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October 2nd, 1996

Taking back the night m ore accessible than ever

By A mrit S idhu

In the 17th annual Take Back the Night March last Thursday, women from McGill, Concordia and the larger Montreal community marched in affirmation of their right to feel safe on the streets of Montreal.

The march was started in the United States in the 1970s and in Montreal in 1982, under the organi­ sation of the Montreal Sexual Assault Prevention Centre. In 1992, the Take Back the Night Coalition handed over responsibility for the march to the Concordia Women’ s Centre.

Both these bodies are under the direction of Nathalie Leveille. The Coalition is comprised of representa­ tives from various women’s organi­ sations, all of which are volunteer and non-profit.

In 1992, the event became a women-only event. A number of other North American cities that hold the march have the same policy.

Excluding men has aroused con­ troversy and charges of reverse dis­ crimination in past years. Leveille disagreed with these notions, arguing that it is important for women to be able to march by themselves.

“We exclude men because, in my opinion and those of the other members of the Women’s Centre, men already have the streets. At night, most men are generally not afraid to walk the streets. One women-only event is not too much to ask,” Leveille said. “There are count­ less ways for men to show support:

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Montreal’s 17th annual Take Back the Night march, a women-only event, wound through downtown last Thursday. This y ea r’s event was made more accessible, allowing disabled and elderly women to join.

Blood drive tainted by controversial questionnaire Red Cross criticised fo r homophobia, unsafe screening tactics B y A lex M athias

The Canadian Red Cross Annual Blood Drive has returned to M cG ill this w eek, and with it returns a controversy. Three years ago, the CRC screening process became a hot topic among McGill students and in the Montreal gay community because it prevented sexu ally active gay men from donating blood. This year, there is still a great deal of concern about the nature of the questionnaire, but the op p osition’ s ta ctics have changed.

In N ovem ber 1 9 9 3 , SSM U moved to ban the blood drive at McGill on the basis that it violated the anti-discrimination clause of the SSMU constitution. The following February, the motion was rescinded and put to referendum. In March, 80 per cent of McGill undergradu­ ates voted in favour of keeping the blood drive.

SSMU President Chris Carter, who was administrator of Lesbians

Bisexuals and Gays of M cGill in 1993, still thinks the SSMU consti­ tution is being violated. He referred to many o f the questions in the screening questionnaire as “blanket statements,” and claimed that the questionnaire is not fulfilling its intended purpose. “[The CRC] is not allowing people who could give blood to give it,” Carter commented, “and they’re not screening out potential­ ly unsafe donors.”

Carter also claimed that the question put to referendum blurred the issue.

“It was worded in such a way that you were pro- or anti-blood drives, and everyone is in favour of blood drives,” he said. “It wasn’t about that. It was about wanting to stop discrimination.”

The Krever Inquiry, an $11 million federal commission investi­ gation which examined the tainted blood scandal in the ‘ 8 0 s, has demanded an essential change in blood-collecting practices. One of

Judge Krever’s recommendations was to refrain from collecting blood in high-risk areas such as Montreal, with its prominent gay community.

During this year’s blood drive, L B G T M (L esb ian s, B isex u a ls, Gays and Transexuals of McGill) will be running an awareness cam­ paign to encourage students to think critically about the homopho­ bic nature o f the questionnaire.

They will be handing out literature and petitioning for signatures to lobby the CRC for change.

“W e’re not going to discour­ age people from giving blood,” asserted Darrell Tan, political coor­ dinator of LBGTM. “But our mes­ sage should get out and something should be done about [the ques­ tionnaire].”

The LBGTM stance is that the CRC should be inquiring about spe­ cific sexual practices rather than asking vague questions about sexu­ al orientation. LBG TM wants to replace the existing definition of high-risk activity.

Phrases such as “If male, hav­ ing sex with another male, even once,” should be changed to more precise questions pertaining to “having unprotected vaginal and/or anal sex.”

In a 1993 letter responding to SSM U’s accusations of discrimina­ tion, CRC maintained that “it is the responsibility of the Red Cross to

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Take back the night creates feelings of empowerment, solidarity C o n tin u ed from P a g e 7 by donating to women’s shelters, helping to set up before the party, as well as just talking about it amongst their friends and being aware.”

To include as many women as possible this year, the Coalition has made the march more accessible than ever. For the first time, a bus was pro­ vided for disabled or elderly partici­ pants, as well as a sign-language interpreter to sign songs, chants, and slogans. This year was also the first time that Leveille was able to partic­ ipate, as she had previously been restricted by a disability.

This year’s march was consider­ ably shorter than previous ones, start­ ing at the Roddick Gates, and ending with a party and speeches at the Women’ s Y at René Lévesque Boulevard and Crescent Street. The feelings of empowerment and solidar­ ity that organisers of the march hoped to create were enthusiastically expressed by its participants.

“This march is really important

for solidarity,” said Lucinda Dyke, a Montreal resident taking part for the first time. “I wish there were more events like this one. This is the only way we can walk the streets safely at night, and that’s sad. I work at night, so safety is a big issue with me.”

Nadia Bini, a student at Concordia, echoed Dyke’s senti­ ments.

“It is important to make people aware: men, women, educators and politicians,” Bini said. “We need at least one night where we can speak out, to reach the people on the streets.

This is a march against violence in general, but especially against women. It’s an opportunity to share personal stories.”

Bystander Blaire Roth expressed considerable appreciation for the march, although his gender prevented him from attending.

“I believe in the cause and the demonstration,” Roth explained.

“Frankly, I felt I haven’ t seen a demonstration like this in years. It’s nice to see that people still care.”

Vote to create financial ethics committee annulled B y M elissa R adler

On September 26, SSMU coun­ cil moved to declare the establishment o f the Financial Ethics Research Committee null and void on the grounds that the FERC Amendment adopted by student referendum in March never existed in French.

The FERC was created by a stu­ dent referendum in March for the pur­ pose of keeping watch on the finan­ cial dealings o f SSM U. At the September 12 council meeting, pro­ posed by-elections to fill the positions of Financial Ethics Research Advisors met with resistance from certain councilors when it was revealed that a French version o f the FERC Amendment never existed.

The use of the French language for spoken and written forums at SSMU is subject to both university and provincial constitutional written law. SSM U’s constitution states in clauses 29.1 and 29.2, respectively: “The Constitution and By-laws of the society shall be made available in English and French” and “Both texts are equally authoritative.” Quebec law also states mandatory French doc­ umentation.

Chris Muldoon, elections coordi­ nator, expressed concern that the use of French has become a procedural issue at McGill.

“We only looked at our own constitution and our own constitution basically says that you have to do things in both languages, and that hasn’t been done here for as long as anyone can remember,” said Muldoon. “We can’t keep thinking of French as a procedural issue. We should be using it as often in our criti­

cal documents as we use English.”

SSMU VP University Affairs Don McGowan stated that, while the issue is not purely procedural, the mistakes in last year’s referendum should not be confused with the cause and spirit of FERC itself. He moved to write the appropriate by-laws in order to validate the referendum with­ out taking the issue back to the stu­ dents, citing the previous referen­ dum’s 5 to 1 victory as clear support.

Council firmly rejected McGowan’s motion. While he was disappointed, McGowan endorsed council’s deci­ sion to take FERC to referendum in November.

“It is odious to the students of McGill that, because there was a mis­ take last year, we have to go to refer­ endum,” said McGowan. “Maybe it’s because I ’m trained in law, but I believe that procedure is what makes things valid. If you have your rules you play by those rules.”

As for Muldoon’s complaints, they went beyond FERC to all consti­ tutional by-laws, which he maintains were imperfectly translated in a “rushed, botched job.”

“Council will have until the first meeting in January to adopt all by­ laws in French. Any by-laws not in French will be considered void in my office,” stated Muldoon.

Councilor Stephen Erdelyi indi­ cated that a French text of the FERC referendum question is currently available in handwritten form.

Council will vote on the issue on October 10 and, if passed, the estab­ lishment of FERC will be subject to a student referendum to be held on November 5, 6, and 7.

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Blood drive...

C o n tin u ed from P ag e 7 select volunteer blood donors from a population of people who have the least risk of carrying any kind of infectious disease.” CRC still touts safety as its top priority and defends its rejection of potentially unsafe donors on this basis.

Tan acknowledges that since CRC is a large corporation, change will be slow. However, he remains optimistic.

“We shouldn’t be intimidated about what we’re up against. I think [this awareness] is a growing trend.

You can’t expect too much, you can only try your best,” said Tan.

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Ontario government eliminates funding fo r Waterloo’s Environmental Science and Engineering centre The University o f Waterloo will be forced to solicit private funding for its proposed Centre for Environmental Scien ce and Engineering after learning that the O n tario M in istry of Education and Training will not come through with the $25.2 mil­ lion promised.

The commitment was origi­ nally made under a Jobs Ontario program in 1994 and would have

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David Trick, assistant deputy minister, Ontario Post-secondary Education Division, said in a let­ ter to UW presid ent Jam es Downey, “The ministry has been reviewing all post-secondary cap­ ital commitments in order to meet the new fis c a l fram ew o rk ...

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People seem to forget that,” said Feldman. “People are using the blood drive for political purposes.”

“The people who lose out are the people who need b loo d ,” Feldman continued. ”It’s going to save lives. I hope we can save as many as possible.”

John B a tsis, chair o f the M cGill Blood Drive Committee, said that the committee is trying to remain above the fray in the plan­ ning of this year’s drive.

“W e’re following what’s been dictated to us by the Red Cross. We are just trying to organise it and get the most donors possible.”

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Senate rejects student

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SSMU brushed aside in Open House

bid to reconsider exam schedule live far from Montreal and were scheduled to w rite exam s on December 6 will not be forced to The p etition to move the write later in the year. exams scheduled on December 6 “On the one hand, I think it to commemorate the women killed was a good idea and it would have in the university massacre of 1989 been nice to commemorate the day was not considered by Senate. properly. On the On Wednes­ McGill’s other hand, I ’ m day, Septem ber glad to not be adiministration doesn’t 25, a proposal to reco n sid er the see it a s an important inconveniencing about a thousand approval o f the issue, because they stu d en ts,” said Key Dates of the McGowan. “The don’t see it as 1996-1997 Exam fallback plan is to Sch ed ule was relevant to the possibly distribute turned down by university. white ribbons and Senate. In order little notes on the for an actual debate about the - Sara Mayo, desks o f those who write exams schedule to prop­ Women’s Union member on December 6.” erly com m ence, M cG ow an the motion to reconsider would have had to pass was upset by accusations of politi­ with a majority. Senate’s decision cal m otives. To his critics, he thereby extinguished the effort of points out that he did have a per­ sonal stake involved, as he knew SSMU VP University Affairs Don McGowan to postpone December one of the women shot in 1989.

Sara Mayo, a member of the 6 exams in memory of the anniver­ Women’s Union, was also disap­ sary o f the m assacre by M arc L epine at the U niversité de pointed in the decision to reject the proposal to reconsider the exam Montréal. schedule. She felt that it was an Many senators rejected the important issue that needed to be m otion to reco n sid er on the grounds that the exam schedule discussed, but indicated that she was first approved by the Report of had expected such a ruling.

“It’s not surprising. M cGill’s the Committee on Timetabling and administration doesn’t see it as an Student Records on November 9, 1994. According to them, students important issue because they don’t see it as relevant to the university,” have had enough time to make their appeal and it is now too late Mayo said. “But for a lot of stu­ dents, it is relevant because of how to do so.

“I thought the students should it happened, and where it happened not make their case one and a half because it was in a university engi­ neering environment. That [envi­ years after the schedule has been ronm ent] used to be clo sed to made .... all through this time women, and is now much nobody has said anything. [The date] was approved in November improved.”

In response to the claim that o f 1 9 9 4 ,” said V ic e -P rin cip a l (Academic) B ill Chan. “One rea­ students should have attempted to son for making it known so far in change the schedule earlier, Mayo advance is so students can plan. believes that McGill would proba­ The date was put in the calendar, bly not have changed their current position in any case. so it has been known for nearly “I don’t think that the univer­ two years. Many students make sity would have done anything plans on that basis.” about it two years ago. They don’t M cG ow an com prehends S e n a te ’ s lo g ic for refu sing to want to set a precedent that stu­ dents will be able to use to avoid debate the issue, but was clearly exams, papers, etc. ... but I under­ disappointed.

“On their grounds, the shoot­ stand their logic,” she said.

To enable students with writ­ ing was in ‘89, the exam schedule was set in ‘94, so this was known ten exams on December 6 to com­ memorate the massacre, those who at the tim e they set the exam schedule,” said McGowan. “Their plan the D ecem ber 6 memorial argument was that you have noth­ may move the ceremony to later in the day, or between the morning ing new to bring to the table.”

McGowan admitted, however, and afternoon exams. that there are some positive aspects to Senate’s decision. Students who B y R u ssell B a ile y

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SSMU tent p u s h e d to th e fr in g e d u rin g M cG ill’s Open H ou se B y S heri H arris

Last weekend’s Open House celebrations were deemed by McGill administration to be a striking suc­ cess. To SSM U’s own representa­ tives and co-ordinators, however, the event turned out to be a resounding disappointment.

