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Series of robberies sweeps McConnell Engineering Stolen and dam aged goods exceed $30,000, police continue investigation B y N ilima G

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Thieves made away with over $ 3 0 ,0 0 0 in co m p u ter eq u ip m en t and cash fro m tw o d e p a rtm e n ts and a student association located in th e M c C o n n e ll E n g in e e rin g B uilding. A lthough the robberies are currently under police investi­ gation, there is som e speculation that "insiders" are responsible for the theft.

In the early hours of Saturday O c to b e r 3 1 , an E n g in e e r in g U ndergraduate Society com m ittee m em ber discovered that the lock on the EUS com pound was broken off with w hat appears to have been a cro w b ar. T h ie v es irre v e rsib ly d a m a g e d p h o to c o p ie r s as th e y tried to pry open their coin-opera­ tors, and m ade away w ith a hun­ dred dollar float from Copy-EU S and petty cash from vending and tampon machines. An attem pt was also m ade to b rea k in to the bar area o f the EUS C om m on Room by ham m ering through the w alls and the ceiling. Estim ated costs of th e d a m a g e s an d lo s t p ro p e rty were over $18,000.

T w enty-four hours later, the M cConnell building was hit again; th is tim e , h o w e v e r, th e D e p a rtm e n t of E le c tr ic a l E n g in e erin g w as the ta rg et. T he departm ent has been preyed upon a num ber of tim es in the last few m o n th s by th ie v e s , and on th is o c c a sio n , th ey m ade aw ay w ith five com puters and a printer, alto­ g e th e r v a lu e d at o v e r $ 1 5 ,0 0 0 .

A lth o u g h d e p a r tm e n t o f f ic ia ls refused to com m ent further on the series of thefts, it is believed that th ere w as no evidence o f forced e n try in to th e c o m p u te r lab , an in d icatio n o f a possib le "inside" jo b . F u rth e rm o re , a v id e o ta p e a p p a r e n tly c a p tu r e d m a sk e d th ie v e s co v e rin g se c u rity v id eo cameras inside the lab before pro­ ceeding with their looting.

T h e D e p a rtm e n t o f C iv il E n g in e e r in g an d A p p lie d M ech an ics w as also ta rg e ted by thieves who m anaged to steal two laptop com puters and som e m is­ c e lla n e o u s co m p u te r eq u ip m en t fro m one o f th e ir labs o v er the w e e k e n d . J a m e s V a lla n c e , a research associate in the d ep a rt­ m e n t, is u n s u re a b o u t w h e th e r in sid e rs are re sp o n sib le fo r th e theft, but did not w ant to dism iss the possibility outright.

"There seem to be some pro­ fessio n al type thiev es at M cG ill w ho know w hat th e y 'r e doing...they must have know that th e la b is h e r e ...i t 's in a v ery obscure place," said Vallance.

EUS President Kleigh Heather b eliev es that the S atu rd ay night EUS robbery was almost certainly the w ork o f an in s id e r fa m ilia r with the layout of the M cConnell engineering building and the EUS com pound. He hypothesized that a co nstruction w orker or a student w as r e s p o n s ib le fo r th e jo b because of the nature of the thefts. "[They] knew what they were going after...[T]hey didn't vandal­ ize anything but specifically went for m oney," said H eather. "They w ere in and out and didn't touch a n y th in g e ls e — th e y w e r e n 't exploring."

N e v e rth e le s s , E n g in e e r in g Buildings D irector George Vekete feels that M cG ill's b u ild in g s are vulnerable to theft and for this rea­ son. he is reluctant to point the fin­ ger at a calculated insider.

"B ecause o f the openness o f the university, it's not very d iffi­ c u lt fo r an o u ts id e r to fin d o ut which are the com puter labs," said V ekete. "[H ow ever,] it's obvious that w hat one thinks right away if so m e o n e g o e s in to a la b w ith push-button code locks is...w here did he get it? Still, people who are C ontinued on page 2

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Catherine Farquharson

P le a s e see R e m e m b ra n c e D a y fe a tu r e o n p a g e 11.

Keith Haring retrospective a gem B y P a u l S h e r id a n

A re you scared o f art? T hat is to say , do y o u fe e l ig n o ra n t a n d in ti m id a te d a t a m u s e u m g a lle r y ? D o w o rd s lik e “ p o s t­ stru c tu ra lism ” an d “h y p e r-re a li­ ty ” m ake you cringe? If you are an a r to p h o b e , w o rry n o t: y o u r condition is treatable. T w o h igh­ ly accessible, u n pretentious ex h i­ b i t i o n s h a v e s im u lta n e o u s ly opened at the M ontreal M useum o f F in e A rts: “ D u a n e M ic h als: W o rd s an d Im a g e s” and “ K eith H arin g : a R e tro s p e c tiv e .” B o th o f th e s e sh o w s, w ith o u t n e c e s ­ sa rily b e in g sim p listic o r o b v i­ ous, are a pleasure to visit. T his w eek in the Tribune, w e ’ll take a tour through the H aring show .

K e ith H a r in g is a g r a f f i ti a r tis t b a s e d in N ew Y o rk w h o

d ied o f A ID S in 1990 at the age o f 31. T h is re tro sp e c tiv e trac es ev e ry step in th e y o u n g a rtist's brief, but p rolific, career.

O ne b eg in s th e ex h ib it w ith sam ples o f the artw ork he m ade as a child grow ing up in the m id ­ w est. A t th e ag e o f 12, H arin g w as fascin ated w ith icons in pop cu lture, and drew them o v er and o v e r ag ain in a w id e v arie ty o f p attern s and co m b in atio n s. T his f a s c i n a t i o n w ith p o p im a g e s e v e n tu a lly le d H arin g to c re ate his ow n set o f sym bols.

H arin g b eg an to use a le x i­ c o n o f f ig u r a tiv e s ig n s r a th e r th an le tte rs o r w o rd s. S y m b o ls such as the dog, snake, craw ling b ab y , py ram id , U FO and te le v i­ sio n set w ere co m b in ed in h u n ­ dreds o f v ariations. A s h e rep eat­ edly ju x ta p o se d th ese sym bols in

d i f f e r e n t a r r a n g e m e n t s , t h e ir m e a n in g s ch a n g e d . A s a c h ild .

H aring did the ex act sam e thing w ith L ed Z ep p elin g rap h ics and “Jesus S aves” stickers.

T h e r e tr o s p e c tiv e d o e s an ex cellen t jo b o f keep in g H arin g ’s w o rk in c o n te x t. T h e m u se u m h a s c o n s tr u c te d a m o d e l o f a M an h attan m etro station room to display H arin g ’s subw ay graffiti.

E ven som e o f the subw ay adver­ tis e m e n ts b e s id e w h ic h H a rin g drew have been p reserv ed for the exhibit. T hese adv ertisem en ts are a p a rtic u la rly n ic e to u c h , sin ce th ey o ften serv ed as an in sp ira ­ tio n f o r H a r in g . B e s id e o n e a d v e r t i s e m e n t w h ic h a s k e d , “W ould you buy a h ot dog from this m an ?,” H aring drew a giant C ontinued on page 23

REMEMBRANCE DAY

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News

T he M cG ill T ribune, T uesday 10 N ovember 1998

Safety and accessibility of Shatner Building not up to par B y S tephanie Levitz

building. This is unac­ ceptable, as is the fact Pigeon infestation, lack of nat­ that the university itself ural light and slippery floors were has taken more initiative only som e o f the problem s hig h ­ in th e d e p a rtm e n t o f lig h te d in th e “ F u tu re P la n n in g a c c e s s ib ility th a n we S tu d y fo r th e S tu d e n t C e n tre have.”

B u ild in g o f M cG ill U n iv e rs ity ” A n o th e r p re s s in g released two weeks ago. iss u e c o n c e rn in g th e The report was com m issioned building is that it does by the Students’ Society of McGill not conform to the safety University and the McGill adminis­ and fire c o d e s o f th e tration in order to study the organi­ M o n tre a l F ire zation and operation of the Shatner Departm ent. A ccording building as it relates to the needs of to th e re p o rt, “T he SSM U . T he study also to o k into capacity of the exits are a c c o u n t th e im p a c t o f th e new significantly insufficient Student Services Building, currently for the second and third under construction next door. floors...the two existing The report addressed problems [back] staircases are not S h a tn e r a c c e s s ib ility in s u ffic ie n t w ith Shatner ranging from inade­ presently leading to the quate allocation of space to the more exterior [of the building].” As well, U3 student who works at the McGill serious issues o f the accessibility L egal In fo C lin ic. “T hey have a the flo o r space in S hatner th at is and safety of the building. interconnected by the large staircase responsibility to the student body, The building was constructed in should have a sprinkler system , a and should they continue [to be neg­ the mid 1960s at a time when acces­ smoke extraction system, draft stops ligent] they can be sued.” sibility was not a priority in design.

O f c o u rse , th is le a d s to the and smoke detectors.

Consequently, m uch o f Shatner is question that if Shatner is in viola­ T he fac t that th e SSM U has not accessible to the disabled and now been made form ally aware of tio n o f th e se c o d e s, w hy h a s n ’t those areas which are, are not up to the in a d eq u a cie s o f th e b u ild in g a c tio n been ta k e n so o n e r? industry standards. A lack o f appro­ poses a serio u s pro b lem . S hould According to fire inspector Benoit priate door hardware and inconve­ SSM U hold a m ajor event such as Cantin, buildings in the M ontreal nient elevator and washroom stalls Four Floors - in which the building area are not regularly inspected. which do not provide enough space is g rossly over carry in g capacity “ W e go a c c o rd in g to co m ­ fo r m a n o e u v rin g a re am o n g the plaints,” said Cantin. “We can’t reg­ considering the num ber of exits in problems cited. existence — in the event of an acci­ ularly inspect because we don’t have According to SSMU President d ent it is liable fo r any injury or the personnel. And these complaints, D u n c a n R e id , th e s ta te o f the they have to be serious. We aren’t damage.

Shatner building is an em barrass­ ‘T h e fact that they know what ju st going to go look at a building ment to the Society. because someone phones and says it those regulations are and that they “We pride ourselves on being a are potentially putting human lives looks bad, there have to be specifics, leadership organization for students, in d an g er m akes them liab le and like fire alarm systems not working yet we have the m ost inaccessible negligent,” said Dan Saverimuthu, a or conditions that are detrimental to human habitation.”

Better security a necessity C ontinued from page 1 in th e b u s in e s s [o f c rim e ] ca n often defeat the system."

M cG ill S ecu rity S u p erv iso r Chris Falagaris would state noth­ ing beyond the fact that the inci­ dent is currently under investiga­ tion.

"We have a theft and we are taking it very seriously," she said.

Security concerns escalate EUS Senator and executive m em ­ ber M elanie Beaulieu feels that the renovations currently taking place in M cC onnell m ay have possibly com prom ised the security o f the building and the safety of students.

"You hear all this banging and n o is e an d no o n e th in k s tw ic e b e c a u s e o f all th e c o n s tru c tio n going on," she stated. "W e’re w or­ ried about our property but about people too. In fact, that's our main co n c ern -y o u sh o u ld feel safe at school."

A t p rese n t, M cG ill se cu rity sta ffs the en tra n c e to the F ran k

REFLECTION & W O R S H IP DOW NTOW N Wednesdays, S p.m.

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D aw so n A d am s b u ild in g a fte rhours on w eekdays and on w eek­ en d s. F a la g a r is a s s e r ts th a t all b u ild in g s are p a tro lle d at n ig h t although roving security w on’t go to the sam e building at the sam e tim e each night.

"A fter a building is declared officially closed, a guard serves as a locking mechanism," she stated.

"A g u a rd 's p u rp o se is to en su re th a t w h o e v e r u se s th e b u ild in g after-hours is recorded."

Nevertheless, H eather is con­ cerned that current security m ea­ sures are insufficient to ensure the safety o f students and school prop­ erty. A t p rese n t, th e M cC o n n ell engineering building has no swipe card access on the ground floor; Heather argues the reason is linked to th e u n iv e rsity 's re lu c ta n c e to cough up the funds to finance the p roject. H e believ es th a t M cG ill w ould rath e r sw allow a $ 25,000 d e d u c tib le than in v e st in co stly long-term security technology. " It's n o t a b o u t m o n ey a n y ­ more, it's about students being safe on cam pus. I c a n 't see [M cG ill] not putting $500,000 for the main re a so n w hy th e re a re b u ild in g s h e re .... so that students can w alk here safely," said Heather.

There is some hope that after the latest rash o f robberies, beef­ ing up security on campus will be at the top o f M cGill's list o f priori­ ties.

"I need more financing," said V ek ete. "I have fin a n c in g fo r a limited am ount [of investment] but after this latest incident, I expect the am ount to increase." *- •- * .

S h o u ld a c o m p la in t w a r­ rant an inspection o f S h a tn e r, th e m o st se rio u s punishm ent that SSM U co u ld fac e w o u ld be $300 fine for the first infraction a fin e th at d o u ­ b les w ith each subsequent in fractio n , w ith no m ax im u m .

However, this is now here near as c lo se as th e amount in civil j une Ashman d am ag e s th a t SSMU could be forced to award an injured student.

Reid acknowledges that safety c o n c e rn s in S h a tn e r h av e now become a priority and an immediate responsibility.

“Just from a logical perspec­ tive, we are now aware of the prob­ lem so we can’t come in like igno­ rant execs, and hold these big events and say ‘w ell, I ’ve only been in office four months, I’m ju st doing what my predecessors did, it’s not my fault’ because now we have this inform ation in our hands. I d o n ’t know, knowing what we know now, if we can continue to hold the kind of events that we have in the past. I don’t know if it is fair or responsi­ ble.”

T o b rin g th e b u ild in g up to code, as well as renovate decaying parts of the interior and exterior, will

require close to 2.5 million dollars.

As the landlord, McGill is responsi­ ble for all the base building modifi­ cations, including some ventilation, sp rin k ler system s and fire safety measures, which will cost the uni­ versity just over one million dollars.

