The McGill Tribune Vol. 16 Issue 12

Tuition increase for out-ofprovince students McGill students vote to support strike on November 20

By N o a h G

it t e r m a n

McGill undergraduate students voted over­ whelmingly in support of a strike to protest cuts to education and rising tuition fees at a SSMUgeneral assembly yesterday.

Early yesterday m orning, E ducation M inister Pauline M arois made a surprise announcement that, while tuition for Quebec students will be frozen until the end of the cur­ rent government's mandate, tuition fees for outof-province students will go up. Starting in September 1997, tuition for Canadian under­ graduate students studying in Quebec who come from outside of the province will have to pay $2,913 for tu itio n , which is equal to the Canadian average. International students will pay amounts comparable to what is charged for international students in Ontario. This means, for instance, that international student fees for a student in the faculty of engineering will go up to $15,069 from $7,456. These increases apply both to new students and to students who are currently attending a Quebec university.

Marois’ office argued that an increase in tuition fees for out-of-province students makes sense.

“Because their parents don’t pay taxes in Quebec, out of province students should pay higher tuition,” said M arois’ press attaché Christiane Miville-Deschênes.

McGill responds to tuition hike While the McGill administration has been lobbying for a tuition increase for all students studying in Quebec, McGill Vice-Principal Academic Bill Chan explained that he was dis­ appointed with Marois’ decision.

“Students from out of the province con­ tribute to the intellectual life here at the univer­ sity, and contribute to the economy in Quebec,”

he said. “The policy does not contribute posi­ tively to greater mobility of students.”

At the general assembly, many students supported the strike because of the recent announcement concerning tuition, and also because of a predicted $18 m illion cut to McGill’s budget year. Mera Thompson, aU3 Canadian studies student, does not think that raising tuition for out-of-province students is an acceptable answer to the government’s budget woes.

“It’s not guaranteeing accessible education at all. Making a two- or three-tiered education system is not a solution,” she said.

The strike will take place on November 20.

The William Shatner University Centre will be closed for the day, and there will be picketing at all campus entrances. Classes will still be held, and any students who miss class or tests are to be held responsible. In the afternoon, a large demonstration is planned to take place in down­ town Montreal.

A small minority at the general assembly disagreed with attempts to keep tuition frozen.

Josh Pascoe, a U3 management student, voted against the strike.

“I agree with a uniform tuition raise. If McGill is such a great university, why does it have to be 60 per cent cheaper than Ontario?” he asked.

Most, however, were shocked and upset with the tuition fee announcement.

“I think it’s great [M aroisl decided to freeze tuition fees for Quebec students, but where did she come from with differential fees for out-of-province students?” asked SSMU VP External Affairs Chantal Da Silva. “It can obvi­ ously be seen as an attack on McGill. Thirtyfive to forty per cent of our students come from out of the province.”

Da Silva was worried that this pointed to an CEGEP students drum m ed well into the night in support o f the students barricaded inside the Treasury Board office.

Continued on Page 3

Robbing the cradle in professional sports training How vigourous training affects the health o f young athletes

Competing in world class ath­ letics can be hazardous to o n e’s health — especially for young ath­ letes.

A study recently published in the B ritish m edical jo u rn al The L ancet rep o rts that young boys

Î2 CANDINE FOR

$4.99

* includes two flame-broiled Whopper* sandwiches and two medium fries. Please , present this coupon before ordering. Not n valid with any other offer. N o cash value. ■ Applicable taxes payable by bearer. Valid only at 2001 University, McGill Metro.

Expiry Date: Dec. 15, 1996

M cGill Daily: faces censorship

and thus cause the tem perature within to rise. This can result in reduced sperm counts.

V aricoceles is painless and surgery is usually conducted once the condition is diagnosed. The findings are a cause of concern, however, because infertility that begins during adolescence can be difficult to reverse later in life.

As the trend towards involve­ ment of younger and younger ath­ letes in top level competitive sport

who train vigorously for soccer may be at risk for a testicular con­ dition called varicoceles. Italian researchers conducting the study discovered that 30 per cent of ado­ lescent soccer players who trained ten hours a week or more had this condition, which can cause infertil­ ity later in life.

Varicoceles leaves a collection of enlarged veins that form in the scro tu m . T hese can in h ib it the blood supply to and from the testes

increases, findings like this add fodder to the debate concerning the suitability o f youth involved in such intensive training. “ I t ’s not a q u estio n o f the length of time those boys [in the study] were training for, but what they did in those ten hours a week, w hat ph y sical dem ands w ere p ressed on th e m ,” said Pat Ramondo, the McGill men’s soccer coach.

Continued on Page 77

2 CAND IN E FOR $

F eatured I nside

4

.

9

9

*

This offer valid only at:

B U R G E R K IN G 2001 University • McGill Metro

^includes two flame broiled Whopper* sandwiches and two medium fries

over queer poster.................. Pg.2 Genetic engineering: we're more

than just our genes....,........ Pg. 11 Addiction: fighting it the natural

way....................................Pg. 17 "Who killed Kurt Cobain": who

cares?............................... Pg. 13 Martlet basketball: season starts

with two wins................... Pg.76 What's O n listing ............. Pg.79

1,2CAN DINE FOR ,

'$4.99* “ 1 includes two flame-broiled Whopper* sandwiches and two medium fries. Please present this coupon before ordering. Not valid with any other offer. No cash value.

Applicable taxes payable by bearer. Valid only at 2001 University, McGill Metro.

Expiry Date: Dec. 15, 1996

News

November 19th, 1996

Page 2

Daily’s poster for queer issue banned

By Joanne Davis In several buildings on campus, student leaders disallowed the dis­ play of an advertising poster for the McGill Daily's, annual queer edition, claiming the poster was inappropri­ ate.

The advertisem ent, which depicts two naked women kissing while one pinches the other’s nipple, was deemed unacceptable by the SSMU, the Engineering U ndergraduate S ociety, and the Management Undergraduate Society.

SSMU VP Internal A ffairs Mark Feldman reportedly received several complaints from students who argued that the photograph was both pornographic in content and demeaning to women, due to the fact that a woman’s fully naked body covered the largest area of the photo.

In one case, an angry student took matters into his own hands, as he stormed the Daily offfice on the day of the queer issue’s release. The student accused the Daily of printing imm oral m aterial, and pushed a member of the staff.

Alison Engel, co-ordinator of the Queer-Straight Alliance, is con­ cerned that anti-queer sentiments, and not feminist opposition to the photo of a naked woman, was the real motivation behind the removal of the posters.

“If the motivation behind tear­ ing down these posters was a femi­ nist issue, then it should be addressed,” Engel said. “However, I am concerned that the real motiva­ tion was homophobia. It would have been interesting to see if the reaction would have been the same had it been a picture of a naked man and woman instead.”

The poster was not approved by SSMU on the grounds that it violated article 10.4 of the SSMU policy manual, which states “the Students’ Society finds pornography to be sex­ ist, exploitative and degrading; pornographic magazines have been found to offend members of the McGill community and the Students’ Society shall not participate in the marketing or distribution of sexist publications.”

Feldman pointed out that the Supreme Court of Canada has clearly distinguished between freedom of the press and publicity of the press, and that these legal precedents are upheld at McGill.

“To paraphrase the Supreme Court ruling, there is a clear distinc­ tion between freedom of the press and the right to publicise your news­ paper,” Feldman said. “The Globe and Mail can put whatever it wants within its own newspaper in terms of advertisements, but it can’t post a billboard featuring two naked women that says ‘buy our paper.’”

According to the McGill Daily

C a r le t o n a im s t o d it c h “ l a s t - c h a n c e - U ” im a g e

TAA (DCC1LL DAIIV

£0

Qiraraum HovmttiUMo SSMU requested the Daily to provide a censored version o f the poster.

Features Editor Sonia Berma, the ad was not intended to be sensational.

“The intention of the advertise­ ment was not to shock people. It was done because queer issues and rela­ tionships are often invisible to peo­ ple on campus,” she said. “We are trying to voice issues concerning queers in order to reduce this invisi­ bility.”

Daily Coordinating Editor Idella Sturino was particularly disappointed that the image was so quickly dis­ missed as inappropriate. Sturino con­ tends that the definition of pornogra­ phy is very subjective and that soci­ ety constantly produces sexual imagery that could easily be labelled ‘pornographic.’ Sturino argued that the photo was defined as pornogra­ phy by those who disapproved of it because it portrayed two women kissing, not because the women were naked.

“It com es down to how one defines pornography and how one defines e ro tica,” she said. “The SSMU’s definition of pornography is obviously very wide open, meaning that they can alter it as they like. The response to this advertisement comes down to the conservatism of McGill.”

Feldman questioned whether or not advertisements like the Daily’s

are a positive way to alert people to queer issues, and if reaching out to the student body could not have been done in a more productive way.

“Displaying a picture of two people engaged in what is normally a private matter perpetrates the stigma­ tisation of homosexuals,” he said.

Engel disagreed with Feldman, claiming that while there are many different ways of reaching out to stu­ dents, the Daily’s approach was per­ fectly viable. .

“I believe that there are many different ways to go about outreach and that one is not necessarily better then another,” said Engel. “I support both approaches because if people believe that they need to be heard and seen, they should do what they think they need to do in order to be heard.”

In response to the controversy, the D aily’s N ovem ber 14 issu included an editorial entitled “Who’: Afraid of Queer Erotica?” Meredith Cohen and Mark Narron, members of the Daily editorial board, respond­ ed to complaints about the photo.

“An erotic photograph of two women, taken by a female photogra­ pher for a female audience can hard­ ly be called sexist or degrading to women,” the editorial stated.

The McGill Tribune is published by the Students’ Society of McGill University Editorial Office:

William Shatner University Centre, Rm B01 A, 3480 rue McTavish Montréal, Québec, CANADA H3A 1X9

Advertising Office:

(514)398-6806

Editorial Office:

(514)398-6789/3666

Fax:

(514)398-7490

Letters must include author’s name, signature, identification (e.g. U2 Biology, SSMU President) and telephone number and be typed double-spaced or submitted on disk in Macintosh or IBM word processor format. Letters more than 200 words, pieces for ‘Stop The Press’ more than 500 words, or submissions judged by the Editorin-Chief to be libellous, sexist, racist or homophobic will not be published. The Tribune reserves the right to edit letters for length. Place submissions in the Tribune mail box, across from the SSMU front desk or FAX to 398-7490. Columns appearing under ‘Editorial’ heading are decided upon by the editorial board and written by a member of the editorial board. All other opinions are strictly those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of The McGill Tribune, its editors or its staff. Please recycle this newspaper.

The W orking G roup on Academic Renewal at Carleton U niversity has recom m ended wide-spread change to deal with its perceived poor reputation, by phasing out some programs and continuing development of a sepa­ rate college for lower-achieving students.

The committee was created at the request of new university President Richard Van in light of reduced provincial funding and substantial drops in enrolment. If its recommendations are accepted, Carleton will increasingly focus on high-tech and public affairs stud­ ies.

“It reflects the strengths of the region, that’s part of the intention,” says Roger Blockley, dean of grad­ uate studies and a member of the working group.

Com m ittee members also hope to build prestige at the uni­ versity by attracting more graduate students — the type of students that arc worth more to the universi­ ty due to the provincial funding formula. To do this, there will be an emphasis on continuing pro­ grams from a bachelor's degree to the doctoral level.

“In most cases, program s should be vertically aligned,” said Blockley. “That is to say, you should be able to come in and do a bachelor’s, you should be able to proceed to a master’s, you should be able to pursue a doctorate, if you want to do that.”

The committee report states that program s “that cannot be aligned with doctoral programs are likely to be closed.”

Faculty, the Senate, and the Board of Governors will be con­ sulted over the next few months about the contents of the report.

—with files fiom The Imprint ( University o f Waterloo) M a n it o b a

stu d e n ts f e a r

h e a v y -h a n d e d g o v e rn m e n t

is proposing legislation that will c reate an agency to allo c a te funding to universities and col­ leges in addition to dictating what programs are offered.

U niversity adm inistrators and critics of the legislation are w orried about the im pact the proposed C o uncil on PostSecondary Education will have on the quality and accessibility of education in the province.

“I think we’ve got reason to be concerned about this govern­ ment’s attitude towards universi­ ties,” said NDP Education Critic Jean Friesen.

The new le g isla tio n w ill leave academic standards within the control of the university, but it fails to protect academic poli­ cies as current legislation does.

This leaves open the possibility that government will make a new role for itself in this area. “ G overnm ent here seem s not to have grasped the idea that you work with universities, you don’t stand outside and wield a big stick,” Friesen stated.

F acu lty A sso ciatio n President Alden Turner draws com parisons between the new Manitoba legislation and legisla­ tion found in oppressive regimes.

“T h e re 's no referen ce to institutional autonomy or deci­ sion making. From my point of view, this is exactly the kind of government control that the uni­ versities in Eastern Europe faced for years and years.”

— with files from The Carillon (University o f Regina I Sexual Assault Centre of M cG ill Student’s Society

Help 398 -8500 Info 398 -2700 Centre Contre l’Agression de l’Association des Etudiants de L ’Université M cG ill

The Manitoba government

take Kaplan and get

into the right school.

P e rs o n a liz e d , c o m p u te riz e d s tu d y p la n s , ta ilo re d to yo u r

H ig h ly tra in e d , e x p e rt te a c h e rs w h o k n o w th e te s ts

In d iv id u a l n e e d s .

in s id e an d o u t.

P ro v e n m e th o d s , g u a ra n te e d to ra is e y o u r s c o re .

L S A T c la sse s sta r t J a n u a r y 4 G M A T c la sse s sta r t J a n u a r y 25 G R E cla sses sta r t J a n u a r y 6 M C A T c la sse s J a n u a r y 25

the leader in test prep and admissions counseling

KAPLAN 1’ 800-KAP-TEST w w w .k a p la n .c o m

November 19th, 1996

N eW S

Page 3

Differential tuition fees... First year experience report causes change Continued from Page 7 ominous trend in Parti Québécois’ policies. She referred to a decision earlier this year that restricts Quebec students from taking their student loans to universities outside of the province.

“They’re thickening the bor­ ders. Students can’t get in Quebec, and they can’t get out,” she said.

SSMU VP University Affairs Don McGowan explained that it was evident Marois did not have stu­ dents’ best interests at heart when she made the announcement.

“It was the m ost politically expedient move she could make,” he said. “This move was a calculated gamble that if she gave Quebec stu­ dents what they wanted, they would hang out-of-province students out to dry.”

Will Quebec student movement support McGill?

The Quebec student movement, including dozens of CEGEPs and universities, has staged numerous strikes and demonstrations to protest against tuition fee increases and cuts to education. A large demonstration, to be attended by a coalition of CEGEPs and universities including McGill, is scheduled for November 20. Early reports, however, indicate that some schools will not partic­ ipate, saying that their battle has already been won.

“I believe there were several elements of the protest movement that were su ccessfu l,” said Alexandre Chabote, president of the Université de Montréal students’ union. “We were going to have a ‘journée d’étude’ but it will proba­ bly be cancelled.”

Da Silva still hopes that other schools, which do not have large numbers of out-of-province students, will stand by McGill.

“I hope they’re going to be as supportive of us and our fight as we were of them,” she said.

The PQ’s controversial decision comes in the midst of a growing stu­ dent m ovem ent. The p rotesting seemed to come to a head last week when students from several Montreal-area CEGEPs rallied out­ side the Place Mercantile building on M cG ill C ollege W ednesday afternoon in a show of support for the 150 students barricaded inside the fourth floor offices o f the Quebec Treasury Board.

“We are here to support our brothers inside,” said Pierre-Paul Forest, a student from CEGEP Vieux-Montréal. “We want to get in Marois’ face so that she understands how opposed we are to these cuts in education. We want her to know that

we want a tuition freeze, and fairer admittance requirements to universi­ ty ”

Student movement satis­ fied with accomplish­ ments

By Michelle Lee A report issued by S enate’s Workgroup to Examine the First Year Experience has received positive response, and steps are being taken to implement the committee’s propos­ als.

The workgroup was formed in reaction to concerns raised by various members of the university communi­ ty regarding the manner in which McGill deals with the potentially overwhelming experience of first year students. The committee has been very pleased with the report’s positive reception.

“It seems as though the universi­ ty is making a real effort to improve the first year experience,” said fourth year Management student Danielle Goldfarb, a member of the work­ group.

Although in its prelim inary stages, the implementation of the report’s suggestions began with the creation of a First Year Office.

Established as of November 1, the office will operate on a one-year trial basis.

“One of the main concerns brought up in the report was the stu­ dents’ feeling of isolation brought on

The student protest began in earn est last O ctober 24, when CEGEP Maisonneuve became the first Quebec college to go on strike.

The strike action followed a disap­ pointing meeting the previous day between Marois and student leaders.

Jean-François Labonté, a representa­ tive from C ollège EdouardMontpetit’s student union, attended the meeting and said that Marois would not give students any assur­ ances that the education budget would not be cut.

“She told us that the decision had not yet been made regarding the cuts to education and that we’d have to wait until the end of November to see what the Parti Québécois decides at their convention,” he said.

In addition to their demand for a freeze on tuition and administra­ tion fees, students have also called upon the provincial government to reverse a recent decision that limits the number of semesters for which a student can receive a loan. Other pressing student concerns involve new admission standards for univer­ sity — admission is now based on the ‘Cote R,’ which is a calculation of one’s high school average, and class averages from CEGEP courses.

The Cote R is a disadvantage to stu­ dents who attend CEGEPs that have, on average, lower academic achieve­ ments.

