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merely due to a lack o f continuity. She arg u ed th a t su b stan tiv e Last W ednesday, Senate voted changes had been made during the to postpone a decision on the pro sum m er and that students leaders p o s e d c h a n g e s to th e C o d e o f h ad n o t b ee n in fo rm ed o f th e se changes. Student Conduct and D isciplinary “C hanges to residences are a Procedures, over the objections of complete and utter surprise to me,” the D ean o f S tud en ts. It w ill be Small said. b r o u g h t b a c k to S e n a te on A rts S en ato r Joe W ong told Novem ber 23 after a further round S enate th at SSM U w ould like to o f consultation. see a to ta l o f 13 ch a n g es, som e Student representatives claim th at last sum m er fu rth e r am en d minor, others substantial, made to ments to the code were made with the proposed amendments. H e c ite d c la u s e 15(b) as a out their knowledge. prime example of student concerns. P G S S S e n a to r P au l W h ite T his clau se deals w ith a ju d icial told Senate, “I requested but could n o t get the m o st re c e n t a m e n d element of the Code. “U nlike in a court of law, stu ments of the Code one month ago.” dents w ould be presum ed guilty. At the beginning o f the Senate The burden o f proof would fall on m e e tin g , Je n S m a ll, S SM U V P U niversity Affairs, asked Dean of the (accused) person,” said W ong, e x p la in in g h is c o n cerns with that clause. “There is nothing in this hour The S tu d e n t which has lead me to believe E le c tr o n ic C o m m u n ic a tio n s C o l that anything should be le c tiv e o f M c G ill changed.” U n iv e r s ity a lso h as Dean of Students, c e rta in r e s e rv a tio n s ard in g th e im pact Irwin Qopnik reg of the proposals on the privacy of student on line communications. Students Irw in G opnik to rem ove According to their interpreta discussion of the proposed changes tion, an accusation against a stu from Senate’s agenda. dent could lead to the suspension “T his is a request to discuss changes together so the best possi o f a student’s right to privacy. b le p ro p o s a l c a n b e b ro u g h t to Dean Gopnik has scheduled a Senate,” Small argued. G op n ik refu sed th e req u est, fu rth er m eeting about the code fo r all interested parties on Nov. 16, at in sistin g th at an ex ten siv e longrange series of meetings had taken 2:30pm, in Leacock 232 place last year. Gopnik argued that the request to chan g e the code o rig in ated at S en ate an d “ it w ill b e g o o d fo r Senate if it came to Senate today.” By Scott Brodie G opnik ex p ressed sym pathy w ith students’ concerns w hich he M c G ill’s L in d a T h y er w ent felt arose from a lack o f continuity out with a bang last weekend as she in student leadership. But, in his rounded out her university career m ind, this did not ju stify further by w in n in g th e w o m e n ’s 5 km d e la y s to th e r e w o rk in g o f th e event at th e C a n a d ia n Code of Conduct. I n te r u n iv e r s ity A th le tic U n io n “There is nothing in this hour c r o s s -c o u n try ru n n in g c h a m p i which has lead me to believe that onships held in London, Ont. a n y th in g s h o u ld b e c h a n g e d ,” The fifth-year medical student Gopnik said. finished the race in a tim e o f 17 S m all took e x c ep tio n to the m inutes, 46.62 seconds — break idea that students’ concerns were By Irene Bloemraad
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“She ju st went for it from the start and basically said, this is my cham pionship and if anybody else wants it, th e y ’re going to have to com e and take it from m e.” M cG ill w om en p laced sixthoverall in the team event, as Rosie M u llin s p u t in a g u tsy p e r f o r mance, finishing in 14th position. “ [M u llin s ] is a g irl w ho always shows up to run. Come hell or high water, she’s always there,” See X -C o u n try Page 18
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By Patrick Fruchet As part o f a university w ide review o f M cG ill’s priorities, vari ous campus groups presented their visions for the future at a meeting o f the Senate Planning & Priorities Subcommittee on Novem ber 8. T h is s u b - c o m m itte e , n ic k nam ed the P & P, is charged w ith charting M cG ill’s path into a fis cally uncertain future. It is expect ed that M cGill will have to trim 8 million dollars from its net budget. T he P & P ’s p relim in ary rep o rt is e x p e c te d to be r e le a s e d on Decem ber 9 o f this year. T h e r e c o m m e n d a tio n s o f SSM U ’s Strategic Planning Group were presented at the Novem ber 8 m e e tin g . S o u rc e s c lo s e to the review process have indicated to the Tribune that the SSM U presen tation was generally perceived as the strongest one made that day. T he SSM U p ro p o sal m ade recom m endations regarding struc tural adm inistrative changes, acad emic curriculum changes and bud getary reform. T h e S S M U c o m m itte e w as c r e a te d in r e s p o n s e to M c G ill
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Principal Bernard Shapiro’s invita tion to cam pus groups to becom e in v o lv e d in a re a p p ra isa l o f the sc h o o l’s o verall p rio ritie s in the face o f impending budget cuts. S h a p iro h a d p r e v io u s ly addressed SSM U council and invit ed student leaders to become more in v o lv e d in fin d in g so lu tio n s to M cG ill’s pressing problems. “Students are obviously one of the com m unities in the university to w hich we have to respond and pay atten tio n and in v o lv e ,” said S h a p ir o , d u rin g h is a d d re s s to council. At that meeting, Shapiro let it be know n th a t in his o p in io n “ a priorities docum ent with too many priorities has no priorities at all.” The SPG position paper, creat ed in resp o n se to th is in v itatio n from the Principal, was the product o f an intense tw o weeks o f m eet in g s by th e tw e lv e c o m m itte e members, all o f whom are M cGill students. The paper was com m issioned by the SSM U in order to enable it to make concrete proposals regard in g th e im p le m e n ta tio n o f th e expected budget reductions.
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fo r a re n e w e d These cuts are expected to be ev id en t in the 1995-1996 budget p ro p o sa l, w h ich h as b ee n p o s t poned until after the release of the P & P ’s findings in January. S S M U V P F in a n c e P au l Johnson believes th at if effective b u d g et refo rm s are to be im p le m ented, changes to the university
ex p ected th at it w ould end here, but our opening bid was overall an excellent submission from the stu dent body.” The SSM U submission makes both broad and specific recom m en datio n s, as w ell as p resen tin g an o v era ll v isio n o f M cG ill fo r the year 2000. Included in the docum ent are some “ I think w e’re off to a good specific budgetary start. None of us expected that re c o m m e n d a tio n s which could poten it would end here, but our tia lly le a d to an opening bid was overall an e stim a te d sav in g s excellent submission from the o f up to 9.1 million dollars. student body.” he co re v a l Strategic Planning Qroup ues wT hose encour Member Paul Johnson agem ent is seen by SSM U as a neces sary c o m p an io n to th e se d rastic as a w h o le w ill b e n e c e s s a r y . budget cuts include a com m itm ent Jo h n so n , a m e m b e r o f b o th th e to in n o v a tio n in te a c h in g . F o r S e n a te ’s P & P an d th e S S M U ’s S S M U , th is c o m m itm e n t w o u ld SPG, considers these recom m enda lead to a d ecrease in the ro le o f tions to be an effective first step in academic departments. This would what he expects will be a long and give the faculties m ore leew ay in involved review process. e n c o u r a g in g in te r d is c ip lin a r y “ I th in k w e’re o ff to a good learning along thematic lines. start,” said Johnson. “N one o f us T he d o cu m en t also ca lls for
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visible an d w ell-trav elled areas. T h e s ig n s in c lu d e th o s e in d ic a tin g M cG ill has experienced a rash o f sign w heelch air parking, no bicycles, no p ark t h e f t in th e l a s t th r e e w e e k s . J o a n ing and curb cuts. W olforth, C oordinator o f M c G ill’s O ffice In the w ake o f these th efts, T he O SD fo r S tu d en ts w ith D isa b ilitie s, e stim a te s h a s a m e s s a g e f o r th o s e s tu d e n ts w h o th at 50 percen t o f the signs M cG ill p u t up think th at road signs m ake nice household h av e been stolen, m o st o f them in highly decoratio n s: p lease stop tak in g those that are found on the M cG ill cam pus. P la c e d in 2 1 0 0 G uy, s u i t e 2 0 5 v a r io u s l o c a tio n s ac ro ss cam p u s, th e O S D s ig n s a re r T r e a tin g ; th e re to e n s u re C O M P L E T E C H IR O P R A C T IC th a t d is a b le d • Back Pain E X A M IN A T IO N s tu d e n ts c a n to g e t to c l a s s as •Neck Pain e a s il y as o th e r IN C L U D IN G : students. • Headaches “ S ig n th e f t c v a lu e / • S p in a l • Dizziness has alw ays been E x a m in a t io n a p r o b le m [o n • Sports cam pus], b u t we • N e u r o ïb g ic à l Injuries th o u g h t th a t e x a m in a t io n peo p le w ould be •General a little m o re Health • O r t h o p e d ic s e n s itiv e to Check-Ups e x a m in a t io n th o s e t h a t a r e th e r e to h e lp • Applicable for new patients only. d is a b le d s tu • Coupon must be presented on 1st d e n t s , ” visit. rem arked C huck • Limited time offer. A d le r, m a n a g e r of P h y s ic a l
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M c G ill the repudiation o f w hat it calls a “ sh a re -th e -p a in ” a ttitu d e w hich encourages across-the-board cuts Instead, cuts would be m ade after an assessm ent o f the relative gains which would be incurred as a result o f their implementation T h e r e p o r t a ls o c a lls fo r greater contact between the univer sity an d th e c o rp o ra te w o rld in such areas as consulting w ork for industry and governm ent. To this end SPG suggests that M cGill fol low the lead o f the London School o f E conom ics and “create a ce n tra liz e d co n su ltin g o ffic e to c o ordinate and solicit individual and in terd iscip lin a ry co n su ltin g co n tracts.” SPG an d P & P m em b er E ric H o ffs te in to ld th e T rib u n e th a t SPG will continue to fine tune their position, focusing in particular on a detailed set o f curriculum propos als to add to w hat he considers to be “a very responsive list o f rec o m m e n d a tio n s ” p r e s e n te d la s t week. “ S P G w ill m e e t to d is c u s s long term p ro p o sals...W e w ill be w orking throughout this and next sem ester,” said Hoffstein.
c a m p u s R e s o u r c e s f o r th e U niversity. O v e r th e p a s t few m o n th s , M c G ill h a s p la c e d s ig n s o n lo w e r cam p u s in o rd e r to c l e a r l y m a r k th e ac c e ss ro u te s tr a v e l l e d b y d is a b le d s tu d e n t s . W hen th e s e s ig n s a re s to l e n , th e r o u te s cease to be m arked c le a r ly a n d th e r e fo re are m ore likely to be obstructed. “ It w a s a b ig D isability signs to m d o w n effo rt to get M cG ill to p u t the signs u p ,” ex p lain ed W olforth. d o n e to p re v e n t th e th e fts, as th e lo w e r “N ow we d o n ’t have the m oney to do this cam pus is reg u larly patrolled. on the oth er parts o f cam pus. T h at m oney “O u r m ain h o p e is th at w e can rely on w ill n o w h av e to go tow ards rep lacem en t g o o d w ill,” said A dler. co sts.” F or W olforth, the recen t thefts harken A lth o u g h th e s e s ig n s o n ly c o s t back to last year, w hen som e o f the braille ap p ro x im ately 20 d o llars, the tim e that it e le v a to r b u tto n s w e re d a m a g e d in th e ta k e s fo r th e m to b e p ro d u c e d a n d th e M cC onnell E n g in eerin g B uilding. valu e o f the inform ation that they convey “People should th in k ab o u t the co n se m akes them w orth a great deal m ore. q u e n c e s o f t h e i r a c t i o n s , ” s h e s a id . In resp o n se to the thefts, the P hysical “A lth o u g h it is fu n to c o lle c t th e se n ea t P lan t p la n s to in stall a stro n g e r secu rity little signs, it m akes th in g s d y sfunctional system on th e new signs. T hey w ill h av e for those o f us w ho are trying to help d is s tro n g e r sc re w s a n d h e a v ie r b a s e s. Y et abled stu d en ts.” A d le r a d m its _______________________ that there is very little that can be
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SA C O M SS, the Sexual A ssault C entre o f M cG ill’s S tu d en ts’ Society has established a new night-tim e help line. The new line is staffed by fem ale volunteers who receive special training from veter an m em bers o f SACOM SS. SACOM SS training coordinator C ressida H eyes explained the purpose o f the line. “T he line is non-judgm ental and non-directional,” said Heyes. “So if people call and w ant to talk about negative sexual experiences w e will talk about that. They d o n ’t have to define it as sexual assault and we w o n ’t make them .”
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M c G ill fa lls By A nthony Robarts___________ M cGill U niversity has lost its f ir s t p la c e r a n k in g in th e M a c le a n ’s a n n u a l s u rv e y o f C an ad ian u n iv e rsitie s. S ince the su rv ey w as firs t c o n d u c te d fo u r years ago, M cGill has led the field. In 1991, M cG ill placed first out o f forty-six schools. In the fol lo w in g tw o y e a r s , u n d e r a revam ped ranking system , M cGill placed first am ong schools in the m edical/doctoral category. In the past, M aclean’s, which sells m ore copies o f its university issue than any other, has received criticism over the m ethodology of the survey. T h e s e c o n c e r n s le d th e A sso c ia tio n o f U n iv e rsitie s and Colleges o f C anada to recommend th a t its m e m b er in s titu tio n s not participate in the survey. Thirteen schools, including five in Quebec, heeded that call and refused to co o p e r a te w ith th e s u r v e y . T h e A U C C is co-operating w ith rival publication Saturday N ig h t’s own survey o f schools. M c G ill w a s r e p la c e d by U n iv e r s ity o f T o ro n to , w h ic h ranked third in last year’s survey. R o u n d in g o u t th e to p fiv e w as Q u e e n ’s U n iv e r s ity in s e c o n d
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emMvmawmmmtm *»««**** p la c e , U n iv e r s ity o f B r itis h C o lu m b ia in fourth and M cM aster in fifth. R easons fo r M cG ill’s displacem ent in th e ra n k in g s a re in th e student as w ell as faculty ca te g o rie s. T he p ro p o r tion o f students w ith 75 p e rc e n t o r h ig h e r w en t from first in 1993 to third in 1994; the p ro p o rtio n who graduate went down from second to third, the am o u n t o f fa c u lty w ith PhD decreased from first to fifth; and the am ount o f m e d ic a l/sc ie n c e r e s e a r c h g r a n ts M c G ill receives went dow n from first in 1993 to second in 1994. In a d d itio n to M cG ill’s poor standing in th e stu d e n t and fa c u lty The m a g a z in e th a t ju d g e s c a te g o r ie s , th e s c h o o l was also punished for the to updating the university’s collec quality o f its library system, tion and last in the library expenses M cGill placed ninth o f eleven schools this year for the am ount of category w hich m easures the per v o lu m es its lib ra ry c o n ta in s p er cent o f university budget devoted to library services. stu d e n t, te n th in the a c q u isitio n Je n S m a ll, V P U n iv e r s ity category w hich m easures the p ro A ffa irs a g re e s w ith M a c le a n ’s portion o f library budget allocated
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p o ll a s s e s s m e n t r e g a rd in g M cG ill’s library system. “ I d o n ’t th in k w e need the M a c le a n ’s su r v e y to te ll u s th a t o u r libraries are in dire need,” said Small. M c G ill V ic e P rin c ip a l, P la n n in g and R eso u rces, F ra n ç o is T av en as reco g n ised that there is a serious problem with libraries. H e says the p r o b le m s a re b e in g addressed. H ow ever, fis cal realities p o se a chal le n g e to a n y p la n s to im prove M cG ill’s library system. “T h ere h av e b een enorm ous cuts to the uni v ersity ’s budget and this h as m ad e it d iffic u lt to provide for the libraries,” said Associate D irector of Libraries Frances Groen. G roen explained the im m ed ia cy o f the prob-
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p ly c a n n o t a ffo rd to p u t us at a high level,” G reen said. “T he uni versity cannot let its academic ser vices slip any further.” There m ay be som e relief for this situation soon. $20 m illion o f the expected $200 m illion from the M cGill Tw enty-First Century Fund is c o m m itte d to im p ro v in g th e library system. M cG ill’s library services may n ot b e som ething to be p ro u d o f but there are some positive figures to be found in the survey. M cGill finished second across the board in highest quality, m ost in n o v a tiv e , le ad e rs o f tom orrow a n d b e s t o v e ra ll, im p ro v in g its standing in three o f the four cate gories. In the wake o f the pull-out of the thirteen schools, the value o f com paring schools is being q u es tioned. T avenas does n ot believe the su rv ey can ju d g e th e q u a lity o f schools by applying a com parative methodology. “ I t ’s lik e c o m p a rin g a p p les a n d o r a n g e s ,” s a id T a v e n a s . “ S c h o o l’s c a n n o t b e c o m p ared . (T he survey) does n ot d efin e the quality o f the university.” See M a cle a n ’s Page 5
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By Iack S ullivan____________________________________________________________________ V enturing out o f the basem ent of the Shatner B uilding on a cold N ovem ber day, the Tribune braved frozen fingers and the cries of “ ...but I don’t w ant my photo taken!’ to bring you the answers to the question on everybody’s lips. “W hat do you think of M cGill U niversity’s drop from first place, for the last three years, to third place in M aclean’s survey of Canadian U niversities?”