Reid is hoping that the university will contribute at least this much of the costs, if not more. The remaining $1.5 million must be raised by the student body through referendum, a task that Reid believes is entirely possible.

“It is not unreasonable to ask students to contribute to this facili­ ty,” he said. “Look at the gym, look at the new student services building, this is the next thing. Each genera­ tion o f students leaves som ething behind at M cG ill, look how cash strapped it is. We have a responsibil­ ity to leave something behind, con­ sidering nothing has been invested in this building in 35 years, it’s time to do something here.”

The best thing about the reno­ vations, according to Reid, is that for the first time M cGill students will actually get to see the results of the money they are contributing.

“The w ork w ill be done over the summer, and the fee-collecting period is in the fall, so in fact, the building will be finished before any money is actually collected. I think that is a first in McGill history. Do we want to continue to be limited by the weaknesses of the building? We have a responsibility, and we owe it to ourselves to improve the safety, accessibility and utility of Shatner.”

MSE a th riv in g fa c u lty B y F red S agel

In re s p o n s e to a g ro w in g dem and for w ell-prepared g radu­ ates in the field o f environm ental science, M cG ill unveiled its new S ch o o l o f E n v iro n m e n t th is fall after three years of planning.

P re v io u s ly , e n v iro n m e n ta l issues were not studied as a single discipline at M cGill. This was, in effe c t, th e ra iso n d ’ê tre fo r the establishm ent o f the school.

A lthough the program is still in its nascent stage, it has neverthe­ less received w idespread acclaim .

Over ninety students, in addition to fiftee n p ro fe sso rs, c o m p rise the school.

The program is headed by Dr. Peter Brown from the University of M aryland. W hile at M aryland, he founded and taught the School of P u b lic A ffa irs an d p u b lis h e d a book about his vision for progres­ siv e g o v e rn m e n t in th e U n ite d States. His interest in environm en­ tal and global concerns gives him a personal stake in the success o f the new school.

"There are a lot o f problem s w h ich are n o t b ein g a d e q u a te ly a d d re sse d , lik e c lim a te c h a n g e, biodiversity loss, effects o f various human being compounds on human health,” said Brown. “To have the o p p o rtu n ity to b u ild so m e th in g from the ground up was irresistible b e c a u s e I th in k it w ill m a k e it m u ch m o re p o s s ib le to a d d re ss these issues in the future.”

The M SE requires students to take four core subjects dealing with JLfjJUk

v aried p ersp ectiv es o f the global environm ent. T hey then have the opportunity to choose courses from on e o f fo u r d o m ain s w h ich deal w ith environm ental issues; health, biodiversity, culture, or economics.

The program caters to a mix o f stu­ dents from various faculties.

A nthropology professor Colin Scott doubles as a M SE professor and is an enthusiast o f such a cross­ disciplinarian approach to environ­ mental studies.

| l L [/ In terd iscip lin a ry s t u d ie s are e s s e n t ia l in dealing with matters o f the en vironm ent. The im p a ct that kind o f perspective in undergraduate teachings brings is su p erior to any­ thing offered in traditional studies.

Dr. Peter Brown, Head of the McGill School of the Environment "I have w orked in ecological anthropology and I have worked in policy-making capacities having to do w ith the e n v iro n m e n t,” said Scott. “I have also been in com mu­ n ic a tio n w ith s p e c ia lis ts an d I know from th a t e x p e rie n c e th at interdisciplinary studies are essen­ tial in dealing with m atters o f the environment. The impact that kind o f p e rsp e c tiv e in u n d erg rad u a te teachings brings is superior to any­ thing offered in traditional studies."

M SE students appear enthusi­ astic ab o u t the school. M ath ild e Perrault-Archambault, a U2 student minoring in environmental studies, is excited about being a member of the first MSE graduating class. She said that the em phasis p laced on the global nature o f environmental studies is a m ajor strength o f the program. "[The p ro fesso rs] do a good job relating the issues to scientific debate and current topics and we are taught to see the environm ent as a g lo b a l s y s te m ,” P e r ra u ltA rcham bault stated. “They try to get us to see as much as we can in a global way."

P e rra u lt-A rc h a m b a u lt no ted that the school has taken advantage o f M c G ill's re s e a r c h s ta tio n in M ont St. Hilaire, Quebec, to bring th e stu d e n ts to g e th e r an d b egin field work.

Brown foresees great success fo r th e sch o o l in th e fu tu re . H e believes M cGill is an ideal univer­ sity to in itia te th is p ro g ra m because it is not characterized by a n tiq u a te d m e th o d s o f stu d y in g environmental issues. “ W e 're a b le to s ta r t p r e tty much able to start from the ground up; we're not stuck with a program th a t w as d e s ig n e d a lo n g w h ile a g o ," s ta te d B ro w n . “ T h e b a s ic notion of the school is to produce people that discover w hat you need to know to th in k ab o u t e n v iro n ­ m ental problem s in all their com ­ plexities, not ju st in one or two per­ spectives."

News

T he M c G ill T ribune, T uesday, 10 N ovember 1998

Golden Key society inducts 500 students

Burnaby M P likens Canada to an oppressive state a fte r APEC incident

By R enée D unk

Svend Robinson, Burnaby MP and N D P c ritic on In te rn a tio n a l Human Rights, spoke at McGill last week urging students to condemn the human rights violations that occurred at the APEC summit in Vancouver last fall.

Robinson, has been travelling across the country speaking about the R C M P 's u se o f p e p p e r-sp ra y on University of British Columbia stu­ dent protesters at the sum m it. He d e s c rib e d A PE C as a fre e trad e agreem ent betw een 18 S outheast A sian countries that is “p art o f a global corporate agenda of deregula­ tion and privatization.”

APEC was not only morally bankrupt but also totally without legal founda­ tion, and that is the underpinning of a police state. That police state wasn’t in Indonesia, it wasn’t in Malaysia, it w asn’t in China. I believe that the police state was here in Canada last fall.”

The inquiry Since the sum m it, the RCM P has launched an official inquiry into the UBC occurrences. Robinson feels th a t this in quiry is an “ on-going farce.”

“T he [R C M P] P u b lic Complaints Commission’s sole man­ date is to look at RCMP wrongdo­ ings. They don’t have the mandate or

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McGill.”

The MP believes that it will take a long time to find out the truth about w hat happened in V ancouver last fall, but that for now, the fundamen­ tal q u estio n is C a n a d a ’s ro le in APEC. “Why are we a member of this club that doesn’t show any respect for human rights and the environ­ ment,” he asked. “At the very least, le t’s try to use our position at the table.”

In the m eantim e, Robinson is urging Chrétien to boycott an upcom­ ing APEC sum m it in M alaysia as Canada’s presence at the conference will indicate support for an oppres­ sive regime. “[In Malaysia,] the indigenous way of life virtually destroyed by political regime. Instead of support­ ing this kind of behaviour Canada should join with other countries and say no; we w on’t be part of these human rights abuses.”

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Robinson reminded students o f the incident that occurred at UBC last year in his lecture on Wednesday.

“Students [who were] peace­ Other concerns fully, non-violently demonstrating w ere pepper sprayed with m as­ One of Robinson’s main con­ sive quantities of pepper spray. cerns about APEC is that the agree­ Their were signs tom down, their ment has absolutely no rules or reg­ banners, destroyed. Women stu­ ulations that offset the violation of dents were strip searched, and for both human rights and environmen­ what -— humiliation. They didn’t tal degradation in member states. break any laws whatsoever.”

He believes that trade agreements, H e d escrib ed how a CBC including the North American Free news camera documented exactly T ra d e A g re em en t and A PE C , w hat happened at the sum m it. heighten the growing gap between According to the tape, nine sec­ rich and poor countries.

Rebecca Catching onds passed betw een the tim e S v e n d R o b in so n “APEC is not about human APEC officials asked students to rights, not about environm ent, not the authority to get at the truth about leave and their use of pepper spray. about the exploitation of labour and the role of the Prime Minister.”

“People were starting to get up Robinson has repeatedly made a not about any sort of basic social and leave yet, out came the pepper standards,” he stated. sp ray ,” R obinson stated. “P epper call for a full, independent, judicial Although Canada’s participation inquiry in order find out the truth spray is more dangerous than tear gas in APEC may influence other coun­ about what happened at the summit. and Mace. It causes the eyes to swell He feels that there is a definite need tries to adopt W estern dem ocratic and close immediately.” to define the Prime Minister’s role in values, the MP is concerned that the A ll o f the stu d en t p ro testers RC M P m ay have set a p reced en t arrested were forced to sign a legal the abuse. concerning the violation of human “W e’re [the public] not here to document stating that they would not rights. be k o w -to w in g to th e P rim e participate nor be found in attendance “In Malaysia, [APEC] officials M in iste r’s O ffice.

W e’re here to at any public demonstration that had gathered together for the sole purpose uphold the law. If it’s proven that the used pepper spray against demonstra­ Prime Minister and his office direct­ tors for the first time a month ago. o f d em o n stratin g a g a in st A PEC .

I’m not sure if they learned that from Robinson claimed that the document ed the police, he has to resign,” he Canada but it was the first time that demonstrated total contempt for fun­ stated. they had used [pepper spray] in that dam ental freedom s that Canadians way.”

Affirm ative action are entitled to under the Canadian Robinson did assure students, Charter of Rights and Freedoms. however, that the brutal attacks that Furtherm ore, despite the fact “In the twenty-odd years that I have been a member of Parliament, I that federal courts urged that the gov­ are now part of Canadian history are unlikely to be repeated. ernm ent cover the stu d en ts’ legal c a n ’t th in k o f an issue that goes “W e have to learn a lesson from costs, the Liberal governm ent has against in a fundamental way to the kind of country that we are than what given the arrested protesters no finan­ this and at [the] least, future govern­ m ents w ill be a lo t m ore carefu l cial support whatsoever. Fortunately, took p lace a year ago around the before they trample on the rights of Robinson stated, the public is coming APEC summit,” he said.

Canadians the way that Chrétien did through with the funds.

Robinson likened the violation “McGill has given funds...cam­ at A PE C . Im p o rta n t le sso n and o f human rights that occurred last before we host visiting dictators in puses across the country have been year to a feature of an undemocratic, oppressive state, like Indonesia or very generous in supporting the stu­ the future that there should be a lot of dents,” he said. “If this happened at soul-searching about what price we Malaysia.

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T h e M c G ill c h a p te r o f th e G o ld e n K ey N a tio n a l H o n o u r Society w elcom ed 500 new m em ­ b e rs la s t T u e sd a y at its se co n d annual induction ceremony.

Recognized for their academic success, the students were inducted as lifetime members at the Holiday In n M id to w n . T h re e o f th e in d u c te e s re c e iv e d G o ld en K ey scholarships. F ive M cG ill acade­ m ics w ere also in d u cted in to the society as honorary members.

Eligibility for G olden Key is based on a c a d e m ic m e rit.

Invitations are extended to the top 15 per cen t o f b ac h elo r's degree stu d en ts w ho h av e co m p leted at least one year o f th eir university stu d ies. U p o n ac ce p ta n ce to the society, a one-tim e fee o f $70 is required.

F o u n d e d at G e o r g ia S ta te University in N ovem ber 1977, the G o ld e n K ey N a tio n a l H o n o u r S o ciety has ch a rtered m ore than 270 active chapters throughout the U S , A u s tr a lia , C a n a d a , P u e rto R ic o , th e V irg in I s la n d s , an d Malaysia. M cGill was the first uni­ versity in Canada to have a Golden Key chapter. Since then, four other C anadian cam puses have becom e active in the society.

In total, the society has recog­ nized over 800,000 lifetim e mem­ bers and 10,000 honourary m em ­ bers, including US P resident Bill C lin to n a n d , lo c a lly , M c G ill Chancellor G retta Chambers.

T h is y ea r th e fiv e h o n o rary m em bers inducted w ere M cG ill's Dean of M anagem ent Dr. W allace C ro w sto n , D ean o f S cie n ce M r.

Alan Shaver, Dean of Engineering M r. Jo h n D e a ly , D ir e c to r o f C a n a d ia n S tu d ie s D r. D esm o n d M orton, and Executive D irector of th e M c G ill A lu m n i A sso c ia tio n j Ms. H onora Shaughnessy. "[T h e h o n o u ra ry in d u c te e s were] chosen because they personi| fy th e q u a litie s o f le a d e rs h ip , excellence, and personal achieve| ment. They're basically exemplary leaders. They are w hat we aspire to become," said Erin Stock, VP com ­ m u n ity a f f a ir s fo r G o ld e n K ey McGill.

A cco rd in g to a G o ld en K ey | pam phlet, the Society's m ain pur­ poses include recognizing scholas­ tic excellence in all fields of study, p ro v id in g e c o n o m ic a s s is ta n c e through scholarships, and prom ot­ ing sc h o la stic a c h ie v e m e n t and altruistic conduct through v o lu n ­ tary service.

The M cGill students to receive sc h o la rsh ip s as th e to p stu d en ts w ere L isa M aria R e isin g e r , A ri L e v o n L ib a rik ia n , an d M a th ie u Ferland.

A part from the scholarships, the n etw orking and volu n teerin g opportunities offered are two other m a in re a s o n s w h y G o ld e n K ey appeals to some students.

"It h e lp s y o u in th e fu tu re because it w idens your contacts," U1 M e d ic in e s tu d e n t L e o n a rd Bergeron noted.

M arie-H élèn e G ratto n , a U2 M anagem ent student, feels m uch the same way. "I find the network­ ing appeals to me — the opportuni­ ty to m eet people and form co n ­ tacts. [Golden Key] really stressed th e im p o r ta n c e o f g e ttin g involved,” she said. "That’s a very good thing, how ever it’s very time consum ing. But there are benefits to volunteering— it increases your self worth."

"It allows you to give back to so c ie ty in m an y d iffe re n t w ay s because there are a lot of activities y o u c a n p a r tic ip a te in su c h as fu n d ra is in g an d b lo o d d riv e s ," added U1 M edicine student Paul W ieczorek.

