The McGill Tribune Vol. 14 Issue 14

T •H •E January 10th, 1995

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Volume 14 Issue 14

Court halts McGill inquiry into Sergent death

By M ichael Broadhurst

News S S M U Com m ittee to consider inclusion o f Hepatitis B vaccination in Health plan.

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Editorial Is Newt G ingrich stealing Christm as as Republican's take over the 104th Congress.

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ENTERTAINMENT The Trib chats it up with punk deities Bad Religion.

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SPORTS Track and Field kicks o ff the new season in New Hampshire, and Basketball M artlets bot­ tom out at host tourney.

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ab ou t the in q u iry , and was not allowed to attend while witnesses testified.

The petition also alleged that M cG ill and B loom are linked too closely. Bloom is paid by the univer­ sity for conducting the investigation, and his son is currently registered in the Faculty o f Medicine. The peti­ tion asked the Court to suspend the

investigation and require M cGill to appoint an investigator with greater independence from the university.

M cG ill’s University Relations Office released a statement respond­ ing to V ia u ’ s ju d g e m e n t on December 7. According to the com­ muniqué, the university accepted the decision o f the court: “ In lig h t o f the im p ortan ce

w hich the U n iv ersity attach es to both the perceived and the actual fairness o f the inquiry, McGill does not intend to appeal the temporary suspension. M cGill continues, how­ ever, to have the utmost confidence in M aître B lo o m ,” the statem ent said.

Q uebec Superior Court judge Pierre Viau ruled D ecem ber 6 that M cG ill’s inquiry into the April 1994, su icid e o f neurology and neuro­ surgery professor Justine Sergent be suspend ed te m p o ra rily . M c G ill appointed Casper B loom , a former See Sergeant Page 2 b â to n n ie r o f the M o n tre a l B a r A sso cia tio n , to conduct the inquiry.

Sergent and her hus­ band Yves committed sui­ cide on April 9 last year, following an article in the Gazette which outlined the contents o f an anonymous letter alleg ing scie n tific m iscond uct by Serg en t.

The Gazette also referred to an institutional state­ ment released by M cG ill in response to the anony­ mous letter. T hat letter was sig n ed by D ean o f M edicine Richard Cruess and Richard A. Murphy, director o f the M ontreal N e u ro lo g ic a l In stitu te .

Serg en t worked in both the fa cu lty o f m ed icine and the MNI. B u t law y ers re p re ­ senting S e rg en t’ s estate filed a petition in Superior Court on November 22 to te m p o ra rily suspend B lo o m ’ s in v e s tig a tio n .

Claude-Armand Sheppard, who represents Sergent’s estate, said the estate was The n e w A th letics Field h o u se com p lex is n o w open. Ta lked a b o u t sin ce 1982, the state o f the a rt com plex w as com ­ p le te d last Novem ber. not g iv en in fo rm a tio n

New Athletics Fieldhouse is the sports highlight

By A llana H enderson Across the city there is a construction site that represents a lot more than just an addition to M ontreal’ s architectural landscape. The site is the home o f the future Fom m. The new hockey m ecca for fans all over North America. “New” and “Forum” is almost a contradiction in terms.

There is so much history within the walls o f the existing structure that many have questioned the endeavor as a whole.

Ju st a few months ago, the piece o f land beside the Currie Gymnasium looked a lot like that site at the bottom o f the city. Construction had taken over the mountainside hugging Molson Stadium and many curious onlookers questioned

what its purpose was. “New facilities” was the only clue that the M cGill community was given.

Now that the “new facilities” have materi­ alised, the method in the madness comes to light and those questioning the building o f the new Forum can take com fort in the M cG ill experi­ ence. There are important sim ilarities between the fieldhouse and the Forum and they have noth­ ing to do with structure.

Call it evolution, call it progress, the bottom line is that the development is a step toward the future, based on strong traditions and experiences o f the p ast. T h e h is to ry o f the M o n tre a l Canadiens speaks for itself, M cG ill’s history is somewhat more modest but, not at all less strong.

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acknowledgment o f the importance o f athletics and fitness alongside academics in the university com m unity, but it is also a com m itm ent to a dynamic future in the 21st century because the changes have brought a new energy into the Athletics environment.

T h e in te g ra tio n o f th e C u rrie G y m , M e m o ria l P o o l, M o lso n S tad iu m and the Fieldhouse was brought about by the M olson Fam ily and the Seagram Company Ltd., along with numerous individual investors and sponsors.

Not only has their contribution resulted in new facilities for the students, it has also provided an environment for improved research in the facul­ ties o f Medicine, Education, and Science.

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Committee to address Hepatitis B coverage in Health Plan

By D awn W estley S S M U is organising a co m ­ m ittee to re-evaluate the Student Health Plan which was introduced in Septem ber 1992. The com m it­ tee w ill determ ine w hether stu­ dents would prefer a more expand­ ed plan. One o f the reasons for the re-evalu ation is that the current policy does not cover Hepatitis B inoculations.

H ep atitis B is a con tag io u s d is e a s e th a t can b e fa ta l. It is transmitted through bodily fluids and is 100 tim es more infectious than A ID S. Luce Auger, a nurse at the Health Line o f Montreal, spoke to the Tribune about the virus.

“W e have seen an increase o f 300 percent in the number o f cases in the past ten years. H ow ever, nin ety p e rce n t o f c a s e s are not chronic,” said Auger.

“ It is d if f ic u lt to d e te c t, b e c a u se m any p e o p le show no symptoms or they react to it like a flu. For many it goes away in six to ten weeks yet for this reason it is very d angerou s b eca u se it is extrem ely infectious, and fo r the ten percent who develop a chronic c o n d itio n , it is f a t a l ,” w arned Auger.

R e n é e H o tte o f M c G i l l ’ s Stu d ent H ealth S e rv ic e s cla im s that Health Services has not seen a substantial rise in the number o f cases in the past few years but the co n c ern has generated a rise in vaccinations.

“The disease is not considered an epidemic in Canada though the numbers have increased. In most cases it has been acquired while travelling in developing countries, w h ere it is m o re p e r v a s iv e ,” claimed Hotte.

Since it is impossible to detect whom the virus w ill be fatal to, and there is a vaccin e, everyone should get vaccinated,” said Hotte.

M cG ill Health S erv ices cu r­ rently administers inoculations for Hepatitis B at 25 dollars per shot.

A full cycle consists o f three shots and protects those who receive it for ten years.

The current health plan covers only p re scrip tio n m ed icin e and accid en tal in ju ries. Inocu lations are a form o f preventative medi­ cine, which according to Seaboard L if e , th e in s u ra n c e co m p a n y adm inistering the student health plan, is not covered in any health insurance policies.

C h risto s C a la ritis, a S S M U S c ie n c e rep, is particu larly co n ­ cerned with the incorporation o f the Hepatitis B vaccinations in the health insurance policy.

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“As students, we are a highrisk group for any sexually trans­ mitted disease. The current health plan, which does not include the inoculations, does not run to our advantage — we are being ripped off,” stated Calaritis.

“The plan needs to be expand­ ed. W e would like it to include prescription glasses, travel insur­ ance and other benefits. W hat we have now is not a health plan, it is a very lim ited insurance policy,” claimed Calaritis.

S tu d e n ts fro m S c ie n c e , Nursing, Dentistry and other facul­ ties have lobbied to get the vacci­ nations included in the plan, but r e s is ta n c e fro m S S M U has Calaritis concerned.

“T h e issu e o f inclu ding the inocu lations was brought before c o u n c il in D e c e m b e r and they voted it down. They are concerned because the inclusion o f preventa­ tive medicine would set an insur­ an ce p reced en t. T h e co m m ittee w h ich is su p p o sed to d e v e lo p a ltern ativ e plans is e xp ected to report back on February 3 but it hasn’t even been formed yet,” said Calaritis.

P au l Jo h n s o n , S S M U V P Finance, claim s that vaccinations are incompatible with the present policy.

“Insurance works because the c o s t o f cla im s is spread o v er a

larger group. I f everyone claim s then there are no savings. I f every­ one claim s then the premium has to go up in order to include those costs,” stated Johnson.

“Our goal, to have everyone e d u ca te d and in o c u la te d fo r Hepatitis B , is incom patible with the hope o f m aintaining the cu r­ rent policy. W ith the p o licy, the h op e is th at n ot e v e ry o n e w ill claim ,” explained Johnson.

The com m ittee’ s mandate is to discover whether students want a different health plan, and if so, w h at th e ir h e a lth p lan w ould include. “ O v e r th e n e x t m o n th the com m ittee will speak to the stu­ dents and, with the assistance o f Seaboard L ife, will com e up with three different plans which will go to refe re n d u m in M a r c h ,” said Johnson.

H o w ev er, in c o rp o ra tio n o f Hepatitis B will require an over­ haul o f th e c u rre n t p lan and a restru cturing o f the resp on sible parties.

“I f the feedback from the stu­ dents determines that Hepatitis B vaccinations be included, the plan w ill be a great deal more expen­ sive and a system would have to be d eveloped w here S S M U and Seaboard L ife split the coverage and ad m inistrative re sp o n sib ili­ ties,” claimed Johnson.

Graduate student challenges the neutrality of her degree

By Sylvie Babarik In an O ctober 17th letter to C h a n c e llo r G r e tta C h a m b e rs , Joanna Broadhurst, who obtained a graduate degree in social work last year, requested that M cG ill grad uate stu d ents b e g iv en the opportunity to choose between the terms ‘M agistrate’ and ‘M aster’s’ in referen ce to the title o f their d e g re e . B ro a d h u rs t’ s atte n tio n was initially awakened by the suc­ cess-story o f a women who pre­ sented a sim ilar plea to Concordia University.

T h e a p p e a l ste m s fro m a b e lie f that the term ‘M aster’ s’ is not gender-neutral. W hereas the latter has a masculine connotation a tta c h e d to it, ‘ M a g is tr a te ’ is m erely a title and does not pre­ s u p p o se a p a r tic u la r sex.

Broadhurst feels excluded by the word ‘M aster’ s’ and would like to se e the e x p r e s s io n ch a n g e d in order to better re flect the reality o f fe m a le r e c ip ie n ts o f su ch degrees. “ ‘ M a s t e r ’ m e a n s m a le ,” sta te s B ro a d h u rst. “I am not a master, a fellow , or a bachelor. I am a women. Therefore, I want a ‘M agistrate’ .”

Regarding her chances at suc­ c e s s fu lly c h a lle n g in g the term ‘ B a c h e l o r ’ as b e in g to o s lim , Broadhurst has chosen to restrict h er a p p e a l, g e a rin g it s o le ly towards her most recent degree.

Though the proposed change w ould un d en iably have ce rta in

practical repercussions, it would principally a ffe c t the nom encla­ ture. None the less, the proceed­ in g s w o u ld ta k e a s ig n if ic a n t amount o f tim e to implement. In the C oncordia debate, fo r exam ­ p le, o n ce the term ‘M a g istra te ’ had been accepted, it took close to tw o y e a rs b e f o r e th e o p tio n b e c a m e a v a ila b le to stu d e n ts .

Scheduled to receive her diploma on N ovem ber 2nd, 1994.

Broadhurst was well aware o f the typical tim e-lag required for such alterations o f the university sys­ te m to becom e e ffe c tiv e .

Therefore, she requested that the new title be offered retroactively.

Though Broad hurst’ s appeal ap p eared on th e ag en d a o f the Committee o f Honourary Degrees and C o n v o ca tio n le ss than one month after the chair received her letter, it failed to win su fficien t support among the members.

T h e co m m ittee did not fe e l th a t a s in g le r e q u e s t fo r th e M agistrate option warranted any im m e d ia te a lte r a tio n to the n o m e n c la tu r e . T h e n o tio n o f a llo w in g su ch a p o lic y to b e implemented retroactively partic­ u la rly w o rried th e c o m m itte e .

C h a n c e llo r G r e tta C h a m b e rs e x p la in e d th a t th e c h a n g e in nomenclature could entail consid­ erable costs to the university due to the size o f its bureaucracy. In a period o f fiscal restraint, any sum w h ich a p p e a rs to h a v e b e e n diverted away from teaching itself See Degree Page 4

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Final vote on Code amendments

By T yla Berchtold On D ecember 7th the M cG ill Senate voted on the remaining pro­ posed changes to the university’ s S tu d e n t C o d e o f C o n d u ct and Disciplinary Procedures. With the e x c e p tio n o f one c h a n g e , a ll amendments were passed as pro­ posed. Although there were some points o f conten tio n con cern in g several o f the amendments, the stu­ dents also fe lt positive about the new code.

The changes that raised the most concern among students were those concerning the right o f the Dean o f Students to suspend a stu­ dent from the campus. Such a sus­ pension would be perm issible in the event that the Dean has reason to believe that the accused is pos­ ing a threat to others, either acade­ mic or safety. The suspension may not exceed a period o f 30 days.

The original code stated that in such a case, exam inations and papers missed would be counted as unexcused ab sen ces or laten ess.

