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Controversial budget proposals S tu d en ts, fa c u l t y in s is t on a n ew d e a l By Benii W einstein After presenting her memo outlining ideas for the 1997-98 university budget to the M cGill Senate, V ice-Principal Admin istration and F inance P hyllis Heaphy met with a wave of con cern from both student and faculty senators. The memorandum, which Heaphy presented to Senate at the February 12 meeting, was meant to serve as a list of considerations for the upcoming budget, which has not yet been put together. While the document deals with a range o f factors that affect the budget — including governmentmandated tuition increases and the accumulated deficit — the vast majority of discussion was devot ed to the proposals for accomodat ing the Q uebec governm ent’ s promised cut in M cGill’s operat ing grant. “It has been a very difficult few months as we have tried to grapple with the expected govern ment cuts,” Heaphy told Senate. “We don’ t know the grant cut number yet. Our share will proba bly be around $18 million, and this model is built on an $18 mil lion grant cut.” Heaphy’ s memo includes a

Continued on Page 5 Full coverage of SSMU ELECTIONS Starting this week, the Tribune will be bringing you complete coverage of the SSMU election. In this week's issue, you will find features on the positions of VP Finance, VP Internal, and Board of Governors rep. In the next issue, coming out the week after Reading Week, there will be coverage on the races for President, VP University Affairs, and VP External. We will also be featuring the annual Tribune candidates' quiz. Readers can also expect to see ongoing cov erage of various debates and results from faculty elections.

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S tu d e n ts u s e ‘g u e r r illa t h e a tr e ’ to r e s is t N e w because they were denied the oppor tunity to participate in discussion. Art Attacks member Miranda In the absence of an officially sanctioned vent for student angst Ortiz sees guerrilla theatre as a about the proposed privatisation and viable alternative to an o fficia l forum such as an Estates-General. A m ericanisation o f the “New “Since from the first our voice McGill,” one student group is resort has been squelched, it’s important ing to guerrilla tactics. Art Attacks, a fledgling student we create our own space for access,” group, is shooting for the jugular said Ortiz. “I can’t get on television with a creative form of protest — a to make myself heard, but I can go out on the street and do a little skit.” futuristic video offering a satirical Art Attacks has made several portrayal of what the “New McGill” appearances at school events and would be like. The video w ill consist o f a demonstrations in the past. One series of faux infomercials advertis member placed herself in a casket to ing McGill to potential corporate symbolise “death to accessibility” at buyers. Televisions will be set up a CEGEP and university tuition hike across campus for students’ viewing protest last November. Cafeteria raids against PepsiCo were also pleasure by September at the latest. Students’ determination to be staged in honour of International heard stems in part from the failure Burma Day. However, the infomercial for to obtain an open forum for discus sion. In the fall of 1995, Principal mat was chosen for this latest pro Bernard Shapiro assembled a task ject because it is catchy and can be made instantly accessible to students force to exam ine his proposal, “Towards a New McGill.” The Task as they walk through halls to their Force Report of January 1996 pro classrooms. It also provides a tidy posed, among other things, that capsule in which the sentiments of McGill hold an Estates General — a different student groups can be three-day open forum for the entire linked thematically and played in a McGill community to discuss the continuous loop. The artists aim to promote soli university’s future. The McGill Senate rejected the darity among student interest groups proposal of an open forum in April by establishing “a forum for lasting 1996. This left many students angry alliances among [them],” and to get By Alex Mathias

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the attention of apathetic students, according to Ortiz. They do not pre tend to be producing a balanced report on proposed changes; fair play is not part of their mandate. “W e’re going to focus on the negative side [of the New McGill]; the positive side will have large enough venues to exercise their [voice],” laughed Ortiz. “We want to crystallise what everyone’s feel ing.” Approximately ten students from various departments and one McGill staff member from Newman House, who wishes to remain anonymous, showed up for the first meeting and brainstorming session. Possible ideas included skits of professors wearing McDonald’s uni forms, a professor lecturing spliced into a soccer stadium classroom, and the Arts building being destroyed by a black dot wrecking ball. A voice of dissension from one chemistry student at the meeting argued that the focus of the infomer cial was based simply on proposals that remain hypothetical. Paul Beaulieu, Art Attacks member, shot back: “Amalgamating faculties, decreased diversity in programs, increased tuition — in one way they’re just proposals. A lot of these things are already coming into place piecemeal.”

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Accusations after council fails to vote on restructuring proposals C a r te r b la m e s d e fe a t o n b a c k r o o m b a r g a in in g By Darryl Levine Infighting continued at SSMU last week as accusations of back room politicking and anti-democra tic procedural delays were leveled against a co u n cil member who walked out o f the six-hour February 6 council meeting. SSMU President Chris Carter accused E ngineering Representative Adrienne Bajaj of deliberately breaking the two thirds quorum required to vote on referen dum proposals. A ccording to Carter, Bajaj’s actions were part of a deal with another councillor who did not want to vote on the presi dent’ s referendum proposals for restructuring SSM U council. Had they been adopted by co u n cil, McGill undergrads would have had a chance to vote on Carter’ s pro posals in a spring referendum. “The councillor wanted to stop the proposals at all co sts,” said Carter. “The Engineering represen tative wanted a computer. So a bar gain was made between the two parties. The Engineering represen tative would break quorum in return for support for the motion about the computer.”

T h e a lle g e d d e a l The motjpn in question was made by the two Engineering rep resentatives who suggested that SSM U reallocate the money des tined for the printing of a student phone directory to the purchase of a computer for the Sexual Assault Centre o f M cG ill Stu d en ts’

B a ja j holds the m eeting So ciety . Council approved organisers responsible for the poor B a ja j’ s motion with an turnout. She claimed she was not amendment which mandated informed about the February 10 VP Finance Jon Chomski and emergency meeting. V P Internal A ffairs Mark “We didn’t know there would Feldman to administer $5,000 be an emergency meeting at three to SSM U clubs in need o f o’clock until we happened to find computers. The other $3,000 out through the grapevine,” said went to the SACOMSS. Bajaj Bajaj. “Nobody called us, as is the cannot understand why Carter general method if you’re going to thinks some backroom bargain have a special meeting. You need was made. to call the councillors and let them “Mr. Carter thinks I made know what’s going on.” a deal to get that motion After the failure to get the passed or to get support on referendum proposals voted on by that m otion,” said B a ja j. council, Carter, with the help of a “That’s not true. I didn’t make few councillors, made a last ditch a deal. And that motion did effort to put the referendum pro not have a lot to do with me. It posals on the spring ballot by col had a lot to do with everyone lecting signatures for a studentsitting on that council.” SSMUPresident’s restructuring proposals might be voted on in the fa ll Kevin Koch initated referendum. With only As to why Bajaj left the hours until the deadline to submit of Chomski’s referendum proposal that deadline and so late in council meeting at midnight, she to extend the SSMU dental plan to the proposed questions, a petition explained that her reasons for leav evening’s council meeting. was passed around several classes “Maybe he was ignorant of the international students. ing were of a personal nature and “No one complained that the and signed by over 400 students. fact that the council [meeting] was were of no concern to council. By the time the deadline passed, “I stayed while I could,” said most likely going to go to mid dental plan proposals were being Carter was still shy of the 500 sig rushed,” said Carter. “Rather than Bajaj. “But for personal reasons I night,” said Chomski. “He should natures required to put the restruc had to leave at twelve o ’clock. I have known that from the fact that making arguments against the turing proposals to a vote in the ref told the speaker that I would be our meetings have been long on a restructuring proposals themselves, some councillors decided to under erendum. leaving. I was told that I would be regular basis....W hy were these Although he failed to submit breaking the two-thirds quorum. things that were so important left to mine them through procedural his referendum questions in time delays.” the last minute? Why weren’t these But I explained that I had no choice for the spring referendum, Carter questions put forward in January?” — I had to leave.” promised that he will try to get T h e e m e r g e n c y m e e tin g C arter explained that his council to accept his referendum restructuring proposals have been R e fe r e n d u m d e a d lin e s In order to complete the agen initiative by the end of the school delayed by certain council mem The February 6 session was bers since September and that he is da that was cut short by the break year so that students next year will not to blame for presenting them so ing of quorum at the February 6 have a chance to vote on the the last regularly scheduled council restructuring council. meeting, an emergency meeting meeting before the February 10 late in the year. “I’m going to try and send this was held on February 10 — the “Everyone agrees that restruc deadline for council-initiated refer endum questions. Chomski ques turing needs to be addressed,” said same day that approved referendum stuff to the next referendum peri tioned Carter’s timing in presenting Carter. “I was elected on this. But proposals were due for submission od,” said Carter. “This is something these proposals so clo se to the this process has been completely to the Chief Returning Officer. The that we should deal with now so meeting had to be cancelled once it that next year’s council will have a undermined by procedural delays was evident that with barely half clearer sense of the restructuring since the fall semester.” Carter stated that many coun the councillors present, the quorum coming to the SSMU. These pro requirement to hold the meeting posals shouldn’t be dragged out for cillo rs who did not want his irestructuring proposals to be rushed would not be met, let alone the two another year.” thirds required for council to vote through council had no problem with the relatively quick approval on referendum proposals.

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SA FETY N O TES On January 24, 1997 at 11:30 p.m. on a side street near Currie Gym, a woman’s taxi driver disre garded her directions, and drove her down a side street, ignorinj her protests. She had to jump oui o f the moving car to get away The assailant was a francophom taxi driver, with white hair, age< 45-55 wearing glasses. On February 14, 1997 at 4:30 a.m„ a woman was in her car a the Pine/University intersection A man ran in front o f the car t« stop her from driving away. Sh reversed, at which point he rai over to her side of the car, bange on the window and tried to ope; her door. She managed to drive away. The assailant was 5’9” with brown eyes, wearing a white base ball cap with dark brim blue base ball jacket with white buttons and blue jeans.

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C a n d id a te s f o r V P In te r n a l n o t ju s t p la n n in g p a r tie s f o r n ex t y e a r By Noah G itterman The role of the VP Internal, as stated in the SSMU constitution, is “to manage relations between the society and its activities, clubs, and functional groups.” The student elected to this position must, among other duties, oversee the manage ment o f the W illiam Shatner University Centre, co-ordinate all SSM U events and programming, and encourage com m unication between SSM U and its members. Nishi Aubin, a U3 student in politi cal science and history, and Sarvesh Srivastava, a U2 student in microbi ology and immunology who is also doing a minor in management, are running for the position this year. Both Aubin and Srivastava outlined the personal qualities, and the experience, which they feel gives them an edge in the race for VP Internal. Aubin emphasised that she has a tremendous amount of energy, and is committed to getting students involved. She cited her past work as

Nishi Aubin a SSMU frosh co-ordinator, the culturefest co-ordinator and the finan cial awareness week co-ordinator. She was also a volunteer for wel com e week and assisted in the SSMU blood drive. Along with her SSMU duties, she is the social co ordinator for the Pan-H ellenic cou n cil, an umbrella group for McGill sororities. “It’ s important that a VP Internal be someone who has worked on every project,” she said. “Fve worked at almost every single aspect of the current VP Internal’s portfolio.” Srivastava cited his involve ment with a number o f student organisations including the Big Buddies club and Literacy McGill, as well as his volunteering at the Montreal neurological Institute. He focused, though, on the experience he has gained as the Scien ce Undergraduate S o cie ty ’ s VP Internal this year. “SUS Internal is a microcosm of SSMU Internal,” he stated. Srivastava mentioned that he

has good organisational skills, but above all, he emphasised his ability to listen and communicate. “This position is all about managing people and human resources,’’Tie said. “I listen to peo-

Sarvesh Srivastavsa pie and bring their ideas together — I’m very approachable, honest, and fair.” . Aubin outlined a number of issues and projects she will be con cerned with elected. She hopes to increase the presence o f sports activities on campus, and men tioned creating a SSM U day to introduce students to the inner workings of their students’ society. She also emphasised her commit ment to making francophone stu dents feel more comfortable with SSMU. “Twenty-five per cent of stu dents are francophone,” she said. “They deserve a significant place in SSMU and on this campus.” As well, Aubin stressed her desire to make the distribution of funding for clubs more efficient and fair, as well as the need to make the student building more accessible to disabled students. “This building is not accessible to a certain part of the student body, and that’s not acceptable,” she said. Srivastava explained that if elected, he would be concentrating on improving the frosh program, so that everyone, even the administra tion, will be involved. He believes that all the faculties and student groups on campus should be work ing together when planning frosh events. Srivastava also promised to concentrate on improving SSMU’s presence on the World Wide Web. He thinks that the current SSMU sites can be expanded. In keeping with his belief that the position mostly involves com municating with a diverse student body, he will focus on gathering ideas for projects and initiatives from other students. “VP Internal is about bringing in ideas from students and putting them together,” he said.

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V P F in a n c e c a n d id a t e s g e t d o w n to b u s in e s s By Michelle Lee The main role of the VP finance is to Chair the Financial Management Committee, which decides how SSMU funds are spent, and to keep students informed about the financial status of SSMU. The prospect of becoming 1997OS SSMU VP finance has attracted three candidates: Adam Giambrone, a U1 anthropology student, Duncan Reid, a U2 economics student, and Karan Manhas, a U2 bilogy student. All three candidates are advocating unique visions for SSMU council next year. Giambrone, currently one of three SSMU clubs reps, cites clubs funding as a major area of change. “I want to increased money to clubs from the current allocation of $35,000, to $50,000-560,000 in order to provide better services to students,” Giambrone stated. Giambrone hopes that, with the creation of additional student run businesses, he will be able to increase SSMU revenue and the number of student jobs on campus. While over seeing these changes, Giambrone insists that he has no intention of rais ing student fees. “I will work with the current $2.4 million budget and re-channel the money from other areas,” he said. “This simply involves setting priori ties and managing money in more efficient ways.” For his platform, current co speaker of SSMU council Duncan Reid is advocating the need to steer SSMU in a new direction in order to

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rectify its current lack of student con tact. “I see SSMU as being in a pieriod of transition. We have reached the limit in building our infrastructure. We have the best medical and dental plans in the country, we have a good clubs organisation...now we need to become a quick, reacting body that represents the student body,” Reid said. “We don't need seven-hour meetings where executives duel out their own agendas.” Reid also sees the revitalisation of the William Shatner University Centre as a top priority. Specifically, he would like to see that the building becomes more accessible, ensuring that it will be able to accomodate all students. Karan Manhas, another VP finance hopeful, served as finance commissioner at SSMU this past year. One of Manhas’ main priorities is to make SSMU council more approach able. “We must remember that SSMU is a service — there is no reason for it

Duncan Reid to exist if not to serve the students,” Manhas said. “We are here to improve the quality of student life and this should be our number one purpose.” Manhas feels that this can be best achieved by a council that pre sents itself to the students as a solid unit. “Disagreements and concerns should be worked out in meetings in a rational fashion. Students will have little faith in their council if it is divid ed,” Manhas said.

