The McGill Tribune Vol. 13 Issue 15 by The Tribune

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Published by the Students' Society of McGill University

G ough O lym p ics B ound Short track speed skater Steve Gough (far left) takes off in Canadian national team practice session. Gough qualified last December for the Lillehammer Olym pics. See page 17

Inside This W eek News: McGill grants government access to student files. See page 3 Op/Ed: Freedom of speech is challenged at the University of Alberta. See editorial, page 6 Features: The Tribune. speaks with McGill student and UN peace keeper Corporal Jesse Carlevaris. See page 9 Entertainment: Raise your IQ with Classical music and then bum it up with Sega. See page 13 Sports: Hockey Redmen roll over Concordia in weekend romp at the McConnell Arena. See page 16

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Tuesday, lanuary 18

QPIRG, with the NFB and the Peace Network of Greater Montreal, present Martin Duckworth's film “Peacekeeper at War," fol lowed by a panel discussion. 7:30 PM, Leacock 132. The Department o f History's Staff Student Seminar Series presents Prof. Gregory Baum speaking on “Church and State in Commu nist East Germany," 4 PM, Thomson House, 3650 McTavish. All welcome. The Mature and Re-Entry Students’ Association is holding elections for its executive committee. 12 PM, MSA Lounge, 3483 Peel, Rm. 23. All members are urged to attend. PS.: Coffee break today and tomorrow 11:30-1 PM in the lounge. The Latin American Awareness Group will be meeting at 5 PM in Shamer 42$.

The GlobalCooperation Network, > QPIRG “working group’ dealing w ih foodrelated issues, meets at 5:15 PM on die 3rd floor of the Eaton Bldg Newcomers welcome! For more info call 398-7432 The Management Undergraduate Society presents its l$ h Annual Auction for Cancer Research. 9:30 AM-5 PM in the Shatner Bldg The Political Science Students’ As sociation presents a Grad School seminar with Professors Booth and Oxhom, 1230-230 PM, Leacock 429. Today is Weedless Wednesday, part of National Non-Smoking Week. Butt out for the day! Visit the Health Services booth in the Shamer Bldg, all day.

SACOMSS offers 2 facilitated mutual aid support groups: “Women Survivors of Do mestic Violence" and “Men Survivors of Sexual Abuse." 6:30-8:30 PM, private rooms at McGflL Call 398-2700.

Thursday. lanuary 20 The Yellow Door Coffee House presents readingsby localwriters CharlotteHussey, Robert Paquin & Michael Brown. Followed by an open stage $2 8 PM, Yellow Door, 3625 Aylmer. For more info call 3986243-

Does Alcohol Use-Alcohol Abuse? That will be debated at 630 PM in Leacock 132 Also remember Mocktail Recipe Contest dead line is at noon today! The Faculty o f Music presents the St Lawrence String Quartet as part of the CBÇ/ McGill Series. 7:30 PM, Pollack HalL Free. For more info call 3984547/8101.

basement of the United Theological College, 3521 University. Friendly atmosphere, all wel come.

S*wfrr.Jkfflsgy.a Food Not Bombs meets at 4 PM at librairie Alternative, 2035 SL Laurent F.N.B. collects and provides free vegetarian food to hungry people. Newcomers welcome! For more info call 843-4528.

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Come watdi the McGillRedmen teach the team from Toronto a thing or two about hockey. 3 PM, McConnell Winter Arena. Martlets free off at 6 PM against UQTR.

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The Faculty o f Music presents Mini Blais, piano, as port of the McGill Alumni Series. 8 PM, Pollack HalL Free. For mure info call 398 4547/8101.

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New members are welcome!

Shatner Bldg, 11-4 PM. Look for the signs! Fashion show Fundraiser for AIDS. How do you beat those winter blues? Enjoy Ben &Jerry's ice cream and a soothing massage all for only $2 Bronfman Caf. 11 AM-4 PM. Look for the signs!

Alcohol Awareness Week studentrun workshops today in Shamer 425: 1230 PM: “Sex and Alcohol;' 1 PM: “Dealing with Drunk Friends " 1:30 PM: “Alcohol ism on Campus.' Everyone welcome.

The Phi D £ Coed Medical Frater nity presents T h e New View of Alcoholism and

Panel discussion on “Alcohol: What's

Chemical Dependence" with Dr. W. BaraketL 6:30 PM, Mdntyrc Med. Bldg., Room 522. Free refreshments.

Really Goin’ Down." 630 PM, Leacock 132 Panelists will discuss biological and psychologi cal effects, campus violence, and sexual assault

SACOM offers a Triends & Family of Survivors of Sexual Abuse’ facilitated mutual aid support group. 6.30-8:30 PM, private room at McGflL Call 3982700. Friday. lanuary 21

The McGill Conservatory o f Music presents a Children's Suzuki Concert 230 PM, Pollack HalL Free. For more info call 3984547/ 8101.

The Biochem istry D epartm ent presents a seminar fcy Dr. Muriel Aubry of the Clinical Research Institute of MontreaL 1230-1:30 PM, McIntyre Medical Bldg, Room 903.

Prizes and Pictionary for all fans who come to cheer on the McGill Redmen Hockey Team against the Guelph Gryphons. 7:30 PM, McConnell Winter Arena.

The Faculty o f Music presents Mexi can Electroacoustic Works as part of the Elec tronic Music Studio Exchange. 8 PM, Clara Lichtenstein Hall, 555 Sherbrooke St W., Room C-209- Free. For more info call 3984547/8101.

Amnesty InternationalMcGill meets every Tuesday at 630 PM in Sum er 435. New, old and casual membets welcome. For info come to Shamer 410 or call 398-1209.

The Faculty o f Music presents a Mas ter's Recital by Michael McAuley, piano. 8 PM, Pollack HalL Free. For more info call 3984547/ 8101.

The Sexual Assault Centre o f McGill (SAOOMSS)offers a “Women Survivors of Sexual Abuse" fadlialed mutual aid support group. 7-9 PM, private room at McGilL Call 3982700.

LBGM has a weekly Bi-group discus

The Pillar, is back for the spring issue! General

sion 5:30 PM, Eaton Bldg 5th floor. Friendly atmosphere, all welcome.

meeting today at 5:30 PM in the Alley. NOT for submissions people. Come if you want to read and critique submissions, join layout or help edit! Questions? Call 282-6348

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Too cold outside? Warm up w ih the men's and women’s basketball teams as they take on Concordia. Martlets at 630 PM, Redmen at 830 PM at the Currie Gym.

McGill's major literary arts magazine, SACOMSS offers a “Women with Eat ing Disorders* facilitated mutual aid support group. Body image issues also addressed. 7-9 PM, private room at McGdL Call 3982700.

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The McGill Volunteer Bureau a n d the Volunteer Bureau of Montreal are hosting their seco n d biannual symposium on W ednesday, Jan. 26, from 11:30 to 1:30 in the ballroom of the Shatner Building.

presents live music by Michael Mooney with Mark Taras, followed by an open stage $2 8 PM, Yellow Door, 3625 Aylmer. For more info caJl 3986243. Today at 7 PM, come experience the AlooholAwarenessWeek“GriibCrawlr Tick ets ($6) on sale all week at Sadie's. Faculty o f Musk; concerts: Jan Jarczyk, fizz piano, as part of “McGill Faculty Members in Concert' 8 PM, Pollack H al Free. Daria Gimon, soprano, and GeoffTiller, trumpet 8 PM, Redpath HalL Free For more info call 3984547/8101. LBGM offers 2 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,

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H IS T O R Y > STUDENTS' A S S O C IA T IO N The HSA is holding its second undergraduate colloquium & wine & cheese. The theme of the colloquium is...

The Bed Herring is bade in full effect, boyee. Submit by our generous deadline of March 11. For info, oome by the office in Shatner B07 or call 3982142 (that's 398A1HAQ. We love you and your humour, remember that This week is National Non-Smoking Week. Want to quitsmoking permanently? McGill Health Services presents “In Control," a stop smoking program on video cassette To partidpate in this non-pressure program leave ycur name at Health Services (3986017) or come see our booth on Wednesday in the Shatner Bldg Philosophical Fragm ents, the un dergraduate journal of philosophy, is looking for submissions for this year's issue. Papers are due Feb. 18 For more info, call Antonia at 282-1763 or see the signs on Leacock's 9th floor. Challenge your taste buds atthe Alco hol Awareness Week Taste T est M oa-Fii, 11 AM-2 PM in the Shamer Lobby. Also, enter our Mocktail Redpe Contest to win cash and prizes! The SSMUTranslt Network, McGill's unique carped system, is now receiving driver/ passenger schedules for free indoor on-campus parking and convenient, inexpensive rides to and from school in your neighbourhood. How? Call 3982902 now to reserve your spot for February. M anagem ent U ndergraduate Soci ety elections will be held Feb. 10. To run, call Howard Markowitz at 3982902 before theJan. 31 deadline!

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Selected papers on the theme of identities w ill u. be presented by the author at a colloquium to be held n I January 27th, 1994. Please submit papers to be considered to the History office (Lea 625) 5 by January 21st.

Are you questioning your sexuality? Do you need help ooming out’ Or do you have any other concerns and you need to talk? Phone LBGM's peer counselling phone line at 3986822, 7-10 PM Moa-Frl Strictly confidential; you can also drop by the office, Shatner 432, for face-toface support McGill NlghtUne is an anonymous, non-judgmenlal telephone listening, informa tion, and referral service open from 6 PM-3 AM. Call us at 3986246!