Considering that the student may b e ask ed to le a v e th e cam p u s before he or she is proven guilty, members o f the SSM U questioned whether or not this was just. Dean G o p n ik agreed th at a lte rn a tiv e arrangem ents should be made in such a case. This clause, already present in the existing code, was eliminated and replaced with one a llo w in g the stu d ent to su b m it w ork during the suspension and period o f inquiry.

The SSM U was pleased with this am endm ent. V P U n iv ersity Affairs Jen Small stated her satis­ faction to the Tribune.

“I think that the Senators were really listening to us concerning this amendment. Maybe the student w ill have to work in a d ifferen t place or write their exam s in the presence o f the Dean or something but I think that’s very fair.”

Although Small seemed sat­ isfied with this concession, there still remained concerns about how th e stu d en t co u ld m ak e up fo r classes missed during the time o f suspension.

“I don’t have a problem with a 30 day suspension”, Sm all stated.

“What I have a problem with is that you c a n ’t give the student back what he or she has missed in the ca se that he or she is in n o cen t.

There’s no way you can pay back retribution.”

Legal Information clinic mem­ ber Lawrence Hansen agreed with Small, stating that this was unjust.

“A student would suffer acad­ e m ic p re ju d ice . T ry and m iss a large part o f school and then write a 75% f i n a l .”

H ansen continued .’’One could argue that this violates student rights. In the charter there is a p rovision that states that students are innocent until proven guilty. T his has the effect o f calling the student guilty until proven innocent and places a high burden on the stu d e n t” .

H ansen sta te d fu rth e r th a t the am biguous nature o f the articles co n cern in g safety vs. acad em ic threats was confusing.

“One is supposed to be acade­ mic and one is supposed to be non academic but they’ve mixed things up. I t ’ s very d iffic u lt to under­ stand.”

S m a ll sta te d fu rth e r that although there remain some prob­ lem areas, there were som e very positive aspects o f the new code.

P rim arily , the fa c t that stu­ dents are entitled to an advisor in the e v en t o f an a c c u sa tio n was written into several articles o f the cod e. T h e stu d en t’ s rig h t to an advisor has always been exercised in practice however it is only now written into the code. Sm all fe lt that this was very beneficial for it will disallow the right to an advisor from slipping over time.

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Further, there is a new amend­ ment at the end o f the code which ca lls fo r an annual report o f the Committee o f Student D iscipline.

Sm all feels that this will be very beneficial to both record keeping and accountability.

“There was always a lot o f T don’t knows’ and ‘who knows’ and now th a t can be e lim in a te d .

Students can see for themselves the nature o f the offences committed and the statistics.”

Overall it appears that the gen­ e ra l fe e lin g w as o f a p o s itiv e nature concerning the new code.

Small voiced this to the Tribune.

“Som e o f the Senators really did appear sympathetic to our con­ cerns. Also, we got a chance to see the other side o f the fence. There has been disappointments along the way and I think that the policy is stronger in som e w ays now and w eaker in others.” Sm all contin­ ued. “A student never knows about the Green Book until they need to for some reason and I think this is the same for the staff. I think it is im portant that every o n e know s their rights and responsibilities.

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Continued from Page 1 “The University foresees pro­ ceeding as quickly as possible and intends to respond to the statements made by lawyers for the Sergent Estate in the next few weeks,” the statement continued.

T hou gh M c G ill U n iv ersity R elations director K ate W illiam s told the Gazette on December 8 that the university would respond to the estate in the next few w eeks, no public response is currently avail­ able.

Sheppard noted that M cG ill

changed its public position regard­ ing the Sergent inquiry in recent weeks.

“M cGill said this was an inter­ nal matter and a private investiga­ tion and the court should not be in v o lv e d ,” he told the G a zette.

“Suddenly it becomes a matter o f great public interest.”

Though M cG ill stated that it would not appeal the temporary rul­ in g , Sheppard said that it was im possible to do so in any case.

A cco rd in g to cou rt reg u lation s, temporary injunctions may not be appealed.

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Degree title challenged Continued from Page 2 its e lf is likely to m eet with resistance.

C h a m b e rs’ notes tw o other points that the com m ittee had to a d d re s s in e v a lu a tin g B r o a d h u r s t’ s r e q u e s t. A s th e te rm ‘M aster’s ’ is still more com monly used, it seem s lik e ly that som e c o n fu s io n w ill a ris e fro m the n a m e -c h a n g e . T h o u g h n e a rb y u n iv ersities and em ployers may q u ic k ly g e t u sed to th e term ‘ M a g is tr a te ’ , stu d en ts w ho go abroad may find it especially dif­ ficult to receive their due recogni­ tion. M oreover, one must consid­ e r w h e th e r th e c h a n g e w o u ld bring about g reater e q u a lity , or p o ten tially je o p a rd iz e what has already been achieved in practice.

C h a m b e r s ’ s u g g e s ts th a t i f a ch o ice is given, a new polarisa­ tion may take place.

“W ho is going to choose the term ‘M ag istrate’ ?” asks C ham ­ bers. “I would hate to think that if women becom e M agistrates and m en b eco m e M a s te r’ s th at one

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would be taken as less valuable.”

“I ju st don’t think we should have to go out o f our way to be e q u a l,” she adds. “ I f I ‘m a ster’ something, I don’t feel distressed about it.”

S S M U V P University A ffairs Jen Sm all suggested that the age and prestige o f the school often translates into conserv ativ e atti­ tudes. Je n S m a ll noted that the lack o f gains that the institution can expect in offering a choice in nom enclature renders the task o f ob tain in g the M ag istrate option even more difficult.

T h o u g h S m a ll d o e s n ot describe herself as driven to side with one group in this debate, she emphasised the sym bolic value o f the title ‘M agistrate’ .

“In the past, women did not h a v e th e o p p o rtu n ity to g e t M a ste r’ s d eg rees,” notes Sm all.

“They were never even entitled to e d u c a tio n . C h a n g in g th e t it le would act as a recognition o f the change in society, suggesting that both [men and women] have the right to be educated.”

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Forget questions about Christ’s return, this recent controversy is over the Pope coming in the first place.

“Liquid Pope” is causing a furor at Gillette, the makers of Liquid Paper. Liquid Pope is a fake prod­ uct advertised in Fulcrum, University of Ottawa’s student newspaper. The product looks like Liquid Paper, but is a “conception fluid”, not a “correction fluid”.

Made of “100 percent Papal Semen,” it claims to be bottled at the Vatican and misuse could be “blasphemous”.

The ad became an issue after Ottawa law stu­ dent Michael Collins wrote to Gillette and several figures in the Church, vowing to boycott Liquid Paper.

Brian McFarland, president of Gilette's station­ ary products group, replied to Collins, copies of which were sent to the Archbishop of Ottawa, the Catholic Civil Rights League and others.

“We are outraged at the inappropriate depic­ tion of our product,” said the letter. “We are taking immediate action to vigorously pursue the author, and both the Fulcrum and the Canadian University Press, and hope to put an abrupt end to this offen­ sive material.”

The graphic was run in University of Guelph's Peak, without complaints. CUP distributed the graphic on its news wire for papers to use. CUP President Dave Matthews told the Ottawa Citizen that it was a parody and fair comment on the church.

Brendan Ziolo, editor of the Fulcrum, stressed that “as of [December] we haven’t heard directly from anyone in quite some time,” and nothing from either the Catholic Church or Gillette. Ziolo is “expecting something” to happen and he noted that Collins had originally come to the Fulcrum demand­ ing an apology and retraction. The issue was dis­ cussed at both the editorial and staff level, and it was decided that no apology was necessary.

The issue is not over, said Matt Miller of Gillette.

“We have sent letters to the appropriate peo­ ple,” he said. He said the ad violated trademark, and that Gillette wants “to ensure that the offensive ad is not used again.”

Neither the Archbishop of Ottawa’s office nor Collins was available for comment.

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Gert’s opened its doors for the first time in 1995 last Thursday, inaugurating a new look and layout for the troubled establishment. The recent changes have attempted to incorporate dozens of sug­ gestions received from McGill students in response to a SSMU survey regarding the bar’s features, including music selec­ tion, service and atmosphere.

The most noticeable alterations are that the “new” Gert’s has phased out the pink wall decor and relocated the dance floor to its pre-1993 position at the east side, rather than the middle, of the bar.

Other differences include a new “post­ industrialist” mural and new DJs. The changes, however, are part of a larger issue.

For two years Gert’s has experi­ enced dwindling crowds and revenues: whereas the bar in 1992 garnered rev­ enues of close to $900,000, last year rev­ enues fell to approximately $300,000.

Neither SSMU nor Marriott, the compa­ ny which runs Gert’s, would comment directly on whether or not there is a con­ nection. Yet, as of December 23, Marriott has exercised its option to rene­ gotiate its contract with SSMU. SSM U General Manager Guy Brisebois elaborated.

“We will try to renegotiate a fair contract with Marriott so that we will both not be losing our shirts,” he com­ mented.

The previous contract guaranteed that SSMU would be paid $367,000 annually by Marriott, increasing by 5

percent each year. Under the terms of the contract, Marriott would have to pay SSMU a percentage of its profits, and would make up the difference if Gert’s and other Marriott-owned establishments at McGill posted a loss.

SSMU President Sevag Yeghoyan has made the revamping of Gert’s a pri­ ority of his term.

“I’d really like to see Gert’s made into a bar that appeals to most McGill students,” said Yeghoyan. “It would be great to see it get back to the stage it was at ten years ago.”

These ideas were reflected in the responses to the SSMU Gert’s Survey and were passed on by Yeghoyan in a December 2 memorandum to the SSMU executive and the Marriott staff at McGill.

Gert’s supervisor Scott Redstone, who oversaw the renovations, believed that substantial improvements have been made to the bar’s atmosphere.

“We’ve tried to change the look from that of a cafeteria to one that more truly reflects what a bar should be,” Redstone stated. “Before, Gert’s was like tofu: it lacked taste; but now it’s got flavour, a certain je ne sais quoi.”

Redstone was pleased with the first night’s turnout at the “new” Gert’s.

“A lot of work was put into it over the holidays, and we’re just finishing it up. We’ve also painted over one of the pink walls with a mural.”

The mural is nearing completion, and is described by the artist, Heidi Taillefer, as a “scene of post-industrial conflict.” Taillefer was asked to paint a mural that would fit in with Gerts’ new

atmosphere.

“I wanted to do something in a mechanical style,” said Taillefer. “Gert s was too bubblegum, and a futuristic theme seemed fitting to do away with that.”

Students had mixed feelings about the new setup, though the overall impression was that the renovations were an improvement over the old arrange­ ment. U3 Political Science student and regular Gert’s patron Nicole Arnold expressed satisfaction with the relocation of the dancefloor, but was unimpressed with other changes in the bar.

“With the dance floor and DJ booth back where they used to be, it’s much easier for people to move to the bar and back. The pool tables need to be farther apart, though, and the lawn chairs were more comfortable than the new wooden ones,” she noted.

“A lot of people want Tetris back, too,” she added.

U3 Science student Eric Hoffstein was a little optimistic about the setup.

“If the fence is there, it should be more artistic; it’s too bad they didn’t get rid of it completely,” he said. “I find the artwork livens the place up, but any future change should be done carefully to avoid chaos.”

Gert’s has made a quantum leap from its previous quandary yet a majori ty of students find that many steps remain necessary. An overwhelming majority of the students that the Tribune spoke with and the respondents to the survey noted that McGill’s campus bar should better reflect the identity of the university.

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January 10th, 1995

Popular legend has painted the holiday season as one of merri­ ment, peace and mutual good will.

Yeah, sure. Day after day, cards arrive from friends and relatives not heard from since the previous December. Bearing trivial accounts of distant lives, these cards stir momentary, nostalgic fondness and, occasionally, interest. The inconsiderate often include family photographs, believing you might be interested to see how they’ ve decayed since the previous year. .Resembling week-old leftover liver and onions, they stand starched, grinning uncomfortably at their increasingly brief future which includes you but once a year.

Admittedly there is a certain special feeling which accompanies the holidays, one that is often expressed in very different ways.

For some, what began as the dog’s

nightly walk might end with sud­ den, sobbing holiday joy in an aged neighbour’s arms. Touching scenes such as this, however, are often counterbalanced by the fes­ tive indulgences of the Philistine.

From roasting chestnuts on New York subways to announcing their faith through the crackle of a semi­ automatic rifle, over-excited holi­ day vulgarians disrupted December’ s parade. Meanwhile, their junior ranks waged their con­ tinuing guerrila war at holiday feasts and New Y ear’ s soirées around the globe. Yet they were met and matched amid the potluck selections and well-stocked bars.

“Welcome to your gory bed, or to victory,” wrote the prophet Burns as he foreshadowed the following tales of the battles which ensued.

