The McGill Tribune Vol. 17 Issue 23

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Aboriginal House opens B y C h r is t in e P r it c h a r d

An Ojibway elder burnt sage, a traditional medicine, at the offi­ cial opening of McGill’s House for First Peoples on March 20. A cir­ cle was formed and every person present was smudged with smoke before elder Sarah Sabourin blessed the rest of the house.

Principal Bernard Shapiro, V ice-P rincipal A cadem ic Bill Chan and other members of the administration as well as Quebec Deputy Education Minister Yvon Palchat joined native students, community members and McGill faculty and students in the opening ceremony. Although McGill has long lagged behind other Canadian universities in offering services to native students, both M cG ill’s administration and students recog­ nize that the' First Peoples House is a late attempt to reach out to the native community.

M cGill C hancellor G reta Chambers spoke at the opening ceremonies and admitted McGill’s prior lack of action in establishing a centre aimed at serving the needs of native students.

“It’s about time,” Chambers stated. “[But] it’s been gratifying to see it take shape.”

Martha Crago, now the VP of Graduate Studies, first came up with the proposal for the First Peoples House at McGill back in 1992. When Rosalie Jukier became Dean of Students in 1995 she took the initiative under her jurisdiction, obtained the approval of the senior administration and then presented it to the Quebec government.

McGill University supported the First Nations House by provid­ ing the house, a former fraternity conveniently located at 3505 Peel St., and funding its renovations.

The provincial government agreed to support McGill’s efforts and has given the House $50,000 a year for four years to cover start-up costs and the house director’s salary.

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For the thirty McGill student leaders who were invited to see Preston Manning speak last Friday, the hopeful anticipation of getting an audience with the leader of Her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition was met with disappointment.

The day before his meeting at McGill, Manning had bumbled in French to students at Laval universi­ ty, only to have a fleur-de-lyse flag thrust in his arms as a thank-you. The atmosphere at McGill was much more placid; SSMU execs and coun­ cil members decked out in suits and slacks pumped hands with Manning and conceded to small talk prior to the meeting. If Manning was seeking to find a new vehicle to spread his gospel, McGill would prove to be a hard sell. From the outset, he tried to portray Reform as a fresh party with a place for youth.

“I think one of the problems with that House of Commons is that it is living in the past about 80 per cent of the time,” Manning said in his opening remarks. “Any of you who are serious about wanting to get into public life at a relatively young

age, I commend our position to you.... One of the benefits of a newer, younger party is that we sim­ ply aren’t cast in stone — we don’t have all sorts of people lined up to say that they were the vice-president of this...and so they’re going to be the candidate next year.”

Despite claims of being a new political forum, Manning’s ideas appeared to be little more than regur­ gitated Reganomics — cutting spending and taxes as a means to

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Ruel believes that limiting the discussion to transfer payments is short-sighted and misses the point.

“One thing is the size of the transfer payment, but a large part of the problem is where this money is going. He made one comment, ‘We need to make sure this money is get­ ting to the schools’, but he didn’t offer any solutions or any ideas of how this money gets to the schools,” Ruel stated.

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AUS executive hopefuls getting the m essage out in debate B y J en n if er M

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Candidates vying for positions on next year’s Arts Undergraduate Society executive battled it out in a debate on March 16 in the Alley in the hopes of securing votes for next week’s elections.

AUS presidential candidates Heather Bradfield and Xavier Van Chau went head to head, diligently answering questions from both the panel and the floor.

“I want to improve the repre­ sentation for students,” said Bradfield, who is currently AUS VP administration. Besides improv­ ing representation for students, Bradfield wants to create an arts lounge and improve funding for student run programs.

Xavier Van Chau is currently president of the First Year Student Association and his main goal for next year is to improve the visibili­ ty and service of AUS. “To be a leader, you have to be

a servant to the students,” he said when asked what the true role of a leader should be. Van Chau believes that a long term goal is needed to effectively run an organi­ sation as large as AUS. “The president has to be the best man to everyone,” he conclud­ ed.

Race for Internal There are four candidates for AUS VP Internal — Yousuf Aftab, Jo Morrow, Gemma Peralta and Ryan Sommerville. Their ideas are consistent with each other in that they all feel there has to be a change to the current activities held on campus.

“I want to boost student pride,” Aftab said, when asked about moti­ vating student participation. “I want to involve first year students right from the beginning.”

Gemma Peralta wants to create an AUS alternative frosh week “for those who do not drink beer.” She

maintains that the key to getting students out to AUS events is “pub­ licity, publicity, publicity.”

Morrow’s main focus for next year, if elected, is the students.

“We have to listen to the stu­ dents more to be able to do our job more effectively,” she said.

Another one of her main objectives is to find out what students needs are and then fulfil them.

Like others, Somm erville wants to get more people out to events. He said he wants “arts to be the place to be.”

“We have to publicize early for upcoming events,” he stated.

Race for Finance Finally, the position for VP Finance has two contenders. Sami Kamhawi wants to improve the Arts Improvement Fund, while still maintaining communication with students. He believes that “depart­ ment identity is just as important as the AUS.” He also wants to increase revenues by opening a stu­ dent run cafeteria.

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Six teams of students were stung by the McGill Spelling Bee last Tuesday as they competed for prizes and raised money for the McGill Students for Literacy.

The second annual MSL Spelling Bee aims to raise money and awareness for the MSL and its programs. Held in the Alley with six teams and a small crowd pre­ sent, the Bee was considerably smaller than last year’s event.

The MSL, w hich is a stu ­ dents’ society service, is a group of approximately 130 students and a small number of alumni who volunteer their time to offer litera­ cy programs to the Montreal com­ munity. Last year the organization was the victor of SSMU’s Service of the Year award and they have won the award the last four out of five years . The three areas of ser­ vice offered by the MSL are oneon-one tutoring, the reading circle and the Shawbridge project.

The one-on-one tutoring is a service offered primarily to adults.

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Arts Rep to SSMU For Arts R epresentative to SSMU, there are three candidates battling for the two positions open for next year.

Wojtek Baraniak wants to bet­ ter represent arts students as a com­ munity. He believes communica­ tion is the answer.

“We need to create a message and response board, to get peoples opinions on issues,” he said. He maintains that with better commu­ nication between executives and students, the needs of the students will get recognized.

For Danielle Lanteigne “inter­ action is essential.” She wants the arts faculty and students to come out and be heard. She thinks that there has to be a greater student awareness of AUS events on cam­ pus.

If elected as Arts Rep to SSMU, Marc Flynn wants to make sure he’s in touch with the issues people are talking about.

“We have to encourage as much contact with the students as possible,” he stated, when asked what his role should be. He wants to improve current student services such as CAPS so they can have a higher profile amongst students.

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K am hawi’s com petitor is Leslie Litman. She also wants to maximize profits from student-run services such as SNAX. She also wants to use new revenues to increase funding for student-run programs and also look at the possi­ bility of creating AUS student bur­ saries similar to those offered by the Science Undergraduate Society.

“I’m here to work for the stu­ dents — that’s it,” she concluded.

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group of children. Finally, the Shawbridge project enlists a group of MSL volunteers who go to the Shaw bridge Youth and Correctional Facility in order to raise aw areness of literacy amongst the facility’s youths, who range in age from 13 to 19 .

“Every T uesday and T hursday a group o f us go to Shawbridge and play games, help the kids with their homework and ju st hang out with the youth there,” said Jennifer Burland, PR

“ I see th e w o rk the club does with tutoring and go ing around to schools reading and it really is a good cause; m any of the kid s do need help.”

— Nisha Almeida,

MSL volunteer and fundraising co-ordinator for the MSL. The money from the Spelling Bee is going towards the MSL resource library for such things as books and manuals for confer­ ences. Conferences provide a way for members of the MSL to build the skills they need to do their vol­ unteer work. “[The MSL] is affiliated with Frontier College and we attend conferences that they and others host to learn and share experiences about how to be more effective in fighting illiteracy,” said Burland With only six teams partic­ ipating in th is y ear’s Bee, the event was considerably smaller than last year when 17 team s turned out. The fee for entering was $15 for each three person

team and $2 for spectators. Those present generally enjoyed them­ selves and were happy to donate their time and money to the MSL sponsored event.

“I see the work the club does with tutoring and going around to schools reading and it really is a good cause; many of the kids do need help,” said Nisha Almeida, a U1 Science major and MSL vol­ unteer.

“F undraisers like this are important to support these types of organisations — it’s just as impor­ tant to have someone there and to have a support system available for these kids as it is to have these tutoring services,” said Mackinlee Ludwar, a U1 Management stu­ dent and Bee participant.

With first prize being $20 gift certificates to Paragraphe book store for each member of the vic­ torious team, the competition was tight. But the team of “Pinkies and the Brain” made up of members Karim Jeshani, Sid Misra and Ali Potia came out on top.

“I t ’s fun to com e out and spell and the money is going to a good cause,” stated Sid Misra, a U1 computer engineering student.

There was a tie for second place between the “Crac Addicts” and “Power Shift” with each team receiving two pitchers of beer and each team member taking home an MSL t-shirt.

Although slightly disappoint­ ed by the turnout for the event, Burland believes the Spelling Bee was still a success.

“It’s a fundraising event that also serves as an awareness tool to the M cGill community that we exist as an organization. It’s also just a fun event and a good way to bring people together to support the MSL.”

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EUS president alm ost pulls plug on Plum ber's Faucet B y S t e p h a n ie L e v it z

R eaders o f the P lu m b er's F a u cet, the E n g in eerin g Undergraduate Society newspa­ per, may have to w ait a little longer than usual for the next issue — if there is one at all.

The F a u cet’s controversial March 12 issue, featuring a nude picture of SSMU President Tara Newell, has been pulled off the sh elv es under o rd ers from EUS P resid en t Taryn T o m lin so n . P rin tin g the photo of Newell — taken from the Daily’s Women’s issue — is now causing waves within the EUS and increasing debate over whether or not the Faucet’s cur­ rent editors should be allowed to remain at their posts.

The picture of Newell first published in the Daily accompa­ nied an article she wrote concern­ ing body im age and gen d er equality. In the Faucet, the pic­ ture appeared w ith the w ords “C ’mon b oys, show me your stu ff’ in a speech bubble above her head. The picture accompa­ nied an article about the bodies of this y ea r’s SSMU presidential candidates. The EUS contends that the use of the photo violates

th eir publication policy since reprinting not only broke copy­ right law but was also libellous against Newell.

At the March 19 EUS coun­ cil meeting a motion was intro­ duced with the recommendation that the editors of the Faucet be removed from their jobs due to their breach of policy.

reprinting the photo was libellous was shot down when Faucet Editor Jay Fothergill suggested th at council w ould be hard pressed to find an engineering student who actually believed that Newell had spoke the words w hich appeared in the speech bubble. “The photo wasn’t tam­ pered with, we didn’t write any­ thing defam atory about her, so there really couldn’t have been a libel issue,” stated Fothergill.

The Faucet did concede that they had broken copyright law by reprinting the picture. Jessica Lim, the D a ily’s co-ordinating

culture editor responsible for the women’s issue, refused to com­ ment when asked about the issue.

According to Fothergill, the motion to remove Faucet editors from their jobs did not get much support at the meeting. “A lot of amendments came forward to the motion,” he stated. “Some aimed at shooting down the Faucet alto­ gether, and others were guide­ lines for publication.” EUS coun­ cilors did agree that the editors not lose their jobs.

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m e n t, the Faucet has d ecid ed to p rin t an article about the picture and its original purpose in the next issue.

“A lot of engineers probably d o n ’t read the D a ily ,” said F othergill. “We w ant to make them aw are o f w hat the issue behind the picture was.”

This is a perfectly acceptable situation for Newell. “I was only concerned about the picture for

the reason that it was taken out of context. I didn’t want someone who h a d n ’t read the D aily to think I was posing for the Faucet for their article. I trust that the editors of the Faucet will take care of this in the right manner,” she said.

According to Fothergill, the paper meant no harm in printing the picture. “We never meant the photo to disrespect T ara or to underm ine what she originally used it fo r,” said F o th e rg ill.

“Maybe it was just poor judge­ ment.”

For Tomlinson, the issue is more than poor judgement. In an EUS release, Tomlinson said that “the EUS council is determining steps to be taken which would reso lv e th is m atter to everyone’s satisfaction.”

She refused further com­ ment on the matter. For the m om ent, an o th er issu e o f the Faucet cannot be published with­ out the approval of the council.

F o th e rg ill th in k s th at the issue has been resolved, and that th ere is not m uch m ore the Faucet can do to rectify the situa­ tion.

“I think that the whole thing has been fu eled by perso n al m otive,” he comm ented. “This was shown by their move to col­ lect all the issues of the Faucet and throw them out. I t ’s not about the publication policy, it’s about what they want to do with the Faucet.”

No final decision was made at the EUS co u n c il m eeting regarding the future of the Faucet — a p ro p o sed m otion th at a legal representative be brought in to oversee the paper resulted in several EUS councillors leaving the meeting — quorum was bro­ ken and the session ended. The staff at the Faucet hope to put out another issue before the end of the semester, but says Fothergill, “there will probably be terrorist acts if we try.” The next council meeting is not scheduled until the first week of May, but an emer­ gency meeting will likely be held before then in order to decide the fate of the Faucet.

“In retrospect, I still would have done it, but we just didn’t fu lly think ab out the c o n se ­ quences,” concluded Fothergill.

fE-X-P-A-N-D-l-N-d Alternative budget group bemoans lack of input with the administration B y Jo h n S a l l o u m

“B udgets afen ’t ju st about numbers — they’re about values and choices” according to Eric Shragge, Professor of Social Work and m em ber of the M cGill Alternative Budget Group.

MABG held an open meeting on March 18 which provided “an opportunity for the university com­ munity to voice their ideas, con­ cerns and suggestions with respect to the 1998-1999 budgetary deci­ sions.”

According to the alternative budget document released January 23, the group’s aim is to “delineate certain alternatives to the status quo that may or may not be of interest to the university communi­ ty ” At the open meeting, everyone railed at the limited opportunity for students and staff to give input while the administration prepared next year’s university budget. The administration’s official budget has yet to be released although it is expected at any time. Anna K ruzynkski, U niversity and Academic Affairs Co-ordinator of the P ost-G raduate S tudents’ Society, argued that the public pre­ sentation of the official budget is purposely delayed to reduce the time for public debate and any resulting requests for change.

Perhaps supporting Kruzynkski’s conspiracy theory, the presentation of the alternative budget is glaringly absent from the agenda for the next Board of

Governors meeting on March 23.

Their following meeting on April 20 a short few weeks away from the budget's implementation.

“They’re not really looking for input,” stated Kruzynski.

According to Kruzynski, the budget itself is drafted by the Budget Planning Group, a small group consisting of the VicePrincipals, two deans and two sen­ ators — no students are involved in the group.

“We need to discuss these issues pu b licly ,” em phasized Shragge.

The alternative budget includes a variety of ways with which McGill can ease its financial d ifficulties. Among the ideas endorsed by MABG and presented in the budget is placing a cap on salaries over $100,000 at McGill.

The group was cautious, however, emphasizing that if a department wished to pay for salaries higher than the cap it could solicit approval from the Board of Governors. But without the official budget as comparison to the tenta­ tive alternative budget, the open meeting became a forum of com­ plaints about recent and proposed cuts to university services.

PGSS P resident M atthew Bergbusch pointed out the danger­ ous consequences of a possible reduction of the Facility Use Recovery fund which reimburses Student Services for the use of its facilities for exams and other events. According to Bergbusch, if the fund is cut from $705,000

down to $350,000 as proposed by the adm inistration, Student Services may be forced to make drastic cuts to its programs and raise fees charged to students.

“We would have to raise fees $70 on top of the $20 per term we’re already raising them,” said Bergbusch. He continued by saying that instead of raising fees to $70, Student Services was looking to w ithdraw from the O ffice for Students with Disabilities and other specific buildings on campus.

A llan Y ouster, M cGill U niversity N on-A cadem ic Certified Association President, explained that the cuts affect not only the students, but staff as well.

He cited as an example the recent cuts in the university staff group life insurance policies which reduce the amount of coverage but not the premiums.

Myron Frankman, Professor of Economics and MABG, expanded on youster's idea “We shouldn’t be tallying up the sacrifice each group has made,” he said “W e’ve been doing without for so long...that we’ve forgotten what proper work­ ing conditions should be.”