Kate M cGee U1 A rts Freshman Program Apparently a lot of universities think it’s an unfair evaluation, so I think many have dropped out of the survey because of that. I ’ve never really considered it too seriously because I think that surveys tend to generalize or [be] too specific. The drop d idn’t really make much o f a difference to me. It’s a good university and you have to experience it from a student’s point of view.
M alve Petersm ann U3 Film and Communications I guess it ’s happened and we ca n ’t do anything about it now. It doesn’t effect the way I think about McGill. I don’t base my ideas about this University on anything but my own experience, w hich is very dif ferent from M aclean’s ’ experience. I d o n ’t think that what M aclean’s experienced is exactly what the students experience. Everything is made really nice for the M aclean’s people when they come here, so they don’t get the full picture. So, I base my ideas o f M cGill on m yself not on M aclean’s.
Tom Kennedy U2 M echanical Engineering I d o n ’t even pay attention to that, first of all. Second o f all, I think that it was a silly rating system in the first place and I don’t think it real ly matters where we are. Y ou’ve got a lot o f people who don’t really know a lot about it, rating a university. It’s ju st bogus. Plus the universi ties shouldn’t have to be rated.
Barb Bies Continuing Education Public Relations I don’t actually think that the M aclean s University survey is a very credible survey per se. I think that the University of Toronto is an excel lent university, I ’m a graduate o f the university. I think that M cGill is a good university as well. Montreal is fantastic, but in terms of the survey I don’t give it any credibility and I certainly would pick or not pick a university based on a survey like that.
Josh Engel \J2 Cultural Studies I was actually not surprised when I saw it yesterday. I d o n ’t under stand how Q ueen’s could move up to number two, or at least go in front o f M cG ill, and T oronto be [num ber] one. Som ehow I felt sort o f a decreasing feeling in the whole community sense o f M cGill over the last couple o f years. T here’s got to be som ething more, and I think th at’s probably a good thing to get us back to num ber one next year to get us to understand w hat’s gone wrong with McGill.
Paul Gribble M aster’s II Psychology M ike D ugdale U1 Physics I really don’t care. M aclean’s m agazine is a waste of time anyway for that. M aclean’s m agazine basically rates the universities the same way universities rate the students, with very little inform ation that really doesn’t reflect all the variables that should be considered.
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I don’t know that the rankings are that meaningful. It could be that it just dropped because the scheme that they used to rank the universities has changed. It seem ed in the past that it was very dependent on the kind of questions they asked about universities, and didn’t really indi cate very strongly anything to do with the strength of the university. It was more how it fit into the particular scheme that they drew up. I don’t think that anything has happened to M cGill in the twelve months that would actually merit a drop o f three places.
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By M icol Z arb____________________ The U niversity o f W estern O ntario’s R ace R elations O fficer, L eela M adhava R a u , h a s d e c id e d to r e s ig n e f f e c tiv e D ecem ber 15. Rau began her position in June 1991 following the implementation of a race relations policy by the university. During this time she has faced a num ber of controversial issues including a case con ce rn in g a m o d ern la n g u ag e s p ro fe sso r, Marjorie Ratcliffe. T he R ace R elations office is one o f three offices w ithin the E quity S ervices Department, each o f which operates with a separate policy. The other services are the E m p lo y m e n t E q u ity a n d th e S e x u a l Harassment offices. W hen Rau began, her role was to act as the recipient of the com plaint, the investigator, the potential vehi cle for informal settlement, and the deter m iner o f whether the case merited a formal hearing. This multiplicity of roles was one of the main causes of contention during the Ratcliffe case. Ratcliffe was accused of racial harass ment in Decem ber 1991 by a student in her class and a formal hearing was initiated by Rau on the student’s behalf. The charges w e re d r o p p e d in J u n e 1 9 9 2 , an d in response to the problem s associated with th is case the univ ersity underto o k m ea sures to re-evaluate the p osition o f race relations officer. On September 29, 1994 a revised race re la tio n s p o lic y w as in tro d u c e d w h ich made changes to R au’s role. “The position still rem ains to have an educative function, but the officer doesn’t give any indication of whether the case is merited, she can only advise about the pol
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o ffic e r a t W e s te rn icy,” explained Bill W ilkinson, director of E quity Services. “It has becom e a co m p la in an t-d riv en p ro cess, he or she m ust determine if the process should go to for mal mediation or adjudication.” The Race Relations Office encourages settlem ent o f com plaints at the inform al level. W ith the exception of the Ratcliffe case, in the past two years there have been 80-90 com plaints presented to Rau, all of which were settled informally. “The worry is that it [the policy] will m ake the inform al resolution, w hich has been so successful in the past, more diffi cult,” said Rau. T he p osition has now becom e m ore decentralised and the m ediation and hear ing o f com plaints are now done by sepa ra te c o m m itte e s an d are no lo n g e r the responsibility o f the officer. These changes have caused concern over the effectiveness o f the position. “T he p o sitio n has been m ade fairly impotent now. There is less power for the person to do the jo b as a p ro fe ssio n a l,” s ta te d Je re m y A d a m s, th e U n iv e rs ity Students’ Council’s VP Student Issues. T he u n iv ersity has n ot yet selected an o th e r p e rso n to fill th e p o sitio n and A dam s is co n cern ed th at the u n iv ersity may eventually decide to remove the posi tion. W ilkinson, how ever, confirm ed the university’s com m itm ent to race relations and stated that although am endments were m ade to the ro le o f the officer, the new policy does not indicate any rem oval o f office. A K ing’s College psychology profes sor, H einz Klatt, feels that there is no need to fill the position once Rau resigns, argu ing that the position is superfluous. K ing’s
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College is an affiliated college o f W estern. “W e created these positions for politi ca l re a s o n s a n d n o t b e c a u s e w e n ee d them ,” said Klatt. “The problem is that the people who take these positions are advo cates o f the fact that there is a problem with racism... we d o n ’t have any empirical evidence that there is w idespread racism on cam pus.” Klatt feels that the dam age suffered by R a tc liffe as a r e s u lt o f b ein g w ro n g ly accused confirm s the danger o f having a race relations position. Klatt had a sexual harassment com plaint filed against him in 1991 and was cleared of any wrongdoing. “W hat we know is that the m ost seri ous c h a rg e h an d led by th a t o ffic e w as reckless. Thus all other cases were trivial. This is logical,” explained Klatt. K latt suggested th at any g rievances regarding racial issues could be handled by other departments within the university. “I ’m not sure that other departm ents within the university can or want to handle racial harassm ent,” contested Rau. “I d o n ’t feel they’ve been trained to be capable to deal with grievances.” A dam s hopes that the university will n ot be in flu en ced by people w ith view s such as Klatt. “ H e h as no c re d ib ility w ith m e in terms of race relations,” he said. “There is racism in this community. There is natural bom prejudice in our com m unity.” Rau has recently requested to extend her resignation date to M ay 30 instead of D ecem ber, in o rd er to allow for a m ore effective transition. W hile leaving halfway through the year may prove to be disrup tive, W estern’s adm inistration has denied her request to stay until the end of the year.
M o d ern la n g u a g e s p ro fe s s o r, M a rjo rie R atcliffe was accused o f racial harassm ent in December 1991 by a student in her class. The stu dent went to Rau to file a complaint and instead of notifying Ratcliffe that an allegation had been made against her, Rau decided to go directly to the dean of the professor’s department. Normal procedures dictate that the race rela tions officer should notify the respondent first in o rd er to en c o u rag e in fo rm al reso lu tio n . Rau b eliev ed , how ever, th a t th e case was serio u s enough to merit a formal hearing. On the student’s behalf, she asked that a formal hearing be held by the Human Relations Tribunal. The charges were dropped in June 1992 fol lowing the hearing, but Ratcliffe then wrote a letter in Ju ly to W e s te rn ’s th e n -P re sid e n t G eo rg e Pedersen in which she made allegations against Rau reg ard in g h er h an d lin g o f the case. She reproached Rau for having maliciously made the accusations of racial harassment and for pursuing charges without sufficient evidence to substantiate the charge. In response to Ratcliffe’s discontent, the uni versity com missioned an external review o f the case to be conducted by Professor David Mullan of the faculty o f law at Q u een ’s U niversity. The Mullan Report was concluded in November 1992 and found that Rau had fulfilled her duties and acted responsibly as race relations officer. Mullan did acknowledge, however, that there were prob lems with the position itself as well as with the structure for making complaints. The report stated that “the present process simply has the Race Relations Officer performing too many and, in some cases, potentially conflict ing functions.” It suggested that there should be a filtering process by someone other than the Race Relations O fficer to determ ine w hether a com p la in t sh o u ld go to a fo rm a l h ea rin g . T h ese changes were incorporated into the revised race relations policy o f September 1994.
W h a t did a ll these events h a v e in com m on? They w e r e b ro u g h t to yo u b y the tireless efforts o f M cG ill students.
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tio n in th a t a r e a . In a d d itio n , o n c e th e o il e n te rs th e riv e r, it d e-o x y g en ates th e w ater thereby R ep eated m ism anagem ent o f k illin g th e f is h a n d o th e r se a a key oil, pipeline has cau sed an o rg a n ism s. M a m m als a re lik e ly environm ental crisis in the K om i to d ie in the oil pools th at form in region o f N orthern R ussia. Since lo w -ly in g d ep re ssio n s. M u ch o f A ugust, an oil pipeline carrying the oil spill has covered northern h o t cru d e oil has been leaking on b o g s a n d m a r s h e s w h ic h m a y and off. W hile there are no exact ta k e a s m a n y a s 3 0 y e a r s to f i g u r e s o n th e a m o u n t o f o il grow n back. spilled, it is estim ated to be over T he short g ro w eig h t tim es th e size in g s e a s o n in th e o f the E xxon V aldez The oil poisons the top layer of the soil n o r th a n d th e lo w disaster. w a te r te m p e r a tu re s resulting in the death of nearly all the O ffic ia ls c la im w ill probably inhibit th a t th e o il b e g a n vegetation in that area . In addition, th e re g e n e ra tiv e le a k i n g o u t o f 23 once the oil enters the river, it de-oxyp r o c e s s , a c c o r d in g d iffe r e n t h o le s genates the water thereby killing the to the report. b e g i n n in g on The c le a n u p fish and other sea~organisms... M u c h of A u g u s t 1 2 th . T h e p ro c e ss is e x p e c te d p ip e lin e w as sh u t the oil spill has covered northern bogs to be v ery d iffic u lt. d o w n in S e p te m b e r and marshes which may take as many G re e n p e a c e c la im s for ten days in order th a t R u s sia ’s eq u ip as 30 years to grown back . to r e p a i r a s m a ll m ent and technology p o r tio n of th e is inadequate to m eet the severity R euters.” p ip e lin e . O n S e p te m b e r 2 7 th o f en vironm ental dam age. O leg K ro k h alo v , an o fficial h o w e v e r , th e d a m s e r e c te d to “ T h e y m a y tr y to s p r e a d a t th e R u s s ia n e m b a s s y in h o ld b a c k th e le a k in g oil b u rst e n z y m e s to e a t u p th e o il lik e O ttaw a, could not shed any ad d i due to severe rain s. A s a result, th e y h a v e d o n e b e f o r e - T h e y tional light about the situation. the oil began spilling once again. “ I am g e ttin g all th e in f o r d o n ’t k n o w ho w th ey are g o in g D espite the failure o f num er to p e r f o r m in tw e n ty b e lo w m a tio n o f th e o il s p ill m y s e lf o u s r e p a ir a tte m p ts , th e s ta te w e a t h e r , ” e x p l a i n e d F r a n c is th ro u g h the p ress. Y o u h av e all o w n e d R u s s ia n o il c o m p a n y T anguay of G r e e n p e a c e ’s th e in f o r m a ti o n I h a v e , ” s a id K o m in e ft, th e o p e r a to r o f th e M ontreal office. p ip e lin e , h as n o t c e a s e d p u m p K rokhalov. “B u t the R ussians d o n ’t have O n N ovem ber 6th, m em bers in g . T h e c o m p a n y ’ s d e c is i o n th e t e c h n o lo g y , so it w ill a ll o f th e e n v iro n m e n ta l ad v o c a c y cam e d esp ite a re q u e st to do so group G reenpeace confirm ed that c o m e fro m th e o u ts id e . I t w ill b y a c tin g M a y o r A n a to l y com e from the US or it w ill com e a s e c o n d m a jo r le a k h a d Z in o v ie v o f U r in s k , a r e m o te from w hoever is good at it.” occurred. H ow ever, the oil from R u ssia n city w h ere m o st o f the this ru p tu re had b een set ablaze sp illag e has o ccurred. T he basis in the attem pt to clean it thereby o f th e ir d e c isio n re s ts u p o n th e exacerbating the situation. s e v e r e f i n a n c i a l lo s s w h ic h A c c o rd in g to G re e n p e a c e , w ould resu lt by halting the flow th e e n v i r o n m e n t a l d a m a g e o f o il. In a d d i t i o n , K o m in e f t caused by the spill is ex pected to c la im s th a t s h u ttin g d o w n th e be extensive as it has now spread p u m p in g e q u ip m e n t in A rc tic to the P echora river and its trib u te m p e ra tu re s w o u ld c a u se it to freeze and clog w ith oil, ren d e r taries, the K olva and K h atayakha R iv e rs. A p re lim in a ry re p o rt ing the eq uipm ent useless. focusing on the poten tial dam age B e c a u se e x a c t in fo rm a tio n to the ecosystem s o f the area was r e g a rd in g th e n u m b e r o f le a k s re le a s e d by G re e n p e a c e in la te an d th e a m o u n t o f o il th a t h as Septem ber. been spilled is not available, the T h e r e p o r t c l a im s th e o il g o v e r n m e n ts a n d c o m p a n ie s spill m ay le ad to th e w h o lesale k n o w v ery little ab o u t th e spill. d estru ctio n o f the eco sy stem s in G u lf C a n a d a R e s o u r c e s L td . th e re g io n . T h e o il p o iso n s th e ow ns tw en ty -fiv e p erc en t o f the stock o f K om i A rctic O il, one o f top lay er o f the soil resu ltin g in the death o f nearly all th e v eg eta th e c o m p a n ie s th a t u s e s th e By M att Rosenberg ____________
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said the same thing last year when M cGill was ranked first. U 2 stu d e n t Je re m y B o h b o t s e e s an e c o n o m ic m o tiv e f o r putting U o f T at the top. “The ranking is sim ply a m ar keting m ove to boost sales around other cam puses,” said Bohbot. S o m e o f th e s tu d e n ts th e T ribune spoke to th in k that the low er ranking might act as a m oti v a tin g f a c to r f o r im p r o v in g M cG ill. A lex E berts is one such student. “ I th in k i t ’s a d a m n g o o d th in g th a t M c G ill h a s b e e n knocked down a couple o f notches b e c a u s e i t ’s tim e w e fo c u s on im p ro v in g ou r u n iv e rs ity ,” said E b erts. “ I t ’s u se fu l to m ake the faculty and students sit up and not rest ju st on our reputation.”
