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Last Thursday, McGill students rallied in support of efforts to halt clear cutting in British Columbia's Clayoquot Sound. The rally, held at Berri Square, featured the stump of a 380 year old tree felled by loggers at Clayoquot.

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Inside This Week News: Inequity be­ tween the sexes plagues McGill's De­ partment of Athletics.

See page 3 Op/Ed: Why Walksafe should never be just another "fun" extra­ curricular activity.

See editorial, page 6 Features: Supreme Court Justice Sopinka speaks in favour of freedom of speech.

See page 10 Entertainment: Inter­ view with Madonna!

Well, not really. But we do have Dread Zeppelin, Carolyn Heilbrun and more.

See page 13 Sports: Football is out, men's soccer is out, but hey, dry your tears, rowers got sec­ ond at the OUAA Championships. _________ See page 16

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Tuesday. Novem ber 2 McGill Young Alumni presents Sharyn Sepinwall, MEd, speaking on “Mak­ ing Stress Work for You." 6 to 7 PM, Leacock 232. Free; everyone welcome. For info call 398-4534.

Faculty o f Music concerts: Student soloists, 4:45 PM, Pollack Hall, 555 Sherbrooke St. W. E le c tro a c o u s tic c o n c e rt by Frederico Richter, 8 PM, Clara Lichtenstein Hall, C-209, 555 Sherbrooke.

Both are free. For more info call 398-4547/8101.

The Sexual Assault Centre of McGill (SACOM) offers a “Women Survi­ vors of Sexual Abuse" facilitated mutual aid support group. 7-9 PM, private room at McGill. Call 398-2700.

Faculty o f Music concerts: McGill Contemporary Music En­ semble . 8 PM, Pollack Hall, 555 Sherbrooke St. W. O pen Masterclass: McGill Early Music Ensembles. 8 PM, Clara Lichtenstein Hall, C-209, 555 Sherbrooke.

Both are free. For more info call 398-4547/8101.

Show your stuff, Red Herring fans! Today is our last group meeting before the final deadline and production and whatnot. Come see us at 4 PM in Shatner B07 so w e can laugh a lot!

McGill’s North American Stud­ ies Society is having a shindig at 4 PM. Come play “Let's Write Kim Campbell's CV.“ Check NAS board for location.

Canadian perspectives on NAFTA. Speeches at 12:30 and 1:30 PM, debate at 3 PM. Shatner 107/108.

M cGill Snow boarding Team meets at 8:30 PM in the gym. See posters on Shatner's bulletin boards for room number.

All are welcome and encouraged to come and join. Deals for equipment, etc. For info call Mike at 833-5404.

Lesbians, Bisexuals and Gays o f McGill (LBGM) has a weekly Bi-Group discussion, meeting at 5:30 PM on the 5th floor of the Eaton Bldg. Friendly atmos­ phere, all welcome.

McGill Im prov performs for free in the Alley every Wednesday at 8:30 PM. McGill Outing Club meets every W ednesday at 7:30 PM, Leacock 26 or 132.

SACOM offers tw o facilitated mutual aid support groups: “Women Survi­ vors of Domestic Violence” and “Men Sur­ vivors of Sexual Abuse.” 6:30-8:30 PM, private rooms at McGill. Call 398-2700.

presents “Self Care Day 1993-” Learn how to take care of your health. Booths on W omen's Health, Coughs and Colds, Nutri­ tion, Fitness and more! 10 AM-3 PM, Shatner 107/108.

The A ssociation for Baha’i Stud­ ies invites you to an introductory talk by Dr. Nakhjavani, on the Baha’i faith, its history, its teachings and its contributions to society. 4 PM, Shatner B09- For more info, call Kirk at 849-9998.

ing. All welcome — new members too.

Come find out how to get ahead in publish­ ing. 4:30 PM, Arts 350.

Don’t miss the Marunczak Ukrain­ ian Dance Ensemble at Culturefest *93.

Come and chom p on all-you-can-eat pierogies provided by the Ukrainian Stu­ dents’ Association. Call Ulana for more info or come up to the office in Shatner 416.

SAGOM offers a “Friends and Fam­ ily of Survivors of Sexual Abuse" facilitated mutual aid support group. 6:30-8:30 PM, private room at McGill. Call 398-2700.

Faculty o f Music concerts: McGill Chamber Singers, 8 PM, Redpath Hall. Free.

With the American Musicological Society and the Society for Music Theory: Studio de Musique Ancienne de Montréal.

8 PM, Pollack Hall, 555 Sherbrooke St. W. Tickets $18/$14.

For more info, call 398-4547/8101.

Friday. November 5 Don’t miss singer/songwriterTariq at the Alley, 9 PM.

An Abortion Support Group

meets every second Wednesday evening in a comfortable living room, for wom en who wish to share their experiences. We also provide a clinic escort service. For more info contact the McGill W omen’s Union at 398-6823 or Maija at 286-8075-

Free Ben & Jerry's ice cream to the first 100 fans at the Redmen Hockey game vs. Princeton. 7:30 PM, McConnell Arena (behind Molson Stadium). $3 students/ seniors, $5 general.

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Life after English: A representa­ tive from C.A.P.S. will discuss careers and occupations for English majors and Hon­ ours students. 4:30 PM, Leacock 232.

The Yellow D oor Coffee H ouse presents live music by Benoit LeBlanc (Cajun, Blues, Québécois) with Michael Edwards (Eclectic), followed by an open stage. $2.8 PM, Yellow Door, 3625 Aylmer.

For more info call 398-6243.

The McGill Curling Club will be holding free curling clinics every Friday from 4 to 5 PM at Montreal Thistle C.C., 1420 du Fort. No experience necessary. We provide everything.

McGill Student Health Services

Scrivener magazine general meet­ The M cGill Latin A m erican Awareness Group presents Mexican and

The McGill Christian Fellow­ ship is having a large group worship .7PM,

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W ednesday. November 3 QPIRG’s Global Cooperation Net­ work, a group working on food-related issues (environmental, political, and social effects of food and food production) will meet at 5 PM in Shatner 435. Newcomers are invited.

passes available at Pollack Hall Box Office.

For more info, call 398-4547/8101.

Dio (com er Milton and University). For more info, call Tien at 284-7645.

McGill Amnesty International meets every Tuesday at 6:30 PM in Shatner 425/35- All welcome.

Studies presents a seminar by Professor Theo Hills, Geography, on Tropical Small Farming — “Scale, Technology & Gender: 30 Years of Development Studies and Re­ search." 12 PM, 3715 Peel, Rm. 100.

LBGM offers tw o discussion groups: a Coming Out Group at 5:30 PM, and a General Discussion Group at 7 PM. Both are in the basement of the United T heological College, 3521 University.

Friendly atmosphere, all welcome.

Faculty erf Music concerts: Thomas Annand, organist. 12:15 PM, Redpath Hall. Free.

McGill Symphony Orchestra, 8 PM, Pollack Hall, 555 Sherbrooke St. W. Free tickets.

Sine Nomine, ensemble for medi­ eval music. 8 PM, Redpath Hall. Tickets $14/$10.

For more info call 398-4547/8101.

book. 12-2 PM, Shatner 435- For more info, call 3986825/843-2461.

Don’t miss singer/songwriterTariq at the Alley, 9 PM. The Yellow D oor Coffee H ouse presents The Bird Sisters with special guest Robert Blaise. Students $7, regular $9- 8 PM, Yellow Door, 3625 Aylmer. For more info call 3986243.

SACOM offers a “Women with Eating Disorders” facilitated mutual aid support group. Body images also addressed.

7-9 PM, private room at McGill. Call 398 2700.

The Faculty o f Music presents “The English Countenance: 400 Years of Medieval English Voice Music" with The Orlando Consort. 8 PM, Pollack Hall, 555 Sherbrooke St. W. Tickets $18/$14. Tel­ ephone reservations and info: 3984547.

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PreducÜMiUmpire Jonathan Wasserman Red Herring. Red Herring. I'll say it again — Red Herring. What does it mean? Laffs! Our deadline is this Friday, Nov. 5. It is so very important that you get submissions to us soon. Come to our meetings or our office, Shatner B07. Keep the faith!

The Drama and Theatre Pro­ gram presents Molière’s “Tartuffe." Per­ formances Wed. to Sat. at 8 PM in Moyse Hall in the Arts Bldg. Tickets $10/$6 stu­ dents and seniors. Ticket info and reserva­ tion hotline: 398-6070.

Are you questioning your sexual­ ity? Do you need help coming out’ Or do you have any other concerns and you need to talk? Phone LBGM's peer counselling phone line at 398-6822, 7-10 PM Mon.-Fri. Stricdy confidential; you can also drop by the office (Shatner 432) for face-to-face support.

The McGill Figure Skating Club is back in business! If the rink repairs have been keeping you away, come on up to McConnell Arena and check us out! Ice times are Mon. 2-3 PM and Tues./Wed. 89:45 AM. For more info call Wendy at 9316904.

McGill N lghtllne is a confidential telephone listening, information, and re­ ferral service open from 9 PM-3 AM. Give us a call! 398-6246.

Sunday. November 7 W alksafeFootPatrol hours: Sun.The Faculty o f Music presents the McGill Symphony Orchestra. 8 PM, Pollack Hall, 555 Sherbrooke St. W. Free

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For more info, call 398-4547/8101.

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The McGill Tribune. O c to b e r 2-8,1993

ews Department o f Athletics m an ed b y questions o f gender equity

BY C H A R LE S THOMAS Practices of the Depart­ ment of Athletics suggest that women’s intercollegiate sports teams are receiving significantly lower levels of funding in rela­ tion to men’s teams. Addition­ ally, th ere is a n o tab le underrepresentation of women at the coaching level and at the departm ent’s administrative level.

Students’ Society VP Uni­ versity Affairs Ruth Promislow expressed concern that the prac­ tices regarding funding levels for women’s teams may be in­ consistent with section 2.1 of the McGill Charter of Students’ Rights. The section states that every student has a right to equal treatment by the university.

“It appears inconsistent with the university’s commit­ ment to gender equality,” said Promislow. “I think that there has to be an overall review of the Athletics policy.”

Currently, only one of the eleven intercollegiate head coaches on teams that receive funding from the Department of Athletics is a woman, while only two of ten members of the de­ partment’s administrative staff are female.

Director of Athletics Robert Dubeau affirmed that the de­ partment was concerned with

the situation. hired by the department was “I think that in our minds Fitness Coordinator Maria Gold, we would like to have more who was hired four years ago.

Since then, however, two women on our staff,” he said.

“But we just can’t create full­ positions have been opened up time jobs.” and have yet to be filled on a In the case of a job opening, D ubeau ex­ plained that due to the present im­ balance, “the ta­ ble will tip in fa­ vour of a woman” if the male and fe­ male candidates are of equal com­ p eten ce. H ow ­ ever, he insisted that the policy is to hire the best person available.

“We haven’t been looking for any [competent women],” he ad­ m itted w hen asked if Athletics has had any prob­ lem finding com­ p e te n t w om en candidates for staff or coaching posi- Dubeau defends McGill Athletics full-time basis. The aquatics co­ tions.

“It’s been such a long time ordinator retired this summer, since we hired any new staff,” while the position of intercol­ he said. “I’m not sure what the legiate coordinator has been in market is out there in terms of limbo since January 1991. Men's Basketball Coach Ken Schildroth candidates.”

Dubeau explained that the filled the position on an interim last administrative staff member basis until the end of the 1990-

1991 year and was replaced by Facilities Manager Al Grazys, also on an interim basis.

Dubeau maintained that the department has not been mandated by the Athletics Board or any other au­ thority to rem­ edy the gender equity im bal­ ance in current staff composi­ tion.

A study of Department of Athletics budget change reports for each inter­ collegiate team, provided by the Committee on the Coordina­ tion of Student Services, reveals that in 19921993, women’s intercollegiate sports teams re­ ceived only 67 per cent of the fun d in g th at men’s teams re­ ceived.

The department’s budget proposals for the 1993-1994 sea­ son indicate a further decrease, with women’s teams budgets now only 58 per cent of the budgets received by m en’s teams.

These statistics probably

underestimate the real funding gap between men’s and wom­ en’s teams because the salaries of full-time coaches are not in­ cluded in the budget reports.

Four men’s teams, but only two women’s teams, have full-time coaches.

Athletics categorizes teams according to a three-tiered sys­ tem. Based on an estimate of the number of athletes on each inter­ collegiate team, including teams receiving no funding, only 17 per cent of female athletes are on teams that receive the high­ est level of funding and first priority on practice and playing facilities. However, 39 per cent of male athletes are in the same category.

Along with the Department of Students’Services and McGill’s Residences, the Department of Athletics has yet to be subjected to an external cyclical review of its operations.

Promislow suggested that the department should be made more accountable for its actions.

“Currently, the only re­ views that take place are inter­ nal to the department,” she added. “Since changes haven’t been made, it would appear that there is a problem with the proc­ ess of review.”

“I believe that it is neces­ sary that there be an external review of Athletics,” Promislow concluded.

Associate Dean Bergevin resigns due to sexual m isconduct

BY MICHAEL B R O A D H U R ST The Associate Dean, InterHospital and Governmental Af­ fairs, of McGill’s Faculty of Medi­ cine, Dr. Yves Bergevin, resigned from his position two weeks ago after pleading guilty to charges of sexual misconduct. Beigevin also left his position at Montreal General Hospital as a result of the charges.

Bergevin was charged with having sexual relations with an 18 year-old female patient. He pleaded guilty to the charges of misconduct at a hearing on July 14th this year.

Bergevin had been treat­ ing the patient for “emotional problems arising mainly from a previous pregnancy.”

The patient was twentytwo weeks pregnant when she met Bergevin, and was consider­ ing an abortion. As a result of Bergevin’s counselling, she gave birth to the child and later gave it up for adoption.

“I think the university's role Therapy sessions contin­ Lamontagne. “At that point, the is to protect students,” she said. ued in spite of reluctance ex­ director of professional services “Behaviour such as this certainly pressed by the woman concern­ met with Dr. Bergevin, and the must be made public.” ing the nature of her relationship decision was made right then Dean of Medicine Richard with Bergevin. Shortly after the and there that he would stop Cruess explained the decision to child’s birth, the patient and Dr. practising.”

Bergevin continued to allow Bergevin to continue teach­ Bergevin began a sexual rela­ tionship, which lasted from Au­ teach at McGill after the allega­ ing.

“In fairness to Dr. gust 1981 until December Bergevin, we were waiting 1982. to see what the penalty of the The complaint was not “This is completely corporation would be,” he filed by the woman until said.

“As soon as we had that much later. unacceptable conduct.” decision, we acted.”

A disciplinary commit­ When asked why the tee of the Quebec Corpora­ -Dr. Richard Cruess, McGill community was not tion of Physicians ruled that informed of the allegations Bergevin had abused his po­ Dean off Medicine against Bergevin, Cruess said sition as the patient’s doctor. that the misconduct was not The committee suspended ■ related to the university.

Bergevin from medical prac­ tions were made. Bergevin was “A university faculty mem­ tice for one year.

