The McGill Tribune Vol. 14 Issue 10

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McGill at war: 1939 to 1945 News M cG ill join s Q uebec student association.

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A n interview w ith D esm ond M orton, in the R em em brance D ay retro­ spective.

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Editorial Feeling the true spirit o f R em em brance Day. Page 6

ENTERTAINMENT Students on stage at the C abaret and at the sym ­ phony...just Pure enter­ tainm ent.

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SPORTS Football carpet-ride sea­ son skids to a halt on a sw am py M olson stadium field, and w om en’s soc­ cer com petes for CIA U T eam o f the Y ear .

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Columnists G. G ib so n ................... Page 7 M. L u z ......................... Page 7 P. S h a h ........................Page 9

Departments C ro ssw o rd .................. Page 8 O b serv er..................... P age 8 W h at’s O n ............. Page 19 Sexual Assault C en tre of M cG ill S tu d en t’s Society

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W inter 1943: S tu d e n ts cro w d a r o u n d a noo sed effigy o f A d o lf Hitler. Sponsored b y the McGill Daily, th e “H a n g H itle r” c a m p a ig n e n c o u ra g e d stu d e n ts to d o n a te n ickels to th e w a r effort. U n ifo rm ed a n d en th u sa istic, th ey ep ito m ised a w a r fo u g h t m a in ly by m e n ju s t o u t o f th e ir teens.

By Steve Smith and Iack Sullivan_____________________ F or C anadians, the m em ories o f the killing fields o f France and B e lg iu m w e re s till fre s h w h en P rim e M in is te r W illia m L y o n M c K e n zie K ing a n n o u n c e d th a t C a n a d a w as a g a in a t w a r w ith G erm any on Septem ber 10, 1939.

W ith a population o f ju st over 20 m illion, the 60,000 deaths w hich p ea ce in 1918 had c o st w eig h ed h e a v ily o n th e c o n s c ie n c e o f a young nation. Yet the 1914-18 war had introduced the world to Canada and through the efforts o f men and women like those attending McGill, it w as an in tr o d u c tio n th a t few would soon forget. In 1939, Canada w as o ffered a leading ro le in the

s tru g g le a g a in s t G e rm a n y . A nd again, M cGill students rose to the challenge.

Over the course of First W orld W ar an estimated 60 percent of eli­ gible students at McGill enlisted for overseas duty. In total, 3,509 stu­ d e n ts se rv e d in th e C a n a d ia n E x p e d itio n a ry F o rce an d o f th is nu m b er, 363 w ere k illed or died while on active service.

S tu d en ts fro m ev e ry fac u lty served in the various sections of the CEF. W hile the infantry attracted the vast majority of students, those w ith m o re s p e c ia lis e d tr a in in g served in medicine, dentistry, engi­ neering, research and intelligence, among other services. The contribu­ tio n o f M c G ill’s F a c u lty o f M ed icin e to th e C a n ad ian A rm y

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M edical Corps was consolidated in th e fo rm o f th e N o .3 C a n a d ia n General Hospital (M cGill), the first ever University hospital unit in the British Empire. M en and women of the unit treated over 140,000 allied casualties during the course o f the war. Despite the severity of wounds c a u s e d by a r tille r y , g a s an d m achine guns, the superior profes­ sionalism o f the unit kept the death rate at one in one hundred thirtyfive. A m ong the ranks o f the unit was L t.-C ol. John M cCrae, w hose poem “In Flanders Fields” lives to this day as a tribute to the hum an cost of the war as experienced daily

by M cG ill’s N o.3 Canadian General Hospital.

During the First W orld W ar the M cGill contingent o f the Canadian

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O ffic e r T ra in in g C o rp s p ro g ram contributed heavily to the stock of o f fic e r s s e rv in g in th e C E F .

Implemented at McGill in 1907, the program was designed to offer stu­ d e n ts th e o p p o rtu n ity to o b ta in com m issions in the m ilitary w hile pursuing their studies. Though no exact figures exist to testify to the program ’s overall recruitment, it is estimated that over a thousand men participated in M cG ill’s contingent o f the CO TC throughout the war.

A m ong its earliest graduates was A .G .L. M cN aughton, w ho gained d is tin c tio n fo r h is ro le as an artillery officer at Vimy Ridge and would later serve as the commander o f the F irst C anadian D ivision in See W ar Page 10

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News

November 8th, 1994

Students propose first year seminars w rite e f f e c tiv e ly ,” Hoffstein stated.

A n o th e r a d v a n ­ A student proposal to im ple­ tage o f smaller classes m en t firs t-y e a r sem inars w ill be is th e c lo se w o rk in g presented at next T hursday’s m eet­ relationship that devel­ ing o f the A cadem ic P olicy and ops b etw een the p ro ­ P la n n in g C o m m itte e .

E ric fe s s o r and th e ir s tu ­ Hoffstein, a student representative dents. Such a relation­ to A P P C , p rep a re d the p roposal ship, Hoffstein argued, that has already been presented to is an asset to those stu­ V ice-Principal Academ ic W illiam dents pursuing gradu­ Chan, chair o f the committee. ate studies who are in F irst-year sem inars are sm all need o f a thesis ad v i­ classes taught by tenured p ro fe s­ sor or letters of recom ­ sors in a sp e cific area o f study. mendation.

T he U niversity o f T oronto in tro ­ H o ff s te in a lso duced an FYS program this year, said that an FYS pro­ w hile schools such as Harvard and g ram c o u ld im p ro v e M IT have been running them for M cG ill’s image in the se v e ra l y e a rs . R e g is tr a tio n fo r business world as well A u th o r o f the se m in a r proposal Eric H offstein these sem inars is kept to a m ini­ as th e a c a d e m ic . mum to encourage class discussion dards.

Corporations are enthusiastic about and to prom ote a close academ ic “ B usinesses and alum ni like the program , he asserted, and are relationship between professor and the idea o f practical training... an w illin g to d o n a te m o n ey in the student.

FYS program could be a very good in terest o f higher academ ic stanH o ffste in , in p re se n tin g his fund-raiser for this university,” he said.

S tu d e n t r e a c tio n to H offstein’s proposal was generally p o sitiv e . Je n n ife r, a U 2 scien ce student, was dissatisfied w ith the o v ercro w d ed classe s and im p e r­ sonal teaching style found in first year courses. “ I t ’s v e ry h a rd to le a rn in large classes... you end up doing the course on your ow n and you The Arts Undergraduate Society (AUS) is currently looking for dedicated never even talk to the professor,” students in their U2 year to be part of a new service for Arts students: she said. “ I t ’s ea sie r to learn in THE PEER ADVISOR PROGRAM! This advising service, which is a joint effort sm aller classes... it’s ju st a better between the AUS and the Student Affairs Office of the Faculty of Arts, experience.” would require a year-long commitment beginning in September 1995.

S o m e s tu d e n ts , h o w e v e r, Responsibilities would include helping fellow students in decision expressed reservations when asked making, explaining drop/add procedures, clarifying university policies about the FYS program . U2 p sy ­ and procedures, and more! c h o lo g y s tu d e n t N ik i R e b o u lis Training for this program will be done by an advisor from the Student argued that conferences and tutori­ Affairs Office of the Faculty of Arts. Volunteers will be given a letter of als give students the opportunity to recommendation from the faculty, attesting to the services provided. work in small groups.

“I think the program is a good

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p ro p o sa l to S SM U c o u n c il la st Thursday, detailed the advantages o f an FYS program . H e stressed the im portance of class size, argu­ ing that a sm all class p ro v id es a b etter learning en v iro n m en t than the large, im personal classes typi­ cal of first year. At U of T, sem i­ nars are capped at twenty students, while Harvard recom m ends a m ax­ imum o f twelve.

H o ffste in is also co n c ern ed that large introductory courses do n o t s tim u la te c r itic a l th in k in g .

M any stu d e n ts, he b eliev e s, are la ck in g w ell-d e v elo p e d sk ills in reading and w riting upon entering university. Both he and Chan feel that an FYS program will give stu­ d en ts th e o p p o rtu n ity to p erfec t th e s e sk ills in an in te lle c tu a lly challenging environm ent. “ W e ag re ed th a t one o f the prim ary goals o f the FYS program is to teach students to think criti­ c a lly , re s e a r c h e f f ic ie n tly , an d

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idea but th a t’s w hat conferen ces are f o r,” she said . “ I f you h av e questions, the T .A .’s will answ er them. T hey’re there to help you.”

R eboulis also questioned the cost o f an FYS program. Hoffstein sta te s in his p ro p o sal th a t th ere w ill be essentially no cost to the university but admits that a certain am ount o f shuffling o f professor’s course loads will have to be done.

He recognised that smaller depart­ ments, having lim ited num bers of teaching staff, may find it difficult to incorporate new seminars.

J e n n if e r S m a ll, S S M U V P U niversity A ffairs, acknow ledged the potential cost of an FYS pro­ gram. This issue, she asserted, will b e c o n s id e r e d i f a n d w h e n an A P P C w o rk g ro u p e x a m in e s H offstein’s proposal.

“W e realise that the potential cost could be a point of contention for the A PP C ,” she said. “W e ’re g o in g in th e re lo o k in g fo r c o n ­ stru ctiv e w ays o f rem ed y in g the problem .”

Students protest supporters of terrorism

By T ed Frankel S tu d e n ts fro m M o n tre a l, T o ro n to an d O tta w a g a th e re d T h u rsd a y on P a rlia m e n t H ill to v o ic e th e ir a n g e r a g a in s t sta te sponsored terrorism.

Nearly 250 participants assem­ bled to denounce the Iranian gov­ ern m en t, w hich has been lin k ed with the notorious terrorist organi­ s a tio n s H am a s an d H e z b o lla h .

S p e a k e rs a d d re s s e d th e cro w d , appealing to the Canadian govern­ ment for leadership in com batting terrorist violence. “ W e call on C an ad a to [co ­ operate] with other western nations in taking steps to make Iran cease its te rr o r is m ,” sta te d L aw ren c e B e rg m an , L ib e ra l M N A fo r the D ’Arcy McGee riding.

“The C anadian governm ent... has a less than honourable record in dealing with states when it knows they're involved in state sponsored terrorism ,” said Bill Blakey, NDP M P fo r the W innipeg-S transcona area.

The Jewish Student Coalition, an umbrella network of Jewish stu­

dent groups, m obilised the protest g ro u p . M c G ill s tu d e n ts s to o d alongside the other dem onstrators in expressing anger at recent o ut­ breaks o f violence in the M iddle East and together with other speak­ ers in d en o u n cin g Iran. U2 A rts student Dana Dem b, a m em ber of the Progressive Z ionist Caucus at McGill, gave a strong indictment of the perceived roots o f recent v io­ lent acts.

“Iran m ust understand terror­ ism accomplishes nothing... Islamic fundam entalists need to find other m ethods o f religious expression,” Demb said.

Student protesters openly dis­ p la y ed th e ir an ti-Iran sentim ent.

Placards noting Tran = H am as’ and ‘Iran... must be stopped’ were scat­ te re d am o n g st th e crow d. R abbi R u e b en J. P o u p k o o f M o n trea l, read a copy of a letter sent to Andre O u e lle t, M in is te r o f F o re ig n Affairs, on behalf o f concerned stu­ dents.

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Dean of students goes it alone on disciplinary code

“Their students decided to be in favour of staying in C anada. T h eir p o sitio n w ill be resp e cte d ,” he said.

“Nobody’s going to force them to take any action they don’t have the will to take.”

By T yla B erchtold Posner expressed the concern that FEUQ would not

By A lice Rhee_________________________________________ adequately advocate the rights of anglophone students The final draft o f proposed revisions to M cG ill’s Student Code of SSMU council m em bers voted last T hursday to because a document as basic as the FEUQ constitution J Conduct will be discussed by Senate at its meeting tomorrow. The draft obtain provisional membership in la Fédération des Etudi­ was only available in French. was submitted by Dean o f Students Irwin Gopnik.

“I picked up the phone and called the president of a n t e s Universitaires du Québec. Despite heated debate, The am endments have raised concerns among students in the past.

FEUQ and I was told that no English copy was available. only four councillors voted against the membership.

Last year, Gopnik convened an ad-hoc committee of students and staff to FEUQ President François Rebello, on hand for the That makes me question their ability to represent us,” he discuss amendments to the code at a series o f meetings. The discussions stated. debate, addressed the council after the vote was taken. were described by both Gopnik and students as productive. However, stu­ Other SSMU councillors did not share these con­ “Thank you for trusting us,” he said. dents are concerned that Gopnik did not reconvene the committee this year “I think McGill University is a very important com­ cerns. to discuss the proposal that will be considered tomorrow.

“R e ality check. T his is n ’t T o ronto. W e are in munity within Quebec,” said Rebello. “If we don’t have “A part from the problem s in the actual proposal itself, my biggest SSMU at FEUQ, then we don’t have the oldest, most pres­ Quebec,” said Clubs rep Chris Carter. concern is that students were never consulted in the final draft, before one “I was initially quite sceptical. At this point I’m con­ tigious institution.” person made changes,” said SSMU VP University Affairs Jennifer Small.

For SSMU VP External Nick Benedict, the decision vinced that this is what we should be doing,” said Arts rep “This changes what I see as McGill functioning as a community. This is was an important endorsement of the work he had been Lisa Grushçow. “We have all been complaining about the the most important document for students at McGill. Basic rules and regu­ Axworthy commission. The only way we can do some­ pursuing since his election last March. lations are being changed with no consultation.”

“It was an overwhelming majority and no one voted thing about this is by working with other [student associa­ One of the major areas of concern for students deals with the power to against it except those who were mandated to do so,” said tions].” bar potentially dangerous students from campus.

Senate/board rep Christoph Sicking echoed the need Benedict. “FEUQ represents almost 100,000 students...

Proposed article 69(h) states that “if the Dean has reason to believe and this is its strong point.” Senate/Board Rep Joe Wong, to work with other students. that a student’s continued presence on campus poses a threat to the safety “In the past when we moved away from FEUQ, it who voted against membership, told the Tribune that he of other members of the community, he or she may suspend the student for was because we were preoccupied by how special we was not mandated to do so. a period not exceeding thirty days.”

Most of the arguments against FEUQ centred on the were rather than what we have in common with other Small is worried that this clause will put students in a position where issue of sovereignty, the ability to represent anglophone Quebec students.” they w ould be guilty until proven innocent. Legal Inform ation C linic Although he thinks FEUQ is an important organisa­ students, and costs. Both the Science and Management D irector Lawrence H ansen expressed sim ilar concerns about giving the tion, residence rep Amin Kassam voted against member­ Undergraduate Societies voted against provisional mem­ dean this authority. ship. bership.

“No one would deny that the university may have to act quickly in “I believe that SSMU... values the principles of Student associations for the faculties of Engineering, certain situations. However, actions m ust be more restrained,” he said. organisations it chooses to align itself with,” he said. “A Law and Nursing took positions in favour of FEUQ. “This clause is obviously problematic. I don’t think that any dean should vote on sovereignty goes against these principles and I do G lenn P o sn er, a m em ber o f th e S cience have that kind of authority.”

Undergraduate Society council and a native Quebecker not think we should join FEUQ if we are not given a for­ The Legal Information Clinic was a m ajor voice for student concerns mal mechanism to ensure that our values are not compro­ expressed the SUS opinion. during last year’s discussions. mised.”

“SUS’s discomfort with FEUQ turns on two issues: Small was also concerned about the stipulation that if the Committee Science rep Christos Calaritis expressed frustration sovereignty and the ability to represent anglophone stuon Student Discipline cannot decide within the thirty day period whether dents...we should not be allying ourselves with sovereign­ that he did not share the opinion he was mandated by SUS or not to allow the student back on campus, the restraint may be extended to vote on. tists,” said Posner. for another thirty days.

“I was mandated by SUS to vote against FEUQ,” he Benedict refuted the claim that FEUQ is in support of “This works out to a total of sixty days,” said Small. ”A student could said. “I find it deplorable to be obliged to vote against my sovereignty. have no rights for up to two thirds of a term... it could ruin a student’s “That is a lie, FEUQ is not lobbying for sovereignty,” principles; I spent a lot of time and energy getting myself whole year.” he said. “There are people who say that FEUQ will force informed.”

“I understand that it is important to get M cGill students out of danger, McGill’s acceptance of provisional membership will McGill to take a sovereigntist stance. This will never hap­ but to go about it in a totalitarian manner is wrong,” she continued. “The cost 25 cents per student per semester.

The total cost will pen.” idea is good, but the way that it is written leaves it open to abuse.”

Jean-Philippe Monfet, president of the Sherbrooke be approximately 7,000 dollars for a year’s trial run within Another problem area for students is article 30, which forbids students Undergraduate Association, cited the Macdonald College FEUQ. During this time, SSMU will have full member­ from seeking legal counsel outside of the University. Counsel will have to Students* Society as an example of a currently federalist ship privileges, including the right to vote. be a m em ber of the University com munity. Paym ent for representation member of FEUQ. ____________________ will be prohibited.

Ph.D representative o f the P ost G raduate S tu d en ts’ Society Paul W hite voiced PGSS concerns.

“PGSS believes that article 30 is com pletely unacceptable and that T h e s tu d e n ts ’ S tra te g ic students should be permitted to hire legal counsel, whether or not the dean

By Sara Iean G reen______________ S e n a te th a t s u b m is s io n o f th e Planning G roup has been meeting 1995-96 prelim inary budget to the wishes them to,” he said. daily for the past two weeks with Small expressed her overall disappointment with the way the amend­ B o a rd o f G o v e r n o rs w o u ld b e M c G ill is c u r r e n tly f a c in g ments were presented. severe financial restraints and as a postponed until January. The post­ the intention of creating a coherent “I t’s frightening to think that the one person in adm inistration that result, various university associa­ ponem ent will allow various m em ­ set of proposals to present to the should be defending students to the end is not here,” she said. “By mere Senate Planning and Priorities sub­ bers o f the university com m unity tions have been asked to p a rtic i­ fact that he [Gopnik] never consulted the students and then gave us only c o m m itte e .

F u rth e r d is c u s s io n to provide input about the future of pate in consultations regarding the one week to look over the proposals really makes a travesty of what we about proposed recom m endations McGill.

1 9 9 5 -9 6 b u d g e t. A S tr a te g ic call student representation.” will be held later in the Academic D ra stic ch an g es are c o n s id ­ Planning Group was established by Gopnik was unavailable for comment.

