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March 8-14,1994

In t e r n a t io n a l W o m e n 's W eek W hile breast cancer cannot be linked to any single cause, regular examinations prove to be the most effective method of prevention. The T r ib u n e takes a look at the current state of affairs in breast cancer research.

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In s id e T h is W e e k News: Presidential candidates fig h t it out in the A lley.

See page 3 Op/Ed: Last Wednes­ day’s separate campus vigils demonstrate a severe communication problem between Arab and Jewish student groups.

See e d itoria l, page 6 Features: 'W om an N ew s": good market­ ing or ghettoization?

See page 12 Entertainm ent: W hat do M argaret Drabble and De La Soul have in common? N othing.

See page 18 Sports: Big week for basketball as Redmen go on to provincial finals w hile M artlets lose. __________See page 25

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soprano for “Carmina Burana.” Wednes­ days, 7:30-10PM, RoomC310, Music Bldg.

Wliat^s On

International Women’s Day events: 9:45 PM: The Women's Union, Player’s Theatre and Shakti - Women of Colour Collective present “Women in the Theatre.” Tickets $3/$7. Proceeds to Na­ tive Women’s Shelter. At Player's Theatre.

This is the last group meeting of the year for Red Herring fans! If you’ve never been to a meeting, this is your chance to help brainstorm and come up with ideas for the next issue. Info on contests too! Call 398-2142 for info or come to Shatner B07 at 5 PM. The Association of Yoga and Meditation is offering a yoga class with Susan Bouthillier. 1-2:30 PM, Shatner 425.

Please dress comfortably and be on time.

Everyone welcome.

Today is your last chance to sub­ mit to the Pillar! Bring submissions to the box by the SSMU desk.^Win computer! Donate blood and enter raffle at the McGill Medical Blood Drive! Today 10 AM-5:30 PM, McIntyre Bldg., shuttles from Union Bldg. " The Latin American Awareness Group meets today at 5 PM in Shatner 310.

The Department of History’s Staff/Student Seminar Series presents Dr. Karen Offen, Stanford University, speak­ ing on “Women Citizenship and Suffrage in France 1789-1994." 4 PM, Thomson House, 3650 McTavish. All welcome.

Amnesty International McGill meets every Tuesday at 6:30 PMin Shatner 435- New, old and casual members wel­ come. For info come to Shatner 4l0or call 398-1209.

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. March 9 International Women’s Week events: 7:30 PM: Shakti and the Women’s Union present keynote speaker Rozena Maart. Palmer Howard Theatre, McIntyre Medical Bldg.

8:30 PM: LBGMand the Women’s Union co-sponsor the Montreal premiere of a new Canadian filmdealing with AIDS: “Zero Patience.” FDA Auditorium.

The Aboriginal Law Students’ Association of McGill presents the NFB film “Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resist­ ance.” Alanis Obomsawin, producer and director, will be present for questions and comments after the screening. 12:30 PM, Moot Court, New Chancellor Day Hall (Faculty of Law), 3644 Peel.

Win 1-year gym membership!

Donate blood and enter raffle today at the McGill Medical Blood Drive, 10 AM5:30 PM, McIntyre Bldg.

American independent film­ maker Su Friedrich screens her films “Gently Down the Stream” and “Sink or Swim." Free and open to the public. 8 PM, Education Bldg., 3700 McTavish, Room 129.

Faculty of Music concerts: McGill Early Music Ensembles. 8 PM, Clara Lichtenstein Hall, 555Sherbrooke St. W., Room C-209. Free.

James David Christie, organ. 7:30 PM, Redpath Hall. Tickets $10/$8, on sale at the Pollack Hall Box Office. For reser­ vations call 398-4547.

LBGMhas 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 facil itated mu­ tual aid support groups: “Women Survi­ vors 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.

Thursday. March 10 “Religion, Conflict, and Coop­ eration in the Middle East and Be­ yond”: Opening comments by Dr. Clovis Maksoud, former League of Arab States, Ambassador at the United Nations. 5:30 PM, Leacock 232.

Scrivener Creative Journal presents an evening of readings by six McGill poets and special guest Michael Harris. 7 PM, Thomson House, 3650 McTavish. Free.

The Jewish Women’s Project welcomes Ms. Ama Poupko discussing “TheJewish Woman’s Unique Perspective as Outsider.” All welcome. 4 PM, Hillel House, 3460 Stanley. For more info, call 844-6798.

Give life and win big! Today donate blood at the McGill Medical Blood Drive, 10 AM-5:30 PM. Take shuttle from Union to McIntyre Bldg.

The Faculty of Music presents the McGill Flute Choir. 8 PM, Clara Lichtenstein Hall, 555 Sherbrooke W., Room C-209. Free. For more info call 3984547/8101.

SACOMSS offers a “Friends and Family of Survivors of Sexual Abuse” facilitated mutual aid support group. Call 398-2700.

Friday. March 11

The GCN of QPERG presents Stuart Hill, longtime environmental activ­ ist and professor, speaking at the Yellow Door Coffee House on the importance of Eating Local and Eating Organic for the environment and our psychology. Free fruit from the Organic Food Co-op! 6:30 PM, 3625 Aylmer.

15th Annual McGill Fashion Show for Charity. Tickets on sale at Sadie's, Chapter XI and Leacock and Bronfman lobbies. $12; all proceeds go to AIDS Community Care Montreal. 9 PM, ClubMetropolis, 59 Ste. Catherine E. Doors open at 8 PM. The Jewish Women’s Project proudly presents a “Coffee House" evening with fantastic performance artist Fritzraven Sky. All women welcome. A pay-as-youcan evening! 8 PM, Hillel House, 3460 Stanley. For more info, call 398-6798.

The McGill Choral Society is desperately seeking women who can sing

“Religion, Conflict, and Coop­ eration in the Middle East and Be­ yond”: Panel discussion with Dr. Clovis Maksoud and Dr. Avraham Diskin, Dept, of Political Science, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. 11 AM, Leacock 232.

The McGill Christian Fellow­ ship meets for music, fellowship, prayer, etc. 7 PM, basement of Presbyterian Col­ lege (corner Milton and University). For info, call Jean at 282-7768.

Last chance to give life! Please donate blood at the McGill Medical Blood Drive, 10 AM-5'30 PM. Take shuttle from Union to McIntyre Bldg.

The Department of Psychiatry presents a seminar by Dr. S. Weiner on “Neuronal transplantation in animal mod­ els with lesion-induced behavioral defi­ cits.” 12:30-1:30 PM, 1033 Pine W., Room 138.

The Centre for DevelopingArea Studies helps sponsor a speech by Dr. Bina Agarwal, on “Gender, Empowerment and Command Over Property: INsights from South Asia." 6 PM, Leacock 232. For more info call 398-3507.

The Yellow Door Concert Se­ ries presents Stephen Fearing, of Vancou­ ver, B.C. Admission on a sliding scale between $6 and $9. Doors open at 8, show at 8:30 PM. Yellow Door, 3625 Aylmer. For more info call 398-6243.

The Faculty of Music presents Tammy-Jo Mortensen, organ. 12:15 PM, Redpath Hall.

LBGMhas 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.

Saturday. March 12 The Women’s Union and Shakti host a dance in celebration of Interna­ tional Women’s Week. Faith Nolan will be performing. Tickets $3 in advance, $4 at the door. Doors open at 8 PM. Beer, music and dancing. All welcome. Call 398-6823 for location.

The Faculty of Music presents Yehonatan Berick, violinist, as pan: of the McGill Faculty Members in Concert series.

8 PM, Redpath Hall. Free. For more info call 398-4547/8101.

The Yellow Door Concert Se­ ries presents Chris Rawlings, ex-Montreal folkie. Admission on a sliding scale be­ tween $6 and $9- Doors open at 8 PM, show at 8:30 PM. Yellow Door Coffee House, 3625 Aylmer. For more info call 398-6243.

The McGill Tribune, March8-14,1994 liers," by Gilbert and Sullivan. March 9,10 ($6/$10) and March 11, 12 ($8/$12) at 8 PM in Moyse Hall (Arts Bldg.) For info and reservations, call 398-6826.

McGill Debating Union An­ nual Winter Carnival University Debat­ ing Tournament. Come out and watch or judge! Rounds will be on Friday at 6 PM, Saturday at 9 AM, 11 AM, 2 PM, and 4 PM. The final round is on Sunday at 3 PM.Just go to the lobby about 15 min. before the round! No exp. necessary for judging.

Submit your favourite healthy recipes and we will prepare them for Nutrition Week. Prizes for best recipes.

Submit to kiosk box in the Shatner Bldg,

by March 18. Sponsored by Peer Educa­ tors.

The McGill Student Film and Video Festival, presented by the English Dept, and DESA, is accepting any and all VHS and film format submissions. Held on April 7/8, the festival is an amazing place to present your work! Submissions accepted in English Dept, office until March 31. For more info call Allison (2843630) or Malve (284-1996).

Monday. March 14 All Walksafe volunteers: General Elections and Constitutional Referendum tonight. 7 PM, FDA Auditorium. Come out and cast your vote!

Come order your tasty healthy noncorporate organic food fromthe 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 Faculty of Music presents McGill Cappella Antica. 8 PM, Redpath Hall. Free. For more info call 398-4547/ 8101.

SACOMSS offers a “Women Survi­ vors of Child Sexual Abuse" facilitated mutual aid support group. Call 398-2700.

The McGill Courant is a new magazine publishing the ideas of stu­ dents. We invite you to submit examples of your prose and poetry at our box in the Leacock porter’s office. For info call 9326739.

The North American Studies Student Association is hosting free lunches with professors for students all this month. Signup is limited to a max of 10 students a lunch. Info sheets are posted on the NAS board beside Leacock 611. Please join us - it’s free and a great way to meet your professors! For more info, call Ritu at 285-2583. Professors include Shingler, Manfredi, Gibian, Moore, Cooke, Treheame, Riggs, and Velk.

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.

The McGill East Asian Journal is eagerly seeking undergraduate sub­ missions from any discipline which per­ tains to East Asia. Please hand in papers to the 3rd floor office of 3434 McTavish ASAP, or contact David at 843-8993.

The Association of Yoga and Meditation is offering relaxation ses­ sions: Mon. 11:30 AM-12:30 PM, Wed. 12:30-1:30 PM, Thurs. 1:15-2:15 PM. Mon. and Wed. held in Shatner 425, Thurs. in B09- Dress comfortably and please be on time. Everyone is welcome.

Are you questioning your sexu­ ality? Do you need help coming out5Or do you have any other concerns and you need to talk? Phone LBGM’s peer coun­ selling phone line at 398-6822, 7-10 PM Mon.-Fri. Strictly confidential; you can also drop by the office, Shatner 432, for face-to-face support.

Ongoing...

All right, you crazy people! This is it. The Red Herring submission deadline is this Friday, March 11. You must bring us any and all funny business, including con­ test entries, now. Box by SSMU desk or Shatner B07. Call 398-2142 for info, and don’t forget the last meeting today!

The Savoy Society of McGill presents the hilarious musical “The Gondo­

T r ib u n e EdUr-ln-Chief Benoit Jacqmotte U Assistant Michael Broadhurst Edtors-in-Chief MicolZarb News Editors RamRandham

Steve Smith Features Editors Cheryl Devoe

Cherie Payne EntertainmentEditm Catrin Morris

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Charles Thomas NetworkErften BamabyClunie

Monique Shebbeare Entrepreneur’s Day will be held March 30, Shatner 107/108. Call Kelly at 931-7179 to rent a table!

The India Canada Students’As­ sociation presents their 4th Annual cul­ tural show, “What’s On Tonight5” 7 PM, Rosemont High School, 3737 Beaubien St. E. Tickets $8/$6 in advance, $10/$8 at the heridan, a womanist/feminist door. For info and tickets, call 398-6816 and journal, is currently seeking submissions leave a message. for its Spring '94 issue - any style of McGill Improv hosts free com­ writing, graphics and photographs. Origi­ edy workshops. 12-2 PM, meet in Shatner nal, creative and diverse contributions from all women are welcome. Please lobby. bring submissions to the Women’s Union mailbox in the Shatner lobby. Deadline March 15. For info call 398-6823.

Sunday. March 13 The Faculty of Music presents Esfir Dyachkov, piano, and Yuli Turovsky, cello. Tickets $25/$20/$15. For info call 398-3808 (day) or 843-3438 (eve.). 8 PM, Redpath Hall.

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Walksafe Foot Patrol hours: Sun.-Thurs. 6:30 PM-12:30 AM; Fri.-Sat. 6:30 PM-2:30 AM. Call us! We'll walk you anywhere you want to go. 398-2498.

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BY PATRICK FRUCHET

McGill as an elected presi­ dent of a student organiza­ The Tribune presents a news tion. As well, he demon­ analysis o f the presidential candi­ strated a proficiency in dates’debate held last Friday in the French.

Alley. Noformal debatesfo r the other Management student executive positions were held this Howard Markowitz sparked year. some controversy with his Last week’s presidential de­ comments regarding the is­ bate between the six candidates, sue of sexual assault, in which included a question and an­ response to concerns raised swer segment, was rather unevent­ about the safety of the ful, lacking the spirited exchanges McGill Transit Network by which typified last year’s debates.

SSMU VP Finance Paul No single candidate came out Johnson. as a clear winner in the debate but Markowitz, whose some did perform better than oth­ campaign is largely based ers, demonstrating a better under­ on highlighting his experi­ standing of important issues and ence as founder and presi­ more concrete ideas on how to dent of the Transit Network, achieve specific goals. defended the absence of P resid en tia l hopefuls pose in fro n t o f the S h a tn er C entre As well, four of the candi­ screening procedures for dates showed themselves to be pro­ Transit Network participants in view years of service both in Engineering Candidate Tracey Solomon, ficient in French, an issue that has of the potential for sexual assault. and at SSMU. the current VP Finance of the Sci­ come to the forefront in view of the Markowitz maintained that Some student leaders ques­ ence Undergraduate Society, who recent establishment and work of students travelling in cars with their tioned Saad’s potential as SSMU also works as a course counsellor in McGill’s Francophone Commission. “friendly neighbours” are necessar­ President. the Faculty of Management, stressed C urrent In ter-R esidence ily safer than those who travel with “A lot of what he said (at the her multi-faculty experience in a Council (IRC) President Sevag strangers by public transport. He debate) reflected what he did as campaign typified by candidates Yeghoyan showed himself to be a made this response in an attempt to Club’s Rep, as opposed to what he who are tied to specific faculty gifted speaker, telling the assem­ refute Johnson’s assertion that would do as president,” said John constituencies. bled audience: “I’m not promising “ninety per cent of sexual assault is Saunders, who worked with Saad Stressing the “diversity of (her) you the moon, only the moun­ acquaintance assault.” this year in his capacity as Club’s experience”, Solomon told the as­ tains... but at least I’ll get you the Markowitz also demonstrated Rep to Council. “I’m a little con­ sembled audience that “people are mountains.” proficiency in French. cerned about his focus.” getting too tied up in their egos to He also reminded the audi­ Eddy Saad, currently a SSMU Saad elected to answer in work towards common goals... and ence that he is the only candidate Clubs Rep, demonstrated a good English to a question posed in end results.” running who has experience at grasp of the issues, stressing his French.

Solomon speaks French.

Rich Latour, Senate/Board Rep to council and former editor-inchief of the Tribune, distinguished himself from the other candidates by being the only presidential can­ didate to oppose SSMU sponsor­ ship of Canadian Red Cross (CRC) Blood Drives due to allegedly dis­ criminatory practices by the CRC which contravene the SSMU Consti­ tution.

Latour’s extensive experience was evident in the way he pre­ sented his thoughts.

Citing his “vision” of the presi­ dency, Latour suggested that some of his rivals were not prepared for the presidential role.

“The first point in the presi­ dent’s job description in the consti­ tution lists the president as the offi­ cial spokesperson for the Society... credibility is a very important thing to keep in mind in this case.” said Latour. “I think most of us here have that credibility, but it is something to keep in mind when you go out to vote.”

Fadi El-Jaouni, who is the only presidential candidiate not pres­ ently involved in student govern­ ment, is running on a platform with very ambitious goals. At last Fri­ day’s debate, he failed to outline any specific ideas to bring his plans to fruition.

He chose not to respond to the only question asked in French.

S tu d e n ts g a th e r to m o u r n v ic tim s o f H e b ro n m a s s a c re

BY SARA-JEAN GREEN Last Wednesday, two cam­ pus vigils were organized in re­ sponse to the deaths of at least 39 Palestinians killed at the mosque of the Cave of the Patriarchs in the West Bank town of Hebron. On February 25th, American-born ex­ tremist settler Baruch Goldstein attacked Muslim worshippers gath­ ered for morning prayer at the mosque with an assault rifle.

Members from both Arab and Jewish student organizations at McGill held simultaneous vigils to commemorate the massacre and express their respective views re­ garding this and related events in the Middle East.

The vigil sponsored by the Palestine Solidarity Committee (PSC) was attended by members of the Arab Students’ Association (ASA), the Islamic Cultural Net­ work, the Black Students’ Network, and the Muslim Students’ Net­ work.

TAGAR, an intemationaljewish group with interim status as a Students’ Society (SSMU) club, along with Hillel, a Jewish student association at McGill, organized a separate vigil to commemorate the deaths of Palestinians at the mosque as well as Israelis killed through violence in the region over the past year.

The vigil assembled by the

PSC was held outside of the Shatner Building, while members of TAGAR and Hillel gathered on the oppo­ site side of the street. Although both vigils commenced in front of the building, the Jewish students moved to the other side of the

ment of Israel condemned it.”

Zarecki expressed hope that the negotiations between Israel and Palestine will continue.

“We believe the only way to stop this cycle of violence is through the peace talks,” he said.

street on police request when their numbers grew to approximately 100 participants.

Hillel Director Mark Zarecki condemned the attack.

“We deplore the massacre that took place. It is clear in our minds that it was one individual— the act of a madman,” he said. “No one endorsed it... [and] the govern­

Howard Liebman, student president of TAGAR Montreal, said the vigil was a way for students to mourn while speaking out against the violence plaguing the Middle East.

“In any act of terror, we feel we should speak out. We deplore all terror whether against us or against Arabs—we've been very

consistent,” he said.

U1 Arts student and TAGAR member Eric Schachter criticized the PSC and its supporters for us­ ing slogans and banners he claimed were inappropriate. “[One banner read] ‘Another Israeli M assacre’. It seemed to me that they were making a blanket attack on all of the set­ tlers,” said Schachter. “It was distasteful and dis­ honest propaganda."

Liebman expressed his concerns with the po­ sition communicated by some of the Arab stu­ dents.