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S ta r t c a m p a ig n in g , B i l l By M ichael Broadhurst___________________ United States President Bill Clinton must feel that h e’s living a nightmare. Two years ago Clinton rode a huge wave of popular dissat isfaction to a convincing victory over George Bush. The young and progressive of Am erica rejoiced as the 46-year-old Clinton brought “new thinking” to the W hite House for the first time since the halcyon days of Jack Kennedy. But then, som ething w ent wrong in A m erica. C lin to n ’s im age began to tarnish as he battled with a Congress controlled by his own p a rty o v e r h e a lth ca re refo rm , th e N o rth A m eric an F ree T ra d e Agreement, and his massive crime bill. Because the final result o f many o f these disputes left C linton's programs stripped or rendered ineffec tive, Americans grew tired of the smiling President from Arkansas. Clinton has bungled foreign policy issues as well, letting America look w eak both dom estically and abroad w here the B osnian W ar, S o m alia, and H aiti are co n c ern ed . C lin to n ’s w afflin g on C uban refugees cost him some stature, and at the midpoint o f his presidency the big Razorback faces a serious threat to his job security. Never forget that Clinton has two years to restore his reputation. N evertheless, he faces a significant challenge from the Republican party in 1996. Perhaps his greatest asset is his legitimacy; the Grand Ole Party is saddled with a bevy o f candidates that will be easy for James Carville’s campaign team to punch holes in. Dan Quayle? Oliver North? Newt Gingrich? Bob Dole? Who are these guys, and how can Americans possibly take them seriously? Former Vice-President Quayle is setting himself up for a run at the presidency in 1996, a laughable prospect from a man who can’t spell the word for the root source o f french fries, perhaps the most American o f all foods, and who was so appalled by M urphy Brown that he made a campaign issue out of it. He can’t even play the military service angle that George Bush did against Clinton, because Quayle ducked out on his national duty, too. Not a problem for Clinton; Carville and Clinton aide George Stephanopolous will cut him like a knife through butter. Oliver North, thankfully, went down to defeat in the Virginia sen ate race, losing to Chuck Robb, a terribly corrupt politician. But North is far w orse. A rig h t-w in g reactio n ary w ith a histo ry o f ly in g to C ongress. Just w hat you w ant from a P resident. S ounds like that P resident o f our adolescence and pre-pubescence, R onald R eagan. (Although, with fairness to Reagan, the recent admission that he suffers from A lzheim er’s disease explains an awful lot... maybe.) Oliver North lost a wealth o f legitim acy and an endless string o f sound bites and photo opportunities when Robb nosed him out. No man named Newt Gingrich will ever be President of the United States. That simple. Though Gingrich should be the next Speaker of the House, he will forever be stuck with the stereotype o f the good-ole Southern boy, if only because of his name. Bob Dole represents Clinton’s greatest challenge, because he is a high-profile national politician who will gain even more attention as Senate M ajority leader than he did in the minority. But D ole’s rightwing rhetoric is easy to punch holes in, too. Clinton’s campaign team proved they could do it when Am ericans were dissatisfied with big business and the Republican party. Now he m ust prove he can do it w hen the p o p u la tio n is d isa p p o in te d and d isillu sio n e d w ith the Democrats. You have two years, Bill. Start campaigning.
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Last Tuesday Dr. Garson Rom alis, a V ancouver gynecologist who performs abortions, was shot in the leg by an AKA7 assault rifle while he was eating breakfast. Assuming an anti-abortion “provocateur” was responsi ble, they will hopefully be found and tried. But let’s not fo rg e t w ho is re sp o n sib le . A lrea d y Dr. H en ry Morgentaler, Canada’s champion of the pro-choice camp, has accused anti-abortion religious leaders of inciting vio lence by labelling those who perform abortions murder ers. This is a ridiculous accusation. People in positions of power should not censure their opinions in order to avoid misinterpretations by unbalanced followers. It is true, for example, that the Catholic Church equates abortion with murder — so what? The Pope has never called for vio lence ag a in st d o cto rs w ho p erfo rm ab o rtio n s. The Archbishop of Vancouver, Adam Exner, has denounced the shooting, insisting that the church advocates only peaceful and legal means of protest. This is not a case of a religious leader calling for the death of dissidents à la Salman Rushdie. There has been no inciting of violence on the Church’s part. Given these realities, the Pope is not responsible if it w as a C a th o lic w ho sh o t D r. R o m alis. B u t D r. Morgentaler raises an interesting point about responsibili ty: if the assailant had been incited by a religious leader to shoot Dr. Romalis, on whose shoulders does responsibili ty fall? The leader would have seriously abused a position
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Choquette hates bikes I recently read in your paper an interview/survey of the mayoral can didates and believe you made a huge m istak e: C h o q u e tte ’s P artie M ontréalais is n ot the only party advocating the construction of bicy cle paths. On the contrary, Choquette is the only can d id ate ag ain st the building of bike paths! The other par ties all advocate more progressive programs for non-polluting modes of transportation, but all Choquette talks about is the need for better motorist access to M ontreal. Please correct this mistake. David Romano MA, ’93
Kwok misunderstands FEU Q A rn o ld K w o k ’s recen t co m ments on SSMU’s provisional mem bership in FEUQ require a response. First, Kwok claim s that N ick Benedict, “is paying FEUQ to do his jo b .” H ow ever, the jo b o f the VP
of power — there is no denying thatbut whoever shot Dr. Romalis is still fu lly re sp o n sib le fo r the crim e. Despite the tendency to blur the dis tinction, the truth is that religious fanaticism does not commit acts of terrorism; the people who buy it do. I make the distinction because recently in North America there have been cases where responsibility has been shouldered onto social institutions or provocations. Individuals are cast as mindless victims of social pressures. Does the Menendez trial come to any one else’s mind? What about the September ruling of the Supreme Court of Canada that severe drunkeness can be used as defence for sexual assault? I am not denying that social pressures exist. It is hard for someone brought up in South Central L.A. to avoid violence. But this fact doesn’t excuse crimes commited in South Central L.A. If it did, we would be denying the human ability to think for ourselves. The time to deal with social inequities is before a law has been broken; not afterwards. We are setting a dangerous precedent if we let criminals shrug their responsibility onto the hazy concept of “societal pressures”. Religious fanaticism, in this case sparked by the abortion debate, does not detract from individual account ability. That is why Paul Hill, the American Presbyterian minister who shot and killed a pro-choice doctor and his aide, was recently convicted of first degree murder. The same logic should apply to other social factors. Our soci ety is built on the principle of the supreme rule of law where each citizen is held responsible for their actions. Or at least I hope it is.
External is to ensure that McGill is well represented externally at all lev els. At a time when post-secondary education-is threatened, provincial representation is crucial, and it is for ths reason that the External Affair C o m m ittee has been research in g F E U Q fo r o v er six m o n th s. By proposing that we join forces with a stro n g p ro v in c ia l o rg a n iz a tio n , Benedict is doing his job. Second, Kwok writes that join ing FEUQ disregards the opinions of students opposed to Q uebec sepa ratism. SSMU has received a guaran tee that none of its resources will go to support a pro-separatism cam paign. Moreover, SSMU can pull out of FEUQ at any time. If membership is no longer in our interests, we can w ithdraw . A nd in the m eantim e, there are issues in Quebec other than separation. K w ok alleges that C o u n c il’s decision displays insensitivity to stu dent concerns. However, councillors spoke with their constituents and lis tened to members of the gallery dur ing the November 3 Council m eet ing. In its final decision, Council showed that it was sensitive to stu dent concerns — concerns that we get the representation we need to
- Jane Rigby U3 Arts fight tuition fee increases and have an effective voice in Quebec deci sions. F in a lly , I ask K w ok and all other students to remember one key point: Council only voted to take provisional m em bership in FEUQ, and a campus-wide referendum will be held next year on the question of full membership. Talk to your coun cillo rs and get inform ation about what FEUQ is and what membership means. The decision belongs to us all. Lisa Grushcow Chair, SSMU External Affairs Committee
UN creates its own problems L izzie Saunderson and Steve S m ith ’s e d ito ria l, “T he sp irit o f remembrance” (Tribune, Nov. 8) is a p aean o f p ra ise fo r th e U n ite d Nations and its “peacekeepers”. “O rganised in O ctober 1944, the UN has served as a forum for the peaceful resolution o f international conflicts. With its roots in the aftermath of World War I (sic) to this day the spirit of the UN remains the spirSee L etters Page 7
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Mighty midgets at CRTC deserve a spanking Nomad's Land Te d Frankel
The scene is as follows: The serenity o f a small town in Ontario is being threatened by the forces of evil. Fortunately, our heroes Jason, Trini, Zack, Kimberly, B illy and Tommy, a.k.a the M ighty M orphin Power Rangers, are promptly noti fied of what’s going down. In front o f our very eyes, the teeny-bop pers drop their facad e as high school students and, voila, now they’re a bad-ass troupe o f ninjas. We watch in awe as Jason’s acne is concealed by an impenetrable mask, w e’re stunned as K im m y’s math textbook is dropped in favour of a pair of num-chuks. But when the tykes ready them selves to do battle, their fortunes turn ugly. We watch in horror as our righteous jousters are defeated. The story doesn’t end here. It seem s that th ese days life im i tates... kiddie shows? Earlier this month, the unruly Rangers were
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effectively slaughtered by a panel of power thirsty censors. Now that the Ontario branch of the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council has grounded the naughty R angers program, can we expect a drop in the number of 8-year-old subver sives roaming our streets? I think the answer is obvious. If Chuck-EC heese’s is now a safer place to b e, i t ’s in no part due to the CRTC’s lackeys. The entertainment media have become all too popular punching bags for frustrated social reform ers. N am e a s o c ie ta l v ic e and there’s bound to be a special inter est group pointing the finger at entertainm ent industries. In the past few months, I ’ve heard the proliferation of sexism blamed on radio shock jock Howard Stern, racist attitudes traced to the musi cal S h o w B o a t and a g g r e ssiv e behaviour attributed to the afore-
m entioned Rangers. Those who advocate the regulation o f these c r ea tiv e form s are su pp ortin g bandaid cures for deep societal wounds. Take the ex a m p le o f the Power Rangers. The sh ow ’s for mat cen tres around a p o sse o f teenage warriors and their violent battles w ith Lord Zed and Rita R ep u lsa, v illa in s from another sp a ce z o n e . I t ’s not e x a c tly Cultural Studies material. Even angry p ro fesso r s at C oncord ia w ouldn ’t be m oronic enough to take this kind of program to heart. Yet earlier this year, the CRTC received two complaints from con cerned parents w ho both m en tioned their kids were emulating the Rangers’ fighting techniques. The CRTC responded w ith the Council ruling, ignoring the fact there is little con sen su s am ong psychologists on the link between TV shows and real violence. So what w ill the ban accom plish? First o f all, it w ill divert attention from the real culprits, the parents. If Mom and Dad kept a closer watch on Junior, they could counter-balance the promotion of
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My room m ate thin ks that someone here paid off M aclean s in previous years. How else could it be that the m agazine seem s only just to have d iscovered that our library is hopeless, and our student se r v ic e s are p oorly fin an ced . Maybe someone even dropped a lit tle money this year, which would explain why the survey says w e have small first-year classes. Yes, McGill has suddenly fall en to third place in the glossy pages of Canada’s weekly newsmagazine. Somehow two lumbering mammoth university bureaucracies — U o f T’s and ours — managed to effect enough change in one year to jug gle the rankings. This lightning sw itch makes me sceptical of M aclean’s findings. This and all the criticism the survey has received in the past, and the fact that nine francophone universities opted out. My scep ticism o f the magazine’s study is not the scepti cism of bitter bronze. I am in a sin cere state o f total confusion with regard to our good and bad rank ings in certain categories. McGill has always performed poorly in the library category. I am mystified as to how this institution ev en p la ce d n inth in “Library Holdings per Student”. Our admin istration must have counted the tril lions of tantalizing tomes in MUSE that are term in a lly “L o st” ,
submitted its numbers to the maga zine. This could be the solution to the m ystery o f how w e avoided eleventh place in the library section. Another mystery is our ranking in the cla ss s iz e ca teg o ry . A pparently, 50.9% o f first year classes at M cGill are cosily inti mate, with 1-25 students. Ha! Try te llin g that to a n y o n e sittin g through first-year Bio, Comparative P o litic s, A m erican L it, Intro to Philosophy, or Intro to Psychology! They’ll bury you in a pile of your own B .S. An explanation o f the class size puzzle could lie in the fact that conferences and language courses are quite small. However, since M aclean’s says that 74% o f first-year c la sse s are taught by tenured or tenure-track professors, the con feren ce/lan gu a g e course explanation is shot. Few confer ences are lead by profs, and many low le v e l lan gu age co u rses are taught by “Lecturers”. Somewhere on this campus, tiny first-year class es are being taught by tenured pro fessors. Our very own Holy Grail. Operating expenditure per stu dent is good and high here, com pared to other universities. McGill is number one when it com es to spending money. The strange thing is, this university places a dismal last when it comes to expenditures d evoted to student serv ices. N o o n e ’s sp en d in g m o n ey on us.
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hours to see a doctor at Health Services knows that w e certainly don’t get first-class treatment. So who gets the gelt? Beats me. What is the administration doing with all the cash? M aybe that is w h a t’s always plugging up the toilets in the Leacock basement. Or maybe our $$ h ave b een g o in g to M aclean s... There are m ysterious things about M cG ill’s finances, library and class sizes, as represented in the M a c le a n ’s survey. W hatever their weird and wonderful solutions may be, there are som e obvious problems here that the m agazine has kindly pointed out to us and our administration. Snap to it Shapiro, and g et to fix in g our crum m y library, bettering our services, and making our classes smaller — for real. Maybe we can get this lumber ing mammoth into a canter, and m osey our way up to first place again. (W ithout exchanging cash under the table?) Not that it really matters where M cG ill p laces in the M a c le a n ’s rankings. In the end, too m any intangibles add up to a gut feeling that no survey can ever measure. Sitting in Café M elies, walking to school along Prince Arthur, the Arts steps, the opportunity to hear speakers such as Gerry A dam s, cheap rent, one perfect class and well-loved prof, all these cumulate in my gut feeling for this university. M y gu ts are grum bling M cG ill guts, but they belong here, and no survey results can transplant my essential organs anywhere else. Beatrice van D ijk is campaign ing fo r M cG ill’s rebirth.
violence with a peaceful voice of reason. The program is so ridiculous and fake it’s hard to believe that any child could confuse it with reality, unless they’ve been raised exclu sively on WWF wrestling. Kids are violent because they haven’t been sufficiently taught that violence is wrong. It’s not the responsibility of the media to teach this lesson. Is your child trying to zap the family dog with Windex after watching the Rangers? Perhaps it’s time to sit them dow n, or even self-cen so r their viewing habits. If parents don’t or won’t do this — well, there’s the real problem. The media only reflects what already exists in society, it doesn’t invent these problems. If someone goes on a murderous rampage after w atching R am bo, perhaps they were slightly unbalanced before they saw the flick. B esid es, pre senting a mirror o f society can be a
humbling experience for the gener al public. I think it makes a misog y n ist stop and thin k about the sophistication o f their current phi lo so p h y w hen they liste n to Howard Stem spank lesbian twins for the umpteenth time. The CRTC has clearly erred in their ju d g em en t o f the R anger affair. The rewards o f putting a harness on entertainm ent m edia con ten t n ever ju stify the co sts. Freedom o f ex p ressio n is a far more important right than freedom from silly children’s show s. W e can only wonder why the Council w as so set on fla u n tin g their authority. Maybe they watch too m uch C o p s, or lis te n to Rush Limbaugh a lot...
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the sequence of events: a Palestinian Islam ic fundam entalist leader is assassinated in Gaza. The Israeli government, which threatened to k ill the leaders o f Ham as and Islamic Jihad, pointedly refuses to deny responsibility. The next day, demonstrators converge on, not the Israeli em bassy, but the Iranian embassy to protest its government’s sponsorship of terrorism. This is a case of one embassy orchestrating a demonstration against another in a pre-emptive propaganda strike. The Israeli embassy should be ashamed of itself for playing on Canadain Jew s’ identification with Israel to enlist their services as foot-soldiers on the propaganda front in a dirty war. Dem onstrations against the Iranian embassy w on’t change the fact that assassination is an unac ceptable tactic — even when Israel does it. Significantly, the report in the Gazette noted that the Reform MPs who were invited to speak at the dem onstration declined to reply. Apparently they saw no political gain in Jewish concerns. The ideo lo g ica l precursor o f the Reform Party is Social Credit, the party of Jim Keegstra. The founding ideo logu e o f S ocial Credit, C lifford Hugh Douglas, taught his followers that rece ssio n s w ere caused by Jewish bankers who conspired to seize control of the world’s money supply. It is irresponsible for the Israeli embassy to engineer specta cles like the demonstration: there is significant latent anti-Semitism in this country, and the perception that Canadian Jews are agents of a for eign state could be used against them. North American Christian fundamentalism, to which Social Credit and Reform have close ties, is a much more serious threat to the secu rity o f Canadian Jew s than Iranian Islamic fundamentalism. We know that Christian fundamentalists in this country are capable of vio lence: look at what happened in Vancouver on November 8.
it of peach and a global balance of power.” While these were the intentions of the founders of the UN 50 years ago, what is its recent record? “Spirit o f p ea ce” and “the peaceful resolution of international conflicts”: The UN was not interest ed in a peaceful solution of the IraqKuwait conflict. It refused negotia tion for Iraqi withdraw al from Kuwait and responded with a genocidal war against the Iraqi people. It continues with a starvation campaign three years after Iraq withdrew. “A global balance of power”: There was a balance of power until the break-up o f the Soviet Union, although many regarded it as a bal ance of two evils. Now there is no balance. Power rests with one super power, and the UN has become a rubber stamp to give legitimacy to its ambitions. As to the role of UN “peace keepers” in Bosnia and Croatia it w as w ell described in Elizabeth Valentina’s letter “How dare you” last week: “...p ea cek eep ers do next to nothing but fill up the bars, perpetu ate black market activities and cause a booming prostitution industry.” Valentina is too kind to the “peace keepers”. Not satisfied with the ser vices of prostitutes, the “peacekeep ers” have helped in the mass rape of Bosnian Muslim women by patron ising Serb-operated brothels served by Muslim women kept by force. In Somalia the “peacekeepers” have distinguished themselves by tortur ing to death a starving Som ali teenager who was searching for food. Jan W. Weryho Islamic Studies Cataloguer
Israelis should be ashamed The November 3 demonstration against the Iranian em bassy (Tribune, Nov. 8) was an astonish
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Aries (Mar. 21- Apr. 19) A small mouse named Tuba is alive in your memories. It was a long time ago in the apartment you used to live in. The one you loved said: “W h at’s g o in g on ?” . She dropped a tube o f toothpaste on the floor and started screeching, claw ing away at your polyester ceiling tiles, looking for poor sweet Tuba. Why did she eat him? Taurus (Apr. 20 - May 20) Sunlight. Oh that pure radiant glow eternal. The silt in your large fancy bottle o f Maudite beer has settled. All is calm... a person once said, “Hallo”... That’s all you need,
you are finally one, everything is solace. My child if you are sad, alienated, m elancholy, remember this world was not meant for you to be alone in. We the entire popula tion o f LIFE, love you.