Policy and Planning Com mittee. ered necessary due to the current tw e lv e m e m b e rs o f th e s tu d e n t S S M U V P F in a n c e P au l eco n o m ic situ atio n . S h ap iro has body to exam ine possible solutions “ [ S h a p iro ] w a n ts to m a k e changes that would be m ost bene­ fo r im p lem enting the expected 8 ca lle d fo r the re-ex a m in a tio n o f Johnson is involved in the student group that will be bringing recom ­ som e serious changes to the u ni­ the values and priorities o f the uni­ f ic i a l, th e g ro u p h a s b e e n m illion dollar reduction to the uni­ v e r s ity an d so m e o f th e m a re v e r s ity in o r d e r to e s ta b lis h a m e n d a tio n s. Jo h n so n m a in ta in s a n a ly sin g th e v a lu e s w h ich th e versity’s net budget. that if effective budget reform s are going to rub a num ber o f people coherent vision o f what and where university is often said to embody.

O n O c to b e r 12, P rin c ip a l to be implemented, changes to the the w rong way, but they are neces­ Values such as excellence, quality M cGill will be in the future.

B e rn a rd S h a p iro a n n o u n c e d in university as a w hole of education, flexibility and open­ sary. He also w ants to m ake sure are also necessary. students play a m ajor role in that ness are considered fundamental to “ T h e b u d g e ta ry p ro ce ss,” said Luz. “T he rec o m ­ McGill. problem s that face us “We started off with identify­ mendations w e’re com ing up with a re r e f le c tiv e o f a are intelligent and responsible for ing th e co m m o n v alu es th a t we s tr u c tu re o f M c G ill uphold at M cGill, things our u ni­ the entire university; w e’re trying w h ich no lo n g e r fits to p ro v id e a v isio n w h ile at the versity should stand for,” Johnson w ith the cu rre n t and sa m e tim e p r o te c tin g w h a t is said. “If we plan with those values future econom ic envi­ in mind, technically everything we essential [to students] ...Our vision ronm ent,” he said. “If do [will be] guided by those v al­ isn ’t the status quo nor is it regres­ we need to m ake dras­ sive.” ues.”

Irene Bloemraad, who sits on tic changes to the bud­ S in ce th e an n o u n c e m e n t o f get, then we also need his appointment, Shapiro has con­ tw o S en ate c o m m itte e s, is also to m ake d r a s tic o p tim istic ab o u t th e im p act stu ­ s is te n tly u p h eld h is m a n d ate to c h a n g e s to w h a t we dents can have. She is hopeful that im plem ent change for the benefit § do regarding adminisof the university. H e has also artic­ S h a p iro an d V ic e - P r in c ip a l c tration, academic proulated a desire to involve students A cadem ic B ill C han w ill be able ~§ g ra m s, lib ra rie s an d to im plem ent constructive reforms. in d e c is io n m a k in g p r o c e s s e s . c com puter system s.” “ Because [Shapiro and Chan] M a rk L uz, f o rm e r S SM U In order to deter­ President, is confident that student are n e w , th e y a re c h a lle n g in g m in e th e k in d o f input will be considered.

See Budget Page 4 C om m ittee o f tw elve considers M cG ill’s fu tu r e

• SSMU council chooses provisional FEUQ membership

M cG ill rep rio ritisin g

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Terrorism C o n tin u ed from Page 2 recognise Iran for the pariah state that it is,” read the letter. “W e believe that diplo­ m atic relations should not be m aintained with any country which supports interna­ tional terrorism,” the message continued.

The entourage of protesters proceeded to march, in front of police escort, down M e tca lfe S tre e t to the E m b assy o f the Islamic Republic o f Iran. Arranging them­ selves across the street from the embassy, protesters continued to direct anger at the Iranian leadership. Zvi Engel, a 19-yearold student at M arian o p o lis C olleg e in M o n treal, spoke w hile facing the q uiet looking building as the crow d stood in front of barriers bordering the road. “ T h e sig n (on th e f ro n t o f th e em bassy) says ‘the Islam ic R epublic o f Iran’...I submit to you that this is the ter­ rorist Republic of Iran,” shouted an impas­ sioned Engel.

Referendum question ruled unconstitutional F iv e stu d en ts w ere sen t acro ss the street to d eliver a letter to the em bassy charging the Islamic Republic o f Iran with being a party to terrorist atrocities. After waiting at the entrance of the embassy for a few minutes, a student passed the m es­ sage underneath the closed doors.

S tu d e n ts w itn e s s in g th e e v e n t expressed hope that their efforts will help open doors to more peaceful solutions in the volatile Middle East.

“W hat we did today was just a begin­ ning,” noted Demb. “W e must... make sure there’s an alternative to violence, and that is peace,” she suggested.

M cG ill students making the trip felt s a tis f ie d th e y w e re a b le to p u t th e ir remorse into words and action. U3 Science T am ar Flanders noted the protest was a positive outlet for student concerns.

“I felt good to actually act on some­ thing I felt strongly about instead o f ju st feeling strong words about it,” she said.

By M elanie Radler

consequences,” the ruling stated.

The Judicial B oard said that the referen­ dum question was unconstitutional because it The SSM U Judicial Board has endorsed the rejection of a referendum question regard­ could impinge on the D aily’s ability to achieve it publishing objective. ing the M cG ill Daily.

Don M cGowan, a law student who defend­ The question was designed to require the D aily to make an “unconditional” annual con­ ed th e q u e s tio n b efo re th e Ju d ic ia l B o ard , believed that the issue was worth a referendum tribution o f 50 percent o f the money it receives from students to the Office of Financial Aid. It vote because o f the strong connection he saw between the D aily and the Office o f Financial had previously been declared invalid by SSMU Aid. C h ie f R e tu rn in g O ffic e rs E d d ie L o o k and “One o f the aims of Cedric Neo, who said that the the D aily is to help those issue went against the objec­ who are unfortunate and tives and spirit of the D aily's disenfranchised and this constitution. N eo stated the q u e s tio n w o u ld a llo w basis o f their ruling. them to fulfil this aim by “ W e f e lt th a t it w e n t providing m aterial gains against the fundamental goals to th o se w h o n eed it,” o f the D a ily to serv e as an said M cGowan. open forum fo r the M cG ill D a ily c o o rd in a tin g com m unity,” he said. e d ito r M elan ie N ew to n T h e g ro u p w h o w ro te was not convinced by the the question, led by graduate group’s stated motives. history student R o lf Strom “ W h a t c o n c e rn e d Olsen, appealed the ruling to m e ab o u t th is q u estio n the Ju d ic ia l B oard b ecau se was the hidden agenda,” they w ere not satisfied with sh e sa id . “ It T ie d to the C R O ’s decision. couch taking the D a ily’s “It is not about taking on fu n d in g aw ay in term s th e D a ily as m a n y p e o p le that they thought would th in k , b u t c h a lle n g in g th e appeal to students.” basis o f the CR O ’s decision,” S tro m -O ls e n b e l­ explained Strom-Olsen.

Daily editor M elanie Newton ieves that the “unconsti­ F ifty percent o f its stu ­ dent revenue represents a large portion of the tutional” decision is vague.

“The constitution is there for the members D aily's total operating budget. to provide rights and unless this question clear­ “A decrease in revenues, as suggested in ly goes against these rights, it should be left to the referendum question, would significantly the members to decide,” he said. reduce the D aily's ability to m eet its operating Newton was not surprised by the ruling. expenses. Even if the D aily can not afford this “It was an unfair and quite frankly ridicu­ reduction in its budget, it is obliged to transfer lous question,” she said. the am ount and p o ten tially su ffer dam aging

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The Concordian tests the limits of free speech Royal Bank funds teaching

By Sylvie Babarik T w o c o lu m n s in la st w eek s e d itio n o f th e C o n c o rd ia n h av e cau sed a stir am o n g st som e s tu ­ dents who regard them as offensive.

M a rk R o l lin s ’ “ T h e O th e r S id e” and B rendan R ic h a rd so n ’s “T h e S ad B a s ta r d ” a re w e e k ly entertainm ent pieces which aim to satirise reality. Some readers, how ­ e v e r, h a v e b e g u n to q u e s tio n whether such articles have a place in any publication.

R o l lin s ’ e x p r e s s io n o f h is e x tre m e fo n d n e s s fo r w o m e n ’s b reasts in cluded such potentially offensive synonyms as ‘bazoom s’, ‘hooters’, ‘w arheads’ and ‘m osqui­ to bites’. He made particular refer­ ence to the jean advertisem ents in m etro stations w hich lead him to “blow his load”.

A rts and entertainm ent editor E lena M cLeod described the co l­ u m n as a sa tire o f th e s o c ie ty ’s o b sessio n w ith b reasts. She su g ­ gested that its point w as to m ake people think about the issue and she felt that its critics missed the m es­ sage.

“By putting things that blatant­ ly, he was pushing to the limit the use o f big breasts to sell je a n s ,” claim ed McLeod.

Richardson writes through the character of the sad bastard, whom

he describes as a “hopeless neurotic working his way through daily life in M ontreal, and failing”.

T hough reactions to his c o l­ umn have not been as pronounced as those aimed at R ollins’, the Sad B astard’s treatm ent o f “successful fertilisation” as being the “badge of honour” o f the women o f his home town has not escaped criticism.

R ichardson’s intention was to write a humorous tale o f his charac­ ter’s frustration over his inability to fu lfil his “p re d e stin a tio n ” as the “m odem day King Solomon” with­ in the Montreal context.

T ho u g h he d id co n ced e th at som e w o u ld ta k e o ffe n se at th e ir r e v e r e n t m a n n e r in w h ic h he address reproduction, R ichardson noted that the colum n is m eant to shock and should not to be taken seriously. He was quick to add that the statem ents put forw ard in his c o lu m n a re n o t an y w h ic h he re g a rd s as v a lid . M o re o v e r, he claimed that the column itself does not attack women, and the only one ridiculed is the character himself. “ H ow can an y o n e ta k e th is s e r io u s ly ? ” a s k e d R ic h a rd s o n .

“Though overdone, it is m eant to add an alternative and refreshing perspective to the political correct­ ness we are inundated with in uni­ versity.”

Richardson expressed regret at

h aving u p set any in d iv id u al, but suggested that provoking a reaction through a hum orous treatm ent of such ideas may be a better way to encourage dialogue than unw aver­ ing seriousness.

E d ito r - in - c h ie f D a n ie l N em iroff expressed particular con­ cern o v er su g g e stio n s th a t such writings should be kept out of print.

The columns are the m ost popular sections of the paper and have often been u sed to arg u e th e d iffe ren t sides of controversial issues.

“I b eliev e it is in the p u b lic in te r e s t to h a v e th e s e v ie w e d aired,” com mented Nemiroff. “That way they can be countered.”

The Tribune asked a few stu­ d e n ts fo r th e ir o p in io n on th e columns. The first refused to read beyond the opening paragraphs of either of the columns.

“I don’t feel that these articles are w orth publishing in a p ap er,” said R h o n d a W agner, a p o litical science student. “ I d o n ’t see any point in emphasising such ideas”.

O th e rs are m o re a d a m a n t about the need to have to have all publishable views aired. “ T h e r ig h t o f f re e sp e e c h includes the right to offend,” stated student Patrick Aldous. “Nothing is sacred. Once you start attacking the satirists, society looses all sense of hum our.”

CALLING MONTREAL UNIVERSITIES FIRST-YEAR

B y Ron L evy__________________________________________________ V arious departm ents at M cG ill have been receiving m oney from the first o f ten yearly instalm ents o f one hundred thousand dollars from the R oyal B ank o f Canada.

Since July, M cG ill’s C entre fo r U niversity T eaching and Learning has been distributing the funds to nineteen professors and one graduate student. T he funds are to be used to m ake im provem ents to the quality o f teaching at M cG ill. A ccording to C U T L ’s director C ynthia W eston, this is p art o f an effo rt to address recent student concerns about the em phasis on research, at the expense o f teaching quality.

“T here is quite a bit going on on cam pus in term s o f concern about teaching, w orking tow ards im proving teaching, and valuing teaching. I think that som etim es th a t’s not apparent to students,” said W eston.

W hile m ost o f the m oney has been given to individual professors in am ounts ranging from 1,000 to 15,000 dollars, larger am ounts have b een set asid e w h ich w ill b e used to train p ro fe sso rs an d teach in g assistants to teach large classes m ore effectively.

O th er p o rtio n s o f th e R o y al B a n k ’s g ift w ill go to w ard confer­ ences w here M cG ill’s successes or failures w ith these various projects w ill be discussed w ith other m em bers o f the academ ic com m unity.

Faculty o f M edicine professors N orm an N adler and M ichael Lalli, w ho jo in tly received 6,000 dollars o f the grant m oney, have begun a project that is typical o f m any o f the other projects being funded. A s in m ost projects, com puters w ill be used as teaching tools. D igitised pho­ tographs o f cadaver dissections, as w ell as inform ation and draw ing, w ill be incorporated into an interactive program .

P art o f the m oney fo r the p ro ject w ill go to stu d en ts cu rren tly developing the program by rew orking an already existing one. N adler explained that the costs o f continuing w ith current techniques o f teach­ ing the sam e m aterial, how ever, are large considering the increase in tim e and m onetary constraints.

“Funds for teaching are dim inishing... [and] w e have less teacher to stu d en t tim e as the fac ilities b eco m e m o re sc arce ,” said N adler.

“C osts o f keeping bodies and dealing w ith them are rising, and w ith the com plexity o f education rising students have to learn a lot o f other things besides, say, head and neck anatom y.”

E xperim enting w ith new teaching techniques and teaching m ore effectively despite the increased costs w ere goals o f m any o f the pro­ je cts funded. In com ing years the Royal B a n k ’s funds m ay be used dif­ ferently, with a focus on other aspects o f the university.

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to SSM U council, Amin Kassam is c o n c e rn e d w ith m a in ta in in g the standards o f M cG ill even though the university is facing econom ic problem s. “ T h e g o al is e s s e n tia lly to p r o p o s e s tr a te g ic o p tio n s th a t M cG ill can und ertak e in dealing with the financial restraints w ith­ o u t c o m p ro m isin g th e v alu es o f excellence and quality w hich are em bodied in this institution,” said Kassam.

The group will be presenting its p r o p o s a ls to P la n n in g an d Priorities this week.

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Sexist pseudo-erotica has no place

M c G IL L T R IB U N E “I didn’t invent the world I write about — It’s all true.”

- G raham G reene

M ichael B roadhurst E d ito r -in -c h ie f

C hristopher Ricney

Steve Smith

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Editorial

The spirit o f rem em brance

By L izzie Saunderson

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Steve Smith______________________________

I f ye breast ftefaith with us who die we sfiaCf not sfeep, though poppies grow in f bandersfields.

“In Flanders fields”, written by McGill alumni John McCrae, embodies the traditional sentiment of Remembrance. Through his poem, McCrae por­ trayed the sacrifice endured by friends and family. More importantly, he gave the unknown soldier a voice through which to combat anonymity.

While McCrae’s contemporaries were able to identify with the spirit of the poem, there are few left to pass it on. November 11 has served as an expression of their determination not to forget. As we approach November 11, 1994 we are confronted with a difficult situation when tradition asks us to remember the dead with whom we share only a distant connection. We are fortunate in that we never knew the sacrifice that Canadians made and yet we feel compelled to do more than acknowledge it. We feel compelled to understand. We feel compelled to feel.

It is in feeling that we can best maintain the spirit of those who fought in the World Wars and beyond. It is in feeling that we can uphold the faith of those who died. Feeling puts a face to McCrae’s voice and allows us to begin to comprehend the sacrifice made by the veterans, share in their spirit and perhaps even remember.

Simply by taking a look at the world in which we live these faces become accessible. Names like Vimy Ridge, Dieppe, or the Scheldt may have little impact on today’s students. Others, like the United Nations and neo-nazism, are undeniable aspects of our lives. They can be accessed on the 6 o’clock news.

Organised in October 1944, the UN has served as a forum for the peaceful resolution of international conflicts. With its roots in the aftermath of World War I; to this day the spirit of the UN remains the pursuit of peace and a global balance of power. In the 1930s, these ideals collapsed with the League of Nations, as countries pursued their own agendas. The sacrifices made in the World War II renewed confidence in the power of nations united by a common cause.

Unfortunately, their sacrifice was not able to eradicate the global pres­ ence of hatred and genocide. Today, neo-nazism has erupted in major cities across North America and Europe. Neo-nazis cater to a generation far removed from the Wars their grandparents fought. They claim their hatred is patriotic and use it as a means of defending their country. Fifty years before, over 40,000 Canadians gave their lives in the fight against this hatred. Neonazi hatred is allowed to exist today because of the freedom secured by the Allies in World War II. It is ironic that the freedom we now enjoy includes the freedom to hate.

In World W ar II, Nazi hatred claimed the lives of six million Jews.

However, the horrors of Auschwitz and Dachau have not been confined to the past. The black and white images of the concentration camps are given life and colour in the daily reports of genocide from Bosnia and Rwanda.

And once again, Canadians are involved in an effort to keep the faith expressed by McCrae. Through the UN, the spirit of remembrance lives. The soldiers’ voice is echoed in our own.

In an a rtic le on fid e lity la st month, Time concluded that, from a purely evolutionary point of view, rampant promiscuity, hulking male dominance and total heterosexuality were the way to go. The article then differentiated between humans and animals through the glorification of our civilised artificiality, replete with ethics, devience and aesthetics.

In the same vein, two controver­ sial co lu m n s g rac ed la st w e e k ’s Concordian. Satirising the more ani­ malistic aspects of society, Brendan Richardson’s “Sad Bastard” spewed forth his prerogative to impregnate as many women possible, while Mark Rollins’s “The Other Side” explored m a n ’s o b se ssio n w ith w om en's ‘bazooms’.

W hile the total censorship of these columns should not be advocat­ ed, their placement in the context of a new spaper is questionable. W hile journalists should not be confined to trying to offend as few people as pos­ sible, they should also n ot try to offend as many as possible for the sake of being offensive.

The actual explicitness of these colum ns is n ot w hat m akes them tasteless. The fact that they are gratu­ itously sexist, racist and homophobic is, especially because they serve no purpose in arguing social issues, or o ffe rin g so lu tio n s to the h atefu l misogyny they satirise.

One does not provoke intellectu­ al debate by asking radical feminists to “ go play w ith y o u r tits fo r a while... it might help you to get over your frigidity.” That a piece of writ­ ing can provoke a reaction does not alone justify its existence.