Jo an Lam ontagne, a removed from the classroom by ber resigned because of some­ spokesperson for the Montreal the Faculty of Medicine while a thing that had nothing to do with General Hospital, explained that psychiatrist determined if he rep­ the university,” he said. “It was completely outside the campus.”

Bergevin stopped practising soon resented a threat to students.

Students' Society VP Uni­ Cruess also suggested that after the allegations of miscon­ versity Affairs Ruth Promislow he felt no need to inform stu­ duct arose last winter.

“A copy of the letter from argued that the university should dents of the incident.

“It’s our role to protect the person who complained was have informed students of the the university,” he said. “It’s not sent to the hospital,” said resignation.

our responsibility to publicize incidents of sexual misconduct that occur outside the univer­ sity.”

Cruess added that he felt Bergevin’s behaviour was inap­ propriate.

“This is completely unac­ ceptable conduct,” he argued.

The university has not yet decided if Bergevin will return to the Faculty of Medicine when his suspension is lifted. Bergevin is officially on a leave of absence from the faculty.

“He may come back,” Cruess said. “We don’t know if that’s what he wants, or if that’s what he’ll ask for.”

Promislow was unsure about Bergevin's future.

“While I can condemn his behaviour, I find it difficult to come up with the appropriate punishment when I don't have all the details in front of me,” she said.

“I don't think he should be involved in any doctor-patient relationships,” she said.

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The McGill Tribune. N ovem ber 2-8,1993

Management under fire for sexist publication

BY MICHAEL B R O A DH UR ST The Management Under­ graduate Society (MUS) is facing allegations of sexism after mate­ rial published in the Commerce Communique, an MUS publica­ tion released last week, was found offensive by many members of McGill’s campus community.

At Thursday’s Students’ So­ ciety (SSMU) Council meeting, a resolution condemning the pub­ lication and MUS was passed unanimously by councillors. The resolution also mandated VP University Affairs Ruth Promislow to write a letter to MUS outlining SSMU’s position on the matter.

The magazine contains many controversial articles, in­ cluding an advice column enti­ tled “Damian Speaks”, which sug­ gests that women be used as paperweights and that breast size directly affects a woman’s job prospects.

Promislow argued that sex­ ism has been a recurring prob­ lem within MUS. “I’m concerned that the stu­ dents who put out this publica­ tion find humour in it,” she said.

“They find humour in promoting violence against women.”

Due to the nature of the magazine, SSMU VP Finance Paul

Johnson informed council that they would not pay for the adver­ tisement for Sadie’s Tabagie that appeared in the issue.

“I’m sorry that the ads were placed in the first place. I’m sorry that more attention was not given to the content of the publications we support,” Johnson said.

Com m unique Editor-inChief Chris Haroun was as­ tounded by the controversy.

“I’m not sexist, I’m not rac­ ist. I’m just taking articles that people submitted and printing them. [The Communique is] very apologetic,” he said.

“I spoke to a lot of women about it and not a lot were of­ fended by the issue. I couldn’t understand the whole reaction of the Daily and the Tribune and all of SSMU,” he added.

Haroun added that Man­ agement students did not find the Communique offensive.

U3 Management student Maddalena Monjat agreed with Haroun.

“I didn’t take offence to it.

The “Dear Damian” section does go a bit too far though,” she said.

Tatiana Glad, a U3 Manage­ ment student, suggested that the magazine was demeaning to women.

“I don’t think this is funny,” she said. “They’re joking about

very serious issues.”

McGill Centre for Research and Teaching on Women Direc­ tor Peta Tancred questioned the judgement displayed by the Fac­ ulty of Management. The Senate Committee on Women, of which Tancred is a member, has sent several letters to the Manage­ ment Dean’s office requesting that past problems at the Com­ munique be addressed.

“I think the dean of the faculty has a major responsibility to do something about this,” she said.

Sonia Goswami, the Exter­ nal Coordinator of the Sexual AssaultCentre ofMcGill Students’ Society, agreed with Tancred, and suggested that there is indeed a concern.

“I think these editors are responsible [for the content], but I also think it’s a reflection of the Management faculty [that] they continue to print this material,” she said.

Haroun argued that the publication was intended for Management students, and since they did not find it offensive, the m aterial was perm issible.

Goswami disagreed.

“It doesn’t matter if it’s just for one faculty,” she said. “Any­ thing that is perpetuating any violence against anyone is unac­

ceptable.”

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Balinsky was unsure what action would be taken by MUS. “W e ’re going to deal with it in the best manner possible,” he said.

“I don’t think there is a problem with sexism in the faculty,” he added in de­ fence of the faculty.

Jennifer Cowan, a U3 M anagement student, disa­ greed with Balinsky, not­ Management publication: no offence intended ing that she perceived a negative attitude to­ Haroun expressed regret for wards women in the faculty. the reaction to the magazine.

“A lot of women Manage­ “Management is such a ment students have transferred unique faculty, so separate from out," she said. “They’ve obvi­ the rest of the university. We’re ously not been given the support very apologetic, we didn’t mean when this is the vibe of what’s to offend anyone," Haroun ex­ going on around them.” plained.

Students protest clearcuts at Clayoquot Sound

BY P A U L COWLING A N D N O A H R U B IN Last Thursday, 30 McGill students marched from the steps of McGill’s Arts Building to Bern S quare in p ro te s t of the clearcutting of the temperate rain forests in Vancouver Island’s Clayoquot Sound.

Protesters marched to the square where a gathering fea­ turing the stump of a 380-yearold tree from the Sound was being held. The Western Canada Wilderness Committee has or­ ganized a coast-to-coast tour of the stump in an effort to illus­ trate the destruction of the plan­ et’s last ancient lowland temper­ ate rain forest.

The Environmental Com­ mittee of the Students’ Society of McGill University (SSMU) and Quebec’s Public Interest Re­

search Group (Q-PIRG) organ­ ized the march.

The tour and the march are part of a wave of activism that has swept across Canada in response to the B.C. govern­ ment’s decision to allow twothirds of Clayoquot to be clearcut.

Over 800 activists have been arrested at Clayoquot in their efforts to stop the logging com­ pany, Macmillan Bloedel, from continuing to clearcut the forest.

In another effort to thwart continued clearcutting, tour or­ ganizers intend to collect signa­ tures on a petition to create a park in Clayoquot Sound, which the committee will present to the federal government.

Several organizers and par­ ticipants at the student rally had witnessed conflict between log­ gers and protesters at Clayoquot Sound, which occurred in the

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are oblivious to the economic importance of logging in B.C. “Activists are not anti-log­ ging. A ctivists are anticlearcutting,” Chapman argued.

SSMU Environmental Comm ittee C h airperson Mark Sherman was pleased with the rally and believed that it served to increase awareness regard­ ing the future of Clayoquot Sound.

“It is not economically sen­ sible to clearcut the forests if it will only bring two or three years of job security,” Sherman argued.

O th er o rg an izers e x ­ pressed disappointment with the Students protest around big stump march’s turnout. Q-PIRG Coor­ summer. U3 Arts student Jane- dinator Audrey Roburn stressed Anna Chapman worked at the the role students could play in Peace Camp at Clayoquot Sound affecting important issues.

“I understand that it’s easy last August and challenged the public perception that activists to become caught up in student

life, but I also think that students can exert a great deal of influ­ ence in environmental matter " Roburn pointed out.

U2 Arts student Graham Carpenter inspired marchers with chants of “Big trees, not big stumps” and “Clayoquot Sound, not clearcut Sound.”

Engineering Ph.D. student John Lloyd joined the march as it moved down McGill College Avenue. He criticized the sense of helplessness which he claimed affected many students and pre­ vented them from actively voic­ ing their opinions.

“Only through communi­ cation will the B.C. government realize that there are alterna­ tives. People can’t just sit at home and get steamed. Some­ thing can be done, so go out there and do something,” he remarked.

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C o n seq u en ces o f fed era l e le c tio n e x p lo r e d B Y IR E N E B L O E M R A A D

In the wake of last week’s federal election, McGill’s Que­ bec Studies Program hosted a round table discussion on the implications of the federal elec­ tion results for Quebec and Canada.

Moderated by McGill pro­ fessor Alain Gagnon, the panel consisted of McGill Dean of Arts John McCallum, ProfessorMiriam Smith from Carleton University in Ottawa, and former McGill professor Daniel Latouche, cur­ rently with l’Institut National de Recherche Scientifique.

Latouche began the dis­ cussion by remarking that the recent elections have allowed two cleavages currently present in Canadian society, one along regional lines and the other along the issue of language, to mani­ fest themselves in the House of Commons.

“We have a free market of ideas expressing itself at a fed­ eral level,” he remarked.

Latouche, a self-proclaimed

sovereigntist, explained that he sovereigntists’ cause, especially there is a total misunderstanding does not foresee any dramatic with BQ leader Lucien Bouchard in Quebec City of English Canada, breaks with past political formu­ as Leader of the Official Opposi­ especially the notion that sover­ las. Nonetheless, he strongly tion. On th e o th er hand, eignty association would be ac­ questioned the notion that Bloc McCallum th e o rized that ceptable to the rest of Canada."

Professor Smith, the third Québécois (BQ) successes were Bouchard and Reform leader merely due to a protest vote and Preston Manning might also act speaker, highlighted what she as a ‘reality check’, reducing sov­ saw as the triumph of democ­ not to separatist feeling. racy, epitomized by the Progres­ ereignty’s potency.

“Federalism is an out­ dated formula and regional­ ism is the new force pushing us,” he argued.

U2 political science stu­ dent David St-Jean agreed with Latouche.

“English Canada wants to keep federalism at all costs without asking if it’s even worth keeping,” he remarked.

Dean McCallum ex­ pressed an opposing view re­ garding Quebec sovereignty.

“Fifty per cent of the Quebec voters supported the Bloc Québécois, so if only a few of those voters are feder­ alists, a referendum [on sov­ ereignty] would fail,” he ar­ Quebec's an d C anada's fu tu res w a v e r in uncertainty gued.

However, McCallum noted “I could foresee a growth sive Conservatives’ relegation to that regional voices in the House in the ‘let-Quebec-go’ stream of only two seats in the House of of Commons might work for the thought,” he said. “[However], Commons.

“You [the citizen] have power,” stated Smith.

In reference to the Reform

N ew s B riefs Questions of discretion at council At last Thursday’s Students’Society (SSMU) Coun­ cil meeting, councillors voted to withdraw a letter from SSMU VP Internal Cornell Wright and Clubs Rep Eddy Saad to Clubs Reps Farah Nazarali and John Saunders.

Wright had submitted the letter as an official council document.

The letter chastized Nazarali and Saunders for their lack of commitment to their roles as clubs reps.

The letter stated: “There are many dub members who do not currently know the name of their Club Rep...

If you have found that the role of Club Rep has not turned out to be as exciting as you would have liked, please let us know.”

Councillors raised concerns regarding the VP Internal’s apparent lack of discretion in his approach to the matter.

“I’m concerned about how underhanded...this document is,” stated Senate Board Rep Jenn Shapiro.

Demanding an apology, Saunders presented a motion to have the letter withdrawn from official council documents.

The motion passed unanimously, with Wright voting in favour and Saad abstaining.

“I support the motion,” commented Wright. “The intent was to inform, and not to offend.”

Saunders was concerned with the VP Internal’s failure to communicate his intentions directly.

“I only found out about the letter [Thursday] afternoon from a friend who wasn’t even on council,” he remarked.

Nazarali also expressed dissatisfaction with Wright’s actions.

“If he had a problem with the wayJohn and I were fulfilling our obligations, I would have preferred that he had spoken to us personally,” she said.

Five month leaky faucet fixed A broken faucet at the office of the Arts Under­ graduate Society (AUS) was finally fixed last Wednes­ day after spewing out an estimated 115,000 gallons of water since early June.

According to AUS President Joe Wong, the faucet

in their office’s bathroom had been leaking large amounts of water since the AUS moved into the office in June. Wong and other members of the office, disturbed by the waste and noise created by the faucet, telephoned McGill’s Physical Plant re­ peatedly and informed them of the broken faucet.

However, no action was taken by Physical Plant to rectify the problem.

Last Monday, Wong responded to Physical Plant’s inaction by notifying the Dean of Arts' assistant, Susan Sharpe, of the situation. Sharpe contacted the appropriate dispatchers, and the faucet was repaired on Wednesday.

party, Smith noted the focused approach that could now ensue in the House of Commons.

“What is critical is that it [Reform] claims to speak for Eng­ lish Canada and English Canada only, and therefore it does not need to be involved in broker­ age politics,” she noted.

While Quebecers can concentrate power in one pro­ vincial government, Smith ar­ gued that “English Canada has never had an institutionalized way of articulating their own interests."

Smith also noted that the cleavages in the House of Com­ mons were not related to class, but were along regional lines.

All three speakers noted the rightward shift of Cana­ dian politics.

“The left is gone,” stated Gagnon.

“We’re lacking oppos­ ing ideologies,” concurred U3 North American Studies stu­ dent Lynn St-Laurent.

St-Laurent also noted the complexity of the whole federal­ ism issue.

“We could have had a colloquium lasting the whole afternoon.”

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Councillors support Sun Ra Councillors voted to overturn an executive decision to reject a 300 dollar grant to the Sun Ra Project at last Thursday’s SSMU council meeting.

The Sun Ra is a solar-powered car designed by a team of 30 students in McGill’s mechanical engi­ neering program. The SSMU executive committee received a request for 300 dollars to subsidize the project.

Deciding that this request for funds could not be approved given the limited student participation in the project, the executive presented a motion to council to ratify their decision.

The car finished first among Canadian univer­ sities and eleventh overall among thirty-five entries in the Sun Rayce 1993 competition from Arlington, Texas to Minneapolis, Minnesota.

“300 dollars going to 20 or 30 people — that’s not a good ratio,” argued VP Finance Paul Johnson in his criticism of the request.

Many councillors opposed the motion, noting that SSMU had an obligation to help student initia­ tives.

“I think we should try to support research,” noted Science Rep Isabelle Girard Joanis Louloudakis, a member of the Sun Ra team, was pleased with the decision.

“This money means very much to us— we’ve done this whole race on a shoestring budget,” he stated.

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EDITORIAL The danger of institutionalizing Walksafe Imagine that in your community, red-jacketed citi­ zens patrol the streets, escort­ ing certain members of soci­ ety from their schools or workplaces to their homes. A futuristic vision? Hardly. On any given night, the area around McGill is swamped with Walksafe Network mem­ bers. From a pool nearing 600 in number, Walksafe volun­ teers work in teams of two to escort between 40 and 60 people per night from any­ where to anywhere.

It is unquestionable that Walksafe is both successful and provides a necessary serv­ ice. From September 27 to October 26, the McGill Sexual Assault Centre and Walksafe received a total of fifteen inci­ dent reports. That’s 15 inci­ dents of verbal abuse, grab­ bing and other abuses of a sexual nature in less than one month. And that is, of course, a figure which only encom­ passes those who report inci­ dents.