M cG ill celebrated its 175th anniversary by opening its gates to the greater community. Two years of research and planning culminated in an affair that produced remarkable, though conflicting, impressions.

Although the open house was suc­ cessful in terms of attendance and achievement, its highly administra­ tive emphasis left members o f SSMU’s Open House committee — the only representatives of McGill students — feeling left on the fringe.

More than twelve large tents were set up on McGill’s downtown campus for the celebration. Each exhibit represented a different func­ tional perspective on McGill and its history, with the SSMU display rep­ resenting student life. While the majority of the pavillions were lined up along the university’s main walk­ way, SSMU’s exposition was allot­ ted a space near the Three Bares. It was the only exhibit in this area.

Tara Newell, the SSMU open house co-ordinator, found this seclu­ sion to be representative o f the greater marginalisation of the stu­ dents at the celebration in general.

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whole event,” she said. “Their role in general seemed to be for the admin­ shaping McGill was barely recog­ istration,” York said. “It appeared to occur independently of the students.” nised, and they have made McGill No official grievance on this what it is for 175 years.”

According to Newell, this situa­ issue has yet been lodged with the tion was aggravated by another administration, partly because schematic shortcoming. A speaker’s Newell recognised the vast time and platform was stationed at the mouth energy poured into this event by stu­ of the Three Bares pit — the only dents and staff alike.

“I did not want to bring down readily available entrance into an otherwise enclosed area. Access to the many accomplishments of the the SSMU exhibit was consequently celebration,” she said.

Newell disagreed with the hindered. Thus, while M cG ill’ s administrative co-ordinators estimate administration’s claims that open total attendance for the event at over house strengthened the understand­ 6 0 ,0 0 0 , Newell claimed to have ing of McGill, not only in the wider hosted only a few hundred visitors at community, but among the McGill community itself. She feels that the SSMU tent.

The open house layout was McGill cannot continue ignoring its students. established close to a year ago.

“We wanted to get across a Administrators informed SSMU of message, the role students play in their exhibit’s peripheral location many months in advance. When forming McGill,” she said. “Students asked why no objection was made at are what make McGill. The whole is the time, Joanna York, Newell’s fel­ no more than the sum of its parts, low co-ordinator, replied, “the deci­ and we are 17,000.” sion was already made, we had no choice.”

Physical isolation was one of only several grievances aired by Newell and her committee. Newell also felt that a persistent lack of communication between the admin­ istration and the student body dis­ tanced the SSMU tent even further from the celebrations. The apparent lack of concern for the students’ marginalised position, however, is what Newell found most disappoint­ f o r L a d ie s a n d M e n . ing.

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October 2nd, 1996

Dental plan sails through council Students to vote f o r implementation o f plan in upcoming fall referendum B y B enji W einstein

In the referendum period this fall, students will be voting on whether or not they want to add dental coverage to the SSM U health plan, SSMU council decid­ ed Thursday night.

Councillors voted unanimous­ ly in favour of a proposal for stu­ dent dental coverage. The vote came after lengthy debate over whether or not the proposal should be amended.

The amendment, put forward

by Clubs Rep Steven Erdelyi, stip­ ulated that all students be given the choice to opt-out of dental cover­ age, and avoid paying the required fees. Under the original proposal, only those students with pre-exist­ ing coverage would be able to optout.

“Students should be given the right not to have the dental plan.

There are cases when the dental plan may be more expensive than going to the dentist on your own,” Erdelyi said. “Students will pay $60 for a check-up, plus the $70 to have the dental plan. Therefore, students who go to the dentist once a year end up paying $130 for a service that would have cost them $115 to $120.”

After considerable debate on the proposed amendment, includ­

ing a presentation from health plan insurance broker Lev Bukhman, E rdelyi’ s motion for an amend­ ment was defeated. The question will now be put to referendum as originally planned.

The engineer o f the dental plan proposal, SSMU VP Finance Jonathan Chomski, indicated that there is a considerable amount of work to do in the time before the referendum period to ensure that students are adequately informed to make a decision on dental cov­ erage. He remains optimistic that it will pass. “ [Inform ing students] is a huge job to undertake — it’s like a whole new election. It’s a compli­ cated plan, but the more students understand it the more they’ll like it,” Chomski said. “I ’m very opti­ m istic and fully expect to have resounding support. I don’t think many people will take the anti­ dental plan stance.”

Judging by the unanimous support in council, Chomski’s pre­ dictions are likely to come true.

Despite debating with Chomski at great length for an amendment, Erdelyi strongly supports the plan itself.

“I would’ve liked the univer­ sal opt-out included, but I believe the dental plan will benefit stu­ dents as a whole.”

Exam ining the first year experience B y M arisa M usto

Last Wednesday, a report was submitted to Senate reviewing the difficulties first year students expe­ rience at McGill. The report con­ tained various proposals for improvement, including the estab­ lishment of an Office for First Year Students.

The Work Group to Examine First Year Experience was estab­ lished by the Academic Planning and P o licy C om m ittee in M ay 1995. The group consisted of 11 individuals and was comprised of representatives from different areas of the university.

According to the panel, first year students have difficulty inte­ grating both acad em ically and socially.

“Students in their first year at university have difficulty adapting to a new environment,” said direc­ tor o f Counselling Services Ted B ak er, a m em ber o f the work group. “Many experience home­ sickness and face the pressure of having to make new friends.”

The main proposals made by the Work Group incorporate every aspect of university life and require a substantial amount of co-opera­ tion between sectors of the univer­ sity.

To make this more feasible, the panel suggested that the Office of the Dean of Students establish an Office for First Year Students which would essentially be cus­ tomised to suit the students’ specif­ ic needs.

“Right now, students are dissatisfied because they feel there is no continuity in advising.”

— Danielle Goldfarb Work Group student “What is required is a re-allo­ cation of resources,” said SSMU V P Internal M ark Feldm an.

“M cG ill is quite e ffic ie n t in regards to individual departments, yet there are so many of them that co-ordinating them all is difficult.

The process would be slow and would take several years.”

However, Feldman acknowl­ edged that there is room for im provem ent and is optim istic about the possibilities.

The W ork Group also pro­ posed that information about med­ ical, psychiatric, and counselling services he distributed to students at particularly stressful times dur­ ing the year, such as immediately after midterms and before finals.

To help ease the sense of dis­ location students may feel when they arrive at M cGill, the report suggested that a mentoring pro­ gram be organised. The program would be made up of volunteers from the university who, upon the request of a student, would act as a guide for the student through McGill and Montreal.

Another area that the Work Group examined was the quality of

advising available to first year stu­ dents. Presently, academic advising varies from one faculty to another; there is little or no co-ordination between academic advisors and professional advisors. The Work Group suggested a model of advis­ ing whereby academic and profes­ sional advisors co-operate with one another in providing accurate information and guidance to stu­ dents.

“The most important factor is the satisfaction of students,” said Danielle Goldfarb, one of two stu­ dent representatives in the Work Group. “Right now students are dissatisfied because they feel there is no continuity in advising.”

Donald Sedgwick, senior advi­ sor for the faculties of arts and sci­ ence, and a member o f the Work group, explained that other improvements could be made to the type o f advising students receive.

“We need to move away from prescriptive advising and towards developmental advising,” he said.

“Rather than attempting to help students after problems arise, we should do our best to ensure that students don’t get into trouble in the first place.”

The report advocated co-ordi­ nating academic advising with the resources provided by the Career and Placement Service to encour­ age students to meet with their advisors. This way, students could explore long term goals as well as more immediate issues.

T he E lections C o - O rdinators are accepting N ominations for

F inancial E thics R esearch A dvisors.

By-Elections are being held to fill the new Financial Ethics Research Advisor offices. Four (4) offices are open. Nomination forms can be picked up at the Main Desk of the SSMU office in the Shatner Centre, 3480 McTavish. Nomination forms are available until October 11, 1996 at 5:00 P.M.

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October 2nd, 1996

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Walksafe to teach self-defense Private money to fund UBC journalism school

The director o f housing and food services at the University of Western Ontario is calling for an investigation into the rumours that sexual favours were exchanged for fake money in a frosh activity.

Residents o f SaugeenMaitland Hall participated in an "Anything for a Buck” event, where they were given Saugeen Bucks. Participants pay others for performing various tasks, and the person with the most money is awarded a prize.

“Normally, tasks are chug­ ging beer and licking toes and things o f that nature,” said Saugeen-Maitland Hall residence council president Sean Martin.

‘T he hope is that it is not a sexu­ ally-oriented game.”

Susan Grindrod, director of housing and food services, is not convinced that the rumours are false. She would like to see the University Students’ Council investigate the allegations.

“Most o f what we have are second and third-hand accounts, but nobody lin the department) has discounted the rumours enough for me to believe it didn’t happen. Too many sophs came back and discussed it and were disturbed by it,” Grindrod said.

“This was an orientation event and the USC needs to be held accountable for this.”

Although the USC insists they are not responsible for deal­ ing with the rumours, Martin explained that the residence council will be review ing the “Anything for a Buck” event.

-with file s from the Gazette (University o f Western Ontario)

The University o f British Columbia will be offering a new graduate program in journalism as the result of a multimillion-dollar gift from Sing Tao Holdings, Ltd., one of the wealthiest publishing corporations in Hong Kong.

The donation will provide an endowment fund for the operation o f the program in addition to a new building. Although the final details o f the program have not been finalised, it will likely accept 20 students each year into a twoyear master’s program that focuses on.print journalism.

Daniel Birch, VP-academic at UBC stressed that the donation from Sing Tao will not compro­ mise the university’s control of admission and scholastic policy.

“The program will operate without any slant towards any cul­ tural group. The diversity that enriches the city will do the same for the program,” he said.

David Spencer, acting dean of Western's graduate school of jour­ nalism, has expressed concern about UBC’s new program.

“There is sometimes a hazy line between the journalism school and the propaganda force behind the funding that can result in stu­ dents feeling they are not receiving a fair education,” Spencer explained.

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After listening to Shannon Limoges, a two time victim of sexu­ al assault and a teacher o f selfdefense, Walksafe decided to offer affordable self-defense training to McGill students. The training ses­ sions, expected to cost about $20 and offered to both men and women, will consist of four hours of instruction on mental preparation for physical and sexual attacks, as well as lessons on what to do during an attack.

These sessions are being offered to provide another safe alternative to W alksafe’ s radioequipped, non-interventionist foot patrol escorts.

“We are trying to give [McGill students] as many options as possible,” Walksafe spokesper­ son Meghan Whittaker-Van Dusen said.

W alksafe has offered foot patrol seven nights a week since 1991. W hittaker-Van Dusen explained that Walksafe is called upon 15 to 20 times a night to walk alongside McGill students. While she would like to see that number increase, she would also like to pro­ vide an alternative to Walksafe for students walking after dark. “[Walksafe] has become more of a taxi service, and we are trying to get back to a plan to not be afraid,” she said.

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McGill administration sets students against students at 175th B y Ra ch el S to ko e

As the tents com e down and the after-glow o f M cG ill 175 bums out like the campus electricity, the September 20 protest is fading from the students’ collective conscience. To belabour the circumstances o f the protest against tuition hikes seems futile. At the same time, it is important not to forget what just happened.

175 officials were pitifully unprepared for a student rally. The morning speeches were almost called o ff because o f a few dozen protestors. It seems ludicrous that the planners would not consider for a m oment that students m ight v o ice d iscontent at having Pauline Marois, a proponent o f tuition hikes, be a key-note speaker.

Are school officials so out o f touch with the student body that they assumed that all students supported the tuition hikes? Or were they retying on student apathy to ensure a smooth-sailing ceremony?

In either case, M cG ill adm inistration's lack o f respect for M cGill students is clear. What is suprising is the lack o f respect students have for themselves.

At the rally, officials herded student volunteers onto stage to combat protestors. They created a “them against us” situation, cre­ ating a rift between the students on the stage and the students who were protesting. The actual point o f the protest, to voice student discontent over the school’s decision, took back seat to a catty stu­ dent mud sling, while everyone over 30 kept a respectable and au thoritative d istance. Student volunteers began to look like Shapiro’s hand puppets and protestors began to look like childish anarchists.

The issue at hand was not school spirit. While couching her speech in the M cGill 175 program, inviting Marois to speak was a calcu lated move by Shapiro to endorse the M cG ill agenda to increase tuition. The way the protest was handled took attention away from the actual rally motivation, and turned the morning into a shouting match between the “good” students and the “bad” ones.

Shapiro’ s commentary on the entire interaction was, “ It is much easier to be barbaric than to be civilised.” O f course, he was referring solely to the protestors — not to the volunteers who formed a human shield on the stage or the marching band that was called in to stymie student voice, or even the event’s co-ordinators who figured that, as long as the audience didn’t hear the protestors, they didn't exist. The message we are being given is, “It’s all right to think, as long as you think like us.”

