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Tricia Tougas, a student at Carleton, explained that the protest Students in Ontario took over ers are determined to bring attention the offices of university administra to their cause. tors in response to the provincial “The level of activism here is government’s decision to deregulate incredible,” Tougas said. “The tuition fees. external protest has been made up Ontario Minister of Education of many people in the Carleton John Snobelen announced that community and we are all prepared Ontario universities will be allowed to stay here as long as it takes to be to raise fees for any one program by heard.” as much as 20 per cent, as long as While protest against tuition overall revenue generated by tuition hikes at many Ontario universities fees does not exceed current rates has taken the form of occupying by more than 10 per cent. administrative offices, students at Students began protesting other schools have chosen different tuition hikes and demanding a plans of attack. Students at Ryerson tuition freeze on February 17. Polytechnic University had 30 Students at the University of blocks of ice sent to their principal’s Toronto, Carelton, York and office to indicate the need for a Queen’s have taken over the princi tuition freeze. pal’s office at each of their respec Ontario students have received tive campuses. a considerable amount of support Vicky Smallman, a representa for their actions. Sympathetic tive from the Canadian Federation groups include other Ontario uni of Students, explained that the level versities, unions, and provincial of frustration among Ontario stu government opposition parties. dents is increasing. “We have had letters of sup “Students are protesting the port from universities across the incredible tuition hikes over the past province,” Smallman said. “The few years,” Smallman said. “Our really amazing thing is that this | level of frustra- -------------------- ------------------ movement of soli tion is rising, darity started T h e re a lly a m a z in g especially with spo ntaneously. th in g is th a t th is this recent tuition Ontario students I m o v e m e n t o f s o li fee raise and the needed no encour lack of recogni agement.” d a rity s ta rte d s p o n tion that we get In an attempt ta n e o u s ly . O n ta rio from the govern to offset tuition ment regarding increases, the s tu d e n ts n e e d e d no our concerns.” Ontario govern e n c o u ra g e m e n t. The protests ment will be allot — V ic k y S m a llm a n , at U of T, York ting an additional and Carelton $150 million for C F S re p re s e n ta tiv e each included a student assistance core group of programs.I approximately 15 people who took Flowever, students do not find this [ over the administrative offices. an adequate solution, arguing that There were also a large number of the Ontario Student Assistance Plan external supporters at each universi is already stretched to the limits. “This $150 million is meaning tyless,” said Smallman. “It does not [ help the increased demand that stu dents have put on OSAP. It will not McGILL go into student’s pockets but will NIGHTLINE increase the amount of student debt. 5 9 8 -6 2 4 6 This does not mean relief — it will J only make things worse.” A confidential information, Tougas explained that, listening and referral service. although more government money For students, by students. has been put into OSAP, it will still Open 9pm-3am until Sept 30 6pm-3am thereafter C ontinued on Page 9

McGill goalie Jarrod Daniel covers up in front o f UQTR’s star Marc Beaucage on Monday night

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Beaucage leads UQTR past McGill In hockey divisional finals, Redmen lose two of three, ending hopes of a first championship in 51 years B y Pa u l C o n n e r

The storybook season was just not to be. After defeating Ottawa 7-2 in the division semi-finals, the McGill Redmen were poised to grab hold of their first division championship in 51 years. A titanic three-gam e series against L ’Université du Québec à Trois Rivières, the top team in the coun try, followed, with the favourites coming out on top in the last few minutes of the third and deciding match. The series appeared to have fate on McGill’s side until Monday night, when UQTR simply outlast ed the Redmen. Starting with the opener Thursday night, the Redmen played host to all three games because UQTR was on pro bation for rule violation last sea son. The Redmen fell behind by three early goals but roared back in the second and third to tie the game and eventually win it 13 min utes into overtim e. Saturday, UQTR plainly dom inated the game, winning 4-1, setting the stage for a Monday night show down. In front of a near sellout

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by the defence past goaltender Sylvain Rodrigue. Les Patriotes bounced back less than 20 seconds later to even the mark at two. McGill took the lead again early in the second on a clean break by Stéphane Angers, but les Continued on Page 29 F e a t u r e d I n s id e SSMU Elections: C andidates' quizzes; and write-ups for three m ore executive positions...........................Pg.4 International W om en's Week: Phoolan Devi, bandit on the run......................................Pg.18 C om ic Book Supplem ent: a vibrant cross section of today's sm artest strips review ing exactly w hy M ontreal's com ix m ecca, N ebula on St. Catherine's, is m ore im por tant than anything in the D om inion Square Building....................Pgs. 24-25

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crowd of over 1,500 people at the McConnell Winter Arena, the two teams clashed right from the start, with les Patriotes drawing first blood at 2:09 of the opening frame on the powerplay. That was just the beginning of what would turn out to be a see saw, high-scoring exhibition from two teams desperate to keep their seasons alive. The play was fast, but imprecise. Sloppy defensive plays at both ends set up chances for both teams to take advantage. McGill caught such a lapse six minutes in, as Benoit Leroux inter cepted a cross-ice pass and fedaLuc Fournier for a short-handed break away goal to even the mark at one. Before the game was over, three more goals would be scored on clear breakaways. “During the series, on every mistake that a team made, the other team scored,” said UQTR star Marc Beaucage, who scored three goals and added an assist in the win. “Today, there were many mis takes, and both teams scored on every opportunity.” McGill took a short-lived lead late in the first o ff a Pierre Gendron shot which was deflected

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Quebec universities brace for drastic budget cuts departments, particularly in the fac ulties of fine arts, arts and science. “There is a plethora of under Concordia University, graduate programs and a burgeoning Université de Montréal and the Université du Québec à Montréal of individual coilrse offerings. While this situa are reacting tion exists univer quickly to deal I a d m it th a t th e sity wide, its with drastic bud re p o rt w a s h a rs h ly extreme expres get cuts expected sions are found w o rd e d b u t th e re is to be imposed by mainly in the the Quebec gov n o n e e d fo r m e m Faculty of Arts ernment in the b e rs o f th e and Science,” coming months. states the report, C o n c o rd ia c o m m u In a report entitled “Our made to the n ity to p a n ic. I m m e d i a te Concordia - P ro fe s s o r H a rv e y Future.” University Senate The report Committee on S c h u lm a n attracted a lot of Academic Planning and Priorities, Provost and media attention, which in turn creat Vice-Rector Research Jack ed a panic situation among Lightstone recommended the con C oncordia’s students and staff. solidation or merger of several Many students were worried about By T em o C h ala san i

current programs being shut down. Professor Harvey Schulman, a mem ber of SCAPP clarified Concordia’s position. “I admit that the report was harshly worded but there is no need for members of the Concordia com munity to panic. The report is now in the hands of individual depart ments which now have three months’ time to decide on the rec ommendations of the report. It is entirely up to them to decide which programs stay and which programs go,” he said. Concordia Rector and ViceChancellor Frederick Lowy regret ted that the report caused so much commotion. In a letter to the Concordia community, however, he addressed the need for Concordia to go through the painful exercise of cutting down on spending.

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SSMU and AUS councils debate CASA question B y N o a h G it t e r m a n

The Canadian Alliance of Student Associations is being chal lenged at McGill just as it claims success in promoting student inter ests on the national scene. The Arts Undergraduate Society council passed a pro posal for a plebiscite on February 19 that will ask Arts students whether or not they would like to terminate their membership in CASA. At a SSMU council meeting the next day, a motion to with draw SSMU’s membership in CASA was defeated after a lengthy debate. CASA is a lobby organi sation based in Ottawa which works to promote the interests of its member schools at the federal level. SSMU council voted to become a founding member of CASA in 1995.

Russian and Islamic Studies Rep Luis Riestra complained that CASA was not doing enough to tell stu dents about its activities. “CASA has been here two years, I have been paying money for two years, and I don’t know what CASA is,” he said.

plebicite instead of a referendum question, AUS council does not have to act on the vote but can use the results to gauge student opinion. Questions came up at the AUS council meeting as to how arts stu dents could leave CASA, since SSMU belongs to CASA as a repre sentative of all undergraduate students at M cGill. Ritch responded that if AUS ulti mately voted to leave CASA, it would inform SSMU not to count arts students as mem bers. She explained that since SSMU pays a fee to CASA based on the number of stu dents it represents, SSMU would simply reduce that fee by the appropriate amount.

for a voice in Quebec City than in Ottawa. “Is CASA the best means of lobbying the government? This year which nemesis reared its ugly head was our own provincial govern ment, so why shouldn’t our money go directly towards lobbying the provincial government instead of Ottawa?” Erdelyi asked in a report to council outlining his position. Erdelyi explained that SSMU would benefit more if it had no affiliation with a national student lobby organisation, and instead worked independently on the provincial level.

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A sim ilar debate occurred at SSMU council the next day when Clubs Rep Steven Erdelyi presented his motion to terminate SSMU’s membership in CASA. Erdelyi’s main concern Those who supported the was that CASA is not AUS plebiscite question were accountable enough to McGill concerned that undergraduate students. He brought up an students at McGill have never instance last semester when been asked in a referendum if CASA issued a press release they want to be a part of in which it distanced itself CASA. A majority vote by from future student protests, SSMU council secured mem stating that they were an inef bership for McGill undergrad fective way to promote stu uates in the national organisa dent interests. Many SSMU tion. councillors were upset that “The way in which we CASA would take such a entered was undemocratic,” stance without consulting its said AUS VP Administration membership. Heather Ritch, who will be Tanim Ahmed “Most of what CASA encouraging arts students to Heather Ritch wants to quit CASA does is not accountable to stu vote against CASA member Senate/Board Rep to SSMU dents,” Erdelyi asserted. “CASA is ship in the upcoming plebiscite. Sevag Yeghoyan was also present at a group of students consulting with CASA supporters at the AUS the AUS meeting and voiced his people in Ottawa who don’t consult council meeting vehemently reject support for CASA. He pointed out with us.” ed this argument. Chantal Da Silva, that CASA has recently accom Da Silva responded that CASA SSMU VP external and also Quebec plished some important work in has always been envisioned as a regional director for CASA, Ottawa, especially regarding the the reminded AUS councillors that in a grassroots organisation with mem federal budget that was released two ber councils contributing to policy plebiscite in September 1996, 60 weeks ago. The budget contained a development. She also pointed out per cent of undergraduate students number of initiatives which CASA that after SSMU council voiced its voted to support CASA. has been actively promoting for the disapproval over the press release, a “What I fear this will be doing last few months. Yeghoyan insisted CASA executive and a board mem is asking students a question they that it would be a mistake to throw ber visited council to discuss have already voted on,” Da Silva the association’s effectiveness into SSMU’s concerns. said at the meeting. doubt at a time when CASA has “We are CASA — we decide Ritch questioned the legitimacy begun to successfully lobby the fed what policies it will undertake, we of the 1996 plebiscite by asserting eral government. decide how much money we’ll pay that not enough was done to educate “This question comes across them,” she said. “We are one of its students about CASA before the when CASA is doing good work,” founding members — we should vote took place. Yeghoyan said. “What you are mould it into what we want it to “Last year there was a doing now is a backhanded way to be.” plebiscite for all students, but I put pressure on CASA. If there are Erdelyi, however, argued that think students were lacking in infor legitimate problems, lets bring them education is a provincial jurisdiction mation, they were uninformed,” she up and discuss them.” and since the Quebec government said. The plebiscite question will be opted out of the Canada Student This sentiment was echoed by voted on during the AUS election Loan Program, there is more need other members of AUS council. period this month. Since it is a

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Others, however, felt that it would be a drastic error not to have representation on the national scene. Da Silva explained that there are many other issues besides student loans which come up in Ottawa, and pointed to the recent federal budget announcements affecting tax deduc tions for students. “To be independent is going to sacrifice the representation we have on the national level,” she said. “We need a voice in Ottawa.” After a long debate, the motion to leave CASA was voted down by a large majority.

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P r e s id e n tia l c a n d id a te s lo o k in g to m a k e S S M U m o r e a c c e s s ib le A ccording to the SSMU C onstitution, the duties of the president of McGill’s undergradu ate students’ society include the role of “the spokesperson for the Society in a manner not inconsis tent with p o licies set out by Council.” The president also attends meetings of the McGill Senate and Board of Governors. This year, students will be asked to choose from three candidates hoping to succeed current SSMU President Chris Carter. U3 Mechanical Engineering student Araya Solomon is advo cating what he refers to as a “change in the infrastructure of com m unication” to help SSMU better serve students. “Students have to know what goes on at SSMU so that they can use it more efficiently,” Solomon said. “There needs to be a better circulation of ideas so that we can push aside the bureaucracy and individual bickering.” He went on to argue that it is time for SSMU to put the needs of students ahead of personal poli-

“Instead of approaching i som ething and looking at j whether it’s right wing or left wing, I’ll be asking if it’s right for students. If so. do it,” he said. Derek Prohar, another candidate in this year’s presi dential race, is working on a « “comprehensive plan” — a list of 50 items which he has put together in order to “bring SSMU back to the students.” “I would like to see the president as more of a cohe sive force — a leader,” said the U2 polticial science stu dent. “The president is more of a unifier than someone who sets up barriers. I will be look ing not to compromise, but to articulate student views, and do what’s in the best interest of students.” For some of his proposed changes, Prohar plans to place ads containing performance evalu ations of the SSMU executives each month in the Tribune, and work with the VP finance to find a

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As the official liaison between SSMU and the university adminis tration, the VP university affairs coordinates communication between undergraduate councillors, senators, and representatives to the Board of Governors, and is responsible for the relationship between SSMU and all levels of McGill government. The position is being contested by three students this year. Elisabeth Gomery, a U2 politi cal science student and current SSMU francophone co-commission er, has a list of specific changes on her platform which she hopes to take into office with her for the next acad emic year. “Twenty per cent of professors choose not to have their course eval uations pub lished — it seems to me that these are the ones we need to hear about,” Gomery said. “I will see course evalua tions published according to majors, and sent out each July.” . Gomery is also looking to hire a political research officer, and to see that the McGill Association of U n iv e r s ity T e a c h e r s E lis a b e th G o m e r y accepts the new sexual harassment policy. She also has pledged to ensure the needs of McGill’s minority communities are better met. “I would like to have the McGill card work in the Concordia, UQAM, and U de M libraries. McGill has very poor resources in French, while 20 per cent of our stu dents are francophone,” she said. Also in this year’s race for VP university affairs is U2 political sci ence student Lara Leigh-Wood. Leigh-Wood sees accessibility, gen der issues, and day-care as some of

the most important items for next year. “I will ensure that there is space in the new student services building for a day-care,” Leigh-Wood said. “I will see that there is a gender-neutral language policy, an anti-sexist lan guage policy, and more reading of female authors in courses.” Leigh-Wood also stated that she would like to adjust the current cred it allotment for certain courses. “There is a need to examine the credit allotment given to courses to make sure it is accurate,” she said. “For example, some science lab courses require much more time, but still are only for three credits.” The final candidate for VP uni versity affairs is first year manage ment student T a m a n a K o c h a r . Kochar also sees day-care as a priority, and is looking to increasé the means of comm u n ic a tio n between administrators and students. “I will establish ques tion and answer ses sions between the administra tion and stu dents,” Kochar said. “I would like to have the exam schedule before the end of add/drop period, and work for library improvement.” With respect to changes from this year’s executive, Kochar sees the need to focus more on equity issues. “I would stress more on equity issues than was done this year, work ing for a day-care and to help stu dents with disabilities,” she said. “I think that the last few VPs have done hn amazing job, and my main objec tive is to get things done — whatev er is important to the students.”

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Two candidates are competing in this year’s race for the position of SSMU VP external affairs. The holder of this position, as outlined in the SSMU Constitution, is man dated to “communicate positions and policies taken by the Society to external bodies and agencies.” A controversial issue for cur rent VP External Affairs Chantal Da Silva has been SSMU’s mem bership in the Canadian Alliance of Student Associations. Da Silva has occasionally met with claims that SSMU would be better served as a mem ber of the Canadian Federation of Students. Moreover, there have been other students who contend that non-alignment is the best option. Keith Campbell, a U3 political science student, is looking to increase job opportunities for McGill students, and improve safe ty in student housing areas. “My first project will be an internship program ,” Campbell

said. “I will be recruiting positions from as many alumni as possible and also from the government and private sector. I will also see that the ghetto safety program is pushed to the west side of cam pus, and to the area around Solin Hall.” Cam pbell supports CASA, arguing that “CFS doesn’t adopt a realistic approach to lobbying.” “I plan on advocating the incom e contingent loan repayment plan with in CASA,” he said. “ I believe CASA needs changing. They need to clarify their points in order to have a stronger L is a P h ip p s agenda.” The other candidate make SSMU more accessible for VP external affairs is Lisa through the expansion of on-line Phipps, a U3 English student. services. Phipps has internships as a major “It is important to not only campaign focus and is looking to implement more internships, but also upgrade them so that every student can get work experience,” Phipps said. “I will have an on line external newsletter to keep students informed. I would pro vide information on what it is that we do for students beyond the Roddick Gates.” Like Campbell, Phipps sup ports SSM U’s m embership in CASA and sees the organisation as a good lobbying tool. “Through CASA we can effectively lobby the government against differential tuition fees,” she said. “I think CASA is a young organisation but there is a lot of potential.”

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SSMU Election Quizzes - Candidates test their knowledge - SSMU Election Quizzes The M cG ill Tribune has conducted oral quizzes for candi dates running for SSM U executive positions for the third year in a row. The objective o f the quiz is to test candidates' general knowledge o f SSM U, M c G ill, and the M ontreal community.

Questions were com piled by members o f the Tribune editori al board with some help from individual students. Although some questions m ay have been tougher (or sillier) than oth ers, fairness was our prim ary goal. (Conducted and com piled by N oah Gitterman, Sara Jean Green, Liz Lau and Benji Weinstein)

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1. Who is the McGill professor that designed the "Next Home" which was displayed on campus last semester? (1 point) Professor A vi Friedman 2. Don McGowan presented a motion to Senate this year to cancel exams on December 6. Why? (1 point) To a llow students to commemorate the 14 women killed in the massacre at Ecole polytechnique in 1989

3. What reason did the Canadian Red Cross give for closing down the SSMU blood drive in October? (1 point) The security o f the blood supply was being challenged 4. Name four Faculty Undergraduate Society Presidents. (1/2 point each) Too many to name.

5. How much money does SSMU currently pay each year to McGill to rent the William Shatner University Centre? (1 point) $1 6. W hich former Dean was quoted as saying, "students are tunnelvisioned, narrow-minded, greasy, sleazy, self-centred, and greedy"? (1/2 point) What department does he/she now teach in? (1/2 point) Irw in Copnik, English

7. Which Board of Governors member is on the International Olympics Committee? (1 point) Richard (Dick) Pound 8. Name the 3 administrators that came to SSMU council this year. (1 point) Phyllis Heaphy (VP Finance and Adm inistration), Rosalie lu k ie r (Dean o f Students), Bernard Shapiro (Principal)

9. What major conference did the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada hold this semester? (1 point) Conference on the Royal Commission on Aboriginal People

10. How many voting seats are there on SSMU council? (1 point) 34 11. For how long did the Quebec government say that tuition fees will be frozen for Quebec residents? (1 point) U ntil the end o f the PQ's current

Tara Newell 1. Avi Friedman 2. To commemorate the murder of 14 women at the Ecole Polytechnique in 1989. 3. They were worried about the safety of the blood supply. 4. Jeff Kwong (SUS), Nipun Sharma (MUS), Jen Crosby (EUS) and John Provart (AUS) 5. $1 6. Irwin Gopnik, Linguistics 7. Dick Pound 8. Shapiro, Jukier and Heaphy 9. Royal Commission on Natives in Canada 10. 32 11. Until the end of this academic year.