One final suggestion for the budget presented by Kruzynski would see funding for grad stu­ dents increased. She would like to see McGill give all graduate stu­ dents a living allowance of $14 to $15,000 while pursuing their stud­ ies.

“More money needs to be put into student aid,” Kruzynski said.

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N ETWO R K U of Calgary prof takes forced sick leave A religious studies professor at the University of Calgary has been forced on sick leave by alle­ gations that he publicly discussed confidential university issues and made comments about suicide and sexual matters.

The problems began in 1993 when professor Hugo Meynell was elected to the Royal Society of Canada and suffered a depressive breakdown. At that time, he was

placed on leave after he placed dis­ tressed phone calls to friends in the departm ent that concerned his occasional suicidal tendencies and addiction to sex.

These phone calls turned into com plaints of harassm ent by Meynell and have resulted in him being branded a danger to students and the university. The com ­ plainant says that Meynell’s com­ ments on his sex addiction were an attempt to illustrate his attraction to her. The sick leave has been enforced on the grounds that Meynell had broken University of

Visitor alleges she was raped in Duke frat S ta ff R e p o r t s _______________________

The Chronicle (Duke U.) (U-WIRE) DURHAM, N.C. — A 16-year-old girl who was visiting a female University student alleged that she was raped March 7 at the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity sec­ tion while attending a mixer between SAE and the Pi Beta Phi sorority.

Captain Charles Nordan of the Duke University Police Department said an investigation is in progress.

As a result, no charges have yet been filed.

During the mixer, Nordan said the victim reportedly consumed about five cans of beer and some vodka between 10:30 p.m. and mid­ night. At about midnight, the victim and a male individual at the func­ tion struck up a conversation. The victim reported to police that she remembers very little between the time the two began their conversa­ tion and when she awoke the fol­ lowing morning.

The female student whom the victim was visiting also spoke with police. She reported that although she attempted to keep an eye on her friend during the event, she had not noticed the victim and the male individual conversing on the couch.

Sometime later in the evening, the friend said, she tried to locate the victim but was unable to do so.

After enlisting the help of several friends, the friend finally found the victim by banging on the door of one of the bedrooms in the fraterni­ ty section.

After she escorted the victim from the room, Nordan reported, the victim began to cry and said she had been sexually assaulted.

The victim’s friend said she knew of the individual with whom the victim had been speaking but had never met him prior to March 7. She also said that she could not recall the state of the room in which she found the victim because, at the time, she was focused on the well­ being of her friend.

The responsible individual, Nordan said, could be charged with second-degree rape, a charge applicable to a person who engages in vaginal intercourse by force or against the will of another person while that person is physically help­ less or mentally incapacitated.

The responsible person could serve jail time and will also be sub­ ject to repercussions from the uni­ versity, Nordan concluded.

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province to no longer completely fund those students who wish to attend American institutions for the deaf.

V ocational R ehabilitative S ervices, a program under the Ministry of Community and Social services, was previously the body responsible for managing a $4.9 million budget. Deaf students were funded by the VRS budget for costs incurred while attending American schools, such as tuition, accommodation and meals. The budget will be transferred to the Ministry of Education and Training next month and will be added to the funds that currently exist for m aking O ntario schools more accessible for students with disabil­ ities.

The result of this is that deaf students will no longer receive rem uneration for attending American schools, the only ones of their kind in North Am erica.

G allaudet U niversity in Washington DC and the National Technical Institute for the Deaf in Rochester, New York are the only two centres in North Am erica which offer all their educational programs in sign language.

In order to get some of the funding back, deaf students will now be required to apply for a loan from the O ntario Student Assistance program.

— With files from the Western Gazette

House aims to attract all students C ontinued from page 7

Tracy K ariw aiens Diabo, director of the First Peoples House, was hired in the fall to oversee the establishment of the house after the previous director unexpectedly accepted a job with the federal government. Suddenly switching directors only compounded diffi­ culties for getting the house up and running after McGill’s battle with the building’s former tenants last spring. Jukier, referring to a con­ versation she had with Crago, com­ pared the creation of the First Peoples House to birthing pains.

“Sometimes births are difficult and sometimes in raising a child we have the terrible twos and sometimes we have a tricky adoles­ cent,” Jukier stated. “But when that child becomes an adult, you know that all the birthing pains were worth it.”

Diabo is intent on fulfilling the House’s mandate because she remembers, as a former Concordia student, the importance of the First Peoples House during her universi­ ty years.

“I ’ve always been involved

with C oncordia’s First Peoples Centre. I liked what I got out of it,” she said. “As a student it really helped me. I know what the centre allowed me to do. I knew other people cared whether I succeeded or failed.”

McGill’s First Peoples House is expected to be both a cultural and academic centre for native stu­ dents as well as a learning facility for non-native members of the uni­ versity community. The hope is that the House will bring together elders, students and native commu­ nity members to create an environ­ ment of acceptance and under­ standing. Lorien Sam Roback, a first-year Li'Lwat student from B.C., expressed her content at the establishment of the First Peoples House.

“I t’s a place where we can come and be who we are — native students — and we can relate to each other in that context,” said Roback. “I can’t believe people had enough will and strength to graduate before without something like this [house].”

The First Peoples House is meant to be an additional incentive

for native students to attend McGill. Diabo sadly admitted that many natives are reluctant to attend university, especially if they are coming from isolated reserves and have never lived in a city. There are currently only about 150 selfidentified native students attending McGill. But Diabo pointed out that renting rooms in the House to First Nation students will create more of a community.

“Housing is another tool that will hopefully promote more native students to come to university.

When yo u ’re com ing from a reserve, it makes it one step easier, said Diabo. The people who wrote th eir proposal [about the First Nation’s House] did their research and it was something they wanted and knew would attract people to McGill,” Diabo added.

Because of all the problems encountered last year with the res­ ignation of the former director, stu­ dents who did not gain acceptance to other McGill residences moved into the House. Although the hope is to make the House a residence for native students, low aboriginal enrolment coupled with the univer­ sity’s policy that prohibits ques­ tions about a student’s nationality for residence applications means that non-native students will likely occupy the First Peoples House again next year.

Although it may be a few years to fully realize the mandate of the First Peoples House and com pletely satisfy the needs of native students, the successful opening ceremony on Friday testi­ fied to its strong foundations.

“I have faith in the future,” said Chambers. Coming to the end of her speech, the C hancellor paused and then softly said, “what I really want to do is say, from the bottom of my heart, bless this house.”

— with files from Sara Jean Green

News

24 March 1998

M A I dem onstration takes to the streets

Manning focuses on fiscal rationality C ontinued from page /

The Canadian Federation of Students is calling for a national debate on the M AI. N ational D eputy C hairperson Jen n ifer Story believes that the agreement could be used to pressure govern­ ments into accepting private edu­ cation institutions over public col­ leges and un iv ersities.

Furthermore, she sees the MAI giving “com pletely unfettered access to students and their educa­ tional environment.”

A lthough the neg o tiatio n process is at a very advanced stage, it isn’t over yet. On April 27, Trade Minister Sergio Marchi will be m eeting w ith his c o l­ leagues from the Organization for Econom ic C o-operation Development to discuss the MAI. Stacey Miller is a studio art stu­ dent at Concordia and a member of the International S ocialists Students’ Association who hopes that a mass public response can be mobilized before then.

“I think its really important to raise awareness. Everyone here needs to go out and talk about [the MAI] so we have more people out the next time [to protest]. People have to stand up and say that they won’t allow their rights to be sold to corporations,” she concluded.

The Concordia International Socialist Students’ Association will be discussing the MAI at their upcoming forum entitled “Why is C apitalism K illin g the E n viro n m en t” — M arch 26 at 7:30pm in H-619 Hall building, 1455 de Maisonneuve W.

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Over 350 people spanning a city block marched through the streets of downtown Montreal on Saturday to bring attention to the negotiation of the M ultilateral Agreement on Investment — an international treaty which threat­ ens to give unprecedented levels of power to corporations.

The details of the MAI are currently being w orked out in Paris between 29 nations includ­ ing Canada. The agreem ent is expected to prohibit any govern­ ment from setting criteria or laws affecting foreign investment and will likely set up an international tribunal where corporations can demand compensation from gov­ ernments that violate the treaty.

C ritics are concerned the MAI will becom e law w ithout even being subject to public scrutiny.

“T here was a huge public response against the [Free Trade Agreement], and even though it went through in the end, it was still one of the biggest debates nationally,” stated Greg Ramsay, a social work student at McGill.

He was at the dem o n stration because he’s worried about how the MAI could raise the legal sta­ tus of corporations in society. “ I ’m very co ncerned that multinational [corporations] will be conferred nation status through the M AI n eg o tiatio n p rocess.

They’ll end up with more rights — rights that they don’t officially have now, at least,” Ramsay stat­ ed.

mobility, like identity, like accessi­ bility.”

While people questioned the substance of Manning’s comments, they also challenged the means of getting the message across. His choice to bring along young Ishmaili MP Rahim Jaffer from Edmonton was perceived by some students as a token display of the selfproclaimed ethnic diversi­ ty of the Reform party.

When answering Management Senator Omar Samji’s question on Reform’s proposed elimi­ nation of all direct fund­ ing to multicultural pro­ grams, Manning immedi­ ately deferred to his dark­ er-skinned colleague on his right. Science Senator Andrew Kovacs found this approach disturbing.

“As the leader of the opposition, I think [Manning] should be able Manning to hold his own on this issue. Whether his MP is black or white, I don’t think that gives him any more credibility,” he stated.

Manning would appear to dis­ agree, however. He makes a point of strategically placing MPs of certain backgrounds in the public spotlight depending on the issue of the day.

“I do notice when the younger members speak on education, when they speak on debt...there is a legiti­ macy when younger people stand up and talk about these things,” he said.

“If you can channel your concerns on this through some of these articulate younger people, they have a kind of moral authority to talk on some of these issues that the others don’t.”

Although Manning claimed to

be engaged in a dialogue with stu­ dents, he seemed to be setting much of the agenda by reiterating his pre­ scription of tax cuts as a universal cure for all of Canada’s troubles.

Despite his image as a populist leader, his policies are not in fact a mirror-image of Canadians’ views.

Manning equates his own right-wing views with a Canadian consensus.

advocates tax cuts as cure-all

“What I’ve found politically is if people think you will defer to their judgement on issues, in many cases they will defer to yours. ...If they think you’re going to ram your views down your throat, they get their backs up. ...But if they think — [and] they’ve got to believe you’re sincere — that you’re going to defer to them, on many of these issues they’ll actu­ ally defer to you,” Manning said in an interview after the meeting. “Even the polls tell us on most of these issues 20 per cent have strong views at this end, 20 per cent have them strong on the other, and there’s about 60 in the middle who are actually looking for leadership.”

A Canada governed by Manning would take its policy cues from the Prime Minister’s own ideas.

For education policy, fiscal rationali­ ty would prove to be the sole govern­ ing principle. Universities would tai­ lor their programs to the needs of the economy, and supply and demand principles would dictate the Financial viability of a degree.

“If the banking institution is telling you that the field you’re going in is not going to generate the income to pay for a portion of your educa­ tion, that’s not a signal that any of us want to hear. It very well may be that that’s a signal you may need to get,” Manning said. “I don’t think it hurts to get that signal.”

Kovacs, however, believes that Manning’s arguments Rebecca Catching fundamentally under­ mine the value of a liberal arts education.

“He basically acknowledged that...because the job market isn’t as good [for arts students], they should start looking elsewhere and looking into other careers. In not so many words, he said, ‘why are you in phi­ losophy if you’re not even getting a jo b ,’ rather than recognising the value of people graduating with phi­ losophy degrees,” Kovacs stated.

“His basic answer was ‘don’t do [an arts degree]’ — we don’t need you because you’re not contributing to our economy.

“Those comments are pretty dis­ turbing for someone who wants to be a future Prime Minister,” he conclud­ ed.

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Fire at Shatner forces evacuation The sound of fire alarm s drowned out the music and noise of the Four Floors party at the Shatner building late Friday night, when a fire broke out in the park­ ing garage of the student centre.

The fire appears to have start­ ed in a Mirval food services truck which was parked in the parking garage around 4 o ’clock Friday afternoon.

Fire alarm s were sounded around 2:30 a.m. on Saturday, just as Four Floors was beginning to wind down. It is estimated that there were close to 1,000 students attending the party. They were evactuated promptly, and those without jackets were invited to stay in the Arts Undergraduate Society offices until they could collect their belongings. “There wre hundreds of students standing outside freezing cold — many of whom did not have jackets.” said Heather B radfield, VP A dm inistration of AUS . “We knew it would be warm and dry [in the office] so it seemed like the logical thing to do. We weren’t about to let those students freeze out there,” Students were let back into Shatner around 4 a.m.

The fire itself was contained to the Miraval truck. No one was injured and there were no damages to the Shatner building.

It is not know if the fire was accidental or deliberate — fire department officials remained at the scene until 6:30 am on Saturday, and are still questioning several people.

UA recount contentious at council The SSMU council meeting on March 19 saw a motion brought forward for a committee to be set up to examine the results of SSMU elections. Proposed by IRC rep Melissa Pallett, the motion resolved that the recount vote for the University Affairs position was questionable since thirteen ballots were lost between the official elec­ tion tally and the recount.

Prior to the recount, Sam Johnston was declared the winner of the VP UA position by eight votes. The recount increased her total over Andrew Kovacs to 14.

Although SSMU does not have jurisdiction in deciding whether or not a vote count is valid, they can recom m end that the m atter be brought before the judicial board.

The com m ittee established by council will decide whether or not to take the issue to the J-board.

Reaction to the proposal was mixed. James Wiscart, a SSMU science councillor, questioned the appropriateness of SSMU becom­ ing involved in the process.

“Council should remain autonomous,” he stated. ‘The deci­ sion of whether or not this should go to the judicial board should be

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left up to Johnston, Kovacs and the CRO.” Another motion was brought forward by VP External Lisa Phipps that proposed a re-election for the VP UA position on the grounds that such a small margin of victory makes it absolutely manda­ tory that there be a by-election.

Christopher Muldoon, last year's Chief Returning Officer, opposed Phipps’ motion saying that the CRO had made the decision that Johnston had won. “If the CRO lis­ tens to SSMU, his partiality is in question. It makes the election look like a fraud.”

Kovacs and Johnston did not receive speaking rights at the meet­ ing, however shortly before, Kovacs did say that he had no intention of pursuing the position and would prefer if the matter was just closed.

Arts fund needs student renewal The Arts Improvement Fund needs to be renewed by students in a referendum to accompany this year’s AUS elections.

Arts students presently con­ tribute $24.50 per semester to the $250,000 fund which seeks to improve or at least maintain the quality of education in the Arts fac­ ulty.

The “sole and unique func­ tion” of the fund, according the Arts Undergraduate Society consti­ tution, “is for value-added improve­ ments for the faculty of Arts.”

The Arts Improvement Fund directly channels 40 per cent of all its money to improving the Arts Computer lab. The funds purchased new com puter term inals inside Leacock and created a third Arts computer lab to better meet student

computer demands. AIF student money paid for library acquisi­ tions such as the files of US presi­ dents Richard Nixon and JFK, and also bought the new MIDAS sta­ tions and automatic self cheek-out machines.

While the AIF focuses mostly on the computer labs and library, other departments also benefit from the fund. The current AUS VP Finance Rodrigo Ferro Rojas gave examples of other improvements to which the fund contributes to.

“AEF bought microscopes for the anthropology department and a m ulti-m edia projector for the English department,” he said. “We even bought a satellite link for the Russian Studies department so they could watch Russian TV.” Students have a direct impact concerning how the funds are spent since both students and faculty can submit proposals to the AIF com­ mittee. While student proposals need a two-thirds majority to be passed, proposals submitted by the faculty must be approved unani­ mously.

Arts students have to re­ approve the Arts Improvement Fund every three years in a faculty­ wide referendum according to the AUS constitution. Ferro Rojas stressed the fund’s crucial role in every Arts students’ education.

“The Arts Improvement Fund is the only way to bring improve­ ments to the faculty because this university doesn’t have the money to spend on us,” stated Ferro Rojas.

“It probably is the most important thing that [Arts students] have.”