Gemini (May 21 - June 20) Your secret life is about to begin. Your friends w ill call you Sasha but your mother will call you special and your new dog (a poo dle) w ill forever be licking your shin and blessing you in its own way. Now that’s Hope. Call us at the Tribune, w e’ll hug you, w e’ll bathe you in chocolate milk; and, w e’ll calcify your fucking armourplated shin p rotectors, w ith o il stolen from a left-over V ic-20 we found via sarcasm.
realise that is the greatest mishap you have encountered in 14 days (s in c e you last read the h o ro sc o p e s). You take a m om ent to understand the m ean in g o f the greatest word ever invented, which o f co u rse is “R E C R E A T IO N ” . Smile, you’re not on candid cam era, you’re not on anything but the golden road of eternal grins.
Leo (July 23 - Aug. 22) What the Sam-Hell were you thinking? It doesn ’T matter, you ju st gotta be y o u ... and this is what’s in the cards: a really cool m ountain b ik e, you g et to be m om m y’s little helper (no situa tional conditions), you get to call people names behind their backs, you get to suck helium from the hypothetical balloons o f lovers the world over, and when we see you on campus you will act mature and successful as you jump around like an acrobat, impressing the Cultural S tu d ies p h ilo so p h er/p o et/m u sician/vaudeville agent-seekers.
Virgo (Aug. 23 - Sept. 22) Cancer (June 21 - July 22) Oh dear! Y ou’ve put your shirt on backwards. Oddly enough you
Boy, how ‘bout those last few weeks Virgo? Pretty rough, I’ll bet. If not hard times in school, then
implying that the word cunt is well over 5,000 years old. Eric Partridge, the doyen of slang etymology, sug gests that the “cu” or “qu” sound in Indo-European simply denoted femi A lex U sher ninity and fertility. Thus, “cunt” would be related to “cow” (a wellknown symbol of fertility, for which they are justly considered sacred by 800 million Hindus), “quin” (lowland Scottish for “girl”) and even “queen”. Two important things about this last theory: firstly, it is difficult to reconcile with the first two etymologies, since they both imply a relationship with space or geome try, not fertility. Secondly, it lays bare the ugly reality that every time we want to go for a Peanut Buster Parfait, we are in fact hankering after a nosh at Dairy Cunt. Still, etymology aside, we are still left with the mys tery of the word’s “taboo” nature which has withstood even the attempts of such luminaries as Henry Miller to make it an acceptable literary term (Miller’s “O Tania, where now is that warm cunt of yours?” was never likely to make him a Booker Prize winner). Interestingly, the taboo on female genitals is not restricted to English. Dutch feminine hygiene commercials of the 1970s urged women to take better care of their “third armpit”, which I take as proof that this taboo probably extends across most of Europe. In Iran, certain types of remarks about cunts are not utterable by members o f the other sex. For instance, the pithy Farsi quip “sari khar tuyi lingit” (“a donkey’s head is in your cunt”) is not used by men, but only amongst women. This taboo does not, however, seem to extend to the Balkans, where Slavic Macedonians have a ball using the word “picka” (pronounced “pichka”). The Ohrid-Prespa basin in Macedonia has several geographical features named “cunt”, including Pickin Dol (“Cunt V ale”), Pickino Klanenec (“Cunt W ell”) and Pickino Doliste (“Cunt Valley”). So enamoured are they with the word that there is even a patriotic ditty on the subject. Very roughly transliterated, it goes: “P is for the partisan within you/I is for your inner fortitude/Ch is for your charitable character/K is for your kindly character/A is for your admirable virtues/too many to enumerate this way/put them all together; they spell “pichka’Vyou made me what I am today”. Which, I believe, pretty much goes for all of us.
The Faculty of Ephemera I have been wrestling o f late with what might be termed a major hole in feminist theory concerning male and female genitals. There is a well-known train of femi nist thought which states that men derive some of their social power from the “cloaked” nature of the phallus. Men do not like to have the penis — the “source” of male power — exposed and they seek to perpetuate their power by keeping it hidden, away from scrutiny. This is a cour tesy men do not extend to women — for proof one can simply note that Venus is usually starkers whereas Michaelangelo’s David has a fig-leaf in front of his twoincher. So goes the theory; but there is one question that then must be asked. If this is true of visual representation, why would it not also be true of linguistic representation? For it is surely not the case: “cock”, “dick” and “prick” are all relatively commonplace (if not very polite), where as the word “cunt” is possibly the most taboo word in the English language. Why this discrepancy? Germaine Greer’s essay “Woman, Love thy Cunt” was amusing but of very little help. I resolved to dig deeper into this vex ing mystery. The origin and derivation o f the word cunt are shrouded in some mystery. The earliest known use of the word “cunt” dates from 1325, though it has roots which go much further back than that. It is clearly descended from the Middle English “cunte” and the Old Norse “kunta”, both of which are thought to come from a protoGermanic word “kunton”. Some scholars believe that the Germanic “ku”-root signified hollow spaces or enclosing objects. By that token, “cunt” would be related to the words “cubby” and “cottage”. However, “cunt” homonyms are not restricted to Germanic languages. The French “con” (a word which Shakespeare used in the form “coun” in Henry V) derives from the Latin “cunnus”, which in turn is thought to be related to the word “cuneus”, or “comer”. According to this theory, then, “con” and “coin” are related. Basic linguistic drift theory would imply that if a word sounds similar in two related language families then it probably has a common origin, in this case in that proto-language known as Indo-European. And, sure enough, some scholars have found such a root, thus
Alex Usher realises that he never answered the ques tion that began the column, but thinks it was a super excuse to see all this in print.
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lea rn in g that recip e for C repe Suzette. Well gee, have I got news for you. So sit back turn on your fave ‘sode o f Planet o f the Apes an’1 lissen to me: It’s over. King H appiness has taken his throne, throw yur feet up baby ya gots ta be coastin’. (Have you noticed how unseemly happy these horoscopes are? If i t ’s g o o d or bad p lea se resp on d , w e ’re ju st so u sed to being freaky. Maybe I’m opening up too much, but we are not accus tomed to this euphoria thing.)
Libra (Sept. 23 - Oct. 22) Liken this to a traveling salva tion, the kind that butters you up when you think about your sum m ers w ith SW A P in Gibraltar. Think o f the cream like poppies scattered a cross the op en field b efo re y o u . Y our b ack pack is heavy but it can’t hold you down. Your best foreign friend Cordelia (who you still write to) has just had her eyes opened, all a flutter, and with joy she recounts with pleasure a loving embrace she enjoyed with a sp ark -p lu g she m et on the Autobahn. The gorgeous poppies
act as a frame for her story as she lays down a blanky in the field. You rest, contentedly, as she pulls sunshine from her picnic basket.
Scorpio (Oct. 23 - Nov. 21) Is that a sm ile I see on your face? You deserve to smile. After years in the pickle factory listening to modem music, you are ready to break free. Put on th o se su s penders. Try taking a walk - even if it’s just to the store to buy some toilet paper. Take a chance! Try p u ttin g so m e p ep per on your H o n ey co m b . S om e k etch up on your hands. Beg to differ! Maybe even play a little practical joke; put a condom in your friend’s wallet... it w ould be uproariously funny, and they might even need it some tim e for so m eth in g that you couldn’t imagine.
Sagittarius (Nov. 22 - Dec. 21) M agical m ists surround the lofty down o f your maniacal doovayy(phonetic). The spandex brief case of sadness has burst only to let
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Holding the line against the “Neo-liberal Neanderthals” By C hris M c D ougall ____________
O ne o f o n ly n in e N ew Democrats to currently hold a seat in the federal legislature spoke at M cG ill last T uesday afternoon. Svend Robinson, MP for the riding o f Burnaby-K ingsw ay in British Columbia, addressed the universi ty co m m u n ity in the S hatner Ballroom for nearly thirty minutes before responding to a half-dozen questions from the floor. An estim a ted 3 5 0 stud en ts and facu lty attended the event. This was a significant turnout for a member o f a party with virtually no fed era l p o litic a l p o w er. R o b in s o n ’s h ig h ly p u b lic ise d view s with respect to logging in the Clayoquot Sound, the right to doctor-assisted suicides, and the fact that he is the first MP ever to publicly reveal his homosexuality, render him as perhaps the m ost familiar NDP face. R obinson began his sp eech w ith an attack on the Canadian media. “The decline o f left poli tic s ... [and] the d em ise o f the N D P [has been] overstated both
Reform Party in Canada, O liver North in the US, or extreme con se rv a tism in E astern E u rop e, R o b in so n m aintain ed that “the vision o f socialism ” has a duty not to stop fighting. The so c ia list p ersp ective is necessary to address the challenge o f redistribution, Robinson contin ued. “The fact that 40,000 children die everyday o f “ I t is not the size of the m aln u trition ” and that, caucus, hut what you do a m on g in d u str ia lise d n a tio n s, C anada ranks with it M P Svend second and third, respec for child poverty Robinson tively, and c h ild s u ic id e is “n o th in g le s s than obscene”. tion s. A ccord in g to R ob in son , Another prominent subject in “socialism is alive” as long as the Robinson’s speech was the spread g o a ls o f e q u a lity , d em o cr a cy , o f cap italist eco n o m ic system s. hum an rig h ts, en v ir o n m en ta l respect, and econom ic redistribu Citing N ew Zealand, he claim ed that neo-liberal policies o f deficittion are absent anywhere in the world. Socialism will live as long red u ctio n and free-tra d e h ave resulted in increased crim e and as racism , sexism , hom ophobia, su ic id e ra tes. F urth erm ore, and alienation are allowed to exist. R o b in so n d is c u s s e d E astern First and foremost, Robinson Europe, where he believes the for argued that “ a stro n g le ft is required because o f the rise o f the m er S o v ie t R ep u b lic s are “far w orse o f f today than they ever right”. W hether it is against the
here in Canada and around the world”. Although the media would have us b elieve that socialism is d ead , “a stron g le ft is still required”. R obinson’s address incorpo rated his view s on the contempo rary relevance o f socialism in light o f certain enduring world condi
were during the Cold-W ar”. His conclusion: “the triumph o f capi talism is a myth”. Robinson was critical o f the current Canada-China econom ic negotiations. In his opinion, the Canadian delegation is doing noth ing but condoning the “authoritari an repression ... and the terribly p o o r hum an rig h ts r e co r d ” in China. “There has got to be a bet ter way o f organising our economy here in Canada and globally”. Robinson outlined the domes tic tro u b le s that the N ew D e m o cr a tic Party is cu rren tly e x p e r ie n c in g . A fter d raw in g a chuckle from the audience with the remark that “it is not the size o f the caucus, but what you do with it”, he indicated that “the N D P ’s future w ill only be realised if it m ain tain s a strong and rad ical vision o f socialism”. The party must not, according to R o b in son , sh ift tow ards the “mushy-middle” like other “quasi liberal” Canadian political parties. “There are excitin g p ossib ilities both electoral and in principle” for a truly liberal N ew D em ocratic
Party o f C anada. C o m m en tin g from his personal experience as an official observer during the recent d em o cr a tic e le c tio n s in South Africa , Robinson concluded his speech with a comparison between South Africans and Canadians. “If South Africans could keep hope of justice and equality for so long, then so can [Canadians]”. When confronted with a ques tion concerning social programs in light o f current fiscal constraints, Robinson rejected “the logic that we have to choose between social programs and servicing the debt”. S uch a “r ig h t-c o n s e r v a tiv e assumption” ignores the fact that, “the cause o f our debt and deficit is not social programs ... but poli cies o f high interest rates, an unfair taxing system, and defence spend ing”. Another question concerning the new Liberal Party proposal on im m ig ra tio n le d R o b in so n to charge the government with using “refugees as scapegoats” and then criticised Lloyd A xw orthy’s pro p o sed ch a n g es to the p o st-se c See Robinson Page 11
Politics Between Elections: talking with Charest By Sylvie Babarik
The crushing blow sustained by the Conservative Party during the last federal elec tio n clearly dem onstrated the dissatisfaction o f v o ter s w ith its ap proach to g overn m en t. T he T r ib u n e had the opportunity to speak with the Honourable Jean Charest — one o f the two Conservatives to have won a seat in parliament. Charest raises the issue o f rearranging the party system and its significance in terms o f the current political environment. Charest does not regard the rise and the recent electoral suc cess o f regional parties as repre s e n t a tiv e o f a tru e c h a n g e in Canadian p olitics. M oreover, he d oes not b e lie v e them to be an absolute threat to the tw o older national parties. “W e are w it n e s s in g th e m ovem ent o f a pendulum, where the re g io n a l fo r c e s h ave co m e forward. I think w e witnessed cir c u m sta n c e s that fa v o u r e d the em ergence o f these forces in the last federal campaign — this led to the election o f the Bloc and the Reform party. These are not par ties o f the mainstream in Canada, but rather o f the extrem e. T his country was built on compromise and consensus, whereas they are more apt to offer confrontation.” Charest describes the region al parties as part o f the country’s reassessment o f itself. He is con fident not only that the pendulum o f Canadian p o litics w ill sw in g back in the other direction, but e x p e c ts the return tow ards the traditional parties to take place by the next elections.
“The debate w ill have been spent. The referendum in Quebec w ill further it, and w ill force the groups to push their arguments to the extent to w hich they can be brought. It w ill be halted by the forces in this country that want to fo cu s on the things w e have in com m on.” Charest does not envision the d isapp earance o f the h istorical g r ie v a n c e s o f e ith e r w e ste r n Canada or Q uebec, but b eliev es that a responsible federal govern m ent can su ccessfu lly act as the “ b r id g e ” b e tw e e n th e m . H e accuses the B loc and the Reform party o f obscuring the existence o f a national perspective through their reactionary approaches to government. W hat the p reviou s electio n and the rise o f these groups have clarified is the need to re-evaluate the w ays in w hich governm ent operates. This lesson w ill allow the national parties to once again represent popular demands. Three principles for redefining the role o f g o v e r n m e n t stan d o u t in Charest’s mind. “ F irst, w e m ust r e c o g n ise that nothing is sacred in terms o f h o w g o v e r n m e n t o p e r a te s. Secondly, changes must be based on what works for the people, not for the parties or the government. Thirdly, w e must look at changes that w e can m ake happ en that aren’t necessarily constitutional.” A tte m p ts to b r in g a b o u t changes in the system through a “top-dow n” approach have been u n su cc essfu l. C harest su g g ests that other adjustments should be worked out first, leaving the cre ation o f a n ew C o n stitu tio n as
im portance o f an sw ering q u es “the end result, rather than the tio n s about the d e fic it and the beginning o f the process”. “One ex am p le w ou ld be to future o f the Canadian currency u se fed era l/p ro v in cia l agreem en ts, test them for a period o f tim e,... and if they m eet with our s a t is f a c t io n w e co u ld then p roceed to c o n s titu tio n a lis e them.” The upcoming ref erendum is inextricably linked to the constitu tion al q u estio n . “One o f the reasons I stuck around in this job was b e c a u se i f th ere w a s going to be a debate on th e fu tu re o f C anada and Q u eb ec, I w a sn ’t going to sit it out.” “ F e d e r a lis m is a f le x i b le stru ctu r e. There is a w hole hori zon out there for us to e x p lo r e in ter m s o f h o w w e ca n b rin g about som e change in this country.” “ O n e th in g w e must focus on in going into this debate, is the fact that the onus is on The H o n o u ra b le J e a n Charest th e s h o u ld e r s o f the in the case o f sovereignty. P e q u is te s . T h e y are th e o n e s “ A n o th e r o f the p rin cip a l prop osing change. T hey cannot e s c a p e th e r e s p o n s ib ilit y o f e c o n o m ic a rg u m en ts o f s e p a telling people what it is that they ratists is to say that there is too are proposing and what the con much overlap and duplication in se q u e n c e s that are attach ed to g o v er n m e n t, ...th a t w e ca n n o t afford it, and thus w e should sep that are exactly.” Charest claim s that the so v arate. The sam e p eop le say that e r e ig n tists h a v e a ten d e n c y to after separation, all the federal adjust reality so as to m eet their public servants in Quebec would automatically be put on the payarguments. He seeks to challenge roll o f the new country. That is a this rhetoric and em phasises the
glaring inconsistency.” The notion o f eventual so v ereignty is dism issed by Charest. He points out that the insuf ficient support it fetches in th e p o lls b e c o m e s e v e n weaker when the definition is pushed to a situation o f co m p lete separation from Canada. “T here is a d is-in fo rm ation cam p aign that the B loc and the Pequistes have used so effectively to try to b rea k the w ill o f o th er C anad ian s. W hat I se e is th e c o n s is t e n c y of Q u eb ec k e rs w h o w ant to stay w ith in the C anadian confederation.” I f th e re fe r e n d u m debate does becom e a twocamp battle, Charest admits that h is fe d e r a list sta n c e w ou ld require an a llia n ce w ith a particu lar sid e. In partisan terms, he b elieves his link would be more with the provincial Liberal party than with the federal level. “The person w ho w ill lead the d eb ate is D a n iel Johnson. He and I get along w ell. Our organisations get alon g w ell. W e w ill work with him as the leader. That does not mean that those o f us that are participating in the debate have to have the sam e v ie w o f fed era l ism. In fact, I think it w ould be detrimental to our cause to be in that position, when in fact there are d ifferen t v ie w s o f h o w the country should ev o lv e. W hen it c o m e s to th e fu n d a m e n ta l premise, obviously w e are all on the same side.”
