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N ew s: SSM U reverses position on controversial blood drive stand. See p age 3 O p/E d: SSM U council ignores p ro ced u re to w aste students' m oney on a referendum . See ed ito rial, p ag e 6 Featu res: Gen. X ers of the W orld U nite!!! McGill students consider their identity as the generation that w asn't. See p ag e 10 E n tertain m en t: H ansons hicks han g out at M usée des B eaux A rts w hile the C entaur holds hostages. S ee p ag e 14 Sp orts: Y vonne Schut leads Synchro team to third in O W IA A , and M en's hockey still alive. S ee p ag e 19

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Win a hotel package at La Citadelle! Cheer on the Redmen hockey team as they take on Ottawa in their last, regular season home game at 7:30 PM at the McConnell Arena.

The Latin American Awareness Group meets at 5 PM in Shatner B09. Speeches on the state and future of the francophone population at McGill: Doyen Belanger, J-P Duquette, Doyen McCallum, Vice-principal Leggett, Florence Tracy. 2 PM, Shatner 425. For more info call Isabelle Girard at 3986798.

Faculty of Music concerts: McGillJazz Combos. 8 PM, Pollack Hall. Free. Kenneth Gilbert, organ and harp sichord. Tickets $10/$8, on sale at Pollack Hall Box Office. 7:30 PM, Redpath Hall. For info and reservations, call 398-4547.

The Royal Victoria Hospital’s Allan Memorial Institute presents a talk on “You and your aging parents.”7:30 PM, Allan Memorial Institute, 1025 Pine W., South Seminar Room. Free and open to the public.

LBGM has a weekly bisexual dis cussion group. 5:30 PM, Eaton Bldg., 5th floor. Afriendly group dealing with issues directly relevant to bisexuals; all wel come. SACOMSS offers 2 facilitated mutual aid support groups: “Women Survivors of Domestic Violence” and “Men Survivors of Sexual Abuse.” Call 398-2700. McGill Improv performs com edy every Wednesday in the Alley, 8 PM. Free for all. Très funny.

The Faculty of Music presents student soloists. 4:45 PM, Pollack Hall. Free. For more info, call 398-4547/8101.

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Amnesty International McGill meets every Tuesday at 6:30 PM in Shatner 435. New, old and casual members wel come. For info come to Shatner 410 or call 398-1209.

Speeches on the state and future of the francophone population at McGill: Ray Saterthwaite, Vice-principal Tavenas, Anne Roussell & Mary-Ellen Johanssen, Daily Français, more. Shatner 425. For more info call Isabelle Girard at 398-6798.

The Sexual Assault Centre of McGill (SACOMSS) offers a “Women with Eating Disorders" facilitated mutual aid support group. Body image issues also addressed. Call 398-2700. Wednesday. February 16 The Jewish Women's Project presents Barbara Freedman speaking on “Esther: the Reluctant Princess." Dis cussion to follow. All welcome. 12:30 PM, Hillel House, 3460 Stanley. For more info call 844-6798.

Scrivener Magazine presentsthe 2nd reading in its annual reading series, featuring Montreal writers Erin Moure and Gail Scott. 7 PM, Thomson House, 3650 McTavish. Free. For more info call Kim Collinge at 954-0729. SACOMSS offers a “Friends and Family of Survivors of Sexual Abuse” facilitated mutual aid support group. Call 398-2700. Friday. February 18 The Women’s Union is having a general meeting at4:30PM inShatner423. All women welcome!

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L’Ensemble Contemporain de Montréal presents works in progress. 10 AM, 11:30 AM, 2 PM, 3:30 PM. Clara Lichtenstein Hall, Rm. C-209, 555 Sherbrooke St. W. Free. For more infocal! 398-4547/8101. Monday. February 21

SACOMSS offers a “Women Sur vivors of Child Sexual Abuse" facilitated mutual aid support group. Call 398-2700. Ongoing... Red Herring deadlines: March 4 for contests, March 11 for regular submis sions. Come out in droves! Or in clothes, to our meetings to find out more details. Shatner B07, 398-2142. Cool. The English Department presents the play “Ten Lost Years” at Morrice Hall in the Arts Building, Feb. 1619, at 8 PM. Tickets $10/$6. For info call 398-6070. Committed volunteers (male and female) needed for Women’s AIDS Hos pice to give hands-on, practical support

and care. Please call Sharon at 525-9210. ACTION Self-defence courses for women are being offered March 12 and 13, and are only $30 for McGill students. Only a few spots left! Call Walksafe at 398-2498 to register. heridan, a womanist/feminist journal, is currently seeking submissions for its Spring '94 issue - any style of writing, graphics and photographs. Origi nal, creative and diverse contributions from all women are welcome. Please bring submissions to the Women's Union mailbox in the Shatner lobby. Deadline March 15. For info call 398-6823. The McGiU East Asian Journal is eagerly seeking undergraduate submis sions from any discipline which pertains to East Asia. Please hand in papers to the 3rd floor office of 3434 McTavish ASAP, or contact David at 843-8993.

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Faculty of Music concerts: Violin Masterclass. 10AM-1 PM, 2-5 PM. Pollack Hall. Tickets at the door $10 half-day, $15 full day. Participants: $50. Info and registration: 932-2478.

The Montreal General Hospi tal is having an Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Foundation Meeting. 7 PM, Mon treal General Hospital, 6th floor, Rm. D6190. For more info call Inge Hatton at 9348034.

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Come out and watch the Martlet hockey squad do the cross-town thing against Concordia at 6:30 PM at the McConnell Arena.

McGill Chaplaincy Service presents a symposium on “Power and Truth,”followed by a discussion. 7:30 PM, Leacock 232.

McGill WISE (Women in Science and Engineering) meets at 6 PM in Shatner 423. The McGill Marketing Club wel comes all members to its General Assem

LBGM has two discussion groups, both in the basement of the United Theo logical College (3521 University). Coming Out group meets at 5:30 PM, General Discussion at 7 PM. Friendly atmosphere, all welcome.

Come order your tasty healthy noncorporate organic food from the McGill Organic Food Co-op Mondays between 11:30 AM-4:30 PM in Eaton Bldg. Rm. 505. Bring a deposit; pickups on Wednesdays.

The Yellow Door Coffee House presents storytelling by Stanley Asher and friends - stories of life in Montreal, fol lowed by an open stage. $2.8 PM, Yellow Door, 3625 Aylmer. For info call 398-6243.

Faculty of Music concerts: Réal Gauthier, organ. 12:15 PM, Redpath Hall. Master's Recital by Beth Levia, oboe. 8 PM, Redpath Hall. McGill Percussion Ensemble. 8 PM, Pollack Hall. All are free. For more info call 398-4547/8101.

AGSEM Annual General Meeting at 6 PM in Leacock 26. Budget, elections, constitution to be discussed. Lots of food will be served! Contact AGSEM, Eaton Bldg. Rm. 101, MWF 12-2 PM, 336-2358, agsem@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca

Speeches on the state and future of the francophone population at McGill: McGill-Québec, Dr. Tellier, Hélene Poulin-Migneault, Diane Grégoire, more. 2 PM, Shatner 425.

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The Department of History's staff/student seminar series presents Prof. Sybil Jack speaking on “Scottish towns in the sixteenth and early seventeenth cen turies.” 10:30 AM, Arts Bldg., Council Rm. 160. All welcome.

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A motion to rescind the Students’ Society (SSMU) Novem ber 1 1 th decision to cease partici pation in Canadian Red Cross (CRC) blood drives was passed after a five hour debate at last Thursday’s council meeting. The motion to rescind was sponsored by Medicine Rep David McCaughey, Athletics Rep James Stewart, and Arts Reps Liane Thomas and Corey Cook. They sought to overturn the Novem ber motion brought to council by Lesbians, Bisexuals and Gays of McGill (LBGM). SSMU had origi nally decided that question 12 (a) of the CRC’s donor screening questionnaire, which states in part: “the following activities put you at risk—if male, having sex with another male, even once”, was contrary to Article 2, Section 2.3 of the SSMU constitution. That section prohibits SSMU from as sociating itself with organizations that discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation. The sponsors of the motion argued that the decision to ban the annual blood drive was made without representation from the CRC. McCaughey argued that the CRC’s representation was neces sary for council to make an in formed decision.

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A lawsuit between McGill University and a McGill graduate has recently been settled out of court. Denise Damecour, who re ceived a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1987, sued McGill in order to gain access to her official stu dent records, which she needed to apply to graduate school. McGill Registrar J. P. Schuller was named as co-defendant in the case. Damecour asked McGill to send official transcripts to Concordia University and the University of Ottawa. McGill re jected her request, citing a uni versity policy regarding unpaid fee balances. Damecour, who declared bankruptcy after graduating, had an outstanding debt of more than 900 dollars to the Alma Mater Loan Fund, a fund used to provide emergency loans to McGill students. Schuller explained why Damecour’s records were fro zen. “The policy is that any out standing amount, in the excess _____________________ _____________

SSM U council votes to once again allow sponsorship o f blood drives in Shatner Building “In my opinion only one side was presented adequately. I wanted the Red Cross to be rep resented,” he said. In an attempt to address the CRC’s side of the issue, Dr. Gilles Delage, Regional Medical Direc tor of the Red Cross, attended Thursday’s meeting and pre sented the reasoning behind the wording of the questionnaire. “Men who have had sex

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of 40 dollars, results in official records being withheld,” he said. Damecour believed she was not required to repay the loan due to her declaration of bankruptcy and thus had a right to her official transcripts. She subsequently sued McGill, re questing access to her official records and 5,000 dollars in dam ages. Damecour, who was re ceiving government assistance at the time, was represented by a provincial Legal Assistance law yer. M cGill resp o n d ed to Damecour’s lawsuit by retaining the Montreal law firm of McCarthy Tetrault to defend its right to withhold transcripts. McGill’s defence was based on a clause in the loan agree ment which Damecour initially signed when she received her loan. If Damecour had won her case, the clause in question might have been ruled non-binding. McGill could have lost the legal right to withhold transcripts from any student who had declared bankruptcy while owing the uni versity money. McGill’s policy is based on

with other men are still the root of AIDS transmission," Delage asserted. In order to reinforce his argument, Delage offered an an ecdote to explain this reality and to illustrate the inherent flaws associated with condom use. “The last three HIV positive donors that came to us were three men— two who were gay and one who was bisexual. All

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a particular interpretation of Que bec law regarding access to per sonal information. They are ob ligated to give students access to their records but are not bound to provide certified copies. Damecour feels that this policy is an abuse of authority. “These are my records and I have a right to them,” she argued. “McGill was throwing its weight around.” A ccording to Schuller, McGill used its right to withhold transcripts in order to force stu dents to repay money owed to the university. “Students can always see their records,” said Schuller. “We reserve the right to withhold official copies.” Damecour chose to settle out o f court, signing a confiden tial agreement with the univer sity, thus halting the legal chal lenge to McGill’s right to with hold students’ transcripts. According to McGill’s legal advisor, Raynald M ercille, McGill’s interpretation of the law is designed to protect the loan fund. He believes that McGill policies are legal and stated that the decision to settle out of court should not be viewed as an

three were using condoms and all three were condom failures,” he said. “There is no such thing as safe sex, only safer sex. The fail ure rate of condoms due to rup ture or slippage is 30 per cent,” elaborated Delage. Delage explained the diffi culty of wording the question naire. “It is extremely difficult to

admission of any wrongdoing. “Our ability to manage this money is for the greater benefit of the students," said Mercille. “This settlement was made with out any admission of wrong by either party.” Echoing Schuller, Mercille explained the rationale for with holding the transcripts. “If they do want that pre cious document (official tran script), they do have to pay the money back,”explained Mercille. When asked to comment on the lawsuit, Schuller declined to discuss the details of the set tlement, but did indicate that Denise Damecour now has ac cess to her official transcripts. Irwin Gopnik, McGill’s Dean of Students, explained that as a condition of the settlement he met with Damecour’s lawyer, Nelson Drot. “I met with him and ex plained [McGill's! policy to him,” said Gopnick. “I think the meet ing was a good one.” Mercille refused to confirm or deny Gopnik’s statement, cit ing the confidentiality of the outof-court settlement. Nelson Drot was unavail able for comment.

