The McGill Tribune Vol. 14 Issue 17

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January 31st, 1995

News The Red Herring gets political...kinda.

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Local leaders comment on Parizeau’s referendum question. Squirrely Scotsmen play the pipes.

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Editorial IGLC display at Gerts was no laughing matter.

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ENTERTAINMENT Rubber duckies and phone dildos-the Tribune interviews stand-up com­ edy master Carrot Top. See Page 12

SPORTS The supporting cast. A look at the unsung heroes in McGill sports.

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“eye lem t tu spEl at Akswurthi U”: Is there a prize fo r best slogan?

M a s s p ro te s t b y C a n a d ia n s tu d e n ts

By Sara J ean G reen a n d R o n Levy_______________

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Mass demonstrations were held throughout Canada last Wednesday in an attempt to influ­ ence impending reforms to the fed­ eral social welfare system. McGill students joined the Montreal protest that attracted several thou­ sand people in a peaceful march through the downtown core.

The Canadian Federation of Students announced in November their intention to hold a national day of action on January 25. Since McGill is not a member of CFS, an independent group of students was responsible for the mobilisation of students on campus. The collec­ tive, known as Students for Social Justice, in conjuction with mem­ bers from the Post-Graduate

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McGill students assembled at the Roddick Gates before joining other Montreal students in a demonstration that began at Complexe Guy-Favreau and pro­ gressed eastward along Sherbrooke Street. Students proceeded to Berri Square where speakers addressing the crowd denounced the Axworthy proposals. M ichael Temelini, a McGill graduate stu­ dent and member of the CFS national executive, attacked the federal government’ s proposed social reforms.

“We did everything to tell Lloyd Axworthy what our position was. We w ill not accept his pro­ posals...the honeymoon is over,”

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Temelini said. “The wealthy and the corporations are getting an easy ride [and] the poor must pay...As long as one and a half million peo­ ple are unemployed, we’ll say no to cuts to social programs.”

Last October, Axworthy intro­ duced his plan to cut 2.6 billion dollars in federal tranfer payments to the provincial ministries of edu­ cation. The transfer payments would be replaced with a loan pro­ gram in which students would repay loans to the federal govern­ ment based on income after gradu­ ation. Many students are concerned with estimated 200-400 per cent increases in tuition fees.

Substantial debt loads and the pos­ sibility of restricted access to post­ secondary education are other rea­ sons for student opposition to the government’s plan.

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Approximately 2000 M cGill students participated in the protest, with representation from all facul­ ties. Carrying placards with slo­ gans such as “eye lemt tu spEl at Akswurthi U” and “REFORME = ELITISME,” students sang protest chants often mentioning Axworthy by name. The belief that the protest could only be taken seriously if demonstrators conducted them­ selves peacefully was expressed by many present at the event. U2 Psychology student Abba Brodt, referring to earlier incidents at a November Paliament H ill demon­ stration, expressed his concern that disruptive behaviour could under­ mine the protestors’ efforts.

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C o m i n g s o o n t o y o u r n e w s t a n d — t h e M c G i l l ‘O c c a s i o n a l l y ’ B y M ic h a e l B r o a d h u r s t __________

The M cG ill D aily plans to reduce its publication frequency to three times a week starting next year, according to a memorandum from M cG ill legal adviser Raynald Mercille to the Board of Governors. The decision must be approved by the Board due to a letter of agreement between the university and the Daily.

The Daily will continue to publish its regular Monday issue, Tuesday’s Daily Français and the D aily C ulture, published on Thursdays.

SSMU Residence Rep Amin Kassam asked President Sevag Yeghoyan to address the issue at last T hursday’s SSMU council m eeting. Y eghoyan inform ed council that he was unaware of the move until he received a copy of Mercille’s memo that day.

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Yeghoyan expressed concern about the decision, and suggested that the Daily’s staff should con­ sult the student community before making the decision. All full-time students at McGill pay $6.70 per year to the Daily Publications Society, the organisation that pub­ lishes the D aily. That m oney, combined with advertising rev­ enue, covers the costs of printing the newspaper.

Daily C o-ordinating Editor Melanie Newton said that the deci­ sion was not for financial reasons.

“W e’re not decreasing the page count,” she said. “Most edi­ tors who’ve worked at the Daily had to spend five or six years in school. And some have not made it through school.”

Newton said the primary rea­ son for the change was because printing the Daily four times each week was too burdensome on the

staff.

“We’re a daily student news­ paper — or we w ere — and putting that out was incredibly dif­ ficult,” she said. “It was hard on people who were volunteering for the paper.”

Newton also said that many Daily editors and staff members quit during the year because of conflicts with schoolw ork and ‘burnout’.

Co-ordinating News Editor Cherie Payne agreed, and suggest­ ed that part of the concern stems from a desire to improve the quali­ ty of the Daily.

“We’ve received a number of letters over the years that have called to question the quality of the paper,” she said. “We thought cutting the W ednesday edition would be a good way to improve the quality.”

Payne said that the newspaper will improve because reporters and editors will be able to dedicate more time to research and story selection.

Kassam explained his concern with the Daily’s decision.

“I was very concerned that students were not getting ‘bang for the buck’,” Kassam said. “If the Daily is going to be cutting back its publication then students have a right to know if that will be in

sync with the fees they pay to the Daily.”

Newton said that the fees students pay to the Daily would not be reduced. She cited the rising rent for the Daily’s office space in the Shatner Building and the fact that the Daily has not requested an increase in several years as justifying the maintenance of the current stu­ dent fee contribution. SSMU has charged the D aily more than $15,000 for the past three years for its basement office space. Prior to that, the Daily paid one dollar per year.

Newton said the pages lost in Wednesday’s edition, nor­ mally eight-pages long, would B iting the hand that feed s: The appear in expanded Monday McGill Thrice-weekly? and Thursday issues.

S enate/B oard Rep Joe Wong said that students should argued. “[The $6.70] doesn’t have not be as concerned if pages are the same value as it did when we asked for it.” re-directed to other issues.

Yeghoyan said that the read­ “My concern was this: if the D aily was receiv in g the same ers of the newspaper should be money and producing less pages, consulted.

“They’re always criticising then there’s a substantive prob­ lem,” he said. “But if it’s a pro­ [SSMU] for lack of consultation,” duction logistics problem, then it’s he said. “It [the Daily] should be held accountable to the students. It a less difficult issue.”

“It is not unreasonable con­ seem s kind o f rid icu lo u s that sidering our expenses went up by they’re going to this — we’re still 15,000 dollars in one year and [the paying the sam e, but students rent] goes up every year,” Newton aren’t being consulted.”

C o u n c il w a n ts m o re fro m lo n g d is ta n c e p la n M c G ill w ill h a v e to w a it f o r d is c o u n t se rv ic e B y S y l v ie B a b a r ik

SSMU Council voted to reject VP Finance Paul Johnson’s rec­ ommendation for participation in the ACC long distance phone plan at its January 26 meeting. Council, which had given Johnson a man­ date to n eg o tiate with the G rad u ates’ S ociety o f M cG ill University, decided that the terms outlined in his recommendation did not ensure sufficient decision­ making power for the undergradu­ ate group.

The Graduates’ Society has been promised 50 percent of the ACC Plan profits. Johnson’s bar­ gaining had resulted in the two options: SSMU would either be entitled to ten percent of the prof­ its, over which it would have full control, or could choose to be a full member in the 50 percent cut, as a deciding p artn er on the Committee on Private Funding.

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SSMU P resid en t Sevag Yeghoyan led the move against Jo h n so n ’s recom m endation to accept the 50 percent option. As the committee would provide a list of potential recipients for the prof­ its, Yeghoyan suggested that if a project, such as a day care service, was valued solely by the SSMU there would be no way to direct the funds to its favoured area. He therefo re recom m ended that Council choose to accept the ten percent cut over which it would have full control. He went on to argue that many of the projects that the committee would desig­ nate for funding would still bene­ fit the SSMU’s constituents.

“Some of the money will still go to things like a new student services building and the library,” said Yeghoyan. “If we have the option to take some for ourselves, then we should,” he added, shrug­ ging the idea that such logic might be seen as greedy.

Johnson was critica l of Yeghoyan’s reasoning, describing it as representative of a mistrust in the university.

“I think the p resid en t has made a hypocritical decision,” said Johnson. “He sits down with the principal and tells him that stu­ dents want to be part of the solu­ tion. Then he turns around and slaps the university in the face saying we don’t trust you. That’s

not how you build a community.”

Yeghoyan dismissed the sug­ gestion th at his p reference stemmed from any distrust. Citing problematic situations such as the renegotiation of the Marriott cater­ ing contract, he regards the ten percent cut as a better means of assuring capital for the realisation of SSMU priorities.

“My personal belief is that we should be working with the uni­ versity but we are doing what is best for the constituency,” said Yeghoyan. “This is not to say that the interests of the university are completely different from that of the SSMU.” Johnson defended his belief in the greater utility of member­ ship in the 50 p ercent share, claiming that it would better serve the undergraduate student body.

“As funding for the university is cut, we must search for it where we can get it, to the extent where it does not affect our autonomy.

And this does not in any way,” stated Johnson.

As for the tone of the Council debate itself, Residence Rep Amin Kassam had few kind words for the exchange.

“I felt like I was watching two children in a sandbox fighting over a toy. There was no sense of decorum or p ro fessio n ality . It made council look very em bar­ rassing."

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Continued from Page 1 brats,” he said. “If you can have, across the country, a substantial number of students coming out to show their support, to make their presence felt, then I think good things could potentially come out of this.”

Students for Social Justice was pleased with the level of par­ ticipation at McGill. According to M elissa R edm ond, collective m em ber, M cG ill’s degree of involvement surprised many, con­ sidering its lack of activism in the past.

“I think that the McGill popu­ lation should be proud... in that we endure a reputation of being apa­ thetic and ultraconservative,” she said.

This view was also expressed

by Otto Lim, another M cGill organiser.

“There are expectations that the french un iv ersities and CEGEPs will be more organised and vocal in term s of political issues, as well as the expectation that they’d have more students par­ ticipating,” he said. “McGill stu­ dents demonstrated that this is a real issue for all students. Our numbers were comparable with...

UQAM and Concordia.”

C oalition X was the group responsible for organising the Montreal area demonstration. This coalition was formed through the alliance of McGill Students for Social Justice, and students from the U niversity de M ontreal, UQAM, Concordia and a number of Montreal CEGEPs.

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VP E xternal for the Graduate Students’ Association at Concordia University, Brad Lavigne, believed that coopera­ tion betw een French and English institutions unified a previously fragmented student movement.

“One good thing that came out of this is that it brought a lot of student organisations togeth­ er. The level of anglophone stu­ dents came as a welcome sur­ prise for francophone organisa­ tions,” he said. “In the past, the majority of anglophone students didn’t participate [in initiatives] Protest preparations with French universities.”

A ccording to student Aaron Poirier of the Strike protest] radicalised a number of organisers, the M ontreal Urban and Action C om m ittee at people. Students don’t have the Community Police present during Dalhousie University in Halifax social power to force the govern­ the dem onstration estim ated a was frustated by the lack of sup­ ment down, but radicalised work­ turnout of ten to fifteen thousand. port displayed by the Dalhousie ers have the power to stop work­ Based on this level of participa­ Students’ Union. ing,” Ryan said. “The people in tion, organisers declared the “Our Com mittee was quite Halifax envision this as the first in protest a success in spite of less disenfranchised from DSU since an escalating series of actions, cul­ enthusiastic interpretations from DSU wrote the demonstration off m inating in a general strike. some media. as a possibility for violence. They Nothing short of a general strike Similar protests took place in actively worked against the strike will force the government to back 22 other cities across Canada, with and told students they’d get acade­ down.” varying degrees of support from mic penalties if they participated,” The University of Toronto had student populations. At the he said. “The 450 students who the country’s largest turnout. Four University of British Columbia the thousand students gathered demonstration was opposed by the at the u n iv ersity ’s a I f s tu d e n ts s ta r t th r o w Alma Mater Society. Nonetheless Convocation Hall, double 1500 students participated, joining in g A lfre d o F e ttu c c in i the turnout expected by a total of 6000 in the Vancouver organisers. A total of a g a in th e n w e b e c o m e area. In Victoria, B.C., 5000 stu­ 15,000 M etropolitan m id d le c la ss s p o ile d dents rallied in front of the provin­ Toronto students assem­ cial legislature. b r a ts bled for a rally in Nathan Barbara Curtis, strike co-ordi­ A b b a B r o d t Phillips Square. nator at Yukon C ollege in The President of the U 2 P sy c h o lo g y Whitehorse, was pleased that three Students’ Administrative quarters of students walked out of turned out are significant because C ouncil at U of T, Gareth class and that more than 50 stu­ there is a lot of apathy on the Spanglett, saw the rally as a means dents out of a total population of Dalhousie campus.” to draw the government’s attention 1000 dem onstrated in -25°C The Halifax dem onstration to the students’ concerns. weather. Curtis stated that possible drew a total of 2000 people includ­ “W e’ve done everything we cuts to social programs would be ing students, labour union mem­ can since all official routes have particularly difficult for a student bers, and representatives from the been closed to us. Demonstrating body of which 80% relies on vari­ National Action Committee on the is the only thing we can do to get ous forms of governmental fund­ Status of Women. Sandy Ryan, our voice heard,” he said. “We’re ing. also an organiser at D alhousie being marginalised by the people “Up here it’s kind of like dou­ U niversity, an ticipates more who are supposed to be represent­ ble jeopardy with cuts to UIC and protests against Axworthy’s pro­ ing us. If the federal government Social Assistance and now tuition posed reforms. continues marginalising and ignor­ increases,” she said.

“The good thing is that [the ing us, boy, is it going to get ugly.”

F e a r in h ib its p ro te s t to p ro te s t p ro te s t • R e d H e r r in g s t a f f la u g h it up in M o n tr e a l

By T yla B e r c h to l d

As many students at McGill prepared to strike against federal M inister of Human R esources Development Lloyd Axworthy’s proposed reform s, a rum our emerged that members of McGill’s com edy mag The Red Herring were plotting to protest the protest.

As the strike loomed closer, how­ ever, it was feared that the protest to protest the protest would be can­ celled. Although Red Herring staff did not cancel their protest alto­ gether, and eventually emerged on the battlefield with a few signs, it was clear that their full intentions were not fleshed out.

When the Tribune stormed the office of the Red H erring on W ednesday January 25 at 2:30

p.m ., it found the staff sitting dejectedly amidst one lone sign with “Stop Whining. Turn Your Back on Love and Hope. We all Die Afraid and Alone,” written on it. The mood was somber, the pro­ testers doubtful. The reason behind the potential cancellation seemed to be one of fear. Editor-in-C hief Steve Goodinson affirmed this.

“We’re scared, basically,” he said.

Goodinson stated further that a friend of his had explained to him that other members of the Montreal student community may not under­ stand the Red Herring’s sense of humour and think that its members were demonstrating against stu­ dents’ concerns. The fear of being turned on by others was explained.

“They might have macaroni,”

said Goodinson. “We aren’t opposed. We don’t really care about the protest. We’re not willing to sacrifice-” “Our nice clothes,” interrupted Assistant E ditor-in-C hief Dave Bushnell.