G o ld e n K ey M c G ill h as fo rm e d an a llia n c e w ith th e R e a d in g C o u n c il fo r L ite ra c y Advance in M ontreal, to help fight illiteracy. M em bers o f the society are e n c o u ra g e d to v o lu n te e r as tutors at RECLAIM as well as par­ tic ip a te in fu n d ra isin g ev en ts in support of the non-profit organiza­ tion.

"W e are the only ch a p te r to adopt a community service organi­ zation. W e’re getting our members in v o lv e d and g iv in g b ack to the community," said Stock.

B e y o n d th e o p p o r tu n itie s available to G olden Key members, the sim p le in v ita tio n to jo in th e so ciety is p re stig io u s in its ow n right.

"It’s a great honour to be rec­ o g n iz ed . W h en you w o rk rea lly hard it's nice to know that someone acknowledges it," said U3 Arts stu­ dent April Alberston.

C a ta rin a D is a b a to , a U3 E ducation student, notes th at the honour isn’t hers alone. "Your par­ e n ts m a k e a lo t o f s a c r if ic e s .

Sometimes to be part o f something like this they feel m ore honoured than you do. If w e can thank them in this way then why not."

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A t the revision office, you must bring: 1. proof of Canadian citizenship (birth certificate, passport, citizenship card) 2. proof of Quebec residency (phone/hydro bill, driver's licence, health card, personalized cheque) You w ill be a sked if y o u in te n d to s tay in Q ueb ec.

O n ly th o s e w h o in te n d to s ta y in Q u e b e c w ill be a llo w e d to v o te .

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Low turnout the dominating issue at FYSA debates Presidental candidates

By A lvaro E. A larcon

Seven out of eight candidates for First Year Students Association exec­ u tiv e p o sitio n s p a rtic ip a te d in a sparsely attended hour-long questionand-answer forum last Tuesday night in McConnell Hall. The organization has just celebrated its first anniversary and n ew ly -elected o ffic ers will rep la ce la st y ear's ex e cu tiv e on November 15.

FYSA was the brainchild of last year’s Students’ Society of McGill University President Tara Newell and was intended to act as the voice for first year students on SSMU council.

Last year, the idea of such an associa­ tion was well received by the incom­ ing first year students - with two or m ore candidates running for each position, and only one acclaimed role.

T his year how ever, interest in the elections was less than overwhelming; it took a five day extension o f the nomination deadline to attract candi­ dates for the six available positions.

Even with the extension, there will only be elections for the position of President, VP University Relations and VP Communications. The posi­ tions of VP Finance and VP External were acclaimed and the position of VP Internal will require a by-election, as no nomination forms were received.

Lack of interest in FYSA was the key issue brought up during the ques­ tion and answ er period last week.

Each candidate was given thirty seconds to introduce themselves, after which questions were asked both from the floor and from past FYSA executives.

Presidential candidates Catherine Weiler and David Schanzle gave dia­ metrically opposite reasons for run­ ning for election. W eiler expressed dism ay at the poo r tu rn o u t and prom ised to make FYSA an active body.

“It's disappointing that there was­ n't more interest shown in FYSA...if we can have an active council, we can get people interested" she said. "I guess it shows the lack of enthusiasm from first year students for this kind of thing."

Schanzle on the other hand, took a more laissez-faire approach to the matter, saying that he was just running to "to take a position, give free things, put it on my resume — like everybody else.” Schanzle added that he is “just running because [I had] nothing else to do, but once in office...all that oppose me will be killed, and at the end of this year I ’ll end the FYSA government forever."

University relations Schanzle's comments provided a smidgen of comic relief to what other­ w ise w as a serious d ebate on the issues the other candidates felt were plaguing first year students, including general lack of awareness. "[FYSA's] not very popular right now," VP uni­ versity relations candidate Amy Wong said. "I would like to get more input from first-year students and get FYSA more well-known. I would like to con­ tinue a project from last year...to pro­

duce a booklet with course info that all students can receive. I don't think our course calendar was adequate."

Kinga Grudzinski, her opponent, said she felt the role of her position would be to represent the academic side of FYSA to SSMU. "It's really im portant for vice president academic to represent stu­ d ents... so th a t they know w hat is going on with SSMU."

External Increasing the exposure of FYSA was also a priority for both candidates for the position of VP External.

"This is how society works...we work together," said VP External can­ didate Alice Han during the meeting.

"I would really like to make FYSA more w ell known" she said, using involvement with clubs and communi­ ty projects as examples of how this

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A f u n d - r a i s in g c a m p a ig n b e g a n to d a y in o r d e r to r a is e m oney fo r v ic tim s o f H urrican e M itch and the su bsequent flo o d ­ ing in the H onduras.

T h e c a m p a ig n , w h ic h h as c o lle c tio n sta tio n s a ro u n d m ain cam p u s, is w o rk in g in c o n ju n c ­ tion w ith the H onduran consulate and tw o H onduran o rganizations in o rd er to d eliv er aid to rem ote indigenous villages o f H onduras' M osquito Coast.

K endra M cSw eeny, a doctor­ al c a n d id a te in G eo g rap h y , and Sarah D alle, a m aster's student in e th n o b o ta n ic a l stu d ie s, le ad the M c G ill g ro u p a f te r d o in g fie ld studies in the region.

"I w o rk e d in th e H o n d u ra n M o sq u ito C o a st, b e tw e e n 1994 a n d 1 9 9 6 . I d id d e v e lo p m e n t related research th e re ...1 ju s t got back in July from d oing 5 m onths o f doctoral fieldw ork there, so I’m v e ry in to u c h w ith th e p e o p le dow n th e re , and w ith the s itu a ­ tion," said M cSw eeny. "So w hen I h ea rd th e h u rric a n e had h it, I c a lle d p e o p le do w n th e re ...th e y had been in radio contact w ith the c o m m u n itie s w h e r e I h a d w o rk e d ...I w a s a m a z e d to fin d that a lot o f them had been sw ept aw ay and that a lot o f them w ere hom eless."

T h e g ro u p is se ek in g d o n a ­ tions o f very specific goods. The

goods include dried soups, p o w ­ dered m ilk, pasta, o atm eal, flour an d su g a r. A d d itio n a lly , v ita ­ m ins, w ate r p u rific a tio n ta b lets, s o a p a n d b le a c h a re a ls o in dem and.

"W e have a list o f very spe­ c ific g o o d s. T h e re a s o n it's so specific is because it's so difficult to get transportation out there. So it has to be very co m p ac t, h igh v a lu e p a c k a g e s ," added M cSw eeny.

C ollection stations accepting d ro p o f f o r c a sh d o n a tio n s a re b e in g s e tu p to d a y in th e M c L e n n a n lib r a r y , S te w a r t B iology building and in the M ath, G eography and M eteo ro lo g y lab on the fifth floor o f B urnside. A g ro u p c a lle d D e v e lo p m e n t an d P eace is ac ce p tin g d o n atio n s on b e h a lf o f the M cG ill gro u p and can issue tax receipts. " W e ’re a p p e a l in g to th e M cG ill com m unity because w e're M c G ill s t u d e n t s . .. a n d w e 'v e re c e iv e d a lo t o f v e ry p o s itiv e s u p p o rt fro m p e o p le . It seem s that w e have about $10,000 d o l­ lars pledged from both w ithin and outside M cG ill," said M cSw eeny.

"I c o u ld n 't im a g in e a s itu a tio n w here people are m ore in need of help."

C h e q u e s s h o u ld b e m a d e p a y a b l e to D e v e lo p m e n t a n d P eace: H u r r ic a n e M itc h , M o s q u itia C a m p a ig n .

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T h e S t u d e n t s ’ S o c ie ty o f M cG ill U n iv ersity council voted T h u rsd ay to resc in d a p leb iscite m o tio n a s k in g stu d e n ts to v o te on w h e th e r th ey w o u ld like the prop o sed 4 .3/A + g rading system im plem ented. T he m ove follow s th e A c a d e m ic P la n n in g a n d P o lic y C o m m itte e ’s d e c isio n to rev isit th e ir reco m m en d atio n for its im plem entation.

T h e 4 .3 /A + g rad in g schem e w as p r o p o s e d o v e r a y e a r a g o a n d w o u ld h a v e r e p la c e d M c G ill’s cu rren t 4 .0 scale. W ith no sta n d ard iz ed g rad in g schem e in C a n a d a , th e 4 .3 sc ale w o u ld have b ro u g h t M cG ill in line w ith o th er C anadian u n iv ersities such as C o n c o rd ia an d the U n iv ersity o f T o r o n t o . S in c e M c G i l l ’ s A P P C b e g a n in v e s tig a tin g th e ch an g e, U o f T has begun inves­ tig atin g the m ove to a 4 .0 scale.

V P U n iv e rsity A ffa irs S am J o h n s t o n m a d e th e m o tio n to r e m o v e q u e s tio n fro m th e fa ll referendum after student senators c o n v e y e d th e ir r e s e rv a tio n s about its im plem entation.

“A ll o f the senators said that th e y d id n o t w a n t th e 4 .3 /A + g r a d in g s c h e m e , o r th a t th e y w ere in d ifferen t to it b ecau se it did n ot affect th eir facu lty ,” said Johnston. “So 1 took th at in fo r­ m ation to the A cadem ic Planning and P olicy C o m m ittee, and D ean Ju k ie r w as th e re a fte r h e r in p u t

could be achieved.

"Running for FYSA would give me access to more resources, give me m ore cap acity to m ake chan g es, impact in McGill and in the communi­ ty-" Paulina Hwang, also running for VP external, focused her ideas on get­ ting FYSA involved outside McGill.

“FYSA should concern itself not only [with] what's going on in McGill...I'm interested in working with other uni­ versities, an area where we need to go"

Acclaimed positions Acclaimed VP Communications Angela Cavalluzzo included in her mandate the idea that FYSA should work in "helping to communicate with first-year students, maybe developing a Web Page, getting them out at meet­ ings or councils. The low turn-out fro m th e [ c o n s u lta tiv e ] fo ru m w hich w as largely very negative to w ard s it, and w e asked [APPC] to rev isit the d ecision w here they approved the 4.3/A + , w hich they did.

W h ile A P P C is n o lo n g e r c o n s i d e r i n g th e 4 .3 g r a d in g sch em e, th ey are now c o n s id e r­ ing im p lem en tin g a p o ssib le A + w ith o u t th e 4 .3 a tta c h e d to it.

A c c o rd in g to J o h n sto n , th e A + w ould n ot b e tied to any p ercen t­ age o r G PA . “ [It w o u ld b e an ] A + o n a 4 .0 s c a le - it w o u ld b e lik e a s y m b o l ic A + . I t w o u ld n o t c h a n g e th e G P A , b u t w o u ld rew ard excep tio n al stu d en ts.”

show s me th at this year's council needs to be more adequate about mak­ ing FY SA [w ork]." R alph A bdo, acclaimed VP Finance was not present at the deb ates and co uld n ot be reached for comment.

A recurring problem with both FYSA and first year students in gener­ al has been that they are on the whole u niform ed about th eir rig h ts and obligations at M cGill, both as first year students and executives on this society.

"Here is an o rganization that operates over one year only, [and] a lot of what you do in the organization is a learning experience...but you also have to accomplish [a mandate]," said Xavier Van Chau, current FYSA pres­ ident. "That will be perpetual — the ideas of the candidates cannot be ful­ filled because they don't know what or how to do it. I'm sitting on [Inter-resi­ dence] council. I've proposed a work­ shop for the new executive...so they'll have the basis to work with, with real initiatives to push.

“It's all a question o f what the •individual is willing to do. It is a time commitment, one that is whole-heart­ ed.”

The FYSA election voting period will take place November 10-12. All students in their first year o f an under­ graduate program are eligible to take part.

T h e v o te on th e A + a lo n e w ill n ot o ccur until afte r students h a v e b e e n c o n s u lte d a b o u t th e p ossible change. “ W e ta b le d th a t f o r tw o w eeks so w e co u ld hold an o th er fo ru m , and g et s tu d e n t se n a to rs to co n su lt th eir faculty co u n cils, [in o rd er]to see if th a t’s the kind o f th in g s tu d e n ts w a n t,” s a id Johnston.

The stu d e n t fo r u m w ill ta ke p la c e in S h a t n e r 1 0 7 /1 0 8 o n Thursday, N o vem b er 12, a t lp m .

N E T W O R K b rie f U OF ALB ER TA ST U D E N TS LO O K IN G INTO G RO UP T R A N S IT RATES

T h e U n iv e r s ity o f A lb e r ta Students' Union continues to nego­ tiate w ith E dm onton T ran sit over reduced fares.

The Students' Union offered a p ro p o sal to tran sit au th o rities to provide all U o f A students w ith u nlim ited access to public tran s­ p o rta tio n th ro u g h o u t th e sch o o l year. The proposal suggested that all students pay a m andatory $75 fe e f o r an e ig h t m o n th p a s s .

Currently, students w ho purchase passes pay $45 per month.

The idea is to take advantage o f econom ies o f scale. A ccording to S tu d en ts' U n io n V P E x tern al Bruce M cRae, the $75 fee w ould allow E dm onton T ran sit to bring

in the sam e level o f rev en u e by signing up all U of A students.

Edm onton T ransit appears to be lukewarm to the idea.

"W e're fin e w ith a rev en u eneutral situation," said D irector of C o m m u n ity R e la tio n s L o rn a Stewart. She noted, how ever, that increased ridership, and therefore th e in c re a s in g n e e d fo r b u s e s , could raise the fee in the future.

This proposal is one o f several which the Students’ Union is con­ sidering. O thers include a further reduced tran sit fare (cu rren tly at 10 p e r c e n t), an d th e o p tio n o f b u y in g s e m e s te r - lo n g p a s s e s instead o f monthly ones.

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E D I TO R I A L “We make war that we may live in peace.”

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S te ph a n ie Levitz ____________________________________

This week, Canada and the United Kingdom observe Remembrance Day — a day dedicated to the memories o f those who lost their lives in wartime. The focus o f Remembrance Day, however, cannot simply be on those who have died in war, but rather those who have died for peace.