Walksafe Foot Patrol hours: SuaThuts. 630 PM-1230 AM; Fa-Sat 6.30 PM-230 AM. Call us! W ell walk you anywhere you want to go. 3982498

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ew s G o v e r n m e n t g a in s a c c e s s t o s t u d e n t r e c o r d s BY P A T R IC K F R U C H E T McGill’s Board of Governors as signed an agreement with the Quebec government which will al)w the government to access stuent records. The agreement was itified by McGill’s Principal David □hnston on December 20th. The agreement will allow the linistry for Higher Education and cience to access student records ia a computer system called REÇU, yhich processes continuous cenus information on students in Que>ec throughout their academic caeers. The agreement between the ovemment and McGill will allow îe networking of REÇU with anither system, GIDE, that manages îe identification of students in Que>ec. Student records in GIDE are ssigned permanent identification odes and the new agreement will llow the government to access lose codes via the REÇU system. The GIDE system will permit ovemment access to a student’s >ersonal information such as given lame and surname, gender, date of lirth, name and surname of both larents, and location of birth. By ccessing these records, the govirnment hopes to monitor the irogress of students in Quebec, ssess the regional origin of stulents in order to determine subsiiies, evaluate the functions of Que

bec’s education system and protect against the double-subsidizing of students receiving loans. McGill’s ratification of the agreement was matched by all other uni versities in

cems from McGill’s Board of Gov ernors (BOG), and despite the BOG executive’s acceptance of the re quest, doubts persist at McGill. “The issue here is provision

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The entente w as not, h o w e v e r, ag reed to without res e r v a tio n s . M c G ill’s Vice-Princi pal (Acad e m i e ) William Leggett

com m ented that the gov e r n m e n t ’s request

sp a rk e d a lengthy de bate before M cG ill P rin c ip a l D a v id Johnston it was accepted by the Conférence of information on individuals. There des Recteurs et des Principaux is some reservation on the provi des Universités du Q uebec sion of this information,” he as (CREPUQ). serted. “There is an English tradi “CREPUQ discussed the [gov tion of individual privacy here, and ernment’s] request and after a lot of we are concerned with this.” debate, the heads of the universities McGill's Principal David represented at CREPUQ agreed to Johnston downplayed the BOG'S comply to this request,” Leggett concern over the government's re said. quest for access . He also stated that the gov "It's simply consistent with an ernment’s request met with con- agreement made several years ago.

M U S t ig h t e n s b e l t o n BY TRISH SN Y D E R Allegations of sexism, racsm and homophobia levelled igainst the C om m erce C om m u n iq u e (C .O have prompted the Management Undergraduate So ciety (MUS) to establish an edi torial board to review all mate rial submitted for publication. The C.C. is a satirical pub lication produced by and for Management undergraduates. Formerly, the C.C. had an open publication policy whereby all material submitted was printed. The m agazine received numerous complaints from stu dents offended by the content of several articles published last fall. MUS P resident Ronald Balinsky explained that the board will act as a mechanism to guard against the publication of offen sive articles in the Com m erce C om m unique. “All publications, in order to ensure integrity, should have an editorial board. Not having one created problems,” Balinsky admitted. “We want something that ensures these problems will not b e recurring." C om m erce C o m m unique Editor-in-Chief Chris Haroun, w ho came under fire last sem es ter for the controversial articles,

supported the creation o f a board in order to minimize difficulties. According to newly-estab lished guidelines set by MUS council, the editorial board will be responsible for reviewing all material submitted to screen out degrading or insulting content. In the case where the board finds an article unsuitable, it will be sent back to the author w ho will have the opportunity to make revisions. Only material approved by the new editorial board will be cleared for publication. U3 Management student Danny Baum was named chair of the editorial board after re sponding to the advertisement for the position within the Fac ulty of Management. “It was something I wanted to do and something that had to be done. Not too many people want to take responsibility for the C.C,” Baum stated. “People say ‘Leave it alone, it’s funny*. But I didn’t find it that funny.” Baum’s goal as head of the review board is to maintain the characteristic humour offered by the C. C. while upgrading its qual ity. Baum, Balinsky and MUS VP Internal Darlene McLean formed the selection committee.

Candidates were chosen from within the faculty based on their dedication to ensuring the sur vival of the C.C. as a humourous publication. “It’s easy to look at som e thing and laugh, but you have to step back and reflect on the consequences. Comparing a beer to a woman may have been funny 10 years ago but it’s not funny now ,” said Baum. In addition to Baum, cur rent Tribune Advertising Liasion Sanchari Chakravarty, as well as U3 M an age ment students Suzannah Baum and Stacey Leavitt, will work along with U2 Man agem ent stu dents Solange Garceau and

The government needs the infor mation to provide precise calcula tions of grants," he argued. Students’ Society (SSMU) President Mark Luz voiced concern regarding the long term implications of the government’s access to student records. “My initial concerns are not necessarily what the government says it will use it for, but rather the slippery slope argument,” he claimed. “Govern m ents have no memory; five years from now they may wish to use it for purposes for which [the access] wasn’t intended.” H o w e v e r, Jo h n sto n argued that it is too early to comment on the long-term implications of gov ernment access. "One would have to wait and see. That's a bridge we'll have to cross when we come to it," he said. Luz defended the BOG’S ac ceptance of the government’s re quest and emphasized that at the present time, file government’s in tentions appear to be genuine. “It’s nothing nefarious on the

male. Students’ Society VP Uni versity Affairs Ruth Prom islow w as satisfied w ith steps taken by the MUS and their decision to appoint a significant percentage of w om en to oversee the publi cation. “W hen the MUS has the authority to sp en d the m oney of M anagem ent students, I believe they have a responsibility to all m em bers, and that responsibil ity includes respecting, m ost spe cifically, the female M anagement

university's part,” he said. “It’s prob ably not as bad as we think.” Leggett observed that one of the major problems government ac cess to student records poses to McGill is that of the cost of imple menting the new system. “There is some concern as to the cost of providing this informa tion, especially the information for students from outside of Quebec for whom there is no continuous file. Only students from Quebec have files, and it would take a considerable effort to create this file for out-of-province and foreign stu dents. As far as I know this isn’t required,” he said. Lionce Beaupré, a senior of ficer with the Ministry of Higher Education and Science, did not agree with Leggett’s interpretation of the agreement as it pertains to out-ofprovince students. “All students living in the Que bec university system will have the same [information on] file,” he said. “Those are the conditions of the agreement.” Beapré further indicated that he was not aware of any major resistance to the agreement on file part of McGill. “There is always a certain amount of reservation when it comes to access to information," he ex plained. “But we did not get the impression that McGill was in any way opposed to the agreement."

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students,” sh e said. Editorial b o ard m em b er Suzannah Baum offered h er com m ents on the role o f the review body. “A few years ago, th e C.C. w as very different. Recently, it has gotten a little bit racier, a little bit raunchier. W e’re trying to get it back u p to a standard,” she said. “T he C.C. has offended people in the past. W e’re here to see that it d o esn ’t h ap p en in the future."

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Intent on gamering greater input from students, Students’ Soci ety (SSMU) VP Finance Pauljohnson is handing society members fake money so they can help indicate which budget areas deserve the most funding. Johnson explained that many students are unaware of how SSMU spends their money. Each full-time undergraduate at McGill contrib utes 58 dollars to SSMU in yearly fees. “We are asking students how they would like their money spent,” Johnson explained. “We would like the students' priorities reflected in the budget." Participating students are handed 20 “SSMU dollars” and are asked to allocate the bills, accord ing to their preference, in eight areas: clubs, services, publications, special projects, council and com mittees, activities and events, gen eral administration, and capital ex penditures. While students at last Wednes day’s Activities Night were the first to participate, Johnson indicated that he plans to distribute his SSMU dollars across campus in the com ing weeks. He also stressed that students were re-using a total of 500 SSMU dollars, thereby limiting wasted paper which would have been created by a printed survey. While most students praised Johnson’s efforts, several expressed reservations with the manner in which he was conducting the

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project. “The McGill student popula tion is pretty large, and they are not all that aware of how clubs need money or how SSMU usually makes funding decisions,” explained U2 Arts student Melanie Newton. While applauding Johnson’s initiative, Clubs Rep Farah Nazarali said that Johnson’s informal ap proach to gamering student input might not generate an accurate as sessment of all society members’ fiscal priorities. “I think it is very important to get a representative sample," she said. T h e only way to do so would be to systematically [distribute them] rather than just conveniently ran domly give them out." Nazarali also indicated the need to educate students on the traditional priorities and procedures used to determine past SSMU ex penditures. Johnson said that many stu dents’ lack of detailed budgeting information could actually benefit the process. “I don’t want to pull [stu dents] in to the huge multidimen sional problems we face in budget ing," he explained. “I want a simple response from them....It might be a knee-jerk reaction, but on the whole I think it will be an honest reaction. At the very least, it will bring us closer to a truly representational form of budgeting." Johnson also assuaged any fears that clubs and other groups dependent on SSMU funds for their operations would no longer receive adequate levels of funding if stu

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dents determined they did not de serve funds. “Since basic operating budg ets are being decided this year and are not affected by this, the survival of any one program is not called into question by this process," he stressed. “We are simply asking students, 'Given the money that’s left over, which programs would you like us to focus more intently ora’’ I think any student is capable of making that decision." Johnson indicated that next year’s discretionary funds remain ing after the allocation of initial budgets should total at least 90,000 dollars. He also indicated he would attempt to inform as many students as possible through the survey con cerning the society’s budgeting proc ess. For the first time, this year’s council will draft a society budget for the 1994-1995 academic year. Johnson will inform councillors of students’ input during the budget discussions in mid-March. While acknowledging some of the survey’s limitations, SSMU President Mark Luz expressed his overall support for the project. “The emphasis that we want to convey is that the money that funds SSMU is students’ money. Everyone should have some say," he said. “This is not necessarily the best way or most efficient way to do it, but it will give a good indication and starting point for broader stu dent participation in formulating our budget. I think Paul should be commended for wanting to expand it.”

