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Tuesday. Novf^nW i6 The Centre fur Applied Family Studies of the School of Social Work presents a research seminar by Professors Linda Davies and Prue Rains on “Single Mothers By Choice?" 10:30 AM-12:30 PM, Wendy Patrick Room, Wilson Hall, 3506 University. The Biochemistry Department presents a special seminar in protein struc ture by Dr. Peter Metcalf, E.M.B.L., Heidelberg. 11:30 AM, Room 903, McIntyre Medical Sciences Bldg. McGill Amnesty International meets every Tuesday at 6:30 PM in Shatner 425/35. All welcome. The Sexual Assault Centre of McGill (SAGOM) offers a “Women Survi vors of Sexual Abuse" facilitated mutual aid support group. 7-9 PM, private room at McGill. Call 396-2700.

The Yellow Door Coffee House presents readings by Peter Kom, Marcia Goldberg, and Doug Isaac, followed by an open stage. $2. 8 PM, Yellow Door, 3625 Aylmer. For more info call 398-6243. The Biochemistry Department presents a seminar by Dr. Rod Mclnnes of the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. 11:30 AM, Room 903, McIntyre Medical Sciences Bldg. SACOM offers a “Friends and Fam ily of Survivors of Sexual Abuse" facilitated mutual aid aupport group. 6:30-8:30 PM, private room at McGill. Call 3982700. Faculty o f Musk conceits: As part of the CBC/McGill Series: Lauren Wagner and Rena Sharon. 7:30 PM, Pollack Hall, 555 Sherbrooke. McGill String and Mixed Ensem bles, 8 PM, Redpath Hall. Both are free. Call 398-4547/8101 for more info.

Faculty o f Musk conceits: Margaret De Castro, organ, 12:15 PM, Redpath Hall. McGill Piano Ensembles and Other Chamber Music, 8 PM, Pollack Hall, 555 Sherbrooke. Marlowe Bork and Guy Cox, 8 PM, Redpath Hall. All are free. Call 398-4547/8101 for more info. Saturday. N o v em b er 70

Management vs. Engineering Variety Show. 8 PM, Shatner Ballroom. Tickets $3 50 at the door, proceeds to Children’s Wish Foundation. First 100 peo ple get day passes to La Cité Gym. Doors open at 7 PM. McGill Improv offers free work shops every Saturday from 12-2 PM in the Shatner Bldg. See sign in lobby for room location.

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F riday. NqLesbians, Bisexuals and Gays of McGill (LBGM) has a weekly Bi-Group discussion, meeting at 5:30 PM on the 5th floor of the Eaton Bldg. Friendly atmos phere, all welcome. McGill Improv performs for free in the Alley every Wednesday at 8:30 PM.

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The Is lande Society of McGill and the Islamic Cultural Network present Islamic Aware ness Day from 126 PM in the Shatner Ballroom. Come expand your mind and learn about Islamthe world's fast est-growing reli gion!

The McGill R edm en H ockey Team faces off against crosstown rivals the Concordia Stingers at 7:30 PM at Molson Arena. FREE Ben Jerry's ice cream to first 100 fans! Students $3, General $5. &

McGill Outing Chib meets every Wednesday at 7:30 PM, Leacock 26 or 132. SAGOM offers two facilitated mu tual aid support groups: “Women Survivors of Domestic Violence" and "Men Survivors of Sexual Abuse." 6:30-8:30 PM, private rooms at McGill. Call 398-2700. An Abortion Support Group meets every second Wednesday evening in a comfortable living room. We also provide a clinic escort service. For more info contact the McGill Women's Union at 398-6823 or Maija at 286-8075. Faculty of Musk conceits: McGill Jazz Ensemble I, 8 PM, Pollack Hall, 555 Sherbrooke. Tom Plaunt (piano), 8 PM, Redpath Hall. Both are free. Call 398-4547/8101 for more info.

Thursday. November 18 McGill Student Health Services presents a discussion on living with HIV by Ben, an HIV-positive man. Free bagels, juice and information about safer sexuality. Bring a friend! 1 PM, Shatner 107/8. Questions about sex? Come and check out STD/HIV/A1DS Awareness Day today in Shatner 107/8 from 10 AM-3 PM. Free bagels, juice, condoms, games and information... and chances to wi great prizes! Presented by McGill Student Health Serv-

The Yellow Door Coffee House presents 1ive music by Julia Rohan with Mari Solivan, followed by an open stage. $2. 8 PM, Yellow Door, 3625 Aylmer. For more info call 398-6243The Centre for Developing Area Studies presents Professor Kari Levitt, Economics, speaking on “30 Years of Development: ARetrospec tive." 12 PM, 3715 Peel, Room 100. The Department o f Psychiatry presents a speech by Dr. B. Sherwin on "Estrogen and Mood." 12:30-1:30 PM, R T Bldg., 1033 Pine W., Room 138. &

LBGM offers two discussion groups: a Coming Out group at 5:30 PM, and a General Discussion Group at 7 PM. Both are in the basement of the United Theological College, 3521 University. Friendly atmosphere, all welcome. The McGill Curling Club will be holding free curling clinics every Friday from 4-5 PM at Montreal Thistle C.C., 1420 du Fort. No experience necessary. We pro vide everything.

The Archaeology Speakers Series presents Profes sor Bruce Trigger speaking on “Loaves and Fishes: The Development of Anthropology at McGill University." 12:302 PM, Leacock 738. SACOM offers a "Women with Eating Disorders" facilitated mutual aid sup port group. Body images also addressed. 79 PM, private room atMcGill. Call 3982700. Faculty of Musk concerts: McGill String and Mixed Ensem bles, 8 PM, Redpath Hall. McGill Harpsichord Class Recital, 8 PM, C-209 (Clara Lichtenstein Recital Hall, 555 Sherbrooke). Both are free. For more info call 398-4547/8101.

Ongoing... Editors needed now for McGill Undergraduate Journal o f History. In terested? Please leave your name and phone number in Leacock 625.

The Savoy Society’s Broadway Revue is rescheduled for January. Calling all singers, dancers, actors, accompanists, choreographers and directors. This is your chance to be a star. Call 342-9933/398-6826 for more info.

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P ro te s t fo rc e s B Y M O N IQ U E SH EBBEARE McGill and Montreal Gen eral Hospital officials were forced to cancel a public lecture ad dressing delayed memories of child sexual abuse last Thursday after protesters prevented the guest lecturer, Dr. Harold Lief, from speaking. McGill’s department of psy chiatry invited Lief, a professor emeritus of the University of Pennsylvania, to discuss what he calls the “False Memory Syn drome” (FMS). This syndrome suggests that overzealous thera pists and popular literature about sexual abuse encourage some adults to create memories of abuse that never occurred. Lief is a member of the board of advisors of the False Memory Syndrome Foundation (FMSF), a Philadelphia-based or ganization that primarily repre sents parents who have been accused of sexual abuse by their adult children. The protest began as soon as Dr. Gerald Pinard, chair of McGill’s department of psychia try, began to introduce Lief to the audience of approximately 300.

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The future of Canadian Red Cross (CRC) blood drives at McGill is in jeopardy as a result of a resolution passed by Stu dents’ Society (SSMU) council last Thursday. The motion asked for a condemnation of the CRC and a ban on blood drives in the William Shatner University Cen tre d u e to th e p e rc e iv e d homophobic nature of the CRC Donor Health Assessment Ques tionnaire. The questionnaire is designed to screen potential blood donors in order to protect blood recipients from HIV, the virus that leads to AIDS. The resolution was pre sented to council by Clubs Rep John Saunders and was passed after a lengthy, heated debate. The current questionnaire states that “if [you are] male, having sex with another male, even once” since 1977 puts you at risk for AIDS, and prevents you from giving blood. Lesbians, Bisexuals and Gays of McGill (LBGM), a stu dent advocacy group, was in strumental in bringing the mo tion to council and was present at the. meeting to explain the rationale behind the resolution.

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The motion was drafted by LBGM political co-coordinator MaryMargaret Jones. “We are not against the collection of blood... w e are against discrimination occurring in the [Shatner Centre],” said Jones. LBGM’s proposal centred on the anti-dis crimination clause con tained in the SSMU con stitution, and its belief that the CRC is practising dis crimination on the basis of sexual orientation in screening potential blood donors. “You might as well take out the discrimina tion clause in the consti tution," said Jones, ad dressing the constitutional ramifications if the mo tion had failed. The resolution calls on SSMU to petition the CRC to change the word ing of their questionnaire to address specific sexual behaviour regardless of sexual orientation, and goes on to say that unless measures are taken to am end their donation policy there will be no further SSMU sponsorship of CRC blood drives. As a

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a faculty and a university which encourages debate and which encourages the examination of controversial issues,” he said. “The issue is one of academic freedom.” “You do not have a right to interfere with our academic ac tivities, in our own university and in our own way,” Cruess also told protesters. Dr. Connie Kristiansen, as sociate professor of psychology at Carieton University, challenged Cru ess’s assertion of academic freedom. “Can you argue on the ba sis of academic freedom that it is permissible for som eone to dis cuss the virtues of the holocaust or the virtues of racial discrimi nation?” she reasoned. In an attempt to save the lecture, organizers asked the pro testers to select a spokesperson who would present a 15 minute rebuttal after LiePs speech. They also encouraged audience mem bers to pose questions to Lief. Kristiansen rose to ask a question, citing a number of stud ies that pointed to the truth of SEE FM S L E C T U R E , PA GE 8

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ened,” said Chris Carter, an ad ministrator at LBGM. Most councillors agreed that the offending question was hom ophobic, b u t som e ex pressed concern about support ing a motion which could poten tially affect the availability of blood. “I cannot support a motion that puts the constitution in front of the lives of people,” said A thletics Rep James Stewart. Other members of council e c h o ed Jones’s view in remind ing the assembly that they were bound by their constitution and its anti-discrimination clause. “You have no choice but to support this motion,” said Sen ate Board Rep Rich Latour, who co-spon sored the resolution. Æ The SSMU mo 's tion sent a clear mes^ sage to the CRC and to § the community at large that the Society will not accept discrimina tion in the collection of blood, a charge w h ic h F ra n c in e

Décary, Medical Director for Blood Services for Montreal, denied in an interview with the Tribune. “We are not targeting ori entation, we are targeting activ ity,” she said. “I am very disap pointed that where we have the most intelligent people in Mon treal this resolution has passed.” The o rganizers of the upcoming Engineering Under graduate Society (EUS) blood drive, an event which SSMU does not have the authority to block, also indicated disappointment with the vote. “[LBGM] had valid points but SSMU has gone too far,” said EUS blood drive coordinator Christa Jenkins after the vote. “It was done without considering the actual impact.” Jenkins also indicated that she would have preferred it if the CRC had been given an op portunity to speak to council before this vote. The CRC has indicated that it will likely be impossible for them to adhere to the conditions set by SSMU in time for next year’s blood drive, because their questionnaire is presently struc tured to meet the criteria set by the Standards of Blood Bank Practices of the federal Depart ment of Health and Welfare.