Yet Walksafe can, and indeed must, be criticized —not for any transgressions

COM M ENT Having read the article “Students easy targets for psy­ chological mind control” (Sep­ tember 14-20, 1993) written

by Jason Hans Kleine, it ap­ pears to my mind that the writer has a long way to go to understand the true signifi­ cance and profundities of the numinous studies of divinity.

A subject intrinsically related to the understanding of soul and th e s a c ro sa n c tsupercosmic-supramental, allpervasive personality, we call God. The printed “Chant and be happy” flier in his article relates to “The Sanatana Dharma” whose later deriva­ tion is Hinduism. Hinduism is the Eternal, Universal, pro­ fo u n d , a n c ie n t m o st sempiternal religion. The ex­ act time of existence of this time-honoured religion could not be established by any historian. There is no founder of this religion w here the doc­ trine of pantheism declared in the most venerated scrip­

within the organization itself, but for what it has become on campus.

Walksafe is treated now, not through any fault of the organizers, as just another ex­ tracurricular activity. A com­ mon sentiment among McGill students is the addition of Walksafe to a list of other activi­ ties in which they participate: “I play intramurals, I’m in the G am er’s G uild, an d I do Walksafe.”

But Walksafe must remain in a paradigm of its own. It is not merely a ‘club’ or a ‘serv­ ice’; it is a tragic necessity. It is imperative that those who par­ ticipate in Walksafe realize the implications of such an organi­ zation for a so-called ‘free’ so­ ciety.

In this year’s Students’ So­ ciety student handbook, the Walksafe description reads: “While acting as a walk home service, the foot patrol pro­ vides students with an alterna­ tive to walking home after dark and ensures a visible student presence on campus and the neighboring community in or­ der to deter crime.”

While crime ‘deterrence’ is not synonymous with crime ‘enforcement,’ one wonders whether Walksafe, on one level, alleviates local police of re­ sponsibility for the community.

But whether or not this nuanced form of vigilantism is wrong in and of itself is not the debate (and with the assault rate as it is, Walksafe should not be condemned as such).

Rather, it is the slow swim of Walksafe into the mainstream which must be questioned.

Public sentiment on campus suggests that Walksafe is no longer a ‘fringe’ group which is largely ignored (such as the Women’s Union or Lesbians, Bisexuals, and Gays of McGill), but now falls into the ‘main­ stream’ category of club (like Snow boarders or the Outing Club). The irony is that Walksafe originally sprung from the Women’s Union. Yet its main­ stream character now allows it to act as a personal stepping stone — nothing looks as good on a law school application as an interest in ‘community serv­ ice.’

Yet what is the ultimate

e n d of Walksafe? Now they merely escort us, but in the future, will Walksafe volunteers be armed? Of course, this ex­ ample is meant to be extreme, yet it points to the fact that Walksafe is a band-aid solution to a real problem: the ongoing problem of predominantly male violence.

Non-mainstream McGill groups like the Women’s Un­ ion or LBGM use discussion groups to assess and restruc­ ture the status of prejudice and oppression in our community, both locally and at large. But the intrinsically political nature of these groups (political due to their status as ‘marginal’ within the traditional power dynamic of the patriarchy) have made them a much less popu­ lar choice at Activities Night.

Of course, Walksafe does offer “sensitivity training to the issues surrounding sexual as­ sault and ‘street smarts’ aware­ ness training” (Handbook 13).

But it logistically cannot pro­ vide the necessary context to educate Walksafers. Instead, it is up to the m em bers of Walksafe to educate themselves

and realize the seriousness of the activity they are under­ taking. Walksafe does not operate in a vacuum; it is part of our society.

Without addressing the sickness in our society that makes Walksafe necessary, we are essentially resigning ourselves to a future of Walksafe, the ‘institution,’not ‘walking safe,’ the activity.

Women don’t want to be walked home every night.

Women want to walk alone, at night; they want to walk on the mountain and through the ghetto and not be scared for their lives. Once an or­ ganization like Walksafe be­ comes institutionalized, it has been accepted as permanent and timeless. The thought that for the rest of our lives, women will have to be es­ corted door to door because men in our culture remain ignorant to the larger issues surrounding women’s safety, is so m eth in g w h ich all Walksafe members, and in­ deed all McGill students, should consider.

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H are-Ram a-Krishna: sem piternal religion tures by Seers who declared the Oneness of God attributed to more than one manifesta­ tion.

Here Lord Krishna is one of the manifest Godheads ap­ peared in the realm of mankind in the human form in order to reestablish Divine order when a pandemonium was let loose in His creation. His messages and gospels of the “Srimad Bhagabat Geeta” and in many other sacred books have in­ spired not only the Hindus in India but also enlightened hu­ mankind outside the land of its origin. It had been studied by many dignified Western phi­ losophers, Scientists and theo­ logians. To name a few: Arthur Schopenhauer, Frederich Max Muller, Romain Roland, Albert Einstein, Robert Oppenheimer, and Bertrand Russell.

“Cult,” according to the definition in the Encyclopaedia Brittanica, “is a system of reli­ gious beliefs or oractices or formal religious veneration of a Deity or Saint.” According to

the Webster’s Collegiate Dic­ tionary, it is “Great devotion to some person, idea or thing, esp. such devotion viewed as an intellectual fad.”

Lord Krishna is neither a deity, a person or a thing. He is the continuation of the Abso­ lute “Brahman,” the Personality of Godhead. The other name of the “Brahman” in the Vedic literatures is also “Hari,” who incarnates in human forms as “Krishna” and “Rama."

The chanting:

mals and the space. The entire cosmos and the Universe be­ yond is also being sanctified by the Chanting. It would do the same infinitely in future days to all of us too. Hark the song Sri A u ro b in d o o f A uroville, Pondicherry, India, sung of Lord Krishna:

“A t la st I fin d a m ea n in g o f soul's birth Into this U niverse o f terrible a n d sw eet, I w ho h ave f e lt the h u n gry h eart o f earth A spiring b eyo n d heaven to K rish n a ’s f e e t...”

T.K. Banerjee

P o lic ij f o p C o m m e n ts a n d L e tte rs to th e E d ito r

“H are-K risbn a: H are-K risbna: Krishna-Krishna: H are-H are H are-Ram a: H are-Ram a: R am a-R am a.R am a Ram a: H are-H are:"

the three names of the Suprem e G odh ead in cadenced

verse order vibrated the hearts of millions in India in the past with happiness, and is still do­ ing the same today. Chanting of these Sanctus N am es has con­ secrated the living beings, its environs including plants, ani­

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O pen Letter to Jean C hrétien Dearest Jean, Congratulations on your impressive victory last week.

I hope your first act as a Prime Minister will be to re­ peal the amendment allow­ ing bars to remain open on Election Day. Is it a coinci­ dence that the Reform and Bloc did so will on the first “wet” Election? Anyway, since no one seemed to have any economic plan during the campaign, I am willing to spread my wisdom (real thick) beyond the confines of a newspaper column that no one reads. I am submitting some key policy suggestions for your administration to use: Taxation: The GST has got to go, since the public doesn’t like it that much. We can recoup the revenue lost, however, by taxing 50% of every dollar spent on Blue Jays merchandise.

Social Programs: We can eliminate a large chunk of the deficit by cutting $19 billion worth of social programs in the ridings which the Reform Party won since the voters were so hot on the idea.

Maybe we could use the sav­ ings to subsidize immigrant housing in BC. Trigging: While closing off Clayoquot Sound com­ pletely to logging interests would be economic suicide, the country does need more vegetation to support its eco­ system than the packaged spinach at Provigo. Sure, BC’s timber industry provides 44 per cent of the country’s lum­ ber exports. Sure, the $4.2 billion worth of lumber ex­ ported to the US last year would represent a solid base for Canadian trade if NAFTA ever takes off. Never mind all that, just think of the revenue potential of commemorative “Save C lay o q u o t” w o o d plaques, posters and possi­ bly a Ben and Jerry’s fla­ voured ice cream that can be sold to the armchair Sting demographic.

Defence: The lynch pin of my economic strategy is to pare down military expendi­ ture. Instead of a $4.8 billion helicopter arsenal, why not just train an elite unit of hom­ ing pigeons to carry peace keepers into combat? Total cost: $48.97. Not as cheap as the Natural Law Party’s plan to install an army of 7,000 yogic flyers chanting

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like a giant car alarm to scare away enemy forces, but I per­ sonally find pigeons more in­ timidating. The last thing any­ one needs is for the country to be taken over by three shotgun-toting rednecks from New Hampshire.

Public Works: Your Public Works Program has a lot of potential, but the influx of 150 former Tory MPs into the ranks of the unemployed will re­ quire even greater measures.

One possible channel for pub­ lic works jobs is packing the Bloc Q uébéquois moving trucks.

I realize that my bold economic plan w ould not make it past the Parliament incinerator, but I doubt any­ one in Ottawa will come up with something more substan­ tial. The problem is that the economy will not heal with a quick fix injection of public works jobs. Especially since the scrapping of the ridicu­ lously extravagant helicopter plan will take away a lot more than $6 million worth of pub­ lic works jobs. Even right after the election of a brand new government and all that giddy, unrealistic optimism that goes with it, the dollar only rose a lethargic 1.5 cents against the US dollar. The value of the dollar slipped right back down the next day when a lot of voters woke up with a hango­ ver and realized that they had voted for the Reform Party.

U n fo rtu n a te ly , th e economy can’t grow with re­ motely the same vigour as it did in the 25 years after World War II. There are simply too many people that use too many resources and require too many jobs to pay for them.

These too many jobs require too many industries which use up too many resources.

These too many industries then spout out too much pol­ lution and expand too far into the wilderness and as a result kill too many animals.

But far be it for me to be the voice of doom.

Sincerely, Ethan P.S. I would have voted for you if I could have, but the enumerator would not regis­ ter me when he found out that I was American.

Op/Ed________________ L etters to th e E d ito r

Lack o f Judgement?

In his editorial ‘Silence is golden in council chamber* (October 27 to November 1), Michael Broadhurst dis­ plays a lack of both judgement and knowledge of the workings of the SSMU. His comments regarding Cornell Wright were particularly ludicrous, and in my opinion, need to be addressed.

Attributing the resignations of the two Welcome Week Co-Chairs (af­ ter the conclusion of Welcome Week) to 'Wright’s short-sighted approach to in­ terpersonal relations’ is both simplistic and short-sighted. In place of these TWO, Mr. Wright has assembled an enthusiastic team of FIFTY plus volun­ teers, many of whom would never have otherwise had the gumption to become involved.

I am also at a loss to understand the basis for Broadhurst’s characteriza­ tion o f Mr. Wright in light of the over­ whelming success o f this year’s Frosh program. How is it that someone with poor interpersonal skills was able to almost triple the participation rates when compared with last year? How did some­ one lacking in seriousness manage to make the program $12,000 more lucra­ tive’ Lastly, even Mr. Wright’s most ardent opponents would never ques­ tion the seriousness that he attaches to his job. I would venture to say that more often than not, Mr. Wright is at his desk, tending to SSMU business, long before Mr. Broadhurst has scarfed his morning Wheaties. Mr Wright takes his job seri­ ously enough to be at his desk nights

and weekends as well.

Perhaps Mr. Broadhurst should worry about taking his job a little more seriously. His opinion pieces would be in danger o f becoming even more bor­ ing, but they would at least be grounded in fact.

An apology to Mr. Wright, and all those w ho have benefited from his term in office, would definitely be in order.

Irving Gold U3 Arts

Quebec separation To: Brian Keyes (Letters, Oct27): Although your sentiments are well-placed, you do fail to understand the reality of the Québec political scene.

The support expressed for the Bloc Québécois, while sending a strong sig­ nal of protest to Ottawa, was not a clear vote for separation; Lucien Bouchard himself acknowledged the great debt (estimated at 1 in 3 o f his votes) his party ow es to disaffected federalists. In the same way, the strong vote for the Liberal Party can better be interpretted (sic) as a desire for a government which sees as its mission the creation of jobs, the fear of a minority government in an "Italianstyle” parliament, or even as a typically Canadian desire to find the political middle-ground.

It is hard to accept that this elec­ tion will greatly affect the status of Confederation. Québec’s potential suc­ cession (sic) has been an issue since the

mid-1960s, and while the issue is natu­ rally affected by events in Ottawa, it is not dependent on them . Witness Québec’s greatest rejection of sover­ eignty, in the 1980 referendum, when hard-time federalist Pierre Trudeau (“Québec is one province, like all the others") was in office, and the growth of the B loc and th e rejectio n o f Charlottetown while the decentralist Tories were in office.

Québec’s wishes must be de­ cided by Quebecers themselves. No federal government has ever denied Quebec’s right to join the 1982 constitu­ tion, to negotiate changes to it with the intention erf joining, or to leave the Canadian family altogether. For all of Parizeau’s boasting, he knows that the verdict of October 25 was meaningless in terms o f the “Canada debate,’ and that it w on’t be until after next spring, with Quebec’s provincial election, that it will matter w ho’s in Ottawa.

Nick Benedict U2 History

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I’m hooked on this crazy electronic mail thing. What a phenom enon. It’s a phone call, no, it’s a letter, no, it’s m odem technology, that sav­ iour of the 20th Century. Eter­ nally fascinating for those of us among the three billion com puter illiterate in the world. Me, I know a little bit about computers, if I may say so — all the technical jargon anyway: screen saver, surge protector, Nintendo....

Really, I d o n ’t know where I was when everyone else was becoming part of the computer age. Probably off somewhere buying ink ribbons and taperaser for my m anual typew riter, w hile w ondering whatever hap­ pened to the 8-track player in my parents’ Caprice Clas­ sic.

Little did I know that while everyone was worship­ ping the god of technology, I was being indoctrinated by its demonic first cousin, mass communication. I was swept along for years under its mes­ merizing, sound-bitten prom­ ises of a kinder, gentler, more materially indulgent world.

One w here everyone exists in 30-minute time slots, eve­ ryone lives in upper middleclass suburbia, and every mo­ ment is potentially America’s funniest. Then I woke up and realized I was flunking my p h y sics class b e c a u se I couldn’t explain how a tel­ evision tube works. Oh, sweet iro n y ; is n ’t it ju st th e postmodern way of life.

A few weeks ago I got some flak from a Film and Communications die-hard for my casual treatment of a cher­ ished daytime soap opera.

Television dilettante, I was.

Cultural appropriator, I be­ came. HELLO. Where do you think the “mass” part of mass culture com es from? The whole point is that it invades

o u r v ery c o n s c io u s n e s s whether we want it to or not.

I have not appropriated pop culture; it has appropriated me.

What you should sooner worry about than whether I understand (I mean really un­ dersta n d ) A n o th er W orld is the quickness with which you defend it. This thing is way bigger than any of us: it is past Orwellian. Our frames of reference are being deter­ mined by people w ho are m o re c o n c e rn e d w ith whether Susan Dey belongs in drama or in comedy than with the moral fibre of our society.

Not that our notion of ethics should be dictated by anyone, much less the peo­ ple w ho brought us Regis and Kathy Lee as cultural icons. But the fact is that they do influence, dare I say shape our moral conceptions. And we don’t even realize it. Capi­ talism, bedfellow of mass culture, gives us, so I’m told, the freedom of choice. But these are superficial choices — which detergent to buy, which newscaster to believe.

