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F ro sh W eek C o r n e l l W r i g h t 's n e w a n d im p ro v e d F ro sh W e e k P r o g r a m ta k e s M c G ill n e w c o m e r s o n a w h irlw in d to u r o f t h e s c h o o l a n d c ity .

E x p a n d in g th e p r o ­ g r a m to in c lu d e 2 0 0 0 p a r tic ip a n ts c o v e rin g fo u r d a y s , W r ig h t a n d h is c re w o f v o lu n te e r s m a k e e v e ry th in g a l i t t l e le s s i n t i m i d a t i n g .

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In s id e T h is W e e k N e w s : S e n a t e a d o p ts c o d e o f e th ic s fo r u s e r s o f M c G ill c o m p u tin g fa c ilitie s .

S ee p ag e 3 O p /E d :S e v e ra l u n iv e rs itie s h a v e r e c e n tly t h r e a t e n e d t h e s t u d e n t m e d ia 's r i g h t to p ro v id e a fo r u m fo r f r e e e x p r e s s io n .

S e e e d ito ria l, p a g e 8 F e a t u r e s : M cG ill f r a t e r n i t i e s d is c u s s c h a n g in g t h e i r re p u ta tio n w ith n ew p le d g e s d u r i n g r u s h p e rio d .

S e e p a g e 11 E n te rta in m e n t: The S n itc h e s h a v e n 't h e a r d o f y o u e i t h e r . I n te r v ie w w i t h M o n tr e a l's b a n d o f th e m o m e n t S e e p a g e 16 S p o rts : R edm en V o lle y b a ll s u c c u m b s to f in a n c ia l d iffic u ltie s a n d d e p a r t m e n t p r io r itie s .

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S e n a t e s u b - c o m m it t e e p a s s e s C o d e o f E t h ic s McGill’s Senate Commit­ tee on Computing (SCC) has created a policy to govern uni­ versity access to student and staff computer accounts. A modi­ fied Code of Ethics bill, passed by the SCC in mid-August, out­ lines general principles regard­ ing the use of computer ac­ counts. However, the bill must undergo further review before it is implemented.

Concerns were raised with the original draft of the bill due to provisions which authorized McGill personnel to gain access to students’ personal files and read their electronic mail (Email). Engineering Undergradu­ ate Society (EUS) President William Phillipson set up a com­ mittee to look into the issue.

Phillipson also notified the Stu­ dents’ Society (SSMU) and the McGill Legal Information Clinic regarding his concerns.

“Basically, our objective was to raise enough noise so that they couldn’t pass the bill without some review of it,” said Phillipson. “True, if everyone was benevolent, the bill could allow for a clean-up of the sys­ tem, but misuse of the powers assigned in the bill could lead to a serious violation of student rights."

McGill Legal Information Clinic Coordinator Jill Presser

D a y c a re B Y S T E V E S M IT H A report recommending the establishm ent of a com prehen­ sive, m odern daycare facility at

ple is to assum e that it [E-mail] is public,” said Rainville. “In practice, however, very few people have access, and the am ount of mail is so vast that it’s pretty private.”

Presser em pha­ sized that th e SCC was very “ G o in g in t o a s t u d e n t ’s receptive f ile s is t o s o m e e x t e n t to her p o in t of ta n ta m o u n t t o b re a k in g view. in t o a r e s id e n c e r o o m .”

"There were oth­ ers w ho had o b ­ — McGill Legal Information Clinic je c tio n s Coordinator Jill Presser to the bill as it was

voiced her objections to the bill at a senate meeting in June.

“In my opinion, the policy they [SCC] were trying to pass violated students’ rights to pri­ vacy,” Presser explained. “ G o in g

into a stu­ dent’s files is to some extent tan­ tamount to b re a k in g into a resid e n c e r o o m ,

since both are technic a 1 1y ow ned by the univer­ sity.”

A c­ cording to P re sse r, the original bill, which w ould have applied to all com puter accounts at the university, was too vague and could easily have been used to gain access to files and E-mail. Student files can contain anything from personal letters to essays or assignments, and E-mail is often used for both public and semi-private correspondence.

According to McGill Com­ puting Centre consultant Mike Rainville, the right to E-mail privacy remains undefined.

“The advice w e give peo­

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and to ­ gether w e m anaged to convince the comm ittee that it needed to be redrafted,” she said. “The com­ mittee w as very open and ac­ corded m e a lot of respect.

They w ere concerned with the issues of student rights.”

The redrafted version split the original Code of Ethics bill into two parts. The ethics sec­ tion deals with general policy and v/as passed in August. The policy docum ents, which ad­ dress the implem entation of the bill, detailed w hat rights the users have and w hat m easures

the university can take. An ethics sub-comm ittee o f the SCC is respon­ sible for imple­ m e n tin g th e bill.

Until the implementation section of the bill is complete, the Code of Stu­ dent Rights and Responsibilities issued by the D ean o f Stu­ d en ts’ will be used to govern h o w s tu d e n t c o m p u te r ac­ counts are han­ dled. The code currently states th at evid en ce o b ta in e d ille­ gally is inadmis­ sible. Attempts are being made to rem ove this E- mail privacy causes controversy protection from the code, but until these efforts tive group of people, and Jill’s are successful, the code should legal background was very use­ protect the privacy of student ful. I think w e did a good job.”

E-mail accounts at McGill.

The Code of Ethics docu­ Secretary to the SCC Real m ent will be available for pub­ Del D egan expressed appre­ lic review later this w eek on ciation for Presser’s input.

InfoMcGill, w hich can be “I was very im pressed by accessed at the Computing Cen­ her comments,” said Del Degan. tre on the second floor of “SCC is a very open and crea­ Burnside Hall.

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d ile m m a s p a w n s S S M U r e p o r t McGill has been submitted to the Students’ Society of McGill Uni­ versity (SSMU).

The SSMU - funded report was prompted by growing con­ cern s over th e in a d ­ equacies of McGill’s exi s t i n g childcare fa­ cilities which currently accomodate up to 120 children.

A c cording to Celia Moore, the author of the report, M c G i l l ’s daycare fa­ cilities fail to satisfy the < needs of j m any stu3 d e n t par^ ents. Statisu tics p u b -* lishedinjuly 1 9 9 3 showed that

106 children were enrolled at the facility. Of the parents using the facility, only eight were students.

McGill’s current daycare fa­ cility is open to staff, faculty and students. Despite the equal ac­ cess promoted by the centre, many claim that the special needs of student parents are not addressd.

The extraordinary circum­ stances that student parents must deal with and the realities of McGill’s existing facilities inspired Moore to seek childcare alterna­ tives for the university.

“What we need is for McGill to be more receptive to the diffi­ culties of reconciling work and family,” stated Moore. “Childcare is an essential student service that McGill is responsible for provid­ ing.”

Moore’s report examined the changes at universities and in families in the last twenty years, emphasizing both the increased responsibilities in these areas and the benefits of reconciling their inherent differences.

“Extensive changes at work and at home in the last twenty years have led to greater de­ mands for child care at McGill,”

she said. “Improved daycare is children. essential to student parents and McGill graduate student would greatly benefit the uni­ Fiona Deller experienced the versity at the same time.” in a d e q u a c ie s o f M cG ill’s According to Moore’s re­ childcare system when she tried port, Quebec has one of North to enroll her son at the centre in A m erica’s most progressive 1990. She was placed on the childcare systems. It is an effi­ waiting list and accomodated cient, centrally-run organization two years later. which does not burden subsi­ “ Many universitites in dized parents with excessive re­ Canada have two waiting lists strictions. * one for students and one for “Q uebec devotes more staff and faculty. McGill and m oney to childcare than any Concordia only have one for other province in Canada,” both groups” Deller maintained.

Moore explained. “In ground "Students need something to this fertile, McGill should have accept them quickly and the one of Canada’s more compre­ more available daycare is on h e n siv e d a y c a re se rv ic e s. campus, the more accessible There’s really no excuse for its McGill is to stu d e n ts with current insufficiencies.” kids."

Student parents w ho wish Moore’s report concluded to enroll their child or children that McGill is in need of exten­ at McGill’s daycare centre face a sive and flexible childcare serv­ two-year waiting list. Guide­ ice. lines from Q uebec’s Office des “A comprehensive centre Services de Garde à l’Enfance on campus would allow for easy suggest that every 500 students access to parents in cases of at McGill generate the need for emergency, flexible hours to fifteen daycare spaces. With accomodate erratic schedules 25,000 students currently en­ and a centralized information rolled at McGill, its daycare sys­ centre for student parents,” tem should have room for 750 Moore reported.

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Q P IR G r e v ie w s M c G ill’s e n v ir o n m e n t a l p o lic y

BY S A N C H A R I CHAKRAVARTY AND E R IC G IL M A N T h e Q u e b e c P u b lic R e s e a rc h In te re s t G ro u p ( Q P I R G ) is c o m p i l i n g a n a u d i t in o r d e r t o r e v ie w M c G ill’s c u r r e n t e n v i r o n ­ m e n t a l p r o g r a m . A p r e lim i­ n a r y r e p o r t w ill b e a v a il­ a b l e t o s t u d e n t s b y m id S e p t e m b e r . Q P IR G p l a n s to p r e s e n t th e ir a u d it to a d m i n i s t r a t i o n a t th is tim e .

Q P IR G is a n o n - p r o f i t cam pus o rg a n iz a tio n fu n d e d a n d ru n b y s tu ­ d e n ts . T h e g ro u p fo c u s e s o n e d u c a tio n , re s e a rc h a n d a c t i o n in t h e M c G ill c o m ­ m u n ity o n e n v iro n m e n ta l a n d s o c i a l ju s tic e is s u e s .

e n v ir o m e n ta l e ffe c ts .

A c c o r d in g t o A llis o n P o lic ie s w i t h d i r e c t e f ­ D u d le y , c o o r d in a to r o f f e c ts i n c l u d e d i s p o s a l t h e G r e e n P la n , t h e a u ­ a n d re d u c tio n o f h a z ­ d i t ’s o b j e c t i v e s a r e t w o ­ a r d o u s w a s te a n d re ­ fo ld . d u c tio n a n d e n e rg y c o n ­ “T h e p r e lim in a r y r e ­ s e r v a tio n , w h i l e p o lic ie s p o r t c r it i q u e s t h e c u r ­ w i t h i n d i r e c t e f f e c ts in ­ re n t s itu a tio n a n d o ffe rs c l u d e M c G ill’s i n v e s t ­ s u g g e s tio n s fo r im p ro v e ­ m e n t a n d b u y in g p o li­ m e n t,” s h e e x p la in e d . c ie s . R e d u c t i o n a n d r e ­ T h e a u d it h a s b e e n c y c lin g o f g e n e r a l s o lid a n o n g o in g Q P IR G w a ste m a n a g e m e n t w a s p ro je c t o v e r th e p a s t tw o a l s o r e v ie w e d . y e a r s . S ix s t u d e n t s , in ­ A c c o rd in g to c lu d in g D u d le y , c o l­ D u d l e y , s i n c e Q P IR G le c te d in fo rm a tio n re ­ h a s n o t h a d c o m p l e t e g a r d i n g a ll o f M c G ill’s a c c e s s t o b u d g e t s a n d d ire c t a n d in d ire c t e n v i­ o th e r fin a n c ia l s ta te ­ ro n m e n ta l p o lic ie s .

McGill still lacks a green plan m e n ts a r e n o t fu lly a v a il­ T h e s e ra n g e d fro m th e a b l e t o Q P IR G , s h e w a s n o t T h e a u d it a n a ly z e d f e a s ib ility o f c o m p o s t i n g a b l e to in c lu d e a c o s t- b e n ­ M G ill’s p o lic ie s w h i c h h a v e in c a f e t e r ia s to g e n e r a l e n ­ e f it in th e a u d it. b o t h i n d i r e c t a n d d i r e c t e rg y c o n s e rv a tio n .

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“W e have o n ly p o in te d to th e p ro b le m s , le a v i n g t h e o n u s o n t h e u n iv e r s ity t o fin d lo n g - te r m s o l u t i o n s , ” s h e s a id .

D u d le y a ls o q u e s ­ t i o n e d t h e e f f e c ti v e n e s s o f p r e s e n t re c y c lin g p r o ­ g ra m s.

“T h e p r o b l e m is t h a t th e re a re re c o rd s o n re c y ­ c li n g o v e r t h e p a s t t h r e e y e a r s , b u t it m e a n s n o t h ­ in g t o s a y w e r e c y c l e d 17 2 to n n e s o f p a p e r, fo r e x ­ a m p l e , w h e n . w e d o n ’t know how m uch p ap er w a s a c tu a l ly t h r o w n in to l a n d f i l l s ,” s h e e x p l a i n e d .

“W e m ig h t o n l y b e r e c y ­ c l i n g s ix p e r c e n t o f a ll t h e p a p e r w e u s e d . M c G ill is s k ir tin g t h e i s s u e , a s t h e y h a v e a la c k o f g o a ls a n d t h e p r o g r a m s h a v e ju s t b e ­ c o m e b a n d - a i d s o l u t io n s .

“T h r o u g h r e c y c l i n g , M c G ill is r e d i r e c t i n g o n l y 17 p e r c e n t o f o u r to ta l s o lid w a s t e , a f ig u r e t h a t p a l e s in c o m p a r i s o n to o th e r u n iv e rs itie s s u c h a s M c M a s te r, w h i c h r e c y c l e s 5 0 p e r c e n t, o r t h e U n i v e r ­ s ity o f I llin o is , w h i c h r e c y ­ c l e s 71 p e r c e n t , ” s h e added.

A s s o c i a te V P ( P h y s i ­ cal R e so u rc e s) Sam K in g d o n c la im e d th a t c o m ­ p le te w a s te d is p o s a l r e c o r d s a r e a v a ila b le .

“I ’m a m a z e d t h a t th e y h a v e n o t f o u n d t h o s e fig ­ u re s b e c a u s e th e y a re A v a il a b l e ,” h e c l a i m e d .

“E i t h e r t h e y h a v e n o t fo u n d th e m o r th e y a re n o t lo o k in g h a rd e n o u g h .

“T h e r e h a s b e e n a m a ­ jo r im p ro v e m e n t o v e r th e p a s t y e a r in t e r m s o f r e c y ­ c l i n g , ” h e c o n t i n u e d . “W e a r e n o w s e r v ic in g b u i l d ­ in g s all o v e r c a m p u s . ” P r o p o s a ls w ill b e b r o u g h t t o s e n a t e in J a n u ­ a r y to c r e a t e a c l e a r e n v i ­ ro n m e n ta l p o lic y . M o st u n iv e rs itie s a c ro s s C a n a d a h a v e a g re e n p la n w h ic h o u tlin e s p o lic ie s to re m ­ e d y e n v iro n m e n ta l p r o b ­ le m s . D u d l e y h o p e s t h e s e n a t e w ill c r e a t e a g r o u p re s p o n s ib le fo r im p le ­ m e n tin g a g r e e n p la n fo r M cG ill.

D u d le y e x p l a i n e d th a t it w o u l d b e b e n e f i c i a l f o r t h e u n i v e r s i t y t o s e r io u s l y c o n s i d e r t h e a u d it.

“T h e a u d i t c a n s a v e th e u n iv e rs ity m o n e y a n d a ls o c o n s e rv e th e e n v i­ r o n m e n t a t t h e s a m e tim e , if M c G ill w o u l d r e v ie w t h e c u r r e n t s i t u a t io n ,” s h e s a id .

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V a n d a ls m a k e o f f w it h A U S b e lo n g in g s

BY M IC H A E L BROADHURST AND S T E V E S M IT H

(P h y s ic a l R e s o u rc e s ) S a m K in g d o n d o w n p la y e d th e r i s k t o o t h e r M c G ill f a c ili­ tie s . N o t i n g t h a t t h e b r e a k in o c c u r r e d d u r in g th e T w o s u s p e c ts a re b e ­ s u m m e r m o n th s , K in g d o n in g h e l d in c u s to d y b y th e s p e c u la te d th a t r o b b e rie s M o n tre a l U rb a n C o m m u ­ a r e fa r m o r e lik e ly in th e n i t y (M U C ) P o l i c e i n c o n ­ s u m m e r th a n w h e n th e n e c tio n w ith a s u m m e r u n i v e r s i t y is i n n o r m a l s e s ­ b u r g l a r y a t a M c G ill b u i l d ­ in g . s io n .

K in g d o n in fo rm e d A c c o r d i n g t o t h e A rts th e T r ib u n e th a t d a m a g e U n d e r g r a d u a te S o c ie ty (A U S ), th e to th e A U S o f f ic e s , b u ild in g lo c a te d at w a s m in i­ " I f e e l m u c h s a fe r , m a l, a n d 1 0 8 5 D o c t e u r s u g g e s te d b u t I w o u ld li k e t o P e n f i e 1d , th a t th e s e e s te e l fra m e s on w e r e a d m in is ro b b e d on t r a t i o n t h e d o o r s ."