12. It's been cancelled. 13. 4990 14. They paved McTavish St. 15. AGSEM and MUNACA 16. Spring 1994, Mark Luz 17. Boba Fett 18. Three Score: 17.5/20 (87.5%, A)

mandate

12. What is'the current status of the internal inquiry McGill launched after the suicide of Professor Justine Sergent in 1994? (1 point) It has been ter minated

13. What is the phone number of the Dean of Students' office? (1 point) 398-4990

14. What did the City of Montreal give to McGill as a gift for the universi ty's 175th birthday? (1 point) Revamped Rue McTavish 15. Name two unions currently negotiating contracts with M cG ill (2 points) ACSEM and MUNACA 16. When did the SSMU president lose- his/her vote on the Board of Governors? Who was president at the time? (1/2 point each) March 1994, Mark Luz

17. What is the name of the bounty hunter who captures Han Solo for Jabba the Hut? (1 point) Boba Fett 18. How many times a week does the McGill Daily publish? (1 point) three

Total points: 20

Current President Chris Carter Score: 17.5/20 (87.5%, A)

Derek Prohar 1.Professor Friedman 2. In memorium for the women Marc Lepine massacred at the Ecole Polytechnique 3. They were worried that the blood supply would be compro mised. 4. John Provart (AUS), Nipun Sharma (MUS), Jen Crosby (EUS), Jeff Kwong (SUS) 5. $1 6. Irwin Gopnik, English 7. Dick Pound 8. Jukier, Shapiro and Heaphy 9. Conference on aboriginal rights 10. 31 11. For one year I believe.

12. It's closed. 13. 4990 14. They redid McTavish St. 15. MUNACA and MAUT 16. I'm not sure on that. 17. I don't know.

18. Three Score: 15/20 (75%, B+) Araya Solomon 1. I don't know. 2. To observe the religious holiday. 3. Because the SSMU was not w ill ing to observe their rules and regu lations. 4. Jen Crosby (EUS) I don't know. 5. $1 6. I don't know. Law 7. Sevag Yeghoyan 8. Jukier, Gretta Chambers, and VP

Heaphy

At the w om en’s issu es debate, presidential candidate Derek Prohar lam ented that “w om en’s issu es are on the back burner, especially in the McGill context.”

9. I don't know. 10. 31 11. An undetermined amount of time. 12. I don't know 13. I'd call 4455 and ask. 14. I don't know. 15. SSMU and I don't know. 16. 1994, Sevag Yeghoyan 17. Greico 18. Twice.

Score: 2.5/20 (12.5%, F)

1. W hat Q uebec VIP attended M c G ill's Open House but was drowned out by student protes tors? (1 point) Education Minister Pauline Marois

Name the four hospitals that w ill be merging to create the M cGill University Health Centre. (2 points) Royal Victoria Hospital, 2.

M ontreal Neurological, M ontreal C h ild re n 's a n d the M o n tre a l General

3. W ho is the d irecto r of the O ffice for Students with D is a b ilitie s? (1 point) Joan Wolforth 4. What does MAUT stand for? (1 point) M c G ill A s s o c ia tio n o f University Teachers

5. What department in the faculty of arts has been twinned with its counterpart at U de M? (1 point) A rt history

6. What percentage of students at McGill are from outside Quebec? (1 pj>int) Approximately 40% 7. Who headed the Senate Task Force that recom mended an Estates General? (1 point) Rod MacDonald

8. Who is the Vice-Chancellor of McGill? (1 point) Bernard Shapiro 9. What reason did the M cG ill ombudsperson give for not pub lishing her report in the Tribune last semester? (1 point) lack o f funds

10. At what stage are negotiations between AGSEM and the McGill administration? (1 point) AGSEM requested arbitration

11. By what date do all SSMU by law and constitutional ammendments have to be available in both English and French? (1 point) A pril 1, 1997

12. Name the two new service charges that cam e up in VP Finance and Administration Phyllis Heaphy's budget considerations? (2 points) A c a d e m ic S ervices Charge and the A d m in is tra tiv e Services Charge

13. What has the money from the SSMU Library Improvement Fund been spent on so far? (1 point) Nothing

14. What is the phone number for the Sexual A ssau lt Centre of M c G ill's Students' Society? (1 point) 2700 or 8500 15. What interdisciplinary minor program was approved to become a m ajor program last year? (1 point) Women's Studies 16. What was the name of Jack Tripper's kitchen assistant at Jack's Bistro on Three's Company? (1 point) Félipé 17. How much money has the government alloted for research and development in the sciences in the recent federal budget for this year? (1 point) $800 m illion 18. What does Bill C-32 pertain to? (1 point) copyright laws Total points: 20

Current VP University Affairs Don McGowan Score: 19/20 (95%, A)

A f f a i r s Lara Leigh-Wood: 1) Parizeau 2 Jewish General, RVH, Montreal Children's, St. Mary's (1 point) 3) I don't know 4) McGill Association of

University Teachers 5) French department 6) 60 per cent 7) Chris Carter 8) I don't know 9) finances 10) a stand off

11 ) April 1 12) students services charge, fac ulty administration services charge

13) nothing 14) 398-2700 15) women's studies 16) It's an elitist question, I don't have cable. I 7) I don't know 18) I don't know

Total: 7/20 (35%, F) Tamana Kochar 1) Pauline Marois 2) Royal Vic, Montreal General (1 point) 3) Joan Wolforth 4) McGill Association of University Teachers 5) French department 6) 80% 7) Rod Macdonald 8) Nope 9) She was unavailable 10) Final stage

I I ) April 1 12) Academic services charge, administrative services charge 13) They haven't started anything on it yet. 14) 2700 15) 16) 17) 18)

religious studies I have no idea $1.5 million sexual harassment

Score: 10/20 (50%, D) Elisabeth Gomery: 1) Pauline Marois 2) Royal Vic, Montreal General, Montreal Jewish (1 point) 3) Honora Shaughnessy

4) McGill Association of University Teachers 5) Litérature Française 6) around 45% (1/2 point) 7) I have no idea

8) Bernard Shapiro 9) She didn't think students need ed to know 10) stalemate 11) April 14 or 17 12) I don't know 13) nothing

14) 398-2700 15) East Asian Studies

16) Félipé 17) no idea 18) Allotment of funds to provinces fo education

Total: 7.5/20 (37.5%, F)

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1. Who worked as the Staff Reorgan isational Advisor to SSMU last summer? (1 point) Jen Harding 2. Who publishes the McGill Reporter? (1 point) the

Sarvesh Srivastava 1. |en Harding

University Relations Office

3. Sarvesh Srivastava (SUS), Alberto Sanchez (EUS), Tara Newell (AUS), Trevor Lee (MUS) 4. $17.25 million 5. 398-2498 6. Pierre Tellier 7. File Transfer Protocol and Hyper Text Markup Language 8. T h e F le id i C h r o n i c l e s , M a d B o y , L it t le S h o p o f

3. Name four faculty undergraduate society Vice Presidents Internal. (1/2 point each) too many to name 4. What is Solin Hall's current debt? (1 point) $17.3 m illion

5. What is the phone number of Walksafe? (1 point) 398-2498

6. Who is the medical director of the McGill Health Services? (1 point) Pierre Tellier 7. What do FTP and HTML stand for? (1/2 point each)

2. McGill Communications Relations Office (1/2 point)

H orro rs

9. First

Idella Sturino

17. Mario Brothers I

3. How much money do students have to pay for the SSMU dental plan? (1 point) $5.88 per month,

Nishi Aubin: 1) |en Harding

6. Approximately how much does M cG ill currently budget for its libraries? (1 point). Approximately how much is in the SSMU Library Im provem ent Fund? (1 point)

Society

4) $250,000

14. How many permanent staff members are employed by SSMU? (1 point) 12 15. What former SSMU exec now sits on the editorial board of a McGill publication? (1 point) What is the name of the publication? (1 point) Helena Myers, The

5) 398-2498 6) Dr. Pierre Tellier 7) File Transfer Protocol (1/2 point), Hyper Text some

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16. What student organisation held an audit of the Shatner Building to determine its accessibility for stu dents with disabilities? (1 point) Name one recommen dation of the group. (1 point) ACCESS M c G ill, too

9) Second

Current VP Internal Mark Feldman Score: 19/20 (95%, A)

months; low income graduates 30 months

ly, p u b licly, repeatedly condems Pepsi for its actions in Burma

2) The Relations Office (1/2 point)

17. What was the very first video game in the Mario Bros, series? (1 point) Donkey Kong Total points: 20

1. How much of a raise did SSMU execs get at the end of the 1995-96 school year? (1 point) $3,500 2. How many months do graduates on the Canada Student Loan Program have before they have to start paying interest? (1 point) 6

Score: 17.5/20 (87.5%, A)

12. Name four services (1 point) too many to name 13. Name all the clubs listed under "Z" in the SSMU Student Handbook. (1 point) Zoroastrian Students'

many to list

cate for the creation of a clubs computer lab last semester? (1 point) $10,000 5. W hat was the phrase on the stickers that SSMU placed under all Pepsi ads in the W illia m Shatner U n ive rsity Centre this semester? (1 point) SSMU official

McGowan and CFCF 12 personality Don McGowan

11. Name the McGill Daily's Editor-in-Chief. (1 point)

plus tax 4. How much did the SSMU allo

10. Don McGowan and Don McGowan 11. Idella Sturino 8. Name three plays performed this year at M cGill. (1 12. L8GTM, Women's Union, Walksafe, BSN point) Too numerous to list 13. Zoroastrian Students' Society 9. What is the national ranking of the Martlet basket 14. Twelve ball team right now? (1 point) th ird p la c e as o f 15. Helena Myers, T he B o t to m L in e February 18 16. ACCESS McGill, build a ramp in Gert's F ile T ransfer P ro to c o l a n d H y p e r Text M a rk u p Language

10. What SSMU executive and local media personality were interviewed on the same TV McGill Late Show this year? (1 point) current VP University Affairs Don

3) Trevor Lee (MUS), Alberto Sanchez (EUS), Sarvesh

Srivastava (SUS), Tara Newell (AUS)

thing or other

H e i d i C h r o n ic le s , Little S h o p o f H o rr o rs , M a d B o y

10) Don McGowan and Don McGowan 1 1) Idella something (1/2 point) 12) Volunteer Bureau, McGill Literacy, SACOMSS 13) Zoroastrian Students' Society 14) Eleven or twelve (1/2 point) 15) Helena Myers, T he B o t t o m L in e 16) ACCESS McGill, ramp in Gert's 17) Donkey Kong Total: 16/20 (80%, A-)

a p p ro x im a te ly $300,000

$15

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7. How much does a pitcher of beer cost at the Alley during happy hour? (1 point) $6 8. How many jobs does Pepsi pro vide for students under its contract with SSMU? (1 point) 37 9. H ow much money has VP Finance & Administration Phyllis Heaphy set aside for student aid in her recent budget considerations? (1 point) $3.9 m illion 10. How many full-status clubs does SSMU recognise? (1 point) 120-130

11. W hat three SSMU clubs received the biggest budgets this year? (1 point) D ebating U nion, M odel UN, and Big Buddies

12. Name the last VP Finance to serve two years in a row. (1 point) Paul Johnson (1993-95)

1. What four universities make up the Table Régionale Inter-Universitaire? (1 point) M cG ill, Concordia, U de M, UQAM 2. Name two people running for the leadership of the Bloc Québécois? (1 point each) too many to list

3. Who is the chair of CFS? (1 point) Who is the presi dent of FEUQ? (1 point) Brad Lavigne, Jezabel Palluy 4. What is the station number of the police station which opened up in the ghetto this semester? (1 point) 19

5. Name three CEGEPs that went on strike last semester. (1 point) too numerous to list 6. Name all of the McGill residences. (1 point) Gardner, Molson, McConnell, Douglas, Royal Victoria College, Solin

7. What is the name of CASA's new promotional cam paign? (1 point) What is that name in French? (1 point) Education Builds a Nation: The Value o f Knowledge, l'éductaion bâtit la nation: la valeur de savoir

8. What Senate inquiry did Senator Lome Bonnell initi ate last year? (1 point) Inquiry into post-secondary edu cation

9. At which Canadian university were student executives accused of downloading pornography from the Internet? (1 point) Simon Fraser University 10. Who is the current federal minister of Human Resources Development? (1 point) Pierre Pettigrew 11. How much will Canadian out-of-province students be paying for tuition at M cGill next year? (1 point) $2886.30

12. What student organisation at M cG ill passed a plebiscite question regarding CASA in February? (1 point) Arts Undergraduate Society 13. Why did SSMU withdraw from FEUQ? (1 point) FEUQ adopted a pro-sovereignty stance

14. What is the name of the former CASA official charged with embezzling thousands of dollars from the association? (1 point) Pat Fitzpatrick 15. Name three party leaders in the national assembly? (1 point) Lucien Bouchard, Paul Johnson, Mario Dumont 16. What was the name of the talking globe on Pee Wee's Playhouse? (1 point) Globey 17. What is the name of the party which Pierre Bourque leads? (1 point) Vision Montreal

Current VP External Chantal Da Silva Total: 17/20 (85%, A)

Keith Campbell: 1) UQAM, Université de Montréal, Concordia, McGill 2) Pierrette Venne, Gilles Duceppe 3) I don't know. I can't remember. 4) 32 5) Maisonneuve, Vieux Montréal, Bois de Boulogne

6) Douglas, McConnell, Molson, Gardner, RVC, Solin 7) Education builds a nation (1/2 point) l'éducation bâtit la nation (1/2 point) 8) Inquiry into post-secondary education 9) Simon Fraser University 10) Pierre Pettigrew 11) About $2,500

12) AUS 13) Took a resolution advocating sovereignty 14) Something like Peter MacDonald

15) Lucien Bouchard, Daniel Johnson, Mario Dumont 16) Worldy 17) Vision Montreal

Total: 13/20 (65%, B-) Lisa Phipps: 1) Université de Montréal, UQAM, McGill, Université de Laval (1/2 point) 2) 3) 4) 5)

13. What organisation used to run the copy centre in the basement of the Shatner Building? (1 point) EUS 14. Name four sponsors of this year's SSMU frosh.(2 points) too numerous to list.

15. How much is SSMU in debt to McGill? (1 point) None 16. Name the president of Miraval. (1 point) Maurice Corey 17. What does CCBC stand for? (1 point) How much is the annual fee paid to the C C B C ? (1 point) C a n a d ia n C am pus Consortium, $2477.56

Business

Current VP Finance Jonathan D. Chomski 18/20, (85%, A)

Adam Giambrone: 1) $5,000

2) 6 months (1/2 point) 3) $5.88 plus tax. 4) $10,000 5) SSMU repeatedly, consistently condemns Pepsi for their actions in Burma

6) 4% of budget / $15 million. $300,000. 7) $6

8) 5 9) $4 million (1/2 point) 10) 125 11) Debating, Model UN, Flux.

(1/2 point) 12) Kelly Remai

13) EUS 14) McDonald's, ScotiaBank, ACC, Peel Pub 15) Zero 16) I don't know.

17) Canadian Campus Business Consortium (1 point), $5,000 Total: 12.5/20 (62.5%, C) Duncan Reid: 1) $3500 2) 24 months. 3) $5.88 per month 4) 15,600 5) The SSMU publicly and repeat edly condem ns Pepsi for its actions in Burma. 6) $3 million. $300,000 (1 point) 7) $6.50

8) 6 9) $200,000

10) 120 clubs 11) Debating Union, Flux, Model UN (1/2 point) 12) Paul Johnson 13) EUS 14) Peel Pub, Pepsi, ACC, ScotiaBank 15) Zero 16) Maurice Corey 17) Canadian Campus Business Consortium (1 point), don't know Total: 11.5/20 (57.5%, D) Karan Manhas: 1) $3,500 2) 13 months 3) $5.88 per month 4) $10,000 5) SSMU publicly, officially, repeatedly, condemns Pepsi for its actions in Burma

6) 7) 8) 9)

$300, 000, $20,000 $6 35-40 (1/2 point)

$3.9 million 10) 110 11 ) Debating Union, Big Buddies, UNSAM 12) Paul Johnson 13) EUS 14) Scotia Bank, Copy 2000, Bell, ACC, Peel Pub 15) zero dollars 16) Maurice Corey 17) Canadian Campus Business Consortium (1 point), approxi mately $2,500 (1/2 point) Total: 15/20 (75%, B+)

I can't think of any.

Brad Lavigne (1 point). I don't know. 15 Marianopolis, Maisonneuve, Rosemont (1/2 point)

6) Solin, RVC, Douglas, McConnell, Gardner, Molson 7) Education builds a nation - the value of knowl edge (1 point) Education construit un nation - la valeur de savoir 8) I have no idea. 9) University of Victoria.

10) Pierre Pettigrew 11) $2868.30 12) AUS 13) Because of sovereignty 14) Patrick Fitzpatrick 15) Lucien Bouchard, Daniel Johnson (1/2 point) 16) I have no idea. 17) Skip.

Total: 9.5/20 (47.5%, F)

Women’s issues debate Candidates running for SSMU executive positions engaged in a panel discussion about women’s issues in The Alley on January 18. Sara Mayo, formerly of the Women’s Union, told candidates that issues to be discussed were not specifically about women but instead the debate was to centre on “what we as women at McGill see as important.” While issues of safety, sexual harrassment, child day care and affirmative action were discussed, candidates were also asked about the role of the Financial Ethics Research Committee, increased tuition and service fees, as well as the viability of SSMU Task Forces. There will be a debate held by the Commission francophone on March 6 in the Alley at 12:30 p.m., and another debate on March 10 in Gert’s at 5:oo p.m.

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Quebec universities prepare for cuts the overall objective of lowering teaching appointments by 15 to 18 such as the Women’s Centre.” per cent, and non-academic staff by Like Concordia, Université de 20 per cent. Montréal is also struggling to Addressing the looming cuts accommodate the government’s at UQAM, a letter was sent to all current and personnel from expected cuts. Rector Paule “T h e g o v e rn m e n t c u ts According to U Leduc outlining h a v e fo rc e d us to re a c t de M Vicethe need for a plan in a v e ry fa s t w a y .” R e c t o r to deal with the Administration — U d e M V ic e -R e c to r budget cuts. P a t r i c k “The Comité A d m in is tra tio n du Changement M olineri, all universities are P a tric k M o lin e ri has been set up at facing a 7 per UQAM to coordi cent budget cut nate discussions on the Plans this year, and at least 11 per cent d’Actions and the future orientation next year. of the university.” the letter said. “The government cuts have Josette Guimont, director of forced us to react in a very fast Public Relations at UQAM, men way,” Molineri said. “We launched tioned other measures to battle the a Ill-phase plan in the fall of ‘95 to cuts. deal with the budget cuts. We have “Alongside the Comité du now reached the third phase in Changement, an Intersectorial which a major overhaul of courses Consultative Committee has been will be implemented. The process established to debate and decide which will link together courses where spending can be reduced offered by all departments will start without compromising the •in two weeks.” University’s long term objectives Molineri also pointed out that of accessible public education.” U de M has implemented two early retirement programs in line with Continued from Page 2

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New federal budget receives mixed reviews “We are very proud of the banks who may be asked to roll over credit,” he said. “We underwrite the new loans. Plans for income contingent Mixed feelings emerged in worked hard to lobby for that loan repaym ent programs have one, with the idea first coming to the wake of the 1997 federal bud long been controversial with stu us from a stu d en t at the get, as student leaders cited the dents. First proposed by former Liberal government’s responsive University of Waterloo.” While CASA sees the budget M inister of Human Resources ness to some issues and their as an affirmation of its lobbying Lloyd Axworthy in 1994, ICRPs abandonment of others. M in ister of F inance Paul capabilities, the federal depart cam e under fire from student Martin presented the federal bud ment of finance has been hesitant groups who claim ed that such get to the House of Commons on to acknowledge the effect of the pro g ram s w ould effec tiv ely restrict access to post-secondary February 18 which included spe organisation’s efforts. “Student groups made pre education. ICRPs would require cific provisions for C an ad a’s troubled education system. An sentations before the department stu d en ts to repay th eir loans immediate increase in the educa of finance and the government through the federal tax system tion tax credit to $150 per month took a c tio n ,” said Jo n athan based on incom e lev els after and an extension of that credit to M assey-Sm ith, a spokesperson g rad u atio n . S tudents able to include ancillary student fees was for the minister of finance. “To secure high-paying jobs would be announced. The an cillary fee say that their lobbying was the able to repay their loans in a rela credit is particularly well-timed only reason for our decisions tively short period of time while for McGill students since McGill would be incorrect, but to say lower-paying jobs would see stu V ice-P rin cip al F inance and that it did not have any effect is dents taking longer to pay back loans along with higher rates of Adm inistration Phyllis Heaphy also incorrect.” In co n tra st to C A S A ’s accumulated interest. recently introduced two new fees “We are willing to discuss that fit into this category. In addi approval is the disappointment tion, the grace p erio d during exp ressed by B rad L evigne, with the provinces the possibility which students have after gradua n atio n al ch airp erso n o f the of an incom e co n tin g en t loan tion to begin making payment on Canadian Federation of Students. repaym ent p lan ,” said Claude student loans has been extended According to Levigne, the budget H en au lt, a m edia re la tio n s from 18 to 30 m onths. Over 5 fails to help those students who spokesperson at the department of finance. “This is not a feature years, $800 million has also been need it most. “A lthough we are pleased of the budget, but something that set aside for research in facilities that include post-secondary edu w ith the an c illary fees being we are willing to consider. It is included in the tax credit, it is nothing that will be available in cation institutions. The C anadian A lliance of only relief for those who earn the current fiscal or academ ic Student Associations, in which enough to pay taxes,” he said. year.” Both CASA and CFS have SSMU is a member, applauded “There is nothing in the budget to decried ICLRs, arguing that it has help bring down student debt. It these provisions. “We are thrilled about the is like gravy for those with meat, come as a complete surprise and changes to the tax system. Those and nothing for those w ithout will only hurt other debt-repay ment programs. students who have an income will anything on their plate.” “IC LR s have reared th eir Both CFS and CASA have benefit by the increased monthly amount,” said Matthew Hough, expressed disapproval for a sec ugly head again. When every national director of CASA. “The tion of the budget which states body read page 95 [of the federal extended tuition credit is fantas that the federal government will b u d g et], they im m ed iately tic. It has been difficult to get begin to pursue income contin assum ed the w orst. T his has people to even acknow ledge gent loan repayment as an option com e from n o w h e re,” said for dealing with student debt. The Hough. “A flexible program is ancillary fees.” governm ent has plans to meet what we prefer. But one with no Hough was p artic u la rly enthusiastic about the budget’s with provincial leaders to discuss government intervention and no pledge to allow students to carry the feasibility of ICLRs in the subsidies is something that we forward unused portions of their different provinces. The govern will fight very hard.” tax credits — the so-called “roll ment also expects to meet with executives from major Canadian over” stipulation. By Benji W einstein

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Presidential candidate receives threatening e-mail SSMU Presidential candidate Tara Newell has received a series of harassing and threatening mes sages by e-mail, some of them referring to her cur rent campaign. Someone broke into Newell’s e-mail account and sent pornographic and threatening messages to her friends. She also received messages telling her to quit her campaign, and threatening to harass her friends. The messages are all from an anonymous sender. Newell explained that although she finds the messages disturbing, she does not want them to get in the way of her campaign. “It is genuinely frightening me to some extent,” she said. "[But] I am not focusing on it because I’m trying to focus on the campaign.” She also pointed out that the messages are get

ting progressively more threatening. Newell has informed campus security, and they are doing their best to deal with the situation. “I know I have people taking care of it,” she said.

