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It’s 3 a.m. and you have a 20page essay due tomorrow. Your computer’s word count indicates that you have exactly 519 words, and you really cannot think of much else to say. The instructor has firmly stated that no extensions will be granted. What is one to do?

What student in this situation could resist the temptation to buy a term paper? Today, buying a paper involves no advance preparation, no clandestine meeting on a street comer — it’s just a matter of navi­ gating through the World Wide Web. Sound like a dream-cometrue? Perhaps, but this kind of cyber-cheating can turn into a nightmare.

A quick search under “term papers” at w w w .yahoo.com reveals many sites willing to help you along your way, with your research. Now, instead of shame­ fully presenting yourself to a termpaper service near campus the day of the deadline, you can have the goods e-mailed to you. Paste in your name on the first page, edit it at your leisure and the deed is done.

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Do not expect to find anything too sophisticated, though. A quick search under “Nietzsche” or “exis­ tentialism” leads to the dishearten­ ing message: “No documents found. Please try again.”

Yet there are now over 70 term-paper sites on the Net, con­ taining pre-written, custom written and freely distributed essays. One could spend days (re-)searching them for an appropriate match.

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Legitimacy of awards called into question

By Jo h n Salloum

On the heels of a motion made to SSMU council to form an ad hoc committee to determine the recipi­ ents of Students’ Society awards, fol­ low controversial allegations of abuse of power by VP Internal Sarvesh Srivastava.

SSMU Senate/Board Representative Anne Topolski draft­ ed the motion after reading a SSMU advertisement listing the nominations for the annual awards banquet to take place on April 8.

“I was disgusted when 1 saw who was nominated for the awards,” said Topolski, who suggested that the list of nominees is not truly reflective of those students and organizations that deserve to be honoured.

Topolski’s motion, which will be brought to council on Thursday, clearly outlines the reasons behind its drafting. According to the docu­ ment, “the SSPN is in direct conflict in three categories (i.e. Coordinator of the Year, Award of Distinction, [and] Committee of the Year).”

The Students’ Society Programming Network is a commit­ tee which falls under the VP Internal's portfolio and is the deci­ sion making body which decides winners of SSMU honours.

The SSPN is itself currently nominated for Committee of the Year, while both SSPN co-chair Brock MacDonald and this year’s Frosh Coordinator Jennifer Cavasin, herself a member of SSPN, are nomi­ nated for Coordinator of the Year; Tara Van Zuiden, the other SSPN co­ chair, is nominated for the Award of Distinction, an honour that awards its recipients with a $2000 scholarship.

Additionally, the motion pro­ poses that Senator of the Year and Councillor of the Year be the only two awards not decided upon by the new committee; these decisions would be deferred to “more relevant campus bodies.”

“I believe in some students get­ ting recognition for some good they do, and I don’t think they will if SSPN decides. I’m hoping [council] will realize that and allow some com­ mittee to form,” said Topolski.

Srivastava commented that “the committee that [Topolski] pro­ posed... would probably be the better committee to chose the awards.”

He claims, however, that he “proposed this format [to council] back in February or late January, and nobody had any questions or com­ ments about it...so the motion passed, and that was the structure that was [to be] used this year.”

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Srivastava went on to say that “although [the format is] probably not the best structure, I think it’s fair­ ly reasonable.”

He further explained that “the ad hoc committee that [Topolski] wants to create...[is] simply not fea­ sible...this year because if it does go through, it’s going to go through on Thursday, and the awards night...is on [the following] Wednesday," Srivastava continued. "That gives three working days to do it.. .All the trophies and all the plaques have already gone to the engravers; all the winners have been selected already, so it’s too late.”

In addition to the conflicts of interest raised, the nomination proce­ dures for the awards have also been called into question. According to Srivastava, his Portfolio Committee of Council decides who the three nominees for each category will be.

These choices are then passed on to the SSPN committee, which decides the winners based upon the nominees given.

But Topolski asserts that the current procedure is insufficiently informed to choose nominees.

“Logically, Senate Board Caucus would be the people to nomi­ nate which Senators should be awarded. We’re the people who go to

Senate and hear them everyday...[Srivastava] just picked three random people,” said Topolski, arguing that Senate Board Caucus, a committee which falls under the University Affairs portfolio, was never consulted about the nominaContinued on page 4

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31 March 1998

Moore aids Arizona protesters in anti-Nike campaign

By C raig A nderson_____________

Arizona Daily Wildcat (U. Arizona) (U-WIRE) PHOENIX — University of Arizona protesters opposing a pending athletic department contract with Nike spoke with labour rights advocate Michael Moore last week and previewed his new documen­ tary, which negatively portrays the company’s chief executive officer.

The preview, at Harkins Christown Theatre March 16, was sponsored by the Phoenix chapter of Arizona Jobs with Justice. It includ­ ed an appearance by Moore, the for­ mer host of the alternative news show “TV Nation,” who answered audience members’ questions after the film.

“Originally, we had hoped to have the film shown at Gallagher Theatre,” said media arts graduate student James Tracy, co-founder of the University of Arizona chapter of Students Against Sweatshops.

Tracy said Moore’s film tour is timely because the UA is negotiating a multi-million-dollar deal with Nike that would provide swoosh-laden athletic apparel to the university’s 18 Division I sports teams.

Unfortunately, he said, Moore’s

has refused to officially meet with busy 30-city tour schedule and UA hometown. students’ spring break absence did Although he initially agreed to protesters. not make it feasible to hold a screen­ consider the idea, Knight later said Likins and Arizona State ing at the university. he didn’t think Americans would University President Lattie Coor The movie’s title, “The Big want to make shoes for a living — travelled to Nike’s headquarters in One,” refers to a scene Oregon last in which Moore and a month to get radio disc jockey try to Knight’s guaran­ come up with a less tee that Nike will descriptive, more intim­ adhere to its code idating name for the of conduct and United States. not violate the During one seg­ human rights of ment of the film, which its shoemakers in was made during a 1996 east Asia. tour for his book, Nike has Downsize This!: been criticized for Random Threats from allowing its prean Unarmed American, dominantly Moore invites Nike female factory CEO Philip Knight to workers to work fly with him to 12-to 16-hour Indonesia to examine days for lessthe company’s factory Moore's visit coincides with U o f Arizona's negotiation o f multimil­ th a n -liv e a b le lion dollar contract With Nike cgi.canoe.ca.filmfestor/sept05_moore.html working conditions. wages while “Here are two tick­ breathing in ets to Indonesia, one with your name even after Moore showed Knight noxious glue fumes and other car­ on it and one with my name on it,” video clips of Flint residents shout­ cinogens.

Moore said to the athletic shoe ing and pleading for jobs.

McGill’s department of athlet­ tycoon, showing him the tickets.

Tracy said the film’s portrayal ics may soon be faced with choices When Knight declined the of Knight reinforced concerns that similar to those the University of offer, Moore asked him to open a UA President Peter Likins is relying Arizona is up against. It has shoe factory in unemployment-rid­ on him for information about Nike’s embarked on a new fundraising cam­ den Flint, Michigan — M oore’s conduct — especially since Likins paign that will include corporate

sponsorship, but it’s unclear at this point what ethical guidelines will be used when selecting companies.

Recently hired Manager of Marketing and Promotions Denis Kotsoros is certain that he can reach a policy that everyone can live with.

“I’m certainly not going to go after the Mafia [for sponsorships].

The mission statement will guide us in who we select,” Kotsoros stated.

Tracy stresses that any selection process has to be rigorous, however, and investigate more than just the company’s portrayal of their own human rights record. “[Likins] is like the cop that goes to a house to investigate spousal abuse and only questions the husband,” Tracy said.

After the movie, Moore told the audience that Knight is a likeable person who has a conscience — although it is buried deep beneath his thick corporate skin.

“Phil Knight is one of my favourite crooks,” Moore said.

The film was made for British television. Miramax will release “The Big One” in the United States April 10. Half of the film’s profits will go to charities in Flint.

—with files from Jason Sigurdson

Innovative SUS campaign gives clear mandate to new exec

By Finola M oore

The Science Undergraduate Society elections, held last week, were a decisive political and techno­ logical victory.

Solid voter turnout strengthened the credibility of the more environ­ mentally sensitive campaign. All of the elected candidates won by large margins, imparting a clear mandate to the newly elected executive.

Election co-ordinators under­ took an innovative hybrid system of on-line and paper voting for the first time. They are attributing this year’s slightly lower voter turnout to the separation of SUS elections from departmental elections, not to any failure in the on-line system.

However, problems with elec­ tronic voting did occur. An error in the program selected a candidate if the voter failed to choose one. Upon review, co-ordinators decided that the matter will not go to the Judicial Board, but will be subject to internal review. All candidates won by such a large margin that any significant skewing of the official results was immediately ruled out.

Despite the problems, Chief Returning Officer!?) Marie-Hélène Benoît was pleased with the manner in which the campaign proceeded as a whole.

“For a first run, with time con­ straints and the problems we had, [the environmental campaign] was

around students.” phenomenal,” she stated.

Candidates also praised the Specifically, she intends to limit on posters, campaigning funds expand on-line discussion groups to and the campaign time limit of three an SUS interface where students days. may become updated on SUS coun­ “There needed to be drastic cil discussions and contribute sug­ improvements from last year. Students were dis­ tracted from class. We had a really good initia­ tive this year,” said cur­ rent SUS VP Internal Deepa Yoganathan.

P re sid e n t-e le c t Yoganathan received 60 per cent of the vote, taking a comfortable victory over opponent Eric Bales-Kogan.

Yoganathan believes that it was her personal­ ity rather than any spe­ cific campaign promis­ es that rewarded her with such a landslide.

“I’m not sure that The new SUS executive platform wins the votes,” she said. “Character does. If gestions. Jobs will be another focus people know who you are, that’s for Yoganathan with the develop­ what gets the votes.” ment of SUCCESS, Science Yoganathan looks forward to Undergraduate Career and Co-op next year and plans on building the Employment Service for Students. relationship between SUS and stu­ George Tsimiklis won the posi­ dents. tion of VP Academic by a similar “Last year, the big problem was margin at 60 per cent. Although his that we never really asked students opponent, Khaled Sharour, received what we should be doing. There was only 25 per cent of the vote, Sharour not a connection with students. Our will continue to work on the acadewhole mandate should revolve mic portfolio — as agreed on by

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both candidates before the cam­ paign. VP A dm inistration-elect Caroline Dai also plans to assist in the tasks of the VP Academic.

Will all this help, Tsimiklis is confident his portfolio can help raise the profile of S U S .

Completion of current projects are at the top of his priority list.

“I want to make sure that students notice a difference and notice what SUS has to offer. We need to focus on realistic things.

Students want feedback,” he stated. “I’m not going to make excuses [but] Shirley Ong already, a lot of projects have been initiated that have not been followed through.”

Incomplete projects include SUCCESS, the graduate school library and the hypercalander, which will include departmental evalua­ tions. Tsimiklis is eager to begin what he hopes will be a very produc­ tive year.

“I’m looking forward to work­ ing with council. Hopefully, every­ thing will run smoothly this year,” he said.

Science students elected Lorraine Law as next year’s VP Finance. Daniel Shiff came in sec­ ond to Law’s 55 per cent with his own 16 per cent. Rishi Sanhar took 14 per cent of the vote. Law felt that her victory could be explained by her previous experience in student leadership.

“I think that experience speaks for a lot,” she commented.

With her SSMU background, Law sees much potential for improv­

ing SUS. “I feel that SUS has fallen a bit behind MUS, EUS and AUS. I want to bring some things I’ve learned from SSMU to SUS,” she stated.

The bolstering of science stu­ dent services will be her primary goal next year. Her agenda includes a SUS general store, a 24-hour study room and a bursary fund for science students.

Taking 53 per cent of the vote, Caroline Dai easily secured the posi­ tion of VP Administration. Her run­ ning-mate in the VP External race, Lien-Anh Duaong, claimed a sub­ stantial victory by taking 61 per cent of the vote. Their respective oppo­ nents Meak Chhuom and Terry Parolin, received 29 and 21 per cent.

Dai attributed the two victories to a highly visible campaign. She believed the exposure of their names outweighed the traditional platform approach.

“People aren’t interested in you sprouting platform ideas. Voters had the chance to become informed in the debate forum...or by coming up and talking to you. It’s hard to get people’s attention,” she stated. “You have to be a people-person...It’s the [right] attitude to have.”

The positions of VP Internal and SUS Rep to SSMU were acclaimed to Catriona Mills and Sharon Telem respectively. Mills admitted that she did not have any specific proposals as VP Internal but did say that she wanted to improve communication between SUS and other science departments by “get­ ting in touch and having closer con­ tact”.

Telem would like to better rep­ resent science students to SSMU. “In the past, science rep has been the ‘SSMU rep to science’, I want to reverse that and be the sci­ ence rep to SSMU,” she stated.

31 March 1998

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Bradfield set to take the reins as new AUS president Students vote with a resounding ‘yes’ to AUS referendum question and renew their support for Arts Improvement Fund B y C larisse D ouaud

A lthough last w eek’s Arts Undergraduate Society elections were a success compared to pre­ vious y ears, ex ten siv e p o ster advertising did not m anage to make a significant increase in the number of voters — this year’s voter turnout rose slightly to 20 per cent.

H eather B rad field , a U2 political science student, edged out competitor Xavier Van Chau in the presidential race. Bradfield won 74 per cent of the nonspoiled votes. The AUS President-elect found the six-day campaign period to be extremely draining, but an exciting chal­ lenge nonetheless.

“The calibre of the candi­ dates was very high,” remarked Bradfield.

The other AUS election vic­ tories went to Jo Morrow for VP Internal, taking 33 per cent of the vote and both Wojtek Baraniak and Danielle Lanteigne for the Arts Reps to SSMU, with 52 and 27 per cent resp ectiv ely .

A cclaim ed p o sitio n s include Leslie Litman for VP Finance, Daniel Artenosi for VP External, Jed Finn for VP Administration and Jen n ife r Lepp for VP Academic.

For Bradfield, the most unex­ pected aspect of the elections was the electoral response.

“I was surprised at the low voter turnout,” she commented.

Ro Ferro Rojas, the current AUS VP finance, attributes what he calls a “sad voter turnout” to the difficulty in reaching the elec­ torate. In Ferro R ojas’ opinion, low voter turnout is a no-win situ­ ation.

“People complain that they don’t know what is going on with

AUS, but also com plain when there is heavy advertising.”

On a m ore p o sitiv e note, Ferro Rojas was impressed by the quality of the can d id ates. He praised the candidates by stating that they “were really hard work­ ers [who ran] a tough race”. Ferro Rojas also pointed out that the new AUS executive has similar goals to the cur­ rent one.

“They appear to be going in more or less the same direction,” he said.

Mor r ow elab o rated by ex p lain in g how she hopes next year’s AUS visi­ b ility will be im proved by means of an AUS notice board in Leacock display­ ing current events and activities.

B radfield is pleased with the new executive.

“We all work N e w A U S r e a d y to g eth er really well,” she stated.

For the new AUS executive, working as a team is essential.

Bradfield concluded that “pro­ jects are not as successful when people work individually”. For the immediate future, AUS plans to unite the ideas which the candi­ dates portrayed to the electorate into a common goal.

“We will sit down and dis­ cuss our individual visions for the faculty and amalgamate them into one vision,” she said.

One of the new executive’s com m on vision includes an attempt to increase the level of

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communication between AUS and the stu d en t body. A rtenosi believes that arts students need to become more aware of what is available to them.

“We would like to see more communication with Arts students so that they know what’s happen­ ing in SSMU and the Senate,” he stated. “Also, there are many ser­

already an incredibly difficult mark to achieve in the Faculty.

“The 4.3 GPA is detrimental for A rts stu d en ts — it w ould lower their standards,” warned Bradfield.

As for the referendum ques­ tion included in the AUS elec­ tions, there was overwhelm ing support for maintaining the Arts

vices that are currently not being used, such as job recruitment ser­ vices.”

The most immediate problem facing AUS face is the proposed 4.3 grading system . M cG ill administration and students sena­ tors are currently pushing for the inclusion of an A+ at M cGill.

M any believe that this would have negative results for Arts stu­ dents, given that 85 per cent is

Improvement Fund. The results were astounding; 557 votes for the yes side, and 84 for the no side. This m eans that the Arts Improvement Fund will remain safely in place for the next three years.

The Arts Improvement Fund requires each Arts student to pay $24.50 each term. The Fund was estab lish ed to fund cap ital improvements which will benefit

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“The Arts Improvement Fund is the only venue that the Arts F acu lty have to bring about im p ro v em en t,” stated Ferro Rojas, who was responsible for organizing the referendum.

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Their next goal is to introduce a mandatory abortion component in the curriculum for first and sec­ A student group at the ond year students.

University of British Columbia Pro-life activists are con­ has lobbied successfully for a cerned that students taking the course on abortion to be added to course will only be seeing one the curriculum of senior medical side of a very complicated issue. students.

Several pro-life groups at UBC Abortion has been legal in are hoping to become involved in Canada for over ten years and the development of the course. with many retiring practitioners, Prior to this new course, the finding a qualified physician to only abortion training available perform the procedure — over through UBC was in the 5-year 15,000 abortions are performed obstetrics and gynaecology pro­ yearly in B.C. — is becoming dif­ gram, which offered optional ficult. The average age of abor­ abortion training to its residents. tion practitioners is 58, due to the lack of young doctors entering the — with files field. front The Ubyssey The UBC chapter of Medical Students for Choice confronted the lack of abortion studies for Calgary jazz program undergraduate medical students at singing the blues the university. Medical Students for Choice began in California Financial problems and lack four years ago due to the frustra­ of staff have taken its toll on the tion that had arisen among med University of Calgary jazz pro­ students concerning what abor­ gram, which may close at the end tion was and how women got of the next academic year. access to it.

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Briefs Shapiro refuses more student reps on BoG

One thousand units goal for Blood drive

Pipe dreams of gaining more student representation on McGill’s Board of Governors was shot down at the last SSMU coun­ cil meeting.

In a presentation to SSMU council. Principal Bernard Shapiro declared that no changes would be made to the current structure of BoG which is comprised of 45 members, four being students.

Ideally, the principal explained to councillors, BoG would be made even smaller.

“No one [current BoG mem­ bers] wants to give up their rela­ tive power,” quipped Shapiro, when explaining why neither undergraduate nor post-graduate representation would be increased.

