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SSMU executive hopefuls show their stuff: quiz results. Page 10

S c ie n c e Kasparov vs. Deep Blue. Page 14

F e a tu re s Environmentalist Paul Watson speaks against Canada’ new seal hunting policy. Page 14

E n te r ta in m e n t Modigliani is a sea beggar on the Real Scene. Page 18

S p o rts Gaiters end Redmen Basketball season. Page 23

The McGill Martlets are on the cusp of great ness. Just three wins separate McGill from their first-ever national title. Last Saturday night, the Martlets used a strong second half to put away the Laval Rouge et Or 6953 in the provincial championship game. The fourth-ranked Martlets ended the regular season with an amazing 23-3 record, including a perfect 12-0 mark in league play. The last time the Martlets dropped a game was in mid-November, nearly three and half months in an exhibition game. Since then, McGill closed out the regular season with 17 consecutive victories. How do you make a perfect regular season bet ter? A perfect post-season. But before Martlet head coach Lisen Moore and her team could pack their bags for Quebec City and set their sights on a national crown, McGill needed to defeat Laval, coached by former Martlet all-star Linda Marquis, in the provincial championship game in order to guarantee themselves a berth in the national championship tourney. Even if McGill lost in the championship game, the Martlets would most likely have earned one of the two wild card berths. Moore, however, did not view last Saturday night’s contest as a game with no meaning. “We would have hated to go to the nationals being upset with a loss. We wanted to enter the tour nament as Quebec champions.” The Rouge et Or entered the provincial finals by upsetting the Concordia Stingers by a single point last Wednesday night at Concordia in the provincial semi-final game. The Quebec championship game was a rematch Continued on Page 23 »

Ottawa native A nne Gildenhuys admires her shot as Laval’s Sophie Morin a n d Tanya Comeau hope fo r a rebound.

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McGill hopes to entice some to retire early By Sylvie Babarik

In the introduction to the plan, Principal B ernard Shapiro explained that because the provin cial government will likely be cut ting its contribution to the operat ing budgets of Quebec universi ties, McGill has to find ways of protecting its academic objectives while adjusting to reduced fund ing. Having consulted with many deans, directors and staff associa tions, the principal and vice princi pals formulated a new early retire ment program. It is hoped that the w orkforce reduction levels achieved through retirement incen

The Board of Governors has approved a plan that would see McGill offering a new early retire ment plan to many academic and non-academic staff members over the age of 55. Recently, other universities such as Q ueen’s, W estern, and Waterloo have also offered early retirement incentives to professors and staff members. In general, the goal is to reduce salary costs over the long term, and to create new teaching positions for younger professors.

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SSRC members appeal CRO’s decision on referendum question Judicial Board questions constitutionality and legal implications of contract with Pepsi By Benii W einstein The Students for Social R esponsibility C om m ittee has appealed the ruling of the Chief Returning Officers on one of its proposed questions for the March referendum period. The SSRC is a student com mittee which was formed on an ad hoc basis, with the intent of putting two questions concerning financial ethics on the spring refer endum ballot. The SSRC and the questions it has form ulated are prim arily devoted to educating students about the current political situation in Burma. Specifically, the mili tary State Law and O rder Restoration Committee has been accused of institutionalised geno cide in Burm a, and has been administered an international sus pension of aid. SSRC m em ber Sim one Levine explained that the most important concern for her commit tee is to inform McGill students about Burma, and give them the opportunity to make an educated

decision. “We just want people to know what’s going on,” Levine said. “In 1988 and 1989, thousands of stu dents in Burma were mowed down in front of the U.S. embassy. They went to the front of the embassy

because no one knows where Burma is.” With education and responsi ble decision-making as their raison d’être, the SSRC initially submit ted three referendum questions to the CROs for approval.

The first question asked for the Judicial Board. The CROs’ ruling on the sec student endorsement of the cre ation of a Committee for Financial ond question conforms to Article Ethics Research. This question 17.3 of the SSMU constitution which holds that SSMU’s financial passed without incident. The second question asked contracts are exempt from all stu that students mandate the SSMU dent initiated referenda. The SSRC is basing their to petition and condemn any cor poration that has financial dealings appeal on the claim that the termi with Burma. This was also accept nation of the contract would be a political decision, not a financial ed by the CRO’s. The third question however, one. Therefore, the SSRC feels raised concern among the CRO’s, that this issue does not fall under as it called for the immediate ter the jurisdiction of financial con mination of any contract between tract protection. They cited as an SSMU and a corporation that does example SSMU’s decision to stop doing business with companies business in Burma. Although not explicitly stat that deal with apartheid South ed, the referendum question sug Africa. Levine and SSRC repre gests objection to SSMU’s contro sentative M.J. Milloy acknowl versial contract with Pepsi. The edged the financial implications of beverage company, which negoti such a decision, but stressed that ated a new agreement with SSMU the impetus would be political. “We’re arguing that any polit over the summer, has been under repeated attack from human rights ical question has a financial side,” groups for their extensive opera said Milloy. “It’s not a question of whether or not the money should tions in Burma. This third question was not be spent, but whether or not it’s approved for referendum and, as a Continued on Page 4 » result, the SSRC took the issue to

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Some students angered by computer ownership requirement for future McGill acceptance. By Sam I. H orodezky

recen t report from the S enate C om m ittee on Computing outlines a new technological vision for McGill students and staff in the future. According to the report, stu dents will likely be applying to McGill through the internet links of their own com puters by the next decade. Furthermore, when they arrive, it will be expected that they bring their computers along. These are two key ele m ents o f the document enti tled “The In fo rm a tio n Technology for M cG ill in the 21st Century.” The major tenet of the document is that the use of com puters is becoming unavoidable and that, in the name of produc tivity and efficien cy , such upgrades are inevitable. A corollary of this would be the implementation of a compre hensive on-line calendar, some thing McGill lacks thus far. On other fronts, the use of the ID card will be streamlined throughout McGill. Its uses will

be expanded to include the pur ch asin g o f serv ices, and an enhanced security network with personal information about indi viduals. Additionally, professors at McGill will be encouraged to develop multi-media based teach ing curriculum. However, in order for this technology to expand and pros per, McGill may require that stu dents have their own computers. The final version of the report, tabled at Senate before the spring break, sp ecifically states this requirement.

“ S tu d en ts w ill have the responsibility of coming equipped with their own computers. Every student will have the responsibili ty of acquirAtg the needed basic computing skills.” Jason Kleine, a student mem ber of the SCC, was angered by the inclusion of this statement. Continued on Page 3

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To vote on CASA or not to vote: that is the question E By Elizabeth W asserman

question. Two days later, they overruled their own judgement. In a second letter to Newton dated February 15, CRO Joya Balfour explained the decision:

“[W]e now believe that the line reading: Whereas allegations of the misappropriations of funds on the part of the former Interim National Executive D irector of

Last F riday, the Judicial Board heard both sides of the controversy surrounding the stu_ 4ent-initiated referen dum question on SSMU’s membership in the Canadian Alliance of Students’ Associations. The appeal to the JB was made by Melanie Newton of the Com m ittee for Social Responsibility to contest the decision of the Chief Returning Officers who rejected the referendum question she presented. N ew ton’s appeal was based on what she saw as a constitutional problem with the way the CROs handled the issue. On February 13, the CROs sent a letter to Newton approving her Newton: defending original CASA referendum ballot question

CASA have been turned over to law enforcement officials; is mis leading and might elicit an emo tional response from the voter,” stated the letter. The letter further justified the reversal based on the claim that new and “pertinent infor mation was made available to [the CROs] from a third party.” Apparently, on February 14, it was brought to the attention of B alfour and co-CRO W arren Tranquada that no charges had been laid against the accused CASA directo r, Patrick FitzPatrick. On February 15, B alfour and Tranquada received a fax from CASA lawyer Ian Warren, informing them of possible legal implications related to Newton’s question. Balfour denies, howev er, that CASA’s lawyer had any influence on the CROs’ decision.

“We had agreed, I thought, that we w ould take out the requirem ent for coming with a computer and replacing it with the sim ple fact that m ost students would have their computer by that time,” he said. “This would have softened the document and made it harder for faculties to impose additional responsibility on stu dents.” In response to the clause, VP University Affairs Lisa Grushcow also objected when the document was brought to Senate. “We can only assume that it was an oversight. In this case, it is to our advantage that vision docu ments are amorphous,” she said. Alan Greenberg, Director of the Computing Centre and on the SCC, was also under the impres sion that a new clause was to be substituted. Regardless of the spe cific wording, Greenberg does not think th at the notion is fa r fetched. “The report is stating what we predict will be the situation in 2000, given the current number of students who already have com puters, the current growth rate, the increased computer literacy in those students in high school and CEGEP, and the increasing bene fit to having access to one’s own system,” he said.

SCC member and engineer ing professor Frank Ferrie agreed. “Some students will be disad vantaged, which is why some general usage facilities will have to be m aintained. However, in light of severe budgetary con straints the philosophy adopted in engineering is to focus on provid ing services that are more difficult for students to get access to, for example high end CAD worksta tions, [...] high speed networking,

[and] specialised software pack ages,” he said. G ruschcow , how ever, was not convinced. She said that the document makes overly strong assumptions about the knowledge base of incoming students, both w ithin Q uebec and out of province. “We don’t even know how the CEGEPs are equipping their schools, much less international students,” she said.

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She claims that she had already w ritten the second letter to Newton revoking approval for the question before she received the CASA fax. The CROs offered Newton the option of altering and resub m itting the question. Newton refused, explaining that to remove the contested passage would ren der the question irrelevant. “This is a very basic truth about the situ atio n at CASA. When you are asking students to decide whether or not to change the status quo, they have to know the reason,” said Newton. Balfour argued that the CROs had not asked Newton to strike out the recital, only to add information that would make the question more balanced. N onetheless, N ewton and legal advisor Nick R odrigo

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Page 4 N e w s Week, a gay, lesbian and bisexual aw areness w eek at Q u e en ’s University, early in February. Focusing on the progress of the gay rights movement over the last decade, R obinson gave a “With continued government speech entitled “The Politics of cutbacks and resistance from stu D iv e rsity ” to an audience of dents and parents to pay higher about 130. tuition, other forms of alternative “I’m so sick of hearing those funding must be generated,” said words ‘special rights’,” Robinson Jo sep h S truck, C h air o f the stated. “Equal rights and respect M anagem ent A dvisory — that’s all we’re asking for.” Citing his own experience, Committee. “It will be a long time before Robinson stressed the importance this proposal is approved,” coun for gay youths to not hide their tered Janine Fernandes, Student sexual orientation. Union vice-president (academic). “D on’t live that w ay,” he “I think many people are against said. “The closet is too often a (privatisation) philosophically.” coffin.” “The direction of the faculty According to Robinson, the w ill com e from the corporate challenges that face the gay com community, which could mean m unity can be overcom e with the loss of programs that are not effort. market driven,” Fernandes con “One o f the m ost hopeful things I’ve seen is the strength in cluded. young people,” he said. — with files from The Gauntlet “L ook at my own e x p e ri ence. I deliberately came out six months before the [1988] elec MP Svend Robinson tion,” he said, emphasising that opens Rainbow Week at people continued to vote for him and respected his honesty. Queen’s

IN I E T W O R K University of Calgary considers privatising its Faculty of Management The U niversity of Calgary recently rejected a proposal to partially privatise its Faculty of Management. According to a task force set up to evaluate the pro posal, the management program at Calgary is not yet ready to be independent from the university. The proposal was made last fall to c o rre c t w hat a Management Advisor Committee called a “deteriorating faculty” in its proposal. The rejected proposal sug gested a faculty that would be governed by a board comprised of both university and business leaders. Also, the faculty would apply for its own grants from the provincial government. Salaries, entry requirem ents and tuition would become the faculty’s own responsibility.

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tion to legally terminate the con tract with Pepsi. Robert Korne, C hair of the Judicial Board, repeatedly questioned whether or not term ination was feasible. Although neither the complaintants nor the respondents had suffi-

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cient knowledge of the contract to provide an answer, SSMU General Manager Guy Brisebois explained that breaking the contract would have serious implications. “I couldn’t even begin to eval uate the penalty for breaking the contract,” Brisebois said. “W e’d also be left in a bad situation with Coke, because we wouldn’t have another option [for a beverage contract].” The appeal hearing ended after both sides had presented their cases, and the Judicial Board received a draft of SSMU’s con tract with Pepsi. While the purpose of the appeal was constitutionality, the m ajority of discourse was devoted to the legal implications of a terminated SSMU contract. The SSRC has made clear that if the appeal is a success, it will sub stitute the second question for the third. The Judicial Board will hand down their ruling on M onday, March 4. C f t r fo Students interested in the SSRC’s cause they are invit ed to call ext. 7432.

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and the McGill-Queen’s Press. To begin with, he objected to this The plan is expected to cost exclusion on the basis that it treats $16.6 million, and will come from such unites unequally. Secondly, j the university’s operating budget. he argued that from an accounting A deficit will be created in the point of view, their inclusion inJ first year and the up-front cost of the plan might also result in sav the plan will require some bank ings to the university. financing. H ow ever, Vice “Any saving would help the P rincipal Finance and operating budget. And in some A dm inistration Phyllis Heaphy cases, people currently paid out of told the Board of Governors that, the operating budget m ight be based on current estimates, McGill moved to self-financing unites,” should be able to repay the cost of said McVety. “For now people in the plan within a year and a half. these areas are simply excluded.” Later, when asked how many Outside of the strictly finan employees would have to take the cial benefits, Heaphy expressed plan for it to be useful to the uni hope that the plan would allow for versity, Heaphy some academ ic said as long renewal. there was an “ I d o n ’t k n o w th a t it is “Even in the increase in the im m ediate term g o in g to c a u s e a n y number of early we have said that, p a rtic u la r ru s h fo r retirees, the plan for every five peo w ould be p e o p le to le a v e , ple that go, we deemed success will replace one,” b e c a u s e it is s im p ly a ful. noted H eaphy. m o d ific a tio n ” . “We have “That’s not fabu no idea how lous, but it’s still many will take more young people coming into the plan, but we are hoping for as the university than without this many as a hundred and forty acad plan.” emics and fifty non-academics, When asked whether retiring which is one third of the people professors might be hired back, who are eligible,” she added. Heaphy said that this could be Vice Principal Academic Bill done on “a contractual, course-by Chan said that approximately 650 course basis,” if the need existed to 700 people are eligible for the She added that individual depart plan. He expressed hope that 30 ments would determine their spe per cent of those eligible will find cific needs. it attractive. The new plan mentioned that “We think it is very attrac in order to deal with on-going aca tive,” said Heaphy. “It is especial demie commitments, staff choos ly so for those who have been at ing to retire early w ould be the university for a long time.” accommodated on the principle of “I don’t know that it is going “mutual benefit.” Meighen quoted to cause any particular rush for the principal and vice principal people to leave, because it is sim academic as having said that the ply a modification of the previous spirit of this term was that of try plan,” said the president of the ing to accommodate all requests. McGill Association of Unionized “ I think they ju st w anted Teachers, Ted Meighen. “On the some safeguards [against heavy financial side, I would say that it losses in a p articu lar area], is mildly positive. I think that it is M eighen further noted. “I take good for the university in that it them at their word.” will attract a few additional people Some have raised the ques to leave without causing a major tion of whether “mutual benefit” deflux o f p rofessors leaving, could be used by departments in which could harm specific depart order to select which professors ments.” should be allowed to leave and Meighen suggested that the which would be required to stay. non-financial incentives were the Chan stated that such a use is not most attractive aspects of the early the intention of the term. retirement plan. He regards the “The intention is that we inclusion of some of these as rec would have the ability to protect ognizing the role that retiring pro programs,” said Chan. “In the case fessors can play in campus life. of too many applicants, priority How ever, he expressed disap will be given to those with seniori pointment in the absence of a pro vision which would explicitly t y ” To date, there has been little allow retired professors to contin student reaction to the plan. When ue doing research at McGill. the SSMU council was made A second aspect that Meighen aware of it by President Helena criticised was that of excluding Myers, most seem content that the older professors who do not have plan was sound. Sevag Yeghoyan, tenure. student reprsentative to BoG, said “I just don’t believe in exclu he supports the principle of the sion,” said Meighen. plan. Jim McVety, vice president of “It is about time that the uni the M cG ill U nionized Nonversity took this alternative to A cadem ic S taff A ssociation, reduce spending, rath er than expressed over-all satisfaction across-the-board cuts... But at the with the plan. However, he said same time, I have some real con that he had hoped for a more cerns in the sense that we may financially generous package. In loose some top members of the addition, he took issue with the senior faculty, the cre.am of the exclusion of self-financing unites crop.” such as the bookstore, residence,

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CN outlines the benefits of business/university links By Jason Sicurdson On February 26, the chief executive officer of Canadian National, Paul Tellier, addressed the McGill Board of Governors. Tellier spoke on the benefits asso ciated with increased ties between McGill and the business communiTellier opened his comments by praising McGill leaders for their plans to bring in people from out side of the institution to place McGill’s position in a larger con text. “It is a good initiative from McGill to invite someone from the business com m unity,” he remarked. He continued by outlining his concerns about the national econo my and spoke of desire to see McGill play a role as an interna tional centre for the promotion of innovation. Chancellor Gretta Chambers denied that the decision to invite Tellier was a move to further busi ness interests.

News Students hold vigil to mourn bombing victims Between 100 to 150 students gathered outside the Shatner University Centre on February 26 to mourn the deaths of 27 Israeli citizens killed in a terrorist bomb ing in Jerusalem on February 25. On March 4, over 500 students gathered to mourn the deaths from similar bombings this week. The February 25 attack resulted in the injury of 80 people and was followed by the killing of two Israeli soldiers in the coastal town of Ashkelon. Responsibility for the bomb ings has been claimed by Hamas, a right wing organisation. Hamas has opposed PLO leader and head of the new Palestinian government Yasser Arafat’s peace negotiations with Israel. These attacks strike home for many Jewish students who have visited, lived, and studied in Jerusalem and elsewhere in Israel.

