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t h is w e e k News SSM U debating what to do about Feb 7th Day of Action.

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Science M cG ill engineers display solar car at auto show.

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Popping the p ill: getting the facts on oral contraceptives.

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Entertainment Damn that Chorus Line and leaving the suburbs.

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Sports Martlets basketball extend unbeaten streak to eleven with win over Concordia.

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January 2 5rJ, 1996

CASA hit by fraud and theft

By Sara J ean G reen Patrick FitzPatrick, the interim national director of the Canadian Alliance of Students’ A ssociatio ns and d irecto r of the C A S A National Conference, was fired January 9 for the alleged fraud, theft and misappropriation of funds.

FitzPatrick is the former VP external of the U niversity of New Brunsw ick Student Union and C A SA Atlantic regional director.

He took over the position of interim director October 31 when C A SA National Director A lex Usher was forced to take a leave of absence due to illness.

When Usher returned to work on January 8, he received a series of allegations from the UNB SU . Apparently, creditors from New Brunswick have also been attempting to get in touch with FitzPatrick. As a result of these alle­ gations, an internal audit was conducted at the CA SA national office in Ottawa.

C A S A Treasurer Robert M illard per­ formed the internal audit but is currently seek­ ing an independent firm to do another audit to ensure nothing has been overlooked. “ Theft, fraud and embezzlement are the areas we are looking at,” said M illard. “ [It is] alleged that he blatantly stole from us as well as deceived us. We have a concrete case — there’s a paper trail and a number of witnesses so we are convinced there w ill be a convic­ tion,” he stated.

Usher provided the Tribune with a com­ plete copy of C A S A ’ s police statement and internal audit. The Ottawa-Carleton Regional Police w ill be investigating but the case has yet to be assigned. “ It w ill probably be a couple of months before we assign the report to an investigator, but I haven’t even got a full report yet,” said Staff Sgt. Tom M cKay.

A p ro je c t to a m a lga te the f o u r M c G ill-a ffilia te d hospitals is in the p la n ­ n in g stages. To get the p r o ’s a n d c o n ’s, see Pa ge 9.

Bright prospects for McGill’s Team Northern Sun’s solar car

By Joshua Seib

Power. Currently, the team is building a new veh icle that w ill p o ssib ly put M c G ill among the top teams in the world.

Only the mold of their red his year, the M ontreal In te rn a tio n a l A uto ca r w as at the auto show because it is still being com­ Show featured Team at C an ad air. It w ill, N orthern S u n , a group pleted of M cG ill engineering students however, be ready for its first displaying their solar powered competition at the Canadian S o lar C h allen g e to be held car. between June 23 and 27.

S o lar pow er car racin g has a leg acy o f su ccess at Team Northern Sun w ill also Credit card misrepresentation at M c G ill beginning in 1990 com pete at the A u stra lia n with Team Ra Power, a group W o rld S o la r C h allen g e on University o f N ew Brunswick of ten mechanical engineering October 28, the biggest solar When C A S A was o ffic ia lly founded students. The Team Ra Power powered car race in the world.

The b asic p rin cip le January 31 of last year, a verbal agreement vehicle emerged as the num­ was made between the UNB SU and C A SA ; ber one Canadian solar pow­ behind vehicles of this sort is the Student Union would advance C A S A ered car with its victory at the the conversion o f the sun’ s C an ad ian S o la r energy to e le ctricity via the money in order to upstart the organisation. It 1993 solar c e ll. The sunlight that was agreed that should C A SA require more Challenge.

A t that tim e, it was the hits the solar cells charges the than U N B S U ’ s $9,000 membership fee, CA SA would repay the owing balance on the biggest project to be undertak­ batteries that power the car’ s en by M c G ill’ s F a c u lty o f motor. Team Northern Sun’ s advances. car w ill have 3,500 of these Apparently, FitzPatrick ran up large bills Engineering. solar cells that convert a max­ Form ed in 1994, Team on the UNB SU ’s credit card which he legiti­ imum o f 17 per cent o f the Northern Sun has 25 student mately held as V P external. However, he m em bers, a team tw ice the sun’s energy into electricity. “ The pow er from so lar Continued on Page 2 » size o f its p redecessor, R a

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cells is very sm all, equivalent to one or two h a ir-d ry e rs.

Essen tially you are trying to power the ve h icle w ith the am ount o f e le c tric ity a hairdryer uses,” said M cG ill engineering professor L a rry Lessard, an advisor for Team Northern Sun. The team is im proving upon the original car design in a number of ways.

According to Lessard, the firs t im provem ent is a lig h t w eig ht body made o f advanced composite m ateri­ als. This modification, howev­ e r, n ecessitated other improvements. “ A sp ecial rear suspen­ sion had to be designed by the team to deal with the new car­ bon fib re stru c tu re ,” said Robert L a b a tta g lia , the U3 m echanical engineering stu­ dent in charge of mechanical design for the team.

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Allegations of fraud and misappropriation of CASA funds... out to him self for the amount of been given, FitzPatrick used one of $225. Since Usher was the sole the stolen cheques to pay the Ottawa Travelodge Hotel for a sum signing o ffice r fo r the C A S A account, the signing and cashing of of $1,4 2 7 .6 9 . C A S A has not the cheque by FitzPatrick represents fraud.

A p p aren tly, the R o yal Bank branch in Ottawa is intending to press charges against him. “ [FitzPatrick] was not a signing officer nor has he ever been,” stated SSM U V P Extern al A ffa irs and C A S A Quebec Regional D irecto r Andrea S ta irs. “ He wrote h im se lf a cheque... and that seems to be a fraudulent action.”

In m id-Decem ber, because o f his leave of absence, Usher pre-signed a number of blank cheques which he gave to Executive Research Assistant Irving Gold for the maintenance Usher and Stairs: tracking, the paper trail of the Ottawa office. It has been further alleged that FitzPatrick received money or receipts that can account for the $2,000 given to stole two of these cheques.

At the end of December, the FitzPatrick.

C A SA Board of Directors met, at which time FitzPatrick was given CASA National Con­ $2,000 in cash to pay for the direc­ ference on Post Second­ tors’ expenses. Although he paid for meals with the money he had ary Education p o st­

» Continued from Page 1 claimed that the expenses charged to the UNB SU were authorized by C A SA . In a letter to the accounting coordinator o f the U N B S U , FitzPatrick asked that the balance of outstanding expenses be charged to the C A S A Membership Fees account. The C A S A Board of Directors never authorized any of FitzP atrick’ s expenditures which include the payment for meals at several O ttawa restaurants and approxim ately $400 in clothing purchases from The Gap and Tristan & Iseaut.

In an in terview w ith the Western Gazette, K e lly Lam rock, UNB SU president, stated that he became suspicious of FitzPatrick’s expenditures on behalf of CA SA. “ Those of us here saw that things d id n’ t look rig h t,” said Lam rock. “ We became p rivy to various sundry invoices and began to compile a file.”

A lleg a tio n s o f fra u d at CASA National Office It has been determined that over the Thanksgiving holiday, FitzPatrick took a cheque from the C A SA cheque book which he made

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The m ajority of allegations levied against FitzPatrick are relat­ ed to his position as Director of the C A SA National Conference which was to take place this M arch in Fredricton. Although mandated by the Board of Directors last October to incorporate the conference, F itzP a trick failed to do so. The conference, which was to bring government, business and student representatives together to discuss alternatives to post-secondary edu­ cation, has been postponed indefi­ nitely.

At a plenary meeting held in Saskatoon in October, it was deter­ mined that the C A SA head office would give the conference a loan

of $10,000. As partial payment for m em bership fees, the W estern University Students’ Council wrote a cheque to the C A S A National

the union forw ard th eir C A S A membership fee of $1,100 to the N ational Conference w ithout C A SA ’s knowledge. According to St. Thomas Students’ Union V P External Carrie Ricker, FitzPatrick never informed C A S A about the payment. “ To my knowledge, we did give Pat a cheque for our member­ ship fees,” she said. “As a member o f the board o f d irecto rs, Pat FitzPatrick cashed the cheque. The C A S A head o ffice didn’t know until this week that we had made our payment,” stated Ricker.

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Conference for $10,000 which was deposited into an account for w hich F itz P a tric k was the sole signing officer.

According to Usher, approxi­ mately $7,000 is missing from the account. O f the amount missing, a cash withdrawal by FitzPatrick for $725 apparently went to the Collectcorp collection agency for the payment of a personal debt.

Currently, C A SA is seeking a court order to allow them access to the Fredricton account.

FitzP atrick also requested a $2,000 loan from the St. Thomas U niversity Student Union which was made payable to Chippin Real Estate for the rental of office space.

Although the loan was not autho­ rized by C A SA , FitzPatrick signed a prom issory note for its repay­ ment. “ The procurem ent o f the $2,000 loan was never approved for the C A SA National Conference and it hasn’t been paid back,” said Stairs.

Allegedly, FitzPatrick also had

Those who have worked closely with FitzP atrick in New B ru n sw ick and O ttaw a have expressed a sense of betrayal by his actions. President of the New B ru n sw ick Student A llia n c e , Shaw n R ousse, claim ed that FitzPatrick worked very hard advo­ cating students’ issues. “ Pat was V P external for UNB and the A tla n tic board rep of C A SA which is why his credibility was so high,” he said. “I know the guy pretty well and I can’t believe the accusations. It doesn’t sound like the Pat I know.”

Rahim R a jp a r, W estern’ s U niversity Students’ Council V P student issues and C A SA Ontario regio nal d irecto r stated that C A S A ’s lobbying efforts w ill be effected by the loss of funds.

“We’re going to have to keep things at a bare minimum because of the fraud and theft,” said Rajpar. “ Pat d idn’ t portray h im se lf as someone who could do this. We became good friends and he was so passionate about the organisation that I still find it shocking he could do something like that.”

FitzP atrick was unavailable fo r comment when the Tribune attempted to reach him at his home in Fredericton.

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mobiles. “ We need to increase solar cell efficiency from under 20 per cent to 80 per cent and we need better battery technol­ ogy,” he said.

“The power from solar cells C e ll e ffic ie n c y is the is very small, equivalent to amount o f light energy the one or two hairdryers.” solar cell receives that can be converted into electricity.

Though current so lar cells still lack efficiency, they are explained Lessard.

Telem etry systems commu­ a very beneficial source of ener­ nicate vehicle performance to the gy as they are pollutant-free. This is one of the messages that Team support vehicle. “ The objective is speed and N orthern Sun takes to schools and C EG EP s when it is not busy efficiency,” Lessard stated.

Th ese m o d ifica tio n s are with design and construction. “ One big thing is public rela­ being made in preparation for the A u stra lia n W o rld S o la r tions for us. We do a lot of non­ Challenge, a 3,000 kilometre race engineering things,” said M ichael Greenish, the project leader. “ We from Darwin to Adelaide.

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January 23rd, 1996

SSMU indecisive about February 7 protest against tuition hikes

By Jonathan O 'B rien

Post Graduate Students’ Society, and inform ally, I ’m sure support is widespread throughout the under­ graduate population,” he stated.

In defense of SSM U ’s absten­ tion p o licy, SSM U V P External A ffairs Andrea Stairs said that the protest remained poorly organised and thus the SSM U did not want to take a side on the issue. “ The details o f the protest needed to be sorted out,” she stat­ ed. “ I am really not pleased with the fact that Chris [Carter] eventu­ a lly voted. C o u n cil defeated a motion to support this and I think that by voting, we are taking part in a process. It may be construed that we are giving support to the

and how things were form ing were not static at all. People were moving back and forth on issues rapidly,” she explained. “ I didn’t want council supporting some­ thing that wasn’t in existence yet — a dem onstration that hadn’ t been figured out,” Stairs conclud­ ed.

But Carter disagreed. He stat­ ed that his presence at the UQAM meeting was as a representative of the M cG ill Action Committee, not as a representative of SSM U. The M AC was created to keep M cG ill students inform ed about the protest and is not a SSM U group. “ I had made it clear to Andrea and to council that the M AC was

A group of 60 students met last week at the U n ive rsité du Québec à M ontréal to plan the Feb ru ary 7 N atio n al D ay o f Action against education cuts pro­ posed by the federal government last year. Initiated by the Canadian Federation of Students, the pro­ posed demonstration w ill include over 20 M ontreal C E G E P s and universities.

The m eeting covered such issues as the route students w ill follow , the protest discourse and the involvem ent of non-student groups in the demonstration.

The SSM U ’s presence at the meeting was assured by the M c G ill A ctio n Committee’ s representa­ tive C h ris C a rte r, Post G raduate Stud ents’ Society members Sarah Schmidt and Erin Runians as well as SSM U External Planning Com m ittee of Council member Duncan McPherson.

Carter was mandated

by S SM U co u n cil to abstain on each vote, and th is w as ensured by M cPherson’s presence at the m eeting. H o w ever, when M cPherson le ft h a lf-w a y through the meeting, Carter began to cast votes other than Carter representing both: SSMU and MAC at odds regarding planned protest abstentions.

A c tiv e vo ters such as protest, which we have not been going to have a point of view at Concordia U n iversity Students’ given a mandate to do,” S tairs the m eeting,” Carter said. “ The M A C ’S decision was the only rep­ A ssociation President Jonathan said.

During the last SSM U council resentative agreement that had Caruthers criticised SSM U ’s in i­ tia l u n w illin g n ess to choose a meeting January 10, councillors been made by M cG ill students. I were told that two separate went to represent this point of position in the debate. “ I know that [the S S M U ] protests w ere planned fo r v ie w , and was not voting fo r council is much more right-wing February 7. According to Stairs, SSM U ,” he stated. “ A fte r Duncan le ft, I voted than Concordia’ s is. For us, the this created much confusion and motions passed unanimously — it SSM U could not decide w hich along the lin e s of the M c G ill A ctio n Com m ittee and what was not even a consideration to demonstration to endorse.

“There was the question as to would have been in the best inter­ oppose it. I ’ m certain that even if there is n ’ t support from the which one M cG ill would support. ests of SSM U in Quebec,” Carter SSM U , there certainly is support Both? One or the other? This con­ concluded.

S SM U w ill decide its from the M cG ill community,” said cerned me as much as it concerned Caruthers. “ Inform al support [o f council. The other problem was I involvem ent w ith the February the protest] d efin itely e xists at knew things were changing very day o f protest during its next M cG ill. It form ally exists with the rapidly. The two demonstrations council meeting, January 25.