Following the lead of CEGEP Maisonneuve, 23 of Quebec’s 47 CEGEPs went on strike by the end of last week. Now, seeing that tuition for Quebec students will not go up, most are satisfied with their accomplishments and are not con­ cerned that the government has cho­ sen to increase tuition for out-of­ province students.

“I think the tuition increase is a good m easure,” said G hislain Gagnon, president of the CEGEP ; R osem ont stu d e n ts’ union.

“Quebec’s tuition is the lowest in the country, and that encourages for- | eigners to come here. For us that is just a greater burden, they don't pay Quebec taxes. They come here to study and then leave — they don’t contribute to our economy.”

McGowan explained that it was obvious Marois’ decision was meant to isolate out-of-province students.

“It is the only divide-and-conquer mechanism they could have used that would work,” he said.

Additional reporting by Darryl Levine, Elizabeth Wasserman and Benji Weinstein l_

by the cold, bureaucratic ways of many of the student services,” said Trish Duff, coordinator of the First Year Office. “It is hoped that my position will provide a more personal touch by offering continued support on both an intellectual and social basis.”

Goldfarb added to D uffs com­ ment, by underlining the goal of cre­ ating continual support throughout the year.

“We want to provide new stu­ dents with a steady flow of informa­ tion throughout the year in timely and strategic ways, instead of handing them a lot of information that is per­ haps not useful in September,” she said.

The workgroup will continue to meet in order to discuss how the problems raised by the report can be best resolved.

“We need to look over the report and define it in more practical terms, to decide which goals are feasible and which should take priority.

Essentially we need to assess what can be done,” said the director of Counselling Services, Ted Baker, a member of the workgroup.

SSMU has also responded to the Senate committee’s recommendations

by establishing a committee of their own. Operation Open Arms is a SSMU project headed by Anne Topolski which has a mandate to improve the orientation process for incoming students. Topolski recog­ nises that while there has always been an effort by individual McGill ser­ vices to welcome first year students, a more unified body working in a coop­ erative fashion would be more effec­ tive in introducing new students to McGill. Operation Open Arms hopes to rectify problems with the annual SSMU frosh program.

“We are currently working on creating a calendar for new frosh that will help to avoid any confusion of the events that take place during Orientation Week and prevent over­ lapping of events in order that stu­ dents can participate actively in both,” stated Topolski. “M cGill’s diverse student body also arouses the need for more mixed frosh groups consisting of both out-of-province and in-province students.”

The First Year Office, McGill counselling services, and SSMU have all pledged to work together to imple­ ment suggestions raised in the Senate report in order to promote a more Dositive first year experience.

THIS O FFE R VALID O N L V AT

PlflCC MONTRCfll TRUST (Lo w er Level) 1 6 0 0 M c G ill C o lle g e

Coupons v a lid u n til

December

Buy one Foot-long sub and two medium sized drinks, and get a second Foot-long Sub of equal or lesser value for only 96b-

31st 1996

M on /Tues /Wed 1 0 :3 0 a m -6 :0 0 p m

Thursday / Friday

«SUBUUflV* PlflCC MONTRCfll TRUST

1 0 :3 0 a m -9 :0 0 p m

Saturday 1 0 :3 0 a m -5 :0 0 p m

Sunday 1 2 :0 0 p m -4 :0 0 p m

J

November 19th, 1996

Page 4 N e w s

Sexual harassment policy held up by negotiations process

By Marisa Musto The implementation of McGill’s revised sexual harassment policy has been held up for over a year because of disagreement between the univer­ sity administration and the McGill Association of University Teachers regarding the regulations that govern disciplinary procedures.

The McGill Senate called for a revision of the regulations concerning sexual harassment in 1993. With the current policy, when a harassment incident is reported to an assessor, plaintiffs can deal with their griev­ ances in one of two ways: they can either choose to treat the problem through an informal procedure, such as opening a file and discussing the problem, or they can follow the more formal route and ask for a hearing at which defendants can present their cases. In the formal procedure, the

report goes to the principal who makes the final assessment.

Don McGowan, SSMU VP uni­ versity affairs, has received com­ plaints from students about current policy procedures.

“Some feel it is unfair that a per­ son is forced to choose between either the formal or informal process and then be unable to change their mind later on,” said McGowan.

McGowan went on to explain that another concern regarding the current policy is the fact that the per­ son who first hears the complaint is also the person who then acts as a judge for the case.

“With the new policy, there will be a different assessor for each phase of the process. This may slow down the proceedings but it is a fairer way of conducting things,” he said.

The revised policy has been drafted and submitted to Senate, yet it cannot be ratified until regulations

governing disciplinary procedures have been agreed upon. Thus far, MAUT and the administration have been unable to reach a consensus on these regulations.

“It was my understanding we had reached an agreement back in March of this year, but the university has made several changes which we consider unacceptable,” stated Professor Ted Meighen, a member of MAUT. One of the major points of con­ tention between the university and MAUT concerns the length of the hearing or arbitration period.

‘This issue is a major stumbling block in the negotiations,” said Professor M alcolm Baines. “An extended period of arbitration is cost­ ly and is not in the best interest of anyone, and therefore we must try to curtail the cost of such a process.”

MAUT has asked that the period of arbitration be limited to ten days.

McGill $200 million in disrepair

By Sheri Harris The cumulative consequence of 30 years of deferred maintenance costs and projects are being felt throughout the McGill community, as work and study environm ents have progressively deteriorated.

Deferred maintenance costs are the calculated costs of liabilities incurred and accumulated by McGill in terms of building damage and dis­ repair. Such liabilities include leak­ ing roofs, dilapidated tunnels and mechanical systems that have run past their useful life span. Work pro­ jects and replacements necessary to bring the university back to its opti­ mal condition fall into the category of deferred maintenance.

Most of the needed projects and costs have, for various reasons, been postponed or delayed over the past 30 years. The longer such repairs are left unattended, the more drastic damages become — and the more expensive it becom es to correct them. A price tag of $150 to $200 million is the estimated cost to repair degenerated university buildings.

For service employees — who are responsible for the upkeep of uni­ versity property — the dire need for increased m aintenance efforts at McGill are blatant. In addition to deterioration of buildings, budget cutbacks have diminished the num­ ber of service employees, thus mak­ ing it increasingly difficult for work­ ers to keep pace.

Mike Yakobina, president of the Service E m ployees’ U nion, has urged immediate action to improve the present state of physical disre­ pair.

M cG ILL T R IB U N E

NEW !

i

Now buy sell with...

CLASSIFIED ADS in The McGill Tribune For information and assistance call

Paul at: 3 9 8 -6 8 0 6 or drop by

The M cG ill Tribune

CLASSIFIED ADS OFFICE Shatner Building Room 1050 3400 McTavish St.

is paid for by the Quebec government, it is the gov­ ernment that must provide necessary funds for repairs. Traditionally, this has been done through capital grants. Tavenas, citing two consecutive grants the university was awarded in the past four years, stated that “McGill has been relatively lucky.”

The funds provided by the provincial govern­ ment were put towards repairing worn out roofs, replacing inoperative ele­ vators, and addressing urgent maintenance needs.

Still, the grants did not adequately meet McGill’s overall maintenance costs.

“Only about 50 per cent of these rationalised resources were ever sup­ plied,” said Tavenas. “If Molson Stadium has fa llen into disrepair. we had received $22 mil­ lion rather than $11 mil­ “Constant neglect of m ainte­ lion, we would surely be in better nance needs are always at the shape.” expense of service to the students M cGill is presently in the and the good of the McGill commu­ process of requesting yet another nity,” he said. “It’s time to realise the capital grant from the Quebec gov­ importance of a clean and safe work­ ernment, this time for $30 million. place.”

McGill has also begun to deal with According to François Tavenas, deferred maintenance issues within vice-principal resource and planning, its own budget. For the past two this state of affairs is unfortunately years, $1.5 million has been set aside all too common for many Canadian annually for this purpose. and international institutions.

Meetings are to begin next week “It is not unusual to have so in an attempt to finalise a method of many outstanding maintenance costs establishing repair and replacement and liabilities,” he stated. “A few priorities. Discussions and decisions years ago, such costs were estimated are to be a joint effort between the to exceed $5 billion across the U.S. administration and those in charge of The situation here is no better.” individual buildings around campus.

Because McGill’s physical plant

M ARCHÉ SU PI NASCIMENTO el BRITO Everything from groceries to wine

r 3 J 1 0 % DISCOUNT with student ID H R

• Minimum order $10.00 • . Not a p p lica b le on b eer, wine or in-store sp e cia ls •

6 7 P rince A rth u r E.

8 4 5 -5 7 5 1

MAUT’s concern with the cost and length of arbitration is that the uni­ versity will be able to terminate a staff member’s position and salary while the case is in progress, and will also attempt to transfer some of the costs of the process to the staff mem­ ber.

“The disciplinary penalty should be stayed until it is decided whether the defendant is guilty or innocent,” said Baines. “The punishment should come after, not before [a final deci­ sion].”

MAUT would also like to see the establishment of an internal hear­ ing committee which would give pro­ fessors the right to appeal the princi­ pal’s decision.

“At the moment there is no mechanism within the university which professors can turn to,” said Meighen. “We are unable to contest the principal’s decision and that is unacceptable.”

McGowan is worried that com­ plications involved in the negotiating process may affect the implementa­ tion of the new sexual harassment policy.

“I think that both sides are trying to write a set of procedures that will completely insulate them from all lia­ bility,” he said. “This makes it even more difficult to reach an agree­ ment.”

After a meeting with MAUT on November 14, V ice-Principal Research Pierre Belanger, who is part of the university’s negotiating team, felt that the two sides were making progress although he pointed out that such negotiations tend to take consid­ erable amounts of time.

“There are many issues of prin­ ciple on the table,” he said. “I am confident that early in the new year we shall have an agreement with MAUT.”

Law school fights Bar Proposed entrance exam to Bar School may disadvantage McGill law graduates

By Carrie G oldstein The M cGill Law S tu d en ts’ Association is lobbying against a proposal that would make an entrance exam a prerequisite for admission to the Quebec Bar School.

Claude Masse, the president of the Quebec Bar, would like to imple­ ment an entrance exam in order to control the quality of incoming stu­ dents; law school graduates would have to take this exam before gain­ ing entry into the Bar School. Under current procedures, students only need to take an exam after complet­ ing the Bar School’s one-year pro­ gram.

Masse addressed the problem of too many law yers practising in Quebec in a recent lecture given at McGill’s faculty of law. Over the past 20 years, the number of lawyers in Quebec has increased 400 per cent, while the population of the province has risen only 15 per cent.

Masse would like to incorporate the entrance exam as a weeding-out process, contending that the Quebec economy cannot sustain the present number of lawyers.

“The Quebec Bar figures that its only role in this matter — and its only ability — is to control the qual­ ity of those who want to enter the profession and the quality of the pro­ fessional practice of those who want to carry it out,” Masse wrote in the Bar Association Journal.

The Bar would have to modify provincial law in order to implement the new exam.

Stephanie Johnson, VP civil law of the LSA, expressed her con­ cern about whether or not this exam would serve its intended purpose.

“There are too many lawyers out there, but a revision of existing exams would be more useful than an extra exam,” she said.

Johnson is also worried that this exam would hurt McGill the most, since its law program is more theo­ retical rather than technical.

“M cGill prides itself on the diversity of programs of study in the faculty of law. The flexibility that we enjoy is a result of the fact that our program does not impose too many core professional courses,” she

said.

A lthough M cG ill graduates tend to have average scores on the Bar exam, they have the highest level of job placements.

“The reason we do so well in getting articling positions is because McGill trains their students in this unique way,” Johnson said.

Many students are afraid that after four years of law school, they will have to face the reality that they might not get into Bar School. As well, this new exam would be one more incentive for students to leave Quebec in favour of practising else­ where in Canada or in the United States.

“First year students are very concerned about this because they tried to im plem ent this exam in 1993, to no avail,” said first year law class president Mark Boidman. “If they do succeed eventually, it will certainly affect us.”

Law students are being support­ ed in their campaign by the adminis­ trations o f Q uebec’s five law schools.

“A letter was prepared by all of the deans of Quebec law schools in general opposition to the proposed exam,” said Robin Geller, assistant dean of law admissions.

Geller explained that the faculty of law would have to overhaul its curriculum in order to better prepare their students to get into the Bar, and in turn, limit their freedom of choice in course selection.

Don McGowan, SSMU VP uni­ versity affairs and fourth year law student, explained that because M cGill’s faculty of law does not adequately prepare students for the new Bar School entrance exam, the faculty will suffer.

“I estimate that about a third of McGill law graduates will have dif­ ficulty passing one such exam,” he said.

As a result, M cGowan explained that the governm ent would likely reduce its funding to the faculty. In a show of support, SSMU council voted at its last meet­ ing to endorse the activities of the LSA against the proposed Bar School exam.

to

b o o k

y o u r G RA D

PH O TO

After November 30th its...

B e tte r g e t y o u r g r a d p h o to

i t 's

b e fo r e

to

b e

to o in c lu d e d

Ju st

ta k e n

in

@Š g e t s .

y o u

g r a d s ittin g y e a rb o o k an d ^ m a ilin g .

Callforanappointment orjust dropby!Studio OSTENS, the Official GradPhotographersfor theStudents SocietyofMcGill University 1456 D rum m ond(corner deM aisonneuve)

November 19th 1996

Page 6 ♦

J—]

♦

£

Published by the Stud ents’ Society ot McGill University

M cG ILL T R IB U N E “The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set o f people forget that certain other sets o f people are human.”

— A id o n s H uxley

L iz L au

Editor-in-chicf S ara J ean G r e e n Assistant Editor-in-chief

Ra c h el Sto ko e Assistant Editor-in-chief

E d i t o r i a l

By loyer Lau The guise of liberalism and security — the lofty idealism, seductive posters, and popular film festivals that marked Gay and Lesbian Awareness Week — could not hide a side of our society most people would rather not see. This week's immediate and negative reaction to the increased visibility of the queer community acted as a stark reminder that homophobia continues to be an acceptable form of discrimination for too many people, On campus, one look at the McGill Daily's queer issue drove a McGill graduate student to their office, yelling homophobic accusations and acting as a physical threat to the staff members who were there at the time. In addi­ tion, the Daily's 'Queer Issues’ posters were ripped down across campus by both individuals and student associations. Critics stated that the photo of two nude women was too explicit; however, this docs not account for the tearing down of the SSMU-censored version of the poster, in which everything from the shoulders down was blocked off by a large black box.

While these incidents do not indicate that the average McGill student is actively 'homophobic,' they do act as further proof that homophobia is a form of discrimination which is not denounced as seriously as racism or sex­ ism. Maybe this is because the queer rights movement came to the forefront at least a decade after the civil rights and women's rights movements did in the ‘60s. Or perhaps, the queer rights movement is not being taken seriously because being queer is often seen as. a ‘lifestyle choice’ instead of a naturally-bom'visible difference’ — more like being part of an inter-racial couple than just being black or Asian. But most probably, homophobia is not taken to heart because our supposedly liberal, academic environment lulls many into a false sense of security. However, if this is the case, then we are all greatly mistaken.

Recently, Pulitzer prize winner and former Daily staff member Charles Krauthammer published an opinion piece in Time magazine which declared that “normal" people find homosexuality to be “unnatural,” “harmful” and “psychologically and morally abbhorent.” Entitled “When John and Jim Say 'I Do’ ” (July 22, 1996), the subtitle taunts, “If gay marriages are O.K., then what about polygamy? Or incest?”

Krauthammer, and many others like him, concede that they do not hale queers, meaning that they do not believe in beating or jailing them. However, such critics still deny queers the right to live as everyone else — the right to walk down the street dressed as one wants, to work or buy a house while dat­ ing whom one wants, to identify oneself with a certain group openly and without reprimand. Until these rights are generally accepted as universal rights, our society will remain a blatantly discriminatory one.

Homophobia does not always denote outright hatred. On an everyday scale, it is more closely associated with unbridled unease, ignorance and fear.

While many people state that they have ‘no problem’ with queers, it is still acceptable to debate why queers have to be so ‘open’ or affectionate. The concept of ‘Don’t ask, don't tell' is not limited to the U.S. military. ‘Fag’ is still used as a common insult. Last year’s dorm rap discussions about homo­ phobia showed that a good number of frosh still associate gay men with the spread of AIDS, ‘perversion’, and sex in public bathrooms. Many of these students admitted that they could not help but feel repelled by the thought of homosexuality. Many stereotyped all queers as drag queens or as ‘extrem­ ists’. However, hate and fear cannot be quantified; and while laying blame cannot solve the problem, confronting misconceptions with increased queer visibility and awareness can.

Homophobia might not seem like an everyday problem, but for most queer students and Montreal denizens, it is. Homophobia is not just marked by violent gay bashings, it is also marked by an everyday indifference to whether things will be. or should be, equal for everyone.

Entertainment Editors Marc Gilliam Anya Spethmann Features Editors Samantha Lapedus Elizabeth Wasserman Network Editor Jason Sigurdson News Editors Noah Gitterman Benji Weinstein

Stop the Press

McGill administration opposes publicly funded, accessible education Re: Tuition to increase for international students (Nov. 12, 1996); Once again, we see a full frontal of the McGill administration’s dream to privatise McGill. While we have known for some time that this was a fantasy of the principal, the rest of the administration isn’t often caught play­ ing pimp for accessible education in this way. [Vice Principal Phyllis] Heaphy is quoted as stating that the administration’s goal is to take pro­ grams away from government fund­ ing and make them fully private (she euphemised “private” with “self­ funding”). [Vice Principal Academic Bill] Chan actually states that student fees should cover the cost of their education. There is not even pretense here that education should be publicly funded.

