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“No one ever hears about hooker burnout. The constant harassment, the drinking, the dangers on the job, the rela tionships you have with those around you, objects down your throat... it’ s all part of the package* And then we’re told we don’t have the right to feel burnt out because we don’t legally do work,” said an exhausted Jackie Rêve. Rêve is a transgender prostitute in Montreal. At 36, she has already outlived the average transgender sex worker by four years. When she came on to the scene in 1990, she was taught by the women on the stroll how to walk proper ly (“You’ve got to hike up your skirt, honey... show off those great le g s!”). Now, Rêve is actively involved in the sex worker community and empowering its members.

Stella offers safe haven “This is a dangerous job. W e’re made to feel like we don’t deserve public services and resources, let alone rights,” Rêve stated. “W e’re not even at the point of discussing political rights. W e’re still at the point of talking about whether we

have the right to feel good about ourseves. In this job, you have to feel bad to feel normal. People ask T can actually get support for my burnout?”’ The main resource for sex workers in Montreal is Stella, a publicly and pri vately funded centre run by and for female sex workers. Stella’s mandate is to empower those in the industry, pri marily through peer support and referral serv ic es. N amed after a leg en d ary Montreal prostitute of the postwar era, Stella is an organization for women only. “We are a safe drop-in centre, away from the main scene,” said Stella’ s co ordinator Karen Herland. Herland herself has had no experience as a sex worker, but has been involved with Stella since its opening in May 1995. Stella’s community outreach efforts include a newsletter C o n stella tio n and th eir B ad T rick L ist, w hich gives descriptions of clients who are abusive or who refuse to pay. As for changing the system, “Stella leans toward decrimi n alizatio n [o f p ro stitu tio n ],” said Herland. Prevailing attitudes about the sex trade are not the only hurdles that prostiC on tin u ed on page 13 A n i D ifr a n c o ro c k e d M e tro p o lis a n d p ro v e d she's o n e h e ll o f a rig h te o u s babe. See p g .

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Vice-Principal Administration and F in an ce P h y llis H eaphy announced at last w eek’ s Senate meeting that M cG ill w ill almost certainly face a $5 million deficit in th e ir o p era tio n a l b u d get in 1998-1999. M cGill w ill see their deficit rise primarily because of ongoing p ro v in cia l governm ent cuts to post-secondary education. Faced w ith an operational budget that w ill shrink by $8.5 million in the next academ ic year, M cG ill has had no ch o ice but to return to deficit-financing and belt-tighten ing measures to stay fin an cially afloat.

“In order to save quality of education...within the constraints of the p u rse...I saw no w ay of achieving a balanced budget for 1 9 9 8 -1 9 9 9 ,” said P rin cip al Shapiro in his report to Senate. Students are going to feel the pinch next y e a r as a sundry of m easu res that V ic e -P rin c ip a l H eaphy describ ed at Sen ate as “small, irritating inconveniences” are implemented to deal with the deficit. Starting in 1999, student asso ciations w ill be expected to pay for h e atin g th e ir b u ild in g s, a $450,000 cost that had previously been absorbed by the university. A cco rd in g to SSM U VP F in an ce and P re sid e n t-e le c t

q u estio n about a m a rg in al fee increase, maybe even for a stipu lated amount of time,” Pederzani stated. C urren t P resid en t T ara Newell strongly voiced her objec tions to the cutback at Senate and asked that it be withdrawn from co n sideratio n u n til it had been thoroughly discussed. She believes that the administration was wrong to presume that student associa tio n s should be self-fu n d ed b ecause they housed “b usiness activities.” “This embarks on new territo ry between the administration and stu d e n ts,” N e w ell stated . “It

Duncan Reid, SSM U ’ s share of th is to tal is ap p ro x im ately $350,000 and represents about 20 per cent of the so ciety’ s opera tional budget. “Cutting the budget of SSMU by 20 per cent in one year is more than an ‘ an n o yin g in c o n v e nience,” ’ he said in reference to Heaphy’s comments. “It is a clear abandonment on the part of the university to protect student life.” SSM U VP F in a n c e -e le c t Lorenzo Pederzani foresees a situ ation where SSMU may be forced to raise its fees in order to contin ue servicing students. “It’ s a big chunk of our opera tional budget. In the long run, we might want to hold a referendum

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7 April 1998

D a lh o u s ie p r o fe s s o r s b a c k at w o r k a fter ten d a y strik e B y Stephanie Levitz

Dalhousie University students returned to class Thursday after a ten-day strike. The strike, which began on March 25, resulted after eight months of failed negotiations between Dal faculty and adminis tration. The D alh o usie F acu lty Association represents the 722 pro fessors, librarians, instructors and counsellors who work at the uni versity. The DFA and Dal have been in contract negotiations since November 1997, when the last col le c tiv e agreem ent betw een the DFA and Dal ex p ired . T alks between the two sides reached an impasse at the end of January and failed attempts at reconciliation led to the faculty voting overwhelm ingly in favour of a strike. The DFA and Dal w ere at odds over the issu es of facu lty

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complement and salary. Over the last ten years, Dal has seen 113 fac u lty m em bers lo st to in d u stry, retirem ent and universities with better salaries, with 46 more due to leave at the end of this year. None of the staff members have been replaced, much to the consternation of the DFA. “The loss of faculty is certain ly hurting the quality of education at D al,” said Andy W ainwright, spokesperson for the union. “Courses are not being taught to their full potential because of over crow ded classro o m s and o ver worked professors. Students aren’t getting the individual attention that they pay for.” The DFA w as ask in g for reductions in faculty complement, something that the Dal Board of Governors says they are not in a position to do. “[The loss of facul ty] is the outcome of long term cuts

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to university funding rather than the University’s preferred policy,” read Dal’s official statement on the issue. The university administration went on to say in its statement that “Dalhousie is committed to replac ing faculty members when funds are av aila b le. The strength and vitality of our academic program ming depends on it. However, we cannot commit to spending money we don’ t h ave. T herefore, Dalhousie cannot guarantee faculty replacements in all cases, irrespec tiv e of our fin a n c ia l circu m stances.” In terms of salary, the results of a jo in t D alhousie B oard of Governors-DFA survey showed that members of the DFA w ere among the lowest paid university faculty in the country. For exam p le, a ty p ic a l fu ll p ro fesso r at Dalhousie, with about 22 years of education and 20 years of experi ence, makes 15 per cent less than the average salary paid to a full

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say in the negotiations,” he contin ued, “but w e’re glad it’s over and we can move on.” Amanda Levencrown, a first year science student at Dal, said that at first there was excitement on campus about the strike. “No one wanted to say it,” she said. “We knew we should be supporting the faculty or the Board or something, but at first there was that feeling of ‘yeah, a break’ before we learned about what the issues really were.” Although Dalhousie faculty are now back on the job, the deal betw een the u n iv ersity and the DFA w ill be costly. Dal President Tom Traves said in an interview with the H alifax D aily N ew s that the university needs approximately $9 m illion from the Nova Scotia government if it wants to avoid tuition hikes next year. “It was a stressful and scary tim e for e v eryo n e,” concluded Levencrown. “But now that it is over, it’s back to work like usual.”

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professor at other universities. Due to provincial government freezes on salary and subsequent rollbacks, the faculty at Dal have seen their salaries decreased by 6.8 per cent in the last five years. “When there aren’t competi tive salaries, good people leave the university and good people don’t come to the u n iv e rsity ,” stated Wainwright. “This is also affecting the quality of our education.” The DFA originally asked for a 13 per cent salary increase but the ten tativ e agreem ent reached between the DFA and the adminis tration w ill see a 10 per cent in crease over 32 months. W ith regards to faculty complement, the two sides struck a deal creating a jo in t b o ard -staff com m ittee to examine the issue. Dalhousie’ s student body had mixed reactions to the strike. “They were extremely frustrated, but not quite up in arms,” said Dalhousie Student U nion P residen t C hris Adams. “We didn’t have a lot of

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ideas between countries. Jian g ’ s visit was marked by protest, but Rudenstine found a far w arm er w elco m e for h is address at Peking University. S tu d en ts stood in lin e for m ore than an hour to h ear Rudenstine, and eventually nearly 1 ,000 stu d en ts and fa c u lty sq u e ezed into an au d ito riu m designed for 800. In h is ad d ress, R udenstine emphasized the importance of the liberal arts education, along with the need for the university com m unity to extend beyond across national borders. “U n iv e rsitie s can w ork to create ‘neutral spaces’ for serious d isc u ssio n , b ased on a shared com m itm ent to free in q u iry, to rigorous research and an alysis, and to open dialogue,” Rudenstine said. Rudenstine ended his speech by em phasizing the need to be “energetically pursuing the ideals of openness, free inquiry, and the free exchange of ideas.” Stu d en t le a d e rs at la st N ovem ber’ s protests said they were sceptical about Rudenstine’ s motives for the trip. “Why is he going there? Is it for the greater good and open dis course or is it a monetary thing?” said Whitney K. Bryant ‘99-’00, u rgen t-actio n co -o rd in ato r for H a rv a rd -R a d c liffe A m n esty

International. “[Amnesty International con demns] human-rights violations, but I personally as a moral human being want to know: what is in it for H arvard and w h y d id n ’ t human rights come up?” Byrant added. W h ile H arvard ’ s p resident m a in tain s h is v is it to P ek in g University was motivated only by academ ic exchange, Canada has launched a co-ordinated effort to market Canadian educational ser vices in China. On a recent trade mission to B eijing, International T rade M in ister S erg io M arch i opened the new C an ad ian Education Office, located at the C an ad ian E m b assy. M arch i believes that Canada is in a good position to create business oppor tunities in the education sector. “Canada offers w orld-class, co m p etitiv ely-p riced education and train in g services. The new C an ad ian E ducation O ffice in B eijing is an impressive market ing and information resource for ac a d e m ic in s titu tio n s acro ss Canada,” stated Marchi in a press release. The new office is not the first initiative with China in the field of education. The Canada-China Scholars Exchange Program was launched in 1973 and has pro duced over 400 graduates.

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[Heaphy’ s memorandum] sounds lik e we h ave a stash of dough under our mattresses but the prof its we make go back into the com munity to service students.” Another cutback of concern to students is the decrease in funds for student aid and scholarships. In 1997-1998, M cG ill pledged $3 million to scholarships and student aid in order to offset tuition fee increases imposed by the provin c ia l go vern m en t for out-o fprovince and intern atio n al stu dents. M cG ill intends to reduce this funding by $1 million in the upcoming year because the univer sity claims “a number of students in question w ill be graduating.” “The administration must be a in a tighter position than I thought to enact such a politically contro versial move,” said Pederzani. Heaphy maintains, however, that although this type of student aid will be reduced by $1 million in the upcoming academ ic year, there will be large sums still avail able to help students, as in the past. She reminded students not to “forget the substantial amounts

which remain available from other sources and will not be reduced.” Students w ill also see their registration fee increase by $40 as th ey fin an ce a new S tuden t In form atio n S ystem and a Financial Information System to be in s ta lle d over the next few years. The administration claim s that because students w ill be direct beneficiaries of the new registra tion system, they should pay for the co st of im p lem en tatio n . However, Economics Professor and a m em ber of the M cG ill Alternative Budget Group Myron Frankman disagrees. “Why should students pay so that we can keep records? I think that we have this funny category at M cG ill called deferred m ainte nance...students should not have to pay every time we upgrade some thing,” he said. Other highlights of the budget include a $5.7 million cut in oper ating expenses in all faculties, a decrease in subsidies to Solin Hall, en erg y co n serv atio n m easures including reducing heat and venti lation on weekends and nights to save $500,000, increased tuition fees for international students in

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resources, she asserts that the uni versity should ultim ately be held resp o n sib le for the q u a lity of libraries. “Id e a lly , if we w ere in the rig h t econom ic co n text, we wouldn’t need to have a fund like this. The university would be tak ing care of it all,” she stated. M cG ill ad m in istratio n has tried to secure private funds to make up for funding cutbacks by

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“W hen w e try to ra ise p ri v a t e s u p p o r t , i t ’s n o t e a s y . P e o p l e w a n t to d o n a te to the fa cu lty th e y g ra d u a te d from . N o b o d y e v e r g ra d u a te d from the lib ra ry , s o it n e v e r g e t s the su p p o rt it n e e d s .” — D e re k D rum m ond, V ice-P rin cip a l D e v e lo p m e n t a n d A lu m n i R e la tio n s

the Quebec governm ent. V icePrincipal Development and Alumni Relations Derek Drummond point ed out that the university has had a hard time getting donors to direct gifts towards libraries. “When we try to raise private support, it’s not easy. People want to donate to the faculty they gradu ated from. Nobody ever graduated from the library...so it never gets the support it needs,” he stated. Dean of Students R o salie Jukier hopes this will change. The Board of Governors fundraising committee plans to launch a $15 million capital campaign to bring more money to McGill’s libraries, and Jukier believes that the strong show of support from students will be an im portant part of getting more private donors on board. “I think it is a wonderful, won derful inducement to encourage people to donate. When 1 tell pri vate donors that students have put their own money forward, it’s defi nitely an incentive — donors gen erally want to do the types of pro jects that students want,” she stat ed. Although the university is try ing to pare down its budget in every place possible, Groen does not think that the administration will accelerate the rate of cutbacks just because there is a new infusion of private money. “I’ m sure w e’ ll take cuts to our budget like everyone else, but there won’t be any direct relation ship between the donations and cuts. From my point of view , 1 wouldn’t let that happen,” she stat ed.

M cG ill lib rarie s received a $1.2 million boost from undergrad uates and alumni at a special cere mony held on Friday. H alf of the donation comes from the proceeds of the Library Improvement Fund which has col lected $10 per semester from each full-tim e undergraduate student since it was approved in a spring 1996 SSMU referendum. The other h alf comes from McGill M artlet House, which agreed to match the student donation dollar for dollar. “It’s a unique and most memo rable moment in my life as a librar ia n ,” said D irector of L ib raries Frances Groen, addressing a small group of student leaders, adminis trators and members of the Board of Governors gathered in the lobby of the McLennan library. “When we in au gu rated the Donor R eco gn itio n W a ll [in O ctober 1996] that you pass by on entering the library, little did I imagine that the next m ajor donor we would honour would be the students of this university.” Of the $1.2 million, $750,000 will be used to improve the univer sity’ s print holdings which repre sents 14 per cent of the overall col lectio n s budget. SSM U VP U n iv ersity A ffa irs E lizabeth G om ery is p le ased to see the money fin ally going to work for students. “I was adamant that we had to spend the money this year — [for mer VP U niversity A ffairs] Don [McGowan] hadn’t spent any of the m oney co llected last y e a r ,” Gomery stated. “Twenty dollars a

year is a sign ifican t amount of money. Students want to know that it’ s actually doing something, not just sitting around collecting 0.5 per cent interest.” In additio n to p urch asin g books, the fund will be used to cre ate an interactive classroom of 25 networked computers which librar ians can use for training students how to use the internet and elec tronic information systems. While Gomery believes that the fund is playing an essential role in creating new initiatives and preventing fur ther d eterio ratio n in lib ra ry

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the Bachelor of Engineering pro gram, and classroom naming by donors to the university. O v e ra ll, F rankm an is d is mayed by this budget because he believes that a greater percentage of the revenues generated from McGill’ s endowment funds should be used to d efray the curren t financial crisis. For 1998-1999, eight per cent of the income from endowment funds w ill be used to offset costs; however, Frankman believes that M cG ill could have p ain lessly and safely increased this amount. “W e ’ re re in v e stin g a b ig chunk of the endow m ent...if the idea is to save for a rainy day, the saving itself is resulting in a del uge,” he said. O verall, Frankman believes this budget reflects the course that McGill has been charting for the last few years. “W e’ve lost sight of what the university is all about,” he stated. “I think McGill is in danger of los ing our ra ison d ’ê t r e ...our soul.”

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and Jukier all agree that the value of a grade lies in its relations to a c la s s a v e ra g e rath er than its num erical size and they expect the issue to be raised at an APPC meeting in the near future.

“Flonestly, nothing is going on,” said Bradfield. “W e’re not starting to take over the cafeteria, we’re still investigating the possi bilities.” Ferro Rojas contradicted the seeming inactivity of AUS, how ever, and openly articulated the benefits of signing with Coke. “We just had a meeting with Coke, riiev were figuring out the numbers and said that we would make just as much m oney from th eir vending m achines alo n e as we get from Miravel now,” he sa id . “R e a lly good things could com e out o f th is c a f e te r ia , both fin a n c ia lly and through improving student services.”

The A cadem ic P o licy and P lan n in g C o m m ittee re cen tly endorsed a 4.3 grading system and an A+ grade to be implemented in the fall of 1999 or 2000. The motion, however, must pass in Senate before M cG ill stud en ts can hope to see A+s on their transcripts. M cG ill is one of the few rem ain in g C an ad ian p o st-se c ondary institutions that has no p ro visio n s to distinguish between A and A+ stud en ts. A ccording to Science S en ato r A ndrew Catherine Farquharson K o vacs, th is puts A+ still a w a itin g S en ate a p p rova l M cG ill stud en ts at a disadvantage when applying to MUNACA plans S tu den ts w h o h a v e c o n c e r n s C an ad ian grad sch o o ls. o r q u estio n s a b o u t th e n e w s s y s Furthermore, he believes that a demonstration 4.3 grading system will result in tem a r e u r g e d to g o a n d talk to higher overall marks for students t h e i r F a c u lty A s s o c ia tio n s a n d The McGill University Nonas professors lose their reticence a r e e n c o u r a g e d to a tten d th e next Academic Certified Association, S e n a te m e e t i n g o n A p ril 15 a t to hand out As. Kovacs is con the union representing non-teach vinced that the new grading sys 2:30 p m in L eacock 232. ing support staff at M cG ill, is tem w ill have “no detrim ental p lan n in g a dem o n stratio n for —w ith f i l e s fr o m effects on students and [would] April 16. MUNACA has been in Nilima G ulrajani rew ard p eo p le who perform contract negotiation for its first w ell.” c o llectiv e agreem ent for three Arts Senator and SSMU VP years. AUS caf may sign U n iv e rsity A ffa irs -e le c t Sam The demonstration is being Johnston voted against the motion with Coke h eld in resp o n se to M cG ill in APPC because she felt that stu administration’s decision to with dents were opposed to the idea. The A rts U n d ergrad u ate hold salary increases to members She argued that there are no guar Society may take over the man of the union — pay raises that antees that a 4.3 GPA will result agem ent of the cafeteria in the h ave been en jo yed by other in an inflation in grades but rather basem ent of the Arts building. employees of McGill. MUNACA “w ill depend on professor to pro Preparations are underway to sign salaries have been frozen for the fe sso r, from d ep artm en t to a new contract with Coca-Cola. last six years and McGill is with departm ent.” Furtherm ore, she At this stage, AUS members holding increases pending the set feels that the new grading sy s admit only to a re-negotiation of tlement of contract negotiations. tems caters to science students the current food contract w ith A MUNACA press release who receive percentage grades, M iravel. But after meeting with states that “an appeal to release but penalizes students in the fac Coca-Cola representatives earlier these funds to MUNACA mem ulty of arts where “it is not possi th is m onth, A U S VP F in ance bers as a good will gesture and to ble to get a perfect grade.” Rodrigo Ferro R ojas elaborated end the salary freeze in advance Dean o f S tud en ts R o sa lie on the process. of collective agreement was met Jukier wants to assure students “Coca-Cola is really interest by refusal by the university.” that the new grading system was ed in helping us if we take over M U N A C A m em bers and “never intended to have a nega the cafeteria,” he said. “This five su p p o rters wi l l g a th e r at the tiv e im p act on ” them . She year contract is something they Roddick Gates at 12 pm and will believes that under the 4.3 grad really want.” be marching through campus with ing system “the only thing that Miravel refused to comment a final stop at the Administration co uld happen is that students about the possibility of losing its B u ild in g . A cco rd in g to could get higher grades.” Possibly more disconcerting contract with AUS, seeming sur M U N A CA p resid en t A llan than the introduction o f a 4.3 prised that any such plans were in Y o u ster “ we are p lan n in g a GPA, how ever, is the fact that the m akin g. C urren t AUS VP peaceful, but noisy dem onstra McGill does not consistently print A dm inistration and President tion.” c la ss av e rag e s on tran scrip ts. elect Heather Bradfield refused to A lth ou gh d iv id ed on the new discuss specifics for the future of grading system, Johnson, Kovacs, the AUS cafeteria.

C la r if ic a t io n In tfie M arch 2 4 issue of the Tribune, a story ab o u t the o p en in g of M cG ill's House for First Peoples reported that "the previous director [of the house] unexpectedly accepted a job with the federal government." Linda Arkwright, former director of the First People's House, stated that she "didn't just up and leave" a s w as insinuated in the article. Not only did Arkwright stay in her position until the end of June 1 9 9 7 , but she also acted as an adviser to the university after her d ep arture. Furthermore, Arkwright did not take a job with federal govern

ment — she now works for the non-government o r g a n iz a t io n , the A b o rig in a l E arly L earn in g Centre in M ontreal. A rkwright further stated that McGill left her with no choice but to look for another job; since the university w as only w illing to p ay her for two d ays a w eek an d refused to allow her to undergo a fe d e ral train in g p ro gram a t the sam e tim e, Arkwright stated that she simply could not afford to stay. After A rkw right's departure though, the university hired current director Tracy Kariwaiens Diabo on a full-time basis. The T ribune ap o lo gizes for the error.