J u ly 3 0 th . does not T h e A U S lo s t b e lie v e - Prof. M ich a el M axw ell th a t a n y $ 2 , 0 0 0 w o rth of m em b ers o f t h e M c G ill c o m m u n i t y m a te r ia l in th e r o b b e r y , a c c o r d i n g t o A U S V P F i­ w e re lin k e d to th e r o b ­ b ery . n a n c e M ik e B o y d .

“T h e r e w a s d a m a g e A U S P re s id e n t J o e to th e d o o r s [w h ic h w e r e W o n g c la im e d th a t th e b r e a c h e d in t h e r o b b e ry ], b r e a k - i n c r e a t e d m a j o r d if­ a n d th e re w a s o n e c o m ­ f ic u ltie s f o r t h e i m p l e m e n ­ p u te r ta k e n , p o s s ib ly t a t i o n o f t h e S o c i e t y ’s s u m ­ t w o ,” K in g d o n s a id . m e r a c ti v i t i e s . A m o n g t h e B e fo re th e b re a k -in , ite m s s to le n fro m th e o f­ a n y o n e c o u ld e n te r 1085 fic e w e r e a c o m p u te r , a D o c te u r P e n fie ld a t a n y te le p h o n e , a p rin te r a n d a tim e b e tw e e n 8 a m a n d 5 fa x -m o d e m . T h e lo s s e s p m . P h y s i c a l R e s o u r c e s is c r e a te d p ro b le m s fo r th e in th e p r o c e s s o f in tro ­ p ro d u c tio n o f th e AUS d u c in g a n e w s e c u rity p r o ­ h a n d b o o k a n d fo r c e d th e c e d u r e fo r th e b u ild in g , S o c ie ty to r e lo c a te te m ­ w h i c h w ill e v e n t u a l l y i n ­ p o ra rily to th e P r o g ra m ­ c lu d e a p a s s c a r d s y s te m . m i n g N e t w o r k O f f i c e in th e S h a tn e r C e n tre .

W ith th e in s ta lla tio n o f t h i s s y s t e m , s t u d e n t s w ill “It w a s a g r e a t i n c o n ­ b e a b le to a c c e s s th e b u ild v e n ie n c e fo r a fa c u lty s o ­ c ie ty th a t d o e s n ’t g e t m uch of a c h a n c e to w o r k th ro u g h o u t th e su m m e r , ” W o n g s a id , e x p la in in g th a t th e re lo c a tio n h am p ered th e S o c i­ e t y ’s a d v e r ­ tis in g c a m ­ p a ig n .

“S S M U w a s g re a t, t h o u g h , ” W o n g s a id .

“T h e y l e t u s u s e t h e i r fa x m a c h in e o n o c c a s io n , w h ic h r e ­ a lly h e l p e d u s o u t.”

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K in g d o n a n d W o n g b o th e m p h a s iz e d th a t a n e w ly in s ta lle d s e c u rity s y s te m s h o u l d e lim in a te a n y fu rth e r c o n c e rn s a b o u t th e s a fe ty o f th e f a c ility .

P r o f e s s o r M ic h a e l M a x w e l l, w h o s e o f f ic e is i n t h e b u i l d i n g , w a s le s s e n th u s ia s tic a b o u t th e n e w s e c u rity m e a s ­ u re s.

“I f e e l m u c h s a f e r , ” h e s a i d . “B u t I w o u l d l i k e t o s e e s te e l fra m e s o n th e d o o rs .”

S g t. D e t e c t i v e M ic h e l B e rg e ro n o f th e M U C P o ­ lic e n o t e d th a t o n e s u s p e c t w a s a p p r e h e n d e d d ire c tly fo llo w in g th e in c id e n t, a n d a seco n d su sp ect w as p i c k e d u p f r o m a M o n tre a l y o u th h o s te l se v e ra l d a y s l a t e r . B o t h s u s p e c t s a r e in th e ir e a rly tw e n tie s , a n d B e rg e ro n s a id b o th h a v e b e e n in v o lv e d in s e v e ra l

s i m i l a r r o b b e r i e s in t h e area.

B e rg e ro n a ls o s a id th a t th e P e e l a n d D o c te u r P e n fie ld in te rs e c tio n a n d its s u r r o u n d i n g n e i g h ­ b o u rh o o d h a s su ffe red re ­ c e n tly fr o m a r a s h o f s im i­ la r in c id e n ts .

“I c a n ’t l i n k t h e c r i m e a t th a t b u ild in g to a n y o f th e o th e r s y e t, ” B e r g e r o n e x p l a i n e d . “I p r o b a b l y w o n ’t b e a b l e t o b e c a u s e t h e r e is s o [c r im e ] m u c h h a p p e n in g a r o u n d th e re .”

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BY MONIQUE SHEBBEARE Large, unexpected cuts to McGill’s grant from the provincial government last April prompted the Univer­ sity to propose a $750 annual tuition fee increase to be implemented by January 1994. However, the provin­ cial government responded by

announcing that it would cut McGill’s grant by a further amount equivalent to the amount raised by any tui­ tion increase, forcing the university to withdraw its pro­ posal.

In February 1993, an an­ nouncement from Quebec’s Ministry for Higher Educa­ tion and Science led McG ill ’s administration to believe it

would suffer a grant cut of $2.5 million.

This and other shortfalls left the McGill Administra­ tion scrambling to make $5.3 million in budgetary correc­ tions. Then came a further announcement from the min­ istry in April which stated that the cut to McGill’s grant would be $5.5 million, $3 million higher than what

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The administration re­ sponded by proposing a $750 increase in students’ tuition fees effective January 1,1994, a move which would have raised an additional $16 mil­ lion. A third of this amount would have been allotted for student aid.

Students’ Society (SSMU) Vice-President Uni­ versity Affairs Ruth Promislow was not com­ pletely surprised by the pro­ posal.

“I’m sure this has been in the back of their minds for some time,” she said. “While everyone was already aware of McGill’s financial situa­ tion, after the second an­ nouncement of a grant cut the intensified situation made it strategically the best time to justify fee increases.”

According to Principal David Johnston, the proposal to increase fees was partly a panic response to McGill’s financial situation.

“Panic was a factor, yet ongoing financial difficulties and the fact that tuition fees in Quebec are among the lowest in the country contributed to our decision,” Johnston ex­ plained.

Students voiced their concerns about the proposal at the May 5th Senate meet­ ing, asking whether the level of student aid would be ad­ equate under the plan and sug­ gesting possible alternatives to tuition increases.

According to Promislow, adminstration promises made during the last round of major fee hikes have not been kept “The last years in which there was a tuition hike of this magnitude [1989/1990] simi­ lar promises were made to allocate the necessary funds to loans and bursaries,” she stated. “However, the increase in students who required loan funding resulted in a maxi­ mum $ 13 increase in the loan amount despite the $800 in­ crease in fees.”

At the May 5th Senate meeting, Johnston announced that the Quebec Minister of Higher Education, Lucienne Robillard, had stated that she would not provide special re­ lief to the University and that if McGill increased its tuition fees the amount of these in­ creases would be deducted from the provincial grant to the university.

The provincial govern­ ment has since announced that it believes tuition should be increased to the national av­ erage and that universities should have more autonomy in setting their own tuition levels.

Johnston expressed his support for increased univer­ sity control over setting tui­ tion rates, claiming such a move would benefit the uni­ versity.

“We would be happier if the government gave more freedom to universities in set­ ting amounts and timing,” he said. “At the moment we have no control.”

Johnston has indicated that discussions to this effect are continuai g with other Que­ bec universities and govern­ ment officials.

Promislow explained that rising tuition levels may be inevitable.

“In light of Quebec’s statement that they support tuition being increased to the national average, it’s really just a matter of time until the government gives McGill the go ahead,” she claimed.

However, Promislow indicated she remains un­ convinced that tuition fee increases are the only answer to McGill’s financial prob­ lems.

“No in-depth studies have been conducted by McGill or the government to support statements that tui­ tion fee increases are the only answer,” she stated. “I am well aware that there are various proposals such as taxation af­ ter graduation that have not been given serious considera­ tion.”

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McGill residences switched beer companies this summer, signing a new contract with Labatt’s to replace their old agreement with Molson. IRC President Sevag Yeghoyan was confident that this new contract would improve service for students.

Labatt s offered us a much better deal, and Molson didn’t make much of an effort, explained Yeghoyan. “By switching to Labatt’s, therefore, we can hopefully offer a better service to our students while at the same time generating more revenue for the hall councils.”

The university residences’ previous beer contract with Molson prevented them from doing group events with the Students Society (SSMU). Having recently won the contract with the Inter-Residence Council (IRC), Labatt’s now has contracts with four McGill organizations. Before IRC, Labatt’s serviced the Management Undergraduate Society (MUS), the Engineering Undergraduate Society (EUS) and SSMU. Yeghoyan was enthusiastic about the new contract.

We are planning a lot of events with all three other groups thattiave Labatt’s contracts,” said Yeghoyan. “Hopefully it will lead to a great year. I think this switch is something that is going to benefit McGill University Residences.”

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Roger Benjamin, known to McGill’s faculty of Law as ex-student Rick Jones, was recently convicted on charges of personation and is now serving a three month prison sentence at Quinte Regional Detention Center in Napanee, Ontario.

Benjamin, who has attended Law schools across Canada under various aliases, was arrested in Toronto early this year. Warrants for his arrest have been issued in Montreal and Vancouver, but efforts are being made to have the charges transferred to Napanee.

Benjamin allegedly gained admission to law schools across Canada under a false identity. After attending classes and winning the confidence of both students and staff, he would leave the university with stolen admission applications and cheques. Benjamin also allegedly stole from student friends.

Benjamin would then adopt someone else’s identity and, obtaining their personal information from the stolen admission files, apply to another school.

Both staff and students were taken by Benjamin’s easygoing attitude and affable personality.

Aside from suffering losses to theft, the universities patronized by Benjamin were forced to devote much time and effort to mitigating the effects of stolen application files.

Benjamin is known to have operated at the University of British Columbia (UBC), McGill, and Queens University, where he was finally apprehended.

McGill’s Faculty of Anthropology continues to mourn the loss of Professor Roger Keesing who passed away on May 7, 1993 while attending the annual meeting of the Canadian Ethnology Society in Toronto.

Keesing joined McGill’s Department of Anthropology in 1990 and quickly developed a reputation as an enthusiastic, committed professor. He brought with him a career which spanned nearly thirty years and produced 15 books, 4 edited works, and 127 papers.

Roger Keesing earned his reputation as a leading contemporary anthro­ pologist during his 13 periods of fieldwork in the Solomon Islands. While researching there he gained extensive knowledge on Melanesian cultural and social structure, particularly that of the Kwaio people.

His devotion to the study of the Kwaio was exemplified by two books: “Elota’s story: The Life and Times of a Solomon Islands Big Man” and “Lightning meets the West Wind: The Malaita Massacre”.

In a statement released by the Faculty of Anthropology Keesing’s death was deemed “a blow to the department and to the discipline in general”.

Professor Keesing was 57. He is survived by his wife Christine Jourdan and three children.

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The university as an in­ stitution is more dependent on freedom of thought and expression than any other seg­ ment of society. Although de­ fending academic freedom of­ ten puts one in the uncom­ fortable position of defend­ ing Phillipe Rushton and other notable corduroy-clad kooks, there is no denying the ben­ efits societies accrue from granting “ivory tower” status to universities.

Most technological achievements and powerful methods of explanation have been generated at the univer­ sity level. Despite the role of higher education as a means to gain employment, students would be well advised to remember that the university will likely be the most liberal setting they will ever experi­ ence.

While university com­ munities should constantly strive to maintain and renew an environment of intellec­ tual introspection and selfflagellation, several student

governments and administra­ tors have recently lost touch with their raison d’etre.

Last spring, the Alma Mater Society at UBC rewrote the terms of reference under which the student newspa­ per T h e U b y sse y must oper­ ate, placing stricter controls on the editorial content of the paper. This move prompted the entire editorial board of T h e U b yssey to quit.

The U b y sse y ’s crime? Printing an issue that informed students how to cheat BC Transit and featured stories about violent sex.

Though AMS President Bill Dobie argued that the restrictions are merely a for­ mality, and that they will never be used to censor the news­ paper, the potential for abuse remains— the AMS treads on dangerous ground. Time and again, society has proven that drawing lines in the sand merely encourages radicals and reactionaries to step over them and draw new ones.

In a highly publicized event, University of Pennsyl­ vania President Sheldon Hack­ ney failed in his attempt to clearly define the university’s stance in a censorship con­ troversy last spring. A group of students calling themselves the “Black Community” drew heavy criticism from much of the university community when they stole the entire April 15th edition of the D a ily P e n n s y lv a n ia n from news­ stands in response to what

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The incident got a lot of attention, but for the wrong reasons. Because Hackney was in the process of accept­ ing the Clinton Administra­ tion’s nomination to head the National Endowment of the Humanities (NEH), all eyes turned to his handling of the situation. Many critics claimed that his decision to employ the regular student discipline channels to settle the issue demonstrated a severe lack of backbone, and they ques­ tioned his ability to lead the NEH in an effective manner.

Issues concerning the P e n n s y lv a n ia n ’s rights to pro­ vide a forum for all members of the campus community and to distribute freely to the entire university were com­ pletely lost in all the political maneuvering.

Similar events have oc­ curred recently at Sir Wilfrid Laurier University, the Uni­ versity of Western Ontario and the University College of Cape Breton. Several years ago, Laurier’s student asso­ ciation changed the locks on the doors of T h e C o rd in re­ sponse to alleged financial improprieties and the print­ ing of an erotic safe sex guide for men. Claiming that signifi­ cant animosity had long ex­ isted between the newspaper and the students’association,

former News Editor Mark Hand suggested that any pa­ per that has a cozy relation­ ship with its student govern­ ment is not doing its job.

Probably true. Similarly, any student council that seeks to control its newspaper is prob­ ably not doing its job.

Like professors, student publications require the right to openly discuss social, cul­ tural and educational issues.

Controversial opinions will appear, but it is only by con­ fronting a wide variety of opinions that the academic world can push the envelope of knowledge and creative thought.

Student journalism is in­ herently a learning exercise which should promote de­ bate, provide objective infor­ mation, and, most impor­ tantly, allow readers to make up their own minds on a wide variety of subjects.

Anyone in the academic world who has the audacity to deprive students of their right to knowledge should be viewed with suspicion. At the same time, attempts to use the student press in order to disseminate blatantly ignorant or disrespectful views are equally unacceptable. Racist, sexist, or homophobic views do nothing but stifle debate and impose judgments on others.

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F ir s t d eg ree b u rn ?!

T h i s is t h e b e g i n ­ n in g o f th e e n d fo r m e.

I n j u s t e i g h t m o n t h s I ’ll b e c u t lo o s e fro m th e in s u la tio n th a t I h a v e w r a p p e d m y s e lf in fo r th e p a s t fo u r y e a rs. B u t u n lik e th e s tu d e n ts w h o w ill b e b u s y s m i li n g a n d w a v in g d ip lo m a s a t e a c h o t h e r , I ’ll s p e n d m y g ra d u a tio n tim e c lu tc h in g th e p o d iu m a n d b e g g in g fo r th e p o ­ litic a l s c i e n c e d e p a r t ­ m e n t to r e v o k e m y d e ­ g re e .

Is it b e c a u s e I l o v e M c G ill s o m u c h t h a t I w a n t to re m a in h e r e lo n g e r ? H a r d l y .

Is it b e c a u s e c o lle g e g ra d u ­ a tio n m e a n s th a t I a m m o v in g c lo s e r to th e s t a g e s in life w h e n p l a i d g o l f p a n t s w ill a c t u a l l y b e c o m e a p p e a lin g ? N o .

T h e re a so n I — a n d m a n y o th e r fo u r th y e a r s tu d e n ts w h o a re n o t 1 0 0 p e r c e n t su re o f w h a t th e y w a n t to d o w i t h t h e i r liv e s — a m so a p p re h e n s iv e a b o u t l e a v i n g c o l l e g e is t h a t r e a l lif e is s o d a m n u n ­ a p p e a l i n g . E v e n if g ra d u a tin g s tu d e n ts a re s u re w h a t th e y a re g o ­ in g to d o w ith th e ir liv e s , t h e r e is n o g u a r ­ a n t e e th e y w ill g e t a j o b i n t h a t f ie ld .

T h e A m e r ic a n J o b G u id e fo r 1993 g a v e s o m e p re tty b le a k s ta ­ tis tic s . A c c o r d i n g t o t h e su rv e y , th e re a re a p ­ p r o x i m a t e l y 15 p e r c e n t f e w e r e n try -le v e l p o s i­ tio n s f o r e n g in e e r s a n d a b o u t 10 p e r ce n t fe w er jo b s fo r g r a d u a te s in th e s a le s a n d m e rc h a n ­ d is in g fie ld s t h a n la s t y e a r. W h ile th e s ta tis ­ tic s a r e p r o b a b l y d if ­ f e r e n t in th is c o u n try , th e la c k o f s e c u rity p r o b a b l y i s n ’t.