T h r e e -w a y r a c e s h a p e s u p f o r S S M U B o a r d o f G o v e r n o r s r e p r e s e n ta tiv e By Liz Lau Three students are in the run ning for the position of next year’s undergraduate representative to the Board of Governors, McGill’s high est decision-m aking body. Ostensibly, the Board deals with the financial administration of McGill, while Senate is accorded responsibil ity for academic issues. The SSMU has two seats on the Board, with the BoG rep being the lone voting member. The SSM U r president, who occupies the other seat, is non-voting. Students this year will be choosing between Carrie Goldstein, Michelle Legault and Zahoor Kareem for the position. Kareem expressed that his inter est and experience in finance prompted him to run for the position. He is president of the McGill Ismaili Students’ Association, and an entre preneur who runs chartered bus and t-shirt businesses. He believes that an effective

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BoG rep needs to be informed about all the issues. “To earn their respect, you have to show that you understand the stu dents’ point of view, as well as the administration’s,” he stated. U1 Law student Legault is in her fifth year at McGill after gradu ating with a Bachelors degree in Management. Legault stated that her dedication to her Alma Mater and her knowledge in finance and law

are her greatest assets. “1 like to see myself as a fresh voice with fresh ideas,” she com mented. “I have a strong dedication to the university —- that’s why I came back after my undergraduate degree.” Goldstein, a U2 Management student, is running for the second consecutive year. Last year, she was

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York asks corporations for cash By J ennifer Mintz York University in Toronto has begun a pilot project that will use corporate sponsorship to create courses available only on the Internet. Corporations will now be able to become the official sponsors of certain courses, with their company name or logo attached to the course for as long as it is offered by the uni versity. “This is a very confined project. The project involves so far just three companies and their contracts haven’t been signed yet,” said Sina M acKinnon, senior advisor for Media Relations at York. “There are 135 individuals participating in courses on the Internet and it is important that they have the opportu nity to partake in the same classes offered on campus.” MacKinnon explained that this initiative involves courses at Atkins College, an off-set of the larger York campus. The college is mainly devot ed to correspondence courses for mature students who don’t have the means or time to get to classes held on campus. Sponsorships will be lim ited to new multi-media, Internet based courses.

One of the companies involved, the Canadian Co-operative Association (Ontario), will contribute between $15,000 and $20,000 to the design of an Internet based sociology course on the history of the coopera tive movement in Canada. Reaction at York University has been mixed. A transcript of a debate seen on the television show Midday, released by the university, highlights some of the issues surrounding spon sorship of individual courses. Professor David Noble voiced his concern over the plan. “Here we’re talking about the commoditisation of education. It’s a compromise of the institution and it is already severely compromised. [The companies] are interested in getting some free research and shar ing the cost and risk in this research,” he said on Midday. York University President Susan Mann countered that compa nies will have no say in how courses are taught. “No one is going to dictate to a university who teaches what, where it’s taught or how it’s taught. This is simply a means for a company to invest in the education o f all Canadians,” she said on the show. “Funds are drying up and disappear

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ing. Universities for years have had donors, patrons and contributors of one sort or another.” Jason Chizick, VP academic and university affairs at the York Students’ Federation, explained that while he supports private funding for universities, he objects to having advertisements attached to course material. “It’s great to get money from people, but why do we have to put their name on the course?” he asked. “The tax credit should be good enough.” Last September, the M cGill University Senate passed a number of recommendations emphasising the need to increase private funding in the wake of government budget cuts. The recommendations targeted schol arships and bursaries, library acquisi tions, and the improvement of class room facilities as areas of high prior ity. Even so, SSMU VP University Affairs Don McGowan does not think a situation like the one at York would develop at McGill, explaining that the McGill community would not allow it to occur. “I’ve never heard anything like this ever happening. Though there is no rule to stop it, I just can’t see it ever happening here,” he said.

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money for cancer research, and we got calls from the administrators of the 175th Anniversary events asking us to After eight years of failed attempts to receive club status from come and help. It hurts us that SSMU SSMU, the Inter-Greek Letter Council did not recognise us up until now. was granted Interim Club Status in an And it is disheartening when council 11-8 vote at the February 6 council members who have their own agendas vote against us because they have meeting. The IGLC applied for Interim their own personal vendettas.” SSMU President Chris Carter Club Status in the fall of 1995, even though the SSMU Judicial Board had voted against recognition of IGLC previously ruled that the IGLC contra because he feels that IGLC has not vened the SSMU Constitution by dis changed significantly enough to war criminating on the basis of gender. At rant recognition. “Their constitution is not funda that time, the IGLC was structured to be an umbrella organisation for mentally different than what it was McGill fraternities and sororities. before,” Carter said. “People who Since then, the IGLC has changed its voted for the IGLC are voting against constitution so that any student who a clear stance that we have already pays the annual $3 fee can become a established, which I have a mandate to member of the organisation, with uphold. SSMU council has abused its power.” equal voting rights. While the new IGLC constitution Members of the new IGLC do not have to be members of fraternities allows any individual to join, Carter is or sororities. As an interim club, particularly sceptical about the legiti IGLC will have all of the privileges of macy of the change, and still sees other clubs: a mailbox, access to IGLC as an organisation that repre sents fraternities and sororities. rooms and tables in the William “The present wording of the antiShatner University Centre, and the discrimination clause in the constitu right to hold events at Gert’s Pub. Members of IGLC cannot, however, tion prohibits any club from excluding anyone on the basis of gender. IGLC vote for representation on SSMU council until they have been granted has effectively created a loophole,” said Carter. “Now I’m not trying to permanent status. SSMU VP University Affairs make a comparison with IGLC, but if the Ku Klux Klan got together and Don McGowan, who originally worked to prohibit the recognition of formed a club that anyone could join, IGLC, now supports the IGLC’s new they could say that the club itself did constitution. In a press release, he stat not discriminate, but there are still ed, “I have the interesting position of separate units of the organisation that being the guy who fought against the discriminate. IGLC is effectively IGLC at the Judicial Board Hearing in undermining SSMU’s stance against 1994 and won. I am fully satisfied that discrimination based on gender.” Carter is confident that the the IGLC constitution no longer con travenes the SSMU constitution. This Judicial Board will ultimately uphold its decision and withhold official I can guarantee.” Mike Kotler, president of IGLC, recognition IGLC. For IGLC members, the divided feels that fraternities and sororities have been unfairly represented by the response at council was simply unrea McGill community. He argued that sonable. According to IGLC VP lack of support for IGLC’s motion is External Richard Meloff, concerns based on the misconceptions that peo raised at council were unwarranted. “There was no precedent for ple have about the organisation’ s most of the questions that were asked members. “A lot of people watch movies at council — they were irrelevant,” like Animal House and accuse us of M eloff said. “They were trying to having the same mentality, but none compare the old IGLC with the new of the people who oppose us have IGLC of 1997, and create similarities ever come to an IGLC meeting,” that are not there. Just last week, our members stood outside in the freezing Kotler said. “I equate their feelings with the fear of the unknown. People cold and raised over $1,700 for fear frats and sororities because they M cGill Palliative Care. We have have never gone to find out what they received a citation from the Governor General for all of the philanthropic are all about.” Kotler went on to express his sat work that we have done.” According to Kotler, IGLC has isfaction with council’s decision, sug gesting that IGLC’s members provide been poised to receive club status for a great service to the McGill commu a long time, and will soon graduate beyond the interim level. nity. “We have already done every “What it really comes down to is members who have been trying for thing necessary for interim status,” he eight years to be recognised by said. “Now it is just a matter of time SSMU,” he said. “Our members are before we become a club.” involved in Frosh Week, we raise By Heather Sokoloff

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Senators oppose $11 million cut, increased fees C o ntinued from Page 7 com prehensive list o f different strategies the university has planned in order to absorb the cut. Among the more controversial ideas are a $11.3 million cut from faculties and units, implementing two new sets of charges to students, and increasing tuition for additional session students. The cut to facul ties and units, according to the memo, is considered by the admin istration to be “the maximum cut which could be made without dan gerously impairing the university’s ability to deliver its programs.” Although considered the safest amount by the administration, in other circles the $ 11 million repre sents a great danger. Professor Alan Shaver, dean o f the Faculty o f Science, argued before Senate that such a cut will harm McGill severe ly in the years to come. “L ast year, the F acu lty o f Science cut $1 million and change, and this year we are being asked to cut $1 million and change,” Shaver stated. “That's 20 assistant profes sors, or 30 administration and sup port staff, or God knows how many TAs. This has serious consequences for the future. It is undermining our ability to rejuvinate.” The proposal for two new stu

the service fees will end up in the general budget,” said P o litica l Scien ce P rofessor Samuel Noumoff. “If it is going to become a tuition fee increase then we should pursue that and confront the political process with in and without the univer sity. We should not do it this way, which will only serve to further pollute the process.” In response to claims that general administra tive charges are an under handed way of increasing tuition fees, Heaphy argued that such charges are not new to the univer Heaphy takes criticism over budget sity system. “There is, in fact, a dent charges — the administrative portion of the adminstrative ser services charge and the academic vices fee which is o f a general services charge, amounting to $265 nature, and it is described as such,” in total — started a wave of discus she said. “This is very similar to sion on the legitimacy of such fees. fees at other Quebec universities.” D ebate focused on the abstract The proposal to increase fees nature o f the academ ic service for additional session students — charge. Because the proposal does students taking more than the stan not list specifically what the money dard amount of time to complete a will be used for, concerns were graduate program — met with voiced that it will end up in the vehement opposition by members general operating budget, thus o f the Post Graduate Stud ents’ amounting to a tuition increase. Society. While members of PGSS “There is the possibility that

sat in the gallery, quietly waving a sign that read “Shapiro is a con man,” PGSS VP Academic Anna Kruzynski (Benji, check spelling) outlined the need to protect every individual graduate student. “The biggest problem current ly is that there has been no consul tation and no research into the implications of this change in terms of student in d ebtedn ess,” Kruzynski said. “The university will be making $900,000 from only 2 ,5 0 0 students. This is a small amount of money for McGill — is it worth jeo p ard isin g even one graduate student?” In the face o f attacks on her proposal, Heaphy maintained that she and her colleagues are acting in the best interest o f students. Pointing to a part of the memo that indicates that $3.9 million will be allocated to student aid, Heaphy argued that the administration is giving back what it can. “We have had to take whatever money we could get from anywhere,” she said. “It makes a good story to say that the university is preying on students. What about the $4 million we are giving to students that wasn’t there before? I think that’s pretty significant.”

defeated by current BoG rep and former SSM U President, Sevag Yeghoyan. Goldstein alluded to her involvement at M cG ill as her strongest qualifications. She sits on the Internal Committe of Council, the Academic Policy and Planning Committee, and the First Year Experience Committee. She was also this year’ s coordinator for Clubs and Activities Night, Goldstein and Legault stated that student opinions about tuition fees, library upkeep and debt man agement need to be heard by BoG. Like Kareem, Goldstein is interested in promoting more debate at BoG meetings by increasing the number from the current five per year to once every month. However, Goldstein believes that most impor tantly, students need more represen tation on the BoG. “We need to get a vote for the president o f SSM U ,” she stated. “It’s not efficient that 17,000 stu dents are represented by one vote, especially when the president is the official representative of the stu dents, but doesn’t have a vote.” Kareem echoed Goldstein on the issue of representation. He point ed to the example o f the BoG Executive Committee, where a lot of proposals which eventually get to the Board for voting are first brought up. and where the SSMU

president occupies a non-voting seat. Kareem believes that students need a much more substantial voice on the BoG and its various committees. Kareem and Legault are both expecting that privatisation will con tinue to be a big issue at McGill in the next few years. Legault believes that longterm vision and financial planning are key solutions to McGill’s financial prob lems. “The quality of eduation is real ly the blanket issue,” she said. Legault stated that she would like to see students and the financial community brought closer together to solve McGill’s financial difficulties, but that she “wouldn't like to see sm aller facu lties wiped out because of funding and privatisation.” Kareem stated that while McGill is only targeting internation al student fees and professional schools for privatisation, the rest of the students and their programs will be affected. “Privatisation is a M cG ill administration plan, but the reper cussions will affect the students. We need to have increased student par ticipation,” he said. “I don't want people to feel that they are at the mercy of what the administration is doing," he contin ued. “I want to let them know they can come to me. that I can help them understand the higher levels of the McGill’s administration.”

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M c G IL L T R IB U N E “But I thought I should run any risk on the side of law and justice rather than join you, for fear o f prison or death, when you were engaged in an unjust course,” — Socrates L iz L ad Editor-in-chief S ara J ean G reen Assistant Editor-in-chief

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Time to take a stand By Bf.nii W einstein________________________________________ At the last McGill Senate meeting, Vice-Principal Administration and Finance Phyllis Heaphy presented her proposals for this year’s bud get. The proposals, she told Senate, were put together in anticipation of an $18 million cut in the provincial government operating grant. It would have been nice — if nothing else, it was two days before Valentine’s Day — if the administration had coupled the proposals with a plan for using its resources to lobby the government for accessible education. Instead, the students are left on the losing side of the battle field, robbed by our administrators of a united resistance. Principles, it seems, have been swept aside to make room for compliance — purging the McGill community of any vestige of pride after our defeat. There is, of course, the possibility that the Quebec government could find a set of principles of its own and then act on them, but that just docs not seem likely when one considers the current group of hacks occupying the National Assembly. Ideologically bankrupt and intellec tually bereft, the Parti Québécois is sabotaging its own society with its small- minded budget cuts that masquerade as fiscal conservatism. Unfortunately, there is no end in sight for this trend. With a political system that is divided strictly along federalist/separatist lines, Quebeckers can have no idea which misguided and destructive path the Quebec government will take them down next. Lucien Bouchard, a for mer Tory cabinet minister, leads the party founded by René Levesque with heavy socialist leanings, which speaks volumes for the twisted soul of this province's government. Furthermore, the Bloc Québécois, found ed by the conservative Bouchard himself, is likely to have its present leadership void filled by Gilles Duceppe,a former member o f the Quebec communist movement. So much for party principles. Bearing in mind this government’s shameless assault on our liveli hood, the McGill community should now be looking for ways to best apprehend this ugliness. As seen at last week’s Senate, however, the McGill administration has accepted the reality that the Parti Québécois, with its utter disregard for the well being of its populace, will no doubt stay the present course and choke to death the notion of accessible edu cation. The administration, sensing the PQ’s deep commitment to social devolution, is actively looking for ways to find alternative funding for McGill. Instead o f listening to the students and publicly condemning the government, McGill is indirectly legitimising the government’s actions. If seventeen-year-old CEGEP students can force Education Minister Pauline Marois to freeze tuition for Quebec students, the group of respected, experienced, and connected academics that sit on McGill’s Senate should at least be willing to try and pressure the government into change. A feeble letter from the principal to the education minister does not count as effective lobbying. The administration has abandoned the students through its quickness to abandon our values. We arc not interested in finding ways to accommodate the govern ment cuts, in developing models to make our programs self-funded, and in seeking out means for students to recover from an onerous debt load. What we are interested in is upholding our principles — principles which include absolutely universal access to education, prioritising gov ernment funds so that an investment is made in the future, and a govern ment which is held together by the strength of conviction, not the slime of opportunism. While this idealism may be no match for political expediency in the real world, it is much more noble to go down with a fight, than with the humiliation and disgrace of compliance.

