S care p o sters s p la s h e d a c r o s s M cG ill g h e tto A loosely organized group from Concordia University plastered scare posters all over the McGill ghetto last week. The posters, warning "WOMEN BEWARE!" listed the phone number of Walk-Safe Network (WSN) as a resource contact. While WSN coordinators were never contacted about the poster, the scare message employed to warn women about safety issues left WSN coordinators angry and frustraed. See page 3
In s id e T h is W eek News: Controversial comic strip no laughing matter for McGill groups. See page 3
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Op/Ed: General Assem bly: nothing but a side show for posturing politicians. See editorial, page 6 Features: A current events analysis: with the U.S. election attract ing the lion's share of media attention, what is getting pushed to the side? See page 9 E ntertainm ent: Get out the back, JeanJacques. One of fifty ways to leave The Lover. See page 13 Sports: While football almost was, Redmen Rugby defeats Westmount to win the O'Neill Cup. See page 16
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Tuesday. November 3 The International Relations Soci ety will hold a meeting today at 6:30 pm in Leacock 26. If you want to go to U. Penn., come on out! Walksafe Patrols will be avail able afterwards. For info, call 398 6824.S McGill Young Alumni presents “Funds for the Future," a presentation by Denis Gamache on RRSPs. 6:00-7:00 pm, Leacock 232. Everyone welcome, free ad mission. For info, call 398-4534. The McGill G raduate Christian Fellowship is presenting a series of talks and discussions analyzing “How God Communi cates Through Scripture.” Today's topic is “Spiritual Basis for Church Doctrine.” 7:009:00 pm, downstairs back lounge of Thomson House. For more information, please contact Sara Kelly at 484-6729 or James Anglin at 284-4898. Amnesty International meets every Tuesday at 6:30 pm in Shatner 435. For more info, call 286-0502. W ednesday. N ovem ber 4
The Anti-Racism W orkings Group is having a general meeting today at 7:00 pm at 550 Sherbrooke W., room 1180 (west tower). Open to the public, all new members welcome. The Faculty of Music presents the Jazz Ensemble III and friends, directed by Benoit Glazer, at 8:00 pm in Pollack Hall (555 Sherbrooke SL W.). Free admission. For more info, call 398-4547. The Presbyterian-United Church Chaplaincy and the Yellow Door present “The Storyteller: Tales from many tradi tions” every Wednesday evening in Novem ber. Today: Shulamis Yelin (Jewish). Yel low Door Coffee House, 3625 Aylmer, 8:00 pm. $2.00 admission. For more info, call 398-4104 or 398-6243. TheMcGill Literacy Council willbe holding its 2nd annual R ead-a-T hon fundraiser today and tomorrow in the Shatner Building, Come on outand support usand see what we have to offer! Thursday. November 5 AIESEC McGill is holding their 3rd General Assembly today at 5:30 pm in
Bronfman 426. Call 398-6821 or come by Shatner 434 for more info. The Faculty o f M usic presents Valerie Kinslow and Dale Bartlett per form ing works by Vaughan-W illiam s, Schoenberg, and Stravinsky as part of the CBC-McGill Radio Concert series. 7:30 pm, Pollack Hall (555 Sherbrooke St. W.), free admission. For info call 398-4547. The Faculty of Music presents the McGill C ham ber Singers, the McGill Concert Choir and the Choir. 8:00 pm, Redpath Hall, free admission. For more info, call 398-4547. The Yellow Door Coffee House presents Literature Live, a pro gram of readings by local writers followed by an “open stage,” on the first and third Thursdays of each month. Tonight: Maxianne Berger and Eugene Abrams. 8:00 pm at the Yellow Door, 3625 Aylm er. A dm ission: $2.00. For info, call 3986243. As part of the Anthropology Speakers S e rie s, P ro fe sso r B arbara D. Miller of the University of Pittsburgh will be speaking on “The Endan gered Sex, Ten Years Later." 4:30-6:00 pm, Leacock 738. Friday. November 6 McGill Caribbean Students Soci ety: General Meeting today, 550 Sherbrooke St W. West Tower, rm 1180 at 6:30pm. The McGill G raduate Program in Communications presents A rthur Kroker of Concordia University speaking on “The Possessed Individual: Spasm.” 4 :30pm. Arts W215. For more info, call 398-4110. The Yellow Door Coffee House presents live music every Friday night at 8:00 pm. After sets by two or more featured per formers, there will be an open stage. Tonight: Mark Fensler with Marginal Notes. Admis sion $2.00. For info call 398-6243. The Faculty of Music presents a
McGill Conservatory Concert, a children’s concert in homage to Dr. Suzuki, performing works by Bach, Mozart, and Haydn. 7:00 pm, Redpath Hall. Free admission. For more info, call 398-4547. The Faculty of Music presents the McGill Symphony O rchestra conducted by Georg T in tn er, perform ing works by Shostakovich, Pfitzner, and Bruckner. 8 00 pm, Pollack Hall (555 Sherbrooke St. W.). Passes available until theconcert at the Pollack
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The McGill C hristian Fellowship is having a prayer meeting today at 7:00 pm in the Diocesan College chapel. Everyone welcome. The L atin -A m erica Awareness G roup is having a party at La Playa, 4459 St. Laurent. 9:00 pm, $5.00 admission. For info call 398-8546. M arketing Club Luncheon, today at the Delta Hotel, 11:30 am. Topic: Global vs. Regional Marketing. Guest speakers from the International Advertising Association and the International Herald Tribune. Tickets for members are $15.00, non-members $20.00, on sale in Bronfman and Leacock. For info call the Marketing Club office at 398-8401.
Student Health Services presents STD Awareness Week, through November 13 in various buildings on campus. For more info, call Elizabeth or Ron at Student Health Services, 398-6017. McGill Young Alumni presents M argaret Villazan speaking on “ThePower of Self-Esteem.” 6:00-7:00 pm, Leacock 232. Everyone welcome, free admission. For info, call 398-4534. The Persecuted Jewry Committee of Hillel presents Vera Melehora, a former anchorperson on the Leningrad 6:00 news, speaking on the status of Jews in the former Soviet Republic. 4:00 pm, Hillel House (3460 Stanley). Everyone welcome. The Faculty of Music presents the T riptych T rio (U. of Western Ontario) per forming works by Mozart, Vivaldi and G. Morley. 8:00 pm, Redpath Hall. Free admis sion. For more info, call 398-8933 or 3984547. The B iochem istry D ep artm en t presents a seminar by Dr. Michel IJuzzi of Bio-Mega on “Characterization of Herpes Simplex Virus Ribonucleotide reductase subunit interactions using a competition binding assay.” 12:30 pm, room 903 of the McIntyre Medical Sciences Building.
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Concordia group pastes scare posters in McGill ghetto BY RAY PINTO AND JANE WHITE Scare posters addressing w om en’s safety were splashedover the McGill ghetto last week. While the posters list die Walk-Safe Network’s (WSN) phone number, WSN coordina tors are alarmed by the message conveyed by the poster. The posters were designed by a loosely-organized group of students from Concordia and McGill, as well as some ghetto residents, who did not request permission to use WSN’s name and phone number before posting the signs. The posters read, “WOMEN BEWARE! In the last 6 months, many women have been raped, and at least 1 woman has been murdered in the McGill Ghetto.” The signs were neither submitted to nor endorsed by WSN coordinators, although WSN is listed as a resource con tact at the bottom of the poster. “The fact that our name is
on [the posters] assumes we en dorsed this message,” argued Fiona Deller, a WSN coordina tor. “There is already enough un informed fear [in the ghetto]. Scaring people is useless [be cause] people are already scared.” But WSN’s phone number will not be removed from future editions of the poster. “We printed a couple of thousand posters, and we still have about a thousand left to post,” explained Concordia University Student Association (CUS A) CoPresident Charlene Nero. “We are not removing the McGill WalkSafe number from them because it would be too difficult.” Nero, who is an active member of the group which insti tuted the postering campaign, in sisted that a strong message is required to successfully spread safety awareness. “I don’t agree with toning down our language. Women are inherently strong and can take it,” stated Nero. “We want to make as many women as possible aware.
Even with the information out there, people are still being raped.” Deller, who is well ac quainted with the extent of McGill’s sexual assaultproblems, was concerned about Nero’s ap proach. “There is a reason to be scared, but just saying this is irre sponsible,” Deller elaborated. “It carries a message saying that the Walk-Safe program wants you to be afraid. We don’t want women to be intimidated into contacting us.” Agreeing with Deller, WSN Financial Coordinator Paul Johnson, stressed the need to properly inform women on safety issues. “We want women to be em powered with information, to know [WSN] exists to help them,” he explained “The poster carries intonations of fear, and terrifying women is not effective.” But Nero claims the posters will keep the issue of sexual as sault at the forefront of women’s minds, particularly while they are
walking through the ghetto. “Call it what you want, women are being raped and mur dered and that is the bottom line. I don’t have time for niceties,” stated Nero. Nero claimed that the deci sion to add the WSN and other resource phone numbers to the poster was made at the last minute, which left the group no time to contact WSN about the addition. While WSN coordinators stress they believe the postering campaigning is based on good intentions, they disagree with the tactics employed. “I think our intentions are the same,” explained Deller. “We want women to be safe and pro tect themselves in the ghetto. However, after months of a heightened sense of fear in the McGill community, what we need now is accurate information, both on exactly what we must be on the lookout for and ways in which we can help each other. Blind fear cannot help us move forward.”
Inter-Frat Council may stack Assembly BY BENOIT JACQMOTTE The large number of InterFraternity Council members who have participated in recent Stu dents’ Society (SSMU) General Assembly workshops has led to speculation that the issue of SSMU fraternity and sorority recognition will be raised at tomorrow’s Gen eral Assembly (GA). “The third meeting [of the Equity Workshop] was packed with IFC members, about 38 out of 40,” commented Equity Work shop Coordinator Amy Ridley. Ridley stressed that the IFC members present wanted to create a GA priority resolution calling for SSMU recognition of the IFC. “Sohee Ahn, kingpin of the IFC contingent, forcefully que ried several times when new mo tions could be put forth,” stated Ridley. Ridley explained that she emphasized to IFC members that workshops were not intended to formulate specific political ques tions. Ridley proposed the crea tion of a resolution calling for the clarification of general SSMU club recognition, but was disappointed with IFC members’ response. “None of the IFC representatives
were the slightest bit helpful in organizing this non-political no tion of clarifying club status,” ar gued Ridley. Ridley predicted the IFC may attempt to stack the GA by bringing in as many members as possible. “IFC members will probably attempt to pack the assembly for their own political mandate,” Ridley theorized. “Hopefully there will be enough support to provide opposition to their one-track po litical mind.” IFC President Rob Palm re fused to respond to whether the IFC planned to stack the assem bly. “SSMU club status is not that important,” he stressed. While criticizing the manner in which IFC recognition had been handled by SSMU in the past, Palm did acknowledge that the GA provides a forum for IFC’s attempts to gain club status. “We would like club status because we represent 900 peo ple,” Palm remarked. IFC VicePresident Sohee Ahn explained IFC’s presence at the third Equity Workshop meeting. “We [IFC members] brought up points that are the views of contrasting ide ologies and make for a better dis cussion,” she said. “We came to-
gether and voiced our concerns; but isn’t that what the General Assembly is all about?” Asked if IFC plans to stack the assembly, Ahn defended IFC members’ right to participate. “If all our members go, that shouldn’t be considered stacking,” Ahn ar gued. “That is a very politicallyloaded word, and I don’t think it is fair. Other people are getting members of their organizations to come to the General Assembly, and nobody is calling that stack ing.” SSMU VP University Af fairs Monique Shebbeare argued that any interest group’s stacking of the GA compromised the as sembly’s legitimacy. “Although it is within any group ’s rights to come out in num bers to represent their interests, I feel that stacking undermines the underlying principles of the Gen eral Assembly.” SSMU VP Finance and General Assembly Coordinating Committee (GACC) member Susan Nickerson remarked that because the GA cannot amend the SSMU Constitution, IFC mem bers may encounter problems at tempting to obtain IFC club status at the assembly. “Because our constitution
does not allow SSMU to recog nize groups that discriminate on the basis of gender, race, or sexual orientation, this General Assem bly may not be the forum in which to address the issue of fraternity representation,” Nickerson ex plained. “This will have to be in terpreted by the [SSMU] Judicial Board.” While conceding that GA decisions could not alter the con stitution, Ahn cited other strate gies for addressing IFC’s status. “We can ask SSMU to hold a referendum to change a particular part of the consti tution or by-laws,” she observed. GACC member Jonathan Ablett viewed the possible stack ing by IFC members as a legiti mate use of the assembly process. “Of course they [IFC members] are going to show up at the Gen eral Assembly, and why shouldn’t they?” he stated. “A motion forc ing the [IFC recognition] issue to referendum is appropriate and perfectly within the General As sembly’s mandate.”