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phrase a questionnaire to differ entiate between safe sex activi ties and safer sex activities,” he said. “To change the wording of the questionnaire, we need a scientific basis— we need data... It’s not a simple process, and it has to be approved by the re gional agency.” Delage concluded his pres entation by emphasizing the CRC’s critical responsibility to maintaining a safe blood supply. He also encouraged students to get involved in the attempt to resolve the questionnaire issue. “Risks that are reasonable in one context are not reasonable in another,” he asserted. “We continue to invite advice from our current and potential blood donors.” Mary-Margaret Jones, a U3 Religious Studies student, and author of the November motion against the blood drive, main tained her opposition to the ques tionnaire. Jones argued that the questionnaire reinforces a het erosexual interpretation of the notion of “sex”. “There are a lot o f heterosexist assumptions occur ring... Sex isn’t necessarily the penis penetrating the anus. 50 per cent of gay men do not participate in anal sex,” she said.

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A session with Principal David Johnston and PrincipalD esignate Bernard Shapiro marked the beginning of an in quiry into the status of McGill’s francophones by La Commission Francophone à McGill yesterday. The group, which was ini tially known as the FrancoFriendly Commission, was initi ated by Students’ Society (SSMU) VP External Andrew Work earlier this year in an effort to address the d eclin e in M cG ill’s francophone population. A press release issued by the commission earlier this month stated that the percentage of francophone students at McGill has fallen from 26.9 per cent in September 1986, to 19.7 per cent in September 1993- This decrease of over seven per cent over the past seven years prompted the investigation, which will conclude this Thursday. The Franco-Friendly Com mission evolved, under the di rection of Coordinator Isabelle

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Girard, to become la Commis sion d’Enquête sur le Statut et l’Avenir du Français et de la Popu lation Francophone à McGill. The commission will call upon testimony from the deans of various faculties at the univer sity, McGill Vice Principal (Aca demic) William Leggett, and other prominent members of the uni versity committee. According to a press release, the commission explained that it aims to inspire modifications to the constitution of SSMU as well as administrative practices at the university. C om m issioner Marian Tremblay opened the proceed ings with a declaration of the commission’s intent and empha sized that its role is not to lay blame but to find solutions. “The name of the commis sion was originally the FrancoFriendly Commission, which proves that our existence is not to revendicate (sic) or criticize but help collaborate with a dynamic, open and constructive approach,” he said. As the first to testify in the co m m ittee’s in vestigation,

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Johnston and Shapiro fielded a number of questions concerning the history of francophone stu dents at McGill and their future prospects in the upcoming years. Girard asked Johnston what he has noticed over his 15 years as

“For me the important issue is not how many. To me it is the students’ experience while they are here.” -Principal-Designate Bernard Shapiro principal that might explain the current state of francophones at McGill. “Firstly, I’ve seen a signifi cant rise in McGill’s francophone population during my time here. Thirty years ago francophones represented 4 per cent of the McGill population,” he stated.

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“25 per cent was a high water mark while today’s is perhaps more realistic.” Shapiro explained that his primary concern with McGill’s francophones resides with the quality of their university experi ence, more so than the strength of their numbers. “For me the important issue is not how many. To me it is the students’ experience while they are here,” he stated. “We have to make sure they are an integral part of the university and to me the real issue is what we can do to ensure this.” Johnston added that in his 15 years, the university has un dertaken a series of measures to ensure a healthy francophone community at McGill. “We’ve taken a number ini tiatives to survey and understand the needs of the francophone students. We’ve tried to get a sense of the needs and chances of students in each faculty, and as a result each faculty has devel oped its own program for meet ing these needs,” he maintained. Girard questioned McGill’s

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receptiveness to these needs, notably the availability of profes sors capable of correcting French work. Johnston responded that though no specific declaration exists, the option of working in French has been a policy at McG ill since its founding. “I haven’t heard a single problem with this policy during my time here. It works and we’re going to work to ensure that it continues to do so,” Johnston asserted. In response to Girard’s question as to what McGill’s francophones can expect from him, Principal-Designate Shapiro commented that his contribution will be directly related to the strength of the commission’s re port, which will be presented in March. “I hope to maintain the re port whose quality will enable us to take action,” he said. “There are, however, a lot of priorities outlined by the Task Force on Priorities report. This remains an important question and hope fully we can make important steps to addressing it.”

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 3 Jones urged council to con sider the implications of going back on its initial stance, an act which she felt was further com plicated by the predominance of heterosexual orientation at the CRC. “It’s still discrimination. If you rescind the motion, take the clause on discrimination out of the constitution,” she said. “Peo ple on the outside are defining what discrimination is. You’re defining our oppression for us.”

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John Storring, a second year medicine student and a member of the gay community, supported the CRC questionnaire. “I’m not a 100 per cent keen on LBGM speaking on what’s discrimination and what’s not. Maybe it’s because I’m in medi cine that I have come to appreci ate the issue on a rational basis and I don’t see how it can be discriminatory. We get a lot of training in public health and we are exposed to a lot of these facts,” Storring told council. Storring felt that within the gay community there was an even

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split regarding the issue. “I think it’s split among the gay community in medicine. LBGM’s position is not mine,” he said. U2 law student Adam Atlas

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attempted to redirect the debate. “The debate has been to some extent off target. It has been about what kind of sex is good or not or what is safe or not. This is too big a question for SSMU to address. To try to an swer it, we would have no time for sex itself,” Atlas said. Alexa Johnston, who was SSMU VP Internal for the 1991-92 academic year, appeared at the meeting. Johnston was a mem ber of the council that authored the current SSMU Constitution. She argued that Article 2, Section 2.3 had not been intended to prevent the CRC from coming on campus. “The spirit of [Article 2, Sec tion 2.31 was to avoid the likes of

David Duke coming on campus and propagandizing. I was sur prised to see the clause being used to ban the Red Cross,” she asserted. Arts Rep Liane Thomas, who co-sponsored the motion to re scind, emphasized her belief that this was an issue that had to be decided by McGill’s student body via a referendum in the upcoming election. “Let the students decide for themselves whether the CRC can come to our school to collect blood or not," she maintained. After nearly five hours of debate, councillors voted to re scind the motion by a margin of 16 for and 9 against Among those who voted for the motion were SSMU President Mark Luz and VP External Andrew Work. Luz claimed his decision to go against the November posi tion established by SSMU was not based on politics but on keeping with his conscience. “I don’t think the execu tive’s split over this issue [will have serious consequences] be cause this was a very emotional, personal and moral issue. This was not a political decision,” he said. “Everyone had to vote with their conscience.” Subsequently, SSMU coun cil voted to send the blood drive question to a referendum during the March election period, pend ing the approval of SSMU’s Judi cial Board. The Judicial Board, comprised of five upper-year law students, acts as the final arbiter of constitutional questions.

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Students will be going to the polls in early March to vote fo r a new executive committee. Thefo l lowing review o f Students’ Society (SSMU) VP External Andrew Work is thefirst in a series o f analyses o f this past year's executive commit tee an d their perform ance. In his campaign, U3 Ecology student Andrew Work called for an increased focus on student safety, fiscal responsibility, and inter-uni versity cooperation. Of the three, student safety has been Work’s predominant focus. Although Work is yet under his operating budget, he admitted that many of his major projects still need to be imple mented. Inter-university coopera tion has proven difficult to initiate. Work himself, however, marked the Franco-Friendly Commission as his greatest success this year. This Monday marked the of ficial opening of Work’s Commis sion sur la Statut et l'Avenir du Français et de la Population Francophone à l'Université McGill. The commission, which &-Coordi nated by Science Rep to SSMU council Isabelle Girard, has con cerned itself with the state of McGill’s francophone population and has undertaken a study of how

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francophone presence at McGill can be improved. Work explained that his experience on Students’ Society this year made the need for this study clear. “This is the first year that I’ve been in volved with Student’s So ciety, and when I got in I realized that there just weren’t any francophones doing anything and we’re sup posed to be a bilingual association,” he said. “I decided that the best way to look into this would be through a commis sion.” The portfolio of the VP External has of ten been criticized for its lack of definition. The vague responsibilities specified for the job have placed the onus on the elected candidate to de cide on the focus they wish to take. Work felt that his biggest failure this past year was his inabil ity to involve council in the Organi sation Nationale Universitaire (ONU), a national inter-university organization. The Financial Man agement Committee (FMC), the

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“They don’t always feel the connection with the rest of the Quebec community.” Work’s major projects, La Commission Francophone and the ghetto safety audit, have only recently come to frui tion. When asked what he felt his major accomplish ments last semester were, Work outlined his efforts to deal with problems sur rounding ID card valida tion and his work to publi cize the International Stu dent Exchange program. The program allows students to attend universi ties around the world while g paying McGill tuition fees. .> Along with U3 psychology 3 student Holli Rubin, an 1/3 alumnus of the program, "o Work has made attempts to -9 publicize the program. On his campaign plat form, Work offered three solutions to the problem of student safety, including increased financial support of the Walksafe Network, increased police patrolling in the student ghetto, and a student-supported neighbourhood watch program. When asked about money for Walksafe, Work explained that since students voted to directly

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fund Walksafe at last year’s refer endum, finance has not been a problem for the organization. Work’s attempts to lobby the Montreal Urban Community police for an increase in patrols in the ghetto and to organize a studentsupported neighbourhood watch program have met with difficulties. “We were looking into [a neighbourhood watch program] and encountered a problem in that most of the people in the ghetto Eve in apartments — it’s difficult to organize a neighbourhood watch program when you Eve on the eighth floor and have no front door,” he explained. Work’s platform last year also included a pledge that any budget overruns in his portfolio would be paid for out of his stipend. Unfor tunately, Work’s attempts to fulfill this promise were frustrated by the realities of the legal process. “The Legal Information Clinic explained to me that I couldn’t really make a contract with myself, so I haven’t signed anything. I hope the media will make sure I stick to that promise,” said Work. Work also commented on his recent appearance in the Daily, explaining that the reaction has been excellent. When asked if his mother had seen the picture, his reply was emphatic. “No, and she won't,” he said.

