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Three fires in as many weeks at Currie Gym By Paul Futhey A series of fires caused by roof construction at the Currie Gymnasium has raised safety con cerns about the job the workers were doing. In the last three weeks, three separate fire-related incidents have forced building evacuation. It apears that the nature of the roofers’ work facilitated the ignition of the blazes, due to the high flammability of the material. The first fire, on the night of September 23, was a three alarm blaze. Although not proven, it is believed that the fire was caused by the explosion of some propane tanks, whose contents were used to help seal the roof. The second fire, five days later, was caused by a blowtorch leaning against a wooden door. Despite its being put out right away, the fire's smoke found its way to a smoke detector and fire crews were summoned once again. Finally, the third fire, on October 5, was another three alarm blaze that was caused by a missed overheated area igniting the roof. This recent rash of events has raised concerns, specifically among those who hired the contractors. The morning after the third blaze, the administration promptly met with the contractors to investigate the issue. Some at the meeting, Principal Bernard Shapiro among them, wanted the construction to halt immediately. "The principal was very con cerned," affirmed Athletics Director Robert Dubeau. "He wanted assur ances that there would be no more fires on the roof. He wanted work to cease until such time that he could be guaranteed and the university could be guaranteed that we would not have any more incidents." The administration made it clear to the contractors that safety was not going to be compromised. Only after a substantially beefed up security squad was added, which would provide round-the-clock-vig

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ilance, was the work allowed to continue. Dubeau felt the extended mea sures were sufficient so that the roof, a $350,000 project, could be finished while ensuring the safety of the gym's occupants. "We put in enough safety fac tors," stated Dubeau. "We ended up having 15 additional safety supervi sors working on the roof. We then agreed that we would let the job fin ish so that they would be able to leave and that we would get them out of our hair." Due to the advanced stage of the roofing project, which re-roofed the entire facility except for the fieldhouse and the area above the swimming pool, it was judged to be detrimental to discontinue the work and find others'to finish the job. Thus, work restarted on the after noon of October 6 and finished yes terday, later than the proposed deadline. The delay was due to inclement weather. "It was going to take us two weeks to find someone else to finish it," Dubeau explained. "We couldn't leave the roof in the condition it was because some parts were exposed." While the work has now been completed, there is lingering suspi cion about the repeat incidents. A1 Grazys, facilities and equipment manager for the gym, acknowl edged the volatility in the roofing material, but still thinks more care could have been taken. "I was very disappointed," said Grazys. "I stated before and I'm not ashamed to state it again — I really feel the workers are being careless. They should have been a lot more careful considering the work they're doing." Réal Tessier, executive director facilities management, the com pany which contracted the project, downplayed the incidents, calling the first and third fires "two little accidents." He also stated that he felt the workers were diligent in C o n tin u e d o n p a g e 5

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Coming off consecutive blowout losses to Queen's and Bishop's, the Redmen were in dire need of a vic tory in order to maintain their play off aspirations. With the loss, how ever, McGill no longer controls its own destiny. Even if the Redmen manage to win their two remaining games against Laval and Carleton, a play off berth is not assured. These diminishing prospects are quite obviously sobering, especially for those veteran Redmen in their last season of eligibility. "That's a hard one to lose," said 5th year veteran linebacker J.P Darche, who finished the game with 9 tackles. "For me it's my last year and I really want to make the playoffs; I don't want to finishf my career playing a meaningless game against Carleton. "As a team we played well on both sides of the ball, but they made the big plays when it count ed. That's been the story of our sea

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With a spot in the playoffs up for grabs and Global television doing the broadcast, the hype sur j rounding the annual Shaughnessy Cup matchup between cross town rivals McGill and Concordia on j Saturday was at an all-time high. Living up to its advanced billing, the game saw both teams ready to play, resulting in a high intensity level on the field and | excitem ent in the stands at Concordia Stadium. In the end, it was the pre-game | favourite Concordia Stingers squad \ which emerged victorious, outlast ing the feisty Redmen 30-21. The | important victory snapped the Stingers eight-game losing streak versus McGill and vastly improved their chances of making it to the post season. Despite putting in a valiant effort, the Redmen were under standably dejected after the loss.

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SSMU unveils new constitution B y S t e p h a n ie L ev it z

After almost a year of debate and planning, and at a co st of $25,000, the Students’ Society of McGill University has unveiled its new constitution. Last fall, SSMU retained the consulting firm of KPMG to look into restructuring the Society in order to better serve students. Former VP Finance and current President of SSMU, Duncan Reid, drew heavy criticism last year when he signed the contract with KPMG without first ratifying it in council. However, now that the KPMG report has been submitted, and changes are being made both to the constitution and the general opera tions of SSMU, Reid is pleased that his efforts last year were not in vain. “None of these changes in terms of the constitution, changes to portfolios, and the by-laws to reflect a direction to serve students better could have happened without this process,” said Reid. “It was guided by someone with legitima cy, who was not politically moti vated.” The consulting process began with a steering committee com prised of a variety of students and former students who had experi ence on SSMU and in student poli tics. The ‘steering committee met with KPMG consultants to air their

views on SSM U and suggest changes. KPMG took these recom mendations and made a formal report to SSMU and its Y 2 com mittee, which reviewed the report and made the changes. Reid

R eid : New constitution File Photo to o k h ou rs o f w ork stressed the fact that KPMG was not directly responsible for the changes, that it was an effort by Y 2-S S M U to implement their ideas. “No one wanted this to be KPMG making recommendations,” said Reid. “Y 2-SSM U took the report and had several long meet ings where we beat it all to death.

Our goal was to make sure these recommendations made sense from every angle.” The end result was that Y2SSMU and the steering committee reached the same conclusions on what modifications were necessary, something that Reid was pleased with. “When you have two separate groups of twelve or thirteen people, highly experienced people who can agree, seeing these groups agree shows how much legitimacy the changes have since they have now been passed twice,” he stated. For now, the only visible changes are those that have been made to the constitution, which will not come into effect until next year, after they have been ratified by students. Changes to by-laws and policies will slowly apply over the course of the upcoming year; the report itself will serve as a ref erence document for future SSMU councils. "The constitution changes are the foundations of the document," said Reid. "The rest of the docu ment is for future reference, to pro vide initiative and ideas for poten tial execs." The new constitution will be discussed at a special SSMU coun cil meeting being held this week and ratified by the student body in the November referendum period.

Although the majority o f changes to the constitution are minor additions with respect to policy or descriptions, there are afew alterations worth noting. OLD: The old constitution provided for five executive positions on council: President and VPs of Finance, Internal, External and University Affairs.

NEW: International students will now pay the full Student Society fee. OLD: There was no mention of the General Manager of SSMU, who plays a key role in the daily management of the society.

NEW: NEW: The reorganization will include six The powers and duties of the General executives plus a non-member trea Manager are clearly outlined. surer. •The position of VP Finance has been OLD: replaced by the position of Treasurer, If any member was not at council, who will sit on council as a non-vot they couldn't vote. ing member and not part of the exec utive. NEW: A VP Operations has been added, Proxy voting has been instituted, to who will cover much of the same allow decisions to be made by the ground as the former VP Finance but executive council over the holidays. on more of a managerial level. VP External has been renamed VP OLD: Government and Community At the end of their term, the old exec Relations. utive was not required to let the ■The position of VP Internal has been incoming executive know of any deci split into two newportfolios called VP sions that were made prior to April Clubs and Services and VP 30. Communications and Events. ' •VP University Affairs and the role of NEW: the President remain unchanged. The outgoing executive is now required to notify the incoming presi OLD: dent of executive committee motions International students were only prior to their approval. required to pay 64 per cent of student society fees.

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A motion for the installation of a new computer system in the Students’ Society of McGill University office was unanimously ratified last Thursday by SSMU council. SSMU VP Finance Lorenzo Pederzani put forth the motion, arguing that the existing computers are outdated and problematic. “It is very clear to me... that we have a lot of problems with the computers, which not only costs us a lot of money in terms of having to fix the computers [but]... -it is costing us money in terms of pro ductivity,” said Pederzani. “It has been costing us money because, recently with the excessive server crashes, we’ve been having situa tions whereby some of our accoun tants and our volunteers have been losing days of work at a time by nullifying all their records for that day.” The total cost of $39,603.32 includes the installation fee, one new server, and 19 new worksta tions. This expenditure will be

fund in the future will be subject to consideration by the Financial Affairs Committee according to changing demands and modifica tions in network administration. Phase three of the plan detailed the expansion of services that the new system will provide. Improving the SSMU home page, Clubs and services to enabling SSMU clubs to check their bank records on-line and benefit coordinating on-line voting during £ / f e e l th a t t h e r e is a t e n elections were among the services The installation of a new net d e n c y to l a u g h a t t h e f a c t work was only one phase in a envisioned under the plan. t h a t t h e S S M U a n d M cG ill “I feel that there is a tendency three-phased proposal presented by a re te c h n o lo g ic a lly b a c k Pederzani. Phase two of the plan to laugh at the fact that the SSMU will extend the services of the new and McGill [are] technologically w a rd s. network to SSMU constituents, backwards or behind and we can potentially providing more SSMU not offer the same services that the — VPFinance Lorenzo Pederzani clubs, services and publications other universities may look up to,” with free e-mail and Internet Pederzani emphasized. “I really The new network will be access. To enable SSMU con don’t think that this is something installed and administered by the stituents to get connected to the that needs to stay the way it is.” University Bytes computer store. new system, an Internet Service Pederzani quelled concerns over Provision Fund was proposed — the disruptions the transfer of com $2500 from this year's operating puter networks would have on budget would be allocated to it. Both the creation of the fund SSMU daily workings by assuring and the dollar amount were that the effect would be minimal. “The workstations will be approved by council. However, the installed and configured over a amount to be earmarked for the ISP

drawn from the SSMU Capital Expenditure Reserve Fund. The CERF exists to fund long-term assets and to help acquire capital assets that cannot be supported by the SSMU Operating Budget. According to SSMU council, the purchase of the new computer sys tem clearly fits these two man dates.

weekend," he explained. "We should only experience about a half a day of downtime on the Monday when the account assistant repre sentative comes in and transfers the information from the old server onto the new NT server.”

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The Canadian Federation of Students is launching their Days of Action campaign across the country next week to protest against rising post-secondary tuition fees. Although SSMU is affiliated with CFS's rival student organization, the Canadian Alliance of Student Associations, it has voted to support the princi ples of quality and accessibility of post-secondary education that underlie the Days of Action. "The demands we put for ward seem to be in accordance to what SSMU considers legitimate demands. If its possible for two student groups to work together, it will make the student movement stronger in Quebec," said Benoit Renaud, co-ordinator of CFS. Activities include a mass demonstration October 15 and a camp out on the front lawn of the James Administration Building on October 14. According . to Anna

Kruzynski of the McGill Action Committee, the group organizing the camp-out, the "tent-city is a way of taking back our campuses" and will be a form of "consciousraising where people can come and sit by the fire and discuss the issue of fully funded post-sec ondary education." B udget P lanning G roup

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For the first time, McGill's Budget Planning Group, tradition ally composed of senior McGill staff, will have a student represen tative. At the beginning of the Students' Society of McGill University's mandate, President

Duncan Reid approached McGill Principal Bernard Shapiro con cerning the addition of a student representative to the group. At the same time, Post Graduate Student Society President Steve Cohen met with Shapiro as well. The two student societies were given the go-ahead to choose a representative. Reid was chosen from a list of appli cants. "It has always been a long term priority of SSMU [to get rep resentation on BPG], said Reid. "It has always been unattainable and although it was a courageous move on [Shapiro's] part, more is needed. But it is good to see stu dents finally included at the begin ning of the budget process."

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McGill students protest CP development in National Park B y F r ed S a c e l

A proposed decision to build a convention centre along the pristine shores of Alberta's Lake Louise propelled hundreds of protesters across the country to demonstrate in front of dozens of Canadian Pacific Hotels last Monday. About twenty McGill students marched out to the CP-owned Queen Elizabeth Hotel in protest of CP's proposal to construct a 156,000 square foot, seven-story convention centre adjacent to its current Lake Louise resort in Banff National Park. The non-violent show of solidarity included hand ing out information flyers and post cards addressed to the Prime Minster outlining concerns about the development project, as well as speaking to locals and hotel guests about the issue. According to Katy Mamen, one of the co-ordinators of the Montreal protest and a McGill stu dent, the Montreal rally in front of the Queen Elizabeth was small, but effective. "We didn't have as much media as we had hoped but we got a lot of public interest from people who were fairly surprised about what's going on," said Mamen. The cross-country demonstra tions were organized by Banff Environmental Action and Research Society and the Bow

Valley Naturalists. Both envi ed one million dollars in con ronmental groups assert that the structing a new water sewage construction will have danger facility and plans to spend ous consequences for the twenty thousand dollars in a ecosystem and aesthetic appeal local transportation study." of the Lake Louise area. Despite these assurances, "Wildlife in Banff is under environment groups are calling a lot of stress and is facing an for at least a more rigorous ecological deficit. Scientists environmental assessment to have issued warnings about the be passed which will take into disastrous effects the conference account the cumulative effects centre would have on sewage of ecosystem damage. Watson and water systems," said is concerned that conducting Ricardo Hubes, a senior official low-level environmental at BEAR. assessments will set a prece Mike Watson, the other co dent in this case, which could ordinator of the protest and a have devastating consequences McGill student, concurred that for the ecosystems of future the CP proposal will only put parks development sites. pressure on an already fragile "Canadians want their ecosystem. parks protected — we want to ''[There are] issues [like] maintain the visitor experience increased demand from electric as worthwhile," said Watson. ity supply, which in Alberta is Although Watson conced about ninety percent coal, the ed that it is too early to see Catherine Farquharson P rotestors g a th e r in fro n t o f Queen Elizabeth Hotel additional demands on the water the impact of the protest, supply, and the fact that Lake deemed essential. BEAR and the CP's development plans will have Hubes is optimistic about the Louise is already over-populated Bow Valley Naturalists are launch no adverse effects on the environ results of the pan-Canadian day of with over one million tourists at ing a court case against CP and ment. She claims that CP has ful action. peak seasons," stated Watson. there is currently an injunction on filled all environment legal require "These types of movements Although the CP proposal has development of the site. ments and has spent years studying are always effective when running passed a basic screening, it has of "All development in Lake negative effects as well as consult a campaign of national importance yet to undergo a comprehensive Louise must be basic and essential ing various public interest groups. — we've succeeded in making peo environmental panel review as stip and for that reason they haven't "We have no interest in ple aware of the issue," he stated. ulated by Canadian Environmental allowed a school or hospital to be destroying the parks. Our facility Assessment Act. Furthermore, built or any other development of [will be]... located on sub-alpine according to the Banff Park the area," said Mamen. land and we will actually be con Management Plan, no development According to Ann Layton, VP tributing to a net environmental can occur in the park unless it is of public affairs for CP Hotels, gain," said Layton. "CP has invest