The mood in the office changed upon the arrival of “Max”, a writer who seemed to have the motivational skills necessary to get the Red Herring to the protest.

Once on the field, members initial­ ly huddled around the “Stop W hining” sign, and Max and Goodinson ran to obtain other para­ phernalia. Moments later, the slo­ gans “2-4-6-8 Apathy is Really Great”, “McGill #3” and “Keep Off the Grass” came bobbing over the horizon.

The joke signs were met with

Protesting lack o f hum our mixed emotions. Some members of the legitimate strike found the Red Herring offensive. Arts Senator Joe Wong was one of them.

“I think it’s just disruptive,” he said. “It’s very high school.”

O ther protesters how ever, appreciated the touch of humour.

Freshman Arts student Dave Taylor

affirmed this.

“At least someone can poke fun. The whole cut thing sucks but at least it puts a spark in it,” he said. “I can’t go to school if the cuts go through but at least I can laugh now.”

The Red Herring marched to Sherbrooke and Parc Avenue.

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M o ls o n fire s till le a v e s q u e s tio n s u n a n s w e re d have had w ith the new telephone som e in terestin g resu lts an d th at en ce call betw een th e ca lle r and sy stem in its tw o y ears o f e x is­ th e 911 o p e r a to r .

T h e M c G ill h e e x p e c ts so m e c h a n g e s to b e tence.

T he incident has, how ever, s e c u r ity d is p a tc h e r is th e r e to made. Spatero is strongly consid­ T w o m o n th s h a v e p a s s e d ering bringing forth recom m enda­ m onitor the call and provide assis­ p ro m p te d h is d ep artm en t to jo in since a fire gutted the room o f U1 w ith security to ensure that such a tions including the installation o f tance as they see fit.

A rts s tu d e n t M a rk H e y c k in s itu a tio n is n o t re p e a te d . N ew W h ile B e rn s te in c o u ld n o t sm oke detectors in each resident’s M cG ill U n iversity’s M olson Hall p lan s w ill b e ex p lo red to ensure room and a sprinkler system in the explain w hy Sim m ons w as unable residence, but lingering questions that telecom m unications program ­ residence buildings. A lthough the to d ial 9 1 1 , h e d id n o te th a t the rem ain as to the effectiveness o f m ers w ill have to check the sys­ 911 sy stem w as fu lly fu n ctio n al p rice o f th e p ro jec t w o u ld fetch the system s provided by the u n i­ tem w henever they re-program the o v e r th e w ee k en d o f th e fire as in to th e m il lio n s o f d o lla r s , versity to deal w ith such em ergen­ lines. A s w ell, security sta ff w ill th e ir c o m p u te r f ile s sh o w . O ne S p a te r o d e s c r ib e d th e p la n as cies. periodically place telephone calls b e in g “ o u r m ain o b je c tiv e , o u r p o s s ib ility ra is e d w a s th a t in a H eyck claim ed that he had no to 911 to test the system. w eekly com puter dow nload o f the priority.” know ledge o f the cause o f the fire, In th e end, M ark H eyck has T he next m ajor concern to be M cG ill telec o m m u n icatio n s sy s­ th e s u s p e c te d m o v e d b a c k in to h is o ld ro o m , te m , th e c o m p u te r te c h n ic ia n addressed in the w ake o f the fire cause o f w hich now com pletely rebuilt and refur­ “ I w a s n ’t is the effec tiv e n ess o f th e em er­ neglected to correctly reinstall the w as a cigarette b is h e d w ith I k e a f u r n itu r e . telephone system. g e n c y te le p h o n e s y s te m a t Simmons e n o u g h to h a ve a c ig a left close to the T h ro u g h o u t th e e n tire in c id e n t, “It’s possible th at it w as our M cGill.

D uring the fire, Sim m ons e x p e c ts th a t bed. r e tte .” fault that the guy [the security dis­ H eyck says that the support o f his attem p ted to co n tac t th e M cG ill the issue will “ I w a s n ’t M a r k H e y c k be d is c u s s e d S ecu rity em erg en cy lin e at 398- p a tc h e r] d id n ’t see a n y th in g on fellow residents have pulled him in th e r e lo n g through. “I w as really happy with th e r e a d o u t s c r e e n ,” s a id 3 0 0 0 . F o r re a s o n s th a t re m a in a t a m e e tin g enough to have the w ay everything w as handled, B ernstein. undeterm ined, the 24 h o u r em er­ o f th e U n iv e r s it y R e s id e n c e a cigarette,” m aintained Heyck. fro m th e d irecto rs rig h t dow n to H e w as quick to add that this C o u n c il, th e g o v e rn in g b o d y o f gen cy line w as not an sw ered on I n v e s ti g a to r s f ro m th e m aintenance.” w as th e f irs t p ro b le m th a t th e y the m orning o f N ovem ber 13. An the residences.

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M o lso n H all p o rte r’s had not yet been com pleted.

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By N oah G itterman___________ d rafted the b y -law , p o in ted out M cG ill telephone, the th a t S en ate d ec id e d th ey had to security d isp atch er is take a closer look at the distribu­ a u to m a tic a lly lin k e d Last Thursday SSM U council in a three w ay confer- Does sm oking threaten the havens on the hill? passed a by-law changing the dis­ tion of student seats.

“T hat got Senate thinking, we tribution o f undergraduate student c a n ’t k e e p a d d in g a n d a d d in g s e a ts o n M c G ill’s S e n a te . T h e changes, the result o f a process ini­ seats, le t’s put a lim it on it,” she said. tiated over two years ago, will cut S e n a te d e c id e d th a t u n d e r ­ tw o u n d e rg ra d u a te se a ts on the m ain body fo r the d isc u ssio n o f g rad u ate stud en ts w o u ld receiv e thirteen seats, a reduction from the university affairs. previous fifteen, to be allocated at T h e n ew b y -la w g iv e s o n e the discretion of SSMU. seat to the president o f SSMU, one in c lu d e b u d g e t c u ts o f se v e ra l It had been a problem in pre­ tions.

By A lexander W axman_________ to the V P u n iv ersity affairs, and th o u s a n d d o lla r s fro m th e A fin an c e su b -co m m ittee o f vious years that some student seats one to each undergraduate faculty.

In te rn a tio n a l A d v iso ry S erv ice , th e C C SS is re sp o n sib le fo r the rem ained unfilled because faculties N e x t y e a r M c G ill s tu d e n ts A ny seats le ft vacant w ill be re ­ H ealth Services, and the dean o f s tu d e n t s e rv ic e s b u d g e t an d its m ay fa c e an in c r e a s e in th e allocated to other faculties accord­ nev er b o th ered to sen d a S enate students budget, and charging doc­ review . Yeghoyan, w ho sits on the am ount o f m oney they contribute ing to descending order o f enrol­ representative. SSM U now has the tors an additional five percent on sub-com m ittee, discussed the chal­ opportunity to make sure that there to stu d e n t s e rv ic e s . T h is is th e ment. th e ir b illin g fe e s. A lso r e c o m ­ lenges faced by the com mittee. will always be a m axim um number f o r e c a s t o f m e m b e rs o f th e T ra d itio n a lly , e a c h fa c u lty “M cG ill can no lo n g e r be a m ended are phasing out the chap­ o f students at Senate.

C o o r d in a tin g C o m m itte e on with under 2,000 students had one w all-to-w all carpet fo r everyone,” laincy service and the tutorial ser­ “If you as a faculty aren’t fill­ student senator and those w ith over Student Services. vice, allow ing a “free m arket” o f ing up your seat, w e ’ll give it to T he forecast was presented in ^ he said. “W e had to tak e a long 2,000 had two. T he SSM U presi­ tu to ria l se rv ic es to someone else,” explained Small. a prelim inary budgetary b ul­ dent and VP university affairs also f i l l th e g a p , an d The new by-law also contains letin w ritten by co m m ittee held seats on Senate. in c r e a s in g th e “ A ic Q ill c a n n o lo n g er b e a w a ll-to a d e te rre n t a g a in st ab sen teeism , In th e su m m e r o f 1992 th e m em ber and SSM U a m o u n t th a t p a rtsta tin g th a t S en ato rs w ill fo rfeit w a ll c a r p e t for e v e ry o n e President Sevag Yeghoyan.

Senate received a request from the tim e s tu d e n ts p a y their seats if they are absent from Post-Graduate Students’ Society to “This year we were pre­ for student services. three consecutive meetings. sented w ith a fairly drastic provide a seat on Senate for one of S S M U P r e s id e n t A sked to co m ­ “It gives us the ability now to situation w here student ser­ their executive officers. m e n t on th e S eva g Y e g h o y a n SSM U Vice-president U niver­ have every student seat at Senate v ic e s w as o r ig in a lly increase, Y eghoyan filled,” said Small. $ 7 5 5 ,0 0 0 in th e re d ... w e sity A ffairs Je n n ife r S m all, w ho said that the figure was a com pro­ need to ask o urselves such ques­ hard look at student services and mise solution. p rio ritise ju s t w h at the essen tial tions as ‘Is there a way by which “T h e ad m in istra tio n w an ted our m oney can be spent m ore effi­ ones were.”

20 d ollars, w e w anted eig h t d ol­ T he five student m em bers o f ciently’,” asked the bulletin. lars. W e ended up agreeing on a the sub-com m ittee have suggested T h e C C S S is an a d v is o ry I n te r e s te d in te a c h in g E n g lis h a b ro a d ? proposed nine dollar increase,” he som e w ays o f reducing costs and c o m m itte e to th e D e a n o f said.

2 w e e k in te n s iv e c o u rs e in a f te rn o o n o r are collecting student reaction.

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So, last W ednesday som e 15,000 university and C E G E P students dropped class and h it the pavement to protest Axworthy’s proposed changes to the w ay post-secondary education is funded.

W hy? Because they know full w ell the party is almost over.

I’m in favour o f what Mr. Axworthy has pro­ po sed b ecau se I th in k it w ill m ake C an ad ian s finally take their post-secondary education seri­ ously. Too many Canadians assume that post-sec­ ondary education is a natural right and take for granted the generous system which provides the benefits they currently enjoy. Maybe if forced to pay for their education these spoiled children of a spoiled nation will understand the true meaning of learning. But I doubt i t W hat this country really needs is to rid itself o f the riff-ra ff w ho view university as a social arena rather than an institution for the advance­ ment of learning. Maybe Mr. Axworthy’s reforms will clear the halls o f this once hallowed institu­ tio n o f th e p o st-seco n d ary v ag ran ts w ho have overrun Canada’s universities in pursuit o f degrees in philosophy, history and cultural studies.

W hat is the purpose o f a university educa­ tion? To learn and prepare yourself for the future?

A pparently not. Looking at the state o f to d ay ’s post-seco n d ary student, the future looks pretty grim. Is drinking four nights a week, sleeping in

Steve Smith Assistant Editor-in-cbief Editorial

F ra te rn a l d is p la y o ffe n s iv e

By M ichael Broadhurst “She’s such a bitch.”

“Fuck off, buddy.”

“If you don’t leave me alone, I’m going to com e over to your house and kick your ass.”

“Come on, do her!”

“Y ou are proof that anal sex produces children.”

“I’m into girls, I’m into drinking, and I want to party.”

Ape jokes. Fag jokes. The President o f SSMU, Sevag Yeghoyan, doing an “afterburner” — a shot o f liquor — on stage.

All o f these happened in G ert’s Tuesday night, January 24,1995. The occa­ sion? The Inter-Greek Letter Council “talent” night.

Debating the merits o f fraternities and sororities is a topic flogged to death at M cGill. Every few years, som e enterprising individuals at IGLC petition SSMU to rescind its Judicial Board’s 1989 decision that fraternities should not be recognised on the grounds that they discrim inate on the basis o f gender.

Officially, if you’re male you can gain entrance to one o f the venerable societies.

If you’re female, forget i t And vice-versa for sororities. Realistically, judging both by the university experience and the above comments, if you’re a white, heterosexual, upper-middle class, beer-drinking, party-loving skirt chaser you can get in. If you’re not, forget i t A common argument presented by frat boys to justify themselves is to point to groups like the W om en’s Union, which restrict access on the basis o f gender.

The fundamental difference is that the W om en’s Union offers a sanctuary for women who feel threatened or insecure in a male-dominated world. M en don’t need similar organisations — the world is their sanctuary.

Aside from debating the merits o f these groups, one has to wonder how men and women — at least some o f whom, presumably, are enlightened, intelligent, and sensitive — can perpetuate this kind o f ignorance in an institutional manner.

The most disturbing thing about the puerile and silly remarks about sexual orientation, friendship through “understanding” (ie. threats on one’s physical well-being) was not that they were made: that’s not surprising, because it only takes one or two misogynist homophobes to devise them. W hat was disturbing was the laughter that followed, from a room o f 150 people.

The only heartening thing that happened in that evening, and it was so if only because it made those o f us who were unim pressed laugh, w as that the ‘Greeks” adopted a highly defensive stance as soon as they found members of the press were present. We were simply there, not to “cover” the IGLC event per se, until, that is, we decided to take some notes.

Several fraternity and sorority types whined that they w eren’t getting fair treatment: but neither were the women, homosexuals, Jews or Italians that they lampooned. SSMU VP External Nick Benedict walked with his tail between his legs as soon as notepads and cam eras cam e out — he w as there merely as a “last-minute replacement” judge. Yeghoyan was committed from the beginning University is supposed to be about learning to accept the views o f others.

Perhaps that was the rationale that led Yeghoyan and Benedict to take part Unfortunately, offensive rhetoric like that proffered by IG LC is a view that should not be accepted. At least not in a campus bar in a campus building run by a students’ association with a constitution that forbids involvement with any thing or group that discriminates on the basis o f race, religion, sexual orientation or gender. Benedict and Yeghoyan ow e an apology to their council. And IGLC owe an apology to every man, woman, person o f colour, heterosexual, lesbian, gay, and bisexual that attends McGill.

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and cutting classes p art o f the training regimen for the future? When students took ss to th e s tr e e ts la st W e d n e s d a y , th e y m ad e skip p in g class sound like such a drastic, unheard of, pushed-to-the-brink thing for them to do: “Look w hat you’re doing to us, Lloyd, you’re so mean you forced us to skip Art o f Listening, you bas­ tard”.

While sixty thousand Canadian university stu­ dents cut class on Wednesday, the rest o f Canada whose taxes fund our four-year hiatus from reality at Club McGill, were hard at work — something som e o f my fellow “classm ates” w ould be hard pressed to understand. Four years of leeching off the system neither deserves nor gains the sympa­ thy o f hard-working Canadians.

Mr. Axworthy’s proposed reforms do not reel o f elitism. Rather, they address the needs o f the nation. And they hold the prom ise that one day universities will not be the sanctuary of lay-abouts that they are today.

A xw orthy’s reforms do not reinforce elitism Today’s university students are the elite, despite th e ir claim s o f im p o v e rish m e n t. T ak e a look around, folks. A re those Doc M artens I see? Hey, nice stereo: m ind if I borrow one o f y o u r 400 CD s? G et serious. Student action should not be directed at Axworthy - he’s ju st doing what has to be done. Student efforts would be better spent if they focused on getting M olson and Sony to re­ invest in their biggest customers.

