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Volume 14 Issue 23

In Domino Confido

Yeghoyan retires, here comes M yers

By Sara Iean G reen______ ■

N ew s What the Tribune did until 2am last Friday morning...

SSMU election results See Page 3

Juice, Genes, Joyride and a reminder not to drink the water.

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Editorial Is Canada the new international bad boy?

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ENTERTAINMENT Chokers, pagans and Led Zeppelin references galore See Page 13

SPORTS Inside scoops on McGill’s Anne Gildenhuys and Chad Wozney as well as a peek at the backsides of hock­ ey writers Mark Luz and Joe Wong.

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Inter-Residence Council pres­ ident H elena M yers won the SSMU p residential race last Thursday night, beating her near­ est opponent, Science Undergraduate Society president Steve Ahn by 251 votes. From the seventeen polling stations across campus, Myers received a total of 1,296 votes which accounted for 45 percent of the popular vote.

Ahn and Red Herring candidate Steve Goodinson had 1045 and 533 votes respectively.

Myers is now the second con­ secutive IRC president to be elect­ ed to the office of SSMU presi­ dent. She is preceded by Sevag Yeghoyan and Mark Luz, also IRC president in 1991-92. Myers is the first female president in five years.

M yers procured the o v er­ whelming support of management students, collecting 265 votes which accounted for 65 percent of the vote at the management poll.

Myers also got 54 percent of the votes cast at polls in the re si­ dences. Ahn secured 50 percent of the votes cast in the Burnside, M cC onnell E ngineering and Stewart Bio polls while 35 percent of votes at math and science polls w ent to M yers. G oodinson received most of his support at the Leacock, Redpath and Shatner polls where he received 53 percent of his total votes.

An excited Myers told the Tribune that she is confident about being able to represent the

interests of all students in dealing with the administration.

“This year there was a lack of respect from the dean of stu­ dents tow ards the S tu d en ts’ Society. I’m confident and opti­ mistic that that will change,” she said. “There is no reason for stu­ dents and administrators not to work together to make this a great university.”

The president-elect is also looking forward to working with the other members of next year’s executive.

“I’m completely committed to making the executive work as a team which SSMU hasn’t seen for a long time. We [will] be an executive that will be very active, visible, approachable and com­ mitted to accomplishing what we set out to accom plish,” said Myers.

Ahn, although disappointed at losing the election, was very supportive of Myers. He is also confident that Myers will be able to work well with the other mem­ bers of the executive.

“I think she’ll be one of the best presidents SSMU has ever had. She’s very charismatic,” said Ahn. “Due to what happened this year, 1 think the next executive is very aware about the possibility of [personality problems], I don’t think [Myers] will allow person­ ality conflicts to stand in the way of progress.”

Red H erring candidate Goodinson also commented on See President Page 2

SSMU president-elect Helena Myers shares a special moment with current p rez Sevag Yeghoyan.

Professors unwilling to weather storm of separation • The conclusion o f a tw o-part series on how Quebec separation would affect students and professors at M cGill

By H ugo C ameron_________ In light of recent speculation about the potential impact of a ‘yes’ vote in the forthcoming sovereignty referendum, the Tribune conducted a poll of 120 McGill professors regarding the probability of their leaving the province if it separates.

The poll represents 10 percent of McGill faculty, making the poll accurate to within 4-5 percentage points. Professors were chosen at

random from over 50 departments ranging from Aerospace Medical Research to History; from Library Science to Math.

In terms of prestige and appeal to new students, much depends on a university’s capacity to both retain its current professors and attract new research and teaching staff. The poll’s results demonstrate that the McGill administration may have a problem on its hands should Quebec separate.

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The remaining 40.8 percent consid­ ered themselves more likely to stay in Quebec than to leave, regardless of the referendum results. A conser­ vative estimate of these aggregated numbers suggests that McGill could face a loss of approximately onethird of its teaching and research staff if Quebec separates.

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The most striking results were evident in the responses to the ques­ tion: “If a ‘yes’ vote succeeds in the forthcom ing referendum and Quebec becomes sovereign, what is the likelihood you would leave McGill/Quebec?” (please see results table). A surprisingly large number (20 percent) of faculty responded that they would be “very likely” to leave McGill if Quebec decides to call its own shots. 14.2 percent indi­ cated that they were “somewhat

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March 21st, 1995

Student-A thletes send strong reclassification m essage

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At their March 8 meeting, the M cGill Intercollegiate Sports Council sent a strong message to the Athletics Board about the criteria for the reclassification of athletics teams at McGill.

MISC passed motions to both “fine tune” current reclassification criteria, and to make the reclassifi­ cation decisions more public. The latter would be done by allowing MISC representatives to inquire about the reclassification commit­ tee’s decisions involving particular teams and dubs.

The move comes two weeks after the Athletics Board voted to pass the reclassification commit­ tee’s decisions about team ranking, but not recommendations that the reclassification criteria and process be examined before any future reviews. The reclassification process divides the university’s

teams and sports clubs into one of three tiers, which then dictates how much, if any, funding and facilities priority the team or sports club receives from the univer­ sity.

The issue of “fine tuning” the reclassifica­ tion, a process which was last overhauled in 1990 and has been used in the last three reclassification reviews, was brought up at MISC by SSMU A thletics Rep Karen Brenhouse, Todd M c­ Dougall and Stacie Papp, all of whom are members of both the Athletics Board and reclassification The tough committee.

Brenhouse explained the rea­ son why the three felt the motion was necessary.

“Much of the document is very strong and should not be changed,”

said Brenhouse. “However, it seems that the document is pretty subjec­ tive in places, and we’d like to make it simpler for those people

task o f choosing team priority who are part of the reclàssification process, and we’d like to clarify things for teams.”

The motion to make the reclas­ sification findings more public was

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initiated by Dan Benoit, the MISC representative for the men’s rugby club, which was denied in its bid to become a tier-two university ream, despite submitting what Benoit felt was a strong application.

At the meeting, Benoit described the cur­ rent reclassification process as, “taking a test and not finding out your grade, only whether you passed or failed.”

Brenhouse warned that only some of the information should be made available to each team or sports club.

“The MISC reps or coaches, or whoever pre­ pares each team or sports club’s application, are owed some sort of explanation of the findings,” said Brenhouse. “But we cannot give them everything, like showing them calculations or points or tape recording the committee’s meetings.

But we should let them know what they did right, and what they should work on for their next application.”

Bob Dubeau, director of athlet­ ics and secretary of the Athletics Board, does not agree with the stu­ dent-athlete’s motion to make the process more public.

“I am definitely against making the process public,” said Dubeau. “I think that the way that the commit­ tee interpreted the reclassification system this year did not fall in line with the original intent of the process, and was too subjective in

how it was done. I truly believe that it would serve no purpose to make the information public.”

Dubeau also explained that he realises that many student-athletes are upset with the committee’s deci­ sions.

“It’s a normal thing with the teams and clubs who did not get funding. They are angry and they have every right to voice their opin­ ions,” explained Dubeau. “The first two times that we went through this process, people were angry, so it doesn’t surprise me this time.”

“They have to understand that there are only X dollars available, and spreading the funding around too much will water down the over­ all quality of other team s,” he added.

Sevag Yeghoyan, reclassifica­ tion com m ittee chairm an and Athletics Board member, pointed out that the MISC vote should not be taken lightly when the reclassifi­ cation committee puts together its final document for submission to the Athletics Board.

“There is simply no way that they can dodge these bullets as MISC’s vote should carry a lot of weight in future decisions,” said Yeghoyan. “It’s a clear indication that the student-athletes feel the sys­ tem should be changed.”

The reclassification committee meets next on April 5, at which time the group will work on the final reclassification document, which will be presented for passage at the next Athletics Board meeting on April 11.

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C urrent SSMU P resid en t Sevag Yeghoyan will be the only voting undergraduate member of McGill’s Board of Governors next year. Yeghoyan won 1458 votes, w ith his co m p etitio n C heryl Grossman collecting 929 votes and David Rovins picking up 370 votes.

Y eg h o y an ’s cam paign stressed his experience on the Board as SSMU President this year. He intends to pursue three m ain p rio ritie s in the com ing year.

“My first priority is the bud­ get process of the university,” he said. “I want to make sure stu­

dents have a strong voice when it is discussed.”

Y eghoyan also in ten d s to lobby for Board approval of an SSMU proposal recommending a grad u ate surtax for p o s t-s e c ­ ondary education funding, and to address what he perceives as a problem in accountability at the McGill Daily.

T hough Y eghoyan argued that he does not want to abolish the D aily he is pro p o sin g to involve the Board in dealing with what he calls the “iron clad” con­ stitution of the Daily Publications Society.

“The B oard o f G overnors should stop taking our money to pay the Daily,” he said.

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President...

Continued from Page 1 the elected SSMU executive.

“I think [Myers] has a good sense of humour. She took our antics in stride. I’m sure she’ll be able to redecorate the office - I have every confidence in her for that,” he said. “I’m confident that this executive will be as effective as past execs...you can take that anyway you want.”

H owever, G oodinson was

very pleased with his campaign results.

“We have 500 loyal voters for the nucleus of our army next year.

We’ll be back just like Jack. I just keep telling myself it’s just a big popularity co n te st,” said Goodinson. “I spent 90 cents on my campaign. It was a bargain because I got at least 20 votes per penny. I would have been a fiscal­ ly responsible president but I got shot down.”

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March 21st, 1995

Benedict victory tainted by “mudslinging”

By D 'A rcy D oran Nick Benedict was re-elected for a sec­ ond term as SSMU’s VP external in a land­ slide victory over opponents Chris Carter and Dave Bushnell.

Benedict received 1846 votes, the largest number of votes for any candidate in the election, while Carter obtained 685 votes and the Red Herring'& Bushnell 322.

Benedict won every poll, doing par­ ticularly well at the Bronfman poll where he won 81 percent of the vote, at McConnell engineering where he won 76 percent, and at Leacock where he took 65 percent of the vote.

Benedict believes that his strong showing was the direct result of the work he did this year and does not feel that more student con­ sultation is necessary.

“If people didn’t agree with what I was doing this year, I wouldn’t have gotten 65 percent of the vote,” he said.

Throughout the campaign both Benedict and Carter were accusing each other of mud­ slinging.

“I thought at several of the debates, it was pretty obvious that a lot of the questions were aimed at making me look bad and not to

Harding commands VP Internal

By Paromita Shah

In the race for SSMU VP Internal, Jen inform the students about the issues,” said Harding captured a solid 63 percent of the Carter.

2,703 votes cast for the position.

Benedict felt that Carter’s campaign tac­ With a final total of 1,690 tics were also question­ votes, she prevailed in all polling able. stations over challenger Tanim “I was disappointed Ahmed, who garnered 625 votes. that my opponent ran a Red Herring candidate Bryant slander campaign rumour mongering slan­ Johnson took last place with 388 votes. der,” Benedict said Unlike many SSMU execu­ However, Bushnell tive candidates who relied on spe­ felt that the race was not cific constituencies at certain dirty enough. polling stations, mainly “There were not Bronfman, Shatner and Leacock, enough people murdered ... no not murdered - Harding received strong support across the board. Acknowledging clipped ... taken out of the that Ahmed and her shared a simi­ running,” he said. lar platform, a happy Harding Bushnell was attributed most of her success to pleased that he gathered approachability.

11 percent of the vote, “I was supported by a lot of enough to be reimbursed for his campaign expens­ different groups, from IGLC to LBGM. I guess people were es.

“1 paid $2 for photo­ impressed with my openness and copies, and we also spent commitment. I think of myself as a lot on hookers, but they don’t give receipts,” genuine and I think people saw it,” she said.

Ahmed said he anticipated Harding’s win said Bushnell. and was not unhap­ Benedict py said his first “I feel re­ priority will be lieved, kind of. 1 to sit down can concentrate with Helena on my studies.

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Remai wins VP Finance tug-of-war

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be back to normal for me.”

However, Ahmed did believe he could have done more in his campaign.

“I should have been a bit more aggressive.

I should have concentrated more in residence,” said Ahmed.

Harding said there was one additional factor that played a role in her win.

“We ran on pretty much the same platform.

It’s unfortunate that this is the case, but it came down to elo­ quence — an ability to speak w ell,” said Harding.

Johnson ex­ pressed anguish over his crush­ ing defeat.

“I was real­ ly distraught. It was like a histamine reaction, the itching and burning wouldn’t stop. The swelling has gone down, but I was kinda wor­ ried,” said a remarkably hive-free Johnson.

Johnson believed there were several rea­ sons for his loss, ranging from poll fraud to the exclusion of disadvantaged students.

“I wish they’d acknowledge the needs of students who aren’t voiced in the student process, i.e. students suffering severe chemical dependence, you know, the rubber-room type,” he said. “They were our strongest constituents.

They weren’t allowed to use pens because they were sharp objects.”

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By N oah nered 84 per­ G it t e r m a n Zachary Patterson Sidrah Laidin The race for SSMU VP Finance came cent of the 326 Julie Perkins Eliot Mcintire L i s a down to the wire last Thursday night with e n g i n e e r i n g Cathy Rigg but Grushcow Marc Muri management student Kelly Remai only votes, beat Peter pulling ahead of engineering competitor Remai picked Alexandra Stikeman Jean-Francois Parent Mazoff for the Tracy Strong to win the race by 21 votes as up 82 percent of position of the results of the last polling station were the larger 414 Vice Pres­ announced at about 2 a.m. Remai secured vote turnout at ident Uni­ 1265 votes, followed by Strong at 1244 management.

Remai’s main reaction was relief after versity Affairs by almost 600 votes. In total, she votes and Red the hours of waiting got 1475 votes to M azoff’s 891. Elizabeth Herring candidate “I still can’t Elmwood, part of the Red Herring slate, came in Russell Kissoon at believe it,” he said. third with 370 votes.

265 votes.

“She [Strong] was an Grushcow and Mazoff dif­ A lthough awesome opponent. fered mainly in the focus of their Strong garnered the That [the campaign] platforms. Grushcow gave a high most votes at 10 of was the toughest thing priority to equity issues in her the 17 polling sta­ ever in my life.” campaign while Mazoff, riding on tions on campus, Remai has pro­ the support of the Management the larger turnout at mised to keep SSMU in Undergraduate Society, stressed some of the sta­ the black financially, to that in the past the VP University tions, particularly keep up on SSMU’s Affairs office has not put enough the management debt payments to the priority on academic issues. polling station in university, and not to Mazoff did get a huge back­ the Bronfman build­ increase fees to SSMU. ing from the management faculty, ing, carried the day Although disap­ winning almost three times as for Remai. pointed, Strong also many votes as Grushcow at the The effect of expressed a certain Bronfman polling station. But the specific con­ relief at the outcome.