Dear Mr. Manners, For years people have been

trying to convince me that Santa Claus doesn’t exist and it has often resulted in very painful inner-con­ flict. The searing taunts of friends and family, however, do not com­ pare that the turmoil that raged within me over the recent holidays, which were perhaps the most diffi­ cult in my 21 years of existence in this unforgiving world. For 21 years I’ve clung to my belief that old St. Nick exists. You see, when I was just four years old, I awoke on Christm as Eve to find him going through my sister’ s under­ wear drawer. When I told my Dad the next morning, he told me to shut-up and not tell anyone or else... Yet I know what I saw and I’ve kept the faith. This year, as I do every year, I quietly left a plate of cookies and a glass of milk by the fireplace before going to bed. I awoke the next morning before the rest of my family and quickly ran downstairs. Sure enough, the milk and cookies were gone as was a six-pack from the fridge. Then I discovered something which has haunted me ever since. From the washroom there arose such a stench and I ran to the window, my heart wrenched. Santa hadn’ t

flushed. Now I’m lost: he’d always seemed so pure, so clean. I know it was him. There was an empty beer on the counter and snow puddles on the floor. I hate him. I hate this world.

first degree. Is this to be our chil­ dren’ s measure of naughty and nice? Your pain is understandable.

I would suggest you organise an intervention with Mr. Nicholas’ friends featuring a selection of meringues.

- Disillusioned on 4th Street Dear Disillusioned, I sympathise with your hatred.

I, in no way, mean to excuse Santa Claus from his errant ways but he is a busy man and I’m sure he had a lot on his mind that night. This is, however, no excuse. T ests prove that the act of flushing takes no more than 2.4 seconds and comprises little more than 58 hours of one’ s life. Recent studies from M assachusett’ s Institute of Technology have proven that in order for Santa to reach all the world’s households in one night, he would have to travel at speeds that would turn his reindeer-driven sleigh into a hurtling fireball of gristle and cinders. So, do we blame him for his unwanted pre­ sent? Yes! He is a hypocrite in the

Dear Mr. Manners, Should auld acquaintance be forgot and never brought to mind?

- Confused Dear Confused, In his typical provincial fash­ ion, Burns recommends acknowl­ edging the past through booze yet does not suggest a means of deal­ ing with it. Perhaps the key to dealing with the past is also found in booze. Have you ever put a full bottle up to your eyes and looked at life through it? Perhaps you’ve never put that bottle down. Don’t look now but here comes your life.

You can run but you can’t hide.

No matter what I recommend you’ ll douse it in B ailey’ s. Go ahead. Lout.

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by THOMAS JOSEPH

word which eventually became “brandy” . The Dutch were the first ones to put a lot of sugar and spices in the distilled drinks in the sixteenth century, and the British, ever the A lex U sher sweet-tooths, bought all the Dutch could make, thus creating a national addiction to gin. Dom Perignon, a Benedictine monk, invented champagne in the seventeenth century.

Fortunately, he failed in his life-long mission to get rid of the bubbles which he believed were a sign of impurity.

Up until the latter half of the nineteenth century, a clear division was made between the effects of excessive wine and beer consumption and that of liquor intoxication.

The former, after all, was drunk by civilized people and wine even had a religious significance so it could hardly be an evil in the same manner as spirits, people reasoned.

When the Methodist church split from Anglicanism, its founder John Wesley preached abstinence from alcohol but not wine and beer. Magnus Huss published the first scholarly work on alcoholism in 1835, but though French academicians thought it fascinating but utterly irrelevant to France, where there could be no alcoholism since only wine and beer were consumed.

But perhaps the most difficult question to answer is “why do we drink at all”? The obvious answer is “why not”, but that doesn’t get a person tenure. Biologist Amotz Zahavi thinks that we drink to show virility. Just as certain gazelles hop around on three legs to show predatory lions how fast they are while handicapped (thus sending the signal: “don’t waste your time on me, suck­ er”) humans show each other how strong they are by drinking, smoking and taking drugs. It’s a signal to one another that we are tough, our genes are tough, and mate with me, baby, and we’ll have kids with some great genet­ ic heritage ( I will refrain from commenting upon biolo­ gists sex lives, though they must use some phenomenal pick-up lines).

Finally the most pressing question of all: what is the most powerful alcoholic drink? Those of you who answered “that gross 190-proof alcool at the SAQ” are not only unimaginative but wrong. The distinction belongs to an ancient Mayan drink whose name is sadly lost to us.

For decades, archaelogists were baffled by the small hol­ low rods found in many Mayan burial sites. This mystery came to an end in the late 1980s when a series of vases were discovered depicting their use. As it turns out, the Mayans were fond of brewing up a frothy beerlike bever­ age containing both alcohol and hallucinogens, and then got together in big ceremonies to consume it rectally, with the aforementioned hollow rods serving as enema tubes.

By eliminating the stomach from the ingestion process the alcohol and drugs could get directly to the blood stream without being detoxified by the stomach and liver.

The Faculty of Ephemera Hello and welcome back to McGill. I hope that all of you - particularly you grad students - are prepared for another semester of intensive intellectual prostitution en route to obtaining an increasingly meaningless piece of paper called a “degree”.

Today’s topic is alcohol, an ephemera-rich subject if ever there was one, and, moreover, qne which is very close and dear to the hearts of many academics. Those of you unclear as to why this should be so have clearly never watched the senior administration at the bar table at Town and Gown. Or at the Red and White ball.

Alcohol is a very old human invention - historians of food say that the concept of crushing grapes with big clubs and then letting them ferment originated somewhere in the Middle East (probably Iraq) sometime in the sixth milleni­ um BC. The idea first spread eastwards, through India and China, and only later, about 3,000 years ago, westwards towards the mediteranean and Europe. From the earliest times, alcohol was used as an aid in celebration; for instance, Genesis 9:20-21 tells of Noah getting trashed after the Flood had receded.

Beer followed soon afterwards. Legend tells that when the Egyptians needed a counterpart to their winesoaked festival of the New Moon, the god Osiris came to earth and taught them how to brew beer, which they promptly employed in a new barley-oriented festival to celebrate the full moon. This of course raises a very seri­ ous question: why do fraternities - notorious beer-drinkers - prefer being named after a group of wine-sippers (“Greeks”) to hearty beer inventors (“Egyptians”)?

Nutball revisionist historians like Martin Bernal would probably interpret it as racism, but the answer is probably much simpler: try spelling “Sigma Chi” in hieroglyphs.

Liquor was the next logical step, and it was the Chinese who took it. They figured: “Hey, why not boil our rice beer and throw the collected condensed vapour back into the original mix?” The result, a drink called “arrack”, packed a wicked punch not unlike that of present-day Korean potato vodka (which has a popular nickname of Macbeth, ie.“one drink and the trees start walking”). The idea spread quickly westwards through India, and Asia Minor, where the Arabs started distilling wine instead of beer, and gave us our modem term for drink by calling this new beverage “alcohol”.

Liquor didn’t really catch on in Europe until the thir­ teenth century when Arnaud de Villeneuve invented the modem still. The new products which emerged from it were called aqua vitae, “water of life”, from whence comes the words aquavit or aakavit. In Germany, it became known as “branntwein” (literally, “burnt wine”), a

Alex Usher might be annoying in this column, but believe it —he’s worse when he’s drunk

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Editorial T

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Published by the Students’ Society of McGill University

M c G IL L T R IB U N E

What’s new at SSMU? A report to the shareholders

“I don’t see how you can write anything of value if you don’t offend someone.”

—Marvin Harris M ichael Broadhurst Editor-in-chief C hristopher Rigney Assistant Editor-in-chief

Steve Smith Assistant Editor-in-chief Editorial

Resumption of the Reagan revolution

By C hristopher Rigney_____________________________________ If by chance the American public thought that the current re­ empowering of the Republican party might reveal a new agenda, evolved from the ideals of the 1980s, one influential GOP Congressman set the record straight. In an interview with USA Today , New York Representative Gerald Solomon made clear the party’s intentions: “We’re going to restart the Reagan revolution. We’re going to continue where he had to leave off.”

And so last Wednesday marked both the opening day of the 104th session of Congress as well as the first stage of the Republican “Contract with America.” With conservative stalwart Robert Dole firmly in control of the Senate, and Georgia battle-axe Newt Gingrich waving the Republican flag in the GOP-dominated House, the imple­ mentation of the so-called “contract” is looking more and more likely each day. The result, of course, is that President Clinton may be con­ fined to the sidelines, unable to successfully block this Republican mission.

The Republicans allowed the Democrats to usurp their Washington monopoly for a mere two years. The Democrats, with their one big chance to hopefully show Americans how far they had come since the dreaded liberal days of the late 1970s, simply failed.

The Republicans, with Rush Limbaugh among others pointing out the failures and ineptitude of the first two Clinton years, have taken this to mean that the nation wants a resumption of the Reagan revolution.

This, they believe, is the reason why America needs such a “contract”.

The legitimacy of the “contract” raises some questions. It is sup­ posedly a bilateral agreement between the American people and the new government; a “sanctioned” political revolution committed to shrinking government, cutting social program spending, and cutting capital gains taxes in hopes of stimulating the economy.

While American voters did send a resounding message last November, the Republicans are guilty of misinterpreting it. Instead of attributing the results to democratic dissatisfaction, with Clinton’s approval rating hovering somewhere below 40 percent, the GOP wholeheartedly believes that the public has called them to arms; to deliver the America that the Republicans believe only they can.

It is not difficult, however, to see the one-sided nature of this “contract”. A contract implies the consent of the two parties involved.

Clearly the GOP has agreed to its terms, for it reflects the greatest con­ servative hits of the '80s. The Republicans, however, have taken last election day’s results to mean that the American public has agreed to the contract as it reads now. American voters clearly agreed to some­ thing last November, most likely their discontent with a failing Democratic president. The Republicans simply interpreted the results as they wanted, and now the nation must sit back and watch the impending GOP legislative revolution. With 46 years passed since the last time the Republicans controlled both houses, the GOP now has both the tools and as they believe, the consent to revolutionise the nation as they see fit.

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This past semester was quite a busy one for the Students’ Society.

Council was forced to tackle a number of issues. One such issue was the SSMU Health Plan. A plan under which all undergraduate stu­ dents are covered the moment they register for McGill. Students who are already covered by another plan have the option to opt-out and get their money back. Last semester we expanded this plan so that it may cover eye glasses and contact lenses as well as providing students with a pay-direct option; this allows students registered in the plan to go to any pharmacy in the province and receive 90% off all prescriptions and Birth Control pills by simply showing their McGill I.D. card.

Another issue which arose last semester involved the Fédération Etudiante Universitaire du Québec.

Students’ Society has not been very involved with either the provincial or federal student movements over the past few years. SSMU has now joined FEUQ on a provisional basis in order to allow us to test the waters so that students will have the option of whether or not they would like to join this organisation on a full-time basis. After years of limited activity and co-operation with our colleagues at other univer­ sities, this should provide us with the opportunity to become involved and contribute to discussions and solutions about post-secondary education with regards to the recent proposals in the Axworthy Report.

An attempt is also being made in conjunction with other Montreal universities at lobbying the STCUM for a special university student fare for the bus and métro.

Earlier last semester a group of students patrolled the streets of

the McGill Ghetto and conducted a safety audit. The data is in its final stages of compilation and we hope to have a report ready in the near future. The new mayor has expressed willingness to work with McGill’ s student leaders and we hope that significant improvements will be made in this area.

Another project designed at assisting students is a Used Book Exchange. It is something I was hoping to have gotten o ff the ground by now however we have run into some difficulties. The Students’ Society has an agreement with the McGill Bookstore where­ by once the Bookstore has paid off its mortgage, all the revenues from the Bookstore will go directly to the Students’ Society. Thus we are attempting to come up with an arrangement where we can offer a Used-Book Exchange permitting students to save a great deal of money while at the same time not adversely affecting the Bookstore.

Something will definitely be in place by September.

In the coming months the Students’ Society will have to deal with a number of pressing issues.

One such thing is the University budget which will be presented at Senate on January 18. Given M cG ill’ s deficit and the rising costs involved in providing a quali­ ty education, some difficult deci­ sions will have to be made.

Creative solutions are being sought.

While we are on the topic of budgets, the Student Services bud­ get is something else which stu­ dents should be aware of. It involves areas such as: athletics, health services, chaplaincy, etc.

Unless some changes are imple­ mented, it appears as if we will be

facing a fee increase of perhaps somewhere in the neighbourhood of $16-18 per student per semester.

Students comprise half of the membership of the committee which makes the necessary recom­ mendations for the Students Services budget, thus it is an area over which we have quite a bit of control. Public hearings will be held across campus in order to get a feeling of what services students feel are the most essential. Some difficult decisions may arise and any input would be much appreci­ ated.

Finally another concern deals with SSMU’s Food and Beverage Operation. Contrary to any rumours that may be circulating, Gert’ s will remain open for the remainder of the year and we are not going to transform it into a Toyota dealership! However, Marriott Corporation (SSM U ’ s Food and Beverage Contractor) has exercised their right to opt-out.

