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F e a tu r e s Some religious groups are using universities as a recruiting ground. Page 11
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Unable to reach an agreement with the university administration, the A sso cia tio n o f Graduate Students Employed at McGill held a one-day strike last Tuesday. Members of the TA union picketed outside the Roddick and Milton Gates in order to voice their con cerns. Last month, AGSEM mem bers voted in favour of giving the union a one-day strike mandate if the university failed to meet TA contract demands. After the uni versity presented its initial salary proposal, AGSEM announced the strike date to protest the adminis tration’s “offensive proposal.” At the gates, graduate students assembled with picket signs read ing, ‘We work for peanuts,’ and ‘Do we work for M cG ill or McDonald’s?’ Many striking TAs arrived as early as 7:30 a.m. and most stayed until the end o f the day. According to Michael Temelini, who represents AGSEM in negotiations with the university,
How sad would be November i f we had no knowledge o f the spring. - Edwin Way Teale the union was pleased with the strike turnout. “T his is great. It’s way beyond our expectations,” said Temelini. “We expect the adminis tration will start listening to a cou ple hundred people. They’ll see we are very serious.” Throughout the day, AGSEM members also encouraged under graduate students to join the picket line. Wearing stickers declaring their support for the union, and a
few even carrying signs, several undergraduate students marched in a show of solidarity. One under grad AGSEM sympathiser argued that union support is very impor tant. Blaming the failure of SSMU to pass a m otion supporting AGSEM in council, she lamented the small size of the undergraduate contingent. “ [The n egotiation s] really affect undergraduates, and I’m dis appointed not to see more here,”
said political science student Shari Hatch. “That has to do with SSMU shooting down support for AGSEM, because now [for under graduates] the strike isn’t legit imised.” While turnout of union mem bers at the strike was celebrated, the picketing cannot fulfil its pur pose unless it brings about a solu tion to the deadlocked negotia-
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General harassment policy sails through Senate B y Elizabeth W
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After many months of work, SSMU VP University Affairs Lisa Grushcow and the Senate Sub com m ittee on Race and Ethnic Relations finally saw their efforts rewarded. The Policy on Discrimination and Harassment was unanimously approved during the March 20 Senate meeting. In a prelim inary address before opening discussion on the policy, VP Academic Bill Chan pointed out that the adoption of such a policy was long overdue. “W hile we have a sexual harassment policy [at McGill], we do not have at this time a policy dealing with other forms of harass ment and discrimination,” Chan stated. “Many may claim that such
a policy is not necessary, but I think that many more would inter pret the absence of such a policy as evidence that this university is neg ligent of the continuing struggle to eliminate harassment and discrimi nation in this university as well as in our society.” Associate Vice-Principal and member of the subcommittee on Race and Ethnic Relations, Fumiko Ikawa-Smith, explained the inade quacy o f the current regulations dealing with complaints o f this nature. “[T]he existin g p olicy is extremely confusing. [Procedure] depends on who the respondent is, who the informant is, and in the case o f students, there are five options,” explained Ikawa-Smith. Though none of the senators
expressly denied the need for a new policy, there was sufficient controversy surrounding both the definitions and the procedures out lined in the draft to fuel nearly three quarters of an hour’s worth of debate. Dean o f R eligious Studies Donna Runnalls was concerned that the policy prescribed an abrupt resort to formal procedure which might be inappropriate in some cases, and which could aggravate some conflicts. “One o f the things which I think is not addressed here is how to deal in a preliminary manner with issues which may be interpret ed as discrimination or harassment but which may not be understood by the perpetrator as such,” Runnalls commented. “I am very
concemed that we are... developing a culture of conflict rather than a culture of conflict resolution.” Grushcow replied that the pol icy aims to deal with complaints by the simplest and least formal means possible. “The [policy] draft does devote considerable space to infor mal resolution rather than formal resolution of a complaint,” said Grushcow. “What I intend this pol icy to do is to acknowledge that there are specific problems and to lay the groundwork for conflict res olution,” she further stated. Precisely what constitutes dis crimination is defined by the policy in accordance with Article 10 of the Quebec Charter o f Human Rights and Freedoms, which lists
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D irector o f the M cGill Association of University Teachers Ted M eighen told Senate that negotiations on the new sexual harassment policy are nearing a successful conclusion, and that it is conceivable that the policy will be
discrimination based on “religion, colour, sex, pregnancy, sexual ori entation, civil status, age except as provided by law, religion, political convictions, language, ethnic or national origin, social condition, a handicap, or the use of any means to palli ate a handi cap.” A question was raised, as to why it is necessary to have two sepa rate policies dealing with sexual and general harass- Professor P.G. Farrell chairs Senate discussion mentGrushcow explained that this was done largely for the sake of efficiency, to prevent difficulties specifically associated with the sexual harassment policy from hin dering progress on the general harassment draft. “The university has a certain mind-set about the sexual harass ment policy that is enough trouble as it is,” Grushcow said. “It didn’t make sense to go back to square one... to make it one whole poli cy.”
implemented by the end of this year. Grushcow claimed that she was pleasantly surprised by this news. “I’m very excited about that because that means that we could get both sets of policies and proce dures through by the end of this year,” Grushcow stated. “Even if that doesn’t happen, I think that we’ve taken a really important step with the general harassment poli cy.”
tions. For their part, the adminis tration has indicated that the strike did not change their perspective but that they will continue to look for an agreement. “I regret that AGSEM took strike action and it’s going to have mini mal impact,” said VP Academic Bill Chan. “It is difficult to pre dict what is required for a solution, but AGSEM has to be more realistic.” W hile the two sides struggle to find common ground, a group o f faculty members and gradu ate students in the political science departm ent met on the day of the strike to come up with ideas that might aid the negotiators in reaching an agree ment. The consensus group produced a AGSEM strike: action to pressure administration
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both sides. The document recog nises the important role of TAs and suggests positive aspects of the negotiation process. “Teaching assistants are an essential part of the educational enterprise at McGill,” the docu ment begins. “The current contract negotiations...should be seen as an opportunity to enhance the quality of acade mic life.” While the union, admin istration, undergraduates, and concerned faculty members have all shown their desire for an agreement, only time will tell if the union’s job action will produce any con crete results. According to AGSEM Co-ordinator Hugh Potter, McGill has to make the next move. “W e’re w aiting for M cG ill,” P otter said. “There’s an AGSEM general assem bly on A pril 2, and we’ll decide then what we’re going to do. We’re not ruling out further action,” he said.
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he paper and plastic tower is made entirely of the packag ing from three boxes of tea. It is over a foot tall. This monument to waste along with many others can be found at the “Ridiculous Wrappings” exhibit on now at the Redpath Museum. The exhibit features the projects of stu dents in Professor Catherine Potvin’s conservation biology class. Potvin asked her class to create displays showing how much waste is pro duced through excessive packaging. “All these things, they’re all ridiculously wrapped,” said U2 biol ogy and environmental science stu dent Oana Spinu, pointing to the 55 projects on display. At a wine and cheese on Friday night, Potvin congratulated all her students and awarded prizes to the three best projects. “The three prizes reward the ‘worst’ exhibits,” she said jokingly. First place went to a project by Lianne Fisman, a U3 environmental science and geography student. She demonstrated the wasteful manner in which some Mr. Felix and Mr. Norton cookies were packaged. Twelve cookies were wrapped in a huge flower bouquet cardboard box along with tissue paper and plastic
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flowers. The cookies accounted for only three per cent of the volume inside the package — the rest was empty space or garbage-bound wrappings. “You cannot be more ridiculous than that,” remarked Potvin. “It’s unfortunate that companies don’t take the initiative and have an environmental ethic,” said Fisman. All the projects vividly point out how wasteful packaging can be. Canadians produce about 30 million tonnes of waste per year. About 50 per cent of this comes from packag ing. Potvin wanted the message of wasteful packaging to go beyond her classroom. The exhibit, organised by the students in Potvin’s class, was designed to increase public aware ness. “I wanted to go outside the classroom, outside the academic,” she said. “If it always stays in the academic [world], how can you change things?” This is the first time a student exhibit has been held at the Redpath Museum. “They’ve accepted a very unusual invasion,” said Potvin dur ing her remarks on Friday night. Nonetheless, Graham Bell, director of the Redpath Museum, is very pleased with the exhibit. “It’s amusing and serious at the same time,” said Bell. Second place was awarded to Muni Ahlawat, a U3 biology and
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environmental science student, for his project describing the extensive waste in hair dying kits. In pointing out all the card board, paper and plastic used to package such a small volume of dye, Ahlawat, in his project, asked the question, “Do gentlemen really pre fer blondes?” Many students enjoyed Potvin’s assignment because of its uniqueness in a university context like McGill. “We have all these textbook courses...this project took the focus off that and let people use their cre ativity,” said U3 biology student Ian Rae. “That’s probably why everyone put so much work in.” Rae’s project, which demon strated the wastefulness of laser printer toner packaging and showed how Apple improved their packag ing, won third place. “I think the big difference [before and after the improvements] is how much mental energy the com pany invested in thinking about how they can package their product more responsibly,” Rae said. Each of the three winners received an award donated by the McGill Biology Students’ Union which, as Potvin jokingly pointed out, was “nicely wrapped”. Potvin was extremely pleased with all the projects. “I’m thrilled,” she said. “I think they’ve put a lot of heart — with an ‘h’, and ‘art’— into their exhibits.”
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Sexual assault docum ent drafted - but w hat com es next? B y Sylvie B a b a r ik
Since its March 7 release, many members of the university community have begun to discuss the document entitled Stop, Look and Listen: Proactive Strategy on Sexual Assault. In general, reaction to the doc ument has been positive and most are pleased with the work of its author, Carla Alexander. “I think she interview ed a range of people who have been through the system ,” said Ombudsperson Estelle Hopmeyer. “Having been somewhat involved with some of the cases, I would
think that they are fairly representa tive.” Many of the recommendations made address the problems that sur vivors tend to face when they try to lodge a complaint of sexual assault at McGill. One of the points highlighted in the document is that university offi cials do not always have a clear understanding of what constitutes sexual assault. Moreover, it is not specifically defined in the Code of Student Rights and Responsibilities. The document recommends that McGill adopt the criminal code definition of sexual assault, in part to clarify some of the confusion.
“I don’t think they have ever thought of a real definition, and that’s the problem,” said Professor Annette Werk, supervisor of the document. “We are asking them to establish a definition because it is very unclear for sexual assault. It comes under general rules [of the disciplinary procedures]...lumped together with vandalism.” “If you have no definition, then you have a situation where everyone has their own idea of what it is,” said Cara Cameron, a member of the Accompaniment Team of the Sexual Assault Centre of the McGill Students’ Society. “Therefore, it is reasonable to take the criminal code
definition — which is not great, but is better then what we have now, which is nothing.” The document also questions how cases are currently handled by the university. As it stands, some one who feels they have been sexu ally assaulted has a number of avenues to choose from — should they want to report an incident. For example, they can go to SACOMSS, the ombudsperson, the McGill Legal Information Clinic or to a dean or director. If their com plaint is considered valid, it is heard by the Committee on Student Discipline. Once it reaches the CSD, the
survivor is automatically represent ed by the disciplinary officer of the area in which the alleged assault occurred. The respondent can essen tially choose a representative. “I remember saying that I was not comfortable with my representa tion. I was told there was nothing that could be done about it,” said a women who claims to be a survivor of sexual assault at McGill. She agreed to talk to the Tribune anony mously. “I wasn’t allowed a lawyer and he was. He was also allowed char acter witnesses. I wasn’t. I even had
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Senate asserts faith in revised holy days policy By M
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paper so that students should be clear instead of wondering what they should do,” Ikawa-Smith said. Furthermore, the original draft only requested documented proof at the beginning of the semester. This clause was revised and will now be a requirement in the event of dis agreement with a professor or an associate dean. “To ask all Jewish students to present membership to a synagogue in this university would be a bureau cratic nightmare,” stated Ikawa-
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On March 20, Senate approved the second draft of the “Policy for the Accommodation of Religious Holy Days”. The policy aims to standardise students’ rights in the event of conflict between religious observances and academic commit ments. The policy’s first clause sup ports McGill’s status as an institu tion of diverse religious faiths and observances. It states that students are not to be penalised if religious holy days conflict with examina tions or other forms of academic evaluation. Furthermore, professors are to accommodate stu dents and, if possible, make efforts to schedule exams and assignments on dates that do not conflict with holy days. The policy, esti mated to include up to 30 holy days of differ ent faiths, will be made available to students and faculty in the hand Grushcow: pride in multifaith community book of Student Rights and Responsibilites handbook dis Smith. tributed at the start of every school Associate Dean of Science year. Nick DeTackasy, expressed confi Objections to the original draft dence that the revised draft’s docu concerning procedure and docu mentation requirement is reasonable mented proof were raised by the given the respect with which the Senate Committee on Timetabling issue must be dealt. and Student Records at the February “One can always have academ 26 Senate meeting. It was subse ic problems that may be covered by quently sent back to the committee other excuses,” said DeTackasy. to be reworked. “We must respect people’s needs Associate VP Academic and without the possibility of any abuses Chair of the CTSR Fumiko Ikawa- within the present system.” Smith, stated that the policy was re Concerns were also raised worded with more explicit proce regarding the proposed two weeks dures and guidelines concerning the notice required to inform an instruc obligations of both students and pro tor of a conflict. At the request of fessors. Senator Ted Meighen, director of “ [The policy] is a piece of the McGill Association of
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University Teachers, the wording was re-phrased to a minimum of two weeks notice, in order to allow professors adequate time to resched ule exams or otherwise accommo date students. “I would think that students could notify us at the start of class es. It’s not like being sick. You should not have converted during the year,” stated Meighen. SSMU VP University Affairs and CTSR member Lisa Gruschcow stated that the necessity of a univer sity-wide policy was generated by inconsis tencies found within different faculties, departments, and class rooms. “If a professor says, ‘sorry, it’s a secu lar university and we don’t recognize your holiday’, then you are in a bad position,” said Grushcow. Grushcow further maintained that the integrity upon which McGill prides itself must be supported by its official policies. “If we pride ourselves on being a multicultural, multifaith, interna tional community, then our policies should mirror that community,” she said. Ombudsperson Estelle Hop meyer originally suggested the cre ation of a holy days policy last October. She stated that the idea took shape after confusion arose when the spring exam schedule con flicted with Passover. “I believe there should be a universal policy. This is something students should have as a right; they should not have to ask for it as a privilege,” said Hopmeyer. Hopmeyer expressed confi dence that the policy will be able to
solve most conflicts at the studentfaculty level. She further empha sised the policy’s role in an interna tional university.