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BY B A R N A B Y C L U N IE A N D M ICHAEL BR O A DH UR ST On November 5th, the Brunswickan, the University of New Brunswick’s (UNB) student newspa per, publ ished an opinion piece writ ten by Matin Yaqzan, an assistant professor of Mathematics and Statis tics at UNB since 1967. The Brunswickaris editors chose to print it in order “to expose the fact that date rape is not considered by every one to be as serious a crime as it is.” In his piece, Yaqzan argued that date rape was both natural and should be expected from young men. (Please see accompanying piece, to right.) Yaqzan has been suspended from his teaching post as of Novem ber 12th, pending a full review of the performance of his professional re sponsibilities. The UNB administration has suggested that Yaqzan’s comments may fall under a clause in the school’s sexual harassment pol icy which con demns all activity that “creates an intimidating, hostile or offensive working or academic environment”. A petition has been circulated demanding that Yaqzan be punished according to the university’s sexual harassment policy. From his temporary exile, Yaqzan has written in response to questions put to him by the Brunswickan. Yaqzan referred to

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the media frenzy surrounding his comments as a “tempest in a teapot”, and insisted that he was being mis quoted and misunderstood. “Some of [my students] might now be persuaded or manipulated by the zealots of some misconceived and misguided women’s organiza tions,” Yaqzan said. A representative of the UNB Student Union suggested that stu dents were angered by Yaqzan’s comments. “A lot of guys were insulted because he painted them with one brush,”VP Finance Paul Estabro said. “A lot of girls were upset because he made distinctions between ‘promis cuous’ women and virgins.” Brunswickan editors were criticized for their decision to pub lish Yaqzan’s piece. A November 17th editorial in Montreal’s Gazette accused the Brunswickan of supporting Yaqzan’s point of view by allowing him to perpetuate “old, per nicious myths that are wearyingly hard to eradicate.” Brunswickan Editor-in-Chief Karen Burgess explained the news paper’s decision. “We decided that date rape was an issue that was of grave con cern to students, and that by publish ing this we would expose that some people still hold less than politically correct views,” she said. - with files from the Brunswickan and Montreal’s Gazette.

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The following are excerpts from an opinion piece written by Professor Matin Yaqzan o f the de partment o f Mathematics and Statistics at the Univer sity o f New Brunswick. Entitled " Rape’ Past and Present- it originally appeared in the Friday, Novem ber 5th issue o f the student-operated Brunswickan. A young boy and young girl were chaperoned in the past for the obvious reason that a boy cou Id not be expected to be the master of his sexual impulses. The custom among the "civilized” peoples to keep most of the female body under cover, was to avoid unwanted male attraction... ...The co-ed [universityl residences may be helpful, but they do not provide for the sexual gratification for all the male students, and therefore the reason and the need for the so called “daterape”... It is obvious that a girl who has had sexual intercourse with a large number of boys, would not suffer as a result of an unwanted sexual encounter to the same degree as a girl from(sic) whom it might be the first sexual experience. Ttue, she might not be in a(sic) mood, or might find the act less than satisfying, but it would have to be far less traumatic than for a girl in the past who was a virgin. Today’s girl has the added security that an abortionist would be only too glad to relieve her of any undesired pregnancy,

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without a sense of guilt cm the part of either... For the girls who believe in the traditional religions,... “rape” must remain a terrifying prospect Therefore, the girls who use the word “rape" to describe their dislike of a particular encounter in their endless sexual experiences, do a disservice to those who abide by the old traditions. While no amount of education or legal pro nouncements would change the male nature, it would help if ... the boys were also taught that the sexual needs of girls are very different from their own. Of course, girls should be taught that while hugging and kissing might be pleasant and adequate experiences for them, they are simply a prelude to sexual intercourse for the boys, and cannot be carried on indefinitely. When a boy invites a girl to his bedroom, especially after meeting her for the first time, she should consider it as an invitation for sexual intercourse. And if a promiscuous girl becomes a victim of an unwanted sexual experience, it would be reasonable for her to demand some monetary com pensation for her inconvenience or discomfort, rather than express moral outrage or try to arouse emotional response in others of the kind that the word “rape’ evoked in yesteryears. The opinions expressed above are not those of either the Brunswickan or the Tribune.

N ew s Briefs P re s id e n t says h e ’s s o rry Students’ Society (SSMU) President Mark Luz apologized to councillors at last week’s SSMU coun cil meeting for voting against a senate motion forwarded by VP University Affairs Ruth Promislow. The motion, which asked the university to neither solicit funds nor accept unsolicited gifts for fraternities, was passed at the November 3rd senate meeting. Promislow was mandated to present the motion to senate by a nearly unanimous vote at the October 28th SSMU council meeting. Luz explained that he abstained from the council vote for reasons of uncertainty. “During the debate at sen ate, however, I began to feel that the motion might be too strict in preventing the university from accepting unsolicited gifts,” he explained. “1 felt I couldn’t sup port the motion, and abstaining is often looked down upon by many members of the commu nity.” Luz expressed regret at hav ing gone against council’s wishes. “My personal reasons don’t matter... I ask the forgiveness of council.”

Athletics Rep to Council James Stewart ex pressed concern about the approach taken by Promislow. “I’m a little concerned with the Big Brother attitude the letter has taken," said Stewart. Management Rep Mitch Costom reinforced Stewart’s concerns. “This letter doesn’t even come close to resem bling a spirit of cooperation,” he said. “This letter basically tells the MUS what to do.” Promislow defended the let ter. “I don’t think we can accept any more of the empty apologies that we have received from the MUS in the past.”

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SSMU and Arts Undergradu ate Society (AUS) lost an estimated $1500 to $2000 each due to sparse attendance at the Sattalites concert on November 5th. The reggae band ended Culturefest by playing to a crowd of 100-150 in the Shatner Ball room. Many in attendance entered free due to poor advance ticket sales. S a ttalites fa ll out o f orbit fo r A U S VP Culturefest Chairperson Paola Scarone noted the difficulty C o u n c illo rs question co n d e m n a tio n in having to compete with the Montreal entertainment scene. “People prefer to go to bars... it’s hard to pull Concerns were raised at last Thursday’s SSMU council meeting about the tone of a letter written by them back to the university in the evening.” AUS executive members expressed disappoint VP University Affairs Ruth Promislow to Manage ment Undergraduate Society (MUS) President Ronald ment with the financial shortcomings of the produc tion but were satisfied in having provided the McGill Balinsky. The letter, written in response to the recent community with a service. The event was the third SSMU-sponsored con controversy over the Commerce Communique re garding the publication of sexist material, stated that cert to lose money this year, following Me, Mom and “it is clear...that you and everyone involved in the Morgentaler and Spirit of the West in September According to VP Internal Cornell Wright, this pattern publication require a great deal of education.” The letter demanded that the MUS council and of losses has prompted SSMU to freeze the sponsor everyone involved in the publication of the Com ship of large conceits for the rest of the year. VP Finance Paul Johnson philosophized on merce Communique attend outreach sessions con ducted by the Sexual Assault Centre of McGill continued fiscal failure. “Students’ Society has a knack for losing money Students’Society (SACOMSS), and that the Women’s on concerts. We’ve refined it to an art.” Caucus be involved in the editorial process. The letter also demanded that the MUS consti tution adopt a statement condeming any form of -Briefs compiled by Ram Randhawa and Trish Snyder discrimination.

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B Y ST E V E SM ITH A wave of recent publica tions questioning the material and ethics of the Edwin Mellen Press has sparked concerns over the academic worth of McGill’s Mellen collection. The Edwin Mellen Press is an academic publishing house based in Lewiston, New York, that grossed two million dollars inl992. According to the Publishers’ Di rectory, the Mellen Press special izes in “biographies, publication of sources, new translations, es says, and in-depth monographs on problems." The firm is owned by Herbert Richardson, a former professor of religion whose recent controver sial dismissal from the University of Toronto renewed interest in the operations of the Mellen Press. McGill’s libraries currently pos sess 667 Mellen publications. Recent articles in the aca demic review Lingua franca and The Globe and Mail have forced McGill’s librarians to re-evaluate their relationship with the Mellen Press. In the September-October 1993 edition of Lingua franca, author Warren St. John alleged that the Edwin Mellen Press is “a

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quasi-vanity press cunningly dis guised as an academic publishing house.” St. John claimed that the Mellen Press publishes works of questionable academ ic njerit

erates its exceptional revenues,” bra nans continent-wide. he claimed. “Specialist bibliogra Paul Reid, attorney for the phers buy books at such a rapid Edwin Mellen Press, maintained rate that there is rarely time for any the legitimacy of Mellen’s opera but the most superficial inspec tions and noted that the publish tion. The cost of any ing firm is preparing to take legal one book is usually action against the Lingua franca. too low to justify “We are preparing a libel spending a lot of time suit against Lingua franca anti the evaluating it.” author,” Reid told the Tribune. Two events cast “The substance of this article is the credibility of that we have discovered a crack in Mellen into doubt at the system whereby we can pub university libraries lish junk and hoist it off on unsus aro u n d North pecting librarians. This is abso America. The first was lutely falsp.” a charge of plagiarism Reid argued that SL John’s b ro u g h t against article cast generalizations on the M ellen author nature of Mellen’s operations that Stephen Bames for he could not support. material included in “If I remember the article his 1989 book M uzak correctly, there is only one item mentioned that we have published c The Hidden Messages © in Music. This was fol that had been previously turned lowed in 1990 by down by other printing firms,” he U ^ Mellen’s release of said. “The Mellen Press is very ©Joseph Washington’s selective in the material it O The First Fugitive For chooses.” eign a n d Domestic Elizabeth Silvester, McGill’s Doctor ofDivinity: Ra- Collections Librarian for humani Controversy sours opinion on Mellen collection tional Race Rules of ties and social sciences, has been which are hidden behind solid Religion and Realism Revered and following the Mellen story with bindings and scholarly titles. Reversed or Revised by the Rever interest “It’s the overworking of the end Doctorfam es William Charles “We’ve been aware for a employees of university libraries Pennington, whose obscure title long time that it’s a press that puts — Mellen’s customers— that gen caught the eye of acquisition li out some good material and some

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25% tuition hike forecast for '94-'95 B Y S T E V E SM ITH A financial report to McGill’s senate released last week has indi cated a 25 per cent tuition fee increase for the 1994-95 academic year. The report, prepared by McGill’s Vice Principal (Adminis tration and Finance) John Armour, estimated that the 25 per cent increase, approximately 450 dol lars per student, will raise an addi tional 8.9 million dollars. As a result of this increase, it is ex pected that the Quebec govern ment will deduct one-fourth of the expected increase from McGill’s provincial grant The resultant 2.7 million dollars will be directed to student aid to help counter the effects of the tuition hike. The report states that the tuition increase is a response to an expected decision by Quebec's Minister for Higher Education and Science, Lucienne Robillard, to raise the province’s tuition fees to the Canadian average. François Tavenas, McGill’s Vice Principal (Planning and Re sources), commented that the tui tion increase is not based on any concrete government legislation. “These are budget assump tions based on indications we have received from the government but are not based on any government figure,” he said. “These assump tions are based on the value of these estimations.” McGill’s administration is ex

pecting a government decision on fee increases before the end of December. However, the report noted that there is no certainty this increase will in fact be imple mented. When asked how the administration will react to a gov ernment refusal to approve the 25 per cent increase, Tavenas re sponded with caution. “I can only give you a hypo thetical answer and that is that we’ll have to seriously re-examine the budget,” he said. Students’ Society (SSMU) President Mark Luz questioned the implications of the proposed increase for students. “My initial reaction is ques tioning exactly what the tuition fee increase means for students— is it just a straight ahead tuition fee increase or is there going to be an equal increase in loans and bursa ries?” he queried. The 1989-90 round of tui tion fee discussions resulted in an 800 dollar increase in tuition fees but only a maximum 13 dollar increase in student loans because of the rise in the number of stu dents requiring them. Luz noted that there are al ternatives to increasing tuition fees that are not being addressed. “I think there are other op tions that haven’t been investi gated—the problem is those op tions will take a long time to investigate," he said. “You can’t keep milking the student cash cow, because the

student cash cow is beginning to run dry,” he added Student reaction to the indi cated tuition hike was one of cau tion and concern. U2 English student Sarah Turner commented that for many students, the increase will be illtimed. “Obviously it’s a bad time for everybody. By proposing them now it means less students will be able to return next year,” she ar gued. Sarah Thirlwell, a U1 Bio chemistry student, raised concerns about the allocation of the extra funds that will be raised. “You have to balance the pros and cons of paying more. How will it benefit our education?" she asked. Mathieu Currie, a U2 Man agement student, was frank about his perceptions of the tuition in crease. “It kind of sucks. I don’t have that kind of money."