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E D IT O R IA L Students’ Society (SSMU) council meetings tend to be tedious at the best of times. Unfortunately, many of the representatives don’t do a very good job of actually repre senting, but rather do some thing more along the lines of grandstanding. The number of councillors who insist on speaking to every issue that ever faces them is astound ing—and one of the primary reasons that SSMU often spends more than its allotted three hours for a meeting. Take last Thursday’s council meeting. Councillors convened at 6 PM to discuss a plethora of issues, most nota bly its November decision to cease participation in Red Cross blood drives on the ba sis that the screening ques tionnaire discriminates on the basis of sexual orientation. Be cause of the large size of the gallery present to watch the debate, and the number of students that chose to speak on the issue, councillors did not leave the basement of the

B Y E T H A N SACKS An expedition of scien tists is headed for the Amazon next month, in search of a leg endary South American coun terpart to Bigfoot. After a bar rage of eyewitness accounts by natives of the region, expedi tion leader David Oren, an orni thologist, is convinced that the creature is actually a six-foot sloth. Sketches suggest that the “mapinguari” (as the locals call it) is over 500 pounds, and is equipped with both a chemical defence and razor-sharp claws. The sloth is suspected to be an offshoot of a prehistoric sloth family, although it sounds sus piciously like a member of my family. I guess it was just a matter of time for the sloth and all other natural enigmas like it (Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster, Elvis, etc.), before they were run over by a tractor to clear land for a shopping centre. Since the popu lation is rising so fast, the shop ping centres are, of course, more of a necessity. Humans breed like rab bits in heat, a problem that is magnified by the fact that many religions frown upon the use of

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Shatner building until almost 1 AM. The blood drive issue has been flogged like a dead horse festering in the desert, but coun cil decided to give it one more chance. Surrounded by CBC Radio and Pulse News cameras, every councillor chipped two cents or more worth of sometimes inter esting, but most times irrelevant platitudes. After five hours, coun cil finally voted to rescind its previous motion—with notable flip-flops performed by SSMU President Mark Luz and VP Ex ternal Andrew Work. After SSMU had decided to continue participating in blood drives, things got very strange, as SSMU entered its own sort of twilight zone. Arts Rep Liane Thomas asked council to spon sor a student referendum, thus allowing students to decide on the issue. Three cheers for de mocracy, but it seems that Thomas’s actions were motivated by the growing student unrest with the original SSMU decision. Given the fact that council re scinded that motion, what is the point of sponsoring what effec

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contraceptives. In the meantime, over 10,000 people die of starva tion each day. Contraceptives can be unappealing, especially if au thor Christopher Hyde’s assertion that oral contraceptives include the urine of pregnant mares as an ingredient is correcL The mares are constantly impregnated and penned up for their urine, and so would probably rather take their chances with human overpopula tion. State-sponsored programs providing access to contracep tives, however, may beat the al ternative of a giant game of twister. I was ingrained with the value of contraception from an early age, since my parents regu larly complained that they should have used some nine months be fore I was born. The stress that so many peo ple put on the planet is, of course, well documented on the lyric sheets of every Sting album. The rain forests are burning, the polar cap is melting and my peaches are not as juicy as they once were. Instead of breathtaking vistas, there are more and more city scapes popping up where taking a breath is not recommended. The waves generated by all the electrical appliances we use, for example, are suspected to con tribute to Chronic Fatigue Syn drome. I can verify this since my roommates and I used to stick my

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tively amounts to an opinion, poll? The students spoke on Thursday, when more than 50 turned out to watch the proceed ings of the SSMU legislative cir cus. Circus you ask? Yes, that’s right, a circus it was on Thurs day. In order for a referendum question to meet electoral guide lines, the Chief Returning Offic ers informed council, the ques tion must appear in the Tribune eighteen days before election day. That meant that council had to decide on Thursday, so that the question could appear this week. Fair enough, council said, let’s vote tonight. In stepped Speaker Gregory Shron, Robert’s Rules in hand, to inform council that for a referen dum question to be passed, no tice of motion must be served at the previous meeting, and there fore council could not approve a referendum question. Athletics Rep James Stewart suggested that council move to adjourn its meeting and re-convene later that evening in order to comply with the electoral guidelines. Shron informed

ex-roommate’s head in the microwave, and recently discovered that he had indeed come down with the syndrome. The Sydney M orning H er a ld recently reported an incident where a traffic cop in Bangkok went temporarily insane because he couldn’t handle the constant stream of traffic. In order to deal with the mind-numbing number o f autom obiles that passed through his intersection, he ap parently switched all his lights to green and danced amid the result ing wreckage. He was proclaim ing that the end was near, but the only change was a new traffic officer at the post the next day. The street had been reopened to traffic within half an hour. Signs that the end of the world is coming may already have surfaced, if not in Bangkok then in Kiev. A Russian cult named “the White Brotherhood” pre dicted that the end of the world was to occur last November 14th, according to the Russian newspa per Izvestia. The leader of the sect, Maria Tsvigun, was to cru cify herself and be resurrected after three days to herald the coming of the apocalypse. Re grettably, the end of the world was postponed by Tsvigun, after she and over 800 followers were arrested before the execution. The fact that the Kiev police could

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c o u n c il? right to life, should have taken this whole issue to Judicial Board in the first place. If it decides that the questionnaire is constitutional, then hold a blood drive and everyone is happy. If it’s unconstitutional, then SSMU has no choice— it cannot participate in a blood drive. Students should b e aware that council didn’t take its original action because it wanted to can cel blood drives— it did so because councillors felt constitution ally bound to cancel them. If the Judicial Board agrees with that original interpretation, students will have to live with it until SSMU amends its con stitution. Council should not dis cuss this matter again—but inevitably it will. After all, the circus comes to town regu larly. And SSMU convenes in the Shatner building just as often. Let the bearded lady speak—everyone else does.

Stewart that such a motion would be ruled out of order by the chair. But procedure be damned, council marched on. Thomas made the motion to adjourn, and Shron ruled it out of order, so Arts Rep Corey Cook challenged the chair. Council overruled Shron, notice of mo tion was made, and the meeting was adjourned. Five minutes later, council reconvened, but by that point Shron had completely lost control of the various animals and freak-show attractions that comprise SSMU council. Council got together in the most haphazard of fashions to finally draft a referendum ques tion—but it almost missed the point again. Just as Cook was myopic when he initiated a peti tion for referendum at the Arts Undergraduate Society council, SSMU almost forgot about the entire constitutional question. The entire question is moot if the SSMU Judicial Board decides the Red Cross questionnaire is un constitutional. Cook, or any of the other students on this cam pus who are able to separate human dignity for gays from the

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stay the hand of God is made more impressive by the fact that they cannot stop a few black market merchants who hawk small jars of blackberry jam. Even where the technology exists to undo a lot of the damage that our species has wrought on the environment, there is often opposition. When the Mount Lyell Mining Co. in New Zealand at tempted to re-seed an area of mountains ravaged by its copper smelter, the government refused to allow the company to con tinue. Apparently, the bare hills were the region’s primary tourist

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PolicqfopCommentsandLetterstotTicEditor All are welcome to submit comments and letters to the editor. The T r ib u n e reserves the right 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 PM on Thursday afternoon for inclusion in the followins week's issue.

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Big decision time com ing up in the lives o f many. Where am I going? What am I doing? Do I stay on at the gas station this summer, or do I try for the big money and go for the 7-Eleven? Sure, I’d like to land a job at the self-serve, but a newcomer to the business can’t be too ambitious. People often ask me, “So what was it like working in the least prestigious gas sta tion this side o f Kuwait?” Well let me tell you, contrary to popular belief, it’s not all glitz and glamour. Gas jockeys are still human too. (And we in the industry prefer the term

C O M M E N T The Faculty of Arts often finds itself playing “catch-up” not only with respect to other competitive universities, but with other departments within McGill. There is nothing wrong with playing “catch-up” so long as one catches up to a good model. Many universities and depart ments in McGill used to have what would be the equivalent of “D” courses, but have long abol ished them in favour of semester courses. The Faculty of Science has very few D courses, as do the Faculties of Engineering and Management. There are advan tages to D courses, but I think the disadvantages override the advantages. 1) A student taking a D course receives only one grade for a full year’s work. If a student achieves a grade of “A-” in the first semester of his D course and that of a “C+” in the second, his course grade is that of a “B”. I believe that if those two grades were recorded separately, they would not only be more indica tive of the student’s perform ance than had they been aver aged, the first grade would have alleviated pressure on the stu dent to be grade-conscious, and might have allowed him to per form better in his second semes ter. Students’ performance will always be measured by teach ers’ grades, but I think that if students could be less interested in how well they do, and more in learning, that would be an ad vantage. 2) The cumulative tested knowledge in D courses becomes daunting by the end of the course. Materials covered in different semesters tend to be thematic anyway, so it seems reasonable to test students semesterly. Moreover, the amount of review

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“honey”, or “girl”, but if you m ust be gender-neutral then a simple “hey you” or “fill ‘er up” will do.) Nope, pumping gas is no picnic in the auto mall. There must be thirty, forty brands of cigarettes to memorize, and when a customer pulls in on a Harley wanting those smokes, you got to have them off the shelf and in their hands within three seconds flat. And as often as I’ve heard som eone say, “I just need two bucks worth of gas to get me to the border” is as often as I’ve looked under the hood and not been able to find the dipstick. It happens to the best o f us and it’s just something you have to get used to. ‘Course, what the driver doesn’t know won’t hurt me, so I just shut the hood and say,

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entailed by the end of the year in D courses gives students the incentive to take A or B courses instead, an incentive which should not exist. 3) D courses are a disin centive for students who want to study abroad for only a semes ter. 4) D courses exclude the possibility of changing sections, by which a student may be able to change her/his schedule in the second semester and accom modate other courses he/she may want to take in that time slot. 5) D language courses of ten exclude the possibility of starting or continuing a language in the second semester. 6) When a student must withdraw for emergency rea sons from a D course, that stu dent would lose credit for the entire course. 7) Withdrawing from a D course is more dear than with drawing from an A or B course. An international student would forfeit up to $2,190 by with drawing from a D course. The proposal which I sub mit is to change D courses to A and B courses. A semesterly sys tem does not preclude the pos sibility of obligatory full-year courses, and a stipulation that both A and B courses must be taken may be included. It does allow students to take a course in non-consecutive semesters, and does evaluate them in two separate periods. The Faculty of Arts already offers som e semesterly courses whose mate rials are coherent over the full year. Let’s make all D courses that way. Steven Douglas U2 Arts

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“Looks fine to m e”, but that’s just another trick o f the trade that your high-falootin’ book learning can’t always teach you. School is fine for some, but for those who recognize the ca reer potential in the fast-paced, high stakes world o f the gas station industry, what can it do? Yep, four years o f what they tell me are the best o f my life all and I have to show is an impressive repertoire o f pasta recipes and a student loan big ger than the GNP o f a small dictatorship. Let’s see, if Glenda is on board a train going west at 100 km per hour and she is running east at 8 km per hour followed by a Revenue Canada employee going 10 km per hour, how long before she’s caught for defaulting on her student loan payments? Alter

Re: Council Meetings of 10 February Pending approval of the SSMUJudi cial Board, there will be a referendum on the CRC Blood Drive. A victory for democ racy, and apparently, a chance for all stu dents to state their opinion on the issue. The councillors who brought the motion argued, I think legitimately, that the CRC should have been allowed to make a presentation at the original November 11th council meeting, at which, they argued further, council made an uninformed deci sion. Secondly, council made a hasty deci sion without giving councilors reasonable time to consult their respective faculty asso ciations. Finally, they argued that there was enough student concern on campus to call a referendum, in order to gauge student opinion. There was thus an implicit prom ise to hold a referendum, either under the auspices of SSMU or another group. By the tenor of the debate, it is clear that many Councillors accepted this last suggestion. Councillors were free to argue about the interrelated issues of discrimina tion, risk management, and the constitution while ignoring the potential for compro mise. These are indeed important issues, but last night they unfortunately served as an apology for avoiding compromise. And it is SSMU Council, more than any other institution in the constitution, which is particularly suited to creating com promises. Except inasmuch as it supports the easy expression of “yes" or “no" I amnot sure how a referendum will foster discus sion which will lead to a compromise. On this issue, SSMU needs a complex of opin ions, not the simply separated “yes”or “no”. How ironic, a referendum which confuses rather than clarifies. Jonathan Ablett SSMU Senate/Board Rep

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natively, $6,000 divided by minimum wage divided by number o f hours worked per week equals... ah yes: a good incentive to stay in school. Oh, for those days o f innocence when personal debt meant your sister owed you a dollar and physical labour meant a diffi cult childbirth. Graduation is certainly ap pealing, but this ivory tower is a virtual refuge from the vi cious cycle of unemployment and overqualification. You can still be a martyr in the lowwage sector when you’re in school, but once you’re out, you’re just another schmuck in polyester asking “Do you want fries with that?” And not every one is as lucky as me. Not only do I have that blue collar expe rience, I speak the language of

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the Redneck (B.C. interior dia lect) that’s so often the decid ing factor in the mind o f the employer. How many people have passed through those gates and been told, "Let’s get this straight: you have two degrees in Philosophy and English and spend every sum mer doing research when you’re not on an art scholar ship in France, and now you want to be a waitress in the IHOP? Sorry, but w e’re look ing for som eone w ho’s q u a li fied ." But don’t let my pessi mism bring you down. Just let that Petro Canada maple leaf be an emblem o f hope for us all; keep your spirits up, check your own oil, and you’ll be riding that fossil-fueled high way to success.