T h re e w eek s ago, Y asser A ra fa t, C h a irm an o f th e P a le stin ia n Liberation O rganization, and B enjam in N etanyahu, Prim e M inister o f Israel, signed the W ye Plantation Agreem ent, reaffirm ing their intentions to continue the peace process began in 1994 by Arafat and N etanyahu’s predecessor, Y itzhak Rabin.

T h e W ye A greem ent is little m ore than a docum en t co n tain in g promises by both the Israelis and Palestinians that they will go back to the p erm anent status negotiations that began w ith the Israeli-P alestin ian Declaration o f Principles in 1993 and continued on with the Oslo Accord o f 1994. Among other things, the clauses o f the docum ent provide for increased efforts on the part o f Arafat to step up his efforts in eradicating terrorism. In return, Netanyahu has promised to relinquish more territory to the Palestinians. All previous negotiations between Israel and the PLO have also contained these clauses. It is these promises that constitute the peace process — these papers that are supposed to be moving the two nations towards a common goal o f peace.

Although these documents are important, the peace process has taken place less on paper and more in flesh and blood. Over the last four years, attempts to attain peace have been challenged by those unwilling to com ­ promise. Since 1994, close to 200 Israelis have died as a result of such challenges and countless Palestinians have given their lives in suicide bombings in protest o f the process. Just last W ednesday, two Palestinian suicide bom bers died as they drove a car through the crow ded m arket­ place in Jerusalem . In the previous week, an Israeli police officer was killed when he used his car to shield a school bus carrying Israeli children from an oncom ing suicidal P alestinian fundam entalist. L ast year, an Israeli soldier who allegedly perceived a ten-year-old Palestinian child as a threat, shot him in the back of the head.

W ith each terrorist attack — more than 30 since-the process began — Israel has retaliated not with increased efforts towards peace, but by tak­ ing a step backwards. Road and border closures for the W est Bank and Gaza, the razing of houses o f suspected terrorists and other measures have im m ediately halted any discussions for peace. Just last week, when the Israeli parliament was in the process o f ratifying the W ye Agreement, the announcem ent of a terrorist bombing in Jerusalem suspended discussion immediately. These repercussions against Palestinians, while intended to protect Israelis from terrorist attacks, effectively halt the process in its entirety — because of terrorism , Israel refuses to pull out o f the W est Bank and Gaza. Because o f Israel’s retaliation, the PLO refuses to work on preventing terrorism. Thus, the process com es to a standstill — those who died to prevent peace succeed and those who died because o f it, die in vain.

L ast w eek m arked the fourth anniversary o f the death o f form er Israeli Prime M inister Rabin. Shot by a right wing Israeli opposed to giv­ ing up land for peace, the death o f a man who has been called one o f the twentieth century’s greatest peacemakers gave a cold shot o f reality to the Israeli people. Rabin died on the road to peace, as did the hundreds of fallen Israeli’s and Palestinians — as did the millions of soldiers in the firs t an d se c o n d w o rld w ars w h o se liv e s are c o m m e m o ra te d th is Remembrance Day. Loss of life in the pursuit o f peace should be the impetus to move the peace process forward, not back.

In the w ords o f R abin in his speech on th e Isra e li-P a le stin ia n Declaration in 1993 — “Enough of blood and tears. Enough.”

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Shepard's death can't fade from m em ory M atthew S h ep ard d ied from w ounds su stain ed d u rin g a cruel beating at the hands o f hom opho­ bic killers. M atthew was 21-yearsold, a co lleg e stu d en t m uch like o u rselv es. I have been in a daze since then, wandering this campus w h ile try in g to co m p re h e n d the rage I feel. Everyw here I go, in the cafeteria, on the main green, in the halls o f our cam pus, people have been g oing ab o u t th e ir b u sin ess, g e ttin g to c la s s , w r itin g th e ir papers, chilling out in coffee bars at night. That is good. It is im por­ tant to all o f us that w e succeed.

But som ething seems to be missing here. Som ething seem s to be hid­ den, obscured and undefined.

W here is your anger? W here is your rage?

I am a R e su m e d E d u c a tio n student; it is m y first sem ester at Brow n U niversity. Five years ago my room m ate was viciously m ur­ d e re d in o u r h o m e by tw o m en w ho targeted him as hom osexual.

T h ey cam e o n e e v e n in g w h en I w asn't there, tortured him with lit cigarettes, then beat him m erciless­ ly with a ham m er they had brought w ith them. He bled to death on the floor.

N aturally, the vicious m urder o f M a tth e w S h e p a rd h a s re a lly angered me, as it probably did you.

L ik e m y ro o m m a te 's m u rd e r, M a tth e w S h e p a rd w as ta rg e te d because o f his sexual orientation.

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concerning w hat people should do in the privacy o f their own home, but no rational person would agree th a t th e w ay in w h ich M a tth ew Shepard was tortured, then killed, w as a rea so n ab le rea ctio n to his sexual orientation.

I ask you again: W here is your anger? W here is your rage?

A cro ss th is co u n try , p eo p le have been talking about M atthew's m u r d e r a n d c o n d e m n in g th is senseless act o f violence perpetrat­ ed against one o f our own, against a c o lle g e s tu d e n t w ho h a d o n ly begun to question him self and his role within the world around him.

Though the tendency may be g re a t, w e d o n 't h av e to lo o k at M a tth e w an d w h at h ap p e n ed to him and say to ourselves, "Hey, he was queer. Let the queers deal with it." Regardless o f our orientation, we can offer our support, voice our anger, breath on the flam e o f out­ rage that has begun to burn o ver M atthew's vicious murder. I do not advocate violence; I advocate dia­ logue.

"W h y w o u ld I w a n t to g e t involved? I’ve got mid-term s, I've got practice, I’ve got a relationship falling down the tubes?"

B e ca u se it co u ld h ap p en to you, too. W hich one o f us doesn't have som ething, som e thought or som e o p in io n , som e life sty le or so m e lo o k , th a t s o m e o n e e ls e might find reprehensible and focus their hatred upon us.

I am m aking a co n tro v ersial argum ent here. I argue that we all h a v e s o m e th in g to lo s e o v e r M atthew's murder. W e all lose our safety. W e all lose o u r ability to w alk in this w orld freely. W e all lose that m ost p recio u s p eace o f a ll, p e a c e o f m in d . B u t m o st im p o r ta n tly , w e sta n d to lo o se w hat makes us human, we stand to loose our dignity.

I am asking you to do som e­ thing. I am asking you to do som e­ thing, despite the fact that you are busy and th at m idterm s are here, and that there are so m any other fun things to do. I ask you to talk about Matthew. I ask you to speak to y o u r frien d s and dorm m ates, y o u r p ro fe s s o rs an d T A s, e v e n w ith your parents. Speak o f it on the steps o f your buildings. F ind o u t fro m ea c h o th e r w h a t y o u r feelings are. Discuss why M atthew died. D iscuss w hat the loss o f this one single life means to the rest of our own lives.

L e t's o p e n up th e b o x th a t m ust contain your rage. The u ni­ versities o f this great country are filled w ith som e o f the b rig h test people in the world. Let's try to see if th e re is an y th in g th a t can be done.

I am sure there is.

— Darren M. Jorgensen, '02 Brown University

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In resp o n se to Jo se -P ie rre Fernandez's confused attempt to ratio­ nalise the abolition of gun control, we feel that some clarification is in order.

Mr. Fernandez brings up some inter­ esting points, if one chooses to ignore the fact that he argues for both sides of the issue simultaneously through­ out his letter; however, he fails to sug­ gests any alternative solutions to the problem.

He begins his argument by sug­ gesting that "private ownership [of guns] can deter government abuses even today" which to us advocates the creation of a anarchist state where the rule of law is directly proportional to the size of your gun. He also suggests that "An armed citizenry willing to defend Canada may seriously impede separation"; are we next going to give guns to criminals to prevent police brutality? W on’t the Québécois buy guns of their own? In his arguments Mr. F ernandez brings up several examples of civil rebellion; is he sug­ gesting the the answer to Quebec sep­ aration problems is civil war?

Mr. Fernandez does, however, bring up some very strong arguments for gun control. He points out that "...a

well known biker in Alberta was able to renew his firearms acquisition cer­ tificate sim ply because he had no record of criminal conviction". If any­ thing, this demonstrates the need for stricter gun control. We feel that it was also completely inappropriate to bring up as an example against gun control, the incident at the Ecole Polytechnique, Dec. 6,1989.

The point Fernandez makes con­ cerning the comparison of criminal hom icide rates betw een V erm ont, Maine and New Hampshire with that of Quebec and New Brunswick over­ simplifies a very complex issue. Mr. Fernandez raises some valid short­ comings of the current gun control legislation, yet suggests replacing it with an armed citizenry. This is not a solution, it simply is an aggravation of the current situation.

W e w ould lik e to leave Mr. Fernandez with this final thought.

Would you like to live in a country where the guy sitting next to you on the Metro mumbling to himself has a .45 in his jacket?

—Jessica Conway U0 Science Jesse Meyer Ul Music Neil Renton U0 Arts

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The author of the Oct. 14 article “It's all Greek to me” came into the Women's Union to ask our opinion on sororities. We confessed to having no knowledge of how they actually work here at McGill (or elsewhere) and reit­ erated this fact several times through­ out the interview, we told her every­ thing we said w ould be based on stereotypes because that was all we had to go on. We also voiced our hesi­ tations about talking about them at all.

We did not (and still do not) want to represent the Women's Union's opin­ ion about sororities in any way shape or form. The author still encouraged us to talk about what we did know stereotypes. Admittedly, agreeing to talk to her at all about something I know nothing about was very likely a mistake. We did talk to her assuming the context would be given; it obvi­ ously was not. I did not say what I was quoted as saying in the article (not wanting to pay hundreds of dol­ lars to be in a sisterhood), since I did not know about the fees. B errill's statement was intended to show that if you were joining a sorority to be in a community of women, or to volunteer your time and energy towards a chari­

ty or cause, there are many ways to do this w ithout paying money for the o p p o rtu n ity (the W om en's U nion being only one of these ways).

The W om en's U nion is not a "club." It is a service available to women throughout M cGill and the surrounding community. We provide a library, offer the sale of safe-sex and female/environmentally friendly men­ strual products, and stock referral information for whoever wants to use these services, male or female. The kitchen and communal area are desig­ nated solely for women because there is a need to have spaces where we can meet other women, take pride in our own accomplishments and give each other the support needed to deal with the (still) patriarchal world in which we live. Also, there are women on campus who have been raped, beaten, or otherwise abused by men in the past. They sometimes feel the need to occupy spaces where they will not be confronted with other men, so we pro­ vide this space. Some o f the other important groups on campus, such as SACCOMS and Walksafe, were orig­ inally Women's Union initiatives that have become services in their own right once they grew large enough to support themselves. SSMU has decid­ ed that the services we provide are

important ones for McGill as a whole, which is why they are funding them through all of our student fees.

While Greek societies may pro­ vide im portant services to certain M cGill students, these services are only available to members of these societies (which are generally gender exclusive as well), not the M cGill population at large. This is why they are not provided the "luxury" of being paid for by SSMU. — Maggie Smith Ul Science O N ELE C T IO N S AT M c G l L L

On behalf of the Executive for the M usic U ndergraduate Student Society, we would like to express our appreciation for David Reevely's arti­ cle of Tuesday, October 27th entitled "Good people who do not vote." It brought to light many issues that we were not aware of and we have taken appropriate steps to rectify the situa­ tion.

Firstly, we were not aware that the lack o f p o llin g sta tio n s in M cC onnell and M acD onald Engineering were Drew Cormack's [SSMU chief returning officer] fault.

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McGill's Chancellor hunt: could it be you?

T am ana K ochar. Clubs rep to budget straightened out before break­ The M cGill adm inistration is currently conducting a search for a SSMU. A pint-sized sack of ambition fast, the 4.0/4.3 grade scale nonsense figured out by lunch, and then have new chancellor. The estimable Gretta on legs, with noble dreams for the the afternoon to Chambers is retiring from the posi­ goof off. Bonus: tion, you see, and apparently we've free p ip in g -h o t got to pick a fresh one. I t’s a job tea for anyone cloaked in mystery, with enigmatic who gets sick. duties but enviable perks.

D a v i d Herewith, some humble sugges­ D avid R eevely Jo h n sto n . tions for candidates the search com­ F orm er M cG ill mittee might want to consider: principal, McGill Paul Ruel. SACOMSS stalwart, differential tuition warrior, sometime planet, and for her place upon it. Since law professor, and President-designate SSMU presidential candidate, defend­ Tamana rather obviously won't rest of the University of Waterloo. The until she's got her hands on the strings Johnston era is legendary at McGill er o f the oppressed throughout the that control the whole show, vaulting for being a time of peace, harmony, world. The position of chancellor is and free spending, with birds twitter­ her up to the chancellorship would largely a ceremonial one, used primar­ save everybody a lot of time, pain, and ing in the trees and light breezes float­ ily as a platform for giving speeches, opening things, and wandering around bother. (In the meantime, if the chan­ ing across campus. Kind of like the Kennedy administration. Apparently cellorship d o esn ’t com e through, all dressed up. Ruel is notoriously things were so great that the Board of long in the wind, and I think he’d watch for her to run for an SSMU Governors had to bring in Bernard probably take to certain of the chan­ executive position in M arch. And when I say watch her, I mean like a "Chainsaw Bemie" Shapiro to pilot cellorship like a student to an open McGill out of the sea of red ink in hawk.) bar. which it found itself becalmed after M e rle fro m B M H . If you've J e a n C h a re s t. L eader o f the Johnston's retirement. Using the chan­ never lived in upper rez, ask someone Q uebec L ib e ra l P arty. L ucien cellorship, we could bring back the who has. A dm in istrativ e p olicies Bouchard has succeeded in coating icon of good feeling while keeping wouldn't take months to wind their Charest's halo with a thick layer of tar­ him aw ay from the m oney. T his nish, and the election cam paign is respective ways through the McGill would have the further effect of keep­ com m ittee process.