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Protest facts for February 7 National Day of Action The demonstration planned for February 7 w ill begin at Concordia University. Protesters w ill join M cGill demonstrators at the Roddick Gates, heading through Montreal’s financial dis­ trict on their way to the Université du Québec à Montréal.

Organisers hope to send the message to large corporations that education deserves the kind of assistance business receives from the government.

During the meeting of Montreal area CEG EPS and universi­ ties on January 15, it was decided that a limited number of out­ side groups would be allowed to participate in the demonstration.

“The cuts are to all kinds of social services,” said Jean-Max Baptiste, a representative of Collège Saint-Laurent. “ We need outside groups, but not a lot of them. They w ill help us get our message out, but we must remember that this is a day for stu­ dents. This is the day our voice gets heard,” he stated.

A representative of the Quebec Teachers’ Union w ill be pre­ sent to speak at the protest.

To ensure strong media coverage, La Fédération des Etudiants U niversitaires du Québec Press Attaché Delphine Mantha has been asked to take charge of media relations for the protest. “ Last year, the protest wound up on page B7 in La Presse stated Assembly President Louis-Mathieu Loiselle. “ We must have someone who w ill put us in contact with journalists this time. FEU Q has the name and the resources to do so. But we must be sure she represents us and not FEU Q . Someone w ill have to observe what she does all the time,” stated Loiselle.

As of yet, organisers have not set an exact time for the beginning of the demonstration.

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McGill braces itself for future fiscal restrictions

By T yla B erchtold A t a meeting of Senate last w eek, V ic e P rin c ip a l A d m in ­ istra tio n and Fin an ce P h y llis Heaphy stated that over the next two years, M cG ill w ill attempt to cut approxim ately $24 m illio n from its budget.

M cG ill is currently running on an accum ulated d e fic it of roughly $66 m illion. From 1986 to 1991, the university’s operating budget increased by 49 per cent. It appears that this is no longer sus­ tainable w ithin M cG ill’ s current financial framework.

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Questions were raised by var­ need to re-w ork its finances in order to begin elim in atin g the ious senators as to w here the money w ill come from. Prim arily debt.

“We have been requested by there were inquiries with regard to the government to form a deficit enrolm ent at M c G ill and the repayment plan,” stated Heaphy. fin an cial im pact an increase or “M cG ill must show [the govern­ decrease m ay have. D espite a n atio nal d eclin e in u n iv e rsity ment] that it can repay.”

Furtherm ore, the provincial enrolm ent, M cG ill has seen an at government has also cut approxi­ in crease mately $6 m illion more out of the the undergraduate le v e l. V P university’s yearly grant for 1996 Academic B ill Chan stated, how­ ever, that student enrolm ent is than was originally anticipated.

Subsequently, the univer­ sity is attempting to formulate a plan that w ill cut approxi­ “We have to spend a lot of mately $12 m illio n from the time thinking about what budget in 1996-97 and another we’re going to do and some $12 m illion the following year. very difficult decisions are After that, M cG ill w ill hope­ fu lly be able to assum e a going to have to be made.” steady state o f a ffa irs, w ith minimal cuts.

In terms of allocating univer­ cu rren tly not being taken into sity funds, Heaphy pointed out consideration. “ The trend across Canada is four key areas of p rio rity. The first of these are the discretionary that enrolment has declined,” he funds — monies allocated based said. “ The budgetary assumption on certain needs of the university. is that there is no change up or Th is fund helps to finance such down.”

Another issue addressed by things as new initiatives and co­ operation between units of the Senate was early retirem ent. To university. The amount available the question of whether or not the w ithin the fund is currently $5 u n ive rsity is considering early retirem ent as a cutback option, m illion.

A nother fund that Heaphy Heaphy responded affirm atively.

“We have spent many many discussed pertains to salary relat­ ed items. This budget w ill attempt hours speaking about early retire­ to allocate $1 m illion for ‘m erit ment,” she said. “ [Discussion] is in c re a se s’ fo r academ ic and very active.”

However, Principal Bernard adm inistrative staff. Another $1 m illion w ill be put aside for acad­ Shapiro explained that although emic salaries, in order to begin early retirement is under discus­ raising them to the national aver­ sion, this venture w ill involve rel-

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These costs w ill prevent its pur­ suit until the university is more confident about how it w ill look in five years.

The underlying message at the Senate meeting appeared to be that although the money must com e from som ew here, the adm inistration is unsure where and how it w ill be cut. Shapiro explained that the situation is sen­ sitive and must be dealt with deli­ cately. “ Th ere are a num ber o f cross-purposes we are at that are proving d ifficu lt to resolve,” he said.

Shapiro pointed out that there are number of different deficits that must be addressed besides the basic deficit, such as money owed on special projects and structural d eficits. He further pointed out that there is currently no effective pattern established to pay it off, and that a new plan must be for­ mulated if the deficit is to be ade­ quately tackled. “ N ext year we need to cut $12 m illion,” he said. “It’s unlike­ ly we can make more than h alf that, using the methods we have now.”

Questions were subsequently raised as to whether or not M cG ill is lobbying the government in any way to ensure that grants are not cut. “ N o,” replied Heaphy. “ We are certainly asking them to help us, to give us p olicies that w ill help us meet the cuts.”

Shapiro pointed out that he lob b ies the governm ent every week.

Heaphy explained that there are currently a number of differ­ ent possibilities under investiga­ tion. “ People are looking at many different ways of meeting [the cuts]. There’s currently a hiring freeze on the administration staff and reduced hiring for academic staff,” stated Heaphy.

Heaphy also feels that the budget problem is one the uni­ versity can most definitely han­ dle. “ I don’t think it’s desperate.

I honestly don’t think it’s a cri­ s is ,” she said . “ W e have to spend a lo t o f tim e th in kin g about what w e’re going to do and some very d iffic u lt deci­ sions are going to have to be m ade. I fe e l ve ry o p tim istic about the future. This university w ill go on being a vibrant and top quality institution. I feel very confident about that,” Heaphy said.

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Restructuring of SSMU council - debate heating up

By Joyce Lau This Thursday, the Presidential Planning Committee of Council w ill recommend whether to reduce or increase the number of club and service representatives on council.

Th is issue was first raised in November, when Clubs Rep Chris Carter proposed to add eight new services representatives to council.

More recently, disagreement has arisen among co u n cillo rs over whether or not services deserve rep­ resentation.

In her second written submis­ sion to the P residential P C O C , SSMU President Helena Myers rec­ ommended that all clubs representa­ tives be elim inated. She stressed that clubs and services do not need voting representatives on council. “ Just because something is vital does not mean that it needs a seat on a governing body to be influential,” she argued.

H ow ever, M elanie Newton, co-ordinator of the Black Students’ N etw ork, expressed a different opinion.

“It is important for services to have a vote. Services have earned the right to more than an advisory role,” said Newton. “Right now, we have a voice, but it is very indirect.”

Senate/Board Rep and member of Presidential PCOC Steve Erdelyi agreed w ith N ewton. He also believes that the number of repre­ sentatives to co uncil should increase. “ B y increasing clubs and ser­ vice s reps in co u n cil, w e’ d be bringing up important issues like safety, sexual and racial harass­ ment, tuition increases and minority issues. These issues would normal­ ly be brought up anyway, but with­ out clubs reps, they would not be given the amount of attention they often require,” he stated.

However, Board of Governors representative Sevag Yeghoyan is confident that faculty reps are ade­ quately informed to deal with larger

issues that exist outside their facul­ ties. “ That no arts or science rep knows as much about sexual harassment as the people at the Sexual Assault Centre is wrong,” he concluded.

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Women’ s Union rep, you might only deal with those issues.”

Newton disagreed, claim ing that clubs and services are interest­ ed in the larger issues of council.

“We are not a lobbying group.

We would lik e to speak on a ll issues — whether it’s a beer bash or who gets a food services contract,” she said.

Erdelyi claims that representa­ tives do not hinder student repre­ sentation.

Myers: smaller council will be stronger

the number o f representatives increased.

“BSN might be looking out for racist candidates. It ’ s good that they’ re providing a natural check on campus, but I just don’ t think they should be voting on council,” said Yeghoyan. Myers agreed with Yeghoyan’s points. “ These [clubs and services reps] are e ffe c tiv e ly interest groups,” M yers continued. “ The guiding purpose of interest groups is to forward their own agendas onto a governing body. They have specific reasons for desiring a seat on council and have agendas which compromise their objectivity.”

Yeghoyan provided an exam­ ple, “If there was a rugby rep, what do you think he would ask for? On the same token, if you were a

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“My opinion is that [clubs and services issues] are no longer spe­ cial interest issues. These are issues that SSMU has been created to han­ d le. These are issue w hich are im portant to a ll students,” he explained.

A facu lty rep system M yers does not believe that council is currently working effec­ tively. “ Non-academic reps pose a problem in that they compromise the fairness of the faculty rep sys­ tem, and hinder the role of the fac­ ulty rep to represent all parts of stu­ dent life,” she stated.

Consequently, M yers recom­ mends that clubs and services can

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compensate for the loss of voting members by organising into one body outside o f co u n cil. T h is organisation can then actively lobby counsellors and the press.

C arter questioned M yers’ logic, bringing into question coun­ c il’s primary function. “ I f we cut all clubs and ser­ vices reps, then what’s the point of having a student society?” asked Carter. “ A sk an average student what SSM U body is most impor­ tant, and he/she w ill most likely say ‘W alksafe’ or the ‘Sexual Assault Centre’ , or some club — rather than ‘arts/senate rep’ or ‘council repre­ sentative to Financial PCO C’ .”

E rd e ly i agrées, saying that council’s mandate would be altered if the number of representatives was reduced. “ B y cutting clubs reps, we would be turning council into an academic decision-making body, even though most of what council discusses is directly related to clubs and services,” he said. “ The purpose of SSM U has become to help offer these services which most students need to one extent or another, and have come to rely on,” Erdelyi concluded.

Compensation f o r clubs and services Myers explained that eliminat­ ing councillor positions w ill make council stronger.

“ Services and clubs w ill accom plish more and be more influ en tial and powerful w ithin SSMU if they do not have represen­ tation, because both faculty reps and clubs and services leaders w ill be forced to work harder and be more aware of one another,” she stated.

To compensate for the lack of reps, Myers has proposed an annual clubs and services orientation to educate councillors.

Erd e lyi does not agree with M yer’ s suggestion to replace cut representatives with special pro­ grams.

“I agree with the recommenda­ tion that all counsellors should be given a clubs and services orienta­ tion day, but I don’t think that this orientation should replace clubs and services reps,” he stated.

A rts rep and member of P resid ential PCO C, K ary Schneider, balanced both sides of the debate.

“Theoretically, a smaller coun­ c il would be more efficient. But practically, if a student were having a problem with an issues that relat­ ed to safety, sexual assault, BSN or LBG TM , their needs would be best represented by an official clubs or services rep,” he said. “ These clubs and services reps deal with the clubs and services on a day to day basis — and are often most capable of representing these students’ problem s,” Schneider concluded.

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M cG IL L T R IB U N E ‘Unless one is a genius, it is better to aim at being intelligible.”

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Editorial

Statistics

By Stephan Patten Though it is said that we live in the information age, it should also be said that we may live in a misinformation age.

A most convincing form of misinformation can be the statistic. We should always demand to know how a statistic was obtained.

The radically different way in which the Ontario Government’ s Report of the Commission on Systemic Racism in the Ontario Criminal Justice System and the Globe and Mail interpreted one statistic is illustra­ tive.

In the Globe and Mail editorial, ( ‘ Unanswered questions on race and crime', January 18, 1996), the editors argue, among other things, that one statistic is flawed. The rate of imprisonment for men convicted of the same crimes with the same criminal history is 57 per cent for white men and 69 per cent for black men. The editors argue that the numbers should be 67 per cent for convicted white men and 71 per cent for convicted black men — a statistically insignificant difference because of the small sample.

The Globe and Mail illustrates how the commission arrived at their statistic, why they feel if s flawed and how they feel it should calculated.

The statistic was based on the number of men having similar criminal backgrounds convicted of one of five different crimes: sexual assault, assault, bail violation, robbery or a drug offence.

The Globe and Mail took issue with the commission for including men convicted of a drug offence in calculating the statistic because “three times as many black as white men had been convicted of drug trafficking as opposed to drug possession.”

The commission stated that “since trafficking offences arc more seri­ ous than simple possession, this difference in offences could explain some of the disparity in sentencing outcomes.” Nonetheless it felt that including men convicted of drug offences in their statistic was valid.

The Globe and Mail argued that including these men in the calcula­ tion was like “comparing apples and oranges.” They quoted the above pas­ sage and followed it with the statement, “ It certainly could.” Then, they removed this group of men from their calculation arriving at 67 per cent for white men and 71 per cent for black men.

Men convicted of drug offences comprise approximately one third of the study.

With respect to this statistic, whether or not a problem in this part of the justice system exists rests on whether it is correct to include men con­ victed of drug offences in the calculation.

The commission says yes. The Globe and Mail says no. And the dif­ ference is very significant.

The commission’s statistic presents a grossly unequal treatment of convicted black and white men with respect to incarceration. The Globe and Mail’s divergent interpretation suggests that a convicted white man is just as likely to be jailed as a convicted black man.

In light of this huge discrepancy the important question should be: who analysed the data correctly and employed sound statistical methods — the commission or the Globe and Mail?

We should all develop some skill in evaluating statistics simply as a favour to ourselves. This example illustrates how changing the calculation slightly may result in completely different statistics.

Additionally, we see how important it is for society to require the media to outline how the statistics they choose to report were obtained.

This way, we are empowered with determining their quality for ourselves.

Being able to distinguish between accurately and ill-prepared statis­ tics is vitally important. When bad statistics spread, we develop a myopic view our world. This should be unpalatable to everyone.

P a le s tin ia n e le c tio n s w ell covered Samantha Lapedus’ article on the Palestinian election was wellbalenced, well-written and intelli­ gent. This is the first time I ’ve seen a M cGill newspaper do a profound and sober look at Israel and the Palestinians. Maybe, the people at the Daily could take a lesson.

Erik Schechter

Nightline helps students cope with stress

.to the Editor

built by ONE professor from the School o f A rch itectu re, on his OWN time (President Shapiro and the Board of Governors had noth­ ing to do with it), and funded by private donors for this sole pur­ pose. The maximum budget was $8,000, a figure not nearly reached yet by the costs, and therefore like­ ly to leave a profit for the school, and certainly nowhere near M r.