This does not mean that Marriott is moving out, but rather that we are in the process of re negotiating the current contract, while at the same time thinking about the long-term im plications o f our Food and Beverage Operation. A large amount of SSM U’ s revenues are derived through Gert’ s, the Alley and numerous cafeterias around campus. Unfortunately Gert’ s is obviously not doing as well as it used to. Over the holiday break, we made some renovations based on the survey results which we received. Please keep in mind that Gert’s is your campus pub, and not only does it offer great specials, but the money that you spend there goes right back into the student body.

Thanks for taking the time to read this and should you have any suggestions, recommendations, questions or concerns, please feel free to contact me at 398-6801.

Staff Sylvie Babarik, Tyla Berchtold, Jordana Berger, Christina Bouchard, Jonah Brucker-Cohen, Erika Fuchs, GeoffGibson, Haim Gorodzinsky, Lisa Hockly, Amy Hutchison, Barbara MacDougall, Chris MacDougall, Dana Toering, Witold Tymowski, Alex Usher, Dawn Westley, KashifZahoor.

Sevag Yeghoyan, President SSMU

January 10th, 1995

Opinion

The stories of our lives, the lives of our stories A n Other Look G eoff G ibson

Over the break I read a par­ ticularity interesting novel called The Stone D iaries, by Carol Shields. It picked up the Governer General’ s award last year, and certainty deserved it. Shields’ s work is essentially a fictional autobiography of a fictional woman, and more than being just fine storytelling and creation of atmosphere, it functions as a bril­ lant dissertation on the nature of the stories of our lives, and the way we relate to them. Again and again, Shields demonstrates that our stories, the presentation and chain of incidents we display to the world, function most often as shells around us, not as the struc­ ture that holds us up. Our lives go on, not because of our histories, but in spite of them. All too often,

and this is the coup de grace of The Stone D iaries, our stories have a life of their own and reach up and swallow the lives of the people just trying to live a normal life inside them. For instance, what do we know of the lives of the fourteen women killed at the École Polytechnique beyond their death. Their lives, as with most of us, are defined by a thin shread of information that certainty does anything but define who they were as people. We are trapped inside our lives.

And, to keep me all the more restless, the whole time I was reading the novel, the questions that plagued me in my last column of last term rattled my head. Why do we involve ourselves in art?

What are we trying to do? Is there

meaning, and is it acheivable (par­ ticularity in this pluralist society?)

Now finally back at school, I decided I had to get out of my head for a bit and garner the pub­ lic opinion on the matter. The response to the question of the objective of art was answered in a variety of ways, from obligation to the self, to tool or medium of society. However the irreplace­ able common thread was the nec­ e ssity of honesty. Whatever the artist (novelist, poet, architect) expresses, it must be the truth.

Frankly, I was hoping someone would present some contradictory evidence or opinion. That is why I asked so many people. I kept hop­ ing someone would say that it simply had to look good (or sound good). What ever happened to Art for Art’ s sake? It would be so much simpler.

Why, you may wonder, does this insistence on honesty cause me so much trouble? Shields’ nar­ rative holds the roots o f my dis­ comfort. Are we trying to be hon­

1995: The year Russia implodes?

In Flagrante Politico - &;

The conflict in Chechnya is a frightening look into R u ssia’ s future, and to describe it as bleak may be too optimistic. This crisis could be the catalyst for further conflicts throughout Russia, and it could also spell the end of Boris Yeltsin’ s presidency.

U sing m ilitary force in Chechnya turned out to be a grave m iscalculation by R ussian President Boris Yeltsin. While hoping for a sw ift and over­ whelming m ilitary strike that would oust the self-declared Chechen President Dzhokhar Dudayev, Russian soldiers have found themselves in a quagmire that is not likely to end soon. Only four months ago, Yeltsin said himself that the military option would “ spark an uprising in the Caucasus and lead to such tur­ moil, so much bloodshed, that no one would forgive us afterward” .

His prediction was absolutely right. So why did he send in the tanks?

Had the incursion gone smoothly and quickly, the crisis would have received little atten­ tion by the international commu­ nity, and Yeltsin could have com­ pelled the Chechen leaders to accept a com prom ise.

The Russian army would have main­ tained its precarious stability, gained back a little pride and selfworth, and the Russian parliament would have returned to its busi­ ness of political and economic

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reform. What he got instead seems to be another Afghanistan.

The R ussian m ilitary has fared pathetically in the guerrilla war against the stalwart Chechens, and the fierce criticism by politi­ cians, the public and even many in the army o f the attack on the Chechen capital of Grozny could inspire the many other ethnic groups in R u ssia to make the break for independence in the face of Russian ineptitude. Yeltsin will have to work very hard to offer groups like the Chechens or the Tatars positive incentives to remain in Russia, unless of course he intends to continue to crush secessionist movements by force.

There will inevitably be vio­ lence between the Russian state and disgruntled ethnic groups or regions pursuing independence, but Yeltsin has to be careful as to how he plays his cards. Once Yeltsin played the military card, all hope for a negotiated settle­ ment was destroyed.

The Chechens hate their Russian rulers because of their forcible incorpo­ ration into the old Russian empire.

They remember the three hundred years of oppression by Czarist Russia and the Soviet Union. If things had truly changed in Russia, then it should have been possible to come to some sort of settlem ent with Chechnya.

Yeltsin’s decision to use the army as the ultimate ukase shows the Chechens and other disgruntled

ethnic groups in Russia that not all that much has changed since the collapse of the USSR. The contradiction between the right of the Chechens to exer­ cise self-determination and the right of Russia to maintain its sov­ ereignty and territorial integrity poses a d ifficu lt dilem m a for Yeltsin, but by resorting to force, it raises doubts as to his commit­ ment to democracy. It also under­ mines any legitimate reasons there might be for ethnic groups like the Chechens to stay within the Russian state. To avoid an explo­ sion of mini Bosnia’s, Yeltsin has to avoid getting involved in mili­ tary adventures like that in Chechnya.

Yeltsin has found some suc­ cess in mollifying secessionist movements throughout Russia’s 21 federal republics by granting self-governm ent and relative autonomy. The hope was to maintain a federation and resolve disputes by negotiation. Resisting the temptation to send in the army to resolve every regional dispute with M oscow was crucial for legitim izing R u ssia ’ s nascent democracy. Yeltsin blatantly vio­ lated this principle, and in so doing, discovered that resorting to naked force instead of negotiation would only result in further resis­ tance.

Like the British learned in Northern Ireland, using military to resolve a nationalist conflict only fuels the hatred between the par­ ties and makes it less likely that a compromise can ever be reached.

Negotiating with the Chechen government has been fruitless since 1991, those negotiations may not have borne fruit for many

est about our stories or our selves, as it is becoming increasingly aware to me that the two are sepa­ rate beings, living separate lives.

None of my public opinion hold­ ers requested art to be honest about something as morphous as a story. The goal always included self or society. Society, like a per­ son, has its stories and events, but no more than with individuals do these truly reveal the culture. We are not our newspapers, celebra­ tions, tragedies or celebrities, and it is through these processes of simplification and condensing that stereotypes (and perhaps racism) begin.

So, to unravel this, and get into the ‘true honesty’ (just to be redundant), we must learn to see where the representation (story) stops and the reality (self) starts.

This seems like it wouldn’t be that hard. The obvious example is that kind of soft journalism where the reporter visits the ‘ av erage’ household on the ‘average’ day.

In the end, though, everything is a

presentation. The household has been chosen for its averageness, but precisely because of that, does not stand for anything outside of itself. Actually, it doesn’ t even stand for itself. As we discover with Carol Sh ield s’ character Eleanor Goodwill, who refers to herself by her proper name, reverting to the traditional narra­ tor’s T rarely, even the monotony of normalness of daily life does not reveal the reality of her self.

In answering, “what is art’, I think it is impossible to get away from some sort of definition including representation, be that of concrete or non-concrete sub­ jects. If art is inherently about representation, and representation and reality can only have, at best, a tangential relationship, perhaps all art can realty be honest about is itself. Food for thought for the next couple weeks.

years, but there would still be a chance for su ccess. The day Yeltsin sent in the army to resolve the c risis, he destroyed any chance, no matter how small it may have been, to get the Chechens to willingly remain in the Russian federation. He has signed up for a long-term sub­ scription to military occupation, or a humiliating withdrawal. The use of force must at all times be an absolute last resort.

Yeltsin’ s concern with main­ taining the Russian federation is understandable, but his choice to

maintain it by force raises ques­ tions about his commitment to democratic rule. Yeltsin tends to waver between dem ocrat and autocrat, but perhaps this latest debacle will convince him of the fact that using blatant military force to crush secessionist move­ ments will defeat his ultimate pur­ pose of trying to rebuild Russia based on democracy and equal rights.

Geoff Gibson is looking fo r some art. A picasso or maybe a Garfunkel.

Mark Luz’s computer crashed while trying to retrieve the origi­ nal version of this column.

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January 10 th, 1995

Tribune talks to woman from M ARS

By Lizzie Saunderson “ W elcom e to M A R S: M c G ill’ s A utom ated Registration System.” This statement is as familiar to McGill students as “Would you like fries with that?”

While it would be easy to indulge in an extended metaphor between fast-food and a BA, there is one difference which should not be overlooked. The woman behind the McGill counter does not bag food, tote a name tag or don a smile for your consumption.

When the Tribune approached the Registrar’s Office in search of the elusive “MARS Lady” , we were informed that her call would be transferred to our office to protect her anonymity. Woodward and Bernstein we are not, but the MARS Lady proved to be our very own “Deep Throat” — if only for a moment.

Readers may be curious to note that the Mars Lady’ s responses were not followed by the number sign.

Tribune: Mars Lady, why is it that you wish to remain anonymous?

Mars Lady: I’ve given it a lot of thought and I think I feel more comfortable if I remain anonymous. I work for the University — you probably already know that — I just think life is easier for everyone and particularly for me if I remain anonymous.

Tribune: Was there a selection process involved in determining the voice of MARS? M ars Lady: When the M ARS project was being developed and when it came time to select someone to do the recording, the University or the people who were involved on the MARS development committee put an ad, I think, in the Reporter. They were recruiting a McGill employee, someone who was bilingual because MARS is a bilingual system and they were inviting people to audition.

At that time, one of my bosses was on the develop­ ment committee and he essentially twisted all the arms of the people who were bilingual in the office to audition. So

I auditioned.

Tribune: Why MARS? Mars Lady: It certainly beats lining up outside of the Currie gym. I think it has to do with automation and just making registration, course change and grade reporting more automated and hopefully more simple for students.

Tribune: How long did it take you to cut the track?

Mars Lady: The recording was done in stages.

When MARS was first introduced the very first func­ tion to be introduced was the grade reporting function.

There was a chunk of recording that was done in the spring of 1991 and over the next year in intervals. As course change was introduced and registration was introduced I did the recordings.

About a year or so later, because the recordings were done at several sittings and perhaps the recording was somewhat uneven, we re-recorded the entire script over a one week period. Since then, as there have been changes and as new features have been added, I’ve done some additional recordings.

Tribune: Are you paid by the function? By the hour?

Mars Lady: No. I was given an honorarium at the beginning. I essentially do the recording on McGill time.

Tribune: Ever call MARS just to hear your own voice?

Mars Lady: Yes, I’ ve done that a few times. My family has done that too.

Tribune: Have you considered a career in either radio or phone sex?

Mars Lady: No, I haven’t really given it a lot of Calling MARS is cheaper than O-P-A-L thought. I’m content with my current status. Sure, if I heard of a haven for automated registered voices. For had an opportunity to launch a new career — why not?

While comfortable with her anonymity, the Mars course changes, registration or grade updating in English Lady admits that she has yet to meet CARL, nor has she or in French, she can be reached at 398-MARS.

Charm school: taxing on drivers?

By C hris Ma c D ougall In an effort to counteract a decrease in business and an increase in the number of minor complaints against cabbies this year, the Montreal Taxi League has developed a course to help taxi-drivers with their manners. The course, designed by the Quebec Transport Department to teach cabbies some basic courtesies, will be offered free of charge to all Montreal-area taxi-drivers. The course will not be compulsory.

When asked by the Tribune how they feel about the proposal, downtown cabbies had widely varying views on the matter as well as mixed reactions to being questioned.

Although many taxi-drivers refused to be interviewed — some even drove off or began shouting that the media is to blame for all the ills of the world — a few of the more charm­ ing had these comments to offer.

Mohammed Pishva Cabbie for 2 years “I agree with it 100 percent, because there should be a better way for customers to trust and respect taxi-drivers. People don’t appreciate the importance and the delicacy of this business. So if taxi-drivers know how important they are, and little by little others realise this as well, we’ll all be better off.”

André Dubreuil Cabbie for 12 years

“It’s not the solution to the real problem, which is that taxi-dri­ vers have to pay too much money to drive their cabs. It’ s not that there is a lack of courtesy. On the contrary, we are more polite than “For information on how to deal with customers, yeah sure, it’s a_ ever before because taxi-drivers have no rights at all and can easily good idea, why not. It’s a very good idea to have drivers who know lose their permits for being impolite. The biggest problems for us are how to talk to customers for better business... it’s an opportunity for the recession and the fact that the Montreal Taxi League is absolute­ ly useless.” drivers.”

