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27 January 1998

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By Jennifer Mintz Damages caused by the ice storm are monumental to all parts of Montreal, but as of yet McGill offi­ cials have not fully assessed losses to the university.

VP Finance Phyllis Heaphy explained that it would take quite a while before the university can release a full report of the damages.

“Let me tell you that it is much too early to assess how much money was lost as a result of the storm,” she said. “We are a very large and very decentralized organization and have no way of knowing the extent of our losses. Over the next few weeks we will be accumulating this information.”

All six of McGill’s residences lost power but only two for an entire week. Both Solin Hall and Royal Victoria College had heat but were left in the dark for seven days.

“There was no water, so you couldn’t flush the toilets or take a shower. The elevators didn’t work — which is bad in a 12 story build­ ing,” said Sarah Dowd, an RVC res­ ident. “There were no lights and no water beyond the third floor. It was hard and a lot of people from out of town decided to go home because of the bad conditions.”

RVC eventually ran out of food and students were forced to go to the upper residences for meals.

Overall, conditions led many stu­ dents to seek refuge elsewhere.

Christine Pritchard, an RVC resident, was one of the students who left Montreal because of the bad conditions.

“I went home half way through [the week] because I just couldn’t stand it. School officials thought the power would be restored after two days but it never came back on,” she stated. “It was a real inconvenience not having power or phones. Most people were freaking out and it was really hard to live in the dark.”

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Slow recovery: the crushing blow o f Montreal's storm o f the century weighs heavily on McGill's campus

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Shapiro’s report: government squeeze could force cash-strapped McGill to privatize Student leaders oppose p rin cip a l’s report and continue their call f o r a tuition freeze

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The future directio n of McGill continues to be the subject of heated debate as administrators deal with government cutbacks and ongoing financial and acade­ mic anxiety.

The most recent discussions came as a result of a document issued by P rin cip al B ernard Shapiro in early November which outlines different strategies to strengthen M cG ill’s financial footing. E n titled The F iscal Context and Academic Options, Shapiro’s report is in response to more cut-backs from the Quebec Education Minister.

A ccording to the M cG ill Alternative Budget Report, in this year alone the Quebec govern­

ment slashed $11.5 million from McGill’s operating grant. For the 1998- 99 school year, the cut has already been announced to be $ 11.4 million, with an additional $3.6 m illion slash planned for 1999- 2000. These cuts do not take into account that M cG ill is already 30 per cent over capacity, nor do they consider the deterio­ rating condition of infrastructure and services caused by student overcrowding.

Managing cutbacks Up to now, the university’s solution to its budget shortfall has been to cut faculty and staff posi­ tions. Since 1994, 97 tenured fac­ ulty positions have been cut, with non-academic staff falling by 394.

In addition, faculty and adminis­

trative budgets were also reduced by 3.2 per cent and the libraries were forced to cut back purchases.

In an institution such as McGill, as adm inistrators like Principal Shapiro and VP Finance Phyllis Heaphy have noted, such m ea­ sures have u ltim ately been destructive.

“This downsizing...has pro­ duced a reduction in the quality of education and the in stitu tio n ,” Shapiro stated in the report. “[F]or a smaller number of professors and staff, approximately the same number of students will be taught in the same number of programs.”

Heaphy asserted that “we are managing relatively well from a financial p oint o f view at the

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Scientific research at McGill survives second power failure

By David Horlock McGill’s biology department survived Quebec’s worst natural disaster relatively unharmed due to the efforts of staff and students who lent a hand to save as much of the university’s delicate research as possible.

Although last year’s unexpect­ ed power failure caused McGill to lose much important research, it served to better prepare researchers against the blackout caused by Ice Storm ‘98.

“In certain circumstances peo­ ple were better prepared because of the blackout last year,” stated Dean of Science Alan Shaver. “We had emergency circuits and dry ice to put into the freezers. We were much better prepared.”

Despite all the efforts made, however, much research was still destroyed.

“Some specimens were lost, frozen stuff mostly, but we don’t know how m any,” said Donald

Krammer, head of the biology of the last tests,” stated Director of department. “Many freezers and the plant lab Mark Romer. other things were on emergency Romer, who headed the effort power but there was not enough to save the greenhouse plants, felt [back-up power] for everything.” that the greenhouse survived the When asked about the university’s preparedness for incidents of this nature, Krammer reflected that there are still some changes that should be made to the univer­ sity’s emergency plan.

“We might have to orga­ nize better what’s on emer­ gency power, reorganize our priorities.” he said.

Although almost all the plants in the greenhouse at the Stewart Biology Building were saved, the long term effects of the power failure won’t be known for some Ice storm destroyed controlled experiments time.

“We won’t see the effects the ordeal very well. blackout had on some plants until “It was the first time in ten the results [of the experiments they years that we had to deal with no are being used for] are taken and we heat or power. We were very lucky see they’re different from the results over all. We didn’t lose any plants

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but some experiments that were under controlled conditions were lost,” he explained.

Mike Deyholos, a biology grad student whose experiment was set back three months because of the blackout, agreed that the aftermath of the power failure could have been much worse.

“It is pretty severe, but because of the first blackout the university was better prepared. We had fridges hooked up to back up power.”

Unfortunately, some students did not have back­ up power supplied to the refrigerators that held their research.

Rachel O ng “When the power went off, it was the criti­ cal period for me,” explained Helen Elina, a biology grad student. “Our lab fridges weren’t hooked up to emergency power.”

As a result of the university­

wide power failure, members of McGill administration are looking into sources of emergency power available to the university.

“What’s happening now is that the Capital Alterations Committee is looking into what will happen if we have another storm,” said Robert Savoie, head of McGill’s Human Resources Department. “What we need to do now is look at how the generators we presently have coped during the storm.”

Although the extent of the damage done by this year’s blackout is still unknown, it is largely agreed that things could have been much worse.

“We have not got all the details yet,” stated Shaver. “We should have a good idea by the end of the week when we will be having a meeting to discuss the damage. An outage of that magnitude can have devastating effects. But, we were more organized than before.”

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27 January 1998

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Ghetto fire ousts students: ice storm complicates emergency

By Paul Futhey A fire gutted an apartm ent building in the student ghetto the night of January 9 and left 16 peo p le hom eless, 15 o f them McGill students.

The site of the blaze, 3668 D urocher St., now stands with windows boarded and its roof col­ lapsed. The fire raged for five hours, spreading quickly through the w alls o f the 100 year-old building and was put out during the early hours of January 10. Fire crew s and po lice have been unable to determine the cause of the blaze that occurred in the blacked-out apartment building.

The actual timing of events has been hotly debated. Harjap Grewal, a resident in the second floor apartment said he and his roommates first sensed a problem late Friday night.

“A bout 11:30 we sm elled sm oke in our ap artm ent but because everyone had candles, we w eren’t sure what to do,” said Grewal.

After consulting his upstairs neighbours and discovering that the tenants below him w eren’t home, Grewal ran down to MUC police station 19 on Hutchison and Prince Arthur. After no initial response, Grewal returned to the police station and asked again for

fought the blaze, which was assistance. Police offi­ o ffic ia lly deem ed a fifth cers then broke into the alarm — the most serious. first floor apartment and But there were many obsta­ doused all visib le cles in the way of police and flam es — but the fire fire crews as they attempted was already inside the to contain the fire. w alls and spreading.

“T here was so much Sergeant Sylvester of sm o k e,” said C aptain Station 19 admitted that Lalonde of Station 25. “It police officers were not was hard to even see where equipped to handle such the fire had started.” a large fire.

The ice storm com ­ “We d id n ’t have pounded their difficulties by the proper equipment to sealing the building off from fight that kind of fire,” any ventilation with a thick said Sylvester. “There layer of ice and snow on the was danger for the offi­ roof. cers, so we had to call “The ice had to be cut the fire department.” firs t,” L alonde explained.

The fire department “Also there were so many received a call at cars in the street, and the lane approxim ately 12:15 next to the building was real­ a.m. but due to bad ly narrow so it m ade our weather conditions, at work more difficult.” least 40 minutes passed The fire -fig h te rs p re ­ before fire -fig h te rs vented the fire from spread­ arrived on the scene. ing but could not save the The smoke detectors of building itself. Faced with the recently renovated the prospect of virtually start­ apartment building were electronic but the build­ Smoke detectors disabled by blackout Rebecca C atching ing over, the residents of the building are still trying to ing had lost power earli­ am ount of time it took for the pick up the pieces. er that afternoon. Building man­ fire-fighters to arrive, but consid­ The ro o f co llap sed onto ager Gary Low was resigned to ering the circumstances, it proba­ Deborah Siegal’s top floor apart­ the slow reaction time of the fire­ bly couldn’t be faster,” said Low. m ent which suffered the most fighters and mostly mourned the “I ’m very sad and depressed damage of the building’s three building’s destruction. about this disaster.” flats.

“I am disappointed with the As many as 80 fire-fighters

“I t’s really difficult to get back on track,” said Siegal, a U3 physiology student who lived on the top floor with her four room­ mates. “I really feel like a tran­ sient. It’s like I have nowhere to go. G oing back [to the ap a rt­ ment]...! can’t even describe the smell.”

Iro n ic ally , the first-flo o r apartment, where the fire originat­ ed, was the least damaged.

Many of the victims of the fire had little or no fire insurance.

While Siegal and her roommates were partly covered, their policy remained inadequate.

“If you’re only getting a third or a half of what you’ve lost, it’s sort of ridiculous,” she stated.

S ie g a l’s room m ate K aren Nussbaum mentioned as an exam­ ple that there were many impor­ tant items lost without any mone­ tary value.

“It’s like that part of your life is gone,” Nussbaum stated.

L eft w ithout a ltern ativ e s, G rew al, along with his room ­ mates, found another apartment.

He knows that while it’s tough, he has to move on.

“We all have a semester to go th ro u g h ,” G rew al noted. “We can’t really do anything else.”

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moment but at a great cost to our academic integrity.”

Intense discussion has been sparked over the four strategies proposed in the report, with meth­ ods ranging from complete priva­ tizatio n o f the u n iv ersity to increasing the number of students to reduce budget shortfalls. The adm inistration’s most favoured strateg y , referred to as the ‘Q u a lity -D riv e n ’ option, w ill m aintain the current student/teacher ratio and resources available to students but both the endowment fund and student fees will be increased.

Other organizations, such as the P ost G raduate S tu d e n ts’ Society, in co-operation with the Alternative Budget Group, have brought forw ard other options which would avoid increasing stu­ dent fees. PGSS University and A cadem ic C o -o rd in ato r Anna Kruzynski described a strategy that would keep the burden off the backs of students.

release a list of its investment “We don’t see as an option properties, so exact figures on the increase in tuition fees,” she this alternative are not avail­ said. “ Instead o f increasing able. tuition fees, there are other ways SSMU response has been of getting revenue.” less d etailed since the P G S S ’s options involve, S tu d e n ts’ S ociety has not among other things, using a por­ taken an official stance on tion of the interest generated by Shapiro’s suggestions. SSMU M cG ill’s endow m ent fund to President Tara Newell sug­ finance operations. Currently, gested that there is general the university capitalizes a major d issatisfactio n w ith the part of this in tere st revenue process as a whole. every year, allowing the fund to “Because of the way it grow and pro tectin g it from has been presented, all the inflation. groups are fighting over what “You don’t need to recapi­ they can keep instead of what talize at a rate over inflation, on they can give,” she explained. the backs of students, staff and “The discussion has not been faculty,” Kruzynski added. as fruitful as it could have The Alternative Budget also been; everyone has got some­ calls for the sale of certain investment properties by the uni­ Shapiro: advocates D iana Anderson thing to protect.”

SSMU is currently work­ v ersity . A ccording to PGSS, "Quality-Driven" option ing on a com prehensive McGill purchased several prop­ erties for investm ent purposes these p ro p e rtie s and use the report on the future of McGill but over the years w hich m ust be money generated to pay deferred its release date has not been deter­ maintained by university funds. In maintenance costs for buildings mined. Until then, the SSMU will these difficult financial times, the on cam pus. U nfortunately for not be suggesting any alternatives. university could take steps to sell PGSS, M cG ill has refused to

Future action The next step in the long process is to decide which options are the most beneficial for McGill to counteract the continuing cut­ backs. In a jo in t Board of Governors/Senate meeting at the end of November, this question came up for debate. P olitical Science Professor Sam Noumoff explained that even though no plan was agreed to, there was the recog­ nition of the problem.

“Members of the Board who were present were concerned that there was a kind of ‘economic strangulation’ of [M cG ill],” he said. “We have reached a crisis point in terms of being able to maintain the quality of the univer­ sity.”

Until a decision can be made for the future direction of McGill, however, administrators, students and faculty are trying to stay opti­ mistic.

“I think that McGill is still one of the top quality institutions in the country,” Newell added. “We are still leading in research, we still

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Migration from McGill left dark residences cold and lonely

By W es Novotny________________ The McGill residences were not immune to the ice storm — each lost power on the afternoon of January 9 for different lengths of time.

Royal Victoria College lost electricity for seven days, Solin Hall for three, and the upper resi­ dences — Gardner, McConnell, M olson and D ouglas — w ent without power for 12 hours.

RVC, the residence hardest h it by the b lack o u t, d irectly depends on McGill for its power.

B ecause the u n iversity had to lim it its power consumption, it had to shut off the electricity — most residents either went home, moved in with friends who still had power or went to the Currie Gym, which was being used as a shelter. But approximately 60 to 70 RVC residents remained in the dark building for the length of the blackout and were frustrated by unreliable phone communication

and misinformation from Hydro visited RVC daily and assured the to keep spirits up.

“People offered more than students that they were not forgot­ Québec. they had to — that’s what made it “It was frustrating to look ten by the administration. special and meaning­ across Sherbrooke and fu l,” said RVC don see many office build­ Martha Mac Donald. ings clearly w asting The upper re s i­ power and not conserv­ dences o f G ardner, ing it as they should M olson, M cConnell have been,” said Theresa and Douglas benefited Dejmek, RVC assistant from their proximity warden. to R oyal V icto ria Many residents, and Hospital. By sharing particularly the dons, got the same power grid fed up with contradicto­ as the hospital, upper ry prom ises of pow er residences found their from Hydro. power restored after “It was difficult to less than 24 hours in stay positive when you the dark. never know w h a t’s C éline H einbecker “We had power going to happen,” said Blackout at upper res lasted 12 hours and heat but to be Dejmek.

“No one could forsee the dis­ honest many people in upper resi­ But the McGill adm inistra­ tion surprised RVC students by its aster and it became frustrating dence didn’t feel the full effects support and gen ero sity . The after four or five days, but the of the storm,” said Douglas flooradm inistration provided extra administration was very support­ fellow Allison Dubie. “They were funds for take-out dinners and ive of us throughout the disaster surprised to find there was no also organized fun activities. Vice and it was appreciated by the resi­ school for the whole week.”

Solin Hall lost power on two Principal of Academics Bill Chan dents,” Dejmek said.

The residents of RVC were sep arate occasio n s. The first also impressed by the offers of blackout lasted only for the day­ support from the other residences. light hours of January 6 but the Offers for RVC residents to stay co n tin u atio n of freezin g rain in the upper residence which had caused another power outage over power and extra blankets helped the weekend of January 9 to 12.

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However, it was forced to close two days after its opening when the power supply to the building was cut off. Consequently, two shelters were opened up on campus at Thompson House and the Currie Gym. Dean of Students Rosalie Jukier explained that the gym was chosen as a shelter because of power shortages.

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University administrators held emergency meetings daily to deter­ mine ways to make decisions about losses due to the storm. However, the fact that telephone lines were

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The tem porary pow er loss on January 6 had little effect on the residents, but when power went out again on Friday, many resi­ dents left to stay in hotels or with friends who had power while oth­ ers w ent hom e. The few that remained listened to the radio and hoped.

“The thing that sticks out in my mind about the whole incident was that a lot of residents went and volunteered at shelters and h o sp itals such as the R oyal V icto ria or the M ontreal General,” said Solin floor fellow Brendan Culley.

Florence Tracey, director of residences, was impressed by the action taken by the staff and stu­ dents. D espite the storm and power failure, many staff mem­ bers came to work which enabled B ishop M ountain H all and Douglas cafeterias to remain open to feed students from all the resi­ dences.

“Students were patient and forgiving — especially those from RVC and Solin H a ll,” said Tracey.

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down for some time made it difficult to maintain contact.

“We found out on Tuesday that the school was going to be closed for the rest of the week. We knew then we had to do something,” said Bill Chan, VP Academic.

After many consolidated meet­ ings, members of the administration decided to extend the semester by two days and have Easter Monday scheduled as an academic day.

“It was decided that we did not want to give up reading week because we know that a lot of pro­ fessors use this time to give out assignments to students,” stated Chan.

As it stands, most professors will only now be giving up one class. Professors have also been given the chance to make up class time either in the evening or on weekends.

“We couldn’t take away read­ ing week. Students need the break to catch up and so do the professors,” explained Jukier. “It was the kindest way to do it, while dealing with a very hard pill to swallow.”

Chan maintains that the stu­ dents and faculty are happy with the solution that the school administra­ tors came up with.

“Most of the work will get cov­ ered. The approach is good for stu­ dents and faculty,” he stated.

As life in Montreal returns to normal, McGill students and faculty are trying to make the best of head times. Jukier is content that the crisis was well handled.

“We do the best we can to sup­ port the students in all situations and we did the best we could under the circumstances,” she said.

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27 January 1998

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SSMU awaits judge's decision in differential tuition lawsuit

By Eugenia Lamet The court proceedings in the differential tuition case between the SSMU and the Quebec gov­ ernment are over and both sides await the judge’s decision.

SSMU came out of the pro­ ceedings with a positive outlook and the hope that a favourable decisio n will be m ade. T ara N ew ell, SSMU p resid en t, explained that an ideal decision would see the court striking down government imposed differential tuition fees for out-of-province students.

“The b est outcom e w ould make differential fees illegal as well as u n co nstitutional,” said Newell. “These are two separate issues, which together, would make the im posed d ifferential tuition fees impossible to imple­ ment in the future.”

It is unclear how long the wait for the decision will be but Newell and Elizabeth Gomery, SSMU VP u n iv ersity affairs, exp ect to hear som etim e this month. Justice Claude T ellier, however, legally has an undeter­

Gomery. “The constitutional issue the number of people who remain was not brought up much. The PQ in tere ste d in the case. She lawyer seemed more prepared for described an impressive display this argument, but it is more diffi­ of student solidarity and media cult to present because it deals support even though the case was with factors like residency and scheduled during M cG ill’s fall exam period. nationality.”

“The first day resulted in a W hile R uel, N ew ell and Gomery all agreed that press cov­ packed courtroom. On the second erage was adequate, Ruel day fewer people were there, but explained that information on the there were still more students than m edia, although status o f the the m edia case is out “W e w e r e o p e n there but peo­ m o u t h e d , a m a z e d a t th e remained diligent,” Gomery explained. ple have to “The M ontreal want to find it. s u c c e s s o f [ la w y e r ] medi a p ro vided “ If som e­ A n d r é D u R o c h e r ’s very good cover­ one w ants to a p p r o a c h . ” age. It was fair, know about the — V P U n iv e r s ity A ffa ir s quite ex ten siv e, case’s develop­ E l i z a b e t h G o m e r y . and very positive. ments, then yes Even the F rench they can find out,” Ruel stated. “On the ques­ papers showed up, including Le tion of whether people have infor­ Devoir.”

All action is suspended until mation on the current develop­ ments, I say hesitantly yes. People the verdict is made public and are sick of hearing about it, and Newell explained that ensuing they get scared of more tuition action depends on the ju d g e ’s increases when they hear tuition decision. If SSMU wins the case, a class action suit will begin and talk.”

Gomery, on the other hand, an injunction will be demanded to seemed more positive concerning reimburse extra fees paid by stu­

mined amount of time to deliber­ ate over the verdict.

“This judge has the reputa­ tion for m aking ju d g em en ts prom ptly so we expect to hear from him in the next few weeks,” stated Newell.