For your safety information W alk-Safe Net work (WSN) and the McGill Sexual Assault Center (MSAC) have been authorized by those reporting incidents to release the following in formation in order to raise awareness and help increase personal safety. On October 16 at 11:45 pm, a woman spotted a man in the Bell Canada parking lot be hind her building. After noticing her watching him, he quickly left the lot, looking back at her several times. He then began running towards Pine Ave. The man is de scribed as 5’7”, bowlegged, with short dirty blonde hair. He was wearing jeans and a ski jacket. On October 26, a woman was walking south on Parc Avenue near the statue in Parc Mont-Royal when she was approached by a man. He proceeded to verbally harass her. She caught up to another woman and but he con tinued to follow them through the Pine Parc interchange. He is described as 5 ’9”, slightly over weight, black with very short dreadlocks, and in his early twenties. He spoke English and wore a mustard jacket with a sweatshirt. Anyone involved in an assault or incident is advised to report the incident to the Montreal police, MSAC (3982700) and the WSN (398-2498).
ERRATUM LAST WEEK'S STORY, "GENERAL ASSEMBLY (GA) POLL," WAS WRITTEN BY TRISH SNYDER AND GENEVIEVE BEAUCHEMIN, NOT JANE WHITE. WE APOLOGIZE FOR THE CONFUSION.
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D aily comic strip m essage is no joke BY BENOIT JACQMOTTE A McGill Daily comic strip linking fraternities and the McGill Arts and Engineering faculties with incidents of gang rape has outraged student and academic leaders. Drawn by McGill political science graduate student Greg Millard, the controversial segment of his comic strip Crampus ap peared in the October 22 issue of the Daily. It depicted a disillu sioned McGill graduate student yearning for the company of others and making his way to the graduate student lounge. In each frame’s background, a different poster ad vertises gang rape and pub crawl events sponsored in turn by the “Mega Dik Frat”, the “Engineering Society”, and the “McGill Arts Faculty”.
In an October 27 letter to the Daily, Engineering Undergraduate Society (EUS) President Kevin Broadt and Arts Undergraduate Society (AUS) President Mark Luz condemned the comic strip for de picting the societies as sponsors of gang rape. “Gang rape and violence against women under no circum stances are at all funny,” stated Broadt and Luz in their letter.”We are extremely offended that the Daily would ever associate such a serious crime with either one of our societies or faculties.” Broadt expressed disap pointment with the links made in the comic strip to EUS. “They have falsely labelled engineering stu dents as gang rapists,” he empha sized. Both Broadt and Luz were
uncompromising in their demands for an apology from Daily editors. “We (Arts council) have not ruled out further action if the Daily doesn’t apologize and explain it self,” stated Luz. Neither Broadt nor Luz would rule out the possibility of legal action. Inter-Fraternity Council (IFC) President Rob Palm failed to detect any humour in the comic’s message. “He [the author] was out to bash fraternities,” stressed Palm. “It is a blatant shot at fraternities, Arts, and Engineering.” “I’m up for a good joke, but I don’t think this is a joke,” he argued, adding that the IFC also plans to submit a letter to the Daily requesting an apology. When asked if the Daily would consider issuing an apology,
culture editor Kate Stewart de fended the comic strip. “I think it is clear from the tone of the strip that he [Millard] is not targeting the Arts Faculty or Engineering,” she argued. “It [the strip] was criticizing that this sort of thing happens on campus.” Millard’s reaction to his strip’s controversial reception was unequivocal. “Big deal!” he ex claimed. “I guess what we’ve got is a colossal overreaction coming from people who are accustomed to having other people kissing their asses.” Millard explained he simply wanted to poke fun at grad students. “Regarding frats and the Engi neering Society, there is a certain image vulnerability regarding women’s issues," he elaborated. "Against the background of these
image problems and previous diffi culties, I think they are fair game for satire on that basis.” Millard waved aside Luz, Palm, and Broadt’s calls for an apology. “I’m not prepared to apologize for their hypersensitive egos,” he declared. “It [the strip] might be blatant bad taste, it might be unfair, I don’t really know, and I don’t particularly care to be the arbiter of fairness.” In a meeting with Dean of Arts John MacCallum last Friday, Luz discussed the strip’s implica tions. “The Dean was shocked,” stressed Luz. “He said, ‘This is a disgusting kind of journalism.’ He is going to forward this [comic strip] to [McGill legal advisor] Raynald Mercille just so that he is aware of it.”
Clinton Top Dog for McGill A m ericans BY GENEVIEVE BEAUCHEMIN
Number of McGill Students Polled:...........................101 An overwhelming majority of McGill’s American students polled by the Tribune indi cated that they support Presidential candidate Bill Clinton in this week’s election. This result paral lels several American polls which suggest that the majority of the student vote will go to Clinton. Of the 101 students polled by the Tribune over the last four weeks, 80.2% favoured Clinton. Billionaire Ross Perot and President George Bush split the remaining votes, although Bush trailed Perot by three percentage points. U3 Science studentLaura Frasch explained her choice. “I support Clinton because he offers a lot of possibilities and a potential for much needed change,” she stated. However, U3 Arts student and Bush sup porter Chris Rankin disagreed. “I work for my money!” he exclaimed. “I think a lot of people are looking for a free ride. Clinton’s policies are highly damaging to the economy.” Others were less serious in explaining their preference. Some cited Clinton and Gore’s nice haircuts, or described Perot as the horse-bound white knight coming to save the American nation. Other Perot supporters viewed him as the only trustworthy candidate. “Perot holds the answers to several Ameri can problems,” claimed U2 Science student James Edwards. “He is a businessman who can turn the economy around.” According to History Professor Leonard Moore, the results of the Tribune poll are not surprising. “College students as a group seem to be moving in a more liberal direction than in the 1980’s,” he ex plained. “This is exhibited as strong leads for Clinton in students polled.” Moore attributed this tendency to students becoming more idealis tic, particularly regarding social is sues. Recognizing students’ concerns about the Republican economic phi losophy, Moore viewed Bush’s fail ure to gamer student support as a predictable outcome of Bush’s poli cies. “Students in general have a very negative attitude towards George Bush. They feel he doesn’t stand for anything, [that he is] being very op portunistic, taking the stand that will land him in office.”
Who do you support in the November election? Clinton.......................................................................................... 81(80.6%) Bush................................................................................. 4 (4.9%) Perot................................................................................. 7 (5.8%) None of these....................................................................9 (8.7%) By State STATE California Connecticut Illinois Kansas Kentucky Maine Maryland Massachusetts Minnesota New Hampshire New Jersey New York Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island Texas Virginia
Clinton 5 2 1 0 0 5 3 20 3 1 2 25 1 3 3 5 2
Bush 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0
Perot 3 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1
None of 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 2 3 0 0 0 1 0
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CBC Walks Safe through th e ghetto BY DONNA BATTISTA
On October 22, a camera crew from CBC ’c N ew sw atch followed McGill Sexual As sault Center (MSAC) Co-co ordinator Mary-Margaret Jones through the McGill ghetto in an attempt to recre ate a woman’s experience walking alone at night. Michael Kogan and Lynn Camm, freelance pro ducers for CBC, contacted Walk-Safe Network(WSN) Coordinator Paul Johnson about the coverage after hear ing about WSN’s work pro moting student safety. Ac cording to Johnson, the piece exemplifies the different ap proach CBC is taking in try ing to raise awareness of the violence women face on the streets. “They want to get right into the situations,” stated Johnson. “The goal of the piece is to get men to realize what they can do to make
women feel more comfortable when they walk alone at night.” Johnson also added that sexual assault is a male prob lem, and it is important for men to understand what it is like to be a woman walking on the street at night. When approached by Kogan to film the segment, Jones was both apprehensive and excited. With a micro phone hookup and WSN teams patrolling nearby streets, Jones took Kogan and Camm through the ghetto and ena bled them to see familiar streets from a woman’s perspective. Cameras captured Jones’ trip through the ghetto as she commented on the fears that she shares with other women walking through the ghetto at night. The walk on St.Laurent, between Milton and Prince Arthur, was most frightening for Jones because of the many dark alleys and basement
apartments encountered. “Someone can be crouched in those staircases just waiting to jump out at you,” stated Jones. The Pine and Parc Avenue interchange is another area which Jones cited as dangerous. “People can see you but you can’t see them, and even if you can see them, you can’t escape them,” she elaborated, adding that it is ironic that a bus stop is situated in the area. “What woman would want to stand there waiting for a bus?” she wondered. Jones hoped that besides enlightening men to women’s feelings on safety issues, the CBC report will help get the message out to police that more surveillance is needed in the ghetto area. In the hour and a half period that Jones and the CBC crew walked the ghetto, they failed to observe a single police car patrolling the area. Other than taking self
stressed Jones. “No woman is safe walking alone.” The CBC report will be aired on N e w s w a t c h ’s Citybeat segment sometime in late November, and CBC plans to address safety issues in a special N ew sw atch series this week.
defence courses or walking with someone else, Jones be lieves there are no other alter natives for women, and em phasized that men should be empathetic to this reality. “I don’t believe we are victims but I realize how hopeless it can be for us,”
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O p /Ed Troupe of clowns,ship of fools, Editorial assembly of students Democracy is good. In fact, democracy is great. Democracy is better than dictatorships, oligarchies, autocracies and monarchies. Few people would argue with that. But an exercise in democracy undertaken simply to prove that democracy exists is a big waste of time.Unfortunately, the Students’ Society (SSMU) General Assembly being held this week is just that. Arranged by a group of political débutantes who consistently fall all over themselves to prove that they represent the student body (yet somehow never quite manage to do anything particularly useful for that body), this Assembly is designed to provide direction for these currently rudderless leaders. One begins to wonder, however, just what these campus ‘élites’ have been doing up until now if they haven’t had a General Assembly to tell them what to do. One assumes that they have been doing something with the 40 dollars or so that each one of us provides them with each year. And if they have been doing
Com m ent With this week's General Assembly, attention has once again been focused on the role of fraterni ties and sororities at McGill. Since 1989, the Inter-Fratemity Council (IFC) and therefore all fraternities and sororities at McGill, have not been recognized by the Students’ Society. Previously the recognition of this group was similar to recognition of the Athletics Council: both held a seat on the Student Council and represented a variety of groups under their jurisdiction. In 1989 the Judicial Board of the SSMU reviewed a complaint that fraternities and sororities discriminated on the basis of gender and should therefore not be recog nized by the SSMU. The Judicial Board agreed with this and thereafter the IFC lost its recognition. Nonetheless, it continued to function as the coordinating body for fraternities and sororities at McGill, whose membership exceeds 900 students, the largest non-faculty student group at McGill. The ruling of the Judicial Board was a politically motivated attack on fraternities at McGill. The Athletics Board, which represents athletic teams which discriminate membership both by sex and by other criteria, was not challenged and still retains its seat on council. Furthermore, these teams are funded with student services fees (paid directly by all students), not university money. Two years later the SSMU passed an “affirmative action” clause to its constitution which allowed gender discrimination for just about every group at McGill except fraternities (It seems that men have no need, or right, to gather to receive
something, no matter how paltry, why is it suddenly necessary to was money, energy, and time just to find out how many people are bored enough to sit in Leacock 132 for no particular reason. ‘No particular reason’ is the key here. There is no pressing issue currently at hand. The last General Assembly, held three years ago, dealt precisely, clearly, and exclusively with the possibility of students striking to protest tuition fee increases. This year’s General Assembly, on the other hand, is basically being held to prove that democracy exists. It would seem that our fawning student leaders have forgotten that they were democratically elected only a few months ago. The unfortu nate result of this exercise in redundancy is evident in the topics to be potentially discussed at the Assembly, such as the Nationair strike. The Nationair strike? Since when is Nationair the official airline of the SSMU? Why would anyone want a bunch of undergraduate office
gnomes dealing with important issues such as this, when they can’t even buy health insurance without annoying everyone on campus? Furthermore, SSMU might end up with a policy on abortion. What nonsense. As if we need baby bureaucrats attempting to pick sides on a divisive issue such as abortion. We already have grown-up bureau crats failing to do just that. Furthermore, the Inter-Fratemity Council (IFC) may very well stack the Assembly and push for its longawaited SSMU recognition. Is it really worth spending students’ money just so that such various interest groups can test the sound system in Leacock 132? The problem here is not that students have diverse ideas. It is that our student politicians don’t. Having been democratically elected to provide government according to their electoral platforms, they are attempting to provide government by getting students to do it for them. Participatory democracy in government is fine if it has a point. The American elections have a point.