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O p in io n

M o re c h ic k m o v ie s s o m e th in g to c ry o v e r N o m a d ’s L a n d Ted FRANKEL

Whe.re have you gone John Wayne? Male culture is slowly being run out of town and there is no saviour on the horizon. The demise of manly ideals is no where more apparent than on the big screen. T o d ay ’s m oviem aker would rather us men gush with tears than beam with pride.

The new tough guy on the block is, er... a gal, or rather a ruthless band of ‘em. More than asparagus and final exams, I detest “chick” movies. Glance at your local listings these days and you’re bound to spot more than a few of these cinematic shams. Currently playing is the he’s-so-cute flick Legends o f the Fall, Brad Pitt being the hot item in question. Add

to the list Disclosure, the bitch-inpower-with-attitude movie of the season. And most obviously, the little-innocent-girls-with-grownupproblems ditty Little Women. The recent invasion in our theatres is enough to make you suspect a grand conspiracy is in the works with the people at Kleenex.

My colleague B eatrice van Dijk (see below ) w ill surely applaud this unfortunate develop­ ment. She’ll try to convince you that there’s nothing wrong with showing a little human sympathy as a foil to the healthy diet of bloodbaths playing at today’s mul­ tiplexes. While I concede there’s still a place for the “feel-good” epic, the “chick” genre doesn’t do

justice to its feminine followers.

Female audiences have been ear-m arked by H ollyw ood moviemakers for consumption of predictable, cliched, sappy slop.

Witness Pretty Woman, a story of a delightful prostitute who finds romance and the American dream when a John-come-prince stops at her street comer. Every girl’s fan­ tasy? Perhaps if you were raised

by M adonna. W om en should demand to be depicted as they want to be treated — with respect.

Going blurry-eyed over a silly love farce is not becoming of the inde­ pendent, modem woman.

And besides all that, this girl stu ff is painful for us guys to watch. Most men I know would rather inflict bodily harm upon them selves than see the latest Disney release. Two years ago, I was bound to the big velvet chair by my girlfriend and forced to watch The Bodyguard. That fateful night Whitney Houston merciless-

D ic k flic k d o m in a n c e B e a ttitu d e s

E very bo d y know s “chick m o v ies” are film s m eant to appeal to fem ale au d ien ces.

W h a t’s the nam e fo r m ovies meant for men? There is no snap­ py little label for those — they’re just your regular films. Male cul­ ture is mainstream, women’s cul­ ture is marginal.

The mastery of maleness is clear from the fact that Reservoir Dogs is one of the hip movies for our g en e ratio n . T here are no important women — zero, zilch, nada — in this hip p est o f hip flicks. There’s enough gun-toting to give penis-envy to a transsexu­ al. The film ’s violence w ould purge even O.J. of excess testos­ terone for several weeks. This is part of our so-called popular cul­ ture.

My ho n o u rab le co lleag u e Ted (look up) Frankel thinks such a PC rant misses the point of the movie. Tarantino plays with the code of honour among outcasts in Reservoir Dogs, says Ted. The subclass old Q uentin picks to play with is just an example of a male-dominated underworld. (If I m isunderstood your argum ent, colleague-o’-mine, I apologise.)

You have to wonder why a man who ju st happens to make only movies about male-dominat­ ed underworlds is the darling of the film community right now.

(How many overworlds do you know that aren’t m ale-dominat­ ed?) Why is the penis-plenty of Reservoir Dogs generally cool,

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whereas Thelm a and Louise is genderedly cool?

I ’m not trying to say that R e se rv o ir D ogs is no good.

T aran tin o is c lev e r, and his movie is void of the dull, pre­ dictable sentimentality that per­ m eates so m any H ollyw ood flicks. I’m just saying it should be obvious that the film is easily classifiable as a men’s movie — but no one seems to have classi­ fied it. The fact that there is no slangy epithet for a phallic film, and the fact that everyone under fo rty is supposed to think Tarantino is truly great, show that it isn’t us gals who decide what gets included in mainstream cul­ ture.

I was ju st saying that dull, predictable sentimentality perme­ ates too many Hollywood films.

Try this: ask a guy what he con­ siders a “chick m ovie” . H e’ll probably give you a list of the dullest, most predictably senti­ mental movies he can remember.

He might say The Bodyguard or Say A n yth in g . T hanks for California’s best, my friend.

Now ask a w om an w hat films she and her sisters bond to.

Thelma and Louise or Like Water fo r Chocolate will likely be up there. For real sappiness she may turn to The Joy Luck Club. In this list there is human sympathy aplenty, but dull predictability? No way.

Sure, there are some flicks us falsely-consciousnessed chiquitas

enjoy only by suppressing our intellects. When confronted with som ething like P retty Woman o ften the only thing to do is accept your co n d itio n in g and enjoy yourself. Anyway, female enjoyment of Pretty Woman can’t involve any more intellect-sup­ pression or conditioning-accep­ tance than male enjoyment of the N aked Gun movies. The corny H a rleq u in -n ess of the form er makes it only one type of “chick m ovie” . The genre can encom ­ pass so much celluloid that it’s impossible to define.

It is interesting that men and women have different ideas of what “chick movies” are. To the former they are anything sappy.

To the latter they are often those films with strong female charac­ ters to identify with. Or those movies with beautiful hunks we can enjoy in an orgy of objectifi­ cation-like Legends o f the Fall.

(The movies with love-handled men and objectifiable women are the ones both sexes are supposed to enjoy — think o f B asic Instinct). Men think o f “chick m o v ies” w ith slig h t d erisio n , women think of them fondly.

Often good films are marginalized w hen the label “chick m ovie” is applied to them. It’s not fair that such a special cate­ gory exists for the movies girls groove on, but te sto ste ro n e seeped celluloid is considered universally appealing. Our vocab­ ulary is lacking — we need a m asculine equivalent to “chick movie”. I hereby baptise phallusfilled films “dick flicks” as my contribution to cultural equality.

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ly abused my eardrums with her sub-class on the fringe of society.

What his picture reveals is that a awful love ballads. Yuck!

Beatrice may tell you men perverse code of honour and should watch more of these types morality influences even society’s of movies, instead of ragging on most maniacal outcasts, in this them. My feminist friend may sug­ case Tarintino’s nutso characters. gest these types of show can serve He chooses to look at whacked-out as a civilisin g m echanism for bad guys for obvious reasons. The aggressive men. “Guy” movies gangsters and gun fight formula like Reservoir Dogs, females are has more Hollywood appeal than quick to point out, are violent, say, the old chick standard (see juvenile and laden with chauvinist Fried Green Tomatoes).

But it’s not a “guy” movie for stereotypes. These critics clearly these reasons. It should be consid­ miss the point.

Movies which are identified ered male dom ain because the with m ale view ers, like v irtu es associated w ith these w riter/d irecto r Q uentin naughty boys, their courage and T aran tin o ’s Dogs and Pulp loyalty, are traditionally ingrained F iction, have more universal in male myth. Women can also appeal than silly girl movies. Take appreciate these traits, that is if the example of Reservoir Dogs. they d o n ’t get sick on their With an all-male cast and a gang­ boyfriend during the cutting off ster theme, the movie is admitted­ the ear bit. Cool !

Such merit is more than I can ly geared towards males. It should say for Pretty Woman, Beatrice. not be classified a “guy” movie, however, just because there is gra­ Even when “guy” m ovies are tuitous violence. Tarantino’s bril­ dow nright b rain less, like The liant presentation of the criminal Naked Gun, at least they entertain underworld is not nearly as super­ us. A lthough, being a healthy ficial as some may want to male, I’ll admit there were some entertaining moments in Pretty believe.

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T h e F a s h io n o f P ro te s t: F a s h io n

Last Wednesday, when an unexpected number of students boy­ cotted their classes and paraded down Sherbrooke Street, McGill had every reason to be proud. January 25th was not merely a demonstration of solidarity and a celebration of activism. The day was, moreover, a

Town versus gown: A group o f fashionably attired art students complain about a local population that is all too eager to condone the wearing o f tight, pin-striped blue jeans.

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demonstration of dapper and a cele­ bration of style.

Student protests have long served as forums for the fashion elite. Stylish berets first surfaced from mobs at the Sorbonne riots.

Bell-bottoms first protruded from crowds at the Berkeley protests.

Since then, student demonstrations have helped to establish many a dandyish trend.

Wednesday, the word demon­ stration took on new dimensions as the McGill student body publicly displayed its own sense of chic.

“The strike was really an incredible place to see and be seen,” says U2 Arts student Sarah Zgliniec.

“I mean, not only did we show the rest of Canada our solidarity against tuition hikes, but I think we finally proved that [McGill students] have

T h e F a c u lty o f E

Modem medicine is a wondrous thing. Nowadays, people who once quickly died of horrible diseases can be made to linger on slowly and agonisingly for up to two decades before finally passing into the hereafter. And the medical research community is wonderful, too: men and women, working together in peace in harmony, looking for those important and elusive scientific truths. Just ask Justine Sergent.

(OK, explain this one to me: someone at McGill allegedly tampers with Sargent’s resumé to avoid giving her a promotion, then the institution vilifies her in the press, and she then commits suicide. McGill’s response to all this is to set up an internal inquiry headed by the father of a medical resident at McGill — an inquiry which isn’t given terms of reference for four months and then refuses requests from Sergent’s estate for disclosure of its activities. How, exactly, do people in the James Building and the Neuro involved in this case look them­ selves in the mirror every morning and say: “Lookin’ good — and hey, you’ve got integrity, too!”?)

Evidence for humans practising medicine goes all the way back to the stone age: Neanderthal skeletons from Iraq show signs that amputations were performed as early as 50,000 BC. Medical knowledge flowered in the earliest Babylonian civilisations, and it is now gener­ ally agreed that eye operations to remove cataracts were performed almost 5,000 years ago during the reign of Hammurabi.

Brain operations were next, and seem to have been practiced from the late stone age in Asia, Europe and the Americas. “Trepanation” is the name that has been given to the ancient practice of cutting large, circular holes from skulls with scalpels made of stone or obsidian in order to examine the brain. These operations seem to have been carried out mostly upon warriors who had suf­ fered head wounds in battle. Remarkably, the survival rate for this operation seems to have been over 50 per­ cent - twice the rate which was achieved in European hospitals for the same operation at the turn of this centu­ ry(Trepanation is still practiced today by peoples in many parts of the world — including a bizarre cult in England founded by the Dutch savant Dr. Bart Hughes.

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more fashion savoir-faire than was a great success. enjoyed the strike, but harbored a Concordia students.”

“The march provided a great related complaint.

Certainly, McGill students at opportunity to show off new fash­ “I don’t even have enough stu­ the protest appeared to have cultivat­ ions to as many people as possible, dent aid to buy a President Stone ed a well-spoken sense of vogue. especially to the 85% of taxpayers jacket,” he claimed. “It’s all that Those with short, “hard-mod” who didn’t go to university and Ax worthy fucker’s fault for cutting haircuts covered their scalps with don’t know what it’s all about,” says my OSAP bursary last year.” only the most stylish of head gear.

U1 Management Women sported black berets or student Alex­ backward brimless tweed caps to ander Garciashield their O’Connor crops from the Rangel. “I wish Canadian winter. Men wore either Canada’s elite solid or striped polyester toques, could socialise pulled down to their sideburns. like this every Those with long hair were even day instead of more fortunate: not only did their going to class. saucy manes protect them from the I ’m just pissed January temperatures, but their flow­ that I missed the ing locks quickly attracted attention chance to be seen from CBC and CTV camera crews. in my phat new U3 Music student Ken Ozdoba President Stone appreciated the fact that the prime outerwear on time networks only seemed interest­ national televi- A sociable moment amidst the fashion frenzy: Two ed in long-haired students. slon' first-year students (centre, right) compliment each “Even if the toquèd Adam Fellow manon their holiday goatee growth. Meanwhile, a Horowitz Beastie Boys look is de agement student [ess fashionable Concordia student (left, still wearing rigueur, I ’m glad that the media Bill Gilroy gQS tussles and Vuamets) looks on. didn’t risk a sudden, mid-interview exposure of hat-hair,” he said. c R 0 NE WA G E Most of the McGill students C R O S S W O R D L I V l D G A L AS interviewed found that the “strike”

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Thus, adults lose touch with the dreams and perceptions of early childhood and become prey to ugly p h e m e ra neuroses. So far, so good — but Hughes’ prescription for this problem Alex Usher is to allow more blood in the brain by getting people to poke holes in their skulls with power drills.)

Pre-modem medical knowledge was probably at a peak in Greek and Roman times. After the fall of the Roman Empire much medical knowledge was lost, and Catholic obscurantism prevented any major medical advances. What was left over after a millenium of this was then wiped out by the newer prejudices of the scien­ tific revolution of the seventeenth century. So, what we find is that some of the most gruesome and bizarre med­ ical practices of all times took place not back in “the dark ages” but from about 1700 to 1950.

To take but a few examples: in the first half of the nineteenth century, many American surgeons would stick a good, strong cigar midway up a patient’s rectum in order to induce muscle relaxation. Until the 1860s, the standard cure for diabetes in England was to make the patient eat a pound of cane sugar a day. Lockjaw was often combatted by doctors trying to open the jaws forcefully with a screw lever. Finally, the standard treat­ ment for syphilis until well into the nineteenth century was to give the patient large doses of mercury. When the patient inevitably began foaming at the mouth due to acute mercury poisoning, doctors would declare the treatment a success because the foam was taken as visual evidence of the syphilis leaving the patient’s body.

Then there are the classic tales of bad medicine from our own century, notably the practice of lobotomy.

The invention of one Dr. Walton Freeman, over 10,000 prefrontal and transorbital lobotomies were performed in the 30s and 40s. The procedure consisted roughly of knocking the patient out, putting a large knife between the eyeball and eyelid, sliding it upwards through the eye cavity and into the brain, and then jerking the knife around liberally. It was the advance of psychotropic drugs, not outrage from the medical community, which ended this practice in the 50s.

Finally, I give you a baffling recent medical case from England. The phenomenon of “phantom limbs” — that is, the ability to feel limbs which have been ampu­ tated — is well known. However, the case of a 52-yearold colon cancer victim from Sussex is thought to be unique. Having had much of his rectum removed in a recent operation, the gentleman now claims to shit phan­ tom stools out of his phantom rectum.

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By M ichael Broadhurst_______ Canadian media mogul Moses Znaimer and former McGill prin­ cipal David Johnston were the fea­ tured guests at a conference on the future of the information super­ highway—the network of comput­ ing and telecommunications facili­ ties commonly called Internet— last Wednesday. The conference was sponsored by M cG ill’s Institute for the Study of Canada.

Johnston was delayed in Toronto because of a bomb threat at Pearson International Airport, and arrived a half hour after the scheduled commencement.

Though the talk was billed as a discussion about the increasing globalisation of the telecommuni­ cations industry, and featured Johnston, the chair of the current federal government commission on the information superhighway, Znaim er and his media em pire dominated the discussion. Znaimer is president of Toronto’s wildlysuccessful CITY-TV and MuchM usic, as w ell as M o n treal’s MusiquePlus.

In an introductory film about Znaim er’s television career, the McGill graduate’s TV philosophy was defined clearly: “The true nature of television is flow, not show ,” he said. “A station is revealed between its programs.”

Those were the words that tion in the way that is satisfying most audience members focused [to many people],” he said. “It has on for the hour-long discussion ‘crunch’.” It is the crunch—the that followed. Znaimer explained ability to make something hip and that in the age of satellites and appealing to many different gener­ cable television, there has been an ations and social classes, that artistic shift in the method of producing television.