E ven th ro u g h the g u ise o f humour, one does not test the con­ fines of journalistic freedom in a PC world by using the word ‘hooters’.

Far dirtier things have been uttered by grade school bullies, and by other columnists who actually have a point.

Journalism is a straightforward and socio-politically based genre; and journalists can not ignore the politi­ cal implications of his/her works as R ich a rd so n does. H is n a rra to r recounts - “my learning assistant/ molester demanded a cup of my finest

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the Croatian people. Croats came to the region in the 5th century and are the o ld est n atio n in E urope. Y es M ark, rec en t re c o g n itio n o f th is natio n is stupid since the C roats have been around for so long. Their recognition is long overdue.

Elizabeth Valentina U3 Arts

...to the editor

How dare you Re: “H arsh lessons from the B a lk a n s ” by M ark L uz in the October 25th issue.

First o f all, you overestim ate the positive role of UN peacekeep­ ers in the Balkans. In speaking with those living in Croatia and Bosnia, I have found that the citizens pretty m uch agree that peacekeepers do next to nothing but fill up the bars, perpetuate black m arket activities and cause a boom ing prostitution industry. Secondly, how dare you say th a t re c o g n is in g le g itim a te nations that have existed for cen­ turies is “a mistake” and “stupid”?

Given your reasoning that “no state deserves international recognition until agreements as to the peaceful division of territory and ju st treat­ m ents o f m inorities in accordance with the UN Declaration of Human R ights are fu lfilled ,” then it m ust also be “a mistake” and “stupid” to recognise Israel. I personally do not agree with your reasoning and I am sure I’m not alone. Yugoslavia was formed in 1918 to serve British and French interests against the will of

Gross injustice I h av e to o b je c t to L au ra B radbury’s “review ” o f the Urban Species’ album Listen. I consider it one o f the better album s released this year, and an exciting step in the ev o lu tio n o f hip-hop. L ike m any revolutionary albums, Listen takes more than one listen to digest, and cannot be appreciated passively, by simply throwing it on while boiling up som e KD. To pass o ff U rban S p e c ie s as n o th in g m o re th an “cliché[d] rapperfs] m erely b rag­ ging”, as Bradbury does, is a gross injustice to the band, and reveals a level of musical ignorance worthy of automatic disqualification from all record reviewing. Unlike the promi­ n en c e o f e g o -c e n tric A m eric an M C ’s (with full respect to De La Soul), Urban Species exemplify the em erging E uropean rap-voice that d isso lv e s the ego and ad d re sses

[semen]... For the first time in my life I felt worthwhile” while claiming that in his home town, “women are cate­ gorised according to egg count.” He also shares his rejection of the week, which “was by ait exchange student...

I asked to k iss her arm pit.

Apparently, this is an unacceptable method of seduction in her culture.”

These columnists satirise sexism by explicitly m im icking it. W ould they dare com m ent on racism by writing a first-person narrative about the orgasm ic pleasure one derives from lynching francophone blacks?

The unfortunate social reality is that the majority of on-campus dis­ crim ination is inadvertent. Though many do not consider themselves dis­ criminatory, people do deface LBGM posters, believe that a woman in a miniskirt is ‘asking for it’, and argue that cases of sexual abuse may just stem from childhood fantasies.

In c o n sid e rin g th e p o ssib le street-level ramifications, the fact that these columns are a ‘joke’ do not cut it. A satirist can identify his/her nar­ rator as a self-proclaimed “sexist neu­ rotic”, or thickly spread on the sar­ casm - it still does not change the fact that these columns may be taken to heart. Regrettably, these satires hit a little too close to home, which is what makes them so very irresponsible.

Joyce Lau Entertainment editor issues beyond the usual triad of sex, guns and drugs. This is compliment­ ed by some seriously groovin’ live music.

Bradbury’s “too word” review of Listen — ‘don’t bother’ — I’ll admit is an irresistible joke typical of music reviewers who don’t know a n y th in g a b o u t m u sic . S a d ly , Bradbury followed her own advice and d id n ’t b o th e r to L iste n to a great record.

Mark Davies, U2 English

More talk about FEUQ L ast T h u rsd ay n ig h t, SSM U Council approved VP External Nick Benedict’s plan to pay $7,000 out of his budget to FEUQ. This sum of $7,000 tran slates to 50 cents p er student per year. W hat a good deal!

For only 50 cents or for only $7,000 o ut o f the VP E x te rn a l’s budget.

Benedict is paying FEUQ to do his job in lobbying the Quebec govern­ m ent on educational issues. A fter all, now adays one can only buy a muffin for 50 cents.

W hat Council failed to consid­ er Thursday was the concern o f a sizable group of students who have studied in Quebec for most of their lives. Some of these students were L etters co n tin u ed on Page 7

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All time in a not-shell.

— Jam es Joyce I t se em s to be in c re a s in g ly prevalent that to discredit an adver­ sary, one solely needs to align them with historicism . This label serves to d isc lu d e c re a tiv ity /v irility . It paints the labeled pallid and weak.

O dd at an institution o f learning, d o n ’t you think? W here else are people (in denial or not) so tied to the canon of their chosen discipline?

The arts steps posse would have us believe that burning our books is the ro ad to the tru ly open m ind. An expensive habit, I say.

More fun, I ’m sure, is to take w hat we have and m odulate it to suit our needs, desires, explorations.

As always, there is m ore than one m e th o d . F irs tly , w e c o u ld re a d

selectively. H ow ever, in the end, this is just burning half our books (a half-expensive habit). M uch more stylishly devious is to take a step back, w ithdrawing our noses from the single source and looking at the w ay we look and learn. To m ess with the structure, w e m ust under­ stand the structure, or else it simply falls in, w hich gets us no further than the nihilist anarchy of refusing to learn. Clearly, though, the present anti-learning drive indicates a dis­ crepancy between how we live our late-twentieth century lives and the w ay o u r in stitu tio n s p ro ce ss us.

There has been a separation of mind and bawdy.

When Marshall McLuhen talks of the trend of our culture towards ex istin g m yth ically , he is noting that, in an electronic age, informa­

tion and thus history is compressed and spread before us in a non-lin­ e a r, a lm o st g ra p h ic m a n n er. In ways, this is similar to the pre-liter­ ate situ atio n w here in fo rm atio n could be easily structured in any desired order due to its mere oral tran sm issio n . W ith the in flu x of compartmentalised industrialisation, an d its c u ltu ra l c o u n te rp a rt, the book, inform ation was form alised and given linearity and thus hierar­ chy. F o r th e firs t tim e, w e w ere aware of the idea of moving forward (or b ack w ard s) as a so ciety , and very quickly placed a value ju d g ­ m en t on th a t. F o rw ard is g ood.

Backwards is bad.

Two references from the early part of this century refute this linear ap p ro ach . Jo y ce n o tin g th a t “ all space (is) in a not-shell”, along with the 1920s revelation that ‘all history is contemporary history’, begins to show that in many ways, everything that has ever happened functions as layers, each of which is actually still happening. W e are again and again influenced by Dante, even if it is in

The way to change China In Politico Flagrante M ark Luz W ith T eam C a n ad a le ad by Captain Chrétien proudly parading our goods around China last week, the b u rn in g q u e s tio n o f lin k in g human rights with trade once again loom s. M any C an ad ian s are d is­ g u s te d w ith th e e n th u s ia s tic em bracing o f a governm ent who a m e re fiv e y e a rs ag o m a ssa c re d th o u s a n d s of s tu d e n ts in T iananm en S quare. A re w e h y p ­ ocrites for soiling our hands w ith m oney m ade from a governm ent that continues to sw iftly erase all opposition by jailing and executing an y o n e w ho d are s sp eak o ut against the government?

W e can go one o f tw o ways: isolation and punishm ent, or try to in teg rate C h in a into th e in te rn a ­ tio n a l c o m m u n ity as q u ic k ly as possible.

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w orked w ith South A frica, but it w ill n o t w o rk w ith C h in a .

Different situations call for differ­ ent solutions; w hat w orks in one context does not necessarily work on the other side o f the w orld. It took over 40 years to bring about th e f a ll o f a p a r th e id in S o u th A frica through econom ic sanctions and international pressure. D oing this to China would effectively be starting another Cold W ar, som e­ thing that those who favour e c o ­ n o m ic s a n c tio n s a g a in s t C h in a tend to overlook. China is too big, too p o w erfu l, too im p o rta n t and too o b stin a te to chan g e th ro u g h n e g a tiv e p re s s u r e . T h e re is no point in provoking a conflict when China has voluntarily opened itself to the outside world.

Refusing to trade or integrate C h in a w ill o n ly tu rn b a c k th e

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to the m otion for S S M U ’s p ro v i­ sional membership in FEUQ to be im m e d ia te ly re e x a m in e d and reopened for debate. I worried when B e n ed ict ca lle d th is am en d m en t “superfluous”.

born here and have alw ays lived here. These students are concerned ab o u t th e ir fu tu re b ecause every four years, or less, they have to live through a province-wide campaign a d v o c atin g Q u e b e c ’s se p a ra tio n fro m C a n ad a . C o u n c illo r C h ris Carter called these students “para­ noid anglos” and reminded his col­ leagues “we are not in Toronto, we are in Montreal.”

I allege that Council is insensi­ tive and is setting itself up to give a hostile environment to that group of students, whom SSMU is supposed to represent. The reason of my alle­ g atio n is b ased on com m ents by councillors like Carter and the fact that council defeated an amendment

Arnold Kwok, U3 Science

Even more about FEUQ It was with great interest that I picked up your N ov.l issue and saw a front-page article on the Quebec Students’ Federation, FEUQ. It was with even greater interest that I read about the faculty associations who had voted to oppose the E xternal A ffairs C om m ittee’s proposal for provisional membership in the fed­ eration: the Science Undergraduate

inevitable tide of economic, social and political reform that can only b e e f f e c te d by m a in ta in in g as much positive influence in China as p o ssib le . It w ill ta k e a long tim e for things to change there, but the strategy being pursued now is the only sensible option av ail­ able. Right now, the Chinese gov­ ernm ent is still extraordinarily bru­ tal, and they flout it in the face of the international com m unity. The reason for this is that their dom es­ tic affairs have always been close­ ly guarded and controlled.

H istorically, China has been a very closed society, and has only ju s t r e c e n tly b e g a n to o p e n its d o o rs to o u tsid e in flu e n ces. W e ca n n o t e x p e c t c h a n g e to com e overnight, but by m aintaining good relations, the tim e will soon come where the central governm ent will realise that the only way to avoid slip p in g in to c h a o s is to allo w greater freedom to its people. This will take tim e and patience on our part, but it will happen.

It m ay not seem this w ay on th e su rfa c e , b u t ta k in g a c lo se r S o c ie ty an d th e M a n a g e m e n t Undergraduate Society. I was thor­ o u g h ly en jo y in g th e a rtic le as I turned to the second page for its continuation, where instead of see­ ing the continuation of the article as I e x p e c te d , I w as fa c e d w ith a reprint o f its first five paragraphs from the first page.

Presum ably, this second page was going to report the other side of the story. I assume that this is where it w ould explain that m ost faculty associations that have taken p o si­ tio n s stro n g ly su p p o rted F E U Q , in c lu d in g th e E n g in e e rin g Undergraduate Society, the Nursing Undergraduate Society, and the Law Students’ Associations. Presumably, this is also where it would discuss the developing consensus on cam ­

w ays that co uld n ev er have been imagined in his lifetime.

This distinct pattern of analysis quickly gained visual analogies. The medium emerging at the time of this h isto rical approach, film , latched onto these discoveries almost imme­ diately. Early moving images exper­ im ented with the layering of what we call montage. This avenue was also explored in the cubist painting of Picasso and Braque. It m ust be clear that the p erception o f m ore than one view is necessarily a tem ­ poral experience. Time is a sort of space, and as such, new discoveries are made when we project it onto a single plane. This is particularly true if we take advantage of the property of tracing paper that shows the top la y e rs b r ig h te s t, fa d in g as w e recede.

So when I talk of playing with historicism, I am suggesting the use of a conscious and busy hand in the structuring of the layers. McLuhan has stated that, “W e shape our tools and thereafter our tool shape us.”

The only way to truly intelligently

escape the w eight o f history is to co n stan tly ev alu ate and alter the tools we use. W e have to keep the canon on its toes.

If there is a single lesson to be learned from post-modernism, be it in U m b e rto E c o ’s n o v e ls , R o n K itaj’s or A nselm K eifer’s art, or Robert V enturi’s architecture, it is that history is not as constraining as it is a huge potential resource — a well to go to again and again.

W hen time perception changed fro m G re e k c ir c u la r to C h r is tia n /in d u s tr ia l lin e a r, th e obsession with hierarchy took root.

Today, we are moving back to allat-onceness, but away from unity.

We are headed for a categorization im plosion. T here are already too m any ‘c a te g o rie s’ to allow fo r a hierarchy that lasts m ore than 20 minutes. It is time to abandon this m odel and head for synchronism .

Just imagine the visual possibilities.

look at history shows that in some ways, C hin a’s behaviour is better than it has ever been before. This the direct result o f positive integra­ tion and influence by the interna­ tio n al co m m u n ity . O nce a fre e ­ trader o f nuclear w eapon m aterial and com ponents, it recently signed th e N o n - P r o lif e r a tio n T re a ty , agreed under A m erican pressure to sto p s e llin g m is s ile p a r ts to Pakistan and various other coun­ tries. It is not nearly as belligerent at th e U n ite d N a tio n s , o r e v e n to w ard s T aiw an, as it once was.

T he im provem ent is slight, but it reveals a positive historical trend that would be violently disrupted if we w ere to suddenly use aggres­ sive tactics to try to force C hina into political change.

O rdinary people in China feel that their lives have im proved ten­ fold since the introduction o f eco­ nom ic reform s in the late 1970s, and hopefully things will continue to ameliorate. Change is occurring fa ste r th an ev er b efo re, and the cost of repression will continue to grow as long as we m aintain a pos­ itiv e in flu e n c e on th e issu e s o f hum an rights and dém ocratisation.

The greater the econom ic develop-

m ent, the m ore pow er and in flu ­ e n c e th e C h in e s e p e o p le w ill inevitably gain and demand.

T h is h a v in g b e e n sa id , th e Canadian governm ent and com pa­ nies operating in C hina m ust not be tem pted to be co m p lac en t on the issue o f hum an rights, or ju st assum e that we ju st have to w ait for econom ic reform to turn into social and p o litical reform w hile keeping quiet. W e m ust use every opportunity to raise the issue with governm ent officials, and we must do this constantly, diligently and cre ativ e ly . T he g rea ter our r e la ­ tions w ith C hina, the g reater the exam ple our com panies set w hile in C hina, the m ore se n sitiv e the governm ent will becom e to inter­ national opinion.

W e m ust tread very carefully w hile dealing with China. Doing it in a peaceful and non provocative w ay through trad e and in fluence may be m orally difficult and trying in the short-term, but will prove to be m utually beneficial in the longrun.

pus in favour of membership that is manifested by the unanim ous sup­ port of the executive committee and the External Affairs Committee.

Best of luck fixing the printing press.

note that the Prophet M uham m ad (after saying h is n am e, M uslim s usually say “Peace be upon him ”) was a founder of one of the world’s m ajor religions and is held in the highest esteem by over one billion o f y o u r g lo b a l n e ig h b o u rs.

R eferring to him in such a casual m a n n e r co u ld be in te rp re te d as extrem ely dem eaning. W hile I do h av e a se n se o f h u m o u r, I ta k e exception to a m essenger o f God being referred to as “a kidder”. I am sure the slight was unintentional, and look forward to further install­ ments of his column.

Nick Benedict VP External, SSMU

Ephemera no kidding matter R e g a rd in g y o u r n o te in th e Islam ic origins o f the too th b ru sh (“Faculty of Ephemera”, Nov. 1).

I t ’s refresh in g to read som e­ thing about Islam and its Prophet w hich is n ’t rela ted to th e g lo b al threat of fundam entalism or some other alarmist notion. But I’d like to

G e o ff G ib so n is y e t a n o th er who has spent too much time at the M cGill Bookstore.

M ark Luz and Joyce Lau got sic k o f tryin g to com e up w ith a blurb, so they gave up.

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November 8th, 1994

The Wine and Cheese Guild

B y Jon Roberts Peter G raefe

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A new academic year sent the members o f the W ine and Cheeses G u ild , ro b e d in th e ir trad e m ark black turtlenecks, on a breakneck to u r o f d e p a r tm e n ta l w in e and ch e eses in an e ffo rt to m ain tain standards. T he results, p resented

here, indicate that h isto ry is this fall’s winner, although it falls short o f last fall’s North American stud­ ie s p e r f o rm a n c e w h ic h m ix e d sm oked m eat sandw iches, B rador and a lengthy discussion with pro­ fessor Riggs about his love for the CBC, and especially his physical p a s s io n s to w a rd s A d rie n n e Clarkson. E nglish once again finished last, unable to break the hex

of bad wine, pathetic cheese and a terrible room with a foul stench.

The Leacock porter is a dan­ gerous man. He cost anthropology tw o p o in ts on ven u e by b o o tin g them out of their room, and history one p o in t on in ta n g ib le s ju s t by showing up. Political science con­ tinued its rep u tatio n as the en g i­ neering o f wine and cheese but lost p o in ts on in ta n g ib le s b e c a u s e nobody puked in the fourth floor w ashroom s as they did two years ago. P ro fesso r N o b le ’s infam ous n a c h o C R U N C H w a s s o re ly missed as was Braw ley’s baby blue turtleneck.

P izza has becom e the cheese

in clu d in g such title s as: “ C h arlie C haplin and S tu f f ’, “ D anny K aye an d W h a te v e r” an d , o f c o u rse , “Eddie Murphy ‘n ’ Shit”.

P sy ch o lo g y is a rich field as A lex Usher well. T ake K.E. R u ssell’s “Strain, S ex an d A lc o h o l In ta k e in th e L aboratory R at” for instance. This hum -dinger pro­ duced the earth-shattering conclusion — well-known to most sixteen-year-olds — that rats which drink a lot of alco h o l o v er a g iv en p erio d o f tim e su b seq u en tly require more alcohol to get drunk than rats who had not previously ingested alcohol. Still, the standard for ephemera in this department is Howard Eisenberg’s 44 page MSc dissertation “Telepathic Information Transfer in Humans of Emotional Data”. W ritten in 1971, this m asterw ork involved putting one group o f people in chairs and watching “em otional” movies in one room and putting another group of people in padded chaiseslongues in another room 200 feet away. Eisenberg then asked the second group what they were thinking; if they answered something that was vaguely in the ballpark of the emotion being projected by the film being watched by the first group, it was evidence of some “psi” trans­ ference of emotional data.