“It’s not only from the busi ness community that we’re inviting people. There are many communi ties that we will address,” she said. “Mr. Tellier’s organisation is root ed in the nation and the communi ty, and we can gain a sense of what is expected from the larger commu nity.” McGill has been courting pri vate donations since 1993 as part of the $200 m illion Tw enty-first Century Fund Cam paign. Tom Thompson, deputy campaign direc tor, feels that the high' level of funding obtained is unique in the nation. “Jim Martin, campaign direc tor, can’t recall anything more challenging than the circumstances in which McGill is raising the largest amount of private support ever received by a Canadian uni versity,” he said. The University of Victoria is nearing the completion of a similar fund-raising effort, which has raised $41.7 million to date.The majority of funds in the Victoria project have come from corpora

B r ie f s Some have siblings and friends studying there now, and many have ridden on that same bus #18 on their way to the central bus sta tion. In response to the primary bombing, the Hillel strike force committee and Tagar a pro-zionist group, organised the vigil and invited a number of speakers to the event at McGill. “After everything [that hap pened since the signing of the Oslo Accord in September 1993], people say, ‘Oh, it happens,’ and I think the Jewish community is concerned that these acts of terror do not become second nature,” said H illel president Sarah Tathem. Frank Kranz, a professor of history at Concordia and the direc tor of the Canadian Institute for Jewish Research, stated that since the beginning of the peace process, 160 Israelis have been killed in terro rist attacks. “T ragically, the end is not in sight,” he stated. Though Arafat has pledged to

tions. V ictoria U ndergraduate Students’ Society President Tina Walker has been among those criti cal of the level of funding coming from business. “The corporations have influ ence over what program s are taught. I t’s saying science and engineering are more important than theatre,” she said, in an inter view with Monday Magazine. In the same interview , UV Graduate Student Society presi dent, Kathryn Sutherland, echoed Walker’s concerns about how busi ness wants donations spent. “No corporation wants to fund English and history programs, or the library,” she stated. Thompson acknowledges that donors play a role in deciding how their support is used at McGill. “Over $9 m illion has been raised to date in support of libraries, but this is the support component for the entire universi ty. It isn’t as glamorous of a project to excite donors, and donor interest drives the campaign,” he said. “We may have excellent faculty support

eradicate terrorism, violent inci Neuer also delivered a message dents still occur in the area. from the Israeli consul general. “If Arafat does not, or cannot The Canadian Jewish student [control terror], then all bets are community has sent a letter to the off in the negotiating process,” families of victims, offering sym commented Kranz. pathy and solidarity. Only one week after the vigil, These attacks may also have serious implications for the politi Israel has seen two more bomb cal stability of Israel. After the ings, one in Jerusalem and one in assassination of the late prime downtown Tel Aviv. minister, Israeli support for the Labour party, now headed by Shatner on-line Shimon Peres, had increased by The Virtual Union Building 15 percent. Kranz said that Sunday’s attacks may sway favour finally appeared on-line last week. tow ards the opposition party, The World Wide Web server, set up by SSM U’s E lectronic Likud. Another speaker at the vigil, Communications Collective, has Rabbi Reuben Poupko of the Beth been in the works for almost a Israel Beth Aaron Synagogue in year. Still in its developm ental Cote St. Luc, read the names of those “who got on the bus, and at phase, the server currently a quarter to seven their lives includes pages from six clubs and ended inexplicably . . . for the rea services, including M cG ill’s African Students’ Society, QPIRG son of hate alone.” Other speakers on February and LBGTM. Basic information 25 included Nancy Zangwill, a on SSMU representatives, laws young Montrealer whose friend and the constitution are also avail and roommate, Sarah Duker, an able. According to VUB Project American, was killed in the most C oordinator and creator Jason recent bombing. Duker was a stu dent at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. M cG ill law student H illel

appealed to the JB on the grounds that the CRO s’ original ju d g e ment, not having been contested w ithin the prescribed 24 hour decision period, was constitution ally binding. B alfour told the Judicial Board that in overruling their ini tial decision, the CROs believed that they were fulfilling their con stitutional obligation. “We feel that if we hadn’t overturned our decision we would be contravening article 15.3 [of the constitution], which explains

our duties and obligations with regards to referendum questions,” Balfour stated. “If the CROs do not have the right to review their decisions based on information brought to their attention [at a later time], .the alternative is to let biased, unfair referendum questions go through,” added the CROs’ legal advisor, David Levy. Levy em phasised that the CROs’ reversal was not a result of pressure from CASA. “I want to clear up this mis conception that CROs are respon sible to CASA...The CROs have no allegiance to CASA. The

Kleine, this offering is only a small sample of what VUB might be next year. “We want to include every thing and anything by students or of concern to students,” he stated. “V irtual Union B uilding will serve three purposes - to inform, to provide services, and to act as a vehicle for expression.” In addition to information on clubs and services Kleine hopes to include event listings, graduate studies’ news, classified ads, a photo/ art gallery, poety, litera ture, student ‘zines, student media, student phone directories, and health and medical information. Kleine adds that the Internet is an ideal tool because it can allow students to contact services, such as the Sexual Assault Centre or LBGTM, in anonymity. It also allows any student to self-publish without the usual costs and limita tions of starting a publication Those interested can contact http://www.facl.mcgill.ca, or drop a note off in ECC’s SSMU mail box.

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to open the door to receive poten best, it’s a way to get the communi tial donors, but in the final analysis, ty involved. ” the donor is going to make the Thompson sees partnerships decision on where they are going to with the community as shaping give their support for McGill.” McGill’s future. Thompson observes that both “It is the lift given by these favourable perception in the com key donors who have become munity and specific performance friends of the university who will goals are important to securing have a significant impact to help support. the university to change and “The university is responding evolve,” he said. in every faculty and school to SSMU President Helena ensure its effectiveness, relevance Myers feels that natural pressure and efficiency,” he outlines. “Many will prevent academ ics from companies have stated that they accepting corporate support which want universities providing training compromises their integrity. that reflects the needs of Canadian “There’s always concern that industries.” corporations could get too Chambers defended McGill’s involved, but generally that’s not integrity despite the pursuit of the case,” she said. “If corporations external funds. want to give money to our libraries, “We have to think about the so be it. At a time when universi advancement of learning for learn ties don’t have any money, govern ing’s sake - not being a service sta ments don’t have any money, and tion for knowledge. Universities certainly students don’t have any can not just churn out knowledge money, it’s great to hit up the cor for today, but m ust also keep porations.” know ledge advancing for the future,” she maintained. “If we get -w ith files from Monday help doing what universities do Magazine

Students’ Society is not paid by CASA. They are merely defending the impartiality of student referen da,” he stated. Judicial Board Chair Robert Korne asked Newton why she had chosen to highlight the alleged crime instead of focusing on the effectiveness of the organisation in general. “I think that [...] my opinion on why CASA has failed the stu dents is something that belongs in a campaign, not in a referendum question,” Newton replied. The JB wil hand down it’s decison on Monday .

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Towards privatising McGill Stop the Press

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hen Bill Clinton came to power, many thought that the young Democrat would do away with outdated Cold War policies like the embargo on Cuba. However, that expectation was quickly dashed by the onslaught of military hawks and the Cuban lobby. Because of the influence these two groups have in the U.S., it was no surprise that Clinton so vehemently denounced Cuba for shooting down two U.S. airplanes on February 24. Still, Cuba did commit a crime against international law. Even if the planes had been harassing the Cuban government by bombarding the capital with anti-Castro propa ganda leaflets, it clearly had no right to kill those aboard. On the other hand, the United States’ response is a crime both against the people of Cuba, and, potentially, a crime against Canada. It is not surprising that the U.S. wants revenge. However, stiffening sanctions against Cuba will not hurt the Castro government directly - the 40- year-old American embargo has demonstrated that. The true victims will be the Cuban people, who have already been financially starved by the U.S. (If you have ever visited Cuba, you have likely seen its empty supermarkets, or been asked by the hotel’s chamber-maid if you could spare a few American dollars so that she could get some new shoes on the black market, where they are more readily available.) The U.S. government and the Cuban exiles are so set on over-throw ing Fidel Castro, that they are willing to use, and hurt those who still live in Cuba to do so. What is more infuriating still, is that Clinton - suffer ing from the same paternalistic, Uncle-Sam-will-set-you-free mentality that characterised his predecessors —has the nerve to say he intends to strike against Castro in order to “help” the Cuban people. Granted, totalitarian regimes are usually restrictive, and definitely anti-democratic. However, it is not the place of a foreign, American regime to try to starve people into seeing things its way, or to try to con vince a population that it would be better off engaging its own govern ment in battle. Besides, U.S. intervention in Central and South America has usually resulted in a more vicious regime coming to power. Then there is the issue of Canada, a country which dares interact with Cuba. Some American companies are so angry that Canada has been able to make any financial gains in the little country, that, for years now, they have been asking their government to punish the northern neighbour. Now they finally have ammunition to further their agenda. A proposed U.S. bill would mandate the American government to punish Canadian firms operating in Cuba. It would permit U.S. compa nies to file lawsuits against firms that purchased property confiscated from them during the Cuban revolution, and it would allow the govern ment to deny the officials of some Canadian firms access into the United States. In light of the Castro decision to shoot down the American air planes, perhaps Canada should consider its own embargo on Cuba. However, if the U.S. government passes the proposed legislation, it too should be condemned by the international community, for it would effec tively be taking Canadian firms hostage so as to force the government to abide by the American will. Though the crime committed by Cuba is a grave one indeed, it should not be used to strangle the Cuban people. Moreover, to punish Canada on the basis of its contrary stance towards Cuba is unjust and it goes completely against the principle of the sovereignty of nations. If Canada decides to punish the island country, so be it. It is not the United States’ role to forcefully determine our foreign policy.

Last fall, Principal Shapiro put out a docum ent called Towards a New M cGill, which raised the possibility of a priva tised McGill. Students shouted and scream ed. L ast m onth, Senate passed a “fully funded” program — the In tern atio n al M aster’s Program for Practising M anagers. Student representa tives called for the approval of guidelines for private programs before making the decision. This call was ignored and the program was approved sans guidelines. Since that moment the silence has been deafening. A “fully funded” program and a “private” program are, in this case, one and the same. The program is for managers and will be funded by their employers at over $25, 000 a head. W hat is going on here? Because Senate passed this program before it even considered the guidelines for private funding, which are currently being examined at the com m ittee level, we have no idea. The draft guidelines call for market analysis. None have been done. The draft guidelines call for a set am ount of m oney to put

aside for scholarships and to go back into the university. None has been allo cated . We have guarantees but no plan. The program itself has the p o ten tial to be ex cellen t. However, without guidelines, we are legitim ately concerned that the program could lose money for McGill, necessitating more cut backs to our core programs; that som e of our b est p ro fesso rs would be no longer available to students who are not “fully fund ed”; that we have set a precedent for prioritising private ventures over the public health of the uni versity. In effect, M cG ill has d ecided to m ake ex cep tio n s before it even has rules. Our job, as stu d en ts and c itiz e n s of McGill, is to make sure the uni versity does not further threaten our already precarious future. Camus wrote that “whatever prevents you from doing your work, has become your w ork.” The bigger issue here is that poor university planning can keep us from doing our work as students in a public institution. That work requires luxuries like financial aid, books and professors. If the direction that the university is

Killings in Burma I Stop the Press W hen there is talk of the m ilitary com m itting genocide and mass killings of its own peo ple in Burma, the usual response is a gasp followed by the cau tious and subconscious question: where exactly is Burma? The w herefore behind Burma’s concealed identity dates back to the military’s overthrow o f the elected governm ent in 1962 and the succeeding decision to indefinitely close Burma to the outside world. In the wake of the coup, the in te n sific a tio n of human rights violations and the economic collapse of the former ‘Rice Bowl of Asia’ attracted lit tle attention: Burma was still rel atively unheard of. Students must have known the concealed identity of their plight when they began to peace fully demonstrate near the U.S the face of hundreds of thousands

of killings, including those of m onks, children, students and ethnic minorities, word began to leak out of such atrocities. W ith the realisation of an international suspension of aid, SLORC prom ised dem ocratic elections in 1990. The National League for Democracy of Dau Aung San Suu Kyi, the Nobelprize laureate, won 80 per cent of the governm ent seats in these elections. However, the election results were entirely disregarded by SLO R C , who p laced the dem ocratically elected leader under house arrest for five years. Her release came only when the SLORC wished to appear as an open and dem ocratic nation in order to entice foreign currency for further arms shipments. This one re le ase should not let us

taking threaten that work, our job clearly is to challenge that direc tion. The recent report of the Task Force on Towards a New McGill calls for the establishment of an Estates General: three days dedi cated to discussions of the uni versity’s future by students, staff and professo rs. T his idea ha. been consigned to a gam ut orcom m ittees and may n ever emerge. There is the possibility of a forum, organised by and for students, to answer some of our J questions and begin to generate " solutions. H ow ever, none o f th ese efforts will succeed if we are too busy w ith our school work to work on the school. Get a copy of the Task Force report at SSMU. Come to the next Senate meeting on March 6 at 2:30 in Leacock 232. If we do not find out what is passing before us, formulate our o p in io n s and voice them , the ‘doublespeak’ of “fully funded” programs may expand to include “downsizing” the student popula tion and “out-sourcing” our edu cation. Keep your eyes open! Lisa Grushcow, VP University Affairs Eric Hoffstein, student representative to APPC

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In last w eek's editorial "Decisions botched," the author m ade a fac tually incorrect state m ent about the Canadian Federation of Students. The Tribune w ou ld like to retract the com m ent w hich reads "It should not be forgotten that N ew ton 's beloved CFS has been plagued w ith allegations of em bezzle m ent for so long that it is not even new s-w or thy." N either the CFS as a w hole, or any of its m em bers have ever been accused of em bezzlem ent. The Tribune regrets the error.

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A handful of my elementary school teachers suffered from a serious lack of creativity. One would sentence miscre ants to stand in the corner for an hour, where she hoped to quell their taste for trouble through pub lic humiliation. Thankfully, some one would inevitably organise a mass disturbance, causing demand for corners to outstrip supply, which tormented the teacher and amused her audience. A nother teacher ordered young offenders to write lines, con stantly bragging that he had a stack of foolscap at the ready in case any prospective “fifty-liner” showed an appetite for activity. Being a repeat offender would only increase the number of lines you were assigned and the amount of class time you could waste.

Those two teachers were unable to translate their students’ raw enthusiasm into a commitment to learning and positive leadership. They feared an energy level which they lacked the creativity to har ness and lead. During the Reading Week break, I visited a few public schools. Fresh from university, where those who walk briskly stand out, I was fascinated by the sight of young boys and girls sprinting to class at the sound of the bell, fearful that they might miss the opportunity to qualify as a future leader if they were to stroll in late. We don’t always associate public schools with preparing stu dents to qualify for future leader ship. Increasingly, we think of schools as places where we outfit

labourers with the knowledge and skills they will need to compete as dutiful soldiers in a global econo my. W e’ve begun to devalue schools as arenas where we equip citizens with the desire and ability to participate as leaders in their communities. Leadership training is gradual ly being dropped from our school curricula as though it’s some sort of luxury, as though it’s not at the core of what our schools are sup posed to be all about. Like many of you, I came of age in schools that proudly sup ported a wide range of extra-curric ular activities. Extra-curricular par ticipation not only gave students leadership experience, but it also imbued them with a propensity to participate in their surroundings. In order to cope with massive cutbacks, school boards are now chopping the time allotted to teach ers during the school day for mark ing, tutoring and class preparation. As a result, teachers will have to do this sort of work before or after school, when they could otherwise be acting as staff sponsors, coaches and mentors. Budgets may well be balanced by doing this, but schools

will lose their vitality and appeal in the process. Music, art, athletics and drama will find it especially difficult to survive in the upcoming years. They and the activities they support survive only because enough stu dents have the desire and flexibility in their timetable to make them a priority. Timetable flexibility will soon disappear in Ontario, as stu dents are forced to complete the same number of required courses in four years as they must now com plete in five. Moreover, such courses will never be “mandatory” like science or English because, as the govern ment says, they are unlikely to lead to a career. The fact that they may promote leadership, participation, discipline and an appreciation of excellence doesn’t seem to hold much weight. When I was young, I anticipat ed Labour Day with excitement rather than dread. School was the one place where everybody, in the ory at least, had the opportunity to qualify as a future leader. I had friends who went away to expensive cam ps, who had access to technology and resources

all year round, and who were groomed from birth to be leaders insociety. At school, however, every one could be in student govern ment, play in the band, perform in the school play and do all of those things that give young people the skills, confidence and attitudes nec essary to achieve in their classroom and participate in society. When we strip our schools of that which makes them vital cen tres of learning, positive leadership and participation, we invite stu dents to write lines instead of find ing them something productive to do. We do nothing to convince them that they have the power and responsibility to enrich themselves, improve their communities and advance our society. When we remove leadership training from the top of our school curricula, we empty our students of their potential and our schools of their lifeblood. We betray our soci ety’s commitment to equality of opportunity. Regretfully, Cornell Wright is a few years away from becoming princi pal o f this school.

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I thought of applying to work this summer at a certain magazine in Toronto. They have an intern ship program. I called them up and asked what the interns do. The interns write the table of con tents page. They are also expected to help out with grunt work like photocopying, typing, and running errands. For this, interns receive a “minimal honorarium ” of $500 per month. (All prices quoted are in Toronto dollars.) I suppose this reflects the minimal experience an intern will pick up as she files, phones, and faxes. As far as not gettin g paid for sum m er jobs goes, a m inim al honorarium would be just fine if I also had corresponding minimal rent and minimal tuition. Somebody to work for free seems like a brilliant idea. In days of old, employment agencies used to trumpet the slogan, “Hire a stu d e n t.” Instead, the unw ashed masses of youth now are more likely to be told, “Why don’t you go out and get a real volunteer job.” As the economy continues to whittle itself down to the size of a cho p stick , two things have become clear: 1) Companies and organisations can’t afford to pay salaries. 2) Unemployed people, esp ecially unem ployed young people, will try anything to find a

job. So, in order to take advantage of this pool of desperate, over educated and under-em ployed people, I ’ve decided to hire an intern this summer. (If you can’t beat the capitalist scum, then why not join them?) As my intern, you will gain valuable experience as you do my laundry, return library books, get groceries, screen phone calls, and type my essays. (In the m eantim e, I w ill be w atching “Days of Our Lives” and working on my tan. Being an executive has its priviledges.) I regret that the position is on a volunteer basis, but I’ll provide metro tickets. And at the end of the summer, you’ll get a glowing letter of recommen dation. With my endorsement, and the skills picked up from working as my intern, I suspect you’ll have no d ifficu lty obtaining future positions as houseboy, secretary, or video store clerk. Some people argue that coercing people to work for no money is exploitative. Nonsense. It’s not as if I were your advisor, and I offered you a T.A. position on a volunteer basis in exchange for three credits, contingent of course on you doing all of the assignments for that class. And besides, wielding authority over other people is only exploitative if

you enjoy it. I would derive absolutely no pleasure from hav ing a slave around the house, which means that I’m not exploit ing, I’m being fiscally responsible in an era of restraint. B esides, being my intern would be fun. On cv’s, volunteer experience gets listed just above “Hobbies” in a different section from paid work experience. Volunteers may perform the same activities as paid employees, but volunteer experience does not carry the same w eight as paid experience. That’s because our society carefully distinguishes betw een work and play, and assumes that anything you’re not paid to do must be play. For example, housework isn’t work, it’s play. Think of all those housewives who cook, clean, and take the kids to the vet. Housework isn’t real work unless you put on an apron and say, “You rang. Madam?” Housewives don’t get paid, because they’re just “playing house” all day. Little children play “house”; they don’t play “aeronautical engineering.” Work is something you get paid for. Fun you don’t get paid for. When something is really, really fun, you pay to do it. The amount you pay to perform an activity is directly prop o rtio n al to the amount of fun that you’re sup posed to be having. A $32 concert is supposed to be four times more fun than an $8 movie. A hot air balloon ride is about 20 times as much fun. Going to McGill is the funnest thing I’ve ever done. So become my intern. Why burden y o u rse lf with m oney,

which will only begrime your soul and tie you to earthly considera tions? Free y o u rse lf from all w orldly th o u g h ts, and think instead of a higher goal: relevant career experience. Besides, you know it’s fun, although maybe not

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CFS defended and CASA condemned

In her editorial of February J28th, Sara Jean Green wrote an outright lie about the Canadian Federation of Students which is nothing more than vicious slan der. A grossly inaccurate state ment, she states that “CFS has been plagued with allegations of embezzlement for so long that it is not even newsworthy.” Since its inception in 1981, the C an ad ian F ed eratio n o f S tu d en ts has n ev e r been embroiled in any allegations of em bezzlem ent. Nor has any of C FS’s National Chairs, Deputy Chairs, or members of its execu tive ever been investigated for m isap p ro p ria tio n o f funds or criminal misconduct. Let me be very clear: no money, not $1, has even gone missing since the CFS was founded 15 years ago. This

L e tte rs Integrity o f spelling Re: “E v ery o n e loves the Condor”, Feb. 28, 1996, page 16: If Tyla Berchtold plans on writing future articles regarding collapses of journalistic integrity, perhaps she should learn the cor rect spelling of that self-sam e phrase. Sincerely, lovingly, and at 5’6 1/2 Jack Sullivan U3 History