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Although spelling mistakes in the article were the responsibility of the editors, the errors do not take awayfrom the accu racy of the statements therein. The Tribune stands by Ms. Campagna‘s reporting.

Stu d en ts ch o o se... The debate regardingthe |CRC]ques tionnaire and whether it could be ruled discriminatory under SSMU's constitution has been an issue that has divided the campus. Although one side may have pre vailed at Thursday's council meeting, there were no winners. At council on Thursday, we heard statements not only from council lors, but from individuals on both sides of the issue and most importantly, the stu dents. From day one, students wanted to have input on this issue, and they will. Following the debate on the blood drive issue, council passed a motion that will place a referendum question on the March election ballot, pending the approval of the Judicial Board. The purpose is that we [council] not as a group of 30, but, you as our constituents of 15,000 can decide. Stu dents have long been fighting to be heard and to have input on issues that directly affect them. I implore you, take advantage of this right. At the same time I caution you, do not make the same mistake that Council did in November when we initially debated the issue. Before casting your vote, please, viewboth sides of the issue, weigh the facts and make an educated and informed deci sion. Corey Cook SSMU Arts Rep

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Tribune, Feb. 8-14 Re: Cross country ski team “recs” at Winterlude triathalon,Tribune, Feb. 8-14) I was gravely disappointed with the past week's article written by Anne Campagna about the McGill Cross-country Ski Team. Not only was it filled with spell ing and grammatical mistakes, but it con tained numerous misquotes and incorrect facts. I was misquoted in words (not to mention grammar). But also the ideas I was stressing during a Sunday night interview were clearly misrepresented in her article. The inclusion of this article was obviously a bit hasty judging from its want of a spell check. But I hope the editor will agree that such journalism should never have been permitted to find its way into an issue of the

It is farcical to believe that when the presidentsof three faculty associations come together to remove the funding of the only independently-funded newspaper on cam pus, it is in the interest of making the institution more responsive to students' needs. Perhaps they meant to say “student politicians' needs”. Is it any wonderthat the president of the Management Undergraduate Students' Society (sic) is sponsoring this initiative in light of the criticism that the Commerce Communique received at the hands of the Daily this year? Should.we question why Will Phillipson, the president of the Engineering Undergraduate Students' Society (sic), who

used his column space in the Plumbers' Faucet, the Engineering newspaper, to rail road through a referendum paying for cost overruns on showers in the McConnell Engineering Building out of the pockets of engineering undergraduates, is also spon soring the referendum. Possibly Mr. Phillipson, who, as rumor would have it, is making a run for the undergraduate repre sentative to the Board of Governors of the university, fears the backlash that the McGill Daily would provide were he to get as cozy with the BOG as he apparently must have been with the Faculty of Engineering? Always grateful for the existence of a free press, Michael Fleischner U3 Engineering

S u p e rio rity ... Re: "Gelatinous...’, Tribune, Feb. 17 Lesley Martin, in a letter to the editor, states that Jonathan S.’s column, “Veda Minut’e, is meaningless and irrel evant In contrast, I enjoy reading the col umn, and consider it the Tribunds most interesting feature. Perhaps if Ms. Martin approached Jonathan S.'s column with greater intellectual tolerance, and gave it more consideration, she would realize that “Veda Minute" is intelligently and thought fully written. The Indian culture and Hindu reli gion are remarkably ancient, dynamic, and vibrant, and have influenced many other peoples and cultures. The genius of the subcontinent also has much to offer the West. However, westerners are profoundly ignorant of the Indian heritage. The image of Indians that most have is derived from television documentaries or newspaper ar ticles which often denigrate and humiliate Indians, especially Hindus (the media has effectively exploited our subconscious de sire for moral superiority). “Veda Minute” is a portal to the intelligence of the East and has made the Vedic tradition accessible to McGill stu dents. It is also a necessary alternative to newspaper columns which reinforce tribal prejudices and do little to diminish igno rance. Perhaps increased knowledge of other peoples will promote tolerance and understanding, and possible in the not-toodistant future, the emergence of a great syncretic culture. Bharat N. Patel U1 M.Sc. Neurology and Neurosurgery

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B Y S A R A -JE A N G REEN As th e tim e n ears f o r the Students' Society (SSMU) elec tions, flbeTribune begin s a series o f interview s with ca n d id ates fo r th e fiv e ex ecu tiv e position s. This w eek, w e ex am in e th e p osition o f V ice-President, E xtern al A ffairs. Three candidates are run ning for the position of VP Ex ternal Affairs U2 Arts student Nick Benedict, U1 Arts student Eric Bondo, and U2 Arts student David D’Andrea. As outlined in the Society’s Constitution, duties of VP Exter nal include representing SSMU positions to external bodies and lobbying the governments of Canada to further the objectives of the Society. Other responsi bilities include communicating external issues to the council that affect McGill, as well as coordinating the activities of the External Affairs Committee. Benedict, a history student, acted as current VP External Andrew Work’s campaign man ager last year. Benedict praised Work’s initiatives, especially his involvement with the Franco-

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Friendly Commission. If elected, Benedict claims he would work to improve francophone repre sentation at McGill. “The reason why I’m run ning is to get McGill involved in the broader community,” said Benedict. “McGill is turning more and more into an anglophone island in a francophone com m unity, e s p e c ia lly sin c e francophone enrolment is drop ping.” Benedict hopes to ensure that the interests of McGill stu dents are heard by the provin cial government, and pledged to bring student concerns re garding tuition fees to the fore front. “There are studies out that show McGill actually contributes net economic wealth to the prov ince of Quebec,” he said. “We obviously have to make our voice heard and link up with other Quebec universities and student organizations to provide a united front.” Benedict, who is one of the organizers of the student ghetto safety audit, said as VP External he would emphasize the impor tance of off-campus issues. “Obviously the ghetto

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larly inspiring. I don’t think Andrew Work has done a par ticularly good job with his port folio. [He] conducted it without having a global idea o f what he was doing there,” he said. D’Andrea’s focus is to get McGill directly involved with the issues of tuition fee increases and financial aid from the gov ernment. “We could be a lot more proactive in taking hold of the debate— not only tuition fees but also with the underfunding o f universities,” commented D’Andrea. “I want to get the student population and SSMU directly involved in order to rep resent the interests of students to Q uebec and the rest of Canada.” According to D’Andrea, improving campus and off-campus safety is a priority. "Safety is a really impor tant issue because it is very obviously and directly affecting students. The audits that have been done are clear examples of well articulated student opin ion,” said D’Andrea. “We know what needs to be done but those things haven’t been im ple mented yet.”

safety project shows that McGill students’ concerns go further than the campus. [Part] of my job would be to push through the reco m m en d atio n s o f the [project],” said Benedict. Eric Bondo is seeking elec tion to the office of VP External in order to establish a link be tween SSMU and other Quebec student or ganizations. As a franco-

Fédération des Étudiant(e)s U n iv ersitaires du Q u é b e c (FEUQ) and Association Général des Étudiantes (AGE), the stu dent association of the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM). Bondo daims that his experi ence with other Quebec student organizations will enable him to represent the interests of McGill students. “My ex perience will "I don't think any of serve me p h o n e , well in this B o n d o the executives have type of hopes to im been particularly work,” said prove noninspiring" anglophone Bondo. “Stu representa dent interests are very im tio n on - David D'Andrea, VP portan t to SSMU. External Candidate “I want me. I’m not to improve afraid to fight for them— francophone participation in student activi I’ve done it in past years and I ties. Twenty per cent of students will do it again.” at McGill are francophone and Also in the running for the we don’t hear much from them,” office is David D’Andrea. Al he said. “Francophones and non- though D’Andrea thinks that this anglophones are not very well year’s SSMU executive has acted competently, he is critical of represented on council.” As VP External of his current VP External Andrew CEGEP, Bondo has established Work’s lack of focus. contact with other student or “I don’t think any of the g an izatio n s such as the executives have been particu

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News Briefs Senate computingcommittee talks about news chairs the SCC, explained that many of the computer programs used to read news have difficulty handling the large number of groups currently available, and many people find the size o f Usenet intimidating. “What the people talking about censorship do not understand is that the best way to censor is to absolutely flood with information,” he said. Committee members decided to take the issue back to their respective faculties and discuss it again at the next meeting.

The Senate Committee on Computing (SCC) addressed the difficulties faced by the McGill Computing Centre as a result o f a large growth in Usenet news groups at its February meeting last week. As a result of a critical shortage o f space, Computing Centre analyst Ron Hall posted a message outlining the situation and his intention to begin removing groups that were either geographically irrelevant or o f questionable value. A strong reaction from the public prompted Computing Centre Director Alan Greenberg to postpone the decision and bring the issue to the SCC meeting. According to Hall, part o f the problem lies in the quadrupling of the number of news groups and the volume o f news on Usenet since the McGill news server was established two years ago. From June o f 1993 to this January, the number of active groups increased by over 150 percent, with a similar increase in the space required to maintain the service. At present, the Computing Centre automatically receives any new newsgroups that are created anywhere in the world. “If someone in Finland decided to set up 12 newsgroups to discuss establishing a freenet in Finland, we’d carry those groups,” explained Greenberg. SCC member Robert Kearney acknowledged that the Centre could not continue to carry all new newsgroups, and suggested a consultative process with the users o f the system to determine which groups would be carried. “My reading [of the public’s reactions] was that the concern was some person sitting somewhere would decide what we would carry and what we wouldn’t,” he explained. “I think if we simply consult with users, w e’re going to avoid a lot o f the inflammatory responses.” Due to disk limitations, as the number o f groups carried by the computing centre grows larger, the storage life o f articles that have been posted in groups becomes shorter. The current article retention for many popular groups is two days. McGill’s Vice Principal (Planning and Resources) Francois Tavenas, who

Council approvesfood and beverageprice increases Students’ Society (SSMU) council has approved Marriott Food Services request to raise its prices on food and beverages. Marriott is contracted by SSMU to operate food services around campuses. The decision will allow Marriott to raise its prices to their 1991 levels, a move which the corporation hopes will reverse their trend o f losing money. Marriott has lost money consistently since it took over campus food operations from Scott’s Food Services in 1991. Though a discussion o f aspects o f SSMU’s contract with Marriott required council to move into executive session, the gallery was re-admitted for the final debate on the issues broader implications for students. The debate was limited to only a handful o f speakers, one o f whom was Management Rep Mitch Costom, who cited his CEGEP’s low price on hot dogs as an example of why council should vote against the motion. “I speak strongly against this motion... Marriott is proposing an increase in the price o f its hot dogs to $3.50, whereas at Marianapolis a hot dog was $1.20,” he claimed. Senate/Board Rep Rich Latour, who also serves as SSMU’s Food and Beverage Commissioner, reminded Costom that the price referred to jurqbo hot dogs. Council approved the motion by a margin of 21 in favour, three against and one abstention.

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G eneration X author Douglas Coupland coined the catch phrase“Generation X” to describe the post baby-boomer generation. The phrase is now being extended so as to incorporate the post-X generation, us. The Tribune spoke with McGill students to determine whether or not they considered themselves Gen X. Some personal philosophies were revealed in the process.