There are other random examples of ephemera in McGill graduate theses: W.G. M addox’s staggering 850 pages “F ish in g in W est G reen lan d , 1910-1965” , J. Poupart’s 500-page PhD on Junior Hockey in Quebec, or A.M Dorland’s “The Concept and Function of China in Trotsky”. This last one is the subject of much talk in the faculty and we are now planning a sequel called “The Yin and Yang of-M adagascar in Stalin”. Another particular favourite o f m ine is Hugh L aw rence’s “A F orm al A n a ly sis o f M u seu m D isp la y s in C en tral K ansas”, w hich has chapters on D eep Structure and Chomskian theory as applied to combelt museum dis­ plays.

Without question, though, the greatest McGill the­ sis of all time must be Allan Turowitz’s 1974 sociology M A “A n E th n o g rap h y o f P ro fessio n al W re stlin g ” .

Posing as a stringer for a wrestling magazine, Turowitz gained entry into the inner world of pro w restling in Montreal and this shameless tell-all book which, as it says in the abstract, “presents an ethnographic descrip­ tio n o f th e elem en ts and staging o f a p ro fessio n al wrestling contest as a first step towards a sociological understanding of the wrestling world” was the result. As a crowning glory, its one-page bibliography contains no less than four wrestling magazines.

It is w ith great pleasure that I can announce an upcoming sequel to Turowitz’s work, prepared by fac­ ulty scholar and patron Michael Broadhurst. Professor Broadhurst informs me that this new work will focus on “the N EW eth n o g rap h y o f p ro fe ssio n a l w re stlin g ” w hich w ill ex am ine the H u lk am an ia/W restlem an ia symbiosis, the socio-econom ic effects of the network TV contracts and answer the nagging question: “why h asn ’t anyone told the Rougeau Brothers that RCM P costum es a re n ’t w hat im m ediately springs to m ind when one hears the title “The Quebecers”. The sociolo­ gy department and the Société Saint-Jean Baptiste are expected to attend the thesis defence.

The Faculty of Ephemera

It has been brought to my attention yet again that so m e p e o p le are s till u n c le a r on th e c o n c e p t o f Ephemera. W hat is it, exactly? W hat do ephemerologists do? W hy is it an intellectual discipline? These questions are perfectly normal. I have the same prob­ lems understanding why political science and sociology are intellectual disciplines.

(Why is political science a “science”? Is it because it is so insecure about its own intellectual foundations that it m ust call itse lf a “ scien ce” in order to gain respectability? And why is Film and Communications now called “Cultural Studies?” W hy not ju st call it “Anthropology of White People”?)

To reiterate, Ephemera is everything interesting yet unim portant, fascinating yet irrelevant. T his m akes ephemerologists something like intellectual jackals; we pick over the bones of every other discipline in order to come up with our scholarly meals. At McGill, we often like to go through old research done by other depart­ ments and exam ine them for traces of ephemera and, should it be really good ephemera, bring it up to date with the highest standards of 90’s scholarship.

McGill has a long history of studying ephemera in the province of Quebec. W ho can forget Yarolsky and R otholz’s classic 1966 M SW thesis “Teenage Leisure Time Activities in Cote St. Luc”? Not for them the clas­ sic m ethods o f rigorous analysis and in-depth inter­ views; instead, they spun a 111-page thesis out of 102 te en a g ers’ responses to self-adm inistered q uestion­ naires. “G roup Identities in C hibougam au” , a 1972 geography M A by Donald Stewart is another classic, as it contains a delightful comparison of the experience of newcomers to Chibougamau with those of certain sub­ cultures in Hausa suburbs of Yoruba towns in Nigeria.

Then there is Freda Rajotte’s massive 1973 PhD thesis “The Quebec City Recreational H interland” in which the startling discovery that the size of a city’s recre­ ational hinterlands (meaning public parks, lakes, etc.), is directly related to urban population size was made.

Imagine that! And in only 450 pages!

Obviously, this concentration of great research at McGill means that we have a golden opportunity to set up a F e d e ra l C e n tre o f E x c e lle n c e on Q u eb e c Ephemera. The Faculty is now accepting applications fo r re se a rc h a s sista n ts on th e fo llo w in g p ro jec ts: “ C r o s s - c u ltu ra l A n a ly s e s o f B re a k fa s t C e re al C onsum ption in V erdun”, “The Sauna Construction In d u stry o f the L ow er N orth S h o re ” and the very prom ising “Self-O ther R elationships A m ong G reek Dépanneur Owners in Montreal”.

T he E n g lish d ep artm en t p roduced its share o f E p h em era in th e 70s. O f p a rtic u la r n ote is R obyn Louder’s 1974 thesis: “Thirty Poems”, which contains thirty of the author’s poems — none o f which is longer than a page — and an analysis thereof. (Most memo­ rable passage: “But...the wind!/the cracked bell!/and the hooves ringing...?). Leopold St. Pierre’s 1976 oeuvre “B uster K eaton and T hings” is another classic. The A lex Usher will definitely not be doing a PhD at Faculty is currently planning a series to go w ith it, M cGill

o f choice this year, although art his­ tory m ad e th e case fo r th e so u r­ dough bread and spinach dip. There was a rush for pizza in economics and history but no one was injured.

In economics the crush could have been due to to the presence o f neo­ conservative professors. Sociology and industrial relations avoided the pizza crush but thereby suffered on intangibles.

Congratulations to the History Students’ Association and President Gibran Van Ert, true students o f the wine and cheese.

Tips f o r n ext year: — avoid the Leacock porter.

—^ invite the W ine and Cheese Guild by depositing an invita­ tion in our m ailbox across from the SSMU desk on the main floor, Shatner bldg.

— remember, double points for professors in turtlenecks.

— don’t make the Middle-East Studies blunder and hold your wine and cheese at 2020 University.

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N ovem ber 8th, 1994

G oodall: an am bassador o f goodw ill R o y al flu sh ed

By Huzaifa A damali Internationally acclaimed anthropologist and behavioural scientist Dr. Jane Goodall addressed an au d ien c e o f m ore than 600 at P ala is des Congrès on N ovem ber 1. Renow ned for thirty years of field study on chimpanzees in Gombe, T anzania, G oodall is presently prom oting her research through her “Roots and Shoots” program in Canada and the U.S. A u th o r o f seven books and recipient of n u m e ro u s aw a rd s, Goodall is still as pas­ sionate about the study of chim panzees as she w as w hen she firs t arrived in Africa. “ I h av e alw ay s wanted to live in Africa from the age of nine and study animals,” she said.

Despite this inten­ tion, her arrival on the sh o res of L ake T a n g a n y ik a w as due largely to chance. The acclaimed palaeontolo­ g ist, L o u is L ea k ey , selected her to conduct a study on chimpanzees in order to gain insight into their social behaviour.

Goodall’s observa­ tio n s re v e a le d a high degree of intelligence in this species of primates.

P hoto C aption H er o b se rv a tio n s include their ability to use tools such as grass shoots to remove termites from nests, com m unication by posture, gesture and the maintenance of close bonds between fami­ ly members throughout a 60-year life span.

Goodall disputed the inability of chimpanzees to walk upright. The slide show presented a study o f a chim panzee who w as able to w alk in an upright posture for long distances after losing an arm to polio. These observations led Goodall to postulate the close relationship between man and chimpanzee.

Until recently, one million chimpanzees lived in twenty-five African countries. Today the num­ ber has decreased to less than 250,000 with signif­ ic a n t p o p u la tio n s in on ly fo u r c o u n trie s.

According to Goodall, this rapid decline is due to deforestation in the last 15 years. Furthermore, hunting of adult chimpanzees for local m eat m arkets has added to the toll.

Their babies are sold to Western zoos an d e n te rta in m e n t clu b s. G o o d all claims that for every baby chimp that arrives safely in a zoo, there are ten that die in transit.

G o o d all’s Institute for W ildlife Research, Education and Conservation is designed to alleviate the suffering of chimps. “ Baby chim ps having lost their fa m ilie s in the w ild are p la c e d in human families as pets. At the age of seven they outgrow their stay since they are not controllable. They then are abruptly barred from their new home and caged,” she stated.

Her organisation persuades these people to hand over the animals so that they may be rehabilitated in wild sanc­ tuaries. Presently, in the Congo alone, forty-three young chimps are under the Institution’s charge and Goodall pre­ d icts th a t th e ir n um bers w ill grow rapidly.

Goodall described the experience of Mr. Gigs, a New York club chimp.

“His teeth were all pulled out and jaws

wired so that a smiling chimp was always present at birthday parties. An electric shock was deliv­ ered around the neck if he did anything wrong.”

She maintained that it was not uncommon for circus chimps to be disciplined by their trainers by a hit on the head with a rolled newspaper. What the trainers neglect to tell the audience is that a iron bar is wrapped within.

W hen asked w hether science institutions should abandon the use of chimpanzees, Goodall agreed and e m p h a sise d the p o o r la b o ra to ry conditions in which ch im p s are o ften contained. Tiny bar­ ren cages (5 ’x 5 ’) are u sed an d the animals undergo so m uch stre s s th a t they do not rep re­ sent id e al m odels fo r stu d y . “ I am h au n ted by d u ll, blank eyes staring o ut o n to a w o rld that offers them no ho p e. T he le a st I can do is speak for th e m ,” she c o m ­ mented.

G o o d all’s la t­ est endeavour is an international envi­ ro n m en t p ro g ram entitled “Roots and Shoots”. I t’s aimed at children and uni­ versity students.

“Roots creep under the ground laying the foundation and frail shoots open to the light and break brick walls. Children will establish a firm hold on their planet’s future, as well as to create a new environmental ethic,” Goodall explained.

She hopes this program, already established in Tanzania, Europe, Asia and the U.S., may lead to a better understanding of problems regarding environmental, animal and community issues.

Jane Goodall is hopeful for the survival of the chimpanzees with increasing education and public awareness. She considers “the chimpanzees her ambassadors of goodwill since they have made her welcome in any classroom in the world from rural Africa to Japan.” In her address to Montrealers, Goodall proved to be such an ambassador.

Spit It Out Paromita Shah

It’s worse than the coverage of the O.J. Simpson case. There is no escape — especial­ ly if you are imprisoned in the express line in Metro staring vacuously at the Enquirer or People, or both.

Through some miscarriage of justice, the news of Prince Charles’s authorised exposé has infiltrated the front page of nearly every decent and indecent newspaper and magazine in the world. Pictures of Charles’s doom and gloom face, Diana’s tragic aura, and grumpy parents are proliferating at an unwholesome rate — all a reminder of the strength of love for the royal soap opera that is more permanent than the Thorn Birds.

The casualties incurred due to Charles’s demonstration of royal angst number in the millions, far beyond the brood of the royal family. As we scurry for cover, maybe we should re-evaluate the role of monarchy in a world supposedly committed to the elimina­ tion of special privileges acquired by bloodline.

Among those who will be victims of Britain’s royal rage are Princess Diana’s alleged lovers. According to a law established in the fourteenth century, anyone who commits adultery with the Princess has committed high treason — a crime punishable by hanging.

While the potential for strangled British citizens remains low — technically, this punish­ ment applies only to those who are direct descendants of the king or queen — you can’t help but wonder about the propensity of rage in a family that is a product of 300 years of inbreeding.

Within the Queen’s house, the usual media killings have taken place. The character of everyone linked to the family has been smeared — really nothing new.

Caught in the crossfire of royal ranting are citizens of Britain who are undoubtedly regretting the choice to maintain the symbol of the British empire. Nearly a third of the British empire has expressed its discomfort with the imminent ascension of Prince Charles to the throne. The knowledge that the international community views these pathetic scan­ dals as a festering boil doesn’t help either. How can anyone seriously consider a country a power to be reckoned with when they have such silly nasties clamoring for national atten­ tion?

To this day, there are ten monarchies in Europe. Although the power of these monarchs has been stripped-down, they are officially heads of state. While they have no power to create legislation, their presence is needed to add that stamp of legitimacy.

Consider King Carl Gustaf of Sweden. In 1988, he requested six parking permits “to speed the collection of his dry cleaning and groceries.” The city office refused his petition because it would be a precedent for aristocratic fetishes. Poor Carl — his minions have likely gained an appreciation for the streets of Stockholm.

An excessive example of crown frivolity, you may argue. But it’s still there and it still makes the news. So I ask, why is the Queen on every coin in Canada? Why is there a repre­ sentative of the Crown still here? The rationale behind it all eludes me.

Canada was a colony of Britain, a little piece of crust in the great imperialist pie.

There is a Canadian constitution that outlines Canada’s autonomy, yet the opening of Parliament is accompanied by an acknowledgement of the Queen’s authority. I bet even the grammar and spelling of the agreement is in British English form. A semantic rebellion might have been appropriate. That nearly every Torontonian I’ve met has adopted some sort of pseudo-English accent is scarring enough. One does not say ‘n o t’, one says ‘noTTT’; it’s not draaama its drama. Ugh. As an American, I know we haven’t escaped the worship syndrome. The Kennedys in Martha’s Vineyard seem to occupy a permanent space in every single Cape Cod newspaper around. As I said before, there is no escape.

Thanks McGill Redmen for all the Miraculous Memories!

Harriott.

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Remembrance Day

November 8th, 1994

McGill at war: 1939 to 1945...

C o n tin u ed from Page 1

England during the early stages of W orld W ar Two and finish the w a r as C a n a d a 's M inister of Defence.

By the end of the First World W a r, M c G ill students had received 791 military honours.

Included among these honours were two Victoria Crosses, the British Empire's highest honour for bravery in battle, aw arded to Lieut.-Col. Francis Scrimger of the CAMC and Lance-Corporal Fred Fisher of the 13th battalion, Royal Highland Regiment.

day, "N ow autumn is here and again the country is at war. A sentry with bayonet fixed stands at the door of the COTC, and on the campus men are drilling, as they drilled a quarter century ago. Some spectators, I know, view the scene through blinding tears. There comes to them from afar the sound of voices silent these many years singing the very song I heard upon the campus today: Hello! hello!

Hello! hello! hello!

Here we are! here we are!

Here we are again!

W o r ld W a r T w o

The lib rary ca n n o t be silent,there's sound of marching feet; The lecture rooms are noisy, the students cannot sleep For the y e llin g , ch a rg in g Scotchmen their campus capers keep.

The pupils gaze out of the w in d o w and w atch the plaid skirts flare; W hile profs raise their cul­ tured voices to combat the bag­ pipes' blare.

The students learn their ABCs with notebook and with pen, W hile the recruits thrill on the campus hill to the art of killing men.

- McGill Daily, Oct. 12, 1939 M cG ill's contribution to the First W orld W ar set an imposing

N evertheless, students responded to the call to arms en masse. On October 12, 1939 the D a ily reported that three Redmen fo o tb a ll squads had joined the COTC together and incorporated military drill into their regular practices. While the COTC had been criticised during the 1930s for promoting mili­ tarism, the advent of war caused its ranks to swell. In order to meet the demands of McGill's rapidly expanding contingent, construc­ tion of tne C urrie M e m o ria l Gymnasium-Armoury was acceler­ ated and by January, 19 4 0 , it was complete. The building was financed in part by the COTC and served a variety of functions related to m ilita ry tra in in g .

Because of the rigorous demands of COTC training, participants were given academic credit for the course. By 1941, McGill's C O TC course had produced 5 0 0 graduates and by the end of the War this figure reached into the thou­ sands.

Mc Gi l l ' s contribution to the e ffo rt of training future soldiers, howev­ er, was not lim­ ited to the C O T C . O rg ­ anised in May, 1942, the N o .5 (M cG ill) Squadron of the U niversity A ir Training Corps assisted in the training of air­ crews for ser­ vice in the Royal Can­ a d ia n A ir Force. As well, Bernard Montgomery, C om m ander o f the British 8th M cG ill offered tra in in g for A rm y decorates Major R.C. Coleman, B.A. 36, Sicily. naval service recedent for students confronted through the McGill section of the U niversity N a v a l T raining y another w ar in September, 1939. Student reactions toward Division.

In July 1940 , the heads of renewed co n flict w ere by no means united. W h ile many Canadian Universities and the rushed to joined the ranks of the Department of National Defence COTC, others, like the anony­ decided that all British students in mous poet above, approached Canadian universities would be the war with obvious apprehen­ required to take compulsory mili­ sion. W rote one student of the tary training. Under the National

Resource Mobilization A ct, p ro v i­ sions were made for the com pulsory tra in in g of able-bodied men from 21 to 4 5 years of age. Under the act, stu­ dents were required to erform six ours of tra in in g a w eek per session to be followed by tw o weeks in cam p for more inten­ sive training.

F o llo w ­ ing on the heels of this

decision was the for­ m ation of the M c G ill

Reserve Training

B a t t a lio n w h ich , by

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counted 1 6 0 0 stu­ dents among its ranks. into chemical warfare.

Women as well played an McGill students who did not important role in McGill's wartime go overseas worked hard on the contributions. By the winter of nomefront, with M c G ill often 1940, 800 female students were being recognised as the most a part of the McGill W ar Service patriotic of the University campus­ Program for Women which pro­ es during the war years. In addi­ vided special training for assis­ tion to COTC services, students tance in the event of emergen­ participated in salvage drives to cies, especially air-raids, and gather scrap materials for the war physical training related to the effort, and numerous pep rallies successful performance of these where A d o lf Hitler was often duties. Many women also joined burned or hanged in effigy.

In the various chapters of the Red early November 1941, the "mile Cross which sprang up all over of pennies", a predecesor of Montreal. W hile most activities today's Loonie Line, appeared on geared towards women empha­ campus and raised over eight sised home defence, 2 9 5 wom en from McGill enlisted in the various arms of the a ctive service between 1939-45.