2500 rally against seal hunting In the largest ever Canadian animal issues demonstration, 2500 protesters from Ontario, Newfoundland and Quebec joined voices against commercial seal hunting in the nation’s capital on March 20.

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The group that planned the rally, Canadians Against the Commercial Seal Hunt, is a project of the International Fund for Animal Welfare which pays all the organizational costs incurred by CATCSH. Rebecca Aldworth, the Quebec coordinator of CATCSH, countered all the prevelant miscommunications surrounding commer­ cial seal hunting and attacked the myth that seals are responsible for the collapse of the cod fisheries.

“We know that seals are not over-populated, we know that seals are not eating all the remaining cod, we know that seals are not respon­ sible for impeding the recovery of the cod fisheries and we know that seals are a crucial part of the food web,” stated Aldworth. ‘The misin­ formation spread by [Premier of Newfoundland] Brian Tobin, that seals are over-populated and eating all the cod is crap.”

Many Canadians are respond­ ing to CATCSH’s recent seal edu­ cation blitz and petitioning their MPs to stop the reinstatment of the commercial seal hunt. Over 1,000 people from Montreal alone drove to Ottawa for the demonstration, suported by three bus loads of McGill students. Aldworth hoped that the demonstration would put a face on all the seal hunt opposition.

“This rally was our chance to say that the majority of Candians are against commercial seal hunt­ ing, that we want our 3.5 million dollars in taxes to stop subsidizing an industry that is not sustainable but to be invested in where it is really needed: the development and creation of sustainable jobs.”

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MUS ELECTION RESULTS Although no numbers have been released, the results for the M anagement Undergraduate Society elections are in. Next year’s executives are:

President Chet Dhole

VP Finance Nadia Yoshiyama

VP Internal Kevin Lynch

VP Comunications Michael Fine

VP Academic Raffi Kouyoumdjian

U2 President Tara Baldisera

U3 President Melanie Ball (acclaimed)

Rep to SSMU Jon Feldman

Reps to Senate Amman Sidi, Hugh Sturgess (acclaimed)

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— E. L Doctorow Sara J ean G reen Editor-in-ehief F ranklin R ubinstein Assistant Editor-in-chief

E lizabeth Wasserman Assistant Editor-in-chief

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Wrenching the Faucet shut B y P a u l F u th ey

The future of The Plumber's Faucet is in a state of limbo after the engineering editors went a bit too far in the their last issue.

If you didn't see it, the cover of the March 12 issue featured a photo of SSMU President Tara Newell in the buff. The photo was originally printed in the McGill Daily's March 9 women’s issue with an article on body image, and was reused by the Faucet without the Daily's permission.

Engineering Undergraduate Society President Taryn Tomlinson, cit­ ing violations of the EUS’s publication policy, ordered that copies of the issue be taken from the shelves. Since that time, this contentious matter has the EUS completely overreacting — which is perhaps an indication that finding a common solution to the problem isn’t the ultimate goal. Instead, the EUS appears to be using the incident as a reason to muzzle the publica­ tion.

While no final decision has been made on a course of action, the March 19 EUS council meeting was prey to a smorgasbord of proposals — some councillors wanted to can the current Faucet editors while others sug­ gested that the VP Academic should babysit the publication and look over the contents before it goes to print (something that is already supposed to be done). But in an end befitting student politics in general, nothing got solved. One absolutely inane proposal would see a legal representative look over every issue of the paper before printing. Mandatory pre-publica­ tion advice is absolutely ludicrous, especially considering the fact that we’re talking about a student publication — especially a paper that is sup­ posed to be satirical. What next? Hourly sign-ins for the editors? This reeks of censorship.

This is not the first time the EUS and the Plumber’s Faucet have clashed. At the end of the last school year, the EUS selection committee chose not to renew the present editors’ terms, even though a) no others had applied for the position and b) the editors had clearly demonstrated their competence. Only after resorting to a collection of signatures on a petition were the editors allowed to return. Also, immediately following this recent incident, save for one unproductive meeting between a Faucet editor and Tomlinson, the EUS reportedly didn't talk about the issue with the editors until the day before the council meeting — an inexcusable span of six days.

These shenanigans leave one wondering: does the EUS want the Plumber’s Faucet at all? Would they rather be content with a boring, crap­ py mouthpiece talking of bland issues within the faculty that will go straight from the printing presses to the recycling bins? Wallowing in mediocrity, the paper will lose its status as a publication that is clearly a hit with McGill as a whole, not to mention the faculty of engineering.

Sadly, as the SSMU awards approach, the Faucet is again not nomi­ nated for publication of the year. Not that the editors of the Faucet give a damn, but the omission is certainly baffling. Unlike other campus papers, the Faucet has been able to forge a connection with students by way of its vicious and biting satire. The articles are well-written and humorous, a credit to the present editorial committee.

The Faucet made a mistake — that’s obvious — the editors aren’t even disputing that fact. What’s important is that the editors recognize that they have made a mistake and are willing to apologize in their next issue.

Newell has already received and accepted a personal apology from the Faucet.

Firing the editors isn’t going to solve anything. It’s a rash and illthought move. While the EUS may point to copyright violations, they arc certainly blowing all proportions in trying to silence the Faucet. In all hon­ esty, it stinks — and if the rumours of personal motives swirling around the EUS have any basis, then it stinks all the more.

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Alouette deal implications With the spring semester com­ ing to a close, the rumours surround­ ing the arrival of the Montreal Alouettes to Molson stadium for the 1998 CFL season have intensified.

Last October, the Alouettes were bumped from the Olympic Stadium for their playoff game due to a U2 concert. McGill University graciously allowed them to play the game at Molson Stadium. In what was one of the most successful games of the year, the Als drew a record crowd. Soon after, over­ whelming public sentiment prompted the Alouettes to begin negotiating a deal with the university for the upcoming season.

Over the summer, the university formed a committee to negotiate with the Alouettes on behalf of the univer­ sity. The negotiating team was com­ posed of Messrs. Robert Dubeau (Director of Athletics), Richard Pound (Chairman of the Board of Governors and the Athletics Board), and Derek Drummond (VP of Development and Alumni Relations).

A one-year agreement was reached that permits the Alouettes to play all of their home games for the upcom­ ing 1998 CFL season (10 regular season and playoffs) at Molson Stadium.

There are both benefits and drawbacks to having the Montreal CFL team play at our stadium, and it is important for us, as McGill stu­ dents, to concern ourselves with the implications of the agreement.

McGill University has been widely acclaimed as the potential saviour of both the Montreal Alouettes and the CFL as a whole. In return for the use of Molson stadium

as their home venue, the Alouettes will be contributing a minimum of $250,000 to $500,000 toward reno­ vations of the stadium. The renova­ tions include improvements to the dressing rooms, washrooms, press boxes and sections K and L of the bleachers. Furthermore, the peripher­ al lighting system under the stands will be enhanced, the seats will be fixed and numbered, and the gutter around the track will be filled in.

McGill will also receive 6 per cent of all concession sales after tax (valued at approximately $6,000 - $10,000).

The increased national exposure that the university will receive as a direct consequence of hosting a profession­ al football team, and the proximity of exciting CFL action to the McGill ghetto are both intangible benefits to the agreement.

However, with the arrival of the Alouettes at 475 Pine Ave. W., increased constraints on facility availability are a reality. These con­ straints will affect both recreational users of the gym and intercollegiate athletes alike.

With regards to the intramural sports program, the men’s softball league will be cancelled and the out­ door soccer league will accept 13 fewer teams — thus affecting a total of 500 participants. Scheduling for intramural soccer could potentially be very inconvenient; due to the facilities restrictions on weekends when the Alouettes host games, many intramural soccer teams will find themselves either playing three games in one weekend or two games with a three or four week break in between. Furthermore, during the Alouettes games on Sundays, access

to Forbes Field, Arena and Middle Field will be limited.

The McGill Summer Sports Camp has also had to make some adjustments. Thursday evening games during the summer months will result in campers moving indoors for many activities during the day. In addition, the parking con­ gestion at pick-up time may be frus­ trating to many of the parents.

Intercollegiate athletes will also follow modified schedules in the upcoming year. The football team will lose two days of training camp and potentially some classroom space as well. The soccer teams may also find that some of their practices have been cancelled or moved, and likewise for the track and field team.

In general, the arrival of the Alouettes has far reaching positive and negative consequences for the athletic department. With the poten­ tial of a longer term deal being nego­ tiated this summer, it is important for the students to be aware of these con­ sequences and to speak up now in favour or against the CFL using McGill facilities.

If you have any comments or questions with regard to this issue, please call the Student’s Athletic Council Office at 398-7000 ext.

0669, or talk to your faculty athletic representative.

— Ana Shapiro, Chair, Student Athletics Council — Reid McDougall, Chair, McGill Intercollegiate Sports Council — Derek Prohar, Athletic Rep. to SSMU

Herring thrown at Ruel This is a letter in response to Paul Ruel’s typographical hissy fit thrown in last week’s Letter to the Editor section of the Tribune [Red Herring’s Sexist Campaign Stinks up SSMU Campaign, March 17, 1998], For reasons that are quite unclear to me, Mr. Ruel saw fit to misconstrue every single Red Herring event that he cited in his let­ ter. He took each incident entirely out of context and then, proceeding from his highly dubious hypotheses, managed to blame the Red Herring for all that is wrong with the SSMU. Such distortions as those con­ tained in his letter may be common practice for a legal eagle like Ruel, but I must object in the strongest terms to his heedless vandalism of the truth. For the benefit of Mr. Ruel, and other such humourless individu­ als at McGill, I would like to make the following corrections to his state­ ment.

If you really want to understand why we ran our campaign as we did, you must understand that the Red Herring slate was composed of char­ acters with identities separate from

the people who played them. This seemingly banal observation was apparently lost on Mr. Ruel, who implicitly criticized the candidate War for his aggressive behaviour during the debates. What did he expect? Explaining why Rich Retyi chose the character War is a different issue, but it is not even worth explaining if our audience cannot comprehend the fundamental distinc­ tion between Mr. Retyi the McGill student and Mr. War the candidate. If that is clear then, I would like to pro­ ceed to the more engaging theme of misôgyny in the Herring campaign.

The net result of our campaign, according to Ruel, “was to portray men as aggressive, violent, and emo­ tionally detached, and women as sex­ ual objects for the taking.” As I explained to Mr. Ruel at the close of the final all candidates debate, part of our purpose was to embrace and over exaggerate certain aspects of the sta­ tus quo of student life at McGill as a way of showing how ridiculous it is.

For example, Ruel complained about the Three Horsemen’s rendi­ tion of “I fuck the frosh,” which was

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actually a song called “Floor Fellow” and was not about how we as candi­ dates have sex with frosh. The song was about floor fellows, as the title suggests, and was not meant to reflect the editorial policy of the Red Herring. We were not endorsing the actions of certain libidinous floor fel­ lows, but rather pointing out how foolish they are. I seem to be belabouring what should be an obvi­ ous point, namely that what we did was a joke. Nevertheless, Ruel insists that we blew “an amazing opportuni­ ty...to challenge the dreary, repeti­ tive, and bland” elections.

As space is limited here, I would like to address the implica­ tions of that last statement before I close. Several high rollers in the SSMU have criticized us for not run­ ning a more constructive campaign, for not challenging the candidates more directly, and for nor taking it upon ourselves to confront them with their own obvious absurdities. My only reply is that is not our mandate, and I frankly have little interest in uplifting the sorry state of SSMU politics. It is the responsibility of the politicians not to make asses of themselves, not our — we are not a public interest watchdog organiza­ tion.

To the extent that we sought to “challenge the status quo,” as Ruel misquoted me as saying, it was only indirectly. We ran the campaign to poke fun at the self important jack­ asses who pretend to a mandate from an apathetic student body, not to help them in doing so.

— Nick Redler Red Herring candidate, U3 History

Opinion

24 March 1998

The com edy of m anners that is student politics Assorted losing candidates try­ ing to save face, junior politicians looking for their first taste, and nohopers promoting peculiar agendas are scrambling for the three dozen or so faculty association positions, now that the serious elections are over with. They’ve all got their semiformed plans to revamp this and restructure that, their catchy slogans blazing across the new poster rain­ bows. The posters look very familiar, and not because we’ve just put a more serious round behind us.

Dammit, you’ve seen them some­ where before, even if you can’t quite figure out where.

They tip off the big secret, which everybody subconsciously recognizes but finds too embarrass­ ing to admit. McGill student politics are those of a high school student council writ large. A student council with a multi-million-dollar budget, a license to dispense Molson products, and no staff advisors. And just like a high school student council, about ninety-four per cent of everything that happens in the Shatner Building is personal — not political, certainly not professional. The grand fiction of McGill politics is that this is a minia­ ture version of the big time. Here, things matter in a way they never used to. It’s not the major leagues, but it’s at least Triple-A.

student politicians’ motives is that they’re impure. Alliances might form, and decisions be made, on the basis of perceived slights by, upon, or near the former girlfriend of some minor figure in the Students’ Society.

Finding a consensus is tricky under those circumstances. Ugly per­ sonal politics are assumed to underlie everything. Case of Law Councillor Mario Nigro v.

Duncan Reid is I in point — whatever Nigro’s motiva­ tions for calling D a v id Reevely SSMU execu­ tives to account for used-up veterans refusing to decay some of their questionable actions peacefully and keen but underachiev­ were, the affair was perceived as a ing youngsters. They’ve got a personal conflict between him and chance, but not a big one. (The good Reid. Kicking away at the terms of prospects are the greasily coiffed the SSMU health plan and the cir­ ones running around in little suits at cumstances surrounding the signing the Young Liberal meetings, and of a consulting contract with KPMG standing importantly by when a min­ turned him into a Council pariah with ister comes to give a speech. They’re a reputation for bitterness. Yanking the future leaders of our great land, an executive’s chain, no matter how so praise their neckties.) The domi­ legitimate the reason, isn’t a way to nant factor in determining what make friends on SSMU Council Council will do is the personal because it’s seen, ironically, as low­ dynamic among the participants. The ering the tone of the discussion. worst part is that they tend to be Overarching considerations of what touchy. Little grievances multiply in might actually be best for the student rabbit-like fashion, until the only body don’t make up for having the thing you can be sure of about most gall, the sheer gaucherie, to chal­ That’s — how to put this polite­ ly? — bullshit. You might see McGill student politicians getting the occasional cup of coffee in the bigs, running for the feds in doomed rid­ ings or meeting with real grown-up government ministers. But that’s as close as it gets. The reality is that, at its best, SSMU is like one of those tiny circuit leagues in Arizona for

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lenge the virtue of someone’s con­ duct. Unless someone is grossly mis­ handling his or her portfolio, council­ lors don’t like that kind of disrespect.

Demonstrating the legitimacy of a complaint doesn’t help. Overriding everything is the belief that you’re trying to pick a fight for your own purposes. Rats have a more profes­ sional attitude (they carry disease, but they’re up front about it, and they know that you're not putting traps out because you hate them individu­ ally — it’s just business).

Anyone who’s expecting much of a change next year is probably in for a shock. None of the new execu­ tives are without their SSMU loyal­ ists and enemies. A newly elected executive, who will go unnamed because even I’m willing to give them all a h it of a honeymoon, remarked that this year’s Council had achieved something just by not being as combative as that of the Chris Carter era. Next year’s Council might be in trouble, then — President-elect Reid is notoriously thin-skinned. It’s his only major political flaw, but it’s a doozy. He’ll have to conquer his reflex emotions, maybe by taking an abuse course over the summer to complement the remedial French. Still, we’ll have to wait until the rest of Council is filled in before we know whether it’s going

to be C-PAC or a soap opera.

The implications of all this are a little scary. A handful of these people do go on to big-league politics, and they probably don’t do too much growing up beforehand. Pierre Trudeau and René Lévesque were at school together. Could it be that Pierre, that renowned Casanova, once dallied a little too long with one of René’s lady friends?

••• Footnote while it’s still relevant: The class act of the just-finished campaign for the SSMU executive was Samantha McGavin, running for VP External. She was the only candi­ date who didn’t look haggard and frustrated after the first three days, the only one who never once seemed to condescend. On election night, the tally showing Jeff Feiner’s growing lead, she didn’t flee home or into a comer in Gert’s, didn’t try to make the numbers behave through the sheer force of her gaze, didn’t sur­ round herself with an impenetrable retinue of friends. She stood in the Shatner lobby, chatting — amiably and seemingly relaxedly — with anyone who tried to engage her. Say what you want about her platform.