If we ever had any doubts about our administration’s commitment to the Canadian educational system, they are now confirmed. The McGill administration isn’t just trying to compensate for government cutbacks, they are actively trying to shift the

Re: Editorial entitled “Dealing with the Pepsi dilem m a” by Benji Weintstein.

In reading the editorial, I was deeply grieved, not over his opinion as everyone is entitled to their own, but instead his train of reasoning. In writing on the SSMU decision to place under all Pepsi advertisement in Shatner a sticker condemning Pepsi for its actions in Burma, Weinstein’s article depended on a number of inac­ curate pieces of information which must be clarified for the sake of spreading proper awareness.

Weinstein writes, “The contract negotiations with [Pepsi] were done honestly and legitimately.” In sum­ mer 1995, students requested to speak before the contract ensuring Pepsi’s complete monopoly on campus until the year 2000. These students were told they would receive a phone call as to when they could speak; such a call was never received, and their rep­ resentatives later locked student into the Pepsi contract. Further controver­ sy emerged over signing this contract during the summer when student pop­ ulation being sparse, posed no threats.

How contract negotiations could be seen as conducted honestly and legiti­ mately is baffling.

W einstein writes, “A perfect example of hypocrisy is an organisa­ tion that takes money from a compa­ ny, puts that company’s signs all over the place, and then puts up more signs stating that it condemns that compa­ ny.” However, one must realise that it was SSMU representatives signing the contract and the students putting up signs. When a handful of represen­ tatives decide to ignore student voic­ es, they must be made accountable to students, this proved in a vote of 1884

Advertising and Marketing Manager Paul Slachta

Science Editor Alexandra Stikeman

What’s On Coordinator Winnie Lai

Production Managers David Bushnell Joyce Lau

Ad Typesetters Reuben Levy James Senior Web Page Design Adam Sennet Drummer Associates

McGill students should beware.

This move to privatise education and treat students as commodities will not stop here. Soon it will not just be “other” international students that will be confronted with an educational system based on user fees. In fact, Heaphy is already trying to convince students they want to pay extra monies in administrative fees, as a way of increasing revenues for [sic].

The McGill administration seems intent on being a leader in shifting the educational system in Quebec from public funding to private, from acces­ sible to elite.

If we are to counteract this move, we need to see a revolt on this campus. We need to see professors, students and staff resisting in solidari­ ty. If the McGill community does not stand up now and resist, the McGill tradition of publicly funded, accessi­ ble, quality education will slowly, but surely, be destroyed.

Erin Runions VP-Extemal Affairs, PGSS McGill, Local 79, CFS

Dealing ethically with the Pepsi dilemma:

Photo Editors Aaron Chase Rachel Ong

Sports Editors Paul Conner Franklin Rubinstein

system away from government partic­ ipation. We shouldn’t fool ourselves: this is not a result of the political cli­ mate which cuts funding. Lobbying efforts like those of the McGill administration to deregulate tuition fees (for whatever segment of the stu­ dent body) is what creates the politi­ cal climate.

But wait, it gets worse. Not only does the McGill administration boast of this latest violence to accessible education, they actually plan to recruit international students for the purpose of generating revenue for McGill. This is a great new technique for colonialist exploitation. Now we will not only exploit people’s labour in other countries. Now we can actu­ ally bring them here, use their brains for our labs and research, use them to stimulate our economy and pay taxes while they are here, reap the benefit of having their diverse voices in our midst, instill in them western market values so that future trade and research will be easier, and make them pay us large amounts of money at the same time. Let’s go civilisation!

to 588 to condemn Pepsi for its actions in Burma. It cannot be helped if Weinstein fell within the minority voting against this decision.

Flawed reasoning is again found in the statement, “When Pepsi finds out about this, they will likely sue SSMU, or break the contract.” One pertinent question that should be posed is over the identity of Weinstein’s information source. The possibility according to SSMU lawyers, representatives from legal aid and various law students is hardly potential. If Pepsi did not decide to sue the University of W isconsin, Harvard, UCLA and others breaking contracts with Pepsi, the idea of spreading awareness through stickers could hardly culminate in either law suit or contract termination.

Spreading awareness remains the only purpose for such stickers.

Students have to be made aware that every Pepsi item consumed is prop­ ping up a dictatorship slaughtering thousands of people. Weinstein’s arti­ cle reminds us of resistance met over the South Africa boycott.

If Weinstein is calling such a move to spread awareness “unethi­ cal,” I invite him to meet with the new Financial Ethics Research Committee, created by students to research ethics involved in such con­ tracts. Just as in the South Africa case, there are always attempts to confuse the public with false informa­ tion, there are always those criticising yet creating no solutions themselves. I invite Mr. Weinstein to come to a body active in creating solutions.

—Simone Levine Public Research on Business Ethics

Staff Michael Bezuhly, Keith Campbell, Eric Churchill, Drew Cormack, Jodi Cukierman, Erin Davis, Joanne Davis, Abigail de Vries, Carrie Goldstein, Lynn Habel, Sheri Harris, Graham Kay, Kevin Koch. Samuel Lapalme-Remis, Michelle Lee, Darryl Levine. The Minh Luong, Dom Michaud, Ryan Murphy, Marisa Musto, Ros Price, Heather Ritch, Shannon Ross, Matthew Roy, Damon Stoddard, Arjun Taneja, Marlisa Tiedemann, Tara Van Zuiden

We feel that several claims put forth in Weinstein’s editorial must be refuted.

While his argument throughout seemed to be based on several false assumptions (that students were con­ sulted before the Pepsi contract was signed, that they now eagerly “take money” from Pepsi, and are therefore hypocritical in their protest; that the underlying motive behind the stickering motion was to have the contract broken), what we found to be most troubling was Mr. Weinstein’s claim that, as a result of the motion passed by council, Pepsi will now “likely sue SSMU, or break the contract.”

In fact, Pepsi has made no state­ ment indicating their intention to do either of these things. While we do understand that editorials are a forum for the expression of personal opin­ ion, it is also expected by the readership that this opinion will be based on fact. Unfortunately in this case, Mr. Weinstein failed to either consult the Student’s officials at Pepsi Canada or PepsiCo Incorporated before coming to his conclusion.

While agreeing that the best solution to this unfortunate situation is undoubtedly to refuse re-negotia­ tion of the contract in 5 years, we do not believe that this precludes direct action in the immediate future. Those involved have never claimed that the sticker solution is a perfect one, but it has been the best one proposed to date — it certainly does not “make matters worse,” nor is it equivalent to sinking to the same level as Pepsi.

Despite being stuck in the contract (possibly until the year 2000), we can indeed carry out the mandate of the “Yes” vote in last spring’s referen­ dum.

Considering that at the time the Pepsi contract was signed, we as stu­ dents had no say in SSMU business dealings, our actions currently being undertaken are in no way “unethical.”

They are a legitimate attempt to ame­ liorate past mistakes made by the Students’ Society.

Mera Thompson, Arts Rep Chris Carter, SSMU President Steven Erdelyi, Clubs Rep

O p in io n

November 19th, 1996

I’m just waiting for my mantra In the beginning, a few weeks ago, I wrote a somewhat irreverent column about the Pope, and vengeful letters of fire and brimstone inundated the Tribune office. Well, there were only three, not an actual inundation.

However, the fact that it was a trinity of letters is in itself significant.

One letter, by a student named Rachel Pereira, said: “...just as a basic rule of etiquette, show some respect for the Pope. If not, at least be fair by mocking all religious leaders — Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist, Greek Orthodox, Hindu...and their faithful.../ dare you [italics mine].”

I’m still not sure if she meant it or not, but it’s tremendously difficult to back away from such a wonderful Pandora’s Box-dare! Working at a furious pace, I began on a crusade to mock as many of the world’s reli­ gions in one week, with the goal of satisfying everyone by making every­ one equally upset.

It made sense at the time.

Day 1: 1 was cast away from the Tribune office, naked and ashamed. I went to a cybercafé on Prince Arthur street, and logged on to the Dalai Lama’s Web page.

Throwing Karma to the wind, I began posting messages making fun of Nirvana, reincarnation, and Keanu Reeves’s acting in The Little Buddha.

Unfortunately, before I could finish my personal gospel, a band of Buddhist assassins, led by Richard Gere and Leonard Cohen, stormed the café, and I had to flee without proper­ ly logging off.

Day 2: I took up hiding in the lobby of M cGill’s radio station, CKUT. Hoping to insult a large part of the world (three-quarters of a billion peo­ ple) at once, I tried to concentrate all my efforts on Ganesh, the roly-poly Hindu icon with the elephant head.

But how does one ridicule a roly-poly icon with an elephant head? I decided

to the Editor

Increasing international tuition fees

Bill T. H. Chan Vice Principal Academic I think our narrow-m inded, wealthy principal, Bernard Shapiro, is thinking that he is running his broth­ er’s school down in New Jersey, where a 50 per cent price hike might go unnoticed. As an international stu­ dent, I was told that McGill offers a very good education at an affordable price. However, that very good edu­ cation is by Canadian standards, and it is pretty well-known that it’s tougher to get into Harvard than McGill. I do not see how Shapiro expects to contin­ uously raise tuition so drastically

Mila Aung-Thwin to offer a mock-radio broadcast of a boxing match (GANESH vs. SHIVA: Payback Time), with descriptions of scantily clad cows as spectators.

However, as soon as the song was aired, the station was surrounded by an angry mob, and I had to run for my life under a barrage of pappadums and mango chutney.

Day 3: 1 hid in a corner stall at Schwartz’s, and ordered a broccoli sandwich on Wonderbread. To prop­ erly mock the Jews, I decided to go back to the earliest sources of Juda'ica available to me: the Pentateuch, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and Jackie Mason’s standup routine. I was in the middle of writing a piece full of some truly

Day 5: My next hiding place was the Mr. Falafel restaurant on St. Laurent.

I was intent on playfully poking fun at Islam, or at least to do as good a job as Hollywood has. I decided against mocking Muhammed, not because I was feeling reverent, but because I wanted to write a naughty limerick and got stuck trying to find enough words to rhyme with Muhammed.

Then I couldn’t decide whether to make fun of traditional Islam, modem Islam, or the Nation of Islam. But

when I saw Cat Stevens and Cassius Clay coming after me with my own private fatwa, I decided to skip that cous-cous stand.

I’m still in hiding. I’m marked for death (or at least reincarnation as a locust) by all of the world’s major religions, which makes me much overdue for a Booker Prize and an appearance at a U2 concert. And I’ve offended many other religions because I didn’t get around to mock­ ing them: Unitarians, Scientologists, Capitalists, Mesmerists, Audiophiles, Trekkies, Shakers, Quakers, Free M asons, D arw inists, Taoists, Animists, Vegetarians...but I’ll get to every last sect, even if it takes my entire afterlife.

Mr. Aung-Thwin can be found hanging with Salman Rushdie and penning his autobiography, My Life as Jesus in the Second Cup (since he’s been banned from Cybercafe).

The emperor has no clothes on and boy does he look good !

Letters Re : International Tuition Fees In view of the recent report in the McGill Tribune regarding internation­ al students’ tuition fees, I write to clar­ ify a number of issues: 1) Any change in tuition fees for international students will apply only to new students entering the program in the fall of 1997.

2) The executive committee of the Board of Governors approved changes in tuition fees for internation­ al student in the B.Comm, MBA, and D.D.S. program for new students entering the programs in the fall of 1997. Student in other programs are not affected.

3) When an international student is admitted to those programs, he/she will be informed of the tuition fees as well as the amount of scholarship available so that the student is fully aware of the yearly cost.

4) In com parison to the fees charged by universities in the U.S., U.K., Australia, and Ontario, the international students tuition fees charged by McGill are relatively mod­ est.

I want to reiterate that interna­ tional students play an important role in the quality of McGill University life. The university welcomes them and is committed to offer them a qual­ ity education.

[italics mine]

funny Jewish jokes (most of them were from Mel Brooks movies) when an angry mob gath­ ered outside Schwartz’s, and once again, I had to flee (later, I found out that the mob was not after me, but was an anti-”smoked meat” group led

by Culture M inister Louise Beaudoin).

photo of creator not available

without getting to the point that international students will choose Ivy League if the price is the same. And why shouldn’t they? I’ve seen McGill decline in the four years I’ve been here.

Why only target the international students, Bemie? Why is just the raise by itself double what Canadians pay?

And that is added to $8,000 we already pay. I have not filled out a survey in my four years here where I answered questions regarding my income to provide them with statisti­ cal data from which to make their analyses. It seems our principal just knows from instinct who has the money.

The capper to that front-page article was a closing comment by a rich management student from Calgary, Imran Amed. I’m still trying to figure out what he meant when he said “international students don’t have a right to be subsidized by a govern­ ment they don’t pay taxes to.” I can’t understand why he is taking a position against fellow students who may be less fortunate than himself. One, our tuition is going from four times to six times more than yours. Two, what subsidies? We’re not eligible for any grants or scholarships up here. Three, I don’t pay income taxes because I can’t get a job up here. However, for everything else I do up here, meaning every single purchase, I pay 15.5 per cent just like you. I just can’t promote McGill to anyone anymore. The com­ petition is simply too strong, and McGill isn’t showing why, for the money they want to ask, it is a few steps above the rest.

Christian Schuh U3 Marketing/ International Business I would like to clarify one com­ ment from the article as made by man­ agement student Imran Ahmed. The impression that international students are being subsidised in any way by the

yesterday, my friend was raving to me about the effectiveness of your hair removal cream. Anyway, after doing some research I quickly came to the conclusion that your firm was the leader in its field, and since you guys are leaders, and since many peo­ ple tell me I am a leader, I thought w e’d be a perfect match. Also, when I heard you guys tested on live animals I thought that Daniel Farb was good because I realised telling the truth, and which of the two that you probably couldn’t make all the great products that you do if you is more likely to get the job.

Interviewer from a consumer didn’t kill animals. Since I like your products firm that does extensive test­ products more than I like animals, and since I agree with your compa­ ing on animals: “So, why did you choose to ny’s philosophy on killing them, I thought we’d be a perfect fit.” interview with our firm?”

I have to admit that I haven’t Candidate #1 : “Well, I heard you guys pay peo­ painted a very flattering picture of ple a lot of money for not that much either candidate, and that neither of are very im pressive. work, and since I’m really interested them in making a lot of money, and not that Nonetheless, in a real interview situa­ interested in working, I thought I’d fit tion, chances are that Candidate #2 in really well at your firm. I'll admit would get the job over Candidate #1.

If it were my choice, and I had to that when I first heard that you guys killed cute little rabbits and cats to hire one of the candidates I would test your products it really bothered choose Candidate #1, because in busi­ me, but I eventually got over it when ness, as in life, it’s important to be I heard how much money I could surrounded by people you can trust, make at your firm. It’s not like you and people who aren’t afraid to tell you that the Emperor has no clothes. kill people or anything.”

Mr. Farb decided to take the Candidate #2: “As you can see from my honest approach on his graduate resumé, ever since I was little I have school applications. Consequently, he always had a strong interest in con­ has decided to take a jo b at sumer products, and I really think the McDonald’s before continuing his ones you guys make are the best. Just education.

I think the world would be a much better place if people just spoke their minds. Instead of saying what they think others want to hear, or instead of saying the right thing, the proper thing, or the politically correct thing, I think people should just speak the truth. If people did this there would no longer be any need to try and interpret a person’s body lan­ guage for hidden meaning, to listen too closely to someone when they speak, or to check for subtle nuances in a person’s speech.

In my ideal world, subtlety and innuendoes would be banished.

Bluntness would reign supreme and everyone would become much more productive and happy as a result of the hundreds of hours of time they would save over the course of their lives.

In my world, it would be easy to distinguish between friends and foes if someone who disliked you, they would tell you. Humming and hawing would be eliminated. Words, and speech would take on added signifi­ cance as we would now be able to take what people said at face value rather than have to try and interpret their thoughts and intentions.

I first thought about this when some of my friends and acquaintances began asking me for advice on the right things to say at job interviews.

My first reaction was to tell them to just be themselves and be honest, but I quickly realised the flaw in my thinking. By being too honest, my friends could in fact hurt themselves in their quest for a job. This is not an indictment on my friends’ characters

but rather on society itself. It seems today that people who lie and deceive are often rewarded while people who tell the truth are not.

The following is an example of a routine interview question. After reading the two responses you can decide for yourself which candidate is

Canadian or Quebec government is entirely erroneous. We are currently paying fees of $8,000 instead of $ 2,000 because we are not paying taxes to the government. It is a pity that Ms. MacNeil did not bother to check the accuracy of the statement, in an otherwise well-researched article.

Moreover, instead of defending the planned increase in fees “from a Canadian perspective,” Mr. Ahmed

would do better to concern himself with the future application of the uni­ versity’s declared intentions. Once McGill gets the tuition fee structure deregulated, the tuition hike is sure to be extended to all programs and all students eventually.

Rearview mirror

Faiza Mushtaq U3 Sociology

Read the Tribune on-line http://ssmu. mcgill.ca/trib

Page 8

November 19th, 1996

Still grating cheese the same old way? Hmm? Eh? Well?

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)

Hector Berlioz. Man, that’s a name.