T h a t ’s p r o b a b l y w h y th e h ip p ie s o f th a t era w e re so m u c h h a p ­ p ie r th a n o u r fre a k s.

T h e r e w a s n o A ID S t o c o m p lic a te th e ir S e x u a l R e v o lu tio n , a n d th e y k n e w th e re w e r e jo b s a v a ila b le w h e n th e y w e re f in is h e d w ith w h a te v e r th e y w e re re ­ b e l l i n g a g a in s t .

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N o w a f te r a s u m m e r in ­ te r n s h ip a t a lo c a l N e w Y o rk n e w s p a p e r , I re a l­ iz e th a t jo u rn a lis m , lik e a n y c a r e e r , is f ir s t a n d fo re m o s t a c u t th ro a t b u s in e s s .

U p u n til I s ta rte d th is i n t e r n s h i p , m y i d e a o f jo u rn a lis m w a s th a t e v e r y p a p e r p a i d its r e ­ p o r t e r s t o d r i v e t o L as V e g a s w i t h a t r u n k f u ll o f h a llu c in o g e n ic d ru g s à la H u n t e r S. T h o m p s o n .

B y th e th ird d a y , h o w ­ e v e r, I re a liz e d th a t I w a s n ’t e v e n g o i n g t o g e t h a lf a b o ttle o f e x p ire d c o u g h sy ru p a n d a o n e ­ w ay bus tic k e t to H o b o k e n , N ew Jerse y .

In s te a d , m y firs t a s ­ s ig n m e n t w a s to w rite a n a rtic le a b o u t f e e t in th e s u m m e rtim e (w h ic h , s u rp ris e , w a s n e v e r p u b ­ l i s h e d ) . A f te r t h a t , I h a d to b u y a d im e b a g o f c o c a in e fo r a c o v e r p h o ­ t o g r a p h . I w o u l d n ’t h a v e k n o w n a c o c a in e d e a le r if o n e s h o t m e in t h e a s s — w h ic h I w a s su re , as I h y p e rv e n tila te d u n d e r th e FDR h ig h w a y , w o u ld b e w h a t o n e w o u ld d o .

I g u e s s I ’m j u s t e x ­ p e rie n c in g th o s e p a n g s o f d o u b t t h a t c o l l e g e is s u p p o s e d to p r o d u c e .

P ro b a b ly n o t th e b e s t a ttitu d e to s ta rt th e y e a r w ith , b u t w h y w a it u n til th e la s t m in u te . I ju s t h o p e I g e t a c h a n c e to u s e m y c o lle g e d e g r e e , b e it i n j o u r n a l i s m o r a n o t h e r fie ld , f o r s o m e ­ th in g o th e r th a n a c o a s te r f o r t h e c o f f e e I w ill d r i n k w h ile p e ru s in g th e w a n t ads.

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G iv in g G r u n g e a b a t h I’v e re c e n tly d is c a r d e d Life P la n A, w h ic h in v o lv e d g r a d u a tin g fro m s c h o o l a n d le a d in g a h ig h -s a la rie d life o f c o m fo rt. In s te a d , I’v e c h o s e n Life P la n B, to p u r ­ su e m y e n tre p re n e u ria l d r e a m o f o p e n in g a c o m b i­ n a tio n e s p r e s s o b a r a n d l a u n d r o m a t. A p p a r e n t l y , s o m e o n e in V a n c o u v e r h a s a lre a d y p a v e d th e w a y . N o w o n d e r, it b e in g th e c o f­ fe e -d rin k in g c a p ita l o f th e W e s te rn w o r ld a n d all, b u t it’s a h u g e re s o u rc e a n d th e r e ’s r o o m e n o u g h fo r e v e ry b o d y .

First o f all, e v e r y o n e h a s to d r in k c o ffe e . If th e y d o n ’t, th e y s h o u ld . I k n o w it’s d o n e w o n d e r s f o r th a t c h r o n ic n a p p in g p r o b le m o f m in e . A s w e ll, a lm o s t e v e ry o n e , fo r re a s o n s le ss o b v io u s to m e , fe e ls c o m ­ p e lle d to d o la u n d ry o n a re g u la r b a sis.

N o t th a t I d o n ’t s p e n d th e r e q u ir e d f o r tu n e o n la u n d ry lik e e v e r y o n e e lse .

I’m ju st n o t a s tid y a s o th e rs w o u ld lik e m e to b e , al­ th o u g h I v a lia n tly try to k e e p u p a p p e a r a n c e s . I still try to p a s s o ff m y S a lv a tio n A rm y c lo th in g a s n e w . D u r­ in g s u m m e r s c h o o l this y ear, I m a d e a s p e c ia l p o i n t o f n o t w e a rin g th e s a m e s h irt m o re th a n th r e e d a y s in a ro w . B e lie v e m e , it w a s a frig h te n in g m o m e n t, w h e n I f o u n d m y s e lf q u o tin g m y m o th e r v e r b a tim b y s a y in g , “B r o w n ’s s u c h a s e n s ib le c o lo u r. It h id e s d irt w e ll.”

Still, e v e n I a m g la d to se e th is G ru n g e fa d p a s s ­ ing. Y o u c a n tell it’s o n th e d o w n s w in g b e c a u s e K -M art n o w a d v e r t i s e s S ty l i s h G ru n g e C o o rd in a te s. It’s n o t s o m u c h th a t th e tr e n d lo o k s p la in s tu p id a n d g iv e s c re d ib ility to th e p h r a s e “W hat, w e re y o u ra is e d in a b arn ?”, b u t I’m a ls o ju st a

w e e b it e n v io u s th a t h ip te e n s a re c o o l b e c a u s e th e y lo o k like th e y sp ille d fo o d o n th e m ­ se lv e s, w h e re a s I s p e n t m y fo rm a tiv e p u b e s c e n t y e a rs w ith a c u rlin g iro n c lu tc h e d in h a n d , d e te r m in e d th a t m y h a ir w o u ld fe a th e r. I c o u ld h a v e b e e n th e q u in te s s e n tia l h ip te e n in s te a d o f th e stra ig h t-h a ire d g e e k d e s p e r ­ a te ly try in g to m a k e th o s e S ears c a ta lo g u e c lo th e s w o rk .

T h e th in g a b o u t th e s e s u b u rb a n ite s -c u m -s tre e t u r­ c h in s is th a t d e s p ite th e ir strin g y h a ir a n d n a u g a -d irt, th e y a re m e tic u lo u s ly p u t to ­ g e th e r a n d n o d o u b t s q u e a k y c le a n . H o n e stly , if y o u ’re g o ­ in g to w e a r a sh irt th a t u gly, y o u c a n s u re ly g o a d a y o r tw o w ith o u t s h a v in g y o u r u n d e ra rm s . Y o u h a v e n ’t re a lly liv e d u n til y o u ’v e le t y o u r le g h a ir g r o w lo n g e n o u g h th a t y o u r o ld e r siste r lo o k s a t y o u a n d say s, "N o w o n d e r y o u d o n ’t h a v e a b o y frie n d .”

W h a t I u n d e r s ta n d th e m e rit o f G ru n g e to b e is— n o , n o t p a y in g a n a r m a n d a leg fo r a h a t m a d e o u t o f s le e v e o r a tr o u s e r leg , a lth o u g h t h e r e ’s a c e rta in lo g ic a t w o rk th e re — ra th e r, it’s th e o b liq u e re s is ta n c e to a strictly «dic­ ta te d n o tio n o f fa s h io n a n d so c ia lly a c c e p ta b le a p p e a r ­ a n c e s . O n m y sm a ll to w n ’s n e w s p a p e r th is c o m e s un«der th e h e a d in g “G ro o m in g ”, a w e e k ly c o lu m n d e v o te d to h a irb r u s h e s a n d to e n a il c lip ­ p e rs. It a p p e a r s rig h t b eskde “A d v ic e fr o m th e P a s to r’s D e s k ” a n d I’m s u s p ic io u s th a t th e y ’re b o th w ritte n b y th e s a m e p e r s o n .)

Call it a sm all-scale b a c k ­ la sh a g a in s t a so c ie ty th a t e q u a te s fa s h io n w ith su c c e ss, a g a in s t B a rb ie a n d K en a n d V o g u e a n d G Q , a n d a g a in st

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BY G L E N D A KOH w h o le s o m e fam ily s h o w s lik e H a p p y D a y s. A fter all, it w a s n o n e o f M rs .

C u n n i n g h a m ’s b u s i n e s s w h e th e r th e F o n z c h a n g e d h is u n d e r w e a r e v e ry «day, e v e n th o u g h s h e g o t a 1 6 o u n c e c a n o f la u g h te r e v e ry tim e s h e a s k e d . B u t w e ’re n o t ta lk in g a b o u t H a p p y D ay s’ s h a m e le s s p e r p e tu a ­ tio n o f 1 9 5 0 ’s g e n d e r s te re ­ o ty p e s a n d e x c lu s iv e id e a ls o f th e n u c le a r fam ily. T h a t’s a n o th e r sto ry .

W e ’re n o t e v e n ta lk ­ in g a b o u t p e r s o n a l h y g ie n e a n y m o r e . W e ’re m e r e ly ta lk in g a b o u t b e in g slav es to fa s h io n a n d its a llu rin g a n d p o w e rfu l, o h s o tr e n d ­ s e ttin g a d v e r tis in g c a m ­ p aig n s. T h e y sa p o n e ’s tim e, m o n e y , a n d , a d m it it, a b it o f o n e ’s p e r s o n a l c h a ra c te r a n d id en tity . D o n ’t b u y in to it! Ig n o re G l a m o u r ‘s D o ’s a n d D o n ’ts a n d ju st sa y to y o u rse lf, “H ey , I c a n w e a r p o ly e s te r if I «darn w e ll p le a s e .”

S ure, I la u g h at K-M art, b u t m a y b e th e y k n o w so m e th in g w e d o n ’t. M ay b e th e ir b lu e -lig h t m im ic ry is a c tu a lly a m o c k e r y o f th e e n t i r e f a s h io n in d u s tr y .

M a y b e K -M a rt is r e a lly w h e r e it’s at! M a y b e n o t. In a n y c a se , e v e ry o n e w h o w e n t stra ig h t fro m b e in g a h ip te e n to a h ip tw e n ty so m e th in g , a n d e v e n th o s e o f u s w h o w e re n e v e r h ip , b u t w a n te d to b e (w h o ­ e v e r h e a r d o f a h ip g eek ?) c a n still le a rn s o m e th in g fro m th e F o n z, a n d fro m W o lf’s b e a u ty m y th . H e re ’s to b r o w n p o ly e s te r.

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Students review the Frosh Week Program

BY CHERYL DEVOE Searching campus for the tell-tale green wrist bracelets, the Tribune set out to get impressions of the Frosh “How has the frosh orientation program helped your start at McGill.?”

Luke Bisby, Ul Eng.

Maria Tournas, Ul Commerce

Leonie Moorhouse, Ul Science

Seung Ho Kang, Ul Eng.

Pierre-Luc Bisaillon, Ul Eng.

“I got some free food to­ day... That was good. But I only joined yesterday. [VP Internal] Cornell was going to kill me if I didn’t sign up.”

“I’m from Laval, so I knew Montreal already, but it made me at ease with McGill society in general, and introduced me to new people who were different.

It introduced me to different life­ styles, and made me feel more comfortable.”

“I got to meet so many people from Montreal and all over North America. I didn’t know anybody here before because I’m from Nova Scotia - and I never got to know Montreal before. I went to museums and clubs and shopping - everything. It was

“It helped me meet people, get to know the school, things like that. They showed me around Montreal. It was really nice, pretty good. The best thing is to meet people to get to know them. I think the program has been well organized.”

I think it was great. If there wasn’t the frosh program there are a lot of people I wouldn’t have met. The activities were good. The Museum of Humour was great, too. The program was good because we could meet francophones from other facul-

Frosh w eek n e w and im proved

BY JON OHAYON AND CHERIE PAYNE For any first-year student, w hether an exchange student from abroad, or from as close as Montreal, McGill can seem like an intimidating place. The Frosh Program, held from August 31 to September 3, was designed to alleviate those and similar anxiety. The program was de­ signed to welcome new stu­ dents to the McGill community, and to introduce frosh to each other, McGill, and Montreal.

Students’ Society (SSMU) VP Internal Cornell Wright was in charge o f this year’s Frosh Program. Having been a frosh just last year, he was full of new ideas for the week. Wright’s aim was to increase the num ber o f participants from the Mon­ treal area.

“First, w e tried to ensure that m ore Montrealers w ere on the planning committee this year than on last year’s,” explained Wright. “Then w e sent a special bilingual package to Montreal frosh to encourage them to come out, not just during frosh week, but also before.”

Wright proved his ability to get people involved w hen the barbecue held in early Au­ gust on the lower campus at­

tracted 600 people and even m anaged to turn a profit for SSMU. Another improvement to the Frosh Program was in the personalized registration form, which gave more choices to students this year by asking them w hat types of c*^‘:" :t:es they wanted to take part in and those which they w anted to avoid.

Marie-Catherine Bernard, a committee m em ber o f the program, was impressed by this change.

“Actually asking frosh w hat they w anted to do was a huge improvement over the random m ethod used to plan activities in past years,” Bernard said. “This way people with similar interests w ere grouped together, and their activities were tailored to their w ants.”

Wright admitted that de­ spite new registration forms, there w ere still som e problems with the program.

“Many people marked that they w ouldn’t be interested in cultural activities, but later w anted to visit the International M useum o f H u m o u r, th e Biodome, or som e other site reserved for those in the cul­ tural groups,” Wright observed.

However, frosh leaders

told the Tribune that their schedules w ere usually so flex­ ible that accom modating frosh w ho had changed their minds w as not a problem . According to the leaders, Wright was able to provide tickets to museums and discounts for restaurants not originally designated for their visits.

Wright praised the frosh leaders efforts.

“They w ere the ones who had to deal with problem s on the spot, such as w hen some restaurants or bars reneged on their prom ised discounts, or w hen delays due to weather forced them to think up activi­ ties to am use their groups,” Wright said.

This level of flexibility re­ sulted in an enjoyable w eek for frosh. Student participation was estimated at 2000, up from 700 last year.

The week also proved suc­ cessful for SSMU. The Society sent inform ation concerning McGill to 6000 new students, often in both English and French formats, in order to orient all new com ers to the university.

Despite these expenses, Cornell Wright was able to begin the year with a profit, instead of a debt.

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Fraternities struggle to change their image through new pledges

BY JACQUELINE REIS A lp h a, b e ta , g a m m a , delta...N ew students at McGill w o n ’t find an y trace o f the G reek a lp h a b e t in their stu­ d e n t h a n d b o o k s this year.

T hat's n o thing new . T he Stu­ d e n ts’ Society o f McGill Uni­ versity (SSMU) h asn ’t recog­ nized social fraternities an d sororities since they w ere d e ­ te r m in e d to b e s e le c tiv e gro u p s in 1989. D espite the lack o f form al representation, fraternities a n d sororities are ever-p resen t at McGill, trying to attract n ew m em bers a n d sh ed the negative image m any o n cam p u s possess .

N onetheless, p o o r im­ pressions are still being m ade.

F our frosh recently to u re d a fraternity h ouse w h e re there w ere room s to rent. They w ere definitely not im pressed.

“T hey assu red u s that there w e re n ’t any parties on M onday nights," e x p la in ed Tania Kerber.

She an d h er friends, Suj Sivaraman, Ahm er H usain and Araya Solom an a p p e a re d une n th u s ia s tic c o n c e rn in g a m ove into such surroundings.

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sm elled like b e e r,” K erber ex ­ plained. “T here w ere several refrigerators for b e e r a n d o n e fortenants to use. Bottles w ere ev ery w h ere.”

The four n ew stu d en ts adm itted that a lth o u g h a fra­ ternity m em bership w o u ld re­ sult in having co n n ectio n s to o th er p eo p le at McGill a n d in M ontreal, th ey still w o u ld n ’t consider joining, claim ing that

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the organizations a re to o se ­ lective in th eir ad m ittance practices.

D ue to sim ilar concerns, SSMU has failed to lend its su p p o rt to fraternities a n d so ­ rorities in the past. Section 2.3 o f th e SSMU C o n stitu tio n states: “All Society e n d e a v ­ ours shall be un d ertak en ... w ithout discrim ination o n the basis of, b u t not lim ited to,

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By-law VI adds: “The m em b ersh ip o f each accred­ ited Activity, Club a n d Func­ tional G ro u p m ust be o p e n to all m em bers o f the Society.”