“B eing p u b licly against the peace talks, calling Israelis terrorists and [equating] Zionism with racism were the most disturbing things,” he claimed.

PSC President Rami Dajani stressed that the massacre could not be viewed as an isolated event.

“They [Jewish students] con­ demned the act as an unfortunate event which they associated with the act of a deranged lunatic. This massacre was part of the broader phenomenon occuring in the Oc­ cupied Territory,” he said.

Dajani stressed the govern­ ment of Israel must take action to

ensure the safety of the Palestinian population in the Occupied Terri­ tories. “[The settlers] are allowed to carry weapons without restrictions [although] the Palestinian popula­ tion has no means to protect them­ selves under occupation,” said Dajani. “Something has to be done regardless of the politics of the peace talks to ensure the peace of mind of the Palestinian population in the Occupied Territories and to maintain the credibility of the peace talks,” he said.

Dajani also commented on the problematic relationship be­ tween the Arab population under occupation and the Israeli govern­ ment.

“Palestinians won’t trust an Israeli government that allows its citizens to go around the West Bank and do any sabotage they desire.”

Similar protests held last Monday at Concordia University and Dawson College erupted into boisterous confrontations between Jewish and Arab students.

ASA VP Finance Rula Hudhud was pleased that both vigils were held without confrontation.

“Personally, I was happy about [the vigil] because there were no conflicts," she said. “We didn’t want this to happen so we had a silent demonstration to express our feelings.”

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and heterosexual populations are such that the gay male commu­ nity must be considered a highrisk group for the purposes of Last Thursday, the Students’ screening.

Society (SSMU) Judicial Board Remis expressed several convened to address the ongoing reservations regarding the possi­ dispute concerning SSMU’s spon­ bility of amending the CRC ques­ sorship of Canadian Red Cross tionnaire to target high-risk sexual (CRC) blood drives. behaviour rather than orientation.

The Judicial Board heard He claimed that screening for arguments regarding a petition by behaviour is inadequate without Lesbians, Bisexuals and Gays of taking into account the back­ McGill (LBGM) Administrator Chris ground of the individual and the Carter concerning the constitu­ prevalence of HIV infection within tionality of a resolution passed by their pool of prospective part­ SSMU council on February 10th. ners. c The resolution in question re­ si Remis added that while prac­ ► scinded a November 11th, 1993, tising safer sex was effective in decision that deem ed the Cana­ 3 73 lowering the risk of HIV transmis­ dian Red Cross questionnaire dis­ o sion, condoms are only 90 to 95 criminatory on the basis of sexual 0! per cent effective in preventing orientation, and suspended SSMU the spread of the virus. Remis said sponsorship of CRC blood drives. that establishing condom use as a According to Article 2, Sec­ criterion is not a sufficient means tion 2.3 of its constitution, SSMU of screening out higher risk groups. cannot participate in any activities The J u d ic ia l board confronts the controversial C an adian R e d Cross questionnaire, Consequently, identification that discriminate on the basis of of groups with a high prevalence sexual orientation. of infection is vital to establishing Berkes objected to Grafs drawn in which there is direct munity," he said.

U2 Law student Jody Berkes the level of risk that an individual opinion that rejecting blood from harm done to one of the parties Berkes criticized the CRC presen ted for the petitioners. belonging to such a group poses. the gay male community was involved.

She claimed that in re­ for its attem pt to characterize Berkes argued that the November “We must distinguish be­ harmless. stricting the gay male community membership in a particular group resolution must stand because the “Any discrim ination per­ tween high risk and low risk from giving blood no harm was constitution has no 'saving clause’ as risky behaviour, rather than groups. There is never a zero petuated by an institution results caused. addressing specific sexual prac­ that w ould permit SSMU to par­ risk,” explained Remis. in an overwhelming harm to the “There is no tangible bentices of the individual donor. ticipate in activities contrary to The Judicial Board ruled to parties subjected,” he argued.

“Membership in a group the specific guidelines of its con­ uphold council’s motion to re­ Graf later called upon a does not dictate high risk," he B stitution. Berkes argued that SSMU scind the ban on CRC blood drives public health expert, Dr. Robert argued. must cease sponsorship of CRC in a 2-1 decision.

Remis, to justify the statistical Fourth-year law student “Any discrimination blood drives until the Red Cross According to the board, the basis of the controversial ques­ Rosemarie Graf responded to modifies its questionnaire and perpetuated by an motion to rescind council’s earlier tion.

Berkes’s arguments on behalf removes the allegedly discrimina­ institution results in an decision “is not discriminatory “The prevalence [of HIV] of SSMU. tory sections. under article 2.3 of the SSMU in the pool of sexual partners Graf disputed the asser­ Berkes then established that overwhelming harm to is orders of magnitude differ­ Constitution and is therefore valid.” tion that the screening process the CRC questionnaire, which the parties subjected.”

The board also ruled that ques­ ent [between homosexual and was discriminatory, claiming the states that “if male, having sex tion two on the referendum, which heterosexual males],” claimed CRC is obligated to make dis­ with another male, even once,” asks students whether they be­ Remis. tinctions betw een groups at puts individuals at high risk for -Jody Berkes, presenting lieve SSMU should withdraw its Remis argued that due to high- and low-risk for HIV in­ HIV was discriminatory both in its counsel (for LBGM) the increased incidence of HIV support of CRC blood drives, “does fection in order to ensure the literal context and in its effects.

— infection in the gay male com­ no violate articles 15.3 and 2.3 of quality of the blood supply.

Berkes also argued that in its the Constitution, and was validly munity, any sexual contact in Graf recognized that the cur­ attempt to screen out ‘high risk’ passed pursuant to article 16.1 of the gay community is more likely rent process of screening by the efit from giving o n e’s blood,” she blood donors, the CRC was not to involve transmission of the vi­ the Constitution.” argued, explaining that nothing CRC is not ideal. protecting the blood supply in an In its decision, the board rus than in the heterosexual com­ was being taken away from the “[The questionnaire] is like adequate manner. dem onstrated agreem ent with munity. a blunt instrument which errs on homosexual community, and that “[The CRC is being] overGraf’s argument, citing that “mem­ Remis claimed that despite the side of caution,” she said. the only direct benefit was to the inclusive in assessing risk with bers of the male homosexual com­ current demographic trends, the Graf added that in order for recipients of the donated blood, respect to the homosexual com­ munity [do not] suffer discernible w ho could be harm ed by inad­ differences in percentages and an action to be considered dis­ munity and under-inclusive with harm as a result of the question­ numbers of infection within gay criminatory, a distinction must be equate screening. respect to the heterosexual comnaire.”

Furthermore, the board ac­ knowledged that the CRC ques­ tionnaire does constitute discrimi­ nation based on a “gender” classi­ G A Y / B A R fication. Nonetheless, they deter­ mined that according to the SSML O P E N 7 D A Y S A W E E K B A R M I X T E constitution, an SSMU endeavoui DAILY MEAL SPECIALS shall be valid if "the Society was acting ‘in the best interests of the s t a r t in g at $ 3 .5 0 14 2 4 S t a n l e y membership as a w hole’... anc acted reasonably and proportion­ I IAPPY H O U R 4 7 D A ILY ately with their ‘best interests’.”

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S tu d e n t S o ciety s ig n s o n th e d o tte d lin e ... m a y b e B Y M IC H A E L BROADHURST S tudents’ Society (SSMU) A thletics Rep Jam es Stewart iq u e stio n e d VP Finance Paul Jo h n so n reg arding a recently n eg o tiated contract b etw een - SSMU a n d th e Arts U ndergradu­ ate Society (AUS) to b uild a S adie’s T abagie in th e Leacock B u ild in g at last T h u rs d a y ’s council m eeting.

Stew art ask e d Jo h n so n to explain w h y th e contract w as sig n ed w ith o u t co u n cil’s a p ­ proval. SSMU G eneral M anager G uy B risebois, AUS P resident Jo e W ong a n d VP Finance Mike Boyd sig n ed th e contract F eb­ ruary 18th. fci' J o h n so n rep lied that a contract h ad b ee n signed, but th at council w o u ld review that .eqï»

contract b efo re construction o f go a h e a d .”

Jo h n so n rep lied that the the tabagie started.

Stew art m aintained that spirit o f the contract h ad b ee n approved council should w h e n council have been reg u larly a p ­ a p p r o v e d its 1993-94 o p e r­ prised o f the ating bu d g et in status o f th e N ovem ber. negotiations.

“This L ater in th e m e e tin g , contract seem s J o h n so n p ro ­ to have com e v o k ed further o u t o f th e d is c u s s io n b lu e — so m e w h e n h e in­ kind o f sp o n ­ form ed c o u n ­ tan eo u s com ­ cil that the co n ­ b u s tio n ,” h e tract h ad no t said. “It w ould b e e n signed. have been m ore p ru d e n t “It h a s n ’t to review the b e e n s ig n e d b y a m em b er c o n t r a c t in c o u n c il a n d o f the e x e c u ­ A U S P residen t Joe Wong then give it the tive [com m it­

tee],” h e in fo rm ed co u n cil. “[Brisebois] h as sig n ed it, b u t it w o n ’t b e ce m e n ted until an ex ec signs it."

AUS P resident Jo e W ong w as d isap p o in ted w ith th e lack o f c o m m u n ic a tio n w ith in SSMU. “I w as u n d e r th e im pres­ sion from [Brisebois] that the ball w as in o u r c o u rt,” h e said.

“I ev en ask ed if SSMU h ad to go to their council, b u t w e w ere told that SSMU h a d already e n d o rsed it.”

“This project has b e e n g o ­ ing o n for a y ear now . T he p ro cess itself is n o t all that laced w ith difficulty,” W ong said. “It’s b e e n a p ro b lem of m is-com m unication o n SSMU’s p art.”

S e n a te /B o a rd R ep Jennifer Shapiro un d ersto o d the

reaction o f AUS. “AUS has b e e n w o rk in g for m o n th s for so m eth in g to b e d o n e ,” sh e said. “I think th ey h av e reaso n to b e u p s e t.”

Stew art said th at it w as not o n ly AUS that sh o u ld b e d isap p o in ted b y th e confusion.

“I think n o t o n ly th e AUS b u t all councillors sh o u ld b e u p s e t,” h e argued. “T he VP F inance has a resp o n sib ility to k e e p u s inform ed o n th ese th in g s.”

Boyd clarified th e infor­ m ation originally p ro v id ed for AUS. “[Brisebois] w as u n d e r th e im pression th at b e c a u se it h ad b e e n a p p ro v e d in th e b u d g e t that it d id n ’t h av e to g o to co u n cil,” h e said. “It turns o u t it S E E S A D IE S , P A G E 9

Science Undergraduate Society Elections March 14,15 & 16 Watch for polling Stations in your departm ent and Leacock SUS President My name is Steve Ahn and Iam running for the position of President of McGill's Science Under­ graduate Society for the 1994-95 year. As this year's Vice President External for the Microbiology and Immunology department I have gained more experience dealing with student issues while promoting student involvement.

As the Science Undergraduate Society President, I vowto concentrate my efforts on dealing with tabled student issues while actively promoting the existence of this organization, its executives and the society's views directly to the students. Iguarantee the finest representaion for science students in 1994-95.

SUS President Jana Taylor

As President of the Science Undergraduate Society, Iwould initiate several new programs and expand on others to pro/ide many social and academic opportunities for all science students. The improvement of computer facilities and more access to information on everything fromMCAT's to NSERC's, are just a few new ideas. Iwould also like to expand on this year's successes. I've been with SUS since it was formed, as Secretary in '92-'93 and as Vice President Administration in '93-'94, and I knowwhat needs to be accomplished next year. Ihave the experience and enthusiasm, now all Ineed is your VOTE!

SUS VP Administration SUS VP Academic Rajiv Gosw am i The SUS functions to serve the needs of science students. We must realize this. Too many of us justgo to class and go back. It's not our fault. The SUS must increase its visibility. It must promote the exchange of ideas between student administartions and the students themselves. It is the duty of the SUS to improve our awareness so we can get involved. These shortcomings must be confronted. Reforms must be implemented so more resources can be allocated for these*jmDortmant external affairs.

I will make a difference so please give me tne opportunity to serve you.

SUS Internal M arco Di Buono Let me make this quick and painless. Iwont to help you develop McGill the way you see it.

Avote for me, is a vote for you!

Thanks.

SUS Represenatives to SSMU Council 1. Christos Calaritis 2. Vacant

Noreen Majeed

The Science Undergraduate Society isthe working linkbeween all Science students and McGill University. The 1994/95 academic year will be my final chance to make a positive change tothe SUS council. AsVPAcademic Iwill be responsible for all educational and curricular concerns or SUS, and be representative at Facultyand Academic committees. I amalready involved inorganizing the newBuddy Program, and amlooking to produce a science course feedback systemof course evaluations, student reviews and peer advisory +counselling to handle questions or grievances. I also hope to promote student participation in activities designed for the social student body. Help me develop the SUSinto better resource servingMcGill's Science undergrads.

SUS VP Finance Jeff Kwong S.U.S. !?! You probably haven't heard of it, eh?

As you can see Fromthe photo, I’ve been having some deep thoughts about how Ican help change that. We're going to have to make more money so we can have more events and maybe some goodies for Scence students (hmm...). Well need to bolster student participation and general awareness of the S.U.S. Things will be different next year, but first you need a different kind of guy. So voteJeff next week for S.U.S VP Finance.

SUS VP Finance Justin Gauvin

TMNOTACROOKIknowmypicture looks likea mug shot but it's not one Iswear. As VPFinance for SUS, Iplan to pool all NTC, class notes and other photocopy material so that we can reduce the cost toyou, the science student. It's been done at other Universities and we can do it too. This is my second year at McGill and I've gotten to know howthings work here byvolunteeringat several McGill events. All Ican say for myself is that I have the experience and knowledge to budget SUS's moneyfor all our events suen as blood drives.

SUS Academic Andrew M oncarz

As current anatomyVPacademic and as facultyof science representative, Ihave had several opportunities towork with the SUS. Athough the council has good ideas, theyhave thus far been unable to properlyimplement them. For example, whilepeer counselling did take ploce, no one attended due toa lade of advertising. I'mtired of wasted ideas. My personal goal would be to followthrough with both old and newproposals: a science student survival guide and modifying the advising system. Since its inception SUS has slowlyevolved. Iwill help fortifyitsposition, aiding itsemergence as a leader at McGill.

A ndrew Nice Ihave nothing Ican promise to offer you other than Iwill bring responsibility and experience to the executive of the Science Undergraduate Society. Ihave sat on a number of committees that have required cooperation among its members to handle difficult situations. Iwas VP Finance for the 1992-93 Inter-Residence Council (IRC) therebyproviding me with the necessary experience for the position. Most importantly, believe that Ican do a great job as the Vice-President Finance fo the bUS.

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EDITORIAL McGill students gathered for two separate vigils last Wednes­ day afternoon. One vigil, organ­ ized by the Palestinian Solidarity Committee, commemorated the deaths of 39 Palestinian worship­ pers massacred by extremist set­ tler Dr. Baruch Goldstein at a Hebron mosque on February 25th.

Looking across from the other side of McTavish Street were students participating in a second vigil, or­ ganized by Jewish student groups TAGAR and Hillel, who gathered to lament the recent loss of all innocent lives, both Israeli and Palistinian, in the Middle East.

Similar commemorative services at both Concordia Univer­ sity and Dawson College resulted in tense, and sometimes violent, confrontation. In that light, McGill’s dual vigils appeared as a remark­ ably calm and level-headed re­ sponse to a hostile and offensive action. The most glaring and dis­ turbing aspect of the separate vig­ ils, however, was the inability of both groups to engage in any kind of meaningful dialogue. “It makes me sad,” one vigil participant told the Gazette last week. “We can’t even mourn together.”

Students who stand on both sides of Arab-Israeli conflicts have made little if any headway in con­ ducting productive discussion in the last few years, a phenomenon

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D u a l v ig ils c o n ti n u e tr o u b lin g t r e n d of depressing proportions for much of the campus community.

Palestinian Solidarity Commit­ tee (PSC) members chose to lament the Hebron massacre through si­ lence. PSC members and supporters posted hand-painted signs in the Shatner building last Tuesday, signs they knew would provoke reactions from some members of the commu­ nity, including one that read “An­ other Israeli Massacre—Hebron”. Sta­ tioned in the Shatner Building lobby, the PSC members did not react to shouts and comments from passersby, at least one of whom accused them of racism and bigotry.

Arab Students’ Association executive member Rula Hudhud told the Tribuneshe was satisfied that no confrontations occurred between the two groups at the vigil. She main­ tained that a silent demonstration limited the possibility of conflict, and allowed PSC members and support­ ers to express themselves regarding the massacre. Through silence and the separation of the vigil-holders to opposite sides of the street (enforced

by MUC police officers), students maintained peaceful distance. Their actions signalled, however, that they felt dialogue and communication had no place in their interactions.

Concordia and Dawson students may have shouted at each other, often in violent fashion. At least they felt they had something to say to each other,

albeit not productive dialogue.

McGill students, whose views run the full gamut of positions on the Middle East conflict have long been talking, but not to each other. Mem­ bers of two Jewish student groups on campus, TAGAR and Hillel, partici­ pated in a sit-in outside the McGill Daily office last March. The demon­ strators protested due to the appear­ ance of an article in a Daily AntiRacism issue written by PSC mem­ bers that allegedly equated Zionism with racism. With the perception that the Daily takes a pro-Palestinian, pro-Arab slant on issues related to the Middle East situation, Jewish stu­ dents at McGill may feel they lack a forum to express their own views on the topic. They organized the sit-in to demand an apology for the article’s content and an explanation for why anti-Semitism was not addressed in the issue. The protest was marred, however, by the comments of Rabbi Sydney Schohem of the Beit Zion Synagogue, who claimed that the biggest problem facing Zionism is Arab children. Both TAGAR and Hillel condemned Schohem’s statement, but the statement and the reaction it drew from the audience, which in­ cluded a smattering of applause, resulted in a discrediting of the pro­ testers’ cause.

Furious and disappointed with the apology issued by the Daily for the article’s content, which they

claimed was its sole responsibility, the PSC, in conjunction with the Arab Student Network, organized a press conference in which it condemned Schohem’s comments and defended their right to criticize Zionism. The McGill student body, including Hillel members, was barred from attending the conference, especially in light of “Hillel’s tendency to hijack these events,” according to then-PSC Presi­ dent Yousef Arafat.