C ouncillors accepted this firm decision without question but as the principal moved from the floor, SSMU President Tara Newell thanked him for the visit and concluded “this doesn’t mean we’ll stop lobbying.”

No changes have been made to the BoG structure since student representation was allowed in 1969.

The annual Med 1 Blood Drive has moved from its lofty location in Mac Med to the ball­ room of Shatner in hopes of attracting more donors.

Thuy May Luu, one of the drive's co-ordinators, explained why it is extra important to give blood this year, especially after the Ice Storm.

“The available blood in Quebec is at 56 per cent of its capacity after the Ice Storm,” she stated. “All surgery requiring blood was cancelled in January because of the storm and were re­ scheduled in March.”

Not only will donors receive a light snack, the McGill improv troupe will be entertaining donors and the Simpsons will be playing on two television sets.

Ramy Abaskharouh, publicity co-ordinator, enourages all stu­ dents to come out and give blood.

“Come on out and give blood, we really need it,” he urged.

The goal of the blood drive is to obtain over 1,000 units of blood, will be held this today, tomorrow from 10-5 and Thursday from 10-7.

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Rowley. There are currently nine students in the program, eight of whom will be returning next year to finish their degrees. The disso­ lution o f the program was approved by the Music faculty for financial reasons, but must pass at oilier university bodies before the decision is finalized.

A ccording to the faculty, between $30.000 and $40,000 is needed to keep the program going.

“This is not a choice we made because it is a lesser program,” said Music department head Lois Choksy. “We simply don’t have the money to continue a program that is almost entirely taught by sessional instructors.”

Choksy did state that universi­ ty jazz bands will continue and there will still be jazz courses on the curriculum, just nol every year.

Rowley, who was behind the program, has been on sick leave for the majority of the year and has plans to retire within the next two years. Since university programs must be run by a tenured staff member, the university had the option of replacing Rowley or dis­ solving the program. The faculty has no one else who wants to take charge of the program.

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But Srivastava contends that decisions regarding Senator of the Year were passed on to the VP University Affairs.

“We did defer to the portfolio of University Affairs to find out the three finalists and the winner from that category. It wasn’t the SSPN that chose that, it was University Affairs that chose that,” said Srivastava, explaining how nomina­ tion decisions were decided upon for Senator of the Year.

However, Elizabeth Gomery, VP University Affairs, challenged Srivastava’s explanation.

“No, that’s completely untrue...He gave me three names as an after the fact thing and asked me if they were correct. I said that in fact they were not correct, and that I would have liked to have brought that to my Senate Board Caucus,” she said.

“I gave him [a different] name [than the people he listed] and then the same three names showed up on the back [of the Tribune], his original three names showed up on the back...so, no, it was never deferred to me,” she said.

While it has been alleged that the current nominations may reflect Srivastava’s support for certain stu­ dent leaders, his support was appar­ ently more explicit during the elec­ tion campaign for SSMU executives.

According to Ariela Freed, the Coordinator of Activities Night, Srivastava called her during the cam­ paign and “asked me if I had voted yet, and because I hadn’t, to vote for his friends,” one of which was University Affairs candidate Andrew Kovacs.

Srivastava denies that he used connections through his VP Internal portfolio to help the Kovacs cam­

paign.

“I called ten, twenty or thirty friends...but I didn’t call people I knew through SSMU,” Srivastava stated.

Asked if he publically supported Andrew Kovacs during the election campaign, Srivastava replied that he did not.

“I gave him advice, that’s all,” said Srivastava.

“He also told me to tell ten or fifteen friends,” said Freed, who stat­ ed that Srivastava had known her as a result of her role in organizing the

Clubs and Activities Night.

SSMU VP University Affairs elect Sam Johnston also alleges that Srivastava may have abused his posi­ tion during the campaign period.

"There’s a difference between phoning your friends and phoning people who you know through your position,” said Johnston.

Johnston insists that this type of behaviour is clearly irresponsible coming from a students' society executive.

“I think it’s exceptionally wrong

and I think it’s an abuse of an execu­ tive position...to endorse a candi­ date,” she emphasized.

Additionally, Johnston explained that she’s going to work on “[implementing] into the constitu­ tion next year, a clause or by-law stipulating that executives aren’t allowed to endorse candidates run­ ning in election...so that they can be held accountable for actions like that.”

Red Herring candidates have also claimed that they were called upon to do their part for Kovacs. In exchange, they feel that Srivastava implied that support would put them in a better position to receive the Publication of the Year award.

“We had this running joke with him about publication of the year.

One day, I guess about a couple of days into the campaign, I said [to Srivastava] ‘how’s it looking for Publication of the Year? Are you going to hook us up?’ He basically said we should do something for Andrew [Kovacs] like we [did] for Duncan — all that Prince of Darkness routine,” stated Nick Redler, a Red Herring editor and candidate for VP Internal.

“He didn’t guarantee that it was a one for one trade-off, but it was pretty much implied,” he continued.

Srivastava denied the allegation that he offered the Publication of the Year award to the Red Herring in exchange for an endorsement of Kovacs. Regardless, Johnston main­ tains that Srivastava may have pushed his power beyond the limit.

“I think [Srivastava] is in a posi­ tion of authority... If they [want] to vote for [Kovacs] because he’s the better candidate, then go ahead, but not because [Srivastava] said so,” said Johnston. “It’s not an informed choice.”

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Questionable intentions leave holes in FYSA’s accountability bers’ new term would begin in May, leaving FYSA in the dust with otherwise occupied leaders for almost six months, or half of their mandated term.

Such was the case this year, when three FYSA councilors ran for faculty election. Two of the three candidates lost, so a major structural change in FYSA, for this year anyway, m ight not be required. Ffowever, if one examines the actions of FYSA this year so far, maybe it is FYSA itself that is not necessary.

C urrent FYSA President X avier Van Chau claim s that although there may be an overlap of FYSA council members with other councils, this should not be considered as “detrim ental to FYSA as long as each exec creates a long-term goal with FYSA." He asserts that if all three were suc­ cessful in their respective races, all FY SA -related activities for September were to be “planned out and ready to go — then all we [would] have to do is run them.”

When first year students took to the polls in October, it was the first ballot that they cast as McGill students. They were voting for the executive of the First Year Students’ Association — an organi­ zation whose m andate was described as “giving a voice to the first year student”. It has been six months since this executive has been elected and the voice of first year students has barely risen

By Stephanie Levitz

A lthough the First Year Students’ Association is, in theory, a way for first year students to voice their concerns, very little has materialized in its initial six month existence.

Furthermore, after three of its executives prepared to jump ship for faculty association representa­ tion, the entire organization could use a face lift.

Elections for student associa­ tions are generally fairly important.

The majority of them take place in March, allowing the new execu­ tives to prepare over the summer for the coming year.

FYSA, however, is different — representatives are elected in October to ensure that it is first year students who are sitting on the board. Although this procedure seems reasonable, there appears to be a conflict of interest when FYSA members run for other posi­ tions during their mandated term; candidates are using FYSA as a stepping stone to perhaps bigger and better things — whether it be representation on faculty associa­ tions or SSMU. If elected to other student organizatons, FYSA mem­

above a whisper.

Van Chau attributes such critisisms to the fact that FYSA is a brand new organization.

Adm ittedly, members did have plenty of logistics to sort out — when SSMU created FYSA, they gave them a skeleton constitution and left FYSA to work out the rest.

SSMU didn’t award FYSA a vote on council because they were con­ cerned that they were not mature nor experienced enough — occupy­ ing six months to create a constitu­ tion is proof enough that maybe FYSA shouldn’t be voting.

It is questionable whether or not FYSA can truly represent the first year student without being able to vote against something that is not in their best interest. Without a vote, FYSA is reduced to the sta­ tus of a glorified lobby group — a lobby group representing perhaps the largest mish-mash of students at McGill.

“A voice is a voice, regardless of a vote,” stated Van Chau. “We can still obtain speaker’s rights and make presentations at council and, now that we have a solid structure, we should have the right to vote.”

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FYSA has explained how they wish to socially and politically rep­ resent the first year strident — they have failed on both counts.

What about the self-centred pursuits of FYSA executives?

FYSA is a breeding ground for SSMU councilors and executives — it didn’t come as much of a sur­ prise when three FYSA councilors ran for faculty positions this year, one even being so bold as to run for president of the Arts Undergraduate Society.

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members, Van Chau campaigned on many relevant issues for first year students — better advising, more accessible information and a voice for the students who had no say in electing the current SSMU and faculty executives.

Thus far, bearing in mind that it is now April, the only thing that has materialized out of FYSA is a constitution and a party at Bishop Mountain Hall that lost them over one thousand bucks.

Time and time again FYSA has been asked the definition of a first year student. The answer after six months is anyone who is in their first year of studies at McGill, be them U0, U1 or in the first year of med school. It is necessary to include those students who are in grad school into this definition, otherw ise in essence, FYSA is nothing more than another IRC or frosh group.

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Captain Canada’s battle to “save” Quebec B y Ja so n S ig u r d s o n

Jean Charest’s decision to head up the Quebec Liberal party threatens to mean only one thing for the upcoming provincial election: federalists will be able to compete head-to-hcad on a vacuous single­ issue campaign.

Charest’s arrival in the provincial political realm appears to come at a good time for federalists. The latest polls indicate that the PQ may have trouble waging an electoral battle based on sovereignty alone. Up to 70 per cent of Quebecers do not want another referendum during the next government's mandate — and if this sentiment holds, the PQ will have to scramble to find a workable electoral strategy.

Shifting the agenda back to issues other than the independence of Quebec is the PQ’s only hope for success in the next election. They will likely try to affirm what they call their “social democratic roots,’’ but this position won’t go unchallenged. Progressive forces in Quebec have watched an onslaught of PQ cutbacks in social spending under Déficit Zero policies — the only thing that will keep progressives onside with the PQ is the lack of a strong left alternative in the province.

It’s obvious that Charest can’t be that left alternative, but he honestly isn’t that much different than Bouchard.

Apart from the talk of another referendum, a Quebec under Charest would probably look remarkably similar to the past few years under Bouchard. It isn’t surprising given the fact that both were cabinet ministers under Brian Mulroney’s Progressive Conservatives. They have a shared streak of Red Tory —- conservative, but carrying a sense of social responsibility. Even in the event of a campaign run on issues instead of personality, Quebecers won’t really have a clearly partisan choice to make at the polls.

Charest doesn’t attempt to hide the fact that this next election is all about Quebec’s relationship with Canada. In an interview with the CBC on the weekend, Charest explained how the electorate needs to understand how the Quebec Liberals are unique because they are a coalition. Federalists from all backgrounds will be called upon to rally behind Charest and deliver the votes that would allow him to form the next government in Quebec. The coalition strategy isn’t particularly “unique” to the Liberals — the PQ has built their past electoral success on rallying people of all political stripes around the sovcrcignist cause.

While the PQ argues that this show of solidarity is fundamentally nec­ essary to achieve their ends, it bypasses the fact that there is no cohe­ sion on bread and butter policy issues, such as social policy and finan­ cial affairs. With the Liberals becoming a self-declared “coalition,” they have promised to stick to the federalist/sovereignist dichotomy.

Oven if Charest becomes the next premier, what does it mean?

There have been successful provincial federalist leaders in Quebec such as Robert Bourassa, but ultimately all he could do was uphold the stalemate status quo in federal-provincial relations. Regardless of how the upcoming provincial election is being perceived across Canada, a victory for Charest may only leave him in a political prison, facing the same old battles.

It's true that Charest has an opportunity to open up the dialogue nationally on the place.of Quebec in the Canadian federation. What we have to realize, however, is that he can’t be treated as a one-man magic solution — and there’s more to politics than just sovereignty.

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At a recent APPC meeting, the adoption of an A+ grade and 4.3 GPA was approved. It is now only has to pass through Senate before before taking effect in the fall of 1999 or 2000. It will affect both incoming and current stu­ dents, but is not retroactive.

Unfortunately, there are some misconceptions surrounding the issue. Before students pass judge­ ment, they should be aware of some facts. Firstly, all universities in Quebec, and most in Canada, from Simon Fraser to U of T to Dalhousie have an A+. Secondly, McGill students are currently at a disadvantage when applying for many scholarships, grants and graduate work. Medical school in Ontario, where McGill students lose a point on their GPA (ie: a 3.6 is considered as a 3.5) due to the lack of an A+ is only one example. Students will in no way be harmed by the adoption of an A+.

The com m on argum ent against the 4.3 is that in many faculties, As are currently very difficult to receive, and there is concern that A+s will be a near im possibility. Students should know that, in fact, professors and administrators fear an A+ grade w ill re su lt in the in flatio n of marks. As evidence, consider that when the faculty of law eliminat­ ed th e ir A+ to conform to University standards a number of years ago, an actual deflation of grades was observed. Basically, McGill’s brightest will be reward­ ed for their achievements. Those who receive a 3.0 will continue to receive a 3.0 — whether it is out of 4.0 or 4.3 makes no difference to those review ing transcripts.

Most interestingly, those students who achieve between 80 and 85 per cent will actually benefit, as it is anticipated that more As will be handed out, not less.

The only indisputable argu­ ment I find against adoption of the A+ is that many U.S. schools are on a 4.0 scale and mobility to these schools may be affected.

When this point was raised, the adm inistration noted that many U.S. schools are not on a 4.0, that those that do have an A+, and finally that above all else, McGill is a Canadian institution.

O f equal im p o rtan ce, a review of M cGill’s inconsistent reflection of class averages on transcripts and the consideration

of a policy on per centage grades versus letter grades has begun.

Hopefully, soon all class averages will be noted on transcripts and a decision w ill be made will be made whether to include per cent­ age at all. * I would strongly encourage those with concerns or interest to attend the next Senate meeting, Wednesday, April 1 at 2:30 in the Leacock Council Room (232). At the request of students, it is at the top of the agenda. It promises to be a lively debate.

— Andrew Kovacs Science Senator U1 Biology

Daily soapbox for the Left Jo u rn alism is gen erally understood to be a discipline of o b je c tiv ity and b alance. The reporter is usually charged with reporting the facts. When compil­ ing a piece of investigative jour­ nalism, one is allowed to interpret the facts as he or she sees them.

Recently, I was assigned the task of reporting on the Fraser Institute Y outh S em inars held early in March for the McGill Daily.

I was told by my editor to report “critically” on the Institute.

I interpreted this to mean to look at the Institute in an analytical way and not to take everything they say at face value. W hen I attended the Seminar, I discov­ ered so m eth in g about the Institute. Although I did not agree w ith som e o f th eir ideas on Medicare or unionization, I was struck by the fact how sincere these people were. They believed in justice, equality, the value of choice. They, however, tended to see the market as a mechanism as the means to these lofty goals. I had stated in my article that I opposed certain id eas o f the Institute. I consider myself a lib­ eral. Generally, I believe that the market is the most efficient means to generate wealth and expand opportunity and that the market should be subordinated to the public interest through regulation.

I was not conscious of the fact that the Daily was a soapbox for the Left. When I told my edi­ tor about my angle, he responded negatively, scolding me for not being “critical enough.” I should have said that they were a “bad organization” with “bad ideas.” I

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think this is a childish and com­ p letely absurd. No jo u rn a list appreciates being told how to interpret an event. I feel I was critical in my own way. I said that it was time to go beyond petty left-right-wing dichotomies and to evaluate policies based on how they bring about justice, etc. To argue that a private element in our health care system is w orng because it’s not leftist is funda­ mentally wrong. We should look at privatization as bad because it doesn’t bring about justice for all.

My article challenged the reader to look beyond the ‘leftist consen­ sus’ we have in this country.

I wonder if the vast majority of McGill students are conscious of the fact that the daily is a leftwing soapbox and not a represen­ tative, objective newspaper. You probably th o u g h t th at the reporters ju st happen to be all leftists. No, the reason is that their ‘statement of principles’ defines ‘c ritic a l’ as being necessarily Leftist-environmentalist-politically correct. They are not critical, they are leftist. When was the last time you read an article on the bad effects of unionization on our economy or a critical piece on the ill effects of excessive taxes on job creation. The thing that upsets me is that the Daily can actually get away with being stu­ dent-subsidised, calling itself the McGill Daily and actually operate its offices in our school. It doesn’t represent the diverse voice of our university, it represents the voice of the Left. It doesn’t speak for all students, therefore it shouldn’t have facilities at this university until it amends its ‘statement of principles’ to better reflect a more objective new spaper, not leftwing rhetoric.

I support the Left publicizing its views. However, a university newspaper is not the vehicle for that dissemination. A newspaper that bears our name should repre­ sent all our views. Change the D aily to the D aily W orker or something.

— Joseph Quesnel U1 Political Science & History

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Brothers and secrets fill fraternities everywhere There are two standard reac­ tions when I tell people I was at a fraternity formal last weekend.

First there is the “Oh, how was it?” — that’s from those involved in the Greek system. Then there’s the other one — “Why, oh God, why would you submit yourself to that?” That’s from everyone else.

Fraternities must be bad. Just watch any TV movie. Under the reign of Saved by the Bell's Zach M orris, they are either killing pledges or rap in g C andice Cameron, saying, “she wanted it, man.” In this day of political cor­ rectness, fraternities rank some­ where between racist jokes and sexual harassment.

Here in the 90s, most people look down on elitism, exclusive­ ness and the old boys club (what has our w orld becom e?).

Fraternities are the student ver­ sion o f the M asons or the Stonecutters. But back in the 80s, frate rn itie s w ere as cool as goomie bracelets, acid wash and silv er studded gloves.

R em em ber A nim al House and Revenge of the Nerds? “ Delta D elta D elta can 1 helpya helpya h elp y a?” As if the jocks weren’t bad enough, those sorority sisters just made the rest of us women look bad, with their bikini aerobics and lesbian pillow fights. Although the sorority girls always managed to perk interest, particularly in the horny adoles­ cent male, the fraternities were the real focus of the wicked uni­ versity dean.

What really goes on inside

those frat houses? I w ill now reveal everything I know about the inner workings of the Greek organization. First, ads are plas­ tered around school — “Do you

S -file s Sarah M lynowski want to be a better person? Do you want more meaning in your life? Do you want to get drunk?”