Are you concerned about the state of the McGill ghetto? Would you like to get involved in the community? The SSMU is looking for two coordinators of the McGill Student Ghetto Residents' Association. Please submit resume and a cover letter 3u ' < ,. . ■ tO: Jeffrey Feiner, Vice President External Affairs, William Shatner University Centre. Submissions due by Thursday. October 22

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(U -W IRE) BERKELEY, Calif. — In an unprecedenled and controversial move that could affect the future of university research and development, the College of Natural Resources announced last Friday that it has agreed to a research and funding alliance with an undisclosed phar maceutical company. The college, which has been plagued with a declining budget since 1992, entered bidding with leading manufacturers of pharma ceuticals early last week and con structed an agreement that would lead to the exchange of research information and a $25 million investment. Under the proposed plan, the private biotechnology firm will have publication rights and other bargaining rights to influence research performed by Berkeley scientists within the college. Because of its magnitude and unique conditions, the deal will set a precedent in fund-raising within both the private and public sectors. "It provides overhead sharing as well as significant funding for other projects that will serve public good — nature and societal impacts," said Gordon Rausser, dean of the College of Natural Resources. "What is unique about this deal is that it is unrestricted." Rausser said the deal will pro vide researchers with unrestricted and non-directed research, as well as provide the university with the chance to utilize valuable research developments. He added, however, that the collaboration is only "“xpSIÙ ment" and a number of "exit claus es" have been created in case the deal becomes unfavourable to the college. "We take the notion of this being an experiment very serious ly," Rausser said. "We are no longer a public university, we are a public-assisted university." ex c e r p te d fr o m the Daily Californian, Scott Loganbill C o m p u t e r g l it c h f o r c e s H a r v a r d s t u d e n t c o u n c il TO VOID ELECTIONS

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failure. "The Undergraduate Council's election commission takes respon sibility, but it was an unforseeable problem that we couldn't do any thing about because of the situation with the computer system that we use," said Noah Z. Seton, co-chair of the election commission. HCS President Carl P. Sjogreen said the voting failure was a result of the lack of adequate documentation and support for the program. "The HCS initially did not deliver a program that was main tainable by the U.C., and the U.C. accepted a program that they knew they could not maintain," Sjogreen said. When problems with the pro gram occurred in past elections, the HCS designers were available to troubleshoot, council vice president Samuel C. Cohen said. But the designers graduated last year. The election commission's first roadblock occurred ten days ago when it could not split student data into the appropriate databases. The election was delayed a day while HCS helped the council write a new program to split the data. The problems that eventually corrupted the election results did not surface until after the election began, however. When voters tried to submit their ballots, they received an error message preventing voters from submitting their ballots. The council worked with HCS to fix the program to run the cur rent election, but said the they would hire someone, not necessari ly from HCS, to fundamentally redesign the program before the next election. "It can be salvaged for the purpose of getting this Council elected, ' Cohen said. "We're having someone come in

— excerpted from the Harvard Crimson, R achel P. Kovner and Barbara E. Martinez R y e r s o n TO INITIATE GRAD STUDIES

Ryerson University is on the verge of its final step towards full acceptance as a insititution for higher learning in Canada. Three graduate degrees are being planned and approved by the school, the first ever for Ryerson. Communication and culture, spatial analysis and environmental man agement will become the first pro grammes offered. The first two grad programs will be run with York University and the University of Toronto. Ryerson first gained status as a university in 1993, allowing it to create a graduate studies program. July 1999 will mark the creation of a school of graduate studies. If Ryerson’s master’s and doc toral degrees are approved, they will “put us on the map as a fullfledged university,” said Ryerson’s A ssociate VP Academic Rena Mendelson. The school expects to accept between 75 and 150 students into the three programmes once they begin operations. — with f i l e s Ryersonian

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their task. When asked if he thought the recent spate of fires was unusu al, Tessier replied, "[unusual] is an interesting word to use." “We were very unlucky,” he concluded, referring to the high number of fire alarms. Fortunately, repercussions from the incidents appear to be min imal. Total damage, which will be paid by the roofers' insurer, was

things," he continued. "We learned that our staff does a good job by getting people out of the building, the people in the building cooperate by getting out when it’s time to get out.” With the project now finished, all involved are confident there will be no more mishaps. "I'm quite sure that this is the last time," Tessier emphatically stated.

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estimated by the fire department at $18,000, with some of the damage coming from fire crews breaking windows and doors in the process of putting the blazes out. According to Geoff Phillips of Campus Recreation, intramural pro grams have been affected only slightly, with about 15 to 20 games forced to be rescheduled. Dubeau acknowlegded that some positive results have emerged from these recent events. “There are some positive things, if one can put a positive spin on a couple of fires happening in the building,” he pointed out. “It could hoy- uêèn worse.” "You always learn from these

Grazys echoed those state ments, but a little more cautiously. "Considering they're having all these inspectors and heat sensors and so on...yes. But if you went on the roof and saw the torches [the workers] were working with and if somebody was careless...these things do happen.” Dubeau said he and his staff would be relieved once the roofing was complete. "We'll be very happy once the fiddlers get off the roof," he com mented drily.

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E D I T O R I AL “Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.” — J o s e p h A d d iso n

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The word reading, in relationship with the word student, conjures up images of course packs or hundred dollar textbooks — never novel, nor newspaper. The response of any first year student to the question "how are you finding your classes?" is often "I can't believe there is so much reading." By the end of a semester, a student will have digested close to one thou sand pages of articles, textbook material and class notes. The chances that students will have read anything other than their required course material (if they read that at all) is slim. Maybe a newspaper to check out scores or movie listings, maybe a magazine in the waiting room at the doctor's. The purpose of a university education is to improve one's mind and skill in an academic fashion in order to be more knowledgeable about a chosen field. Classroom lectures and readings complement each other in such a way that a student will finish a course fully learned about its sub ject from an academic standpoint. But what of the non-academic? All the hype in the media about peo ple who can't name two Canadian authors or the current Foreign Minister is a direct result of people not reading. Sounds surprising if one takes into account the sheer volume of pages that a student will read over the course of a post-secondary education. However, said student may never have read a novel by a Canadian author, or taken a course in Canadian politics to be able to answer either of those questions. It is a given that not all education comes from the classroom. In ele mentary school, it may be that in the classroom a child learns to write, add fractions and speak another language, but reading is the way that imaginations are developed, how vocabulary improves and how social concepts are taught. Children absorb lessons from books without realiz ing what it is they have learned — they are drawn in by the pictures or the storyline and come away with much more. There is no golden rule that says that once one hits university the imagination should stop devel oping or the vocabulary should stop evolving. But for many students, the concept of reading for pleasure is an oxy moron. The argument against it is that there is no point reading a novel or a paper if it doesn’t apply to a course. Reading for pleasure is a waste of time because it isn't necessary to know what is in that paper or in that ! book. A counter argument -— 15 It necessary to know what happens on Beverly Hills or the score at the end of the Canadiens game? Of course not, but to lean back on the old cliché, the more you know, the better off you are. This applies to reading as well. Reading a newspaper to find out current events is necessary; it is always in one’s best interests to know the state of the world in which one lives and will eventually work. Reading a novel about alien life on Mars is also necessary — the continuous development of the imagination leads i to more creative thinking and overall intelligence that can only be an asset, not a liability. Reading is the true interactive medium. You can pick up or put down a novel or a paper whenever you feel like it. The ideas aren’t sloted into a half-hour period and you don't have to pay for excess reading j time. Reading can be an escape without constraints. Books allow your mind to act out its wildest fantasies without consequence. Reading will teach you the subjects your major ignores. Reading can solve curiosity, give solutions to problems or just inspiration. Reading can be intimate à la Pretty Woman in the park. Reading can be informative — does gum really stay in your stomach for seven years? Reading will let you get inside the heads of other people, and might just help you sort out yours. What was the last book you read?

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This is a letter addressing my concern for the future of McGill’s academic strength in the communi ty of international universities. McGill has an excellent reputation throughout the world as Canada’s premier university. Truth tells that we all want to preserve this reputa tion by securing it to merit, and the question then becomes how best to achieve this goal. Students are among those who directly benefit from the university the most. The latent benefits of the university go to the professors and staff who get paid for their involve ment, and society as a whole for having a more educated populous. However, it is a fair assertion to make that the students receive the greatest benefit. It becomes hard then for me to understand SSMU’s lawsuit against the Quebec government. It seems publicity hounds like Paul Ruel are concerned that it is “unfair” for out of province students to pay more than Quebec residents. To me, the distinction is purposeful and justi fied. While Quebec taxpayers sup

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port a low cost price of education for their residents through their hard work and taxes, they also pro vide well for out of province stu dents by only charging them tuition fees that are approximately the same as the national average. Thus, SSMU should be clear about its goals, especially as they did not conduct a survey to actually find out how McGill students feel about the issue. It could conceivably be SSMU’s goal to make Quebec stu dents pay more, whereby achieving “equality,” but at the same time doubling the cost of tuition for about 60 per cent of the student body. The distinction in fees is almost irrelevant to me as an international student. What I find abhorrent is the under-appreciation that students give to the value of their education. It is more political ly correct these days to whine about how expensive university is than to appreciate how expensive it is to not attend university. If educa tion is the key to our liberty, then we should be grateful as students to

get so much at such a low price. Students often have the misconcep tion that they will be in debt for the rest of their lives the more expen sive a degree becomes. While this may be superficially true, it is also true that if we all paid nothing the university would wither into a pile of unrecognizable rubble. Quality comes with a price. McGill professors and teach ing assistants are among the lowest paid in Canada. If we expect con tinued quality education, then we need to start asking how we can pay more for our education and not less. Whether a student is from Vancouver, Quebec, Boston, or Toulouse, he should appreciate the fact that the Quebec government is providing such a great education at such a reasonable price. Crying over who pays more and who pays less detracts from the more serious issue of how we can all pay more to ensure the future strength of McGill University.

The irony of Mr. Retyi's Polka dot door-styled suggestion (given no doubt with more than a hint of condescension) to "keep on read ing" his piecemealed classics, is that it fails to acknowledge the existence of Mr. Retyi's prolific writings. Mr. Retyi's obvious zeal for textual creation far outweighs the desire o f his audience to fully digest such masses of material. Think about it. If we, mere English Lit Students, were to attempt this tremendous undertaking of reading seemingly the endless flow of gism (to keep with our masturbation analogy) including columns, the SSMU Handbook, letters to the editor, as well as the admittedly somewhat amusing Red Herring,

-Jeffrey Mead Kurzon U3 Sociology

Change is possible Dear Editor: Despite the somewhat incom prehensible rule-based form of his Stop the Press (Things I Learned from Yes, Minister!- October 6) in response to my own article of September 30, Damion Stodola raises several current and topical issues. On these points he is both right and wrong. Firstly, Mr. Stodola's state ment that the SSMU President's job description lacks definite duties and powers is entirely correct. The result is that any President who wants to be effective needs to culti vate teamwork. The President sim ply does not have the choice of act ing autocratically without support. Mr. Stodola, as the Student Societyfs Political Research Officer in 1995-1996, has seen the effects o f Presidents who refuse to acknowledge this reality. But I, for one, wouldn’t have it any other way. There is no ques tion that a team of motivated and knowledgeable committee mem bers can achieve much more than any one executive acting unilateral ly. The proof, as they say, is in the pudding: On the very day that Mr. Stodola's article was published, I released the proposed new Constitution for the SSMU. This Constitution, and the long-term plan underlying it, are the products of thousands of hours of challeng ing work by C ouncillors, club executives, faculty executives, stu dents, and myself. When I remarked in my Ideas page submis sion of September 30 that propos als for concrete change would be forthcom ing, I was not being “eq u iv otal,” as Mr. Stodola charges: The new SSMU

Constitution addresses the SSMU's problems vis-à-vis communication, operations, and clubs and services support in very positive and direct ways. Secondly, Mr. Stodola inter estingly chooses to reflect very negatively upon the ongoing chal lenge of enhancing student repre sentation within the University. In his opinion, further representation is unlikely given that the Students! Society failed to prevent the University from withdrawing the P resid en ts voting seat on the Board of Governors in 1996. Mr. Stodola would be much more knowledgeable than I with regard to the details of that specific case, given that he was the political advi sor to the Executive Committee when the seat was lost. I can say, however, that Mr. Stodola's broad concern that I, or any other President, will be unable to make any headway in gaining better representation in the University is unfounded. As of this week, I am a member of the Budget Planning Group of the University, which is the committee that proposes financial strategies for the University. Until now, this highly secretive committee has been strictly off-limits to students, but through hard work on our part and that of the Post-Graduate Students’ Society (PGSS) execu tive, I will be the first student member. Having a student at the heart of McGill’s budget process is a considerable advancement in the state of student representation within the University, and as such constitutes a significant develop ment in our relations with the University. In the end, it is unfortunate

we would be forced to abandon our studies — for onlv then could we attain a full understanding of Rich Retyi’s experience. The point, Mr. Retyi, is not that your writing sucks (though most of it does), it's that the M cG ill community is plainly and simply overwhelmed by your gargantuan output. We understand that your thirst for public recognition requires that you be reluctant in advertising "Freedom of the Press" as a public forum, but please for the love of God, man! Step aside! (And by the way, what's with all the American propaganda? McGill may suck, but it’s still in Canada, isn't it?) Eagerly awaiting your reply,

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that Mr. Stodola believes that ideas and successful action are so anti thetical to student leadership. One would have thought that such a belief would have prevented him from becoming as deeply inter twined in the politics of the SSMU as he once was. Despite such embittered attacks, however, I will continue to express my belief in the ability of students, and student executives, to achieve meaningful and consequential change.