Bushnell’ s imaginary $50,000. It was built to honour both the 175th anniversary of M cG ill, which hap­ pens to coincide w ith the Centennial (that’s 100 years, if you check the dictionary) of the School of Architecture.

How do I know all of this?

One question to the appropriate secretary pointed me towards Professor Pieter S ijp kes, of the School of Architecture. He showed me an article about this same sub­ ject in the Daily, whose author had at least enough journalistic sense to speak to Prof. Sijpkes before going to print. I once believed that a uni­ versity was a place where people who wanted answers could learn to find them by asking the proper questions. A p p aren tly, I was wrong. It seems to be a place to whine and make sarcastic judge­ ments w ithout fa cts. Professor Sijpkes is using stacks of Tribune’s as insulation for his sculpture. With the level of “journalism ” it offers in dedicating an entire page to this childish fiction, that seems to be about all it’s good for. For anyone interested in real inform ation try : http: /132.206.23.82/archdocs/events/ice /index.htm

I was surprised that your oth­ erwise well researched article on the stresses faced by students (“ Counselling S ervices: M ental H ealth struggles w ith growing needs” , Jan 16, 1996) made no m ention o f M c G ill N ig h tlin e.

W hilst we are most certainly NOT a “ counselling” service, we are often the first place that students call when they need help in coping with stress in their lives.

We are open outside normal working hours (6 p.m. to 3 a.m. every day during the academ ic year), and so we are often the only resource available for people who need someone to talk w ith. Our volunteers have been extensively trained to provide a friendly, confi­ dential and anonymous listening telephone service, and we have an extensive list of other resources to which callers can be referred if they wish.

M cG ill Nightline is a service that has been provided by students Miriam Gartenberg for students since 1984 — please U2 Modem languages do not hesitate to call us at 3986246 (3 9 8 -M A IN ) any night Ed note: The Observer page is in between 6 p.m. and 3 a.m. if you fact intendedfo r “childish fiction. ” need information about anything, if you want to talk to someone in confidence, or if you need a refer­ In terd iscip lin a ry’ sto ry ral.

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David Bushnell’ s column on the snow Pantheon (not a ziggurat “ or a Parthenon or w hatever” ) “ sucks” , though not for a lack of a better word. He found the sculpture repellent. I find him repellent. It would not have taken much effort to make a few phone calls to find out that the sculpture was being

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I was glad to see that you are covering the issue of interdiscipli­ nary studies and the future of M cG ill ( Interdisciplinary studies threatened by the “New M cG ill”

Jan. 16). H ow ever, I was disap­ pointed that at the end of the arti­ cle, A frican a Studies, Women’ s Studies, and Jewish Studies were set up in opposition to each other.

Although I trust that this was not the intent of the author, it does raise some interesting issues.

Certainly, some of these pro­ grams are currently more secure than others, but a ll of them are threatened if the idea of interdisci­

plinary studies is itself undermined.

Moreover, each of these programs is particularly threatened when the study of groups that are relatively new to the academy, both academ­ ically and demographically, is seen to be unimportant.

It seems to me to be counter­ productive to accept stereotypes concerning which communities in Montreal can and cannot provide resources for academic programs.

Certainly, the viab ility of “ core” d iscip lin e s such as philosophy would not be put into question if the city had a dearth of philoso­ phers (though by the same stan­ dard, political science is remark­ ably safe!). These programs are the responsibility of the university, and as students, we should work together to preserve and expand them if they are part of our vision of a new M cG ill.

Lisa Gmshcow SSMU VP University Affairs

A gainst life insurance Though I think the Tribune is a great paper, I wish you weren’t so soft on the SSMU and its spend­ ing habits.

When I read a few weeks ago that the SSM U was planning to insure their general manager for $500,000 in the case of death, I wasn’t too concerned. It seemed clear that such a notion would never go through council. So when I read that it actually did pass, I almost flipped.

I can’t believe that a financial­ ly squeezed association like SSMU would even consider paying $2,850, for the next ten years, for life insurance. It’ s great that people appreciate the general manager as much as they do, but this action is beyond stupid. Anyone can see that part of the reason it cost the SSMU so much to replace their previous manager is because he was alleged­ ly embezzling funds. (Oh, I guess the people in support of the life insurance forgot to mention that.)

To further add to this silly sit­ uation, this insurance package does not insure against the G .M .’s resig­ nation, which is far more lik e ly than anything else.

The last straw fo r me was when I also found out that there were only 12 votes in favour of the insurance plan, with 7 against, and 7 abstentions... 7 abstentions! Our representatives are so numb to responsible spending, that 7 of them did not even have an opinion.

The fin a l insu lt to me, was when I found that the Tribune did not even take the opportunity to slam the heck out of the SSM U. Next time don’t be so kind.

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Confidence and confidentiality, part two Column

L e g a l B riefs D on M cG ow an

Since December, it has been clear that the only person you can talk to without fear of having your words be used against you is a lawyer. There is no such thing as “off the record” in Quebec, so any­ thing you say to anyone can be printed in the newspapers, shown on television, or used against you in a court.

Last time I wrote, I pointed out the impact of this lack of priva­ cy on sexual harassment proce­ dures at M cG ill, and on rape crisis centres. Despite the fact that such people hold them selves out as keeping your words confidential, the fact is that they can tell anyone they want whatever you’ ve told them.

But this doesn’t mean that you have no recourse if they do.

First of all, I should point out that, 99 times out of 100, the per­ son on the other end of the line isn’t going to tell anyone anything about you. You can help yourself in this, by never telling your real name over a rape crisis line, but that kind of paranoia isn’t justified by the situation.

I f someone is going to talk about your situation, then they’re going to talk, and the facts may point to you even without a name.

However, if you really need help, then these people may really need your name (to have someone call you later to see if you’re all right).

And, of course, you can’t launch a sexual harassment proceeding at

M cG ill without giving your real name.

This deals with the 99 per cent of situations when you tell your story and it never gets used against you. But it’ s always possible that you w ill hear your words again. (If I was representing someone accused of sexual harassment at M cG ill, the first thing I would do is demand access to a ll notes and records, and any other good repre­ sentative would do the same.)

At this point, your recourse is somewhat h o llo w , but it exists nonetheless. If someone claims that whatever you say to them w ill be confidential, then they have to do everything in their power to keep it that way, and if they don’t then you can sue them.

The legal principle is quite simple: if someone tells you some­ thing, and you rely on what they said, then they are responsible if what they said turns out to be wrong. M c G ill prom ises in the Green Book that sexual harassment procedures w ill be conducted in confidence. So if you tell a sexual

harassment officer that your history T .A . grades women harder than men, and the o ffice r te lls your advisor that you are the one com­ plaining, then you have a recourse against M cGill because the promise was broken.

O f course, any prom ise M cG ill makes to keep things confi­ dential can be broken if someone goes to court and gets a subpoena to find out what’s been said. If the subpoena is granted, then M cG ill has to te ll, and you have no recourse.

Again, this won’t be a problem 99 per cent of the time. Although you do have the right to take sexual harassm ent proceedings out of M c G ill and into the Quebec Human Rights T rib u n a l if you don’t like M cG ill’s “solution” , this rarely happens. But if you do go to the Human Rights Tribunal, then the person being com plained against may get a subpoena and access the officer’ s notes. I f you sue in court, the subpoena w ill probably be granted.

None of this should undermine

the trust we all have (and for good reason) in organisations lik e SACOM SS. I just think it’s impor­ tant fo r a ll o f us to know that, whatever you say, wherever you say it, to whomever you say it, it might come back to haunt you. We should all be aware of this, and act accordingly.

I f you have been se xu a lly harassed, step forward. Report it. If M cGill promises that something is confidential, then they have to keep it confidential, or they’ll owe you a lot of money. Th is may be cold comfort to someone who has had their reputation dragged through the mud, but it’ s the only comfort the law can provide.

And don’t believe anyone who te lls you that “ no one w ill ever know.” It ’ s always possible that they w ill. If you’ re going to say anything to anyone, be ready, in case it comes back to haunt you.

Don McGowan was scolded fo r his last column because Dean Jukier wasflooded with calls.

The partial myth of the reference library Column

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I ’m sitting in a section of the reference lib ra ry , overlooking Sherbrooke Street, trying to write a short story. The outside world is pressed up against the enormous w indow s, w hich are ju st d irty enough to remind you that they’re windows. Instead of w riting the story, I separate all bicycle messen­ gers everyw here into two cate­ gories. The first category is easy: flashy young people, mostly guys, who love bikes and the mythic aura of the bike messenger.

The best part of the reference library is a sm all, almost hidden alcove at the southeastern tip of the McLennan Library, a small cave of a corner that has no right to be there. That’s where I ’ m sitting.

The second category of bike messengers are older. They look a lot like the people who deliver the flyers to your mailbox on Saturdays even if you have a sticker on your door asking them not to. They don’t seem to share anything with the first group; they don’t wear the same clothes or even pedal in the same way. Stripped of the mytholo­ gy, they seem tragic, for they are merely another group of scruffy people who do lousy work for little pay.

After a while I stop looking at the bike messengers, or the bike messengers stop passing in front of the window. I am back in the small alcove in the reference lib ra ry.

Why the reference library?

T h is particular place in the library is quiet, because the books themselves are quiet. Dictionaries, indexes, abstracts and encyclopae­ dia. The information in the books is distilled from their original sources.

There are no embellishments, no metaphors, no adjectives: just like the second group of bike messen­ gers.

Outside, the sky is the colour of old, disposable Bic pens. I look down onto the street, this tim e looking at the people, who look much more chaotic when they’ re anonymous like this. Why do most of them chose to walk on the side­ w alk? I think that sidewalks are nothing but suggestions, mindful hints from city planners, saying: “Why not walk here, in this careful­ ly planned concrete area? The cars won’ t bother you h ere.” From above street level, it seems peculiar that people would even consider such strange suggestions.

I suppose that is not a rational view of sidewalks, as they probably evolved naturally beside roadways.

Just as roadways evolved naturally between Point A and Point B . And Point A ’ s and Point B ’ s evolved naturally because of factors like closeness to water ways, fertile soil, and great views.

Maybe someday I ’ ll write an essay on The Sidew alk, one that makes sense, and its abstract and my name w ill find themselves into one of the books in the reference lib rary. U ntil then, mankind w ill

just have to walk on sidewalks and wonder why.

The reason I like this section of the reference library is because I had always assumed that it didn’t exist — that there was nothing here but a wall. I had never really come over to look, so my brain created a w all for me, in the way that your brain likes to create boundaries for you that don’t really exist.

I could write a short story if I had an idea. After all, the rest of the library is filled with books which are nothing but expanded ideas of writers. People have ideas in their heads a ll the tim e, growing into plots and ideas and n arratives.

Since human memory is lim ited, they escape like heat from uninsu­ lated houses. These embellished ideas can be embalmed in the form of books, and then we have to build huge mausoleums to store them.

Bu t I ’ m not sittin g in the library, I ’ m sitting in the reference lib ra ry . A fte r the w rite r has expanded one of his ideas enough so that it becomes a book, it is the reference library’ s job to reduce it back to the original idea.

So I ’m sitting in this room of distilled ideas. Not content as ideas, they were blown out of proportion and captured in a book, only to be re-purified. I wonder why people don’t skip the middle step altogeth­ er. When was the last time anybody wrote a d ictio n ary that w asn’ t based on another dictionary, or an encyclopaedia based on personal random thoughts? What I ’ve just written has given me a stomach ulcer. Yuck, I think, as I reach my word lim it.

M ila Aung-Thwin is a very focused fellow and has earned the undying respect o f his editors

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That lower campus snow-thing: another look B y D a v id B u s h n e l l

A t firs t, I was against that lower campus snow-thing. It was ugly, costly, and essentially use­ less. Ooo, you mean there’ s yet another place in Montreal to buy beer? Sign me up!

Last week, God, as He/She/It is wont to do, came down from on high and smote that snow-thing

with some o f the most beautiful weather ever seen in a Montreal January. L o , and the snow-thing did m elt, and there was much rejoicing. And predictably I felt sorry for the snow-thing.

The saggy snow-thing was just barely holding on to its scaf­ folds, its saggy body refusing to give in and fall to the ground. Its doorway was barred to keep peo­

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The Cyndiccite T yla B e r c h t o l d

Currently in my final year of my Bachelor of Arts, I admit that I often find myself perusing the giant cardboard sheet that m arks my accomplishments at university thus far.

I am very aware of the increas­ ing talk on how little the B .A . means in the ‘ 90s. I adm it that when I receive a grade that I am not proud of, I assure m yself that no one in the working world would ever want to know my grades. At that, I smile contentedly. My little secret.

However, I am by no means a proponent of the “B A means noth­ ing” theory. In fact, I feel a slight pang in my stomach whenever any­ one who is employed actually says those fateful words to me.

“What do you mean!” I scream in my head. But outw ardly, I remain calm. If anything, trying to finish my B .A . in political science has taught me patience.

I vehemently abide by the fact that no matter what my grades are, no one can tell me that my B .A . means nothing. I like my B .A . A lot. Perhaps I would even go so far as to say that my B .A . is my friend.

In an English class last week, my professor quoted an interview with Mordecai Richler. Apparently one of the reasons he chose to stay out of school was because everyone

he knew was getting their M .A. and their Ph.D., as it was popular belief that the B .A . meant nothing. It appears that B .A . bashing has become somewhat of a legendary activity.

I sit on my hands to control my temper. Perhaps I w ill continue after these four years, perhaps not.

But even if I don’t “ add on” , I move to propose that I am still worthy.

With the force of a tidal wave, I realise that completing my B .A . has been a most phenomenal expe­ rience. I propose to make it my business to ensure that everyone knows. I must formulate a plan. I ponder. I panic, I bite my nails.

Shall I paint a flyer?

No. I w ill wander the c ity , making use of things I have learned.

Subsequently, I anxiously await any opportunity to debate. I w ill use words lik e “ rational actor,” and “ neoliberalism ” and “ bureaucratic authoritarian regime” .

I w ill stroll down to city hall and offer advice on Canadian foreign policy. I w ill analyse my friends w ith the s k ills I picked up in Introduction to Psychology — “cognitive dissonance” I w ill smile.

As my roommates and I relax after a day at school, I w ill comment slyly on the effects of “television on society” . I w ill master the game of “ Jeopardy!” . I become excited. I

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ple from going inside and dying from fallin g chunks of snow. It was no longer a throwback to the great Babylonian ziggurats. It was ugly, costly, and essentially use­ less.