Choices indeed, but it’s not a question of whether to ac­ cept the religiosity of mass culture or not, but whether to buy a Sony or a Sharp.

Can a person survive without all this and still par­ ticipate in North American society? Certainly, after one makes the distinction b e­ tween mass culture and tech­ nology. The latter is merely the tool of the former. This means you may have a touch tone phone instead of a ro­ tary phone, but you don’t necessarily have to dial those 976 numbers. It means we almost all watched the B ra d y B u n ch in the ugly 70s, but we don’t all watch B everly H ills now. It means that you’re still reading a newspaper, and I’m still writing my opinion, but if you want you can still simply turn the page, chuck it in the blue box, and pull out the remote control.

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L etters to the E ditor couldn’t find elsewhere. Want to know what the Quebec government is up to and how it affects YOU? Ever wondered what happened at Oka as told by people other than the SQ? You would never have found out about these and many other issues if it weren’t for the existence of an alterna­ tive press devoid of financial motivation.

Student papers are a forum for discus­ sion of matters which the mainstream press is not free to discuss, and they allow students to question the values of the surrounding society.

You must make a distinction be­ tween the medium and the people who use it. People write for the Daily. You can disagree with what those specific peo­ ple are saying, but if you remove the medium, you are limiting everybody’s right to free speech.

Take the case of The Ubyssey. The students’ society o f UBC, disagreeing with the politics o f the editorial board, decided to cut funding from the paper.

This put the paper in a very difficult situation, potentially removing the me­ dium of expression every student could access.

The McGill Daily has various pro­ tections against abusing it as a forum for discussion. We have a Statement of Principles. All McGill students are al­ lowed to attend our staff meetings and give us their views on how we are handling things. There's also nothing stopping you or anybody else from coming in and writing for us.

As for the $6.70... It buys you a space in which to expose your ideas, in the form o f letters and hide parks. It buys us the ability to be financially independ­ ent and put out a paper for free, a luxury when you need money to buy your freedom of speech. Consider the cost of printing your letter, if you had been charged advertising rates.

Why don’t you ask yourself if the forty-odd dollars you gave to SSMU are worth it?

T. White U2 Arts

Killing Queen's I would like this opportunity to congratulate the McGill Redmen football team on their destruction of Queen's at the annual “Kill McGill" as it is affection­ ately known at that #2 ranked institu­ tion. It was the first time this feat had been achieved since I began my time at McGill (1989), and the “in-your-face” victory dance in front of the assembled purple humble pie-ers was one of the sweetest moments of my university ca­ reer.

I would like to thank the Presi­ dents of the IRC, Sevag Yeghoyan, for negotiating with the City of Kingston to provide bleachers for the two hundred strong crowd of McGill students, provid­ ing transport to the game, and McGill colour face paints. Queen's elected to sell tickets only to their students and alumni, and without Sevag, we would not have been there to flaunt the red and white.

Thanks to AJ.'s Hanger and Greg Warman for returning my wallet (lost table dancing that night), the bus drivers for putting up with us, and my “Emilien" bus for being the best damn bus of people ever to make the journey to Richardson Stadium.

Way to go Redmen! You made me proud to be from McGill.

G. Andrew Work VP External Affairs SSMU

Keeping cows private Since September, I’ve noted a downward swing in the quality of Trib­ une editorial columns. But I was particu­ larly discouraged by Cheryl Devoe’s latest offering in “Private Cows" (“Don Cherry, everything we need in a PM", October 27-November 1).

I realize that a column is a state­ ment of personal opinion; Ms. Devoe, like Cherry, “doesn’t try" to please eve­ ryone. However, a collection of cutesy platitudes and Girl Guide-like admoni­ tions stressing teamwork do not intelli­ gent political commentary make, no matter who you're interested in pleas­ ing. Frankly, it sounded like a halfbaked private joke that occurred to her 20 minutes before deadline. If that’s the only kind of thing that peeves Ms. Devoe in daily society, she should keep her cows private.

Diantha Parker U3 English

Professionalfrat ranting Re.: “Council fights fraternity fundraising,” Oct. 27-Nov. 1, 1993.

The column cited above con­ cluded with a quote from McGill VP (Advancement) Michael Kiefer which read, “Fraternities are not recognized as official parts of the university...". Would the Tribune please clarify that this state­ ment is untrue5 While the Inter-Fraternity Coun­ cil (IFC) and its member social fraterni­ ties are non-recognized, off-campus or­ ganizations, professional fraternities are recognized campus groups. For exam­ ple, the McGill Co-Ed Medical Fraternity is recognized by the Medical Students’ Society and functions with the support o f the Faculty of Medicine.

Unfortunately, the debate in McGill Senate and SSMU Council over fraternity fundraising, as well as media reporting of this issue, have completely ignored the active presence of profes­ sional fraternities at McGill.

It’s also worth noting that if McGill Senate had been evaluating fundraising projects for McGill’s libraries, or if the SSMU Council had been re-evaluating Walksafe funding, newspaper reports would undoubtedly include the reaction of McGill Libraries Directors or Walksafe coordinators, respectively. News editors would consider the reports incomplete without this perspective.

However, there have been 4 re­ ports so far (two in the Daily, and two by the Tribune) about Senate’s discussion regarding fraternity fundraising. None of them has sought the opinion of either those targeted by the debate — social fraternities — or those who have been wrongfully implicated in the discussion — professional fraternities.

Why is this so?

Roland Orfaly U2 Medicine

P ost-election disappointm ent Young voters cannot be but dis­ appointed, once again, with the election results. There is talk that the new Liber­ als will give us a respite from the politics of decline, decay and deception of the Conservatives. Young Canadians know better, though.

Canada’s youth recognize that the same Canadians that have voted for the same Liberal party in the past 50 years have done it again. While this may be a new Liberal Party, a revitalized one, the policies and strategies of this elec­ tion campaign prove otherwise. There is

nothing new about Jean Chrétien and the Liberals. There is nothing new about make-work projects and promises of hope and dignity. In fact, there is just about nothing new in anything that the parties have proposed this year.

What shocks me most, though, is that the Liberal Party fared so poorly in relative historical terms. After nine years of unpopular government, o f prepara­ tion and reconditioning, of sitting on the sidelines, and in spite of Campbell’s series of bad breaks and the fact that the country’s "natural governing party” is the Liberal Party, Chrétien still only fared just about as well as almost every other Liberal leader has in the past. Campbell had to defend a record she did not make and did not necessarily endorse and yet Chrétien still performed about average Jean Chrétien did not win this election The voters and their desire to return to regional factionalism lost it.

Chrétien managed to hold on to the traditional Liberal vote in Canada while the rest of the country lashed out for change. Kim Campbell at least tried to bring some change to the political process in Canada but the defenders of the status quo stopped her cold. The oldstyle politicians with empty promises and policies took the day. Now, young Canadians can expect more irresponsi­ ble spending, more senseless taxing, more unbalanced representation. As well, they can continue to expect the bill for this recklessness in the years to come Did w e see change on October 25?

Hardly. The real winner on October 25 was the status quo while the real losers, Canada's young people, must settle for more out-dated policies that will fail again.

Rick Savone U2 Economics

Translation difficulty Re.: “Begging the question of col­ our": While sipping a cup of coffee during a break from research in the McLennan Library, I scanned through the Oct. 19-26 Tribune and came across the article (sic) written by Glenda Koh. Ms. Koh took offence when a La Presse interviewer asked her what her nation of origin was in response to her statement that she thought it was harder to be a non-white female in Canada than an anglophone in Quebec.

She took umbrage with the fact that the interviewer apparently automati­ cally assumed that since she was non­ white, her nation of origin was some­ where other than Canada.

Well it is just possible, in fact it is likely, that she jumped the gun. In Eng­ lish, “nation" is often used synonymously with “coumry.” In French, however, “na­ tion" implies more of an ethnic grouping.

It is quite probable that the reporter was simply responding to Ms. Koh's own explicit recognition of the fact that she belongs to a visible minority. Since Ms. Koh raised the issue herself, the report­ er’s story would have been incomplete if he had not asked her to which ethnic minority she belonged. Literally trans­ lated from French, this could be exactly what he asked.

In this age of ethnic, linguistic, racial, etc., hyper-sensitivity, a little more tolerance is advisable on the part of minorities as well as majorities. Ms. Koh would do well to follow her own admo­ nition for “...resisting stereotypes, listen­ ing to others, not making assumptions."

W. Brent Cowan B.A. 1985 McGill P h.D . 1, Poli. Sci., U . de M.

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On October 14th, the On­ tario government’s Ministry of Education and Training an­ nounced a policy framework calling for zero tolerance of dis­ crimination and harassment in Ontario colleges and universi­ ties.

The policy framework in­ cludes all forms of discrimina­ tion in the Ontario Human Rights Code, such as race, ethnic ori­ gin, sex, sexual orientation and disability. It will cover all uni­ versity staff, students, members of boards of governors and uni­ versity committees, as well as members of affiliated associa­ tions, contractors undertaking construction or research, and all visitors or guests on campus.

Discrimination that occurs both on- and off-campus will fall un­ der the policy framework.

Under the policy, each uni­ versity will be mandated to de­ velop or review their current discrimination and harassment policies according to guidelines specifying the Ministry’s mini­ mum expectations.

The review for each uni­ versity will be conducted by a campus committee of students, administrators, staff, and man­

agement and union representa­ and discrimination are two very have control over universities,” serious issues and zero toler­ she said. “The government can tives.

Each university must sub­ ance is in order,” he said. “Any only urge them.”

She further expressed con­ mit these newly developed pro­ efforts like this are a start at cern that although zero toler­ cedures to the Ontario Council dealing with these problems.” of University Affairs ance is the stated goal, the (OCUA) by March 1st of actual policy framework next year. may work otherwise.

Minister of Educa­ “Everyone uses the tion and Training Dave words zero tolerance. It “ Creating a positive and Cooke stated that the has become a cliché,” she policy framework is an said.

“People have stopped safe environment on our thinking about what it integral step in working college and university means.” towards educational eq­ uity in universities.

The policy frame­ cam puses is essential in “Creating a positive work includes very spe­ our quest to achieve and safe environment on cific guidelines about ele­ educational equity.” our college and univer­ ments that must be in­ sity campuses is essen­ cluded in each policy. The tial in our quest to types of activity implicated -Dave Cooke, Ontario achieve educational eq­ must include harassment, uity,”Cooke recently told sexual harassment, dis­ M inister of Education and the Brock Press. “The crimination, negative en­ Training approach w e’ve taken vironment and systemic builds on the work done harassment or discrimina­ by our post-secondary tion. institutions, and it should In addition, the com­ Paddy Stamp, sexual har­ plaint process must include ad­ send the clear message that har­ assment and discriminatory be­ assment officer for the Univer­ vice and counselling for both sity of Toronto, agreed that the parties involved, timelines, in­ haviour will not be tolerated on our campuses.” policy framework is a positive vestigation, types of resolution Michael Bums, president step in addressing discrimina­ and a specified range of sanc­ of the University of Western tion but stressed that the gov­ tions. Responsibility for each Ontario’s University Students’ ernment had limited enforce­ element must be assigned to a Council, stated that zero toler­ ment powers over the universi­ specific person, office or body. ance is the best appoach to be ties.

The policy framework taken by universities.

“The province has control mandates the development of “I think that harassment over colleges but it does not extensive education campaigns

for students, employees and con­ tractors.

Dr. Arjun Aggarwal, au­ thor of Sexual H arassm ent in th e W orkplace and well-known for his work on harassment policy, expressed enthusiasm concerning the announcement.

“This is welcome news.

The question is if the practice is different from the preaching and how far the government will go in implementing it,” he told the Tribune.

The OCUA will assess the effectiveness of each universi­ ty’s policy three years after its implementation.

In order to facilitate the process, the government will make a one-time allocation of $1.5 million for the develop­ ment of educational packages, data collection models, ongo­ ing evaluation models and an external audit model and proc­ ess.

Karen Young, Dean of Women at Queen’s University, hopes the policy framework will encourage universities to move faster on issues of discrimina­ tion and harassment.

“Most universities are deal­ ing with it in their own way.

This might push some to get on with it faster,” she said. “As long as universities receive public funding there are ways in which they need to be publicly ac­ countable.”

N etw ork Briefs

With files from the Brock Press.

Faculty threatens race relations Western’s faculty association has threatened to go to court in order to block the university’s race relations policy if the university president fails to address the association’s concerns.

The association claims the policy will drastically alter the conditions of employment.

"If there is a university policy forbidding faculty members from saying certain things, then that would have to be outlined in the conditions of appointment or employment,” said Department of History professor Kenneth Hilbom.

Hilbom also added that the definition of racial harassment was “too broad.”

“Practically any unguarded word could become the subject of a complaint under the race relations policy,” he said.

According to Hilbom, the policy also allows the possibility for blackmail to ensue, as the time lag of nine months between the complaint and the hearing is too laige.

Western’s senate must discuss the issue before a decision can be made on whether to amend the policy. source: files from Western G azette

Doctors on euthanasia A poll recently conducted by two members of the University of Calgary’s medical faculty indicated that almost half of Alberta’s physicians favour the legalization of patient-requested euthanasia.

According to the poll, only 18 per cent agreed with the idea of euthanasia. However, the support for legalization was much higher; around 51 per cent, while 40 per cent opposed the idea, with 9 per cent uncertain.

Only 28 per cent of those polled said they would practice euthanasia.

“Our new results show that Albertan physicians are solidly against any form of assisted dying that removes them from the process,” said Dr. Marja Verhoef, one of the pollsters.

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Allegations of anti-Semitism The University of Toronto has initiated an official review of tenured professor Robert O’Driscoll, whose latest book has been labelled anti-Semitic.

“His main thesis is that there is a world-wide conspiracy where Jews play a major part in making North America into a police state,” said Steven Shulman of the Canadian Jewish Congress. “Basically, he is telling people to prepare for the ‘onslaught’.”

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anti-Semitic views. According to university officials, O’Driscoll is under review due to numerous complaints received over the last five years.

O’Driscoll denied the allegations.

“The wordjewish is not even in the book,” he said. “I cannot understand why the Canadian Jewish Council is taking such exception to it.”

“As a professor, you should be protected against the pressure of different groups outside the university,” he added.

Shulman called O’Driscoll’s work defamatory and question­ able, since the professor used the W eekly W orld News as a source.

The newspaper is widely considered a tabloid.

In response to a complaint, the hate crimes unit of the Metropolitan Toronto Police is also investigating O ’Driscoll.

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“One of the most difficult areas of the law with which our court has had to deal, is freedom of speech,” stated Mr. Justice John Sopinka of the Supreme Court of Canada, who spoke last Wednesday at Concordia Uni­ versity’s Hall Building.

Sopinka discussed the is­ sue of the attack on freedom of speech. His tone revealed a profree speech bias, favouring the rights of certain Canadians to express radical and potentially hurtful ideas, over the rights of other Canadians to be free from exposure to hurtful ex­ pression.