“This whole exercise was to make people feel comfortable with differences,” she said. “[The poli cy] certainly shows good faith.”
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Open forum aided discussion betw een Shapiro and students By T yla Berchtold
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Leacock 232 was filled last Monday as Principal Bernard Shapiro addressed the concerns of approximately 200 McGill students in an open forum. The session, organised by SSMU VP University Affairs Lisa Grushcow, was designed to give stu dents the opportunity to respond to Shapiro’s document, “Towards a
New M cGill”. The Principal addressed questions from students concerning issues of finance, acade mics and administration.
Budgets and academics One of the first questions fired from the audience asked why it always appears to be the students who shoulder the financial burdens incurred by the university, and why
the administration is not required to pay part of the bill. “Students have not increased their share of the cost,” Shapiro responded. “It is reasonable that we should seek to reduce administrative costs and should seek to avoid build ing new physical infrastructures. But sometimes you have to. There is no doubt that [administrative costs] must be reduced. But when you cut administrative costs, you also cut
administrative services.” In response, another audience member questioned the principal’s own hefty $191,000 salary, pointing out that even the Prime Minister of Canada is currently taking a salary cut. “If you’re asking whether or not I’m willing to make that sacri fice, the answer is no,” Shapiro responded. Moving on to the area of acade
mics, Shapiro explained that the uni versity will face a real challenge in trying to meet budget restraints. SSMU Clubs Rep and President-elect Chris Carter ques tioned how McGill can remain a leader in the university circle when the administration is proposing to cut back “revolutionary” programs such as African Studies and
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Sexual assault docum ent em phasises student concerns... Continued from Page 3 to ask permission to sit in on the hearing,” stated the survivor. In light of such allegations, the document recommends that the uni versity allow the plaintiff the same choice of representation that it grants the respondent. Cameron agrees that plaintiffs
should be allowed to choose their representation. She believes that one of the major problems with the cur rent system is that if the plaintiff is uncomfortable with the representa tion provided by the university, or if she/he feels that a disciplinary offi cer is in a situation of conflict of interest, it is very difficult to con vince the university to find a new
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representative. Moreover, because a disciplinary officer has the power to dismiss a case, Cameron suggests that survivors avoid initially con tacting university officials. To further ensure against con flict of interest situations, the docu ment recommends that all potential cases of sexual assault be passed directly onto the CSD. “Though we support the idea of community justice, we think it should operate in a way that the people [judging a case] know the community, and not the individual,” said SSMU VP University Affairs Lisa Grushcow. “On the CSD, it is easier to minimise the chance of bias compared to house commit tees.”
Leave it to the courts? Despite the fact that sexual assault is a criminal offence, a major tenet of the document is that the university be willing and able to address it, should the plaintiff prefer such a route to going through the criminal system. Stephanie Dutrizac, another member of the SACOMSS Ac companiment Team, acknowl edged the argument against univer sity involvement. However, she argued that the university has an obligation to provide a mechanism Alexander pleased with reception for dealing with sexual assault. “No one would suggest that the university not deal with other agree that people on the disciplinary offences like regular assault or committee should be trained if we harassment, but sexual assault is are going to go into [issues of sexu treated like a crime that most people al assault], but you also have to think is personal, that it belongs to a have experience to use that train sort of private sphere thing that peo ing,” said Wells. The survivor also expressed ple say has nothing to do with the university. But that is a misconcep doubt about the role of McGill in such matters. She specifically took tion,” she said. “Because women assaulted issue with what she sees as the uni within a university context stop versity’s attitude towards sexual attending classes, their school work assault. “My experience is that the suffers, so their ability to leam and operate within this university is administration’s reaction to sexual harmed. So it is the university’s assault is to sweep it under the car pet. If somebody came to me now responsibility,” she added. “[The university] needs to be [with allegations of assault], I would responsible for what happens on its tell them to get a lawyer and let the campus, and that’s why we need to criminal system handle it,” said the survivor. have a policy,” said Werk. Dean of Students Rosalie
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it is the most vulnerable area. People consider it home so they tend to let their guard down,” said the survivor. SACOMSS also regards resi dence as a priority area. It is cur rently focusing its attention on train ing residence dons, floor fellows, and directors through outreach and education programs. “For us it is important to target those people who survivors will go to first,” said Dutrizac. Steve Cohen, the assistant director of Molson Hall, believes the recommendations are generally good, but he hopes that the dons, floor fellows and directors will be invited to contribute their thoughts before any policies are further con sidered. He agreed that education should be emphasised in residence, but feels that its members have too often been m isrepresented as incompetent or that residence has been unjustly depicted as a ‘hot bed’ of sexual assault. “In my two years as director of Molson Hall, not once has anyone come to me with [a report of sexual assault]. However, it is something that we are always aware of in the back of our heads,” said Cohen. “We are aware of our limita tions. We are always told ‘don’t deal with [sexual assault] yourself.’ We are actively instructed to go outside to SACOMSS or get pro fessional help,” he added.
Hopes fo r a policy Cameron and Dutrizac des cribed Alexander’s work as a well articulated documentation of the student body’s concerns about the current sexual assault policy. “But we would also like to say that of the 16 recommendations, we have been working on 14 of them for over a year,” said Cameron. “We already came to these con clusions and have started to imple ment a lot of [the recommenda tions],” said Dutrizac. “It would have been so much better if they had put more energy and the resources into what already exists.” Grushcow noted that the inten tion was to compliment the work done by SACOMSS and not to undermine or ignore it. Her goal in promoting the project was to create a document that would serve to cre ate a new policy for the university. “There may have been prob lems of com munication but we worked very hard to ensure consul tation...My main concern now is that we take the recommendations and work with all the people who are involved to send a message to the university that we want a [sexual assault policy],” said Grushcow.
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Results stay the same despite challenges to SSM U elections By N o a h G itterman
Several protests have been made regarding the results of last week’s SSMU elections. Even after the votes were recounted however, nothing changed. Alex Waxman, who came sec ond to Chris Carter in the race for SSMU president, asked for a vote recount since Carter beat him by only 90 votes. With 227 spoiled ballots, Waxman felt this merited a recount. Warren Tranquada, SSMU Co-Chief Returning Officer agreed. “The spoiled ballots are greater than the differential, and it is Mr. Waxman’s right to examine
and appeal interpretations of these ballots,” he said. The recount, held last Friday, did not change the overall results of the election. Carter remained in the lead by 92 votes. In the race for VP Finance, second place candidate Ted Murata challenged the victory of Jonathan Chomski. In a letter to the CROs, Murata claimed that Chomski had removed his posters and replaced them with his own. “Chomski systematically went from building to building ripping down all traces of my campaign,” his letter stated. After an in vestigation, the
CROs found that these allegations did not provide grounds for an invalidation of Chomski’s election. In a letter to Murata, the CROs explained their reasons. “Your request must be denied not only on the grounds of insub stantial evidence to the effect that Mr. Chomski whitewashed your campaign, but also due to the fact that these allegations had no mater ial effect on the result [of the elec tion],” wrote the CROs. F inally, a recount o f the results for the position o f VP Internal has been requested by Kataneh Behbahanian. She lost to Mark Feldman by only 33 votes
but there were 367 spoiled ballots. This recount will be held on March 25. H owever, the CROs have already ruled to disqualify Behbahanian for going over her spending limit during the cam paign. All candidates were limited to spending a maximum of $300,
but Behbahanian assumed that this figure did not include tax. The recount will still be held, but if it turns up that Behbahanian did in fact garner more votes than Feldman, she will have to appeal her disqualification to the Judicial Board.
C o r r e c t e d E l e c t io n R e s u l t s In an addendum to previous elections results, the Chief Returning Officers have announced a change in the numbers o f votes received in the race for VP University Affairs. Steven Erdelyi actually received 1,263 votes and 39 per cent o f the vote, and Don McGowan received 1,675 and 51.7 per cent.
M cGill community speaks: all student-initiated referenda pass By N oah G itterman
Burma / PepsiCo. A majority of students sup ported two student-initiated refer endum questions forwarded by the Students for Social Responsibility Committee. SSMU is now mandat ed to repeatedly condemn and peti tion corporations to withdraw from Burma, because o f its govern ment’s implication in numerous human right’s abuses. SSMU has also been mandat ed to establish a Financial Ethics Committee. This committee will be responsible for researching companies SSMU might want to do business with. The FEC will evaluate a corporation’s level of social responsibility before con tracts with SSMU are signed. Simone Levine, a member of the SSRC who campaigned to get the two questions passed, feels this is a breakthrough towards making SSMU more responsive to stu dents’ concerns. She explained that many students felt left out of the process when SSMU signed a con tract with Pepsi over the summer, a corporation that has come under fire for supporting the oppressive regime in Burma.
“People were sick and tired of SSMU reps not representing them adequately,” she said. Levine was also pleased that students have made the effort to educate themselves about an issue that goes beyond the boundaries of the McGill campus. “This vote shows that students really can become socially aware,” she said. However, she was quick to point out that the Pepsi/Burma issu e has not been resolved. Levine and the SSRC will continue ' to fight against corporations doing business in Burma, and against SSMU’s contract with Pepsi. “This issue isn’t going to go away until Pepsi gets out of Burma or until we break our contract with Pepsi,” she said.
Nightline saved A final referendum question asking students to pay 25 cents a semester to McGill Nightline also passed. External co-ordinator of Nightline Hugh Potter was over joyed, since the vote means the continuation o f N ightline next year. “W e’d like to really thank everyone who voted for us,” Potter
said. “If they ever want to see where their money is going, then just give us a call.”
CASA endorsed Although plebiscite votes are not binding, the results are used by SSMU council to determine stu dent opinion. In one plebiscite, over 64 per cent of voters felt that SSMU should remain in CASA. SSMU became a founding member o f the Canadian A llian ce o f Students’ Associations two years ago. Since then there has been a protracted and divisive debate over the benefits of membership in the national organisation. Andrea Stairs, SSM U VP external and Quebec regional director o f C A SA , was pleased with this strong endorsement of CASA and its mission. “I really would like the stu dents opposed to CASA to accept that the majority of students sup port CASA,” she said. Melanie Newton, who cam paigned against CASA, does not feel that the debate is over. “CASA is a problem atic organisation,” she said. “I don’t think it’s really capable of repre senting student interests.”
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Students also voted to pay an additional $10 per semester to the SSM U Library Im provem ent Fund. Money from this fund will go towards providing special library services unavailable at the moment, such as automatic check out machines. Senate/Board rep Steven Erdelyi, who originally pre sented the referendum question to SSMU council, feels that this vote means students are fed up with the poor state of McGill’s libraries. “It sends a strong m essage that students won’t accept the con ditions of the libraries anymore,” he said. “They want to see improvements made.” Erdelyi stressed that he will ensure that the university does not see this money as a replacement for part o f the libraries’ current budget. “This fund is goin g to enhance the resources provided by the university, not replace them,” he said.
Another p leb iscite showed that, not counting spoiled ballots, xx per cent o f voters felt that SSMU should increase the number of clubs and services reps to coun cil. Council representation was highly debated this year when SSMU clubs rep and President elect Chris Carter proposed to aug ment council’s three clubs reps with specific representatives for services such as the Sexual Assault Centre and the Black Students’ Network. “This provides a clear state ment that students believe that clubs and services should be increased,” said Carter. However, the debate turned into a general discussion on the recomposition of council when the Presidential Planning Committee of Council proposed to reduce the number of clubs and services reps. As of now, no changes have been implemented.
Open forum... I I Continued from Page 2 Women’s Studies. “It’s a judgement call, whether or not it’s interesting,” Shapiro stat ed. “It is a level of investment that we don’t have or that we don’t choose to make.” In discussing issues of equity, Shapiro responded that he is attempting to combat inequality within the university. “It’s a question of whether or not we have a range of people repre sented or not. There are a variety of equity issues and we have to deal with those as they come along,” he said. “With regard to equity and how people are treated at McGill, our record is spotless. I don’t think we could make progress all at once across this broad issue. We all have to get better together,” he said. On that note, Arts rep to SSMU council Amin Kassam asked the principal how he felt about the Macdonald Task Force Report’s
proposed Estates General — a three day conference where all members of the McGill community could come together to discuss the future of the university. “It was an interesting idea, although not interesting enough so that I took it up,” Shapiro said. “I did not think a process that large and that diverse could produce anything but frustration.” As a result, Shapiro was ques tioned whether or not he would con firm his commitment to hearing the voices of students in the future. “I’m certainly glad to come to meetings such as this,” he said. “But [the future] will not be an exercise in direct democracy. It’s not feasi ble,” he stated. After the hour long discussion, students broke up into groups according to faculty, and formulated a list of questions and proposals that were later handed over to Shapiro. Students for Alternatives to Education member Matthew
Lederman stated that the forum was far more successful than he initially anticipated. “I actually was surprised at how effective it was. The best thing is that students were talking about the issues,” he said. Grushcow was also pleased with the level of student input. “I think the forum showed that wide student involvement is useful and manageable,” she said. “There is potential here. We shouldn’t be so quick to reject direct input.” When questioned whether he would take the written proposals from the students into consideration, Shapiro responded affirmatively. “I promised to respond and I will. I can’t respond on behalf of the whole university but I can.respond on behalf of myself.” Shapiro also stated he was pleased with the forum. “I had a wonderful time," he said. “I learned a lot and I hope that the students did too.”