SSMU and CASA facts 1. The SSMU constitution contains no clause requiring the SSM U to ho ld a referen d u m before w ithdraw ing from any ex tern al o rg a n iz a tio n s. This includes, but is not lim ited to, CASA. 2. CASA does not require that a referendum be held at a member school before accepting that member school’s withdrawal from the organisation. In fact all that CASA requires is that the m em ber school*1’fo llow the requirements of its own constitu tion. (See point #1 ) 3. SSMU Council voted on F eb ru ary 8 ag a in st having a CASA referendum in favour of hav in g a p le b isc ite fo r one im p o rtan t reaso n : the SSMU constitution states in section 15.5 that “Policies adopted by virtue of referenda shall be inscribed in the Society’s Policy Manual and may not be amended by motion of council for two (2) years.” If stu d en ts w ere to give SSMU a mandate to be part of CASA by referendum , SSMU would be forced to be a member of CASA for two years or until another referendum was held. If it became necessary to leave the organisation, council would be

is an aw som e record o f fiscal responsibility that any organisa tion would be proud of. In fact the finances of the CFS are so h ea lth y th at the la st au d ited financial statements showed no debt. None. How many student o rg a n isa tio n s can b o ast the same? W ell, the sam e cannot be said for CASA. B arely a year old, two of CASA’s high rank ing officers, Patrick FitzPatrick and SSMU’s own Nick Benedict, have already been forced resign from their posts due to alleged criminal misconduct. The stark contrast betw een C FS ’s lo n g standing record of financial hon esty and re sp o n sib ility and CASA’s pathetic record of finan cial dishonesty and irresponsibil ity is not incidental. The CFS is a

grassroots organization in which all matters, including financial, are made democratically with a m u ltitu d e o f checks and b a l ances. CASA is not just a victim of one m a n ’s g reed. It is also plagued by deep structural prob lems. CASA is led by a small group of men who sit around and divey up the spoils among them selv es, w ith the co m p lete absence of any checks and bal ances. In fact, CASA appointed Patrick FitzPatrick as its Interm N a tio n al D ire c to r tw o w eeks after UNB forced him to resign from the Executive because of questionable financial transac tions. Knowing this, CASA gave FitzPatrick free reign on its cof fers, of which includes some of the $17,000 McGill students con tributed to CASA this year. A few w eeks ago, the Tribune wisely informed McGill students that CASA was in such a financial mess it was having

trouble paying its rent. So far so good. But how did a story about greed, corruption and financial mismanagement in CASA end up being a story about the CFS? The answer is that the problem s in CASA are so grave, CASA sup porters want to divert attention aw ay from th e ir own serio u s problems by CFS-bashing. This is an old tactic but it won’t work — I believe that McGill students are smarter than to be misled by a few CASA id eo lo g u es. Are C A SA su p p o rters so w o rried about the truth that they have to resort to libellous and preposter ous comments? S tudents need to hear the truth about CASA — because in the March elections you will be asked what you think about what C A SA has done w ith your $17,000. A part from C A S A ’s financial irresponsibility, think about CASA’s regressive policies on ed u c atio n - C A SA is in favour o f charging students a

“grad tax,” huge tuition hikes, and im p lem en tin g an Incom e Contingent Repayment Plan, all of which are designed to let the g o v ern m en t o ff the hook and make students pay the difference. Students at McGill deserve better than to be part of an organisation that acts as an apologist for the cuts to education and that sup ports policies that will result in massive student debt. The Tribune, has the respon sibility to print the truth. You have stepped way beyond the bounds of responsible journalism here by sounding like CASA’s Pravda. As Chris C arter says, shame on you. Stephen Targett, President, Sarah Schmidt, External Affairs Committee member Post-Graduate Students ’ Society o f McGill, local 79 Canadian Federation o f Students

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corporations still holding invest ments in Burma after many oth ers have withdrawn, maintains that th eir jo in t Pepsi-SLO R C plant is purely a financial issue. They maintain that despite the fact that Pepsi Co. buys agricul tu ral cro p s to ex p o rt from SLORC, who bums and bombs villages, raping and killing peo

ple if predetermined quotas for these same agricultural products are not met. While SLORC sinks o v er h a lf o f th e ir n atio n al income in to the military, Pepsi Co.’s responsibility remains not financial but moral.

blindly view all the others, those prevented from taking advantage who are even now being to r of CASA’s “easy in, easy out” tured, raped, killed and forced to structure and would rather have flee to Bangladesh and Thailand. to hold a second referen d u m For some corporations, it is w asting valuable and perhaps irrelevant w hether the regime critical time and/or money. k ille d its own people w ith Simone Levine 4. CASA fees are based onw eapons bought w ith foreign Political Science, U3 a formula which takes into con capital. Pepsi Co., one of the few sideration the budget of the stu dent union and the num ber of c o n stitu e n ts o f th at stu d en t union. The S S M U ’s fees fo r 1995/1996 w ere a sse sse d at $13,500, or approxim ately 86 cents per student, and not the T H E T R IB U N E IS C U R R E N T LY $17,000 alleged by Ms. Sarah R EC EIV IN G A P P L IC A T IO N S FO R Schm idt. F urtherm ore, CASA fees are about one seventh the NEXT YEAR'S fees of CFS. ED ITO RIA L BOARD. 5. CASA DOES NOT SUP WE A R E SEEK IN G ED ITO R S FO R PORT INCREASED TUITION T H E FO LLO W IN G P O SITIO N S: FEES. I don’t know how many tim es I w ill have to say this before it sinks in. CASA is cur FEA T U R ES (2 ) NEWS (2 ) rently lobbying strongly against E N T E R T A IN M E N T (2 ) SCIEN CE (1 ) increased student indebtedness, a P H O T O G R A P H Y (2 ) SPO RTS (2) major barrier to accessibility. A lex U sher, C A S A ’s N ET W O R K (1 ) P R O D U C T IO N (2 ) N ational D irector, w rote in a recent letter to the Globe and PLEA SE IN C LU D E A O N E-P A G E LET T ER O F IN T EN T Mail, “The real solution to the AN D A T LEA ST TW O SAM PLES O F Y O U R W O R K problems in student aid is to limit student indebtedness through a T H A T A R E R ELEV A N T T O T H E P O SIT IO N com bination of relatively low FO R W H IC H Y O U A R E A P P L Y IN G . tuition fees, up-front grants to students from low-income fami D U E D A T E FO R A P P L IC A T IO N S H A V E BEEN EXTEN D ED T O lies, and loan fo rg iv e n e ss to those with punishing debt loads MARCH 8, 1996 upon graduation. Flexibility in debt repaym ent, w hile a good PLEA SE D IR E C T A N Y Q U ESTIO N S Y O U M A Y idea, is no substitute for debt H A V E T O S Y L V IE A N D JO Y C E A T 3 9 8 - 6 7 8 9 . reduction.” Perhaps in future those students wishing to criti cise the SSMU and CASA will IN T E R V IE W S W ILL BE HELD do so based on the facts, with a W IT H IN O N E W EEK. view to being constructive and not deliberately m isleading — my door is always open. Andrea J. Stairs SSMU VP External

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How to survive a Florida vacation S t u d e n t O p in io n

The Cyndicote G reg M ackenzie

Unlike our cousins to the south, Canadians pride themselves on being culturally sensitive tourists. As hundreds of McGill students return from their annual Florida vacation, it’s important for us to reflect on the do’s and don’t’s of life in the Sunshine State. Above all, Canadian tourists should respect Florida’s most sacred cultural tradi tions: beaching, eating, and the occa sional tourist shooting.

of bikinis and plumber-bummed men in plaid swimming trunks. Twenty something beach-seekers can avoid generational flare-ups by hon ouring Florida’s coastal protocol. Snowbirds take up most of the beach and don’t take kindly to youngsters crashing their turf. If you insist on occupying beachspace, please dress accordingly and stick to designated non-pensioner tanning areas.

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Beaching Upon arriving in Florida, Canadians must find themselves a beach. The coastline of this God-for saken land is its sole redeeming fea ture. Parched lawns and lifeless flowerbeds give Florida’s interior the look and feel of a nuclear war zone. Not surprisingly, everyone in Florida heads for the beach. And I mean everyone. If European beaches are known for their lack of tops, Florida beach es should be known for their lack of taste. Only in Florida, will you find seventy year-old women oozing out

If you’re interested in art, the atre or nightlife, Florida is not for you. But if you’re looking for food, look no further — Welcome to Club Fed. Florida throws its arms around the calorically-challenged. At every comer you’ll find early-bird-specials for those who can’t wait, buffet din ing for the value shopper and 24 hour fast food for the late-night binge. As a result of this perpetual gorging, everyone moves very slow ly in Florida. People walk slowly, talk slowly and even drive slowly. Since everyone is either digesting

their last meal, or preparing for the next one, no one wastes energy on between-meal activities. Not surprisingly, eating domi nates daily conversation. Forget about sports, business or the weath er. If you want to be the life of this party, you’ll need a food story. Tell ‘em where you ate last night, how big the portions were and how well you slept afterwards. They’ll love ya.

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One of the most diffucult edito rial jobs is conniving new writers to attend SSMU’s marathon bi-month ly council meetings, But just let us say that the Tribune plays a strange and exciting role in the SSMU play ground. Part bully, part tattle-tale, part embittered outcast, we are privy to insider gossip, insider criticism, but can not vote or present motions. And though there are many counsel lors we love, often, our only and quite tempting recourse is to resort to mockery. During one particualrly dreary session, I made up a list (for the benefit of our new writers) on why 1

keep going back to SSMU’s fright ening, and yet somehow endearing formalities. SSMU council meetings amuse me: - because they have to vote to take a vote to take a five minute recess - because sometimes even this motion fails - because a certain counsellor is always threatening to set things on fire - because sometimes only the bare minimum number of counsellors show up, and then they have to ask Madam Speaker to go to the bath room. Last week, Madam Speaker told a counsellors she would have to

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While Florida gives you the chance to get tanned and fed, it also gives you a chance to get shot. In the spirit of equality, Americans give citizens and tourists alike the oppor tunity to be killed by a firearm. The risks are especially high for Canadians motorists. To avoid road side slayings, Canadians are advised to steer clear of gas stations, rest areas and bumper-to-bumper traffic. Street-smart pedestrians will avoid walking in high traffic areas, which carries the risk of a drive-by shoot ing. For maximum safety, Canadians are encouraged to wear bicycle hel mets at all times (they’re great for deflecting head shots). If protective headgear isn’t your style, you can always try to look American. Canadian motorists will

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SSMCI E le c t io n 1 9 9 6 For the second year in a row, the Tribune asked candidates running for SSM U executive positions to answ er questions given through an oral, pop quiz. The questions were formulated by members of the Tribune editorial board. Other students with a working knowl edge of SSMU also contributed to the q u iz z e s . T he q u e s tio n s ask e d w ere meant to test candidates on information

K ie Lee 1. T he T w e n ty -F ir st C en tu ry F u n d , the

school dep — S ad ie’s, S h a p ir o ’s rep o rt “Towards a New McGill”

2 .1 have no clue 3. VP Finance, I have no clue 4 . 1 have no clue 5 .1 don't know 6 .1 have no clue 7. 10 to 1

that considered 1) relevant to each of the p o sitio n s, 2) general know ledge about Montreal and the university or 3) just plain silly. We had no idea that can didates would be so afraid of this quiz and apologise if we endangered any one’s cardiac health. (Conducted and com piled by Tyla Berchtold, Sara Jean Green, Joyce Lau, and Jon O ’Brien)

9. IGOU...I know Sevag but I can’t spell his last name 10.1 have no clue 11. Chris Carter

12.1 don’t know. Poli Sci 13.1 have no clue 14.The Canadian something of Students’ Societies, I don’t know 15.1 don’t know 16. University Ave.

17. 2 to 1 18. Management

Score: 7/25 (28% , F)

8. Marcel

C raig P ollard 1. The D a ily , the C a n a d ia n A llia n c e o f Students’ A ssociations, more towels in the gym 2. The guy in the chicken suit Mac Poulet! 3. Standing and possibly squatting 4. Craven Moorehead 5. God 6. I didn’t know there was one specific registrar. Is it the woman who does the MARS thing? 7. 15 to 1 — I read that!

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8. Marcel

9. YEGHOVAN — I coach his hockey team! 10. Bill Watson used to write. He’s an economist prof — he had a funny picture in the G azette.(T rue, but P rofessor Watson is not an administrator)

Score: 5/25 (20% , F) 9. YEGHOYAN

2. Stephen Targett

16. University

3 .1 don’t know 4. Sevag Yeghoyan 5 .1 don’t know that one either 6 .1 don’t know that 7. 4 to 1 but I’m not positive 8. Maurice

17. 10 to 1

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7. 20 to 1 8. I’m always in council so I don’t watch “Friends.” t

C u rren t P resident H elena M yers Score: 22/25 (92% , A)

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10. Daniel Johnson

14. The Canadian Coalition of Students’ Societies, I don’t even know what the CCSS is, so... 15.1 don’t know

5. Steve Vaughn

Total points: 25

18. Architecture

1. Paul Tellier the CEO of CP Rail came in to talk about McGill’s future in the context of Canada, Shapiro congratulated a prof for receiving a grant, a woman who sits on BoG got a threatening letter from some organisation like the FLQ

1. T he M cG ill D a ily , S h a p ir o ’s v isio n o f a N ew M c G ill, J o in t Board Senate committee on sexual harassment 2. Stephen Targett 3. PGSS, IGLC 4. Eric Hoffstein

1. Name 3 issues discussed at BoG this year. (3 points) answer: too numerous to list 2. Who is President of the PGSS? (1 point) answer: Stephen Targett 3. Name two positions on Presidents’ Council which do not have representation on SSMU council. (2 points) possible answers: IGLC, PGSS, MACES 4. Which McGill student initiated the First Year Seminars program? (1 point) answer: Eric Hoffstein 5. Who is the Religious Studies rep to SSMU council? (1 point) answer: Gary Cotom 6. Who is the Registrar? (1 point) answer: J.P. Schuller 7. What is the student-teacher ratio outlined in Shapiro’s “Towards a New McGill”? (2 points) answer: 10:1 8. Name the monkey on “Friends.” (1 point) answer: Marcel 9. Spell YEGHOYAN (1 point) 10. Name the McGill administrator who writes a column for the Montreal Gazette. (1 point) answer: Gretta Chambers 11. Who is the executive producer of the “X Files?” (1 point) answer: Chris Carter 12. Name the Dean of Students. (1/2 point) In what faculty does the Dean teach? (1/2 point) answer: Rosalie Jukier, Law 13. At which university this year did TAs withhold grades and go on strike? (1 point) answer: Yale 14. What does CCSS stand for? (1 point) Who is the CCSS chair? (1 point) answer: The Coordinating Committee on Student Services, Rosalie Jukier 15. What does AGSEM stand for? (2 points) answer: The Association of Graduate Students Employed at McGill 16. Where did CKUT move to? (1 point) answer: University Ave. 17. What is the ratio of academic to non-academic representatives to Senate? (2 points) answer: 51 to 49 18. Which school at McGill is celebrating its centennial this year? (1 point) answer: architecture

11. Chris Carter

12. Wonderboy, Construction 13. The New England Tractor Trailer School 14.1 have no idea, Lazyboy 15.1 don’t know 16. Aylmer St. 17. 600 to 3

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12.1 know her name but I can’t think of it. I think she teaches English but I’m not positive. 13. Yale

18. Architecture

1. M acdonald report (point not granted because the report has been intro duced but not yet d is cussed), early retirement, induction of new members 2. Stephen Targett

3. IGLC, I don’t know the other one 4. Eric Hoffstein

5. I don’t know. I admit it — I’m not ashamed! 6. Tavenas 1.1 to 1

8. Marcel 9. YEGHOYAN 10. Gretta Chambers 11. Chris Carter 12. Rosalie Jukier, Arts

13. The University of Western Ontario 14. The Com m unist C om m ittee of Senate Shitheads Obviously it would be Bill Chan 15. T he A sso c ia tio n o f G rad u ate Students Employed at McGill 16. It moved up on University - it’s in

the same building as QPIRG 17. 4 to 1 18. Architecture

Score: 13.5/25 (54%, D)

Score: 7/25 (24% , F) 9. YEHGOYAN 10. Gretta Chambers 11. That would probably be me — Chris Carter 12. Rosalie Jukier, Law 13. Yale 14. The Coordinating Committee on Student Services, Rosalie Jukier 15. T he A sso c ia tio n o f G ra d u a te Students Employed at McGill 16. On University, where QPIRG is also

located 17. 2 to 1 18. Architecture

Score: 18/25 (72% , B)

A lex W axm an 1. T he b u d g et, early r e tirem en t p lan , Shapiro’s docum ent on the New McGill

2. He’s a red haired guy — long hair — I can’t remember his name 3. MACES, Medicine 4. Lisa Grushcow 5. Erin something — she’s got glasses. Actually, she was one of my TAs. 6 .1 have no idea 7 . 10 to 1 8 .1 don’t know — Boo Boo?

9. YEGHOYAN

10. The guy in economics 11. Chris Carter 12. Rosalie Jukier, the faculty of Law 13. Yale University in the United States 14. The Coordinating Committee on Student Services, Rosalie Jukier

15.1 have no idea 16. Sherbrooke St. 17. Well, there are 13 student reps to Senate but I don’t know the [ratio]. Surely I will get points for knowing the composi tion of student reps to Senate. 18. Nursing.

Score: 12/25 (48% , F)

SSMCI E le c t io n 1 9 9 6 SSMU VP University Affairs SSMU VP Finance 1. Who is the Secretary General of McGill? (1 point) answer: Victoria Lees 2. Name the three McGill administrators who were listed among the top ten salaried administrators at Quebec universities. (3 points) answer: Bernard Shapiro, David Johnston, John Armour 3. Which committee reviewed the holy days policy? (2 points) answer: The Committee on Timetabling and Student Records (CTSR) 4. Who was chair of the Task Force responding to Shapiro’s ‘Towards a New McGill”? {1 point) answer: Rod Macdonald 5. Name the past VP University Affairs who brought the pass/fail option to Senate. (1 point) answer: Ruth Promislow 6. Who is the director for the Office for Students with Disabilities? (2 points) answer: Joan Wolforth 7. Name the 3 sexual harassment assessors (McGill campus). (3 points) answer: Robert Lecker, Pat Wells, Judy Stymest 8. Who is the chair of the BoG? (1 point) answer: Richard (Dick) Pound 9. What cause does the annual Management fashion show give proceeds to? (1 point) answer: AIDS research 10. Who is Estelle Hopmeyer? (1 point) answer: the Ombudsperson 11. Which library is located on the third floor of Redpath Hall? (1 point) answer: Blackader-Lauterman 12. Which company is donating money to Faculty of Medicine for the McGill Medical Informatics project? (1 point) How much are they donating? (1 point) answer: Molson Foundation. $3.75 million 13. Who was Doctor Penfield? (1 point) answer: neurosurgeon, graduated from McGill 14. If you become VP University Affairs, what will your office phone number be? (1 point) answer: 398-6797 15. Who are the SSMU CROs? (1/2 pt per name) answer: Joya Balfour, Warren Tranquada 16. Name the 2 people who produced a report on the state of Bill 101, (2 points) answer: Josée Legault, Michel Plourde 17. What award did this year’s VP University Affairs win? (1 point) answer: the Rhodes scholarship

Total points: 25 C urrent V P U niversity A ffairs L isa G rushcow Score: 19/25 (79% , B)

Steven E rdelyi 1. Victoria Lees

2. Shapiro, Tavenas, Heaphy 3. The CTSR 4. Rod Macdonald

5. Monique Shebbeare 6. It’s something like Thompson but I know that’s not it. 7 .1 can’t remember that. I know their faces — I met one or two of them. 8. It’s something like Williams. 9. McGill Cancer research

11. Blackader-Lauterman

1. Gretta Chambers 2. Johnston, Shapiro, and Keiffer 3. The Committee on Time Tabling and Student Records 4. Rod Macdonald

5. Jen Small 6. Joan Wolforth

7. Martin Zuckerman, Pat Wells, and Rosalie Jukier — I know Jukier isn’t one but she should be. 8. Dick Pound 9. AIDS 10. Ombudsperson 11. Blackader-Lauterman

Total points: 25 C urrent V P F inance K elly R em ai (not available)

12.1 can’t remember the name of the com pany or how much they are donating. 13. He was a neurosurgeon...he did a lot of his research at McGill.