Creating an atmosphere where students feel that they can only be for M cG ill or against McGill is a serious injustice to the student body. It’s important to remember, however, it was the students who allowed the battle to take place. We have a voice. It is diverse and sometimes contradictory, but none o f its factions should be dis­ missed as “barbaric” by school officials.

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Demonstration fallout Am idst all the debate over Friday’s demonstration, a number o f outcom es were predicted: it would ruin the Open House, the crowd would get out of hand and v iolen t, we would turn people against us. Now having taken stock, I find that not only did the opposite o f each o f these things occur, but we also had a number of highly commendable outcomes.

To begin, le t’ s evaluate the predictions. First, the Open House and people’s hard work was a well attended and generally enjoyable event. The only thing that was pos­ sibly “ruined” was the opening cer­ emony, which, had we not livened up, would have been rather forget­ table, and sparsely attended (we must have been at least half the crowd). Now at least people have something to remember.

As for violence, it certainly didn’t come from the demonstra­ tors. However, 1 did have a number of observers shoving me, grabbing me, and yelling at me to control the

crowd. Other demonstrators were treated likewise, and harassed with angry threats like, “you’ll pay for this.” Funny how civilised people have such violent streaks.

F in a lly , we were told we would turn people against us.

Strangely enough, one of the most common comments I have heard since the demo is that people (stu­ dents, parents, staff, professors, and even some of the 175th organ­ isers) are proud that M cGill stu­ dents are fighting the threat to M cGill’s tradition of high quality, accessible education.

In addition to these failed p re-1 dictions, a number of unforeseen, constructive things have come out o f the demonstration. First and foremost, the Minister of Education Pauline Marois heard our concerns about Principal Shapiro’s lobbying efforts to deregulate tuition fees.

We have now been offered a meet­ ing with her to discuss our con­ cerns (up ‘til now, we have only been granted audiences with her staff). Second, the message got out to the public; Quebec students are

committed to social ju stice, and will fight for social programs and accessible high quality education.

Third, we saw the beginnings of a campus wide coalition o f union, facu lty and student a ctiv ists.

Finally, Shapiro must have finally heard us, since he stated that civilised interaction is best. This presumably means he has given up bulldozing through without consul­ tation and is reconsidering the question of an Etats généreaux on the future of McGill.

All this is not bad for a week’s work. As the taste for activism grows on campus, so will our abili­ ty to make ourselves heard on the federal, provincial and local levels, when we are being ignored. If any­ one is interested in getting involved in the action coalition, please email vpexternal@pgss.mcgill.ca, or call Erin Runions at 398-3756. See you all at the next demo.

Erin Runions VP External Affairs, PGSS L ocal 79, Canadian Federation o f Students

Letters to the Editor Chris Carter, ally of francophones Re: An open letter to SSM U President Chris C arter, from Elisabeth Gomery, Francophone Commissioner (Sept. 24, 1996) I would first like to thank the Francophone Commissioner for her diligence and obvious interest in promoting French within the SSMU and the rights of francophones generally on campus. However, I believe the harsh words levelled against the SSMU, and against me personally, were inaccurate and deserve a response.

The SSMU and I are personally dedicated to improving the situation of francophones within the SSMU and externally. Personally, I was elected with a mandate to improve the quality of life for francophone students, and already this promise is being delivered through the creation of a Francophone Commission, in com bination with the M cG ill Administration. The aims of this Commission are clear: • Promouvoir des échanges lin­ guistiques afin d’améliorer les rela­ tions entre les francophones et les anglophones; • Promouvoir la publication en français à l’Université McGill, ainsi que des rencontres, évènements, spectacles, etc.; • Promouvoir l’excellence des publications;

• Conseiller et aider à réaliser une police du bilinguisme.

In addition, I was elected with a mandate to increase representation for marginalised groups on campus, including francophones; ironically, this is to be achieved by our newly created “Constitutional and Policy Review Com m ittee,” which was formulated through the very by-law changes to which you refer.

Furthermore, through my guid­ ance, a new position was created, namely the Executive/Council Liaison. The person who has been hired for the post is completely bilingual, and has already began cutting up SSMU’s bureaucracy and translating documents into French.

I challenge anyone to name a previous SSMU president who has been more pro-francophone. I addi­ tionally challenge anyone to find a SSMU president who has been so unjustly criticised on the basis of francophone rights.

I look forward to working with the Francophone Commissioner, although in concluding, I would like to ask the Commissioner, and the McGill Daily Français in particular, what they have achieved for the francophone community by publicly humiliating one o f their closest allies.

Chris Carter SSMU President

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Re: McGill Open House: criti­ cism amidst celebration (Sept. 24, 1996) 1 am glad that our students in the Honour Band which is the ONLY school marching band in Montreal, had the opportunity to be invited to partiepate in M cG ill U niversity’ s 175th Anniversary Open House. It is too bad that the band was requested to be the diver­ sion from the protestors. But since the band’s presence was in fact so obvious, it would have been nice if the newspaper reporters, Mssrs.

Gitterman and W einstein, could have at least given the band credit for being students of Royal West Academ y, a high school, not a CÉGEP. It’s nice to know that the band played so w ell as to be thought of as being in CÉGEP! B arbara Hunter Music D irector Royal West Academy

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October 2nd, 1996

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Subscription, conception, redemption, and w e’ll bill you later!

While you may resent the subscription cards that seem to ejaculate faithful­ ly out o f magazines, you rea lly have to resp ect those little guys. L ike sperm, there are millions of those small white things compet­ ing, struggling, with only one pur­ pose: the fertilisation of a subscrip­ tion. Once past your defenses, it com bin es with your cheque or money order for the subscription price, plus postage and handling.

After a gestation period o f six to eight weeks, you can be prepared to welcome a wonderful new addi­ tion to your life.

I am pleased to announce that I will soon be sharing my life with the splendour and m agic o f N ational G eographic. For the first time in my life, I filled out a sub­ scription card and mailed it in.

And I don’t know if it’ s a good thing or a bad thing, a rite of pas­ sage or a sign of weakness.

[italics mine] Mila Aung-Thwin I do have other subscriptions, but I have received them as gifts. I get four magazine subscriptions: The New Yorker, Spy, M ountain Bike, and Campus Life. I also have a qu asi-su b scrip tio n to Entertainment Weekly, as my uncle mails me all his free office copies.

I occasionally buy other magazines at newsstands.

All this glossiness may seem excessive, but I can justify every­ thing because I don’t smoke ciga­ rettes. I can spend about $4 a day on magazines because I imagine I would be a pack-a-day smoker, if I were so inclined. Also, I ’ll live about 15 years longer than I would if I smoked, so I am entitled to spend that extra time reading. I ’m

even more ju s tifie d if you consider that I ’ m not a heroin addict, either.

I’ve found that you can maximise your free subscription potential by liv in g in apartm ent N o .l o f a building. When a postman can’t figure out what apartment a given subscription goes to, he or she often just stuffs it into box No. 1.

W e ll, my postm an does. As a result, I ’ ve got intermittent free subscriptions to Time, W om en ’s S p o r ts a n d F it n e s s , and T he Gazette.

Which brings me to the most bizarre subscription I get. It is ca lle d C a m p u s L ife . I used to assume that it was just a free mag­ azine that everyone in the campus got (sort of like Campus Reel), but then I noticed that there was a little subscription label pasted on the front with my name on it. I never fdled out a subscription application

for it, so someone else must have.

But who gives you a gift subscrip­ tion without notifying you?

Someone who’s trying to save your soul, that’s who. Campus L ife looks just like a lot of other youth magazines, but if you read it some­ what closely you begin to notice that it’s mostly about Jesus Christ, and how you can be more like Him. The target audience seems to be young fundamentalists who go away to college and therefore face pressure to do bad things, like heavy petting, which is often fea­ tured.

T h ere’ s a page for readers’ letters where concerned youngsters get to write in and ask pressing questions: “I really like the music o f the Smashing Pumpkins, but I find their ly rics go against the teachings of Christ. What should I do?” The editor writes back and says, “W h ile the Sm ashing Pum pkins do m ake very good m usic, it is obvious that B illy

Corgan is a very disturbed and sad person and it would be for the best if you don’t listen to his band.”

Then the editor goes on to recom­ mend a Christian rock band that sounds like the Sm ashing Pum pkins, only with uplifting Christian lyrics.

For a magazine that purports to be about Jesus and God and Heaven Above, I ca n ’t think o f something that would be closer to Hell itself than listening to a band that sounds like the Sm ashing Pumpkins with uplifting Christian lyrics. The point is, when dealing with those little white subscription cards, as with sperm, be responsi­ ble. You never know where heavy petting will get you.

Mr. A u n g-T hw in is h o p in g that National Geographic will have uplifting pictures o f rare deep f o r ­ est sh ru bbery an d o c e a n ic m am ­ mals.

“Barbarians” and adm inistrators: learning from 175 It always surpris­ es me that some of the most profound lesson s to be learned at McGill come from outside o f the classroom.

M c G ill’ s 175th anniversary Open House is a testa­ ment to this fact.

It didn’t start that way when I in itially descended upon our Campus Carnival. Complete with free music, apple juice, and bodyfat-content analyses, I was taken in by the transformation of the univer­ sity into a multi-media assault on the senses. For a split second, I even forgot about the various issues and problems plaguing our beloved institution.

Nevertheless, the sudden lapse into a fantasy world of debt-free optimism was quickly interrupted by the shouts of student protesters and the horns of the marching band.

Moving towards the commo­ tion I was horrified to see chanting students face to face with both administrators and dismayed stu­ dent volunteers. On the ground, fac­ ulty bickered with demonstrators, while the ch an cello r on stage unsuccessfully tried to gain control.

“Welcome to M cG ill!!!” shouted one speaker. The irony of the state­ ment could not have been more poignant.

There were many lessons to be learned that day (i.e. Ikea is syn­ onymous with low-cost housing; McGill can afford to give out free popcorn but not timetables, etc., etc.). But perhaps the most pro­ found lesson arose at the end of the day as both administrators and stu­ dents licked their wounds. The fact remains that McGill 175 was nei­ ther the time nor the place for polit­ ical agendas.

In the case of the administra­ tion, few can refute the fact that Principal Shapiro drew first blood by openly announcing his intention

I witness Amin Kassam to use the event as a springboard to lobby for increased tuition. On a day that was supposed to be marked by unity and celebration, there was no need to bring up such a divisive issue. Did the administration really think that students would sit back and watch idly as they lobbied the Quebec government? Perhaps a quick walk through the “activism” section of the Students’ Society tent would have refreshed their memory — that is of course if they could ever find it. Indeed, the principal’s visible anger (i.e. publicly equating activists with barbarians) was selfinflicted.

Yet this does not underscore both the failure and inappropriate nature of the student protest. The dem onstration fundam entally undermined its very purpose.

Instead o f presenting a unified effo rt against tuition fees, the demonstrators provided the minister with a potentially distorted view of students strongly and equally divid­ ed on the issue. Never forget that silence is often mistaken for com­ pliance. However, for many of the students who stood behind the min­ ister as she delivered her speech, their silence was more a product of the timing rather than the principle of the protest.

Nevertheless, the inappropriate nature of the rally was manifest by the constant heckling, jeering, and sheer arrogance that prevailed throughout the speeches. Though the wrath of protesters was perhaps appropriately targeted at Madame Marois and Principal Shapiro, its extension to other innocent bystanders was callous and uncalled for. By targeting individuals such as Professor Friedman (whose only

crime was to organise the week­ end’s festivities), the small group o f a ctiv ists lost cred ib ility amongst both faculty and fellow students.

Furthermore, by focusing on such a divisive issue, the demon­ strators completely ignored other important issues of accessibility, such as the Quebec government’s decision to stop funding loans to students studying at non-francopho­

ne u niversities outside o f the province. Here was an opportunity for students to com plim ent the administration’s effort to denounce an in itiativ e that even the Chancellor has referred to as “mean sp irited .” Instead, their narrow efforts were deemed a nuisance at best.

In essence, both the adminis­ tration and the demonstrators were united in the inappropriate and dis­

astrous timing of their lobbying ini­ tiatives. It is a harsh lesson that reminds us all about the importance o f choosing when and where to fight your battles; for this is the ingredient that best determines vic­ tory or defeat.

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Horoskop W. Burroughs cages at the zoo. You feel like your own little w icked witch o f the west.... Untie Dorothy and get your own pair of ruby slippers. capricorn (Dec.22-Jan.19) Following Russian immigrants with a movie camera is arousing suspicion. Take off the fake beard and the Lenin hat, com e out o f those darkened corners, and ask Vassily if he’ll take you sailing on his fishing ship.

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Shapiro is actually an android.

His blueprint was made by James McGill, a closet mechanics enthu­ siast, who enjoyed tinkering with remote control cars and transistor radios. Because James found long chords to be a hindrance to Shapiro’s movements, he designed Shapiro to be rech arg eab le.

Unfortunately, he never expected that Shapiro would have to be used for more than an hour a day. At M cG ill 175, Shapiro was put in over-drive. As a result, he has been recharging all week. So much ener­ gy was lost, Shapiro sucked too many electrical currents and — K A B A M M !! — M cG ill had no lights.