E U S b lo c k s F a u c e t fr o m g o in g to p r e ss By Jaso n Sig u rdso n

The ex e c u tiv e of the E n gin eerin g U ndergraduate S o ciety recen tly instructed the printers of the P lu m b e r s ’ F a u cet not to accept any materials for pub lication. F a u cet editors Jay Fothergill and John MacFarlane discovered that their printer received a letter from EUS President Taryn Tomlinson w hich stated that the EUS would withhold paym ent if the paper w ent to press. “ [ T h e ex e c s] d id n ’ t even c a ll us to say we wouldn’t be able to print,” s t a t e d M a c F a r la n e . “W e heard through the grap evin e about ev eryth in g — T aryn [Tom linson] h asn ’ t even tried to contact any of us.” The editors found out about the executive decision on the same day they were supposed to publish. Fothergill believes the EUS pulled the plug on the latest issue because execs knew what kind of coverage to exp ect — a portion o f the F a u cet would be dedicated to cut ting up the last EUS council meet ing. “When [the exec] heard about it, they decided they didn’t want a p ap er o u t,” F o th erg ill said . Although editors have not been formally told what motivated the execs' decision, Fothergill suspects that the executive has tried to justi fy their actions by using a loose interpretation of the motion passed at the last EUS council meeting. “There are some pretty funny interpretations going on. They’ve probably decided that because the [EUS] publication policy was bro ken, they think the F a u cet stops,” he stated. Tomlinson says that these alle gations are sim ply not true. She stated that the EUS exec made their decision because council’s debate on the F a u cet motion had not finished at the last meeting. “Because the council had left

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the motion on the table, the execu tives felt that the paper shouldn't be printed until council could properly deal with the issue," she stated. EUS councillors have asked that F a u cet editors print a retrac tion for publishing a nude photo of SSM U P resid en t T ara N ew ell which originally ran in the M cG ill D aily’s women’s issue. They also demanded that the F a u cet run an arti cle explaining why th ey p rin ted the photo. F o th ergill stated , h o w ever, that “ [w e] w ere going to do all that stuff anyw ay.” At the March 19 EUS m eetin g, sev eral co u n cillo rs “up and left the meet ing in disgust” — b reakin g quorum — after an amend m ent w as made which would make p r e - p u b lic a t io n le g a l ad v ice mandatory for the F au cet, accord ing to Fothergill. No final decision was made about the future of the paper at the m eeting, how ever, leaving the editors waiting to find out what EUS council’ s o fficial position is going to be. “Until- we hear about it, we’re in a state of suspended animation,” MacFarlane said. “It’s all a farce — it isn’t about libel or copyright infringement of the D aily.” Overall, MacFarlane believes that the process the EUS is going through has been a waste of time. “I’ m not interested in all of this political stuff. A ll I want to do is put out the last issue,” he stated. “When we go to those [EUS coun cil] meetings, [the councillors] are s o not students. They have no idea of fun or even what university is about.” Tomlinson expects that EUS council will allow the last issue of the F a u cet to go to print after it is “checked carefully by the [EUS] executive in charge.” Even if coun cil does not give F a u cet editors the go-ahead, Fothergill is hoping to get the paper printed somehow. “W e’ ve been try in g to get funding elsewhere to put the paper up....We’ve got a lot of people out there who re ally want to see us publish,” he concluded.

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T h a n k s s o m u ch for all of y o u r dedication and hard w ork th is year - yo u all brought the g o o d s hom e and we never had to pull out the New s whip. C o m e b a ck and play with u s next year!

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A lthough the fees are decided upon by the university Board of Governors, the Student Services Advisory Committee participates in these decisions to ensure that no extra money is incorporated into the fees. —w ith f i l e s fro m th e Imprint

U of A students hiphop to new course The University of A lberta’ s new Institute for Popular Music is offering a course that no student could fall asleep in — hip-hop music. The course has been incor porated into the curriculum of a third year musical theory class led by Adam Krims. K rim s, who has been researching hip-hop m usic over the last few years, said it was only a matter of time before hip-hop music was incorporated into music studies. The course has been so popular that the music department has decided to reorganize its intro ductory music course next year to include Krims’ hip-hop lectures. The course does not only discuss the genre of music, but allows for classroom discussion on broader cultural issues. “It’s a great way to talk about d ifferen t cu ltu res and not ju st A frican A m erican, but W estern and non-W estern as w e ll,” said Krims. — w ith f i l e s fr o m th e Western Gazette

U of Waterloo to lower student services fee In the w ake of student fee in c re a s e s acro ss C an ad a, the University of Waterloo will vote on April 7 whether or not they will reduce UW’ s Student Services fee. The fee goes tow ards serv ices such as athletics and recreation, career services, health and safety and the UW art g a lle r y — in essence covering most of the ser v ic e s on cam pus that do not involve academ ics. The fee was introduced in the 1993-94 acade mic year and was increased gradu ally over the subsequent 4 years. The proposed reduction w ill see fees brought down to $80.18 from $89.87 per full-time student. A cco rd in g to F ed eratio n o f Stud en ts P resid en t M ario B ellab arb a, the fee is based on money spent in previous terms, so services supported by the fee will not suffer because of the reduc tion. Student services fees are re evaluated every year according to how much money was spent and how much was left over or owed.

Menuhin to receive degree from UVic Internationally renowned con ducto r and v io lin is t Y ehudi Menuhin will receive an Honorary Doctor of Music degree from the University of Victoria at a special convocation ceremony on April 28. The degree is being awarded in recognition of Menuhin’ s extra ordinary achievements in a music career spanning more than seven decades. It is also being given in trib u te to h is co n n ectio n w ith Victoria, through friendship with artist M yfan w y P a v e lic . The British National Portrait Gallery commissioned the Vancouver bom a r tis t’ s portrait of M enuhin in 1984 — and the two a rtists became close friends. M enuhin is P resid en t and Associate Conductor of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. President and Principal Conductor of the Philharmonic Hungarica. Principal Guest Conductor of the Warsaw S in fo n ia, and P rin c ip a l Guest Conductor of the English String Orchestra. He has performed with all of the w orld’ s great orchestras and conductors and, as conductor, his h ig h ly a c c la im e d reco rd in gs include the E nglish sym phonic rep erto ire w ith the R o yal Philharm onic Orchestra and the major M ozart sym phonies with the Warsaw Sinfonia. He is a Knight of the Order of the B ritish Empire (1 9 6 6 ) and m em ber of the Order o f M erit (1 9 8 7 ). The New Y ork-born Menuhin w ill celebrate his 82nd birthday the week before the spe cial convocation at UVic. —w ith f i l e s fr o m The Ring

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C lo s in g sta te m e n ts By Sara ]ran G rffn________________________________________ This is the last issue of the Tribune for the year. For me, after five years at McGill, it's my last issue ever. As 1 prepare to graduate, like so many other students who have put in their time and counted up their credits. 1 am already looking hack with as much nostalgia as I look forward with hope and excitement. I remember arriving at McGill a fresh-faced girl with really bad hair from a small, non-descript southern Ontario town. The only one from my highschool to come here for university, I can recall whole days passing without speaking to another person on campus. I didn't live in residence and I had two non-McGill roommates — perhaps because of these con ditions. I knew I needed to involve myself in campus life. And then came Activities Night — in the good old days, it was held on lower cam pus by the Three Bares —- and 1 gorged myself like a hungry street urchin at a free, ali-you-can-eat buffet. The Tribune sign up list wasn't the only one I penned my name to on that warm Indian .Summer day, but it is the one that for me has made all the difference in the world. My first assignment was covering a huge anti-racism protest brought on by the presence of two elected French officials; they were members of La Front Nationale and were visiting Montreal tor a confer ence on municipal governments. While in town, the French delegates met with members of the Heritage Front, an Ontario-based neo-nazi group. During the day, I staked out the press conference but was denied entrance by a man I later found out was the head of the Quebec chapter of the Ku Klux Klan. Youths wearing brown apartheid uniforms, their skin tatooted with swastikas and other hate symbols, provided security for the event. But that night of the demonstration, I watched the same group of skin heads scurry like cockroaches in bright light when they saw a wall of protestors coming towards them. As the demonstration got closer, the chants for tolerance overwhelmed their calls of hate — out numbered 50 tol, the skin heads ran down a side street and the police moved in with shields and batons to block demonstrators from chasing them. I was hooked on the adrenalin high from that point forward. Granted, ail stories don’t carry the same scent of excitement, but those that do are forever etched in memory. Referendum Night ‘95 is another that plays prominent in my mind — as News editor that year, I organized the T ribune's coverage, arranging for press passes and assigning beats. It was a Monday, production day, so we sent off the rest of the paper but held the front page so we too could publish the story of Quebec’s fate in Canada. Reporters in the field called in with their quotes and photogra phers raced back to the dark room to develop the cover pic while in the office, three of us pounded out different stories — one for a Yes victory, another for the No side, and a third in case results weren't finalized by our midnight deadline. By 11:40, with the totals still unknown, we made the call to go with the No story. As one person typed, others watched the words flow from over-the-shoulder — getting stuck, the person at the keyboard was told to “move, move, move” and someone else would jump in and start writing. Beer at Gert’s never tasted so sweet as it did that night when we, the ed board, drank down satisfaction in the after glow of political chaos. Now, with over 100 issues of the Tribune under my belt. I know it is time to move on. Even at the risk of self-indulgence. 1 must say that this last year has been the best one —- although I have often felt like a dinosaur next to my more youthful colleagues, I have enjoyed watching editors change and grow and seeing the light of passion brighten in a new reporter’s eyes. Looking back at my time at McGill, I recognize that my education has taken place in a window-less, basement office that hasn’t seen a fresh coat of paint during the entire time I’ve been here. But this year has seen some of the most dramatic changes in the life of a newspaper — we have broken all records, pushed all standards, and expanded the borders of content. Although it won't take long for me to fade from memory, l leave with the knowledge that the foundation has been set for even more remarkable things. 1 am incredibly proud of this year's ed board — we started out as a random collection of people and have grown into a cohesive team united by a shared vision. It takes a special breed to contend with silver fish, student politi cians, elusive administrators and a ceiling that occasionally leaks urine down onto our computers. As I sign off for the last time, I want to say thanks to all our writers, photographers, production assistants, and espe cially, our readers. I’ve had a great time.

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Public scrutiny and morality I believe the analysis of the ch arges of sex u al harassm en t levied against Bill Clinton done by P rofessor Troy in la st w e e k ’ s T rib u n e missed some of the key points surrounding those alleg a tions. First, it is quite clear that even if Paula Jo n es’ allegations were true, B ill Clinton’ s actions did not constitute sexual harass ment. Under U.S. law, sexual harass ment m ust in v o lv e repeated, unwanted sexual advances, or the perpetrator must undertake some sort of action that disadvantages a woman who rejected his advances, such as demotion or termination of employment. Neither of those hap pened in the case of Paula Jones. According to Jones, B ill Clinton just made a lewd pass at her and moved on after she rejected him. He did not make a pass at her again or injure her career in any w ay. Even before Judge Susan Webber Wright issued a ruling to that effect on A pril 1 when she dism issed Jones’ lawsuit, sim ilar arguments were put forth by several highly respected people. For example, in the M arch 22 N ew York T im es, G loria Steinem , a fem inist who strongly campaigned for the legis lation that made sexual harassment illegal, argued that sexual harass ment law is based on the common sense guidelines of “no means no; yes means yes.” In Steinem’s view, since B ill Clinton accepted the answer “no,” he is not guilty of sexual harassment. The real issue that faces the American public is not the question of sexual harassment, but the ques tion of whether [or not] the presid en t’ s p erso n al life should be reported to the public, and whether the public should hold personal im m orality against candidates in public elections. Until recently, the press hadn’t reported on the presi dent’ s private im m oralities. For example, JFK had numerous affairs and FDR died while in the bathtub with his mistress — but the public was unaware of such activities until several years after their respective deaths. Nor had the American pub lic held private immorality against presidential candidates. The most appropriate exam p le is that of Grover Cleveland who was elected to the presidency in spite of the fact that his opposition had made it pub licly known that he was the father of an illegitimate child. If I m ay borrow a phrase from Professor Troy, only in recent his

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tory has “the p erso n al becom e political.” The real crisis that may occur is that qualified and talented people w ill choose not to run for office because of the likelihood that the press and public w ill intrude into their private lives. The irony that will arise if this trend continues is that no morally virtuous candidate w ill run for office because she/he w ill not w ish to subject her/his fa m ily to such inten se p ub lic scrutiny. That w ill simply lead to elections in which all of the candi dates running will be no more vir tuous than Bill Clinton. — J a r e d Y anowicz U2 E con om ics

FYSA defended R e: Steph an ie L e v itz ’ s “’ Q uestionable intentions leave holes in FY SA ’ s accountability” [Tribune News Analysis, 31 March 1998], Levitz missed the point as to FYSA’s purpose and unwarrantedly attacked the integrity and inten tions of members of its executive. When she claims that “it is neces sary to include those students who are in grad school...otherwise in essence, FYSA is no more than another IRC” she ignores two cru c ia l points: first, the InterResidential Council only represents the 30 per cent of first-year stu dents that happen to live in resi dence, while FYSA represents 100 per cent of first year undergradu ates, and second, graduate students do not fall under the jurisdiction of the SSMU what so ever — they are m em bers of the Post-G raduate Students’ Society. As FYSA was a SSMU initia tive, and not a joint venture with PG SS, it is appropriate that its membership should be lim ited to undergraduates. Given the fact that there are many two- and threesem ester grad uate program s at McGill, if PGSS should choose to reform its electo ral p ro cess to reflect its own high percentage of "first-year” students if it currently does not, that is a matter of its own concern and does not in v o lve FYSA.’ The c ritic ism ra ise d as to whether the presence of law and m edical first-year students (who are still undergraduates) renders FYSA too heterogeneous is ridicu lous. F irstly, any concerns that these students have that are unique to their programs are handled and represented by their faculty associ ations. Secondly, any association of

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students at McGill, with its diverse population, will be equally diverse and rightly so. Levitz’s argument that "an 18 year old and a 22 year old may have considerably differ ent opinions” is specious. Students with a wider age range than this are represented together in faculty, clubs, etc., — and what of racial, cultural and gender differences? They are far greater than age, but do we let this stop people from w o rking to geth er? It’ s c a lle d “coalition politics” if you haven't heard of it. No student group at McGill is monolithic, and the day that one becomes so is the day that it should be shut down as unrepre sen tativ e of the m osaic that is McGill. As for Levitz’s accusation of a possible conflict of interest regard ing the FYSA executives that ran in fa c u lty electio n s (and the implied present conflict of the one exec who won his race, D aniel Artenosi), the FYSA executive are fully worthy of a little trust that th ey, too, happened to have glanced at a calendar and noticed that their m andates overlapped. The dedication and enthusiasm that FY SA has shown should let us believe them when they say they took this into account. What if mandates do overlap? Are there any current rules that say, for instance, that no studçnt can’t sim ultaneously be an EUS exec and a clubs rep? I have seen none suggesting that perhaps no real conflict of interest exists in these kinds of situations. Artenosi may soon hold a seat on SSMU as AUS VP external, but since SSMU has decided not to give FYSA its own seat, even this is ruled out as a con flict. The w hole point of FY SA , w hich has been stated tim e and time again, is to represent first year un d ergrad u ates who w ere not enrolled in time for March elec tions. Giving these students a voice — not to mention a seat on SSMU — isn’t “another level to McGill bureaucracy,” it’s called democra cy. — Sam antha M cG avin U3 E nglish L iterature

MTSA not open to all What is the ideal model of a university social club? To begin w ith, how w ould one define an “open-to-all” social club, with no specific political inclinations? In theory, this type of club should admit any interested or curious stu dent to become a member of the club and/or drop in any one of its

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MTSA is basically an executive council’ s party who truly do not use the club name and its available resources to the best interests of the McGill student committee. The “hip for all” image they had pro fessed earlier in the year has fallen far from many students’ expecta tions. The MTSA does not fit the description of being a truly socia ble and accepting club to all stu dents. — D avid C hang U1 Arts

McGill grad says goodbye A fter over elev en years at McGill, I want to thank all the stu dents, faculty, administrators and staff I have come to know and pay my respects to Donald Hebb for all our contact to geth er, to Hugh M acL ennan w hose home w as always open to me, to Alec Lucas who a lw a y s en co uraged me to come speak with him, to David Smith for his most influential let ters and to Claudia Mitchell for her inspiration, encouragem ent and guidance par excellence. As I leave for Harvard to con tinue and complete my research on the achievem ent of world peace and to find friendship and love — the true things that matter in life — I send warm regards to all. God bless you all. Respectfully with admiration and appreciation,

FYSA just a phone call away After reading the T rib u n e’ s article condemning FYSA in your March 31 issue, I was curious to know if it is common practice for a newspaper to condemn an organi zation without allowing its mem bers to offer some sort of defense. After reading Stephanie Levitz’ s brilliantly worded “exposé” on the shortcom ings of F Y SA , I w as b ew ildered as to why no FY SA ex ec u tiv es had been contacted prior to the article being written. Furthermore, I learned that the only contact that the newspaper had made with our organization was a phone interview with FYSA President X avier Van Chau two weeks ago, not by Ms. Levitz, but by someone else, and the quotes obtained appeared in the article grossly out of context. Perhaps if M s. L ev itz had properly researched her facts, and possibly taken a few minutes to give me a call, she might have been able to present a more relevant, informative article that contained both sides to the issue at hand, and maybe even an element of truth. It’s unfortunate that Ms. Levitz did not make an attempt to get her facts straig h t before she w rote her “exposé” because by misinforming the student body with an uneducat ed opinion, her article only serves to create more problems for a uni

versity that already has too many. — M atthew P roch-W ilson FYSA VP U niversity R elations UO Arts

Snax stocked with dissent W hen I re sig n ed from my position as Product M anager at AUS Snax in O ctober 1997, I declin ed to m ake any comment about my decision. Now, however, I feel it necessary to clarify certain g la rin g errors in P au la A m y H ew itt’ s letter in the M arch 17 issue of the Tribune. I was hired in June 1997 to run a new AUS store. Because I felt that the start-up of a small business would probably be too much for one person, I asked Adam Giambrone (AUS VP Finance at the time) if it would be at all possi ble to hire another individual to help me. Ms. Hewitt was hired as operations manager. Upon arrival in August, I dis covered no accounting system, no cash register, no GST or PST regis tration — all issues pertaining to operations. Ms. Hewitt states she is “responsible for all financial issues pertaining to Snax.” From what I witnessed, that began by charging over $1,000 on her cred it card (something I outright refused to do) on behalf of Snax. As far as Mr. G iam brone’ s

professional conduct is concerned, it’ s difficult to be “invaluable to the set-up of Snax” when you’re in New York until three days prior to the opening of the store and you are unable to conceive of a respon sible budget. L e t’ s ta lk about Mr. Giambrone’ s integrity. It is, in a word, lacking. As my boss, he told both Ms. Hewitt and I that we were to be paid $400 per month. We w ere therefore surprised when, w ithout n o tice, we opened our September checks for $250. If my work at Snax w as so insubstantial as to not merit a men tion in Ms. Hewitt’ s letter, how come the shelves at Snax were vir tu ally empty for nearly a month following my departure? Finally, I would like to confirm my utmost respect for the A U S, esp ecially since they were somehow able to put up with this year’s Snax fiasco. Mr. Giambrone once told me I was “the only person he had ever had a problem w ith.” After this year, I highly doubt that’s still true. I w ould lik e to thank the T ribune for responsibly reporting events and student com mentary during this year’s SSMU elections. If your “ulterior motives” are to print the truth, then I’m all for your covert operations. — Erin M acL eod U2 E nglish

— D avid S om m er R ovins G raduate S tudies

FYSA defended: part two Response to “Q uestionable intentions leave holes in FYSA ’s accountability” ( T rib u n e, March 31). Instead of condemning FYSA and its executives we should be congratulating them for the hard work that they have put into the infant organization. While FYSA may have had some problems this year, at least they have been able to accomplish more than SSMU council. In response to Steph an ie Levitz’s attack on the three FYSA executives for running for faculty positions, its about time first year students became involved in this school. Ms. Levitz has belittled their campaigns. Maybe she should stop hiding behind the T rib u n e's veil of protection and try running for an executive position herself. Only then will she understand the meaning of school involvem ent and commitment. We would like to encourage more students especially first years students to become involved at McGill. Only then will we be able to increase school pride. — M ich a el K o tler C lub’s R ep to C ouncil — Lara L eigh - W ood Arts R ep to C ouncil