14. 398-6804 15. Joya Balfour and Warren Tranquada

16.1 know the recommendations but I can’t remember their names. 17. The Rhodes scholarship

Score: 10/25 (40% , F)

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1. How much does each student pay for CASA membership every year? (1 point) answer: $0.86 2. What is McGill’s current operating deficit? (1 point) answer: $66 million 3. Can students currently get full coverage for the Hepatitis B shot under the health plan? (I point) answer: no 4. Name 3 plays performed at McGill this year. (3 points) answer: too numerous to list 5. Approximately what per cent of McGill’s operating budget goes towards libraries? (1 point) answer: 4.8% — point granted for answers within 3 percentage points 6. What does APPC stand for? (1 point) answer: Academic Planning and Priorities Committee 7. Approximately how much does each student pay for Walksafe each year? (1 point) answer: $0.50 8. What is Marge Simpson’s maiden name? (1 point) answer: Bouvier 9. What was the approximate monetary difference over five years between the Coke and Pepsi contracts? (2 points) answer: $880,000 — points granted for answers between $800,000 and $900,000 10. How much did the new SSMU executive computers cost? (1 point) answer: $17,000 11. In what year did the SSMU incorporate? (2 points) answer: 1992 12. How much did it cost to build the McGill snow Pantheon? (1 point) answer: $8,000 to build — answer of $40,000 accepted since this figure includes disposal costs 13. What year did Guy Brisebois begin working for the SSMU? (2 points) answer: 1992 (Guy became GM Aug. 19, 1992) 14. Who is the chair of the Twenty-First Century Fund? (1 point) answer: Tom Thompson 15. How much does a regular coffee, including tax, cost at The Alley? ( 1 point) answer: $1.09 16. When does the SSMU’s memorandum of agreement with the Shatner building expire? ( 1 point) answer: November 1996 17. Name the President of Miraval. (1 point) answer: Maurice Corey 18. Name one show that George Clooney (a.k.a. Dr. Doug Ross) has appeared on besides “ER”. (1 point) answer: a number of possibilities 19. Who is the Vice Principal Finance and Administration at McGill? (2 points) answer: Phyllis Heaphy

12. I’m going to say Apple — $10 million 13. He was a psychologist who worked at the neuro — made various discoveries about the brain 14. 398-6797 15. Joya Balfour and Warren Tranquada 16. Michel Plourde and Josée Legault 17. The Rhodes scholarship

Score: 18/25 (72% , B)

Ted M urata 1. It is not important exactly how much stu dents pay, but more important that CASA/CFS be reviewed completely, especially in light of the CASA scandal. 2. Too big. A few million. 3. Yes. 4. Fortune Tellers, In the Car, My Fair Lady 5. Very small. It should be increased. 6. Alien Pod Protection Corp 7. About $0.50

Jon C hom ski 1. About $ 10,000 divided by the number of students. 2. $25 million 3. No. Changes will be implemented in the fall. 4. Ruddigore, Gut Girls, A Chorus Line

5.7% 6. Academic Planning and Priorities

Committee 7. About $0.50 8. Bouvier

8. Bouvier

9. About $900,000 10. About $15,000 (1/2 point granted) 11. 1984 12. It cost McGill $.01. It was all private donation. (1/2 point granted) 13. 1993 14. Gretta Chambers, Sevag 15. $1. 16. As soon as SSMU becomes profitable. 17. Jean-Luc Picard 18. Saturday Night Live

19.1 don’t know.

Score: 8/25 (34% , F) 9. $990,000 originally. The new figure is about $880,000

10. $27,000 11.1992 12. $40,000, all in private donations

13.1992 14. Don’t know. 15. $0.87. I’m not a coffee drinker. 16. 1997 17. Don’t know. 18. “Roseanne” 19. Phyllis Heaphy.

Score: 18/25 (72% , B)

SSMCJ E le c t io n 1 9 9 6 SSMU VP Internal Affairs 1. Name two food companies that had contracts with McGill before Pepsi. (2 points) answer: Marriot and Scott’s. 2. What is the recent controversy surrounding the SSMU’s contract with Pepsi Cola? (1 point) answer: Pepsi’s dealings in Burma 3. What McGill coach was a part of the World Juniors hockey championships in Worcester, Mass, last December? (1 point) answer: Terry Bangen 4. Who is the General Manager of Gert’s? (1 point) answer: Pat Enfield 5. Name two services that have libraries in their offices. (1/2 point each) possible answers: McGill Students for Literacy, Black Student’s Network, Women’s Union 6. When is Black History month? (1 point) answer: February 7. Name four recommendations of the internal audit. (1/2 point for each correct response) answers: too numerous to list 8. Which national political figure is coming to speak at McGill in March? (1 point) answer: Jean Chretien 9. Which publication won Publication of the Year last year? (I point) answer: The Red Herring 10. Which band sings the lead song on the TV series “Friends”? (1 point) answer: The Rembrandts 11. What does APPC stand for? (1 point) answer: Academic Planning and Priorities Committee 12. Who is the ads salesperson for SSMU publications? (1 point) answer: Paul Slachta 13. Who was once photographed nude by this year’s VP Internal? (1 point) answer: then VP External Andrew Work 14. Name the two banks that have automatic tellers on the McGill campus. (1 point) answer: Royal Bank and Banque Nationale 15. How many times does the Daily come out every week? ( 1 point) answer: 3 16. What mishap occurred with the Frosh orientation packs in September? ( I point) answer: some of the computer disk they contained were infected with a virus 17. What does the acronym TMR stand for? (1 point) answer: Town of Mount Royal 18. Which student journalist was featured on the cover of the McGill News this year? (1 point) answer: M.J. Milloy 19. Name one thing that was stolen from Gert’s in last October’s break-in? (1 point) answer: a number of possibilities 20. Name two past SSMU execs who became Tribune columnists. (2 points) possible answers: Alex Usher, Cornell Wright, Mark Luz 21. Name four of the eight SSMU services. (1/2 point each) possible answers: BSN, Women’s Union, Volunteer Bureau, Walksafe, Player’s Theatre, SACOMSS, McGill Students for Literacy, McGill Nightline

Total points: 25 Current VP Internal Jennifer Harding Score: 24.5/25 (98%, A) Jason K leine 1. Marriott and 1 don't know 2. Pepsi’s involvement in

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8 .1 don’t know 9. Tribune 10. The Rembrandts 11. Advisory Priorities and Planning Committee (1/2 point granted)

15.3 16. The computer disks had a virus 17. Town of Mount Royal 1 8 . 1 don’t know 19. DJ equipment 20. Cornell Wright and Sevag 21. BSN, Women’s Union, Volunteer Bureau and McGill Student’s for Literacy

Score: 15.5/25 (62% , C+)

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7. a) spend less money b) less bar fights in Gert’s c) don’t go to Annie’s d) cut funding from all important places

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17.1 don’t know 18. Dave Bushnell 19. Stereo

20. Cornell Wright and Ruth Promislow 21. BSN, Walksafe, Women’s Union, LBGTM

Score: 16.5/25 (66% , B-) in Arts 8. jean Chrétien 9. Tribune 10. The Rembrandts

11. A Personal Politically Correct. 12. Helena Myers 13. Nick Benedict 14. Royal Bank and Bank of Montreal 15. twice 16. They were virus infected 17. Town of Mount Royal

18. Dave Bushnell 19. The big stereo that’s worth $25,000 and a pint of beer. 20. Dave Bushnell and Poppin’ Fresh 21. Postal service, escort service, service your car with hot wax and pizza delivery

Score: 6.5/25 (26% , F)

20. Michael Broadhurst and Cornell Wright 21. Women’s Union, BSN, LBGTM, Player’s Theatre

Score: 14.5/25 (58%, C)

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5. Women’s Union and Literacy 6. February 7. a) have Sadie’s give their actuals and budget every 1/2 semester b) revamping of SSMU exec office c) room bookings by answering machine and e-mail d) formulation of the PCOCs 8. Chrétien

9. T h e R e d H e r r in g 10. The Rembrandts 11. Academic Planning and Priorities Committee 12. Paul Slachta 13. Andrew Work 14. Royal Bank, Banque Nationale 15.3 16. There was a virus on the diskettes 17. Tow n of Mount Royal 18. M J. Milloy 19. speakers 20. Cornell Wright, Mark Lnz 21. BSN, LBGTM, Women’s Union, Walksafe

Score: 24/25 (96% , A)

S S M Ü E le c t io n 1 9 9 6 C hantal D a Silva 1. Mouvement des étudi ants 2. A titre de vice prési dente externe, je tra vaillerais avec la société des étudiantes de McGill pour bien représenter les interets des étudiantes.(0.5) Je pousserais pour rassurer et ren forcer les interets et les besoins des étudi antes de McGill au deux niveaux du gou vernement afin d’unifier nos efforts (1). Enfin, à titre de vice présidente externe, je vous promets mes efforts suprêmes envers ce célébration de l’iden

P aul-E ric R obichaud 1. No answer 2. En tant que vice-président aux affaires extérieures de l’Association des étudiants de l’Université McGill (1), je représenterai les intérêts des étudiants de l’université. Je ferai pression (1) auprès des dif férents palliers (sic) de (sic) gouverne ments afin d’assurer les désires (sic) des étudiants de McGill au Québec (1). Je promet (sic) de mettre la maximum de mes efforts à cette position politique pour pro

P eter A rm strongW hitw orth 1. Mouvement pour le droit à l’éducation 2. Comme Vice Président des affaires étrangères, je réprésenterai les intérêts des étu diants de McGill à travers l’Association des étudiants de l’Université McGill(l). Je discuterai avec les gouvernements fédéraux et provinciaux pour assurer la volonté des étudiants de McGill au Québec (1). Je vous donne comme promesse mes efforts suprême (sic) envers la célébra tion de l’identité de McGill dans cette position politique (1). (3

tité de McGill (1). (2.5 points total) 3. Spring, 1993 4. It used to be Kelly Lamrock, but I think she left. 5. Town of Mount Royal 6. Canadian Health and Social Transfer 7 .1 don’t know. 8. Pauline Marois 9 .1 don’t know. 10. 8 something. 11. Accessibility, loans and bursaries 12. Lucien Bouchard, “That woman with dark hair, ‘shorty’. Is her name Lise?” 13. The Gap, Ralph Lauren 14. No answer 15. “Forget it, I don’t know.”

Score: 13/25 (52% , D) mouvoir l’identité mcgilloise (1). (4 points total) 3. September 1, 1994 4. Guy Caron 5. Town of Mount Royal 6. Canadian Health and Social Transfer 7. No answer 8. Pauline Marois 9. No answer 10. No answer 11. No answer 12. Lucien Bouchard, I don’t know 13. Benetton, Aldo 14. Pierre Pettigrew, Stephan Dion 15. Bennett

Score: 15/25 (60% , C+)

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SSMU VP External Affairs 1. What does MDE stand for? ( 1 point) answer: Le Mouvement pour le Droit à l’éduca tion 2. Translate the following statement into French: As Vice President External Affairs, I will represent the interests of McGill students through the Students’ Society of McGill University. I will lobby the federal and provincial governments to ensure the will of McGill students in Quebec. I promise my supreme efforts to this celebration of McGill’s identity in this political position. (6 points) Comme Vice Président aux Affaires Externes ( 1 point), je représenterai les intérêts des étudiants de McGill à travers l ’Association des étudiantes et des étudiants de l'Université McGill ( l point). Je ferai pression ( / point) sur le gouvernement fédéral et provincial pour que la volonté des étudiant) e)s de McGill soit assurée au Québec ( l point). Je promets mes efforts suprêmes à cette célébration de l ’identité de McGill dans cette position politique <1 point). Qualité de la langue: 1 point 3. On what date was CASA founded? (1 point) answer: January 25, 1995 4. Who is the chair of the CFS? (1 point) answer: Guy Caron 5. What does the Montreal acronym TMR stand for? (1 point) answer: Town of Mount Royal 6. What is the CHST? (2 points) answer: The Canadian Health and Social Transfer 7. What Montreal citizens’ organisation contributed to the creation of the McGill Ghetto Safety Audit? (1 point) answer: TANDEM 8. Who is the provincial minister of education? (2 points) answer: Pauline Marois 9. How much will the SSMU pay per year for life insurance for General Manager Guy Brisebois? (1 point) answer: $2,850 10. What is the three digit local exchange for Concordia University (e.g. it’s 398 at McGill) (1 point) answer: 848 11. Name two issues raised in the SSMU’s submission to the Etats Généraux. (2 points) answer: too numerous to list 12. Who won the two by-elections in Quebec this year? (2 points either name) answer: Lucien Bouchard, Monique Simard 13. At which two clothing stores did Pat FitzPatrick use the UNB SU credit to purchase clothes for himself? (1 point either store) answer: The Gap, Tristan/America 14. Name the two Quebeckers who were not MPs when they were added to the federal cabinet. Both are now MPs. ( 1 point per name) answer: Pierre Pettigrew, Stephan Dion 15. After which Prime Minister was the wolf on the TV show “Due South” named? (1 point) answer: Diefenbaker

Total points: 25 Current VP External Affairs Andrea Stairs Score: 20/25 (80%, A-)

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Score: 9/25 (36% , F)

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Environmentalist gives seal of disapproval for hunting policy By Samantha Lapedus Last W ednesday, hundreds gathered at Concordia to either revere or re v ile the w ords of Captain Paul Watson, co-founder of Greenpeace and president and fo under of the Sea Shepherd C o n serv atio n S o ciety, as he addressed the issue of commercial seal hunting in Canada. Since 1977, Watson has been at the helm of the world’s most activ e m arine en v ironm ental organisation. The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society is a non p ro fit group d ed icated to the ag g ressiv e defence o f m arine wildlife. Where national govern ments tend to turn a blind eye, the Sea Shepherds patrol the high waters, risking their lives to pro tect m arine life by enforcing international laws and regulations broken through illegal exploita tion. Since World War II, the Sea Shepherds have sunk more ships than the C anadian navy. The group prides itself in direct con frontation with unlawful sea fish ermen, and since the organisa tio n ’s inception has sunk nine illegal whaling boats, ramming and scarin g o ff v arious other criminal vessels. “We will use violence any time it is needed to justify that

which we believe. We can dance around p o liticia n s or dance around in animal costumes with picket signs, but if we’re not pre pared to fight, it’s all just words and it m eans n o th in g ,” said Watson. The Captain’s latest battle is here in Canada, as he fights to protect the seal population from the federal government’s recent

call to expand the com m ercial seal hunt. F ish eries M in ister B rian Tobin, having freshly saved the turbot from the Spanish off the coast of Newfoundland, has set a new agenda in his “environmen tal” program. Tobin argues that seals are eating too much cod, consuming about 6.9 million tonnes a year.

Watson believes there are alternatives to raising seal hunting quota.

And while fishermen are allowed an annual catch of 186,000 seals, w ith a low er catch o f about 60.000 in recent years, this has caused an increase in the seal population. Tobin’s solution? Slaughter the seals, in order to save the cod. Tobin has recently raised the hunting q u o ta to as high as 290.000 seals a year. He has also offered to subsidise the hunt at 20 cents a pound for seal meat, translating into an annual federal subsidy of $2 to $3 million. W hile the fish ery d ep artm en t claim s that seals are to blame for the decline in cod, this view is not shared by all. A nother study pu b lish ed in 1993 show ed that harp seals eat mostly Arctic cod, a species with little com m ercial value. Further, as Watson argues, there are only about 2 million harp seals le ft in Canadian waters, far less than the 10 million which ~§ co-existed with the cod a century ago. Watson believes that .£ there may be other rea?5 sons for this new interest l'~ in an expanded hunt. One may be m ore w ork for

unemployed fisherman, another may be the market for parts of the seal, mainly its penis, which is popular as an aphrodisiac in Asia. Watson has not only opposed the expansion of the seal hunt, but has also developed a viable alter native. H arp seal pups lose th eir white fur at approximately three w eeks o f age. A fter research, Watson found that if these seal pups are brushed for their fur, their hairs have market value as excellent insulators. “The idea is to create a cruelfree, non-lethal form of sealing that can be very profitable,” said Watson. However, although a German company offered to purchase as much of the seal fur as can be provided, the Canadian govern ment would have nothing to do with it. Watson proclaims that with the coming of the 21st century, it is crucial that we start changing our ways, begin living harm o niously with nature, and stand up against illegal fishing activity that threatens marine wildlife. “So-called radical conserva tio n ists can be called all the names in the world — terrorists or pirates — but we make damn good ancestors, and that’s what will save us tomorrow.”

Kasparov overcomes technology with win against Deep Blue By D aniel H ackett

n a recent chess tournament, Gary Kasparov was playing one of the hardest series of games of his career. This time, however, his opponent was not a chess Grand master, it was IBM’s powerful new chess com puter, Deep Blue. Although Kasparov won the

“ I still b e lie v e th a t th e re a re s o m e h o ri z o n s it w ill be v e ry d iffic u lt fo r c o m p u te rs to c ro s s .” tournament, he lost the first game w orrying many observers that soon computers will be unbeat able. Kasparov went on to win the second and sixth games, and drew the remaining three. Deep Blue was developed at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Centre in Yorktown Heights, NY, by F eng-H suing Hsu, M urray Campbell and Joe Hoane. It is the successor to Deep Thought, the first com puter to ever beat a Grandmaster at chess. Campbell, a research scientist

at IBM Research, began work on programming computers for chess as a graduate student at Carnegie Mellon University in the mid ‘80s. There he team ed up with Hsu, who had developed a chip that enabled computers to increase the number of calculations that a com puter could perform. Shortly after wards, Campbell and Hsu began work at IBM, where they joined the Deep Blue team. “Deep Blue is able to calcu late 100 million chess moves per seco n d ,” C am pbell said in an interview with the Tribune. “A lthough the program is unable to do any learning, we, the program m ers, can learn, and change the program. That was part of the problem we faced. Kasparov was able to change his style of play instantly, but we weren’t able to change the pro gram as fast,” said Campbell. The question that arises is how Kasparov can beat a comput er capable of calculating 50 to 100 billion moves within three min utes, the amount of time allotted per move to each player in the chess tournament. Although Deep Blue is capable of selecting from billions of possible moves, it can not rely on intuition, judgement or experience. “Kasparov was able to win in part because he understands com puter strategy and long range con

sequences. Deep Blue is superb at analysing tactical moves for the next ten moves or so, but long term consequences just can not be understood by Deep Blue. Deep Blue will never make an obvious tactical error with short-term con

sequences”, Campbell said. “If it makes an error at all, it will only becom e clear later on in the game.” M cG ill C om puter Science professor Monty Newborn is the chairman of the organising com

mittee that sponsored the competi tion. Newborn just missed win ning the first W orld Com puter Chess Championship with his own com puter chess program in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1974. “Deep Blue uses d ifferen t processes for picking m oves,” Newborn said. “The human mind may not be faster, but it is more flexible. It’s one of the great mys teries — no one knows what the mind is doing when it is playing chess.” Philosophy professor David Davies said that the questions and in tere st arise from the gam es when Kasparov was able to outwit this computer opponent. “The interesting thing is that whatever we do, we don’t do what the computer does,” said Davies, who teaches the course Philosophy of the Mind. “We use strategies that are not modelled by computers. We haven’t been able to design computers able to per form the same kind of creative or lateral thinking.” Deep Blue was given a huge database of opening m oves of Grand master games played dur ing the last 100 years, as well as an endgame database, providing b illio n s of endgam e scenarios activated when only five pieces remain on the board. Continued on Page 16 »

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McGill’s Sexual Assault Centre awarded for their efforts The centre’s Outreach Program recognised for raising awareness about violence in the Montreal community By Lynn Abrahamian On F eb ru ary 1, 1996, CA FSU , la C om ité d ’action femmes et sécurité urbaine threw an aw ards banquet in order to recognise those institutions which are working towards increasing w o m en ’s safety in urban M ontreal. M cG ill’s Sexual Assault Centre subm itted their Outreach Program and won an award for their efforts in raising awareness in men about the harsh realities of sexual aggressions. “We are very proud of this award,” said Deirdre Harrington, external coordinator for the cen tre. “It gives us credibility and public attention. Being recognised by the city of Montreal shows that what we do not only affects the

University of McGill, but also the whole community [of Montreal].” The Outreach Program has two main goals: firstly, to encour age people to question their own beliefs and attitudes about sexual assault by deconstructing the myths about it; secondly, to open lines of communication through which people can talk candidly about issues of sexuality. “This allows people to chal lenge their views about sexuality, to give voice to those opinions w hich they could not have expressed previously in public,” said Sherri Hatch, co-coordinator of the Outreach Program. In particular, the volunteer facilitato rs hope to encourage people to acknowledge the impor tance of verbal com munication

during sexual encounters. “Until people heed what their partner wants, until people start listening to their partner, nothing will change,” said Paul Kershaw,

co-coordinator of the Outreach Program, The most difficult issue to deal w ith in the O utreach P rogram is V ictim C ontrol.