Since som e fraternities a n d all sororities tak e a per­

s o n ’s g e n d e r into co n sid era­ t io n w h e n d e t e r m i n i n g w h e th e r to adm it applicants, a n d all have m andatory fees, SSMU believes that social fra­ ternities are not o p e n to all of its m em bers.

Is the 700-plus m em b er G reek system really the selec­ tive m orass o f social clubs it's m ade o u t to be?

“W e’re just a b u n c h o f guys to g eth er w h o are not b a se d a ro u n d partying,” said Rob Palm, past p resident o f the Inter-Fraternity Council a n d a m em ber o f Beta Theta Pi fraternity. “I think w e have to get that idea o u t at ru sh .”

“At first p eo p le are sort o f hesitant b ecau se o f things th ey ’ve h eard on TV o r from o th e r p e o p le ,” said Chuck C oulson, rush chairm an at Phi D elta Theta fraternity.” M y first job is to ease their fears.”

Like o thers in the G reek system , C oulson will start his w ork during rush, o n e o r tw o w eek s at the beginning o f the year w h e n fraternities an d so­ rorities stage activities a n d parties to recruit new m em bers for their organizations. For SEE FRATERNITIES , NEXT PAGE

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Mini-Courses are held on weeknights, beginning the week of September 27, 1993.

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Most of the Mini-Courses are held in the William Shatner Building, 3480 McTavish. Room numbers will be designated at registration.

Registration takes place TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1993 from 6 :0 0 p.m. to 9 :0 0 p.m. at the front counter of the Students' Society Office, 3 4 8 0 McTavish St. For more information, please call Tanya at 398-8222 McGill students please bring your McGill I.D. Non-McGill students please add $5.00

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u p im ages o f n ight after night o f partying w ith w hom em b ers fo r th eir o rganizak n o w s-h o w -m a n y -p e o p le tions. For m an y o rg an izers, in a sm all, u n k e m p t fraterh alf th e battle is o v erco m in g nity h o u se, th e re are actufratern ities’ b a d rep u tatio n . ally a variety o f w ays to Jo h n Feely claim ed he rush, h a te d fraternities “as an instiPhi D elta T heta has a tu tio n ” b efore jo ining B eta c lo se d rush, w h e re e v e n ts T heta Pi. “T h en I got to k n o w a re b y in v ita tio n o n ly , so m e o f th e b ro th e rs a n d I C huck C oulson e x p la in e d really got to like th e p e o p le that th ese e v e n ts are sim in v o lv e d ,” he said. p ly tim e s fo r p o te n tia l M em bers o f McGill fram em b ers to g et to g e th e r tern ities are q u ick to p o in t a n d m e e t th e fra tern ity o u t th at w hile C anadian frab ro th ers, n ot a m ara th o n tern ities o ften have th eir orio f drinking a n d decadence, gins in th e US, th e attitu d e o f M e m b e r s o f B e ta th e McGill G reek system is T heta Pi have in d icated not th e sam e as th at o f th eir that th e y plan to h av e a s o u th -o f-th e -b o rd e r p a re n t m ore o p e n rush a n d w o rk o rg an izatio n s. w ith o th e r m em b ers o f the “P ledging has n o th in g G reek system to s p re a d to d o w ith d rin k in g ,” sta te d th e w o rd a b o u t all th e Palm . A ccording to Palm a n d g ro u p s, n o t just th eir o w n . m em b ers o f several o th e r fraM cGill’s fo u r sororiternities, th e re exists n o adties o p e ra te a c co rd in g to m ittance b ias against n onth eir o w n system , drinkers. M any o rganizations “T h e r e a r e o p e n claim th ey h av e had o r d o h o u se s a n d tw o parties have no n -d rin k in g m em bers, w h e re p ro sp ectiv e m em th o u g h th ere is ad m itted ly b ers to u r all fo u r h o u se s so m e p e e r p ressu re to drink, a n d try to pick th e o n e o r “W e’re n o t perfect. I’m tw o th e y like b e s t,” exn ot saying w e d o n ’t d rin k p la in e d Tori O ak m an a n d a n d w e d o n ’t p arty ,” said Kelly H arps, m em b ers o f Palm . th e G am m a Phi B eta soO th e r fraternities conrority. At th e e n d o f the c e d e th at th ey d o have room initiation process, all fo u r craw ls a n d e lectric jell-o parso ro ritie s g e t th e sa m e ties. n u m b e r o f n ew m em b ers.

F raternities so m etim es A ccording to O akm an, this d e fe n d th e ir rep u ta tio n by h elp s k e e p all fo u r g ro u p s p o in tin g to th e fu ndraising stro n g in stead o f having th at th ey d o for charities su ch o n e o v e rsh a d o w th e o th e r as C entraide a n d W alksafe three.

N e tw o rk . H o w e v e r, s o m e K ap p a R ho T au p e o p le have s u s p e c te d fra(KRT), o n e o f the only co e d ternities o f b e in g charitab le fraternities at M cGill, is so lely to k e e p th eir im age h o p in g to a ttrac t new clean. N o n eth eless, th ere are m em b ers b y staying viso th e r signs of im proving attiible a n d by sp o n s o rin g tu d e s in th e G reek system , events su ch as a jell-o party particularly w ith resp ect to a n d an en d -o f-ru sh cockth e ir a p p ro a c h to sexual as- tail party, sault.

“W e’re really h o p in g M egan S te p h e n s a n d for a lot o f n e w m em b ers Sonia G osw am i o f th e McGill this y e a r,” said G o rd o n Sexual A ssault C entre sta te d Lam rock, vice-p resid en t o f th at w hile alco h o l c o n tin u e s KRT. “O u r m em b e rsh ip is to b e a m ajor factor in sex u al g e ttin g o ld e r, a n d n e w assault, th ere w e re n o m ajor m em b ers w o u ld really be fraternity-related incidents re- w e lc o m e .” p o rte d last year. H o w ev er, F raternity a n d soro rsin c e fraternity assau lt c ases ity m em b ers a re u n a n io ften involve individuals th at m ous in th e ir praise for the victim s se e ev e ry day, m an y ben efits o f m aking n e w are h esitan t to co m e forfriends, w ard. S tep h en a n d G osw am i “Y ou m e e t p e o p le e x p re s s e d h o p e c o n c ern in g y o u ’d n e v e r m ee t o th eran o u tre a c h p ro g ram th e y w ise ,” sa id Jo h n Feely. will b e c o o rd in a tin g w ith G a m m a P h i B e ta several fraternities, claim ing m e m b e r H arps u rg e d p eo th e y h av e h a d so m e positive pie to m ak e u p th e ir o w n feed b ack . m inds a b o u t the G reek sysIncreasingly, fraternities tern a re a d v o c a tin g a n o p e n “T o o m an y p e o p le h ouse concept. Interested stuh av e th eir decisio n m ade d e n ts can m ak e th e ir w ay to fo r th e m ,” s a id H a rp s, alm ost a n y G reek g ro u p dur“C om e see for y o u rse lf.”

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H ow to avoid banks’ dreaded service charges

BY MARK M E R M E L ST E IN In searching for the best bank in the McGill area, there are a few things students should know about each institution. Four banks were chosen for the survey: the Royal Bank of Canada at Peel and Sherbrooke, the Bank of Montreal at Peel and de Maisonneuve, the Canadian Imperial Bank of Com­ merce (CIBC) at Metcalfe and Sherbrooke, and the Scotiabank at Metcalfe and Sherbrooke. A com­ parison of these institutions re­ vealed that each one, while having something unique to offer stu­ dents, had other less desirable at­ tributes as well. In other words, some comparison shopping will help determining the right bank for each set of needs.

One definite student neces­ sity is a basic chequing account.

Interest rates provided by the vari­ ous banks are remarkably similar (at or near zero), and rare transac­ tions such as money orders and overdrafts will cost dearly at al­ most all banks. The only substan­ tial monetary differences are serv­ ice charges. These charges include fees per cheque, with or without a free monthly quota, annual fees for a credit card, and fees for usage of Automatic Banking Machine (ABM) cards. For example, CIBC charges 55 cents per cheque, but they do give you one free cheque for every $200 minimum balance kept in your account per threemonth period. As well, they charge a minimum $13 yearly fee for a VISA card. The Royal Bank charges 50 cents per cheque after two free ones in each three-month period.

Scotiabank’s student bank­ ing package, for full-time students only, is worth considering. It offers no-charge chequing without hav­ ing to keep a •minimum monthly b a la n c e , no ch arg e for the Scotiabank Student VISA card de­ spite its low $500 credit limit, and no charge for all ABM transactions at Scotiabank Cashstop machines.

However, one drawback is that Scotiabank has very few ABM ma­ chines in the downtown corridor and in the Montreal area in gen­ eral. With a $2 fee for all nonScotiabank ABM transactions, the benefits of this plan are somewhat reduced.

The Royal Bank has the most cash machines in the downtown area, including the one on campus in Burnside Hall’s basement. For

those too lazy to seek out your bank's ABM, the Bank of Montreal has put together a full-time student package sim ilar to that of Scotiabank. The difference is that the Bank of Montreal’s package includes two non-Bank of Mon­ treal ABM transactions free per month, cheques are returned with statem ents, and a stu d e n t Mastercard is provided for free.

However, Bank of Montreal charges $2.75 per month for this package.

CIBC LinkUp , banking by phone, is a unique service offered

by CIBC. Froma touch-tone phone, users can pay bills, transfer money

between accounts, and check ac­ count balances. However, the regu­ lar withdrawal and cheque-writ­ ing charges still apply, and this service costs $3 per month.

In terms of office hours, the four banks are similar. Operating hours range from CIBC’s 8:30 AM to 5 PM to Bank of Montreal’s 10 AM to 5 PM daily. None are open on the weekend.

For those students intimi­ dated by the exclusive francophone tendencies of certain businesses in Montreal, they can rest assured that being served in English at any of these banks is not a problem.

And last but certainly not

least, if students find themselves strapped for cash in spite of gov­ ernment loans, the place to turn is the Bank of Montreal’s student loan package. No other bank of­ fers any sort of loan, at reduced rates from a regular personal loan, whose interest rates range from a fixed 11 1/4 per cent to a variable 10 1/2 per cent for the first year and varying every year thereafter.

Bank of Montreal’s package has a couple of beneficial features.

First of all, a maximum of $5000 can be obtained yearly at a fixed rate of nine per cent interest (7 1/ 4 per cent variable). This rate is substantially lower than any per-

sonal loan. Furthermore, in contrast to a personal loan, the only pay­ ments made while in school are monthly interest payments. For ex­ ample, a $5000 loan taken out at a fixed nine per cent rate means that the debtor must pay only $37.50 per month in interest while in school.

The debtor must commence paying back principal only six months after graduation, and can then spread it out over as many as seven years.

For student banking needs, there are no clear-cut answers. Indi­ vidual banking priorities must be assessed before the most suitable bank is found.

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For the past 17 yezxs, eveI7 Sunday throughout th e summer and a s b n la s th e g o o d w ^ th ^ ^ has been ^ , ^ or^ f b ase Gf the bongo drum players at the Georges Etienne Cartier statue.

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However, the music provides a focal point for more than just dance. ^ Around the park, vendors sell reasonably priced jewelry, including silver rings and anklets, and necklaces of beads and leather. In the past, food and drink were also sold by vendors at the park.

Recently, Montreal police have started to crack down on illegal vend­ ing at the tarntamsessions. The number of vendors in the park has dropped from 25-35 to just three or four in the face of undercover police patrols and groups of uniformed officers. In the future, all vendors will require permits if they wish to sell merchandise in the park.

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Youth Organization to patrol the area.

Sun Youth is an organization which wa5 started in order to provide food and clothing to youth and to the eld­ erly. Three years ago, it formed “Teams on Patrol” to survey the Mount Royal area.

One McGill student familiar with the tam tam gatherings, who asked to be identified as Philippe G., argued that the youth patrol was a better method of handling the situation than using the police.

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gUn Philippe asserted that police should be pleased with the relative safety at the tam tam sessions.

“It is rare to have 2000 people gathered together with no violence, he stated.

However, it is not just the vio­ lence or the vendors that worries the police. There is concern over the fact that drugs are sold at the park. The Sun Youth Organization sends patrols to the park to act as the eyes and ears of the police in this respect.

Philippe dismissed concern over the drug scene at the park.

“There are definitely drugs there, but no more than at any club or bar in Montreal,” he claimed.

Nevertheless, city officials would like to see the session cleaned up.

EdwardWorkman,supervisor ofTeams on Patrol at the Sun Youth Organiza­ tion, told the Tribune that the organi­ zation had been approached by the Ville de Montreal. The City is now negotiating with Sun Youth to have them take over the tam tam jam, organize it, and run it. Officials hope that more structure will improve the situation in the park. In the meantime, the drums play on.

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BY K A T R IN A O N STA D If you ever meet a Snitch, don't ask it what style of music it plays. Halfway through coffee with two members of one of the most popular bands of the summer, Mon­ treal's Snitches tried to describe them­ selves. Said Snitch #1 (guitarist, song­ writer and vocalist Mike Webber): “Post-pubescent indulgence.”Singer, audience leap-er, and general freak­ ish frontman Scott Moodie replied: "Not folk rock. Maybe punk folk.”

Then Mike retorted: “Or post-punk, definitely with punk roots. And ele­ ments of aggression or manic-ness.”

To which Scott responded: “Neo­ wave.”

Well, whatever. The fact is that the Snitches spent the summer loudly establishing a reputation as one of Montreal's most exciting new bands. They’ve only been together since February, but you can’t tell that from their hyper stage show (Scott is known to race through the audience clad in only a purple boa) and infec­ tious, eclectic sound. An interview with two of the seven members revealed a group at the beginning of a promising career, too poor for coffee (“I'll just have water,”) and searching— for a manager, for other bands to play with at their infamous warehouse parties, and above all, searching for an audience willing to lose that anal shoe-gazing stance and have some serious fun.

back in about a year.

MW: In the meantime, we’ve got some new additions, Marise Poulin on sax. The sound is defi­ nitely changing. It’s sort of deeper and gutsier and less airy in the lead.

The lead is now more sax, which is kind of fun.

Tribune: How is it getting gigs here?

SM: Everyone complains about that, but we’ve been really lucky.

MW: I think we’re doing some­ thing which isn’t the same as a lot of other bands, that doesn’t have the same sound, so a lot of people want to see us at least once. We accept

Tribune: What if you have a dull audience?

MW: We can almost always turn them around. If we get a dull audience, they’ll usually sit there with their brows furrowed, but by the end they seem to be saying, “Well, they’re really kind of fucked up, but I like them.” And I’d rather have that than a ho-hum kind of reaction.

SM: We thought Gay Pride Day was going to be a tough audi­ ence. But we had about 3500 people there, and we had everybody danc­ ing. That was a really fun show.

Tribune: What do you think

Tribune: For people who haven’t experienced a Snitches show, how would you describe what you do on stage, Scott?

SM: I’m the lead jester. Mike COLONEL KURTZ AND THE OTHER SNITCHES AT JAILHOUSE ROCK and 1 share lead vocals and 1 dance around. I gyrate.

Tribune: It creates an unu­ absolutely everything we’re offered^ of the rave scene?

MW: I hate it. sual stage show.

During the Fringe Festival, we had SM: I used to like it.

MW: Yes, it’s unusual. Did eight shows in five days and a Lion MW: I don’t like the music at you see the shows where he took his d’Or show in the middle. all and I don’t feel comfortable Tribune: Do you think Mon­ clothes off? paying fifteen dollars to be in a place SM I’m not gonna do that tor treal has a distinct sound? with fifteen thousand other people a while. I’ve only done it twice.

MW: Yeah, certainly. It’s not listening to extremely loud, bad Tribune: What other weird really a live scene, it’s a club scene. music. things have you done?

A lot of techno, lot of raves, lot o SM: But a couple of years ago MW: He mounted a dish­ industrial beat, warehouse parties. w h e n it was still underground, when washer, well, more like attacked a Not a lot of live venues. But ine it was in the gay scene, it was kind dishwasher in a rhythmic, non-ag­ sound that is here seems to be very of fun. It was more warehouse pargressive way. hard, kind of grungy and almost "'--*"■ ties...

SM We like to interact with hardcore, heavy metalish.

MW: Gay warehouse parties, the audience. We dance with them.

Tribune: What local bands and it was fun. Now it’s this subur­ We’ve had people get up and do do you like? ban, Stylistic event. A good idea that MW: Good Cookies, Slap back-up vocals. went mainstream. It’s like grunge, I MW: Scott did a chair dance realized grunge was completely dead PPySM- Funkelnagelneu, Les with this guy at Reggie’s Pub. about a year ago when I saw this Tribune: Where’d you get Poupées gonflables. Les Poupées totally straight laced twelve year old your name? Dr. Seuss? are sort of similar to us in the sense MW No, that’s funny, every­ of trying to bring back theatre into girl in a white t-shirt with yellow writing that said “grunge." one asks us that. Those are the rock n’ roll. Lots of costume, and Tribune: So what’s the hap­ Sneetches, double 'e'. gender fuck. pening thing to do in the city right SM: We wanted something MW: We’re into cross dress­ now? with 'the' in it, as opposed to ali ing overall irreverent behaviour.