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(U3Film a n d C om m unications} “I refuse to accept that; I think that every generation is told that they’re not going to be as good or that things were better in the good ‘ole days. I think it’s an excuse a lot of people make just to sell themselves short. I think I’d call it Generation XYZ. That would reflect our di versity. Coupland is clever be cause he’s managed to give names to certain phenomena that have already happened but I think he’s wrong to suggest that this is a terribly new thing - it’s not. I think the biggest religion for young people in the 90s would be vegetarianism.”

(U3 D ram a}. “Classifications, group dis tin ction s, g eneral b lan k et statements...it’s all a load of hoaky. Such classifications allow indi viduals to feel more confident at where they stand if they can group everyone else around them. I’d describe our generation as out of luck! I know people who are doing really well - this is not the majority. I’ve never thought of trying to classify my generation. I’ve never thought of myself as belonging to a group ever. I’m optimistic, not for eve ryone else around me but for myself. The bonus about being near the bottom is that you get to look up. Every time I’ve ever lost faith in humanity someone comes along who changes my mind for a while.”

ÇU2 English L iteratu re} “As a third year McGill stu dent, I feel we are approaching Generation X. We hear the hor ror stories of people who have graduated about how hard it is to get a job. I don’t feel a part of it, but I feel I could be a part of it soon. I think the future is a fear but I don’t think it’s specific to our generation. No generation ever has the certainty of success. It’s hard to label an entire generation. I think maybe the Arts students are the pending Gen X. If you want to get a job, there’s a job for you - if you’re ambitious!”

(U1 English/Philosophy) “In the media’s eye we’re all a part of Gen X but I don’t think that we are. Don’t get me wrong - we’re lost just like every body else before us but we’re more a generation that’s defined by political corruptness than any thing else. I don’t believe in the “glo bal teen"; I think that our genera tion is more pessimistic than Gen X. We’re more surrounded by the media, we see everything that goes down. We’ve been forced to grow up so fast with the amount of education we’re getting, with the amount of news we receive. I can’t really describe my self so I won’t begin to try to describe my generation.

(U3 Linguistics} “I have a problem with Generation X. The “X” suggests to me an undefined variable. If you accept that definition, then yes, I think we are Generation X. I can’t really think of a way to define our generation. The work ethic is com pletely different in our genera tion. I think we expect things to be handed to us instead of going out and getting it ourselves. We want the best, but there seems to be limited opportunity.”

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“Adventure without risk is Disneyland”, wrote novelist Douglas Coupland. Enter Mickey, Mini, Pluto and Goofy-journalists, eager to animate G en era tion X for their Saturday morn ing columns. G en era tio n X marked Coupland’s literary debut and coined the phrase which refers to the post baby-boomer gen eration. Coupland’s novel por trays the children bom in the late 60s as “u nem p loyed , overeducated, intensely private, and unpredictable.” While readers identified with the author’s characteriza

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a course entitled ‘Studies in Pop Culture’ at McGill. In an inter view with the Tribune , Bristol helped to clarify the definition of Generation X. “It is a reference to a group of people in their late 20s, early 30s, and even older. They are people who had to settle for unsatisfying or routine jobs.” Bristol expressed a con cern for the media’s use of the classification, noting that the ex perience of those making up a generation is as diverse as the individuals. He referred to the media’s loose employment of Generation X as an example of “sloppy, imprecise thinking”. “It’s an intellectual fad,” said Bristol, “if we can use the word intellectual. I don’t think

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e “The people who have been bom and raised in the 80s and 90s, have been bom into a tougher life,” explained Krohn. “It's a harder world for today’s kids.” According to Krohn, the barriers preventing young peo ple from penetrating organiza tions are indicative of the harsher world. “You cannot network from outside of an organization. You must be inside to obtain job rights. It’s hard to get your foot in the door.” Coupland recognizes the difficulty Gen Xers experience when trying to get their feet in SEE GENERATION X NEXT PAGE

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MuchMusic building. (If you’re really lucky, you might hear an exchange like this real-life one: Much VJ and all-around goof Steve Anthony runs out of building to taxi, and then turns to go back into the build ing. One o f a group o f three a d o lescen t p assers-b y e x claims quite audibly, “Is that

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applications.” His advice to students seek ing a job in today’s market is to get as much work experience as possible. He also urges students to plan their “job campaign” and begin searching as soon as pos sib le. C on y ers’s optim ism counters the general perception that there is a lack of job oppor tunities. Apathy drawn from this misconception is complicated by lack of motivation. English Professor Trevor Ponech commented on the lack of motivation as it applies to students. “It’s awfully difficult to motivate people who do not believe they will achieve suc cess. It is difficult to light a fire under them and engage them intellectually,” he stated. Ponech advises students not to fall into “the complacency trap”. As the media attempts to construct the Magic Kingdom from Coupland’s G eneration X, it is apparent that they have failed to do so responsibly and without risk. If university students find themselves riding the monorail, they should note the sights both to the left and right. And most of all, remember that the Wonder ful World of Disney originated with a mouse and a hell of a lot of imagination.

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New York City can be one of the more adventurous and rea sonably priced Reading Week excursions, inviting students into its maw like a neon venus flytrap. Every crosswalk in Manhattan can be a potential game of chicken with a taxi cab, every smiling person a potential con artist. That aggressive vibe makes Manhattan exciting, however, and a visitor who is prepared can take advan tage of all that the Big Apple has to offer. Broadway musicals are gen erally overpriced and overrated, but if you really have to “give your regards to Broadway,” go to the TKTS booth in Times Square for discounts. By picking up the cur rent issue of the Village Voice, you can find listings for Off Broad way shows that are cheaper and often more enjoyable then the Broadway musicals. If museums are your fancy, two of the best are the Museum of Modern Art (11 West 53rd St.) arid the American Museum of Natural History (79th and Central Park West). For those whose idea of culture is more low brow, there is the Museum of Television and Radio (25 West 52nd St.), which

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copy CDs. Don’t bother to go unless your tastes ran that gamut between classic rock, alternative and heavy metal. For the low price of $11.95, Fat Tuesday’s (190 3rd Ave.) of fers a weekend jazz brunch, com plete with all the champagne you can drink. While the jazz isn’t stellar, it sounds wonderful after 5 or 6 glasses and a stomachful of eggs florentine. Right after brunch, you can waddle two doors down to one of the best pizzerias in New York, Mariella’s Pizzeria (180 3rd Ave.). One of the best reasonably priced restaurants to get “exotic” American cuisine is the aptly named America (9 East 18th St). The menu has everything from Philadelphia Hoagies to spicy Cajun cooking. For de&rt, there is always Papa’s Place (510 6th Ave.) where the alcoholic and non-al coholic deserts are so gargantuan that one can’t help but quote Hemingway. While on vacation, keep in mind that every stereotype about the level of crime in New York City is at least partly true. In order to keep what ever meagre re sources you brought with you, never put a wallet or money in a back pocket. Try not to carry

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The role of women in sci ence was tackled at McGill Stu dent Pugwash’s annual confer ence, Changing Worlds: Prepar ing fo r a T echnological Future, February 4 to 6. Sally Gibbs, a professor in McGill’s Biology Department, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, spoke at the Women in Science an d Engineering segm ent of the conference. In her presen tation, F ighting f o r my ow n A genda: A Life in Science, Gibbs recounted her experiences as a woman who has penetrated the higher ranks of academic sciences. Her messages include that al though gender biases did exist in the past, they were surmountable with effort, and that the biases that exist today are diminishing. In the 60s and 70s, many women deferred their own gradu ate studies in favour of employ ment, to support their husband’s higher education. For the women who did pursue graduate studies, subsequent employment oppor tunities were limited. “Like many of my friends, after I finished my B.Sc., I started on my Ph.T., ‘Putting Hubby Through’,” Gibbs recalled. For the women who did

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And although many argue that a glass ceiling does appear to exist, evidenced by the relatively small number of women in higher academic administrative positions, women can surpass it. The presi dents of York, Wilfrid Laurier, Victoria University, University of Winnipeg, and Mount St. Vincent are all women. The opportunities exist, but they must be sought. “When I finished, there were no jobs for women. Now when a woman finishes, she has priority over a man [because of employ ment equity],”Gibbs commented. If women in science truly desire to change the system from within, each woman must pursue a personal, individual struggle. This struggle should involve deal ing appropriately with each inci dent of sexism as it arises, rather than merely complaining about gender biases. Look to the women who have brought down the glass ceilings they faced, one shard at a time.

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An American, an Irishman, and an Englishman are sitting in a prison. The Irishman says to the Englishman... starting to sound like a bad joke, isn’t it? But it’s not... IT’S A PLAY! It sounds a bit ominous: Three Western men held hos tage in a Beirut prison, chained to the wall, hovering on the brink of madness—and it’s sup posed to be a comedy. Or, at least uplifting. Perhaps both the strength and the weakness of the Centaur Theatre’s pro duction of Frank McGuinness’ S om eon e W ho’ll W atch Over M e is that it succeeds as a result of, or perhaps in spite of, its humour. While the underlying message of the play is that laugh ter is the most empowering re sponse to danger and hopeless ness, the production’s relative neglect of the darker side of being a tortured and degraded political prisoner leaves the au dience craving more substance. Loosely based on the expe riences of famed political prison

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identity in a world where every thing else has been stripped away. Clad in only T-shirts and boxer shorts, the men must create and act out elements of their lives in order to preserve a tenuous con tact with an outside world they fear has forgotten them. Much of the humour in the play comes from these creations, whether it is Michael’s re-enactment of Wimbeldon, 1977, (Virginia Wade won!), Edward’s impromptu

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the Vietnam war and home lessness. In stunning fashion, these events are recreated real During my walk to the istically (in every sense of the Musée des Beaux Arts, I be word), leaving the viewer with came aware of the inhospitable the unusual feeling that he or nature of the city street and the she occupies the same setting general lack o f aesthetic beauty as the sculptures. The life-size that engulfs it. It wasn’t the forbidding climate or the en sculptures often evoke an em o tional response from the viewer: croaching architecture of the one wants to help the man downtown city core, but rather, the apparent isolation and list being beaten by the police of ficer. lessness on the faces U n fo rtu o f the urban dwell nately, in the ers. By placing 7 0s H an so n Ironically, my these mundane was influenced visit in the gallery would mirror this characters in an by the m un dane nature of feeling, but with a arena of culture the city. He cre twist. and intellect, ated a form of The exhibition, realism that re “The Other Side of the artist turns flects types of th e A m erican the viewer into people, not inDream,” features 33 the ultimate d i v id u a 1s . sculptures by Min T h ese works, voyeur. n esota-born artist usually involv D u a n e H an so n . ing a singular Hanson is consid ered a hyper realist, one who subject, reflect a certain dis placed isolation. However, even records with conviction the pre though these figures don’t carry cise likeness of his subject mat the same emotional impact as ter. his earlier works, their para In the late 60s, Hanson’s doxical position in an art gal work was directly related to lery allow for extensive inter narrative depictions o f political pretation. concerns such as the race riots,

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Al Bundy im m ortalized Whether ironic or inten tional, one can’t help but pon der the implications of Hanson’s work. The figures represent the American proletariat; identifi able by their external appear

Europeans. No one seem ed too disap pointed when he dis appeared midway through the play, but cringed when he was forced to sing A m az in g G ra c e (PUUHHLEEZE!) Overall, S om e on e Who'll W atch Over Me is highly entertain ing, solidly acted and probably worth the fif teen bucks it’ll cost you—if you’re a seri ous theatre-goer.Or maybe even if you’re not. It was almost worth it just to witness a great moment in Ca nadian theatre history: Robert Haley p er formed the entire last scene and curtain call with his barn door open. Someone Who’ll WatchOverMe isplayin g a t th e C en tau r T heatre u n til M arch 2 0 th . T ickets a r e $ 1 5 .5 0 f o r students. Shows start a t 8 PM.

cocktail party, or the hilarious driving lesson in which the two board Chitty Chitty B an g B ang and fly to Europe. The vignettes are often as touching as they are funny, espe cially when the three compose imaginary letters to their rela tives at home. What is frustrating is that we are never shown what hap pens when they can n ot cope. Adam, Edward, and Michael are supposed to be hovering on the brink of insanity. The chains on their legs which re strict their physical movement seem to symbolically restrict their emotional movement. (Anyway, how can men who have been imprisoned for months have no beards?) Robert Haley as the Irish journalist and Harry Hill’s por trayal of the reserved British schoolteacher, are both superb. The two are at their best when working off each other and argu ing ferociously about nationalist issues. The American character, played by Philip Akin, seems at tim es tw o-dim ensional. McGuinness’ treatment of Adam is often stereotypical and seems less developed than that of the

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ance and the uni forms they wear. By placing these mundane charac ters in an arena of culture and intel lect, th e artist turns the viewer into the ultimate voyeur. Normally one would hesi tate to look di re ctly in to a h o m e le s s p e r son’s eyes—there is a discomfort in confronting class disparity on the s tre e ts . W hen H anson p la ces the homeless in a new setting, our p re ju d ice s are confronted. Has the artist himself been insensitive? The sorry depic tion o f a drunken, dozing-off middle aged man at one with his green vinyl Laz-E-Boy seems almost unfair. The fig ures are helpless, they can’t respond. It seems as if they exist to be gawked at and ridi culed.