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Professor Lamonde wins Governor General’s for Literature own work. Lamonde studied 19th centu Professor Yvan Lamonde of ry history for 20 years, and fol McGill’s French department was low ing that, spent three years the recipient of one of this year’s intensively researching Desaulles. 14 Governor G eneral’s Awards This close proximity with the sub for Literature. It was Lamonde’s ject has led to what Lamonde pas historical novel, Louis Antoine sionately calls a “co-habitance” Desaulles — Un Seigneur Liberal w ith D esaulles. H ence, it was et Anticlerical which was selected with feelings of release and sad by the Canada Council to be the ness that Lamonde accepted the highest literary b est French award in Canada. n o n -fic tio n “ P re s e n tin g th e life o f “It was unbe work of 1995. lievable,” Lamonde Lamonde’s th is m a n w a s p rim a ry, said as he stares off biography o f b u t I a ls o w a n te d to into the distance. the nephew of g iv e v is ib ility to his “You can believe in L ouis Joseph the work you have Papineau com id e a s .” done, but then to bines a popular know that this has literary genre with a wealth of historical infor been recognised by others...” L am onde’s novel tells the m ation. In his own w ords, Lam onde attem pted to expose story o f the independently Desaulles as “one of the 19th cen wealthy seigneur, Louis Antoine tu ry ’s m ost ag g ressiv e and Dessaules. An outspoken political activist, essayist and public lec dynamic liberal radicals.” T his is the third tim e tu rer, the clergy o f M ontreal McGill’s French department has named Dessaules “Public Enemy received a Governor G eneral’s Number One” because of his open Award in the last eight years. For attacks on church intervention in Lamonde, the award, which was civil and political affairs. As a presented in November, honours bourgeois gentlem an, editor of as much Desaulles as it does his liberal paper Le Pays, and con By G wen Evans

Lamonde described the biog raphy as “an ideal vehicle with which to navigate through a com plex century in Quebec history.” Lamonde has degrees in phi losophy and French literature, and his doctorate is in Quebec history. Lamonde came to McGill in 1972. He was the first chairperson of the newly founded Quebec Studies Program, and is currently teaching courses in con temporary Quebec history and French in tellectual ideologies. He has pub lished over 25 books, and has ideas for many more. “W riting the book about D esau lles was a rehearsal for som ething bigger,” said Lam onde. For his next su b ject, Lamonde is contemplating a study into the life o f Louis Joseph Papineau. A historical handshake; Lamonde accepts his Governor General’s Award

dem ned ex ile of the church, Desaulles remained a fighter for civil liberties. His valiant efforts to co n ju g ate lib eralism and nationalism surrounded his life w ith in trig u e and scandal. Lamonde’s award-winning book

which are not given the recogni tion they deserve, he explained. “Historians often communicate in scholarly journals, and specialised books, but research findings should pass through the hands of a greater audience.”

shows the struggles of a revolu tionary and the price one man had to pay for his ideas. “Presenting the life of this man was primary, but I also want ed to give visibility to his ideas,

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Sexual Assault Centre recognised... I I Continued from Page 15 assault to minimise her chances of being sexually assaulted. It tries to return to the victim that which she lost during the sexual assault - power. Victim Control is a slippery issue, admit ted Kershaw. “If Victim Control teaches women to do A and B in order to prevent sexual assault, and if a woman only does A and gets vio lated, then she will blame herself for she will feel that if she had done both A and B, then she could have prevented the attack,” said Kershaw.

What women need to keep in mind is that there is nothing they can do to prevent sexual assault, because a lot of times, “the one who assaults you will be someone you know and trust,” continued Kershaw. The m ost im portant thing that women need to know and believe in is that it is never the fault of the victim. S uccessfully dealing with these issues that raise awareness in men is the reason why the Outreach Program won an award. “I think we won because we are the only educational anglo

phone organisation in Montreal that provides ways in which men and women could work together in a group and the only opportu nity to raise men’s awareness on sexual assault,” stated Hatch. “If we measure success in the number of people we have talked to about this subject, then I would have to say y e s,” affirm ed K ershaw . “B ut if success is equated with an actual reduction in incidents of sexual assault, then, no, not yet. That w ould require a change in the way we think and interact with one anoth er. It can not happen overnight.”

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I I Continued from Page 14 “Kasparov won because he was the better player,” Newborn concluded. “He avoided an aggressive style against the com puter, and played very defensive ly. He knew that if he made the smallest tactical mistake, the com puter would win the game.” Even though Kasparov won this tournament, it is still believed that an unbeatable computer chess opponent can be built. “There are crucial features of human intelligence located in the cognitive processes of humans not capable of being reproduced in a com puter,” Davies said. “If a computer could exhaust all possi ble moves in real time, it might be possible to create an unbeatable computer.” “I believe eventually it is inevitable that Deep Blue or its next incarnation will be able to beat Kasparov,” Campbell said. “W e’re learning more and more,

and the technology is becoming better and faster. It may take longer than expected, as Kasparov showed that he could adapt to Deep Blue’s program.” “The computer is a tool we’ll use for as long as we exist on this planet,” Newborn said. “We have such a long way to go. The future is so exciting yet unknown. The big question is, can a computer realise that it is alive or that it exists? That’s a long way off, but an exciting question. We are a long way from intelligent comput ers.” At a press conferen ce, Kasparov said that he was willing to accept any challenge that is offered to him, even if he was doomed to lose. “I remain a cautious optimist in the progress of human brains,” Kasparov said. “I still believe that there are some horizons it will be very difficult for comput ers to cross.”

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The ‘University in overalls’: Frontier College fights illiteracy By A ndrew Rickard I have commenced work on the road and must confess I find it a little hard with the resultant effects — blisters and fully devel oped symptoms o f a kink in my vertebral colum n. However, / enjoy it and am sure / shall like it immensely later on. — Dr. N orm an B erthune, M cG ill alum nus and F ro n tier College participant, on working at a camp near G eorgian Bay with Frontier College. Frontier College was founded in 1899 by Rev. A lfred Fitzpatrick. Seeking to provide a basic education to labourers in the iso lated in d u strial cam ps of “ E d u c a tio n s h o u ld be a c c e s s ib le to all, a n d w e ’re g o in g w h e re th e n e e d is .”

is an autonomous organisation, the prisoners,” McGuire said. “As Students from Queen’s work computer skills. yet it maintains close ideological opposed to other volunteer pro as tutors in a variety of subjects, After 97 years, the Labourerties to Frontier College. Lorna grams, we offer something really from E nglish as a Second Teacher program has still contin Y ates, an M SL co o rd in ato r, concrete.” Language to teaching math and ued, despite the College’s move echoes the fundamen to more urban locales. Last sum tal p rin cip les of mer, 27 university students from Fitzpatrick. across C anada found work on “Education farms and plantations. should be accessible Surya Govender, a McGill to all, and w e’re student and member of the MSL, going where the need speaks enthusiastically about her is,” Yates explains. experience in British Columbia. The MSL runs “I picked raspberries in the reading circ les for Frasier Valley and cherries in the children, adult tutori Okanagan. I think I made around als as well as a Youth $500.00,” Govender said. “But 1 at Risk literacy pro wasn’t there to make a fortune.” gram at the Shawbridge detention i centre. A nyone in terested in Yates describes Frontier College can call the F ro n tier C o lle g e ’s MSL at 398-5100 or visit role as “that of pro th eir web site at viding su p p o rt.” http://www. molson. com/cor Y a te s’ success in porate. d efeatin g SSM U ’s Frontier College as it looked in the early 1900's attempt to reduce MSL funding by 30 per cent was reported on the fro n t page o f the la test Wf-W’ Frontier College newsletter. m a cm Taffy M iller, the national / emarw ■?mymprogram m anager at F ro n tier College, took the MSL model to Frontier and suggested that they encourage other Canadian univer At Club Metropolis JUIa »*!* A 1 A A £ doors open 8 pm IfSCIrCll O , I T ¥ 9 sities to establish sim ilar pro grams. Frontier College is now directly involved on 30 campuses |K to b e n e fit jb e F a rh a F o u n d a tio n ^ ^ across the country. Like any other Canadian uni in th e fig h t a g a in s t R IO S A' v ersity program , funding has becom e an issue fo r F ro n tier College. At the College’s Prison Literacy Program in Kingston, % Queen’s University Students for jg f % w ^ Literacy are facing the possibility of losing their Frontier College coordinator, Wendy Workman. H. $ “D ealing with C orrections Canada is a pretty bureaucratic p ro c e ss” com m ented Hugh McGuire, a Queen’s engineering student. W ithout W orkm an, he believes the Q ueen’s program would suffer. P a r h i F c M n d fitlS l “W e’d p robably have to become smaller, only going into a couple of institutions,” McGuire stated. W T ic h e t in fo rm a tio n : At the moment, tutors work with convicts in six area prisons, f3 R B -7 E R E / E B a -E D E D ranging from minimum to maxi http.//ujujiu, accent, net/ubermode mum security. “We get a lot of respect from

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C an ad a’s no rth , F itz p atrick recruited university students to spend their summers as LabourerTeachers. The students donned overalls and toiled alongside their pupils during the day. But in the evening, they devoted their time to the instruction of their fellow workers. Nearly a century later, the frontiers may have changed, but the ‘University in overalls’ is still fighting illiteracy. Shawn Conway is the manag er of Frontier College’s Beat the Street program in Toronto. An estim ated 300 to 400 homeless youths and adults pass through his doors each year. “There’s a lot of fluctuation,” Conway explained. “They drop in to get help with a resumé or work through the Yellow Pages and then we may not see them for months, but that’s how we build relationships.” Currently, about 25 students receive regular tutoring through Beat the Street. All tutoring is based on the Student Centred Individualised Learning program. Developed by Frontier College, SCIL aims for success by focusing on the specif ic needs of the individual. McGill Students for Literacy

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The Unknown Modigliani - an obsession with beauty By Stephan Kohout I have one particular image etched in my memory from the Barnes exhibit in Toronto last year. It was Modigliani’s painting of a nude model. The painting’s combination of sensual burgundy and corpulent pink flesh tones bounded by the elegant lines of the model’s supple body created an image of haunting, idealised beauty. This obsessive search for perfect beauty permeates M odi gliani’s work and the Musée Des Beaux Arts current exhibit, The Unknown Modigliani: Drawings fr o m the C o lle ctio n o f P aul Alexandre, provides an insight into the evolution and mastery of this obsession. The U nknown M o d ig lia n i prem ieres draw ings, sketches, watercolours, and sculptures of the famous Italian artist from the period of 1906 to 1914, shortly before his untimely death. The works were carefully collected and arranged by a young doctor, Paul Alexandre, who befriended Modigliani and became his unof ficial patron. Alexandre collected over 400 of Modigliani’s sketch

es and m ade it his lif e ’s m ission to expose the genius of this artist to the world — the re su lt o f this mission is this impor tant exhibit. The exposition is arranged thematically and ex p lo res the artist’s concerns with the human figure, the atrical perform ances, p o rtra its, and scu lp tu res in turn. W hat em erges from the d raw ings is M odigliani’s focus on the hum an body and the expression of ide alised beauty. Through the draw ings, one can trace the a r tis t’s p ro g ressio n from sim ple realistic sketches of nude mod els to his more abstract and sty lise d e x p lo ratio n o f the hum an figure inspired by clas sical Greek, primitive Khmer and African art The power a n d obsession o f idealised beauty forms.

Burlesque burlesqued! Gilbert and Sullivan’s Ruddigore By M ila A ung-Thwin

1886) with a peppering of jokes and references plucked from 1996. He calls the production “a bur lesque of a burlesque”. No doubt the script contained jokes that had to be updated. It is remarkable how seamlessly the script has been modified — rather

Until now, I’ve always asso ciated M oyse H all w ith great tragedies, simply because that’s all I’ve ever seen there. The title of the Savoy Society’s latest produc tion, Ruddigore, as well as the sombre posters advertising the production, led me to the conclusion that I was in for another heavy drama. For those o f you who may be similarly deceived by the ads, Ruddigore is defi nitely not a tragedy. It is a joyous and satirical Gilbert and Sullivan song-and-dance extravaganza. I’d never seen a produc tion of Gilbert and Sullivan before Ruddigore. Being a som ew hat closed-m inded person, I’d always assumed that the only way I could like a G&S production would be by enjoying it as kitsch. After all, it was written over a hun dred years ago, before irony was invented (all apologies to the G & S-only Savoy Society). To my surprise, director Showing a little G and S. Jeffrey Pufahl, musical direc tor James Higgins and choreogra than standing out as clumsy poppher Jayne Paterson have succeed culture references, the am end ed in making accessible the splen ments are in complete accordance dour (and irony!) of G&S. The w ith the spirit of the play. original script is a “burlesque on Actually, a few of the wittier lines the m elodram atic genre of the in the performance left me won early 1800’s” and is itself very dering who wrote them — Gilbert clever. However, Pufahl’s input as or Pufahl? The acting is exceptional. a director is also quite obvious. He has updated the script (written in Moreover, every member of the

cast seem s to understand the jokes, resulting in perfect comic timing. The first act is particularly entertaining because of the way the m ain characters are in tro duced. Every new character, it seems, is funnier and more excit ing than the last, culminating in

the fiery introduction of Sir Despard Murgatroyde (played by the am azingly versatile Kwasi Songui), the relu ctan tly evil baronet. After all the characters have appeared, the various scenes and song and dance numbers seem to be a com petition fo r which Continued on Page 21 >1

Taking his cue from th ese art fo rm s, M o d ig lian i so u g h t to reduce the hum an face and body to its m ost essential geometric com p o n en ts. T hrough this extrem e stylisation and th ro u g h his tech n ic al m astery o f lin es and form s, M odigliani was able to evoke a haunting im age o f id eal beauty th at elev ated his m ere sk etch es to p o w erfu l works of art. This power is evident in the artist’s renditions of caryatids, ancient architectonic fig ures. In these drawings I could feel not only the primal magic inherent in M o d ig lia n i’s sty lise d forms, but also the power o f the o b sessio n that drove M o d ig lian i to express the perfection of beauty. I found myself at the end w anting to see M o d ig lia n i’s p aintings and how all these sketch book d raw in g s w ere

translated onto canvas and into colour. Although being denied this desire, the exhibit served as an ex c e lle n t in sig h t into the magic o f M o digliani’s art and also as an insight into the inner workings and creative evolution of a great artist. T his ex h ib it is a unique experience and considering that the Musée Des Beaux Arts is the only museum in North America where these works will be exhib ited while on tour, it is definitely worth checking out. On a side note, if you go to see M o digliani’s works, make sure to check out Stephan Balkenhol’s wood sculptures on the bottom floor of the museum. B alkenhol’s pop art sculptures have a high degree of craftsman ship and his e x p lo ra tio n of hum an and anim al w orlds are delightful and accessible.

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Amateur night at the Appalling: Boss Hog fail to thrill By Kurt N ewman In Nicholson Baker’s phone sex romans Vox, one character describes the titillation of watch ing scrambled porn films at the upper reaches of the TV dial, flip ping back and forth from the channel above to make out the grainy, ab stracted im ages of ecstasy. Boss Hog’s approach to rock and roll is sim ilar, never quite catching the cliché, and speeding in and out of bar band riffs and grooves before the music settles into anything resembling fam iliarity. Fractured sexuality extends beyond abstract compar isons— the band, like good post structuralists, make art that refers only to itself, and rock, as we know, means s-e-x both literally and figuratively. Frontpersons Christina Martinez (vocals) and Jon Spencer (guitar, grunts) are junkie paramours who regularly gloss fashion mags like Details, but also boast an im pressive enough indie rock pedigree (Pussy Galore, Gibson Bros., Jon Spencer Blues Explosion) to lure all the scenesters off their couch es, straight to the guest list. You may hace noticed that the above list of bands don’t have much to do with Martinez (she played gui tar in Pussy Galore for. like, a day) — her main claim to fame

seeming to be her status as ersatz indie Pet of the Month following her nude cover shot on Boss Hog’s 1991 release Cold Hands. Christina didn’t do much to argue for her being taken more seriously than a sex object at Friday night’s sold-out show at the Cabaret. Seeming like a shelf of Cinema L ’Amour’s video rack come to life, her performance was a series of seductive pouts, lurch es and shim mies. Not that her P atti S m ith/Joan Jett/P o lly Styrene vocals were bad, but in the presence of her rock god hus band Spencer, she seemed more than a little sup erflu o u s. Jon S p en ce r’s bohem ian h illb illy schtick was unim pressive this time around, too. He seems more and more like Jimmy Page-asElvis impersonator, a particularly unappealing mix. At risk of sounding like a term paper on “The Problematic o f P ro fe ssio n a lism ,” it has become evident that much of the music falling under the guise of punk rock (a distinctly modernist, av an t-g ard e m ovem ent) has become either so generic as to be about as revolutionary as breaking the fourth wall in contemporary th eater, or has fallen into the realm of self-referentiality and in Continued on Page 21 I I

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The Cult o f Ray (American Recordings)

— Rachel Stokoe T ori A m os

This volume is a collection of that vapid fille r th at takes place between the more radio-friendly riffs of better albums. While other members of the defunct Pixies seem to have found some sort of niche, Frankie, on his third solo effort, is ju st that much further removed from past glory. He tries to pick up the whimsy of the Pixies w ith ly rics like “Hey I got kicked in the taco/ T h e re ’s a brewing sirroco,” but he lack s the g u itar m as tery to make the m usic enjoyable or even in te r estin g . At other times, he captures some appro priately offguitar jams, but they too frequently fall into predictable amp noise or, at worst, a slick pop oil puddle. W hile some songs come close to the brink of cutting a catchy chord (like “The Cult of R ay” and “Jesus Was R ight”),

Boys For Pele (Atlantic) For someone who thought Under the Pink was a lesson in self-vic tim iza tio n ra th e r than s e lf em pow erm ent, A m o s’s la te st work marks a happy development in her counselling sessions. While

tions between whispers and wails. Amos’ music is intensely sexual, but there is something very sub versive in its urges. Her voice is so em otionally graphic that the listener feels like Jimmy Stewart in Rear Window, a voyeur who sees everything but is powerless to engage except at a distance. A photo in her album best summarises the mood — she is on all fours on an ab an doned m atress in a field surrounded by cows, her white pants smeared in mud and her back to the cam era. With the music, m uch like the p ic ture, the raw ness, w hile not p retty , expresses (to use a quote lifted from a critique of fem inist N atalie S a rra u te ’s works) an “interstel lar holocaust of inter personal experience” that is just too pow erful to ignore. Her voice is the m ost developed instrument on the album. While certain new elements get a little hokey (like her use of the harpsi chord), her emotions demand and

arrest attention. While the album may make you flinch, you won’t be able to stop yourself from tak ing another illicit peak at her inner world. — Rachel Stokoe

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Lay It Down (DGC)

for the existence of the literary genre of Southern Ontario Gothic, one into w hich The C ow boy Junkies certainly fit. So while the general public may asscociate their somnambulant blues/country hybrid with Oliver Stone’s N a tu ra l Born K illers (w hich featu red the Junkies’s inspired cover of VU’s “Sweet Jane”), I ass cociate them more with the small Canadian film South O f Wawa. An eleg iac, spare look at life in the wasteland of sm all-town Ontario, the despair of that film’s characters is supple mented with the Cowboy Junkies’ mournful songs. Lay It Down, the ban d ’s fifth album, takes a detour off of the Junkies’s nowestablished aesthtetic road. Gone is the tower of reverb that has previously been the aural eq iv ale n t of chiaroscuro in the cinema — adding a layer of mys tery and lurking dread to the relatively straightfor w ard p ro ceed in g s. The more generic sounding production on Lay It Down certainly takes Continued on Page 21 I I

Margaret Atwood has long argued

Madness and the Sea Beggars her voice remains violent, painful and heartfelt, she doesn’t come across as a little girl in need of protection. Instead, she struggles to define h erself — her voice reflects this in its harsh fluctua-