Grushcow beat him soundly stituency support in “A big weight has almost everywhere else, most Strong and Remai’s been lifted off my notably at the Engineering, individual faculties shoulders,” she said. Leacock, and Redpath Library sta­ was striking. The two candidates had a sim ilar showing “For the first time in three years I can con­ tions.

After the results came in, across polling stations except engineering centrate on school.”

And Kissoon?

Mazoff wished the executive luck and management, with Strong, Remai and “I guess the strategy didn’t work out; next year and congratulated Kissoon collecting 45 percent, 43 percent my constituency was the lazy apathetic stu­ Grushcow on her victory. Referring specifically and 12 percent of votes respectively.

However, both Strong and Remai had dent and I guess they just didn’t get to the to a poll o? Tribune staff in last week’s issue, he also defended his campaign by pointing out that extremely strong support from their facul­ polls,” he said.

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although he didn’t win, he did have a lot of sup­ port among students.

“I was probably the only candidate who told the truth the whole time, contrary to what some Tribune editors might think,” he said.

As for his future plans he emphasised that McGill has definitely not seen the last of him.

“I plan to start a club, a publication, called Wake Up and Smell the Coffee,” he said. “I already have support.”

Grushcow explained that she was looking forward to assuming her position on May 1, and was excited to begin implementing her campaign promises. She pointed out specific issues she would concentrate on in the next few months.

“I want to spend the summer months contacting universi­ ties across the coun­ try about harassment policies,” she said. “I also want to do background work to get the think tank on academic issues going by Sep­ tember.”

Jennifer Small, current VP Uni­ versity Affairs, expressed her satis­ faction with the results of the elec­ tion.

She also referred to a state­ ment Mazoff had made earlier in the campaign, proclaiming himself to be “no Jen Small.”

“I guess he's no Jen Small then,” she said.

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March 21st, 1995

Out-of-province med school applicants look to 1996 B y Ka t h r y n F o l l io t t

A decision by the Quebec governm ent denying out-ofprovince students adm ission to McGill’s medical school may be quashed in upcom ing m onths.

Rum ours indicate that the Ministries of Health and Education w ill adopt a plan allow ing the admission of out-of-province stu­ dents by September 1996.

Students and faculty at McGill were outraged when the Quebec Liberal government announced on M arch 23, 1994 that out-ofprovince applicants would be banned from U niversité Laval, U niversité de Sherbrooke, U niversité de M ontréal, and McGill - Quebec’s four medical schools.

The m otivation behind the announcement was two-fold. The government was concerned that many students come to Quebec to study medicine but few remain in the province to practice. From 1985 to 1992, only 2 out of 262 out-of-province graduates estab­ lished practices in Quebec. This led the government to restrict the num­ ber of out-of-province students to 40. Other provinces have also restricted the admission of out-of­ province students in recent years.

Secondly, the NDP govern­ ment of Ontario requested in 1993 that the number of Ontario students studying medicine in Quebec be diminished in an effort to shrink the number of doctors licensed in O ntario. The O ntario Health Ministry found that Ontario doc-

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Associate dean of admissions The quota for admission of foreign students had been set at 30 during the past ten years. In 1993, Liberal Health Minister Marc-Yvan Coté reduced the quota of out-of­ province stu­ dents in Quebec medical schools to 10. The gov­ ernm ent later altered this by announcing that no students from Prospects looking up fo r out-ofprovince students outside of Quebec would be considered for for McGill Medical school Nelson admission.

Mitchell stated that the rumoured The Medical Students’ Society new policy was likely the result of of McGill responded with a letter discussions held two weeks ago of protest campaign organised by between the ministries of health Jacques Fontaine and Frank and education and the deans of Ram adori, MSS VPs external Quebec’s four medical schools. His responsible for Quebec matters. reaction to the rumours was cau­ The letter, sent to both Jean Garon, tious. m inister of education, and Jean “I’ll believe it when I see it,” Rochon, m inister of health, he said. stressed the need for diversity at The new policy would poten­ Quebec medical schools. tially allow Quebec to substitute “It is very close-minded to ten to fifteen out-of-province stu­ restrict study to the same province dents for Quebec students. This in which you grew u p ,” said policy has not yet been introduced Fontaine. “Under this policy, the to cabinet and represents little mobility of doctors could become more than the direction in which even more strained than it already Garon and Rochon hope to take the is.” debate. Dean of medicine Richard R eaction against the Cruess was nonetheless optimistic. announcement spread to each of “This is extraordinarily good Quebec’s four medical schools. news. Pressure from many differ­ The University of Montreal circu­ ent sources led to this lated a petition asking that the edict outcome...I’m extremely pleased,” be struck down, while Laval and Cruess said.

Sherbrooke supported the actions When the rumour of a new of the other two schools. McGill policy was announced in a recent alumni vowed to halt donations to MSS meeting, students responded

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with a standing ovation. Fontaine believes that the high level of con­ cern in McGill’s medical commu­ nity is being echoed across the country.

“People have a tendency to label the Quebec governm ent as the culprit, but all of the provinces are closing their doors,” Fontaine said. “We all lose if we lose out-ofprovince stu ­ dents.”

As the p ro ­ posed policy is not yet law, outof-province stu­ dents applying to McGill m edical school for September 1995 will not be consid­ ered. The current admission letter still states that “If you, as a Canadian, were to change your res­ idency to Quebec, we would be delighted to consider your applica­ tion.”

Co-op...

Continued from Page 5 campus.

“We want to show that food can be cheap and n u tritio u s, stressing minimal packaging and recycling,” said Kleiman.

Another idea from QPIRG is that of a calculated surplus, whose expenditure would be put in the hands of the students.

“Because you are taking out the corporate chunk, these cafs should be raising some money.

People should know where the money is going. We could put a sign up saying ‘Today’s profits are going to a daycare’, instead of just sending the money to some amorphous SSMU fund. This sys­ tem also gives clubs a direct fund­ raising opportunity if they want to come in and operate the cafeteria for just one day,” said Kleiman.

Kleim an also spoke of the increasing popularity of co-op’s outside of McGill.

“I’ve spoken to other co-ops in Toronto and in the States, and they’re very supportive. By their nature, co-ops tend to help other co-ops”.

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March 21st, 1995

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Recommendations for change threaten morale

By Sylvie Babarik The Internal Audit Working Group pre­ sented its recommendations for changing SSMU operations and office administration at council’s March 16 meeting.

The report seeks to improve the function­ ing of SSMU and questions how efficiently SSMU money is being spent, how well opera­ tions serve students, and whether student gov­ ernment should be reorganised. The goals of the report are four-fold and single out particu­ lar areas with the intent of improving “student leadership, executive responsibility, organisa­ tional coherence and administrative flexibili­ ty-” A first area which the report addresses is the operation of Sadie’s tabagie. As SSMU’s predictions on the profitability of Sadie’s have lacked accuracy, the report suggests a number of improvements. Beyond asking that the tabagie give council quarterly assessments of achievables and actuals, the report propos­ es that a student manager be hired — at a salary of no less than $10,000 — in order to better oversee such aspects as the control of stock, the managing of cashiers, and the coor­ dination of marketing.

Other proposals seek to facilitate room bookings for student groups, to improve the general accounting and billing procedures of the SSMU, and to better distribute service hours of the kiosk and front desk.

Though most councillors expressed con­ fidence in the viability and logic of the audit recommendations, some questioned council’s place in endorsing the report.

“I don’t feel it is the business of council to determine the nuts and bolts of staff,” said Senate/Board Rep Joe Wong. “In bringing this to council it seems to me that they want

councillors’ stamp of approval, and 1 don't er and supervisor had contributed to the audit with the assumption that they could represent think council is informed enough.”

Law Rep Adam Atlas reiterated the senti­ the views of casual staff. He added that the Student Leader Organisation Bulletin had ment.

“It is like asking the executives of IBM been circulated which could have been used to decide how many paper clips each employ­ by staff to put forward their opinions.

Bingley was not satisfied with this ee receives,” he said. “We lack the expertise and the experience.”

In light of his concern, Wong suggested that council endorse the spirit of the document alone, leav­ ing specific changes to be worked out between the executive and the staff.

“The objective of the [audit] exercise is to allow my successor to pick up where I left off,” coun­ tered VP Internal Cornell Wright.

“If it is not accountable and enforceable, then we might as well drop it all together.”

VP Finance Paul Johnson, who also worked on the audit doc­ ument. noted that the inclusion of “flexibility” enables next year’s Revamping services at SSMU executive to make whatever changes it deems necessary.

Janet Bingley, Arts senator and staff answer.

“The manager and supervisor may be mini-course coordinator, attended council to challenge a number of the audit recommenda­ informed on general issues, but those best tions. Her first point of contention addressed informed are those who perform the tasks,” what she considered to be a gross lack of con­ she said. “Staff is on the front line, and has the most contact with students. Therefore staff sultation.

“My problem with the process is that should have been directly interviewed and casual staff members were excluded from the consulted.”

Bingley described the effect of the audit audit,” she said.

“There was some consultation, but what process as having soured the executive/staff happened was not reflected [in the docu­ relationship. A second anonymous employee ment],” said a permanent staff member who acknowledged that the office atmosphere had become more tense in the wake of the audit. wished to remain anonymous.

Wright explained that the general manag­ A third felt that the audit might have been

Western council clamps down Adams said.

The Gazette is owned and oper­ A motion to prohibit the ated by the USC, and the three University of Western Ontario’s stu­ senior editors are paid employees of dent media from expressing editori­ the corporation.

“We think that for them to try al opinions about and endorsements to influence the selection of officers of election candidates was passed by the University Students’ Council of the corporation puts them in a conflict of inter­ Wednesday est,” Adams night. The ban argued.

“It’s an issue of applies to But Gazette issues of the editorial autonomy.” editor-in-chief Gazette, the Jeremy Barker student news­ Jeremy Barker, said that the res­ paper at UWO, published on Gazette editor-in*chief olution was an infringement on polling days. freedom of the The mo­ press. tion, which passed by the slim mar­ “It’s an issue of editorial auton­ gin of 24 in favour, 23 against with one abstention, was prompted by the omy,” Barker said.

He added that the Gazette was G azette’s traditional practice of endorsing a presidential candidate not consulted about the resolution on the first day of balloting. The prior to discovering it on a USC meeting agenda. vote was a secret ballot.

“There was one point during According to Jeremy Adams, the VP student issues of USC, he the election when [Justin] and USC president Justin Thompson Thompson came to our office and brought the motion to council on the asked if we were running an recommendation of USC’s Board of endorsement,” Barker said. “They said there might be repercussions if Directors.

“Our big concern was main­ we did.”

Adams disagreed, saying that taining the sanctity of the election USC did consult with many differ­ procedure,” Adams said.

President is the only executive ent groups regarding the proposal.

“There have been informal con­ position at USC directly elected by sultations throughout the year,” he students. The rest of the executive committee is elected by the incom­ said.

The debate on the resolution ing students’ council. Presidential lasted more than two-and-a-half candidates cannot campaign on the hours, and featured heated discus­ three days of voting.

“We believe that our own pro­ sions between Barker, Adams, hibition on campaigning should Thompson and USC legal affairs extend to our campus m edia,” officer Erin Cullen and student sen­

By M ichael Broadhurst_______

ator and 1993-94 VP Com munications Rachel Sklar.

Sklar opposed the motion, and also requested the secret ballot when it came to vote.

Barker questioned USC’s sug­ gestion that the Gazette could have influence on an election if it endorsed candidates on a polling day.

“If we have undue influence on the Tuesday voting starts, we will have the same on the Friday before,” Barker said. The Gazette publishes four times weekly, Tuesday through Friday.

Adams responded to Barker’s suggestion, arguing that this resolu­ tion represented the best USC could do.

“I think realistically the only thing we can have any valid claim to is on the election day,” Adams said.

According to Barker, there were at least three motions to table the resolution during the debate each of which failed. At one point Adams moved to suspend USC’s by-law that allowed councillors to cede speaking rights to members of the gallery. Many members of the Gazette were present at the meeting to voice their concerns.

Adams believes that USC has taken the only appropriate action.

“We are the government that runs the election and the press and we’ve made a request that they obey the rules and regulations we’ve set,” Adams said. “It’s an internal issue.

The Globe and Mail suggested that it’s a violation of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms — that’s complete bullshit.”

better conducted through the hiring of an out side firm.

Other contentious aspects included the working group goal of reducing future part time employees. The report recommended that casual positions be eliminated wherever their duties could be “subsumed under an existing full-tim e posi­ tion”. Mini-course coordi nator was one of the exam pies given. Bingley, who is currently responsible for the programming and coot dination of mini-courses was angered by the work­ ing group’s conclusion and pointed out that previ­ ously the service could barely bring in 100 dollars profit. Under her direction early estimates predict a o 5000 dollars net.

CQ “If the committee hao Q J U done its homework, it X Ç would have interviewed me to determine what fac­ tors contributed to the financial success and not insult me by recom­ mending that the position be abolished,” said Bingley.

Following much debate, and section by section amendments, council finally did endorse the report. Despite divisions on par­ ticular recommendations, most councillors agreed that changes to the SSMU office and its workings were necessary and that the working group’s proposals were well founded enough to merit considerations. As Wright pointed out, though the policy is intended as a plan for change, next year’s council need not be inextricably bound by it.

A tasty proposal...

• N on-corporate, student-run, o n -ca m p u s fo o d services

By Ioyce Lau As SSMU faces the loss of the Marriott Food Corporation as its official food service company, stu­ dents have shown an increased interest in forming a student-run food co-op. Though another food service corporation will be chosen to run the larger cafeterias, space would be kept for the proposed student-run co-op.

On March 23, council passed a m otion which states that the SSMU Food and B everage Committee be “mandated to nego­ tiate an option for a student-run co-op cafeteria in its dealings with any company with which it signs a contract.”

“Having a co-op cafeteria run by students is an idea I have received from my constituents,” said VP University Affairs elect Lisa Grushcow. “W e’ve gotten positive feedback from all around cam pus... This system would ensure that a single faculty could opt-out if they wanted, and other faculties could still have their Tim Horton’s.”

SSMU p resid en t Sevag Yeghoyan was equally enthusias­ tic.

“I ’m very supportive of the student initiative in this matter,” he said.