Adding to the confusion and controversy is that factionalism ex­ ists within both camp». Sadly, stu­ dents within these factions appear no closer to communicating with each other. Jonathan Glick, last year’s president of the Progressive Zionist Caucus, told the Tribune he was against the Daily demonstration and called for “meaningful dialogue”with Arab students. At the time, and during the protest of a PSC-organized hunger strike in February con­ demning the Israeli deportation of over 400 Palestinians, Glick called for dialogue and mutual resp>ect. His pleas were heeded by none, includ­ ing fellow Jewish student leaders. If Jewish and Arab students cannot talk amongst themselves, how can they possibly talk to each other?

Most frustrating for the cam­ pus community is that the majority of the monologues delivered appear intended not only to limit useful interaction, but to provoke a hostile

reaction. For example, PSC mem­ bers must have known that their banner last week that equated the Hebron massacre with “another Israeli massacre” would be inter­ preted as denying the right of Israelis and Jews worldwide to condemn and express sorrow for this act. Similarly, last year’s pro­ test of the PSC hunger strike had to be viewed as implying that Jewish student groups do not re­ spect the right of Arab and other students to condemn an action taken by the state of Israel.

Such baiting and finger­ printing is totally useless. The kind of oneupmanship this cam­ pus has seen in the last few years regarding the Middle East situa­ tion is blatantly offensive to many at McGill; the provocative mono­ logues are at their core assertions that those taking opposing viewprints are not worthy of a respect­ ful hearing. Most who go through university have (at least hope­ fully) learned to shut up and listen to the arguments of those with whom they disagree. It is high time that Arab and Jewish student groups, long accustomed to pre­ ferring monologues or silence rather than any inclination to re­ spectful dialogue, should be held to the same standard.

B EN O IT JA C Q M O TTE

W h e r e t h e r e ’s s m o k e s , t h e r e ’s g o v e r n m e n t m a t h F O A M IN G A T T H E M O U T H

BY E T H A N SACKS When the Chrétien admin­ istration announced its drastic cuts on federal cigarette taxes several weeks ago, the move managed to alienate almost eve­ rybody. Domestic cigarette com­ panies were put off by the in­ crease in exploit taxes on ciga­ rettes. Anti-smoking groups are in an uproar over the expected increase in the number of smok­ ers that lower prices will bring.

Provincial governments are up­ set that the move and similar tax cuts by the governments of Que­ bec, New Brunswick and Ontario will force them to cut their own taxes on cigarettes. The cuts also antagonized political critics who point to the loss of millions of dollars in revenue when the coun­ try has a 45 billion dollar deficit for this fiscal year alone.

The move, however, was justified as a blow against the rampant levels of cigarette smug­ gling which had plagued Quebec especially. The tax cuts, which may cost the government 450 million dollars per year, will be

coupled with a 150 million dollar increase in funding for the RCMP anti-smuggling unit. The measures will virtually break the back of the Akwesasne-based cigarette smug­ gling network which nets an esti­ mated 300 million dollars each year. Typical bureaucratic account­ ing.

In simplest terms, domestic cigarettes were exported to New York, sold to distributers in Rochester and Buffalo and brought into the American side of the Akwesasne reserve, all completely legal. From there, runners buy the cheap cigarettes, smuggle them across the St. Lawrence River where they are sold to distributers across Ontario and Quebec. Generally, the only stage w here native entrepeneurs are heavily involved is in the highly dangerous smug­ gling stage. Once again it is pre­ dominantly white entrepreneurs who make money off the Mohawk runners on the less risky distribu­ tion stages.

The Mohawk runners, how­ ever, do take the brunt of the PR flack for cigarette smuggling. The image of the nighttime run across the St. Lawrence with machine guns blazing seems like som e­ thing out of a Pacino mobster

movie.

The whole concept of or­ ganized crime can be scary, be­ lieve me I know. Just before I was born, a police informer was rubbed out gangland-style on the lawn of the house my family would even­ tually move into in Dobbs Ferry, New York. The dentist who lived there rushed outside to try and help the fatally wounded man, only to have the informer mumble his last words incoherently into his ear. Fearing that the mob would rub him out too, the dentist put a full page ad out in the New York Times explaining that he didn’t hear anything. My family purchased the house shortly thereafter, when the dentist fled to Florida to start a new life with an assumed name.

One summer I was able to earn a few bucks by selling his fowarding address to a nice man with expensive shoes.

Then there is the mob in the republics which once made up the Soviet Union. Apparently, well over 35 million dollars worth of nonferrous metals were smuggled into Estonia from Russia in 1993 alone.

According to U.S. News a n d World Report, Estonia has become one of the world’s largest exporters of the metals, despite the fact that it pro­

duces none itself. Now that is real smuggling.

Wow, that was quite the tan­ gent, even for me.

Anyway, the point is that the whole perception of Native Cana­ dians as cutthroat smugglers is an unfair one. For some reason, eco­ nomic development on reserves has been restricted to the areas of vice. Even the incredible economic success of reservations in Con­ necticut have only come about through gambling casinos.

While the recent tax cuts will reduce the impact of the illicit cigarette trade, the network at Akwesasne can still be utilized to smuggle alcohol oreven drugs.

Using the tax cuts to eliminate smuggling is like stuffing an oilsoaked rag in someone’s throat to stifle a cough. Instead of ap­ peasing the Quebec government, perhaps some of the sin tax money could have gone into programs funding development on reserves.

P o l i c i j f o p C o m m e n t s a n c I L e t t e r s to t h e E d i t o i

A ll a r e w e l c o m e t o s u b m i t c o m m e n t s a n d le tte r s t o t h e e d i t o r . T h e T r ib u n e r e s e r v e s t h e rig h t n o t t o p r in t m a te ria l c o n s i d e r e d ra c is t, s e x is t, o r h o m o p h o b i c b y t h e e d i t o r i a l b o a r d . V ie w s e x p r e s s e d in c o m m e n t s a n d le tte r s a r e n o t n e c e s s a r ily t h e v i e w s o f t h e e d i t o ­ rial b o a r d . L e tte rs m u s t b e n o m o r e th a n 3 5 0 w o r d s , a n d c o m m e n t s a r e lim ite d t o 5 0 0 w o r d s . C o m m e n ts a n d le tte r s m u s t b e s u b m i t t e d b y 3 PM o n T h u rs d a y a f t e r n o o n f o r in c lu s io n in t h e f o l l o w i n s w e e k ’s is s u e

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S p e a k s o ftly a n d c a r r y a b ig tic k Definition: Idiolect-. The individual’s use of language, with his [sic] own speech habits and choice of words; the individual’s per­ sonal variety of the community language system; the speech habit of a single person at a given point of his lifetime.

I know I should have in­ cluded this definition right from column one, but in any case, let this now stand as a disclaimer to the common misconception that I’m the resident “idiotspeaker” of the McGill Tribune (I could have gone to the Daily for that).

This is a bona-fide lin­ guistics term, sanctioned by the OED itself, but this dictionary definition is deceptively sim­ ple. An idiolect is more than just an accent, (as that beloved m isogynist H enry Higgins learned about Eliza Doolittle in that musical nightmare My Fair Lady). O ne’s idiolect is the sum total of a life’s experiences. Sure, there’s potato, then there’s potah-h-to, and if you’re from the South I guess there’s grits, but what one says and how one says it are the two complemen­ tary realms of language that together constitute one of the fundamental keys to personal­ ity Take that rare task of the job interview, possibly one of the least pleasant experiences of adulthood. And why? Be­ cause job interviewers not only hold a certain amount of con­ trol over your financial stability, they have the authority to judge you on the basis of a mere fifteen minutes’worth of words.

You are what you say, as they say, and you are how you say it, and if you’re saying something that’s not really you, well, what does that say about yourself?

Here’s another situation.

There’s this letter lying on the ground. It’s a nice thick piece of p erso n a l c o rre sp o n d e n c e , stamped, addressed, and ready to go into the mailbox. So the thought naturally occurs to me that finders are often keepers,

BY G LE N D A KOH and nobody would have to know. After all, if I’m in a forest and a letter falls into my hands, and there’s no one around to hear it, can I read it?

The thought of opening somebody else’s letter whom I had never met and will never meet and know nothing about, yet trying to unravel the mystery of that person is all too appeal­ ing. Language is the ultimate hum an conundrum through which the world knows a per­ son and a person knows the world. The words in this letter are like a maze by which one can attempt to draw conclu­ sions, but by the very arbitrari­ ness of language, conclusions which can never be verified.

That is, a person’s speech is not only a declaration to the world about who they are—and in case of the job interview, how well they can peddle stereos— they’re a set of symbols offered to the world for interpretation.

Once your words have left your mouth they are common prop­ erty, and can be read or miscon­ strued or misquoted as anyone pleases. You may represent your­ self through language to the best of your ability, but you have control of who you are only to the extent to which you, and those who are assessing your words, are operating under the same frames of reference.

Language is an exchange.

It «like talking in the forest. You can holler all you want, but if there’s no one to hear you, then only one-half of the function of language has been carried out.

Linguists may be social scien­ tists, but everyone is a language expert in their own right. Mil­ lions of people may speak the same language, but just as each person has an idiolect, each in­ dividual has the power to inter­ pret, and more importantly, the right to believe that interpreta­ tion.

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Re: The Hip-Hop Columns of Catrin Morris Your writings on the mi­ sogyny found in some rap lyrics are disappointingly one-sided.

Why is it that w hen mainstream journalists write about Hip-Hop, it is only to expose the negative aspects? This form of Black urban expression is always held u p as an example o f the “pathological violence and rampant sexism ” supposedly found in young Afri­ can-American males.

I understand and respect the actions o f the NPCBW-but, I disrespect you for focusing on

COMMENT Until last week, when one spoke of the infamous Hebron massacre, one spoke of the 1929 barbaric slaughter of some 70 Jews by Arab mobs, which fur­ ther led to the effective expulsion of that city’s Jewish population.

To speak of the “Hebron massa­ cre” today, though, will for a change evoke the legitimate ques­ tion, “Which one?”

The wholesale, senseless carnage wreaked last week on the worshippers at the Hebron mosque by radical Dr. Baruch Goldstein deserves nothing less th a n to ta l, c o m p le te a n d uncategorical condemnation, in the strongest terms; any qualifi­ cation whatsoever is unconscion­ able.

The fact that Arabs may or may not have done similar or worse to Jews is an issue which is here completely irrelevant. And the fact that Dr. Goldstein may have been troubled by political events or by the recent murder

by Arabs of his close friend is about as relevant as the fact that Valery Fabrikant may have been upset about not being granted tenure, orthefactthatM arcLépine (of the 1989 Ecole Polytéchnique massacre) may have once been slighted by a woman.

There is an unfortunate ten­ dency these days to rationalize crimes and criminals, sometimes by invoking socio-economic or

In the article titled “Those who would be SSMU King (or Queen) ’’the following appeared: “According to Solomon, Luz's relationship with VP Paul Johnson, Cornell Wright, and Ruth Promislow has sometimes been marked with conflict.”

P residential ca n d id a te Tracey Solomon did not make that statement. The words “Ac­ cording to Solomon” appeared due to an editorial error.

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Hip-Hop only as an example of Black male sexism, and failing to acknow ledge the presence of m isogyny in p o p u lar culture w here it occurs in a multiplicity of forms. Black rappers are not the ones w ho invented sexism.

While they can not be absolved of their responsibility for degrad­ ing Black w om en, it is important to recognize that these values are a product of the mainstream cul­ ture’s attitudes. The focus on gangsta rappers leads the general public to believe that artists such as NWA are representative o f the entire Hip-Hop Nation. If you did your research, you w ould find m any examples of artists w ho are

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racial factors; the pernicious ef­ fect of this practice is nothing less than the gradual removal of indi­ vidual moral responsibility, the underpinning of any decent, func­ tioning society.

The response to the recent anti-white shooting on the Long Island Railway is a good example of misguided reactions to crime.

Instead of condemning the mur­ ders outright as they should have, some black leaders used the op­ portunity to suggest that Ameri­ ca’s oppression of blacks some­ how “explained”—or even justi­ fied—the crime. This approach was completely out of place there, and it ought to be completely out of place in any response to Dr. Goldstein’s actions.

B ut th ere w as a n o th e r equally misguided reaction to the Long Island Railway murders, only from the other end of the political spectrum. Not content to con­ dem n the culprit as an “animal”, som e rig h t-w in g N ew York noisemakers made an ugly at­ tempt to impugn all blacks for a crime committed by one.

Again, a valid parallel to the Hebron massacre could be drawn: as much as our condemnation of Dr. G o ld s te in m u st be uncategorical, it cannot be al­ lowed to extend beyond the crimi­ nal to include the whole mass of innocent, law-abiding Jewish settlers in Judea and Samaria; if we

against sexism and violence. And what about female rappers such as MC Lyte who have been es­ p o u s in g th e ir b ra n d of “ghettofeminism” for years now.

It seems to me that those w ho aren’t really dow n with HipHop can stand back and bash it.

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are serious about fighting vicious stereotypes here or abroad, we cannot tolerate the tarring of many for the actions of one. Of course, the Palestine Liberation Organi­ zation has done precisely that, and will continue to make as much political hay from the mas­ sacre as it can, as it attempts to paint all Jewish residents of the Territories as crazed, wild-eyed killers.

The sad irony is that, politi­ cally speaking, there is no greater loser from all this than the settlers themselves. They can expect heavy damage from two fronts: first, from the Moslem terrorist groups who have vowed bloody revenge, and second, from Isra el’s Labourgovernment, w ho will take advantage of the post-mas­ sacre public indignation to crack down hard on all segments of the anti-Rabin settler movement, and not just on radicals.

There is more tragic irony, though: The settlers in Hebron have often pointed to the 1929 massacre of Jews as a reason for their determination to stay; it re­ mains to be seen w hether the 1994 massacre of Arabs will even­ tually become the reason they had to go.

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C O R K EC n O N S In the article titled “It’s one on one for SSMU’s inside posi­ tions” Mary-Margaret Jones was quoted as saying: “Sadie’s does fall into Cornell’s portfolio but w e never see him...." Sadie’s does not fall into the portfolio of Cornell Wright, the current VP Internal of SSMU. Sadie's is the responsibil­ ity of the VP Finance.

Also in the article titled“It's one on one for SSMU’s inside positions” the Tribune errone­ ously referred to U2 m anage­ ment student Carol Zarb. The candidate opposing incubent VP Finance Paul Johnson is Caroline Zabbal.

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BY R A M R A N D H A W A In the third in a five-part series the Tribune reviews theperfo r m a n c e o f S tu d en ts’ Society (SSMU) VP University Affairs Ruth Promislow.

During her election cam­ paign last March, Arts student Ruth Promislow pledged to con­ front issues such as “sexual and racial harassment, cam pus safety, accessibility to persons w ith dis­ abilities and adequate daycare facilities for students with chil­ dren.”

Promislow cited the pro­ p osed sexual harassm ent policy as her most significant accom ­ plishm ent this year.

“I felt it im portant to get student submissions, and I feel I did well in m aking sure that all of the suggestions m ade by the stu­ dent body w ere im plem ented in the official recom m endations of th e [Senate] co m m ittee,” e x ­ plained Promislow.

Promislow also cited the success of the pass/fail proposal in McGill’s senate earlier this year as a victory for all students.

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Promislow also pushed for a cyclical review of resi­ dences. Although the InterResidence Council (IRC) ini­ tially supported the idea of an external review, the IRC later w ithdrew its support.

“The reason IRC w ith­ drew their support was that everything IRC w anted in a cyclical review they got anyways,” she explained.

Although Promislow’s accom plishm ents are m ani­ fold, concerns have been raised about the m ethods she has used to reach her goals.

Science Senator Scott VP Kapoor pointed out w hat he saw as a breach of Students' Society by-laws. According to Kapoor, Promislow has neglected proper policy in appointing stu­ dents to committees. Although Kapoor acknowledged that coun­

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BY B AR N A B Y C LU N IE On February 7, University of Toronto Students’ Administrative Council (SAC) President Edward de Gale resigned after having been accused of misappropriation of funds and corruption.

Cary Morreti, a computer graphics designer, said he issued a price quote for a personal compu­ ter to SAC for approximately 1,900 dollars, and then issued a second quote at a later date for 500 dollars more. The only reported differ­ ence between the two quotes was an extended warranty. Moneti then gave de Gale a cut of the differ­ ence, 400 dollars.

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P ro m islo w d is a ­ greed with Kapoor’s in­ terpretation of council’s decision.

“I asked council to allow me to circumvent [the by-laws]. Both the executive an d council gave me the permission to do this for the rest of year. At the end of the year, the Senate/Board o Caucus will redo the by£ laws, and next year’s apjj pointm ents will b e m ade £ with the new ones in efg f e e t ,” e x p la in e d 3 Promislow.

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On January 24, after the i about a contract for a proposed equipment had been purchased 25,000 dollar computer modem and installed, Morreti handed over bank. Morreti allegedly wanted to incriminating evidence regarding design the software for the system.

In a closed meeting follow­ the transaction to the SAC assistant vice president for university af­ ing the resignation, the SAC coun­ fairs. The evidence included tape cil announced that it had launched recordings, price quotations for a full investigation into the board computer equipment and a bank of directors’ finances. SAC’s law­ machine withdrawal slip for 400 yers have also been hired to re­ view all of the council’s accounts dollars.

When de Gale was informed and contracts “in order to protect o f the alleg atio n s, “He was the integrity of the organization.”

Acting SAC president Marc stunned,” a close associate told U of T’s student newspaper The Var­ Tremblay has said that the audit sity. “He didn’t realize he’d done will cost between 10,000 to 15,000 dollars. something wrong."

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According to Staff Sergeant Len Paris of the U of T police, the premises had been secured the night of the theft. There were no signs of forced entry. Paris noted that the only members of SAC with access to all three of the areas from which equipment was missing were former SAC President Ed de Gale, a n d A c tin g -P re sid e n t Marc Tremblay.

When de Gale requested compensation for the loss of his personal computer in October, the insurance claim had yet to be proc­ essed, and no remuneration had been received by the SAC. How­ ever, a cheque for 3,000 dollars was signed by Tremblay and the SAC Business Manager Ali Lila, and given to de Gale.

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It has also been reported recently that SAC’s insurance policy will not cover the theft of personal property, such as de Gale’s com­ puter.

Tremblay maintains that he was led to believe by both de Gale and Lila that SAC would definitely be compensated.

Lila denies any wrongdoing.

“As an employee of SAC, L did what I was asked to do by de Gale—I signed the cheque,” Lila told U of T’s The Newspaper.

Tremblay insisted that SAC will retrieve the money de Gale owes.

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Kapoor expressed doubt regarding Prom islow’s motives.