“The skill shifts from getting the lic­ ence, the political skill to get that monopoly or duopoly or oligop­ oly, to perfecting the telev isio n c ra ft,” Znaim er argued. He cited C IT Y -T V ’s interactive approach and studio-less pro­ gram m ing as exam ­ ples of how television can renew itself and appeal to a different audience.

“The problem is too much of the same television,” he said.

The challenge in broadcasting is to create a channel Znaimer believes the “information with a “tempo and rhythm” that superhighway” currently lacks.

“The ap p licatio n s lack reflects its audience. But Znaimer did caution that he is aware that ‘crunch’. They’re not that good w hat m akes CITY -TV and yet, they’re not as interactive.”

Znaimer also said that he does M uchM usic appealing to many also alienates some viewers that not believe Canadian content regu­ lations provided by the Canadian don’t like it.

“It is a highly-interactive sta­ R adio-television and Telecom ­

I f i t ’s n o t S c o t t i s h — i t ’s c r a p !

Vancouver competes regularly in the W orld Pipe Band Cham pionships in Glasgow, It’s a time-honoured fact about Scotland. the bagpipes: you either love, and I “Simon Fraser has a major mean love them, or you hate them. pipe band. They’re the shit,” assert­ If you happen to fall into the former ed Hugo Cameron, who also plays category, you’ll be happy to know with the Pipe and Drums of that a small band of Scottish enthu­ M ontreal’s Black Watch, Royal siasts have founded a McGill Pipe H ighland Regim ent. “W ith and Drum Corps. If you’re in the M cGill’s Scottish background, I latter, well, what were you thinking was surprised not to see one when I when you applied to McGill? first got here [in 1991].”

Late on Thursday afternoons, Though their eyes are on the sombre, thought-filled clouds in becom ing a com petition the halls of the Birks band, the m em bers of Building are pierced by the “ A p ip e b a n d w ill h e lp to o v e r ­ McGill’s nascent pipe band daunting skirl of the co m e th e tr a d itio n a l M c Q ill acknowledge the role they Highland bagpipes. Follow also hope to play in a p a th y a n d s tir u p so m e sch o o l the sound to its source and University events and tradi­ you’ll find them: McGill stu­ s p ir it w ith th e s k ir l o f th e tions. dents Doug Cameron, Hugo p i p e s .”

“A pipe band will help Cameron, James Campbell, H u g o C a m e r o n , to overcome the traditional Jordan Officer, Chris Rivet p ip e r McGill apathy and stir up and mathematics professor some school spirit with the Ken MacKenzie. They form skirl of the pipes,” said the small core of regulars Hugo Cam eron. “And it’ll add er,” stated Officer.

“Once we’ve who comprise McGill’s first student prestige to the university.” got a solid group and a solid set, pipe band in well over 30 years.

Doug Cameron, of no relation Coming into their first year at then we’ll start considering per­ to Hugo, has a long tradition of McGill, Officer and Rivet were sur­ forming.”

University pipe bands have a promoting Scottish culture, includ­ prised to find that a university with such an obvious Scottish tradition strong tradition in Canada, a fact ing the founding of the Robbie Society at New did not have a pipe band. Both stu­ which makes the lack of one at B urn’s dents spend their summers playing McGill, perhaps the country’s best- Hampshire’s Dartmouth College. with the Fraser pipe band at the Old known Scottish institution, all the He argued that the success of last more incredible. The Q ueen’s Wednesday’s student demonstra­ Fort on Montreal’s De Ste-Hélène.

Prior to coming to McGill, University Pipe Band has partici­ tion would have been unquestion­ both Officer and Rivet had studied pated in such premier events as the able had it been piped along.

“The Axworthy strike would the bagpipes under MacKenzie. C otton Bowl parade in D allas, have had twice as many protesters Officer emphasised MacKenzie’s Texas, while the Simon Fraser if there was a pipe band there.”

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“He’s great on the pipes and he was willing to help out,” he said.

In late November, Officer and Rivet put up notices around McGill calling for pipers and drummers.

Within a couple of weeks, McGill’s closet Scots responded and the band was underway.

Performing is not the band’s im m ediate concern. For the moment, they’re focusing on get­ ting organised.

“Right now, we’re working on a set and getting the songs togeth-

to CITY-TV. “The race is always to capture markets. The result [of network television] is a homogenised prod­ uct,” he said. “It’s not that every­ one who lives in town is hip and everyone in the country is hick.

There are hip and hicks in both—I think we would have as big an audience in Stratford, Ontario, as Toronto.”

“You get flow and identity when you start to narrow down your station’s focus,” he added.

The CITY-TV founder was quick to point out that the infor­ mation revolution may be more difficult, painful, and surely less predictable than those that preced­ ed it.

“We are going through a rev­ olution with as many implications as the agricultural revolution or the industrial revolution, with one significant difference,” he said.

“Whereas those revolutions took place in a matter of decades and centuries, this one happens in a matter of years and months.”

Johnston capped the presenta­ not change my programming in any way,” he said. “Canadian con­ tion by summarising the problems tent or T oronto co ntent is the presented by the information age.

“W e’ve been able to com ­ method by which I’ve differentiat­ press so much inform ation and ed myself.”

Znaim er noted th at as the send it so fast up to satellites and world grows increasingly global, back to others, that w e’ve col­ there will be a new m arket for lapsed time and space,” Johnston local television and media, similar said.

munications Commission restrict the activities of Canadian broad­ casters.

“My view is that if the requirement that we should have it was removed tomorrow, I would

A irb o rn e u n d e r th e g u n H ugo Cameron The C an ad ian A irborne Regiment may have met its great­ est foe yet — itse lf. F ed eral D efence M in iste r D avid Collenette’s decision last week to disband the Regiment comes in the w ake o f an o p eratio n in Somalia in 1992 and the recent release of videotapes depicting brutal hazing practices and racist beh av io u r by m em bers o f the unit.

F ollow ing the A irb o rn e’s return from Somalia, there have been nine court-martials, and the R egim ent’s im age has taken a serious blow with the initiation of Boards of Inquiry and investiga­ tions into its command and lead­ ership structures. Captain Conrad B ellhum eu r, P u b lic A ffairs Officer for the Canadian Forces at National Defence Headquarters in Ottawa, elaborated.

“A military Board of Inquiry was form ed in 1993 to assess implementing a stricter policy on harassm ent and on racist con­ duct,” he said. “Its conclusions, released on 25 February 1994, ca lle d for renew ed cu ltu ra l aw areness train in g for troops going overseas as well as tighter policies on racism and harass­ ment in the Forces.”

This trend was reflected in the no-nonsense standards of the

A irb o rn e ’s m ost recen t C om m anding O fficer, Lt. Col K erm ond, who assum ed com ­ mand in September 1993.

Captain Robert McGowan, base public affairs officer for Canadian Forces Base Petawawa, commented on Kermond’s com­ mand.

“It appears that things have drastically im proved since his tak in g o f com m and. We now have a completely different unit,” McGowan said. “To my knowl­ edge there have been no incidents akin to what took place in the videos, which were taken before the Somalia operation, since he took over.”

Captain McGowan regretted the decision to disband the unit.

“The A irborne as it exists today, at this m om ent, should have been given its du es,” he argued. “If it was found to be in good order, then the problem s should have been dealt with on an individual basis. I do not believe the actions depicted in the videos are a consequence of the training, w hich m ore than prepares the troops to go on UN missions.”

The issue of a brutal training program has come under scrutiny as a possible explanation for the actions of the Airborne soldiers.

Jack G ranatstein, professor of history at York University and See Airborne Page 1 1

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T h e re fe re n d u m q u e s tio n : s e p a ra tio n o r s o v e re ig n ty ?

By Sanchari C hakravarty A s P rem ier Jacques Parizeau s te e r s th e p r o v i n c e to w a r d a spring referendum on sovereign­ ty, m any observers are discussing the phrasing o f the question. T he la rg e st p u b lic o p in io n p o ll e v e r conducted in C anada show ed that m ost respondents w ould prefer a d i r e c t q u e s tio n a s k in g v o te r s w h e th e r th e y w a n t to s e p a r a te from C anada.

T h e p o ll a lso su g g e sts th a t 60 p e rc e n t o f v o ters w o u ld ca st th eir votes again st in dependence i f P r e m ie r J a c q u e s P a r iz e a u asked the question: “D o you w ant Q uebec to separate from C anada a n d b e c o m e an in d e p e n d e n t co u ntry?” T he poll w as conduct­ ed January 11-19 by three polling f ir m s : C r é a te c + , C R O P a n d S O M . It w as c o m m is s io n e d by th e p r o v i n c i a l a n d f e d e r a l L iberals, the federal C onservative P a rty a n d th e C a n a d ia n U n ity C ouncil.

T he p ro v in c ia l g o v e rn m e n t h as e s ta b lish e d c o m m issio n s in e a c h re g io n o f th e p r o v in c e to d i s c u s s th e D r a f t B ill o n th e S o v ereignty o f Q uebec. In ad d i­ tion, it has set up tw o oth er com ­ m issions to target the young and the elderly. T he com m issions are public and beg in during the w eek o f F ebruary 13.

D esm ond M orton, directo r o f the M cG ill Institute fo r the Study o f C anada, felt that the structure o f the question w as key to accu­ rate responses.

“T h e re fe re n d u m is lik e an opinion survey and the q uestion­ n a ire d e s ig n is im p o r ta n t. T h e q u estio n can be m ade sim p le or com plex depending on the choice o f w ords,” he said. “I f people are to be h o n est, th e q u e stio n m u st b e clear. T h ere are a lot o f re a ­ s o n s th a t th is w o n ’t h a p p e n .

W hen one poses a question, one

m ay not w ant it to be clear.”

T his view w as su p p o rted by m any ca n d id a te s ru n n in g in the St. H enri-W estm ount by-election.

J a y G o u ld o f th e P r o g r e s s iv e C o n se rv a tiv e P arty b eliev e s the current question is inaccurate. “ R ig h t n o w i t ’s v a g u e an d d e c e p tiv e . It d o e s n ’t a c c u ra te ly display w hat they have in m ind in term s o f separation. T he question should read ‘A re you in fav o u r o f th e se p aratio n o f Q u e b e c ? ’, and not use sovereignty association or o th e r failed w o rd s,” G o u ld said.

“T h e p a rty ra n k a n d file a t th e PQ is even saying, its very accep­ tan ce d o e s n ’t ac cu rately p o rtray w h a t th e g o v e r n m e n t h a s in m ind.”

N ew D em o c ratic P arty c a n ­ d id a te A n n E lb o u r n e f e l t th e question w as dishonest.

“It should be as sim ple, clear and honest as possible. I think at the m om ent it’s a slightly dish o n ­ est one,” she said.

G aétan M orency, the Reform P arty ’s candidate, said the q u e s­ tio n n e g le c ts to a n s w e r m a n y im portant issues. “ M a n y th in g s a r e n o t an sw ered b y th e q u estio n . W h at w ill w e do w ith C an ad ian s w ho d o n ’t w a n t to m o v e a n d d o n ’t w a n t to sta y in an in d e p e n d e n t Q uebec? W e are given no answ er to th is,” M o ren cy said. “A t this stage it seem s Q uebecers w ant to sta y in C a n ad a . I t is th e w ro n g tim e to h av e a referen d u m . T he referen d u m is P a riz e a u ’s o b se s­ sion, it’s his bab y .”

L ib e ra l c a n d id a te L u c ie n n e R obillard explained her concerns about the question. “ I th in k w e s h o u ld a s k a c le a r q u e s tio n : d o w e w a n t to separate or not from C anada? W e saw [in a p o ll] th a t th e a n sw e r will be no. C onfusion arises w ith the w ord ‘sovereig n ty ’ and th a t’s w h y th e y u se th e w o rd . A ls o ,

they should answ er, ‘w hy separa­ tio n ? ’ an d th e c o n s e q u e n c e s o f separation. T hey have to explain this to the peo p le,” she said.

A n n e M ic h è le M e g g s, ru n ­ ning for the B loc Q uébécois, felt th e c o m m issio n s e s ta b lish e d by th e p ro v in c ia l g o v e rn m e n t w ill clarify the question.

“I think that through the co n ­ s u lta tio n s th e g o v ern m e n t p r o c e s s s h o u ld a r r iv e a t so m e consensus. T he consultations w ill h e lp c la rify th e q u e s tio n . I am p rep ared to w ait to see w hat the c o n s u lta tio n w ill co m e th ro u g h with. T he B loc supports the co n ­ s u lt a ti o n p r o c e s s , so th e y a re o p en to p ro p o sa ls as w e ll,” she said.

M orency did n ot feel that the c o m m is s i o n w o u ld p r o d u c e results.

“I d o n ’t th in k an y th in g w ill c o m e o u t o f it, b e c a u s e th e y d o n ’t w ant anything to com e out o f it. M o st c o m m issio n s are an e x e rc ise o f fu tility . T h ey k n ew th e a n s w e r th e y w a n te d b e fo re th e y f o r m e d th e c o m m is s io n , even if they find som ething they w ill keep going dow n the stupid ro a d o f e c o n o m ic c o lla p s e an d bank ru p tcy ,” he said. “ T h e y d o n ’t l is te n to th e people o f C anada and are recep ­ tiv e to s p e c ia l in te r e s t g ro u p s w ho apply pressure. T he Reform P a r ty is r e p r e s e n t a t i v e o f th e sile n t m a jo rity . R e fo rm s ca n n o t be fro m the to p dow n, b u t from th e g ra s s ro o ts u p . T h e R e fo rm P a rty b e lie v e s in th e c o m m o n sense o f the p eo p le o f C a n ad a ,” M orency explained.

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jo in e d in ,” G ould said.

“I agree w ith the federal side to n o t ta k e p a r t in th e s e ta lk s b e c a u s e i t ’s a lm o st a k a n g a ro o co u rt o f sorts. I see en couraging s ig n s , w h ile m e e tin g p e o p l e a r o u n d th e r id in g a n d c a m p u s th a t th e r e is m o v e m e n t a w a y from se p aratio n and sp ecifically to w a rd s a u n ite d C a n a d a . T h is m o v e m e n t is p r e d o m i n a n tly b e in g le d by y o u n g Q u e b e c e rs an d stu d e n ts b ec au se th e y h av e th e m o s t a t s ta k e . T h is is o u r fu tu re,” he said.

R o b illa rd f e lt th e c o m m is ­ sions aim ed at increasing support fo r the separation o f Q uebec. “ T h e y w a n t to c r e a te m o m en tu m . T h ey w an t p o lls to g o u p 5 0 p e r c e n t b y u s in g th e c o m m is s i o n . P e o p le s h o u ld realise th a t it is n ot a real co m ­ m is s io n , b e c a u s e th e y w o n ’t change A rticle 1 o f the D raft Bill w h ich states Q u eb ec is a so v e r­ eign country. T he side o f the No fo rces also h av e a strategy, they w o n ’t be th e o nly ones to speak o u t, w e ’ll s p e a k o u t t o o ,” sh e said.

M e g g s , h o w e v e r f e l t th e c o m m issio n s h av e th e p o te n tia l to reflect th e view o f its p artici­ pants.

