus,” explained Promislow.

Thou shalt not possess a handgun The McGill Chaplains are urging members of the McGill community to sign a petition against the possession of handguns in Canada. The petition, which is the same as the one being distributed by Concordia University reads as follows: - “The undersigned call on the Parliament of Canada to enact immediately laws prohibiting any one in Canadian territory from having in their possession any handgun, with the exception of members of the Canadian Armed Forces and Law Enforcement Officers for the purpose of their du ties.” The chaplains invite members of the McGill community to drop by their offices at 3484Peel (the Newman Centre) if they wish to sign.

Council dies in ninth inning stretch Only 6councillors outof apossible 30 showed up last Wednesday for their 6:00 p.m. Students’ Council meeting in the Shatner Building. The meeting was consequently cancelled because quo rum could not be reached. By a sheer stroke of coincidence, around the scheduled start of the Council meeting, Gert’s Pub was packed with fans watching ninth inning action as the Toronto Blue Jays crushed the Oakland A’s 9-2 to become the first Canadian team to reach the World Series. The game ended at precisely 6:23 pm....

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The October 26th referen dum is often portrayed as an at tempt at reconciliation between English and French in Canada. Seemingly left behind in this de bate are the nation's allophones; that is, people whose first language is neither English nor French. The Tribune interviewed three McGill allophones: Ik Hwan Cho, a Korean student in Manage ment who arrived in Quebec seven years ago and has learned both English and French; Baljit Sethi, a second-year Engineering student who came to Canada from India via England; and Yousef Arafat, a Palestinian from Jordan and Ku wait, who also spent some time in England before coming to McGill to study Political Science. Tribune:What is it like for you to come live in a community completely different from your own? Cho: The East Asian coun tries are strongly influenced by a Confucian value system, so when I first arrived here I had a lot of culture shock. I isolated myself and only got along with Koreans. Up until four or five years ago, I didn't consider myself Canadian. I viewed myself as Korean, and only Korean, because I lived in Korea for most of my youth. I began to view myself as partly Canadian two or three years ago. Now, more and more, I feel I

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know what they're talking about. Cho: When I got here, I didn't consider the choice of going to English private school; someone told me that you just had to go to French school. I had a hard time picking up the language; it was tough to pass the exams. At Vanier, I had a hard time with English. I really didn't have time to pay atten tion to what's going on with Que bec. As I work in the grocery store owned by my parents, I encounter a lot of French people and I still don't feel tension. They say, jok ingly, those damn English people! If they are serious, it should show up in their faces- but I don't see it. There were one or two people who really criticized English people, but it's the exception rather than the rule. Sethi: I think [Ik Hwan] is wrong to say that the tension be tween French and English isn't there. Have you ever tried to speak English with the French? No, you try to please them. Cho: About 80 per cent of our stores customers are French-speaking. My father and mother don'tspeakFrench fluently. They try, but when they start speaking English, the French speak English to them, because they know it's hard for them. I think your definition of ten sion is different from mine. I'm talking about shouting, screaming and really hating. But even though there are bad feelings, I don't see it

belong to this country and to Korea at the same time. Arafat: I really don't have strong connections with Canada; I'm only a landed immigrant. As time passes, you owe the country more and more loyalty. But until there's an independent Palestine, I am first and foremost Palestinian. I cannot see myself as more than a Palestinian who holds a Canadian passport, who is very proud of the opportunities Canada has given him. Tribune : When you came to Canada, did you know about the bilingual nature of the country? When, after you got here, did you first become aware of the tensions? Arafat: I heard aboutit when I was in Jordan. From the outset, the problem was very clear. I didnt feel any problem myself, because I went right into university, but au tomatically, on TV, you hear about the tensions. Sethi: In India, abroad meant London. I never heard the name Canada in London, so I never knew it was bilingual. The first problem I encountered was with my school ing. I went to French school for one semester, but my parents realized I was going to waste my entire year adapting, so they took me out and put me in an English school. Since then, I've never really had a prob lem. I work as a cashier in my parents’ store. If I don't understand a French-speaker, I say we don't have it, or I point over there as if I

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as serious tension, destroying the country and making everybody poor beggars. Tribune: Do you consider Quebec or Canada to be truly multicultural? Do you find that groups integrate or stay within themselves? Sethi: Canada is multicultural in the sense that they have opened the doors to other cultures. They have thrown in a clause saying you are free to prac tice your own religion; they are attempting to make it multicultural. It's a good advertising scheme is what I think- they need the popula tion growth. It's kind of backfired on them; their economy is thrown into a recession. Cho: I think we have many differentcultures co-existing in this country, but I don't know if they co-exist in harmony. There are two kinds of Korean students here: English-speaking and Korean-speaking. These two groups are very different. They don't hang out together; they avoid each other even though [they] have a similar background. Sethi: I remember when there was an argument about whether Sikh children should be allowed to carry the dagger, one of the five things which a Sikh must carry, to school. Even in India they don't allow that. They’re becoming too militant. I don't see that as multiculturalism. Arafat: I can only tell you how multicultural Canada is with

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risks. F or the student, price might also be a concern. At Demers' shop, the charge is $30 for a small rose and $650 for a b a ck -co v erin g tapestry o f choice. A significant investment, one must admit, even if it does happen to symbolize something e v e r la s t in g ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^

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In a given year, countless new products find their way to your cor ner store. Few, however, achieve the status of commercial institu tions. In the 1940s Dr. Alfred Stem was instrumental in the develop ment of just such a classic— the M & M candy. Dr. Stem, who is ninety, lives at St.Margaret's Nursing Home here in Montreal, where he is visited daily by his wife Lorraine. He was born and educated in Germany where,in 1927, he received hisdoctorate in chemistry from the Uni versity of Frankfurt. In 1937, Stem was dismissed from a teaching position at the Uni versity of Karlsruhe on "account of being Jewish." A year later, he fled to the United States. In 1940, Stem was contracted to set up a quality control laboratory in Newark, New Jersey for M & M, a new confectionery company named for its founders, Forrest Mars and Bruce Murrie. When he arrived, their candy was little more than sugar-coated chocolate. Stern introduced improve ments such as the coloured coating and air pockets in the chocolate