Recognition mutual support from other men). These attacks have been motivated by a seriously distorted and often hatefully ignorant view of fraternities, which have been blamed for promoting date-rape and sexist behavior. While most of these views have been dramatically exaggerated, there have been some serious prob lems associated with fraternities at McGill. The solution to these, however, will not come from the policies pursued by the SSMU over the last three years. The plan up till now has been simply to ignore fraternities, and hope that they go away. Not recogniz ing them has been the mechanism to carry this out. However, fraternities have not gone away, nor will they. Non-recognition of fraternities has done nothing to discourage fraterni ties, but has taken away the only leverage which the SSMU had to control their actions. This leverage could be the IFC. Most fraternities, in their charters granted by national fraterni ties, contain provisions which force them to be members of the IFC at their university. This has been a method of enforcing discipline among chapters: expulsion from the IFC meant losing your charter (and therefore its existence). At many universities, IFC’s have been able to lay down tough regulations (for example, on alcohol at parties) and enforce strict discipline. At McGill, the IFC has no accountability to anyone, and the fraternities effectively operate with no policies or regulations whatsoever. This is a potentially dangerous situation. As a fraternity member, I feel that the fraternity system as a whole, when functioning properly, has the
potential for a lot of good. Collec tively, fraternities and sororities raise many thousands of dollars for charity every year and perform many other kinds of community work. But I have also seen that unregulated, there is potential in the fraternity system for dangerous activities. Selfrighteous ideological attacks by the Daily and other groups on the right of fraternities and sororities to exist distract from the real issue and simply promote an antagonistic, unproductive relationship. Jason Prince has his opinion on the issue, and 900 of his constituents have theirs. Fraternities are not going to go away. Therefore, if some of the potential flaws of the Greek system are going to be addressed, the best way to do this is to recognize that fraternities exist at McGill, and then to establish a comprehensive system to make sure that some of the tragedies that have happened in the past are not repeated. Fraternities have to be brought back into campus life before they can be made to feel responsible for their activities. By recognizing the IFC, the SSMU can work to ensure that the IFC adopts responsible policies, such as ensuring that all pledges at McGill fraternities go through the Outreach Program sponsored by the McGill Sexual Assault Center (as Alpha Epsilon Pi pledges have). By bringing fraternities and sororities back into the McGill community, we can ensure that they become a positive force in campus life.
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The various Royal Commissions which recently travelled across Canada and last week’s referendum which followed had a point. But packing people into a room for no other reason than making wannabe defenders of democracy feel warm and fuzzy inside is pointless. Those who have been appointed as leaders should lead. If that means saying no to a waste of time and money— even at the risk of being called undemocratic— then so be it. Democracy should not be a govern ment sideshow. The responsibilities of a democratic government do not include pandering to interest groups who have a few spare hours in their Wednesday schedule. Nor do they involve a small group of individuals leading the government by the nose according to their passing whims. Rather than showing up like sheep at the General Assembly, students would do more to encour age democratic responsibility by showing up at the SSMU offices and asking for their money back. CHRIS N. ALAM
Letter to the Editor Persecuted... I protest the tone taken in so many “Letters to the Editor” found in campus publications. In responding to an article, it appears to be fashionable to attack its author personally. Would it not be more constructive to contest his or her ideas, offer new perspectives, correct factual errors, without the emo tional slamming? Too often in academia, the pursuit of knowledge is compromised by the pursuit of per sonal glory. Theorists become blinded by love for their own constructs. Inno vations are haughtily dismissedby those wiâth reputations steeped in tradition. The proponents of different disciplines argue their relative validity, when knowledge is one. We cannot learn in a vacuum. What would be the use of a high degree of specialization in a soci ety whose members could not share? Personal attacks are not conducive to a profitable exchange of ideas. We would do better to support each other in dig ging deeper, looking sharper, walking without fear the road toward under standing, instead of denigrating those we feel have not yet arrived. Because, in real life, you never do. Sari Soghoian U1 Psychology
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SSMU General Assembly Nov 4,1992 Lea 132 5:30 pm
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WORKSHOP ONE
STUDENT RIGHTS
That council should generate a new executive to deal with racial and gender equity, to go to referendum. : council should budget accordingly for this initiative : until a position is created, a person should be appointed under the VP University Affairs will deal with these issues. The SSMU should be committed to .
supporting initiatives concerning safety on campus. :The SSMU should set up a committee to deal with the implementation of recommendations of safety organizations. On campus (MSAC, Walksafe, MCASA) which will serve as a liaison between students and the administration The SSMU should develop clear guidelines for the recognition of club status.
WORKSHOP TWO
WORKSHOP THREE
QUALITY OF EDUCATION
EXTERNAL AFFAIRS
Address both practical student initiatives for improving the quality of education (pass-fail courses, more flexible programs, course evaluations, etc.) and the need for more student input on Senate and the Board of Governors and other University bodies that decide how our money is spent
Should the SSMU Council address issues of broad social concern? i.e. abortion, the Nationair strike, Quebec sovereignty Any decision will not be retroactive.
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McGill conference attempts chemical company facelift BY RAY PINTO
Last Tuesday, Dow Chemical Canada President Denis Wilcock addressed a
developing role of chemical companies. Wilcock, who stressed that chemical companies must give environmental issues top
small body of chemical engi neering students at the McGill Engineering Resources and Industry Conference (MERIC) on the changing and
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priority, spoke in front of about 40 people attheRamada Renaissance Hotel. His speech provided a positive image for Dow and received an enthusi astic response from the McGill students and faculty present. Wilcock showed that dynamic changes in society have spurned on priority reassessments for chemical companies. “Globalization, in creased health costs, and yes, the environment will have enormous bearing on whether our businesses achieve suc cess or simply fade away,” Wilcock told the assembly. According to Wilcock, new strategies have to be de veloped to directly address these issues. In 1986, the 73 member companies of the Canadian Chemical Produc ers’ Association (CCPA) committed themselves to pro tecting people’s health and the environment under a program called Responsible Care. “Responsible Care was the first industrial commit ment and management sys tem of its kind,” explained Wilcock. Wilcock emphasized thatchemical companies must become more accountable to the public. He stressed that chemical companies can no longer conduct their activities in secret but must now recog nize the public’s right to more information on plant activi ties. Wilcox also explained that, due to the ill repute of most chemical companies stemming from past accidents, the companies have both raised health standards and improved their public ac countability. “Environmental issues such as dioxins and PCB ’s, as well as a number of high-pro file incidents, including the Mississauga train derailment
in 1979 and the explosion of a chemical plant in Seveso, Italy in 1977, became synonymous with the ills of the chemical industry,” he elaborated. Dow Canada realized that scientific data would not easily quell the public’s fear of the dangers posed by chemical factories. Dow was forced to listen and work with the public. “We quickly learned that the facts were not enough to overcome public perception,” Wilcock emphasized. “The lesson we learned was that public perception is reality.” In his closing remarks, Wilcock issued a challenge to the students present. “I challenge each of you to think about the role you will play in further shaping this bold new direction,” he urged. “Right now you are engineering students. Soon you will be engineers faced with a new set of challenges. I encourage you to look for ward and map a course of action that will help you meet the numerous challenges that the future is guaranteed to bring.” McGill graduate MarieJosée Dery, in charge of sales at Dow Canada, explained that Dow Canada employs many McGill graduates and seeks to hire well-rounded chemi cal engineering or chemistry students. U2 chemical engineer ing student Troy MacGuirre attended MERIC and ex pressed concern with at tendance levels for the con ference. “Around 40 engineers were present at the meeting,” he stated. “That is about one percent of the total [engineer ing student] body. Students should give more effort to learning about the issues that will be affecting them in the near future.”
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BY ETHAN SACKS Three months ago, the world press came to New York City for the Democratic National Conven tion and the kickoff of the political campaign that ends today. The con vention, like its Republican coun terpart in Houston, shied away from controversy and fed the public less than it wanted to hear. Not much has changed since then; the only real discussion of issues continues to occur on the sidelines, far away from Clinton, Bush or Perot. In order to gain an understanding of these complex issues, one should go back to that time in July, when both sides of the controversial abortion issue fought in the dim periphery of the media spotlight, excluded from the main stream political scene. Operation Rescue, a militant Christian pro-life group, blockaded area abortion clinics. Its New York numbers were smaller than those at the 1988 Atlanta Democratic Con vention. Its main objective was to close down the clinics, though it was also partly motivated by the opportunity to gamer headlines and to embarrass the pro-choice Demo cratic party. “Our goals in Operation Res cue have been and always will be to
save as many children as we can on a particular day, and also to bring the church to repentance for its apathy in allowing children to be killed right at their doorstep,” said Margo Farror, spokesperson for Operation Rescue National. In response, a coalition of pro-choice groups known as Clinic Defence mobilized between five and eight thousand volunteers. Clinic Defence includes groups such as Women’s Health Action and Mobilization (WHAM), Na tional Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL) and Feminist Majority, among others. These volunteers w ere trained by liaisons at each clinic to form several rows of V-shaped human chains around its perimeter, should Operation Rescue attempt a closure. Communication networks of volunteers at nearby clinic sites kept each other informed of Opera tion Rescue sightings. One such liaison, Joyce Rabitz, explained, “I like to think of it as a people’s army. Except for the top positions, people chose ba sically what positions they wanted based on the number of meetings they could stomach.” Both sides described their actions using military terms. Each side was prepared to resort to physi cal force should the situation de mand it, even though police cor
doned off two separate trenches. “The press doesn’t understand-they see defence as a dem onstration. Neither do the police [understand], which is a shame since defence is not a demonstra tion,” stressed Stephanie Creataro, a coordinator at NARAL. “A demonstration is to ex press anger over a policy or a law or an action. In defence you are keep ing a clinic open from people who are violently trying to close it.” “If you’ve ever been to a res cue, it is a war zone; there is no question about it,” responded Farror. “When you have people in front of the door it’s hard to get in, so that’s a tactic we use in order to keep the pregnant mother from get ting her child aborted. It gives us time so our sidewalk counsellors can get the truth about abortion out to these girls.” During the convention week, none of the 150 clinics were closed down, but Operation Rescue did have an effect. “Clinic Defence was success ful in keeping the clinic open, but the only problem was [that some] patients didn’t show up; the pa tients were scared to come in, afraid of appearing on television. About 70 cases came a day [during that period] instead of our average of around one hundred,” said a recep tionist at the Women’s Health Pa
vilion, a clinic that was targeted twice. Even though Operation Res cue has called the press “biased,” its selection of New York as a tar get this summer was not acciden tal. Since the press was concen trated on the Convention, exposure was virtually guaranteed. Obvi ously when Operation Rescue leader Randall Terry handed Bill Clinton a dead fetus while televi sion cameras blazed, it was not to win over the Democratic candi date. Rabitz did not see this as a big gain, however. “Almost all of New York’s media was focused on the Conven tion. The people who demonstrated for and against abortion, the people who demonstrated for animal rights or any of the million things that people demonstrated for during the Convention— I think they were all lumped together by the media.” A representative from The New York Post added: ‘There was some coverage, but it did not make a top story. The Convention did.” Ironically, the only common ground between the two sides seems to be the realization that there can be no reconciliation between such diametrically opposed values “I can’t talk logically to these people,” said Creataro. “I ’m sure if you sat down and talked to an anti choice and a pro-choice they would
differ on many things, such as sex education and AIDS education and the function of women in society. If [anti-choice activists] are success ful in getting rid of abortion rights, then they are going to go on to contraception- there are many in terrelated issues.” “What we do is unashamedly Christian,” countered Farror. “We are representing what the Bible says. This country [the United States ] was based on the tenets of the Bible; it was not based on secu lar humanism, whereas abortion and the entire abortion agenda is.” “We believe the word of God is true where it talks about the sanc tity of human life. There can be no compromise- if you allow the slaughter of some, you pave the way for the slaughter of them all.” So while attention centers on the consensus oriented system in herent in both American and Cana dian politics, an important point goes underreported by the media. Simply put, abortion doesn’t fit under concepts such as compro mise and the enfranchisement of the minority. No m atter who wins the A m erican electio n , these m o b ilizatio n s and co u n ter mobilizations will continue. If the situation is comparable to a war, then it is a war with little prospect of a decisive victory.