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Thanks for the cafeteria turkey and the day off I ’ve always thought that Thanksgiving was underrated as a holiday. It appears, seemingly out of nowhere, in the middle of term just when you need a holiday most. Like a little beacon of light, Thanksgiving shines through the madness of midterms pro viding not only a vacation to look forward to, but an excuse to pour gravy on everything without feeling guilty, and the permission to sit on the couch and watch football all day as well. When you went away to univer sity, in case you didn’t notice, Thanksgiving lost some of its glam orous charm. The holiday was for scrambling to catch up on all the work you neglected for the past six weeks (convincing yourself that nothing was due until later, realizing too late, that later is now). Thanksgiving became just another day for homework. At home Mom roasted turkey and baked pumpkin pie, while at school, you picked your way through Miraval’ s cafeteria turkey surprise and (if you were lucky) some form of a pumpkin-ish pie. Although the food may have

been disappointing, it was reassur ing to know that turkey or no turkey, McGill students still found special things to be thankful for. This past week, I decided to venture out onto campus and be a roving journalist. Interrupting studying, lectures and

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beer drinking at Gert’s, I asked stu dents, “with Thanksgiving approaching, what are you most thankful for?” My “harvest”, so to speak, of responses, was both inter esting and, although a little scary at times, very insightful. Most respons es were witty, some were heart warming, and still others made me thankful that my faculty is way up the hill away from main campus. I compiled the results of my extensive “research,” and this is what I found. What are McGill students really thankful for you ask? It isn’t Mom’s pumpkin pie, that’s for sure. To be fair, most of the respons es which I received mentioned

something about family, friends or health. Although many students at McGill are still thankful for their Moms, Dads and pets, most were more thankful that they no longer lived with them. Personally, I think my parents are thankful that I no longer live with them. In keeping with the tradition of giving thanks for the wealth of the har o e s vest, many responders were thankful for their special comfort foods. For the majority of us who no longer reap our fields (or live at home), our “har vest” essentially consists of what Loblaws has on special each week. It may be turkey and stuffing, or it may be Kraft Dinner and Mr. Noodles. The foods students said they were most thankful for; coffee, Poptarts, poutine, and Labatt Blue. Being thankful for beer obviously goes without saying, but remember, this is McGill, and if we want to continue to receive funding (or the occasional construction of say, a sta dium,), let’ s keep in mind that around here it’s a little more politi cally correct to be more thankful for Molson. What’s food without a little

entertainment? One female student said she was thankful for the free cable she is receiving accidentally at Videotron’s expense, while a male student wrote that he is just thankful for cable TV in general; however, as I am writing this, I realize that per haps he wasn’t referring to the basic channels. Other students said they were thankful for 15 new episodes of Party of Five. Myself, I ’d be more thankful for zero new episodes of Hollywood Squares. A lively table of students at Gert's was unanimously thankful for the “fill in your name and phone number” matchbooks now available at our student pub. Isn’t technology grand? There’s no need to be thank ful for a lousy tom napkin to write your phone number down on any more; at McGill we’ve taken “pick ing up” to a more technically advanced level. Perhaps this is why a surprisingly large amount of stu dents said that they were thankful just to be studying at McGill. Maybe they really do have a deep apprecia tion for the place, but let’s be hon est, aren’t we all just thankful that we’re not studying at Concordia? Some management students I spoke to said they were thankful to have their own separate building on

campus. Curiously, the science stu dents sitting nearby were also thank ful that management is kept isolated. I was thankful that a fight didn’t break out. The future accountants were also thankful that they were actually going to get jobs after they graduated and well, none of us could argue with that. As I left the Shatner building, an elated student ran past me, telling me that she was thankful to have purchased the last ticket for the train back to Toronto. I convinced myself that I hadn’t heard her correctly, and that what she was really thankful for was the return ticket which would get her out of Toronto. Nobody, I thought, could be that thankful for Ontario. There you have it. Whether it was a parking space on campus, senile profs or the days when the “opera guy” is not in Peel Metro, McGill students really had some interesting differences in what they were thankful for. So, you ask, what am I thankful for? Despite myriad possibilities, when it comes right down to it, I’m just thankful you actually read this column.

A misstep in Duncan Reid's journey to immortality What politicians want most is to be remembered. It doesn't really mat ter what they're remembered for, but they all want to leave a stamp on the organizations they lead. Mucking around with constitutions is a good way to do that—even though the constitution of a student organization is ignored (if not actually lost) as soon as someone new takes over, the name of the man or woman who cre ated the most recent version of it is guaranteed to stick around for years. The fact that constitutions are routinely ignored also means that it's very difficult to really screw them up. There's no significant mechanism to enforce their terms, so if they include dumb things, it's no big deal.

President Duncan Reid is looking to reform SSMU’s structure, which is good news. That led to Duncan’s initiative to get renowned consulting firm KPMG to advise SSMU on how to serve students more effectively. Now that the report has been delivered and published, the evidence strongly suggests that that was a really bad idea. KPMG’ s $25,000 report includes the following vision state ment:

—Providing value-added ser unreasonable to expect the average vices to the student population at student to have a clear idea of exact large; and ly what’s wrong with SSMU’s struc —Providing representation, on ture that makes it so often behave behalf of students, to select organiza like a spastic elephant. That’s fair tions. enough. But the people who have These objectives will be met by being a proactive student society providing excellence and high wquality [sic] service in everything S littin g T h r o a it does. David Reevely That’s a competent and quick summary of SSMU’s M lü ta î functions, but it’s tarted up OUR VISION in corporate language, which is real taken turns riding the pachyderm and SSMU shall be a co-ordinating ly what we all need less of. failing to control it might not be in umbrella organization dedicated to How’s this for a vision state the best position to determine the the following two objectives: ment: precise extent of the damage it has “SSMU subsidizes student wrought. recreation and gets in the way if In a nifty and notably corporate McGill tries to make student life tactic, the report never indicates who harder. And it does a good job, too.” said what. Anonymous quotations in The committee that came up the report variously express the with the nonsense version, facilitated beliefs that: by the high-priced help, included "SSMU is 1st and foremost a such McGill luminaries as Don political body NOT a service." McGowan (the notoriously combat "SSMU should get out of pro A IR P O R T S T A N D B Y F A R E S ive former VP-University Affairs viding any commercial services." ONE WAY FARES - M O N TR EA L to: who almost single-handedly brought "There are no significant com SSMU to a grinding halt in mercial services offered by the soci TORON TO VANCOUVER CALGARY 1996-97), Sarvesh Srivastava (the ety (except the food services which dimmest VP-Internal in recent mem are substandard)." ory), and Taryn Tomlinson (the for Includes tax $14.20 Includes tax $35.70 Includes tax $33.24 Meanwhile, the report proposes mer president of the Engineering to enhance the health plan, improve F L IG H T S C H E D U L l - M O N T R E A L (D O R V A L ) D E P A R T U R E S Undergraduate Society, who’s best the campus pub (in part by introduc O C T O B E R 1998 known outside her faculty for her ing "movable food carts that move at TO M ON TU ES W ED TH U RS FR I SA T SU N bitter hatred of the Plumbers' night in GERT's"), and consider Faucet). What's missing are any, you establishing a copy centre, a coffee 0 9 :3 5 0 9 :3 5 0 9 :3 5 0 9 : 3 5 0 9 : 3 5 2 1 :5 5 TORONTO — 1 7 :5 5 know, regular students. The closest shop, and a Canada Post franchise. 1 8 :5 5 thing the committee had to real peo The KPMG report includes four 0 9 :1 5 0 7 : 5 0 0 8 :0 5 — 0 8 :1 5 — — VANCOUVER ple were former SSMU Speaker “strategic priorities.” They are to 0 7 :5 0 CALGARY — — — — — — Mark Bissel, who had to watch the “Increase [SSM U’s] support for mess while trying to remain removed clubs and services”, “Increase focus from it and Lorraine Law, who's on effectiveness SSMU operations AIRPORT STANDBY FARES: Aresubject toavailable seatspriortodeparture. Passengers mayregister 2 1/2 hours prior tothescheduleddeparture of flight. Foresoresubject tochangewithout notice. Trovel heavily involved in the various vol [sic]”, “Improve two way communi ononyspecific flight isnot guaranteed. Payment (Coshor Credit Cordonly) must be mode ondeparture. unteer activities SSMU has to offer. cation with students”, and “Improve One way travel only. Schedule subject to change without notice. They’re mostly smart people, prioritization and focus on represen but they’re all insiders. There’s a tation services that will benefit bubble that surrounds the upper ech McGill students.” elons of student politics at McGill Basically, it cost us $25,000 to R eliable ♦ A ffordable "ttA ir T ravel and everyone on the committee is have a dozen student leaders behave inside it. Duncan argues that it’s like grown-ups long enough to

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decide what they’ve been doing wrong all these years. According to Duncan, it’s taken about fifteen hun dred hours of time, all told, to do what any moderately alert student could have done in an hour. Granted, there’s some more detailed business about the things that need to be done. It’s not very ts helpful, though: “Develop a marketing plan to pro mote SSM U,” which should be done using the SSMU website, the Saturn system, and “newsletters,” which needs to be done by 2000. As if the real problem with SSMU is that nobody knows about it, or that its production of paper documents is too low. It might be worth noting at this point that when I asked for a copy of the report at the SSMU desk in the Shatner building, nobody knew what I was talking about. The SSMU’s new Directional and Strategic Plan is a silly docu ment, the product of a nutty process. Its only effect is to put on paper everything that’s obvious to anyone who spends a moment thinking about what goes on in the Shatner building— with the legitimizing stamp of a grown-up consulting firm. There’s very little that’s actually wrong with it, but it’s a colossally expensive way to state the obvious. It’s been used as the basis of a series of meetings to redraft the SSMU constitution, the old version of which is, of course, wildly out of date. That’s a worthy undertaking, and if it’s done properly, Duncan Reid will deserve the few years of fame it will buy him. It’s also too important to let it be spoiled by the foolishness of the KPMG undertak ing. It’s too bad, though, that SSMU is so myopic in its self-evaluation that it took a $25,000 push to get the ball rolling.

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Thanks ForWhat? A Canadian Conspiracy Uncovered Monday was a national holi day in Canada, a holiday that goes by the name of Thanksgiving. Some people claim that the Canadian Thanksgiving is becom ing increasingly more and more Americanized as the years go by. This alarms many Canadian patri ots. It shouldn’t. We stole the damn thing. Are we so pathetic that we can't come up with holidays of our own? Thanksgiving is not ours. Never was and never will be. Our neighbours to the south invent ed it to honour the day a band of American Indians fed the intrepid pilgrims upon landing in the New World. They served a pile of good food and the pilgrims didn't starve to death and everyone was happy, though they usually don't stray into tales of the ensuing slaughter and land rape. Regardless, Americans do have a legitimate reason to cele brate Thanksgiving. What claim do we have to it? Our fore-fathers didn't have to beg the natives for food. They were a pack of adven turous Brits tired of the rain and double-decker buses of London and Smithwick. Those would-be Canadians packed heavy and had plenty to eat before, during and after the clubbing, shooting and stabbing of the Indians and the French. No turkey feast on silver platters for us. They were thankful for being a naval powerhouse, giv ing them plenty of room belowdeck for mead, grog, and ammuni tion. So why exactly do Canadians celebrate a holiday called Thanksgiving on the second Monday of every October? Just like McDonald’s, General Motors and drive-by shootings, everything invented in the United States even tually makes its way across the largest undefended border in the world and into our kitchens and dining rooms. In 1957 the govern ment of Canada realized that they had a dilemma. Victoria Day was becoming a complacent show of outdoor grilling and amateur pyrotechnics, Christmas was too cold to fully appreciate and nobody knew why there was a Canada Day. Reform was called for. Canada needed another holiday. After careful research of international celebrations and cus toms it was narrowed down to three choices. The first two ’involved drinking lager upside down while

eating Bratwurst and drinking a lot of beer while burning life-like mannequins of Guy Fawkes in effi gy. The third, and eventual selec tion, was a blatant rip-off of a pop

had made a legitimate reason to celebrate Thanksgiving, Parliament had to set a date for this joyous event. In their infinite wisdom they chose the second Monday of

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October in each year to give the impression that, because the Canadian Thanksgiving fell on the calendar before the American one, we in fact invented the sacred day. The rest is history. So next time you're at your uncle's, Grandma's or wherever you spend Thanksgiving, take a good look at the bounty before you and admit you're an imposter. Admit your holiday is a fraud. Admit that this is just an excuse to take a day off work. Unless of course you are a citizen of the United States of America. Then grab a drumstick or a piece of pumpkin pie and go kill something.