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In 1967 Benjamin Braddock was given one magic word: “Plas tics.” Twenty-five years later, there is no one-word solution. Jobs are harder to come by. There is more and better competition than there .was a generation ago and it appears as though graduates are less clear about what they want for their fu tures. Not surprisingly, the situa tion for graduating students is grim: unemployment among those 15 to 24 hovers at 20 per cent. As Sta tistics Canada’s mid-year review reports, the youth employment/ population ratio in June 1992 was down 8percentage points from its pre-recession level three years ago. There seems to be a general consensus that today’s bachelor’s degree is worth what a high school degree was two generations ago. Nonetheless, there are ways to make a undergraduate degree stand out. “A B. A. with honours carries a lot more weight than a B.A. with a major,” commented Donna Kuzmarov of the McGill Counsel ling Service. “Everyone has a ma jor; honours distinguishes you from the pack.” Ruth Flicker, president of R.R.F. Human Development Con sultants, concurred, adding that

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which allowed room for the centre to expand, thus preventing melt ing. The modem M & M was bom. Stem recalled the incident which prompted these improve ments. "We had everything set up and Mr. Mars was very happy. [He] went to Florida, and the candy melted and it was a big mess. He came back to Newark and said, Theres something we have to change. After a few weeks...I had a new candy, a new formula. Eve rything had changed." In a strange turn of events, America's involvement in World War II proved fortuitous for M & M and Stem's new candy. The Quartermaster for the American military sent out an ur gent request for a high-energy snack that could withstand high temperatures. Representing M & M at a meeting between candy companies and the quartermaster, Stem claimed to haveexactly what the army was looking for. "So I came back to Newark and sent them a case of M & Ms, and the quartermaster sent a tel egram [reading] Expect Dr. Stem to be in Washington on Monday,’” Stern recalled. “Consequently, every American ration pack dur

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some degrees are more valuable than others. “In eight years, teachers are going to be in great demand,” she noted. “Due to our aging popula tion, degrees in nursing, pharma cology and occupational therapy will be extremely valuable.” As far as Arts students are concerned, Flicker was optimistic. “Liberal arts degrees are the wave of the future for MBAs; more and more corporations are looking for a broad undergraduate educa tion. Arts degrees teach people how to read, write and think analyti cally. This is what business is now looking for.” Kuzmarov conceded social workers and teachers have the best edge on the job market. “[But] it is very difficult for B.Arch, B.C.L. and M.B. A. gradu ates to find jobs: their markets are saturated,” she noted. “A general B.Sc. might land a persistent graduate a dead-end, low-paying job in a lab.” One profitable field is ac counting. The Ministry of Em ployment and Immigration predicts that by 1995 there will be 100,000 new accountingjobs with a starting salary of $25-30,000 and salaries averaging $50,000 after five years of work. Kuzmarov suggested some non-traditional job prospects as

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ing the war contained a box of M & M candies.” Dr. Stem worked for M & M until 1947. After several positions with other companies, he and his family moved to Halifax in 1961, where he worked for Moyers, an other chocolate manufacturer, for twelve years. Though Dr. Stem has made significant contributions in the candy business, his is less than a household name. In fact, Hans Fiuczynski, Director of External Relations for M & M-Mars, had never even heard of him. In a fax to the Tribune, Fiuczynski wrote, "The name you mentioned (Alfred Stem)... drew a complete blank." He would neither confirm or deny Stem’s involve ment in the early stages of the can dy's development, stressing that numerous individuals have con tributed to the product's evolution. With Halloween approach ing, candy becomes a very serious business for companies like M & M - Mars who stand to make great profits from the seasonal rush. It should not be forgotten, however, that the treats we enjoy are the result of years and years of anony mous behind the scenes efforts from people like Alfred Stem.

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The Marxist-Leninist Party of Quebec (MLPQ) was officially recognized by the Quebec No Committee last Tuesday. Arnold August, MLPQ’s Secretary and a former McGill student, spoke with the Tribune and CKUT Radio about his party's stance.

party supporting the No vote? A.A.:I am working for the No side for the following reason: the Charlottetown report does not give the man date to the people of Canada and Quebec to write their own constitution. Instead, it was hatched behind closed doors. [Politicians] worked out their

own agenda as to what should be discussed. I am voting No as a rejection of the whole process and form of the ref erendum. T rib u n e: What signifi cance would a Yes result hold for Canada? A.A.: A Yes vote in my view would, above all, be giving a blank cheque to the 11 first ministers. Voting No

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So many festivals, so little time. What’s your average artsy college student to do? Maybe you were fished in by the slickness of the Interna tional Film Fest, or have had your festive fill of comedy and jazz, but hold on to your party hats! The F e s tiv a l In tern a tio n a l N ou v eau -C in ém a-V id éo d e M ontréal, as it enters its twentyfirst year, may no longer be nouveau, but never fear, the Fes tival still retains that sassy New Kid on the Block sensibility. This year’s offerings in clude a series of first or second time directorial efforts, which circumnavigate the globe more adeptly than Gerard Depardieu. If the opening night schmoozefest was any indication, ripe as it was with perched poseurs sporting “God-I-wish-I’d-been-invited-tothe-Junos” rent-a-gowns, one might expect a repeat of last year’s Big Cheese parade with the likes

of Jarmusch, Goddard and Van Sant. This year’s program is comparatively low-key, but lowkey is good (Ross Perot should learn from this). While the big films seem to be North American, if you can get over your subtitle phobias, there is a variety of en ticing international films to choose from. A lso, don’t forget the ‘video’ aspect of the NouveauCinéma-Vidéo and we don’t mean of the Erica Ehm school. Grab a schedule and seek out the hottest stars of this often over looked medium. Here are a few films worth catching: Canada Quelle surprise, our home and native land is well represented this year. Following Comic B ook Confidential, director Ron Mann offers a new spin on the twist in, yes, Twist, his rockin’ new rockumentary. Also in the docu mentary vein, Québécois director Maurice Bulbulian examines the

precarious triad of natives, whites, and the environment in the muchanticipated Salt Water People. Back in the fiction realm, two familiar faces reappear on the scene. Guy Madden, whose Tales from the Gimli Hospital made David Lynch look like Steven Spielberg, takes the viewer into a post-post-modem alpine night mare in Careful, which promises to be fabulously bizarre. Finally, Don McKellar, screenwriter of H ighway 61, presents Canadian weirdo-atlarge David Cronenberg on the other side of the lens in Blue, a short exploration of all fetishes great and small. U.S.A. Moving southward,Voices from the Front is a timely look at the efforts of New York AIDS activists confronted with govern ment apathy and corruption. Swimming slowly into the main stream, ex-indie director Hal Hartley, who previously bestowed upon us The Unbelievable Truth and Trust, brings to the screen