Students w ere often c ritic is e d by those outside of University communities for not doing their part to assist in the w ar effort. The members of the McGill community, S q u a d ro n L eader P hilip L. I. Archer, B.Sc. lAgr.J however, made vast K illed J u n e 1 7, 1943contributions, both in C a n a d a and o ve r­ seas. hundred dollars to purchase two McGill's wartime contribution Bren m achine guns for the took many forms outside of enlist­ Canadian army. Students offered ment fo r overseas service. their bodies to science, working Researchers at M c G ill made as human guinea pigs, and in im portant contributions in the O ctober 1 9 4 2 , 5 0 0 students fields of sea-sickness control and were granted leaves of absence aided the Allied effort to develop from tne University in order to the A tom ic bom b. Dr. O tto assist farmers in Western Canada Maass, for whom the present day who were experiencing manpow­ Chemistry building is named, par­ er shortages. Earning four dollars ticipated extensively in research a day, they stayed three weeks to

complete the har­ vest. As an edito­ rial in the Daily claimed, "nothing has given McGill the opportunity to show its spirit to such an extent for some time now...

A sp irit before which even 'Arts a p a th y' has fled..."

Thousands of M c G ill students came forward to offer their services to their King and C ountry on the b a ttle fronts of Europe and the P a cific. O f the men who enlisted in the arm ed forces, 2645 joined the ranks of the Army, 1 ,2 2 2 w ent to the Royal C a n ­ adian Air Force while 723 joined the navy. C a s­ ualty rates mount­ ed from the war's outset, with high r§ instances of train­ ee: ing deaths for ^ M c G ill students involved with the -2, Royal Canadian Air Force. During the Battle of Britain and the subse­ quent a ir ca m p a ig n a g a in st Germany, McGill's RCAF losses established themselves dispropor­ tionately to those in other areas of the Armed services. Of the 298 M c G ill students killed in the Second W orld W ar, 172 died in the service of the RCAF. McGill's battle honours testify to the contribution and sacrifice of its students. Names like Dunkirk, D ieppe, Hong Kong and Normandy dot tne pages of the yearbooks and new spapers underneath the pictures of those students d e corated , killed or taken prisoner in battles far from the classrooms back home.

Russell Henry McConnell, B. Com. '39

For those with memo­ ries of the great M cG ill hockey teams of only a few years ago, the news in September of the loss at sea through enemy action of H M C S Racoon was ’4 0 made harder to bear by the announcement that Sub Lieut. R.H. McConnell, that superb hockey forward of such recent years, had gone. In the Passing Sports Show of the M ontreal Star, Baz O 'M e a ra wrote, "His adversaries and his teammates will pause to pay him tribute," So will a host of those who will ever remember him as one of the finest sportsmen to wear the Red and White of Old McGill.

-McGill News, Winter 1942

Remembrance Day

November 8th, 1994

World War I: Canada’s “War of Independence” P ro fesso r D esm ond M o rto n , d ire c to r o f M cG ill's new Institute for the Study o f Canada, is an authority on Canadian military history. The Tribune spoke to him about his new book on C a n a d a a n d the First W o rld W a r, entitled When Your Number's Up.

were fighting a very bloody battle further South, but not always very successfully -unless you read their histories. The Canadians and the Australians were pretty important in 1918, and probably would have been in 1919.

T: W ere we not so good before 1918?

By Gibran Van Ert__________________________

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Recalling a Montreal teenager’s war

By Steve Smith At 1 7, M o n tre a l's M a c k M cS orley had just graduated from high school and w as employed at Birks making tea cups and putting handles on teapots. Though C anada had been at w ar with Germany for less than a year, McSorley's two broLfagy^gnd the majority of his friends; had, already enlisted in Canada'é fighting forces.

Fifty ye»ssjhaye now passi since the day l^p orfêyauitJP rks and joined nis peers in the ranks, of the Canadian army overseas All that his regiment now asks of him is his attendance a jjK frej quent reunions. X # in t^rpeace-. time comfort of the rpén s mess M o n tre a l's Roybl H ig b lg Regim ent (B lack W a tc h McSorley recalled a not so tant pgst when those sqm echoed with the sounds preparing for war.

"M o st of , [oyer|®bs I was ‘è' Hhp abb.

M c G ill g ra d u a te student Phil G riffin. G riffin led M cSorley's company into their first battles in July of 1944 and was killed in the battle for Verrière Ridge twen­ ty days after their arrival.

"O n ce w e got to France, Griffin said 'forget about it. It's no longer M ajor Griffin, it's Phil Griffin. And he was a hell of a good man. It was a sad day w hpn W e lost h im ," said MfeSorjey, M q ^irle y's w ar lasted from . h i s a r f l i n France in July, 1944 to G éntfiny's surrender in M ay of, 1*9455 As he battled his way through fiance, the Netherlands Ofid firm ly over the Rhine and “ G e rm a n y, the young experienced a lifetimewood times and bad. :There were two little girls in nd — they were twins. W e at a rest area in town igk and were out for a n the shelling began, ere just across the river hich was only 4 0 0 feet cSorley recalled. "The ame over and one of ®^as killed right away, the s wounded. So we took to the hospital] and they mi other little girl away and B i er.The other one we use o see her all the time when was in the hospital.

W ë gplf(d her Christina because it was near Christmas." W h ile visitin g , Europe this summer, M cS orley had an unexpected run-in y ^ p "Christina", now 61, er in the town hall in

W hat is important, I think, about Canadians (and I talk a lot a b o u t this in W h en Your Number's Up) is that we learned the business of war. W e were very poor at the start: low in experience, low in understanding battle, low in performance, low in discipline. Nobody's any good on the first d a y— that's true of hockey M : The population of Canada according to teams, football teams, and Canadian infantry the 1911 census was 8 million, let's say half of divisions.

The Canadians also changed their tactics. I them were men, and half of those men two mT et fed up with stories of the First W orld W ar lion Canadians— were within broad military age at assume that every battle was fought like the limits, say 16 to 45. Five hundred thousand of those two million volunteered. That means one in battle of the Somme. If they had been, it would have been an Allied disaster. It's important to four of the men you would know volunteered.

Let's say half of the others were physically unfit for recognise that those staff officers we're all taught to mock and s'neer at had some use. Yes, they service, because that was about the proportion.

So just about half the men who could have con­ wore snazzy uniforms and didn't get their feet is to be ceivably gone to war, went. Another one hun­ wet if they could help.ifaarts t what dred thousand were conscripted in 1918. That's, Monday morninc^guafterba it. The a large part of the population. N o w it's much had gone wrç Je bear no larger in some places than in others. The West tactics used in jll sed at the enrolled very heavily and Toronto and English- r e s e m b la n c e ^ H li ^ _______ s importar speaking Montreal even more heavily. English- Somme only six moiife..befo»'. speaking Montreal, which was about 40% of the to understand. added ci city's population at the time, produced 8 battal­ Canadians had, nh ions out of 4 8 in the Canadian Corps — the advantages. Because" was September to Detîtoî: whole of French Canada produced one. So your didn't hays if and young and said to hell chances of knowing a soldier in French Canada acceptée f was I went and joined up. w ould be rather lower than your chances of the guy who may be a | ( it," he explained. ffected beat out of the llne^feuLinabati knowing one if you lived in Westmount or NDG. Since, the minimum age for adership and ready to kill— (p jlp iffdirecruits was 18, McSorley had to rked over, T: In When Your Number's Up you some- j ;wh#rf ; general atti­ ' bluff hlfw aya|!toJre regiment. times refer to Sir Arthur Currie, whom M cGill stuj^ of W hetf I w e rf to jo jp jtp they re war, we want dents know as the man after which our gym is tudsft too to ee my b iffi'c e rtit'G vawto end it is to win named. W ho was he? it to b § j|li|L at sa fi was c a t e / w recalled, Jffyvise." That may r no* at homo m n d I coy Id n't get f, fin d it certainly la th e r utjJ He was from Strathroy, Ontario. He became II you there wasn't a )mse my moth " K neering from people Sets a lot j a militia officer and rose- to the command the whole town hall," rthey said vay to end a fight is to fifth Garrison Artillery, which was the bic a ssu re /e me a. wasn't the way these ment in Victoria. Then he organised th e ^ d w fh awe 3p 21 years-old when he it wasn't the w ay they Gordon Highlanders. When the war cam ealong men w ef fasted b a ttle , M c S o rle y ■ * 'l i i s i Currie was a llow ed to command one of the behaved.1 =d that fear was not an brigades of the First Canadian contingent as a. ;n it was announced ling, did.Canada gain fre representative of the West. He was a very com­ bmpany was leaving for petent, solid, thoughtful and, I think, a brave and" effective general. But he was not charismatic; he jldn't say we were ner« fe n d e d to gain w henj didn't really know how to make himselrpopular :ause w e w e re a ll snado's war of independent with the troops. But he took very good care of. his at's the way it was," he Jians and certc men's lives, he risked his own, and even more Id. "But once you got ■ C a n a d a 's difficult, he used his position to protect his officers then it was different. to war wc and men from some pretty bad appointments. He „ . fiat, Id you had a steel hello t the time, of didn't want to be in the peace-time jj W e i o n < id that would stop the |modest way, w itj ni p rin c ip a l so M cG ill's offer of the vacaia htil you see the bullets bullets,.. ourselves § ' ' came as a great blessings. He ttook the job Hugh them. Then things !n t Imperial lec seriously. He was thougl [r you for sure." ation, J| and pretty conscientious Irley emphasised, howtsajet "She used i p art of fHj place's values.

L| |y fond memories of his J p ia n o , she w as a w o nr le coun <perience. m o player but l| e T: Were Canadians i vere young, you didn't sr got shot down. sh| gain a reputation for oursa Dthing — for what any‘ jhe piaoo afte or aid. You were havM : The British at the| time," he noted, resented the fact that Cq jouth was all many of get a lot of credit in the is wartime mates would tribution to the last hundrec

Trib: Sixty thousand Canadians died in the First W orld W ar. Can you give us a sense of what that figure meant to Canadians in 1918?

How many dead might the average Canadian have known?

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more men as casualties, those last hundred days thl parable period during t f casualties than at Passchi or Vimy Ridge. So we 'A9r and perhaps we deserve Birol had some good divisions too^D uton the whole they'd run out of men, run out of steam. And the Americans hadn't learned how to fight yet and

mjjids ’ world, puts. É

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ae KeaOy, Aye £eady again. W e were going to be our own country. And the British knew it, too. =

ticer I raining C-orps. u f lnese o ffic e rs , M c S o rle y had fond memories of one in particular:

[just look at the headzurope and you remem3s they were when they ng. You were so close you lived w ith one tor four years and went everywhere together-it's pretty hard to forget."

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ENTERTAINMENT Subtle excellence

Cabaret decadence

By Ioyce Lau_____________________________________________________ H e re ’s your chance to leave your usual w eekend bash and im m erse yourself in som e true decadence. Cabaret, the P lay ers’ Theatre’s largest production o f the season, is an interactive drama based on the socially subversive period which had emerged between the two world wars. Set in W eimar Germany, it addresses the deviant gluttony which was coupled with the political rise of Nazism.

For maximum impact, Players’ Theatre has decided on an inno­ vative and aggressive delivery which draws the audience straight into the action on stage. The Tribune spoke with director Rob Cohen.

Cohen explained that the role of one of the instigators takes the form of a freakishly active emcee.

“W e’re trying to break down the wall between the audience and the actor,” he said.

“In the original script, the emcee only hosts the actors, now he

hosts the entire narrative. H e’s there to rem ind the audience that they’re actually in a cabaret. It’s very in your face. W e’re going to us the audience in ways that they are not used to being used,” added Cohen.

“T here w ill be w aiters and K itk at g irls, in co stu m e, w ith German accents who will be serving beer and mixed drinks. When they finish a scene they w on’t go backstage, they’ll go hang out with the audience. We want people to go and get rip roarin’ drunk, I mean, just have a good time. There will also be some table dancing.”

“The emcee character is eccentric, so to say, and will be picking bones with the audience. H e’s sort of asexual — bisexual, I guess — so he flirts with guys and women, with the dancers and with the audi­ ence. There’s even more shock treatment, but that’s a secret.” So go early to grab one of the tables set up in the front of the gallery.

A pre-show and live music will be used to further submerge the audience in the era.

Musical director Brian Current, a McGill composer, has added his own interpretative touches to the original score.

“Lots of fun dissonant composition has been added to emphasise the increasingly dissonant atmosphere. And as the show declines to N azi terror, the music gets taken along with it,” explained Cohen.

The pre-show will include a slide show with both his­ toric photos and art prints of the period, providing factual information on the impact of the cabaret on the society of the ‘20s and ‘30s.

“We did a lot of research on how this society came to be as liberal as it was. How does a society evolve into a frenzy? How did W eim ar G erm any becom e so ‘d eca­ dent’? They had a Institute of Sexual Research and a gov­ ernm ent funded H om osexuality M useum w hich by no means would be supported and accepted today. We want the audience to have a certain comprehension of the peri­ od and therefore understand why we went ahead with a little homoeroticism or nudity — that it’s not just gratu­ itous and not just a peep show.”

“W e want the audience to feel like apart of this soci­ ety, to be an actor, to role play. We want them to feel like someone in W eimar Germany who had just gone to the bank to withdraw every last penny and had woken up the next morning to find that his or her entire material wealth had now dipped to the value of two American cents. What did these people do? They went right to the cabaret. With two cents, people might as well use it in one night to have a good time.”

“W hen m onetary values turn upside down, people can no longer rely on previous standards o f m orality.

Finding new ways to satisfy the self in non-material ways creates a frenzied society seeking deviant pleasure. Sex. Prostitution, licensed and legal. Cocaine. Orgies.” ij “We can’t do it all on stage, but we are going to try _c our best to, well, revive the feeling.”

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Lovers a t th e C abaret

C ab aret is o p en in g a t the P la y e rs’ T heatre n ext Tuesday, Novem ber 15, and plays f o r two weeks, with shows starting at 7:30 p.m . H urry and get your tickets, they are quickly selling out.

Death, Delirium & Desire heats up the stage B y T anya M einecke S p lin te r P r o d u c tio n s ’ translation/adaptation o f Le dernier délire perm is, entitled D eath, D elirium & Desire, is the first English production of M ontreal playw right Jean-Frédéric M essier’s work.

T he m usic is also local, featuring B lack Sunshine, Steve Durand, local guitar rock­ e r N e rd y G irl, S c ra p D o u g la s an d th e U m brellas. The play looks at the em otions an d fe a rs su rro u n d in g d e a th o r d e s ire , w hich are issues arguably pertinent to all individuals.

W hile the audience waits to be seated before the perform ance, characters from the play scatter about the room — there’s a couple m aking out in a com er, som eone staring alone out the window, one couple slow dancing, and singing to each other. It is a g o o d w ay o f e m p h a sisin g th a t the p la y ’s them es do involve everyday life.

The play is loosely based on the story

o f Don Juan, to which it alludes a num ber o f tim es. It is an interesting exam ination o f the interco n n ectin g issues in its title, w hich are relevant to the ex periences of love and sex in the ‘90s. It tells the story o f six ch a ra c te rs w h o se liv es are in te r­ tw ined due to th e escap ad es o f D om m e (Isabel G om ez-M oriana), who is constant­ ly searching for a way to experience life to the fullest (she says she do esn ’t w ant to be dead before she dies). T his leads her to leave her lover, E lvire (A lex Ivanovici), repeatedly, and to look for other pleasures, thus brin g in g her in co n tac t w ith ero tic p h o to g r a p h e r C h a r lie (K a te M a c N a u g h to n ), and c o h o r t/ f r ie n d S g n a n a re lle (H o w a rd R o s e n s te in ) an d M attie (Jillian S teadm an), who becom es h er lo v e r. T h e sto ry fo llo w s D o m m e ’s self-destructive lifestyle and its repercus­ sions on the other characters, trailing an almost circular form.

One scene w hich is particularly pow ­

erful is M attie’s m onologue in w hich she describes h er jo b o f interview ing people over the phone about sexual relationships in the ‘90s. R ecordings o f her voice are played o ver her live p erform ance, w hile her som bre face and tone of voice echo her ow n b o red o m an d d issatisfa ctio n in her relationship with Pete.

The p lay ’s set is simple, and effective because of its sim plicity. It consists m ain­ ly o f gauzy drapery w hich serves to repre­ sent various settings throughout the play.

T h e a u d ie n c e th e re fo re fo c u se s on the c h a ra c te rs , w ho g iv e p o w e rfu l p e r f o r ­ m ances, although at tim es the d ialo g u e’s stridency lasts too long. The fem ale “Don Ju an ” has a w onderfully expressive face and enorm ously enacted emotion.

D eath , D eliriu m & D esire p la y s a t T h éâ tre La C h a p e lle (3 7 0 0 rue S a in teD o m in iq u e ) n ig h tly a t 8 p .m . u n til Novem ber 13th.

• The McGill Symphony plays the Notre-Dame Basilica

By Sam H orodezky_____________ T h e M c G ill S y m p h o n y ’s p e rfo rm a n c e Friday was an all Honegger programme, featur­ ing Symphony No. 3 (Symphonie Liturgique) and the mini-oratorio La D anse des mortes.

Having taken place inside the breathtaking Notre-Dam e cathedral, the concert h all’s sim i­ la r itie s to L e a c o c k 132 w e re a s to u n d in g .

Students sat at a far distance and at an odd angle while a serious Paul Sacher made unenthusiastic hand gesticulations in front o f a podium . But, above all, the music often had an imagery of its own.

The evening started with A rthur H onegger’s Symphony No. 3, a violent but exciting com posi­ tion in three movements. The programme stated that the com poser “exch an g ed the traditional tonic-dom inant or tonic-closely related key for­ m ula for atonality.” And that he did. This was an all-out contem porary perform ance, full o f har­ monic tension and unusual musical motifs.

T he sym phony w as ab o u t su fferin g , w ar and terror. The first m ovement D ies irae (Day o f wrath), opened with a moan from the double basses in a series o f rapid m anoeuvring through­ out the lower registers. From there the orchestra built up to a frenetic pace with chords clashing.

This m ovement was somewhat chaotic, but the sound of the orchestra more than made up for it.

T heir sound was fluid, tight, and w onderfully warm. The lower strings were often subjected to terrifyingly quick passages that can fall apart instantly, but they held their ground at all times while maintaining rich, precise strokes.

The second movement was much more sub­ dued. The violins produced an enchanting dolce tone, culm inating in a beautiful, rustic sound.

The French horns also shone in this movement, featuring som e gorgeous solos playing over a tranquil low er string underpinning. The entire orchestra achieved an excellent balance through­ out the piece, although especially in that m ove­ ment.