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C ategories an d archetypes: an analysis o f an n o y in g p e o p le In an ideal world, everybody is different and unique in his/her own right. This is what is sup posed to create diversity and intel lectual growth between people and make our lives interesting. In the ideal world, people don’t fall under groups or archetypes because nobody is the same. However, such an ideal world does not exist, and peo ple do fall under categories and archetypes. These are two of the most common and annoying types of people, that are especially common in Universities. The first archetype is one of the more dangerous kinds, because he/she appears to have great wisdom and intelligence. This is the chronic bullshitter. The chronic bullshitter is typically a male from ages fifteen to fifty, and who has only accomplished one great thing in his otherwise mediocre life. He will spin tales of abilities he used to have and adventures he once had, but is unable to continue with his great life because he is working on some amazing project that nobody else can see. Typically this person will fool you into thinking that he is wise, when he gives you advice, that in the end, all comes back to how amazing he is. Spotting the chronic bullshit ter can be difficult, because all the references the chronic bullshitter makes to himself are very subtle, and on subjects that very few peo ple are even remotely familiar

with. Usually they make up fig ures that don’t sound right, or their information cannot be cross checked as it is obviously flawed. Generally if the information does n’t sound right, or you’ve never heard anything, that the chronic bullshitter is telling you before, chances are that it’s plain and sim-

they’ve been poor long enough to not like it, it’s always easy to say you don’t need money when you have a lot of it. This type of per son is very easy to spot by the punkish clothing, the numerous facial piercings and the multi coloured hair, that signify confor mity to a non-conformist group of people. Rich homeless people eventually grow up and become regular working class parents with children, but in the D a v id S c h a n z l e interim they simply waste resources. The one common ply false. thread running through both of If you hear comments like these archetypes is that they are all “With the way I modified my car, very confident that what they are it gets 100 kilometres per litre”, “I talking about is correct, further can play all the Van Halen songs, more they believe that all other but I can’t now because I forgot”, opinions are wrong, thus they rep I got accepted to this prestigious resent powerless totalitarians who music school where you can get have shallow cause that they can your masters degree three years all rally behind. These archetypes out of high school.” Comments very rarely contribute anything like these are difficult to disprove useful or even tangible to society, and not worth the effort. If you they’re simply interested in mak suspect somebody of being a ing you think like they do. The chronic bullshitter, simply go best way to deal with these types along with whatever he is telling of people is to go along with them you, as it doesn’t help to argue as in conversation while knowing nobody else cares whether or not full well you don’t agree with the person is right. them. In the end this is the quick The other type of annoying est way to get rid of these people person you are very likely to come who don’t know what they are across in any first world nation is talking about. Always remember the rich homeless person. that these people go on to live Typically a young person who lives of mediocrity, or they will comes to the belief that he/she eventually grow up and become doesn’t need money and can live a like the rest of us. life of begging, philosophical dis cussion and some form of protest. This group almost never includes people who were born poor,

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It's all Greek to me: going beyond the everyday myths E x p lo r in g t h e w o r ld o f s o r o r i t i e s a n d f r a t e r n i t i e s a t M c G ill U n i v e r s i t y beer, but meeting new people is replied, “it really doesn’t happen that someone'gets high on the list.” N a o m i H a m e r _________________ Luke Ploski, a U2 English lit left out in the cold. It During a meeting at a college erature student, became a member hasn’t happened in a newspaper last year, the editorial of Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity while.” When pressed to board was approached by a frater last year. “It was very casual, it just give a reason why some nity wanting to run an ad to publi happened,” he recalled. “There was one might get rejected, no pressure to join, it was just a Gross explains that “if a cize one of its parties. pledge doesn’t get on with “We can’t accept it,” was the bunch of cool guys.” Ploski thinks the reason many all the girls, and she’ s consensus response. “Fraternities join is that the Greek system “pro really uncomfortable, then are elitist, sexist, hierarchical and she’s just not going to like even racist.” A storm of “isms” vides a family away from home.” it.” Ken Masters, U2 Management flew around the office before the ad The consensus student and president of Lambda was rejected — the argument being seemed to be that if you Alpha Chi, never thought he would that if the ad were printed, the show up at Orientation, newspaper would be subtly endors join a fraternity. “I had a lot of bullshit notions check out the frat/sorority ing the principles of the fraternities. and stereotypes. I really never saw houses, and pick one, get The principles, the ed board agreed, were terrible, even though myself that way.” After he was along with everyone and everyone admitted to not knowing invited to the house and got along make an effort to get to much about fraternities or how they well with all the guys, he decided know as many as people :n reward- as possible, you’re in. :e work. ys are my Attempts to nail down ing 111 a le » . These Fraternities a prorities exactly what the formula to them.” ins for most brothers, Ll§el that clc ger a range of as it all kinds is proved impossible. C ornJjj stressed people: beer chjpgingHports ph Rory Hochman, a U2 that there f girls joiiglororities j ing, thick nec^ra^ffl^^d gigj Cultural Studies major a typical f tyJSr. “I ’m well groomecjjrirls with g o ty hj ity 'gWp-she mat lined. “In and member of Alpha In m oviesJTOe ReveK%& of*Nerds and Animal House, the ath first year I had an eyebrow ring and Epsilon Pi, says that “we letic fraternity boy with biceps for multicoloured hair. 1 had to tell my determine as a group what brains is worshipped and envied as friènds: do you think I would be they would need from us, he simultaneously fondles a brain- joihiag a sorority if it was really what we can give them, T h e h o u and what they could give less, breasty sorority girl with one stupid? Look at me! us. We consider a lot of stuff, but ters concurred, emphasizhand and a beer bottle wi it the idea of a generic mass basically, if they show initiative other. Negative and extreme cuts and Gap t-shirts is not and interest, and they meet every types include excessive al “We are very diverse racially, one, then they’ ve got a good intake, violent and bizarre isly,” he claimed. “We are chance.” tions, discriminatory pracfic ILwhite-boys club.” homophobic and misogyni S te re o ty p e th re e : iour. However, most of our l r e o t y p ’e t w o : fr ie n d s a t a p r ic e mation about fraternities and soror th e s e le c tio n p ro c e s s ities comes from our southern One thing that might make the neighbours. But what goes on at The selection process. A mys Greek system inacessible to a stu the nine fraternities and five sorori terious one, based on nebulous cri dent is the sizable financial contri ties at M cGill? The truth is not teria and potential rejection. Trying bution pledges are expected to what we expected. Although it’s to figure out what gets someone make if they “go Greek.” All mem impossible to describe each sorori into a fraternity or sorority is a dif bers of official fraternities or soror ty and fraternity on campus, the ficult task. To begin with, the two ities have to pay fees to their chap Greek system here is a tame one at procedures differ greatly. Getting ter. These fees vary. For Kappa best. into a fraternity seems less struc Alpha Theta, the fee is roughly tured than becoming a “sister” — $600 a year. For Lambda Chi S te re o ty p e o n e : generally, if a male finds out about Alpha, $480. The frats and sorori a frat, gets invited to the house, and ties have payment plans and will t h e p e o p le gets along well with everyone, then help out with paying fees for those who need it. Danalee Burrows, member of he’s in. Berrill has a problem with the The process of getting into a Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority and mandatory fees. “It’s like you’re sorority is more complex. A girl president of the Panhellenic paying for friends. The Women’s Council, the organization which must visit all four houses before Union, for example, is a communi she narrows down to her two governs the four official sororities ty where people can meet people favourites, and on “Preference at McGill, is not a stereotypical voluntarily with like interests with sorority girl. An international stu night,” a process of “mutual selec out paying.” Maggie Smith, anoth tion” occurs. Samantha Gross, dent from England, she joined a sorority because she thought “it Rush Chair for Kappa Alpha Theta, er staffer at the Union, doesn’t “want to pay hundreds of dollars to would be a great way to meet peo as well as vice president finance for be in a sisterhood.” the Inter-Greek Letter Council, an ple when you are new to the area.” “The fees are really unfortu organization that promotes the wel Katherine Cornett, president of nate in that they might keep some Kappa Alpha Theta, joined a soror fare of sororities and fraternties at people out,” admits Cornett. “But a McGill, admits the procedure is ity because of family connections, lot of campus organizations, like and found that it was a great way to complex. “[It] is very complicated, but they do have to choose us. It’s sports teams, make you pay a fee.” meet Montrealers. “My older sister was a Theta: mutual.” Margo B errill, a U2 Art C o m m i t m e n t t o s e r v i c e I was from Calgary and knew noone when I came here,” she said. History major and Women’s Union Burrows laments the negative “About 75 per cent of the people in staffer, dislikes the possible rejec tion component. “[It] is just awful. conception of the sorority scene, my sorority are from Montreal.” Cornett stressed that most join With a sorority, you have no idea stressing the generous spirit of its members. “Philanthropy is a cen for very different reasons. “One of why they might reject you.” Gross stated that it is unlikely tral part of the McGill Greek sys the first reasons is definitely tem,” she claimed. social,” she explained. “Not social for someone to be rejected. “It happens rarely,” she in terms of frat boys, parties, and By M

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A b r ie f lo o k a t c u r r e n t p a tte r n s , tr e n d s a n d d e v e lo p m e n ts T a k e a d v a n t a g e o f a ilin g c o u n tr ie s — tr a v e l s t e a l s in A s ia The Asian economic slump continues to provide opportunities for cheap trips for tourists who want to take advantage of the countries’ precarious financial stale, says a recent article in Time magazine. Utell International (www.utell.com), a booking agency that represents 7,700 hotels around the world, is offering up to 51 per cent off regular room rates at 14 hotels in China and Hong Kong. A night at the Harbour Plaza Beijing, for example, costs just $85: Hong Kong’s Whamey Hotel is $103 a night The promotion, which runs until November 30, includes bonuses like meal discounts and free airport transfers. The government-run “Let’s Go Indonesia” campaign has shopping pack ages in Jakarta from $35 a night and a Central Java package starting at $40 a night And in the Amazing Thailand Grand Sale, from Nov. 15 to Dec. 15, stores nation-wide will offer discounts of between 20 percent and 80 percent on everything from Thai silk scarves and Armani suits to pottery andjewellery. Travel without ethics can be such a blast! G r e a t n e w s f o r d r a m a q u e e n s : c r y i n g 's g o o d fo r y o u A recent article in Mademoiselle noted that crying is good for your health. Research suggests that emotional tears contain stress-related chemicals, which may build up and need to be released. In The Language o f Tears, Jeffrey Kottler, Ph.D. compares crying with going to the bathroom: “a natural means of waste disposal.” Tears also act as an antiseptic for the eyes and membranes in the throat and nose. Moreover, tears might make you feel better physically. Tears contain the natural painkillers called endorphins. When you ciy, some tears drain into your nose and are re-absorbed. They may be the body’s way of medicating itself, speculates William H. Frey ff, Ph.D., a tear expert of Regions Hospital in St. Paul, Minnesota. By the way, women are far more apt to cry than men. Frey estimates that women ciy 5.3 times a month, men 1.4 times.

E m b r a c in g th e n a tu r o p a th w ith in — C a n a d ia n s s a y y e s t o a lte r n a tiv e h e a lth According to a recent article in Alternative Medicine maga zine, interest in alternative medicine is booming in Canada. The arti cle cited figures from a survey conducted by Maclean's magazine and CBC News. The poll found that 57 per cent of respondents had received treatment at least once from a chiropractor, massage thera pist, acupuncturist, naturopath, homeopath, midwife, or aroma ther apist. Of these, 40 per cent had consulted a chiropractor and 25 per cent had seen a massage therapist. The poll also reported that 47 per cent of respondents have become more “receptive” to alternative medicine since 1992 while 21 per cent had “lost faith” in it: 25 per cent said they would trust a herbal remedy over a prescription drug. The poll also reported that Ontario, Manitoba and British Columbia enjoy the widest acceptance of alternative medicine.

S a y in g n o t o M c C la s s r o o m s A recent article in Maclean's magazine asks the pressing question: is the brand-name classroom an inevitable by-product of the fund-raising frenzy on Canadian campuses? Maybe not. Ï II I L The University of Victoria is thinking of bucking the trend. Seven companies, including the Royal Bank and Merrill Lynch, donated $125,000-plus gifts to the school and were promised a named classroom in the new Centre for Innovative Teaching in exchange. But at last week’s board of governors meeting, students expressed their discomfort with what they How to handle inheritances called “McClassrooms.” University President David Strong Avoiding family feuds offered an alternative: the creation of a donor wall, engraved The baby boomers confront theii mortality with their names. If that doesn’t work, then Strong told the te s t governors that each corporation must replace its company name with that of an individual of their choice. A concession, but one the students seemed to be pleased with; when Strong brought up the donor wall option, students in the audience cheered loudly. A partial victory seemed better than no victory at all.

Building homes and hopes in the greater community B y S im o n F in l a y s o n

"Building homes and building hopes" is the aptly conceived slo gan of Habitat for Humanity. The organization describes itself as working to improve the number and quality of housing in North Am erica. Eight months ago, McGill created its own chapter, becoming the first university in Quebec to be a member. Without financial assis tance from gov ernment agencies, several sem iautonomous groups operate in d e p e n d e n tly throughout North American urban centres. With Canadian branch es in Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto and M ontreal, chapters are uni fied by the com mon communitari an goal of provid ing homes and building commu nities for the eco nomically disad M o n t r e a l D i e t vantaged. "[U niversities provide] an excellent setting for involvement as there is an abundance of inter est, potential and idealism among students," explained a representa tive from the HFH. HFH was initially brought to McGill by U 3 architecture student

Sherry Poon after her experiences with C ollegiate C hallenge, an HFH sponsored program that brought together volunteers from all over the country to a small community in St. John's, Newfoundland to build five hous es in five days. "[It was] an amazing practical experience and opportunity for diverse people to work together towards a common goal," said

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Poon, in reference to her stay in the Martimes. Although pioneered by archi tecture students such as Poon, HFH M cG ill has expanded to include members from all facul ties. This enables students from all facets of university life, many of

whom possess valuable architec zation, funding, labour, designs ty with those who have no home to tural, engineering and managerial and even some of the electrical return to when the chilly week is over. Hoenwarter hopes that ulti skills, to actually use their talents work. mately, the week long outside of the lecture hall. camp-out will raise According to HFH McGill awareness about the member and U3 architecture issue on campus. student Mike Hoenwarter, ”[We hope to] the organization helps stu connect M cG ill stu dents get beyond "the super dents with the greater fluous confines of the Montreal community McGill campus.” and familiarize them Currently, HFH McGill with the fact that a lot is working in of people are not as c o n ju n c t i o n fortunate," said with the Hoenwarter. Montreal Diet Although respon Dispensary, a sible for their own non-profit orga fund-raising, the nization which M cG ill chapter is offers nutrition closely tied to the al counselling larger HFH Montreal as well as food B l u e p r i n t f o r s u c c e s s : organization. Located to citizens in H F H b u i l d s h o m e s f o r t h e p o o r in P ointe-C laire, need. The two Montreal's chapter of HFH was Hoenwarter explained how groups are working towards the renova constant communication between founded several weeks after tion o f a day care, the two groups is essential in both McGill's but maintains a sibling kitchenette and office the construction itself as well as in like relationship with the campus chapter by providing for its legal in the vacant base forging strong community links. "The people who design the and licensing needs with the help ment of a building at the intersection of plans work in close conjunction of a network of local profession Lincoln and Atwater with the [Community group]," he als. HFH M cG ill is perennially — just west of cam said. "As well, we have a back and forth relationship with the builders seeking out any students who wish pus. to volunteer their time and efforts. Apart from the and the workers." Hoenwarter urges not just rocket Without government or pri foundational work, McGill students involved in the vate financial support; HFH scientists to apply but any students project will collaborate with mem McGill is reliant upon fund-raising who hope to build communities bers of the community towards the as its sole means of raising rev and experience "the gratification completion of the project in four enue. Currently, members are of having done something good." F o r m o re in fo rm a tio n on to five weeks. Although plans planning a week long on-campus must be approved by the involved "camp-out" in November to raise H FH or to let them know abou t community group, HFH McGill both pledges and awafeness potential projects, contact HFH aims provide much of the organi through a symbolic act of solidari McGill at 845-1882.