MW: Warehouse parties are SM: Not taking everything so these one name bands. And it s fun, the best thing going on, a lot better and catchy and sort of appropriate seriously and reinforcing the idea than clubs. More intimate and beer is because of these bureaucratic times, that rock n’ roll is a theatrical art chcâocr..• f o r m , not just musical. everyone spying on each other. It s SM; And they go to six in the MW: And it’s an open form, it morning. We have a warehouse that also something that people wouldn t doesn’t have to be so stylized with want to be. we live in, and we have parties once MW: Yeah, it’s got that nega­ the hair flips and the posing. a month with other bands playing, SM; When we go into the tive edge. Definitely sarcastic, which and we play there a lot. And we re shows we have no idea what's going we like. always on the lookout for promising Tribune: You just lost your to happen. The essence of rock in new bands that want to play. violinist, Joellen Housego to grad the beginning was spontaneity and MW: Yeah, either with us or in school in Vancouver. What does that people dancing and playing off the the space. So bands who read this audience, it wasn’t this Peter Gabrie should contact us. The great thing m° an SM^JoefleU still in the band, choreographed thing. she’s just on sabbatical. She’ll be

about these parties is that our money is going towards a good cause. It’s helping bands, and keeping these places afloat. It’s much better than going down to Foufounes and buy­ ing an overpriced glass of piss Tribune: What's the long term Snitch plan?

MW: This definitely isn’t a side, project, it’s a full time job for me. We’re ail very ambitious. We’re getting older, I’m 27 and Scott’s 29...

SM: [Moaning noise.]

MW: We do have a live tape we’re probably putting out, we'll sell it on commission at Cheap Thrills and Dutchy’s. That’s upcoming. In

the near future, we want to get a really good demo out there. And a manager.

SM: Somebody help us, we need a manager.

MW: Basically, everyone in the band is unemployed or under­ employed...

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MW: Overeducated and crea­ tively unfulfilled.

SM: And I figure I have about ten years before my body gives out.

A lot of times after shows, I can’t walk.

Tribune: How do you main­ tain that energy level?

SM: I think it’s a mixture of high metabolism and alcohol.

MW: And also adrenaline.

Tribune: Are you guys con­ sciously making an effort to break down gender rules with the skirts and boas?

SM: It’s not SO much a con­ scious effort, but we have every sexual orientation in the band, so all that stuff is simply a natural exprès sion of the band.

MW The good thing about this project is it leaves people to be really free about themselves.

SM: We’ll leave your readers to guess who is who sexually and whit is what. That'11be the real tes I guess, when we start touring small towns.

MW: Yeah, whû gClS t)Cltf Up SM: It’s interesting, too, that we have a mixed band of women and men and it’s not the tradition.!' role of women as back-up singers.

MW: There are no bimbos in the band. Isabelle [Lussier] is an amazing drummer, Marise is an in­ credible musician and dancer. The women in the band are really key.

Tribune: Is there a Snitch stage philosophy?

MW: We want to see people participating, not just sitting there and nodding their heads.

SM: It’s a spectacle, lots ot costumes, wigs...

MW: I’m glad I’m with a buncn of people who aren’t afraid to be goofy. Scott knocked me over my amp the other night, and that’s good. If we were standardized, if we had a shtick, that would bother me.

But the element of chaos is really fun.

The Snitches will be playing September 18, Studio C, (16Ô4-C St. Laurent), unconfirmed.

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H a p p y B Y G A T R I N M O R R IS G rowing up in an Ameri­ can city, friends and I could purchase a case o f M ilwaukee’s Best for a scandalous $6.95.

Here in Canada, how ever, you guys have d eveloped som e silly little distaste for American “pisswater" and prefer to drink beer with at least a 4 per cent ale. per vol. Then there’s that GST thing. It all adds up to an exp en sive hangover.

So, what can you d o to fill your gut with beer cheaply before that OSAP m on ey or your parents’ “spending allow ­ an ce” runs out? Here is a little guide to the best Happy Hours and drinking specials in the vicinity. (O ne o f the perks o f b ein g a Tribune writer is that an idiotic night out translates to investigative journalism).

1. DIRT CHEAP:

Copacabana: 3 9 0 6 St. Laurent This is that bar on St. Laurent that has about as much atmosphere and style as a Bob’s Big Boy. I haven’t quite fig­ ured out why, but Copa has maintained an incredible level o f popularity over the years. It seem s that on any given day so m e o n e arbitrarily d ecid es that a certain non-desript bar along the strip is n o w “co o l.”

N onetheless, Copa is damn cheap and damn reliable. The H appy Hour is from 4 to 7 PM and 12 to 1 AM. T w o-for-one drafts (St Ambroise and Brasal) are a mere $3. T w o-for-one shooters are also $3 and twofor-one bottles are $4. Watch out, how ever, becau se those folks from upstairs at D ouble D eu ce som etim es fling their Tiva sandals over the balcony.

Bifteck St. Laurent: 3 702 St. Laurent After 7 PM you should leave Copacabana for a quick stroll to Bifteck. From 6 to 8:30 nightly and W ednesday to Sun­ day at 11:30 to 12:30 PM drafts are tw o for $3. Bifteck also offers a never-ending two-foron e special on Rum and Cokes.

There’s a new upstairs at Bifteck and an excellent bartender/ co-ow ner nam ed Luis. Check out the free popcorn.

Double Deuce: 3 9 0 8 St. Laurent The next stop on your happy hour h opalong should definitely be D ouble D euce.

I g n o r e th e in c r e a s in g ly trendoid hippie-chick grunge clientele. This place is the Arts steps in the dark. Still, there is a non-stop tw o drafts for $3 deal (or $3-50 on w eek en ds).

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all times. During the year, Black M onday offers pitchers for $7 but w e ek en d pitchers are a s h o c k i n g $ 1 0 .2 5 . E very evenin g from 4 to 7 PM bottles are $1.75.

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beer should Bottled beer is a bargain $4 b e a LOT and w in e is $4.50. I d o n ’t rec­ c h e a p e r to om m end pursuing a girl-drinkdraw anyone drunk; m ixed drinks are b e ­ with taste to tw een $4-$6.50. Have fun... th is m o n ­ Old Dublin: strosity o f a 1219 University bar. O h, I This bar offers great live w as in m usic and a w id e variety o f f o r m e d imported beers. But it is noto­ th ere is a riously exp en sive. If you really Peel Pub-.

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DiSalvio's-. it w as illegal to give informa­ 1458 Crescent St. 5 2 4 0 Parc You can never b e to o rich tion concerning beer prices M onday to Friday from 4 W hen I asked about the or too thin. D o n ’t bother. over the p h on e. W hatever. to 7 PM, Hard Rock Café of­ happy hour deals at this liveSame g o es for A ngels and Most Peel Pub dw ellers are fers dom estic beers for $2.25. m u sic/com edy ven u e, I was all those frat/cegep/lycra/m eat usually o f the sw eaty frat b oy On the w h ole, how ever, the told: “W e have no specials.” m arket/line-up places. variety. You draw your ow n conclusions.

La Cabane: 3 8 7 2 St. Laurent A n o th e r g e n e r ic St. Laurent bar, La Cabane has a happy hour from 3 to 7 PM. You can get tw o drafts for $3.25 and tw o m ixed drinks for $5. The sam e g o es for Café Frappé St. Laurent, w hich is downstairs, except their happy hour caters to early-rising alco­ holics and begins at 12 noon.

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Café Campus: 5 7 Prince A rth u r E. Café Campus m oved to the pedestrian-only part o f Prince Arthur and is a g o o d ven u e for live music. From 5 to 9 PM, bottles o f Labatt’s are tw o for $3.25. Mixed drinks are $2.75 and pitchers are $8.50 during happy hour.

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4 1 5 8 St. Laurent This pool-oriented bar has som e g o o d deals from 12 noon to 8 PM. Pitchers o f Black La­ bel are only $7.50 and shooters are always a mere $1.50.

Cock & Bull: 1944 St. Catherine O. This bar has day and night prices. Before 7 PM, you can get a draft for $1.75 and a bottle for $2.75. After 7 PM, prices g o up a bit and pitchers are always a rip-off at $11.

Look out for g o o d imported beer w hich com es in $3.50 pints before 7 PM.

DJ's: 1433 Crescent St. From 12 n oon to 8 PM and from 12 to 1 AM, this typical Crescent St. bar offers moderately g o o d tw o-for-one prices: tw o bottles for $4, two shooters for $3.75; and tw o m ixed drinks for $5.50. Yet these deals only apply to w eek nights. On Saturdays and Sun­

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BY L A U R A W IL L IA M S O N Summer's over, and with the return of 8:30 classes and “no late papiers will be accepted” dead­ lines, even the most beer-positive among us will have to turn to less hangover-inducing pastimes. While heading for the latest Van Damme action flick may seem like the pjerfect alternative, the school year also heralds a time of tighter budg­ ets, and shelling out eight bucks to see Jean-Claude maul dozens of bad guys, as well as the English language, may seem a little exces­ sive.

Fortunately, Montreal offers several alternatives to a pricey Saturday night at Loew’s, none of which require curling up at home with a diet scxda and CFCF-12. A number of repertory and alterna­ tive theatres offer not only ticket prices which are a little less daunt­ ing, but an excellent variety of films and videos, as well as locations much more fun than the Eaton Centre Mall. So get off the couch, turn off “Murder She Wrote”—life is, after all, short—and check out some of the following theatres.

For those who do enjoy a little Van Damme, and care to admit it, give the Palace down­ town a try. Only recently reperfied, this former first-run theatre presents primarily recent main­ stream films which did not quite achieve blockbuster status, and disappeared rapidly from the big houses. At $4 a seat, andsix screens

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to choose from, this place is a «Jen of Filmgoing iniquity; just about every bad movie you wanted to see, but were too embarrassed to, resurfaces here. The selection this week is particularly enticing, in­ cluding some respectable fare, but for the most part a slew of Holly­ wood trash so odorous even Leonard Maltin wou Id cringe. Some highlights: Sliver. Billy Baldwin watches Sharon Stone get naked on video.

Big deal, so have 20 million VCRowning North Americans. This film really has no redeeming features ... but you still kinda want to see it, don’t you?

Cliffhanger.

Sylvester Stallone thinks that if he dangles half-naked from a sheer rock face in the middle of winter, we’ll forget his horrendous participation in Oscar, and Stop, Or My Mom Will Shoot. Instead, the audience has been prompted to chant “Jump, Jump” during most of the precari­ ous, high altitude moments. Good, sadistic fun.

Indecent Proposal: An inde­ cently conceived plot, and inde­ cently clad Demi Moore; its fun to watch Woody from Cheers get it on, tho’, despite his receding hair­ line.

Apocalypse Now. Marlon Brando waxes poetic without any hairline at all.

The more artistically, and less financially, inclined may want to head up Ste.-Catherine a little ways to the Cinéma de Paris, the fa­

vourite haunt of every McGill movie junkie. Paris is always populated with several sullen, dateless types who seem to feel it is only alright to see films alone here, but not other places. The seats are uncom­ fortable and creaky, and the film print will probably have several cigarette bums through your fa­ vourite scene, but for $3.75 a pierson—or 10 tickets plus two free shows for $30—cheap is the word.

You may even be able to afford one of those $20 Richard Dees gourmet ice cream bars to suck on while taking in an old thriller, a cheesy roman­ tic comedy, or some obscure documentary.

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Lip Gloss: A documentary exploration of Montreal’s transves­ tite and transsexual community.

We haven’t seen this many garters on screen since the Rocky Horror Picture Show. You gotta work.

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Panama Deception: Another documentary, this time starring men who would only dress as women

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George Bush and the CIA orches­ trate the 1989 invasion of Panama, and kick some innocent butt. Sept.

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In d e c e n t P ro p o s a ls R e | > e r t o r y This summer I returned hom e to Washington, DC, the murder capital o f the world, and found m yself in a micro­ cosm o f the American para­ dox. The Mall, crisp and clean with its im posing patriotism, is nestled in a war zon e o f crime, racism, corruption, and poverty. As part o f a gang initiation, a young man drove by a public sw im m ing p ool in a p o v e r ty -r id d e n DC neighborhood o n e summer day and op en ed fire on a crowd o f families. Every three hours a child is murdered in the United States. Things are really ugly.

Ever sin c e A m erican politics took a turn in January with the inauguration o f Prez Clinton, the schizophrenic na­ ture o f the American identity has b ecom e increasingly ob ­ vious. He has been trying, in a som ew hat slapdash fash­ ion, to clean up the grime o f the Reagan-Bush years. Gun control, health care, abortion, education, race relations, ur­ ban crim e...the list is infinite.

W hy are w e so surprised at C lin to n ’s a b o m in a b le ap ­ proval ratings? T hese are is­ su es w hich m ake us uncom ­ fortable, both with our w al­ lets and with our collective conscience.

But som eone, at som e­ time, had to deal with it, and Ross Perot and Rush Limbaugh w ere not going to do the job.

Violent crime in sch ools and hom es has reached an un­ precedented rate. Child mor­ tality and teenage pregnancy rates in many American ur­ ban areas are higher than over 30 “Third World” nations. Land o f the Free, H ome o f the Brave?

Yeah, right.

While the press had a field day with Clinton’s hair, over in California things got equally gross. (Mel Gibson, w h o se talent is declining in proportion to his hair/body ratio, actually lost his face).

The stock o f m ovies released this summer either com pletely ignored the big picture, or contributed to the decline and fall o f the country. H ollyw ood and its mass viewership dealt with the growing gap betw een the American dream and the unpleasant goings-on in the W hite H ouse with spineless denial and m oney-grubbing selfishness. The budget rec­ on ciliation bill? Federallyfunded abortions? The pro­ ducers and the consum ers w ere all ready to w h ine w hen Clinton disturbed the con ­ servative peace, but w h en it cam e to m ovies, it w as Free Willy, not Free Billy.

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So what did H ollyw ood Blvd. dish up for us over the past five months o f political and econom ic turmoil?

1. In light o f the after­ school activity o f ch oice this summer (shooting your class­ mates or being beaten by dad), Steven Spielberg taste­ fully decided to take the on e remaining fantasy for chil­ dren, dinosaurs, and turn it into a bloody Jurassic Park.

Now, in addition to a violent reality, kids can lie in bed fearing the return o f the raptors. Thanks Steve. H ard

Target, Cliffbanger, Super M ario Bros, and Rising Sun joined in the cam paign to keep violence our most loved form o f entertainment. And M ichael J a ck so n ’s creep y D isn ey esq u e fantasyw orld b ecam e a p o te n tia l p ed a p h est, cap tu rin g the blurred line b etw een child advocacy and child abuse.

2. Another w ay in which H ollyw ood cop ed with a con­ fused and disconcerted pub­ lic w as to avoid actually cre­ ating anything original. The bestseller is n o w the om nis­ cient screenplay m anufac­ turer in Southern Cal. John Grisham and Tom Clancey m ade a killing, literally, this summer. Not only did every single subway-riding zom bie read The Firm and Rising Sun but they spent $8 to se e these “n o v els” poorly recreated.

W hen film equals bestseller, w e can b e sure that nothing controversial slips through the cracks.

3. Then there w as Sleep­ less In Seattle. Ahh. Just what I wanted in a “surprise hit,” the return o f the romantic com edy. Nora Ephron, Meg Ryan head-twitches, p seu do­ sensitive Tom Hanks, and a bratty little kid: Fun City. This is love Peter Brady style, re­ plete with fireworks, love-atfirst-sight and no sex.

But som e films did man­ age to creep up through the multi-million dollar garbage heap. Like Water For Choco­

late, The Secret G arden, Searching f o r Bobby Fisher, Orlando, M enace II Society and my ow n favorite, So I M arried A n A x M urderer, m anaged to cheer my cynical soul. T hese m ovies didn’t make Jurassic m oney but they sheltered m e from the “hazy, hot n ’hum id”climate o f D.C.’s dem ise.

CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS PAGE presso cups and dog-eared copies of Kerouac’s On the Road to reach the tiny theatre. With about as many seats as a small Cessna, quarters can be cramped, but it’s worth it for the alwayschallenging variety o f foreign and alternative film and video presentations, in both French and English. Cultural Studies majors should note that this place impresses their profs to no end. Tickets are $5, but be prepared to drop another $5 on on e o f the yummy desserts of­ fered out front, w hich are hard to resist. Upcom ing presenta­ tions:

Danse. A series o f videos pro­ filing several o f the choreogra­ phers represented at the dance festival this fall. Not for danse enthousiastes only, the couch potatoes am ong us could use the inspiration.