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Drunkenness as a defense By Joyce Lau
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A rush of recent Supreme Court hearings has re-ignited the controver sy sparked by the 1994 Davieau case. In late 1994, the Supreme Court of Canada acquitted a Montreal man of raping a partially paralyzed woman. Davieau’s defense of extreme drunkenness was based on the fact that he suffered from the disease of alcoholism, had consumed eight beers and most of a 40 oz. bottle of brandy that day, and has no recollection of the assault. In this very rare case, the courts ruled that Davieau was so exception ally drunk he had achieved a state of “an automaton”, meaning that he acted without criminal intent. The case set a precedent for two reasons. First of all, it established that having the mere capacity to form criminal intent was not damning enough in a rape case; the prosecution must prove that an accused assailant had acted with conscious criminal intent. Second of all, it introduced the new, specific defense of “extreme drunkenness”. The ruling is acceptable only because it would have been constitution ally inconsistent to convict someone of a crime of which he/she had no “intent” of doing. A criminal conviction with no proven criminal intent sets a dangerous precedent. Legally, the ruling is justified; its social implications, however, are terrifying. The Davieau case is one of those problematic cases — the law convinces your mind that certain injustices are inevitable, while the very horror of the outcome continues to hit you in the gut. To add insult to injury, defense lawyers across the nation started using Davieau’s defense of extreme drunkenness liberally and haphazardly. Within a few months of the initial ruling, courts ruled on three similar cases in which three men were acquitted on sexual assault charges because they were apparently too drunk to have formed criminal intent. The use of the Davieau ruling as a precedent case has been disastrous: One can only imagine how quickly the argument for “extreme drunkenness” will become a common defense in date rape cases. Last week, two murder cases were reopened by the Supreme Court of Canada, in which three convicted murderers might have their sentences overturned. The courts ruled that the accused were deprived of a fair trial because they were not given the chance to use the defense of extreme drunkenness. However, instead of being completely acquitted like Davieau, the three men will probably have their convictions for beating and stabbing their victims to death reduced to manslaughter sentences. Manslaughter is broadly defined as “an unlawful killing of a human being without express of implied malice." Basically, it means that a killer is still responsible for his/her actions, even if the killing is somehow excus able. There is something wrong with the legal system when the results of maintaining constitutional consistency are so socially unjust. The Davieau case sparked the question of how we can change that system so that what is lawful and what is right are more closely linked. In this case, one suggestion was to make extreme drunkenness a crime in itself. Another suggestion might allow for a “manslaughter-version" of a sexual assault charge. As the law stands now, someone who kills without proven criminal intent can still be held accountable for the killing, albeit on a lesser charge. Sexual assaults are marked by any unwanted sexual act; the assailant’s frame of mind does not change the fact that a crime has been committed. So why hot create a better-defined sexual assault charge so that those who commit rape without a proven criminal intent are still held accountable for their actions? Such a charge could shed new light on the way courts perceive such problems as date rape, and will hopefully prevent anything like the Davieau disaster from happening again. T yla B erchtold , Sara Jean G reen ...... Liz Lau , Jon O 'B rien ................................ K urt Newman, Rachel Sto ko e ............ D ana T oering , Kashif Z a h o o r ........... T anim A hmed, S hannon Ross .............. Stephan Pa tten .......................................... Jon O 'B rien.................................................. Reuben L evy, C hristiane W est.............. Paul Slachta ............................................... D on Mc G owan , V ivian D o a n ........... A ndrew C ormack...................................... A dam Sennet & D rummer A ssociates,
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Not the opinion o f SSMU The Students’ Society of McGill University (SSMU) wishes to distance itself from any and all comments made by the SSMU President, Helena Myers, or the SSMU VP Finance, Kelly Remai, regarding the student referenda of March 13-15, 1996, concerning the Society’s contract with Pepsi and Pepsi’s involvement in Burma, as well as the creation of a Financial Ethics Research Committee. Their opinions in no way represent the opinion of the SSMU. We apologise for any confusion this may have caused. Darrell Tan Tara Newell Speakers, SSMU
McGowan responds to SACOMSS I am saddened to see your recent letters to the Daily and the Tribune expressing concern with my candidacy. In the interest of clarity, I will spell out my priorities on sexual assault and sexual harassment. I am aware that I do not speak for you and that your priorities may be different. My immediate priority upon
Don McGowan taking office will be to ensure confi VP University Affairs (Elect) dentiality for McGill proceedings. My policy would prevent the use of Amalgamation not their any materials or notes collected in the course of a complainant’s thera idea py or treatment. I will draft the poli I am writing to correct the false cy and submit it for comment to impression which may have been yourselves, the Women’s Union, generated by Tyla Berchtold in her Shakti and the LBGTM. headline and lead sentence in the I will then turn my attention to March 19 edition of the Tribune, legislative amendments. There is a regarding the amalgamation of the movement afoot in Ottawa to amend Faculty of Religious Studies and the the Canada Evidence Act in order to Faculty of Arts. create a doctor-patient privilege, one The Joint Board of the which could include hot-lines and Theological Colleges affiliated with counselling sessions as well. I will McGill University is not negotiating determine the stage at which our any such amalgamation; rather, it is input can best be made and consult negotiating to ensure that the Faculty Council as to how we should pro retains its present status as guaran ceed. teed by the 1948 agreement between I agree that it would have been the Joint Board and McGill. preferable if I had spoken to a Furthermore, while student SACOMSS Co-ordinator in the past. enrolment in the B.Th. program has Unfortunately, when I approached varied from year to year, the average your office on March 7, 1996,1 was number of students enrolled has ejected and not allowed to leave any remained remarkably consistent over note for any Co-ordinator. Also, I the years and has not “declined sig am unaware of any instance in which nificantly” as Vice Principal Bill I may have represented myself as a Chan is attributed to have said at the spokesperson for your organisation. March 7 Senate meeting. If you would like to bring any such The Joint Board continues to representation by me to my atten negotiate in good faith with the tion, I will make an appropriate McGill administration and hopes a restatement. satisfactory outcome will be reached I do hope to have the opportuni in the very near future. ty to mend any rifts which may have George V. Lambert developed between SACOMSS and Chair, Joint Board me. Notwithstanding our rocky start
Stop the Press Management responds When it comes to taking on political challenges at McGill University, the Management Undergraduate Society and its relentless struggle for freedom of expression are forces to be reckoned with. That is why we, the MUS, were shocked to witness an over whelming majority of SSMU coun cil ban the MUS posters promoting our faculty’s “Leap Year Loonie Night” celebration from the Shatner building walls, information displays, and bulletin boards at the February 29 council meeting. Did SSMU Arts representative Amin Kassam tear down the first of our posters and gripe about it to .councillors simply out of a distaste for Management-related activities? No — rather, he was offended by the poster’s “degrading” image of a beautiful smiling woman wearing a formal party dress, and placing her male partner’s hands along the out side of her upper thighs. Furthermore, SSMU president-elect Chris Carter stated that those McGill students less intelligent than himself
and other SSMU councillors might be confused into believing that our poster’s complex statement that “Beer, shots, mixed drinks all cost a loonie” somehow means that Management women cost a loonie. If you, as we, can’t believe that these allegations were actually made, just check the minutes and audio record ing of February 29th’s council meet ing at SSMU’s Union Building reception [sic]. Has anyone at SSMU heard about freedom? Many Management students are consistent ly offended by Shatner building posters calling for student strikes against government deficit reduction and corporate innovation — but we don’t ban them from common uni versity property! Therefore, SSMU, if you can’t tolerate an admittedly sexy image of a happy couple hold ing hands on MUS posters, then quit staring at it, don’t go to our party, and save SSMU loonies for more productive purposes than totalitarian-like censorship and poster-ban ning. What does it even say about SSMU ideology when council bans an image as positive and upbeat as
that of a young and sexy couple in love? Yes, body-image and sexual harassment are vital social concerns. However, not every attractive woman in a cocktail dress has an eating disorder, and not every woman who freely consents to a m an’s sexual advances is an unknowing victim of sexism in des perate need of SSMU’s puritan enlightenment with respect to how confident and intelligent modern-day women are supposed to dress and act. SSMU gives away tens of thou sands of our dollars every year to the clubs and services dedicated to the breakdown of race/class/gender stereotypes. Perhaps the time has now come for SSMU to re-examine and dissolve its own view of “every woman a victim”, the most danger ous stereotype of all. All in all, we write this letter out of our concern for what might follow for McGill University stu dents’ freedoms of speech, expres sion, and choice if the current SSMU’s judgmental ideology con tinues to prevail. If a beautiful woman in a sexy dress really is degrading to her entire female gen der, then will SSMU defend its cur rent policies by establishing a Shatner Building dress code and monitoring the hemlines of what
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An open letter to Dave Bushnell, SSMU President-manqué: Dear Dave: I guess the reason I ’m so upset that you lost was because I got caught up in a dream. For once, I had stopped looking at things as they are and asking, ’’Why?”, and I began seeing things as they might be, and asking, “Why the Hell not?” It’s just like Marx said: “If the revolution comes, and fits, then start it!” I thought that your campaign was chugging along like the Little Engine That Could, and then I find out that not only did you lose, but you didn’t even vote for yourself! For once, I thought there would be someone, someone who would stand up for Tribune columnists! I thought we were going to get our own clubhouse! An open letter to Chantal DaSilva, VP External-elect: Dear Chantal, Congratulations on your victory! Just so you know, I think the turning point in your cam paign came when you addressed our
“History of the Soviet Union” class a few weeks ago. I often fall asleep in classes, but not that time. By the way, could I borrow your notes from last class? I fell asleep and dreamed I was Kung-Fu fighting again.
determine what the Choice of the Oppressed Generation is. Of course, I would be pleased to lead the dele gation as the official translator. I speak English, French, a smidgen of Italian and I know six words in Burmese (I am willing to learn some verbs).
An open letter to Jon Chomski, VP Finance elect: An open letter to Mark Dear Jon, as VP Finance, you Feldman, SSMU VP Internal-elect: will be inheriting the thorny Dear Mark, (on behalf of the Burma/Pepsi debate. You might not entire student body): Next year, can be aware of this, but I am one of the you get us as much free stuff as pos only Burmese students at McGill, sible? and I think it is bizare that no one Thanks. has thought of consulting me yet. Here’s were I stand: I do not enjoy, There you go, great toiling (and nor do I drink, Pepsi (especially Diet non-voting) masses. I believe the Pepsi because I heard of a guy who members of the Students’ Society of went blind from NutraSweet, so McGill University has received fair watch out.) I do, however, enjoy warning that the sentinels in the Celestial Seasonings herbal teas, press are keeping their watchful eyes even though my upstairs neighbour peeled. You can now relax and study has told me that Celestial Seasonings for your final exams, and then enjoy is owned by the Ku Klux Klan. Is your summer, go on vacation, know this true, Jon Chomski? ing that I’m here, in the Tribune I believe that McGill should Columnists clubhouse, keeping send a soft drink research group to Democracy safe. Burma (and an herbal tea research Mila Aung-Thwin is union dele group to Boulder, Colorado) to gate for Columnists ’ Local #385.
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ited residence spaces. However, the Charter o f Human Rights specifi cally forbids landlords from dis criminating against tenants because of where they live. So if someone from Montréal wanted to live in residence, McGill couldn’t legally D on M c G o w an stop them. And, although that’s the law, it would be wrong. There are As this is my last column, it is gigantic problems reconciling pri many things wrong with how resi almost incumbent upon me to have vatised programs with M cGill’s dences are run, but this isn’t one of a retrospective look (i.e. wax commitment to free flow of stu them; although the process is rhetorical) about what I intended to dents between departments. In a improper, the purpose and effect are do, and what I did, this year. nutshell: if you restrict a course to good. When I started, my intent was students in a privatised program, This problem is simultaneously to show that, much though we may you tacitly make ability to pay a the reason for and the problem with want to deny it, the law impacts on prerequisite for taking that course; Legal Briefs. On the one hand, there all of us, every day, in ways we’d if you allow non-private students to are times when law and lawyers never expect. Especially since last take that course, you discriminate have no role and, if introduced, week, when it seems the Supreme against private students by forcing would ruin a perfectly good process Court has decided that you can get them to pay more for the same or principle. But increasingly law away with whatever you want when thing. (This argument doesn’t work and lawyers are intruding in just you’re drunk, law and lawyers are for international students — you such a way. My purpose this year sticking their noses where they can legally force foreigners to pay has been to help show that, even don’t, or shouldn’t, belong. for things like health care which are when we don’t want them, even The fact is, you should be able free for Canadians.) when we think they are entirely to go your entire life without ever In this case, knowing the law wrong (see my columns on sexual needing to know what a lawyer and how to interpret it will make harassment), lawyers impose them thinks. Sure, sometimes we law me effective. But there are times selves. types impose ourselves (e.g. by get where strict interpretation of the When this happens, we must ting a column in a student newspa law would work against student expressly repudiate them. I agree per), but there should be a sphere of interests. For example, McGill tries that there are places where I should life where lawyers just have no role. to reserve residence beds for stu be able to stop being a law student More and more, that sphere is dents from outside Montréal. The and just be a human being. shrinking. intent is laudable: to ensure that stu Unfortunately, those few citadels of When running for VP dents from far away can get the lim common sense are increasingly University Affairs, I was repeatedly asked how much of a lawyer I would be when I got into office. My answer then, as now, was that I know that there are some areas and some times where you have to stop being a lawyer. The only problem is ***** that, the way things are going, none of us really knows where and when those areas and times are. In many ways, knowing the law helps people to work the sys 1143 OUEST DE M AISO N NEUVE • MONTREAL, QUÉBEC H 3A 3B7 tem in ways you might never expect. For example, there are TÉLÉPHONE: (514) 2 8 8 -5 2 7 5
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In the coming year, I will use my skills with the law to help us all at McGill. But I may need some reminding that, sometimes, the best use for my skills is to leave them on the shelf, and to act like any other human being. The law affects us all, but sometimes it shouldn’t, and it’s best if we all remember that from time to time. Don McGowan is a lawyer Monday through Friday with some moments of humanity interspersed.