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Women's Union and Blood Sisters open mic and mind Women's Union, Amy Twigge, explained the goals of the evening. On a performance scale, it was not unlike any other "The main goal tonight was open mic night — there were to raise awareness and to get the moments of gripping talent Women's Union and [Blood and there were moments Sisters] out of some sort of worse to watch than an excep scene," she said. "There's a big tionally painful episode of The gap between what we'd like [the Wonder Years. Women's Union] to do and what it's actually doing." What made the night exceptional was the cause. Sounds frank, but this is the In a benefit for the state of the Union today. "The McGill Women's Union and whole point is that we're provid ing a basis and support for women Blood Sisters, another McGill-based women's orga at M cGill or anywhere in nization, the normally vacant Montreal." copper tables of Bistro 4 on Scanning the audience that St-Laurent played host last night and immediately discount ing the regulars and mismatched Thursday night to a mixed bag of open mic oddities, spanning B eck y Foon m esm er- Catherine Farquharson lookers-on who wandered in by spoken word to improv cello izes the crow d at Bistro 4 accident, those in attendance jam s. Cabaret does not get seemed to be a part of an exclu much more eclectic than this and what of an umbrella word, however, sive society — a closed-community that goes for the SoHo's of both and it would be safe to assume that holding a benefit to support itself. the Women's Union was not out that London and New York. The scenario was not unfamil 'Benefit' comes across as some night to save the Albino Rhinoceros. iar to Twigge and it is specifically Special events co-ordinator for the what the Women's Union to move away from. "We're trying to create an open space where people can express their ideas. That's what the Women's Union is. We had the option of hav ing tonight on campus, but we want to be out of the ghetto and we want ^ A University certificate that can be completed in as little as 8 to be in the city. That's the whole months, including the home-study and internship components. problem with women's organizations ► Excursions of 6 weeks in summer and 2 weeks in winter — they're too university oriented. exploring, camping, canoeing, horseback riding, rock We're living in a city, not a bubble. climbing, mountain biking, cross-country skiing, "These services are there for all snowshoeing, and studying in the Great Plains and Boreal women." Forest of Western Canada. The event brought together ^ An internship under the guidance of practicing professionals. some relatively well-known names. ^ Additional certification in wilderness first aid. Thom York of Radiohead made a brief appearance on acoustic guitar. ^ Ideal for •environmental educators As well, Erin, Montreal's official •museum, recreation, and parks staff •teachers ■tourism employees ■social replacement for Nerdy Girl, and cel services workers. list Becky Foon, who nearly erased every act before her with a perfor ^ Space is limited. Inquire early! B y C hris P aré

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mance so passionate that it could have scared the Montreal Symphony Orchestra off the picket lines. Another organization represent ed that night was Blood Sisters, another McGill women's group fac ing the same sort of recognition problems as the Women's Union. According to their literature, Blood Sisters is "an exciting launch ing-pad-girl-base fuelling action to combat the silence surrounding our female bodies." But a.d., the group's motivator, wouldn't have Blood Sisters reduced to a sound bite. "We are like a fluctuating vol unteer women's group, and it's been going on for almost three years," she explained during a very late inter mission. "My starting point was the huge shock over the chemicals that are used in the process of feminine hygiene. "I'm so angry at how corpora tions uphold ideologies that allow them to be protected but they're •Tampons are primarily made out of cotton and rayon that has been treat ed by a chlorine bleach chemical process; this process produces a high level of dioxins. •These dioxins arc carcinogenic [cancer causing] to the body. •Although these poisons can never be flushed out of the body, com panies like Proctor and Gamble main tain that their tampons contain no "sig nificant" levels of dioxins. •The Canadian government does not force these companies to list the ingredients. •It is facts like these that a.d. is trying to make available to other women through Blood Sisters. •a.d. was inspired three years ago by the New York-based Guerilla Girls, a

profiting; 'feminine protection' is a bullshit line when what they're really concerned about is protecting the product." In between acts, a.d. and Blood Sister Lisa Gamble took the time to model reusable cloth menstrual pads, fashioned out of a sexy leop ard-skin print. Such pads are easily constructed with an easy-to-follow pattern in Red Alert, a comprehen sive zine assembled by the Sisters. As a.d. put it, everyone per forming last Thursday was in a "safe place." The unity in the room was undeniable, as if fledgling acts were being unveiled at a family gettogether and the reception for each and every performer was uncondi tional love. Sappy, perhaps, but it's the same principal that guides the Women's Union and Blood Sisters — tolerance and understanding — something far more global than the ghettos they are often confined to. feminist action group which operated on the idea of anonymity, creating a comprehensive campaign without peo ple really knowing who is behind it all. •a.d.'s objectives are associated again and again with whàt she calls "menstrual politics," an idea common to all women, but known by few. "We've been trying to raise awareness in differ ent ways about menstruation, but in a very diverse manner. Menstruation is a form of resistance on all levels." •Blood Sisters aims to provide women with alternative feminine hygiene products, such as reusable pads and The Cup. Blood Sisters can be contacted via QPIRG Concordia at 848-7585.

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Silk, peacocks and interactive art A n n H a m i l t o n r e - e x a m i n e s s y m b o l i s m a n d s p e c t a t o r s h i p in u n i q u e e x h i b i t B y R ebecca C

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Across a long room there is a white door which emanates red light. This light spills out onto the com m onplace hardwood floor of the gallery. Near the door, there is a sign that says “please do not frig h ten the birds” — an indication that this in sta lla tio n w ill p ossib ly be somewhat different from the one you saw at the Beaux Arts last week. Insid e, the view er is smothered by red light filtering through a tide of reddish-orange silk which covers the whole ceil ing except for a one-meter sized opening where a person is perched on a pole, head con cealed in the clouds of orange silk. The person is continually wrapping a typew riter ribbon around their fingers whilst pea cocks strut about nervously in the strange atmosphere created by the red tide, with the sounds o f a student and tea ch er in singing lessons echoing faintly throughout the room. This scene is reminiscent of some of the weirder Twin P eaks dream sequences, but there are no finger-snapping red dwarfs in Ann Hamilton’ s Mattering. This new installation at the Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art consists of one complete exhibit, M attering, and a collection of artifa cts from various shows over the past ten years. Ham ilton explores them es of spectatorship, historical rev i sionism, accumulation, repeti tion, and human and environ mental relationships to technolo gy and the transform ation of m atter into thought. Unfortunately, these themes may not be immediately accessible to the public due to the ambiguity of her work and the fragmented nature of the exhibit.

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the artistic dialogue between viewer, art work and artist.

F or art k een ers, reading some literature on the works can help illu m inate their sig n ifi cance along with a perceptive eye for symbolism and ideas of spectatorship. H ow ever, this exhibit is open to the whole pub lic and much of it can be appre ciated on a visual, phenomeno logical level. Hamilton’s works captivate the viewer with their

“S a lic ” generates view er awareness of their impact on the installation environment and this is also present in M a tterin g , where composition of the instal latio n changes as the view er moves and disturbs the pea co ck s. H am ilton ’ s previous works have incorporated this concept of viewer self awareness through the use of sounds that change sources in relation to the view er’ s position in the room and through the use of floors which amplified the footsteps of the viewer. Not only does the viewer evoke changes in the nature of the installations but the natural environment effects the installa tion as w ell. H am ilton has defied all notions of preserva tion of art in her incorporation of biodegradable materials. She is interested in the duality of organic materials (including the human body) which grow and

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in g e x p e r i e n c e o f a s t a t i c p i e c e b y in tr o d u c in g m o v in g e l e m e n t s s u c h a s t h e p e a c o c k s a n d a m o v in g s ilk c e ilin g . sca le and th eir m ultisensory appeal. The artist makes her viewers conscious of how they experience a piece by introduc ing sensations that are not nor mally associated with the gallery setting. M attering subverts the traditional viewing experience of a static piece by introducing moving elem ents such as the peacocks and a moving silk ceil ing. The red lig h t also co n tributes to the viewer’s feeling of being immersed in the instal lation. The overwhelming power of the colour makes light effec tively a subject of this installa tion and not a mere compliment or aid in view ing. Her work “Salic” involves a video loop of shadowy figures silhouetted by flickering light and is interactive as the viewers create their own respective shadows on the shad ows on the screens, symbolizing

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it. But have no fear, the soy beans from Indigo Blue did not travel to the Montreal exhibit. In s ta lla tio n s ; a r tis tic v o r te x e s o f c o m m u n ity in v o lv e m ent The bizarre character of her e x h ib its has provoked great interest outside the art scene. In another section of In digo B lue which consisted of a massive pile of folded blue work clothes, local construction workers who at first viewed the project with ridicule later warmed to it and helped out in folding clothes. Even a stray cat participated in the project by bedding down in the clo th es each night. Her exhibit Privations and Excesses, held in 1989 in San Francisco consisted o f 7 5 0 ,0 0 0 pennies laid on top of a floor spread with honey, simulating a rippled cop per ocean which provoked some community residents to donate their penny collection s to the exhibit. Often the materials used for the projects were recirculat ed into the community and the pennies were con verted into $7500 and donated to an educa tional charity. A r t if a c t s lik e g h o s t s o f in s ta lla tio n s p a s t

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decay simultaneously. This is represented in a section of her installation Indigo Blue held in Charleston, where she hung bags of soya beans on a factory wall which at first sprouted, then rot ted and permeated a rotten meat smell through parts of the exhib

The d ifficu lty with this exhibit stems from something that is problematic to all forms of in stallatio n art and which Hamilton identifies, in her ques tion of “how to document work in which time is such a central element.” The objects produced by these m ultid im en sion al in sta lla tio n s do not have the power to convey the complete sensory ex p e rien ce that Hamilton’s orginal installations possessed. The artist’s discus-

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I do not even recognize John Linnell when I meet him. We are beside his tour bus and he is indis tinguishable from his roadies with “Spin Doctors ‘94” jean jackets and bad hair. Only after he intro duces himself do I realize that the tired-looking man before me with thick glasses and light wrinkles is the co-leader of one of the most significant alternative bands of the previous decade. Linnell is friend ly: we chat briefly about Vietnamese food, then reporters from the University of Saskatchewan S h e a f pull him away. After he leaves, some groupies, assuming I am a friend of the band, begin to pester me. I

resist the temptation to claim celebrity status and wait for the S h ea f interview to conclude at a nearby pizza place. The groupies follow me inside, but eventually give up and re-enter their orbit around the tour bus. They’ve been waiting for hours. I have come to Toronto to interview They Might Be Giants and see them perform at the Opera House, a venue about the size of Cabaret. For reasons too complex to describe here, the interview falls through, but I am able to get a copy of the S h e a fs conversation with Linnell. Upon playing the tape, I can hear the same worn quality in Linnell’s voice and words which was present in his appearance at our introduction. He sounds deplet

ed, bored and quietly frustrated, and not just because the S h eaf is telling him about Minot, Saskatchewan. Linnell resonates sadness; the sadness that comes from being in a band more influen tial than popular. The geek rock sound which Linnell and partner John Flansburgh established in the mid80s paved the way for more popu lar, though less interesting, groups such as the Barenaked Ladies, the Crash Test Dummies, King Missile, and Cibo Matto. Outside of one song which once reached the top 40 in Europe, they have never had a hit. Their status as a cult band has remained constant for over a decade, but the recording industry had forgotten them.

Linnell wants more than cult status, but nothing is changing, and his wrinkles are getting deeper. I heard the same sadness talk ing with Frank Black, formerly Black Francis, frontman for The Pixies, over the telephone this sum mer. The Pixies, like They Might Be Giants, struggled for main stream success until finally dissolv ing in 1991, the same year that “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” a song that Kurt Cobain himself described as a “Pixies tribute,” blew up. Frank Black has continued to strug gle in his solo career; he is current ly without a record deal in North America and is trying to avoid what he calls a “minimum wage rock contract.” On his latest album,

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sion of her work on Thursday at the museum revealed the colour ful history behind these objects. The CD-Rom which documented the artist’s previous exhibitions could not capture the visual, olfactory, tactile and auditory sensations and there was very little text explaining the proce dure by which the objects were created, which Hamilton feels is alm ost as im portant as the objects themselves. Despite the fau lts in the design o f this exhibit it is certainly a cerebral work of plentiful interpretations which should be viewed at least for its sensory dynamics. Ann Hamilton: The body and the ob ject: 1984-1997 and Mattering is at The M on treal Museum o f Contem porary Art from O ctober 9 to January 17.