But you know what? It was ugly, costly, and essentially use­ less in the way that only tried and true M cG ill things can be. Before, it was an abomination because it

had a chance o f looking pretty with a high price tag, but now that it ’ s on its last legs it has been accepted in a most exclusive club.

To pardon the pun, it has entered the Pantheon o f great M c G ill debacles. Just wait ‘til the alums arrive. Tee-hee.

Y e s , the sno w -thing has taught us many lessons. First and fo rem o st, it has taught

Architecture students that You’re not supposed tto build stuff out of sno w . It also taught us that M cG ill things are doomed to be ug ly. It taught us that God has some sort o f chip on his/her/its shoulder concerning M cG ill. And it taught us a little som ething about life.

W ow, I feel just like an A B C Afterschool Special.

march around. Let them tell me that my B .A . is useless! I look for fights. I take notes during the news.

I ca ll up anchormen and correct them on their newscasts. I speak on panels. I quote from operas. I meet the press. My B .A . means nothing?

Ha! Look at me go!

I am fu ll speed ahead. The knowledge pours like a fountain. I dance on the heads of those who do not carry around my briefcase of B .A . I “ satirise” and draw parallels.

I plaster my room with quotes from Marx and Hegel. I re-democratise.

me that my Bachelor of Arts means nothing.

And what am I going to do w ith it? In the words o f Carol Jin-Evans

“ I am going to sneak it away from my fam ily, gathered for my commencement And roam the high desert making love to it.”

And then I choose to keep this all to myself. I am so very proud. I have learned how to learn anything and everything. I am armed. Try and take it from me.

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January 23rd, 1996

Swallowing the pill - a matter of personal choice

By Sylvie Babarik From time to time, groups of young women w ill slip into discus­ sion about the pros and cons of oral contraceptives. In listening to these ad hoc forums, it becomes evident that many women do not have an entirely clear idea about what the p ill is. Moreover, in the case of men whose partners take it, there is an even greater lack of information.

If questions still exist, why is so little public attention currently given to this drug?

“In the ‘60s and ‘70s, the pill was all the rage....But then, there wasn’t any concern about A ID S .

Now the focus has changed, and [health experts] are more con­ cerned about safety, about prevent­ ing the spread of H IV ,” responded Dr. Suzanne Steinberg, a psychia­ trist specialising in obstetrics.

an extremely important part in the everyday health of women. It can affect everything from the strength of bones to blood sugar levels.

When taken for contraception, the function of progestin and estro­ gen is to trick the body into think­ ing it is pregnant, thereby altering the natural cycle of menstruation and preventing ovulation. Without

Others may sim ply not be in the type of relationship which leads them to use something like an oral contraceptive.

Despite these, and the numer­ ous other individual disincentives, 28 per cent of Canadian women between the age of 18 and 49 use the birth control p ill, making it the most common form of contracep­

W hat is the p ill?

Brand names aside, there are roughly four types of oral contra­ ceptive sold by pharm aceutical companies. They differ mainly in terms of hormone levels, the types of hormones employed, and the distribution of hormones through­ out the 28-day reproductive cycle.

Estrogens and progestins are the two types of hormones current­ ly used in oral contraceptives.

Though artificially manufactured, both are naturally produced in the female body. Aside from its wellknown role in the reproductive sys­ tem, estrogen in particular, plays

Women should consider the serious questions surrounding the pill.

o vu latio n , conception cannot occur.

Why d o w om en take the p ill?

Whether or not to take the pill is both a practical and ideological decision. Many women may not feel comfortable interfering with their natural hormone levels. Some may have relig io u s objections.

tion in Canada.

The primary attraction of the p ill is its effectiveness; it is the surest means of preventing preg­ nancy, w ith only a 2 per cent chance of failure. Moreover, due to the reduction in the hormones lev­ els of oral contraceptives — com­ pared to the levels used when first introduced in 1957 (1967 in Canada) — the pill is now regard­ ed as possessing a number of posi­

tive secondary effects. In many women, menstrual flow is reduced, the pain of monthly cramps and inflam m ation is dim inished, and the menstrual cycle becomes more regular.

Though many of the longer term benefits are still being debat­ ed within medical circles, accumu­ lated research is lending credence to the idea that the birth control p ill may actually reduce the risk of uterine and ovarian cancer.

The early version of the p ill, which contained higher levels of estrogen, were found to be poten­ tia lly dangerous. It seemed to increase the risk of such ailments as heart disease, cancer, hyperten­ sion, acne, and other side effects.

However the reduction of estrogen le ve ls has dim inished most o f these threats “ Because estrogen and prog­ estin prevent ovulation, they also abolish all negatives effects that go along w ith it ,” said D r. AndréM arie L e ro u x, a gynacologist/obstetrician and medical officer at Health Canada.

Though it may be a natural process, ovulation has been found in many studies, to predispose women to uterine and ovarian can­ cer because of the trauma it causes to these areas o f the body.

M oreover, because progestin encourages m enstruation, any build up of the uterine walls w ill be shed, thereby providing extra protection against uterine cancer.

Research has also focused on the effect of the p ill on breast can­ cer. However, the lin k between

breast cancer and estrogen/progestin contraceptives has not yet resulted in research findings that all members of the medical com­ munity can agree on. Some physi­ cians and specialists feel that even the improved estrogen pills may be related to the onset of breast can­ cer.

“The jury is not in on many of these questions of side-effects,” said Cardiologist Dr. Shree Mulay, who has been focusing on repro­ ductive technology. “But if I were looking for a contraceptive, my own instinct would be to choose a barrier method.[...] The pill would be second choice.”

Other negative side-effects of the p ill, such as weight gain, tem­ porary blood spotting, sensitivity of the breasts, nausea, and head­ aches continue to e ffect many women. Those who do suffer from these are recommended to use other forms of birth control.

F in a lly , many studies have shown that the pill can also result in a temporary loss of fertility.

The one thing that all mem­ bers of the medical community can agree on is that the p ill should always be used in conjunction with barrier methods such as condoms, for oral contraceptives do not pro­ vide any protection against venere­ al diseases.

A m a tter o f c h o ic e The m edical com m unity is continually testing the p ill, looking

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Big dreams for the new McGill University Hospital Centre

By Erica Sturzenberger Many Montrealers regard the future of Quebec health care as quite grim.

E a rlie r this fa ll, a decision was made to shut down fiv e of M o n treal’ s E n g lish h o sp ita ls, including the Queen Elizab eth , p revio u sly used by M c G ill fo r fa m ily m edicine tra in in g .

Fu rth erm o re, p o litic ia n s have made it clear that there are more cuts to come.

D espite th is trend, a new downtown hospital has been in the planning stages for the past two years.

The hospital, which would be named the M c G ill U n iv e rsity H ospital Centre, is intended to rep lace fo ur dow ntow n-area teaching hospitals; the Montreal Children’s Hospital, the Montreal N eu ro lo g ical In stitu te , the Montreal General, and the Royal Victoria Hospital.

W orking to counteract the scepticism of taxpayers is G illian Ross-McCormack, assistant com­ munications director of the pro­ je ct. She argues that the current econom ic downturn makes the

need for a new hospital even more acute. “ The current system is not suited to the future needs of health care,” said McCormack. “The hos­ p ita ls are often equipped w ith obsolete technology. We are also faced with changing demograph­ ics of the consumer population.”

M cCorm ack explained that these inefficiencies lead to unnec­ essary budgetary strain. “ We are reaching a point at w hich there is a much greater need for health care than there is for healing,” she said. “The word ‘hospital’ is not synonymous with beds anymore.”

In support of this idea, she noted that an increasing number of patients enter the hospital for day surgery, and that more and more people now receive health care in their homes.

A lso a major contributor to the changing face of health care is the population itself, which while growing older, is overall much healthier.

P lan n ers hope to re-route much of this population to other health care institutions, such as the C LS C and at-home care.

“The M UHC w ill exist as the goalie on team. We can’t invest only in goalies, because goalies don’t make goals,” said planning board member D r. N ich o las Steinmetz, in a January 16 debate held by the M cG ill Institute for the Study of Canada. “ Th e cost o f upkeep and modernisation of the four existing facilities would be more than the ultimate cost to build the M UH C,” McCormack stated.

It is hoped that the new insti­ tution would have increased effi­ ciency and that costs would be less than the original four hospi­ tals.

Beyond being a more coste fficie n t way to provide health care, the project is intended to provide numerous new research opportunities. The synthesis of the four hospitals’ research depart­ ments is expected to result in a research centre ranked in the top ten in the w o rld . The planned institution’ s only existing counter­ part is the Pompidou Centre in Paris. It is hoped that the opportu­ nities which this centre would pro­ vide would be a magnet for inter­ nationally renowned researchers.

In this respect, the M UH C would provide numerous opportu­ nities for M c G ill’ s medical stu­ dents. However, it is admitted that competition for internships would increase, due to the concentration of the four facilities in one locale. “ It is inevitable that there is going to be an overall reduction in the number o f beds, and th is would in turn have an effect upon the number of interns. This would be the case with the M UHC or the hospitals that cu rren tly e x is t,” remarked McCormack.

B u t beyond th is issu e of internships, there are a number of other factors which leave citizens concerned.

M cG ill Faculty of Law pro­ fessor, Ju liu s G rey, opposed the M UH C’ s project at the January 16 debate. “ M y problem with this pro­ je ct is that they have combined two completely separate issues — how to make cu ts, and how to reorganise h o sp ita ls,” G rey remarked.

Grey went on to point out that w hile this project is predicted to be cost effective, building costs are always more than expected, as

was learned with the construction of the Olympic facilities.

Members of the debate audi­ ence also put forth concerns, such as the responsibility of the fam ily to reh ab ilitate the patient. For m any, this concept seems to be based upon a cultural network that does not exist in North Am erica.

In addition, citizens feared that those most in need of care might not have the home situation which could provide it.

Many also expressed concern that because of the proposed institu tio n ’ s siz e , the problem of bureaucratic tangles w ill increase.

Others suggested that the potential cost inefficiency of the at-home care system is also being underes­ timated.

It has been made clear by the M UHC board that their proposals are still in their infant stages — the project would not be finished until the year 2002 — but the dis­ cussions have made many appre­ hensive nonetheless. The concerns of many could be summed up in Grey’s comment. “ Once these institutions are shut dow n, you can never get them back.”

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January 23rd, 1996

Increasing number of homeless youths in Montreal B y Kate G ibson Josée sits on the corner of Ste. Catherine and Bleury, hold­ ing a black baseball cap out in front of her. She is cold, hungry and five months pregnant. At 28, she has been out of work for sev­ eral years and has lost custody of her other children.

Fo r the estim ated 15,000 hom eless people in M o n treal, w inter is more than uncom fort­ able. Youths account for approxi­ mately 30 per cent of the home­ less population and this number is grow ing ra p id ly . The H arvest Foodbank has reported a tripling in the number of youths receiving food aid from its agencies around the city between November 1992 and A p ril 1995. Fu rth erm o re, many are victim s of abuse, fam ily breakdown, alcoholism and drug abuse.

Under-educated and lacking in professional training, homeless youths are m ost affected by today’s scarcity of jobs and driven to the doorsteps of hostels, dropin centres and soup kitch en s around the city.

Founded in 1889, the O ld Brewery Mission serves hot meals to an average 150 people a night.

A cco rd in g to vo lu n teers, th is number doubles towards the end o f the month when w elfa re cheques begin to run out. Though

most are in th eir m id-30s, the M issio n ’ s clie n te le is getting increasingly younger.

Each night, the Refuge Des Jeunes provides a bed and a hot meal for 30 young men between the ages of 18 and 24. 90 per cent of its clien ts have come out of youth centres and institutions and have on average 10 years o f schooling. The youths must fo l­ low the basic ground rules of the centre; no disruptive attitudes or behaviour, no drugs, no alcohol, no knives.

Robert, one of the employees, is alarmed by the increasing num­ ber of young people at the centre. “ B e fo re , we saw a lo t o f ‘rockers’ , delinquents who had a network of contacts and friends.

Now it’s more kids from ‘around the block’ , less resourceful, fright­ ened and alone,” he said.

T r y in g t o m a k e e n d s m eet Tom, who has been staying at the M ission for over a year, makes about $3,900 during the summer by returning pop cans and beer bottles he finds on the streets. He sometimes goes out to do some ‘stemming’ or begging. “ I used to rob stores and stu ff, but something told me to stop. Now I just do my stemming,

Swallowing the pill... d Continued from Page 9 for better form ulations. S till, it cannot come to a clear conclusion w ith regards to its secondary e ffe cts. The decision about whether or not to take the p ill, therefore, comes down to the needs and desires of each woman.

Though medical journals are packed with articles about oral contraceptives, many women rely on their gynacologists for informa­ tio n . It is therefore extrem ely important that doctors have up-todate knowledge about the p ill.

Dr. Mulay feels gynacologists are relatively well-informed about side-effects of the p ill, particularly because it has been around for so long. H ow ever, she fears that many do not spend enough time with their patients, and rely too heavily on the information provid­ ed to them by pharmaceutical com­ panies.

“There can be some arbitrary guessing about what is the best kind of pill for each woman,” she said. “ And often, a gynacologist

w ill have a favourite [type of p ill]; only if it does not suit the individ­ ual w ill [he or she] suggest anoth­ er.”

D r. Leroux is confident that most gynacologists do keep up with recent information. He sug­ gests that even those outside major cities have access to medical jour­ nals and government reports, and w ill generally take time to attend gynaecology conferences regular­ ly“When I am recommending a certain formula of oral contracep­ tive, I consider its proported sideeffects,” said gynacologist/obstetrician Dr. Luis Monton. “It is very important to examine the patient, consider her h isto ry , her d iet, whether she is predisposed to any­ thing, [...] and what each person is com fortable w ith in term s o f acceptable effects.”

Is co n tra c e p tio n a w o m a n ’s ‘th in g ’ ?

“The real dispute is not on the range of side effects,” said Mulay.

do my lotto and that’s it,” he said. to up to a year. Women are pro­ Kevin Harney, night supervi­ vided with a bed, a hot meal and sor at the Old Brew ery, believes access to counselling to help them that the first step on the long, hard find work and a place to live. The services of Le Chainon are in high path tow ards se lf-s u ffic ie n c y must in v o lve addressing the prob­ lem of dependency on drugs and alco ­ hol.