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Prizes and Awards •The KAY MacIVER MEMORIAL PRIZE, worth $275, for the best English essay by an undergraduate on a subject in the field of English Canadian or French literature, to be nominated instructors.
CREATIVE WRITING •The MONA ADILMAN PRIZE IN POETRY, worth $650-or $325 for two students, is open to undergraduate or graduate students registered in the Faculty of Arts for the best poem or group of poems relating to ecological or environmental concerns. •The CLARK LEWIS MEMORIAL PRIZE, worth $250, is open to major or honours students in the Department o f English The prize is awarded annually or from time to time for original plays staged in the course of the academic year. •The CHESTER MacNAGHTEN PRIZES IN CREATIVE WRITING (two prizes, one of $500 and another of $350) are open to undergraduate students of the University for the best piece of creative writing English, i.e. a story, a play, a poem, an essay, etc. Printed compositions are ineligible if they have been published before April 15, 1996. •The PETERSON MEMORIAL PRIZE, worth $1,500, is open to undergraduate or graduate students registered in a degree program in the Department of English. •The LIONEL SHAPIRO AWARDS FOR CREATIVE WRITING, three prizes of $1,000 each, to be distributed if possible among the genres of poetry, fiction, screen writing and playwriting. Each prize to be awarded on the recommendation of the Department of English to students in the final year of the B.A. course who have demonstrated outstanding talent. (A note from your academic adviser verifying you will have completed your program requirements and the minimum credits required by the Faculty of Arts (by April 1996) MUST accompany your submission.) These competitions are restricted to students who have not previously won the First Prize, Forms to be completed (for the creative writing prizes and awards) are available in the Department of English General Office, Arts 155. Submissions must be in duplicate.
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To commemorate the coming of spring, I set out one late night recently to re-acquaint myself with the depraved splendours of Montreal street life. It had been a while since I’d roamed this fair but oft creepy city. So with only club-goers and similar riff-raff still stirring about, I commenced my quasi-spiritual meander. (They say Leonard Cohen in his early days sought experience and inspiration exploring the Montreal night.)
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Starting on sedate Prince Arthur, I set off and soon drew slurred greetings from anonymous bar patrons, and similarly inebriated howls from dwellers of darkened parks. I turned my roam south. Walking perhaps at a slightly accelerated pace past Metropolis and its ubiquitous complement of police vehicles and ambulances, I spotted a brawl/skirmish among three drunken individuals. They were on the sidewalk before me; my path crossed theirs, and thus I had
then to decide whether to assume a safe, circumnavigatory course, or to walk straight through. Calling an irrational swagger which mysteriously originated in my early youth, I surely enough chose to wade straight into the belly of this minor danger. No serious injuries to report, except perhaps a momentary defib rillation upon one drunk’s tottering charge at me. Maybe it was the cold, calm, quizzical look I gave him that caused the man to break off his charge. Anyhow, I furled my cape and walked on. Across from the Place des Arts, I noted the scuzziness of the sur roundings, and realised anew that bringing my parents (in from out of town) here last September may have been a poor choice. It was here, on this night, however, that I was
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here I stood shoulder-to-shoulder with perhaps a hundred-thousand fellow zealous, flag-waving Federalists last October. But only I and a couple of sleepy, waiting cab bies kept the old square company this late night. (Also the man urinat ing behind the statue of Sir. John A.) Well, 1 apologise. I was going to incorporate some rousing theme in here somewhere. I think it was going to be “Spring is Nice,” (which I fervently believe). You have before you, instead, a quite unrelat ed extended anecdote. (I hope you liked it.) Simply take my word for it, then; spring is very nice.
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Stop the Press H Continued from Page 6 every female graduate wears to her convocation ball? While SSMU executives were proud to display a half-naked construction worker in a 3 by 2 foot jeans advertising bill board on Shatner’s main floor two semesters ago, VP Internal Jennifer Harding has now suddenly gone on record in favour of banning Cosmopolitan fashion magazines from all three M cG ill’s Sadies tabagie news stands for their alleged “discrimination” too. Finally, in response to president-elect Chris Carter’s council promise that he’ll start banging his head against the wall if he hears one more person mention the term “politically cor rect”, we’d like to echo the immortal voice of former MUS rep to council Mitch Costom when we, the propo nents of individual freedom and human dignity throughout McGill University, collectively shout “polit ically correct”.
them of the issues. I expect next year s executive to better this year’s (in most cases it won’t be hard) and I beseech them to spend more time consulting the people they represent and less time pretending they were elected to pass their own mandate.
Jason Kleine U2 Arts Undergrad confidence in CASA
Perhaps the elections will final ly give our self-proclaimed parents up the street at Thompson House reason to end their constant attacks against CASA and SSMU members. Over the past few years PGSS and SSMU have enjoyed a less than ideal relationship: a relationship which has been further strained as PGSS members, Sarah Schmidt in particular, continue to use this space and as others spread innuendo about SSMU’s moral corruption, our ballot tampering, our lack of accountable action and our general descent into M.U.S. Executive evil imperialism. Well, thankfully, this self-right Apathetic, not pathetic eousness has come to an end with students’ overwhelming vote to In last weeks’ issue (March 19) remain in CASA. Undergraduates I was misquoted as saying that the have reaffirmed their confidence and left was “pathetic”. What I actually trust yet again (recall the endorse said was that the left was apathetic, ment of CASA’s Real Choice cam which while still being a negative paign in October) in SSMU coun accusation hasn’t the spitefulness cil’s decision to remain members of that was attributed to me. CASA. As the more attentive of you Students have made themselves will remember, my campaign was abundantly clear. With a 64 per cent based on various ways to fight stu majority of decided votes, students dent apathy, which includes such have not only made the choice to things as the low voter turnouts for remain members of a truly effective SSMU elections. It is essential that national student organisation, they the Students’ Society puts high on its have also demanded an end to the agenda this problem that has ailed bitter anti-CASA (anti-everything) student societies at McGill. Stop the Press/Letter to the Editor If the Students’ Society is ever campaign which has plagued this to increase participation of students, paper. As a member o f the YES it is important that it puts more committee, I welcomed and expected emphasis — both in resources and opposing points of view regarding representation — on our clubs and our membership in CASA; regret services. Ethnic student associations tably the only arguments we got in and essential services are the prima this space were personal attacks on ry means by which students interact my credibility and integrity. It is with SSMU, and this must be recog truly sad when students must pay for nised. Through last week’s plebiscite plebiscite committees and then see (in favour of increased representa their money squandered on personal tion on council) students have shown attacks in the name of democracy. that they disagree with Helena Well, given the result of the Myers’ failed attempts to further dis plebiscite, this issue can now be put tance SSMU from our clubs and ser to rest. No more slander campaigns vices, and it gives next year’s coun and no more bitchy, whiny letters in cil a clear mandate to look at the this space. question again. Putting more atten tion on clubs and services, which Andrea Stairs represent a broad spectrum of stu VP Internal, SSMU dent participation at the university, will have a much greater effect on Frustrated Armenian the overall quality of student life than simply expanding the Four I am writing in response to an Floors Party or Frosh week (which article published in The Gazette on already have good March 2, 1996. The article, titled participation...from a select crowd). “Armenians Fear City Bowing To And if the Students’ Society is Pressure,” reported that Mayor really committed to combating apa Pierre Bourque may be bowing to thy, it must repair its image of being pressure exerted by the Turkish a farcical bunch o f ‘wanna-be’ Government and having second politicians who could not care less thoughts about allowing the building about the students they represent. of a monument sponsored by the Case in point: students who attend Armenian community in honor of council meetings are referred to as genocide victims. “the gallery” rather than what they The article further informed that really are — constituents, the people a Turkish diplomat is said to have councillors are supposed to be listen warned the city that two major ing to. The Students’ Society must Montreal firms would risk losing begin to start making itself more contracts in Turkey if such plans accessible and accountable; it must were to proceed. Such a heavy finan listen to students and actively inform cial blackmail could only make one
wonder why the Turkish Government is being so defensive and taking such harsh steps to ensure the halt of a project which will bear no blame. I am of Armenian origin and there is nothing more frustrating than having your history repeatedly denied. The genocide may be over, but the scars will never heal. It has been 81 years and still the massacre of the Armenians is being referred to as the “alleged genocide”. It is quite ironic how historians today find bones of dinosaurs which roamed the earth thousands of years ago, and yet cannot find the evidence to legit imize a genocide that occurred not even a century ago. I believe that the truth is out there and it is not a mat ter of finding it for we have already found it, but it is a matter of recog nising it. The article reported that Mayor Pierre Bourque said such sincere words as: “We shouldn’t forget, and we can’t forget, what happened in the past...this monument is yours...Be proud of it, and remember this day of the 80th anniversary of the genocide...”. Mayor Bourque has to decide whether to be true to his convictions and to himself and to accord us the right to build the mon ument, or to betray himself and the Armenian community and halt the plans for the sake of finance and thus lose credibility, not to mention his integrity. As I see it, this is a moral and ethical issue that Mayor Bourque has to deal with. As to the comment made by Mr. Rodney Moore, a spokesman at Foreign Affairs in Ottawa, who said that he “sympathises with the hard ships and suffering o f the Armenians”, with all due respect, we do not need sympathy. We have been sympathised with for 80 years...what we need now is some action.
Cordially, A Frustrated Armenian Lynn Abrahamian U2 English
Finance, wrote that “over 16,000 stu dents are able to choose a VP Finance and Operations and a stu dent council that will conduct busi ness ethically on behalf of the SSMU.” This was purported to be ample reason not to create a Financial Ethics Research Committee (FERC). The fact that almost four students to one agreed to create this group will hopefully tell Ms. Myers and Mr. Remai that we do indeed want representatives who will be socially responsible and not work on the behalf of special corpo rate interests, i.e. Pepsi Co. This overwhelming vote also represents the support held for the Students for Social Responsibility’s actions, actions that will continue. We have already contacted enthusi astic city councillors who are intro ducing legislation to end all city con tracts with companies involved with Burma. Similar legislation has already been approved in four American cities, one American state and is pending in both New York City and Toronto. Other movements against Pepsi are beginning at the three other Montreal universities. We are also planning educational forums at many of the colleges and CEGEPs in order to further promote awareness. We have had interest from such organisations as CBC, the Globe and Mail, The Gazette, Mix 96, The Hour, The Mirror and vari ous documentary series. In council last week, a council person proclaimed that students are taking themselves too seriously. My question is the following: if we do not take our actions seriously, who will? Please contact Students for Social Responsibility at 398-7432. Action is continuing through the summer months and the following scholastic year.
Simone Levine Students for Social Responsibility Not a fan
I am not a regular reader of many McGill papers, but I do like to read the special columns once in a In the referendum last week, the while. Every time that I do, I find undergraduate society voted over myself reading yet another rant by whelmingly (1884 to 588) to con David Bushnell. While the quality demn Pepsi Co. officially, repeatedly of his “writing” is poor at best, rife and publicly for their support of the with cliché and abrasive to a fault, it repressive Burmese military regime. rarely gets as bad as it did on March Furthermore, the referendum ques 19. tion to create a committee mandated No doubt he was feeling cheat to research corporations with whom ed at having come last in the voting SSMU would have future contracts for SSMU President (finishing won by an overwhelming vote of behind spoiled ballots, a new low 1693 to 445. even for him), but this excuses nei This vote was representative of ther his tone nor the content of his an evolving individual conscience column. Lashing out at the losers on ready to believe in the power of our campus, such as residence students, voices in mandating social change. science students and “frat boys”, he The power of this Pepsi condemna blamed them for abandoning him. tion originates in the fact the we, the Not being either a frat or a residence undergraduate students of McGill, student, I can only assume that they are uniting with 500 other universi felt some outrage at his, especially ties world-wide in stating that invest since it was coming from an ogre ment in a military regime propagat who uses every chance available to ing genocide is unacceptable. We, as both deride and look down at them. students, cannot be fooled as our Cast your heads in shame, for the President and VP Finance were. The Almighty David Bushnell has lines Pepsi Co. feeds us, trying to decreed that you are not cool enough defend its repugnant actions, are for him. I had the privilege of attend proven to be lies by the United ing the MUS debate, during which a Nations, Amnesty International, frat asked a legitimate question Desmund Tutu and hundreds of about the IGLC. While the other democratic governments. Our stu candidates were divided, they still dent voices are representative of the gave respectful and thoughtful positive action that can take place in answers. Even Craig Pollard man unity; we prove that our voices can aged to make a decent response. But produce results. Bushnell used the opportunity to per Helena Myers, SSMU sonally slander the questioner, with President, and Kelly Remai, VP out apy preamble or semblance.o(f Power o f Pepsi condmenation
wit, humour or wisdom. He attacked without provocation. But what truly annoyed me was his treatment of Derek Prohar. Now, while I campaigned for one candi date and voted for another, I rooted for Derek Prohar. Above else, he ran a clean and respectable campaign. He did not slander anyone and was always conscious of stepping on oth ers’ toes. Yet Bushnell attacked this third-place finisher with zeal, calling him a Gert’s drunk and his support ers ‘monosyllabic jocks.’ Not only is such talk out of line, it is untrue. The fact the Bushnell targeted Prohar for such treatment is evidence of his own pig-headed idiocy. I would call Bushnell’s monthly rants “moronic, masturbatory jour nalism” if it were not an insult to real journalists. I would call his clichés “80s stand-up comic cynicism” if it were not such an insult to real cynics who possess wit sharper than an overhead marker. He said that the election wasn’t environmentally friendly. What about all the poor trees that died so that he could lower the standard of the Tribune's writing to the cess pit that his pen inhabits? Hey, Trib\ Do yourself a favour and shed the excess fat! There are real writers out there.