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to the Editor L a « p a r a n o ia a n g lo p h o n e » Tristan-E. Landry En tant que Commissaire fran Co-commissaire francophone cophone de F AEUM (SSM U), je de l ’AEUM tiens à vous féliciter pour votre édi torial intitulé «The P o litics o f N o M o r e P e e p i n g , T o m Paranoia». Comme votre équipe éditoriale, je me permets de décrire A female friend of mine was in ouvertement l ’ attitude complète the McLennan-Redpath Library on ment paranoiaque de quelques indi the third floor at night. She got up vidus oeuvrant au sein de l’AEUM. from studying, and went to the Les propos tenus par le Vice-prési bathroom. dent aux finances (Jon Chomski) et As usual, there was not a lock le représentant de la faculté de med on the stall door (because it proba icine (Glen Posner) ont pourtant de bly broke in 1989 and maintenance quoi faire rougir même le plus fer- never bothered to fix it). I’ m sure vant des membres d’ A llian cewe’re all familiar with what remains Québec. D ifficile de comprendre — a hole about an inch wide (per quel cheminement intellectuel fut fect eyeball size), with a little slid emprunté par ces deux individus ing lock that you have to move with pour venir à la conclusion que la your finger. As she was in the stall, proposition déposée au Conseil par she noticed an eyeball staring at Mme Panet-Raym ond, une her. She froze, and did not do any démarche favorable à la hausse du thing. She heard another girl walk nombre de cours offerts en français, in and say to the man that he was in risquerait de mettre en péril le «car the wrong bathroom. The girl actère anglophone» de McGill. reported the pervert to the library De quoi avez-vous peur security guard, and they actually messieurs? Que cette proposition caught him (only tem porarily permette à trop d’étudiants horsthough). As the guard was writing province et étrangers d’apprendre le down the m an’ s name, the man français et d’ensuite retourner chez grabbed the paper and ran out of the eux avec une nouvelle conception library. He was not caught. de la réalité québécoise? Que cette When my friend told me this démarche soit un autre coup de la story, I said if that happened to me, Société Saint-Jean-Baptiste pour I would chase the man until I forcer la «francisation» des anglo caught him. Then I thought about it phones mcgillois? Je ne vois vrai and realised that is not realistic. ment pas où vous voulez en venir Who’s to say that the man would avec ces arguments simplistes, para have even left the bathroom? It is noïaques, et dignes de l’époque de extremely easy for him to open up Lord Durham par dessus le marché! the stall door (sin ce th ere’ s no Plutôt que de cracher inutile lock), and be face to face with me. ment en l’air, il faudrait applaudir la I ’d rather not think about the fright proposition référendaire de Mme ening possibilities that could ensue. Panet-Raymond, une proposition This scene is particularly scary qui vise à permettre à plus de fran when the library floor is rather quiet cophones d’étudier dans leur langue with no one around. This scenario maternelle et de démembrer le «mur can easily be prevented if the uni virtuel» qui sépare notre institution versity were to maintain the bath anglophone de la réalité québécoise. rooms. Les étudiants anglophones sont I ’ m not com plaining that d’ailleurs les premiers à se plaindre there’s no paper towels — I’m com du nombre lim ité de cours en plaining that my basic right to safe français et du manque d’expérience ty is not being looked after. It’s culturelle qu’ils retirent de leur pas about time the school took care of sage à M cG ill. Loin d’être danthis matter, and see to it that locks geureuse, cette proposition servira à be put on the bathroom stalls all combler une grande lacune. Elle ne over campus. By doing so could fera qu’enrichir votre éducation possibly prevent a rape or assault.

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There’s no saying what could hap pen once a strange, ill-minded man is alone with a girl in the bathroom. A final last note that also both ered me was that my friend was not the one to report the peeping tom. She said that she did not want to give her name and get involved. U nfortunately, this is a typical response. Girls, we have to speak up, and not be afraid. Just because nothing “worse” happened to my friend, we still have to consider what could have happened.

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Re: Editorial entitled “Cuba, magazine ruling spark trend of U.S. hemogeny” by Marc Gilliam I simply want to send along my appreciation of the pertinence and accuracy of your editorial in the January 28 Tribune. Since I totally agree with what you express, there is no need for further development of my approval. McGill should have some sort o f American bullshit awareness club.

Philippe Laporte

R C A P sto ry le ft o u t o r g a n is e r s While I enjoyed Ms. Green’ s concise and insightful analysis of the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada’s conference on the RCAP report (F irst Nations demand change: “Cycle of dependency must end” —- February, 11), I feel her article neglected to mention one important fact about this event: the aforementioned organiser. There was too much hard work put into this forum by Canadian Studies undergraduates, M ISC fellow s, Institute staff, and several profes sors for their endeavours to pass without note in your newspaper.

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The Titleist Dear production team: Yes, I know the T IT L E o f this w eek’ s piece is ridiculously short, which creates problem s for the paper because it means there’s a lot of white space which looks ugly. D ear ed ito rial board: I am aware that this headline does not pull readers into the text. Dear advertising manager: I know that I am causing trouble b ecau se that space in w hich I chose to leave blank could have been used to advertise, uh, le t’s see, Dr. G abriel B u c k ’ s Gentle Dental Care, 281-1023. But that’s exactly the point: I refuse to continue coming up with expanded, inflated and contrived titles which don’ t make sense, sim ply b ecau se this colum n is always situated in the same hori zontal space twenty-three centime tres wide, a space which demands 62 characters. Ah, and you, average reader: having read a little over two para graphs o f this essay, you have already decided that it d oesn’ t apply to you, that it is just a fluffy piece of onanist prose, keyboarded

by a frustrated Tribune hack with enjoyable for the teacher’s assis no concept o f important current tant with the gift of an extended, affairs. However, as you examine clever title? Perhaps I would lik e the your own scholarly life you will ch an ce to be pithy, ju s t once. realize that you are WRONG! You also despise having to com e up with titles. In M ila A ung-Thw in fa ct, the fear bn8j@ m usicb.m cgill.ca o f titling grips & you like a fierce python, ranking right after fear of M ysterious, ambiguous, direct, minimal. I ramble and digress con public speaking, fear o f heights and fear o f being gripped by a stantly in the writing itself, why can’t the titles remain controlled fierce python. You know, as I do, that after and aloof? Novelists seem to have the w riting the last fiv e pages o f a term paper in 15 minutes, it takes liberty to use short titles that con you forty five minutes to come up ceal the complexity of the book’s with a reasonable title. Longer if innards: Lolita. Cujo. S. The Bible. You trust each of these books to you count choosing a d ifferent be more enthralling than the title, font size. When I write a term paper on H u ckleberry F in n , I don’t you? So why would you not would like to have the liberty to trust an anthropology term paper entitled “Some People”? write “Huckleberry Finn: A Term However, there are some nov Paper” just to bask in the redun dance, instead o f im posing a els where it is clear that the pub lisher has interfered with the cre reduction of the thesis statement onto the unsullied cover. What, am ative process, which is an evil thing. I am sure that Herman I supposed to m ake life more

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Melville was perfectly content to e n title his novel M oby D ick. Simple, yet gripping. But his pub lisher saw the title and thought, No, no, this won’t do, the public might think that this is just another D ick en s n o v el, so le t ’ s ca ll it Moby Dick or The Whale, just to tempt whale enthusiasts, and it can’t hurt to let the reader chose their own title, as it’s bound to be more in terestin g than a story named The W hale C alled Moby

Dick. Titles are somehow expected to be magical portholes into the reality o f a text, but how could they be? For this column, I usually think up four or five short titles then paste them all together with magic punctuation. If I’ve learned anything this year, it’s how to mis use a semicolon. My fear of dying stems from the possibility that there will be an

afterlife in which I will be forced to sum up my life in a clever title. Thinking on the spot, I know that I ’ll just blurt out something like “A Day in the Life” or “The Story of Mila”, and I’ll spend a private eternity in purgatory trying to come up with something better. So here’s the plan: if you can provide a title, I can provide you with the rest. A rticle s, essays, biographies — anything, I don’t care, I just need titular support, I can ’t handle another title fight. However, I must warn you that sometimes I write about nonsense, and that my conclusions tend to be weak.

Mr. Aung-Thwin continues to astound us by turning a two-word headline into a 729-word column.

The francophone debate roars on “M cG ill à Q uébec.” Such w as the th em e o f la s t y e a r ’ s 175th year anniversary celebra tion, reflecting the growing trend and need to see universities not as impenetrable ivory towers but as an integral part o f both the M o n tre a l co m m u n ity and Quebec society at large. It clear ly sign alled the end o f an era when universities engrossed in the pursuit o f academic research and e x c e lle n c e ap p eared a lm o st immune to the socio p o litic a l r e a litie s affecting the commu n itie s around them . All that has changed in re c e n t y ears as M c G ill as an institution has been perpetually drawn into the political fires that fuel this p ro v in ce. H ence, it co m es as no su rprise that the language debate that has erupted throughout Q uebec has finally m ade its w ay th rou gh the Roddick Gates. It briefly manifested itself at Senate at the end o f January dur ing debate over the A cadem ic P r io r itie s and P la n n in g C om m ittee’ s report “Academ ic Directions and Budget Strategies for the Next Five Y ears.” The c o n tro v e rsy a ro se o v er Recommendation No. 5 and the omission o f a previous reference to furthering recruiting strategies g ea re d p a rtic u la rly tow ard s “Francophone students from all p arts o f C anad a and w o rld w id e.” W hile many cited the im portance o f d iversifying the francophone student population others indicated a concern that su ch p r e fe r e n tia l trea tm en t would serve to indicate to anglo

phones that “we are abandoning them.” More recently, the Students’ S o c ie ty p assed a referen d u m question asking students whether SSM U should annually petition Senate for a greater number o f classes to be taught in the French language. Some self-proclaimed “paranoid anglos” (notably those that are actually from Montreal) in d icated strong re serv a tio n s

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A m in Kassam abou t the q u estio n sitin g the numerous francophone universi ties as evidence that M ontreal doesn’t need any more universi ty classes taught in French. In both in s ta n c e s , m ore questions have been raised then answered. Few can deny the fact that the spirit o f the referendum q u e stio n is tru ly a d m ira b le . Indeed, 20 per cent o f the stu dent population is francophone, and their needs must be recog nised . H ow ever, at the same time one can’t help but question how wise is it to be lobbying for more French courses at a time when we can barely afford the E n g lish ones that we alread y have (political theory anyone?). It is a sad truth that the bud getary hell that w e’ ve all been plunged into dictates that every thing becom es a zero-sum gain issu e. That is not to say that resources shouldn’t be allocated towards increasing the number o f F re n c h c la s s e s or tow ards recruiting francophone students.

Rather, more thought has to be given as to what we are willing to sacrifice in return. Indeed, one o f those things may very well be our ability to attract out o f province students, many o f whom may not be bilin gual. While the recent merger of the art h istory departm ents o f U n iv e rs ité de M o n tré a l and M cG ill has been heralded as a “match made in heaven” serious issues have arisen. Some students who are not pro ficient in French (particu la rly at an a ca d e m ic le v e l) have e x p re sse d concern over the immense difficulty they may have in com pleting an honours degree in the department. As a result, they actively discourage propectiv e art h isto ry stud en ts who a ren ’ t flu en tly b ilin g u al from even coming to our university. In this regard, the loss o f a few stu d en ts may be a sm all price to pay. But what it does highlight is a need for the uni versity as a whole to look more closely at the issue o f the French la n g u a g e at M c G ill, perhaps through the establishm ent o f a workgroup. Ultimately, a clear and transparent process needs to be in place in order to address these complex issues that go to the heart o f the mandate o f the u n iv ersity as a w hole and its p o sitio n in both Q u eb ec and Canadian society.

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Homo sapiens: A new cause for concern in urban plannings scams now attends McGill and works at Gert’s. Too bad you terrified him/her with the daily, sacrificial shortbread left in his/her locker. Better to move on now before you're faced with a re s tra i n l n g C . H eston order.

aquarius (Jan. 19-Feb. 18) The old dilemma still plagues you: OceanSpray cranberry or orange? Both have vitamin C, both taste scrumdiddleyumscious, and both have added sugar. Go out on a limb and start chugging diesel fuel. Not only will you win friends and gain influ ence, it’ll fill yer up and cut your food bill to half.

yourself to be pigeon-holed! Fight the power! Shave a chunk out of your head! You rule, you rock god!

pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) Remember: Whatever hit the fan will not be distributed evenly. Expect the worst of it this week.

taurus (April 20-May 20) Salmanella poisoning is actually a serious threat. Don’t settle for chicken that is pinkish on the inside, you're worth more than that. Better to live off a diet of cigarettes and coffee than to die at the hands of government poi soned meat.

cancer (June 20-July 22) Oh lucky lucky you! If you go to Gare Central at 10 p.m. on Friday, I fore caste a sexy ménage à trois with two very famous people. Which famous people you ask? Think international trade and army scandal.

gemini (May 21-June 20) The cutie you trolled in high-school

leo (July 23-Aug. 22) Another week in paradise. Milk the

aries (March 21-April 19) Who exactly is Aries? God of war? The butting ram of all my jokes? The chili pepper without the chili? A lost soul heading towards impending doom if action isn’t taken? Yes, yes, all of this and more. Don’t allow

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time for all it’s worth — skip your midterms and go to Vermont for some real bagels. Added bonus: on Thursday nights, the town lights up with the weekly Buzz radio house party. virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Right now, all you have is a broken heart and a bag of those nasty-ass candy hearts. Look on the bright side. It’s kinda poetic if you think about it. libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) Your bodily functions are intruding on your daily interactions. Take a gasaway pill and try to retain a shred of dignity when your roommate posts “Beware: May explode at any moment’’ on your bedroom door.