“I ’m h o p efu l th a t th ere w ill be w ide participation. I ’m disap­ p o in te d th a t th e L ib e r a l P a rty d id n ’t p articip a te, alth o u g h they d o n ’t m in d if th eir m em b ers do.

A n y g ro u p th a t d o e s n ’t p a r tic i­ p a te is m is s in g o u t o n h a v in g th eir view k n ow n,” she said.

M o rto n s a id c r itic s s h o u ld n ot speculate ab o u t the accuracy o f results at this point. “ I a s su m e th a t th e g o v e r n ­ m e n t w ill re ta in c o n tro l o f th e process, since only its friends are b e in g a p p o in te d to m a n a g e it.

W h eth er the co m m issio n s’ p ack ­ a g e is o n e th a t c a n r e a lly b e a c h ie v e d b y Q u eb e c in th e real w orld can n o t b e p red icted now .”

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C o u n tin g s h e e p a n d lo s in g s le e p deepest stages. If this doesn’t happen you during the first three weeks of the semes­ will not feel refreshed when you wake up. ter.

The best advice is to try not to worry Having alcohol in your system also has W hat do C o n an O ’B rien , J o jo ’s about the amount of sleep you get, as it the same effect on your sleep cycle.”

Psychic Alliance and Little House on the Renée Hotte, a nurse at student health often makes the problem worse.

Prairie have in com m on? They all air “Sometimes you can get trapped in a services, advocates relaxation. “I encour­ after Letterman. If you’re watching these vicious cycle; you start worrying about age students to concentrate on learning programs chances are you’re not getting not getting enough sleep and that keeps how to relax properly instead of pushing enough sleep. drugs. They’re not an answer, they’re a you from sleeping,” warned Hoffman.

Most people will experience trouble A good trick is to try turning your crutch,” Hotte added. “We have less and sleeping at some point in their lives. Sleep clock away from your bed so that you less students asking for drugs.” d iso rd e rs are p a rtic u la rly com m on Just prior to the exam period is the can’t see it. Time wasted calculating your among students because of the stress of hours of sleep could be better spent count­ “ Poor s le e p h yg ien e is th e m o s t peak tim e for com plaints about sleep ing sheep. university. In fact, the average night’s problem s at student health services. sleep fo r u n iv e rs ity stu d e n ts has c o m m o n c a u se for sle e p in g d is - S tu d e n ts at decreased substantially. o rd ers a m o n g s tu d e n ts .” all levels are Bev Devin is the national co-ordina­ affected; tor for Sleep/Wake Disorders Canada, an are organisation that provides support to — D r . N o rm a n H o ffm a n , they u n ab le to over two million Canadians who suffer d ir e c to r o f m e n ta l h e a lth for c o n c e n tra te from sleep disorders. Devin estim ates M c Q ill s tu d e n t s e rv ic e s and som e TiO that one in three adult Canadians suffer com e in on ^ HAPPY HOUR from insomnia. Insomnia, the most com­ ^U | 1 -tk # - ik # - ik # -Ik # - * # “ mon sleep disorder, is the difficulty in ter. If lack of sleep is thought to be the the b rin k o f c o l l a p s i n g symptom of a more serious problem the either maintaining or initiating sleep.

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Minde, a sleep disor­ A lack of sleep affects almost every aspect of our lives. “People who suffer d er e x p e rt at the from a sleep d e fic it w ill feel m ore Montreal Children’s stressed, agitated and lethargic. It affects Hospital.

“It’s not just the their performance, relationships — every­ am ount or duration thing suffers,” said Devin.

There are several reasons why sleep of the sleep, but it’s STEAM ED disorders occur. Com mon causes are a also the quality that change in the en v ironm ent, stress, an m atters. Sleep hap­ upsetting event or the anticipation of a pens in stages, not stre ssfu l s itu a tio n . T hey can also be only do you need six caused by more serious problems, such as or seven h o u rs o f sleep, but 25 percent depression or anxiety disorders.

“Poor sleep hygiene is the most com­ of that sleep should mon cause for sleeping disorders among be in the third and s tu d e n ts ,” e x p la in e d Dr. N orm an fo u rth stag es o f Hoffman, director of m ental health for sleep, which are the N ightm are o n y o u r street!

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M cG ill student services. “G ood sleep hygiene is maintaining regular sleeping hours, regular waking hours, a healthy diet, regular eating hours, and relaxing one hour before going to bed. A lot of stu­ dents will stay up studying until one and then try to fall asleep immediately. It just doesn’t work.”

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“The training that Canadian infantry and peacekeepers are currently undergoing should not be altered,” he said. “The hard part is to train people to do a bru­ tal task without brutalising them in turn. Somalia and the hazing experience shows we may not have succeeded.”

G ran atstein p o sted the responsibility for the incidents with the o fficers in charge of leading the regiment.

“These occurrences were the result of failure of leadership in both the Airborne and at NDHQ,” he argued. “ It’s inconceivable that these things were not passed up through the chain of command and dealt with immediately.”

C o n trary to C ap tain M c­ Gowan, Granatstein saw the deci­ sion to disband the Regiment as

the only alternative. He asserted members of the Regiment put the that, because it was a political unit’s preparedness for this type decision, Collenette was the best of mission into question.

“They were totally ill-pre­ person to make the announce­ pared for the m ission in ment.

Visiting McGill political sci­ S om alia,” David argued. “The ence professor Charles-Philippe dual problems of gap in mission D avid, from the C entre for and insufficient m ilitary com ­ S trateg ic S tudies at C ollège mand within the unit are responsi­ Militaire St-Jean, also identified ble. The training that needs to be the source of the problem with emphasised is an understanding of the culture of the country in the lack of strong leadership.

“I find it deplorable that the which they are operating, and a M inister of D efence made the realisation that there may not be a announcement, and not the Chief clearly-defined ‘enemy’.”

“In addition, it was known of Defence Staff [General John de Chastelain],” he said. “It indicates from 1992 onwards that members a lack of lead e rsh ip , and the of the Regiment belonged to neoimage that the Army is giving in N azi groups, yet nothing was this situation is one of inadequate done. It is possible that better p re p ara tio n and train in g may command and control.”

Though the Airborne’s mis­ have prevented this from happen­ sion to Somalia was one of pro­ ing.”

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By T ed Frankel

His flow ing red curls and bawdy bag of tricks announce to the com edy circuit what Scott Thompson has known for years — Carrot Top is not your average stan d -u p shlep.

T hom pson, b etter know n by his v eg ­ etable alias, has torn up the U .S. college scene and m ade a name for himself and his wild prop gags in J u s t three short years.

“It’s full of meat and by -p ro d u cts... a very healthy comedy.

It’s easy to get along with because it’s right in your fa c e ,” described the 28-yearold Thompson of his show.

T hom pson ro lls into Montreal with his famous trunk of good­ ies — including a Dr. Kevorkian bathtub toy (a rubber duck with an electrical cord) — for tw o show s each on F ebruary 3 and 4 at Club Soda. Audiences can expect Carrot Top to provide his usual collection of household items turned comedy pieces — ranging from the practi­ cal (a paper-cup-and-string phone with a third cup for call waiting) to the rude (a phone-dildo con­ traption which Carrot Top holds up and says, “phone sex”).

A g rad u ate o f F lo rid a - Atlantic University with a degree in marketing, Carrot Top’s suc­ cess represents hope for the socalled MTV generation. Instead of following in the footsteps of his fa th e r, a NASA engineer, Thompson’s livelihood has been

built on what he learned outside of class.

“I always thought it was so cool to see people laughing,” said Thompson.

His appeal, however, extends beyond the co lleg e crow d.

Thompson lists his first Tonight

Show visit as the earliest thrill of his career. He also appeared here in Montreal during last summer’s Just for Laughs Comedy Festival and on the S how tim e special Jonathan Winters: Spaced Out. “The most exciting thing [of my career] was probably working with Jonathan W inters,” mused Carrot Top. “As a kid watching him I thought ‘wow, this guy’s insane’.”

Sure to inspire his own fol­ lowing of next generation wise guys, Thompson notes that his job as a comic is not all fun, games

and girls.

“I didn’t get into comedy to get laid... I work hard, I work three hundred days a y e a r,” Thompson related. “People de­

By M ichael Broadhurst finitely don’t see the work side of it.”

After twelve years, it must S till, the b u sin ess has its have been quite a surprise to Ian perks for the Blurton, lead singer and guitarist orange-covered of Toronto’s Change of Heart, to funny man. w in C FN Y ra d io ’s an n u al “I’m a sex “Discovery to Disc” contest. The sy m b o l,” he award, which carries a $100,000 said. “Me and p riz e to w a rd s re c o rd in g an B rad P itt are album, was given to Change of the only two Heart last fall. left.”

S urprising, for C hange of His future H eart have been around since plans include 1982, and released their first EP, branching out 50 Ft. Up, in 1985. The trio has to more diver­ been playing, with various line­ sified roles in ups, around Toronto since then, acting. and now have four album s to “I want to supplement that first release. grow as an “We have some sort of pro­ actor and really file in T oronto,” Blurton said. develop like a A c co rd in g to the d im in u tiv e S teve M artin sin g e r, m any p e o p le ‘in the ty p e ,” said scene’ in Toronto felt the contest Thompson, must have been rigged in COH’s w hose first favour. m ajor m otion “I think i t ’s hilarious that p i c t u r e people think that,” he added.

C hairm an o f Change of Heart are starting the B oard a n a tio n a l to u r w ith the begins produc­ Tragically Hip which is stopping tion in May. Thompson, go fig­ over at the Montreal Forum this ure, plays a klutz who inherits the Sunday. Blurton says it is quite a head post at a corporation. change from the small clubs the When the patented red mane band is accustomed to playing. starts turning grey, Carrot Top “ W e h av e a bus and a hopes to establish himself in the crew ,” he said. “W e’ve never m ovies. For now though, h e’s done that before.” content with partying on the road.

Blurton said that the band is That is, as long as his folks don’t nervous about playing in front of catch wind of his crazy antics. larger crowds.

“My parents think I’m in law “It’s really intimidating. I’m sc h o o l,” he con fid ed to the ju st anxious if th at’s what we Tribune. “They have no idea, so if want to do,” he said. you could keep this under the Will the Hip tour open the table...” band up to new a u d ie n c e s?

B lu rto n assu m es it w ill, but stressed that the band’s fans are from all walks of life.

B lurton dism issed sugges­

M e ta l a n d m a s o c h is m , M a lh a v o c s ty le

By S ue G lover

Before my phone interview with Malhavoc frontman James Cavalluzo, I went around asking people to describe the sound of the T o ro n to -b a sed band. The an sw ers v arie d from death m etal/h ip hop to speed m etal/in d u strial to in d u strial/ tech n o /m etal. H ead reeling, I ask ed C av allu zo to c la ssify M alh av o c’s 1994 release, Get Down. “ D ance m usic and heavy m etal!” he said trium phantly, secure in the knowledge that their sound defies easy classification.

Malhavoc was bom almost eleven years ago as a ‘cheesy death metal’ band, but even then, th e ir first dem o was “50% sp ee d /d e ath m etal, and 50% n o ise/in d u strial,” according to Cavalluzo.

Malhavoc’s fans are as eclec­

tic as the band itself, ranging from Slayer devotees to followers of Skinny Puppy and M inistry.

The 26 year old Cavalluzo says that as he and the other members get o ld er, th e ir sound goes through changes, though their crowd remains young. However, “our live shows aren’t as crazy as they used to be,” he admits, remi­ niscing upon the early days when post-show trips to the hospital were almost mandatory.

C av allu zo com m ented on MC J.C., the character created by him onstage, whose story of cyni­ cism, depression, hatred, rage and disillusionm ent is told on Get Down.

“It’s a part of me, or it could be me, if I lost control over it. I think it reflects my sense of dual­ ity, which everyone has. Some of the destructive stuff I do onstage is planned, acted out, but it defi­ nitely comes from me. It’s a kind

C h a n g e o f H e a rt a b o u t m a jo r la b e ls

of escapism, I guess.”

Noting the inclusion of hip hop and techno b ea ts on G et Down, C avalluzo stated, “The album is about selling out, about being the flavour of the month.

tio n s th a t th e b an d d o e s n ’t recognise its older material in its sets anymore.

“W e ’ve been th ro u g h so many line-up changes, I ’m the only one left in the band from that tim e,” he said. “You want people in the band to feel a sense of place.”

“We just want to keep mov­ ing forward.”

C hange o f H eart recen tly signed a record con tract w ith T o ro n to ’s Lunam oth R ecords, who will re-release the ban d ’s last album, Tummysuckle, which was only previously available at the band’s shows. Blurton said the band is in no hurry to record a new album.

“We haven’t really started th in k in g about th a t,” he said.

“We ju s t started doing dem os into ghetto blasters and stuff.”

Change of Heart will travel to the South By Southwest festi­ val in Austin, Texas, this sum­ m er, as re p re s e n ta tiv e s o f Toronto. The trip is financed by T o ro n to ’s Now m agazine. But the A m erican m arket is not a major concern to Blurton.

“I’m American, I was bom there,” he said. “And to be hon­ est, it kind of bores me. Europe is much more intriguing.”

Blurton said that people in Europe are buying their records, and th a t m em bers o f h H ead re p o rte d seein g C O H ’s 1990 album Soapbox at many shows in Europe.

“I guess somebody likes us, or else so m eb o d y is fo rc in g them to buy our re c o rd s,” he said.

Change o f Heart opens fo r the sold-out Hip show Sunday at the Forum. They hope to play in Montreal on their club tour with King Cobb Steelie this spring.

that.” some older bands, like recentlyAsked about what he thought sig n ed -to -a-m ajo r C alifornian about the current state of alterna­ punk legend All. tive music, Cavalluzo spewed an For its part, M alhavoc has earful about record com panies re-signed to Cargo for their next creating bands like Weezer and album , due out in about three selling them as m o n th s.

T his one, says w hole p a c k ­ Cavalluzo, will be “like world ages, giv in g m usic, w ith a lot o f d ifferen t them hundreds instrumentations from all over.” of thousands of For now, Malhavoc fans will dollars to cut a h av e to m ake do w ith th e ir record. C av al­ unique brand of industrial/techluzo lam ented no/m etal/hip hop stylings. The that bands like band hasn’t played in Montreal M alhavoc, on for a few years, but Cavalluzo the other hand, co n ced es th at “M o n treal has have struggled always had a really good crowd, for years to put so it’ll be interesting to see who out records and comes out to see us now this time Look what happens when you grow up next to the to tour without around.” m uch m oney.

M a lh a vo c p la y s the Pickering nuclear power plant H ow ever, he C a th o u se F rid a y Feb. 3 w ith MC J.C. just wants to cash in on did give credit to the explosion of M ontreal metal rockers Eulogy the trends... he’s selling himself ‘alternative’ bands for m aking and industrial duo Angry White out, and w e’re m aking fun of m ajo r lab els pay atten tio n to Mob.

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January 31st, 1995

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A cool name and lots of fake blood c o u ld n ’t save Tuesday Night Café Theatre’s alleged com­ edy, Wolfboy, from the horrors of a weak script stuffed with con­ trived language. Though the act­ ing was adequate, the p erfo r­ m ances would have benefitted from a stronger script. On a happi­ er note, the black, white and grey scenery was a virtual playground o f angst, keenly m atching the overblow n em oting th at was Wolfboy.