W e'd have the barely tw o w eeks old. T he m an's going to need something to do after he gets thrashed on November 30 (you read it here first), and it seems only The Student A id Office presents: fair that he should take over one of the FREE BUDGET SEMINARS prime spots in the anglo-Montrealer hierarchy. It was, after all, angloMontrealers who wrecked his political S A V E Y O U R P E N N IE S ? career by forcing him to go toe-to-toe w ith St. Lucien in the first place.

Learn how to stretch your dollar through smart Charest could also pursue the corpo­ budgeting and helpful hints on saving money. rate directorships and whatnot that are the right of all pastured politicians Sem inars w ill be held in the Powell Student without seriously neglecting the chan­ cellor's responsibilities. After all, there Services building a t 3637 P eel Street in room 204 aren't really any.

(205*) on the follow ing dates: Jaw ad Q ureshi. Queer McGill Tues., Nov. 10,3:00-4:00 p.m. Wed, Nov. 18,11:00-12:00 p.m.* co-ordinator, media darling, and man Thurs., Nov. 12,1:00-2:00 p.m. Thuns., Nov. 19,1:00-2:00 p.m. about town. McGill's tradition has had Fri., Nov. 13,9:00-10:00 a.m. Mon., Nov. 23,12:00-1:00 p.m.* desiccated old white people as chan­ Mon., Nov. 16,12:00-1:00 p.m. Tues., Nov. 24,3:00-4:00 p.m. cellors. It might be time to break that Tues., Nov. 17,3:00-4:00 p.m. Thurs., Nov. 26,1:00-2:00 p.m. tradition, and break it with a bang.

There will befurther seminars offered. A seminar Qureshi has a knack for getting his name in the press, which might not be can also be arranged at your convenience. Please an entirely bad thing in the crusade to contact the Student A id Office at 398-6013/14for end cuts to education spending and all more information. that.

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ing the Johnston Clan (Principal, for­ m er SSMU V P-Internal A lex, and current VP-University Affairs Sam) in place as McGill's mling family.

Nick A uf d er M aur. Crusading politician, gadfly Gazette columnist, and ebullient man-about-town. Nick (father, of course, of Courtney Love’s guitarist Melissa) would bring life to the moribund chancellorship, proba­ bly by hanging out on the Arts steps and sticking around Gert’s till closing time three or four nights a week. A thirty-year political career, and you can’t find anyone to say a bad word about him. The only real strike against him is that he died o f cancer last April, but I’m sure the Faculties of Medicine and Engineering could get together and work something out.

F elip e A lou. M anager o f the M o n treal E xpos. T he ch a n ce llo r should be almost universally respect­ ed, above the fray, and eager to help develop young minds and bodies, then send them off to true greatness else­ where. Felipe's just about perfect.

Jacques Parizeau. Oh, come on.

Wouldn't it be fun? With Parizeau in the chancellor’s chair, there'd finally be something for perennial malcon­ tents like Ruel, Anna Kruzynski the ubiquitous letter-writer, the staff of the McGill D aily, and me to get really upset about.

I'm hoping that the search com­ mittee will announce its nominations soon. W ith the rig h t p h ilo so p h y behind the hunt, this could be the most fun McGill's had in years.

D e a n o f th e F a c u lty o f E n g in e e r in g

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McGill U niversity is com m itted to eq u ity in em p lo y m en t.

In accord ance w ith Canadian im m igration requ irem en ts, this ad vertisem en t is directed in th e first in stan ce to C anadian citizen s and p erm an en t resid en ts o f Canada.

The d ead lin e for receip t o f ap plications is 15 January 1999-

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Scoring and sprinting to empty stands McGill fans opt instead to watch the NCAA A re you are a slave to N otre Dame football, or does the thought of the final four send you barreling to the television clad in your Duke attire?

Do you know stats on every big name in the NCAA, but have no idea what CLAU even stands for? Not surprising, because you are from Canada, home of under appreciated college athletics and apathetic fans.

How many of you knew that the M artlet rugby team shut out every team in their division this season? Do you even know what a Martlet is? Did you know that last year's Redmen soc­ cer team came home with a national g old m edal and are p rep a rin g to defend their title this week right here at M cG ill? If you answ ered no to more than one of the above questions, you are not alone— you are merely a m em ber o f the o verly p o p u la ted McGill Fan-less Club.

McGill has plenty of sports fans, ju st very few who are interested in McGill sports. We tape Ally McBeal on Monday nights to catch Monday Night Football and drop everything when the Habs play at home. We plan

our sum m er vacations around the World Cup and consider the time of year when baseball, basketball and hockey all overlap just about the clos­

est to heaven many of us will ever be.

We become obsessed with the NCAA teams, while here at home, McGill teams and some of the best athletes in Canada play to sometimes near empty stadiums, rinks and gymnasiums.

Is it our lack o f school spirit, general laziness or apathy for the Red and W hite which leaves our teams p erfo rm in g to em pty stan d s?

Canadian culture does not place the sam e im p o rta n ce on sp o rts as American, but it doesn't mean that we should overlook the efforts of the hard working athletes at this institution.

There are some exceptions to the

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rule of passiveness towards sports at M cGill. The hockey rink has been sold out on occasion for some impor­ tant games and the women's soccer team p u lls o u t m ore than ju st p aren ts and b o y frien d s at m any o f th e ir hom e gam es. In the grand scheme of things, howev­ er, college teams in Canada, despite the talent o f the athletes, are placed at a disadvantage from their counterparts in the NCAA, in part due to the astronomical differ­ ences in funding and sponsorship.

Look, for example, at the turnout of fans at American college events. A regular season football game at Penn state brings out, on average, 82,000 fan s— m ore than som e o f our Canadian professional teams get out in an entire season. The spirit and enthusiasm of the American college student is like an independent power source ready to ex p lo d e at any moment into masses of face painted students wielding banners and flags, chanting in the cheers of their teams.

If we could just harness some of this potential energy, getting even a third

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of these fans out to a McGill game or two, we'd have at least the second larg est am ount o f school spirit in Canada, (unfortunately, our purple faced, kilt clad, beer drinking rivals at that other school would still beat us hands down.)

W atch in g the R edm en play Concordia in football on television with all of the talent, but none of the glamour seen in the American games only made me more disappointed in our system. Obviously in the states th ere are m o re sch o o ls, m ore reso u rce s and a b ig g e r em phasis placed on sports, but sadly, the mes­ sage we give off here in Canada to our own athletes is that if you want to be a 're a l' ath lete, go to the S tates. It shouldn't be this way. We have the tal­ ent, we have the coaches, and we have the dedication— perhaps all we lack is the funding and support to compete at the same level. I know plenty of ath­ le tes at M cG ill w ho are talen ted enough to play down south, but have chosen to stay in Canada, hoping to improve the calibre of their sport here at home. These are the athletes who need the support over those lured to American schools by large scholar­ ships and on the side perks.

It's easy to get wrapped up in the

glamour of NCAA and American pro­ fessio n al sp o rts, b ecau se it has become part of our culture; however, as someone who was proud to have had the chance to wear the Red and White, allow me to give you an insid­ er's look at some of the athletes at McGill. These students get up early when it's cold and snowing to run and swim. They get home long after dark, tired, sore and sometimes disheart­ ened, and spend th eir n ights and weekends at practice or on the road.

There are days when they are praised for w inning, but also days w hen, despite their best efforts, the other team went home with the victory, and they were forgotten.

This week, the defending nation­ al champion McGill Redmen soccer team will play host to conference champions from all over Canada, try­ ing to recapture their national gold.

You don't have to be a soccer fan to come out and support your school.

Maybe we could show some support for the athletes who have trained all season for their one chance at victory.

T hink o f it as an excu se to skip class...and to paint your face red and white.

diately drop their Arts and Science electives, even though they are degree requirements.

A n o th er fact th at we learned from this article is the actual location o f RVC. We were amazed to learn that it is, in fact, "two blocks away."

To test the validity of this geography, the Executive embarked on an ardu­ ous, two-block odyssey and arrived at a building called 'Bronfman.' This for­ eign entity was, upon close inspection, filled with classrooms and not the res­ id en ce w e w ere ex p ectin g . W e retraced our steps, walked two hun­ dred meters, and discovered the myth­ ical RVC. Perhaps our Faculty over­ estimates the physical fitness of our students, but we do feel that one can make the journey to the RVC polling station from our building.

Finally, we were grateful to learn that "[pjolling stations are expensive."

O f course, Music wishes to increase this expense by placing two polling stations within two hundred meters of each other. We berated our councillor severely for her economic considera­ tions and hope that, in the future, she will cost our students more money in the pursuit of redundant endeavours.

We thank you, David Reevely, for providing us with such a magnificent­ ly misinformed article. The Music stu­ dents have taken your opinions into consideration and think that their councillor’s "wooly thinking" displays a level-headed probity that your slant­ ed journalism lacks.

The Executive o f the Music Undergraduate Students ' Association

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C ontinued from page 7 That construction is going on in these buildings should, evidently, be disre­ garded as a valid excuse; we, as stu­ dents, should be willing to risk life and limb to voice our opinions. We were also m iffed when we learned th at th e re w ould be a sta tio n in Redpath-McLennan, since the article had expressed such vituperative criti­ cism towards Drew Cormack. Surely, he was not capable of making such a d ecisio n w hen co n sid erin g his Tribunal portrait.

Secondly, we were unaware that our own representative, Zoe Lang, had so blatantly disregarded the rules of SSMU. She assured us that this will never happen again, provided SSMU invites the Music Representative to the remainder of the year's meetings.

O b v io u sly , th at M U SA w as not informed o f the first one, at which committees were formed, is solely her fault.

We were also shocked to discov­ er that ''many of [our] students might not pass other stations during the course of a day." All Music students were informed that they should imme-

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This letter is a response to the Tribune article about eligibility for voting in Quebec elections. While I was pleased to see some attention paid to the subject of who is eligible to vote, I was disappointed that no inform ation was given about how people may register themselves on the electoral list. I did some searching of my own and I hope the Tribune will share it with the rest of the McGill community.

If a student decides that she or he is eligible to vote according to Quebec regulations, then she or he must contact the Elections Quebec office at 1-888-353-2846 in order to find out the registration location. For people in the McGill area, registration takes place from November 9 to 17, 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. in the Faculty Club L ism er room at 3450 M cT avish Street. You must bring two pieces of identification. The first must have your nam e and your Q U EBEC address (examples: telephone and hydro bills, McGill transcript). The second must contain your name and place of birth (passport). I hope this information will make it easier for eli­ gible voters to get on the electoral list for the approaching provincial elec­ tion.

—Julia Gray U3 Political Science

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The rumours are Irue — thif*^ will be my final column. You may have noticed that Public Enemy Number 1 has been absent a few times since the beginning o f the semester. I apologize for this and owe each and every one of you, my M cGill friends, an explanation.

The main reason for my depar­ ture is financial. With debts and loans piling up, too much of my energy has been spent on the stu­ dent journalism. It is unfortunate that the laws of commerce dictate that in order to stay in this fine insti­ tution I m ust come up with a sub­ stantial amount of money in a rela­ tively short period of time. The col­ lection agents have been knocking, my landlord is crouched under my bed wearing fatigues and rolling vagrants only yields so much. I'm sorry but I have to step aside. But don't despair.

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Suitable am m unition was tough to come by but some guy working at a punk rock store in the lower East End set m e up. Now I'm ready to go to the m ountains of North Carolina. From student to bounty hunter in one weekend.

Eric Robert Rudolph is one of the ten most wanted fugitives in the United States, according to the FBI and ATF. He is considered armed and dangerous with suicidal tenden­ cies. He’s also worth one million dollars.

Four bombings, one fatality, and over 150 injuries have been attrib­ uted to his handiwork. Two health clinics, one lounge, and Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta were his targets. For these crimes against the state, Rudolph has a m illion-dollar bounty hanging over him that will award one million dollars to anyone for information leading directly to

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Fellow bounty hunters and w eekend mercenaries have taken this challenge to heart. Thousands of blood merchants are flocking to the Nantahala Lake area where the last known traces of Eric Robert Randolph were found. Some are inexperienced hunters waiting for deer season and out for a shot at the lottery. Some are national heroes.

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Just a few weeks ago form er Green Beret Bo Gritz, the m ost decorated m em ber o f the Vietnam w ar and the inspiration for the Ram bo action series, lost it shot him self while tracking R andolph high in the N orth Carolina m ountains. The pressure of the hunt and a painful divorce doom ed the legendary American hero's last hunt to a most tragic end. Rest assured that I will not succumb to the same stresses.

I'm an ex-journalist.

Randolph is notorious for tar­ geting law enforcem ent agents and is an experienced hunter and outdoorsman. Not easy prey by any means, though my desperation may end this m anhunt within the week.

I plan to drive my pick-up Betty Sue across the border into North Carolina and set out on foot upon reaching a secret destination.

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Scharfschutze, I will comb the trails and undergrowth in search of the telltale signs of my prey. I may have to bag a fellow bounty hunter or two en route in order to shore up my food supplies or to provide m yself with a warm carcass to sleep away those cold nights. Regardless of the opposition, I will find Mr. Eric Robert Rudolph, alias Bob Rudolph, alias Eric R. Rudolph. I'll give him the old carbon freeze and w hisk him off to the J. E dgar Hoover building in W ashington D.C to collect my reward and revel in the victory celebration on the Capitol Mall. Goodbye debt, good­ bye Videotron collection agents, and goodbye knuckle dusting in the railyard. One million dollars can go a long way. No more deadlines for me.

It's been a pleasure writing for you.

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M to th e edg e o f pancakes!

So apparently I'm being hunted by an old ex-girlfiend. I think that's pretty cool. She's a former field hockey player, and the first time I went to her apartment, she showed me her broken stick. This may have been a message, something along the lines o f "I can kill you with my bare hands," or maybe something else. I don't know. Regardless, I'm scared. The last time 1 spoke to her was in June. Actually, I spoke to her answering machine. I left this charming zinger: "If you expect me to apologize, you can kiss my ass."