Deadly sarong-clad hormonal urges / dreamt that I went to German class where we were supposed to talk about deduction and stuff. I hadn 't gone to the la st class and d id n ’t realise the room had been changed. So I was sitting in this empty class, and my prof walked in. He was teach ing and all of a sudden he turned into this raging monster with tentacles and stuff. / try escaping, but I have ghost hands and I can ’t open the door. I wake up in a panic. Should I warn my classmates that Herr Schmidt is the prince of darkness? Tanim

I am a strong believer that more people can dip their hand into the spir it world than the general public cares to admit. Flashes of ESP, déjà vu, alien abduction, finding magical prizes in cereal boxes that aren’t sup

posed to have them — it all happens on a daily basis. Why, I remember when I was little, 1 pre dicted my big broth er’s fatal car crash.... Oh wait. That was a JoJo infomercial. Well anyway, it exists. You have a magical gift and a choice — you can either use your power for good, or for evil. If you choose to use it for evil, you will alert your classmates and take a devil-maycare attitude towards the wrath of the gods. Just remember, whatever you do comes back at you three times as strong (bit of Craft wisdom). If you want to stop the inevitable chain of action, you may find yourself respon sible for the start of a dreamscape rev olution. The lines between reality and

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th e other dimensions will fade, ghosts will come popping out of your toilet, little demons will lurk under your radia tor...is it worth it? Yes, your teachers are all evil bloodthirsty monsters. Is that neces sarily a bad thing? Think of it this way — if you try to stop the future, you will be stuck in the past (or some thing). I suggest taking a sick day to avoid Herr Schmidt yourself but not alerting your classmates. If the spirits wanted you to preach the word, why weren’t there other people in the classroom...hmm?

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ACROSS I No ox in this p.o. box 4 Microsoft brings you the letter “b” 7 Points per game, if “game” started with a “b” 10 The program gave the clue “fiddler crabs”, but when was the last time you used “uca” to mean “fiddler crabs”? II Alias 12 American Dental Association; also, I girl I knew in grade school 13 Howard Cosell does the play-by-play for Woody Allen’s wedding night in this flick 15 What differentiates plywood from other wood 16 Do this, move to Florida, wear poly ester, collect checks 18 When I lived alone I never had to wear these ... well, except to go out 21 Isaac’s mother; also, a girl in one of my drama classes 24 “Wild sheep of northern Africa”? Who the hell would know that? (It’s “ami”) 25 Just because you’ve eaten doesn’t mean you can’t look at the — 26 “Cygnus star”? What? 28 SSMU always enters into contracts to get us these beverages 29 People deliver containers of milk in these, and then my friend Matt uses them for bookcases. Maybe you do, too. 31 Place Ville Marie architect 33 Tenpin bowling if you lost one. How would that happen? I don’t know 37 Vietnamese currency unit. Let the healing begin, America. 38 To and — 39 Ancient capital of Japan 40 “— Monty Python’s Flying Circus.” 41 If you bought me a gift, you would have bought it — me 42 If you fall from a high window, you might make this sound

scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Mmm.. whipped cream and brown sugar. At least that’ s what you thought last Friday. Now the Redi Whip is sitting in your stomache like a log and the coagulated sugar is imbedded in your silk sheets. But wasn’t it worth it!?! Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Duct taping the windows shut will not prevent your conscience from leaving. Try a different approach: try to stay sober this Thursday night at Gert’s. capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) You shunned your role as sage and shaman when you realised your fol lowers were full of shit. What’s left for the spiritual enterpreneur to do? Bank in on the alien phenomenon and claim abduction. DOWN 1 Madhatter’s is one. So is the Regal Beagle. 2 First three letters of our national anthem, assuming we’re Canadian 3 Brand of roll-on deodor ant favoured by Features editor 4 Hairs 5 Card game [which I’ve never heard of, mind you] 6 A relation that provides the foundation for some thing [or words to that effect] 7 In a way, covered [OK, the clues the computer “suggested” are getting a little strange] 8 Poundal [See?] 9 The place a block over from Eaton’s 14 More arty 17 If fruit contains fructose, and glue con tains glucose, the Ramones contain — 18 A hip swingin’ guy brings the ladies back to his — 19 Last three letters of many Italian infini tives 20 Manuel Noriega hid out in the Papal —, which is kind of a consulate/embassy 22 A collection of anecdotes; also, a girl I knew at camp 23 “—tie and bustle”? Man, that’s lame. 27 Canadian ski resort! They have a film festival! And the Crossword Wizard had heard of it, apparently! 28 A Spanish monsieur 30 Novice, or at least a really obscure word for “novice” 31 The 21 st letter of the Greek alphabet 32 Mangia! 34 Split one and you can make soup! [I made that up myself, and boy am I ashamed.] 35 — Lupino, star of stage and screen! 36 Japanese classical theatre, but then I got a D in Oriental Theatre so take that with a grain of salt

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- Whereas students recognize the financial dilemmas which the University is currently facing; - Whereas 20% of McGill students are francophone; - W hereas an even greater number of students are bilingual -W hereas McGill is located in predominantly French-language province and should reflect this bilingual aspect in its curriculum; - Whereas currently very few courses outside the French department are given in French and many of said French classes have been cut; - Whereas many professors are French-speaking

It is proposed that SSMU should collect $30.00 per semester from every undergraduate student for each of the next 10 semesters (not including any summer session). It is further proposed that this $30.00 per semester should be distributed into two funds: - $ 20.00 per semester would go toward the costs to be incurred in construction of a new Student Services Building, which would be fully accessible to all stu dents. - $ 10.00 per semester would go toward the cost to be incurred in further completion of the Athletics Complex

Do you agree?

Do you agree that the Vice-President (University Affairs) petition the McGill Senate annually, until successful, for a greater number of classes to be given in the French language in a diversity of departments?

Y ES Dental Plan for International Students Do you agree that international students covered by the International Student Insurance Plan, which does not provide dental care benefits aside from dental accidents, should be cov ered by the S S M U Dental Plan and pay appropriate fee (currently $5.88 a month plus applicable tax) to the Students’ Society of McGill University?

To c a m p a ig n fo r o r a g a in s t a r e fe r e n d u m q u e s tio n , y o u m u s t fo rm a n official c a m p a ig n c o m m itte e . “Y e s ” a n d “N o ” c o m m itte e s c a n b e fo rm e d b y S S M U C o u n c il, o r b y s u b m ittin g a c o m m itte e p e titio n . C o m m itte e p a c k e ts a re a v a ila b le a t th e S S M U G e n e ra l O ffic e , 3 4 8 0 M c T a v is h , 1 s t Floor. C o m m itte e p e titio n s m u s t b e s u b m itte d no la te r th a n M o n d a y , M a rc h 3 , 1 9 9 7 , a t 9 :0 0 a .m .

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F F IA N 5 :0 0 P .M ., T H U R S D A Y M A R C H 1 3 T H , 1 9 9 7 . C o m p le te d form s m u st be signed by th e P resid en t / C o o rd in a to r o f each respective o rg anizatio n s and should be su b m itted at th e S tu d en ts’ S o ciety G en eral O ffic e by d ead lin e n o ted above. Clubs African Students’ Society Aids Education, M cGili Students for Alpha Phi Omega Am ateur Radio Club Amnesty International Arab Students’ Society Armenian Students’ Club Association des francophones et des fran cophiles Baha’i Studies, Association for Big Buddies tutoring club Breast Cancer Research, the funding o f Caribbean Students’ Society Chess Club, M cG ill University Student’s Chinese Christian Fellowship Chinese Students’ Society Choral Society Christian Fellowship Church o f Jesus Christ o f the Latter-day Saints Students’ Assoc.. Classical Music Club Communications, M cGill Student’s Society (MaSS) Current Affairs Exchange Program Debating Union D oom er’s Guild Entrepreneurs Club

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Esperanto - Klubo de McGill Flux Folk Music Club Foster Parents Gamers Guild Graphic Cartel, The G roup A nion Hellenic Association H illel Student’s Hong Kong Dragon Student’s, McGill Hungarian Sludent’s IVM (formerly ill'IV) Image Ensemble India Canada Indian Progressive Study Group Iranian Students' Association Islamic Cultural Network Islamic Students' Society ismaili Students' Association, McGill Japan Awareness Club Korean Christian Fellowship Korean Students' Society latin American Awareness Group Lebanese Students' Society Liberal McGill L’association Rochambeau L’chaim Students’ Society, The M cGill University Mad Carollers Guild

M ature & Re-Entry Students' Association Mauritian Club, Tne McGill Students' Montreal Youth Organization for Canadian & American Asians McGill Association for International Students (MAIS) McGill Students for the Ethical T reatment o f Animals (META) New Democratic Party o f McGill Newman Students' Socefty Outing Club Palestine Solidarity Committee Peer Health Education Pentccosial Fellowship, McGili Students' Photography Society Polish Snidents’ Association Professional Fraternity Council o f McGili Students’ Progressive Conservative McGill Progressive Zionist Caucus Pugwash Renew al o f the Political Process, M cGill Students' for the Romanian Students Rotaract Students' Club o f McGill University Santropol Roulant, M cGill Student’s Save the Children Savoy Society

1. Quorum for this meeting is two-thirds(2/3) of the total number of organizations registered by 5:00p.m. March 13, 1997. 2. Organizations eligible are only those DIRECTLY recognized by the SSMU Students’ Council. Organizations with interim status are NOT eligible to send a delegate to this meeting 3. Delegates may send an alternate with the written permission of the original delegate. 4. All delegates must be members of the Students Society (i.e. any McGill student except those registered in Graduate Studies, Continuing Education, or at MacDonald Campus). 5. A delegate who is not the Chief Officer /Coordinator of a particular group must be approved as the official delegate by the official delegate by the organization he or she is representing.

Ski Club Spanish and Latin American Students’ Association (SALSA) South-East Asian Students’ Association (SEASA) Student Electronic Communication Collective Student Organization for Alumni Relations (SOAR) Taiwanese Students Association, McGill Tam il Sangam Students Association Theatre de la Grenouville Turkish Students' Society o f McGill Ukranian Students’ Association United Nations Students Assoc o f McGill United Zionist Council Vietnamese Students’ Society Waterski Club, McGill Students’ W orld 1riiversily Services o f Canada (WUSC) Young Socialists Youth Action Network, M cGill Students’ Black Students Network M cGili Students for literacy Nightline Lesbians, Bisexuals. Gays, & Transgender of M cG ill (LBGTM) Player’s Theatre

Sexual Assault Centre o f M cGill Students’ Society Volunteer Bureau Walksafe Netw ork & Foot Patrol W om en’s Union SSMU Publications Old McGill Yearbook SSMU Operator (Phone Directory) Red Herring SSMU Handbook Club Guidebook McGill Tribune Campus Events SSMU Events Activities Night Frosh Program Culturefest W inter Carnival Welcome week Blood Drive Open Air Pub Used Textbook Exchange For m ore inform ation please call, Pour plus de renseignements, applelez au: 398 6800

6. Only registered delegates may be nominated as club representatives.

7. Only registered delegates may vote for club representation. 8. Organizations NOT listed above which ARE eligible to send a delegate should call the Elections Hotline at 398-8222 as soon as possible. 9. Organizations NOT registered by the deadline will NOT be permitted to take part in the meeting. 10. Organizations which are recognized by one of the fourteen(14) faculty and school societies or through the Student’s Athletics Council are NOT eligible to be represented. 11. Residence has its own representatives to Student’s Council and is, therefore, NOT eligible to send a delegate to this meeting.

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Whazzup wid Ebonics? Intro into curriculum still debated W h e t h e r E b o n i c s is c o n s i d e r e d s l a n g o r a d is t in c t d i a l e c t , t h e c o n t r o v e r s y o f t e a c h i n g it t o s c h o l c h ild r e n r e m a in s c o n t r o v e r s i a l By Larysa Kondracki and Lori Stein E bonics becam e a national issue in the United States when the Oakland School Board decid ed to recognise the language vari ety spoken by many A fric a n American students, and to take it into account when teaching stan dard English in the classroom. S in c e the d e cisio n in December 1996, the debate over whether Ebonics should remain a “street language” or legitimised as an educational tool is a question that has sparked endless contro versy. Ebonics, also known as Black English Vernacular, is a dialect which fuses English with W est African and Caribbean languages. A cco rd in g to the L in g u istic Society o f America, any vernacu lar which m aintains system atic grammar is a legitimate language or dialect. At le a st that is w hat th eir Jan u ary 3 R eso lu tio n on the Oakland ‘Ebonics’ Issue stated: “The systematic and expres sive nature o f the grammar and p ro n u n ciatio n p attern s o f the African-American vernacular has been established by numerous sci en tific studies over the past 30

y ears. C h a ra cte risa tio n s o f E b o n ic s as ‘ s la n g ,’ ‘ m u ta n t,’ ‘lazy,’ ‘defective,’ ‘ungrammati c a l ,’ or ‘broken E n g lis h ,’ are incorrect and demeaning,” stated the report. Som e E b o n ics aficio n ad os have claimed that teaching B E V maintains a rich oral tradition and represents hundreds o f years o f history through resem blance to ancestral African language. H ow ever, a cco rd in g to Richard Segal, a representative of M c G ill’ s A fric a n S tu d ies Committee, there is a general mis und erstand ing o f the E b o n ic s debate. “C a lifo rn ia has ed u catio n grants that are made available for language problems. B y classifying Ebonics as a language, they would be able to get m ore fu n d in g ,” explained Segal. “I think the real question is whether we want to pay for this.” According to John Rickford, p ro fe sso r o f L in g u is tic s at Stan fo rd U n iv ersity and B E V en th u siast, E b o n ic s should be utilised in the school system to assist students in the transition to standard English but should not be taught as a language in its own right. “P rogram s in N orw ay,

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Sw ed en , A tla n ta , C h ica g o , O akland and elsew h e re, have shown that if teachers and stu dents go through the additional enterprise o f recognising the systematicity [sic] o f the vernacular and contrasting it with the stan dard variety, kids learn to read and write more quickly and man age the translation to the standard more successfully than if schools attempt to ignore the vernacular or le g is la te its d e m ise ,” argued Rickford. Segal agreed: “Incorporating Ebonics into academic programs is designed to help students out of a speech pattern. If using Ebonics in educational programs addresses the needs o f the students, then more power to them.” Justifications for the use o f

Ebonics have been countered by a myriad o f negative opinions on le g itim isin g a v ern acu lar. Reverend Jesse Jackson has lam basted the idea o f using Ebonics as a learning tool: “Black English is not a separate language. It is insulting to Black students. It sug gests that B lack students cannot speak in traditional English,” he said. M c G ill E n g lish p ro fe sso r M ax D o rse n v ille agreed with Jackson’s argument. “In what world is one going to succeed speaking street lan guage?” asked Dorsenville. “You are at school to improve yourself. It is in everybody’s interest to be taught standard E n g lish . They know slang already. Ebonics in school is a d isservice which is

condescending and counterpro ductive,” he said. Although Dorsenville recog nised the validity o f a remedial course in English for students that incorporates B E V , he saw most o th er argum ents in fav ou r o f Ebonics invalid. “Roots, culture, and oral tra dition exist throughout the world. You do not need anything outside o f the com m unity to preserve them,” he said. An anonymous voice on an Ebonics Internet chat site claimed that the sanctioned use o f Ebonics might marginalise a community that already faces constant racism. “The existence o f ethnic vari e tie s o f sp eech may im ply unhealthy separations between d iffe re n t eth n ic groups in A m erica,” said the anonymous Internet user. “It would inevitably perpetuate racism and may help keep minorities down.” According to Segal, contro versy o v er E b o n ic s cou ld be resolved by dispelling myths sur rounding the issue. “The most important thing to remember is that people need to really understand what is going on, and then neither black people nor w h ite p eop le w ill take offence.”