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On Oct. 19 (and 26, 29) at 151 Ontario H en ry F ool Hal Hartley proves “sex is violent” with his new Film, Henry Fool, winner of best screenplay at the Sundance Film Festival. Dark, moody, and arty. What more could you ask for? Parker Posey? That too.

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Holy Man: preaching to the unconvinced B y S a n d o n S h o g ilev

Eddie Murphy has run the gamut of roles: a Wall Street bro ker in Trading Places, African roy alty in Coming to America, and an eccentric scientist in The Nutty Professor. He is a comedian with a flare for both the outrageous and the subtle. He has perhaps even at times acted as a satirical critic of the inherent problems of socio economic inequality, cultural dis crimination and political corrup tion that have plagued the United States. By no means, however, is Eddie Murphy qualified to preach new-age gospel of anti-materialism, pseudo-spirituality or natural theology. Yet for whatever reason, director Stephen Herek felt that this ex-cop would be just dandy playing such a role in Holy Man. The story is a painfully famil iar one; money hungry producer meets sage, and, through the requi site love story, learns compassion, remorse and love. In this case, it is financially motivated home-shop

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lizing G ’s seemingly unbounded charismatic abilities on the shop ping network to boost sales and ratings. Somehow this works. Through careful manipulation of G ’ s messages of anti-con sumption, familial love and reverance for the natural envi ronment, Ricky and Kate translate these princples into classic, good-ol’ fashioned American mass consumerism. A few humorous scenes in the interim and the otherwise overtly preachy movie comes to a conclusion with Ricky realizing that he must let G leave the network and contin ue on his pilgrimmage. Goldblum and Preston both give decent perfor mances, although the lack of depth in any of the clichéd characters prevents any rea press photo sonable interpretation on their part. Goldblum was particu some unknown destination. larly adept at conveying his inter Through a series of contrived, nal struggle of financial security serendipitous incidents, G stays and moral responsibility. with Ricky and wins his admira Admittedly, Murphy had his tion and that of the shopping-net moment as a hypnotist at a cocktail work clientele. Ricky and Kate party of Ricky’s and meandering then have the brilliant idea of uti- through the various sets on the

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in g t o t h e H o m e S h o p p i n g N e tw o r k . tudes and convey a more profound message, than why choose a come dian to play the role of G (God?)? More importantly, however, if the latter is true, the movie failed to yield its own message: spirituality, Hollywood and the mass market mix. In either case, the movie came up more than just a little short. If you want to be amused, the preview for Adam Sandler’s Waterboy looked pretty funny. If you want the answers, pick up a book by Richard Bach and go for a hike up Mount Royal.

TMBG thrills Toronto nerds demographic is 80 percent male, and Linnell gives them an eerie 94 percent of whom are wearing death stare. They cheer louder. currently only available as an thick-framed glasses and Value TMBG play all their import, Black sings of his frustra Village clothing. Many are popular favourites, but tion on “The Man Who Was Too wearing band Tthey clearly have no Loud”: “do not think he does not shirts from previous interest in becoming a like/the cheering of the crowd/no, concerts. They all nostalgia group. They he is glad that they came to seem surprised to see play “Dr. Worm” after see/the man who used to be/the so many of them “A ngel,” then again man who was too loud.” selves, as if each during the second TMBG are also playing quiet thought that TM BG encore. “We’re trying ly, having switched from a major were their private band to help you remember label to a minor one. On the tape, which played on their it,” jokes Linnell. After the Linnell explains that “we’ve left home stereos and concert, I ride back downtown on Elektra Records...w anted to nowhere else. the Queen Street streetcar with the leave...they didn’t want to let us The opening band is politely S h eaf reporters. I talk with them ignored, then the crew reconfig about the interview, and they seem L L The crow d, h a p p y ures the stage. The crowd goes upset that the band is so interested but o b liv io u s , insane upon seeing a roadie bring in popularity. “They’re our band,” out Linnell and Flansburgh’ s says one of them. Are they? Why c h e e r s w ild ly a n d L in n e ll instruments: a guitar and an accor is it that this band, whose inferior g iv e s th e m a n e e r ie d e a t h dion. They grow even louder clones have sold millions of units, when the band comes out. s t a r e . T h e y c h e e r lo u d e r . appeals only to young, brainy They begin the set with social m isfits? My go.” Apparently, Elektra decided “Angel”: “when you’re Saskatchew an c o l they could make more money falling for an leagues don’ t know, releasing a TMBG album with no Angel/Does it mean you but prefer things the promotion, since the band’s dedi have to/Throw your way they are. cated fan base would buy the new body o ff a building.” Disheartened, I hum album regardless of these things. The entire crowd sings a TMBG song from the They had given up on expanding along; I can barely 8 0 ’ s: “Hey Mr. D J.” It the group’s popularity. Frustrated hear Linnell. goes something like this: by this dead-end treatment, John Flansburgh looks much “He said to think long term Linnell and Flansburgh escaped happier than his band-mate. He investment and/That all the others their contract and immediately jokes about Canada being more had forgiven themselves/He said produced a live album, S evere difficult for a rock band to enter the net reward had justified/The T ire D am ag e, for R estless than East Germany, “which colossal mess they’d made of their Records. Linnell says he prefers doesn’t even exist,” and does a lives/Hey Mr. DJ, I thought you Restless: unlike Elektra, they gave brilliant impromptu version of said we had a deal/I thought you the band money to make a video. “Don’t You Want Me Baby.” His said, ‘You scratch my back and The interview tape ends on an speed-metal polka song seems to I ’ ll scratch you record’/And I optimistic note; Linnell has high cheer up even Linnell. Still, when thought you said we had a deal.” hopes for “Dr. Worm,” the first Linnell takes a solo and, covered single from Severe Tire Damage. in demonic red light, sings “you’re Young, brainy so cia l misfits After putting away the tape and older than you’ve ever been/and in terested in a TMBG su p p ort eating more v ile, expensive now you’re even older/and now g rou p can c o n ta ct the au thor. Toronto pizza, I go to see the con you’re even older/and now you’re Those without horn-rimmed glass cert. While the Opera House is not even older,” the sadness audible es or angst need not apply. a large venue, it is packed with on the tape resurfaces. The crowd, hard-core fans. The crow d’s happy but oblivious, cheers wildly C ontinued from Page 15

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shopping network. Still, the film rings hollow. One is left wondering what the intent of this movie was. If it was solely comedic in nature, then the dialogue was far too over wrought with new age syllogi and psycho-babble. If, on the other hand, it honestly intends to criti cize American consumerist atti-

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Karaoke: hobby and lifestyle I know of a guy named Jay who works at a gas station. Since he graduated from high school and became a full time employee, his life consists of pumping gas and going to karaoke bars every night. At work, when certain songs come on the radio, Jay says, “Hey! I sang that last night at karaoke!” The cold reality is that Jay is a loser. This caut i o n a r y vignette in mind, I joined an assemblage of brave souls at Cash Box Karaoke on 1231 St. Catherine Street West for.> yet another birthday outing. The sce nario was grim. The bar is in a non-descript office building; at first I thought I was in the wrong place. However, in the distance I could hear the strains of crooning amateur rock stars and we fol lowed the sound to the basement. Cash Box is grotto-like, with low ceilings and cement walls. One wall has a huge screen with a microphone and stools in front of it. After paying a cover charge, we sat down at some of the small tables, ready to ease into the karaoke experience. At first I felt that I wasn’t going to be able to sing, -due to some psychological blows. The first was that a pitcher of beer cost sixteen dollars. With my “diamond in the rough” (as I like to think of it) singing voice, it was going to cost a small for tune to release my inhibitions. The second blow came when a frat party showed up drunk and in drag and proceeded to howl tune lessly into the microphone. I sat, inert, my head pounding with every rising decibel. On their tenth ensemble act that ended in shrieks of merriment, I decided that if there was a hell this was it. I turned to my costly beer and said “you’re all I have left,” and proceeded to drown my sorrows. But the tide did turn. Once the alcohol started flowing and

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When graduating highthe first courageous person began school students begin the arduous singing, our group became like task of choosing post-secondary the frat boys— we just couldn’t in stitu tio n s, M cG ill usually get enough karaoke. Some stand comes a dismal last place on the outs were “Love Shack,” “Total list of potential theatre schools, if Eclipse of the Heart,” “2 Become it is considered at all. 1” and “Like a Virgin.” In stark It is thought of by some as a contrast to our group were “the [ theatrical waste-land for unsuc regulars,” five or six guys that { cessful actors who are drawn to the program because of its lack o f entrance audition. Y et for those of us would-be actors and actresses who have come to love the crumbling walls of Leacock and last-minute line-drilling ses sions on the steps of the Arts Building, the quality and diversi took karaoke very seriously. One ty of performances proves other by one they would solemnly sit wise. on the stool, look soulfully at the | Last December the audience and belt out sentimental j G azette’s Pat Donnelly songs of lost love. The videos of called McGill’s produc these songs were also melodra tion of Tooth and N ail matic, lots of images of people “the revelation of the ripping up love letters, crying in Anglo seaso n .” For a the pouring rain, staring at pho school in a city that tographs of their lover, crying j boasts a profession al while falling down in a heap, etc. | anglophone theatre At one point, a very drunk mem housing two stages, two ber o f our group attempted to j theatres which support imitate these chanteurs, but was j p rofession al touring forcibly removed from the stage. shows, the N ational Eventually the regulars left, probTheatre Sch oo l, and ably because o f our lack o f j numerous semi-profes artistry. sional companies, this is As the evening wore on, no small accom plish things became more and more out | ment. of control. The funds began to The budding thespirun dry and I know at least one an can choose from five friend resorted to putting beer on student-run theatre com her Visa. “It’s for a good cause,” panies, a francophone she said. People began dancing group, and an Improv troupe. and shouting along with the | Perhaps the most well-known of lyrics. Everyone was so excited | the student-run theatre compa it didn’ t matter who had the nies at M cG ill is P la y er’ s. microphone in their hand; we typ ically were a karaoke singing communi- j P la y e r’ s season includes one full-scale musical, tyseveral plays, and concludes with Despite my original misgiv the M cG ill Drama F estiv al ings, I would recommend karaoke (MDF), a week-long festival of to anyone at least once. My B.A. in English may leave me pump- | student-written pieces. This year’s season promises ing gas like Jay but hopefully you j to be different. MDF will be a won’t find me in a karaoke bar joint venture with Tuesday Night every night. Even so, I under stand Jay’s world a little better ] Café Theatre, and instead of a musical, the season opens with a now. student-written play, The Board,

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previously featured at MDF. Playwright Elizabeth HaydnJones began to write the play prior to having the p ro ject approved as an Independent Theatre P ro ject. The B o a r d began as a monologue delivered by the main character, Maggie, about the feelings aroused by playing Risk. It was inspired, says Haydn-Jones, by observing her brother and sister-in -law fight over a game of Risk. “They alw ays say you should write about what you know,” she says, “so I began to draw a parallel between the way people play board games, and game-playing in relationships.” The play unfolds, fittingly on a set constructed to resemble a giant board game. Set designers

T evis Houston and Tamzyn Berman painted the floor as a Risk board, and the walls as a Scrabble board. Director Larysa Kondracki explained that by physically placing the characters in a game, they are given the freedom to explore their emo tions in a way that wouldn’t be possible with a more convention al design. She uses the set and the lighting to isolate the charac ters and their moods, capturing one aspect of their personalities at a tim e, the way that board games tend to bring out a single,

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A Tribe Called Quest

Melanie Doane

The Love Movement Jive Records

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Produced by The Ummah, The Love Movement breaks with current trends of hip hop, offer ing short, smooth songs in a year of dragging double albums (are you listening, E-40?). The subject matter is also truly unique. A rap record devot ed to monogamy is about as rare as a M aster P single without someone hollering “unhhh.” The plain album cover is a departure, considering we’ve grown accus tomed to some of the best cover art in the n in eties from this group. Regardless of the cover, when you hear the music you know it’s Tribe. As with all their records, you can expect a blend of mellow beats and truly flow ing rap. “Find a W ay”, “Give me”, and “Rock Rock Y ’all” are vintage T rib e. However, you can’t make every track a winner and songs like “Da Booty” and “His Name is Mutty Ranks” are some of the losers. Nonetheless, since all the tracks, good and bad, have a sing le producer, there is a true flow to the record. The fifth and fin al Tribe album may seem a disappoint ment only because we’ve seen what they’re capable of (with M idnight M a ra u d ers and Low End T heory), but if this album were released by a new artist it would be considered the best of the year. Perhaps it’ s best they break up since they can never touch those earlier albums. But then again, no one can. — Christian Lander

Congratulations, M elanie, your second release, Adam's R ib, is one of the most uncreative and boring albums to hit Canadian markets in quite a while. Does the world really need to hear a thirty-something woman croon ing “Adam rocked my world, I was his biggest fan” until, of course, she realized there was life beyond her man? Come on, this is the thought provoking commentary we would expect to here in songs from , say the fifties (even with the irony). D o ane’ s songs are pretty much in d istin g u ish ab le. Her vocal talent is tolerable but she should experim ent with her range in order to break the the matic monotony of her songs. “A bsolutely Happy” (a song about how she cannot make her man ab solu tely happy, but dammit sh e’ ll try her b est), sounds su sp iciou sly lik e her radio break through tune “Adam ’ s R ib .” The abysmal lyrics could slide by the general public if the song was poppy and catchy, but no such luck. In the nineties, a time Doane is obviously having trouble relat ing to, the music needs to be fresh and origin al or at least have a beat. This album fails in all ca teg o ries and so goes A d a m ’s R ib into that void of mediocrity known as the remain der bin. — Kama L eier

The cover art o f this goth com pilation features a black photo of a gateway leading into some horrifyingly dark domain. Thus, one would think that the music would be, well, dark. So why is it all so... happy? Well okay, not happy exact ly, but definitely not what one would exp ect from an album with the subtitle Essential Goth: 1982-95. Don’t go reaching for the bondage collar or make-up ju st yet. This album features catchy, (yet frighteningly dated) slabs of electro-pop from the eighties, with recent hits thrown in to hook Manson kids. These hits include Killing Joke’s “Love Like Blood,” The Cult’s “Rain,” Bauhaus’ “Bela Lugosi’s Dead,” and M in istry ’ s hilariou s “Everyday is Halloween” (writ ten well before A1 Jourgenson got into heavy metal, onstage bile drinking and smack— so it sounds like B rit-p o p ). Mr. Reznor found his way on here with “C loser,” and the ubiqui tous Manson is represented with his cover of “Sweet Dreams.” Memorable moments of true “goth” darkness include Skinny Puppy’s classic “Dig it,” while S isters o f M ercy ’ s “This C orro sio n ” may yet get you dragging out those spikes. While there are some glaring omissions (urn, the Cure!?) this album is a good a primer for eighties goth, an oxymoron in itse lf if there ever was one.