Following the example of the present Architecture Food Co-op, the McGill branch of the Quebec Public In terest and R esearch Group has shown great interest in

running similar operations. QPIRG proposes to start operations in eith er Septem ber 1995 or Septem ber 1996, depending on when a budget can be presented to SSMU. Once a business plan is adopted, QPIRG will apply for SSMU project status.

VP Finance Paul Johnson out­ lined the steps which would be taken to establish the student-run co-op.

“It is exciting to see some­ thing take off from a small scale, and to build on it from that scale,” said Johnson. “But we still have to play it by ear. We have to evaluate this proposal from a business point of view. We have to evaluate this proposal from a student point of view. This proposal also has to be amenable to whichever company we sign with.”

“T h e re ’s a big difference betw een running an ice cream counter and running an industrial cafeteria,” Johnson concluded.

Sites such as the Alley and the Arts cafeteria have been proposed.

A greeing with Jo h n so n 's ideas, Sonya Kleiman of QPIRG will soon meet with the Johnson to discuss QPIRG’s plans.

“Basically, we want to start with a single cafeteria for now, and not a p ilo t p ro je c t,” said Kleiman.

QPIRG plans on operating a cafeteria which is more socially conscious and student-oriented than the present food venues on See Co-op Page 4

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March 21st, 1995

Editorial T

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Published by the Students’ Society of McGill University

M cG IL L T R IB U N E

What is CASA?

“It takes less time to learn to write nobly than to learn to write lightly and straightforwardly.”

Stop the P ress Paul Estabrooks , Intcrim N ational D irbctor,

CASA

- F r ie d r i c h W i l h e l m N i e t z s c h e M

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S t e v e S m it h

Assistant E ditor-in-chief

Assistant Editor-in-chief Editorial

Calling Europe’s bluff B y S t e v e S m it h

Hell has frozen over. Yes, it’s true and no you weren’t dreaming one of those illicit dreams Canadians relish but never admit to having. Canada is the new bad boy of international affairs. Or are we?

When one of the world’s great multilateralists suddenly swashbuckles its way onto a fishing trawler in international waters, something is definitely wrong. Canadians are not a battle-hungry people yet still they saluted Fisheries Minister Brian Tobin for taking a stand against Europe. In Madrid they desecrated the Canadian flag as we watched from our living rooms with nervous, giddy excitement. We were bad. But we’re not.

For countries like Canada, unilateral action is more often than not the expression of extreme frustration. Ironically, what was perhaps Canada’s last major unilateral action from a global perspective was the establishment of a 200-mile exclusive fishing zone on January 1, 1977. This move has since become international law.

Canada followed up on this move by quickly re-asserting its ultimate belief in multilateralism. In 1978, Canada became one of 15 member-states of the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organisation, the organisation responsi­ ble for administering the international waters outside the 200-mile national fishing zones. Since that time, NAFO has served as the main forum for Canada’s concerns regarding its troubled Atlantic fisheries.

The action taken March 9 reflected close to 17 years of NAFO inefficacy in terms of enforcing standard fishing practices in the waters just outside Canada’s national fishing zone. NAFO’s weakness stems from the fact that its resolutions and catch quotas have to be accepted unanimously in order to be binding. Since 1986, the European Union has made great use of this fact in order to defeat NAFO quotas and moratoriums on the fishing of various species. Instead, the EU has set it’s own, drastically higher quotas based on its own scientific assessments of maximum sustainable yields. With this in mind-, was Canada really out of line or just following a well-worn path when she took unilateral action against the Estai?

Currently, NAFO countries can inspect another member’s ships in international waters under NAFO jurisdiction. Actual enforcement, however, is left up to the individual member-states.

Call Tobin an opportunist if you like. But for one of the world’s greatest exporters of fish products to risk open conflict with a major client for publicity’s'sake would be sheer stupidity. Seizing the Estai had to happen. And while highlighting the illegal practices of the Spanish fleet, the Estai affair has called the EU on its hypocritical approach to the Atlantic fisheries crisis.

While condemning Canada’s actions, the EU enforces its own severe restrictions on the Spanish fleet in European waters. Spain’s poor record of observing fisheries regulations is well-known in European fishing communi­ ties. This fact was reflected in the deep divisions evident when the British House of Commons debated Canada’s actions last week. At the same time, Scottish fishermen also voiced their support for the seizing of the Estai.

Furthermore, Europe has a history of moralising on the subject of Canada’s environmental abuses, i.e. the seal hunt and the West Coast lumber industry. Confronted with the realities of the Estai’s practices, it’s clear that the EU is in for a bit of soul-searching.

With the Estai steaming for home, the road for multilateral negotiations is opening once again. Canada has made clear its desire to avoid similar dis­ plays yet its resolve to repeat them if necessary. This can only be avoided when binding enforcement standards are in place and maintained by NAFO policing on the high seas.

Yet, for multilateralism to work Europe has to start acknowledging the disturbing facts revealed aboard the Estai. NAFO has the potential to func­ tion effectively and it will once Europe swallows this bitter pill.

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The Canadian Alliance of Student Associations is a new lobby group representing 15 student asso­ ciations across the country. The intent of CASA is to offer the federal government alternatives and ideas to make Post-Secondary education more responsive to the needs of Canadians. We are committed to ensuring that students have input in PSE; it is our philosophy that stu­ dents should be full participants in defining the future of post-secondary education in this country.

We do not support the “Green Paper” and our members who appeared before the parliamentary committee voiced this opposition intelligently and offered creative alternatives. It is this opposition that brought us together and the tie which bound us together and motivated us to create CASA. This May we will formally adopt the Articles of Incorporation and draft policies that, upon approval from our members’ councils, will shape the proposals we

put forward to government.

We support changes to the Canada Student Loan Program that will make it more responsive to the needs of students. We do not support changes to the CSLP such as those in the “Green Paper” that will allow government to download its debt onto future generations of students.

While we do not believe in higher tuition fees, we believe that students should play some role in funding PSE. The concept of a National Graduate Surtax is one option to consider as a way of funding educa­ tion through a consistent tax base.

This tax would be levied only on those who have a degree and who earn an income above the national average for non-university gradu­ ates. This is a tax on the financial benefit received from an education and does not pose additional barriers to entering university.

CASA supports the notion of a National Conference on PostSecondary Education. We feel it is

L e tte rs...

GROW UP! Via con came,

...to the editor

Grow up, Goodinson It is with great displeasure that we read the Tribune picks for the SSMU election. In giving Steve Goodinson your vote of confidence for SSMU president, you have made a mockery of the election process.

Are we to believe that the Tribune was acting in the best interests of McGill by suggesting we vote for a “joke” candidate? Why not elect candidates for their merits, and not as the least of three evils? We elect politicians for what they will do for us, not for who would replace them.

We feel insulted that our student fees are being abused by a student publication so oblivious to the pulse of its readers that it would support the nonsensical ramblings of a limey. Kurt Cobain is no hero.

Goodinson’s proposal for the “Kurt Cobain Youth Drop-out Centre” is both insulting and not very funny at all. Considering his position as the editor-in-chief of a humourous pub­ lication, Goodinson obviously took no time in considering the inappro­ priateness of his words. We do not find this type of behaviour funny, and do not see how anyone could.

To Goodinson, and the entire Tribune staff, we have these words,

David Bushnell U2 Agricultural Management Bryant Johnson U3 Itchyology Editor’s Note: Unlike the Red Herring, the Tribune will break even this year. Therefore, we are not wasting any o f your student fees.

W rong story circulating In your article concerning the possible closure of the Religious Studies Library, you report that Dr. Eric Ormsby, the D irector of Libraries, hopes to involve the theo­ logical colleges affiliated with McGill in discussions regarding the library, and you quote him as say­ ing, “We’ve made proposals [to the colleges], we’re waiting for their response.”

Not true! For the record, the colleges have received no proposals from the University. In fact, we have been told to butt out. In a letter to Principal Shapiro reminding him that one-third of the FRS library was gifted to McGill by the Anglican and United Church col­ leges; and that the three denomina­ tional colleges have contributed annually to the acquisitions budget; and that Principal Johnston had promised that no changes would be

imperative that provinces, the federal government, university administra­ tions, faculty associations and stu­ dents all commit together to make PSE the backbone of a knowledgebased economy.

Our philosophy regarding membership is “easy in, easy out”.

We do not believe in dictating how each association should conduct its business. “If it satisfies the rules that govern the association in question then it satisfies ours.” For some associations, such as Dalhousie and Queen’s, this means that a referen­ dum must be held; for others it requires a vote of their council. We are showing respect for each of our members’ democratic process by not mandating specific procedures.

No policy is adopted or changed, nor can the constitution be amended without the endorsement of the majority of the members’ coun­ cils. These endorsements are done in accordance with the procedures used by each council. This forces our organisation to be directly account­ able to the councils and students that give us the power to speak on their behalf. In addition, this gives every student a say in what issues we champion on behalf of our members since these issues are decided at the members’ councils, not at an annual conference. We regard this as demo­ cratic and an essential component or CASA. made in the disposition of the library without consultation of the colleges, the Joint Board chair, Mr. George Lambert, inquired when the colleges would be included in the current discussions. Couched in the rhetoric of disappointing: The col­ leges will be informed of the deci­ sions regarding the library after they have been taken by McGill.

It is also important to note that the FRS Library was created by an agreement between McGill and the two colleges and ratified and con­ firmed by an act of the National Assembly of Quebec and any changes to this agreement requires the “mutual and written consent” of all the parties.

There is a considerable church constituency beyond McGill, repre­ sented here by the three colleges, that has a strong interest in main­ taining the FRS as a community of theological scholarship equipped with the instrument to pursue that scholarship. The arrogance of the current McGill administration in dealing with the colleges risks alienating the support and affection and affection of that constituency.

Sincerely, John Simons, Administrative Officer and Principal, Diocesan Theological College

Staff D aniel A ssaf Jonah Brucker-Cohen, Hugo Cameron, Brenda Chow, Paul Coleman D ’A rcy Doran, Cecily Eckhardt, Kathryn Folliott, Ted Frankel, Sue Glover, Sara Jean Green, Noah Gitterman, Ryan Levitt, Reuben Levy, Chris McDougall, Pete Melnyck, Dave Morris, Andrea Mailings, Jonathan O ’B rien, Stefan Patten, Catherine Porter, Shannon Rosy Jack Sullivan A lex Usher, Beatrice van Dijk, K ashif Zahoor D aw n Westley

March 21st, 1995

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Opinion

On grease, slime and the democratic way N o m a d ’s L an d Ted Frankel

A friend of mine shocked me the other day when he asked if I’d voted in the SSMU election.

Knowing that he was neither an avid reader of the Tribune, nor a frequent lecture goer, I figured he actually had a life and h ad n ’t voted. I ’d p in n ed him as yet another member of the apathetic m ass w h o ’d m ade this y e a r’s elections as democratic as vodka and S ib e ria. B efo re I could answer his question he revealed his selections. Who had he voted for? “McDonald’s, Harvey’s and of course, Subway,” he stated.

He was referring to the stu­ dent plebiscite which was includ­ ed as part of last week’s voting

package. A question on the opin­ ion poll asked students to select the three franchises they would most like to queue up for during th eir lunch breaks. I c o u ld n ’t fault my friend for his obvious concern on th is m atter. W ho wouldn’t want to be a part of set­ ting the nutritional agenda for future generations o f p im ply­ faced students? Besides, sound­ ing our composite voice on how much grease we want in our fast food is far more relevant to most students than say, determ ining what variety of shit the SSMU council will be serving up next year.

The question was, however, not to be taken lightly. These

days the type of food we choose to eat has serious political and social co n n o tatio n s.

The plebiscite question was more than a battle between onion rings and chow mein. It was a veritable test o f our co llec tiv e m oral concscience. A vote for Taco Bell was certainly a vote for NAFTA. I reluctantly “made a run for the border” because I felt having the franchise on our campus would help break down trade barriers to the advantage of both countries, plus I lik e how S oft Taco Suprêmes have that tangy touch of sour cream.

Biggie fries aside, I saw no reason to have Wendy’s on cam­ pus. If th e ir d eh um anizing exploitation of a little girl isn’t enough to turn your stomach, the restaurant’s fate is sealed by the fact that they openly serve Pepsi­ Cola. According to a certain cam­ pus publication, the distributors o f the p o p u la r b ev e rag e are

The Witch of Union

The forces o f law used to cook witches by burning them at the stake. Now America applies modern methods to the cooking of wicked women - it fries them in the electric chair.

The latest witch targeted by the forces of social cleansing is Susan Smith. She’s the woman from Union, South Carolina, who murdered her two little sons by strapping them into their car seats and pushing the car into a lake.

The prosecution in her case is seeking the death penalty. The prosecution wants this supposedly evil woman - now on antipsy­ chotic drugs and still on suicide watch in the prison - to fry.

Many wish a worse death on Smith. On N ovem ber 14 Time magazine described how people shouted “baby m u rd e re r!” at Smith as she left the courthouse.

One person interview ed called her “slime, just slime”. Another advocated stringing her up right in the courtroom.

America has a long tradition of demonising women as epito­ mes of social evil. Union joins Salem as a site of such démonisa­ tion. B lacks have also been dem onised as an evil force in America. That’s why so many are on death row and th a t’s why Sm ith o rig in ally blam ed her babies’ abduction on a black carjacker. Now Susan joins that fic­ tio n al b lack m an as an evil demon.

Smith has become a symbol of the “unnatural” mother - the

“unnatural” single mother, since Smith is divorced - who is caus­ ing all of America’s problems by not taking proper care of her chil­ dren. One letter-w riter to Time dem onstrated how he thought Smith was “unnatural” (in other words, somehow influenced by feminists in the commission of her crim e) w hen he w rote: “Perhaps Susan Smith was merely exercising her right to choose.”

Smith has become a symbol of the violence against children that happens every day. Just this week U.S. News has a story on the many children who have been abducted by a parent and abused.

After its November 14 story on S m ith, Time had a story on “Parents Who Kill”. When even Time magazine demonstrates an awareness of the social implica­ tions of one act of violence, the connection must be pretty obvi­ ous. But even if all the new s­ m agazines in A m erica had demonstrated an understanding of the pattern of social violence into which Smith fits, people would still be calling for her death because it’s a lot easier to elimi­ nate one bad woman than to elim­ inate a massive social problem that many don’t want to acknowl­ edge, isn’t it?

I don’t excuse Smith for what she did. She ab d icated her parental responsibility in the most shocking way. All her hysteria after the murder may also be a way o f denying that she is a responsible adult who committed

a crime. I just agree with the per­ son who wrote to Time, “This woman is not Satan in human guise” . Smith’s actions were a symptom of America’s problems with its children, not a cause.