She doesn't know where I live, and the phone's under my room ­ mate's name, but I'm still a little afraid. She came to the Tribune office looking for me, but I go in there even less than I go to class. I had to skip town.

I went to New York City last Tuesday and Wednesday. Stereo Total were flying in from Berlin. They were playing in town for the first time since June 97. I took former Tribune slave Betty W. as my arm-candy, and we ran into former W FM U dj Tom Scharpling. Looking good, Tom!

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But Stereo Total was there to share. Before each song, Françoise would offer a quick translation for the non-Gauls and -Teutons.

"This next song is 'Like a little boy, I have a leather jacket; and like a little boy, I'm in a gang; and like a little boy, I have a motorcycle; but when I'm with you I’m like a little girl.'"

"The man who wrote this song died o f electro-shock in his bathtube."

"This song is about love-pain: 'I must stop loving you or I will die."'

I wanted Françoise never to stop loving me. Oh, gogo-booted god­ dess, sing to me of the Holiday Inn, where you will show me som e­ thin'. Show me w hat is "a little bit strange, but really funny."

But no, our affair m ust end. And when it did end, all you had for me were t-shirts, but they were only ten bucks each, so I bought four.

That way, I'll be able to throw them at my stalker and distract her ju st enough for me to make a quick get-away.

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them w ere the one. H ow ever, now that I am w ith m y p re ­ sent b o yfriend, in my second year o f university, am I su p ­ posed to start thinking if h e’s the o n e l S p eaking o f the one, w here does th is asinine definition com e from ? Is it a derivative o f “the one w ho leaves five cig arettes b u rn in g aro u n d th e h o u se b e c a u se th ey su b c o n sc io u sly w o u ld ra th e r in c in e ra te th e ir abode dow n to the last stum p rath er then spend the rest o f th eir life w ith y o u ?” O r perhaps from “th e on e w h o c a n ’t even m icrow ave a w ien er w ithout tu rn ­ ing it into a shrivelled lum p that

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by Sarah Dowd A p parently there is a saying th a t '80 per cent o f people m eet th eir future spouse in second year u n iv ersity . T h is m y th /fa ct has cau sed m e to p o n d er m any a night its accuracy. For if it is true, then I ’m in a tight situation. Do the peo p le you are in a relatio n ­ sh ip w ith d u rin g seco n d y ear count, even if you w ere dating them before hand? M y boyfriend hopes not. I have hit a po in t in my life w here all my friends are ta lk in g ab o u t g ettin g hitched. B uying a ball and chain. Jo in in g in w edlock.

G oing out to pasture. W hat I m ean is g etting m arried.

M aybe th is new p h e­ nom enon has been en co u r­ aged by this m yth but I find it, n o n e th e le ss, scary.

C o rrect m e if I ’m w rong but last tim e I sneezed I was tw elv e, 40 p o u n d s o ver w eight and thinking D ances with Wolves w as the coolest m o v ie I h ad ev er seen .

“T atanka” w as the m ost rom antic m etap h o r I had heard, until I le arn ed it m e an t “b u ffa lo ." I d o n ’t think I ever got over that.

Since then, m y rom antic illusions have b ec o m e so m ew h at ta r ­ nished. H igh school w as a sexual w asteland, no sw eethearts fo r m e, unless you co u n t the guy w ith the h air lip w ho stalked m e fo r six m onths. I w as desperate but not th at desperate. T here have been a w ide variety o f men in m y life, from the red-head acto r to the ja n ito r w ith seven tattoos. N one o f w hich you could show your g ran d m a. F ortunately, n one o f

rem inds you o f that tim e you accid en tally w alked in on your g ran d fath er nak ed ?”

M aybe y o u r honey d o esn ’t fit the ab o v e d e fin itio n s u n le ss y o u r relatio n sh ip really is w arped, but the q u estio n still rem ains: how do you d ecid e if th at sp ecial som ebody is the o n e ? I honestly co u ld n ’t tell you the answ er as I w o u ld p re fe r th e , stru ck by a lig h te n in g b o lt fro m th e sky m ethod rath e r than decide w hat q ualities a p erso n should have before they are the one.

U nfortunately, all this q u estio n ­ ing d o esn ’t m ake m e feel any b e t­ ter. T h e fa c t is: th e re is an

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E leg a n t B ride m ag azin e in my bathroom . I d o n ’t know how it got there although I su sp ect it’s a plant by m y room m ate to assure h er parents she is n o t living in sin.

W hat am I going to do ab o u t this?

W hile in the bathroom , there isn ’t a lot o f ch o ice on read in g m ateri­ al so it’s the “H ow to m ake your w edding nig h t in to am azing sex­ ual shen an ig an s” or the B ig B ook o f G nom es. A s in terested as I am in th e e a tin g h a b its o f o u r dim inutive friends, the ad vice on hanging from ch an d eliers seem s to go over b etter w ith me. H ence, the dilem m a. O nce you start w ith one article, you have to read the others. T he m agazine has actu ­ ally, at one point, m oved from th e b ath ro o m to o u r co ffee table. T he chaos has to stop. M y b o y frien d gets the “d eer caught in the h ead lig h ts” look on his face every tim e he sees it and my room m ates' significant o th ­ ers h av e re q u e ste d th a t w e o b lig e th em w ith w re stlin g m ags ra th e r th a n th e a ll-in w h ite c la p -tra p , w h ich they kindly poin ted out, d id n ’t apply to us.

So if our boyfriends seem to be quaking in their boots, why are my room m ates and m yself, esp e­ cially, fond o f talking ab o u t the B ig D ay, h o w ev er fa r in th e fu tu re? B ecau se it’ll be o u r day.

A s clichéd as that sounds, it’s the only p lau sib le reason. I h av en ’t m ade any p lan s fo r m y se lf as o f yet, but I do have defin ite scen ar­ ios set aside for m y room m ates.

T rish d id n ’t seem too im pressed w ith m e show ing up to the sticks on a Harley, sm oking like our oven after I ’ve been cooking, and b ark in g ....’’w h ere’s m y d ress?”

It w ill have to suffice.

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Small groups key to peace, speaker Gidron highlights First study of its kind exposes truth about grass roots involvement in 'outbreak of peace'

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In the early 1990s, peace began infiltrating the world in a dominoeffect way. In South Africa, the first fully democratic elections were held.

In the Middle East, Yitzak Rabin and Y asser A rafat shook hands on the W h ite H ouse law n. In N o rth ern Ireland, the Irish Republican Army declared its first cease-fire for 20 years.

The three most bloody and trag­ ic conflicts of the post-W W II era seemed to have come to an end. On the surface, they seemed unsolvable: irrational, fired by frenzied passions and impossible to resolve. When the breakthroughs took place, reactions ranged from joy, disbelief and a feel­ ing that the second coming was bang on schedule.

R ather than the result o f any divine intervention, these steps for­ ward were the result of determ ina­ tion, faith and bravery from small, often unsung groups of people. While the Nobels were handed out to the public figures in the limelight, what ro le did sm aller groups — tho se behind the scenes, those who dealt with intimidation, financial sacrifice and often worst of all, constant disil­ lusionment — play in this outbreak of peace?

P ro fesso r B enjam in G idron, D irector o f the Israeli C entre for T hird Sector Research at the Ben Gurion University presented a study at Wilson Hall last Wednesday that trie d to an sw er th is q u estio n .

Together with Professor Stan Katz of Princeton, the two were intrigued by the role these groups played in the peace process. With funding from the Aspen Institute, they have studied the characteristics o f these Peace and Conflict Resolution Organisations.

The Ulster People’s College, a prime ex am p le o f a PCRO , is based in Northern Ireland. It provides a form of safehouse for groups on either side

of the divide to come together and engage in co n stru c tiv e d ialogue.

Groups such as these were involved in the peace process just as heavily as high profile politicians, said Gidron.

The first reading of the prelimi­ nary find in g s from the rep o rt on PCROs was met with considerable excitement from the academics gath­ ered, as this was the first study of its kind anywhere in the world.

G idron at firs t o u tlin e d the mechanics involved in such a survey.

“The first thing w e had to do was define those organizations that actu­ ally worked towards peace. All orga­ nizations say they want peace, but some believe it comes by destroying the other side.”

For Gidron, the Irish Republican Army provides an exam ple o f the tendency to “talk the talk” but not “walk the walk” — they talk about peace, but only o n ce they have forcibly and violently removed the British troops from Ireland. Gidron, however, was more concerned with non-violent groups that were “citizen initiated organizations, which were grass roots, and that most importantly

£ Ù The first thing we had to do was define those organizations that actual­ ly worked towards peace.

All organisations say they want peace, but some believe it comes by destroying the other side.

P ro fe s s o r B e n ja m in G id ro n , Director of the Israeli Centre for Third Sector Research at the Ben Gurion University

were trying to find peace and conflict resolution on the basis o f m utual recognition of the other side.

S m a ll g ro u p s 's w a m a g a in s t' th e tid e , says G id ro n

“We were looking for actions not rhetoric.”

The most notable finding of the study w as in the area o f funding.

Gidron showed that by collecting two groups of data on 1970-87 and 199097, he was able to find that the 1990s have been a “boom tim e ” in the activities and effect of the PCROs. “By looking at the numbers and budgets of these groups we saw that th e re w as an u p su rg e in fu n d in g around about 1991. T his funding came in the form of international rev­ enue from foreign governm ent or religious organizations, or, in the case of Northern Ireland, from the British government.”

The findings led Gidron to the conclusion that when these groups are financially supported, their effec­ tiveness increases. This may seem like an obvious link to make, but it contradicts the p opular m yth that peace organizations are able to run on thin air, hope and good vibes.

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studied by G idron may have been populist, they w eren’t necessarily made up by the populations that bore the brunt o f co n flict’s effects. He found that in South Africa and Israel, the types of people that built popular peace movements often came from the group stereotyped as the “oppres­ sor”.

“In South Africa, these groups w ere created by w hite, m iddle to u pper class, ed u cated peo p le. In Israel they came from the Ashkenazi g ro u p , (E u ro p e an as o p p o sed to Sephardic Jewry) and were middle class. In Northern Ireland however, there was g reater cro ss-class and cross-divide representation.”

Gidron went on to describe the im pact th at each group m ade. In order to gauge this, Gidron talked to players outside the groups, such as politicians, government officials and those in the media. However there was a obvious flaw in measuring the impact of these groups by consulting “the pow ers th at b e” b ecause, as

Gidron noted, “history is written by the winners.”

Gidron’s study didn’t focus on the winners. He used the ever popular butterfly wing metaphor to sum up the power of the PCROs — power­ ful, but on the surface, imperceptible.

“Chaos theory says that the flutter of a butterflies wings eventually results in a hurricane: the flu tter did not cause the hurricane but it was part of it.

“In my o p in io n th e g roups p lay ed a very im p o rta n t p a rt in p reparing the p e o p le s’ hearts for peace. They were not the deciding factor, but when in the late 70s and ea rly 80s th e em p h asis w as on destroying the other side, they swam against that, forging a new type of language, a new type of atmosphere for peace to emerge into.”

P ro fe ss o r V ik ram B u tt, P ro fesso r o f A rc h ite c tu re and Director of McGill’s Minimum Cost Housing Group, spoke of his experi­ ence with progressive movements in the 1970s and believes that Gidron’s research shows that peacebuilding is viable now and in the future.

“We had seen such hope in the 1960s, such ideals. That was dashed in the era of Reagan and Thatcher, the era of retaliation not co-opera­ tion. It is, for me, heart-warming to sit here and listen to this confirma­ tion o f the good that these small, brave groups do. Long may they con­ tinue.”

As the meeting dispersed, those gathered in the room were reminded th a t W ed n esd ay w as th e th ird anniversary of the assassination of Yitsak Rabin. It was perhaps the best reminder that the most important role of these PCROs is to fight against complacency and keep a small light flickering in the darkness.

Forgotten warriors and fading memories of yesterday

By A ndrew Ross

Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from failing hands we throw The torch; he yours to hold it high.

I f ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders fields.

— John McCrae As war veterans age and memo­ ries fade, many of today’s young people are forgetting the idea behind R em em brance D ay, if they even remember the occasion at all. It may be seen as a crisis of history, that a day on which we honour those who died for our freedom is so easily for­ gotten, and those people so easily ignored.

Tom orrow ’s holiday signifies the eightieth anniversary of the end of the First World War, one of the bloodiest and most brutal events in hum an h isto ry . S in ce then, Remembrance Day has come to be a tim e to rem em ber soldiers o f all wars.

But according to some analysts,

[because] we airbrush our history for fear that someone might be offend­ ed,” he said. “ [The solution is to] teach about war, learn from it, and realize that Canadians achieved great things by working together.”

Today, there are only 2.000 surviving veterans from W orld W ar I, all o f whom are over the age of 95. They are all that remain of a 300,000 member fight­ ing fo rc e w h ich C an ad a sent to Europe to fight in th e tre n c h e s. From the Second World War, nearly 500.000 veterans are still alive, but these numbers are falling — and as veterans die, the memories of life on the b attlefield have been disappearing with them.

W ith this loss, young people are losing touch with the realities of life on the Vets re m in d e r o f Catherine Farquharson battlefield, and as a result, w a r lessons Remembrance Day gets rel­ atively little reaction from students and other young people this lack of interest are clear. across the country. Service Officer “Memories are being forgotten Remembrance Day has been becom­ ing less important to today’s young p eo p le. Jack G ra n a tste in , a renow ned Canadian historian and au th o r o f Who K ille d C anadian History?, thinks that the reasons for

Donald Robertson, a member of the Royal Canadian Legion, believes that to d ay ’s youth m ust m ake an effort to understand.

“Youth look at life and society as it is today. It is an appreciation of the times,” he explained. “Nobody can u n d erstan d the h ard sh ip s o f being on a battlefield. But we must not forget the sacrifices m ade by th ese peo p le, w ith o u t w hich the world would not be the same as it is today.”