Then pledges run around campus either blindfolded, naked or sporting giant clocks around th eir necks, in most cases, drunk. Then the brothers throw parties where they hit on young girls and...get drunk. At the year end form al they all hug, cry and confess their

Bring me the head of Jean Chare st If 1 had the chance, I would pronosticating matyr head of its cut off Jean Charest’s head. Don’t very own, we could shut up the get me wrong, I bear no grudge bickering politicians for good. All againist the newly annointed king questions about the future of of the Quebec Liberals. I think he’s Canada would finally be moot. a swell guy. If you believe the This is Mr. Charest’s goal anyway, hype, he’s a little too swell. Hence so I’m sure he’d willingly give his the need for the decapitation. If I head for the cause.

The matyrdom of Charest is had the chance, I ’d sever Mr. Charest’s head and speed up his the logical conclusion to the canon­ canonization. The press has already ization he’s received in the press made him a saint, a decapitation lately. The country seems to have forgotten that he was Brian might make it official.

Saints die in gruesome and Mulroney’s right hand. This is the unusual ways. Ignatius of Polycarp man who lost to Kim Campbell. was chewed to death by wild boars. This is man who’s gotten knocked Joan of Arc burned at the stake. down, he got up again, and I wish And John the Baptist, the name­ we could keep him down. He’s the John Travolta of sake of Mr. Canadian poli­ C h a re s t, tics. No matter was decap­ how many itated by a “Look W ho’s h e a th e n T alk in g ” he horde. Or jam ie Cowan m akes, all we the Romans.

I learned most of my church histo­ remember is “Pulp Fiction.”

All politicians, like movie ry from a com ic book, so the details are a little sketchy, but I stars, eventually fall out of favour know that John died when his head with the unwashed masses. It’s rare took a forced leave of absence for a martyr’s approval rating to drop. If Charest takes the bold step from his body.

What’s even more interesting into martyrdom, he gains an adora­ about Mr. “the Baptist” is that after tion that doesn’t need to be ratified his head was severed, it would every four years. He could be more occasionally come back to life and popular than the B eatles, more predict the future. One legend popular than Jesus, even more pop­ states that a spring mechanism was ular than Jean Chretein.

In the end, it shouldn’t be hard eventually added to the head so that when divination was required, to turn a politican into a saint. all one had to do was wind-up the First, you need to find a politician head and watch it go. It’s too bad whose viewed to begood, pure and the folks at Hasbro never got hold honourable. Jean Charest certainly of this idea. I think a wind up sev­ fufils those requirements. If he was ered head would be extremely pop­ any more white bread you could make sandwiches out of him. Now ular with the kids.

Now, why, you may ask you- all we need is somebody to kill self, have I decided to wander off him. This shouldn’t be hard. After into the obscure realm of matyrolo- all, every politican has somebody gy? What the hell does this have to whose willing to crucify them. do with Jean Charest? It’s really quite sim ple, dear reader. If Quebec could get itself a severed

nam es like Jahw ah and Von Nelson Stella M aria Carbonera actually mean?

Come to think of it, my exposé is not really an exposé. All I know is that they drink beer and keep secrets. And T could have learned that from the TV movies.

Even good friends in a frater­ nity, or even boyfriends, particu­ larly mine, refuse to spill any of their secrets. Why can’t he tell me what they do at their meetings?

Or where he goes at two in the morning? And who the girl is who answ ered his phone S aturday m orning? “Oh, ju s t fratern ity stuff,” he says.

undying love for each other, and yes, they’re still drunk.

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Michael Jordan to receive honouraium from McGill A recent nation-wide survey co n d u cted by the N ew York Times showed that the average in d iv id u a l lies or fa b ric a te s knowledge on an average of three times a day.

Actually, th at’s not true at all, I made it up. Yes, it’s that easy. Come across with the right mixture of authority and confi­ dence and people will believe anything that you assert.

In our university climate, the most important skill that anyone can learn is how to pass them ­ selves off as being more intelli­ gent than they actually are. From memorizing stock quotes to just holding a double-bounded collec­ tion of N ietzche’s best, knowl­ edge is all a m atter of posture.

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long as your sentence ends with the phrase “I read it in Time, you’ve attained instant credi bility. No one would dare argue w ith N orth America’s most trust ed w eekly new s s o u r c e F ortunately, you d o n ’t have restrict its use ju st intellectu c o n v e r s a tio n eith e r.

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W alk softly and carry striped a big clipboard. Clipboards spell p assp o rt into any building or instant authority and conjure up office in the world. images of secretaries, pollsters 1.

Quote a reliable source.

3. D evelop stock phrases.

Regardless of what you say, so and lab technicians. Along with a

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You can engage in a conversation with anyone on any subject if you know the lin g o . W hen posed with a particularly dif­ ficult question an excel­ le n t re to rt is alw ays “what do you think?”

In academic circles, few people talk to xch an g e new deas, rath er they talk in o rd er that may know the full depth of their g ro u n d b reak in g opinions. Trust me, th is p h rase n ever fails, they’ll welcome the opportunity to tell you all about their ideas.

A nother solid ex p res­ sion in times of desperate need is “I believe that begs the ques­ tion.” I have positively no clue w hat th is m eans b u t i t ’s a haughty rebuttal and anyone that does understand it immediately becomes red-faced and defensive once challenged.

again at 8:00. You can dazzle your friends simply by preview­ ing the first show and remember­ ing the answ ers. K now ledge, after all, as every good scout can attest, is 90 per cent preparation.

One word of warning: the truly brilliant never answer the easy questions aloud. If your postur­ ing is to be convincing, you must take pains not to betray yourself.

4. M em orize y o u r T. V. Guide. One danger of committing to learning general truths rather than facts is that you may fall flat on your face in trivia matches.

Not to worry. Jeopardy airs twice d aily , once at 6:00 p.m . and

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5. Roll your eyes whenever anyone ex p resses an idea.

You’ve mastered authority, this is where confidence comes in.

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D uke and his fellow Joes w ere o ff in th e ir estim atio n .

Knowing is barely one third of the battle. Posturing is where it’s at. W ith the rig h t ap p ro ach , everyday can be April Fool’s.

Ed. note: Michael Jordan is not coming.

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Twenty-one-year old Concordia student looking to run Ghetto Young municipal hopeful wants to bring community values downtown B y N icola Spunt

While some of us were writing hate letters home to our parents from summer camp, and others were writing fan club letters to Pat B enetar or Corey Hart, Shawn Rosengarten was trying his hand at letters of social and political signif­ icance. Upon visiting La Ronde one summer, he was upset by the decrepit condition of Expo ‘67’s “Man and His World” pavilions.

So, at the ripe young age of nine, he wrote a letter to Mayor Jean Drapeau to protest the poor upkeep of the city’s buildings. An unex­ pected reply from the Mayor, thanking him for his concern and explaining that the buildings had outlived their intended life-span by about twenty years, now hangs framed above his desk.

Rosengarten is currently seek­ ing the M ontreal C itizens Movement nomination to run as a candidate in the Peter-McGill dis-

“One quarter of your rent money goes to municipal services: those who have lived here for at least one yearcanvote.”

— Shawn

Rosengarten city council prospective candidate trict. The district is roughly con­ fined by Bleury and Atwater, EastWest, and Pins and St-Antoine, North-South. Acquiring the nomi­ nation will allow him to become eligible to run for city council next November.

The letter to Drapeau was only the beginning.

“My two passions have always been architecture and politics,”

says the twenty-one year-old who previously studied Pure and Applied Sciences at Brebeuf, and presently m ajors in P olitical Science at Concordia University.

“Perhaps it was Drapeau’s response that consolidated my political inter­

Rosengarten thoroughly exam­ ined various m unicipal parties before hitting on the M ontreal Citizens’ Movement. The MCM’s policies and platform immediately appealed to him. Founded in 1974 in opposition to the Drapeau

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ests,” he laughs as he recalls the incident.

However, Rosengarten’s polit­ ical motivations seem to have been primarily driven and shaped by environm ental factors. Having spent many an afternoon as a child in the defunct offices of “The Downtowner” (his best friend's father was the editor), Rosengarten clearly remembers the comings and goings of prominent municipal fig­ ures, the clacking of typewriters, and the aura of political excitement and change emitted by the intersec­ tion of the two.

“I consider myself lucky to have been exposed to that setting.

I’m sure that that kind of experi­ ence fostered my subsequent politi­ cal intrigue. My letter to Drapeau was probably an attempt to mimic the adults who were a part of my everyday life.”

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adm inistration, the MCM party would like to decentralize City Hall’s powers and delegate greater powers to the individual districts.

Yet it is their bilingual declaration, their multicultural angle, and their feminist affiliation which he found most impressive and refreshing.

“Their focus on cultural coex­ istence and gender equality really appealed to me. MCM is also the only party which declares itself officially bilingual. I myself come from a French Canadian mother and English Canadian father, and am very sensitive to the bilingual reality.”

Spanning both Concordia and McGill residential territory, this student-packed district has the potential to play an active role in developing the city’s future.

“The delegation of more pow­ ers to the districts is an attempt to

meet the specific needs of the vari­ ous cultural communities across the city.

“Thirty-four per cent of the 26,000 inhabitants of the PeterMcGill district are between the ages of 20 and 34, and rarely vote.

This age group, in and of itself, comprises a cultural sub-communi­ ty that has the power to make itself heard.”

Abe Limonchik, president of the MCM, would like to see more young people like Rosengarten get­ ting involved at the m unicipal level. “The infusion of young peo­ ple would answer a need we were unable to answer in the last 10 years. The-party was founded by young people almost twenty-five years ago, but unfortunately, their presence has declined remarkably.

“To be responsive to the issues and needs of the day, a party must reflect the population, the times, and the tendencies within society.

The needs of young people are a challenge that has to be picked up by the MCM. Rosengarten’s partic­ ipation is essential. An active youth like himself will bring fresh ideas and renewed responsiveness.”

Rosengarten has cultivated a deep affection for the city of Montreal. He hopes to restimulate its vitality and appeal in an effort to counter the persisting exodus of youths.

“One quarter of rent money goes to municipal services. And if you’ve lived here for a minimum of one year, you have the right to vote. A four-year term in a city where 25 per cent of your rent goes to the municipality should be an incentive to vote. If you act to im prove your com m unity, you never know — you might even want to stay here!”

Having grown up in PeterMcGill himself, Rosengarten is eager to remind people that down­ town is a great place to live. He is

disappointed by what he feels is a lack of sense of community, and wants to bring services and typical­ ly “suburban” activities to the core gf the city.

“Did you know that there are no swing-sets in Peter-M cGill?

There are no teams or leagues for kids either. I’m really interested in developing a downtown communi­ ty center whereby citizens can have access to the same services offered in the suburbs.”

This is not Rosengarten’s first involvem ent with the city of Montreal. Since the age of fiteen h e’s been working for both the municipality, as well as the federal government. When the city began the re-development of Parc des Iles in 1992 to celebrate the 350th anniversary of M ontreal, Rosengarten expressed an interest in working on the project. He man­ aged to coordinate an unprecedent­ ed youth em ploym ent program which allowed adolescents under the age of 18 to work for the city with the permission of their par­ ents. His two year involvement with the Parc des Iles project gave him a real taste of m unicipal bureaucracy.

Since 1995, Rosengarten has been employed by Environment Canada. He works at the Biosphere, developing and coordinating educational and cul-' tural programs.

“Because the party wants council to have a closer relation­ ship with the districts, I feel that as a bilingual youth with a certain degree of bureaucratic experience, I could properly represent this dis­ trict.”

The nominations for each dis­ trict will be confirm ed by the month of June. If h e’s lucky, Shawn Rosengarten’s name may appear on the municipal ballot next November 1st, under Peter-McGill, district 26.

Where presidential virtue meets sexual harassment McGill’s presidential historian Gil Troy discusses the effects of Clinton’s scandals on the Presidency

By L eslie Stojsic

Of all the absurdities surround­ ing the Clinton sex scandal, consid­ er this one: it’s made respectable newspapers steal material from Jay L eno’s monologue w riters.

“President Clinton caught with pants down” is no longer a winknudge quip. The President and his improprietous libido are serious business in the newsrooms of the world.

In light of the M onica Lewinsky affair, Kenneth Starr’s investigation, the opening of the near-documentary film Primary Colors, Clinton’s own recent con­ fession that he did have a sexual affair with Gennifer Flowers and the Paula Jones civil case that sparked all of this, will Clinton

recover? More significantly, will the Presidency, as an American insitution, be able to withstand the beating that this scandal has admin­ istered?

The Tribune spoke with Gil Troy to discuss the Clinton scan­ dals’ effects on the presidency, the meaning of “Presidential virtue,” and the film Primary Colors.

P rofessor Troy is the chair of McGill’s history department and an expert on presidents, their public images and their private lives. He is author of See How They Ran, a his­ tory of presidential campaigning and Affairs of State, a study of pres­ idential couples since World War II. Tribune: This must be a boom time in the presidential history industry.

Gil Troy: The phone has been ring­ ing off the hook since the second Monica Lewinsky became a house­ hold name. It’s like being in the position of someone who wrote a book about O.J. Simpson’s violent tendencies a year before Nicole Brown was murdered.

Trib: Would you hazard a guess at Bill and Hillary’s pillow talk?

GT: I would imagine that Bill has probably spent many nights on the presidential couch. They’re rela­ tionship always had an up-anddown quality. They have a very intense bond. People who dismiss it as a m arital arragem ent don’t appreciate the depth of the bond.

But on just a human level, you have

to feel sympathy for Hillary and their daughter.

Trib: Do these allegations prove that Clinton is ultimately an ethical­ ly imperfect human, like so many people? Should we demand more than normalcy from him? Or should we continue to hold him up to a higher level?

GT: American have traditionally held their president and first lady to the highest of standards. Leadership in general is highly personal... we hire men and women, not comput­ ers. What they’re selling is their charism a, their m orality, their integrity.

The irony with Clinton is that on one hand, he is being held to this higher standard, and on the other

hand, people are defining the most normal standards down. I don’t think I’m naive... I know stories of people who break marital vows, but I don’t accept the notion that every­ body does that. But with Clinton, if i t ’s true, w e’re not just talking about a discreet affair. We’re not talking about a pattern of systemat­ ic sexual harrassment, systematical­ ly treating women as either Hillary brainiacs — that’s why he can deal with Madeleine Albright and Janet Reno — and anybody else is a skirt to chase. I don’t think that’s accept­ able for any male, let alone the President of theUnited States.

Trib: How is this going to redefine American politics?

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Historian Gil Troy on the damage incurred by Bill Clinton th a t’s why the Stephanopolous character, and the American people, should stick with him.

Continued from page 9 GT: I think in the year 2000 we’re going to see some interesting things. We will see some candi­ dates who follow the Clinton way and say ‘keep my private life out of bounds.’ We’ll also see someone like A1 Gore, whose status will be absolutely enhanced, because what’s the biggest complaint about Gore? He’s boring. He’s got a sol|d family life...

This is a problematic and trau­ matic passage for the nation. It’s just bad. Look at the way the lan­ guage of American politics has been vulgarized. Three months ago, the press reported the Jones case with something like the President supposedly asking for “vulgar sexu­ al act.” Now they go and spell it out. Words that I don’t use in pub­ lic are used on N ig h tlin e .

Trib: Personality politics has been consistently eroding the issues of character and intergrity. Does that knock Gore, or anyone who has ideological potential but is lacking in virility or'charisma, out of the running?

GT: One of the fascinating things about Clinton is that the ideo­ logical and in te lle c tu a l coexist with the other things. He plays both sides. Gore... h e’s a very crafy politician. He has spent years as vice-president telling jokes like “oh, I’m more wooden than a fake nickel.” He has used his boringness in a sensational way; he's marketed

T rib : What do you make of Stephanolopous’ move to [the polit­ ical pundit program] This Week?

it. Jimmy Gil Troy is the chair o f McGill’s history department Carter did a similar thing in ‘16: “Til never lie talking about how they don’t want to you.” He was not a jazzy candi­ to hear about it. Finally I said, date, but he knew what this was “...could I point out that w e’ve what Americans were looking for at spent 45 minutes talking about how you don’t want to talk about it?” the time.

Polls have shown that people T rib: The media is going crazy are saying ‘I’m not interested in the with details of the scandal, up to story but my neighbour is.’ 30 mil­ and including the lion Americans watched the 60 presidential penis. M inutes episode with Kathleen But how do you Willey... if it hadn’t been for the account for the fact Academy Awards it would have that Am ericans been the most watched broadcast of seems to be more the month. It’s a big story and it’s a concerned about story Am ericans are follow ing w hether or not closely.

Clinton committed T rib : Some people say the perjury rather than his infidelity?

Clintons’ relationship is unconven­ GT: Well, I was at a book fair in tional, but that’s their own business, Florida talking about this, and I was and we shouldn’t be interefering. shocked at how angry people are at Can the public accept his extramari­ the media. They spent 45 minutes tal affairs as fact?

“Bill Clinton has shown the irresponsi­ ble men of America howto fight a sexual harrassment charge.”

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GT: There are very interesting questions about loyalty that the adminsitration has raised. It’s hard to hold anyone in the Clinton adnm inistration to a high standard when no one holds themselves to a high standard. The Clinton White House has been a disloyal place from the start. Clinton uses people and throws them away, people know it and at a certain point they say “Hey screw it, I ’m going to cash in.” Even so, is it classy for him to be the first to talk about impeachment? No. But he’s pro­ tecting his $2.5 million advance.

That’s the name of the game.

GT: The Clintons themselves are Trib: Was Stephanopolous really somewhat boxed in by their own that damaged? lies. During the famous 6 0 M in u te s interview in 1992, Clinton said GT: Well, another moving moment “I’ve caused pain in my marriage, in Primary Colors was when but it’s in the past.” And they spent Stanton says “you will never be six years of playing the perfect All- ashamed of supporting me.” I think American family. So it’s hard for what w e’ve heard is that them to come out and admit an Stephanopolous was ashamed.

We live in open marriage. ___________ ______________ 1998: it’s after Bill Clinton the feminist rev­ has shown the irre­ olution, it’s after sponsible men of the Gary Hart Am erica how to and Gennifer fight a sexual har­ F l o w e r s rassm ent charge. episodes... If First of all, blame this man could the victim. not control him­ Secondly, say, even self, if not for if true, that it the sake of his doesn’t constitute wife and daugh­ sexual harassment ter, or for the and thirdly, attack sake of the the attacker — the American peo­ prosecutor... ple, then for those thousands T rib : I saw Primary Colors, and two things of people who have put their faith struck me. First, when challenged in him and [staked] their careers on about the misconduct of the Clinton him, risked financially — if he character Stanton, the character can’t do it for them, then he’s got a based on [C linton’s strategist] big problem.