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Hardship Post do one better: they’re not from the Maritimes, but from N ew fou n d lan d , dammit — and they a in ’t R aw lin ’s C ross. T h e y ’re Superchunk with a sedated Jackson Browne crooner. The first note of H a ck s opening

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Post shares this criticism with about a gazillion other bands who aren’t even in the same league. And judging from the show they put on at Station 10 last spring, the Posties could jost loikey be de next big ting, — Brendon Yorke

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H ips a n d M akers Sire/Reprise The Throwing Muses seem to have taken a liking to that venerable musi cal in stitu tio n know n as the “sid e p r o je c t”. Tanya Donnelly, apparently tired o f playing second guitar in both the Muses and the Breeders, formed B elly in 1993. Now, band leader Hersh of fers up an acous tic solo album o f her own. Such a project is quite risky; she must dodge th e “( w a s h e d - o u t lo s e r ) un plugged” and the “sensitive female singer-songwriter o f the m onth” phenom enon. Luckily, Hersh’s voice is up to the task, and her gui tar playing, while not “uniquely visceral” (press kit hyperbole), is superior to that of the average coffee-house troubadour. But she is not critical enough in her song selection— after twenty minutes you’ll find yourself wishing for a dollop o f distor

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U nder th e P in k Warner Tori’s back at her piano wetting the keys, and the stool, with her ability and libido. Ms. Amos admits that her first album, “Little Earthquakes”, took all of her 26 years to pro duce. Two years later “Under the Pink” is 24 years premature. This pixie mixes spiritual and physical self-exploration as gracefully as vodka and Slurpee; the icy highs can’t replace the aftertaste and it fails to intoxicate. Case-in-point; in “Icicle”, the piece which strad dles her disc, Tori si-in-in-ings; “When my hand touches myself I can finally rest my head, and when they say ‘take o f his body’ I think I’ll take of mine instead.” Songs as compelling as “Me and a Gun” are nowhere to be found Under h er Pink. It appears her strengths— brutally honest lyrics and very quiet music— have been compromised by New Age in trospection. For my money, I’d rather hear Courtney Love making noise with her Hole. — Kate Gibbs

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A small, completely un known liberal arts academy, Antioch College, makes head lines when it publishes a stu dent guide to sexual correct ness. A controversial David Mamet play, O leanna, centres around a sexual harassment case and the ambiguous nature of language as power. At University of Pennsyl vania, a male student calls a group of black women “water buffaloes”, eliciting a much-pub licized accusation of racism. The resulting consensus? PC has gone too far. Those femi nists really do hate men after all. I mean, now we can’t even flirt during staff meetings! Hello George Orwell! We were right in the 80s: feminists are just “sexually desperate dykes!” Conservative politics tend to harken back to a golden age, a time before messy things like immigration, women’s rights, and rape. A conservative back lash movement against recent developments in feminism and racial equality has been neatly shrouded in admonition of one neat little euphemism: PC—po litical correctness. Outcry against PC has occupied a dispropor tionate number of newspaper columns, classroom debates and informal discussions. In fact, PC is so unpopular that it is decid edly un-PC to be PC. The likes of Camille Paglia, Katie Roiphe, Robert Hughes and Allen Fotheringham have joined forces to say, with un ceasing and tiresome repetition, “PC is dangerous.” It is a threat to our exalted tenets of democ racy: free speech, innocent-until-proven guilty, freedom of criti cal debate, etc. Popular femi nists themselves denounce a purported “rape paranoia” or so-called “victim feminism” as symptomatic of this climate of fear. Sure, PC has gone too far. Gender and race relations are engulfed in a motley melange of behavioural codes. (Does a woman have to be on top dur ing sex to prevent a physical hierarchy of power?) But, one teeny-weeny lit tle thing seems to have slipped everybody’s mind. PC is a reac tion to fundamental and pro found problems with our soci ety. PC can be mishandled, but surely that does not discredit an entire agenda which examines the relationship between lan guage and power; sex and rape. We should spend less time whin

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ing about those extreme cases of PC-abuse and confront the un derlying issues. Perhaps the most manipu lative and dangerous of the back lash propaganda is Michael Crichton’s latest novel (i.e.: screenplay), D isclosure. As one can expect from the creator of Ju rassic P ark and Rising “I hate Japan” Sun , Crichton tackles sexual harassment with such a tactless lack of insight that the reader literally feels harassed upon finishing. Conveniently, Crichton makes the harasser a conniving, insecure, sexually carnivorous female executive, Meredith. The victim? A mild-mannered, apo litical white married fella named Tom. Meredith is one of those power bitches who will make false accusations to climb the sexual and the corporate lad der. Anticipating left-wing re actions, Crichton covers his tracks carefully. By making Tom’s defense lawyer a smart, savvy woman (Hispanic at that) he attempts to ward off any accusa tions of stereotyping. Crichton effectively un genders sexual harassment, qouting Katherine Graham that “power is neither male nor fe male.” Sex is represented in a vacuum, where equality of op portunity is taken for granted. Individuals are powerful, cor rupt or flawed — not ideologies. “The advantage of role re versal,” claims Crichton, “is that it may enable us to examine aspects concealed by traditional responses (read: patriarchy) and conventional rhetoric (read: PC).” The fact is, power does not exist in a vacuum. No, women are not just victims. And no, not all men are pigs. But women and men exist in a larger sphere (i.e. : the number of women in highpower corporate positions has actually declined since 1980). Crichton’s white collar novel, apart from being stale, phony and vacuous, is danger ous because it superficially grazes the real issues of gender roles and power for an individual, and highly atypical, case. He plays a devilish devil's advocate. At the outset of the novel, Tom chats with his unrealisti cally-conceived child: “Do I have a penis Dad?” “No, Lize.” “Why, Dad?” “That’s just the way it is honey.” In doing so, Crichton pos its a model for his text. It has nothing to do with gender , penises or vaginas. It’s just about power. But, silly silly Michael: power and gender have becom e inter-related. Disclose that!

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The more things change, the more they stay the same. The last time British band The Wonder Stuff headlined in Mon treal was in 1991 at Club Soda, where they return next Mon day w ith o p e n in g b an d Chapterhouse. But betw een then and now, The Wonder Stuff have gone from being the golden boys o f the British pop press to the elder statesmen of poney Brit rock. They opened for Siouxsie and the Banshees at the Spectrum last year, dealt with the death o f former mem ber Rob “The Bass Thing”Jones, and underwent a maturation process that just can’t be taken that seriously. Rather than becoming can didates for the cliché casualty list, The Wonder Stuff have managed to keep their irrever ent sense o f humour, scathing social sarcasm, and ability to create irresistible pop hooks, which are so ably displayed on their latest album, C on stru c tion f o r the M od em Idiot. It seems that The Wonder

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It’s 4 AM and the TV’s still on. Y our eyes are about to fall out o f your head but you insist on waiting until you’re sob er before going to bed. T h e n , m a g ica lly , the screen com es alive with ac tors in Styrofoam m onster suits singing show tunes and tap dancing. Vincent Price is nar rating while Bela Lugosi mum bles som ething about the film being “gruesom ely stained in B lood Colour.” Y ou r ass sinks a little further into the couch. There is no turning back! This is obviously not the kind o f “cinem a” that cultural studies majors discuss over cappuccino. Nevertheless, the very parthenon o f cinem atic respectability, Cinem atheque Q u ébécoise, is show ing a se ries o f som e o f the worst films ever made. L es V e n d r e d is Psychotronique is organized by Serge Mailloux and Hughes Boily, w hose passion for truly tasteless films is unm atched in Montreal. They even host a radio program o n CIBL dedi cated solely to reviewing and analyzing the trashy end o f culture. M asterpiece Theatre this is not.

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album” about the plights and pratfalls of the modem idiots that surround us. To be sure, The Wonder Stuff aren’t above a little bit o f wide-eyed icon worship themselves— evident in songs such as “A Great Drinker”, dedicated to legen dary writer/drinker Charles

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sid ered u n d erg ro u n d , the audience is growing. “W e have regular listen ers w ho call in every w eek —a real cult following. That’s one o f the reasons w e decided to set-up the screenings.” And so far the m ove has proved successful. The first four films show n w ere sold out. The final two films in the series, H ells A n g els ‘6 9 and G oliath à la C on qu ist d e B a g h d a d , will play the last two w eeks in February respec tively, and Boily anticipates

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m ore full houses. He describes Goliath as, “taking two o r three m uscle m en, putting a drape over them and having them throw Styro fo am ro ck s at ea ch other.” D e sp ite th e o b v io u s tackiness o f the genre, Boily notes that many o f today’s biggest directors got their start m aking exp loitatio n films under notorious producers such as Roger Corman and William Castle. How many people have seen Jonathan D e m m e ’s ( S ile n c e o f th e L am bs, P h ila d elp h ia ) first film C a g ed H eat! The film cen tred around large-breasted w om en in m inuscule under w ear escaping from a prison. Surprisingly, it was passed up at the O scars that year.