T he th ird sectio n also req u ired d ynam ic expertise. At one point the orchestra blasts at fortissim o and dies away alm ost im m ediately, d if fe r in g fro m th e s ta n d a rd s u b ito p ia n o ( ‘instantly q u ie t’) as a b rief cascade o f rapid n o te s fro m th e w o o d w in d s lin k e d th e tw o dynam ics. The m ovem ent parodied som ew hat, the notion o f a m arch, m aintaining a constant b eat w hile fea tu rin g som e v ery odd and n ot apparently relevant material over the established structure.

The second piece on the program was not nearly as exciting. In places, La Danse des morts sounded exactly that: dead. The orchestra was acceptable but did not shine. The oratorio used the M cG ill Sym phony O rchestra, the M cG ill U n iv e rsity C h o ir, an d th e M c G ill C h am b er Singers. The choirs were m uch the same, accept­ able in terms of technique, but lacking in terms of interpretation. There were several soloists on voice and instruments, along with one narrator.

The piece was divided up into seven linked sec­ tions that appeared only disjointed and confus­ ing. The whole com position lacked in power and expression.

Despite the problem s with the second part o f the program m e, and especially despite the concert’s uncanny resemblance to large general arts and science lectures, the M cGill Symphony O rchestra and Paul Sacher provided a quality perform ance that reflects favourably on M cGill music. These symphony concerts are highly rec­ ommended in that they are usually free, regular­ ly presented throughout the school year and of exceptional quality.

ENTERTAINMENT

November 8th, 1994

Small Chin M usic (Alias/Cargo) Memo From: The Elders of W hinin’ To: Small Re: How to become big rock stars!

1) C laim as y o u r c ity o f o rig in some indie-rock M ecca like Chapel Hill, NC. T hat w ay, goofy record re v ie w e rs w ill d ro p n am es lik e Superchunk and Bitch Magnet, and the idiotic masses will run out and buy your album.

2) P urchase the J. M a scis P o et’s D ictionary. This is a super-handy r e f e r e n c e g u id e to u n is y lla b ic w ords that rhym e. Pay p articular note to Index 3 — ’’W ords for apa­ thetic songs about being dum ped by girls.”

3) T h in k o f the stu p id est sort o f music im aginable — like the GoG o ’s jam m ing with Fugazi with a sober, non-Irish Shane M acGowan singing. Then go into a big fancy studio and try and m ake a record.

4) C h a n c e s a re , y o u ’ll e n d up so u n d in g lik e a really bad B uffalo T o m c o v e r ban d .

W h o c a re s ? T h e k id s lo v e th is stuff!

5) S it b ac k , w ait fo r S p in to g u ilt trip th e ir re a d e rs in to b u y in g y o u r rec o rd s, and p lan fo r y o u r r e ti r e ­ m en t. M aybe get som e cool tattoos or piercing? G ood luck, boys!

— Kurt Newman

fact, th e w hole alb u m , ev en th e fa ile d r e la tio n s h ip th e m e o f “M uffled” (which really hit home), m akes one w ant to see them live, b ecause I ’ll bet they cran k . T he hard punk guitars, fast, loud drum ­ m in g , a n d th e in te n s ity o f th e sin g e r’s v o ice m ake R ev a good counter to the noise o f life w hen the din gets a little too harsh.

— Susan Glover

Marc Ribot Shrek (Avan) M arc R ibot’s music, m uch like the m an h im s e lf , e x is ts in a Jim Jarmusch universe where everyone sm okes C hesterfields, and every­ thing radiates cool. R ibot’s badlyin -need-of-G ravol g u ita r playing has graced the work o f such lum i­ n a rie s as T om W a its, M a ria n n e Faithful, and Elvis Costello. Shrek, if my memory of Mrs. Reinheartz’s G rade 6 Y iddish class serves m e co rrectly , tran slate s as “ h o rro r” ,

Ten Foot Pole R ev ( E p ita p h / Cargo) W hat w ould have h a p p e n e d i f th e D e sc e n d a n ts had never m ade teenage alienation fun instead o f just nasty? Well, lots of s k a te r s w o u ld n ’t have had a so u n d track and M ilo p ro b ab ly w o u ld n ’t h av e gone to co lleg e. T en F oot P o le w o u ld n ’t have put out Rev, either, and that w o u ld b e a d a m n e d s h a m e , so p ro p s to th o se S o C a l p io n e e rs .

Filled with disillusionm ent, anger, and the concentration o f som eone who has been d rinking too m uch c o ffe e , R e v 's ly ric s are a little depressing, but the band is so tight and talented that I ju st d o n ’t care about that other stuff. “Old M an” is a w is tfu l y e t w o rld -w e a ry tu n e about an old m an talking o f “the good old days”, the innocence of w hich are unknow n to m ost kids to d a y . “ N e v e r L o o k B a c k ” and “W o rld ’s Best D ad ” are m ore o f the same, and rem ind one o f newer Pennyw ise and Farside, especially with the Southern California accent o f the lead singer, w hich is rather endearing. “Co-Song” is a short but sa ssy tr a c k th a t is so f a s t an d jum pable that it impelled me to hop around my apartm ent singing and m ak in g my pup p y h y ste ric a l. In

and th is is in d e ed an u n se ttlin g album . I t’s the c o llisio n o f K urt W e ill a n d O rn e tte C o le m a n ’s Prim e Tim e Band, rem ixed as the ultimate skronk garage band. Those fam iliar with the oeuvre o f the artd a m a g e d D o w n to w n fre e ja z z scene spearheaded by John Z orn w ill fin d this rec o rd to be sh eer bliss, and those w ho are not may well find themselves scraping their jaw s off the floor. U nfortunately, this record is on Z orn’s Japan-only label, so it bears an x-large price tag. Take the plunge, comrades — S h r e k is w ell w o rth th e tre k to L ’O blique and the Ichiban dow n­ sizing you may have to endure.

-Kurt Newman

Boatman Boatman (independent) T h is E P , fro m B o a tm a n , is an u n e x p e c te d tre a t. T h e L o n d o n based trio, fronted by the enigmatic B o a tm a n , fo rm e rly o f M o n trea l band T he Joyces, co m b in e equal

parts R obyn H itchcock, N irvana, Elvis Costello and Celtic music to create five enthralling songs. The le a d tr a c k , “ W a rn in g S h o t” , blends acoustic and electric guitars into a hook-heavy pop song w or­ thy of mainstream chart action.

B oatm an’s use o f lyrical overdubs and m ultiple g u itar tracks bely a professionalism beyond their rela­ tive inexperience. The delightful "I H ave C om e To Kill Y o u ” m ean ­ ders along happily w hile dealing with a less than cheery topic.

Each o f the five songs on this disc w arrant som e attention. If there is any ju s tic e in th e m u sic w o rld , B o a tm a n a n d h is b a n d w ill be h e a rd fro m fo r m a n y y e a rs to c o m e . I f y o u lik e s u g a r-s w e e t, hook-heavy pop, you should check out this release. Y ou w ill n ot be disappointed.

- M ichael Broadhurst

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Suede Nude (Sony) Nude, the new album by Suede, is som e o f the w orst pap I ’ve ev er had the misfortune to hear. Nude is like Easy Listening music for skin­ ny middle-class kids hopped up on p ills, lo o k in g fo r th e ir lo st O rb CDs. Maybe th at’s unfair, because n o t a ll o f th e songs are terri­ ble but none of them have any originality, pas­ s io n , o r e v e n th e c a tc h in e s s th at one m ight expect from the d a r lin g s of London. “Intro­ d u c in g th e Band” is a stab at m ix in g an d ro g y n o u s sexuality with a vague theme of social concern, but I ’m blowed if I ca n fig u re o u t w h y th e y bothered, since it is ju s t a r e h a s h o f th e M ighty L em on D ro p s o r th e B plshpi or any o th e r c h e e s y E ig h tie s N ew W ave/G oth band.

“T he W ild O n e s” has an alm o st countryish feel to it, like they were h an g in g o u t at K en n y R o g e rs ’s ran ch fo r a w h ile, w earin g tig h t c h a p s an d d rin k in g m a rtin is o r som ething. “D ad d y ’s S p eed in g ” , which is, I believe, about a son not getting love from his father, among other things, is a slow, spacey tune th at rem in d ed m e o f the B eatles w hen they w ere on lots o f drugs, except that it’s not psychedelic so m u ch as a n n o y in g . In e s s e n c e , Nude sounds like Seude was listen­ ing to old Echo and the Bunnymen and Joy D iv isio n tap es and th en re c o rd e d a ll o f th e ir new so n g s w hile they w ere hung over. I did kind of like “The Asphalt W orld”, despite it’s silly poor little druggiem e lyrics, because I could picture d rin k in g g in and to n ic s in som e deserted bar and swaying around to the music. Otherwise, Nude sucks, u n less you have a love fo r h alfassed lyrics about urban love sung in a tragic voice.

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d e a ls w ith in d iv id u a ls w ho fall b etw een the crack s o f o th e r se r­ v ic e s. M o st o f th e s e rv ic e s are available on a drop-in basis, with fle x ib le h o u rs g ea red esp e c ia lly towards active schedules.

B e n e F u n k o r g a n is e r C ra ig W ebster said that this fundraising approach is aimed at a target audi­ ence, M ontreal’s youth. H ead and Hands is also responsible for each s u m m e r’s an n u al S u n d ay in the Park music festival.

T h e g ro u p c u r r e n tly h a s a fundraising deficit, and is counting on BeneFunk to help meet its finan­ cial needs. To support its services, H ead and H ands relies on benefit proceeds and the generous support of volunteers, which include the six bands who have donated their ser­

BeneFunk is a six-band extrav­ aganza where everybody stands to benefit. The audience will receive a fine smorgasbord of funk, hip-hop, reggae, acid jazz and rock. In addi­ tion, the Head and Hands organisa­ tion stands to raise m uch needed fu n d s to aid in th e o p e ra tio n o f some twenty free youth services.

Head and Hands, a non-profit o rg a n is a tio n , o ffe rs e v e ry th in g fro m le g a l c o u n s e llin g , s o c ia l w o rk e rs an d y o u n g p a re n t p r o ­ grams to medical services and nurs­ es, who are on duty 5 days a week.

T h e N D G -b a s e d c re w m a in ly serves young adults, although its services are open to all between the ages o f 10 and 35. The group often

vices to Thursday’s benefit.

B eneF unk featu res the N D G S y m p h o n y , fu n k a te e r s P u b lic Enema, Babelfish, local rap heroes Shades o f Culture, O ttaw a’s Illegal Jazz P oets, and T rev o r R eid and Human Touch. In order to facilitate so many perform ers, it is an early show, w ith doors opening at 7:30 p.m.. Take this opportunity to see a fine range of talents while support­ ing an deserving public service.

BeneFunk happens Thursday, N o vem b er 10th at W o odstock (3781 St. Laurent.) Doors open at 7:30 p.m., so arrive early to catch the w hole show . Tickets are $5 advance and $6 at the door, with all proceeds going to H ead and Hands.

Interview with the drag queen • Draghoula s failed camp B y Ian W ineberg____________ Our society has been bitten... W hile once vampires were creatures inspiring fear and loathing in the hearts of all, they have now becom e popular social figures, some even with conscience and good will. Anne Rice’s Lestât from the Vampire Chronicles tells us: T don’t want to be bad, I just want to eat you. Pity me my pain.’

Now we have Draghoula.

U pon settling into my friday m atinee show ing o f Draghoula , I couldn't help but notice how comfy th e se a ts w e re ... b u t I d ig re s s .

Draghoula is a film w ith a great prem ise: H arry S ilb erm an (C riss Lee) is a young, Jewish scientist on a quest to discover the ‘guilt’ gene.

When the lab’s administration cuts his budget, he is forced to seek rats from a cheaper source to continue his research. Enter Sabrina Stetter (S te p h a n ie S e id le ) th e n ew la b assistant with designs on Harry and th e w o rst w a rd ro b e th is sid e o f Cher.

In h is ra t-d e p riv e d d e sp a ir, Harry contacts A rm adona (Robyn Lane,) a Transylvanian distributor of rats/vampiress/seductress. One of the rats bites him, and, quelle sur­ prise, he turns into a Drag Queen M a d Scientist V am pire. Suspension o f disb elief never had such a challenge, but what camp potential!

The film ’s director, Bashar Shbib (of Julia Has Two Lovers fam e,) aspires to be ju st like fam ous Bmovie ‘artist’ Ed W ood, but instead comes off looking a bit incompetent. Ed W ood’s films didn’t attempt to suspend your disbelief, they made a mockery o f it and transformed the ridiculous into the camp. Draghoula’’s kitsch gets swallowed in inane dialogue, a ridiculously slow and m uddled plotline, and questionable acting skills.

I had the opportunity to m eet Stephanie Seidle (Sabrina) w hile studying at CEGEP. This Concordia film graduate shows great promise behind the camera, but should never again venture in front o f it. Seidle seems uncomfortable on film and exhudes no on-screen

personality. You w ill find y o u rself w ondering w hat exactly Sabrina’s role is. W e never find out, and hardly care.

Criss Lee (Harry) was a heck of a lot better. His perform ance show s m uch prom ise, but h e ’s still no Daniel Day-Lewis. Lee states: “I love H arry’s sexual ambiguity, his inadequacy as a Vampire... I think that h e’s a hero.” His Draghoula is Lestât taken one step further. N o pretensions o f class or culture here; Harry ju st wants to get aw ay from his overbearing mother.

W atch for L ee’s redefinition of blow job as suck/bite off job.

R o b y n L a n e (A rm a d o n a ) an d V ic to ria B a rk o ff (Id a Silberman) are adequate, as is the film ’s production. T he problem lies in the fact that nothing stands out as excellent, it all feels like an experim ent or a first draft. The sc rip t has h o le s th a t an en tire coven could fly through, and the laughs are few and far between.

There is some nice camera work with colour filters, particularly of Seidle at dawn, but nothing that w o u ld h a v e y o u c ry in g o u t ‘B ra n a g h !’ T he m usic is p ure memories o f Addams Family and mostly perform ed by Criss L ee’s band, Talamasca.

T he b ack d ro p o f M ontreal was w hat m ade this film truly bearable. O ne could attem pt to identify local landm arks w hile Harry did his vampiric thing. Particularly amusing is the chase scene, which ends up on Peel Street at mid­ night on a Saturday. The Old Port and Man and His W orld are also recognisable. But what o f the people who are not familiar with our grand city? Not much here, I ’m afraid.

A truly campy film had you going from the first scene (à la Rocky Horror,) and makes a farce o f those things that we hold so dear in W estern Civilisation.

Bashar Shbib would have us believe that this film is about relationships and sexual ambiguity, but neither of these films are fleshed out. You simply accept the facts: Y es, H arry is b isexual; Sure, S abrina loves H arry.

There is no fun. But I keep thinking about those comfy seats...

The Tao Of Pure

By Kurt Newman Pure are a rock and roll band fro m th e lan d o f T e rry D av id Mulligan. They have just released a new rec o rd , G eneration-6-Pack, which marks a progression from the ersatz M an ch ester sound o f their last record to a more stripped down, S to n esy ro ck g ro o v e. I had the opportunity to speak with their guru o f the 8 8 ’s, Mark Henning. W hile he has no blood relation to the illu­

sio n ist and pal o ’ the M ah arah i, D o u g H e n n in g , he d id d isp e n se much insight on all manner of m usi­ cal and cultural issues.

going on... provide us with a couple of solutions or answers, and maybe things will settle down a little bit.”

On Generalisation X, Part 2: Lead singer Jordy on modern British rock: “ T h e se f u c k in ’ p o tsy h y p e bands from England... fuck 'em !”

On Generalisation X, Part 1: “There aren’t a lot of options, th ere a re n ’t a lot o f g reat things

“I f th e re ’s one th in g I d o n ’t wanna be, it’s a slacker band. Who cares? Slacker, blow me! Sorry to any slackers out there, but y o u ’re probably too lazy to read this, any­ ways.”

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Dancing away ethnie distances • Reinterpreting traditional Indian and African dance

By Ioyce Lau_____________________

which may have helped him to break free of norms set in the supposedly liberal field of contemporary chore­ ography.

“People think that you have to start w ith ballet or contem porary dance from the States or Europe.

T he p o in t is th a t any fo rm alised dance system can be a source for innovation, as long as the system of movement is rich enough to trigger

This season, Les Ailleurs de la D anse is p rese n tin g th ree show s w hich centre around non-W estern c lassica l d an ce w ith tw o p e rfo r­ mances spread over the two upcom­ ing w eekends. K athakali’s Indian d an ce th e a tre an d R exerd a n se’s poetic interpretations o f traditional A frican rhythm s w ill both be p er­ form ed by M ontreal-based artists who have studied their forms exten­ sively overseas.

K athakali is a com plex te ch ­ n iq u e o f In d ia n c la s s ic a l d a n c e which has mostly evolved over the last 200 years. The Tribune spoke with Richard Tremblay, a Québécois dancer/choreographer and founder o f the M o n trea l-b ase d L ’In stitu t International de Kathakali.

Trem blay’s early development as a dancer/choreographer is some­ w hat unusual in that he began his tra in in g by fo llo w in g th e N ew American Theatre movement of the ‘70s, not having actually started in dance.

“I was previously involved in the ‘theatre of movement’, in which the staged m ovem ent is involved w ith w o rk in g w ith th e b o d y ,” Z a b M a b o u n g o v explained Tremblay. th o se fa c u ltie s o f im a g in a tio n ,” The incorporation o f this very specific Eastern form of dance stems argued Tremblay.

Tremblay tries to combine the from T rem blay’s quest for “a less m odern and the classical w ithout stylistic, more systematic approach sacrificing the integrity of the tradi­ to movement.” tional.

The fact that Tremblay has no “ In m y w o rk , th e re are tw o c la ssic a l W e ste rn tra in in g is an w in d o w s. O ne in c lu d e s the anom aly in his field — and a fact Kathakali, and the other includes the

R ic h a rd T rem play p e r fo rm in g K a th a k a li

contem porary; however, Kathakali is still a living and progressing form which includes the contemporary.”

Trem blay’s set of solo perfor­ m an ces sla te d fo r n ex t w eek en d include three classical w orks and one of his own contemporary origi­ nals entitled Origin, which is based on the French translation of a poem by B e n g a li N o b e l-la u re a te R abindranath T agore. T he verses will be chanted over the harmonies of Indian ragas.

Tremblay explained the signifi­ cance of his piece upon the contem­ porary dance movement.