“There is a fundam ental contradiction in her character... she believes in issues that deal with discrimination— [issues that] free the hum an spirit to rise to its potential—yet I feel that on thé individual level... she som etimes suppresses [peoples’] individual will,” h e said. “H ow I reconcile this contradiction is by question­ ing her m otivation behind thesê issues of discrimination.”

Promislow m aintained that she felt strongly about her goals as VP University Affairs.

“If you take out my cam­ paign poster and look at those objectives, th e y ’ve all b een achieved— m aybe at the cost of u p settin g so m e p eo p le, but achieving those objectives was the m ost im portant thing for me this year,” sh e said. “In reaching a goal there is a cost. The choice I m ade was to w ork as hard as I could even if it m eant creating slight tension betw een m e and others.”

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PAR L A R A N A H A S La récente hausse des frais d e scolarité pousse plusieurs as­ sociations étudiantes à trouver une solution au problèm e posé p ar la réduction des sub ven­ tio n s g o u v ern em en tales aux universités québécoises.

Bien que le gouvernem ent veuille com penser les étudiants en fo u rn issan t d es p rê ts et b o u r s e s p lu s im p o r ta n ts , l’augm entation est inégale dans les deux cas. Les frais de scolarité ont augm enté de 656 dollars entre 1987 et 1992, alors que les augm entations m oyennes sont d e 102 dollars p o u r les bourses et de 178 dollars p our les prêts.

La situation étudiante va de mal en pis, avec un nom bre croissant d ’étudiants vivant sous le seuil de la pauvreté.

Le 3 m a rs 1994, la F é d é r a tio n É tu d ia n te Universitaire du Q uébec (FÉUQ) est ven u e à McGill rechercher les opinions des étudiants sur le problèm e du sous-financem ent, m algré le fait que McGill se soit retirée d e cette organisation.

Parmi les plans proposés, celui qui a suscité les discus­ sions les plus intéressantes a été le P ro g ra m m e d e P rê ts à R em boursem ent Proportionnel au Revenu (PPRPR), tel qu'étudié par le Conseil des Universités de l'O ntario (CUO) et l'Association des Universités et Collèges du Canada (AUCC).

R ich L a to u r, u n d e s c a n d id a ts aux é le c tio n s présidentielles de l'Association É tu d ia n te (AÉUM), e st très favorable au plan PPRPR. Dans un com m uniqué adressé aux com m issaires d e la FÉUQ, il fait rem arquer “(qu’lune augm enta­ tion des frais de scolarité est inévitable, alors autant q ue les étudiants aient leur m ot à dire lo rsq u ’il s ’agit du m o d e de

paiem ent des frais d e scolarité.”

La base de ce plan repose sur les élém ents suivants: tous les étudiants éligibles ont droit à un prêt d ’un m ontant totalisant u n e partie ou la totalité des frais sc o la ire s. Le p r ê t é tu d ia n t spécifierait le pourcentage du revenu annuel à payer, le nom bre m a x im a l d ’a n n é e s d u r a n t lesquelles le paiem ent doit être effectu é, ainsi q u e le ta u x d ’intérêt qui sera appliqué. Si un individu n ’a pas pu term iner le rem boursem ent à la fin d e la période indiquée à cause d ’un bas revenu, aucun p aiem ent subséquent n e sera exigé. De p lu s, les p a ie m e n ts s e r o n t seu lem en t exigés lo rsq u e le revenu aura atteint un certain niveau. Ce program m e pourrait ê tre g é r é p a r u n e a g e n c e g o u v e r n e m e n ta le s a n s b u t lucratif. Les fonds proviendraient d e prêts gouvernem entaux ou de fonds d e retraite p o u r com ­ m e n c e r . P a r la s u i t e , ils proviendraient des paiem ents reçus p ar les diplôm és.

M. Latour précise q u e cette m é th o d e n ’e m p ê c h e p a s la hausse des frais d e scolarité, m ais elle p e rm e t l ’a c c è s à l’éducation, et em pêcherait u n e a u g m e n ta tio n d e s fra is d e scolarité du type p ro p o sé p ar McGill au printem ps dernier.

Mark Luz, p ré sid e n t de l’AÉUM, a égalem ent rédigé un com m uniqué d e son opinion sur les frais d e scolarité. Bien q u e la position officielle de l'AÉUM d em eu re o p p o sé e à toute augm entation des frais de scolarité, M. Luz “ten te déb u ter un d ia lo g u e e n tre le gouvernem ent, les universités et les étudiants afin d ’ adresser e t r é s o u d r e la c r is e d e l’enseignem ent supérieur.”

D ans ce com m uniqué, il déclare “le PPRPR doit être perçu com m e un systèm e d e prêts am élio ré et so p h istiq u é , u n

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m oyen d e fournir les universités avec le financem ent dont elles o n t b e s o in p o u r offrir u n e excellente éducation, sans placer d e fa rd e a u su r le d o s d es étudiants.”

Il insiste aussi que “les étudiants [aient] u n e gam m e d ’o p tio n s p a rm i le s q u e lle s ch o isir p o u r p ay e r les frais d ’éducation, et la possibilité d ’utiliser le PPRPR p o u r payer leurs frais d e scolarité au m o­ m ent où ils en so n t financièrem ent capables.”

D e l’autre côté d e la bal­ ance, les opinions ne sont pas aussi favorables. Eric Bondo, le seul candidat à la vice-présidence aux affaires externes ayant assisté à la réunion de la FÉUQ, ne soutient p as ce plan et estime q u e “b u r e a u - c r a t i q u e m e n t parlant, c ’est u n e solution fort c o û te u s e à lo n g term e. Le systèm e d ’éducation en entier devrait être révisé.”

Malgré les efforts fournis pour trouver une solution rapide, le PPRPR a p eu de chances d ’être bientôt appliqué, en tout cas, pas avant 1996.

w as a m isunderstanding on [his] p art.”

B r is e b o is c o n f ir m e d B oyd’s assertion.

“I h av e to say that I did say th at,” B risebois said. “I w as at fault thinking that b ec au se th e b u d g e t h a d b e e n a p ­ p ro v e d it w as alright. It h ad to b e a p p r o v e d b y P aul J o h n s o n .”

“From w h a t I w as told, the contract w as sig n ed in p rin ­ ciple, a n d th e o n ly thing left w as that [SSMU President] Mark Luz o r Paul J o h n s o n w o u ld b e signing it w h e n th ey g o t back from [Reading W eek] vacation,” Boyd said.

SSMU’s Financial M anage­ m en t C om m ittee (FMC) a p ­ p ro v e d th e co ntract o n Friday afternoon. Jo h n so n will p resen t the contract for council a p ­ proval at th e next SSMU c o u n ­ cil m eeting.

Jo h n so n an d Boyd b o th cautioned, h o w ev er, that the signing o f th e con tract did not

m ean co n stru ctio n w o u ld b e ­ gin immediately. AUS an d SSMU m ust w ait for form al approval from Physical Plant, A ssociate Vice Principal (Physical Re­ so u rces) Sam K ingdon, an d A ssociate D ean o f Arts H arold Waller.

“Sam K ingdon says that as so o n as it receives approval from D ean W aller a n d Physical P lant h e ’ll a p p ro v e it right aw ay ,” B oyd said. AUS h o p e s th at th e tabagie will b e o p erat­ ing b y th e e n d o f March.

But J o h n s o n ca u tio n e d that th ere m ay b e fu rth er d e ­ lays.

“I d o n ’t k n o w th at c o u n ­ cil o r FMC w o u ld feel com forta b l e g o i n g a h e a d w ith [Kingdon’s] verbal approval and n o t his sig n atu re,” h e said.

Stew art m ain tain ed that SSMU councillors sh o u ld h ave b e e n b e tte r inform ed o n the issue.

“It’s just re sp o n sib le go v ­ ern m e n t,” Stewart said. “You k ee p ev eryone inform ed so that yo u d o n ’t get in th ese k in d o f p ick les.”

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At a m eeting o n M onday, M arch 7th, the S tudents’ Society (SSMU) Judicial B oard d ecided to uphold a decision m ade by SSMU C hief R eturning Officers (CROs) Jan e Rhee and Mark H arm an to declare the third referendum question invalid.

T he question, sp o n so red jointly by Will Phillipson, president o f the Engineering U ndergraduate Society (F JS), Ronald Balinsky, p resident o f the M anagem ent U ndergraduate Society (MUS), a n d jo s h u a Firem an, p resident o f the Law S tudents’ Association (LSA), w as an effort to am en d the constitution o f the M cG ill D a ily ’s publications society to require the n ew sp a p er to go to student referen d u m every three years in order to establish stu d en t support.

After h anding in the petition three m inutes before the deadline, Phillipson w as inform ed that according to a count m ade by the CROs, the petition sported only 457 signatures, 43 short o f th e req u ired 500. W hen a disbelieving Phillipson asked if h e could subm it o th er sheets o f signatures that h e h a d n ’t earlier supplied, believing that h e h ad the required 500, Phillipson w as told that since the deadline h ad n o w passed, h e could not.

T he Judicial B oard w as asked to confront tw o separate questions. Firstly w as a challenge against the decision m ade by th e CROs. The plaintiffs, rep resen ted

by Firem an, argued that Phillipson had in d eed subm itted 500 signatures, som e o f w hich m ust therefore have b ee n lost before the CROs h ad counted them . T he sec o n d qu estion w as pu t forth by the Daily, w hich argued that the p ro p o se d referen d u m question w as unconstitutional.

T he judicial b o ard decision n o ted that the b u rd e n o f proving m ism anage­ m ent or w ro ngdoing by the CROs rested o n the plaintiffs, and found that they w e re u n ab le to provide sufficient evidence.

Firem an rem arked that the decision w as a predictable one.

“I d o n ’t think it’s a trem endous surprise,” h e said. “If you d o n ’t h av e som e so rt of co ncrete evidence... [any w rongdoing by the CROs] is difficult to p ro v e .”

Elections for th e next y ear’s council for th e McGill Association for C ontinuing E ducation Students (MACES) have b ee n delayed. T he elections, w hich w e re su p p o se d to b e held on March 1st, have n o w b ee n tentatively resch ed u led for M arch 31st.

An official date for th e elections will not b e an n o u n ced until th e next MACES council m eeting.

A ccording to C hief Returning Officer (CRO) Anne B urpee, th e delay w as d u e in part to th e late arrival o f a m ailing list from th e university. MACES uses th e list to mail an election package to all o f its m em bers.

B urpee n o te d that although som e delay w as expected, it w as h o p e d that the elections w o u ld not b e set back so far.

“W e did ex p ect a delay b u t w e d id n ’t expect it to b e a m o n th ,” sh e explained.

B urpee also n o ted that the elections had b ee n ex ten d ed , a n d not p o stp o n ed . According to B urpee, MACES will b e accepting ballots by mail, an d th e polling stations will b e o p e n for a full w eek.

VP Internal can didate Eric O udin, a m em ber o f th e only slate running in the elections, forw arded a letter along with the rest o f his slate expressing disappointm en t at th e delay.

A ccording to O udin, n o n e o f th e candidates had b e e n inform ed o f the delay or th e reaso n b eh in d them for days after the originally sch ed u led election date.

T he letter ex p ressed suspicion of the true reason b eh in d th e delay, saying that “MACES has b ee n plag u ed over th e last few years w ith a series o f w rongful a n d illegal incidents involving m em bers o f its executive. W e d o no t w an t to see it h a p p e n again.”

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BY P A R O M IT A S H AH The media is one of the most powerful tools in society.

T hrough radio, television, jour­ nals, magazines, and new spa­ pers, w om en have b een making their voices heard. The existence of radio program s such as Dykes on Mikes and Hersay on CKUT, and M atrix on 102.3 FM, are reflections of the fact that main­ stream m edia simply does not address th e concerns and per­ spectives of many w om en.

The M ontreal Gazette is trying to correct this problem . It has created a separate section, “W om an News”, devoted exclu­ sively to issues and events con­ cerning w om en. The topics span from international, national, and local new s and events affecting w om en, to hum an interest sto­ ries, editorials, and fashion and health tips.

The G azette’s move has sparked debate amongst women.

Some w om en assert that the ad­ vent o f this type of new s m arks a step back in the w om en’s m ove­ m ent, since new s concerning w om en is everyone’s new s, not just w om en’s.

O ther w om en do not see th is ty p e of new s as “ghettoization” so m uch as a crea­ tion of “space” for w om en to express and receive perspectives and new s that directly relates to w om en.

D onna Nebenzahl, editor of “W om an News”, explained w hy th e Gazette created the sec­ tion, an d how she perceives its role within the context of the w o m en ’s m ovem ent.

“W om an New s” w as actu­ ally the culm ination of the results of a survey conducted across North America to find out why w om en w ere less inclined to read newspapers. The survey was distributed with the intent to find out tw o things: which w om en w ere reading new spapers; and w hat w om en w ant to read.

“T here w as nothing out there that reflected w ho they w ere,” said Nebenzahl. “So w e designed a w om en’s new s sec­ tion m odelled after the one in the Chicago Tribune. O ur focus is to cover m any types o f com m uni­ ties, many types of stories con­ cerning w om en. We care mostly about the issues of commonality am ong wom en.

“There is no possible way it can affect all wom en. For exam ­ ple, w e d o n ’t do stories on the executive working w om en b e ­ cause I feel that it belongs in the business section. We focus more on th e issues affecting wom en, instead of groups,” she stated.

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“Having a separate w om ­ e n ’s section is com plete segrega­ tion of w om en’s issues and can only result in the ‘ghettoization’ of w om an’s new s,” said Steed.

“News about w om en and con­ cerning w om en should b e on the front page, not in som e specific place. The w om en’s m ovem ent has com e far enough in many ways w here w e do not need a separate section for it all. I’m pissed off at the existence of such a thing.”

Norma Klein, of This maga­ zine in Toronto, expanded upon Steed’s disapproval.

“A separation of w om en’s new s becom es a form of redress at som e point, because one has to m ake sure that w om en have a voice. In my m agazine, w here there is a strong tradition o f femi­ nist writing, this becom es redun­ dant.

“W om en’s new s serves a purpose w hen the situation is really bad. But having som ething like that is not ideal. It can be helpful but then dissipate into a ‘g h e tto iz a tio n ’,” K lein c o m ­ m ented.

Deborah Van Slet, producer for the radio program Dykes on M ikes, a c k n o w le d g e d th a t “W om an News” may b e provid­ ing a space for som e w om en but affirmed that it may prove to be detrim ental in the long run.

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interview ed by the Trib­ u n e explained that they w ere unsatisfied with the “W om an News” section’s content, rather than its ex­ istence. T hough m any did accede that som e w om en may feel the need to have a space within a main­ stream new spaper, they m aintained that it w as not a outlet for the myriad of voices within the w om ­ e n ’s movement.

Marisa Antonaya, a producer of the radio show Hersay, said it is really the content of the section that determ ines its value to the progression of the w om ­ M aking new s more relevan t en ’s movement. She found their articles im bued with this that relies on a sort of cult-ofpersonality ethic w hich is less flippant, token-like character.

“The w hole section seems threatening.”

“Because it’s becom e more to b e v ery sa n itiz e d ,” said Antonaya. “The articles on fash­ accessible,” continued Klein, “it ion in the back seem to offer an has taken som e o f the sting out apology for all the serious arti­ of feminism. In effect, there is a cles before. W e shouldn’t be depoliticization o f the issues con­ asham ed for propagating our cul­ cerning w om en.”

Van Slet describes the more ture.

“Their articles portray that h u m a n is t (a s o p p o s e d to it’s good to have a strong and “w o m a n is t”) a p p r o a c h o f in d ep en d en t w om an but she “W om an News” to b e self-de­ m ust look im peccable at all time. feating. However, she em phaIt’s like they are trying to keep sized the im portance of viewing the feminine in the feminism, this as o ne step in the process of And w e are feminine by the achieving self-identity and self­ sheer fact that w e are w om en.” worth.

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“T hough I personally can’t relate to it and find the articles bland and basically inapplicable to my life, if people feel there is a need, then it’s good that it’s out there. But there’s a line. It’s good to have a space w here o n e can feel com fortable and safe but then it can turn into an insula­ tion. You have to get out in the world to m ake sure you d o n ’t forget it.”

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“I ho p e that our program “W om en as a culture are gives opportunities for the many incredibly diverse. It s the differvoices of w om en to express them- ent perspectives that are imporselves because they’re not going tant and that’s w here the time to find it in the mainstream move- should go. ‘W oman News’ adm ent » dresses our similarities and not K lein e m p h a siz e d th at our differences.” mainstream feminism has taken Not all that m uch has a new turn. changed in term s o f the impor“Mainstream m edia has be- tance o f w om en’s new s in the com e m ore accepting of a cer- media. But you do see a bit tain brand of feminism. It’s more more of w om en’s concerns on of an individual-based feminism the media. For example, daycare

is an issue that appears fairly frequently. You see a lot more lesbian and gay things reaching the mainstream. So conscious­ ness to mainstream mentality has b een achieved on a superficial level.”

Laura Yaros, co-coordina­ tor of the w om en’s radio collec­ tive Matrix, sees a disturbing trend in the content of main­ stream w o m en ’s news. “‘W om an News’ is a main­ stream type of thing. It’s tam e in that it has a lot o f fluffy articles.

It’s okay to work, it’s okay to be a corporate executive, but you have to look good while you’re doing it. It’s not a voice for social change,” said Yaros.

“Even though o ne could argue that there that has been som e im provem ent in term s of you seeing m ore w om en report­ ers, there has to b e m ore than th a t They have no control over w hat they say. A nd you have look at w ho runs these institu­ tions, w ho controls them?”

Steed co u ld n o t ag ree more.

“I w ould be so pissed off if m y articles en ded u p in the dredges o f som e new sp ap er som ew here [because they are about w om en’s issues]. I think mainstream new spapers, esp e­ cially the [Toronto] Star, have a lot of w om en reporters. W here w e do not exert our influence is in top-level m anagem ent posi­ tions. W e n eed m ore w om en there because that’s really the only way articles about w om en will end u p on the front page, and not b e pushed back to Liv­ ing’ or ‘H om e’.”

Underlying this debate is a perceived dichotom y betw een w om en’s new s and new s in g en­ eral. It appears that the Gazette is co m fortable w ith this di­ chotomy. Yet, it is this m anufac­ tured division that spaw ns the “ghettoization” that many w om en fear. Is it enough to create a space for w om en regardless of contend

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Flora M’M bugu-Schelling: presenting true images o f Tanzania

BY R U M B I K A TED ZA

Tanzania.

Flora M ’M bugu-Schelling is a f i lm m a k e rfro m T a n za n ia .