De Gomez speaks on El Salvador’s search for democracy BY BARNABY CLUNIE On October 28, Juanita De Gomez spoke on human rights in El Salvador at a workshop pre sented by the Faculty of Law. Her country has recently seen the end of a twelve-year ci v il w ar b e tw e e n le ftis t F ren te Farabundo Marti de Liberacion Nacional (FMLN) guerrillas and the rightist government. G om ez illustrated, often using graphic exam ples, how Salvadorans “live in a constant situation of human rights viola tions.” Violation of the right to life was demonstrated by the more than 75,000 deaths during the war, a majority of these being civilian women and children. Mass graves of the victims of government death squads were recently uncovered. According to Gomez, the rights to education, a fair trial and free expression were, and still are, violated. Salvadoran prisons are still full of untried alleged sym pathizers of the FMLN cause. Speaking through a transla tor, Gomez described the current, past and future situations in El Salvador.
‘T o give a full and accurate picture of human rights violations would take weeks,” said Gomez. She did, however, describe one of the many horrors Salvadorans must endure. A woman was captured by the hacienda police, raped by 55 officers, beaten, and then thrown in prison. She then became preg nant, and with no way of knowing which of her assailants was the father, had to deal with the di lemma of whether or not to keep the child. “When an entire people has to deal with this kind of oppres sion, it makes them want to fight for their rights. It makes a strug gle strong,” said Gomez referring to the FM LN’s ability to resist the largely U.S.-supported govern ment forces for twelve years. Gomez stressed the need for fair laws that respect fundamen tal human rights, and for a system that can ensure their application. Currently, the peace agreement/ ceasefire is deadlocked. Accord in g to G o m ez, P re sid e n t Christiani’s government is con tinually evading the agreement, while the FMLN refuses to com
pletely disarm its militia until the government fulfills its obliga tions. Gomez shed some light on the role of Salvadoran women in the peace and development proc ess. She said that women must have a presence in a new civiliancontrolled police force, in order to prevent situations that com promise the rights of women and children. “Only [the] direct involve ment of women can have an ef fective influence,” she stressed. The discussion following G om ez’s talk dealt with the fact that w om en’s issues often take a back seat to other development issues. G om ez adm itted this, adding that in order to remedy the ills of a patriarchal system, it is also necessary to convince men of the desirability of change as well as to convince women to look for other alternatives. “It is important for women to gain economic independence before attaining social independ ence,” said Gomez. An important w om en’s organization, o f which Gomez is a leader, provides train ing for women in technical and
agricultural fields, as well as lit eracy training. Gomez said that the majority of illiterates in El Salvador are women. “W e need to take back our selves,” said Gomez. “We can’t wait for men to give [them] to us.” Gomez asked that, as mem bers of the International Commu nity, Canadians not abandon El Salvador. She emphasized the
importance of the United Nations in ensuring that the peace agree ment is adhered to, and that the elections slated for 1994 be truly democratic. “If the Salvadoran people fail, it will be a serious step back wards for the worldwide fight for hum an rights,” stated Gom ez. “W e m ust never again allow our children to shoot at one another in the name of democracy.”
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Jo-Jo speaks: Whatever your desire or dilemma, she can help you BY PIERRE NICOLAS LIPTON
Jocelyne Savard, better known to the people of Mon treal as Jo-Jo, has been studying astrology for no less than 17 years. She claims to have psychic powers, and a base of knowledge in esoterism ranging from channeling to morphology to krea meditation. Indeed, her credentials are extensive: she has at tended The Swami J Institute of Bombay, India and The New York Academy of As trology, and holds a Bach elor of Fine Arts from Sir George Williams University. She has made guest ap pearances onLateNightwith David Letterman, Donahue, and held a regular segment on the Joe Franklin Show. She has made local media
and public appearances and has prepared astrological c o n su lta tio n s— face-toface— for the likes of Robert DeNiro, Cher, Barbra Streisand, Tony Bennett, and (of course) Shirley MacLaine. The Tribune found her at home, and asked her some questions, which, of course, she knew would be asked. Jo-Jo: What sign are you? Tribune: You tell me. Jo-Jo: Capricorn? Tribune: No. Jo-Jo: Aries, then. You must be an Aries. Tribune: That’s right. How did you know? Jo-Jo: [points to inter viewer’s eyebrows] I saw some horns there. Tribune: You can tell by a person’s face? Jo-Jo: Yeah, yeah. By
General Assembly November 4th Leacock 132 In my first year at McGill, I attended the now famous general assembly on the 1989 tuition fee hike. The agenda included a resolution to take McGill students out on strike, in solidarity with the Quebec student movement, to oppose a government plan to "thaw" a twenty year freeze on tuition and raise student fees by 250%. Leacock 232 was filled to overflowing for a heated debate which lasted several hours. As it turned out, students decided not to go on strike. Instead, we decided to blockade the James Administration building.
General Assemblies give students direct control over specific questions. Tne general assembly process gives decision-making directly to the students. According to the Students' Society of McGill University's constitution, all decisions taken at a General Assembly are binding for one year. This is the first assembly in SSM l/s history which will follow an agenda set by the students themselves. All final decisions are taken by those students who attend the Assembly. This is not an exercise in "consultation". This is not about "striking a committee". This is student empowerment. Three areas are off-limits in a General Assembly: -decisions which directly affect the staff; -SSMU's financial structure; -changes to the constitution, (done by referendum).
Towards a new political culture at McGill. I hope this General Assembly will be the first of many. To my mind, our community will only be truly effective when there is a dynamic and sustained "conversation" between Student Council and the student body. The General Assembly is one step towards this ideal. But we can call for greater accountability on the part of our elected representatives. We can begin to talk about issues which are at the center of our student life: what is SSMU for? what can we reasonably expect from this organisation? how can we make it work for us? The assembly on November 4th is the place to begin to get some answers. And to begin to make some decisions. The G e n e ra l Assem bly gives y o u a voice. L et it b e h ea rd .
Jason Prince SSMU President To find out what's on the agenda, check out the notice in this newspaper.
The Students' Society wishes to formally acknowledge Dr. Charles Weijar as the author of the Student handbook article entitled "Playing it Safe" SSMU regrets the error. The above is paid adevtisement by the SSMU.
the mythology of the signs, [points to interviewer’s chin, makes gesture signifying cleft] That’s Leo. It means that you have some royal blood. Tribune: I should wear purple. Jo-Jo: [laughs] You should wear a crown. Tribune: I have to get up there first. Jo-Jo: [laughs] People like you are usually very so cial. Tribune: What sign are you? Jo-Jo: Cancer-Leo. I don’t have the chin there, because I don’t have what you call the major—Venus, Mars, or Mercury. I have the other planets in Leo, so I don’t have that [makes ges ture signifying cleft]. You go to McGill? Tribune: Yeah, I go to McGill. Jo-Jo: I went there for one year. Cinema, archaeol ogy, something like that. Tribune: How did you get into astrology? Jo-Jo: I was what you call the “black sheep” of the family. Tribune: Because of astrology? Jo-Jo: No, because I asked questions that most people don’t ask—where do we come from, why do we die, why do I have a Mom and a Dad? My father was a marine officer, and traveled a lot, so he had an open mind about the world. But nobody really accepted me. When I was five years old— first experience— I predicted my brother’s death. I’m in a summer place, I get up, and in the afternoon, I’m playing., and suddenly I get—like a shaking. And I say “Put Bernard in the cup board because the train’s go ing to pick him up in three days”. Tribune: What? The tree? Jo-Jo: The train. Tribune: Oh. Sorry. Jo-Jo: And three days later he was decapitated by a
Jo-Jo —with stars in her eyes.
train. So everybody went physical or astrological like,“[gasps] She’sawitch!” techniques and powers will I had a lot of flashes like that. be explained through sci I grabbed my Uncle’s hand ence? when I was eight or nine years Jo-Jo: Read Einstein. old and said “[gasps] Shucks. Read Newton. Read about You ’re not going to have any all those scientists and you ’ll real marriage before you’re find that they all started with like, thirty-eight or thirty- a vision, and tried to prove it nine years old, and the three through mathematical, sci women you’ll have after entific ways. You feel you that—not for you. But you like someone when you see will settle down, so don’t give them—explain that. You feel up.” Eight, nine years old, love, or hate, towards a total stranger. Explain that math you know, they’re like— Tribune: And it hap ematically. pened? People have to become Jo-Jo: Yes. It does—all more open-minded. We are the time. But it comes in entering the Aquarian Age, flashes—in moments. the Age of Peace. You will Tribune: Do you ever see the beginnings of this work for the police? change towards peace by Jo-Jo: Sometimes. 1997, and by 2011 we will all Searching for kids; and acci be united as one. dents. I’m really good at Jo-Jo appears daily on finding missing people. And CFCF at 11:30 a.m., and at with getting rid of ghosts. I 11:45 on Fridays. Her Per enter a house and—zip!— sonalized Telephone Line they disappear. It’s because I Predictions can be obtained have a very strong aura. at l-976-JOJO. Please note Tribune: Do you think that there is a charge fo r her that one day, all these meta services.
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Self-defence courses stress empowerment and fear management BY KATIE ROBSON AND MADY VIRGONA In the second o f a two-part article, the Tribune talks to w om en who either have taken o r are currently enrolled in selfdefence program s, in order to discover which courses offer the best training. Tribune reporters in ter v ie w e d w o m en e n ro lle d in Steven Quiblat ’s course through C o n c o rd ia an d M ic h a e l G reg o ry ’s course through the M cG ill G ym In stru c tio n a ls. T hey also spoke to instructors for these tw o courses, and for Tony B lau er’s C hu Fen Do de fence sem inars. C o n c o rd ia “ A ctio n ” self-de fence p ro g ra m Instructor: Steven Q uiblat A lu m n a e o f Q u ib la t’s course recom m end ilhighly. U3 Arts student K rista R anacher said: “ Steven doesn’t m ake false claim s; he d o esn ’t claim to be a psychologist. W e do discuss psychology in class, but he rec om m ends we follow up class discussions on our ow n.” She also felt positively about the environm ent he cre ates for his students. “H e is alw ays em phasiz ing that we are fully equipped to defend ourselves,” she noted. “T he feeling we get is that he really has o ur best interests at heart. W hen students m ake m is takes, he concentrates on help ing them w ork through it, not on m aking them feel stupid.” The T rib u n e fo u n d R anacher’s praise was well d e served. Both Quiblat and his assistant (a w om an) are trained not only in m artial arts tech niqu es, but have also given thought to the different tech niques necessary for self-de fence. Q uiblat’s classes usually involve a b rief discussion p e riod, a vigorous warm up, skills practice and a “circle” drill, w hich is a stress drill in which all m em bers o f the class have to react to a sudden attack. “T he drill is nerve-rack ing b u t u sefu l,” com m ented R an ach er. “P art o f learn in g about self-defence is learning how to deal with stress and panic. W ithout this drill, I think our training w ou ld n ’t be very real istic.” H ow ever, R anacher n o
tic e d a fo rc e d r e s tr a in t in Q uiblat’s approach to his stu dents. “D uring stress drills, the w om an [Q uiblat’s assistant] hit harder than Steven [did]. I t’s obvious h e ’s holding back b e cause h e ’s concerned about us; but m aybe th at’s not such a good thing.” Q uiblat told the Tribune that he prefers sm aller classes, since they enable him to give everyone the attention she d e serves. W hen asked for com m ents on his approach, he di rected the reporter to his stu dents, saying they were best able to com m ent on the co u rse’s strengths or w eaknesses. M cG ill G ym In stru c tio n a l Instructor: M ichael G regory This course places the em phasis on effective self-defence squarely on fear m anagem ent. G regory believes psychological lim itations m ust be overcom e before physical techniques can be m astered. T h e re v ie w s c o lle c te d about his course w ere som e what m ixed. U2 Arts student Alana Zanbilow icz and U3 Arts student Sihin Abdi w ere very positive about the training m eth ods. “I am very satisfied with this class,” said Zanbilowicz. “M ichael concentrates on giv ing his students the ability to cope with stress. He w ants to desensitize us to shock so we w on’t be paralyzed by it in case o f an attack.” Abdi concurred, adding “ M ichael com m unicates well with people— he d o esn ’t con descend to his students. I took a
course in high school, and I ’m getting a lot m ore out o f this program , because the training is m ore intense and serious.” B ut U3 Science student C ynthia B enjam in was not as positive. T he year she took the course, she dropped out because o f w hat she term ed “ an environm ent th a t e m p h a s iz e d disem pow erm ent.” B enjam in stated “I did not like the atm osphere; I felt that m y opinions and problem s were being sidestepped and belittled. In fact, his usual treatm ent o f legitim ate questions was abrupt and dism issive.” She did have som e posi tive com m ents to m ake. “ T h e te c h n iq u e s w e learned w ere interesting, and the structure o f the course was basi cally sound,” she noted. “T he drill using hit m en [another “stress drill”] was good.” “B ut it seem ed to m e that the overall m essage o f the pro gram was am bivalent; he em phasized “victim ization” over “em pow erm ent”, to the point w here it was like he was blam ing the victim .” G regory did not dism iss B en jam in ’s concerns. “B ut I think it’s obvious, considering the structure o f the course, that I am responsive to students,” he asserted. “Self-defence classes often bring out em otions in peo ple, em otions they d o n ’t like or d o n ’t w ant to feel.” “W e try to deal with these [em otions], but we d o n ’t want to patronize the students. So per haps that is w hy this student felt as she did.” T he class structure is sim i
lar to Q uib lat’s, except for the fact that G regory has three m ale assistants.