George Stephanopolous says, “I’d rather be with someone who T rib : How is this affecting Chelsea? She believes in the ____________ can ’t be that same things that I naive about what do and lies, than goes on. someone who believes in noth­ G T : From the ing and does noth­ time she was six ing.” Another idea or seven, Bill and that came through H illary used to in the film was say all kinds of that American ____________ awful things politicans are fun­ about “Bill damentally moral Clinton” to let her know that that and honourable. was politics. She would hear it, and GT: [Producer and director] Mike realize that that’s what political Nichols and John Travolta were enemies do. She has a choice: she lobbied heavily by the White House can either be in denial, or accept it. to come up with a sympathetic por­ It’s easier to believe it’s a righttrayal. Just before filming began, wing conspiracy. But you’ve got to Travolta, who is a Scientologist, \yonder, at what point... I mean, the met with Clinton and lobbied him right wing conspiracy explanation about Scientologists’ problems with is good, but is it that good?

Germany and Clinton said he’d fol­ T rib: How will Primary Colors low through.

I think Primary Colors is still a impact the presidency? devastating attack on the President, but it is as sympathetic as it could GT: I think Clinton supporters will probably be. The message is that say “look, h e’s flaw ed,” and his heart is in the right place, and Clinton attackers will be appalled.

"We’re talking about a pattern of systematic sexual harrassment, systematically treating women as either Hillary brainiacs — that’s whyhe candeal with Madeleine Albright and Janet Reno —and anybody else is a skirt to chase."

“It’s hard to hold any­ one in the Clinton adnministration to a high standard when no one holds them­ selves to a high stan­ dard.”

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Profusion of internet plagiarism C ontinued from page 7 back of magazines like Rolling Stone have now gone online. One such business is www.al-termpaper.com , with 20,000 pre-written essays costing between $30 and $200. E-m ail delivery costs an additional $1.49 per page.

Free sites make cyberplagia­ rism even more tempting. Or do they? School Sucks (www.schoolsucks.com) is a site set up in 1996

irony, the tragedy would not be quite so tragic. One type of irony used in Macbeth is verbal irony.”

It is hard to imagine that one could gain any ground at McGill with content like this. Professor Sarah Westphal, as a member of McGill’s disciplinary committee last year, took part in dealing with M cG ill’s first reported case of cyberplagiarism . She does not, however, forsee the crime as one likely to grow out of control.

As easy as the Internet might

At least they are discreet: term paper websites

“I w o u ld h o p e th a t w e w o u ld u s e th e s tiffe s t p e n a ltie s . I d o n ’t th in k th a t e x p u ls io n [fro m u n i­ v e rsity ] is to o s tr o n g a p e n a lty . ” — D e a n o f A r ts C a rm a n M iller by former Florida International University student Kenny Sahr.

Despite the fact that he earns no money on the papers themselves, with over a million hits in the past 3 m onths, he has earned over $15,000 in advertising revenue.

Let’s have a look at the first few lines of one of the essays: “There are many types of irony used in Macbeth. Without the

make it for students to illegally acquire papers, Westphal said, it makes it equally facile to catch them. A quick Internet search for a sequence of words in the paper often reveals the w ork’s real source.

W estphal asserted that the Internet “will not make dishonest work more prevalent in the future,” and that she is constantly reassured by students that plagiarism is not an attractive alternative.

One major disadvantage is the total lack of guarantees as to the quality of the goods. One never really knows what one is going to get from term paper services. The Evil House of Cheat, with its fiery emblem at the top of its homepage, lists the grade the paper received when it was uploaded to the site.

One dissertation from Lancaster

D o n o t e x p e c t to fin d a n y th in g to o s o p h is tic a t­ e d , th o u g h . A q u ic k s e a r c h u n d e r “N ie tz s c h e ” o r “e x is te n tia lis m ” le a d s to th e d is h e a r te n in g m essa g e: “N o d o c u m e n ts fo u n d .

P le a s e try a g a in .”

University got 57%. An essay on juvenile deliquency got 91% — but at the Grade 11 level.

A l t h o u g h W estphal stated that plagiarism has to be assessed on a case by case basis, Carm an Miller, McGill’s Dean of Arts, sug­ gested that the consequences could be dire.

“I would hope that we would use the stiffest penalties. I don’t think that expulsion [from universi­ ty] is too strong a penalty.”

Miller added that McGill staff “have to use the technologies as cleverly as the people using them.”

Perhaps the only consolation for the truly slick cheat is the cus­ tom w ritten paper w w w .aciplus.com offers the Custom Research Quote, complete with current education-level information and specialization. But with a mini­ mum charge of US$500 and two weeks advance notice required, it’s probably not worth it. Besides, one can hardly complain about the ris­ ing tuition after making a purchase like that.

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Capitalizing on Communist-chic Don’t be scared, loyal Trib reader. I realize that this is more the kind of thing you’d expect to find in the Daily under a heading that sounds som ething like “Sticking it to El H om bre” or “Getting the Red Out” or some­ thing else that carries an equally rebellious, seventeen year-oldFuck-The-Man-skate-rat attitude... complete with the same giant pic­ ture of Che Guevara. But relax.

You haven’t accidentally grabbed a copy of the Daily—and I’m not quite that cool.

Yes, I am going to talk about communism. But don’t expect to hear anything about how the machinery of capitalism is greased with the blood of the workers, and how the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions is neces­ sary to free the proletarians from the chains of their labour. Because if there’s one thing I’ve learned from years of peddling The Daily Worker in front of Jean Coutu on Saturday afternoons, i t ’s that nobody likes Socialist propagan­ da— at least when “those damn Commie bastards” take themselves so seriously.

Maybe this is why Verso, the “leftist” publisher that’s currently reissuing The Communist Manifesto, has decided to ditch the tired, drab “Down-withCapitalism” spiel that had worked

so well on so many university pseudo-radicals and pseudo-intel­ lectuals for such a great number of years. It seems that they know what everybody not working for the Daily knows: radicalism is dead, and the nattering voice of pseudointellectualism has changed so drastically in recent years that it no longer spits out Marxist jargon about “bourgeois claptraps” and the “dictatorship of the proletariat.”

So, like any respon­ sible left-leaning publish­ er, Verso has decided to capitalize on—and to cre­ ate—a new market for the seminal work in the popularization of communist radicalism.

According to a recent article in The Globe and M ail, the Communist Manifesto: a Modern Edition, has been designed specifi­ cally to appeal to the bourgeoisie— as kitsch. Not only does the sleek hardcover version feature a red silk marker that enables the phat, bour­ geois capitalist reader to elegantly mark particularly funny passages about, for example, the abolition of class suprem acy through the Proletarian overthrow of the means of production, but, as Verso editor Colin Robinson notes, its slim new design allows it to slide gracefully into the pocket of a Donna Karan dress, “without ruining the line.”

Yup, thanks to the people at Verso, communism is cool again— as long as it’s tongue-in-cheek. Just like we stormed to HMV to buy up re-released Abba and Donna Summer albums, and just like we stampede to Urban Outfitters to get our hands on all kinds of over­ priced ‘7 0 ’s retro-trash— from funky lava lamps to campy ‘50 ’s

The low talker M icah Knapp etiquette guides—our parents are supposed to jump in their Range Rovers and speed to the nearest Chapters so they can snag a copy of the new Manifesto.

Now, I know that this isn’t the first time that communism, or even radicalism, has been used to make money—judging by what those crazy kids are wearing these days, Che Guevara T-shirt sales must be something like a nine tril­ lion dollar-a-year industry—but it is, to the best of my knowledge, the first time that communism has been marketed as so uncool, so behind the times, so far-fetched and irrele­ vant in the arrogant world of capi­ talist triumphalism, that it has actu­ ally come back full circle to gain a

kitschy type of tongue-in-cheek retro-cool. And this is what bothers me.

Don’t worry, I’m not going to start telling you how we’d really be so much better off if we abolished private property and delivered all industry and agriculture into the hands of the state, but I’m not sure that we should all rush onto our balconies at 3 o’clock in the afternoon so we can spit on Milosh the Worker as he walks home from his shift at the factory, either.

You see, the prob­ lem with reducing commu­ nism to a laughably outdated “kitsch” is not that it undermines socialism as a legitimate political solution, but that it gives credence to the idea that Capitalism is—and always was destined to be—the only political and ideological option. The result, as we’ve seen in advertising over the last couple of years, is that capitalism takes on a disgusting arrogance.

Advertisers treat us like we’re so smitten with capitalism, so thor­ oughly convinced that the triumph of big business has resulted in the universal betterment of mankind, that w e’ve abandoned any silly notions about the need for social improvement.

When you turn on the TV and

see Bob Dylan’s “The Times They are a-C hanging’” advertising mbanx, or when you see radical Black liberation music like Gil Scott-H eron’s “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised” being paro­ died to sell Sprite and basketball shoes, what you’re really witness­ ing is the arrogance of a post-com­ munist capitalism that sees itself as the ultimate instrument of the bet­ terment of mankind. Inequality?

Racism ? Abuse of workers?

Fahgedaboudit... All ills will be cured by the magic wand of the free market.

So do n ’t worry. Run to Chapters in your brand new Nikes, grab a copy of The Manifesto, sit down and relax with a cool glass of Sprite, and have a good chuckle when you get to that part about “nothing to lose but your chains.”

Oh, those silly Communists.

Mr. Knapp has teamed up with Dolly the Sheep's cloning scientists to breed Bolsheviks in his bath­ room, which he plans to use as the new sales force fo r The Marxist Leninist Daily.

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Love, just the tip of the iceberg: Titanic and the Holocaust Although rated “G,” Titanic is pornography. Not pornography of the flesh, but pornography of death in which the detailed, real life, attention given to body parts, bodi­ ly excretions and pleasures in hard core porn is transfigured into the exacting reenactment of the death .

Titanic is pornography made palat­ able — i.e. marketable — by the appeal of its teenaged heroine, Rose, who achieves a world of freedom from convention and oppression through her survival of the sinking of the the Titanic.

Rose em bodies the typical double edged and paradoxical teenaged female personality traits: rebelliousness and vulnerability.

Through the galvanizing experi­ ence of surviving the sinking of the Titanic, rebellion and vulnerability are welded together, resulting in a mature, self sufficient Rose, who needs no man — which is just as well, because her lover, Jack, is dead. Through Jack’s masculiniz­ ing influence, she transmutâtes into a sort of primal mother; who clones herself, living, prospering, repro­ ducing, dying in old age without needing men. Rose’s masculinization is blatantly embodied in the film, most notably by the overt

pornography in which the moment of climax is achieved by the actual real life m urder of one of the actors, usually female, caught on film. I don’t pretend to comprehend the excitement produced by watch­ ing someone “really die,” (and to have the power to watch it over, and over, and over again) but clear­ ly, the excitem ent is generated from the “real life” status of the death, and by a margin of moral distance created by the “film life” status of the “real life” murder.

That is, the viewer watches a “film life” rendition of a murder in “real life.” The viewer is thus able to experience a “real life” thrill from the pleasure of watching someone really die, while he is removed from any actual culpability or responsibility. Had he not watched the film, the murder would still have taken place in real life. Thus any deeply felt moral response watching such a film could have, is distanced, mediated by the “film life” falseness of the real life mur­ der. The same pleasureable media­ tion occurs while watching the film Titanic.

In historical, real life fact the Titanic did sink; the victims are dead. Indeed a large contributor to

Teenage girls are returning to see the movie in cultish flocks phallic symbolism of the great ship itself, which she rides, mounted above the testicles of that phallus (the gigantic propellers) down to the depths of the watery, female cold at the time of the ship’s final submersion in a symbolic sexual consummation with death.

Titanic can be seen as nothing but an expensively produced, wellacted snuff m ovie, a genre of

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the film’s success, a feature requir­ ing careful planning and costly implementation on the part of pro­ ducers and promoters, is the film’s reconstruction of “real life.” We are fully aware, even before seeing the film, of the much advertised exactitude of the reproduction of Edwardian realia aboard the vessel.

I even know, for instance, not only that the china and the silver-

By Natalie C. Polzer ware are exact reproductions of the originals, but that the same carpet firm which supplied the original carpets for the Titanic in 1912 made the carpets for the film set!

Self-referential attention to exactness, and the real life aspects of the film, is em bodied in the many kinds of “display” technolo­ gy exploited in the film ’s frame story. Here, the detail with which we are revealed the “naked truth” about the “real thing” is porno­ graphic, not in explicit content, but in the slow, caressing, visual detail with which various parts of the sunken female ship are offered up to the promiscuous gaze of our eyes. Over and over, we are shown how technology can recreate “the real thing.” Throughout the film, flashbacks (or more precisely, “flashforwards”) to the 1995 ship show myriad video screens, relay­ ing simultaneous visual shots of various parts of the wreck. The clinical probing of the mute, corpselike hulk lying in her watery grave on the ocean floor, is a pro­ cedure shown with explicit gynae­ cological detail. The wreck is illu­ minated, penetrated and raped as the probe enters “the main stair­ case,” wiggles through ovarian pas­ sageways until it reaches what was once Rose’s stateroom (accompa­ nied by the frenzied, almost sexual, shout of the technician “We’re in baby!”) and grasps possession the safe, presumed to contain Rose’s “secret heart.”

As pornography of death, what is so compelling about the film to teenagers is not simply the thrill occasioned by the fact that the recognition of a good man has set Rose free, but that more than 1500 people have died to set her free.

For the fact of being an unlikely survivor is key to her transforma­ tion and maturation.

The motive of survivor trau­ ma, made openly explicit in the voice-over commentary of the aged Rose, strongly suggests that the Holocaust is a powerful sub-text motivating the effect of Titanic. A fdm employing similar strategies of “real life”/“film life” seduction im m ediately springs to mind:

Schindler’s List I will never forget clean. Quite unlike the naked, the words of an actual survivor, pathetic bodies removed from gas saved by being num bered on chambers and cattle cars, smeared Schindler’s list, reviewing the film with excrement and blood. Death for my synagogue congregation: by hypothermia, rather, is a clean “God bless Steven Spielberg,” he death. A death, perhaps, to be said, “He has made a film, which is approved of by teenaged girls, who more real even than the real thing!” above all, hate to be dirty, and are Apart from the explicit men­ repeatedly returning to see the film.

Unlike an explicit Holocaust tion of survival guilt, there are other indications that Holocaust film. Titanic allows the viewers an angst is one of the driving forces adrenaline thrill from witnessing behind the film. Many images sug­ death, without the distraction to gest Holocaust iconography: the pure pleasure occasioned by moral bullying, dom ineering, cruel compunction. As in a snuff movie, im passivity of the uniform ed the viewers are doubly removed British ship personnel keeping the from the reality of death, actually hoards of lower class (ie, racially here three times removed, because, inferior) steerage passengers although this is a “real life” reen­ locked up until the last; the fre­ actment, the actors themselves, we quent, though totally unnecessary know, do not actually die.

It is impossible to get a pure shots of the huge, fiery furnaces (ie, the ovens); the mounds of thrill from the death of Holocaust trunks and suitcases shown stacked victims, without mitigating moral in the hold, tragically never to be distraction, ie without feeling as used again (ie, the piles of confis­ though we were accomplices in cated luggage, clothing, shoes, eye­ ultimate Nazi evil. Here the agency glasses, found sitting in warehous­ of evil is morally defused, trans­ es after camp liberation), the deci­ ferred from active human agency to sion made by uniformed personnel that of impassive, morally neutral, of who was to live and who to die, M other N ature. Death on the and last, but not least, the human Titanic was a clean death — both debris, the flotilla of hundreds of physically and morally — - a death, ghastly corpses: those who sur­ not by fire, but by ice.

When the Titanic goes down, vived the actual wreck, only to die of hypothermia in the cold Atlantic. we are shown a close-up of Rose.

For the producers of the film, As she gazes into the faces of the this transposition of Holocaust to unknown passengers hanging next Titanic is advantageous and attrac­ to her, her face is illuminated by a tive in many ways. An egalitarian pitiful, horrified, yet lurid exalta­ romance, including the required tion. We know that she realizes that female nude scene and sexual inter­ everyone she sees will die and that course, is possible between well she will survive, that she will glory and exalt, after her fed, handsome, baptism unto spirited young U n lik e a n e x p l i c i t death and rebirth people. It is interesting to H o lo c a u s t film , T ita n ic out of the cold note that this a llo w s t h e v i e w e r s a n womb of the type of “whole­ a d r e n a lin e thrill fro m w it­ ocean (scarcely less cold than the som e” (read “whole bodied”) n e s s i n g d e a th , w ith o u t womb of her own sexual activity th e d is tr a c tio n to p u r e mother). R ose’s, does not lose a p le a s u r e o c c a s io n e d b y and our own, knowledge of cer­ film its “G” rat­ m o ra l c o m p u n c tio n . tain death and sur­ ing, while the vival, achieves a sam e would scarcely be true of an equivalent voyeuristic, self absorbed triumph physical rom ance between two through the fate of the doomed, a emaciated, shaven camp inmates. triumph which informs the nature Even in grisly death, flesh, in of the “death conditioning” taught Titanic, is rounded, winsome, and by the film. Essentially, Titanic is above all else, hygienic. The hun­ not a love story, but just another dreds of bodies through which the self-validating vehicle of moral life boat manoeuvers, as if through numbing which both informs, and lily pads on an afternoon pond fuels, our media culture. jaunt, are hideously white with cold death, but they are decently clothed, physically whole and

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This interview was conducted at the Archambault used record warehouse across the street from the Voyageur bus terminal. The X-Ecutioners (Roc Raida, Mista Sinista, Total Eclipse, and Rob Swift) and their m anager Peter King picked patiently through the reams of obscure vinyl, looking for that one bargain to bring home to New York.

They each knew what they w ere looking for: Roc R aida searched out disco and soul, Mista Sinista sought poppy hits, Total Eclipse a little of each and Rob Swift soul and jazz. When any of the four found som ething they thought another might appreciate, they would call out the title and pass it over. Only sometimes did an especially rare find become the p o in t o f serio u s co n ten tio n betw een the tu rn ta b lists. Rob Swift was the only X-Ecutioner to leave the shop empty handed; he picks his spinnables carefully, and was busy talking to me anyway.

T rib u n e : Q -B e rt d isse d sam p lin g as an a rtfo rm , su g ­ gesting th at scratching was the only true way to make beats.