“Origin signifies a piece of creation, a showing of my personal innovation which respects the origi­ nal structures [of Kathakali].”

The traditional pieces w ill be accompanied by L ’Institut’s percus­ sion ensemble, which will also per­ form some short pieces of its own.

Musical director Bruno Paquet is a com poser for contem porary dance sc o re s and h ad stu d ie d in th e Kalamandalam school in India. His ensemble includes cymbals, gongs, and traditional drums like the chenda, maddalam, and édakka on which the drummer “can change the tone by pulling on the drum, like an elas­ tic. The more you pull, the higher the pitch.”

T re m b la y h o p e s to b rid g e Eastern and W estern art form s by b rin g in g co n tem p o rary d an ce to India and Eastern dance to Canada in a form w hich is assessab le to both.

In addition, dancer/choreogra­ pher Zab Maboungou of the Nyata Nyata Company will be performing her Reverdanse the following week­ end. Like Tremblay, she reinterprets an ancient form based heavily on rhythms — specifically the rhythms drawn from the sound o f the drums heard in the Congo and in Ghana.

Says M aboungou, “at the sound of the drums, everything bows in rever­ ence.”

Both performances show at the Bilbliotheque Nationale (1700 St. D enis, Berri-UQAM metro) at 8 p.m. Kathakali shows November 1112, and Reverdanse November 2526. Student tickets are $15 at the door, or call 522-0538 fo r reserva­ tions.

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C o n tin u ed from Page 14 On the G enius o f Loverboy: “We were thinking of covering “Turn Me Loose”. Everyone knows their parts, we just haven’t tightened it up for tour yet.”

On the state o f ivory-tinkling: “ I t ’s g e ttin g to u g h e r an d tougher to play keyboards in a rock band. This is a private beef I have.

You encounter a lot o f resistance initially, y ’know — people come up to you and go: K eyboards? W hat are you guys, Depeche Mode? I ’m like, no... Why do I play this hated instrument ?”

On Can-Rock: “The words “Canadian Rock” aren ’t so much an insult anymore.

Canadian .record .labels are actuajly

d o in g a b it o f g o o d fin a lly , and they’re supporting the local talent, and letting them make good records in ste a d o f sa y in g , 'W e ll, th a t d o e s n ’t so u n d lik e Jo h n Cougar!” ’ On Geography: “ W h en y o u ’re lo o k in g at th a t big b rig h t th in g in th e sky, and yo u ’re dri­ ving directly towards it, you know that big star, El Sol, doesn’t th a t m e an y o u ’re h e a d in g w e st? ...

S om e p e o p le have just gotta buy a com­ pass.”

-Pure are playing Sat. Nov. 12 at Foufounes Electriques.

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Martlet soccer off to the Nationals

By A llana Henderson Play it again Sam. The w om en’s soccer team has done it one m ore tim e. They have finished yet another season and playoff series in championship fashion, barely looking back to see w ho they left b ehind. T he M artlets capped off an incredible undefeated regular se a so n la s t w e e k e n d , b e a tin g #8 ra n k e d S h e rb ro o k e and w in n in g th e Q u eb e c University Soccer League title to advance to the C anadian Interuniversity A thletic Union National Championships in Edmonton, Alberta this week.

The McGill soccer team struggled in the p la y o f f s e m i-fin a l w h en th e y fa c e d th e Concordia Stingers. In both games of the twogame series, the Martlets ended in a tie with the Stingers, but McGill advanced to the final against the Vert et O r due to a unique point scoring system which gave them the advantage o v e r C o n c o rd ia . S in ce the c lo se c a ll, the M artlets have been focusing strictly on the road ahead to the Canadian championships.

This focus and determination showed on Sunday afternoon on a wet and football-worn Molson Stadium field, on a day when the ball was rain-soaked and heavy. The M artlets may have been rain-soaked too, but heavy and slow they were not.

In the first fifteen m inutes of the game, M cG ill ca p italised on its first real scoring opportunity when Odile Desbois shot and nar­ rowly missed the net, hitting the goal post. The M a r tle ts ’ le a d in g sc o re r, Ju lie M a u g h an ,

rebounded the ball to score the point advantage for McGill, putting the home team ahead 1-0.

F u rth e r in to th e f ir s t h a lf, M a u g h an attem p ted a sh o t th a t slip p ed th ro u g h the S h erb ro o k e n e tm in d e r’s h an d s and beg an trick lin g tow ards the net. K athryn D urand jum ped at the chance to increase the M cGill lead and followed through with a direct shot off of the rolling Maughan rebound to put the Martlets ahead 2-0.

But the game was far from over because the Vert et Or would simply not give up.

D e sp ite an aw eso m e p e rfo rm a n c e by game MVP Carolyn Teng, who was in net for McGill, Sherbrooke still managed to get on the scoreboard twenty-two minutes into the second half. The score by the Vert et O r altered the pace o f the gam e, putting both team s under in c re a se d p re ssu re an d m a k in g th e gam e intense right through to its dying minutes.

In the end, the mighty Martlets prevailed by a score of 2-1 in front of a respectable rainy day crowd of supporters despite some general­ ly questionable officiating.

In a d d itio n to w in n in g th e title , th e Martlets also succeeded in naming four players to the all-star team. K athryn D urand, H eidi B loom field, O dile D esbois and league topscorer Maughan were recognised by the QUSL fo r th e ir re s p e c tiv e ro le s in le a d in g th e Martlets through an unblemished season.

Maughan Was not only named all-star for her accom plishm ents, but also the le ag u e’s Most Valuable Player. She finished the regular season with eight goals in eight games in her

f o u rth y e a r w ith th e te a m . A n a tiv e o f K irk lan d , Q u eb ec, M au g h an w as re c e n tly re c o g n is e d as th e Q u eb e c S tu d e n t S p o rt F ederation’s top fem ale student-athlete after achieving academic all-Canadian status in the CIAU. Bloomfield and Desbois finished the sea­ son in third and fourth place respectively in league scoring, while Durand finished in sixth place in the QUSL. The Martlets, as a whole, had six players represented on the top ten scor­ ing list in the Quebec division, making it rather easy to understand the secrets of their success.

In addition, McGill Coach Tony Iachetta was named the QUSL Coach of the Year for leading his team through a perfect 8-0 season.

Iachetta has been nam ed Coach o f the Y ear five times in his nine seasons with the Martlets and is a current nominee for the CIAU coach­ ing award as well. In regular season play, he h as c o m p ile d a 4 8 -1 0 -1 0 re c o rd o v e ra ll through the past nine years, winning six QUSL titles in the process.

As a Redm en player, Iachetta won two conference titles and a national championship in three seasons at McGill so he is no stranger to the concept o f winning. It appears that he has brought those winning ways with him in his transition from player to coach.

Perhaps he will also bring them along in the tran sitio n from M o n treal to E dm onton when the Martlets take on the nation’s best at the CIAU nationals this week. They face the #1 ranked UBC Thunderbirds this Thursday at the University of Alberta.

T essier returns to the court

By T ribune Staff T he w om en’s basketball team fin ­ ished 1-2 at the U n v ersity o f T oronto basketball tournam ent this past weekend in a round-robin tournam ent against the host team , the U niversity of Lethbridge and the University o f British Columbia.

M cG ill fin ish ed second in the to u rn a­ m e n t, a f te r th e U o f T L ad y B lu e s, despite the two losses they suffered.

The highlight o f the w eekend was undoubtedly the return o f Vicki Tessier to the court after an eight-month recov­ ery from k n ee su rg ery p erfo rm ed last spring.

T he M artlets faced UBC on Fiday night in the opening round of action and prevailed against the quickest team that th ey h av e en c o u n te re d th u s far, by a score o f 65-52.

H igh scorers for the M artlet squad w ere A nne G ildenhuys, w ith 17 points and 13 rebounds, and Jen n ifer Stacey, who had 13 points and six steals in the game.

O n S atu rd ay , M cG ill sq u ared o ff against L ethbridge, the only team who had dealt them a loss in the pre-season before the Toronto tourney, and, for the second tim e in tw o w eeks, lo st to the Pronghorns by a score of 60-57.

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Gaiters end McGill’s Cinderella season

By Kashif Zahoor The day held no m iracles for McGill. No last second comebacks.

No hundred yard touchdown passes.

No 14 points in the last two minutes.

T he dream o f re p e a tin g the improbable season of 1987 and the quest for the Vanier Cup came to a b itte r end la st S atu rd ay . N early 7 ,0 0 0 fan s, the la rg e st cro w d at Molson Stadium in ten years despite the rain and the wind, watched the #7 B ishop’s G aiters defeat the #6 McGill Redmen by a score of 14-7 in th e O n ta rio -Q u e b e c Interuniversity Football Conference finals.

As Shawn Linden was brought dow n n ear m idfield by a host of Gaiter tacklers on the last play, with no time on the clock, the reality of the situation set in. It was finally over.

E v en to the v ery e n d , the McGill faithfuls, who had seen their team find ways out of im possible predicaments week after week, firm­ ly believed that the Red and White would somehow pull another rabbit out of the hat.

H ead c o a c h C h a rlie B a illie offered a practical explanation for M cGill’s luck up to that point.

“We only had so m any m ira­ cles in our back pocket,” he said.

M c G ill q u a rte rb a c k A ndy Lucchetta, who may have donned a M cG ill uniform for the last tim e, remained optimistic throughout the game that the Redmen would some­ how pull through.

“I had that feeling... everyone on the team had that feeling that we would come back. We did it before

and could do it again,” he said.

U n fo rtu n a tely fo r L u cch etta and the rest o f M cG ill, B ish o p ’s paid close attention to Concordia’s mistakes and made sure they didn’t repeat them.

The Gaiters set the tone of the gam e from th e o u tse t. O n th e ir opening possession, they m arched 71 yards in 10 plays. Gaiters’ quar­ terback Trevor Lovig put the icing on the cake with a seven yard touch­ down run four minutes into the con­ test.

The adverse weather conditions coaxed a miscue by the McGill spe­ cial team s, settin g the table for Bishops’ second touchdown. Then, Steve Papp, a nominee for the Hec C reigton T rophy as outstanding player in C anadian college foot­ ball, fumbled away a punt return.

The Gaiters pounced on the loose ball at the McGill 33-yard line.

T he d e fe n c e su c c e e d e d in stopping Bishop’s at the 14, but an offside penalty on the third down gave the G aiters another chance.

B ishop’s wasted no time in capi­ talizing on the Redm en m istake when Lovig connected with wide receiver Masaki Konno on the next p la y fo r a n in e y ard TD p ass.

B arely 13 m inutes had elapsed, and the Gaiters led 14-0.

Lovig passed for 125 yards in the first half in rainy conditions.

The yardage via the air helped the G a ite rs dig a h o le from w h ich McGill never quite climbed out.

It could have been a lot worse for the Redm en, but the G aiters failed to take advantage of several miscues in the second quarter that would have sealed M cG ill’s fate

before halftime.

C ounting th eir blessings that th e sc o re w as o n ly 14-0, th e R ed m en had ev e ry in te n tio n o f fighting back. This was evident by M cGill’s opening possession of the second half. The R edm en finally opted to go the run after a horrid passing game in the first half. It still remains a mystery why McGill did not run the ball with Linden, Chad L u ed tk e, P u m u lo S ik an e tta , and D an P ro y n k in th e b a c k fie ld .

L ucchetta only m anaged to co m ­ plete six passes for 26 yards with two interceptions in the first 30 min­

utes.

The switch to the ground paid immediate dividends. Sizeable gains

by L in d e n an d P ro y n k allo w ed Lucchetta, playing the second half with a severely sprained ankle, to score M c G ill’s o nly to u ch d o w n .

T he one-yard q u arterback keeper w ith 9:33 rem ain in g in the th ird quarter snapped the G aiter lead in h a lf, 14-7, and had th e R edm en crow d prim ed fo r an o th er com efrom-behind win.

But it just w asn’t meant to be.

M cG ill d ro v e dow n th e field on num erous o ccassions in hopes of

The Redm en talked a lot but d id n ’t score a lot

tying the game, but turnovers inside the B is h o p ’s 4 0 p rev e n ted them from finding that ever-elusive equal­ izer.

T he eig h t tu rn o v ers cou p led with B ishop’s stellar defence were just too much for McGill to handle.

Linden provided the m ajority o f M cGill’s offence. He ran for 129 yards on 18 carries. For Linden, a Rookie of the Year nominee, there will be other days, but for many of the seniors it was their last game of college football. As for the Gaiters, they w ill play #1 ranked W estern next week in the Churchill Bowl.

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November 8th, 1994

McMahon paces Redmen to tournament victory B y D a n a T o e r in g

M c G ill c e n tre D oug M cM ahon had a tired, yet satis­ f ie d , lo o k o n h is fa c e S u n d a y night as he sat in th e C urrie G ym icing his knee. T ired, because the 6 ’ 10 v e te ra n h ad ju s t sp e n t th e w e e k e n d p o u r in g in 63 p o in ts a n d g r a b b in g a n if ty 33 re b o u n d s; s a tis fie d , b e c a u se M cM ahon had ju s t been chosen to u r n a m e n t M V P a n d th e R edm en had ju st w on their third straight gam e in the tourney. T he v icto ries g ave th e h o st team the c h a m p io n s h ip p la q u e in th e ro u n d -ro b in fo rm a t o f the 16th R edm en In v ita tio n al m e n ’s b a s­ ketball tournam ent.

P articipating in th e w eekend to u r n a m e n t w e re th e Q u e e n ’s U n iv e r s ity G o ld e n G a e ls , th e W ilfre d L a u rie r G o ld e n H aw k s and the M em orial U niversity Sea H aw ks.

In f i r s t r o u n d a c tio n th e R e d m e n fa c e d o f f a g a in s t th e G a e ls o f K in g sto n an d h a n d e d the sheep h erd e rs a ju ic y 96-68 d e fe a t. M V P D o u g M c M a h o n led the troops w ith 16 points and 7 r e b o u n d s in th e e n c o u n te r , w h ile ro o kie g u ard P ete r F ra ser s u n k f o u r th r e e p o i n t e r s a n d am assed 16 points.

T h e R e d m e n c a m e o u t on fire in the first h a lf, o u tsc o rin g the G aels 51-27. M ercifully, the boys in red toned it dow n a bit in the second h alf but still m anaged

to w in h an d ily by 28 p o in ts. In o th e r firs t ro u n d a c tio n , M em orial beat L aurier 97-82.

On Saturday the R edm en did not show the first h a lf flare that they did the night before. M cG ill started o ff slow ly again st a clear­ ly in fe rio r team fro m M em o rial and led by only sev en p o in ts at the half. T he second h a lf w as a d if f e r e n t s to ry as th e R e d m e n b eg an to p lay m o re lik e a team and w ere b ro u g h t to life by the lik e s o f C h r is E m e r g u i w h o sc o re d 13 o f h is 18 p o in ts an d C had W ozney w ho scored 13 o f his 15 points after the break.

O n c e a g a in , b ig D o u g M cM ahon led the w ay w ith an 18 point perform ance and co-captain T odd M cD ougall added 14. The o th e r s e c o n d ro u n d g a m e saw L a u rie r lo se ag ain , th is tim e to the G aels by a score o f 80-68.

A lready assured o f the to u r­ nam ent title, the R ed m en w ould p la y t h e i r th ir d - r o u n d g a m e against the tournam ents seem ing­ ly w e a k e s t te a m fro m W ilfre d L aurier. F rom the ou tset, it w as a p p a r e n t th a t th e R e d m e n h ad u n d e re s tim a te d th e ir o p p o n e n t, r e a l i s i n g la te th a t th e y h a d a tough gam e on their hands.

S om e sloppy defen siv e play an d an in a b ility to sc o re so m e e a s y b a s k e ts le f t th e h a lf tim e score a lot clo ser than it should h a v e b e e n , b u t th e h o m e te am w as on top 46-41.

I f it w a s n ’t f o r th e h u g e

R ed m e n celebrate to u r n a m e n t w in

e f f o r t b y M c M a h o n , th e te a m c o u ld v e r y w e ll h a v e lo s t th e g am e. T he v e te ra n fo rw a rd scored 29 points and reached for 17 rebounds, pacing his team to a 82-79 win.

T he R edm en w ere outscored 38 to 36 in th e seco n d h a lf and cam e very close to blow ing it in the dying seconds o f the gam e to a h a rd w o rk in g te a m th a t w as

o b v io u s l y lo o k in g f o r s o m e re s p e c ta b ility . In an y c a se , th e R edm en won and had strong p er­ fo rm a n c e s fro m C h a d W o z n ey , 12 points, and R yan S choenhals, 13 p o in ts , b o th o f w h o m w ere nam ed to the to urnam ent all-star te am . In to ta l W o z n ey h ad 33 p o in ts a n d 14 r e b o u n d s w h ile S ch o en h als had 26 p o in ts and 9 boards.

E a rlie r in th e d ay , Q u e e n ’s clin ch ed second p lace w ith a 67 to 58 victory over M em orial.

A fte r th is w e e k e n d ’s th re e w in p e r f o r m a n c e th e R e d m e n have a 5-3 record o verall and are c l e a r ly c o m in g t o g e t h e r as a team . T he R ed m en ’s next hom e gam e is S aturday, N o v em b er 26 at 8 :0 0 p .m . a g a in s t th e L a v a l R ouge et O r at the C urrie G ym .

Squash: not just another vegetable

By A ndrew Boon W ith all o f the hubbub su rro u n d in g organised sports and physical fitness these days, many inquisitive people are searching for a venue to improve their per­ sonal health. Look no further than the nearest produce section in your local grocery store for that inspirational idea.

Squash. So, w hat’s it to you? To some it is that which is unappetising to eat. To most of us, however, it’s the fastest growing recreational activity since break­ dancing. You only need to look at the squash reservation books at the Currie gymnasium to realise this.

Why? Steve Papp, a first-y ear m edical student at McGill had this to say: “Not only does squash increase the glutathione shunt of glucose metabolism leading to better oxy­ gen radical breakdown, it also helps to increase C 0 2 max, cardiac output and troponin/tropomyosin interactions.”

In other words, it’s good for you.

Besides improving agility, muscle tone, and aerobic fitness, squash provides you with an oppor­ tunity to experience the pure enjoyment of compet­ itive sport. In addition, it provides you w ith a chance to release some built-up frustration in a unique manner. After all smashing an object the size of a golf ball against four walls could be con­ strued as unusual. But, the influx of participants of late suggests that som ething about this gam e is appealing.