People who can’t handle the responsibilities of parenthood shouldn’t become parents. Except that they do. Parenthood has been so rom anticised it’s no wonder many pop out drooling, shitting, crying, demanding little creatures without a vague idea of what they will have to sacrifice for those creatures.

Sure, kids are fun and cute and su rp risin g . But if y o u ’re Susan Sm ith or w hoever, and y o u ’re stuck in sm all-tow n U .S.A ., and y o u ’re struggling with the emotional and financial im plications of a divorce, and you’re primary care giver to two tots, and you’ve got twentysome­ thing dreams, life is rough. Only after Smith lost it did some peo­ ple w onder why no one had “reached out” to help her. Well, hey - when individualism is your ideology, those reaching-out mus­ cles get awfully stiff.

R ather than agonise over how and why society isolates its Susan and M ichael and A lex Smiths, the forces of law in South Carolina are behaving as if by getting rid of a “wicked woman”, they are getting rid of part of the child abuse problem. Fry Union’s w itch in the chair, and purge A m erica o f evil. Salem and U nion, U nion and S alem ... a union of S alem s... united S alem s... U nited S tates. L e t’s hope that the mentality of Smith’s jury has changed more since 1691 than the mentality of prosecutors.

Beatrice van Dijk hates these

b an k ro llin g the a u th o rita ria n regimes of several little countries som ew here so u th east o f here.

Apparently Pepsi has started to in clu d e p am p h lets en title d “Facism and Pepsi: the choice of the next g e n e ra tio n ” in th eir Pepsi patrol packs. No doubt that rolly-polly despot Dave Thomas endorses this perversion of the democratic spirit.

Food is indeed a pressing issue for many of us these days.

Dating has become an especially complex social ritual due to pop­ ular eating habits. Many females have sworn off meat, much to the chagrin of th eir m ale suitors.

That is, deciding on a place for dinner is next to impossible. If

you c a n ’t stan d to eat p asta, you’re most likely to spend your Saturday evenings with the good people from Swanson. Bringing a girl chocolates is also out of the question. These days the best ap h ro d isiac s are m ade w ith Nutra-Sweet.

The g ro w lin g o f stu d en t stomachs must be heard. It’s time for responsible alternatives to panned pizza, which currently has a monopoly on student indi­ g estio n . It co uld be like CampusFest, only all year long.

Now that would truly be a perfect world.

Ted Frankel has indigestion from home-made pizza.

Room to rent, no view , ugly neighbourhood and w icked guard.

Perfect for the sum m er.

EN TR EPO SA G E

DOMESTIK SELF-STORAGE

UNE SO LUTIO N P R A TIK !

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March 21st, 1995

An open letter to my dépanneur owner...

Nobody really likes you yet we continue to frequent your establishment for reasons which elude me. Why do they elude me?

Because I’m too Gen X to think of reasons why. That’s right, I’m so absorbed in my own inner-con­ flicts that I can’t string together a couple of reasons why I continue to line your greasy wallet despite the fact I feel nothing but contempt for you. Self-absorbed and lazy, that’s what I am. Combine the two and lie in bed all day, too bored to play with myself, and you get me.

Don’t get me wrong, it’s not like I would play with myself if I wasn’t bored. It’s like Sid Vicious said, “Sex is boring.” And it’s not like I can’t find a girlfriend. I could if I wanted one. But I don’t. Why?

B ecause I ’m lazy and selfabsorbed.

But I digress. I guess you’re probably wondering what you’ve done to inspire this sudden burst of concern from one as Gen X as myself. Oh, I think you know. I've seen your greedy mitts tremble nervously as you hand me back my change, hoping I won’t notice the missing two dollars that you’ve decided to keep as a tip for scamming me on a box of Kraft dinner.

Is that a conscience acting up inside your tuqued head? Or does the excitem ent of seeing if I ’ll notice the fact you’re charging a different price for the same brand of toilet paper I buy here every week cause you to shake? It’s not my fault there’s soot covering the

price tag.

I ’ve often m arvelled at my knack for having exactly the right amount of money for what I want to buy whenever I’m shopping at your store. The total always corre­ sponds to the money held in my hand as you ring in the prices.

Did I m ention that a bestbefore date is not optional? Yes, I realise your fridge is more power­ ful than mine but I doubt it will prevent this cream cheese dated 13 months ago from crawling into bed with me later tonight.

Before I forget, could you please tell me where you find that “sweaty cheese and scary meat” incense that perfumes the air in your store? That is incense, right?

In Ontario, those Victorian prudes at Queen’s Park make the corner store owners wrap their porno mags and put them on a covered shelf away from the way­ ward glances of impressionable young horndogs. Lucky for me, you’re far more liberated and keep copies of 40 and Horny next to

Rolling Stone. Just out of curiosity, do people really pay $20 for those?

If there was ever a safe mar­ ket to invest in I would probably choose that of beer. Shopping here, however, has opened my eyes to the unsteady realities of the beer market. The fluctuation of your prices betrays a market in constant turmoil. I thank you for your kind yet unembarrassingly subtle economic advice.

On the topic of beer, your ten­ dency to take things literally (aside from best-before dates) is quite unparalleled. I offer you a case study.

Me: “Excuse me, why are you charging me $15 for this 12 of W ildcat? It quite clearly says $8.99 on the case.”

Dep weasle: “No, that’s the ‘suggested price’.”

I guess Molson and Labatt’s couldn’t afford to include all the directions for returning empties on the box — at least I’ve yet to come across the part that tells you the

refund has to be spent at the dep you return them to.

Oh, yes. I should probably remind you, in case you’ve forgot­ ten, to write Betty Crocker and tell her the cake mix with the writhing worms in it might meet with some opposition. I thought the idea was great and I enjoyed watching the larger worm reproduce but maybe they should go with something a little less obvious like sea mon­ keys or something.

I still don’t feel as though I’ve answered my initial question as to why I continue to frequent your dépanneur despite the fact you rob me blind. It seems to me one of the great ironies of student life. While we lavishly condemn the greed and corruption which pervades our society, we actively solicit it in our own neighbourhoods. I suppose I should get out of bed and walk to the grocery store. It is a little far though and I don’t really feel like getting dressed. Screw it, I’ll just go to the Dep.

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by THOMAS JOSEPH p h e m e ra patron saint of drug addicts.

2 Lot unit The papacy, of course, has been ACROSS A lex Usher the source of much ridicule throughout 3 Like “Love 1 Sail the ages, and rightly so. To put it deli­ Boat” support cately, many popes have had problems 5 Gallery romances distinguishing between that which belongs to God and that 4 Critic’s items which belongs to Caesar. In recent times, criticism has cen­ 11 Canyon annual list tred on papal marketing schemes, including the Let Us 5 Wing part sound Spray lawn sprinkler, which squirts water out of the out­ 12 Nabokov 6 Put away, stretched arms of a figurine of John Paul II, and the infa­ mous “Pope-on-a-Rope” soap with which one can wash as a novel away one’s sins. But this doesn’t hold a candle to some of carpet 13 Journey the following impressive moments in papal history.

7 Woody 14 Kind of • Alexander VI — bom Rodrigo Borgia — bought the sucker and Steve Papacy in 1492 and proceeded to scandalise Rome by taking 15 Multiply 8 Central a new mistress, making his 14-year old son a Cardinal, and by seven 9 Greek bringing naked prostitutes into the Vatican. vowel 17 Wager • In the seventeenth-century, betting on the outcome of Papal elections became such a craze that the pope feared that 10 Utter 18 “I give there might be attempts to “rig” the outcome. Gregory XV J 16 Salt Lake up!” had to ban the practice in 1622.

City 22 Solo • Pope Stephen VI was so barking mad that he player 24 “Non­ exhumed his predecessor, Formosus I, and put his decom­ 19 Stiff sense!” posing corpse on trial for perjury and “coveting the papacy”.

25 Red or recycled Stephen was strangled to death by pro-Formosans a few paper Dead months later. The next seven popes each convened Synods 26 Rink 20 Valentine either confirming or revoking the guilty verdict that Formosus received at the hands of Stephen’s “court”. trim surface Those who think the church moribund and medieval 27 Large 1 2 4 3 usually point to the rapid aging of the Catholic clergy in group North America. But doctrinally, the church is as active as 11 30 Drugs ever. The doctrine of Immaculate Conception — the idea 32 Termi­ 13 that Mary was the only human ever conceived without origi­ nated nal sin — was only proclaimed in 1854, and the Assumption 15 33 Go out of Mary was only proclaimed in 1950. Besides, it’s not as though there aren’t a lot of fun people in the Church these 34 Lawyer’s 17 days. Even some of their names — such as Cardinal Sin of work the Phillipines — are rife with wit. And as for being hip 38 Kind of 22 23 with the younger crowd... well, the pope did last year social excommunicate Felix Paul, the Bishop of the Seychelles, 41 “Othello” 25 after the latter admitted to growing pot and watching pom villain movies. But if the sixteenth-century church could elect a gay 27 28 42 Anes­ man (Julius III) pope, I feel confident that by the time 32 thetize Vatican III rolls around the church will have modernised to the extent that priests around the world will be permitted not 43 Tar’s 34 only to preach in the vernacular, but also to do so with quaff Karaoke music, back-up doo-wap singers and Mariachi 44 Abhor 39 38 40 bands.

The mysteries of life and the hereafter have occupied the thoughts of men and women since the dawn of time. So puzzling and infathomable are these topics that the greatest minds of the last three millenia — Plato, Augustine, Aquinas, Kierkegaard and Hunter S. Thompson — have been unable to unravel them. We at the Faculty are often asked to delve into these questions, and the best we’ve been able to come up with is a research proposal to have a channeler link Kierkegaard and Thompson for a few days so they can jointly collaborate on a work called “Fear and Trembling in Las Vegas”. But among all the competing faiths and creeds, faculty members are most drawn to the Catholic Church, where the hierarchy’s historical inability to follow more than about six of the ten commandments at any one time has created an invaluable source of ephemeral material.

(McGill’s resemblance to the Catholic Church, with its Holy Trinity of BoG Chair, Principal and Chancellor, twelve faculty Deans/Apostles, and d Senate which is the equivalent of the College of Cardinals, has been remarked upon else­ where. But our new fund-raising slogan “There is Only One McGill”, sounds more like the Islamic “There is no God but God” than any Catholic chant. Could this have something to do with our former Principal’s rumoured fund-raising trip to Teheran three years ago? Can you imagine how scandalised our university’s numerous Jewish students, faculty members and benefactors — like, say, the Bronfmans — would be if it were true that Johnston gladhanded the Ayatollahs and they all found out about it? Quelle scandale...)

One of the most fabulous things about the Catholic Church is its universal system of patron saints. Whether you are an artillery gunner (St. Barbara), a starch maker (St. Charles Borromeo), a coin collector (St. Eloy), or are suffer­ ing from an ailment such as venereal disease (St. Viacre), or gravel in the urine (St. Drogo), you have a patron saint. But what is particularly interesting is the frankly perverse way in which saints are chosen to be patrons of any particular ocupation or condition.

Take Saint Lydwina, for example. She was a devout woman who broke both her knees in an ice-skating accident at the age of sixteen, and lived in excruciating pain for another 37 years, during the last half of which she could eat nothing but communion wafers. After her death she was made the patron saint of ice-skating (note: Nancy Kerrigan is also Catholic). Saint John was made the patron saint of candle-makers because he was boiled in oil. Similarly, Saint Alex Usher still doesn ’t understand why the resurrec­ Bartholomew, who was skinned alive, was made patron tion of Christ is commemorated by looking for eggs laid by saint of tanners. More recently, there is the case of furry mammals.

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O J., DNA, and a Bronco getaway DNA evidence. quency of DNA defence testing.

“A fundamental principle of “Mostly we perform tests for paternity and immigration cases. A criminal law is the right against self­ incrim ination. Your very small percentage own genes, in a sense, of our tests are per­ 11 are your most intimate formed for forensic conversation. DNA evi­ / mm purposes,” said Cou­ 1155.5 .4 .3 m dence, therefore, is the ture. She went on to 1155.2 / ultim ate example of explain that the 15.1 giving evidence against M ontreal office of 14 yourself,” outlined So­ Helix Biotech has pro­ 13 merville. vided DNA evidence 12 \ 11.22 DNA evidence can for forensic defence 11.1 SN also be viewed as “a purposes only two or 1112 major improvement on three times a year dur­ 1133.1 .2 1 3 .3 fingerprinting”, accord­ ing its two years of 13.4 ing to Somerville. operation.

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It may be O.J. Simpson’s worst nightmare and Guy-Paul Morin’s strongest defence. Conducting DNA tests on evidence such as hair, blood or semen stains is becoming a com­ mon practice in criminal proceed­ ings.

Every cell in the human body contains the blueprint of the body.

The material that stores this infor­ mation is DNA. Over ninety-nine percent of the DNA in any two peo­ ple is the same. This sim ilarity results in common features among people such as two eyes and five fingers on each hand.

The basis of genetic tests rests on the fact that scientists have found some parts of the DNA that are described as “hypervariable” by Dr. Rima Rozen, associate professor in the department of human genetics. It is this “hypervariable” part of the DNA, different from one individual to the next, that scientists compare during DNA testing for criminal proceedings.

The general consensus is that DNA testing is very reliable. “The tests are extremely accurate if con­ ducted properly,” stated Rozen.

Dr. Leo Laverge, a molecular genetics specialist at the Ministry of Public Security in Montreal, con­ firmed the reliability of DNA test­ ing. “The test is very accurate in the sense that it is the best identification technique we’ve ever had.”

Laverge claimed DNA testing is a very useful technique for identi­ fication. He spoke of a few rape cases in Quebec in which the accused identified by the victim was shown not to be the rapist by DNA tests.

The Ministry of Public Security in Quebec conducts about 150 DNA tests a year for prosecution purpos­ es. Testing for defence purposes is rarely conducted by the Ministry.

The sole provider of DNA test­ ing for defence purposes in Canada is Helix Biotech, according to Sophie Couture, a marketing repre­ sentative at the Montreal office.

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So little evidence is required because of a technique called Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) that can amplify genetic informa­ tion. “You don’t need very much at all. They say you can do the test with one cell,” stated Rozen.

Because of the sensitivity of the technique, scientists can accurately make many copies of a very small amount of DNA. However, the sensitivity of the amplification is also a drawback.

Great care must be taken when han­ dling evidence to avoid contamina­ tion. “It is just as easy to amplify a detective’s DNA instead of the hair sample if it is not handled prpperly,” stated Rozen.