Tuesday niyh Insects given their due in Angel’s and Insects Like Rodney Dangerfield, insects have gotten no respect from Hollywood. For far too long Tinseltown has portrayed them as mass murderers (think: Anachrophohia and The Swarm). Leave it to the Brits to finally give these creepy crawlers much-deserved dignity in the sensual period drama, Angels and Insects. The story unravels when William Adamson, a soft-spoken working class-bom entomologist (Mark Rylance), returns to 1860s England after spending a decade studying wildlife in the Amazons. Hard up for cash. Williams accepts a job from his wealthy benefactor to organise the insect collection at the latter’s lush country estate. He eventually falls in love with the benefactor’s fair-haired daughter (Patsy Kensit), thereby earning the wrath of her snobbish brother Edgar (Jeremy Kemp). Despite their class differences, William and Eugenia are permitted to marry. Initially, life seems perfectly idyllic for William who, with the help of the bookish governess Matty (Kristin Scott Thomas), writes a book analysing the behaviour of field ants. Tension arises, however, when William begins to wonder why Eugenia seems to be getting pregnant more often than she unlocks her bedroom door for him. Frequently juxtaposing scenes of humans clothed in the colours of bees and butterflies with nature-show-like close-ups of bugs, direc tor Peter Haas creates a strikingly effective metaphor likening peo ple to insects. By doing so, he weaves a fascinating tale that alludes to Darwinism, class distinction, and repressed Victorian sexuality (numerous explicit sex scenes can attest to the latter). Endowed with graceful pacing, stylish cinematography, and rea sonably subdued performances, Angels and Insects is a pleasure to watch. Although the predictable climax makes the film one notch shy of being a masterpiece, the aftermath of the film’s turning point, involving an unforgettable pun on the word “insect”, entitles it to some sort of distinction. — Monica Mak

By M ila Aunc -Thwin In a loud dow ntow n bar, three m em bers o f the Sea Beggars are waiting to be inter view ed. They are expecting a reporter from The Plant, Dawson C ollege’s student publication. She arrives, notepad in hand, and waits expectantly. “ S o... w e ’re the Sea B eg g ars,” begins T revor Anderson, the band’s singer/guitar player. “Tell me all about you guys,” said the reporter. “W here should we start? How much do you know about us?” “ Um, z e ro ,” adm itted the reporter. “Tell me everything.” The photo on the cover of the Sea Beggars press kit is reminis cent of the cover of the Beatles’ Rubber Soul album. Though he claim s this is in ad v erten t, Anderson is proud of the compar ison, “The Beatles are definitely a very big influence on us”. Could one put labels on the members of the Sea Beggars in the same way that each of the Beatles members are tagged (Paul as good looking one, Ringo as goofy one, etc.)? “Ralph [Lee, guitar] is the angry young office clerk,” says Anderson. “Joel [Hay, drums] is the Jock/Fratboy. Rishi [Dhir, bass] is the eager one. Eric [Touchburn, violin] is the great arbitrator.” What about Anderson? “The firs t tim e I ever jam m ed w ith the b an d ,” says Rishi (the Eager One), “Trevor got an earplug stuck in his ear and was freaking out all night, until he went to the hospital to

get it rem oved. So I alw ays th ought he was the P aran o id One.” O ver the co u rse o f the evening, Anderson keeps going back to the fact that h e ’s ju st learned that The Wedding Present are coming to Montreal. “If I got to play w ith The W edding

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P resent, I w o u ld n ’t com plain about anything else ever again,” he insists. Anderson would name the Wedding Present as the one band that has influenced him the most throughout his life, though he doesn’t think the Sea Beggars sound very much like them. Midway through the inter view , the Sea B e g g a rs’s “Madness”, the title track from their new EP, is played by the bar’s DJ. The band members pay particular attention to the produc tion quality of the song, compar ing it to the song that comes on directly afterwards, which is by the Violent Femmes.

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“You know, I don’t know if we ever thought about how much the V io len t Fem m es w ere an influence on us, actually,” Lee comments, after listening to the song for a while. The Sea Beggars can easily rattle off a dozen bands that have influenced them heavily over the years. Despite this, their sound amounts to a lot more than just the sum of all their influences (th ey d o n ’t sound like the Beatles, the Violent Femmes, or Maestro Fresh Wes, for that mat ter). Their embraceably melodic sound is quite their own, and is p resen t in every one o f th eir songs. Madness consists of four co n cise songs, all o f them crunchy, playful and exceptional. “ P avem ent Q u een ” is truly a gem, begging for repeated listen ings. A week later, the Dawson reporter is back at the same bar. L ast w eek, she knew nothing about the band. What is her journ a listic o p in io n o f the Sea Beggars now? “They re ally have some su p er-serio u s p o te n tia l,” she reports excitedly, “I REALLY love the new EP. I think i t ’s going to go BOOM!”

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Optica-1 illusions take on multimedia proportions By A nya Spethmann___________ As obscure as it generally is, all multimedia art is not created equal. The vast differences in its accessibility and content are illus trated by two very different instal lations cu rren tly show ing at Gallery Optica. Abulia by Louise Wilson resonates with the feeling of sophisticated medical technolo gy, w hile To Touch by Janet Cardiff is seemingly simple and organic. W hile both exam ine aspects of the human psyche, they are very different in both subject matter and method. Cardiff’s installation inhabits a large w hite room , dim ly lit except for a soft light focused on an old wooden work table. Around

the walls, are about twenty even- sound of crickets. A country road. A tall thin man with large eyes and long black curly ly-spaced speakers, largely hair, is dancing by obscured by the dim light. h im se lf...” A lter Touching the table acti nately, the sound of a vates hidden photocells, car screeching, or a each triggering a different woman reciting the sound recording. The alphabet m ight be installation works remark trig g ered . M oving ably well with the tactile o n e ’s hands more and aural elements flowing quickly over the together seamlessly. The table produces a loud sounds range from snippets cacophony of of conversations to the sounds, largely indis sharpening of knives. tin g u ish ab le from The effect depends on one another. how the table is touched — The lack of a a simple, slow movement visual com ponent of one hand over the table forces the viewer to will produces a quiet mur fill out the sounds m ur, perhaps a story. with images from his “Picture this image,” says a or her own memory disembodied voice. “The Examining the psyche and courting technology

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O p e n - m i k e fo r w o m e n t o s h a r e t h e ir o w n w o r k s o r t h e w o r k s o f o t h e r s , j o in in t h e fr ie n d ly , r e la x e d a t m o s p h e r e .

S ta rtin g a t 7p m , in the fir s t flo o r o f the cafe o f T h o m p so n H o u se (3630 M c T a v ish betw een Dr. Penfield a n d P in e).

F r i d a y M a r c h 8 t h is i n t e r n a t i o n a l W o m e n ' s P a y R eflections o n th e Beijing C o n feren ce, w ith McGill s tu d e n t Soriya H assenali a n d o th e r c o n fe re n c e particip an ts. D iscussion a b o u t w h e re th e Third W orld d e b t c o m e s from a n d h o w it affects w o m e n . C all M c G ill W o m e n ’s U n io n f o r m ore details, a t 3 9 8 - 6823 .

2nd annual SSMU all-cand id ates debate addressing wom en’s con cern s. C o m e t o h e a r y o u r fu t u r e r e p r e s e n t a t i v e s v i e w s .

12 :3 0 , in the S h a tn e r C afeteria.

During the Week... • C o m e a n d s: e e o u t ta b le s a c ro ss c a m p u s to find o u t m o re a b o u t w o m e n ’s g ro u p s o n c a m p u s. • Raffle tick ets o n sale, p ro c e e d s will g o to th e S exual A ssau lt C en tre o f McGill S tu d e n ts ’ S ociety. Prizes o ffered by Frenco, Le M e la n g e M ag iq u e, C oles B ookstore, Le S ta g e a n d o th e rs. _____

Thanks to everyone for helping organize these events: M cGill Women’s Union, Shatki Women of Colour Collective, Sexual Assault Centre of M cGill Students’ Society, Post-Graduate Students’ Society, and all the women who helped with organization. A ll events are open to both women and men unless otherwise specified.

Want to staff at the Women's Union? Traning session for new volunteers will be held Monday, March 11th at 4:30pm in Room 423, Shatner building.

and imagination. The effect is one of being both inside one’s own mind as well as functioning as a voyeur. The viewer stands at the table in the light, observed by the others who are shrouded in rela tive darkness, creating an inter esting effect of privacy. Standing at the table gives the impression of being alone with o n e ’s thoughts, when, in reality, one is on display to all and sundry. The installation takes what is usually private — conversations, thoughts and m em ories, and makes them uncomfortably public. At the same time, the soothing lights and low-tech feel of the bat tered work table create a comfort able, reflective atmosphere. The sensuous feeling of being bathed in tactile and aural elements is enhanced by clips of lovers talk ing. The disturbing yet fascinating feeling of being a voyeur is creat ed through sto ries o f sad o masochism and stalking: “It’s not really where the people go or what they do that intrigues me. It’s the closeness, or intimacy I feel as I follow them through their daily errands. It’s like when you watch a bird through b in o cu lars,” explained Cardiff’s To Touch is a fascinating exam ination of the powerful effect that touching and listening have on the mind and consciousness. Also showing is Abulia by Louise Wilson. It is based on a study concerning motion sickness in which the artist participated at McGill. The installation itself con sists of a smaller darkened room, with television monitors on either side displaying snow and images of people moving. There are two steps leading up to a small plat form with earphones hanging above it. One stands on the plat form, staring at a fixed spot. The headphones play irregular beeps and clicks, upsetting regular inner ear balance, in order to simulate motion sickness. Wilson’s work brings to mind medical equipm ent and experi m ents. W hile the in stallatio n poses interesting questions about the relationship between medicine and the people it seeks to heal, much of it is too obscure for those not entirely conversant with the genre. This show is intelligently planned and thought-provoking. If you are not interested in this sort of art, the incomprehensibility of W ilson’s work may prove over whelming. Cardiff’s work can be taken on many levels, so even the u n in itiated can get som ething interesting out of her show. If you are in terested , both are worth going to see, if only to check out the interesting developments in art’s courtship of technology.

C vc^oA bulia and To Touch are showing at Optica, 3982 St. Laurent, Suite 501 until Mar. 23. Gallery hours are noon to 5p.m. Tues. - Sat. and from noon to 6:30 p.m. on 1 Thurs.

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Counting the multimedia ways at Tuesday Night Café By M arc G illiam M c G ill’s T u esd ay N ig h t Café Theatre closed off its sea son with Edward Albee’s vaude v ille C o u n tin g The Ways at M o rrice H all th is w eekend. E n g lish g rad stu d e n t D arren Gobert directed the short play, which incorporated video as well as the au d ien ce as ad d itio n al players. S tarring the unexpectedly rich main characters of He and S he, Jean -A h m ed Z ig b y and Yana Watson portrayed the any thing but generic roles of the two lo v ers e x p e rie n c in g lo v e ’s biggest dilemma: What is love?

Throughout a series of sketches the lovers become increasingly disenchanted with their relation ship and its constant need for forced acknowledgment. “Do you love m e?” rejoins the woman in the midst of dis cu ssin g the e v e n in g ’s d in n er plans. “Will you love me?” she asks again after announcing that Raspberry Fool will replace the scorched Creme Brûlée as her lo v er w ish es. H is re sp o n se , despite being the affirmation she seeks, is not consoling. A mum bled “You b e t!” w hile barely lowering the newspaper that he e n d le ssly stu d ies is not only unsustaining, it is the furthest

thing from love imaginable. w atched . S im ilarly w hen the The complexity of character video beckons the actors to intro begins to build as the alternative duce themselves, they snap out media are added to this produc -of character to talk directly to the tion. A video by L ora audience, now in the spotlight. Hutchinson captures the actors as G obert has given A lb ee’s they develop th e ir ch aracters play a heavy dose of modernism before the director. These candid and hints of post-modernism to scenes are not only p rice less stre tc h it in to c o n tem p o rary slices of life in them selves but dram a. W hen He asks She in also document the how He and return if she feels love for him, She act out th eir triv ial lives she can only guess. The video w ith o u t slip p in g into clich é . projecting “Fade To black” on Hutchinson films with inspira the tw o lo v ers g iv es fu rth e r tion to spare. impact to the play’s final scene. As Counting the Ways builds More importantly, the fading of character, it often turns to the the characters impresses a lack of audience. House lights come up closure. when He feels like he is being A nother strong m o dernist

Ruddigore... I I Continued from Page 18 actor is going to end up stealing the show, and the contest is won derfully balanced. M arc A dolph, as R ichard Dauntless, is hilarious as a hearty Newfoundland sailor (in a perfor m ance rem in iscen t o f Kirk Douglas in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea). If anyone does end up steal ing the show, it would have to be Jonathan Awori as Old Adam G oodheart. He does, however, have an unfair advantage — he is allowed to stop the performance and address the audience directly whenever he so desires. “Theatre sometimes requires

technique is the ongoing selfre fle x iv ity em b o d ied in the video’s behind-the-scenes takes. It allo w s the p ro d u c tio n to remain true to the Albee’s play while expanding of the storyline to the liv es o f all th o se who helped its making. Finally, the mixing of genres pushes Counting The Ways in a p o st-m o d ern d ire c tio n . The evocative use of film-cutting and the redefining of theatre in how the actors in teract w ith video screens showcase the many lev els of the production. As Gobert envisions it, Counting The Ways has laid the g ro u n d w o rk fo r “multimedia vaudeville.”

Discellaneous... a foray into irrationality,” explains Old Adam, w ith m agnificent enunciation, at one such moment. The most suprising perfor mance came from the chorus. I usually see a chorus as a necessary source of tedium whose only role is to help explain events and pro vide back-up singing. But the cho rus of Ruddigore, made up of pro fessional bridesmaids, bandits and nosferati ancestors, is an excep tion, and works to ensure that the play doesn’t get a chance to slow down. The only real flaw is that some verses of songs are unintelli gible and difficult for audience to follow. Although the acting by B ertrand O llé, as Sir R oderic

M urgatroyde, is excellent, his singing is hard to understand. Luckily, there are some very elab orate costumes to gaze at, as well as crisp choreography, so all was not lost. I find it very difficult to hide the fact that I loved this play. Ruddigore made me laugh, clap, and want to sing and dance for the rest of the evening. As Old Adam Goodheart would say (stopping the play for a glass of brandy): “Mmm... delicious!” Roddigore runs from Mar.716 at M oyse Hall. Inform ation or reserva tions,398-6826.

» Continued from Page 19 some getting used to, the Junkies opting for more and more subtle ex p erim en tatio n in the songs themselves. The most obvious of these conceits is the repetition of songs with variations throughout the album, sim ilar to that most annoying o f m odern lite rary “experiments”, the repeated chap ter. U nlike its literary cousin, how ever, this convention here becomes a charming, almost punk thing to do— an aknowledgement that there are only three or four songs in all of rock music, that the drive to ‘innovate’ is doomed from the start, an attem p t at reaching the goal set out by the

Junkies in the first place, one that is surprisingly uncommon. The C ow boy Ju n k ies are stead ily establishing them selves as the leading lights of a rock genre that sees the music as a vehicle for emotions outside the realms of narcissism and nihilism, one that could potentially be as expressive and mature as those media that are taken more seriously. More and more, they are an appropri ately Canadian voice in the quest to make a rock music that can be legitamitely seen as a close rela tive, rather than a mutant cousin, of serious literature, art and film. — Kurt Newman

Boss Hog... The Real Scene in Montreal By Rachel Stokoe

I I Continued from Page18 the process has lost its power to thrill. Boss Hog are a tight, ener getic group who offer up gobs of sweaty rawk without ever giving the impression that a beat could get dropped, a g u itar could explode, or an honest emotion could be expressed. As such the hordes that were slam -dancing away as if their lives depended on it are being duped, offered a rock music with all the stupidity of the genre’s constraints, and none of the personal liberation it advertis es. Boss Hog’s latest, self-titled recording, from which most of the evening’s set was culled, is a fine album that seems to show that with the lig h ten ing of Spencer’s controlling grip, the band can produce some wondefully skronky avant-pop. With the addition of a keyboard/clavinet player, and Spencer’s trash blues riffing in full effect, Boss Hog cam e o ff m ore like a B lues Explosion production of The Ike and Tina Turner Story . Aiming for sublim e heights o f ironic groove-making, Boss Hog treated the full house at the Cabaret to an am ateur night at the Apalling. Funny thing is, nobody seemed to notice.

The m agazine is targeted towards a youthful demographic — the Real Scene caters to readers aged 15 to 30. “It’s a free publica tion, and it will be distributed around downtown Montreal and college and university campuses,” said Phipps. She continued, “It is a student

In addition to music and fash ion, the magazine will also cover movies, art, literature, web sites, and cultural expression in general. “Basically,” said Belgrave, “it is anything that you can link to black roots in the ‘90s. We are dealing mainly with cultural art forms.” Neither Belgrave nor Phipps

and Belgrave have confidence in the expanse of opportunities that While local street scene papers the city offers, even with lesser (ranging from the Mirror to the defined areas of the culture such as Arts section of the Gazette) pat poetry. Belgrave maintained, “On themselves on the back for their the grass roots level, there is a lot sporadic tributes to black culture, of stuff... [For example] the spoken some voices in the community see word tradition — story telling — is a void that needs filling. It is for very strongly sustained, through this reason that the Real different clubs and associa Scene, a monthly publication tions.” dedicated to black popular cul Both Belgrave and ture, was started. The Tribune Phipps are aware that trying talked to the founder, producer to set the boundaries of and publisher, C henier , black popular culture is a B elgrave, and the general tricky business. With the manager, Lisa Phipps, about distinction between what is the project. true black popular culture “Most Montreal publica and what is just good mar tions tend to show black cul keting being pretty nebu ture as fringe culture, [for lous at best, the magazine example] in the Gazette, it is hopes to offer at least an something the kids do. Black I M O N T R E A L ’S B L A C K P O P U L A R C U L T U R E M A G A Z IN F alternative voice to the culture tends to get marginal loudest ones in the business ized,” claimed Belgrave. of representation. In reference to the role she based co-ordinated effort — [the worries that the Real Scene might Belgrave ended, “The repre sees the Real Scene playing in magazine] is not associated with end up marginalizing readers who sentation [of the black voice] reversing this representation, one school in particular.” have an interest in the culture but should be decent. The whole idea It may be difficult to concep lack the common heritage. “It [of defining the culture] is about as Phipps said, “An accurate portrayal would mean not m arginalizing tualise a seem ingly broad and wouldn’t cater only to black peo subjective as the term, ‘the real black popular culture under a sub expansive topic such as black pop ple,” said Phipps. “For example, scene’.” ular culture. However, Belgrave graffiti — ip the States, this heading.” Another important offering of has a very tangible idea of what expression is associated with t ft ^ O the Real Scene is a vent for the exactly will be incorporated in the blacks, but here, most of the graffi Canadian perspective. “Most of the magazine, “ [the magazine] will ti artists are white. This is even the With a mid-April launching magazines that people who are cover any art form or derivative of case with music.” date, the publication is still interested in black culture rely on black popular culture... This can Even though people may not looking fo r people to getCome from the States —- for exam span anywhere from fashion to jun consider M ontreal a haven for involved. Telephone 932gle.” black artistic expression, Phipps ple, Vibe,” said Belgrave. 2927 if you are interested.