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The Canadian Red Cross Society saves lives, a noble and admirable task. Does that allow them to discriminate against certain segments of the population? Take a look at the questionnaire that every po tential blood donor must com plete, and you will find that discriminating against hom o s e x u a ls ^ permissible in its eyes. Thé Red Cross does not accept donations from any male that has had sex with another male since 1977 — thereby rejecting every sexually-active gay man in Canada. The Red Cross maintains that no rights are violated by this policy, because giving blood is a privilege, not a right. The questionnaire tar gets sexuality rather than spe cific sexual behaviour, ignor ing the fact that any form of unprotected sex, homosexual or heterosexual, places a per son at risk of exposure to AIDS. The Red Cross should ask donors if they have en gaged in high-risk sexual ac tivity—the days of AIDS as a “gay plague" are over. What the Red Cross is saying now is that if you lead a lifestyle that

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B Y G L E N D A KOH This column is dedicated to everyone who suspects po etry might not yet be dead. It is for everyone who would like to write a poem and not be re ceived with either open mock ery, or the response, "Hey, that reminds me of a Neil Young song”. It is for all the closet poets in the world who are afraid to come o u t Shakespeare’s dead, Eliot’s gone, Coleridge probably over dosed, but poetry has not yet gone the way of the proverbial horse, as I witnessed at a very fine poetry reading at Thomson House last Thursday. Just to prove it, here is a selec tion of McGill’s best (and per haps only) two-minute poems. T hey are s p o n ta n e o u s, unpremeditated, and best of all, they took only two minutes to write. Even Minute Rice, con trary to its name, takes longer than that. Yep, I’m predicting that the two minute poem is going to take the Canadian literary

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it deems acceptable then you “earn” the privilege. Otherwise forget it, you and your blood are not welcome. Last Thursday, Students’ Society (SSMU) council spent over two hours debating a reso lution to condemn the Red Cross and discontinue participation in the annual SSMU Blood Drive until the Red Cross changes its screening process. Two hours? SSMU’s consti tution prohibits any participa tion or support for activities that discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation. The Red Cross discriminates against gay men, which should have rendered protracted debate unnecessary and irrelevant. For once the ex ecutive of SSMU displayed lead ership in making a tough deci sion to correct a problem de spite taking the unpopular and unfortunate step of terminating a highly-productive blood drive. For once SSMU council stood up and said it was mad as hell and was not going to take it anymore. The executive and several councillors, led by Clubs Reps Jo h n S a u n d e rs a n d F arah Nazarali and Senate/Board Rep Rich Latour, w ho co-sponsored the resolution with VP Univer

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My life in two m inutes is made up o f shatters, fragm entsof nineteen years, attached by an abstraction I cannot name, or place inside a line that is not linear or straight. It curves around vacuous events and loves, and hates, being and nothingness.

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sity Affairs Ruth Promislow and VP Finance Paul Johnson, ar gued strongly in favour of the motion, as did several members of Lesbians, Bisexuals and Gays of McGill (LBGM). After two hours of debate, it became ap parent that other councillors did not agree. Engineering Rep Christine Ahn proposed that the resolu tion be split into two separate motions, thereby allowing SSMU to petition the Red Cross to change their questions and still have a blood drive in the Shatner Centre. Councillors rejected that amendment, but the mere pro posal of such a measure is a slap in the face to the gay commu nity. If councillors are not will ing to back up SSMU constitu tional ideals with action, then they should not be sitting at council meetings. Simply asking the Red Cross to change its ques tions is not good enough. It would be unfair to ac cuse the six councillors who voted against the motion of hom ophobia, but the circular debate reflected one of two things: either there is a signifi cant degree of hom ophobic sen timent on this campus, or else students believe that if a cause is

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N ovem ber O nslaught" Before Red Kisses blotted sidewalks a n d hearts fe ll from sleeves like crum pled Kleenex, He cam e on like a tonne o f bricks, Grabbed slender white wrists. Snapped. —written by Sue, PhDl

“Vomit a n d Franchise" I ju st bought a terrier pup, He's cute, but he likes to throw up. It’s a good thing I work A t the dollar store. Mops are cheap.

—Meredith, written while sitting on the floor at the Women’s Union

—Vicky, unhappy pet owner.

There are trees in m y m indfrom which I hang m yself daily. One o f the days I d id n ’t kill my self, I looked up a n d saw the roots o f a higher being. Roots that suck the moisture fro m m y tongue and bury m y soul in an earthy resurrection with not a thing to say.

Creamers, the three-headed beast, liquor o f love, Each h a lf a n d h a lf spilled in the black pit-pot, A dreamer’s awakening, the black ice broke, Black night w hitened the drink.

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— Aaron, also known as “Crazy Aaron who should cut down on his coffee intake.”

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“good” enough then discrimina tion is acceptable. The disturbing thing about the vote was that six councillors voted against the resolution and four abstained, thereby publicly defying the constitution they are bound to uphold. As Latour said at the meeting, if there was racist activity taking place in Shatner, council would not hesitate, and, as VP Internal Cornell Wright noted, the same was true when they were confronted with the sexism recently published in the Commerce Com m unique. For some reason, perhaps because people do not identify as well with hom ophobia as they do with racism and sexism, society is reluctant to defend the rights of homosexuals with the same ardour that they do others. Think about the ways that gays are discriminated against and you will probably come to the rational conclusion that they have a right to be angry. One man spoke at the SSMU meeting about being rejected despite the fact that he had tested negative for HIV. Think of the demoraliz ing effect that such a decision has on someone: to be told that you cannot help others, that you cannot donate your own blood

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Kitchen sinks and toilet drains Are m y job when the sky rains; Wet-weather wonderment, fru it o f the sky— That which transcends wet or dry— Weeping I sit and nurse m y soggy pains.

to help save another life, not because your blood is infected, but because you are queer. Heterosexuals who have un protected sex are at risk as well, more so than gays who practice safe sex — but they can give blood because they are straight. That is discrimina tion, and no one, especially a member of an organization with a constitution like SSMU’s, should accept that under any circumstances. Bravo to LBGM for forc ing SSMU to take a stand. And shame on the councillors who feel that collecting blood is more important than human dignity and equality of human experience.

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There you have it: two minutes of poetry and fifteen seconds of fame. Do not mock, cynics, until you’ve written a two-minute poem yourself. Try it, save it, show it to your chil dren and tell them that when you were in school, the literary scene was alive and well.

—by Marc, written in the back row of Prof. McGilvray’s Aesthetics class.

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Two weeks ago, in a close New York City mayoral race, my mother did the unthinkable. She voted Republican. I’m still convinced that it was her vote that cost David Dinkins his job (to challenger Rudy Gulliani). My mind, which can’t hold a lot of stimuli, could not accept that. It went against everything my parents taught me. Love thy neighbour, Thou shalt not kill, etc. It was a vote for “law and order", concepts I always equated with bacon and coun try club admission policies. My family is not rich, in large part because of my net drain on their income, and so I couldn’t understand why she would do it. She said I would under stand when I was older, how ever, when I had a family of my own to support. The words sounded almost like a curse. I know I don’t have much time left before I become one of those people preoccupied with meeting mortgage payments and the orthodontist bills for my 2.6 children. One of those people who wakes up every morning with the fear that his hair has migrated from the top of his head to the middle of his back. For almost three years I was a fairly dedicated vegetar ian and a dedicated animal rights advocate. I demonstrated. I sub scribed to the whole denim and canvas school of fashion. I had long hair and saw myself as a prophet armed with the gospel of Metallica lyrics. I even ate brussel sprouts. Five years later, I go to school in a leather jacket and have a culinary orgasm over a good P hiladelphia CheeseSteak sandwich. There was som ething natural about being righteous back then. It felt like I could make a difference—like I had the power to carve a niche in the soft underbelly of society with my bare hands. But back then I could afford to be a rebel, since my parents gave me an allowance. Conservatives had always scared me, they all seemed to be inbred from a sub-standard gene pool on some big farm south of Little Jack, Idaho. Worse, they all seemed to own guns. They were the enemy and they were also formidable. They had, after all, elected Reagan and would later propel Garth Brooks to stardom. I didn’t actually see one “in person” until the summer of “92, however, when the Na tional Democratic Convention

1 G AT THE MOUTH BY E T H A N SA CK S was being held in New York. The Convention was ba sically a huge bash for the Democratic Party to nominate Clinton, congratulate itself and get wasted. As is the case with any political function that has free alcohol, there was also an infestation of reporters and psychotics waving pamphlets warning of the coming of the communists. Just like any insect swarm that gets attracted to the lights of television cameras, the mili tant pro-life group Operation Rescue also came to the city promising to blockade abor tion clinics. To prevent this, a Clinic Defence force was set up by several pro-choice groups to form barricades around clin ics to prevent Operation Res cue barricaders. I volunteered in part because I am staunchly pro-choice, but in equal part because I did not have a job and was bored of The Price is Right. We spent the first few days clustered around trenches made of orange construction mesh and littered styrofoam cups, like soldiers waiting for the enemy assault. When they actually came, I was surprised to see that they looked pretty normal. Other than the psychotic gleam in their eyes and the crayon scrawlings of mangled fetuses on their signs. So while every one on my side of the street was singing something about being as strong as a tree, I became scared. They seemed so much like us. Weren’t they ever young, didn’t they ever have any youth ful ideals about changing the system? Probably not, but Abby Hoffman did once. Then twenty years later, he committed sui cide, ashamed of what his gen eration had become. The Sum mer of Love generation had emerged from their cocoons as the corporate raiders of the eighties, once the novelty of cheap drugs and cheaper sex wore off. I am still afraid. Afraid of becoming someone who insu lates himself in a predominantly white, culturally-polarized sub urb and who will complain that the homeless should just get “some damn jobs”. Afraid of becoming a part of the rat race that I once swore, over a tofu shake, of which I’d never be a part.