McGavin didn’t win, but she played the game more gracefully than any­ one who did.

The Saddam H ussein-M ontreal “ 990-a-slice” connection Abou AM knew it was going to be a bad day when he drew the cur­ tains and saw Iraqi soldiers in front of his home.

It was Thursday, August 2, 1991. Saddam Hussein’s troops had invaded Kuwait setting in motion a chain of events that would forever change Ali’s life — and the eating habits of millions of Montrealers.

Ali, 51, is an Iraqi-born engi­ neer who moved to Kuwait in 1973 as part of the flood of educated Iraqis who left the country during Hussein’s rise to power.

At the time of the inva­ sion, the engineering compa­ ny Ali built had a contract worth 4.5 million Kuwaiti dinars (more than $15 million US). But Iraqi soldiers put him permanently out of business, destroy­ ing his offices and equipment.

But Ali had an escape plan, a year before the invasion he knew he wanted to get his wife and son out of the unstable middle east. He came to Montreal, hoping to create a Canadian branch for his company and relocate his family here.

“When I came in 1990, to sub­ mit my forms, I walked around all day until two in the morning. I saw people — women and children — walking in the night. And I didn’t see people having to look behind them­ selves [to see if there was danger]. I called my wife and told her ‘This is the perfect town,’’’ Ali said.

In the months after the invasion, Ali sent his son away to school in Europe. He and his wife fled shortly afterwards. “I left a house, a car, my money, my clothes — everything, and ran away in the night,” he said.

They went to Germany, then to Sweden before coming to their final destination — Canada.

Ali knew he couldn’t rebuild his engineering company so he looked into other options. He studied M ontreal’s ailing economy and decided to enter the restaurant busi­ ness. “There was no money and when people to had to pay $5 for lunch, it hurt.” He had a new idea that would spark a fast food phenom­ enon unique to Montreal.

In October 1994, he opened his St. Mathieu St. restaurant two blocks west of Concordia selling pizza

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slices for 99 cents each. Others were still selling two-for-one slices or slices for $2.50.

“My competition thought I’d be closed in a month, but within a year they all followed me,” Ali recalled.

When many businesses were closing, im itation 99-cents pizza places popped up all over the city.

In August 1996 for a summer promotion he slashed his price down to 49 cents a slice. A Pulse news crew came to film the line of people stretching out his door up the block to De Maisonneuve Blvd.

“But when I saw the line-up I decided, ‘I’m keeping the 49 cent price’,” he said. “I’d sit outside in the summer and watch. Every time a customer saw the sign and he put his hand in his pocket and felt his change.”

How can Ali profit selling pizza slices — that do actually taste good — for 49 cents? He can’t. All his profits come from selling drinks.

“We lose on the pizza and make

money on the drinks,” he explained.

“With volume we can make the same profit as other restaurants and maybe more.”

He does have volume. Students and business people constantly stream into his restaurant between 10 a.m. and 2 a.m. At peak times he bakes 12 jumbo pizzas every five minutes. He wouldn’t say how many pizzas he makes a day.

Not bad for an engineer who never made a pizza before 1994.

“Before I only knew how to eat pizza,” he admits. The secret of his success is research.

For the first ten months he was in business, Ali never worked behind the counter; he watched from one of his dozen tables and took notes on how to improve his operation. His innovations ranged from rounding prices — so his cashier wouldn’t be slowed down fumbling with pennies — to the kind of music played.

Ali decided to play only Spanish music in his restaurant. He discov­ ered the music travelling through Spain and was amazed at how “very near to the heart” it felt. The distinc­ tive music makes the restaurant memorable for customers, he said.

“They say ‘Remember the restaurant with the Spanish music?”’

He also realised the faster the music was, the faster people chewed.

So he decided to play only Spanish dance music. Recently he tried an Arabic tape and noticed a customer dancing in line and it was added to the rotation.

US pizza trade magazines have written about Ali and groups from Toronto and Vancouver have asked him about creating a franchise.

But Ali says he’s won’t consider selling franchises for a least two

years. He prefers to build up his company slowly, just like he did twenty years ago in Kuwait. He works 14 hours a day keeping a close eye on his three restaurants, which are all within a block of one another.

He owns the 99 cent pizza restaurant in the Guy-Concordia Metro station, and Pita Bella, a half-price Lebanese restaurant above his original pizza spot.

He also gives advice from behind his pizza counter to New

Montreal immigrants from all over the world who want to start their own businesses.

Ali thinks his business would be a jackpot in Kuwait but now a Canadian citizen, he says his heart belongs to Montreal.

“Sure the weather is hard for us but we’re looking for one important thing — peace.”

D'Arcy Doran’s e-mail address is ddoran@po-box.mcgill.ca.

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4 0 ’s and blunts: Frankie and I get urban Never before has the 40 oz. bottle of beer been more popular in La Belle Province than it is today.

The equivalent of a hair less than a six pack, 40s have begun saturating the market as of late.

Whereas once upon a time you could only find a stack of St. Ides here or a bottle of Bull Max there, these days you will be assailed by a maddening variety of big name brands, all vying for your malt liquor dollar. When exactly did the 40 oz. craze begin and why has it taken a death-like grip on the Montreal community? Crack jour­ nalism and “connected” connec­ tions (props to O-Dog and Slo-Mo) has uncovered some shocking truths behind the invasion of the 40 oz.

My first experience with the 40 oz. occurred last summer when 1 worked at a skateboard park back in D.C. Up to this point whenever I had the urge to have a tasty bever­ age after work I turned to more standard fare — Sam Adams, Sleem ans, and the occasional Budweiser. I noticed early, howev­ er, that the regulars at the skatepark

who had less income than I did invested their allowances in some­ thing they dubbed the four-O, the 40 oz. of St. Ides. I would find myself watching in awe as these kids, thirteen and fourteen years old would down these huge bottles of malt liquor without batting an eyelash, then skate on my half-pipes and bleed all over the place due to their deteri­ orating co-ordina­ tion and increas­ ing sense of invincibility.

C u rio s ity took hold of me one night and I decided to sample this magical drink they worshipped with such fever­ ish devotion. On first sip I was overcome by the aromatic equiva­ lent of old gym socks, the aftertaste rem inding me of second grade when I bit a kid we used to call Stinky. All in all a terrible beer, yet I forced myself to polish off the entire bottle and I have yet to regret that decision. The multitude of

colours and shapes that filled my head drove me to worship the patron St. Ides. I was twice as con­ fident as I ever was with regular beer and at about $3.00 a bottle I had money left over to dabble in other urban habits such as the Jam aican Red Tip... but th a t’s a story for another day.

Upon arriv­ ing in M ontreal, I p u rp o s e ly selected a place to live that had a stoop on which I could sit all day, sipping my 40 oz. and watching life go by. I feared that these backwards Montreal deps wouldn’t carry my new vice, which could force me to resort to last year’s beverage of choice, Boreale Strong. Without my 40 oz. I envi­ sioned terrible sleepless nights, tossing and turning in bed, suffer­ ing chills, fever and enduring visi­ tations from that baby in

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Trainspotting, crawling on the ceil­ ing and looking at me all bloated and veiny-like. To insure a steady supply of my saint I made nice with my neighbourhood dep man, Frankie, and we began to cultivate a lasting relationship. He kept me in St. Ides and I kept him in business.

Life was good. Although the weather turned cold and Montreal became a winter nightmare once again, I still had my crutch. It was right around October that the news filtered in to me. Frankie informed me of an ambitious plan by the Labatt and Molson Brewery Companies to enter the 40 oz. mar­ ket, previously dominated by small and loving breweries in upstate New York and the Newark-New Jersey area. The dépanneur bard’s soliloquy painted a picture of a blitzkrieg-like storm of 40s resem­ bling the blitzkrieg-like storm of the 1940s, both leaving a trail of death, destruction and Hungarian sympathisers in their wake.

The following week I watched in awe as an enormous Labatt 50 semi worked its way down deMaisonneuve and parked in front of Frankie’s dep. Huge boxes were unloaded by two burly men in green jump-suits working like a well-oiled machine for five min­ utes, after which they hopped back in their truck and departed. Not three minutes later an even larger transport truck accompanied by a police escort drove up to Frankie’s and unloaded its cargo. I couldn’t take it any more. Sprinting through traffic I burst through the front doors of the dep and witnessed Frankie openly weeping, unable to contain his emotions. Before us lay

a treasure-trove of exotic 40s.

Labatt 50, Molson Ex, Toreador, Labatt Blue, and hundreds of other brands I couldn’t make out through my own flowing tears of joy.

We danced for the rest of the afternoon, working like fairy nymphs flitting from beer cooler to beer cooler, stocking them to full capacity with the new products and tossing cartons of Oasis in a big blue dumpster outside to free up more space.

Many months have passed since that magical afternoon and I have changed tremendously from the immature days of my youth. I am no longer like those skatepark slackers, uncouth and devoid of style. Today I roll with the Cadillac of 40s — Colt .45, the only 40 oz. to be endorsed by Billy Dee Williams himself. Frankie’s life has also changed for the better as he has grown spiritually and emotionally.

No longer is his dépanneur a tiny hole in the wall being run into the ground by those 24 hour monster marts on St. Catherine. Sure they have 40s too, but Frankie was the innovator as far as I’m concerned.

His joint now sports a deli counter, sells apples and even boasts a humedor to house the quality cigars he offers to visiting luminaries for a fraction of the black market price.

What exactly did I learn from this entire experience? Not much, actually — this is an article about 40s, not the atrocities of Haitian refugees — but I did hear a rumour that Frankie told me a few days ago about Colt .45. It seems that Colt .45 works — every time!

— Rich Retyi

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The choice o f a new generation ain ’t Coke or Pepsi Lifestyle and health concerns change an eighty year tradition of cola monopolies B y K irstie H

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Trendy soft drinks like iced teas, bottled water and sport drinks have been making a big splash in the beverage market. And don’t think the kings of cola (and their sales departments) haven’t noticed.

In the late 1980s Canadians began looking for healthier alterna­ tives to Coke and Pepsi to match their changing lifestyles. After 80 years of traditional soft drinks, North Americans were ready for a change. Out of this market demand grew com panies like C learly Canadian, Snapple, Gatorade and Koala Springs, who have set the trends in the alternative beverage market.

“C learly C anadian set the scene in a number of ways,” said C learly Canadian D irector of Communications Kelly Lendvoy.

“It was a healthier alternative, the blue bottle was quite striking and the beverage itself was clear. It had all these unique characteristics and it really tasted good too; th at’s what made it a success.”

Clearly Canadian is truly a Canadian success story with over $55 million in sales every year in Canada alone. Presently, it is one of the top ten alternative beverage companies internationally and has growing markets in North America, Europe and Asia. Clearly Canadian has become a six billion dollar industry in just 10 years.

However, “we’ve seen sales go down since that gold rush of the late 80s and early 90s,” said Lendvoy. “Major global beverage companies started entering their own alternative brands into the cat­ egory, so it became a lot more competitive and consumers had a lot more choices.”

To stay competitive, most bev­ erage companies have been forced to jump on the alternative beverage bandwagon and conceive their own lifestyle options to meet customer demands; the market became inun­ dated with options to match the trend in healthier living.

Innovative drinks break through the brown-syrup monopoly.

slated to hit the markets in July, will be produced in partnership with m ega-corporation Starbucks.

Canadian innovation

Cola companies respond C oca-C ola and Pepsi are expanding their portfolio of bever­ ages every year to preserve their privileged spot at the top of the market. “People drink so many gal­ lons of beverage in a year,” said Pepsi Cola Canada Field Sales Co­ ordinator Francois Grenier. “If they’re not drinking carbonated beverages, it’s because they’re not interested in it, because of health or because of any other reason. The only way [to grow] was to put more products on the market.”

Pepsi saw sales wane in the early 1990s and growth fell from about ten per cent to three to four per cent a year. However, Pepsi’s newly expanded (and profitable)

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portfolio now includes products like All-Sport and Aquafina bottled water to match the trends in the alternative beverage market. They also have long standing partner­ ships with Ocean Spray, Lipton Iced Teas and Crystal Light. Pepsi has found its niche in the market and saw net sales of $32 million in 1996.

Coca Cola has diversified too.

In addition to bringing old-style bottles back to Coke, the soft drink producer introduced Barq’s root beer to the m arket last year.

Recently, the company decided to relaunch Cherry Coke internation­ ally.

“In any industry, product development is a sure thing; people

like variety,” said Paulette Vinette, president and CEO of the Canadian Soft Drink Association. However, Vinette added that “soft drinks sales have not actually declined — [instead] people are shifting their beverage requirements and con­ suming more. It’s in areas like alcohol that consumption has actu­ ally declined.”

Grenier attributes the demand for healthier products not only to lifestyle changes, but to dem o­ graphics as well. Products like Lipton Iced Teas enjoy greater profitability on the West Coast.

“It’s a year round product in those regions,” he maintained. “It’s diffi­ cult here [in Quebec] because of cultural differences.”

The West Coast is traditionally regarded as a more health con­ scious region and the milder tem­ peratures allow for the consump­ tion of traditional summer drinks, like iced teas, in all seasons.

To stay competitive, most b e v e ra g e c o m p a n ie s have been forced to jump on the alternative bever­ age bandwagon Pepsi is attempting to appeal to the West Coast mentality once again with the introduction of Frappucino. The new iced coffee,

In order to m aintain momentum, trend setters in the alternative beverage market like Clearly Canadian and Snapple were forced to develop slick marketing and advertising strate­ gies for their current products and create en tirely new and innovative products to catch consumers attention.

C learly C anadian’s response to growing competition is perhaps regarded as the most inventive. Orbitz stepped into the market in 1996 as the first textually enhanced beverage in North America. The floating coloured edible gel balls instan­ taneously caught the market’s attention. This indicates that within the current alternative beverage market, healthiness and taste are now becoming sec­ ondary to the presentation of the product.

Like Snapple a few years back, O rbitz has become a m edia darling, appearing in Rolling Stone, The Wall Street Journal, Time and the Rosie O’Donnell show.

“We introduced O rbitz because we had to keep innovat­ ing,” said Lendvoy. “We had to keep people aware of what Clearly Canadian is; what we were in terms of being one of the first innovators in the industry. We had to keep up that reputation.”

Soft drinks like Coke and Pepsi had been a mainstay of the twentieth century diet until the late 1980s. Since then, new soft drinks have been steadily challenging the cola-ocracy.

Whether North Americans are changing their drinking habits due to lifestyle, demographics or sheer boredom with traditional bever­ ages, there may be one valuable lesson to come from all of this: get out of Burma and start investing in an upstart beverage company.

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24 March 1998

Bukhman insures McGill A comprehensive look at SSMU’s

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Evolution of McGill's Health Plan Oct. '91-VP Finance Lev Bukhman proposes plan

costing $15-20 per year.

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L eaders do the rig h t th in g s,” reads the sign on the door to Lev Bukhman’s office.

A lthough the M cG ill stu ­ d en ts’ society health plan has sparked some controversy recent­ ly, he insists his creation is the “right thing” for students.

Last month, about 200 stu­ dents petitioned SSMU to make a referendum question that would make it easier for students to opt out of the plan. But Bukhm an likens the health plan to Medicare and says students need it.

“People who are unemployed

include students from M cG ill, Concordia and the University of M ontreal. Since Septem ber his Stanley St. office, strategically located halfway between McGill and Concordia, has tripled in size.

The expanded office bustles with activity. Bukhman has 30 em ploy ees — all stu d en ts or recent graduates. Bukhman him­ se lf is a fo rm er SSM U VP Finance and is presently a law stu d en t at the U n iv ersity o f Western Ontario. Every Tuesday he flies to London, O ntario to attend his classes. “ If you look around this office you won’t see any grown­ ups here,” Bukhman said wearing cu fflin k s on the ends o f his

June '92-Bukhman hangs around to work on the

plan, selects Beneflex as broker.

Sept. '92-SSMU handles administration. Oral con­ traceptives now covered.

A ug. '93-Bukhman returns to the scene with his

insurance license Sept. '93-Bukhman is appointed by the SSMU

executive as the plan's broker.

Sept. '93-June '96-Plan usage increases.

July '96-Bukhman founds ASÉQ to administer the

plan for SSMU. Sept. '96-Concordia buys into ASÉQ plan.