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even ts. One such claim is the M TSA, otherwise known as the M cG ill T aiw an ese Students Association. It would then seem feasible that such a type of student club would be guided by a breed of executive council members willing to extend their hands, and make any new and old member truly feel welcom e at any and all of their a c tiv itie s . U n fo rtu n ately, the MTSA is one such club that fails to live up to these prescribed stan dards. Many from M cG ill’ s stu dent com m unity have reported feeling mistreated, unwelcome or excluded by the MTSA executive council at their events. Time and again, MTSA seems to discourage people from really feeling like a member of the club, and truthfully being able to say they had a good time at its events. I have personally tried very hard to not p re-d eterm in e the c lu b ’ s nature, but instead, actually partic ipated in its events to find out what they’re all about. Words seemed to spread pretty quickly. People first report on the low interest and the meaninglessness of MTSA events. Gradually, I observed that as mem bers, including myself, were hand ing out formal invitations to club events, other students were fre quently tentative about checking out its events. The MTSA even has an e-mail list to announce upcom ing events to its members. If this club takes measures to “reach out” to others to participate in their activities, then why are so many students reserved about coming? Many students simply report fe e lin g the ex ec u tiv e co un cil doesn’ t take fu ll care of all its members, and therefore feel isolat ed themselves at its events. The following pattern is forming: stu dents are lured over by M TSA advertising to its activities, and yet end up with their hearts and minds feeling empty. More glaring is the fact, com ing from m u ltip le sources, that constantly the same group of people seem to be having a good time, which largely consists of the executive council members and th eir clo se asso cia tes. Unfortunately, the vast majority of students show frequent and notice able signs of disinterest and dissat isfaction at these events, perhaps trying to remember the last time they had such difficulty just fitting in and en jo yin g th em selves. Com plaints of su p erficiality in MTSA events and the feeling of exclusion are common. Is it at all justified that the executive council and its “associates” seems to pre vent others from enjoying them selves as much as they are? It fo llo w s, that the M TSA abuses the budget and funds given to them as an official McGill stu dent so cial club . In ad d itio n , M T SA even ts (fo r exam p le, Carnival Night and dance parties) demand a considerable high price to jo in , esp ecially if paid at the door. This club’s executive council [...] recruit members for the sake of club popularity “on paper” only, all the while mistreating and disre specting those who do not “fit in” as their “group of friends.” The

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7 April 1998

E d it o r ia l

A la p d o g w ith te e th T ribune Edito rial Bo ard

Faculty and student associations have given several campus publications a rough ride this year. The T ribune is no exception. Our outspoken friends at the P lu m b ers' F a u cet love teasing the T ribune for being a “lapdog.” but it appears that the lapdog may have bitten its owner’s hand this year. In the T ribu n e’s terms of reference with our publisher, the Students’ Society, the paper has full autonomy over editorial content. Coverage of student poli tics was rigorous this year, and undoubtedly too rigorous in the opinion of some SSMU political types. The only time SSMU gets to exert any type of authority over the T ribune is in the selection of the editor-in-chief through a publications nomination committee — for some, it became an opportunity to bite the lapdog back and try to put it in its place. In the past, the SSMU publications nom com was more of a formality. It usually deferred judgement to the moral voice of the outgoing editor-in-chief, who not only broadly represented the interests of the paper but also brought forward specific recommen dations from the ed board. This year, our aggressive coverage on student politics apparently raised a few executive eyebrows. It became clear that SSMU was going to attempt a more intrusive approach to the selection process in order to make next year’ s T ribune a more ’SSMU-friendly’ paper. Usually, there is more than one candidate from the T ribune editorial staff applying for the position of editor-in-chief. As a result, it has been important for an outside body to make the final choice in order that the people directly involved in the newspaper aren’t forced to choose allegiances that could prove divisive and undermine the unity of the ed board. This year, however, was an exception since only one ed board candidate ran for the position, with full support coming from the rest of the staff. SSM U ’s nom com took it upon itself to find outside opponents. SSM U ’s worst kept secret was that one nom com member was openly soliciting everyone and their dog to run for the position. They found their man, all right — a first-year student whose sole contribution to the Trib this year was an “I’ ve Got the Conch” submission. In addi tion, members of the committee asked the two candidates very dif ferent sets of questions — an unethical practice, to be sure. One nom com member even posed a question, asking what would hap pen if a SSMU exec came down and demanded that our editor pull an article. It became crystal clear that the whole thing stank to high heaven of personal agenda. The position of T ribune editor-in-chief, as any other student society position, is open to any undergraduate student at McGill. We were insulted, however, by nom com members’ comments during the selection process that “running the paper isn’t rocket science.” It’s not rocket science, but the position requires a wealth of technical knowledge, experience and, more importantly, the respect of the paper’s incoming staff. Many members of the nom com wouldn’t know the first thing about putting out a newspaper and that’s frightening, considering the power they attempted to abuse. Despite the fact that the T rib’s candidate was more than qualified, the nom com demanded a second round of interviews. Is it too much of a stretch to assume that the students’ society actu ally wanted someone who, come Septem ber, would have scrambled to get the paper going, who would have been easily influenced by big brother SSM U ’s helping hand? It’ s scary to think so, but these recent events will leave a lasting impression. Not only was it suggested that the two candidates for editor-inchief “share the job” — ludicrous in and of itself since two people would get a position as reward simply for throwing their names into a hat — but members of the nom com also wanted to know if this year's editor-in-chief could “guarantee” a spot for their frosh candidate on the ed board, even though we had a host of better qualified applicants. The answer was an emphatic no. News of SSM U’s political manoeuvrings spread like wildfire across campus — although the T ribune generally doesn’t report on itself, we felt, considering the attention the situation has received, it would be irresponsible not to comment. Even though nom com meetings are supposed to be confidential, the entire process was a sham from the outset. This is especially true in light of last week’s council meeting when Jason Sigurdson was called “the only man for the job” — but sweet words like these ring hollow given the real chain of events. Now that our anger has been transformed into a desire for change, next year’s ed board w ill fight to ensure that dirty politics will have no place in the selection of future editorsin-chief.

W Hunter S. Thompson made an entire career out of hating Richard N ixon. As e a rly as 1963, the founder of gonzo jo u rn alism denounced the nascent Great Satan of American politics as “the most dangerous political punk who ever lu rked in th is n atio n ,” and on Nixon’s death in 1994, Thompson described him as “a swine of a man and a jab b erin g dupe of a president.” I regret that I have W a not m anaged to make even a m in o r-league micro-career as a political jo u rn a list out of hating Michael Kotler. This has come as a surprise to me, and probably to him as well. All the portents were there. He was VP Finance of the Inter-Residence Council in a year of shoddy bookkeeping and sordid politicking. His election as a Clubs Rep to SSMU — as a member of the Inter-Greek Letter Council — w as te c h n ic a lly le g itim a te but karmically questionable. His tactics in early SSMU council meetings, which consisted largely of making any motion he seem ed to think might be fun, were infuriating. Yet despite all this, his actual positions, astonishingly and to my eternal frustration, have been exasperatingly reasonable. It would have been a great feat to surpass the level of Wankerdom ach ieved by la st y e a r ’ s SSM U council and this year’s student gov ernm ent w asn ’ t up to the task. T h ey’ re professional enough to avo id the personal b attles that sucked last year’ s down into the muck. They d isagree w ith each other, they dislike — even hate — each other, but they respect each other, too. Kotler’s abject failure to provide w orthw hile m aterial is doubly vexing because it’ s meant that I’ ve spent great swathes of time in the Shatner building not p ayin g attention to Sarvesh S riv astav a, who seem s to have been elected a year late. The achievem ents that have brought Srivastava the most credit were, in fact, more or less achieved by other people. Frosh, Four Floors p arties, and the co m p arativ ely smooth SSMU election period fell into the Internal portfolio. But they

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w ere p rim arily the accom plish m ents of Frosh C oordinators (amongst whom was Karen Pelley, for whom I have high hopes), the Students’ Society Programming Network, and grossly overworked and un d erap p reciated C h ief Returning O fficer Glen Linder. Srivastava was there, to be sure, and involved, but he was never The

n k e r W a tch D a v id R e e v e l y Man. The VP Internal, of course, isn’t supposed to be — that’s why we have Frosh Coordinators, the SSPN, and Glen Linder — and you can’t blame him for it, but it’s also not fair to credit him with success es he only supervised. But you can blame him for his irrational irritability any time any one challenged him in a council meeting. You can blame him for his inab ility to persuade anyone that he didn’t maneuver committee appointments and meetings to ben efit h im self and his p o litic a l allies.You can blame him for let ting committees under his control give awards to appointees he con trolled, apparently without a sec ond thought. (I actually believe he acted in faith as good as any VP Internal can. But the whole thing stinks like a pile of manure, and the look he gets when the issue comes up suggests that he knows where the smell’s coming from.) And you can blame him for growing increas in g ly sullen as the honeym oon faded. Eventually he just slouched at the frin ges of the g a lle r y in Council meetings and only rarely assumed his seat except to give his Vice-President’s report. No sm il ing. No waving. Just Wanking, [ed. note: Mr. Reevely refers here to his own p o litic a l d efin itio n of “W an kin g,” not to be confused with the British colloquial term for masturbation — something which, to w it, has not yet occurred in council.] Some have proposed President T ara N ew ell as W anker o f the Year, noting her talent for ninety-

minute bloviations with little con tent and only two vocal notes. We haven’t seen much of Newell, it’ s true — except, to be sure, when we’ve seen altogether too much, as when she made the SSMU presi dent’s annual pilgrimage to the fac ulty club doors. But she, like any President, is woefully overextend ed at the best of times and can’t re a lly be blam ed for not finding time to mix with the regular folk. S riv a s ta v a ’ s m as sive and Newell’s slight Wankerism were, in fact, ■more than balan ced by other SSM U co u n cillo rs. M usic Rep R ich L afferty, R eligio u s Studies Rep D ouglas Painter, and Law Rep Mario Nigro all tried to break the executive’ s reflexive circling of the wagons at the first hint of trouble. They’ ve supported activism for honourable causes and demanded aggressive responses to the university admin istratio n ’ s sporadic attem pts to screw students over. VP University A ffairs Liz Gomery did the best she eould, constrained as she was by the solidarity she owed the rest of the executives even when she violently disagreed with them. Four heroes. And fin ally, some people to watch — and maybe watch ou t for. M ich ael Shenkm an ran for the p resid en cy of the F irst Y ear Students’ A ssociation and lost, serves on council’s financial com mittee, and is the only non-council lor never to miss a council meeting. Xavier Van Chau was President of FYSA, ran for the presidency of the Arts U ndergraduate Society and lost, and is currently in search of an office. Chris Muldoon, after two years of b ro kerin g pow er behind the scenes (rather in the style of Deng Xiaoping, whose for mal position in C hina for many y e ars w as the p resid en cy of a senior citizens’ chess league), will assume a seat as a clubs rep on next year’s Council. It’s too early to say whether they’re good or bad — but whichever, you’ll hear about them being it. On the w hole, a sa tisfy in g year. Except for Michael Kotler.

C o n g r a t u l a t io n s The following people will form next year's T ribune editorial board. Good luck next year! E d i t o r - in - c h i e f

F e a t u r e s E d it o r s

S c ie n c e E d it o r

Jaso n Sigurdso n

R en ée Dunk M a g g ie G ilm our

F in o la M oore O n l i n e E d it o r

A s s is t a n t E d it o r s -in - c h ie f

E n t e r t a in m e n t E d i t o r s

Peter D eitz

Paul F uth ey K ris M ich aud

E lain e O ’C onnor C h ris S e lle y

P r o d u c t io n M a n a g e r

N e t w o r k E d it o r

S p o r t s E d it o r s

L a y o u t E d it o r

Paul C onner

M an ny A lm ela C hris L ander

S arah Dowd

Steph an ie L evitz

P h o t o E d it o r s

C o - o r d in a t o r

A s s is t a n t N e w s E d i t o r s

R eb ecca C atch in g C ath erin e Farquharson

R ich R etyi

S h irle y Ong

R andom H

N e w s E d it o r

N ilim a G u lrajan i John S allo u m

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Opinion

7 April 1998

D is a b le d stu d e n t w r ite s h er o w n sto ry Sandra Gualtieri has climbed met at their residence for people from the depths of loneliness. with physical disabilities and the Years ago the switch from the two started dating. Mackay Centre, a school for the dis Since 1994, th e y ’ ve lived abled, to a regu lar elem en tary together in a bright apartment near school was torture for her. Concordia’s Loyola campus. “I cried every day after sch o o l,” the first-ye ar W om en’ s Studies stu dent remembers. D e c isiv e M om ent Gualtieri is 28 and she has cerebral palsy, a D 'A rcy D ora n condition characterized by a lack of m uscle control caused by a shortage of oxygen at “We bring out the best in one birth. She uses a wheelchair to get another,” Gualtieri said. around and she has a speech impair Gualtieri’s parents opposed the ment. Her voice may at times sound idea at first. “I’m Italian and we’re strained and halting, but her words not really supposed to live with any are sure. one until you get married,” she said. “I was always a bit behind and “We had a big disagreement but I’m 11-year-olds can be m ean,” she really stubborn and they eventually said. “They would pick on the way I came around.” talk and how I move. It took quite a Now her parents feel safer while to get over it. knowing she’s always with some “It took me until grade nine to one, she said. Tryhorn has inspired realize who I was and I started to her. make good friends who accepted “Adam has been a big influ me.” ence,” she said. “He always knew She made even better friends what he wanted and has the courage when she began CÉGEP at Dawson to go after it.” College. With her new friends, the Tryhorn, 26, is finishing the w hole city was acce ssib le to equivalent of his second year at Gualtieri. She’d leave her wheel Concordia studying English litera chair behind and get piggyback ture. After graduation he’ s set his rides to previously inaccessib le sights on studying law at McGill. places like Peel Pub. Gualtieri has dreams of her own — “I’d go everywhere with my she wants to work at a women’ s friends, they’d even take me on the centre and write children’s books. Metro,” she said, smiling. The couple have accepted the It was at about that time in fact that it will take a while for them 1992 when Gualtieri met another to graduate. Tryhorn said Quebec friend who would deliver the fatal government rules limit them to tak blow to her loneliness. She and ing two courses a sem ester and Adam Tryhorn, a fellow Dawson besides, he wouldn’t want a heavier student who also has cerebral palsy, course-load.

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“It can take twice as much time for me to do a regular assignment,” he said. The amount that Gualtieri and Tryhorn can accomplish in a day is limited by several factors. “While you take things for granted like getting up in the morn ing and taking a shower and having breakfast, we have to plan everything out,” Tryhorn explained. They are dependent on three home-care workers paid for by the local CLSC who work for a total of eight hours a day. They work in three shifts to help Sandra and Adam get out of bed, clean up, get dressed, prepare their meals, eat and get ready for bed. Both Gualtieri and Tryhorn are restricted by the city’ s adaptable buses which run on a limited sched ule. Some days Tryhorn said he has to call at six in the morning to get priority on a bus. This semester, Gualtieri is tak ing one course, “Women and work,” and she has to miss the last half hour of every class so she can catch her bus. “It sucks,” she said. She spends five hours a day studying and M cG ill’ s Office for Students with Disabilities helps her by providing note taking services. Gualtieri hopes one day she can use w hat sh e’ s learned at McGill and her own experience and help other women, e sp e c ia lly abused women. “I think the best thing I can do is just listen to them and make them feel that th ey’ re not alone,” she said. “When they feel alone, it low

ers their self-esteem and they feel that th ey’ re the only ones going through that situation. If they feel completely alone they might rather go back to their abusive husband.” When she started at McGill in September, Gualtieri said some peo ple were shocked. “There are people who don’ t think disabled people are smart enough to get an education. That’s the old stereotypical way of think ing,” she said. “I’d rather be pro ductive than sit at home and do nothing.” Sitting at home is something Gualtieri refuses to do. Both she and Tryhorn are avid movie buffs who frequently go out to see the lat est releases. And last year, Gualtieri took up skiing at Mt. Habitant using a special bi-ski - “it’ s like a little race car, you tw ist your body to turn” she said. Gualtieri is determined to make a difference. In her spare time she writes children’s stories about dis abled people. “I like writing for children and I think it’s important to make them aw are of d isab ilitie s at a young age,” she said. “The point of my stories is just that people are differ ent in many ways and I try to point it out as simply as possible.” She hopes by teaching kids about disabilities early, she can let d isab led kid s know th e y ’ re not alone and prevent them from being mistreated by the 11-year-olds of future generations. D 'Arcy D oran’s e-m a il a d d ress is ddoran@ po-box .m cgill.ca

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The plight of a McGill publication

T h e o n ly p la c e in to w n w h ere y o u n e e d ID ... C lu b M cL en n a n As people begin to herd in to the libraries lik e SSM U politicians at a free-for-all at Gibby’s, I feel it necessary to comment on the state of the most overused public space on campus. While it’s no palace of opulence like DiSalvio’s, it is time once again, ladies and gentlem en, to return to the only place in Montreal where you actually get carded: Club McLennan. Club McLennan has been a popular hot spot for as long as I’ve been here and proba bly was the nightclub of choice for many gen erations of McGillers. This, I think, can be explained by the fact that Club McLennan, like any iiber-cool joint, opens intermittently and only for a limited period of time. Namely, every December and April. Club McLennan officially opens for busi ness as soon as the velvet rope surrounding the elevators makes its first appearance, guarded by the indifferent rent-a-cop bouncer. We all know the rope m erely creates the atmosphere of frenzied masses dying to get inside—when you’re in, it’s still pretty damn empty. To my knowledge, the best way to skip the line at McLennan is the same as you would any club: plead that you’ ve been in before and you’ve got to find your significant other inside. Consistent with all club architecture, each floor caters to a different clubber. And,

as in any other club, the higher you go, the cooler you are. When not in official club status, the sec ond floor has its regulars. These are cheap bastards not affiliated with McGill in any way who come to read newspapers and magazines for. free. Due to Club McLennan’ s stringent carding policy, however, the second floor is usually quite empty during the clubbing sea son. Third and fourth are the standard morebang-for-your-buck party scene, while the fifth floor (y ’know, the lit mongers) caters more to the Copa crowd. The sixth is for the hardcore clubbers who want all the intensity of the 24-hour Engineering library, but just can’ t resist the party atmosphere at Club McLennan. (If you’re truly hardcore, then you know to go to the afterhour party at the PSE library.) Club McLennan is réknowned for its stair crowders who line their asses all on one step, making it impossible for other clubbers to get by. You get to earn a nasty look for try ing, though. The landings of each floor are also a good place to catch all the juicy couple fights. For some reason, and I’m hard pressed for an explanation for this one, it seems that the club atmosphere enhances relationship volatility. But you gotta adm it, Club M cLennan breakups are some pretty sweet action (and

they make for good stories when you get back to your study group). For some, the smoking rooms in the caf. and on the fourth floor are reminiscent of first-year pilgrimages to the ’shroom-popping sp lifflicatin g corner of the third floor of Angels. Personally, I think it’ s just a supreme hotbox for nicotine freaks. Sp eakin g of drug cu lture, Club M cLennan’ s got its fair share of junkies. Students are frequently spotting running to the bathrooms to get another hit of — no, not coke or E, but — Ritalin. A word on the dress code. The fake-andbake chicks check their puffy silver jackets at their tables in favour of baby tees and sweat pants. Remember, women: full makeup is always complemented by hair in the ponytailbun, or, even better, twisted up and secured with a clip or pencil (for the harried club girl look). Men: p laid flannel pyjam a bottoms, Adidas pants or Jim Kelly-inspired ageing jock sideline pants are a must. Grow the play off beard. The rule is, the more fresh out of bed you look, the better. The optimal look is naked save for boxer shorts, provided that you don’t have ungodly amounts of body hair (I’m not kidding — see S. Slavin’s library complaint board for details.)

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For both sexes: baseball caps from camp are good (especially if they’ ve got cutesy in sid e jo k es stitched on the b ack), but stockinged feet are essential if you’re a seri ous clubber. The only acceptable form of footwear are Tevas or Birkenstocks. Your night on the town can be enhanced by a trip to the bathroom. Not only does Club McLennan boast more vomitatious toilets than the Bifteck, but the whole phone area is a little-known gold mine for men looking to pick up. (Hint: girls like to check in with their friends to find out what’ s happening later.) Of course, no club experience would be com plete without a guy bugging you for spare change as you leave. Fortunately, M cGill’ s got p lenty of those, even when Club McLennan isn’t up and running. But I must admit; as I pass the dance floor of the fishbowl, trying to get some ser vice from the attitude-laden staff while listen ing to those block-rockin’ beats of the peren nially broken ventilation system, some sick part of me knows that the day will come when I’ll actually miss Club McLennan and all its glory. Happy clubbing, and good luck on your exams. — L eslie S tojsic U3 H istory

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B y the end of th is month, you’ ll feel screwed over by your profs, your bank account, your loan officer, the relative who promised you a summer job and the pricejacking dépanneur owner. The last thing you’ll want is to duke it out with your landlord. D iane H iggin s, a form er M cG ill student, knows this only too w ell. In her second year, she made a series of poor choices that led to a legal battle with her land lord that ended up costing her over $600. “My first mistake was coming from Toronto and trying to find an apartment in one weekend over the summer. I didn’t know what was out there, and I had no gauge of what was good,” she said. H iggins w as pressured into signing a lease for an apartment on St. F am ille, m ain ly due to tim e constraints. In the lease, she had her landlord include provisions to repaint the walls, fix minor things and place locks on the windows. She paid her first month’s rent up front. In September, she returned to a filthy apartment without locks on the windows.