Zaher Gaddar Cabbie for 3 years

Franco Romi Cabbie for 4 years “School is not a good idea; I was born with manners. I don’t need lessons. The problem is not courtesy and charm school is not the solution. It’s not manners that are lacking. It’s the clients. It’s in that area that the Taxi League should concentrate its efforts.”

Noel St-Facile Cabbie for 4 years “All this is a good idea. If they offer that to me, I will take it.

But this problem is more serious among the part-time drivers. They don’t respect their passengers. The idea is particularly good, and should be obligatory for all new drivers.”

Robert Paradis Cabbie for 14 months “I’m entirely in favour of the idea. I took some classes [like that] myself... and the cours?; should be obligatory for anybody who drives for a living; not just cabbies, but bus drivers, delivery men, cops, everybody.”

Taxi-drivers who enroll in the charm school will be identifed by a special logo on their vehicles. The passenger will thus have the option of hailing a “charmed” cabbie or not.

With Montreal’s notoriously cold winters, it will be interesting to see whether Montrealers favour a charming cabbie or a warm cab.

January 10 th, 1995

The Short Person’s Burden

It’ s a scientific fact that men and women in North America are getting taller. Even though this change is imperceptible year by year, this aspect of our evolution shouldn’t be ignored, especially by the more vertically-challenged inhabitants. This isn’t about aes­ thetics anymore, it’ s about sur­ vival, at least according to a new book by Thom as T. Sam aras called The Truth About Your Height: Exploring the Myths and Realities of Human Size and Its Effects on Performance, Health, Pollution and Su rvival. And, believe it or not, it’s the tall peo­ ple who are getting the short end of the stick. For every short per­ son in the world, it’ s a time of power.

Samaras’ s point is very sim­ ple. He believes taller, bigger people are environm entally unsound. He says in his book, “Globally, the increasing stature of humans has untold environ­ mental consequences.” Tall peo­ ple consume more energy, use more water, breathe more air, take up more space, and produce more waste. They need bigger utensils, bigger rooms, bigger beds, and bigger seats on air­ planes. In order to maintain the same standard of living as taller people, short people simply need less.

There are also econom ic problem s associated with the presence of tall people. The size adjustment in consumer packag­ ing for larger people means more money, and more plastic. A spe­ cific worry he cites is the disap­

adjusting diets for children (one that wouldn’t mentally impair or physically threaten their health).

Using pygmies as a model he sets the minimum height at around 4 to 4.5 feet, a height that still allows humans to survive fairly well in a fairly inhospitable envi­ ronment.

As a short person, this is a fairly exciting proposition but there are several considerations that must be taken into account.

For example, Sam aras’ s thesis entails an end to all short jokes, a state of affairs that must be anath­ ema to tall people. In addition, for tall people to know they are destroying the world would take an em otional toll on them.

H ordes o f tall people with waspish tempers is something to think about. Should I be under­ standing o f their lapses in civil courtesies or simply enforce a silence on short jokes knowing that I work towards a greater good?

In addition, what is the role o f short people in this under­ ground revolution? Should short people come together as a force to phase out taller people? As tall people threaten the future, I can see the emergence o f a social movement by short people that incorporates education and action on the environmental ills of tall­ ness. The onus would be on short people, a veritable, “ Short Person’ s Burden.”

It’ s a long process. Tall peo­ ple will not easily give up their self-perception as the better, more efficient, more intelligent members of society. One way or another we will be shorter. Oh yes. We will all be shorter.

pearance of one quart containers of milk in favour of half-gallon or one-gallon containers. Tall peo­ ple don’t allow their environment to work at peak efficiency. Think how many more people could fit into a cinema or a plane if one did not have to provide larger legroom or larger seats.

The long and short of it is, bigger people mean bigger prob­ lems. The threat to life as we know it increases in proportion with the increasing stature of individuals of North America.

The theory technically works at the most basic level. The aver­ age height of a North American male is 5’ 8” . The average amount of garbage produced by a human is 1,606 pounds per year. An easy calculation will show that the average m ale produces 23.6 pounds o f garbage per inch.

Using that figure, one will find that sm aller people are more environmentally friendly every single time.

What do we do? Because the “wide-spread conceptions about the benefits of taller stature do not stand the test of scientific investigation,” Samaras wants to switch emotionally and physical­ ly to a world of smaller people.

After all, smaller people produce less garbage, “kill off fewer life form s” (all short people being inherently peace-loving), and consume less resources. What must happen, accordin g to Samaras, is a worldwide revolu­ tion in how we think about size.

P arom ita Shah recently We have to consciously work towards controlling growth by broke the five-foot barrier.

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Excellence in leadership, effort and ability to motivate and involve others will be especially considered. Any student exhibiting such qualities while maintaining academic commitments may be nominated for the receipt of this honour.

Students or persons wishing to nominate a student may pick up application kits at the Students' Society General Office, 3 4 8 0 McTavish Street, Room 105.

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Eating through the hype

By H aim G orodzinsky

bacteria received a disproportion­ ate amount of media coverage.

The Streptococcus A bacteria “Only forty cases [of strepto­ was discovered hundreds of years coccus] a year die in Canada,” ago and has been widely diag­ said Briedis.

Dr. Jack Mendelson, profes­ nosed by the medical community.

However, recent events have sor of medicine and microbiology ignited a media frenzy that many at McGill concurred, adding that doctors feel has spiraled out of the chances of developing lethal control.

Streptococcus A are extremely The discovery that the mus­ rare, less than the odds of dying cle tissu e in B loc Q uébécois in a car accident. leader Lucien Bouchard’ s leg was An exact explanation as to being consumed by streptococcus why certain unfortunate individu­ as a “flesh-eating bacteria” was als develop a more virulent strep­ both astonishing and horrific. In a tococcus has not yet been deter­ matter of hours several television mined. “We have not identified reporters postulated that a nation­ the postulated immunal defect,” al health crisis was emerging, that stated Mendelson. streptococcus was poised to do B ried is explained that in con siderable harm to the these isolated cases an inoculum Canadian population. However, effect occurs. The streptococcus as m edical ex p erts’ opinions actually penetrates muscle tissue came to light, this notion w as. causing a necrotizing fasciitis, a debunked. A ccording to Dr. literal eating away of the affected Dalius Briedis, senior physician flesh. The only way that this in Clinical Infectious Diseases at spread can then be stopped is to the Royal Victoria Hospital, the remove surgically the affected

areas. Therefore Bouchard had to have his leg amputated in order to save his life.

For the other 18 m illion Canadians who contract strepto­ coccus, the bacteria causes strep throat or other minor infections.

In the majority of people the bac­ teria rests in the throat and on the skin, an infection easily treatable with antibiotics. Both Bouchard’s wife and child had traces of strep­ tococcus with no signs of a more virulent or lethal effect.

M endelson was quick to point out that the media exposure that streptococcus A has received will not increase the amount of research being conducted into the bacteria. A s far as both Mendelson and Briedis were con­ cerned, the streptococcus health scare is nothing more than the side effects of an overzealous media preying on the novelty of the condition that robbed Lucien Bouchard of his leg and nearly his life.

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ACTION AEROBICS ADVANCED (High/Low) TUESATHURS

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B a d R e lig io n v e rsu s the tw in k ie s o f the w o rld

By Erika Fuchs Somewhere between the pop sensibilities of Green Day and the Buzzcocks and the true aggressive punk of Rancid and the Sex Pistols lies the music of Bad Religion. You can choose to take this band for the entertainment value of their pound­ ing punk anthems, or you can look deeper into their content, which contains poignant, sarcastic com­ mentaries on society. Their versatil­ ity may contribute to their populari­ ty and status as the godfathers of the newly revived punk movement.

The Tribune talked to Jay Bentley, bassist for the LA-based quintet, and delved into the ideolo­ gies of the band as a whole, as well as some of Jay’ s personal view­ points on fatherhood and the fate of the world.

Jay shed some light on the band’s view of religion. “Religion in itself is a good thing, but, you know, when it gets to the organized point where it’ s a monetary gain, and it’s a way for a lot of people to gain power, I think that’s what we find the worst about it. It’ s not about faith. Faith is a great thing.

It’s just about power. Religion, it doesn’t mean a church-type reli­ gion. A religion to us is an orga­ nized faith in anything, even if it’s just carpeting. ‘We believe in car­ peting.’ You wouldn’t consider that a religion, but maybe there are peo­ ple whose life ambition is to roll up in carpeting and float down Niagara.”

When it was suggested that religion was a metaphoric crutch for some people, Jay responded, “Who the hell am I to say you don’t need that crutch in your life. Who the hell am I to say that it’ s sucking you dry. I’m nobody and I’m not any­ body to tell anybody how to live their life. If they need it, fine. The only part where I start phasing a bit is, ‘Hey, let’s go shoot an abortion doctor, because he’ s killing kids.

I’m a really religious nut. No, I’m not a nut, I’m a saviour.’ You’re

songs were written more collectively, because we were all just sitting around in a garage going ‘ How ‘bout this?

How ‘bout th is?’ The lyrical con­ tent, that came from Brett and Greg, that’ s what really sets us apart from the other bands, because we weren’t up there going ‘Fuck the Nazis, da na ne ne, don’ t go to school, da na ne’ What set us apart was when we weren’t play­ BR with Bentley (far left) an d AWOL Gurewitz (far right). ing music, soapbox and screaming at the gets to be a child and the other 50% we were sitting in chairs like these of me gets to be the grown-up that talking about quantum physics and world.”

Most of Bad Religion’s songs knows why the sky is blue.” The spirituality. Little kids with blonde are on the pessimistic side. Is there father-son relationship should be spiky hair talking about these things. So, that’s kind of how the any hope for society? “The glimmer “ more like two kids in a cave, of hope is that people will wake up exploring and finding out together, band started.” one day and say, ‘God, I’ve been versus just don’t do it because I said For all the relevant political content of their lyrics and their huge shitty my whole life, it’s time to not not to.” • Jay discussed how some peo­ influence on the new wave of punk be shitty anymore.’ Greg has a much more vivid impression of the ple are taught to treat their life as a music, Bad Religion is not about forcing a message down their listen­ demise of mankind, that I under­ never-ending cycle. “By the time stand very well and I agree with it, they’re five years old, they’re pretty ers’ throats. “I won’t go so far as to 90% of it. I could see that happen­ much set in their ways versus some­ say we’re giving a message. We’re an entertainment company. We pro­ ing. It’s not a violent end. It’s just one like me. It took me until I was vide entertainment for people and in like well, mankind is an animal like 28 to realise it’s.not a never-ending that entertainment we happen to anybody else and we’re subject to loop. It’s kind of like this T-16 bil­ share some views about everyday diseases like anything else on the lion length tape that never ever occurrences amongst the five people planet and eventually one disease repeats itself. I can make situations in the band, and if other people hap­ will come along that will kill us all repeat themselves if I so demand it, in minutes. They’re just viruses and but every second is different and pen to be walking by and hear it go ‘Hey, I understand that’, fine. But they like us are living things that new. If I choose to go, I’m planning it’s not meant to be some projected feed off us. So welcome to the food out my week, it’s that never-ending loop and I’m losing out. I’m spend­ megaphone kind of standing on a chain.”

Jay also talked about his son ing the majority of my life worried and fatherhood. “My oldest son is about whether my VCR’ s taping three, so I am seeing things when Roseanne.” Former guitarist/BR I’m with him from a 3 year-old’s founder Brett Gurewitz coined the point of view. When I’m walking term ‘homogenized twinkies’ to down the street I happen to miss describe the legions of unmotivated Anthony Hopkins is a well-to-do ranch­ the horrors of things that he sees and it’ s great, masses that flourish today. For Jay, er and former colonel, as well as the father war. We then because he’s asking why and I’m “They just basically sit around and of an unruly but loving family. He raises his follow the psy­ asking why. That’ s my big kick. use whatever they can and do what­ three sons in the wilds of Montana and chological trials Having a child, it’s a 50/50 experi­ ever they are told to. They’re just strong bonds tie them together. Abandoned of Tristan as he ence for me, because 50% of me sponges.” by their mother who could no longer stand battles inner the wicked winters of Montana, the family voices and his wild spirit, disrupting the magazine, the two hour film embraces all aspects of the human spirit and is faithful in of four and their Indian help live in a very lives of all around him.

One of the more cheesy aspects of the its depiction of the relationships between masculine community. Problems arise when the youngest son (Henry Thomas) returns film is the fact that the story is narrated. The the men. Brad Pitt, Aidan Quinn and Henry from school with his beautiful fiancée voice of an Native American friend o f Thomas give especially accurate portrayals Susannah (Julia Ormond) who wreaks Tristan’s would periodically interrupt the of the different personalities created by dif­ flow of the movie with some wise mytholo­ ferent birth order. havoc on the family order.

I enjoyed this epic Hollywood film.