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three and a half minutes. The beauty of The Wonder Stuff is that they’ve yet to run out o f something new to say. And, unlike a lot o f bands who fol low the latest “sound”, The Wonder Stuff are fairly selfconfident in the way they choose to say it. It will b e interesting to see how The Wonder Stuff pull off the new songs live, without the benefit o f their studio horn sec tion. “The only problem with using extra musicians is that you can’t take them on the road,” Gilks conceded. But, with a bit of enhance ment, thanks to an added key board player, “we just about get away with it," he added. Then again, you don’t go to sweaty, over-priced clubs to listen to the intricate arrange ments o f a song’s middle eight. You go to drink, dance, sweat, get rejected by people betterlooking than yourself, and scream your head off. For that, The Wonder Stuff will be just perfect. The W on der S tu ff d o C lub S od a w ith sh oe-g a zin g op en in g b a n d C h ap terh ou se on F eb. 21.

slapping America and shagging it, which really isn’t such a bad place to be. As drummer Martin Gilks told the T ribune, “You can’t help being British.” Thirty years ago A m erica co u ld n ’t get enough o f the Brits, but nowadays there doesn’t seem to be a lot o f room for new British bands be tween the Nirvanas and the Pearl Jams. That is a shame because past the bombastic rock poses of the Top Ten, most con tem p o ra ry A m erican bands are about as inter esting as new cement. A trap for most British— and Canadian— bands is that they try to imitate that American rockhood, usually with disastrously tepid results. The Won der Stuff have gracefully managed to avoid that route and have continued to do ex actly what they want to do, exactly how they want to do it. One should never take pop music too seriously. The charm o f good pop music is that it says everything you’d ever need to say in less than

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Soutif: objet de lin gerie dessinant les formes charactéristiques de la féminité, fardeau pour certaines, objet de culte pour certains autres. Un, D eux, Trois, S oleil de Bertrand Blier, c’est la fin de l’enfance de Victorine, cette gosse de banlieue, le début du port du soutif, son entrée dans la dure réalité de la banlieue Marseillaise. Il ne s’y trouve point de Boul evard Tascherau, de “cot tages” fleuris, de parcs, de piscines hors-terre; mais plutôt, une pan op lie de HLM ou s’entassent des immigrants au chômage et sans avenir. Une toute autre réalité. Comme le dit Blier: “Un soutif de jeune fille dans la banlieue, ça se transforme assez vite en coup de poing, et le soutif en pare-chocs, le soleil en nuit noire.” Ceci étant dit, adeptes du documentaire mélodramatique, abstenez-vous. Blier à opté pour son classique surréalisme ou songes et réalité s’entremêlent, le tout arrosé d’une dose d’humour, sur un fond de musique nord-africaine. On aime

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S c h u t g o ld e n BY CH ARLES THOM AS In her last synchronized swimming meet as a McGill Martlet, Yvonne Schut won the intermediate figures gold medal at the Ontario Women’s Inter collegiate Athletic Association (OWIAA) championship. McGill placed third overall in the meet hosted by McMaster University in Hamilton. A strong perform ance from Sarah Stone in the solo category and an impres sive showing in the team event helped McGill stay in conten tion until the end of the closest fo u g h t c h a m p io n sh ip in memory. “Going into senior figures, we were in first-place by one and a half points, which is very unusual,” commented Schut. “We finished third by less than ten points, but over the years, the teams who’ve won, won by 15 points or so.” Growing parity in the league, suggested Stone, is rep resentative o f the increasing calibre o f swimmers. “The competition was so much harder this year, there were four teams in the run ning,” she said. “This was a good compe

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If the Concordia Stingers go on to make the Ontario Uni versities Athletics Union (OUAA) playoffs, a thank you note from Concordia Head coach Yves Beaucage and his players to the McGill Redmen hockey team is probably in order. The Redmen offered the Stingers four breaka ways in the first period of last Tuesday’s annual Ronald Corey Cup at the Montreal Forum. This was tme to form to the last game between the two squads on January 14th, when McGill also surrendered four freebies in the first period, putting them selves behind the eight ball and necessitating a dramatic comefrom-behind 5-4 win. This time, however, they simply could not find a way to redeem themselves, losing 6-3. The loss by McGill almost assures the Stingers of the third and final playoff spot in the OUAA Far East Division, and leaving the Redmen with more time to study for midterms. The Redmen actually drew

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tition, but also a tough compe the Martlets won silver. Much tition. The level o f swimming o f the credit for that medal has gone up, especially in fig went to team veteran and coach ures,” Schut chimed in. Janet Gillis, who left Montreal Sh e w as up to task in that event, however. “My b ig gest goal was figures, I really w an ted that gold m e d a l,” added Schut, who used her four years o f experience with th e Red and White to calm pre-competition jitters. “I tried not to think about it, I knew it was my last year,” she added. “I really w a sn ’t thinking o f it as T he M artlets sn a red th ird a t O UAAs a ‘this is it’ situ ation; my mind was on the after graduation last year, but moment.” returned to the Martlets last Schut, however, was quick month to resume coaching du to d e fle c t p raise to h er ties. teammates who had their own “I don’t think we could moments to keep the Martlets have done as well without in the running. [Janet],’’ opined Schut. “She McGill’s depth was most brought a critical eye in prac evident in the team event, where tice and she has experience as

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a coach. Since half the team knows her in that capacity from last year, it was just natural to have her there.” S to n e was the surprise o f the meet. In only her g second year o f ms y n c h r o n i z e d "s w im m in g , she .5 shocked the solo | field to capture the •g: b ro n z e m ed al. * W ith a b a c k g ground in swim 's ming and dancing, J she had all the “ necessary basics, j^but her success ji was nevertheless " unexpected. ® “This is the g b e st I ’ve ev er |j swam,” she stated. “I never thought I would do solo, never mind finish third.” Sch u t su g g ested that Stone’s timing was a big part o f her performance. “A lot o f synchronized swimming is how much you can impress the judges and she was the first to swim sharp,” she said. Nathalie Audet pulled off

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first blood, illuminating the Fo showed their inability to play Stingers another breakaway, as rum’s goal light—usually reserved with a lead, as the team surren Martin Laquerre tripped coming for former Canadiens goaltender dered three consecutive Stinger off the bench during a line change. André Racicot— only 38 seconds goals at the 17:38 and 19:08 marks Stinger Andrew Chlebus made into the contest. Montreal native of the first period, as well as 10:08 Laquerre and the other Redmen Ivan Murray, a late addition to the of the second period, to trail pay dearly, as he beat Jeanson for team, picked up the rebound off Concordia by two goals. the unassisted goal at 1:47 of the Redman rearguard Martin McGill, desperate to climb final session, while centre Dan Laquerre’s slap shot, beating back into the game, capitalized Nizrahi sealed the victory with an Concordia goalie A ngelo on a five-on-three powerplay, as empty net goal at 19:35. Karitsiotis to the upper-right hand Redman dynamo Guy Boucher With the loss, the Redmen corner, and giving McGill a trailed the Stingers by five 1-0 lead. points in the standings, as Less than three min In a must win situation, both teams had only three utes later, Stinger sniper Dan games left to play. For the facing adverse iel Picard intercepted a Mar Redmen to earn a playoff surroundings, the Redmen spot, which they have done tin Routhier pass, deftly blocking the puck with his managed to pull off their for the last ten seasons, they body. Heading toward the biggest win of the season. have to get three unlikely net all alone, Picard beat victories coupled with three McGill netminderJeanson be Stinger losses. Both teams tween the glove and the faced the same schedule, body, pulling the Stingers even. som ehow guided the puck taking on both Ottawa and Chris Varga, formerly a through a scramble in front of the Université du Québec a Troismember of the Ontario Hockey net, and to the right of the blinded Rivières (UQTR), before facing League’s Detroit Junior Red Karitsiotis. each other in the regular season Wings, was the recipient of a For the few dozen McGill finale next Friday night. pretty passing play from fans in attendance at the Forum, For the Redmen, who left teammates Kelly Nobes and the goal provided false hope that the ice with little hope that their Laquerre, beating Karitsiotis from the Redmen were going to pull season would continue much the left face off circle', and re off another remarkable come longer, the next task at hand was establishing the McGill lead. back victory. travelling to play perennial pow The Redmen, however, The Redmen allowed the erhouse UQTR in Trois-Rivières,

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last Friday night. In a must-win situation, fac ing adverse surroundings, the Redmen managed to pull off their biggest clutch win of the season, stunning the ninth-ranked Patriotes, 5-3. Sophomore sniper Todd Marcellus, who led the Redmen in points last season, found his scoring touch at the right time, netting a pair of much-needed goals. Boucher contributed with four points on three assists and a goal, while rookies Nobes and Murray each added goals. Murray’s goal into an empty net sealed the McGill victory. The victory, together with Concordia’s Saturday loss to the Ottawa Gee-Gees, improves the Redmen’s playoff position, yet they still do not control their own destiny. For the playoff to come down to a 7:30 PM Friday night do-or-die game at McGill against Concordia, the Stingers have to lose to UQTR in their game Tues day night, while the Redmen must defeat Ottawa at McConnell Win ter Stadium on Wednesday at 7:30 PM.

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The McGill Alpine Ski Team competed in Stoneham, Quebec, this weekend and main tained their fourth-place rank ing in the Quebec Student Sport Federation (QSSF) Alpine Ski League. The Vultures, as the team aggressively refers to itself, co n tin u e to hover behind Université de Laval, which oc cupies first place in the league. The league’s races alter nate between Slalom and Giant Slalom (GS) courses, Stoneham being one of the most exciting GS competition sites. “It’s a beautiful resort and the site of one of this year’s World Cup races,” said Jason Ring, o n e o f the racers. “Stoneham is an exciting race because the course is long and fast. There are great flats for tucking.” The weather was in the team’s favour, offering good rac ing conditions with hard packed snow. Fourteen men and eight women competed in the events on Saturday and Sunday. Each day is considered to be a separate event, during which each racer is allowed two runs which are then combined to come up with the final times. At the end of the two days, the women placed fourth and the men placed third, both improv ing one rank from their previous race at Val St-Côme in which

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The McGill track team had its last chance to prepare for the provincial championships last Saturday, as they took on some of the best teams in the country at the Sherbrooke Invitational Track Meet. It's been a recurring theme for McGill this season: several top three finishes, but wanting consistency left the team hop ing it had done better. To compound the situa tion, meet organizers restricted the number o f events. The long est race of the day was the 1 000m and only two field events were allowed: the shot put and the long jump. H ead C oach D en n is Barrett did not go so far as to say that this development ad versely influenced his team, but did say that with a number of runners missing, the meet was not representative o f the set ting that will prevail at the pro vincial championships. “W e w e r e n ’t at full strength,” he said. “In two weeks w e’ll be stronger, but we did pretty well, based on the factor that the events we had [were restricted]. If your strength is in the distances, it would affect you.” That was the case for the Red and White women’s team— the Martlets’ provincial winning cross country team last fall is proof o f the squad’s strength in longer races. Despite the disadvantage,

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M artlets sh a ky w ith o u t T e ssie r in lin e u p BY ALLAN A H EN D ERSO N The McGill Martlets’ win ning streak came to an abrupt end last Friday night when they were defeated 59-44 by the Concordia Stingers in women’s basketball action. The loss was a painful reminder of top scorer Vicky Tessier’s absence, how ever, as Tessier saw her season come to an end with anterior cruciate ligament damage to her knee two weeks ago. Fortu nately, the Martlets were able to regroup and redeem themselves on Sunday afternoon, when they defeated the Laval Rouge et Or by a score of 58-49. On Friday night, McGill took an 8-0 lead early in the game, but could not keep the Stingers from creeping up on them. The Martlets fell behind around the ten-minute mark as Concordia dominated the boards and capitalized on the many second shot opportunities that McGill allowed them. Jennifer “last-second-shot” Stacey hit a shot from the wing at the buzzer to cut the Stinger lead to one point going into half-time, but it was obvious that the Martlets were not in top form. Second-year guard Josée Deloretto described the game as “p layin g ca tc h -u p ” with Concordia. On better days, it is something that McGill typically makes the Stingers do. “It was a big adjustment,”

she said. “We should have taken the game anyway, but we broke down.” In the second half, the Martlets did not fare much bet ter. The bakery was open for business as they made turno ver after turnover and appeared to lose their composure as the game wore on. When they had opportunities to cut Concordia’s lead, they failed to convert pos sessions into points. The fifteen-point margin in the final 59-44 score was largely due to the fouling that McGill had to resort to in the last minute, to try to get posses sion o f the ball. It was some what misleading however, be cause the two teams were rela tively well-matched and the Martlets preferred to look at the game as “one to grow on”. The Stingers’ top scorers were Sabrina Gaspari, who had four three-pointers in the game, and Patricia Demers, who bar relled her way to a ten-point second half performance. Both players finished the game with 14 points each. The Martlets’ high scorer was rookie Anne Gildenhuys, with 13 points. Sunday afternoon’s meet ing with Laval proved to be just what the doctor ordered to lift McGill’s spirits. The Martlets came to play, and play they did, as they went on to defeat the Rouge et Or 58-49. The Martlets were in con trol the entire game, maintain ing the co m p o su re and

synchronicity that was missing Friday night. The first half ended with McGill leading 38-26 and there was no looking back. Martlets Martina Van der Vlist and Josée Deloretto were back in fine form as they fin ished the game with 14 points e a ch . In ad d ition , L esley Stevenson and Gildenhuys each chipped in 12 points, with Stevenson tearing up the boards for a total of 14 rebounds. “The girls knew the impor tance of the game,” head coach Chris Hunter said following the victory. With the win, the Martlets are one step closer to clinching the regular season title in the Quebec University Women’s Basketball League. Assuming at best, that Concordia wins all of their remaining games, McGill must secure one more victory to avoid being tied with the Sting ers for first place. Finishing first overall would result in an auto matic bye to the championship game as Concordia and Laval would be forced to battle it out in the semi-final. If McGill can play as im pressively as they did against Laval, they will be flying to Calgary, Alberta, for the Cana dian Interuniversity Athletic Un ion Nationals in March. But, first things first: they hope to put a down payment on that trip with a win over the Bishop’s Lady Gaiters in Lennoxville this Fri day night as they play them for the last time this season.