Edvard Grieg. That’s a good name, too. Word for the week: Antonioni. capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) We went out for R ebecca’s birthday dinner on Saturday, then the group was going over to Yoda Den, but I'm not comfortable being there because of one incident that can’t be published. So I called Erika to see what she was up to. She was going to Sona, but I can’t go there because one of my legs is shorter than the other and one of my feet’s too small. Word for the week: Methamphetamine. aquarius (Jan. 19-Feb. 18) I haven't been going to a lot of classes lately. I don't know, it just seems like my soul is destroyed. Well, maybe not destroyed. It feels like I’m stuck between the molars of a giant raven­ ous beast named “McGill,” and its breath is bad and its saliva is slowly dissolving my flesh. Word of the

week: K-incomplete. pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) Be young. Have fun. Drink Pepsi.

While it’s still legal. My opinion? Big deal. If people really cared about

taurus (April 20-May 20) I’ve gone to see a lot of movies lately.

The Palace is good for that. I went to see Phenomenon, starring John Travolta. It wasn’t very good, but that isn’t the point. Word of the week: $2.50. gemini (May 21-June 20) “Gemini” means twins.

“MSG” means flavour!

Word of the week: canni­ balism.

horoskop David Bushnell, special guest astobger financial ethics, they would demand a boycott of every company that does business with Canada or the U.S. Uh, Native rights, anyone? Word of the week: narrowmindedness. aries (March 21 -April 19) Men are from Mars, women are from Venus. You are from Earth, which is not to say you are neither man nor woman. Hell, for all I know you could be both. The point is, you defy description. You are special for who you are, not for what you are. Words of the week: as if!

cancer (June 20-July 22) I had an argument with Stan. I argued that depressed people sleep a lot. She argued that depressed people don’t sleep. I ’ve recently found that German opera lulls me quite nicely.

There’s nothing quite like the gods entering Valhalla to get those random eye movements going. Word of the week: Nibelungen.

Douglas (Kirk Douglas’ son!) hang out in Africa and kick some lion ass.

Word of the week: sorry. virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) As far as astrological signs go, you got the shaft. “Virgo”? The hell kinda dumb-ass name is that? I was once in love with a Virgo. She taught me that T.S. Eliot’s “The Hollow Men” was a love poem. Then she broke my heart and went to Harvard. Word of the week: Chump. libra (Sept. 23- Oct. 22)

You’re one of the few astrological signs that has a tasty beverage named after it. Have one today, one tomor­ row, another the day after, and repeat until you receive further orders.

Words of the week: Cuba Libra.

room w as o n ly lit by the C h ristm a s tree lig h ts. T hey encircled me (w ell, my head), and ch an ted , “Satan is good” and sp rin k led me w ith w hite face make-up.

leo (July 23-Aug. 22) One of the movies I saw this week was The Ghost and the Darkness, in which Val Kilmer and Michael

dreamscapes

Last week, I had this insane dream. My boyfriend and I went to visit his parents. I had made a giant fru itcak e for C hristm as d in n er . W hen I a r r iv e d , h is mother threw away the fruitcake and pulled out my waist length hair, strand by strand, until I was completely bald. His father pulled my eyebrows off like vel­ cro strips. Then they stripped me naked. They pulled off parts of my body, until I was ju st a head, resting on the floor. My b o y frie n d ju s t w a tch ed . The mother then lifted my head onto a platter and they carried me in to th e fa m ily room . My boyfriend and his parents were w earing black rob es, and the

A. Landers My boyfriend and I are of different religions and ethnici­ ties. We have put off visiting his parents because we know they won’t approve. We are planning to v isit h is p a ren ts for C h r istm a s. S h ou ld I be c o n ­ cerned?

— Rosem ary’s baby In all my years of dreamscaping, I have never met anyone with so much ambivalence about their fruitcake. W hile making the per­ fe c t fru itc a k e (m o ist b u t not m u sh y , sw eet but n o t su g ary , fruity but cake-like) is tricky, it is nothing to fret about.

Your boyfriend’s parents pull you apart, quite literally, because they dislike your cooking abilities (it is no surprise, by the way, that it is the mother who is the major perpetrator of these actions. You are an g ry at y o u r b o y frie n d ’s

mother for keeping him well fed and making your cooking seem all the worse). You are put on a plat­ ter, probably the one reserved for the discarded fruitcake. In essence, you have becom e the fruitcake.

They dance around you, chanting, “Satan is good.” This implies that you feel your fruitcake is hellishly bad. As the em bodim ent of the fruitcake, your boyfriend and his parents sprinkle you with white face pow der (icing sugar) in an attempt to make you edible. You have ru in ed C h ristm as dinner; their perfect meal and night of rev­ elry has been off-set by a lack of appropriate dessert.

My dear, you must loosen up!

So w hat if you can only m ake Kraft macaroni and cheese? Your b o y frien d and his p aren ts w ill approve of your efforts. If you still feel anxious, buy the ready made fruitcake from Metro, put on your own icin g , and take it as your homemade offering. While I don’t usually condone such blatant mis­ leading, in this case, it is obvious to me that this is the only recourse to help you rest easy.

If you do decide to make your own, go with the original formula and stay aw ay from low fat recipes. Not only are they more difficult to pull-off, apple sauce could never substitute for the rich textured goodness of Crisco.

The lion and the calf shall lie down together, but the calf won’t get much sleep.

—

W o o d y A lle n

If your birthday is this week: You are getting older. There’s no denying it. Look at yourself in the m irror sometime. Ugh. All those unsightly lines and wrinkles. Maybe you should consider wearing clothes that befit your age. Happy birthday?

HA! Ed. note: We are taking steps to ensure that future horoscopes will be about you. Well, not YOU specifical­ ly, but “you” as opposed to “Dave. ”

I7 L

8

L

Rosemary’s baby was really a doll This a d v ic e colum n is f o r entertainment purposes only. The T rib u n e d o es n o t a c c e p t any resp o n sib ility f o r any dam ages (physical, mental, or econom ic) in c u rre d fr o m fo llo w in g the author’s advice.

P lea se fe e l free to submit y o u r d rea m s fo r analysis in the T rib u n e o ffice, B 01-A William Shatner University Centre basement. The service is free, and y o u r nam e w ill be ch a n g ed on request.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Man, was it ever cold today. I mean, I remembered to wear my scarf and all, but still! It wasn’t that cold earlier in the week. Word for the week: Thinsulate™.

32

33

38 41

ACROSS I Come to pass 4 Federal Administration Alchemy 7 Mack the knife is a — 10 Water in the solid state II A close-sleeved linen liturgical vestment worn by priests 12 S. American wood sorrel culti­ vated for its edible tubers. Location of major crisis in 1990, (replace k with c) 13 Prefix denoting “in a” 14 Extinct Vancouver “punk” band (picture in Daily office) 15 Last or greatest in an indefinitely large series 16 Spanish monetary units 19 Beehive 21 Where a wall or building narrows abruptly 24 Pieter__, South African states­ man and mean dude 26 Type genus of the Soleidae (hint: name in the clue) 27 Scour a surface 29 One step up from having exag­ gerated, or stretched the truth 30 having an uncle like Rodney Dangerfield would leave you this way 32 A digital tape recording of sound 34 A major division of geological time 35 Swiss river. Expression of frus­ tration 38 The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north 39 Band that believes everybody hurts 40 Don’t know when yet. Prominent

9

on the M cGill course calendar 41 Not or 42 Edith Does Ovaries 43 Take in solid food

DOWN 1 Either side of the body below the w aist and above the thigh 2 A serve that the receiver is unable to reach 3 to ingratiate self into a covert Mafia group 4 Fashions 5 A purgative made from the leaves of aloe 6 In a way, lessens 7 Make less complex 8 Behave in a certain manner 9 Dash 17 Cubature units 18 Combine At and Ole 19 Saligacious Banana Anxiety 20 An orange-brown antelope of SE Africa 22 An interest in land capable of being inherited 23 An interest followed with exag­ gerated zeal 25 Cling 28 Having ears or earlike appendages 31 Black honey creepers with yellow feathers around the tail 32 A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix 33 Airborne, abbr.

36 A fabric woven from goat and camel hair 37 Tell on Created by the Great Gonzo Solution to last week's puzzle

November 19th, 1996

Letters to the Editor Continued from Page 7

Americans not hicks Re: Susan Peters column “Getting in Touch with my inner American” In reading Ms. Peters article I found it regrettable that in aiming at stripping away the stereotypical American and Canadian identities, she would in the process label all people who believe that the Bible is literally the work of God as “hicks.” The word hick implies ignorance, a hick being defined as “gullible” in one sense.

Fifty-five percent of Americans can­ not lack among their ranks one who is not ignorant. Undoubtedly, a belief in the Bible as the word of God is non­ sensical in an age of rationality, how­ ever I think it is difficult to disagree that neither side can prove the other wrong. I regret the extremely degrad­ ing connotation given and would hope that Ms. Peters would reconsider the light in which she views religious peo­ ple.

Derrick Gibbings U2 Microbiology and Immunology

Kassam misunderstands Americans Re: Amin Kassam ’s column “Canadian pride and U.S. elections”

I really don’t consider myself to be a very patriotic individual; however being exposed to Canada’s national past-time of America-bashing has heightened my fervour for the States.

1 enjoyed reading Mr. Kassam’s criti­ cism although it yet again reflects Canadians’ bizarre obsession with the U.S. One must remember that, while griping and generalising about Canada’s corrupt south-of-the-border neighbour, Mr. Kassam only acknowl­ edges America’s power, his very own “patriotism ” being dependent on another country’s election results.

Finola Moore U1 Science It seems to me both poignant and tragically ironic that your nationalist sentiments can only be roused by the

ruthless scrumming of your neigh­ bours to the south. We don’t hate you, Mr. Kassam, and we sometimes won­ der — in a naive sort of way — why you hate us so much. You appear to be labouring under the impression that most Americans don’t give a good god-damn about politics. Americans are jaded with politics. Yet what 1 find so mystifying is that you, Mr. Kassam, a Canadian, do not seem able to relate to this. I cannot think of a more politi­ cally indifferent society than that of Canada. But I don’t fault you for it, and most Americans wouldn’t either.

The truth is, Americans like Canadians. We may muddle your geography, envision you in muk-luks, even wonder if you are one of our estranged states: but we don’t hate you.

Whether you like it or not, here at McGill you are surrounded by Americans. We didn’t do this. McGill did. We just applied, like you and everyone else. Did you wish to offend the American students as you did?

I doubt it. I think you were gen­ uinely appalled at American politics. I — and everyone else too, I reckon — am perfectly O.K. with that. But there’s no need to call us hypocritical, sexist, backward barbarians. We’ve been hearing that since around 1650, and we tend to think we’ve grown up a bit since then.

Douglas R. Burgess, Jr. Arts VI, History

IT ALL BEGINS WITH A SMILE...

Cosmetic & general dental care with a gentle touch, plenty of concerned reassurance & always innovative solutions!

★ wifi McGill Card: • complete initia! exam with x-rays & cleaning 50% discount • other treatments 15% off

Clinique Dentaire du Vieux-Montréal 400 St-Jacques W. Suite 101 F Ï K 1

843-4895

EMERGENCY 24h M l

F in d y o u r s e l f in f a s h io n s b y

© Skirts S20.+ O Dresses S24.+ © Je a n s S20.+ O T-shirts S7.+ © Men's Jeans S29.99 A s p e c ia l invitatio n to

!M cGillStudents

■

We’re looking for women who are considering starting oral contra­ ceptives (birth control pills) for the first time. We are conducting a clinical trial of a birth control pill that’s been approved and on the market for several years.

We’re interested in how packaging may affect how consistently and

correctly women take the Pill.

For further information on how to participate, give us a call at the number below. If you qualify, you’ll get six months worth of free birth control pills. In return, we’ll ask you to fill out some question­ naires. All calls are confidential and free of charge.

Call - First UseOral ContraceptiveStudy 1

8 0 0

5 9 3 -4 0 3 0

to v is it our bo utiq u e at 27 5 S h e rb ro o k e W est T el: (514) 28 8-0 397

10%off withMcGill I.D. THE M C G IL L T R IB U N E

R ea ch ALL M cG ill stu d en ts

PLUS L O W a d v e r tisin g rates...

For information and assistance c j II

Paul at: 3 9 8 -6 8 0 6 or drop by The McGill Tribune CLASSIFIED ADS OFFICE Shatner Building Room 1050 3400 McTavish St.

■

The Quebec government plans to cut $700 million from education.

McGill alone can expect an $18 million cut:

ssMÿ

What would you eliminate?

The libraries? t$15 million budget) The Faculty of Engineering? C$15 million operating cost) The Faculties of Management and Education? C$18 million combined) or 200 Professors?

McGill Student Services will also be hit with a cut euuivalent to eliminating the Office for Students with Disabilities.

Its time to send a clear message to the Parti Québécois government that the the University system cannot survive another financial assault

ORGANIZEDB YACOALITIONO FO VER30CEG EP ANDUNIVERSITYSTUDENTASSOCIATIONS

November 19th, 1996

F

e a t u r e s

Page 11

Genetic engineering: knowing the facts and regulating the field

Rapid changes in genetic engi­ neering have left governments and scientists struggling to create appropriate and ethical regula­ tions to counter the possible abuses of the technology.

Last February, the W orld Affairs Council held a confer­ ence aimed at exploring the field’s current status.

For some people, the field of human genetic engineering conjures up images of thousands of blonde-haired, blue-eyed geniuses being churned out of a medical lab. The reality of genet­ ic technology, however, is very different. As this technology moves from research labs to doc­ tors’ offices, it is important for people to understand its powers and limitations.

M edical genetics can be divided into two branches: genet­ ic testing and gene therapy.

Genetic testing uses the presence or absence of a mutant gene to determine whether the probabili­ ty that someone will get a disease is greater than normal. Gene ther­ apy, on the other hand, is the actual insertion of genes into a human being.

Genetic testing dilemmas “New medical technology is allowing us to know what will hap­ pen to us a lot so o n er,” said P rofessor M argaret Som erville, director of the McGill Centre for M edicine, Ethics and Law. “The

well are merely the undiagnosed sick.”

W ith this know ledge comes power and responsibility. There are many cases of people who are fired from their jobs or refused insurance not because they are ill, but because they have a gene which may make

them ill in future years.

Now that the technology is available, people must decide for themselves how much of their genet­ ic information they wish to know.

There are two factors which will determine the usefulness of a genetic test to a patient.

One is the discriminatory nature

of the test. That is, how effective the test is in determining whether an individual who tests positive will actually get the disease.

The other factor is how the indi­ vidual can use the knowledge gained from the test. If there are lifestyle changes or therapies which can help the patient, then the test is useful. If not, then the patient may be better off not knowing. “[Genetic testing] is not absolute, but proba­ bilistic in nature. This is problematic in that most people do not fully under­ stand the concept of proba­ bilistic risk and how that risk fits into a larger frame­ work,” said George Poste, chairman of research and development at SmithKline Beecham pharmaceutical company, during the con­ ference last winter.

If someone, for exam­ ple, tests positive for a colon cancer gene, they have a greater chance of developing colon cancer, but th eir probability of developing the disease is jjj by no means certain. r§ Poste went on to say 13 that the ability to predict -2 the risk of a disease means nothing unless it is matched with a framework for monitoring and counselling ser­ vices. The profession of genetic counselling has developed to deal with this problem. A genetic council­ lor will take a patient who is consid­ ering taking a genetic test and edu­ cate him or her about the possible risks and benefits of the test.

“A counsellor will spend ten to

fifteen hours with a patient and bill just over $100. These are not the kind of figures which will balance hospital books,” said E lizabeth Getting, assistant professor of human genetics at the U niversity of Pittsburgh. This has led to the cur­ rent problem in the field of genetic counselling. Many hospitals will not hire enough counsellors to meet the increasing demand.

One of the major aspects of the genetic counsellor’s job is educating people about genetic privacy.

According to Somerville, Canada does not have any legislation specifi­ cally designed to protect genetic security. Access to genetic informa­ tion is restricted, however, under broader privacy of information laws.

These laws require a patient’s informed consent before any genetic information is generated or used. It is up to genetic counsellors to make sure that people have enough infor­ mation to make an appropriate deci­ sion.

As the law currently stands in Am erica, when someone takes a genetic test and pays for it through insurance, the health insurance com­ pany can use the information from the test in a discriminatory manner, denying coverage, or preventing the client from getting a job. It has reached a point where genetic coun­ sellors are advising patients to pay for tests out of their own pockets and only report the results to their insur­ ance company if they are negative.

Gene therapy on the rise While genetic testing gives doc­ tors the ability to diagnose diseases earlier, gene therapy actually attempts to cure those diseases by inserting new genes into the human body to replace existing ones. The

medical community distinguishes two types of gene therapy: somatic cell therapy and germ line therapy.

“The ethical questions regard­ ing gene therapy revolve, at bottom, around the difference betw een somatic and germ line therapy,” said Ronald Crystal, chief of pulmonary and critical care medicine at the New York Hospital — Cornell Medical Centre.

Somatic cell therapy involves using a vector, such as a virus, to insert new genes into specific cells o f the patient’s body in order to replace genes that are not working properly. These changes, while per­ manent, would not be passed onto the patient’s children. While the field is still in its developmental phases, it has great potential.

Germ line therapy, on the other hand, involves altering the sex cells of a patient which will affect his or her offspring. These changes would be passed on from generation to gen­ eration, effectively making a perma­ nent change in the human gene pool.

It is this form of therapy which could be utilised to make “super babies” or used for eugenic purposes.

Some forms of regulation and protection already exist to make sure this technology is not abused. For example, the Recombinant Advisory Committee of the National Institute of Health must approve all studies undertaken in the U.S. The current controls on genetic information are becoming inade­ quate, however, to deal with new advances in the field. In order to safeguard our rights and privacy, it is necessary for government regulation to keep pace with these changes, as well as decide how much genetic self-knowledge is appropriate or helpful.