There is reason why this was the first production ever of the ten-year-old play. Though the lan­ guage was undeniably ‘hip’, it somehow rang hollow; someone should tell Brad Fraser (author of W olfboy, U n identified Human Remains and The True Nature o f Love) that it takes more than say­ ing ‘fu c k ’ and ‘s h it’ to make young ch aracters b elievable.

Wolfboy is described as a comedy, yet the jokes herein were as subtle as two men in ski masks brandish­ ing tire-irons. When describing his journal, Bernie said, “Maybe I’ll w rite about my d ic k .” Q uips

Nurse Clipton, “That’ll be a short piece.” Mr. Fraser, we hear Full House is looking for writers.

Sadly, d irec to r R oberto Aguirre added only confusion to this rubble. Aguirre chose to play a soundtrack between scenes, but opted for terribly inappropriate music that was too loud and over­ bearing for the simplicity of the production. Outstanding among these mistakes was Dick Dale’s guitar solo from the opening cred­ its of Pulp Fiction which was used to usher the audience from the the­ atre at the end of the performance, creating a decidedly ambiguous effect.

Another serious mistake was the lack of direction for the actors who wandered about the stage with no apparent motivation what­ soever, coming across as tiresome at best and m in d -sp littin g ly annoying at worst. Wolfboy was replete with monologues by the self-pitying father, Walter, and the horribly unspooky phantasm Annie. Where the actors shined, however, was in pounding home the play’s heavy-handed lessons about the individuality of individ­ uals and the fact that people who need people are the luckiest peo­

ple in the world. Let’s see if you can pick out the m oral in this exchange between Bernie and the Wolfboy.

“How do I get to Oz?” “Follow the yellow brick road.”

“What yellow brick road?”

“Your yellow brick road!”

There were aspects of the play which warrant laurels. Lead Julius Chappie was quite outstand­ ing, especially when delivering such gems as his justification for biting a jogger: “I hate fuckin’ joggers, man!” Mauro Nunez pos­ sessed an adequate howl for a wolfm an, but the makeup only made this wolfman look like he had a nasty fungal infection.

W hat ultim ately sunk this production was the fact that the actors seemed to lack any sort of chemistry between them, or com­ passion for the lines they spoke.

This resulted in an existentialCamus-Dostoevsky-Franz Kafkaesque atmosphere, which was not altogether enjoyable for the audi­ ence, yet better than, say... a bari­ um enema, or gum surgery. Sans anaesthetic.

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Instead of hopping on the West Coast band­ They’ve promoted themselves from sideshow kidwagon and joining the ranks of raw musicianship ders to serious musicians with a flavour for funny, and ragging angst, Vancouver’s Odds have carved a but not without occasional recognition of their past. notch outside of the overkilled grunge scene. And ‘Oh Sorrow, Oh Shame’ is reminiscent of the style it’s this sound that got the Odds an opening spot on th at gave them fam e: “ D rinking lik e a the Tragically Hip’s ongoing tour. Their new CD, teenager/using up the Kleenex/I try on your lipGood Weird Feeling, echoes influences from the stick/I try on your clothes... I try on your hose.”

There’s muddy psychedelia that resembles The Gin Blossoms to Matthew Sweet while passing over the now banal Seattle sounds of Pearl Jam and Grapes of Wrath, stoned, on ‘Leave It There’ and strange suburban sounds dropped throughout Good Nirvana.

“W e’re co m fo rtab le with the com parison. Weird Feeling. The album departs from dull routine We’re doing our own gig and have our own sound. with what could be mistaken as auditory hallucina­ If you must compare, they’re fine. We like those tions. The O dds’ new lineup may have helped mainstream these abstract ideas. bands a lot,” admits new drummer Pat Steward.

In fulfilling the rites of true Spinal Tape an pas­ Lyrically, the Odds lend a funny, often satirical and frequently wry vision of the world. Their video sage, Steward has replaced former drummer Paul for ‘Heterosexual M an’ from the Bedbugs album Brennan, w ho’d been with the band since 1987 has the band lusting after women with zero success when they recorded Neopolitan, their debut. Both S tew ard and ra te , and by the Brennan play on end, try in g th eir G ood W eird luck in drag. They Feeling. also had the help “T h eir was of K evin no com petition,” M acD onald and adds S tew ard.

David Foley from “W e’re all The K ids in the friends.

It was a H a ll, who both professional not acted and produced p erso n al d e c i­ the video. sion. I have a lot “Humour’s an o f re sp e c t for im portant part of Paul, now I have life,” says Steward. to breathe myself “The subjects we into the m usic. deal with are still I’ve got big shoes as serious, they’re to fill.” ju st easier to talk Odds are The Hip tour will be a good career move The Odds ab o u t th is w ay. start their month­ M ore p eo p le can long tour with the Tragically Hip and Change of relate.”

Though wit is an integral element of the Odds’ Heart next week on the East Coast. Though only on writing, Good Weird Feeling spiders out and gains stage for about half an hour, their set will consist of a view th a t’s m oved from satiric to realistic. tunes from all three of their CDs. “The set’s shorter, ‘Smokescreen (Come and Get Me)’, an album high­ but i t ’s turned up. We still do favourites like light which has a good lyrical grab, mirrors para­ ‘Wendy’, ‘Jackhammer’ and ‘Heterosexual Man’. noia experienced by a cynic. Its colloquial clever­ The Odds will be taking stage February 5 fo r a ness is enough to make the H ip’s Gord Downie proud. ‘W e’ll T alk ’ em braces the relationship sold out show at the Forum, with the Tragically Hip. theme with tight truth and an undertone of pain.

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A w e b o f e n c h a n tm e n t: th e S p id e r W o m a n is h e re T ouring com pany opened this magnificent musical at Place des Arts last Wednesday.

Kiss o f the Spider Woman is b ase d on M an u el P u ig ’s acclaim ed novel El Beso de la Mujer Arana, which was adapted

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H it m u sical K iss o f the Spider Woman has finally come to Montreal with its impressive array of awards, which include seven 1993 T o n ies, and the 1992-1993 New Y ork D ram a C ritics’ Circle Award for ‘Best M usical’. The North American

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T he c a st is su p erb . Juan C hioran is the C anadian actor who plays Molina, the gay win­ dow d re sse r w ho escap es the reality of his tiny prison cell and the tortures around him by reliv­ ing fa v o u rite m ovie sce n es, which he relays to his cell-mate Valentin (John Dosset). His films of choice star a Latin American B-movie diva, Aurora. Through his brilliant singing and acting, Chioran m asters the vast em o­ tional range of this character and relates the mind of a man who has suffered years of frustration and humiliation, a man who only now has started to learn how to stand up for himself. Valentin, the Marxist revolutionary macho man who at first wants nothing to do with his effem inate cell­ mate, learns to accept and even care for him. Dosset plays this ro le w ith g re at in te n sity and power. The central theme of this musical is how the relationship betw een M olina and V alentin gradually evolves from one of hostility to one of mutual respect and understand­ ing.

H o w e v e r, what makes this show so special is the extraordi­ nary C h ita R iv era. T his B roadw ay leg ­ end won a Tony for her portray­ al o f the dual role of A urora and The Spider Woman. Rivera sin g s and dances her way into a convinc­ ing and seduc­ tive fig u re-o fd eath who sneaks around the p riso n to en ta n g le the prisoners in her le th a l clo se em b race, and w hose kiss symbolises death. The 62year-old Rivera,

who recently recovered from a disastrously broken leg, dances with the vitality of a 20-year-old and captures the audience’s emo­ tions with her magical web.

Jerome Sirlin’s sets also set th is show apart. His b rillia n t grids and projections are a feast for the eyes. Also noteworthy are the costumes by Florence Klotz, who dresses everyone from the sexy B ra z ilia n d a n c e r to th e dreadful Spider Woman perfectly for each occasion.

In his Tony Award accep­ tance speech, Drabinsky said that all Canadians should be proud of the $7.5 million Canadian-creat­ ed K iss o f the Spider Woman.

Thankfully, we have men like D rabinsky, who with his great vision and wisdom, has brought and created excellent theatre in Canada.

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T h e ex h ib itio n , fe a tu rin g the m u c h a n tic ip a te d u n v e ilin g o f S y g g o te ’s m o st re c e n t w ork h ad b e e n a n n o u n c e d a s a o n e n ig h t a f f a ir . It h a d b e e n a lo n g tim e co m in g , an d it w as su re to ex c ite a c o n s id e ra b le in te re st. E v a n , a g re a t a d m ire r o f th e a r t i s t ’s w o rk , re se rv e d a p a ir o f tic k e ts a n d to o k fo r g ra n te d th a t R u th w o u ld jo in him . O n th e n ig h t o f th e o p e n i n g h e s u r p r i s e d h e r w ith th e tick ets, b u t to h is asto n ­ ish m en t, she p o litely refu sed the in v itatio n an d o p te d to sta y in. “ Y o u h a v e to c o m e ,” h e pleaded.

“N o th in g you sa y is g o in g to change my m in d .”

R u th w o u ld n ’t bud ge. “ Y o u ’re b lo w in g m e o f f ,” he re so lv e d , h is c o n v ic tio n fa l­ tering.

“D o n ’t g et so h o t an d bo th ­ e re d ,” sh e e g g e d . " A n d f o r th e o n e m il lio n th tim e , g o to th e ex h ib it, en jo y th e u n v eilin g an d I ’ ll w a i t h e r e u n t i l y o u g e t b ack .”

“I ju s t d o n ’t u n d ersta n d ,” he co n tin u ed . “I k n o w yo u lik e Z oe S y g g o te ’s s tu ff a lm o st as m u ch as I d o . It w as o n e o f o u r firs t co m m o n in terests.”

A s h e w e n t o n , h is v o ic e d esce n d ed to a g en tle lull.

“ I t w a s o n e o f th e re a s o n s w e g o t to g e th e r. K e e p in m in d th a t its g o in g to b e f u n — an o v e r w h e l m i n g r e l e a s e . I t ’ ll sw e e p y o u u p lik e a w a v e , an d th e n g e n tly d e p o s it y o u o n th e shore, sh u d d e rin g ...”

“P ro m ise s, p ro m is e s ...” sh e s a n g a s i f h e w e r e n ’t in th e ro o m , c o n fid in g to an in v is ib le th ird party. “ Y o u ’r e a s to n e ,” h e m a r­ v elled, fallin g sh o rt o f th e m ark. “ Y o u s h o u l d h a v e s a id a m o u n ta in ,” s h e c o r r e c te d ; th e ru d im en ts o f a sm ile trac in g her lips.

“M ay b e a flo w er?” h e o fferd in a d e q u a te ly , h o p in g to s o fte n h e r up.

“T a rd y tribute. N ow sto p it, y o u r m a k in g th is v e ry d iffic u lt o n m e, E v an .” “ I ’ll s to p i f I ’m b e in g a p a in , b u t I re a lly d o n ’t se e th e harm in p atro n isin g th e ex h ib it.” “ I ’m n o t c o m in g — a n d b esid es,” sh e co n tin u ed . “I th in k y ou o v errate h is cre ativ ity .” “ W h a t!? ” E v a n w as o u t­ r a g e d . “ H o w c o u ld i t b e a n y ­ th in g b u t c re a tiv e : e v e ry stro k e a ttests to th e sa crifice o f u n co n ­ sc io u s su rre n d e r; h is c o m p le te d peices are icons o f d ev o tio n , and th e co llec tio n is th e an a to m y o f

th e m a n ’s p assio n .” “ A c o m e n d a b le s u m m a r y , b u t h is w o rk d o e s n ’t b rea th e, it d o e s n ’t c ry , it d o e s n ’t g e t h u n ­ g ry. It d ep en d s on n o th in g .” “ It d ep en d s on ev e ry th in g !” h e b eg an , an x io u s to d efe n d his idol. “It is th e sum o f e x p erien ce s tr e a m in g th r o u g h th e s e n s e s , c h u r n e d in t h e m in d a n d rea ssem b led on th e can v as. It is th e m e tic u lo u s te s tim o n y o f a g reat m a n ’s spirit. It is inspired, it is m o v in g an d y o u a re q u ite rig h t in say in g th a t it d o e s n ’t g et h u n g ry , it in stils h u n g er, an in sa­ tia b le a p p e tite to p a rta k e in its im m u tab le b ea u ty .”

“I th in k you m ig h t b e m iss­ in g th e p o in t,” sh e rejo in ed . “ H o w c o u ld I, th e h u m b le a p o s t l e o f E l M a e s t r o d e la B r o s s a G o r d a , b e m is s in g th e p o in t? A n d if I am , w hat au th o ri­ ty d o y o u h av e o n th e m atter?” “ I d o n ’t k n o w th e first th in g a b o u t ‘a u th o r ity ’. I d o n ’t e v e n th in k y o u k n o w th e f ir s t th in g a b o u t a u t h o r i ty . I d o k n o w a sp eck ab o u t flesh an d b lo o d .” “ I d o n ’t th in k y o u ’re b ein g s e n s ib le ,” E v a n w a s b e c o m in g ex asp erated .

“Y o u ju s t d o n ’t k now w h at I m ean ,” sh e teased , flau n tin g h er secret. “ I f y o u ca m e w ith m e, you co u ld ex p lain it on th e w ay, an d w e w o u ld b o th sh are in a g reater sen sib ility , all you h av e to d o is c o m e ,” h e p le ad e d in m ock d es­ p eratio n , co n scio u s th a t th e m in ­ u tes w ere tick in g aw ay.

S h e lo o k e d a t h im w ith o u t

s a y in g a w o r d , s u s p e n d e d in tran q u ility , as if w aitin g fo r h im to ru b th e sleep fro m h is ey es, to c a tc h a g lim m e r o f a s u p e ro ir u n v eilin g . T h e silen c e h ad sp o ­ k en to h im q u ite lo u d ly , en g e n ­ d erin g a d en sity in th e air o f the ro o m w h ich le d h im to b e lie v e th a t h e h ad deep ly u n d ere stim a t­ e d th e im p o rtan ce o f h e r w ords.

E v an w as p o ssesed by th e w o n ­ d e r o f w h at th e an sw e r co u ld be.

“W h a t’s w ro n g ?” “ I t ’ s n o th in g ,” sh e w h is ­ pered, “ It c a n ’t b e n o th in g , it h as to b e so m eth in g .”

“I g u ess i t ’s th a t sim p le, or th at h ard .” “ I ’m tir e d o f g a m e s , n o w w h a t’s w ro n g ?” “ N o th in g is w r o n g ,” R u th h ushed.

S h e to o k h o ld o f h is h an d , lif te d h e r s w e a te r a n d le d h is tr e m b lin g fin g e r s to h e r b a re d sto m ach . T h e ex p re ssio n on her face, on e he had n ev er seen but v ag u ely reco g n ized , w as enough to c o n f ir m h is d e e p e s t s u s p i ­ cions. H e sto p p ed his h an d short o f m ak in g contact. “ I c a n ’t c o n c e i v e . . . ” h e b e g a n s tu m b lin g fo r w o rd s , flay lin g in the tem p est o f rev ela­ tion.

‘T o u c h é ,” sh e in siste d , h er v o ice b arely audible.