Private thoughts: toilet stall graffiti artists revel in anonymity By Barry C ampbell While the Stoics held that rea son was the great démocratiser, one might point out that humanity is also united by the universal need to use toilets on a regular basis. Within the confines o f toilet stalls in public buildings, the user encounters a strange blend of pub lic and private sp aces. W hile en sco n ced in a private sta ll, accomplishing a necessary func tion o f existence, one is brought face to face with graffiti — the jokes, slogans, and drawings left by anonymous others for consump tion by future stall users. Far from being a new phe nomenon, g raffiti samples have been found by archaeologists on the walls of the entombed Roman town of Pompeii. A quick perusal o f the contents o f the “Ancient Graffiti” website reveals writings which, apart from being in written in Latin, are quite similar to those which have been left by our con temporaries. Some o f the less vul gar sele c tio n s from this site include Lucrum gaudium — Profit is happiness— and Vigula Tertio suo: indecens es — Virgula to her Tertio: you are one horny lad!— according to the translations of the website creator. L ike the w alls o f Pom peii, M c G ill’ s to ile t stalls display a variety o f inscriptions and draw ings. In general, men’s washrooms are adorned with denunciations or proclamations o f homosexuality,

oilet stalls a re a p op u lar foru m f o r repressed thoughts crude drawings of male and female genitalia, as well as sexual propo sitions and jokes. However, men’s graffiti is not always restricted to sexual topics. The jo k e s can be amusing: “Flush twice: it’s a long way to the cafeteria!” was found in the upper residences’ men’s room o f B ish o p M ountain H all. The men’s room on the sixth floor of the McLennan library building is notable for the high number o f anti-immigrant, anti-French, and racist slogans, leaving the reader to hope that the inscriptions are not representative of the general mind set of M cGill’s male population.

Ja n in e Sheppard o f the M ack en zie In stitu te, a pu blic affairs research organisation, noted that toilet stalls provide an ideal forum for repressed thoughts. “Ind ivid uals w ill express unpopular or taboo opinions most often in an anonymous manner. Outright racists are less common than those who harbour deep-seat ed thoughts o f resentment toward other groups in society but who are afraid or wary o f publicly airing their biases,” she explained. M en’s toilets do not have a monopoly on racist and homopho bic comments, though. Women’s

sta lls include their fair share o f vulgar ep i grams, although political discus sions involving sev eral co m m entators can frequ en tly be f o u n d . Moreover, while males who write upon stall walls seem to be striv ing to maintain a sh ield of “ m a c h i s m o ,” women seem to be more open to a n o n y m o u s ly expressing per sonal feelings or dilemmas. In a G raham K ay stall in the Shatner building basem en t, fo r exam p le, one woman has inscribed an appeal for advice: “How do I know if I ’m bisexual?” W h ile such anonym ous scrawling might seem a relatively mild form o f m ischief, it is not w ithout legal risk s. C oncordia University Professor Mario Peluso studies discrimination and pointed out that under Canadian law, the public display of a symbol which incites hatred is an offence. “Th e problem is actu ally ca tch in g those who do these things,” said Peluso. Peluso also remarked that the

prevalence o f racist, misogynist, and homophobic graffiti in univer sities undercuts the common per ception that all university students are “enlightened”. R e ce n tly , m em bers of M c G ill’ s A rts U ndergraduate Society made efforts to have wash room walls on campus cleaned up. A U S V P A cad em ic . Karim Bardeesy presented a referendum question which would force SSMU executives to carry out “bathroom audits” in order to heighten aware ness o f the “deplorable conditions” of M c G ill’ s to ile ts. Notwithstanding the general fdthiness of the facilities, Bardeesy and AUS President John Provart were concerned about the “scandalous” graffiti that can be found through out M cGill. Apparently, the con cern is not a top priority among SSM U student officials since the referendum question was rejected by the SSM U C h ie f R eturning Officers. It should be noted though that not all graffiti is scrawled with malice. In a society in which open public discourse has become a rari ty, some simply find that wash rooms provide a safe and conve nient forum for controversial ideas. “I ’ ve never been much for vandalism, but it seems our open forum s have been reduced to scratchings on the w alls o f the ladies’ room,” one woman scrib bled resign ed ly in a Redpath library stall.

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Serbian students protest with creativity to build civil society By H eather Sansom Peaceful protests through the streets o f Belgrade have surprised the world for over 85 consecutive days. B u t w hile the m ainstream media has portrayed movements in the former Yugoslavia simply as “the people” versus “an irra tio n a l n a tio n a list d ic ta to r ,” M c G ill p ro fe sso r and form er Y u goslav am bassador M ihailo Crnobrnja has a different story to tell. Speaking to an audience at C o n co rd ia U n iv ersity last Thursday, Crnobrnja shed light on what he c la im s is the m ost ignored elem ent in representa tions of recent Serbian protests — the student movement. When not completely disre garded, Serbian students have been ca su a lly lumped in with Zajedno ( ‘Together’), the official o p p o sitio n m ovem ent ag ain st President Slobodan Milosevic and his refusal to recognise the results o f last N ovem ber’ s dem ocratic m unicipal e lectio n s. H ow ever, while students have protested as members o f Zajedno, they have also organised themselves into a movement which is entirely inde pendent.

“The students don’t want to be part o f Z a je d n o , nor d oes Zajedno want them. So there are actually two separate walks in Belgrade every day,” explained N ebo jsa B je la k o v ic , a Serbian

demanding the resignations of the chancellor and vice-chancellor of Belgrade University. They have also called for a general strike among students to pressure for the recognition o f electoral results

P h .D . student at Car-leton University. T h ey c a ll the m ovem ent ‘Student Protest 96/97,’ and while many of the students are national ists like Milosevic, their agenda is not to change the players o f the game, but the rules themselves. In ad d ition to p ro testin g M ilosevic’s decision, students are

and are demanding that Milosevic ease control o f the media. According to Crnobrnja, stu dents have been o rg a n isin g protests as spontaneous demons trations o f responsible citizenship and not as a means o f attaining an oth er form o f a u th o ritarian power in Serbian politics. “T h is has been a m ost

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Belgrade police tried to stop the marches by banning them, but the result was a face-off: a student cordon on one side, and the police on the oth er. A fte r 180 hours without incident, the police gave in and allowed the students to contin ue their walks. A kind o f n eu tral u n d e rs ta n d in g m an ifested its e lf between- students and p o lic e throu gho u t demonstrations. A ccord in g to Crnobrnja, a major strength o f the stu dent m ovem ent has been the w ill in g n ess to deal with police as fellow-citizens instead o f regard ing them as the w w w . y u r o p e . c o m /m ir r o r s /p r o te s t9 6 A )g / enem y. He noted the number o f students marching that it has been difficult for the in Belgrade alone can range from police as well, as they are forced 10,000 to 50,000, with an average to take a stand against their own people. o f 2 0 ,0 0 0 people taking to the One police officer, quoted on streets each day. a website posted by the student At the b eg in n in g o f the movement, party officials labelled protesters, explained: “Every day we wear gymsuits students as ‘fascists’ and ‘traitors’ and claimed they had been manip under our uniforms. In case that we are ordered to beat up our peo ulated by a n ti-S e rb fo rc e s . H ow ev er, a cco rd in g to ple, we will take o ff our uniforms Bjelakovic, the effect of such per and run into the crowd. It is no secution strengthened the student time for playing games.” A ccord ing to reports from ranks. “The significance o f the stu both Crnobrnja and B jelako v ic, dent movement is that it repre students have maintained a festive sents the birth o f a civil society,” atm osp h ere th rou gh ou t the said Crnobrnja. “Even if it dies demonstrations. They stage cul tomorrow, it shows that people tural programs, use humorous slo are thinking as citizens, and not gans and em ploy im a g in a tiv e su b je cts [to au th o ritarian and techniques. For instance, marches tak e p la ce during the 7 :3 0 charismatic dictatorship].” Before a march in Belgrade, evening State-sponsored news — students gather in the various fac students blow whistles to drown ulties o f Belgrade University scat out the news cast and offer choco late and popcorn to the p o lice tered throughout the city. Then they walk in orderly columns to a lined up to oppose them. In addition to marches and small square outside the faculty of philosophy where they begin the rallies, the student committee has issued several public statements protest with a 30 to 45 minute and open letters to various politi program. “T h is u su ally in clu d es a cians and ministries — including speaker: either an artist, professor letters to M ilo sev ic h im self as or student. After the program, the w ell as the M in is trie s o f the Interior, Defence, and Justice. stud ents w alk fo r about two “T h e se le tters rep resen t a hours, picking a route which pass es strategic centres such as the breakthrough in the moral system w hich has ex iste d so fa r in Parliam ent, M ilo sev ic’ s o ffice, S e r b ia ,” asse rte d B je la k o v ic . n ational T V [station s] and the [o ffic e s o f] gov ern m en t c o n Until now, he explained, “virtual ly no one has tried to influence tro lle d d aily [n ew sp ap er], politics by sending clear, respect ‘Politika’,” explained Bjelakovic. fu l, yet ch a lle n g in g le tters to T h e p ro test route is o ften Serbia’s top leaders as a form of changed secretly in order to con mass civil protest. fu se the p o lic e . A cco rd in g to According to Crnobrnja, what Bjelakovic, students have learned from previous experience that it is matters to the students most now is not an ideological platform, or cou nter-p rodu ctive to provoke a plan for social construction, but confrontation with the police. “To help avoid violence, the the respect of civil rights. “They would not have their students have an elaborate infor mation and security system,” he votes robbed from them— many explained. “A group of designated voted for the first time in their lives on N ovem ber 17, and on students act as defusers between the rest o f the student protesters February 11 the Serbian parlia and the police, keeping the order ment voted to accept the election and preventing successful provo v icto ry o f the opposition . B u t S e rb ia has a lon g way to go cation by p o lice provocateurs, before it acknowledges the rule of which would ju stify immediate and harsh police intervention,” he law.” continued.

refreshing thing in Serbian poli tics...people have started finally to have a c r itic a l d ista n ce from politicians and politics in gener al,” said Crnobrnja. Depending on the weather,

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Fighting the winter blues under the light of a summer’s day Environmental P sy ch iatry at the In stitu te o f M ental Health in Maryland, in 1984. He is also author of a book enti tled W inter B lu e s , published in 1993: “My own person al SA D history was pivotal in giving me the interest and drive to id en tify the sy n drome and pursue it for all these years,” he said. A cco rd in g to R osenthal, SA D has been a source o f suf fering for many years. Thus, he was relieved when it was fin a lly identified, giving the disorder “a sense o f legitimacy and, best of all, a treatment.” Although the pre c ise m echanism s through which SA D occurs have yet to be confirmed by the scientific community, many different hypotheses have been put forth, the majority o f which are linked to circadian rhythms. “The most plausible hypothe sis is the inherent instability o f the biological clock system,” said Dr. N. P. Vasavan Nair, Psychiatristin-Chief at the Douglas Hospital and p ro fesso r o f p sychiatry at McGill. C ircad ian rhythm s are endogenous cycles of behaviour or biological activity with a 24 hour period. The rhythms are conse quently generated by an “internal clo ck ” which is synchronised to light and dark cycles within the environment. One example is the

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Y e t another sn o w fa ll, yet another dark winter’s day. With just over a month of winter left to go, many people are eagerly await ing spring — not because they crave the warm temperatures, but b eca u se they p h y sica lly c a n ’t shake the “winter blues”. Otherwise known as Seasonal Affective Disorder, the condition is believed to be caused by a lack of daylight which results in recur rent episodes of depression during the autumn and winter months, follo w ed by ep iso d es o f non depression in the spring and sum mer. Apparently, one to two per cent of the Canadian population as well as millions o f people around the world are affected with this disorder. The sym ptom s usually include oversleeping, a craving for carbohydrates, weight gain and overall depression. In addition, many will experience feelings of hopelessness, social withdrawal and in som e ca s e s, su icid al thoughts. “They w ill have a bonifide clinical depression,” said Dr. N. H offm an, the P sy c h ia trist-in Charge at M cG ill Mental Health S erv ices. Hoffm an em phasised that a pattern in mood shifts dur ing the w inter months must be observed for at least two years before the condition can be clearly diagnosed. SAD was first identified by Dr. Norman Rosenthal, head o f

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Health Service has a light unit, donated to them by Northern Light Technology lo cated outsid e of Montreal. They lend it out to people suffering from SAD for a period o f one to two weeks. “F or people who do have the d isord er, they respond extremely quickly, usually betw een two to three days,” said Hoffman. T he ligh t unit its e lf costs around $200 which, considering its benefits, is a worthwhile investment.Although many people e x p e rie n ce a feelin g o f general loneliness and iso lation during the w inter months, this does not nec ess a rily mean they are SA D su fferers. Hoffman argued that those who feel happy on sunny days but depressed on dark days are u n lik ely to have SA D . SAD is the result o f a persistent state o f depression during the win ter. Furthermore, social and cultur al factors will greatly influence a person’s moods. “We see a lot o f students here at McGill who are depressed after the h o lid a y s,” said H offm an. Differentiating between academic, personal and fam ilial influences and a definite seasonal shift in moods is therefore crucial. SAD is not a simple issue and diagnosis can sometimes be diffi cu lt and co m p lica ted . Y e t the recognition that such a disorder and potential treatments exists can help those winter fearfuls experi en ce the cold w eather under a bright newlight.