Sim ple Men. No more shoe strings; the high budget behind the sex,lies and literature of an other dysfunctional family should prove to be a more sophisticated take on the usual hilarity. Laws o f Gravity, the first full-length feature from unknown Nick Gomez, is worth checking out, if only for its press-kit de scription as a mixture of “Scorsese and Morrissey”— a terrifying but intriguing prospect. Perhaps the most deservedly hyped film of the fest is newcomer Anthony Drazan’s Zebrahead. This less dogmatic, more pragmatic, cousin of Jungle F ever blew away the crowd at the Rialto on opening night. International Best title award this year goes to Father, Santa Claus Has Died, in which Russian director Eugeny Yufit, father of, uh, “necro-realism ”, refashions Tolstoy into an intellectual S&M horror flick. No.Chucky is not back, but Germany’s C h ild sP lay presents

a more gentle exploration of childhood demons. Video Blues, a sort of Cain and Abel meet the video age, is Hungarian director Aprad Sopsits ’ followup to the 1990 art-house hit Shooting Gallery. Transferring Virginia Woolf to the screen may be a daunting task, but Britain’s Sally Potter rises to the occasion with Orlando. This historic drama stars Quentin Crisp, the man with the best name in the Actor’s Guild— say this five times fast and im press your friends. Lastly, instead of heading for the library, check out some Forbidden Homework in the shape of a cutless, editless, and poten tially scriptless love story from Mexico. The Festival International N o u v eau -C in ém a-V id éo d e Montréal runs at various theatres from October 15th to 25th. Tick ets: $5.00. Check the Mirror for list ings, or call 843-4725 for more details.

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The Barenaked Ladies (BNL), one of Canada’s hottest bands, was in town this week, playing three fabulous shows. Last Tuesday and Wednesday found them at the Rialto playing to a room full o f big-tim e Barenaked fans. But to the de light of Barenaked McGill stu dents, they arrived on campus last Thursday for a tremendously successful one hour concert, in an attempt to expose more Quebecers to their music. The Tribune had the pleasure of speaking with singer and guitar ist Ed Robertson, and drummer Tyler Stewart. The band’s name has greatly contributed to the suc cess of their career— a career which boomed when the city of Toronto banned BNL (who hail from the World Series city) from playing as a result of their appar ently ‘controversial’ name. “We weren’t a band when we named the band. Steve (vo cals) and I were goofing around and...we were just making up stupid names for bands,” ex plained Robertson, regarding their choice of nomenclature. “We were saying ‘ OK, this band will be called Here Comes

Colonel Ernie’...and one of the [names] was the BNL. We said we would be two big guys and sing about our moms and tomato soup and stuff and make fun of each other on stage. It was just one of the bands we made up.” But the name continues to attract controversy, as CBS Sports is now uneasy about let ting BNL sing the national an them at the World Series in To ronto. “W e’re not having any more fun until we sing the an them!” exclaimed Robertson, joking that the band would settle for tickets. The group met in Scarborough School’s Music Camp. Robertson started to play in Andy Creegan’s (piano) band where Jim Creegan (double bass) was actually the frontman. They then formed their own band, the BNL. Before they received ac claim on the stage, Robertson, 21, was a student in Film and Literature at York University, and Stewart, 25, is a graduate of the Radio and TV Arts program at Ryerson. Always kidding around— an attitude which makes their music distinct and new, Stewart claims to have been a carpet salesman from Albuquerque and Robertson says he used to be an old Chinese man and Maytag

man. Qne begins to wonder if the band and it s fans should have been declared a ‘distinct soci ety’ in the Charlottetown Ac cord. Speaking o f Q uebec, Stewart explained why the band travelled to Quebec and played McGill. “Right now Mix [96] and CJAD seem to be the only sta tions that are playing us here and we just want to make ourselves more known here. In Toronto we played 10,000 people and in Vancouver and Ottawa 8,000, and last night at the Rialto was about 1,200. We want to increase our audience here. Besides, two of Ed’s friends go to McGill and they cut great hair.” Despite concerns over coiffures, the group recognizes the good fortune they have had to reach their current position. “We are really having fun at what we are doing. We get the opportunity to be creative and play live in front of audiences all over the world. People want to pay us to travel, play music, act like a knob. It’s a pretty good jo b,” noted Stewart. And Robertson is pretty sure of what their recent success feels like. “Like a good back rub. Ac tually a good back rub feels bet ter.”

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Every once in a while, a film that is simultaneously repulsive and mesmerizing shows up. Recall, for example, the enticing action of Good Fellas which was matched with brutal violence. Toronto Festival of Festival’s International C ritic ’s Prize winner Reservoir Dogs is in much the same category. Alm ost the same, but not quite. Reservoir Dogs manages to surpass G ood Fellas in both its in tensity and its violence. A First offering by newcomer writer/director Quentin Tarantino, Dogs investigates the results of bringing six professional thieves together to pull off a jewelry store heist...and having the heist go terri bly wrong. Brought together by big time operator Joe Cabot (Law rence Tierney) and his son Nice G u y Eddie (Chris Penn), the six hoodlums know nothing of each other, are told to reveal nothing of themselves to the others, and operate under ali ases assigned by Cabot— such as M r. White (Harvey Keitel), M r. Orange (T im Roth), and so on through the colour spectrum. The film opens with a discus sion among the six as to the subtextual meaning of Madonna’s Like A Virgin. But this is no 500level Studies in Communication seminar. Rather, it aptly captures a continuous game of one-upmanship played by a group of small time hoods, each trying to assert their superiority over the others. T h is one-upm anship ex plodes into mistrust and violence when the heist goes wrong. While the one-upmanship and the rela tionships between the six is incred ibly alluring, mostly due to the brilliant script writing of Tarantino and expert acting by Keitel and Roth, the violence reaches and equally repulsive level. The key to this, however, is that the bloodshed seems just as realistic and believ-