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A University of Calgary (UC) professor has been removed from a course after the students signed a petition and presented it to the administration. Students complained that Donald Bidulock, a computer science professor, was a poor teacher, did not allow students to take notes during class, and included obscure questions on a past midterm examination. “This professor is very intelligent but doesn’t have the ability to transmit that intelligence and allow students to share in that knowl edge," said student who wished to remain anonymous. UC Student Union VP Academic Ben Rogers claimed that the professor’s removal was “in the best interest of the department, the students, and the professor.” He also claimed that the example set by the action is a good one, as it shows that the department was listening to students’ concerns. “It’s a pro-active step,” said Rogers. “It takes into account the wishes of students and makes the assumption students understand what good teaching is.” source: files from the University of Calgary Gauntlet H o m o p h o b e s h i n d e r e d u c a tio n c a m p a ig n

Posters depicting gay and lesbian couples kissing and bearing captions such as “Challenge Homophobia” and “Who are you bashing?” have been ripped down on York University’s campus. The posters, produced and distributed by the York Federation of Students (YFS), are part of an anti-homophobia campaign. According to YFS President Jeff Zoeller, the posters were ripped down soon after they were put up, and said that a few had been urinated on. “It’s scary, the homophobia on campus, considering w e’re supposed to be the most progressive university,” added YFS VP External Ben Ramsay. One student who spoke on the condition of anonymity claimed that the posters were not helping homosexuals, claiming that students “aren’t homophobic, they’re just disgusted.” Another student agreed. “The problem with homophobia is social acceptability. It’s shocking. I don’t think [the posters] will help,” he claimed. Ramsay, however, stressed that many representations of hetero sexual couples currently used were far more provocative. “[The media] shows ads with heterosexual couples practically having sex, and in our ads w e’re just kissing,” he said. source: files from York University’s Excalibur

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A bom b threat at Concordia University on De cem ber 9th forced students ready to write final exams to evacuate the Henry Hall building at the university’s dow ntow n campus. Sally Irwin, a student at Concordia, had her final deferred due to the bom b scare. “I had n ’t started my exam. Fire alarms .started going off, and w e had to go outside. They didn’t tell us w hat was going on,” Irwin said. Michel Bujold, director of Concordia Security, said som eone called the Concordia University Stu dents’ Association with the bom b threat a few hours before the 2 PM exam was to begin. Security guards searched the building before the exam, but due to the continued danger posed to students, the building was evacuated. After a further search, no bom b was found. Students affected by the bom b scare wrote their exam s on January 8th. gj- “It’s som ething that happens regularly, espe cially during exam period,” said Bujold. Bujold did not want to hypothesize on the num ber of bom b threats Concordia University re ceives each year, but he claimed that all four Montreal universities have to deal with at least one bom b threat per semester. “It’s one of the most difficult parts of the [security] jôb,” said Bujold. “You have to make a decision to evacuate or not. You’re dam ned if you do and dam ned if you d o n ’t ” Chris Mota, public relations officer at Concordia, said that the caller has not been identified. “W e’re all guessing,” said Mota.

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McGill received at least tw o b o m b threats in the m onth o f Decem ber. O n D ecem ber 6th, the last d ay o f classes in the fall term , students in the Bronfm an building evacuated the building for w hat ap p eared to b e a fire alarm. How ever, the Bronfm an building director, P ro fessor H.R. H ow son, explained that the p o rter h ad pulled th e fire alarm after h e received a bo m b threat. “McGill Security an d the M ontreal police w ere contacted. T he building w as searched an d it w as felt that there w as n o threat. Students w ere let back into the building after ab o u t h alf an h o u r,” said H ow son. In the six m onths that H ow son has b een building director, it w as the first time that h e has h ad to deal w ith a b o m b scare. O n D ecem ber 22nd, students about to w rite final exam s in the Currie Gym h ad to w ait 25 to 30 m inutes before they w ere let into the building. Students w ere not inform ed o f the reason for the delay. “I w as told that the gym w as closed ‘for a g o o d reaso n ’,” said U2 Science stu d en t Arnold Kwok, o n e of the students forced to w ait outside. Kwok said that m em bers o f the McGill adm inis tration told him later that the delay h ad b een caused by a b o m b threat. “T here w ere n ever less than tw o police cars outside th e gym ,” said Kwok. McGill's Associate Vice-Principal (Physical Re sources) Sam Kingdon w as n o t available for com m ent.

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EDITORIAL On Monday, January 10th, CBC P rim e Tim e fea tured a documentary entitled “War o f Words” concerning freedom o f expression in the university environment. The documentary proposed that universities should provide and even encourage provoca tive or offensive speech, as long as it is accom panied by discussion and debate. Free dom o f speech should be protected, but only to a cer tain point, the point at w hich it becom es hurtful. The de bate lies with how to deter mine offensive speech and then h ow to control it. O ne method o f control has been the implementa tion o f sp eech codes within universities, enforced by com mittees responsible for moni torin g o ffe n siv e sp e e c h . These speech codes are set up to protect groups that have b een oppressed. The problem then arises: w hose rights do they protect7 O ne case that was pre sented in the documentary w as that o f a first-year law student at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, named

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C e n s o r s h ip t h r e a t e n s v a lu a b le d e b a te Ezra Lebant. The student sub mitted an opinion piece on af firmative action to the law school new spaper, the C an n on s o f C onstruction. Lebant questioned the validity o f the entrance quo tas that exist at the law school for Aboriginal p eople. He out lined that the university actively recruits Aboriginals, even to the p oin t o f altering adm ission standards. Lebant criticized the idea o f targeting a designated group; focusing on Aboriginals and not other races. He found the quota system to b e “conde scending, humiliating and rac ist”. Tempers flared and a cam p aign b eg a n to reprim and Lebant for expressing offensive views. The student had violated speech codes and w as checked by the Committee for Equality and Respect, established to monitor sp eech seen to b e p o tentially offensive to minorities. The purpose o f this committee is to monitor disrespect, and it regarded Lebant’s article as hurt ful. In stead o f co u n terin g Lebant’s criticism o f the quota system with an argument de fending the university’s policy,

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Ah, January. That time of year when a young person’s fancies turn to thoughts o f selfimprovement. Weight Watch ers, NutriSystem, Nicoresi, they must make a killing every New Year from the well-intentioned masses resolving to becom e better individuals. Listen, I’ll tell you the secret to personal success that I learned during that two w eek television mara thon know as Christmas break, and it’s got nothing to do with body image or bad habits: Noxem a girls g et noticed. There you go. All those years of w on dering w hy I don’t get the jobs I want and why I was never picked first for teams in gym class, and now the Noxema company has finally set the record straight. By golly, now that I think about it, I bet Beemans really is the girl-watch ing gum. I remember when the be ginning o f the year meant a new lunch kit, a new teacher, and twenty-five new classmates.

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Lebant was called into the As sistant D ean’s office to be in formed o f the university’s code o f misconduct, that he appar ently violated. By publishing his article, Lebant w as exercising his right to free speech. If his words w ere offensive, he should have b een educated concerning the benefit o f the quota system for Aboriginals. H e should have b een taught w hy his view s were “incorrect”, not just told that it w as unacceptable for him to hold these view s. If the univer sity supports its policy for en trance regulations, should it not b e able to easily defend the legislation? The documentary did not mention whether the existence o f quotas w as public knowl edge, or whether Lebant had exp osed a provision o f which most students are unaware. The fact is that Lebant was merely questioning an accepted policy. As a university student, one is trained and encouraged to chal lenge fact and question every thing. Offensive speech should b e met with contrary speech. Educating rather than condem

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Now it means sitting in a lecture hall with ten times that many new classmates and a teacher w ho’s so old he’s about to keel over in his eagerness to retire. It means trying to call MARS at the same time as a thousand other people. It means living off water for the first two w eeks of school because you’ve neglected to send in your student loan form on time. Forget that New Year’s reso lution and try this time-proven weight loss method that w e like to call “the bureaucrat’s diet”. Fortunately, this semester I’m on top o f things and remem bered to MARS myself out of this new English course called “The Crisis o f the Subject." Thanks, but I’m having a big enough identity crisis on my own with out having to worry about other peoples’, much less other fic tional peoples’. At least they have books w ritten ab out them , whereas I’m just trying to deal with the dozen or so people running around campus w ho look exactly like me. It’s discon certing, and if w e happen to be in the same room together, a bit em barrassing (although this might explain my mysteriously bad credit rating). Just yesterday

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a complete stranger approached me and asked if I was Patricia. Sadly, I was not. Sadder, I wished I was. It all goes back to those five W’s of human existence. Why are w e here? Where do w e come from? Who am I? What do I believe in? And the big question, Will I have to use milk crates as bookcases for the rest of my life? Certainly one of the impor tant reasons one leaves the safety and relative warmth o f on e’s hometown for this godforsaken land of ice and snow—aside from the obvious allure o f all those cold metal lamposts just waiting to be licked—is to becom e an independent individual. To find oneself. Not, mind you, to find oneself as a mere one amongst five hundred sitting in the “Tel evision and Society” class think ing, “Hey, I watch TV. I’m a member o f society. I have a brain cell. H ow can I go wrong?” (And how appropriate that a class about television should b e conducted like an episode o f Oprah, the show that can singlehandedly make one doubt the right to free speech.) The self, so they say, is

nation is the appropriate re sponse. Opposition was not only directed at the student; the edi tors o f the newspaper were criti cized for having printed the article. Lebant voluntarily pub lished his article, and an opin ion piece does not reflect the opinions o f the editorial board. The alternative w ould be to refuse to publish the article, thereby ignoring a contentious viewpoint. Instead o f directing anger towards the staff at the newspaper, using the newspa per as a forum for debate would b e a m ore constructive ap proach. To conclude the documen tary, CBC sp oke with Todd Gitlin, a professor o f sociology at the University o f California at Berkeley. H e argued that it is not possible to enforce respect through committees. The ad ministrators at the university cannot expect Lebant to be sym pathetic to the value o f quota systems if they do not explain that they affect a small percent age o f people. For the majority, very few places are being de nied to them. It w ould appear that the benefits w ould out

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w eigh the alternative o f abol ishing quotas. Gitlin stated that “there is nothing like speech to dear the air”. W hen speech is cen sored, then negative view s are forced underground and becom e more bitter and pernidous. Speech is easier to sup press than to restore. The role o f the university is to provide a forum for debate and to educate and guide students in their w ay o f thinking. Profes sors and the administration should serve as a m odel and set the tone for equality, ob jectivity and understanding. Students leam by confronting issues that make them un comfortable. Lebant has every right to express his opinion and everyone else has every right to tell him that he is wrong.

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defunct. But if it’s true that there’s no essential self, no autonomous individual, has this 22 year quest for self-definition been all for naught? Why just the other day I overheard this bold statement from an anonymous member of the great unwashed: “People should read more Emerson. We need to be more self-reliant” Who is this “w e ” and what are w e relying on7Our individual selves? Ourselves as “w e”? Furthermore,

what can Emerson do about this and how can I b e self-reliant with no credit card? Now here is a crisis of the subject. Alas, it’s the question o f a lifetime— dare I say of human ity itself—this matter of the self. With suitable irony, perhaps one achieves a truly distinct identity only in death. Me, I can picture my headstone already: “She be lieved not in Noxema, and for that was never noticed.”

Policijfop Comments and Letters tothe Editor All are welcome to submit comments and letters to the editor. The Tribune reserves the risht not to print material considered racist, sexist, or homophobic by the editorial board. Views expressed in comments and letters are not necessarily the views of the edito rial board. Letters must be no more than 350 words, and comments are limited to 500 words. Comments and letters must be submitted by 3 PMon Thursday afternoon for inclusion in the following week’s issue.