Issues regarding the handling of.evidence by investigators have been raised in the O.J. Simpson trial.

While this extraordinary new tech­ nology is a benefit to the justice sys­ tem, it is important that discretion be used in its application. “We don’t want to create a technologically run justice system, but a human run jus­ tice system,” stated Somerville.

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even be better than they are now [following Quebec sovereignty]. I future of the university? According don’t think it’s appropriate to do to some m em bers of M cG ill’s the Chicken Little act and run administration, there’s not much to around saying the sky is falling.” worry about. Principal Bernard Patrick Glenn, chairman of the Shapiro seemed unfazed by the McGill Association of University results.

Teachers, echoed the reactions of “I guess I wasn’t surprised. his colleagues.

There are many issues for many “That figure [34.2 percent people,” he said. “There’s a big dif­ departure rate] doesn’t seem very ference between what people think high or disturbing. and what they will actually Academics are very mobile do. My view of the appro­ people. I thought it would priate position is not related be higher,” he said. to the num bers of who “Though we haven’t thinks what or who will reached any firm conclu­ leave.” sions yet, MAUT is When asked whether presently deliberating what he believed McGill, in light statements it will provide of the poll results, should the Parti Québécois in terms adopt a position on sover­ of what funding will be like eignty, Shapiro replied, in the future. Since McGill “No, I don’t.” is a valuable asset in any The results of the sur­ political context, we’re also vey seem to support similar contem plating appearing findings earlier this month before the C onseil in the magazine L ’Actualité.

Supérieur to discuss these The publication indicated issues.” that approximately 15-20 The Tribune asked percent of Quebec profes­ Glenn how likely a sover­ sionals would leave the eign Quebec government province following separa­ would be to im pose lan­ tion. M cGill C hancellor guage and/or course quotas Gretta Chambers comment­ on McGill staff and stu­ ed on why the M cGill dents. results were higher.

“These things are “T h ere’s nothing as uncontrollable by the Parti mobile as a university pro­ Closing doors on McGill professors?

Q uébécois,” he asserted. fesso r,” she said. “They haven’t got any economic reasons be of concern to the community,” “The government can’t direct cur­ not to move. But if McGill remains he said. “Universities are a window riculum at any level. That is at the an excellent university why would on the world. You still need these discretion of the University itself.”

In terms of staff levels, Glenn they leave?” she said. “If it in any country, and certainly becomes politically uncomfortable Quebec as a small country would seemed almost reassured by the then that would have an effect. In need this small window on the results.

“M cG ill is in very serious addition, the poll shows that there world.”

However, Pound commented financial difficulties and is going to are many people without sociologi­ cal roots in Quebec and that might that predictions made now are sus­ have to reduce its num bers.

Voluntary departure is MAUT’s explain why people say they will pect.

“The fortunes of McGill might preferred solution to our number leave. [.The poU] is.certainly a --------reflection of the uncertainty people are feeling.”

Dick Pound, the Chairman of M cG ill’s Board of G overnors, expressed concern at the prospect of departing staff.

“I think the prospect of losing any significant number of the very talented faculty we have here is something that would be of con­ cern to the university and ought to

problems,” he said. “It’s a window of opportunity to hire at better lev­ els. It would certainly be more dis­ turbing if we have to fire people.”

The survey was passed to vari­ ous members of the Quebec politi­ cal com m unity for com m ent.

Though Quebec Liberal leader Daniel Johnson declined comment, his Chief of Staff Pierre Anctil believed the results should be taken seriously by McGill administration and Quebeckers alike.

“The basis of a university institution is its teaching staff,” he stated. “Any contingency that threatens this cadre should be important to the administration.

I’m convinced that Quebeckers attach a large importance to the strength of our intellectual commu­ nity. It would be a great loss on the three levels of University, Montreal com m unity and Quebec if this number leaves. The issue of people leaving has to be seen as very important,” he said.

Jacques Chagnon, Liberal MNA for McGill’s riding of SaintHenri—Westmount, saw the poll as confirming some of his major wor­ ries about sovereignty, including the funding for universities at cur­ rent levels and the maintenance of an intellectual core in Quebec.

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TRIBUNE PROFESSOR/SOVEREIGNTY POLL Total Number of respondents: 120 Question 1: Where is respondent from?

Quebec

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28 respondents 23.3%

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Down the drain: a pub audit turned ugly

By C hris M c D ougall_________ It seemed like a plush assign­ ment. “Write a 500-word article on the quality of the water served at your favourite student pubs”, my editor instructed me. “Not a prob­ lem,” I replied as a devious grin spread slowly across my face. No need to go anywhere near the library for this type of research. All I had to do was gather up a few friends and go bar-hopping.

The premises underlying my mission were straightforw ard enough. Many university students consume vast amounts of alcohol.

As experts advise drinkers to match every alcoholic beverage with a tall glass of water, the more health-con­ scious among us might be interested in the quality of the H20 at their favourite “watering” holes.

The first stop on our doomed escapade was Madhatter’s Library, the only place in town that I know of where the DJ plays music exclusive­ ly off of vinyl. (Techno-folk need not panic, however, since there is also a well-stocked CD jukebox).

An original laid-back student dive, the Hatter is unmatched when it comes to cheap booze.

Our pleasant if absent-minded waitress got the night rolling right with two pitchers for $15 even. (“Oh, yeah, and a glass of water, please!”) Having sucked back both pitchers in mere minutes (places to go, water to rate!), we quickly passed a motion to include nearby restrooms in our audit.

It was on the way out that me and my merry bunch devised the rat­ ing system for the evening. For “water quality”, values from one to five ice cubes would be assigned, with five being the highest possible score. The “loo quality” would be rated on a similar scale of urinal mints.

Consensus on the water quality

Leaving the grunge, our now at our first stop was that the taste well-juiced band of judges stumbled evoked childhood memories of sucking on alkaline batteries. As for off towards trendier territory: St. the Hatter’s “pissers”, an entire box Laurent. The plan was to start off at of urinal mints wouldn’t help - stay the Copacabana and work down to away unless your bladder is in Angel’s, hitting Café Frappé, Purple i mminent danger of bursting. If your urethra just won’t hold, be warned that there are no doors and that the s t ench approaches outhouse levels. The graffiti is thoroughly uninspired.

No cubes More than your friendly neighbourhood sink and no mints for Haze, Le Bifthèque, Café Campus the Hatter.

Next stop was Annie’s, affec­ and maybe a few others along the tionately referred to as “Gert’s away way. Our transit to Copa proved from Gert’s” by the most seasoned uneventful (except for one of us, veteran of our group, who shall be known only as Vito. This place is a haven for over-sexed, under-aged, and mild-witted students looking for cheap pitchers and cheap wings. All would admit, however, that an addi­ tional eight litres of Boréale Rousse and European soccer on a big screen made the visit tolerable. Beer-gog­ gles could not render the fart-art on the walls passable.

Annie’s water was premium Montreal tap, but* at least it was served with lots of ice in a relatively clean glass. (I think I may even have had two sips this time.) With regards to the powder-rooms...I’d like to describe them, but the pool of urine just inside the doorway kept me from more than a cursory inspection.

Score for Annie’s: 2 cubes, no mints.

whose unfortunate encounter with a parking meter resulted in a rather em barrassing change of voice).

Further progress was halted by a generalised incapacity to simultane­ ously speak and walk, let alone engage in thoughtful toilet-appraisal.

If you can catch a glimpse of an empty table through the haze of smoke that always hangs in the joint, Copa is not a bad pub. Cool music, inexpensive beer served in chilled mugs, and an interesting crowd explain the bar’s popularity. One of my co-conspirators postulated that the decor was the real attraction: “I love the palm trees and the psychedelic spermies on the wall - I think I’m in Hawaii, but that might just be the beer.”

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that ice-cold water at Copa was always available at a clever little self-serve station next to the bar. In my books, that scores at least four and a half cubes.

Unfortunately, although most of us were in agreement that such facilities were available, no one quite remembers just how the lava­ tories were equipped. We thus decided that it would be fair to enter a score of two and a half urinal mints for the Copa cans. (Further discussion, resulted in a bonus point for Copa, since management declined to have us thrown out on our asses for playing two full peri­ ods of hockey with a wrapped urinal mint and four celery sticks.)

The blur that was the rest of the night cannot be recounted with any accuracy or integrity. It will remain forever a dark and hidden secret in the minds of those who, despite hav­ ing chased their beer with plenty of water, woke up Thursday with the “morning-after-shit-I-drank-toomuch-draft-last-night-explodingheadache-and-screaming-bowelssyndrome”.

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March 31,1995 9:00 am - 12:00 noon Bronfman Bldg./ Rm 401 The purpose is to seek inform ation from the cam pus community about program s that currently exist or are being proposed, that im prove services or representation from under-represented groups. As w ell, w e w ould like to learn the different views on cam pus with respect to issues of education equity, such as curriculum, classroom clim ate and acad em ic freedom .

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Continued From Page 9 “It will be very difficult for Quebec to maintain funding for universities if it separates, and this may be a strong reason for profes­ so rs’ un certain ty ,” he said.

“Q uebec’s future depends to a great extent on our ability to trans­ fer knowledge and research skills onto our students, whether they are anglophone or francophone. I believe that the students and teach­ ers at McGill have an important role to play in the months to come, and I hope they play it. If any soci­ ety loses its intellectual elite, it loses the foundations of society.”

Alliance Québec, the umbrella group for anglophone organisa­ tions in the province, was also notified of the poll results. David Ferrabee, D irector of C om m unications at A lliance Québec, was not surprised with the outcome.

“These back up previous polls, particu larly those in L ’Actualité. The results should be taken as a serious indication of the intentions of Quebec profession­ als,” he said.

When asked how the Parti Québécois assessed this problem, Ferrabee replied, “They haven’t.

But the results suggest that they should consider reassessing their policy decisions.”

R esponses from the Parti Québécois on the survey were less forthcoming. The office of VicePresident of the PQ and Deputy Premier Bernard Landry refused to comment on the poll. In addition, though many attempts were made to obtain a response from PQ Minister of Education Jean Garon, he was repeatedly unavailable for comment.

Christiane Meville-Deschenes from the office of Jeanne B lackburn, PQ MNA for Chicoutimi, provided the Tribune with a different interpretation of the results.

“Basically, this poll tells us that no more than ten percent of professors would leave in the reali­ ty of sep aratio n ,” she argued.

“Though many may say they will leave, when the time comes and they see that very little will change, we expect they will change their minds.”

This correlates with a January 1992 interview with the Tribune, in which Blackburn reassured McGill that it would not be dis­ criminated against when it comes to funding in an independent Quebec. She also stated that the PQ would seek a reciprocity agree­ ment with the rest of Canada.

The results seem to indicate that those professors from another province in Canada outside Quebec are the most likely to leave. Flowever, it may be that the relatively high percentage of those who were “unsure” of their inten­ tions, shows that a firm commit­ ment to university policies from either the PQ or McGill in an inde­ pendent Quebec may be long over­ due.

The Tribune would like to thank Professor Gidengil fo r her valuable help with interpreting the survey results. Additional report­ ing by Michael Broadhurst and Paromita Shah. : 11

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ENTERTAINMENT

A mosaic of images: the McGill Contemporary Dance Ensemble

By C atherine Porter Shatner can induce some inter­ esting visions. This week, for example, finds women split leaping in long silver spandex dresses. But not just split leaping, and not just in spandex; after all, this is no site for a Fame rerun. In their upcoming show M osaica, The M cG ill Contemporary Dance Ensemble presents sixteen pieces which stretch across the spectrum from funky to lyrical to jazzy bits of stu­ dent-choreographed dance.

“There is something for every­ one,” urged coordinator Rebeccah McArton, “from slow lyrical and classic to modern and funk danc­ ing. This is not an unreadable show. Some people are afraid of dance because they do not under­ stand it. Our show is not like that, it’s more audience oriented, less self-indulgent.”

Dancer Alorani Martin agreed, “Sometimes dance is a pretentious art — you need twelve years of education in the field to understand it. I hope that that’s not what we’re doing. Half of it is just for fun.”

In Martin’s piece In a Sudden Strangeness, two women don funky long spaghetti strapped dresses, one silver and one gold.

The music shuffles between the chaotic and the pacific — bringing the dancers from frenetic, isolated “crazed detached energy” to softer movements when the two move together.

“I am trying to push us to some limit,” nodded Martin.

When asked the typical ‘What does it mean?’ question, Martin pointed to a line in a poem which is recited at both the opening and closing of her piece: “If only we could stop for just one second and not use our arms so much.”

On a more conventional bent is Jennifer Gunter’s Swim Beneath the Surface. Two people dance to a k.d. lang song, with lyrics running along the lines of “wash me clean, mend my tattered seam s” and “swim, swim through my veins, drown me in your rain.” Gunter admitted that “the lyrics are kinda flaky”, but stated that she wanted to portray the feeling she got from the song, “the emotional feeling after meeting someone, or finding some­ thing, maybe a new philosophy or religion, that you want to complete­ ly immerse yourself in.”

A throwback to ‘80s kitsch, one of M cArton and Amanda Sussman’s three pieces grooves to Michael Jackson’s ‘Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough’. The six dancers sport candy-coloured short satin skirts with m atching hearted tummy tops. And knee socks, of course. The message? McArton

chuckled, “I t’s ju st a spoof on disco, remembering when you were young and thought that you were sexy, and really weren’t.”

The final choreographer who gave the Tribune a taste of her work was Lisa Benjamin, who is also a coordinator of the show. Her message dampens the childhood flashback mood with a serious mes­ sage. Moving to Billie Holiday’s acapella ‘Strange Fruit’, the bodies of her black-clad dancers curl and twist to the singer’s voices and breaths. The ‘strange fruit’ refers to a lynched body swaying from a tree, and fittingly, two women wearing chokers. The unsettling feeling is calmed near to the end of the piece as the choir from The Power o f One shoulders Holiday over and chants ‘Sentanena’.

Benjamin explained why she chose the subject. “When I heard the song again, it reminded me of

Echoes emanate from Fluffy Pagans Stanton described it as a form of work­ shopping on stage. In fact, spontaneity generated one of their first audiences.

“All poets who, when reading “In July we were performing a piece on from their own works, experience a St. Laurent from either side of the street choked feeling, are major. For that and people started sticking their heads matter, all poets who read from their out the windows,” related McGrail. “A own works are major, whether they guy on the third floor came with a tuba choke or not. ” -E. B. White and started playing, and then a guy on the other side of the street came out The Fluffy Pagan Echoes are with a guitar. We had a completely working together to perfect the art of spontaneous street jam session based reading their poetry without choking. on the energy, not the poetry. People This popular Montreal spoken word thought, ‘There’s five people group consists of five voic­ screaming, they must mean es: Scott Duncan, Vincent something.’”