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BY ALLAN A H EN D ERSO N Vicky Tessier: the name is familiar to anyone who knows anything about women’s bas ketball in Quebec. Tessier’s record speaks for itself— 199293 Martlet Most Valuable Player, 1992-93 Quebec University Bas ketball League (QUBL) Most Outstanding Player, QUBL Rookie of the Year, and 199293 Canadian Interuniversity Ath letic Union (CIAU) second Team Ml-Canadian, and Rookie o f the Vear. She was well on her way :o another outstanding season bis year, leading the QUBL in Doth scoring and rebounding, jntil a “minor” knee injury umed out to be not-so-minor. In a February 5th game igainst Bishop’s, every athlete’s svorst nightmare becam e a real ity for Vicky Tessier. Her sea son ended instantaneously ivhen she collided with an opDonent and tore the anterior :ruciate ligament (ACL) in her cnee.

The injury did not appear season-threatening at the time, as Tessier walked off the court after the collision. But McGill therapists and team doctor Eric Lenczner confirmed last Mon day that the tear was complete and that Tessier would require reconstructive knee surgery if she hoped to play competitive basketball again. For Tessier, it isn’t a ques tion o f “if” she will play again, it is only a question o f “when”. She will be out o f action for six months, but she is already set ting her sights on next season. The Martlets are in a state o f shock. They’ve not only lost a player who averages 19-5 points and 9.6 rebounds per game, they've lost a leader and a great team player. Tessier may be individually talented, but that talent spills over to her teammates as she makes them better too. Tessier will be “greatly missed,” says fellow post player Lesley Stevenson. “She was the heart o f the team. When we were off our game, she could

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came off. The Martlets play during the first half of this game showed the team’s potential, as the passes, blocks and spikes all found the mark. Unfortunately the second half of the game showed McGill’s in consistency. Sherbrooke battled back slowly, finally putting away ten unanswered points for the win. The Martlets went through the motions in the third game, but were never able to mount an offen sive or even a defensive strategy. McGill finally lost the game 15-5.

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The McGill Martlet volley ball team finished its regular sea son over the weekend by hosting Sherbrooke. Unfortunately for the Martlets, the season ended much like it began, with a pair of losses. On Friday, McGill came out strong, winning the first game 1512. The Martlets, however, were unable to maintain the momen tum, losing the next three games, 15-3, 15-7 and 15-10. Going into Saturday’s game, Coach McGill’s head Béliveau saw coach Rachèle many recurring Béliveau was themes of the thinking about season in the next season. losses to “Since we Sherbrooke. are out of the “ W e playoffs, I might have to work try a different on consistency lineup to get the and control, whole team in and we can’t volved," said give up the Béliveau. 3 easy balls,”said Maybe it Béliveau. “But was the lack of u right now we experience on >.just need a the court, or b r e a k — its maybe just fa been a long tigue after a season.” long season, Despite but the Martlets Huang sets up N aud fo r putaway their losing lost the match record in league play this season, 3-0. McGill was unable to put the Martlets may soon become a together its passing in the first force in Quebec volleyball. Their game, losing 15-1. Even when the second-place finish in the Ottawa passes did materialize, the spikes tournament showed their potential went into waiting Sherbrooke as they consistently improved their play against their Quebec oppo blocks. The second game was a dif nents. Coach Béliveau will have ferent story, as McGill went ahead most players returning next sea early. The Martlets were up 6-0,8- son, and the team should be a 2, 10-3 then 12-5 before the wheels strong contenderfora playoffberth.

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B Y A N N E G A M PA G N A M cGill D irector o f Athletics R obert D ubeau w as assistant chef-de-m ission fo r the C an adian team a t the 1 9 9 2 O lympic W inter G am es in Albertville, F ran ce. H e shares som e o f his experiences with the Tribune. “Albertville was one of the nicest experiences I have ever had in my life, apart from the Olympic games in 1976,” said Dubeau. Dubeau was also in volved in the organization of the 1976 Montreal games. “It gave me the opportu nity to be part of the Canadian Olympic team, something I al ways dreamed of. In the opening ceremony, walking trough the stadium with the Canadian team is something I’ll never forget Being close to potential Cana dian medal winners was a great motivation to me in what I do. It charged my batteries to help other athletes reach their potential. “When we got to Albertville in 1992, there was a very good feeling that the Canadian team would do well. We were full of hopes. But the first week, every thing seemed to turn bad. Ath letes performed badly, some men’s skiers did very poorly, and it changed drastically the mood we were in. “The medal hopes seemed to fade away. Plus, the Canadian

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press was writing negatively and it was affecting the spirit of the team. In the second week, the hockey team played quite well, and it was on its way to win ning... [the team eventually won the silver medal.] “On Sunday m orning, Kerrin Lee Gartner won a gold medal in women’s downhill, and our four man bobsled team was in good position to win a medal. The team spirit was getting bet ter. Then, a team of speedskaters from Quebec won four medals. So we ended up meeting all our expections in terms of the number of medals. Besides, it was the most medals a Canadian team had ever won.” Despite the team’s perform ance, Dubeau cautions that the Olympics do have their sadder side. “Something bad happened at the beginning,”he commented. “Lucie Laroche, a skier, hurt her self badly and had to end her participation. She had hurt her self six months before and we tought that she was cured, but getting injured again made her participation not possible. “In some sports, the Cana dian team did really poor, like cross-country skiing, luge, and ski jumping. I feel that in those sports, we don’t have enough participation at the base, and that it could be improved. Like cross-country skiing, I believe

e x p e r ie n c e we really could improve this sport, we have the best weather for it, but we have to change our mentality, and be ready to put more money in it.” In spite of adversity and disappointments, though, the human face of the games man aged to shine through. Figure skater Kirk Browning, who was; expected to win the gold in the event, had a discouraging Olym pics with a sixth-place finish. That only makes his support of others on the team all the more exceptional. “Kurt Browning did a lot to keep the team spirit in these games,” suggested Dubeau. “We. were seeing him everywhere, cheering, encouraging his peers, he had a tremendous personality. and put a lot of excitement in the village. He was a real comic, a real flag waver.” As for now, Dubeau b e -; lieves that the Canadian team in Lillehammer can better the 1992 effort. “The team is even stronger now, than in Albertville, and I believe that we can win 12 med als, and be in the top four.” Dubeau was invited to par ticipate on this year’s team, but declined the invitation. It was a difficult decision, but with one of his assistants from McGill’s De partment of Athletics on sick leave, he couldn’t afford to be absent for three weeks.

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B Y D ANTE PA SCALI Y ou win some and you lose some.’ Well, it seems that the McGill men’s basketball team concentrated on the latter in a couple of weekend games. There was definitely something lack ing in their play against the Concordia Stingers last Friday night, and instead of learning from their mistakes, they put in an even worse performance against Laval on Sunday. At Concordia, McGill vis ited its cross-town rivals for their third confrontation of the sea son. As the Redmen’s only two :osses have come against the lumber two-ranked Stingers, it definitely had something to irove. Easier said than done. De spite a very even start to the jame, McGill succumbed to Concordia’s unrelenting press, Ulowing the home team to go on i 10-0 run that blew the game wide open. The Redmen’s sem blance of a game plan seemed to be thrown right out the window it that point as they were runling around trying to get organzed.

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The Stingers’ full-court press and strong defensive play were key to their success. This forced many turnovers and the frustration began to show as McGill got into some foul trou ble. Salvation seemed to be half time for the Redmen as they took refuge in the dressing room trail ing 46-27. Head coach Ken Schildroth summarized the first half trou bles. “We had a lot of unforced errors which complemented their style. We didn’t play our game and we were off-balance for the most part. Concordia lives and dies by their press, and McGill lives and dies by overcoming it,” he affirmed. The latter was apparent in the second half as McGill finally turned up to play. They slowed down the pace of the game and seemed more in control, passing the ball around more efficiently. With a mad flurry of shots towards the end of the game, the Redmen cut the lead to as little as three points, but time ran out before they could cap off their comeback. The final score was 83-78 in favour of the home team. That extends McGill’s los

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The Students' Society of McGill University is the non-profit organization of the undergraduate students of McGill University. The bilingual association represents approximately 1 5 ,0 0 0 students. Our functions are both social and political. The 15 permanent staff supported by more than 5 0 part-time student employees help thousands of students to participate in the extracurricular activities of more than 10 0 interest groups and 2 0 service groups within the McGill community. SADIE'S CASHIER CLERK P a rt-tim e stu d en t e m p lo y m en t TheSSMUSADIE'Stabagie is lookingforstudents ofMcGill Universityinterestedinparttimeworkas cashier (10-15 hours perweek!. JOB SUMMARY: Underthedirectionof ihecomanagement committee, thecashierclerkis responsiblefor servingcustomers at ihetabagiecounter. He/shehas theresponsibilityof iheaccuracy of thecashduringworkinghours. He/shewill participatefullyiniheorganizationof me sales adivilies ana intheday-to-dayoperations. He/shewill also participateinthe management of ihetabagie usingcomputerizedsales andaccountingsystems. QUALIFICATIONS: Astudent atMcGill University, the candidatehas excellent communicationand interpersonal skills, isable tobe functional inspokenFrench, likes toworkwith computers andis motivatedbynewchallenges ina cooperativelymanagedworkplace. Pleasesendresumeslatingqualifications byFebruary22 to: Linda Tang, Sadie's Recruitment Onlycandidates tobe interviewedwill be contactedbeforeMarch 10, 1994. Nophonecalk please. EMPLOI: C a issier à la ta b a g ie SADIE'S p o ste é tu d ia n t à te m p s p artie l Latabagie SADIE'Sdésirecomblerdes posies de caissiers à temps partiel (10 à 15 heures parsemaine], RESPONSABILITÉS Sous lasupervisionducomitéde gestionde latabagie, lecaissier a laresponsabilitéde servir laclientèle aucomptoir. Il/èlledoit s'assurer de labonnegestionda lacaissesous sa responsabilité. Il/elle participed'une manièreimportanteà lagestiondesventes et des opérations quotidiennes ainsi qu'à lagestionde latabagie. Letravail s'exécute dans unenvironnementcomplètement informatisé. EXIGENCES Etudianlje] à l'universitéMcGill, vousêtes bilingue, fort(e) encommunicationet avez de l'entregens. Vous aimez relever les défis et travaillerdans unenvironnement coopératif hautement informatisé. S'il vous plaît faire parvenir votrecurriculumvitaed'ici le22 février prochainà: Linda Tang, responable de l'embauche Associationétudiantede l'UniversitéMcGill Seuls(es) les candidats(es) retenus(es) pourdes entrevues recevront une réponseavant le 10 mars prochain. S'ilvousplaitne pas téléphoner.

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