“The people that come here have picked up some bad hab its that have brought them here.

It ’ s not a holiday he said.

W hile the vast m a jo rity o f the hom eless over age 40 are male, among youths, the number is alm ost equal for males and females. “ The women that find themselves on the street have already exploited all the resources a v a il­ able to them ...it’s the end o f the lin e ,” exp lain ed Sonia Côté, coordinator of Le C h ain o n , a women’ s shelter on Josée struggles with what she gets from welfare l ’Esplanade.

Founded in 1932, the shelter demand and the centre is often p ro vides accom m odation fo r forced to turn people away. In the homeless women from one night m ajority of cases, once a client leaves a shelter, no communica­ tion is maintained and employees have no option but to hope for the best. “ R ath er, the debate is about whether one should risk any sideeffects because [the p ill] is not treating a disease, but is being used by healthy people who do not have to tolerate any side-effects.”

In a sense, this idea harkens back to the group discussions of young women. “ Why should women always be the ones suffering from the need to prevent pregnancy?”

“This might not be what you want to hear,” said Leroux. “But unfortunately, it is s till women who are ultimately left having to deal with a pregnancy.”

In ad d itio n , he noted that more research has gone into meth­ ods of contraception employed by women then forms to be used by men. Moreover, the male oral con­ traceptives discovered thus far have been associated with the risks of impotence and the reduction of libido. “ S till, o f the women that I have often dealt with, many have said that they simply prefer to be the ones in control,” said Leroux.

F e e lin g the g o v e rn m e n t squeeze Twenty-two-year-old Stephen has been staying at the Refuge Des Jeunes for the past six weeks.

He left school at 16, and, having no professional training, has been unemployed for six months.

From the fiv e years he has spent on his ow n, Stephen, has learned what it takes to survive on the streets. “ You have to be resourceful,” he said. “ I don’t think anyone is bom with these skills. It’s a shell that you develop.”

Stephen is able to receive his $500 welfare cheque by using the Refuge Des Jeunes as proof of address. However, the centre does not allow its clients to receive two cheques in a row. The young men are encouraged to use the money they receive to find th eir own apartments and regain their inde­ pendence.

This may be easier said than done.

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A report issued by the anti­ poverty organisation, M ulti-Caf, called for an increase in welfare benefits in the province. W hile governm ents recom m end that people spend a m axi­ mum of 30 per cent of their income on rent, the report stated that many M ontreal re si­ dents spend up to half o f th e ir m onthly incomes on a place to liv e . Many are forced to beg in order to make ends meet. “ I get $440 from the governm ent. M y rent is $300. What else can I do?” Josée said.

She w ill soon be effected by new legis­ lation aimed at com­ bating w elfare fraud amongst youths, name­ ly those under 30 years of age. The report also c a lls on the Quebec Government to honour its prom ise to e lim i­ nate the p en alties against the 114,766 welfare recipients who share apartm ents in order to reduce exp enses. P re se n tly , those who share accommodation receive less money than those who live on their own.

On the other hand, the gov­ ernment has also introduced new le g isla tio n aim ed at crackin g down on frau d am ongst the 50,000 w elfare recipients under the age of 30. A s of February 1, those under 25 w ill have to go directly to welfare offices to col­ lect their cheques. Those under 30 w ill undergo the same procedure beginning in March.

This measure, however, does not necessarily provide the solu­ tion for homeless youths. Robert of the Refuge des Jeunes empha­ sised the need to im prove the institutions fo r the young from which the centre receives 90 per cent of its clients.

Stephen believes that the gov­ ernm ent must begin providing professional training for youths.

He also calls for a change in atti­ tude towards people on the street. “ The p re ju d ice hurts the most,” he said.

Stephen is still hopeful about the fu tu re , and b elieve s that youths can turn their lives around. “ The young are d iffe re n t, they have hope and energy. They can work and aren’t destined to be poor,” he stated. “ I think most of the guys here view their situation as a bad spell.”

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Many of us face a daily reality more terrifying than even the most over-budgeted of Schwartzenegger techno-dramas. It goes like this: you’ re alone, backed in a corner, facing your worst enemy. Your frightening foe is not a disgruntled Canada Post employee nor a rabid separatist who’ll stop at nothing to get a good bowl of poutine. It’s your damn PC. The computer that was supposed to slay your organisational demons is biting the hand that feeds it. And all you can do is curse as an error message glares at you from its idiotic face. press F6 for columnist’s sentimental recollections

Before you violently tear your priceless investment from its intra­ venous power supply, think happy thoughts about the good times you’ve spent with your PC pal. If you grew up in the 1970s, your childhood days would have been remembered for little more than tacky floral wallpaper had it not been for the advent of the home computer. Yes, I remember vividly

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when my father brought home our Atari and told us that it could never replace myself and my sister. To my delight, this strange creature not only liberated me from my video game quarter collections, it spurred my maturity. A few years and hun­ dreds of blisters later, I met my first love: a brave gal I affectionately referred to as “Ms. Pac-man.” click “continue ” for cynical musings

Then, as if my childhood were erased lik e a cheap hard d rive, everything changed. The infantile computing industry became an evil oligopoly, led by head geek B ill Gates. Computers began to evolve so much, most people were left feel­ ing like Neanderthals pounding on their 64K giant boxes of junk. No longer content with machines that merely did the job, people needed elaborate bells and whistles (or even farting noises which you can get on those CD-ROM jobs).

There was an evil economic plot lurking behind all these seem­ ingly benign computer additions.

Rapid technological change guaran­ teed almost immediate obsolescence for a product you just bought last

week. A television propaganda cam­ paign which did everything but link RAM size with your manhood made computers the subject of small talk at watering holes and office water coolers. Guys started bragging about the speed of their modems in locker rooms. A ll this ensured consumer demand for innovative goods would never be fully satiated. In short, we became pathetic pawns in a giant corporate video game.

And like a lingering virus, com­ puters continue to plague our lives.

Anyone who has had their CPU “ crash” can attest to the pain and suffering computers can induce. The software options are no picnic either. Take word processing for example. When I buy a word pro­ cessing program I expect my pur­ chase to actually help me complete documents. W indows E xce l or WordPerfect do the trick — but only after hours of struggling just to cen­ tre your stupid title. Screensavers and eraser size mouses may be a cool way to impress your Star Trek buddies, but they offer little actual convenience for the average user.

Take your m acros, tem plates, merges and fonts, Mr. Gates — and give me back my Vic-20. I don’t even care that my old computer had roughly the same memory storage space as my Timex Indiglo.

Microsoft is reportedly disappointed with sales of Windows 95. The soft­ ware item sold a mere 20 m illion copies world-wide in 1995, instead of the projected 30 m illio n . Yet while the producers may be infalli­

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Métissage: new perceptions and mixed cultures

By L iz Lau

tion. Everybody is métis — purity in race no longer exists.”

The new e xh ib itio n at the It is the goal of the project to g allery O ptica sports a cryp tic bring this concept into the realm name: Métissage. The works on of visual arts. The process begins display are results of a summer by selecting a team of artists of spent in residency at the Est-Nord- varying geographical and cultural Est Sculpture Centre in St.-Jean origins. Included in the group are P o rt-Jo li, about an hour east of M icm ac artists Teresa M arshall Quebec City. and M ike M acdonald, G itxsan In 1994, the centre invited a rtist E ric Robertson, O jibw ay artists Domingo Cisneros and Lise a rtists R ebecca and Flo ren e L a b rie to curate a Belm ore, Freda two-part programme.

Guttm an from After selecting seven Each encounter M ontreal and between two artists from various Daniel Poulin of parts of Canada, the humans becomes La Macaza. group arrived in St.Before an opportunity to Jean Port-Joli in July a rrivin g at the to embark on the first draw further conclu­ re sid e n cy, the phase of a two-and-a- sions about the a rtists had to half-m onth creative propose th eir world around us. session. The fruits of visio n of what th is resid en cy are they would pur­ now on display at Optica, and con­ sue, and how they would realise it. stitutes the second phase of the Throughout the summer of ‘94, project. the artists carried on a dialogue The concept behind Métissage with one another, but for all pur­ w orks on m ultip le le v e ls. The poses, worked independently. This word métis is used to describe a em phasis on each a rtist’ s pre­ person of mixed race; it is also the determined set of theories, meth­ name ascribed to a people who are ods and goals is not meant to pre­ descendants of French and native vent further discussion. Rather, it parents. Cisneros attempted to acknowledges the diversity of the explain the title, saying “ there are artists’ backgrounds and interests, divisions of race in Canada, but at the same time that it affirm s the we want to work against ghettoïsa­ co-existence of racial, cultural and

y n ig h t L e a v in g Las Vegas and en terin g the sublim e For those sick of the “ pulp” (read: the way over-hyped and over-Tarantino-ised Four Rooms) being churned out of Hollywood as of late, Leaving Las Vegas leaves a taste that, while bitter, is a lot more substantial. The film deposits a residue that only builds after the course of the movie.

The story is about Ben (Nicholas Cage), a top Hollywood exec fired from his job because of his drinking problem. After burning his past in the Hollywood hills, he sets out for Vegas to drink himself to death. Among the bright lights of the casinos he meets a wingéd (not lite ra lly ) femme de la nuit (Elizabeth Shue), recently cut off from an abusive pimp (Ju lian Sands). An inevitab ly ill-fated romance ensues.

In the hands of a production team more concerned with pulling audience heart strings than commu­ nicating a message, this story could have become an over-sentim en­ talised flop. Movies like When A Man Loves a Woman victimise and redeem characters in classic chcw’em-up-spit-’ em-out Hollywood style. Instead, Leaving Las Vegas is an emotionally stark, and visually engaging investigation into co­ dependency, ideal love and human despair.

The credit goes mostly to the leads, played by Cage and Shue, who give life to the characters in the late John O’ Brien’s semi-autobio­ graphical story. Cage uses his abili­ ty to mix comedy with affliction to create a character that isn’t a one­ dimensional archetype. The audi­ ence can’t help but simultaneously feel disgust and empathy towards him.

Shue (m ostly known for her light-hearted romps like Adventures in Babysitting) manages to commu­ nicate pathos and confusion in a character that could have easily been played as a cardboard saint.

She takes on an eroticism in the film that juxtaposes Cage’s alcoholinduced lethargy. The film flips vio­ lently from Cage’s extreme to her own. At certain points, the action erupts as the two sexually come together, but the effect is far from being a displacement of the discom­ fort. Their meetings evoke some­ thing more subversive than passion and show just how doomed their bond is.

The movie only suggests the characters’ motivations. Without overtly psycho-analysing their con­ ditions, the film manages to com­ municate more than words ever could. The film forcefully pushes the audience to reflect on, and to try to resolve, the feelings evoked.

The schizophrenia the audience feels is further complicated by the

geographical differences.

Reflective of this is the fin ­ ished product that is Métissage.

Each work was brought into being through a different medium and approach. The meaning of métis­ sage itself took on a different sig­ nificance for each artist, illustrat­ ing that there can be profound dif­ ferences between in d iv id u a ls’ understandings of the same word or object.

Each encounter between two humans becomes an opportunity to draw further conclusions about the world around us. According to the sister team of Rebecca and Florene B elm o re, these encounters are more than the sharing of experi­ ences and ideology.

In Im p osition , the siste rs explore the nature of relationships, questioning how we determine our sympathies, and how power strug­ gles affect the balance of all inter­ actions.

The exhibition space of the work is a small room. Two oppos­ ing walls are painted blue and red.

On each wall, a slit in the surface reveals a television screen, one playing a tape of a water surface, the other a patch of sky. Written on top of each screen are words in the sisters’ Native language, left untranslated for the viewer. On a third w all, a fluorescent light sits setting. Las Vegas, in all its gaudy and superficial splendour, adds a perfect contrast to the dark depths of the characters’ pain.

Cinematographer Declan Quinn captures the tension, using brightly coloured panoramic shots that finetune into the emotional haziness of the characters’ perspective. Scenes are often shot from the sloweddown, blurred standpoint of Cage.

The effect is to disorient the viewer to the same point as Cage’s warped cognition.

There are a few times, howev­ er, when the film trips over the fine line separating believable anguish and melodrama. The music (com­ posed by director M ike Fig g is) sometimes carries the action to the realm of sap. After a scarringly vio­ lent episode with some teenage clientele, a whiny saxophone and vocals (courtesy of that master of em otional depths; Sting) push Shue’s tears to an over-heightened extreme.

What is perhaps so powerful about Leaving Las Vegas, is also what makes it so innovative. The film isn’t afraid of tragedy, but, at the same time, it doesn’t idealise anyone or anything into tragic ideals. It is most unsettling because it does not try to solve, pass judge­ ment on, or romanticise its theme ideas. At the same time, the movie isn’t just a two-hour downward spi­ ral. Perhaps most unsettling is the fact that issues refuse to resolve themselves, nor be easily dismissed in a discussion over coffee.

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vertically, lighting up the room. images, sways in response to the The w ork draws questions gusts of air released from the puri­ about the Referendum , nature, fier, and echoes the swaying of the technology, and the human’s role chairs. In the artificial space of the in each o f these th in g s. A s gallery, Macdonald recreates the Rebecca Belmore points out, how­ cycles of life and nature. ever, “there are no Tears is answers intended alm ost a respite — it is not neces­ from the weighty The first few drops sary that we give p o litic s of are red like blood, answers as people Im position, and and trickle onto a of First Nations.” serves as an In a com ­ excellen t exam ­ leaf like a tear falling p le tely d ifferen t ple o f the many from a face. realm is M ike worlds of under­ M a c d o n a ld ’ s standing each Touched By the Tears o f a a rtist brings to the exh ib itio n .

Butterfly. Setting up a garden in From Linda Guttman’s zoetropes, St.-Jean Port-Joli, the artist suc­ to E ric Robertson’ s take on the ceeded in attractin g over 12 Berring Strait theory, the viewer monarch butterflies. He captured becomes party to various co-exist­ them on tape as they broke out of ing world views. With multicultur th eir cocoons, the liq u id body alism and national unity being two weight released from the sh ell. of the most pressing issues of cur­ The first few drops are red, like rent Canadian life , the exhibition blood, and trickle onto a leaf, like offers a tiny example of diversity a tear falling from a face. with harmony.