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Peeing in the gene pool with the guitar-challenged Inbreds T h e I n b r e d s ’ D a v e U llr ic h g r a p p l e s w ith g u ita r s , t h e B e a t le s , a n d t a p d a n c in g guitar/bass/drums line-up really is n ’t that groundbreaking. The bassless Blues Explosion and Sonic Youth’ s Washing M achine have The Inbreds are a duo like no other. Bass, drums... and that’s it. Dave Ullrich (drums) and both shunned bottom -heavy sounds; and Mike O’Neill (vocals, bass) have been playing Morphine substitutes sax for guitar. But the together for five years without a regular gui elite ‘two’ bass, no guitar line-up goes back as tarist, and it’s working just fine, thank you very far as the Beatles’ “Think For Yourself.” “Our o rig in al much. inspiration!” exclaims They met in high school, kept The elite ‘two’ bass Ullrich, before chim in touch at Queen’ s, and are now lineup goes back as ing in: “O nly k id part o f the burgeoning H alifax far as the B eatles’ ding.” It is clear, how music scene where they record on “Think For Yourself.” ever, that interesting their own label — PF Records — combinations in music distributed by Warner. Their new h istory propagate album, It's Sydney o r the Bush, showcases some o f their most sublime song themselves into today’s scenes. Is this the best writing yet. But what about guitar? It sure explanation for the rapping tap dancing hybrid sounds like som ething with six strings on that brings the song “Do You R eally” to a Hilario and Kombinator, their previous albums. close? Were Mike and Daye pushing pop con ventions ever further? “Not usually,” says Ullrich. “Almost all “I wish,” Ullrich laments. “W e actually the sounds on our records are achieved through got that from a talent show on cable. It was overdubbing 2 or 3 basses with various totally sincere. Completely legit. We may use effects.” If the odd song employs an outside musi a clip of it in our new ‘Wind Picks Up’ video.” Pushing back the frontiers o f rock and cian, it’s mentioned in the credits. If not, it’s just the Inbreds screwing with rock ‘n’ roll and earning a decent living can be mutually exclu sive. “We get by,” Ullrich sighs. “It’s not the producing a beautiful baby. kind of career with a lot of job security, but I Fair enough. But what about at the live can’t complain.” show? Can such an unconventional duo really With so many bands jumping on the fourpull it off in concert? “We have done it that way in the past,” piece indie guitar swing bandwagon, unique Ullrich assures the non-believer, “but on this outfits like the Inbreds need to be recognised tour, about one-third of the songs will be per as the ones to watch. formed with just the two of us. For the rest of The Inbreds a re at the Ja ilh o u se R ock the show, we’ll be joined by our friend Dave Café February 20 as they close out a bill that Cyrus, who plays second bass half of the time, includes Veda Hille and PEZ. and guitar for the other half.” The m ovem ent away from the

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unable to speak, but could scrawl his name on a piece of paper. First displayed as a freak, Kaspar was eventually tutored and civilised.

As he acquired language, Kaspar was able to articulate what had happened to him and ruminate about his identity by describing his dreams. Many theories abound as to his lineage; the most popular take is that he was the crow n p rin ce o f Germany. Handke used the story to exam ine how human beings learn lan g u ag e, and how this shapes identi ty. In fact, Kaspar was written while Noam C hom sky was revolutionis ing lin g u is tic s with the idea that the blueprint for language is genet ic . W ith C hom sky’ s ideas as fram ew o rk , K a sp a r uniquely and imaginatively ex p lo res the human psyche. K a sp a r finds

Charm ing and cap tivating, its home in a theatre that used to the five actors interact with each be an old fire station. Entering, one is soothed by the sounds of a other and the audience; emotions German language tape while fac range from violence to tenderness. ing a large table upon which snow T he b ea u tifu l and fa scin a tin g v o ic e s and is fa llin g . The a b stra ct m o v e pure, co n tin u The beautiful and ments created by ously descend fascinating voices and the actors adopt a ing snow and abstract movements poetic, fugue-like the spoken lan interweaving. guage loop created by the actors Even u ncer meld together to adopt a poetic, fugue-like tain o f the intend becom e themes interweaving. ed g oal or m es explored during sage o f the play, the show. K aspar is performed both in K aspar entrances audiences from English and French, although flu beginning to end with the incredi ency in French isn’t required to ble intensity o f its emotion and enjoy the show. The production is sensuality. E n te rta in in g and thoughtmuch more than a play, with its provoking, K aspar examines the insightful use of film and music. idea that in a society where the E x tra o rd in a ry ch o reo grap h y makes the experience an intricate communication o f information is a dance rather than simple rehash prime commodity, many have lost the ability to relate to themselves, ing o f events. The visual images and multi- or even know who they really are. media ideas are compelling with Kaspar plays until February lots of room for personal interpre Sun. tation. There is little discernible 22 (Tues.-Sat. 8 p.m., Sat. plot of any kind, which some may 3 p.m .) at 1945 Fullum (M étro find frustratin g, but it d oesn ’ t F ro n ten a c ) R e serv e tick ets by affect the quality o f the perfor calling 521-4191. mance.

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Celtic is cool. The Chieftans have been unsuccessfully selling us this tag for 30 years. The punk stemmed Pogues, with their blend of pop and folk, pushed the idea a little further with their mainstream flavouring and naughty arrange ments. Everyone’s favourite urinal puppy Ashley M aclsaac rocked out traditional tunes with psyche delic verve and new-born spins to fin a lly co n firm what drunken sailors have been professing for ever: Celtic is, indeed, cool. M on treal band the Paddington’s are doing their bit to fu rth er the C e ltic hip streak . Paddington frontman Sean Dagher mused on the topic while sucking on tobacco and massaging fiddlesore fingers. “We stay away from cheese as a general rule. We don’t play D anny B o y . U n less, o f course, someone requests it. And even then we play it real ly badly so they don’ t request it again.” W ith an e c le c tic audience com posed o f what Dagher describes as “ students, v isitin g b u sin essm en , and old drunk guys who liv e u p sta irs,” the P ad d in gto n ’ s do their best to humour the vary ing tastes o f their fans. “C eltic is the new m ainstream . I t ’ s no lo n g er an altern a tiv e su b cu ltu re. You get older guys at gigs who want to hear the tradi tional pieces and some young ones who want to hear something new. We gig m ostly trad itional and co v er tunes and maybe two per cent orig inal stuff. Our arrange ments are always chang ing — we need to keep our interest peaked.” When the Montreal circuit is harnessed with

all the fiddlers it can tame, the Paddington’s branch out, follow ing the unilingual sparks o f their anglo predecessors. “Ottawa has more folk-orient ed pubs. Celtic bands can play in a given venue anywhere from two to four nights a week, and [Ottawa g ig s] pay w ell. I t ’ s harder in M ontreal. H ere, w e’ re dealing mainly with the anglo population, and only on the weekends. The city ’s C eltic community is tight and full circle. It’ s like we can only replace somebody if they get sick, quit, or die.” Pubs like The Old D ublin, Hurley’s, Tartan, M aclean’s and Finnigan’ s often swell with the sounds o f the P ad d in g to n ’ s. Washed full of big beers and big ger d rin k ers, the crow ds are friendly and “keen on having a good time,” admits Dagher. “The scene is predictably nuts on St. Patrick’s day. We play all

weekend bent on stimulants. We do what seems like 25 per cent of our annual business in three days, same with the bars. People are out because they like the m usic or want to like the music. The places are packed and hopping.” D runken h o lid ays asid e, Celtic bands work out a comfort able rela tio n sh ip with th eir patrons. “T he fo lk scen e is to tally dependent on the pubs. T h ere’ s rarely any advertising and there aren’t many concerts that don’t go down there. Bands rely on the pub’s clientele for publicity and the pubs rely on the bands to attract more people. It’s a content ed circle, although a little vicious. But we’re happy.” H e a th e r an d Z ith er, the Paddington’s first release, is due out by St. Patrick’s Day. “W e recorded it at the Concordia facilities, with me pro ducing. It was a viable way of doing it on the cheap.”

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realise the definition printed on their busi ness card — “C eltic C anadian F olk Music.” “Celtic is a good ca tc h -a ll term . I t ’ s pretty honest m usic with no tricks. It’s not high ly produced or technically complex.” The Paddington’s are about simple songs without the pretence o f angst and despair. “I don’t have to be an old burnt-out fish er man to sing these songs. It’s already an establish ed fa ct I ’ m singing a song about an old burnt-out fish erman,” said Dagher. Albeit one who’s cool. C h r is K r jiik

Surfing the air waves? Radio Ryerson challenges media decorum Lately, it seems that you can’t turn on the telev isio n or le a f through a magazine without seeing at least one company touting its new web page. From television sta tions to car corporations to univer sities, everyone is getting wired. U ntil fairly recen tly , the World Wide W eb, the venue for these online sites, has been limited to visual m edia — essen tially graphics and text intended to com plement the groups’ real-life pub licity ventures. However, the days of pointing and clicking the way to yet another “cool link” that reveals a couple of pictures are over. The new est craze to hit the W eb

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they are being broad cast. O f course, to do this, surfers must be online at the time of the show’s air ing. The trend has been especially quick to catch on in Toronto. A visit to the Web page of Ryerson University’s School o f Radio and Television Arts (RTA ), home of Canada’s first (and only) studentproduced online radio station, pro vides links to several local radio stations that have expanded online. Even the CBC has RealAudio pro gramming. American stations listed include ABC and the college sta tion at Kent State University in Ohio.

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Let’s talk real coffee culture at Guy and de Maisonneuve Montreal is renowned for its proliferation of cafés, and with it, a well-developed bean scene. Java may be hau te cou tu re on this island, but never without images of dangling cigarettes. No doubt nico tine and caffeine are a match made in heaven, and it’ll get you God fearin g fo lk there qu icker, but when it comes to a little slice of divinity, pair your cup of joe with a donut. Tim Hortons has got a good thing going. For years, the chain has operated ‘smoke-free environ ments’ so your purchases don’t go down like a pack of du Mauriers and your place within the culture of coffee isn’t muddied by smoke lay ing claim to your cup of...m ud, hmm. Anyway, I don’t want to hear about the contradictions in the cof fee paradigm that I espouse. I read

ily admit that the Tim Horton donut — the beautiful circle of per fection that it is — has ingredients that’ll stop your heart at the drop of a hat. The fact is Tim Hortons has fin a lly landed a downtown Montreal location and people are gonna hear about it. The great Horton drought has been plaguing the streets of our fair city since the first T im ’ s in the province opened in Rosemere in 1977. D unkin’ D onuts, which frankly is a quite confused opera tion, has managed to put the stran gle hold on donuts from Jean Talon to Brossard, ignoring the plight of the non-smoker. Tim kiosks, acting as co ffee culture asylums, have sustained the Horton alliance for some years with small-scale vend ing at Concordia, Gare Centrale, Esso gas stations, and, as you may recall, the Shatner lobby. However,

these were covert donuts shipped in from Horton H eadquarters at Oakville, Ontario. At Guy and de Maisonneuve, on February 3, 1997, ex a ctly 20 years a fter the breach of the Quebec border, the revolution has fin a lly begun. Now, the Tim ’s planted along the busy #165 line may not be sm o ke-free, but Tim H ortons R eg io n al M anager Danielle Norman, alluding to the Quiet Revolution, points out that a slow and steady insurrection is strategically sound. In any case, the new location is an architectural m arvel. N otw ithstanding the Horton call for action that empha sises the coffee/smoke line, the shop separates the non-smoking section from the chimneys by way of a raised alcove. The man behind it all is

the killing, and the hitman hired by the v ictim ’ s tycoon husband to avenge the death. The film’s failure to maintain the necessary tension for a good suspense film are attributed to sto ryline gaps as well as the deliberate attempts to m inimise violence. W hile we ought to welcome a Hollywood suspense flick that shirks excessive violence, this film fails to substitute other intrigueinducing mechanisms. Instead of having the action escalate to a cli max, the film barely affords the release expected. Also problem atic is that Luther’ s character fails to come across as a hardened criminal. He sketches at the National Gallery and devotedly follows his daughter’ s professional success. Even cher ished memories of Eastwood’s turn as the passionate photographer in

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A b s o lu te ly Based on the David Baldacci novel, the opening scenes of Absolute Power depict a drunken woman cavorting with an older, dis tinguished-looking man. He becomes increasingly violent with her until, when she responds in kind, he throws her down on the bed in an effort to sodomise her. She escapes his grasp, grabs a letter opener and is ready to stab him when two Secret Service agents burst into the room and shoot and kill her. Clint Eastwood’s latest effort, Absolute Power, is a frenzy of good intentions gone awry. From its unlikely premise to its stereotyped characters, the film fares poorly in

the intrigue category and is posi tively laughable in its attempts to present a kinder, gentler brand of suspense film. The tw ists: The would-be rapist is the president of the United States (played by Gene Hackman). Eastwood, playing Luther, the noto rious burglar, is witness to the mur der from behind a two-way mirror separating the mansion's vault from its master bedroom. Immediately, the president’ s chief assistant rushes in and eoolheadedly removes all traces of evi dence from the room except the fin gerprint-laden letter opener. Luther steals it along with $5 million in cash and jewels. For the remainder o f the film , Luther successfully escapes the FBI which believes he committed the murder, the Secret Service agents who know he saw

won’t endear this New Age, beretsporting sensitive burglar. The sexy, sardonic Clint of earlier cowboy films is a far more tantalising screen entity. A dversely, when A bsolute P ow er does adhere to movie clichés, it doesn’t fare much better. Some unpopular stereotypes include the Caucasian Secret Service agent who self-righteously disavows his role in the murder while his black counterpart is a programmed puppet of the system. Also offensive is one of the only three female characters in the film, the chief assissant, who is portrayed as a villainous accom plice to the evil president. The film’s many shortcomings suggest that Eastwood ego’ s has done himself in. As director, pro ducer and leading man, such absolute power leaves fans with only one person to blame. You cer tainly won’t make anyone’s day with this film, Clint. — Amy Sepinwall H o te l d e L o v e

(o r, t h e V a le n tin e m o v i e t h a t w a s n ’t) Maybe it’s just post-Valentine cynicism setting in, but frankly the whole notion of discovering true love that was right under your nose

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I have no tribunal Marc Gilliam store. Norman ju stifies the long wait stressing an intensive search for "the right location and the right occasion.” I’m not sure, but I think she blushed when I mentioned that you’ ve always got time for Tim Hortons. I was consequently referred to Barbara Lu for my next question: How long has it been since the o rigin al store sprung up in H am ilton, O ntario? Lu was impressed with my geo-Hortonal all along seems a hard sell these days. Australian Craig Rosenberg is the latest director to market this idea in his debut film , H otel de Love. It’s the story of Rick (Aden Young) and Stephen (Sim on Bossell), twin teenage brothers who fall in love with the enchanting Melissa (Saffron Burrows of Circle of Friends). Rick wins. Flash forward ten years, when the three reunite at the tacky Hotel de Love where Rick is the manager. From there the film follows the oldfated love triangle scheme to its logical end. Hotel de Love is superbly cast. Its greatest strength is that, as a first work, it makes no ambitious pre tences. The story is simple and the characters are predictable. However, Rosenberg relies too heavily on kitschiness to carry the well-intentioned characters through the plot. The Hotel boasts thematic love suites (the Garden o f Eden, the Rugby Stadium rooms) and a lounge pianist. The main attraction

knowledge. I blushed. R eally I have my father to thank. My Dad, a young elementary schoolboy when a Toronto Maple L e a f hockey player started a donut shop at Ottawa and Dundurn in 1 9 6 4 , would rem in isce about ten cent donuts (or a dozen for 89 cents). In the years to follow, he watched in awe as gas stations across the Niagara Peninsula were renovated into Tim Hortons donut shops. Dad would also go on about how every trip to the local Tim ’s was uphill and in a snowstorm, but father, I fear, wasn’t always a loyal man. Mom, take heart. Have a cru eller.