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Integration or assimilation in M ontreal’s schools By Richard V enturi E a r lie r th is f a ll E m ilie O u im et w as fo rced to transfer fro m L o u is R ie l s e c o n d a r y school in M ontreal because she was wearing a hijab, a traditional Islam ic scarf. Principal Normand Doré explained that not only was the hijab a violation o f the dress c o d e , b u t it c o u ld “ p o la r is e a g g r e ssio n am on g y o u n g p e o p le.” T h is p articu lar in c id e n t is in dicative o f a larger and m ore c o m p le x p r o b le m th at e x i s t s within Canada’s public education system , particularly in Quebec: how can immigrants successfully integrate into M ontreal’s school system and Q uebec society and m aintain their cultural b e lie fs. E ducation M inister Jean Garon stated, “A Quebecker is som eone w ho liv e s in Q uebec and wants
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system based upon shared values would be more profitable than a system that operates on a shared language. “There m ust be an ongoing d ia lo g u e w ith th e im m ig r a n t com m unity in the form o f interc u ltu r a l e d u c a t io n ” , s tr e s s e d Jocelyn Berthelot o f the Centre de l ’E n seig n em en t du Q u eb ec, the la r g e s t te a c h in g u n io n in Q u e b e c . ‘AVhat is m is s in g in Quebec is an inter-cultural p oli cy .” F or the ch ild ren o f im m i grants, the public school system is a critical part o f the integration p r o c e s s in to Q u e b e c s o c ie t y . H owever, an aspect to be consid ered is integration with the com munity outside o f school. “M any im m igrant students are m o re in flu e n c e d by th e an gloph one culture than by the francophone culture being taught in school,” com m ented Jean Guy D ’A m our, principal o f La V o ie S eco n d a ry S c h o o l in C ote des N eiges. D ’A m o u r c la im s that although students receive tw ice as much instruction in French as in English, m ost students are as adept at fun ction ing in E nglish as they are in French. This situa tion is exacerb ated by the fact that there are very few francoph on e stud en ts in the sc h o o l and co n seq u en tly , m inim al interac-
to be a Q uebecker”. S eem in g ly sim ple, this statement has opened th e d o o r to a w id e -r a n g in g debate over the Canadian identity and its implications. W hen an im m igrant fam ily arrives in Q u eb ec, the children must, under the French Language B ill 101, attend French schools. The rationale is that by having an immigrant learn French, which is considered to be an integral part o f Q u eb ec cu ltu re, in teg ra tio n in to Q u e b e c s o c ie t y ca n be achieved sm oothly. N ot surpris ingly, this policy is problematic. A s Jean M o isse t, p ro fesso r o f e d u c a t io n a l p la n n in g at U n iversité L aval said, “Q uebec s o c ie t y , to d a y , is far from h o m o g e n o u s. T he g o v ern m en t c a n n o t fo r c e im m ig r a n ts to assim ilate to a particular idea o f culture.” It has been suggested that a
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t io n w ith fra n co p h o n e c u lt u r e . D ’Amour n o te s, “ In te g r a tio n fo r im m ig r a n t students sta r ts at sc h o o l, h o w ev er in tegra tion is m uch m ore th an ju st th e sch o o l s y s tem .” Recently, Bernard Lan d ry , Q u e b e c ’s C u ltu ral C om m un ities Minister, sta te d that Q u e b e c w o u ld not allow a M us lim school to re q u ir e that teachers wear ever* the^gov
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ern m en t has r e fu se d to a llo w w om en to wear hijabs in public schools, Landry explained. “R eligiou s freedom , like all th e oth ers has its lim its. [T he governm ent’s] role is not simply to a llo w the e x e r c is e o f th e se freed o m s but a lso to esta b lish lim its,” Landry said. Landry’s policy is not with out its critics. “What they’re saying is you can a s s im ila te o n ly . Y o u can h a v e a d ifferen t c o lo r but you have to p o ssess a W estern p sy ch e,” criticized Samira Qureshi,
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Bike theft steals across McGill By H u g o C a m eron
These days, any conversation concern ing bicycles or cycling at M cGill is bound to include the issue o f bike theft. In all like lihood, you probably know som eone who has had their bike ripped o ff while in class or at the library, or that you have been a v ictim y o u rself. Last year alon e, 6 ,6 7 3 b ikes w ere stolen in M ontreal, and this summer, thieves claim ed over 1,400 b icy cles in the downtown core. Although it is generally acknowledged that thieves are mostly interested in upperend bikes, it is a w ell-know n rule that no bike, regardless o f cost, paint job, make or size, is completely safe on the M cGill cam p u s. C o n sta b le S y lv ie L u c ie r , C rim e Prevention Officer at Police Station 25, the station w h ose ju risd ictio n en com p asses M cG ill’s downtown campus, claimed bikes were the b iggest stolen com m odity after cars. “A ll w e do for bikes is to encourage people to get them registered at the police station. We also will engrave license num bers on them free o f charge to make identi fication easier,” stated Lucier. R andolf S ch lew in g , an em p loyee o f A B C C y c le s & S p o r ts, L td ., w a s p e s sim istic about the p o ssib ilities o f a bike being recovered. “There’s really nothing you can do to prevent bike theft other than never leaving your b ike. E ven in freq u en tly travelled areas, people are getting their bikes taken. However, it always pays to fill in a police report that records your bike description and serial number,” said Schlewing. When asked what the city has done to prevent bike theft, S ch lew in g an equally pessimistic response:
“ N o th in g . The police som e tim e s recover stolen b ikes, but u nless they have been registered, it is next to im pos s ib le to g e t a stolen bike back. M an y en d up being sold o ff at the police auction at the end o f the year.” In an attempt to co m b a t in c reasing incidents o f b ik e th e ft, cam p us secu rity has im plem ented so m e n ew b ik e safety procedures. A s o f July 28th, M cG ill ad ju sted its p o lic y c o n cerning the prohi bition o f bicycles inside U niversity b u ild in g s. S tu d en ts and s t a ff w ith a ssig n e d o f fic e sp a ce are n ow a llo w e d to bring their b ic y c le s in sid e w ith them. In addition, the n um ber o f b ic y c le racks Thieves em bark on steal wheels tour around ca m p u s has been increased to accom m odate the in reducing theft on cam pus is question able. Referred to in som e circles as “the growing number o f students who use bikes. shop”, M cG ill remains a prime target for Whether these efforts have succeeded
bike thieves, who com m only seek out not o n ly b a d ly -lo ck ed b ik es, but a lso lo o se parts such as d érailleurs and unsecured w h e e ls . P eter K ran tz, a d o w n to w n M o n trea l b ik e co u r ie r and M c G ill math/computer graduate, offered his opin ion on the major problem s o f bike racks and supervision. “These bike racks are designed so that people have to lean over to lock their bikes, so thieves are able to hide suspicious activ ity by looking as if they are just unlocking the bike. P eople should be really careful about leaving their bikes outside Leacock, especially at night, since not many people pass by there after dark, and the bike-lock area is obscured by parked cars.” It w as in th is area that M att MacFadzean, a U3 Drama major, had his bike stolen. “W hoever it w as knew what they were doing, because they went right through a Krypto lock and took the bike away, along with the lock. What surprises me is that it happened in broad daylight, som etim e betw een 12:30 and 4:30 p.m ., while other people were obviously going to be walking by.” U3 English major Carl Michener, after losing an unsecured rear w heel outside the library, learned that it is worth taking extra precautions against bike and bike part theft. “ I t ’s m o stly co m m o n s e n s e . Y ou shouldn’t ride a super exp en siv e bike to sch o o l; i t ’s w orth b u y in g a beater that would be less attractive to thieves. If there are expensive parts on the bike, it might be a good idea to cover up the brand names with tape or scratch them off, and be sure to lock up both wheels and the frame in a w ell-lit and well-travelled place, preferably with a plum ber’s-T equipped Kryptonite lock.”
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So far, luck had been on our side. Clear skies, a warm breeze and a quick succession of rides had brought us outside o f Kingston in under four hours. It was my turn to thumb, so I took my position on the shoulder of the road, while Joel went o ff scavenging for autom o bile artifacts to keep as mementos o f our journey. Forty minutes later, only a dozen cars, and a couple of trucks had whizzed by. I was los ing my patience. In the meantime J o el had m anaged to c o lle c t a Cadillac hood ornament, three red blinkers and a battered Impala hub cap. “A ccidents w ill happen” he jibed. A powder blue Tercel bolted by in a cloud of dust, but gracious ly, it slowed to a stop. Joel and I gathered our things and hopped in the back seat. “Where you headed?” “Montreal.” “W e can tak e y o u to Cornwall.” “That would be great.” The large man sitting in the passenger seat directly in front of me, the one who had asked us our destination, was clad in a soiled
undershirt, saturated in sweat and beer, accessorised by a brown Bud cap (brim rolled like a newspaper), mirror sunglasses and an ominous handlebar m ustache, barely d is cernible from the thick stubble that covered the rest of his face. Fading green homemade tattoos smudged his enormous arms. He took care of the introductions. “I’m Perry and this is Jimmy, the retard.” He laughed and admin istered a hard slap to the back of the drivers head. “Fuck you, Perry boy” cursed Jimmy, cracking a crooked smile, divulging a single yellowing tooth. He was the archetypal weasel. The sparse rem ains o f his cigarettejaundiced hair were slicked back over his shiny orange scalp, com plimenting the deep amber tint of his sunglass lenses. His red face was gaunt and wasted, giving the impression that the skin was far too tigh tly stretched over his skull. Both men were completely drunk, and the speedometer never dunked below a hundred and eighty. “A re th o se su n g la s se s any good?” I asked the driver, a harm less way to break the ice. Jim m y took them o f f and
handed them to me. I put them on. The cars, the road, the trees, every thin g w as w ash ed in an am ber monochrome light. I had the unset tling feeling that Jimmy - our dri ver, the man that was now respon sible for my life - imagined he was playing a video game, dodging cars at tw ic e the sp eed lim it, extra p o in ts for sh ak in g the fu z z. Jimmy’s orange world was a place where fast is good, crash is bad and cops are game over. My fingers dug into Perry’s seat, and like an animal sensing fear, he spun around and looked at me. “Yous guys are scared, eh?” he asked, delighted. “D on’t worry,” he assured us “Jimmy’s a retard, but he can drive good.” Jimmy finished his bottle and passed it back to Joel, who quickly su p p lied him w ith a fresh beer from the ever dwindling case at his feet. “So what are you guy’s going to Cornwall for?” Joel asked cheer fully, seem ingly oblivious to our unsavory circumstances. “W e ’re running cig a re ttes from K ingston to C ornw all, it’s better cash than hash.” “Really,” I squeaked, feigning interest in this little tidbit o f black market commerce. “What if you get stopped?” “I guess me and the retard go back to the clink,” chuckled Perry.
“Y ou w ere in p rison?” The Continued from Page 9 question was slow , my beautiful j ondary funding system. day had turned into a nightmare. F in a lly , w hen q u e stio n e d “Ten y e a r s,” he an sw ered about the lack o f con co rd a n ce proudly. “Its w here m e and the betw een the N D P political plat retard met.” form and the concrete actions of Jim my grunted in ack n ow l N D P g o v er n m e n ts in BC and edgment, taking back a swig from O n tario, R o b in so n sta ted that the new bottle. there are d ifferin g o p in io n s on “I don’t get my licence back economic policy within the NDP. till ‘98,” He punctuated his remark H e s u g g e ste d that lo o k in g at with a loud belch. “w hat e ls e N D P g o v er n m e n ts “Is that w hy J im m y ’s d ri have done”, reveals that, when the ving,” I asked. oth er o p tio n s are “n e o -lib e r a l “Y ou m ean the retard ,” he neanderthals”, the N D P “is the corrected. “N o, he w o n ’t get his only choice”. licence ever again.” David Wright, member o f the I was overcome by visions of NDP McGill Executive and main flashing sirens, and Jimmy acceler organiser o f the R obinson visit, ating. C ruisers, cruisers e v e r y could not have been happier with where, and Jimmy accelerating. the ev en t. In addition to being J o el and I, the rear sea t m eat“thrilled with the number o f peo shields taking bullets, and Jimmy ple there”, Wright indicated that, accelerating. A stripped chassis on as a member o f the NDP, he found wheels and Jimmy accelerating. Robinson’s speech “very inspiring Dust in the Wind blared from . . . and a good reason to continue the ra d io , ap paren tly on e o f the fight.” Jim m y’s favorites. He cranked it up, shifted up and bellow ed out. The song carried us to Cornwall, w here w e g o t o f f and thanked them. Features Writers I turned to Joel, sp eech less. ( a n d th o se w h o d a re to d r e a m ) “What the hell was that?!?!” “At least w e ’ve made up for lost time.” Stop by the office & receive a Joel never skipped a beat. package-it’s in our box.
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November 15th, 1994
ENTERTAINMENT Exploring-ism s with NOFX B y Ericka F u c h s
Consumerism, reverse racism and classism constitute some o f the more serious topics hit upon when the Tribune talked to the head of Fat W reck C hords and N O FX b a ssist/v o c a list/so n g w r ite r Fat Mike. Fat M ike is join ed by three others in the ranks o f this fine punk rock en sem b le. H is com rades include guitarist and ex-juvi Eric M elv in , m otor-cross racer Erik Ghent on drums and newcomer El Hefe. El Hefe has added to the band, am ong other th in gs, imitations of well-known car toon characters (like those of Speedy Gonzalez) at the end of NOFX’s latest release Punk in D ru b lic . A pparently, El H efe’s past in cartoons and such things have rem ained w ith him . He a lso p layed Miguel in the Bad New Bears, but som eh ow ended up in Juvenile Hall, where he met Erik Ghent. W hen the T r ib u n e begged Fat Mike for an amus ing story, he h esitated and then went on with three short a n ecd o tes. “O n ce in Frankfurt, a fem inist group P u n k beat us up; Eric Melvin once got arrested in Wyoming for sleep ing w ith a fifteen year-old; our drummer slipped on a piece o f shit in Italy and sprained h is n eck .” Apparently, he has already told too many music stories before. In addition, Fat M ike talked about being skater boys who con verted to b ein g sn ow b oard ers because “skating hurts too much”. Fat M ike liv e s in San Francisco, where he was recently recording with his other band, Good Riddance. The rest o f NOFX are
from Hollywood meaning that they don’t see each other much except “to go on tour and stuff.” Speaking o f touring, NOFX have ju st returned from Japan, which is “more fun than Europe, Europe is just like the U.S., but they speak different. In Japan, every thing’s different.” Trying to provoke some more serious conversation, the Tribune probed into their lyrics. For exam ple, “Henry Ford tradition preys on” from their song “Dig” led to a discussion on our “consum erism society”.