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The M anagem ent U ndergraduate Society recently held elections to elect a new executive and a number of management representatives. The winners start their positions on May 1. The winner for the position of president is Trevor Lee, for VP finance Cameron Rose, and VP academic Alice Janowski. Sarah Ewing won the position of VP communication, Richard Vachon is the new VP external and Scott Willis secured the position of VP internal. Management U2 rep winner is Nadia Yishiyama, and the U3 rep is Alison James. Jeff Andrews will be the Management rep to SSMU council.

The M aritim e P rovinces Higher Education Commission has recommended that the feder al governm ent p en alise provinces that restrict in ter provincial mobility for universi ty students. This suggestion was part of a report which was presented to the Senate sub-com m ittee on post-secondary education last Wednesday. The commission is an independent advisory group to the governm ents o f Nova Scotia, New B runsw ick, and Prince Edward Island. Members include provincial politicians, faculty and students from uni versities and the public at large. Daniel Goudbout, the chief operating officer of the commis sion, explains that the report addresses "decreasing federal funding and its impact, general accessibility for students and concerns of high debt, and research funding.” A ccording to the report, “ [t]he Government of Canada should consider withdraw ing funding resources for post-sec ondary education from provinces th at re stric t panC anadian m obility eith er by charging excessive fees to outof-provin ces stu d en ts, or restricting loans to students who study outside th eir home province.” Quebec would invariably be affected by this proposal because of the governm ent’s recent decision to charge higher fees to C anadian o u t-o f province students. Quebec, as well as B ritish C olum bia,

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A lberta, Saskatchew an and Ontario, would also be affected due to its resid en cy -b ased restrictions on financial aid. The Senate subcommittee on post-secondary education will be coming out with their report at the beginning of May. R ecom m endation’s to penalise provinces which restrict the mobility of university stu dents compliments actions taken by the S tu d e n ts’ S ociety of McGill University. “The SSMU is working with lawyers to assemble mate rials for a p o ten tial law suit against the Q uebec g o v ern m en t,” said Don M cGow an, SSMU VP university affairs. A lthough d etails of this legal collaboration have yet to be elucidated, the lawsuit will target the discriminatory nature of Quebec’s differential tuition fees. W hile the C om m ission’s recom m endations have been greeted with some opposition, especially among members of provincial governments, support for SSM U’s lawsuit has been increasing from both francopho ne and anglophone universities around the country. Don M cGow an v isited Université Laval last Thursday to hold a m eeting with l ’A ssociation des Etudiantes Etranger, an organisation repre senting francophone out-ofpro v in ce stu d en ts, and was encouraged by their response. “W e’re looking for support from francophone universities outside of Quebec to show peo ple th at i t ’s not a language issue,” said McGowan.

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be difficult for students to obtain financial aid. “This $150 million will not help at all. The qualifications to receive OSAP still remain the same [and] it is very difficult to get as is,” she said. Reactions from the various university administrations have been mixed. At Ryerson and Carleton. the administrations have agreed to postpone any decisions regarding tuition increases until after meetings with students. However, the York administration has adopted a hard line policy and have threatened students with expulsion and charges of trespass ing. University of Toronto officials have already decided to raise stu dent tuition fees. Ted Salgado, external affairs commissioner at the University of Toronto, argued that an increase in tuition is unfair to students since

the university budget yielded a sur plus of $24 million. “The university still wants money," Salgado said. "We oppose the tuition raises because we feel that this $24 million could be put directly into student needs.” Ontario students have been urged by the Canadian Federation of Students to take part in a Day of Action organised in Sudbury for March 21 and 22. “This will be a day of student m obility,” Smallman said. “Hopefully together we will be able to achieve a tuition freeze. Students must fight for post-secondary accessibility.” Secondary-school, college and university students will be mobilis ing in the greater Toronto area for a protest of solidarity at the U of T on March 11.

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M cG ILL T R IB U N E “Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote” — George Jean Nathan L i z L au

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Next year’s executives will each be earning S15, 000. Altogether, that’s more than 75,000 of your dollars. It is only right, then, that those who come into office next year (and every year) make your interests their primary concern. Two years ago, the Tribune instituted the election quiz, whereby can didates were tested on their knowledge McGill. Only six out of 15 candi dates received a passing grade. Two got 75 per cent or better. Granted, a Red Herring slate that year entered a candidate into each of those posistions. It is frightening to look back and see that numerous “serious" candi dates fared little better on that quiz than the joke ones. What was even more unfortunate, however, was that those dismal results generated little surprise. It revealed what most people suspected already — that most of the candidates had little knowledge about the lev els of government with which they would be working once elected. How could anyone expect these elected officials to bring any type of insight or vision into office? This year saw a higher percentage of candidates doing passably or extremely well (sec pp 6-7). The Tribune acknowledges, however, that most of the answers to our questions can be learned by rote, or through simple awareness of issues which have received ample coverage in McGill media in the past few years. What is much harder to test, or reveal, rather, is whether these candidates are principled and mature indi viduals who come in with ideas and long-term vision. Also important is whether the executives and councillors have the political savvy to work effectively with all levels of McGill government. The proportion of students who actually bother to vote during cam pus elections linger sadly and consistently at about 20 per cent every year. Is student apathy a sign of discontent at the inefficacy and pettiness of student politics, or have elected officials become unresponsive to their constituents because students ask not that they be accountable to their actions? Despite the fact that phrases about “tuition increase” and “quality of education” have become hackneyed buzz words in all the campaigns, the problems facing McGill right now are real and formidable. Our libraries were ranked 11th in Macleans' survey this year. Small departments such as art history and African studies constantly face the possibility of extinc tion. Since June 1993, McGill has hired only 98 full-time academic staff to replace the 163 who have left from firings and early retirement pro grams (excepting Faculty of Medicine). Even the campus grounds at McGill display the beleagured state of the university, as they sustain more than $200 million in deferred maintenance. All this comes back to you, the student, in a roundabout way. The effectiveness of an elected student government fluctuates from year to year, and at McGill (as with at most other universities) student politicians struggle to convince the administration to take them seriously. What is sure, however, is that the representatives need to come in willing, ready and able to devote themselves to improving the university by little steps. One needs not wonder what the administration makes of the political pos turing, mud-slinging and general inefficacy of this year's student council; certainly, a student politicians who cannot get over personal differences need not be taken seriously. To this problem, however, there is a solution. Students need to demand that our representatives become issue-oriented politicians. The first step for you is to go out and vote next week.

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Stop the Press T o V o te o r n o t to V o te Throughout this issue, you will see reference to the SSMU elec tions. Candidates passing their quiz (I hope). Incumbents passing their quiz (I really hope). Stories about the platforms and the promises. But the fact is, if you’re going to vote, then you probably want to pick the best representatives you can. So, here’s a little deconstruction of the SSMU elections. Don’t listen to the election plat forms. Half of the candidates’ promises have already been fulfilled by someone else. I personally have done five of the things people run ning for VP University Affairs and President have promised. Another quarter of their promises can’t be fulfilled by anyone. If someone claims they’ll do something huge, that’s a guarantee that it’ll never get done. The SSMU experience is: if it can’t be done by September 1, it won’t get done at all. (I can speak to my own record: I promised five things during my campaign: I did two, Sam Johnston did one, one became irrelevant, and the university did the last one for me. That’s 60 per cent, which is good for SSMU.) Also, “experience” is overrated. I had no “experience” when I ran for

S p e a k S o ftly o r C a r r y a B ig S tic k ? rights arena. But Axworthy claims A recent visit to Cuba by that his approach, which rests on the Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister possibility of change through dia Lloyd Axworthy sparked a quarrel logue and example, is of greater between two ordinarily affectionate value than “holding a megaphone in neighbours: Canada and the U.S. a Senate committee room.” If this is The Cuban government, long the case, then we can expect change shunned for its failure to respect to roll in slowly, in a fog, rather human rights, relished the public than quickly and clearly, like the relations bonanza, but on the edge blue skies of Cuba. Although of the hoopla a fervently anti-Castro Axworthy victoriously returned Clinton administration wagged a waving a signed agreement that promised to establish an indepen disapproving finger. Sceptics accused Canada of dent Cuban commission to hear childishly thumbing its nose at U.S. reports of human rights abuses, the foreign policy. In fact the dispute document offered few specifics, and highlights a real difference in diplo the real ramifications of the visit matic approach reminiscent of that remain hazy. A spokesperson for old U.S. war-horse, Teddy Senator Jesse Helms, one of the Roosevelt — while both countries authors of Helms-Burton, com want to improve human rights in plained that “if he thinks it’s a sub Cuba, Canada hopes to effect posi stantial agreement that will improve tive change through dialogue (speak the human rights of one citizen, I softly), while the U.S. would have a bridge to sell him.” Axworthy’s “mutually respect impose its will with tough sanctions ful” approach, as the Cuban Foreign (carry a big stick). January’s visit was only the Minister dubbed it, is in any case most recent aggravation in an ongo more palatable to the Cuban govern ing dispute provoked by U.S. adop ment than the U.S. ‘s unilateral tion of the internationally infamous refusal of political and economic Helms-Burton law. Europeans, ties, a posture that has cost Cuba Canadians, and Mexicans alike con $45 billion (U.S.) since the embargo demn the measure as an illegal began 35 years ago. Secretary of attempt to force the world commu State Madeleine Albright even called Cuba “an embarrassment to nity to join the U.S. embargo. Nobody, least of all the the hemisphere.” Critics call U.S. policy hypo Canadian foreign service, denies Cuba’s shortcomings in the human critical, pointing to the paradoxical-

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my job, and I’ve done okay. Just Internal and Finance are manage because someone has been able to ment roles; the university is expect pad their CV before doesn’t make ing a 4 per cent enrollment decrease (translating to a $70,000 loss in them competent now. Instead, you should look for a SSMU fees), so we will need some certain set of personal and job crite one who can ensure that the SSMU ria. Things which are unlikely to doesn’t go broke through shortsight change depending on the last person edness. The VPs University Affairs and External are political roles; big to whom they spoke. Integrity: Look for someone changes are afoot, and we will need honest, who means what they say. A someone with a clear vision to guide lot of people will say a lot of things us through them, but who won’t to get elected. If someone is willing make unreasonable demands. And to say something unpopular, then the President should be a leader; we you know that they’ll stand up for need someone who won’t be dragged into the politics, and who what they believe under pressure. Self-confidence: One of the will work with their VPs, not against biggest problems this year has been them. One final thing: you may come that many SSMU types won’t admit they’re wrong. Look for someone to the opinion that, for example, the who isn’t afraid to admit when VP Finance should be deeply politi cal. That’s fine; at least you know they’ve screwed up. Specificity: In an environment what you want, and although I may where people promise the moon, think you’re wrong, it’s a genuine look for someone who will only difference of opinion. But it is promise what they can actually upsetting to see people promising to deliver. If you can look back at the create things which already exist, or end of the year and say that a person make decisions they will have no did most of what they said they power to implement. When you would, then that person was right for vote, vote for the person, not what the job; if their promises were too they say they’ll do, and not what vague, you won’t be able to make they say they’ve done. that assessment. — Don McGowan, Finally, remember that there SSMU VP University Affairs are differences between the jobs. Different skills are needed for dif ferent executive roles. The VPs

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ly open stance toward China, which (as the New York Times reports) echoes Canada’s Cuba policy in claiming that “the best way to change the regime is to flood it with investm ent and drown it in the forces of the global economy.” But whether bipartisan idealism or cyni cal politics-as-usual, U.S. strategy also has failed to achieve any real results, as John Kirk of Dalhousie University observed that “Bill Clinton is the ninth American presi dent vowing to see the end of Fidel Castro. It’s time to recognise that the batting record is pretty bad and that they should move on.” Prime Minister Jean Chrétien adeptly charges that the U.S. is “just making it possible for Castro to stay in power because he has an excuse” for economic failure. For decades Castro has received Canada’s eco nomic boost and retained U.S. sanc tions as scapegoat for his adminis tration’s shortcomings, sidestepping responsibility by ceaselessly and cynically playing the two hapless countries against each other. Chrétien’s remark raises a puzzling question: what would happen if the two countries worked together for a change? Back in June, Clinton observed that “[b]y working with our allies — not against them — we will avoid a split that the Cuban regime will be sure to exploit” and spoke of “[fjorging an international consensus.” Perhaps the message has not been altogether lost. Last month, Europe postponed its fractious chal lenge to Helms-Burton through the World Trade Organization, and the U.S. agreed to allow permanent U.S. news bureaus on the island for the first time in 30 years. The two nations should take a hint from February and settle on a single strat egy, returning to the relationship that has always served them best: agreement. — Amy Cooper Arts, special student

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What were the SSMU elections before the photocopier? (Note: Rakesh Khanna, pic tured in the little box next to my name, is the most serious looking man you’ve ever seen. He’s running for Science senator, and he should win because he has the best poster, vote for him.) This is the precise time of year — I mean right, right now, as you read this — when students are least likely to be able to make informed decisions: lingering seasonal affec tive disorder, pre-daylight savings confusion, income tax angst, spring break sunstroke, intense barometric fluctuations, and ice chunks falling from atop the Redpath Museum all contribute to our collective sense of distraction. So why is this the time when we must elect next year’s stu dent government? The reason is because the elec tion process becomes much simpler this way. By March 18, due to the aforementioned factors, we will have become a mass of degenerate

zombies. We will only be able to take in a scant amount of informa tion, approximately the amount that would fit on a small poster, provid ed it was bright, had photos, and

[italics mine] Mila Aung-Thwin didn’t contain too much real infor mation. The only thing that matters to the SSMU election system is the Fluorescent Campaigning Poster. They are harbingers of spring, more colourful than tulips, and more textbased than birdsong. There are masses of them, strange man-made leaves hanging from every bulletin board sanctuary. They are pleasant in an obnoxious sort of way, and should be admired for their innate, absurd beauty. They scream: “Responsive to

your needs!” and “Make your voice heard!” Lisa Phipps is running for the position of VP External, and her poster wins points because the pho tograph she chose is not of her, but of Tina Turner. Phipps’s poster ridicules (intentionally or unin tentionally, it’s all the same) all the posters of SSMU elections: her poster asks the voter to vote for her because she may or may not be Tina Turner, which makes as much sense as vot ing for Karan Manhas simply because there is a large, well-lit photo of him on his poster, as well as his personal mantra, “100% pure dedication.” I would rather vote for someone with a Tina Turner com plex than someone who is 100 per cent dedicated to student govern ment. Tara Newell is running for SSMU president. She has two dif

ferent posters. One shows her laughing, with a few happy slogans. The other shows her serious side; her arms are crossed and she is glar ing. There is a long list of her goals and qualifications. She is both the good cop and the bad cop, fun-lov ing enough to play frisbee with, and stern enough to guide McGill to vic tory if we enter an armed struggle. Politicians will also spend much of their time sneaking in and addressing large classes before lec tures, but this is always more of a gamble. Two years ago, Chris Carter was running for an executive position — I believe it was VP External — and he spoke to my Intro to Cultural Studies class. After he left, Professor Ponech made fun of Carter’s British accent. Needless to say, Carter lost the election. He did return to win the presidential election last year, but 1 believe th at’s only because Professor Ponech was on sabbatical at the time.

My point seems to be that the posters themselves are the most important part of the political cam paign. Seek out the pretty ones, and collect them as you would butter flies or limericks or baseball cards. The full colour Lara Leigh-Woods are the most elusive, while the Tamana Kochars employ a nifty Winnie-the-Pooh font. Looking at the photos themselves, Elizabeth Gomery has the prettiest smile, and Keith Campbell looks like a stern, yet fair, security guard/Nordic god. Beginning March 18, I absolutely urge everyone to vote for their favourite fluorescent campaign poster, and I say this with the utmost seriousness, though perhaps not as seriously as Rakesh Khanna could say it, but then, who could? Mr. Aung-Thwin says: I f you don't vote, you get a spanky.

The easy class that wasn’t so easy. Really, it wasn’t. Not at all. A strange thing happened to me today. For the first time in my university career, I truly believe that I have ju st m iserably failed an exam. Now, I’m not one of those annoying people who always com plain about how poorly I did on a test and then end up getting 93 per cent. Rather, I’m the type of person who says, “yeah, I think I aced that exam” only to find out that the test actually kicked my ass. I’ll be the first to admit that when I think back to my pitiful performance on my “Nutrition and Wellness” mid-term, I can not say that I am proud of what I have achieved. But, what I can say is that I was very impressed with how composed I was in the face of such utter disaster. I didn’t panic. I didn’t cry. I didn’t break out into a cold sweat or into nervous laughter. No, what I did was guessed. I guessed on each and every one of

the 61 multiple choice questions on that test. The reason that I had to guess was that I had only attended three classes. This is not to say that I didn’t prepare for the exam because in fact I had (I had spent the two previous days and nights studying); but this two-day exam session was just not enough. Tfie main reason I took this .... a .