Mr. Gilliam is known through out Grimsby. ON. as Senor Java. o f the Hotel is a water fountain appropriately titled “Niagara Smalls” — a nod to the site that, incredibly enough, is credited with inspiring Rosenberg. The campiness of the dialogue is cute rather than sophisticated, as exemplified by the repetition of the word ‘penis.’ Maybe Rosenberg didn’ t realise that sitcoms have already exhausted all comedic pos sibilities posed by the terms for male genitalia. It elicits giggles, but contemporary audiences have come to expect more than just giggles from romantic comedies. Perhaps this is why Hotel de L o v e’s opening was pushed back from V alen tin e’ s Day to next Friday: there isn't a lot to get off on in this flick. Either way, if you’re looking for a real true-love-wasthere-all-along flick, you’ll find it just sitting there — and it’s been there all along — at the video store under your nose. It’s called When

Harry Met Sally... — Leslie Stojsic

Virtual radio @ Ryerson Continued from Page 15 Ryerson first got the idea in 1994, realising the important role tech nology had in radio and television production. Under the direction of Professor Mark Banbury, SPIRIT (Student-Produced Internet Radio and Interactive Technology) is now an intégral part of RTA ’s curriculum. All first-year students are required to produce a ten-minute show to be aired on SPIRIT’s Web site; replays of these programs are available online in the station’s archives. This so-called cutting-edge technology has actually been around for years now. “Sound files on the Web are old news,” commented Sarah Clancy, a media technology student at Emerson College in Boston. “The one way [Internet radio shows] are really useful is that they enable a low-frequency student station on a budget to broadcast all over the world.” Indeed, one of the stations included on Ryerson’s links page is located in Australia. “RealAudio is certainly not breaking any boundaries as far as actual technology goes,” admitted Wampole. "What we are doing that no one else has, though, is making existing technology available to the average user. RealAudio is like cable for radio shows.” In that sense, online radio is like any other facility on the Internet. By making information available to anyone with a modem, online radio brings together computer users from around the world for an aural, rather than visual experience. Like other online technology, it is also subject to rules and regula tions concerning communication. For instance, all American Internet users must comply with the Communications Decency Act o f 1996. regardless of where the site they are accessing originates. Wait until Heritage Minister Sheila Copps and her roundtable of Canadian culture experts catch wind of that. Clearly, online radio, as it prepares to unveil its growing consequence on mainstream society, needs to be acknowledged within Canadian-content regulations and other pro tectionist policies.

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McGill downs No. 3 Guelph, Toronto en route to playoff berth P i e r r e G e n d r o n a n d n e w c o m e r C a r l C h a r l a n d b o o s t R e d m e n t o f i f t h s t r a i g h t w in By Paul C onner McGill’s hockey team contin ued to charge toward the post-season this weekend, breezing by Guelph 53 and the University of Toronto 6-3 to grab a spot in the promised land of playoff action. After losing five straight league games to start the new year, the Redmen have dusted off five consec utive victories, including two wins over top-5 ranked teams. On Friday, the Redmen blew by the third ranked Guelph Gryphons, defeating the only team besides M cGill to beat the Université du Québec à Trois Rivières this season. The Redmen had a new face in the line-up Friday night — a rookie bruiser named Carl Charland. On the heels of playing his first game at Queen’s after sitting out with a bro ken leg since the fall, the 6-foot, 205 pound native o f St-Jean-su rRichelieu grabbed the McConnell Arena by force, scoring two key goals and visiting the penalty box four times for roughing. With the Redmen trailing by two goals early, Charland took a feed from Pierre Gendron at the end of the first to put M cGill on the board. After one period, the rookie had one goal and four minutes in the box. The period was filled with hard hitting blows on both sides, with the penalty minutes acting as the constant reminder. After 20 minutes of play, the two teams amassed 46 minutes in penalties for 14 infractions. McGill started the second peri od short-handed for almost seven straight minutes. Coach Martin Raymond opted not to play Charland as much in the second, since his

hard-nosed style car ried over from other hockey leagues was getting him in trouble. The rookie managed two minutes in the isolation chamber at the mid-point of the period, however, just to let everyone know he was around. “I have to be aggressive,” said Charland after the game. “If I don’t hit, I’m not useful here.” With the score knotted at two going into the third thanks to a powerplay goal from Nicolas Cantin, Charland took to the ice and potted his sec K e v in K o c h ond goal of the night François Pilon a n d Nicholas Cantin w ard o ff attack f o r the Redm en three minutes in. Not boards. Darche’s landed the Redmen to be outdone by his scoring H a t t r i c k f o r G e n d r o n down a man for five minutes, during prowess, he proceeded to grab anoth which time they were penalised for Saturday night, the Redmen er roughing call mid-way through the having too many men on the ice and took on the U of T Varsity Blues in period. scored upon in the ensuing 5-3 situa Raymond had good things to their 182nd lifetime matchup, with tion. say about his new player despite the their first meeting dating back to Darche was handed an automat penalties. He likes the toughness and February 1899. McGill took this one ic one game suspension for getting a aggressiveness, and understands it as convincingly as they did the first major penalty, which will be served will take time to get used to playing time around. this Friday at UQTR. On this night, it was Gendron here after playing roller-hockey and McGill opened the scoring mid spending a few games with the taking back the limelight from his way through the first, on the tail end rookie teammate, scoring his fifth hat Quebec Rafaeles of the International of a fifth straight powerplay to open trick o f the season to lead the Hockey League. the game. The teams traded goals Redmen past another playoff-bound “H e’ s strong as an oak,” three times in the first two high team. Raymond said, sm iling. “Carl paced periods, before McGill started This night, like Friday’s, was Charland’s still trying to get used to to run away with it towards the end filled with penalties, including two the league, and that shows. He’s still o f the second. Martin Routhier adjusting to our system. He’s rusty game misconducts for the McGill scored the eventual game winner at too; he hasn’t played in four squad. Both François Lajeunesse and 12:51 of the second off a feed from Mathieu Darche were given penalties months.” Benoit Leroux. for ugly hits from behind into the

CIAU loses athlete eligibility court ruling By Ryan Murphy The P rince Edward Island Supreme Court ruled on February 7 against a Canadian Interuniversity Athletic Union regulation limiting the transfer o f student athletes between Canadian universities after completing their fourth year of eligi bility. The rule in question states that athletes must play their fifth and final year at the same school where they played in their fouth year. The case marked the first court challenge of the eligibility rule since it was instituted 20 years ago. The decision allowed Krista Foreman, a former stand-out with

Benoit Leroux M en’s hockey Leroux scored a quiet 1 goal and 6 assists in McGill’s two crucial hockey victories over No. 3 ranked Guelph and the University o f Toronto. His hard-nosed neutral and offensive zone play bolstered the Redmen attack.

the New Brunswick Varsity Reds, to suit up for the University of Prince Edward Island Lady Panther’s bas ketball team. Foreman, who trans ferred to UPEI to pursue a postgrad uate degree in veterinary medicine, was an assistant coach for the Lady Panthers at the time of the decision. Commenting outside the court room, a delighted Foreman said, “I feel overjoyed right now. Actually, kind of overwhelmed. Someone said justice had prevailed and I think that’s a good way of putting it.” While justice may have been served for Forem an, it is still unclear what the implications her case will have for future regulations. D espite the ruling o f Ju stice

Lisa Virgini Women’s swimming Virgini won six gold medals at the Quebec swim championships this weekend. She won the 50- and 200-metre butterfly, 100- and 200metre backstroke, two 400-metre relays, and was named to the Quebec all-star team.

Armand DesRoches in favour of the 23-year-old Foreman, the current CIAU regulations still limit a stu dent athlete’s fifth and final year of eligibility to the same institution where they spent their fourth year. While Foreman’s case has set a legal precedent, it remains uncertain if the ruling will be upheld in other Canadian courts. However, should it be honoured it may have some intriguing results. For instance, there may be an influx of athletes to schools with graduate programs. Moreover, ath letes from American schools, where the elig ib ility is limited to four years, may be enticed to come north of the border to compete. Should either of these possibilities manifest themselves, the level of competition among CIAU teams could be raised to a new level. However, there is the possibility that schools with weak or non-existent postgraduate pro grams may suffer immensely. While M cG ill would clearly benefit from a m odification of CIAU regulations with its wealth of postgraduate programs, it is precise ly this influx which concerns M artlet’s basketball coach Lisen

After the game, the team had mixed em otions; although the Redmen had come a\vay with a big win, they fell into penalty trouble and did not capitalised on their manup chances in the early going. “We didn’t play too well in the first period,” said Raymond. “We seemed to be having a lot of prob lems getting going. But we played really well in the second, and in the third, we just held on and played good defensive hockey around our net.” Goaltender Jarrod Daniel felt the same way, but was generally very happy with the team performance. “We have to keep playing the way we are. W e’ ve been playing some good hockey,” he said.

T h e p la y o ffp ic tu r e Two things are certain: first, UQTR has won the division, and will await the winner of a sudden death playoff between the second and third placed teams next week; second, the Redmen will be in that game. The match will be against either Ottawa or Concordia on Tuesday night at 7 p.m., with home ice still to be deter mined. All of this depends on what hap pens when McGill faces UQTR and Concordia, and when Ottawa takes on Concordia and UQTR. The win ner of next Tuesday’s game will get to host all the games from the bestof-three divisional final against les Patriotes as UQTR is on probation this season. Games will be held February 27, and March 1 and 3.

Coming up this week and next week Moore. “I sincerely hope that it is used for academic purposes for athletes interested in pursuing different and more advantageous fields of study as opposed to athletes just using it to hop around from place to place,” she said. While Moore was optimistic about new changes, she remained steadfast in her recruiting policy, stipulating “it will remain status quo, and we will in no way cross over until we know the full breadth of the new rules and regulations.” CIA U P resid en t-elect Tom Allen shares Moore’s apprehension. “One of the reasons we had this rule was to protect small schools, and this ruling may undermine its function,” Allen commented. “If it is for athletic purposes solely, we should definitely have some regula tions against it.” In the meantime, the CIAU executive will meet via a conference call this afternoon to discuss the possible implications of Foreman’s ruling. According to Allen, “we’ll be looking at cleaning up the consti tutional by-laws and clarifying the intent of the rule itself.”

Redmen hockey @ Concordia, Saturday, 7p.m.; OUAA semifinals Tuesday, Feb 25, 7 p.m. place TBSA OUAA finals Thurs-Mon Feb 27-Mar3, place and time TBA Martlets volleyball vs. Sherbrooke QSSF semi-finals Friday 7 p.m. at Currie Gym Martlets basketball @ Concordia Feb 2B, time TBA Redmen basketball @ Concordia Feb 28, time TBA Martlet and Redmen soccer host McGill Indoor Soccer Classic, Sat. & Sun March 1 & 2. 24 teams competing, free admission

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In what has proved to be the case so often this season, the McGill Redmen dropped two home basketball games this past week. The Redmen fell to Concordia 85-71 on Tuesday evening, and were thrashed 79-49 by the first ranked Laurentian squad. The loss es leave the Redmen clinging to a third-place tie in the division for the last playoff spot. The Concordia Stingers’ victo ry was led by the forward tandem o f Je a n -P ie rre R eim er and Jay Prosper. They combined for a 20 of 37 shooting performance, with 47 points and 15 rebounds. The Redmen were able to stick close for the first half behind the fine play of forward Hubert Davis. His inside presence was a factor during the entire contest, as he was able to convert many low -post opportunities. The Redmen trailed 36-31 at halftime. With the game in doubt, both teams improved their efficiency on the o ffen siv e side o f the floor. M cGill field goal percentage for the second half was a sterling 53.8

per cen t. A m azingly, th is was matched by Concordia’s 58.8 per cent effort from the floor. Despite having five players

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scorin g in double fig u res, the Redmen cam e up short. Guards Peter Fraser, R ick V arisco and Matt Watson posted 18, 14 and 10 points respectively. Mark Rawas also chipped in with 10 points.

It was C o n co rd ia ’ s tim ely shooting which ultimately did in the Redmen. McGill was unable to take away the Stingers’ inside play, which ultimately proved to be the difference. Friday night’s game proved to be no challenge for the top-ranked Voyageurs. Behind the incredible shooting effort o f guard Shawn Sw ords, Laurentian was never threatened. The Voyageurs had too many weapons in their dismantling of the Redmen. With a deadly inside-out side game, Laurentian raced out to a 38-20 halftime advantage. The lone bright spot for McGill was Fraser, whose 3 threepointers helped him post 16 points. However, he received little support from the rest o f the Redmen offence. Laurentian continued its domi nation in the second half, limiting McGill to a paltry 30.4 shooting percentage. The Redmen finish the week end in a tie for third in the Quebec University Basketball League with Laval. They have two crucial road gam es this w eekend against Ryerson and York.