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The McGill Tribune, January 18-24,1994

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T h e S o c io lo g y o f F o o tb a ll We are currently in football playoff season, the only time (and I mean the only time) 1 have any bond with my middle American brethren. Football has become our escape, where for a few hours we can pretend we are the physical gladiators who play before us. The dream that we too can earn millions and have our own brand of sneak ers. My parents bred me from birth to believe in the golden rule. To believe that everyone is equal, except people who voted conserva tive and the people who cut us off on the highway. They almost in spired me to get a peace symbol tattooed on my chest. I was stopped only by the fact that the tattoo artist did not offer general anaesthesia. It was at my father’s side, that I also learned to love the game of football. In fact, I learned a large part of my vocabulary during our peaceful Sunday afternoons in front of that TV, but that is another story. No one seems to understand how someone who would like to buy the world a Coke™ could simulta neously root for his team to suck the marrow from their enemies’ bones. What is the attraction of the game for millions of males? I think Jane Goodall would say that the evolutionary equivalent of picking ticks out of each others fur is sitting in a trailer park and swap ping Coors Light. Football is a chan nel to vicariously live out sick fantasies that we would never live out ourselves. For example, who hasn't wished they could rip the arms off the quarterback and beat him with his own limbs? I was personally cursed with a body that is niether 67” nor 310 pounds. My one highlight in the nine-month stint I played on my high school football team came in our last scrimmage. My coach called me off the bench to give my belt to the star running back, who had forgotten his own. There I stood, holding my pants up on the side lines, oblivious to what this meant to my chances of reaching the NFL. If football reflects the dreams

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of millions of North American males,then it can also represent the culture’s prejudices. Warren Moon, probably one of the greatest quarterbacks of all time, was never drafted by the NFLsimply because he was blade. When he played for the University of Washington in the late 1970s, his family would be threat ened and insulted in the stands every time he missed a receiver. The pre dominantly white audience did cheer when Moon ran for a long touch down in an important game. Moon later told an interviewer that he felt like stopping in the middle of the run and raising his middle finger to the crowd. Sexism has infested the foot ball cukure as well. The sport is made up of male players who attack other male players for the benefit of a largely male audience. This formula has had its consequences, asastudy which linked an increase in reports of domestic violence during the Super Bowl proved. In September of 1989, New EnglandPatriottight end ZekeMowatt appeared naked before Boston Her ald reporter Lisa Olson. He offered her a chance to see his “Patriot Mis sile”.She then retaliatedwith herown counter offensive—a multi-million dollar lawsuit Buffalo (The mistake on the Lake') is the best case study of the football culture phenomenon, a dty that seems to have been dropped in the middle of nowhere by some tacky alien race. On the highway to Rich Stadium, where the Buffalo Bills play, I passed houses with Bills flags perchedontheiriocfs; bushes painted red and blue and landscaped to read “Go Bills Go” in their backyard. In the last mile stretch to the stadium park ing lot we passed a scarecrow that was dressed in a N.Y. Giants (the team I root for) jersey and hanging from a telephone pole. It caught our eye because it was burning. It re minded me too much of a Ku Klux Wan event to be funny.

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Franco-McGillois debout' Estce une espèce en voie d’instinction? Charles Darwin nous l’a bien dit, l’évolution est guidée par le principe de la survie du plus fort. Où sont les francophones à McGill? Pourtant on me dit qu'en ’68 il y avait eu des manifestations pour franciser McGill. Mais 25 ans, c’est loin et bien des choses ont changées. Depuis la Révolution tranquille, le Québec s’est lancé dans une voie de réformes et de renouveau; une étape cruciale qui nous a permis de s’identifier en tant que Québécois et Québécoises. À McGill, je ne vois que l’héritage de la conquête, où la mentalité colonisatrice des anglais domine. On peut vraiment se demander qui sont les vrais esclaves de James McGill. Et nous, francophones, on se soumet à une assimilation discrète mais très présente. Y a-t-il un “Je me souviens” à McGill? Il semble y avoir une société distincte au Québec, McGill non-incluse. Et c’est de notre faute. L’apathie totale des francophones en est la cause. Il y en a qui essayent de faire prévaloir le français à McGill. Je parle des étudiants et des étudiantes qui participent à l’association 'McGill Q uébec’, à la production hebdomadaire du ‘Daily Français’,

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The McGill Debating Union sent a pair of two-person teams to the World Championships of Debate and Public Speaking, held during the win ter holiday period in Australia. The tournament consisted of two tours, the first in Brisbane and the second in Melbourne. The four debators from McGill were graduate student Gerry Butts, U3 political sci ence student Peter Balasubramanian, U2 political science student David Price, and U3 psychology student Adrienne McNicholas. In the First World Invitational Debating Tournament, hosted by the University of Queensland in the first tour at Brisbane, both of the McGill teams made it to the final round. The

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other two teams of the four that make it to the final round were from Oxford University. Of the four teams, Butts and Balasubramanian came in first, Price and McNicholas second, and the two Oxford teams finished third and fourth. In the second tour, both McGill pairs were among three Cana dian teams that broke to the octofinals, the round before the quarter finals. Both McGill squads lost in that round. McNicholas, however, the only woman frpm McGill on the excur sion, finished sixth in the world for best speaker. McNicholas also cap tured first in the world for public speaking. Butts described the victory as a tremendous honour.

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“It was really interesting be cause a lot of people in Australia didn’t know where or what McGill was, and it felt especially great be cause it put McGill on the map,’ said Butts. Debating Union Presidentjulie Maggi compl imented the participants for their victories. “All the members of the Debat ing Union, as well as the Canadian Debating Circuit, are extremely fortu nate to have been represented so well in the Australian circuit,” said Maggi. The North American Champi onship» are to be held in Halifax on February 4th, 5th and 6th. Despite their performance atthe Worlds, how ever, it is as yet undecided which debaters will represent McGill at the North American Championships. H P !

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S k i t r i p c o s tly f o r M c G il In te r-R e s id e n c e C o u n c il BY RAM RANDHAWA A ski trip organized by the InterResidence Council (IRC) of McGill University Residences became a night mare for organizers, as IRC stands to lose 900 dollars. The trip to Mont SteAnne, a ski resort north of Quebec City, was expected to make a profit for IRC. IRC President Sevag Yeghoyan claimed the company IRC dealt with, Ski Fo 5 Seasons, broke several of the promises in their contract. Yeghoyan said that though he was told that there were no more available rooms in the Chateau Mont Ste-Anne, upon arriving he noticed that many rooms had been given to others, including student groups from the University of Ottawa. Matthew Marois, Directors of Student Sales for Ski Fo, explained that Yeghoyan had initially reserved 60 rooms in the hoteL When Yeghoyan contacted Ski Fo and requested more rooms, he was given an additional 20. Yeghoyan later asked for even more accomodation. Marois indicated that in order to make the prices for students more accessible, they provide rooms that have not been renovated. When Marois contacted the hotel and requested reno vated rooms to accomodate the in creased numbers, the hotel director agreed to give the rooms to the Univer sity of Ottawa, another group being serviced by Ski Fo, but not to McGill. According to Marois, the director attrib uted this decision to previous experi ences with students from McGill. Marois also explained that Ski Fo had continual organizational prob lems with IRC. “We normally ask for lists of people [coming] a month in advance, but we didn't get the list until just a week before, after calling Sevag many times. After we drew up the bus lists,

we asked people to go on the bus they were assigned to, but they didri he explained. Yeghoyan said that after raisir the damage deposit from 20 dollars 25 dollars the weekend before the tri Ski Fo charged most of the rooms in tl Chateau five dollars for extra cleanin Yeghoyan speculated that Ski Fo m not have forwarded that money to tl hotel. “I can’t be certain, but it seems me as if this five dollar cleaning charj may not have been given to the hot but rather just collected by Ski Fo that’s one point we’re continuing investigate," said Yeghoyan. Yeghoyan also said that Ski ] charged every student in the group fi dollars for damages caused to a whi pool in the hotel. Marois responded to the alleg tions by saying that Ski Fo had e\ dence, in the form of bills from tl hotel, that the hotel did request ext money, and that the money collects by Ski Fo had indeed been given to tl hotel. Marois also indicated that part the damages were paid for by tl company. Marois denied that Ski I charged students not staying in tl Chateau for damages to the whirlpoc “We divided the cost [for tl whirlpool] by all of our custome staying in the hotel—including cu tomers from [University of] Ottawa. ( course we didn’t charge people not the hotel for damages to the hotel," 1 said. “Some were, [however] charge for other damages." When asked if Ski Fo had pro ited from the IRC ski trip, Marois n plied that the company lost money. “There were people who weren skiing, and had paid only for the fcx. and accomodation. Since we couldn get a list of who these people wei [from IRC] we had to pay for lift ticke for everyone."