able as the relationships between the six. The mistrust-driven violence grows directly out of the well estab lished passive sides of the charac ter’s natures, and as a result the extreme violence does not seem excessive. T o boot, aggressive ac tions seem, frighteningly enough, to be completely warranted. Th is is no Terminator with bullets spray ing everywhere. Every shot is well calculated and Tarantino has as sured that there is a good reason for each. Furtherm ore, D ire ctor of Photography Andrzej Sekula shows himself to be a master of the camera as he forces the audience to intrude on the action and the characters. Even more disturbing, is the cam era’s habit of turning away from overly disgusting violence. This only serves as a reminder to the audience that in another portion of the large room (in which most of the movie’s action takes place) the un inhibited violation of an individual is taking place. It is important to note, how ever, that this film is not predict able. Despite the reactionary nature of the six hood’s actions, they are not always the responses which one might expect. Tarantino has added subtle plot twists that keep the audi ence alert and interested. Tim e and again he draws attention to particu lar situations with such intensity that one forgets about other matters of importance within the film . Then, with a master stroke, he forcefully reinserts momentarily forgotten characters back into the action. Th e dichotomy between the passive, and often hilarious, repartie in which the six hoods often engage themselves, and the brutal and sa distic violence, is breathtaking. The twists and turns of Reservoir Dogs, along with its devastating ending are not to be missed. N or are they for the faint of heart. Reservoir Dogs rates a 9 out

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Devon W h ite and Divine R igh t or T he R ap tu re , th e S eries, and E v e ry th in g To be quite frank, I’m all for getting a day off school on the 26 of October. Of course we all think it’s ridiculous that anyone would think we need a day off school to vote. Sure we need an hour or two but we’re awful lucky to get an additional twenty-two to prepare ourselves for the Rapture. For all of you who’ve been living in Charlottetown for the last few weeks or anywhere outside of immedi ate Watch Tow er circulation, the Second Coming will be here a week this Wednesday. The Rapture: (the Very Last Judgement) sounds like you have to wear something short and silky, so don’t y’all worry, I’ll be first in line. I was sitting around waiting for signs that the end is nigh last Sunday night when lo and behold, the colour guard marches right on to the field at AtlantaFulton County Stadium with the Canadian flag upside down. This is not to be excused as the muddled work of a mutton-headed grunt. As sure as sunny-side-up, there is no question of over-easy with the “Leaf and Stripes”. Without a doubt, this act was the work of No vote sympa thizers and promonitory of the Rapture. Tired of all the talk about the end of Cana dian unity? Let’s go for the gusto and address the end of the world. For all of those stunned by the fact they will never climb Everest or get a 4.0 or do it on the Redpath Re serves desk, at least a few things will be decided a week this Wednesday. If we were, by some Divine Miracle, able to survive past next Wednes day we’d be able to experi ence the New Canada we’re all so primed to vote for. This brings us to the next logical step— in light of the Rapture, do our votes really count? Considering that the Rapture pamphlets decree that Satan is to come in the form of the leader of the E.E.C , your logical vote is No. After all the E. E. C. came about after immense and successful unity talks. Any vote which promotes national discord is a slap in

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the face to the devil. Unless, of course, the Second Coming adopts the form of Ed Sprague’s synchonized swimming wife Barbie Sue Babcott-Sprague. Her personality is so strong that camera men and women are paralyzed and can’t move away from her. Case in point, camera person Ann Brett-Dumars, a resident of Atlanta and an all-around nice person, was physically unable to move Camera 7 away from Babcott-Sprague’s fresh face. That the camera continually found her face out of a crowd of fifty thousand is a testament to her magnetism. May her medal swiping be forgotten. With our eyes glued to the tube, there is no reason why the Rapture should not take place in Atlanta. Ted Turner would ensure global coverage in luminous Rapturecolour. Wise to take advantage of the centre of Southern hospitality, where an official soft-drink could lend its slogan to all non-believ ers:—The Rapture, it’s “the real thing”. And who did not witness Jane Fonda praying toward the end of the eighth inning. She’s been right before- who would have believed the success of her spandex empire back in 1968 with only B arbarella behind her. Furthermore, the Braves recruited established recording artists like Billy Ray Cyrus and Peabo Bryson to sing their national anthem-make that “C. Baby Lily Syrup” and “Spooner Baby”. A darn sight better than Mad, Mad “More Than Occasionally].”, whose breathy rendition of “O Canada” set the inverted flag aflutter and added fuel to Quebec’s independence drive. The Bare Naked Ladies, aka. “Snake Died Bra Deal” obviously don’t stand a chance. Note the sugar-coated stateside anagrams versus the negative Canadian undertones. In the midst of divisive referenda and intercontinental baseball challenges, perhaps a little Divine Inspiration is what we need.

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R.E.M. Automatic For The People

Warner Bros. What the hell’s happened to R.E.M? The ex-archetypal ga rage band has plunged headlong into musical melodrama with their latest, Automatic F or The P eo ple. This is a flowery collection of acoustic ca-ca that’s guaran teed to send you into grungewithdrawal. On “Everybody Hurts”( a track which sounds suspiciously like a Too Many Cooks tune, I might add) the Ath ens quartet deliver some kind of nauseas “keep your chin up” public service announcement: “If you’re on your own in this life/ The days and nights are long/If you think you’ve had too much with this life too hang on/Well everybody hurts sometimes.” Gag. Worse, I’d swear I hear the ghost of a dead Supertramp song floating through this album, par ticularly in “New Orleans Instru mental No.l.” Pretty string ar rangements and subdued pop melodies make up Automatic F or The People, with the occasional drum beat thrown in. Most lis teners should keep generous supplies of insulin handy for those particularly cloying mo ments. Only for the clinically happy. *1/2 (GK) The Tragically Hip Fully,Completely