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R e a rv ie w m irr o r Daniel Farb class was because I had been told by a number of friends that the class was both interesting and very easy. Based on this inform ation, I enrolled in the class. I didn’t think twice about the class’s 8:30 a.m. start time because I figured, what the hell, I just won’t go. I am sure

all the stuff is in the textbook any way, and I’ll just read it before the exam. Well, if the truth be known, that’s exactly what happened. I rarely, if ever, attend any class, and a few days before the test I went to the bookstore, bought the textbook, and attempted to catch up on two months of missed classes. After reading about five pages on the textbook of this “easy” class, I quickly came to the realisation that the class wasn’t so easy. Being a management student, I wasn’t very familiar with the vari ous scientific terms referred to in the text. Well, I thought, no prob lem, I’m sure the test will be easy anyway. Everyone I spoke to who took the class last year told me it was a joke — how hard could the

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McGill and Université de Montréal twinning a match made in heaven Re: Column entitled “The francophone debate roars on” (Feb 18) This department would like to correct a detail in the article of Amin Kassam. In the third column he refers to “the recent merger of the departments of art history of University of Montreal and McGill”. This is both incor rect and misleading. The two departments have not merged, rather we have developed a new and exciting, close relationship summed up in the word “jumelage” (=twinning). Each department remains an independent entity with its own programmes but we have realised that each department has strengths and weaknesses which complement each other. As a result we are exchanging courses, exchanging staff and encouraging students to profit from the combination of resources which offers. them greater possibilités and an enriched range of courses (and research supervisors) than either department could maintain separately. In other words, there is no loss of separate identity, simply an opening up of greater possi bilities than previously existed. If this situation has been referred to as a “match made in heaven” this may very well describe an arrange ment between independent partners gives entirely the

wrong impression. Your correction of this would be much appreciated. John M. Fossey B.A., Dr. es L , F.S.A. Professor and Acting Chair, Art History Mr. Kassam responds: I understand that art history has adopted “twinning ” as its official term. However, l used the term “merger” to express my personal opinion on how / perceive this new relationship to be evolving.

Grad student shows support for Principal I would like to respond to the announcement in your February 4 edition concerning the Review of Principal Bernard Shapiro’s stewardship. I heard Dr. Shapiro speak to the Students’ Society and was deeply impressed by his brillance. He is accessi ble, has graduated from one of the world’s most outstand ing universities and is the first educator to hold the posi tion of principal at McGill. McGill would do well to keep Bernard Shapiro as long as he wishes to stay. David S. Rovins Graduate Studies

test be? My second sign that problems lay ahead was when I spoke to one of my friends in the class. People were a little worried about the test because this year there was a new professor and they didn’t know if he knew how easy the course was sup posed to be. You see, it turns out that the powers that be at this uni versity somehow forgot to tell the professor of the class was supposed to be easy. Hello? I have never been com pletely blown away by the adminis tration at this university, but a lapse of this large proportion was clearly unacceptable. For the first time in my university career, the fact that McGill does not receive adequate government funding had adversely affected my academic performance. Had the school’s administrators been on the ball and not overbur dened with tremendous amounts of work brought about by the school’s cash flow problems, they would certainly have taken the time to tell my professor that he was supposed to give me an easy test. Somewhere along the lines of communication,

mechanisms broke down. This was not good. When I complained to my par ents about my pitiful performance they shook their heads and told me maybe this should teach me a lesson and that I should not be so confi dent and that I should attend more classes. Well, I’ll tell you, this experi ence did teach me a lesson all right — but the lesson certainly wasn’t to attend classes at some godforsaken hour. What I learned from this debacle was that, before I take any more easy classes — 1) I should look at my sources. If a science stu dent tells you that physics is easy, all that means is that it might be easy for him, not necessarily for you; and 2) before you enrol in a course just because you think it’s easy, make sure the new professor knows not to make the tests too hard. Rumour has it that Mr. Farb is also struggling in The A rt o f Listening.

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Excerpts from my rock opera B y Elv is C o s t o ik o

Camera scans across an immense estate and closes in on a solitary individual, crouched and weeping. His clothes are torn. He is shaking. Upon closer inspection we find that he is none other than TV’s beloved Urkel. He is delusional with fear. A shot rings out. Dissolve. These are the thoughts that grant me solace as I sit down to watch another night’s worth of ABC’s T.G.I.F. (thank goodness it’s funny!) line-up. In a state of drunk en opulence, I stew in my own juices and think about what should have been. What could have been. And what will be... when I assume my rightful place at the top of the entertainment industry. My creative energies have been stirred from their peaceful slumber, and my waking dream of TV’s Urkel inevitably leads to more intricate flights of fancy. My idea is this: take all the TV stars who have outlived their usefulness, past and present, and each week set them free on an island estate where they will be hunted for sport. If they sur vive, they get to star on a show of their choosing for one more season. But, should they fail, bloodthirsty

viewers from around the world will all bear witness to a macabre ban quet in which the charred remains of the loser will be devoured by the Network Stars. Just picture it, Seinfeld, David Hasslehoff, Tori Spelling, Courtney Cox, all feasting on a roasted Brooke Shields or Ricardo Montalban with rapacious glee. And yet, one could not rightly say that I am against TV’s con sumer fuelled cavalcade of fun. Oh no. For, I am all too aware that without darkness there can be no light. And it is from the dark fertile soil of TV’s mawkish antics that my genius springs. Mad you say? Au contraire, for while I accept that I may be a para noid megalomaniac with the capri cious whims of a Babylonian god, if is my belief that I am much more than that. For, unlike the others, I know of a universal truth. A truth so mighty that it is bound to shake the very firmament on which we stand, leaving only a steaming rubble in its terrible wake. As I see it, the only thing that is missing from today’s merry sit com menagerie is... the monkey. Yes, monkeys! It is all so obvious. We of course all remember the madcap hilarity of such cinematic

romps through the very heart of Man as Any Which Way But Loose, and Going Bananas. The verve and genuine wit which showed us all how, in many ways, we are no dif ferent than our primate brothers and sisters. So I say, bring back the mon key! Over the past several years, I have written the pilot episodes for a great deal of monkey sitcoms. Such spellbinding classics as My Father the Monkey, My Son the Monkey, The Monkey Family, Monkeys on the Loose, Monkey Girls Are Just Like Other Girls (Except They’re Monkeys), Admiral Monkey, and the one of which I am most proud, President Ape. In it, a monkey, blessed with superhuman intelli gence, eventually runs for U.S. presidency and ends up ruling the free world with an iron monkey fist. Unfortunately, these have all been rejected by the established order as being “too stupid.” But still, I remain undeterred. For I recognise that years of dark ness can make one blind to the luminescent glow of true genius. Yes citizens, the temple must fall and when someone is needed to pick up the pieces... I’ll be there.

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You bought some cheap mescaline on the streets of New Orleans this past break. After taking it, you were visited by a talking coyote and told to find your soul mate. Wake up! You’re not Homer Simpson, get your own trip. aries (March 21-April 19)

O.K., so you just met A., a mild mannered civilian who’s good in bed. But, you found out A. used to date B., your good friend, and lied to you about it. Enter C., your ex-psychic advisor who thinks you’re of ques tionable morals for sleep ing with A. in the first place because you’re still in love with D. Best way to extricate yourself from the situa tion? Cry pitifully in front of all of said parties and say, “I just want love. Is that so wrong?” Not only will you get the sympathy vote, you’ll probably get A., B., and D. back in bed.

room slipper sale, thereby frighten ing all the old grannies and sales attendants. Repent now and spend some charity time working with foot-binding recoverers.

the universe! Kill cancer, steal his/her horoskop submission and pass it off as your own ! Become the haus keeper to the cosmos! Long live Louis the 14th!

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Only you can save the horoskops! Submit your writing to Random Haus, or prepare to have a school full of zombies dredging around without proper guidance.

Mmm, lycra stretch ski pants and Gap ski sweaters. Embrace them.

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Mmm, exotic lace hosery. Embrace it.

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Mmm, econo containers of mayon naise at the Miraval food services. Embrace it. virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)

You’ve suffered your third break-in of the year. Strangely, each time, only your cK undies have been stolen. Forget the insurance claims (your agent’s beginning to think you’re a pervert) and start buying Fruit of the Loom.

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Your foot fetish is getting outta con trol. Just last week, you spent a little too much time at the Eaton’s bed

Sagittarius (Nov. 22- Dec. 21) You were last spotted running down St. Catherine in your skivvies screaming, “Free! Free at last!” That blast of warm weather last weekend was temporary. You’re back in school, it’s cold, and your skivvies shrunk in the wash. Time to squeeze your buns back into your long johns.

libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)

I was wrong! Cancer can’t save the horoskops! It’s you who is master of

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Incite a crowd of Zeller protestors. Try cloning yourself. Come out in support of the government’s move to ban “undesirables” from Canada. Aah, it’s so relieving to be young and conservative in Canada. aquarius (Jan. 19-Feb. 18)

Mmm... who killed the horoskop writer? Tune in to this space next week to find out (either that, or come into the office and start writ ing them yourself).

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Damn liberals! 6 Guy who wrote The Red Badge of Courage, on which I wrote a really bad essay in high school 7 I act this way whenever my family asks me how my grades are, if I’m graduating on time, etc 8 Political action committee. Damn liberals/conservati ves ! 9 I used to bum these with a magni fying glass. “Used to”? Still do! 14 Latin come 17 Ferdinand Marcos was. So was Napoleon (I think). 18 The three letters Laura got rid of when she had the sex-change opera tion 19 Crows make this sound, only with a “c” usually, and not a “k” 20 One of the deadly sins, but not one of the cool sexy ones 22 Number of classes I’ve gone to this semester 23 L.A. record label founded by one of those Black Flag guys who isn’t Henry Rollins 27 “A —’s sexual orientation is no one’s business but his own!” That’s one of my lines in The Socratic Method, now playing at Player’s Theatre! 28 Bravo, for a woman 30 Tea can be 31 Patty H earst’s underground organisation. Yeah, she was “kid napped”, right. 32 39 across, but with a “d” 34 “EHF’ 35 The original Chairman, not like that Sinatra kid 36 Super sandwich dep, located next to Copies 2000, makes the best — salad sandwiches Brought to you by the Cogix Crossword Wizard and Dave! Solution to last week’s puzzle

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R andom Haus S S M U E l e c t i on S p e c i a l Far from being a sham, this year’s election campaigns promise boobs, boys and high heels for everyone.

Read the Tribune. Be an educated voter. In order to retain the democratic integrity of SSMU, we must stop this trend of electing the humourless and the criminally insane. From left to right, VP Finance candidate Adam Giambrone, BoG/Senate Rep candidate Carrie Goldstein and cur rent SSMU VP Internal Mark Feldman (no relation to the above political commentary).

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Non-lethal weapons let cops shoot first, ask questions later revolutionary potential in these weapons. Pepper spray, Taser stun guns, “ F irst o f a ll,” Hall stick y foam g uns, and R adio pointed out, “there’s no Frequency transm itters — they such thing as a non-lethal might sound like weapons straight w eapon. T h e y ’re only out of Saturday morning cartoons, less lethal.” but in fact, item s like these are The SFPD uses OC becoming increasingly common pepper spray, as well as p lace in p o lice arsen als. N onbean bag ro u n d s. H all leth al w eapons allow law stressed the need for good enforcers to apprehend criminals judgement on the part of the officer in choosing a without causing them permanent injury. weapon which is appro N o w a d a y s , p e p p e r s p r a y is n 't th e o n ly n o n - le t h a l d e v ic e p o lic e h a v e to c h o o s e f r o m . http y/www. wboc. com Unfortunately, police use of priate to a specific situa tion. For example, a bean non-lethal weapons is not as clear expands rap id ly , binding the ta rg e t’s types of non-lethal weapons are currently bag shell would not be used on someone cut as that. Some of them can cause long- hands and legs. Foam systems can also be being developed. lasting injury, and even death, leaving installed in prisons to restrain rioting Some of these weapons may not be who was, say, on a pier, as the impact some to argue that these weapons give inmates. Various types of bean bag shells restricted to military use. In 1993, a joint could knock the individual into the water police officers the freedom to use extreme are also widely employed; getting hit by conference between the U.S. Departments and drown that person. force with impunity. As a result, numerous one is comparable to being hit by a base of Defence and Justice was held at Johns C ontinued on Page 20 organisations have begun to devote time ball. In terms of crowd control, CS tear Hopkins University. There, and resources to examining and combating gas is still the preferred choice of North top o ffic ia ls from each police use of non-lethal weapons. d ep a rtm en t d isc u sse d the American law enforcement agents. OC pepper spray is the most widely The U nited S tates D epartm ent of practical uses of non-lethal used of these weapons. Originally devel Defence has recently stated that non-lethal w eapons. V arious m odels oped in Canada to be used on bears, this weapons will play a more important role have since been presented by spray has become common in police arse in future peacekeeping operations. After the military to domestic law nals across North America. Pepper spray the 1970 October crisis, the Canadian mil enforcement agencies. Might causes severe but temporary skin, nasal, itary ceased its training with non-lethal this be the beginning o f a and throat irritation. weapons, but resumed it after the Oka cri m ore p eacefu l era in law The Electric Taser is also becoming sis of 1990. The heightened interest in enforcement? more com m onplace. This weapon fires these weapons has led the U.S. military to Law enforcers such as two darts which eliminate all voluntary research devices like RF (radio frequency) Lieutenant Jim Hall of the m uscle control on contact. Foam spray weapons, which use soundwaves to immo San F ran cisco P olice guns propel streams of sticky goo, which bilise the intended target. Several other Department do not see major B y D a n L e v in e

Animal organ transplants create doubts as well as cures

Shortage of human organs for transplant surgery has propelled research into the use of animal organs as potential substitutes. Scientists are now exploring the implications of xenotransplanta tion — a new surgery which is slowly gaining momentum. Each year the demand for organ transplants in Quebec exceeds 900 cases but less than half the num ber of patients receive the organs they need. In 1996, 32 patients died in Quebec while wait ing for organ transplants. In the United States, over 3,000 people are victims to the chronic shortage of human organ donors every year. Currently, kidneys are the most widely transplanted organs, howev er, transplant surgery for hearts and livers is slowly being made avail able. Although xenotransplantation is still in its infancy, scientists are hopeful of its potential as a tempo rary, and possibly, permanent solu tion. “The goal is to ultim ately replace the use of human organs with anim al organs,” said Dr. Joseph Tector, a transplant researcher at M ontreal’s Royal Victoria Hospital, one of the leading institutions in xenotransplantation in North America.

However, the most pressing concern involving xenotransplanta tions is the sustainability of animal organs in human patients. “X enotransplants will be rejected in a short period of time,” said Dr. M alcolm Baines of McGill’s department of microbiolo gy and im munology. Baines explained that pig kidneys, for instance, are usually rejected within 40 minutes of transplantation. Because xenotransplantation is still relatively new and very much in the experimental stage, effective methods to prevent the rejection of animal organs by their hosts have not yet been developed. Even for human to human transplants, patients must take different drugs, such as Cyclosporin A and FK 506, to prevent their bodies from reject ing the new organs. Such drugs, however, are extremely high in toxi city and weaken the immune system — a side-effect which lasts for the rest of the patient’s life. According to Baines, these drug treatments may even increase a p atien t’s chance of developing cancer by up to 10,000 times.

Selecting the right organ donor Currently, the two most likely animal donors are pigs and pri m ates. Baboons are especially attractive organ donors because of their close relationship to humans. For example, studies on the immunity of baboons to the HIV

virus have led to the theory that transplanted bone marrow from baboons to humans may be a poten tial cure for AIDS. However, according to Tector, “the problem with primates is that they can’t meet the numbers of all patients [needing new organs].” Also, since baboons are wild ani mals, screening for potential viruses is more difficult than for domesti cated animals such as pigs. “The pig is an animal raised for consumption. It’s a known entity. It’s something that would be rela tively easier to reconvert,” claimed Dr. Jean Tchervenkov, associate professor of surgery at McGill University and director of liver transplants at the Royal Victoria Hospital. “The problem with pigs [is that] humans have a high number of antibodies against a pig’s tissues. What we have to do is to overcome hyperacute rejection,” Tector explained. Although pigs often contain several kinds of flu viruses, it is hoped that sufficient screening and breeding processes will minimise the risk involved in using pigs as organ donors.

Undercover viruses Critics of xenotransplantation argue, however, that the screening of animal donors for harmful virus es has not reached acceptable levels. Concern revolves around the possi bility of transmitting dangerous viruses from animals to human

patients. The two factors which must be appraised regarding the risks involved in xenotransplants are the degree of virulence and infectious ness of these viruses. Virulence is a measure of how severe an impact a virus will have on a person’s immunological system. For exam ple, the HIV virus is harmless in monkeys but extremely virulent in humans. Infectiousness is the second factor to consider when assessing the threat of viral transmission; it measures how fast and how easily a virus can spread throughout a popu lation, turning an isolated case into a full-blown epidemic. Only recent ly was it discovered that the simian haemorrhagic fever virus, which is inactive in African monkeys like baboons, spreads quickly and fatally in Asian monkeys. Endogenous viruses are also problematic. They lay inactive in a host’s DNA and can thus be passed from generation to generation. The danger is that once transferred to a new species, they can come out of the DNA sequence, infecting their new host with a potentially lethal disease. Furthermore, because they are encrypted in the DNA sequence, they are extrem ely difficult to detect.

Reality versus hype Although the dangers associat ed with xenotransplantation cannot be taken lightly, the risks involved tend to be often exaggerated.

“[Only] a few animal viruses can replicate in humans. Human cells are non-permissive to many animal viruses,” stated Baines. In fact, according to him, the dangers of transmitting viruses are greater in human-to-human transplants. Presently, Health Canada and other international health organisa tions have not yet issued any precise and definitive medical laws con cerning xenotransplantation because of its relative novelty. However, the use of animals as organ donors remains an extremely controversial issue. “The whole thing is wrong,” said Stephanie Brown of the Canadian Federation of Humane Societies, who believes that there are already too many animals wast ed in research. “Health care dollars would be better spent on preventa tive methods than on these high tech solutions.” Currently, advances in research on the developm ent of organ cloning techniques, although very much in its infancy, may be a poten tial way of avoiding using animal organs. If, in the future, xenotransplan tation proves to be a long-term solu tion to human organ transplant surgery, the ethical implications will have to be seriously addressed. However, according to Tchervenkov, this new and experi mental surgery is far from becom ing a reality. As he puts it, “we have just begun to scratch the surface.”