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Bosnia? terms of humanitarian aid—things We spent the first three and Carlevaris: We landed on such as 50 pound bags o f flour. the west coast of Croatia, in a one-half months there. The goal There was that kind of stuff. A big town called Splint. Basically, my was to prevent weapons from thing for them was cigarettes— first impression was how it didn’t entering the zone, and also to 75 per cent of the adult popula keep Serbs from entering the seem like a war town. The area tion smokes, and they didn’t have had not been touched by the zone. That was really annoying. any left at all. So people were war; it was a resort town. We We had to confiscate weapons in either drying com leaves to use were expecting to land in the the zone, in which there were as tobacco, or smuggling in as middle of the war zone. We got only Muslims, but had no control much as they could. Cigarettes over the Serbs surrounding the there the next day, travelling by were in high demand. We were bus to central Bosnia. area. That was because they [Mus offered hundreds of dollars for Tribune: What was the situ lims! weren’t supposed to need packs and cartons of cigarettes. ation like in central Bosnia? weapons because w e were pro We weren’t allowed to trade, but tecting them. C a rlevaris: Everything there was a big demand for that. changed really quickly. Many Tribune: Tell me about No other manufactured goods towns had been levelled, houses your activities in Visoko. were available. which had no windows, no roofs. Carlevaris: Basically, that Tribune: Was this for eve was our main Canadian base in It came and went, some towns rybody, or was this mostly for the bad been touched; others hadn’t central Bosnia. It was just a bunch Muslims? been touched at all. The reason of old warehouses and factories Carlevaris: It was mostly that w e had taken over and set up for that was because of who lived for the Muslims because they a perimeter and set up camp in the town before, the ethnic were completely surrounded. In group that lived there. By the there. Most o f our jobs, well, part the West, in Croatia, when we our job was to guard camp there, time that w e got there, every went to those towns, you could thing was completely separated from towers around the place. see that they did have some goods except downtown Sarajevo. They There were people trying to get coming in, like fresh foods and lad bunched into different neighin and steal stuff. The first time I stuff. That’s because they had a was on duty, we got three guys x>urhoods there. link in the North with Italy and Tribune: What were the sneaking in to steal fuel. That was Austria, so things were coming in irst activities you undertook upon pretty exciting. But after the first through there. Sometimes they irrival? night it got pretty quiet and guard even had ice cream—where the Carlevaris: We replaced duty got to be not something . heck did they get that from’ Ob mother group of Canadians in people looked forward to— bor viously from somewhere else in Srebrenica who immediately reing stuff. We just stood out there Europe. So they had a link. And urned home. There were about for eight hours, staring out o f the Eastern Serbia, although cut off 300 o f us at that point. It was our camp, basically making sure no by the blockade for most things, job to patrol the area which had one got in. But that’s not our probably had things coming in been recently demilitarized un main job there. Our main job was from Romania and Bulgaria, but der the Geneva Conventions. The to escort convoys whenever the the prices were just astronomi minute w e got there w e were opportunity presented itself. cal. I remember reading an article sent to hilltops surrounding the Tribune: You were men in Belgrade about tomatoes go town. They had a total of 15 tioning that people were coming ing up from seven dollars a kilo observation posts and the main in and trying to steal fuel. What to 20 dollars in the next week. camp in the middle o f the town. sort of things are in the shortest Tribune: Did you get the We took over an old factory. It supply there? impression that the Muslim peo had been a town of 8000, but C arlevaris: They d on ’t ple, for example the refugees when w e got there, there were have any commercial goods at that you were guarding, had re signed themselves to a certain outcome, or did you find that they are still hopeful for a posi tive outcome for their people? Carlevaris: I don’t know if it’s a trait that is prevalent in their society, but I’ve noted that most of them were very lackadaisical about everything, life in general. 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footage of Canadian peace keep ers over the last 35 years and footage from Iraq and Kuwait in the aftermath of the Gulf war. “The military action may have been appealing in the short term, but the effects were devas tating in the long term,” said Duckworth. His portrayal of the post war Persian Gulf region shows it to be more repressed and polar ized than it was before the war. “I wanted to make a film reflecting the outrage of 50 per cent of the Canadian people over the participation of our country in the US-led coalition a g a in s t Ira q ," e x p la in e d Duckworth. “It was, in my opin ion, a contradiction of the spirit of peacekeeping set by Lester B. Pearson.” Leslie hopes to have a rep resentative of the university ad m inistration sp eak after the movie to address McGill’s mili tary research policy. “We have to investigate our ow/i institution first,” said Leslie. “We have to ask if this is the kind of society w e want to continue to build, or do we want to becom e more active?” A c co rd in g to R oger Prichard, Dean of Graduate Stud ies at McGill, the university does not permit research that is ei

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O n the third anniversary of the Persian Gulf War, McGill’s Quebec Public Interest Research Group (QPIRG) is presenting the film “Peacekeeper at War" in an effort to get students to re-exam ine Canada’s role in the war. In a climate of eased Cold War ten sions and economic uncertainty, the presenters are trying to draw attention back to the question of the role of the military in society. “We have to explore the whole question of the Persian Gulf War," said QPIRG spokes p erso n an d forum organizer Michèle Leslie. “Canada was basi cally making m oney off of both sides killing each other in the Iran-Iraq war. It would be great if people came out of the film riled up...to challenge the paradigms they are being presented with.” After the film, there will be a forum on the subject of alterna tives to militarization and the changing role of Canadian peace keeping. Scheduled speakers for th e e v e n t in c lu d e R ich ard Saunders, the coordinator of the Coalition to Oppose the ArmTrade and editor of Press fo r Conver sion, as well as the film’s director, Martin Duckworth. The film itself is a docum en tary which contains both archive

ther secretive or potentially of fensive. “McGill has a policy not t< take any military research for of fensive purposes,” he said. “Th< Department of Defence has it ow n research facilities, but some times they will come to us for ; medical question: blood transfu sions, for example.” Professor S. J. Noumoff, Di rector of the McGill Centre fo Developing Area Studies, arguer that there is no real demarcatioi between offensive and defensivt military research. “The military does not giv< money for anyone to do researcl unless there is an applied compo nent, a payoff at some stage, Noumoff said. “At this stage de fensive and offensive research an not mutually exclusive. Fuel-ai explosives, where spray is injectée into the air and then exploded, ü defended as a ‘defensive’ me am to clear minefields.” McGill accepts approxi mately three to four contracts spon sored by the Canadian Depart ment of Defence each year, ac cording to Prichard. Each con tract must be approved by the Board of Governors, a body which includes student representatives. “Peacekeeper at War” will be presented on January 18th at 7:30 PM. in Leacock 132.

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The beginning of the senester is o n e o f the few times luring the academ ic year w hen itudents can relax w ithout the ension of m idterm s o r assignnent deadlines, thus rendering t a pop u lar period for w inter ramivals. This w eek, the Sci;nce U n d e rg rad u a te Society ’SUS) presents its first W inter lamival, and simultaneously, the 5hi Delta Epsilon Co-ed Medical Maternity is presenting an Alco10I Awareness W eek, a series of ;odal and educational events ocusing on the different aspects if alcohol consum ption. Some m ay question the lecision to hold these events :oncurrently. Carnivals at the jniversity level are usually charicteriz ed b y a lco h o l-related events. Marco De B uono, coordi nator o f the SUS W inter Carnival, explained h o w th e SUS has striven to take the focus of the ;amival aw ay from alcohol. “The two main objectives af the carnival are to provide a Welcome W eek for the second semester Science students and, is it is our first carnival, to try out iifferent events and see w hat people enjoy the m ost,” he said. 'O ur goal is n o t to have an alcohol-filled w eek. O ut o f a sveek full of events, only two actually involve alcohol.” Matt Bates, w ho coordi nated the Bar Tour, explained why the SUS chose not to call this event a “Pub Crawl”. “The emphasis of this event, though it involves alcohol, is m ore on socializing and on solv ing the riddles leading to the next bar. T he gam es played at each bar will b e unrelated to alcohol, and therefore, even p eople w ho aren’t drinking can participate and have a good time,” h e explained. “The intention here is not for p eo p le to drink like pigs and get drunk b u t to reveal to stu dents som e of w hat is available

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to them beyond the limits o f the ‘McGill W orld’— w hich exists only betw een Pine an d René Lévesque, and St-Laurent and Crescent,” added D e Buono. The SUS provided two “Sec ond G uards” at the bars. The “guards” are students w ho have taken the server course at McGill and are know ledgeable about the laws and regulations regard ing drinking and w hat to do w hen som eone has had too much alcohol. The SUS also provided rides hom e and a walking patrol service, equipped with cellular phones, for the Bar Tour. Many of the efforts being taken by the SUS to cut dow n alcohol-related events and limit alcohol abuse are reflective of the issues being presented by the Medical Fraternity in their Alcohol Awareness W eek. Roland Orfaly, a second year medical student and o n e of the coordinators of the Alcohol Awareness events, discussed the objectives o f the fraternity in organizing this event. “Primarily, students n eed to know w hat alcohol is actually doing to their bodies at the sci entific level. Inform ation is the basis of understanding. Secondly, o u r aim is not to elim inate alco hol use but to educate students about their limits... Also, w e hope to provide students w ho d o n ’t drink w ith alternative drinks and activities,” h e said. To com plem ent the tradi tional pub crawl associated with w inter carnivals, Alcohol Aware n ess W eek offered a “G rub Crawl”, a culinary equivalent to the Bar Tour. Also offered w ere w orkshops dealing with such relevant topics as “Alcohol and S ex ”, “D e alin g w ith D ru n k Friends”, and “Alcoholism on C am pus”. In light o f this, O rfaly praised the idea of having Alco hol Awareness W eek concur rently with w inter carnivals as a positive opportunity for differ ent student groups to w ork to gether.

A collection of undergradu ate Arts students will produce the first M cGill Review o f Interdisci p lin a ry Studies at the end of this semester. Interdisciplinary stud ies, those combining parts of dif ferent departm ents into one, ca ter to the student w ho doesn’t wish to restrict her o r his studies to a single area. The popular choice of a single major program often limits exploration of d o mains outside the major, leaving some students feeling as though they are in academic shackles. However, many students consider the interdisciplinary o p tion unfavourable due to its low profile in com parison to the ma jor programs. “Our goal is to get people who are Arts students stuck in the rut of honours degrees and the like...to be encouraged by the review to get a more broad, gen eral liberal arts education,” said th e re v ie w ’s ed ito r-in -ch ief, Gibran van Ert. The review will allow stu dents not only to sound off on multi-disciplined issues, but also to publish their works. “It gives the opportunity for students to get published.... [Such opportunities] are very rare in your first four years,” said Mitra Sharafi, an associate editor of the

review. The project also aims to help dissolve artificial barriers that exist betw een departments. The recent addition of multi-discipli nary departm ents has begun to cast doubt u p o n the utility of strictly concentrated fields. “Traditional disciplines have only out of convenience been carved u p over time. Interdisci plinary studies have been over shadow ed because [traditional disciplinesL.have more money and pow er and have given rise to the university’s structure,” said Professor Peta Tancred, head of the departm ent of W omen’s Stud ies. In some instances, the lim its these departm ental divisions impose on students’ studies pro vide no benifit In these cases, enlisting ideas from other fields might contribute to a more com plete understanding of the sub ject matter. Van Ert used the ex ample of History majors w ho em ploy only concentrated history material w hen assembling a re search paper. “[They] do n ’t recognize phi losophy or art of the time can also produce good primary sources,” observed the editor, w ho is pur suing a joint degree in History and Literature. This exclusionary attitude has traditionally been endorsed

by those who administer well en trenched departments like Phi losophy or Political Science. These professors are often perceived as experienced scholars who are well voiced in one school of thought, and thus reluctant to branch out and juggle foreign concepts. “I think...some professors who have become very familiar in a particular area approach prob lems from their ow n perspective and don’t look at other perspec tives,” said Owen Teo, an associ ate editor for the review. When students take pains to try to broaden the scope of their program they are frequently met with obstacles. “T here is resistance [to b ra n ch in g out] at a c e rta in level....That resistance has been manifest in the Arts faculty in the past couple years in the way s tu d e n ts h av e th e ir credits...restricted,” observed van Ert. The McGill Faculty has sup ported the review, which will in clude a foreword from Professor James Tully of the Philosophy departm ent “It will be good for under graduate students, especially those in Women’s Studies, [largest of interdisciplinary m ajors]...who don’t have much opportunity for publication. [Liberal arts] are enor mously important," said Tancred.