James Downar U2 Science The women o f Peel street The last issue of the McGill News (Spring, 1996) arrived on my desk on International Women’s Day. Ho appropriate, I thought, that “Brain Power: Here’s Who’s Who on Peel Street” was to be a major feature of the issue, for the McGill Centre for Research and Teaching on Women would undoubtedly be fea tured. You can then understand my profound incomprehension upon dis covering (pp. 23-24) that the socalled “Pundits of Peel Street” do not include anything to do with wom en’s studies. Are wom en’s issues not part of punditry? Are women to be relegated to invisibility unless they are associated with mas culine endeavours? In your editorial of the same issue, I discovered that you had anticipated my “rightful indignation” on learning that we had been “missed” or could not be “fitted in”; no excuses or explanations are offered. Perhaps you do not know or have forgotten that over half the undergraduate students at McGill are women? that women’s presence on campus (students, faculty and sup port staff) is now over 50%? that the MCRTW reaches out to women in all faculties on campus? that the Women’s Studies Minor Programme is the largest minor program on cam pus? that we are consulted regularly by the media outside McGill on issues concerning women and, in fact, on the very day that your issue arrived, our premises were invaded by CBC television crews and our phone lines tied up by their CBC radio colleagues? Can you really believe that the Peel Pub is a more important candi date for punditry than we are? that Claridge Investment Ltd. has more to do with McGill than we do? Shame on you! You return to the stance and attitudes of the 1950s if you render women’s concerns invisi ble on campus. I think you owe us one....
Peta Tancred, PhD Professor o f Sociology and Director
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Campus a recruiting field for new movements and groups By Jessica O lshen
In recent years, the religious landscape has changed significantly. According to the Inform ation Centre on New Religions here in Montreal, 900 new religions have emerged in Canada in the last 15 years. The university campus seems to be an attractive breeding ground for some of these groups. Many see students as insecure and in search of support groups. Gisèle Rivard, a counsellor at CINR, attributes the explosion of new religious groups to society’s neglect of its spiritual health. “In the past when something bothered us, we’d go and buy a new car, or a new dinette set. Money was our saviour,” she said. “Now the money’s gone. Families are split, and there aren’t any jobs.” “General insecurity is making people turn inward. The need is so great that people are drawn to any one who can provide a few answers,” she added. With such an overwhelming selection of religions to choose from, it can be difficult to distin guish among them. Resource cen tres play an im portant role in enabling people in search of spiritu al guidance to make an informed and responsible choice. The CINR has extensive docu mentation on religious groups open to new members. It also provides support services for people disillu sioned with their religion and for friends and family members con cerned about a loved one’s religious involvement. Info-Cult is a resource centre on cultic thinking. It houses one of the largest non-circulating bilingual libraries on cults and related sub jects in Canada. It also offers coun selling to families of cult members. Info-Cult not only monitors emerg ing religions, but also spiritual, political, and psychological move ments that claim to be interested in
helping people achieve higher goals. new experiences Info-Cult encourages people to While Knopveld believes that research groups of interest in order there are groups that provide gen to make a healthy spiritual choice. uine solace, enlightenment, and the The distinction between a “new reli opportunity to establish a social net gion” and a “cult” is largely subjec work, he suggests that people be tive. sceptical when approached. “No one joins a ‘cult.’ People “It’s good to be open-minded, join ‘groups’ or ‘movements’. The but not so open-minded that your word ‘cult’ has univer sally nega tive conno ta t i o n s , ” said InfoC u 1 t D ire c to r M i k e Knopveld. He links the present momentum of the cult phenom e non to inseStudents are often approached on campus c u r i t y caused by dramatic changes in the economics, brains fall out,” warned Knopveld. politics, and religions of our society. Colleen McCoy, now a nurse in Montreal, was involved with the University Bible Fellowship, a group she now labels a cult. UBF, a Targeting the campus group dedicated to bible study and “When you lose faith in a campus evangelism, was active on belief, or system of beliefs, the Western Canadian campuses as question becomes ‘what should you early as 1986. McCoy was a member for a believe in?’ People become open to month and a half. During that time, magic formulas — they need simple answers to complex questions,” said she became uncomfortable with how much the group leaders knew Knopveld. According to Knopveld, uni about her life. She later discovered versity campuses are considered that the group used an informer, one ideal recruiting grounds for emerg of her acquaintances, who revealed ing movements. New students typi all he knew about her to the group. cally have few friends or connec Group leaders would then pass the tions. Their loneliness makes them knowledge off as revelations from open to offers of friendship and God. After this discovery, McCoy promises of membership in a com left the fellowship. “They were asking too many munity. Students caught up in acad questions. It was weird. I should emic stress and anxiety about their have gone with my gut feeling,” futures may be receptive to the appeals of groups promoting utopi said McCoy. ‘The whole experience an visions. They are also targeted left me feeling embarrassed,” she because of their intelligence, devel added. Jeff Jordan, a student in the oping emotions, and eagerness for
faculty of education, is on the exec utive of the McGill Christian Fellowship. He says the UBF hes been a presence on the McGill cam pus for three or four years now. Jordan has warned students not to get involved with the UBF. In a letter he plans to submit to the SSMU, Jordan outlined his con cerns. It states that the UBF is characterised by “an excessive use of authority and control over members to secure their involvement in the group, a psychologically damaging emphasis on guilt, shame, confession, and sub mission producing a lack of autonomy, excessive conforop mity, and poor self-image.” O The letter concludes ■3; with the opinion that the 15 practices of the UBF make it an inappropriate group to be sponsored by the SSMU. Jeff Howard, a political science major at Concordia and an executive of the Concordia Christian Fellowship, warns stu dents against certain groups that it considers to be “too extrem e, severe, or legalistic.” Howard says he knows of students being solicited in the street or in the library. If one suspects that a friend or family member is involved in a harmful cult, there are certain ways to help. The CINR does not suggest trying to convince the person to abandon the movement — if it truly is a dangerous group, they have likely been taught to expect such appeals. “Offer them respect and uncon ditional support — it’s the only way to help,” says Rivard. With the plethora of new reli gions, groups, and movements available in our ever-changing soci ety, there is no lack of choice for those seeking spiritual guidance. CINR and Info-Cult advise people to ask lots of questions and to trust their instincts.
Things to look out for: The decision to become a member of a movement, religious or other wise, is extremely personal. One group might provide solace and security to some, and feel threat ening to others. It is important to be cautious and, above all, to ask plenty of questions before becom ing involved with a new group. The following are things to be wary of when evaluating a new group or movement: •Rupture with society: does the group advocate withdrawal from family and friends, or discourage normal interaction in society? •Attitude towards material things: does the group encourage its members to renounce their pos sessions? If so, be careful: it could be interested in your money. •Authority within the group: does the leader discourage questions? Does the group want to control aspects of your personal life, like who you associate with, what you eat, when you take vacations? •Is the group’s philosophy based on rigid oppositions? More mili tant groups often conceptualise reality in terms of polar opposites, for example, black vs. white, saved vs. damned. This is usually not conducive to spiritual devel opment. •If the group claims to be o f a religious nature, how does it interpret scriptures? What is its attitude towards other groups? Beware of strict, legalistic scrip tural interpretation and an antago nistic relationship with “rival” religions. Info-Cult can be reached at (514) 274-2333, and the Information Centre on New Religions at (514) 382-9641.
Pom p and circum stance for the M cG ill D ebating Union The debating team ends the year as North American champs and World’s representatives B y Joyce Lau
“Support your friends!” mused moderator Dr. Desmond Morton as the gallery was asked to vote on the debated motion. “After all, that’s how Parliament works.” The McGill Debating Union’s year of travel and triumph culmi nated on March 18, with its First Annual Alumni Night, moderated by the ubiquitous head of the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada. The evening grew from an overly amplified cocktail party to a quick exercise in wits — with alumni and students debating the issue of university library improve ment. Speaking for the government were alumni Adrienne McNicholas, 1994 W orld Public Speaking Cham pion, and 1991 Debating Union President Chris Gosnell, an Oxford Law graduate who has
recently returned to M cGill. into something else.” should be implemented at ten major Current North American Debating Canadian universities. According to Champions Matthew Cohen and Deposit libraries McNicholas, this issue is currently Jamie Springer countered as the being debated in McGill Senate. opposition. Working with the resolution Deposit libraries, like the The Debating Union uses a that “the 21st century belongs to Canadian N ational Library of Canadian parliamentary sys C ongress, receive tem, where the moot govern one free copy of ment chooses a topic based every book pub on a pre-set resolution. The lished in the nation. opposition is not informed of The governm ent the argument until the debate team argued that itself. such a system would According to Debating greatly increase the Union President Steph num ber o f books Marrie, this system forces the available, and would opposition to think on its feet, also free up universi for the resolution often gives ty budgets for other no clue to the more specific expenses. subject matter. However, “It is always a broad or Springer, speaking philosophical resolution,” Cohen and Springer, North American champs for the opposition, explained Marrie. “It can be a countered that “it is lyric from a song or a Shakespeare Canada,” the government presented fundamentally incorrect to force quote, and the government turns it a motion that deposit libraries publishers to give free books. It is
symbolically and intuitively correct for universities to buy their own books.” He argued that many books, such as those by Dr. Seuss and Danielle Steele will not be read, and would go to waste. C iting “the dem ise of the smaller university,” Cohen added that the selection of ten major uni versities would create a rift betw een sm aller and bigger schools. In the governm ent’s retort, Gossner took on the role of the more experienced debater. Amidst laughter and clapping, he accused the opposition for using clichéed techniques such as ‘the-fundamentally-wrong-argum enf and ‘theinefficiency-argument. ’ After rounds of commentary from the gallery, Morton spoke his
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Confessions o f a cynic [Column
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___ I don’t ju st roll out of bed every day and d ecide to be a cynic. Sure, that first step on hardw ood ice each m orning m akes me w ant to proclaim : “Someone must die for this!” But it’s not a conscious choice. I am p ressed in to cy n icism by the world around me. How can any open-minded person avoid slipping into cynical knots? Our prime minister is best q u a lifie d to ch allen g e M ike Tyson, and you expect me to be c o n fid e n t ab out our n a tio n ’s future? Foreign regimes are serv ing Pepsi at restaurants without even offering Coke. Americans are getting their white capes and po in ty h ats d ry clean ed for Republican presidential galas. Our TAs are burning their disser tations and, horror of horrors, threatening to cancel more con ferences if the university doesn’t give them waivers for free coffee at the A lley . L et co m p lacen t suckers accept this dirty state of affairs. Being a cynic puts me above the riffraff and the dingdongs. Cheery souls may scorn my sentiment. Some might question my cynical state considering the prosperous tim es we currently enjoy. How can I doubt capital ism when you can get free Pop Tarts at CampusFest? Why have I lost faith in democracy just when
it has becom e m ore po p u lar worldwide than Michael Jackson and David Hasselhoff combined? W ho is one to be surly when Preston Manning is standing up for the long ignored white man? How can I be bitter when cor duroy pants have rehabilitated the image of the 1970s? I have all this and still I can’t avoid being grumpy. Look at our lives as students. We accept, with a few excep tions, everything dictated by The University. The faculty sets the curriculum on stone tablets and we abide by their wisdom. Those who dissent from this autocratic rule are told to fill out forms and expect a reply by their U5 year. W ho w ill stand up for us? C rybaby ac tiv ists like SSMU President-elect Chris Carter? And you wonder why I’m cynical. Besides, what if our years of study are m eaningless for any thing other than, as the old joke goes, excelling on Jeopardy? It’s hard not to be cynical about school when real life seems so rem oved from the pages o f a m ildew ed volum e about the Rom an em pire. Hard to laugh w hen g rad u atio n w ith a B.A. earns us the rank of “over-quali fie d ” , w hich is a clev er euphemism for “unemployed”. This line of thinking is exact ly what’s so alluring about cyni
cism . As a cynic, 1 try to cut through the hyperbole and get to the ro tten core. I never saw “W aiting to E xhale” because, despite its three-star status, I cyncially labelled it a lousy chick m ovie. Once false veneers are exposed by cynical critics, we can get down to im proving th in g s. F or exam ple, if Quebeckers had been more cyni cal ab o u t dem agogues like Parizeau, maybe the PQ would never have had the opportunity to pollute the National Assembly. D em anding b etter from lousy leaders may mean a war of attri tion, but cynics will always be the first ones down in the trench es. That’s what this column has tried to stand for the last two years. Questioning the motives of people whose posturing is other wise blindly accepted. Doubting the integrity of pseudo intellectu als, false sports heroes or Toronto bashers. Random complaints that can only be sufficiently aired in nom ad’s land, aw ay from the w e ll-d e fin ed co n fin es of Accepted Thought. I thank the Tribune for giv ing me direct access to you, the reader. I am g ra te fu l to my friends, family and all the rest of you around McGill and across the Net who took the time to visit this space every so often. I also thank my secret political infor mant (w e’ll call him “Sevag”). Goodbye, au revoir, shalom. Oh, and one m ore thing M cG ill: “Boooooggger!!!” Ted F ra n kel is going away. Allegedly. We d o n ’t believe it, though.