Sept. 17-26.

Finally, retumingstudents will b e jumping for joy to hear that T h e R ialto, upstairs bal­ cony for necking during the boring parts included, will be re-opening this month. O nce the best English-language rep­ ertory in town, T h e R ialto is n ow under n ew management and will be presenting more premiere films, art and cultural films, as w ell as several live show s. It is worth paying the

M ontreal Jewish M em o­ ries-. Stories o f the Twenties and

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Thirties. Some o f the city’s older citizens recall these crucial years in Montreal’s history. Learn about life outside the campusstudent ghetto com munity b e­ fore you graduate. Sept. 6-8.

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A oût 1942: R aid su r Dieppe/autopsie d ’u n massacre.

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Skydiggers celebrate Rock 'n R o ll's three greatest ch o rd s Skydlggers :Just Over This

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M ountain (Flood Ross) When the Skydiggers came to McGill during my first year, the lead singer acknowledged each burst of applause by saying “THANKS A LOT’ in an incredibly annoying voice. Nonetheless, I approach their new album with a completely objective mindset.

For me the strength of this band is also their weakness; they create a very effective landscape of acoustic guitar chords and vocal harmonies, an excellent low-vol­ ume background vibe. But it is very difficult to sit through two whole sides of the stuff. Never particularly original, with lyrics of sometimes questionable substance, their songs can tend to sound the same after a while. After a while, you want to wring the group’s collective neck.

Some of the best cuts from this new album make use of the subtle electric guitar strategy of their last release. “Darkness and Doubt,” “This No Time,” and “80 Odd Hours” all build to almost rockin’proportions. “Ramblin’On,” “Shimmy Up Those Words” and the title track show the band’s rootsy side and provide a good balance to the mopey-ballad ten­ dencies. For sheer heartbreaking beauty, look no further than the first song on the album, “Pull Me

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sible, even melodic guitar rock (not bad for a guy who basically whines instead of singing). Their second effort, Kerosene Hat, «doesn’t exactly shatter the trend. In fact, if the first record had had four sides,

Down"— anundeniable slice of three-chord heaven which would require an immense amount of cynicism to dislike.

Better just to avoid the song list altogether and put this on the stereo while you’re doing the dishes or reading a magazine or typing up a record review— let it flow. This is music to be enjoyed at the periph­ ery. —-J.S. Cracker: Kerosene Hat (Virgin) On their first disc, Cracker griped endear­ ingly, “Don’t fuck me up / with peace and love / when I haven’t got it in me.” At last! A rallying cry for an audience sick to death of the Soul Asylum type of why-must-the-little-chiidren-cry song. Headed by David Lowery, ex-lead singer of Camper Van Beethoven, Cracker offered a cyni­ cal world view wrapped in acces­

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multiple sclerosis last year. Having never heard Victoria Williams and being unable to find her albums in any record store (quite ironic, isn’t it?), I decided to consider this disc an entity unto itself, to conven­ iently avoid a trivial “original/cover" «debate.

The “singer-songwriter”quo­ tient is quite high (Lucintda Williams, Michael Penn, Michelle Shocked, etc.) but that’s to be expected; these are truly well-crafted songs in the American folk tradition. The strength of the songs is revealed in the interpretations—’Tarbelly and Featherfoot”, performed by Lou Reed, soun«ds like it was written just for him, while Maria McKee tears into “Opelousas” and makes it her own. But even through the weaker performanœs (namely Soul Asylum and Buffalo Tom), a sense of cohesion is maintained, and this is obviously a testament to Williams as a songwriter.

The album’s highlights are two previously unreleased tunes, “Crazy Mary” and “This Moment.”

On the first one, Williams herself joins Pearl Jam (yes, that’s Pearl Jam—I couldn’t believe it myself) in a stark, restrained portrait of an alcohol-drenched street woman

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S k y d ig g e r s CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS PAGE “This Moment,” brilliantly ren­ dered by Matthew Sweet, is more optimistic while notsounding trite.

I don't know if it was written after the onset of Williams’ MS, but heard in that context it becomes all the more powerful: “This mo­ ment will never come again/ I know it because it/ has never come before.. .a thousand voices/ singing songs that ain’t been sung before.” It is a moment of illumi­ nation as well as a great song and that, after all, is the secret.—J.S. Bad Brains: R ise (Epic) The greatest challenge for Bad Brains will always be to live up to the lofty standards they set for themselves with their killer ‘old stuff. In Rise, another release since the exit of former throatman HR and former drummer Earl, da ‘Brains confirm dat dey still bad.

Of all bands, Bad Brains has among the most distinct of sounds; metalcore rastafarians aren’t exactly dime-a-dozen. With new ‘throat’ Israel Joseph-I and new drummer Mackie, the essence of the band we know and love is preserved, since each member is a virtual carbon copy of his predecessor.

However, unlike their ear­ lier gems on Rock For Light and / against I, the tracks on Rise tend to be more hit-and-miss. The CD’s two compulsory reggae numbers, Yes Jah and Love Is The Answer, with their syntho-percussion and dreadful mix (by someone called Butt Naked Shakin’ A Tambou­ rine) are incredibly weak and un­ inspired by Bad Brains’standards.

And whatever possessed them to record the cheesy ballad Without You we probably don’t want to know.

On the other hand, Bad Brains at their best are not to be fucked with. As Israel reads the riot act, Dr. Know, Darryl, and Mackie (with the help of some heavy-assed production) trium­ phantly recreate the dynamic am­ plitude and intensity of the ‘Brains of yesteryear. And I jive you not in declaring that the uncharacteris­ tic, steroid-enhanced cover of the 19-year-old song Hair is the high point of the CD. Rise is the Bad Brains’ best effort since 1987’s I against I - it’s certainly superior to Quickness, the last release by the original lineup. And although this disc may not take them in any signifi­ cant new direction, it is every­ thing that can reasonably be ex­ pected from these masters on all things fast, hard, and continu­ ous.—B.Y.

I M other Earth: Dig (Capitol) Meet I Mother Earth’s singer,

Edwin (just Edwin). While the rest of us were wasting our time watch­ ing bad sitcom reruns, Ed has been busy figuring out all kinds of really important stuff on our behalf. In his infinite goodness, and by virtue of his omniscience and im p ecca b le jud gm en t, Edwin shall let the truth be known. He challenges our fastheld religious beliefs on the track Levitate.: “Was that a man on the cross or was it just a fake?”

Hmmmm. We feel shame as Edwin denounces our pathetic hipster lives in Not Quite Sonic: “You’re so son ic/ so and so fantastically boring/ you ’re a fashion whore.” We are fasci­

nated - dare I say turned on - by Ed’s lesson on the male sexual experience in Basketball : “I can see the girl across the w ay/ she can’t see me and I touch my­ self,” AND by the female per­ spective o f sex in The Universe In You-.: “Touched by a boy’s restless erection, you swim."

Eeeewwww w.

C om e on , Ed, take a number. There’s nothing more irritating than b eing con d e­ scended to by a self-righteous rock-god wannabe.

Cornball lyrics aside, I Mother Earth’s music can almost be endured. Individually very talented, the Tanna brothers and Bruce Gordon em ploy all the tricks o f the trade to appeal to the ever expanding ‘altemative’metal market. On Dig, ya got yer dose o f Flea bass, yer Alice In C h ain s riffs, y er h ea v y , psychofunky percussion, and yer Pink Floyd drama all in one neat little package.

Unfortunately, this combi­ nation reeks of cash. I Mother Earth has a mass appeal quality which makes one somewhat sus­ picious o f the band’s— and their record com pany’s— incentives.

Are they real people or corpo­

rate drones? From Capitol’s per­ spective the answer is obvious, but one hopes to find more integrity in any band. W e’d like to see I Mother Earth either succeed in spite o f their record com pany’s desires, or fail be­ cause of them. In the latter case, our wishes are fulfilled.— B.Y. Fudge TunneL C reep D iets (Columbia) Once in a while, a CD com es out that can renew on e’s faith in the recording industry.

But in the mean time, w e have to put up with crap like Fudge Tunnel’s Creep Diets. This G /B / D (guitar/ bass/ drums) trio begs comparison to scours of other testicle-oriented raunchy stinkmetal bands, but what’s the point, really. Oh, alright; although greatly inferior in instrumental talent and song writing com pe­ tence, they try to out-Melvin the Melvins and out-Helmet Hel­ met. No dice.

Actually, if you like the heavy stuff, Fudge Tunnel would probably be swell to see live, as long as you were sufficiently inebriated. But for God’s sake be careful if you plan on listen­ ing to Creep Diets at home.

The liner notes insist that “There are no lyrics on this album” without a hint of irony.

Whatever it is that singer/songwriter/guitarist Alex Newport rages on about com es straight from the intestinal tract in an in d e c ip h e r a b le tirad e o f Montezuma’s revenge. Besides their name, Fudge Tunnel offers nothing new to the discipline of musical scatology. Their music is simplistic, kinda dumb and becom es increasingly boring as the album trots along. One final warning: repeated listenings may put hair on your chest... your back, your butt, your knuckles.

Pass.-B.Y.

••

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The program has no financial eligibility requirem ents. * You are eligible for a loan guarantee o f up to H3000 for the purchase o f com puter equipm ent from a student cooperative (that’s us). * You have to m ake quarterly interest paym ents, at a very low governm ent guaranteed loan rate. * You can deal with the bank o f your choice.

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----------------------------- E ligibility-----------------------------Candidates must: 1. be a Canadian citizen or a person domiciled in Canada and unmarried; 2. have been bom between 2 October 1969 and 1 October 1975; 3. except for medical students, have received an undergraduate degree before taking up the scholarship.

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Information Sessions will be held as follows: Thursday, 9 September at 10:00 a.m.

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Tuesday, 21 September at 2:00 p.m.

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

D r y a n d s p in e le s s ’ a c c o u n t o f C a m p b e ll grant F ife an y in te r v ie w s , th e a u th o r s p e n d s o n ly L iving on m y r e sid e n c e tw o ch a p ters flo o r in m y first yéar o f d is c u s s in g u n iv e r sity w a s a g u y w h o C a m p b e l l ’s e m b o d ie d ev e r y th in g o n e early life. This w o u ld e x p e c t from a b u d ­ m igh t ex p la in d in g O ttaw a b u reau crat. H e th e a m a te u r em a n a ted e v e r y n a u se a tin g a tte m p t at a s p e c t o f th is im age: th e cr e a tiv e w r it­ fu lly e q u ip p e d room p la s­ in g w h ic h tered in C o n serv a tiv e para­ o p e n s the* p h e rn a lia , th e car, th e c o n ­ b o o k : “E liza­ sta n t ra n tin gs a b o u t T ory b eth G ardiner e c o n o m ic p o lic y , th e b u tC o o k ’s e y e s to r i- d o w n s h ir ts — y o u lit u p w it h n a m e it. W h ile h e felt h e p r id e w h e n w a s 19 g o in g on 40 th e rest s h e h e ld her o f us w e r e 19 g o in g on 12. g r a n d c h ild A fter r e a d in g R obert Avril P h aed ra F ife ’s b io g r a p h ica l a c c o u n t D o u g l a s o f K im C a m p b e ll, K im C am pbell: The M a k in g o f a C a m p b e ll in her arm s for P o litic ia n , ( H arp er-C ollin s th e first tim e $ 2 2 .9 5 ) I am c o n v in c e d that o n M arch 10, g u y w a s an in ca rn ation o f 1947." ou r current p rim e m in ister.

To h is F ife p o r tr a y s a w o m a n c r e d i t , F if e w h o s e en tire life is o r ie n te d d e lv e s in to to w a r d s a c h ie v in g p r o fe s ­ C a m p b e l l ’s s io n a l b u r e a u c r a t-h o o d .

W h ile o c c a s io n a lly r e v e a l­ o fte n to u c h y p r iv a te lif e in g , this h a p h a za rd attem p t to re c o u n t th e life o f C an a­ w ith o u t lo w ­ erin g th e d is ­ d a ’s n in e te e n th Prim e M in­ c u s s io n to ister is w ritten in an in c r e d ­ trashy ta b lo id le v e ls . T h e ib ly dry and u n e n terta in in g b o o k fo c u s e s in ste a d on fa sh io n .

C a m p b e l l ’s p u b lic lif e , P ro b a b ly d u e to lack w h ic h b e g a n in 1980 w h e n of in f o r m a t io n , s in c e s h e w a s e le c te d to th e V an ­ C a m p b ell’s father re fu sed to

BY C H R IS S H E R ID A N

c o u v e r S c h o o l B oard. M ost o f th e b io g r a p h y d e a ls w ith th e s p e e d o f C a m p b ell’s rise to p o w e r , ch artin g h er v ic ­ tory in th e fed era l rid ing o f

The W A L K S A F E N ETW O R K w o u ld lik e t o t h a n k a ll o f t h e i r v o l u n t e e r P A T R O L L E R S and D I S P A T C H E R S f o r m a n y d e d ic a t e d h o u r s t h a t m a d e o u r fir s t y e a r o f F O O T P A T R O L a g re a t s u c c e s s !

W e a ls o w is h t o t h a n k o u r s p o n s o r s

M O T O R O L A

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BANQUE ROYALE ROYAL BANK

and V a V a 's , A .L I .S , E d .U .S ., E . U . S . , M . U . S . , S . U . S .

C o n t in u in g E d u c a t io n a n d K R T M e d ic a l F r a t e r n it y

W e 'r e lo o k in g f o r w a r d t o a n o t h e r g r e a t y e a r !

V ancouver C e n tr e in 1988, her c a b in e t p o st as J u s tic e M in is t e r in 1991, and fi­ n ally, h er v ic ­ to r y at th e T ory le a d e r ­ sh ip race this p ast J u n e.

A 1 t h o u g h Campbell c o m e s a cross as a w a lk in g c o n tr a d ic ­ tio n , F if e s e e m s p a in ­ fu lly con­ c e r n e d w ith g iv in g an o b ­ je c tiv e a c ­ cou n t of C a m p b e l l ’s p u b lic life. In true ‘lib e r a l’ fa sh io n , Fife a tt e m p ts to p r o v id e a co n tro v ersia l y et fair p o r­ tr a y a l of Campbell, bri ngi ng fo r th c o m ­ m en ts from b o th su p p o r t­ ers and o p p o n e n ts . In d o ­ in g s o , h o w e v e r , h e w a ters d o w n h is m aterial.

I n te n tio n a lly or n o t, F ife p ortrays a p o litic ia n c o n c e r n e d w ith s e l f - a d ­ v a n cem en t and p reservation o f th e statu s q u o . E ven dur­ in g C a m p b ell’s UBC years as an a c tiv e m em b er o f stu d en t g o v e r n m e n t, s h e a p ­ p e a r e d to e s p o u s e p r o g r e s­ s iv e v ie w s o n ly w h e n it s u ite d h er p erso n a l p o liti­

cal a sp ir a tio n s. H er c o n tr o ­ v ersia l sta n c e o n Bill C-13 d u rin g h er years as J u stice M inister is a p erfect e x a m ­ p le o f C am p b ell’s tw o -fa ced , y et sh rew d , p o litica l ta ctics.

W h ile cla im in g to b e p roc h o ic e , s h e a ttem p ted to en - I act Bill C-13, w h ich w o u ld h a v e re-crim in a lized a b o r­ tio n h ad it n ot b e e n nar­ ro w ly d e fe a te d in S en ate.

F ife’s lack o f b a c k b o n e is e v id e n t in h is tip to e in g arou n d C a m p b ell’s n eg a tiv e v ie w s to w a r d s a b o rig in a l p e o p le s . In 1989, C am p b ell d rew criticism from C ana­ d a ’s m o st p ro m in en t n a tiv e le a d e r s for h er v o ca l s u p ­ p ort o f a cap on p o s t-s e c ­ on d a ry fu n d in g for a b o r ig i­ nal stu d en ts. Fife o u tlin e s th e c o n tr o v e r sy b ut fa ils to d e lv e d e e p ly into th e c o m ­ m ittee h ea rin g s on th e O ka crisis w h ile C ap m b ell w a s J u stice M inister.

P erhaps the b o o k ’s b ig ­ g e s t w e a k n e s s is F ife’s lack o f first-h a n d in fo rm a tio n .

M ost o f th e q u o te s c o m e from a m ixtu re o f n e w s p a ­ p er and m a g a z in e a rticles.

In a d d itio n , F ife often re lie s on o th er jo u rn a lists’ p er­ so n a l p e r c e p tio n s and in sig h ts to p ro v id e d ep th .

His w is h y -w a s h y and s h a l­ lo w c o n c lu d in g c o m m en ts, su m m ed u p in o n e b rief paragrap h , are the icin g on th e ca k e.

“In our e r a ...