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Lisa Germano slide 4AD After four albums of intro spective angst and failed rela tionships, slide is not the CD to break Germano’ s stride. Once again, Germano has filled her songs with depressing lyrics and material which can seem too inti mate at times. It’ s almost like reading som eon e’ s diary and finding out more than you want ed to know. Not quite as disturbing as her last album, Excerpts from a

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Love Circus, the tracks on slide are still every bit as depressing. In the song “Crash,” she sings, “I wish someone else would throw me down/ like it’s supposed to/ like I’m used to,” evoking anger and annoyance rather than pity. The title track has sadly beautiful piano music and pitywrenching lyrics. In contrast, some songs are anticlimactic or repetitious, like “Electrified” and “No C olor H ere.” Only “Tomorrowing” and “R ep tile” could be considered accessible since they contain drums which enrich the sound and provide a mood-lift. Basically, your reception of slid e will depend on the mood you’re in when you listen to it. It could be a good album to listen to on a rainy day, post-breakup when you feel like wallowing in self-pity or listening to someone else do it for you.

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and Jermaine Dupri, producer of the summer anthem “M oney Ain’t A Thang.” Undoubtably, “Vol.2... Hard Knock Life” will be snatched up by suburban kids and rap fans alike. The problem with this album is that the many rappers and producers make it sound like a collection of sin gles. Still, if you lament the fact that Montreal cable doesn’t have BET, this album’s for you.

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Jay-Z “Vol.2... H ard Knock Life Roc-A-Fella/Def Jam The cham pagne-drinkingL e x u s -d r iv in g -c a s h - w aving lifestyle of today’s rappers has been criticized by figures in the hip-hop community (like Spike Lee and Lauryn Hill), who insist these rappers portray an unat tain able life s ty le . Enter Brooklyn’s Jay-Z: undoubtably one of the biggest offenders. The third release from Jay-Z continues with more songs about his former thug life, his money, his cars, and his many women. While Jay-Z is no doubt telling the truth, he falls into the cliché of the modern rapper. Even more clichéd: he’s a former friend of the Notorious B .I.G . Rapping about a friend w ho’ s passed away is a serious thing, but fol lowing the year Puff Daddy has had, it almost seems trite to have a song honouring Biggie. Jay-Z ’s articulate rap style stands out, esp ecially when m atched against guest stars D M X, Foxy Brow n, and Too Short. His lyrics are compliment ed by beats from the likes of Timbaland, Kid Capri, Premier,

— Christian Lander

Mediaeval Babes Salva Nos Virgin The image o f attractiv e women donning the sheer, lowcut gowns of the Middle. Ages is a fantasy o f many. A walk through the front of any video store (*-) or the back (or so I’ve been told) should confirm our obsession. The cover of Salva N os conform s n icely to this arch aic yet sexy them e. The group was formed in 1997 by Katherine Blake of Miranda Sex Garden, an artsy indie Goth out fit from the dark and cloudy isle of Britain. Therefore, one would naturally expect a sarcastic or ironic twist on the mediaeval babe fantasy. However, there is no such pretense here. These really are 12 very attractive women in low-cut gowns singing 600-year-old songs. Borrowing both religious and secular verses from the middle ages, the Babes sing in a hypnotic plainsong style (using little harmony) and using only authentic instrumen tation of the period. The music is haunting and soothing, and sur prisingly accessible to those not majoring in Latin or mediaeval poetry. Wedge heels, shiny lip stick and b elly button rings might not have been in vogue back then, but you can’t expect to hang with lab el-m ates the Spice Girls without trying to fit in a little. —Ryan Deane

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McGill triathlete competes among world's best M a r i e - C l a u d e G a g n o n r e a c h e s w o r ld s t a g e in I r o n m a n T r i a t h l o n W o r ld C h a m p i o n s h i p B y J e ff G o l d s t e i n

For anyone that has ever com plained that there just aren't enough hours in the days, meet MarieClaude Gagnon. Gagnon is a student-athlete in who combines 20-25 hours a week of training each week as well as 17 credits per semester in electrical engineering faculty. Gagnon is not just surviving from day to day, but thriving. On October 3, Marie-Claude Gagnon participated in one of the most grueling physical and mental tasks the sports world has to offer. She competed in the Ironman triathlon world championships in Kuna, Hawaii. The event consists of a 3.9-km ocean swim, a 180-km bike race, and a 42.2-km marathon run. A race like this typically requires intense training for six to eight months to develop the stami na and endurance needed simply to complete the 226.1 kilometre grind. Professional triathlon competitors typically finish the race in roughly nine hours, while the average time is around twelve hours. The race takes you through 95-degree heat

and 57 km head winds, which the native Hawaiians call the "mumuka." Gagnon placed 6th for her age group in the world. She explained that in such a tough race, you have to pace yourself. "[You just have to do it] one mile at a time," she said. "[It's] a real mental battle." Craig McAra, Dave Marshall, and Stephen Leclair joined Gagnon in representing McGill’s triathlon club at the race in Hawaii; all four of the clubs' members were happy with own success in the race and felt they had accomplished their goals. Gagnon would be the first to tell you that she is by no means a natural athlete born to compete and succeed in the triathlon. Her suc cess was the result of hard work and perseverance. When Gagnon originally joined the triathlon club in her second year at university, she quickly discovered that her swimming needed improvement. "Swimming was a problem — it was a major hurdle for me," she said. So Gagnon spent countless hours in the pool, on the bike and on the track to fine-tune her skills

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expertise and motivation of coach es Dave Armour and Paul Cross, her skills began to improve. "That's where coaches come along; they take you to another level," Gagnon explained. "My goal was ju st to do a

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first time with the club. That year Marie was able to complete seven Olympic triathlons. She competed in her first Ironman in Ste.-Agathe, Quebec, on August 9 of this year and fin ished an astounding 3rd place over-

all. The victory qualified her for the Ironman Canada that was held on August 30, in Penticton, British Columbia. In the nationals, Gagnon was able to achieve far beyond her goals for the race, and won her first ever full triathlon for her age group, which qualified her to par ticipate in the World Championship in Hawaii. With all the hard training and work that the sport of triathlon requires, Gagnon has still been able to excell academically. She looks to complete her engineering degree, usually a five-year pro gram, in only her fourth year, with an impressive GPA in the neigh borhood of 3.5. Now Gagnon looks to take a little break from her train ing. Gagnon is excited about the chance to catch up in school, play flag football and hockey intramu rals, as well as just getting a chance to relax and spend a little time with friends. "Two marathons in five weeks — as much as I love to compete I really think my body needs a break," mused Gagnon.

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If anyone were to ask how the McGill women's rugby squad was doing this season the answer would be — "great." Tué team is midifeated and continues to demolish any opponent they have faced this year. The only thing which is new this season is that McGill's down town campus no longer has its "own" team. The ch anges Women's rugby was officially named a Canadian Interuniversity Athletics Union sport this summer and the aftershocks of the change continue to be felt. The difficulty arose when it became known that the Quebec University Sports Federation allows for only one team to represent each school at this year's first ever National cham pionships in November at McMaster University. Up until this season, McGill had traditionally fielded both a team from the down town campus here at McGill and a team at MacDonald Campus at St.Anne's. This previous arrange ment became simply unfeasable according to M cG ill's athletic director Robert Dubeau. "If we allowed both teams to play in the league, then we would have to predetermine which one of them would go the Nationals regardless of which team won the league," explained Dubeau. Given the complexity of the

situation, the likely course of action would have been to simply have the team be based at mo campus and have athletes from MacDonal d make the trip if they wanted to join the team. That fate for the Mac team was avoided, howev er, as their ath N o m o r e d o w n t o w n c a m p u s t e a m k im e stein letic director Bill Elliott put forth a trips to our campus", admitted proposal which would have had the Elliott. "But everyone seems to be team be based at their campus. adjusting and everything should MacDonald's first-rate facilities work out fine." and as well as their abililty to focus almost exclusively on women's M i x i n g r i v a l s rugby only strengthened Elliott's Elliott's optimism did very lit bid. tle to reassure the alarming number "Sometimes we're forgotten of potential downtown returnees here out here at MacDonald, and I who chose not to play this season. felt it would mean a great deal to Their decision to pass on rugby this our campus to have the team based season has helped make the transi here," said Elliott. tion much smoother as the firstHis proposal was accepted, year players who are making the and all practices would be held at trips to St. Anne's are unaware of the Macdonald campus with down the intense rivalry which use to town players having to make the exist between the two teams. journey to St. Anne's on a regular When one considers how basis. Elliott was all too aware of strong these two teams have been the possibility of those not being in past years, it comes as no sur willing to make the trip when he prise that the talent is just enor issued the proposal. mous. The big question surround "Our primary concern was ing this team was whether or not whether the downtown players they would be able to achieve the would want to make the necessary adequate level of chemistry which

is crucial to playing high-level rugby. The three players out of a pos sible 12 who chose to return and make the requisite sacrifices this season are Sam Morency, Carine Barlocher, and club president Vanessa Rocnêslcf. RocilcSîc" **A very involved in fine tuning the arrangements for this season and did her best to make the best out of the situation. "As much hard work as all this has been for me and the rest of the girls, it really is great that we are finally being treated as a real sport," admitted Rochester. T h e p la y e r s The fact that such a large num ber of potential downtown campus returnees opted not to play this sea son has been a difficult pill for many of them to swallow. Their disfavour for the way which this season has turned out remains quite evident on campus. "The benefits clearly assist the Mac side and they don't suffer at all", explained Coby Squires. "Not only do we have to sacrifice more time, but we also lose the commrodary between teammates." Squires was not alone in her opinion of what these changes have meant for McGill's downtown cam pus. "I paid to live downtown this semester so that I could get more involved with the school this year", said Pixie Drury. Meanwhile if I want to play rugby this year I have to travel outside of the city, it really

has been tough to accept." Whenever change occurs there is normally a price to be paid and it seems quite clear that women's rug by's long-overdue recognition has come at the expense of downtown's veteran players. Tf *«- ie a nv r*r»ncr»1citinn Dubeau has gone on record to say that any changes which have occurred this season are not etched in stone for the future of rugby at McGill. "It's difficuft to please every one in these types of situations," said Dubeau. There is still the potential for things to change next year depending on what the girls want to see happen."

Redmen Football vs. Laval, Saturday October 17,1:30 p.m. at Molson Stadium. Martlet Soccer vs. Sherbrooke, "riday October 16,6:30 p.m., at MolsonStadium. Redmen Soccer vs. Sherbrooke, Friday October 16,8:30 p.m., at Molson Stadium. McGill Invitational Volleyball Tournament, Odober 17-18, at the Field House C& 0, Sat., 10:00 am - 4:00 pm. Sun., Gymnasium2,3 &4 from9:30 am 2:00 pm. Redmen Hockey Invitational Tournament, Friday, Odober 16,8:30 pmMcGill vs. Concordia; Odober 17, 6:30 pmMcGill vs. RMC; October 18,3:15 pm McGill vs. UQTR. All games at McConnell Arena.

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Bargain basement players at penthouse prices B y C hris S e lley

The ,'s sum m e r free agent was, as usual, characterized ' aging players getting obscene amounts of money from teams convinced that they are just one player away from the Cup, or respectability, or medi ocrity. Still, even the most jaded hockey fan had to shake their head a little as journey-men defencemen were drooled over and offered mammoth contracts. Here, with some editorial comment, are the summer's most prominent and most odious off-season developments. Three top-flight goaltenders

were up for grabs. Mike Richter, who seemed confident that someone would pony up the dough, instead limped back to the cozy confines of Madison Square Garden for a cool $22 million over four years. The Philadelphia Flyers, who have never had a goaltending problem (B. Clarke, 1994-98), for some reason went out and signed John Vanbiesbrouck away from the Panthers for a "bargain-basement" $11 million over three years. Ron Hextall will, no doubt, win the job back through spectacular play and his smiles-and-sunshine attitude. The Panthers, whose very generous offer for Felix Potvin (Niedermayer, Warrener and Gagner, by some reports) was rebuffed, have signed Sean Burke for too much money ($4 million a year). Everyone knew that

Philadelphia and New York would be in the goaltender hunt, but Toronto's out-of-the-blue signing of Curtis Joseph was undoubtedly the biggest shock of the summer. With $9.4 million tied up in goaltender salaries and poor Glen Healy lan guishing in the IHL, bookish GM Mike Smith is standing pat and waiting for Vancouver, the Islanders or Montreal to realize that their goaltending situations aren't quite as rosy as they tell the papers. The big name forwards avail able included Ron Francis, whom Carolina snapped up in hopes of boosting its anemic offence. Doug Gilmour signed a mind-boggling $18 million contract with Chicago — he'll be 39 when it's up. Brett Hull will be whining hoarsely to the Dallas media this year, while count ing his $17 million dollars (three

years). Hull recently gloated to some reporter that he'd become a "complete player," but then paid for it because his stats told a different story. By way of counterpoint, the Golden Bratt was one of four play ers on the Blues who managed to be a minus, in a group which included Tony Twist and some guy named Libor. % \ host of sccond-tiei tat best) players also raked in the green this summer, including John Maclean, who (Inched off something of a bid ding war and eventually ended up with the Rangers Me\e Thainas, with a scant 14 goals last season (but the Devils are a defensive team, yada, yada, yada), signed a ludi crous $2.5 million contract with the Leafs. He'll play on the first line for a week or so. The only great defenceman up for grabs was Uwe

Krupp, who was never going any where but Detroit, and signed for $16.4 million over four years. The truly insane signings were mostly rearguards. Dmitri Mironov. who couldn't even crack the Red Wings playoff roster, was signed by the Capitals for $11 million over four years. Jyrki Lumme, a heroic 25 for the Canucks last year, was signed by the Coyotes to a 5-year, $17 million, no trade contract. The prize, however, for worst free agent signing must go to Brian Burke and his floundering Canucks, who signed the absolutely terrible Murray Baron (Baron von Pylon to his friends), a defenceman with 6 points last year and 16 in his land mark 1990 season, to a 3-year deal that will pay him $2.2 million annu ally.