Macdonald succeeds in creat­ ing a virtual natural environment by using no more technological R W * gizmo than a projector, a V C R , M fit t cr See Métissage until February and an air purifier. The darkened 17. Optica is at 3981 St. room co ntains seven rocking Laurent, rooms 50 and 501. ch airs, each painted a different Hours are 12-5p.m. Tuesday colour, reminiscent of the colour to Saturday, with extended bands on a T V . A silk screen, on hours on Thursday. Call 287w hich is projected the butterfly 1574.

How to fit a Chorus Line into the Players’ Theatre box.

By Mila A ung-Thwin Imagine the inside of a small black box. The seats are in rows along two sides, leaving a smaller square for the stage. In the back of that stage, find room for a jazz hextet (and their instruments — includ­ ing a piano and drum set), and veil them with a black curtain. Seem a little cramped? Now add a thirteen member chorus line and have them lament their childhoods and expose their fears through lively song and dance numbers.

Th is is exactly what director Ryan L e v itt and choreographer

Diane K lich had to do with their interpretation of A Chorus Line for Players’ Theatre, the black box the­ atre in the Shatner b uilding.

Despite these obstacles, however, the production team managed to present a very entertaining musical.

A Chorus Line, the “ longest running musical on Broadway” , is a play about the stage its e lf, an exploration of the anonymous faces in the chorus and what led them to want to become footlights on Broadw ay. The story hinges on how Zach (Brian Irw in), the direcContinued on Page 13 H

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YAWP! was a flop and a half B y A lex Mathias The poetry scene in Montreal has flourished in the last few years with spoken-word events popping up in cafés and bars across the c ity . One o f the more popular spots is Bistro 4 on the comer of St. Laurent and Duluth. YA W P! is the latest organised event that touts itself as “ refreshing spoken-word cabaret.”

False advertising — YA W P! was a flop.

The self-descrip tion o f the event suggests a celebration of poetry that’ s free-sp irited and earnest. Unfortunately, many per­ form ers were pretentious. They seemed more concerned w ith being in the literary scene than producing good literature. There were lots of watered-down B ill Bisset copycats and many who fell into the “ fuck” trap (the delusion that the more times you swear, the better the performance). In general there was very little soul-bearing or sincerity at all.

P a rticu la rly aw ful was the cabaret performance. It was head­ ed by Ran Elfassy, who admitted not knowing what the word meant.

His cocky hijinks smacked of high school humour. His remark, “This is part of the cabaret. You’ve paid to see me,” cut a little too close to the bone.

The organisation of the evening was p articu larly weak, pulled together by a grating M C, Jake Brown. His long-winded and meaningless introductions drew out the evening and detracted from the true entertainment. What start­ ed as m ild ly am using became intensely annoying by the end of the evening. His notion of relaxed, impromptu entertainment was in fact disorganised chaos.

Strongest were the featured poets — Ian F e rrie r, E la in e O’ Conner and M elanie Newton.

The musicians, particularly Karen Jane, were also good.

O ften, events lik e these are made worthwhile by a few good readers. In th is case, it was

Newton with the best voice of the lo t. Her poems “ song fo r little black girls,” “ changing tide,” and “ bridges” were honest and gen­ uinely moving. Th is poet stayed afloat amidst a sea of pretension by speaking sim ply and passion­ ately. Loud yelling and strings of curses were not Newton’s style — her poetry had the power to stand starkly as no other was capable. It is telling that she and other per­ formers did not stay to see the end of the show.

From personal past exp eri­ ence, the perform ances change dram atically from week to week.

Next week might be great, but that would mean ousting Jake.

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Next show is Saturday January 27th at 9p.m. with open mike at midnight at Bistro 4 at 4040 St. Laurent.

Go early, because the place fills up fast. Go figure.

Life in SubUrbia may offend some

By M arc G illiam E ric Bogosian isn’ t afraid of a little controversy.

In the fe a tu re film Talk R a d io , B o g o sian ta ck le d the already controversial domain o f H ow ard S tern and R u sh Lim b au g h by p o rtra yin g the phone-in rad io program as motive for murder. The equally charged drama SubUrbia, which opened in New Yo rk a year ago, also has a target evident in its title.

Th e p la y , m akin g its Canadian premiere this week at M otrice H all, offers its audience a subject a bit clo ser to home.

R e g a rd le ss o f the u n iv e rs a l fa m ilia rity o f S u b U rb ia , Bogosian set out to write a piece that explores the dark and dicey

issues lurking just outside the big city.

D ire c to r M att S m a ll, a M c G ill H isto ry student, fee ls particularly confident in dealing w ith the su b je ct m atter.

Although he was raised along “ the edge for the w orld” — on the frin g e o f the o u tsk irts o f M etropolitan Toronto — Sm all better re a lise d the en ig m atic w eirdness o f the suburbs after being bussed downtown daily for his secondary school education.

It was an education, he elabo­ rates, that fu lfille d much more than the average high school cur­ riculum .

E ric Bogosian’ s SubUrbia is Sm all’ s second directorial effort (after last year’ s The T rial O f Judith K.), and stars O liver Van Praet in the role of Jeff.

W hat strik e s S m all is the suburb’ s underlying class con­ flic t . S m all adds that, despite noticeable discontent between the races, the underestimation of the discontent between classes makes it the more dangerous of the two. Downplaying the levels o f class co nflict creates a situa­ tio n a ll the m ore d iffic u lt to probe, let alone remedy.

A s a result of acknowledg­ ing these touchy identity issues, Sm all saw fit to attach warnings to the p ro m o tio n al posters around cam pus. “ C ontroversial — M ay O ffend Som e” adorns the colourful ad depicting a col­ lage of road maps and evincing the ubiquity o f the suburbs.

A d d re ssin g the v o la tile material became an issue after an actress backed out o f the play

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tor/therapist, helps the performers on stage drop their masks, reveal­ ing themselves to the audience.

The weakest point in the pro­ duction is the beginning of this process. The first few minutes of A Chorus Line are hard to watch, as few of the actors seem able to per­ form characters who are themselves acting. Their lines are forced, and their movements awkward. Th is section of the performance, howev­ er, is salvaged by the excellent jazz ensemble, tucked behind the black curtain, who fill the empty spaces of the stage with energetic music.

Luckily, the characters slowly let down their facades, giving the actors something more tangeable with which to work. The perfor­ mances improve, they begin to sing and dance, and the show becomes a lot more fun to watch.

The singing is surp rising ly good, and the dance numbers are zesty and im aginatively choreo­ graphed (at least from what I could tell — the obstructed view from my third row seat allowed me to look mainly at torsos, and I had to imag­ ine most of the legs).

The difficulty in performing A Chorus Line is that it is clearly meant for Broadway, where actual New York dancers would end up playing the cast. On Broadway, the actors would seem to be playing themselves, and the play could be an im pression of a behind-thescenes glimpse at stage life. But a small scale production, such as the one at P la ye rs’ Theatre, has to recite the same lines without the benefit of the authentic setting and cast. An integral part of A Chorus Line is the blurred line between the fiction of the characters and the reality of the actors — a cast of

M cG ill students just can’t portray this very well.

As a result, the long, contem­ p lative songs about unrealised dreams and lost childhoods don’t carry the amount o f em otion they’re supposed to. While the play is slowed down by heavy doses of melodrama in the name of charac­ ter development, it stays entertain­ ing. The actors have no problem carrying the p la y ’ s sense of humour.

A1 and K ristin e (M atthew Micari and Leigh Ellio t) do a mem­ orable number about a w ife who can’t sing and a husband who does.

Young, shy M ark (P h ilip Pace) pulls in big laughs from the audi­ ence, and Judy (Nicole Piller) man­ ages to bring a clich of a character (the ditzy blonde) back to life. This is the p lay’ s redemption — the actors are much better at supplying laughs than they are at generating sympathy.

At the end of the play, Zach must make the decision that the audience has been anticipating, the in evitab le clim a x — he has to chose which of these performers are going to make the chorus line.

As I waited in anticipation for the director’s final cut, I realised that I had really become involved with the characters. I had forgotten all about the small stage, the uncom­ fortable seats and the poor sight lines. W hile A Chorus Line may not have taken me all the way to Broadway, it did manage to make me forget I was in Players’Theatre. c A Chorus Line is selling out faster than you can imagine.

Get tickets at Sadie’s or by calling 398-6813. Show ends this Saturday.

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SHE SAID: Tarts and bad-acting abound in Antony and Cleopatra

HE SAID: Higher cul­ ture rules out in the end

By Sara Jean G reen

By Stephan Kohout

A s an En g lish m ajor and a Shakespeare lo v e r, I was very excited when offered two free tick­ ets to see the Centaur’s production of Antony and Cleopatra. Perhaps my expectations were too high and therefore fated to crash.

A number o f the actors are big-tim e theatre veterans. Both Scott W entworth (A n to n y) and Seana McKenna (Cleopatra) have credentials which include leading roles in plays performed at the Stratford Fe stiva l. Furtherm ore, Maurice Podbrey is in his 27th year as the Centaur’s Artistic Director.

The story o f Antony and Cleopatra is set during the first cen­ tury, B .C . The all-powerful Roman Em pire is ruled by a trium virate: M arc A ntony, O ctavius Caesar (son of Julius Caesar) and Lepidus.

Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, has incredible power since her king­ dom, especially because of the Nile R iver, is an important trade route for the Empire. The love between Antony and Cleopatra is so power­ ful that Antony is w illing to “ Let Rome in Tiber melt, and the wide arch / O f the ranged empire fall” in order to be with his beloved.

W hile the concept of minimal­ ism works well with certain theatri­ cal pieces, the complete lack of sets (save the throw rug that was brought in to represent the lascivi­

ousness of Cleopatra’s court), hard­ ly warrants a $29 stub fee.

Furtherm ore, the costume designs are hardly inspiring — they look more like Value Village’s fall line than the decadent garb of roy­ alty. Octavia (Marion Adler), wears the same purple dress for most of her scenes, and resembles the prom wallflower who couldn’t get a date.

As for Caesar (Peter Farbridge), it is easier to overlook his macho chest-pounding in the name of the­ atre than his knee-high tan boots (which resemble rubbers, the kind your mom would make you wear, no m atter how you protested, because they were “ practical” and bought on sale).

The highlight of the perfor­ mance came when Cleopatra inad­ vertently mooned the audience when she got up to exit and her dress flipped. The elderly couple sitting in front of us discussed at length the fact that she w asn’ t wearing any underwear.

What is most disturbing about the Centaur’s production howev­ er, is that no matter how hard you try to suspend by disbelief, the love between the two leads doesn’t translate into more than carnal lust. Cleopatra, one of the most pow erful women in Shakespearean drama, is trans­ formed into a tart — and she goes on a childish tirade when she fin d s out A ntony plans to

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return to Rome. During the scenes of their separation, the Queen of Egypt turned into a school girl, pin­ ing shamelessly for her man.

B y the tim e 0?* the house lights came on for the in te rmi ssion, I w as so j

tated and disappointed that I knew I woudn’t be able to endure the sec­ ond h alf of the play. There was probably a standing ovation any­ way — those who did enjoy it probably thought that they had just participated in some form of higher culture.

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he is a seasoned actor, his grating, nasal voice and often childish the­ atrics drain credibility from his per­ formance. However, the strength and dynamics of the other actors make up where he lacks.

Seana M cKenna handles the role of Cleopatra adeptly, but her

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Anyone who takes the time to sit through the entire performance of the Centaur’ s Antony and Cleopatra w ill surely appreciate this quality production. Although the Centaur’ s version of the play does have some particular weak­ nesses, its overall strength wins out in the end. While the produc­ tion is unsuccessful in expressing the profundity of the relation­ ship between Antony and Cleopatra, the generally strong directing, staging, and acting make the show a very enjoyable experience.

The relationship o f Antony and Cleopatra falters in Scott Wentworth’s \ perform ance as \ Antony. Although

presence on stage is deflated by the director’ s lack of vision for this character. The sparseness of the set, the plain costum es, and the restrained lighting fail to bring out the regal majesty of this awesome woman who captured Antony’ s soul and the Western imagination.

The supposedly passionate scenes between the two lovers do not live up to their potential — the subdued C leopatra and boyish Antony fall short of communicating any feelings deeper than middle age lust.

Nevertheless, the rest of the production compensates. Alexander Marin’s directing is very strong. He keeps the story moving at a break­ neck pace and exploits the many areas and levels of the set to their fu llest, succeeding to keep each scene fresh and exciting. His many im pressionistic tableaux (such as Cleopatra’ s death scene and the drunken revelries of the Roman sol­ diers) are elegant and moving. One wishes he had used this technique throughout the play.

Marin also manages to use the sparse set to powerfully evoke the vastly different settings of the play from Pompey’s galleons to the bar­ ren Egyptian desert.

The show is recommended for anyone who would enjoy an evening of quality theatre or for anyone who appreciates a higher, cultural experience.

due to the script’ s explicitness. It seems that Sm all had to not only account for Bogosian’ s shocking ultra-liberal slant — a blunt hon­ esty that refu ses to adhere to political correctness — but also for the fact that the m ajority of the audience are products of sub­

urbia and, consequently, have vested interests in the message.

In the end, Sm all admits to ap p reciatin g the e ffe ct o f the warning — it gathers some pub­ licity and serves to dissuade the p o te n tia lly o ffen d ed , m aking SubUrbia a piece that is honest and accountable to the consumer.

Suburbia is performed at 8p.m. from January 22-27 at Morrice Hall. Tickets are $7 and $5. F or more informa­ tion or reservations call 3986600.

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January 23rd, 1996

Damn those really bad plays

By Liz Lau Finally, somebody has managed to come up with a play with no redeeming qualities. The latest offer­ ing from Centaur Theatre, Damn those Wedding Bells!, has in fact lit­ tle to offer.

Using Brooklyn, New York as a backdrop, the play revolves around an Italian-American from Brooklyn, New York. Since the death of her husband, Nunziata Robertini (Geraldine Doucet) has had to raise three children all by herself. Through the hard years, she’ s had to call on her eldest, Anthony (played by play­ wright, Tony Calabretta), for strength

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and support. Being the ever-faithful son, Anthony gave up his dreams of becoming a writer for a more stable job at the local slaughterhouse. Now, with his little brother out of the house with a real job, and his sister’s wed­ ding just around the corner, the 34year-old is realising that his dedica­ tion to his mother has prevented him from moving forward in his own life.

The central plot of the play deals with Anthony’s inability to find a date for Connie’s wedding. A ll the blame, of course, falls on his mommy (who aggravates the situation by set­ ting her son up with a string of close encounters of the female kind).