The plaintiff, Paul Ruel, and his law yer, A ndré D uR ocher, fought the court case by focusing on the legality and administrative side o f the issue. D uR ocher argued that Quebec Education M inister Pauline M arois acted outside the range of her power when she implemented differen­ tial fees put in place in September this year. The other critical argu­ ment tried to prove that differen­ tial tuition is unconstitutional since it violates the C anadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

Gomery admitted the argument is complex because it deals with the nebulous issues of residency and nationality. The Quebec govern­ ment, headed by lawyer Patrice C laude, focused its defence around that second argument.

“We w ere open-m outhed, amazed at the success of André D u R ocher’s ap p ro a c h ,” said

dents for the fall 1997 semester. If the verdict is in favour of the gov­ ernm ent, Ruel plans to appeal immediately. Newell also foresees the governm ent appealing the case if it loses.

“I do expect the government to appeal to the highest level,” Newell stated.

Until a decision is reached by Justice Tellier, Ruel predicted that political action on a national and provincial levels will remain stag­ nant for awhile.

“The court proceedings are like a double-edged sword. It is a good way to secure action, public­ ity and attention for the issue, but means that government action is at a standstill for the moment,” Ruel said. “The federal and provincial governments are not going to participate in the issue because it is being taken care of by the courts.”

For now, Ruel, Newell and Gomery are keeping their fingers crossed that the judge will rule in their favour.

^ticvmer Job Healthy students fight insurance plan Students at the University of Saskatchewan are headed to the polls later this year for a referen­ dum regarding the implementation of a student health plan. The plan would be mandatory for all stu­ dents unless they could prove other adequate coverage.

The proposed student health plan would cost around $80 per year and provide coverage for 80 per cent of all health needs. This amount would cover the entire cal­ endar year, not just the school year.

Several groups have voiced disapproval for the plan saying that it is unnecessary since the University of Saskatchewan has a healthy student body to begin with.

As well, students are concerned with the inability to opt out of the plan if they are already involved in another.

— with files from The Sheaf

UBC considers deal with IBM U niversity of B ritish Columbia’s faculty of forestry is considering signing a deal with technological and corporate giant IBM which could force every stu­ dent to lease a computer from the company.

The deal that IBM wants to negotiate with the faculty will see all of its 600 students sign on to its “ThinkPad U” program, which usually obliges students to lease an IBM Think Pad from their school.

Each year students would receive the newest model with the newest software, but they would not get to keep the laptop when they gradu-

ate.

UBC’s forestry program uses technology for a great deal of course work, from complex math­ ematical equations to geographical analysis. The new Forestry Sciences centre, which will be ready by the spring, is completely wired for computer hook-ups.

Although students have voiced concerns about the added cost of renting laptops, IBM says that students can write off the com­ puter lease as a tuition cost when filling out their tax returns.

Acadia University in Nova Scotia was the first Canadian school to partner up with IBM, and students there have seen their tuition rise by $1,500 per year for leasing the laptops. Compared with the $6,000 they will have spent on leasing a laptop which retails for about $3,000, buying it may just be a better deal.

Should the negotiations with IBM succeed, it will be UBC’s second corporate partnership. In 1995 both the administration and

student union signed contracts with Coca-Cola, making it the exclusive cold beverage provider on campus.

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SFU searches for new president Simon Fraser University’s board of governors will begin their search for a new president following the res­ ignation of Dr. John Stubbs.

Stubbs, who served as president for more than four years, announced his resignation on December 12. He had been on medical leave for depres­ sion since the end of July. His illness developed concurrently with a sexual harassment investigation involving varsity swim coach Liam Donnelly and complainant Rachel Marsden.

Stubbs was brought under public scrutiny over his decisions to dismiss and subsequently reinstate Donnelly.

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27 January 1998

Student activism frozen by storm: Day of Action postponed

By N ilima G ulrajani The recent ice storm wreaked havoc with more than M cGill’s term schedule and Hydro Québec’s credibility. Quebec stu­ dents will be the missing link in a pan-Canadian chain of demonstra­ tions against rising tuition fees and corporate-governed universi­ ties.

The January 28 ‘N ational Day of A ction’ is being spear­ headed by the C anadian Federation of Students, an organi­ zation representing over 400,000 university and college students.

According to Jennifer Story, national deputy chairperson, CFS is callin g for “an im m ediate nation wide tu itio n fre e z e ...a national system of up front study g ran ts and the elim in atio n of Income Contingency Repayment Plans as a policy option.”

The Quebec regional compo­ nent o f CFS, how ever, has embraced further demands includ­ ing the removal of corporate pow­ erhouses from post-secondary institutions in order to preserve the autonom y of u n iv ersities.

Globalization, as exemplified by m u ltilateral ag reem ents like NAFTA , APEC, and the M u ltilate ral A greem ent on Investment, is also being attacked for encouraging the privatization

see in this budget and beyond,” of universities and diminishing for-profit corporation.

“Unprecedented cuts of trans­ said Story. their accessibility.

“Its about human rights, not fer payments at the federal level Kruzynski feels that student co rp o rate rig h ts ,” said A nna m ust sto p ,” said K ruzynski. action can be an important part of Kruzynski, Quebec com ponent “M assive popular action is the the policy process.

“Mass mobilization can real­ only way to proceed — lobbying chair of CFS. R allies, occu p atio n s, and is no longer effective with this ly have an impact on public opin­ ion and government decisions,” debates are just some of the vari­ government.”

Staging the Day of Action she stated. ous events being organized across the country. The convergence of one month before the release of Coalition building these activities on January 28 is the federal budget is deliberately intended to The Day of Action is being officially endorsed highlight panCanadian sup­ by 82 organizations and port for the the list of supporters is Day of still growing.

A c t i o n .

“The boundary However, the betw een stric t student ice storm that issues and labour issues hit in the east­ has disso lv ed . People ern part of the have recognised the need p ro v in ce is to come together,” said re s p o n s ib le Karin Jordan, CFS cam­ for postponing paign co-ordinator. the bulk of One group that has a c tiv ities in yet to endorse the Day of Q uebec until A ctio n , how ever, is F ebruary 11. V P External Lisa Phipps plans to bring motion for C éline H einbecker SSMU. Last Thursday’s N o n e th e le ss, endorsement to next SSMU council meeting lengthy council meeting the CFS was adjourned before the Quebec chapter will hold a press timed. Anticipating a budgetary motion to endorse CFS’s National conference on January 28 in a surplus, CFS is hoping to push for Day of Action could be passed. an increase in social spending by show of solidarity.

“We don’t have an official The Quebec CFS Chapter is the Liberal government. position until the motion goes to planning a demonstration that will “We are hoping that students coun cil but L isa [P hipps, VP wind its way through the down­ across this country will be taking external] is keeping informed and town financial district and include their message to the street to tell knows the issues,” said SSMU the occupation of an undisclosed. the government what they want to President Tara Newell.

The co u n cil m eeting adjourned immediately before the CFS resolution was to be present­ ed and right after, SSMU official­ ly endorsed a National Student Debt Day being organized by the C anadian A lliance of Student Associations, the student organi­ zation to which SSMU belongs Newell maintains that council will still discuss the Day of Action.

“It [the m eeting] w a sn 't ad journed for p o litic a l re a ­ sons....W e lost quorum — the CFS proposal will be addressed at the next meeting in two weeks,” she stated.

Nevertheless, the failure to secure official support for the Day of Action for at least another two weeks will limit the time SSMU has to prepare for and publicize the February 11 event. Kruzynski acknowledges the challenge, but is confident there will be a strong turnout.

“It will obviously make it a little more difficult. If [SSMU] can help us with mobilizing, it would be great — a lot of under­ graduates will be participating anyway. W e’re going to do oür best to let the w hole cam pus know about it,” concluded Kruzynski.

MUNACA contract negotiations with university remain

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M cGill U n iv ersity ’s NonAcademic Certified Association demonstrated outside the James Administration building to protest co n tract n eg o tiatio n s on December 10.

A lthough the lunch hour

protest began and ended peaceful­ ly, the arbitration process, which began last October., continues on.

MUNACA represents M cG ill’s support staff, including librarians, secretaries and custodians.

The same financial pressures affecting students across Quebec are hitting MUNACA’s member­

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ship hard. At stake is nearly every university. clause in union’s collective agree­ A ccording to S avoie, ment. progress has been made in the “McGill is being very rigid in negotiation process. The main their global proposal. It is, at this issues are job security, wages, the point, a take it or leave it propos­ promotion process and the issue a l,” said MUNACA President Allan Youster.

M c G ill, according to a MUNACA press release, is offering “a totally discre­ tionary, meritbased, 1.5 per cent increase for the period 1992 to 2001.”

Robert S a v o i e , McGill direc­ Youster: desires parity with the Quebec university sector tor of Human R e so u rc e s, said the university requested arbi­ of personnel assignment between tration and has already made pro­ jobs. visions for a 1.5 per cent increase Y o u ster sum m arized to those w orkers in the ‘m erit MUNACA’s position as demand­ pool’ — a group of employees ing “parity with the Quebec uni­ selected based on a performance versity sector.” He is hopeful that assessments last June — and is a contract will be reached by the planning an additional 2.8 per sum m er. As to any fu rth er cent increase this year for the dem onstrations, a report of the merit pool. progress will be made sometime Although there was a large in the sp ring and M UNACA police presence at the MUNACA members will decide on any fur­ demonstration, Savoie explained ther action. Youster is sure that if that McGill “never called police the m em bers are d issa tisfie d , vehicles” and that the police make “they w ill make their feelings their decisions independent of the known to the university.”

S avoie, when q u estio n ed about the likelihood of another demonstration, responded by say­ ing that he hopes the university can negotiate in good faith with MUNACA. “A solution to th is has to go through a m edia­ tion and arbitration p ro cess and it depends on the willingness of both parties to achieve a settlement within a certain time span,” he said.

It appears that stu d en ts w ill not see another demon­ stration this acade­ mic year; although last m o n th ’s dem onstration did uiy ibara not disrupt student life, SSM U VP University Affairs Elizabeth Gomery contends that a MUNACA strike would change everyday life at McGill.

“I think that students will not n ecessarily notice any effects immediately [but] there will defi­ nitely be long-term consequences of some sort. It is hard to predict the effects ex actly , but MUNACA’s members will proba­ bly be frustrated,” she said. “If not for MUNACA, regardless of how good the teachers and admin­ istrators are, we would not be anywhere.”

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Students hurting from increased sales tax B y C a t h e r in e N ic h o l s o n _________

d irec tly im pacting stu d e n ts’ livelihoods because many stu­ dents who work to support them­ selves through school have jobs at

bars or restaurants. Reid believes that students are most vulnerable to the effects of these changes and that this is yet another example of

Ice Storm ‘98 w a sn ’t the only thing Quebeckers faced in the first weeks of the New Year.

Effective January 1, the Quebec governm ent increased the provincial sales tax from 6.5 per cent to 7.5 per cent, boosting the total sales tax in Quebec to 14.5 percent.

The provincial gov­ ernment justifies the sales tax in crease by citin g reductions made to income tax rates. P eople with annual incom es o f less than $50,000 will see a 15 per cent decrease in their yearly provincial income tax. Those with incomes over $50,000 now enjoy a 3 per cent tax decrease.

The sales tax cred it for low incom e fam ilies Rachel O ng increased to a maximum Consumerss hit with an additional 1 per cent of tax at the cash register of $50 annually.

This change in revenue col­ confused frightened lection represents a shift from u n su re progressive taxation, where peo­ weary ple are taxed according to their income, to regressive taxation, im p a tie n t where people are taxed a flat rate. o v e rw h e lm e d pressured While middle and high income earners may rejoice at the shift of the tax burden onto sales tax, the increase has major repercussions a b o u t y o u r c a re e r search d o you fee l lik e for students and low income earn­ ers. The majority of students and individuals with incomes under Jumpstart your career at C.A.P.S.Ü $25,000 per year are not subject to the benefits of the income tax Individual Career On-Campus Recruitment decrease but suffer from the hike Advising Job Search Workshops in sales tax. Duncan Reid, SSMU Career Resource Library (resumé writing, inter­ VP finance, b elieves that the Corporate Documentation view skills, networking) effec t of this “re g ressiv e tax Centre Job Postings on-line move” will be felt more adversely by those in the low er incom e Career and Placement Service brackets.

McGill University, Powell Student Services Bldg., “Everyone must consume,” Suite 308, 3637 Peel Street Tel: (514) 398-3304, Fax: (514) 398-1831 R eid ex p lain ed . “But, as you www.mcgill.ca/stuserv/caps move down the income scale, a larger chunk of people’s budget is spent on consumption.”

Reid feels that students are particularly vulnerable and will SiT L lL ? * * * t be adv ersely affected by the increase in sales tax. He believes that the tax hike will exacerbate the growing problem of student Canada's most modem aircraft fleet! debt.

“For m ost stu d en ts, their consumption is greater than their A IR P O R T S T A N D B Y F A R E S income,” stated Reid. “This can ONE WAY F A R ES - M O N T R E A L to: be seen in the increasing debt load students are carrying.”

V A N C O U V E R FT. LAUDERDALE TO R O N TO Sam antha M cGavin of the $■ Quebec Public Interest Research Includes ta x $ 43.02 Includes tax $ 55.93 Includes tax $ 18.74 Group, calls the actions of the Q uebec governm ent “un co n ­ M O N T R E A L (D O R V A L ) DEPARTURES 1 L IG H T S C H E P U L E J A N U A R Y 1998 scionable”.

SAT SUN TUES WED THURS FRI MON “It is a cash grab which puts TO the burden on people who can 09:20 22:25 09:45 09:45 09:45 09:45 TORONTO — least afford it,” she said. “The tax 22:05 18:45 increase w ill resu lt in people 09:45 09:20 — VANCOUVER — — being able to afford less — a $50 18:30 07:05 06:00 06:00 14:30 F T .

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the Quebec government targeting students.

“Differential tuition fees are an exam ple of the governm ent targeting students,” stated Reid.

“The fees shift the burden from the broader tax base onto stu­ dents.”

Luc Meunier, provincial tax policy director, rebutted Reid's accusation.

"I don't think that's true," said M eunier. "S tudents are allowed to file for tax refunds in their income tax forms."

The big impetus for the tax reform appears to be the desire to compete with Mike Harris' Ontario.

"It's more important to redo gaps in the incom e tax if Quebec wants to be competitive with Ontario," said Meunier.

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Bomb scare shuts down Bronfman

SSMU plans greener election period

Students and faculty evacu­ ated the Bronfman Building fol­ lowing a bomb threat on January 23 at 10:15 a.m. McGill’s third bomb threat in the school year forced the bu ild ing to close through the day.

The Leacock Building and education faculty also received unfounded bomb threats in midOctober which shut down opera­ tions.

Along with the Friday’s ces­ sation of classes, Management’s carnival was forced to alter the inaugural day’s planned activi­ ties. Instead of holding the day’s events in the Bronfman cafeteria, carnival transported its operation to Gert’s pub.

“It definitely threw a mon­ key wrench into our planning — but thanks to our committee and captains, it made things pretty easy,” reported carnival co-oridnator Michael Holland.

C andidates running for SSMU executive positions will have to be more environmentally co n scio u s this year in th eir attempts to catch the voter’s eye.

A fter som e d e lib eratio n , SSMU council approved an amendment to its Electoral and Referenda Regulations that will limit candidates to 1,000 posters during the 15 day campaign peri­ od. If successfully enforced, the change will result in a dramatic drop in paper waste. Jeff Feiner, member of the Constitution and P olicy Review C om m ittee, reported to council that some campaigns plastered campus with upwards o f 8,000 posters last year.

Other changes to the by-laws will prohibit candidates from sending unsolicited e-mail or dis­ trib u tin g food and gifts.

Candidates will also have their spending lim its reduced from $300 to $150.

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— with files from Simon Fraser News

U of Regina set to raze PhD research The construction of a new building at the University of Regina may end up uprooting the work of one doctoral biology student.

Duane Peltzer fears that the proposed Saskatchewan Health Information Network building will

become a reality — and prevent him from completing his degree. In essence, he has his dissertation growing in the space designated for the new centre. The university is aiming to begin construction this summer.

“A building there would really just stop the research cold,” Peltzer stated. “ You ca n ’t ju st rewind things seven years and you can’t pick up and move.”

The study is investigating the impact of disturbance and fertilizer on prairie ecological processes. It is currently in its seventh year, and is

SSMU ex ecu tiv e p ositions opened last Wednesday. Students have until February 12 to submit th eir com pleted nom ination form s. Voting will take place March 10 to 12.

Emergency blood drive fills void Hospitals faced with a chron­ ic blood shortage during the ice storm were given a boost by an emergency blood drive held at the Currie Gym on January 16.

O rganized by Dean of M edicine A braham Fuks and SSMU President Tara Newell, the drive managed to bring in 320 units o f blood. N ew ell was thrilled with the turnout. “ It took an ice storm to defrost the McGill community. I was really excited to see students, staff and SSMU councillors come out — and so many of them were willing to wait over two hours to donate blood,” she said.

Dalhousie leads ice storm relief SSMU will be distributing $1,500 worth of ice storm relief to students hardest hit by the ice

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Douglas Painter, chair of the SSMU presidential affairs com­ mittee, was pleased with the out­ pouring of generosity.

“We were pretty surprised.

[SSMU President] Tara [Newell] received an e-mail from D al’s stu d en t union. The p resid en t there challenged other universi­ ties to match their donation of $500,” Painter said.

Applications for food certifi­ cates valid at local Provigo stores will be available at the SSMU reception desk this week and coupons will be redeemable starting the week of F ebruary 2.

Relief will be granted while sup­ plies last and will be based on need. Any funds that remain will be donated to the Montreal Metro Food Bank, a student food bank open to students from all four Montreal universities.

Painter urges students who lost food during the power failure to take advantage of this incredi­ ble generosity.

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about five years away from comple­ tion.

Peltzer and Dean of Science Keith Denford hope that the new construction and the research pro­ ject can coexist. There are 35 hectares of land behind the physical plant, and only two of them are being used for research.

“The bottom line is, there’s a lot of room up there. There’s no reason why they have to put the first building on top of the research.” Peltzer argued.

—with files from The Carillon (University o f Regina)

“T here is nothing to be ashamed of — everyone is in this mess, everyone’s affected,” he said. “We don’t want people to th in k th at i t ’s em b arrassin g , we’re ju st trying to get people back on their feet.”

UPS delivers to Santropol Santropol Roulant recently received a $33,500 donation from the U nited Parcel Service Foundation, allow ing them to make needed renovations to their kitchen facility.

Over 50,000 hot meals have been delivered to seniors, hospi­ tal outpatients and the physically ch allen g ed since Santropol Roulant was established in 1995.

Executive Director Christopher Godsall said that he is “pleased and appreciative of the contribu­ tion from UPS” and is sure that the grant will help m eet the increased demand for meals on wheels services in Montreal.

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The University of British Colum bia Board of Governors hopes to save the university $1 mil­ lion each year by designating Canadian Airlines as the universi­ ty’s official airline.

UBC President Martha Piper hopes that the new contract will help faculties and departm ents make the most of their travel bud­ gets.

“The ability of our faculty and staff to travel on university business and research is integral to our mis­ sion,” Piper explained. “By com­

bining the considerable purchasing power of the university and direct­ ing the majority of our business to a single airline, we will generate sub­ stantial revenues.”

The new travel policy also requires employees to use two con­ tracted travel agencies. By making this change, the university avoids the service fees charged to depart­ ments. Connie Fabro, UBC’s travel manager, estimates that at an aver­ age of $30 per ticket, service charges on the 12,000 tickets issued per year by the university would have totalled $360,000.

— with files from UBC Reports

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Dropping the academic bail B y Paul C onner The Canadian Interuniversity Athletics Union, in an effort to standard­ ize eligibility status at its member schools, has inadvertently undermined the academic role institutions play. Given the opportunity to choose between renown as a school famed for balancing academics and athletics and caving to the majority opinion of other institutions, the McGill Board ot ÂuuCliw ÎÎ25 chosen to follow the latter and lower its standards.