Oct. '96-Dental plan passes in referendum.

Jan. 1 '97-Dental plan introduced. Total plan fees

double to $11 per month.

Sept. '97-Vision care & accident coverage added for free.

Student claims

Jan. '98-Université de Montréal joins, increasing

ASÉQ's client base to 65,000 students.

Feb. '98-Students lobby SSMU to make opting out easier. ASÉQ says fees would increase substantial­ ly.

Future-Bukhman to improve benefits.

ple have raised questions about that. The answer in truth is that the executive two cycles after my own — after a long discussion of the appropriateness — concluded it would be better to have some­ one who u n d ersto o d SSM U ,” Bukhman said.

This year, full-tim e under­ graduate students paid $144.53 for 12 months of health and den­ tal coverage. But most students aren’t aware of the amount they pay. Because of McGill’s admin­ istrative policy, the amount stu­ dents pay for the plan is not writ­ ten on their fee statements, nor on the A SÉQ lite ra tu re th at was m ailed out to stu d en ts last August.

SSMU contracts the McGill student accounts office to collect health plan fees from all under­ g rad u ate stu d en ts w ith th eir tuition. All C anadian students must pay and only those who can pro v e they have o th er h ealth insurance can opt-out at ASÉQ’s office. Neither ASÉQ nor the stu­ dent accounts office issue tax receipts.

“I have a feeling a lot of stu­ dents aren’t aware of how much th is p lan c o s ts ,” said T racey B erm an, the student accounts office supervisor.

C u rren tly , the co st o f the health plan fees are lum ped in with SSMU, faculty association, and various university improve­ ment fees under “society fees.”

Berman suggested SSMU should pay the co st o f p ro gram m ing changes necessary to disseminate the amount students pay for the h ealth plan. “ As a stu d en t at Concordia, I really appreciated it being broken down because of the amount of the fee,” she said.

The SSMU health plan - which covers 100% o f prescription drugs- is ASÉQ’s showpiece. or living in poverty are covered by the government. Employees are covered by [their] employers.

But stu d en ts fall through the cracks because they’re not cov­ ered by either,” Bukhman said.

B ukhm an, who w ill be 28 years old next month, has found a lucrative niche in student health plans. His company, the Quebec Student Health Alliance (ASÉQ), is the largest exclusively student health insurance brokerage firm in Canada, with sales approaching $6 million annually. His clients

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Bukhman takes charge The SSM U h ealth plan is Bukhman’s baby. He first intro­ duced the plan as SSM U’s VP Finance in 1991. He selected the health plan’s first insurance bro­ ker. By the time he graduated in 1993, he had earned his brokers’ license and replaced that firm as SSMU’s insurance broker.

“Over the years several peo­

Id eally , stu d en ts should claim 70 per cent of what they pay into the plan back in benefits, acco rd in g to B ukhm an. B ut McGill students claims are well below that level; between Sept. 1, 1997 and Feb. 28, 1998, the 13,807 McGill students enrolled in the health plan m ade 7,657 health plan claims and 4,790 den­ tal claims. During that period stu­ dents claimed back 53 per cent of their health plan premiums; they paid about $450,000 and received $242,367 in benefits. For the den­ tal plan they claimed back 40.2 per cent of what they paid, paying $504,000 and claiming $202,406.

Bukhman said those numbers do not include claim s for services during this period that have yet to be p ro cessed , w hich w ill be included in the March data.

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in sickness and in health controversial student health plan centre. Bukhman says he brings a level of service and knowledge no other insurance broker has the patience or the desire to provide student clients.

One service that ASÉQ doesn’t offer that the PGSS plan does is a mandatory opt-out of only the prescription portion of the plan for Quebec residents.

The new Q uebec pro v in cial _ _ _ _ _ _ _ M edicare plan covers a signifi­ cant portion of resid en ts’ pre­ H E A h t H A L L 1 À N C B scriptions. The Quebec residents, who account for 700 of the PGSS The law s tu d e n ts’ rep to N ot all u n iv ersities have p la n ’s 4,700 m em bers, are SSMU council, Mario Nigro, has health plans; the University of returned $49 when they opt out. crusaded this year to improve the British Columbia decided a health ASÉQ does not plan to offer health plan’s service. He thinks plan would be an unnecessary Quebec students the option to opt the reason ASÉQ can cover ser­ hassle. out of the prescription part of the vices like laser eye-surgery is SSMU plan.

ASÉQ’s impact because students aren’t using the “I th in k i t ’s com pletely plan enough.

SSMU general manager Guy ridiculous,” he said, adding the “We should not be mystified B risebois can re la te. B efore PGSS plan’s opt-out for Quebec by all o f these new services ASEQ began managing the health residents shows a lack of research because very few students use plan in 1996, guid in g health by CFS. According to Bukhman, them,” Nigro said. insurance was a real drain on under the Quebec plan students The M cGill Post-G raduate SSMU’s resources. “We used to still have to pay an $8 deductible Students’ Society offers a differ­ go crazy during the opt-out peri­ plus 25 per cent of the cost of the ent health and dental plan through drug. Without additional cover­ od,” Brisebois said. “It was hell,” the C anadian F ed eratio n of He says the serv ice has age, students would have to pay Students for $227 a year. PGSS in creased su b stan tially since $11 of an $18 prescription for adm inistrator Jerom e Holm es, birth control p ills under the Bukhman took over the plan. who has overseen the plan since it “We paid the other broker the Quebec plan. began in September 1995, said Another point of contention same amount for not doing any­ that PGSS’ claims always exceed thing and now we have someone is the o p t-o u t pro ced u re. the amount graduate students pay who is servicing students direct­ Currently, students can only opt into the plan. out of the plan if they can prove ly,” Brisebois said.

“I’m always impressed that they have other coverage. Last w e’ve managed to maintain the “ It’s ve ry lo g ic a l fo r month, about 200 students initiat­ same prem ium ,” Holm es said. ed a referendum question making s o m e o n e w h o ’s 20 March 31 may see a change in the it easier to opt-out of the plan. y e a rs o ld , w ho has current plan, as the PGSS annual After the question was sub­ n e v e r been s ic k , to referendum will decide whether m itted, SSMU chief returning to increase the current premium 5 th in k tha t th e re ’s no officer Glen Linder, who must per cent to maintain the same ser­ re a s o n fo r h e a lth evaluate all referendum questions, vice or retain the present premi­ consulted Bukhman and an o th er/ insurance.” um and reduce some services. independent insurance brokers, v The U niversity of Toronto Linder said both brokers told him — Lev Bukhman S tu d e n ts’ A d m in istrativ e if students opt-out easily, “the Council’s health plan also claims No Quebec based insurance pool of people in the plan would back more than they pay in pre­ can m eet the student society’s decrease and rates would go up m ium s, plan a d m in istrato r needs, Brisebois said. Quebec law fo r students rem aining in the Melanie Waring-Chapman said. requires SSMU hire a Quebec plan.” He disqualified the referen­ They vote this week on a pro­ broker if it wants to deal with an dum question because the SSMU posed $10.50 premium increase. out of province insurance compa­ constitution states student-initiat­ Currently, for $30 a year, their ny. Enter Lev Bukhman.

As M cG ill’s broker, ed referendum questions cannot plan offers 80 per cent o f pre­ B u k h m an ’s jo b is to find the “alter membership fees or other scription costs excluding birth insurance company that will give financial matters of the society.” control, basic accident insurance B ukhm an said opt-o u t students the best value. ASÉQ’s including up to $300 for tutoring, requirements need to be strict for cut is 15 per cent of the health but no dental coverage. students’ sake. plan revenues. B ukhm an also For $83 a year, the Queen’s “It’s very logical for some­ constantly tinkers with the plan, University Alma Mater Society adding new features he thinks stu­ one who’s 20 years old, who has health plan includes 80 percent never been sick, to think that dents need. off prescription drugs, 20 per cent He says the SSMU plan, with there’s no reason for health insur­ off prescription eye wear, acci­ its health, dental and eye care ance,” he said. “We don’t know dent insurance including $300 in com ponents, is A SÉQ ’s show­ when we’re going to be a benefi­ tutoring, accidental dental, chiro­ piece. “Other schools come to us ciary.” practic, massage and physiothera­ Bukhman is convinced most and say we want w hat McGill py treatment. The plan also pro­ students would not opt-out if it has,” Bukhman said. vides 100 per cent out of country ASÉQ does more than aver­ m eant the prem ium s for those accident insurance (with no limit age brokers; it also administers who stayed in the plan would go on the length of stay) and for an the plan, produces plan literature, up. additional $83, students’ whole handles the opt-out procedure and immediate family can be covered. operates a call-in inform ation

Coverage you get for your $12.04/month D rug D eals:

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You jum p, I jum p: why w e’re all going dow n with Titanic

Features W riters: L a s t c h a n c e to c o v e r a ll o f th e s e b u rn in g is s u e s . C o n ta c t L e s lie o r H e a th e r.

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The CH ESTER M A C N A G H T E N PRIZES IN CREATIVE W R IT IN G (two prizes, one of $500 and another of $350) are open to undergraduate students of the University for best piece of creative writing in English, i.e. a story, a play, a poem, an essay, etc. Printed compositions are ineligible if they have been published before April 15th, 1997.

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Forms to be completed (for creative writing prizes and awards) are availbalbe in the Department of English General Office, Arts 155. Submissions must be in duplicate.

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Let me begin by saying that if Titanic didn’t win the Oscar for Best Picture last night, I am fully aware that I look like an ass right now. A BIG ass. (So there’s no need for you and your friends to taunt me with chants of “Ass, Ass, Ass,” every time you spot me on campus).

You see, I’m writing this little ditty on Friday morning — that’s almost a full four days ago, for those of you in Cultural Studies — and I am boldly pre­ dicting that Titanic will bring home the hardware as Oscar’s favorite film this year.

Actually, by the time you read this on Tuesday or Wednesday or Thursday morning — and certainly by the time it’s lining the bottom of a cage covered in parrot poo — the Canadian media will already have begun some kind of orgasmic, orgytype love-in, celebrating Canada’s “central role” in the production of the World’s Best Picture for the sec­ ond year in a row!!! (Do y ’all remember “Michael Ondaatje’s” The English Patient?)

Go ahead, pick up a newspaper.

Turn on a TV. I guarantee that somebody, somewhere will be nat­ tering on and on about how fantastic Titanic is, and how much it means for Canada that such an amazingly successful film was conceived of

Micah Knapp wrote and directed Titanic. (Just think what we Canadians could do if we ever started playing hockey!)

All of this is, of course, a big bunch of crap. Titanic is about as Canadian as a cool bowl of gazpacho on a hot summer’s day. And, while it might be a better movie than The English Patient, it isn’t exactly worthy of the com parisons to Doctor Zhivago and Gone with the Wind that critics — especially Canadian critics — seem so eager to make. Let’s face it, flag-wavers, Titanic is an American movie — a Hollywood movie — and a mediocre piece of filmmaking at best.

While it does (somehow) draw us into its magic, capturing our undivided attention for all of its

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three hours and seventeen minutes, the script for Titanic is so patchy that it leaves us feeling like it was written in about the same amount of time. Most of the characters are as flat as a McDonald’s hamburger patty; the cinematography is heavyhanded; a laughably obvious distinc­ tion between “good” (working class) and “bad” (upper class) char­ acters controls the plot; and the over use of digital effects gives the entire film a kind of glossy, post­ human look.

So why has Titanic received almost universal praise?

Why do all kinds of people, even intelligent people, love this movie?

The easiest answer is that sappy, melodramatic crap has always caused a stampede to the box office and Titanic is no exception.

But I don’t believe this. I, for one, hate romance stories, yet I really enjoyed this movie. What da dilly, yo’?

One possibility, as The New Yorker suggests, is that because Titanic experienced the “failure” stage (in the “three-stage modern marketing phenom-cycle: success, failure, redem ption”) before it opened. Its success upon opening was perceived by critics as a come­ back, thereby insulating it from the usual critical “backlash.” and allow­ ing gobs of sheep-like, ignorant drones to continue lapping it up unabated.

But I don’t believe this either. 1 saw Titanic on opening night, and I had heard very little about its pre­ release “failure,” nothing about its future success, and I still liked it.

Why? (Clue: it’s not because of my recent lobotomy).

Well, according to Kent Jones of Film Comment, another possibili­ ty is that due to some kind of deeply ingrained Scientism, we all love Titanic because we’ve been trained to believe that it’s the first product of the long-awaited merger of cine­ ma, popular entertainment, and digi­ tal animation. Our acceptance of this movie, Jones claims, is intimately linked to our faith in the very notion of progress — so any rejection of it would involve a heretical denial of this principle.

Now, I don’t know about you, but I’m still not convinced. I have no idea why millions of people around the world love Titanic and I don’t think I’ll ever know.

The most plausible explanation I can come up with is that James Cameron watched Crash and learned something spooky about the subconscious, universal, erotic appeal of disasters: “If two cars col­ liding is enough to make people juice their pants,” he thought, “think what a huge boat and an iceberg could do!”

So maybe Titanic isn’t so unCanadian after all.

Mr. Knapp was saddened to discover that James Cameron is now a dual Canadian-American citizen, but rest assured — he is safe in his heart and his heart will go on.

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Three fresh perspectives on encountering culture under one roof B y C h r is S elley

The Centre de créativité at Les Salles du Gesù is currently presenting the second part of its series entitled Rencontres inter­ culturelles. The free exhibition highlights three artists from dis­ tin ctly d ifferen t backgrounds; native Quebecer Louis-Hugues Fontaine, Bulgarian expatriate Bissier Maximov and Carole Cliff, a New Zealander who has trav­ elled ex ten siv ely in C an ad a’s Northwest Territories.

“I am on a h ill,” w rites Q uebec a rtist L ouis-H ugues Fontaine. “I am looking at this space which time seems to have forgotten.” This statement of per­ spective is very helpful in refer­ ence to his som ew hat chaotic pieces. “Narration blanche,” for instance, is a turmoil of white, black, blue and, oddly, gold acry lic, barely confined to a square within a white background.

G eese in the p ainting suggest movement which transcends the painting itself, as the leader’s beak pierces this frame. The distance Fontaine describes in his written accompaniment to the pieces is essential to discern the numerous animal shapes which are shrouded in paint. In “T o u rb illo n ” (“W h irlw in d ” ), perhaps the a r tis t’s m ost im p ressive work exhibited, a marine mammal of some sort is curled in a fetal posi­

tion and surrounded by birds, cari­ bou and a hunter, each barely dis­ tinguishable except when viewed from afar.

Maximov’s paintings are enti­ tled “Casse-Tête” (jigsaw puzzle) and are, in certain respects, bril­ liant. His paintings, in his own words are, “a personal search for an internal unity in a world of contradictions and doubts, a world in which the pieces of the jigsaw puzzle don’t always connect.”

This noble sentiment is compro­ mised somewhat by some rather sim plistic pieces in which the pieces do interconnect, an act of fulfilment which, for some reason, seems to detract from the power of the work. Maximov is clearly at his strongest when he allows him­ self to be whimsical, which is the force behind the w onderful “G rand-m am an m ’a tricoté un chandail ” (Grandmother knitted me a sweater), in which pieces of tw ine are arranged on a beige background to resem ble a very straightforward wool sweater. The beauty of the w ork is in the sweater’s neck, the only border we are allowed to see, which cre­ ates the impression of a puzzlepiece. “Flottant,” similarly, con­ sists of two large blue puzzle pieces which seem to lean and bulge in a decidedly human fash­ ion.

C liff is the m ost accom ­ plished artist exhibited; she has

navigating the northern landscapes she depicts. At one end of the spectrum is “NA298,” a baffling sculpture/mural which appears to comment on modern and ancient concepts of cartography. Strings resembling power lines start at a rusty ring, divide and move “east­ w ard s” across a landscape of cracked paint resembling a wellworn map. Moving into the “mod­ em ,” the lines cross aeronautical charts, then encounter a group of 23 carved wooden faces and con­ verge again upon another rusty ring. M ore effectiv e than this behemoth are Cliff’s more under­ stated murals “N-746,” “W-128,” and “E-605,” in which rusted and painted metal is combined very effectively with quartzite and bits of bone and feathers.

These should really be con­ sidered three separate exhibits and each is definitely worth a look, especially considering that there is no cost. If there is an overall les­ son that links all three, however, it is surely the value of simplicity.