MCA A shade raunchier than most of the poop that seeps out of your favourite FM radio station, the guitar-happy Kingston quin tet chalked up an impressive fol lowing for themselves.with their first three albums. A lot of the energy felt there, however,is not to be found on their latest.. Most of these songs will roll off you like rain. Fully,Completely opens with the positively wimpy “Courage(for Hugh Maclennan),” and for much of the album the Hip sound as if they’re politely keeping the noise level down. Gordon Downie’s voice is frighteningly intense on some songs, but not as manic as we ’ve heard it in the past. “Wheat Kings” is likely the best slow song the band has ever put to gether, but all in all Fully is the Hip ’s mellowest effort yet. Don’t bother with it , but catch these guys live in November. ** (GK) Inspirai Carpets Revenge o f the Goldfish

Mute/Electra Groovy guitar riffs, up tempo beats and those quirky, trademark I.C. keyboards, at times reminiscent of the Doors, are the

backbone of an album that’s just plain fun to listen to. The Carpets have a dated sound that make them a little different from anything else you’ve heard. There is a fine line between mock grandeur and cheesiness; this band scampers merrily along it. While some of the tracks seem bland, others are dam catchy like “Here Comes the Flood” which borrows a chord or two from Van Morrison’s “Gloria.” “Two World’s Collide” , while a smidgeon overdone, is an infectious ballad nonetheless. And those nifty key boards effectively carry what is otherwise a lacklustre rythmn , in “Dragging Me Down.” Were the Inspirai Carpets to develop more of an edge to their music, they might become a refreshing alternative to Manchester staples Happy Mondays and the Charlatans. ***1/2 (GK) Prince and the New Power Generation Prince and the N.P.G.

Paisley Park “ My name is Prince -and I am funky/My name is Prince -the one and only/I did not come to funk around/Till I get your daughter -I won’t leave this town.” Sex-funk alert, His Royal Badness does not mince words. Although christened “Androgeny” by those able to deceipher his heirogliphic emblazened on the cover, His lat est album is officially untitled. If you feel like wading your way through an annoying barrage of lame ballads to get to those in-your-face beats (which are few and far be tween), be my guest. For one

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humorous instant, during “ Three Chains of Gold,” I thought Prince was doing a send up of Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody" ; alas, no. His Purpleness decided to try his hand at rock opera. Heart breaking. * (GK) Jr. Gone Wild Pull The G oalie

Stony Plain Records Pull The G oalie, the fourth

release from independent Ed monton country-rock band Jr. Gone Wild reflects the signifi cant line-up changes which this band has undergone since 1990’s Too Dumb To Quit. Singer and songwriter Mike McDonald has, to his credit, managed to main tain the raw sound which characterized the band’s earlier releases, while still incorporat ing the wit and humour of their first three releases. This album reflects a more mature perspec tive for Jr. Gone Wild than in the past, clearly indicated in songs such as “God Is Not My Father”, a bitter rebuke of organized reli gion. “Try Again” showcases the band at their tongue-in-cheek best, as McDonald sings “Well I’mnot Dylan and I’m not Shakespeare/You’re not Ann-Margaret you’re not Joan of Arc/Just nameless heroes in some old car looking for a place where we can park.” Jr. Gone Wild is a refresh ingly ego-free band, a rare com modity in the music business. They are, however, a band that must be heard to be appreciated. * * * * (MB)

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S p o rts M a r t l e t fie ld h o c k e y w e ll o n its w a y to O W IA A s B Y C A T H E R IN E T R IG G S

The McGill women’s field hockey team hosted a tournament this weekend at Molson Stadium, defeating Carleton and Laurentian by equal scores of 1-0 and trouncing Trent 5-0 to fin ish on top with a 3-0 record, “We didn’t take any of the games lightly,” said cap tain Nilu Singh. “We knew this was the weekend that we had to do this.” “The pressure was on and we came through. We won decisively,” said coach Alex Philippi. “We don’t want any slacking off his week, though,” he warned the team after congratulat ing them on Sunday’s vic tory over Trent. In Saturday’s game, McGill defeated Carleton 10 with a goal from rookie Yvonne MacPherson. On Sunday, the Martlets de feated both Laurentian and Trent. Though the game against Laurentian got off to a slow start with no scor ing until the second half, McGill visibly dominated its entirety. Despite missing two beautiful opportunités to score off passes that were not deflected and went fly ing past the end lines, M cGill’s defence continued to keep the ball pressed on Laurentian’s side. Martlet goaltender Gillian Roper prevented Laurentian from taking the lead as she saved a penalty shot in the second half. Centre-half Singh then scored on a first-rate pen alty shot to the goalie’s right. Despite Laurentian’s re newed intensity, McGill eas ily held them off for the re mainder of the game. M c G ill’s forwards proved better in the game against Trent, scoring five times. Christie Love and Stephanie Wollin each pot ted two goals, while Kelly Christie completed the rout

with a single. Though the forward line c o n s i s t s

m ainly of rookies, their youth cer tainly didn’t show in this g

G o a lten d er Katie Fasoldt claimed the shutout. “

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c a n ’t com plain,” said Singh of the weekend. T

Martlets ’ three win vic tory is re markable given the fact that only five players re turned from last year due to the time management difficulties in curred by fundraising and the financial burden of ini tiation fees. As a club team, field hockey gets zero fund ing from McGill and must charge each player $100 for the privilege of playing on the team. Many players feel that the time spent on run ning around trying to find sponsors, selling t-shirts and baked goods is time that de tracts from their studies and from improved athletic per formance. Consequently, only 17 athletes tried out for the team this year. As a result, at least one player had never touched a stick before this year. Despite a season of tiresome trips to Ontario in rental cars and sleeping on floors in players’ homes, the women were able to pull through and produce an un defeated weekend. It was crucial that the Martlets win all three games in order to qualify for the playoffs in two weeks. The Martlets now only need a win or tie in at least one

game in this weekend’s tour nament in Ottawa to qualify for the playoffs. This may not be an easy feat since

they’ll be up against York, Guelph and U of Toronto— the strongest teams in the OWIAA.

“If we win a game next weekend, we’ll definitely be in,” said Singh.