Fighting addiction the holistic way

By Damon Stoddard Acupuncture, shiatsu massage thera­ py, and nutritional guidance have proved to be effective in treating everything from addiction to alcohol and illegal drugs to compulsive eating disorders.

Holistic treatment of addictions and other medical problems has been used in Asian cultures for over 2,000 years. Only recently, however, has it practices sur­ faced in North America as a viable option to traditional medical practices.

Holistic therapies try to restore the body to its natural state by maintaining a balance of energy in the body. Each regi­ men is tailored to the needs of the indi­ vidual.

“I treat addictions by making an assessm ent of the w eaknesses and strengths in the balance of the energy in the body,” said David Goldman of the Holistic Health Center in Notre Dame de Grace. “Holistic therapy can be effective because it takes away from the emotional or psychological effects of fighting an addiction.”

This kind of therapy can be particu­ larly helpful to people who have used conventional methods to terminate physi­ cal addiction to drugs and alcohol, but find that they are incapable of overcom­ ing the psychological withdrawal.

"There are people who are turning to natural m edicine because they need another step after they have completed a twelve-step program,” said Marion Elliot of the Isis Health Center.

Goldman referred to the example of ‘harm reduction cen tres’ which have opened up in many American cities to help people hooked on crack-cocaine.

These centers are modeled after a clinic in the South Bronx which uses a specific type of acupuncture with considerable success.

As the word ‘h o listic ’ suggests, holistic therapy is based on the philoso­ phy that all aspects of physical well-being must be taken into consideration in the treatment of any ailment. One of the most fundamental components of every treat­ ment is good nutrition. According to a study by Dr. Robert Pihl of the McGill psychology department, many foods can have a pharmacological effect on mood.

Proper nutrition can increase energy levels and the production of neurotrans­ mitters such as seratonin, which regulate mood and behavior in humans, thus alle­ viating the yearning for narcotic stimula­ tion.

Holistic therapies are still regarded with skepticism by the western medical community, however, because of the lack of scientific data derived from studies and

experiments to prove patients’ success rates.

“Acupuncture and other holistic practices are anecdotal treatments,” said Dr. Dongier of the Montreal Douglas Hospital. “You must have clinical tests that compare the effects that these treat­ ments have on people, to individuals who are not receiving the treatment.”

Goldman claimed that the unwill­ ingness of doctors to take the holistic approach seriously is due to its lack of history in western medical tradition. He also accused doctors of reluctance to explore the unknown.

“Doctors feel that, if they haven’t studied a type of treatment, then it isn’t effective,” said Goldman.

Elliot suggested that business inter­ ests may have contributed to the relative obscurity of holistic therapy.

“There’s no money for pharmaceu­ tical com panies to make if doctors encourage people to try holistic treat­ ments,” she said.

On a more hopeful note, E lliot claimed that teenagers and university students are becoming increasingly health conscious, and more receptive to natural, alternative therapies. As this generation comes of age, holistic medi­ cine may gain a more respected position in western medicine.

Holistic therapies aim to restore natural balance o f energy in the body

Page i2 Features

November 19th, 1996

Twentieth century slavery: sex trade of a million children a year B y M a rlisa T ie d e m a n n

A ccording to the U nited Nations International C hildren’s Emergency Fund, one million chil­ dren are pulled into the child sex trade each year. Kidnapped or sold into slavery by their parents, many of these children are victims of poverty in devel­ oping countries.

The W orld C ongress Against Commercial Sexual E x p lo itatio n o f C hildren, which took place last August in Stockholm, Sweden, dis­ pelled any doubts that child prostitution is exploitative.

“No child wants to be a w h o re,” said A ndrew Ignatieff, programme direc­ tor of UNICEF. The congress was co ­ spo n so red by E nd C hild P ro stitu tio n in A sian Tourism. The organisation was established five years ago in Thailand by UNICEF, various non-governm ental o rg a n isa tio n s, and the S w edish g o vernm ent.

Ignatieff stressed the con­ gress’ importance.

“It b ro u g h t p eo p le from around the world together to dis­ cuss these issues for the first time,” he said. “There was a realisation that countries have the same prob­ lems.”

Involvement of politicians has been a key element to the congress.

In Ignatieff’s opinion, no change can take place in the absence of political will.

Child prostitution is most visi-

ble in Asia. UNICEF estimates that one million children under the age of 18 are prostitutes in Asian coun­ tries. Four hundred thousand of these children are found in India alone.

Key to the controversy in India

is the fact that so many children are being sm uggled over the NepalIndia border to work as prostitutes.

Nepalese girls are coveted for their paler skin, and draw a higher price from customers.

Smuggling young girls from Nepal into India is relatively simple because citizens are not required to show any documents to cross the border, reported the Toronto Star in an August article. Some girls have

been kidnapped, while others have been sold into what is essentially slavery by relatives. Often, parents unknowingly sell their daughters into pro stitu tio n , being told by recruiters that they will be given jobs in the carpet industry.

A ccording to UNICEF, the average age o f g irls sm uggled into In d ia from N epal is between 10 and 14. They are sold to brothels, and are told that, in order to gain their freedom , they must repay their purchase price. This may take them as long as 20 years. Girls who re sist are starv ed , drugged, and beaten into submission.

The subject of child prostitution was recently ex p lo red by the U nited Nations .Students’ Associa­ tion of McGill. As Ahmer Husain, a U3 political sci­ ence student involved with the association explained, child prostitution caters to tourists, local clients, the military, and even foreign aid workers.

The child sex trade in India and other parts of the world, has been fuelled by the influx of west­ ern tourists who provide a market for the trade.

Husain expressed the opinion that, unless serious measures are taken, the eradication of the child sex trade is not a realistic goal — the in dustry is too profitable.Ignatieff suggested that to eliminate the sexual exploitation

Foreign aid and developing countries B y Jo d i C ukierman

As the image of an emaciated child colours your television screen and a spokesperson asks for your donation, some claim that aid organi­ sations and the media are doing more harm than good.

Controversial American journal­ ist Michael Maren has made some severe allegations, claiming that west­ ern interference fosters crisis situa­ tions in developing countries and cre­ ates relationships of dependence. “[Countries such as Somalia] possess most of the resources they need to rebuild their own country and don’t need or want the outside help from aid agencies,” Maron wrote.

“Sometimes this is difficult for westerners to accept,” he continued.

“We want to believe they need us, but the truth is that they don’t. Without foreign interference, Somalis will rebuild their economy.”

However, many aid agencies vehemently refute Maren’s views.

Robin Walsh of Oxfam Canada, an organisation that provides water to people in developing countries, feels that broad statements such as Maren’s regarding Som alia’s wealth are unfounded.

“Contrary to what Maren believes,” said Walsh, “there is not much innate wealth in these countries and money is something they need.

Most suffer from great poverty. We have a moral obligation to provide funds to get people off their feet and up and running.”

Instead of bringing in outside help, doing the immediate job and

leaving, Oxfam mobilises the natives of the area to improve their own com­ munity. The organisation believes that their vision of “long-term aid” is the key to sustainable development and independence in developing countries.

“Oxfam was working in Rwanda before the crisis in 1994. When the crisis ended, we were still there and we are still there now. We implement long-term development programs, and are determ ined to see things through until the end,” said Walsh.

However, M aren adamantly opposes these organisations and goes on to say that violence may be more beneficial than foreign aid.

“In a sad way, violence may be the best thing for a country like Somalia,” Maren wrote. “The vio­ lence keeps the foreigners away.

Violence, development, and emer­ gency assistance sometimes create unwanted or perverse outcomes.”

T.V. Paul, a political science professor at McGill, disagrees with Maren’s argument. He feels that war and conflict do not develop institu­ tions. Rather, they create an anarchic internal system.

“Violence does not diminish a country’s problems, but brings with it more starvation, death and suffering.

Institutions and wealth can only develop once violence has ceased,” he said.

There is one area, however, where Maren and aid agencies are in agreem ent. M aren criticises the media, claim ing that most North Americans see Africa through an inaccurate lens. He feels that the

media exploits situations in Africa, leading us to believe that all of Africa is suffering from poverty, famine, and violence.

Joy Woolfrey of Canadian Phy­ sicians for Aid and Relief labels me­ dia perversion as “pornography of po­ verty,” claiming that there is a tenden­ cy for aid agencies to use disturbing and gripping pictures to raise money.

“Pictures of suffering and need always bring in more money because they attract more attention,” said Woolfrey. “This is the big reason that it is much more difficult to raise funds for sustainable development. People see the images and send money for immediate help. But when things start to go well again, people forget and assume things are better.”

Walsh noted that coverage of bad news is disproportionate to that of good news.

“After all, what is news? News is conflict, war, famine, drought, and people dying. Also, reporters are usu­ ally under much pressure to go in and write a story in a limited amount of time. It is easy to go in and find a story about someone suffering, but it takes time and effort to search out the less than obvious news items,” Walsh commented.

Experience often shows that try­ ing to interest the media in ‘goodnews’ stories is often a waste of time.

“Crisis and suffering should def­ initely be reported [to] create aware­ ness,” said Paul, “but this reporting should also be balanced by ideas and suggestions that will build peaceful societies and better futures for deve­ loping countries.”

of children, government policies, p ro ced u res, and police action against organised crime must be examined. Police may be clients themselves, or are paid to look the other way. International coopera­ tion, Ignatieff also suggested, could break the transportation lines and trafficking of girls between Nepal and India. Most importantly, for­ eign aid could address the root cause of child exploitation: pover­ ty“We need to support organisa­ tions like ECPAT,” said Ignatieff, “ [and also] we need to support plans for developing econom ic alternatives for these high risk peo­ ple.”

McGill economics professor Franque Grimard agreed that the provision of such economic alter­ natives must form the basis of any effective solution. The child sex trade issue, he explained, is one asp ect o f the problem o f child labour in general.

Consequently, the well-inten­ tioned efforts of western human rights advocates to keep children out o f factories often aggravate their situation.

“If you ban child labour, and boycott products made by children, what could happen is that families will not be able to support them­ selves, and children will be forced to make their living in the streets,” Grimard stated.

In order to be successful in the long term , G rim ard concluded, solutions must aim at the heart of the problem.

“Child prostitution is basically an econom ic problem . It is one thing to outlaw it, and another to en fo rce such a la w .” he said. “[Foreign aid] programs must try to m ake sure th at fam ilies have enough income to send their chil­ dren to school. M ore often than not, families are so much at subsis­ tence level that they cannot afford for their children to be idle. ”

E-mail petitions, Can Con, Kids in the Hall The CBC has made some crappy shows in its time, and we need to give it more money so it can develop even more crappy shows.

I’m not saying that just to fore­ stall e-mail petitions against cuts to the CBC, even though I’ve gotten three of the CBC radio petitions this week alone, trying to preserve the best of CBC radio. This probably means too many people have my email address. E-mail is of course for people too cheap to phone, and too lazy to write.

The peti­ tions arc meant to work like a f | chain letter. f|| with the recipi­ ent adding her name to the list and sending it off to everyone she knows.

“Do not break the chain, or bad luck will befall CBC radio; Xavier Horst of B.C. broke the chain, and M orningside was cancelled.”

Electronic petitions are a plague, and the people who send them are carri­ ers. But unlike most diseases, this one can’t be passed unwittingly, since it takes a minimum of technical skill to figure out how to forward it.

The problem with the petition is that it holds a defensive attitude, proposing that the CBC save its good shows. It accepts that the mediocre ones should wither and die. Getting rid of mediocrity is a good idea, because, to switch to TV, Canadian television has made a lot of crappy shows. Classic sitcoms like Learning the Ropes, about a high school teacher by day, wrestler by night. Or Mosquito Lake, middle-aged men with beer bellies at the cottage. And of course Check It Out, the best sit­ com ever to be set in a supermarket.

Whenever people get all excited about Canadian content, protecting the culture, and forging a national identity, remember that too often this has been a culture of mediocrity.

These are the same cultural fascists who told us Morley Callaghan was a great Canadian author.

But somehow I have the feeling that mediocre shows cut from the CBC won’t be replaced by anything except more reruns of Kids in the

Hall. The Kids have started running again this fall on a somewhat erratic schedule that I haven’t figured out.

Happy as I am to see the Chicken Lady and Gavin once more, I worry that the CBC doesn’t have anything new to replace it with.

It’s not enough that the CBC protect a few of its key shows, because it needs money to develop new ones, some of which will inevitably be bad. Crappy new shows like Gullages, about people with

Black Coffee Susan Peters accents from Newfoundland or possi­ bly Cape Breton. And good new shows like The Newsroom, which friends tell me is good, although there’s no laughtrack, so I can’t tell where the funny parts are. The CBC is way too post-modern for me. I expect half-hour shows to be funny and one-hour shows to be serious, but the CBC has a habit of making halfhour serious shows, thus frustrating my viewer expectations. Granted, I wish they’d pander more and put in laughtracks, or maybe film everything before a live studio audience.

But with the way its budget has been slashed, the CBC may just have to start running reruns all the time.

All Beachcombers, all the time. Road to Avonlea every night, followed by old hockey games. If things get bad enough, broadcast reruns of The National and The Journal, and we can watch Peter Mansbridge go bald again.

The Kids in the Hall reruns are still relevant, but five years from now, even Gavin may no longer be funny. Wayne and Shuster used to be humourous, once. Just don’t e-mail me about this anymore.

Ms. Peters is actually an American perpetrator, implanted into the McGill system and newspaper to spread the seeds o f discontent. If she had her way, we’d all be wearing Friends baby-tees and growing out our eyebrows like Brooke Shields.

Page 13

C h e ck out Sonic Youth's "Santa D on't C op O u t O n D o p e" on the D G C C h ristm a s co m p ilatio n J u s t S a y N o ë l out now.

ntertainm ent

On behalf of fathers of women in rock Nick Auf der Maur and Hank Harrison exchange words at “Who Killed Kurt Cobain” press confrence at the Rialto B y M ar c G illiam

Give conspiracy theo­ rists an inch and they’ll take a mile.

Those who gave “Who Killed Kurt Cobain” the benefit of the doubt and some jo u rn a listic credit witnessed the deba­ cle denigrate into a family feud fit for The People’s Court.

The m uch-fêted multi-media lecture con­ ducted by Hank Harrison, father of Hole’s Courtney Love, was cancelled on Thursday because of mounting pressure from American law firms claim­ ing the p resentation included “evidence invent­ ed by jo u rn a lists that accused Love of conspir­ ing to kill Cobain.”

In its place, the Rialto housed a press conference, Sorry Kurt, this has little to do with yo u open to the public, addressing why “Who Shiffman spoke first to an audience Killed Kurt Cobain” had been halt­ mainly composed of ticket holders. ed. All the players — H arrison, He lived up to Nirvanaphiles’ hopes along with opening act Ian Halpern of an academic treatment by right­ and Max Wallace — attended with­ eously labelling the cancellation an out their rare photographs and pri­ infringement on the right to freedom vate recordings, but with a strong of speech. Love, Cobain’s widow, desire to stir the pot. sent her lawyer to the Toronto show Private prom oter V ictor prior to the Montreal engagement.

He apparantly disagreed and ultimately advised the cancellation.

Halpern followed at the mic, corroborating the statement that intimi­ dating investigators stalked the lecturing team.

“I ’ve been harassed. I’ve been fol­ lowed. I’m not backing off this,” Halpern said.

Fellow M ontreal journalist Wallace reiter­ ated S hiffm an’s lofty ideals. “This cancellation has pretty troubling implications on freedom o f ex p ressio n ,” said W allace, perhaps the most upstanding and elo­ quent speaker of the bo evening. q “I understand why Love would try to [stop -g our presentation], however, w e’re not pointing any fingers at anyone.

W e’re not even saying that it was m urder.

C ourtney’s camps follow ing the media are under false impressions of what we’re trying to do,” Wallace explained.

The arrival of Harrison on stage marked a significant change in the proceedings’ tone. Until Love’s bio­ logical father addressed the audi-

ence, the journalistic integrity of the event rem ained intact. H arrison immediately jettisoned objectivity in favour of a biased account: life as the father of Courtney Love.

Harrison would be a reliable source on Love on the grounds that he raised her, however, he has only spoken to Love once in the last 18 years. H arrison’s role in “Who K illed Kurt C obain” smacks of Dysfunctional Families, this week on Geraldo.

At his m elodram atic peak, Harrison relayed his lone meeting with the adult Courtney during last year’s Lollapalooza. Upon hearing the news that Jerry Garcia had died, Love was quoted as saying she wished it was Harrison who had died instead.

As the first and only question was fielded from the audience, two men approached the stage, climbed the stairs, and took over the micro­ phone. A fedora-clad man began slamming the organisers of an event that victimised daughters, like his, in the music industry. As shouts from the audience demanded for him to identify himself, he shouted back a resounding: “I ’m Nick A uf der

Free To Be You and Me joins Players’ and Savoy B y E rin D avies

Stop the cuts, but read this first Neil Postman envisions the end of education in book released this week B y S a m u e l L a p a l m e - R e m is ________

The End O f Education

By Neil Postman $ 16.95, 209 pages Vintage W hile scream ing to protect their education, students seldom think beyond the need to preserve it. Its purpose is often lost in the debate. The g overnm ent thinks about it even less while hacking it to pieces. Neil Postman would like us to spend a little more time won­ dering why we spend a quarter of our lives in school.