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Question: Why is it that a reputable campus publication, when at tempting to be funny, is allowed to resort to black humour and joke about death, murder and the termination of human life? I’m referring to the “Stupid Contest” in the Nov. 9th Tribune promot ing Pacino’s latest “violence-in fested flick” by giving away tick ets to those who can come up with a funny non-conventional way of killing. Is it because:

Re: Jonathan S.’s mild pub lic self-flagellation, “Breaking through the looking glass,” Trib une, Oct. 27-Nov. 1 This article (sic), ostensibly a commentary/discussion on the sexual objectification of women, is, I daresay, a lazy and selfindulgent piece of work. First, it was about as informative and thought-provoking as an episode of Shirley. Second, what was meant to be a social critique quickly showed itself to be essen tially a male apology: the author’s indictment was so half-hearted, his self-defence so immediate, that one got the impression that he was primarily concerned with assuring his readers that, deep down, he’s really a good guy. A quick précis of Jonathan’s article: “Don’t get me wrong, I’m not a drooling pervert,” he an nounces after having admitted that he finds himself unwillingly

A. It is not offensive to promote violence. B. It is funny to joke about death. C. We’re not supposed to take jokes seriously. D. Violent humour in the media does not promote violence in the real world. Rima Zaarour U3 Management

COMMENT In response to Katrina Onstad’s editorial “The danger of institutionalizing Walksafe” (TribuneNov. 2-8), w e’d like to clarify Walksafe’s goals and ex plain its philosophy. We object to Ms. Onstad’s use of the term “band aid solu tion” in characterizing the role of W alksafe. T he serv ice Walksafe provides is a tempo rary means through which to cope with the real problem of violence against women. Where Walksafe becomes part of the solution is in its capacity to raise and foster awareness about this issue. Walksafe accomplishes this task through such activities as compiling and publishing (in this paper and in the Daily) reports of sexual assault and harassment in our community, by seeking active involvement with other student groups (i.e. SACOMSS and the Women’s Caucus), and by participating in discussions with off-campus or ganizations dedicated to, among other things, issues of personal security. It is our hope that the “ultimate end of Walksafe” is to fall out of existence because it is no longer needed. Furthermore, Walksafe is not, as Ms. Onstad contends, a form of “vigilantism”. It is im perative to understand that Walksafe possesses a strict policy of non-intervention. Our volun teer contract, which every mem-

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partaking in sexist activity. So, since he’s not a pervert, what is at the root of his problem? Why does poor Jonathan think these bad things? Well it turns out that, although it’s not altogether OK to think these dirty thoughts, it is rather common. His “friend” (who apparently once took a vow of celibacy) gets them, too. Oh. And look. After some fishing, he finds another friend, this time a woman (woman=oppressed). She does it too. She objectifies women, too. Yippee! Even the oppressed, in turn, oppress. So how should men be expected to stop? After all, men are forgivably uncon scionable in this regard, while women are unforgivably so. Re lief. Oh, wait. What about a solu tion? Oh, just tell them that “atti tudes have to change” and throw in a quotation. It washes on Oprah, so it should wash at McGill. Taa Daa... Shane Duarte U2 Philosophy

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in s t it u t io n a liz e ber must sign, explicitly states that “while on duty, I will under no circum stances undertake physical acts to rescue, assist or in any other way, physically in terfere with any client, patrol partner, or member of the gen eral public”. More important, Walksafe’s goal is not to replace or “allevi ate” local police of their duties but rather to more actively in volve them within the commu nity. In fact, the MUC police as well as campus security have increased the patrols they per form as a result of the efforts of such student groups as Walksafe. Walksafe does not operate as a protection agency but offers women and men a choice and an effective alternative to travelling alone after dark. In so doing, we wish to increase people’s sense of comfort within their physical surroundings. In defense of Walksafe vol unteers, we feel that the editorial belittles their commitment to the service and the hard work that they do. Formal practices exist which enable us to assess a mem ber’s suitability and to ensure that a potential volunteer is made aware of the larger context in which Walksafe operates. New applicants undergo personal in terviews and if accepted, they must attend a mandatory training session which includes an eighthour crisis intervention training seminar for dispatchers. Volun

teers contribute two and a half hours of their time every week— that’s two and a half hours even in rain and snow—and we feel that this demonstrates a serious commitment to Walksafe’s goals. The nature of volunteering for Walksafe is simply not synony mous with membership in the Gam er’s Guild, to use Ms. Onstad’s example. Walksafe has grown in numbers but the reality is that we need an enormous volun teer pool in order to offer a consistent and accessible serv ice. This does not mean that Walksafe’s ideology and phi losophy have changed. Walksafe is and will remain a womencentred, non-hierarchical or ganization based on consensus. Although we disagree with some of Ms. Onstad’s points, we welcome and are open to constructive criticism.

Cathy Byers Erin Brady Pina DiRuscio Jason Sterling Sara Gray Sara Grose Joanna Holland Julie Dabrusin Walksafe Network Coordinators

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B Y B E N O IT JA C Q M O T T E A N D M IC H A E L BR O A DH UR ST In an attempt to comply with a publication ban on the Karla Homolka manslaughter trial in Ontario, McGill administrators re cently barred McGill computing system users from gaining access to a USENET computer network newsgroup entitled “alt.fan.karlahomolka”. Contributors were al legedly providing details of Karla Homolka’s trial to newsgroup sub scribers. Karla Homolka pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the deaths of two Ontario teens, Leslie Mahaffey and Kristen French, who were abducted, molested, and killed in 1991 and 1992. Homolka's husband, Paul Teale, formerly Paul Bernardo, has been charged with two counts of first degree murder in the case. A preliminary trial hearing in his case has been set for April 5According to McGill VicePrincipal (Planning and Resources) François Tavenas, McGill Comput ing Centre officials received a trans mission from a federal govern ment network manager on No vember 3rd which warned that permitting access to information regarding the trial could poten tially violate the publication ban. Computing Centre Director Alan Greenberg contacted Tavenas, and both agreed to suspend access to the newsgroup pending a review of the court order by McGill’s legal advisor, Raynald Mercille. “In my perspective, we could potentially be viewed as distribut ing information about the trial which was in violation of the pub lication ban,”Greenberg explained. “We did not feel comfortable leav ing [the newsgroup] there.” Paper copies of recent mes

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sages posted on the newsgroup had been placed on reserve at the Physical Sciences and Engineering (PS and E) library under Tavenas’s name. According to PS and E Area Librarian Hanna Waluzyniec, the folder has since been removed. “We had a fo ld er by Tavenas," she said. “It is no longer on reserve.” Tavenas challenged the in tentions of the anonymous McGill staffperson who placed the mate rial on reserve in his name. “There is some question about the motivation of some members of the university com munity,” he said. The publications ban states that information regarding the Homolka trial may not be printed, published or broadcast. McGill administrators, me dia lawyers, and others connected to the field of electronic media offered differing opinions regard ing the application of the court ban to co m p u ter system newsgroup». “It is unclear whether it con stitutes a publication,” asserted Mike Godwin, online counsel at the Electronic Frontier Foundation in Washington, D.C. Bert Bruiser, a media lawyer from Toronto, was unequivocal concerning his interpretation of an electronic newsgroup’s status. “I don’t think it is a publica tion,” he stressed. Bruiser also questioned the effect information provided on a computer network at McGill would have on Teale’s right to an impar tial trial in Ontario. “It is difficult for me to un derstand how the existence of an Internet [comp>uter system] file in Montreal is going to prollute the minds of jurors in SL Catharines [Ontario]," he said. Jill Presser, Director of Ad vocacy and University Affairs for

the McGill Legal Information Clinic, stressed that Teale’s right to an impartial trial justified the restric tions placed on the dissemination of information, especially since the information would be released after the trial’s termination. “If there is a lot of sensa tional material coming out of the case... it would be difficult for Teale to get a fair trial,” she as serted. Presser also expressed con cern withTavenasandGreenberg’s decision to suspend the newsgroup without first obtaining an opinion from Mercille. “I think that is irregular,” she said. “I really would have felt more comfortable if Mercille would have been approached [before the deci sion had been made].” While access to the Karla Homolka newsgroup has been suspended, Tavenas acknowl edged that contributors to the newsgroup could easily dissemi nate trial information through other newsgroup». Additionally, Cana dians could receive information regarding the trial from prersons outside the country with access to the Homolka newsgroup via per sonal electronic mail communica tion. Such information could also potentially place McGill comput ing facilities in a position of legal liability. Administrators and legal ex ports alike concurred that the cur rent Canadian legal code provided no concrete guidelines on the sta tus of electronic media. “This is a really good exam ple of how the law cannot keep up with technology,” claimed Hamil ton Spectator reporter Norman DeBono. Mercille indicated that his review of whether access to the news group violated the publica tion ban would be completed by the end of this week.

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e a f u i r e M c G ill in v e n t o r B Y K ARLIA C A M PB E L L Alkaline batteries, from Copper-Tops to Eveready, warn against recharging, claim ing the battery “may explode, leak and cause personal in jury.” This leaves the average consumer three options — re place alkalines after about 30 hours of use, buy rechargeable nickel- cadmium batteries for about six times the price of a non-rechargeable battery, or be adventurous and learn to live with disfiguration. Professor J.D. Pfeiffer, who for 22 years has been a part of McGill’s Engineering Faculty, is not the average con sumer. He has developed the Supercharger—a recharger for non-rechargeable batteries. Tired of the inconven ience and expense of replac ing alkaline batteries, Pfeiffer created the original Super charger eight years ago. A prim itive w alk-m an radio, which the professor still uses daily, served as inspiration for his invention. His intent was to double the life of a regular alkaline battery with his first, crude model. But his results far exceeded those expecta tions.

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circuit boards and w alking through a campus completely un familiar to the McGill commu nity. “You won’t recognize the campus because I was flown to Portland, Oregon, and filmed at a convent school there,” explained Pfeiffer. The infomercial had been airing throughout the United States for weeks before officials at McGill realized that the univer sity’s name was being used. How ever, McGill officials decided that the school’s name and reputation

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were not being exploited. By cutting the cost of using batteries and the waste they pro duce, the Supercharger repre sents an economic and environ mentally responsible option. Por tions of McGill’s interest in pro ceeds go to general university funds, Graduate Studies and Re search, and to Pfeiffer’s depart ment, Mechanical Engineering. The only losers seem to be the battery companies. Chances are the public w on’t be sorry if it means an end to the obnoxious Energizer bunny.

Back door diplomacy pays off for Middle East peace hopes B Y D A V ID A B IT B O L Last Thursday night, Yair Hirschfeld, a professor of his tory at Haifa University in Israel, addressed the latest break throughs in the quest for peace in the Middle East. The lecture, sponsored by Hillel House, the McGill Israel Public Affairs Com mittee, and the McGill Jewish Law Students’ Association, fo cused on Professor Hirschfeld’s role as one of the key facilitators in the ad-hoc academics level discussions that culminated in the signing of the Israel-PLO

accords and the Gaza-Jericho First agreement. Hirschfeld began his lec ture with an incisive account of the turbulent history that led to the signing of the present ac cords. He detailed how the con flict progressed from being fought at the local level to the international arena and back to the regional sphere, through the strategies of the regional players. He then explained how he himself became involved in the peace process. “From 1979 to 1988, Israel and the Palestinian leadership

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were in a state of pre-negotia tion, where it was clear to both parties that negotiations had to take place, but it was unclear u n d e r w h a t c o n d itio n s ,” Hirschfeld said. Thus commenced Profes sor Hirschfeld’s career as an ad-hoc facilitator of peace proc esses and ‘back-door diplo macy’. “I began meeting with Palestinian leaders alone but also connecting them with both academics and political lead ers of Israel, searching for ways to come to terms with each other,” he said. “These efforts intensified in a way that I would meet Faisal Husseini and Hanan Ashrawi, and other members of the Palestinian leader ship, about once a week,” he continued. “We wanted to show them that we were interested in explor ing, in the most sin cere manner possij ble,points of mutual in terest regarding peace.” Brainstorming sessions were then

held, according to Hirschfeld, in an effort to explore how to ini tiate negotiations. These sessions were particularly productive due to their secret and ad-hoc na ture. “We had the possibility of speaking freely, of not being publicly linked one to the other, of not being too much toned down by official issues, of look ing at issues in a free way which was loose,” he explained. “This created an openness which was necessary to discuss the issues productively.” Hirschfeld linked the op posing parties’ initial meeting at the Madrid Peace talks to the results generated by these be hind-the-scenes brainstorming sessions. By late 1992, these talks had devolved into a stale m ate of sorts. As a result, Hirschfeld’s brainstorming ses sions, always on the lookout for “commonground,” began again. These new sessions were sur prisingly productive. “We d e v e lo p e d th re e g u id e lin e s ,” e x p la in e d Hirschfeld. “The first was the principle of graduality, that the movement towards Palestinian self-government be done in gradual stages. “The second guideline in

volved early Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip as a sign of Israeli sincerity and commitment to the peace process,” he contin ued. “The third guideline,” con cluded Hirschfeld, “emphasized the importance of maintaining, throughout the process, full co ordination and cooperation be tween the Israeli government and the Palestinian leadership, in or der to assure the smooth transi tion of power.” Hirschfeld wrapped up his presentation by emphasizing the crucial importance of the next 12 month period. “We will be entering into a vitally important period of transi tion,” he said. “The Israelis will have to learn to meet their secu rity needs by relying on diplo macy, caution and trust, as op posed to superior military might. “The Palestinians, for their part, will have to rapidly estab lish functional and cohesive gov erning institutions, and attempt to instill,within the still-cautious Israeli public, a sense of greater confidence about sharing a peaceful future with its new neighbour. I feel confident that with the foundation we laid, such a thing will be finally possible.”