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The McGill Martlets basketball team, coming off a 79-78 loss to Concordia, knew they had to put together a strong performance against the No. 6-ranked Laurentian Lady Vees Friday night. After allowing the Lady Vees to remain close through-out most of the first half, the Martlets dominated play in the second, en route to a 73-46 victo ryM cGill raced out to a 22-1 I early lead behind the play of Vicky Tessier. She contributed 16 of those points and was unstoppable down low, hitting a variety of shots from inside the paint. However, with 5:03 left in the half and Tessier on the bench, Laurentian was able to cut the deficit to 24-20. McGill was unable to find any offensive rhythm with Tessier on the bench. Martlet coach Lisen Moore recognised this, and sent the forward back into the game after a time-out. Laurentian continued to play competitively, and M cG ill’s lead was down to 25-24 with two minutes to play in the half. At half-time, McGill was up 30-26. M cG ill played with a vengeance in the second half, open ing with a 17-0 run. McGill’s surge was catalysed by point guard

Jennifer Stacey, who made two acro batic lay-ups, including one which resulted in a three-point play. As

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well, Tessier contributed to the 17-0 run with four points. With 13:35 to go in the game, McGill had built its lead to 47-26. Along with their offensive explosion. M cGill’s pesky defence did not allow Laurentian to score a point until 12:36 left in the game. That amounted to over seven min

utes of shut-out basketball starting from the second half. Coach Moore was surprised that her team was able to contain a very good Laurentian offence for such a long period of time: “We played good [in the second-half], ..great defence. We played great team defence, as we have ten mobile players who can guard anyone on the court.” McGill maintained their intensi ty throughout the second half, and got scoring contributions from many players. Anne Gildenhuys and Jen Stacey stepped up their games and took the offensive load off Tessier. Gildenhuys finished with 14 points, after scoring eight after half-time, and Stacey finished with 11. Moore attributed the Martlets’ play in the second half to good exe cution, commenting, “[we] stuck to our game plan.” Although many Martlets played well on this night, the player of the game was V icky T essier. She entered the contest as the leading scorer in the country, averaging 25.7 points-per-game. Tessier increased that average with her 34-point per form ance. Not only did Tessier score, she also dished out nifty assists and played tough interior defence — a truly all-round perfor mance.

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February 18th, 1997 Tuesday, February 18

Knowledge is power. Hear SSMU executive candidates debate their issues. Panelists from women's union, SACOMSS, BSN, LBCTM. Be informed! The Hillel Lunchtime series pre sents "Survivors' Tales; Memory and Video Oral Testimony. From 12-1 p.m. 3460 Stanley. Free admission. The Red Herring needs you to be funny! Come to our meeting on Tuesday at 5:30 p.m. in Shatner 303, or call 398-6825. Accepting almost any idea for a story or drawing or whatever. Informal Peer Facilitated Support Group for Survivors of or people dealing with Eating Disorders. Alternate Tuesdays beginning today at 6:30 p.m. No counsellors present. Fore more info call Jillian at 3986823. Wednesday, February 19

Come out and support Amnesty International's Turkey campaign in the Leacock lobby. Info on the cam paign will be available as well as sign up sheets for Amnesty's upcom ing WriteAThon to be held on Mar. 18th. Amnesty members please note that this weeks' meeting is cancelled. LBGTM's Bisexual Group meets

in Shatner 423 at 5:30 p.m. Both men and women are welcome. LBGTM Coordinating meeting at 5:30 p.m. in Shatner 432. Thursday, February 20

Dr. Roderick R. Mclnnes will be giving a lecture on "The molecular genetics of mammalian eye develop ment - the view from the Chxl 0 gene family". It will be held at 11:30 a.m. in rm 903 of McIntyre Med. building, 3655 Drummond St. Tonite at 6:30p.m. LBGTM's Women's Group meets in Shatner 423. Friday, February 21

Canadian Studies Graduate Students Association of McGill Annual conference will be held from Feb. 21-22. 3650 MacTavish. Papers to be presented by students from across Canada. For more info call 528-8631. At 5:30, LBGTM's Coming out Group meets in the basement of UTC. Dont be shy, and come out. Saturday, February 22

McGill Society of Montreal pre sents a musical entitled "Dawn Quixote" from 10-12 noon in Redpath Hall, 3461 McTavish. Adults $6, children $3. For more info, call 398-5000.

B riefs Male fencers grab gold

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McGill’s male fencers travelled to Royal Military College to com pete in the Ontario Universities Athletic A ssociation’ s champi onships last Sunday and brought home gold in the epée for the first time in the team’s history. The threesome o f Zbigniew Rudzki, Michal Kaminsky, and Josh Spicer propelled the team past five schools en route to the win. McGill outmatched every team, with only the University of Ottawa posing a serious threat in the team competi tion. In the individual event, Yves Konigshofer placed 11th out of 46 in the epée, while Nicolas Kenny placed 9th out of 42 in the foil On the women’s side, McGill took home fourth place in Saturday’s Ontario Women's Interuniversity Athletic Association epée champi onships. The Martlets beat York and Brock before bowing to Ottawa, McMaster, and Queen’s in the 12team competition. In the individual event, Tasha Ogrizlo was the only one to advance to the finals, finish

Ski team wins two gold and two bronze Mont Sutton was host to four slalom races over the weekend, two on each of the men’s and women’s side. In the men’s event, the team finished first in competitions held on both Saturday and Sunday. The wins keep McGill in first place overall after six races this season. Nicolas Robichon led the Redmen with fifth and third place finishes on the two days. Robichon leads the Quebec Students Sports Federation after the six races. In the women’s competition, the Owen family o f Suzanne, Catherine, and M ichelle led the Martlets to a pair of third place fin ishes behind L ’ Universités de Montreal and Laval. The third place finishes leave the women in second place overall in the QSSF. The team will compete in two weeks at Mont L ’Original in the giant slalom event.

Sunday, February 23

Join Hillel for a day of skiing at Morin Heights at 8:30 a.m.-6 p.m. Cost is $36 inch transportation, lift tickets and lunch. Please sign up by Wed. Feb. 19. For info, call Luni at 845-9171. Storytelling tonite at 7:30 p.m. "The Road from Slavery". The Yellow Door. For more info call 398-6243. 3625 Aylmer St. Ongoing and Upcoming ...

Volunteers needed- The First Year Coordinator is seeking volun teers, both students and staff, to par ticipate in a phonathon. Individuals offered admission will be encouraged to accept them and attend McGill. If you are interested, please contact Trish Duff by phone at 398-6913. Would you like to act as a men tor to a first-year student? Help them become accustomed to university life. Please contact Trish Duff by phone at 398-6913. Class Action, a street organiza tion that has given $1.2 million to McGill from graduating students since 1990, is sponsoring the Class of '97 Streetfest on April 16, . All grad uating students are invited to attend. Contact Cynthia Somma at 398-

Women swimmers stretch for gold Volleyball Martlets win two to take second overall M cG ill’s women volleyball team took a pair of road wins at Concordia and Université de Montréal Saturday and Sunday. Saturday’s game was a five-set marathon, with the Martlets coming out on top 16-14,14-16,14-16,15-6, and 15-8. Wendy Whalen led the team with 27 kills and six stuffed blocks. Anie de la Fonatine chipped in another 15 kills and fours aces to seal the win. Sunday afternoon, the women travelled across town to U de M, and came out with a four-set victory. Along with strong performances by Whalen and de la Fontaine, Josianne Rozon came off the bench to put down 9 kills, 15 digs, and 3 stuffed blocks. The wins seal a best-ever sec ond place in the division for the McGill women. They finished the regular season 11-5. The Martlets compete in a onegame sudden death semifinal Friday night at the Currie Gym. The winner will go on to play a best-of-three match divisional final starting Sunday afternoon.

Badminton birdie out of reach inn

McGill’s badminton team failed to defeat L’Université de Montréal in the provincial sem i-finals on Saturday. With the exception of singles player Ola Babatunda, who won her match two games to one, McGill’s team found them selves outplayed by L ’Université de Montréal. Although the games were close, the women’s doubles, mixed doubles and men’s singles all lost their matches in straight games. M c G i l l ’s U de M played a fast game, suprising the McGill team and tiring them out quickly. Explained doubles player Merryn Roberts after her loss, “you start going so fast, so then you start

getting tired and when you’re tired you start making more mistakes.” The men’s doubles team took the match to three games. The decid ing‘game, however, went to U de M

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15-12. “Hopefully we won’t make the same mistake twice,” said doubles player Benjamin Chin after the team competition, referring to Saturday

afternoon’s individual semi-finals. Unfortunately, McGill’s men’s doubles succumbed the following day and failed to move on to the finals. McGill’s only representative at the individual finals was Babatunda. She defeated U de M in the semi finals in order to play L ’Université de Laval in the women’s singles final on Sunday. The women’s singles title went to Laval, defeating Babatunda two games to one. In the team finals, U de M pulled o ff a big upset over Laval, winning 3 of 5 matches to win the Quebec championships. It is still uncertain whether two or three teams from Quebec will participate in the Quebec-Ontario Cup. If the province can send three teams, M cGill will have one last chance this year against Laval and U de M.

honours, including the 200- and 400metre individual medley. Limpert, Virgini, McComb, and Chiang were all named to the QSSF all-star team alter the meet. The women won by only seven points over Laval, 319312. On the men’s side, McGill fin ished fourth out o f five teams. Sébastien Paddington was the lone winner for the Redmen, taking gold in the 200-metre freestyle with a time of 1:55.09. Paddington was also named to the Q SSF all-star team. The team took 143 points, seven points behind Sherbrooke, and well behind L’Université de Montréal and winner Laval, who came away with a total of 271 points.

The Martlets and Redmen swim teams took on the rest of the QSSF at Sherbrooke this weekend and came away with very strong results — especially on the women’s side. Led by swimmer-of-the-meet Lisa Virgini, the Martlets won 18 of 21 events to capture a close gold at the FQSE Swim Championships. Virgini won six races, including the 50-and 200-metre butterfly and 100and 200-metre backstroke. Holly McComb and Carol Chaing also blew by the competition, winning five golds each. Olympic medalist Marianne Limpert showed her strength by winning four first-place

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4309. Post-Abortion Informal Peer facilitated Support Group. No coun selors present. Time to be arranged based on interest. Contact Terri at McGill Womens's Union at 3986823. Players Theatre presents "Une Histoire Vraie de Jean-Olivier Vachon", held from Feb. 19-22 at 8 p.m. For reservations, 398-6813. Tickets: $8/6 for students. The Journal of North American studies is accepting submissions on any N. American topic or issue. Please submit paper and saved ver sion on diskette to Prof. Riggs' mail box. This is in the History office, 6th floor Leacock. Please include name and number. Deadline is March 15th. Call for submissions: the Women of colour collective's journal of writing, "Pen Umbra". Drop sub missions at QPIRG office or call 3987432. Deadline is Feb. 21st. Sign up for HEBREW. Beginner and advanced levels available. Mondays or Tuesdays, 7 to 9 p.m. Eight week session costs $65. For info, call Luni at the Hillel Jewish Student Centre: 845-9171. Tired of having religion shoved

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NOTE: Tuition fees are set by th e governm ent o f Quebec. N either McGill n o r SSMU has any d irect influence on th ese fee levels.

These are fees set either by McGill, by SSMU, o r by you r faculty association .

Province o f Residency

Student Services Fee: $ 1 0 3 .5 0 /te rm

In September 1997, the Quebec government wants to charge Canadian students different levels o f tuition depending on the province in which their parents live. As yet, the government has given no indication as to what criterion, if any, it will use to determine a student's residency.

This fee goes toward paying for such things as the Office for Students with Disabilities and Health Services.

The SSMU believes this policy to be discriminatory, and has retained lawyers to fight it.

Q uebec Students: $5 5 .6 1 /cre d it Students declared to be resident in Quebec will pay $55.61 per credit. On a 30-credit year, this will am ount to $1668.30.

Canadian Students: $9 5 .6 1 /cre d it Students declared to be not resident in Quebec will pay $95.61 per credit. On a 30-credit year, this will am ount to $2868.30.

In tern ation al Students: $ 2 7 5 .6 1 /cre d it O R ’ $ 3 0 5 .6 1 /cre d it International students not covered by a fees agreement (see below) will pay $275.61/credit for courses offered in the following faculties: Arts, Education, Law, Religious Studies. If you were registered at McGill before 1996-97, you will also pay $275.61/credit for all Management courses. International students will pay $305.61/credit for courses offered in the following faculties: Agriculture, Engineering, Music, Nursing, Physical and Occupational Therapy, and Science. This policy results in tuition ranging from $8,268.30/year to $9,168.30/year, depending on the courses selected. If you are from any o f the following countries, you might be able to pay the Quebec student rate o f tuition (contact your embassy or consulate for more inform ation): Algeria, Argentina, Benin, Bolivia, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, Colom bia, Comoros, Congo, Costa Rica, Djibouti, Ecuador, France, Gabon, Germany, Greenland, Guinea, Haiti, Honduras, Iran, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Korea, Lebanon, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritus, Mexico, Morocco, Niger, Panama, People's Republic o f China, Peru, Rwanda, Senegal, Togo, Tunisia, Uruguay, Venezuela, Zaire

In creases fo r Medicine and D entistry Medicine: Returning students will be assessed at the level o f 39 credits (instead o f 3 3) for 1997-98. Dentistry: Returning students will be assessed at the level o f 36 credits (instead o f 30) for 1997-98.

Note: part-time students pay a scaled-down version o f m ost o f these fees.

Student Society Fee: variable, depending on faculty This fee pays for the SSMU and for your faculty association. Unless you opt out at the beginning o f each semester, it includes a charge for the SSMU Health Plan and the SSMU Dental Plan. It also subsumes other direct student levies we pay, such as for the McGill Legal Information Clinic, the SSMU Library Improvement Fund, CKUT, and the McGill Daily.

Academic Services C harge: $ 1 7 4 /y e a r This charge amalgamates various fees intended to protect the quality o f specific academic services such as advising, lab equipment maintenance and renewal, and library collection development. This is a new line item for the 1997-98 academic year.

Adm inistrative Services Charge: $112/year This charge amalgamates existing charges assessed on an ad hoc basis, such as convocation fees, transcript charges, and thesis examination fees. A more complete list o f what is covered by this charge will be made available as soon as SSMU receives it. Penalty fees, such as library fines or late registration fees, and user fees, such as internet access charges, are not included under this charge. This is a new line item for the 1997-98 academic year.

Financial Aid Aside from governmental financial aid programs, McGill has always offered a large amount money to students as loans, scholarships, and bursaries. For the 1997-98 academic year, McGill has set aside $3.9 m illion for student aid. If you are having trouble making ends meet, you should contact the Office o f Student Aid (in the Powell Bldg, 398-6013).

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For questions or comments on next year's fees and how they will affect you. contact: Don McGowan, Vice President [University Affairs) 3986797 ua@stusoc.mcgill.ca