[C am pbell] w ill b e c h a l­ le n g e d to u s e her u n u su a l q u a lities to in sp ire C an ad i­ ans w ith a s e n s e o f o p ti­ m ism and p u r p o se that is n eith er d iv is iv e nor e p h e m ­ e r a l,” h e w r o te.

H a v in g th r o w n th is b o o k to g e th e r lite r a lly w e e k s a ft e r C a m p b e ll’s le a d e r sh ip v icto ry , it is o b ­ v io u s that F ife w a n te d to add h is n a m e to th e list o f s p in e le s s jo u rn alists in ten t on e n su r in g a p la c e at th e n ex t c h a m p a g n e bru nch on S u sse x D rive.

Hey! Look here!

Chechout[lieconies! onpageIE!

W.V.V.V.W.V.VAV.W.

D E P A R T M E N T O F A T H L E T IC S

C a m p u s

R e c r e a t io n

In s t r u c t io n a l A t h le t ic s P r o g r a m Coordinators:

Philip Quintal, Marla Gold, Gerry Dubrule

• There will be absolutely no one admitted to a class once it is full.

• You must register in person with a full-time McGill student I.D. card or a gym membership card.

• Classes start the week of September 20th, unless otherwise indicated.

The instructional Athletic Program provides an opportunity to use the Athletic Facilities and to acquire or improve athletic skills. Members of the staff of the Department of Athletics, as well as part-time instructors, teach in the program.

If space permits, staff, faculty and continuing education students may participate in the Instructional Program without purchasing a membership:

Courses are open to all FULL-TIME MCGILL STUDENTS. Full-time McGill Students are entitled to register for courses at the member's fee.

STAFF, FACULTY, and GRADUATES holding a gym membership card (available in the General Ofiice of the Currie Gym) may also register for course at the member's fee.

• A non-member rate will be charged.

• Registration for this group only, will begin Tuesday, September 14th.

REFUND POLICY: An administrative fee of $5.00 will be charged for withdrawal prior to the start of a course. No refunds will be given after the start of a course. To claim a refund, the course receipt must be presented.

• In many courses space is limited. First come, first served.

COURSE

DAY

TIME

COST (M/NM)

#OF LOCATION WEEKS

COURSE

AQUATICS

PAY-AS-YOU-GOFITNESS

RED CROSS PROGRAM Weston Pool Weston Pool

$26/47 $26/47

8 8 8 8 8 8

12:15 -13:00

$35/75

8

Curie Pool

12:00 -13:00 18:30-19:30 19:30 - 20:30 17:30 -1830 13:00-13:30

$35/75 $35/75 $24/45 $24/45 $20/40

8 8 8 8 8

Weston Pool Curie Pod Currie Pod Weston Pool Currie Pod

Friday

19:30 - 20:30

$25/45

Currie Pod

Saturday

11:00-12:15

$26/47

8 8

Weston Pod

Mon., 4 Wed.

17:00-18:00

$35/75

8

Weston Pod

Class 18:30-19:30 Pool 19:30-21:00 Class 18:00 -19:30 Pool 19:30-21:00

$40/60 plus exam fee $72/102

8

Curie Pod

6

Weston Pod

Yellcw, Orange (Beginners)

Thursday Saturday

17:30-18:30 09:00 -10:00

$24/45 $24/45

Red/Maroon/Blue (Intermediate)

Thursday Saturday

17:30-18:30 10:00-11:00

$24/45 S24/45

Green/Grey/White (Advanced)

Wednesday Saturday

19:30 - 20:45 11:00-12:15

GENERAL Aquacises (Water Exercises)

Tues.4 Thus.

Swim Fit (Cardk>Re6pratory Endurance) Tues.4 Thus.

Tues.4 Thus.

Stroke Improvement Monday Tuesday Water Walking Tues.4 Thus.

SPECIALIZED Diving 1 M Elementary Lifesaving 1,2, 3 (Introduction to program) Synchro Swim Star Program Beg. to Adv.

S.C.U.B.A. (Good SwimmerScreen Test Required)

Tues.4 Thus.

Ballet II Ballet I Jazz I Jazz I Jazz II Jazz III Social Dance Social Dance Social Dance Social Dance

Tues.4 Thus.

Tues.4 Thus.

Mon. 4 Wed. Tues.4 Thus.

Tues.4 Thus.

M/W/F Monday Monday Wednesday Wednesday

Aerostep Body Design Body Design Cardio Funk I Cardio Funk II Circuit Training Lew Impact (Advanced) Low Impact Lew Impact/Step Runner's Clinic Step Aerobics Step Aerobics Step Aerobics Super Step Super Step Super Step Super Step

COURSE

Currie Pool Weston Pool

STEP

C E R IlflC A im P R Q G R A M S Lifesaving: Bronze Medallion (Prerequisite Lifesaving Tuesday 1,2 ,3 or equivalent) Leaders Tues.4 Thus.

Action Aerobics (High/Low) Action Aerobics Action Aerobics (High/Low) Action Aerobics (High/Low) Action Aerobics (SU PERFIT)

Weston Pool Weston Pool

M/W/F Mon. & Wed. Tues. A Thus.

Tues. A Thus Mon./ Wed. & Friday Tues.A Thurs.

Tues. & Thurs.

Saturday Tues. & Thurs.

Tues. & Thurs.

Tues. 4 Thurs.

M/W/F Tues. 4 Thurs.

Saturday Tuesday Mon. 4 Wed. Tues.4 Thurs.

Tues.4 Thurs.

Mon. 4 Wed. M/W/F Tues.4 Thus.

Saturday

Class 19:30 - 20:45 Pool 21:00 - 22:30 DANCE 19:00 - 20:15 20:15 - 2130 17:00 -18:30 08:30 -10:00 19:30-21 .-00 18:30 - 20:00 19:00 - 20:30 20:30 - 22:00 19:00 - 20:30 20:30 - 22:00 FITNESS 12:15-13:15 16:30-1730 12:00-1330 16:00-1730 17:30-19:00 17:00-1830 12:30 -13 3 0 13:00-13:45 12:00-1330 17:30-18:30 18:30-1930 18:00-1930 17:00-18:15 17:00-1830 11:30-1230 17:00-1830 08:30 - 09:30 17:15 -18:15 18:15 -19:15 12:00 -13:15 15:45-1730 16:00-17:15 1 0 3 0 -11 3 0

Information:

398-7011

$230/260

6

$42/82 $42/82 $42/87 $42/87 $42/87 $65/110 $32/52 $32/52 $32/52 $32/52

8 8 10 10 10 10 8 8 8 8

$80/125 $32/77 $32/77 $32/77 $57/102 $47/92 $30/75 $20/45 $32/77

$32/77

$32/77 $52/97 $32/77 $20/45 $22/37 $47/92 $47/92 $47/92 $50/95 $55/100 $50/95 $32/77

13

10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 6 10 10 10 10 10 10 10

Curie Pod

• F A L L 1993

DAY

TIME

COST (M/NM)

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday

17:00-18:00 17:00-18:00 17:00-18:00 17:00-18:00 16:00-17:00 12:00-13:00 12:00-13:00

$2/4 $2/4 $2/4 $2/4 $2/4 $2/4 $2/4

$1.60' $1.60' $1.60' $1.60' $1.60' $1.60' $1.60'

Friday Saturday Sunday

17:30-18:30 13:00-14:00 13:00-14:00

$2/4 $2/4 $2/4

$1.60' $1.60' $1.60'

‘Booklets of 10 Tickets for $16.00 purchased inadvance (Members Only) COURSE

DAY

Weight Training Weight Training Weight Training Weight Training Weight Training Weight Training Weight Training Clinic

Monday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Saturday

Weight Training (PRIVATE) Personal Fitness Appraisal

Aikido Judo Shorinjiru I Shorinjiru II Shotokan TaeKwon Do I Tae Kwon D oll Women's Self Defense I Women's Self Defense I Women's Self Defense II

THE

COST (M/NM)

#0F WEEKS

08:30 -1030 20:00-2130 08:30-1030 20:00-2130 08:00 - 0930 0930 -1030

$26/39 $26/39 $26/39 $26/39 $26/39 $26/39

5 5 5 5 5 5

S al Sept 25 & Sun. Sept 26

1030-1230

$16/21

2

by appointment

call 398-7011

$26/30

1

by appointment

call 398-7011

$35/45/60

MARTIAL ARTS Tuesday 18:00-2030 & Friday 17:00-1930 Mon. & Wed. 17:30-19:30 Mon. & Wed. 18:15-19:45 Mon. & Wed. 19:45 - 21:15 Tues. & Thus.

14:30-1630 M/W/F 14:00-15:30 M/W/F 15:30-1730 Tues. & Thus.

16:00-1730 Saturday 1 0 3 0 -11 3 0 Saturday 11:30-1330

Basic First Aid Sal, O ct 2 A ‘ Includes CPR Heart Saver Sun., Oct. 3 "Those with CPR Heart Saver CPR Basic Sun., Sept 26 A SaL, Oct 2 CPR Re-Cert Sun., Sept. 26 Fencing I Tues. A Thus.

Fencing I Tues. A Thus.

Fencing II Tues. A Thus.

Golf Wednesday Golf Wednesday

VARIA 09:30-17:30

$52/97 $52/97 $42/87 $42/87 $42/87 $63/108 $63/108 $42/87 $27/52 $27/52 $85/90* $70/75**

«

10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10

10:30-1730

$78/85

2 2

10:30-1730 08:00 - 0930 19:15 - 20:15 20:15 - 21:15 11:30-1230 15:45 -16:45

$37/47 $37/77 $37/77 $37/77 $26/41 $26/41

1 8 8 8 6 6

DAY

Hockey I 4 Tuesday Hockey II4 Friday Hockey (STAFF) Monday Skating* Wednesday Skating* Saturday Tai Chi Mon. 4 Wed. Yoga I Mon. 4 Wed. Yoga I Mon. 4 Wed. Yoga I Mon. 4 Wed. Yoga I Tues. 4 Thus.

Yoga I Tues. 4 Thus.

Yoga II Tues. 4 Thus.

• STARTS WEEK OF OCTOBER 4,1993

Badminton 1 Badminton II Squash Intro Squash Intro Squash Intro Squash Intro Squash Intro Squash Intro Squash Intro Squash Intro Squash Intro Squash Intro Squash Intro Squash Intro Squash Intro Squash Intro Squash Intro Squash Intro Squash Intro Squash Intro Squash Intro Squash Inter Squash Inter Squash Inter Squash Inter Squash Inter Squash Private Table Tennis CSnic Tennis Intro Tennis Intro Tennis Intro Tennis Intro Tennis Intro Tennis Intro Tennis Inter Tennis Inter Tennis Inter Tennis Inter Tennis Inter Tennis Indou (Rockland Tends Club)

Monday Monday Monday Monday Monday Tuesday Tuesday Wednesday Wednesday Wednesday Thursday Thursday Friday Friday Friday Friday Friday Saturday Saturday Sunday Sunday Monday Wednesday Thursday Saturday Sunday By appointment Saturday Sept 25 Monday Wednesday Wednesday Friday Friday Saturday Monday Monday Wednesday Wednesday Saturday Friday

TIME

COST (M/NM)

# OF WEEKS

15:15-16:30 14:15-15:45 15:15-16:45 14:15-15:30 10:45-12:15 16:00-17:00 08:00 - 09:00 17:00-18:15 18:15-19:30 16:00-17:15 17:15-18:30 18:30-19:45

$27/47 $32/52 $75 $26/41 $32/52 $42/87 $26/66 $37/77 $37/77 $37/77 $37/77 $37/77

8 8 20 6 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8

RACQUETS 10:00-11:00 09:00 - 10:00 08:30 - 09:15 09:15-10:00 16:00-16:45 16:45-17:30 17:30-18:15 09:15-10:00 12:15-13:00 13:00-13:45 16:00-16:45 16:45-17:30 08:30-09:15 09:15-10:00 14:30-15:15 15:15-16:00 16:00-16:45 10:45-11:30 12:15 -13:00 11:30-12:15 13:00-13:45 16:45-17:30 08:30-09:15 17:30-18:15 11:30-12:15 12:15 -13:00 call 398-7011

$26/41 $26/41 $20/35 $20/35 $20/35 $20/35 $20/35 $20/35 $20/35 $20/35 $20/35 $20/35 $20/35 $20/35 $20/35 $20/35 $20/35 $20/35 $20/35 $20/35 $20/35 $20/35 $20/35 $20/35 $20/35 $20/35 $16718

6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6

10:00-12:00 10:00-11:00

12:30-13:30 14:30-15:30 08:30 - 09:30 09:30- 10:30 11:00-13:00 11:00-12:00 15:30-16:30 11:30-12:30 15:30-16:30 09:00- 11:00 15:00-17:00

$5/8 $26/41 $26/41 $26/41 $26/41 $26/41 $26/41 $26/41 $26/41 $26/41 $26/41 $26/41 $80/85

Cycïng

OUTDOOR PURSUITS Sun., Sept. 26 All Day

$40/45

Equestrian Equestrian Equestrian Equestrian Hiking

Friday Saturday Sunday Sunday Sun., Sept. 26

$85/90 $85/90 $85/90 $85/90 $35/38

Mont Tremblant

Mont Tremblant All Day MontPhelph, NewYork Sun., O ct 24 AH Day SmugglersNotch, Vermont Sun., Nov. 14 All Day MontHumean, NewYork Sat., Sept 18 Al Day ValDavid Sun., Oct. 17

Rockcfimbing (M/NM)

1 6 6 6 6 6 3 6 6 6 6 3

6

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O p o rf s M en ’s V o lle y b a ll team fo ld s u n d e r fin a n c ia l an d o rg a n iz a tio n a l s tra in

BY C H A R L E S TH O M A S After five years of com­ petitive play on the Quebec Students’ Sports Federation (Q S SF) and Canadian Interuniversity Athletic Union (CIALQ circuits, the McGill Men’s Volleyball team has become a casualty of the fi­ nancial and organizational dif­ ficulties that have plagued it since it lost its funding in a 1991 McGill Athletics Board decision.

The Athletics Board de­ cision resulted in the termina­ tion of Financial support to 15 intercollegiate teams atMcGill.

The teams affected by this resolution, including the men’s volleyball team, were permit­ ted to continue competing play for McGill on the condition that they provide for their own financial needs through fundraising or team fees.

The volleyball team man­ aged to raise enough money to compete in the 1991-1992 and 1992-1993 seasons.

In the spring of 1993,

however, student athletes from the team’s executive con­ tacted the Department of Ath­ letics to inform them that no one would be taking over the team for the 1993-1994 sea­ son. “[The team’s executive] had a meeting. A lot of them were graduating and none of the younger members were interested in continuing,” speculated A1 Grazys, McGill’s Intercollegiate Coordinator.

According to Rob Watt, administrative services coor­ dinator at the Department of Athletics, the team had accu­ mulated a $1,175 debt by the end of the 1992-1993 season.

Athletics Director Bob Dubeau said he believes that this bur­ den weighed heavily in the athletes’ decision to terminate the team.

“For two years, men’s vol­ leyball continued on a self­ financing basis,” said Dubeau.

“Last year, the club found it difficult to support itself. Cost of travel, cost of games and other costs were too high for individual players. They could

not self-assess a large enough fee— rowing charges some­ thing like $200 per [athlete]— and were unable to raise enough funds. “[The team] felt that they would not be able to raise enough money to cover oper­ ating costs," he added.

Ian Jordan, the team’s head coach for the past five years, explained that financ­ ing the team was not the only problem.

“If we would have had a little more support from the department, we would have had a lot more younger guys come in here a lot more gungho,” stated Jordan.

“The guys were hoping that they were going to get a fair shot [with the 1993 review of the funding status of inter­ collegiate teams in which the team remained unfunded],” said Jordan. “I don’t want to compete against the football team or the basketball team [for funds]; nobody should have to do that. We did very well last year. We took teams with ten or twenty times our

budget to five set matches, but that wasn’t enough [for the department].”

Dubeau argued that fac­ tors unrelated to the team’s success or failure led to its demise.

“It’s too bad that one of the teams that had reasonable success as a team had to cease, but the money must come from somewhere,” he said.

“One of the problems was that there was no space for them,” he continued, alluding to the reasons why the team remains unfunded.

“If a team comes to us and asks for help we will accomodate them as much as we can, but [the men’s volley­ ball] team never made that effort,” claimed Watt. “Another team had the same problem but they came to us to discuss their problem and they pre­ sented a plan to get back on their feet and now they’re O K,” he continued.

Jordan, however, sees the situation as more than a sim­ ple matter of dollars and cents.

“McGill is a great school,

the problem is in the Depart­ ment of Athletics. They seem to have an agenda or a quota and no one can question that [agenda]. They run the place, they must know what they are doing,” he remarked.

Jordan claimed that the department’s priorities must change and the burden of running teams must be re­ lieved from athletes’ shoul­ ders.