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S e x u a l A s s a u lt C e n t r e : n o t ju s t a n o t h e r B Y M IC H A E L BR O A DH UR ST Currently in its third year of operation, the Sexual Assault Cen tre of McGill’s Students’ Society (SACOMSS) continues to combat the social malaise of sexual abuse and assault. Since it re-opened its doors in late September of this year, the Centre has received 26 reports of sexual harassment or assault. Last year the Centre re ceived a total of 52 incident re ports. SACOMSS attempts to ad dress the issue of sexual assault and sexual harassment through a variety of measures, including the maintenance of a crisis inter vention telephone service and pro-active efforts such as its Outreach program. Only women answer the phone line, but both men and women are involved in Outreach. Outreach vis its residences, CEGEPs, high schools and frater nity houses to raise awareness about sexual assault Sonia Goswami, External Coordinator of SACOMSS, explained the role the Centre plays in the McGill community. “We have a crisis line for anyone who wants to call," Goswami said. “[The Centre] is also a walk-in centre—it’s a safe place if someone wants to have a safe space or someone to lis ten. “I think w e’re gain

ing a lot of recognition because of our ads, not only in the Daily and the Tribune, but in the summer we advertised in the Gazette. We’re trying to change our image, to make us more publicized.” Despite the concerted ef forts of the 80 volunteers that staff SACOMSS, 30 of whom work on the crisis line, Goswami and O utreach C oordinator Megan Stephens were unsure if student attitudes towards sexual assault have changed at McGill. “[The change has been] very minimal. I know because of Outreach the awareness has increased, but a lot of people have internalized a lot of myths," Goswami said. “The McGill ad ministration, for instance, has not been very supportive of us.” Stephens stressed that

Outreach’s goal is not to preach to students regarding sexual assault “The whole point is not only to talk more about sexual assault but to get people to feel m ore com fortable [talking] about sexual assault and sex in general,” she said. “Hopefully we can eliminate some of that grey area about sexual assaulL” Students’ Society (SSMU) VP University Affairs Ruth Promislow was cautiously opti mistic concerning SACOMSS’s success. “I think SACOMSS has definitely been effective in start ing the long process of chang ing views,” she said. Despite almost universal agreement on the merits of the Centre’s existence, aside from SSMU a n d in d e p e n d e n t fundraising efforts, SACOMSS

B Y M AI A N H LE V A N Mai Anh Le Van spent this summerparticipating in the Lead ership Development Training Visit (LDTV) in Ecuador, which was sponsored by AIESEC, a studentrun apolitical, non-profit interna tional association. The organiza tion’s mission is to contribute to the development o f Canada and non-industrial countries with a commitment to international un derstanding and co-operation.

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has no other source of financial assistance. McGill’s administra tion has not offered any financial support to the Centre. Goswami said that SACOMSS will be ap proaching the provincial govern ment for support, and that the Centre was considering asking students via referendum for a direct levy to support its contin ued operation. The referendum would be part of SSMU’s general elections in March. G osw am i a d d e d th at SACOMSS is active in other areas through the support groups that the Centre operates. SACOMSS offers weekly support groups to survivors of sexual abuse, women survivors of domestic violence, women with eating disorders, and people close to survivors of sexual abuse. Goswami and Stephens both noted that SACOMSS has

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This July and August, I spent eight weeks on a cultural exchange in Ecuador. The LDTV allowed AIESEC students in Canada to obtain an understanding of the challenges and opportunities within developing countries. With the growing importance of a glo bal world market, the LDTV ena bled direct exchange of informa tion yielding training and educa tion benefits to both the students in the developing countries, and to the Canadian participants. This experience had a profound effect on all of the Canadian students and a similar effect on the people of the cities we visited. There were 25 student participants from eight een Universities across Canada in the LDTV. Twelve were sent to Ecuador and thirteen to Colum bia. We were separated into groups of four, and sent to stay in different cities, but we all lived with middle orupper-middle class families who welcomed us warmly. The LDTV helped us to improve our Spanish, and to appreciate a new culture. Before leaving for Ecuador, we had been bombarded with information about Ecuador’s prob lems with respect to crime, drugs

t r a in in g and the instability of its political structures. However when we ar rived, we discovered an enchant ing country with diverse tradi tional cultures. Still, it was shock ing to witness the way in which Ecuador’s economy has formed a stark cleavage between the rich and the poor. It was not rare to see that behind a newly built luxury house, a woman and her children could live huddled under a cramped tin shack. As participants, we became aware of the ways in which pov erty, unequal distribution of in come, overcrowding, poor educa tion and environmental problems manifest themselves in Ecuador In recognizing that Canada has many of these same problems, this knowledge helped us over come the stereotypes and miscon ceptions that we held before the trip. The students we stayed with did not treat the political unrest in Ecuador as a daily concern. Rather, they acknowledged that there was some danger in living in their country, but no more than in many cities of the United States. We found that Ecuador’s culture is similar to that of the United States in other ways as well. Techno, house, grunge, and 70’s music is played in every hot club in town. However, there were some major differences between the Canadian students and those from Ecuador. The Canadian partici pants found that many Ecuado rian students of ourage had greater aspirations for their country than we had for Canada. Whereas the Canadians seemed to be using the trip as a cultural adventure, those from Ecuador seemed to want to use AIESEC as a means of building a better Ecuador.

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M c G ill n u m b e r o n e BY JU L IA G U H A A N D N A T A L I E L A C IR E N O For the third consecutive year, McGill University has been ranked first in the Medical/Doctoral category of M aclean's maga zine’s survey of 51 Canadian uni versities. The survey was con ducted by a questionnaire, com prised of 63 questions, to univer sity officials. Criteria for ranking included diversity of the student body and their average entering grades, class sizes, qualifications of faculty, and reputation. “A commitment to teaching and research have put McGill University in a class of its own,” M aclean’s contended. McGill ranked at or near the top on entry grades of stu dents, class size, and faculty quali fications. In addition, the maga zine asserted that the university’s international profile was unpar alleled among Canadian univer sities. In general, McGill students expressed pride in the results, though for varying reasons. “It definitely gives all McGill students bragging rights to say

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BY BENOIT JAGQMOTTE Accustomed to imbibing co pious quantities of coffee, McGill students can now send a political message when purchasing their bean products on campus. The Marriott Corporation, which operates food services at cafeterias across campus, intro duced coffee supplied by Bridge head, Inc., to its line-up on October 25th. Bridgehead is an Ottawabased corporation owned by OXFAM Canada which purchases coffee beans directly from small farmers’cooperatives for prices the co-ops set themselves, ensuring that farmers gain a fair return on their crop. The Global Cooperation Net work (GCN), part of the Quebec Public Interest Research Group QPIRG) at McGill, recently apDroached Marriott Food Service Manager Martin Généreux concerti ng the introduction of Bridgehead :offee to the Shatner Building caf eteria. Tamara Ticktin, co-founder >f the GCN, explained the imporance of providing a coffee altemaive to students.

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peared in numerous local publica tions such as Matrix and Queeries, and he has appeared in two locally produced “underground” movies. At 39, Stephens is “old enough to have [his] hopes shat tered a bit,” and although he is

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sentation and visibility than ever before; think o f Suede, movies like The W edding Banquet, and show s like Northern Exposure Q u e e r Looks: P e rsp e c tiv e s and Roseanne. On the other o n L e sb ia n a n d G ay hand, there’s a growing anti F ilm a n d V ideo gay backlash. Look at last year’s Ed. M a rth a G ever, P ra tib h a proposed legislation in Oregon P as m a r a n d J o h n and Colorado, for example, or G re y so n . w hat’s happening right now in B e tw e e n T h e L in es P re ss Cobb County, Georgia. $ 1 9 .9 5 The essays and articles in Earlier today I was sitting Q ueer Looks are divided into beside the Leacock building’s orange and blue swing set, hap three sections: one about diver pily leafing through my Im age sity, difference and self-deter mination in et N ation proq u e e r film g r a m m e , and video; w hen I over Q u e e r L o o k s was o n e ab o u t heard the guy narrating sitting next to born out of the desire, both me say to his ambiguous situation social and friend, “That’s of the gay community sexual; and such a gay an o n e , swer. What a today. “F a v o r i t e stupid fucking A unts and test”. I didn’t U n c le s ”, ask him what he m eant by that—although I about som e of the historical heroes of contem porary queer should have—but I'll bet it’s not film and video makers. Each the same thing it m eans to me. This is just a small, per section incorporates an incred sonal exam ple of what the edi ible diversity of approaches, tors are referring to in their viewpoints and styles. The films and videos discussed run from introduction. Q ueer Looks, they write, was bom out of the am the relatively famous (.Paris is biguous situation o f the gay B urning, Young Soul Rebels) to the ‘never heard o f it before, community today. On one hand, it gets m ore mass media repre w here do I have to go to see it?’ B Y A N T O N IA LOLORDO

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(Eclipse o f the Sun Virgins, Kiss o f the Veggie Vixen). There’s a lot of emphasis on the different ways that queer ness—bisexuality and hom o sexuality— connects up with race, gender, nationality and personal style. For example, Matias Vigener writes about queer punk subculture; Law rence Chua about gay movies in Thailand; Andrei Plakhov about sex and pom in Russia; Michelle Parkerson about black imagery in queer film, and too m any other great examples to list. O ne of the important is sues raised is the relationship of queer film and video to w hat’s called ‘the mainstream’. While m any writers critique m ain stream culture—mainstream gay as well as straight culture— there is also an appreciation of the pleasures and political ne cessities of working within the mainstream. Anyone w ho’s seen Three o f Hearts knows how un recognizable even ‘sympathetic’ Hollywood representations of queers can be. On the other hand, it seem s that queer com munities have a responsibility and som ething to be gained from further becom ing part of mainstream culture. R ead in g Q u eer L ooks

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fers the bedraggled Jim Morrisc look—may tend to alienate gays the same time. Although his lyri< focus on living and dying wil AIDS (“Queer In America”, “Sick New York”) as an inescapable fa of homosexuality, his “person voices” also address issues of s< cial decay that affect all peop who, for whatever reason, fe socially ostracized. In this, Stephei is oddly comparable to a Hem Rollins. On “Diary of A Trad* mark”, Stephens waxes Kurtzia “It is an error to attempt to abse oneself from horror because tf horror swirls around anyway ev< if one isn’t in the high-risk group Despite the potentially d pression-inducing quality < Stephens’s work, he insisted 1 maintains a sense of humour, s beit, “a black one”. And fort nately, the music on Wining, Di ing, Drilling provides a context which Stephens’s lyrics can l expressed without becoming ove bearing. Ian Stephens reads and i and his band perform songs fro Wining, Dining, Drilling and mo on Friday November 19 at Stom way Gallery (1069 Bleury). Am Diamond, Peter Brawley, ar Darius Jones will also perform.