“T o u c h é ,” h e e c h o e d , f e e l­ in g th e w arm b u lg e o f h e r b elly, fee lin g lik e h e h ad b ee n k ick ed .

W hen w as th e la st tim e that special someone proposed that you s p e n d th e n ig h t? N o w o rr ie s .

M cG ill Im prov, a com edy troupe fam ous for their outrageous stints at the Alley, are asking you now.

but don’t really know w hat’s going to happen on stage until it does.”

A c c o rd in g to H o lm a n , th e marathon prom ises all sorts o f silli­ ness like “recreated m ovies, gamesh o w s w h ic h h a v e n e v e r b e e n

McGill Im prov is hold­ ing th eir annual 2 4 -h o u r sta n d up com edy m ara th o n sta rt­ in g to m o rro w n ig h t.

W h ile dropping in for a few la u g h s betw een classes is re c o m m e n d ­ ed , c ra s h in g in w ith s le e p in g bags and food is Are you trilling to m ost h ig h ly encouraged.

C o m e d ia n T a m a ra H o lm a n explains w hat this craziness is all about, “Im prov is m ade o f com edy skits based on audience suggestion.

It’s based on a set o f rules loosely set by Theatre Sports, w hich means that w e can’t censor audience sug­ gestio n . W e h av e a basic sk e tc h .

bunk a nigbt with these freaks? p la y e d , a n d d if f e r e n t th e a tr e gam es. In one o f o u r g am es, w e play a scene and then recreate in three different genres. Y ou know, genres like ‘O pera’ or ‘W estern’.”

Speaking o f opera, be warned now that M cGill Improv is known fo r its b old and b o istero u s song. “ W e p la y h ip p it y b ip p ity h o p

gam es and sing acapella songs. W e totally sing all o f the time. W e sing as much as possible, which is really funny because m ost o f the troupe h a s n o s in g in g a b ility at a ll.

Especially me,” Holman added.

W h ile n e w c o m ­ ers w ill und o u b ted ly b e tic k le d by th e m a ra th o n , Im p ro v ju n k ie s w ill be esp e­ c ia lly h ap p y to fin d r e g u la r s lik e N o Knee-Cap-Boy, R e s i d e n t W o n d e rw o m a n an d Stumpy MacClarren.

So how does H o lm a n e x p e c t th e tro u p e to k e e p th e ir f a s t w its a n d g o o d hum our g o in g ? “ C o ffe e a n d , u h , speed. I m ean coffee an d ad re n alin e . A nd naps.”

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A lo n g th e s id e lin e s - a lo o k a t th e s u p p o rtin g c a s t looked. the “sacrificial lambs”, there is a come to M cGill. She made the The term “practice” itself fails myriad of emotions, challenges team as a walk-on, not expecting Same old, same old. to arouse interest and excitement, and scenarios with which they to play that much, but cannot give Every day in the sports pages but the behind-the-scenes training have to deal. Often, it becomes a up hope that her effort will some­ of newspapers and magazines, all is the blood, sweat and tears in its test of self-esteem and a how pay off each week. we hear are the nam es o f the purist form. challenge o f inner Beauregard feels that heroes-of-the day who either led The hum an com ponent strength to stay commit­ her support role on the their teams to victory or posted behind sports stories is invisible ted, to be positive and team is important whether shining efforts in defeat; those sometimes, but the space between supportive of the team, she is wearing a uniform who either scored the most points, the lines of a victory story or one and to work as hard, if or not. made the most impressive plays or describing defeat belies more than not harder, than the first “ Som etim es I go racked up the highest numbers on what at first meets the eye. and second-string play­ home pretty upset,” she the stats sheets of their respective At football, hockey and bas­ ers who are rewarded at said. “But, then I come games. ketball gam es, perceptible are the end of each week back and say ‘O.K. it’s Granted, give credit where those who must opt for the sharp- with an opportunity to tim e to cheer the team credit is due. But there are unsung dressed look of shirt-and-tie as strut their stuff in offi­ Isabelle Beauregard o n .’ I have people who heroes behind every victory and a opposed to the athletic-w ear of cial com petition. But, give me the support I need su p porting cast behind every their counterparts who are busy these players stay on. They uphold to do that.” struggle. sweating and grinding it out on the the most impressive work ethics, Another player who is some­ The co n ­ playing court, ice rink or field. force their team m ates to make times forced to watch from the cept is called These are not the chosen themselves better and are forced to sidelines is Danielle Goldfarb, a team. And the ones. They are the supporting cast find their own pot of gold at the second-year Nlanagement student concept has its — for lack o f a b etter term . end the rainbow. from Toronto. Not lacking in a “up s” and its Although less visible, less renown Isabelle Beauregard, a first- strong work ethic nor an incredi­ “downs”. than the MVP, all-stars year point guard on the ble am ount of focus, G oldfarb The downs and A ll-C anadians at women’s basketball team earned the honor of Academic Alloften don’t get McGill, they are impor­ summed up the paradox Canadian for her efforts in her well. rookie season with the Martlets.

■ I w r>tten about tant nonetheless, under­ estimated and sometimes | * j/i in the black “There’s so much of a She feels every day is a challenge tim e com m itm ent when to improve and by accepting that Danielle Goldfarb and white print not appreciated enough.

A case in point is that leads up to you play a sport,” she said. challenge, the team benefits. most sporting events — unless the women’s basketball “So many things are sacri­ “By trying to im prove my you’ve got as big a foot as Gilbert team. ficed. Sometimes you feel own abilities, I hope it forces the Dionne of the Montreal Canadiens League rules state as if you work so hard and starters and others to im prove and a similar uncontrollable reflex that each team can only then at the end, there’s no th e ir’s as w e ll,” she said. which keeps landing that foot in dress twelve of its mem­ Ingrid Marchand real payoff because the “Spending the time travelling, your mouth and you in the news­ bers.

The M cG ill coaches say ‘Good job, watching the warm-up and being paper day after day. Only blood, Martlets have fifteen players on you’re not dressing this week.’ It’s part of all the team preparations sweat and tears in the form of the roster. Someone must sit out. tough.” before the gam e is d ifficu lt valiance gets recognised. Blood, It is an unenviable position, but a Tougher still that Beauregard because it infringes on school sweat and tears which result only common reality in team sports. declined a tennis scholarship to work time, but the other players in “good effort” often get over­ For those who are designated Mississippi University last year to make me feel as if what I’m doing

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is valuable and that is what makes the whole thing enjoyable.”

Ingrid Marchand and Karen Ryce are two other first-year play­ ers who have not dressed at times during the year. They are also the two players on the Martlet squad who spend the most extra time in the gym working out and trying to improve different aspects of their game.

Marchand is also a member of the track team and was last year’s provincial triple jump champion.

She opted to play basketball this season after sustaining an elbow injury which impeded her from competing in the javelin throw — her specialty.

The Martlets are representa­ tive o f a team through and through. Regardless of the team in question, however, it is admirable to score the points and make the plays in any sport, but it is m o r e admirable still to be the sup­ port system behind those plays. The pot of gold at the end of the rain­ bow is not alw ays easily Karen Ryce attain ed , but for those who have struggled to reach it, the value becom es immeasurable and perhaps more precious than one that was obvi­ ous from the onset.

K e n d o : tra v e llin g th e w a y o f th e s w o rd in th e n in e tie s

By D ana T oerinc

C ruising the halls of the Currie Gym early one Saturday morning I was startled by the loud battle cries emerging from behind the closed doors of the dance stu­ dio. With an investigative sports reporter’s integrity, I slipped into the room to see what was going on. Surprisingly I found myself face to face with what appeared to be two Imperial Japanese warriors.

Soon enough, it was clear that I had intruded upon a training ses­ sion for the McGill Kendo club and that these dedicated athletes were sparring, not trying to kill each other.

Like other sports clubs on the McGill campus, the Kendo club is small and goes relatively unno­ ticed. What began as an interest for three McGill students from Toronto has now blossomed into one of McGill’s most innovative clubs and currently has 20 mem­ bers. Membership reached a high of 25 last year when the club first began running and founders Hagi Nakamura, Young Yoon, and John Prinos, can only expect this num­ ber to grow as Kendo becomes more familiar in North America.

The unfortunate reality of the presen t situ atio n is that m ost

North Americans are unfamiliar with most martial arts, skill level with sports that d o n ’t revolve is designated by the colour and around superstars, strikes and degree of belt that is worn. salary caps, so Kendo is still a Kendo is still a very popular new born in this neck o f the sport in its country o f origin, woods. Kendo is the martial art of Japan, and is gaining popularity Japanese swordmanship. While it worldwide. Some seven million is comparable to fencing, modern people participate in Kendo in day Kendo uses techniques devel­ Japan which makes it the coun­ oped and refined by generations of try ’s second most popular sport Sam urai fencing instructors. after baseball.

Wearing protective equipment, the “The way most high schools athletes spar with bamboo swords in C anada have volley b all or called shinai. The word “Kendo” hockey team s that are popular literally means “the way of the com petitive sports,” said Hagi sword”. According to Nakamura, “Japanese high schools have although Kendo is a martial art, it Kendo.” is not intended for self-defense Internationally, 213,000 peo­ but, instead, solely for competitive ple in 24 countries practise Kendo. sport.

Clearly, there is a lot of room for Because the sport is a descen­ Kendo to grow in popularity and dant of Sam urai tradition, the numbers. In addition to several arm our worn by the athletes Kendo clubs across Canada, clubs appears almost ceremonial. At the have been established successfully M cGill Kendo club, Kendo-ka at University of Toronto, Waterloo (formal name for a practitioner of University and the Université de Kendo) only wear armour after Montréal. substantial training. Beginners Because club sports at McGill must be patient and must practise do not get financial support from and m aster the basic footwork, the university department of ath­ posture and the basics of holding letics, except for the use of the and manipulating the shinai (bam­ facilities, the Kendo club is lucky boo sword used by the Kendo-ka) to be well connected. before getting the privilege to Founder, Young Yoon, was wear the armour and spar with the fortunate enough to have practised advanced members of the club. As in a Dojo in Tokyo and his former

teacher was generous enough to donate seven suits of Kendo armour to the McGill club. Considering that each suit costs close to 1,000 d o llars, the three founders of the club are extrem ely grateful.

C loser to home, the Kendo boys are helped along by a fifth degree black belt teacher, Christian Orazinth.

“C hristian has basically adopted us,” Hagi said.

Orazinth was the general m anager of the Canadian national team when C anada sent a contingent to the w orld ch am pi­ onships in Paris. His influence has attracted the attention of many other teachers and Kendo - notfo r thefa in t o f heart supporters of the game and has led Montreal to be chosen th at M cG ill will be the h o st,” as the sight for the 1996 Canadian Nakamura said. “It is something national Kendo tournam ent. we really want.”

If the M cG ill Kendo club McGill is hoping to host the tour­ does host the tourney it would ney.

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bowl of sugar affects a hyperac­ tive child. Although Yotis checked out of the game after five minutes, his role was a success and his mis­ sion accomplished; the Concordia players were whipped up into an aggressive, frenzied team who outlasted and outplayed McGill for the remainder of the game. The Redmen were overwhelmed.

In contrast to C oncordia’s surge, McGill saw their own game fall apart, piece by piece, like the sections falling o ff a doom ed space shuttle after its launch. The first piece to go was M cG ill’s inside game. Wozney looked great at tim es, grabbing offensive boards and giving M cG ill’s offence second chances. But he was not nearly as im portant a

It could have been called a sello u t at the C urrie Gym on Friday night if M cG ill had stopped selling tickets once there was absolutely no room inside the gym anym ore. As it was, they didn’t deny anyone entry and even the term “capacity crowd” was an understatement. It would probably be considered sacriligious to turn away even a single student howev­ er, robbing them of the opportuni­ ty to witness the intensity of ongo­ ing saga of “The Redmen vs. The Concordia Stingers” in Quebec U niversity B asketball League action.

Each audience m em ber seemed to be pondering the same questions before the weekend matchup: was the January 14, 96-89 McGill overtime victo­ ry over C oncordia a sign of the end of the Redm en dom ination by the Stingers? Or, was the gam e an anomaly, a small set­ back for the Stingers, which would barely be rem em bered by sea­ so n ’s end? W ould McGill be able to use the win as a first step to the C anadian Interuniversity A thletic U nion top ten?

The game Photo Caption answered none of these questions convincing­ ly, but the 77-63 final score in presence as in previous games, favour of Concordia indicated that and no one else stepped in as a the Stingers are not a team to be dom inating inside force, either offensively or defensively, for the taken lightly.

At the onset of play, the two Redmen.

It appeared at first that team s looked evenly balanced, with McGill matching Concordia McGill might be able to fall back basket for basket. “Wooz”, who on its strong outside game. Ryan occasionally goes by the name Schoenhals contributed an early Chad Wozney, was most notable three-pointer to the cause, and was for the Redmen, doing what he 3-for-3 from beyond the line on does best: grabbing rebounds and the night. But M cG ill’s outside scoring from the inside. From the game was soon jettisoned as well. perim eter, it looked as though Schoenhals’s performance aside, McGill’s three-point shots would the Redmen had a combined three be able to answer C oncordia’s completions on 20 attempts from scoring on penetrating drives. The three-point land.

“With the shooters we have, balance of power would shift in we should have made a lot more favour of the Stingers during the outside shots, especially with the first few minutes of play.

The turning point came when zone they were using,” suggested Concordia’s Johnny Yotis came point guard Sammy Mendolia.

McGill’s passing game also into the game off the bench. The guard entered the game as a fid­ fell apart. The best laid passes of gety, trash-talking catalyst. He the McGill Redmen too often went taunted the McGill ball carriers astray, falling into Stinger hands, while playing aggressive, hands- who did not hesitate to transform on defense. He managed to steal the turnovers into points.

D efensively, the Redm en the ball from one of the McGill guards, driving it down the length continually left their baseline of the court to score on an awk­ vacant, and Concordia forwards ward, hard-fought lay-up. This G aétan P rosper and Em erson affected the other Stingers like a Thomas gladly stepped into the

voids to score repeatedly on easy lay-ups. Prosper and Thomas fin­ ished w ith 18 and 14 points, respectively.

M cG ill never allow ed Concordia to put the game com­ pletely out of reach until the very end. Nearing the end of the second half, the Redm en appeared as though they m ight be able to regroup and mount a comeback.

Forward Hubert Davis came off the bench and scored M cG ill’s next five points, and Davis looked like he could be the proverbial gadfly th at w ould aw aken the Redm en. But he ju st w asn’t enough. D avis returned to the bench, the Redmen could not be revitalised.

Redm en head C oach Ken

Schildroth did not attribute the loss to a superior level of play by the Stingers.

“From my perspective, we lost the game because of how badly we played, not how good they played,” he said.

On Sunday, the Redm en faced last place Université Laval, who were a much tougher foe than expected, having just come off an upset of Bishop’s University. The Redmen, playing with the burden o f F rid ay ’s loss, but w ithout power forw ard Chad W ozney, brought home a 74-66 victory.

Doug McMahon lead the Redmen with 15 points, and Rick Varisco scored three treys and finished with 12 points. After the victory, McGill remained in second place in the QUBL standings.

McGill’s next game is against B ish o p ’s at the C urrie Gym Friday, February 3. W hile the players are no doubt concentrating on their game versus the Gaiters, there must certainly be a part of them looking ahead to the final game of the regular season, when they once again m eet the C oncordia S tingers in three weeks’ time.