C hu F en Do defence se m in a rs Instructors: T ony B lauer and A ndrew Netschay B lauer’s m ethod resem bles G regory ’s in that it em pha sizes psychological awareness and fear m anagem ent. B lauer and assistant instructor Andrew N etschay do not use stress drills such as full-gear sim ulated at tacks in their M cG ill sem inars, although they do use them in their ow n school. “Four w eeks o f our train in g fo c u s on p sy c h o lo g ic a l preparation, and on providing alternatives to fighting. M any w om en believe that they are w eak and that they c a n ’t hit any one. An attacker will u se this against a victim , so it’s im por tant to be prepared,” Netschay explained. Janet Dublin enrolled in gY
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B lauer’s course last year. H er resp o n se to his ap p ro ach is qualified. “ I am a survivor o f se x u a l a s s a u lt and I fo u n d B lauer’s course to be very em powering. I think he is sensitive to a w om an’s point o f view .” “ H ow ever, I do have a problem in that he m akes his living o ff self-defence programs. It m a k e s m e q u e s tio n h is m otivations a little bit.” N etschay responded sym pathetically to D ublin’s com ments. “I t’s obvious that some people will think we are e x ploiting w om en’s fears. Yes, it provides a business; but the re ality o f the situation is it’s d an gerous out there. You have a choice: either ignore it o r be prepared for it.” “W e try to prepare w om en m entally and psychologically, and give them a range o f tech niques to work with. [Our] strat egy is ju s t com m on sense pack aged in a strategic form at.”
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The McGill Tribune, November 3 - 9 , 1992
M U C crack s d o w n on ja y w a lk in g (s o r t o f) BY VANESSA B E R K L IN G Does anybody know about the new M U C policy that cracks dow n on jayw alking? “First I heard o f it!” said a policem an from a dow ntow n sta tio n w ho w o u ld n ’t give his nam e. A t the sam e tim e he co v e red th e receiv er, trying desperately to ask one o f his colleagues for inform ation. W hen students were asked if they w ere aw are o f the crack dow n , m ost replied “ w hat— on jay w alk in g ?” Som e had a vague notion about it, thinking m aybe it was a rum our. Jo h a n n a B rad e n , a U3 M cG ill A rts student, claim s that she w as given a w arning ticket fo r jayw alking at the co m er o f A tw a te r and Ste. C atherine. W hen she laughed, the police m an ticketing her offered to raise the $30 ticket to $55. S tra n g e ly en o u g h , s tu dents w eren ’t the only ones who thought the crackdow n on ja y w alking to be only a rum our. A
num ber o f police officers, m ost o f whom refused to be identifled, stated they knew nothing about the crackdow n and asked w here the Tribune got this in form ation. N evertheless the search continued. A nother phone con versation led to the youth divi sion, (the y o u th division?!), w hich w as equally uninform ed. Finally, L ieutenant M cK ay, an M U C police traffic departm ent head, tried to m ake the issue clear. “Bien, it is not a new ja y w alking b ill,” he said. “ W e are ju st reinforcing the already e x isting one.” T he obvious ques tion is why enforce it all o f a sudden? “Because o f the people and their com plaints. T hey were fed up!” he responded. H e also confirm ed that a ticket would norm ally cost about $30. W hen asked how long this jayw alking project would be in operation, L ieutenant M cK ay said “ it is a special operation and to m y know ledge it is only
to be running for one m onth.” Students polled w ere defi ant about respecting the anti jayw alking bylaw . One student (using Jane Doe as h er nam e) stated “I think the people who should be penalized are auto m obile drivers w ho do not pay
attention to the rights o f pedestrians, [who are then iorced] to jay w alk .” Kate M atw gchuk insisted she w ould continue to jayw alk despite the police crackdow n. “A nd as I ’m looking out for cars, I ’ll look out for cops.”
T hat d o esn ’t seem to be entirely necessary. No spokesperson for the ten to tw elve police stations contacted had any inform ation about the policy, The com m on reply was “this is not m y d ep artm en t.”
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_____ E ntertainm ent_____ Tribune goes down on Annaud's The Lover BY KATRINA ONSTAD AND LAURA WILLIAMSON When one-third of a film is devoted to pre-pubescent, interra cial sex, one might expect a dra matic exploration of the fine line between art and pornography. But, The Lover is so lame that the only line being crossed is that Spinal Tap border between “clever and stupid.” And look out, there goes The Lover, hurtling through space and landing firmly in the Stupid Zone. Fresh from the pages of Brit ain’s answer to Sassy magazine, Just Seventeen, nymphette Jane March plays a poor French girl who embarks upon a tepid love affair with an older, wealthy Chi nese man in 1929 colonial Viet nam. Th-th-th-that’s all folks. Re ally. As The Lover is an adapta tion of Marguerite Duras’ epony mous novel, there are a few cursory stabs at acknowledging themes be yond the couple’s copulating — a grief stricken mother, an opium addicted brother, the young girl’s literary aspirations etc. But, much to the chagrin of the puzzled audi
ence, none of this is explained. Ex-squeeze me, why grief? Why opium? And writing? Nary a pen touches this girl’s hand, which is, shall we say, otherwise occupied. After waiting half an hour for a plot to materialize, the viewer may direct a small plea heavenward: “Please Lord, life is short, this film is long, and the acting better get good.” And lo, Tony Leung as the lover offers a minor redemption. Yet it’s hard to overlook the bizarre dubbing of his dialogue, which m anifests itse lf in A lvin Chipmunk-like delivery of lines such as, “I will die of my love for you.” But alas, the Tiger Beat casting of the cardboard March proves to be about as effective as plucking Carré Otis from her Calvin-ad motorbike and deposit ing her on screen in the pungent
Wild Orchid. Speaking of Wild Orchid, despite the claim of The Lover's director, Jean-J acques Annaud, that “it’s just acting, folks,” we get plenty of chances to scope for body patches. (You know , those flesh-coloured squares designed to cover the Important Parts during the filming of the nasty). After sev eral eons of uninterrupted nudity,
Smooth as silk-cut Leung offers a pre-coital cig to a smoking March which is surprisingly banal, we spot ted none. Perhaps Annaud makes the sex banal to reflect the relation ship’s lovelessness, but after five minutes we may suspect this unre lenting yamming is merely a ploy to avoid actual dialogue. After all, this man previously brought to cellu loid, in The Bear and Questfor Fire,
Henry Rollins can't last a minute BY ISABEL STRAMWASSER T u esd ay N o v em ber 3, Rollins Band plays at Metropolis with the Beastie Boys and Da Lenchmob: $30. Not much out there compares to Rollins live. On the road eight to ten months of the year, the band is, above all, wholly dedicated to raging on stage. If you’ve seen or heard Henry Rollins speak, you’ve seen or heard Rollins speak about himself— and you’ve quickly gotten an idea of the in tensity of the furor which fuels his performance after performance.... The tour, he insists, is raw “real ity” — an outlet for the hatred, violence and fierce energy which make him tick. It’sat the periphery of civilization, a desperate attempt at setting a roomful of animals (himself included) free. It never gets real enough/ /
always want so much morel I want to see all things destroyed! To see all things come to an end! It’s never enough and it drives me! Makes me want to chew my brain! To taste what I know! Makes me want lo rip out my nervous system! And see what I feel! It’s never enough. Like the rest of Rollins’
painfully self-indulgent “poetry,” these lines from One From None pre tty much sum up and herald the savage, if not dangerously adoles cent, impulse behind his actions. Needless to say, as ridiculous as anyone's high school rancor might be in print, these actions of Rollins’ are damn well worth witnessing live. In preparing my interview with the self-affirmed Part-Animal Part-Machine, I opted to drop the mainstream line of questioning in favor of a more abstract approach. It would allow this hard-core poet to (hopefully) get started on his open-book, infernal past and the conclusions on hum anity h e ’s drawn from it. After all, here’s a man for whom philosophy plays a great role; not only in the teeming abundance of his abysmal writing (six books: Art to Choke Hearts &
Pissing in the Gene Pool, Black Coffee Blues, High Adventure in the Great Outdoors, One From None, See a Grown Man Cry and Bang!) but also in his repeated reference to (let’s guess together now) Nietzsche and Last Exit to Brooklyn author, Hubert Selby Jr. The man whose books affirm he spends endless, meditative hours alone in hotel rooms —
empty but for a loaded gun— has nursed his self-righteousangst into the ascetic's philosophy of disci pline by which he lives. Rollins’ “Iron Rules” force him to con stantly face his absolute solitude and eternal war with the world. They take him farther and “farther into the desert/Of violence, para noia and isolation” (See a Grown Man Cry). They also lend that distinct edge to topics from mi sogyny to consumerism which can add spice to any article: Violence?
Breaking someone’s nose is more memorable than the best sex/So many nights I crave a body to destroy. Hatred? I hate life/I live to destroy it! Wear it out and make it scream. Evil? Aiming your life fo r the middle o f the road. Life goals? / want to build walls where there are none! So I can have something to break thru. Freedom ? Civilization has crippled me!And that’s luckv for you.
I undeniably had a lot to work with. Being aware thaï w h a te v e r e lse he is, H enr R ollins is sincere and allow people to have their say (for bet SEE ROLLINS, PAGE 1 5
the interactions of quadrupeds and neanderthals, two species not well known for their witty repartée. Bad acting, no plot, annoy ing sex scenes aside ...umm ...Vi etnam looks cool. It’s nice to see this beautiful country playing itself, sans apocalyptic helicopters and Agent Orange. But the sublime
landscape can ’tjustify eight dollars and two hours of any filmgoer’s precious time. Instead, why not reenact The Lover in the privacy of your own home — buy a copy of Condé Naste Traveller magazine, rent a soft-core porno and call a friend. The /.overrates a 69 out o f300.