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didn’t give me any defini te an sw ers, nor does it try to. Part of w h a t’s in v o lv e d in recognizing and appre ciating d i v e rs ity in th e q u e e r com m unity is to realize that there’s no one an sw er to th e s e b ig q u e s tio n s . Any answer w e m ig h t suggest has to be rela tive to the co n tex t, n eed s and For anyone who has ever wanted to take a pair interests of of scissors to a book of theory the person and education, but also a kit asking. What the book does do is suggest new and interesting help you make your very os ways to come up with an an Take Back the Light Lesbi Visibility Lampshade. It’s an ea swer. You can find Q ueer Looks and fun project for “anyo rig h t o n T h e Main at w ho has ever w anted to tak< L ’A ndrogyne. It’s a real bargain: pair of scissors to a book for your twenty bucks, you get theory”, and that’s got to I almost all of us here at McG not only hours o f entertainment

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Some of us young folk resist the outside world. We cower from the vast, cold heart land of corporate Canada w here the music o f Glass Tiger sells and the devil’s rooster an nounces the arrival o f a new Tiffany album. Not so for Jason Beck. He and his bassist, Joost (rhymes with ‘toast’) Ouw erkerk, sat in Ben’s Deli and talked to the Tribune about the recent de velopments that have motivated thejason Beck G reenhouse into a new musical phase. Known around McGill for his gigs in the Alley, Jason sheds the “jazz guy” image for a w hole new thang. J a s o n Beck: I’ve m ade new changes in my music b e cause I’m constantly trying to live dow n my classical training. I’d been a little too academic about music, too precise. I’d spend the w hole day rehears ing a Charlie Parker solo and then go hom e and listen to Prince. The only thing that held me back from p o p music was

the singing. Singers like Elvis Costello are very inspirational. He doesn’t have a God-given voice but does amazing things with it. So I’m having fun sing ing and now jazz is a back ground influence, not a pas sion. J o o s t O u w e rk e rk : I’ve never been trained in any way. I picked up the guitar, got into college rock and w as putting together a 4-track recorder. Jason heard one o f my tapes, and invited m e to play bass. JB: Joost has been a great alter-ego. He doesn’t let m e get cheesy and is wary of musical posturing. T rib u n e : Why Jailhouse Rock after playing the Alley for so long? JB: I was written u p in the M irror as a jazz pianist because I come from a jazz background and played music in the Alley. But if you didn’t know m e and listened to my m usic, you w ouldn’t say it was jazz. It’s pop with a jazz influence. I have a new bass player and a new drum m er (Robert Kraft), neither of w hom are classically trained. I’m m uch happier w e’re

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De Palma tries to show how , in the gangster lifestyle, you can’t trust anyone. T he audience spends three m inutes w atch Loadsa action, loadsa ing Gail, Carlito’s girlfriend blood and loadsa coke. Even a (Penelope Ann Miller), crying corrupt lawyer in a polyester suit with a w ide tie dancing in over C arlito’s b u llet-rid d en a Spanish hot spot. Aah yes, body as De Palma hits the C arlito’s W ay is a return to the audience over the head with 70s action movie. the tragedy o f Carlito’s no-win And the soundtrack! Even situation. We are m ore w orked the love scene u p over the dis w as graced by t r a u g h t g ir l’s “Y ou A re So tears (to which If you ignore B eautiful". D e w e are subjected his Spanish, Al Palma uses the for so long) than 7 0 s setting to the actual shoot Pacino’s acting m ake the movie ing o f Carlito. saves the realistic, but if it D e Palma had been m ade u se s a lo t o f movie. in that decade, stereotypes that C a r lito 's W ay som e m ay find could b e lum ped in with all of offensive: all the Hispanics have the other 7 0 s flicks show n thick accents, greasy hair and Sunday afternoons on chan gold chains; the Italians are nel 56. racist; the Jew is a corrupt law The 70s aspect intention yer; the sparse blacks are either ally adds a comic flair to the Black Panther-like youths or movie. O ne w onders how the subservient yes-sirs; and the actors keep a straight face dis w om en are all m oney grabbers cussing a drug deal while wear or w eak, stand-by-your-m an ing fuzzy kanga hats and but types. This is partly d u e to the terfly collars. environment that De Palma tries The story line is simple: a to capture, but the characters bad-guy-tum ed-good (Carlito, are too predictable. played by Al Pacino) tries to The voice-over is also un get aw ay from the life that led successful. Pacino reads dead him to p riso n . E m otional pan a 7 0 s slang, and the narra scenes and chase sequences tive is not especially enlighten are draw n out to em bellish an ing. The view er is all too aw are otherw ise average action plot. that Pacino is Italian and, no BY R A C H E L STOKOE

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making a break fo r J a i l h o u s e Rock. Notice the word: Rock. It’s not Jailhouse Jazz. T rib u n e: Any p l a n s to record in a stu dio? JB: W e’re in the process and s h o u ld h a v e a tape ready for sale by late January. T rib u n e: Main musical in fluences? JB : T h e re Musicmeisters Jason Beck Greenhouse eat out with the Trib. opened up a lot o f doors in my are so many. I’m a Beatles fa Alley, Costello... JO : And using interest head. And Jason really likes natic. I like Elvis C ostello, w here I’m coming from as well. ing sounds. Squeeze, XTC. Prince. And Rage T r ib u n e : Any p artin g JB: Joost gets som e neat Against the Machine, though it’s not a style I can really incorpo sounds off the high end o f his thoughts for the fans? JB: (a long a n d strange bass, seeing as w e use no rate. silence) Learn to play your in JO : I like Liz Phair, Exile in guitar w hen w e’re live. T rib u n e : W hat’s it like struments, and for all you kids Guyville. I’ve been trying to catch playing music with Jason? Does out there, I know you w ant to up on the funk thing, to keep up h e torm ent you then ask you with Jason. rock and roll. Just keep the spirit alive. (laughs) to channel your energy into T rib u n e : H ow w ould you the music? Does he let you get describe your music7 See the Jason Beck G reen JB: Combining groove m u u p for w ater during rehears sic, Motown, with songwriting als? Are you bitter ? house W ed n esd a y n ig h t a t JO : (.long silence) You’ve Jailhouse Rock (3 0 M ont Royal craft—i.e. the Beatles, Tin Pan been reading my diary. No, I O., o ff St. Laurent). Tickets $4 like working with Jason. It’s a t the door.

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m atter how hard he tries, he is just not a streetw ise Hispanic ex-drug dealer. If you ignore the Spanish thing, Al Pacino’s acting saves the movie. Pacino is given a ridiculous character—h e has to m ake a protagonist out o f a reformed pusher. Pacino is com pletely at hom e w ith Carlito, helping us laugh at his short comings but still feel his depth and understanding. No other actor in the film com es close to touching Pacino’s perform ance. They rely too heavily on carica ture. De Palma has a knack for com bining stunning cam era an gles with pointless plots. For its genre, this m ovie is very effec tive. The audience is never bored and the overly-intense scenes benefit from comic relief. But, although C arlito’s W ay is o n e of the better filmed action movies, it ultimately lacks substance.

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Okay, h ere’s the weird part: Violet Venable, a crotch ety old matriarch w ants her niece Catherine to undergo a lobotom y. But wait, it gets even m ore bizarre. However, giving aw ay the really w eird part w ould spoil the ending, and then you p ro b ab ly w ouldn’t go K a t h e r i n e Laura Denison see the play. H e p b u r n ’s McGill portrays Violet character in On Players Thea like a vulture, G olden Pond. tre’s current Y et D e n is o n production hovering over the injects the p o ofT ennessee other characters, ten tia l s te r e W i 11 i a m s ’s oty p e o f th e Suddenly just waiting to “old p o o p ” Last Sum m er strike out at them. with serious at is a chilling titude through and tw isted a unique per tale that must sonal style. b e seen for its intense principal Susan G oldberg is also a acting. delight to watch in the em o The play centers around tionally d em anding role of Catherine, called to her rich aunt Violet’s estate to b e as Catherine. Fortunately, her af sessed by a doctor practising a fected Southern accent does new form of surgery. But there’s not hinder her perform ance as m ost a c ce n ts te n d to d o . m ore to Violet’s invitation than m eets the eye. In hopes of Goldberg gives Catherine a con gaining funding for his experi vincing psychopathic quality m ental work, Dr. Cukrowicz which is som etim es dow nright agrees to assess Catherine as a scary. “Susan G oldberg is play possible lobotom y candidate. O ne of the m ain reasons ing a character w ho is basically director Martha McGrath chose turned on by the w hole w orld to do this play was the depth of and throughout the play she struggles to m aintain her iden the female lead. tity,” explained McGrath. “V iolet is this horrific Pierre Lipton plays the w om an w ho has this view of young doctor in earnest but his the w orld as her fortress and perform ance at the dress re everyone around her should just bow dow n to her and play hearsal cam e off a bit w ooden. by her rules,” McGrath said in The rest of the cast remains an interview with the Trib largely on the periphery but nicely com plem ents the princi une. “But you can’t help but ple actors. The technical aspects of love h er b e c a u se s h e ’s so the production reflect the play’s charm ing and strong. Even them atic concerns w ith great though sh e’s been through so m uch sh e’s the strongest char detail. “O ne o f the im portant acter in the play.”

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c u t a b o v e You’re lying in bed. She nags and demands non-stop about “communication" and “respect”. When you are mar ried, you are supposed to have sex, right? So what’s the big deal? All you want now is a good night’s sleep. Then you feel a tug and a sharp pain. She has cut off your penis, your manhood, your sexuality. He drinks all the time. When you tell him you’re not in the mood he forces himself on you. Under him, you can’t move. He rolls off and tells you to stop crying. You go to the kitchen, get a knife and come back to his smug body. You cut off the thing that forces itself into you like a snake. Of course, we will prob ably never know what really h ap p en ed on the night a Manassas, Virginia woman cut off her husband’s penis with a 12-inch fillet knife after he al legedly raped her one time too many. This case is a double feature: she has charged him with marital rape and he has charged her with malicious wounding. Loreena Bobbit, af ter cutting off the penis, fled her apartment “in a panic” and tossed the organ out the win dow of her car onto a street corner. Later, after ambulance personnel retrieved the penis and packed it in ice, a re attach ment procedure could begin on her husband. (“In the cases where it’s a guillotine-type cut, the success rate approaches 85-90 per cent success.”) You can just imagine the press coverage this story re ceived in the Washington area, let alone across the globe. Tshirts e m b l a z o n e d with “Manassas - one cut above the rest”, endless debates about the trial and the crotch-grab bing squeals of empathy by men. But this case is important beyond its tabloid sensational ism. Sure it’s funny to think of a dissevered dick being flung h e a d l o n g onto a p u b lic sidewalk—but this trial has re opened debates on a number of important issues. In a rape charge, such as Ms. Bobbitt’s, there is no evidence. She can not bring in her humiliation, sadness or sense of violation into a court in a jar. There is no exhibit A. The nebulous world of date rape contrasts with the clear-cut, literally, evidence of a chopped-off penis. There is no way Mr. Bobbitt consented to his fate. But Ms. Bobbitt7 How can we ever know? Isn’t she another one of these illus trious women who gets a kick

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When I told a friend I was going to see a film at the Image & Nation Gay & Lesbian Interna tional Film and Video Festival, she replied, “I’d go with you but I wouldn’t really fit in there. ’ Now in its sixth year, one might ask if the festival which showcases ar tistic contributions of undeniable importance, has become too “ex clusive” for Montreal’s straight population? According to the program, themes of this year’s films in clude, “Homophobia and its vio lent and subtle effects, and the continuing and expanding pan demic of AIDS". But are these issues not of equal importance to both gay and straight communi ties? If anything is to be done about the problem of homophobia it is precisely those people who are not gay or lesbian that need to be educated. Obviously people who per petrate violence against the gay and lesbian community will not be in line at the ticket booth. There is, however, a large portion of the Montreal community that is neither gay nor homophobic, but by their silence inadvertently con done the violence that exists. Are these people being reached by the festival? Elana Wright, a worker at the festival, spoke with the Trib une. “Queers are the priority au