H er latest w ork is a d o c u m e n ­ tary a b o u t the lives o f w om en labourers. R u m b i K a ted za in ­ terview ed M ’M bugu-Schelling f o r the T ribune a n d CKUTradio in celebration o f In tern a tio n a l W o m e n ’s Week.

T rib u n e : Are th ere a lot o f w o m en film m akers com ing u p these days in Africa?

M ’M b u g u - S c h e l l i n g : Y eah, in 1991 w e ac tu ally form ed an association o f Afri­ can w om en film an d video [mak­ ers] in Accra, G hana. It’s very interesting because that idea T rib u n e : W hat m ade you c ro p p ed u p w h e n I w as here in w ant to d o film5 V ancouver for [a festival w hich a lot o f w om en attended].

M ’M b u g u - S c h e l l i n g : I m et this w om an from Well I w a n ted to d o film b e ­ G hana w h o is a film m aker, an d cause I always th o u g h t I h ad I said, ‘W e n ee d to d o som e­ som ething I w o u ld like to say. thing, b ecau se I d id n ’t know But to say it o n a p iece o f paper, about you, a n d w e h ave to fly som etim es I find even w ords all the w ay from Africa to com e d o n o t de- ________________ an d m eet s c rib e , r e ­ h e r e . I t ’s “It’s not that I am ally, w hat I em barrass­ w an t to say. ing!’ refusing to give my So I got into T hen films to all these ^ p h o to g ra ­ in N ovem ­ kinds of people to be phy and b e r o f ’91, I from th e re received a shown. It’s that I’m into au d io ­ fa x fro m refusing to be v isu al m e ­ G hana say­ exploited.” dia. Before ing, ‘Y ou th a t I have to w o rk e d in a c o m e . . .

- Flora M ’MBugun ew sp ap er m ost o f the Schelling as a journal­ [other] ist, a n d I re ­ Tanzanian film maker w om en are alized I just ^ coming c o u ld n ’t p u t a n d w e ’re everything in writing. O r even if going to start an association.’ So I just left everything o n the I could, so m eb o d y alw ays h ad to cen so r it. You know , you table, took the plane; it w as a very difficult route to travel... have editors to edit it. So in the bu t it w as w orth it. end... y o u ’re n o t qu ite h ap p y w ith it. W ith films I can m ore or All in all there are about less control a lot o f w hat I w ant 50 w om en film m akers a n d m ost o f the w o m en studied film an d to say to th e audience. w en t to very good universities to study film. But sin ce it’s so T rib u n e : W hat kind o f difficult to just get th ere an d it facilities are available to you takes so m uch trouble to even an d o th er film m akers in T anza­ nia? d are to m ak e a film, m ost w om en have n ow b ec o m e b u ­ M ’M b u g u -S ch e llin g : W e reaucrats, m aybe in TV stations o r som ew here in the m inis­ h av e au d io visual institutes tries.... w hich h av e cam eras, recording room s, a n d editing equipm ent.

A lot o f w o m en are p ro ­ But w e d o n ’t h ave labs [for ducing in video b ecau se it’s easy to get m oney, it’s ch e ap er processing]. So m ost of th e tim e to produce than film, ...and few you sh o o t the film and sen d it are using 16 millimetre. But it’s out. It m ight take three m onths, also very difficult to w ork in o r six m onths to b e developed, video in a place like Tanzania a n d th en it has to b e sh ip p ed back for you to b e able to edit... w h ere even the clim ate will destroy the tapes. T he hum idity You h av e to go to E urope to do the post-production. All in all, is very hostile to video eq u ip ­ m ent. it’s n o t easy to d o a film in

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So I’m alw ays saying if it takes m e a year o r th ree years to w ork on a project, if I d o it o n a video, w h at h a p p e n s if som e­ body erases the tape? T he w hole w ork is gone. I w o u ld like to do films w hich are going to b e seen n o w o r 200 years from now .

So I’m just afraid that it will no t last long. T hat’s w hy I’m trying to stick to 16 m illim e­ tres. But I kn o w it’s easier to m ake them in video. But I am still no t very com fortable, in Africa, to b e able to do w ork w hich y o u ’ve b e e n w orking on for three, som etim es five years, o n video tape.

T rib u n e : I h av e n ’t heard o f all these w o m en in the indus­ try. Is it that fem ales are not taken as seriously as m ales in the industry?

M ’M b u g u - S c h e l l i n g : Well I really d o n ’t know . Most w om en are hum ble, an d they’re doing their w orks, bu t w e have a lot o f o ther things to d o than just m ake films, you see. W e d o n ’t earn o u r livings w hile m aking films. W e m ore or less d o films as a hobby. B ecause you have kids to take care of.

You have to feed them instantly.

So you have to do an o th er job an d then b e able to d o film....

If they [wom en] are not pu t in the m ainstream m edia [it is because] w hatever is d o n e in the W estern m edia is d o n e for a p er cent, a profit, you see. So m aybe it is not profitable enough yet to use African w o m en film m akers to gain som ething.

B ut w o m e n exist, a n d w e ’re doing films, a n d very in­ teresting films indeed. And w e have a very different w ay o f doing o u r films. W e have a very different w ay o f seeing things.

And w e are telling different stories than w h at m en are tell­ ing....

The reason why, also, m ost w om en film m akers are not k n o w n [is because] w e p ro d u c e films w ith sm all com m unity m oney, an d com m unities have n o p o w e r to the m edia. But m ost A frican m e n g et their m oney from TV stations. ...If they paid to m ake a film, they will m ake sure it is show n.

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ing to sell m y films to th e TV stations... T hey’ll tell you, ‘We can take it an d pay m aybe 200 dollars.’ T hat’s insulting!... But w h e n it com es to w h at they have produced , they will sell it at 100 dollars a m inute or m ore, o r at 500 dollars a m inute.

It’s not that I am refusing to give my films to all these kinds o f p eo p le to b e show n.

It’s that I’m refusing to b e ex­ ploited....

T rib u n e : I k n o w y o u r re­ cent film is a w o m an ’s interest film. Tell us a bit ab o u t that.

M’M b u g u -S ch e llin g : My recent film is called These Hands.

It is a story ab o u t w o m en w h o are w orking in a quarry.... I tho u g h t o f the b eau ty in it, an d that p e o p le are actually earning their living by doing this w o rk ....

T hey are p eo p le an d it’s a story w hich deserves to b e told.

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It’s a very p ersonal film, really.

M ost view ers h av e said, ‘I sat in th e film and I w as thinking ab o u t myself, m y life.’ It’s so m ething w hich m akes you think and qu es­ tion a lot o f things.

I d o n ’t w an t to indoctrinate p eo p le. I b elieve p e o p le are highly intelligent, an d if th ey are given the chance, a n d time, they will b e ab le to grasp th e essen ce o f w hat is b eing p u t forw ard to th em w ithout to o m any w o rd s ....

The w ay th e W estern m e­ dia has always b e e n portraying Africa: it’s really u n fo rtu n ate that m aybe they d id n ’t think that w hat their p eo p le are going to see is w hat they are going to believe is Africa. And m ost o f th e tim e w hat you have is very negative, or very stereotypical im ages w hich are put forward, an d unfortu­ nately, p eo p le h ere [in Canada] believe that that is h o w it is.

So by m e m aking m y film an d bringing it here... I h o p e they will u se o u r films to sh o w o u r stories.

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port, and the private sector has only contributed some free equipment parts. McPhee and Fréchette are try­ ing to obtain government funding by declaring the organization non-profit, but have met with a lot of red tape.

"We’re in debt,” said Fréchette.

"I owe my mother a lot of money.”

Frechette’s mother has in fact do­ nated one of TURBO’S three vehi­ cles.

The two men have been oper­ ating with revenues from sales and repairs, but unlike other businesses in that service, have chosen not to charge prices which most disabled can’t afford to pay.

There are a few private com­ panies, like Transport Médical du Grand Montréal, which similarly pro­ vide 24-hour transportation services in Montreal and the surrounding re­ gion, but they charge anywhere be­ tween 25 to 50 dollars per ride and require 24-hour prior notice for serv­ ice.

Joan Wolforth of McGill’s Of­ fice for Persons with Disabilities ex­ pressed support for the service that TURBO provides.

"People living alone with dis­ abilities are vulnerable,”said Wolforth.

“They would feel quite reassured by having TURBO available to them.”

And you thought icy streets were deadly. Next time you find yourself cursing this winter wonder­ land, consider people in wheelchairs.

It is undisputable that Montreal is a no-wheel deal.

According to Statistics Canada 107,200 adults in the Montreal met­ ropolitan area are mobility-disabled.

Of these, 47,010 claimed to have trouble using public transport, and 17,090 had none available in the area.

TURBO is a 24-hour emer­ gency service for the mobility-im­ paired which goes above and be­ yond the call of duty. (“No, we don’t make wheelchairs go faster. ”) TURBO not only transports stranded people, but also, among other things, repairs wheelchairs and refers people to the vast network of services available for people with disabilities.

Derrick McPhee and René Fréchette started off two years ago repairing wheelchairs and began pro­ viding the 24-hour service in recog­ nition of the absence of such service.

Like most non-profit services, TURBO relies heavily on their two volun­ teers, but is in need of more in order to make up for a lack of funding.

"We need volunteers badly... I’d be able to help out a lot more peo­ p le ,’’ said Fréchette.

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to take their gripes to the board, and the residents elected are there to make sure everyone has a say,” she said.

Bowen also affirmed that the board plays an important role in empowering the mothers at Project Chance.

Project Chance is a housing project for single mothers attending university or college in the Montreal area. It is the only service of its kind in Canada, and for the last four years it has provided low-cost housing for up to 22 mothers. Once accepted to the project, the mothers can remain there as long as they are students. After graduation they are given a six month grace period to find em­ ployment and new accom­ modation.

The housing project was designed by Angela McNeil who, as a single mother herself, under­ stood the difficulties faced G ivin g a chance to single mothers by young parents. The project is “The women on the board are now run by a board of directors, all very successful, and this is impor­ consisting of seven professional tant not only because they can act as women and five Project Chance role models, but also because they residents elected by the other provide a great opportunity for net­ mothers. The board secures funding working. After all, we all need jobs for the Centre, and makes every after graduation!” effort to fulfill the needs of the The project addresses many residents. of the financial and emotional prob­ Margerie Bowen, one of the lems of single parents. Rent is deter­ mothers elected to the board of mined on a sliding scale, with the directors, stressed the board’s ef­ more disadvantaged paying less. forts to give each mother a voice.

Noreen Wilson, one of the mothers “Equity is one of our main at Project Chance, considers the goals. The mothers should be able economic advantage to be the cen­

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“Financially it is a big help. It allows my life as a student-mother to be more realistic. My main worry now is covering tuition," she ex­ plained.

-‘ Project Chance operates as a cooperative living arrangement in order to create a support system am ong the women. A social worker holds office hours on the premises, and the moth­ ers occasionally hold their 3 own counselling groups, j “It’s hard living as a u single m o th e r,” says >• Wilson. “At the Centre we *-> are all in the same boat, so we can help each other out emotionally.”

Daliah Heller coor­ dinates a volunteer baby-sitting pro­ gram through the McGill Women’s Union. For two hours every weeknight and three hours on Sunday afternoon, students from McGill look after children from the Centre.

“It’s important that we give the mothers a break,” says Heller.

“They need some time to study or just relax.”

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HIV a n d AIDS in th e ‘90s: d ealin g w ith n e w ch allen g es Stephan Dusseault is a peer intervention counselor at Ville-Marie Youth Protection. The Montreal native has a Bachelor's Degree of Communication from Concordia and is also a photographer. Dusseault has been HIV positive since age 2 0 and is now almost 28. Among other projects, he does AIDS prevention workshops among adolescents in group homes, youth detention centres and schools.

Dusseault began his interview with Features editor Cheryl Devoe by discussing his own experience with HIV.

personal levels, there’s still a lot of m isunder­ standings about w hat it is. W hen I give those presentations, I realize just how backw ard som e of those myths are, and how prevalent they still are. I think the m edia has a lot to play in that.

T rib u n e: Do you that w e deal with social issues. I D u sseau lt: It’s been about find that the m edia has m ean that w hole politically cor­ eight years. T here’s a lot of trans­ misrepresented or has not rect thing that’s happening, it’s forming periods. At first it was dealt with the issue prop­ relatively new. I d o n ’t think the really difficult, you go through erly? w ord existed five years ago. I stages of denial, you go through D u sseau lt: I don’t think that is w hat’s happened, stages of anger, and then blame, know so m uch if it’s mis­ especially w ith HIV, it’s becom e and feeling that y ou’re dirty; you representation, bu t in a a politically correct subject to know , that you’re kind of like a way it is, som e of it. For talk about.

I’m not treated, or­ blank page having ink spilt all Dusseault: fig h tin g myths instance this w hole thing ganization-wise, like an infirme. over it. And then you stop feeling projects are you working on here with tainted blood. Even now I But I think that on one-on-one that way. at Y outh Protection? hear them say ‘AIDS-infected levels people still have a hard T rib u n e : Eight years. That D u s s e a u lt: O n e of the blood’.

I m ean, technically that’s time dealing with it. w ould m ean that you have had things that w e’re doing with not correct it’s HIV-infected T rib u n e: So you find that the virus since it was very m uch Project 10 is w e’re having a spin­ blood.

AIDS is the disease that on a one-to-one basis, people unkn o w n by the public at large. off project which is for youth you get w hen you’re im m une have trouble?

H ow do you find that peo p le’s with HIV, which is the first of its system isn’t w orking anymore, D usseau lt: Well, attitudes reactions towards you and to­ kind in Montreal, and the only w hich has nothing to do with have changed, and I think p eo ­ w a rd s HIV in g eneral have one as far as I know. blood... not in term s of infection. ple are m ore conscious that it’s changed over time? Do you feel T rib u n e : With respect to So even that is kind of irrespon­ that people have reacted differ­ there. W hen I first got it, nobody your w ork with young people, sible in 1994, to b e talking like w as talking about it. Nobody ently, or that yo u ’re still dealing w hat kind of special considera­ that on a new s programme. knew about it. It was som ething with the sam e kind of problems? tions have to b e m ade in educat­ T rib u n e: Have you heard that was happening in San Fran­ D u sseau lt: No, things have ing them? about the issue of the blood cisco or New York, but now changed a lot, just because our D u sseau lt: First of all, you drive with the students’ society society has changed - the way that’s changed a lot. But on m ore have to realize, especially w hen of McGill? What kind of an im­ yo u ’re talking to young people, pression do you get from that they’re dealing with a w hole discussion like that? shitload of things, adolescent D u sseau lt: I think ■ mP stuff, anyways. So there’s a lot of that they are valuable, self-esteem issues that are inte­ because the problem with ALc o n d ° ^ gral w hen you’re talking about the w ording of the [Red the subject. You can’t escape it.

Cross] questionnaire is It’s not like you can just dum p a that it can lead you to bunch of information on them believe that there’s a way and expect them to leave there you can protect yourself and use it... T here’s this attitude just by asking people who that they’re invulnerable to it, they’ve slept with. It kind and that has to b e shot down... o f perpetuates the myth.

You also have to talk explicitly And I think that either about sexuality. That is som e­ they have a system to test thing that has becom e a problem for it or they don’t. in certain schools that I’ve been T rib u n e: We were in. I’ve h ad som e major com e­ discussing m edia’s role in backs from som e administrators m aking or breaking mis­ w ho have h ap p en ed to visit fif­ conceptions about AIDS Working fo r change amongst youth teen m inutes into the presenta­ and HIV. tion and heard the w ord ‘fuck’ so D u sseau lt: I don’t think they freaked out. ...Some schools that any discussion can hurt...

M cG ill D ep artm en t of will allow us to com e in if we but I don’t think a film needs to don't talk about condom s or anal b e m ade about AIDS, per se, w e intercourse. So w e just say w e’re just n eed to integrate it into the not interested in doing it. m ainstream media m ore there.

T rib u n e: Do you find in You know , a friend or neighbour the schools that the level of infor­ w ho is HIV-positive, or w hat­ mation youths have today is bet­ ever... I d o n ’t see why you have ter than w hen you started w ork­ to m ake a w hole film on it. ing on this project?

T rib u n e : What types of

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D u sseau lt: Now w e ’re up to the point that m ost people know there’s a difference b e ­ tw een HIV and AIDS. Most p eo ­ ple know you can’t get it by kissing or by casual contact. What that means, they don’t know , but they know that you can’t get it by casual contact. Generally speak­ ing, the level of know ledge is abysmal, and it’s com pounded by the problem that they think they know it, because they’ve heard so m uch about it in the media, hyped, but w hen it com es to the real facts, they always fall short... b u t there’s a general level of concern [among youths].

T rib u n e : How do you feel about the federal governm ent policy, in terms of providing fund­ ing towards research and groups that are supporting affected p eo ­ ple?

D u sseau lt: I do know that it’s not nearly enough for w hat they expect u s to do. I think they do n ’t really take it seriously as a social issue. They say they do, b u t w h en it com es dow n to putting u p the m oney, they’re m ore interested in other things.

I’m kind of disappointed that w e’re not getting m ore money.

O f course, w ho isn’t? It’s just w eird the way that they negate it What really pisses me off is this tainted blood thing - the govern­ m ent giving m oney to people w ho got HIV through infected blood. It’s just so typical about the way our society views reality - just the fact that there’s good victims and b ad victims. The good victims are ones w ho didn’t de­ serve it b ecau se they got it through a transfusion. But unfor­ tunately that implies that the ones w ho got it through sexual con­ tact or through needle-sharing, or whatever, for som e reason, they deserved it. It’s implicit with this giving som ebody, m aybe w ho isn’t even sick, but got HIV through a blood transfusion you give them 30,000 dollars a year. But w hat about my friend w ho can’t afford to pay her m edi­ cal costs? It just d oesn’t m ake sense, an d now m ore drugs are not covered by m edicare - lots.

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U n d e rsta n d in g th e issu e s in v o lv ed w ith b re a s t c a n c e r B Y M IC O L Z A R B For w o m en , b reast cancer loom s as a p otential danger w h o se cause rem ains a m ys­ tery. T h e threat o f d ev eloping the disease increases w ith age, a n d cu rren t p rev en ta­ tive m easures are in su b stan­ tial. Each year, 15,000 C ana­ dian w o m en d ev e lo p breast cancer; a figure w h ich is sig­ nificantly low er than for o ther types o f cancer.

“M ore w o m e n d ie o f lung can cer th an b reast can ­ cer, b u t w e k n o w h o w to p rev en t that. T h at’s th e thing w ith b reast cancer; w e can p re v e n t all o th e r can cers w h ich will kill m o re w om en, b u t n o t b reast can cer,” ex ­ p la in e d D r.