Each of these artists runs the gamut from epic to modest and it is in modesty that each finds his or her most poignant expression.

Nature meets nurture gained co n siderable critical acclaim for her use of natural materials. Each of her works is entitled in reference to the Global

Eating fondue is w orth the hassle waiter referred to as the “$10 sup­ plement”. Something like a table d’hôte, this supplement allowed us I always thought that fondue was something my parents’ gener­ to sample a bit of everything and ation ate; a sort of kitsch-like phe­ turned out to be quite a large nom enon that went along with amount of food. Since the selec­ shag rugs and jcllo moulds.

However, fondue is mak­ ing a steady comeback. La .1 , 1 V en ez prendre Fondue Prince Arthur, at 70 k im p s û déguster... rue Prince Arthur est, is just one of the rising number of fondue restaurants in down­ town Montreal.

LM s ù T n n c e M rtftu r Upon en tering La Fondue, my dining compan­ W m ,m m m A r â m -,V m tM Q 0 u ^ m s s ii ion alluded to the strange array of paintings that decorated tion was designed for two people, the walls, inquiring frankly, “Why we started with a choice of two would anyone want to buy these?” salads or daily soup, follow ed Although not as disturbed as he promptly by a half order of pun­ about the interior design of the gent N euchâtel cheese fondue restaurant, a valid point had been with crusty dipping bread. The brought up: the charm of La main course of Chinese fondue Fondue is not in the decor, it’s in consisted of a boiling pot of onions in broth that was used to the food.

The menu displays a wide cook two com binations of raw variety of choices and is actually a meat or seafood. We chose the bit unclear. After surveying our chicken-beef and shrimp-scallop options, we decided to try the platters in order to appease all of Chinese Fondue with what the our_tastes_anid were delighted to

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discover that a plate of dipping sauces and delicious roasted pota­ toes accom panied each of our meals. There was a bit of confu­ sion at first as to the time needed to cook each item, but after a few tries we were com pletely absorbed in the process.

As one can imagine, the dessert included in our meal was the pièce de résistance .

Hot, melted, bittersweet choco­ late and a small plate of assort­ ed fruit for dipping finished off the meal on an ideal note. The pineapple and peaches were undoubtedly canned — a major downfall. Nevertheless, the ser­ vice was im peccable and the chocolate kept us happy for hours afterwards.

The b ill, w ithout alcohol, came to exactly $20 each, which we thought was rather expensive considering the little preparation involved on the part o f the kitchen. All in all, however, La Fondue is a welcome departure from the run-of-the-m ill — an experience worth trying at least once.

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Positioning System—a deliberate ju xtapositio n of the elem ental nature of her art with the twentieth century technology essential for

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Charge up the account: CKUT’s 1998 funding drive B y La u r a M

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If you should happen to be station-surfing on Montreal’s fine radio waves between March 26 and April 5, you may notice that CKUT 90.3 FM (McGill’s cam­ pus community radio station that broadcasts 24/7) will be asking for your money.

C K U T ’s annual fu n ding drive is reaching out to the rest of M o n tre a l’s co m m u n ities and hopes to raise $50,000 for the sta­ tion’s operating budget. The sta­ tion has chosen “POWER” as the them e for this y e a r’s funding drive, hence the slogans, “Power your sta tio n ” and “CKUT: M o n treal’s A lternative Pow er Source.”

The funding drive goal of $50,000 represents only 15 per cent of the station’s total revenue, but this y e a r’s Funding Drive Coordinator Lisa Uddin asserted that the purpose of the drive is not only to raise money, but also to boost CKUT’s profile.

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funding drive is relatively small but significant — it’s a communi­ ty outreach b litz,” said Uddin.

“Pledges confirm and validate support for what this station does for the community.”

CKUT provides a multitude of incentives to prospective con­ tributors. Any pledge over $25 will be rewarded by a choice of gifts, including CDs, books and gift certificates for items ranging from tattoos to cardiofunk class­ es. Once entered in to the grand prize draw you have the chance to win round-trip airfare to Paris, stereo systems, Lithium gear, 12 days unlim ited trav el on VIA Rail and a year-long membership to the YM/WCA. No pressu re, really ... ju s t thought you might want to know.

CKUT’s Funding Drive runs from March 26 to April 5;. call 398-6786 fo r inform ation and 398-8991 to pledge.

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Jackie Chan up to same old stunts B y A lex M

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Just as porno m ovies have storylines that simply provide an excuse for sex scenes, Jackie Chan’s movies have become mere pretex ts for action sequences.

Much of the script for Chan’s lat­ est, Mr. Nice Guy, however, w ould make any selfresp ectin g porn w riter cringe.

D irected by Sammo Hung, the film is part of an ongoing effort to make Chan accessible to a main­ stream American audience.

Chan plays a popular televi­ sion personality in Australia (named Jackie) who hosts his own cooking show. The action quickly goes from chop suey to chop sockey as Chan hooks up with a re p o rter (played by Gabrielle Fitzpatrick) who has been discovered video­ taping a g an gster’s dirty dealmaking. (The video is miraculously shot from several different angles even though the reporter was filming from her hid­ ing spot in a far corner of the warehouse.)

Chan’s English is somewhat slurred and extremely awkward, but this doesn’t affect the movie a great deal because the w riter rarely gives him more than five consecutive lines in any scene.

Unfortunately, the rest of the act­ ing in the movie is even worse than Chan’s — especially on the part of those playing gangsters and other miscellaneous bad guys.

Despite Mr. Nice Guy's many shortcomings, Chan fans will not be disappointed by its action

scenes. It is commonly known that Chan does all his own stunts, allowing for close-ups during dan­ gerous sequences that are usually missing from Hollywood action flicks that feature big stars. The action sequences in Mr. Nice Guy are extremely well-choreographed and photographed by Hung and often provide comic relief. Hung gives Chan the opportunity to

make the most of his great gift for physical comedy, as he stumbles through each set piece with the appropriate clumsiness.

U nfortunately, not even Chan’s goofy charisma can save this movie from the thin plot that attempts to link the action scenes together. The forced, mechanical tone and down­ right terrible acting featured in some scenes prom pted some unintended laughs from the audience.

Unintentional also describes much of the camera work in these scenes — especially the slow -m otion, blurry images that inexplicably pop up throughout the film. The worst case of this is when Chan jumps to catch his girl­ friend (played by Miki Lee) as she flies through the air and they both come crashing down in a bed of flowers.

By far, the most enter­ taining part of the film is the series of outtakes (mostly of action scenes gone wrong) that appear at the end of the movie just before the credits. These show Chan at his natural, goofy best and are an obvious attem pt by the filmmakers to send the audience into the lobby with smiles on their faces (and to make them forget about the ninety minutes that came before).

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The Spectrum was an ideal venue for the event, providing room for both chilled-out table talk and insane bursts of inspired boo­ gie on the dance floor. The sound was virtually flawless, which is one of the major problems with seeing shows in M ontreal (Metropolis anyone?).

Spectacular tracks were what really made the night though. The gritty beats for multiply remixed and re-released “Brown Paper Bag” continued throughout the set and acted as a gel for the whole performance. One of the hilights was “Share the Fall,” which served to em otionally charge and inspire the fans as w ell as, in the philosophy of MC D ynam ite, “Bring it down so we can bring it even h ig h er.”

During Onalee’s acapella portion, she hit a high note that resound­ ed through the crowd and rever­ berated through each and every ecstatic body. It was a drum and bass communion.

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Live in strum entation is a drum and bass breakthrough that takes the form beyond the club and into the realm of the spectacle.

There was some buzz amongst the hard-core d&bers, who worried that this move to larger appeal would push the music into a more commercial vein. Drum and bass purists consider the genre to be an evolution in elec­ tronica and have prided them ­ selves on its underground and intellectual nature.

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24 March 1998

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The day after the release of his solo album Little Songs, the Tribune sat down with M oist’s frontman, David Usher and chat­ ted about his wife, escaping to Thailand, his sex symbol status, his wife, his upcoming interview with Chumbawamba....and, lest I forget to mention, his wife.

The self-p ro claim ed “isola tist” m et me w ith two other interviewers (or were they just lo v estru ck C E G E P g irls w ith press passes? I w onder if they noticed the ring...) at one of those crow ded cafés on St. Laurent.

Against the backdrop of coffee culture, he is incognito, fitting in with the rest of the beautiful peo­ ple.

As to the m eaning o f this album, David is reluctant to go deeper than commenting that “it’s a very different kind of record— it’s not really commercial.” When a fellow interviewer probed as to why he m ade th is album if it wouldn’t sell to the general pub­ lic — if it was more for himself — he answ ered, “W ell, th a t’s u su ally th e fo cu s to m aking music.” Ask stupid questions and you’ll get stupid answers. Fair enough. On with the interview.

Tribune: 1 read somewhere that you were going to use anoth­ er title for this record. Why did you change it?

David U sher: It was origi­ nally called Little Songs To Fuck To and that was a take off on the concept that all solo records are little songs of this, songs of that.

The original title was supposed to be a semi-satirical slant on that, but when I passed it by a number of my female friends, my wife and my sister, they found it to be slightly aggressive and pointed out that it could be taken as sex­ ist. That wasn’t my intention, so 1 struck it.

Trib: So how did this whole process come about?

DU: I’m a six-in-the-morning kind of guy so I’m up every­ day and I’ll just start improv-ing vo cally and w ith the g u itar.

Usually, I’ll start to catch a beat on something, I’ll start to recog­ nize ideas with a couple of key

Trib: In your liner notes, it says that a couple of tracks were recorded in your kitchen...

DU: I liked recording in my kitchen because it gave me an im m ediacy and a con n ectio n th a t’s very clo se. I ’m a big believer in recording practices, especially these days with the advance of tech n o lo g y w hich allow s you to get really good quality things out of small stu­ dios. I go back to roots like The B eatles. If you listen to th eir older songs recorded on fourtrack, they’re amazing and would stand up today against any other songs.

of me, but that’s their opinion and I’m not uncomfortable with those things because they’re going to exist and I can’t exert any control over it.

Essentially you’re going to get good rev iew s and bad

reviews— I ’ve known this for a long tim e. I ’d ra th e r th at the review s w ere good because it makes doing interviews easier. It makes my life easier for the next couple of months — I don’t have to run away to Thailand and hide out. But a reviewer not liking the record is n ’t going to ch an g e my approach. It’s not going to have m uch o f an effect because th e re ’s nothing I can do about it.

T rib: So w h a t’s next for you?

DU: W ell, for the next m onth, I have an in terv iew every h a lf hour, but I ’m going to make more records obvi­ ously. Moist is going to go on as a band, I ’ll p ro b ab ly m ake m ore solo re co rd s — w ell, depending on how this one do es, m aybe the record company will tell me to fuck off. I don’t know, we’ll see.

Trib: What were your influ­ ences w hile re co rd in g L ittle Songs?

DU: N eil Young, Leonard Cohen, The Beatles...I also like a lot of hip hop stuff, but the main thing with this recording was to make a more intimate record with more focus on lyric and meaning.

Trib: W ould you say that this Neil Young influence makes some of your songs sim ilar to, say, G ord D o w n ie ’s [o f The Tragically Hip] stuff?

DU: I don’t compare myself to Gord Downie...(Pause) Maybe i t ’s b ecause w e ’re both K ingstonians...w e w ent to the same high school.

Trib: Then would you say that you’ve gone against the norm of “alternative music?”

DU: I don’t know that I’ve gone against the norm. I find the co n c ep t o f a lte rn a tiv e m usic hum orous these days because most things people consider alter­ native aren’t really alternative. If you read the w ords to L ittle Songs, you could say that i t ’s mellower, but there’s more alter­ native thought in it than there is in my other records.

T rib: A re you concerned that some critics will label you as the poster boy of Moist and won’t take your solo endeavour serious­ ly?

DU: I live in the real world.

People are going to take whatever they want out of the band or out

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Trib: On that note, do you th in k M oist w ill ju m p on the American bandwagon à la Céline Dion and Alanis Morissette?

DU: I do n ’t think about it that much because it’s not the be all and end all of my life. If the be all and end all of your life is to be as huge as you possibly can, it’ll take up a lot of your time and energy. I like doing a certain am ount o f to u rin g , but th ere comes a point when you w on’t get to write or do the things you like. With a record, you can tour for two, three years... I d o n ’t want to be away from my wife for three years.”

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T rib: W h en ’s your next interview?

DU: I fly into T oronto to night and I ’m doing a thing w ith Kim H ughes o f CFNY. W e’re friends and she asked me to hang out and in terv iew Chum bawam ba with her after­ w ards. I ’m liste n in g to th eir album rig h t now so I can ask them some fun questions.

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24 March 1998

M oshav Band plays to w ake up Jew ish activism on cam pus B y S t e p h a n ie L ev itz

Seeing teenagers dancing and body surfing at concerts is not uncommon. Seeing them dancing and bodysurfing to an Israeli band ~is. Such was the sight at the Medley on March 14, when the M oshav Band, straig h t from Israel, made its Canadian debut.

The M oshav Band com es from a com m unal settlem ent, know n as a m oshav, halfw ay between Tel-Aviv and Jerusalem.

Although the m ajority of their m usic is in E nglish, the band draws a lot of its inspiration from the leader of the moshav, the late Rav Shlomo Carlebach. Three out of the five members of the band grew up on the moshav, known for Carlebach’s music and spirit.

A ccording to drum m er Danny Roth, “the band grew up singing his music in shul [synagogue] and davening [playing] w ith his

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music. There was a tradition of playing music and singing in shul and concerts and lots of situa­ tions.”

The M oshav B and was formed officially two years ago and was orignially called Facing East. They began playing regular­ ly in Jerusalem on Sunday nights and quickly attracted a following of American and Canadian stu­ dents studying at Israeli universi­ ties. They were drawn to the band because m ost of their original songs are in English and they play a great deal of A m erican m usic. As w ell, the m oshav extended an open invitation to stu d en ts to com e spend the Sabbath with them and the band’s concert was the highlight of the weekend. A major attraction at the m oshav was C arlebach, affirmed Roth.

“He came from a tradition of incredible rabbis. He was a huge

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scholar and turned all of that to joy and music - outreach for Jews everywhere.”

The spirit within the music of the Moshav Band was clearly in evidence at their concert at the Medley. Solid cover versions of Tracey Chapman and Pearl Jam were no match for the moving trib u tes to Israel. The song “ D avid M elech/A m Y israel Chai,” while not an original song, had people spontaneously joining hands and dancing the traditional Jewish Hora, while one person was lifted above the crowd, hoist­ ing an Israeli flag. Ariel Breiner, a first year engineering student who was at the concert described it as being “exciting and full of energy.”

“I liked the way everyone was so hyped up about it,” he stated. “T hat’s what made it a good place to be.” The energy at the concert was lost somewhat during their Eddie Vedder-esque E nglish songs, but retu rn ed immediately with every Hebrew song they played.

The band came to Canada as part o f the W ake-U p Tour.

O rganized by North Am erican Jewish students who had been studying in Israel, the goal of the tour was to awaken Jewish stu­ dent activism on cam puses throughout Canada and the U.S. The impetus for the tour was the feeling among these students that Jew ish youths were becom ing separated from their race and cul­ ture. Two McGill students, Justin Korda and Sigmund Shore were among the group that brought the

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band to Canada.

“Sig and Justin were study­ ing in Jeru salem and saw the band at the weekly shows and went to the moshav. They were very ex cited and saw a spark there that they liked,” said Roth.

Yehuda Solomon, lead singer for the band, explained that their participation in the tour was just part of a natural chain of events.

“Rav Carlebach emphasised the jo y in Ju d aism , not the ‘o y .’

Students came and listened to our band and liked what we did and wanted to bring that beauty of Judaism on to kids that don’t real­ ly get that so much.”

The idea for the W ake-Up T our o rig in ated in M ay. “We really thought that the Judaism they were showing was the most inspiring, thrilling Judaism that we had ever w itn essed ,” said

Shore. “When people leave Israel they always leave feeling down, th at they are leav in g all the excitement and we thought, ‘let’s bring it with us.’ ” The students were able to get funding from Edgar B ronfm an, a prom inent Jewish businessman and philan­ th ro p ist and the tour took o ff from there. After Montreal, they headed to Pittsburgh, Michigan and Toronto.