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Ricci’s life after Lives of the Saints BY LISA SAROLI N in o R ic c i te a se d the M cG ill com m unity w ith a taste o f his forthcom ing novel, In a Glass House, last T hursday in the Arts C ouncil Room1} Judg ing from the response, a taste w asn ’t enough to sate eager lit erary tastebuds. T he author had also appeared the night before at the K irkland Library on the W est Islan d . T h e re w as an equally enthusiastic response from the sm all crowd. Ricci certainly fits ‘the tall, dark, and handsom e' cliché. His voice was gentle and even, per fect for reading the story o f a young boy. T he open and en gaging author read a different ch ap ter from the novel each night. T he crow ds w ere quite d ifferen t and quite separated geographically. T he question period that follow ed was such that, especially on W ednesday night, anyone in the room felt as though they were having a large yet intim ate discussion w ith the fam ous author. Inevitably, m ost o f the questions w ere about his successful first novel, Lives o f the Saints, if they were not about R icci h im self. M any people seem ed w ary o f asking ques tions about In a Glass House as it is as yet unpublished. Lives o f the Saints, R icci’s first book in a planned trilogy (w ith In a Glass House as the second), is the cornerstone o f his success. It takes place in the sixties and is the story o f story o f a s e v e n - y e a r - o ld b o y , V ittorio,w ho lives in a small
Ricci was bo m and raised in Leam ington, O ntario, for m erly know n only as the Heinz K etchup headquarters. His par ents are from the M olise region in Italy and he grew up speaking Italian at hom e. A fter studying English at T o ro n to ’s Y ork U ni versity, he w ent to N igeria for tw o years to teach English. He returned to C anada and received an M A in C reative W riting at Concordia. There he took classes with M cG ill E nglish D epart m e n t’s P ro fe ss o r C a th e rin e Shaw who encouraged him to do graduate work. Lives o f the Saints also began at Concordia as a project for a thesis. Ricci also recently studied in Italy for a year. He now lives in T oronto w here he writes full-time. F or someone, so Canadian, Ricci has certainly gotten under the skin o f an Italian village in Lives o f the Saints. H e revealed
village in Italy. V ittorio’s inno cence and im pressionability is balanced by the narration o f the adult V ittorio who reflects on the past with the wisdom o f his age. Vittorio is eventually forced to leave Italy and to travel by boat to C anada where he will m eet his father. In a Glass House contin ues from this point. It covers a s p a n o f tw e n ty y e a rs o f V ittorio’s life, from seven to m id-tw enties, as he adjusts to life in Canada. R icci’s first novel does not seem uniquely Canadian, yet it was on the Canadian best-sell e r’s list for an incredible 75 w eeks. T he m ost prestigious prize in C anada for literature, the G overnor G eneral’s Award, was granted to this novel as well as the W .H. Sm ith Books in C anada First N ovel Award. At the tim e o f its publication, Lives o f the Saints was hailed as one o f the best things to com e out on the C anadian market. Clearly, V ittorio had taken hold o f the hearts o f the C anadian people. As I surveyed the sm all bu t devoted crow d on bo th nights, I w ondered w hat the ap peal o f this Italian im m igration novel was to bring these largely non-Italian, C anadian people here. I decided that it m ust have been either the rom ance o f Italy o r the achingly real Vittorio. Instead, the crow d found Ricci who represented neither: as a first generation Italian and as a 33-year-old adult. Som ehow , w ith the m agic o f his words as h e re a d ,itd id n ’tm atter, Vittorio and Italy w ere there in the room.
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From the Ryerson Eyeopener The Soup Dragons, on tour in N orth A m erica since July, returned to Toronto last w eek after hitting top 40 in A m erica with their latest single “D evine T h in g ”o ff th eir third release Hotwired. T he D ragons are probably b est know n fo r th e ir giddy, psychedelicand grooving ver sion o f The Rolling S tones’ “I ’m Free” o ff the album Love God. It brought them to the charts all over the world. T h e y w e re d u b b e d a “M anchester’’band by the press, a term used to describe bands with a sim ilar sound that ex ploded onto the dance m usic scene in the late 8 0 ’s. A cts like the Stone R oses and the H appy M ondays w ere hyped by the press and the Soup Dragonswere included despite their G lasw e gian origins. “W e ju st ignored it,” gui ta rist Jim M c C u llo c h says. “ B ecause eventually, all that attention to one setting disap pears and it changes to another setting, and if y o u ’re caught in that scene, y o u ’re going to die when that scene dies. So, you have to be above it all and do w hat you w ant to d o .” Seeing so m any bands die a quick death in the U.K., the
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The F id d le h e a d , The M oosehead Anthology, Writ, and Saturday Night. He had ex plained that “ as m y skill rose, m y expectations low ered until the two finally m et” in the Lives
o f the Saints. A fter questions on Lives o f the Saints w ere exhausted, an elderly m an at the K irkland L i brary asked Ricci if he hung around with famous writers now. Ricci w arm ly sm iled, explained that he had m et o ther writers, but that “no, M argaret A tw ood has never called me. In a Glass House w ill be published som etim e this fall.
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that he was a little w orried about his accuracy o f the portrayal o f the village. H is m o th er’s village in the M olise region o f Italy is actually the m odel for V ittorio’s V alle del Sol. He first w ent there w hen he was a young 12-yearold boy. As to his p aren t’s reac tions to the book and to his ca reer, R icci w as q u ite frank. W hen he asked his m other if she liked the fruits o f all his effort, she said, “I t’s nice.” His rela tionship with his father was m ore problem atic. Since econom ic stability was so im portant to anyone who has had to leave their country, his father could never understand why anyone, especially his son, w ould choose a profession w here the m oney u su ally ju s t d o e s n ’t roll in. Thinking that Ricci was running around w asting his tim e, his father kept asking, “But w hat do
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Soup D ragons knew their next a lb u m w as a c r u c ia l o n e. Hotw ired is a m uch m ore gui ta r - o r ie n te d re le a s e . M cC ullough adm its it w as a bit o f a change. “T he journalists got bored and they m oved on to another setting, like Seattle,” he says. “T h a t’s the next thing th at’s going to die as well. Obviously, the good bands will pull through that, and the ones that are taken along w ith the hype, th ey ’ll sort o f fall by the wayside. It’s the m usic that should be im portant, not w here you com e from .” F o r the Soup D ragons, breaking T op 40 in A m erica m eans younger crow ds at their show s. B ut experiencing the adoration o f kids as young as 15 d oesn ’t bother them. “It’s enjoyable w hen you see youngsters com e in, because they get right into it,” he says. “T hey d o n ’t have any problem s about being cool. T hose are the audiences that are going to see you, but they m ight not ever get the m usic. T hose poeple change bands weekly. It’s good to have them here, but th e y ’re not the real people that are buying your records, the people that follow your career. ‘T eenagers are universally daft. T h ey enjoy them selves anyw ay. T h ey ’re ju st there to enjoy the m usic, not cut up the band and be critical.”
M cC ulloch says the band w ill to u r u n til D ecem b er in N orth A m erica, then head back to the U.K. fo r som e C hristm as show s and then rest. T hen i t ’s out on tour again, hitting Japan and Australia. He adm its h e ’s fond o f Canada. “It rem inds us o f hom e a wee bit,” he says. “L ike G las gow, the cold, the sleet. It’s m uch m ore E uropean.” B eing on the road with the Tom Tom Club and Jam es has been in sp irin g for th e S oup Dragons, he says. “ H o p efu lly , th in g s you pick up on the road do help new ideas and things. M eeting p eo ple and going places, new ideas will com e through. Just listen ing to other m usic, like Jam es or Tom Tom C lub, the w ay they do things, th at’s the only w ay you develop.” He says they have a whole alb u m ’s w orth o f songs ready to record once the tour is through. T he direction will once again be o f a guitar-oriented nature, he says. B ut fo r now , th e S oup D ra g o n s a re th r ille d th a t Hotwired is going so well here. “ W e’ve been hearing itfo r tw o years now, w hen it was first w ritte n ,” he says. “ I t ’s still strange that som e people are hearing it for the first time. If people are still not bored by it, th a t’s still good.”
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After the Rapture and !Rollins rolls in ready for Spiritualized to town BY KATE GIBBS Like Suede, Curve, and Lush, Spiritualized joins the ranks of Northern England’shardercore techno-goth bands with a singu lar name. Anticipating the Jesus and Mary Chain with special guests Curve and Spiritualized concert at Metropolis last Monday night, the Tribune had the opportunity to speak with Jason Pierce of Spiritualized. The soft-spoken Pierce did not seemed phased by opening for Jesus and Mary Chain having been in the business since the early eighties. T rib u n e: Has Spiritualized visited Montreal before? Jaso n Pierce: No, never. T rib u n e: So you are still under the impression that its snow and ice. Pierce: Nah, I ’ve no idea what its like. Well, actually my aunt used to live there and she told me it was snow and ice. T rib u n e : W ell she was right. I know that Jesus and Mary Chain have played in Montreal before and I ’m sure the crowd will be receptive to your sound. Can you anticipate the reactions of a crowd before hand?.
Pierce: I don’t know what we expected really but so far its been p re tty cool. [In N orth America] nobody’s seen us be fore so it seems like people are coming to catch our show you know which is good. It’s kind of different in England where as people find out what time the main act is playing and kind of roll in around that time. T rib u n e : Yeah, yeah. I would imagine record execs hand you reems of demographics tell ing you what sector of which age group you are reaching. Pierce: I think w e’ve been playing to about as many people as the ‘Mary Chain have been playing to. T rib u n e : C anadians are punctual. People are going to come at eight if it starts at eight, rather than coming at ten thirty to hear the Chain. Jesus and Mary Chain have been at the fore-front of English indy sound for some time now. Their album Psychocandy is widely considered one of the best albums of the eighties especially by those kids that still only wear black. Were they part of your musical influences? Pierce: No not at all. I ’ve
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got as much history as the Mary Chain have. I put my first album ou t aro u n d the tim e o f Psychocandy. I dunno, I kind of missed the Mary Chain thing. T ribune: Good for you. Pierce: I w asn’t that wild about it and I ’m still not a m as sive fan. Their second album I kind of got into but way, way later than the album came out- about three or four years later. I kind of like that album. I think its really cool they have allowed us to do this tour and play through their sound system but not try and re strict us any. I can imagine a lot of bands would try and have their support b a n d ’s show appear subordinated. There is no feeling like “we’re third on the bill” which is really cool of those guys. T ribune:T hat’s great. Pierce:It good that the Mary C hain are pulling in enough people to come in and see us. They ’ve enabled us to do this tour of the States to a receptive audi ence. There is no way we could have done this on her own. We owe them one I guess. T ribune: You’ll let them headline for you one of these days? Pierce:Let them headline for us? At least at the Montreal show.
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ter or for worse) — ie, he claims to personally answer all fan mail - 1 was looking forward to some deep conversation: 1. The m ass-scale spread o f inform a tion, in the m edia as well as in education, is resulting in most peole watching others think, live and act. All we have to re la te to each o th e r is this s e c o n d -h a n d in fo rm a tio n . Y ou’ve stated that the storytell ing you do live is a way back to genuine com m unication. Is it im possible to relate to others except in person? Is it the acting along with the artifice o f tech nology that you object to? 2. Is the hatred you advocate and dedicate yourself to tied directly to self-control and respect only because it’s reactionary? Is it so difficult to maintain because your hate might conceivably be con sidered a type o f self-love? 3. W hat m akes you happy? The real thing (all 2.2 sec
onds o f it) follows. (NB: The interview had been set for 3:30 pm Thursday; I got news from R ollins’ PR people just before noon that it’d been rescheduled for 12:15). H e llo , is th is H en ry Rollins? — Uh. [Could he sound any m ore pissed o ff already?] Hi, I ’m calling from the McGill Tribune in Montreal. Our interview was pushed up from 3:30 to 12:15. I assum e it’s because y o u ’re short on time. —
Uh-huh. Right. W ell, how much time can you give m e? — None. [I touch on the Beastie Boys and the ticket price only to get m onosyllabic replies which he soon interrupts]. — You know how many
interviews I was supposed to give about this show? Two. You’re the fourth one this morning. None o f you people in Montreal have your shit together. Dial tone.