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International W om en’s W eek

Bandit Queen still on the run: The story of Phoolan Devi Devi, because of her own young Phoolan, whose name in assumed that the daughters of the Hindi means “flower goddess,” her poor are for the use of the rich. background, injected a signature Phoolan Devi was born poor, parents agreed to the match. The They assume that we’re their prop twist into her banditry. She became the protector of young village girls low-caste, and female. She grew up man gave Phoolan’s family a cow, erty,” Devi told Sen. How Phoolan Devi ended up who, like her, were sold into early hard and fast in rural north India: as was custom ary in m arital married at age 11, abandoned by arrangements, and took the child in the hands of outlaw bandits is marriages by destitute families. “I’d send my men out during bride home dubious. She has said that she was her husband, jailed, the wedding season,” Devi said. kidnapped and physically abused with him. raped, and then kid D e vi in je c te d a s ig n a tu re “My p ar by the gang leader. As to why she “Any time they found a young girl napped by bandits. tw is t in to h e r b a n d itry. ents had the eventually gave in to the gang and who was to be married, they would Taught to use a gun S h e b e c a m e th e p ro te c best intentions its ruthless leaders, even when she let the wedding procession show up by the outlaws, it seems no wonder to r o f y o u n g v illa g e g irls for me,” Devi had the chance to escape, Devi told at her doorstep, then chase them her biographer: “A piece of proper away.” says. that Phoolan Devi w h o , lik e her, w e re so ld now But just as the villages were ty has no choice.” “They thought, should show little in to e a rly m a rria g e s . One fact is certain: in the early divided by caste, so were some of ‘H e’s got hesitation in wanti money. My daughter will be mar 1980s, in the rocky ravines of the the bandit gangs. One day, two ng to use it. ried. S he’ll be happy.’ No one Chambrai Valley in the state of upper-caste outlaws shot and killed In the inhospitable desert ravines of her native land, Phoolan knew that he was not a man, he was Uttar Pradesh, the legend of the Devi’s lower-caste bandit lover. To demonstrate their Devi became a legend by the time a monster.” power over the Devi has she turned 20 years old. She was gang and its feared and revered as the “Bandit explained that her leader’s mistress, Queen,” leader of a gang of dacoits husband took a sec the killers took ond wife and that the — robbers — that plundered and Devi hostage. murdered, often stealing from the two often beat her, Devi was then rich higher castes and sharing the treating her as little taken to the vil more than a slave. goods with the poor lower castes. lage of Behmai Devi made international head She ran away and and gang-raped by lines when she was implicated in returned to her par a group of upperthe largest gang massacre in mod ents’ home. But they caste men. ern Indian history, reputedly an act sent her back. “There was a Terrified of sex, of vengeance for the murder of her loud noise, the bandit lover and for her own gang- she wailed each time sound of a bullet her husband forced rape by upper-caste landowners. being fired,” Devi R ecently, the E conom ist him self on her. told Sen. “Vikram reported that Phoolan Devi has dis Finally, he aban sat up suddenly, appeared, fleeing India and the doned her on a riverand I thought the score of criminal charges still pend bank. Her parents, police had sur dishonoured that ing against her. rounded us. I their daughter had Her story is the stuff that reached for our movies are made of — a modern- been kicked out of rifles, but they had day Indian Robin Hood with a the house by her hus been removed. band, farmed her out touch of Gloria Steinem, all rolled Then, Vikram fell into one. A movie entitled Bandit to relatives. forward. A second As a divorced, Queen was made about her in 1994, shot follow ed,” and became the most controversial low-caste woman in she continued, film to ever come out of Bombay. a rural village, Devi “and Vikram died the However, the rancour over Bandit encountered with his head in wrath of conservative Queen goes far deeper than the my lap.” usual censor board debate over sex Indian society, which Devi sought and violence. The movie offers a is ruled, informally, her revenge. On brutal view of the way women are by a strict code of February 14, social separation. treated in poor rural Indian society, 1981, her gang and also offers an even wider social Her family was from stormed an isolat commentary concerning the plight a community called ed village intend the M allahs, lowof disadvantaged women world ing to rob the caste fishermen and wide. wealthy Thakurs Bandit Queen is a story of boatm en. During who were prepar Devi’s youth in the social inequities and injustice, of ing for an elabo discrimination and desperation. It 1970s, the Mallahs rate wedding. rips open some of the ugliest were often repressed Arriving at the vil and abused by the wounds of Indian society — lage, Devi recog wounds that some m iddle and Thakurs. ...... ... nised it as Devi, more out ........ upper-class Indians would prefer to Phoolan Devi, the Bandit Queen . „ . . . , Behmai, the home ’ ^ httpS/poe.acc.virgmia.edu spoken than most of remain closed and forgotten. of the two men “Her personal story, extraordi her fellow Mallahs, who had murdered her lover and nary as it is, reflects many aspects was the target of constant torment Bandit Queen was bom. the site of her humiliation. of life as experienced by thousands and harassment by upper-caste men According to Sen’s biography of women in rural India who con in the village. Eventually, she was A bandit’s journey and new spaper accounts at the tinue to strive against a feudal order jailed on charges that she had Bandit gangs never flourished that persists in a ‘modem’ society, stolen articles from the home of a more in India than in the 1980s. time, Devi ordered her men to a society in which peasantry col cousin with whom her family had They ruled with abandon — partic sweep the town in search of the lides with capitalist markets and been feuding for years. After 20 ularly the lower-caste bandits — murderers. In all, two dozen uppertechnology,” wrote Devi’s biogra days in the village jail, she was outwitting and outnumbering local caste Thakurs were dragged from pher, Mala Sen, in her introduction bailed out by the Thakurs who police forces, terrorising the rich their homes and lined up on a riverto India’s Bandit Queen: The True owned the property her father and offering a reverse form of pro bank. The bandits opened fire and farm ed. In paym ent, the men tection for the poor, who were left 20 men dead — the largest Story o f Phoolan Devi. One of six children born to a demanded sex from her, according often abused by corrupt, higher- massacre by a dacoit gang in mod ern Indian history. She became poor north Indian farm er who to her biographer. caste police. In return, many of the “Do you have any idea of what bandit leaders were idolised by the known as the Beautiful Bandit, the scratched out a living by working other people’s rocky, arid land, it’s like to live in a village in India? poor, who considered banditry just Goddess of Flowers, the Bandit Devi said her parents struggled just What you call rape is the kind of another profession in a land where Queen. She was not yet 26. Police launched the biggest to feed their children. When a rela thing that happens to poor women the poor had to fight for every manhunt ever conducted in the in the villages every day. It is tive found a prospective groom for rupee. 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state of U ttar Pradesh, putting 2,000 officers and a helicopter on the trail of Phoolan Devi. But Devi repeatedly outsmarted the police, once disguising herself in three dif ferent costumes in a village swarm ing with police. In February 1983, with most of her gang members dead and her own health failing as a result of her harsh life on the run, Devi agreed to surrender on the conditions that she not be hanged, that her men serve no more than eight years in prison, that her brother be given a government job, that her father be given a plot of land and that her entire family, along with the family cow and goat, be escorted by police to her surrender ceremony in the neighbouring state. Her surrender was an extraor dinary spectacle. She marched onto a stage before thousands of cheer ing peasant supporters, bent down and touched the feet of the chief minister and turned over 25 bullets and her gun. The dramatic surren der made front-page headlines from New Delhi to Washington. Devi was charged with 48 crimes, including allegations that she shot some of the 20 men killed in the Behmai massacre. But for 11 years, her trials were delayed by changes in government and feuds between two neighbouring states over where the cases should be tried. Finally, in 1994, when a lower-caste political party won election in Uttar Pradesh, the new chief m inister ordered Devi released on bail, saying she had suffered enough.

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Devi m arried a New Delhi business contractor just five months after she left prison, however, she never retreated from political life. In an election in which India’s lowest castes were reaching for national power of their own for the first time, Devi became at once both symbol and avenger of atroci ties committed against the lowercastes — she was a woman who had taken ju stice into her own hands and achieved a singular vin dication, despite her own bloody, violent trail. It was a watershed election, and the low -caste parties were given some hold of power. Devi became an elected MP, as a mem ber of the Samajwadi Party. When she recently fled India, the score of criminal charges were still pending against her. It was not the character of Phoolan Devi that mattered most, but the trend she represented. As a creation of the worst aspects of a monstrous social structure, she led a credible challenge against the caste system that has defined India since ancient times. “It’s not to earn money that a woman becomes a dacoit,” Devi once said. “It’s for retribution and revenge.”

SSM U P re sid e n t

SSM U P re sid e n t Accessibility to post-secondary education is being threatened by government cuts, differential fees, and privatization. W e must counter these threats through effec tive lobbying as well as through new alternatives such as SSMU initiated bur saries, scholarships and work-study pro grams. Meanwhile, our quality of student life is not being addressed, as the administration's apathy towards student concerns persists. W e must examine campus safety, discrimi nation issues, and better coordinate SSMU with Faculty orga nizations to improve services for students. C'est le temps d'ag ir. Nous avons besoins d'un leadership responsable, d'expérience, de compétence et d'une nouvelle approche. W e need TARA NEWELL for President.

SSMU needs to change! A strong com mitted president is needed now to respond to and to represent McGill stu dents. The focus of your representatives should be the Student Agenda, not per sonal agendas. It is time to bring SSMU back to the students with a candidate who has been active within the broader McGill community. I plan to achieve change in two areas: the increase of stu dent involvement in their student government, and the fur ther development of channels of student input. I will do this with your help — I want to be YOUR PRESIDENT.

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I'm currently a SSMU clubs/services Representative. SSMU's finances need to be run so that its funds are securely guarded, and services, clubs and publi cations are well financed to allow them to do th e ir jobs. As a m em ber o f Walksafe, I know of the importance that SSMU services are to the McGill community and the need to fund them adequately. I'm a member of this year's Financial Committee of SSMU and the student representative on VP Heaphy's Financial Informaiton Systems Committee, I know and understand the finances of SSMU and am committed to doing my best to manage the SSMU's finances.

V P U n iv e rsity A ffa irs My father and sister studied at McGill. They both graduated knowing that they had received the highest quality of eduB cation available. 1 want McGill to con1 tinue to offer that same assurance to its • students, despite the cuts that are being made. This is why I'm running for VP University Affairs. Avant travaillé comme co-commissaire francophone cette année, j'ai pu comprendre les problèmes auxquels font face les étudiants. I want to devote my time and energy to you so that we can all graduate feeling proud about the time we've spent here. Vote, for Elizabeth Gomery for VP University Affairs.

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As c u rre n t C lubs' Finance Commissioner for SSMU, I've learned the many intricacies of the Students' Society's financial system. W ith my knowledge of its workings, I've come up with a serious plan to rejuvenate SSMU by increasing the efficiency & accessibility of the society, and by promoting student awareness. I believe that the primary mandate of SSMU is to increase and add to the quality of student life. I pledge to uphold this by increasing the quality and number of ser vices & resources available to students. Make your vote count. Make the smart choice. Vote Karan Manhas for VP Finance.

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As your SSMU VP Finance my objective is to undertake several constructive pro jects: 1) creating a new and improved Shatner Copy Centre, 2) im proving SSMU food and beverage quality, 3) working with M cGill for a revialized Student Centre. As Speaker of SSMU Council this year, I presided over a notoriously divided council. In doing so, I proved my ability to achieve cooper ative solutions for a productive future. I will ensure that my goals, and those of my fellow councillors, are accom plished: the SSMU should be your society, because it's your money,your vote, your choice. Remember Reid for VP

DIPLOMATIC, CHARISMATIC A N D LEADER are three characteristics that describe me. As the Board of Governors is the highest decision making body at McGill, it is important to have a repre sentative who will be dedicated, aware and interested in upholding the stature of this institution. You need someone with financial and business experience as financial planning, debt restructuring and privatization are examples of three issues that are being discussed. I run my own business, a $100,000 portfolio and have been involved with SSMU and McGill over the past three years. For the complete package, I am the right choice.

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CAMPBELL, KEITH

SRIVASTAVA, SARVESH

Two issues strike me as most relevant to the VP E xternal's duties. First, the financing of your education. I think government policy-makers will respect a student movement that advocates realistic funding alternatives that retain universal accessibility (i.e. income-contingent loans) in the face of budgetary constraints. Secondly, getting a job. I plan on actively seeking out partnerships with industry and government, whereby students acquire the experience and contacts necessary to succeed once leaving this place. Je vous jure que je travaillerai à résoudre les problèmes les plus immédiats pour les étudiants de McGill. Vote for Keith for pragmatic leadership.

Arts Senator JOHNSTON, SAM I don't think it's a crime to have a computer that was made in the early '80s! Arts students are often made to feel like they aren't socially useful o r have made a default choice. One of the consequences of this misconception is that our needs and interests are neglected, and we are left behind rather than taught now to adapt to a rapidly changing world in which our role must be redefined, not rejected. As Arts Senator, I would have a voice to bring this concern and others forward to the administration and facul ty-

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be guaranteed — I will undertake an accessibility audit of the campus. Implementing flexible daycare facilities open to McGill students will be my priority. I shall ensure that the library improvement fund, currently $300,000 is used effectively. As a mother, I now do the hardest job — I am capable, driven, and will tackle our student and academic issues accordingly.

COLE, ROBERT

I have been part of the McGll cpmmunity for 5 years; first as a Finance student in Management and now as a Law stu dent. I have also been involved in sever al McGill organizations. In recent years, McGill's educational performance has slipped. Together, we must reverse that trend. The Board of Governors is McGill's highest decision making body. It creates a vision for the University and deals with matters such as government funding cuts and resulting pressures on tuitions. As undergraduate representative to the BoG, I will use my knowledge and experience to effec tively voice your concerns towards these issues.

Students should be the creators of our system, not the observers. Accessing our jjjjff*executives is d iffic u lt and as VP l l | l University Affairs 1 intend to create an academic caucus composed of faculty and department representatives. Equal

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• Question-Answer sessions between Administration and students, • Exam schedules posted before A d d /D ro p Period, • Equity Issues: disabled students, day care, etc., • L ib ra ry im provem ent, • Post-Bachelor A cadem ic Advising. Commitment: W hat happens affects you as much as it affects me. Exercise your right to vote for a responsi ble and effective voice and you w on't regret it. Vote Tamana Kochar for VP University Affairs.

The Arts Faculty is propor tionally the most under rep resented in the M c G ill Senate. The Arts Faculty needs a strong voice willing to stand up for the diverse view s em bodied w ith in . Although my political experience is small com pared to many of the resume padding career sicophants who pass themselves off as some how trying to promote a greater good, my aims are fo r the faculty not fo r personal ga in . Perhaps my greatest strength lies within my inexperience.

LEGAULT, MICHELE

LEIGH-W OOD, LARA

Experience (1996-present): • InterResident Council (IRC) Rep for R.V.C., • Chair of Presidential Accessibility Taskforce, • McGill Daily News writer, • IRC rep on First Year Experience & Implementation Committee (FYEIC),

Arts Senator

I'm committed to improving student life at McGill , and I've proven it. As a member o f com m ittees such as A cade m ic Planning and Policy and First Year Experience, I've dealt with many issues affecting you. Now I want to represent students on the BOARD OF GOVER NORS. The Board is the highest decision-making body of McGill; here's where things happen, and only ONE under grad has a vote! A group totalling 17,000 should have more say in what the Board does. I plan to deal with this and other key issues if you give me your VOTE of confidence. Vote CARRIE GOLDSTEIN.

V P Fin an ce

As SUS (Science U n d e rg ra d u a te 1997/98 have all the right ingredients to Society) VP Internal, I know w hat it make them years to remember. All that's takes to brin g this diverse campus missing is a VP Internal with the right atti together and get he job done so that tude, energy, and experience. Armed we end up w ith hugely successful with dedicated students and fresh ideas, I events. I want to make SSMU more hope to in troduce O N -LIN E MARS, revamp Frosh & W elcom e W eek, host a Francophone approachable through increasing communication between Awareness Week, streamline SSMU bureaucracy for clubs, constituencies, stepping up the roles of clubs and services, and finish the year with the 1st ever Spring Affair. My expe revamping SSMU's presence on the internet and making the rience as Frosh, CultureFest, Financial Awareness Week, Union Building more accessible. I guarantee a spectacular Four Floors Coordinators, and member of the Activities and year next year where McGill pride will take centre stage Programming Committee, will prove invaluable in making over politics. next year a success and your time here is memorable.

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• promote job internships • better suiting financial needs of clubs • make SSMU more productive and efficient

KOCHAR, TAMANA

GOMERY, ELISABETH

AUBIN, NISHI

Bureaucracy is a challenge to be conquered with a righteous attitude, a tolerance for stupidity, and a bulldozer when necessary.

MANHAS, KARAN

GIAMBRONE, ADAM

GOLDSTEIN, CARRIE

SOLOMON, ARAYA

PROHAR, DEREK

NEWELL, TARA

B o ard of G o v e rn o rs

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VP External: Your voice beyond the M cG ill community to prom ote-lobby work for-and communicate the issues that matter to you. With my experience and knowledge, my commitment to you is a solid action plan! (1) Promote internship programs so you can graduate with valuable work experience. (2) Lobby government via CASA — your national student organisation. (3) W ork for increased ghet to safety. (4) Communicate timely issues such as student loans, tuition, and education policies through frequent bul letin up-dates. Nos voix doivent être entendues: les intérêts des étudiants(es) à la une. No fibbing. Lisa Phipps your External Voice!

Arts Senator PEDERZANI, LORENZO I don't want to bore you in this abyss of pen sketches. I'm a Political Science stu dent en tering my fourth (and hopefully) final year at McGill. The past year has been a busy one for me as 1) the Executive Producer of McGill Players' Theatre and 2) a Clubs Representative to SSMU Council. My rep utation as an honest and non-partisan individ ual working for the interests of his constituents has been firmly established in my involvement this year. I hope to share my concerns on issues facing Senate during the campaigning period.

Arts Senator SEVITT, EMMA The Faculty of Arts faces a time of crucial decisions. I w ill focus my attention on achieving smaller class sizes, expanded first year seminar programs and an increase in professor-student relations. I recognize the potential for positive change in the arts academic program. W e must take the initia tive to campaign against the substantial cuts directed to the Arts Faculty. I am hard working, energetic and, as your Arts Senator, am commit ted to improving the quality of our education. I will provide a strong voice for the concerns of Arts students. Vote Sevitt for Senate.

M a n a g e m e n t S e n a to r M a n a g e m e n t S e n a to r M a n a g e m e n t S e n a to r QURESHI, JAWAD As Management Rep to Senate my pri mary objective would be to enhance the value o f the M cG ill BCOM degree. Having completed internships at two m a jo r banks w here I w orke d in a bureaucratic environment I know what it takes to make yo u rse lf heard in a crowd. Other than that I have tons of administrative and volunteer experience. Even at McGill I am actively involved w ith num erous c lu b s /o rg a n iz a tio n s such as AIDS Education, Dorm-Raps, PSA/ICSA, etc. Issues such as tuition hikes, student safety, Management students rights, more practical/applied courses are all part of what I want to address.

Science Senator

Senate decisions will drasti cally change the academic face o f M c G ill. It w ill be imperative that the voice of the student be heard and that the welfare of the stu dents be the primary concern of the Senate. It is critical that Science has a rep resentative who understands its needs, asserts them and effects change. Je cherche la position de Sénateur parce que je peux fournir la direc tion nécessaire pour vraiment présenté les besoin des étudiants de McGill. I dedicate myself to dili gent service on your behalf, and invite your active support in labouring for a brighter future,

QPIRG Board of Directors BAUM, JULIA My commitment to QPIRG has been demonstrated through my involvement with EarthSave, On Campus Waste Management, and by attending the QPIRG training retreat. I have also attended board meetings to acquaint myself with the role of the Board of Directors. I am present ly studying Biology and Environmental Science. As part of next year's Board, I would work to expand the internship program and create stronger links between QPIRG's groups and the Board. I hope to increase QPIRG's visibility on campus and make students aware of QPIRG's ability to bring about social and environmental change at McGill and in our community.

Q P IR G B o a rd of D ire c to rs LAI, WENDY W h ile QPIRG M c G ill remains an excellent resource on which to base a movement (socially- and environmen tally-speaking), there is considerable w ork to be done to make it more effective. I intend to continue the elu cid a tio n o f QPIRG' s role and the determination of the best ways to accomplish this. Among the latter are greater visibility on campus, employment of task-oriented resource people, connection between work ing groups, and discussion of the commonality of all the projects. QPIRG is not a field for politicians' games; it is a vehicle for progressive change.

QPIRG Board of Directors NASR, WREN As a third year anthropology student, I have a critical and questioning per spective on social and political issues. In 1994-95 I was a founding member of a student group focused on social justice and environmental concerns. In 1995-96 I was the radio show coordi nator for Trent University's OPIRG. I w ill bring to the Board a personal commitment to the goals and ideals of QPIRG McGill, namely research, education, and action on social justice, human rights, and the environment.

Management's needs are REAL! Your needs are REAL! Management students will not take N O for an answer from M c G ill! The REAL issues fo r Management: W hat w ill your McGill B.Comm be worth in 5 years? W hat w ill we be paying for tuition? How much money does McGill spend on Financial Aid? Is our B.Comm. a world class program? How do we keep it world class? Be sure that Management's academics needs are NEVER ignored. Your voice — our voice — MUST be heard in McGill's Senate. I am your voice; Fighting for Your Needs. VOTE OMAR SAMJI — Your Management Rep. to Senate.

Management has one voice on relevant issues. One voice to the administration; one voice to the Senate. W e, as stu dents, need to be aw are of a ll the issues that affect us collectively. Hi, my name is Andrew Weston. I'm running for Rep to Senate because I can be that all important voice to represent our faculty. As a senator, I w ill be voting on issues like the budget and academic reform. My many experiences, including co-ordinator of Management's Cancer Auction will help me make responsi ble decisions on behalf of the whole faculty. REMEMBER. ANDREW WESTON for Rep to Senate.

Science Senator

KOVACS, ANDREW

KHANNA, RAKESH M y name is Rakesh K hanna.. I am a U2 Biochem istry Honours student. As science senator, I would strive to improve to opportunities available to all sci ence students. This includes increasing scholarships and maintaining affordable tuition fees for all students. I believe in McGill's high standards of education and equal rig h ts fo r everyone. As a Biochemistry Student Society U2 rep resentative, I have gained experience in organising events and the council decision-

"Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life." — Brooke Shields, at an anti-smoking convention. VOTE SHIRAZ for Management Rep to Senate. Cause I'm not just another pretty face.