Tinguely, Ran Elfassy, After successfully drawing Justin M cGrail, and an audience, they needed a Victoria Stanton. They name. Scott recounted the ‘Led united their pens last June Zeppelin story’, which gave birth and have used collaboration to their obscure, yet memorable as inspiration for their writ­ name. “We were trying to come ing. up with a name and Ran liked Poetry readings often the name ‘Choe’, echoes without conjure images of preten­ the ‘e’. Okay, obscure,” he tious literary musings in admitted. “I wanted something smoky, wood-panelled like ‘Pagans’ because our first rooms or angry outpourings show was the day after the sol­ screamed from milk crates. stice in June and I thought it con­ They can be insightful or Fluffy pagan “pom ”readers nected somehow with that. Then offensive, but the meaning somebody said ‘Pagan Echoes’ and each month to ensure that every show is lost in all poetry if it is not read well.

Delivery is the main concern for is unique. Most performances are struc­ somebody else said ‘That’s FLUFFY’. the Fluffy Pagan Echoes. Although tured through thematic rounds of a See, it’s like that, the Led Zeppelin they each craft their own poetry and maximum of four poems each. In story.”

Irrespective of the fluff, they have prose, they work together on perfor­ preparation for the upcoming Montreal enjoyed early acclaim in the realm of Fringe Festival, they are trying to intro­ mance techniques. “A lot of pieces look weird on paper. When we first got duce multiple themes per round. “We the spoken word. Since they began together, reading each other’s poems don’t want to become stale, to get together, they have performed and were didn’t mean a lot,” explained McGrail. bored with each other, or have the audi­ charted on the radio show Wired on Words and they also had a live perfor­ “Spoken Word is about the perfor­ ence be bored,” emphasised Tinguely. mance broadcast from Bistro 4.

The difficulty with performance mance being more important than it What’s up for the near future? poetry is that, owing to the interpreta­ being published in a magazine. The immediacy over the grasp for posteri­ tion demanded by the subject matter, “It’s not an either or situation,” empha­ the attention span of the audience is sised Tinguely, “It’s not like we’re ty-” “If you think historically where limited. This predicament caused the going to abandon writing fiction and poetry comes from, it comes from an group to quickly abandon chatty intro­ just do performance. All media is what old tradition,” elaborated Tinguely. ductions and to incorporate breaks we play with.”

“What this is about, in terms of poetry, between pieces. “I once had an intro The Fluffy Pagan Echoes have is bringing it back to that relationship that was as long as Canada is wide,” translated some o f what they do on laughed Duncan.

“It’s a lot to take in, to the audience, instead of having it on the same person for more than five stage to the page. Their published work a page.” entitled Episode One: A Word Circus is While Stanton has a theatre back­ minutes.” available at Danger, the Word, Le Depending on the degree of mem­ ground, and McGrail an admiration for Kenneth Branagh, they all agree that ory blockage, as well as on their mood, Stand and Bistro 4. They will be per­ the ability to act has no influence on they will improvise during their shows. forming at Phoenix on March 29.

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effective poetry reading. “Doing per­ formance poetry is antithetical to act­ ing, because you’re trying so hard to do anything but act,” emphasised McGrail.

“It’s not about artifice. You’re just using your body and everything you’ve got to get the message across. It can’t be about acting, it’s about honesty.”

“It helps that w e’re not good actors,” joked Duncan.

Performing as a group lends to variety and support. The Fluffy Pagan Echoes insist on using new material

my dance teacher from when I was twelve years old. She was a black woman, and I never understood the impact of that song for her. I had been thinking about race and study­ ing it more intensely. When I heard the music and thought of my teacher, it somehow all fit togeth­ er.”

The show all fits together this Thursday. And if yo u ’ve never been big on the ‘80s, and chokers are not your thing, then maybe you’ll be drawn in by Benjamin’s closing thoughts on dancing: “In my mind, it is one of the most beautiful art forms — you are what you dance.”

The M cG ill Contem porary Dance Ensemble presents Mosaica, March 23-25 and March 29 — April I, at Players’ Theatre, at 8 p.m. Tickets are $I2/$6 students.

Call 398-6813 for reservations.

Bringing the Oboe to the masses ment at that time. After that period, it became an orchestral The compact disc Oboe­ instrument and became more centric , now available at forgotten.”

Justifying the production Sam ’s and the M cGill book store, was recorded by oboist of a record, Cohen said, and M cGill m usic student “Performance is great, but a Aaron Cohen, cellist Evan CD is the best way to publicise Jones and harpsichordist Robert what you do. You play a con­ Sigmund. It features four oboe cert and how many people sonatas by the late Baroque and come that one night is how early C lassical com posers many people hear it. The CD is a perm anent publicity B esozzi, K irnberger thing... now people and Dreyer. will know what I Co h e n do and what to chose to expect if they record this ever come to mu s i c see me because of p lay ,” said its rarity.

Cohen. “ I d id n ’t Cohen want to do wants to the stan­ change the dard reper­ way classical to ire ,” said music is marketed Cohen. It’s bet­ in to d ay ’s world. ter for someone I’d prefer to go to a clas­ like myself to record something that world famous sical concert and see people my players haven’t already done. own age. I’d like to feel that Would you buy my disc if there my audience and I were living was a disc by some really in the same time period with the same problems. Classical famous guy right beside it?”

W ith help from Bruce music just isn’t put out well.

Haynes, Cohen selected the You don’t see videos for classi­ music last summer. “Bruce cal music. We don’t have a Haynes is a world authority on connection to it we can relate oboe m usic. This guy has to. I mean, you can’t relate to 10,000 pieces in his house and Beethoven like Led Zeppelin.”

But can oboe really be we had a huge stack of previ­ ously unpublished music to hip? “ Sure it can ,” Aaron responds. “ Standards keep choose from,” said Cohen.

Concerning his choice of changing, and this disc is prob­ late B aroque and early ably just the first step forward Classical period music for the for me. Last year’s project [an disc, Cohen responded, “Most electric oboe recital] led to this of the music is from a 40-year and now this will lead to other time period, from 1750 to 1790. projects. I can’t wait for the Some of the greatest oboe next one, I ’ll know what to music is from then because it change. I t’s a never-ending was a much more solo instru­ cycle.”

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Student Directors’ Projects: Nine plays for the price of none Pagans

By David Schein Directed by Jesse Evans (March 20, 24, 29) Kathryn Stockwood, one of the two actors in this piece, put it bluntly, “This play is about reli­ gion and teenage sex.” Also fea­ turing Harry Crane (just off from The Trial o f Judith K.), Pagans revolves around two teenagers, one C atholic and one Jew ish, who meet one weekend in a small New England town. The combi­ n ation o f tw o such hot topics (u n d er the d ire c tio n o f Jesse Evans) should produce electric results. According to Stockwood, the play is a drama with comedic moments which follow the two characters as their conversation develops late one Saturday night.

The taut writing and directing should make this play one of the highlights of the Directors’ pro­ jects.

— Ryan Levitt

centrates on the husband himself.

R ose’s production explores the struggles of an actor through a plethora of creative staging. Her actual actors lounge by the stage betw een lines, prepping them ­ selv es fo r the stag e. M ore impressively, her stage manager co n to rts her own body into a table, for there is no table to be found in the make-shift rehersal happening on stage. How’s that for DIY art?

— Joyce Lau Graceland

By Ellen Byron Directed by Nadia Jenefsky (March 22,27,31) Graceland is a comedy about two obsessed female Elvis fanat­ ics. Bev, 42, and Roottie, 22, bat­ tle it out in front of Graceland to contest who gets to go in first.

— Cecily Eckhardt The Collection

By Harold Pinter Directed by Megan Keenberg (March 21,25,30)

In the Bar o f a Tokyo Hotel

By Tennessee Williams Directed by Vanya Rose (March 20, 24,29)

The C o lle ctio n rev o lv es around four frag ile, deceitful characters who run about in cir­ cles, trying to dig to the root of their problems, and then trying to smooth things over. Coping with each other’s manipulative game­ playing, they find themselves in a

D irecto r V anya Rose p re ­ sents a twisted Williams. Taking a play whose intended plot cen­ tres around a seductive woman ru n n in g aw ay from a crazed artiste husband, Rose shifts the emphasis to the subplot, and con­

state of nonchalant rage and awk­ ward grace. This play features four M cG ill dram a thespians, Philip Pace (of Cabaret fame), R obin N e in ste in (o f B e tte r L iv in g ), L isa G lo v er (o f The Room) and Réjean D enoncourt (of A Servant o f Two Masters).

— Joyce Lau Seascape with Sharks and Dancer

By Don Nigro Directed by Steven Schelling (March 21,25,30) A liso n B rooks and B rian Irwin team together to portray the story of a “mild-mannered writer who saves an insane girl and falls in lo v e .” D ire c to r Steve Schelling, a veteran of McGill stage, prom ises a bit of every­ thing. “Typewriters, noses, and bookshelves all get broken,” he said. Schelling’s direction, along with the possibilities of which B rooks and Irwin are capable should be exciting.

— Ryan Levitt The Box

By Sheldon Rosen Directed by Stephan Moffitt (March 22,27,31) One’s a geek, one’s a loser.

Together they are trapped — in corragated cardboard. Only the truth can set them free. (Beware the falling cheese).

— Cecily Eckhardt

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By Arthur Kopit Directed by Matt MacFadzean (March 22,27,31)

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Sing to M e th rough Open Windows is an absurdist piece about a metaphysical quest which turns out to be only an illusion.

This play contends with a hope for release which reveals itself as an impossible struggle leading to inevitable deterioration.

— Cecily Eckhardt

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the two worlds of Jerry and Peter collide in a peaceful corner of C entral Park. Their experience causes them to become inexplicitly linked at the end of the story.

— Cecily Eckhardt Suicide in B flat

By Sam Sheppard Directed by Jessica Sherman (March 23, 28, April 1) P lay in g upon a ty p ical Sheppard theme, Suicide in B flat explores the inner working of an

artist who tries to regain a lost creativity and identity. According to director Jessica Sherman, the play is, “an experiement in visual m usic. It's w ritten like a jazz improv. It goes off on tangents, but always returns to a central theme. Music is a powerful force which controls both the charac­ ters and the audience.” A pianist will accompany the piece.

— Joyce Lau

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Sweatiness in Degrees unconvincingly.

Physical action is also well documented by creative camera work and editing. The images in the letterboxed frame spin and jerk unsteadily during scenes of drag racing and fist fights, a mix­ ture of A Clockwork Orange and neighbourhood kid delinquency.

An insightful study in macho psychology, Degrees zooms into the sweaty, flawed face of a lusty male creature, trapped in a dead­ end life; and then explodes with the tension accumulated by the pressure cooker environment.

T here is no heroism here, only a slight hesitation in the face of a moral wrong, followed by acts of betrayal to save one’s own ass. Even the youth who takes his

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With an execution as gritty as the realism o f its m essage, Degrees is not as clean-cut as a film might be; but is still inge­ niously innovative for a film shot by two guys in four days for less than $700.

Degrees features a violence bom of small town claustrophobia which is, unfortunately, not whol­ ly unrealistic.

MacDonald and Saul Pincus are the two young, independent film-makers who co-directed and produced this p roject. In this experimental piece, Pincus shot and edited MacDonald’s perfor­ mance of his one-man play, which was a hit at both the Atlantic and Halifax Fringe T h e a t r e Festivals.

The filming is m inim alist and extrem e, well represent­ ing its subject m atter. There are no props, sets, costum e changes or m usic — only M acDonald beating himself MacDonald beating himself up in a story o f machismo up in a foggy, negative space with harsh beams punishment Tike a man’ can not of light beating down upon him. be respected for his obsequious The film starts with follow ing of the cool kids at MacDonald playing the narrator. school. After a pathetic attempt to As the only actor, all of his one­ add substance to their lives, the sided conversations lend to an film leaves the characters dirtier eerie, lonely atmosphere which is and lower than they had began, spotted by bad jokes and tough- covered in the soot of their crime. guy antics. As the half-hour film Degrees screens at midnight progresses and the pace picks up, on Friday March 24, and at 11:30 MacDonald alternates between the p.m. on Saturday, March 25 at characters with increasing fluidity. Cinéma P a ra llèle (3682 St. To distinguish between the four L aurent). T ickets are $3 in boys, M acDonald exaggerates advance and $3.50 at the door. their idiosyncrasies of speech, Call 484-3946 fo r more informa­ posture and action, though not tion.

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D isce lla n e o u s The The

is the soundtrack to the five-part tele­ vision series of the same name. The 35 tracks range from blues, R & B, gospel and jazz to funk, soul and hip Since The The started recording hop. The songs are presented pseudoin the early 1980s, the enigmatic chronologically, and includes a num­ Matt Johnson has surprised consis­ ber of recent recordings. Variety is tently with his dark and gloomy the key word here, as the album truly mood music. But on Hanky Panky has something for everyone, whether it’s not Johnson’s cataclysmic dream Earth, Wind & Fire or Public Enemy sequences that you hear, for this be your preferred flavour. The pre­ album, in Johnson’s words, is “the vailing theme appears to be paying first in an occasional series of albums tribute and respect to those who ven­ celebrating the great singer/songwrit- tured out of the harsh climate of the ers.” What a concept. A one-band A m e r i c a n tribute album. The The does Dylan. South to Or Neil Young (imagine ‘Heart of C h i c a g o , Gold’). Or Barry Manilow — try not where much to imagine ‘Copacabana’. So of this music Johnson takes on Hank Williams or i gi nat es .

(Senior, not the one who does the Tracks like Monday Night Football theme for M u d d y ABC) and his vast repertoire, and Waters’ ‘My pulls it off beautifully. Johnson does Home is in the ultimate tribute, one that most the D elta’, bands fail to do: he makes the song A r e t h a his own without betraying its origi­ F r a n k l i n ’ s nal. ‘There’s A Tear In My Beer’ and ‘R e s p e c t ’ , ‘Weary Blues From Waitin’’ are par­ Nas’ ‘The ticularly strong renditions, and I World is Yours’, Robert Johnson’s never thought I’d smile as much as I ‘Sweet Home Chicago’, Dionne did when I heard the first track, Ferris’ T Wish I Knew How it ‘Honky Tonkin’. Great idea, and it Would Feel to be Free’ and Puff resulted in a great album.