REAL S S C E N E Su

S S M U E l e c t i o n p e n s k e tc h e s science senator J e f f r e y E rlich I am Jeffrey Erlich, a second year science student from S I O ntario. Last semester, I I " 1 found myself lying around complaining about school, ™ ■ ■ . when I thought to myself, "Jeff, instead of whining, do r| something about it!" So I went out in pursuit of my de partmental society (which is ■ no easy task in Computer Sci ence). And so I became the VP-Academic of the CSUS, and I also represent CS on SUS council. I enjoy rep resenting the student body, and so I thought I would continue my political career by running for the po sition of science senator. Further question can be sent to: jeff@cs.mcgill.ca G iz e lle P o p r a d i Dear Science undergradu ates, having been a friend of Gizelle's for several years I can vouch for her sense of re sponsibility, her open mind and her drive, all of which make her my choice for Sci ence Senator. As a fellow sci ence student I know how im portant it is to have a good representation in the Sen ate, and I know Gizelle is capable of pushing for the important issues. She wants to make sure we have access to exam schedules during registration, a fair sexual harassment policy and an involved students community. She can make a difference. Sincerely, A Concerned Fellow Student C la ra C h ia-H u a Tan Check Ça!! Freshman and U1: I was confused. U2: now wiser and ready to make changes and additions! You can have confidence in me that racial and sexual harassment issues will receive my full attention, and I will not allow the Uni versity to compromise the quality of our education, due to cutbacks. My platform also includes an exam schedule before the end of drop/add period, and making the Mentor Program available to all students. So if you want someone who will listen, convey, and support your voice! For the BEST education; Vote CLARA TAN for SCIENCE SENATOR! S a n ja y A g g a r w a l I would like to be one of the two representatives of Sci ence students and Science Council at the Senate be cause it is a chance to address academic and university wide questions that are im portant to all of us. I will oppose the privatization of McGill and support the Holy Days Policy. I would like to examine class sizes, professor accessibility, and job opportunities for science stu dents while completing their degree. Most impor tantly, this position is a dynamic one, and issues will have to be tackled as they arise, through continu ous consultation with science students.

P ie rre -M a rc L e g a u lt There's a student Who goes to McGill He lives up in res. On top of the hill. His name is Pierre-Marc And he is in Science With SSMU he will form an alliance. They say the Senate Makes important decisions Concerning student's rights. School evaluations Dealing with issues such as academic programs Making sure things are as students plan. Maclean's rates us third But P.-M. knows we're better. It was quite a sad day When Queens took the header. If you want the job done Pierre-Marc is the one To make McGill better To make it the leader G io v a n n i O so y G o n z a le z HEY! EVER wondered what Senate is all about? Well Sen ate makes decisions regarding Academic issues. Oui Mon sieur, decisions that will invari ably affect our education the grading system and a general harassment policy will be dealt with. As Senator it will be my | duty to represent my fellow 1 students' interests in such is sues. Listening to students' concerns is the basis for good decision making. On election day, vote for the representative that will serve you best - Giovanni Osoy A sad K han H igher tu itio n fees and sm aller U n dergraduate enrollm ent are Principal Shapiro's ideas for a new McGill. As Science Senator I will ensure that education remains a right and doesn't become a privilege for those who can afford it financially, I will work towards lessen ing of course load and greater inter-faculty cooperation. I will ensure that students' opinions are heard in Senate and will keep students regularly informed of Senate proceedings. As Vice-President Academic of Biology I have ensured that Student interests are made a priority by deci sion-making bodies. Therefore I have the necessary experience. Vote Asad Khan for Science Senator.

D u e t o a p r in tin g e rro r, th e p e n s k e tc h e s f o r th e f o llo w in g p o s itio n s a re b e in g re p rin te d .

engineering senator A ly El H a m a m s y Hi I am Aly El Hamamsy. I am running for the senate be cause I believe engineers, as well as all other McGill stu dents, are in critical need of strong representation on the senate to actively voice their concerns on issues such as funding cuts, tuition fees increases, as well as mainte nance and upgrading of fa cilities. By trusting me with your vote, you are elect ing a forceful and active voice to present YOUR views on all these vital issues to the administration in or der to make sure students are not the victims of unfair measures. Thank you. N uno G am a Hi! My name is Nuno Gama, and I am very interested in representing and protecting your views at senate. Over the last year I have sat on EUS council, Faculty meet ings, EUS President's council, and Departmental meetings as President of the Civil En gineering Undergraduate Society. I am familiar with issues currently facing senate including tuition, budget review, marking policies, priority and plan ning. In my position as President of CEUS and man ager of other committees, I have dealt with univer sity officials, have balanced budgets and have rep resented student rights. For strong engineering stu dent leadership vote for Nuno Gama. L a tif J in a No pensketch or photo available

K a rin R a s h c o v s k y The Senate is the highest academic decision making body at McGill. On Senate, students have the opportu nity to have th e ir voices heard by McGill's top profes sors and adm inistrators. Your duty is to elect your representative to a council where your opinion on is sues has a direct influence on McGill's future. Whether the issue concerns general harassment policy, or a change in the GPA scale, I as your senator would address the matter at hand with the interests of all students in mind. This is what I would expect from my student senator, and this is what I will STRIVE TO ACHIEVE.

A d v a n c e p o lls M a rc h 7 R e g u la r p o lls M a rc h 13, 1 4 & 15

McGill track wins second consecutive provincial championship B y A r ju n T a n e ja

This p ast w eekend, the Q uebec Indoor P rovincial C ham pionships were held at M cG ill’s very own Fieldhouse gym. Track and field athletes, com peting at the junior, senior and university levels, from all over Quebec converged on M cGill’s prized facility to take part in this esteemed event. In the university category, McGill was victorious as both the Redmen and the Martlets dominat ed their respective sides of the competition. In fact the Redmen defeated their next closest rival, Université de Sherbrooke, by a score of 144-64. This victory gave M cGill its second consecutive Quebec university track and field championship. With the provincial champi onship in hand, the McGill ath letes who met the standard for the Canadian Inter-university Athletic Union track and field cham pi onship will travel to the University of Windsor over the March 8-9 weekend. Pumulo Sikaneta was one of the McGill athletes who qualified for the National Championship. Sikaneta will represent McGill in the men’s 300m and 600m events. Arguably the fastest man on the

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McGill campus, Sikaneta will be one of M cG ill’s best chances for a medal when he competes in the 600m. “I’m looking forward to this return trip to the Nationals,” he commented w hile preparing for the 300m. He won the bronze in that event but captured gold medals for his perfor mances in the 600m and the men’s 4x800m relay. Some of the M cGill athletes to join Sikaneta in the winner’s circle includ ed Marie Hildebrand, who won the women’s 60m hur dles and 300m events. She also m anaged to add a bronze in the w om en’s 60m competition. Also vic torious was Doug Penick in the m en’s 1500 and 3000 meter races. Tambra Dunn took gold in the 1500m and silver 1000m, while Alex H utchinson won the men’s 1000m and finished second in the 1500m. In addition to several of the McGill relay teams, long-jum pers M aurice Ennis and Edongo Herve also qu alified for the

national championships. In fact Ennis set a QSSF record in the long jump with his jump of 7.20m. Shot-putter Samir Chahine will also join the Windsor gang. His efforts to qualify for nationals may have been influenced by the encouragement he received from the many friends and family in the crowd, for he realised his best per formance ever. McGill track and field coach Dennis Barrett was very-pleased with the team ’s performance. In the long term, however, Coach Barrett is aiming for success at a national level. “I’m pleased with our success here at the provincial level espe cially considering the injury prob lems we have had to deal with.” He also said th at he was pleased that the team was able to achieve its goals of repeating its provincial win. “ [W ]e have been kicking around here [at the provincial level] for a little while now, and I’m hoping that if not this year, next year we will be able to make our mark at the national level,” he said. Coach Barrett seems hopeful that next year, by adding some new talent to an already strong team, McGill will be able to make a significant impact at the national level.

McGill falls 71-58 to the Gaiters in sudden death semifinal B y D a v e M iz e n e r a n d S a r a h Ew i n g

History did not repeat itself this year. The previous two times that McGill and Bishop’s squaredoff in a QSSF semi-final game, the Redmen came out victorious. The telling statistic this time was that Bishop’s had a 3-1 lead. In the T hursday night encounter, the Gaiters dominated the Redmen by a score of 71 to 58. At the end of the first half, McGill was trailing by only eight points, 32 to 24. This was due, in large part, to the efforts of Chris Emergui, Chad Wozney and Rick Varisco. Emergui nailed two from ‘downtown,’ keeping the Redmen in hot pu rsu it of B ish o p ’s. Wozney’s ten points put him on top of the list of McGill scorers for the first half. V a risco ’s intense defence resulted two key steals for the Redmen. Freshman Joel Pearlman also made his mark with an acrobatic diving save over the half-court line to allow McGill to retain possession. The Redm en m arginally improved their defensive rebound ing and hustling following their previous game against Concordia. They also got off to a better start and their defence was stronger. However, this was not enough. Throughout the game, their shoot

ing was never more than 40 per eight points in the first half. A lthough the Redm en are cent accurate and this proved to be their eventual downfall. Had their normally stronger in the second percentage been closer to the 60 half, this was not to be the case percent average they had achieved against the Gaiters. Even though against Laval, two weeks ago, guard Ryan “Archie” Schoenhals cam e back they could from a dis have easily T h e R e d m e n ’s p ro b le m s w e re appointing beaten the c o m p o u n d e d b y V a ris c o ’s c o n first half Gaiters. perfor “ The tin o u s s h o u tin g a t th e te a m ’s m ance to Redmen p la y a n d re fe re e s ’ ca lls. score nine have some points — of the best including a three-point shooters in the league and this is long three-pointer kissed off the reflected in the s ta ts,” said glass — McGill was never able to G a ite rs’ A ssistant C oach Jeff get closer than eight points from Harris. “But what we did tonight Bishop’s. McGill’s fieldgoal percentage was we limited McGill’s chances and your good looks at the bas dropped even lower to a dismal 36 per cent in the second. After nail ket.” The majority of the Redmen’s ing two three-pointers in the first, two-pointers came from inside, Emergui went without a converted while McGill’s outside game was field goal for the remainder of the ‘missing in action.’ The Gaiters’ gam e and finished the game pressure, in-your-face defence was shooting only 2 for 7 from the pivotal in containing the McGill field. However, down the stretch perimetre game. At the same time, McGill failed to stop the Gaiters’ Matt Watson went 3 for 4 from the charity stripe and senior for offence. Bishop’s point guard, Ryan ward Connor Glynn shot a perfect Thorne, was key in dissecting the 2 for 2. The Redmen’s problems McGill defence, as his slash-and- were compounded by Varisco’s cut style was too much for the continuous shouting at the team’s Redmen to handle. Bishop’s agili play and referees’ calls. His ener ty was also demonstrated on the gy would have been better direct offensive boards, where forward ed at reassuring the team of their Kris Ruiter was able to collect ability, rather than blaming others

for the team’s difficulties. Bishop’s play in the second half was a mirror image of that in the first. Thorne chipped in anoth er eight points and all-star, Stewart Clark added another nine points. This kept the Gaiters com fortably out of reach. S till, at certain points throughout the second half, Bishop’s seemed content to sit on its lead. This gave M cGill the opportunity to get back into the game. Yet M cG ill was sim ply unable to convert its chances. Nothing seemed to be going the Redmen’s way. Case in point: with time running out, M cGill stepped up the defensive pressure, which seemed to have fazed the G aiters offence. The ball got trapped outside the three-point arc. It seemed to many that a fivesecond possession violation should have been called. However, Bishop’s saved a criti cal possession by calling for time. Was it a blown call? It certainly looked that way. But who are we to question the referees? W ith tim e running out in McGill’s season, they began foul ing in hopes of regaining posses sion. But it was not to be. Bishop’s was able to convert on its opportunities at the free-throw line and sealed their victory. Some would point out that McGill’s lack of a power inside

game is its main weakness. While this may be true, Chad Wozney’s eighteen point performance down low would indicate otherwise. McGill put up a good fight and was never completely out of the gam e. H ow ever, B ish o p ’s cam e out ready to play while McGill’s offence was still on the bus. “I think it’s just our intensity and the way we p la y ,” said Wozney. “I mean, Bishop’s took everything to heart and we didn’t — and th at show ed. Plus we didn’t run our offence well.” Put the two factors together and you get Bishop’s facing off against Concordia in the QSSF championship series. With this last game of the 1995-1996 season for McGill, we must say good-bye to guards Ryan Schoenhals, Chris Emergui, Rick Varisco, Sammy M endolia and forwards Connor Glynn and Jay McHarg. Their tremendous effort and untiring commitment to the gam e of b ask etb all over their years at McGill has brought the team to many new heights. The remaining players, Matt Watson, Peter Fraser, Tyler Smith, Hugh R ow an-Legg, Joel B aetz, Joel P earlm an, M ike Johnston and Chad Wozney have large shoes to fill, but their excellent potential should carry the Redmen on to many victories next season.

March5th, 1996

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Dallas Cowboys: number one... but at what cost? iF r o m

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THE BLEACHERS By A m y Kapyrka

It has now been just over a month since the Dallas Cowboys used two clutch interception returns by Larry Brown to set up touchdown runs by Emmitt Smith, ,and defeated the P ittsburgh Steelers, 27-17, in Super Bowl XXX in Tempe, Arizona. Even though the celebratory hoopla of the championship game has died down, and Pittsburgh fans and players lay sleeping, all snug

in their beds, visions of Cowboys still dance in their heads..and dance...and dance. While the Cowboys do have some of the most talented players in professional football, a majority of them have also proven to be the most obnoxious, irritating and dis respectful players in the league. You know the type: those players who don’t feel that the play is com plete until they bellow “Number #1 !Number#l !” an eye lash’s length from their opponent’s face, do a few pelvic thrusts, and use their opponent’s neck as a stepping stone. Well, do not despair, Steeler

fans. Just because you lost the big game doesn’t mean yours are the only dream s haunted by the Cowboys. Popularity remains at an all-time high for the most prof itable team of all time — no one can escape their appalling reign as Super Bowl champions. Now, before all o f you Cowboys fans hunt me down, force me to go underground and sign-up for the A nti-C ow boys Protection Program — an interrup tion that would not enhance my already feeble m id-term study habits — let me explain. These players cannot be blamed for their outrageous behaviour. They have

no control over their actions, for they are the result of a greater power that forces them to lose sight of such standards as common decency and dignity...the almighty dollar. Thought you could get away from the incessant and maddening economic forces that make the world go ‘round by unwinding in front of a game? Well, think again. Money is the phenom enon that has made the Dallas Cowboys the most marketable, successful and popular team in the NFL. It has given them their ‘Mightier than thou’attitude. It is also the same phenomenon that threatens the sta

bility of the N ational Football League. And all because of one man. Since his arrival in Dallas seven years ago, the always con troversial, highly visible, and noto riously self-indulgent owner, Jerry Jones, has directed his cast and crew of characters, in a production that has seen the Cowboys win three Super Bowls in the last four years. The Pittsburgh players and fans are hopeful that the memory of what happened January 28 will diminish — because, as the saying goes, time heals all wounds. Still, one cannot forget that there are exceptions to every rule. Jones has proved himself to bè the exception of all of them. W ith his bank statem ent backing his every move, Jones has proven that ‘money makes the man’...or, in this case, ‘the team.’ W ith unprecedented business deals, and tactics dubbed the “New Regime,” Jones has not only bom barded football’s business stan dards but, more profoundly, staged an assault on the league’s cozy and time-honoured traditions. Just before the 1995 season, Jones signed a pair of lucrative sponsorship agreem ents that demonstrate his lack of respect for the league. In a direct challenge to the league’s $250 million deal with Coke, Jones gave Pepsi exclusive rights at Texas Stadium. A little transaction from which the Cowboys pocket a cool $40 mil lion. Secondly, Jones cut his own deal with Nike to sponsor selected Cowboy events and looks to do the same with A m erican E xpress. Ultimately, all logos associated with the Dallas Cowboys will be handled by the Dallas Cowboys and not the NFL. As a result, all profits w ill go to the D allas Cowboys and not the NFL. In doing so, he ignores the fact that the success of the league has been based on an extended partner ship among the teams. For exam ple, the marketing of each team’s merchandise is handled by NFL Properties, and the profits are dis tributed equally am ong all 30 teams, even though some team logos are more popular than others. Jones is an individual whose personal progress threatens a busi ness that treasures the security and predictability of communal busi ness. While this attitude has out raged the football establishment and fans, it is also the attitude that has allow ed Jo n es’ players to become so successful. His selfserving tactics and disrespectful attitude serve to attract and support players with similar outlooks. After watching Sanders help the San Francisco 49ers get over the hump a year ago, the Cowboys’ owner would not rest until he got his man. Never mind the fact that Jones ignored the salary cap, sued the league and kept his and NFL commissioner Tagliabue’s lawyers at each other’s throats...he signed a contract with Deion Sanders that is worth up to $35 million dollars Continued on P age 25

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A day in the life of JoJo’s Psychos In tra m u ra l Corner B y T eri F is h e r a n d jA R R A D LlFSHITZ

The following is a true story. The names have been changed to protect the innocent. It is a day in the life of several players who participate in one of the most gruelling activities known to man - intramural ball hockey.

A week before game time

after being mesmerised by Mario Tremblay’s red suit on Hockey Night in Canada. 11:59 a.m.: Teammate K.Z. is met on the street. The line is complete. It is time to go to the Palace of Carbohydrates for the pre-game power lunch — Mickey D ’s. The cashier asks for their orders. “We’ll take anything — just make sure it’s deep fried.” B rillian t gam e strateg ies are T h e p s y c h ic p ro c e e d s to te ll th e P s y c h o s th a t sh e re c e iv e d a le tte r fro m an

am azed M adam e The call goes out to InfoC h ré tie n . McGill. The time and place are set: 15:30 at the C urrie G ym nasium . The m em bers of passed over the table quicker JoJo’s Psychos are notified of the than french fries. As they leave, imminent showdown. Some will they catch a glim pse o f the be there, some will not — it’s a sparkle in Grimace’s eye. While matter of commitment. the intramural Gods have been

Game day - Sunday 5:13 a.m.: Captain T.F. is woken up by the piercing sound of his alarm clock. He presses the snooze button. He goes back to sleep. 5:18 a.m.: The alarm rings again. The alarm is unplugged. Back to sleep. 11:27 a.m.: This time the captain awakes of his own free will. He is tired, but alert — only 11 hours this time. As he begins his strict aerobic exercise of ten jum ping jack s, he has time to reflect over the past two years of being in this unforgiving league. The M cG ill intram u ral Gods have not been kind to him — not a single win to show for all the long excruciating hours of inten sive training. He begins to under stand how Pat Burns feels. 11:28 a.m.: JoJo’s Psychos left wing/roommate/Republican p resid en tial can d id ate, J.L ., opens the door to his room where he is greeted by T.F. with a “You look tired, buddy.” J.L. promptly explains that he has been medi tating for the past 13 hours in preparation for the game. T.F. however, knows the truth — J.L. must have had nightmares again

cruel in the past, they know that with the muse-like McDonald’s characters on their side, the smell of victory is getting stronger... wait a minute...it might just be the ketchup on T.F.’s face. 12:39 p.m.: They return to their apartments where a call is placed to one of JoJo’s trained psychics. After telling them that they will win the game, the psy chic proceeds to tell the Psychos that she received a letter from an amazed Madame Chrétien (who, by the way, is also predicting a win). They then pass out until game time — their afternoon nap. 2:30 p.m.: They wake up to the sound of knocking on the door. It’s the police. The Psychos forgot to pay at M cD onald’s again. They pay th eir fine. They’re happy. Police are happy. Nightstick is happy. They head to the game. 2:48 p.m.: The rest of the team arrives in a clown car. All 12 get out of the Beetle. At this point T.F. makes sure that they each have their own ID and eye protection. He inspects each piece of equipment one at a time. This time there is a wide assort m ent o f C anadian S tandards A ssociation approved safety equipment including ski goggles,

safety g lasses, a blin d fo ld , a Batman mask... and oh, one guy has a bra wrapped around his head again. T.F. questions him as to if that is acceptable. He seems happy, so it is left at that. 3:03 p.m.: G oalie J.L. #2 (not to be confused with J.L. #1) is suited up and ready to go. The Psychos prom ptly begin their warm-up. They soon come to the realisation that J.L. #2 has forgot ten his jockstrap. The barrage of shots stops for two minutes. 3:30 p.m.: The lines are set. JoJo’s Psychos begin chanting to the ref “We love you. We kiss you.” He calls a bench penalty. The ball is dropped. The blood bath begins. 3:31 p.m.: It’s 1-0 them. 3:33 p.m.: It’s 2-0 them. 3:51 p.m.: 3-0 3:53 p.m.: We get our first shot on net. We cheer. 3:54 p.m.: Intermission. By using simple logic, we are able to come to the conclusion that more shots are needed to be taken in the direction of the opposing net in order for us to get one of those goal things. The team is awed by this effective yet simple strategy. 3:57 p.m .: The ball is dropped. The bloodbath contin ues. 4:00 p.m.: It’s 4-0. There is a lot of sw earing on the bench. Grimace’s name is used in vain. 4:08 p.m.: It’s 5-0 them. For a few brief wonderful seconds we are able to convince the score keeper that we are winning. 4:15 p.m.: 6-0 4:19 p.m.: The game ends. As a show of good sportsman ship, we shake hands with the other team. It is time to head to the locker room. One man who gave the game everything he had bites on an ice cube as the blade of a hockey stick is rem oved from his abdomen. He’ll be back next week. 4:46 p.m .: We all head home. Thoughts race through our heads: Grimace lied to us, JoJo lied to us, O.J. lied to us. It hasn’t been a good day. Soon we will have to play the Sharpshooters — they haven’t lost in 68 years! But the Psychos will beat them. Just wait until next week...

three major trophies. Forward Vicky Tessier, a chem istry senior from Châteauguay, was selected to the first all-star team and named play er of the year for the fourth con secutive season. Alison Schafer, an education freshm an from Dollard des Ormeaux, Quebec was voted as league’s rookie of the year while Martlet head coach Lisen M oore, a native of Châteauguay in her second season behind the bench, was named as the league’s coach of the year. Anne Gildenhuys, a mechan ical engineering ju n io r from Ottawa and Jennifer Stacey, a third-year education student from Septs-Iles, Quebec, were also named to the first team. On the m en’s side, guard Sammy Mendolia, an education senior from Verdun, Quebec, earned a berth on the first team while McGill forw ards Ryan Schoenhals, a fifth-year veteran from Regina, Saskatchewan and junior Chad Wozney of Hamilton, Ontario were both selected to the second team.