C1AU rules used to stipulate tnai à I» credits per year and maintain '‘full time” student status in order fill his or her acad­ emic eligibility. But a wide variance existed across the country as to the definition of “full time;” some schools, like McGill, required students to take at least 12 credits per term; elsewhere, students were able to take 3 credits in one semester and 15 in another to fulfil the requirements.

The rule change states that students must still complete 18 credits a year, but now they must take at least 9 in each of the fall and winter semes­ ters. Across the country, schools conformed to the rule change, which took effect January 1. The McGill Board of Athletics debated the issue and voted in favour of a trial semester — the Thursday vote now means that student athletes can take 9 credits instead of 12 each semester. The issue will be reviewed in detail over the next month and will likely be voted on for a permanent decision in early March.

Proponents of the rule change argued that it would primarily affect graduating students who had previously been required to register for more credits than they needed to graduate. This may be the case, but the implicatioas of this conformity are far more widespread. It is a matter of academic reputation. It is with a sense of pride that McGill athletes in the past said that they carried a full course load and still rose to the top of the Canadian university sports world.

In a speech given at the McGill Hall of Fame lunch in September, for­ mer principal and McGill athletics supporter David Johnston stated that; “I think it's a fair proposition that there is no university in North America which has been so able to manage the pursuit of academic excel­ lence and the pursuit of athletic excellence hand-in-hand as McGill University.”

McGill is known primarily as an upstanding institution which does not give its students any academic breaks. It is this reputation which has kept the school above others in the country and has enticed athletes seeking a top education to attend. This new rule change, despite assurances from the athletics department that it will not be used as a marketing tool, may have a significant affect on incoming students.

Those who voted in favour of the modification argued that McGill is simply following the lead of all other Quebec and Canadian universities; arguably, that is the worst possible argument. A motion was tabled to have the 9 credit option only affect graduating students, but it was quickly squashed. Intercollegiate Co-ordinator Ken Scbildroth argued that it would be too great an administrative hassle if the rules only applied to a small seg­ ment of the athletic student body. This, perhaps, is the second worst argu­ ment.

The CIAU was not looking for schools to lower their minimum stan­ dards. Unfortunately, in attempting to equilibrate the eligibility rules, it caused universities to lower themselves to the lowest common denomina­ tor.

In reality, most student athletes at McGill, especially this semester, will not likely take advantage of the change. It is a serious problem, how­ ever, that in a university already suffering decay from all angles, the Department of Athletics would voluntarily cut down its credibly. The Board of Athletics should take great care in considering these factors when they next vote on the issue in the spring.

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Recently, a joint meeting of the Board of Governors and Senate was held to consider the academic and fiscal options of the university.

Many students would be shocked at the proposals aimed at maintaining McGill’s high level of academic quality. Can you picture a McGill student body of 5,000 students (the current level is at 26,000), paying tuition fees of $10,000? It’s on the table.

Should we elect to maintain the status quo, our student-facility ratio would increase from the cur­ rent 20:1 to 22:1, and the resources available per student would shrink to less than $9,000 from the current $10,000. Or, we could increase enrolm ent by 4,000 students.

Student-professor ratios would still rise, the resources available per student would decrease further and ---------- 1,1 , i o u r nKoc 11 VVUU1U i uui p*»j;e cal plant, which is already over­ worked by 30 per cent and in enor­ mous debt. Other options include the merging of departments both inter- and intra-university, and even the outright elimination of some departments that do not pro­ vide an ‘appropriate’ return on their investment.

Students respond to crisis in heroic way It is said that crisis situations bring out both the best and the worst in people. However, from what I experienced during the recent ice storm, it brought out only the best in McGill students.

While hundreds of thousands of people were without power and many were forced to leave their unheated homes, McGill students were busy finding ways to help one another and the Montreal commu­ nity.

On our own campus, both the Students’ Society (SSMU) and the Post-Graduate Students’ Society (PGSS) set up emergency shelters to the community. We received an overwhelming number of phone calls at SSMU from students who wanted to offer their services, and we had an extraordinary number of student volunteers to help operate the shelter. The SSMU unfortu­ nately was forced to close when the Shatner building lost power, how­ ever, Thompson House kept its doors open for five full days and was able to assist hundreds of peo­ ple, many of which were under­

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M cG ill should never be expected to com pete with Princeton, which has a student-pro­ fessor ratio of 6:1 and resources of nearly $80,000 per student. On the other hand, neither should McGill slip further into the domain of the rank and file Canadian universities.

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graduate students. For this, I am very grateful.

I am particularly proud of the success of the McGill Emergency Blood Drive that was held in the Currie Gym during the storm. It was organized in only two days to respond to the emergency shortage but we were able to exceed all expectations. I personally w it­ nessed the outpouring of generosity from students, faculty and staff who arrived (and waited two hours) to give blood. Here again we had an extraordinary number of student volunteers, including many SSMU councillors and medical students.

Further, there were students from the Faculty of Law who were able to send out a huge truck full of food and supplies that was shipped to the South Shore to help out fam­ ilies in need in the most hard hit region of the storm. They worked miracles in order to provide relief for people who they had never met.

I would like to speak about all of the examples of courage and generosity demonstrated by McGill students over the past few weeks but they are too numerous to men­ tion. I would like to thank all of these students both personally and on behalf of the Students’ Society.

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presents itself. It’s a chance to have our say in the future of McGill.

Principal Shapiro is soliciting sug­ gestions and opinions on how to sustain the university’s level of accessibility and academic excel­ lence, the very reason we all attend McGill. Will we, the students, sit idly by, trusting the hand of the adm inistration, then revolt in protest to announcem ents of increased tuition fees or the merg­ ing of music departm ents with Concordia, after the fact? History would suggest yes.

I am new to this political arena and perhaps I am naive to believe we will act. Still, if my current dealings with the administration are any indication, we have the chance to make a lasting impact on the direction that this university is headed, well into the twenty-first century. It’s an opportunity that we would be wise to take, or risk being silenced by our own apathy. The adm inistration aw aits your response.

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All considered, the final option, slightly reducing the num­ ber of students, increasing the endowment fund by $150 million and yes, increasing tuition fees to the national average, doesn’t seem so bad.

The fact is, without drastic change, McGill risks losing its sta­ tus as one of the lading research intensive universities in North America. How much of McGill's current prestige is based solely on our past reputation is now open to speculation. As it stands, after withstanding a 25 per cent cut in its operating budget over the last six years and even decreasing its accu­ mulated deficit, McGill will proba­ bly join its Quebec counterparts in the red, unable to absorb the pro­ jected $20 million cuts over the next two years. This is not a long

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—Tara Newell President, Students ’ Society of McGill University

CUPW’s insight We find Paul Futhey's editori­ al “O ver-paid civil servants” (November 25) incredibly obnox­ ious. He takes postal workers for morons, lecturing them about the undeniable realities of unemploy­ ment, the trend of “downsizing and fiscal responsibility” from which no one is “immune” and the need for “greater perspective.”

The Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) has heard this before. In the late 1960s, the union fought to unionize women mailsorters, and to have them the same wages as men. CUPW was criti­ cized at the time for not facing reality and for being self-interest­ ed. Yet, their struggle resulted in greater employm ent equity for women.

In the current context, CUPW is fighting to prevent the erosion in working conditions resulting from the growth of part-time work at Canada Post. They demand a voice concerning the restructuring of work in our economy.

Unlike Futhey, they under­ stand that nothing is inevitable: what Futhey takes as undeniable realities in fact reflect the interest of capitalists in seizing broader control over the organization of work. Similarly, unlike the univer­ sity-educated Futhey, these work­ ers (who “don’t even have a high school diploma”) are intelligent enough to ask why these realities

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Letters co n tin u ed necessarily involve a decline in workers’ wages and quality of life, even as Canada Post forecasts a large surge in profits.

In the end, CUPW possesses the “greater perspective.” In fight­ ing for workplaces that reflect societal goals rather than short­ sighted managerial prerogatives, they are working to make future labour markets more suitable and just. While the strike is inconve­ nient, all of us who will end up in the workforce stand to benefit.

Best wishes CUPW. No justice, no peace.

—Peter Graefe co-chair, NDP McGill —Jon Roberts co-chair, NDP McGill

Tiresome Trib tirades I’m sorry. I must have missed the meeting where it was decided that the Tribune was to be the supreme and final arbiter of jour­ nalistic competence on the McGill campus.

I must have overlooked the announcement that, starting in aca­ demic year ‘97, the Tribune shall decide whether their competition is worth reading and, if their investi­ gations prove the contrary, then the Tribune reserves the right to inform the com petition of how they can atone for their shortcom­ ings, how they can become more “relevant,” and more “directly related to McGill;” how they can become, in fine, a whole lot more like the apparently faultless Tribune.

Much of this “advice” — delivered intones of a laughable condescension — is not only mis­ informed, but confused and naive.

Take as a case in point, Mr. Reevely’s column of November 25, the aptly named Wanker Watch (maybe that’s the Daily's problem — not enough snazzy titles gracing columns of juvenile musings?), wherein Mr. Reevely deigns to offer the Daily his weighty medita­ tion on how to improve their oper­ ations. After all, as he so generous­ ly allows, “it’s the only campus publication that can seriously hope to scoop the Tribune.

Well, Mr. Reevely is certainly scooping som ething. Fact, Mr. Reevely: members of the DPS con­ tribute $3.35 a semester towards the operations of the Daily, not $6.70 as you mistakenly claim.

This is a gross misrepresentation of the support which the Daily receives from the DPS. Lesson one, Mr. Reevely (and I, too, can condescend): check and check again the “facts” of your column, particularly when the issue you’re taking on is a controversial one and many people who know far more about it than you will be reading your arguments very care­ fully.

Again, Mr. Reevely claims that, “The Daily isn ’t so much democratic as oligarchic: you have

to be an insider to have impact.”

Strange it is, then, to have him arguing four paragraphs later that, due to an apparent lack of content, the Daily “pretty much has to print whatever writers submit — mean­ ing that its editorial content is essentially determined by writers, rather than editors.” Which is it to be, Mr. Reevely? Is the Daily con­ trolled by an ideological vanguard — the democratic “insiders” — that vets every contributor and contribution with a vigilance that would make Lenin proud? Or is it so disorganized and crisis-gov­ erned that any “outsider” can effectively dictate its content? Mr. Reevely would like to have his conspiracy and eat it too. In so doing, facile protestations notwith­ standing, he is enacting no great service to the McGill community.

On the contrary.

A recent article in the Tribune, “D on’t believe the m edia’s hype surrounding NAFTA,” contained the delightful profession of faith that, “normally, Canadians can count on their trust­ ed mass media to offer a solid base of knowledge upon which to form opinions.” Pangloss denied. The Tribune's coverage of the Daily is a case in point that we all need to be somewhat more wary about how we get our information.

— Matthew Watkins U3 Arts

Daily ignorance Your recent column about the McGill Daily struck a chord with me (W anker W atch, 25 Nov. 1997). Indeed, the Daily is out of touch to the point of being hypo­ critical.

Why do I say this? Well, if the Daily were a bit more honest, and care about its purported principles, it would start by reducing the num­ ber of copies printed to a number only slightly more than the number read. The current situation is that many (most?) copies of the Daily appear to go unread, into the recy­ cling bins.

I, who would undoubtedly considered the worst sort of rightwing redneck (and proud-of it!) by the Daily, feel guilty about wasting paper, and even occasionally hand in assignments on “recycled” paper such as printer cover sheets.

Forests are disappearing at an alarming rate, and I see no reason to increase it needlessly.

Obviously, judging by the contents of the recycling bins (I also won­ der if this is ever mentioned in the QPIRG “waste audit”...) the Daily d oesn’t feel the same way.

Whether this is because they are com pletely out of touch, or because they are trying to increase advertising revenue by boosting “circulation,” I do not know. I do know, however, that I very much resent being made to pay for this

waste and I would welcome any opportunity to avoid it.

— Louis Raphael U3 Engineering

Pot addiction grows like weed As a behavioural science researcher I disagree with the fol­ lowing statement quoted in the article titled “Montreal’s potent crops of supermarijuana highly lu crativ e” published in the December 2 Tribune.

“One McGill student who pro­ fesses to be an expert on the sub­ ject but wishes to remain anony­ mous explained that the claim of m arijuana being a hard drug is complete bullshit. This is another attempt being made by politicians and police to spread fear and intimidate the average marijuana user.”

The fact is that marijuana can cause dependency and addiction with memory im pairm ent.

Addiction is a disease, a mental disorder, as established by the American Psychiatric Association.

Yet students and the population in general, are continuously given the false impression that it is a safe drug. It is a safe drug as in an edi­ torial published in the Gazette of Sunday, November 23, 1997 argu­ ing in favour of legalizing pot for medical use. This argument rests on compassion, not science. The use of marijuana for medical use is not recommended by leading can­ cer institutions because of its limit­ ed effectiveness, unpredictability and the irritating effects of the 360 noxious chemica. compounds it contains, many cancer-causing.

We who have treated young victims of drug abuse realise that m arijuana is not a benign sub­ stance. In California where one of its important substance-abuse reha­ bilitation organizations operates, in three of its five academ ies for youngsters recovering from sub­ stance abuse fully 40 per cent of the teenagers who are in treatment have abused nothing more potent than pot.

—Raphael Marcus, Ph. D.

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family funds for their continuation of higher learning. Some might say that international students do not necessarily have the right to be subsidized by a governm ent because they do not pay taxes. But, current international fees reflect the reality of "government subsidies."

International students have paid at least "four tim es" as much as Quebecers, and "twice" as much as Canadian interprovincial students.

As an international student, I regret that the SSMU has not fully and carefully studied the agree­ ment, nor considered the gloomy financial reality that disadvantaged international students in Quebec must face. The SSMU should not forget that international students as well as out-of-province students are vulnerable to the tuition hike: both cannot be cash cows for the Quebec budget defecit.

I hope, from now on, when the SSMU advertises matters concern­ ing Quebec's bilateral tuition fee agreements with foreign countries, it would not distort "actual facts" just in order to pitch its fighting spirit against the newly created Canadian d ifferential fees by Quebec government.

only 30 students per year (24 in the French universities and 6 in the English universities) are allowed to pay the same fees as Quebecers do.

If one reads the advertisement without knowing this fact, he may be led to an improper conclusion that all international students pay "80% lower tuition than Canadian interprovincial students," as the article puts.

Indeed, all the other interna­ tional students do not have the same benefit simply because their home countries have tuition fee agreements with the PQ govern­ ment. There are certainly limita­ tions and qualifications.

The advertisment should have em phasized that Education Minister Pauline Marois' decision to raise the tuition fees for nonQuebec students hurt not only outof-province students, but also international students. Most of the international students face more difficulties than Canadian students to financially survive and finish their studies for a number of rea­ sons: universities rarely provide on-cam pus jo bs; o ff campus employment is illegal; most schol­ arships are restricted to Canadian citizens and permanent residents.

Indeed, international students in Quebec are doomed to depend on other financial support, such as

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Do you refer to the owner of the café down the street as the cof­ fee Nazi? The automated registra­ tion woman as the MARS Nazi?

Do you tell people you’re a marine biologist, worry about shrinkage or call your nemesis Newman? Do catch phrases such as “Giddy-up” and “master of your own domain” enter into all of your conversa­ tions? Do you write articles about nothing?

If you answered yes to any of these questions you may be suffer­ ing from what is professionally known as Seinfeld obsessive-com­ pulsive disorder. The obsession has taken over your life. You refuse to take four o’clock classes in fear of missing the five-thirty episodes. At nine o ’clock on Thursday nights you leave a m essage on your machine simply saying “Go away.”

Due to the tragic news of the show’s imminent end, you see no reason to even have a television anymore and give it to the “can you spare any change for food not alco­ hol, have a nice day” guy outside the library.

It has recently come to my attention that I suffer from a severe strain of the disease —- I see my own life experiences as potential hum orous Seinfeld anecdotes.

Even when bad things happen, I tend to see them as part of a larger half-hour plot, without the laugh tract. For example, every week I get a letter from Columbia House threatening that if I don’t pay them $24.07 they will beat me with a baseball bat and then leave me in the trunk of an abandoned car, and I think, wow, this would make a great Seinfeld story.

In the past month an unusually high number of distressing inci­

dents have taken place, besides the Ice Storm ‘98. On my twenty-first birthday back on January 4th, I was stuck on a plane home to Montreal.

Due to intense turbulence, the seven year-old girl next to me repeatedly threw up into her father’s lap. The plane was also delayed four hours and I arrived at midnight. As a result of my tardi­ ness, I missed my surprise party which began at nine.

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It’s a little known fact that every American President has had an insatiable sexual appetite.

The exploits of Kennedy are well documented in the archives of A C urrent A ffa ir and Hard Copy, but what few people realise is that Lyndon Johnson was the real babe magnet of the KennedyJohnson team. Yes, I know it’s hard to imagine LBJ as a swinger, but Johnson use to complain that Kennedy’s reputation drew atten­ tion away from his own exploits.

I wonder if this trend holds for all presidential teams. Could A1 Gore have a larger sexual appetite than Bill Clinton? If you believe the current media frenzy, it seems unlikely. For Gore to be more voracious than Clinton, he ta s t e s

Lewinsky and Paula Jones were simply of adultery, then I think it would be up to Mrs. Clinton to decide if Bill deserved to be sent to the dog house. However the claims of Lewinsky and Jones are far more insidious than adultery.

Both allege that Clinton sexually harassed them and then counselled them to purger themselves. If what they say is true, Clinton ethics are about as attractive as that ugly-ass new dog of his.

That’s not to say an unethical president is a bad thing. Just the sam e, one has to question if Clinton has any concept for what is sexually appropriate. W hat’s next? Openly ogling C helsea’s college friends? Whipping it out at a state affair? What would the ____________ Japanese pres­ ident think if one A m erican p re sid e n t v o mi t e d Jam ie C o w a n on him and the next would have to include sheep and exposed himself?

Volkswagen Beetles. According to To consider the other side of the press, C linton has gone the coin, why would Lewinsky through women faster than Big and Jones make these claims if Macs. This begs a number of ques­ they weren’t true? I don’t think tions. First, are the allegations th e re ’s a big m arket for true? If they are, should we care? P resid en tial lovers. Take the Finally, if they’re not, why would exam ple of D onna R ice, the anyone lie about having sex with woman whose revelations of an Bill Clinton? affair with Gary Hart ruined his I’m going to leave the first bid for the presidency. She made a question for Reno’s Rangers to quick tour of the talk show circuit, answer. Bill Clinton has enough appeared in Playboy, and then dis­ independent investigators follow­ appeared into obscurity. ing him around that I’m sure we’ll Then again, between Rice, soon know far too much about the Lewinsky, Jones, and Gennifer activities of the Presidential John Flowers, there is a budding cottage Thomas in the months to come. industry for presidential mistress­ What interests me more is whether es. If the allegations are true, or not it should matter that the Clinton could always argue he was President of the United States is a stimulating the economy in his womaniser. own special way. But for the If the accusations of Monica wom en involved, i t ’s still an awfully degrading way to cash in your fifteen minutes of fame.

One way or the other, I don’t think the allegations of Lewinsky, Jones, or anyone else (and believe me, there’ll be more) are going to hurt Bill Clinton. Sexual deviancy is in vogue. Hugh Grant is still making movies. Marv Albert is on the come back trail and Lord L ea rn how t o s tr e tc h y o u r d o lla r th ro u g h s m a r t knows, the A m erican people demand more honesty out of their b ud geting an d helpful h in ts on saving money. sportscasters than their politicians.

Clinton’s only problem is that his alleged affairs are occurring with will be h e ld in ro o m 2 0 4 - o f th e Pow ell nobodies. He needs a celebrity to S t u d e n t S e rv ic e s B u ild in g a t 3 6 3 7 P e e l on th e follow ing d a te s : compete with Kennedy’s Marilyn "Tuesday, Feb. 3 V / / be h e ld In ro o m 2 0 5 M onroe. I would suggest Thursday. January 2 9 . 11:30-12:30 p.m Wednesday. F e bruary lO, 2 :0 0 - 3 : 0 0 p.m .

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And that was how it ended. No follow up. No new developments after the commercial breaks.