In The End o f Education, the noted media and technology critic offers a few suggestions on how we should view the purpose of education, or, as he puts it, “the God that education serves.” All of th e se ch a n g e s w o u ld in s titu te sweeping reforms in the education system from kindergarten to grad­ uate school.

Postm an’s stated intent may seem vast; his actual intent is even more vast. By suggesting that we redefine and transform the purpose and scope of education, he is also suggesting a m assive change in society’s values.

A m ong these are teaching .... 1 111 1 1"T.l....... ..... f i?si* children to view them selves as part of a world that extends far beyond their country’s values, to feel pride in their own culture and c o u n try w h ile rem ain in g accepting of others, and to under­ stan d th a t k n o w led g e is not frozen but always changing. If in d eed th e se are w o rth w h ile objectives, Postman argues, we are doing a poor job of attaining liU diiiu iii: t k ? 'mm KBm m t c ho< them.

The End o f Education calls attention to a serious problem.

When it comes to solutions, how­ ever, what Postman serves up is hit and miss. Postman’s ideas are a mixture of progressive and tra­ ditional thinking.

At tim e s, he ap p ears to ignore his own advice. Though Ï 5 H« ft !•' : ft V:i > • : VK expounding at length about the need to teach children the impor­ tance of understanding other cul­ sion that he hopes will eventually tures, he ridicules France for pre­ lead to change. He comes across serving their language as rigidly as as genuinely caring and troubled th ey do. By not a tte m p tin g to by the direction in which children understand their m otivation, he are being led. We all should be so creates an inconsistent position. concerned. If you can find the time P ostm an’s book is convinc­ away from your studies to actually ing, despite its flaws. He makes no wonder why you devote so much claim have formulated a final solu­ time to them, read this book. tion. Instead, he opens a discus­

The E d of on

Neil Postman

Maur!”

To this, Harrison leapt from his chair, exclaiming “Hey, Nick; my old buddy Nick! You get Melissa [Auf der Maur, Hole’s bassist] out of Hole now! Pull her out of there before it’s too late!”

Where else but in the perverse world o f sensational talkshow s would two fully grown men, having no business with each other and nothing in common, except the fact that they have reared female rock stars, be pitted against each other under the pretense of intelligently discussing the dem ise of Kurt Cobain? It’s the kind ofThing you hope is a joke, but regretably, isn’t.

Nick Auf der Maur, accompa­ nied by a Mr. Juan Rodriguez, had to be forcefully escorted off the stage.

Judging by the whoops and calls from the audience, ticket holders left the Rialto satisfied. Nevertheless, anyone who purchased a ticket to the lecture can be fully refunded at point of purchase.

Unfortunately, after being sub­ jected to the trashy display of “Who Killed Kurt Cobain,” no compensa­ tion will ever amount to regaining the ticket holders’ dignity.

My popular music professor gets really annoyed whenever the word ‘cheesy’ is used to describe anything.

He argues that the colloquialism is too am biguous to have any true meaning. Yet, without fail, it is used at least once a class to indicate a piece of music that seems instrumentally ostentatious (i.e. sweeping violin licks) or has embarrassingly honest lyrics.

Free To Be You and Me is an example that not only embodies the word, but probably coined the term.

Stretch your cynical, jaded mind back to your innocent childhood and see if you can picture a bright pink album cover and a book of poems and sto­ ries called Free To Be You and Me. The very same has made its way to McGill as a Savoy Society/Players’ Theatre joint production.

James Higgins explains the pro­ duction in his director’s notes: “The material is very eclectic, yet unified.

Morally complex, yet straightfor­ ward. There are not always easy answers. There are not always happy endings. Yet the book is filled with a remarkable sense of the joy of being alive.”

Made into a TV special in the ‘70s, Free To Be was staged a few years ago as a puppet show, touring the public school circuit, and most recently was made into a stage musi­ cal.

The musical begins with a num­ ber inviting the audience to visit a

special place where everyone is equal and every problem can be worked through with mutual respect.

Acknowledging the somewhat dated nature of the play, the cast and crew have made a collaborative effort to “funkify the play.”

In the original Free To Be, the featured characters were meant to be children. The cast of the production have given their characters new depth by making them businessmen, people in a bar, and somewhat inexplicably, cowboys. By retaining the childish dialogue while creating a new envi­ ronment, the musical adds a new message.

“A lot of the time people act like little kids anyway. The point is that not only children have trouble getting along. Free To Be takes childhood things and makes them adult, while showing how adults can be children,” explained a cast member.

Despite the elements of parody, Free To Be takes the positive mes­ sage seriously, lending vibrancy and energy to the series o f them atic vignettes. It’s important to just sit back, be entertained, and enjoy the message and music.

As one cast member said of the production’s excessiveness, “Sometimes you just have to embrace the cheese and realise the inherent irony.”

Free To Be You and Me runs November 20-23 at 8 p.m. (a family performance on the 22nd starts at 7 p.m.) at Players’ Theatre. Admission is $6 fo r students.

Page

h

E n tertain m en t

November 19th, 1996

Discellaneous background music.

The explanation may lie in Jill Cuniff’s emergence over Gabrielle Glaser as L J’s chief singer/song­

Luscious Jackson Fever In Fever Out (Grand Royal) A fter generating a m assiv e and w elldeserved buzz with their debut EP, In Search O f M anny, L u scio u s Jackson left m ost fans disappointed with their 1994 sophomore release.

Natural Ingredients. The new album by the women of LJ, Fever In Fever Out, unfortunately finds the band straying even further away from the tra il b la z e d by Manny with diminishing results.

W hile M a n n y 's d ic h o to m ie s gave it strength, being at once o rg an ic and sam p leb ased , se d u c tiv e and threatening, groovy yet rockin ’, Fever is unidirectional.

It’s just organic, ju st seductive, just groovy and, frankly, boring in com parison. It isn ’t nearly edgy en o u g h , and o ften so unds like

TheInbreds I t ’s S yd n ey Or the Bush (PF Records)

writer. The latter’s husky, distinc­ tive voice is almost nowhere to be heard, depriving the band of its biggest asset.

F ever's brief flashes of bril­

Filmellaneous Mother Night

liance (“Naked Eye,” “Under Your Skin”) only illustrate how shabby the rest of the album sounds. Like a young athlete who tears up the junior ranks, gets drafted high, and stru g g le s in the big leag u es, Luscious Jackson have yet to ful­ fill their promise.

— Samuel Lapalme-Remis

conceals her identity to get what she wants. The duality in Howard and Helga’s “nation of two” marriage vow unfolds to reveal the worst of what a lack of unity spawns.

The film ’s allegories som e­ times render characters contrived.

H elga’s father, W erner (Norman Rodway), is nothing more than a plot vehicle. An observant viewer could infer the N oth’s beliefs by doing away with the stiffed dia­

Swastikas and possible Nazi sympathies haunt a renowned actor suddenly thrust into a political spot­ light. Had enough of Jean-Louis Roux? That’s okay. Mother Night sparks a similar debate on partisan­ ship but refreshingly drives the dis­ cussion with different fuel.

Howard W. Campbell Jr. (Nick Nolte) is an American ex-patriot dramatist in Berlin just as WWII begins. Forced by the A m erican g o v ern ­ ment to either become a spy or leave G erm any and his actress w ife, Helga Noth, (played by Sheryl L ee o f Twin Peaks fame), the roman­ tic Campbell opts for the former.

Before he knows it, his popular radio show becomes a megalomani­ ac’s forum for spewing Aryan garbage. But he’s a spy, rig h t? T hese actions must be separate from the rest of his life, his true self.

The film d o e sn ’t analyse the g u ilt or responsibility involved in The streets o f M ontreal doubled fo r Berlin a n d supporting or pretending to support an immoral political fac­ logue and watching the strong cast. tion. This is because Mother Night Resi’s big scene discloses too much, does not rely on a standard good dim inishing the suspense of the guy/bad guy discourse. Audience film’s second half. sympathy lies with every character D irector Keith Gordon man­ in this look back at a frightening ages to keep Mother Night taut with time and place. shots that convey the period well.

The masking of reality and the E diting tech n iq ues particu larly dualities that this perpetuates are impart a dated feel to the movie. analysed instead. In the film, false G ordon stays true to K urt fronts are an offence punishable by Vonnegut’s writing by instilling a death, as seen with Campbell and dark sense of humour that includes his pain ter frien d G eorge K raft (A lan A rkin). A sim ilar doom killing dogs and a bodyguard who awaits H elga’s little sister, Resi has a heart attack.

Though Mother Night is filmed (child prodigy Kirsten Dunst) who in Montreal, don’t just watch it for

The addition of a g u ita ris t to the In b re d s ’ b a ss-a n d drums dynamic spells trouble for I t’s Sydney or the Bush. Could it be that the band has ju s t re a lise d its true g e n e ric , in d ie -ro c k self?

Y es, b u t th e re ’s worse: we can now put our finger on what has been the b a n d ’s quirky, original sound — the sim p le c o n ­ trivance of jettisoning rock’s sta­ ple.

S till, criticisin g one album sh o u ld n ’t be re tro a c tiv e to a fam iliar landm arks and a CFCF anchorman. Vonnegut’s willing par­ ticipation in a street scene gives the film adaptation a stamp of approval that no film critic can offer.

— Marc Gilliam

Stonewall “You never know when they are going to come for you in the m orning, so you m ight as well dance all night.”

Stonewall is a film about the era that marked the beginning of the queer rights movement and culmi­ nated with the 1969 riots.

New York in Mother Night It all starts with Matty Dean (Frederick Weller) who moves to New York City with boyish ideal­ ism and a fake name. The sweet allAmerican Texan quickly finds him­ self acting as the fulcrum between two opposing camps in the queer community.

Matty meets Ethan (Brendan Corbalis), a writer and queer rights advocate he has admired since his youth. Ethan leads his ‘Philadelphia activists’ peacefully, enduring the cloying sympathy of condescending academia — ties and suits, dresses and blouses — in order to elicit

b a n d ’s e n tire career. And one g ets the sense that more is at play w ith the Inbreds’ demise than the p re s ­ ence o f som e strumming.

On the Inbreds’ previ­ ous two albums, Mike O ’N eill’s voice was more e m o tiv e and, oddly enough, b e tte r d ev elo p e d .

Throughout Sydney, O’Neill sounds lik e a w hiny fifth m em ber of Sloan.

Even the songs them selves suggest the m ediocrity of peers.

“Wanna Be Your Friend” verges onto the verses of the Pursuit of Happiness and the melody recalls T PO H ’s 1990 track “Something Physical.”

P ro o f p o sitive o f a sudden musical lapse arises when the out­ standing track is identified as a number from the Inbred vault — nothing more than a new version anything but hate from the main­ stream society they are trying to convince.

On the other side of the city, Matty falls in love with La Miranda (Guillermo Diaz), a member of a group rev iled by E th a n ’s more earnest clan. La M iranda’s tightknit circle of flaming queens live buried in the Stonewall Inn, in the decrepit underbelly of the Village.

In the beginning of the film , it seems that they have resigned them­ selves to the fact that they would never be accepted enough to walk the streets.

Sardonic and campy, this com­ m unity creates a sm all, escap ist world founded on the excessive pain of hiding and the great pleasures of su p erficial fre e ­ dom. Not until the Stonewall riots do these two groups converge, and cre­ ate the queer com­ m unity, as we know it today.

T his film by the late N igel Finch is a portrait of the making of a society. His char­ acters are not just fiery butch men and brassy drag queens. The cam ­ era also follow s many varied lives: those of the old Mafia member in the church confes­ sion box, the lesbians on the demonstration bus, and the lonely, conservative middle-age man who has been fighting the fight since the ‘50s.

Finch uncovers a world — not too far away or too long ago — of cruel police raids and the bribes paid to carry them out, of obscure laws about ‘decent clothing’ and the serving of alcohol to homosexuals, and ultimately, of a bar raided one too many times.

Stonewall is an extraordinarily

of “Final W ord,” an instrumental from H ila rio played here w ith lyrics.

“Sad Sack” is a success in its own right, suffusing a jaunty singalong verse with bouncy piano and percussion. The second half of the disc picks things up in general but the cold hard truth remains that this duo made more of things when they lived up to their name and screwed around with tradition.

— Marc Gilliam

human film. It is neither watered down with excessive hum our or sentiment, nor dependant on bloodi­ ness or preach in ess. It shoots straig h t, and is b eau tifu l in its explicitness. It portrays a fight for freedoms so basic that radicalism and paranoia seem impossible.

— Joyce Lau

Twelfth Night A good v ersio n o f an old favourite can only please. Although one of Shakespeare’s most loved and often performed plays, Twelfth Night takes more than good script­ ing to survive the transition to cine­ ma. S tarring H elena B onham Carter, Nigel Hawthorne and Ben Kingsley as Feste the Fool, the film is a bang-on job of cinematic adap­ tation.

Separated twins, cross-dress­ ing, mistaken identities, love trian­ gles and intertwined sub-plots are the ingredients of this comedy of errors. V iola w ashes up on the shores of Illyria after seeing her brother drown. She assumes the role of a man — Caesario — to gain employment with the Duke Orsino.

As Viola falls for the Duke, she is sent on his behalf to woo the Lady Olivia, who herself loves Viola-asCaesario. W hen V io la’s brother Sebastian arrives in town, quite alive, the plot thickens. Further com p licatio n s involve O liv ia ’s steward Malvolio, and many others — too many to mention — in true Shakespearean manner.

Set against all this is the linch­ pin character of Feste, who is at the same time a player and a member of the audience.

This production easily solves problems of language and staging, by breaking apart long monologues and scenes to make a workable film.

The cast is excellent; the actors ground the film and balance the diverse elements of the plot.

V erily , this Tw elfth N ig h t reaches across as clearly today as it would have when it was written.

— Drew Cormack

E n tertain m en t pagei5

November 19th, 1996

Only clothes make the Man of Mode B y H ea th er R itch

An English restoration comedy restored by the departm ent of English, The Man o f Mode depicts the world of upper class games of courtship. A picture of the rich and idle, it celebrates those whose lives revolve around the latest in fashion.

The story centres around a Don Juan-type character, Mr. D orim ant (M ike M cN icholas), to whom the pursuit and con­ quest of women is a misogynous mind game. The play opens in his boudoir as he gossips about his latest prey to M eadly (O liver Van Praet), his male confidant.

D orim ant has his every move down to a formula.

The gender lines in The Man O f Mode are anything but clear. Lack of distinction between the sexes suggests that Dorimant’s confidant, Medley, is also his lover.

Strikingly little testosterone abounds in this story about men seducing women. Men gossip and worry about fashion far more than women. Director Myma Selkirk fully realises the comic possibilities of the implicit gender-bending.

The spark o f the play is a cameo appearance by the Man of Mode himself, Sir Fopling Flutter (Philip Pace). His flamboyance and energy are well expressed in his motto “Image is all!” The other char­ acters are impressed by his couth appearance — always on the cutting edge of fashion — yet mock him for the same reason.

The production links the 1660s — playwright Sir George Etherege’s generation — with the 1960s for a unique, and surprisingly suitable,

interpretation. Unfortunately, the characters remain poorly developed because they are caricatures partak­ ing in a w ell-executed parade of fashion. The play delves into nothing of substance, failing to even make a

by the period in which it is set. Sets were also not confined to the seven­ teenth century. A hodge-podge of Egyptian, Romanesque and modern design, the stage designer’s vision was not as stimulating as the sound­

1 guess l should state my per­ sonal bias right from the start — my aunt wrote this book. Yes, th a t’s right, Gail D onner (née G itterm an), the woman on the cover with the big hair, is my father’s sister.

I discovered this family secret during the book free-for-all that took place on campus a couple of w eeks ago. F ighting my way through book-finding hordes, a prized copy of Where Do Babies Come From? tucked under one arm, I caught a glim pse o f the book lying face up in a puddle. 1 picked it up, saw my aunt on the cover, and was, to say the least, shocked.

But this is all irrelevant. I’m determined to judge this book on its m erits alone. The revised, expanded, and updated Pennypincher’s Wine Guide was written in 1975, and it reviews all wines available in Canada priced under $5.

Now, I’ve browsed through a few dépanneurs in my day, so 1 think I know a little about wine.

"s

PLhΠMILTON

A U U RR AA N R E S T A N T

T IT 'W

1

jew ing- TJlcfrittstudents fb r over 30 yeea^s

Lu n ch /D in n er

Sandwiches ♦ Burgers ♦ Steaks

T e rra c e

n o w

/X /3 //S T S 3

220 Milton «(514)285-0011

143

statement on its overdone, but fash­ ionable, self.

Do see The Man o f Mode for its fabulous costuming alone. (At more than two hours, only fashion buffs ought to last.) The production, thanks to costum e designer Catherine Bradley, combines chic remnants from the turn of the centu­ ry with ‘60s energy. The costumes carry the play from start to finish; the audience awaits the next outra­ geous, quasi-retro design. The best scene is saved for last as a fanfare of costumes and dancing congratulates the audience for enduring the lengthy production.

Effectively incorporating a vari­ ety of music, the play is not bound

track. The staging flowed, keeping the players in motion.

With a lack of coherent theme, The Man o f Mode seems as hollow as the vain people it portrays. If the story is to show the ‘tam ing of Dorimant,’ this is far from devel­ oped. Perhaps it is the fault of the script that the production ended where it began. The Man o f Mode is, at best, a slick parody. Otherwise, it’s just a stagnant period piece — ‘60s or 1660s, take your pick.

The Man of Mode is playing at Moyse Hall in the Arts building from November 20-23. Tickets are $12, $6 fo r students and seniors.