Sopinka outlined the ef­ fect of the 1982 Charter of Rights and Freedoms on the definition of free speech. In section 2(b), the Charter confirms the right to freedom of expression and pro­ vides that, “Everyone has the following fundamental freedoms: the freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression...”

“Free speech was defined to include any activity that con­ veys or intends to convey any expressive communication,... no matter how unpopular, distaste­

ful or contrary to the n a tio n ’s freed o m ,” Sopinka ex p lain ed .

“Only violent forms of expression were ex­ cluded.”

Sopinka went on to outline the fundamen­ tal difficulty regarding the topic of freedom of speech.

“Freedom for one group often poses a threat to others. For ex­ ample, in a lake stocked with minnows and min­ now-eating pike, free­ dom for the pikes means death to the minnows,” he elaborated. “Freedom of sp eech is not absolute...in some cir­ cumstances, the exercise of this freedom poses a threat that is so great that the freedom of ex­ pression has to be curbed.”

Sopinka then Suprem e C ourt Justice John Sopinka spoke of state actions which could be considered at­ has had to yield to other compel­ ling societal concerns.” tacks on free speech.

One of the cases discussed “The state still seeks to limit expression in many areas. For involved Jim Keegstra, accused instance, there were at least three of spreading hatred by teaching major cases decided in the Su­ his high school students that the preme Court, where free speech Holocaust was a hoax perpe-

trated by an international conspiracy of Jews bent on world hegemony.

“The freedom to express thoughts, not widely held by others was limited by the belief that certain forms of hate literature would cause harm to the community.

The concern of the state to reduce the harm suf­ fered by target groups and in the reduction of racial, ethnic and reli­ gious tension, and per­ haps violence, was found to be a reasonable limit on the right of Keegstra to express his views to 3 the rest of the world.”

J Sopinka, suggesting his particular bias, defended the primacy of freedom of speech above all other freedoms.

“The th reat of criminal prosecution,” said Sopinka, “is an at­ tack on freedom of speech. As a result of decisions like Keegstra, in particular, mem­ bers of society are restricted to some extent in what they can or cannot say. The Court tries to limit such an infringement as much as possible and the fact

that the court in Keegstra was somewhat divided shows that perhaps there may still be some work to be done in this area.”

Sopinka then went on to criticize the chilling effect that the political correctness move­ ment has had on free speech, particularly in universities.

“Universities are places where people w ill be offended and should be offended. Free speech is offensive...Society should not seek to censure the speech of someone whose views appear to be rather absurd in light of the conventional wis­ dom of today. It may become the conventional wisdom of to­ morrow.”

Sopinka concluded by putting the onus on the mem­ bers of society to protect them­ selves from incursions against their individual liberties.

“We must still rely on the common sense of public opin­ ion to stand up for the right to say things no matter how unpal­ atable it may seem.... Many will shy away from doing this be­ cause to do so will subject them to criticism. The greatest threat to free speech, therefore, no longer comes from the state, but from within ourselves.”

Culturefest ‘93 represents a broader sense o f culture B Y A N G E L A C A M P B E L L

Culturefest ’93, which runs from Nov. 1 through to Nov. 5, aims to represent cultural inter­ ests beyond ethnic and national concerns by including groups such as LBGM (Lesbians, Bisexu­ als and Gays of McGill), Amnesty International and Walksafe in the program’s events.

Paola Scarone, chairperson of Culturefest ’93, told the Trib­ une that her goal was to stimu­ late as much student involve­ ment as possible, hence every McGill student organization was invited to participate.

“We didn’t exclude or tar­ get anyone in particular when we were planning [Culturefest], but the response from everyone has been overwhelm ing,” said Scarone.

“What’s great is that the effort is there, from groups of all interests. We are not necessarily concentrating on national inter­ ests, but on culture in the wider sense. Our goal is to promote tolerance in general,” she contin­ ued.

According to Scarone, fif­ teen campus groups have agreed to participate in the Culturefest

Gala Evening this Thursday, in­ cluding the McGill Ukrainian Stu­ dents’Association (MUSA). MUSA has sponsored a Ukrainian youth group of Marunchak dancers to perform, and will contribute tra­ ditional foods from the Ukraine for the Gala buffet. MUSA Presi­ dent, Jon Tomas, told the Trib­ une that through participation in the event, he hopes to present various facets of Ukrainian cul­ ture to the McGill community.

“We thought it best to take part in a celebration of food and dance: two things that Ukrain­ ians never seem to get enough of,” he remarked.

LBGM has also agreed to participate in Culturefest ‘93- The organization plans to set up an information booth on Cultural Exhibition Day to distribute pam­ phlets, give information and ex­ pose observers to open gay and lesbian behaviour.

Chris Carter, an LBGM ad­ ministrator, supported the or­ ganization’s role in Culturefest.

“We do represent a culture, one that has been ignored,” he explained. “There is a debate as to whether or not members of LBGM should be portrayed as everyday people, or whether we should emphasize our distinc­

tiveness. I think it’s a bit of both, like any other cultural group."

Walksafe Network will also participate by providing volun­ teers to sell tickets, work at the bar, and decorate rooms for the various events.

“I think that by inviting all McGill groups, the organizers are very ambitious. But it’s great, nothing but positive, and it sounds like an amazing week,” said Erin Brady, Public Relations Co­ ordinator of Walksafe.

However, some stu d en ts are co n ­ cerned about the tim­ ing of Culturefest.

Michael Au, Art Direc­ tor of the McGill Chi­ nese Students’ Society (MCSS), maintains that MCSS members will not participate as much as they would have liked, simply due to the inconvenience of mid-terms.

“The timing is not that good, not many students want to participate. New U1 members can ’t be asked to perform be­ cause they aren’t yet familiar enough with

the club, and U2 and U3 students are all too busy with mid-terms this week,” explained Au. Tatiana Glad, Program Di­ rector for Culturefest ’93, sympa­ thized.

“Any point in the semester is an awkward time since mid­ terms run all through October and November,” said Glad. “We did start planning early, though, as early as last summer.”

Glad expressed the need to recognize the cultural diversity

within the Montreal community.

“McGill is very diverse, but we’re also smack in the middle of one of the most culturally rich cities,” explained Glad. “What’s great is that in Montreal, access to culture is just so easy. Just walk­ ing down the street, you can come across musical performers from all over.”

Further information and tickets can be obtained daily in the lobby of the Shatner building, 10 AM to 4 PM.

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F R A N K E L

We are all consumers of a coveted quantity w e call “in­ formation”. Every day, we sur­ render our senses to the media, and emerge with opinions. The problem lies in defining the role of the press in forming public opinion, and thus the limits that apply to journalistic freedom.

Journalist Melanie King of CJAD, Montreal’s talk radio giant, addressed the topic of putting controls on the media, saying that the onus falls on the public to be wary consum­ ers of what is seen and heard.

King spoke at a McGill Young Alumni presentation last Tuesday and used the recent federal election to illustrate her opinion.

“If you want an in­ formed choice, you have to investigate. You have to go to the library. You have to listen to what [the candidates] have to say. You have to read their material. Reporters are after sexy sound bites,” stated King.

She acknowledged, how­

incite hatred we are obliged to ever, that there was a certain much?”

In response, the M irror run it,” said Scowen. grey area in determining the Scowen emphasized that parameters for freedom of ex­ received an outpour of letters pression. to the editor, which were pub­ his paper is a strong proponent lished on October 7th, protest­ of absolute freedom of the “You can’t say people ing the publication of the let­ press. He felt the publication don’t have a right to express of the letter was made their opinions because worthwhile by the bash­ they disagree with yours, ing Underwood took [but it m ust be] from pen-slinging read­ within... community stand­ “You can't say people don't ers. ards and what’s socially “As long as we keep accep tab le,” explained have a right to express their the forces of good in King. opinions because they power and continue to The problem is di­ disagree wth yours [but it have a stronger voice verging opinions that ex­ [th an p e o p le like ist within the media re­ must be] within ...

Underwood],...let them garding what is socially community standards and speak and [then] shut them acceptable. down,” argued Scowen.

On September 23rd, what's socially acceptable.”

“There were strong let­ controversy found a home ters [from M irror readers] at the M irror, one of Mon­ -Melanie King, that did that.” treal’s alternative publica­ CJAD Radio Talk Show Host As readers of the tions. The editorial staff M irror can attest, how ­ chose to publish a letter ever, the paper’s groovy s ig n e d by J o h n C. and far-left ideals are Underwood, that included such inflammatory comments ter, on the grounds that it was rarely subscribed to by other m em bers o f the m edium . as “Why is it that fruits call homophobic. themselves gay?” and “Are fruits Despite the objections of Robert Walker, Ombudsperson something special in our soci­ the readers, Managing Editor and Deputy Managing Editor Peter Scowen defended the let­ of the G azette, Montreal’s most ety, or do they just want to widely circulated English daily appear that they are?”The headter’s publication.

“Our policy is if the letter newspaper, said that his paper line given to the letter by M ir­ is not libellous and does not supports the freedom to ex­ ro r staff was “Homophobic,

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press ideas, but only to a cer­ tain degree.

“We allow for the widest latitude...within [the limits of] decency, truth and accuracy,” explained Walker.

But when the subject turns to the publication of letters, such as the one published in the M irror, Walker made the G a ze tte s mandate clear. He w ould not have published Underwood’s letter.

“We would throw that [let­ ter] on the floor. He’s not mak­ ing a good point; he’s just gay­ bashing,” said Walker.

“You are not entitled to express hostilities to Jews, Blacks, Asians, Gays...in a civi­ lized s o c ie ty ,” c o n tin u e d Walker. “That is not covered in freedom of expression.”

So who has the final word in determining just how much freedom should be permitted in our information indulging society? In Walker’s opinion, the M irror should not serve as the definitive example.

“They’re a bunch of free spirits. [They] give more lati­ tude than the m ainstream press,” remarked Walker.

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M édecins Sans F ron tières reco g n ized b y UN

BY JA C Q U E L IN E R E IS McGill graduate student Lori Bell feels that the most memorable part of her work with Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) was nearly getting kidnapped at the Afghanistan border.

“We picked up two men who had offered to act as guides,” recounted Bell. “They gave us directions from the back seat of the land cruiser while, speaking in their native tongue, they plot­ ted to kidnap us. Fortunately our armed guard understood them and turned us around quickly enough.” .' 1 This might sound like a great screenplay, but volunteers like Lori Bell, Dr. Rosamund Lewis, and Dr. Michael Irvine actually live these experiences while working for Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). Although this might not be the typical MSF experience, the organization does send people all over the world, into all sorts of conditions.

Founded in France in 1971, MSF was among the first groups to send volunteers in response to refugee crises. They are currently

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flashlight” Luckily MSF has an exten­ sive base of equipment that can be packaged into emergency kits.

and approximately four other people spent nearly a year pro­ viding primary health care and community health aid in a

“There are latrine-building kits, water distilling kits...basically there’s a kit for everything,” ex­ plained Lewis.

Lewis’ mission in Djibuti was atypical of MSF’s regular assignments in that it was a long­ term development project. Lewis

shantytown where water came from a biweekly delivery truck.

“It’s very hard to see that you’re making a difference on a global scale,” Lewis explained.

“But when you see a malnour­ ished child become healthy or

work with an eager student, it’s clear that you are helping at the individual level.”

MSF goes anywhere there is a need for their help and often works on both sides of a conflict.

Because they are a non-govemment organization, they are of­ ten able to mobilize themselves faster than either UN agencies or the Red Cross. Lewis referred to Bosnia as an example.

“MSF was in the former Yugoslavia when no one else was. I don’t think they’ll be leav­ ing anytime soon,” she pre­ dicted.

There are approximately 30 Canadians overseas at the mo­ ment, but there is always an eagerness to expand operations MSF accepts applications from experienced doctors and nurses, adm inistrators and logisticians.

Jacques de Milliano, Presi­ dent of Médecins Sans Frontières International and Executive Di­ rector of MSF Holland, will give a lecture entitled "Humanitarian Medical Aid: Decisive, Involved and Independent” on Friday, No­ vember 5 in Leacock 232.

Télé-C an cer: h op e lin e

BY KATHERINE BROWN According to the Fondation Québécoise du Cancer, one in three people will develop cancer at some point in their lifetime. A cancer diagnosis can be a terrify­ ing discovery, and treatments can be harrowing. One volunteer or­ ganization in Montreal provides emotional support for those di­ agnosed with the disease.

Télé-Cancer is a free, bilin­ gual telephone counselling serv­ ice operated by the Fondation Québécoise du Cancer. With a staff of 32 trained counsellors, Télé-Cancer provides positive emotional support for cancer pa­ tients who may feel the need to talk about their anxieties, fears, and hopes with someone other than a doctor, family member or friend.

Volunteers at Télé-Cancer have all been given a cancer diagnosis at some point in their lives. Whenever possible, callers are matched up with counsellors who have had the same form of cancer.

“We don’t try to fix [the cancer], we just listen,”explained Helen Tallentire, a volunteer who has had cancer of the colon and of the liver.

Counsellors feel that the initial diagnosis of cancer is of­ ten the hardest aspect for a pa­ tient, so they provide emotional support to help the caller to realize that a cancer diagnosis is

not an automatic death sentence.

Diana Fowler, who is work­ ing to increase awareness of the service in the anglophone and allophone communities, de­ scribed the impact of initial diag­ nosis.

“When you are first diag­ nosed with cancer, you feel as though you have been hit by a truck. The volunteers are there to help - they’ve been hit by the same truck. Télé-Cancer is a hope-line, not a hot-line,” said Fowler.

Drawing from their per­ sonal experiences, the volunteers relate to callers in a way that doctors or friends cannot.

“Cancer is a very sudden disease, but it takes time to ac­ cept it; there’s often a lot of denial. We can say, ‘Well, that happened to me [too],’” said Tallentire.

Pat Lafrenière, a volunteer who was first diagnosed with Hodgkin’s disease 28 years ago, and later underwent chemo­ therapy for a recurrence of the disease, agreed with Tallentire.

“Often, the person is afraid to say how scared they are.

There’s such a scare put into people about chemotherapy,”she said. “There’s so much negativ­ ity. More people talking about it like this would help.”

The anonymity of the serv­ ice enables callers to express themselves honestly and with­ out reservation.

“A lot of people say “Why

me ?’ or ‘What have I done to deserve this?’ but gradually you realize, ‘Hey, shit happens.’ I think we allow people to be angry,”explained Tallentire. “Of­ ten people say to the cancer patient, You have to have a positive attitude.’” You are sup­ posed to be your own best friend, and you’re allowed to mourn the death of a friend, so why can’t you mourn your- self?”

Both T allentire and Lafrenière agreed that volunteer­ ing with Télé-Cancer has helped them in dealing with their own diagnoses.

“Volunteering clarifies my reactions to the disease. Five years ago, I wouldn’t have been able to talk about it in the same way. If s therapy for both people [the caller and the volunteer],” stated Tallentire. “It gives me great satisfaction to know that I have helped someone. You thir «, ‘Hey, I’ve turned something mis­ erable into something posi­ tive.’”

Lafrenière stressed the im­ portance that the service has in letting cancer patients know that they are not alone.