I kept thinking: this is not the way it’s supposed to happen! My life has it all wrong! Here is what should have hap­ pened: I freak out and yell at the father on the plane to take his sick kid to the bath­ room. Then I name him after his most prominent physical deforma­ tion; he is Big Forehead Man. Big Forehead Man and I argue for the remainder of the flight.

Ice Storm ‘98 starts early, say that very night, and so my friends are forced to reschedule my sur­ prise party. The next day, I go to complain about my extra fee and the guy in charge is Big Forehead Man! He sneers and charges me $500. I make a huge scene, throw­ ing pens and staplers at him, and am kicked out of the building. I camp outside until he comes out and then I follow him. When he sees me, he switches to the other side of McTavish and is hit with a falling tree branch due to the heavy ice. He dies.

The next day, while his replacement happens to be updat­ ing my file, the power goes out, erasing all traces of my $500 bill.

Then I have my surprise party.

That was what was supposed to happen.

Okay. Maybe I need a bit of therapy.

Not that th e re ’s anything wrong with that.

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I’ve got the paunch I have a paunch and I empathize with all other paunch carriers in our cosy little communi­ tyI say cosy because that’s the kind of word that we gut-mongers are used to hearing. Rotund adjec­ tives like warm and generous, stock politesse out of Emily Post, like “You sure are a jolly guy.”

However, having a paunch is nothing like being obese. Obese people get pity like “I think its glandular” or maybe “my professor says it could be genetic y ’k n o w ” .

No such com passion for us temporary-fat-storers — nope it’s slander all the way.

S la n d e r from all those g ig a-ath letic demigods who could carve diamonds with their v-shaped bodies as they funnel a keg of Guiness and gorge Mamma’s poutine by the j u g ­ ger­ naut, all the while running a couple of laps of Mount Royal. These guys can go to the toilet with a good solid issue of Men’s Health, have a private snick­ er at those who actually read the “lose your gut” article and just poo out the fat.

Moreover, the insults hit hard­ er for paunch carriers than they do for obese people, mainly because w e’re more sensitive about it.

Furthermore, it’s your best buds who administer the slurs, not those high school pricks who snide at their large-and-in-charge peers (“hey fat guy, go pick on someone your own size, like a jumbo jet! [sneer and titter with asshole friends]”). Real chunkers (and I use this term as a fellow species within the great phyla of guyswithfat) can deal with those vapid insults.

For us gut-m ongers, the affronts come from the kind of good friend who’s with you when you receive your Med school acceptance letter, and then, right before you run amuck out of sheer unadulterated joy, he sm irks, chummingly poking your hefty oblique abdom inals and says “guess you only sent in a head shot photo, eh? H ah!” and heartily laughs as he gives you a solid chuck on the shoulder. Then sens­ ing that he has placed a rather large concrete nail in your balloon says quickly “justjokin’ man, still buds

right?” However, with high body fat percentage comes insight, and so we know that as he japes at your pear-shaped torso, inside h e’s thinking, “There is no way in hell this guy’s gettin’ laid with that Molson 24 around his waist, fat bastard.”

The differential treatment doesn’t end with your peers though; it jumps out at you like the smell of mouldy cheese after you left your fridge open over the holidays. Have you ever stood behind ten people getting sluggishly served in front of you at the crappy McDonald’s in the McGill metro sta­ tion?

When it’s finally your turn, you look at the backlit menu as if this is your first McDonald’s ever, and with thoughts of girls in your class like Christy Turlington at NYU, you order a solitary Filet-OFish and a thimble of water. Then you watch the waitress give your sizeable paunch a quick scan, raise one eyebrow and say knowingly “I think you might need to largesize that.”

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It’s not all bad. In the end, nothing beats the feeling of walk­ ing into your stomping grounds with those A bdom inizer-using friends of yours while Steve the barkeep jokingly gives them each a glass of tonic water and places a real good, full, wholesome pint of Kilkenny in front of you, tosses a bag of Hostess super-ketchup chips your way and says “good to see you again James.”

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THE OMBUDSPERSON FOR STUDENTS TENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE McGILL OMBUDSPERSON FOR STUDENTS SEPTEMBER 1,1996 TO AUGUST 31,1997 I am pleased to present the tenth Annual Report of the McGill University Ombudsperson for Students for the reporting period September 1, 1996 to August 31, 1997 in accordance with the terms of reference of the Office as approved by the Senate and the Board of Governors. This is my fourth report to Senate as I enter the last year of my five year appointment.

THE MANDATE

The Mandate of the Ombudsperson for Students is the impar­ tial investigation and informal resolution of complaints by McGill students who feel that their rights have not been respected by some member of the McGill community. As stated in earlier reports, it is essential that the Ombudsperson be perceived as neutral and not as a student advocate in order to arrive at a fair, reasonable and infor­ mal resolution to a problem. Advocacy cases are generally referred to the Legal Information Clinic at McGill where our student lawyers provide an excellent service. I often work collaboratively with the clinic by continuing to support a student through the disci­ plinary or grievance procedure.

The Ombuds Office received a further budget cut this year as did all other parts of the University. A small accumulated surplus will permit the office to publish, once again, its annual report in the student newspapers. The “barebones” budget maybe of concern however, when the search begins for my replacement.

but with a student centred focus. work put financial pressures on students that may leave them less 2) Faculty who are accessible to students during office hours time for preparation for exams or written assignments. and by telephone when necessary; who provide helpful feedback on These economic factors are often compounded by scarcer assignments or exams; who review papers, exams when students so resources for Graduate level study, which may lead, for example to request, who honour their course outlines and assign topics appro­ working in teams when individual work is demanded. Human frail­ priately in advance of deadlines; who refrain from personalized ties are challenged by these realities that can lead at the Graduate remarks in written work or in the classroom, and who are open to level to issues related to intellectual property, co-authorship, or data constructive feedback from students. ownership; unreasonable demands on students; unavailable supervi­ sors. Undergraduate students need to be clear about what is an ------------------- 1 ------Num ber o f Cases bv Cast Category acceptable way to cite and to source the work of others. We should Case Category Year 97 Year 96 Year 95 not assume this knowledge as it is often compounded by cultural Academic 137 1811 146 Academic misconduct 9 ____ 1 0 l 12 differences. Faculty should be explicit in course outlines and per­ Admissions 17 20 19 Appeals 0 0 1 haps include a syllabus supplement that clearly states the guidelines Classroom Management 6 0 0 Counselling 0 0 1 for written work.

Exams 5 3 ___ l Fees 5 10 8 I would once again like to briefly address the question of trou­ Financial Aid 1 2 7 Harrassment 12 12 20 bled students.

McGill is a very large community so it is to be Health Services 1 3 li8_ Libraries 2 4 expected that there will be some of its members who will require McGill Housing 1 3 _________ 31 Non Academic Misconduct _ _ 161 7 _____ 8 special attention. San Diego State University has a pamphlet that Other 30 21 4 Physical Education 0 g, 1 describes problem behaviours and the most helpful and least helpful Registrations & Loans 10 9 _____5| Residences 3 0 responses to these behaviours. For example, how to work with a 1 Security & Safety 2 0 5 Staff Issue very depressed or suicidal student or a very angry student. I feel 0I 3 0 Student Association o 1 0 < that a similar pamphlet would be of benefit to all of us at McGill: TOTAL 248 288 263 I librarians, support staff, faculty members, chairs. Advisors, etc. I The 1997 report includes a new category o f case: Classroom Manaqement, which includes for example, concerns related to racist, sexist or personal comments made in (he___ welcome feedback on this topic from all members of the McGill classroom or laboratory. The reduction o f cases this year is reflected primarily in the academic area suggesting that these cases are increasingly being handled in the.

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The Ombuds Office recorded 248 cases this year which is a drop from the previous year. However, the complexity of many of the cases made the workload equal to previous years. The reduced number highlights the fact that there are a number of other impor­ tant front line helpers at McGill. To name a few: Donald Sedgwick and the other Arts and Science Advisors, Judy Pharo, Engineering.

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19 cases in 1997, Interestingly, the 1995 and 1997 undergraduate cases are at the __ !same level (1996 cases were 16-18 cases higher) while Masters cases continue to_______ I represent an important percentage of th e total cases. I ! !

Helen Van Eyke, Management, Charlotte Legare, Graduate Studies, Dean of Students and Associate Dean of Students, Rosalie Jukier and Rhonda Amsel, SSMU Executive and the Legal Information Clinic.

The statistical summary and tables which follow, provide detailed information concerning the cases (tables 1-3) and the work of the Ombudsperson (tables 4 and 5). When relevant 1995 and 1996 data are included for basis of comparison.

DISCUSSION OF CASES

As Ombudsperson for Students at McGill, I see the best and the worst of the University. In relation to my work, the best includes: 1) Chairs, Associate Deans and Associate Vice Principals who are skilled in mediation between students and Faculty, who deal successfully with troubled students and who apply regulations fairly

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3) Managers, support staff and advisors who are available and caring and take initiative in problem solving on behalf of students.

4) Student S ervices like the O ffice for S tudents with Disabilities, Financial Aid, Health and Mental Health, Counselling Services and the Freshman Coordinator.

A brief list of the worst would include the following: severe breakdown in Graduate Student/supervision relationship or supervi­ sors who leave McGill meaning that students are left without ade­ quate supervision or support; racist, sexist comments or behaviour; dollar decisions that have a very negative impact on students includ­ ing Government regulations that create bureaucratic runarounds for them; theft of personal belongings/property from bags left during exams or from gym lockers; thoughtless, judgemental statements or letters to students; the absence of clear, written departmental or Faculty Policies on important academic areas or unique applications of these policies by Departments; repeated use of the same exams; increased pressures on students that lead to academic misconduct such as plagiarism or cheating.

It is important to reflect on the economic climate and academ­ ic environment that generates many of these “worse” case scenarios.

Decreasing resources across the University have put substantial pressures on Faculty and support staff to do more with less. Faculty need to juggle multiple demands such as increased pressure to obtain externally funded research grants and to publish; to teach larger classes better; and meet escalating demands from students for feedback, help and expertise. Economic factors and the need to

A University is a very complex community. McGill’s decen­ tralized model adds to this complexity as rules and policies change from F aculty to F aculty and even w ithin F acu lties. The Ombudsperson for Students is one of the people who guides stu­ dents through this community and should not be perceived as a threat, but rather a resource to be used for problem solving. The Globe and Mail, Saturday, September 6, 1997 featured an article on Daniel Jacoby, the Quebec O m budsperson entitled “Quebec Ombudsperson continues quest for justice”. Jacoby describes his present position as “entre deux chaises” as he awaits a decision about his renewal. He is concerned that a non renewal would be based on his too harsh criticism of the government and thatfuture Ombudsmen would be deterred from speaking out. He suggests that being too quiet can even lead to the demise of the Office, as happened in Newfoundland in 1990. His O ntario colleague, Roberta Jamieson, feels that there is always a tension between the Ombudsman and the Government. She states that the “tension has to be managed carefully, because it can be creative or it can be unhealthy”. It is my hope that I have used the tension in a creative and helpful manner. I always operate openly and with the students permission. I initially try to help solve problems at the level that they are presented. I am not always successful in achieving the hoped for outcome but I work hard to ensure a fair and equitable process.

I have enjoyed my work as Ombudsperson for Students and look forward to the continued challenges in my last year in the Office.

ACKNOW LEDGEM ENTS As I have stated in previous reports, one of the most important parts of this annual report is to acknowledge all o f the people who have been of special help to the Office this year. The list has grown once again this year as there is great support for the Office o f the Ombudsperson from all members o f the M cG ill Community.

Before presenting the bouquets for 1996-97, I would like to high­ light some “comings and goings”. I welcomed the appointment of Rhonda Amsel as Associate Dean of Students and Martha Crago as Associate Vice Principal Graduate Studies. I am sad to see Lydia W hite and Sarah W estphal leave as A ssociate V ice Principal Graduate Studies and Associate Dean of Arts,respectively. Each of these colleagues made a significant contribution while in Office.

Bouquets to: • Vice Principal Academic Bill Chan • Associate Vice Principals, Graduate Studies, Lydia White, Martha Crago and Bernard Robaire • A sso c ia te D eans o f A rts, S c ien ce , M usic, E ducation and M anagem ent, M cD onald, Sarah W estphal, N ick de T acaczy, Kenneth Woodman, John Gradwell, Mary Dean Lee, Eric Norris • Dean o f Students Rosalie Jukier and Associate Dean Rhonda Amsel • Charlotte Legare, Faculty of Graduate Studies • Mariella Johansen, Director o f Admissions, Kim Bartlett, Cathy Mayhew, Admissions • Morty Yalofsky, Director of Continuing Education • Mary Jo McCullogh, Supervisor, Cashiers Office • Judy Stymest, Director, Student Aid Office • M ichele Raymond, McGill Computer Store - Publicity for the office • Suzy Slavin, Library • Alexandre Pless & Angela Campbell and Legal Information Clinic • Don McGowan, V.P. University Affairs, S.S.M.U. • Students who consulted the office and shared their concerns and

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27 January 1998

Montrealers were thirsty: the S.A.Q. guide to surviving an ice storm

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When the lights vanish in a modern city, priorities change dras­ tically. People begin asking them­ selves completely different ques­ tions, such as: How does one cut firewood? Can I heat my apartment with a habachi? How does one use a non-electric can-opener?

However, these questions can only occupy so much time and soon the main question becomes: What to do with an endless supply of free time and no electricity?

During the ice storm crisis of 1998 (hereafter called “the crisis”), many patient Montrealers respond­ ed by thumbing their noses at tech­ nology whenever possible and turn­ ing to alcohol to raise their dark­ ened spirits. Whether on St. Laurent Boulevard (charmingly protected by the hand of God) or slipped into a Scrabble tournam ent, booze proved to be a low-tech tonic for a troubled city — one good blackout deserving another.

Many Société des Alcools du Québec (S.A.Q) outlets were forced to close because of power failure.

However, the ones that were able to remain open showed abnormal sales increases: an S.A.Q. outlet in St. Lambert was shut down for two days, but then saw sales increase by 15 per cent and has only recently seen sales “returning to normal January levels,” said representative Michel Ducherme. In some cases, customers were engaged in panic­ buying and endured the long lines that were otherwise reserved for such items as candles, fuel and water.

“It was n u js...hayw ire... insane,” explained Paul de Puyjalon, an employee at an S.A.Q.

outlet in Westmount. “I’ve never seen such long line­ ups in January. It was like the Christmas rush.”

The Westmount outlet was forced to close down completely for four days.

Despite this (and having to then close early, at 4 p.m.), the outlet was able to go through an average week’s sales in only two days.

“I was not impressed — it was a stampede,” said de Puyjalon. “People were banging on our door, com­ plaining that we were clos­ ing early. They were acting like we were an essential service, but we’re not.

“I guess Westmounters were thirsty.”

Further down Sherbrooke street is Crossroads Bar. Lucky to be powered by the same Hydro substation as the SAQs were overrun by ice storm victims former Queen Elizabeth hospital, the bar was one of of the bar’s customers who was the few places in IST.D.G. that present during the interview , retained use of electricity through­ informed us that he’d been to the out the entire crisis. As a result, bar for eleven straight days during the crisis.

“People were drinking more, Booze proved to be a low- for sure,” said bartender Peter tech tonic for a troubled city Higgins. “There was really nothing — one good blackout else to do. No one had anywhere else to go, so they hung out here deserving another. and got drunk.” Furthermore, the bar patrons tended to be in more business jumped by close to 40 per jovial spirits than usual, despite the cent. Owners found themselves let­ otherwise grim conditions. ting powerless customers in early, Grim conditions were also giving out free water, coffee and endured by Montreal breweries, sodas, and extending credit to cus­ where excessive demands to tom ers. Custom ers stayed for restock product during the storm longer periods of time than usual, prevailed. Molson’s media relations and were more reluctant to leave at officer Hélène Gérard reported set­ closing time. Mark Reichertz, one

backs of their own.

“We tried to respect the delivery schedule on the Montreal island, but our sales depot in the Monterégie area was closed due to lack of power. We respected Hydro Québec’s requests to close down when asked.” With respect to consum ption, Gérard commented that sales figures for the duration of the ice storm were unavailable.

At the M cAuslan m icro­ brew ery, power went out during the bottling process, forcing the company to dump 96 hectos (9,600 litres) of Mike Be,lamY precious ale.

Bottle inspector Dave Stephen relayed the impact of this on the small company. “Given that there are 3.3 bottles of beer per litre, this is a pretty significant loss,” he said.

The Provigo store on Parc Avenue remained open during the crisis, thanks to a generator. The supermarket’s cheerful representa­ tive, Suzanne, initially relayed that the store did not experience any increases in alcohol sales. 1 asked her what the store did sell during the blackout period.

“M ainly water, bread, and...and beer,” she said, “Oh, yeah then, actually, we did sell a lot of beer.”

Marché Campus, the dépan­ neur on Prince Arthur street, stayed

open without power for four days, lit by candles. We spoke with Tony, who worked — reluctantly — dur­ ing the blackout. He sold the famil­ iar ice storm items: candles, batter­ ies, water. He did not sell much beer, or at least no more than usual.

“It was a stampede.

People were acting like we were an essential service. ” — S.A.Q. employee Paul de Puyjalon However, he says people were try­ ing to take advantage of the dark­ ened store to try to steal wine.

“People were coming in — I can tell which ones are the thieves, you know — and they were just hanging out at the back of the store with the wine. I would go back there, and ask them, ‘can I help you?’ and they would say that they were just looking. So I would say, ‘How can you be looking if there isn’t any lightT” Obviously different people uti­ lized various methods to cope with the crisis. In the city, “coping” usu­ ally involved metabolizing alcohol, which indirectly may have brought people together.

“Morale was way up. People had a feeling of solidarity, a ‘we’re all in this together’ type of feeling,” said Freddy Battista, one of the owners of C rossroads. “People were making contacts here, finding out who had power, who could stay with who. Everyone was really finding happiness for those few hours they were here! Of course, when you go outside, it was a whole different story.”

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W omen-only residences — the last bastion of traditional fem­ ininity in a university setting — are frequently regarded as anti­ quated institutions that threaten gender equality. On the flip side, however, they do provide certain advantages to first year students.

Founded in 1899 by Donald A. Smith, Lord Strathcona, Royal Victoria College on University Avenue is the only gender-specif­ ic resid en ce at M cG ill. RVC enabled McGill to open its doors to wom en but also provided a safeguard against outside influ­ ences which could corrupt femi­ nine virtues. The residence is still hom e to ap p ro x im ately 260 women but is no longer a colle­ giate division of McGill.

Female students who reside at RVC comprise approximately 15 per cent of the student popula­ tion housed in McGill residences.

According to Natalya Nicholson, an RVC don and a third year resi­

dent at the col­ lege, placement in resid en ces, especially Royal Victoria, is determ ined by a lottery sys­ tem.

“G irls in RVC are there because of luck of the draw. If y o u ’re from O ntario where applications are supplied later, someone seek­ ing residence is put w herever RVC: female bonding vs. gender discrimination there is space.”

McGill is not the only univer­ choice for housing other than sity to have a first com e, first Solin H all, a short M etro ride serve policy for residence allot­ from cam pus. For students at ments, but it does become more RVC, there are definite advan­ of an issue in regards to a ll­ tages and disadvantages to living female residences. Women who in an all women’s dorm. But Flo felt that RVC would not benefit Tracey, residence co-ordinator for them to the same degree as a co­ Royal Victoria College and the ed residence were left with little B ishop M ountain R esidences,

e m p h a s iz e d student choice in living arrangements.

“No one is forced to live in RVC — ev eryone has the choice between living here or at Solin Hall or, indeed in offcampus hous­ ing. It is the student’s own choice.”

One obvi­ ous advantage Rachel O ng to RVC is location — close to campus, RVC residents do n ’t have to endure daily hikes up the m ountain where McGill’s other campus res­ idences are located. The same-sex environment does offer the kind of privacy that isn’t experienced cohabiting with members of the opposite sex. The fact that only

women live at RVC also allows its residents to foster closer bonds with their female peers during th eir firs t year o f u n iv ersity .