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the w ork w eek to about 2 5 -2 8 hours, and to d ecrease salaries accordingly because “we don’t need that much to live. W e’re lucky to play in a punk band and work about an hour and a half a night for about half the year.” When asked if his song “Don’t Call Me W hite” is about reverse racism, he responded, “Basically, I’m tired of all these correct terms you’re supposed to be calling peo ple now.” Fat Mike also coined the term “classism” to explain his views on racism. “I don’t believe in racism
raw k-H arleys a n d b a n d gren a d es Fat Mike explained the song’s intentions. “When the auto industry started up, that’s when prohibition started up, ‘cuz they didn’t want any of their workers drinking after work,” he said. “Their whole work eth ic w as ‘straight a h ea d ’ and ‘work all day’.” Fat Mike ties this into con su m erism b eca u se he b elieves that as a society w e are told when we need and therefore “work harder to buy these things that we don’t need.” Fat Mike suggests decreasing
G am blin’ with By R ichard B itar_________________________
By literally rocking the boat, the West Island Lyric Theatre opened its rendition of one o f Broadway’s most famous musicals, G u y s a n d D o lls . T h is b rain ch ild o f Broadway composer Frank Loesser swept up the theatre’s Tony Awards in two sepa rate occasions — first when it opened in the early ‘50s, and later on in 1992, when it was revived on Broadway. Set in New York City in the ‘40s, this musical tells the story o f Nathan Detroit, a gambler who keeps trying to set up a game o f craps that never seems to happen; and of Miss Adelaide, his fiancée of fourteen years, who keeps nagging him to get married. It also tells the story o f Sarah Brown, the Salvation Army saint who, against all of her values, falls in love with the gambler, Sky Masterson. At a glance, you w ouldn’t know that the Lyric Theatre is an amateur theatre com pany. First o f all, the cast o f this show is superb. Steven D e Melo, a recent graduate from D aw son C o lleg e, p lays the role o f Nathan Detroit. He literally moves the audi-
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ence with his excellent performance of this role. The roles o f Miss Adelaide and Sarah Brown are played by Julia Mackiewicz and Jane Hackett, resp ectively. Their strong voices and great acting make them perfect for these roles. Denis Malo portrays the role of the gambler Sky Masterson, stopping the show with his rendition o f “Luck be a Lady T o n ig h t” . P a rticu la rly n o tew o rth y is M ich ael S m o la sh , p la y in g the ro le o f N icely-N icely Johnson. Another thing that sets apart this $100,000 amateur production is its excellent use o f scenery and lighting. T h is m u sica l sh o w c a se s a lo t o f Montreal and McGill talent (five of the cast members are McGill graduates, and one of them, Elizabeth Valentina, is currently pur suing a joint honours program in Film and Communication and Philosophy). The theatre is really small, and the seat ing is by general admission, so if you get there early enough, you are almost guaran teed a good seat. But if you can’t, the view is very good from practically anywhere. This is definitely a must-see musical, and at a maximum o f $25.50 per ticket, it is much See G uys and D olls Page 14
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This week, the English department presents John W ebster’s The D uchess o fM a lfi as adapted by Denis Salter. This Elizabethan drama tells the tale of a young widowed duchess (Vanya Rose) and the unfortunate ends which befall all about her, a tragedy which stems from the antics of her two power-hungry brothers. The duchess’s twin brother Ferdinand (Robin Finlay Copp) and their older brother, the Cardinal (James McGowan) attempt to prevent the duchess’s remarriage to Antonio, who once served as her steward (Harry Case). Brotherly protectiveness quickly sours into acute physical and psy chological abuses which initially take the form o f stalking, death threats and imprisonment. Watching the duchess bear the unrelenting wave of mental tortures increasingly leads the audience to believe that the brothers are less motivated by their proposed attempt to “preserve the family name”. They are more likely moved by their own egotistic self-righteous ness, their inherent sexism, offensive need for revenge, and coveting of the beautiful family their sister had built for herself. The two twins both teeter towards an impending madness. The duchess’s slow progression to insanity is more believable than her brother’s-for it acts as an immediate reaction to mental torture from which she recovers. On the other hand, Ferdinand’s violent fall is more im m ediate and extrem e. The manner o f the tw in s’ falls to in sa n ity and the co n seq u en t slaughter-fest are refreshingly unexpected, though justifiable through plot and thematic pro gressions which later carry the play into the duchess’s conclud ing hold on to dignity. U nder the d ire ctio n o f R a ch el D ito r, th is student troupe presents an exceptionally tight and smoothly run produc tion. The monochromatic and shadow y set, haunting m usic and strong b old co stu m in g mark a simplified and stylised modernism o f ancient theatre, althou gh the a cto r s’ p erfor mances are sometimes marked R om eo a n d Ju lliet they are n o t by an archaic artificiality and ceremony. Because o f a reworking of the script, and carefully executed on-stage subtlety, this remake rarely steps over the into the overproduced tendencies which so often plague dramas where modem techniques are imposed onto a more ancient form. The Duchess o fM a lfi plays M oyse H all in the Arts Building this week Novem ber 16-19 (W ednesday through Saturday) at 8 p.m. Tickets are $6 fo r students. F or more information, call 398-6070.
More than church music By Ioyce Lau ______________
The 175-strong McGill Choral Society, in accordance with the MCS Chamber Choir, are slated to perform an intriguingly diverse set this Sunday afternoon under the inspiring baton o f Mary Jane Puiu. Classical music has always been about rewriting and reworking history; and these last cou p le o f years have found cla ssica l works infiltrating a more pop-based audience with the re-releases o f works like Gregorian chants and Carmina Burana. Accordingly, the MCS’s headlining piece will be British com poser John Rutter’s Gloria, a fine example of the ever-growing genre o f contemporary com positions written in a classical style with all of the hindsight o f a com poser liv in g in the twentieth century. Gregorian chants comprise the medieval text from which Rutter creates his loosely symphonic three movements for choir and brass choir. The rest o f the program w ill include Heinrich Schütz’s Cantate Domino for choir and brass quintet, as well as a series of folk son gs w hich w ill in clu d e M cG ill ly ricist Leonard C o h e n ’s “S on g o f B ern ad ette” .
Cohen’s piece will be sung by a soloist, tenor Peter Campbell. The select MCS Chamber Choir will also showcase some o f their own works. Remembering the MCS’s performance of H andel’s M essia h last year, MCS concert m anager, Sarah M cM illan exp ressed her anticipation about their chance to once again play in the Église Erskine et Américaine, “the acoustics should be quite nice. It’s a beautiful church.” The MCS is a non-audition ensem ble which w elcom es not only M cGill students, but also staff and faculty members and nonMcGill students as well. Says M cM illan, “It’s not very intense like some other groups on campus. We basi cally go because we enjoy being there.” This happy bunch hit off its first big con cert o f the season, which prom ises to be a beautiful way to spend this Sunday afternoon. The M CS perform at the É glise Erskine et Américain (corner Sherbrooke and Avenue du Musée, across fro m M usée des Beaux A rts) this Sunday, Novem ber 20 a t 3p.m. There’s a suggested donation o f $7, or $5 fo r students. W heelchair accessible.
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Combustible Edison, swingers By Ra m a ch a n d ra Borcar
I t’s a little after 8 p .m ., and Théâtre St-Denis is blacker than the humour that’s about to start. On they come, four swingsters in silver tuxes ready to groove. Right behind them in a long silky w hite dress, com plete with fur shawl and skin-tight gloves, comes vocalist Miss Lily Banquette. She starts to pitter-patter on the bon gos and the band, rounded out by bassist Nicholas Cudahy, keyboardist Peter Dixon, guitarist The Millionaire and drummer Aaron Oppenheimer, kicks in. The cocktail hour has begun! They run through a half hour of tongue-in-cheek, finger-snapping, toe tapping, martini glass-sipping, eclectic lounge tunes essential for any bache lor’s pad. Despite their image, their background is not so transparent, as The Millionaire declares. T rib u n e : T he am b ien ce o f Combustible Edison seem s to be in the ‘fabulous’ cocktail lounge style of the late ’5 0 s-ea r ly ’6 0s. Are you attem pting a sort o f revival of this culture, or are you creating a ’90s version of the past? Millionaire: A lthough it may seem lik e w e ’re trying to recreate older styles like lo u n g e m usic and Exotica, that’s definitely not our goal. Every isla n d is a ctu ally a mountain but one only sees w h at’s above sea level. It’s obvious that som e o f our roots go back to the lounge-era, but we get most o f our influences from contem porary cla ssica l m usic and avant-garde ja zz. We all have an obsession with sounds and colours m uch lik e com p osers L ig e ti, L u to sla w sk i, Crumb, X en ak is and Eric Dolphy; but these traces might not be as obvious in our music. My brother (CE’s bassist) has been classi cally trained, so all of his experiences in orchestration come into play. W e’re not aim ing for au th en ticity , but instead we use our own ideas in that
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medium, creating our version of that style. Tribune: You mentioned a style known as ‘Exotica’. Is that referring to people like Raymond Scott and Nino Rota? M illio n a ir e : It’s alw ays been around and they’re both examples of it. From the ’30s to the ’60s, a lot of artists would have song titles with nam es o f p la ces lik e “C airo” or “Afghanistan”. It’s always their inter pretation o f what another country’s music was like. It was rarely authentic but instead was a hybrid, bastardiza tion o f a m usical style. I think it’s really important to do music your own way and not necessarily do it as is, if it sounds good, that’s what counts. Authenticity doesn’t matter. T ribune: On stage and on CD, one can see that you’re having a good time and always looking cool, so I think that you are the ideal person to ask how to be the swinger at a party. What is proper party etiquette? M illionaire: On stage I always feel like the host of a party. I feel that
I have make sure that everyone’s got a drink and an ashtray (he says as he casually pours me a martini... shaken not stirred) and that everyone’s having a good time. For me, the real hipster at a party is not the ‘coolest’ guy, but it’s the person who’s in his own world
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cheaper than a trip to Broadway. So go out and support our city and M cGill’s talent. G u y s a n d D o lls p la y s th e C e n ta u r T h e a tr e (4 5 3 St. F r a n c o is - X a v ie r S t., O ld M o n tr e a l) fr o m N o v . 9 -2 6 . Performances start 7:30 p.m ., with weekend m atinees starting at 1 :30. Ticket prices range fro m $19.50$25.50 (including tax), and student seats are available at $18, except fo r F riday a nd Saturday evening perform ances. C all 288-3161 fo r more information
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and doesn’t care. H e’ll wear what he wants and stands out as the guy who doesn’t fit in. H e’s not the loser, he’s chatting it up, having a good time, but more importantly he’s doing his own thing and if it happens to coincide with the general con sensu s, that’s fine. But that’s just coincidence; those are the people that are always ahead of their time. Tribune: What do you think the future h o ld s for CE and lo u n g e music? Millionaire: I like to think of our album as just the first sentence of a long book. Who knows what comes next? For me, the ultimate experience w ould be to w rite the next James Bond m ovie theme. W e’ve already found out the title of the next film and written a song with the same name hoping that w e’ll get big enough to get noticed and have it used. The only harmful thing about lounge music get ting popular is that it m akes it so much harder to find the good records and all the c la ssic s get played to death. Tribune: If you could be one o f th ese p eo p le, w ho w ould you be? M arcello M astroiann i, B arbarella, G om ez A ddams, Pepe Le Pew, or the ch oreograp her for the o p en in g cred its in the James Bond films? M illio n a ire: I would say it ’s definitely one of the first three. I could give an answer and I’d probably kick m yself tomorrow after ch a n g in g my m ind. M arcello w as d efin itely hip, but in “La Dolce Vita” he didn’t seem too happy. I think I ’d have to say Barbarella because sh e’s from the future and that w ould be look in g ahead and goin g forward. Plus she wore these great silver plastic costumes. Com bustible Edison didn’t seem to mind that half of the theatre didn’t know how to react to their set apart from spurts of nervous laughter. CE seems rather content in their own world, and who wouldn’t? There’s always good times to be had in the land of the cool.
The Ladies bare all By P arom ita S hah a n d Ioyce Lau _____________________________
The Barenaked Ladies are quintessentially Canuck. They’ve built a faithful fan base with their Canadiana folk-pop and their landmark pseudo-black humour and treehouse jokes. The Tribune spoke with double bassist and secret vocalist Jim Kreegan, who was noisily eating a muffin at the time. Jim is joined by brother Andy (pianist and secret-noise man), backup secret-noise man Stephan Page, guitarist Ed Robertson, and drummer Tyler Stewart. Think Ladies and think of “If I Had $1,000,000”. So, do they have a political agenda? According to Kreegan #1, “In some o f the new songs we have a political agenda. It’s more of a calling out for a change. It’s a general way of putting that we need to keep things moving. D on’t do the old way just because it is tradition.” Kreegan moved on to explain his views on glorified alterna tive Seattle sounds to questions of national identity. “Like in ‘Alternative Girlfriend’, there’s a commentary on alternative music in a pop world. ‘Everything old is new again’ is our way of saying how we look away instead o f looking inside. Canada isn’t comfortable and cozy; there’s unrest here too. Look at our provinces, they can’t come to a conclusion.” The Ladies also aren’t entirely uncomfortable about everyone droning on about their inherent Canadiana. “It’s nice that everyone in Canada wants to come along with us — to be a part of what we are about. What we are though is just a band. It’s great that people bring Canadian flags but w e’re play ing for a crowd. We don’t want it to be a political rally. W e’re just playing.” Their new release, M aybe You Should Drive, shows a definite change o f pace, probably a result of two years of creating, as they call it, “head space” and nothing else. Kreegan #1 gives a little nudge to buddy #2, “There’s been a definite change with a lot of good vibes. We gave ourselves time — God, like 2 years. So we have a different head space. You can hear Andy egging me on in Gordon, making me funky.” The Ladies are just a little too laid back to have the holy list of influences so many other bands spew. “N othing has really influenced us. Maybe the weather in Vancouver,” he said. Instead, the Ladies relish the time just bumming it out in the studio. “I like recording a lot because I like creating stuff from scratch. You can surround yourself with a mood from one sound. I know Andy loves recording too.” C atch the B a ren a ked L a d ies a t T heatre St-D enis M onday Novem ber 21st with guests Bass is Base.
Tori Amos: a new take on an old instrument By Iane R igby___________________________________________________
Who ever said you had to sit facing a piano while you played it? It sure as hell wasn’t Tori Amos. She never sat still, sliding around the piano bench as if it were greased; talking to the audi ence while her left hand toys with the keys behind her; alternating between sitting and standing when the music gets really hot. Now, even the audience was probably sick o f hearing “Crucified” and “Cornflake Girl” again, but not even the occasionally blinding light show could take their eyes off o f the thirty-year-old redhead on stage last Tuesday. In the last North American performance o f her Under The P ink tour at Théâtre St-D enis, Tori Am os sang her way through an intense program with incredible energy and humour. The show opened with a startlingly slow cover o f “W hole Lotta L o v e” (Z ep p elin ’s her b ig g est in flu en ce) w hich, lik e The P o lic e ’s “Wrapped Around Your Finger” later in the show, took on a whole different meaning coming from the mouth o f a woman. Raped by an acquaintance in her early twenties, A m os’s “Me And A Gun” is still a disturbing testimony to its psychological effects. But don’t get me wrong; this woman is not depressed. In fact, m ost o f the night she w asn’t even serious. B elieving that women have to actively reject their roles as victims, she joked, “you know, I feel sorry for boys today, I really do.” Pause. She cracks a smile. “Because w e’re taking over!” By this point, no one is surprised that, at age 11, she left the p restigious Peabody Institute o f M usic affiliated with Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore because she found it too stifling. It seems much more fitting that she grew up (accompanied by her dad since she was still under age) playing piano bars. The only annoyance of the evening was that the main part of the performance was short. She left the stage barely an hour after she’d com e on, which served no purpose, other than giving the audience some time to stretch in between three extensive encores. Those serious Amos fans in the crowd didn’t seem to mind though.
This is definitely an artist you want to catch live.