M artlet soccer fru strated by Concordia B Y JA M I E D E A N

Last Friday night, on a rain-soaked Molson field, the women’ s soccer team attepted to avenge their 1-0 loss to Concordia two weeks ago at the QUSL tournament in Sherbrooke. Unfortunately they could only manage a 22 draw with their cross-town rivals. With the tie, the Martlets remain in first place in the QUSL, four points ahead o f second placed Concordia. Julia Maughan scored both McGill goals, increasing her team-leading total to five. The Martlets played a very inconsistent game, at times stringing passes to gether down the field, but at other times allowing Concordia to control the

game. Within five minutes of the kick-off, McGill had two excellen t scoring chances. Shortly afterwards, a long pass from Luce Mongrain in the backfield landed behind the Stinger defense, allowing Julia Maughan to draw the goalie and notch her first goal of the night. McGill seemed to be on their way to a convincing win, but they were unable to keep up the pressure. McGill continued to have difficulty defending against free kicks within their own zone. This weakness was highlighted by the fact that both of Concordia’s goals came off free kicks. At the end of the first half, McGill trailed 2-1. The see-saw game con tinued into the second half. Approximately ten minutes

into the half, McGill capital ized on a comer kick when Maughan knocked in a pass from Brigitte Masella. There was still time for both teams to assert their supremacy, but neither team was able to mount a threatening attack. After the game, the Martlets were disappointed with their performance. “We didn’t play up to our potential. We need to play together more as a team,” said Maughan. Head coach Tony Iachetta was expecting a dif ferent type of game. “We didn’t win the balls in the air. We need to play the ball more on the first touch and talk to each other better.” The Martlets finish off the regular season next weekend with games in Sherbrooke and Bishops.

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Sports

Laumann looks back at a rower’s life A Canadian N ational Row ing Team m em ber since 1983, Silken Laumann recently becam e a national heroin e when she overcam e a m ajor leg injury, in curred som e two to three months before the Olympics and won a bronze m edal in the Women’s Single Sculls event at Barcelona. Recently, Tribune assistant edi tor-in-chief Chris A lam had an o p p o rtu n ity to in terv iew Laumann, one o f C an ada’s most d ed icated and successful ath letes. Tribune: What have you been doing since your Olympic success? Silken Laumann: Right now I ’m .iking two weeks to get myself together and relax. It’s been a real whirlwind with the media and interviews since I came back. I ’ve also been devel oping relationships with spon sors and doing public speaking. It all takes up more than every hour everyday. Tribune: The injury to your leg was quite serious. How is it recovering? S .L .:I t ’s coming along well.The process that I have un dergone involves daily physi otherapy. Every day I have a two hour commitment to that and it’s keeping me more than busy. Tribune: Where does your rowing career stand right now? There was talk that you might retire. S.L .: I ’m going to continue with it for another year and then I ’ll take it a vear at a time after that. Part of me would like to compete at the next Olympics, but it’s a huge commitment. Tribune: As a result of your Olympic success you have

received national recognition for being an amateur athlete, you your achievements, but what is think ‘Wow, I can sign acontract the financial or corporate reward and actually be making a fair bit for such a feat? of money this year!’ So in that S .L .: Ultimately, the rea way it is a little bit surprising. son I would race another four years would be because I felt there was still som ething to achieve. In a sport like row ing, and I think in most sports, moneyjust can’t be a motivator. Rowing is just too hard a sport physically to use that, and during a race you have to be extremely moti vated to beat the person next to you. Because of my success and exposure I ’ve been able to get some corporate contracts which S ilk e n L a u m a n n . makes rowing a Tribune: Rowing is a dif lot easier to do. Otherwise, you ficult sport for outsiders to unjust dig yourself into a hole do ing a sport 1ike rowing. So for the ders tand. It involves a lot of work first time I ’m not going to be in a with very little glamour. What position where I ’m doing that. leads one to to be motivated to [L au m an n is cu rren tly such self-sacrifice? sp o n so red by T o sh ib a , ISG, S .L .: I think that it’s an Subaru, an d B roo ks Athletic extremely challenging sport. It’s W ear.] the most challenging sport I ’ve Tribune: Were you sur ever been involved in. It is very prised by the level of corporate technical, you need an extreme support that you received when amount of skill and concentra you returned from Barcelona? tion, but it’s also brute physical S.L .: That is a hard ques force. You have to be able to tion to answer. I guess in some push yourself mentally, but you also need finesse. The combina ways, because you are used to

tion of those things makes it a really challenging sport, and it also makes it addictive because you feel the boat working really well for you, and you want to work that well always. Tribune: In preparing for the Olympics you had to live what one might call a ‘complete rowing lifestyle’. What is that like? S .L .: For the last two years we’ve rowed full time. We get up in the morning at 7:00, row from 7:30 to 9:30, take a break, then row from 11:30 to 12:30, then again at 2:30. Three days a week we did weights, so after the 2:30 row we woul d take a half an hour break then lift weights until 7:00. Really, it’s a twelve hour day a lot of the time. Tribune: What promotes such dedication? How do you keep going after a month or two of such rigours? S.L : Well, I think you have a really clear goal in mind. You want to win an Olympic medal. I mean, most people would give anything to win a medal— there are a lot of people with money and businesses, and they would throw it all away to win a medal. Tribune: Yourinjurymust have seemed like the end of all those dreams and a disappoint ment after such hard work. How did you respond to that disaster? S.L .: I ’m not really keen on talking too much about the accident. Basically I knew that the chances of winning a gold medal had been reduced signifi cantly, and I also questioned, obviously, whether I would be able to get back on track in time for the Olympic Games. It was a really hard time, there was a lot

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of work in those months, and going into the Olympic Games I wasn’t sure how competitive I would be. Tribune: To what would you attribute your success and your ability to overcome to such an immense obstacle? S .L .: I think that all the skills that I had learned in row ing were put to the test when I had this accident. I ’ve had to overcome a lot of obstacles in the past in my sport. There are times when you’re working re ally hard but you’re not really improving and you have to look around and figure out how you are going to improve. I try to be creative in my approach to reha bilitation and I also have an in credible support system. I had doctors who were willing to be less conservative and encourage me to try to get back. I had a lot of friends who basically took care of me for six to eight weeks while I was spending all of my energy rowing. Tribune: Having become something of an inspirational fig ure for others, especially those involved in lower levels of row ing, do you have any advice for them as they try to work their way up? S.L .: I think rowing is a great sport, and I think you can get a lot out of it. Not everyone is National Team potential, and the National Team isn’t for every one, but I think no matter what level you are at, it’s a great form of discipline and it’s really quite a bit of fun. For someone aspir ing to make the National Team, you just have to keep working at it, and when things don’tgo well, you have to be creative about how you’re going to get better.