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unfortunately for McGill it was just not their day. The Martlets were For the fifth straight season, unable to get their passing game the McGill Martlet soccer team par together or break out of their slug ticipated in the Canadian Inter- gish play. Laurier was never wholly university Athletic Union (CIAU) dominant but certainly controlled national championships. As this the ball much better and had more year’s hosts, the Martlets were hop scoring opportunities than McGill. ing to capture M artlet their first gold head coach medal, in front of Tony Iachetta a hom e town recognized the crowd. But a 1-0 team’s lack of in loss to the Uni tensity, but was versity of British proud of the Columbia in the Martlets’ effort. prelim inary “ W e round, and a 2-1 played well to loss to Wilfrid day, and I Laurier University thought we in the bronze closed Laurier down well. But medal game gave 3 I have to admit the Martlets a « fourth-place fin we were a little N ish. sluggish after 3 The Wilfrid three straight Laurier Golden games this Hawks, coming weekend,” said off an 8-0-4 regu Iachetta. lar season and re Donna Prahacs shimmies and shakes T h e turning as na Martlets came tional champions, looked strong. out strong; Sascha McLeod ripped An opening 1-0 loss to Dalhousie a shot from the twenty yard line University on Thursday and a 4-2 into the top of the net, in the first win over McMaster on Friday, ad minute of the game. But Laurier vanced the Golden Hawks into the came back quickly and tied the game up during a lapse in the medal round. The Martlets were hoping to McGill defence. Laurier continued avenge their 1-0 loss to Laurier in to dominate the first half, making last year’s gold medal game, but several runs from the midfield

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BY JAMIE D E A N The McGill Martlets were grouped with the University of Sherbrooke Vert et Or and the Uni versity of British Columbia Thunderbirds in the “B” pool in last weekend’s national soccer champi onships held at Molson Stadium. A first place finish in their group would have propelled the Martlets to their third straight gold medal game. On Friday, McGill went up against a rejuvenated Vert et Or squad from Sherbrooke. After a 5-1 loss to the Martlets in last weekend's provincial championships, Sherbrooke was anxious for revenge. McGill controlled the game throughout, but without the domi nation of the previous week. Sherbrooke went ahead first, with a goal off a comer kick in the first half. McGill had several great scoring chances throughout the half, and finally was able to even the score when Julie Maughan drilled a shot over the Sherbrooke keeper. In the second half, Maughan made a great individual effort to feed the ball through to Odile Desbois who notched McGill’s sec ond goal of the game. Maughan, who was named McGill’s player of the game, recog nized the importance of the early second half goal. "We missed a few chances in the first half. The early goal in the second half was a real boost,” said Maughan.

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which McGill was unable to con trol. Neither team could muster a consistent effort in the second half. The ball continually bounced be tween players in the centre of the field as both teams were unable to string together a series of passes. In the first overtime period, Laurier got an early goal from a shot which bounced off the cross bar and post before ending up in the net. McGill was able to mount something of a rally late in the period, when both Luciana Cifarelli andjulie Maughan had shots which were tipped just over the crossbar by Laurier keeper Sonya Ritcey. “It was an exciting game. The difference today was our goalie, who made several key plays in overtime,” said Laurier head coach Barry MacLean. After the game, the Martlets were visibly disappointed with their results. Team captain Gayle Noble, playing in her last year of eligibil ity, recognized how close the Martlets came to victory. “We are disappointed. We had the chances both days, but we just couldn’t win,” said Noble. Goal keeper Carolyn Teng, who was named McGill’s Most Valu able Player of the game, gave credit to the whole team. “We played as a team and with a lot of heart, but we just couldn’t score on our opportuni ties,” said Teng.

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As the end of the game ap proached, Sherbrooke pushed most of their players forward in an at tempt to notch the equalizer. But with so few defenders, Maughan was able to convert a breakaway from mid-field, just as time expired. Martlet assistant coach Abbas Elgazzar recognized Sherbrooke’s improved play. “Give Sherbrooke credit. They played a really good game. They made a few changes since last week end’s provincial championship and had a really good weekend,” said Elgazzar. Team captain Gayle Noble was happy with the win, but recog nized the need for some improve ment in the game against British Columbia. “We had a few problems, but for the most part we had a good game. Against BC, we will have to play a little better," said Noble. With a one goal differential advantage over British Columbia, McGill only needed a tie with the Thunderbirds to advance to the gold medal match. However Saturday’s game with British Columbia was disap pointing for the Martlets, as they lost 1-0 to the Thunderbirds, who physi cally dominated the game. McGill defenders Kirsten Greer, Tracy Dickson and Noble did an effective job in closing down the powerful Thunderbird forwards, but the Martlets were unable to settle down and play the controlled pass

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ing game which had been so suc cessful for them throughout the sea son. British Columbia controlled the game, but never really had a good scoring chance until they con verted on a comer kick midway through the first half. McGill was able to mount a comeback late in the first half as Maughan had several close chances, but in the end, McGill was unable to even the score. The defeat sent the Martlets to the bronze medal game After the loss, the Martlets were stunned. Coach Iachetta summed up the team’s disappoint ment and inability to control the game. “I really don’t know what went wrong. The passing game was just not there. British Columbia is a really strong team and they just physically dominated us,” said Iachetta. McGill was bunching up in the middle, and not using the whole field effectively. Their passes were poor, they did not win the balls in the air and just did not seem to know how to rectify the problem. McGill’s player of the game, Luciana Cifarelli, attributed some of the problem to the Martlets’ intense desire to win at home. “We usually play a controlled passing game, but we didn’t play that way today. Maybe we just put too much pressure on ourselves, especially after they got their goal,” said Cifarelli.

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upon she deftly scored past a diving Turner. With the ball barely past Turner, th e ch a m p i o n Thunderbirds mobbed Sutton, and hoisted the Gladys Bean Memorial Trophy in celebration. The T-Birds had taken the lead in the 37th minute of play on a goal from Forward Tammy Crawford, a Surrey, B.C. native. With the T-Birds awarded a free kick near the corner spot, Crawford headed the ball past Turner on a beautiful crossing pass from m idfielder Heidi Slaymaker. TheTigers, however, pulled even w hen Striker Kathleen Gillespie found an empty net after Sutton mishandled a shot from outside the 18-yard line. Despite allowing the TBirds to score, Dalhousie domi nated the first half with physical play and great passing. The sec ond half, however, saw British Columbia come out strong, with Crawford earning a pair of good scoring chances. Crawford was named the to u rn am en t’s m ost valuable player at the conclusion of the match.

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The McGill men’s basket>all team was a gracious host last veekend, losing all three games >ftheir invitational tournament at he Currie gymnasium. The Redmen lost squeakers o the University of New Brunsvick, 85-80, on Friday, and to the iishop Gaiters, 78-73 on Satur, lay. On Sunday afternoon, they vere clearly outclassed by the ournament winners from the Jniversity of Windsor, falling 10513. The name of the game is ronsistency, or in McGill’s case, ack of it. The Redmen failed to ihow up for 40 ninutes in any )f their games. Vt times, they .uddenly el:vated their jame, showing lashes of a team hat can be a vinner, but hese moments vere short lived. This was :learly the case igainst New Brunswick and 3ishop’s. The jame against the /arsity Reds was m e that they :ouki have won, he other was one that they should lave won. McGill spotted New Bruns wick a 54-33 halftime lead. This lad to have been one of the lo o re st played periods the tedmen have displayed so far his season. They were literally me step behind the Reds who were led by a speedy backcourt hat penetrated and fed the inside it will. McGill just couldn’t get it çoing, turning the ball over on lumerous occasions. They also veren’t able to establish any kind if perimeter game. This stood rue throughout the tournament, eliminating much of the height idvantage that they possessed nside. In the second half, the tedmen dictated the tempo, relucing the deficit to single digits, rhe comeback was led by the vise shooting of fourth-year vet eran Jon Campbell. Campbell, the most consist ent McGill player of the toumanent, finished the night with 14 xiints. In the final stages of regulaion, Rick Varisco kept McGill elose by knocking down four hree pointers. The Montreal na ive finished with 16 points . On Saturday night, the Redmen beat themselves as they

were unable to maintain a big early lead. McGill jumped out to a 15 to 4 edge over the Gaiters and led through out the major part of the first half. Then they blew it. Veterans Doug McMahon and Todd McDougall led the way with twelve and thirteen points respectably, but got into foul trou ble. This left McGill with a small unit on the floor. The big lead was now a 39-34 halftime deficit. The second half was evenly played, but McGill just wasn’t able to find that extra drive to overtake the Gaiters. Two nights, two close games. Two losses that could have b e e n wins. H ead Coach Ken Schildroth viewed these blown games as part of a long learning process that his yo un g team is going through. “Thi s w e e k e n d

shows us that we have a lit tle further to go. This is a squad that will always have a rookie on the floor. It’s go ing to take time,” commented the coach. Schildroth, entering his ninth year as skipper, expressed con cern over the inconsistency of his team’s play. “This is something we will definitely have to address. We haven’t scored consistently all year,” he said. But the coach refused to down play his team’s desire to win. “There’s no lack of effort on this team. We have a very good ethic,” said the soft spoken coach. “We played three competitive games this weekend.” Ethic can only get you so far, though, as McGill found out on Sunday, against Windsor. The Lancers were simply a better team that basically did what they wanted for most of the game. Windsor had an established offensive game plan, led by sen sational perimeter shooting. Todd McDougall was the leading Redmen scorer with 16 points. Windsor 0-0) took top spot, followed by Bishop’s (2-1), UNB (1-2) and McGill (0-3). The Redmen take their show on the road this week, playing at Queen’s this Friday night and then they are off to the University of Toronto for the Metro Classic on Nov.20th and 21st.

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B Y K A S H IF Z A H O O R The Concordia Nike Classic Basketball Tournament has often been called the ‘tournament of champions’. This can be attrib uted to the fact that eleven of the past 18 tournament winners have gone on to win the national title. The McGill Martlets con cluded play as a respectable fourth overall in the eight team, 22nd annual Concordia Tourney, held last weekend at Loyola Gym. McGill finished with a 1-2 record for the three day tournament, but the record does not reveal the story of how close the Martlets came to winning the entire event McGill opened the tourney against the University of Western Ontario. The Mustangs, taking advantage of Martlets turnovers in the first half, grabbed the edge at halftime 45-43, but McGill stormed back, going on an 18-9 spurt to gain a 61-54 lead five minutes into the second half, and never looked back. Vicki Tessier and Martina van der Vlist teamed up for 26 points each and 2nd year forward Lesley Stevenson added to the Martlet effort with a team high of eight rebounds. When the dust had cleared, McGill walked away with an 87-75 win. The real heartache came in the next round against the tour nament favourites Laurentian Lady Vees. Laurentian’s team had six players over six feet tall, while the tallest Martlet stood at 5’ 11”. As McGill Head Coach Chris Hunter

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said before the game, it was ‘David and Goliath’ all over again. History, however, was not to repeat itself. Laurentian frustrated McGill in the first half, and like Western, led at halftime. The Martlets opened the second half like gangbusters going on a 19-10 run to take the lead 49-48. The game se e sa w e d back and forth. Laurentian took the lead twice within the last two minutes, but point guard Sandra Veillette re sponded for McGill with two huge bombs from three-point land to keep the Martlets ahead. The Lady Vees took a 77-76 lead with 43 seconds left on a bucket from ex-Martlet all-star Tracey Hayman. On the ensuing possession, a pair of free throws by Tessier gave McGill the appar ent win, 78-77, with only 16 ticks left on the clock. Laurentian had other plans, however, as the Vees leading scorer, Carolyn Swords, drove down the left side and hit a run ning right hander from five feet to make the score 79-78 with only five seconds remaining. The game’s outcome rested on McGill’s last possession. The Martlet’sJosée Delore tto let an 18-foot shot fly from the left perimeter at the buzzer. The shot looked good, but the ball rattled off and Laurentian escaped with one point victory. “T hey [McGill] played exteremely well. Our kids are much bigger, but they brought us

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down a couple of inches. That is a credit to their coach and their team," said Laurentian Head Coach Peter Ennis. An emotionally and physi cally drained Martlet squad was sou ndly de fea ted by the Concordia Stingers in the third place game 75-45. McGill ledearly 5-4, but that was all for the Martlets as things got ugly afterwards. Concordia outscored the Martlets 36-19, going into halftime with a 16-point cushion 40-24. McGill’s characteristic sec ond half spirit never showed in the second session, as Concordia picked up from where it left off finishing the game with a 30 point win. Concordia’s ferocious and at times, violent defence which coaxed 28 turnovers, coupled with McGill’s dismal 28 percent shoot ing from the floor accounted for the blowout “Our tank was on empty and nothing went right. We started off slow, and because we didn’t make the shots we normally make, our self-confidence wasn’t there. It was all downhill from there,” explained Hunter. Many of the Martlets have already marked the day after American Thanksgiving on their calendar as the day they will get even. McGill will get their chance to set things straight on Novem ber 26th at Concordia in their league opener against the Sting ers. McGill will be at the Univer sity of Vermont this Saturday.