Professor Schank ques tions education system central idea is that “natural learn ing” is a phenomenon totally unas How would you feel if an edu sociated with the kind of learning cation expert told you that every that goes on in school. He believes thing you are learning here at that people “learn by doing,” McGill is useless? Renowned instead of by rote. He made his point by asking expert Roger Schank recently told a large crowd in Leacock 132 just the audience if anyone knew how much pressure to put on a brake to th at. Schank is a past director of the stop a car going 65 kilometres an Yale Artificial Intelligence Project, hour. The foot ‘knows’, but does the brain? and is currently a This is, in professor at N o r t h w e s t e r n “And why is one fifth of the S c h a n k ’ s U niversity in curriculum math? Because opinion, the essence of three different it’s so bloody easy to test!” true learnfaculties. He came i n g . to work with Knowledge McGill students and professors last week, as well as is unconscious and learned by prac to give a lecture this past Tuesday tice, not conscious and crystallised entitled “Why Most Schooling is in the brain through memorisation. Another key point in the argu Irrelevant: Com puters and the ment revolves around the concept Future of Learning.” Schank presented a compelling of interactivity. “You’ve all agreed to sit and argument to support his viewpoint, but it did not take long for the fire listen here. Let me show you just how stupid that is!” he said. “You works to begin. Commenting on the current all sit here quietly because you’ve educational methodology, he stated all been trained to sit here. You that, “education is about the tempo w on’t catch any five-year-olds rary memorisation of information doing that!” According to Schank, asking that will never come up again.” “And why is one fifth of the questions and receiving feedback is curriculum math? Because it’s so a fundamental element in learning. The current system of sitting dumbbloody easy to test!” Schank posits a solution to these fault lines in the system. His Continued on Page 14 » By Sam J. H orodezky
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Freelance journalists caught in an electronic web work, which links all 18 papers in the Southam chain. This allows the V ancouver P rovince, for instance, to download a story from the Montreal paper, which will enhance their content and cover age o f an issue. The G azette would also like to be able to store some of these articles in their data-
By B arry C ampbell
Freelancers associated with the Montreal Gazette are up in arms over a new fre e la n c e r’s agreement that the Gazette’s par ent company, Southam, wants all freelancers to sign. The P eriodical W riters A ssociation o f C a nada is an organisa tion that represents some freelan cers involved in this dis pute. According to its ex ecutive d irector, Ruth B iderm an, “Southam wants all electronic rights for free so they can put our writers’ work into th eir databases and reprint their articles in o th er Southam papers.” T ra d itio n a lly , freelancers would sell their work piece by piece to newspapers. After the article has photo Caption been printed, the author can re-sell the article to bases. These databases are seen by other publications. According to large publishing com panies as PWAC, the resale of articles rep future sources of profit. Bruno Leps, an official in resents about 20 to 30 per cent of the income of a typical freelancer. Southam’s New Media Ventures However, officials at the Gazette Unit, explained that “the newspa disagree with PWAC’s assessment per industry is a mature one...we see the databases as having a of the situation. “The contract we have pre tremendous potential for growth.” It is the Internet which wor sented to the writers has nothing to ries periodical writers the most. If do with taking away their rights to secondary p u b lish in g ,” said the Gazette puts an article up on Raymond Brossard, managing edi the W orld W ide W eb, there is tor of the Gazette. “We recognise nothing to stop som eone from that; we are sim ply trying to downloading a copy of the story define the product that we will be and then reprinting it in another on-line magazine. While it is legal purchasing from these people.” The Gazette wants to be able under current copyright laws to to place certain stories from free make a copy for personal use lancers over the SouthamStar net within certain limits, it is illegal to
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any and all information by anyone who wishes to do so. The Clinton plan has yet to become law, but powerful players in the entertain m ent ind u stry , such as Tim eWarner Inc., support it. M arianne G reene of the Canadian Intellectual Property Office confirms that the Canadian government is concerned about the issues of copyright and the Internet, “but there are no plans to alter the statutes just now. We feel that the Internet is covered under the current law. It will be up to the courts to decide this, of course.” The Gazette’s Brossard suggests that writers should be aware
make a copy and then use that copy in another publication. The w riter who w rote the piece, or alternatively, the compa ny that owned the copyright to it, would not receive the revenue they were entitled to for such a use of copyrighted material. In the U nited S tates, the
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own mind on the matter at hand. “People here don’t have any idea the number of books published in Canada,” he said, eyeing the debaters. “If the proposal is imple mented, books will be pushing to the ceiling, plugging up the plumb ing.” Morton then critiqued the debate itself. “The arguments given here reflect the desire to steal, and the desire to let nothing happen that is not controlled by the government,” he stated. A gallery vote was cast; the opposition won by a wide margin.
Clinton Administration has tried to combat this by proposing radical changes to U.S. copyright laws to protect large multimedia compa nies and so-called Internet content providers. The adm inistration would like to ban the use of de encryption softw are except by those who are licensed to use it. Furthermore, all documents on the Internet would be required to carry a trailer of copyright documenta tion to prevent theft, and enable investigators to track down stolen documents. Finally, the Clinton plan would forbid any copying of on-line documents, even for per sonal use. These hurdles infuriates those who envision the Internet inaugu rating a new era of free access to
Traditionally competi tive Such debates are held through out the year, and range from novice-training debates to major international competitions. This year’s fundraisers have included 33 high school tournaments, as well as the annual university W inter Carnival, which has drawn partici-
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ly in a lecture hall taking notes is not very efficient. Plus, there is an inherent flaw in the one-professorto-many-students system. If stu dents are writing furiously, then they are not thinking about the sub
ject; conversely, if they are think ing about the subject, then they cannot be taking notes. In Schank’s opinion, neither of these scenarios are especially conducive to learn ing. And this is where computers
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pants from New Zealand and South Korea. The Debating Union also topped North American’s this year, a competition which McGill found ed in 1991. The tournament for the ‘1812 Cup’ alternates between the U.S. and Canada each year. In addition, Jam ie Cowan, Marrie, Cohen and Springer attend ed World’s in Scotland this winter. After the mandatory nine rounds, Cohen and Springer entered the ‘top-32’ playoffs out of 248 teams. According to Gossner, who attended World’s in 1992, the ulti mate goal of a McGill debater is the chance to compete with the 200-plus teams, and to see how other countries debate. “The Scots are insane; the French, didactic,” Gossner con cluded. McGill’s Debating Union has been around since 1888. Some of its more high-profile alumni include McGill professor Charles T aylor, City TV owner Moses Znaim er and Leonard Cohen, a noted president.
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of what publishers will be wanting to do with their work. The agree ment that Southam has presented to them is as much for their pro tection as for Southam’s benefit. “They can’t expect Southam to sit back and let our competitors overtake us in the new information ag e ,” said B rossard. “W riters should simply be aware of what might occur. If they think they are going to lose some money from secondary rig h ts, they should dem and more for the prim ary rights.” A dditional sources: W ired Magazine, and the Globe and Mail
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come into the picture. The profes sor brought with him a colour M acintosh notebook computer, hooking up both the sound and video to the Leacock speakers and overhead. On this computer were demos of the software that he has been developing, programs that can display real-time videos. The package is designed to incorporate the notions of interac tive and natural learning. Each piece of software is tailored to a specific domain. For example, one demo he showed was designed to develop negotiating techniques, and another was to help students learn about their health. Users can type sen tences into the computer, and it will respond with a lesson, or a helping hand from a recorded ‘teacher’. The computer’s response is pre program m ed, but it takes into account many varied responses. Schanks’s lecture and display was impressive, but his program ming and ideology still have a long way to go before they can be applied to everyday post-secondary situations.
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McGill’s contemporary dance ensemble cut some rug at Player’s B y Erika Sturzenberger
Have you ever gone to a b elo w -cap acity p erform ance, expecting a little elbow room, only to find yourself next to a security guard sitting with his legs strad d led across your seating space? Because of similar problems, my com m endation o f the Contemporary Dance Ensemble’s performance is a particularly big compliment. Before the perform ance, a friend in the show cautioned, “it does have some of those modern pieces, ” a note of feigned disgust in her voice. (She explained that u n fo rtu n ately for audiences, dancers actually like that stuff.) But as is often the case with modest performers, her warning was entirely unnecessary. The group succeeds w onderfully in
choreographing a pro gram that incorporates incredible diversity and approachability. The show opens with music from the Exotica soundtrack— dark, aggressive, industrial-style stuff. Mirroring the masochistic energy of the music, the dancers construct a routine peppered with leaps and tum bles, throw ing themselves to the floor and stand ing up again faster than myself or the security guard could have reached for a jelly donut. F ollow ing this display of anarchy, taunting the powerless rent-a-cop, are dance pieces set to music from such varied artists as Sarah M cL achlan, Boss Hog, Peter Gabriel, and Bjôrk. Taking on more traditionally “modern” motifs is a piece chore ographed by fem inist artist Andrea Schmidt. The work begins
and ends with someone read ing excerpts from the Book o f G enesis, the dancers
m oving to the rhythms of the reader, accom panied by music from the C ow boy Junkies. The p otential for “ m odern dance a u ste rity ” does
exist, but the athletic ability of the performers, combined with mixed musical media gives the perfor m ance a fam iliarity which adds to its approachability. Sara B u n sto n ’s Boss Hog performance carries particular power as w ell. E erie green lighting and dark lipstick contrasts the baby doll dresses and hairbows of the d a n c e rs’ c o s tum es, creates a “C hina doll p o s sessed” image. The dancers march and sway in unison, forming an interest ing co rrelatio n between sexpot and automaton. Countering the heft of performances such as this, are oth
ers of a more lighthearted nature. The ‘ballet burlesque’ set to Bjôrk and the “Jungle Boogie” (com plete with a person in a gorilla costume) filled this position in the line-up. The finale ends the perfor mance on a highly powerful note. Set to the music of Peter Gabriel’s live version of “In Your Eyes,” and featuring dancers costumed in bright autumn leaf-colored silks, the accents themselves are power ful forces. The addition of the dancer’s skill and choreography make it a worthy climax to an inspired evening. C ft- ^
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Film students contribute to McGill Film Fest
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Much like the fools in the Rice Krispies commercials who stare in wonderment at the tasty breakfast treat unable to link the grain of rice with the cereal, many McGill students still can’t make the analytical leap between the posters advertising the McGill Film Festival and an active, pro ductive McGill film community. Isabella Riva, co-ordinator of the festival, talked to the Tribune about her efforts to get people used to thinking of McGill as a film Mecca. “The McGill film community is really strong,” maintained Riva. “The Cultural Studies department is getting more people, and the cultural studies building stays open later. Also, there are four or five production courses this year taught by filmmakers, like Garry Beitel.” While many McGill Cultural Studies students concentrating in film are used to getting slack from more production-oriented film departm ents (like Big B rother Concordia), Riva believes that the McGill program offers a fertile environment for creation. “Our lack of production facili ties and equipment is compensated with theory,” she stated. We form ideas and are given the chance to think. McGill students learn pro duction on their own. There’s a lot of trial and error involved... it’s the best way to learn.” Riva sees the festival as help ing to make the M cGill film department even stronger. “The profits of the festival will go into funding for equip ment. Also, we want to set up a
film archive in McLennan library in conjunction with the festival. If we create a record of a tradition of production, it will make future courses easier to approve,” she continued. “There are three goals of the festival: to promote student pro duction, create a film community for cultural studies students, and to showcase McGill talent to Canada and the industry in general.” If the festival serves as any sort of litmus test, the Montreal artistic community at large certain ly takes McGill film seriously. Some entries from last year were offered positions from attending talent scouts. A ccording to Riva, “The judges include the head guy from Alliance in M ontreal, the NFB director Harriet Wichin, [Joanne] Latimer and [Matthew] Hays from the Mirror, and independent film maker, Jean Châteauvert. Also, we have invited a lot of production companies to see the screenings. They are coming because they are looking for fresh blood, and inter esting stuff.” Riva is aware of those stu dents who may be interested in checking the scene but are daunted by the black turtlenecks, angst and latté. “It’s difficult, a lot of students want to get involved, but are too intimidated... all they have to do is call me,” she encouraged. “It’s really easy to get involved in [the McGill film scene], all you have to do is walk into the cultural studies building on Peel Street.” Apart from displacing fear, the McGill Film Festival may also help to introduce McGill at large to those obscure members of the
student body holed up in the edit ing suites of the ICC. “I submitted to the festival last year, and thought it was the most amazing thing. People asso ciate McGill with law and medi cine, they don’t realise there are other voices. The festival provides a niche, and a place where film students can blow their own horn. I hope the festival creates a space where filmmakers aren’t ashamed, where there is a real emphasis on the arts,” Riva explained. However, the festival is not limited to Cultural Studies stu dents. “We’re looking for any work. An anatomy student could sub mit...the community is very open. We are really looking to present a plethora of ideas... We really don’t censor, I mean, last year there were pomos.” In addition, Riva emphasised that the festival is not looking for a particular type of film. “Today [in Canadian film], there is no real genre. M ost film s cross many boundaries. The artistic matrix is not about classificatio n — its about making something new, its about making a film." \tft-£ o \The festival runs April 11th land 12th from 7 to 10 in Moyse Hall. The awards cere mony takes place on the 12th, and there w ill be FREE WINE. The submission dead line is March 29th (flexible) and applications can be picked up in the English Department. Work must be under 20 minutes in length, and the p o m o s have to be artistic.
matrons, Sherman finally settled on an upscale greasy spoon as the site of the interview. The discus sion in itially focused on Sherman’s new play, The Retreat, which had opened a few days ear lier at the Tarragon. It tells the story of three parallel false mes sianic figures: the 17th century Jewish pretender Sabbatai Zevi, a manipulative writing instructor, and the modem state of Israel. The thread that ties these seemingly disparate elements together is the character of Rachel, a Hebrew school teacher writing a screen play about Zevi. At a w riter’s
Sitting in playwright Jason S herm an’s beat-up red sedan, speeding from the downtown Annex of Toronto towards the toney, uptown enclave of Forest Hill, Sherman explains his deci sion to lunch in the distinctly un bohemian neighborhood: “I’d go downtown, but there are all kinds of artists there—I’d rather laugh at all the rich people.” Similarly, Sherman’s plays hover in between these two areas (psychologically, not geographically)— he has been a playwright-in-residence at stalw art downtown theater the Tarragon for the past five years, pro ducing a number of plays (The League O f Nathans, The R etreat) that describe the Canadian Jewish milieu that popu late areas like Forest Hill. The play that has established him as major talent, however, does not concern the Jewish expe rience at all. Three in the Back, Two in the Head, which won the Governor G en eral’s aw ard for “I bave no desire to be the Philip Roth o f the drama in 1994, is a med Canadian stage. ” itation on family obliga tions and personal responsibility, retreat in w estern C anada she loosely based on the true story of begins a love affair with her writ Canadian military scientist Gerald ing instructor, a film producer Bull. The Toronto Star’s Geoff with a history of womanizing; in Chapman described the play as the background is the signing of “wobbling wonderfully from an the peace agreem ent betw een examination of state and personal Israel and the PLO, which leads to secrets to how people change and Rachel learning of her father’s how that change is seen by oth involvement in the early battles for ers.” the state of Israel, and of his disil After surveying the overly lusionment with the country. crow ded Second Cup and Continued on Page 16 » Starbucks, filled with latte-sipping
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“That’s something I actually Sherman originally intended came out of university believing,” to w rite a play about Sabbatai Sherman responded, “that the way Zevi, a figure he had come across to write a play was to sit in your while researching the history of room and do the thing and hand it the Jews for his play The League over and come back on opening o f Nathans. He quickly discovered night, which of course is the that writing a historical drama was absolutely wrong way to do it. not something that appealed to You’ve got to be working with the actors, day to day, and also with him. “I w anted to make it re le the director, who should also be a vant,” said Sherman. “I wanted to good dramaturge. I’ve been lucky make it contemporary, and I didn’t to work with directors who have want to write a costume drama. I been good dramaturges, who help decided instead to write it about a to shape the story. I think there’s writer working on a play set in no other way to do it, really. I re 1665, or movie as it turns out. That wrote almost every scene of The took place over the period of about R etreat in the first week of rehearsal.” two years.” Though Sherm an stated Sherman’s recent plays have all been workshopped and re-writ wearily that “I have no desire to be ten in various facilities available the Philip Roth of the Canadian to young Canadian writers for the stage,” he is, like Roth, immensely stage. While this is the current concerned with the meaning of modus operandi for playwrights, being Jewish in North America. one wonders whether this process Sherman is unveiling a brand new outdates the romantic notion of the work, called Reading Hebron, in a playwright slaving away in isola few weeks at the P layw rights’ tion, pursuing an authentic, Workshop here in Montreal. It is, according to Sherman, an intense autonomous vision.