Johnson with the title track make it — Michael Broadhurst clear where this compilation’s inter­ ests lie. The switch from genre to genre can be jarring, and most fanat­ The Tea Party ics will already have most of these The Edges of Twilight tracks, but the sing-along appeal (EMI) (especially disc two) and snazzy Walking into Bifteck alongside packaging make for a sure pleaser.

— Harris Newman Tea Party frontman ‘Jeff’ is like appearing in an Oliver Stone movie Annie Lennox — inauthentic. Clad in leather pants, Medusa (BMG) matching jacket and a white poet’s Dave Stewart blouse, the altema-rocker resembled Greetings from the Gutter a stoned Hamlet more than a lizard (Warner) king. Amidst the finger-pointing, fre­ quent introductions and intermittent After a three year sabbatical, trips to the restroom to ‘write lyrics’, Annie Lennox has released Medusa Hamlet and I managed to discuss the band’s music. He expressed an inter­ with the promise of something new, est in producing an album founded even innovative. A hard promise to upon continuity. If The Edges of satisfy, given Medusa’s an album of Twilight is an attempt at telling a covers. Lennox has moved beyond continuous story, it’s probably one her see-me-on-MuchMusic style with you don’t want to hear. Hamlet’s some less than famous tracks. excellent elocution is ridden with They’re Mix 96-friendly and remind repetition. The band has become a me of some of my finer elevator walking genre spouting the lyrical rides. Still, they have an unpreten­ clichés that you and I gave up in our tious quality that gives them appeal. eighth grade ‘you suck’ days. East The soft keyboard sequences, polite Indian, Chinese and Brazilian influ­ electronic drums and vocals capable ences fail to make the poet’s triple D of calming the most spastic listener descent (death, darkness and despair) add to the mature selections, giving the songs a quiet sophistication. The interesting. The elements which dis­ tinguished Splendor Solis have days of the Eurythmies bite and dan­ become as cliché as the lyrics. gerous pop-orientation are almost Entertainment is guaranteed should gone. Lennox reworks and dereggaethe listener decide to note the differ­ fies Bob Marley’s ‘Waiting in Vain’, complete with nylon-string guitar ent ways to say “I’m goin’ down” and “You’re tearing me apart” . intro and her somewhat celestial Course time is better spent at your voice. However, Medusa loses its local watering hole. You'll find Jeff flow as Lennox occasionally over­ steps her boundaries. Her version of on his throne. the Clash’s ‘Train in Vain’ is a sur­ — Lizzie Saunderson prising choice that should have been left to the Seattle bands. Medusa is hit and miss with a conscientious Various Artists mood, and more new than innova­ The Promised Land tive.

(Sony) Dave Stewart’s hacked away a This 125-minute 2 CD package new groove with Greetings from the is a veritable ‘greatest hits’ package Gutter. This visceral impact belongs somewhere between target and offof African-American music spanning from 1927 to 1994. Produced by the centre with a soft-core dance vibe BBC and Discovery Productions, this and echo of Euro-rock. For the most Hanky Panky (Sony)

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part, this David Bowie soundalike produces sounds that leave your head spinning in vertigo. He invents noises and uses guitar effects which cause nail-biting nervousness. Musical sur­ prise is ever-present and sometimes stilted — standard fare for Dave Stewart. Gutter has its moments. ‘St. Valentine’s Day’ muddles through the mud and throws around discor­ dant and pseudo-psychedelic sounds.

‘Jealousy’, which has loose lyrical allusions to former partner Lennox, channels itself into nothing short of catchy. Better than the songs them­ selves are the guest stars. Stewart’s brought in Mick Jagger, Carly Simon, and Laurie Anderson to help beef up Gutter. Lou Reed supplies his signature guitar squawk on ‘You Talk a Lot’, a token reminder of Stewart’s Velvet Underground influ­ ence. While chasing musical tangents pre­ vents Stewart from hitting the main­ stream, it keeps his music exciting, a feel­ ing captured on this album, even if he does sound like Ziggy and the Spiders.

— Dave Morris

the fourteen. ‘My Song’, for exam­ ple, is rather repetitive and silly, in both musical and lyrical content. T Die Tomorrow’ is on the thin line between being endearingly earnest and just being cheesy. At any rate, these guys have definitely got some­ thing. Any band that backs the words “You don’t need me / I don’t need you / You deceive me / 1 deceive you / Please don’t kill me / So I can kill you” with a catchy, toe-tapping beat is in the realm of genius.

— Sue Glover

again, with the big rock guitars and insistent drumming, and I had to sit down and decide how I felt about this obvious derivation. As I was tapping my foot and humming along to ‘Go Away’, I realised that derivation can be fun. Some songs are straight up in-your-face punk rock, such as the title track or ‘The Real You’, which is about being extremely set down by a girl. Most of the lyrics are about this, actually, or about this and drugs and suicide, such as ‘Pill Popper’.

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A look at McGill’s version of Hoop Dreams: Anne Gildenhuys

By Kashif Z ahoor A journey most would not even attem pt. A bridge m ost would find im possible to cross once they got there. For 5’ 9”, sec­ ond year Martlet forward Anne Gildenhuys, the transition from volleyball to basketball has not been an easy one, but one she has made nevertheless through many hours of hard work and commit­ ment.

Her teammates describe her as the most dedicated player on the squad, whether it is in practice or in a game situation.

When Gildenhuys first came to McGill in the summer of 1993, she had no intention of shooting hoops for the Red ‘n ’ White, but rather had visions of kills and digs for the Martlet volleyball team.

The summer before, in a bas­ ketball league at C arleton, a chance m eeting with form er Martlet eager Debbie Morse con­ vinced Gildenhuys to give basket­ ball a try.

“She told me it was really fun and that basketball was a better sport,” jokes Gildenhuys. “She also said M cG ill basketball is more successful than volleyball.”

Originally recruited for vol­ leyball, Gildenhuys did not think she had a chance of making the basketball team. Her experience was limited to two-on-two back­ yard hoops with her three brothers.

She did have some seasoning at the high school level, but it was not the type of basketball program that would prepare her, or anyone else, for collegiate-level play.

“We used to go up the court rations of being an Olympic gym­ and run whatever. There were no nast one day. Later, at the age of set plays,” chuckles Gildenhuys twelve, she started diving, com­ with a nostalgic tone. peting for four years at the nation­ The M artlet coach at the tim e, C hris Hunter, recognised her pure athletic ability and G ildenhuys m ade the team .

Since then, Gildenhuys has become a force to contend with in the Quebec University B asketball League (QU BL). This year Gildenhuys finished the season second in team scoring, just behind AllCanadian Vicki Tessier, and fifth overall in the QUBL. Her shooting percentage of 62.2% is the best in the league.

H er ab ility to sw itch gears from volleyball to basketball is nothing short of remarkable.

G ildenhuys, the only daughter of two professors, grew up in O ttaw a, O ntario with basketball being the last thing on her mind.

Her daredevil tem­ perament and m ischie­ vous childhood curiosity Martlets’ Gildenhuys has come a long way caused her a fair share of pain. al level. While training in Florida, “I hurt myself a lot. I used to Gildenhuys met Olympic diving fly off the trampoline regularly,” legend Greg Louganis. says Gildenhuys with a wide-eyed Recently, Louganis came for­ grin. “I used to climb up trees and ward with his personal tragedy in then fall out of trees.” an interview on 20/20. The twoAs a youngster she was time gold medalist knew he was involved in gymnastics, with aspi­ HIV positive while competing in

1988. During a reverse 2 1/2 pike attempt, his head banged against the diving board drawing blood.

Now, in retrospect, Gilden­ huys says that Louganis had some tough ethical issues to grapple with.

“He was so famous at the time and if he told too many people it would have gotten out, but at the same tim e he had a responsibility,” said Gildenhuys. “I think he had a responsibil­ ity to the doctor who stitched him without gloves, m ore than anyone else. I think he should have said something to him.”

Like Louganis, the lifeb lo o d of many successful athletes stems from competitive spirit. It is more than a desire to reach beyond the expected, but rather a com m itm ent to being the best. It is the fuel that propels players to greatness.

For Gildenhuys, competitiveness was an inherited trait.

“I have a hard tim e doing things recreationally. I got it from my dad. We cannot have a relaxed game of anything in my house without full-fledged battles going on,” says Gildenhuys. “My mom

has to try to calm everyone down.”

She lives in an apartment with her two roommates, including fel­ low teammate Kelly Davidoff. For most people, living in an apart­ ment on their own would hone their cooking skills by sheer nec­ e ssity , but for Gildenhuys it’s a different story. “ I ’m not really organised about co o k in g ,” adm its Gildenhuys with a sheepish smile.

“I usually eat cereal for breakfast, cereal for lunch, and sometimes cereal for dinner.”

While she is not munching on Raisin Bran, Gildenhuys can usu­ ally be found on the basketball court. Balancing her life between a varsity sports and a mechanical engineering program, Gildenhuys finds time a rare commodity.

She is up first thing in the morning shooting with her coach.

After a day of classes it’s right back to the Currie Gym for after­ noon practice. As soon as practice is done it’s time to hit the books, eat dinner, sleep, and do it all over again the next morning.

Like her hero in the NBA, M ichael Jordan, G ildenhuys is hoping to make an appearance in the pro ranks after her playing days are over at McGill. Playing p ro fessio n ally for a w om en’s league in Europe would be just fine with Gildenhuys. With her emerging talent and flair for the game she will no doubt assume the title of All-Canadian in the near future at the collegiate level. From there, a spot in the big leagues should be a mere formality.

Martlet hockey in April? Redmen football work to secure safe present and future

By C hristopher Ricney

Almost exactly a year after their old league collapsed, the Martlets are in a better position than could have been imagined.

Playing in a league which has repeatedly proved to be more com petitive than the last, the M artlets no longer find them ­ selves on the losing end of 17-0 scores as they did a year ago. In fact, the Martlets have managed to earn a few key v ic to rie s throughout this rebuilding sea­ son, including an impressive 1-0 playoff shutout of A. Roy Sport la st S atu rd ay n ig ht at the McConnell Winter Arena.

The victory, coupled with their 3-0 defeat of Gauloises two w eeks ago, has lan d ed the M artlets in the eig h t-tea m league’s consolation final game, a far cry from their last-place fin­ ish in regular season play.

S eco n d -y ear d efencem an A na S h ap iro , who ex h ib ited B rian L eetch -lik e skill in her quarterbacking of the M artlets power play, scored the gam e’s only goal while McGill enjoyed a

four-on-three advantage in the second period.

The lone tally proved to be enough as M artlet g oaltender team is one of the most heavily

By T ribune Staff Annette VanDerLinde made the scrutinised teams on campus. The key stops when necessary to pre- j In an uncertain fiscal world of football program is often attacked serve the victory, including a dropping dollars, high interest from all sides of the campus by num ber of gam e-savers in the closing minutes of the final peri­ rates and a man named Axworthy, groups who claim that the univer­ McGill athletic teams and all col­ sity’s money should be put to more od. The netminder was awarded lege sports in C anada the game’s first star.

Also helping to preserve the J tend to be skeptical with regards to the security of victory was Martlet veteran Beth sports in the future. Large Brown, who caused a number of schools such as McGill key turnovers, stepping in front and the U niversity of of long A. Roy Sport passes, and Toronto tend to be the initiating the offensive rush back most susceptible to cuts the other way. affecting their sports Volunteer head coach John teams, such as what was C lark e, who has co ached the witnessed two years ago Martlets since the program lost when the Varsity Blues its university varsity status last came a sto n e’s throw summer, offered his thoughts on away from losing their the game. football program alto ­ Fighting the budget crush “ We sim ply do m in ated gether. Budget talks have them, playing most of the three become a hot topic of debate in practical use. Clearly a sport that p e rio d s in th e ir e n d ,” said recent years and as McGill’s fiscal requires a roster the size of most Clarke. “W e’ve picked the best challenges increase, rumours about second-year classes, and requires time of the season to catch fire, proposed cuts abound and groups athletes to play in a venue like and the players believe that they are forced to secure themselves a Molson Stadium and wear expen­ can win every game they play sive equipment, is going to require viable future on their own. a large chunk of the athletic bud­ The McGill Redmen football See H o c k e y Page

get. As the administration contin­ ues to tighten its fists, programs such as the football team are under pressure to do something.

What most people don’t know about the Redmen football pro­ gram is that McGill has a support system that raises money for the team , and has been doing so for the past ten years. A group called The Friends of _o McGill Football plays -g an important role in the -2 program’s survival and x development.

Sj A decade old E already, the Friends were form ed by a group of ex-Redm en who had the future of the team in mind. Current presi­ dent Vaughn McVey cited that the objectives of the Friends were to provide financial help to the team, link form er team members and present team players together, to See Football Page 18

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A different kind of coverage: the writers behind McGill hockey scene, Luz and Wong were candid with their response.

“Initially, it was pure narcis­ Mark Luz, bom on December 18, 1971, and Joe Wong, born on sism and vanity which motivated August 1, 1973, spent the 1994-95 us to get involved,” replied Luz. McGill hockey season covering the “But, what kept us going was the Redmen team . Incorporating a pure love of hockey.”

W ong’s m otivations were somewhat unorthodox investigative reporting and writing style, Wong somewhat more sentimental.

“I felt I needed to return to and Luz raised both debate about traditional sports coverage and a hockey after an eight-year absence heightened interest in the sport — due to a career-ending injury that I or at least in the stories about the sustained while playing,” he said.

What was the injury? sport — over the course of the “I fell,” Wong responded. “I year. The Tribune takes a look at the writers behind the stories while was leading my team in penalty minutes because every time I fell, I outside of the hockey arena.

Both Luz and Wong are came into contact with an opponent natives of Toronto, Ontario, which and got called for tripping.”

It appears that the penalty box explains their obvious enthusiasm for their favourite NHL team, the is acquainted with some writerrump as well.

Maple Leafs.

When McGill’s season ended When asked why the two got involved in the coverage of suddenly against UQTR in the M cGill’s intercollegiate hockey playoffs, Luz and Wong were deeply disappointed.

Out of town when the playoffs began the two writers made heroic efforts to get the scoop on their beloved Redmen.

Returning to an iso­ lated cabin after a three-hour hike the wilderness north of Newcastle, Ontario, Luz and Wong searched the air­ waves for possible coverage of the Redmen hockey gam es, but to no avail as C KUT’s broadcast range did not extend that far.

When Dickie Dunn took over Redmen hockey coverage for the week, the two dedi­ cated writers grap­ At the end o f their writing careers, Luz and pled with despair.