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means innovative, but a different playwright or directer could have brought the script to life with some oomph. Instead, the play remains a shallow representation of fam ily dynamics filled with stereotypical characters.

There’s the sweet, wise grand­ mother who calls her grandson “ anTO N io!” and murmurs about going to the beauty parlour to get gossip. And there’s mommy dearest, whose nagging and cajoling is enough to drive her son into perma­ nent psychosis.

The danger of leaving stereo­ types unexplored becomes painfully clear about halfway through the play.

Rosa, played by M illie Tresierra, is brought in as Anthony’s blind date.

The token “feminist” merely serves as a comedic device. Roaring to rip off their clothes and engage in pas­ sionate love-making, Rosa sports a short “butch” haircut, gurgles with an “ exotic” Spanish accent, and rants about “ those male ch auvin ists.”

Anthony, being the gentleman, wards off her advances, but only finds him­ self saying after she leaves that she “would probably like being tied up.”

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Martlet B-ball steamrolls past Con. U T e s s ie r’s trip le -d o u b le keeps M c G ill p e rfe c t B y Kashif Z ahoor The women’s basketball squad should adopt a theme song for this season. Coach Lisen Moore and her Martlets must be listening to Starship’s classic hit from the ‘80s, “Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now,” in the locker room before games.

The question on everyone mind in the Q U BL is “can anyone beat the Martlets?”

Martlet head coach Moore has a simple answer.

“No, I don’t think so.”

Undefeated and seventhranked M cG ill tightened th eir stranglehold on the top spot in the Q U B L, with a tough 85-75 road victory over the pesky Concordia Stingers.

The Stingers came into contest knowing that, in order to have a chance of beating M cG ill, contain­ ing M artlet all-star centre V icky Tessier was a top priority. The key word is contain, because if Tessier is playing, stopping her is not an option.

Concordia’s defence fell short of their goal, as Tessier signed her name in the M cG ill recordbooks, posting the M artlets’ first ever triple-double. Her 25 points. 11 boards, and ten assists le ft the Stingers shaking their heads in dis­ belief.

After the first 20 minutes of play, M cG ill’s offence built a 15point lead, largely due to the 50 per cent shooting from the floor. In spite of the cushion at halftim e, M cGill was in serious foul trouble, as L e sle y Stevenson, Anne Gildenhuys, and Tessier were in danger of fouling out. With this in mind, the Stingers were primed for a comeback.

M cGill made Concordia’s task tougher as they expanded their lead to 21 point in the first five minutes of the second h a lf. The lead prom ptly evaporated over the course of the next ten m inutes.

Eventually the foul trouble caught up with M cG ill, and the Stingers mounted a comeback. Concordia shaved the d e ficit to ju st four points, 74-70, with just over five minutes remaining.

The Stingers benefitted from M cG ill’ s poor shooting, and the Red ‘n’ White’s inability to score a point between the 13 and eight minute marks to trim the gap. “ We had good looks at the basket, but we just didn’t put it in” , said Moore of the five minute scor­ ing drout.

The Martlets, not about to let the game slip away, went on 11-5 run to close out the game, and pre­ served the win.

M cG ill point-guard Jennifer

Stacey added 19 points, and was orignially credited with 18 assists thanks to the genorisity of the Concordia scorekeepers, but fin ­ ished with six assists. Gildenhuys chipped in with 18 points for the Martlets.

M oore conceded that if M cG ill was going to lose a game this season, last Friday was as good a chance for an opposing team as any. “ In ju ries, foul trouble, great shooting on their part...all the ingridents to beat us, but they didn’t.

We surived the foul trouble, and stepped up when it counted,” said Moore.

After their sixth consecutive win this past Friday night at the Concordia Gym, M cGill now leads second-place Concordia and Bishop’s by three games. With six games rem aining in the season, M c G ill has clinched a p la yo ff berth, and can win the division out­ right with a combination of either three wins or three losses from the Stingers and the Gaiters.

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UQTR blank Martlets; tie Laval in exhibition M a rtle ts com e away with tie on S h a rp e ’s g o a l

By T ribune Staff The M cG ill Martlets suffered th e ir n in th stra ig h t defeat in U n iv e rs ity W om en’ s H ockey League play Sunday afternoon, fa llin g 8-0 to the U Q T R Patriotes.

M ay-Lan Lee scored three times and assisted on another as the P a trio te s im proved th e ir league record to 6-2-1 for a share of first place with Concordia. The Stingers s till remain in first by virtue of having a game in hand.

Annie Boucher lit the lamp tw ice w h ile C aro lin e G e lin a s, V a le rie H am e l, and Je ssic a Daneau were the other Patriotes scores.

M cG ill goalie Lu cie Fortin stood on her head. Her 51 saves kept the Martlets in the game. “ She’ s outstanding. L u cie holds us in every game. Without her the score would have been a lot worse. She stoned them time and tim e a g a in ,” said C la ire Sharpe.

In spite of the unfortunate outcom e, Sharpe found some positive aspects to built on. “ W e started doing some

things right towards the end of the game. Our dump-and-chase sty le and fo re ch eckin g improved,” said Sharpe.

The game was the M artlets second in 24 hours. On Saturday night at the M cConnell W inter Arena, M cG ill skated to a 2-2 tie in exhibition play with the Laval Supra, who sport an 11-4-1 mark in the M ontreal M etro p olitian League.

Kathleen O ’ R e illy scored a power p lay goal for M c G ill to open the scoring. Laval countered w ith m arkers from Is a b e llle Lafo n d and M elan ie R o u ssin .

Sharpe potted the e q u a lise r, allowing M cG ill to escape with a tie . The M artlets are 4-3-2 in exhibition play.

The Martlets exhibition sea­ son continues Tuesday with Westmount v is itin g M cC onnell Winter Arena.

Game time is 4:30 p.m. This Saturday, M c G ill hosts U Q TR in league play at 7:30 p.m.

Stingers score 5 goals in second period to capture Corey Cup T h ird p e r io d com eb a ck fa lls one g o a l sh ort; M c G ill misses o u t on chance to m ove in to f ir s t

By D ana T oerinc Although a sports reporter is supposed to express an unbiased opinion when covering events, there is always a time when the rules can be bent and, after all, this is M cG ill’s student newspaper. The event in question is last Thursday’s 8-7 loss the Redmen hockey team suffered at the hands o f the Concordia Stingers. The bias sur­ faces because the Redmen had the opportunity to finish the Stingers off for the 1995-96 season, and it is really too bad that they failed to do so.

In a high-scoring, high-flying game, the Stingers erupted for five goals in the second period and held on to win by a single. The Redmen made a game of it by scoring three goals in the third. The Red ‘n ’ W hite were unable to fin d the equaliser and subsequently unable to send their cross-town rivals to the golf links a little early.

The loss broke the Redmen’ s season high five-gam e winning streak and broke coach Bangen’ s personal win streak as w ell. The lo ss also granted the hapless Stingers the Corey Cup, which is supposedly the chalice that symbol­ ises hockey suprem acy in M ontreal. Unfortunately for the Stingers, the Corey Cup means did-

dly because they are eight points behind third place Ottawa and ten behind the second place Redmen.

Ottawa occupies the last playoff spot in the Far East D ivision — and w h ile Concordia has nine games left, and the Gee-Gee’s ten, the hopes of the Stingers making the playoffs are doubtful.

Although the Stingers have not had the best year, they seem to play up to their potential whenever they play cross-tow n riv a l M c G ill.

M cG ill took an early 3-1 lead in the second period but then unchar­ acteristically started playing undis­ ciplined hockey. Following an out­ break of penalties and chippy play, the Redmen found them selves down by a score of 4-3. Another goal near the end of the period prompted coach Bangen to pull starter Jarrod Daniel in favour of Robert Bourbeau. The Stingers gave Bourbeau a rude welcome with a goal at 16:44 of the second for a 6-3 lead.

The Redmen fought back in the final period scoring four more goals, but were unable to match the offensive output of the stay alive Stingers. M cGill goals were scored

by Todd M arcellu s and K e lly Nobes, who both potted a pair, w hile Pierre Gendron, Stéphane Angers and Jean Alain Schneider all added singles.

Goaltending was definitely not an asset for the Redmen on this night, as the eight Stinger goals were relinquished on 48 shots. The

Redmen outshot Stingers by a 5848 margin, including 29-13 in the third period.

With a 10-6-2 record in league

play, the Redmen are pretty much assured of a playoff spot. The task at hand right now for the Redmen is to gain home ice advantage for the playoffs and maybe even chal­ lenge powerhouse U Q TR for the league title . S ittin g o n ly two points behind the Patriotes, the Redm en lo o k to dethrone the number one hockey team in the nation when they battle U Q TR on the January 24 in Trois-Rivières.

One can only be im pressed w ith the efforts of the Redmen this season as they have played exciting and inspirational hockey.

It is this sports w riter’ s opinion, however, that if the Redmen are to succeed in the p layo ffs, one of their two goalies is going to have to step up and demonstrate him ­ se lf as the proven starter. The Redmen w ill only go as fa r as their goalies w ill take them, and although Thursday’ s game is not typ ica l o f the Redm en, it s till leaves the begging question between the pipes. i

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Weather affects McGill swim team

By Jordana B erger

butterfly and 52.86 in the 100m freestyle. As the lead-off in the relay, along with Je ff Lloyd, Luc Paddinton and Leo Grépin, he was also part of that victory, accom­ plished in 3.33 minutes.

Chiang and Hutchison both remain undefeated in the past three years of racing with the M cG ill swim team. No records were bro­ ken at this meet, however, Chiang, Hutchinson, Leong and Hutchison

After two weeks of practicing their strokes in sunny Trinidad, the M cG ill women’s and men’s swim team turned on the heat in Montreal last Saturday.

Sherbrooke b arely had a chance as the Martlets swept the meet, winning 25 of the 26 races, while the Redmen cleaned up with 23 victories out of a possible 26.

C arol Chiang won each of her three races with a time of 30.54 seconds in the 50m butterfly, 27.33 in the 50m freestyle, 59.61 in the 100m freestyle. Chiang was the lead -o ff in the 400m relay and, along with teammates Nathalie Hoitz, Anna Leong and P atricia Hutchinson, won in 4.21 minutes.

The onlxy races that the Redmen lost were the 50 and 100 Splish, splash I was takin ’ a bath. metre backstroke and the 100 metre breaststroke. Craig all made qualifying time.

“In Trinidad we had excellent Hutchison won a ll of his events posting a 23.87 seconds victory in weather and access to incredible the 50m freestyle, 26.30 in the 50m facilities which enabled our swim­

mers to stay in top shape. We have to get into the racing phase though, but I think that the high mileage from winter training paid off even though we still have to work on some little details,” explained headcoach François Laurin, obviously quite satisfied with his team’s per­ formance against Sherbrooke.

Eight men and three women of the M cGill swim team w ill compete at the U n iversité de L a v a l in Quebec City in the Esso Cup events, held between January 26 and 28.

The M artlets and Redmen w ill be up against the U n iversité de M ontréal on February 3, after w hich they w ill participate in the Q u e b e c Championships at the U niversité de M ontréal on February 17 and 18.

F in a lly , M cG ill hopes to send some of its swimmers to the National Championships, held this year in Guelph, Ontario, February 23 to 25.

Redmen cagers get crushed by revenge-starved Stingers

By A dam G lenny The M cG ill men’s basketball team took destiny into their own hands this weekend as they faced o ff against the Concordia Stingers in the second meeting of these teams this year. W ith a 4-1 league record and sole position of first place, the Redmen were poised to extend that lead and send the 3-2 Stingers for a loop, had they won this critical game. A wake-up call the week before, in the form of a loss to the L a v a l Rouge et O r, was a ll the Stingers needed to annihilate the Redmen and regain a p iece o f fir s t p lace in the Q U B L. The Stingers turned a nega­ tive into a positive as they took out their frustrations from a loss to L a v a l on the unprepared Redmen. The Stingers jumped all over the Redmen in this game — they took a quick 12-3 lead by the time the Redmen called their first time out.

Fu e lle d by the aggressive p lay o f veteran M axim e Bouchard, the Stingers intimidat­ ed the Redmen forcing turnovers and blocking shots en route to a convincing 92-69 victory. “ I think we’re fin ally back on track - at least 1 hope we are,” said fo rw ard B o u ch ard , who almost single handedly beat the Redmen scoring, 24 points, 10 rebounds and adding 6 assists.

B a ck on tra ck fo r the Stingers would mean remaining unbeaten for the rest of the sea­ son, as they have done in the past

— but the competition is fierce this year in the Q U B L and the Stingers aren’t the only ones who have come to realise this. “ We were in control of our destiny, but now w e’ re tied for first and have to play some tough b asketb all the next couple o f weeks against both Bishop’ s and L a v a l,” said th ird -year p layer Hubert Davis.

Davis was also quick to add that the loss in this crucial mid­ season game also served as a bit of a wake-up call to the Redmen.

According to Davis, the Redmen seemed to take this game lightly because of Concordia’s lacklustre performances against La va l and the Redmen in their first meeting of the season.

D avis felt that the Redmen were mentally unprepared . “ W e cam e out fla t and couldn’t re-group. It was sim ilar to other games we’ve played [at the Stinger Hive] where it seemed we were really intim idated,” he noted.

After the first 20 minutes, the Stingers had a commanding lead o f 52-37 w hich seemed to take the breath out of the unprepared and unm otivated Redm en.

Sammy Mendolia was the leader for the Redmen once again, scor­ ing 14 p o in ts. M en d o lia has found his scoring touch this sea­ son — and it is thanks to h is backcourt play that the Redmen are where they are at this point in the season. The other M c G ill backcourters have taken up the slack provided by the lack of a

strong inside game. However, if the Redmen plan on challenging the upstart Stingers for the Q U B L crown, the big men are going to have to find their scoring touch.

Pre-season all-Canadian candi­ date Chad W ozney has been plagued by injuries this season, and hopefully for the Redmen, he can regain the form that once made him one of the most domi­ nating and intimidating figures in the Quebec league.

When all was said and done the Redmen had a good heart-toheart in the locker room after the game and are focusing on being more mentally prepared for their future games. D avis cited hard work in practice and a more seri­ ous attitude as the main areas of concentration for the Redmen.

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Bangen leads Canada to hockey gold at World Juniors

By D an Saragosti For most people, Christm as break means relaxing and maybe flying off to some exotic destina­ tion to lie on a beach and escape the bitterness of the winter season.