“W hat I find appealing,” says squash fanatic Joe Marchildon, “is the fast pace.”

Well, if it’s a fast paced, fiercely competitive sporting contest that you’re seeking, look no further than the M cG ill squash team .T his y e a r’s team expects a tough schedule with upcoming events in Toronto and Montreal.

Team member Andrew Atwell, who has been playing competitively for eight years, believes that squash is the perfect game for sports fans o f all kinds to take in.

“Not only is the game exciting and enjoyable [to watch], but after forty-five minutes [of playing],

you get a satisfying workout,” he said.

Incidentally, M cG ill’s gam es are played at the M ontreal A m ateur A thletic A ssociation on Peel and Sherbrooke Street.

So, if you’re eager to get into shape, squash is just the type o f physical activity that w ill give you that opportunity. And if you’re looking for a spectator sport to tide you over until the NHL kicks back into action, see you at the racquet club.

You may hate it at the dinner table, but squash, the game, is the new craze in town. Keep that in mind the next time you’re in the gym — or passing by the grocery store.

Women’s rugby comes up short in bid for Quebec University title

BY Y V O N CARRIERE

W h en ask ed to d e sc rib e th e McGill w om en’s rugby team, head coach Sam Lupton answered w ith­ out hesitation: self-motivated, unit­ ed, and gutsy. On the day o f the w o m e n ’s u n iv e rsity rugby fin al, however, these qualities w ould not be enough.

Facing their arch-rivals from Concordia, M cGill held a 5-0 lead at h a lf tim e on a C h a rlo tte Daughney try. The Stingers did not g iv e M cG ill m uch tim e to c e le ­ brate, soon after scoring 18 unan­ swered points to capture their third straight league championship.

L u p to n shared th e view that s o m e th in g se e m e d to slo w th e Martlets down in the second half.

“Give [Concordia] credit, they

have a very ta len ted team . T hey played to their strengths, but they also benefitted from a strong wind at their backs,” explained Lupton in r e f e r e n c e to th e o th e r e le m e n t going ag ain st M cG ill — the 9-1 d istrib u tio n o f p e n a ltie s a g a in st them.

“W e like to play a game with flo w , and th e re fe re e k ille d o u r style by calling absolutely every­ th in g ,” stated L upton . “ She co n ­ tro lle d the gam e... and as such I d o n ’t b e lie v e sh e w as re a d y to oversee any gam e o f such im por­ tance.”

It w as another d isap p o in tin g end to what has been, according to Lupton, an excellent season over­ all.

“The girls perform ed well,” he c o m m e n te d . “T h e o n ly te a m to

score points against us was the only team that beat us.”

W hile discussing the ups and dow ns of the season, the one low point that resurfaces continually is the difficulties encountered in deal­ ing with the Athletics Department.

Coach Lupton is animated when it com es to discussing not only the lack of funds, but also the apparent lack o f rec o g n itio n from M cG ill Athletics.

“W e have approxim ately 200 student athletes (male and female) w ho represent the school with an excellent reputation nationally and in te r n a tio n a lly ,” sta te d L u p to n .

“W e have a long-standing winning tradition yet they still refuse to sup­ port us — that is a disgrace.”

T h e M c G ill R u g b y C lu b is self-organised and self-funded.

“ It really d etracts from your te am ’s play and m otivation when you h av e to o rg an ise ev ery th in g y o u rself,” said L upton. “I firm ly b e lie v e th a t o u r te a m , an d th e m e n ’s team also, fo r th at m atter, could have won the league champi­ onship with the support from those football-loving adm inistrators.”

E v ery o n e in th e ru g b y clu b feels that it is imperative that they receiv e m ore u n iv e rsity support.

T he a ltern ativ e o p tio n w o u ld .b e d isb a n d in g th e te a m o r g ain in g independence from M cG ill entire­ lyW ith the help of a new coach in Ben D yson, the M cGill Rugby Club hopes to work something out with Athletics in tim e for next year.

O n a m ore positive note, six Martlets were named to the league

all-star team . R ookie prop Shelly A b e ls h a u s e r, 8 -m a n M o n ic a C onw ay, f o rw a rd Y o la n d a K ap ety n , scrum h a lf D ez L idon, and backs Charlotte Daughney and P a tr ic ia M a c D o n a ld w e re a ll named to the league’s elite squad.

Coach Lupton felt that captain Kim Ivanko, deserved such an hon­ our as well.

“She is the heart o f this club and d eserv es to be re c o g n ise d ,” explained Lupton. “She did all the dirty w ork in term s o f organising the team and deserves much of the credit for how the w omen did this year.”

The year com es to a close in two weeks time when the M artlets head down to New York City for a sevens to u rn am en t on N ovem ber 25th.

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Redmen notch first two season victories in weekend play B y C h r is t o p h e r R ig n e y

After falling short in three consecutive attempts to earn their first regular season victory against division archrivals, the Redm en hockey team w elcom ed last w eekend’s two-game hom estand against traditionally weak squads from Queen’s and Royal Military College.

The outcome followed form, as McGill pinned losses on both of the Kingston-based schools while improving its own p o sitio n in the O ntario U n iv ersities A th letics Association Far East division.

Friday night’s game against the Golden Gaels did not begin as auspiciously for the Redmen as they might have hoped, as Q u een ’s dashed Redm en goaltender Richard Boscher’s shutout hopes only 2:05 into the first period. The Gaels took advantage of an early Redmen penalty and Queen’s rearguard Mark Lobinowich’s slap­ shot from the point found its way through the rash of players in front of the net, eluding a screened Boscher, and putting Queen’s on the scoreboard.

The Redmen, perhaps worried that another potential victory might slip from their grasp, quickly increased the tempo of the game to a frenetic pace, and it paid divi­ dends q u ick ly . O nly 52 seco n d s afte r the o pening Queen’s goal, the Redmen struck back for the equaliser.

W ith a scrum in fro n t o f G ael n e tm in d e r M a rtin Cecchetto, Redman Nicolas Cantin’s shot nearly scored, as the puck lay stopped on the goal line. McGill captain Guy Boucher capitalised on the opportunity, swoooping in behind Cecchoetto to hammer in the lifeless rebound.

After the teams traded goals to knot the score at two early in the second period, the McGill offence gave a fast and furious example of its explosive capabilites. At the 10:24 mark, Benoit Leroux teed up a blast from the left point which beat Cecchetto high on the glove side, a power play marker which once again put the Redmen on top. The goal was Leroux’s second of the game.

Nine seconds later, the Redmen extended their lead when Lrançois LaJeunesse picked the upper right comer

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T he O n tario -Q u eb ec In teru n iv ersity L ootball Conference all-conference team has been nam ed and the M cGill Redmen have made an impressive show­ ing on the list o f honorées. Lrom the offensive attack, inside receiver Steve Papp was chosen unanimously by the six conference coaches as an all-star. Papp is also a CIA U H ec Creighton Trophy nom inee. The Hec Creighton Trophy nam es the m ost outstanding

T he M cG ill m e n ’s rugby team relinquished a halftime lead and lost the Quebec University Rugby L eague cham pionship to the B ish o p ’s G aiters last weekend. The Redm en were ahead at the half by a score o f 13-12 on a try by D anny Saragoti, a twopoint conversion by J.L. Charland and six points in penalty kicks. The G aiters, how ever, came back to win the game by a 23-13 decision to gain the QURL title.

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M cG ill water polo dunks Carleton

The Redmen water polo team com peted against the Carleton Ravens two weeks ago at the Dollarddes-O rm eaux A quatic Centre and m ade an im pres­ siv e sh o w in g d e s p ite n o t h a v in g fu ll C a n a d ia n Interuniversity Athletic Union membership as of yet.

The team is looking to join the Ontario Universities A thletic A ssociation next season, but is currently lim ited to playing exhibition gam es against team s who are interested and w illing in order to prepare itself for next year. In their first outing, the Redmen downed the Ravens by a score of 16-8. Top scorers for M cGill were M itch Shipper, who had five goals, Pat Oaten, with four, and Neil M cComb, who added two in the winning cause.

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on a sla p sh o t from th e le ft fa c e o ff c irc le , leav in g Cecchetto wondering what could have been.

To their credit, the resilient Queen’s squad refused to simply roll over and die. Gael forward Andrew Clark scored a power play goal, once again pulling Queen’s to within one goal, this time at 8:15 of the second period.

The only notable action occurring in McConnell Winter Stadium during the remainder of the contest saw an invasion of the arena by scores o f drunken, rowdy Q u ee n ’s stu d en ts. C lad in th e ir “ Q u ee n ’s A p p lied Science” jackets and flaunting purple tongues, the fans were quickly escorted to the far com er of the arena by stadium security.

With a shade under five minutes remaining in the g am e, th ree b allo o n s c o n ta in in g p u rp le dy e w ere launched out of the Queen’s fan contingent onto the ice.

The prank resulted in a twenty-eight minute delay, during which the players returned to th eir respective locker rooms, while use of the Zamboni was necessitated.

Once order was restored to the chaotic venue, and a warning issued to the Queen’s fans, the game resumed.

Any hopes which the Gaels had of upsetting the stronger Redmen squad ended when LaJeunesse scored his sec­ ond marker of the game on a breakaway empty net goal with nine seconds left.

After their too-close-for-comfort, first win of the se aso n a g a in st Q u e e n ’s, th e R ed m en re lish e d the prospect of facing off against perennial cellar-dweller RMC. While not quite as exciting as the McGill-Bishop’s football game taking place down the road, the RedmenRMC match did offer university sports fans an arguably drier alternative. As expected however, McGill rolled over the opposition 7-1, keeping RMC off the scoreboard until captain Craig Isenor beat Redmen backup goalie Robert Bourbeau with a mere 41 seconds left.

B oucher led the w ay for M cG ill, notching two assists and two goals, while Redmen offensive defencemen Martin Routhier compiled three assists and a goal.

The Redmen are not in action this weekend, but

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C o n tin u ed from Page 16 Tessier showed why she is the te a m ’s M V P and on e o f th e top players in the country, as she led all scorers with 16 points. She fol­ low ed th is p erfo rm an ce the next day by sc o rin g 22 p o in ts in th e te a m ’s lo ss to the H ost T oronto

te am . It is a c c u ra te to say th a t T essier is u n stoppable inside the paint. She proved her strength and d isp lay ed her n atural talen t co n ­ vincingly in all three o f her first outings on the floor this season.

The match against the U o f T Lady Blues ended in a 73-65 score

and an ugly display of cheap shots an d ro u g h p la y , b o th c o a c h e s am assing technical fouls for voic­ ing their outrage at the officiating.

T h e M a rtle ts a re a t th e C oncordia U niversity tournam ent this w eekend. T hey open play on Lriday afternoon at 2pm.

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November 8th, 1994 Tuesday. November 8 A m nesty I n te r n a tio n a l meets every Tuesday. This week will be a video and discussion about the death penalty. 6:30 p.m., Shatner 435.

The Faculty of Music pre­ sents GEMS (Group of Electronic Music Studio). 8 p.m., Pollack I kill The A ssociation of Yoga and Meditation is offering sessions.

Please dress comfortably and be on time. 12-1 p.m., Shatner 425.

Wednesday. November 9 LBGM ’s Bi-sexual discus­ sion group meets today, everyone wel­ come. 5:30 p.m., Women’s Union 423.

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Ephemera again This letter is in response to Alex U s h e r’s “ F acu lty o f E p h e m e ra ” (Nov. 1). Mr. Usher describes the history of the toothbrush, and traces its origins to Arabia and the prophet Muhammad. It is the last line of that paragraph which is disturbing: “That Muhammad. Such a kidder.” We take great offence at such a reference.

Doing his historical research Usher should have noted that, out of respect for the prophet, any reference to him is followed by “pbuh” or “peace be upon him”. Although this would not be required from the Tribune, a cer­ tain amount of respect is demanded.

F reedom o f ex p re ssio n does not include the right to be offensive to any p arty , even if due to lack of knowledge. A better understanding of such matters is imperative for peo­ ple to exist in mutual respect.

Zeid Salah Islamic Society of McGill

Stage. 4 p.m., Moot Court, 3644 Peel McGill Improv performs in the Alley at 8:30 p.m. Free comedy for everyone.

The Faculty of Music pre­ sents a M aster’s R ecital featuring Terrence Edwards, pianist. 8 p.m., Pollack Hall.

The Faculty of Music pre­ sents McGill Early Music Ensembles. 8 p.m., Clara Lichtenstein Recital Hall.

The A ssociation of Yoga and M editation is offering sessions.

Please dress comfortably and be on time. 12:30-1:30 p.m., Shatner 425.

Thursday. November 10 M cG ill S tu d e n t H ea lth Services presents its Anuual Self Care Day. Get a massage, have your moles screened, take a fitness test, and much more! Ask questions and inform your­ self. 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Shatner 107/108.

LBG M ’s Womyn’s Group meets today. 6 p.m., Women’s Union 423.

The Faculty of Music and CBC present The Gryphon Trio. 7:30 p.m., Redpath Hall.

The Faculty of Music pre­ sents McGill Jazz Improvisation Class.

8.p.m., Clara Lichtenstein Hall.

NDP M cGill presents the Hon. Ed Broadbent speaking on

P layers’ T h eatre presents the highly reputed musical Cabaret, opening Nov. 15 until Nov. 26. Tickets on sale now. For info call 398-6813.

Monday. November 14

St. The A ssociation of Yoga and Meditation is offering sessions.

Please dress comfortably and be on time. 12-1 p.m., Shatner 425.

Friday. November 11 M cGill C h ris tia n F ello w sh ip prayer m eeting; Alex Cameron will be speaking. All wel­ come! 7 p.m,, Shatner Cafeteria. For more info call Jean at 288-9741.

L B G M ’s Com ing Out Group meets today, everyone welcome.

5:30 p.m ., basem ent of the United Theological College (3521 University).

L B G M ’s G eneral Discussion Group meets today, every­ one welcome. 7 p.m., basem ent of UTC. Want to try curling but don’t know how? The McGill Curling Club invites you to bring your friends and have a game. Every Friday from 4:30-6 p.m., Thistle Curling Club (1420 Fort St.). For more info call 932-4141.

The Faculty of Music pre­ sents Honours Final Recital featuring Dan Coughlan, pianist. 8 p.m., Pollack Hall.

The Faculty of Music pre­ sents a Doctoral Recital. 8 p.m., Clara Lichtenstein Recital Hall.

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L B G M ’s Coordinating Committee meets today. 7 p.m., Shatner 432.

From Nov. 11 to 13 the Q uebec W ing of the P ro g re ssiv e C o n se rv a tiv e P a rty will hold its General Assembly at the Holiday Inn Crowne Plaza (Sherbrooke & Durocher). Registration begins Nov. 11,5 p.m. For more info call 875-5577 or 982-0634.

The O rg a n ic Food C o ­ op .o rd ers food every M onday.

N ew com ers are alw ays welcome!

12:30-6:30 p.m ., Eaton Bldg. 505 (QPIRG office). For more info c ill 398-7432.

The Women’s Union invites you to a Wine & Cheese. Dress is (optionally) semi-formal. All women welcome. 7 p.m., Shatner 423.

Interested in alternatives to chlorine bleaching? Q P IR G ’s W hitew ash offers 100% cotton unbleached tampons and reusable pads.

Every Monday, 12:30-5:30 p.m., Eaton Bldg. 505.

Ongoing The D ram a an d T h ea tre D epartment presents The Duchess of Malfi. Wed. through Sat., November 912 and 16-19, 8 p.m., Moyse Hall. For tickets call 398-6070.

The Recreational Running Club wants you! Come discover the joys of group running while getting into the best shape of your life. For more info call Randy at 935-1455.

McGill Im prov hosts free comedy workshops every Saturday.

Meet in the Shatner lobby at noon.

The Sexual Assault Centre of M cGill’s Student Society is now open. For info/referrals: Monday to Friday, 9:30 a.m.-6 p.m. at 398-2700.

New this year, a night time Helpline, Sunday to Thursday 6 p.m.-midnight and Friday and Saturdays 6 p.m.-3 a.m. at 398-8500.

The McGill Choral Society under the direction of Mary Jane Puiu is performing John Rutter’s Gloria and other selected folk songs. The MCS Chamber Choir will also be featured.

The concert takes place Sunday, November 20 at 3:00 pm, at Erskine & American Church located at du Musée and Sherbrooke.

The M cG ill W o m en ’s Union is co-ordinating a w om en’s newsletter. Women, please leave your poetry, opinion pieces and suggestions for a name for the newsletter in the subm issions box at the W om en’s Union, Shatner 423. For info or to get involved call Rebecca or Mel at 3986923, or Elisse at 847-8604. Submis­ sions deadline, Monday, Nov. 21.

Are you questioning your sexuality? Or do you have any other concerns? Do you need to talk? Call the LBGM peer-counselling phone line at 398-6822, Monday to Friday 710 p.m. Strictly confidential.

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Ephemera revisited T his is concering the article “Faculty of Ephemera” (Nov. 1). It was about dental hygiene and its ori­ gins around the world. Mr. Usher refers to the “siwaks” which he origi­ nates to the P rophet M uham m ad (pbuh). As a M uslim studying at McGill, I was offended by U sher’s blatant ignorance. That anyone of “dean” calibre could write such inac­ curate, baseless, derogatory state­ m ents ab o u t an o th e r faith w as beyond me. I would like to know the source from w hich he quotes the p ro p h et as saying, “ ...m akes the breath fragrant, dries the phlegm , sharpens the eye and opens the con­ stipation,” or when Usher mentions that the prophet “ ...joked that the angel Garbriel commended the tooth­ p ick to him so often that he w as afraid he might lose his teeth because of their frequent rubbing.” That is, did he decide to write an article about dental hygiene and research the sub­ ject, or did he overhear this in a con­ versation and then started typing? I expected more responsible journal­ ism from the Tribune .

By m ocking the P ro p h et Muslims hold dear to their hearts, he has insulted a large Muslim student body. As a Muslim I demand a pub­ lic apology for the article. I think studying in an “illustrious” academic institution, we should be wary of being ignorant of other cultures and th eir beliefs; le t’s not forget that ignorance breeds prejudice, which we cannot afford in our “pluralistic” society.

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The following questionnaire will be used as a basis for a document that will be presented to different levels of government in an effort to advance this cause.

Please complete and return to the SSMU Front Desk in the William Shatner University Centre.

Your Age:

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