The story centres around the life of gy or reflection. Unfortunately, these out­ Tristan (Brad Pitt), the favourite son and bursts of chants and folklore seemed some­ Visually breathtaking and well acted the w ildest o f the three. With one look what unnatural and took away from the real­ film appeals to a wide audience. The rela­ Susannah is smitten. Fortunately for the ism and the flow of the movie. A major plus tionship of the three brothers and their family, all three sons immediately enlist and is the cinematography. Sweeping views of father will touch anyone who has ever loved are sent to wage war in Europe. Bloody and the lush country rival even N ational or fought with their own siblings. For the very sentim ental, please bring lots of realistic scenes ensue, sending one’s stom­ Geographic.

Written originally as a short for Esquire Kleenex. ach reeling and gaining a terrific sense of

spanning the globe my friend and getting out there on the fringe of why religion is so convoluted. What used to be something that should have been good, the fact that there’s a higher power that loves you, what a great concept. But suddenly some­ one slips in there, ‘There’s a higher power that loves you if you do the things that I tell you he tells me to tell you to do.’”

Jay defined punk as, “a move­ ment of generally more intellectual types.” But has it been taken to a religious level? “Punkers were gen­ erally the computer nerds of today, surprisingly. People think that punks are these notoriously violent short-haired Doc Marten-wearing thugs, but, in the beginning, it was a bunch of people who saw the world from a different set of glasses than everybody else and that world wasn’t perfect. Punk rock is now a religion for some people and that’s bad. Anybody that thinks there is some organisation to punk rock is incorrect. It’ s not about rules. It’s about doing what you want to do.”

How does Bad Religion fit into the punk definition? “Bad Religion, as a band, if you sat down in a room with Greg Graffin [BR’s vocalist] and myself, we would equate us closer with a folk band than with any punk band in the world. What I get from folk music is there’ s a sharing of ideas. One guy with a guitar or a band talking about every­ day themes and sharing his life with other people that can go ‘Ya, that happened to me too.’ Versus the standard rock ‘n roll quota, which was ‘See our life, something you’ll never attain — Money, girls, drugs, this rock ‘n roll empire.’ Punk was the everyman, where we’re just kids out of the crowd getting up and playing.”

The band was originally a product of California’s repressed suburbs. “The band was just a col­ lection of four guys who were tired of getting beat up everyday after high school, so we hid in Greg’s garage and started a band. The

L egen d s o f the F all's suave storytelling

By C hristina Bo u chard Legends of the Fall is advertised as an epic romance that traces the life of the Ludlow family on their remote ranch in the wilderness of Montana during the late 1800s to the 1960s. Entering the theatre I feared the worst, expecting a full length movie ver­ sion of Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman. I was shocked and entranced by the gripping story that unfolded before me. This is a heartwrenching story (with swelling music and all) which is pulled off better than any film of this sort since Gone with the Wind.

A star-studded cast was another great asset to the film. Anthony Hopkins, Brad Pitt and Aidan Quinn together makes one wonder how big the budget of this film was.

However, the casting director should be pleased as the choice of actors seemed very natural.

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January 10th, 1995

Tricks of the Shade

By H arris N ewman As longtime groundbreakers in the Canadian rap scene, Shades of Culture have been providing Montreal with its daily hip-hop requirements for several years. These Montreal natives have toured their wares incessantly across this fine nation, along with several jaunts through Europe and the States.

While rap shows have now started to win over larger audiences, finding live venues that will give underground groups a chance is difficult. Back in the days when Shades of Culture first start­ ed to get it together, the hip-hop scene was desolate, with opening slots for big tours being the only means of exposure to the masses.

Still, SOC members Revolution, DShade and DJ Storm released a couple of demos, Blunts and the exceptional Keep an Eye Out, and with the help of local luminary DJ Choice, are preparing a CD for early this year.

“Choice has been putting together beats for us because he knows what works with our voices,” said D-Shade about the production arrangement. The band works overtime both in the studio and on stage. Explains D-Shade, “The studio is more work, more technical.

Shows are technical, but in an open, free way. The studio calls for a lot of input, timing and concentration, but onstage it’ s all output, the timing is automatic.”

Their live show is a blend of thick DAT tracks complimented by DJ Storm’ s turntable wizardry, which he

occasionally trades for a drum kit to supply some bare bones freestyle seg­ ments.

“Freestyle’s great, it’s a good spot check. It all depends on the group’ s groove at the time,” he said.

The future should hold some instrumentals which SOC hope to press into vinyl to allow for live mix flexibili­ ty. Their mix of live drums and pre­ mixed tape straddles the fine line between conventional hip-hoppers and crossover groups, reminiscent of every­ one from the Urban Dance Squad to the Goats. Live players have mixed advan­ tages and disadvantages. “There’s some musicians who can sound like they’re coming right off a beatbox,” said DShade.

Strangest of all might be the odd bedfellows SOC dig up. They’ve toured Europe with western Canadian punk legends SNFU, made several runs around Canada with D.C. hardcore innovators the Bad Brains, done addi­ tional Canadian touring by themselves and with Toronto pop-punks Trigger Happy, and a bunch of recent shows

with NOFX. Why all the punk rock fetishism?

“The Bad Brains were the link between all the groups (on the Bad Brain/SOC/Trigger Happy tour.) They do everything from hardcore to reggae, and it all works out,” said D-Shade.

“And at the NOFX shows, there were 2,500 kids there, and a mosh pit going on from the first note.”

Shades of Culture’s high energy live show demonstrates the connec­ tion’s logic. They’ve also done various gigs with hip-hop kingpins like Ice-T, KRS-One, Leaders of the New School, the Pharcyde, Onyx and House of Pain.

While in preparation for an upcoming tour of France, SOC are doing their usual regimen of benefit shows and club gigs, including a possi­ ble show on these very premises. You can next track down Shades of Culture at the much abused and now all-ages venue Foufounes Electriques on January 27, along with Montreal alternarockers Slaves On Dope and Toronto’ s own 100,000 dollar pop Photo Caption moguls hHead.

Why 1994 Didn’t Totally Suck

By Studs Kirby______________ According to the entertain­ ment press, 1994 just wasn’t a year worth remembering. When our ancestors in the next millen­ nia refer to the calvacade of cul­

tural records which document the history of music (no doubt our ancestors will have to keep abreast of these things for the benefit of ‘90s revivals), 1994 will be a small blemish on the face of rock ‘n roll. The year

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may be remembered only for the onslaught of four chord punk won­ ders that met us, and the many tal­ ents that left us, most of them untimely. Jazz innovator Sonny Sharrock’ s time ended before it properly began. Fred ‘ So n ic’ Smith died before he could witness the second generation of the punk he pioneered with the MC5 travel full circle. Revolutionary neocoun­ try guitarist Danny Gatton killed himself at age 49 before the rest of the world could catch up. Former Janitor Joe and Hole b assist Kristen Pfaff O.D.’ d on heroin, thereby indirectly securing Montreal’ s claim to fame in the legacy of grunge, and some guy named Kurt shot himself up good too.

But 1994 didn’t totally suck.

We swear. For all the slagged rehash releases and recycled great­ est hits packages, there were some good records too. The Tribune would like to recommend some of the finer products of the past year that you may have overlooked while scanning Rolling Stone in Sadies.

C h arlie H ad en ’ s Montreal Tapes, a performance recorded at the 1979 Montreal jazz festival, released last year, is rife with the sublime bass mastery that Charlie Haden is known for. With the exceptional accompaniment of Don Cherry on pocket trumpet and Ed Blackwell on traps, the record swings with the manic, brilliant harmolodic vibe that they mined with Ornette Coleman. P a t M etheny’ s Zero Tolerance For Silence is an absolute shock from the master of slinky post-bebop guitar. On Zero Tolerance he sounds like a Berklee-bred off­ spring of Sonic Youth guitar-stran­ gler Thurston Moore on a whole lot of pharmaceuticals. Within the sheets of white noise, a certain zen-like logic emerges. Or some­

thing. Don Byron’s ‘94 offering, Don Byron Plays The Music Of Mickey Katz further continued the clarinettists foray into the cold rock sounds of the Ashkenaz, establishing himself as the chief klezmer mack.

M C S o la a r succeeded in communicating with the hip hop masses a lot better than most of ‘94s wack MCs, not a bad feat since his rhymes are all French.

One of the few non-Anglais artists to make a dent in the North American music world, Solaar makes himself heard through the universal language of hip hop rep­ resenting. G L o v e ’ s self titled debut clouds the lines between jazz, blues and hip hop. This oftacoustic trio kick it on the delta tip, and has been known to please baseball capped Thursday nite clubbers and hardcore groove types alike. The Wu-Tang Clan’ s Method M an is the first to dish out the imminent hordes of WuTang solo offshoots. This is more of the same from the group that knocked the hip-hop world on its ass in ‘94. Sparse and groovy sam­ ples, killa bee swarming, slick tongue twisting, the Wu-Tang look ready to reign for generations to come.

Portastatic’s i hope that your heart does not grow brittle gives Superchunk fans reason to cele­ brate, after several uneven records.

Lead Chunker Mac chills out with a guitar and a casio keyboard, pro­ ducing the best ‘ridiculously selfindulgent but somehow cool’ tor­ mented tunes of the year. The Jon S p e n ce r

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Jean-François Cantin’s Le rêve d’une ombre

By Barbara Mac D ougall_______ Hands up those of you who have never daydreamed watching shadows dance across a wall, or been fascinated and delighted by the animated shapes on a wall made by a dexterous dad with his hands? Welcome to Le Rêve d’une Ombre, an intellectually challeng­ ing cinematographic installation by Quebec-born artist Jean-François Cantin, currently on view at the Museum of Contemporary Art until January 29.

Cantin was born in Montréal in 1958 and since his graduation from the École des Beaux Arts in 1977 has exhibited regularly across Canada, in the U.S. and Europe.

Originally, his primary interest was in video and in performance art, but lately, Cantin has turned to light as the medium of his work.

For those of us with little com­ mand of French, “ rêve” means dream, idle fancy, illusion. (The verb “rêvasser” means to dream, to muse; “rêvasserie” are unconnect­ ed, broken dreams; musing; and a “rêvasseur” is a dreamer, a muser.)

“Ombre” can mean shade, shadow, spirit, background or gloom.

In this show, the cinematic aspect derives from the use of a screen, a light source and lenses.

And what is cinema but cast shad­ ows, broken dreams?

The entire installation extends and plays on notions of light, dream, shadow, drawing the viewer into deeper levels of meaning, to actively participate, invoke and probe the nuances.

The actual translation of the title is “The Shadow’ s Dream” , from a line by the Greek poet Pindar. Given Cantin’s concerns, the large grotto of the installation invokes Plato’s famous allegory of the cave. Thus G illes Godmer writes in the installation mono­ graph” ...the images create illu­

sions. And illusions have always had real power over people. In the cinema, they make them laugh or move them. In this installation, they seem to recall the notion of vanitas, borrowing from an earlier pictorial genre that emphasized the fragile and fleeting nature of humanity and all things worldly.

The image chosen by Cantin almost has the power of an arche­ type. Lurking just beneath the dra­ matic shadow of a stark and windtossed branch is, symbolically, the human condition, a condition of solitude, ephemerality, desolation and death.”

In a large room hung floor to ceiling with heavy black velvet drapes and where dark carpet muf­ fles any sound, we are invited to watch the cast shadow of a moving tree branch projected onto a wall sized white screen. Simple? Yes. Boring? No. Limited, regulated, repetitive movement is caused by an oscillat­ ing fan, ironically a jerky intrusion, squeaking like branches rubbing in the wind in the forest. What was formerly, wild, natural, uncon­ trolled and hypnotic, in the gallery is regularized and equally hypnotic.

The branch is leafless, rivetted into and projecting horizontally fron a metal tube which is itself suspended from a fixture in the ceiling. A brass counter-weight suspended from the other end of the tube acts to proscribe and regu­ larize the tossing of the branch in the breeze caused by the fan.

A light source at one side on the ceiling projects the branch’s moving shadow onto a huge white screen. Because of the distance between the light source, the branch and the screen and because of its angle the resulting soft focus image forms a single shadow on the right, graduating to a doubled shadow in even softer focus on the left.

It turns out that there are two entrances to the exhibition space.

The entry point chosen determines which part of the installation will be the primary focus.

Focus, the lack thereof, and ambiguity are themes in the exhibition.

Meaning is derived from what goes before, enhanced or negated by subsequent discoveries.

On the wall opposite the screen are six glass shelves, each with ten pairs o f spectacles spaced unequally along the length. They “face” the white wall and are equidistant from it. On closer examination it is found that each pair of glasses has only one, convex, lens which acts to project a focused and exact, though inverted image of the branch now at our back.

Other gallery patrons’ images are also reflected by the glass and at the same time their distorted images are projected onto the wall.

By a peculiarity inherent in the lenses that can be seen by standing directly in front of a lens, one’s own image is twice mirrored, inverted and reflected back to us, but appearing as if at a great dis­ tance. The stark black silhouette illuminated in a bright white rec­ tangle prompts a reflection on descriptions of near-death experi­ ence: a bright light at the end of a long black corridor with someone there to greet us. Here, it is our own image we see.