Syndie Singer, a first year science student who was at the concert in Montreal, appreciated the band’s light-hearted approach to religio'us revival.

“The whole idea and mood was about stim u latin g Jew ish youth and teaching them how to enjoy what Judaism has to offer.

It’s not ju st about praying, it’s about fun stuff too.”

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Sonic Room So reads the t-shirts of vegan straight-edge hardcore messiahs Earth Crisis, a band dedicated to Pro-Life in the most radical sense of the term. For quite a few years now they have made a cottage industry out of perverting the ideals of pio­ neers like Minor Threat and SSD, bands that originally advocated straight edge as a way rising above the tiresome Dazed and Confusedstyle ethos of booze, drugs and gra­ tuitous sex. Ian Mackaye, the lead singer of Minor Threat, succintly outlined the idea of straight edge in the song “Out of Step.” “I don’t

Black Grape Stupid Stupid Stupid (Radioactive)

Alright! British early ’90s drug music is back and it sounds just like it did in 1991. Powerful lyrics like “gotta get stronger to get higher” will surely captivate a whole new generation of pseudo-hippies. Oh, but don't think that the music lacks a contemporary political message: it takes a brave stand against that great sacred cow of Alt. “Music, Ronald Reagan! That’s like spitting on Kurt Cobain’s grave, man!” I suppose the Reagan reference is appropriate, though, because if the Doc and Marty McFly travelled from 1985 to 1998, then took Stupid Stupid Stupid back to their own time, it might sound original. This is one album you can read by its title.

— Paul Sheridan Earth Crisis The Oath That Keeps Me Free (Victory Records) “Unnecessary killing is unjust.”

band plays like a Slayer influenced “chugga-chugga” band and well, the lyrics “The holistic picture/ Stays unviewed and worsens./ It is the reason violators live/ While inno­ cents are terminated” pretty much speak for themselves.

The great tragedy of Earth Crisis is that they have become immensely popular in hardcore and have come to represent (in the minds of some ill-informed people) what the spirit of the music is all about. The spirit of Slapshot’s “Do What You Want” (but “Don’t You do it to Me”), has been all but lost, as bands like Earth Crisis have made their unwillingness to com­ promise or even respect other peo­ ple’s opinions a major selling point.

Hardcore is an extraordinarily diverse form of music, and we don’t think there’s anything inherently libelous in saying Earth Crisis is definitely not our cup of tea. I think this album sucks, both musically and “intellectually”, but don’t take our word for it.

Disc of the Week Robbie Robertson Contact from the Underworld o f Redboy (Capitol) Get ready to pow-wow to some stompin’ beats and chillin’ chants. Legendary Canadian (and half-Native) Robbie Robertson returns with a collection of tracks that’ll put you in tune with the spir­ it of those who were bumpin’ to beats on Morth American soil thou­ sands of years before any European even knew how to cha-cha.

— Nick Redler, James Davies

drink, I don’t smoke, I don’t fuck, At least I can fuckin’ think.” Such a simple strive for purity has been pushed to an absurd extreme by Earth Crisis into an incoherent nar­ row-minded dogma that would scare the bejesus out of the average liberal citizen. Retreating from the socalled conformities of the world, the band advocates strict veganism, the destruction of machinery and an end to abortion in their lyrics, all for eth­ ical reasons. Musically speaking, the

Eugene Ripper Faster than you Think (independent) Eugene’s album makes you twitch to turn the stereo off. Cliché lyrics, bad Tom Waits impressions and pop melody rip-offs abound.

His eclectic “style” is downright weird. Eugene nestles among coun­ try, folk and rock songs in a new age rendition of OK Computer’s ‘Track 7.” The lyrics are so cheesy that you sincerely hope Mr. Ripper takes his day job a little more seri­ ously.

Robertson has quite a past with the whole “classic rock” thing, having been the guitarist of The Band and played on Bob Dylan's infamous Basement Tapes.

This shouldn’t dissuade all you urban hipsters, however, as Robertson takes a remarkably dif­ ferent turn on Redboy, working with, among others, H. Bernstein (a.k.a. Howie B) and Maurice de Vries (of Massive Attack fame) to deliver a special hybrid of trip-hop.

Redboy incorporates Robertson’s

vocals and guitar along with some terrific First Nations singers and musicians, all placed within the context of one terrifically-pro­ duced, grinding groove.

This record definitely gets moving with pounding tracks like “Making A Noise” and the mantra­ laden “The Sound Is Fading.” On the lighter, more loungish side there’s the smooth, scintillating “Unbound” and the gentle grandeur of “The Code Of Handsome Lake.”

Robertson definitely puts an impor­ tant political accent on this record, especially with tracks like “Sacrifice.” This track features some phoned-in spoken word from Native activist Leonard Peltier, who discusses his wrongful impris­ onment 20 years ago. (The white man found the need to stick some­ one in jail when they couldn’t find who was responsible for shooting two policemen.) There’s also a spiritual side to this record which is laid bare in tracks like “Peyote Healing.”

The one downer about this record is that the energy does seem to fade a bit near the end, but it picks up hard-core in the finale with the DJ Premier’s “Red Alert Mix” of “Take Your Partner By The Hand,” a collaborative track from Howie B’s excellent Turn the Dark Off that became a hit this year in the gay club scene.

Pick this one up and pass the peace pipe.

— Dave Albouy

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Martlet figure skating team ends season with dazzling performance

By P aul C o n n er

Like many teams at McGill, the M artlet figure skating club doesn’t receive much attention on campus. One reason for this is the fact th at they com pete in the O ntario U niversities A thletics conference — never hosting an event, and never competing in an event held close to home.

That several hundred people who attended their annual end-ofseason show is testament to the sport’s popularity and the team’s com m itm ent to advertising the event. Last Friday, the team’s 20 members took to the McConnell Winter Arena for the 19th annual show which mixed together more

traditional routines performed in com petition and a few pieces you’ll never see in the OUA. The team its e lf is an odd paradox of raw talent mixed with an inexperienced student coach­ ing structure forced to contend with all the usual issues facing McGill club teams.

“I think what is hardest for the McGill team is that we don’t get a lot of ice time,” explained U3 student-coach Mazie Vincelli.

“But we know [the school] is giv­ ing us as much as they can.

“What happens is a girl gets to this level and she’s going to skate on what she knew before [arriving at M cGill], She’s not going to get better; she’s only

have to choose one or the other,” explained Yamich.

Friday evening’s show was a mix of precision team skating, several singles and pairs routines, and a few shows thrown in for entertainment value.

What most struck me early on was how large the ice surface appeared and how sm all the skaters seemed in the solo events.

Having never seen figure skating live, it was odd to look at a rink norm ally fille d w ith a dozen equipment-laden hockey players occup ied by a single ath lete.

W hereas in a team sport, the atten tio n sh ifts m om ent by moment, here, the entire audience is watching a single performer.

going to maintain what she can do because she can’t work on getting better,” she said.

K ara Y am ich, the team 's other student-coach added that before com ing to M cG ill the skaters were trained much more “they're used to skating five hours a day and now we’re skating five hours a week.”

The two coaches and a pair of team members explained that their choice to come to McGill and com pete at a som ew hat reduced level was a decision which all competitors face in this sport.

“In a sport like this, if you compete at a national level, you can’t really go to school — you

“For me, i t ’s really h ard,” said U1 E n g lish m ajor Jenny Laurent, who skated a solo perfor­ mance early in the evening and later in a duo w ith H elen O ’Leary. “I have a really hard problem with my nerves. [But] it depends on the person, if she enjoys that kind of thing.”

A fter the ev ent, the team appeared pleased with their suc­ cessful season close. They realize that their situation is unlikely to change in the near future with respect to practice time, but feel that the best way to improve their lot is to take what resources they are given and continue to improve in the OUA.

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Even with three sides to a story the ending is always the same B y P a u l F u th e y

It’s an issue in professional sports that is occasionally touched upon, yet rarely explored. When it is discussed, it comes about during players’ strikes or owners’ lock­ outs. This same lack of exposure is what prevents proper recognition of this particular group — I’m talking, of course, about the fans, the people who pay the bills. ï ’m not saying fans don’t receive any attention.

After all, we all get to see the highlights of the Cheeseheads in Green Bay, the body painting and the signs bearing television station acronyms (my favourite was “NBC — nothing but crap”). Another method, streaking, is a sure way to get noticed as one hockey fan in Calgary recently proved.

It’s usually a bona fide method of landing your butt on the late night sports show.

But th at’s not the kind of publicity I mean.

I ’m talking about the fan’s plight in today’s sports world — regard­ less of the outcome in the inevitable arguments between management and players, the fan, quite frankly, gets screwed.

The most frustrating part about all of this? Fans always come back for more.

The key to all of this is money.

The cash a fan shells out for tickets to get in the building is only the beginning of the embezzlement.

Add to thàt sales of team parapher­ nalia, concession stand refresh­ ments, and the ultimate rip-off— parking—and management’s bilk­ ing of the fan is complete. It’s no surprise then that increasingly it is the business people and other mon­

etarily endowed folk who pay through the nose, as other fans drop out, priced out of the game.

The fan has ample reason to be cynical today. Players don’t honour existing contracts. Many in man­ agement are looking to nickel and dime a player if it means saving on salary regardless of how a team’s performance is affected.

None of these monkeyshines get noticed as much as those that occur during a work stoppage. At least when these guys act like

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babies during the season, the games themselves distract from all the whining. With action at a standstill, however, fans are allowed to take a step back and realize what a raw deal they’re getting.

It’s classic. Talk about a com­ plete loss of perspective.. Players unions, who make Canadian Postal Workers look like underpaid grunts by comparison, usually win these battles. The strike (or lockout) is a prime opportunity to witness both management and players behaving like complete asses as they hurl insults at one another through the

media.

Their claim that they want to sit down and “ju st get it done,” is the biggest joke.

One argu­ ment presented to frustrated fans during a work stoppage is “well, if you don’t want players getting m illions, how about the owners getting billions?”

What a stupid way to rationalize money grubbing.

How about the fan getting some payback, some respect?

I t’s always two sides to the story, with arguably the most im portant side, the third, getting ignored and tram­ pled.

Players and “Um...there's an management con­ tinue to live in their fantasy worlds, further and further deluding themselves that it will always continue to be this way.

Commitment, loyalty and trust are words lost on these people — everyone’s in it for himself.

It was encouraging to see fans stay away following the resumption of ball play after the disastrous strike of 1994, but it didn’t seem to last long. There have been rum­ blings of a fan strike but nothing substantial ever seems to come of it. In the mean time, management blames a lack of fan interest on the market size, claiming that there aren’t enough people willing to shell out outrageous amounts of money to see a team play.

Could it be, as one friend of mine suggested, that the markets

extra 20 in my shoe, sir” are disinterested, rather than small?

How about disgusted? Fed up, even?

There was a time, believe it or not, when labour action on the part of the players actually meant some­ thing. Players in their respective sports worked hard to form unions and get their piece of the action, and rightly so. Now, with the sports star so far ahead of the fan, he’s completely lost perspective. The players that fought so hard to get what they deserved make the pre­ sent lot look like a bunch of unap­ preciative bastards. Before, the players were unappreciated and underpaid. Now, it’s the fan who is under appreciated and our paying.

It seems that you don’t realize the value of something until you

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lose it. The fans don’t know this yet, but they can maybe get the players, their scumbag agents and the owners with their crew of yesmen and ass-kissers to turn around and maybe realize what fools they’ve been. Considering the state of professional sports today, it could be a solution to what ails them.

Unfortunately, we’ll probably never know. The fans may grouse, grumble and complain, but never fully leave the sport that they love so much. The allure of going to games, of seeing the Hail Mary pass, the tense power play, the play at the plate and the slam dunk con­ tinues, and it’s sad to see both play­ ers and management unscrupulous­ ly take advantage of our gullibility.

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M issouri’s teams perform on the field but fall short with GPAs

By P a u l H

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The Maneater (U. Missouri) (U-WIRE) COLUMBIA, Mo. — They step onto the court or field to the cheers of a few hundred, a few thousand, and sometimes tens of thousands of fans.

Now is their time to show­ case their extraordinary natural ability and the years of dedica­ tion, practice and sweat that will carry them through the next few hours of competition.

They step into the classroom, backpacks hanging from their shoulders, to read the professor’s random chalk marks. They take notes and grumble with the other stu dents when the p ro fesso r rem inds the class about next week’s midterm.

W hen you w atch ath letes compete in front of fans or on television, it’s sometimes easy to forget that they are students who are also athletes, not the other way around.

Critics of collegiate athletics, the NCAA and its m em ber schools constantly scrutinize the academic performance of studentathletes at NCAA Division I insti­ tutions.

Year after year, the academic rep o rts from the M issouri University athletics department show student-athletes keeping pace with the rest of the student body. H ow ever, those same reports show football and basket­ ball, the two economic gems of collegiate athletics, struggling to keep their athletes eligible for competition.

The 1997 fall semester’s ath­ letics department academic report shows the same continuing pat­ tern. The overall student-athlete grade point average of 2.651 is comparable to the 2.75 campus average. However, football and m en’s b ask etb all, along with men’s golf, are lagging behind the pack with an average CGPA near 2.2.

A th letic D irecto r Joe Castiglione said he isn’t disap­ pointed by those results.

“We're going to have a fluc­ tuation,” Castiglione said. “I’d love to say that all sports are going to have 4.0 GPAs, but that’s not realistic. We’re dealing w ith a broad mix of people.

We’re going to have people who achieve at varying levels.”

The coaches and athletic staff urge student-athletes to focus on their studies and degrees just as they do on upcoming games and meets. To aid their efforts, stu­ dent-athletes have free tutoring available and a supervised study hall in which to work. If they have trouble getting the classes they need, the T otal Person Program can step in to arrange their classes around their practice schedules.

Not across the board MU baseball senior Griffin Moore, 1997 Big 12 home run co­ leader, is a student-athlete who hasn’t had trouble complementing his athletic success with academic achievement.

“I take a lot of pride in my school w o rk ,” M oore said. “[Academic awards] are up there with awards for baseball. A schol­ ar award shows you’re also dedi­ cated to your school work. I need to be dedicated to both that and baseball because you never know when an injury comes around and you’re done with baseball.”

However, Moore recognizes that his sport, with its significant professional opportunities, does not pose the same enticement to overlook academics.

“Football and basketball are a lot closer to making that big dol­ lar than a baseball player,” Moore said. “T h ey ’re one step away from that million-dollar contract, while w e’re several steps away.

Y ou’re not going to live off a minor-league contract.

“T h e re ’s tem p tatio n s, of course,” he said. “If you’re doing well, you think ‘I’m going to get drafted, and I won’t have to worry about school.’”

Trials and temptations Some coaches and others involved in collegiate athletics speculate that those temptations created by the lure of professional sports might damage the studentathletes’ motivation to succeed in the classroom.

Lee Winfield, coordinator for the Life Skills program, a former assistan t coach on Norm Stewart’s staff and a former NBA player - coached some of MU’s pro prospects in the mid ‘90s.

“Some of these athletes see sports as their ticket out and don’t come to school for the education,”

Winfield said. “You can see it in them , in th eir attitu d es. They think that the point of academics is to keep them eligible for sports until they matriculate to the next level.”

C astig lio n e sees a few of these elem ents at w ork in the struggles of some football and basketball players.

“Individuals have a variety of in te re sts ,” C astig lio n e said.

“There is a correlation between the professional opportunity for athletes and their academic per­ form ance, but you have to be careful about trying to make that generalization on all the athletes.

Ultimately, it’s up to them - if they’re going to take advantage of what we provide for them.”

Coaches must lead W infield said coaches have

the best chance to motivate their athletes toward academic achieve­ ment. The athletes them selves, however, must decide to make the effort to complete their degrees.

“As coaches, we want to see [the student-athletes] get to the next level, but that’s only for a few people. T h at’s not for the majority,” Winfield said. “So you have to be stressing academics.

You have to stress these things so that they hear you.”

Castiglione said he believes MU should have an active role in improving the academic prospects of student-athletes.

“We can’t just say it’s here, take it or leave it,” he said. “I don’t think we can be that pas­ sive. We can have the most fan­ tastic systems, the best support program available for the athletes ... but if the will isn’t there, you can’t expect it to happen.”