O rganizations like the Royal Canadian Legion and the Canadian W ar Museum in Ottawa have been working to imprint the memory of war and the Canadian servicem en who fought in them. Each year, the Legion conducts a poppy drive to a c k n o w led g e th e e x p lo its o f C an ad a’s so ld iers in w ar. At the same time, the drive raises money for veteran’s affairs and activities.

But these organizations adm it that when it comes to keeping the memo­ ries alive, much work still needs to be done.

M elanie Kwong, com m unica­ tions officer for the W ar Museum,

explained that more effort is going to be required as witnesses to the atroc­ ities of battle are lost.

“It’s important to try to keep the m em ories a liv e ,” she said. “O ur greatest record is our veterans, and unfortunately they won’t be around forever.”

Granatstein does believe, how­ ever, that there is hope and with the right education, young people will alw ay s rem e m b er th e sa c rific e s made by Canadian soldiers in the interests of freedom. “ [S tu d e n ts d o n ’t] re la te to Remembrance Day,” he said. “But as always, it depends on their teachers and the milieu in which they live.”

There is no doubt that great sac­ rifices have been made to ensure the freed o m o f every C a n ad ian , but often much of what Remembrance Day is all about gets lost. With the p h y sic al sta n d a rd -b e a re rs o f Canada’s war effort passing away, society’s collective psyche will need to take up the torch and hold it high.

It is a sad state when such sacrifices can be forgotten.

Lest we forget.

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Death of Séduction m arks M ontreal's tig h t g rip on the sex trade B y La u r a M a c N eil_______________

W h e n S é d u c t io n c l o s e d d o w n la st S ep te m b er, M o n trea l lost one o f its nicest, largest, and cleanest sex shops. A fter its five year legal battle against the c ity ’s new zoning regu latio n s ended in a rejected appeal to the Suprem e C o u r t o f C a n a d a , S é d u c t io n ’s n o w -e m p ty w in d o w s sig n a l the c i t y ’s new a ttitu d e to w a rd s its sex industry.

Séduction, the sex shop fo r­ m erly located on the corner o f St. C a th e rin e and C lark , o p en e d in 1993, ju st after the city passed its z o n in g r e g u la tio n s c o n c e rn in g “erotic establishm ents” . T he new by-law , labelled U l, decreed that a ll n e w e r o tic e s ta b l is h m e n ts co u ld not be any c lo ser than 25 m eters from each other, nor clos­ e r th a n 100 m e te r s f ro m a n y school, m unicipal park or church.

T h e o n ly s e c to r in w h ic h new erotic establishm ents are p erm it­ ted to open is along St. C atherine b e tw e e n G u y a n d P a p in e a u .

T h o s e a lre a d y in b u s in e s s a re g r a n te d th e a c q u ir e d r ig h ts to re m a in in v io la tio n o f th e new regulations.

S é d u c tio n d id n o t h av e th e im m unity o f acqu ired rights and w a s le s s th a n 25 m e te r s aw a y f ro m th r e e o th e r se x s h o p s , a c c o rd in g to R ic h a rd H o u le o f th e c i t y ’s p e r m it d e p a r tm e n t.

A fter lo sing its b attle to stay in business in the m unicipal courts, S é d u c tio n a p p e a le d an d lo s t to th e p r o v in c ia l c o u r ts a n d th e n f i n a l l y h a d its a p p e a l to th e Suprem e C ourt o f C anada denied.

Y v o n G a u th ie r, m a n a g e r o f six M ontreal-area sex shops and for­ m e r m a n a g e r o f S é d u c t io n , arg u e d th a t th e re g u la tio n s v io ­ late m erchants’ rights.

“W e spent $300,000 to fight to k ee p o u r b u sin e ss an d lo s t,” said G authier. “W e w ould sue the city o ver these regulations but it costs too m uch.”

Jo h a n n e L e b la n c , a fo rm e r S éduction em ployee, had a sim i­ la r a rg u m e n t a g a in s t th e c i t y ’s infringem ent o f the right to com ­ m ercial com petition. “ A ll th e s to r e s th a t a re a lre a d y in b u s in e s s w ill n e v e r h a v e to c o m p e te w ith a n y b o d y else,” said L eblanc. “C om petition m a k e s th e e c o n o m y d y n a m ic .

T h is c r e a te s a m o n o p o ly . I t ’ s totally bogus.”

C h ristian L alo n d e, C h ie f o f U rban P lan n in g and R egulation, d e n i e d th a t th e r e w a s a n y in f r i n g e m e n t o f c o m m e r c i a l rights, instead labelling the c ity ’s actio n s as ju s t “co nsequences o f th e la w .” L alo n d e referre d back to the C harter o f M ontreal, given

Ju liu s G re y , a M c G ill law to th e c ity fro m th e p ro fe s s o r, c o n firm e d m a n y o f p ro v in c ia l g o v e rn ­ the suspicions o f those in the sex m e n t, w h ic h g iv e s industry.

M ontreal the rights to “I th in k it’s illeg al becau se c o n tr o l a n d r e s t r i c t it am ounts to a basic prohibition th e c o n c e n tra tio n o f an d th a t’s o u tsid e th e ju r is d ic ­ sex sh o p s w ith in th e tion o f the city .” m unicipality.

W hile G rey calls this essen­ “ I f w e w a n te d tia l p r o h ib itio n o f n ew e ro tic t o , ” s a id L a l o n d e , estab lish m en ts illegal, the ch ief “M ontreal could close o f the urban planning and regu­ a ll th e e r o tic e s ta b ­ la tio n s d e p a rtm e n t ca lls it “the lishm ents that do not consequences o f the law ” . U ntil c o n fo rm to th e n ew challenged, the legality o f these r e g u la tio n s , b u t w e r e g u l a t i o n s w ill c o n t in u e to respect their acquired s ta n d a n d M o n tr e a l w ill b e rights.” rem ain free from the m enace o f D e n y in g th a t encroaching sex shops.

M o n tr e a l is o n a “W e sp en t $ 3 0 0 ,0 0 0 try in g q u e s t to c le a n up its to s ta y in b u s i n e s s , ” s a id im ag e an d p e rse c u te G authier. “It costs too m uch to sex s h o p s, L a lo n d e , Catherine Farquharson co n test the reg u latio n s.”

Sex s h o p fo r r e n t h ig h lig h ts c ra c k d o w n o n 'v ic e ' tra d e explained that the city m erely overhauled all ‘I t’s not im p o ssib le,” H oule co n ten tio n for th o se in v o lv ed in o f its zo n in g re g u la tio n s in one m a in ta in e d . “ I j u s t c a n ’t fin d the sex industry. G au th ier railed big initiative com pleted in 1994. against the arbitrary perm it cate­ o n e.” “ In 1987, th e c ity g o v e r n ­ gories th at determ in e w h eth er or m ent decid ed it w ould be easier n o t S é d u c tio n c o u ld re m a in in ju st to destroy all the pre-existing | N IS S A W J PATnFinnFR P R E S E N T S business. zo n in g re g u la tio n s an d sta rt all “ T h e r e ’ s a b ig d if f e r e n c e o v e r ag ain fro m z e ro ,” h e said. b etw e en a b ea u tifu l, la rg e b o u ­ “T he regulations concerning ero t­ tiq u e a n d a p o rn o s h o p ,” s a id ic establishm ents are ju s t a drop G authier. “W e tried to say lin our in the pond.” le g a l d e f e n c e ] th a t S é d u c tio n SEE PACE 30 LIM ITED NUMBER L a lo n d e ju s tif ie d th e new w a sn 't sp ecialized as a sex shop r e g u la tio n s b y r e f e r rin g to th e because the sam e lingerie w e sold OF FREE PASSES A VA/LABLE IN d e trim e n ta l e ffe c t e ro tic e s ta b ­ can also be found at E aton.” lishm ents have on property value.

L aw yers q u estion the leg ali­ 77/£McClLL TRIBUNE OFFICE “T ake F ifth A venue in N ew ty o f M o n tre a l’s zo n in g re g u la ­ Y o rk C ity ,” c o n tin u e d L alo n d e.

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s tr e e t d o n ’t y o u th in k th a t th e pro p erty value w o u ld go dow n?

E ro tic e s ta b lish m e n ts in tro d u c e an elem ent o f crim inality and the rest o f the population w o n ’t w ant to associate w ith th at.”

T h e d i s t i n c t i o n b e tw e e n ‘ero tic’ establishm ents and ‘reg u ­ l a r ’ s to r e s is a n o th e r p o in t o f

ters along St. C atherine essen tial­ ly am ounts to a com plete ban o f a ll n ew e r o tic e s ta b lis h m e n ts .

S é d u c tio n ’s fo rm e r e m p lo y e e s a re n ’t am used. “ W e w e r e s h o r t 5 m e te r s [ fro m th e r e q u ir e d d is t a n c e allow ed betw een sex shops.] F or fiv e m e te rs th e y to o k aw a y 23 jo b s an d fo u r m illio n d o lla rs a year in rev en u e,” said L eblanc.

G a u th i e r f o u n d f o u r n ew p o s s i b le l o c a ti o n s to m o v e S éd u ctio n w ith in th is C5 se cto r and ap p lied fo r a p erm it only to h a v e th e m all re je c te d b e c a u s e they d id n ’t m eet M o n treal’s crite­ r ia . E v e n H o u le in th e p e r m it departm ent could not find a loca­ tio n fo r a sex sh o p th a t m et all th e c ity ’s requirem ents.

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The National Post: a dark journey through Canada's new paper The alternative title for this arti­ cle was “The National Post: should I bother reading it?” The answer is a qualified no. There is some value in Conrad Black’s new national news­ paper, but several sections must be fought through before that treasure is found. Before us lie the first three editions of the Post. Turn your atten­ tion now to the surface layer...

The first page is one of the most important elements of a newspaper.

Its selection of top stories presents w hat the editors believe are their paper’s most important articles and photos. K eeping this in mind, the Post's, editorial and layout team s seem determined to frighten readers aw ay. In the P o st's first edition, there is a big picture o f A stronaut Jo h n G lenn g iv in g a frie n d ly “th u m b s -u p ” g estu re to the new paper. Not a bad photo in istelf, but witness the accompanying article’s punny headline: “At 77, John Glenn Shows the White Stuff.” Get it? The Right Stuff? W hite Hair? This pun seem ed hard to beat, but the Post topped itself on Thursday with a big photo o f cute sheep on Parliam ent H ill. T he c a p tio n , o f co u rse , is, “Ewe ought to be in pictures.”

W e d n e s d a y ’s e d itio n w as, sadly, w ithout a horrible pun, but th e re is a cute baby p ic tu re. MP Michelle Dockrill is shown voting in the House of Commons while hold­ ing her adorable seven week old son, Kenzie James. As the in-depth arti­ c le e x p la in s , “th e c o m b a tiv e Commons went all gooey yesterday as members welcomed ‘the newest N ew D e m o c ra t.’” W hy is little Kenzie James on the front page? Did n o th in g happen w orth rep o rtin g , nothing at all?

Still, let us turn the front page asid e and e x a m in e the N a tio n a l Post's reporting. On page A2, there is a colum n from e d ito r-in -c h ie f Kenneth Whyte. Whyte explains that the N a tional P ost exists because, “people want a quality paper that’s not a chore to read.” This explana­ tion appear to be an implicit attack on W hyte’s competition, the Globe and Mail. To do W hyte’s claims jus­ tice, the Globe and Mail does use a la rg e r v o c a b u la ry and assu m es greater background knowledge that the news section of National Post. In

this sense, the Post is less of a chore to read. Accessibility is never a bad thing in a newspaper, but National Post gets into trouble when it con­ fuses simple writing with simplistic reporting.

Covering politics For an exam ple o f sim plistic reporting, one need only turn to the “P arliam ent” section on page A7.

Whyte explains that the role of the “Parliament” section is to “re-estab­ lis h th e re le v a n c e o f C om m ons debate to national p o litics.” This goal indicates a fundamental misun­ derstanding of the manner in which the federal government works. With

C h ee sy p u n s d e tr a c t fro m P ost's c re d ib ility

absolute party unity and a majority government, the daily goings-on in the House of Commons have all the dram a and significance o f profes­ sional wrestling.

T he P o st is u p se t w ith the Prime Minister for, on the eve of the Quebec provincial election, telling La Presse in an interview that he offered no guarantees that the consti­ tution would change. Wells correctly interprets that this com ment offers the PQ p olitical am m unition, but then spends the rest of his column focuses on P reston M anning and G illes D u ce p p e’s attac k s on the P rim e M in is te r in th e H o u se o f Commons. The opposition disagrees w ith the P rim e M in iste r. Is th is

news?

The interesting question, why the P rim e M in iste r w o u ld m ake those comments at that time, is left unanswered. Other news organiza­ tions have speculated that the federal Liberals actually like having the PQ in power because it gives them an excuse not to surrender power over to the provinces. The Post ignores this p ossibility, and many others, and instead offers breathless playb y -p lay o f Q u estio n P eriod. The National Post's “Parliament” section is nice and easy to read, without any big complicated words or ideas.

Arts & Life Putting aside news, here now is the National P ost’s “Arts & Life” section. The writing in this section is easy to read, but hard to swallow.

An a rtic le on A lan is M o rrise tte sta te s th a t “ if h e r g e n e ra tio n agonizes about it, Alanis sings about it.” Really? Does A lanis represent my generation, or does she represent the countless 14-year-olds who actu­ ally bought her last album? The Post implicitly answered this question in a “arts” column which boldly assert­ ed that there are no great pop music ly ric s. N o n e. T he p ro o f? Bob D y lan ’s “H ighw ay 61 R ev isited ” isn’t as good as some people say.

And he’s not as popular as he used to be. Keeping this in mind, Alanis does sing about my generation’s agonies, but she does it at least as badly as Bob Dylan.

fe re n t [p h o n e] signals is im por­ ta n t b ec au se it allo w s a p h o n e co m p an y to assign p rio rities that can’t wait for transmission dur­ ing peak periods o f d ata tra ffic .”