Science Senator

WESTON, ANDREW

SAMJI, OMAR

REHMAN, SHIRAZ

Science Senator

STODDARD, DAMON

MEHIO, ALI

TOPOLSKI, ANNE

As you r representative to He is the RIGHT person for SSMU Senate, I Damon the jo b ... H a rd w o rkin g , S todd ard w ill push fo r tru stw o rth y, inn o va tive changes in M cGill's sexual AN D a good listener. HE harassment policy, that will has GREAT plans to benefit hopefully incluae the cre ALL o f US. M ore science a tio n o f a jo in t studentcourses offered during the administration assessment committee. I will look summer. An exam tentative schedule made after students' concerns about safety on campus; BEFORE the add/drop deadline. Previous years everything from violence to the intolerable lack of statistics and course evaluations made available snow ana ice removal during the winter. I work for YOU to chose the RIGHT classes...and much well with others and will bring the same enthusi more...HE is running fo r Science Senator. asm and dedication to my senatorial duties as I MAKE the RIGHT choice! VOTE FOR ALI!. Si have done in being a member of Liberal McGill, vous voulez que votre vie universitaire soit a council member o f my department, and a mieux organisée et encore plus réussie, votez writer for the McGill Tribune.

QPIRG Board of Directors

EWERT, JEANINE

DABHOLKAR, ADITYA If elected, I will work to make QPIRG's work more visible to the McGill com|P Iv l m unity. O ne w a y to do this is to expand student awareness of how our personal consumer choices impact on public interest issues from the environ ment to social justice. Specifically, I will promote research into business ethics and w ill work to bring fair trade coffee to McGill cafeterias. I also will try to ensure closer c o -o rd in a tio n am ong oth er PIRGs in M ontreal. As External A ffa irs D irector o f EarthSave Montreal, I gained experience in organising at the grass roots. I'll w ork for a stronger, more active QPIRG at McGill.

KART, HEIDI

As a second year social work student I have been heavily involved in com m unity org a n isin g and advocacy work. My strengths in areas such as leadership, organisation, teamwork, and com m unication w ould be an asset to the QPIRG Board o f Directors. Over the last few years my interest in issues like social justice and environmental concerns have grown. Since QPIRG is a motivated body of like-minded individuals, it is the ideal place for me to contribute and work towards social and environmental change as a participating member of the Board of Directors.

Q P IR G B o a rd of D ire c to rs

QPIRG Board of Directors

M AM ENKATY

H stands for healthy food bought at LOAF. E stands for environmentally-friendly CCWM. I stands for informative research result ing from PROBE investigations. D stands for dynamic (which I am) I stands for stands for innovative internships at NYCE W hat is this all about? These are just a few PIRG groups with whom a Board of Director member must communicate. Having been a part of CCWM (recycling and waste man agement group), this second year Social W ork student would like to contribute her leadership and organisational skills to PIRG's collective of motivated individuals interested in progressive and social change.

QPIRG Board of Directors TAN, DARRELL

M cGAVIN, SAMANTHA

I'm in my second year here at McGill, working towards a B.Sc in geography. I have been involved with QPIRG for one y e a r as a core g ro u p member* o f EarthSave, though I have been active in environmental and social issues for many years. I bring with me a strong back ground in leadership roles, both through school activities and educational and senior staff summer camp positions. I look forward to devoting my time and efforts to QPIRG's Board of Directors.

As a member of PROBE, I have gained fam iliarity with QPIRG McGill and a sense of its workings and goals. As a Board member, I would like the Board to be approachable by working group members and the McGill community a like . As w ell, I w ould encourage QPIRG to develop its research component and continue building its resources, as well as continue its direct action campaigns. I would also like to increase QPIRG's visibility at McGill and for students to feel comfortable consulting our resources and information networks. QPIRG is an important part of the Montreal community, and its ties to it can be reinforced by further developing its internship pro gram and community groups.

QPIRG Board of Directors

PERRY, ALLISON

ORTIZ, MIRANDA

Social justice and environmental respon sibility carry increasing importance in our society, and as students we can play a critical role in addressing them. QPIRG has valuable resources and projects to offer the McGill and broader communi ties, and can be instrumental in this process. I would greatly value the opportunity to expand its possibilities and bring it closer to students. My experience in organisational and action-oriented initiatives includes the coordination of SSMU taskforces, being political coordinator for LBGTM, and membership in Youth Action Network's Board of Directors, and I have energy and ideas to bring to the organisation.

NOTE!

You saw me with a megaphone outside the lib ra ry rescuing the books. O r maybe you caught me doing Guerrilla Theatre last semester with Art Attack — a group I helped start. I also keep tabs on SSMU's Financial ethics through he Financial Ethics Research Committee. This term I'm trying to create a space for your voice through Art Attack's upcoming video on the New McGill. And now I want to work for you through QPIRG. Elect me and I will continue to fight for your interests and make PIRG an open space for you.

I believe QPIRG has the potential to make the ideal a reality. By promoting public awareness and involvement, ifs a powerful vehicle through which we can bring about change. I am a U2 Biology student with strong social and environmental concerns. Attending PIRG's board meetings and training retreat has given me an understanding of PIRG's foundation, achievements, and possibilities. By con tinuing to work towards goals outlined by this year's Board, increasing communication between working groups, and supporting worthy and diverse projects, I want to help strengthen PIRG's voice on campus and in the community.

I consider science to be the quest for the highest form of knowledge and I see the role o f a science senator to ensure th a t a ll science students can achieve this goal. I am in second year, la biochemistry, and some of the issues I would like to discuss are: the teaching qualifica tions of TA's, the need for proper course evalua tions, the benefits electives can offer to the sci ence curriculum, and most importantly, to repre sent the concerns of science students. Some of my qualifications are my involvement with FUSS, BUGS, SUS, and SSMU. Anne Topolski the enlightened choice! VOTE ANNE!

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Historic Bagg Street synagogue hoping for religious revival B y H ir u t E y o b

M ontreal’s east end was once the lively centre of the city’s Jewish commu nity. Now, there rem ains only one operating synagogue. E stablished in 1921, in a duplex on the corner of Bagg and C lark Streets, Beth Solomon’s con gregation has dwin dled to a num ber barely g reater than the minion of ten men that a synagogue requires in order to operate. Recently, a group of McGill stu dents have launched a campaign to keep the historic shul alive. In the early part of the century, SaintLaurent Boulevard, around Pine, formed the heart of the Jew ish com m unity, and over a dozen syn agogues existed in the

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south-eastern part of Montreal. But as the tex tile industry, a specialty of E astern European Jew s, began to move north, many Jewish fami lies went with it. At the end of the 1930s, in addi tion to the continuing northward migration, sig nificant portions of the Jewish population relo cated to the municipali ties of Côte St.-Luc and Ville St.-Laurent. Today, the little syn agogue on Bagg Street remains as a testament to a now dispersed commu nity. According to Shira Fine-Buzelan, a student in social work at McGill and an active member of the committee concerned about the future of the shul, it is only the nostal gia of long-time mem bers and their kin that keeps it alive. “Despite its beauty and importance, the syna gogue rem ains unused most of the week as Rachel Ong

services are only conducted on Saturday mornings,” said Buzelan. “A small congregation of about a dozen men and women keep the shul going. Some are still inhabi tants of the area, others live farther away but find a sense of family and belonging in the Bagg St. community.” The synagogue is prized not only for its role in the social histo ry of the Jewish community in M ontreal, but because of its unique arch itectu ral style and striking detail. Torczyner referred to it as an “architectural gem.” Its charms won it a spot in the lime light recently, as the setting of the wedding scene in the film version of Isaac B ashevis S in g er’s Enem ies, A Love Story . Immortality on celluloid could not, however, ensure the congrega tion’s continued existence in the real world. Last year, a group of McGill students under the guidance of Professor Jim Torczvner began

attending Saturday morning ser vices and exploring possible strategies for reviving the dilapi dated historic shul. With the help of a $500 dona tion from the Bronfman family, the students organised special events at the synagogue, and appealed to Jewish students at McGill to join the congregation. They also made efforts to acquaint them selves with congregation members, visiting some families at their homes. * According to Bena Medjuck, one of Torczyner’s students, what began as a fulfilment of their com munity development requirement evolved into an experience of per sonal fulfilment for the students. The co n g reg an ts’ welcom ing demeanour and their appreciation of the students’ efforts, Medjuck said, “set the project apart from what could have easily become an academic field study or hands-on C ontinued on Page 14

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Deng Xiaoping died on February 19. Though he remained officially only a private citizen, Deng was in fact China's "paramount leader," a man responsible for the bloody slaughter in Tianaamen Square as well as the eco nomic reform that made China the industrial power it is today. Deng was the ruler o f 1.3 billion people, approximately one fifth o f the world's population. His legacy to the Chinese people was an economically liberal but politically totalitarian system. China looks forward to a post-Deng era filled with power stuggles at the top, as this developing nation tries to complete what can only be seen as an unfinished revolution. The following is a summary o f Deng's contributions as leader o f China, and o f the events which have transpired since his death on February 19, 1997.

1966-1976 — The Cultural that $43 billion in the US treasury debt. The US’s trade deficit with Revolution 1976 — Mao Tse-tung dies. China reaches $39.5 billion. Though Deng officially remains a Wednesday, Feb. 19 ‘private citizen’, he replaces Mao as Deng — blind, deaf and suffer China’s paramount leader. 1978 — Deng’s enacts radical ing from Parkinson’s disease — dies reforms to amalgamate a Stalinist of respiratory failure during the night. A few hours later, his death is economy with capitalist market tools— including the implementation announced on Chinese public TV. Thursday, Feb. 20 of freer prices, increased market The first of six official days of competition and profit incentives. Since 1978, China has experienced mourning. State President, Communist an average of 9 per cent annual Party Chief and chief of the military growth. 1979 — Deng meets with US Jiang Zemin, 70 makes his first pub president Jimmy Carter, and lic statement since the paramount announces that China will need a leader’s death. He states that China long period of peace, as well as must “turn grief into strength” and to Western money and know-how, in press on “unswervingly and confi order to achieve modernisation. Deng dently” with economic reform. is seen in Texas wearing a cowboy Zemin praises Deng’s army while meeting with leaders of Kazakhstan, hat. 1980s — Parts of China, like which borders on the Muslim section Shanghai and certain affluent south of Western China rocked by bloody ern provinces, are used as Deng’s police riots. As expected Jiang Zemin moves experimental special capitalist zones. 1989 — Deng is instrumental in to consolidate power; however, a the crackdown on protestors in power struggle is still expected Beijing’s Tiananmen Square. Photos between top officials, especially now of tanks running over student demon that Jiang is stripped of Deng’s patronage. Critics publicly reprimand strators are seen all over the world. 1990 — Jiang Zemin is hand Jiang for his ‘arrogant’ and swift move, and state that his promise of picked as Deng’s sucessor. 1992 :— Deng emerges from greater reforms is a rebuke of Deng. The Hong Kong stock exchange retirement to extort his sucessors and lagging cities to dive further into cap drops.The Dow Jones Industrial aver age gains. italism. China’s official New China 1992-present — After three years of public absence, rumors news agency runs a 24-page tract abound that Deng has actually been hailing “Deng’s Xiaoping’s great, brilliant life”, while public TV runs dead for years. 1996 — China becomes the an 80-minute documentary. Meanwhile, public commemora US’s biggest creditor, owning more »» t *» ii i '

tions are banned. Security, as deemed by the Supreme People’s Court, is greatly increased in Beijing, especial ly because the funeral is to be held in the square next to Tiananmen. Within 24 hours, two mourners are arrested in Tiananmen Square. Plainclothes police are sent out to confiscate flow ers used for memorial.

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US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright visits Jiang, and speaks about human rights abuses. Her clear discussion of human rights, weapon sales, Honk Kong and Taiwan is applauded inthe West and contrasted to the mixed signals the Clinton administration has given Bejing thus far. However, she leaves Beijing after only one day, without any commit ments from Jiang. She, like all other Westerners, is barred from Deng’s funeral. Deng’s traditional funeral is held at the Hall for Paying Last Respects in the legislative Great Hall of People. The body, dressed in a black Mao-style suit and draped in the red Communist flag, is transport ed across town in a white Toyota minvan with tinted windows. The body is cremated.

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C ontinued from Page 77 In Canada, 36 different nonleth al w eapons are re g u la ted under the Press C ontrol P roducts Act. The V an co u v er P olice Department issues pepper spray to all of its officers, and has CS gas and Arwyn guns in its arsenal as w ell. T asers are not practical in a cold climate like Canada’s, as the darts cannot penetrate multiple layers o f clo th in g . The M ontreal U rban C om m unity refu sed to answer questions about its F o a m use of non-lethal weapons. C o n stab le B rad Faucet of the VPD echoed Lt. Hall’s emphasis on training and good judgement. “ T hese w eapons are not karate in a can,” Faucet stated, explaining that they should be

used merely to facilitate, not to replace, traditional methods of law enforcement. According to

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The Rules of the game: all’s fair in love as war The front cover of The Rules shows a photo of the ring. Subtle. The Rules is a bestseller by Ellen Fein and Sherrie Schneider addressed to an audience of hetero sexual women who want desperately to get married. The booh dishes out advice on how to hook your man, such as Rule 7: Don’t accept a Saturday night date after W ednesday. Women are also advised to buy a timer or stopwatch and limit phonecalls to ten minutes. (Note to males: if you’re talking to your girlfriend and hear an eggtimer go off, be very afraid.) The Rules is not as much fun as Cosmo articles on “How to Marry a Millionaire,” and infinitely more complicated. It includes 35 rules and 12 extra hints, and although the back cover advertises it as “a simple set of dos and don’ts,” it’s probably eas ier to program your VCR. Perhaps one should wait until “The Idiot’s Guide to the Rules” comes out. The old Cosmo articles tell women to hang out at the Ritz and wait for rich old men to buy them drinks. This, at least, is fun — the kind of advice you can laugh about, more tongue in cheek than meant to be acted on. But The Rules takes a deadly serious approach for women desperate to get married to almost anyone. There are two destructive assumptions grounding this book and others of its ilk. One is the

premise that if a woman wants to marry a man, then the woman must trap the man into marrying her. God forbid a woman ask a man to marry her. The second assumption pictures relationships as a type of war, not something you do with another per son. but to another person. It’s all a game that you can win or lose, and strategy must be plotted according lyFor Fein and Schneider, manip ulation is justified because, after all, men are the enemy. “Remember, early on in a relationship, the man is the adversary... ” You thought he was dating you because he liked you? This is actually just part of his diabolical plot to cause you grief. So be very paranoid, and don’t forget to go to the bathroom in a group with other females. Besides, men like it when women act completely different from who they really are. Or that’s what The Rules says: “But when you're with a man, be quiet and mysterious, act ladylike, cross your legs and smile. Don’t talk so much. Wear black sheer pantyhose and hike up your skirt to entice the oppo site sex!...You may feel that you won’t be able to be yourself, but men will love it!” To a large extent, The Rules presupposes that men are idiots. “Don’t bother asking your male friends if they like being pursued by women. They might say one thing

Deng (1905-1997)... American investment banker, speaks out against Deng and Chinese human rights abuses in the LA. Times. Wednesday, Feb. 26 Hong Kong newspapers claim that Deng has left a will in which he apologised for the bloody Tiananamen Square crackdown. Chinese government spokespeople calls the document a fraud and blame it on an unnamed ‘democracy move ment’ in the US. Thursday, Feb. 27 In a Hong Kong legislature ses sion, British-appointed governor Chris Patten attacks China, and specifically Tung Chee-hwa, the shipping billionaire whom Beijing has chosen to be Patten’s secessor. Patten states that the disbandment of the Hong Kong lesgislature would

ruin what he called ‘the Rolls Royce of cities’. Friday, Feb. 28 The Chinese government announces that it is “positively con sidering” two UN-proposed human rights covenants which would oblige Beijing to report on civil liberties in Hong Kong. In return, the US and the EU would drop their threats to further investigate human-rights abuses in China. Sunday, March 2 The widow and children of Deng cast his ashes, mixed with flower pedals, from a government jet into the sea. New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Reuter, Associated Press, The Washington Post, Time, Newsweek, The Economist

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and believe another.” It’s assumed that men have a kind of false con: sciousness, and like to play games even if they won’t admit it. Fein and Schneider even assume that women have feelings and men don’t. They advise women not to ask men out, because women "put themselves in jeopardy” of being turned down. Men, of course, after centuries of conditioning have been biologically altered to feel no emo tions whatsoever, including any sen timents of disappointment upon

being rejected. Maybe the question that sneaks back in after initial outrage is if it works. The answer seems to be:

Black Coffee Susan Peters Sometimes. Of course, why would one want to date a man stupid enough to be manipulated in this way? It’s sort of what Groucho

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The A CLU tak es a m ore restrained stance towards nonlethal weapons. “For years, cops have said that they do not have enough options available to them, and we agree,” said Parachini. “But these weapons should have their place.” Pepper spray, he added emphatically, should not be on the market, as it was not properly tested. Other weapons, like bean bag ro u n d s or T asers, are deemed to be acceptable under the right circumstances. In terms of the introduction of new weapons to police arse nals, C onstable Faucet cited three criteria which must be con sidered: the weapon’s impact on the police, on potential subjects, and on the p u b lic. P arach in i stressed that above all, police use of these weapons must be moni tored, consistently and rigorous ly“W ritten regulations don’t mean jack,” he asserted “They must be enforced.”

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history assignment.” The students’ integration into the Bagg Street community proved challenging at times. The conser vatism of the Saturday services proved to be a culture shock to some students — particularly to the women. Orthodox synagogues require that the seating of the sexes be separate. The women sit

in a balcony concealed from the sight of the men, and women unfa miliar with this traditional set-up are often disturbed by the apparent lack of acknowledgement of their presence. For others, however, adherence to tradition is precisely what gives the synagogue its spe cial appeal. R epairs to the synagogue were made possible largely by a

fund created by the Quebec gov ernm ent sp ecifically for the restoration of religious buildings. The fund was conceived by a group called Living Stones, who wanted the government at all lev els to recognise the importance of religious landmarks to Quebec his tory and tourism. The money allo cated to the Bagg Street shul will provide for the repair of the out

door bricks as well as the base ment floor. For Torczyner, this is just the tip of the iceberg. With the help of corporate social awareness consultant Libby Labelle, Torczyner and his stu dents are currently trying to raise funds for further repairs. He also hopes to hire students over the summer to aid in the renovations.