R ic h a rd M argolese, d irector o f Clini­ cal O ncology in th e d ep a rt­ m en t o f onco lo g y at McGill.

Breast can cer is b o th g e n d e r specific a n d age s p e ­ c i f i c . A pproxim ately 5,000 C a n a d ia n w o m e n d ie o f breast cancer each year. W om en w h o are m ost at risk are those b e tw e e n th e ages o f 50 an d 69, a n d it is rare to o ccu r am ong w o m en u n d er 30 years o f age.

A ccording to M argolese, a lack o f un d erstan d in g co n ­ cerning th ese age categories is often resp o n sib le for causing p an ic a n d a m isinterpretation o f statistics.

“T he fact that it will strike o n e in eight w o m en is th e m ost co m m o n m isco n cep tio n ,” he 1‘said. “If y o u ’re 85, y o u r chances 'f o f getting breast ca n cer are o n e in eight. If y o u ’re 50, they are C n e in 400 a n d if y o u ’re 35, th e y ’re o n e in 4,000. So it chang es w ith ag e .”

W om en w h o h av e child re n after th e age o f 30 an d w o m en w h o b eg in m enstruat­ ing b efo re th e age o f 12 h av e an increased ch an ce o f d ev elo p ­ ing b reast cancer. Risk is fur­ ther in creased for w o m en w ith m o re th an o n e first relative w ho has d ev e lo p e d th e disease. This hereditary asp ect is a so u rce o f w orry for y o u n g w om en.

“I fin d t h a t y o u n g e r w o m en are m u ch m o re an x ­ ious,” stated M argolese. “O ften a w o m en o f 28 w ith a history o f b reast ca n cer in h e r family will b e w o rried ab o u t h e r ch an ce o f getting breast cancer, w h ereas

a w o m en o f 48 in th e sam e situation sh o u ld b e m ore w or­ ried.”

T he m ost effective p re ­ ventative m easure is through regular exam inations. O n ce a

“T hat’s the thing with breast cancer; we can prevent all other can cers which will kill more women, but not breast can cer.”

— Dr. Richard Margolese, director of Clinical Oncology in M cGill’s department of oncology

w om an turns 40, sh e sh o u ld frequently perform b reast self­ exam inations in o rd e r to d etect lum ps o r m asses in the breasts.

D octors reco m m en d that all w o m en b etw e en 50 a n d 69 have m am m ogram s every tw o years. This involves an X-ray o f th e b reast using on ly sm all am ounts o f radiation.

“D iagnostic p ro c e d u re s are im proving and m ore w om en are getting m am m ogram s,” con­ firm ed Dr. Vivian Ham ilton, w ho w orks at th e M ontreal G eneral Hospital.

T he discovery o f a lum p d o es not indicate cancer, as 60 to 80 p e r cent o f b reast biopsies are benign. If a lum p is m alig­ nant, th en it m ust b e rem oved th ro u g h su rg e ry . R ad iatio n therapy o r chem otherapy is sub­ seq u en tly u sed as treatm ent.

A diagnosis o f cancer is frightening an d the treatm ent m ay p ro d u c e un p leasan t side effects.

A ccording to H am ilton, w h o is currently doing research o n access to care for breast cancer patients, th ere is often a significant tim e lapse b etw e en surgery a n d the beginning o f radiation treatm ent.

“T here are a n u m b er o f reasons w hy p e o p le are w ait­ ing for treatm ent,” explained

Hamilton. “Either the patient was not in­ formed about the ne­ cessity of treatment or there were not enough facilities.”

All forms of cancer therapy are covered by provin­ cial health insurance, and consequently there are extensive waiting lists at the hospitals for treat­ ment.

“U n iv e rs al health insurance is working, but there are global caps on how much can be

Prevention can be done a t home sp e n t,” co n tin u ed H am ilton. m unicatio n b e tw e e n d o ctors “H ospitals in M ontreal are a n d patients is a lack o f effort to n o w circulating list tim es to recruit volunteers, su ch as p re­ o th er hospitals in o rd er to vious cancer patients, to h elp free sp o ts.” to explain th e process.

Laurent Richard, coor­ H e en co u rag ed hospitals d inator for Patient Services to distribute b o o k lets an d p am ­ at th e C anadian C ancer Soci­ phlets to th e p atients th at not ety in M ontreal, said that only prov id e inform ation o n o n e re aso n for p o o r com ­ cancer, b u t also discuss m eth ­

ods to see k em o tio n al su p p o rt.

A lth o u g h a w a re n e s s is sp read in g ab o u t b reast can cer an d research is ongoing, th e treatm ent process rem ains p ro b ­ lem atic. A diagnosis o f b reast can cer ch anges a w o m a n ’s life, a n d m o re c o lla b o r a tio n is n e e d e d b e tw e e n d o ctors a n d v o lu n teer organizations.

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i n it e r t a i n m e n t The Booker, the canon and feminism according to Margaret Drabble

BY C A T R IN M O R R IS Margaret Drabble is an aca­ demic anomaly. Her BBC accent bespeaks an Oxbridge education and an intellectually favourable fa­ milial gene pool (her sister is Booker prize winner A.S. Byatt of Possession fame). But you don’t have to reside within these Cambridge walls to read her fiction. She is a novelist of best-selling proportions in Britain and maintains a diverse and consist­ ent assemblage of loyal fans.

Drabble has written over 10 novels, many of which focus on women with college degrees, sex drives, wit and an unceasing search for identity. She denounces selfconscious political agendas in lit­ erature and is confounded by the esoteric world of literary theory. Yet her female characters are profoundly real. They subtly profess socio-po­ litical critiques while leading us through the conundrums of daily existence. Her precise, comical and clever style facilitates the telling of stories which are as complex as they are gripping. Before addressing a packed McGill auditorium on her biography-in-progress, the ethics of biography and the unpopularity of this genre, she talked to the Trib­ une.

Tribune: Why did you choose to speak about biography?

M argaret Drabble: The eth­ ics of biography has become a con­

politicization of your fiction?

MD: I don’t really read literary criticism much. As a writer, you’re better off without it. There is a great danger in trying to be PC and to

woman wrote me in regards to my novel, The Ice Age, in which there is a character with cerebral palsy and a low IQ. She said such people didn’t have low IQ’s, that she didn’t, and I should have represented HER. I cannot represent her, but I did feel slightly bad. There is a worry that you’re making one person stand for a whole and there­ fore misrepresent­ ing their category.

But if you worry ab o u t th at too much you won’t give anyone bigfeet with being bigfeetist.

Trib: Is it possible to ethi­ cally speak for som eone whose experience in no way resem bles yours?

MD: Some M argaret Drabble speaks to a packed house o f academics a n d literature buffs of the greatest writ­ please critics. Elaine Showalter’s ers have put themselves in positions very emblematic of our time. He of people totally and utterly unlike position has itselfchanged over the was gay and lived very faithfully themselves. Of course, there are years. If I spent my time trying to with the same man for 40 years. natural limitations. I would find it agree with Elaine... You must have Trib: Elaine Showalter has impossible to write the narrative of called you an “ardent traditionalist,” the courage to write about what a sea-fairing captain in the artic sea! interests you. and you have been deemed a “cau­ Trib: What do you think of Although, it is very affecting tious feminist.” How do you re­ the term "victim feminism”? when someone responds to you. A spond to these critics and the

troversial topic. I’ve spent the last four years writing a biography of Angus Wilson, a successful British novelist who died in 1991 in consid­ erable neglect, really. His story is

MD: Ahh. I really don't like victim feminism. There exists a hysterical manufactured feeling I really disapprove of. My mother was afraid of going out, and I spent my life learning to go out and I’m not going to go back home!

Trib: Virginia Woolf calls for women to write androgynously, unconscious of their sex. What do you make of that? Do you write as a woman, a person, both, or is it irrelevant?

MD:It’s a statement I think about a lot. As you get older you get more androgynous, anyway. When young, your sexual identity is very important to you. At one point, having babies, I wrote as a woman But that stage is biologically over— I’m not as connected to it.

Trib: You have managed to be a popular novelist and a critically and academically-acclaimed writer How? MD: It’s fortunate that my work is accessible. I started writing when there were less women like me in the universities calling them­ selves intellectuals. People wanted to read about their daily lives.

Trib: I understand you have spoken out against recent cuts in the public library system in Britain?

MD: Yes. The library system’s been heavily cut and 30 per cent

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P lu g T u n in - T h e B u h lo o n e M in d s ta te o f D e La S oul

BY G EOFFREY L E Y IA N STEVENS A N D L U C IE N ETORI As lovers of hip-hop w ould know, and others w ould not, De La Soul is one of those few groups that have always bucked the trends of a time. De La Soul goes way beyond their popular re­ leases from “Me, Myself, and I,” to “Breakadaw n”, into the purist parts of the music art form. A small distance from the epicentre of hip-hop in Amityville, Long Island, Prince Paul (the producer of the group, also an integral m em b er, b e in g th e D.J., of Stetsasonic) put them on a path to the endless creativity and origi­ nality that has come to be associ­ ated with the De La Soul method.

Through perpetual innova­ tion, De La has m anaged to stand out amidst the glut of M.C.’s and so-called rappers that have come and gone in the years since “Plug Tunin,” their first dem o tape, way back in ’87 y’all!

With their m ilestone first album Three Feet High a n d Ris­ ing, De La Soul came onto the scene with a totally left-field brand of consciousness that completely deferred from the L.L. Cool J-Big Daddy Kane bragadocious style.

T ru e to th e ir m .o. (m o d u s

operandi), their sophom ore ef­ fort, De La Soul is Dead, was quite the surprise, taking them to yet another new, totally different level. Bringing us to the Nine-Tré, it’s the “B reakadaw n”, and De La Soul are alive a n d w e ll in th e Buhloone Mindstate.

This w eekend, the Tribune spoke with De La Soul after their Toronto show (ehhhBody w ho perform ed ripped shit).

all time low. Basically it’s whack, hip-hop today is whack! W e’re seeing too m uch of the same thing these days, nobody is origi­

MC T r i b u n e (MCT) : What is the “ B u h l o o n e Mindstate”?

T ru g o y th e D ove (a .k .a P lu g 2): Well, basically w e are referring to the fact that we are always ex­ D e La Soul: from the soul panding our minds.

W e’re never staying nal anymore. People are all up on one plane as far as subject on this bandw agon, with sm okin’ matter goes—w e are trying to blunts, drinkin’ forties and shoot­ reach different levels. ing kids - this gangsta stuff.

P os D N uos (a .k .a P lu g 1): MCT: Dove, What is the It might blow up, but it w on’t go Eye Patch statem ent all about?

POP!!

D ove: Ahh, nuthin. I’m just MCT: What do you feel c ra z y , t h a t ’s all!! about the path hip-hop is taking?

Knowhatahmsaying!

P o s : Hip-hop today is at an

MCT: How has your added responsibility of raising children affected your music?

Pos: Well, as far as the music perse, this hasn’t really changed much.

We do realize that chil­ dren pick u p on most of w hat they hear, and there is no denying this, I m ean I have a two year-old daughter w ho is s in g in g SWV’s “D ow ntow n,” ha! Now do I really w ant that?!

MCT: The music on this album incorpo­ rates some live instru­ mental performances.

Do you feel this adds som ething new, and that such ideas should be incorporated into hip-hop?

Dove: Firstly, we d o n ’t really think that hip-hop should move into a stage of strictly live instruments. It will always be two turntables and a mike, the live instruments just add another dimension.

Pos: It all started with two turntables and two records being switched back and forth, basi­ cally creating a loop, and lyrics over that. Simply put, w e do n ’t

w ant people to look at the album and say “Hey, this is great they’re using live instruments. ” But rather, saying it was really phat that we got Maseo Parker from The JB horns and that it w orked really well. We think that exploring this realm was creative, this is partly why w e did the track for Judge­ m ent Night. We never really thought of doing a soundtrack, but these guys w ere doing som e­ thing different so we tried it. That was sort of a bug out though, yeah w e was just buggin’.

MCT: You still h ave incor­ porated som e pretty timely sam ­ ples o n the album such as th e Smokey R obinson “Quiet Storm” s a m p le . H o w d id S m o k e y R obinson feel ab out th e sam ­ ple?

D ove: H ow the sam ple clearance w orks is that the origi­ nal artist will get to hear how the sample is being used, so I guess that he liked it.

Pos: He didn’t sue us!!!

With the addition o f Souls O f M ischief o f93 till In fin ityfa m e a n d A Tribe Called Quest, De La will be a t Metropolis tonight, March 8. This is a show not to be missed by anyone with the slight­ est inclination towards hip-hop— We repeat Do Not Miss ThisShov

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A n n ie L eibovitz: p r o f e s s io n a l p a p a ra z z i o r a rtist?

BY CATRIN MORRIS

a 1991 interview. H er photo­ graphs w ork precisely because they are so unabashedly m a­ noeuvred and devised.

The shot o f Jerry Hall, pho­ tographed before draped leop­ ard skin material and w earing fishnet stockings, could have been extracted from the pages of

Annie Leibovitz has spent an inordinate am ount o f time with Demi Moore. (That fact alone is a little troubling, b u t let’s ' p o t throw out the artist w ith the subject m atter.) Most will re­ m em ber th e result: tw o contro­ versial Vanity F air covers, o n e w ith a naked, pregnant, and, o f course, athletically tuned, Demi and another w ith a naked .Demi w ith a m an’s busi­ ness suit painted on her bare flesh. No longer just a nam eless conduit for h e r s u b j e c t s ’ fa m e , Leibovitz has joined the ranks o f those celebrities she has immortalized-now sh e too is a celebrity, vf T h e r e a s o n fo r Leibovitz’ high profile is her high profile puppets.

She has captured Jo h n Lennon (w ho died tw o hours after b eing ph o to ­ grap h ed ), Mick Jagger, Bette Midler, R oseanne Opera d iva Jessye N orm an, by Liebow itz Barr, Arnold Schwarzenegger...

Cosmo or Penthouse. But this is The list goes on. But w hat distin- the point. There is no claim to guishes h er from Jo e Us M aga- candour. The photo exudes as z in e photographer? Is Leibovitz m uch artifice as does Jerry Hall herself. Typical of Leibovitz, the just a lucky paparazzi w h o was allow ed inside the star’s limo? viewer cannot im m ediately dis­ cern the tone of this photo. Does It is e a s y to d is m is s Leibovitz as a m edia w h o re with Jerry Hall know she is being mocked? Is she being mocked? a commercial creativity. Yet, con­ sidering the nature o f h er bur­ Is it a collaborative effort b e­ geoning career, w hich requires tw een artist and m odel to ex­ her to chum o u t m any shots in a press self-parody?

Each shot, in com position, short am ount o f tim e and con­ tend with both celebrity egos colour, background, costum ing and a m ass m agazine buying and tone flawlessly incarnate the readership, Leibovitz’s w ork is hum an subject with precision and flair. as adroit as it is entertaining. H er photographs are personality-ori­ Pop artist Keith Haring and ented, sure. But, Leibovitz doesn’t Leibovitz consorted to create an just photograph fame, sh e im­ all-white room full o f salvation army furniture as the locale for m ortalizes it, satirizes it, cel­ their photo shoot. Upon his ar­ ebrates it and distorts it.

Increasingly, w ith a boost rival at the set, he w ent about in salary and stardom , h er p h o ­ painting (in Haring style) the tos are highly contrived and entirety o f the room, including sham elessly m anipulative. This his naked body, penis and all. is not, how ever, evidence o f a This way, the barrier betw een lack o f subtlety o r im agination: photographer-as-artist, subject“I enjoy set-up situations as m uch as-artist, and the setting-as-art as I do informal reportage. It collide to form an interactive mas­ feels m ore like w hat photogra­ terpiece of wit and ingenuity.

H er w ork from the 70s ex­ p h y really is. A lot o f m anipula­ udes a different tone and style. tion often goes into photographs Often of unknow n people, in­ that p eo p le are trying to m ake cluding inmates, family memlook ‘real,’” Leibovitz asserted in

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T h a t D o g d o e s it a ll o n n e w ly - u n le a s h e d C l DISCELLANEOUS T h at Dog That Dog (Geffen/ Cargo) This may be the first, but it will not be the last time you will hear about this band. Look for them in Spin’s picks as the hippest of the hip for '94. That Dog en cap su lates everything new within the parameters of a familiar guitar/bass/drum s line-up, en ­ hanced with a tasteful smattering of meandering violin and cello which add a most welcome matu­ rity (but not a pretentious serious­ ness) to the raunchy foundation.

Guitarist Anna Waronker, violinist Petra Haden, and bassist Rachel Haden team up to create tuningpipe harmonies that garnish tunes that can be as hard-hitting as Nir­ vana's “All Apologies” (“Just Like Me”) or as sweet as a Beatles love song (“You Are Here”). As song­ writers, the quartet avoids the “al­ ternative” (cringe) trend of merely stringing chords together: they actually write excellent songs that reflect a massive spectrum of in­ fluences that are re-moulded with thoughtful creativity. While That Dog resists simple classification, the record contains just the right touch of comfortable familiarities, making it very easy to like. BUY IT. (P.S.: Breeders comparisons intentionally avoided).

—Brendon Yorke S h o n e n K nife Rock Animals (Virgin) Shonen Knife have the ra­ zor-sharp teeth to cut through this tin can, and the ability to hack this old leather shoe into two equally malodorous halves. But Wait! Even after all that punishment, they still retain the delicacy to slice this ripe tomato!

This trio o’babes from Osaka captured the attention of North American music fanatics with their last album, Let’s Knife. On Rock

of the “Bad Brains” variety and even contains a reggae tune (the Beastie Revolution). Unfortunately, most of the songs are mediocre and it’s easy to see why the Beasties never made it as a hardcore band The CD cover contains the story of the Beastie Boys by Michael Dia­ m ond (D id you know that “Beastie” stands for Boys Entering Anarchistic States Towards Inter­ nal Excellence?). It’s an interesting disc for the die-hard Beastie fan, but people looking for songs from the “Fight For Your Right to Party” era are looking in the wrong place.

I think, however, Michael Dia­ m ond said it best; “We aren’t fucking psychics. How the hell are we gonna know what you like.”

—-Jeff Butler

A n im a ls, th e Knifers continue to bang out that oh-so-familiar, yet fascinatingly for­ eig n b ra n d of punk rock that co m b in es th eir trademark quirki­ ness with unmis­ takable echoes of T he R am ones, The Knack, and various 60s sum­ m ertim e pop tunes by, like, The Lovin' Spoonful and stuff. They’ve got more hooks than Bob Izumi and their lyrics can be cornier than pig shit. The cho­ rus of “Concrete Animals” will stay with you like yes­ te rd a y ’s greasy breakfast. I tell ya, this serving of rock & roll enlighte n m e n t w o u ld make the gall dam GoGos jealous.