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Yankees look to dom inate the A m erican League in 1998

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American League East The Yankees have risen to the top o f the heap in the American league by improving their team, adding second baseman Chuck Knoblauch and Cuban p itch er O rlando H ernandez to their already strong team. The return of David Cone solidi­ fies the Yankees as the leader in the AL East. Anything less than a World Series win is a total fail-

in baseball in Shawn Green, Jose Cruz Jr. and Shannon Stewart.

The Jays p itch in g sta ff has become even stronger with the addition of Randy Myers to the bullpen. A whole slew of new faces line the Jays’ infield. All the new additions to the Blue Jays still won’t put them in the play­ offs but w ill make them more entertaining to watch.

w ith talen t like N om ar Garciaparra, Reggie Jefferson and Mo Vaughn.

The Tampa Bay Devil Rays have stolen the title of ugliest uni­ form from the Florida Marlins.

However, unlike their state rival, they spent money this offseason to bring in future Hall of Fam ers Fred McGriff and Wade Boggs, along w ith clo ser R oberto Hernandez. The team still has glaring holes in the rotation with washed up Wilson Alvarez lead­ ing the way. The team will finish in last place, and they’ll do it in an ugly domed stadium whose ro o f w ill be lit orange every night to honour the sponsors of Tropicana Field.

Tony Clark, Bobby Higginson, and Damion Easley. The addition of Bip Roberts will add even more offensive punch to the Tigers. The pitching is improving with Justin Thom pson leading the rotation and Todd Jones in the closer spot.

The Tigers have a shot at a win­ ning record and second place in the division.

The Kansas City Royals are doing the best they can with the small market they’ve been given.

Each year the Royals put out a quality team on a relatively small budget. This year the Royals con­ tinue to have a strong rotation led

by Kevin Appier, and a consistent bullpen with the healthy return of Jeff Montgomery. The line-up has potential but no guarantees. Stars like Hal Morris, Dean Palmer, Jeff Conine and Johnny Damon each have a chance at making the allstar team.

by Randy Johnson, who is defi­ nitely playing his last season in Seattle and so will be motivated for contract money. The Mariners are going to have to trade Johnson; the longer they wait the less they’ll get, and it is almost certain that keeping him will not lead them to a World Series.

The Anaheim Angels will overtake the Mariners as the AL West’s dominant team in the next few years. The line-up that fea­ tures young sluggers like Tim Salmon, Darrin Erstad and Jim Edmonds looks to be together for a long time and will only continue to get better. The Angels could use a second baseman and a fifth starter. If their pitching staff can remain healthy the Angels should be neck and neck w ith the Mariners in the stretch drive.

The O rioles American League are the oldest team Central in baseball and they got older in the off­ The T exas R angers can The C levelan d Indians season by adding score runs w ith a pow erhouse continue to be the front-runner in Joe C arter and The Minnesota Twins may line-up that includes slugger Juan the division. The offseason saw be playing out of North Carolina Gonzales, Will Clark, Rusty Greer p itch er Doug the loss of Matt Williams and after this season, and it would and D rabek, w hich Tom G oodw in.

Marquis Grissom but GM John appear that some Major League- Unfortunately, the baseball axiom would make a huge Hart moved quickly to bring in esque evil plan by the owner to “good pitching beats good hitting” im pact if it were T ravis Frym an and Kenny lose in order to move the team is will haunt the Rangers all season.

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The most open division in the A m erican L eague looks to be sewn up by the Seattle Mariners.

The M’s have one of the best line­ ups in baseball featuring future Hall of Famer Ken Griffey Jr., Jay B uhner and u n d errated Edgar Martinez. The pitching staff is led

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A little bit of luck goes a long way in the elite eight Final four teams: Stanford, Kentucky, Utah and North Carolina survive regional scares to advance to Super Saturday tough defence and is an outside threat.

The Tar H eels are run by The long awaited trip to San guard Ed Cota. The sophomore Antonio has finally arrived for the has matured in his second year ‘fortunate’ four victors of this past and sets the table for the Carolina weekend’s games. attack. Cota will have the unenvi­ Each final four participant able task o f d iffu sin g M iller. has d em o n strated in cred ib le P rediction: K entucky over S hooting guard Sham m ond strengths in their drive for the Stanford W illiams must be shadowed on NCAA championship; however, the outside or else he will burn no team is devoid of weakness.

Utah with three-pointers.

With my confidence shaken, this Utah vs. North Utah’s forwards bring good colum n will d issect S aturday Carolina size to the table. Centre Michael night’s games.

Both teams advanced in con­ Doleac has been Utah’s scoring vincing fashion last Saturday. The leader throughout much of the Stanford vs. Kentucky Utes played their best game of the season and has a soft inside touch.

Clearly these are two teams tournam ent in their im pressive Doleac will be the focus of Utah’s which are extremely fortunate to dismantling of defending champi­ offence; his 6 ’11” frame could be participating on S aturday’s on Arizona, while the Tar Heels pose some problems for Carolina. slate. Following some spectacular disposed of a pesky UConn squad. Hanno M ottola is an enigmatic ind ividual effo rts and heady The Utes’ run has been led by forward who must improve his consistency, while Nstaal kéfimial legioiml il Alex Jensen is a Isfl& M i M iis b RMk Umtimk 2nd Umà tHÜEr Imêmm 1ft I mmnI y i t d young im proving player.

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Even w ith M ontgom ery’s m oves, S tanford req u ired the heroic efforts of guard A rthur Lee. His quickness was a thorn in URI’s side the entire contest; his last-m inute steal sealed U R I’s fate. Lee has been a fearless leader throughout the entire tour­ nam ent — p ractisin g against Brevin Knight for two years has clearly rubbed o ff on the 6 ’0 ” junior.

Kentucky also pulled off a miracle on Sunday. Trailing by 17 points with a little over nine min­ utes remaining, many were ready to pronounce the Wildcats dead.

But riding a relentless defence, fabulous guard play and coach Tubby Smith, Kentucky captured

require the help of 6’10” Jamaal Magloire for some quality min­ utes.

A lthough S tanford should have a large rebounding edge, Kentucky’s guard play will prove to be the determining factor.

the Duke players.

Wildcat guard Wayne Turner annihilated Duke and penetrated with ease. He broke down the vaunted Blue Devil defence and keyed the Kentucky comeback.

Turner will continue his extraordi­ nary play against a capable Lee, and will be an important factor in the contest.

Both teams boast excellent shooters. Cardinal Kris Weems is streaky ; he must get off to a quick start or Stanford will be in serious trouble. Kentucky counters with reliab le senior guard Jeff Sheppard. He enters the game as the hottest shooter in the tourna­ ment and gives Kentucky the out­ side edge.

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an unlikely com eback trium ph over Duke.

Sm ith’s coaching was bril­ liant down the stretch. He master­ fully took advantage of Duke’s failu re to save any tim eouts; Smith did not call for any play stoppages until K entucky had finally overcome their immense deficit. By doing so, Smith intelli­ gently maintained the W ildcats’ growing momentum and rattled

and Pete Sauer and Tim Young can all score and rebound. They have posed matchup problems for every team they have faced this year, and their ability to hit the offensive glass is critical. Young must stay out of foul trouble.

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Prediction: UNC over Utah

B etters take heed: Mr. Rubinstein, while clearly a wellinform ed w riter, has fa ile d to mention that both his picks fo r the title game have been ousted. Duke and ‘Zona w ill have to w ait a n o th er year. H ow ever, la st w eek’s 7-1 record in Sweet 16 picks was impressive. For more inform ation check www.usato-

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Sp o rts Martlet soccer wins indoor title A slightly altered McGill M artlet soccer team took the Quebec cham pionships last weekend in St. Foy. After taking the western division title with a 2-2-3 record, the Martlets faced Concordia in the semi-finals.

Jen Hunter scored the lone goal of the game to give McGill the 1-0 win and a berth in the finals. Dawn Dell-A gnes and Debra Keitzke shared the shutout in nets.

In the finals against an unde­ feated Laval Rouge et Or team, McGill battled to a 1-1 tie in reg­ ulation time. Patty Foschi scored the only M cG ill goal, with Keitzke in net.

Overtim e solved nothing, and the game went into a five-

Briefs round shootout. Odile Desbois, Sarah Pentland, and Amanda Shaw scored for the Martlets to give them the cham pionship, with only a single retort from Laval.

Dunn takes stride at World Cross-Country Championships Martlet Cross Country and Track and Field veteran Tambra Dunn came through as the sec­ ond Canadian at the World Cross Country Championships held in Marrakech, Morocco this week­ end. The native of St-Bruno and third year management student placed 43rd in the world, com­ pleting the four kilometer course in a time of 13:30. Dunn’s time put her ten seconds behind the

Intramural final schedule We haven’t often paid much attention to them, but McGill Intramural athletics are a big part of the sports scene on campus. Hundreds of teams compete in a myriad of sports, men’s, women’, and co-ed. As a thoroughly gloss-over attempt to provide information about these events, below are list­ ed the dates and times of the league finals for the three main winter intramu­ rals:

Ice hockey — at McConnell Winter Arena Wednesday, 9:15 p.m. men’s div. ‘A’ Wednesday, 10:30 p.m. men’s div. ‘B’ Wednesday, 8:00 p.m. men’s div. ‘C’ Tuesday, 9:30 p.m. men’s div. ‘D’ Tuesday, 8:15 p.m. women’s div. ‘A’ Tuesday, 7:00 p.m. women’s div. ‘B’ Indoor soccer — at Fieldhouse, courts C &D men’s div. ‘A’ men’s div. ‘B’ women’s div. ‘A’ co-rec

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first Canadian.

Ireland's Sonia O 'Sullivan captured the women's world title in a time of 12:20.

Form er M artlet and allCanadian Linda Thyer also partic­ ipated at the Championships.

Smallest school in the CIAU wins basketball title The Bishop’s men’s basket­ ball team pronounced itself the best in the country Sunday after­ noon in Halifax. One day after knocking off the defending cham­ pion University of Victoria Vikes in a see-saw game, the Gaiters went up against the OUA champi­ on McMaster Marauders and won 74-71.

Bishop’s fell behind early; ten minutes in, they were down 13, 20-7. But the Gaiters battled back and went on a 26-6 run to take charge entering the second half.

The team sustained their strong play in the second half, led by

small guard Ryan Thorn. Thorn, playing on an injured leg, helped fend o ff a late attack by the Marauders to capture the title.

During the regular season.

Bishop’s showed they were the class of the QUBL, winning the title easily over Laval. McGill placed fourth, out of the playoffs.

UQTR chases away phantoms to advance to CIAUs The UQTR Patriotes, losing the top team in the OUA far east division, has proved they belong in at the national dance. A year after dropping out in the OUA semis when ranked in the top five, the Patriotes rose to the challenge with a 6-2 win over Guelph in the Queen’s cup semis. Windsor best­ ed UQTR in the OUA finals, but it was a mute win — both teams advance to the N ationals in Saskatoon.

The CIAU cham pionships will take place next weekend. Pool ‘A ’ will com prise of UNB, U.

Alberta, and Windsor. Pool ‘B’ includes the host University of Saskachewan, UQTR, and Acadia.

McGill announces award nominees McGill Athletics released its award nom inees for male and fem ale athlete of the year,and intercollegiate and club teams of the year.

Ben Storey (row ing), J.P. Darche (fo o tb all) and Marc Monicout (soccer) were nominated for the male athlete of the year.

O diles D esbois (soccer), Tambra Dunn (x-country & track), and Anne Gildenhuys (basketball) are the female contenders.

The Redmen soccer team.

Martlet swim team, and Martlet track & field team are in the run­ ning for intercollegiate team of the year.

M cG ill row ing, Redmen rugby, and Martlet tennis are up for club team of the year.

Sports Q uiz You know the drill... last week's first, then take a shot at a sextet more.

Only a couple more of these left. Look for the big one coming soon!

Non-McGill

Non-McGill

1. There are ten ends in a normal curling match 2. The next Grand Slam tennis event will be held in Paris, at Stade Roland Garos 3. Ayrton Senna was the last driven to win the F-l championship under McLaren

1. What is the highest number of goals Wayne Gretzky has scored in a season? a) 94 b) 88 c) 97 2. Which was the last team to represent the NCAA as repeat champions a) UNLV b) Duke c) UCLA 3. Which province won the 1998 Labatt Brier? a) Ontario b) Quebec c) Manitoba

McGill

McGill

1. Baseball is not an intramural sport at McGill 2. McGill captured two gold medals at the CIAU track championships, in the 4x800 relay and the 3000m.

3. McGill doesn’t have an F-l team for a variety of rea­ sons. With funding cutbacks and the impending loss of cigarette advertising, the school felt its resources could be better allocated.

1. What two Redmen football players participated in the CFL camp last weekend?

2. Who won the CIAU men’s basketball championships this year? a) McMaster b) U Victoria c) Bishop’s 3. Name the three conferences under the CIAU in uni i versity sports.

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This course will examine epidemiological and experimental approaches to physical activity, health and well being. These will include the impact of physical activity on coronary heart disease, cancer, immune system function, obesity, diabetes, blood lipid metabolism, and psychological functioning. The impact of regular activity on economic benefits in the work place and health care costs will be examined as well as issues related to exercise prescription and exercise adherence.

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What's on Wednesday, March 25 Act in co n ju n ctio n with M cGill’s P.S.A. & I.C.S.A. pre­ sents “Shayad,” a collage com­ mentary on cultural contradic­ tions. W ritten and directed by Saba Sayeed. 2:00 p.m. Shatner Ballroom. $5 student, $7 regular.

For reservations, call 465-1479.

The Centre for Developing A reas S tudies presents “Education and AIDS Prevention in Thailand.” The speaker is Bijoy Baurua. 3715 Peel, seminar room.

12:30 - 2:00 p.m. For more info, call 398-3507.

Friday, March 27 A day workshop organized

by ACCES (A cadem ic and C om m unity C o o p eration for Environmental Sustainability), a working group of QPIRG McGill.

Room 232, Leacock Building. For more info call 398-7432.

Iwan E dw ards directs C ap p ella M cG ill. W orks by Brahm s, Schum ann, Schubert,

Ok, Slackers.

You’ve been putting off writ­ ing for us this whole year and now you’ve re a l­ ized that there are only two more issues of the Tribune left in the 1 997-1 998 season. Get down to the basement of the Shatner

Henderson, Raminsh and Willan will be performed. Pollack Hall, 8:00 p.m. Admission is $5.

Worshipfest - over 3 hours of singing and p ra ise , 7 p.m.

M acD onald H arrington room G10. S ponsored by M cG ill C hristian F ellow ship. C ontact Rachel at 398-8178.

Saturday, March 28 Siamsa School of Irish Music is sponsoring an Irish C eili Dance. Royal Canadian Legion H all, A ddington and de M aisonneuve, NDG. $5 in advance, $8 at the door. For more info call 484-8054.

Sunday, March 29 Come see Showcase of Med I Ü M adness!! 8:00 p.m . at Les Salles du Gesu. 1200 Bleury St. All proceeds go to Dans La Rue. Tickets are $10. For more info, call 465-1627.

Upcoming and ongoing For the fifth co nsecutive year, the M cG ill A frican Students’ Society will be organiz­ ing Africa Week, culminating in the Annual Culture Show. Africa Week runs from April 1st - April 4th. The first three days will fea­ ture displays of the people, places and cultures of Africa. All events take place in Shatner Building at 3480 McTavish St. Tickets are $8 in advance and $10 at the door.

They are available at the Sadie’s kiosk or by calling 398-2226.

A Cancer support group for young adult patients is offered by Hope & Cope, Jewish General Hospital. This group offers sup­ port and information for young adults w ith cancer. T uesday evenings, call 340-8255.

Join the M cG ill Young Alumni for a day of Horse-drawn rides, a trad itio n al Q uébécois feast and entertainment! Location

The McGill Debating Union cordially invites you to attend a debate entitled

T he P ersonal S hould B e P olitical With guest Speaker of the House,

Professor Karin Cope, Department of English

is La Secrerie de la M ontagne, 300 Rang St. Georges, Rigaud.

For additional info, call 398-5000.

call 398-6683. All are welcome.

McGill Outing Club, the 62 years old outd o o rs club of M cG ill, has general m eetings every Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. in Leacock 132/232. For details con­ tact MOC at 398-6817.

On A pril 6, com e see An International Symposium. Angel Ganivet: Cartas Finlandesas Y Un Centenario (1898-1998) Morning: L eacock 232.

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