According to Tracey, “the friend­ ships made between the women in a fem ale resid en ce cannot be made in other places; it is the close bonds made th at a re n ’t always apparent but affect the in d iv id u als here for years to come.”

Both Tracey and Nicholson assert that RVC’s greatest advan­ tage is the inter-personal relation­ ships created during the eight m onths of a freshm an year at McGill. Nicholson explained why she has chosen to stay in resi­ dence for three years.

“It’s the people. It doesn’t make a difference that it’s an all­ women rez to me. I love meeting the new people every year.”

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option to university life in the 1990s. The presence of an institu­ tion th at d iscrim inates on the basis of gender, even with regards to residences, undermines equali­ ty. The very fact that some of these women’s interactions with other people, particularly men, are infringed upon to the point that guests are monitored by the residence’s security desk, denotes

the age-old idea that women need “protection.”

Sean Addis, former adminis­ trator of LBGTM and co-creator of the Peer Support and Referral Line, contends that gender dis­ crimination in residences such as RVC “promotes the idea that men are the aggressors and women are the submissive.

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Gender, race and ethnicity are meant to be accepted but when a residence differentiates between men and women, hence creating different rules for each, then the idea of equality is no longer pre­ sent,” he said. “The question is, are all-female residences for the b en e fit o f the young women entering university or are they institutions created to appease their parents?”

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“The question is, are all­ female residences really for the benefit o f the young women entering university, or are they institutions created to appease their parents?”

— Sean Addis, former administrator o f LBGTM each re sid e n ce was recen tly established. But the advocacy of women’s issues at RVC, where it is arguably m ost im portant, receives the same attention as it does in co-ed residences.

A lthough RVC is womenonly, Nicholson stated that that “doesn’t mean people are going to get involved no matter where they live,” she said.

In response to the notion that an all-wom en residence repre­ sents an archaic relic of an unen­ lightened past, Tracey noted that “residences of all places promote

equality; they are the product of society where the students are happy to have a place that is toler­ ant and treats everyone with the same degree of respect.

“For women from other cul­ tures,” Tracey continued, “a place like Royal V ictoria C ollege is very important because they are treated equally and it gives them the strength to grow into mature and model adults.”

But many students feel clos­ eted and ache to leave the suffo­ cating atm osphere of the re si­ dence since experience has not always lived up to the expectation of a diverse environm ent. One female resident of Royal Victoria C ollege, who asked to rem ain anonymous, expressed am biva­ lence about living in an all-female environment.

“I don’t agree with all-girls residences. It doesn’t feel like an actual representation of reality.

We are secluded, although once here, you do meet a lot of peo­ ple.”

The question of whether or not to maintain the women-only residence has not been seriously addressed by the administration or McGill’s student body. Although some students may grumble and com plain about residence life, Nicholson pointed out that no one has o ffic ia lly ch allen g ed the notion of maintaining a female residence even when there is no male equivalent.

“Apathy is a major problem at McGill, no matter whether it’s in residences, clubs, administra­ tion or student turnout for referen­ da.”

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This event has been co-ordinat­ ed by Michael Bilerman, Corinne Gelman and Marc Chrétien, Management students who have persevered through a veritable obstacle course which threatened the execution of the event. “We had to fax all the mailings that were sup­ posed to be sent during the mail strike which took an extraordinary amount of time. However, when it came to raising funds in January, it was humbling asking people for charity when there were no lights or heat, and some of the businesses donating were temporary shelters,” said Bilerman.

The mail strike of late November and early December and the ice storm crisis which followed on its heels failed to stop the deter­ mined threesome, but they fear that post-storm stress may mar the turnout on Wednesday.

Gelman emphasized the impor­ tance of student turnout.

“Most of the donations that have been made to the auction are items that students, in particular, would find useful,” she said.

The auction list is a veritable catchall of McGill necessities, such as on-campus parking spots for an entire year, hockey tickets, and VIA Rail packages. Weekend getaways for two in Quebec City, including one night stays at the Chateau Frontenac (breakfast included) should be incentive enough to drop by during spare hours on Wednesday.

DJs Aaron Rand from CFQR and CHOM’s Maria Colleta are leading the festivities as auctioneers, while both CHOM and Burlington’s Buzz 99.9 will broadcasting live from the auction.

On a more serious note, all the proceeds from the auction are going directly toward cancer research, and represent the hard work and gen­ erosity of McGill students.

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Inter-indigenous trade agreem ent criticized: hum an rights and econom ic developm ent clash over Project OK B y S a r a Je a n G

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A controversial trade agree­ ment between the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) and Indigenous representatives in the Mexican state of Oaxaca has drawn fire from community members and human rights groups because of the Mexican government’s history of violence against Native peoples, a majority of whom live in the south­ ern part of that country.

Known as Project OaxacaKahnawake, or Project OK, the pro­ tocol agreement to establish interindigenous trade was scheduled to be signed January 18 as part of Team Canada’s trade mission to Mexico and Latin America. But the Canadian government had problems with the wording of the protocol which may be in violation of NAFTA provisions according to Kahnawake businessman and for­ mer band council chief Andrew Delisle Sr. Moreover, the disastrous ice storm that swept through Ontario and Quebec in early January kept Prime M inister Jean Chrétien, Premiers Mike Harris and Lucien Bouchard as well as MCK Grand Chief Joe Norton home to deal with the crisis. Now, the MCK claims that it will go ahead with the signing in the next few months without the participation of the Canadian or Mexican governments.

But community members aren’t buying the band council’s story since many are concerned about human rights violations against Mexico’s indigenous population. In the state of Chiapas, 45 people — mostly women and children — were m assacred with M-16s and machetes on December 22. The massacre in the village of Acteal, the latest in Mexico’s “low intensity warfare” against indigenous peoples who support the Zapitista move­ ment, was received with outrage and shock by the international commu­ nity.

In Mexico, the ruling Party of Institutionalized Revolution (PRI) is accused of supporting and arming

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paramilitary groups who intimidate, rape, torture and kill non-PRI sup­ porters, most of whom are Indian peasants. McGill anthropology pro­ fessor Kristine Norget, who has spent over two years working in Oaxaca, asserted that Team Canada participants are “uninformed or under-informed about the situation” in Mexico.

“These paramilitary groups are mercenaries, hired killers...contract­ ed by large land and ranch owners to protect their lands from invasion by peasants, the Campesino,” she stated. “Particularly since the ‘70s when indigenous people, the agri­ cultural workers, began to organize themselves, the violence has been stepped up.”

Norget went on to say that international attention given to the m assacre in Acteal has left the Mexican government scrambling since those responsible for the killings have been identified as members of the PRI. “[The Mexican government] is trying to show the international community that they are addressing the situation and that their hands are

on to say that “the governor of M exico is doing everything to restore peace in the region.”

Protesting Project OK

already raised over $5,000 for indigenous refugees in Mexico.

Quinney, along with human rights

groups in Montreal, organized a protest on January 9 denouncing the Spearheaded by Delisle, Project PRI government for violence OK would see the manufacturing of against indigenous peoples as well textiles, clothing, pottery and other as C anada’s trade m ission to crafts as well as the export of coffee, Mexico.

“During the Mohawk crisis in cocoa, minerals and forestry prod­ ucts from Oaxaca to Kahnawake 1990, a lot of people from Mexico under an “Indians of the Americas” came in support of the Mohawk label to be distributed throughout people,” Quinney said. “It is not OK North America and possibly Europe. to hold hands with the Mexican Delisle, who owns a craft and west­ government — it's important that ern wear business, pointed out that we stand together and not look the the vast majority of Indian crafts are other way.”

Because of the 1990 Crisis, actually made in India or Pakistan.

Eastern Door assistant editor Joe “If people in Oaxaca make Deom contends that indigenous peo­ these things, why don’t we buy from them?” he asked. “When I went into ple in Mexico “hear the word Mohawk and it the craft business creates an image I noticed that “It is not OK to hold of resistance.” nothing was made h a n d s w ith the

by Indian people Deom is con­ Mohawk Warriorflag http-j/206.i 86.91 — the products cerned that gov­ M e x ic a n g o v e rn ­ . 1/users/owera/ I’m going to han­ ernment officials m ent — it’s im por­ clean...but it’s completely illusion­ dle will be certi­ in Mexico will ary. Their whole explanation about fied that they are tan t that we stand use an interwhat’s going on is a myth.” made by Indian to g e th e r a n d n o t indigenous trade According to a December 26 people. agreement for look the other way. ” press release issued by the Chiapas ‘This is just a their own purpos­ state government, 60 people were trade agreement — Violet Quinney, es. arrested for the massacre which the and has nothing to Kahnawake “All of the government claims is part of an do with politics,” community member business deals ongoing family feud. Deputy Consul Delisle continued, could be leg iti­ Laura Espinosa at the Mexican referring to the situation in Mexico.

Consulate in Montreal denied any “We’re not talking about AK assis­ mate but the one who will benefit government involvement in the tance but economic assistance — the most is the Mexican government killings and stated that there are I’m not going to sell them guns but — they will say, ‘the Mohawks are “troops in the zone” to protect the try and help developing their econo­ working with us’ — and they can indigenous people. Espinosa went my which will therefore be helping make a lot of political hay out of this,” he said. their social existence.”

But human rights abuses are But community members are Career and Placement Service not the only reason for community upset at the MCK’s involvement in M cGill University, P o w e ll S tu d e n t S e rv ic e s B ld g ., opposition to Project OK. A repre­ the project for a number of reasons.

Suite 3 0 8 , 3 6 3 7 Peel Street sentative of the Mohawk Nation Kenneth Deer, editor of Office, which is the secretariat for Tel: (5 1 4 ) 3 9 8 -3 3 0 4 , Fax: (5 1 4 ) 3 9 8 -1 8 3 1 Kahnawake’s community newspa­ the People of the Longhouse, claims per The Eastern Door, asserts that that Iroquoian intellectual property the band council has been reluctant rights are jeopardized by the deal. to discuss Project OK despite com­ The draft agreem ent between munity opposition voiced through Oaxaca and Kahnawake calls for the letters to the editor and call-ins to “certification and protection of the local radio station.

Indigenous intellectual property and “Even after the massacre [in trade-mark and patent protection” Chiapas], nothing came out of the — essentially, cultural symbols like MCK about it. I question whether the Hiawatha belt or the Warrior the band council was being compro­ flag could be reproduced in mised by the deal,” Deer stated. He Mexican factories. also explained that the MCK has According to the MNO rep released “no names, no nations, no who asked that her name not be com m unities” of the people in On-Cam pus Recruitment used, indigenous peoples in Mexico Oaxaca who will be signing as are “forced off their land and forced is in full gear at C.A.P.S. Check out our indigenous representatives. into refugee camps and they have no Community member Violet website for : Job Postings. choice but to work under the multi­ Quinney and her husband John List o f company presentations nationals — when they protest, they G oodleaf began a door-to-door are beaten, killed, or they disappear. www. mcgill. ca/stuserv/caps fundraising and awareness cam­ How can we support something like paign in Kahnawake and have that?” she asked.

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“With regard to those sym­ bols,” she continued, “they repre­ sent who we are from the beginning of our creation and they belong to everyone in the entire Haudenosaunee Confederacy.

How can a few individuals take thosè symbols away from us, tell us we can’t use them, that we need a permit?”

Traditional people in Kahnawake claim that the band council stands to make a substan­ tial amount of money through the deal with Oaxaca and many are worried that the council will end up signing with PRI-baçked Indian organizations. If the agree­ ment is signed, any First Nation in Canada wishing to do trade with the indigenous people in Oaxaca will have to go through Kahnawake.

“How can we as Indian people have our brothers and sisters making those things for pennies because they have no choice, no other way to feed their children?” asked the MNO spokeswoman. “The band council says that it will be equal opportunity, but it’s not. All you have to do is look around you.”

But Delisle was critical of the traditionalists’ stance against the project and asserted that accusations regarding cheap labour and the patenting of symbols are false.

“I don’t know what they’re mad at — if this agreement isn’t good, what is going to get us off dependency on government fund­ ing? Man, we got to start helping ourselves,” he said. “The communi­ ty is trying to kick the council to get the economy going, but the council always gets criticized any time it wants to do anything.”

In this case however, the MCK has angered other nations in the Iroquois Confederacy; the Oneidas in Ontario and New York as well as the Tuscarorans of North Carolina and New York have sent letters to the MCK and the Canadian Prime Minister protesting the trade mis­ sion. Moreover, the MCK’s asser­ tion that it will not work in conjunc­ tion with the Canadian or Mexican governments was also received with scepticism.

“I really think it’s a load of crap when they say they're not sign­ ing with Canada or.Mexico,” stated John Goodleaf, pointing out that the MCK got financial assistance for the project through the federal govern­ ment.

The MNO spokeswoman also questioned how the band council “can walk into Mexico and sign an agreement without the involvement of the Mexican government [since] you can’t even do that here.”

Given the political and social uncertainty in Mexico, Kahnawake businesswoman Carla Hemlock warned against an economic agree­ ment with uncertain allies.

“They need to be very careful regarding who they are dealing with down there because there will be very far reaching implications for all of us Indian people.”

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27 January 1998

Girl power outage: Spice Girls shame feminism Okay, so you know all about their “hit” album and you’ve been bombarded with clips from their new movie. If you give a rat’s ass you probably even know that they were booed off the stage in Spain, or about their “rebellious” little meeting with the Queen (one of them refused to curtsy because she was worried that her breasts would flop out of her dress), and about Peter M ansbridge borrow ing their “Girl Pow er” catch phrase to eulogize Princess Diana.

Just when you thought you knew everything about the Spice Girls...(brace your­ self)...Did you know that they’re now being hailed as “good role models for teen-age girls” and as an accurate representation of “con­ temporary feminism?” Seriously.

In a Globe and Mail article this month, Lynn Crosbie argues that the Spice Girls’ trite “Girl Power” message “is accurate by the stan­ dards of contemporary feminism, where power equals money and choice,” and that the little Spices, by getting their message across to hordes of screaming teens, maybe helping to “reconfigure adoles­ cence with girls on top.”

Now i t ’s one thing for an obsessive, teen music fan-freak like Peter M ansbridge to say that Princess Diana had “Girl Power,” but this is ridiculous. The Spice Girls as feminists? Am I missing something here?

I realize that fem inism involves more than hairy legs and pits. Not all feminists cut their hair short and most of them don’t wear combat boots — many of them probably don’t even know who the Indigo Girls are, and I’m almost positive that there must be at least one card-carrying feminist who doesn’t own a single item of purple clothing...OK, may be not.

All joking aside, the Spice

for taking them on — but, like gen­ erations of women before them, they’re a commodity to be bought and sold on the open market.

The sad thing is, unlike the millions of women before them who made themselves available for a price, the Spice Girls (thanks largely to the gains of the feminist movement) had a Choice. If they didn’t want to become the vehicles for a cute, candy-wrapped, steril­ ized and regressive “neo-fem inism ” they could have said no. But M ic a h K n a p p they, didn’t. Instead they opted to market and pro­ mote this crap. It’s all about “Girl Milli Vanilli.

With some clever marketing Power,” they say. It’s about “posi­ this might make you rich, but it’s tiv ity .” Right. Sure it is. And not exactly an emancipatory image. Lucien B ouchard is all about It’s not feminism. It’s packaging Canada.

Make no mistake, the Spice and selling yourself as a sex object and people have been doing it for Girls are about money. They’re thousands (millions? billions?) of about selling themselves, and the years. (I have nothing to back this progress of women, to the highest up, but I’m pretty sure that when­ bidder. They’re everything that’s ever Cro-Magnon woman wanted wrong with the corporate world in Cro-Magnon man’s attention she the late ‘90s, with the music busi­ sauntered by in a low cut dress). ness and with the film industry.

Alone, they make for a pretty This is “Girl Power” the old fash­ strong anti-television, anti-advertis­ ioned way. But it’s not feminism.

If anything it’s a kind of anti­ ing, anti-pop culture, anti-society feminism. If the women’s move­ argument. Yup, they make me want ment is about autonomy and indi­ to move to Whitehorse and live in a viduality and freedom of choice log cabin with no electricity and no (and, at least partially, it is), then running water, a place where I can the Spice Girls are doing their best roast my beans and weanies over to destroy any gains that may have an open fire...then again, maybe I’ll been made in the last, oh, hundred just move to the South Shore. Are you coming with me? Hurry. Get years.

If anything about them is out while you still can! Spice clear, it’s that they’re not them­ World opened everywhere January selves. They’re not individuals 23rd.

(I’m not even sure that they’re real Mr. Knapp recieves commis­ people), and they’re not in any way free. They’ve sold themselves to sion .for each CD sold by Ani their record company who has, in diFranco, Sarah McLachlan and turn, packaged and sold them to us. Tori Amos.

They wear platform shoes and mini dresses instead of aprons and corsets — and their record compa­ ny didn’t have to pay a dowry to us

Girls are not feminists. Even if the feminist movement is reduced to its most crude form — securing gen­ der equality in buying power, and thus free “choice” — in no way does it support cramming your ass into a washcloth-sized mini dress, strapping on a pair of four foot high platform shoes and shaking your booty while you do your best

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Media played community service role in ice storm crisis Lest there be any lingering confusion about the media’s role in a community, I’ll spell it out.

The media is, first and fore­ most, a business.

Iro n ic ally , I w rite this because I was inspired by the overall trend (short though it may have been) of selflessness in the media over the course of the ice storm. Like many, I watched the early events unfold in newspapers and the local newscasts. And like many, once I lost power, I lis­ tened to the radio to hear how Montreal was being unravelled.

For the first time that I could remember, distinct media groups of a large city alligned co-opera­ tively with its audience and each other. The ice storm affected everyone, and the result was a désintégration of the stratum of distance that traditionally rests between the reporters and their the citizens.

But make no mistake: it was also made clear during the crisis that much rested on a station’s or a paper’s ability to serve its com­ munity. Local publications whose regular printers are on the South Shore were making a mad dash for printers with pow er in the north end. Local reporters were reliable and salient, if a bit repeti­ tive.

But the audience also under­

stood that this was a time that separated the boys from the men.

The lack of resources at CBC-TV was terrib ly obvious. They appeared to be financially unable to cancel their regular children’s morning programming for storm coverage, offering on-the-hour updates instead. At CFCF, who have been fighting to keep their exodussing market share since the arrival of Global and Fox, Ice Storm ‘98 was proclaimed with all the subtlety of a monster truck rally commercial.

If the role of the local media became more clearly defined dur­ ing the storm, it is due in part to C F C F ’s coverage, w hich did override much o f regular p ro ­ gramming. Leslie Roberts, host of M ontreal AM and anchor for Pulse new s, explained CFCF’s balance between serving the audience as both business custom ers and citizens of the commu­ nity.

“It is our duty to report the news everyday, but if we don’t do an exceptional job during the cri­ sis, we won’t be relied upon for the daily news,” Roberts said.

This was the case at CJAD 800AM, which went dead on the morning of Friday, January 9 after losing its four transmitters. What ensued was a fran tic 30 hour

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search for an alternative transmit­ ter site, which they ultim ately found at 1410 on the AM dial.

Program director Steve Kowch em phasized CJADs priority to serve Montreal, most notably with their help line.

“We did not abandon people.

We just concentrated our actions

and tried to get the information out in a very professional way,” Kowch explained.

CJAD is an example of the media hybrid of community ser­ vice and business interests. In addition to the transmitter prob­ lems, Kowch had other damage contro l to w orry about.

Broadcaster Jim Duff quit after the 800AM tow ers went down and the decision was made to not take over the broadcasting of sis­ ter station Mix96 (for those 30 hours, CJAD did 10 minutes of news at the top of the hour plus bulletins). According to Kowch, CJAD had already begun broad­ casting at 1410 at the time Duff resigned.

W hat happened afte r th at appears to be sketchy. The Hour reported that Duff was beg­ ging for his job back, with Kowch replying, “...D uff went ahead and crapped all over the station. Y ou’re damned right I accepted his resignation!” In an interview on Montreal AM, Duff intimated that his decision to move to CILQ was a result of his long desire to go to a fresh forum. And what Kowch told me didn’t mesh with either of these situations. “Jim is a man of conviction. We’ve worked togeth­ er for 25 years... I wasn’t able to convince him to stay. He quit on

principle.”