“The athletes already do too much with their classes, practice and games, its taxing on them,” he maintained. “I’m not interested in seeing the kids do so many fundraising events if there is no interest from the powers that be to support the kids.”

According toJordan, the department is happy to share in the glory when teams are successful, but it is not will­ ing to share in the burdens that produce success.

“T h e departm ent is happy to hold our flag when we do well, but it’s a shame that [it] doesn’t care when we need it,” he concluded.

R a y m o n d a n d T ré p a n ie r le a d th e w a y p a st W in d so r

BY C H R IS T O P H E R R IG N EY Head football coach Charlie Baillie led the Redmen into Satur­ day’s exhibition contest against the University of Windsor with two goals in mind. Aside from starting the season off on a win­ ning note, Baillie also hoped to evaluate his team’s progress. Both

goals were attained as the Redmen, led by the strong play of both the starting and backup units, steamrolled the Lancers 31-4 at South Campus Field.

Fifth-year quarterbackJustin Raymond of Ottawa, who shared pivot duties with Francois Gauvin last season, went a long way in exhibiting just how ready he is to lead the Redmen into O-QIFC action and beyond. Raymond put

forth an impressive effort, tossing three touchdown passes in two quarters of play before Baillie handed the ball over to backup quarterbacks Christian Sebastian and Patrice Dubuc.

Raymond wasted little time after the opening whistle, con­ necting with favourite receiver Alex Trépanier on an eight-yard touchdown strike less than five minutes into the game. Six min­ utes later, Raym ond f o u n d

Trépanier again, this time from seven yards out, to widen the Redm en’s lead to 14 points,

more than enough to extinguish the Lancers’ hopes for a victory on this day.

Baillie emphasized that strong p e rfo rm ­ ances by The Lancers

provided liitle in the way of competition for the

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Raymond, such as the one turned in against Windsor, were vital to the overall success of the team this season.

“Justin played a strong game against Windsor, there’s no doubt, but we’re going to need that from him week in and week out. If we’re going to be successful, Justin must stay healthy all sea­ son long,” he said.

Complementing the accu­ rate passing attack were some strong performances out of the Redmen backfield. Rookie run­ ning back Pumulo Sikaneta of Zambia led the way with 56 yards on seven carries. Rounding out the ground attack were first-year player Chad Luedtke and veteran Delando Hawthorne, who col­ lected 53 and 44 yards respec­ tively. Hawthorne, a fourth-year student from Dollard des Ormeaux, continued his success­ ful comeback after missing the entire 1991 season with a broken ankle.

Like any seasoned coach, Baillie realizes that games such as these serve to uncover the unsound aspects of the team which must be worked through before the regular season begins.

Despite the lopsided score, he warned that his team’s play was

not perfect.

“Some of our timing was definitely off. We were also hit­ ting the holes created by our linemen late, causing the play to develop a bit more slowly than we would have liked it to. That will all be worked on in practice,” he said.

The Redmen must now switch their collective team focus to the next task at hand: their regular season opener against the Carleton Ravens this Saturday in Ottawa. While McGill blanked the hapless Ravens last season by a 20-0 tally, they cannot afford to take the new-look Ravens lightly.

Carleton has a rookie head coach in former Ottawa Rough Rider lineman Donn Smith, and a good deal to prove after last year’s winless campaign.

Never hasty in underesti­ mating any opponent, Baillie knows just how important every victory is to his team’s playoff chances, especially these “easier” games.

“Yes, our more difficult games are later on in the season, but these are games that we have to win. I’m confident that our guys know that, so motivating them to play shouldn’t be a prob­ lem," he said.

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Redmen to defend Old Four title B Y C H R IS T O P H E R R IG N E Y

Faced with the daunting challenge of regaining the Que­ bec Men’s Soccer championship, lost to Concordia in a controver­ sial 2 to 1 double-overtime loss last fall, first-year head coach Valerio Gazzola said he realizes fully that success will not come easily for his team this year.

Having enjoyed a four-year stint as a Redman from 1983 to 1987, Gazzola must continue the difficult process of whittling down the number of players, al­ ready far less than the 50 who began training camp.

nationals, but the verdict is still out on whether the Redmen have the horses to do it.

Gazzola offered his views on what it will take for the Redmen to succeed this season.

“There’s no doubt we have much to prove this year,” he told the Tribune. “When you lose as the team did last year, you must

By the opening game coin toss, Gazzola, along with assistan t coach Nick DelG rosso and goalie coach Celine Brahmi, hope to have a squad of approximately 20 players ready to commence the season.

start from scratch. That means that we’ll need some surprise perform­ ances from some of the younger players, while the veterans con­ tinue to step up and take over the important games.”

Gazzola emphasized the role that veterans such as midfielder Nick Giannis, striker Marc -Antoine Larouche, Beaudouin Dessert, Pat Kirby and most importantly, full­ back Chris Drysdale, will play this

For a team which, with few exceptions, has dominated pro­ vincial play for the last decade while enjoying moderate national success, last season’s champion­ ship loss left many with a bad taste in their mouths. The players and coaches know what it will take to regain the top spot and advance to

season.

Gazzola and his staff are the first ones to admit that success of the team may ultimately rely on the foot of their Captain Drysdale.

“This is his team and the other players are his supporting cast,” Gazzola said. “We’re going to go as far as Chris takes us."

Before the Redmen can un­ dertake their quest to regain the top Quebec prize, they must first venture to Kingston this weekend for the annual Old Four tournament McGill, along with Queen’s, Toronto and Western Ontario make up the draw, which should serve as a neces­ sary gut check before the regular season opener on September 18.

Weary of putting too much emphasis on the tournament, which the Redmen hosted and won last season, Gazzola offered what he hopes to take from next weekend’s action.

“We go there with the inten­ tion of evaluating where we stand.,” he explained. “We want to try our players out in different positions anci situations to see how they react and perform. If we can win a few games, that would be great, too.”

EM P LO Y M EN T O PPO R TU N ITIES

R e d m e n n o te s a n d q u o te s C O M P IL E D BY C H R IS T O P H E R R IG N E Y Based upon their superior play last season, Redmen offen­ sive linemen Matthieu Quiviger and Val St. Germain along with defensive back Doug Naudie were named to the 1993 preseason all-Canadian football team. The national honours come after the three were named to the 1992 Ontario-Quebec Interuniversity Football Confer­ ence (O-QIFC) all-star team at the conclusion of last season.

Quiviger, a six-foot-five, 276-pound tackle from Mon­ treal, and St. Germain, a sixfoot-three, 290-pound guard from Ottawa, lead an offencive line that ranks with the best in the nation. With sue returning starters after the graduation of J.P. Veri, the “O ” line will be asked to provide ample time for quarterback Justin Raymond to direct the offence, while open­ ing sizable holes for Redmen

running backs.

Naudie, a fourth-year physiology student from Westmount, registered one in­ terception along with 31 tackles last season.

Of the 28 players selcted to the national team by the Association of Canadian Uni­ versity Sports Information Di­ rectors, Redmen dominated the O-QIFC choices, netting half of the six spots. **•

Only days after last se­ mester’s exams had concluded, the football Redmen traveled to Besancon, France to take on the Baker University Wildcats in an exhibition game, the pur­ pose of which was to promote American-rules football in France. The Redmen, losers in the first North American-style football game to Harvard 3-0 in SEE REDMEN, NEXT PAGE

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1874, once again came up short, bowing 34-14 to the team from Baldwin City, Kansas.

After falling behind 20-0 at halftime, the Redmen matched the Wildcats offensive output in the second half as McGill pivot Justin Raymond tossed touch­ down passes of nine and 69 yards. Kicker Andy Boon added two conversions to account for the McGill’s other points.

Despite the loss, coach Charlie Baillie called the trip, “a once-in-a-lifetime experience for all of us.”

After missing the entire 1992 season due to injury, former Redmen MVP receiver Steve Papp will be returning for a Final campaign. In 1991, Papp was Fifth among O-QIFC re­ ceivers with 29 receptions for 136 yards in addition to leading the conference in all-purpose yardage, amassing 1,383 yards and four touchdowns. As one of the smallest, quickest players in the CIAU, Papp’s return is a godsend for Coach Baillie and a nightmare for defences trying to contain him.

The Redmen kicking du­ ties will once again be handled be Andrew Boon, an all-star candidate from Welland, Ont. Boon led the team in scoring with 10 Field goals, 10 converts and one rouge. He also punted 62 times for a 32.2 average, ranking among the top punters in the conference.

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The M cGill Redmen Rugby Club kicked off the 1993 season last weekend when they participated in the Montreal Irish Tournament. Unfortu­ nately the team performed poorly, losing both games against the Boston Rugby Club.

The team was not overly disappointed with their per­ formance, noting that this tour­ nament is useful for the coach­ ing staff to evaluate talent and watch their players in action.

“This tourney is mainly used as a tune up,” said team member Uri Kamat.“Everyone gets the chance to play, which gives the coach the opportunity to get a look at all the players available.”

The Redmen “A”team lost to Boston’s “A” team by a score of 20 to 5, while the Redmen “B” team lost 15 to 3 to Bos­ ton’s “B” team. Head coach Steve Penner is not worried by the losses. “[Boston] play at a level one notch above us. This was a trial for both new and return­ ing players, it was the first time our team has played together this year,” he said.

“They played real hard; we’re all Fired up for the sea­ son,” he added.

After leaving the Québec University Rugby League (QURL) for a year to capture the O ’Neil Cup - the Québec Rugby Federation Champion­

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“We will have tough com­ petition from Bishops and Concordia, but with the return of our“A”team into the league our chances are excellent. Our team stresses hard work and a strong sense of oneness," Coach Penner agreed.

According to Penner, Laurie and Buffam provide leadership and are excellent examples of the team’s philosophy.

“They play extremely well and always give 150%, and the team has a phenomenal work ethic,” commented Penner The Redmen start their eight-game regular season schedule on Sunday, Septem­ ber 12th at Bishop’s Univer­ sity. The QURL consists of teams from McGill, Sherbrooke, UQTR, Bishops and Concordia, with the top four Finishers mak­ ing the playoffs. Kamat beo lieves that a return to the unix versity league will help the ^ Redmen gain some recognid tion and more importantly may £ help them gain Financial fund| ing from the department of 5 athletics. The Redmen Rugby - Club does not receive funding from the university.

“Gaining the University title back will turn heads and make news. The important ti­ tle will help us in our Fight for funds,” he commented.

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coming off medal winning performances at the World University Games in Buffalo, New York, in July. Starr won gold in the double sculls with partner Tracey Duncan from Saskatchewan. For his part, Crombie came home with medals in both the men’s

bronze in the 400m medley relay.

McGill swimming coach François Laurin, who was named one of the National team co ach es for these games, was excited about the outcome of the freestyle relay.

With m edal-w inning performances in rowing and swimming, McGill athletes shined at the World Univer­ sity Games and other in tern a­ tional level com­ petitions. Top p e r fo rm a n c e s were pulled off by rowers Rachel Starr and B r a d s h a w C ro m b ie and swimmer Andrea Nugent.

Starr, a U3 Biology student from Ottawa, and C ro m b ie , a graduate History student, are rest­ ing in Roudnice, Czech Republic, after making their mark at the world rowing champi­ onships last Sat­ urday.

The often overlooked Starr, who previously won gold at the 1991 W orld Championships, McGill rowers had the world in their blistery hands captured a silver m edal in the “We were stroke for lightweight women’s coxless coxless fours and and the stroke with the [gold medal­ fours, finishing the 2000m heavyweight men’s eights. winning] Americans for the The World University race in 6:48.87, slightly more whole race; the crowd was than two seconds behind the Games stage permitted other going nuts,” said Laurin. “This McGill student-athletes to boat from Great Britain. is one of the top three meets Crombie, rowing in the grab the spotlight. Nugent is in the world.

The [Canadian heavyweight men’s coxless one of those who grabbed it team’s] time was one and a and did not let go. The 1992fours, helped the Canadian half seconds faster than the 1993 McGill female-athleteboat to a fourth-place finish [Canadian team’s] time at the behind France, Poland and of-the-year paced Canadian 1992 Olympics,” he added. teams to a silver medal in the the U.S. Perform ing individually, 400m freestyle relay and a Starr and Crombie were

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Nugent Finished sixth in both the 50m freestyle event and the 100m freestyle race.

In track and field com­ petition, M cGill’s Mélanie Choinière took fourth place in the women’s 1500m final in a time of 4:14.74. The two sport All-Canadian in 1992-

1993 (in track and cross coun­ try) went on to win gold medals in the 800m and the 1500m at the Canada Sum­ mer Games. Her time of 2:06.56 in winning the 800m was a Games record.

As part of an exchange programme, Choinière will study at the University of British Columbia forthe 19931994 school year. According

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to McGill Track Team head coach Dennis Barrett, she should nevertheless be able to compete under McGill colors.

“We are still figuring out the logistics, but she should be able to compete for us, especially since the [CIAU Championships] will be held in Edmonton — its a lot closer to Vancouver than we a r e ,” com m ented Barrett.

J e a n -N ic o la s Duval, a teammate of Choinière’s on the McGill track and cross country teams, also performed well inter­ nationally. The native of Repentigny, Qué. won the 3000m stee­ plechase gold medal at the Pan-Am Jr. Games, held this sum­ mer in Saskatoon.

Badminton player Robbyn Her­ mitage, who went un­ defeated in Québec o University play last x 0. year, competed in doubles at the World Badminton champi­ ÜJ z onships, in Birming­ ID CQ ham, England.

O th er M cG ill athletes selected for the Canadian World U niversity Games team were race walker Tina Poitras from Hull, Qué., soc­ cer player Luce Mongrain, of Trois-Rivières, swimmer Matt Swarney of Toronto, as goal tender for the waterpolo team, as well as épée fencers Heather Landymore, from H a lifa x , and Dan Nowosielski, from Ottawa.

At the Macabia Games, an international competition for Jewish athletes, rower Devra Hendelman won a sil­ ver medal in the women’s single sculls and gold in the double sculls, while Brian Salpeter won a silver in the men’s pair.

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S o cce r C h a m p io n M artle ts o n th e ro a d to th e O ld Four

AS ALWAYS, THINGS ARE LOOKING UP FOR MARTLETS SOCCER

BY C H A R L E S TH O M A S For the past several years, the McGill Martlet soccer team has been McGill’s most consist­ ent and successful team. The Martlets have reached the Cana­ dian Interuniversity Athletic Un­ ion (CIAU) women’s soccer cham­ pionship finals and ended their season ranked second in the country in each of the past two years — by far the best results by any McGill team in national competition.

The Martlets have domi­ nated the Québec Students’ Sports Federation (QSSF) soccer league, taking the championship for the past four consecutive years. The team’s captain, defender Gayle Noble, was named the QSSF league’s most valuable player, and The T r ib u n e 's 1992-1993 fe­ male athlete of the year. Both Noble, a law student, and centrehalf Heidi Bloomfield, a physical education student, were mem­ bers of Québec’s Canada Games team.

Despite their consistent performances for the past several years, the Martlets take nothing for granted. Head coach Tony Iachetta believes that winning a fifth straight championship will be difficult, facing improved teams in the Québec league.

“We’re up against stiff com­ petition this year,” Iachetta said.

“Sherbrooke and Concordia re­ cruited a few players who were on the Canada Games team.

Sherbrooke will really improve and Concordia is always very tough to beat.”

The Martlets have lost a number of players to graduation.

Among those lost are Andrea Benoit, Catherine Durand and Stephanie Hart. Although Iachetta will sorely miss the contributions of all departed veterans, the pros­ pect of fielding a young team does not seem to worry him as much as it had at this same point last season.

“We’ve losta number ofplay­ ers, but not as many as [we lost] last year and we still managed to make the [national finals] last year,” he stated. “I really like the group com­ ing back, we should be strong again this year.”

Similar to last year, Iachetta does not expect the team to start the season playing at their best competitive level. Many key play­ ers will be absent due to participa­ tion on local soccer teams.

“We will be missing several players for the Old Four Tourna­ ment because of their club com­ mitments, but it should be very interesting because it gives us a chance to try new players,” com­ mented Iachetta. “It should be difficuItfor us towin [in those circum­ stances], but we always manage to do well,” he added.

Iachetta admits that the absence of key players will contribute to a slow start for the team, but that has not hindered its suc­ cess in the past. “[Those who play on clubs] can only practice on the nights they are not with their clubs, so the team concept in practice falls apart, but once they get back we are able to pull it together. We only started playing well in the last three weeks last year,” he claimed.

While the player ab­ sences are inconvenient, Iachetta suggested that the team would reap some benefits.

“Those players help us be­ cause they come back in good shape," he said.

the Martlets kick off their season this weekend at the Old Four Tournament hosted by Queen’s Univer­ sity in Kingston.

McGill will battle the University of Toronto, the University of Ottawa (replacing the University of Western Ontario team which had prior

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