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Sports Football: the season that should have been BY CRAIG BERNES
It wasn’t just a heartbreaker. It was a massive coronary. On Saturday, the Redmen travelled to Kingston for the O-QIFC semifinal. McGill outplayed Queen’s and fought back from a 17-point deficit but were denied the winning touchdown on a con troversial play at the end of the game to lose 24-21. Both teams were lack lustre for most of the first half. Starting from their own 17yard line, the Redmen drove 70 yards on six plays and were threatening when Gaels de fensive back James Paterson stepped in front of a sideline pass. 85 yards later, Paterson was in the end zone and Queen’s led 7-0. Queen’s then grabbed its own short kickoff and con verted it to a field goal. After McGill punted away its next possession, Queen’s running
back Brad Elberg needed just one play and 64 yards to put Queen’s up 17-0. Elberg, the OQIFC’s Most Outstanding Player, had 146 yards against a defence that was keyed to the run. The Gaels had scored all of their points in the last six minutes of the half. The second half saw Justin Raymond come in at quarterback for McGill, and the two teams traded touch downs to open the third quar ter. McGill’s running game was finally established, with running backs David Hinchey and Delando Hawthorne run ning well behind their mam moth offensive line. Trailing 24-7, the Redmen converted several key second downs in an 85-yard drive before Andy Lucchetta dove for and grabbed a pass from Raymond while falling out of the end zone. With 8 minutes left, the Redmen were building momentum. McGill’s defence came
up big when it had to. “We played the run as a big threat,” said McGill de fensive end Réjean Denoncourt, “and in the sec ond half, we forced (Queen’s) to pass.” The secondary shut down Queen’s in the air, and with 5:22 remaining, McGill got the ball back. Blending the run and the pass, the Redmen gained yards on every play of the drive. A fake handoff turned into a 24yard reception for Jay McHarg. Another circus catch by McHarg put the Redmen on the Gaels’ 8-yard line. Three plays later, Raymond bootlegged right and walked in for McGill’s third touch down. Queen’s still led, 2421.
Tight defence against the run and a Denoncourt sack set the scene for the play that was McGill’s season. Queen’s faced third and 17 at midfield with 30 sec onds left. The Redmen had
been close to blocking punts knew there was one. The block all day. Right on the snap, was 20 yards behind the play McGill swarmed the Queen’s and on the other side of the line and broke through. Benoit field. Major leapt from the crowd to Whether there was a clip block the kick. Erik Zvanitajs or not, nine times out of ten an scooped up the ball and ran 40 identical play would not see a yards to the end zone sur flag. rounded by red shirts. The “We came back and won McGill bench emptied onto that game,” said a shocked the field. The Redmen had Raymond. “We did every come back against impossible thing; we executed to a ‘f .” odds to win the game in dra It is not for mere mortals matic fashion. No one was to question the fates. The ready for what happened next. Redmen did everything they A solitary flag lay at the had to do to win, and they lost. 50-yard line. The officials The game was theirs. called a penalty on McGill for Raymond knew it. Queen’s blocking below the waist. The head coach Doug Hargreaves touchdown was called off. The knew it. emotionally-drained Redmen “We didn’t win it; could not move the ball 47 McGill lost it. They certainly yards in the 21 seconds that deserved to win,” said a hum remained, and the game was ble Hargreaves after the game. over. Queen’s 24, McGill 21. The Redmen have had a Thanks for coming out. See better year than their record you next year. shows. Last-minute losses to The referees did not Concordia and Bishop’s know which McGill player had blemish an otherwise fine committed the clip, they just record.
Redmen rugby whips Westmount, captures O’Neill Cup BY URI CARNAT
The McGill M en’s Rugby First XV, in their first appearance in the Quebec Rugby Federation Division II Championship on Saturday, staged an emotional comefrom-behind win over Westmount to capture the O’Neil Cup 10-7, giving the university its first champion ship of the year. In front of a partisan W estmount crowd, the Redmen were jubilant in vic tory, and as the cup was passed around, there were more than a few tears mixed in with the champagne that made its way around the circle of revellers. Powered by an all-round effort, the Redmen came out hard, with their intense ruck ing style that has characterized their season. Scrum-half Dan Benoit scored the first try of the game, early in the first
half. “Our pre-game intensity was frightening. The game couldn ’t have ended any other way,” said Benoit, whose voice cracked with emotion in describing the collective effort that went into the win. With the ball deep in Westmount’s end, wing for ward Mike Patfield, with a crushing blow on a Westmount prop, knocked the ball into the endzone. Benoit, on a brilliant read, dove through the scrum and pounced on the ball, giv ing McGill a 5-0 lead on the unconverted try. The game then tightenend up considerably, with the Westmount club us ing its size and experience, and some effective up-andunders to drive the ball into the Redmen end. Only some fearless tackling by the backs, together with the strong foot of full-back J.F Charland, kept
the maroon Westmount side out of the endzone. The pressure finally paid off as strong back support re sulted in a Westmount try, scored and converted late in the first half, to make the score 7-5, Westmount. Coach Steven Penner huddled tightly with the team at halftime, and any thought of defeat was quickly dispelled by captains Rob Buffam, and Kibben Jackson, who brought the team together once again. Newly focussed, with 35 minutes left to play, the Redmen lined up for the sec ond half with fire in their eyes and with what center Dave Laurie called “a wonderful intensity.” The second half was a fierce affair, with Westmount striving as hard to protect the lead as McGill was trying to erase it. The clock had begun to wind down on the Redmen,
when “ Superstar” Nick Nieuheimer capped off a great back drive with a strong run into the comer of the endzone for the score. “Once I saw that endzone flag out of the corner of my eye, there was no way I wasn’t taking the ball in,” said the winger, mobbed by teammates after the try. Unconverted, McGill led 10-7, and hung on for the final minutes of the game which, to coach Steve “law 26” Penner, seemed like hours. “I couldn’t wait for that final whistle,” he said, “and then there it was, the cummulation of a year’s worth of work. I can’t tell you how proud I am of this team.” Backs captain Rob Buffam, whose sterling per formance inspired the backs all day, summed up the game. “It was a great win for McGill rugby because we played with character, inten
sity, and intelligence. I’m proud to have been a member of this great team.” The Redmen entered the season as Quebec university defending champions. Due to their continued domination of the league, the decision was made to enter the First XV in the Quebec Rugby Federa tion ’s men ’s division II league, a major step up in game speed and intensity. With the O’Neill Cup now theirs, the future looks very bright for one of McGill’s most successful teams, who are campaigning to get their funding renewed at the end of this year. McGill plays next against Harvard this Saturday at Westmount field, marking the 127th year in a row the two schools have faced off for the Covo cup. Then on Sunday, the Second XV travel to Bish op’s for the Quebec Univer sity Championships.
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No treats for U of M as Redmen ice McGill hallows their eve something called a Gee-Gee BY PAMELA TRAVERS
No tricks from University of Montreal could treat them to a win over the McGill Varsity Swim Team this past weekend. In their second competition of the season , the McGill men’s team managed to soundly trounce the University of Montreal. Inspirational performances from Paul Watson in the 100m and 200m backstroke events as well as Eric Potier’s first place finish in the 100m b reastro k e, M ark Sherman’s in the 200 breastroke and Mike Groves dual in both the 100m and 200m freestyle spurred the team to one of their most suc cessful season starts of the past decade. Both of Watson’s swims qualified him for the CIAU Na tional Championships scheduled for March of 1993 and placed him at the top of the current CIAU standings. “I’m feeling really strong in the water even though I’ve been out of training for a while and am having difficulty balancing prac
tice times with third year med,” said Watson, who is in the toplO percent of his class. “As for the team, it looks as though were in for a really good season,” he added. “Most of the men’s team have improved remarkably compared to this time last season,” said veteran and captain Wade Mitchell. “If we can keep the drive alive with our continued spirit and positive attitude, there is no ques tion that this season will be one of the men’s team’s best yet,” claimed Mitchell. The women’s team struggled hard to pull off a win over the U. of M’s women’s squad which was stacked with such world class swimmers as fourth place finalist at this past summer’s Olympics, Guylaine Cloutier. Integral to the women’s team’s victory were the swims of Barcelona Olympian Andrea Nugent, who easily over powered the field in the 50m., 100m., and 200m. freestyle events, qualifying in each for the CIAU Nationals. Leanne Shapton, a rookie on
this year’s team, also came through with two very strong finishes in both the 200m and 100m breastroke events, narrowly miss ing the CIAU qualifying stand ards. “At this point in the season we’re swimming really well,” said head coach F rançois L aurin. “We ’ve been doing some very high intensity training over the past few weeks and although the swimmers are tired they seem to be respond ing well to the regime. The women really came out hard against a tough team and managed to hold on for a confidence-building win. With the team’s energy, I’m confident we’ll be a very competitve force not only within Québec but also at the Na tionals.” In overall totals M cGill managed a resounding win over the U. of M. squad by over sixty points. With this success behind them they face a full slate of meets throughout November, the first of which is scheduled for this week end in New Brunswick at the U.N.B. Invitational.
McGill volleyball challenged by Laval BY JAMIE DEAN The McGill men’s and wom en’s volleyball teams began their regular seasons in the Currie Gym on Friday night by hosting Laval. Both teams showed they have a great potential to develop into strong contenders, but unfortu nately both lost to the experience of Laval. Martlet Volleyball Despite losing 3 games to 0, the Martlets were never over whelmed. Laval took an early 7-2 lead in the first game, due mainly to McGill’s disorganization, but after some good serving by Fanny Wong and determined hitting by Sheila Huang, McGill tied the game at 1414. But the intensity which drove this rally seemed to evaporate as Laval got two quick points to win the game. McGill never got into the second game, losing 15-2, but in the third the Martlets showed that they could play at Laval’s level as McGill rallied, narrowly losing 1513. After the game, head coach Rachclc Béliveau was happy with the team’s play. “Weplayed very well against a strong team. In the future, we need to play together better, espe
cially during high-pressure mo ments.” Rookie Jillian King had a particularly strong game. “We had an excellent match; two of the games could have gone either way. We have pulled together as team since the start of the season and we showed that team effort on the court.” Team captain M aryam Moayeri noted the improvement the team has made. “Last year Rachele came in as our coach and turned the pro gram around. Our emphasis on technique is beginning to pay off this year. Tonight we came out strong and played well against a more experienced team.” The M artlets travel to Sherbrooke next weekend and return to the Currie Gym on Nov. 27 to play the University of Mon treal. Redmen Volleyball The McGill Redmen opened their season last Friday night by hosting the defending national champions Laval, and still put up a good fight against a very strong team. In the first game, McGill’s inexperience was evident. Poor passing, miscommunication and a
continual inability to get their serves in allowed Laval to get ahead and win 15-4. In the second and third games, McGill’s serving, passing and hitting all noticeably improved, but the stronger Laval side won 1510, 15-12. Team captain and setter Steve Lloyd was nevertheless pleased with the game. “We had areally good match. I was particularly impressed with our rookies and the players off the bench. Laval is the top team in the nation, but tonight we challenged them like we have never done be fore.” Head coach Ian Jordan was happy with the team’s play and impressed with the tremendous support the team recived from the fans. “We did not play well in the first game. The second and third games were much better and I believe things will only im prove. It was a little intimidating playing the national champions in front of a full house, but despite our lack of funding and practice, we played some really good volleyball.” The Redmen travel to Bish ops and Sherbrooke next weekend and will return to the Currie Gym on Dec. 5 to host the University of Montreal.