—Brendon Yorke

Luscious Ja c k s o n In Search O f M anny (Grand Royal Records)

Fluf Home Improvements (Headhunter/Cargo) While they lose points for their derivative sound, Fluf gets full marks for album art. The CD picture book portrays lucid or­ ange and green suburban interi­ ors {Better Homes circa 1958), the true birthplace of low-fi rec room rock.

Bob Mould-y vocals strain ab o v e the c h u n k y so u p of Soundgarden m editations and grandiose Pearl Jam musings, but it all comes off a little tepid. Maybe it’s the lyrical punk clichés (“who cares anyway”), or the too-familiar sounds of a dying breed: the unimaginative male hardcore unit.

But surely that is too harsh.

The music is worn and comfort­ able like the old couch on the cover, and the infectious hooks

three indulgent remixes, which add a drum machine for an “in­ dustrial” sound that fails. Worse are the cornball liner notes which bear the band’s motto: “Under­ standing, Education, Compassion, Control.” This righteous ethic runs through the album, proving that (Pantera aside) morally virtuous metal is boring. Heck, guys—Iron Maiden could have told you that years ago. Too dumb to be inter­ esting, too earnest to be funny, State Voodoo/State Control d e­ serves a red-hot pin in each eye.

—Luke Tromly

upon which the album is con­ structed will have you nodding along as likely as nodding off.

Best of all, the songs get looser as the album (and the beer-soaked recording session) proceeds, cul­ minating in the twelve ounce tear jerker “Mark Andrea”.

In sum, more stereo fodder for the unshaven masses.

—Ian Hanna M o n ster V oodoo M achine State Voodoo/State Control (D Tribe) State Voodoo/State Control, the second offering from Monster Voodoo Machine, is an exercise in sludgy tedium. It is an EP of five indistinguishable songs, each one repetitive and predictable. The only strong point is “Get On With It” a song with bass so gleefully ugly that one can ignore the “I-wish-Iwas-Lemmy” vocal track.

The album also includes

Beastie Boys Some Old Bullshit (Grand Royal/Capitol)

T h e S tory The Angel in the House (Elektra)

As the title of the latest re­ lease from the Beastie Boys would suggest, this CD is not a new album but a re-release of old ma­ terial from the early 80s. It’s made mostly of their early hardcore songs

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The latter two fit into the same vein as their live material, simplis­ tic sappy-pop your kid sister is sure to love. If your looking for the next wonderchild of hip hop, your barking up the wrong tree. But the easily digestible, laid back swing of Luscious Jackson’s stress-free grooves should do well by the dance club crowd.

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Chances are you w on’t see Boston’s The Story opening for GWAR. The Story is about as far from the bloodshed and traiima qf GWAR as television’s Full House is from brilliance. This isn’t to imply, however, that T;he Story is in any way comparable to Full House.

On this their second album, the Story have tapped into Margaret Laurence’s recipe book and com­ piled a, well, mature and thought­ ful collection of no-frills songs.

Jonathan Brooke’s songwriting delves into a woman’s trials of innocence and experience. Her unique voice would appeal to fans of Sarah McLachlan or the Sundays (yeah... really) and is often combined with harmonies provided by Story co-founder Jennifer Kimball. Musically, The Angel refuses to be pigeonholed and spans a diverse field of influ­ ences. From the Celtic feel of “So Much Mine” to the pelvic-shuf­ fling Brazilian rhythms of “Missing Person Afternoon" The Story wanj ders the globq lookingfor a home. ;rci?q3>fucojsbqu rr^Stewe'Smith

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ice in 1750, tw o buff gondoliers select wives from a gam e of blind m an’s bluff. The destitute and arrogant D uke an d D uchess Last w eek, w e w ere as­ o f Plazo-Toro arrive from Spain sig n ed to review this y ear’s Gilbert and Sullivan production, to reveal that o n e o f the g o n d o ­ liers w as m arried to their daugh­ The G o n d o liers. G re a t, w e thought. Tw o an d a half hours ter at birth and is therefore also o f solid 19th century musical the King of Barataria. U nfortu­ cheese. Oh, boy. We co uldn’t nately, n o one can tell w hich of have b een happier. Thanks, Trib­ the tw o gondoliers is the biga­ une. m ist king. m‘ My, o h , Furthermy, w hat largem o re , th e It’s got sc a le ig n o ra ­ D uke and everything: pizzas m uses w e w ere D u c h e s s ’s and so ccer balls in o u r u n a c ­ daughter is ce p ta b ly bufsecretly in flying into the fo o n is h p r e ­ lo v e w ith orchestra pit, conceived n o ­ Luiz, an an ­ crowds doing the tions! It was, noying per­ d are w e say, c u ssio n ist. wave, sa rca stic great! Sure, it To d o the Brechtian slides, h ad its share of m a th fo r dancing in .mozzarella and you, w e ’ve c h e d d a r, b u t got tw o wheelchairs, that w as w hat h u sb an d s, w acky slapstick, m ade it so en ­ t h r e e and many lewd joyable. This is wives, and an am azingly e v e r y ­ sexual funny operetta! body's got innuendoes.

It’s got every­ to get m ar­ th in g : p izza s ried b y the and soccer e n d o f the balls flying into the orchestra show . And believe it o r not, the pit, crow ds doing the w ave, sar­ heroine of the show is a w rin­ castic Brechtian slides, dancing kled, old w et nurse with a helluva in w heelchairs, w acky slapstick, set of lungs. an d m any lew d sexual in n u en ­ D irector Nick C arpenter does. Now that’s entertainment! has done a superb job injecting The plot is surprisingly sim­ p o p culture references an d bla­ ple (Yeah, whatever). Set in Ven­ tantly cam py h um our to heavily

contrast the a n tiq u a te d style o f th e period. Even Katie Labrie’s c h o re o g ra ­ phy is full of anachronistic hum our. Pic­ ture m en and w o m e n in 18th century g a r b d irty dancing, lam bada-ing, ta b le d a n c ­ ing, and clapp in g and snapping a la W est S id e Story. During a p o ig n a n t song, one of the characters even flicked her Bic. Overall, th e sin g in g a n d physicalization w e re ex c el­ le n t.

A l­ though in the first act som e of the songs lacked articula tio n a n d Gilbert and Sullivan never tasted so good p ro je c tio n , form ances include the singing that w as probably due to o p en ­ o f A ndrew T ees an d Alessandro ing-night jitters, because the sec­ o n d act was sm oother and m ore Juliani as the gondoliers, the characters o f th e D uke and com prehensible. Notable perFRANCE

M a r g a r e t D r a b b le CONTINUED FROM PAGE 18 can’t afford to buy books. I believe in state support of the arts, state education and universal health care.

But the British are so stubborn.

They have a curious complacency about these issues.

Trib: What do you think of the unnerving number of excellent Canadian women writers... with the name Margaret?

MD: Must be an inspiring name! I think one reason Canadian literature has become so high pro­ file is the Canadian Council. Twenty to thirty years ago nobody had heard of Canadian fiction. But if you water it, it grows. Its a great success story.

In England we are in danger of the exact opposite: we have a healthy store of literature and are starving it to death.

T rib:W hat ab o u t Carol Shields? Did you read [Booker nominee] The Stone Diaries!

MD: Wonderful, just beauti­ ful. She was much better than the winner—Roddy Doyle—which was fine but very slight. I wished it could’ve won—it was a solid piece of work.

Trib: Many of your protago­ nists juggle motherhood, careers and self-definition. Obviously we need to redefine and update conceptions

of motherhood to accommodate the role changes.

MD: We have to—it’s impos­ sible at the moment. Women expect so much of themselves. There ought to be more institutional support in childcare, an emergency back-up system for parents.

Trib: What about the Booker prize and its high visibility?

MD: The press has made too much of it. It has promoted some very good fictions, but shouldn’t be considered the only accolade with which to judge a writer. I don’t like all the hype.

Trib: Has the canon lost ground recently on the university campus. How do you feel about the changes in syllabus and approach?

MD: That is terribly hard to answer, /enjoyed a fairly traditional syllabus, while my husband. Yet, no one should be forced to read Shake­ speare or American black women writers of 1989. There is a danger in canonizing a whole new lot of fash­ ion.

Trib: What of the shifts in literary criticism, deconstruction, etc.?

MD: I keep well away. Actu­ ally, I just receiv ed a deconstructionist reading of my work called “reading between the lines” or something. I have no idea what it’s all about!

D uchess of Plazo-Toro, played by Ryan Levitt and Jessie B aden, a n d Trib­ u n e Publications M a n a g e r K eith G allop in his p o r­ tra y a l o f th e g ru m p ie st m an alive, th e G rand Inquisitor.

In th e p ro ­ gram, C arpenter urges audiences to atten d Gilbert and S u lliv a n sh o w s b e c a u se “if it’s d o n e well, i t ’s e x tr e m e ly fu n n y .” Luckily for Carpenter, the Savoy S ociety’s p r o d u c ti o n o f x The Gondoliers is ^ e x c e p tio n a lly n w ell d o n e a n d .jj t r e m e n d o u s l y « funny.

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B Y S T E V E PR A TT C ontinuing o ur efforts to h elp McGill’s graduating stu­ den ts find w ork, this w eek T he T ribune presents a novel w ay to gain access into the w o n d e r­ ful w o rld o f th e m edia: com ­ edy. T he T ribune interview ed th ree M ontreal m edia perso n ­ alities: Gill D eacon J o h n Moore, a n d Alastair McAlastair. They h ad tw o things in com m on:

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A ccording to M oore, com edy provided th e skills a n d confi­ d en ce to su cceed in the m edia.

“Speed o f m ind a n d m outh are critical in b o th m edia a n d com edy,” M oore stated. “W hen you h av e the guts to get u p on stage in front o f a hostile audi­ e n c e , th e n jo u rn a lism is a b re e z e ... W ith o u t im prov, I w o u l d n ’t

ism s c h o o l a n d all ot d o in g th e th e m h a v e “Anyway, people Mix,” h e said. c o m e d ic McAlastair rarely get jobs in the backgrounds. w o r k s at D eaco n area of their training.

C ity B e a t as is th e host of It’s the curse of our well, as an onCBC’s T hurs­ air re p o rter. generation.” day night proH e has an ex ­ g r a m , — local funnyman tensive standCityBeat.

John Moore up com edy “ M y b a c k g ro u n d , ha r lf o r n n r d including U.S. w ith M cGill a n d C anadian tours a n d a TV Im prov h e lp e d m e pretty di­ taping.

Like D eacon, it w as a rectly. It w as during a perform ­ com edic perform ance that got an ce that I w as noticed and McAlastair into the media: “They ask ed to g o to CJAD by G eorge (the CBC) saw m e at the Ju st For B alkan. H e said live radio is Laughs sh o w and I got a call. I e s s e n tia lly im p ro v , a n d h e th o u g h t I w as g o o d at im prov,” w ould like to think that I’m attractive for a nu m b er of rea­ sh e explained. sons, bu t I kn o w that they found D eaco n em phasized “the m e from my com edy.” ability to think on y o u r feet, an “I’m com pletely com fort­ innate sen se o f curiosity, and a able in front o f a cam era. T he g o o d sen se o f storytelling,” all perform ing aspect isn’t a p ro b ­ o f w h ic h w e re a u g m e n te d le m fo r m e ,” s a id th is th ro u g h h er com edy.

C o m e d y W o rk s re s id e n t M oore is an entertainm ent funnym an. colum nist a n d m orning new s McAlastair sees th e tw o w riter at Mix 96, a field reporter disciplines as linked: “C om edy for CFCF’s FIGHTING BACK, a n d journalism are the sam e in a n d fo u n d er o f M ontreal’s re­ that w e ’re b o th telling stories. n o w n e d ON THE SPOT imO n e is fiction a n d o n e is fact— provisational com edy troupe.

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O n th e issue o f w hether journalism school is a w orth­ w h ile e n d e av o u r for u p and com ing m edia m oguls, M oore to o k th e firm est stance.

“I d o n ’t b eliev e in journal­ ism school. I w o u ld com pare it to taking th ree years getting a driver’s license. Journalism is instinct, g o o d com m unications skills, a n d aggressiveness, and they d o n ’t teach that in journal­ ism sch o o l,” h e explained.

D eacon further observed that n o t a single m em ber o f the C ityB eat crew h ad atten d ed journalism school: “I’ve b een told that part o f w hat p eople like ab o u t m e is that I sound fresh a n d natural— partly b e ­ cause n o o n e told m e h o w to d o it”.

McAlastair credits his p ro ­ ducers w ith educating him on the job.

“Just b e c a u se y o u ’re in jschool, d o n ’t assum e y o u ’re a u ­ tom atically there a n d d o n ’t as­ su m e b e c a u se y o u ’re in theatre school that y o u c a n ’t get there,” h e w arned.

“Anyway, p e o p le rarely get jobs in th e area o f their training. It’s th e curse o f our generation. T h e education’s just for th e discipline.”

If n ot j-school, then w hat sh o u ld aspiring journalists do?

T he general co n sen su s w as to v o lu n teer w ithin the m edia, b e gutsy a n d aggressive, im prove com m unication skills, an d b e p re p a re d to w o rk really hard.

Ju d g in g from th e exam ple o f th ese three, how ever, it a p ­ p ea rs that taking u p com edy c o u ld n ’t hurt

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HARTFILE [B Y C A T R I N M O R R IS | At the G tammy's this week, “alternative” king, Bono, stood in front of a sparkling audience and called for American youth to “keep fuckin’ep tha mainstream.”

Leave it to the Irish to remind America to fight the pow­ ers that be. The music industry, and the entertainment universe in general, spends an uncon­ scionable amount of time taking issue w ith the governm ent.

Washington, D.C. is perceived as an evil nucleus of censorship and thought control. The indus­ try considers itself a voice against authority but, from Bob Roberts to Bono, celebrities fail to recog­ nize the obvious: the Grammys and the Academy of (old QArts and Biases have as much power, if not more, as the Cabinet. The politics of fame, both on screen and on the radio have a strong­ hold on cultivation of the “main­ stream" (ABC executives didn’t want lesbian kissing on Roseanne even though the public had no qualms). One simple little word of Rock n’ Roll retaliation does little to shake the system.

Over in Hollywood, an­ other exposé of excess reveals the expanding role of entertain­ ment: The Academy Awards. A look at the flicks up for Best Picture reveal a trend in movie­ making: the didactic super-story.

Philadelphia, In the Name o f The Father, The Fugitive, Schindler’s List, and to a different extent, The Piano are all movies which centre on the miscarriage of jus­ tice. More often than not, the protagonist is unjustly accused of a crime and must fight central­ ized authority-whether through the court system or by vigilante Huck Finn self-preservation. In each, unchecked legal and po­ litical systems tower above un­ suspecting innocents. These are all rebels with an emotive and justifiable cause.

Americans eat this stuff up.

Since the Declaration of Inde­ pendence, America has exhib­ ited a self-proclaimed position as a “city on the hill”: a demo­ cratic haven of rugged individu­ alism and autonomy. Americans place a high value on human agency. Hollywood glamorizes the mythologized American un­ derdog and scorns Capital Hill.

The entertainment industry’s cul­ turally imperialist and financially powerful character goes unno­ ticed in a shallow, if valid, fear of autocracy. When Harrison Ford’s character in The Fugitive is un­ justly accused for murder and placed behind bars, or Holly Hunter is trapped behind meta­ phorical bars in The Piano, our fear of unbridled power is ig­ nited.

In The Name o f The Father elicited an especially impassioned response, further appealing to a deep-rooted suspicion of spe­ cifically British tyranny within the American psyche. In the words of Alexis de Tocqueville, “the soil of America was op­ posed t o ...aristocracy.” Britain is envisioned as a land of stuffy dukes, and undemocratic tradi­ tions, a place where, with the flick of a police baton, an inno­ cent citizen can be chucked into the dungeon.

Gerry Conlon’s story is an outrage. The indictment of the Guildford Four is an im portant tale and Jim Sheridan’s film was excellent. The problem lies less in the actual film, but in the audience. American coverage of the conflicts in Ireland have been, on the whole, superficial and incom plete. This movie wi 11 m ost likely serve as IRA-200B for most. Yet, the Guildford Four incident is not politically contextualized in the film. Ar­ tistically, this is fine. Sheridan is justified in his focus on a single event and its emotional and symbolic repercussions. While the film d idn’t exactly glorify the IRA, it did secure an anti British sentim ent in the hearts o f flag w a v in g , p o p c o rn munchin’ Americans.

With the help of Irish poli­ ticians like Senators Moynihan and Kennedy and the former Speaker of the House, Tip O ’Neill, the IRA has been exonerated because, unlike the British mon­ archy, they are a revolutionary u n d erd o g group. (C ourtney Kennedy and Guildford Four ‘member1, Paul Hill, are even married!) American foreign policy is consistently more sympathetic with revolutionary groups, un­ less you’re Palestinian, than with monarchies.

The bottom line is, film makers should not be account­ able for the enlightenment of a TV population that knows the details of Nancy Kerrigan’s trip to Disney World and little to noth­ ing about Ireland, Haiti or Mac­ edonia. In the Academy, it is the year of The Issue, the year of The Cause. If that means no more Pretty Woman then, OK. But this trend indicates a disturbing pressure on the Arts.

These films fill a void in the public grasp of AIDS, the Holo­ caust, feminism, political con­ flict and the legal system .

Jonathan Demme should not be put in the position to represent all AIDS patients, all gay relation­ ships, all court cases. As it cur­ rently stands, however, he risks m is re p re s e n tin g an underrepresented issue. While it was a great year in film, there should not be unrestrained power in the hands of a few moviemakers to reform or edu­ cate all.

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BY GOLDA F R IE D W h a t’s E a tin g G ilb e rt G ra p e directed by Lasse Hallstrom(M y Life as a Dog) has

the adjective American written all over it. It takes place in a smallcould-be-anywhere-U.S.A. town, Endora, Iowa, where life is pretty slow. Gilbert (Johnny Depp), has been stuck there way too long. While Juliette Lewis’s character, Becky, has been on the road so long that each town looks the same. So­ lution? Get these two together.

BeckyseemslikeDisney’s Pollyanna. Shecomes intotown and brings out the best in eve­ ryone there, whichwouldn’tbe so bad if she wasn’t so perfect.

But then again, she issupposed to be Gilbert “I wanna be a good person” Grape’s match.

But please someone give this girl better dialogue. Her sensi­ tivity to serious issues shows that she can’t be as airy fairy as she sounds.