In a small anteroom at one entry point is a wooden table with a Mac computer on it. On the screen is a blue graphic, a multiple image of a pair of glasses with the title “Le Temps du Flou” superimposed. (“Flou” means, in painting, soft­

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ness; delicacy o f touch; hazy, blurred). Painting in light and sound on a bright blue ground, Cantin presents us with a repeti­ tious and percussive musical scale overlain with an almost chirping sound, that permeates the other rooms in the gallery, though not the exhibit itself. The volume rises and falls with apparent regularity, as

does a highlight on a lens. The light and the sound are not quite in sync however, and after a while, one begins to doubt the image on the screen. Has it changed in some insignificant way? Whether it has or not, like the inhabitants of Plato’s Cave, we are convinced it must have.

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baby” or “I am a rounder, like to round around”).

Nonetheless, you aren’t selling out if you pick up this one. A must for all Crowes The Black Crowes

fans.

— Emma Rhodes

amorica. (AmericanAVamer) Black Crowes fans, fear not. Their latest release, amorica., rocks. Hard. Despite the con­ troversy surrounding the original cover (before the unavailing ban by our proud Canadian authorities, the triangular flag was the bikini of a woman with peek-a-boo pubic hair), the music itself is marked with sophistication galore. Eddie Harsch’s keyboard playing has never been better (check out ‘Descending’ , a 90s version of ‘She Talks to Angels’), the stillemaciated Chris Robinson funks it up a bit (proof lies in ‘High Head Blues’), and the gui­ tar playing is, well, better. Don’t look for prophetic lyrics in this one, however (“blind naked scared / want you to bum me, bum me

most innovative packaging since the CD revo­ lution. But, this is about music, not aesthetics.

From the firebrand start of ‘Last Exit’ through the muddled ‘Heyfoxymophandlemama’, this record challenges Pearl Jam’s fans to re-evaluate the biggest band of the 1990s. Stripping away layers of production and much of singer Eddie Vedder’s dependence on his considerable vocal chords, Pearl Jam get softer and rougher, producing gem after gem, notably ‘Better Man’ ‘Not For You’, and ‘Satan’s Bed’. But the best

background and the Bad Brains cover make one wary of Jiow to take this. The experimen­ tal touches mostly succeed, and Frusciante proves his talent was perhaps hindered by the Red Hot Chili Peppers modus operandi. I’ve been expecting to get bored or exceedingly annoyed with this album, but it just refuses to happen.

— Harris Newman

Paris

Palace Songs

Guerrilla Funk (Priority/Virgin)

Hope (Drag City/Cargo)

Paris is but another chapter in the west coast poetic ode to the genius of George Clinton. This particular batch of.G-Funk relies on plenty of buzzy keyboard bass, female backup choruses, and Paris’s so-low rhyming.

Paris owes Dr. Dre a pretty hefty chronic sack for the borrowed voice and his lyrical tricks.

The radio-friendly version had enough edited blanks to lessen the full impact of songs like ‘40 Ounces and a Fool’ and ‘Back in the Days’, but you’ve heard worse. Kudos for the music, which appears to be more performed than sampled, but the ideas still don’t delve into shockingly original territory. The beats lack smoothness, but provide enough bounce and grind to make Paris’ latest effort worth a listen.

—Harris Newman

Will Oldham sings like a gunfighter with sixteen bullets in his back, about to die, but still able to utter those last few words. He is the sullen performer behind an up-tempo live act, and an indie-rock celebrity fdled studio ensem­ ble. In this latest instalment of Palace Songs, entitled Hope , Oldham moves away from the lo-fi passionate, melodic, introspective country ballads of his first two records, delving into a more digestible emphasis on production with a larger backing band. The scene shifts from a secluded room in Louisville with an acoustic guitar to a twenty-four track studio with sound proof walls. Instead of lonely bursts of muffled sincere affliction, Oldham interacts more with the band and consciously adheres to preor­ dained rhythms. Without trying to sound like anything, Palace Songs carves its own niche into the post-Louisville noisemakers, and heads towards a new kind of dishevelled order in its songs.

— Jonah Brucker-Cohen

Pearl Jam

Vitalogy (Epic) After cancelling their summer tour, Pearl Jam kept their fans’ attention by promising a new album before the new year. In the age of mega-groups taking years to produce mediocre works, Vitalogy followed only fourteen months on the heels of the bestseller Vs. Following in the stead of the pre-released single ‘Spin The Black Circle’, the band’s high-octane lament of the death of vinyl, Vitalogy features some of the

moment is clearly the rocker ‘Corduroy’ , as good a Pearl Jam song as they’ve yet released.

But skip over the Vedder-on-accordion rant ‘Bugs’. Very odd, indeed.

— Michael Broadhurst John Frusciante

Niandra Lades and Usually Just a T-Shirt (American/Wamer)

A quick warning: do not by this album strictly because of Frusciante’s two album stint with the Red Hot Chili Peppers. While it is clear by this album what Frusciante’s contribu­ tions were to the Chili Peppers, especially on Land o f tbe Free?

Blood Sugar Sex Magik, this is a fairly radical change in direction. Done in the com­ forts of his own home to 4track, seemingly in the mid­ F e e P ayment D ea d lin e : W ed ., J anuary 1 8 t h , 1 9 9 5 dle of him kicking his long­ (L ate Payment Fee applies after this date * ) time heroin addiction, D ate L imite de règlem ent d es droits de s c o la r it é : Niandra Lades and Usually LE M E R C R E D I 1 8 JA N V IE R 1 9 9 5 Just a T-Shirt (alternately ( passée cette date, les retardataires seront pénalisés * ) titled To Clara) is one sor­ W e M A IL TO YO U R C U R R E N T M A IL IN G A D D R E S S ONLY, P L E A S E U P D A T E ! rowful solo project.

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Gastr Del Sol

Mirror Repair (Drag City/Cargo) Whenever new fast, heavy, tight, and noisy indie bands get compared to groups from the past, the usual references start with the let­ ter “B” (Bastro, Bitch Magnet, Breadwinner) and they usually find a pigeon hole on the map somewhere around the mideastern United States. David Grubbs, the fronting guitarist for the now defunct Bastro, who also experimented with acoustics, has since parted from the noisy mischief and adolescent harshness of his past, and begun a new project with a redefinition of sparseness. Instead of pulling wave after wave of feedback from his humbuckers, Grubbs has switched to a much more biographical instru­ ment: the piano. His third major release, Mirror Repair, produced by engineering wiz Steve Albini, blends some of his fierce guitar with piano and soft spoken vocals written innocently enough to make it an involved listen. Definitely a worthy purchase.

— Jonah Brucker-Cohen Blast Off Country Style

Rainbow Mayonnaise Deluxe (Teenbeat) I bought the first Blast Off Country Style seven inch to win a bet with a friend of mine that our local independent record store was the coolest one in town. I didn’t know anything about the band, had never seen them play, and had never heard them. When I first played the record I was expecting country tunes in that ever so deliberate Dolly Parton kind-of-way.

Instead of disappointment, I found one of the most energetic, lively records I had heard in a long time. BOCS blend cutesy, simplistic, kindergarten music, with a happy vocal style and 50’ s beach party excitement. Rainbow Mayonnaise Deluxe , their first fulllength record, proceeds a slew of seven inch singles, and a nationwide splash into the kiddie band revolution.

On stage they dress up in cheerleader outfits and cowboy suits and they mean business. With songs like “Toughluck, Trashcan!” and “Where the Geeks Are” , BOCS make the grade with simple songwriting that makes even the sharpest critic smile.

Their singer Evelyn Hurley’s day job at Wal-Mart adds up to a lot of cre­ ative hours for the band as well.

— Jonah Brucker-Cohen

Martlet basketball drops three games at home over weekend

By D ana T oering When it was all over, the Martlets were “0-for.” That would be 0-3 in the 16th annual GazetteMartlet Invitational Tournament at the Currie Gym on the weekend.

There would be no three-peat for the host team who has won the title for the past two years, only a big goose egg in their win column.

Conversely, the only goose egg that cross-town rivals Concordia posted was in the loss column as they fin­ ished the weekend with a perfect record.

The Stingers ran away with the championship after winning three im pressive and solid victories against McGill and the other two participants, Dalhousie and Queen’s universities. Dalhousie and McGill were ranked eighth and ninth respectively in the national poll going into the end-of-holiday tour­ ney, but after the upsets by the Stingers, there is likely to be a shakeup in the ranking.

McGill opened up the tourna­ ment on Friday night against the

Queen’s Golden Gaels, but there was little enthusiasm from the home team as they went on to lose to the younger and less experienced team from Kingston by a score of 62-56. McGill came out flat in its first match of the New Year, trail­ ing at halftime 33-24.

Coming out flat is a recurrent theme for the Martlets as they have experienced much trouble with con­ sistency since the beginning of their season. The Martlet roster has the talent to compete with the best teams in the country, but, as was evident all weekend, they come up short when they have to put it all together.

In speaking with the Gazette, first-year head coach Lisen Moore said that overall the team was “pleased” with the effort given and the improvement between the games leading up to the final matchup against Concordia, but the players did not appear so pleased after the final minutes had ticked off the clock. McGill even appeared somewhat frazzled when three start­ ing players fouled out of the con-

stest and substitutions had to be made.

Concordia, on the other hand, remained calm and composed throughout the hard-fought contest against the Martlets and demon­ strated why they deserved to win the title, forcing McGill off their game and capitalising on their opponents’ mistakes to win 57-51.

The Martlets split top scoring honours between veterans Vicky Tessier and Josée Deloretto against Concordia, Deloretto hitting four consecutive three-point baskets in the first half. Stinger top point-get­ ters were tournament MVP Sharon Sandy, who finished with 10 points, and Patricia Demers, who amassed 12 points in the winning cause.

Prior to the Sunday afternoon Montreal-matchup, the Martlets encountered the Dalhousie Tigers in hopes of an upset over the eighthranked team in the country. Again, McGill found itself flat-footed and unable to put points on the board throughout the entire first half, trail­ ing at the intermission 32-18. The Martlets could not complete a

McGill an early success in the track season

By Iordana Berger_____________ The Redmen track and field team began the new year by burn­ ing up the tarp at Dartmouth University in Hanover, New Hampshire last weekend. McGill met teams from across North America and competed in over 45 events.

Despite the fact that this meet was early on in the season and most

of the athletes are not yet in peak condition, the McGill team was still able to place in respectable standing in the majority of the races.

In the men’s 4x400 relay race, the Redmen beat the national stan­ dard by two seconds to place sec­ ond behind their hosts at Dartmouth with a time of 3.23.3.

“We were neck in neck with both Dartmouth and Sherbrooke and the lead exchanged hands many

times. It was a really exciting race and we eventually pulled ahead of Sherbrooke to come in second,” commented Charles Thomas, who is both assistant coach and a team member.

The team established the fastest standard for any McGill relay team through the efforts of Thomas, Pumulo Sikaneta, Ravind Grewal and Gerry Zavorsky.

Jean Nicolas Duval surpassed

Athletics complex...

Continued from Page 1 The McGill Fieldhouse is a state-of-the-art facility which is designed to absorb the increased participation in the intramural, recreational, instructive and inter­ collegiate programs which have proliferated at the university in recent years. Contrary to the exam­ ple set by other universities, the improvements are aimed at benefit­ ing the average student, not neces­ sarily the varsity athletes, even though the developments will pro­ vide McGill with a higher profile on the national sports front in terms of innovation.

McGill boasts over 700 intra­ mural sports teams and at least 55 instructional athletics and fitness programs in which 70 percent of the student body takes part. The Currie Gym was built to serve 4,500 stu­ dents in 1940, but with a full-time student population of over 20,000, it could no longer satisfy the needs of the university community.

Construction of Phase I began in 1991, resulting in the completion of the Memorial Swimming Pool and the Sports Science Centre by April, 1992. The pool is used for team training, instructional classes and recreation every day of the

week and the Centre focuses its research on fitness and perfor­ mance. For example, the Montreal Canadiens were in-house for pre­ season evaluation soon after the Centre’s establishment. The adjoin­ ing Sport Medicine Clinic offers athletic therapy and diagnosis of injuries to McGill students and staff.

The Weider Varsity Weight Room opened in 1993, providing McGill’ s intercollegiate athletes with top-quality equipment in a non-crowded environment and rep­ resents the final initiative of Phase I.

Phase II, the Fieldhouse on the East side of the gym, boasts a sixlane 200-metre indoor track sur­ rounding four courts which can be adapted to basketball, volleyball and tennis. The bleachers seat 550 spectators, but the facility will be able to hold an additional 2,000 people during special events. The administration hopes that this will draw both national and international sports events to the city of Montreal in the future.

Phase III plans include new locker rooms for both men and women, new and improved squash and racquetball courts, a Competition Hall seating 100 fans,

a 4,200 square-foot fitness room, a soundproof dance studio, a combat­ ives room, a gymnastics room, and two multi-purpose areas.