“When y o u ’ve helped someone through this,” said Lafrenière, “you feel like you’ve climbed a mountain. I would have liked to have been able to talk to someone who could have said, ‘Its going to be hard, but ’ If I’d had a number like this when I was in chemotherapy, I would have called."

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BY C A T K IN M ORRIS Not only does she have eight honorary degrees and over seventeen published works, but she is two authors in one: Carolyn Heilbrun the literary critic and Amanda Cross the detective fic­ tion writer. A professor at Colum­ bia, Heilbrun has just completed her soon-to-be-published biog­ raphy of Gloria Steinem.

Heilbrun spoke at McGill last Tuesday and never has a lecture on the oh-so-serious top­ ics of literature and old age in­ spired so much laughter (espe­ cially at McGill). Author of such critically acclaimed works as Reinventing W omanhood, Writ­ ing A W om an’s Life, and H am ­ let’s Mother, Heilbrun has re­

trieved feminism and literature from what she considers “the doldrums.”For this woman, grow­ ing older is a very good thing.

Once invisible to the male gaze, women can, for the first time, become really...real. Heilbrun

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shared her thoughts with the Trib­ une during an interview.

Tribune: In W riting A Woman's Life , you explore how women “wrote themselves out” of nineteenth century scripts on femininity. What are the scripts of today?

C arolyn Heilbrun: It’s so different now. To re­ sist the impositions of our society on how women should look, more than any­ thing else, is probably as hard as it would have been for George Eliot. To resist being thin, ifyou’re not natu­ rally thin, to not constantly worry about diets and how you look takes a lot of cour­ age.

Young women must recognize how much has been won for them in the last two decades. If they don’t know how recently it was won they won’t know how easy it is to lose.

Young women are always telling me they can do everything. I

think this is very unrealistic. The choice to have a child is not really a choice. In the old days if you got pregnant it was a crisis, now if you don 't it’s a crisis—it’s what Adrienne Rich calls “compulsory heterosexu ality.’

The media listens to you only if you sa y something destructive. Look at Cam ille Paglia!

S h e 's an absolute lunatic!

T ribune: In the past androgyny could be a way out for many women. But today’s notion of androgyny—the boy­ ish waif—is far from liberating.

CH: It’s not true androgyny.

Men who are afraid of women

want to starve them. A lot of these models are starving and it bog­ gles my mind that they actually get silicone implants! Making yourself over is not androgyny.

Androgyny is an inner thing, of the spirit. In the States we do something horrible to boys, we masculinize them. The new Ms. will have a baby boy on the cover with the caption “What Do We Do To Our Little Boys?” They’re struggling to push down the feminine side.

Tribune: What about the backlash?

CH: The media listens to you only if you say some­ thing destructive. Look at Camille Paglia! She’s an ab­ solute lunatic! And Katie Rosh is like all these people who say of rape, "She asked for it'” Tribune: So what about Toni Morrison and the Nobel Prize?

CH: I thinks it’s fabulous.

All the right-wing people say it’s

only because she’s a black woman.

They’re losing. They’re not “it” anymore. Men of my generation cannot cope. They have to find an excuse because women are a threat.

Tribune: About mother­ hood. I think many women still automatically assume mother­ hood should be an unconditional “instinct”.

CH: Rich’s O f Woman Bom, actually says that sometimes women get to hate their children.

And that was a no-no. But any woman who has children knows that sometimes it’s either the child’s head or the dry martini.

Most of us go for the dry martini.

Tribune: Maybe the obses­ sion with physical attractiveness reflects an ambiguous position between victimization and power.

CH: Yes. You couldn’t pay me to be young again. It is so hard. But to actually discover what one wants, to act from desire, that is so extraordinary. It’s much easier to be over fifty.

Z e p p elin : b ea n b u rg e rs, B o n h am an d bed lam drums. Rounding out the band was Tortelvis’s straight man and towel boy Charlie Haj. Haj doesn’t play anything. He’s just there, keeping Tortelvis dry with a constant supply of towels.

Dread Zeppelin’s first two album s, U n -L ed-E d an d

a vision one night of a baby lying in a manger with three bearded wise men surrounding There comes a time in eve­ it. Well, the three bearded wise ryone’s life when they stop what men turned out to be the they’re doing, sit down and pon­ BeeGees and the baby was Andy der the absurdity of it all. In the Gibb,” he said. case of Dread Zeppelin, the ab­ The new album H ot a n d surdity is now into its fifth year with the release of their fourth 5 ,0 0 0 ,0 0 0 (Tortelvis fa n s can t Spicy B ean bu rgeris a return to album H ot a n d S picy B ean be w rong) were heralded as two the Dread Zeppelin of old, in­ of the greatest cover LPs of all cluding the much anticipated Burger. remix of “Stairway to For those unfamiliar Heaven". When asked if with the Led Zeppelin covthe new album would in­ ers-inna-reggae style sung clude Disco-Reggae cov­ by an Elvis-impersonator Tortelvis began suffering ers of Led Zeppelin’s ma­ scene, Dread Zeppelin is terial, Tortelvis explained, its king. They emerged five burrito w ithdraw al during “B eanburger goes back years ago literally by acci­ their se co n d tour of to the original stuff: Led dent. Lead singer Tortelvis Z eppelin-inna-R eggae A n ta rctica explained this momentous style with an Elvis imper­ event in a interview with sonator the way it was the Tribune before their supposed to be. I say that concert on October 23rd at because that’s what Elvis Café Campus.

“I was searching for a time. Yet according to the band’s said before he died about Led band to back me up. I had official bio, Tortelvis began suf­ Zeppelin’s music, and Jimmy wanted to do this reggae-Led fering burrito withdrawal dur­ Page agreed.”

Dread Zeppelin’s concerts Zeppelin thing that Elvis had ing their second tour of Antarc­ are really what the band is all tica.

As the bio explains: told me about. By coincidence, I drove my company’s milk “[Tortelvis] would lay sullen on about. They are a disturbing yet truck into the back of a Ford his wooden cot until his faithful hilarious descent into the insan­ Pinto being driven by a band,” servant, Charlie Haj, would at­ ity of mixing three completely tempt to approximate a burrito different musical styles. In fact, Tortelvis explained.

The band turned out to be from...something." Eventually, some might consider the experi­ the Reggae Blades, who were Tortelvis could take no more ence to be almost evangelical.

“Led Zeppelin came from on their way to a gig at Elmo’s and retired to Graceland West.

Dread Zeppelin then ex­ the dark side obviously, but we’re dow ntow n in Almonte, Califor­ nia. Out of this cataclysmic perienced a traumatic identity coming from the white light side. melding of metal and glass crisis. The result? S aturday Night We’re good guys, and the devil, emerged the original Dread Zep­ Fever meets Dread Zeppelin. if he is in our music, is on tKe pelin, featuring front man Guitarist Jah Paul Jo maintains road out,” Tortelvis asserted.

Perhaps the heaven and Tortelvis, guitarists Carl Jah and the ensuing album It’s Not Unu­ hell qualities of their perform­ su a l was no mistake.

Jah Paul Jo, Ed Zeppelin on the “The last singer on our ance were influenced by their bongos, Buttboy on bass and Fresh Cheese gj^iChees® onjlje. album, Gary Gibbvactually had gig in Waco, Texas, where they

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D re a d Zeppelin: Freaks w ith m usical instrum ents

played David Koresh’s birthday party.

“Koresh wanted to play with us but we wouldn’t let him,” Jah Paul Jo said.

“We pretty much blew

down the walls of Jericho that night,” added Tortelvis.

Five years later and the absurdity continues. They’re talking about a gospel album next.

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The McGill Tribune, November 245.1993

T h e corp orate thunder gods? Silicon e se x w ith But surely they were get­ “We’re doing big commer­

BY H A R R IS NEW M AN D an and R oseanne cial sets, ‘cause this is a fan ting by on Boner?

Breasts— can’t live with

The house lights dim across finder tour,” said Dale Crover, the fields of swimming adoles­ the Melvins’ drummer.

“It’s the ‘Give the Kids What cents in Primus t-shirts, and the Metropolis seems curiously They Want’ tour,” offered singer quiet. Through the silence creep and guitarist King Buzzo.

“The d ro id friendly three tall figures draped in as­ sorted cowboy hats, faded denim tour...the flannel droids....”bass­ and KISS memorabilia. Moments ist Mark Deutron added.

The move to Atlantic from later, a succession of deafening snare hits rip through the hall, their long-time California based label Boner Records seems to and the Melvins have landed.

It’s not the bone crushing have rubbed off on the masters volume, the thick sheets of im­ of sludge rawk. Why would a penetrable gui­ tar and bass, or even the crack­ ling vocal growl that sends the crowd of sec­ ond generation Eddie Vedder clones scurry­ ing for cover.

It’s the speed, orlackofit.The Melvins don’t trot along with the typical 1-23-4 bounce that every p o s t­ punk band this side of Seattle K u rt C obain s fa v o r ite ban d w an ts to be yours uses, they cruise like an ocean band as inaccessible as the liner smashing through frozen Melvins even bother to move to Arctic seas. It’s almost impossi­ the majors?

“For the chicks, the drugs ble to explain the pace of the Melvins without using a bunch and the cash, ” answered Crover.

“They were too small,” of­ of vaguely slow sounding adjec­ tives preceded by the word fered Buzzo. “We outgrew ‘fucking’, so just think slow. Very Boner, and when we got the slow, heavy, grinding and cool chance to be on a major, it was (insert your own ‘fucking’s.) like, shit, a band like us on a They’re not just another band major label, suuure, we’ll try playing their set; the Melvins that.”

“This isn’t just a hobby for come to town to crush and con­ quer. In between, they talked to us, where we’re just gonna be like, it’s okaaaay if we don’t the Tribune.

Currently opening for make any money, it’s okaaaay if Primus on their biggest tour ever, we’re on an independent and the Melvins are only too aware sell only a couple records,” that they’re playing mostly for a Crover continued.

“This is like prison, and crowd that has never even heard w e’re lifers,” shrugged Deutron. of them.

“We’re interested in maxi­ mizing our growth potential,” responded Deutron. Hmmm.

However, the Melvins promise their renewed business sense hasn’t affected their leg­ endary live shows.

“Oh yeah, there’s no com­ placency in our performance, we go out and rend and tear. It’s an exorcism every night,” prom­ ised Buzzo.

“We entertain what we call th e 2.B .F., w hich is the zero bullshit fac­ tor. You’ll get pure music, no w affling, no crowd participa­ tion numbers, no slapping, no tickling, and no Mr. Ed guitar so­ los,” D eutron added.

To illus­ trate, he airguitared with an invisible w am m y b ar while making neighing sounds.

If the Melvins are so bent on success, why not customize their sets just that little bit fur­ ther, and play all those fast num­ bers the flannel droids love to mosh to? Make no mistake, the Melvins know exactly who their audience is this time around, but they have faith that “a lotta po’losers”will take to the Melvins sound which inspired an entire generation of grindcore and ‘grunge’ rockers. Their advice for those looking for a night of beer drinking and pseudomoshing?

“Hey, come on out, but we play for a good hour or so, so you’d better bring a change of diapers.”

A T T E N T IO N 1 s t & 2 n d y e a r s tu d e n ts Interested in revitalizing a co-ed organization?

T h e K A P P A RH O T A U a lu m n i are interested in assisting any individuals or groups of students who would like to rebuild our chapter here on campus.

L ea d ersh ip and g e n e ro u s fin a n c ia l support w ill b e p ro v id ed fo r s e le c te d grou p s or in d iv id u a ls.

For further information, write: KRT Alumni Association P.O. Box 394 Beaconsfield, Quebec H9W 5T9

'em, can’t live without 'em.

Wait, that’s not true. You can have it your way. If you can bring hom e the bacon, AND fry it u p in a pan AND have kids AND have a career AND be forever young, you can have w hatever you w ant in the breast department. Wel­ come to the world of plastic surgery.

You got yer liposuction, the vacuuming of fat depos­ its (yes, va cu u m in g ). Then you got yer silicone, and yer nose job, so you can look lik e M ich ael J a c k s o n .

Roseanne Barr w ent for the package deal this year: one nose job, a little fat vacuum­ ing, and a face lift.

She probably stood in front of the mirror and said, “Hey, fuck you” to the kids w ho teased her at school, to the press w ho m ocked her weight, to her w hiner and pillar of mediocrity of a hus­ band w ho is reported to have a chronic case of the w an­ dering eye.

W h en w o m e n lik e Roseanne get cosmetic sur­ gery, the line betw een femi­ nism and victimization is cu­ riously blurred. She is one of the only w om en in popular culture w ho is wealthy and popular AND crass, funny and un-waif-like. She took this p>ower to its illogical ex­ tension: If she can be any­ thing she wants, she sure as hell can look anyway she wants. It’s like that Oil of Olay commercial (with Dusty Davis and Bugsy Brown): “I’m not going to grow old gracefully. I’m going to fight it every step of the way.”

Such a statement sounds like self-affirm ation: This woman is not going to sit back in a passive and pow er­ less way. Obviously, how ­ ever, this is the ultimate vic­ tim’s stance. It says to the world: “I have fallen for it. I equate my worth as a hum an being with my physical ap>pearance.” So ingrained is this equation, it is almost impossible to imagine differ­ ently.

I love Roseanne. But she bothers many p>eople.

Not because she’s obnox­ ious but because she’s “fat.”

According to Susan Faludi, Roseanne’s been called “dis­ graceful” by George Bush and “a Jell-O bodied taste­ le ss m o n s te r ” b y “Bar Roseanne Club” prez, James

THE HART FILE

BY GA TR IN MORRIS Rees. She is the ultimate threat to the industry, yet her show yields impressive ratings because the Connors are real, funny, middle-ofthe-road folks with true fam­ ily values. And people like to see themselves on TV. I am not one of those viewers w ho winces in dis­ gust w hen Dan and Rosie get kissy-kissy on the Connor couch. We are in serious trou­ ble if w e can’t visualize a sex scene which doesn’t have a clo se -u p o f a w o m a n ’s arched concave stomach and a m an’s sinewy back mus­ cles.

The aerobo-celluloid sex w h ich m o n o p o lizes popular culture ignites selfhatred and alienation from its audience. People d on’t look like Michelle Pfeiffer.

They just don’t. Many look like Roseanne, or at least Blair from F acts o f Life. When w e cannot see ourselves, our love handles, our birth con­ trol, our awkward fumblings in the dark, our sweat, stretch marks, fat, and goofiness in these sex scenes, w e just may begin to wonder: How could my partner find me attractive? (Recent studies dem onstrate the links be­ tween sex and anorexia: apa­ thy, hormonal imbalances, a depleted sex drive.)

But w hen w e do (if rarely) see ourselves mir­ rored on the screen, in mov­ ies like Life Is Sw eet, and shows like R osean n e, our perspective alters surpris­ ingly fast. If only there w ere more! Just think!