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T h e F a cu lty C lu b d id n ’t like Dave Bushnell’s editorial

Strangely, the McGill faculty club was the only McGill building (besides the sports centre) not to experience a blackout. The mem­ bers were last seen on Saturday night, by a group of Tribune sleuth detectives (working on commis­ sion). When one knocked on the door, a man in a tux with a receiver in his ear answered. He would not allow the Tribune to use the phone.

The sleuth d etectiv es qu ickly formed a human tower to see into the window. Inside, a group of peo­ ple were wearing black capes. The room was lit by open flames and a bleating noise competed with the “faculty” chanting, “Down with Bushnell!”

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that the chihuahua you got last Christmas needs to be taken for a walk (contrary to popular belief, they can’t be toilet trained.) leo (July23-Aug.22) The ice surrounding the ver­ mouth in your bathtub has defrost­ ed. Taking your conscience out of deep freeze will certainly give you frostbite. The ambrosia may not go down as smoothly, but the bitter taste o f reality won’t linger on your tastebuds if you follow it with a cognac chaser. virgo (Aug.23-Sept.22) Singing the body electric has made Gert’s look less and less like the Urban Wasteland Paradise you once thought it to be. Forget the $ 1 .5 0 beer, get some pride and move to Madhatter’s (I hear if you can tell them what “hurdy gurdy” means, you get a free pint).

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The spectre that still haunts China: Harry W u talks at M cG ill B y E ric B. H eath

“Indeed, the spectre caught on with en th u siasm ,” observed Chinese human rights activist and author, Harry Wu. The “spectre” being referred to is communism.

Wu, speaking as a guest o f Amnesty International in Leacock 132 on September 24, traced com­ m unism ’ s developm ent from Russia in the early 1900s to con­ temporary China.

In the former Soviet Bloc, free m arket econom y has com e to replace communism as the new force of society. In China, howev­ er, despite the insistence of Chinese government officials and Western diplomats that China is gradually becoming more liberal, it is still an essentially totalitarian nation where human rights abuses abound.

“This is what we must not for­ get,” warned Wu, a former Chinese prisoner of conscience for 19 years.

In his speech, and in the ques­ tion period that follow ed , Wu spoke about his experiences as a prisoner in contemporary China, as well as China’s relationship with the west.

A fter graduating from the B e ijin g G eo lo g ical Institute in 1960 at the age o f 23, Wu was arrested by Chinese authorities for “counter-revolutionary crim es.”

Over a period of 19 years he was imprisoned in the various labour camps and detention centres com­ prising the Chinese “L aogai,” a term Wu explained that includes not simply the concentration camps but the entire system o f political oppression.

Wu recounted details about life inside the Laogai, a world of punishment and brutality reminis­ cent o f R ussia’s ‘gulag’ . At one

H arry Wu spoke on the b reach es o f h u m a n rights in com m u nist C hina labour camp, Wu recalled a sign posted outside the prison that read “labour makes freedom,” a phrase chillingly similar to “Arbeit Mach Frei,” which stretched across the front gates of Auschwitz. Inside the camps, harsh punishments were meted out for those who could not fu lfil their daily work require­ ments. Wu witnessed a prisoner tied shirtless to a wooden stake where m osquitoes and in sects gnawed at his bare flesh, leaving permanent scars.

Wu immigrated to the United States in 1985. He risked his life by secretly returning to China in 1991 and again in 1995, where he was arrested and accused o f having

stolen state secrets. After a brief im prisonm ent, he was released with help from Am nesty In tern atio n al. He now liv es in California where he created the Laogai Research Foundation and is an associate professor at Stanford University’s Hoover Institute.

Wu dedicated a sign ifican t portion of his speech to discussing contemporary China. He admitted that living conditions are generally improving, and western trade influ­ ences are m anifest in four-star hotels, B ig M aes, and C hicago Bulls paraphernalia.

According to S.J. Noumoff, a p o litica l scien ce p ro fesso r at M cGill, China has opened up its

borders to w estern technology since the Soviet Union’s demise.

While travelling in China this past summer, he noted that control of some state-ow ned industries is slowly being decentralised, assum­ ing such forms as worker co-opera­ tives. Other medium-sized enter­ prises, like ranching, are also being contracted out. Private ownership of property, however, is still for­ bidden. Although N oum off believes that this is not necessarily a condition to be deplored, Wu’s speech was unabashedly anti-com­ munist.

According to Wu, the right to own property is the cornerstone of freedom. He believes that econom­

ic “freedom” without political free­ dom is not freedom at all.

In China today, there is no free market, only a “bureaucrati­ cally controlled state-capitalism.”

The Communist Party still has complete control over large indus­ tries such as banking and commu­ nications. The west has been hood­ winked by party chairman Deng Xiao-Peng’s pronouncements that China has moved to full free enter­ prise. Wu claim s that only the Communist Party benefits from western investors, who profit from the availability of cheap labour.

Wu stated that it is “western cash that is fuelling [the] commu­ nist vehicle.” Anyone who thinks that continued investm ent will bring about liberalisation is naive, and those sympathetic to the plight of human rights’ abuse victims in China should boycott C hinese products.

Although W u’ s speech was sponsored by Am nesty International, AI’s Montreal com­ munications director, Anne SainteMarie, stressed that her organisa­ tion does not form ally endorse Wu’s politics. Amnesty’s files indi­ cate that despite China’s growing economic ties with the west, human rights abuses continue unabated.

Sainte-Marie stated that Amnesty is trying to keep Canadian business­ men informed about China’s politi­ cal climate and its attendant human rights violations. As part o f its 1996 China campaign, Amnesty International has released reports detailing the extensive use of capi­ tal punishment and torture there.

In a voice breaking slightly with emotion, Wu declared “I’m a survivor, a witness, a hero I am n o t...I’ m fighting for freedom, I want to see the Laogai ended.”

W om en speak on gender and globalisation in South A sia B y M a r lis a T ied em a n n

On Tuesday, September 24, approximately 20 women and a handful of men crowded into the M cG ill Centre for Research and Teaching on Women to hear the perspectives of five South Asian women on globalisation.

“Women Speak: Gender and Globalisation” was organised and sponsored by South A sia Partnership Canada. The purpose of this tour was to meet with vari­ ous women’s groups, non-govern­ mental organisations, and policy­ makers to explore the extent and importance of issues relating to the experiences of women everywhere, and to compare and build strategies for achieving economic and social justice.

The panel discussion was one of five in which Mashuda Khatun S h e fa li, V eena N ayyar, Indira Sh resth a, M ishka Zam an, and Ramani Fernando Jayasundere par­ ticipated while visiting Canada.

T o g eth er, they also visited

Toronto, Antigonish, Halifax, and Ottawa.

Veena Nayyar, president of Women’s Political Watch in India, was first to speak. Nayyar was responsible for “Campaign 33% ,” the Constitutional Amendment that secured 33 per cent representation o f women in the national parlia-

“Despite having a woman prime minister, we haven’t made any head­ way with these [women’s] issues — Mishka Zaman ment and state assemblies.

Nayyar’s discussion focused on poverty, an issue she feels “is no longer an issue o f the south.”

C oinciding with poverty is the issue of development. Nayyar crit­ icised current development policies that focus on econom ic growth, and suggests that “the goal o f development needs to be revisit­ ed.”

• She took further issue with Structural Adjustment Programs.

SAPs, implemented by the World Bank and the In tern ation al Monetary Fund, involve deliberate­ ly adjusting the structure o f an economy in an attempt to mitigate the effects of negative shocks.

“Many people o f the civ il society are seeing that the negative impacts [of SAPs] on the bottom 30 per cent will affect things cul­ turally,” said Nayyar. “Essentially, the fabric o f society has broken down...I feel frightened as to what it’s going to do to us.”

Secon d on the panel was Mishka Zaman, coordinator of the SUNGI Development Foundation in Pakistan. With regards to the current status o f women in Pakistan, Zaman spoke b riefly about the impact of Islamic law on the rights of women.

“D esp ite having a woman prime minister, we haven’t made any headway with these [women’s] issues,” said Zaman.

Zaman also took issue with

SAPs, suggesting that their intense im plem entation in 1987 co n ­ tributed to a drop in female school enrolment as labour of young girls was greatly needed to supplement family income.

With regards to agriculture, Zaman explored the shift from sub­ sistence farming to cash-cropping in an attempt to meet debt pay­ ments. Subsequently, food securi­ ty, which she describes as “basical­ ly an issue of human rights,” has been compromised.

Ramani Fernando Jayasu n­ dere, a research er involved in D evelopm ent In n ovation s and N etw orks in Sri L an ka, spoke about women’s exclusion from the market economy. The micro-credit projects (similar in concept to the Gramine Bank of Cuba which was designed by the poor to help the poor and proved to be socially ben­ eficial.

“Women have found a way of mobilising each other,” claimed Jayasundere. “They have found a collective voice.”

Econom ically, women have prospered as well. “Women have increased their buying power, and have improved their situation in the home as wives as well as mothers,” said Jayasundere.

Mashuda Kjatun Shefali, exec­ utive director of the Nari Uddyag Kendra (W omen’ s Development Centre) in Bangladesh explored the im pact o f in d u strialisatio n on women.

“They are the first generation of women who have access to paid employment,” said Shefali.

Furthermore, she contends that the move from rural to urban areas has released women from exploita­ tive situations. Unfortunately, this introduction into the market econo­ my has not significantly improved women’s status in Bangladesh.

“Woman’s roles and attitudes towards women have not been changed despite women’s econom­ ic and so cia l a ch iev em en ts...

Women’s economic growth is not enough to change their position as human.”

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Frozen em bryos at the forefront o f ethical and legal debates

N early 4 ,0 0 0 em bryos in English in vitro fertilisation clinics were slated to be destroyed on July 31, 1996. Anti-abortion organisa­ tions were outraged at what they perceived as the wilful destruction of life. The Vatican issued a state­ ment denouncing the move as “pre-natal m assacre,” and urged m arried cou ples to “adopt” an embryo.

According to the July 27 issue of the Vancouver Sun, 100 women from Tuscany responded to the V a tic a n ’ s c a ll. H ow ever, the Human F e rtilisa tio n and Embryology Authority in England said that adopting an embryo with­ out the donors’ consent would be “legally and eth ically w rong.”

Furthermore, contacting the cou­ ples was impossible, because the HFEA had lost contact with the 900 or so donors.

Dr. M argaret Som m erville, director of the McGill Centre for Medicine, Ethics and Law claims that this is not the first time a batch of embryos has been destroyed.

“W hat’ s special about this case is that it was the first time the destruction was required by law,” said Sommerville.

The em bryos were to be destroyed in accordance with a law created in 1991 mandating that IVF clinics destroy embryos after five years of storage. This period,

however, can be extended at the request of the parents if they wish the embryos to be donated to other couples, or used for research.

Dr. Seang Lin Tan o f the R oyal V icto ria H ospital Reproductive Centre commented on the P o p e’ s reactio n to the destruction of the embryos.

“The Pope is entitled to his views. Catholics view sperm and eggs as potential human beings. I believe that a fertilised egg has a greater ethical status than an egg or sperm,” said Tan. “An egg or a sperm on its own cannot develop into a human being. Only a fer­

tilised egg has the potential to become a human being.”

A ccord ing to Tan, the embryos that were destroyed were only in the 4-cell stage. In addi­ tion , many em bryos that are implanted in clients of IVF clinics are in the 2- to 4-cell stage. Not all of the embryos implant successful­ ly, and many spontaneously abort.

Currently, there is no law in Canada dealing with the legality of destroying embryos. As for donat­ ing excess embryos without the d on ors’ co n sen t, Som m erv ille states that there is “no express statute,” Legally, nothing can be

done with gametes without the consent of the donor.

In 1993, the Royal Commis­ sion on New Reproductive Tech­ nologies made a number of propos­ als, some o f w hich have been incorporated into B ill C -47, the Human Reproductive and Genetic Tech n ologies Act. The b ill has gone through a first reading, but has not been made law yet.

The act would prohibit the use of a zygote or embryo for the pur­ pose of “research or implantation in a woman unless the donors of the ovum and sperm that produced it have consented to its use for that

purpose.” The act would also prohibit the retrieval of ovum or sperm from foetuses with the intention of fertilising the ovum and implanting it in a woman or the use of sperm to fertilise an ovum.

A d iscu ssion paper that accompanies Bill C-47 proposes the creation of a regulatory struc­ ture, an agency separate from Health Canada. It would approve licenses, inspect facilities, and ensure compliance with the regu­ lations set out in the bill.

David D in gw all, the Canadian M inister o f Health, asked Canadians to write him by September 30, telling him their views on his government’ s pro­ posals to regulate the use o f reproductive technologies.

Athana Mentzelopoulos, the minister’s legislative assistant, said that the opinion o f those Canadians who wrote in will be used to shape the amendment of Bill C-47.

“The bottom line is to protect the safety of women and children,” said Mentzelopoulos.