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to strike,” Luz said. “We almost took our story to the Daily because they wined and dined us and pro­ vided us with free press passes and beer at the games all year long to win us over. But we stayed with the Tribune because of a deep respect and admiration for the edi­ torial staff.”

Luz and Wong’s commitment to the Tribune and to the McGill hockey Redmen was unquestioningly as solid as a rock. When goalie Patrick Jeanson was injured and needed to go the hospital emer­ gency room, Wong and Luz tried to embark on the ambulance too by flashing their press passes. Always ready to go the extra mile, when they were denied permission to ride in the ambulance they were sad­ dened, but returned to the arena to finish watching the game.

One of Luz and Wong’s great­ est disappointments was that they never spoke directly to any of the Redmen after the games. They explained the reasons why they failed to do so.

“The one player we did call lived at home and we didn’t realise this at first,” Wong said. “It was 1:30 a.m. and his mother answered and she was french so we just asked for a poutine and hung up.”

“Aside from that episode,” Luz continued. “They often lost at the beginning of the year so we were scared to go into the dressing room. It had nothing to do with homophobia, it was just that going into a dressing room of sweaty, nude players who weren’t in the best of moods after a loss wasn’t exactly encouraging.”

Another disappointment was when the limerick that Luz and Wong created in honour of the Redmen’s trip to England was edit­ ed out of one of their stories. The limerick went as follows: There once was a team in red When they played all others fled We played hockey in Britain

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Continued from Page 16 Bloomfield and Sasha Macleod three Martlet goals.

While the Martlets have con­ now. They didn’t have that same struck again, as Bloomfield dou­ bled the M artlet lead. Second- cluded play at their home venue, attitude earlier in the season.”

A week earlier, the Martlets line forward Megan Priston pro­ their season continues as they d e feated the ex p a n sio n team vid ed the M cG ill squad w ith take part in the league’s consola­ Gauloises by a 3-0 score at the additional insurance, giving the tion final, held on April Fool’s Day at 7 p.m . in R ep en tig n y McConnell W inter Arena, their Martlets a safe three-goal lead. a g a in st an op p o n en t to be M cG ill b lu e lin e r K irsten first playoff win.

“We were just dynamite at Greer was arguably the gam e’s announced this week. The league both ends o f the rin k ,” said first star, as she picked her spots championship will be held fol­ C larke. “A fter three shifts we well, registering helpers on all lowing the consolation game. were up 2-0. It was amaz­ ing to see this team pull ahead like that.”

W ith a sp arse yet vocal crowd behind them, the Martlets managed to score ju s t over 30 sec­ onds in to th e co n test.

Second-year forward Jodi Zack picked up the puck ju s t over the blue line, 3 turnstiled the Gauloises o -c rearguard and buried the O. shot, giving the Martlets _qj both the o p en in g and £ 0) game winning goal. c 3 A fte r a qui ck -O breather, the potent line of Z ack, H eidi Martlets fa ce o ff in the consolation fin a l this week.

Ate stomachs o f mutton And nasty sardines on bread Walt Whitman, beware, poetry will never be the same.

Undoubtedly, Luz and Wong brought journalism and hockey to a new level. Good-humoredly Wong hoped that it was not the lowest one as they emphasised that the future of M cGill hockey looks good, even in their absence after graduation.

“Guy Boucher may be gone, but the team still has rookie sensa­ tion Pierre Gendron. Along with Boucher, he was our favorite play­ er to watch,” Wong said. “Then

there’s No. 17, Kelly Nobes. He’s got long hair and every team needs a player with long hair.”

Luz continued.

“Todd Marcellus is like Mike Gartner in his prim e,” he said.

“W ith that crop of players, the future is as bright as the glare from Brandon’s teeth on 90210.”

McGill hockey fans and the Tribune will undoubtedly miss Luz and W ong’s contribution in upcoming years, but hopefully there will be a new hockey-report­ ing contingent, “poised like a jun­ gle cat”, ready to assume the posi­ tion next year.

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The 1994-95 basketball season and dreams of a national title, came to a sudden halt for Redmen bas­ ketball all-star Chad W ozney, when he sustained a fractured cheekbone early in the Quebec U niversity B asketball League championship game on March 10.

In the first 20 seconds of the sec­ ond game in a best-of-three series, W ozney was rushed to the Montreal General Hospital. This left the cross-town rival Concordia

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Wozney, who was also suffer­ ing from a inguinal (groin) hernia throughout the latter part of the season, the most common form of hernia, experienced a double whammy last week, as he under­ went both herniorrhaphy and surgery to repair the collapsed cheekbone. After arriving at the hospital Friday evening, the “Wooz” waited for surgery until Sunday at 2:30 p.m., when both of

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The first procedure, repairing the zygomatic bone (in the face), took only ten minutes, while surgi­ cal repair of the hernia took approximately an hour. Wozney claims the hernia was the more painful of the two, as four layers of skin in the abdomen were cut in the procedure.

Wozney insists that the nurs-

ing and surgical staff at Montreal General were excellent in taking care of him. And, thanks to the M cGill Sport M edicine Clinic Physiotherapy Team, led by Lynn Bookalam and Steve Cross, the hospital was more than ready for his initial, unscheduled arrival. He claim s that his biggest worries were his feet hanging off the end of his hospital bed, and a growling stomach due to unsavoury hospital

food and his bigger-than-average appetite.

The 6’5”, 235 lb. hoopster still has trouble eating solid foods, after being dependent solely on the Intravenous until Tuesday after­ noon. He claims the toughest part of it all is adjusting to the increas­ ingly weaker medications while trying to get a good night’s sleep.

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The players themselves also make an important off-field contri­ bution. This year alone the team has hosted parties at Gert’s pub and had a casino-night fundraiser organised and run by the players.

The most recent venture that is being organised by the Friends is the Spring Sports sale that will run from Wednesday, March 20 to Sunday, March 25 in the Shatner Building Ballroom on the third floor. Following the example of the ever-popular and profitable M cG ill ski team ski sale, the Friends are optim istic about a large turnout at a fundraiser that will benefit both the team and the student body as Sum m er approaches. The sale will provide students and the public a chance to get their hands on some quality

second-hand and brand new sports equipment at affordable prices.

The Spring Sale will be sell­ ing sporting goods such as golf equipment, bicycles, roller blades, racquet sport equipment, baseball equipment and a full line of sporting clothing for both sexes.

Students and the general public are encouraged to bring in used sporting goods equipment and it will be sold on consignment.

When asked about the sale, McVey answered that they saw it as a new way to raise money for the team, but at the same time saw it as a great opportunity for the Redmen to show some team sup­ port and unity in the off-season by getting everyone involved. The Redmen have done just that, as every member of the team will be somehow involved in the sale.

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Continued from Page 16 provide moral support for current players, to prom ote the team amongst the students and public, and finally, to m aintain strong continuity of the overall program.

Financial stability is the key to obtaining these goals.

McGill University does put the team on the field every year, but the Friends of McGill Football and the players from year to year are not the pampered athletes they are made out to be. Many of the perceived benefits granted to the McGill football team are courtesy of the hard work and initiatives of the Friends. The money raised has paid for new equipment, jerseys, meals during training camp, hotel rooms on away games and many other necessities during the season as well as after the gam es are

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NOTICE OF M EETING STUDENT SENATORS & GOVERNOR to elect three representatives to S S M U Council

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NOTES 1. Where the incoming student senator is not available, the outgoing student senator for the faculty involved will be the only alternate.

2. The alternate senator is NOT eligible for election, although may vote.

3. There will be NO replacements to this meeting for the incoming STUDENT GOVERNOR if unable to attend.

4. Only incoming student senators and governor shall be eligible for election.

Eddie Look & Cedric Puah Neo Co-Chief Returning Officers

to elect three representatives to Students' Council March 2 9 , 1995 at 6 :0 0 P.M. WILLIAM SHATNER UNIVERSITY CENTRE, ROOM 107 The organizations listed below must register the name, address and phone of their delegate to this election meeting by completing the delegate registration form at the Students' Society General Office, NO LATER THAN 4:00 P.M., MARCH 24, 1995. Completed forms must be signed by the President or Coordinator of each respective organization and submitted to Kathy Bowman.

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7. Only registered delegates may vote for club representation.

2. Organizations eligible are only those DIRECTLYrecognized by the S.S.M.U. 8. Organizations NOT listed above which AREeligible to send a delegate Students' Council and fall under the headings of Functional Groups, should contact Katy Bowman at the Students' Society General Office as Activities and Interest Groups. soon as possible.

3. All delegates must have been active members of their respective clubs for at 9. Organizations not registered by the deadline will NOT be permitted to take least two months prior to the meeting. part in the meeting.

4. All delegates must be members of the Students' Society (i.e. any McGill 10. Organizations which are recognized by one of the fifteen (15) faculty and student except those registered in Continuing Education). school societies or through the Students' Athletics Council are NOT eligible 5. Adelegate who is not the president or chief officer of a particular group must to be represented. be approved as the official delegate by the organization he or she is representing.

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March 21st, 1995 Tuesday. March 21 Amnesty International invites all to come and run and/or vote for next year’s Amnesty executive.

Elections are tonight! Weekly meet­ ing at 6:30 p.m., Shatner 435.

Wednesday. March 22 M cGill Students for International Development Education (SIDE) presents “Health Care in Rural W est Africa: A Student’s P erspective.” and “Community Developm ent in Venezuela. Student presentations. 5 p.m., Leacock 738.

Friday. March 24

The McGill S tudent’s Mauritian Club is holding a Potluck.

Bring food or pay $5 at the door.

Members and others who are inter­ ested in the Mauritian culture are invited. 6:30 p.m., 550 Sherbrooke West, Room 1170 (West Tower).

For more info call Nathalie at 8433612 or Karen at 659-3580.

Monday. March 27 Interested in International Development? McGill students’ International Development Initiative presents “A panel D iscussion: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on International Development.” Come hear the thoughts of three profes­

Stinger basketball surprises at Nationals

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After defeating the Redmen in two games to win the Quebec University Basketball League championship, the Concordia Stingers headed to Halifax to tip off against the top teams in Canada last weekend.

Rather than focusing on the lone Quebec participant, pre-tournament hype chose to feature such teams as the University of Toronto Varsity Blues, the University of Victoria Vikes and the University of Brandon Bobcats.

When Championship Sunday came around however, the only place these squads could be found was in the crowd of 4,154 at the Metro Centre, watching the No. 7 Concordia Stingers and the wild card No. 4 University of Alberta Golden Bears vie for the national title. Unfortunately for the Stingers and their legion of fans across town, Concordia picked probably the worst time to fall victim to a cold-shooting spell, as they ultimately lost to the Bears by a score of 84-66.

Despite falling in the final game, the Stingers did enjoy a level of tournament success surpassed only by their 1990 performance, when they won the Canadian Interuniversity Athletic Union title.

In their opening game last Friday, the Stingers pulled off one half of an unexpected opening day upset, which saw the two top teams knocked off. The Stingers eliminated the second-seed University of Victoria Vikes, while the top-ranked Brandon Bobcats fell to the eighth-ranked University College of Cape Breton Capers.

The Stingers further reinforced the reputation of the Quebec league by edging the No. 3 Toronto Varsity Blues, in a game broadcast to a national audience on TSN. After defeating two of the top three teams in the tournament, the Stingers simply couldn’t handle the tight defence of the Bears, who were fortunate to be selected to the eight-team draw, after failing to win their Canada West division playoff series.

sionals in the fields of economics, m edicine and technology.

Discussion to follow. 6-8 p m , 324 Leacock.

Ongoing Hillel presents Guess Who's Coming to Shabbat Dinner: A Four Part Series on Inter-Faith Dating to be held from March 21 — April 10. $18/couple. Friday, March 17 is the last day for registration. Call Avrum Nadigel at 845-9171 for more infor­ mation.

Come have lunch in the Womens’ Union. All women are invited to use our microwave, read our books and meet other women.

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Monday March 6, 1995 White male in his late twen­ ties or early thirties stood in the window of Paragraph Bookstore overlooking the cafe, made eye contact with a woman seated inside the cafe then proceeded to masturbate while focusing on her.

He fled when she notified an em ployee of the store. He is described as average height with long, black, wavy hair and a black goatee.

Lunchtim e Monday — Friday.

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The McGill Student Film & Video Festival is currenik accept ing VHS, Super 8 and 16 mm audio-visual works. Check in the English Dept. Office (Arts 155) or drop by the festival oil ice mam floor, 3475 Peel St., M-Th, 12h14:30. Call 398-3128 for more information. Submission deadline is

The McGill Choral Society will be presenting M o za rt’s Requiem on Saturday, April 1 at 7:30 p.m. at the Erskine and American United Church (on Sherbrooke and Ave. du Musée).

Tickets will be on sale at the door, or can be purchased in advance at Steve’s Music, Maximusique and Sadie’s.

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Application forms are available at the QPIRG office, 3647 University,

Monday March 6, 1995 A woman was verbally abused by a man in a car on Parc Avenue between the Parc-Pins interchange and the monument in the park. He is described as a white anglophone with brown hair with a ‘business­ like’ appearance - white button down shirt.

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“It’s going to be a long summer, but I’ve got lots of time,” Wozney said.

He plans to start weight training, and working on his cardiovascular endurance with­ in the next four weeks.

“I’m just happy I made it to the end of the season. The cheekbone fracture was unfortu­ nate, but it’s just a regular sport injury, its just part of the game. You have to remind yourself not to let it get you down,” said Wozney.

Upon his release Wednesday morning, Wozney was advised to rest for four weeks for his hernia repair and to avoid contact sport for six weeks for fear of his cheekbone collapsing.

No worries though Doc, the “Wooz” doesn’t appear ready to play full-contact basketball yet, as he is still struggling to walk across the room.

McGill hoop supporters hope for a speedy recovery and await a return to his characteris­ tic aggressive and focused style of play next season. . , ;

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UNIVERSITY CHAIR FOR CLASS ACTION '96 Since 1990, graduating students have generously provided faculty and school specific resources through CLASS ACTION. The Class of 1994 pledged over

$163,000!

Your role would be to recruit fellow students as Faculty and School Chairs and volunteers to achieve the goals of CLASS ACTION '96.

You must have demonstrated through your activities at McGill: excellent interpersonal skills, organizational ability and a commitment to campus life.

Major Payne marches into theatres March 22.

We have 60 passes for this cinematographic extravaganza to distribute to the masses.

Come and get ’em while they’re hot.

Fellini, look out.

Applications may be obtained at the SSMU desk __________ or by calling 398-4322.__________

D ead lin e for applications: A p ril 7, 1 9 9 5 .

WE RE COUNTING ON YOU!

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