O b s c u r i t y of t h e W e e k The Pennypincher’s Wine Guide

by Gail D onner & Lucy Waverman $3.95, 176 pages Peter Martin Associates Limited

/I

For instance, I know that five bucks is damn cheap (due, no doubt, to something called "infla­ tion”). But the only wine I recog­ nise from the 50-page list is Baby Duck. It is described as being “grown-up cream soda; can be served instead of champagne to non-swingers; suitable with a gar­ den party.” I’ve never actually had a garden party, but I have had numerous bottles of Baby Duck, and 1 must say my aunt’s descrip­ tion is right on the nose.

More than a review of wine, Pennypincher’s promotes a way of life. In 1975, it exhorted young couples to ditch their dull, lifeless, meat and potatoes past, and jump into the exciting world o f fine wine and gourmet food, all at a reasonable price. “Experiment — drink dangerously!” it cries out to readers.

But don’t think my aunt is a tunnel-visioned revolutionary, try­ ing to smash culinary conventions with the stroke of a pen. She wants to case people into the life of good food and drink with helpful tips and hints. There is advice: “Leave plenty o f cutting room on the cheese board.” Some simple social definitions: “There are pro-lamb people and anti-lam b people.”

There are also cute puns through­

• MONTREAL, QUEBEC H3A 3B7 TÉLÉPHONE: (514) 288-5275

O U E S T D E M A IS O N N E U V E

100 POSTES ET PLUS DÉCEMBRE ÀAVRIL COMMIS/FINANCES jusqu'à 10 $/h HÂTEZ-VOUS

Prérequis :

• Finissants universitaires ayant au minimum un certificat en administration, bac en finance ou dans un domaine connexe • Excellent bilinguisme • Minutieux, dégourdi, autonome, excellent communicateur • Notions des produits de placement (fonds mutuels) un atout

Tâches : • Entrées de données financières, administration de documents, contacts avec le public

Posibilité de permanence Centre-ville.

Appelez immédiatement N a n c y B e a u lie u (5 1 4 ) 8 4 2 - 0 0 6 6 - (5 1 4 ) 8 4 2 - 8 7 9 7 (fa x ) Les Services de placement Télé-Ressources Ltée 2 0 2 1 , avenue Union, bureau 8 1 5 Montréal (Québec) H3 A 2 C1

A IR P O R T S T A N D B Y F A R E S ONE WAY FARES - M O N T R E A L to:

VA N CO U VER

TO RO N TO

*208

*73

In clu d es ta x $ 4 3 .0 2

In c lu d e s ta x $ 1 8 .7 4

i i.K iin sc/HEin i.i - MONTREAL (DOKYW.t I) I’AKI l RLS SAT SUN MON TUES WED THURS FRI TO

out the book, although the title “M ood Food: for those tim es when...” was a little racy (my aunt wrote that!).

P ennypincher’s asks us to rebel, but it also lends a helping hand. I’ve been scared to broach the subject of this book with any family members as of yet, but I have a renewed respect for my aunt. Hey, now I’m part of a liter­ ary tradition.

— Noah Gitterman

VANCOUVER TORONTO

-

09:45

-

-

09:35

09:40 18:45

09:40 18:45

09:40 18:45

09:40 18:45

22:15

-

:

23:35

AIRPORT STANDBY FARES: Are subject to available seats prior to departure. Passengers may

register 21/2 hours prior to the scheduled departure of flight, fares are subjed to change without notice. Travel on any specific flight is not guaranteed. Payment (Cash or Credit Card only) must be made on departure. One way travel only.

Reliable # Affordable 4*Air Travel

S ports

Page 16

Martlets start basketball season with victories Tessier scores 2,000th point in leading team to wins B y F ranklin R ubin stein

The Martlets opened the season with a hard-fought 80-69 over the University of Toronto, the team that knocked McGill out of the national semi-finals last season, on Friday night. Saturday night, the Martlets improved their record to 2-0 with a thrilling 82-70 overtime victory over a pesky Golden Gaels squad.

McGill U ofT

80 69

Friday night’s match-up pitted the Blues’ powerful front line against a more balanced Martlet attack. The difference in the game turned out to be McGill’s front court and Jennifer Stacey’s ability to beat the press.

The Martlets got dominating per­ formances by forwards Vicky Tessier, Anne G uildenhuys and Lesley Stevenson. They scored 19, 19 and 18 points respectively, and converted most of their offensive opportunities when isolated against their defender.

“We know where our strength is,” noted Guildenhuys. “I think it is definitely inside. Against a zone, one of our philosophies is to move the ball fast around the perimeter so they can’t match up.”

The Martlets raced out of the gates, scoring fourteen unanswered points in building a 16-4 lead.

The Varsity Blues countered with the change to a 2-3 zone in an attempt to pressure McGill’s outside

Jennifer Stacey pressures the U o f T zo n e shooting and protect their big players from foul trouble.

Although McGill’s momentum was temporarily stalled, the Martlets were able to rebound in building a 4634 halftime lead.

Guildenhuys’ outside shooting helped McGill open a 57-42 margin with fifteen minutes remaining in the game.

The Blues’ press put constant pressure on guard Jennifer Stacey, closing the gap to nine points with seven minutes remaining. That was as close as they would get, as Stacey’s fancy dribbling and clutch shooting sealed the victory.

“Thank god we had Jennifer

tonight,” rem arked coach Lisen Moore.

“She was able to dribble through the pressure. That’s not what we want to do.”

McGill Queen’s

82 70 (OT)

Facing a quicker yet smaller Golden Gaels squad, the Martlets once again went inside for their points. Guildenhuys scored eight of M cG ill’s first 12 points, as the Martlets built an early 12-4 lead.

Like the U of T team before them, Queen’s moved their defence to an attacking zone. The change was

made with the intent of slowing down M cGill’s inside weapons.

“We are better able to beat them man-to-man.

They know the zone is one of our weaknesses, and we have to work on it,” said Tessier W henever Tessier received the ball down low, she escaped double and triple teams to score an array of acrobatic points.

By halftime, she had posted 19 points in lead­ ing the Martlets to a six point buldge.

The second half was hotly contested, with Queen’s consistently nar­ rowing the Martlets’ lead and McGill re-building it.

The Red and White extended their lead to five and, mid-way through the half, Tessier posted her 2,000th point as a Martlet.

With a seemingly insurmount­ able 6-point lead with two minutes remainig, the Martlets committed a couple of costly turnovers. With only 3.4 seconds remaining, the Markets gave up a game-tying lay-up, knotting the score at 66.

In overtime, the Martlets were led by the shooting of Stacey, and the inside presence of Tessier. The lat­ ter’s clutch foul shooting iced the game, as Tessier finished with an incredible 37 points and the victory.

Redmen end dramatic weekend on winning note B y R ya n M u r p h y

The McGill Redmen tipped off their regular season this weekend at the C urrie Gym, surrendering a crushing overtime loss to Toronto on Friday and rebounding for a rous­ ing victory over Q u een’s on Saturday.

McGill U of T

76 87 (OT)

The Redmen had the unenvi­ able task of beginning league play against a perennially strong and inveterate Toronto squad, which fea­ tures four fifth-year players in their starting five.

The McGill squad lacked offen­ sive cohesion and size, which the V arsity Blues exploited with an array of lob passes and by concen­ trating its power game inside the paint. The Redmen were playing without wide-body enforcers Chad Wozney and Mike Johnston, which predictably altered their game.

“We’ve been forced to become more perimeter-oriented, which puts a lot of pressure on the shooters,” said Rick V arisco, one of four Redmen to finish the game in double figures with 13 points.

McGill appeared disorganised and rushed, which resulted in costly turnovers and ill-tim ed shots.

However, they were able to harness their nervous energy as the half

drew to a close, and narrowed the gap to 42-41.

The Redm en fell behind in the second half, and were down by nine p oints w ith only eight m inutes remaining.

W ith their backs against the wall, Matt Watson, who finished the game with a total of 17 points, led a charge of shooters, connecting on two threes and inspir­ ing his teammates to pick up the tempo on defence.

McGill bore down and tied the score on a b aseline jumper by Varisco.

W ith only Rick Varisco looks to score eig h t seconds remaining and McGill down 74-72, McGill 69 V arisco was sent to the line and 65 nailed both, sending the game into Queen’s overtime.

The story of Saturday night’s The Redmen were unable to tip-off against the Golden Gaels was keep their momentum in the extra clutch performances and strong inte­ session, as their failure to connect rior play and rebounding, anchored on a field goal led to a loss of by big men Hubert Davis and Pat patience and forced shots. This Inglis. in variably cost them the game.

In the early going, McGill led Noted Varisco, “we just ran out of by as many as eight points, taking gas.” advantage of a smaller and more

inexperienced Queen’s squad.

As with the night before, coach Ken Schildroth used ten players in his whole-scale substitution scheme, receiving gutsy yeom an p erfo r­ mances from Marc Rawas and Joel Baetz.

“We really look to most of our players. The guys coming off the bench know their roles, and they fill them w ell,” com m ented H ubert Davis.

C apitalising on a lethargic McGill defence, Queen’s was able to narrow the halftime margin to 2926.

After the half, McGill emerged with renewed vigour and shored up their defence by bumping cutters and getting more physical in the paint. McGill finally surged ahead for good with five minutes remain­ ing as a result of back-to-back threepointers by marksmen Inglis and Watson.

Rick Varisco, who finished the evening with 16 points, finally took the wind out of the Gaels’ sails by connecting on five free throws in three late trips to the line. His efforts sent McGill to the dressing room victorious.

Afterwards, a jubilant Davis announced, “right now we’re trying to get some focus, and this victory goes a long way in helping us to achieve it. Our goal this season is to be second in the league after Bishop’s.”

November 19th, 1996

Deep roots of hockey B y Pa u l C o n n e r ______________________

In light of the tumultuous past few years in the NHL, particularly with the loss of teams in Quebec and Winnipeg, new questions have been raised concerning the role of hockey in Canadian culture.

These questions were adressed last T uesday in “H ockey, the P rairies and C an ad a’s C ultural H istory,” a lecture presented by Gerald Friesen, a history professor visiting from the U niversity of Manitoba.

Hockey, much like taxes and weather, Friesen asserted, was and still is a medium through which all Canadians can relate.

Interest in the link between culture and hockey in Canada was sparked, for Friesen, by the saga of the Winnipeg Jets’ franchise over the last couple of years.

“The phenom enon was so striking, you couldn’t avoid being impressed by it,” explained Friesen in an interview with the Tribune. “[The Jets] raised, in a week, $12 million from ordinary people. The United Way, in a year, raises 8 mil­ lion.”

Friesen developed his argu­ ment in four sections, each dealing with a separate aspect of the game and its relation to Canada: the spec­ tacle itself, children and winter, the nature of art and theatre, and how “imagined communities” are sus­ tained.

The first segment, on the spec| tacle itself, attempted to capture the emotion and recollections of any­ one involved w ith hockey in Canada, either actively or as spec­ tators. “[The spectacle] can sweep us | up in a moment of self-forgetting, [ unite us in a moment of solidarity | with others, illuminate the potential goodness in humankind,” Friesen said in his lecture.

“Each of us may have one or { two m om ents in our lives that j involve a crowd, intense exciteI ment, and a moment of transcen­ dence,” he continued.

“I know that a few m illion Canadians recall the moment in 1972 when a C anadian hockey player shot the puck past Vladislav Tretiak, goalie for the Soviet Union team, to win the eighth game of the first — in C anadians’ minds — genuine world ice hockey competiContinued on Page 18

Coming up this week Redmen hockey vs. Ryerson.

Friday night at 7 :0 0 p.m.

Redmen hockey vs. Brock.

Saturday night at 7 :0 0 p.m.

Cross country Athletics Canada

meet. Saturday. Time TBA. Parc Maissoneuve.

SpOrtS

November 19th, 1996

Page 17

Intensive training for young athletes can harm health Continued from Page 1 M cGill’s own soccer players trained two hours daily for three m onths, and Ramondo doubts if that level of intensity could have been continued for a longer period of time.

Statistics show that three to eleven per cent of youth are injured each year due to sports activity.

Young athletes are particularly vul­ nerable to injury partly because of the imbalance in their strength and flexibility. Persistent injuries could damage growth mechanisms. Also, injuries traditionally seen in adults are becom ing m ore com m on in teenagers and young children, as training begins for some as early as age five.

The effects of intensive train­ ing in athletes are well documented and vary according to the type of sport. In fem ale athletes, health risks associated with intense train­

ing include eating disorders, irreg­ u lar or absen ce o f m en stru al cycles, and loss of bone density.

T his is e sp e c ia lly com m on in sports such as gymnastics, track, and swimming. However, health risks in m ale ath letes are more often associated with stress, insom­ nia, and fatigue.

In gym nastics, for exam ple, consistent pressure on the skeletal system may cau se “ stu n te d ” grow th. F em ale g y m n asts also have to deal with irregular men­ strual cycles and the pressure to keep the pounds off. According to the Am erican C ollege o f Sports Medicine, 62 per cent of females competing in “appearance sports” such as figure skating and gymnas­ tics suffer from some kind of eat­ ing disorder.

However, the relative signifi­ cance of the effects of vigorous training on young athletes cannot be singled out because many adult

athletes experience the same physi­ ological responses.

“T here are co m m o n alities.

There com es a point where the level of intensity of training gives negative gains in performance, no matter what age,” said Bill Hearst, executive director of the Canadian Society for Exercise Physiology.

One reason why athletes start training at a young age is because of the common belief that it takes seven to nine years to be able to asp ire to in te rn a tio n a l lev els, depending on the sport.

Thus, in a sport like gymnas­ tic s w here peak p erfo rm an ce occurs early , startin g young is almost a prerequisite. Should ath­ letic competition then be age relat­ ed?

There have been calls for child labour laws in competitive sports like those for child entertainers.

The In te rn a tio n a l T ennis Federation and W om en’s Tennis

C ouncil started a new rule that restricts participation of fem ale players younger than 18 in profes­ sional tennis.

H ow ever, right now lim ita­ tio n s are p rim arily set w ithin coaching standards, which is why coaches are integral to the w ell­ being of their athletes.

“Coaches have a responsibility to intervene and reduce training if continuing will result in injury for the athlete,” said Alain Marion, an ex ercise physiology consultant with the Coaching Association of Canada. “Right now, coaches are being ex p o sed to in fo rm atio n

regarding ethical and physiological awareness. Once they realise that the athlete is not a miniature adult, they can design programs which w ill en co u rag e q u ality p e rfo r­ mance and not jeopardise the emo­ tional and physical well being of the child.”

F in a lly , p aren ts are also im portant in the equation. They play a significant role in helping to d iffu se som e o f the p ressu re involved in high performance sport which contributes to the psycho­ logical health and consequently the physical integrity of the athletes.

Martlets volleyball split weekend Ranked seventh in the country, the M cG ill w om en’s volley b all team headed into the weekend 1-0 in reg u lar season play a fte r a lengthy pre-season.

After losing in straight sets to the tough, third-ranked Laval team, the Martlets bounced back to cap­ ture a four-set victory over fifthranked Sherbrooke.

Laval McGill

G R E Y H O U N D ’S S P E C IA L F L Y L O W FA R ES W IL L G E T Y O U HOM E T H IS HOLIDAY.

3 0

The McGill Martlets volleyball team suffered its first loss of the reg­ ular season this Saturday at the Currie Gym. There was very little to differ­ entiate between the two teams at the start; since both teams traded multi­ ple side-outs, neither squad was able to take a clear lead over the oppo­ nent.

The game’s turning point came after Laval coach France Vigneault called a time out with McGill lead­ ing 14-12 and serving for the game.

Laval got the side out, then quickly put four straight points on the board to seal the first game, 16-14.

“We started o ff w e ll,” explained star m iddle b locker Wendy Whelan. “I think we should have won the first set. It affected our play afterwards. We ju st w eren’t very aggressive for the rest of the match.”

The Martlets didn’t recover in time for the second game. McGill missed a couple of easy put-aways at the net, and seemed to serve wide every tim e they began to gain momentum. Laval’s taller team was better organised and got several spectacular digs. The visitors won the second game 15-6.

Laval took a quick 10-4 lead in the third. McGill fought back to 1211, but eventually lost the game 1511, and the match 3-0.

“I think that we played well today, but we faced a really tough and experienced team,” commented McGill coach Rachele Beliveau. “I would have liked our hitting to be more aggressive and to have put

• OTTAWA TORONTO HAMILTON

VANCOUVER • ' KE LO W N A* f CALGARY

N o w you can ask for a real p resent. N o t an expensive airline ticket. Greyhound Air’s FlyLow® fares are making sure you can be home with friends and family for the holidays.You simply w on’t find a cheaper fare during the holiday season and it’s not to o late to book.

m ore p ressure on the ball on defence.”

— The Mink Luong

McGill

3

Sherbrooke

1

On Sunday, the Martlets faced the Sherbrooke Vert et Or in their third match of the regular season.

Sherbrooke, ranked fifth in the country, was slightly favoured at the outset. A fter S atu rd ay’s loss to Laval, the Martlets did not care to lose again. The M cG ill women came on strong from the start, tak­ ing a close first set 15-12.

A stunned and w eary team from Sherbrooke did not know how to react as McGill continued strong play and dominated the second set 15-7. The third set was once again back and forth but Sherbrooke was able to get the better of many fast and furious exchanges in order to

take the set.

Just as the tide looked as though it was changing, inspira­ tional w ords from head coach Beliveau set the Martlets off once again, closing out the match with an impressive 15-5 final set.

A nne M ullin, a native of Oshawa, Ontario, was pleased with the character the team showed in bouncing back from Saturday’s loss.