As the law in Britain sets the precedent for many other countries in controlling the storage of frozen em bryos, the legal and eth ical issues raised by new reproductive technologies challenge the notion of when life begins.

“The clo se r a foetus is to being born, the greater the moral status it has,” said Tan. However, whether or not this holds true for the general public is yet to be decided.

B rew ers ask youth to speak out for responsible drinking B y L yla M iller

The Canadian B rew er’ s Association's latest public service project is different from past cam­ paigns; it is the first one targeted specifically towards youth, involv­ ing youth.

During the first stage of this initiative, young people are encour­ aged to design advertising concepts.

In the second stage, these concepts will be realised in a series of hard­ hitting television commercials and posters encouraging the responsible use of alcohol.

A ccording to the B rew er’ s Association’s literature, alcoholism has decreased significantly in the past ten years. Beer consumption has lowered from 84 litres to 73 litres per capita, and general alcohol consumption has decreased by 20 per cent across the board.

Yvon Millette, president and general director of l’Association des Brasseurs du Québec, is proud of these improvements.

“There has been a 50 per cent decrease in alcohol-related driving accidents,” he said. “But we still need to address the remaining 50 per cent.”

The Brewer’s Association has been involved with alcohol aware­ ness campaigns since the 1980s, dealing with issues such as drunk driving, Fetal Alcohol Syndrome,' and B A C C U S Canada, a group which promotes responsible drink-

ing on college and university cam­ puses.

Millette said that past initia­ tives have been very successful, and he expects the present project, labelled “Stand up, speak out, be heard,” to do the same.

“Ninety per cent o f young people drink responsibly,” he stat­ ed. “Our goal now is to reach the other ten per cent.”

Millette emphasised that the objective of the project is to get youth directly involved in the campaign by relying on them to provide advertising concepts.

“This is the first time we’re asking youth to express them­ selves, to communicate with each other,” he explained.

Jean-Marie Lapointe, son of singer/celebrity Jean Lapointe, and host of the teen talk show Ecoutem oi, is all too familiar with the problems of alcoholism.

B rew er ’s A sscoiation en cou rag in g y ou th involvem ent in a d ca m p aig n to p ro m ote responsible d rin kin g “It is part of my life. Both of my parents were alcoholics. I grew message] will get through.” she said. “in-your-face.” up in a dysfunctional family, so I A total o f $ 1 0 0 ,0 0 0 will be Edith Cayer of BOS Publicity The message of the campaign know what it’s like,” he said. awarded for the most unique and is not “don’t drink,” but to “drink would not give a figure o f how He supports the program responsibly.” Cocktails were served much is being spent, but she compelling entries. Brochures and because it focuses on youth speak­ at the press conference, and many of promised that the campaign will be contest information will be distrib­ ing to other youth rather than adults the attendees chose to partake. uted at schools across the province, visible. preaching to kids.

“The main interest is TV com­ at Cineplex Odeon theatres, and at “I’m not against alcohol,” said “This is a good thing. Often, various music stores.

Lapointe. “It’s just when you have a m ercials. We have a deal with you know you’re supposed to be the certain amount of booze in front of Musique Plus; in addition, we will Cayer said that there are no target [of an advertisement] but it you, you should make sure you’re be distributing brochures and specific plans for contest publicity doesn’t touch you at all. That means responsible for your behaviour, that posters. We want as many submis­ at McGill, but the strongest force it wasn’t done well,” said Lapointe. you know what’s waiting for you.” sions [of advertising concepts] as for encouraging submissions will be “By encouraging young people to The entire campaign promises possible. We will handle all of them word of mouth. influence other young people, [the to be very hip, down-to-earth, and with a great deal of enthusiasm,”

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A rtificial intelligence and the M cG ill mind

A team o f McGill students challenge their coding abilities while competing in an international mobile robot competition

This summer, a group o f M cG ill computer scientists and engineers prepared themselves for the ultimate test: an international mobile robot competition in which to test their new programmed soft­ ware.

The competition Was part of a co n feren ce organised by the American Association of Artificial In tellig en ce, and was held in Portland, Oregon.

The competition was open to anyone and groups from all over the world came to compete. Teams from universities and research labs went head to head. Dr. Gregory Dudek, a research associate/adjunct professor at the M cGill Research Centre for Intelligent M achines, decided to enter the competition for the first time. McGill was the only competing Canadian university.

“I alw ays thought that it wasn’t worthwhile. I thought stu­ dents would be burnt out,” said Dudek. “At the end of the competi­ tion, the students were already talk­ ing about next year.”

Graduate student Nicholas Roy led the team of undergraduate and graduate students in the task of developing the program for the robot. The team spent two and a half months coding the program for the robot, working around the clock during the last weeks before the competition.

“If we’d have had more experi­ ence, we’d have known not to take the machines to the breaking point,

“There was not really a lot of emphasis on acad­ emics or research, but on getting the robot to run well. It involved real world problems and solutions.”

-Dr. Gregory Dudek, McGill Centre for Intelligent Machines

N ick R oy creatin g a m o b ile robot a n d lea d in g it throu gh a m a z e but instead to concentrate on mak­ ing them work,” said Roy. The test itself was comprised of a maze designed to look like an office, with the robot starting in the

‘director’s office.’ The robot then had to find two conference rooms, detect if any people were inside, decide if it was empty, and then announce in the rooms of two pro-

fessors when and where the conference was to be held.

The McGill crew made it to the sem i-finals, but were beaten by a group from a pro­ fession al research lab, who used a team of three robots to achieve faster times.

“Our machines were much more elaborate than they need­ ed to be. We used obstacles in practice, but the rooms were empty in the competition,” said Dudek.

The com petition was a good chance to let students learn first hand the problems that afflict many real-life com­ panies.

“In the competition, you have to do something new,” said Roy. “You have to deal with simple things; knowing how to do it and doing it were two different things. Many of the students had never written code to be used by other people before.

The learning curve was very steep.”

Computer program m er M ichael Daum found the experi­ ence very educating and enjoyable.

“What you learn about group

dynamics and what you learn about managing a project involving many people were the main learning experiences,” said Daum.

In the end, it wasn’t always the programming of the software that proved to be difficult.

“The management of the team gave almost more headaches than anything else,” said Dudek. “We had a large team, so co-ordinating betw een people was hard. We received a call from the shipping company that the robot was in Chicago the day it was meant to be in Portland.”

Overall, the team considered the competition a success, both in terms of learning, and competing.

“The whole experience was much more rewarding than I expected,” said Dudek. “There was not really a lot of emphasis on aca­ demics or research, but on getting [the robot] to run well. It involved real world problems and solutions.”

Looking ahead to next year, the team is optim istic about its chances.

“This year we didn’t do as well as we hoped we would; we went in with little preparation time,” said Eric Bourque, one of the program­ mers on the McGill team.

“Next year when we go, we’ll do a lot better because we know what to expect.”

F o r m ore inform ation on the C entre f o r In tellig en t M achin es, c h e c k ou t t h e ir w eb s ite a t : www. cim. mcgill. ca

Lining up the loonies for Centraide

By N u n o G ama

On W ednesday, O ctober 9, the P lu m b e rs’ P h ilh arm o n ic Orchestra, a M cG ill engineering group w hich ra ise s funds fo r needy causes, will be holding its annual “Loonie Line” fund-raiser for Centraide.

The “Loonie Line” started in 1941 when students at M cG ill University organised a “M ile o f P e n n ie s ” to ra ise funds fo r Canadian soldiers. At the time, 82,000 pennies were collected on a path stre tch in g from the R od d ick G ates to the steps o f Redpath Hall.

A penny ho w ever, is no longer worth what it was in 1941,

and so the path will now be paved with loonies and/or twoonies. The line of loonies/twoonies will start at the Roddick Gates and extend up to the James McGill Tomb (in front o f the Arts Building).

The principal and vice chan­ cellor o f M cG ill University, Dr. Bernard Shapiro, w ill start the “Loonie Line” by putting down the first loonie at the Roddick Gates at 8 a.m. on October 9.

C en traid e of G reater Montreal funds 215 agencies in the area, all of which are dedicat­ ed to improving the lives o f the less fortunate and the most needy individuals within our communi­ ty-

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M cG ill Nightline: helping students through the late hours B y Sa r a R u tk o w sk i

W hether your spirits have plummeted under the weight o f paper deadlines, or you have just discovered that your cat, Dave, is pregnant and you need a vet, vol­ unteers at the McGill Nightline are there to help.

Entering its 13th year of ser­ vice to the M cG ill community, Nightline continues to thrive as Montreal’s only student-run phone line, offering assistance when other university services are closed.

regarding events and activ ities throughout the M ontreal area.

“Every year, there is a slew of new information to gather,” explained Schw artz. “Students who have information can put it in our mail­ box and we w ill be more than happy to file it.”

Y et, as Schwartz explained, the trained volunteers are also there to provide an unbiased support for students who just want to talk.

Nightline recruits its volun­ teers from the student population at large. After a screening and inter­

“One of the major misconcep­ tions about Nightline is that you can only call i f you are really depressed,” said Daniel Schwartz, the acting external co-ordinator.

“You can call if there’s a fee slip you don’t understand.”

Equipped with extensive infor­ mation resou rces, including Internet access and a large data­ base, Nightline offers students an arena where they can bring their questions about a wide variety of issues and concerns.

Nightline provides information

viewing process, successful candi­ dates undergo rigorous training by professional counsellors and health service workers. Here, they learn interpersonal skills and become informed about the issues they are likely to encounter.

H ow ever, volunteers for Nightline cannot provide coun­ selling over the phone, nor are they trained to give medical or legal advice. Volunteer responsibilities include listening to students’ con­ cerns and referring callers to appro­ priate services whether in or out­

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Inspired by a similar phone line in England, Nightline was con­ ceived over a decade ago by McGill students who saw the need for such a service in the M cG ill community. With help from the university administration, the ser­ vice was designed to address stu­ dent’s concerns outside regular uni­ versity hours. However, it is not affiliated with either the M cG ill administration or the SSMU, but is an autonomous student organisa­ tion that maintains political and religious neutrality.

Following last year’s funding cuts from the Alma Mater fund, Nightline approached the student body to request an optional 250 fee from each student per term. The question was posed in a student initiated referendum and the vote passed with a substantial majority.

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ntertainment

The perils o f disc shopping and the illusion o f choice u p c o mi n g

B y Steve Fo c el

Along St. Catherine Street is where you will find the most con­ spicuous o f all the mega-disc-oramas — HM V, Sam ’ s, M usic World, and the new Future Shop.

Here they compete for business with tiny, specialised stores such as Rock en Stock.

HMV not only commands an entire block of the city, but looms overbearingly above the factory out­ let store. The ambience is nice, if you enjoy department stores.

Chances are, the disc you search for will be in stock. Their wall of box sets is the most extensive in town.

HMV has a ‘guaranteed lowest price’ policy which means that if you can find a CD for cheaper at a different store, HMV will match the price. Just produce a flyer with the cheaper price. The exchange policy is very fair. A disc can be returned with the receipt for a full money refund or for an exchange without.

Listeners may sample tunes from the latest CDs at listening posts around the store; if you have something else in mind, you may also pick and choose specific tracks at the counter.

If you are looking to stockpile greatest hits CDs, it may be worth your while to head across the street to the two floor outlet store. Discs seem to be scattered in different places throughout the store. Look carefully and, with luck, you’ll find the CD you’ve been meaning to buy

for years at a fraction of its original price. Beware of broken trays and absent booklets.

Sam the Record Man, another huge cross-Canada record store, is located down St. Catherine at St. A lexander. Less daunting than HMV, Sam’s many smaller rooms can confuse. One could get lost on the many staircases while simply trying to find the jazz section. Sam’s is on top o f new releases and

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concerts and prominently posts all types of music info.

Another advantage is the Sam ’ s card, which allow s the user to get a reduced rate on any single disc over $ 1 6 .9 9 . To get the privileges of the card, just ask for one.

Over the summer, Future Shop nestled in across the street. Mainly an electronics store with discs on the second floor. Future Shop’s selec­ tion o f CDs leaves much to be desired. What the Future Shop lacks in selection, it makes up for in some competitive bargains. The store is also equipped with a disc listening

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section where you can preview as many discs as you like. Future Shop, in another attempt to compete with its neighbours, has a ‘guaranteed best price’ policy. Unlike HMV, a Future Shop employee will tele­ phone or walk over to another store to price a disc. If cheaper at the o p p o s itio n , they take off the price dif­ ference and 55 per cent of that d iffer­ ence.

This works out to be a savings o f approxi­ mately two sticks of licorice.

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For the more fanatical music collector and especially those inter­ ested in bootlegs, Rock en Stock is the best bet. Located just south of St. Catherine on Crescent St., the operation proves that there is reason for supporting this byway.

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Unfortunately, there is no refund on a bootleg unless it is rendered unlistenable.

The proximity of the many CD stores on St. Catherine creates the illusion that they are selling some­ thing different when, in fact, they’re selling the exact same product. The truth is that there is no single store where all the discs you’ ve been looking for will be in stock or uni­ formly cheaper. It may be worth­ while to do some pricing when looking to purchase a disc over $18 or any multi-disc set. Remçmber that the deals and specials on the walls always conceal a hidden gem, no matter where you go.