R ob S w ift: I d o n ’t knock anyone for expressing themselves in any way they feel comfortable.

So, if you ex p ress y o u rse lf

production to my DJing and that helps.

How can you tell when it’s fake?

You can tell in videos a lot, what type of image they’re trying to portray with the images they use, or just by what they’re saying [on record]. You know sometimes it could really hit you in the heart, make you feel something whether

“The only thing I do knock is w hatev­ er’s not real, what­ e v e r ’s fake, shit that’s artificial.” it’s happiness, anger or sadness, you know. That’s when you know som ething’s real. Like on our album, there’s a m ixture of all kinds of styles, samplers, turnta­ bles, MCs. There’s poetry on the album — a little bit of everything.

W h e re d id th e r a p p e r s come from?

Just friends from along the way, people that we grew up with, to expose them to the public. The album came and it was like “yo, come on down.”

If you’d w anted you could have had famous rappers on it.

Yeah, but we decided why not give people that are struggling

Rob Swift (far right) a n d the X-Men: lords o f the N Y Underground through sampling, I’m not going to knock you; if you express your­ self through turntablism I’m not going to knock you, or singing, you know? It’s all about expres­ sion, you know what I’m sayin’?

Difference — to each his own, th at’s my thing. I d o n ’t knock anything. The only thing I do knock is w h a te v e r’s n o t real, whatever’s fake, shit that’s artifi­ cial.

Whatever’s real to you... Like for me, I do both: I’m into produc­ tion, sampling, stuff like that and turntablism . I try to apply my DJing to my production and my

a chance as opposed to people that are already established. Plus they were our friends, people we grew up with, so it was like “what bet­ ter chance than now, on our album?”

How is the record doing?

Doing good; I don’t have the exact figures, but it’s doing very well. A lot of people know about it. As far as press is concerned, it’s in like every magazine and we’ve seen nothing but positive feedback, positive write-ups and stuff like that, but I ’m not sur­ prised, because we put a lot of time and effort into the album,

you know? So I think we’re get­ ting that back now.

Hmmm.

Word. Now it’s just making sure that the next album is even better, lives up to the hype and all.

T h a t’s sc a ry ; people like Snoop...

Yeah, that’s going to be hard.

The sophomore album — so many people fall off. You put all that time and energy into the first one, and then you blow up and you think “ I d o n ’t have to w rite rhymes anymore, I don’t have to practice as much.”

You still practice a lot?

As m uch as I can, every chance I get. But it’s a lot harder now. Before you weren’t travel­ ling, you were home most of the time, but now you’re travelling most of the time, and when you get home you want to rest, but you can’t rest ‘cause you’ve got to practice. And the same energy you used to devote to practising when you were younger decreases because you’re tired, you want to rest sometimes, or whatever, and you’re handling the business at home.

B ut doing gigs m u st be a kind of practice?

Yeah, well practicing in that you’re keeping your skills up to par, but not practicing in the sense o f com ing up w ith new stuff.

Because when you’re on tour, for the most part you’re doing the same stuff night after night.

How much does it change?

How m uch is p u re im provisa­ tion?

I guess that varies from DJ to DJ: some guys find it more fun to improvise...

In your crew?

For the most part, we like to try to do set routines. The only time we really improvise is when w e’re doing a routine and the record skips so you try to make up something.

How do you do “the crab?”

It’s basically your four fin­ gers: your pinky, ring, middle and index finger, and your thumb, and in between is the fader; so you’re stroking the fader with each fin­ ger, from pinky to index, and your thumb, all in one motion — it’s like that. (Does crab) It’s crazy.

Q-bert invented it. There’s mil­ lions of scratches out there.

Are people always discover­ ing new shit?

Every day, man. Every day.

Do most DJs use the trans­ former?

The flashformer...it’s called the flash fo rm er because Grandmaster Flash invented this button that you just press off and

From left: Total Eclipse, Mista Sinista, Rob Swift, a n d Roc Raida raid Montreal’s used wax josh Dolgin on and makes it easier to trans­ form. The majority of DJs don’t respect that type of mechanism on a mixer, because it’s the feeling that you’re trying to make it easier on yourself. DJs don’t respect oth-

“[ M o n t r e a l D J ] A T r a k ’s c o o l you k n o w , h e ’s y o u n g , h e ’s g o t a l o n g w a y a h e a d o f h im . I k n o w h e ’s g o i n g t o c o m e o u t w ith m o r e a n d m o r e stuff. ”

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— R ob S w ift ers that come up with different methods that make things easier for them selv es...n o one really caught onto that. Everyone basi­ cally focuses on using the fader to do all your scratching, you know?

If you c a n ’t get the sound by using the fader, you might as well not bother.

Is there any com m unity of old school D J ’s t h a t keep in touch and hang out together?

Every now and then you go to a DJ b attle or a club and you bum p into like G rand W izard Theodore or like G randm aster DST, and you know you sit down with them and definitely pay your respects and stuff because they’re the ones who paved the way for us, you know?

What is the battle scene like nowadays?

It’s crazy, man. You have a lot of kids cornin’ up with differ­ ent routines and learn new things.

The battle scene is cool; you have a lot of kids out now like Dough Boy and A-Trak, Roily Roll.

A-Trak?

A-Trak’s cool — you know, he’s young, he’s got a long way ahead of him. I know he’s going to come out with more and more

stuff. Then there’s the Turnstyles from Toronto; it just keeps you on your toes.

W h a t is th e s ta te o f th e DMC? Um m m ... I m ean, D M C ’s cool becau se they give D Js a forum to expose their talents. I think there’s some flaws to it: like I don’t know why they never did a world championship in America, they always do it in like London or Italy, but here is where the artform began.

It’s never been in the States once?

No. And sometimes I don’t think they select good judges. To judge the competitions sometimes you have techno judges, techno DJs being judges. How could you have a techno DJ judge hip-hop?

It’s like two different styles! So I think that for the m ost part, it beats not having a competition, not having a place to go and dis­ play your talents, right?

W hat kind of production do you do?

So far the production level I’m involved in revolves strictly around samples — but at some point, if you’re going to really ele­ vate y o u rse lf as a p ro d u cer, you’ve got to learn keyboards, instruments, drums, guitar, bass — it’s all production, you know.

W h at do you th in k of the tendency to take a hit song and tu rn it hip-hop?

I don’t like that. You’re not really using y o u ’re p o ten tial, you’re just using somebody’s suc­ cess as a crutch. If you sample something that went gold, natural­ ly it’ll go gold too.

At the same time, though, people have been doing cover songs for years, so it’s weird.

Producers have been doing covers since the first rap hit.

Yeah. “Good Times,” James Brown. It’s kind of like a give and take. Just try to be creative.

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Mosai'ca highlights local dance talent in annual spectacle B y M egan G raves

The M cGill C ontem porary Dance Ensemble, now in its four­ teenth year, offers students the opportunity to express and expand their love of dance by choreograph­ ing their own works, including movement, music, costume, and lights. This year's show, entitled Mosai'ca, does more than justice to the variety of talents that have graced the Ensemble's productions each year.

One of the show’s co-ordina­

tors, Sarah Bunston, emphasizes that “they have a really good mix, w ell-suited to the name of the show.”

The program begins with a company dance entitled “Tidal.” It is vibrant and original, drawing on the various dance backgrounds of the performers. Though the dancers represent a wide mélange of styles, the dance comes together nicely.

The show continues with an array of slow, mystical pieces, clas­ sical works and extremely modern, harsher dances. Noteworthy works

Endless practice delivers at the McGill Dance Ensemble production

include Sacha C rittenden’s “Thalassia,” which begins as an ancient religious ritual in silhouette but breaks into a vivid tribal piece.

Also, M ichele R am ien’s “Sand” creatively employs cos­ tumes and props that lend a certain rom anticism to the desert. The music appears to place the dance in a foreign realm that we are only allowed to glimpse at in the short minutes of the dance.

More intriguing pieces such as Karin von Ompteda’s “In a con­ fused obligatory m anner” and Libby Lenkinski’s “Myeori” are not as aesthetically pleasing, but more creative and thought-provok­ ing. Libby’s music is played by two live musicians and she is very excited about the creative process.

“The music composed itself as the dance choreographed itself,” she noted N atasha M yers’ “Holomovement” drew inspiration from Goethe’s “Metamorphosis of Plants” and seeks to “uncover the hidden gesture of plant being unfolding through time.” It may be considered over-the-top by some, but stretching the lim its often serves to redefine dance itself.

There are certain weaknesses of the performance. Namely, cer­ tain moves and combinations are repeated several times, despite the

diversity of dance styles. Also, the costumes are some­ what repetitive with many black trousers and long skirts with side slits, although they are impressive for a small budget.

A few pieces are too long, but these m inor details can definitely be over­ looked.

O verall, the “Mosai'ca” perfor­ mance displays incredible talent and certainly makes for an entertaining evening. There is a little something for everyone, from a farcical ballet to a Janet Jackson hiphop piece to a gospel inspired jubilee.

Dance perfor­ mances are not usu­ Organic choreography— an evolution in dance ally the most popu­ lar form of enter­ the simple quality of movement tainment for students, but I highly can be in the right setting — a set­ recommend having a look at our ting which offers a brilliant oppor­ “local” talent. I guarantee you will tunity to observe movement in its be surprised by how entertaining most stylized form.

Who killed Canadian history? — we all did B y Ian L evitt

J.L. Grandstein Who Killed Canadian History (Publisher) Canada is considered one of the world’s most beautiful coun­ tries — it was ranked as the num­ ber one country to live in by the United Nations. Despite these facts, C anadians have little knowledge of their country in contrast to Americans.

In Who K illed Canadian History, one of Canada’s most noted his­ torians and authors, J.L. Granatstein, argues that “Canada must be one of the few nations in the world, certainly one of the few Western industri­ alized states, that does not make an effort to teach its history p o sitiv ely and thoroughly to its young people.” Why is this the case?

G ran atstein raises som e alarm ing facts about how ignorant C anadians are about Canada. “In a 1997 sur­ vey at York University’s Glendon College, 66 per cent of first-year students could not nam e a C anadian author, most could not name the first English- and French-speaking prime minister and over 50 per cent could not give the date of Confederation.”

The method of teaching histo­ ry in our educational system , according to G ran atstein , has everything to do with political correctness. Granatstein lays the blame on a number of culprits; schools that are too busy teaching trendy subjects, universities where history has been reduced to a series of unrelated and arcane sub­

jects and ministries of education that have dropped Canadian histo­ ry as a required course. Since the provinces have sole jurisdiction over education, how is the C anadian G overnm ent able to

promote its own history?

Granatstein urges action on the part o f parents. It is their responsibility to lobby school officials to improve the curricu­ lum. Parents should demand that C anadian history be set in the context of the W est w here it belongs. The federal government should estab lish a C entre for C anadian H istory that would have the task of developing history stan­ dards for the public and high schools.

“If Canada is to be w orthy of its envied standing in the world, if it is to offer something to its own people and to humanity, it will have to forge a national spirit that can unite its increasingly diverse p eo p les.” It is time for Canadians across the country to b etter understand the fundamen­ tals that com prise its foundations.

C om ing from a C anadian history buff, this is a thoroughly enjoy­ able read. T hough it might seem as an unap­ pealing issue to some, knowledge of our home­ land’s history is definitely an advantage to individu­ als, Canadian and otherw ise. I would recommend this book to readers interested in this subject and those who are concerned with Canada’s future.

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Harmony Korine’s Gummo is Apocalypse USA

By Elaine O 'C o n n o r “L ife is b e a u tifu l, r e a lly i t is.

I t is f u l l o f b e a u ty a n d illu sio n s.

W ith o u t life y o u ’d b e d e a d . ”

X enia, Ohio is Harm ony K orine’s hell on earth. An Am erican P a r a d i s e L o s t where God is dead, blown away in a tor­ nado along with half of the town residents, and Satan (under the guise of Slayer) rules, presiding over an obscene circus of glue-snif­ fers, cat-killers, violent drunkards, dirt-poor kids and a slew of moral­ ly (and mentally) disabled victims.

G u m m o , K orine’s second independent film, follows K id s in its unrelenting portrayal o f the senseless violence and despair of modem life. It is a surrealist docu­ mentary-style collage of bizarre people and events in a town maimed by poverty and destruc­ tion. T his is the Eden o f the American Dream after The Fall.

Korine portrays the characters in his film like a sick carnival of side show freaks, making G u m m o an apocalyptic vaudevillian act, both

absurd and pathetic, frenetic and doomed.

As in K id s, there is little narra­ tive structure or plot in G u m m o but Solomon (Jacob Reynolds) and Tummler (Nick Sutton) figure most prom inently as two white trash buddies who ride bmx bikes, kill cats with bb guns to sell to restau­ rants and sniff glue.

Violence, sexism, homopho­ bia, and racism are the norm in Xenia and are to be held responsi­ ble for disfiguring the society.

Korine connects moral corruption to physical corruption through his choice o f cast. The violence, nihilism , drug-use, killings and abuse of the physically able is mir­ rored in the physical deformities of the seemingly moral characters: a tennis player with ADD, a Down’s syndrome prostitute, a dwarf, a m entally disabled woman who shaves off her eyebrows, an albino and a slow-witted girl with breast cancer.

In Xenia, no one escapes decay. If disfigurement is a visual motif in G u m m o , death is certainly a dominant theme. Cats are repeat­

edly mutilated, an old woman euth­ anized, men wrestle and fight each other for no reason, and everyone is verbally abusive. Both of Korine’s films have this decadent, cataclysm ic quality; a sense of

The notorious Bunny Boy being on the edge of destruction, of witnessing the last night on earth.

What redeems the film, if not the town, from this relentless nega­ tivity are its odd m om ents of

humour, the “surreal realism” of Korine’s cinematography, and the strange, almost mystical appear­ ances of the Bunny Boy. The lives of three sisters (including Korine’s girlfriend and Kids cast member Chloe Sevigny) also stand in oppo­ sition to the destruction around them. They are symbols of hope and normalcy in Xenia: they nur­ ture their pregnant house cat, paint each other’s toenails, ogle guys, and roller-skate.

On an allegorical level, the Bunny Boy is the life force, a mod­ ern Pan, a symbol of hope which little boys try to kill and which the sisters try to kiss. In fact, as an alle­ gory of good and evil, death and life, male destruction vs. female creation, the film works very well.

Unfortunately, Korine cannot be read so easily.

Ultimately, Korine’s genius or moral depravity depends on which directorial slant critics decide he endorses. Critics and viewers alike insist that as social critiques, his films are brilliant, but as simple reportage and/or glorifications of violence, they are reprehensible.

Yet Korine never takes sides; he eliminates his own voice, leaving it to the audience to interpret his intentions. This is what makes his films so difficult, and has left him open to accusations of immorality, amorality and exploitation.

K orine’s refusal to take a directorial position, to support or condemn his characters and their actions is precisely what infuriates his critical audience. He dares you to make meaning out of non-mean­ ing, of chaos and has been cen­ sored and slighted because of it.

Note its ridiculously short run at Cinema du Parc. But this is exactly why Korine’s films are worth see­ ing and why, at 23, he is already a director to reckon with.

Gummo has concluded its run at the Cinema du Parc. No doubt it will come back. Be sure to see it when it does, or hunt it down on video. Warning: This film is not for the faint hearted. Cat-owners steer clear. And under no circumstances should you even attempt to view Gummo on drugs. Trust me.

Welcome to Sarajevo — the city that refused to give in B y C éline H

einbecker

Michael Winterbottom’s film criticizes the immunity with which westerners quietly shake their heads at the car­ nage brought into their living rooms every night.

W e lc o m e to S a r a je v o is based on the true story of the experiences o f B ritish jo u rn alist M ichael Nicholson while he was covering the war. Initially a jaded reporter, accustomed to the sight of death in the streets and out to get the lead story for the nightly news, W e lc o m e to S a r a je v o

Nicholson, briliantly played by Stephen Dillane, decides to send im ages o f an orphanage on the front line every night to viewers in England. His colleague reminds him o f the difference between reporting and campaigning. He per­ sists. The plight of the essentially homeless orphans so moves him that he resolves to adopt a girl him­ self and take her to England with him. As he explains to his wife over the phone, he couldn’t think of any reason why he shouldn’t.

Winterbottom sends this mes­ sage out loud and clear. W hile

there may have been ample “politi­ cal” reasons for withholding assis­ tance in Bosnia, there were no truly legitim ate ones. He juxtaposes sickening news footage of dismem­ bered corpses strewn on Sarajevo’s sidewalks, soaked in blood, with that of Boutros Boutros-Gali advis­ ing that the world be patient in resolving the Bosnia question.

Winterbottom’s key strength lies in his mastery of shocking images. Following a sniper attack on a breadline, a young girl demands to know where her par­ ents are. Two British reporters and

their Sarajevan driver explain to her that they’ve both been killed.

Does she have any family to go to?

She shakes her head. Then she, a tiny little creature, slides off her chair and miserably, yet resolutely,

the longest siege in modern histo­ ry? Do they behave like vultures living off the prey of others? Why did the western public fail to react to the ever more violent images with which reporters attempted to

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Where to? Heaps of bodies juxta­ posed with shots of Karadic assur­ ing the West that the Serbs are com plying with the Geneva Convention. The “Miss Besieged Sarajevo” contest attesting to the people’s will to outlive the war and its atrocities. The National Library in flames.

The questions raised by Winterbottom’s intricately woven issues are demanding of his audi­ ence. Would the war have been opposed more vehem ently had M oslem s been slaughtering Christians? Can anyone learn to kill? Yes, as one of the protagonists remarks, “it’s therapeutic.” Can the Moslem genocide be compared to the H olocaust? Did journalists remain hard-hearted in the face of

shock us into action?

W interbottom attem pts to answer these conundrums with the power of film. He uses footage of a meeting of the leaders of the free world discussing how to take action in the former Yugoslavia as the sound of Bobby M cFerrin’s “Don’t Worry Be Happy” eerily plays in the background.

This film is a m ust-see. It would be wonderful if the west was moved enough by the film to at least assist in relieving post-war trauma.

The film is playing at the Egyptian on Peel and Ste. Catherine.

31 March 1998

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Theatrical drama laments the downside of arranged marriages B y N ick K nezic

What is Shayad? In Urdu, the national language of Pakistan, “S h ay ad ” m eans “M ay b e.”

Shayad is also an experiment in theatrical cinema which appeared last week on stage in the Shatner ballroom.