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B ulgar’s neo-Yiddish phunk w h o se b r illia n t lic o r ic e - s t ic k p la y in g is often o v er lo o k ed in fa v o u r o f stup id and in su ltin g The world o f pre-war Jewish argum ents o f “reverse-culturalEastern Europe is slo w ly being appropriation.” reclaimed by a number o f artists “W a y to o m u ch h as b een who are working to uncover the made o f it — I think it’s irrele beauty o f Y id dish culture. One v a n t,” B o o k b in d e r sa id . “ I t ’s outgrow th o f this p henom en on understandable, but w ho gives a h as b een r e n e w e d in te r e s t in shit? So h e’s black and h e’s play klezmer music, a genre bom from ing Jewish music. W hoopee.” cen tu ries o f E astern E uropean O n e o f k le z m e r ’s m o st Jew ish m usical exp ression . The appealing functions is its ecstatic, prime exam ple o f this movem ent m y stica l nature. M odern in C anad a is th e F ly in g Judaism is finding itself at B u lg a r B a n d , w h o h a v e “So he’s black and he’s playing a c r o s s -r o a d s , tr y in g to b een pasting the frenetic, Jewish music. Whoopee.” balance the analytical, rab c la rin et-d r iv en m u sic o f binic tradition with a need the Shtetl onto the m ulticom m unal spirituality. cu lti m o sa ic sin c e 1 987. David Bookbinder, for Bookbinder asserts that the Since then, they have been Flying Bulgar Band re v iv a l o f k lez m e r c o in on a n on-stop m issio n to cides with a new desire to spread the phuncky Jewish grooves, with several internation ture itse lf, there is a kind o f a e x p lo r e th is s p ir itu a lit y , and r a d ic a l b en d , w h ic h d o e s n ’t describes klezm er as an “ecstasy al tours, recordings,"and som e m em b er c h a n g e s . T h e b a n d ’s require any kind o f outside atti delivery system ”. Bookbinder traces the rejec tu d e la id on to p o f i t , ” sa id leader, D avid Bookbinder, shed interesting ligh t on the state o f Bookbinder. “It’s a culture with a tion o f Eastern European Jewish lot o f depth, a lot o f mystery, and culture as an ou tgrow th o f the m o d ern J e w is h c u ltu r e and e v e n ts o f the ‘4 0 s , b u t cla im s a lot o f skepticism .” music. that, “It is an important statement One o f the more ballyhooed Much talk abounds about a aspects o f the rebirth o f klezmer that p e o p le r e c la im w h o th ey ren a issa n ce o f “rad ical J ew ish truly are.” Fortunately for us, that is the ec u m e n ic a l nature o f it; culture”, centring around a loose reclamation has resulted in som e cab al o f N ew Y ork artists and m odern k lez m e r is a v erita b le truly phat Yiddish music. m usicians. Bookbinder sco ffs at R ainbow C oalition. The biggest T he F ly in g B u lg a r K le zm e r star o f the m odem klezmer scene the idea o f this renaissance being B a n d p la y C lub Soda, 5 2 4 0 Parc. truly “radical”, stating, “The radi is D o n B y r o n , a d r e a d lo c k e d Sun. N ov. 20. $ 15.50 + taxes. A fr ic a n -A m e ric a n cla rin ettist, ca l e le m e n t, at th is p o in t... is By Kurt N ewman
mostly attitude.” The radical elem en t o f late 19th and e a r ly 2 0 th ce n tu r y J e w is h c u ltu r e is n o t a lw a y s s tr e s s e d . H o w e v e r , in b oth America and Europe, the Yiddish O .G .’s w ere k ic k in g so m e flavour—on the socialist tip with the B u n d , on the a n arch ist tip with Emma Goldman, and on the m u s ic a l tip w ith th e r a u co u s noise o f klezmer. “I think that w ithin the cu l
Monkey walk talk the talk By H arris N ew m an
After two years o f studio work and meditation, M onkeywalk has returned to seduce Montreal with their soothing concoction o f easy riding, parentalunit friendly music. “W e alw ays say w e ’re sort o f soul or R & B based, but that’s sort o f misleading. That’s the music we listen to and like and are inspired by, but I don’t know how deeply it show s up in the m usic these d a y s ” sa id A n d rew F rank, b a s s is t/s tu d io demon, who, along with v o c a lis t B il R in g gen b erg m akes up the h eart and so u l o f M onkeyw alk. The new album, M o re, also fea tures a menagerie o f stu d io g u e s t s , in c lu d in g fo rm er T rium ph guru and rock star-a t-la rg e Rik Emmett. L ive, M onkeyw alk relies m ainly on a pool o f lo c a l m u s ic ia n s . Frank e x p la in s, “T h is tim e around it ’s gonna be B ob S tagg on k e y boards and accord ion , Jason Lang on guitar, but w e ’re n ot sure w h o ’s g o in g to do the d ru m m in g. P ierre H ébert w ill do the into w n g ig s ... no drum m a c h in e s liv e , th a t’s boring.” Andrew and B il have had their fair share o f experience in the topsy turvy Montreal music scene. “W e’ve been doing this for about 10 years. For a good portion o f the ‘80s, w e were in a band called Seven Sisters. They were a little funkier than what w e ’re doing now, like the Talking H eads’ funkier records.” Andrew also helps .run DN A. studios, ptPY.idjng . a permanent home for M onkeywalk’s studio treach
ery, along w ith fine recording serv ices for other local musicians. Having their own studio at their dis posal has its ups and downs. “W e’ve sorta devolved to a studio thing. W e always used to be a live band first and foremost. But w e like both — the studio has its fun, because w e sort o f write in the studio, but you don’t get that charge from playing live. W e defi nitely wonder if w e could [record] a little faster if we were paying for every hour w e used. It’d be nice to have something in between — enough time that we d id n ’t f e e l p res su red and co u ld try th in g s , but en o u g h pressure that w e ’d sort o f g e t on w ith it. W e ’re k ind o f s lo w — th is album took about e ig h t m o n th s to record.” N ow that the smoke has finally cleared, the C D s have been pressed (with the help o f M C A R e c o r d s), and th e liv e sh o w s are ready to g o . M o n k e y walk, veterans o f w o rld w id e tou r ing, have already planned assorted g ig s around Ontario and even Quebec, a zone so often neglected by anglo bands. To kick o ff their adventures, Monkeywalk is performing a free gig at P etit C am pus, the m ain flo o r o f C afé C am pus. Guaranteed to please all those sick o f barnstorming g u ita r ro c k or m in d -n u m b in g te c h n o b e a ts, M o n k ey w a lk p ro m ise to m ake th is T hursday a booty-jigglin’ eve for all. M onkeyw alk p la y P etit C afé C am pus (the sec..QJJÀ flP.PT> I ? P r in c e A r th u r E .) on T h u r s d a y , N ovem ber 1TTfT.'/Crfd-RdBy: ÎC T fifé , f f f C fre e !
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Captain Kirk on life without hockey Volleyball Martlets slip As the National Hockey League lockout continues into its behind Laval seventh week, prospects for an
agreement between team owners and the players’ union appear to bleaker with each passing day. Kirk Muller, captain of the Montreal Canadiens and locked out for the first time in his tenyear professional career, recently practised with the McGill Redmen Varsity hockey team. The Tribune spoke with Muller at the conclusion of the November 8 practice, in an interview by assis tant editor-in-chief Christopher Rigney.
w hat’s playing over here as my options. I may then see if there are some good games in Europe which I can get involved in. T rib: H ow have you been sp en d in g your n ew -fo u n d free time? M u ller: I ’ve been taking som e french courses throughout the week and training in the morn ings. The [Canadiens] have been skating a bit and working out in the gym, so it’s been a combination of those things that have been tying up most o f the time. I have also been travelling back and forth to some o f the [league] meetings. Trib: Having witnessed some
Trib: Do you believe that there w ill be h o ck ey this season? M u ller: I thin k that m ost g u y s are a little pessimistic, but if you can be o p ti mistic it’s because th ey ’re still talk in g n ow . It can s till e a s ily be done within a few days, but until the salary cap issue is solved, I can see it going all year. Trib: Players su ch as T eem u S ela n n e , Jari Kurri and D oug G ilm o u r have taken the opportu n ity to p lay in E u rop e, w ith a few others having ju m p ed to the I n te r n a tio n a l H o ck ey L eagu e. W hat are your thoughts on that option? D o you see it as damaging to the N H L P A ’s stance? M uller: N o, it was brought up with the p layers’ union and every one felt that under the circumstances, K irk (is o u t o f w o rk) M uller whatever you can do to occupy your time is okay. If players are fortu o f the anti-Gary Bettman sentiment nate to be one of the guys who can from p la y ers such as M athieu still play hockey, all the power to Schneider and Chris Chelios, what them. The belief of the union is of is the general consensus among the the free m arket attitu d e, so it players as to who is at fault in this w ould be hypocritical to say no situation? and stop guys. Even though the Muller: I think we understand Europeans are able to take advan that it ’s business and there’s no tage o f it and play over there, the good guy-bad guy here. It’s a busi rest of the guys have to understand ness and we have to get the job that they’re not over there to make done. Hopefully we can do it now the union weak. T h ey’re able to rather than later. I don’t think that keep playing and stay in shape, so we can take anything personal with som e owners and GMs probably Bettm an, although w e just wish don’t mind the idea. that he would be a little bit more Trib: Would you ever consid open to what our concerns are. But er it? i t ’s re a lly not fair to say that Muller: Probably pretty soon. there’s a good guy or a bad guy in I’m going over in two weeks with this situation. G retzky’s team on a tour. That T rib : W hat do you think w ill bring me into mid-December about the hockey exhibitions such and then I’ll play it by ear and see as- the C anadiens-’ ev en t in
R o sem ere, or the fo u r-o n -fo u r tournament held in Hamilton? M uller: It gets to the point where there is only so much that we can do. It’s tough to be in this position. We figure that instead of just practising three days a week, w e ’re fortunate to be in the posi tion to be allowed to charge people to com e watch and have all the money go to local charities. W e’re able to play and to pick the speed up a little bit. I think that every o n e’s a winner. W e had fun [in Rosemere] the other night. It was a good show, the fans were happy and [the ch a rities] m ade som e money. I think that you’re going to see m ore of th o se games. Trib: The NHL appeared to make incred ib le strid es last year in its attempt to raise its popu 1a r i t y around North America, lo o k in g s p e c ific a lly to the newly su cc essfu l franchises in F lo rid a and C a lif o r n ia . Do you think that the NHL will suffer as b u s in e s s ? W ill the lockout be a b low to the game?
Muller: I think that it’s tough for som e o f the team s down south. They had a n ice m o m e n tu m g o in g last year, and they w ill have to pick that up again . The quicker that this situation can be resolved, the better for those teams. Hockey is one o f the quickest growing sports right now, and there’s a big reason for it. O nly tim e w ill tell, but h o p efu lly the gam e w ill not be damaged in som e o f these areas where it’s going really strong. Trib: How has inform ation during this lockout been dissem i nated to the entire team? M u ller: W e h ave J.J. Daigneault as our player rep, but there are also three or four other p la y ers w ho stay in v o lv e d by going to the m eetings. Through the four or five guys, we translate everything to the rest of the team. W e’re fortunate w ith this team because there are 14 or 15 guys that are in the area skating and seeSee Muller Page 17
By A llana H enderson
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The volleyball Martlets were busy in flight last week. The team trav eled to Université de Sherbrooke on Wednesday night to face the Vert et Or and came home with a win in their pockets, but suffered a different fate when they matched up against the Laval Rouge et Or last weekend. In the Saturday and Sunday contests against the Rouge et Or, the Martlets found themselves on the losing side of the battle between the two top-ten nationally ranked teams. Laval is currently fourth in the country and McGill’s most recent appearance on the list placed it tenth among the country’s best. Every encounter with Laval has proved to be a challenge, but one that the Martlets have w elcom ed eagerly since defeating the Rouge et Or in the first league match o f the season. On Saturday however, victory was not in the cards for McGill as they fell to Laval in four sets by scores of 15-5, 15-17, 15-5, and 15-12. Co-captain Maryam Moayeri put the loss in perspective. “[Laval] had an incredibly strong weekend,” she said. “They picked on our weaknesses and adjusted to us more than we adjusted to them.” This proved to be the key in Sunday’s encounter too when Laval took McGill in three sets. The Rouge et Or seemed to be in control of the com petition from the opening set and played strong throughout the match. After Wednesday night’s victory in five sets against Sherbrooke and the double defeat at the hands o f Laval over the weekend, the Martlets are in second place in the league with a 2-3 record. They have completed all four of their league games against the powerhouse Rouge et Or, and will now only face Concordia and Sherbrooke in league play. McGill fell three times out of four to Laval, but the taste of their lone win over their rivals remains fresh on their palates. The Martlets host Sherbrooke this Friday night at Currie Gym.
Tough Weekend for Redmen basketball By M att C ampeau ____________________________________________________
The Redmen basketball team met with mixed results as it competed in the Naismith Classic last weekend in Waterloo. The tournament started out well on Friday night when the Redmen defeated the host Waterloo Warriors by a score of 76-56. The Redmen had spent all week preparing for the Waterloo game and the twenty-point blow out in front of a large Waterloo homecoming crowd was especially sweet. McGill led 37-34 at the half and pulled away in the second half. Rick Varisco led McGill with 20 points including six three-pointers. Doug McMahon added 14 points and a team leading eight rebounds while Redman Sammy Mendolia contributed ten points to the victory. The McGill side was not as successful on Saturday against the power ful Winnipeg Wesmen. On a good day the Wesmen might have been beat able but as the 80-48 final score indicated, the sun was not smiling upon the Redmen on Saturday. The Redmen did not seem to be mentally prepared and found themselves trailing 46-12 at halftime. Although the second half was much closer, McGill was unable to make up for a slow start. Team cap tain Todd McDougall offered a straight forward analysis of the game. “Winnipeg came out strong and took it to us on the inside and the out side,” said McDougall. The Wesmen were successful from three-point range all game and showed why they are considered one o f the best teams in the country. M cDougall was M cG ill’s leading scorer with 12 points. Rick Varisco chipped in with ten points w hile Chad W ozney pulled down seven rebounds. On Sunday, McGill had a chance to get back on the winning track in a game against the Brock Badgers. However, fatigue appeared to set in for the Redmen and they were outplayed by Brock in a game that McGill could and probably should have won. The 85-71 final score did not accurately reflect the game as McGill trailed by three points with 51 seconds left. However, McGill was forced to foul and Brock sealed the victory with a display from the foul line. Rick Varisco capped off a good weekend with 24 points for the Redmen, draining six three-pointers. Doug McMahon was strong up the middle in adding 16 points while Ryan Schoenhals scored 12 points. Chad Wozney had another strong game on the boards with 11 rebounds and ten points. Although the Redmen succeeded in their primary goal o f beating Waterloo, the two defeats which followed were a bit disappointing. The Redmen are now 7-5 in preseason play and will travel to Toronto this week end to compete in a tournament hosted by the University of Toronto Blues.
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Winnipeg still winning while Martlets finish in third B y P .M . T o e r in g
It was a weekend o f anticipa tion for sports w riters all over Montreal who were covering the annual Saxon Classic women’s bas ketball tournament at Concordia. With the University o f Winnipeg W esm en in tow n , any reporter look in g for a story w as holding their breath in hopes that one of the fo llo w in g q u e stio n s w ou ld be an sw ered. W ould the streak be sp o iled ? W ould the M cG ill Martlets be the ones to break it? Or could anyone conceivably stop the two-time national champion jugger naut team from Winterpeg? As it turned out, no one suc ceeded in stopping the streak and writers everywhere were left with the sim ple story o f a basketball powerhouse w inning yet another tournament, their third of the year. 87 wins in a row pull the Wesmen women’s basketball team two wins shy o f b reaking the N orth American collegiate record o f 88 consecutive victories. W innipeg m oved within one win o f tying the mark set by the 1972-74 UCLA m en’s basketball team with an 81-48 whooping of the host Stingers in the final of the S a x o n C la ssic at the H ive on Sunday. The Wesmen won all three games they played this weekend by more than 23 points and the only com petition they really en cou n tered cam e from the M cG ill Martlets. The Martlets took third place by rolling to an 89-59 victory over the Windsor Lancers on Sunday. The Martlets won the gam e with
ease and looked sharp in doing so. Tournament all-star L eslie Stevenson scored 23 points for M cG ill w hile additional strong performances by Jennifer Stacey, w ho had 15 p oin ts, and A nne Gildenhuys, who chipped in 14, gave the Martlets an easy victory. The M artlets w on tw o o f their three games this weekend. In their first con fron tation on Friday night, the Martlets handily beat the Brock Badgers by a score of 96-60. Second-year forward Anne Gildenhuys had a strong tourna m ent for the M artlets. In the Brock badgering, she scored 29 points to lead scorers from both teams. Josée Deloretto was also im pressive for the M artlets, as she n etted a 2 1 -p o in t p erfo r mance. The win ensured the McGill squad of a prime-time semi-final appearance against none other than the Winnipeg Wesmen. When Saturday night rolled around, the word “u p set” hung h eavy in the air. But w hen the game was over, the only thing that was heavy was the breathing of the McGill Martlets, and the only lin gering of an upset was on the dis appointed McGill faces. With the score a respectable 48-40 at the half for the Wesmen, the Martlets looked poised to chal le n g e the W in n ip eg team and maybe end the streak. It became evident, though, that the Winnipeg team was in superior shape as they outgunned and outlasted the tiring McGill team.
cki Tessier takes it strong to th e hoop a t Con. U. Tourney. The final score o f 87-64 for the Wesmen was not indicative of the effort made by the Martlets. M cG ill cam e out to play in this game. Strong performances were staged by Melanie Gagné and Vicki T e ssie r to nam e a few . J o sée Deloretto led all the McGill scorers with 17 points w hile g iv in g the Winnipeg team its toughest win of the tournament. Despite finishing third in the tournament, McGill is definitely a contender on the national scene with this year’s talented edition of players.
In the championship game on Sunday, the Winninpeg team dis posed o f the Concordia Stingers quite easily by a score o f 81-48. The Wesmen are the Energizer bunnies o f the basketball world it seem s. They just keep going, and going... At this rate, W innipeg is on pace to break the record and to extend its streak next weekend with
two gam es against U niversity o f Manitoba. For some sports fans, this is the first time that they’ve heard the news — or better yet, the first time that they’ve noticed the bunny. Keep a look out. In an age of profes sional labour strife and lockout, they may not be the only thing that keeps going and going, but, at least with this story, there may be a happy ending in the record books.