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Seinfeld reeks of dork. His white running shoes jut out of his awkwardly ill-fitted jeans like lu minous paddles. He sports a half smile all the way through his joke delivery—a big comic no-no. And he is supremely, but charmingly, un-PC. If you watch Seinfeld you know his humour lies less in the content or plot but in the utter lack thereof. What Seinfeld says is often less amusing than how he says it (with that whiny New York wussy-ness). For these reasons, Jerry’s literary m agnum op u s, SeinLanguage, is approached with nervous curiosity. You can just hear George: “Jerry. Don’t do it. It’s not worth it. Think of the show! Jerry!” A more immediate turn-off is the book’s jacket design—it looks like it should reside in the

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Gray, known for his movies Swimming to Cam bodia and Mon ster in a Box, is probably the only person who could expect an au dience to sit through 1 1/2 hours of one guy talking with few props and the occasionally funky light effects. Gray’s sterling story-tell ing undoubtedly leaves the viewer with strong visual memories of scenes conveyed through words only. Like Seinfeld, Spalding Gray relishes the detail of daily exist ence and ensnares innocent peo ple in his adroit and subtle char acter sketches. But while Gray’s monologues seem to sprawl, they are buoyed up by strong social commentary and underlying co hesion. Gray’s genius lies in his ability to make us laugh at the unlaughable (the Thai prostitutioh trade, a G .I.’s raging homophobia) and then catch our selves in the act His tone oscil lates between manic acceleration and a sudden, slow sense of im

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That, in fact, seem s to b e the underlying them e o f the majority o f the m ost popular video gam es. And THEY are trying to take that from us. Outrageous levels o f vio lence in video has prompted the video gam e industry to pro p ose a ratings system similar to that o f m ovies. In essen ce, the Software Publisher’s Associa tion (a U.S. organization), threat ened with governm ent inter vention, has d ecided to p olice itself. Soon, vid eo gam es may b e labelled “for adults on ly”, “suitable w ith parental guid ance for children 6 to 13”, and “suitable with parental guid ance for children 13 to 17”. Although it may b e diffi cult to imagine a parent inter rupting a 17 year-old’s gam e o f Mortal Kombat to explain that dishing out the odd flying kick is socially unacceptable, on e must question the extent to w hich violence in vid eo gam es affects th e im p r e ssio n a b le minds o f our you n g’uns. “Hmmm, I w on d er h o w video gam e violen ce affects the children?" Right. ‘N uffsaid. .

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mands an intense am ount of con centration from Sky and her audi ence. Be forewarned: attendance “The only kind of ‘-archy 1 must not be a split o r swallow I’m interested in is anarchy.” So decision. However, Sky dem ands sp e a k s p o s t-m o d e rn d a n c e r the attention of the experienced Fitzraven Sky in w hat appears to and the timid. This is a be a rare m om ent of re st This w om an w ho shouts, “I week, her one w om an perform w anna button that says ance piece, “The goddess is a LOUD, PUSHY, JEWISH shopping bag lady”, will con DYKE.” tinue to disrupt the peace at Play The only part that ers’ Theatre. And rightly so. For approaches out and out the first time in the history o f the funny, occurs w hen Sky Shatner Building theatre, a show as Lillith eats the banana has offered certain wom en-only phallus. Literally. There performances. appears to be no room The use of this community for hum our w hen the space exclusively for one— albeit content is the history of increasingly powerful—group has oppression. raised many questions and eye Sky’s inspirational brows. Fitzraven accepts this fact: sources are disparate and “This was entirely my idea. The intriguing. She has samwom en-only performances have § pled from the works of to happen—I w ouldn’t have it 14 o th e rs, in clu d in g any other way. The more people Sw eet H oney o f the it pisses off the better.” Rock’s rock, and the Nonetheless the w om enprose o f Melanie Kaye only performances seem to have Kantrowitz. H ow ever, been the bub of all the hubbub, “The goddess is a shop and actually they are the least ping bag lady” lacked interesting aspect of the perform “I want a button that says loud, pushy, Jewish dyke w e ll-te x tu r e d s e g u e ance itself. ways so the sources stain rather each new m ask she dons, Sky The perform ance begins than bleed into one another. adopts a new persona. She sings, once Sky envokes her ow n muse. Perhaps Sky is preaching to speaks, dances her way through She stirs a cultural soup pot which includes ingredients such as Apoc 80 straight minutes, which de- the converted. She does recog nize that the appeal of a strong feminist diatribe will be limited. She is quite frank about the num ber of m en in her audience. The fewer the better. However, Sky seems pleased with the uni versity environm ent. She ex plained, “I was so glad to be here. ■i « m m m m m i Hopefully I could attract an audi ence that might be open to self exploration.” Self-exploration? Sky’s the limit at McGül. All th in g s c o n s id e r e d , 3 4 9 8 Fitzraven Sky’s message is straight forward; “W om en are the only 9 8 7 0 0 1 1 / 1 2 hope for this planet. If w e d o n ’t take care, our children w on’t sur vive.” In the long run, the sheer bo m b ard m en t o f inform ation 2 5 c / e a c h throughout her perform ance will most likely leave the viewer ask ing questions. Unfortunately, they might to tend to run the likes of; “What did Caroline van Vlaaidigan make of all this?” “The goddess is a shopping bag lady” will continue a t McGill 7 d a y B ro c d c fa st B u ffe t Players Theatre, 3480 McTavish (thirdjloor)from January 18-22nd. Performances begin a t 8 PM. ryphal, Native North American, and Holocaust, as well as tidbits from her ow n Jewish dyke life style. The resulting spicy mix is a herstory m elange heavy o n the her-, light o n the -story. With

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P a r e n t s ju s t d o n 't u n d e rs ta n d Ahh. The generation gap. Perhaps the understatem ent of o u r cultural vocabulary. You k now things are getting b ad w h en th e G azette publishes “T he Cool Beans G uide to W hat’s H ot.” (‘M omoflage : to conceal an item from m other in a suitcase or knapsack; comb in a tio n o f m om and cam oflage’). O ver the Christmas table this year m y sister m ade the m istake of reading Nirvana lyr ics to m y parents— “Rape Me,” to b e exact. My father, a Brit an d a big fan of Robert H ughes an d all-things English, tilted his h ead b ack in disbelief and said, “Crap. It’s all crap.” O f course, m y sister (b e ing the first child an d therefore a perm anent rebel and defender o f all things n o t m y parents) w ent into a tirade ab out Kurt Cobain’s troubled youth and the plight o f our generation to express ourselves w ithin the corporation called Amerikkka. I sat betw een tw o equally heinous argum ents b u t decided to side w ith m y sister because, well, m y d ad w as still w earing that p a p e r crow n from the Christmas crackers. You see, I’m over the adolescent rebel stage. I look at m y m agazines and think: Wait, this is a publication en tirely d o n ated to Rock n ’ Roll. Pathetic. Pop Culture is, of course, a big b a d m onster w hich is infiltrating the globe an d sucking the life a n d imagi nation out o f most. In the 50s, according to m y parents, you could choose to pay attention to p o p culture o r you could shut y o u r w hite picket fence an d ignore it. Internet, A C ur rent A ffa ir an d three TVs p er hou seh o ld w ere not yet a real ity. T hese days, even dorks like m y parents understand Seinfeld references, k now the details oF Jo h n Bobbitt’s sexual habits a n d are fully versed in the goings-on o f M ichaeljackson’s epiderm is. T hey can ’t help it. The new s in America isn’t news: it’s p o p culture. BUT. After floundering in a little too m uch Christmas w ine, us y o ung’uns form ulated

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a cogent counterattack. Be cause p o p culture has co-opted “culture”, the only w ay w e can express ourselves or ex p o u n d a subversive w orld view is through th e channels of the p o p culture m achine. So, w h en Nirvana sings about op en sores an d rape, they are docum ent ing o u r g eneration’s attitude to w a rd s sex (ie : sex=AIDS=fear). This isn’t 1959 w h en love an d sex w ere ab out Rub a D ub D ubbing. Nor is it 1984 w h en sex was: “She w as a fast m achine... She kept her m otor d e a n .” W hat m atters is that p e o ple like m y parents m ight dis miss “p o p culture” w holes cale. U n d e r all th e c o n fo rm ity (grunged o u t rich kids) a n d basic inanity (Axl Rose an d Christina A pplegate) there is a m essage. W e grew u p in the 1980s, folks. A nd that really sucks. Now, in th e '90s, AIDS, m urder a n d date rape are part o f o u r daily vocabulary. In stead of w hining about Beavis a n d B utthead a n d w asted chil dren, those crotchety old jour nalists a n d PTA-ers sh ould step b ack and think ab out it. All m ovem ents start with a su b versive core th en expand into a larger sp h ere o f trendy, brain less conform ity (The 60s w ere full o f lazy losers w h o did nothing to change the w orld except sm oke p o t in the school parking lot— b u t the decade introduced civil rights and femi nism ). T oday, grunge, heroin an d a TV culture have becom e yesterday’s soon-to-be-yuppie hippies. Just d o n ’t throw the bab y out w ith th e bathw ater, m a an d pa. We d id n ’t invent the TV or create the urban apartheid an d the rape culture w e try so h ard to escape. Ju st b ecause rap is ev e ry w h e re and o f te n uninventive, for exam ple, does not m ean rap itself is “crap.” It can b e th e voice o f Langston H ughes for the 90s. Look b e y o n d Beavis a n d Butthead.