Higgins sent a registered letter notifying her landlord that she was breaking the lease due to his viola tion of Article 1914 of the Civil Code of Quebec, which provides for automatic annulment of a lease if the landlord fails to deliver the apartment in a state fit for habita tion. She enumerated the problems and demanded the reimbursement of the rent money. “When I didn’t get a response after he had received the registered letter, I lodged a complaint with the Régie du Logement. I had a court date four months later. While the ju d g e ap p reciated w here I w as coming from, he ruled against me on the grounds that even though the paint job and repairs had been only partially completed by the landlord, they were done nonetheless. I had student loans, so that was not good news.” Higgins is wiser now from the financial sting of the experience. A ccording to Steve K elly, Law Student Association President and form er o ffice m an ager at the McGill Legal Information Clinic, “she should have filed her com plaint with the Régie while still liv ing there, since it technically was fit for habitation, even if it was not

up to her expectations. While living there, she could have deposited her rent at the Régie until the landlord cleaned up and fulfilled the obliga tion of the lease.” W hile situations like this are not typical, there are some precau tions that should alw ays be taken before signing a lease. “Many students don’t realize that signing an application for a lease is essentially signing the lease itself and students can get stuck with having two or three leases on their hands,” Kelly said. “Also, a lot of students don’t look at the terms and length of the lease.” Three points to consider when reading the lease are: the duration (whether eight, ten, twelve months or longer), the price and the includ ed conditions (such as electricity, heat and/or hot water). Another preventative measure might be a visit to M cG ill’ s OffCampus Housing Service, a recog nized resource centre. It has files on lodgings which have been offi cially surveyed, as well as on delin quent lan d lo rd s and d w e llin g s w here students have reported heinous co n d itio n s. W h ile the office itself has no legal influence, the OCHS can help students to

empower themselves. For crucial information about tenants’ rights, a trip to the McGill Legal Information Clinic is worth w hile. “Students should bring in their lease to go over what their landlord is legally able to do,” Kelly said. “In Q uebec, there is no such thing as security or key deposits, and dem anding last month’ s rent is ille gal.” Another common problem is students’ ignorance, or just plain la z in e s s, about the ren ew al of a le a se . This occurs automati c a lly unless a tenant n o tifies his or her lan d lo rd in w ritin g from one to six months before the end of the lease, depending on the length of the lease. “The b ig g est problem students have is meeting deadlines. People who had leased ending July 1 are now realizing that they’ re w h y do t h e y

stuck with another year of respon s ib ilit ie s ,” K elly rem arked . “U n fo rtun ately, it ’ s one of the hardest provisions to fight. Tenants C o n tin u ed on page 12

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Teaching the rest of Canada a thing or two about Quebec French choose to speak the international French to French foreigners.” S im ila r ly , it is in order to B ack in 1982, my parents avoid the communication barriers decided that it w ould be to my imposed by regio n al idiom that advantage to become bilingual, and international French is taught to enrolled me in one of Toronto’ s children outside of Quebec many French-immersion schools. “The method by which Upon graduation, I was given French is taught as a sec a piece of paper certifying that I ond lan gu age is, for the was bilingual; my mother insisted most part, standardized all that I was bilingual, and my résumé over the w o rld ,” stated boldly claims that I am bilingual. Thierry Mokrey, principal But when I arrived in Montreal in of the French-im m ersion my freshman year, my illusion was John Fisher Public School quickly shattered. in Toronto. “There is an I, lik e m any other out-ofaccepted method of teach p ro vin cers, cannot speak ing French which tends to Québécois French. avoid regional dialects.” Most Canadian students do not M o krey pointed out learn Quebec French. W hy the that even w ithin C anada reluctance to teach Quebec French there are m any different in other provinces? Considering French dialects. that the m a jo rity of French “A French Canadian in Canadians speak Quebec French, it Northern Ontario speaks a seems illogical. •*different French than some One cause may be the difficul one in M o n treal, who ty of defining what exactly consti speaks differently than the tutes Quebec French. P ro f. P o u lin -M ig n a u lt, d i r e c t o r o f M cG ill’s E n glish a n d F r e n ch L a n g u a g e Francophone in the eastern “Most people’s definitions of C entre, ex p la in s w h y n o r m a liz e d F ren ch is ta u g h t Julie Fishman townships.” Québécois French differ consider French is by no means ably,” said Paul Souligner, a senior language educator for the federal al” French. The version generally docum ents, ed ucatio n and the un ique in th is re g ard , M okrey government. “Many agree that it is taught to English Canadians out media. It is the common foundation pointed out. Every language pos undoubtedly the accent that distin side of Quebec — international of a language, composed of the ele sesses a standard idiom that tran guishes Q uébécois French from French, is more closely related to ments that are most permanent, and scends regional divisions. For instance, “English spoken any other French, but the differ P arisian than to an y C an adian least variable.” in urban centres of Canada possess “There is absolutely nothing dialect. ences go beyond that. Ultimately, H élène P o u lin -M ig n au lt, wrong with Québécois French,” es a sort of generic quality which is w hat sep arates Q uebec French from any other dialect is its subtle director of M cG ill’ s English and Souligner emphasized. “It is by no most easily understood in North idioms and expressions,” he added. French Language Centre, described m eans in co rrect. H ow ever, A m erica, w h ich ex p lain s w hy “Even people who are relatively it as a standardized version of the Q uébécois French is not e a sily many national news anchors in the fluent in French can have a hard language, designed to transcend understood outside of Canada. For United States are Canadian — or at this reason, Canadian politicians least sound Canadian. There are no socio-linguistic variations. By Jeremy G ans

time adjusting to the Québécois accent—the expressions are even more difficult to identify and incor porate into one’s speech.” Souligner, who is Québécois, teaches what he calls “internation

“In French, just as in English, there is not a single form of lan guage,” Poulin-Mignault explained. “W hat is c a lle d in tern atio n al French is really the language that has been norm alized by o fficial

news anchors who speak in a heavy New Yorker or Bostonian accent, or in a thick Texan drawl or espe c ia lly in an A lab am a red -n eck accent.” By the same token, teaching E nglish C anadians a Q uébécois French would put these individuals at a disadvantage when trying to communicate with French speakers from around the world. S till, certain d iscrep an cies remain. English Canadians are not taught to speak Queen’ s English, just as Australians are not taught Canadian English. So why are we not taught a Canadian French? The discussion leads to an inevitable questio n : is C an ad ian French regarded by others as substandard? “Not at a l l, ” said PoulinM ignault, a Québécoise herself. “It’ s ju st differen t. B efore you teach variations in language, you have to know the basics.” For her, that means teaching international French as a staple, and then expos ing her students to a wide variety of re g io n al d ia le c ts, in c lu d in g Québécois. “P eople ask me w hether I teach “Quebec” French or “French” French. And my response is always: T teach F ren ch .” ' W hatever the case m ay be, Jean Chrétien will continue to alter his accent when sp eakin g w ith French dign itaries from abroad, teachers a ll across C anada w ill continue to teach intern atio n al French and my résumé will contin ue to claim that I am bilingual.

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A ll th e th in g s y o u n e e d to k n o w b e fo r e y o u s ig n a le a s e C o n t in u e d fr o m p a g e 11 are com paratively quite empow ered in this province, but as the say in g goes, if you liv e by the sword, you die by the sword.”

Subletting disaster With many students leaving Montreal for the summer, this is the peak time for subletting. Being unaw are of the stip u latio n s involved with subletting can mean

serious problems when a lessor is not in town. “Lots of times, students don’t realize that they are still the ones who are responsible for paying rent to the landlord, not the sublessee. And subletting does not absolve you from responsibility, including d am ages incurred by the sub lessee,” Kelly warned. “The best w ay to avoid the hassle? A ssign your lease, don’t sublet.” A ssig n in g m eans that the

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that p ertain s p e c ific a lly to the health and safety of residents, such as insects and rodents, garbage and inadequate heating and lighting. Sam Johnston, a U3 history student and VP University Affairselect was going to file a complaint with the Régie last year for an ille gal rent increase. She was able to resolve the problem with her land lord d ire c tly , b ecause she w as aware of the law and her rights — an advantage she has over many students from outside Quebec. “People come from out of the province not knowing their rights, much less the going rates of apart m ents in the ghetto. Rent in M ontreal is not the sam e as in

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C o n t in u e d fr o m p a g e 7 tutes’ rights advocates must face. The issue of sex workers’ rights is problematic largely because of the peculiar way they are handled by the Criminal Code.

Hypocritical and frustrating laws The exch an ge of sex for money is, in itself, not ille g a l. H ow ever, co m m un icatin g the terms of the exchange is illegal. Having sex for money at a domes tic or rented residence for a period of more than four days — “living off the avails” of sex for money — is also illegal. Iro n ically, these law s were actually written to prevent victim ization. “These law s are more about hypocrisy. People don’t want to see prostitution, but if its done in a casual, once in a while, here-andthere kind of way, then it’s okay,” Herland said. “A lot of these laws are supposed to protect women, but usually th ey’ re used against women.” The communicating law, for example, was enacted so that men could not indiscriminately proposi tion wom en. A cco rdin g to Herland, however, this law is usu ally used to elicit testimony from m ale clients to use against their female propositioners in court. The law about “living off the avails” is supposed to protect against pimp

in g , but it has been used very literally against women who use that money to support them selves and their families. “T heir se m i-le g a l status makes them very vulnerable [to persecution],” Herland stated. One group working for decrim in ia liz atio n is the C anadian O rganization for the R ights of Prostitutes (CORP). “The public must be educated about the reali ties of the sex trade. You can’t have serio u s d iscu ssio n without a basic knowl edge of the facts,” said CORP volunteer and form er pro stitute Alexandra Highcrest. The strongest argument for decriminalization is that the cur rent response is not working for either camp. “W hat’ s happening now is not satisfying the needs, wants or desires of those in the sex trade or o p p o s e d to the sex trad e ,” said H ighcrest. “Decriminalization would sa tis fy both sid es — it would get prostitutes off the streets and put them in charge.” H igh crest, author of At H om e on the Stroll, doesn’t advo cate legalization, however. “That would simply replace one set of law s with another. [Those who support legalization] support the idea of regulated health checks. That w ould be d isa stro u s,” Highcrest claimed. Licensing, including mandato ry health checks for sex workers, would serve to perpetuate the false perception of prostitutes as the principal agents of STD transmis sion. ‘Healthy’ married men, for exam p le, w ould n ever feel the need to use a condom if a prosti tute were deemed clean. “And we know all about those stories of healthy husbands who caught HIV somehow, right?” Highcrest added. The crim inal code ought to protect p ro stitutes, rather than oppress them , H igh crest said. “People could be ch arged for assault or extortion [against prosti tutes]. If those law s can protect Mr. and Mrs. Suburbia, they can protect prostitutes, thank you very much.”

Not only prostitutes But decrim inalization won’ t solve all problems. For strippers and nude dancers, there are other issu e s. “In m any c ases, these women pay [the propietor] a fee to work; they pay cuts to DJs and bouncers; th ere’ s no m inim um wage and they are not permitted to leave before the end their shift,” said Herland. This is sym ptom atic of the lack of rights in all areas of the sex trade. There is a wide array of peo ple who fit under the sex worker um brella — includin g dancers, strippers, prostitutes, phone sex op erato rs, and in tern et sex pro viders — a ll of whom are denied legitim acy in the public sphere because of that thing they

do. The h etero gen eo us n ature of people in the trade makes it impossible to typify an “average” sex worker. “People becom e sex workers for all sorts of rea sons,” said Fran Shaver, asso cia te p ro fesso r in S o cio lo g y and A nthropology and V iceDean of Student Affairs at C oncordia. Sh aver con ducted one of the flagship studies on adult street pros titution in M ontreal and G o v e rn m e n t c u ts h a v e re d u c e d o r e lim in a te d Toronto. ers, in c lu d in g le g a l a id “For some, it’s a part tim e job to get them through Police harassment school. For others, given their worse in Quebec skills, it’s the best job they can get. The C o alitio n o rgan ized a Some are last-week-of-the-month vigil in June 1997 to remind citi p ro stitu tes who need the cash zens how cops e x ile downtown when their income runs out. But street prostitutes to violent neigh there is not any one profile of a bourhoods d urin g the sum m er street prostitute,” Shaver empha tourist festivals. Last October, they sized. demonstrated outside City Hall to alert local politicians of atrocious Sex Workers Unite! working conditions and violence Organizations in major cities against sex workers by the police. have been successful at coordinat Shaver speculated that initial ing the interests of those in the political challenge to the status quo in d u stry. The Sex W orkers would result in further harassment A lliance of Vancouver (SW AV), by the police. And that is excep the Sex W orkers A llia n c e of tionally startling, because evidence Toronto (SW A T ) and San has indicated that the MUC police Francisco organization COYOTE have been p a rtic u larly hard on (Call Off Your Old Tired Ethics) both male and female prostitutes. have given p o litical agen cy to “Conditions may look better local sex trade collectives. in Quebec b ecause the so ciety In Montreal, attempts to unify seem s m ore s e x u a lly lib e ra l. sex workers into a cohesive group Official stats [about police brutali have been less consistent. The ear ty] look better, in that they give the liest attempt died out in the early impression that the application of '80s. The first lo c al group to the law has been equitable [to both approach the media actively was the worker and the client], but in L ’ A sso ciatio n Q uébécoise des terms of harassment by police it’s Travailleuses/Travailleurs du Sexe much worse in Quebec,” Shaver (L A Q T S), w hich ex iste d from stated. 1993 to 1995. Police often use municipal “It’s strange, because unions by-laws to regulate prostitution. are stronger in Quebec than any Shaver cited examples of hookers other p ro vin ce, except in this who were given tickets for ja y issue,” said Shaver. “It’s very dif walking or loitering. ficult to unify any group of work “There have been ers together, let alone those whose in stan ces w here, at a fast work can be illegal. Montreal has food restaurant, a worker is no solid grass-roots organization. told to im m ediately leave because they were closing, Stella would turn into one, but they her food thrown out before have instead responded to the need to help clients in crisis on more of she can wrap it up.” Rêve related her expe an individual level.” rien ces on the strip on If there has yet to be a unified Ontario street. “At night, it’ s political group outspoken enough drug time. It’s also when we get to stir things up in Montreal, one the most police harassment. The new o rgan izatio n is d e fin ite ly n ight crew is q u ite fie rc e ... show ing potential. Follow ing a Prostitutes who are new on the 1996 convention in Montreal on stroll think that ja il can’t be that the sex trade entitled “When Sex bad. Well, it is,” confirmed Rêve, Works,” LAQTS worked with the who has been detained but never peo p le at S te lla to form the charged with any crimes. C oalition for the Rights of Sex “You are denigrated by the W orkers. The C oalition, whose police. I’ ve been fondled by the membership of mostly sex workers police. They had me confined half — including Jackie Rêve — fluc naked in the middle of the winter... tuates between eight and 14, seeks many girls plead guilty just to get to mobilize all members of the sex the hell out of there: they take the trade to work together for a com $250 ticket, never pay it and spend mon political interest. the rest of th eir liv e s running “Sex w o rkers m ust bind whenever they see a cruiser. It’s a together, which is difficult because bad cycle.” they are used to being rivals on the job, suspicious of one another,” said C o alitio n m em ber M arieClaude Charlebois.

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Want respect, not pity Prostitutes’ rights advocates are weary of the paternalistic atti tudes that write off prostitution as a last resort for the desperate. “It is offensive to assume that all prostitutes are faced with no choices,” said Shaver. “When you do th at, you take aw ay th eir agency.” Still, after years of experience, R êve has no illusio n s about the business. “There are many truths for an yth in g. It m ay in fact be empowering for some girls to be financially independent, just like it may be empowering to get paid $15 an hour to clean sewers, but that doesn’t mean it’s a good job.” Given the inherent difficulties of the job, the very least sex work ers can expect is that the law treat them humanely. “We have to give security [to sex workers] so that a mother can practice her profession safely and still be a mother the next morning, not in jail or dead,” Rêve concluded.

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A N N O U N C E T H E R E C IP IE N T S O F T H E 1998 SC A R L E T K EY A W A R D

U n le s s y o u ’v e sp e n t ev e ry w aking m inute of the last two or three years on some kind o f lonely, perverted Internet safari trying to tra c k d o w n th e N e t’s b e s t fre e “boob” site, you’ve probably heard something about the renewed obses sion with Buddhism — especially Tibetan Buddhism — in the West. No, wait. I take that back. I am absolutely certain th a t ev en th e p a s tie st lo o k ing, m ost sexobsessed, g o o e y - f is te d , herm etic freako f-a n -In te rn e taddict among us knows something — anything — about the Buddhist revival. It’s simply impossible not to have heard about. So, don’t worry. I’m not going to w aste a lot of tim e telling you a b o u t film s lik e S even Y ears in Tibet or Kundun. I’m not going to mention anything about cover sto ries on Buddhism in magazines like Time and H a rp er’s. I w on’t say a word about the endorsement of the “Free Tibet” movement or the love o f B u d d h ism w ith in th e m u sic industry. I w on’t even bother to tell you that there are something like a g a z illio n B u d d h is t la p -d o g s in M c G ill’s R e lig io n s o f E ast A sia class; and, sure as the dickens (I’ve always w anted to w rite that), I ’m not going to go say a thing about how you can open your eyes and look around you at ju st about any tim e o f d ay , an y w h e re in th e Western world, and be greeted by a happy (though disturbingly Stalinesque) picture of advertising’s new darlin g , the D alai L am a, sm iling back at you. W hat I will say, though, is that as th e son o f a c o u p le o f B irkenstock-w earing-bead-totinggranola-crunching hippies who got swept away (all the way into 1998) by the first wave of Buddhist hyste ria in the ‘60s, I fin d all o f this bonechillingly disturbing. I mean, it would be one thing if the in filtratio n o f B uddhism into our cozy little C hristian kingdom w ere ju st, say, another abusively arrogant advertising fad — the kind of thing th at’s becom e so popular under post-com m unist capitalism ; and I wouldn’t be bothered at all if it w e re , fo r in s ta n c e , ju s t th e ex ploitation by H ollyw ood or by the music industry of a religion (or as real live Buddhists call it, a way o f life, man) that has, for whatever reason, captured the popular imagi nation. But as we all learned from the B eatles’ historic jau n t to India in 1967 — a trip th a t, by b rin g in g Eastern religions to the attention of a h u g e n u m b e r o f W e s te rn e rs , o p e n e d th e W e st to a flo o d o f “Eastern cool” that still has a pro found influence on my life, and on th e liv es o f all D harm a ch ild ren around the world today — it is not uncom m on for short-lived fads in p opular culture to be taken m ore seriously by som e people, and to ultimately become a way of life. W hat’s wrong with Buddhism as a “way of life,” you ask? Well,

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M ic a h K n a p p chatter is translated into real, live actions. Instead, what you end up with is a bunch of cooler-than-thou, vege ta ria n -e s q u e , in c e n se -b u rn in g , hypocrite-morons who natter on and on to all their Dharma friends about how they always get up at “sunrise” to p ractice th e ch en rezig m antra (“O-ma-ni-pad-me-hung”), and how th e y ’re really the only ones w ho understand the Rinpoche’s teaching on how to focus their energy on the seven chakras, and how enlightened and peaceful they feel meditating in their little home Temple, sitting in a lotus, holding a dorje in one hand and a mala in the other, and con tem plating one of their oh so rare tankas — at least until their “goodfor-nothing kid” comes barging into the room , to ta lly fu ck in g up the “energy” o f the “space,” and they en d up c h a sin g h im aro u n d th e house, trying to strangle him with a m a la , an d th e k id ’s m o th e r is y e llin g at th e m (in h e r b ro k e n B ro o k ly n -Ita lia n E n g lish ), “ No, Wesley, stop it!!! The kid, he didn’t do nuttin’ !! L et him g o !! L et him gooooo!!!” (Sorry. I ju st had a little flashback.) But the point, my friends, is that Buddhism, in spite of its oh-sopure im age, leaves the real, live, practicing “B uddhist” ju st as sus cep tib le to the kind o f hypocrisy and im perfection as the practicing Christian. Just as Chaucer had his Pardoner, and Robert Duvall has his Apostle, Buddhism has its human, flawed hypocrites (they sometimes go by nam es like Jerry Jones and Ron Cowan). So, unless you w ant to raise y o u r k id to b e so m e k in d o f a misogynist, vegetarian-hating post pseudointellectual com m unist who freaks out at the shear mention of the word rinpoche, I strongly sug g e s t th a t you ru n to y o u r lo c a l church and grab hold o f a crucifix or something so you don’t get swept away by the latest wave of Buddhist Chic. And for all you D harm a kids out there — those of us who don’t have the Grace of God to fall back on — I h av e o n ly o n e w o rd o f advice: UNITE. W e’ve got nothing to lo se b u t o u r b ea d s. (A nd, oh yeah, our Birkenstocks, too). F o r th e re co rd , w o u ld like to inform that he does not get his fa sh io n tips fro m the Style Magazine.

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Ani D iF ranco d id n ’t w ant to so u n d lik e a th ird grad e te ac h er when she stopped mid-song to tell her fans to shut up. Ani didn’t want to chastize her fans on A pril 2 at M e tro p o lis , b u t th e y fa ile d to u n d e rs ta n d th e ly r ic s of “Untouchable Face” and mutated a so n g m e a n t to be p a th e tic in to som ething o f their own angry and se lf-rig h te o u s c re atio n . Ani w as forced to explain. I felt the tension betw een the a r tis t an d h e r a u d ie n c e w h en I w atched her, m esm erized by her stage presence. (No, I didn’t dance. I left that for all the visiting Ontario fans.) Ani is not a “lesbian fem i nist.” She is not “angry.” She is not th e in c a rn a tio n o f a ll h e r f a n s ’ alienation and insecurity. Ani had to fight on stage to reassert her own hum anity in the face o f her audi ence’s misconceptions. It isn ’t a question o f w hether or not Ani has “sold out.” She cer tain ly w a sn ’t actin g “c o rp o ra te ” w hen her drum m er A ndy d iscov e re d so m e o n e ta p in g th e sh o w .