O ff the beaten path: m usic shopping beyond the m ega-stores B y H arris N ewman

The wide variety of mom ‘n’ pop music stores around the down­ town and plateau area is a daily reminder to the inadequacies of music megastores. If your tastes run more exotic than M TV buzzclips and R ollin g Stone cover stars, there’s probably a nicer, cheaper and more worthwhile place to shop than HMV. Stores pop up every day, but this list should provide a good place to start your search for your own used musical mecca.

B u n k e r (3 5 3 4 St. Laurent) The theme of this sometimes dark and scary shop flip flops every once in a while. Not too long ago, it was mostly techno, industrial and assorted electronica, in the form of new and used vinyl. Doesn’t exact­ ly fill any void in the local music world.

Cheap Th rills (2044 Metcalfe, 1433 Bishop) The Metcalfe store is the perfect place to skip class. They seem to specialise in everything, which may sound surprising for such a small store. A huge selection o f used CDs with high turnover, they also buy your CDs for big bucks, especially if you do trade-

ins. Their new CD racks are a little more selective, but you can often find deals on imports and obscure releases. They also carry a wide range of books. ^ C h in P h a t (1 4 4 8 P eel) Montreal’s biggest hip-hop connec­ tion has the clothes, the vinyl and the CDs you need if you’re willing to pay the price. If you’re a DJ or someone who can ’t live without that certain special white-label 12inch, this is the place to go.

Disquivel (1587 St. Laurent) It’s one of the city’s biggest and best vinyl collections mixing tons of ‘vintage’ and new releases, plus a good selection of used CDs, rare imports and out-of-prints. Great prices on rock, alternativ e, dance/electronica, and jazz discs.

Another something-for-everyone place.

L ’Echange (713 Mount Royal E, 3694 St. Denis) L ’Echange has some of the biggest and cheapest selections of used CDs, vinyl and books in town. The bigger St. Denis store also carries a limited amount of new stuff, but both have a high turnover rate and give you good money for your used music. Also good for K7.

F ichtre ! (436 Bienville) Just north of the Mount Royal Metro, Fichtre! carries a very small but significant stock of electronica and music actuelle.

H ibiscus (288 St. Catherine W.) This place has one of the city’s fin est selectio n s o f world beat music.

Inbeat (3443 St. Laurent), In Side (78 Rachel E .) Both are DJ shops for vinyl connoisseurs where attention is usually focused on the shiny-clothed people bobbing around the 12-inches rather than the limited stock. In Side has more stickers on the door than in stock.

But if breakbeats, techno, ambient, trance, hip-hop, dub, acid jazz, or deep house are to your liking, these are the places for you. Also check out D N A (inside Juan and Juanita at St. Laurent, south o f Prince Arthur) and G a z (Roy, one block west of St. Denis), both of which have a small but very tasteful selec­ tion of CDs and vinyl, helpful staff and hints on where to find all the good action in town.

L e M a rc h e du Disque (793 Mount Royal, 455 Maisonneuve E.) The top floor at the Maisonneuve location is a huge vinyl museum,

while the bottom now carries a rather lovely selection of new and used CDs from all genres.

Complete and impressive.

N oize (58 Pins E.) The new kid on the block, where the empha­ sis is on used vinyl, features an ever-grow ing selectio n o f new vinyl plus new and used CDs. They pay nicely for your used music, and often have unbeatable deals, such as by-the-pound record sales. And nobody loves kitsch like Noize.

L ’Oblique (4333 Rivard) The city ’ s undisputed king of indierock music. A great selection of aggressive music on cassette, CD or vinyl, plus magazines, 7-inches, shirts, consignm ent m aterial— evèrything the kids love. Most of their stock is new, and they can usually hunt down special orders, no matter how small the label.

Le P ic k -U p (4383 St. Denis) A small but usually very cheap selectio n o f CDs plus assorted weird magazines and promotional stuff. No genre specialty, but their racks are worth pouring through on occaision.

P rim itiv e ( 3828 St. Denis) Mostly ‘60s and ‘70s vinyl, great fo r garage, punk, ska, and ju st

about any retro trend. New and local stuff too, plus all the appropri­ ate literature.

R a y o n L a s e r (3 6 5 6 St. Laurent) The moment you walk in the door you will forget about their large used CD selectio n and become mesmorised by a rack of coloured binders on the wall. This is the CD rental section, and it could change your life. A few years back, they rented everything, but stricter laws mean they can only loan imports now. Use often, use wisely. They also pay big bucks for used discs.

T u y a u (781 Mount R oyal) They have a huge selection of fair­ ly-priced CDs and vinyl, but it’s geared towards the aspired top-ofthe-pops collector. Depending on how bad your taste runs, you might even find a real bargain in their sell-off bins.

U n d e rw o rld (10278 Millen) L ’Oblique’s only real competition in the 16-and-under category, this little place at the top of the island carries a lot o f skate stuff, pop punk, alternative rock and a little hip-hop. I t ’ s only a metro ride away, and comes complete with its own all-ages punk venue.

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Entertainment

October 2nd, 1996

One m ore story about

Tupac: a self-fulfilling prophecy

the blackout

B y R a ch el Sto ko e

Being born in the ‘70s has had its share of drawbacks. Days at daycare taught me ‘The Hustle’ by age four, and brought on an enduring affection for macramé plantholders and o liv e green u p h o ls te ry .

Nights with the Muppets gave me quality time with ABBA and gave me glimpses of B lond ie’s dark roots. “ B lo n d ie ’ s not a natural blond!” cried my babysitter. “Can you believe it?”

It’s d ifficu lt to have much faith after a moment like that.

But mom was still a hippie, so everything was OK. She told me soothing tales of the cosmos, mixing anecdotes of the big bang theory into her expla­ nations of my Pisces tendency to overdramatise.

She taught me how astrology could bring a sense of order to my life.

So you can im agine how cheated I felt when I realised that the M irror astrologer Rob Brezny would deny me an adequate fix of order this week. Ju st because th ere’ s some big lunar eclip se thing doesn’t mean that he can get away with writing one set of pre­ dictions for the entire zodiac. Had a little too much fun at all those autumnal equinox parties, huh Rob? Even the M ir r o r seem ed em barrassed by this airy-fairy overindulgence, and offered us a chance to tell the world how our liv es changed on the night o f September 26.

And I ask you, who was hurt­ ing more on that evening than our dear principal o f p rin cip le, Bernard Shapiro?

Having a few connections in the journalistic world, I managed to pull his lament from the M irror files. And a piece of literary bril­ lian ce it was, i f I may say so myself. Just read it and try not to empathise: “It’s difficult for me to under­ stand how or why a power failure came to interrupt my moment of triumph.

“Just a week and a half ago, I was observing ju st how happy M cG ill students might be, were they hired actors. Sweet old cou­ ples from Westmount had been roped in o ff the streets, giving McGill that ‘tradition lives’ look, while those volunteers with pend­

ing bursaries stood next to me on stage. Pitting students against stu­ dents. Some principals only dream about stuff like this.

“In fa ct, when I told my

Teenage Riot Diana Prince brother at Princeton about it on the phone that night, he was so impressed he said he might take back that thing about McGill not being a real school.

“No one could even say that I ignored the Québécois interests.

The America tribute band took care of that. Backup singers with black spike high heels and leather minis? I think that negated the fact that they spoke English.

“The only problem of the day involved the house of the future. A real live engineer slipped in some­ how and broke a wall, and some crazed student staged a protest against our use of Ikea. Someone explained to her that we didn’t want the furniture to outlast the arch itectu re, though, and that seemed to satisfy her.

“But as the last ‘Party Time’ truck packed up its gear, it all fell apart.

“Maybe I should have done som ething more than smirk as Hydro Québec asked if we wanted our b ills printed ‘fra n ç a is ’ or ‘bilingue.’

“Maybe I shouldn’t have told that student that the university could survive without him.

“Because now I keep on get­ ting phone calls about the loan defaultees with freezer bum in the basement, and about the three­ headed serpents who have busted out o f their cages with electric locks in one of those science labs.

“Lunch meat will no longer be so tender, and I ’ll have to buy that Sapphires in the Mud CD to subdue the snakes.

“But in the midst of all this whining from the scientific com­ m unity, I h aven ’ t heard ONE PEEP from the students. Seems they ju s t went over to The M adhatter for lunch and stuff.

Aren’t they sweet.”

Ms. P rin ce d id n ’t really get S h a p i r o ’s s ta te m e n t fr o m th e Mirror. She actually got it from a private conversation with the man at the Faculty Club in a drunken stupor last Friday.

Tupac Shakur honed the image of a gangsta rapper to per­ fection. He was considered legit even though his album, Me Against the World, reached sales of 2-mil­ lion copies — mainly because he never abandoned his position as a self-proclaimed gangster. (While still questionable, the drive-by shooting in which he received the fatal gun shot wounds is assumed by authorities to be gang related).

Shakur’s death has rattled not only the rap community, but the masses to whom he symbolised angry black street culture. His death is a jo lt that proves that gangsta rap is not just a commodity to which anyone who can afford the concert tickets can subscribe, but a sign of a very frightening American urban reality.

T u p ac’ s death serves as a rem inder that there is nothing romantic about being black and trapped in a class system that runs sharply along the lines of racial division. Even after he had reached the economic means to escape the cy cle, he could not culturally divorce himself from his life as a gangster.

L ike E a z y -E ’ s dem ise, Tupac’s death was a bitter irony; what he bragged about most was his ultimate downfall. Most maga­ zine obituaries have an alarming take on his end. Mass culture wants to dismiss his death as an inherent and unsolvable problem of black culture — that T u p ac’ s milieu points only to self-destruction.

Tupac did little to dispell this view. With songs like “If I Die 2N ite” and “Death Around the Comer,” Tup;jc was (at least pub­ licly) resigned to the destitue reali­ ty of blacks in America.

But Tupac was not some m ajo r-lab el approxim ation o f gangsta culture. His mother was Afeni Shakur, a member o f the B lack Panther party, a 1960s

organisation that tried to alleviate the oppression o f A frican A m ericans through communal (alb eit v iolent) means. The strongest members o f the B .P . party have since succumbed to the problems they were trying to com­ bat (most have faded into drug addiction and poverty).

Shakur, nonetheless, was still id ea listic about im proving the black position. He wanted to start inner-city programs. A film he wrote and directed is being released later this year. His music, while romanticising gangsta life, expresses discontentment with the status quo and pushes listeners to ignore a white-dictated standard.

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It is doubtful that his death will create a ceasefire between gangs. Already, the lives of two gang members have been chalked up to a pay-back o f Shakur’ s attack. At the so cietal lev el, Shakur's death is being perceived as inevitable — a sign that fighting the system is fruitless and that to die in a blaze of gunsmoke is the most promising fate that a black in America can look forward to.

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October 2nd, 1996

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Blink and y o u ’ll miss ‘em — Blinker the Star ignite B y S a m u e l L a p a lm e -R em is

I t ’ s the day B lin k e r the Star’s second record is released, but singer/songw riter/guitarist Jordan Zadorozny isn ’ t getting delusional.

“I don't have any fantasies about becoming a rock star. I did ten years ago, but now I ’d ju st like to do this for a while and not have to go to school for now,” he says.

S till, Zadorozny has good reason to be excited. A B ou rg eois Kitten is already being heralded as one o f the best rock records made by an anglophone Montreal band in the ‘90s. Eclectic but not u ncon v entional, it fo llo w s the eponym ous debut record ed by Zadorozny alone in the basement o f his Pembroke, Ontario home.

A fter his stint with Tinker, Z ad o ro zn y in d ep en d en tly re lea sed his debut in 1 9 9 4 in

Ottawa, and assembled the band that would la te r be know n as Blinker the Star.

C o m p leted w ith fe llo w P em b ro k e n a tiv e and frie n d Colin W ylie on drums and bass player Peder Jakobsen, the band signed with A&M records and rereleased their debut in September 1 9 9 5 . They then m oved from Ottawa to M ontreal and toured North A m erica. U nfortunately, record sales waned.

“The last album was worked on by Treat & Release Records.

They had never done a record b e fo re ; we w ere g u in ea p ig s.

They didn’t really know how to get things going, so it came out and sat in record stores. And we went out and played shows.”

E a rly th is y e a r, B lin k e r en tered a L o s A n g eles stud io w ith e x -F a ilu r e and exReplicants member Ken Andrews assuming production duties.

Obscurity of the week Heintje

L ’orphelin à la Voix d'or (Polydor) B y S a r a h K tC N tY S io r.________

As you’ re strolling down the road of life, don’t bother smelling the roses — they’re a waste of time. Just look for a pair of glowing teeth.

As absurd as that may sound, this advice could lead you towards eternal prosperity and happiness.

Then again, it may just lead you to a little German boy named Heintje, T orphelin à la voix d'or.”