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There is a new breed of movie out: it touts a chartbusting sound track and m iserable box office returns. Witness Empire Records, The Crow: City o f Angels, and The Coneheads. These movies leave critics praising Hollywood not for motion picture achievement but for musical savvy. They start out as celluloid cre ations but end up ignoring film buffs. Instead, t h e m o v ie s j u m p media and ai m f o r tre n d y music listeners. Shipped out on video fo rm a t q u ic k e r than you can say ‘marketT h e p la y e r s o f s u b U r b ia i n g demo graphic' (Empire Records was so decidedly bad that it was never released on the big screen), the endeavours spawn stunning profits o ff video rental jun kies and ‘eMpTViewers.’ subUrbia and its accompany ing soundtrack are different means to a sim ilar end. While City o f Angels was entirely prefab with script secondary to soundtrack, subUrbia is an earnest attempt at making film for film’s sake, sound track or not. subUrbia tells the tale of a fresh-faced rock star named Pony

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and “Tabla in Suburbia” that hauntingly penetrate the montage of suburban life, all music emanates from prop radios. This means that, although the tracks may seem thrown together, the disc can be enjoyed for its bountiful crop: Beck, Superchunk, and Skinny Puppy offer new cuts; Elastica with Stephen Malkmus, Boss Hog, and the Butthole Surfers serve up choice, but otherwise ran dom reruns and cover versions. Unfortunely, where the disc can get away with a lack of cohe sion, the film cannot. Our protago nist Jeff (Giovanni Ribsi) suffers mood swings as he waxes on and on about life. Mood swings are to be expected in the lives o f the young and disenchanted, but to have all the digressions amount to a moral masterplan is not only dis jointed, but contrived. Sooze (Amie Carey), Jeff’s girlfriend, is realistically drawn, but only by virtue of a quick exit from subUrbia’s manipulative con clusion that — gasp! — involves a death in the neighbourhood. Instead, m otorhead Tim (Nicky Katt), Bee-Bee and the Pakistani convenience store owner — th e f i l m a n d th e s o u n d tr a c k : th e m o v ie in d u s t r y a s a lt e r n a t iv e r o c k ’s b ig g e s t p a r a s it e Castle Rock/Universal Music join Jeff for a finale of guns and social impotence. Suddenly, the The scene is one of the level-headed owner has a killing D irector Richard Linklater script, which thankfully w asn’t w ritten around to d ay ’s hottest almost solves the age problem by movie’s peak moments. Bee-Bee instinct. Suddenly, ideas building band’s next single, injects the play deftly pulling the strong cast d o esn ’t do much, but with on race relations and the difference with the same heavy-handed together. Dazed and Confused, Spybey’s subtle responses to the between cities and suburbs are shot m oralising he w rote into Talk proved that his keen eye can trans music that was written explicitly down. And suddenly, subUrbia Radio. As a result, the film comes form a dramatis personae of empty for her stifling confusion, Gordon’s dismantles whatever portraits it had off as a preachy failure, unable to ne’er-do-wells into a smart and lyrics (“In my head / I’m really tall sketched for a moral catastrophe connect its grand philosophising cohesive unit, stronger than the / My arms are big / And not that rings false. So, while the soundtrack is sum of its parts. But when small”), and Linklater’s discrimatwith its menial subject matter. The playw right serves up Bogosian hands Linklater subur ing direction, subUrbia triumphs. clearly recom m ended over the w ell-developed characters that banites Bee-Bee, Sooze, Buff, Tim, It’s a peek into people who look film, it too should be missed. For function wonderfully in isolation, and Jeff in a conclusion that defies incredibly familiar but hold shock the sake of Hollywood films that cater to youth, the string that but become amorphous (15-year- all their character development that ing truths. Only Sonic Youth make it attaches a successful flick to a beat olds or twentysomethings?) dregs led to it, more than a small town onto the film’s soundtrack proper: that moves your feet must be sev of the ‘burbs whose interactions miracle is needed to save the day. The heavily relied upon Besides the snippets of “Sunday” ered. don’t gel. (Jayce B artok) returning from B everly H ills to visit his high school chums in the local parking lot/hang-out. Heaps of disgruntled banter ensues, and most of it is engaging and life-like. Most... Penned by Eric Bogosian and first performed on Broadway in 1994 (the play’s first off-Broadway performance was at McGill last year), subUrbia has a history that carries the production confidently in the face of Hollywood aggran disement. However, Bogosian’s

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Animal Rights (Elektra) Once, Moby was the golden boy of techno. Following his last album, Everything is Wrong, sev eral music polls voted Moby best techno artist (some might say based on name recognition alone). Now the critics are silent. It’s 1997, techno is the new grunge, and Moby has just released a rock record. “Fuck Moby!” says the tech no diehard. “Moby w ho?” asks the average rock fan. Nobody bought M oby’s records when he was the crit ics’ darling, and nobody is going to buy Animal Rights

now that he is their prodigal son. M oby, both a born-again Christian and an ultra-liberal, uses liner notes to attack the Christian rig h t as “u n c h ristia n ,” and to explain his political and moral convictions, which include vegan ism, environmentalism, gun con

Essentially, these cute kids are nice to look at when they’re in the spotlight but, when asked to share the stage with their counterparts, all interest vanishes. Additionally, the actors have to tackle the problem of poor cast ing. All of the players must con tend with looking too old. The actors — including Parker Posey (Party G irl) and Steve Zahn (Reality Bites) — may be talented, but only magic could change their appearance.

soundtrack does its fair share of community time. Sonic Youth, who wrote three original pieces just for the film, permeates the story with dream-like, twangy guitars. “Bee-Bee’s Song,” sung by new SY mom Kim Gordon, zooms in on the physically conservative but emotionally unstable alcoholic. Dina Spybey plays the troubled Daddy’s-little-girl character excel lently, gently swaying to her song as it emits from the ghetto blaster that never leaves her side.

trol, and rights for all sentient creatures. Drugs, alcohol, and tobacco are out as well. Moby wears his heart on his (record) sleeve, and might be ridiculed for his beliefs, but there was a time when the abolition of slavery seemed like pie-in-the-sky too. M usically, A n im a l R ights deserves to be treated as more than a curiosity piece. M oby’s genre-m ixing of M inor Threat aggression and Brian Eno soundscapes work surprisingly well. The music is honest and determined, yet vul nerable — even fragile at times. Moby asks the listen er to “p lease listen to A n im a l R ights in its entirety at least once.” He plays every instrument on the record, except for the violins, and produced it

himself, with a little help from m ixer/engineer Alan M oulder. Moby comes off, unsurprisingly, as a solitary, alienated figure out to save the world. He hasn’t writ ten us off yet, so the least we can do is give Animal Rights a listen, at least once. — Kris Michaud Bill Janovitz

Lonesome Billy (Beggars Banquet) Buffalo Tom is the band that gives Bill Janovitz his regular paycheque, but Janovitz felt the need to break free of the con straints of a m ega-label group with a solo release. The result, Lonesome Billy, is basically a m ore m elancholy version of Buffalo Tom without the produc tion — it was recorded and mixed in five days in a Tucson shack

that w asn’t soundproofed. The reason behind the makeshift stu dio method is found in a nice, ungram m atical statem ent on Janovitz’s website: “The sense that moments of casual magic can be as valuable as finely crafted effects and the foo lin g that blurred and wayward music is sometimes the best partner to a blurred and wayward life.” The only moment of so-called ‘magic’ on the album is the unexpected freight train whistle occuring at the end of the fin al song. Otherwise, the ten short tracks range from straight-ahead country (“ S tran g ers” ) to m ellow folk (“Shoulder”) to polka (“Ghost in My Piano”). In other words, it’s a slow acoustic romp which may be lauded for its spontaneity, but could have been much better with more work and real production. — Stuart Detsky

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experimental works in Double Cross of greater value for their wonderful sense of humour. Notable examples include “My Job,” a three-page slice-of-life illustrated in the style of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus, and “Cute Girls,” a commentary by Consiglio on why “he truly fucking despisejs] cute girls.” When it comes to out-and-out hilarity, however, not even Tony Consiglio can match the sharp and brazen wit of Sam Henderson, another New York cartoonist. In his mini comic, The Magic Whistle, Henderson puts his characters through bizarre sitcom predicaments that one could never hope to find on even the most subversive episodes of Seinfeld or The Simpsons. Monroe, the cartoonist’s semiautobiographical stand-in, gets a job at his mother’s work place, hits on a young college co-worker, and is promptly publicly humiliated, with his mother leading the attack. ^

Harvey Pekar would be hardpressed to match) and short, humorous comics. Consiglio’s greatest strength is his ability to imbue his comics with a raw ness and sincerity that keeps the reader entertained and coming back for more. “Deliver us from...”, a story seri alised in issues four through six, is strik ing for the uncomplicat ed manner in which its story unfolds and the contrasting moral com plexity that resonates from the lead characters. Even though Tony, the protagonist, is left taking the rap for his brother Johnny’s drug-dealing, and Johnny flees the

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‘half English’ with the illustrations of a slightly unfamiliar Fall of Man. This scene perfectly demonstrates the unique features of the comic book medium as it simply could not have been accomplished in prose, or on film. The backup feature of each issue is Brown’s faithful take on the Gospels, which present us with a Christ who may or may not be ____________ Brown’s self-portrait, and whose physical size increases with each tus grows. By the eighth installment, as his mythical staissue of Underwater, which covers Matthew 17:10-17:27, Christ dwarfs his disciples with both his physical size and religious fervour. Brown has been illustrat theGno s S n0dlSSer- - o ing the Gospels as back-up sto ries since his days working on Yummy Fur, even when the probing'of The’dep th ^o ^art9 language, and myth aren’t rea’ main features delved into son enough to pique your curi intensely personal biography, ousity, let it be knowntlurt both dealing with such issues as teenage masturbation (avail Drawn “ V * able in collected form as The Pubhcati°ns are C anaan! and Playboy). By treating masturhave receved worldwide crifi batory guilt and Bible stories with the same dignity and lov ought t X enough reason to run to the ing attention. Brown makes a store and pick up ; significant artistic statement, copy today.

In another episode, Monroe attends a high school party and makes out with a drunken girl — thus fulfilling one of his old high school fantasies — only to find out that the girl has just fellated 12 other guys in the bathroom. For absurdity, Henderson cannot be beat. In one story, a man finds an “ass-in-a-box” and then proceeds to charge passers-by a fee for the opportunity to vent their frustrations upon it. In another, a man buys a sheet of Emily Dickinson stamps and is browbeat for being a “girly stamp guy.” He promptly buys another sheet of Ernest Hemingway stamps. Mini-comics are part of the lifeblood of the comic artform. Their economy of production and lack of editorial supervision throw a little chaos and democracy into the mix. This is the comics “underground” where a lot of artists get their start before moving on to the indies or the majors. And then there are the ones that never leave... Minicomics are difficult to find in the Montreal area, particularly the work of these two cartoonists. Your best bet is to order copies by mail. Back issues o/Double Cross are available for $2.00 each from Tony Consiglio (60-13 68th Road, Ridgewood, N.Y., 11385) The Magic Whistle is avail able from Sam Henderson (14 Bayard St. #13 Brooklyn, NY 11211-1201 ) who asks $2.00-3.00 U.S. per copy.

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woman in the next town is beaten by her white lover and blames the crime on a black vagrant, instigating a hunt by the local lynch mob of drunken rednecks. This rowdy and violent search for the culprit culminates in the murder of many innocent Rosewood citizens, the persecution of Mr. Mann, and the burning of the town. While the horror of white oppression is profound, it is still dif ficult to accept the movie’s hack neyed portrayal of evil white men as the ignorant, booze-swilling, guntoting bastards we all love to hate. The only exception is Jon Voight as Mr. Wright, the token white good guy of Rosewood. He runs the local store, and is a respect ed community member trying to bal ance his need to be accepted by his white peers with his compassion for all humans. Voight makes a believable job of his struggle to do the “Wright” thing (absolutely nothing is subtle in the movie), and his character serves as the moderator who keeps this from being a strictly blackAvhite sit uation. Unfortunately, most of the char acters in the film are clichéd and uninteresting and, despite competent acting all around, they come across lacking sincerity and imagination. The story itself, while poignant, is nothing new or innovative, and only entertaining if you like to watch innocent, helpless people abused or murdered by a pack of slavering idiots. Very much in docudrama mode, Rosewood cuts a well-tread path through the trees. — Karen LaRose

S in gleton p u ts the ‘hood’ in Rosewood John Singleton has left the urban, inner city settings oiBoys N the Hood and Poetic Justice to explore the origins of today’s turbu lent race relations. Based on a true story, Rosewood is a look back at the unjust actions perpetrated against man, by man, based on the colour of skin. The grandmotherly figure of Aunt Sarah best describes the gener al atmosphere of the film when she tells us that “nigger is just another word for guilty.” Heaven on earth for the postWW1 black community is the small, sleepy town of Rosewood, Florida, where free blacks own land, operate businesses, and live in peace and harmony. Ving Rhames (Pulp Fiction) is the handsome stranger Mr. Mann, who rides into town with money in his pocket and an itch to buy land and settle down. Life is great for everyone until a

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Upset leaves Martlets shaken Concordia knocks McGill into second place finish in basketball B y F r a n k l in R u b i n s t e i n

In the most pivotal game of the McGill basketball season, the Concordia Stingers gave their fans plenty to cheer about with a stir ring 85-71 over the struggling Martlets last Friday. The victory m oved the Stingers into a first, place finish in the Quebec Universities Basketball League, and the coveted first round bye that accom panies it. Although both teams finish the regular season with identical 16-4 records, the Stingers won the divi sion by virtue of their two victo ries against the Martlets. In a match-up that pitted not only Montreal’s rival schools but also their two best female basket ball players, neither battle disap pointed. C oncordia’s Guylaine Blanchette outshone McGill star Vicky Tessier, scoring 22 points, including 10 consecutive points during the first half. Tessier scored McGill’s first six points as the Martlets worked to establish their inside superiori ty. The Stingers countered with a tough interior defence, putting

someone in Tessier’s face through out the entire contest. Tessier was able to pump in 14 first-half points in leading the Martlets to a 46-41 halftime score. Although the Stingers trailed, Blanchette’s first-half performance gave the home crowd reason to be optim istic. Her quickness gave McGill’s defenders fits throughout the half, and she capitalised for 15 points. The start of the second half mirrored the game’s beginning. McGill consciously attempted to involve Tessier in the offence, giv ing her frequent touches in the low post area. Her last field goal of the game put McGill down by three points with over 14 m inutes remaining. For the following 8 minutes, Concordia went on a game-break ing 15-0 run. All-Quebec forward Patricia Demers led the charge, as she helped slow T essier down while she simultaneously provided some offensive spark. McGill’s scoring drought was ended by Anne Gildenhuys, with only 6:45 remaining in the game. Her basket made the score 75-58.

By the time McGill regained its offensive touch, the game was over. The M artlets had re lin quished the Quebec title they had seemingly clinched a couple of weeks ago. Gildenhuys finished with 17 points while Jennifer Stacey post ed 14 in the defeat. The Martlets did receive some good news over the weeked, as Stacey and Tessier were named Quebec first-team all-stars. Gildenhuys made the second team. Even more impressive was the announcement that Vicky Tessier was named Quebec’s Player of the Year and M cG ill’sLisen Moore was voted Coach of the Year. On the heels of two consecu tive losses (the other to York the weekend before) and little time to celebrate their individual awards, the Martlets head into the playoffs with their confidence shaken and little time to recover. The Martlets host the Laval Rouge et Or on Wednesday evening. If McGill is victorious, they will have to travel back to C oncordia to face the pesky Stinger squad.

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Martlet volleyball takes its game into unknown territory Team headed for Nationals after beating Sherbrooke and losing to third-ranked Laval B y Pa u l C o n n e r

The McGill women’s volley ball team is off to their first nation al championships after taking a long and circuitous route. After finishing second in the division during the regular season — the team’s best ever standing — the Martlets took on the third place Université de Sherbrooke Vert et Or in a sudden-death division semi final, beating them in a gruelling five set match. In the division finals, McGill was dusted off by the No. 3 ranked Laval Rouge et Or in two straight set matches in the best-of-three playoff. Despite the loss, the fifthranked Martlets received a wild card berth into the national champi onship to be held in Edmonton next week. M cGill headed into the Sherbrooke match as the under dogs, having lost the season series to the Vert et Or. M cGill fell behind 4-0 early in the first set, before bouncing back to even the mark at six with some nice blocks and a botched defensive play by the visitors. At 9-7, the Martlets took hold of the set, coming up with a precise tandem block of Sherbrooke’s pre miere power hitter. Another block and more miscommunication on the part of the Sherbrooke team gave McGill the first set, 15-10. In the second set, the Martlets again fell behind early, 2-7. Responding to the cheering of the 300 spectators, the team bounced

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back, tied it up and eventually took the set 15-11. Sherbrooke took control of the match in the third, winning an impressive 15-2 and set off some great digs and blocks. Tight sets on the McGill side left little room for Anie de la Fontaine and the other powers to manoeuvre, allowing the Sherbrooke women to read the plays and put up the blocks.

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The fourth set showed a more even game, with Sherbrooke han dling the pace, but not getting as many easy points as in the third. McGill bounced back from the sour display in the third, but lost the set 15-12 despite a late charge. “We came together in the fourth set,” said de la Fontaine after the match. “We worked hard together and we were really confi

dent we could come back.” The fifth and deciding set was run under point-serve rules, mean ing that each ball served up result ed in a point for one team. The two teams matched each other almost point-for-point until the score reached 10-9 in favour of McGill. From there, de la Fontaine took charge and began to blast cross court sm ashes past and at the Sherbrooke players, who finally succumbed to lose the set 15-9. The game was the shining moment of the Martlets’ season. In the two-m atch contest against Laval, the Martlets appeared fraz zled, nervous, and almost intimi dated. The hard-nosed, aggressive play which brought them to the division finals was lost, and Laval dominated the series, winning both matches in straight sets. McGill showed some glimmer of hope in the second m atch, held at the Currie Gym, but was never able to put together a consistent string of points. “The whole season, we’d been preparing for the semi-finals and so we came to the gym ready to play that game and confidant to win,” said m iddle and key player throughout the season Wendy Whelan. “After that, we had a bit of a down.” “Laval is a strong team, Laval is a good contender for the national title this year,” said head coach Rachele Beliveau.'“It’s good they play in our league, because we see the best volleyball. The girls are almost all first years so they have

to learn to play that fast volley ball.” “We can play against any top teams in the country, except the three top seeds are a little bit stronger but that’s how we’re going to get there by playing them often,” Beliveau concluded. The night ended on a bitter sweet note as de la Fontaine and Whelan were named to the division all-star team, and Beliveau was named coach of the year. Despite the loss, the Martlets have earned a spot in the final eight for the national championships, as decided by committee last Saturday afternoon. They were the highestranked team not to make the nationals through wins, and were granted one of two wildcard spots.

Coming up this week Martlet basketball playoffs vs. Laval, W ednesday, March 5, 7 :3 0 p.m. . W inner of that game travels to Concordia for QSSF title game on Saturday, time TBA Redmen basketball playoffs at Concordia, Thursday, March 6, 7:0 0 p.m. W inner of that game will begin a 3-gam e series vs. Bishops beginning March 9

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Redmen soccer try their hand at the indoor game Miss playoffs at the Indoor Soccer Classic B y Pa u l Fu th ey

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This past weekend saw an invasion by 24 soccer teams for the McGill Indoor Soccer Classic at the Fieldhouse. The tournament featured many alumni teams as well as ones from as far away as Thunder Bay. While many of the principles of the game remain the same, there are major differences between this brand of soccer and the outdoor game. For one, only seven players per team are on the playing sur face at any given time, and the games are limited to 25minutes. As well, the nets and playing sur face are much smaller than what most of the players are accus tomed to. With that in mind, the 1996 Quebec U niversities Soccer League champion McGill Redmen took to the floor to compete. The men’s draw of the tourna ment featured three divisions of four teams each. Each division winner plus the best second-place team would advance to the play offs. McGill found themselves in the division with Humber College, Queen’s, and the Université du Québec à Trois Rivières Old Boys. The Redmen took the lead in their first game, against Humber, on a goal by McGill’s player-ofthe-gam e G aetano Z ullo. The Redm en appeared to have the game in hand until the Hawks struck for two quick goals and handed Redmen the loss. The Redmen had no time to ponder the defeat as they took the floor immediately afterwards to face Queen’s. Unfortunately for the Redmen, they never got on track and the match finished in a 0-0 draw. Sean Shepherd captured McGill’s player-of-the-game hon ours. The loss and tie left McGill

in a must-win situation on Sunday against the Old Boys from UQTR. McGill played its best game of the tournam ent, and a wellplaced shot from QUSL rookie-ofthe-year Gabriel Gervais (who was also named the team’s player of the game) beat the UQTR keeper for the only goal of the game. The game was also marked by some heroic defensive plays on both sides, particularly by McGill keep er Jason Forsyth. Despite the win, McGill had to wait for the out com e o f the Q ueen’s-H um ber match to see if they would advance to the playoffs. Given the amount of goals scored, McGill needed Queen’s to win 1-0 in order to advance. It was not to be, as the game ended in a scoreless draw. N evertheless, McGill coach Pat Raimondo was happy with the strong showing his team gave in the win oyer UQTR. “It was definitely our best game. It was the one where we show ed some passion, some fight,” said the third-year head coach. When asked about how he felt about McGill’s start to the tourna m ent, Raim ondo felt that his team’s main stumbling block was lack of execution. “We d id n ’t fin ish ,” added Raimondo. “In the game against Queen’s, we didn’t take them seri ously enough to win.” Raimondo went on to state that the loss to Humber was the most disappointing game, espe cially since McGill had held the lead. When asked how he thought the team took to the indoor game, he paused before confirming that his team was clearly more com fortable playing outside. “We are an outdoor team ,” said Raimondo. “We need space, and we have speed.”