Ice Storm ‘98 — that is, not the actual storm but its coverage — encapsulates everything that is the cancer of the news business: The Big Story. Ratings, tragedy, human triumph, running commen­ tary — including this piece, I openly admit. It is a harsh and cut throat business environment that seeks to tell the stories of its citi­ zens; but it is a business that, when successfully performing its role and respecting business inter­ ests, can serve the community and perhaps even bring its economi­ cally, politically and culturally div erse people to g th er. As Roberts expressed, the ice storm was a brief moment in Quebec’s history when we could listen to our news without getting medi­ cine-balled by politics: “it was the one time when politics was not the language of the news. It was the Montreal that I remember.”

Can we in the media achieve the balance between business and serving and acting as part of the community after the ice storm?

More importantly, don’t we in the public at least deserve that?

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A its &Entertainment Trying to break the sound barrier in the music department

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first electronic music studio in North America. Back then, a syn­ thesizer took up a whole room and

the popular audience.

The controversy revolves around lanza’s 1996 composition

In the world of music, as in every area of civilization, technology is proving to be a radical and divisive influence.

The day is no longer ruled by pleasant chamber compositions, grand tonal orchestral works and pieces that are first and foremost melodic and har­ m onious. M oving even beyond S choenbergs’ Twelve-Tone incarnation of theory and the expand­ ed, colourful, harmonic voicings of jazz and rock n ’ roll, electronic music has initiated a new aesthet­ ic age. Though this musi­ cal discipline has been in the making for a long time and is now dominating air waves, clubs, raves and academic concerts around the world, its incorpora­ He may look harmless, but alcides lanza’s music is deemed scandalous tion into musical ortho­ to get a machine just to go “ping” entitled “Plectros II,” written for doxy is still in its early stages.

The man who holds the golden took hours of calculation and piano and including pre-recorded electronic sounds. The piece con­ key to McGill’s electronic music thoughtful programming. tains sections in which the per­ lanza was one of the first com­ studio, tucked away from prying eyes on the fifth floor of the posers to integrate acoustical former must reach in to the piano Strathcona Music Building, is the instruments and electronic media and pluck specified harmonics on internationally renowned electronic — a marriage between the new and the piano strings, which offers a music com poser and perform er the old. Recently, one of his com­ distinctive complimentary texture alcides lanza (he prefers his name positions sparked a controversy to the electronic sounds whirling not to be capitalized). Originally which provided an apt example of about the room, lanza planned on from Argentina, lanza received a the struggle between the establish­ performing this piece at one of scholarship in the early ’60s to ment and the vanguard in musical M cG ill’s Studio Exchange study at Columbia University in academia, not to mention the diffi­ Concerts in the Clara Liechtenstein New York City in what was the culty of conveying innovations to Recital Hall, which took place on

November 24. The concert’s pro­ secretly plotted to play the original gram featured electro-acoustic uncensored version, whatever the works from all over the world, with consequences.

On the night of the perfor­ lanza’s composition slated to be the grand finale. Two mance, after hearing that his 25 weeks before the show, year-old position as artistic director however, lanza received of the EMS would be at stake word from “higher admin­ should he break the rules, lanza istration” that his piece gave in. He stood before an almost full house and read rather solemnly could not be performed.

Why? Because appar­ from a piece of paper, that he ently the composition (i.e. would not be playing the original the harm onics section) version of his piece. He comment­ was simply physically and ed that the end of the century is scientifically unworkable. approaching and that he is shocked lanza was ----------------- ______________ to see that atti­ tudes still exist quick on Two weeks before that hinder the the draw the show, however, free expression a n d of art. He ended la n z a re c e iv e d a rra n g e d his speech by to meet w ord from “h ig h e r conveying his with the adm inistration” that sincere hope ap p ro p ri­ that we will be his piece could not ate o ffi­ able to hear cials in the be performed ________________ twentieth centu­ recital hall, where he displayed to ry music before the twenty-first them that what he wrote century and was greeted with L ily Ibara could actually be played. enthusiastic applause from all Reluctantly, they conceded. But members of the audience.

Coming up is the EuCuE alas! Another problem! This time, they said that lanza’s piece was too Acousmatic series, which is a five aggressive for the expensive day extravaganza at Concordia Yamaha grand-pianos in Concert Hall (Loyola) on February Liechtenstein Hall and they were 10 at 8 p.m. There will be concerts afraid that he m ight dam age a every night until February 14 string, or detune it. The law was which is the final installment and laid down: there would be no features alcides lanza. All concerts Plectros on a McGill piano. The are free. Also, keep an eye open for administration was not unwilling to McGill’s Group o f the Electronic compromise. He could perform the M usic Studio as well as Studio piece so long as he omitted the har­ Exchange, the Electronic Music monics section, lanza agreed, but Composition class concert.

Literary mags reach out to M cGill’s undiscovered artists

By Karl R. H earne W hile many of us snicker m ournfully at the idea that a vibrant artistic community exists at McGill, the usual slew of publica­ tions are once again desperately attempting to round up submis­ sions.

“Apathetic” has become the hard-bitten cliché used by embit­ tered cultural die-hards to describe the mass of artists padding around campus... Shy, disinterested or simply undiscovered.

Despite the perceived disinter­ est on campus, student publishers persevere. The Pillar and Montage are still scrounging for photos, art, poem s and prose. This year they’ve been joined by one more showcase, The Steps. This soon-toemerge monthly will attempt to com bine jo urnalism , art, resto reviews and anything clever that writers from any faculty care to scribble down or dream up. The Steps will try to capture a tone and attitude characteristic of the Arts Faculty ju s t as The P lu m b er’s

Faucet attem pts to reflect the Engineering faculty. Editor-inchief Alethea Au scoffs at the sug­ gestion that this would be best accomplished by ten blank pages and an absentee writing staff. The first apathy-fighting issue will include the story of a M cGill Anthropology professor caught smuggling something illegal out of some distant country. W hile Alethea does not promise a lurid vehicle of sensational journalism, she says her paper will be “emi­ nently readable and accessible to the masses.”

Scrivener is an international literary publication, receiving sub­ m issions from all over North America and Europe. Last year only two of the 30 or 40 published creators were McGill students.

This was due mostly to a lack of local submissions.

The Pillar editors say their publication “fills the closer-tohome niche”, publishing “McGill students and no one else.” They are pleading with McGill artists whom they describe as “strangely

shy, impossibly discreet and perhaps moderately non-existent” to

Montage people building a collaborative and them atic creative

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Montage is a slightly different type of endeavour produced by our students. This is the second straight year that finds the

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effort. If you want to get together to brainstorm or commune with other creative minds, these are the people for you. A group of artists will work together through their various media to create something

around this year’s theme, “The Continuum.”

Any McGill student with an artistic bent; anyone new, shy, uncertain and gifted — anyone at all, really — is asked to fight that demon known as indifference and submit to one or more these publi­ cations. Writers, painters and poets who want fame, glory and hard cash must know that only recogni­ tion through publication can send you sky-rocketing towards these coveted ends.

The Scrivener deadline has come and gone, the Pillar deadline is January 30. E ntries can be dropped o ff in their respective boxes in the Porter’s office in the Arts building. Montage wants a more collaborative effort from its staff thus meetings are essential and occur every Tuesday at 4:30 pm in Arts 235. The deadline is February 2. To contact Alethea at The Steps call 398-1993.

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By Elaine O'C onnor “It’s going to get a lot colder tonight,” they predict. “Maybe even a blackout.”

These words, ominous and familiar, sound safer on screen, not from the mouths of M ontreal weather reporters but in Ang Lee’s new picture, The Ice Storm.

In the film, based on the novel

by Rick Moody, Lee predicts the tendency of modem families to cre­ ate their own emotional blackouts, roadblock, and power outages.

Tracing the intertwining relation­ ships of two suburban families in the 1970’s, Lee demonstrates that this freeze starts long before the storm.

The film stars Joan Allen and Kevin Kline as Helena and Ben, a couple struggling with emotional estrangement, both from one anoth­ er and from their two teenage chil­

dren, Wendy (Christina Ricci) and Paul (Toby Maguire). Ben is hav­ ing an affair with the wife of his next-door neighbour, an icy vamp played by Sigourney Weaver, at the same time as his daughter Wendy is learning to barter sex for love and affection in bouts of adolescent experim entation alternating between the Weaver’s two sons.

Helena, increasingly fragile, turns to shoplifting, Paul to drugs.

In this environment, the char­ acters are reduced to base animals who will do anything to stave off the emotional cold. It is this prelude to the emotional blizzard that inter­ ests Lee. The film focuses more on how individuals cope in the isola­ tion of the modern social climate, than on the origins of the storm.

Adults turn away from the realities of their marital voids and find tem­ porary shelter in alcohol, adultery, wife-swapping and the illicit sex of

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swinger parties. Children, too, fail Wag the Dog delivers a schizophrenic to connect on meaningful levels: faced with the polarization of the Harrelson and a heterosexual Heche sexes, they follow their parents and try to form relationships based on crude sexual encounters, booze, drugs and games of “I’ll show you mine if you show me yours.”

The story, although themati­ cally driven, is never facile or preachy. Lee’s directorial style is intricate: he presses together puzzle pieces of the picture, so that the meaning builds slowly. He also underscores the narrative theme with subtle visual counterpoint and beautiful camera work. Each shot emphasizes distance and space: the lighting is cold, the sets sparse; there are few close ups. Helena cooks comfort food for her daugh­ ter and then goes out and leaves her to eat it alone. Ben drives an over­ sized family car throughout the film, but the family never drives in it together, until the end. Every detail accumulates weight until it carries the significance of a sym­ bol. The actual storm, when it comes, provides a sort of cleansing, j breaking down the barriers within and between the two families. The tragic death that it causes serves to bring the survivors emotionally back to life.

The ice storm, when it came for us, had, in retrospect, a similar effect. Admittedly, we, like the characters in The Ice Storm, had our own coping mechanisms ready:

By R ich R etyi make matters worse, the president there are few people for whom the is in the midst of a re-election cam­ Ice ‘98 did not include copious paign and election day is only 12 “With a 29-day production amounts of booze, drugs and illicit schedule and a modest $15 million days away. sex. However, it seemed, for a few budget, Wag the Dog relies on The obvious solution is for days at least, the usually insular intelligent storytelling and genteel political w izard Conrad Brean social climate of a large city was character development to drama­ (D eN iro) and a heterosexual replaced by a climate that forced people into community, conversa­ tize the ultimate whitewash at the Winifred Ames (Heche) to enlist tion and (thankfully) heated movie White House.” At least that’s what Hollywood mogul Stanley Motss the 44-page press packet would (Hoffman) in creating a false war theatres. have you believe. with the nation of Albania using This film stars Dustin state of the art technology. Throw Relive Ice Storm ‘98 from the Hoffman, Robert DeNiro and Anne in the delightful Woody Harrelson, comfort o f a heated theatre. The Heche as the elite team assembled a questionably sober Willie Nelson Ice Storm, directed by Ang Lee, is playing at Cinema Centre-Ville, \ by Washington’s finest. Their job and the first Huey Lewis song is to divert the nation’s attention since Back to the Future 3, and you 4:00 and 9:30p.m. from a nasty situation involving the got yourself a winner. president of the United States, a In the Orwellian scheme of young girl-guide and some serious Wag the Dog, w ill the wits of dick action in the Oval Office. To Motss, Brean and Ames dupe a nation of flag-w aving nincom ­ poops? W ill th eir convoluted schemes backfire or will the presi­ dent die in yet another tragic skiing accident, kissing the frosty bark of an evergreen? This question and many others are answered by this film . What nationality is Jim Belushi? Albanian. What does this film have to do with a dog? Very little. Should you see this film?

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The deadline for subm itting appications is January 28, 1998.

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ative writing students, many of idealized version of Auster himself, whom will turn to his work for an alter ego who corrects the inspiration. Such impressionable hum iliations and defeats of youth will eventually read Hand to Auster’s life with his never-failing Mouth and most of wit and courage. Auster’s obses­ them will undoubt­ sion with the concept of living edly miss his point. through various layers of identity Spurred by the (pen-name and protagonist) went romantic notion of on to factor heavily into City o f suffering for one’s Glass, his greatest work.

Besides telling the stories of art, they will over­ look Hand to Auster’s three “greatest misses” M outh’s true mes­ and parading them for all to see to sage, an explicit (Auster as exniuiuSiiist), w arning to young Mouth also gives us the odd jobs writers: “Turn back endured by the young author over now, while you still the years; the French translation commissions, a stint in the mer­ can.”

The body of chant marines and several ill-fated A u ster’s autobio­ get-rich-quick schemes. This infor­ graphical meditation mation helps shed some light on on “money — and the content of the appendices, as what it means not to well as A uster’s entire body of have it” runs a short work. Hand to Mouth is a ground129 pages. The level critique of late industrial capi­ remaining 320 con­ talism from someone who has done sist of three appen­ time in the trenches.

As a crew member of an Esso dices in which Auster reprints his oil tanker, Auster was privy to not “early failures” in only the personal effects of eco­ their entirety, lend­ nomic exploitation, but also the ing the book a sense ecological atrocity caused by the of novelty for the endless corporate thirst for power.

“As if to prove the essential inhu­ casual reader while making it a “The ugliness was so universal, so deeply connected to the business of manity o f the marketplace, nearly treasure trove for the Auster buff.

Appendix 1 consists of three making money and the power that all its metaphors had been taken from the animal kingdom: dog eat rather mediocre one-act plays that money bestowed upon those who dog, bulls and bears, the rat race, would later develop into such semi­ made it...that I began to develop a survival o f the fittest...If you con­ nal Auster works as The New York grudging respect for it. Get to the struct a world so primitive as to Trilogy and The Music o f Chance. bottom of things, I told myself, and make Darwin your leading philoso­ A detailed description and deck of this was how the world looked.” pher and Aesop your leading poet, cards for Action Baseball, Auster’s A u ster’s sentim ents are later attempt to cash in on the lucrative echoed in Squeeze Play by what else can you expect?” tabletop card game market, makes Detective Max Klein during a com­ As far as writers of hard litera­ up the whole o f A ppendix 2. mute through industrial New ture go, Paul Auster is, financially Squeeze Play, a straightforward Jersey.

Paul Auster is a rare beast: an speaking, one of the “top dogs.” hard-boiled detective novel in the Auster pulls in considerably less tradition of Chandler and Hammett important contemporary literary cash than Stephen King or Tom is perhaps the most revealing of the figure who remains compulsively readable, regardless of how deeply Clancy, but no longer has to take three appendices.

Squeeze Play is a self-con­ one chooses to read into his texts. outside work to finance his art. It has been estim ated that, in our sciously commercial piece of pulp, All of A uster’s work, from his multi-media age, the audience for a last-ditch effort by Auster (writ­ B osnia-tinted fiction In The the written word as art (as opposed ing under a pseudonym) to dig Country o f Last Things to The to entertainm ent) hovers some­ himself out of an ever-widening Music o f Chance (recently given where around 50,000. Thus, until financial hole. (“I wound up mak­ the Hollywood treatment) begin recently, Auster’s greatest impact ing a grand total of nine hundred and end as great adventure stories; on the public consciousness has dollars...So much for writing books each can be read, cover to cover, in been in the form of a screenplay for to make money. So much for sell­ a single afternoon. Cultural studies the brilliant, low-budget Harvey ing out.”) Reading Squeeze Play’s and lit crit zombies can also have a watered-down prose after having field day with A uster’s books, Keitel film Smoke.

Recently, Auster received the experienced the lyrical art of which which always stand up to intense dubious distinction of being select­ Auster is capable, is a bittersweet scrutiny. Hand to Mouth, along ed for Norton’s Anthology o f Post­ (if entertaining) lesson in the strug­ with Squeeze Play, is a fine inter­ section of the readable and the modern Am erican Prose. An gle between art and commerce.

Combined with the autobio­ “deep.” Check out City o f Glass excerpt of his City o f Glass (in two forms: the original text and David graphical content of Hand to first, however, for Auster’s best Mazzuchelli’s comic adaptation) Mouth (and augmented by a pass­ work, as well as some valuable finds itself among such literary ing knowledge of Auster’s oeuvre), insight into both texts. company as William S. Burroughs, Squeeze Play, at first glance a — Kris Michaud Art Spiegelm an and Douglas cliché-ridden piece of noir, takes Coupland. Auster’s canonization on spectacular dimensions. Max ensures that he will find a twenty- Klein, our tough-as-nails protago­ first century audience of young cre­ nist, is instantly recognizable as an Paul Auster

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Hand to Mouth: A Chronicle o f Early Failure Henry Holt and Company

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Spin Underground USA Vintage Ever get stuck in one of those lame-ass sightseeing tours of the U.S.? “Oh, look, the state capital building...wow.” Everyone knows that visiting all but a couple of North America’s cities for high culture or historical interest is real dry; hell, if th at’s what you’re after, cross a fucking ocean. What does make the States worth the trip is the youth culture and th at’s Spin exactly what the Underground USA book aims to make available to you.

The selection of cities is smart: you got yer major rockin’ metropoli (NYC, SF, Seattle), plus the lesser-known but active college scenes like Austin and Chapel Hill and a few other real fun places like Memphis and New Orleans. You can definitely learn quite a few things from this book, like where to buy records and clothes, dance in the hippest clubs, drink in the

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best bars (assuming you’re 21) and even find cheap eats and sleeps. I even learned some inside stuff about my hom etown of W ashington D.C.; none of my teenage, suburban, dum b-ass friends were interested in exploring the nitty-gritty of the city.

There are a few problems with this book: #1: No maps! #2: There’s almost nothing on rock history (If you want to know that, check out Fodor’s Rock n ’ Roll USA). #3: It needs more about underground travel, like how to panhandle if you run out of money or what to serve up to your new hobo buddies as you travel coast-to coast stowed away in a freight car. #4: W here do you go to get drugs?!?

Despite these omissions, this book is enough if all you’re look­ ing to do is hang with the hipster locals.

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N o d o w n to w n lig h ts. N o th in g b u t M a n , W o m an a n a the e le m e n ts (Ice, F ire ...a n d B o o ze).

T rib u n e E n te rta in m e n t a sk e d M c G ill the o b v io u s q u e stio n :

“How did you entertain yourself during Ice Storm ‘98?”

Amy: U2 Computer science

Allison: U2 Cultural studies

Cindy: U3 Physiology

Darren: U3 M anagem ent

Sabrina: Form er M cGill student

“I watched a candle burn and helped my brother recover from TV withdrawal.”

“I got fucked over by Air Canada and was stuck in Boston for 6 days. I stuck it to Air Canada to give me a free hotel room and housed two other women who were left stranded by the airline.”

“I worked for St. John’s Ambulance organizing volunteers for a shelter providing food and medical care for elderly people who were weakened by the storm.”

“I was house hopping. You really begin to like the grandparents until the power comes back on. Then it’s like, ‘see ya.’”

“I housed 10 people in my house in Chateaugay where we cooked over hot coals and heated our bath water on the stove. We are in a North American country but we lived like refugees.”

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Martlet track and field runs over competition at McGill Invitational

By Ian B ies The McGill Fieldhouse played host to the 1998 McGill University Invitational Track & Field Meet this past Saturday.

The event featured athletes from 13 Canadian and U.S. schools as well as members of the Belgium Seniors team and the Quebec track team.

The McGill men’s team fin­ ished a solid fourth in the competi­ tion, while the Martlets placed a close second to the squad from the University of W estern Ontario.

Overall, W estern won the team competition, but a strong showing from McGill earned them second place honours. Queen’s, York and Sherbrooke rounded out the top five.

For the Redmen, there were many performances of note, includ­ ing a second place finish for the 4X800m relay team and a second place finish for Max Oates in the triple jump. Oates, a Master’s stu­ dent in Psychiatry, is one of the team’s co-captains. He has distin­ guished himself in this event by winning the gold medal at the last three QSSF championships and has also received medals in each of the past three CIAU championships, including a silver medal last year.