McGill record tied as swim team g ets fo u r All-Canadians Four McGill swimmers have been named as CIAU AllCanadians, bringing M cG ill’s total to 13 this season, tying the school record set in 1987-88 and equalled last year. Freshman Holly McComb, an education stu dent from Dollard des Ormeaux, Quebec, won two silvers and two bronze medals at the Nationals in Guelph two weeks ago to qualify for All-Canadian status, along with teammate Carol Chiang, an anatomy junior from The Pas, Manitoba, who won a pair of sil vers and a bronze. On the m en’s side, Léo Grépin, a 20-year-old engineering senior from Chamalières, France, was named along with teammate C raig Hutchison, a geology sophomore from Pointe-Claire, Quebec. Grépin won two golds and one silver at the CIAU Nationals, while Hutchison cap tured a pair of golds. Other McGill athletes previ ously named as All-Canadians this season include Odile Desbois, Julie Maughan and Adam Mar from the soccer teams; Tambra Dunn, Rosie Mullins and Alex Hitchinson of the cross-country teams; Kristen Banham of the field hockey squad; and Wes Barbour and Samir Chahine of the football team.

V olleyball's Whelan nam ed a ll-s ta r and rookie o f the year Wendy Whelan, a physical and occupational therapy student from Beaconsfield, Quebec, has been selected to the QSSF all-star team and captured the league’s rookie-of-the-year honours. The 19-year-old freshm an led the Martlets with a 96 per cent serv ing efficiency and had 2.19 pass ing ratio (out of a possible 3.0). Whelan, who averaged 12 digs and 3 stuffed blocks per game in regular season play, was named to the all-tournament teams at the M cGill Invitational, the Sherbrooke Invitational and the Dalhousie tournament. She was chosen QSSF athlete of the week on January 8.

M cG ill ca g ers hon ou red as QUBL a ll stars Three M artlets and three Redmen basketball players have been selected to the league’s allstar teams. The first-place M artlets also dom inated the Quebec University Basketball League awards, sweeping all

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N ext season, the grid-iron R edm en w ill have som e new faces on the sideline. Football Head-coach Charlie Baillie has announced five changes to last y ear’s support staff, including sw itches at the offensive and defensive coordinating positions. Mike Maurovich, a seasoned veteran w ith the Redm en, has rejoined the team as the defensive co o rd in ato r, after a fiv e-y ear absence from M cGill football. Maurovich, who was a player and coach with the Redmen in the ‘80s, will return to the post he had held when he left them in 1990. During his absence from the CIAU, he worked as Vanier’s head-coach, leading them to the c o lle g ia te fin al the p ast tw o years. “I felt good enough at Vanier to com e b ac k ,” he explained, “[and] I’ve always had a special place for McGill.” Maurovich appeared excited at the prospect of coaching the Redmen again. He will take some time to get acquainted with his team between now and the start of the season, but is confident in their abilities. Speaking on behalf of his strong defensive squad, Maurovich explained that as of

now, he has no plans to drastical ly a lte r the ch em istry w hich exists. Joe M archildon, who last season ran the defence, will move over to the position of offensive coordinator. He will be taking over from Ron Tondino who, for the last several seasons has guid ed the Redmen’s attack. “ [M archildon] is a highly respected coach,” said Baillie. “He hasn’t coached offence with us for a little w hile, but h e ’s probably more offensively orient ed than he is defensively, and he did a great job with the defence last year.” The three other changes in next year’s coaching staff will be with the receivers, the offensive line, and the defensive backs. Thus far, only the offensive line coaching po sitio n has been nam ed. Dan C rifo , a form er Redman and graduate of McGill will take over there. “We have offered a coaching job to Steve Papp as the receivers coach,” explained Baillie. Papp has not yet made his decision as to w hether he will take the position, but an answer is expected soon. Whatever the decisions, the Redmen will definitely have a different look next year, as they

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D efensive P layer was won by defensive back Wes Barbour. The Fred Dupré Trophy for Rookie of the Y ear was won by running b ack /k ick re tu rn e r C raig B orgeson. The T ouchdow n Trophy presented to the teams most Valuable Lineman was won by senior offensive lineman JeanN icholas ‘Y o g i’ L avoie. The Most Improved Player trophy is called the Lois Obeck Trophy, and this year it was won by JeanPhillipe Darche. Darche is a sec-

o n d -y ear lin eb ac k er w ith the Redm en. The W illie Lam bert Trophy for the Most Dedicated P la y er was aw arded to Ryan U rzada a fifth-year linebacker from R egina S ask atch ew an . Finally, Dale Bracewell finished off his career with the Redmen in fine style capturing the last two trophies. Bracewell won the Fred W igle T rophy fo r the M ost S portsm anlike P layer and the Northern Telecom-Charlie Baillie Trophy as the Best Team Player.

M artlets provincial cham pions... » Continued from P age 1 of a year ago. The Rouge et Or narrowly lost to the Martlets in the 1995 edition, and were hop ing to set things straig h t last Saturday night with a win. M cGill took advantage of Laval’s poor shooting in the first ten minutes. The Martlets utilised a 13-0 spurt, to jump in front of the Rouge et Or 20-10. Laval responded with a run of their own. The Rouge et Or reeled o ff 14 stra ig h t points thanks to turnovers and poor shot selec tio n on M c G ill’s part and grabbed the lead 24,20 over the course of the next four and a half minutes. “ ”We had few b reakdow ns on quick shots in the o ffen siv e end,” said M oore.” We knew Laval was going to have a run, and it’s better they had it in the first half rather then the sec ond.” Not to be outdone, the Martlets regained the lead answ ering w ith another run of their own. The 9-0 run was capped on a dazzling effort from Jennifer Stacey. Stacey lost the ball after she was bumped at midcourt by a Laval defender. From her knees, Stacey regained possession of the ball, elu d ed the d efen d er, stood up — keeping her dribble the whole time, and fed a perfect pass to M cG ill all-star Vicky Tessier. Tessier promptly scored a basket. The crowd of 400 plus at the Currie Gym erupted with approval. Tessier’s 13 first-half points gave McGill a four-point edge after 20 minutes.

The Martlets won the game in the opening ten minutes of the second half. Lesley Stevenson keyed a solid second half with some huge baskets. “[Stevenson] had a great sec ond half. She showed everyone what kind of basketball she is capable of,” said Moore. Stevenson spoke of a new m ental tech n iq u e th at she employed before the game. “Normally, I try to focus on some aspect of the game. Tonight I just cleared my mind, and went

with that,” said Stevenson. McGill enjoyed a 13 point cushion at the midway mark of the second frame. Laval resorted to a despera tion full court press, in hopes of getting back in the game. McGill did not let the pressure affect

them, and finished the contest with a 69-53 victory. McGill’s free-throw shooting was nearly flawless, as they shot 19 for 22 from the charity stripe. Tessier led M cGill scorers with 17 points. Josée Deloretto, playing her last M cG ill home game, added 13 points. C oach M oore was happy with the return of Deloretto and looks forward to big things out of the 5 ’ 10” native from Dorion, Quebec, who had been sidelined most of the season with a broken toe. “She had a difficult role. She had to come off the bench in her last home game, really bear down and keep her focus,” said Moore. Stacey fin ish ed the n ig h t with 12 points, and had an opti mistic outlook on the nationals. “We are ready to go all the way,” said Stacey. The eight-team tournament held in Quebec C ity that will crown a national champion on S unday, w ill take place this w eekend(M ar. 8-10). M cG ill, seeded fifth in the tourney, will play the Canada W est cham pi ons, the University of Victoria at 6 p.m. Friday night. “It w ill be fun p lay in g a team we haven’t seen all season,” said M artlet fo rw ard Anne Gildenhuys. “In terms of home co u rt, we have an ad v an tag e playing in Laval. We have played in that gym more times than the other teams.” If the Martlets defeat U. Vic in the firs t ro und, they w ill advance to the final four, and play the winner of the number one ranked T o ro n to V arsity Blues and eighth seeded Laval, who received an automatic berth, since they are host university.

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March5th, 1996 TUESDAY. MARCH 5 • McGill’s History Dept, pre sents Suzanne Langlois in “Post war Film and History of the R esistance, 1944-46.” 3650 M cTavish (Thomson House) at 16:00. • The Hong Kong Dragon Society continues its book fair today through M ar.8; Leacock ground floor from 10:00-16:00. It features Chinese fiction, novels, essays, non-fiction, etc. • The McGill Conservatory Orchestra plays tonight at 20:00, Pollack H all, lead by Vincent Lapointe. • Jeff Jubenville, organ, plays in Redpath Hall at 20:00 as part of the McGill Alumni Series. WEDNESDAY. MARCH 6 • “Does M ichael M ann’s Sources of Social Power Take Us Beyond Max Weber?”: an informal seminar held from 12:30-14:15 in Leacock 738. • André W hite directs the McGill Jazz Combos at 20:00 in Pollack Hall. • The Hong Kong Dragon Society continues its book fair; see Mar.5. • LBGTM holds its Bisexual Discussion Group in Shatner 423 at 17:30. • “Sources of Variations in Working-Class Movements in 20th Century Europe”: an informal sem inar held from 14-16:00 in Leacock 738. • An-Chi-Huang, on recorder, plays in Redpath Hall at 20:00 as part of the Master’s Recital Series. • “Fascists”: a lecture by Prof. Michael Mann of the UCLA Dept, of Sociology. 17:30 in Leacock 26. • The McGill Choral Society is searching for additional sopranos for its Mar.23 concert featuring Schubert’s Mass in G Major. No audition or experience necessary. 19:30 in the Strathcona Music Building, room C304. 398-6814. • Dr. M. Mackey, Physiology Dept., presents a lecture at 16:00 in B urnside 1B36 entitled “M athem atical M odels in Physiology.” THURSDAY. MARCH 7 • HOLLYWOOD ‘96: a fash ion show by McGill Physical and Occupational Therapy; 19:30 in the Shatner Ballroom. Tickets avail able at the door: students $6, adults $10. Contact Julie Chretien, 6746492. • The Hong Kong Dragon Society continues its book fair; see Mar.5 • “Every Day is Women’s Day Cabaret,” a salute to International Women’s Day, will be held at Bar California at 20:30. Performers include Shag, Victoria Stanton and Jacky. • The Savoy Society presents Gilbert and Sullivan’s Ruddigore at 20:00. Tickets: $8 students/seniors, $12 Adults. M oyse Hall, Arts Building; runs M ar.7-9, 14-16. 398-6826. • LBGTM ’s All W om en’s Group meets at 18:30 in Shatner 423. • Interested in graduate school? This information session will cover entrance requirements, funding, scholarships and advising.

19:00 at Thomson House (3650 McTavish). Refreshments. FRIDAY. MARCH 8 • Übermode, the Faculty of Management’s Fashion Show ben efits the Farha Foundation, for victims of AIDS/H1V. At Club M etropolis. W orks by D’Arcy Moses, Philippe Dubuc and student designers. Cocktails. DJ. For tickets, contact 398-7292, 848-9703. • LAST LAP PARTY! The M cGill C aribbean S tudents’ Society presents DJ Smokey in Shatner 310 at 21:00. • M cGill M usic presents Cornelius C ardew ’s The Great Learning at 20:00 in Redpath Hall; Dean Rosenthal, co-ordinator; run as a special student project. • Opera M cGill presents a series of one-act operas running until M ar.10. P u ccin i’s Suor Angelica and Donizetti’s Rita show tonight at 19:30 in the Black Box Theatre (3449 University). • Dr. B arbara Ransby will deliver a lecture entitled “Yesterday and Today: The Role of Black Youth in the Black Freedom Movement.” at 20:00 in Leacock 26. $2 door donation. Black Student Network, 198-6815.. • Alex Walkington, jazz bass, performs at 20:00 in Pollack Hall as part of the Master’s Series. • International Women’s Day at Concordia! The central mezza nine will come alive with table dis plays, free vegan food and tarot readings; art shows, films and a presentation by Food Not Bombs. • Noon-tim e concerts with Doris Germain, organist, at 12:15 in Redpath Hall. • The Hong Kong Dragon Society concludes its book fair today; see Mar.5. • The Savoy Society’s Rud digore runs tonight at 20:00. See Mar.7 for details. • Passion for the Unloving World: an evangelical meeting organized by the Chinese Christian Fellowship. 19:00 in Leacock 132. Contact Daniel at 282-6366 or Vency at 285-4698. • LBGTM ’s Coming Out Group (17:30), followed by the Men’s Group (19:00) will both be held in the UTC Basement (3521 University). • Latitudes-Latin American Awareness Group Party at Gert’s. I t’s fun, cheap and for a good cause. All welcome!! • LBGTM’s Queer Café meets at Bar California at 20:00 every Friday (just north of Ste.Catherine on Ste.Elisabeth). • Carol Baroundi, author of Internet for Dummies and an engi neer at Sun M icrosystem s and Wang Labs, speaks at a 18:00 con ference tonight as part of the McGill Student Pugwash 1996 con ference (see March 9) in the Moot Court Room, Faculty of Law build ing. Contact 288-8250. SATURDAY. MARCH 9 • LBGTM kicks off Awareness Week with its Pride Dance. Thompson House.(3650 McTavish) 9 p.m. • McGill Student’s Society Volunteer Bureau holds its 4th annual Charity Ball; all proceeds to the McGill Cancer Centre. 21:00 at the Just For Laughs Museum (2109

St, Laurent); semi-formal. Door prizes (hotel vacations, hockey tickets, etc.), blind auction and raf fles. Contact 398-6819. • The Savoy Society runs two show today of Ruddigore: 14:00 and 20:00. See Mar.7 for details. • The M cGill Student Pugwash hosts “The Internet: A Virtual Revolution?” as their 1996 conference. This event examines the impact of the Net on our every day lives, our economy, education and technology. Contact 288-8250 • Opera McGill shows VaughanW illiam s’ Riders to the Sea, Stravinsky’s Mavra and Puccini’s II Tabarro, Black Box Theatre at 19:30, as part of their one-act run. SUNDAY. MARCH 10 • “Power: Personal is Political is Economic”: a free bilingual con ference exam ining m ethods to increase w om en’s power in all areas; Carmel Kilkenny, keynote speaker. Contact Sophia Kelly at 369-4419. » Opera McGill shows Orff’s Die Kluge and Stravinsky’s Le Rossignol in the Black Box Theatre at 19:30; free-will offering request ed. MONDAY. MARCH 11 • The McGill Women’s Union is looking for new staff members. Come to our quick training session at 16:30 in Shatner 423. Snacks will be served; all women wel come! Contact 398-6823. • Last day to enter your recipes in the annual Recipe C ontest! Fame, glory and prizes await you. Drop your secrets o ff c/o Peer H ealth Education at Health Services. All entries will be pub lished; the top three will be cheap, healthy and yummy. Judging and tasting on Nutrition Day, March 13. TUESDAY. MARCH 12 • Svend Robinson lectures at M cGill. 2 p.m. Sponsered by LBGTM and NDP McGill. Contact 398-6818. • “Gender and Heresy: Women and Men in Lollard Communities, 1420-1530” : Prof. Shannon M cSheffrey of the Concordia History Dept., 16:00 in Thomson House (3650 McTavish). • Elizabeth Dawson co-ordi nates the McGill Student Soloists performance at Pollack Hall, 17:00 and 20:00. OTHER LISTINGS • The Right Honourable Jean C hrétien, Prime M inister of Canada, will make a public address in celebration of McGill 175 on March 13. 17:00 in Pollack Hall. Tickets available upon presentation

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of valid McGill ID and open only to students and faculty; see Pollack Hall Box office on Mar. 11 between 12-17:00. • AIESEC holds its annual Business Luncheon on March 15 at the R itz-C arlton. If interested, please contact David at 465-1022 or e-mail bkyi at musicb. • Planning has begun for International W om en’s Week! There are weekly meetings to dis cuss events and they are open to all. Contact the Women’s Union (398-6823) for more details. • The Whitewash Campaign: interested in inform ation about alternative menstrual products? Come by the W om en’s Union (Shatner 423) for further informa tion. • Learn Esperanto, the world’s true international tongue! Beginner’s course offered by the McGill Esperanto Club starting March 25/26. Please leave a mes sage at 933-3321 or e-m ail at bbqp@musicb.mcgill.ca • Alley Cats, the former Alley in the Shatner Basement, has more than ju st a changed name! Thursday nights have jazz “jam”” sessions with professional musi cians and, better yet, each Friday holds a 15-member jazz ensembles to play the Big Band sounds of Count Bassie, Tommy Dorsey and the like. Contact Evelyn Mailhot for more details at 465-9544. • Project 10 has a group for women, aged 16-25, who are les bian, bisexual or unsure. Call 9894585 between 13:00 and 17:00, Mon. to Fri. • The Sexual Assault Centre of McGill has support groups for both men and women. Call 398-2700 (Mon.-Fri., 9:30-17:30) or 3988500 (7 days, 18:00-midnight). • Living With Loss: bereave ment support groups for “Adults,” “Young A dults,” Pre-natal and “Family Survivors of Suicide” who have suffered the loss of a family member or friend. Run through the McGill School of Social Work, no charge. For more information, con tact Estelle Hopmeyer at 398-7067. • Loaf Organic Food Co-op orders produce and bulk dried goods every M onday between 11:30 and 17L30 at the QPIRG office. If you want to eat well and responsible, drop by and check us out. • Tel-Aide needs volunteers! We are a listening service available free of charge every minute of

every day. We are seeking men and women who have a few hours a month to listen to distressed peo ple. Our lines are presently busier than ever. For more information, contact 935-1105. SUBMISSIONS • The M cGill U niversity Photographic Society is holding its annual photographic competition; open to all alumni, students and staff. Deadline Friday. Call 3986786 or visit Shatner B-06 for more details. • March 14 deadline for sub missions to Fire With Water, the journal for survivors of sexual abuse. Please bring submissions to the Sexual Assault Centre: Shatner 430. Submissions may be anony mous or in French; nous accepterons aussi le travail en français. • Writers on North America needed! The first ever North American Studies journal requires entries on any area of such studies. Please submit entries to Prof. Riggs on the Leacock 6th floor. Deadline: March 1, 1996. • Call for Papers! The McGill Review o f Interdisciplinary Arts is accepting papers by undergraduates that combine two or more arts dis cipline. Contact Mitra at 844-4907.

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