Instead o f flipping out over copy r ig h ts , th e y b ro u g h t th e ta p e recorder on stage, spoke directly into it saying “T his is a bo o tleg ” and then handed it right back to the owner. This woman is an independent artist w hose m usic d ev elo p s and changes as she does. So what if she got a boyfriend? Personally, I ju st wonder how she has all the time for th e s e m e a n in g fu l r e la tio n s h ip s when she constantly tours. G oing m ainstream only m eans that more people know about her. Did all the fans that liked Ani w hen she was small really like her music or ju st the fact that she was indie? A ni ex p e rim e n te d w ith new instrum ents and ad d itio n al m u si cian s d uring her set, th a t w ould have seem ed short no m atter how long she played. She played heavily from her new album Little Plastic C astle but pacified h er au dience with great renditions of Ani classics lik e “ B oth H ands” an d “S h am e less.” A fter o m ittin g the yodelling bit from “Both H ands,” she explained that her lungs aren’t quite as pink as they once were and

joked by saying “I’m no Jewel.” The concert was organic, com posed of living songs still growing fro m th e ir alb u m v e rs io n s . S he began “S ham eless” w ith a totally different melody — unrecognizable but for the lyrics — and suddenly the meaning changed along with the notes. The audience listened to her w ords w ith a grow ing fam iliarity u n til th e bass k ic k e d in an d th e “normal” accompaniment resumed. The music is A ni’s fabric which she stretches and manipulates with ease because nothing is sacred but her in te n tio n s. A ni d id n ’t m in d th a t people were singing along with her during “U ntouchable Face” — she did mind that her song was reinter preted as a soccer chant. M u sic is A n i’s o c c u p a tio n . A ni’s sets are becoming fam iliar to h e r d ie -h a rd fa n s. T h e f a ith fu l know that each concert comes with a sto ry ( d iff e re n t e a c h tim e o f co u rse) fo llo w ed by a solo song w ith o u t her b ack in g ban d . T hey also know that Ani always com es back for a second encore — all they have to do is clamour for more. Ani described her job as “just jam m ing

with [her] friends while a couple of roller coast ers charge through” at the beginning and end of each so n g . C om pared to previous tours w here sh e ’d run on sta g e up to th e m ic ro p h o n e an d sta rt giggling with nervous ness, Ani cam e across confident, com fortable and mature. Despite the self-proclaimed author ity of A ni’s more pos s e s s iv e fa n s , th e w om an h erself says it best: “I b u ild each one o f m y songs o u t o f g la ss/ you can see me inside them/ I suppose you could ju st leave the im a g e o f m e in th e background'/ and watch y o u r o w n r e fle c tio n superimposed. ” In d ie rock in its p u re st fo r m

Rachel Ong

R eggae singer L asan a Bandelé is a soul rebel and a storitela B y L eo Sc u e r a

A s I near my form al good-bye and attem pt to leave m y co-ordi nates on his answ ering m achine, L asana picks up the phone. W ith his first w ord spoken m ajestically an d a b ab y c ry in g in th e b a c k ground, I realize this m an’s home is also his workplace. In the true spirit o f a fam ily man, he seem s patient w ith m e as I am eag er to ex to rt new and free m usic from him. I soon found that it was not going to be extortion as usual this tim e around. Reggae m usic is supposed to be based on unity and the spread o f Ja h ’s vibes, hence the popular “ o n e lo v e ” a n th e m . E v e r y o n e swears by this notion like buttonfly jeans but not everyone lives by it, as they w ish they could ju st zip up and be done w ith it. This atti tude is a trend in m odem society, b u t L asa n a B a n d elé is c ritic a lly rebellious and is aw are o f the neg ative im plications alluded to in the jean s analogy. A s an a v id reg g a e h isto ria n a n d c r it ic , I s p e a k w ith m a n y artists across the U.S. and find that th e sp rea d o f a “p o sitiv e v ib ra tio n ,” th ro u g h reg g ae m usic and cu ltu re, is stifled by B abylonian business ethics. L asana em bodies “roots” reggae and is a pillar that avoids seeking recognition. “All the arts are for sharing. If you’re going to share, do it proper ly... there is a certain responsibili ty ; it ’s not flip p a n t fo r me. It is astute to be tim ely about sharing things, in a business sense, but to m e sh arin g is a c o n sta n t th in g ,”

says L asana in a phone conversa tion. L a s a n a is a te a c h e r an d h e ta u g h t m e a Ja m a ic a n p ro v e rb : “H and go, packy com e,” m eaning th a t you m u st p u t o u t a h and to receive anything in return. In this case, the packy is a type o f gourd that is native to his island. A fte r e x p re ssin g m y d is a p pointm ent with other reggae artists w ho claim to sp rea d J a h ’s m e s sage, he states that “it’s a peel off o f a reality we live in...a lot o f fear is expounded in the w orld...som e a ttitu d e s p e o p le e m p lo y b lo c k th e m fro m a lo t o f th in g s th e y could be experiencing...the w ar is on, peo p le are tak in g cover. I t’s about staying open, staying inno cent. People that are able to stay open and still safe are people who are civil.” W hen ask ed ab o u t u rb an R a s ta d o m , as h e liv e s in S an F r a n c is c o , he r e p li e d , “ I f y o u know y o u rse lf, y o u can su stain y o u r e x is te n c e — y o u can liv e anyw here. It heightened my vigi la n ce ; I ’m even m o re alert. T he more you step inna’ B abylon, the m ore Babylon confirm s w hat it is. “I t’s m ade m e m ore gro u n d ed, m ore steadfast as a result. You have to be able to lift your wings and let the breeze pass you instead o f fluff you up...ya cyaan sm all up your’ self...you h av ’ fi know how to handle the fire.” “O ne doesn’t often find refer ences to Jah in your lyrics or song titles as with m ost reggae album s,” I noted. “ I d o n ’t le t re g g a e te ll m e how to com pose a song.”

(T h e b ab y is c ry in g again.) “W ould you say fam ily is im portant to you?” “ E v e r y tim e ! Y o u r fam ily is y o u r first co m m unity...fam ily is not only b lo o d . T h e e s s e n c e o f f a m ily is m o re th a n b lo o d ...th e m an w h o shares y o u r v iew s...th o se you can e x p e r ie n c e hum anity w ith.” “ W o u ld y o u sa y you’re the original family man then?” “I d o n ’t profess to be a n y th in g [p a u se ]...I ju s t am .” This consciousness is r e f le c te d in B a n d e l é ’ s lyrics. He is both dub-poet an d r o o ts r e g g a e m u s i c ia n . P e r h a p s i t ’ s th e m e an in g fu l c o m b in a tio n o f these talents that makes h is m u sic c o n tin u o u s ly a ttra c tiv e . A t th e en d o f the ‘90s I find m yself still lis te n in g to h is d e b u t album , Storitela, released in 1989. Tracks like “Big L a sa n a C ity,” “Living In Shacks” an d “ S u b -W ay B lu es” are te s ti m o n ie s to h is s o c io - p o e tic lifestyle. In “Sub-W ay B lues” Bandelé d is p e n s e s a w o rld o f w is d o m . “Intellectual, one likkle w hip and s h e ’s tip s y , s h e ’s g o t so m u c h tings to say...(she) needs to know her m aker so she asked m e a w orld o f a d v ice ...su b -w ay B lu es...th ey s in g th e m in c h u r c h e s e v e r y Sunday. W hy d o w e have to take

lets it a ll h a n g o u t the sub-w ay, ca n ’t we m ake it on the high-w ay?” A fter reasoning w ith Lasana, i t ’s e v id e n t th a t h is ly r ic s a re d e s ig n e d to a llo w fo r m u ltip le rea d in g s. H o w ev er, in th is case, highw ay and subw ay are divorced from econom ic m eaning. H e says that “posh or ghetto...it’s the same blues.” E conom ics aside, w e are still

left w ondering: is love th e a n s w e r to o u r b lu e s ? R e lig io n ? B a s ic a lly , B a n d a lé ’s su g g e s tin g th a t th e re has g o t to b e a b etter w ay to r e c o n c ile th e physical and the spiri tual in to d ay ’s society. It is th e su b tle ty an d com plexity with which he pens his lyrics that m a k e s h is m u s ic so universal. I f y o u ’re a s tr ic t ragam uffin and like to m ash up the dance hall then leave this m an be. H o w e v e r, i f y o u lik e m essage m usic w ith a m o d e rn A fr ic a n f e e l a k in to L u c k y D u b e, then call L asana y o u r self for the unreleased S to r ite la , a lb u m . L a s a n a B a n d e le a lso appears on Pow W ow R e c o r d s ’ F ire on th e M o u n ta in : R eggae Celebrates the G rateful D ead. T his production f o r m a liz e s th e lin k b e tw e e n m e a n in g f u l lyrics and roots reggae instrum en ta tio n on elev en co v e rs o f D ead classics by all the m ajor nam es in reggae to date. I f there is to be a L e o n a rd C o h e n to c o m e o u t o f Ja m a ic a , m y b e t is on th is so u l rebel num ber one. T h e n u m b e r f o r S to r ite la M usic is (415) 821-2271.

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Sin City: Family Values Frank Miller (Dark Horse) Frank Miller has always been a d ifficult political nut to crack; an artist seemingly dedicated to raising th e ey eb row s o f self-p ro cla im e d

free-speechers (m yself included), a man w hose sole obsession lies in testing the limits of liberal pluralism (and good taste) at the expense of a good story. M iller’s ongoing (and aw ard w inning) series Sin C ity has p io n e e re d the b u rg e o n in g g en re o f “co m ic n o ir ” w ith m a te ria l th a t w ould m ake even “m ach o slu ts” like Pat Califa blush. S o w h e re d o e s M iller stand? W hen all th e sm o k e c le a rs , th is story’s m oral (if such a w ord still applies) ends up b ein g “ I t ’s a g re a t, b ig , w id e w o rld o u t there...[with] all kinds of families in it.” (Awww...) It’s bad enough that a one-time comics legend like M iller feels the need to cop his m oral punch line from a four-year-old M urphy Brown episode, but seeing M iller’s words of wisdom backed up in the form of an Uzi-toting lip s tic k le sb ia n nam ed “ D a is y ” (à la S h aro n Stone in Basic Instinct) is an ev e n g re a te r d is a p pointment. A s h is o n c e -g re a t se rie s p lo d s alo n g , y ea r

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after year, M iller’s political m an d a te g e ts c le a re r an d c le a re r: “everyone’s equal, so long as they conform to their respective stereo type.” One scene has our protago nist D w ight chastize a hitm an for using racist language in reference to Dwight’s sidekick, Miho, a pointed ly m ute, Ja p an ese, 4 ’ 11” fem ale assassin on rollerblades (no, I’m not making this up). The evil racist is eventually decapitated by Dwight’s n in ja c h ic k , w h o se w e a p o n o f choice is a throwing star shaped like a swastika. As Bruce Springsteen so elegantly put it, “One step up/ two steps back.” The art in M iller’s latest outing has taken a nose-dive from previous in sta lm e n ts as w ell. A sk e tc h ie r style predom inates, w ith the only real artistic “breakthrough” being that the unstoppable Miho is depict ed as a spectral figure rendered in line art while the rest o f the cast and their surroundings are presented in co m p arativ ely rich, m eticu lo u sly sh a d e d fo rm s. T h o u g h v is u a lly appealing, this innovation is simply another manifestation o f the relative la c k o f d ep th M ille r a llo w s h is female characters. As for the story, Family Values has its moments, but following the appearance o f the tiny juggernaut M iho, it’s all slapstick. Good guy

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to adolescent Caucasian boys. If the healthy, mixed crowd at la st T h u rs d a y ’s R um pus C om ics Jam at Blizzarts is any indication, a change is in the making, but Miller is ju st too damn stubborn to be any part of it. His is a profound artistic mistake, an artistic dead-end on par with that of the headstrong gangsta rapper, to be remembered only as a case study in late twentieth century misogyny.

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D w ight’s eventual triumph is absolutely insured by the m ere presence o f M iho, a killing machine on wheels. F a m ily V a lu e s ' one re d e e m in g f e a tu re is D w ig h t’s c h e e ry b a n te r w ith th e th u g s th a t h av e been hired to take him out. Our hero keeps marvelling at their shiny red Cadillac, expressing his enthusiasm to take it for a spin “once I ’m done k illin g you fe l las.” This w hile h e’s busy getting his teeth kicked in. Dwight’s brief moments of le v ity d o n o t, h o w e v e r, m ak e up fo r th e b o o k ’.s overall lack. F a m ily V a lu e s p re sents itself as M iller’s artis tic response to long-stand in g a c c u s a tio n s o f h o m o p h o b ia, ra c ism , m iso g y n y , etc. M ille r ’s downfall, however, lies in following up his “pluralist” statem ent with a h ea lth y serv in g o f such p aten tly offensive imagery as the aforemen tioned swastika-shuriken. This stuff is supposed to be proof, no doubt, of M iller’s “uncom prom ising” nature. Beyond this childish ego exercise, w h at’s the point? G ood question. Miller really isn’t doing the artform any service by limiting his audience

The purpose of the Festival is to create a “community o f filmmak ers,” according to the other co-coor d in a to r C a th e rin e M a c p h e rso n . Increasing M cGill’s reputation as a school that creates valuable cultural products is one of the major aims of th e e v e n t. M a c p h e rso n and M cDougall have made a concerted effort to appeal to the larger com munity of Montreal to publicize the

Festival and obtain sponsors. More importantly though, is the desire to increase interest and collaboration am ongst the students of M cGill in terms of film production. The event is about “introducing people to one another because when people meet projects emerge,” says McDougall. T w e n ty -fiv e film s w ill b e screened over two evenings. They will be judged by a team of diverse lo c a l c u ltu r a l g u ru s (fro m th e H o u r ’s m o v ie re v ie w e r D im itri Katadotus to Alison Bums, an inde pendent filmmaker who also works for the NFB) on the merits of sound, editing, cinematography and in cat egories for Best Documentary, Best Original Idea, Best Overall Film as w ell as a P eo p le’s C hoice A w ard f o r ea c h n ig h t. T h e se le c tio n process fo r the film s that w ill be viewed also has a dem ocratic tone to it. Anyone who so desired could watch endless hours of footage and be a part o f the Official Selections C o m m itte e th is p a s t w ee k en d . These appeals to involve the aver age McGill student in the project in order to extend the scope of interest in film are also part of the vision of the Festival. Among the goals of this year’s event is to try and keep the budget o f th e F e stiv a l low . L ast y e a r ’s Festival was “incredibly slick,” says M acpherson, but it is p ossible to m a in ta in “ p r o fe s s io n a lis m and c la s s ” w ith o u t sp en d in g a lo t o f m o n ey . It is a lso a sh am e to be shelling out cash on the frills when it is more important “to update the equipment at McGill.” W hat is m ost am azing about the event is that it is completely stu dent-run. “Almost out o f necessity,

because o f a lack of a formal pro gram at McGill, students are trying to do it on th e ir o w n ,” sa y s M cD ougall. Film at M cG ill is all ab o u t “ stu d en ts help in g students an d stu d e n ts te a c h in g stu d e n ts, th a t’s how film ic e n d e av o u rs at M cG ill are unique.” C reativity is unaffected by formal teaching and processes. Storyboards and outlines are helpful, but most people ju st go with it, it appears. There is always the hope that film s m ade fo r the F estiv al w ill rec eiv e ex p o su re and p raise and m ove on to be screen ed at o th er events. Last year, Isabella Riva saw her film M aking M y Bones win the M o n tre a l In te r-U n iv e rs ity F ilm F e s tiv a l. It w as q u ite a co u p because McGill is probably the least rek n o w n ed o f the u n iv e rsitie s in M ontreal for its technical arts. For th e m a jo rity o f s tu d e n ts , th e F estiv al is the “one ch an ce they have to get their films screened pub licly. Many work on films with the f e s tiv a l in m in d ,” n o te s Macpherson. In this sense the event is a cele bration of the hard work and deter mination o f a burgeoning group of students trying to break into a grow ing field on an unreceptive campus. A Festival with intelligent, innova tive and technically sound products can only help their cause. The M c G ill F ilm a n d Video F e stiv a l w ill be ta k in g p la c e on A p ril 8 & 9 in M oyse H all in the Arts Building at 7pm. Last year it was sold out both nights so go early or buy your tickets around campus ahead o f time.

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A fter tw o so m e w h at u n su c cessful attempts, both critically and financially, at making more m ain strea m H o lly w o o d m o v ies, N eil Jordan has gone back to his lowbudget Irish roots with his new fdm The Butcher Boy. U nlike M ic h a e l C o llin s and Interview With The Vampire which had big Hollywood studios paying the bills and huge movie stars such as Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt and Julia R o b e rts, The B u tc h e r B o y is a sm aller production with no m ajor stars. The closest thing to a star in the film is Jordan’s regular collabo rato r Stephen Rea. H ow ever, the results are quite astounding. T h e film te lls th e sto ry o f F ra n c ie B rad y (E a m o n n O w ens making a remarkable debut) and his life in a small Irish town during the 1960s. Francie spends m ost o f his tim e p la y in g c h ild h o o d fa n ta sy games of Cowboys and Indians with his best friend Joe (another remark a b le d e b u t by A la n B o y le ). H o w ev er, d is tu rb in g r e a litie s intrude on F ra n c ie ’s com ic-book dreams. His father (Rea) is a violent d ru n k and h is m o th e r (A is lin g O ’Sullivan) is drifting into madness and u n re a s o n a b ly re q u e s ts th a t Francis let nothing bad happen to her. Also, Francie’s enthusiasm and w ell-b eing are co n stan tly u n d er mined by disapproving observations from a snobbish neighbour named Mrs. N ugent (Fiona Shaw ) whose bookish son Francie holds in con tempt. T h e m o v ie fo llo w s th e escapades of the young boy, narrat ed by Rea as the grown-up version o f F rancie. T here are a series o f

large and small episodes, each given equal authorial weight regardless of their dramatic effect. Jordan mixes the m orbid and the w him sical so successfully that by the end they seem to blend together as a single species even as he leads the audi ence towards the film ’s grisly con clusion that is shocking, despite its inevitability. The film is translated rem ark ably w ell from P atrick M cC abe’s s tre a m - o f- c o n s c io u s n e s s n o v el (Jo rd an and M cC ab e w ro te the screenplay) but Jordan grew up in D u b lin d u rin g th e 1960s an d it appears that the film reflects this u p b rin g in g . T he d ire c to r has an uncanny ability to sim ultaneously mock and celebrate Irishness and it ap p ears th a t he has d ecid ed that hum our has becom e the ultim ate tool of survival. The film is injected with elements of black Irish humour (such as casting Sinead O ’Connor as the Virgin Mary) but most of the laughs come from Francie himself, which proves to be a very success

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ful p loy by Jordan. T he m ore he makes the audience laugh, the more they like him and the deeper they feel his tragedy. Jordan uses the camera to cap ture the lush splendour of the Irish countryside as well as the clausterphobic confines o f F ra n cie’s v il lag e, b u t it is J o r d a n ’s am azin g se n se o f th e s u rre a l th a t re a lly stands out in the film. Not only does young Francie have occasional con v ersa tio n s w ith the n arrato r, but Jo rd a n m ak es u se o f s u r re a lis t imagery to capture the fantasy life that Francie increasingly turns to as the m ovie progresses (such as an ato m ic b o m b ’s m ushroom cloud and the visits o f the Virgin Mary). As a coming of age drama, The B u tc h e r B o y is a lre ad y d raw in g com parisons to Fellini’s Arm acord but it could also be compared with K u b ric k ’s A C lo ck w o rk O range w ith children in starring roles. A flick definitely worth seeing from a new master.