BY GORDON ALLEN Redmen hockey evened its regular season record at 2-2 with a 5-2 home victory against the O ttaw a Gee-Gees W ednesday night, then proceeded to lose an exhibition match 7-5 at Dartmouth on Friday. A gainst O ttaw a, M cGill headed to the dressing room after one period up 3-0, with two of the go als co m in g from M ichael Grady, and the third from Todd Marcellus. The Redmen started the contest throwing their weight a ro u n d . D e fen sem a n T o d d “Hamm er” Hanrahan introduced a few Gee-Gee derrières to the ice surface. “W e wanted to send a cer tain message at the beginning, th en se ttle d ow n and p lay hockey,” said head coach Jean Pronovost of his team ’s physical play. And play they did, opening up a 4-0 lead on defenseman Luc Latulippe’s laser beam from the top of the faceoff circle. The sophom ore was an offensive threat all night, making repeated rushes à la Paul Coffey and lug ging plenty of time on the power play. “If I get the opportunity to carry the puck forward, I ’ll take it. I don’t have to worry because I know someone will cover for me on defense,” said Lucky Luc after the game. Goaltender Patrick Jeanson kept up with his end, stonewall ing Ottawa time after time, at one point employing the innovative “face save.” However, the keeper was finally beaten in the third period while the Redmen were shorthanded two skaters. This,
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coupled with a Gee-Gee drive off th e p o s t, c o n v in c e d C o ach Pronovost to call a time-out even though McGill was up 4-1 with 7:23 left in the third. “I told them to cool it, get their proper focus, and not to take any unnecessary chances. W hen you are up like we were, you don’t want it that way, but you start to slack off,” explained Pronovost. H o w e v er, a M cG ill bodycheck deemed vicious by the ex p letiv e-sp o u tin g G ee-G ees fired up the squad from Ottawa, who scored again and were look ing for more. It was not to be. The fate of the visitors was sealed with an em pty-net marker by Redman captain Marc Vigneault with 31 seconds remaining. On Friday, the victors then tra v e lle d to H a n o v er, N ew Hampshire for a confrontation with the Dartmouth Big Green, only to fall 7-5 in exhibition play. McGill was losing 4-1 at one point, but battled back to tie it with the help of back-to-back goals by rookie Todd Marcellus, who now has 5 goals in 6 games. Other McGill scorers were Stacey M cG regor, Cam T ay lo r, and Robbie Clinch. Despite the loss, an encour aging pattern is beginning to de velop in that the younger for wards are showing that they are capable of bulging the twine— dispelling any fears caused by the loss of some big guns to gradua tion last year. The Redmen con tinue their Ivy League tour this weekend, facing-off at Princeton and Y ale on Friday and Saturday, respectively.
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BY STEVE GENTLES T he M cG ill N ordic Ski T eam is w arm ing up for the snow this y ear w ith unusual enthusiasm . M ore o f a club than a team , it includes all kinds of skiers, from th o se w ho use ski in g as a fo rm o f exercise, to those w ho seriously com pete in the C oup de Q uébec races a lo n g sid e th e to p sk iers o f Q uebec. In any event, this sport provides one o f the best ways to actually enjoy the M ontreal w inter. T he c lu b ’s concerns are m ainly to give people a m eans to learn and im prove w ithin the g roup setting. “ W e a re n ’t looking for people w ith a lot o f skill, ju st as long as they have an interest,” s a id p r e s id e n t J e a n - M a r c B enoit. A ccording to B enoit, about forty people seem to share this interest so far and it h a sn ’t even snow ed yet. D ryland training, already u n d erw ay, includes long runs,
hill bounding, pole running and roller skiing. S peaking o f roller skiing, the w eekend o f the 23 rd o f O ctober featured the alm ost c o m p le te ly u n p u b lic iz e d M cG ill N ordic Ski T eam R oller Skiathon. T he 24-hour event took place on the track o f M olson S tadium and ran non-stop from noon on F riday to noon S atur day. D espite the drizzle, skiiers m anaged to pull them selves out o f bed to ski on a lonely, w et track all night long. D edication like this led to a total o f 630km on the odom eter, surpassing the c lu b ’s goal o f 500km . In keeping w ith its inter est in rem oving the stereotype o f c r o s s - c o u n try s k ie rs as knicker-w earers, the club takes part in the an n u al M cG ill D ow nhill and C ross-C ountry sale. “ W e try to inform people not only about equipm ent but also about how to ski and w here to do it around M o n treal,” said B enoit.
W h ile c o m p e titio n d o e sn ’t start u ntil after C hrist m as, the fall sem ester is d e voted to training. T he first road trip o f the y ear is the annual fall train in g cam p at the O uting C lu b ’s house in P révost, Q ue bec. T he second training cam p, held north o f Q uebec City at C am p M ercier, should be a chance fo r eager m em bers to get an early taste o f the w hite stuff. In the N ew Y ear, the club w ill spend a full w eek on the 2 0 0 + k m trails o f M ont Ste. A nne. A fter that, a schedule o f loppets and races fill alm ost every w eekend o f the w inter u ntil w ell into M arch. A lso am ong the plans for th e co m in g sea so n is a ski teaching day, w hen the tdam and a charitable com m unity organization w ill m eet on the m ountain to share a day o f ski in g . M e m b e rs w ill h a v e a chance to pass on their uncanny love for snow , cold and really skinny skis.
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M artlet hockey still struggling Last Saturday, McGill’s women’s hockey team narrowly lost to John Abbott by a score of 5-4. Scoring for McGill were Alyson Fournier, Jocelyn Barrett, and Brenda Benson with two. The Martlets, now at 3-0, will play at ConcordiaonThursday at 6:30 p.m., and will host CEGEP St. Laurent at 7 p.m. Saturday.
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Manon’s in, Michelle’s out W h e n it c o m e s to w om en and ho ck ey , I so m e tim es get th e feelin g that m e n ’s purposes dictate w hen w o m en m ay and m ay not play. S ounds strid en t? C o n s i d e r t h is : 1 4 - y e a r o ld M ich elle F au teu x has been banned from h er hig h school b a n ta m b o y ’s te a m , y e t M an o n R h éau m e plays for th e f a r m te a m o f th e N H L ’sT a m p a B ay L ig h t n ing. I d o n ’t k now w hich situ atio n is m o re lu d icrous o r m o s t i n a p p r o p r ia t e . F au teu x is g o o d en ough to p l a y , y e t s h e ’s b a r r e d ; R h éau m e is n o t up to snuff, but s h e ’s on a p ro fessional h o ck ey p ay ro il. W hen M anon R h éaum e p lay ed 17 m inutes in th e Q M JH L fo r T ro is R iv ieres last season, she did so m eth in g no fem ale had d o n e before. T ak en alone, this w as a b reakthrough. H o w e v e r, her a c h ie v e m e n t w as sw iftly d isto rted as m ed ia ch o se to give m ore p rom inence to her attractiv e ap p earan ce than to h e r g o alten d in g prow ess. P layboy , alw ays q u ick to id e n tify s e n s u a lity , p r e sen ted a lu crative o ffer o f a n et-full o f bucks in exchange fo r a few poses. T his g en ero u s o ffer co uld hardly be in te rp re te d as s te m m in g fro m resp ect o r adm iration. O n e m ay o nly im agine w hat h o rren d o u s p o ses co uld be c o n c o c te d w ith a n a k e d R h éau m e, h er goalie pads and stick. T o d isp el any doubts ab o u t ju st w hat it is that keeps R héaum e on T am p a B a y ’s farm team in A tlanta, im ag in e an obese, u n attrac tive fem ale hockey player— one w ho is, n ev erth eless, o u tstan d in g am o n g w om en play ers. H ow eag er w ould T a m p a B a y G M P h il E sp o sito then be to splash h e r sm ilin g face across the co n tin en t? I t ’s clearly a case o f the cu ten ess factor. A tlan ta has announced t h a t it w ill o n ly t a k e R h éau m e on road trips if the o th er team w ill p ay h er ex
HITTINGTHEW ALL BY ALISON KORN penses, im p ly in g th at other team s are also w elco m e profit from the sideshow . U sed as publicity stunt used to prom ote T a m p a ’s franchise, she w as disp atch ed to the m in o rs once she served h er p u rp o se. | T a k e th e c a s e o f M ichelle F auteux. T he right w in g er has tried out fo r and w on a spot on Jo h n R ennie H igh S c h o o l’s ho ck ey team , bu t h e r v ic e -p rin c ip a l, one N o rm an O sg o o d e, has fo r bidden h er from p laying. H e is w orried about liab ility risks if a g irl w ere to sustain an injury w hile p lay in g hockey. Is th is any d iffe ren t from a guy gettin g hurt? O sg o o d e ’s co n cern th in ly m asks a b elief th at w om en are frag ile crea tu res to be p ro te c te d fro m p o ssib le bruises. H e also ex p resses c o n cern fo r the state o f fem ale athletics. W hat w ill hap p en to g irls’ sports if élite fem ale athletes leave to jo in m e n ’s team s? M aybe th e sam e thing that hap p en s to b o y ’s team s w hen th eir stars g raduate and m ove on to h ig h er levels : new stars em erg e and the league continues to thrive. T o c o n fine F auteux to a level w hich is clearly beneath h er is to place the re sp o n sib ility for u p grading the level o f ho ck ey in th e w o m e n ’s l e a g u e sq u arely on h er sh o u ld ers. W hy should any p lay er sacri fice his o r h e r d ev e lo p m e n t by ig n o rin g an o p p o rtu n ity to im prove w hen team s o f ap pro p riate level exist? F auteux should p lay at the level o f w hich she is ca pable. S he has d em onstrated th at th is level is bantam boys high sch o o l hockey. R h éau m e, w ho has agreed to use and be used, should jo in a hockey o rg an i z a tio n fo r w h ic h th e p rerequsite is not prettiness. I hope the n ext fem ale w ho m akes it into the N H L — if this is even p ossible— is m ore than a tick et draw .
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Sports S p o rts N otes Water-polo resurrected a t M cG ill Last weekend, McGill’s first-ever water-polo team participated in the annual University Water-Polo Chal lenge at MacMaster University in Hamilton. Beating several universities that have regular water-polo teams, McGill placed fourth among seven teams by winning a number of games in overtime. National team member Matt Swamey starred in nets for McGill, which received outstanding performances from captain Mitch Schipper, Brian Birchenough and Pat Oaten
M artlet Redmen Soccer to host QUSL finals Both men’s and women’s soccer teams will host the provincial championships at Molson Stadium this week end. The Redmen defeated UQTR 2-1 on Sunday, with goals from rookie Mike Popowych and Marc-Antoine Larochelle. The Redmen, 6-2-3 overall, will host Concordia on Sunday at 1 p.m. The Martlets, 7-4-3 overall, earned a bye into the league final .They will host Concordia on Saturday at 2 p.m. In weekend exhibition play, they tied John Abbott 11 and lost 1-0 to Queen’s in Kingston. Julia Maughan scored the Martlets’ only goal of the weekend.
Redmen Beisketball back from Toronto w ith 2-2 record overall After the three-day University o f Toronto Invitational tournament, McGill’s men’s basketball team now sports a 2-2 overall record. At the tournament, the men went 1-2. On Friday, Douglas McMahon led McGill with 11 points as McGill fell to Toronto 73-56. On Saturday, McGill beat Windsor 84-71, with McMahon, the game MVP, leading the way with 18 points. On Sunday, the Redmen lost to Lethbridge 89-75 as Todd McDougall paced the Redmen with 16 points and was named the game’s MVP. This weekend, the Redmen host a round-robin invitational tournament. On Friday, McGill meets Skidmore College at 8 p.m. On Saturday, McGill plays Bishc p’s at 8 p.m., and plays UPEI at 3 p.m. Sunday. Spectators are asked to bring non-perishable food items for donation to Sun Youth.
Football's Naudie selected as Jackson Trophy nominee McGill all-star defensive back Doug Naudie has been nominated by the O-QIFC for the prestigious Russ Jackson trophy. He is one of four national finalists for the trophy, which is presented annually to the CIAU football player who best combines academic achievement, football skill and citizenship. The winner will be announced during Vanier Cup week, November 15-21.
M cG ill Crew cleans up at OUAA Championships McGill’s men’s and women’s novice crews contin ued their tradition of dominance as they both took first place in their respective races at the OUAA rowing cham pionships in St. Catharines last weekend. The women’s varsity 8+ also placed first, while the heavyweight wom en’s 4+ finished in second place. The men’s varsity light weight 8 + placed a third, while the heavy men’s 8 + placed fourth. The heavyweight women's 8+ finished fifth.
Cross-country to host CIAU Championships This Saturday, McGill will host the national cross country championships. The women’s 5K race starts at 1 p.m; the men;s 10K race starts at 1:45 p.m. McGill’s Linda Thyer, undefeated in her last twelve races, will be racing for gold. Last year, Thyer secured a close second place in the national championships.Martlet hockey still struggling Last Saturday, McGill’s women’s hockey team nar rowly lost to John Abbott by a score of 5-4. Scoring for McGill were Alyson Fournier, Jocelyn Barrett, and Brenda Benson with two. The Martlets, now at 3-0, will play at Concordia on Thursday at 6:30 p.m., and will host CEGEP St. Laurent at 7 p.m. Saturday.
Sailors to m eet and speak The McGill Sailing Club will be holding its first meeting on Thursday, November 12 at 7:00 p.m. in room 305-306 at the Currie Gym. The program for the next six months will be discussed as well as what the group’s status is. If you will not able to attend or if you need more information, contact Caroline at 733-5947.
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