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Music students harbour a sparaging image of Tchaikovsky a teary-eyed sentimentalist, an jnabashed populist—the detested bomposer of the ridiculous, puer ile Nutcracker Suite. His penchant for bombastic îrchestral effects and triumphant Diano-bashing w ould seem to pre dude Tchaikovsky from writing good string quartets, since that st classical of media leaves the Composer limited to four voices, mable to seek refuge in grand :xtural flourishes. Last week, the cham ber isic senes Pro Musica presented re Borodin String Quartet from lussia. They performed two con certs in honour of the 100th inniversary of the death of their compatriot Tchaikovsky. In addi tion to Tchaikovsky’s string quar t s opp. 22 and 30, the pro grammes of the two concerts also |included Brahms’ string quartets )pp. 52 no. 2 and 67. Although B rahm s’ string Iquartets are not considered to be

among his best chamber music, and Tchaikovsky’s cham ber mu sic, if it is considered at all, is regarded as being but a footnote to his more well-known orches tral compositions, the Borodins apparently thought these works worthy of further study. The Borodin quartet has been lauded over its nearly 50 year history for its sensitive inter pretations of Russian music. The Tchaikovsky quartets, in its hands, have a peculiarly Russian flavour in spite of their adherence to the largely Germanic classical style. The Russian element is evident, for example, in throaty, sustained bass riffs, recalling a Russian m en’s choir. This aspect of the music was conveyed with great energy by the quartet’s venerable cellist, Valentin Berlinsky, the only origi nal member of the ensemble. Unfortunately, some of the usual canards concerning the com poser are validated in his quartets. There are some rather contrived passages which reveal his futile struggle to conform to the rigours of the ensemble. The token fugue in the Finale of op. 22 smelled of pedantry from the beginning.

T he B o ro d in s p ro v e d themselves masters of balanced tone and dynamic control, espe cially in the slow m ovement of Brahms’ op. 51 no. 2, but they w ere remarkably restrained in the fiery, climactic passages. In fact, these passages tended to be a bit flat. This lack of energy may be ascribed to the fact that two members of the quartet were delayed by Customs officials at the airport, which prevented them from resting before the performance. T h e B o ro d in q u a r te t proves that for just a couple of bucks more than a ticket to see the latest Hollywood schlock, you can hear music’s greatest interpreters playing great works of cham ber music. There are fo u r concerts rem aining in Pro M usica's19939 4 sea so n , in c lu d in g th e Fontenay Trio, playing works by H aydn, Schum ann a n d Dvorak, on February 14 a t Salle PierreM ercure, UQAM. Tickets are available to students fo r $30fo r fo u r concerts, or $10 p er con cert, a t Pro M usica‘s office, 3450 St. Urbain.

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N u d e s w ir l N u d esw irl (Megaforce) In the early Eighties Jon and Marsha Zazula’s Megaforce Records w as hom e to two hun gry young bands that no one h ad yet heard of—An thrax and Metallica. O ne decade later, this one time bastion of the u n derground metal scene is shopping a band that w o u ld n a m e its e lf Nudeswirl. Not quite the I 9 H cultural icon that Anthrax turned out to be. Hell, not even the cultural icon I that Bullet Lavolta turned ■ out to be. N u d e sw irl d o e s show som e potential on Sounds are given space to rever their self-titled debut, but are ultim ately ru n over by the berate w ithout becom ing overly grunge bandw agon. Guitarists m uddled in a vast w ash o f sonic Diz Cortright and Shane M. layers (“The Sonic Layers” - cool G reen seem to b e w eaned on cheezy band name). Rumor has the I-masturbated-to-Satriani-init that founding m em bers Daniel grade-ten school o f guitar so B. and Patrick Coneys are trying los, just recently having discov to boot Jean-Luc D e Meyer and ered the distortion pedal. There Richard JK out of the band, since are som e dam n good songs on Jean-Luc’s smurf-like vocals take th is re c o rd , m o st n o ta b ly a back seat to those o f an anony “G o r d o n ’s C o rn e r" a n d m ous wom an. If so, hooray! At “Dogfood," b u t nothing that tem pting to em body the entire hasn’t been heard before. techno-thrash-industrial m ove — Ethan Sacks m ent in o n e neat package has

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D esperate for a win to get back in the race for a playoff spot, McGill returned hom e from Ottawa after suffering a tough 32 setback to the #9 ranked GeeGees. The Redmen have dropped from second to last place in the last two weeks. The third place Concordia Stingers w ere looking to avenge an earlier 5-1 loss to McGill last November. The first period h ad McGill g o alten d in g stan d o u t Patrick Jeanson seeing Stingers on the breakaway. Time after time, de fensive collapses led to easy goals. Concordia had four breakaways, and cashed in on three of them. T he Stingers d re w first blood at 9:11 on a goal by left w inger Eric Fournier. The second goal came just four minutes later w hen Daniel Picard slipped past a napping McGill defence and b eat Jeanson with a backhand, giving C oncordia a 2-0 lead. McGill’s poor defence in the first

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At the six-team Université de M ontréal invitational swim m eet last Saturday, McGill over cam e the absences of valuable team m em bers to capture third places in b oth the m en’s and w o m en ’s divisions. With four swim m ers ab sent from th e team ’s regular line up, the w om en could only m us ter 80 points and w ere bettered by l’Université d e Montréal (U d e M) with 188 points and Laval w ith 149 points, S herbrooke (with 64), O ttaw a (with 42), and Carleton (with 25), w ere unable to catch the Red and White. D espite th e absences, the Martlets m anaged som e good perform ances and m ay well have fared better if not for som e bad luck. H annah Leong w as in top m id-season form, taking the gold in th e 400m free-style. It w as the first go at this distance for the w inner o f the Greville Smith Scholarship, aw arded for aca dem ic an d athletic excellence. With Leong having already quali fied for th e CIAU (Canadian Interuniversity Athletic Union) ch am p io n sh ip s, H e ad C oach François Laurin w as able to al

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a 5 on 3 pow er play, rookie Dan continued as Concordia’s Daniel Pronyk deflected a Laquerre shot Q ueenton stole the puck from past the outstretched glove of Martin Laquerre at the blue line C oncordia netm inder, Angelo and lit the red light again. W hen Karitsiotis. the horn mercifully en ded the Despite pulling one goal first tw enty minutes o f play, the closer by the en d o f the second Stingers led 3-0. period, McGill’s chances of a Jeanson returned from the dressing room hoping the de fe n c e w o u ld m ake an ap p e a ra n c e for the rem aining tw o p e rio d s . McGill cut into the Concordia le a d e x a c tly one minute into the second p e riod o n Mark Shewfelt’s third goal of the sea son from David Vecchio. B ig w innahs: R edm en hockey stru ts its s tu ff against Concordia com eback still appeared remote. regained its three-goal advantage, History was not looking favour however, late in the second dur ably at the Redmen. McGill had ing a pow er play on Q ueenton’s posted a 0-11 record this season second goal of the night. The w hen trailing after tw o periods. relentless and scrappy Redmen The Redmen then decided squad trimmed the deficit to two that there was a first time for with a m inute and half left in the period. Taking full advantage of everything, as they reeled off

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terms of performances, ” he stated. described as “questionable”. low h er to diversify h er reper “W hen w e get to our peak, w hen While not displeased with toire. w e get to CIAUs, w e ’ll b e very his athletes’ perform ances, in “She w as swim m ing events competitive. O ur team is push light o f the circumstances, Laurin she d o esn ’t usually swim," he ing all the limits, w e ’re n o t that em phasized that w hile U d e M com m ented. “(Six wom en] have far off to go all the w ay.” m ay have an edge, McGill has already qualified for the CIAU s— Coming into the m eet, the y e t to d e m o n s tra te its full I could play around w ith som e Martlets w ere ranked second in strength. p eo p le.” the country and w ere ranked “We h ad four girls w ho Carol Chiang, w ho has also first in Q uebec dual m eet com w ere sick and w e ’re com peting qualified for the cham pionships, petition. in a division w hich is probably w as another strong perform er O n the m en’s side, McGill one o f the best in the country in over the w eekend, bu t fate was not on her side while in the lead of the 2 0 0 m freestyle. “She w as g o ing to win, bu t then her g o g g le s s n a p p e d an d sh e w as w earing con tacts, so she did n ’t do too well in the e n d ,” L aurin e x plained. The 200m freestyle also did not go McGill’s w ay in the end, despite a s tr o n g e ffo rt b y L a u rin ’s s q u a d . McGill lost the gold at the touch to U de M, but w as subse quently disqualified for a relay violation D espite m issing key team members, M cG ill fin ish e d th ir d that the head coach

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was supposed to be sidelined for the next three to five gam es te cause of the stretched knee liga ments he suffered in a 6-1 loss to Regina tw o w eeks ago. The nom adic McGill de fence finally found a hom e in the third period, coming through with great defensive play and tight checking. T he Stingers to o k twelve and a half minutes to get their first shot on goal in the third, and they had a total of six in the entire session. McGill outshot Concordia 29-23 for the game. Jeanson m ade som e big saves dow n the stretch to pre serve the win. He turned aside 19 of the 23 shots fired at him. The four goals charged to Jeanson’s G oal’s Against Average(GAA) didn’t reflect the outstanding per formance put on by the thirdyear netminder. McGill crawled within one point o f third-place Concordia, with the victory. The Redmen h ave a gam e in h a n d o v er Concordia, and will try to over take the Stingers this Friday in the division standings w hen they faceoff at hom e against the Mid-East division leaders, th e G uelph Gryphons.

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had to do w ithout the services of Leo G repin and Craig Perfect, the only Redmen to have quali fied for th e CIAUs, and m anaged a 91-point third-place, far behind Laval, w ith 185 points and U de M with 137 points. Pulling the rear w ere Sherbrooke, Carleton, and Ottawa, with 85 points, 37 points and 24 points, respec tively. W hile no R edm en w on gold, others stepped into Grepin’s and Perfect’s shoes and filled the gap admirably. Eric Potier saw first-place in the 100m breast stroke just barely slip out of his hand. After leading for the w hole race, he w as outtouched in the end and had to settle for second. Marc H utchinson also w o n a silver in the 1500m. As w as th e case for the w om en, Laurin used th e m eet to allow th e Redmen to race in different events than usual. “W e’re doing a lot o f ex perim enting with our swimmers, a [while] for others w e’re just tryj ing to find out w hat shape they s are in,” h e explained. J McGill will b e com peting at the Currie Pool, this Saturday at 2:30 PM, to take on the Université d e Sherbrooke in a dual meet.