So next time you’re do­ ing the deed and you feel that familiar w ave of em bar­ rassment that you might be, inadvertently, m im icking Hollywood sex (the ride ‘em cowboy hair flip, for exam pie), m ake note of just how much our sexuality is dic­ tated by media. And laugh out loud. Breasts are dow n­ right silly. So is sex. It’s only w hen p>eople start lining u p at Dr. Perma-Tan so they can feel better about them ­ selves, that it becom es seri­ ous. Roseanne: D on’t let us down. Sure, you have the right. But is it really w orth it?

Dan is so dam n cute, and leaking silicone is not.

The McGill T ribune. N ovem ber 2-8.1993

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Dazed and Confused is hiiiiiiigh-larious B Y K A T R IN A O NSTAD Let’s play a little game.

Do any of the following items make you smirk with recogni­ tion? Foosball. 8-track. Chevy Nova. Wedgies (the foot kind).

KISS (the band, not the activ­ ity). Did you titter? Smile?

If you’re amused by the world of the‘70s, then you’re the perfect audience for D a zed a n d Confused. But even if the phrase “I wanna rock n’ roll all night” doesn’t bring tears to your eyes, you’ll still love it. It’s hysterical.

D a ze d a n d C onfused is the second effort from Richard Linklater, the youngTexan who bothered to record two and a half hours about the lives of a bunch of downwardly mobile, disillusioned twenty-odds in Slacker. D a ze d a n d Confused

has more of a narrative—well, slightly more — a bigger budget and some talented actors, who aren’t merely the director’s friends.

But the reason to see D a ze d a n d C onfused is be­ cause it is fu ck in g hilarious.

The ‘plot’ (and I use this word loosely) revolves around the last day of school before summer, circa 1976. A series of

mini-plots chart the new sen­ your high school. The most per­ iors’ attempts to ‘paddle’ next fect “I know that guy!" moment years’ freshpeople (literally: comes with Rory Cochrane’s bril­ swat the asses of the junior liant performance as Slater, the high kids with heavy boards class stoner. Wearing the pro­ verbial marijuana plant T-shirt, constructed in woodshop).

T rue, this doesn’t sound like a serious knee-slapper on paper. But the brutal act of ‘pad­ dling’ merely pro­ vides a backdrop for the high schoolers who participate (or don’t) in the stupid reindeer games of small-town teenage life.

D a zed is a me­ ticulously detailed trip to the ‘70s. You get to be up close and personal with Dazed and Confused a n d really stoned! the culture of our stoned baby­ Cochrane’s whiney half-asleep sitters and tacky older cousins. stance is perfect. He’s that guy It’s a world of pot, and chairs for whom everything is linked shaped like giant eggs, and to the weed, as when he’s bab­ pot, and Gilligan’s Island, and bling to his already incoherent pot. A world where people friends at a bush-bash, “George ride around with KISS effigies Washington smoked, man. Like, in the back of their pickups he knew it would be a big cash (“Gene, nice tongue!” moans crop for the South, you know?”

Still, there are moments of one headbanger) and the big event is getting up early to get quiet revelation, like when one earnest young guy realizes he Aerosmith tickets.

Each character in D a zed can’t actually become a lawyer is lifted from the courtyard of for the ACLU because, “Basi­

cally, I hate the people I thought I wanted to help. In fact, I hate all p e o p le .” O ccasionally, Linklater lets these kids act a bit too smart for their age, but it’s still hiiiigh-larious.

D a ze d avoids being just another teen sexploitation flick. True, male char­ acters get the best lines, but their dia­ logue just illuminates the misguided forma­ tion of the young male p sy ch e. In high school, everyone— male or female— is a dork, and if they don’t know they’re losers, then th ey ’re even greater targets for Linklater’s sardonic wisdom.

D a ze d a n d C onfused is a self-indulgent ride into the hell world of high school where you get to laugh your ass off from the safe distance of adulthood.

As Pink, the star quarterback says, “If I ever start referring to these as the best days of my life, remind me to kill myself.” Sim­ ple sentiment7 Maybe, but who cares. You’ll leave the theatre in serious facial pain from laugh­ ing so hard.

The Entertainment Edi­ tors would like to dedicate their section this week to the memory of River Phoenix.

Tuesday Night Café opens its 1993-1994 season with a production of George F. Walker’s decidedly black com­ edy, Better Living. The play explores a dysfunctional fami­ ly’s differing ideas about change, progress and canned food. Performances are Tues, Nov. 2 through to Sat Nov. 6 at Morrice Hall theatre. Tickets are $6 for adults and $5 for students and seniors. Reserve your tickets at the TNC Office.

This week’s Beverly Hills 90210 marks Aaron Spelling’s recent decision to go totally post modem (to. po. mo.).

Brenda married that rich ‘Less Than Zero’ creep this week: Just like Shannea' Andrea is pregnant on the show (she tries to hide it with awkward arm gestures) and so is Gabriela in real life! Scaandal. Not to mention Tori Spelling’s oh-soconvincing on-screen anorexia.

Way to go, Aaron “self-reflex­ ive” Spelling!

Sarah Driver makes Pigs Fly

BY IA N C AR TER It has been nine years since New York-born Sarah Driver pro­ duced Jim Jarmusch’s Stranger Than Paradise, and seven since she directed her feature-length film, Sleepwalk. But she’s back, with a tale that will bring a chill and a smile to even the most jaded film connoisseur.

Driver says her latest film, When Pigs Fly is about “a pair of ghosts, a jazz musician, a go-go dancer and a guy that gets what’s coming to him'” As if that wasn’t enough, it stars ‘60s pop star Marianne Faithful and veteran ac­ tor Alfred Molina (a frequent guest star on the ultra-cool Miami Vice).

Recently in Montreal to pro­ mote her film at the Festival Inter­ national du Cinéma et Vidéo de Montréal, Driver talked to the Tribune about ghost stories, Germany, being an independent director and the wonderful world of movies.

Tribune: Where did you get the idea to make a film about ghosts?

Sarah Driver Both Ray (the script writer) and I love ghost stories. He would sit and tell sto­ ries and then I’d say, “Oh, I like that part,” and then, “Oh, I really like that part,” and the next thing I know we had ourselves a film.

Tribune: Was there any­ thing specific you wanted to show

in the film’ SD: Yeah, I had certain things I wanted to talk about The film is about the little guy finally winning. So often in life the little

D r iv e r on the Pigs set

guy never wins. Also, having [hadl a lot of friends die recently, I needed to work out my feelings about death.

Tribune: Did making the film help?

SD: Definitely. Death is a natural and ongoing thing, and I think that comes out in the film.

Tribune: The film has a real ghost town feel to it Where did you shoot’ SD: Well, I got most of the money for the film from Ger­ many. Part of the deal was that we would shoot in Hamburg with a German crew. Did you know the last film shot there was Nosferatul

With that kind of cinematic his­ tory I couldn’t go wrong.

Tribune: Was working in Germany different from filming in New York?

SD: In the US everyone is so grassroots.

Filmmaking’s a real collaborative effort on the set. Over there, there’s a total sense of hierarchy.

I would be doing production stuff and the crew would chase after me with my director’s chair.

Finally I said, “Get that goddamned thing away from me, I don’t want to see it ever again!”

Tribune: So you prefer a more democratic feeling on the set’ SD: Exactly. No one’s any more important than anyone else.

Film is very magical, you can feel everyone’s spiriL If there is hostil­ ity on the set you’ll feel it in the movie.

Tribune: Any plans for the future?

SD: I’d prefer not to talk about it you know, ‘cause it’s a luck thing. If I say I’m going to do this thing and then something shifts.... Let’s just leave it at that.

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The McGill Tribune, N ovem ber 2-8,1993

McGill rowers finish with strong strokes at OUAA's

BY RICK E V A N S On a crisp October after­ noon this past weekend, the glassy waters off Henley Island in St. Catharines, Ontario were cut by the sleek shapes of rowing shells. They were being propelled by the efforts of athletes from across Ontario and from that well known Ontario colony, McGill University.

By the time the results were in Saturday afternoon, the over­ all championships in both the men’s and women’s divisions had been swept by the University of Western Ontario. Despite signifi­ cantly fewer boats, however, McGill finished second in the men’s division, and the women placed fourth in a tight overall battle for a combined second place finish.

The competition was high­ lighted by three McGill victories: the women’s lightweight single (Rachel Starr); the repeat victory of the women’s lightweight eight (Miriam Abdelnour, Melinda Anderson, Betina Hold, Samantha McDougall, Michelle Pampin, Katrina Scott, Rachel Starr, Frances Vice, and coxswain Kristen Pedersen); and the men’s lightweight four, (Pat Gay, Jeremy

Gould, Chris Langdon, Jacob Pendergast and coxswain Dave Mills ).

McGill’s eight other varsity boats contributed to the strong showing, with two crews placing second and three boats coming in third. The four novice crews, competing the previous day, also

posted respectable results, with the two women’s eights finishing second and fourth and the men’s eights finishing third and fourth.

As each of the winning McGill boats came back to the staging area after their races, cheers went up from their as­

sembled teammates standing on the shores of the river.

Melinda Anderson, stroke seat for the women’s light eight, was ecstatic with her boat’s win.

“This was the best race I’ve ever had in my life,” exalted Anderson, adding that this is her seventh season racing. “Every­

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thing just clicked perfectly.”

Her teammate Frances Vice agreed.

“At the 500 Kristen [the cox­ swain] called a ‘destruction’piece [to pull ahead of U of T], and at that point it all seemed to flow,” she said. “In a way it was quite surreal. It was certainly my best race in the three years that I’ve been rowing.”

The lightweight four’s coxie, Dave Mills, offered some insight into the winning chemis­ try of his crew.

“There is an extremely im­ portant mental aspect involved,” he said. “Without a 100 per cent commitment, it won’t get done.”

Pat Gay, bow seat for the men’s light four, discussed the race.

“At about the 1500 metre mark, Western was starting to make a move on us, and we just tried to hold them off. It wasn’t panic, but it certainly wasn’t complacency,” said Gay. Sacrifice is truly the heart and soul of the team’s overall final performance. Varsity rower Garrick Tiplady summarized the race experience.

“You say, physically I’m dead, and I’ve still got 1500 me­ ters to go,” he said.

Stingers end Redi I I en season with come from behind w in CONCORDIA 3 4 REDMEN 30 B Y K A SH IF ZAH O O R It just wasn’t meant to be.

The McGill Redmen’s roller coaster season came to a tragic and tearful end last Saturday at the hands of the Concordia Stingers. Tragic because McGill seemed to be well on its way to victory, and tearful because many veterans played in their last game.

A capacity crowd of3,500plus watched the Stingers de­ feat the eighth-ranked Redmen 34-30 in the O-QIFC semi-final contest at Loyola Stadium.

McGill, in a repeat per­ formance of last w eek’s game, went for the jugular early. Vet­ eran defensive back Franz Wel­ lington, playing in his last game as a Redman, set up McGill’s first score by blo ck in g a Concordia punt. Fifth-year sen­ ior quarterback Justin Raymond, also playing in his final game with the red and white, found Chad Leudtke two plays later for a 32-yard touchdown. A fumbled snap on the ensuing

B olduc, p u llin g way to the O-QIFC finals. conversion attempt left the A ndré Concordia, however, had Redmen with an early 6-0 Concordia within three at half­ other plans. Kevin Norris scored time. edge.

Trailing 27-23 in the fourth his third touchdown of the game The McGill special teams w ith 5:03 rem aining, came through again on putting the Stingers ahead the next Concordia pos­ for good, 34-30. sessio n . This tim e, The Redm en at­ Redman Erik Zvanitajs tempted to mount a char­ blocked Paul Geary’s sec­ acteristic comeback with ond punt attem pt as under a minute remain­ Jamie Murphy pounced ing. Raymond’s pass on on the loose ball in the third and long almost end zone for another found its way into the McGill touchdown. hands of Trépanier on a R aym ond, on tipped ball, but the ball McGill’s next offensive fell incomplete.

McGill possession, went to the ended its season on Hal­ air again, this time find­ loween weekend for the ing wide receiver Alex second successive year.

Trépanier for a 55-yard £ Raymond, in his touchdown. | best game of the season, After all the dust | passed for 330 yards and had cleared, McGill led >. three touchdowns. the Stingers 20-3 after the ^ O ffensive Cofirst quarter. "o ordinator Ron Tandino But as in last week's w as im p ressed w ith game, McGill allowed the Raymond’s performance. opposition to climb back “[Concordia] came into the game. Game with some heat in the MVP running back Kevin StingerRB Kevin M orris eludes the Redmen “D" paper saying they would Norris scampered in from come after him.

The kid just quarter, Raymond put McGill three yards out on the option stood in there.

He showed a lot ahead as he found rookie Dan from Stinger pivot D ennis of courage and determination.

Pronyk over the middle for a Pitsellis, cutting the McGill lead in half 20-10. Pitsellis added a 34-yard score. McGill led 30-27 He played very well,” said 10-yard touchdown strike to and appeared to be on its Tandino.

The Redmen were the first to admit the game was full of missed opportunities. McGill failed to convert any points at the end of the first half when an in tercep tio n th w arted the Redmen at the Concordia 13yard line. Later in the second half, some key turnovers and a blocked field goal prevented McGill from adding to their tally.

Fifth-year wide receiver Steve Papp, who most likely has played his last set of downs with the Redmen, spoke with a lot of heart afterwards.

“I think we all feel we had a great football team this year. I think this playoff gante reflects our 4-3 season. We played up and down too much. You’ve got to give Concordia credit.

They played a great game, but the mistake we made was that we didn’t finish the kill. We let them back in the game,” re­ marked Papp.

A visible teary-eyed Coach Baillie felt his team played with heart and determination.

“The team worked hard.

They were dedicated to do the best they could. The kids wanted to win. They represented McGill well.”

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Notes & Quotes Redmen basketball runs out o f gas a t U Vic an d U B C Coming off two strong performances the previous week, the men’s basketball team ran into strong opposition during a trip to the west coast last week. The Redmen came home with an 0-3 record.

At the University of British Columbia (UBC), last Wednesday, the Redmen were dropped 96-78 after trailing by only three points, 48-45, at half-time. Hubert Davies led the team with 14 points.

On October 29th and 30th, McGill was at the University of Victoria Invitational Tournament. In the opening round, the Redmen clashed with the home team Vikes and were conquered 77-51. Todd McDougall got 18, while Doug MacMahon scored 12. In its second game of the tournament, the consolation final, McGill was bounced 80-67 by Simon Fraser University.

High scorers were Todd McDougall with 15, Jon Campbell with 15 and Doug MacMahon with 13.

The Redmen will be at Plattsburg State on November 6th.

McGill's B aillie and Leudtke honoured by O -Q IFC

Québec à Trois-Rivières in a home and home series.

McGill will play hosts on Saturday, November 6th, at 6:30PM and will be in Trois-Rivières the next day.

M a rtlet basketball win one, drop two a t Calgary Tourney The Martlet basketball team was at the University of Calgary Tournament last weekend.

In the first game, McGill came back from a 38-29 half-time deficit to beat Queen’s 71-59. Last year’s rookie-of-the-year Vicky Tessier got a game high 25 points and 14 rebounds.

Martina van der Vlist notched 20 points with 13 rebounds.