“We played w ell as a team today and pulled together in order to earn this victory.”

Coach B eliveau was also encouraged by the win.

“We are in a tough division with four teams in the top eight in Canada, but if we play like this then we will do very well.”

She was especially pleased with the way her team controlled their passing game: “If we do that in all our games, we will be tough to beat.”

— Arjuri Taneja

Ottawa to:

HOUDAY FLYLOW RETURN FARES FROM:

Winnipeg

$149

Calgary

$199

Edmonton

$199

Kelowna

$199

Vancouver

$199

T h e s e fa re s available f o r tra v e l b e tw e e n N o v . 2 - D e c .

O t h e r ho lid ay fa re s a re available.

17/96.

Plus, if you need a bus connection from Kelowna, Hamilton or Ottawa, Greyhound Air will throw in the bus ticket to a variety of destinations. Our lines are open 24 hours a day, seven days a w eek so call today and have a wonderful Greyhound holiday.

G R E Y H O U N D

A I R .

I - 8 0 0 - 6 6 1- T R I P o r 4 1 6 - 3 6 7 - T R I P Not available through travel agents, http://www.greyhound.ca Air Service operated by K E L O W N A F L I G H T C R A F T

Page 18

SpOrtS

November 19th, 1996

flS? McGill \lfc/

Canadian hockey lecture...

Department of Physical Education

Continued from Page 16

I L o o k in g fo r a w in te r • s e m e s t e r F r e e E le c t iv e ?

tion of the modern era.”

Friesen went on to describe the close ties betw een children and hockey, especially in small prairie towns, where pick-up games, not organised hockey, were the norm.

F rie se n ’s o b jectiv e was to relate how "the prairies link to the rest of the country, especially in the period, 1930-1970.”

In regards to hockey and art, the lecturer disputed the ideas of Ken Dryden as expressed in his book, Home Game, by visualising hockey as an art form, practised and perfected by children through co untless hours o f skating and learning on rinks all over the coun­ try.

Friesen made bold statements on the im portance of hockey in Canada, in regards to im agined communities.

“One m ust app reciate the degree to which hockey became a

I You might try 434-485B •

Exercise in Chronic Health Conditions.

Prerequisite - Basic Physiology T & T h 11:30 to 13:00 Room 408, Currie Gym Bldg.

The course briefly reviews the physiological bases o f preg­ nancy, aging as well as selelcted metabolic,cardiovascular and respiratory disorders and examines the particularities o f the exercise response and the effects o f exercise condition­ ing in these populations. A special emphasis is placed on the scientific basis fo r exercise prescription.

fundamental expression of Canada as a country in the 20th century,” Friesen argued.

He maintained that the growth of media in the 1950s and 1960s provided a common ground for all Canadians to exchange views and talk about issues aside from “the weather and taxes.”

R eferring to a m atch in the European Cup of soccer last June between Germany and England, Friesen tried to explain the way in which battles are fought on the playing field, and how that captures the public’s imagination.

“Thirty to thirty-five million people watched the game — that’s 60 to 70 per cent of the population,” he explained in his interview with the Tribune. “Something obviously happens in a country to make a game such a centre for conversation and communication,” he explained.

“It’s England versus Germany 1914-1918 and 1939-1945,” Friesen said.

Sports

Redmen Hockey Standings

Men’s Squash

OUAA

Results from OUAA East Sectional tournament

Far East Div W

L

GF

GA

P

UQTR McGill Concordia Ottawa

1 4 5 5

52 63 44 22

20 41 45 35

16 12 10 6

8 6 5 3

SCORING as of Nov 10th P. Gendron, McG J. Zukiwsky, Lth R. Smith, Man K. Nobes, McG G. Manson, Bdn L. Duchon, Man B. Purdy, Sas

GP G 8 12 10 8 10 10 10

11 16 12 9 12 6 5

A

P

19 29 9 25 11 23 13 22 10 22 15 21 16 21

GOALIES

GP MP G A Avg

M. Mullin, Gue C. Shariand, Win S. Rodrique, QTR K. Carroll, UNB J. Harris, Wat G. Schnare, Lau J. Dimaline, Yor J. Gagnon, Ott

5 4 6 9 6 7 6 5

300 197 361 240 281 429 360 234

6 6 15 11 13 20 18 12

1.20 1.83 2.33 2.75 2.78 2.80 3.00 3.08

1. University of Toronto 2. Queen’s 3. McGill 4. Ryerson

However, Friesen’s conclusion took a different tact, arguing that the strength of hockey as an impor­ tant aspect of Canadian culture has been diluted since the mid-1970s.

Along with the globalisation of the econom y, governm ent, and, inevitably, culture, Friesen noted that hockey’s importance as a link between all Canadians has weak­ ened. The growth in popularity of other sports has contributed to this phenomenon.

By the same token, Canadian culture has expanded because of a widening scope of interests.

“Hockey was once a channel by which prairie Canadians recog­ nised and acknowledged their rela­ tions with the rest o f C anada,” Friesen concluded. “If hockey has ceased to be a central channel, we should rejoice — the alternative ways to be a Canadian have simply expanded.”

Briefs

16 12 6 2

Men’s Volleyball at McGill Sherbrooke def. McGill 15-4, 15-5, 15-7

Women’s Volleyball at McGill Laval def. McGill 18-14. 15-6, 15-11 McGill def. Sherbrooke 15-12, 15-7,7-15, 15-5

Figure Skating at Queen’s Results from the Quebec Invitational McGill placed 7th out of 11 Stephanie Gin 1st in the Intermediate solo competition Mazie Vincelli 3rd in the open solo dance competition

Fortin stands tall in goal, fa c in g 31 shots Saturday night against St. Laurent.

Redmen s weekend spent in penalty box The McGill Redmen hockey team returned home last evening with a sour taste in their mouths.

A fter a 4-3 o v ertim e victory against York on Friday night, the Redmen spent 52 out of the possi­ ble 60 minutes in the penalty box, en route to Laurentian’s 8-4 victo­ ryFriday’s spirited effort was capped by Benoit Leroux's goal, ten seconds into overtim e.

Leroux’s goal was set up by Pierre Gendron, who had just scored a goal with four seconds remaining in regulation. The game-tying goal was scored during the tim e McGill’s net stood empty.

O ther Redm en goals were scored by David Butler and rookie David Gourde.

The R edm en o u tsh o t the Yeomen 43-33 in the game, and were backed by the steady play of Jarrod Daniel.

S u n d ay ’s gam e was spent killing penalties, as Laurentian was able to convert 6 of 13 power play opportunities. The Redmen were two men short an astounding five times during the second peri­ od, as referee Marc Seguin blew his whistle for 49 minor penalties during the game.

Stéphane Angers posted two goals, while Gendron and Nicolas Cantin each scored one.

F u rth er fru stratin g the Redmen was the inexplicable disallowment of two of their goals.

St. Laurent posts shutout against Martlets Saturday evening, the McGill Martlet hockey team fell to 0-5, as St. Laurent blanked the Martlets 40.

The Patriotes posted 3 first period goals, all coming within a five-minute span.

Damage could have been much worse if not for the strong efforts of goalie Lucie Fortin. Her spectacular saves kept McGill in the game, stopping 13 first period shots and 3 1 in the game.

“You need good goaltending to win games and Lucie has been great,” said coach Dan Madden.

The Martlets look to improve Continued on Page 19

Sports/W hat’s O n

November 19th, 1996

W

T r i b u n e

Athletes t h e M R

of

Tuesday, November 19 Montreal General Hospital pre­ sents a lecture by Sheryl Blum M.ED: “Sexual Harassment: A Changing Definition and How To Manage its Impact.” Osier Amphitheatre, 1650 Cedar Ave. 7:30-9 pm.

Dr. Becky Fixman lectures on “Signal Transduction Pathways Required for Cell Transformation by the Tpr-Met Oncoprotein.” Hersey Pavilion room H5-38 at noon.

Do you want to teach English in Korea? Over 80 positions available for graduates in any field. David Wi will be visiting McGill 12-1:30 p.m., room 205, Powell Student Services.

Earthsave presents a cooking class at Optimum Health Food Store at 6 p.m. Free for members, $5 for non members. Vegetarian cooking demon­ stration and nutritional info, plus meal provided.

LBGTM Coordinating Meeting at 18:30 in Shatner 432.

W e e k W

att

B

edm en

atso n

ask etball

Watson played inspired basket­ ball during the Redmen’s two games last weekend. His teamhigh 21 points and five 3-point­ ers helped the Redmen defeat Queen’s on Saturday evening.

V M

ic k y

artlet

T B

e s s ie r

ask etball

Tessier scored 19 and 37 points in leading the Martlets to week­ end victories against U o f T and Queen’s. She also posted her 2,000th career point.

Wednesday, November 20 Condom sale! To celebrate STD Awareness Month, McGill Student Health Services offers this great deal.

Lifestyles: 8/$l, plus assorted others.

Powell Bldg., 3637 Peel, rm 100.

Are you interested in Law and Social Work? Information session on joint Law/Masters of Social Work.

11:30-12:30, at 3506 University, 1st floor.

LBGTM’s Bisexual group meets in Shatner 423.

Continued from Page 18 their record this weekend, as they travel to Queen’s for the cross-bor­ der challenge tournament.

Record-setting performance in pool The McGill women’s swim team travelled to the Université de Montréal, and dominated the com­ petition. The team posted 131 points, as compared to the Carabins meagre 56. Highlighting the com­ petition was rookie Lisa Virgini’s record time in the 200m backstroke.

It is the third consecutive weekend she has broken the McGill record.

Thursday, November 21 Montreal Cancer Research Group will hosts two guest lectures on the topics of “Biochemical glutathione modulation in cancer therapy “ and “Glutathione as a target for a terato­ gen action in the em bryo.” 3655 Drummond Street, room 705 at 6:30 p.m.

Redmen capture Covo Cup The M cGill Redmen rugby team travelled south to Harvard this weekend, and defeated the Crimson by a score of 32-25.

The team received tries from Graham W ithers, Dave Shields, Mark Cameron, Bafana NcWana, Rob Marsh and Rich Berube. A1 Wainwright made the conversion.

The win comes one week after the team finished second in the province after a 15-0 loss to the Concordia Stingers.

The team w ill travel on November 30th to the New York 7’s tournament.

C

Friday, November 22 LBGTM’s Coming Out group meets in the basement of UTC. 5:30 p.m. Everyone is in the same situation as you and the group is very friendly.

LBGTM’s M en’s Discussion Group meets in UTC basement at 7:00 pm.

Monday November 25 McGill rowing team is holding an ergothon in front of the Redpath Library — come watch the ridiculous crew erging outside to raise money.

The McGill Debating Union has a Show Round on Monday nights in Shatner 302 at 6 pm. No experience necessary.

Tuesday, November 26 Hashem Salloukh will be giving a guest lecture on “Cell Cycle Regulation and Induction” at 12:00, Hersey Pavilion, Rm. H5.38 Ongoing and Upcoming The McGill W omen’s Union X’mas clothing and food drive for Project Chance. Needed food items include: pasta, rice, tea, sugar, and canned soups and vegetables. Drop off box at Shatner 423.

A small group is organising a

SWAP for International Buy Nothing Day. (Nov. 29, first day of X-mas shopping) Interested in participation and /or organising? Call QPIRG at 398-7432.

Every Thursday at 6 p.m., in 550 Sherbrooke Room 1180, the Association for Studies of McGill has a discussion meeting centered on Baha’i writings. All are welcome.

Come and curl with the McGill curling club. Every Friday from 4-6 pm. Free. We curl at the Thistle curl­ ing club, 1420 Fort St. (between de Maisonneuve and Ste. Catherine) Info: 934-0724 or 938-4807.

Interested in volunteering??

Opportunities on the McGill campus or in Montreal communities are avail­ able. Check the Volunteer Bureau Board, Shatner 414 or phone 3986819.

The McGill Debating Union has a show on Monday nights in Shatner 302 at 6:00 pm. Practice rounds (i.e. option to debate) are held on Friday nights in Leacock 15 at 5:30 pm. No experience necessary.

Every Tuesday, The Red Herring, McGill’s humour magazine, holds its brainstorm ing session.

Shatner 303 at 2:30 p.m.

Living With Loss: afternoon and evening bereavement support and selfhelp groups are being offered free of charge through the McGill School of Social Work for anyone who has suf­ fered the loss of a family member or friend. Contact Estelle Hopmeyer at 398-7067.

The Canadian Studies Graduate Students’ Association announces a Call for Papers for the Third Annual Canadian Studies Conference.

Submissions welcomed from graduate students in all fields who are interest­ ed in the study of Canada. Deadline for abstracts: Fri., Dec. 2. For more info call 398-2974.

The Gamers’ Guild is running its own Chess League. We supply space, materials. $5 registration fee. Info: Shatner office 401, 398-6814.

H eridan: M cG ill’s W omen’s Literary Journal is looking for volun­ teers for typing, proofreading, layout, and good ideas. Submissions are also being accepted: prose, poetry, graphic art, etc. Deadline Nov. 20. Contact the Women’s Union, Shatner 423.

Adoption Support Group: evening support group is being offered free of charge through McGill University School of Social Work for adopted adults, birth parents, and adoptive parents on the topic of search for biological relatives and adoption reunion. Contact: Carol Speirs at 3988450.

THE

MCGILL T R IB U N E T h e m o st w id e ly re a d stu d e n t n e w s p a p e r

PLUS L O W a d v e r t is in g ra te s!

For information and assistance

call Pa

u l at:

398-6806

or drop by

The McGill Tribune C LA SSIFIED ADS O FF IC E Shatner Building Room 1050 3480 McTavish St.

SCHEDULED FOR TOMORROW IIAS BEEN CANCELLED. SORRY.

/ C

a r e e r s

Word Processin S U C C ESS TO ALL STUDENTS. Wordperfect 5.1.

Term papers, resumes, applications, transcription of micro-cassettes. Editing of grammar. 28 years experience. $1.75 D .S.P. 7 days/week.

Campus/Peel/Sherbrooke.

Paulette/Roxanne 288-9638/288-0016

OLD DUBLIN 1219A U N IV ER SITY Tel: 861-4448 OLD DUBLIN probably imports more Irish and English beers than the rest of the country combined, always live entertainment.

Film screening: “Women in Science asking different Questions.”

Reception at 7 pm, screening at 8:15 pm. Frank Dawson Adams Auditorium.

Freedom and Truth: The Idea of the University. Two part lecture will be conducted by S.E. Angelo Scola on Nov. 21 and 22, Moot Court, Faculty of Law.

’

WRITERS MEETING

Education

Bars

t

SPORTS

Get into the right school see page 2

ALTO’S 3462 PARC You won’t know how much you’ll need food at 5 a.m. until it happens.

a

ATTENTION:

l a s s if ie d s

Food

h

Office Furniture FILES • F ILES • F ILES Used and new office furniture.

Ask for your special student price. BU RO -PLU S 767-6720

page 19

Nina Santucci Pozgar, Attorney-in-Charge Suffolk County District Attorney's Office — White Collar Crime Bureau Touro Law Center, Class o f 1986 Lieutenant (J.G.) Peter Galindez, USNR Attorney, Judge Advocate General Corps.

Touro Law Center, Class o f 1995 Steven C. Schnitzer, Esq. Crowell & Moring, Washington, D C. Touro Law Center, Class o f 1988

•

S t u d e n t - c e n t e r e d fo c u s

•

F a c u lty c o m m itte d to p r o f e s s i o n a l d e v e lo p m e n t a n d e x c e lle n c e in te a c h in g

•

G r a d u a te s w e ll p r e p a r e d to p r a c tic e la w in to d a y ’s c h a n g i n g le g a l e n v ir o n m e n t

•

N o r th S h o r e L o n g I s la n d c a m p u s , j u s t 3 0 m ile s fr o m N ew Y o rk C ity

Programs include: •

J u r i s D o c to r ( J .D .) d e g r e e

•

M a s te r o f L aw s (L L .M .) f o r f o r e ig n la w y e r s

•

F u ll /p a r t- tim e , d a y /e v e n in g c l a s s e s

•

S u m m e r in te rn s h ip s a n d p ro g ra m s a b ro a d

TOURO COLLEGE JACOB D. FUCHSBERG

! Éï -El

LAW CENTER

300 Nassau Road • Huntington, Long Island, NY 11743 * 516-421-2244 Ext. 312 • 516-421-2675 fax • http://www.tourolaw.edu* TDD/TTY: 516-421-0476

No downpayment. No security deposit. Freight included,

neon .I

MONTH

30-month lease/ no downpayment

’97 NEON HIGHUNE 4-DOOR • air conditioning • autom atic transm ission • dual air bags • p o w e r ste e rin g • p o w e r

• 2 -litre 16 valve 1 32 hp e n g in e • c a b -fo rw a rd d e sig n • A M /F M ste re o • and m o re !

assisted fro n t d isc brakes

GRADUATES GET $750 OFF! Get an additional $750 Cash Rebate on the 1997 Chrysler vehicle of your choice, on top of any other incentives!

Offer ends December 31,1996.

YOUR LOCAL CHRYSLER DEALER.

Physically Challenged Assistance Program See your dealer for details.

A DEALER YOU CAN BELIEVE IN.

* Monthly rate based on described vehicle with 22D package. License, taxes and insurance extra. Subject to approval by Chrysler Credit Canada Ltd. First monthly payment will be required.

Leasing must be for personal purposes. Buy-back not required. Lessee responsible for metreage exceeding 51,000 km, at a rate of 9 <t per km. Limited time offer. Details at participating dealers.

Dealer may lease for less and may have to order.