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a d v e n tu ro u s mate made me, and I wanted to do something different,” Hait ad mitted. The course will be offered twice a week next semester at the Weston pool. An annual water show will take place in March featuring synchro team swimmers and students from instructional classes. The show is a fund-raiser for the synchro team. Another activity for those wishing to transcend aquatic boundaries is scuba diving. Many may have the mis conception that learning scuba diving in a pool may not be as

Students may hold the view that instructional swimming at McGill is merely a plethora of laps. However, they should be surprised and pleased to learn that McGill offers much more for the aquatically adventurous. Synchronized swimming and scuba lessons are amongst the various alternative water instructionals offered. Many people think of syn chronized swimming as taking a place amongst the ranks of the Olympic luge. There is the com m on m isunder standi ng that synchro is a sport which requires limited skill and physical strength. Synchro actually requires a tremen dous amount of endurance in or der to tread water for extended peri ods of time along with flexibility to be able to perform figures. Moreover, Hft. these two factors otif M cG ill aquatics —you too can be a star must be balanced thrilling as diving in a reef in the with grace. The synchro class was com Caribbean surrounded by a kalei posed of students ranging from doscope of tropical fish. Perhaps, eight to 53 years of age, which but course instructor Jam es included a mother and daughter Turner, a Marine Biology gradu team. The class offers the oppor ate, feels this is not a mitigating tunity for students to progress factor for students. “We wear all basic scuba through the various skill levels. Cyndy Schwartze nhauer, a gear, except for cold water gear. U4 Management student is the Students are happy to concen instructor of the class. According trate on exercises and skill devel to Schwartzenhauer, it is not nec opment,” he claimed. The scuba course consists essary to possess superior swim ming skills in order to take part in of both a theory and practical com ponent Students must also the class. “You need to be able to be able to perform four open swim a length basically. You don’t water dives at a lake or ocean need to have amazing swimming using all gear. During the spring abilities, but you shouldn’t be semester, the course will go to afraid to go underwater,” she ex New Brunswick to fulfill the dive requirement plained. The course is taught at the Sarah Hait, a U2 Arts stu dent explained her reasons for C-card level, which is a basic diving level. joining the class. The content of the course “Well, because my room

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includes lectures on the use of dive tables, diving equipment, and even marine conservation. According to Turner, no extraordinary aquatic mastery is required to take the course. “Anyone can scuba dive if you can breathe and put on a tank. You take this course to build self-confidence, so that if anything goes wrong they will have the proper set of reflexes to react,” he explained. When diving there are two main dangers to consider. A diver must never go deeper than 300 ft. At these depths, when normal air mixes with the body's oxygen concentration, paralysis can occur. The sec ond danger, ni trogen narco sis, occurs when oxygen and nitrogen bond to form laughing gas and the diver becom es in ebriated. In this situation divers m ay not be able to use their best judg ment and as a result they may place themselves in a dangerous situation. Turner finds teaching the class to be a fulfilling experience. “I like passing on enjoy ment and introducing people to a very enjoyable activity. Some peo ple will never do it again, but for others it will be a major part of their lives. There is also a certain degree of community amongst the people who do it,” he elabo rated. After taking this course, stu dents can build upon their skills by taking 30 to 40 other courses in the scuba diving industry, includ ing cave diving and ice diving. Scuba will be offered twice a 'week next semester at the Currie pool. For more info on instruc tional courses offered at McGill, call the Campus Recreation office at398-7011.

The biggest problem for the hockey Redmen this season has been scoring goals. That is, until last weekend. The Redmen popped in 15 goals in two games on their road trip to Ontario last weekend. Most of those came in a 13-0 squeaker over the University of Toronto Blues. On Friday in Guelph, McGill defeated the Gryphons 2-1 in a game that went down to the wire. Martin Routhier’s goal and Patrick Jeanson’s stellar netminding kept the game at a 1-1 tie until Benoit Leroux scored with 4:26 left in the game. Even then, it was not sewn up; Jeanson had to make several good stop», including a spec tacular sliding pad save in the final minute. Saturday in Toronto, the Redmen had a red-letter day. Leroux scored four times, while Stéphane Angers and Chris Varga h ad tw o apiece. Rookie goaltender Richard Boscher

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M a r t le t h o c k e y b la n k e d B Y D A N T E P A SG A L I Friday night, the McGill wom en’s hockey team faced off against Cégep St. Laurent in a road game. The Martlets were trounced by the oppxisition, falling by a score of 80.

Although McGill played a strong first pteriod, they found them selves down by two goals. The second pjeriod was much the same, as three more goals were allowed by the Martlets. The final three goals were scored in a third p>eriod which featured much flat, unin spired play. TTie action was end to end throughout the game, but the lop sided score could be attributed to some defensive problems on the McGill side. The goaltending was sound, however the defence had trouble clearing rebounds as five of the eight goals were scored after the initial save had been made. If the Martlets are to be comp>etitive in their future games, it is obvious that they cannot afford the defen

sive lapses made so far this season. Head coach Geoff Phillip» was not pleased with McGill’s pxx>r performance. “It was not a good game. The veterans have to come to the forefront as the rookies become discouraged. However, we had a late start and it has been tough through the first month. [But] we must push through it," explained Phillip». Phillip» was impressed with the performance of certain play ers. "Team captain Beth Brown played a strong game with solid fore-checking and good pvuck con trol. The rookie line of Fiona Balkenende, Megan Pirston and Clare Sharpe developed the offen sive attack very well,” praised Phillip». The Martlets’ are winless in their first four league games, but they will have a chance to redeem themselves this Friday when they host Concordia for a 5 PM game at McConnell Arena.

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BY CH ARLES H O M A S W ITH S T E V E U S A T IS In another dose shave last lursday night at the Currie Gym, e Martlets volleyball team opped an exhibition game to e University of Ottawa. In a eak from their tough Quebec hedule, McGill might have ex;cted to do better against op>nents from the weaker Onio league, but just couldn’t em to turn it on when they had , as they lost three games to o. It has been the Martlets’ >ry this season: take teams to e limit, but then drop the match. Team Captain Myriam Dayeri summed up the team’s rformance. “We’re competitive with the st in the league. All games are ing to five [sets],” said Moayeri. ow we need to take that extra :p.” Against Ottawa, McGill owed why they have become threat, but once again could it manage to find the finisher’s >tinct that has eluded them so

many times this year. Bad se rv e s h a m p e r e d McGill’s cause in dropping the opening set 8-15, but the Martlets, down 8-13 in the second set, mounted an impressive sevenpoint comeback to win 15-13, tying the game at one. They could not break Ot tawa, however, and were dosely edged 10-15 in the third. In the following set, th e Martlets stormed out to a quick 5-0 lead, but eventually let the Gee Gees back in to what ended up a very close 12-15 McGill loss. Since it was an exhibition game, the teams played a fifth set, a 15-13 Martlet win. Despite the defeat, Head Coach Rachèle Béliveau took comfort in the strong perform ances by rookies H e a t h e r Welland and Alexandra Howard. Béliveau believes her team is competitive, but it must put eve rything together before it can start winning consistently. “Every time we play, we need to be ready in all ways, since we are not a top team yet,” she said. “The team is very tired and mentally tried to keep on,

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but it just didn’t come.” Béliveau added that inconsistency has ham pered her players’efforts. “We’re either doing really well, a high, or else w e’re really low,” she ex plained. Martlet Lisa Mark was not impressed with the team’s performance. “[It was] not as in tense as league games, definitely not our best per formance, but near the end we pulled together,” she commented. Béliveau acknowl edged that the Martlets still have to improve in some technical aspects of the game. “We have to improve de fensively. Compared to the French universities, we’re very competitive at getting the ball, but w e’re just weak on defense, as well as in transition play,” she stated. In spite of this, McGill is a much improved team over previ ous years and much of the credit goes to Béliveau. The coach is

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rauders was reflective of the tough schedule. “We were all really tired. W e’d been travelling six hours to Yale. My performance was OK. I think it could have been better considering the circum stances,” she explained. Anna Leong, w ho w on the 200m breastroke and was part of the winning 400m freestyle relay, agreed with her teammate. “We had a really hard meet at Yale, so I was pretty happy with [my races]. They were events that I hadn’t swam yet this year,” comm ented Leong. The Redmen were led by Eric Potier, w ho w on both the 100m and 200m breastroke. Leo Grepin, w ho was a member of the victorious 400m freestyle relay, also w on the gru elling 200m butterfly, a race that he acknowl edged as difficult. “It’s a short racing distance but since it’s but terfly, it makes it pretty tough,” said Grepin. Overall, Grepin, a U2 Engineering student, ■g was content with the day’s results, which inju eluded a second place £ finish in the 200m free« style. J “I was pretty happy 'C since the guy w ho beat ^ me is a National Team member, and consider ing the conditions I did in weekend meet at the Currie Pool time getting started against McMaster, but put in a strong second half, losing only by a narrow margin. Laurin offered his thoughts on the meet. “We started out slow in the m eet,” com m ented the coach. “The first half w e were not mentally in the game. The second half w e cam e back against our opponents." The Martlets, w ho w ere defeated 119 to 105, w ere led by the strong swimming o f Carol Chiang, who w on the 50m and 100m freestyle, while placing third in the 100m backstroke. Chiang acknowledged that after swimming meets the pre vious two days, her perform ance on Sunday against the Ma

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fore], but this year w e’re very close, very, very close,” said the coach. Last W e d n es d a y , the Martlets were hosted by the Concordia Lady Stingers, at Loyola Campus. McGill dropped the game by the now familiar 32 score (7-15, 15-8, 4-15, 15-9, 11-15). McGill’s next league game will be on November 20th at the Université de Sherbrooke.

implementing a system of play and motivation to which the Martlets are only now respond ing. “Since new coach Rachèle [Béliveau] arrived, w e’ve been having higher goa ls,” said Moayeri. Béliveau wants her players to reach the Quebec Student Sport Federation (QSSF) semi-finals. “[The QSSF] is a big thing because w e’ve gone to it [be

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pretty well,” commented Grepin. The team’s confidence was boosted by their strong show ing against perennial pow er house Yale. The w om en “lost by about 20 points” and the m en by “about 40 points,” ac cording to Laurin. The squad now looks to ward th e upcom ing OUAA Invitational meet at Toronto on November 26th, a competition w here more athletes will likely qualify for the CLAU champion ships. In order to achieve maxi m um results, the swimmers will gradually ease up on their train ing leading up to the competi tion, ensuring that they will be well rested for Toronto. The McMaster dual meet w as used by Laurin as a step ping stone toward the big To ronto meet, for which all the swimmers are training hard. “That’s the meet that all our swimmers gear towards. We should do really w ell,” said Chiang.

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2 . ‘S u b - c u lt u r e * c o tto n H e n le y T - s h ir t . H e a t h e r g re y , b la c k , w h it e , d e n im , w in e o r fo r e s t g r e e n in S . , M ., L . X L . (1 7 5 )