The album features an extraor­ dinary little boy of about eight or nine whose glorious face and gold­ en teeth radiate from the cover. But don’t let Heintje’s youthful, prettyboy looks fool you. This kid has a voice so powerful it could fill a cathedral or an Oktoberfest beer hall. Accented by bouncy polka rhythms and frolicky accordian licks, the music literally compels you to slip on your ledcrhosen and “heel and toe and away we go” straight to the nearest green mead­ ow à la The Sound o f Music. The

“W e were actually not prepared to record.

W e hadn’ t put enough work into arranging the so n g s. W hen we got there, we almost had to start over. A lot o f the so n gs w e re n ’ t even demos, so we ended up w asting a lot o f tim e.

F or the last m onth, it was ju st me and Ken in the stu d io . T h is guy named Greg [Edwards, a ls o o f F a ilu re and R e p lic a n ts fa m e] did drums on two tracks at the end. He did really well, but he was always really drunk, so he had to do it piece by piece.”

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S o ccer Redm en charge into first place over U Q T R Patriotes Strong defense and explosive offense power McGill by UQTR and Sherbrooke B y Pa u l F u th ey

The McGill Redmen Soccer team was faced with the challenge of winning both of its weekend games in order to vault into first place in the Quebec University Soccer League.

The first game saw defending champions, the UQTR Patriotes, visit for a Friday night affair. The second had the Redmen travelling to Sherbrooke for a Sunday after­ noon match.

Against UQTR, the Redmen got off to a slow start, playing a tentative game. After a late firsth alf goal by M c G ill’ s Sean Shepherd though, the Redmen came out flying in the second half and went on to a convincing 3-1 win on a cold, rainy night.

Coach Pat Raimondo was pleased with his squad’s perfor­ mance, particularly with Shepherd, who played a strong game throughout.

“Sean played a big game for us tonight,” said Raimondo. “He’d had a couple of soft games before, so this is really nice to see him come through like this.”

Shepherd’s goal, which came just under five minutes to play in the half, was the result of taking a pass from teammate Sean Smith forty yards from the Patriotes goal.

Shepherd had plenty of time, so he dribbled the ball and scored from just outside the eighteen-yard box.

Although the Patriote goal­ keeper got his fingers on the ball, it simply wasn’t enough as the ball bounced into the corner of the net, giving the Redmen a 1-0 lead.

The goal seemed to lift the Redmen, as second-half goals from G abriel G ervais and Cameron Hogg put the game away early in the half. Both goals were headed in, with G ervais’ courtesy o f a Mark Mounicot corner kick. The Patriotes added a late goal, but it

was of little consequence, as the Redmen defence had a strong game that allowed few scoring chances.

“It’s good to beat these guys,” said Shepherd. “They beat us in the playoffs last year so it’s nice to get some revenge. This will hopefully be a turning point in our season.”

While head coach Raimondo was happy with the win, he men­ tioned that the team’s objective was to play a full ninety minutes of soc­ cer against Sherbrooke — some­

thing the team had yet to do this season.

“There have been stretches of games where we have played really well, but I have yet to see a whole game,” he commented.

With that in mind, the Redmen travelled to Sherbrooke on Sunday ready and eager to play. The game wasn’t even close. The final score stood 7-0 for the Redmen as seven different players scored.

There was no question as to

who was in charge in this game from the start, as three first-half goals gave the Redmen more than enough offence for the day.

Goalkeepers Pierre AngersNguyen and Jason Forsyth split the shut-out.

The defense also carried their excellent play from Friday over into the Sunday contest. Big games were had by both Hogg and Mathieu Carrier, who stabilised the defense and stifled any thoughts Sherbrooke might have had about scoring.

When asked if he thought his team had played a full game this time, Raimondo responded by say­ ing that the team had “played its best game of the season.”

As the Redmen look ahead, they must now set their sights on the Friday night home game with the Concordia Stin g ers, the Redmen’s major opponents for first place in the league. With Concordia’ s 3-0 loss to UQTR, M cG ill has vaulted past the Stingers into first in the standings.

Notwithstanding, the Redmen have first place until Friday by virtue of their 1-0 victory over Concordia earlier this year.

The Redmen needed two wins.

They got their two wins. With the battle for first place this Friday at Molson Stadium, all that remains to be seen is whether or not this week­ end was the turning point of their season.

W om en first and men third at M cG ill Open X -C m eet B y K irstie H u d so n

This weekend saw over 200 athletes participate in the annual McGill Open Cross Country meet held at Mount Royal Park. There were a record number o f teams present, in part because the CIAU championships will also be held here at the end o f October.

The meet gave athletes from as far aw ay as W estern and Waterloo, a chance to feel out the course before the N ationals. It was also a good indication of the level of competition to be expect­ ed.

Saturd ay turned out, arguably, to be an ideal weather day for running cross country: overcast, rainy, and cool. To add to the excitem ent, the gruelling two kilom etre loop, com pleted twice by women and three times by the men, was fdled with lots of steady uphills, pounding down­ hills, shaky footing, and mud.

At the end o f the day, the M cG ill women’s team came out victorious, with their first ever win at the annual Open. M cG ill placed four women in the top ten.

Veteran and top M cGill finisher, M elanie Choiniere, placed third witha time o f 13:38 after complet­ ing what she described as a “very

challenging course.”

T am bra D unn, la s t y e a r’ s 3000m indoor CIAU champion, placed fifth with a time of 14:05.

Two rookies rounded out the top ten, Robyn Hurley and M elody Juteau, placing eighth and ninth respectively. A new meet record was set by winner Nathalie Côte of the University of Ottawa with a time of 13:24.

The M cG ill w om en’ s team perfo rm an ce on Saturday sets them up as a strong threat for the CIAU Championship title. With a number o f returning competitors and a strong contingent o f rook­ ies, they will be a team to look out for in upcoming meets.

As top M c G ill fin is h e r Melanie Choiniere concluded, “I think the team is strong; it’s look­ ing good.”

The men’ s team also had a su cce ssfu l day fin ish in g third behind Queen’ s and repeat win­ ners W illiam s C ollege from the U nited S ta te s. T h is was apart from the fact that M cG ill was missing a few key runners.

The highlight o f the m en’ s six k ilo m e tre ra c e was A lex H u tch in so n ’ s e x c itin g second place finish. The race came down to a 150m sprint to the tape with Hutchinson com ing through in

18:15, ju st two seconds behind the winner from Sherbrooke. His time, incidentally, equalled last year’s meet record.

Hutchinson’s strong perfor­ mance at the Open was another in a string o f successful meets so far this season. He was “happy to be strong for the third weekend in a row.” Last weekend Hutchinson placed third in a very competitive meet at W estern; the weekend

before that he placed second at Plattsburgh.

Our top m en’ s com petitor, like Choiniere, also described the meet as “definitely the toughest course; the hills seem to get big­ ger by the second and third lap.”

This, however, did not stop the McGill men’s team from out­ running all o f the Quebec teams to secure their first place standing in the Quebec Conference.

T he m en’ s team is also in contention for a good CIAU per­ formance this year. With most of last year’s team returning, as well as an influx of new runners, there is a lot o f depth to this season’s squad. Alex Hutchinson, one of the veterans, feels they can better their ninth place finish of last year and, “challenge for top three at Nationals if things go well.”

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W eekend split for w om en’s so ccer Martlets slip to second place in conference as they reach halfway point of season

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spectrum , C on cord ia has been outscored 32-5 this season. They, The M cG ill Martlets soccer along with winless Bishop’s, have team completed the first half o f replaced UQAM at the bottom of their Quebec University Soccer the stan d in gs in 9 6 - 9 7 . T he League campaign in impressive G aiters did manage to pick up fashion with a 2-1 away win over their first point o f the season, defending regular season champi­ though, deadlocking UQAM in a ons Sherbrooke on Sunday after­ 0-0 draw on Sunday. noon.

T h e M a rtle ts w ill h ost G o a ls from T a n a q u il Concordia this Friday night at 7 Chan trill and game ________________ p.m . at M V P Amy W alsh M o 1 s o n provid ed the On a team that appeared S t a d i u m M a rtlets with the b efo re head­ to lack an offensive victory and enabled ing to Quebec threat at the outset, them to keep within C ity fo r Cifarelli has stepped striking distance of S u n d a y ’ s L a v a l fo r fir s t much an ticiforward to fill the void. place. The Rouge et __________ ________________ pated b a ttle Or, at 5-0-1, held a w ith L a v a l; game lead over 4-1-1 M cGill. kick-off is at 11:30 a.m. The title The M artlets slipped from contenders held each other score­ the top spot following their first less at M olson Stadium in this loss o f the season, going down 1- season’ s opener. Concordia will 0 at the hands o f the improved attempt to avenge the 10-1 whip­ UQTR team in the rain on Friday ping the M artlets gave them at night. The visitors were undaunt­ Loyola campus earlier this year. ed by M c G ill’ s recen t scoring binge, keeping the offense o ff the A look back from half­ board for only the second time time... this season.

The M artlets, despite their On Saturday, L aval seized the opportunity to jum p ahead, defending Q U SL champion sta­ alone atop the Q U SL standings, tus, have en joyed su ccess that by administering a 12-0 thrashing surpassed most expectations thus over the C oncordia Stin gers at fa r this season . T he team was Quebec City. On Sunday, a 4-0 decimated by the loss o f several shutout o f UQTR assured them of players from last year. It has ben­ sole possession of first place for e fite d from the em erg en ce o f the w eek. L a v a l rem ain s the se n io r L u c ia n a C ifa r e lli, the team’s leading scorer, as a potent league’s only undefeated squad. offensive threat, the steady play At t h e O D D O s i t e e n d o f t h e

o f sophomore goalkeeper Debra K e itz k e , and the im m ed iate impact provided by rookies Amy W alsh and Ja n e M oran .

Sophomore Krista Chin and new re cru it Su e B e la ir have also excelled.

Midfielder Cifarelli announ­ ced her presence from the start, picking up two goals at the pre­ season O ld -F o u r Tournam ent, giving M cGill a consolation final over Western.

Sh e has sin c e scored six times, including five in one week­ end in wins over B ish o p ’ s and UQAM. On a team that appeared to lack an offensive threat at the outset, Cifarelli has stepped for­ ward to fill the void.

The M artlets rookie contin­ gent has also come up big, espe­ cially midfielder Walsh, who has four g oals and a pair o f game M V P s to h er cre d it thus fa r.

Moran, who earned an honour of Quebec university athlete o f the week in September, has also been solid; keeper Keitzke has shone as well, knotting two shutouts and giving up only four goals in six games.

M cGill enters the second half o f the season in familiar, if some­ what unexpected, territory, bat­ tling for first place. They face big c h a lle n g e s in the u pcom ing weeks, starting with this w eek­ end’s fa ce-o ff with Sherbrooke.

Four teams will be vying for three playoff berths, and M cGill is set to charge.

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Briefs Redhirds left cold after Wednesday loss T h e se are early sig n s o f things falling apart: Concordia Stinger third base coach making fresh c o f fe e ev ery in n in g ; bullpen catchers wearing gloves under their m itts; and M cG ill re lie f pitchers warming up for four innings.

Misery may or may not love com pany but it does lo v e the R ed b ird s. C o n c o rd ia stung M cG ill 10-7, with three home runs among its 12 hits. In a fifth inning rally aided by two drops, one on a pop fly, another on a play at first, the Stingers-scored the four runs that proved to be the d iffere n ce. T hree o f those cam e on a hom e run by Concordia’s talkative right field­ er A. L ittle. The errors are no more the fault o f the players than the weather. Putting frozen hands inside gloves hard as road apples d oes n othing fo r the fie ld in g touch.

C oncordia’ s starting hurler Pascal Larose pitched an inspired 6 1/3 innings on the frozen tun­ dra o f T M R park g iving up 7 runs on 12 hits, which was good enou gh to g iv e him the w in.

After the game. Stinger manager H ow ie S ch w a rtz was th rilled with Larose’s performance.

“He’s a quiet type that has been performing all year. I want­ ed him to fin is h the gam e because he pitched a heck o f a game.’’ But it was not to be for L a ro se , who was rep laced by Concordia’s closer Q. Ford after g iv in g up a late hom e run to Mark DeBoer.

R allied by a double and a

home run, the Redbirds fought back to 1 0 -7 but that was as clo se as they would get on the night.

M cG ill rebounded to win their next three games all aginst C a rle to n U n iv e rs ity .

The Redbirds now stand at 4-3 for the season in league play.

- Louis Pearson

F ootball Redmen stumped by last-place Laval In w hat w as perh aps the biggest upset o f the season in the O -Q IF C , the last p la ce L aval Rouge et Or stunned McGill 102 last Saturday afternoon.

T he gam e was m arked by two strong defenses facing off.

T he windy conditions and wet, sloppy grass didn't help.

M cG ill opened the scoring at 10:21 o f the first quarter on a one- point missed field goal by Bentley Harris.

T he m issed field goal was only the start of the Redmen's air tro u b le s. Q u a rte rb a c k D ana Toering threw five interceptions and passed for only 71 yards of M cG ill’s 217 total yards.