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A lth o u g h th e s to ry f ir s t ap p eared in p relim in ary form in 1719 in E ngland, it w as not until the nineteenth century that largesc a le p u b lis h in g g a v e L e B o ssu its rig h tfu l p la c e in the canon o f F rench litera ture. As th e A ge of M e c h a n ic a l R e p ro d u c tio n m a rc h e s on, P au l F ê v a l’s epic appears poised to find an even larg er audience in th e le g io n o f F re n c h film b u ffs w o rld -w id e w ith a stunning new adaptation by director Phillippe de Broca. T he novel w as a tw ist on the universal rom ance of “En Garde!” B ea u ty a nd the B east. It is under the hideous mask o f le Bossu nated by the infam ous Gonzague (a that Lagardère wishes to reveal his big player in the business world of feelings for the gorgeous A urore. P a ris d u rin g la R é g e n c e ). L agardère is a com plex character L ag a rd è re m u st be v ic to rio u s in who could be described as a com u p holding the rig h t, k eep in g his b in a tio n (as b iz a r r e as it m ay honour and m aybe even discover sound) o f D ’A rtagnan o f D um as ing love. a n d Q u a s im o d o , th e o r ig in a l T h o u g h it is u n lik e ly th a t “b o s s u ” o f H ugo (o r D isn e y o f M cG ill students are very fam iliar late). with French actors, you will find at The action unfolds in France least one fam iliar face in this pre after the death o f L ouis X IV . A t sentation, as V incent Perez plays this tim e, L o u is’ son was not old the D uke o f N evers. Perez, as all

$ 4 5 ,0 0 0 ov er three y ea rs by the p rovincial governm ent to rem ain in the league. The issue o f contention is that U Q T R ’s th re a ts o f w ith d raw in g from the league were not for finan cial reasons. Interuniversity Sports C o o r d in a to r o f U Q T R P ie r re C la ire m o n t ex p la in e d th e s itu a tion. “W e did an ev alu atio n this past sum m er o f all our program s an d w e fo u n d th a t th e b a se fo r recruiting in w om en’s hockey and rugby was not adequate for us to h av e a c o m p e titiv e team . T h ere w ere som e good players aged 12 to 16 y e a r s - o ld , b u t n o t m a n y older than that.” W h e n a s k e d w h e th e r th e im m ediate concern o f im proving th e ir w o m e n ’s h o ck e y p ro g ra m w o u ld be h e lp e d by th e m o n e y they w ere to receive, C lairem ont quickly pointed out that the deci sio n to a c c e p t th e m o n e y w as political in nature.

O ntario L eague, w h ich is so m e th in g M c G ill c a n n o t a ffo rd fo r fin an c ial reaso n s. M cG ill stated th at if U Q TR w ere to w ithdraw , th e u n iv e rsity w o u ld u ltim a te ly back out as well. M c G ill’ s S p o rts C o m m u n ic a tio n s O f f ic e r E a rl Z u k e r m a n w a s e x tr e m e ly d i s tressed over the fact that M cG ill was left em pty-handed in spite of evidence that M c G ill’s w o m en ’s hockey program is in more finan cial trouble than U Q T R ’s. “I don’t think it’s fair that the governm ent helps out a team only b ecau se th e y ’re th e o nly F rench team. M cGill is a have-not univer sity in term s o f w om en’s hockey m o n e y , y e t U Q T R g e ts m o n e y even though they w anted to drop out for reasons having nothing to do w ith finance," said Zukerman. “I think either both should get it or neither. W hy help out one and n o t th e o th e r ? It h e lp s o ut

th e pop cu ltu re ju n k ie s out there may rem em ber, held the lead role in last y e a r’s The C row : C ity o f Angels. D ire c to r P h illip p e de B ro ca has p ut to g e th e r a fa irly lib eral a d a p ta tio n o f th e n o v e l w hile m aintaining the his torical realities o f the seven teenth century. The director related, “For me, the histori c a l r e c o n s tr u c tio n is, in effect, a springboard to my imagination. A nd I love the f re e d o m o f p e r io d film s because I love to dream.” B ro ca’s challenge was c le a r. H e re a liz e d it w as m o re im p o rta n t to resp ect Fêval in spirit than follow the letter; he has done this by conserving key in g red i ents o f the novel w hile expanding the story to suit his dream. L e B o s s u is a v is u a lly ric h film. The costum es and sets com bine to im part a gorgeous perspec tiv e on th e p erio d . T he film has also been enthusiastically received by c r itic s in E u ro p e an d N o rth A m erica. L e B ossu is a fan tastic exam ple o f the vitality o f French film . If you can see it before the producers dub it into English, do.

Commissaire Francophone Recherché L 'A s s o c i a t i o n é t u d i a n t e d e l 'U n i v e r s i t é M c G i l l r e c h e r c h e u n é tu d ia n t p o u r r e m p lir le p o s te d e C o m m i s s a i r e f r a n c o p h o n e p o u r l 'a n n é e s c o l a i r e 1 9 9 8 /9 9 . C e tte p e r s o n n e d e v r a f a ir e p r e u v e d 'i n n o v a t i o n , d 'i d é e s e t d 'e n g a g e m e n t . T o u te p e r s o n n e in té r é s s é e a u p o s te d e v r a é c rire u n e l e t t r e à l a V i c e P r é s i d e n t e d 'A f f a i r e s U n iv e r s ita ir e s s o u lig n a n t le u rs id é e s e t le u rs c a p a c ité s à r e m p lir la tâ c h e .

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3000m event, silver in the 1500m and she also anchoring the 4x800m relay team ’s first-place finish. The relay team’s time was also a McGill and Quebec record. T ra c k team co a ch D en n is Barrett was very impressed with his team ’s fourth place showing at the CIAUs, and felt that Dunn’s perfor mance was a great way to end her running career at McGill. “She is a hard worker and was alw ays ready to pay the p rice in order to achieve her goals,” Barrett e x p lain e d . “It w as a p le asu re to work with her and she will be sorely missed next season.” A n o th er in te g ral p art o f the 4x800m relay trium ph was Elaine Penny, a first-year physiology stu dent. H aving en d u red an in ju ry plagued season, the victory in the re la y w as e x tre m e ly g ra tify in g , Barrett noted. “She is one of the most devoted athletes I’ve ever worked with. I’m sure others would have given up on

into a key member of the relay team and added a second-place finish in the 1000m and a bronze medal in the 600m. “I owe a great deal to Dennis for believing in me and giving me a chance. It was a great experience and I hope to run again next year,” Ali-Kahn said. The final member of the relay team was Stephanie Welsh, a biolo gy and physical education student. She a lso fin ish e d fo u rth in the 4 x 4 0 0 m and to o k ho m e a silv er medal in the 600m. “ S te p h a n ie w as v ery d e te r mined and worked incredibly hard this year. She didn’t mind putting in the extra work when necessary, that made my job that much easier,” said Barrett. Paul Drogaris of Montreal was also a standout by placing third in th e sh o t p u t. T h is se c o n d -y e a r physics major will be back next sea-

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Spiritual revival hits Montreal There will be a presentation o f the Harlem Spiritual Ensemble on W ednesday, April 8 at 8 pm The choir consists o f six singers accom panied by a pianist and a percussionist. T heir presentation is a re v iv a l o f b la c k s p iritu a l m usic in its original form. This group has perform ed in Carnegie H a ll, am o n g o th e r A m e ric a n venues, and across Europe. This show is a w ell-anticipated event as it is the last in the Discoveries o f the W orld series presented by Bell. It takes place at the Centre P ierre P éladeau and the tickets cost $26.25 ($22.50 with a Accès Montréal card).

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Their press release raves about their live show, so I’d recommend seeing this band live before buying this, their first disc. The title ju st about sum s up the ex p erien ce o f lis te n in g to w hat th is N e w fo u n d la n d q u a rte t h as p r o duced here. The Lizband combines unim aginative, contrived rhythm s w ith th e w a ilin g v o ic e o f le a d sin g er L iz P ick g u ard . She is the only rem otely b rig h t spot o f this d is c , w h ic h r e a lly d o e s n ’t say m u ch fo r it (o r h er). T h e so n g s e ith e r n e e d to be c o m p le te ly rearranged or scrapped altogether because they ju st aren’t quite there. Oh yeah, there’s a glockenspiel in there somewhere.

September © ftfa T he R edm en fo o tb a ll te a m su f fe re d its f irs t loss, d ro p p in g a h o m e g am e to th e w oeful Laval Rouge e t Or. T h e b r i g h t s p o t w a s r o o k ie D avid M cK innon’s d e b u t p e r f o rm a n c e a t quarterback.

T h e M cGill S e a g r a m S p o r ts S c ie n c e C e n tre u n v e ile d its l a t e s t p ie c e o f th e r a p e u ti c e q u ip m e n t, a h y p e rb a ric ch a m b e r. T he fa c ility is u s e d t o im p r o v e h e a lin g tim e b y ex p o sin g th e p a t ie n t to 2-3 a t m o s p heres o f nearly pu re oxygen.

The Redmen soccer te a m opened up its re g u la r seaso n w ith a big w in

n m The M artlet field hockey team , p rev io u sly w in less, to o k M olson stadium by storm , w inning 1-0 over C arleton and ty in g T re n t 0 0. The sole hom e event w as th e highlight o f th e te am ’s season.

Gino Lalli led th e Redmen soc c e r te a m to a k ey v ic to r y o v e r Bishop's, g u a r a n te e in g th e te a m hom e-field a d v a n ta g e in th e divi sional playoffs. The te a m h ad lost its firs t o p p o rtu n ity to clinch th e b e r t h tw o d a y s e a r lie r a g a in s t

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Ü ürê] The Mirabel tennis club played h o st to McGill's first hom e event in i t s tw o y e a r s o f e x is te n c e . T he R edm en sp lit th e dual m eet, w in ning easily over O ttaw a, b u t d ro p p in g a c ru c ia l m a tc h - u p to U o f Toronto. The event w as an organi zatio n al success b u t a critical loss fo r th e Redmen, w ho failed to quali fy for th e OUA finals. T he R edm en ru g b y sq u a d crushed UQTR 47-7, a sign of things to com e fo r th e club team .

— Sandrine Ceurstemont

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ov er l'U niversité de M o n tréa l 4-3. The w in m ark ed th e first tim e th e R edm en b e a t th e C itadins d u rin g th e regular season in fo u r years.

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Six in d iv id u a ls a n d o n e te a m w e re in d u c te d in to McGill’s S p o rts Hall of Fame. Shag Shaughnessy, Phil Edwards, Flin Flanningan, Bobby Bell, Jack Gelineau, a n d Gladys Bean w ere added to th e six e n tra n ts of th e inau g u ral year. T he 1946 R edm en hockey team , th e la st to w in a n ational ch am pionship fo r McGill, w as th e inducted team .

w m T h e R e d m e n f o o tb a l l te a m dro p p ed its th ird s tra ig h t gam e, 21-11 to th e Bishop’s Gaiters. The hom ecom in g g a m e ’s r e s u lt w as o v e r tu r n e d a few w eeks la te r w h en B ish o p s w as deem ed to have h ad an ineligible play

er on its team .

T a m b r a D u n n le d a s t r o n g M a r tl e t t e a m t o v ic to r y in t h e w o m e n 's 5 k m c ro s s c o u n tr y m e e t h eld o n M o n t Royal. D unn, a th ir d y ea r veteran, placed second, vaulting th e te a m to to p spot. T h e M a r t l e t s o c c e r te a m im proved to 6-0 on th e season w ith a p air o f easy w ins over Concordia an d Bishop's. Q uarterback David McKinnon led th e Redmen football te a m to its first v ic to ry u n d e r his co m m an d , a 35-14 tro u n cin g over a w eak Carleton team . Craig B orgeson c a rrie d th e ru n n in g load, ru sh in g fo r 153 y ard s on 21 ca r ries.

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October Concordia. C o n c o rd ia h e ld o f f a la te Redbird baseball charge to advance to t h e d iv is io n a l fin a ls . T h e R edbirds’ se aso n e n d e d a f te r th e te am dropped th e gam e 5-4 in extra in n in g s. In its th ir d y e a r o f exis ta n c e , t h e c lu b p o s te d a n 11-5 record.

Both th e m en 's an d w o m en 's s o c c e r te a m s a d v a n c e d t o th e Q u eb e c d iv is io n a l fin a ls . T h e M artlets squeezed by Sherbrooke 10, w h ile th e R ed m en ro lle d p a s t C on co rd ia w ith a c o n v in cin g 3-0 win. T h e R e d m e n f o o tb a ll te a m m ad e a la te fo u rth -q u a rte r com e back charge to b e a t Concordia an d a d v a n c e to th e p la y o ffs a g a in s t Queen's. T h e n e w ly f o r m e d M a r tl e t Lacrosse te a m to o k a bronze m edal in th e B division o f th e OLA; goal te n d er T ara Upshaw w as nam ed as a league all-star.

November

M o lso n S ta d iu m p la y e d h o s t to th e M o n tr e a l A lo u e tte s . A fte r t h e O ly m p ic S tadium w as pre-booked w ith a U2 concert, th e CFL te a m packed McGill's bleachers. As a result of th e gam e's success, th e Als will play all th e ir hom e gam es h ere n ex t season. T he R ed m en so c c e r te a m r e a ff ir m e d th e ir suprem acy in Quebec soccer by clinch ing th e ir fo u rth stra ig h t cham pionship w ith a 3-1 w in over UQTR. The w in also advanced th e m to th e national to u rn a m e n t in Halifax. T he M a rtle t so c ce r te a m lo s t th e ir c h a m p io n s h ip g a m e a g a in s t Laval in a 2-1 overtim e h eartb reak er. Despite th e loss, th e w o m en still adv an ced to th e n atio n al to u r n a m e n t in Quebec City.

n m The R edm en soccer te a m proved to be fo u r tim e s lucky by w in n in g th e C anadian N ational Cham pionship T o u rn a m e n t w ith a 1-0 sudden d e a th sh o o t-o u t victory over th e heavily favoured UBC T hunderbirds. The provincial rugby title w as ca p tu red by th e Redm en te a m w ho su n k th e Bishop's G aiters w ith a h ard -fo u g h t 17-0 victory. The

w in earn ed th e te a m a trip to Victoria B.C. fo r th e first ever Rugby National Championships. T h e McGill ro w in g te a m c a m e h o m e fro m th e in au g u ral N ational C ham pionship R e g atta held a t th e U niversity o f V ictoria. The m en finished fo u rth as a te a m w ith one silv er m e d al v ic to ry by th e h ea v y w e ig h t eight's. The w om en finished sixth as a te am w ith G eneviève M e rid e th w in n in g a silver m edal in th e light w eight singles event.

T he McGill R edm en ru g b y te a m ca m e h o m e fro m a to u g h sh o w in g a t N ationals. T hey lo s t b o th th e ir g a m e s to th e s tr o n g w e st co ast te am s of UVic an d th e University o f Alberta, b u t gained valuable experience to build upon fo r n ex t season. Redmen hockey continued th e ir su rp ris in g s t a r t to th e s e a s o n b y d e f e a tin g th e th ird -ra n k e d Guelph G ryphons 5-3 . Ihe w in im p ro v e d th e ir re c o rd to 6-1 an d earn ed th e te a m a n atio n al ranking.

McGill squash player Sarah Leckie w o n a s ilv e r m e d a l a t t h e OUA Individual S quash C h am p io n sh ip s in

T o ro n to . T a ra M ullins a n d Alex J o rd a n also tu r n e d in s tro n g p e r f o r m a n c e s , f in is h in g fo u rth a n d fifth respectively. T he M a r tle t v o lley b all te a m c o n tin u e d t h e ir ea rly d o m in a n c e o f t h e Q u eb e c le a g u e b y d e f e a tin g th e C o n c o rd ia S tin g e r s in a s tr a i g h t s e t v icto ry . T he w in im p ro v ed th e te a m s' reco rd to 4-1 on th e season, good eno u g h fo r firs t overall.

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A fter tw o so m e w h at u n s u c cessful attempts, both critically and financially, at making m ore m ain strea m H o lly w o o d m o v ie s, N eil Jordan has gone back to his lowbudget Irish roots with his new film The Butcher Boy. U n like M ich a e l C o llin s and Interview With The Vampire which had big Hollywood studios paying the bills and huge movie stars such as Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt and Julia R o b e rts, T he B u tc h e r B o y is a sm aller production w ith no m ajor stars. The closest thing to a star in the film is Jordan’s regular collabo rato r Stephen Rea. H ow ever, the results are quite astounding. T h e film te lls th e sto ry o f F ra n c ie B rad y (E a m o n n O w ens making a remarkable debut) and his life in a small Irish town during the 1960s. Francie spends m ost of his tim e p la y in g c h ild h o o d fa n ta sy games of Cowboys and Indians with his best friend Joe (another remark a b le d e b u t by A la n B o y le ). H o w e v e r, d is tu rb in g r e a litie s in tru d e on F ra n c ie ’s com ic-book dreams. His father (Rea) is a violent d ru n k an d h is m o th e r (A is lin g O ’Sullivan) is drifting into madness an d u n re a s o n a b ly re q u e s ts th a t Francis let nothing bad happen to her. Also, Francie’s enthusiasm and w ell-b eing are co n stan tly u n d er mined by disapproving observations from a snobbish neighbour named M rs. N ugent (Fiona Shaw ) w hose bookish son Francie holds in con tempt. T h e m o v ie fo llo w s th e escapades of the young boy, narrat ed by Rea as the grown-up version o f F rancie. T here are a series o f

large and small episodes, each given equal authorial weight regardless of their dramatic effect. Jordan mixes the m orbid and the w him sical so successfully that by the end they seem to blend together as a single species even as he leads the audi ence towards the film ’s grisly con clusion that is shocking, despite its inevitability. The film is translated rem ark ably w ell from P atrick M cC abe’s s tre a m - o f- c o n s c io u s n e s s n o v el (Jo rd an and M cC ab e w ro te th e screenplay) but Jordan grew up in D u b lin d u rin g th e 1960s and it appears that the film reflects this u p b rin g in g . T he d ire c to r has an uncanny ability to sim ultaneously mock and celebrate Irishness and it appears that he has d ecid ed th at hum our has becom e the ultim ate tool of survival. The film is injected with elements of black Irish humour (such as casting Sinead O ’Connor as the Virgin Mary) but most of the laughs come from Francie himself, which proves to be a very success

ful ploy by Jordan. T he m ore he makes the audience laugh, the more they like him and the deeper they feel his tragedy. Jordan uses the camera to cap ture the lush splendour o f the Irish countryside as well as the clausterphobic confines o f F ra n c ie ’s v il la g e, b u t it is J o rd a n ’s am azin g se n se o f th e su rre a l th a t re a lly stands out in the film. Not only does young Francie have occasional con v ersa tio n s w ith the n arrato r, but Jo rd a n m ak es u se o f s u r re a lis t imagery to capture the fantasy life that Francie increasingly turns to as the m ovie progresses (such as an ato m ic b o m b ’s m u sh ro o m cloud and the visits of the Virgin Mary). As a coming of age drama, The B u tc h e r B o y is a lre ad y d raw in g com parisons to Fellini’s Arm acord but it could also be compared with K u b ric k ’s A C lo ck w o rk O range with children in starring roles. A flick definitely worth seeing from a new master.

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A lth o u g h th e s to r y f ir s t ap p eared in p relim in ary form in 1719 in E ngland, it w as not until the nineteenth century that larges c a le p u b lis h in g g a v e Le B o ssu its rig h tfu l p la ce in the canon o f F rench lite ra ture. As th e A ge of M e ch a n ica l R e p ro d u c tio n m a rc h e s o n , P au l F ê v a l’s epic appears poised to find an even la rg e r audience in th e le g io n o f F re n c h film b u f fs w o rld -w id e w ith a stunning new adaptation by director Phillippe de Broca. T he no v el w as a tw ist on the universal rom ance of “En Garde!” B eauty a nd the B east. It is nated by the infamous Gonzague (a under the hideous m ask o f le Bossu that Lagardère wishes to reveal his big player in the business world o f P a ris d u rin g la R é g e n c e ). feelings for the gorgeous A urore. L ag a rd è re m u st be v ic to rio u s in L agardère is a com plex character who could be described as a com u p h o ld in g the rig h t, k eep in g his honour and m aybe even discover b in a tio n (a s b iz a r re as it m ay ing love. sound) o f D ’A rtagnan o f D um as T h o u g h it is u n lik e ly th a t a n d Q u a s im o d o , th e o r ig in a l “b o s s u ” o f H u g o (o r D isn e y o f M cGill students are very fam iliar with French actors, you will find at late). least one fam iliar face in this pre The action unfolds in France sentation, as V incent Perez plays after the death o f L ouis X IV . At the D uke o f N evers. Perez, as all this tim e, L ouis’ son w as not old

the pop cu ltu re ju n k ie s o u t there may rem em ber, held the lead role in la st y e a r’s The C row : C ity o f Angels. D ire c to r P h illip p e de B ro ca has p u t to g e th e r a fa irly lib e ral a d a p ta tio n o f th e n o v e l w hile m aintaining the h is torical realities o f the seven teenth century. The director related, “F or me, the histori c a l r e c o n s tr u c tio n is, in effect, a springboard to my imagination. And I love the f re e d o m o f p e r io d film s because I love to dream.” B ro ca’s challenge was c le a r. H e r e a liz e d it w as m ore im p o rtan t to resp ect Fêval in spirit than follow the letter; he has done this by conserving key in g red i ents o f the novel w hile expanding the story to suit his dream. L e B o ssu is a v is u a lly ric h film. The costum es and sets com bine to impart a gorgeous perspec tiv e on th e p erio d . T he film has also been enthusiastically received by c r itic s in E u ro p e an d N o rth A m erica. Le B ossu is a fan tastic exam ple o f the vitality o f French film . If you can see it before the producers dub it into English, do.

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B r ie f s Spiritual revival hits Montreal There will be a presentation o f the Harlem Spiritual Ensem ble on W ednesday, April 8 at 8 pm The choir consists o f six singers accom panied by a pianist and a percussionist. T heir presentation is a re v iv a l o f b la c k s p iritu a l m usic in its original form . This group has perform ed in Carnegie H a ll, am o n g o th e r A m e ric a n venues, and across Europe. This show is a w ell-anticipated event as it is the last in the Discoveries o f the W orld series presented by Bell. It takes place at the Centre P ierre P éladeau and the tickets cost $26.25 ($22.50 with a Accès Montréal card).