When asked about the signifi­ cance of this title, w rite r/d ire c to r/a c tre ss Saba Sayeed simply says “Mr. Maybe can never be Mr. R ig h t.”

Confused? Read on.

Apparently, the institution of arranged marriage is still alive and well in the staunchly conservative and o ld -fash io n ed w orld of Pakistani-Canadian immigrants.

Hence the need for young Sayeed, herself an ex-patriot of Pakistan, to create this 9027(Lesque com­ mentary on the age-old practice of arranged marriages.

According to Sayeed, a huge

cultural rift and generation gap exists in the Pakistani community between the ‘90s neo-liberalists of our time and the traditional, some­ what xenophobic generation of adults. Shayad aspires to fill this gap by speaking out against the tradition of arranged m arriage w hile advocating m ix ed -m ar­ riages.

Set in the environs of the dressed and the beautiful of the McGill community, the play takes us inside the compelling love life of heroine M unizae (RashmiVarma) who is presently at odds with her trad itio n alist Pakistani mother, played by Saba Sayeed. Driven by tradition and concerns for the future well-being of her daughter. Mom conspires to m arry her o ff to the elig ib le Salm an (F arzad F arzad n ia), putting her re la tio n sh ip with w aspy heartthrob Brad (JP Vasquez), on the rocks.

What transpires is remarkably Shakespearean; identities are mis­ taken and deception abounds as Rashmi attempts to wrest control of her amorous life. It’s all laughs until Daddy (Akbar Hussain) has a heart attack from the stress his hard-liner of a wife wreaks on him. Not to worry, the story ends in sm iles as the crisis reunites Brad and Munizae at Dad’s sick bed.

A lthough the scrip t has prom ise as a poignant cultural commentary and the acting has some bright spots, the hang-up with Shayad is in presentation.

First, no small production stands a chance in the cavernous void of the Shatner ballroom. Second, the play’s producers over-ambitiously attempt to bridge the gap between theatre and film through the use of mixed media. Film footage runs in conjunction with some of the act­ ing and serves to tell parts of the

story. T echnical d ifficu lties (the sam e ones w hich disrupt the sound track) render this approach more dis­ tracting than amus­ ing. In all, Shayad becomes complex and hard to follow in parts, barely arriving at its intended co n clu ­ sion.

N o n e th e le ss, S ay ee d ’s third directorial project am uses and for those having little experien ce with arranged marriages, offers plenty of food for thought.

“WASPS are people too ”

Julie Fishman

The Oscars: Couch Commentaries for the ironically impaired B y Sarah M c L ean and Elaine O 'C onnor .

I can’t believe he just made a 69 joke. Just totally deadpanned it.”

Why do a billion people watch the Oscars each year? We know they suck. It's like a car wreck, you do n ’t want to look but you can't help yourself. Why do we sit through four hours o f bad televi­ sion? We d o n ’t know, but we promise not to watch next year. Or at least be drunk enough not to remember. So here are the Oscars, close-captioned fo r the ironically impaired. We ’re bitter so you don’t have to be.

On Kate Winslet: S&E: “Ugh.”

Girlie Gossip Column On Billy Crystal: S: “People are singing with him !”(to the G illig a n ’s Island theme) E: “That’s what a lot of expen­ sive drugs will do to you. I’d need drugs to sit there for four hours.”

S: “Or a butt-massager.”

On Alyliah: S: “What is she wearing? It’s the old double-slit dress. It’s like a super-long loincloth.”

E: “Another $9.99 Limited dress. Who is this?”

S: “Alyliah. Um, tune before you sing at the Oscars. It’s called a monitor, do you know what it’s for? Does she not notice how off she is? It’s like ‘Hi, I’m Alyliah.

My producer co u ld n ’t come tonight.’ ” On Elizabeth Shue: S: “She looks horrible.”

E: “Look how she’s blinking!

She’s on drugs. Hey, is she preg­ nant? Watch, I think she’s preg­ nant.

S: “Pregnant, or she may have just gained weight.”

E: “Well, if she’s pregnant then she can’t be on drugs. (Can she?)”

On Dustin Hoffman: E: “He’s getting old.”

S: “He sounds like Rain Man.

On Leonardo DiCaprio: E (w hining): “W here’s Leonardo? I’m only watching this to see him. We got gypped.”

S: “I don’t think he came. I think he’s like: ‘Ah, I didn’t get nominated.’”

E: “Okay, but he’s a hottie.”

S: “I still think he looks, like, eight.”

E: “Like who?”

S: “Eight.”

E: “Oh, eight years old.”

S (laughing): “Yeah.”

E: “W ell, I have nothing against pedophilia. Wait, is that when you have sex with young boys or not?”

S (howling): “Quarter to ten.

Elaine admits pedophiliac impuls­ es.”

On Burt Reynolds: E: “Who is that? Burt R eynolds? He looks like Sean Connery now.”

S: “It’s the new rug.”

On “Best Actress” Conspiracy Theories S: “T here’s only one American actress, all the rest are British. (Seeing Kate Winslet.) Oh, God. If she wins I’ll die.”

E: “Of course she’s going to win!”

S: “She’s the crappiest.”

E: “She’s the crappiest one!

All those talented actresses? She’s the Hollywood vote. They haven’t even seen those other films! Oh, she’s so going to win. It makes me puke.”

S: “It makes me puke too.”

Announcer: “And the Oscar goes to ... Helen H unt...”

S&E: “What?”

E: “I have one thing to say.

Helena Bonham Carter. We don’t just give awards to people with

nice dresses.”

S: “She looks like an anorexic string of toothpaste.”

E: “She’s crying.”

S: “What a wiener.”

E: “You were right, she was the only American! That’s why.”

On Faye W ray (old actress sit­

ting in front of James Cameron): E: “She’s senile!”

S: “S he’s like: T remember...stuff. I think I have a couple of kids...or something.’”

“We’re clapping but we’ve never seen this movie. We don’t see any­ thing that is n ’t made in Hollywood! I haven’t seen this, nor will I ever! But let’s clap.”

On Ben A ffleck an d M att Damon: E: “So if the blond guy’s Good Will, who’s the other guy?”

S (smirking): “Isn ’t it Will Hunting?”

E: “Oh.” S: “Yeah, so they wrote a screenplay...blah, blah, blah.”

E: “They wrote it?”

S (as they stumble over cue cards): “Yeah they wrote it but they can’t read.”

On Kundun Costuming: E: “Nice hat, I’m sorry.”

S: “It’s Tibet!”

E: “Whatever.”

On Relationships: S: “Marisa Tomei. Are they together?”

E: “Joe Pesci?”

S&E: “EEEWWW!”

Sarah Vehemently Disses Titanic On winning Best Visual Effects: S (bitterly): “Did I tell you it’s a piece of crap?”

E (nodding): “It’s an expen­ sive piece of crap.”

S: “There were like holes in the animation! You can see in the movie where there’s like parts of the ship missing! Like, they did a really bad job. The people, they don’t even look like real people, they look like little round heads.”

On winning Best Editing: S (ranting): “Ugh, Titanic was the worst movie ever made. The editing...holes in the ship! It’s edit­ ing that does that! They re-used shots! (muttering) There were holes in the ship. And also they re-used shots of dying people floating...You don’t re-use shots!

Film As Art On Foreign Film: S (watching the audience):

On Modern Dancing: S: “If they start dancing again, I’m going to kill myself.”

E: “I t’s Jerusalem , The Musical!”

S: “I don’t know, but it’s a woman on a pulley. ‘Look, I’m in a harness and I’m wearing crepe.’ I think it’s really a bungee cord.

Okay, I don’t get what the hell that was.”

Miscellaneous Snark On “Fifteen Minutes” : E: “Look, there’s Matt Dillon in the cheap seats.”

S: “Yeah, he’s like: T used to be a star.’”

E: “Where are all the real peo­ ple, like Winona and stuff?”

On the Boredom Factor: E: “Time Check: Ten Fifteen, Yawn!”

S: “It’s like five to eleven, and we’re like, ‘fuck everything.’”

S (on the tap dancing old man): “This is the high point of the entire thing.”

On the Handi-Snak commercials (okay, these were the real high point of the night): Commercial: “My kids love them. Not only are they fun...”

S: “...but they’re also made out of plastic! When you care enough to serve your kids pretend food.”

The Oscars, when you care enough to serve your audience pre­ tend performances, pre-packaged stars, and shrink-wrapped films.

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Taking Turkey to heart with a touch of Anatolia in Montreal B y CÉLINE H einbecker

If your only notions of the Turks arise from insults in M o liére’s plays and historical accounts of the terror the Ottomans inflicted upon Europe as they approached Vienna, it is time for some revision.

Turkey is reputed among trav­ ellers as one of the most hospitable countries around. D on't be sur­ prised at the offer of a small glass of tea in a store or booth while you haggle with the merchants over their wares. It is second nature to most Turks to go out of their way to help complete strangers find their way around while touristing.

This warmth has been imported by Nazmi Onol to his restaurant, Au Viel Instanbul at 1247 Bleury.

Mr. Onol im m igrated to Canada in 1990 and opened what is

as yet M ontreal’s only Turkish spinach or ground beef), kofte restaurant. The business started (Turkish meatballs seasoned with extremely slowly," perhaps because Canadians are more fam iliar with other Mediterranean cuisines such as that of the Greeks. Many of the more M iddleEastern/Mediterranean coun­ tries share similar recipes inherited from the Ottoman em pire, so Turkish food won’t seem alien to tzaziki fans. Turkey is best known for its kebabs, donair, dolma, baklava and Turkish delights.

Au Viel Istanbul is a small, family-run restaurant which offers the culinary essentials of Anatolia (cen­ tral Turkey). The menu con­ sists of an array of boreks (filo pastry filled with feta, “Mmm... meze tabagi.

pilaf) and much more. A note to the rookie: don’t be surprised if your

m eat is served with yogurt — Turks ladle on the yogurt the way Slavs do sour cream .

Garlic yogurt is especially delicious.

Some advice to the Turkish food first-timer.

The Turks have what is called a meze tabagi, a meze plate. This consists of small servings of many of the restaurant’s offer­ ings all on one plate — a great way to check out a lot of what’s on the menu.

If you go with a friend and none of you are vegetari­ an, it would be valuable to share one of the kebab dishes (about eight dol­ lars) and the meze tabagi (about nine dollars). There are also several options for Céline Heinbecker vegetarians — the vegeta­ bles in Turkey are so tasty and huge they couldn’t help but contribute to the style of cuisine.

And to finish off the meal?

Turkish deserts tend to be quite sweet because they are meant to accompany a tiny cup of Turkish coffee, which is blacker than black.

So follow tradition — a cup of cof­ fee and some baklava, sutlac (Turkish rice pudding), or fresh figs.

One last note — think about paying the Turks a visit. What you see in the photos on the wall in Au Viel Istanbul is what you get — a warm and colourful people eager to fill your belly with delicious food and share the beauty of their stun­ ning country with you.

Mr. Onol will be opening Pizza Damla, named after his daughter, two doors down from the Spectrum.

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Pounding the pavement: views on the IOC, McGill, and swimming

By Paul C onner

His plush comer office could easily be mistaken for a storeroom for a handful of people’s collectionsi On the left, opposite his desk, hangs a set of Olympic pins, the most recent one from Nagano. To the right, in and around his desk, are piles of legal documents. In the far corner, memorabilia collected from around the world. Somewhere in the bookcase is a schedule for the next M cGill B oard of Governors meeting.

“When the phone rings,” says Dick Pound, vice-president of the International Olympic Committee, chairman of the McGill Board of Governors, and full-time lawyer with Stikeman & Elliot, “I don’t know w hether i t ’s going to be somebody with a tax problem, a sit-in at the principal’s office, or some Olympic issue.”

He doesn’t appear to be some­ one who’s ever wanted to sit still.

After going to the Olympics as a freestyle swimmer in 1960, Pound continued school, first becoming a chartered accountant, later being accepted to the bar as a lawyer.

Meanwhile, the Canadian Olympic A ssociation cam e calling.

Throughout his time at McGill, Pound had maintained ties to the COA as treasurer of the swimming association. ‘“ Young Pound,”’ the lawyer began, acting out the part of a member of the COA one day in 1968.

“I said, ‘yes sir?’

“‘You’re a char­ tered accountant, aren’t you?’ “‘Yes sir.’ “ ‘Y ou’re finishing school?’ “‘Yes sir.’ “ ‘Y ou’ll be called to the bar in May or June of ’68?’ “‘Yes sir.’ “[The pair from the COA] looked at each other and said ‘how would you like to be the secretary of the Canadian O l y m p i c Association?’

“I said ‘Gee, that sounds swell. What do I have to do?”’

And so began Dick Pound’s most high-profile career — one of three.

Throughout the past 30 years, Pound has been confronted with a num ber of large issues in C anadian sports.

The 1976 summer games in Montreal was the first big event. Twelve years later, the COA faced its most humiliating event — a world record in the 100m fol­ lowed by Ben Johnson’s drug scan­ dal — an issue which has yet to settle. Four years later, Pound fought for a year to award Sylvie Frechette her gold medal, previous­ ly withheld because of a judging

error. Last month, six years later, the COA and IOC hit the front pages again with our infam ous snow boarding cham p Ross Rebagliati.

Pound has, of course, been at the centre of all of this. He made news in Japan by openly criticizing the IOC for its actions. Last week, Pound reflected on the fiasco in his

dow ntow n law office, pondering w hether the IOC was trying to send a message with its medal stripping.

“P ro b ab ly ,” said Pound, “but it was so ineptly done that it’s hard to see what the message was. If you want to send the message that marijua­ na is a recreational drug, as opposed to a perfor­ mance enhancement, you can send that message.

Whether that’s our busi­ ness or not, I’m not sure.

If you’re trying to send the message that you can change the rules in mid­ game, that message cer­ tainly went out, which didn’t look very smart.

“Our job is sport; we want to have fair compe­ tition,” Pound continued.

“Anybody who saw his snow boarding event knows that having a joint at the top of the hill before doing that would ■ not help you at all — it’d probably send you into some granite wall not caring much about it.”

Pound went on to explain that the IOC can’t get involved in the social side of things, because the line can’t be drawn — marijuana, alcohol, cigarettes. “Before you start legislating, you better make sure you get the concepts straight.”

When the IOC isn’t mired in substance-abuse dilemmas, perhaps

the biggest issue it faces is the bal­ looning size of the Games, espe­ cially the summer edition. Atlanta was a prim e showcase for how bloated the Games have become.

Despite the problems, however, sports continue to be added; the triathlon will be a full medal event in Sydney in 2000.

“Certainly, [size is] a concern to all of us,” the vice-president explained. “The way we’ve tried to resolve it is to fix a limit of 10,000 athletes. 10,000 athletes are sup­ ported by about 5,000 support per­ sonnel, trainers and managers, for a total complement of about 15,000.

Whatever we do now with the pro­ gram, we do it having in mind that we can’t go over that number. If we add triathlon, we’re only adding 64 or 128 athletes, and we’re tak­ ing that out of other sports.”

Fond memories Asked to describe any memo­ ries from com petition or from involvement in the IOC, Pound thought back to his swim training as a university student. “[In the summer of 1960], I was going to become a Red Cross water safety instructor and they had a screening test. You had to swim three or four lengths; I did mine, got out and then was told that I’d failed. “‘Excuse me?’

“They said, ‘Well, you failed the swimming test.’ “‘This is a joke, right?’ “‘No, no’ C ontinued on page 23

Varsity stars left off Athlete of the Year ballot for award banquet Questions raised as to MISC’s three-nominees limit as the number of quality athletes and performances increases “I t ’s really disappointing, M ISC, suggested that the but lately it’s become easier. We B y C hristian Lander Key names left off

and

Paul C onner

This year’s roster of nominees for McGill Athletes of the Year has been rife with controversy.

Controversy surrounds not those who were selected, but those who were not.

Because of a short-list limit of three nominees in each category implemented three years ago, some of McGill’s and Canada’s, finest athletes have been snubbed.

Among them are Wendy Whelan, Carol Chiang, and Samir Chahine.

A few years ago, the athlete of the year ballot carried five or more nominees instead of three. The change was brought about by the M cGill In terco lleg iate Sports Council, made up of student repre­ sentatives from each team, for a number of reasons. One was the issue of tim e — because each nominee is given an introduction and small speech highlighting his or her performances, past banquets wore on too long.

Reid McDougall, co-chair of

Council’s decision to limit the can­ didacy to three was a reflection of the spirit in which the awards are presented.

“The idea of the award is to find the best athlete, not to honour [all the outstanding performances] by putting them on the ballot,” McDougall said. “The problem is that there hasn’t been any other avenue to honour those athletes. I don’t think the solution is to put a whole bunch of people on the bal­ lot as an honour.”

McDougall added, however, that MISC was in no way trying to slight the performances of those not nominated, but that the three finalists were the top candidates for the award.

Francois Laurin, head coach of McGill’s swim team, wasn’t sat­ isfied with MISC’s reasoning.

“In a year when you have such exceptional athletes, I think you should nom inate them ,” said Laurin. “I think that in the past, we were having problem s finding more than three [top candidates],

have very good athletes on each team.”

Communications Officer Earl Zukerman suggested that there may have been a third reason for the lim itation, namely, that the reduction in nominations may be an attempt to cut down on unfair balloting practices. On the awards ballot, voters rank the nominees much like A m erican C ollege F ootball polls; the corruption comes when a coach ranks his or her athlete number one while rank­ ing the other leading contender number five. By reducing the num­ ber of nominees to three the possi­ bility of this happening has been reduced.

The price of a shorter banquet and reduced voter fraud is a heavy one, however. While the athletes on the ballot may be the most deserving, many outstanding ath­ letes will be deprived o f any chance at an award and of the hon­ our of a nomination.

On the men’s side this year, the nominees are CIAU academic A ll-C anadian linebacker J.P. Darche, All-Canadian soccer for­ ward Marc M ounicot and Team C anada row er Ben Storey. All three nominations have rightfully earned their spots on the ballot.

Unfortunately, Darche’s graduat­ ing All-Canadian teammate Samir Chahine doesn’t fit on the threeperson ballot.

The problem is even more glaring on the women’s side. The three nominees were soccer striker, All-Canadian and CIAU player of the year Odile Debois; Tambra Dunn, an All-Canadian in track & field as well as cross country; and basketball forward, second team All-Canadian and QSSF Player of the Y ear Anne G ildenhuys.