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meditation on Zionism’s potential for violence, which became mani fest in the March 1994 massacre in Hebron, when a Jewish settler in the occupied territories opened fire on a mosque located in the ancient Cave of the Patriarchs. The play explores the complicated emotion al issues surrounding the massacre. “It’s about one man’s obses sion with the Hebron massacre,” explained Sherm an, “the man being Nathan Abromowitz from The League o f Nathans, a North American Jew who doesn’t know where to turn, who cares deeply for Israel, believes deeply in the Jewish state, loves being Jewish, but has to speak out about what’s committed on his behalf, and final ly has to take a stand. Reading Hebron is his way of finally doing something about it. It is very much a play about middle-class, North American Jews and Israel. How responsible we are for what goes on over there, how culpable we are for what goes on, and how one can
If we were awake, w e’d be wom en B y Lori F ireman
Writers are said to be tortured intellectuals. Some are just tortured. Others should be. Playwright Joanna McClelland Glass falls into this latter category. If her script can be seen as a con fession, then I am afraid. She can not be absolved of the sin of bad writing. Glass’s play If We are Women, is so forced and without direction, one wonders how it could ever have been published. Judging by the looks of the actors, as they tried valiantly to rescue themselves, they too share the puzzlement. Perhaps they’re wondering why it does not work. After all, it’s a recipe that rarely fails. Take char acters of ethnically and financially diverse backgrounds, immerse them in cramped quarters and let simmer. The perfect ingredients for success.
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get involved in it, or whether one deal with his personal reaction to should. It’s very much about the the massacre artistically. “I felt that I was in some way media, about assumptions, what you’ve been brought up to believe responsible for the massacre, as a about what Israel is, how we get Jew living in a country that sup ports the Israeli state. I felt that I those ideas.” “Abramowitz,” Sherman con had the responsibility to speak out, tinued, “after hearing about the and that’s why I wrote the play.” When questioned on the dif massacre, stops everything that he’s doing, which isn’t much, real ference between writing for Jewish ly, and surrounds himself literally characters and non-Jewish ones, with papers and books. There’s an Sherm an, perhaps sensing the official inquiry into the massacre, gravity of the interview ’s tone, and he sends away to the Israeli im m ediately responded: “well, consulate to get it. As he’s on the there are no Jewish jokes in Three phone with the receptionist, he in the Back. That’s the biggest dif starts having fantasy conversa ference.” tions; the Ambassador says: ‘you, Nathan, you self-hating Jewish bastard’.... it’s about paranoia and Public readings o f Reading living in your head. Then he ends Hebron take place April 19, up actually testify in g at the 20, 26 and 27 at Playwrights’ inquiry, interspersed with actual Workshop, 3680 Jeannetestimony, inspired in large part by Mance. Admission is by dona Peter Weiss’s (holocaust play)The tion and all shows start at Investigation.” 8:00 p.m. According to Sherman, the play was written as an attempt to
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plished writer who has done other, right? Wrong. This formula works more impressive plays, may be a best with television sitcoms like little too in love with her own writ Gilligan's Island. Thirty minutes is ing. Director Micheline Chevrier enough. Two hours and you begin to feel as shipwrecked as Ginger, probably tried, but it would have been difficult to save this sinking Mary Ann, and the rest of the gang. The play wants to show us the ship. The Centaur probably sensed strength of the maternal bond, in all early on that Chevrier might be its variations. We are supposed to their only hope. However, this play feel the wisdom of illiterate prairie is ruined by the constant, useless woman, Ruth (Joanna Noyes), the monologues. At the end, the charac soul of her daughter, writer Jessica ters repeat previously heard lines, (Paula Wing) and the under standing nature of her British ex-mother-in-law, Jewish but agnostic Rachel Cohen (Shirley Josephs). We don’t. Instead, we are treated to a study in stereo types. A hick, an oy-gevault, kneidl, dreidl, messugeh grandmother, and a pseudo intellectual daughter who waxes on about the difference between Chekhov and Strindberg (in a plot device that functions solely to impress the audience with the playwright’s knowledge). Amidst this jum ble of anti-PC malaise, however, lies some powerful acting. Most bizarre love triangle im pressive is Patricia Rodriguez, as eighteen-year old Polly. The sheer strength of her as though they have just walked off acting comes from the fact that she an Igmar Bergman film set. The play gets its title from is almost able to transcend the ama teurish lines and the caricature of a Virginia Woolf’s line, “we think character she was given to work back through our mothers, if we are women.” Inspired by watching her with. Paula Wing (Jessica) is not so mother and mother-in-law in con lucky. Her acting is so stiff, I was versation one day, Glass decided it certain she had graduated from the might be fun to see to explore the Andrew Shue school of acting ins and outs of motherhood via (apologies to Andrew Shue). One these two women on stage. Clearly, someone told Glass of her lines was “No, EMPHATI CALLY, No.” I wondered seriously that, in writing, you stick to what if she was simply reading the stage you know. What they didn’t tell her was how not to get stuck. directions. You really can’t blame her, though. The dialogue is so stilted, you can hear the typewriter clicking If We are Women runs until away as each character speaks. April 7. Call the Centaur at What is said in real life is often 288-3161. forced on stage. Glass, an accom
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One of the last words that Antonia’s mother utters before pass ing is “shitbag” — a term she had adopted to signify her husband. Danielle wants a child but not a male partner (she later has a lesbian relationship). Thérèse, Danielle’s daughter, is raped at a young age by the village asshole. Finally, as the narrator of story, Thérèse’s daugh ter, Sarah, falls victim to this legacy of misogyny. The pitting of the sexes against one another has the makings of an enjoyable movie. In this case, the
this movie. Officer 223 obsesses about his ex-girlfriend. After vowing to fall in love with the next woman he sees, he obsesses about a glam orous blond smuggler he meets in a bar. Officer 633 is obsessed with the Antonia’s flat Line woman at the snack counter he orders from every day, as she is with It seems unfair that II Postino After gaining keys to his apart did not have a chance at winning the Chung King Fun Thing him. ment through nefarious means, she best foreign film at the Academy spends time in his apartment when Chung King Express was he is working, eating Mr. Noodles Awards. Having been the only for described by The Mirror as “intrigu and adding to his goldfish collection. eign film since 1973 to gamer a best ing,” which usually means “I went He doesn’t notice the changes, as he picture nomination, it most certainly to film school, and didn’t understand is too busy talking to his belongings deserved the Oscar. As it was, II it, so what makes you think you’re and obsessing about his ex-girl Postino was not even in the foreign film category. Perhaps the greatest going to?” In this case, however, friend. injustice, then, was giving a film like “intriguing” can be taken at surface Both stories are engaging, and Antonia’s Line a shot at an Oscar value. terribly clever. It’s full of brilliant, Chung King is an interesting weird irony that’s far more intelli while forcing II Postino to take on portrait of the lives of two police gent than any recent Hollywood the big Hollywood flicks in order to officers, and their various women. fare. The plots, however, never real win a statuette. Antonia’s Line was Belgium’s It’s a lot of fun to watch, and it’s ly connect, creating a disjointed feel surprising how little gap there is to the film. The first half is about film entry in last night’s award pre between cultures. Except for the officer 223, and the second about sentation. If this film serves as a reli subtitles, one could be watching a 633, and there are only a few able indication, then 1995 was as poor a year for foreign films as it very clever, American Gen X movie. moments where the two meet. These was for domestic ones. There’s a lot of obsessing in Antonia’s Line tells the story of a self-righteous Dutch woman named Antonia and her line of female descendants. The story is sparked by Antonia bringing her daughter, Danielle, to her home town to bury her mother. Soon after their arrival, the audience realises that man trouble is a dominant theme in the lives of Antonia and The Tribune is now accepting applications for her daughters.
women lash out against abusive men to often comical ends. The best scene of the film comes when Danielle attempts to become pregnant by using a man only for his sperm. While Antonia and her fallen friend Letta await below their rented window, Danielle and her unsuspecting sex object do it not once, but twice, for safety’s sake. (Danielle even assumes a handstand just to be sure that the essential ingredients do not escape while she makes her escape from the Continued on Page 18 I I
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hotel room.) However, after this wonderful cinematic moment, Antonia’s Line not only loses its focus on gender relations but also its edge in address ing any important issues. The film falls into a heavyhanded treatment of a simple soap opera verse — “Like sands in the hourglass, so are the days of our lives.” Beautiful, but the fairly empty depictions of changing sea sons, passing days and maturing women do not live up to the film’s first half. Other than excellent production values, the conclusion of Antonia’s Line is not remotely inspired or even interesting. Having related the film’s best moment earlier, I suggest that poten tial viewers save their money, watch Days of Our Lives and pretend that the soap’s portrayal of sexual rela tions is as quirky and engaging as what Antonia's Line promises in its opening scenes. — Marc Gilliam
Mobster à la Shanghai As different as chow mein is from linguine, director Zhang (Raise the Red Lantern) Yi Mou’s latest film Shanghai Triad is the antithesis of the archetypal mafia film, The Godfather. Zhang’s take on the mobster genre steers clear of fedoras, violin cases, and Brando’s raspy voice.
Instead, Zhang examines the corrupt mob world via glitzy cabaret num bers, a low body count, and the uni versal appeal of actress Gong Li. Sadly, Shanghai Triad is overall an unfulfilling tale of greed and deca dence set in China’s warlord period. Shanghai Triad recounts seven days in the life of Shuisheng (Wang Xiao Xiao), a 14 year old country oaf who arrives in ‘30s Shanghai to work as a servant for Bijou (Gong Li), the mistress of the city’s top mob boss, Mr. Tang (Li Bao Tian). Initially, Shuisheng has to endure Bijou’s prima donna bitchiness —
be it backstage of the nightclub where she sings, or in the love nest she shares with “Godfather” Tang. After a failed assassination attempt on Tang, Shuisheng and Bijou are whisked away with him and his entourage to an isolated island. Unhampered by Shanghai’s glamourous diversions, Shuisheng comes to see the humanity belying Bijou’s cold facade. However, just as he develops a loyalty to her, com plications implicating her connec tion with Tang’s would-be murderer arise and the film ends in tragedy. It’s easy to comprehend the
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Julia Maughan. Martlet soccer. It’s hard to imagine one without the other. Opposing goalies have lost sleep envisioning her with in the 18 yard box. McGill might not have known Maughan the soccer player because of a uniform problem 19 years ago. “When I was four on my first soccer team, I did not want to play soccer because her uniform was too big for me,” smiles Maughan. Luckily for the Martlets, she grew into a uniform and decided to give soccer another chance.
ting 19 goals in 12 league games. Maughan attributes her goal-scoring ability to her accuracy and nose for the net. “When I was younger I used to practice by shooting at tree trunks from a fair dis tance,” says Maughan with a touch of nostaglia. The fifth-year striker from Kirkland, Québec plans to finish up her masters in Educational Adminstration this The team captain shys April, and hopes to find a job away from the label often past as elementary school teacher. “It has been a long time ed on her as the heart and soul dream of mine to teach.” of the team. Her only regret over her “I wouldn’t call myself the backbone of the team,” celebrated five year career for the Red ‘n White was not win said a modest Maughan. All modesty aside, ning a national championship. Off the field, when Maughan has been the driving force behind a provincial Maughan isn’t scoring goals, championship every year she she prefers to be on the tennis has been with the Martlets. In court. “I prefer finesse games. I her career with McGill, Maughan has scored 71 goals love watching Steffi Graf in 77 games. This season she play.” Maughan hopes to stay broke her own McGill single season record with 26 goals. involved with soccer after she She led the nation in scoring leaves McGill, whether it be in this past season, and was the a coaching capacity or as Québec scoring champion, net member of a West Island league team.