Symphony doses out year T h e M c G ill S y m p h o n y Orchestra puts on its last show of the season On Tuesday, April 7, at 8 p m . C o n d u c to r T im o th y V ern o n has ch o sen to p erfo rm M ahler’s A dagio from the Tenth Symphony and D as L ied von der Erde with tenor Gary Rideout and baritone Russell Braun. The latter work is viewed by many as being the closest M ahler ever got to his goal o f perfect synthesis o f sym phony and song. This concert will be co -p ro d u ce d by the cu ltu ral chain o f R adio-C anada FM and will be broadcast at a later date. Tickets are $20 ($12 for students and seniors) and are available at the Pollack Hall box office w eek days fro m noon to 6. T hey are also available at the Saint-JeanB ap tiste church the evening o f th e c o n c e rt. T he ch u rc h is on

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Bands showcased on McGill radio In continuing their tradition o f s u p p o rtin g th e lo c a l m usic s c e n e , C K U T ’s U n d e rg r o u n d Sounds will be hosting a series of showcases the second M onday of every m onth. T h ese show s will be b r o a d c a s t liv e fro m Is a rt Gallery. M usic Programm ing Co ordinator John Braithwaite thinks that “it is a great opportunity for local bands to get on the air and for people to get exposed to them. We would love the keen support o f the student com m unity.” Three local b an d s w ill be ta k in g the stage from 8 to 10 pm. The first will take place on M onday, April 13 w ith M ishim a, T he D atsons and F earless F reep perform ing. The second show will be on May 11. A dm ission costs only $2 at the door.

Comic strip offers second helping Following the success o f the th ird “ R U M PU S C o m ics Ja m ” April 2 at Blizzart on St-Laurent, the R U M PU S team has put out th e ir se c o n d is s u e . R U M P U S sh o w ca ses the b est c a rto o n in g ta le n t from M cG ill, C o n c o rd ia and the greater Montreal com mu nity. Copies are available free o f ch a rg e at v ario u s lo c a tio n s on c a m p u s . C a ll 8 4 2 -9 6 8 0 fo r details.

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This album rocks. W hile that might sound like vapid praise, it’s actually quite am bivalent depend ing on y o u r p o in t o f v iew . T he ro ck in ’-ness o f the album is great fo r alt-ro ck refu g ees lo o k in g for accessible music in the cold, intim id a tin g w o rld o f e le c tro n ic a . H ow ever, those o f you who burn the Chemical Brothers in effigy for being “too com mercial” and prefer the icy sounds of Spring Heel Jack, feel free to roll your eyes and com plain about m ainstream appropria tion. The Propellerheads effective ly in c o rp o ra te ro ck , spy so u n d tracks and D onald Byrd-style jazz into their big beat sound. The result is a complex, yet danceable, m usi cal variety show. If you’re not too cool, feel free to tune in. — Paul Sheridan

— Sandrine Ceurstemont

Their press release raves about their live show, so I’d recommend seeing this band live before buying this, their first disc. The title ju st ab o u t sum s up the ex p erien ce o f lis te n in g to w hat th is N e w fo u n d la n d q u a rte t h as p r o duced here. The Lizband combines unim aginative, contrived rhythm s w ith th e w a ilin g v o ic e o f le a d sin g er L iz P ick g u ard . She is the only rem otely b right spot o f this d is c , w h ic h re a lly d o e s n ’t say m uch fo r it (o r h er). T h e so n g s e ith e r n e e d to b e c o m p le te ly rearranged or scrapped altogether because they ju st aren’t quite there. Oh yeah, there’s a glockenspiel in there somewhere.

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I f y o u e v e r th o u g h t y o u c o u ld n ’t d a n c e to th e S n e a k e r P im p s, w ell h ere it is! T h e re ’s some great stuff on this album such as a drum and bass remix by Roni S ize an d A rm an d V an H e ld e n ’s a w e so m e d a rk g a ra g e re m ix o f “Spin Spin S ugar.” B ut there are also some cheesy, clubby remixes and som e songs that, w ell, d o n ’t really sound rem ixed at all. That g o ld se ria l n u m b e r on th e c a se c la im in g i t ’s a lim ite d e d itio n seems sort of like a scam. I would recom m end ju st taping this album fro m y o u r S n e a k e r-P im p -ju n k ie friends. But hey, w hat do I know, it could ju st be w orth som ething

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T he W u-T ang C lan is taking over the world. The em pire has a prophet in Killah Priest and a ju g gernaut dubbed Cappadonna. C a p p ad o n n a’s The P illage is ruff. The beats are rudimentary, but the lyrics and samples are heavy. R Z A ’s production and mixing on five o f the sixteen tracks stand out. It seem s th a t e v e ry th in g he to u c h e s a c q u ire s h is tra d e m a rk sty le. W u c o n trib u to rs — Ihost F a c e , M e th o d M an an d U -G o d appear on the album. H e a v y M e n ta l is K illa h P r ie s t’s firs t re le a se . R e lig io u s rh y m es d o m in ate on this album : Judaism , Islam , C hristianity (younam e-it). P riest tears up the su b ject. A s a W u associate, Priest is also entitled to the m yriad of W u contributors. — D ominique M ichaud

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track, “ Dishes.” is one that leaps to m in d , d ue p rim a rily to lead sin g er Jarv is C o c k er’s haunting vocals. For the most part, how ev er, T his is H a rd co re rep rese n ts new ground for the band. Gone is the simpler, more poppy sound o f the previous album, replaced by a h ard e r, m ore co m p lex p ro d u ct. Admittedly, it Ux>k more than one lis te n in o r d e r to id e n tif y my fav o u rite s, b u t th e y ’ve q u ick ly g ro w n on m e s in c e . N o ta b le tra c k s a re “ T h e F e a r ,” “ P arty H ard,” “G lory D ays” (not to be confused with Bruce Springsteen) and the title track. In s te a d o f m e re ly a p in g Different Class. Pulp has bravely put a decisive foot forward. Only tim e w ill te ll, but I th in k they have another winner. — Paul Futhey

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Sports

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Grit and hard work o f M cG ill athletes recognized at banquet B y Pa u l C o n n e r

T h ro u g h o u t th e A th le tic s aw ards b anquet last T hursday, it becam e increasingly evident how m a n y e v e n ts an d s to r ie s h av e p a sse d w ith o u t re c o g n itio n th is year. The relevance o f the evening was apparent from the beginning. Shortly after everyone was seated in the packed Redpath Hall, a long stream o f M V Ps and aw ard w in ners were called and filed their way to the stage; for many, this was the first w idespread recognition they received all year. In all, 36 M VP aw ards w ere handed out, one for each intercollegiate team. In reali ty, not m ore than half were written about at any length this year. This is the reason for the ban quet’s existence. N aturally, the w inners o f the more prestigious aw ards, athletes, leaders and teams o f the year, tem p o rarily took centre stage — the C IA U ch am p io n R edm en soccer team was given a standing ‘O ’ — b u t th e m a jo r ity o f th e n ig h t belonged to those who trained and com peted to the best o f their abili ties to represent McGill. W h e n th e s y n c h ro sw im te am ’s M V P Jennifer C larke was called up, an entire row o f sw im m ers sto od up and ch eered . T he w om en’s tennis team, having won

club team o f the year, “I w as happy to have w as w arm ly rec eiv e d . th e new fitn e ss ce n tre be T he sam e occurred for open fo r free fo r stu d en ts both track & field win for a year,” said Brown, in ners, Tam bra Dunn and referen ce to th e challen g e Paul Drogaris. M IS C a n d th e S tu d e n t Incidentally, Dunn A th letics C o u n cil brought was awarded the Gladys to the table against possible B e a n a w a rd fo r to p user fees this past year. female athlete at M cGill P ro h a r, a m e m b e r o f in r e c o g n iz in g h e r th e 'R e d m e n h o ck ey team e f f o r ts in tr a c k an d and the athletics representa c r o s s - c o u n try . T w o tive to SSMU, echoed com w eeks ago, she capped ments m ade by all that the off a trem endous season n o m in a tio n w as th e r e a l by representing Canada honour. at the world cross-coun “[This year has been] a try championships. g re a t e x p e r ie n c e ,” s a id “ [B e in g at th e Prohar. “It’s nice to know w o rld s] w as s u r re a l,” th a t y o u ca n be in v o lv e d said Dunn shortly after and com pete in athletics [at w in n in g th e B e an M c G ill] .” T h e R ic h a rd award. “It was the expe P ound aw ard w in n er also r ie n c e o f a lif e tim e added that his loss to Tara c o m p e tin g a g a in s t Newell for the SSM U presi O lym pians, people you dency was perhaps the best see on TV .” thing that could have hap Tw o other intrig u p e n e d , an d th a t h ad he in g s to r ie s fro m la s t know n how rew arding this Thursday evening were y e a r w o u ld be, he w o u ld th o s e o f B e th B ro w n never have run. and D erek Prohar. The O n th is e v e n in g o f The winners take it all lulie Fishman two were presented with celebration and presenta the aw ards for proficiency in ath well as with the soccer, field hock tions, slide shows and videos, there letics and leadership. Brown, given w as m aybe ju s t one story w hich ey , a n d ic e h o c k e y te a m s , w as the Dr. M uriel R oscoe trophy for asked about her greatest contribu sto o d o ut — th e C IA U c h a m p i her work as co-chair o f the McGill onship won by the Redmen soccer tion to M cGill during the year. Intercollegiate S ports C ouncil as team . M arc M ounicot, the team ’s

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M artlet hockey gets short end o f

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stick from Q uebec governm ent B y S a jid K a r s a n

O n ly a y e a r a fte r w o m e n ’s hockey was added to the Canadian In te ru n iv e rsity A th le tic s U nion, the leag u e’s Q uebec division has becom e shrouded in controversy. U pon la st m o n th ’s th re a t o f cutting their w om en’s hockey pro gram due to a lack o f rec ru itin g resources, l ’U niversité de Q uébec à T ro is R iv iè r e s w a s a w a rd e d $ 4 5 ,0 0 0 o v er three y ears by the p ro v in cial governm ent to rem ain in the league. The issue o f contention is that U Q T R ’s th re a ts o f w ith d raw in g from the league were not for finan cial reasons. Interuniversity Sports C o o r d in a to r o f U Q T R P ie r re C la ire m o n t e x p la in e d th e s itu a tion. “W e did an ev a lu a tio n this past sum m er o f all our program s an d w e fo u n d th a t th e b a se fo r recruiting in w om en’s hockey and rugby was not adequate for us to h av e a c o m p e titiv e team . T h ere w ere som e good players aged 12 to 16 y e a r s - o ld , b u t n o t m a n y older than that.” W h e n a s k e d w h e th e r th e im m ediate concern o f im proving th e ir w o m e n ’s h o c k e y p ro g ra m w o u ld be h e lp e d by th e m o n e y they w ere to receive, C lairem ont quickly pointed out that the deci s io n to a c c e p t th e m o n e y w as political in nature.

“ N o, I d o n ’t re a lly see th is m o n e y d ir e c tly h e lp in g o u r rec ru itin g problem s. T h e m oney w as a c c e p te d fo r p o litic a l r e a sons,” affirm ed Clairem ont. H ad UQTR opted to withdraw fro m th e le a g u e , Q u e b e c ’ s w o m e n ’s h o c k e y le a g u e w o u ld h a v e c e a s e d to e x is t, s in c e it w o u ld o n ly h a v e tw o te a m s , M cG ill and C o n c o rd ia. T he tw o w ould then be forced to jo in the O n tario L eague, w h ich is so m e th in g M c G ill c a n n o t a ffo rd fo r fin a n c ia l reaso n s. M cG ill sta te d that if U Q TR w ere to w ithdraw , th e u n iv e rsity w o u ld u ltim a te ly back out as well. M c G ill’s S p o rts C o m m u n ic a tio n s O f f ic e r E a rl Z u k e r m a n w a s e x tr e m e ly d i s tressed over the fact that M cG ill was left em pty-handed in spite o f evidence that M c G ill’s w o m en ’s hockey program is in more finan cial trouble than U Q T R ’s. “I don’t think it’s fair that the governm ent helps out a team only b ecau se th e y ’re the o nly F ren ch team. McGill is a have-not univer sity in term s o f w om en ’s hockey m o n e y , y e t U Q T R g e ts m o n e y even though they w anted to drop out for reasons having nothing to do w ith finance," said Zukerman. “I think either both should get it or neither. W hy help out one and n o t th e o th e r ? It h e lp s o u t

w o m e n ’s h o ck ey , b u t i t ’s d e tri m ental to M cG ill’s hockey.” M artlet co-coach G ary Ow en r e a c te d le ss h a rsh ly , as h e w as pleased to have his team rem ain in the league. “ I t ’s n ic e to see su p p o rt o f w o m e n ’s h o c k e y , a lth o u g h it w ould have been better had it been across the b o ard ,” said O w en. “I think it was pretty m uch a political d e c isio n . W e ’re lo o k in g to fin d support for w om en’s hockey from w ithin M cG ill.” H o w e v e r , O w en d o e s n ’t b e lie v e it w ill b e d if f i c u lt fo r M c G ill to c o m p e te in th e th re e team league in the com ing years. “I think w e’ll be pretty com p etitiv e based on cu rren t recru it ing,” he said. C lairem ont stated the m oney w ould have som e m inor residual effects on U Q TR ’s w om en’s hock ey program. Specifically, he point ed to the introduction o f an addi tional annual tournam ent and to an increase in the num ber o f w eekly practices from two to three. M ean w h ile, U Q T R , becau se o f th e ir p o litic a l w h eelin g s, and C oncordia, because o f their com m itm ent to winning, will both con tinue to dom inate the division.

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captain, was named male athlete of the year and was presented with the S tu a r t F o rb e s T ro p h y ; Ja s o n Forsyth, the team ’s backstop, won the trophy for sophomore academic and athletic achievem ent; finally, th e te a m w as n a m e d M c G ill’s finest for ‘97-’98. Mounicot, often r e la tiv e ly q u ie t in in te r v ie w s , su m m ed up h is te a m ’s fe e lin g s after the awards. “I t’s alw ays a good feeling,” said the mid-fielder, in reference to the video, his c lu b ’s w inning the team o f the year, and his election as M c G ill’s m ale a th le te o f th e year. “ [The aw ards are] a tribute for all the w ork the team and the coaching staff did.” It is easy to fo cu s on th o se w ho won national cham pionships or w ere at the absolute forefront of the athletics community. But there w ere m any others at the banquet w hose p a rticip a tio n w as eq u ally notable. For that m atter, there are th o u sa n d s o f stu d en ts at M cG ill w h o se p a r tic ip a tio n in v a rio u s activities deserve congratulations. U pon re fle c tio n on th e b an q u e t an d a w a rd s , th e T rib u n e w ould like im part congratulations to all o f M cG ill’s athletes.

season on high note B y M a n n y A lm ela

M cG ill runner T am bra Dunn was named Fem ale A thlete o f the Year last Thursday on the heels of h e r tre m e n d o u s sh o w in g at th e C IA U tra c k and fie ld N a tio n a l Championships on March 13. Tambra, a third-year m anage ment student, took home gold in the 3000m event, silver in the 1500m and she also anchoring the 4x800m relay team ’s first-place finish. The relay team’s time was also a McGill and Quebec record. T ra c k te am co a ch D en n is Barrett was very impressed with his team ’s fourth place showing at the CIAUs, and felt that Dunn’s perfor mance was a great way to end her running career at McGill. “She is a hard worker and was alw ays ready to pay the p rice in order to achieve her goals,” Barrett ex p lain e d . “It w as a p le asu re to work with her and she will be sorely missed next season.” A n o th er in te g ra l p a rt o f the 4x800m relay trium ph was Elaine Penny, a first-year physiology stu dent. H aving en d u red an in ju ry plagued season, the victory in the re la y w as ex tre m e ly g ra tify in g , Barrett noted. “She is one of the most devoted athletes I’ve ever worked with. I’m sure others would have given up on

the season with the types of injuries she had. I am very proud of her and look forw ard to w orking with her next year,” he added. The season was not without its pleasant surprises. Sarah Ali-Khan, a 24-year old post graduate pharma cology student from New Zealand, had n ev e r run b efo re co m in g to M cG ill. H ow ever, she developed into a key member of the relay team and added a second-place finish in the 1000m and a bronze medal in the 600m. “I owe a great deal to Dennis for believing in me and giving me a chance. It was a great experience and I hope to run again next year,” Ali-Kahn said. The final member of the relay team was Stephanie Welsh, a biolo gy and physical education student. S he also fin ish e d fo u rth in the 4 x 4 0 0 m and to o k hom e a silv e r medal in the 600m. “ S te p h a n ie w as v ery d e te r mined and worked incredibly hard this year. She didn’t mind putting in the extra work when necessary, that made my job that much easier,” said Barrett. Paul Drogaris of Montreal was also a standout by placing third in th e sh o t p u t. T h is se c o n d -y e a r physics major will be back next sea-

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September T he R edm en fo o tb a ll te a m su f fe re d its f irs t loss, d ro p p in g a ho m e gam e to th e w oeful Laval Rouge e t Or. T h e b r ig h t s p o t w a s ro o k ie D avid M cK innon's d e b u t p e r f o r m a n c e a t quarterback.

Udfôtfo T h e M cGill S e a g r a m S p o r ts S cie n ce C e n tre u n v e ile d its l a t e s t p ie c e o f th e r a p e u ti c e q u ip m e n t, a h y p e rb a ric ch a m b e r. T he fa c ility is u s e d t o im p r o v e h e a lin g t i m e b y e x p o sin g th e p a t i e n t to 2-3 a t m o s p h eres o f nearly p ure oxygen. 1] %

The Redmen soccer te a m opened up its re g u la r seaso n w ith a big win

Dorts] The Mirabel tennis club played h o st to McGill's first hom e event in its tw o y e a r s o f e x is te n c e . T he R edm en sp lit th e dual m eet, w in n in g easily over O ttaw a, b u t d ro p p in g a c ru c ia l m a tc h - u p to U o f Toronto. The event w as an organi zatio n al success b u t a critical loss fo r th e Redmen, w ho failed to quali fy fo r th e OUA finals. T h e R e d m e n ru g b y s q u a d crushed UQTR 47 7, a sign of things to com e for th e club team .

n m The M artlet field hockey team , p re v io u sly w inless, to o k M olson stad iu m by storm , w inning 1-0 over C arleton a n d tying T re n t 0-0. The sole hom e event w as th e highlight o f th e team 's season.

Gino Lalli led th e Redmen soc c e r te a m to a k ey v ic to r y o v e r B ishop s, g u a r a n te e in g th e te a m hom e-field ad v a n ta g e in th e divi sional playoffs. The te a m had lost its firs t o p p o rtu n ity to clinch th e b e r t h tw o d a y s e a r lie r a g a in s t

ov er l'U niversité de M o n tréa l 4 3. The win m ark ed th e first tim e th e R edm en b e a t th e C itadins d u rin g th e regular season in fo u r years.

H !® Six in d iv id u a ls a n d o n e te a m w e re in d u c te d in to McGill's S p o rts Hall o f Fame. Shag Shaughnessy, Phil Edwards, Flin Flanningan, Bobby Bell, Jack Gelineau, a n d Gladys Bean w ere added to th e six e n tra n ts o f th e inau gu ral year. The 1946 Redm en hockey team , th e la st to w in a national ch am pionship fo r McGill, w as th e inducted team . U D f tr ) T h e R e d m e n f o o tb a l l te a m dropped its th ird s tra ig h t gam e, 21-11 to th e Bishop's Gaiters. The hom ecom in g g am e's r e s u lt w as o v e r tu r n e d a few w eeks la te r w h e n Bishop's w as deem ed to have had an ineligible play

er on its team .

T a m b r a D u n n le d a s t r o n g M a r tl e t te a m to v ic to r y in th e w o m e n 's 5 k m c ro s s c o u n tr y m e e t h eld o n M o n t Royal. D unn, a th ird y ear veteran, placed second, vaulting th e te a m to to p spot. T h e M a r t l e t s o c c e r te a m im proved to 6-0 on th e season w ith a p air o f easy w ins over Concordia an d Bishop's. Q uarterback David McKinnon led th e Redm en football te a m to its first v ic to ry u n d e r h is co m m an d , a 35-14 tro u n cin g over a w eak Carleton team . Craig B orgeson c a rrie d th e ru n n in g load, ru sh in g fo r 153 y a rd s on 21 c a r ries.

T R IB U N E

October Concordia. C o n c o rd ia h e ld o f f a la te Redbird baseball charge to advance to t h e d iv is io n a l fin a ls . T h e R edbirds1se aso n en d e d a f te r th e te a m dropped th e gam e 5-4 in extra in n in g s. In its th ir d y e a r o f exis ta n c e , th e c lu b p o s te d a n 11-5 record. llf à tf ù l Both th e m en 's an d w o m en 's s o c c e r te a m s a d v a n c e d to th e Q u eb e c d iv is io n a l fin a ls . T h e M artlets squeezed by Sherbrooke 1 0, w h ile th e R edm en ro lle d p a s t C oncordia w ith a c o n v in cin g 3 0 win. T h e R e d m e n f o o tb a ll te a m m ad e a late fo u rth q u a rte r com e back charge to b e a t Concordia and a d v a n c e to th e p la y o ffs a g a in s t Queens. T h e n e w ly f o r m e d M a r tl e t Lacrosse te am to o k a bronze m edal in th e B division o f th e OLA; goal te n d er Tara Upshaw w as nam ed as a league all-star.