However, it was the Martlets who ruled the outing, placing admirably in numerous events and recording several first place finish­ es.

“The girls are doing awesome,

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but the guys are catching up,” country team and was named a first noted team m ate Andrezej team All-Canadian after taking Kozakiewicz. bronze at the CLAUs. For the track O utstanding perform ances team, she has dominated distance came from M arie H ildebrand, B rigitte Bigras, Tambra Dunn and G retchen Demoulin.

Hildebrand, a three year veteran of the M artlet squad, captured gold in the 300m and silver in the 60m hurdles. In addition, Hildebrand competed in the 600m and was a mem­ ber of both the 4X200m and 4X400m relay teams.

Hildebrand’s results earned her athlete of the meet hon­ ours.

B igras, a biochem student in her second year with the team, also had a big day, winning both the long jump and the triple jum p. B igras’ efforts included attaining CIAU standard in the triple jump.

Team co-captain Tam bra Dunn won the 1,500m in impressive fashion, beating her nearest competitor by nearly eight seconds and setting a new McGill Fieldhouse track record of 4:29.05.

Dunn, who hails from St. Bruno, Quebec, has been the wom en’s MVP the past two seasons. In the fall semester, she compet­ Hildebrand takes silver in 60m hurdles ed for the McGill cross­

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Redmen Hockey hosts York F rid a y 7 :3 0 p m M c C o n n e ll A re n a

The teams The Redmen are on a bit of a slide of late. They are winlcss in three, including losses to Ottawa last Wednesday and UQTR on Friday.

McGill will play Concordia tonight before hosting the Friday night match-up. York has also had problems. Ranked tenth in the country last week, the team dropped a 9-5 game to RMC and tied the lowly Queen’s team last weekend.

Key Actors Mathieu Darchc and David Gourde have been strong on offence for the Redmen thus far; Darche leads the team in scoring, while Gourde netted the only goal in McGill's 8-1 loss to UQTR. David Butler had a strong game against Ottawa last week.. In goal, Jarrod Daniel had a tough game in Trois Rivières, but has been consistently strong. York boasts a trio of top scorers. Johnny Brdarovic and Mike Williams are tied for the national lead in scoring; Sasha Cucuz is not far behind in fifth. Goaltender Bobby Decosta holds a respectable 3.25 GAA.

Red & White Night Friday’s game will be another Red & White night, with contests tak­ ing place in both intermissions, including human bowling. Prizes from Annies, Second Cup and Alto’s are up for grabs. Also, admission, beer, and coke & hot dog are each $2.

events, winning four golds at last year’s QSSF Championships. To round out the Martlet domination of distance events, Dunn’s team­ mate Gretchen Demoulin captured gold in the 3,000m.

The M artlets also captured gold in the 4X400m and silver in the 4X800m relays.

The team ’s success can be attributed to the training camp they attended in San Diego over the winter break.

“It was ju st great, we trained every d ay ,” said Tong Wu, who ran the 60m sprint and the 4X200m relay.

He added that the squad was able to put in some good work on their tech­ nique and that it was a great oppor­ tunity for them to come together as a team.

In addition to competing against other athletes, com­ petitors must keep an eye on the CIAU standards. In order to qualify for the Rebecca C atching year-end CIAU

Track & Field Championships, cer­ tain pre-determined standards must be met or surpassed. During the m eet, Dunn, Bigras and the women’s 4X400m relay team all accom plished this and assured themselves of a place at the CIAUs which are to be held March 13-14 in Windsor.

Competition is traditionally stiff at the National Championships. While McGill has won most of the QSSF Provincial Championships in the past fifteen years, their best ever showing at CIAUs is fourth for the women and eighth for the men. “ In the provincials, i t ’s Sherbrooke,” sprinter Matt Lee said of McGill’s main local compe­ tition. In terms of national compe­ tition, he pointed out that McGill never really gets a chance to com­ pete against the schools out west during the regular season, but that in term s of O ntario schools, “Western, Queen’s and Waterloo all look really good.”

The team, however, is opti­ mistic that they’re headed for a strong showing throughout the rest of this season in preparation for the National Championships.

“We’re hanging in there,” said Kozakiewicz. “I think we have a really strong team this year.”

Lee echoed K ozakiew icz’s sentiments noting, “we’re doing pretty good — we’ve had a lot of winners, just like today.”

Redmen drop another to UQTR

By Paul C onner Four games, four losses.

The R edm en’s 8-1 loss to L ’Université du Québec a Trois R ivières last Friday night put another black mark on the squad's head-to-head match ups so far this year. Otherwise, the team has only one loss in 12 games, respectable for any team, but surprising for this one. After losing six of the team’s seven top scorers from last season, no one expected much this year. But Martin Raymond’s club has worked a tight system and shut down almost everyone — except the UQTR Patriotes.

Against the top team in the division, the Redmen are now 0-4 in regular season play and have allowed 29 goals while scoring just two. Amazingly, McGill was only one point behind les Patriotes in the overall standings going into the game. Friday’s match-up, how­ ever, showed that a significant rift in level of play exists between these two teams. McGill did not play a poor game; they were sim­ ply outclassed.

Two weeks ago, Raymond explained why UQTR has owned his team so far this season.

“This year, Trois R ivières

seems to be taking advantage of the fact that they’ve had a lot of success against us in the past, and for some reason this year it has been overemphasized somehow,” he said. “They seem to ju st be playing really well and capitalizing on all their chances right away.”

He could equally have summed up this latest game in the same manner.

UQTR jumped out to a quick 3-0 lead in the first and rolled from there.

The pace was controlled by les Patriotes in the opening frame, showing the difference between the two teams with consistently crisp passes in the offensive zone.

All three goals were scored from close range on goal tender Jarrod Daniel. The majority of the team’s 19 shots in the frame were from within five feet of Daniel on the glove side.

“Technically, especially in the first period, we got outplayed,” noted Raymond. “But as much as we got outplayed in the first, I thought we outplayed them in the second.”

McGill played a strong mid­ dle period, outshooting UQTR 1410 with some help from power play opportunities. Despite seven

minutes with the man advantage, however, the Redmen only man­ aged one goal; a low glove-side snap by Dave Gourde off of a pass from Luc Fournier in the comer.

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Coming up this week Redmen hockey:Tuesday at Concordia, 7pm, Friday vs. York 7:30pm, Saturday vs. Laurentian 7:30pm.

Martlet Basketball: Tuesday at Concordia 6pm.

Redmen Basketball: Tuesday at Concordia 8pm.

Martlet Hockey: Tuesday vs M iddlebury 4:30pm, Friday at St. Laurent 7:30pm Martlet Volleyball: Friday vs.

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Basketball Martlets dealing with flight turbulence

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The McGill Martlet basketball team continued to struggle last weekend as they lost back-to-back games to the Bishop’s Gaiters and les Rouge et Or de Laval by scores of 68-67 and 74-57 respectively.

The M artlets faced Laval Saturday night, looking to rebound from the heart-breaking defeat they had suffered the previous evening in Lennoxville. Unfortunately for the Martlets, however, all that was rebounding on Saturday were their shots off of what appeared to be a shrunken rim. Despite creating at least as many good shot opportuni­ ties as their opponents, the Martlets lacked the momentum to follow through, converting a mere 30.6 per cent of their field goal opportu­ nities of the evening.

“Today’s game was a lot bet­ ter than yesterd ay’s (against Bishop’s), because we had a lot of good shot o p p o rtu nities,” said Anne Gildenhuys. The forward led the Martlets with 22 points on the night, and leads the Quebec University Basketball Conference in scoring with an average of 20.7 points per game.

“We just couldn’t get the ball to drop, and when you combine

thing. We never decided that with the fact that we what we were going to do were giving up the easy and never got into a com­ lay-ups at the other fort zone.” end,then it causes you The losses to Laval problems,” Gildenhuys and B ishop’s dropped explained.

McGill to a 3-6 record and Martlet head coach left them in-last place, four Lisen Moore was disap­ points behind B ishops’s pointed with the team’s with a game in hand. The efforts against Laval, cit­ result was a tightening up ing a general lack of of the league standings: offensive execution and spots for first, second and poor hustle on defence third are up for grabs as the as the cause of the teams head into the playoff team’s recent troubles. stretch. Now, at the “If y o u ’re only halfway point of the sea­ going to make forty, son, the M artlets find maybe forty-four percent of your shots anyway, them selves two games short of their targeted posi­ why would you lower tion, and are looking to get that percentage by not back on track. concentrating,” reflected Part of the team ’s M oore. “If you d o n ’t problem seems simply to have the ball in your be a case of growing pains. hand, your body still The younger players who works -— unfortunately play such a pivotal role on for us our bodies didn’t this team need tim e to work very well because m ature and learn that it our heads weren’t there. will take an effort of 100 "We had the same per cent game in and problem s [Friday] Rebecca Catching game out in order to be against Bishop’s — we Martlets struggle at home didn’t show up mentally successful at the CIAU half down by 12 and we hadI to I play level. and we got our butts kicked in the chase, and I mean chasing everyfirst half. Tonight we went into the Coach Moore believes that the

team is capable of achieving a lot more, and is optimistic about the second half of the season.

“Overall, we are now seriously looking at what it’s going to take to get into the playoffs. We don’t care if it’s second or third place because we are going to have to play on the road anyway,” said Moore. “What it’s going to take to get there is for people to be a little bit more con­ sistent and that means that a young team has to mature. I think we’re harping on people an awful lot but we are still a young basketball team.”

Moore’s optimism is shared by the players, who believe that as long as they maintain their morale, the playoffs are well within their reach.

“Obviously it’s hard not to be winning,” said Martlets point guard Alison Schafer. “But we’re close as a team and we try to stick together.

The people that are up try to bring up the people who are down and we try to keep the team spirit high, do things together and stay close as a team. That’s the best we can do right now.”

McGill Redmen return home to tough defeat against Laval

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The ice storm of ‘98 affected everyone in one way or another; the Redmen basketball team was certainly not spared. The team lost 70-68 to the Laval Rouge et Or last Saturday in a game that was rescheduled because of the ice storm.

The tangible effect of the ice storm was that the McGill sched­ ule would be slightly altered, but the in tan g ib le fa cto r was the Redm en having to spend five days with no access to any gym during the storm. In a sport so dependant on rhythm and regular­ ity, five days without basketball can seem like an eternity to a team. c In the re sch ed u led gam e against Laval, McGill jumped out

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to a 7-0 lead, but five minutes in, the Rouge et Or began to press and the Redmen started to turn the ball over.

“The coaches prepared us for the press; we knew w hat was coming, we knew exactly what they were going to do, but we didn’t execute the way we were ta u g h t to ,” said A ri H unter, McGill’s freshmen guard.

McGill countered the strong pressure from Laval by playing a powerful post game and crashing the boards against their under­ sized opponents. This aggressive play in the paint was coupled by McGill’s continued foul trouble, as the Redmen picked up their seventh foul at 9:22 of the first half.

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score, the Rouge et Or depended exclusively on speed and quick passing.

Laval spent the first half throwing half court pass­ es to guard R ich ard L épine and fo rw ard M arc-O livier B essette, who scored ten and seven points respectively in the first half, on their way to a 38-30 halftime lead.

C o n tin u in g w hat seems like a them e for Redmen basketball, the h alftim e horn was the signal for McGill to start play. A lthough the Rouge et Or lead would swell to 12 at 11:30 of the second half, ten sec­ onds later Hubert Davis w ould score his first p o in ts and the tu rn ­ around began. Davis was held scoreless by Laval in the first half, but would proceed to score eleven points in the last eleven minutes.

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Laval’s press start­ ed to break down and began getting called for fouls at mid-court. They w ere also fo u lin g M cG ill players on the way to the hoop, and w ith in fiv e m inutes McGill led 64-63. The lead bounced back and forth until 1:21 left in the game when Pascal Morin drove to the bas­ ket and scored; howev­ er, he ran into Redmen forward Brady Murphy and was called for the ch arg e and M cG ill m aintained the fragile one point lead.

W ith 7.6 seconds left on the clock Laval’s Richard Lépine drove to the basket on Murphy, and c o n v e rted w hile being fo u led . L épine went to the line and hit the free throw to ice the game for Laval 70-68.

The loss drops Rebecca C atching McGill’s record to 3-6, but the team continues to show incredible resiliency in the second half.

“I hope we can put tw o halves to g eth er,” said Hunter, who led all sco rers w ith 19 points. “It has been a tendency to play twenty minutes instead of forty and then try and dig our way out.”

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The Trib’s all-inclusive do-it-yourself sports movie script In 1940, wily corporate execu­ tives at MGM studios begot the truly formulaic Knute Rockne: All Am erican. Hollyw ood looked earnestly at its work and saw that it was good.

In nearly sixty years, the for­ mula hasn’t broken and no one consequently has seen fit to fix it.

So, despite the fact that in that time frame a World War was fought and resolved, the Cold War began and ended, a man was placed on the Moon, and McGill actually fielded a winning football team, Hollywood has continued to recycle the same basic sports recipes with a fervor that even G reenpeace would find alarming. Consequently, the clichés and banal storylines so typical of sports films have spread faster than mono at a make-out party resulting in three elemental but distinct sto­ rylines.

As winter makes its presence felt, Hollywood is again beginning

to heat up with the production of a roster of sports movies slated for its summer review.

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ly entertaining or as deeply insight­ ful as Bad New Bears Go to Tokyo?' Not to worry; your film will practically write itself. Luckily for you, sports m ovies contain more recurring patterns than a fab­ ric store, and I ’ve docum ented them all. Simply sprinkle your script with an “over-the-top cur­ mudgeonly manager,” an “aging boxer who lives by his fists in and

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A dow n-and-out (football/hockey/basketball/baseball) team full of oddball screw-ups makes a run for the cham pionship when their unconventional (coach/manager/promoter/owner) instructs his players to behave like animals during their matches. But first, they must overcome (league restrictions/backwater corruption/their plotting manager/a “B” movie script). Hilarity ensues, with great sight gags and cameo appearances by a host of sports greats.

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Top Ten Reasons the Redmen ally gifted (boxer/pitcher/sprinter/ Hockey Squad Can’t Beat UQTR basketball-playing dog) battles alcohol, his past and life threaten­ 10. Unfair use of the Zamboni ing (H odgkin’s disease/cancer/ in the crease. goons/piles) in an attempt to rise 9. Want to do their best to bol­ above his detractors and return to ster Quebec Nationalism. (the ring/the court/the field/rock 8.

More concerned with land­ bottom) one last time before he ing their triple reverse sow cows passes (away/into the night/the lead than in scoring goals. car/gas). Filled with life, hope and 7. Trois Rivière’s special cloak (com passion/a fem ale punter/ of invisibility makes trapping shameless product endorsements/ defense all but futile. clichés), this sentimental tale cap­ 6. It would probably just end tures the essence of up hurting UQTR’s feelings any­ (sport/life/love/redundancy). how.

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The blonde in Row 17C is rious past, who will stop at nothing awfully distracting. to realize his dream, guides his 4.

Are you kidding me? Most undisciplined but scrappy teams would kill for this type of (team/track crew/mule/abs) into consistency! shape and victory through a barn­ 3.

Just two more losses and the storming athletic tour. Along the trip to Havana is theirs! way, they learn about life, friend­ 2.

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Redmen constantly getting room speeches/steroids). their tongues stuck to the net.

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Rookie team shows signs fo r a brighterfuture in m en’s volleyball

By Sanjeet Singh Saluia The Redmen volleyball team was pum m elled by the highly ran k ed v o lley b all club from U niversité de Sherbrooke last Saturday at the Currie Gym. While McGill did have some good runs during the match, their all too predictable offence, poor reception and a large share of unforced errors would kill any bit of momentum they tried to create.

The Redmen squad was swept in three straight sets by scores of 15-4, 15-5 and 15-6.

While the Redmen have not won a m atch this season, it is encouraging that the m ajority rookie team (in fact, only two members from last year’s team have returned to play) is improv­ ing. With his players possessing

little university-level experience, C oach Jose R ebelo has been given the difficult task of imple­ m enting the Redmen offensive and d efen siv e schem es.

Furthermore, many of these play­ ers are having to become accus­ tomed to a new style of play and positions they have not normally competed in.

Keeping all this in mind, this team is showing some positive signs. While their service recep­ tion is not great, their backcourt defence is quite good. Their real strength, how ever, is in th eir blocking; the men got a hand on practically every ball.

“W e’ve been concentrating on defence at the net. I have some pretty tall guys and I felt that would be the place to build my defen ce a ro u n d ,” said C oach

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R ebelo. R ebelo is o p tim istic regarding the future of this club.

“Sure, we are not contenders right now, but our future is look­ ing good,” he continued. “These guys are all rookies and they are doing well. The team just needs a little bit of help. We are concen­ trating on defence right now, and w ith the new people I have recruited who will be with us next year, we’ll be on our way to contention for the title. Maybe not today, but soon.”

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Broncos victory won on the line and not in the limelight Elway and D avis were not the only heroes in Sunday’s ground breaking AFC Super Bowl victory

By Franklin R ubinstein

For the past two weeks, the Broncos were repeatedly In a game in which the media reminded of the AFC’s past pitted Brett Favre against John failures. Whether it was the Elway, the pundits should have AFC’s turnover-prone ten­ known better. The Super Bowl is dencies or the Class of ‘83s 0-9 reco rd in the Super won in the trenches.

In all o f the p rev io u s 13 Bowl, no conversation ever Super Bowls, the AFC has been m ade m ention o f the dominated on the scoreboard and Broncos’ attributes.

But m aybe the m ost physically m anhandled on the field. W hether the quarterback d isco n certin g discussion was Elway, Dan Marino or even involved the re la tiv e ly Jim K elly, the outcom e has undersized D enver offen­ always been the same — a super sive and defensive lines.

The Packers’ defensive unit dismantling.

Terrell D avis’ scintillating boasted G ilbert Brown, a scampers and Elway’s exit from defensive tackle listed at the contest atop his team m ates’ 345 pounds, but whose real shoulders produced the indelible weight must approach 400 m em ories that will be forever pounds. They had the etched in Super Bowl lore. But NFL’s all-time sack leader httpS/w w w .n fl.c o m a fte r a clo ser ex am in atio n of Reggie W hite. All tolled, Elway's conquest was a result of the offensive line.

Sunday’s classic, it’s the efforts the c o lle c tiv e average D enver co untered plays than physically optim al. of D enver’s offensive line that w eig h t o f G reen B a y ’s ‘big with...gasp...the smallest offen­ Did you even h ear R eggie ugglies’ was an astounding 304 should be hailed as the gam e’s sive line in pro football. Bronco White’s name called on a play? pounds — the NFL’s largest line. crowning achievement.

Unlike previous late-January centre Tom N alen was o u t­ w eighed by approxim ately 60 Sundays, Elway had time to get pounds by Brown. Collectively, set in the p o ck et and let his the unit averaged 15 pounds less receivers’ routes develop. When the protection broke down, he did than the Packer line.

It looked like the ty p ical what a young John Elway did so well earlier in his career — he January snoozer.

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The B roncos b o asted the mance all the more remarkable.

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S u n d ay ’s S uper B owl exhibited many noteworthy per­ formances. Brett Favre played a gutsy game, managing to keep his team in the contest without hav in g his b est stu ff. The P a c k e rs ’ A n to n io Freem an received a pounding after every recep tio n and hung onto the ball. Steve Atwater delivered the aforementioned blows to every Packer (and Bronco) player in sight.

However, it is the D enver offensive line that should receive the bulk of the game’s accolades.

As a group that wasn’t given their due credit, the unit controlled the line of scrimmage and played a memorable football game.

The so-called ‘sk ill’ p o si­ tions are awarded M.V.P. awards and receive the exorbitant amount of dollars doled out each offsea­ son. But maybe it’s time to give the relative worth of offensive linemen a second look. Denver did...and it paid off.

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“I’m still positive,” said cap­ tain Martin Routhier, putting the loss into perspective. “I saw a lot of good things. Even if we lost big

chances, we could have evened up the score, and th at’s where the game was lost,” said Raymond.