The Martlets then dropped a hard fought 58-57 game to host team Calgary. Josée Deloretto led the team with 18 points and five assists.

In the last game, McGill lost 91-61 to Simon Fraser University. Tournament all-star van der Vlist notched 27 for the losers.

The Martlets will be at the National Invitational Tournament at the University of Toronto from No­ vember 5th to the 7th.

Gold m edal fo r Fréchette definite McGill Redmen head coach Charlie Baillie possibility and running back Chad Leudtke have received Ontario-Quebec Intercollegiate Football Con­ McGill Athletics Board Chairman and Intemaference (O-QIFC) awards for their perform­ The Redm en w ere unable to tam e any team s in the w est tional Olympic Committee (IOC) member Richard ances last season.

Pound was present as a spectator at the McGill swim meet on Saturday. He was the Baillie was named coach-of-the-year, while Leudtke received rookie-of-themain proponent in trying to have the gold medal that Sylvie Fréchette rightfully year honours. deserved at the Olympic Games in Barcelona, awarded to her. He recapped the situation surrounding the incident.

M artlet hockey crushed in two weekend games “Something clearly went wrong at the Olympics. When we got back, we wanted to straighten it out We had to figure out a way to make it technically and The women’s hockey team ended its preseason on a losing note with a 10-2 politically correct This was to award a second gold medal to Sylvie without taking loss to Queen’s, last Friday, and then slid into their regular season opener, taking it away the medal from Kristen Babb-Sprague.” on the chin, in an 11-0 blanking at the hands of top-ranked Concordia, last Sunday.

“A request has been made to the Olympic Committee. A landmark decision Cindy Micromastoris was the only Martlet to find the back of the net with her should be made as they want to do the right thing. For now, let’s keep our fingers two goals against the Gaels.

The Martlets will play twice this weekend as they take on the Université du crossed and we’ll find out in six weeks,” he said.

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The McGill Tribune, N ovem ber I S , 1993

Martlets soccer advance to provincial finals Redmen ousted B Y Y V O N C A R R IÈ R E In soccer action last week­ end, the Martlets continued their run toward the Nationals with a co n v in cin g 3-0 w in o v er Concordia. After surviving an early Stinger attack they took control of the game and never looked back, which left Martlet Coach Tony Iachetta impressed with his team’s performance.

“It was a good, strong team effort today. We distrib­ uted the ball well and our pass­ ing game was right on,” re­ called Iachetta Forward Julie Maughan agreed with her coach.

“We were first on every ball, played aggressively, and kept the ball in their end for much of the game,” commented Maughan.

Franca Filipponi opened the scoring with a beautiful top shelf boot from the top of the penalty area. Maughan scored off a nice set-up late in the half, giving the Martlets a 2-0 lead at halftime. The second session proved to be much like the first. The pace of the game was dictated by the Martlets. They controlled every aspect of the play, never giving up an inch.

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Forward Odile Desbois capped off a nice rush down field, scoring the team’s third and final goal.

The Martlets now advance to the provincial finals next

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Iachetta believes in his te a m ’s ch ances, even though they will b e p lay in g on grass, a surface on which the Martlets are not used to playing.

“W e c e r­ tainly have a good chance; w e lost th e re b u t b e a t them at home so it will be close,” commented Iachetta. “We do not play as well on grass, which gives Sherbrooke an e d g e ,” h e added.

Win or lose the Martlets will participate in the Nationals, as they host the Canadian Inter-university Atheletic Un­ ion (CIAU) tournament from November 11-14.

The Redmen played in a two-game semi final playofflast w eekend against cross-town ri­

val Concordia. On Friday night at Loyola, McGill dominated the game but failed to come up with the win. Concordia scored in the second half despite be­ ing outplayed by the Redmen, and held on for a 1-0 win.

Coach Valerio Gazzola of­ fered his summary of the game.

“We played a good game defensively but did not attack well. We dominated the game but could not put the ball in the net," stated Gazzola.

The Friday loss meant that the Redmen had to win the second at home by at least two goals. Great scoring chances were created for both teams, although the Redmen enjoyed more than their opponents.

Neither team converted as the score at halftime was 0-0.

The second session was much like the first as the Redmen dictated play. Chris Drysdale put the Redmen up by one when he tipped a shot in after a mad scramble in front of the net. Regulation time ended with the Redmen up by one, and the series tied at one.

Overtime was needed to de­ cide who would move on to the finals.

The extra session began

with the Redmen controlling the game. The tempo changed quickly though, as Concordia took advantage of a controver­ sial call to take the lead. McGill was not the same after the Stinger goal, as they tried to save their season. They got over anxious and allow ed Concordia to score one more goal, giving them a 3-1 lead, which held up as the final score.

The Redmen lost an emo­ tional battle, Gazzola explained.

“We dominated the game but luck was not on our side.

We hit a few posts and missed som e g reat o p p o rtu n itie s throughout the game,” stated Gazzola. “Even the goal we scored did not come easily. We were well prepared, we played our game to perfection only we could not sco re,” added Gazzola.

This loss should not over­ shadow the Redmen’s fine sea­ son, according to team captain Chris Drysdale.

“We had a real good sea­ son,” Drysdale stated. “Our un­ defeated regular season record, is an accomplishment in itself, especially after last year’s third place finish.”

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Both teams played a very strong game, but McGill’s in­ ability score was the difference.

Jeanson was named the first star while assistant captain Huck was the third star for his play on defense.

T eam C aptain Marc

tion last year by the Gee-Gees, fell to them in the pre-season The Redmen hockey team this year, and once again lost 3just cannot seem to buy a goal 1 on Friday. lately. After winning their first “They outworked us and two league games of the sea­ played harder than we did. We son, the team was hoping for a need to leam what it takes to pair of wins against their divi­ win," said Vigneault. sional rivals from The Redmen Ottawa and Troismissed shots and Rivières. Instead, failed to capitalize th ey lost b o th on th e ir p o w e r games, leaving head plays. On nine op­ co ach Jean portunities with at Pronovost shaking least a one-man ad­ his head in frustra­ v antage, the tion.

Redmen failed to get “We need a a single goal. new set of hands for Pronovost every player out was most frustrated there. If you don’t by his squad’s in­ score you can’t win,” ability to take ad­ said a frustrated vantage of power Pronovost after Fri­ The R edm en ap p lied constant pressure but m anaged play chances. day’s game against only one goal a gain st O tta w a “We practiced Vigneault shared his coach’s frus­ the power play for the past Ottawa.

On Wednesday night the tration with the team’s inability three weeks, but this is what Redmen hosted the strong to put the puck in the net. we get,” said Pronovost.

“We played better than Université du Québec à TroisVarga did manage to notch Rivières (UQTR) Patriotes, but they did, but we just couldn’t his second goal of the year, lost the game 3-2. Rookie Chris score cm our opportunities, "said despite a sore ankle, and was Varga scored in the second pe­ Vigneault. named second star of the night.

On Friday, the Redmen’s riod to keep things close, and The Redmen will be look­ David Huck scored in the final problems continued when they ing to turn things around on minute of the game after the squared off against the Univer­ Friday when they host an exhi­ Redmen had pulled third-year sity of Ottawa Gee-Gees. McGill bition game against Princeton was eliminated from playoff ac­ University at 7:30 PM. goaltender Patrick Jeanson.

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The McGill Tribune, O c to b e r 2-8,1993

NBA looks to Canada

it demographically matches the

BY E T H A N SACKS who anchored the victory for major U.S. cities.” the relay team, commented on The new team, which is still For years sports fans all over Last Saturday, the newlythe swim team’s situation.

Canada have thrilled to the home two years away from its first tiprenovated Currie Pool was bro­ ‘Training times are better runs belted in Skydome or the off, is already being compared to ken in as McGill hosted a dual than the race times. At this time glow of a goal light during a tight the two-time defending World swim meet with the Université of the season, training is empha­ hockey game. The National Bas­ Champion Toronto Blue Jays. de Montréal. Finally with a pool sized rather than racing... peo­ “When the Jays came into ketball Association (NBA) is bank­ to call their own, the McGill ple are keyed up though, as ing on Canadian fans becoming [Major League Baseball] in 1977, swim team defeated their U de Victoria is an incentive,” she just as captivated by the sight of a they came in for the long haul," Mcounterparts by a score of 211 said. basket being stuffed by a slam- said Peterson. “We plan to be to 129 in home water.

The Redmen defeated the dunking power forward. In fact, where they are someday.”

The new facility was an U de M men, out-pointing them A good primer for fan sup­ the NBA Board of Governors might excellent venue for the event, as 98 to 82 and winning six of the vote to not only approve the To­ port will be the 1994 Basketball many team-members raved 11 races. Winners were Leo ronto expansion bid headed by World Championships, hosted by about it.

Grépin in the 400m individual John Bitove Jr., but also to add a Toronto. Bitove is chairing the “It’s a fast pool m edley, Eric 29th franchise based in Vancou­ 1994 World Championships Com­ with wide lanes. It’s Potier, 100m and ver. The logic being that a two­ mittee, a fact that was not lost on a really big advan­ 200m breaststroke, pronged attack may be the best the NBA. There is, as a result, a sense tage to have it on way to capture the loyalties of Chris Graham, 50m of optimism that the new NBA millions of Canadians. campus. We get a lot and 100m backThe NBA Board of Gover­ team will catch on quickly in the of pool time. People stroke, and the nors meeting, to be held Novem­ city as well as the rest of Canada. will become more 400m freestyle re­ “In Toronto, basketball is ber 3rd and 4th, is expected to be aware of the team,” lay. the number one sport at the high a rubber stamp for the October 1st said Martlet Marketa Men’s team recommendation of its expansion school level,”said Bruce Towlands, Maur. captain Hadi committee to accept Bitove’s bid. an Executive Assistant to the Mayor Dual meets are Hellawi was The expansion committee of Toronto’s Office and Director lot usually as com­ pleased with the cited an ambitious stadium plan as of Community Affairs of the 1994 petitive as regular level of camarade­ a major factor in its choice of the World Championships. “There is neets because rie displayed by his Bitove bid over two other Toronto also a large pool of over 5 million :oaches try to place teammates. suitors. The proposed facility will people in the Metropolitan area to ill the swimmers in “I’m happy seat 22,000 fans, offer a wide vari­ draw from as well as people in o m a tter w hich w a y they looked a t it, M cG ill ivents. The McGill N with the team ety of preferential seating and be Buffalo and upstate New York cam e out a h ea d led and White, spirit. You could located adjacent to the Eaton Cen­ who would hopefully have an owever, seemed pumped for feel the energy,”he commented.

“It was good for the first tre at the comer of Bay and Dundas affinity for a Toronto team." he event.

Head coach François meet,” she said.

“Canada is ready for the streets in downtown Toronto.

The meet started off with Laurin was impressed with the Even more impressive is The NBAwas also impressed NBA,”agreed The Sports Network's he U de Mwomen defeating the that her time would have quali­ by the financial solvency of the Jim Van Home. “There will be an team’s showing.

Bitove group, which includes instant curiosity factor— the exhi­ McGill women in the 200m med- fied her for the consolation fi­ “We did really well. We former Ontario Premier David bition game at „Skydome [last sy relay by nine seconds in a nals in that event at the CIAU have a very young team with a Peterson, Atlantic Packaging and week’s match between the Cleve­ ime of 2:10. In the men’s race, championships last year. Other lot of rookies. We now have the land Cavaliers and the Portland the Bank of Nova Scotia.

Jof M edged out McGill 1:51 to winners among the Martlets were talent and the numbers to qualify Trailblazersl was a good example.

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Gina Elliot in the 800m freestyle quite a few swimmers for the Even though it was held right after announcement at the meeting, The Martlets took advan- and 50m backstroke, Carol Nationals. I think w e’ll qualify the World Series and at the begin­ however, as the league may ap­ age of the absence of several of Chiang in the 100m and 50m 10 women and six to eight men," ning of hockey season, the game prove a 29th franchise which LJ de M’s best swimmers and freestyle and the 400m freestyle he said. still attracted 11,000 people.” would be awarded to the Vancou­ were impressive in winning relay. Meagan Smith-Windsor, “We are building to be­ The popularity of profes­ ver-based Griffiths group. With come a strong team. Recruiting the success of Major League Base­ sional basketball in Canada would will be better in the future with ball in Canada, the NBA has taken probably get a boost if Vancouver the new pool,”continued a con­ is awarded a franchise this Thurs­ notice. fident Laurin.

“Toronto is a great sports day. Washington called a Vancou­ The team’s next meet will town which has successfully sup­ ver team a “distinct possibility” be on Saturday, November 6th ported baseball and hockey,”said and would be a logical choice to NBA spokesperson Terry Wash­ fill the vacant spot in the Western ryone supports each other really at 3:30 PM, against Université

BY C H A RLES THOMAS Laval at the Currie Pool. ington. “It’s a good fit for us since division. well.”

It’s pay-back time and for Wylie admitted, however, the McGill women’s rugby team, that the showdown against the buck stops here. With a 20-0, Concordia will be a challenge.

Quebec University Rugby League The Stingers have beaten McGill’s (QURL) semi-final win over Bish- red-and-white twice this year, the 3p’s last Saturday in Lennoxville, last game ending up a 13-0 shut­ FREE Ben & Jerry's FREE he Martlets have secured a spot out win for the cross-town rivals. to the FIRST 100 FANS in the league’s championship According to Wylie, the 7:30 pm NUC0NNELL ARENA game against Concordia. The Martlets have resolved some of DOOR PRIZES EVERY GAME! match-up will be a repeat of last the problems they experienced in ( N n l Home Gam* Nov. 19 vs gear’s QURL finals, and represents that game.

Concordia) i chance for McGill to avenge last “In that game, we were hav­ When you show us ing a lot of problems getting our­ pear’s loss. your ticket stub, Concordia advanced to the selves going in the first half,” she we’ll give you final by beating MacDonald Col- explained. “But in the last two ege 20-0 in the other semi-final. games, we got going right at the any ice cream or Kim Ivanko led the Martlet beginning and it [makes] a big Celebrate with us frozen yogurt :harge against the Gaiters with difference.” after the game treat. wo tries, while Alison Traynor The championship game will when they win Offer good only wd Deb Gomes completed the be held at 1 PM on Sunday at on game night at.. (or we’ll cheer scoring with one try each.

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“It was a relatively clean The women’s under-19 game,” said team captain Beth squad has qualified for the college Wylie, referring to a rough and semi-finals against Marianapolis tumble game between the two on Saturday, with the finals to be 1316 De Maisonneuve St., West • M ontreal teams earlier in the season. “We held on Sunday. Times have yet 2 8 6 -6 0 7 3 are playing a lot better now, eve- to be announced.

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seven of the 11 races and the overall title on points, 119 to 47.

Anna Leong won the two races in which she participated: the 400m individual medley in a time of 5:o8 and the 200m but­ terfly in a time of 2:27. Her 400m IM victory was easily under the Canadian Inter-university Ath­ letics Union (CLAU) standard of 5:12, qualifying her for the Na­ tional Championships which will be held in Victoria, in March.

Leong was pleased with her per­ formance.

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