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*Y C H A R L E S TH O M A S In seems oddly fitting that an explosive sport such as hort-track speed skating that the ise to prom inence o f McGill’s teve Gough was slow and steady, t the recent Olympic speed skatlg trials, Gough, a Fredericton, lew Brunswick native, qualified ir the Canadian team that will om pete at the Lillehammer Win;r Olympic Games. After three ears o f training with the national ;am, it will be his first Olympics. In the era of the hero-ath:te, Gough doesn’t seem to fit ie every day sports writer’s creaon of the biblical superhum an the Lord has blessed me with this tient” mythical athlete. Rather, ough presents a more humane d face of his developm ent as n athlete. As recently as this summer, expectations for himself were Olympian than they were uman. His goal was one with hich we can all relate.- simply to nprove. His approach was less natical or all-engulfing than opular perception w ould ex>ect of elite athletes. Yet that may ave been the key to his success. “I didn’t even dream about aking th e O lym pics," said ïOugh. “I did [the training] more ke a job which I found really

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easy. It tookm e less motivation to do my training. Then it started to com e together in November. It suddenly becam e very real that I could make it and the confidence jum ped from there.” Most successful athletes speak of the importance o f confi dence in their performances, but for Gough, that was perhaps the aspect of his skating that was the longest in coming. W hen he made the leap from his club in Fredericton to the national team in Montreal in 1990, he found himself outclassed by his more experienced training partners. “I was good for New Bruns wick, but there was quite a differ ence in ability from me and the other guys I was training with now —I didn’t quite bridge that gap. A lot of it was confidence too,” com m ented Gough. His problem s continued throughout the following year and it was not until after the trials for the 1992 Olympic team that Gough was able to shake his troubles. At the trials, he found himself in 18th place and off the Canadian team for those games. Ironically, it was from this defeat that he d e veloped the confidence he lacked. "After the Olympic trials, w hen the team was away, I just

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said alright, I’ll return to the basics— think about my tech n iq u e ,” sa id Gough. The fol low ing sum m er, w h ile most of those who had gone to the games w e re tak in g a d e s e rv e d break, Gough increased his training inten sity. When the 1992-93 sea son began, his perform ances were still not u p to his Surging confidently ah ead, Gough up to Olym pic Challenge hopes, but with the rest o f the national team dence in myself, and racing in only the relay. The final decision on an “off-year” (betw een the Europe I got a lot more confi will be m ade by the national team 1992 and 1994 Olympics), he nev dence with respect to the other coaches at a m eet in Lake Placid, ertheless nabbed a spot on the guys." New York, o n January 31st. Canadian team with a fourth-place His fifth-place finish at the In m any ways, G ough’s finish at the national team trials in Olym pic trials last D ecem ber greatest obstacle may well have December 1992. earned G ough a spot as at least an been m aking the Canadian team. His accom plishm ents al alternate for the Olympics. Addi Canada’s skaters have dom inated lowed him to com pete o n the tionally, it virtually assures him a the w orld short-track speed skat international circuit spot on the 5000m relay team and ing scene and once o n the team, “I got to race in Europe last gives him a chance to com pete Gough may have assured himself January [19931 and I got a lot of individually in either the 500m or of a medal. The Canadian m en’s experience,” he said. "The previ the 1000m races, though Gough relay team is favoured to win gold ous year, I gained a lot o f confi believes that he is likely to make in Lillehammer.

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quick St-Laurent goals that put the game out o f reach. “It was really a letdown on the part of the whole team,” said coach Geoff Phillips after the game. “It wasn’t a matter of one player losing their focus; it was every player.” The Martlets’ group psycho sis generally occur at some point in the second period, shortly after McGill has threatened to come back and tie or lead the game. Saturday was no different. The only scoring o f the first period came when the Patriotes scored on one of the many powerplay opportunities of this game. Less than a minute into the second period, a hard shot that was going

To say that the hockey Martlets are struggling this season would be a slight understatement. The team has lost ten consecutive league gam es and has b een outscored 83-9. The Martlets have never had the lead in a game this season. S atu rd ay n ig h t a t th e McConnell Arena, the Martlets went dow n 6-1 to the CEGEP St-Laurent Patriotes in w hat has become a typical game script. The team had no trouble playing with the Patriotes for per haps 40 minutes of the 45-minute game, but a five-minute loss of concentration resulted in three

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wide deflected off a McGill de fender's skate and straight into the McGill net. The Martlets came back just two minutes later. After sustained pressure,Jodi Zackfound the puck after a goalmouth scramble and popped it into an open n et McGill now trailed 2-1. A few minutes later, the tide would turn back in favour of the Patriotes. A forechecking St-Laurent player intercepted Martlet goalie Annette van der Linde’s clearing pass and blew the puck right by her to put St-Laurent up 3-1. Both teams had their chances following that goal, but nothing found the net. McGill became frus trated and played with less enthu siasm, or perhaps it was just bad luck. Whatever the reason, the “Big Letdown” came in the last five minutes o f the second period: StLaurent scored three goals and blew the game wide open. Was it a question of not

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Alyson Fournier. “W e’ve really come togethe as a team ,” she stated. ! Fournier will be hanging u] her skates after this season—un like the other schools in the leagu which allow players to stay o after their Canadian Interunive -it Athletic Union (CIAU) eligibilit has run out, McGill has chosen t abide by CIAU rules in an atternf to give some credibility to th game. While the coaching stal must be in a quandary, they ar not hiring a sports psychologii quite y e t The team is starting t figure it out. “They felt they could hav w on that gam e,” assistant coac John Clarke noted. “Afterwardi all the players in the dressin room w ere pissed off, grumblin and frustrated. This is the firs time that has happened.” The Martlets travel to St Laurent on Wednesday night.

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Last Friday, the Martlet bas ketball team descended on its hap less host, the Bishop’s Lady Gaiters, and ran roughshod to the tune of a 62-28 romp. By improving their Q uébec University Basketball League(QUBL) record to 4-0, the women showed that there is good reason for the fact that they are reigning in first place, while Bish op’s is mired at 0-4 in last place. The team was led by a strong defense, limiting Bishop’s chances for points and rebounds. The offense did not follow the same form, shooting only 26 for 73, but proved more than adequate to over come an anemic Gaiter offense.

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getting the breaks? O ne astute spectator put it pretty well. “T hey d o n ’t sh o o t hard enough to have a goal go in off so m eo n e’s skate. T hey d o n ’t forecheck enough to capitalize on the other team’s mistakes. You could say they’re not getting the breaks, but they do n ’t really de serve the breaks,” he said. Their perfect 0-10 record notwithstanding, the Martlets have made a lot of progress from the beginning of the season. A squad laden with rookies, McGill has taken time to come together, but they are a team now. Not count ing the five minutes that rang their doom, their position play on de fence was excellent all night. McGill was not always able to set up on their pow er plays, but when it did, quality scoring chances resulted. “In o u r games since the [Christmas] break w e’ve been very so lid ,” said five-year veteran

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t e n 's h o o p s a w i n n a h ' p e rim e te r, a n d in c o a c h Schildroth'swords, “he just drilled it.’ S op h o m o re g u a rd Chris W ith a 75-70 w in at Emergui, fromPierrefonds, Q ue bnnoxville over the Bishop’s bec, also had a solid game, scor laiters, the McGill Redmen basing 16 points. etball team looks strong going At the half, McGill led 39-35, to this Friday’s game against despite once holding a fifteen;t-place Concordia. point lead. The Redmen regained After a 1-3 win-loss record a twelve-point lead in the second jring their holidays in the Atlanhalf, but were never able to fully provinces, there w ere some finish off the Gaiters. abts about the team ’s strength, “In our last game against jt as head coach Ken Schildroth Bishop’s in December [a 91-84 alained, the holiday tournament McGill win], we blew them out. fas a chance to refocus the team But in this game, we never were l>r the second half of the season. able to close the door,” said “Because we could not pracSchildroth. in the Currie B ishop’s rm during the p re s s e d th e :em ber exam w hole gam e, :rio d , we but McGill was ;ded a chance “The Dalhousie i regain our scorable to capital |ig touch. The Tournament allowed ize by attack ing that pres tlhousie Tourus to reacquaint sure, and keep tment allowed ing their big ourselves with our to reacquaint scorers under irselv es w ith goals and control. g o als a n d objectives,” D oug >jectives,” said M cM ahon, a :hildroth. e n io r from In the first -Ken Schildroth, sDmmmondville, ro g am es, Head Coach, Quebec, had a >ainst n atio n llly - ra n k e d Redmen Basketball strong gam e, despite netting [PElCUniversity o n ly n in e Prince Edward points. He was ^land) an d St. fo u r o f five lary ’s, M cGill from the floor, and made several lggled to put points on the big shots. >ard, despite having many good In the Quebec University :oring chances. But the Redmen Basketball League (QUBL), McGill itinued to improve their game is now 3-1 , and only two points |ver the five-day period. By the behind 4-0 Concordia. This Fri )urth game, against the Univerday, the Redmen will host the #5 Ity of Toronto Blues, McGill had nationally-ranked Stingers in the |u t its game back together, and Currie Gym at 8:30 PM. The rfeated the Blues by 24 points. Redmen are hoping to avenge That strong play continued their 81-79 loss to Concordia in |n Friday against Bishops. Ryan November, and gain a share of îoenhals, a junior guard from first place. legina, had 17 points from the B Y J A M IE D E A N

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The Martlet Volleyball team finally shook the m onkey off its back last w eekend with its strong est play of the year to reach the finals of the University of Ottawa Invitational Volleyball tournam ent The Martlets cruised through the opening rounds undefeated w ith c o n v in c in g w in s o v e r Carleton (15-11,15-10), Guelph (15-8,15-9), and the University of Western Ontario (15-3,15-3). The second round win over Guelph was particularly satisfying for head coach Rachèle Béliveau. “We played exceptionally well in that game, everything was going our way. The girls were executing [the plays] well,” she commented. The University of Ottawa was the only team to mar McGill’s effort by dropping the Martlets in the find game by a score of 3-1 (12-15, 13-15, 15-8, 11-15). Despite the loss, Béliveau was satisfied with the effort her team provided. Citing the close scores, she believed the victory could have gone either way. For a team that has had more than its fair share of downs, the tournam ent was with little doubt their most impressive up. According to Béliveau, this just underscores the strength of com petition McGill must face in its ow n league—the toughest in the country. “Since the beginning of the year, we have played only against team s in o u r le a g u e ,” sa id Béliveau. “W hen w e fall against a different calibre of competition, the more w e play, the more we gain confidence. From a technical aspect we are superior.” T ea m C a p ta in M aryam Moayeri agreed. “We go into [the Ontario league] and w e’re one of the best

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