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The M cGill Redmen w it nessed th eir record fall to an anaemic 4-16 as they raked three consecutive road losses over Spring Break. Fortunately for the Redmen, Laval’s loss to first-place B ishops on Saturday evening secured their playoff berth and spared the team a place in the con ference cellar. M cG ill’s dow nw ard slide began at Ryerson, where they lost 79-66 despite the balanced scoring efforts of Peter Fraser, Hubert Davis and Rick V arisco. Each player connected for 11 points. The Redmen were crushed the follow ing night by the ninthranked York Yeomen, who handed M cGill a dem oralising 76-45 defeat. McGill’s lone bright spot was captain M att W atson, who chipped in with 14 points. Determined to secure a play off berth and reverse their losing ways, the Redmen finally showed encouraging signs of life at the Stinger Hive, only to lose an intense game to Concordia 75-72. In the first half, the Stingers came out sw arm ing with an aggressive, attacking full-court defence and an unrelenting fastbreak offence. The strategy had its intended effect as McGill immedi ately fell out of sync, creating a litany of mental lapses and allow ing the superior athleticism of Concordia to dictate the pace of the game. Concordia was able to capi talise on a num ber of early turnovers as they prevented the ball from being handled and con trolled by point guard M att Watson. However, after a series of timeouts, the Redmen adjusted by slow ing down the pace of the game through controlling the shot clock and becoming more physical in the paint. M cG ill’s new aggressive approach paid im m ediate divi dends as the Redmen took a twopoint lead with two m inutes rem aining and headed into the lockerroom with a 33-32 lead. Unfortunately, their play was not without consequence, as big men Mark Rawas and Hubert Davis fell into foul trouble that would even

Limpert leads Martlet swim team to bronze at Rugby men go 2-1 in Spain Nationals

Concordia sw arm ed the Redm en in the p a in t

tually lead to their ejections in the crucial dying m om ents of the game. In the second half, emotions flared and bodies went flying as both teams exhibited the passion of the cross-town rivalry. The exces sive aggression and lack of partic ipation by the referees visibly dis rupted the Redmen, who appeared to be playing for vengeance rather than victory. While McGill was frustrated and collecting fouls to key players, Concordia again took control, rac ing up and down the court and returning the game to its original pace. U nable to respond, the Redmen created costly turnovers. According to Hubert Davis, who finished with 21 points, “[w]e gave the game away at the end. In the last five minutes we were real ly tentative, we were playing not to lose instead of attacking.”

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While McGill was overly cau tious, the Stingers were tenacious, led by point guard Mark Spence and the soft touch of All-Canadian bruiser J.P. Reimer, who finished with 30 points. Concordia’s up tempo play lead to the ejection of Rawas, who finished with a season high 14 points, with three minutes remaining and Davis, with nearly two minutes remaining. A succession of fast breaks and a slashing drive by Spence finally put the Stingers ahead by a basket with six seconds remaining. Spence then iced the game by making one of his two free throws. The Redm en w ill face off against the Stingers on the road again Thursday night in a one game semi-final. Should McGill win, they will face Bishop’s in a subsequent three-game match-up.

McGill’s six-person contin gent of swimmers travelled to St. C atharines for the Canadian Interuniversity Athletic Union national championships over the weekend. With Olympic silver medal ist Marianne Limpert leading the way, the six entries all won medals en route to the team ’s third place finish overall. The women’s competition was won by the University of Toronto Varsity Blues, who fin ished with 445 points. The Calgary Dinosaurs just missed the top of the podium, coming up short by 7 points while McGill rounded out the top 3 with 344 points. Limpert led the charge with six total medals, including two M cGill records and a CIAU record all in relay competition. The CIAU record, captured in the 4X200m freestyle in a time of 8:20.02, was made up of Limpert, Carol Chiang, Holly McComb, and Lisa Virgini. McGill records fell in the 4X100m medley (gold) and the 4X100m free (bronze.). Limpert’s individual medals came in the 50m breast stroke, the 100m breaststroke, and the 200m individual medley. Virgini and Chiang were next on the team with five medals each, all coming off silver and bronze p erfo r m ances. McComb took home three medals at the championship, all in the relays, while Andrea Bacsfalusi and Natalie Hoitz, earned one medal each for their relay perform ances. All six women were given All-Canadian honours. On the men’s side, McGill finished 13th, with a strong per form ance by Sebastien Paddington, who was fourth in the 200m free and led the Redmen to a fifth place finish in the 4X200 freestyle relay. For results, please see page

28.

M cG ill’s Redmen rugby team took o ff to Spain for Reading Week, taking the chal lenge to battle three teams from across the ocean. The team took home two victories and a loss over the week. The Redmen started out the tour with a convincing 34-19 win over the Unversidad de Barcelona on Monday afternoon. Simon Ellison led the team with two tries, a penalty kick, and a con version. Andy H arrison, Ron Marsh, and John Rice each con tributed a try in the win. The second match was a lower-scoring win over IQS, a first division team from Barcelona. John Tecimer scored two tries, while John Morn chipped in one for a 15-7 victory. Saturday, the Redmen round ed out the tour with a hard-fought 23-22 loss to a team named Gotic. Marsh and Ellison put down a try each, while Colin McKenzie had one try, two converts, and a penalty kick in the loss.

Prchal captures silver at Mont Orignal giant slalom M cG ill’s men and women took to the slopes of Mont Orignal near Quebec City over the break and continued their strong team performances, hold ing on to first overall in the men’s competition and second in the women’s. McGill took home only one medal in the com petition, a downturn from their perfo r mances in weeks prior. Dave Prchal led the way with a secondplace tie out of 74 competitors, while Andrew Biller and Nicolas Robichon took home fourth and tenth place results respectively. On the women’s side, Susan Owen captured tenth place off 44, while Cassandra Osborn finished 20th.

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Patriotes once again countered quickly. From there, the game passed back and forth between the teams, with UQTR taking a two-goal lead at one point, only to see M cGill score two in 21 seconds to even the score again. UQTR’s Daniel Laflam me finally sealed the victory 14 min utes into the third, putting the puck p ast Jarro d D aniel in a scramble in front of the net. McGill fired a flurry of shots in the dying seconds of the game, but came up empty. The series was one to remember. Neither team had any

thing left after the game; even the scope. “I knew there was going to w inners looked exhausted and be a lot o f e le c tric ity , but I vigourless. The atmosphere in the thought it was going to be a little Redmen camp was eerily quiet. “They’re a great team,” said tighter defensively,” he said. “But a d ish earte n ed R aym ond. it was open, and they have a pow erful attack, “Beaucage was out they standing tonight, and B e a u c a g e w a s o u ts ta n d so that was the differ in g to n ig h t, a n d th a t w a s won.” “I don’t ence.” th e d iffe re n c e know if it’s Pierre Gendron, [the m em o who scored two goals and had two assists in — M a rtin R a y m o n d , ry] going to pass som e the game and totalled R edm en head coach day. My eig h t p o in ts in the first year, series, was M cGill’s top player. After the game, he we got beat by them, same thing, was matter-of-fact about the loss, 6-5 at the end with 30 seconds but clearly heartbroken over its left; I still think about it, and I

think this one’s going to be even harder,” said Gendron. The loss puts an end to one of McGill’s best seasons in recent m em ory. A side from a lull in m id-seaso n w hich saw the Redmen lose five straight, the team played brilliant hockey. In the last month of the season, they beat the No. 1 team in the country tw ice and the No. 3 once. G endron, a g rad u atin g U3 in p h y sical ed u c atio n , fin ish ed fourth in the national scoring race, and set a new McGill sin gle-season record for points with 94. A num ber o f Redm en are expected to g rad u ate in the

spring, including Gendron and most of the leading scorers. Next season will be a year of transition from a veteran, experienced team, to a young, m ostly u n tested , Redmen squad. For UQTR, the win means a third straight trip to the Ontario U n iv ersities A th letics A ssociation finals. This series was, in some respects, a repeat of two years ago when the Redmen bowed out to les Patriotes in three games in the divisional finals. They will be the favourite to win the Q ueen’s Cup and lead the OUAA to the national cham pi onships in Toronto in two weeks time.

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Head coach Dan Madden hopes to see a new ressurgence in women’s hockey B y Lo u i s P e a r s o n

In a move for gender equity in athletics, the C anadian Interuniversity Athletics Union made a commitment to organise a national championship tournament for Canada’s top women’s univer sity hockey teams starting in 1998. Women’s hockey is a hodge podge of teams — some grouped in Ontario, some in Quebec, a few on the West Coast — mostly play ing for the love of the game. McGill, like many other teams, raises money through fund-raisers to support costs of equipm ent, travel, and training. For the players, the only aspi ration is the hope of playing on the national team. Others are follow ing the US model where universi ties have made a commitment to support the sport — C anada’s sport — “the fastest growing sport in North America,” according to Dan Madden, head coach of the McGill Martlets.

The CIAU has jumped on the bandwagon in an effort to salvage the talent remaining in Canada’s leaking resource pool. The idea is that, with a prize as prestigious as a national championship at stake, schools will fund their teams, play ers w ill attend those schools instead of migrating or dropping out, and the popularity of women’s hockey will increase. Details of the national cham pionship tournament are still in the works, but a rough estimate is in place. The Quebec league — com posed of Concordia, L’Université du Québec à Trois Rivières, StL aurent, and M cGill and an Ontario league of University of Toronto, L aurier, Q ueen’s, Lakehead, Windsor, and Guelph -— will play their seasons per usual and send their first place (or top two teams) to the national champi onship. A Western league, still in the makings, will play a round robin to determine its participants. An Atlantic conference is not yet

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in the mix. W hat does this mean for M cGill and its M artlets? The Martlets are 2-22 in the past two years, but improving. They won two of their last four games this year. In addition, they surrendered only 65 goals this season as opposed to 118 a year ago and scored ten instead of three. Coach Madden said that a lit tle financial support from McGill could be on the way. If the school recognises them as an official team, the needed funding could help the Martlets become competi tive. If not, Madden’s team will continue to struggle. “[Women’s] volleyball did it,” Madden said, “We can too.” With the university backing them, wom en’s volleyball — scoring zeroes five years ago — are now heroes ranked fifth in Canada. Now, the Martlets hockey are looking to follow their volleyball counterparts and get funding to match their new CIAU status.

ophy is clearly d e a ls h a u n te d th e C F L irresponsible busi evident every th ro u g h o u t th e A m e ric a n ness deals haunted time the CFL the CFL through v e n tu re tries to right its out the American sinking ship. venture. It was Unfortunately, it has only resulted clear that proper market research in the CFL’s continual financial was never perform ed, and the demise. American fiasco never should have The league determined that, by taken place. taking our game south of the border With the folding of these fran and awarding franchises to football chises, the league decided to return hotbeds such as Las Vegas, San to its roots — to be what the CFL Antonio, Birmingham, Memphis, termed “radically” Canadian. Baltimore and Shreveport, it would The decision resulted in anoth be exposing an entirely new audi er disaster for the league. At the ence to our brand of football. It was start of the past season, there were believed that this exposure would in eight teams struggling to survive in turn be able to generate a badly the cut-throat business of profes needed national television contract sional sports. It was clear that the in the United States, thus providing CFL had a successful product on the league with the exposure it sore the field (as evidenced by the ly lacked. thrilling Grey Cup game played this The CFL also entered into a past year), but the business aspect corporate sponsorship deal with of the league was a mess. Purolator Courier who, coinciden Only in the CFL could you tally', owned the Birmingham fran chise. It was believed that by enter C o n t in u e d o n P a g e 3 7

New setting, same results for Martlets Women’s soccer team can’t shake the Rouge et Or as Laval takes it to McGill yet again B y T he M in h Lu o n c

Last weekend, those looking for solid soccer action in March didn’t need to look further than Fieldhouse, where the first annual McGill Indoor Soccer Classic was held. The M cGill M artlets and Alumni were two of the 12 teams from across Ontario and Quebec competing in the women’s side of the tournament. The field included strong teams including defending national champions Ottawa and the provincial champs from Laval. Neither home team was able to make the final — the Martlets were eliminated in the semifinals and the Alumni failed to advance past the first round. Laval took home the trophy with a 2-0 win over Ottawa in the final. One of the semifinal contests saw the Martlets battle the Laval Rouge et Or in a rematch of the division final. The result was all too similar for McGill, with Laval scoring 5-0 shutout. Though M cGill buzzed the Laval goal for much of the first half after the visitors had taken an early lead, the ball stayed out of the net. Laval’s second goal, early in the second half, let the air out of

the Martlet attack, and the result was a long final 30 minutes for the home team. “It was like the season finals all over again,” com mented Amy Walsh, named a tournament all-star after being crowned M cG ill’s MVP in all four of their gam es. “We were in the game for the first half and we just lost it after that.” The round-robin portion of the tournament had the teams split into three fourteam divisions, with the winner of each group and a wild card moving on. The action started Saturday morning, with the Martlets Kevin Koch tying the Concordia Stingers Laval plays keep-away fr o m McGill in semis 0-0. They had the same luck with the Q ueen’s Golden To secure a semifinal berth pointing results on the field, the Gaels, also playing to a scoreless and finish with the best second- tournam ent was still an o v er tie. place record, the M cGill team whelming success. Organisers saw The Martlets needed a victory needed help from some former this year’s event as the first of and some help on Sunday, in order Martlets. In the final game of the many annual tournaments. to advance to the semifinals. They round-robin, the McGill Alumni “Other teams had nothing but faced the Lakehead Nor’Westers in tied the Sherbrooke Vert et Or to positive things to see about the the final game of the round-robin, finish the tournament at 1-1-1. The tournament,” commented assistant and thoroughly dominated. Walsh tie enabled the Martlets to grab the coach/organiser Gayle Noble. and Megan McGrath scored in the w ild-card spot, and elim inate “Everything ran like clockwork, it 2-0 victory, as the Martlets fin Sherbrooke from contention. was a good weekend for all the ished in second place behind Despite the M artlets’ disap teams.” Queen’s with a 1-0-2 record.

A t h le te s o f th e w eek P ie rre G e n d ro n M e n ’s H o c k e y

Gendron scored 5 goals and 6 assists in M cG ill’s four playoff gam es. He also broke M cG ill’s single sea son point scoring record and finished the season with 94 points. M a ria n n e L im p e rt W o m e n ’s S w im m in g

Limpert led the Martlet sw im team to a third place finish at the CIAU sw im m ing championships. She won 6 medals which included a CIAU recordbreaking performance in the 4x200m freestyle.

Sports/What’s On

March 5th, 1997

CFL seeks financial assistance season ticket holders. But in typical CFL fashion, have the league that supported fran instead of sticking to its guns and chises as it did in Ottawa, Montreal the new hard-line approach, the and B.C. As a result of this action, league went back to its Show Me the cash-strapped league almost The Money ways and awarded the bankrupted itself. B.C. franchise to David Brayley. This near His approval con calamity forced tradicted the O n ly in th e C F L c o u ld the CFL to league’s desire for change its stance y o u h a v e th e le a g u e th a t stable ownership, concerning its s u p p o rte d fra n c h is e s a s as his application treatment of franit d id in O tta w a , M o n tre a l for the Hamilton chises and in franchise was a n d B .C . securing finan revoked earlier, cial backing. The due to a lack of CFL adopted a tough policy with its financial backing. troubled franchises. They decided The CFL is presently turning to to abandon their Show Me The the newest knight in shining armour Money attitude and take a hard-line to help save its latest trouble spot, approach with the distressed fran Montreal. This latest saviour comes chises. in the form of New York invest Due to Ottawa’s limited access ment banker Robert Wetenhall. to resources and an absentee owner Wetenhall agreed to purchase who wanted nothing to do with his the Alouettes from the league and team, the CFL ruled that the fran resume the operations of the chise would be revoked and that the Alouettes only under new owner team would fold. ship. The problem with this sce In British Columbia, the league nario is that the name, colours and was a little more compassionate. It equipment of the Als are owned by allowed for the B.C. group to find the former ownership of Jim Speros stable ownership and attract 15,000 and Michael Gelfand. C o n t in u e d fro m P a g e 3 0

W hat's Wednesday, March 5

Paul Helmer, pianist, will be perform ing B eethoven’s Variations: “Eroica” and “Diabelli” LBGTM ’s Bisexual Group meets in Shatner 423 at 5:30 p.m. Both men and women are w el come. LBGTM Coordinating meeting at 5:30 p.m. in Shatner 432. Thursday, March 6

Prof. Ian McKay will speak on “Legacies of Marx in Canada” at 1 p.m. in Arts 160. All are welcome. CBC/M cGill presents C atherine Robbin and M ichael McMahon in concert. The theme will be on “nineteenth century Vienna”. Show starts at 7:30 p.m. at Pollack Hall. Dr. Jinfen Yan will be giving a lecture on “Rethinking Confucian Fem inism ” at 3:30 p.m. in the MCRTW seminar rm. 3487 Peel St., 2nd floor. LBGTM’s W omen’s Group meets in Shatner 423. Friday, March 7

At the Unicorn tonite, the Bards of Blabbermouth will be hosting “Skitz Night”. Located at 3901 St. Laurent. Starts at 9 p.m. Admission is $5. At 5:30, LBGTM’s Coming out Group meets in the basement of UTC. Don’t be shy, and come out. Saturday, March 8

South East Asian Student’s association of McGill presents “Pearls of Asia”, dinner/show, in benefit of the Montreal Children’s Hospital Foundation. Tonight at 6:30 p.m. in the Shatner ballroom. Tickets: $20, Students: $15 and members: $12. Tickets can be bought at C hapter XI, COOP SSMU, and E.U.S. General Store. For more info, call 682-7407. Sunday, March 9

LAIBACH with guests VROMB will be perform ing at Foufounes Electriques at 8 p.m.

Instead of doing the logical course of action and negotiating a sale of the franchise to Wetenhall, the league decided to award a new franchise to play in Montreal under Wetenhall’s ownership. The basis for the decision — Show Me The Money. As a result of the stupidity, the league had two teams awarded to one city that can barely support one team, let alone two. The league’s impatience for a proper deal with Speros added confusion to an already mëssy situation. In order to try and bring clo sure to this m atter, the league closed a deal with Speros which cleared the way for Wetenhall to step in. To help get started, Wetenhall has called upon former commissioner Larry Smith to help resurrect the troubled franchise. Maybe it is time that the CFL abandon its Show Me The Money approach to doing business, and sit down and develop a clear profes sional business plan, which includes stable ownership. If they cannot do this, then maybe the league should cease operation until the mecha nisms to do so are in place.

History office, 6th floor Leacock. Please include name and number. Deadline is March 15th. Monday, March 10 Call for subm issions: the H illel Jewish C enter hosts lunchtim e lecture with Prof. Women of colour collective’s jour Gershon Hundert on “The Spanish nal of writing, “Pen Umbra”. Drop Inquisition”. From 1:30-2:30 p.m. submissions at QPIRG office or call 398-7432. Deadline is Feb. Free Admission. 21st. Ongoing and Upcom ing... Sign up for HEBREW. Volunteers needed for McGill Queer Pride week during March B eginner and advanced levels 10-14! Sign up with LBGTM (rm available. Mondays or Tuesdays, 7 to 9 p.m. Eight week session costs 432, Box Y2) Volunteers needed- The First $65. For info, call Luni at the Hillel Year Coordinator is seeking volun Jewish Student Centre: 845-9171. Tired of having religion teers, both students and staff, to participate in a phonathon. shoved down your throat? The Individuals offered admission will A theist A gnostic, and Secular be encouraged to accept them and Humanist Society meets at 7:30 attend McGill. If you are interest p.m. every Thursday in rm 435, ed, please contact Trish Duff by Shatner. The Art History S tudents’ phone at 398-6913. Would you like to act as a Association is now accepting artmentor to a first-year student? Help pieces for annual art exhibition. All them become accustomed to uni finished works must be received no versity life. Please contact Trish later than March 3. Info call 2844993 or 985-5224. Duff by phone at 398-6913. Living with Loss: Class Action, a street organi sation that has given $1.2 million Bereavement support groups are to McGill from graduating students being offered free of charge since 1990, is sponsoring the Class through the McGill school of social of ‘97 Streetfest on April 16. All work for adults, children and ado graduating students are invited to lescents. Anyone who is experienc attend. Contact Cynthia Somma at ing any type of loss including the loss of a family member or friend, 398-4309. Post-Abortion Informal Peer please contact Estelle Hopmeyer at facilitated Support Group. No 398-7067. W ant to help out with an counselors present. Time to be arranged based on interest. Contact SSMU taskforce? More members Terri at McGill Womens’s Union at for the accessiblility, LBGTM, vis ible minority and religious accomo 398-6823. Players Theatre presents “Une dation taskforces are wanted. Leave H istoire Vraie de Jean-O livier a message for Darren at 982-9170 Vachon”, held from Feb. 19-22 at 8 or at SSMU. Want to make a difference p.m. For reservations, 398-6813. with only a few hours a week? Tickets: $8/6 for students. The Journal of North Volunteer with the Yellow Door American studies is accepting sub Elderly Project. Help seniors in the missions on any N. American topic downtown community with friend or issue. Please submit paper and ly visits. Drop by 3625 Aylmer or saved version on diskette to Prof. call Chi at 398-6243. R iggs’ m ailbox. This is in the

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