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Football loses in dying minutes ... ag ain B Y C H R IS T O P H E R R IG N E Y

With their undefeated sea son in jeopardy like never before, the Bishop’s Gaiters pulled out a last-minute 24-16 victory over the McGill Redmen Saturday after noon at Molson Stadium. The triumph raised the Gai ters’ record to an unblemished 60, while the Redmen slipped to 24 in league play. The Gaiters’ eight-point margain of victory hardly tells the tme story of the contest. The Redmen dominated the thirdranked Gaiters on both sides of the line of scrimmage, holding a 16-10 edge with five minutes to play in the fourth quarter. After Redmen kicker Andy Boon sent a 38-yard field goal through the uprights to extend the McGill lead to six points, Gaiters’ quarterback Jim Murphy led the offence on a drive to wrestle vic tory away from the Redmen. Murphy completed successive passes to wideout David Butler for gains of 30 and 33 yards. Two plays later, Murphy tucked the

ball away, scrambling for a 12yard touchdown. Murphy’s scoring scamper at 11:46 of the fourth quarter was the only touchdown for the highlytouted Gaiters’ offence. Bishop’s defence, however, produced two scores. The first came at 7:22 of the second quarter when Redmen quarterback François Gauvin was intercepted by Gaiters’ defensive back Joel Kruzich. Kruzich timed the pick off perfectly, returning it 75 yards to give the Gaiters an early lead. The Gaiters’ other defen sive score came with a mere 11 seconds left in the game, when defensive lineman Christian Daigle recovered and retured a Gauvin fumble to seal the Gai ters’ victory. Redmen captain Courtenay Shrimpton was proud of the team’s effort, yet disappointed that the team was unable to put away the Gaiters when they had the chance. “We outplayed them for 60 minutes, but those two plays killed us. We’ve yet to have any breaks go our way this year,” said

Shrimpton. “At least we know that we’re capable of staying with a team like Bishop’s.” The Redmen may indeed get another shot at the Gaiters this season. If the Redmen earn a berth in the playoffs, the two teams would likely meet in a first-round match in Lennoxville on October 31. While unable to gain in the standings, the Redmen came away from the game with a good deal of confidence looking toward the playoffs. Third-year wide receiver Alex Trépanier of Trois Rivières, found positive aspects in the loss. “To play the number three team in the nation so evenly and then to lose like that is really dif ficult,” he said. “But both our of fence and defence can hold their heads high because both played really well.” Several other Redmen turned in strong efforts. Gauvin continued his excellent play, com pleting 21 passes for 202 yards including a 13-yard touchdown strike to Shrimpton. Boon exhib ited long-range accuracy with field goals of 39,33 and 38 yards. Boon

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had his 43-yard attempt hit the upright on the first drive of the second half. Fullback Delando Hawthorne continued to improve with each game since his return from injury. Hawthorne’s 99 rush ing yards helped to balance the Redmen offensive attack. On the defensive side, defensive back Wes Barbour had an interception, a fumble recovery and a 45-yard

return off a missed field goal by Gaiters’ kicker Greg Hiscox. McGill’s final regular-season game will be a contest against the winless Carleton Ravens. If McGill is to make the playoffs: Bishop’s must beat Concordia on the weekend, and McGill must beat Carleton. The Redmen host the Ravens at Molson Stadium at 1:30 Saturday afternoon.

Martlets host v-ball tourney B Y R IC K E V A N S

On Sunday at the Currie Gym, the McGill women’s vol leyball team hosted teams from Concordia University and Seneca College, as well as F.X. Gameau and Sherbrooke, two CEGEPs with high-profile volleyball pro grams. This group brought a big display of talent to Currie Gym nasium. “The strength of the teams here is a lot better than last year,” said McGill head coach Rachèle Béliveau. This was clearly demon strated as the Martlets, ever the good hosts, finished fourth in the preliminary round and failed to pre-empt any of their guests from a spot in the three team playoff. Only Seneca College had a poorer showing, but they were clearly the tournament’s major doormat. McGill began with a tough match against Sherbrooke, which went undefeated in the prelimi naries, but bounced back with a two-game win over Seneca Col lege, leaving the team with a good shot at qualifying for the playoff. Nextup were the cross-town rivals from Concordia, a match which was clearly the most excit ing for McGill in the tournament. The contest began on a fairly even keel with neither team able to take command of the first set. In the end a see-saw battle ensued, in which the play was often charac terized by either the miscommunications or shining personal efforts that characterize early season games. The score finally became 16-15 for Concordia with a score of 17 being all that was necessary for a win according to CI AU rules. Side-out followed dramatic sideout until McGill finally levelled the score at 16-16. Several more side-outs ensued, but Concordia was eventually able to finish out

the set. The second set began in much the same manner as the first, and as the end neared, there was a general sense of déja-vu as McGill managed to rally back to 12- 12. This time, however, the Mardets were not to be denied and closed out strongly, winning 16-14. This left the team with a split against Concordia in the two set format of the preliminary rounds, thanks in large part to the aggressive hitting of Fanny Wong and strong all-round play up the middle by Jillian King. The last team for McGill to face was high-powered F.X . Gameau. Needing to take at least one set in this match to qualify for the playoff, the team came up just a bit short. While the Martlets made each set close, they eventu ally lost both. Following this final match, coach Béliveau agreed that her team had had some problems with the transition game, and in finish ing points off. “We have lots left to work on...we really haven’t done much team work yet, mostly just indi vidual drills,” she said. The coach added, referring to the upcoming season, “I would like to play a lot of really tough games (exhibition and tourna ment), games that we will have to fight to win. Hopefully this will help us to improve.” Despite what was a some what disappointing performance by the team, it seems thatBéliveau has a solid plan for developing the plentiful raw talent that her team possesses. Look for McGill to play strongly against all the teams in their league, Laval, Université de Montréal, Sherbrooke, and the eventual winner of Sunday ’ s tour nament, Concordia. The volleyball Martlets will host Laval on Friday, October 30 at 4:30 pm.