The Red and W hite upped their lead to two on an end-zone bound punt by Harris in the third quarter. From there though, the game was Laval’s.

T he R ouge et O r took the lead at 13:06 o f the third on a 12yard field goal.

W ith le ss than a m inute remaining in the game, M cG ill was stopped for three consecu ­ tiv e dow ns on th e ir on e-yard line, setting up an easy touch­ down for Laval’s Marc Fillion at 0:28 to ice the game.

R edbirds offen se totalled seven runs, bu t f e l l short o n this night.

The Redmen, 3»2, will travel to Concordia to compete in the 28th annual Shaughnessy Cup next weekend.

Rugby men and women tri­ umph over weekend B o th the m en’ s and women’s rugby squads racked up co n v in cin g wins at U Q T R on Su n d ay . T h e m en, led by Graham W hithers, shut out the Patriotes 3 8 -0 on six tries and four conversions, to bring their season record to 3 -1 . T ries by W hithers (2 ), M arc C am eron, David Sheilds, A1 W ainwright. and S e a n B e ll pushed the Redmen past UQTR. On the women’s side, a five-

M artlets cruise through C oncordia Volleyball C lassic to win gold B y A r iu n T an eja

T h is w eekend C oncord ia University played host to the sea­ son opening women’s volleyball tournam ent.

O ntario teams M cM aster and U n iversity o f Toronto, as well as Quebec teams Université de Montréal, Concordia and McGill descended on the his­ toric Loyola campus to commence their seasons.

Despite the torrential down­ pour in the Montreal area, the play­ ers were unshaken. In fact, McGill seemed to thrive on the grey skies as they spiked their way to victory.

C o n co rd ia’ s V o lle y b a ll Classic is the precursor to the start of the season and the commence­ ment of league play. It provides the perfect opportunity for coaches and players to size up opposing squads.

Martlets head coach Rachele Beliveau is in her sixth season with the volleyball team. She believes the tournament is also a good time for personal team analysis.

“This tournament allows us to m easure our own a b ility ,” she remarked, and stressed personal

evaluation of the team’s strengths and weaknesses over winning the tournament.

Her desire to keep the pressure off this young team may have been the key to the Martlets’ success, as they dominated the weekend tour­ nament. McGill went undefeated, winning five times, racking up vic­ tories over all their opponents on their way to the gold medal. This included two close games with Université de Montréal, including a five-set final match on Sunday.

The only other team that managed to take a set from McGill was the hosting Concordia team.

Key performances by Anie de la Fontaine and Wendy Whalen were big factors in the team's suc­ cess over the w eekend. De la Fontaine led the team and the tour­ nament, knotting 60 digs, 36 kills, and a 92 per cent service efficiency rating.

In the final against U de M, W halen led the charge with 23 kills, 22 digs, 8 stuffed blocks, and a 50 per cent kill efficiency. De la Fontaine added 15 kills, 25 digs, and 4 stuffed blocks to secure the

McGill tournament win.

Anne M ullin o f O shawa, Ontario was very positive about the tournament results. “We were able to beat teams in this tourna­ ment which we couldn’t defeat last year,” she commented. “What is also encouraging is that we did so with a young team.”

When asked what her expecta­ tions for the season are, Beliveau remained cautious. “In a tough league such as the Quebec league, it is important not to put too much pressure on to win, and instead take the season one game at a time.”

However, she added that this team is “very talented, quick and smooth in transition. It also has more depth than last year’s squad, with eight different players that can start.”

While Martlets Volleyball has never been one o f the strongest sports at M cG ill, good player development and the recruitment o f talented players has led Beliveau to believe that the pro­ gram will continue its successful ways.

some o f tries pushed McGill past the Patriotes, evening out their reco rd to 1-1 on the sea so n .

Holly Bailey and Kim Kirkland both scored a pair o f tries, and Stacey Morley added another on their way to a 25-5 victory.

“O ur team re a lly cam e together for the second gam e; every try was a group e ffo rt,” explained M orley. “[Next week at B ish o p s’ s is] going to be a tougher game, but I think we’re all ready for it.”

Tennis action sees Redmen win two, M artlets one

ning in team play over three o f the four co lle c tiv e opponents.

The men, led by M ichael Ghazal and Adam Fisher in singles, and G h a z a l and p a rtn er L a n g e in doubles, defeated W estern 4 -3 and Ottawa 6-1. Ghazal won all four o f his matches, all in con­ vincing manner. His only pres­ sure cam e in d o u b les a g ain st O ttaw a, when M cG ill won in three s e ts , 7 -5 . 4 - 6 , 6 -2 . T he team now h ead s to B ro ck University next weekend In w o m en ’ s a c tio n , the Martlets split the weekend, lo s­ ing to Queen’s 7-2 and winning 5-0 over Waterloo.

— Paul Conner

M cG ill had another strong tennis outing this weekend, win­

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Submissions to the What’s On a re d u e at noon on the F rid a y before the next issue. Entries must be limited to 25 words or less.

Wednesday, October 2 SSMU in conjunction with the Canadian Red Cross Society is hold­ ing their annual Blood Drive from Sept. 30 to Oct. 3. Come out and give the gift of life! For more information, call 398-6777.

Thursday, October 3 Chimney Sweep Productions presents 3rd year survival party.

Featuring Jinx, Planet Smashers and surprise guests. New Jailhouse Rock, 30 Mount Royal St. W. 849-3030.

Free admission.

Terrorism and Political Violence seminar series presents its first lec­ ture, Refugee Flows and Ethnic V iolence by M IT Prof. Myron Weiner. 1:30 p.m., Otto Maass 112 Association des Francophones et Francophiles de McGill: Venez en

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Put on your woolly sweater, Grab your friends and start your Thursday night festivities off right at ED.US outdoor B.B.Q. and beverage party. 3700 McTavish, Education Bldg, patio. Just follow the music from 12-9pm.

Friday, October 4 The M cG ill Contemporary Dance Ensemble will be holding auditions. Please call Natasha Myers at 842-0841 for information and to arrange a time to audition.

Saturday, October 5 M cGill Symphony Orchestra presents Tchaikovsky’s Violin C o n c erto and Shostakovich’ s Symphony No. 7 at 8 pm. $2.50 ser­ vice fee for concert passes at The Pollack Hall Box Office on Oct. 3 from 12-8 pm, Oct. 4 12-5 pm and one hour before the concert.

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M cG ill Faculty Members in Concert present Tartini’s Sonata in D minor, Stravinsky’s Duo concertante, Prokofieff s Sonata in D major, Opus 94 and Saint-Saëns’ Havanaise at 8 pm. $2.50 service fee for concert passes at The Pollack Hall Box Office on Oct. 3 from 12-8 pm, Oct. 4 12-5 pm and one hour before the concert.

Terrorism and Political Violence seminar series presents panel discus­ sion in Ethnic Violence: Comparative Regional Perspectives by members of M cG ill’ s Department o f Political Science. 3:30, Leacock 132.

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Volunteer with the Yellow Door Elderly Project! Help seniors in the downtown community with friendly visits, etc. 3625 Aylmer (near the Currie Gym) or call Chi or Joanna at 398-6243.

Hebrew conversation classes: beginner and intermediate levels are being offered at Hillel Jewish Student Centre, 3460 Stanley. Beginner Hebrew starts Oct. 8, 7-9 pm, and Intermediate Oct. 9, 7-9 pm. 8 week sessions for $65. Call 845-9171.

holds its brainstorming session.

Come to Shatner 303 at 2:30 p.m..

Living With Loss: afternoon and evening bereavement support and self-help groups are being offered free of charge through the McGill School of Social Work for adults, children and parents, adolescents, young adults, peri-natal and family survivors of suicide. For anyone who has suffered the loss o f a family member or friend, please contact Estelle Hopmeyer at 398-7067.

The McDonald-Currie Lecture: Le Professeur Jacques Monfrin de l ’Institut de France, “Joinville, un Seigneur devenu boigraphe.” Oct. 10 at 6pm, Peterson Hall, 3460 McTavish, Room 116.

The Women’s Canadian Club of Montreal presents a lecture by Father Emmett Johns entitled, “Dans la rue/In the Street,” Oct. 21. For more info, call 484-2229 or 489-0351.

Santropol Roulant is looking for community-minded, energetic volun­ teers to help out with our non-profit Meals-on-Wheels organisation. For info about our volunteer gatherings, contact Kelly at 284-9335.

Terrorism and Political Violence seminar presents a talk on Ethnic V iolence and Genocide: Policy Responses by Lucie Edwards, direc­ tor general o f the Global Issues Bureau at the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade. 2:30 pm, Arts 160.

Terrorism and Political Violence seminar presents a lecture by film­ maker, broadcaster and columnist Gwynne Dyer on The International Politics of “Ethnic Cleansing.” Oct. 9 at 3:30 pm, Leacock 132.

Tel-Aide, a 24 hour, free o f charge listening service is looking for volunteers to help Montrealers in dis­ tress. For more info, call 935-1105.

Concordia University presents “An anthropologist among abortion activists: finding common ground,”

by Faye Ginsburg. Théâtre DéSeve, M cConnell Library, first floor, Concordia University. 4:30-6 p.m.

La Maison de Jeunes de la Cote des Neiges is looking for volunteers to help with its Mentor Program for youths 12-18 years old. The program runs Monday to Thursday from 3:30 - 5:30 pm. Call Sandra at 342-5235.

Molecular Oncology Group pre­ sents lecture by Dr. Jack Jenuth,

Every Tuesday, The R ed Herring, McGill’s humour magazine,

If you wish to opt out of donat­ ing 25 cents for the fall semester to the McGill Nightline, come to the SSMU desk and fill out a form.

TEACH ABROAD Interested in teaching English abroad?

3 week intensive course in afternoon or evening.

Certificate awarded Oct. 2 1 - N o v . 7, $445

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

Submissions welcomed from gradu­ ate students in all fields who are interested in the study of Canada.

Deadline for abstracts: Fri., Dec. 2.

For more info call 398-2974.

Volunteer tutors needed! Head & Hands need tutors interested in helping high school students, one hour per week with math, English, French, science, etc. For more info call Marc at 481-0277.

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FURNISHED BA C H ELO RS 5720 Decarie. Monthly Lease.

Large, bright, sep. kitchen.

Tasteful decor, Metro 342-1595

“The Making of a Woman Scientist: A Historical and Cross Cultural Perspective” is sponsored by Women in Science and Engineering and the McGill Centre for Research and Teaching on Women. Speaker: Dr. Abha Sur from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Oct. 17 at 7 pm, place TBA . W IS E @ p obox.mcgill.ca or 844-4317.

Call toll-free: 1-800-632-2105 or fax 416-361-2403

C la s s if ie d s /C a r e e r s F IL E S • F IL E S • F IL E S Used and new office furniture.

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

Upcoming and Ongoing

Monday, October 7

Tuesday, October 8

■ The University of Alberta in Edmonton is the only university in Canada to offer tuition scholarships. When combined with a stipend, your tuition scholarship provides secure funding for a defined enrollment period.

“Segregation of Mitochondrial DNA in mice.” 12 pm, Hersey Pavilion, Room H5.38.

S U C C E S S TO A L L STU DEN TS. Wordperfect 5.1.

Term papers, resumes, appli­ cations, transcription of micro­ cassettes. Editing of grammar.

28 years experience. $1.75 D .S.P. 7 days/week.

Campus/Peel/Sherbrooke.

Paulette/Roxanne 288-9638/ 288-0016

Com puters Bargains. As a McGill student or staff member, you’re entitled to incredible educational discounts on a wide variety of products at the McGill Computer Store. These are passed along to our cus­ tomers direct from the manufacturer, and as a result our prices are often much lower than you’d find anywhere else. For more information give us a call at 398-5025, or come and visit us in Room 112 of Burnside Hall. You can also find us on the World Wide Web at http://www.mcgill.ca/mcs.

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The Student Aid Office is pleased to announce the continuation of the Work Study Program for the 1996-97 academic year! In addition to our regular funding, the Science Undergraduate Society has continued their contribution to the Work Study Program to create positions in the Faculty of Science for science students.

What is Work Study?

It is a program that provides part-time on-campus employment for full-time degree students who demonstrate financial need.

Eligible employers will benefit from subsidized labour costs when work study students are hired.

How do I apply?

Work Study student applications and brochures are available at the Student Aid office on both campuses. Applications must be returned to the Student Aid office by: October 11,1996 OFFICE OF STUDENT & INTERNATIONAL STUDENT ADVISER

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How will you be remembered?

Gets you... immortality, a grad photo and a year­ book. Don't miss out on your chance to be in the McGill history books.

The only campus wide yearbook

Grad Photos will be taken ON CAMPUS October 15th, I 6th, 17th, 18th and October 2 1st and 22nd, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Room 107 Shatner Building. For appointments come to Room 107 Shatner Building, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Cash or cheque accepted. For more information please call the Students Society at 398-6800

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Tuesday, October 1st., 10:00*5:00 October 2nd and 3rd., 10:00*7:30

Free food and lots of prizes!

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