Operation crackdown New NHL divisions create new dis parities along with new rivalries

By Paul Futhey

More goals. That’s the direction the National Hockey League feels it must go if they are to attract new fans and keep its origi nal fan base. Last season had the lowest goals per game in 30 years. Jaromir Jagr, who led the league with 102 points, was the only player to break 100. A number of factors can be identi fied as responsible for the decline in offence. Most teams have seen that a com m itm ent to defence wins, and adjusted their system s accordingly. Some point to improved goaltending as a cause. Others have complained that the clutching and grabbing by less skilled players is m aking for dreary games. Others, still, point to expansion as a main reason. New teams that enter the league usually have to play a conserva tive style in hopes of attaining any suc cess. This is mainly due to the fact that when they stock their teams with play ers, it’s with the leftovers (ie. no skills) from other clubs. To solve the problem, all sorts of

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from not allowing the goaltender out of his crease to rem oving the red line entirely. Finally, saner heads prevailed and instead of hitting the game with a sledgehammer, the powers that be have decreed that they snail only tinker with the fine product: Here, below, are the rule changes mandated by the league. They may not look like much, but everyone’s hoping it’ll pay dividends.

Regulated Goalie Equipment The size of goaltenders’ equipment has increased steadily in the last ten years. Garth Snow, whose shoulders looked as if he had 2x4s underneath his jersey, was a main culprit, along with Patrick Roy and his horse blanket je r seys. T'-ese guys made Hans and Franz look like true girly-m en. No m ore, apparently, as random equipm ent

checks will make delinquent keepers pay.

In The Crease Rule, Part Infinitum

The m ost illogical, inane and incredibly stupid rule has received yet again some alterations in the neverending hope that frustrated goaltenders and net-crashing forwards can happily coex ist. The crease has had its wings shorn so that forwards who have nothing to do with the play aren’t attemping fancy footwork while a goal is scored.

Space Behind the Nets The space behind the goal has been increased by two feet, to allow for more room and hopefully more creativity behind the net. Wayne Gretzky, a player whom many thought would benefit with the increased size o f his “o ffice,” is unsure if he will.

Another Official In an attem pt to cut down on shenanigans away from the play, the league has ordered each team to play 20 of their games with a two referee system. Make room, it’s getting crowded out there.

Survey Says? Ç~ ^ 1 UU-Ml, W1111C i-'lt' AL'iSf111 lias just begun, the jury is still out on most of the changes. The addition o f the official, however, has met with genuine disap proval for the most part. The NHL is right to not want wholesale changes to the game; fans have reacted angrily before to such ideas as four quarters instead of three periods. Unfortunately, whether fans like it or not, the league has gone defensive. Goalies are better. Team s do play better defence. And speaking of teams, there are too damn many of them. With three more set to join in the next two years, there doesn’t appear to be an end in sight to these 2-1 and 3-2 yawners that has most o f the play in the neutral zone.

Prediction: a slight increase in offence.

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sional record making or breaking their season. Like most National Hockey The two primary benefactors League seasons, a lot was made of of this reshuffling of divisions are off-season player changes and the Colorado Avalanche and the coaching shuffles. Teams looked, Washington Capitals. The as always, to fine-tune their person Southeast division has the Capitals nel or possibly start from scratch grouped along with the toothless altogether. Despite the numerous Florida Panthers, IHL-calibre player signings and trades, some of Tampa Bay Lightning, and the this season's most important improving Carolina Hurricanes. changes occurred not on the ice but The Caps should have litfte:diffi in the boardroom. culty in finishing atop the Southeast With the addition of the this season. As promising as the Nashville Predators this season and Hurricanes look this year, the harsh further expansion forthcoming in reality that they play their home Atlanta, Minnesota and Columbus, dates in front of freinds and family the NHL has received yet another should helppSVS 'tHeway for the face-lift. The conventional four- Caps. A first place finish translates division, two conference league into a guaranteed playoff spot no was abolished in favour of a six lower than third, since division division set-up. winners are awarded positions one There's nn.Henvl"" thet iLo ------- . . j Lllg ....... ...V, îïuGügii three :n tne conference. new arrangement makes more geo The 1996 Stanley Cup champi graphical sense than its predeces on Avalanche should also have sor. The re-vamped divisions also their way with their Northwest divi have finally brought the Leafs into sional foes which include the the Habs' division which also Calgary Flames, Edmonton Oilers includes the Senators. This not and Vancouver Canucks. The only has CBC execs foaming at the Canadian content of their schedule mouth but it should also surely this season should ensure the Avs a inject the league with some much much-needed break in their long, needed rivalry. gruelling season. In spite of their At first glance, it becomes loss to the Oilers in last season's quite obvious that the divisions are playoffs, the Avalanche have little not of equal caliber. Anyone look to fear this year as life in Edmonton ing for a good indicator of how the will prove be painful without Cujo season should unfold this year there to hold the fort would be wise to take the new divi In stark contrast, the Eastern sions into consideration. The fact conference's Atlantic Division is that teams play their division oppo probably the toughest one in hock nents a total of five times during ey. The mighty Philadelphia Flyers the year could lead to a team's divi headline a potent division which

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also boasts the New Jersey Devils and Pittsburgh Penguins. The Flyers should come out on top, however the quality of their divi sion should narrow the gap between themselves and the rest of the con ference. The steadily declining New York Rangers and chronically under-achieving New York Islanders will provide their divsion foes with a number of stat-padding opportunities this year as they do battle to see who won't end up in the Atlantic division cellar. The '98 season has begun with more question marks than any other in recent memory. Marquee players like Bure and Palffy are not in the lineup and their probable change of address this season could greatly affect the balance of power in the NHL. A healthy Paul ]G*riva dominate the league but no one knows for certain whether he will bounce back from his head injuries incurred last season. With the pending NBA lockout looming, this season could be a turning point for the NHL as it hopes to finally establish its place in the U.S. market.

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Soccer Martlets take bite out of Gaiters M c G ill g e t s b a c k o n t r a c k w i t h 2 - 1 v i c t o r y o v e r B i s h o p 's a t M o ls o n S t a d i u m B y T he M

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The McGill Martlets returned to their winning ways with a 2-1 win over the Bishop’s Gaiters last Friday in front of an enthusiastic crowd at Molson Stadium. The vic tory enabled McGill to move ahead of Bishop's into second place in the Quebec University Soccer League with a 4-1-2 record. After a tough stretch that included a loss to first-place Laval and a couple of disappointing draws, M cGill came out with a solid performance in a tightly con tested match that featured three yellow cards. "I didn't change our system from previous games; the ties didn’t reflect our dominance," stated M cG ill coach Marc Mounicot. "W hile the quality of the play today wasn't exceptional, we won the game with our fighting spirit." After a mostly uneventful first half with scoring chances few and

Martlets Joanne Hager, far between, the teams Em ilie M clver and went to the attacking Tanaquil Chantrill was mode for the second instrumental in setting the half. Bishop's defence on their McGill controlled heels late in the game. the pace with aggressive "We really forced the play in the Bishop’s zone play in the second half, after the intermission. we really wanted the They struck first in the win," said game MVP 60th minute, when Nayar. "In the past few defender Kiran Nayar games, we've picked the booted a long shot over play up with no results, Bishop's keeper Kristy but it finally come togeth Poirier. er today." After falling behind, The hard work paid Bishop's came out of M a r t l e t s s h i n e s o v e r G a i t e r s M a rk Perstinger off quickly for McGill. their defensive shell and the result was a wide-open game game in the 72nd minute, when Forward Cheryl Lee had a spirited with each team exchanging numer Alison Scott won the footrace for second half after coming off the ous scoring chances. Gaiter for the ball after McGill goalie Debra bench, using her speed in the ward Erin Patrick made life diffi Keitzke made a diving stop off a Bishop's zone. In the 77th minute, cult for the Martlet backfield, how free kick but couldn't hold on to the she slipped past the Gaiter defence and flipped the ball over the prone ever the visitors had difficulties in ball. finishing their plays on a couple of After the disappointing goal, goalie and into the open net for the clear opportunities in front of the the Martlets did not drop back, but game-winner. In ending their three-game continued to press for the victory. net. The Gaiters eventually tied the The skilled midfield play of winless streak, the Martlets had to

do without the contributions of six regulars, who were playing for their respective club teams in the National Championships. The list of missing players included captain Amanda Shaw and first-year striker Eva Melamed. As a result, many of the young team's rookies came off the bench and showed that they are ready to step up when needed. "I’m very pleased with their work ethic and attitude," said Mounicot. "They have a lot of potential, and their confidence level is higher after tonight." The upbeat mood of the Martlet squad was evident after the game. The hard-fought victory over the up-and coming Gaiters should provide the team with the boost it needs during the remaining part of the schedule. "This was definitely a very important win for our morale," commented Nayar. "I think it will be all up from here. It'll just be a matter of settling down and having

Concordia gets revenge for Shrine Bowl loss P la y o ff h o p e s s e v e r e ly h a m p e r e d w ith lo s s Sommerfeldt threw for 176 total yards, and rushed for an addition attack was quarterback Hoas, who al 31. He looked rem arkably rushed for a game-high 82 yards, poised in the pocket and seemed while completing 13-23 passes comfortable at the helm in spite for 263 yards. His favourite target the pressure by the Stinger in the air, was erstwhile slot-back defence. Sylvain Girard, who while accu "Josh stood strong in the pock mulating 131 yards on five com et, read the plays well and threw pletions, dazzled the crowd with the ball where guys could catch his lightning fast quickness, and it," said Sommerfeldt's favourite soft hands. target on the afternoon, slot-back The Stingers excelled defen Dave Chambers who hauled in sively as w ell. Team captain five of Sommerfeldt's passes for Dwayne Bromfield led the way 107 yards. "Give credit to the with 11 tackles and added a key offensive line as well, they gave interception late in the game great protection. The offensive which thwarted the driving co-ordinator designed some new Redmen. The turnover helped to plays this week, and we carried set up Concordia's final touch them out well as a unit." down by running back Sco tt Redmen workhorse Shawn Ashworth, which put the game Linden led the way on the ground, out of reach. as usual. Despite being visibly Having struggled early in the hampered by nagging injuries, he season despite high expectations, was a major force inside the 20 the Stingers were esp ecially yard line having bowled over the happy to have won the game. Concordia defence for two short With their chances of reaching the touchdown runs. post-season greatly enhanced, The Concordia defence, for the Concordia feels that it is right most part, did a fabulous job of back on track. stopping the Redmen star. "This was the biggest game of Linden, in fact, was limited to just the season for us," said Ashworth, 39 yards on 14 carries. On the who rushed for 74 total yards and brink of eclipsing Michael Soles' two touchdowns. "McGill's defen M cG ill rushing record, Linden sive line is one of the best, and fell 14 yards shy and will have to they really put the pressure on wait until next week to write his today. We just played up to our name into the record book. potential, and came together as a While the prestige of holding team. This is the result that we are the record is no doubt weighing capable of." heavily on his mind, it will defi While not as prolific as the nitely not be his primary goal Concordia attack on this day, next Saturday versus Laval at McGill's offence finally showed Molson Stadium. some signs of breaking out of its "Next week is do-or-die if we still season-long drought. The key rea want to make the playoffs; beat son, was the stellar play of rookie ing Laval next week is all that quarterback Josh Sommerfeldt, matters now," said Linden. who in his first career start, proved that he is very capable of adeptly leading the Redmen offence. Starting in favour of the struggling David M cK innon,

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The Martlets edged out a 2-1 victory over UQTR on Sunday. Kathleen O 'Reilly scored the game winner with just 1:44 left in the third, with the other goal being netted by Dana Rittmaster. The two goals along with strong goaltending from Amy Doyle helped McGill snap a five-year, 21-game losing streak against UQTR. The win gives the Martlets a 1-1 record in league play. H o c k e y R e d m e n win O t t a w a 's N a t io n a l B a n k T ournam ent

On Saturday, in the first game of the tournament, McGill downed Ryerson 3-2. Rookie cen tre David Burgess scored two goals, including the game winner and he also tallied an assist. Fellow rookie Lenny Jo Goudreau scored the other McGill goal. In net, Benoit Menard made 25 saves to earn his first CIAU vic tory.

In Sunday's final the Redmen beat Ottawa 6-4. Again, Burgess scored two goals, including the winner, and added an assist. Defenceman Mathieu Boisvert also scored twice in the win. Senior Jarrod Daniel got the win in net as the Redmen outshot Ottawa 40-20. C o n c o r d ia h a n d s R edmen SOCCER THIRD TIE OF THE SEASON

McGill tied the home team Concordia Stingers 1-1 on Sunday. The lone McGill goal came from Simon Abadie, his first of the season. Goalkeeper Jason Forsyth continued his excellent play by making several key saves, including one off of a penalty kick. The tie leaves McGill with a 2-1-2 league record and puts them in second place as they head for their showdown with first place Sherbrooke on Friday at Molson Stadium.

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