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Never mind the fact that there’s not a single Cana dian on the Toronto Blue Jays. Canadians can even overlook Tom Cochrane’s flaccid and edited version of O C an ada on Sunday night. But the latest in the World Series of world-class insults to come our way, the deliberate flipping of our flag, can only be interpreted as an international affront. The venerable U.S. Marines have done it again. The shot of the snappily-dressed, stiff-backed automatons holding the flagpole proudly erect was flashed around the world, er— Canada. With the Maple Leaf upside down. Without any communists left to crunch, perhaps the Marines were looking around for a new publicity venue. They sure got it, and it’s as glowing as ever. No, they are not particularly conniving or even ignorant, although I’d have to favour the latter if forced to label these Yanks. What hap pened shows that they don’t care enough to make sure they had it right. They simply “overlooked” the fact that the Canadian flag, unlike that of Japan, has a distinct right-side up and they put it upsidedown. Too bad we didn’t have walnuts or elm leaves on our flag — they may be a trifle more familiar with such species of botany that flourish in their orchards and backyards. This would never happen to the Stars and Stripes in Atlanta. Someone in the stands would gun them down. This is more than a Canuck’s injured pride speaking. There’s a double standard here. Everyone knows that the unthinkable reverse could simply never, ever occur. The American flag would not be flown upside-down on national television, even as a “joke”. Bush, the Yanks’ selfappointed morality monitor, wouldn’t stand for such a flagrant disregard for what

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he’d probably call “patriotic values.” But the Yanks, with their usual bravura, feel entitled to poke fun at anybody. What happened here signi fies a huge lack of respect for Canada on the part of the Marines and indeed, the United States. What happened was not a mistake. Don’t tell me nobody noticed it. They’re given enough time to examine their handiwork, and as I learned in Girl Guides, flags are folded in such a way as to ensure that they will be raised with the right side up. This neatly mirrors the American bad attitude. The mentality of “let’s kick some Arab butt!” extends to “let’s show these Canucks who’s the boss here.” And as the Gulf War showed, the Yanks have a penchant for not playing fair. We, on the other hand, can perhaps be accused of a surfeit of humility, espe cially when we compare ourselves to our bigger, louder southern neighbours. When Atlanta won the first game, the local newspapers screamed “This is our game!” Do Canadian newspapers ever gloat, “We play hockey!”? Don’t tell me anybody in the U.S. military will be disciplined for publicly poking fun at Canada, for using the monstrous TV audience to transmit an immature display of parti sanship. I am sure that any Canadian who hung the Stars and Stripes upside-down at the Forum would be severely reprimanded. It needs to be done. It’s time we — and the rest of the world— had the last laugh. Of course, winning the Series would also be a potent retort.

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McGill’s Cross-country team competed in the Laval invitational cross-country race this weekend, with the women’s team placing first and the men’s team placing second overall. Third-year medical student Linda Thyer continued her three-year winning streak, while Mélanie Choinière and Maeve Muldowney placed second and third respec tively in the 4.3K race. Thyer, who broke her own record, set last year, by 18 seconds, has been named QSSF an d CIAU athlete of the week. On the men’s side, Joshua Lall and JeanMarc Benoit came fifth and sixth, and Mark Coleman finished in ninth place.

Arbuckle, Rob Buffam, Jason Duncan and Nick Neuheimer. Conversions were added by Mike Padfield and Sam Lupton. On Sunday, the Second XV hosted the First X V from Concordia. In a well-fought match which saw the Redmen playing with only 13 men in the final half (2 having been ejected for fighting), Concordia prevailed by a score of 10-7. Despite what Coach Steve Penner could only describe as incompetent refereeing, J.F. Charland scored a try and Chris Hobson added a conversion. Also last weekend, McGill’s Third XV lost a narrow match to TM R’s Second XV. Carl Lowe had the sole McGill penalty kick. In women’s rugby action, McGill A tied Concordia 0-0 and McGill B beat Marionopolis 5-0.

R edm en so c cer record broken

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McGill’s men’s soccer team lost to the Sherbrooke Vert et Or 3-0 on Friday night at Molson Stadium. Sherbrooke’s victory ended McGill’s four-year, 29-game unde feated streak in regular season play. Ironi cally, McGill’s last defeat, on October 23, 1988 by a score of 1-0, was to Sherbrooke.

McGill’s novice women’s “A” eight trav elled to Western this weekend and placed first for the second week in a row, narrowly beating rival Queen’s University. The victory marks the second time the women have surpassed Queen’s by less than a second.

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In a back and forth contest in Kingston on Sunday, the Redmen hockey team lost to Queen’s 5-4. The game was up for grabs until 19:43 of the third period when Queen’s scored. Although McGill outshot Queen’s 32-24, the Redmen were 0-for-7 on the power play. Rookie Marie Shewfelt tied a team record with two short-handed goals. Other goals were scored by Marc Lustig and Guy Boucher.

The women’s varsity heavyweight four placed eighth in a field of 28 at the Head of the Charles regatta in Boston this weekend. Racing in the “Championship Four” divi sion, McGill’s time was in the fifth percen tile of all times in their race, which was won by the U.S. National team boat. The women’s performance ensures them a spot in next year’s race; their opportunity to participate this year was due to a lucky lottery entry.

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On Saturday, the Redmen Rugby First XV were hosted by the Montreal Irish in the opening round of the Montreal Club League Championship, the O’Neill Cup. McGill were definitely not appropriate guests, crushing the Irish 44-0. Sean Ewart and Kibben Jackson each had two tries with singles coming from Josh

The McGill University Rowing Club will hold an invitational regatta this Saturday, October 24, on Ile Notre-Dame from 9:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Canadian Olympians and crews from the U.S., Ontario and Québec will be competing for gold at the Olympic Basin. Beer and sustenance will be available.

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