Conspicuously absent were swim­ mer Carol Chiang and volleyball power Wendy Whelan. Whelan, the Martlets’ middle blocker, was an All-Canadian and the QSSF Player of the Year.

especially since [Chiang’s] gradu­ ating,” noted Laurin. “We ju st found out that she’s been ranked 20th in the world after her perfor­ mance at CIAUs.” Chiang was a CIAU All-Canadian, a QSSF allstar, and the winner of two silver and one bronze medal at the national championships. Her out­ standing final year of swimming at McGill will not be honoured with an athlete of the year nomination simply because of the three-person limitation.

Possible solutions At least two solutions to the problem have been offered in and around McGill athletics. The first is from Zukerman, who suggests that the committee should use three nom inees as an objective, but allow room for more in the case of a year where there are more than three exceptional athletes. Also included would be a provision that an athlete who earns a spot as an C ontinued on page 22

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Redmen Chahine and Pronyk make their mark at CFL combine chances at one day playing in the weekend and regarded the experi­ ning backs in the CFL are normal­ ence as a gauge of exactly where ly American, and playing a special CFL. “It was a tremendous honour he stood among other running teams role would suit me just fine.

Redmen football stars Samir Just getting a chance to be a part Chahine and Dan Pronyk travelled just to be invited to the camp,” backs in the country.

“We were essentially just a of the CFL would be an honour to the heart of North America ten said Chahine. “It was a great expe­ days ago to participate in the annu­ rience and regardless of where I go number to them. It was up to us to and a great experience,” added Pronyk. from here I am real­ al CFL combine.

As physical Chahine, an offensive guard, ly proud to have as the various tests and Pronyk, a multi-purpose full­ been a part of it. It they had to do back, were tested by talent scouts gave me a chance w ere, both from each of the eight CFL teams to see where I stand Chahine and among the best in for speed, strength, agility, and Pronyk agreed that co u n try ,” conditioning. Players invited to the the most difficult attend the event, which was held Chahine explains. part was the psy­ “The one thing in Winnipeg^ are expected to be chological p res­ high draft picks in the upcoming that caught me a bit sure they had to by surprise was CFL Canadian College draft on 7 endure. For exam­ how professional it April. ple, Chahine was Born in Beirut, Lebanon and was. I mean it was asked to play tack­ raised in Toronto, Chahine has strictly business. It le, a position he is been a force to be reckoned with in was literally a twounfamiliar with, to day job interview his five years with the Redmen. see if he could The 24 year old physical education where everything handle the change. graduate recently became the first we did was under a Samir Chahine stands confidantly over Molson Stadium “It was as if McGill player to earn first team- m icroscope,” he Catherine Farquharson they were testing All-Canadian status; the centre/ recalled.

“Sharing the experience with catch their attention and make me to see if a would buckle under guard added McGill’s Touchdown the pressure. Under the circum­ Trophy as most valuable lineman Dan was an added bonus. We them notice us,” Dan explains.

Dan’s main asset is his versa­ stances I think that I got through it began playing with the Redmen to his long list of achievements.

His 6 ’1”, 295 pound frame together and he is a good friend of tility — he excelled on special okay.”

Chahine was not the only one teams as well as being McGill’s made him difficult to miss at the mine.”

For Pronyk, a economics and second leading rusher this past who was thrown a curve ball as camp. That he was also the second fastest lineman at the camp, com­ political science graduate, being season with 251 yards on 49 car­ Pronyk was also taken aback when ing after a player who only invited to the camp was made dou­ ries. In spite of being M cGill’s it came time to run through the weighed only 2301bs, did nothing bly poignant by the fact that it was answer to Kordell Stewart, he real­ plays he was asked to study.

“They gave me this list of but bolster his value. Needless to held in his hom etown of izes that he has, his work cut out say, he was quite pleased with his Winnipeg. He echoed Samir’s sen­ for him if he hopes to crack a CFL plays I had to learn, and when I was through, maybe one play I ran showing at the camp but remained timents concerning the “strictly lineup.

“I am very aware that the run­ was from that list. It was like they cautiously optim istic about his business” mood of the entire B y M anny A lmela

Key athletes left off nominations list C ontinued from, page 21 All-Canadian, the highest honour a CIAU athlete can receive, is auto­ matically added to the ballot. The second solution co'mes from swim­ ming coach Francois Laurin, who suggested that the Athlete of the Year award be divided into team and individual sports. The logic

behind is that the traits and charac­ teristics of a team athlete are dif­ ferent from those of an individual athlete and as such each should be honoured as a separate entity.

This problem w ill not be resolved this year. Derek Prohar, athletics representative to SSMU, noted that some steps have been

taken to improve the situation.

“All of M cG ill’s AllCanadians will be honoured at the banquet,” said Prohar. “[In addi­ tion], MISC has set up a commit­ tee [for next year] to specifically review the nominations commit­ tee.”

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were playing mind games with us to see how we would react,” Dan described.

Pronyk had no particular pref­ erence in terms of where he would like to play, though he admitted that playing in Winnipeg would be great. Chahine was more biased in his CFL aspirations, affirming that his heart was in Montreal and he would love to one day play for the Alouettes.

Speaking to players like Chahine and Pronyk provides a perspective of the CFL which often goes overlooked.

U nfortunately, most Canadians view the CFL as an abyss of would be NFLers who play here because they have to. Just because the league is a consolation prize for Americans it does not mean that would-be CFL fans should ignore the fact that for a great number of Canadian athletes, like Pronyk and Chahine, the CFL is an ultimate goal.

Giving more publicity to these types of athletes would serve to enhance the image of the CFL, drawing attention where it is due: to the league’s Canadian identity.

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9. Crocodile-filled moat around second-base.

8. Field crew jousts between innings.

7. Opposition has to bat with broom sticks.

6. First fan through the turnstiles gets to play second base.

5. Let Pete Rose work the scoreboard and bet with the spread 4. Electrically-charged astro-turf.

3. More of them Angels in the outfield, eh?

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31 March 1998

Sports Health

Exam ining the deadly issue of concussions and head injuries

By A ron T onon

You can hardly watch a sports broadcast on TV or read a sports section in the newspaper without hearing references made to Paul Kariya or Eric Lindros slow returns from concussions.

Though concussions have long been sustained by athletes across all skill and age levels in many different sports, the attention they have been given in the media has never been as acute as it is now. Even with the cur­ rent focus, little has been done to increase public understanding of the physiology of concussions, how to recover from them, and what can be done to prevent these injuries from occurring at all levels of competi­ tion.

Concussion types Dr. Scott Delaney of the McGill Sports Clinic is experienced in treat­ ing athletes from many levels of sport who have had concussions. Dr. Delaney stresses that it is important to understand that two classes of head injuries exist: the first and more serious is a surgical pathology which involves bleeding into the brain and can result in instantaneous death.

These types of blows are usually sustained in car accidents and require surgery to remedy the situa­ tion.

The second class is the non-surgical type pathology or mild brain injury. This is the type of head injury that most athletes sustain; the road to recovery can be slow and the potential problems due to a prema­ ture return can be fatal.

“What most of the evolving publicity is centered around is what we call mild brain injury and con­ cussions,” explained Dr. Delaney— “In terms of rehab for this, most of it involves rest to the point where the patient has no symptoms at rest such as headaches, difficulty concentrat­ ing and sleeping, nausea, vomiting, extra sensitivity to light and to loud sounds.

“Once the patient reaches this point they have to be retested with exercise, so that many of these ath­ letes such as David Wilkie and Pat Lafontaine were fine at rest for quite a long time and as soon as they stepped on the ice they’d feel the symptoms again.” he said. “This is classic of what we call post-concus­ sion headaches or headaches with exertion.”

The road to recovery

that die on the field after returning too early from an injury. It is for this reason that athletes who have had concussions are kept out acutely.

“The other thing we want to do is protect against long-term changes or cognitive deficits. The worst case for this is a punch-drunk athlete.

This is caused by repetitive concus­ sions; the athletes have to give them­ selves a chance to heal so that we don’t see deficits over time,” he said.

“W e’ve had concussions with guys on our team due to repeated hits; they weren’t dirty, they just happened to be hard hits,” said McGill Redmen hock­ ey coach Martin Raymond. “In one situation with Martin Rudel’s case, a defenceman from last year, he hit so hard he was giving him­ self concussions — and it hap­ pened repeatedly without him telling us about it.”

Situations like these are com­ mon in sport. Athletes sucking it up and ignoring the pain of an injury in order to keep playing and avoid the risk of losing their spot in the lineup. In the case of head injuries, however, playing in spite of pain can have fatal reper­ cussions and athletes should never Paul Kariya, concussion poster-boy www. NHL. c ignore the symptoms.

“When talking about mild “Once athletes get past the sec­ brain injuries there are two things that you want to do,” explained Dr. ond impact syndrome danger area, it Delaney. “One is to prevent death becomes a quality of life issue. Do and that involves a scenario called you want to play again and risk hav­ second impact syndrome. If a boxer ing loss of memory and maybe not or a football player dies from a head be as smart — for lack of a better injury, usually what has happened is word — later on because you keep they’ve been knocked out or had a getting the concussions? The effects concussion a few days previous to of concussions are cumulative and that and it’s not the blow that kills once you’ve had one it’s easier to them—it’s due to the blow from two have another.” days previously.”

Dr. Delaney explained that once Prevention: rules and an athlete has suffered a first concus­ equipment sion, the brain loses its capacity to There are some who believe control blood flow and can become engorged with blood. This blood can that the occurrence of concussions in remain in the brain for several the NHL are due to dirty play; Gary weeks, accounting for the athletes Suter’s cross-check on Paul Kariya is a prime example. Few people are

aware of the fact that athletes in the CIAU and lower levels of hockey suffer from concussions as often as those athletes in the professional ranks. This has led some to suggest that rule changes across the board might make for a safer playing envi­ ronment.

Coach Raymond has seen sev­ eral of his players go down with head injuries; however, he doesn’t believe that rule changes are the solution.

“It’s not dirty work and 1 don’t think that there is anything the rules can do about it. You can’t stop hitting; it’s part of the game in the same way as it is a part of football. I think we have to look at equipment and see what we can do to help out the athletes.”

Dr. David Pearsall is a pro­ fessor in the physical education department. His research is based on equipment design and he sits on the Safety Standards Board for the Athletic Equipment. Dr. Pearsall suggests that providing athletes with better equipment is a give-and-take situation.

“It’s a dilemma between the equipment and the behaviour of the athletes and they sort of interm act,” said Dr. Pearsall. “In foot­ ball, for example, we came out with better helmets and the players started to think they were invincible.

They started spearing with their heads which led to broken necks.

“The same thing is happening in hockey where the players are putting their helmets on and think that they’re protecting their necks.

They’re then putting themselves in positions where they’re skating hard­ er and checking harder into boards and their getting injured and there is a consequence to that.”

It has long been known by box­ ers that one of the things athletes can do to reduce the risk of sustaining a concussion is to strengthen their necks.

“Neck strength is very impor­

tant in terms of a blow to the head,” explained Dr. Delaney. “If your remember that Newton’s Law of force equals mass times acceleration, a lot of the damage secondary to concussions is a result of the acceler­ ation the brain takes. If you apply the same force te a head that has the neck relaxed, the same force is applied [only] to the mass of the head. If you have stronger neck mus­ cles or the neck muscles are con­ tracted then the same force is applied to the mass of the whole body.”

Mouthpieces are now being used to help prevent head and neck injuries. As athletes bite down on the piece, they are simultaneously con­ tracting their neck muscles. When it was suggested that a piece of equip­ ment should be designed for athletes to wear around their necks, Dr. Pearsall was cautious in his opti­ mism.

“That would be the solution if you wanted to prevent [neck injuries and concussions], but if you intro­ duce that then you dramatically change what the athlete can do and many probably wouldn’t go for it,” he said. “In the NHL they have to wear helmets but they strip the liners in order to make them more snug and less bulky. We could design something more but it would take away from the game. What is needed is more education about what’s appropriate play and the appropriate ways of checking and what not to do to reduce injuries.”

There is no easy solution to the problem of head injuries and the complete elimination of concussion in contact sports is unrealistic at best. Reducing head injuries at the younger age levels and preparing them early on for play can be done by helping the players strengthen their necks, using mouthpieces and perhaps introducing neck equipment so that they become accustomed to it at a young age.

After all, it doesn’t matter how you look or how well you play if you can’t remember it.

IOC's D ick Pound reflects on the CIAU's place in sport C ontinued fro m page 21 “I said, ‘Why did I fail?’ ‘“Well, when you were doing your freestyle, you weren’t using 50 per cent arms and 50 per cent legs.’ “ ‘But that’s not the way you swim.’

“They said, ‘According to our manuals it is, and you’re barely kicking your legs at all.’

“I said, ‘You don’t get any propulsion from your legs; all they do is balance you.’ Then I suggest­ ed, ‘Why don’t you get the best person, the one who most conforms with the manual, and we’ll do, say, eight lengths together. W e’ll see what the difference is.’ “‘Well, we’ll give this kid one more chance,’ they decided. At the end of it, they all conferred and then said, ‘W ell, i t ’s pretty unorthodox, but OK, we’ll let you stay.’

“This is the year I came sixth in the world in the freestyle— I

almost couldn’t get into the Red Cross,” he said incredulously.

University athletics Not all of P ound’s tim e is occupied with the IOC, though.

Fully involved with M cGill as chair of the Board of Governors and Board of A thletics, Pound often deals with the financial and political issues which inevitably face Montreal’s oldest university and its athletics department.

The month of March is per­ haps the best indicator of the dif­ ference between Canadian and American university athletics. It is a time when both hold some of their premiere sporting events — hockey, basketball, and more.

Pound, in the unique position to look at the situation from both within and without, reflected on why the CIAU is terminally a poor­ er cousin to the NCAA. “The tradition in the United States in many of the high perfor­ mance sports are university based,”

said Pound. “That’s not the same as our tradition. The result is that you’re far more likely to get a high performance concentration in the

Ourjobis sport; wewant tohavefaircompetition.

Anybodywhosawhis snowboardingevent knows that havingajoint at thetopofthe hill before doingthat would not helpyouat all —it’d probablysendyouinto some granitewall not caringmuchabout it.

— Dick Pound NCAA than you are in the CIAU. “And it’s one of these snow­ ball effects — the football is better, so more people come out to watch it and television networks have more interest in it. So the athletics

program s at some of the big schools, Penn State or somebody like that, actually carry not only the full athletics department, but in some cases are major financial contributors to the mission of the university itself. And that’s just not the same here.

“I don’t think it’s a problem,” he continued. “You can compete at a reasonably high level in Canadian intercollegiate sport — you may have to pick your univer­ sity with a little more care than in the United States, but there are very good track & field programs, basketball programs, hockey pro­ grams if you shop around for them in Canada.”

But Pound thought back to his time swimming with McGill. He believes that sports had about the same level of recognition then as now, and that links created then between CIAU and national-level competition have created a strong system which continues to exist in 1998.

At the age of 56, Dick Pound has been there and done that. He says he’s enjoyed all of it, and he plans to continue being involved with all three of his careers. He believes that he’ll step down as BoG chair, but only because he feels it is healthy to have change in that position every few years.

Pound says that he will contin­ ue to stay with McGill and the IOC for a long time.

“As long as it’s fun, and as long as the Olympic movement subscribes to the same values that it does now, I would definitely stay for an indefinite fu tu re,” said Pound. “Whether I’d stay until I’m 80 [the IOC mandatory retirement age] or not, I’m not sure.

“Under our rules I would have to retire at the end of the year in 2022. Whether I’ll still be on solid foods by then, I don’t know,” he laughed.

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Opposing Sports Editorial

Head-butting the issue of professional teams seeking local athletes One of the most contentious issues surrounding Montreal sport in general, and the Montreal Canadiens in particular, is the notion of actively searching out local athletes to play for the city’s teams. Below are a pair of conflicting opinions on the subject by Michael Hazan and Paul Conner. Read them, think it over, and feel free to respond.

P ro Maybe the rest of the world is wrong. Maybe fpmcfiises should be looking to attract locals to build a team instead of always thinking championship. That the Montreal Canadiens are based in a French city makes the ideology stand out, but doesn’t make them entirely unique.

The CFL is rallying around this point, and it does happen on occa­ sion in baseball and football.

The Canadiens have a long and successful history of local leaders.

Some of the biggest names in sports history share that common trait — Maurice Richard, Guy Lafleur, Boom Boom Geoffrion, Patrick Roy and Yvon Coumoyer to name a few.

It is for this reason that Montreal is considered the Mecca of hockey. As an illustration, think of nicknames given to past and present Habs.

None that I can think of were not native Quebecers. It’s only when a city admires and loves a player that he is given a nickname.

The Richard Riots of 1954 are considered by some as the spark for Quebec’s quiet revolution. Would any of that have happened with an Albertan at the helm?

Sports are about one thing:

C on

profit. A team generates profits in two ways: I ) When a team starts winning, and 2) When fans love the team. The Montreal Canadiens have learned that you can’t be the win­ ning team every year, and that the best way to build a fan base is to have local boys leading the squad.

'Home ice advantage’ has become a pretty random term in the last decade. Nobody on the Vancouver Grizzlies are from BC, are they? The Montreal Expos rarely have one Quebecer on the team. In what way, then, are they at ‘home?’

There is nothing wrong with building a community base for a professional sports team. For the CFL, it has become almost a neces­ sity and its best shot at sustaining the league.

For the Montreal Canadiens, it is a means through which links to the past and to the community can be maintained. In the hockey capital of the world, this happens to mean that some of the key players must be bilingual Quebecers.

—Paul Conner

The im portance of having homegrown talent on professional sports teams is undeniable. Local athletes facilitate the process of drawing a great number fans to events and is often the reason why a team like the Montreal Alouettes pursues a gifted athlete such as Michael Soles.

This procedure, however, puz­ zles me in the case of another M ontreal sports team, the Canadiens. The Habs often obtain marginal Quebec players instead of the best players available. The Canadiens stood pat at the recent trading deadline opting with a “we will go with what we have” policy rather than pursuing proven NHL players such as Owen Nolan or Jeremy Roenick. Due to their track record, the usual trade rumours sur­ rounding the Canadiens are of them acquiring a Québécois player such as Eric Daze of the Chicago Blackhawks.