Redmen hockey coach Terry Bangen travelled over the h o li­ days, but he did not get much of a chance to catch up on sleep or last sem ester’ s episodes o f M elrose Place.

Instead of putting his ‘hands up’ with Club Med or hitting the ski slopes, Bangen spent his break moonlighting as an assistant coach on Canada’s victorious entry at the W o rld Ju n io r H ockey Championships in Boston.

Team Canada beat its oppo­ nents in a methodical manner to bring home the title for the fourth straight year. They went undefeat­ ed in the ten-team tournament, and did not trail in any of their games.

Bangen returned tired but happy, and thankful for the oppor­ tunity to have coached elite ath­ letes. The Redmen chief worked with what he described as a great coaching staff and a top-notch pro­ gramme.

He said that this year’ s team was not especially talented when compared to some of Canada’ s recent teams. There were fewer high-profile players than last year, but according to Bangen, the play­ ers were remarkably mature and intelligent. M cG ill’s rookie headcoach felt that this group of indi­ viduals really came together as a team.

He gave cre d it to the Canadian Am ateur H ockey Association for having built a pro­ gramme that “ really opens your eyes,” and said it is thanks in large part to the excellent preparation that Canada has regained domi­ nance in junior hockey in recent years.

For Coach Bangen, the road to the world championships began last February when, along with fifty or sixty other coaches, he applied fo r a p osition in the national programme. He already had experience at the junior level as an assistan t coach fo r the Kam loops Blazers of the W H L, and in 1994 he served as assistant on the national under-18 team, which won the L a Copa M exico tournament.

He was named to the coach­ ing staff during the summer and helped run a train in g camp in August, just before taking over at M cG ill. On December 12, he left M ontreal fo r M oncton, New Brunsw ick, for the junior team’ s train in g camp and e xh ib itio n games.

Canada was favoured to win the worlds, and the team lived up to its pre-tournament billing. They breezed through their pool games without a loss or tie, the closest game a 3-1 victory over Finland, and received a bye to the sem i­ finals.

In the semi-final game against Russia, the Canadian boys came out nervous, and the outcome was in doubt u n til the third period, when Canada scored a couple of goals. There was less drama in gold-medal game against Sweden, as Team Canada skated to an easy victory.

Juggling two teams took its toll on Bangen at the end of the tournament. He stayed up late the night before the final preparing for the game, and after winning the championship was up with the rest of the coaching staff until the early hours o f m orning adm iring the glimmer on their new gold medals.

A fter a few hours of sleep, Bangen fle w to Toronto and caught up w ith the Redmen 90 minutes before they played, and beat the Ryerson Rams. The team travelled to St. Catharines, Ontario after the game, and arrived at one in the m orning, at w hich point Bangen had slept a mere ten hours in the past three days. He proceed­ ed to beat the M c G ill hockey record for consecutive hours o f sleep with thirteen.

Bangen dow nplayed the adjustment between coaching at M cC o n nell A rena in fro n t o f sparse crow ds and doing it on national televisio n w ith future stars lik e José Theodore and Jerome Aginla on his team. He said he enjoys both, and closed conversation on the topic by say­ ing “ hockey players are hockey players.”

He has turned his energy to other things, like ensuring that the Redmen gain hom e-ice fo r the play-offs. Bangen’ s experience at the world ju n io rs, and his work habits and class, bodes well for the future of Redmen hockey.

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Briefs W om en ’s f i e l d h o ck ey enjoys early win Jan u ary 20-21 saw the M c G ill wom en’ s fie ld hockey team w in the indoor season’ s opening tournam ent in S t.

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The Red Star Tournament is part of the Quebec Indoor Field Hockey League’s regular season calendar and the M artlets cap­ tured the tourney in fine form , failing to lose a game.

On S atu rd ay, the M c G ill women beat the Quebec juniors 5-2 and the Bishop’s Gaiters 5-3.

On Sunday, the Martlets beat the Ambassadors 5-2 for their third round robin win and then beat the Quebec juniors 6-3 in the semi­ final game. In the finals M cG ill won 5-4 over the Ambassadors.

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N atascha van B o etzelaer, this tournam ent served as a good warm -up fo r next w eekend’ s tourney when the Martlets travel to York University.

M cGill badminton finishes third Playing without star player Dougall Molson, the M cG ill bad­ m inton team beat both Sherbrooke and U Q T R at the U n iv e rsité de M ontréal Invitational. Molson, out with the flu , was unable to help his team as they competed in th eir last tournament of the regualr season.

M cG ill defeated Sherbrooke and U Q TR by a score of 4-1 and then lo st a c ru c ia l m atch against Montréal by a score of 3-2. The match against M ontréal was a crucial one because if the M cG ill

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M artlet squash squash­ M c G ill fe n c in g c o m ­ es the opposition At the Ryerson tourney, No. pletes weekend qualify­ 1 seed Sophie Metraux defeated ing tournament Ryerson, McMaster, and Western The M artlet fencing team trave lle d to the O W IA A East Sectional at Carleton this week­ end. In the women’ s épée, two M cG ill fencers qualified for the upcom ing O W IA A in d ivid u al championships, led by Mita SenRoy who placed 7th of 22 partici­ pants and Natascha Ogryzro who finished 13th. Elizabeth Young ju st m issed the cu to ff, placing 17th. In the w om en’ s sab re, M cG ill qualified three fencers for the O W IA A individual champi­ onship. Heather M acKinnon fin ­ ished 10th, Diane Grbavec fin ­ ished 13th and Karen Abraham finished 16th.

In the men’ s épée, M cG ill defeated Trent and Carleton but lost to Queen’ s. Charles de StC yr placed 9th of 22 participants, follow ed by Zbigniew R udzki (10th) and Sean Davidson (15th).

In the men’ s sabre, M cG ill lost to T re n t, C arleto n and Q ueen’ s.

D ave K r y l was 16th o f 21 entrants. In men’ s fo il, M cG ill defeated T re n t (4 3 -1 9 ) and C a rleto n (4 5 -1 8 ) but lo st to Queen’ s (45-36). Russel Ramley placed 8th o f 20 entrants, ju st ahead o f team m ate M ich el Benitah (9th). The team w ill com­

w ith 3-0 sco re s. A s a team , M c G ill defeated R yerson 6-0, tied M cM aster 3-3, but won by the tie b re a k e r, and downed Western 4-2. Tara Nerman and Bernadette Bradbury, No. 4, and No. 5 seeds respectively joined M etraux as the three M artlets who went undefeated in the tour­ ney. M cG ill w ill compete at the O W IA A team championships at McMaster on Feb. 10.

M artlet volleyball wins the Dalhousie Tourney M cG ill won a ll five games en route capturing the Dalhousie Invitational Tournament. Anie de la Fontaine was named as the tournament M V P. She amassed 99 k ills , 83 digs, and 23 stuffed blocks in five games. H er out­ standing effort earned her Q SSF female athlete of the week hon­ ours. Wendy Whelan joined de la Fontaine on the all-tournam ent team . The M artlets began the tourney with a 15-6, 15-6, 10-15, 15-8 w in over St. M ary’ s, and swept Mt. Alison 15-6, 15-5, 15-3 the same n ig h t. Th e M artlets pulled out the broom once again,

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as they disposed of McMaster in three straight to earn a spot in the semifinals. In the semifinal game, the Martlets came from behind to defeat D alhousie. The M artlets trailed, 2 sets to 1, before taking the last two by the scores of 1510 and 15-9. York took M cG ill to five sets, but the M artlets pre­ vailed 15-12, 10-15, 15-9, 12-15. and 15-12 to w in the cham pi­ onship game. In the gold medal gam e, de la Fo n tain e had 26 k ills , 21 digs, and one stuffed block.

Redmen volleyball fin al n o tc h a v ic to r y ; s t i l l winless in league play Last Wednesday, Université de M ontréal handed the men’s volleyball team their 10 consecu­ tive league loss. U o f M swept M cG ill 15-7, 15-7, 15-5. A t the W ilfrid La u rie r Tournam ent in W aterloo, M c G ill opened the tourney w ith a loss to the host Hawks 3 sets to 1. The first win o f the season cam e ag ain st Thom as Moore College 3-1. A loss to Durham ended the open­ ing night. M cG ill dropped a 3-2 decision to Brock, before shuting out Thom as M oore College in the 7th place game. Andy Linley and John H arrison were named to the tournament’s second allstar team. The Redmen resume league play on Jan. 27 when they host U o f M at the Currie Gym at 2 p.m.

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January 23rd, 1996 Tuesday. January 23

held 11:30a.m., Birks Bldg, Rm 210.

•Professor Albert Schachter speaks at Department of History Staff/Student Seminar Series on Boiotia and the

Saturday. January 27

Boiotians: The Making o f a People.

•McMUN/McGill’s conference. See Fri.

4p.m. Thomson House.

•M ichel A llon speaks on Too Bourgeois for Aliyah? (United Zionist Council) at 1p.m., Hillel House, 3460 Stanley.

•The Student Electronic Communication Collective is having a mtg at 5:30p.m. in Shatner Rm412.

Everyone welcome, call 284-5123.

Wednesday. January 24 •UNSAM mtg. at 6:30p.m., Shatner cafeteria. A ll old & new members welcome. Call 849-4599.

•LBGTM Bisexual Group 5:30p.m . in Shatner Rm423.

•Molecular Oncology Group seminar with Dr. Naima Bachnou on Targeted Replacement o f the 2 ’, 3 ’-Cyclic Nucleotide 3 ’-Phosphodiesterase (CNPase) Gene In Mouse. 12p.m. at

Hersey Pavilion, Room H5.38. Call 843-1479. member or friend.

For info con­ tact: Estell Hopmeyer 398-7067.

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•The M cG ill Taiwanese Students’ Association’s Discussion Group w ill be holding its annual Chinese

dumpling get-together.

C all Brian (9230836) or Conlyn (3939497)

•Liberal Cl u b

•McMUN/McGill’s conference. See Fri. G e n e ra l Mtg at 4:30, in Shatner Rm302.

•Clinic on budgeting and money man­ agement by the O ffice of Student A id. 10-1 la.m . at Powell Student Services, Rm205.

•Volunteer Bureau of M cGill is host­ ing a Volunteer Symposium/Fair in Shatner Ballroom from lla.m.-2p.m.

Oportunity for students with over fifty volunteer groups from Montreal.

Thursday. January 25

•Lecture Series in Applied Mathematics presents Music. Prisms & Compositional Design with Dr. B. Alegant at 4p.m ., 1B36 (bsmt of Burnside).

Info at SUMS @ M GM .LAN.MCGILL.CA. Monday. February 29 •Last day of M cM UN /M cGill Conference. See Fri. •The C lassical Music Club meets tonight in Strathcona C-205 at 6:30p.m. Topic: Harmony in the 20th Century.

•Black Students’ Network general mtg at 5:30p.m. at Thomson House.

•Dr. Ari Helenius of Yale University speaks on Glycoprotei folding in the endoplasmic reticulum (M cG ill Cancer Centre) at 1l:30a.m„ Rm 903 McIntyre Med Bldg.

Friday. January 26

Tuesday. February 30

•LBG TM Women’ s Group Mtg at 6:30p.m. in Shatner Rm423.

•M cM UN /M cGill’ s conference (UNSAM) Jan 26-29 — get involved.

Call 849-4599.

•McGill Jazz Ensemble I directed by Gordon Foote, with guest vocalist Paulette Maurice. Pollack Concert Hall, 8:00P.M. •LBG TM Coming Out Group at 5:30p.m. in basement of UTC (3521 University at Milton).

•Montreal Cancer Research Group holds seminars on breast cancer.

Speakers are Dr. Patricia Tonin and Dr. Adrian Langleben. At 6:30p.m.

McIntyre Med. Bldg Rm705.

•The M cGill Model United Nations Assembly is to continueat the Hotel du Parc until January 28. For further information please contact Juraj at 284-5123.

•A Chorus Line by Players’ Theatre

•Faculty of Religious Studies presents Prof Harold D . Roth of Brown U n iversity. The Rhetoric o f Meditation in Early Taoism w ill be

(3480 MacTavish) runs until Jan31.

Curtain time is 8p.m.; $12 general admission and $6 students and seniors. For info or reservations call 398-6813.

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MUPS (M cG ill Universtiy Photographic Society) is now offering photo class­ es. Drop by B06 Shatner for more info.

•PRO BE (Public Research on Business Ethics) is a QPIRG working group whose aim is to promote conscious con­ sumerism throught he examination of multi-national corporations. Mtgs are Mon at 6p.m. in the Q-PIRG office.

A ll welcome.

•The Sexual Assault Centre of McGill has support groups for men and women; call 398-2700 (M -F: 9:305:30) or 398-8500 (7 days:6p.m.-midnight).

•C A LL FOR PAPERS. The M cGill Review of Interdisciplinary Arts is currently accepting papers by McGill Undergraduate that combine two or more arts disciplines. Call Mitra at 844-4907 for more info.

•THE A L L E Y . Jazz band Mon-Thurs at 8p.m. Professional bands Fri and Sat 9:30p.m., 3480 McTavish. Side entrance to The Alley.

•Peri-natal Bereavement: a selfhelp group for parents who have experienced a loss welcomes new members. From M cGill School of Social Work, free of charge. Info con­ tact Estelle Hopmeyer at 398-7067 •Canada-Asia Business luncheon and Seminar on Feb 9 at Holiday Inn Select. Call AEISEC at 398-6821.

•If you have been sexually assaulted at M cGill, please call Carla at 8564634 and leave a message. Your input will be used to develop recommenda­ tions for sexual assault policy at McGill.

•The annual undergrad journal of the History Students’ Association, The Historical Discourses, is calling for essays for ‘96 journal. Submissions (with name and number) should be placed in box in history office (Lea 6th fl.). Deadline is Feb 15. C all Robert Colman or Vince Bozzo at 989-9603, or e-mail bkzx@musicb.mcgill.ca.

•R ED H ER R IN G M EETIN G !

Tuesdays @ 4:30p.m. in the Cove (Shatner B01-B) Hot hot sex! (Where applicable). Call 398-MUCK. •Eric Bogosian’s SubUrbia ( Dep’t of Eng.) runs until Jan 27. Show time at 8p.m. at M orrice H all Theatre.

Tickets: $7 gen. admission and $5 for student/seniors. Reservation call 3986600.

•LBGTM ’s Project 10 has a group for women who are lesbian or bisexual, aged 16-25. Answers for your ques­ tions; call 989-4585 l-5p.m ., MonFri.

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