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Muller on life without hockey... Continued from Page 16 ing each other all the time, so it's quite easy for us to keep everybody informed. It’s just a matter o f J.J. having to make a few phone calls to the other guys who are out o f town. Trib: Do you think that fight ing belongs in the game? Muller: It’s a difficult ques tion. Y ou’re always going to have some guys who enjoy it and some people who don’t understand why it has to be part of the game. It’s to u g h , I m ean, lo o k at p la y o ff hockey and you see some good up and down hockey with good hitting w ith no figh tin g, and i t ’s great hockey. But look at the European hockey game. I’ve played over in Europe in some tournaments where there’s no fighting, but I find it just as dangerous with the stick work, so it’s a very controversial ques tion. I have no problem with it. I like to see a good, clean, hard-hit ting game, but if there’s a fight in there, to me I guess it’s just part of it. If it happens it happens. Trib: Who do you think are the top two or three players in the league? M uller: W a y n e’s certain ly still up there. H e’s a very talented guy. [Pavel] Bure is probably the m o st e x p lo s iv e gu y. [S e rg e i] Federov is supposedly one o f the best all-around type players today.
H e’s a pretty complete player, and h e’s a good player to watch. So, there are a lot o f great h o ck ey players in the league right now. Trib: Which player or players do you find are the most competi tive guys to play against? M uller: Oh b oy. Y ou have your Messiers and your Gilmours,
w ho are real co m p etito rs. Gretzky’s a competitor in his way, because h e’s the kind o f guy who finds a way to win, and that’s what you like to see in a guy. They’re the stars that certainly you ’d love to have on your team because not only are they good players but they try to find ways to win.
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Martlet soccer fails to impress at Nationals X-Country... team. “They had a strong lineup with seven players on the national team, and their forwards had a lot o f speed.” N icole Sedgewick was the player o f the gam e for UBC, and Lucianna Ciffarelli picked up the honour for the Martlets.
By M ila A u n c -T h w in
After a brilliant, undefeated regu lar season, the McGill Martlets soccer team w en t to th e C anad ian Interuniversity Athletic Union nation al championships poised to break their six-year national com petition jinx; hoping to return home as the best team in C anada. I n e x p lic a b ly , the Martlets were unable to score a sin gle goal in the CIAU tourney held at th e U n iv e r s ity o f A lberta in Edm onton, and ended their season by losing the two final games they played. The Martlets faced the #1 ranked U n iv The Martlets get geared dow n at the Nationals. ersity o f British ColumIn M cG ill’s next encounter, b ia ’s L ady T h u n d erb ird s last Thursday at high noon and lost to the the M artlets ag a in ca m e up short. The loss came again by a western powerhouse by a score o f 2-0. score o f 2 -0 , this tim e at the U B C ’s N icole Sedgew ick scored the winning goal twenty-two minutes into h and s o f the U n iv e r s ity o f the g a m e, b ea tin g M c G ill g o a lie G uelph G ryphons. The defeat elim in ated the M artlets from Carolyn Teng. medal contention in the tourna Lady Thunderbird Jessica Mann would add another goal tw elve min ment. Iachetta was baffled by the utes into the second half to seal the loss. victory w hile the Martlets continued “I ’ve n ev er seen a gam e to struggle in finding the net. like it before. W e had the ball in “W e had our ch a n c e s, but w e didn’t get the bounces,” said M cG ill’s their end for 85 percent o f the coach Tony Iachetta in defense o f his gam e but w e c o u ld n ’t buy a
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goal,” he said. Ciffarelli was the Martlet player o f the contest for the second game in a row at the national competition. Matters did not improve for the squad after they were bounced from the tourney on Saturday. They were stuck in Edmonton for two days, as their plane tickets were only valid on Monday. On a m ore p o sitiv e note, the Martlet team produced three A llCanadian players this year. M cG ill’s a th letic and aca d em ic superstar, Julie Maughan, was named to the first team as she led the Q uebec league in scoring with eight goals in as many gam es during the regular season. Halfback Odile Desbois was named to the second team, as was her teammate, defender Heidi B lo omfield.
Continued from Paye 1 said Barrett w ho fe lt that Mullins was deserving of 2nd team All-Canadian status. The women were without the services of one of their top runners, however, as Melanie Chouiniere, who was definite ly a candidate to finish in the top two or three places, devel oped a case of mononucleosis and was unable to make the trip. “It’s tough in any sport when you lose one of your top p e o p le ,” said Barrett. “They’re hard to replace and that’s basically what happened to us,” he continued. “When we went through and looked at our points, we realised that had M elanie been there we would have won the meet.”
On the m en’s side, AllCanadians David O’Hara and Jean-Nicolas Duval finished 6th and 7th , in 3 2 .1 9 and 3 2 .2 7 resp ectiv ely . M cG ill men improved over last year’s results and finished 4th over all in the team event behind first-place Victoria. Coach Barrett was very pleased with his troops and expressed how he felt the sea son had unfolded. “W e had a very g ood year, and I was very pleased with our performance, particu larly with the men’s team due to the fact that w e ’d never made it to the nationals before last year,” he said. “We went from 7th [place] last year, to 4th this year and so I’m quit satisfied with our progress.”
Swim riding early-season success By A llana H enderson
The McGill swim team is on a streak. It’s a competitive streak and oh, how sweet it is. It looked like it was going to be a good year, but so far, performances have outshined even the team’s own expectations. The team is excited and they have no plans of slowing down — or dry ing off for that matter. The pruning aside, long practice hours in the pool seem to be paying off in a big way. A cou p le o f w eeks ago, the M cG ill club encountered the Université Laval swim squad in a much-anticipated meet between the two Quebec competitors. For the first time in 23 years, McGill defeat ed the Rouge et Or, albeit narrowly,
on the women’s side of competition, while losing on the men’s side by a single point. The Martlet win was by a tw o-p oin t m argin over the Laval fem ale contingency, but it posted a point in the win column for McGill. Last weekend, M cGill hosted D alhousie and improved upon its initial success. Andrew Katz and Leo Grépin led the Redmen swim mers en route to the meet win, each posting double victories in 100m and 200m backstroke and 200m but terfly and 200m freestyle respective ly. Craig Hutchinson won the 100m freestyle and Chris Masson placed first in the 200m individual medley. The Redmen defeated Dalhousie by an overall score of 139-73. On the women’s side of things,
Anna Leong led her team to a 13380 win over Dalhousie by placing first in the 200m backstroke. Dana M cC lym ont won the gold in the 100m breast, w h ile P atricia Hutchinson and Natalie Holtz came in first in the 400m freestyle and the 100m back respectively. On Sunday in Sherbrooke, the McGill swimming squads competed in the Can-Am Invitational swim meet. H u tch in son w as nam ed a fre esty le ev en t a ll-star for the Redmen w hile they placed sixth overall in the event. The Martlets p laced seco n d o verall behind McMaster University in w om en’s swimming, with McMaster posting a convincing first-place finish over all in the men’s competition as well.
FES & G U New extended in-depth sports on CKVT-FM CKUT-FM has extended it’s Monday afternoon sportscast to a full thiry minutes. The sports segment runs from 5:30 p.m. until 6:00 p.m., during “O ff the Hour”, CKUT’s daily newsmagazine show. The weekly sports segment leads off with a quick review o f all the pertinent Quebec university results and their implications, in addition to news from pro sports. CKUT sportscasters provide reports on week end games in university sports, complete with voiceclips o f players and coaches. There is also an interview with an outstanding student-athlete or coach, and the university top ten natioanl rankings and athletes o f the week are announced. Among the reports on CKUT in recent weeks: M cGill’s incredible football exploits, the Montreal Impact’s championship win, M cGill’s soccer Martlets drive to the national title,
NHL players returning to the junior ranks, Quebec university athlete of the week inter views On Monday, November 14, CKUT Sports aired reports on McGill athlete’s efforts at the CIAU nation al championships in women’s soccer and cross-coun try running, in addition to providing news from the Quebec Major Junior hockey league. In future there will be features on M cGill’s hockey team, Concordia’s powerhouse in women’s hockey and men’s basketball, as well as reports on university swimming and track and field, and discussions on issues such as athletic funding. In addition to the M onday half-hour segment, CKUT-FM airs a five minute sportscast weekdays from Wednesday through Friday at 5:30 p.m.
Redmen Hockey defeats Ottawa
In hockey action last week, the Redmen jumped into a four-way tie for first place by posting a 6-2 win over the Ottawa D e p a r tm e n t o f P h y s ic a l E d u c a tio n Gee-Gees. Scoring for the Redmen F a c u lty o f E d u c a t io n were Pierre Gendron with two goals, 434-392B N utrition and W ellness and Nicolas Cantin, Mark Schewfelt, W inter 1995 Kelly Nobes, Todd Marcellus with W ednesdays & Fridays 9:00 -1 0 :3 0 am one goal each. C urrie G ym , R oom 408 The Redmen will be hosting the C ourse Instructor: Dr. David M o n tgo m ery U n iv e r sity o f T oron to B lu e s at This course will examine the role of carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins, minerals, and water in a balanced diet. M cC o n n ell A rena this F riday Students will be introduced to the effects of nutrition on evening at 7:00 p.m. Saturday after exercise, sport performance, and wellness. The concept of noon at 3:00 p.m. the Redmen will wellness from an active living and stress reduction perspective challenge the University o f Guelph will also be discussed. Gryphons.
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Amnesty International meets every Tuesday. This week will be a v id eo and d iscu ssio n about the death penalty. 6:30 p.m., Shatner 435. The L atin A m erican Awareness Group presents views and impressions of the March elec tions in El Salvador. Everyone is welcome! 5:45 p.m., Shatner B09. The Co-ed M edical Society will be holding a General Meeting. A ll stud en ts w elc o m e. 6 p .m ., Shatner B09. The Faculty of M usic (3984 5 4 7 ) p resen ts M cG ill student soloists. 8 p.m., Pollack Hall, 555 Sherbrooke St. W. The Faculty of Music presents a Piano Recital, class o f Dorothy Morton. 7 p.m., Clara Lichtenstein Recital Hall, 555 Sherbrooke St. W.
C anadian Studies Graduate Students’ Association The
w ill be holding its first General Meeting & Social. All graduate stu dents with an interest in Canada are en cou raged to attend. 5 p .m ., Thompson House basement.
L B G M ’s W o m y n ’s Group m eets today. 6 p .m ., W o m en ’s Union 423.
Monday. November 21 The Faculty of Music presents McGill Jazz Ensembles II and III. 8 p.m., Pollack Hall, 555 Sherbrooke St. W.
SSM U C ou n cil M eeting. Issu es to be d iscu sse d : SSM U C on stitu tion al R eform ; C A SA ; Code of Student Conduct. All w el come. 6 p.m., Shatner B09/10. The Association of Yoga and M editation is offering session s. Please dress comfortably and be on time. 12-1 p.m., Shatner 425. Friday. November 18
The Association of Yoga and M editation is offering session s. Please dress comfortably and be on time. 12-1 p.m., Shatner 425. Wednesday. November 16 D inner at the F acu lty Club w ith CFCF n ew scaster M itsum i Takahashi. Tickets are $10. Sign up Leacock 611.
AIESEC McGill is holding a seminar on Canada-Asia relations, featuring Mr. M. Dufresne, Senior VP o f the H ong K ong Bank o f C anada, Mr. R. G ray, VP International Trade for the Royal Bank o f Canada, and others. $15 students/$30 general public. 9 a.m.5:30 p.m ., M cG ill Faculty Club, 3450 McTavish. For more info call 398-6821 or fax 398-7490.
LBGM’s Bi-sexual discussion group meets today, everyone w el come. 5:30 p.m., W omen’s Union 423.
McGill Im prov performs in the Alley at 8:30 p.m. Free comedy for everyone. The Co-ed M edical Society will be holding its last 2 meetings o f the semester. All students w el come. 12:30 and 2:30 p.m., Shatner B10. The Faculty of Music presents Jazz Ensemble I. 8 p.m., Pollack Hall, 555 Sherbrooke St. W. The Faculty of Music presents a lecture by Dr. Robert Van Acht, curator of musical intruments, The Hague. 2 p.m., Clara Lichtenstein Recital Hall, 555 Sherbrooke St. W. The P o litic a l S cien ce Student’s Association presents a Graduate School Seminar for all students interested in Poli-Sci grad w ork. P resen tation s by Prof. O xhorn and P rof B ooth . 11:30 a.m.-l p.m., Leacock 517. The PSSA presents: the Round Table Discussion. An informal set ting in w hich students can view their unhindered op in ion s. This w eek ’s focus is on Chretien and China Economic Trade vs. Human Rights. 4:30 p.m., Leacock 517. The Association of Yoga and M editation is offering session s. Please dress comfortably and be on time. 12:30-1:30 p.m., Shatner 425. Thursday. November 17
The McGill Choral Society under the direction o f Mary Jane Puiu is performing John Rutter’s G lo ria and other se le c te d fo lk songs. The MCS Chamber Choir w ill also be featured. The concert takes place Sunday, November 20 at 3:00 pm, at Erskine & American Church located at du M usée and Sherbrooke.
The CAFEX Forum, Faculty of Management, presents the semi nar Between employment and unem p lo y m e n t. 4 p .m ., Sam uel Bronfman 402. McGill Christian Fellowship will meet for a potluck before the Bible study meeting. Food at 5:30 p .m ./m eeting at 7 p.m ., Shatner cafeteria. For more info call Jean at 288-9741.
LBGM’s Coming Out Group m eets today, everyone w elcom e. 5:30 p.m., basement of the United T h e o lo g ic a l C o lle g e (3521 University). LBGM’s General D iscussion Group meets today, everyone w el come. 7 p.m., basement of UTC. Want to try curling but don’t know how? The M cGill Curling Club in v ites you to bring your friends and have a gam e. Every Friday from 4:30-6 p.m ., Thistle Curling Club (1420 Fort St.). For more info call 932-4141. The Faculty of Music presents M cG ill F acu lty M em bers in C oncert. 8 p .m ., R edpath H all, McTavish Gate, McGill Campus. Saturday November 19 Fundraising party at Gert’s for the McGill Fashion Show. MEET THE M O DELS. $ 5 .9 9 pitchers, $1.50 shooters all night. All pro ceeds go to the Farha Foundation. Sunday. November 20
L B G M ’s C oord in atin g C om m ittee m eets today. 7 p.m ., Shatner 432. The O rganic Food C o op.orders organic produce and dry goods every Monday. Newcomers are alw ays w elcom e! 12:30-6:30 p .m ., Eaton B ld g. 505 (QP1RG o ffic e ). For more info call 3987432. The Photography Society of M acD onald Campus w ill visit a p r o fe ssio n a l p hotography lab (Champion Photo, 425 Guy St.) for a demonstration on colour, black & white and digital processing. For reservation call 457-1892. The McGill Women’s Union is holding an informal discussion group every Monday. A ll women are welcome! This week’s topic is sexuality. 5 p.m., Shatner 423. For more info call 398-6823. The McGill Women’s Union is co -o rd in a tin g a w o m e n ’s newsletter. W omen, please leave your poetry, opinion p ieces and su g g e stio n s for a nam e for the newsletter in the submissions box at the W omen’s Union, Shatner 423. For in fo or to get in v o lv ed call R ebecca or M el at 3 9 8 -6 9 2 3 , or E lisse at 847-8604. Subm issions deadline, Monday, Nov. 21.
QPIRG Refund Period: As a full-time student, you are a member of QPIRG at McGill. If you wish to relinquish your membership in this organization and claim your $3 refund, please come in person to the Eaton Bldg, Rm. 505, 9:30-5 p.m., Nov. 7-22 or to our new office at 3647 University St., Nov. 23-25. Interested in alternatives to ch lo rin e b lea ch in g ? Q P IR G ’s W h itew ash o ffe rs 100% cotton unbleached tampons and reusable pads. Every Monday, 12:30-5:30 p.m., Eaton Bldg. 505. The R ecreational Running Club wants you! Come discover the joys of group running while get ting into the best shape of your life. For more info call Randy at 9351455. While you lowlifes are waiting for the fall Red Herring to appear, you can start writin’ for the winter
Herring. Contests are: anything you can do with peanut butter and live to tell about it and the grand finale of Beverly Kills 90210. Get crack ing sluggards! The Sexual Assault Centre of M cG ill’s Student Society is now open. For info/referrals: Monday to Friday, 9:30 a.m .-6 p.m. at 3982700. N ew this year, a night time H elpline, Sunday to Thursday 6 p .m .-m id n ig h t and F riday and Saturdays 6 p .m .-3 a.m. at 3988500. The McGill South East Asian Students A ssociation (SEASA) will be presenting a Cultural show on February 4, 1995 in P ollack Hall. Urgently looking for energetic volunteers to provide assistance pertaining to Master of ceremonies; publicity; fundraising; backstage production; p erform ing groups (exp. required). For more info con tact Lai at 8 4 2 -7 5 1 7 or Howard Tong at 848-0528.
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M cG ill Im prov h o sts free comedy workshops every Saturday. Meet in the Shatner lobby at noon. Are you questioning your sex uality? 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 7-10 p.m. Strictly confiden tial.
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