Many of the Canadiens’ trades can be perceived as moves to increase the amount of Quebecers on the team in order to keep the public happy. Before the -96-’97

campaign, the Habs acquired Stéphane Richer for Lyle Odelien, citing that they wanted offence for defence. One can say that the Habs GM Rejean Houle made the move in order to spark the ageing veter­ an’s scoring touch, but, in the minds of the fans, it was a second chance for Richer to impress the public and to appease then-coach Mario Tremblay.

When Patrick Roy was dealt, the Canadiens were obviously not going to get his full market value because of the turbulent situation at hand. But why throw in captain Mike Keane, a proven playoff per­ former?

Many media types believed that it was important to have a captain who spoke French; Rejean Houle took advantage of the situation to replace Keane with Pierre Turgeon, who was acquired out of desperation for a francophone superstar.

To trade an anglophone captain for the sole reason he did not speak French is unacceptable. Language and politics should be kept out of hockey — in Montreal, though, this is rarely the case. The Habs’ fasci­

nation with French superstars can be traced to the 50s and enhanced in the 70s when the Canadiens won a string of four Stanley Cups with such superstars as Guy Lafleur, Serge Savard and Yvon Coumoyer.

Since then the Canadiens have looked for these types of players such as Denis Savard and Vincent Damphousse to reclaim past glory.

In my eyes, that is totally understandable and legitim ate.

However, I believe it’s now time for the Habs to stop living in the past and start making moves that will enhance their chances of winning a Stanley Cup. While at the trading deadline many teams were seen tooling up for a run at the champi­ onship, the Canadiens appeared to be sitting on their laurels.

1 can’t help but wonder, are the Habs waiting for their next home grown superstar to deliver them from mediocrity? Whatever the case may be, they’re not going to make much headway with the guys they have now.

— M ic h a e l H a za n

Atlanta Braves to run away with NL East in 1998 season B y T he M inh L uonc _____________

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Contenders: Atlanta Braves: They should easily run away with their seventh straight division title (not counting 1994). What else can you say about a team whose fourth starter, Denny Neagle, was the league leader in victories (20 wins)? A potent offence includes Chipper Jones, Andruw Jones, and Javy Lopez, but ex-Rockie Andres G alarraga’s numbers will probably tail off after leaving homer-friendly Coors Field for the pitcher-friendly Turner Field. However, they rarely seem to perform the best of their abilities in the post-season.

Pretender: New York Mets: The loss of catcher Todd Hundley for the better part of the season prevents this team from being considered a true contender. Nonetheless, a strong starting rotation, a deep bullpen, and a lineup featuring up-and-comers such as Edgardo Alfonzo and Butch Huskey gives the Mets a real shot at a wild-card birth and being a postseason spoiler.

Also-rans: Montreal Expos: If there is a bright spot in what might be their last season in Montreal, it is that it will seem long.

T here’s a good chance that Felipe Alou will prevent the Expos from finishing in the cellar, but don’t expect too much from this patchwork lineup. Fans will be able to watch players such as Vladimir Guerrero, Rondell White, Mark Grudzielanek, Dustin Hermanson

Houston Astros: In this weak than last year. However, this team and Ugueth Urbina on their path to stardom. Brad Fullmer and Carl division, they might squeak out seems destined to be one of those Pavano are top contenders for NL another title with some luck. overpaid ($50 m illion payroll) There’s not much offence behind teams that underachieve.

Rookie of the Year.

Also-rans: Florida Marlins: After buying Craig Biggio, Jeff Bagwell and Cincinnati Reds: Their lineup a championship very quickly, they Moises Alou, but that trio is formi­ dism antled the team even more dable to begin with. Starters Mike includes talented but fragile players quickly. Some star players such as Hampton and Shane Reynolds must such as Barry Larkin and Reggie Charles Johnson and Gary Sheffield pick up the slack caused by 19- Sanders. There are too many ques­ are still around, but 23-year old game-winner Darryl Kile’s depar­ tion marks concerning their starting rotation and lineup for them to con­ Livan Hernandez is their only bona ture. tend.

Pretenders: fide major league pitcher.

Pittsburgh Pirates: P hiladelphia D espite some good Phillies: Don’t be young talent (Jason fooled by their hot Kendall, Jose Guillen), second half last their overachieving sea­ year; they’re terri­ son of last year was ble. O ther than probably a fluke. Their Rookie of the Year highly touted prospects Scott Rolen, and are also a year away o n - th e - tr a d in g from the majors. block pitchers Curt Schilling and Ricky NL West B ottalico, the Contenders: Phillies are made Los Angeles up entirely of Dodgers: They’ve got mediocre prospects the best pitching west and injury-plagued of Atlanta, plus slug­ Veteran Tony Gwynn leads Padres www.espnet.sportszone.com veterans. gers such as future M ilwaukee Brewers: In the Hall-of-Famer Mike Piazza, Raul NL Central heart of the small-markét Midwest, Mondesi and 1997 Minor League Contenders: St. Louis Cardinals: Their the Brewers have been able to field Player of the Year Paul Konerko abysmal 73-89 record last season a remarkably balanced team with (who is replacing the injured Eric showed that the favourites on paper no glaring strengths or weaknesses. Karros at first base). However, the don’t always win. Things should be W ith quality players like Jeff team is plagued with internal prob­ different this year, as they will like­ Cirillo, Jeromy Burnitz, and new­ lems and always seems to choke in ly have injury-prone sluggers Ray com er M arquis Grissom , the the fall.

San Diego Padres (my wild Lankford, Brian Jordan, and Mark Brewers are a darkhorse to win the card pick): The acquisition of McGwire for the entire season. In division.

Chicago Cubs: After a busy Kevin Brown greatly improves their this expansion year, McGwire has a real shot at breaking Roger Maris’ off-season bringing name players pitching, which was next to last in record of 61 home runs. Youngsters such as Henry R odriguez, Jeff E.R.A. last year despite having Matt Morris and Alan Benes lead Blauser and Rod Beck to the club, quality pitchers like Andy Ashby the Cubs should do much better and Trevor Hoffman. Steve Finley, the division’s best rotation.

Tony Gwynn and Ken Caminiti form the core of a solid, but ageing offence.

Colorado Rockies: League MVP Larry W alker, Vinny C astilla,and newcom ers Mike Lansing and Todd Helton will keep the balls flying, out of Coors Field.

Their pitching, while not as bad as in previous years, is still far from being championship team-caliber.

Free agent acquisition Darryl Kile has been horrible in spring training, and may prove to be a one-year wonder.

Pretender: San Francisco Giants: They won the W est with some good chem istry, managing and luck.

Count on superstar Barry Bonds and young lefty Shawn Estes to repeat their exploits of last year, but players such as Jeff Kent and Kirk Rueter had career years.

Also-ran: Arizona Diamondbacks: Due to the power of the almighty dollar, this expansion team uncharacteristi­ cally includes big-name players Andy Benes, Jay Bell, M att Williams and ten-million-dollar (out-of-college) man Travis Lee. But like most expansion teams, they don’t have much else.

Predictions W orld Series: Atlanta over New York Yankees NLCS: Atlanta over San Diego NL M VP: Mike Piazza, Los Angeles NL Cy Y oung: Greg M addux, Atlanta NL R ookie of th e Y ear: Todd Helton, Colorado

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Foreplay: an open dismissal of golf NBC recen tly secured the exclusive rights to broadcast the PGA senior tour, declaring they were “delighted in having the opportunity to bring the dynamic sport of golf to the American pub­ lic.”

L e t’s m ake som ething painfully clear. Golf is not a sport — it’s real estate. It’s rolling hills and ocean front property, mani­ cured law ns and rip e foliage.

More im portantly, it’s a sea of plaid, which is fine if you’re a Highlander or if your mother still dresses you, but not if you’re a m iddle-aged man. W here else other than golf may one find an event where self-respecting heart surgeons and lawyers dress like pimps?

The fact is, everything about golf is backwards. Golf clubs, for instance, will charge their mem­ bers thousands of dollars annually

for greens fees, yet when it comes time to keep score, they give you a one inch pen cil m ade in C zechoslovakia. I think this points to a serious mismanage­ ment of funds — exactly what happens when you let your caddies do your b o o k ­ keeping.

Caddies are another m fine exam ple o f why golf shouldn’t qualify as JljfJ: a sport. What other sport has sherpas to do your nasty grunt work for you? Survey says, none. A closer exam ination of what they carry will also help in dethroning golf. “Say, what’s that atop your sand wedge? Is that a Walrus puppet?”

Okay, first off, the only rea­ sonable people who put decora­ tive socks on metal are also the same people who carry on ani­ mate conversations with walls. Of

course, they’re going to insist golf is a sport — in fact, talk to them long enough and they’ll also con­ fess to having shot Lincoln.

The merit of a sport may be recognized based upon the type of

u r f s tu rf R yan M urphy coverage it receives. NCAA bas­ ketball? — Dick Vitale - a man whose shrill voice and frightening enthusiasm have been known to produce cardiac arrest in goats.

G olf? — heavy-breathing low mumblers. If these men were to call you up on the phone you’d notify the police. Sports are sup­ posed to be exciting and invigo­ rating; golf announcers, however,

narrate events with all the gungho enthusiasm o f a tranquillized tortoise.

G olf announcers’ monotone d e liv e rie s are th e re s u lt o f attempting to accommodate pro­ fessionals who require com­ plete and u tter silence before each shot, mak­ ing golf little better than a public sensory depra­ vation tank. Surgeons work w ith background music while lives hang in the balance and race car drivers con­ ten d w ith th e ca co p h o n ies o f engines and crowds; yet the world suddenly h as to sto p ro ta tin g when anyone in a pair o f kneehigh plaid pants wails away at a little dimpled ball with a metal stick. I’ve known sphincters to be less anally retentive than that.

A sport’s merit may addition­ ally be determ ined by a close

examination of its minor league affiliations. Baseball, for instance, has Rookie Ball all the way up the Bush League ladder to Triple A. Golf, meanwhile has putt-putt. As bad as pitching may be down on the farm, even barely hitting your weight is still more respectable than a playing field littered with m iniature wind m ills and lawn gnomes.

Speaking o f playing fields, who in their right mind designs a playing field where balls can be lost so easily? Searching through dense foliage for a half hour in search of a lost orb is not a sport, it’s an Easter egg hunt.

Mark Twain was generous to dismiss golf as only a “good walk ruined.” The truth is in fact much darker, and it’s wearing plaid.

A foggy future: crucial stretch drive for the Canadiens

By Ia n Levitt

It is crunch time, that period in hockey during which team s attempt to secure a playoff posi­ tion. As is the case each season at this time, the Canadiens are faced with the prospects of improving their playoffs position or just being content on qualifying for the post season.

Notwithstanding one’s loyal­ ties, any hockey fan, particularly a Habs one, would be concerned with the team’s play recently. In contrast to their performance dur­ ing the first half of the season, the Canadiens have struggled down the stretch.

Last week, the C anadiens were in sole possession of fourth place. However, a pair of one goal losses to the Rangers and Chicago last week has left them in a four­ way tie for the final home-ice spot.

There are many reasons for the poor play of the Canadiens.

Injuries have played a big part in their poor performance of late. But injuries can’t be used as an excuse for a club’s poor perform ance; they are part of the game. When injuries occur, regardless of the player’s status, others must take control.

A nother reason for the Canadiens slide has to do with their personnel. On paper, they have a decent team. The problem is that a significant proportion of their players have suffered from a lack of consistency. Their top play­ ers have been Shayne Corson and Mark Recchi. Corson was enjoying a career season until injuries kept him out of the lineup for the past several weeks. Recchi has been the C anadiens’ best player to this point. But one player cannot carry a team unless he is a superstar.

Recchi is one of the few players on the team who has shown up for every game.

I am concerned with the Habs’

play as the playoffs are only a few weeks away. The problem with the organization is their lack of depth from the farm system. Unlike pre­ vious seasons, the present one has seen some of the call-ups perform poorly when in ju ries have occurred.

I am confident that the Canadiens will make the playoffs nevertheless. Pending some major slump, they are guaranteed a play­ off spot. The big question remains how far the club will advance in the playoffs. My guess is as good as any person’s, regardless of their affiliations.

If they are to advance past the first round, several things must happen. Goaltending — whether from Moog, who has made a name for himself in post season play, or the playoff-disappointing Thibault — is the key. Any hot goalie can carry his team to victory. Another factor required for the Canadiens to be successful lies with their

S p o rts Q u iz Numbers and words make up this weeks answer blurbs.

1. The most number of goals Wayne Gretzky has scored in a season is 92 in 1981-82.

2. The last team to represent the NCAA as repeat cham­ pions was Duke who won in 1991 and 1992.

3. Ontario won the 1998 Labatt Brier.

Montreal fans will be in for either a very long or short summer. Keep your fingers crossed.

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offence. During this season, their offence has been quite impressive.

When healthy, the team can pro­ vide a potent scoring punch. Their failure in past playoffs has been attributed to their weak powerplay; this year’s powerplay has been one of the best in the NHL. If the Canadiens perform well, I still do not believe that they will challenge for the Cup. Their goal is to get past the first round, some­ thing they have failed to do for several years now. One thing that is certain is that the playoffs will create an enthusiastic feeling in Montreal. Depending on how suc­ cessful they are in the playoffs,

1. What was Michael Jordan’s scoring average in his rookie season? a) 28.9 b) 24.6 c) 31.3 2. Who was the last golfer to repeat as M aster’s Champion? a) Jack Nicholas b) Curtis Strange c) Nick Faldo 3. Who is the currently the number one seed on the men’s ATP tennis circuit? a) Pete Sampras b) Marcelo Rios c) Greg Rudsedski

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1. The two Redmen fcxrtball players who participated in the CFL camp were Samir Chahine and Dan Pronyk.

2. The Bishop’s Gaiters won this years CIAU men's bas­ ketball championships.

3. The three conferences under the CIAU in university sports are the Atlantic University Athletic Association, the Ontario Universities Athletics, and the Canada West University Athletics Association.

1. Which McGill football graduate from the ‘96 team was drafted to the CFL? a) Ryan Coughlin b) Mike Soles c) Tim Biakabatuka 2. Which McGill swimmer has recently been ranked 20th in the world in an event? (hint; it’s in an article this week) 3. Which McGill intercollegiate teams have full-time coaches (ie., no duties outside that sport)?

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A th le te s o f th e y e a r Odile Desbois

Mathieu Darche

Martlet soccer striker

Redmen hockey forward The sophomore forward for the rebuilding Redmen hockey team exceeded all predictions made for him this season. After scoring only three points all last year, Darche emerged to lead the team with 21 goals and 13 assists in 26 regular season games.

His goal count left him tenth in the nation in scoring, while simultaneous­ ly leading the Redmen in nine offen­ sive categories. On a team which lost six of its seven leading scorers from the previous season, Darche emerged to become an OUA all-star.

Samir Chahine Redmen football offensive lineman Chahine, who plays an often-over-looked position, made himself a stand out among some 70 Redmen players this year. The 6’1”, 295 pound senior was named an AllCanadian for the third consecutive season. That he moved over to left guard from centre and still achieved All-Canadian status is impressive. In addition, Chahine was named lineman of the year for the Redmen at their annual banquet. Ten days ago, he, along with teammate Dan Pronyk, participated in the CFL combine. He was con­ sidered the best lineman in camp and is expected to go high in the CFL draft.

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lig h ts f o r fiv e o f M c G i l l ’s t o p m a le a n d fe m a le a th le te s fro m th e p a s t e ig h t m o n th s .

J.P. Darche Redmen football middle linebacker Darche was McGill’s out­ standing defensive player this season, and was honoured as such at the Friends of McGill Football dinner.

The first year medicine student led the team with 71 tackles in eight regular season games, culminating in a gamehigh of 17 against B ishop’s University. For his efforts, he was named Redmen player of the game in four of nine total games. Darche’s performances on the field were complemented by academic distinction. The team co-captain was honoured by the CIAU as an Academic All-Canadian.

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Redmen Rowing The fourth year veteran of the Redmen crew and first year Biology PhD student set the course in Redmen rowing this season. Storey is currently a nationally ‘A’ carded athlete and member of Team Canada. Highlights of his season include winning silver at the Canadian university rowing championships in Victoria B.C., notching a bronze at the 1997 World Rowing Championships in Scotland and France and setting the course record at the world-class Head of the Charles regatta in Boston with the Canadian lightweight 8. In addition, Storey led the McGill men’s heavyweight 8 to a gold medal at the OUA championships. He is currently competing for an Olympic berth for Sydney 2000 in the men’s light-weight 4.

The third year management student excelled in two sports this year. In the fall season, she captained the cross country team, winning three gold medals in the 5 km event in six races. At the Nationals, she finished third at that distance. Recently, Dunn finished 43rd in the World X-Country Championships for Team Canada.

Dunn fared equally well in the winter season, extending an unbeaten streak in QSSF events to three years at the 1500m and 3000m distances. At the CIAU Nationals, she won two gold medals and a silver in leading McGill to its bestever performance. Dunn was named an All-Canadian in both disciplines.

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Redmen Soccer Forward Mounicot, team captain and fifth year veteran, led the Redmen to the CIAU title this season. The high­ lights of his season include being named to the QSSF all star team, being recipient of the QSSF Player of the Year in the Quebec University Sports league and later being hon­ oured with CIAU All-Canadian status.

At the CIAU Nationals, Mounicot was named to the Championship All-Tournament team. Mounicot led the Redmen in scoring with ten goals in twenty games and was tied for first in the QUSL scoring race with six goals in ten games. He became McGill’s alltime leading playoff scorer with eight career goals.

In her fifth year of eligibili­ ty at McGill, Desbois led a young Martlet attack throughout the season.

The 24 year-old team captain earned her greatest honour, CIAU Player of the Year, after leading the team with 10 goals in 18 games. That total placed her third in the country.

Desbois was previously the unani­ mous choice for QSSF Player of the Year. Under her leadership, the rebuilding team went a surprising 11-0-1 in the regular season before dropping the conference finals to Laval. Desbois was named as a first team All-Canadian for her efforts.

Athlete of the Year

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Wendy Whelan Martlet volleyball Whelan, a three year mem­ ber of the Martlet volleyball squad, became the first McGill player to make the All-Canadian first team. Highlights of her season include receiving the Quebec League MVP honours, in addition to making the all-star team. Whelan received QSSF athlete of the week status three times this season, as well as CIAU athlete of week twice. Whelan is also a two-time team MVP. In addition to her athletic endeavours, she rounded out this season’s honours by making the Principal’s Student-athlete Honour Roll and was named a CIAU Academic All-Canadian.

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