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As the race for the university hockey playoffs heats up, the McGill squad showed their desire to get in on the ac tio n . The Redmen were on fire last week­ end as they faced o ff against a hapless collection of Kingston opponents, beginning a series of assaults with an 8-4 win over the Queen’s Golden Gaels on Friday night.

W hile McGill fans queried “What the frig’s a Golden Gael?” along with the Q ueen’s players who were scratching their heads wondering themselves, Redmen T odd M arcellu s p o tted th ree goals and assisted on three others to collect a six-point total on the night. M arcellus, scoring all three goals on breakaways, virtu­ ally u n d re sse d the Q u e en ’s defensive squad. His third goal marked his 50th career goal in 100 varsity games.

O ther sco rers fo r the Redmen were Ivan Murray, Kelly Nobes, and Jean Guy Daigneault with solos apiece. Captain Guy Boucher, showing Kirk Mullerlik e lead e rsh ip on the ice all night, also added to the offensive barrage by shelving one goal and two assists. Robert Bourbeau, who has had an up-and-dow n season thus far, was ready for this match with a deft glove hand and solid netm inding that saw him deny the Golden Gaels on 23 occasions.

Coming off the heels of vic­ tory, the Redmen travelled across the way to face off against Royal M ilitary College squad, taking that game rather easily in a 10-2 win. Although RMC is highly-

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Unlike the night before, this victory was a total team effort as there was no shortage of determi­ nation and fire from the Redmen squad. Rookie sensation Luc Fournier, a fourth line forward, led the attack of attrition by pot­ ting two winners and two assists.

Newcomer Lee Albert received a w arm w elcom e from his new teammates as he found the spot on one goal and helped on three others.

Singles went out to David Vecchio, Benoit Leroux, Mark Shufelt, defenceman Fred Brais, Stepan Angers and rookie sensa­ tion Pierre Gendron. Murray, the R edm en p re se n tly w ith the hottest hand, potted his sixth goal in as m any gam es. R ich ard Boscher, the Redmen’s starting goaltender was not challenged very much throughout the night, facing only 18 shots and turning away 16.

W ith C o n co rd ia tying Q u e en ’s on the w eekend, the Redmen have gained a point on the Stingers and now find them­ selv es only tw o p o in ts from bursting out of the OUAA Far East division basement. With six more gam es left in the season and an 8-9-1 record, McGill finds itself in virtual must-win situa­ tions this w eekend when they square o ff against Ryerson on S atu rd ay n ig h t at 7 p.m . and Laurentian University on Sunday at the McConnell Winter Arena, at 3 p.m.

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M a rtle ts o v e rc o m e th e ir L a v a l n e m e s is b u t fa ll to C o n U

By M ichael B ro a d h u r st

The McGill Martlets basket­ ball team split a pair of weekend gam es in Quebec U niversity Basketball League play, losing to arch rivals Concordia on Friday night but rebounding for a narrow victory over l’Université Laval on Sunday.

In F rid ay ’s gam e, tenthranked McGill faced the Stingers, ranked eighth in the nation.

Concordia came out flying and took advantage of several McGill defensive lapses to build a 15-6 lead. M cG ill solved its inside shooting problems by taking a dif­ ferent approach: guard Josée D eloretto nailed back-to-back three-p o in ters, and an Anne ‘ Gildenhuys bucket tied the score at 16-16.

McGill took advantage of the turnaround, when the Gagné sis­ ters, Geneviève and Melanie, led a Constance Brown* Sybille Sasse Agency

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Anne Gildenhuys’ clutch scor­ ing kept McGill out front, howev­ er, as she had 12 first half points, including six in the final five min­ utes. McGill held a 39-34 edge at the half-time buzzer.

Things looked good for M cGill as Deloretto nailed her third trey to start the second half, and then a fourth ju st m inutes later. But Sandy and team m ate Linda Benjamin had other ideas, leading mini-comeback after mini­ comeback, bending and bending the McGill defence so that McGill could only hold on so long. An

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After four minutes of sloppy gym, started slowly and managed Laval was led by forw ard play by both teams, Concordia’s just 20 points in the first twenty Josée St-Onge, who poured in 15 Eva Sam ore sand­ points to pace the Rouge et Or. But w iched baskets McGill would not be denied a vic­ around one Sandy tory it needed badly after the nar­ m arker to put the row loss to Concordia. Gildenhuys Stingers up by six, again led the Martlets, this time and out of McGill’s netting 16 points as McGill’s top reach. C oncordia’s scorer. Forward Lesley Stevenson cruise to a win was added ten points to ease the load, interrupted by sever­ and Vicky Tessier had nine. al trips to the foul The tim ing of G ildenhuys’ line and a brief scare scoring was more impressive than with seconds the actual total contribution. Seven rem aining as minutes into the second half, she Gildenhuys complet­ had just six points, but in the next ed a three-point play 13 minutes the 5’10” forward pot­ to pull the Martlets ted ten points to lead the Martlets’ to w ithin three. turnaround.

Benjamin sank one McGill was up 47-45 with 3.5 free throw to put the seconds remaining when Deloretto game away, with fouled Laval forw ard Y olaine Concordia prevail­ Masse, sending her to the line with ing 74-70. a chance to tie the game and send Sandy led the it into extra m inutes. M asse Stingers with 22 couldn’t stand the weather — the points, w hile pressure being too high — and Sam ore added 16. missed the first shot. She nailed McGill was led by Photo caption the second one, but McGill still G ildenhuys’ 19 held a one-pôint lead, and ran out points, w hile Josée D eloretto minutes. Luckily the defence was the clock to preserve a 47-46 win. added 17, including five three- up to the test on this afternoon, With the weekend split, the pointers, tying Melanie Gagné’s with Deloretto leading the effort to Martlets (5-3) remain one game two-year-old Martlet record. hold Laval to only a 23-20 lead at behind Laval (6-2) in the QUBL On Sunday afternoon, the half-time. Laval, which shot a mis­ standings, and two games ahead of Martlets travelled to Ste-Foy to erable 14-for-51 (27 percent) from C oncordia (3-5). They host face l’Université Laval’s Rouge et the field, was only 9-for-18 from Bishop’s on Friday night at 6 p.m.

Or, the first-place team in the the charity stripe. McGill wasn’t at the Currie Gym.

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M cG ill’s h o ck e /M a rtlets must be seriously questioning the old adage that hard work always pays off. On Friday night, at the McConnell Arena, the red and white suffered their third loss in as many tries. The 3-1 defeat to Guilbault was not representa­ tive of a gritty Martlet effort.

The Martlets found themselves in an early hole as they allowed Guilbault to score two first period goals. The early setbacks did not quell the Martlets’ hopes nor their effort to end the mini-slump. Led by the standout effort of captain Claire Sharpe, the Martlets refused to give up. Sharpe’s heart and hus­ tle forced two Guilbault penalties. The gutsy captain also set up the first and only Martlet goal at 2:51 of the second period.

The M artlet m arker, scored by w inger Jen n ife r Brunn, was the only tim e the red birds could sim m er a hot Guilbault netminder.

The Martlets couldn’t buy a goal even though they outshot the opposition in the th ird perio d . The M a rtle ts’ hard luck was epitomised by a Beth Brown screamer off the goalpost.

C oach John C larke sum m ed up the Martlets’ bad luck of late.

“We’ve run into a string of hot goalies and the puck just doesn’t seem to be going in for us,” he said. “We just didn’t get any breaks tonight — but the team never let up.”

The M artlets failed to score on any of their power play chances. Veteran Martlet Meg Priston thought that not capitalising on opportunities in the offensive zone was the root of the team’s troubles.

“If we want to put more Ws in the win column, our snipers have to start putting the puck in the net,” she said. “The team worked hard tonight — but we just couldn’t find the net.”

The squad will attempt to end their skid when they hit the road to play Repentigny this Saturday evening. A Martlets win will convince the team that hard work does pay off.

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Tuesday. January 31 The Dept, of History presents Prof Gershon Hundert, author of The Jews in a Polish Private Town: The Case o f Opatow in the Eighteenth Century. 4 pm, Thomson House, 3650 McTavish.

LBGM C oordinating Committee. Everyone welcome.

5:30 pm, 432 Shatner.

The M cGill Taiw anese Students’ Association invites you to celebrate the Chinese New Year.

Have your name translated and written in Chinese calligraphy and find out your horoscope for the Year of the Pig!. 10 am - 2:30 pm, Leacock Lobby.

Wednesday. February 1 24 hour Im prov M arathon begins today at 8:30 pm! It begins in the Alley, runs in P lay ers’ Theatre overnight and finishes in the Alley.

LBGM Bi-sexual discussion group. Both men and women wel­ come. 5:30 pm, Shatner 423.

The Centre for Applied Family Studies School of Social Work pre­ sents Florence Dobson speaking on P rescription Drug A buse and Alcohol Abuse by the Elderly. 2:304 pm, Wendy Patrick Room, W ilson Hall, 3506 U niversity Street. For more info call 3985286.

The Yellow Door Coffee House presents Mike Burns with Toby Kinsella: Traditional Irish story-telling and music. 8:30 pm, 3625 Aylmer.

Thursday. February 2 Groundhog Day!!

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Geddes reading from his poetry collection Girl By the Water. 8 pm, Thompson House, 3650 McTavish.

Women’s Discussion Group.

All women welcom e. 6 pm, Shatner 423.

SSMU Council Meeting. Items on the agenda: C onstitutional Reform; Student service budget. 6 pm, Shatner B09/10.

The Yellow Door Coffee House presents Kevin B ushell reading The New Life Poets. 8:30 pm, 3625 Aylmer.

Education Bldg., Room 233.

The Yellow Door Coffee House; Boaz Perecowicz opens for Bare Bones. 8:30 pm, 3625 Aylmer.

Saturday.

February 4

V isible M inorities discussion group. Everyone is welcome. 7 pm, Shatner 432.

The Faculty of Music presents Pamela Reimer, piano; works by Beethoven, Schumann and Chopin.

8 pm, Pollack H all, 555 Sherbrooke St. The Organic Food Co-op orders organic produce and dry goods every M onday between 12:30 and 6:30 pm in the Q-PIRG office (3647 University, just below Pine). Newcomers are always wel­ come! For more info call 398-7432.

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Friday. February 3

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The Dept, of History pre­ sents Prof Karen Dubinsky speaking on The Construction o f Gender in Post-W ar Canada: Honeymooning at Niagara Falls. 2 pm, Thomson House, 3650 McTavish.

LBGM’s Coming Out Group.

Specifically deals with issues of coming out, sexuality, dealing with friends and family. Everyone is welcome. 5:30 pm, basement of the United Theological College, 3521 University Street.

LBGM general discussion group. All welcome. 7 pm, UTC basement, 3521 University.

The Political Science Students A ssociation trip to Quebec Carnival begins today!! Sign up beginning January 30th in the Arts Lobby. $75 for 2 nights at the Radisson. The trip is February 3, 4, 5th. For more info call Shevaun at 398-4800.

The Centre for the Study and Teaching of W riting presents Mary-Louise Craven speaking on Computers, W riting, and Electronic Tutoring. 9:30-11 am,

Alexander Clements, piano. 8 pm, Clara Lichtenstein Recital Hall, 555 Sherbrooke St. Gateway to the Orient Cultural Concert. The South East Asian Students’ Association (SEASA) of McGill University will be holding its annual Asian Cultural Concert on Saturday, February 4th, at 555 Sherbrooke W. Pollack Hall.

Performances will include Korean dances, Indonesian O rchestra, Shidoken Judo and more! All pro­ ceeds are being donated to Oxfam Quebec. Tickets $8 (advance), $12 (at the door). For more information call 842-7517/848-0528.

Monday. February 6 The Classical Music Club will meet tonight. On the agenda: a per­ formance of Chopin’s Ballade No. 1 in G -m inor, and the M cGill Symphony Orchestra Concert. 6:30 pm, Room C-205.

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All McGill students are encouraged to submit. Place submissions in the DESA box in Porter’s office of the Arts building. Deadline is January 31.

The Association of Yoga and M editation is now offering free sessions—please dress comfort­ ably. Monday through Friday from 11:30 am - 12:30 pm, Shatner 425.

Latitudes, the McGill Journal for Developing Areas Studies is accepting submissions of interdis­ ciplinary, undergraduate papers relating to developing area issues.

Submit two copies of your paper to Latitudes’ mailbox, Shatner, oppo­

The Yellow Door Elderly Project needs volunteers to accom­ pany seniors on appointments. We are also looking for dog walker’s to help a senior citizen in the McGill ghetto. Please call 398-6243.

To all Muslim students who are fasting, the Islamic Cultural Network and the Islamic Society would like to announce that there is a prayer room available from the 1st of February to the 3rd of M arch-S hatner 435A (access through 435), open from 12 to 8:30pm. Also, there will be daily Iftaars (opening of the fast) in Shatner 310. For more info, please contact Samira at 849-9814, and Riyam at 631-8017.

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McGill Redmen assistant captain T odd M arcellus was named the Quebec Students Sports Federation male athlete of the week. The thirdyear physical education major from Chesterville, Ontario chalked up seven points in games against Queen’s and Royal Military College last weekend. Against Queen’s, Marcellus had a hat trick and three assists in a 8-4 win over the hapless Gaels. In that game, Marcellus notched his 50th career goal in his 100th career game.

The McGill swim team headed northeast to compete in the Quebec Cup with other clubs from around the province. C raig H u tch iso n won both the 100m and 200m freestyle races in a convincing manner.

P a tric ia H u tch in so n placed third in the 200m butterfly, and the 400m and 200m individual medleys. McGill’s next meet will be this Saturday in Sherbrooke in the provincial championships. The women are ranked 4th in the Canadian Interuniversity Athletics Union, while the men round out the top ten at No. 10.

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One of the finer points about this the sport in the area and for the club. foreign and exotic sport is that it’s Not only does the future look bright for the Kendo club and its for everyone. Big, small, fast, slow, founding members, the present is man or woman, Kendo is accommo­ positive as well. The club will get its dating. Unlike a lot of sports where a first taste o f the m edia spotlight person’s physical features designate when they are featured in a TV spe­ level of achievement, Kendo only cial February 4 at 12 a.m. on CFCF- has a few small necessities for suc­ 12. The show Busy Bodies will do a cess — self-discipline and dedica­ special on the club and the sport,and tion. Like any other sport these quali­ for anyone who’s interest has been ties are stressed and needed but need tickled by this article this would not be coupled with great athletic surely be a good time to watch a little ability or experience.

The Hong Kong Dragon Students’ is offering a Cantonese Language Course for only $15.

February 1 to March 29. For more info call Vincent Law at 288-1387.

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The Drama and Theatre Dept, presents The Servant o f Two Masters — the hilarious complica­ tions of love that arise when Beatrice disguises her identity and has a secret lover! February 8-11 and 15-18. 8 pm, Moyse Hall, Arts Bldg. For more info call 398-6070.

The First Annual M cGill M ixed Media Literary Fest is looking for submissions from all McGill students. All works selected will be performed at the “One-Night Event” in Morrice Hall the first week of April. All works will also be considered for publica­ tion on Montage 1995. February 1 is the deadline. Submissions to DESA box in Porter’s office of Arts Building.

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