Léo Grépin... In what turned out to be a very close vote, we are pleased to announce that swimmer Léo Grépin has won the 1995-96 Tribune male athlete of the year. What makes this years w inner special is that Grépin not only excels at his sport but he also excels in the classroom. Grépin is in his fourth year at McGill and is currently completing an honours degree in engi neering. H ailing from Chamalieres in France, this 20-year-old student athlete seems to strive for excel lence in all that he does. In 1995-96 G répin earned a spot on the CIAU All-Canadian First Team. Grépin was also named to the QSSF all-star team. At the CIAU championships he won two golds and one silver. His first gold came in the 100m b u tterfly (0 :5 6 .5 3 ) breaking the McGill record (which has stood since 1976) and the fastest time in the CIAU. His other gold came in the 4x200m freesty le relay
(7:30.0), breaking the previous McGill record by more than 10 seconds. G répin’s silver came in the 200m freestyle in a time of 1:51.8. His individual achievements throughout the sea son include a record setting time in the 100m b u tterfly at the OU-OW IAA Invitational where he also won the 200m freestyle. He posted the second fastest time in the CIAU in the 200m freestyle (1:52.19), and the sixth fastest time in the 400m freestyle (4 :0 0 .1 3 ). At the QSSF championships he won two golds, two silvers and one bronze. Grépin’s out of water accom plishm ents should not go unnoticed. He has been nam ed to the P rin cipal’s honour roll as well as being named an academ ic All-Canadian. Recently
he was the recipient of a 1938 Champions Award for excellence in leadership, academ ics and athletics, and of a Q uebec F o undation R oyal Bank A cadem ic E x cellen ce Bursary. Grépin has also been no m in ated for the D.S. Forbes Trophy given to the McGill “Athlete of the Year”.
W om en’s Basketball captures Tribune Team o f the Year B y K a s h if Z a h o o r
the province in points scored (932), and yielded the few est points (669). McGill held a Top 10 rank ing all 13 weeks. The Martlets won the provin cial championship with a resound ing 69-53 win over Laval before
“I think we had a strong year.” W om en’s basketball head coach Lisen Moore has a knack for understatements. The Martlet squad finished the 1995-1996 season as the most successful women’s basketball team in McGill histo ryPosting an over all record of 26-4, the Martlets won 21 of 24 games against CIAU foes. The 1995-1996 Martlets established team records for highest winning percentage (86.6 per cent) and the fewest losses in a season (4), not to mention a team record 19-game win ning streak that spanned from midNovember to March. The Red ‘n ’ White was the only team in Canada to own a perfect regular season record (12-0). Concordia, the sec ond place team, fin ished five games behind McGill in the standings. They led Everybody say “Cheese
heading off to nationals in Québec City. M cG ill’s only bump in the road was a loss in the national semi-finals to Toronto in heart breaking fashion, but their finish was the highest by a Québec team
since 1984. It can be lonely at top, and other teams are all gunning for number one, according to Moore. “We’re the kind of team every body wants to take a run at. When you’re on top, other teams are psy
ched to play you.” This Martlet squad was brim ming with talent. The team featured one first CIAU All-Canadian, three QSSF first-team all-stars, and swept the QSSF major awards(League MVP, Rookie-ofthe-Year, and Coach-of-the-Year). The scary thing for the other teams in the QUBL next season is that McGill can only get better: the Martlets lose only two starters to graduation, Josée Deloretto and Debby Morse. The rest of the squad will remain intact. Led by veterans Vicky Tessier, Anne Gildenhuys, and Jen Stacey, the prospects are great for next year’s run. To go further next season, the Martlets will have to find a way to prepare for the tough national com petition before the playoffs. Compared with the rest of the coun try, the QÜBL was not strong last season, and that does not look to be changing in the near future. That, in effect, is why McGill was only seeded fifth at the national champi onships, despite their perfect league play performance. And they will settle for noth ing less than a national champi onship. earlier this season, Stacey remarked that they felt they could win it all this year. Next season, they will have more experience, and perhaps, more drive to reach their goal.
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Quebec basketball m oving on to bigger and better things B y A llana H enderson ____________
higher level of competition and variety to the players and fans, After several years of monoto while the coaches may have to nous four-team basketball competi spend a little more time watching tion in the Quebec U niversity videotapes and studying scouting Basketball League (QUBL), things reports in their offices. It really is a are looking up for hoop players and whole new ball game for the fans in the province. The QUBL QUBL. Joining in with the has agreed to merge with the teams “Original Four” teams (McGill, from the O ntario U niversities Concordia, Laval, and Bishop’s) Athletic Association (OUAA) to are the U niversity o f Toronto, form a two-province conference Queen’s, York, Ottawa, Carleton, consisting of 11 teams which will Laurentian and Ryerson. each play each other twice in the On the w om en’s side of regular season. things, the University of Toronto The change Blues came is a welcome in second at The new system will bring one for those t h e who are all too a higher level of competi N a tio n a ls familiar with the held in “Original Four” tion and variety to the play Quebec ers and fans. team s m eeting City ju st a up at two-week few weeks intervals ago after throughout the regular season in defeating the M artlets in the Quebec university play. For the national semi-final. If the Martlets players in the old system, winning had more experience against teams or losing games were often not a from outside of the province, per matter of the best team coming out haps they would not have suc on top, but more a matter of how cumbed to the Blues in the second well each squad could get to know half of the match. The Martlets their opponents, expose their weak were up by a solid ten-point mar nesses and limit their strengths. gin, before allowing Toronto to Preparation was key in that offens score 14 unanswered points in the es and defenses could be tailored to second half and to escape with the the team in question. Although this win. The Martlets still fared quite could benefit a team within its own well at the CIAU’s, finishing with conference, once the team is forced the bronze medal, but felt strongly to compete on a national scale, that they should have won the dis they are faced with a whole new appointing semi-final match. ball game because the familiarity On the men’s side, it is about of their opponents no longer comes time that the Concordia Stingers into play. were dethroned in the QUBL. The For the fans, the QUBL games Bishop’s Gaiters are threatening to became routine meetings which offset the balance of Concordia’s sometimes lacked the excitement domination; however, the entrance of spontaneous com petition — of competitive schools from the especially when there are teams OUAA will definitely enhance the which dominate like the Concordia quality of the league and provide Stingers have done for the past six some more substantial challenges to seven seasons, or the 1995-96 for all of the team s including McGill Martlets did this past year, McGill and Laval. racking up an undefeated record in Although each team will now regular season play. play 20 regular season games The new system will bring a instead of the original 12, the con
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McGill’s best to be honoured at annual intercollegiate sports gala B y D a n a T o e r in g
Another year of intercollegiate sports has come and gone. So it is time once again to honour those ath letes who gave us all those exciting moments throughout the year. The intercollegiate sports ban quet is an annual event designed to honour those athletes who have excelled on and off the field over the course of the past sports season. This year’s gala will be held at Redpath Hall on Friday, March 29 at 6:30pm. The following are the finalists in each category for the upcoming banquet. The Dr. Gladys Bean Award is given to the female athlete of the
year. This years nominees include swimmer Carol Chiang. Chiang is a 20-year-old anatomy student in her third year at McGill hailing from The Pas, Manitoba. Julia Maughan is also up for the award. A 23-yearold soccer player with the Martlets, Maughan is in her fifth season and comes from Kirkland, Quebec. The final nominee is the basketball team’s Vicky Tessier. In her fourth season out of Chateauguay, Quebec Tessier led the Martlets to a third place finish at the nationals this sea son. The male athlete of the year award is called the Major D. Stuart Forbes Trophy. This years finalists include football player Wes Barbour. Barbour is in his fifth year
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out of Markham, Ontario and is fin ishing a degree in mechanical engi neering. Pierre Gendron, in only his second year at McGill is up for the award as well. Gendron is a 22year-old physical education student from Montreal. Léo Grépin is the final nominee for the male athlete of the year. The 20 year old swimmer is in his fourth year in engineering at M cGill and hails from Chamalières, France. The Richard W. Pound Award is awarded annually to the male ath lete who shows proficiency and leadership in athletics. Léo Grépin is up for this award as well. Joining Grépin are fifth year soccer player Adam Mar from Pointe Claire, Quebec and fourth year hockey cap tain Todd Marcellus who is a native of Chesterville Ontario.
Club teams are honoured at the awards gala as well and this year the competition for the Intercollegiate Club of the Year Award is quite strong. The Martlet Rugby team is up for the award after winning the QSSF championship and posting a perfect 9-0 record throughout the season. The Redmen Rugby team is right on their heals having also won the QSSF championships with a 111-1 record overall. The final team to be nominated for this award is the Martlet synchro team. The Martlets won the OWIAA championships and over the course of the year won 2 of 3 meets and placing second in another meet. The big award of the evening is the Intercollegiate Team of the Year Award. Appropriately known as the Martlet Foundation Trophy, this
Martlets end season on winning note T ribune staff
The Martlets hockey team con cluded its seven month season last week with a pair of exhibition wins on home ice. They won 7-1 against Westmount and 3-2 over the West Island. The Martlets’ stiffest competi tion came Saturday evening against he West Island Flyers, an intermeiiate girls team coached by McGill’s Peter Smith. The young ;lub gave the Martlets everything they could handle — and more. Kathleen O’Reilly’s tenth goal of the season, with 1:56 left in the third period, gave McGill the 3-2 victory. This improved the Martlets exhibition record to 8-4-3.
“I was extremely impressed the play of W est Island,” praised McGill coach Dan Madden. “This is a young team with a lot of talent. I hope to see some of these players in a M artlets’ uniform in a few years.” In fact, two of the Flyers, defenceman Jennifer Black and winger Karine Roy could be McGill line-up next season. While the Flyers tenacious checking and hard work kept the M artlets off balance all game, Madden felt it one of his team’s best efforts. “I don’t want to take anything away from the Flyers, they played well. But, I think the long season is taking its toll on our team and we’re
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years nominees are all Martlets. The Martlet basketball team is the front runner having been crowned QSSF champs with a perfect 12-0 record in league play, while going 26-4 overall and placing third at the CIAUs in Quebec. The basketball Martlets won the award last year after a fifth place finish at the nationals. The soccer Martlets are also up for the award after winning the QSSF championship with a league record of 10-1-1 in league play, 16-4-1 overall and a fifth place finish at the CIAUs. The final team to be nominated is the Martlet swim team who also won the QSSF cham pionship, won all four dual meets and placed seventh of 22 teams at the CIAUs. Good luck to all the finalists and may the best win.
This position will require a minimum of 35 horn's of work per week for a full year term; the candidate should consider her/his course load accordingly. Remuneration consists of an hourly wage for the summer months and a stipend for the school term. Bilingualism is an asset. Résumés should be received by the undersigned no later than March 29,1996. Comptroller, Students’ Society of McGill University 3480 McTavish St., room 105 Montréal, Québec, H 3A 1X9
having trouble staying motivated. We lacked the drive that we nor mally have, and I think we were fortunate to win.” The Martlets finished league play on February 16. The teams played a scoreless first period and were tied 2-2 after 40 minutes. Kim Shapcott and Alison Legault tallied for West Island, while O ’Reilly, Claire Sharpe, and Tricia Wozniac scored for McGill. McGill had an easier time Thursday evening with a convinc ing 7-1 win against Westmount. Megan Priston scored a goal in each period and added an assist to pace the Martlet attack. Ana Shapiro, Beth Brown, Claire Sharpe, and Stephanie Minorgan rounded out the team’s scoring. McGill led 2-0 and 6-1 at the periods intervals. The Martlets have six players graduating this season. Beth Brown, Dani Sarbit, Sascha M cLeod, Stephanie M inorgan, Anne Bishop and September Weir will not be back next year.
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• the McGill Flute Choir plays at 17:00 in Pollack Hall. • McGill student soloists; 17:00 in Pollack Hall. Elizabeth Dawson, co-ordinator. • M cGill Flute Choir plays in Pollack Hall at 20:00. WEDNESDAY. MARCH 27
• LBGTM’s Bisexual Discussion Group meets at 17:30 in Shatner 423. • The North Am erican Studies Student Assoc, holds elections for the coming year; 17:30 in Arts 145. Please call Loma at 499-0507. • McGill Jazz Ensemble I plays Pollack Hall at 20:00; Gordon Foote, director. • Professor Brendan Walsh, Dept, of Economics (Dublin), lectures on Irelan d ’s role in the European Union. Free admission to 1455 de Maisonneuve O., 20:00. • “Logic and Computation,” a lec ture by Dr. P. Panangaden of Computer Science; to be held at 16:00 in Burnside 1B36. • McGill baroque orchestra and C appella A ntica perform in Redpath Hall at 20:00. THURSDAY. MARCH 28
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• LBGTM’s Coming Out Group meets at 17:30 in UTC (3521 University), followed by the Men’s Group at 19:00. • Women’s Health Matters: second annual conference. Call 398-4503 for information and to register. • Erik Reinhart plays in the Friday 12:15 Redpath Hall organ series. Free admission. • legendary m untaineer Fred Beckey presents a mountaineering photography lecture. Leacock 26 at 19:30. • M cGill Living Testim onies Autobiographical Project presents a breakfast symposium on “Issues of
Holocaust D enial” . 2020 Univeristy in room 2401; 8:30 am. Contact Renee at 398-3294. • McGill Wind Symphony plays Pollack Hall at 20:00. James Sommerville, director. • Joanna B roadhurst from the CLSC Métro W omen’s Project, presents a AIDS lecture in Leacock 26 from 12:30-13:30. Call Gambrelli at 989-9122 for more infor mation. • Queer Café, held by LBGTM, meets at 20:00 in Bar California (Ste.Catherine and Ste.Elisabeth). SATURDAY. MARCH 30
• McGill Students for Literacy holds an appreciation bash at Petit Campus; 21:30 at Café Campus. Call 398-5100 for more details. • McGill Saxophone Ensembles play in Redpath Hall; 20:00. SUNDAY. MARCH .31
• Claude Robitaille, baritone, per forms as part of the Artist Diploma Recitals. Redpath Hall at 19:00. • Time Works, a percussion ensem ble, plays in Pollack Hall at 20:00. • Annette Betanski, soprano, sings in the Artist Diploma Recitals. 21:00 in Redpath Hall. MONDAY. APRIL 1
• Dr. Ratna Ghosh of the Education Faculty will speak at 11:30 in Arts 160 as part of the Group for Research on Immigration colloqium series.
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