“When we had our power plays and they had theirs and they made it 4 -1 ...that was the key factor.

Once they made it to 4-1 it was pretty much over for every­ body. No matter how hard we tried, somehow deep down inside we knew that game was over.”

The third period was a matter of record keeping. The Daniel goes down against Ottawa.

M ik e Bellam y Redm en were deflated, time today, I saw some good, posi­ although to their credit they played tive things on some players. I saw a relativ ely d isciplined game. the fire under some players that I UQTR picked up on every mistake haven’t seen for a while.” and pelted Daniel with shots from After two losses this week, close in. first at home to Ottawa and later in After the game, the Redmen Trois Rivières, the Redmen are in were clearly disappointed. a slump. The team is winless in “We’re all a little frustrated,” three gam es, and w ill have an said Raymond. “No matter how important game Tuesday night at hard we try, we always seem to Concordia. Currently, the Stingers lose games by a big margin against are in fourth place, out of a playoff Trois Rivières. Obviously it’s frus­ spot, but are playing well after

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Briefs Badminton team struggles st U cte M The badminton team recent­ ly com peted in th eir third o f three tournam ents this season S unday at the U n iv ersité de Montréal. McGill placed fourth out o f five team s com peting, resulting in a 1-3 record for the to u rn am en t. The win was notched by an unexpected 3-2 upset over UQTR. McGill finished in last place in the five team Quebec confer­ ence. The Université de Laval, U n iv e rsité de M o n tréal and UQTR compete at Laval for two provincial championship berths on February 7th and 8th.

Split earned by squash team The M cG ill squash team headed to London for an Ontario University Athletics cross-over tournament. McGill matched up against Ontario universities and came away with mixed results.

They defeated M cM aster 4-2, and posted 6-0 victories over Ryerson and the University of Toronto but were trounced 0-6

by Western and 1-5 by Queen’s.

The squash team ’s accom­ p lish m e n ts are even m ore im p ressiv e when taking into consideration the fact that their top two seeds were in Ottawa co m p etin g for the Q uebec provincial team at the in ter­ provincial championships.

R ookie A lliso n G ibbs impressed many in her inaugural matches since she was the only M cGill athlete to win a game against Western.

McGill now stands third in the league behind Western and Queen's.

this T uesday. L eague play resum es on F riday when the Martlets head to St. Laurent to match up against Les Patriotes.

The squad returns Sunday to take on Concordia. The Stingers host a noon start.

Skiing makes strong debut The McGill alpine ski club travelled to Mont Joye for their first competition of the season last weekend. Saturday saw the Martlets notch a gold medal fin­ ish overall with S uzie Owen capturing second place, Janice Hatch taking eighth place, fol­ lowed by a ninth place finish for L eith M cK ay. R ookie LisaMarie Yeates placed 14th.

Saturday the Redmen also came out strong, taking second place overall in the team compe­ tition. The Redmen were led by rookie Patrick Boulva. Boulva took second followed by team­ m ates N ico las R obichon, Desmond Kingsford and Andrew Billord who swept third, fourth and fifth places respectively.

Sunday’s competition once again was successful for the Redmen. Boulva took first place fo llo w ed by team m ates Robichon and Biller who took fifth and sixth. The Martlets had two top ten finishes in Sunday’s competition notched by Owen, who finished sixth, and McKay who placed tenth.

Strong showing in 100m events for McGill swim team The M cG ill sw im team hosted a dual meet against the U n iv ersité de M ontréal last weekend. The team came away with a strong showing, especial­ ly on the deep women's side.

The M artlets were led by Andrea Bacsfalusi in the indi­ vidual events; she won both the 100m and 200m breast strokes.

Holly McComb won the 100m butterfly, while Carol Chiang captured the 200m freestyle. The latter two team ed up tw ice to anchor a pair of winning relay team s. A long w ith T ara Kuchm ak and C hrissy Perry, they took the 4X100m medley.

C hiang and M cC om b also worked with Emily M acGuire and Noel O uelette to win the 4X100m freestyle.

The Redm en also had a strong meet, with Nicolas Martin leading the way with wins in the 100m butterfly and the 100m backstroke. Rookie Erik Shessler won the 400m individual med­ ley; Chris Topham rounded out the gold medal haul with a win in the 200m breast stroke.

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Volleyball has tough weekend

The Martlet volleyball team suffered two back-to-back losses in last w eek en d ’s m atch ups against Sherbrooke and Laval.

The sixth-ranked M artlets were upset by a score o f 3-2 by the unranked V ert et O r de Martlet hockey on a L’Université de Sherbrooke, 1716, 15-4, 13-15, 7-15, 15-10. hot streak Strong efforts were turned in by The M artlet hockey team M arie-Claude Ferland with 19 notched three straight wins last digs, 6 kills and a 2.47 (out of week with a 6-0 blanking o f 3.0) passing ratio and Wendy John A bbott, a 3-1 win over W helan w ith 16 digs and 28 C o lleg e B réb e u f and a 7-0 kills.

The Martlets headed to Ste. tro u n cin g o f N orth C ountry Foy on Sunday to take on first Community College. The wins place Laval. Les Rouge et Or over John Abbott and College took the match 3-1 (15-10, 15Brébeuf were league victories.

10, 2-15, 15-11). Anuk Lapointe F rid a y ’s m atch -up w ith was the player of the game for College Brébeuf was hosted at the Martlets with 12 kills, 5 stuff McConnell Arena and saw the blocks, 2 aces, and a 2.30 pass­ Martlets first win over Brébeuf in th ree years. The M artlets ing average.

The Martlets record dropped jumped on the scoring, leading to 6-4 on the season (25-6 2 - 0 afte r the first period. including tournam ents), good Leading scorer Julie Hornsby enough for second place in the opened up the scoring followed by teammate Fannie Roberge. Quebec division.

M cG ill w ill face the M cGill’s lead was extended to U n iv ersité de M ontréal on 3- 0 in the second with a power Friday in an ice storm make-up play goal from Megan Hewings. gam e and host C oncordia on B rébeuf came back for a last attempt with a goal late in the Saturday. third.

The M artlets next host Middlebury College of Vermont

S p o rts Q u iz The ice storm of the century is over and most of your brains have thawed, so get ready to throw some heat on this week’s sports quiz.

Non-McGill 1. How many years has it been since an AFC conference team last won the Super Bowl before Sunday?

Which team was it?

Part I a) 10 years b) 13 years c) When was Joe Namath playing?

Part II a) The Dolphins b) The Raiders c) The Jets 2. What is the world record for the pole vault? (defined as the highest level at which a human, unaided, has suc­ cessfully crossed over the bar with­ out knocking it over.)

3. Which NHL player had an ESSO commemorative Olympic hockey medallion made but isn’t on the team? a) Mark Recchi b) Mark Messier c) Luke Richardson

Now that you're warmed up, here's the hard stuff: McGill 4. Look closely at the next Redmen hockey home game (this Friday night vs. York). What is the newest addition to the arena? a) New zamboni b) fresh food c) new heaters 5. What is the most popular intra­ mural sport at McGill? How many teams compete?

Parti a) hockey b) ultimate frisbee c) bas­ ketball Part II a) 22 b) 47 c) 65 6. Who is the leading scorer for the Redmen basketball team this year?

Who is the leading rookie scorer?

Choose from these four: a) Hubert Davis b) Matt Watson c) Brady Murphy d) Ari Hunter

A th le te s of th e w e e k

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M a rtle ts track and fie ld

R e d m e n track and fie ld

Hildebrand had a successful weekend, competing at the McGill Invitational Track and Field Meet, taking gold in the 300m and silver in the 60m hurdles. Hildebrand added to her honours by placing 5th in the 600m and running a leg of both the 4X400m and 4X200m relay teams. Hildebrand attained athlete of the meet honours for her efforts and was named the Quebec female athlete of the week.

Oates continued to be a force in CIAU triple jump competitions by finishing in second place at the M cGill Invitational. Last year Oates won a bronze medal at N ationals and is looking to improve upon that mark this year.

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Basketball Men’s Hockey — OUA Far East

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New Brunswick 0) 2.

Alberta (2) 3.

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SCORING (Top 20) Mike Williams, Yor Johnny Brdarovic, Yor Jeff Andrews, UNB Jason Krywulak, Cal Sasha Cucuz, Yor Dax MacLean, UNB Chris Gignac, Win Trevor Ethier, Sas Yanick Evola. SFX Jason Campbell, UNB Daniel Paradis. QTR Matt Hogan, StT Mike Thompson, Alb Guy Loranger, SFX Mike Jickling, Alb Sheldon Moser, Sas Steve Lowe, StT Mike Harding, PEI Ryan Coristine, Win Scott Hillman, Win Russ Hewson, Alb

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A 32 32 35 24 24 17 16 16 19 18 19 16 23 19 21 22 25 13 14 21 9

GOALIES (Top 9) Luc Belanger, QTR Dale Masson, Alb Joe Harris, Wat Ken Carroll, UNB Chris Sharland, Win C.J. Dénommé, Wes Jason Genik, Man Trevor Amundrud, Aca Shawn Silver, SFX

GP 13 13 18 20 18 14 20 17 20

MP 698.42 751.54 1038.47 900.00 1025.43 810.35 1224.20 677.13 1116.35

P 47 47 44 43 42 42 37 34 34 34 33 33 33 32 30 30 30 29 29 29 29 GA 19 32 45 40 47 38 60 36 58

In view of the fact that the Tribune has not pub­ lished since before the exam period, here is a short recap of the action of the past month and a half:

Redm en hockey After completing the first h a lf of the season w ith a respectable 7-3-2 regular sea­ son record, the Redmen trav­ elled to Slovakia for ten days over the break. The team lost all three of its games and had a little trouble with the lan­ guage After returning, the team had its first games cancelled because of the ice storm. The next weekend, the team host­ ed Queen’s, winning 8-4, and RMC, tying 3-3.

Last week, the team lost 4-2 to Ottawa, and had a 5hour trip to UQTR Friday night before losing 8-1.

R eflectin g on the Ice Storm and last week’s snow barrage, team members sug­ gested that they might have been b etter o ff staying in Slovakia.

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A fter a 3-4 start, the Martlet basketball team took their break in Toronto at the women’s Basketball Festival Tournament. Like the men’s hockey team, they dropped all three of their games, to Victoria, York, and Alberta.

The team had only two games before last weekend’s match-ups, a 67-60 loss to a strong York team and a 75-57 loss to Laurentian January 17.

Rescheduled games included last Saturday against Laval and another which will be made up in early February.

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M irroring the women, the Redm en stood at 3-4 entering the break. As the New Year began, M cGill’s players found themselves in Havana, Cuba, for a pair of m atches against under-22 team s. M cG ill lost both encounters, 70-43 and 63-53.

January 16, the team lost 64-61 to York; the next night, they dropped the game against Laurentian 69-63.

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27 January 1998 Adm ission (includes museum visit) $7. Limited seating, reserva­ tions required, 398-7100 ext. 234.

Tuesday, January 27 Free energy lecture at Concordia University. A discussion of the ideas of free energy tech­ nologies and its social, economic and environmental impact. Free energy is the development of tech­ nologies that are a renewable form of energy production that is cost effective, non-polluting and inde­ pendent of natural resources. No cover. C oncordia Hall bldg, at 4:30p.m . For further info, http://bohr.concordia.ca/cpsa/ Wednesday, January 28 Post Abortion Support Group — come to talk, listen or for sup­ port. Tonight at 7:30 p.m. in Shatner 423. (meetings every sec­ ond and fourth Wed of each month) Questions? Call Emma at 398-6823.

LBGTM ’s Bisexual Group m eet in the W om en’s Union (Shatner 423) at 5:30 p.m. Both men and women alike are invited to join the friendly discussion.

The D epartm ent for Developing Areas Studies presents Mr. Kwadwo A ppiagyei-A tua, Ph.D. Candidate, who will speak on “The Human Rights implica­ tions of the O peration of Developmental non-governmental organizations in Africa.” Seminar room, 3715 Peel from 12:30 to 2.

Call 398-3507 January 28 to 31, Opera M cGill presents A driadne auf Naxos by Richard Strauss with the M cGill Symphony O rchestra.

Timothy Vernon conducts. Pollack Hall, 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $20 and $12 (students and seniors).

Thursday, January 29 Tonight at 6:30 p.m., LBGTM’s Womyn’s Group meets in the Women’s Union (Shatner 423). Drop by, say what’s on your mind, etc.

At 1:00p.m ., LBGTM ’s Coordinating Group will meet in Shatner 429 to plan events for the winter term and for Pride Week.

Everyone is welcome to attend.

Friday, January 30 McGill's third annual Queer Pride and Awareness week gets started today and goes until Feb. 6.

Lots of activ ities planned!

Volunteers and new ideas are more than welcome. Give LBGTM a call at 398-6822.

At 5:30, LBGTM’s Coming Out group will meet in the base­ ment of UTC (3521 University).

Don’t be shy to come to this group as everyone is in the same situation as you and the group is very friend­ lyMonday, February 2 Noon Hour Organ Recital Series, today at 12:15 p.m. in Redpath Hall, free admission.

At 5:30 p.m ., LBGTM ’s Coming Out Group meets in the basem ent of UTC (3521 University, corner Milton). Don’t be shy to come to come to this group as everyone is in the same situation as you and the group is very friendly.

LBGTM’s Men’s Discussion Group meets in the basement of UTC (3521 U niversity, corner Milton) at 7:00 p.m.

McGill Choral Society will be presenting Handel’s Messiah at 8 p.m. in St.Patrick’s Basilica (460 Rene-Levesque W.). Tickets are $ 6 for students and $ 8 for non-stu­ dents. They can be purchased in advance at Gert’s, Sadie’s or call 398-6814.

Opera McGill and the McGill Early Music Department Present G.F. HandekGiulio Cesare with the McGill Baroque Orchestra. Tickets are $ 12, $ 10 for students and seniors.

Today is International Buy Nothing Day! This is a.24 hour moratorium on consumer spending, It is a response to Western greed and overconsumption. Don’t buy anything, give something away, etc. For more info, call Mike or Craig at QPIRG (398-7432).

Upcoming and Ongoing The Centre for Developing Area Studies is launching its Brown Bag Series on International Development. On Feb. 4, the film “Modern Heroes, Modern Slaves” will be shown at 7:30p.m. at 3715 Peel. For more info call 398-3507.

Every W ednesday: M cGill Improv. performs live improvisational comedy in the Alley Cats Bar (basement of Shatner building) 8:30 p.m., free admission.

ing the person and a brief descrip­ tion of their wish (ie. meet a partic­ ular star who might be in Mtl., see a professional athletic event from a good seat, spend the day in a rela­ tively close city...) Send letters to Sun Youth O rganization, 4251 St.Urbain St. Mtl., Quebec, H2W 1V6, attention: “A Senior’s Wish Project.”

M ontage is now accepting submissions for its 1997-98 issue.

Submissions can be placed in the Montage box in the Arts Porter’s office until Jan., 13, 1998. We encourage all those interested to attend our regular meetings every 2nd Tuesday at 4:30 p.m. in Arts 235. See the blackboard in the Arts building for details.

The McGill Novel Student’s Society will be holding it’s next meeting on Thurs. Dec., 4 at 5 p.m. in Thom pson House (1st floor lounge). The novel is Orlando, by Virginia Woolf.

The McGill Debating Union meets twice weekly, Monday at 6 p.m. in Shatner rm. 312 and on Friday at 5:30 p.m. in Leacock rm.

15. Come to watch and/or partic­ ipate in exciting debates on a vari­ ety of issues and events.

The M cGill Dom estic Violence Clinic offers a treatment group for men who abuse their partners. The group meets weekly on Tuesday evenings from 6 p.m. 8 p.m.. There is a small fee. For info, please contact Keith Hecker or Beverly Sabourin at 398-2686.

Toastmasters International’s Moderator Club presents, every Tuesday at 6:15 p.m. a chance for you to learn and practice tech­ niques of effective public speaking.

Admission is $ 5. Seminars to take place at 2070 Peel St. For more info, call 528-8659.

Every Saturday: Free improvisational workshops with McGill Improv. Come and play games for 2 hours! Meet at noon by the kiosk in the Shatner lobby.

The Elder Abuse Info-Line, sponsored by the CLSC ReneC assin U niversity, Institute of Social Gerontology of Quebec, is recruiting bilingual volunteers to operate a listening, information and referral telephone service for seniors who are victims of abuse or neglect. Free specialized training is offered. C ontact K atherine Macnaughton-Osler at 488-9163, ext. 360.

A FREE support group for women who are involved, or have been involved in a violent relation­ ship (dating or marriage). Meetings are informal and confidential. The place is safe and secure. Individual counselling services are also avail­ able for women and their children.

For info, please contact Melissa G oldband at M cGill Dom estic Violence Clinic - 398-2686.

The Accom panim ent Programme of the Sexual Assault Centre of McGill Students’ Society can provide information, support and accompaniment services to members of the McGill community who have been sexually harassed or assaulted in a McGill context.

For more info, please call 3982700 (daytim e) or 398-8500 (evenings).

Sun Youth inaugurates a Senior’s Wish Project! People aged 60 or over, regardless of income who are interested in benefiting from their program, or persons who know a senior who can, are invited to write them a brief letter includ­

An illustrated lecture at the McCord Museum! In conjunction with the exhibition Les Paradis du Monde, guest curoator Pascale Galipeau will discuss the three uniquely different collections that make up this presentation.

Amnesty International will hold its annual Write-a-Thon from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Feb 3 in Shatner 108. For more info, contact Liz at 845-2430.

GAY LINE: Information and help for lesbians and gay men.

Confidential and free. We can help with a personal crisis or simply help find a bar. 7 - 1 1 p.m., 365 days a year. (514) 866-5090 in Montreal or call us toll free at 1888-505-1010.

JHUST (Jews for a Humanist Secular Tradition) invites children ages 4-9 to p articipate in our HAVERIM (friends) program every second Sunday at Centre Greene from 10:30 a.m.- 12:30 p.m. Your child will have fun learning about Jewish holidays and traditions from a secular perspec­ tive. Songs, arts & crafts, Hebrew, holiday celebration, stories, games, Israeli dancing, snacks. $10 per child. Upcoming dates: Nov. 16th, and 30th. Call 484-5033.

FREE McGill Bereavement Support Groups are being offered through the M cGill School of Social W ork for adults, children/adolescents, young adults, and family survivors of suicide.

New groups for 1997 include “Motherless Daughters” and “Loss of an Adult Child.” Anyone who is experiencing any type of loss including the loss of a family member or friends, please contact Estelle Hopmeyer at 398-7067.

Going for an HIV test? Peer Health Education is looking for individuals for an audio broadcast project that would be comfortable sharing their experience. Please call Darrell at 398-6017.

The Atheist, Agnostic, and Secular Humanist Society meets every Thursday at 7:30 p.m. in Shatner, rm. 435. Come and dis­ cuss issues such as church-state separation and non-religious ethics in a relaxed and open atmosphere.

LBGTM (Lesbian, B isexual, Gay and T ransgender Students of McGill) are seeking volunteers to facilitate our Womyn’s and Bisexual discussion groups. If you are interested, please call the LBGTM office at 3986822 or stop by Shatner 429 in person.

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Disorder Unit is a multi-discipli­ nary unit that includes: individual/group counselling, medical assessment, nutrition consultation, psycho-educational groups and support groups. Call 398-3601 for info about fees and appointments.

Support groups are free of charge to McGill and non-M cGill stu­ dents. Call 398-1050.

The McGill Eating Disorder Support Group open to all students 18 years and up in Montreal. There is no fee and no need to sign up.

Just show up Thursdays from 9:00 to 10:00 p.m. at the Newman Centre, 3484 Peel St. For more information, please call 398-1050.

The McGill Eating Disorder support groups are available to both McGill and non-McGill stu­ dents, FREE OF CHARGE. We offer a variety of support groups for students with eating disorders as well as body image groups for those who wish to learn about and improve their body image. We also offer support groups for partners and friends of individuals with an eating disorder. For more informa­ tion, please call Jessica Schwarz at 398-1050.

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