And Gilbert? Well, Depp always has the right facial ex­ pressions but his character is just sort of there. It’s true, the other charactersdependonhim being there—and that’s his role—but where’s that Holly­ wood personality? As long as he’s hot I guess...

Other quirky characters are introduced who start turn­ ing anywhere-U.S.A into quite a unique place. For example, one ofGilbert’s friends, Bobby, playedbyCrispenGlover, drives around in a hearse to promote his father’s funeral business.

Gilbert’s other friend Tucker’s (John c. Reilly) greatest ambi­ tion is to get a job in the new Burger Bam. And there’s this

insurance salesman (Kevin Tighe) who revels in his subur­ ban lifegettinghighontrampo­ lines and kiddie swimming pools. Even Becky has her off­ beat moment when she tells Gilbert about a praying mantis mating ritual in which the fe­ male bites off the head of the

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somehow the characters just don’tget eccentricenough. This time, unfortunately, Crispen Glover’s weirdness just won’t be remembered.

This movie is refreshingly n o t out tomake you cry(or was it trying to and failed?) and still portrays familystrifewithheart.

It isbasedonPeter Hedges’first novel of the same name. Per­ haps because this film is an adaptation, it has many layers of meaning. There are a hun­ dred ways, for example, that the film uses to convey that Gilbert Grape isn’t going any­ where, just to make sure you know what it is that’s eating

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him. But the filmgets cute by showing that Gilbert is going places when he shops at big business Foodland instead of just theneighbourhoodgrocery store. Therearealsomanyclever ways to show that despite the difficulty, the Grapes just want to‘climb’out oftheholesthey’re stuck in.

ThetwoGrapesthat climb the best are 500-lb Momma Grape (Darlene Cates) and Gilbert’s mentally-disabled brother Arnie, played by Leonardo DiCaprio (This Boy's Life), who is nominated for an Academy Award for best sup­ porting actor for this role. He trulydoes an excellent job and gives the movie most of its innocent-of-the-worldhumour as Cates gives its “I don’t want to be a joke”pain. This movie is great for all those outsiders looking in waiting for the mo­ ment to ‘tear down the walls’.

Andthewalls arebrought down. The movie is slowuntil this happens as you wait for Amie’s 18 year old birthday party and the inevitable sex scene. But itisworthhangingin until the balloon bursting cli­ max. The ‘predictable ending’ that is supposed to happen at least has a few twists and the movie will leave you feeling satisfiedalthoughmaybe alittle hungry because of all the ice cream scenes (one of the pro­ ducers owns Haagen-Dazs).

Somaybewhileyou leave thetheatrewiththat Hollywood feeling of going after your dreams, takeyourmoviepal for ice cream instead of coffee.

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Not this tim e Bishop’s! Redmen advance to provincial final

BY B IL L Y KHOURY

If you followRedmen bas­ ketball in any way, you should knowthat their86-79victoryover the Bishop’s Gaiters means a lit­ tle more than merely advancing totheQuebecUniversityBasket­ ball League (QUBL) champion­ ship final.

Indeed, last Friday night at the Currie Gymwas redemption time for the Redmen, who now move on to face the top-ranked Concordia Stingers.

The mild nervousness sur­ rounding this game was based on last year’s season-ending events. Twelve months ago, McGill founditselfinanidentical scenario going into the semi­ finals. They had beaten the Gai­ ters handily all season and were expected to do the same in the playoffs. But unfortunately they didn’t, bowingout74-67athome.

AccordingtoforwardTodd McDougall, last year’s upset wasn’t really on anyone’s mind.

“We didn’t feel that there was any kind of jinx,” said the fourth-year player from Westmount. “But let’sjustsaywe wantedtocomeoutstrongearly."

Andthat’s what they did or more exactly, that’s what he did.

McDougall dominated the first

half, exploding for 12 points.

“I felt good tonight,” he saidafterward. “Iwas able toput the ball on the floor and take some high percentage shots.”

The engineering major fin­ ishedwithanimpressive27points and expects to carry this per­ formance over into the finals.

However, McDougall explained thathisopportunitieswillbemuch harder to come by against the much quicker Concordia squad.

“To be competitive against them, both our inside and espe­ cially our outside game have to be consistent. Weall have tostep up our games,”said McDougall.

One man who definitely answered the call was Ryan Schoenhais.The third-year guard played the best game of his sea­ son and was arguably the most valuable player on either side.

He notched 21 points, including a back-breaking three-point banker at the endofthe first half, while adding eight rebounds.

Schoenhaisoffensiveconfidence, which was somewhat lacking during the season, will certainly be welcomed going into the fi­ nals.

The Redmen led 40-29go­ ing into the second half. Some­ one must have gone into the locker room and pleaded for a

closer game, because the Gaiters McDougall’s incessant crashing bution from veterans Doug were quicklyallowedtoget back of the boards.

McMahonandjonCampbell, and into the contest.

Forward RickVarisco took it seems that McGill shouldhave Generally sloppy play and care of the rest, going eight for a concrete shot at upsetting the countless turnovers, including eight fromthe line inthe last two mighty Stingers. four on inbound passes, brought minutes, while backing up the The QUBLbest-of-three fi­ theRedmendangerouslycloseto verbal cockiness that he conveys nal gets underway this Tuesday a “déjà-vu” situation. All of a to opposing players whenever at Concordia at 7:30 PM, while sudden the score was 63-58with he gets the chance.

McGill will playhost tothe Sting­ four minutes remaining. Luckily Disregarding the mild ers inthesecondgame onFriday for McGill, the Bishop’s teamis breakdown in the second half, night in the Currie Gymat 7:00 not known for its wise decision­ the Redmen played one of their PM. If necessary, the two teams makingin close games, and they strongest gamesoftheyear. Cou­ will battle ina thirdanddeciding thankfullylivedup to their repu­ ple thatwiththefact that theydid game at Concordia on Sunday at tation. Despite the fact that there sowithout anysignificant contri­ 1:00 PM. wasplentyoftimeleft in the game, many of the Gaiters began hoisting up low-percentage three-pointers, missing oneafteranother. Oddly enough the Gaiter skip­ per, Eddie Pomykala, was too busy jumping off the bench and get­ tingblueinthefacewith every whistle. He seemed to neglect his team’sdisorientationand decided not to call a regrouping timeout.

When the Redmen came out of their ten minute trance, they fi­ nallyput the Gaiters out of their misery, goingon R ic k Varisco (#14) leads M cG ill fa stb rea k in big sem i-final w in a 6-0 run led by

C o n c o rd ia d a sh e s B-Ball M artlets’ p ro v in c ia l title h o p e s

BY A LLA N A HENDERSON

The McGill Martlets bas­ ketball team’sseason endedlast Saturdaynight, whentheycame out on the losingside of abattle against the Concordia Stingers in the Quebec University Bas­ ketball League(QUBL) Champi­ onshipgame. Theloss, although disappointing for a teamprevi­ ously ranked fourth in the na­ tion, was the culmination of a very difficult season full of ups and downs.

Injuries proved to be McGill’s nemesis and, in the end, the Martlets’battlewounds were obvious.

Head Coach Chris Hunter stated at tfie beginning of the year that his teamwould have a great season if only they could “stayawayfrominjuries andout of foul trouble.”

On the second count, the teamwas successful for most of the season. The first part of that statement came back to haunt Hunter when several players ended up on the disabled list, most notably highly-touted rookieCélineCloutierinthe first game of the season and Vicky Tessier on February 5th.

Due to their lack of play­ ers, thebiggestproblemtheteam faced was fatigue in the final stretch of games. Talent-wise, McGill was at the top of the class, but exhaustion became a factor in most of its losses at the end of the season.

Last Saturday night was a case in point. Both Concordia and McGill came out ready to play, but as the game wore on, it was the Stingers that main­ tained their intensity and broke down the Martlets’ composure in the second half. McGill fin­ ished first in the league with a recordof9-3, but Concordiahad defeated them in their last two encountersandtheMartletswere still without top-scorer Vicky Tessier.

Concordia controlled the scoreboard throughout the first half of the game, with Patricia Demers leadingthe Stingers’of­ fensiveattackinimpressivefash­ ion. McGill rookie Jen Stacey responded to the Stingers with some superb play of her own, shootingwell andcreatingscor­ ing opportunities for her teammates, most of which the Martlets failedto convert. At the half, McGill trailed 29-25.

In the opening minutes of

the second half, McGill came alive, and it appeared that the tone of the game was about to changeinfavour ofthe Martlets.

Theytooktheir first leadaround the fourteen-minutemarkwhen Josée Deloretto connected with Stacey under the hoop for an easytwopointer. Delorettothen provided the teamwith another boost whenshewas fouledon a successful three-point attempt, and sunk the subsequent foul shot to complete a four-point play. The Martlets took a 40-37 lead, but the Stingers would not die.

Concordia capitalized on the Martlets’fatigue and inabil­ ityto set up offensively, rallying back to regain the lead late in the second half. The Red and Whitewereplaguedbybadluck as their shots consistently cir­ cledtherim, but wouldnot sink, contributing to their frustration and a breakdown in their play.

With just under two min­ utes togoandthe score 51-43in favour of Concordia, the looks on the faces of the McGill play­ ers left the impression that the final buzzer had already sounded. Theyappearedtohave accepted the defeat. Their at­ tempts to cut the Stingers’small

lead had proven fruitless and the Martlets knew their season had come to an end. The final score was 55-45, crowning the ConcordiaStingersleaguecham­ pions for the first time in ten years.

Leading scorers for the Stingers were Eva Samore and Demers, with 14 and 11 points respectively. The Martlets were led by Deloretto, who finished the game with 14 points, and Stacey, who poured in 13 points. McGill only shot 27 per cent from the field and had 21 turnovers, whereas Concordiashot 34per cent and limited their turnovers to ten for the game.

McGill Assistant Coach Linda MacPherson was ob­ viously frustrated whenshesummedup boththegameandthe year.

“The gods laughed at us all year long, from the 2:32 mark of the first game of the year,”she said in reference to

Cloutier’s season-ending knee injury and other obstacles the teamhad to surmount this sea­ son.

McGill finishes the season with an overall record of 17-10.

The Martlets look forward to a newseasonnextyearwhen they can return in good health and full strength, losingonlyMartina vanderVlistandSandraVeillette to graduation.

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BY CHRISTOPHER direction.”

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BY CH RISTO PH ER R IG N EY

With an eye toward next weekend’s season-culminating competition at Mont Orford, the McGill alpine skiing team trav­ elledoversixhourstoRimouski, Quebec, last weekend, only to turn in its best performance of the season to date. The wom­ en’s team, led by Sophie Marcoux, finishedfirstbothdays, whilethe menwere fourthtwice in the nine-team Quebec Uni­ versity race.

Unlike most of its other races this season, the team en­ joyedexcellentconditionsat this two-day slalom competition.

“It was about minus ten, sunny, and the course held up better than at any time this sea­ son,”said club captain Andrew Edgell. “This season, we’ve run intoalot oftrouble, betweenthe bad conditions and courses that just didn’t hold up all day.”

Marcoux, a third-year stu­ dentwhobothcoachesandcom­ petes fortheteam, wonthe gold medal inSaturday’scompetition before taking the silver on the following day.

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fer reasons for her success.

“I was feeling great both days, havingfun, andthe condi­ tions were ideal,” she said. “I also preferred this course be­ cause it was steep with a lot of turns, whereas thecoursessofar thisyearhavebeenwide-open.”

Edgell was happy for both the team’s success and the suc­ cess of his coach.

“We’ve had so much po­ tential thisyear, but it feelsgreat for the teamto finally crack the medals. It shouldgiveus alot of confidence going into next weekend’s finals,” he com­ mented.

In addition to Marcoux, the Martlets placed three other women in the top fifteen on Saturday, with Sandra Cole in ninth, Kate Hurtig in eleventh, andMarthaMcDougall intwelfth place. The following day, Cole tookfifth, withEricaPanet ninth, McDougall eleventh, and Sandy Birrell placing fourteenth.

On the men’s side, John Roitier led the way, finishing seventeenth on Saturday, and one place better the following day, while second-year club member Mike Blank finished

twenty third on Saturday. Mark Schindler was in second place afterSaturday’s first run, butwas disqualifiedafter failingtocom­ plete the day’s second run.

The club’s less impressive showingsearlierthisseason, cou­ pled with the cumulative point system for deciding the league championship, allbut precludes both squads from winning the season banners. However, that doesn’t mean that next week’s race is not important.

“We are looking forward to doing as well as we did last week,” said Marcoux. “If we could do that, I think we’d be quite happy.”

TheteamwilltraveltoMont Orford on March 11 and 12 for the Quebec University Alpine Skiing League championship.

Scheduled to compete at next week's final meet are all eight Quebecschools, whichincludes the l'Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) and l'Université de Montréal (U de M), winners of last week's sla­ lom competition. In addition, the Universityof Ottawawill be sending teammemebers topar­ ticipate in the meet.

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With the Redmen football team’s disappointing showing in the playoffs last fall, offensive lineman and 1993 All-Canadian Val St-Germain’s off-season has been more memorable than was his football season. Two months afterhewasselectedtotakepartin the prestigious East-West Shrine game, the 290-pound native of Ottawa, Ontariowas the first pick overall inlast Saturday’sCanadian Football League (CFL)college en­ try draft in Vancouver. He was selected by the Hamilton TigerCats.

In addition to St-Germain, fellowoffensivelinemateand1992 All-CanadianMathieuQuivigerwas selected 10th overall by the Sas­ katchewan Roughriders. The se­ lection of the six-foot-five, 276pound Montrealer capped off a memorable day for McGill’s foot­ ball program.

RedmenAssistantCoachJoe Marchildon explained what the selections meant to the Red and White.

“We’re so proud of Val and Mathieu, because both these ath­ letes are deserving of the hon­ ours,”he said. “We’re excitedthat they have a chance to move on, andIbelievethat itshows thatour

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GregMohns, assistantdirec-! toroffootballoperationsandplayer personnel, wasequallyhappywith the pick.

“Val has many attributes which make himan outstanding^ CFLprospect, as he has beenvery well coached at McGill and has very sound fundamentals,” said Mohns. “Hehasadominantpunch inhis pass blockingand he was a dominant run blocker on the uni­ versity level.”

McGill hasnot hadoneofits players selected in the first round of the CFLdraft since 1985, when MichaelSoleswasdrafted5thover­ all by the Edmonton Eskimos.

St-Germain was the first McGill player in 36 years to be drafted first overall. In 1958, the Saskatchewan Roughriders made Redmen lineman Len Sigurdson the league’s first selection.

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BY D A N SK EEN W estern G a z e tte

Hand in hand with the pleas­ ures of sport go the agonies of injury. This is why your mother urged you to play piano rather than Aussie rules football, bull­ fighting or bare-knuckle box­ ing.

Bu t for those who resist mom’s persuasion it’s a con­ solation to be sure of their physician’s ability when the inevitable occurs. And among Western athletes, the word and deed of Dr. Peter Fowler is as good as gold.

One of the country’s finest knee specialists, Fowl­ er’s office in University Hos­ pital has been visited by many of Western’s great athletes over the last 12 years.

An alumnus himself, he spent most of his 14 years of medical training at Western, including three years as the first trainee of the renowned Dr. J.C. Kennedy’s medical training program. An accom­ plished Mustang swimmer in his day, Fowler is all too pleased to administer to the current crop of Mustang athletes such as Perry Pappas and Angela Nobes. He also deals with several non-CIAU ath­ letes like Eric and Brett Lindros.

Western student Carolyn Morrison, a former patient, was quick to express his merits.

“He’s a great guy, he’s really personable,” she said. "He’s very informative and let’s you know where you’re at.”

While skiing during slack

week last year Morrison suffered one of the top non-chronic knee ailments facing athletes today— the ACL tear.

The ACL, or anterior cruciate ligament, runs up the joint. Treat­

ment of the tear is crucial since the ligament does not repair itself.

During surgery a neighbouring ten­ don with regenerative capabilities is used to replace the wounded tendon.

A trend Fowler has noticed is the increasing amount of ACL inju­ ries he’s dealing with. While due in part to more referrals, he sees other explanations for it as well.

“Because of the im­ provement of equipment, the shoe-surface interface, ath­ letes are capable of more abrupt deceleration,” he said.

“This can cause muscles to dislocate as the quads ab­ sorb the shock, and the tibia is pulled to the front.”

He cited basketball and soccer players as the most susceptible to these effects whereas in hockey, contact injuries are much more com­ mon.

Damage to the medial collateral ligament occurs when a player is hit from both sides of the knee. The doctor has operated on both Lindros brothers for this type of injury, and says it’s much more common in hockey than ACL inju­ ries.

“The ACL injuries in hockey are most often from flukey acci­

dents, like a skate getting caught in a rut,” he said.

Other treatments by Fowler include reconstructive surgery to the knee-cap mechanism and treat­ ment of damaged posterior cruciate ligaments. Although a PCL tear isn’t a common injury the hospi­ tal has seen 12 cases in the last six months, whereas in the past they’ve averaged about 12 cases a year.

After surgery and rehab, a

knee brace is the last defence against re-injury.

“Firstly, a functional type brace restricts knee motion,”Fowler said.

“Secondly, it may biomechanically protect the knee.

The damaged ligament contains impaired nerve fibers and feed­ back mechanisms which a brace helps to stabilize.”

Fine words from a great doc­ tor. It’s nice to know your knees are in good hands.

M c G ill 4 t h a t l i f e g u a r d m e e t Zinman, referring to the prepara­ tion for the three sections of the meet. The sections include first aid and resuscitation, reaction assess­ ment, and emergency simulation.

In these portions, tournament offi­ cials set up mock emergency situ­ ations involving simulated bums, spinal injuries, drownings and other situations that might confront life­ guards. Participants were evalu­ ated on their ability to properly deal with developments as they emerged.

The fourth portion, the relay, tested more general skills and fit­ ness.

U of T took the top spot, followed by Queen’s, Carleton and then came McGill’s quartet of Zinman, Ann Allchin, Shawn Gill, and Sue Kearney.

BY CH ARLES THOM AS

In its first attempt at the event, McGill captured fourth spot at the 11-team Ontario University Life­ guard Competition last weekend at University of Toronto (U of T).

The Red and White’s best effort came in the simulated emer­ gency event of the four-part com­ petition, where McGill reached the final.

Although McGill was inex­ perienced in the sport as a com­ petitive team event, its strength lay in its members’ ability to improvise in the face of uncertainty.

“In practice, you cover eve­ rything you think they are going to throw at you, but you don’t know what they will make you go through in the simulations,” said Daniel

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