The facilities are open! They belong to the staff, the faculty, and the students and there is an energy within which welcomes even the “just-looking” passers-by. The administration encourages the entire McGill community to take advan­ tage of the amenities thereby paying tribute to the eighty-nine trees that were sacrificed for the cause.

As Montrealers continue to look upon the construction of the new Forum with bated breath, the McGill example should serve as reassurance against any doubts regarding the endeavor. Tradition and history do not collapse with the old structures — they are the foun­ dation upon which new ones are built. New structures generate new energy and enthusiasm which in turn propel the creation of new his­ tories, memories and moments in sports. McGill has embarked on an era of dynamism — a new history is unfolding. Let us hope that the semi-finished site south of the city can generate the same kind of activ­ ity and symbolise a new beginning in the hockey community by fol­ lowing McGill’s lead.

comeback attempt however, los­ ing by a slim margin by a final score of 52-50.

In other games, Concordia posted a perfect tournament record with a 73-55 win over Dalhousie in its opening match, and then followed up with a solid 66-53 victory over the Golden Gaels on Saturday. The Dal Tigers were victors over Queen’s on Sunday, finishing second in the tourney with the 56-43 victory. Queen’s pulled up in third place and the Martlets rounded out the bottom of the barrel, coming in dead last.

Tournament all-stars includ­ ed McGill’s Vicky Tessier, who put in a 20-point performance in Friday night’s loss en route to being the Martlets top scorer in The talk was plenty, but the basket all three of their games; Carolyn remained empty Wares and Jennifer Clark from spots in time for upcoming games Dalhousie; Cathy Amara from against the first-place Laval Rouge Queen’ s; and the Stingers’ Eva et Or in Ste-Foy on Friday and Samore. another tough matchup against the After such a poor performance streaking Stingers at the Currie over the weekend, the Martlets bet­ Gym on Saturday night. Tip-off is ter hope to polish up the rough at 6 p.m.______________________ the national standard as he placed third in the 3000m race with a time of 8.43.78. In a very tough race, Linda Thyer placed second in the women’ s mile with a time of 5.00.93, which was also under the national standard. Both Thyer and Duval qualified for the nationals with their impressive finishes.

Thomas won first place in the men’ s 800m in a time of 1.56.25 and the Redmen relay team com­ prising of Zavorsky, Hutchison, Tom Greenberg and anchor Peter Madden placed second in the men’s 4x800 relay race. Thyer, Andrea Taylor, Rosie Mullins and Melanie Bassett finished second in the women’ s distance medley relay while the women’s squad finished third in the 4x400 race.

Ravind Grewal ran an impres­ sive 400 metre race and pleasantly

surprised assistant coach Thomas.

“He had been injured all of last season and re-injured his ankle in the fall, but he was in great shape for this meet and ran a really tough race beating the second place run­ ner by a full 2 1/2 seconds,” com­ mented Thomas.

Grewal came in fifth overall but won his heat in an impressive 50.56 seconds being helped along by the track which was very slow and flat.

It appears that this season will continue to be a successful one for the McGill track and field team.

The runners have an immense amount of natural talent, speed and agility.

The next meet for M cGill’ s track and field team will be on January 14th when they compete at York University.

Redmen Hockey Irks the Queen

By Mark Luz and Ioe W ong_____ “Hear ye. Hear ye, the Colonial Revenge Series” Coming off of a two game win streak over Brock and York prior to the Christmas break under new head coaches Martin Raymond and Jamie Kompon, the Redmen packed their bags and headed across the big pond to the land of orange marmalade and toast just a couple of weeks ago. The Redmen were en route to playing a seven game whirlwind series against some of Great Britain’ s premiere hockey teams but, due to budget cut­ backs, these two reporters were forced to spend the holidays with the family units while Earl the Pearl was the only media representative lucky enough to board the overseas plane.

The scoop was obtained despite the minor setback from Paul Romanuk and the TSN crew.

Match 1 December 28

Redmen 12. Humberside Hawks, 4.

Redmen Todd Marcellus exploded in the first period, potting

five goals and one assist en route to breaking a McGill point record set in 1949. After period one, McGill led eight to nil.

Scoring for the Redmen were rookie sensation Pierre Gendron with two goals and four assists and Martin Routhier with two of his own.

Rounding out the McGill scoring spree were singles by Kelly Nobes, Luc Fournier and Benoit Leroux.

Robert Bourbeau was magnifi­ cently splendid in goal, facing 42 shots and turning away 38. The Man of the Match, however, would remain Marcellus who was honoured for his record-breaking performance.

The Redmen sent a strong message to the hosting British teams: “Having a jolly good time, but you chaps should stick to cricket and darts.”

Match 2 December 29

Redmen 8 Peterborough Pirates 7 Coming off a strong (perhaps too easy) win the night before, the Redmen had more trouble with the Premiere Division Pirates.

After falling behind 4-1 by the See Hockey Page 18

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Redmen 3 Great Britain Selects 11

Continued from Page 17 end of period number two, strong scoring prowess was ignited by Kelly Nobes’ s two goals and four assists and rookie sensation Pierre Gendron’s two scores. Two more goals in the last ten minutes of the final period tied the game and then marked the narrow winner.

Regular season goaltending starter Patrick Jeanson travelled with the team but did not dress, leaving the job between the pipes for the platooning Richard Boscher and Robert Bourbeau. Boscher started the sec­ ond match but quickly let in two goals off 11 shots and pulled himself out of the game because of stomach flu. We suspect he ate some bad Haggis which, combined with a breakfast of sardines and orange marmalade on toast, could make any Canadian feel absolutely knackered.

The Great Britain Selects, who will be representing Great Britain at the World Hockey Championships, gave us a good licking. After outshooting McGill 41-27, the exhausted Redmen simply succumbed to the Selects. Scoring for the Redmen were Kelly Nobes, Mark Shewfelt and Stéphane Angers with one goal each.

Match 4 January 2

Redmen 2 Fief Flyers 9.

After a great New Year’s Eve of sightseeing and cribbage, the boys in Red started the year with a sluggish loss. Richard Boscher started the game between the pipes but, obvi­ ously still feeling the effects of the Haggis, let in five goals on 11 shots, and was replaced by Bourbeau who also watched four go by on 20 shots.

Scoring for McGill were Boucher and Dave Vecchio with one each.

Match 5 January 4

Redmen 4 Paisley Pirates 8.

All we can say is: the Redmen lost to a team from a town called Paisley who had a Russian who scored four goals in an arena called the Lagoon Leisure Centre. Needless to say more except, poppycock.

Match 6 January 5

Redmen, 5 Durham ‘Wasps’ (no joke, that’s their real name) 3.

Lovely! Smashing! Mag­ nificent! Bring on the Guinness! The boys in Red finally break their losing streak by exploding with a five-goal lead after the first twenty minutes.

Nobes, rookie sensation Gendron, Luc Latullipe, and Boucher all pot­ ted singles for the Redmen.

Goalie Boscher put on a jolly good show as he faced 28 shots, let­ ting in a meagre three goals. With this performance, Boscher was named the Man of the Match and won a date with Princess Diana.

first duel, the Redmen came out strong, highlighting scoring touch and penalty-killing skill.

After one period, both teams were deadlocked at ‘love-love’ .

After twenty more minutes of tan­ gling with men wearing powdered wigs and knickers, the score remained at 3-3.

In the last fourteen minutes of the match, the Redmen were put to the test. Guy Boucher, already with two assists, potted the tiebreaker at 11:40, and alas, Marcellus got the

Match 7 January 6

Redmen 6. Great Britain Selects 4.

After a humiliating loss in their

Pronovost resigns after seven seasons B y Kashif Z ahoor

Jean Pronovost, M cG ill’ s hockey head coach, unexpectedly resigned from the team November 29 after seven years with the Redmen. Almost as quick as the resignation, speculation arose that Pronovost stepped down because he was disappointed with the team’s performance.

Due to third period lapses, McGill allowed teams that they had dominated for the first two periods to come back and win.

Some felt that M cG ill’ s embarrassing loss to the Concordia Stingers at home a week earlier was the last straw for Pronovost. In that game McGill blew three goal leads on two occasions, and care­ lessly let the game slip away. After the game, Pronovost left a message on the door of the Redmen locker room. It read: “You should be very disappointed with yourselves.”

Provonost denied that the team’s lackluster performance in recent weeks carried any weight in

his decision to leave McGill.

In hopes of returning to the NHL as a coach someday, Pronovost felt that it was time to move on. “ I don’t think team perfor­ mance had anything to do with my decision. I think it is an opportunity in my career plan to go to a junior team, which is a stepping stone to bigger and better things,” he said.

Pronovost is no stranger to the NHL. He played in the NHL for 14 years, with three different teams. In his ten seasons with Pittsburgh, Pronovost was the Penguins alltime leading scorer until Mario Lemieux came along and took that honour away in the 1989-1990 sea­ son. Pronovost’ s remaining four years were played with the then Atlanta Flames and the Washington Capitals. He racked up 391 goals and 383 assists in his career. In 1992, he was inducted into the Penguin hall of fame.

In his six plus seasons with the Redmen, Pronovost was just five wins short of the McGill overall

coaching record of 127 wins set by former head coach Ken Tyler. He finished with a 122-101-17 mark.

In McGill’s 118-year hockey history, Provonost becomes only the second coach to leave mid-sea­ son. The only other coach to do so was in the 1972-1973 campaign when Dave Dies left the Redmen.

McGill’s director of athletics, Robert Dubeau, was not impressed with Pronovost’s timing.

“I’m exteremely surprised and

insurance goal late in the game to secure the victory and the series win.

After all was said and done, Marcellus was named the ‘Man of the Series’ . Marcellus had a total eight goals and seven assist in 7 games. The McGill Redmen, taking the British series four games to three, thank their hosts and wish to invite them to Canada to play hockey and eat poutine at any time.

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possibility of coaching the Cataractes had been brewing since late October. After nearly a month he finally met with the Shawinigan organization on November 25, and was given an offer as the head coach the following day.

Former McGill players and assistant coaches, Martin Raymond and Jamie Kompon were named interim coaches immediately fol­ lowing Pronovost’ s departure.

After guiding McGill to two wins

over York and Brock in the follow­ ing week, Dubeau appointed Raymond and Kompon as perma­ nent coaches for the remainder of the year. “ Jam ie will handle the defencemen while Martin will be responsible for the forwards,” noted Dubeau.

Raymond, 27, a former AllCanadian centre, graduated from M cGill in 1992, and left the Redmen second overall in scoring

with 253 points, and McGill’s alltime assist leader (144). He played pro hockey briefly in Germany and returned to Montreal where he served as an assistant coach for the Redmen for the past two years.

Kompon played as a defencemen with the Red and White from 1985-1989. In his four years with the Redmen, Kompon notched 62 points in 140 gam es. He also played pro hockey in Germany and skated with Cincinnati of the East

Coast Hockey League. Since then Kompon has taught and coached at Loyola High School in Montreal.

In their month as co-head coaches, Kompon and Raymond have lead the Redmen to a 6-3 record (2-0 in league play). In spite of McGill’s new found success, the Redmen are still cellar dwellars in the OUAA’s Far-East Division, 10 points behind unbeaten first place Trois Rivières with 12 games left in the season.

Tuesday, January 10 Liberal McGill will be holding a forum on the proposed social reforms to edu­ cation. 4:00 to 6:00 PM in the Shatner Building Ballroom Walksafe Network general meeting at 6 PM, Leacock 26. All returning and new volunteers must attend. 398-2498 Wednesday, January 11 Discussion on the Quebec Government’s Draft Bill - An Act Respecting the Sovereignty of Quebec.

First in a weekly series of discussions organised by the McGill Renewal Club as part of the Canada-Wide campaign for a modem constitution and democ­ ratic renewal. Everyone welcome. 5-6 PM, Shatner 435. Phone 522-4816 Friday, January 13 McGill students and alumni are invited to judge the McGill Worlds Invitational Debating Tournament. NO PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE NECES­ SARY, judging seminars will be given the day of the tournament. For more information call the debating union at 398-6824.

McGill Faculty Members and Guests in concert. Les vents de Montréal.

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by Farkas, Uhl, d’Indy, Prinz and Srebotnjak. 8 PM, Redpath Hall.

Saturday, January 14 McGill students and alumni are invited to judge the McGill Worlds Invitational Debating Tournament. NO PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE NECES­ SARY, judging seminars will be given the day of the tournament. For more information call the debating union at 398-6824.

Sunday, January 15 McGill Faculty members in concert.

First of seven concerts presenting Beethoven’s thirty-two piano sonatas.

Paul Helmer, piano. Sonatas Opus 2, Opus 7, and Opus 49. 3:00 PM, Redpath Hall.

Monday, January 16 The Classical Music Club will meet tonight at 7 PM in the Strathcona music Building, Rm C-204. All are welcome!

McGill Faculty members in concert.

Les Sonneurs. Holiday music from Seventeenth Century Spain and Mexico. 8 PM, Redpath Hall.

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