November

M o lso n S ta d iu m p la y e d h o s t t o th e M o n tr e a l A lo u e tte s . A fte r t h e O ly m p ic S tadium w as pre-booked w ith a U2 concert, th e CFL te a m packed McGill's bleachers. As a resu lt o f th e gam e's success, th e Als will play all th e ir hom e gam es h ere n ex t season. T he R ed m en so c c e r te a m r e a ff ir m e d th e ir suprem acy in Quebec soccer by clinch ing th e ir fo u rth stra ig h t cham pionship w ith a 3-1 w in over UQTR. The w in also advanced th e m to th e national to u rn a m e n t in Halifax. T h e M a r tl e t s o c c e r te a m lo s t t h e i r c h a m p io n s h ip g a m e a g a in s t Laval in a 2-1 overtim e h eartb reak er. Despite th e loss, th e w o m en still ad vanced to th e n atio n al to u r n a m e n t in Quebec City.

n m The R edm en soccer te a m proved to be fo u r tim e s lucky by w in n in g th e C anadian N ational C ham pionship T o u rn a m e n t w ith a 1-0 su d den -d eath sh o o t-o u t victory over th e heavily favoured UBC T hunderbirds. The provincial rugby title w as ca p tu red by th e Redm en te a m w ho su n k th e Bishop's G aiters w ith a h ard -fo u g h t 17-0 victory. The

w in earn ed th e te a m a trip to Victoria B.C. for th e first ever Rugby National Championships. T h e McGill ro w in g te a m c a m e h o m e fro m th e in au g u ral N ational C ham pionship R e g atta held a t th e U n iv ersity o f V ictoria. The m en finished fo u rth as a te a m w ith one silv e r m e d a l v ic to ry by th e h e a v y w e ig h t eights. The w o m en finished sixth as a te am w ith G eneviève M e rid eth w in n in g a silver m edal in th e light w eight singles event.

T he McGill R edm en ru g b y te a m cam e h o m e fro m a to u g h sh o w in g a t N ationals. T h ey lo s t b o th th e ir g a m e s to th e s tr o n g w e st co ast te am s of UVic an d th e University of Alberta, b u t gained valuable experience to build upon for n ex t season. Redm en hockey con tin u ed th e ir su rp ris in g s t a r t to t h e s e a s o n b y d e f e a tin g th e th ird ran k ed Guelph G ryphons 5-3 The w in im p ro v e d th e ir re c o rd to 6 1 a n d M earn ed th e team a national ranking.

T o ro n to . T a ra M ullins a n d Alex J o r d a n also tu r n e d in s tro n g p e r f o r m a n c e s , f in is h in g fo u rth an d fifth respectively. T h e M a r tle t v o lley b all te a m c o n tin u e d t h e ir e a rly d o m in a n c e o f t h e Q u eb e c le a g u e by d e f e a tin g th e C o n c o rd ia S tin g e r s in a s tr a i g h t s e t v icto ry . T he w in im p ro v ed th e te a m s record to 4 l on th e season, good en o u g h fo r firs t overall.

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Redmen soccer team: 1998 National champions

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Y e a r in r e v ie w February M artlet Volleyball secured second place overall a n d h o m e c o u rt a d v a n ta g e in th e sem i-final w ith a s tr a ig h t s e t victory over th e Sherbrooke V ert e t Or. 1 »

T he R ed m en a n d M a rtle t b a s k e tb a ll team s tu rn e d in th e ir season highlight p er form ances by defeating arch rivals Queen's. The w om en surp rised th e first place Golden Gaels w ith a solid 55-48 victory, w hile th e m en ro m p ed to a 73-61 victory in th e ir game. The McGill V ultures ski te a m continued th e ir stro n g season w ith th e w om en taking th e te a m silv e r a n d th e m e n ta k in g th e te a m bro n ze in th e slalom co m petitions a t M ont Gabriel.

January ICE STORM — e v e n th e M o n tr e a l C a n a d ie n s h a d t h e i r g a m e a g a in s t th e R a n g e rs c a n celled.

STM ) T he M a rtle t a n d R edm en tr a c k a n d field te a m s tu r n e d in a s t r o n g s h o w in g a t t h e M cGill

Invitational. The w o m e n finished second as a te a m behind W estern, w h ile t h e m e n f in is h e d a so lid fo u rth . As a team , McGill to o k sil ver behind W estern. The Redm en an d M artlet b as ketball te a m s co n tin u ed to s tru g gle in seaso n play as b o th sq u ad s d ro p p e d close g a m e s to Bishop's an d Laval. The McGill V ultu res ski te a m s t a r t e d o f f t h e i r s e a s o n w ith a bang as th e w om en to o k th e te a m gold m edal w hile th e m en took th e silver.

Martlet volleyball nails second place in Quebec §*ŒMÜ T h e R e d m e n h o c k e y te a m w o n a n exciting gam e over th e York Yeomen a t th e Red 'N' W h ite n ig h t. T he te a m ca m e b ack fro m a 3-1 th ird period deficit to w in 4-3. The Redm en sto o d in second place in th e overall standings. The M a rtle t Volleyball te a m d e fe a te d C o n c o rd ia w ith a s t r a i g h t s e t v ic to ry to m ain tain th e ir second place stan d in g ahead o f U de M.

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The M artlet an d Redm en squash team s b o th e a r n e d b ro n z e m e d a ls a t th e te a m OUA ch am p io n sh ip s held in Ham ilton. The th ir d place fin ish es w e re so m e o f McGill's b est ever.

Quebec track an d field. The C oncordia S tin g ers end ed th e Redm en hockey season w ith a 1-0 m ini g a m e w in to clinch th e b e s t o f th re e sem i final. T he M a rtle t v o lley b all te a m s u f fered a devastating semi-final loss to U of M. The te a m w as un ab le to close o u t a tw o se t lead allowing Les Citadins to take 3 straig h t sets for th e victory. Both th e Redm en an d M artlet b as k etb all te a m s h a d th e ir p lay o ff h o p es dashed w ith losses to Bishops an d Laval.

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M a rtle t sw im m e r C arol C hiang w o n tw o s ilv e r m edals in th e 50m a n d 100m f r e e s t y le e v e n ts a t t h e N a tio n a l C ham pionships in Sherbrooke. A b ro n ze m edal w as clinched by th e w om en's 4X200m relay team . The McGill trac k an d field te am finished first overall in te am standings a t th e provincial cham pionships. The te a m w on a total o f 23 m edals in p ro v in g th e y a r e still th e d o m in a n t fo rc e in

Carol Chiang travelled to h e r hom e to w n o f W in n ip eg to c o m p e te in th e Canadian Spring Nationals (a non-univer sity event). Chiang w on a silver m edal in th e 100m freestyle an d is subseq u en tly ranked 20th in th e w orld in this e v en t W

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overall. T am bra Dunn led th e way, w in ning tw o golds an d a silver. The Redmen eq u a lle d th e ir fin ish fro m a y e a r ago w ith o n e b ro n z e m ed al fin ish by Paul Drogaris. The Vultures ended a stro n g season w ith a second place overall finish. In th e fin a l e v e n t th e R edm en ca m e seco n d w ith th e M artlets finishing th ird a t Le Relais

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com bine. B oth p la y ers tu r n e d in solid perform ances w ith Chahine expected to go high in th e CLL Canadian college draft.

m m T a m b r a D u n n tr a v e lle d to M arrakesh, Morrocco, to com pete in h er f i r s t e v e r W o rld C ro ss C o u n try C h am p io n sh ip s as a m e m b e r o f T eam C anada. D u n n fin ish 4 3 rd o v erall in a tim e of 13:30, leaving h e r only 10 seconds behind th e to p Canadian. T h e M cGill f ig u r e s k a tin g te a m stag ed th e ir only h o m e p erfo rm an ce in dazzling fashion. Several hu n d red people show ed up to w atc h b o th co m p etitio n an d exhibition routines.

Sam ir Chahine and Dan Pronyk trav elled to W in n ip eg fo r th e a n n u a l CLL

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N H L playoffs: som e sure things to look forward to By Paul Futhey

The Tribune sports section is not n oted fo r its fo ra y s in to the w orld o f professionals. B ut now, with the university season complete, we somehow have to fill this section. There are less than two weeks to go in the NHL season and now the real games begin...kind of. After all, only 16 teams remain. The regular season slate com prising 82 games o v e r n ea rly sev en m o n th s now m ean s n o th in g . T h a t is, u n le ss you’re a big Tampa Bay Lightning fan. The first round will definitely see some excitement, but don’t hold your breath when say Detroit faces off against whatever fodder has been deemed their first round opponent. Predictions in this type of thing are a bit o f jo k e . I t’s a com plete crapshoot. There may be greater a probability that things will happen

one way, but other than that, nothing is for sure. For example, I know that New Jersey has a better chance than, say, A naheim to win the S tanley Cup. But here are some things I’m more sure will happen in some form or other in the next two months.

Coaching theatrics If you think these guys spazz during the regular part of the year, you haven’t seen anything. A dis agreement over an official’s call, the o pposing c o a c h ’s ta ctics, or ju s t plain frustration are enough on any given night to send the man in a suit and tie into a boiling rage. Definite entertainment, although he’ll proba bly do something he’ll regret. Most likely to spazz: Pat Bums. Some say the Bruins’ coach is older and ca lm e r, b u t h is p a st p e rfo r mances leave one thinking he’s just saving it up to unleash on some poor

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Trash talk Generally, hockey players don’t hold a candle to basketball or foot ball players in this respect, but it’s still fun to listen to them attempt to string sentences together in the con sta n t g am e o f o n e u p m a n sh ip . Usually, this bashing occurs in the media. M ost likely never to shut up: P a tric k R o y . T he C o lo ra d o Avalanche goalie is never afraid to speak his mind and with a DetroitColorado series very possible, h e’ll be an oft-quoted man regardless of how' his team’s playing. He may be cocky, but he has the accom plish ments to back it up.

Upsets It’s called burnout. It’s almost a given that they happen. Two years ago, D etroit made a big deal about winning the most games ever during the regular portion o f the season. U n b e a ta b le , m o st th o u g h t, but Colorado made them look very ordi nary in the playoffs. So, it’s all about peaking at the right time. The last team to win the Stanley Cup and the regular season title was Calgary in 1989, so striving to win virtually meaningless games near the end o f a seaso n looks ex trem ely silly. M o st lik e ly to g et u p se t: A

Continued from page 21 son with high hopes after winning team M V P at last w eek ’s aw ards banquet. “Paul worked hard this year and continues to improve,” Barrett adds. O ther notables from M cG ill’s fourth-place team include B rigitte Bigras, who finished fourth in the

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Whining Similar to trash talking, it hap pens when players, coaches or man agem ent blam e other factors for a team ’s poor play. Usually look for it from players whose teams aren’t in the action any more.

n ig h tly c o v e ra g e fo r n ea rly tw o months — a serious hit for the hock ey fan in dire need of a fix. It’s the tim e o f y ear w here w e get to see Peter M ansbridge’s forced smile as he states that he is getting preempted by Ron and Don, although one could argue they have far more interesting things to say. Expect Mr. Cherry to show o ff his w o rld ly k n o w led g e every two nights. The hot topic this year, I suspect, will be his undying love for the Canadian flag and his utter hatred for the Bloc Québécois. F O X ’s a m a te u r c o v e ra g e , I believe, will be around for part of the first round, and aside from the fact they might be showing a more appealing game, the obnoxious com mentary will make it hard to watch. Observe a true statement: A n n o u n c e r 1: It m ak es you wonder why they don’t ju st keep a guy at the other end of the ice. Announcer 2: Um, that would be offside. Announcer 1: Oh. I h av e no T aro t cards, O uija boards, tea leaves or crystal balls. I’m convinced of the fact that vastly m ore people are wrong than right w hen it com es to predicting these things. On the off-chance I might be in that latter group, though...Flyers in six o ver the A valanche. H appy viewing.

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Controversy Events will not unfold smooth ly. This time of year, with so much at stake, mistakes by officials will be overanalyzed and the officials them selves should expect ticking pack ages in the mail from overzealous fans should they err. Most likely thing to cause con troversy: that stupid in the crease rule. T his p articu lar p roduct o f a brain cramp dictates that if any part of an opposing player’s body is in the goal crease, the goal gets waved off. It doesn’t matter what a ref does in this case because the rule stinks to begin with. It’s farcical seeing the referee, who should have the final say, on the phone upstairs to a video re v ie w e r, w h ile ev e ry o n e in the building waits for the decree from some nerd squinting at a monitor.

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The five year veteran of the McGill swim team had an outstanding 1997-1998 season. Chiang capped off the year with two silver medal performances in the 50m and 100m freestyle races, and a bronze medal as part of the 4x200m freestyle relay team at the CIA U nationals. Chiang demonstrated all year that she would be a force to be reckoned by winning 23 of the 30 races in which she com peted. At the Canadian Spring N ationals in Winnipeg, Chiang established herself as one of Canada’s and the World’s best swimmers in the 100m freestyle by winning a silver medal and earning a 20th place ranking internationally. Congratulations Carol on an outstanding season and good luck in the future.

The five year veteran offensive lineman for the Redmen football team capped his final season with a trip to the CFL combine. The 6 ’ 1, 295 pound senior was named an All-Canadian for the third consecutive season and received the honour of being named lineman of the year at the annual football banquet in spite of having switched positions after last year. Chahine played an integral role in protecting diminutive rookie quarterback David McKinnon last season, and will be leaving a big hole for coach Charlie Bailie to fill. Congrats to Samir; good luck in the CFL.

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We know that exams are coming up, and though they are not nearly as difficult as our sports quiz, we have decided that we should allow our readers to study for finals. Therefore, we have no new questions for you this week. However, you can grade yourself on last weeks quiz with the answers below.

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1. Michael Jordan’s scoring average in his rookie season was a whopping 28.9 points a game, the best ever. 2. The last golfer to repeat as Master’s Champion was England’s Nick Faldo. 3. The current number one on the ATP tennis circuit is Chilean Marcelo Rios who earned the spot by winning the Lipton International two weekends ago.

1. The McGill football graduate from the ‘96 team who was drafted to the CFL was Ryan Coughlin. 2. Carol Chiang was recently ranked 20th in the w orld for the 100m freestyle after winning a silver medal at the Spring Nationals in Winnipeg (a non-university event). 3. The McGill intercollegiate teams with full-time coaches are the Redmen hockey and football teams.

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T h e F a r c e T h a t Is J o u r n a lis m at th e M cG ill T rib u n e T h e M c G i ll T r i b u n e , a s p e r t h e i r m i s s i o n s t a t e m e n t ( S S M li P o l i c y 5 . 2 ) . e x i s t s s i m p l y t o “c o m m u n i c a t e i n a f a i r a n d a c c u r a t e m a n n e r t h e a c t i o n s t a k e n b y a n d a c t i v i t i e s o f m e m b e r s a n d o r g a n i z a t i o n s o f t h e S o c i e t y . I n a n e x a m i n a t i o n o f t h e T r i b u n e 's c o n t e n t t h r o u g h o u t t h e y e a r, o n e c a n n o t c o m e t o a n y o t h e r c o n c l u s i o n b u t t h a t , u n d e r t h e l e a d e r s h i p o f S a ra -Je a n G r e e n , c u r r e n t E d ito r-in -C h ie f. t h e T r i b u n e h a s u t t e r l v f a i l e d in i t s a t t e m p t t o f u lf i ll i t s m a n d a t e .

Where is the Tribune’s Accountability?

T h e c o r n e r s t o n e t o a n y d e m o c r a c y is f u n d a m e n t a l l y t h e a c c o u n t a b i l i t y o f a n o r g a n i z a t i o n t o i t s m e m b e r s . F o r e x a m p l e , o r g a n i z a t i o n s s u c h as th e S tu d e n ts ' S o c ie ty h a v e o f fic e r s , w h ic h

h a v e b e e n e le c te d b y th e ir r e s p e c tiv e c o n s titu e n c ie s , a s w e ll a s h a v in g g e n e ra l

r e p r e s e n t a t i v e a s s e m b l i e s w h i c h s e n e a s a c h e c k a n d b a l a n c e . I n c o n t r a s t , t h e v e r y n a t u r e o f m e d i a is o n e i n w h i c h t h e r e is e s s e n t i a l l y a o n e w a y f l o w o f i n f o r m a t i o n a n d it is f o r t h i s r e a s o n t h a t t h e m e d i a m u s t e x e r c i s e it s p o w e r w i t h e x t r e m e c a u t i o n . A n y l e g i t i m a t e m e d i a v e r if ie s a n d c r o s s - r e f e r e n c e s its s o u r c e s i n o r d e r t o e n s u r e t h e in te g r i t y o f its n e w s a n d s h o u ld e x e r t s u p e r i o r j u d g e m e n t in d e t e r m i n i n g w h a t f a lls u n d e r t h e c a t e g o r y o f n e w s . " O t h e r w i s e , it b e c o m e s a n e d i t o r i a l o r g o s s i p c o l u m n . T h e T r i b u n e h a s f a l l e n s h o r t o n t h i s p o i n t . T h e r e a r e m a n y e x a m p le s o f th is e d ito r ia liz e d jo u r n a lis m th r o u g h o u t th e y ea r.

“An\r legitimate media verities and cross-references its sources.The Trib has fallen short on this point. 2

. The Tribune is riddled with Inaccuracies and Misrepresentation

T h e r e a r c n u m e r o u s i l l u s t r a t i o n s h i g h l i g h t i n g t h e T r i b u n e 's i n a c c u r a c i e s a n d m i s r e p r e s e n t a t i o n o f t h e f a c t s . T h e f a c t t h a t a j o u r n a l i s t p r e d e t e r m i n e s t h e c o n c l u s i o n o f a s t o r y b e f o r e t h e y a s k q u e s t i o n s is a d e m o n s t r a t i o n o f u n a c c e p t a b l e r e p o r t i n g . O n e e x a m p l e , o u t o f m a n y of" t h e T r i b u n e ’s f a c t u a l e r r o r s is d e m o n s t r a t e d in t h e D e c e m b e r 2 n d l a w s u i t w e r e w r o n g . It a c c u s e d t h e S S M l

is s u e w h e r e s e v e ra l fa c ts s u r r o u n d in g th e D iffe re n tia l T u itio n F e e

o f n o t h a v i n g p r e s e n t e d th is c a u s e t o C A SA u n til O c to b e r , w h e n in f a c t a p r e s e n t a t i o n w a s

m a d e in J u n e , v e r i f i e d b y t h e f a c t t h a t m a n y l e t t e r s o f s u p p o r t w e r e p o u r i n g i n t o S S M l

b y S e p te m b e r . W h e r e d id t h e T r i b u n e g e t its

i n f o r m a t i o n ? W h y d i d t h e y n o t a s k q u e s t i o n s t o v e r if y t h e i r f a c ts ? F o r a ll o f i t s r i d i c u l e o f t h e D a il y t h i s y e a r , t h e T rib h a s n o n e t h e l e s s b e c o m e a le s s r e li a b le s o u r c e o f a c c u r a t e in f o r m a ti o n .

“For all of its ridicule of the Daily this year, the Tribune has nonetheless become a less reliable source of accurate information.” 5.

The T ribune reveals its own Political Agenda

It is m o r e u n f o r t u n a t e w h e n t h e T r i b u n e r e v e a l s a p e r s o n a l a g e n d a . T h i s w a s m a d e e v i d e n t in t h e M a r c h 3 1 s t i s s u e o f t h e p a p e r o n t h e is s u e of A w a rd s N ig h t.T h is s to r y ta r n is h e d t h e r e p u ta tio n o f t h e c o u n tle s s v o lu n te e r s w h o s e tir e le s s e f f o r ts a re r e s p o n s ib le f o r m u c h o f t h e s t u d e n t lif e a t M c G ill. It a l s o c a l l e d i n t o q u e s t i o n t h e l e g i t i m a c y o f t h e a w a r d s a n d . in e f f e c t , d e v a l u e d t h e w o r t h i n e s s o f t h e m e r i t s o f th e n o m in e e s .

T a c k i n g t h o r o u g h i n v e s t i g a t i o n , t h e s e " j o u r n a l i s t s ' n e g l e c t e d t o m e n t i o n t h a t it w a s S S M l

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p r o c e d u r e a n d w a s n o t a n e x e c u t i v e a b u s i n g h i s p o w e r , W h y w o u l d t h e T r i b u n e lav b l a m e w h e r e it d o e s n o t b e l o n g a n d r e p o r t t h e s e f a l s e h o o d s ? T o r w h a t p u r p o s e ? F o r a s e n s a t i o n a l i s t h e a d l i n e o r t o m e e t a n o t h e r p o l i t i c a l o b j e c t i v e ? M e l r o s e P la c e '" - s ty l e j o u r n a l i s m is c e rta in lv u n b e c o m i n g o f a s t u d e n t p u b lic a tio n .

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“Let's hope that the Tribune editorial board will put an end to its proven irresponsibility and rid itself of inaccurate and accusatory reporting." It is c l e a r t h a t t h e T r i b u n e is a v ita l c o m p o n e n t t o s t u d e n t lif e a t M c G ill: h o w e v e r , t h i s v e a r it h a s b e e n i n e t f e c tiv e .it b e s t . I l o p e fu lly , t h e n e w T rib u n e

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