B e st o f a ll, the F in a n c ia l P o st maintains a strict “no h o rrib le p uns” p o lic y . C a p tio n b rillia n c e c a re o f th e P ost T h is se c tio n is superior to the G lobe a n d M a il’s Report on Business.

M anagem ent students should read the N ational P ost, if only for one great section. As for everyone else, if you want simplistic journal­ ism, you m ight as w ell enjoy the a forum fo r Gazette, which at least offers sim ­ z plistic journalism o f local events.

F o r a n a tio n a l p ap e r, th e o n ly personal Quebec issue which seems to inter­ est the P ost are “those darn sepa­ ratists.” The Globe and Mail, while observation more difficult to read, provides more rep o rtin g on com plex issu es and pays far less attention to babies and sheep. Keep in mind that this is a on trends in p relim in ary review ; the N a tio n a l P o st m ay need tim e b e fo re it b ec o m e s a g o o d n e w sp a p e r. current issues However, as long as it keeps offer­ ing ewe the white stuff, you can hold off on giving Conrad Black another

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Ear to the G r o u n d A brief look at the latest patterns, trends and developments Opium is cosy — "like a Sunday afternoon"

Our sun, the burn-out Q u a s a rs a re th e b r ig h te s t th in g s in th e u n iv e rs e .

Astronomers have never seen one up close, but they figure that your average quasar is like a regular star, except that it’s about the size o f a galaxy. N ow , according to A stronom y, th ey ’ve found one th a t’s about 250 tim es brighter than norm al. That m eans “it m ust shine with the lum inosity o f five quadrillion suns to be that bright across the vast depths o f space”. The only thing is that there’s a galaxy in the way, which can do interest­ in g th in g s to lig h t m o v in g a c ro s s g r e a t d is ta n c e s . T h e astronom ers are wary o f their brightness calculation; they sus­ pect that this pesky galaxy m ight have am plified the super­ quasar’s luminosity by a factor o f twenty. So perhaps it’s only tw o hundred and fifty trillion tim es as bright as our star. Big deal.

A fter a seventy-year hiatus, opium is back. The Face reports that the chem ical ancestor o f m orphine and heroin, which can be made in crude form by anybody with raw poppy seeds and a food processor, is being seen again — especially on the English music festival circuit. It was the drug o f choice o f such nineteenth-century cultural luminaries as Jean Cocteau and Anaïs Nin, and it’s now being used by people like 22-year old chem istry student “Steve.” He reports that the effect is, “like, total satisfaction with your surroundings and in your own state of mind. It’s cosy, like a Sunday afternoon. It lasts quite a long time, too.” The down side, of course, is that it can often last much longer than you m ight like — opium is w ickedly addictive, just like its derivatives, and far more harmful to your neural health than other “natural” drugs you might be familiar with.

Punk scene thrives in China

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Punk is a phenom enon based largely on rebellion against repressive social structures. N o wonder then, that according to Details, it’s huge in China, where the children of the affluent com m ercial classes in Beijing have grow n up w atching The Simpsons and Baywatch, and listening to Nirvana. And now they’re really pissed off. Sam ple song titles: “D estroy W hat We D on’t Like” , and “Fucking D isco” . U nfortunately, early last year the Chinese government “restated its determination to rid China of ‘decadent ideology and culture,” ’ and restrict pop­ ular music to the Hong Kong formulaic cheese-pop that sounds like a karaoke version of a Sonny Bono tune. As D etails notes, it’s “quite likely the worst music in the world” . Nevertheless, the punk ethos is thriving, even among people who aren’t much into the actual music — punks are street-fighting with metalheads, and they’re all ganging up on the tiny trip-hop community. Still, they haven’t quite fig­ ured out the rules: “Xiao Rong [frontman for a moderately successful punk group] called an American friend the next day and asked, ‘If someone hits you over the head with a beer bot­ tle, do you kill him, or do you sue him ?” ’

According to S e lf magazine, freckles are in. For centuries, beginning w ith the E uropean arsenic-m akeup craze, w om en w ent for the pallid look in an attem pt to m ake sure everyone knew they w eren’t part o f the outdoors-labouring working class.

But now the trend is to natural looks. Clean, fresh skin, moistur­ ized but uncamouflaged, is the way to go. “Some o f the hippest makeup products to come along lately are shim mer sticks that, worn over bare skin, make you luminescent and m ost definitely don’t hide freckles.” A spa in W ashington uses a vegetable dye to paint a light spray o f dots on freckle-impaired clients’ faces.

Says ow ner Gary W alker, freckles “are cute, very pretty and nat­ ural.” Self speculates that “maybe w e’re finally letting go of the residual snobbery” that dictated that women should spend eter­ nities pursuing a perfectly even complexion. Freckle advocates do still bem oan the role models available to the melanin-gifted: Anne o f Green Gables and Pippi Longstocking. “Instead o f outdoorsy and cute, why not sultry?”

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Don't call me Fonzie: Henry Winkler, American cultural icon

By Rich Retyi Despite having his leather jacket enshrined in the Sm ithsonian and being one of the most recognizable icons in television history, Henry Winkler hasn't rested on his laurels.

In his latest film, The Waterboy, he is joined by an all-star cast including Academy Award Winner Kathy Bates and madcap teen idol Adam Sandler.

W inkler plays a dysfunctional foot­ ball skipper, Coach Klein — one part sch izo p h renic, one p art eccentric genius, and a dash o f vulnerability thrown in for good measure.

W hen he speaks into thd tele­ phone from his hotel room fortyseven floors above New York City, actor, director, producer, humanitari­ an, and A m erican cultural legend H enry W in k ler (alias A rth u r Fonzarelli) is on a high. Fresh off an appearance on The Rosie O'Donnell Show, his mood is upbeat and chatty throughout the interview. Eager to talk about anything — his family, life after the Happy Days, the power of the Fonz, and his current political ambitions, one can't help but get the impression that this is a man at peace with himself and the world.

T he follow ing interview was conducted by telephone conference with eight other American colleges and universities.

T rib : You play a football coach in The Waterboy. Do you have any ath­ letic background that you may have used to...

H enry W inkler: (interrupting) When I was younger I was good at archery.

I'm dyslexic so it was really hard, uh, my hand-eye co-ordination was off

completely, but 1 watch a lot of foot­ ball. Does that mean anything?

Trib: Uh, maybe. Did you try to use any coaches that are out there now in

football to,..

HW: (interrupting) You know, I love Bill Cowher who is the coach for the Pittsburgh Steelers. He's so emotion­ al. He is so passionate that som e­ where buried deep within my charac­ terization is a Bill.

Em erson College: Do you ever feel like William Shatner at all?

H W : N ot at all. I th in k th at the w arm th th a t I re c e iv e b ecau se I played this character [the Fonz], any­ where in the world, is extraordinary. I just went to speak to three thousand teachers in Minnesota and one of the

the big stars in the universe.

USC: I want in?

Trib: What is your greatest contribu­ HW: (pause) Twin brother. But they tion to American culture? didn't go for it.

HW : Once the Fonz said to Richie, T rib : Y ou've had a lot o f success (in Fonzie accent) "Eh, anyone can with Happy Days. Have there been get a library card for free" and (same any p ro jec ts th a t you h av e been accent)"You can meet chicks there" embarrassed about?

H W : No. I'v e nev er been em bar­ and registration for library cards in rassed. I choose what I do from my America went up 500 per cent over the next four weeks. stom ach. I pick them v isc erally .

T rib : Have you ever visited your Some of them have ju st been duds; leather coat in the Smithsonian? they've just failed. But I really enjoy H W : I did. I to o k m y se lf to the my career.

Trib: Well, I came across the Happy Smithsonian, I saw it in the case. Of Days cartoon which featured you and course I forgot a camera. So then I Ralph, Richie, a dog and a girl from h ad to w ait fo r th is fam ily from Rochester to come by and I said, look the future travelling through time. will you take a picture of me and the HW: Yeah...

T rib: Last night were the big elec­ jacket and I'll take a picture of me tions and I don't know if you're famil­ with you and then I'll take a picture with you and the jacket and then you iar w ith th is b u t Je sse th e B ody have to send it to me and they did and Ventura... it was great.

HW: (interrupting) Did he win?

Trib: The news editor for our paper Trib: He won. here, her m other went to Emerson HW: See, only in America. and I didn't write down her name but T rib: Now, I’m wondering, do you have any political ambitions of your she went out with you for three years.

HW: Do you know her first name? own?

T rib : I though th ree years m ight HW: Yeah I was thinking of being help? emperor.

HW: Yeah. Gosh.

Trib: O f a country, or...

Fonz.... So I thought, you know, this is one of the reasons that I do what I HW : (interrupting) Of America. The Trib: I'm sorry. do. Here is a young man who is hav­ system is not working well and there's HW: That's okay. ing a really idiosyncratic time on this all this infighting, I say let's just com­ Trib: Anyhow...

HW: (ending awkward silence) You pletely change it. Go for an oligarchy. earth and som ehow my character T rib : Does it ever bother you that know what? Just say that, send my jum ped off the screen and reached you were passed up in favour of John best regards. I just wish we were all him. I think that's a great honour. together so I could see you guys.

Travolta for the lead role in Grease?

USC: Who did you kill in Scream?

HW: You know what. I think it was HW: Well I wasn't passed up. I was asked to be in Grease and I thought, Screech (sic) Ulrich.

“I've been doing the same character USC: Really? We all had our bets.

HW: Yeah, wasn't that great? When on for a long time on TV, I don't they were doing Scream 2 I called the think I'll do it” . So then they asked Entertainm ent with irony! director and said I only have two John and John went on to be one of words for you...

teachers said, look I brought a student along, he's seventeen years old and he's autistic and he will only commu­ nicate to the outside w orld as the

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Zombie and Fear Factory slam it out for Satan got together with them in the studio, off over here to get any attention." and they lo o k ed at us as if they T hat they've done. The band couldn't figure out what the hell they has to u re d c o n s ta n tly sin c e the — - "AlUhc good-bands arc affiliat­ w ere d o in g th ere, and w e p retty re le a s e o f th e ir se co n d alb u m , ed with Satan!"

19 9 5 This is a quote overheard while D em anufacture.

It w as a co ld , w a itin g in lin e to see th e R ob mechanical Z o m b ie /M o n ste r M a g n e t/F e a r Factory show at Arrow Hall (near fusion of indus­ tria l and m etal T oronto) last w eek, and it pretty w h ich w en t m uch sum m ed up w hat everyone against all trends lined up fo r this show seem ed to feel. Typical concert attire for these o f the tim e, but still gained them folks included W hite Zombie "Say a small, yet ded­ Y ou L ove Satan" shirts, M arilyn icated fan base.

M anson "B ew are o f G o d ” shirts, and, of course, "Austin 3:16" shirts, H ow ever, tours O zzy a requisite for any redneck. So what w ith was Fear Factory doing on this bill, O sbourne, Iron Maiden, Type O a band whose focus is on stripping down the institutions of society, and N e g a tiv e , and, m o st re c e n tly , w hose last album , the rem arkably Slayer (Lucifer's complex Obsolete, was certain to fly favourites), are well over the heads of these people? h elp in g to "In E u ro p e and A u s tra lia , c h a n g e all o f p la c e s lik e th a t, we g et a hu g e that. Now, with R o b Z o m b ie sp e a k s w ith th e m a n d o w n s ta irs amount of airplay," explained Dino th e re le a se o f C azares, F ear F actory's guitarist, O b so le te , they when the Tribune spoke with him much felt the same way, but once have m anaged to in c o rp o rate an b e fo re th e show . "B ut N o rth America is a different story, where enormous number of different musi­ w e s ta rte d p la y in g to g e th e r, it MTV and Much Music and whatnot cal concepts into their music, includ­ worked out incredibly well."

E v id en tly , peo p le have been pretty much dictate what people lis­ ing rap, techno, even the Vancouver sta rtin g to pay a tte n tio n . F ear Symphony Orchestra.

"Yeah," said te n to. O u r o n ly v id e o to d a te Dino, "that was something our pro­ F a c to ry 's 4 0 -m in u te se t w as far ("R eplica") doesn't get any m ajor m ore su ccessfu l than could have airplay, so we have to tour our asses ducer Rhys Fulber wanted to do. We

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ever been imagined in the anti-metal environment of the past few years.

T heir songs w ere prim arily taken from Demanufacture and Obsolete, and they received a huge ovation.

Even "R esurrection," one o f the songs fea tu rin g the V an co u v er Symphony Orchestra, got a warm reception from the metalheads.

M o n ster M ag n et cam e and w en t q u ic k ly (w ith a lm o st no cro w d re sp o n se ). M r. Z o m b ie treated the audience to fire, smoke, e x p lo sio n s, e n o rm o u s v id eo screens showing B-movie horror film s, huge g rin n in g skeletons, scantily clad females, and, natural­ ly, som e sort o f g ian t, dancing alien w ith an SS h elm et. T hey played music as well. People gen­ erally tend to forget that sort of thing at a Z om bie show , w here visuals are always the highlight, but the band preform ed m ost of Zombie's new solo album Hellbilly D eluxe, as well as classic W hite Zombie tracks. One couldn't help b u t n o tic e, h o w ev er, th a t even when Zombie stopped singing his vocals continued through the speak­ ers, and that there were numerous p e rfo rm a n c e e rro rs . T h e cro w d obviously didn't care. Because hey, Rob is affiliated w ith Satan, and that's all that matters, right?

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Face it. Leonard, holed up in his monastery, will never tour again. His son Adam carries the torch, making a two day stop in his dad's old stomping grounds, opening for Jim Cuddy. Maybe he'll play some of his father's covers.

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Center of the universe: Life of Galileo a colossal event p la y s V ir g in ia w ith p a n a c h e .

L ife o f G a lile o u n fo ld s in S p rig h tly and e n te rta in in g , she 17th c e n tu ry Ita ly . In c a se you lifts a role that co u ld have su c ­ a re n o t f a m i l i a r w ith M r.

G a l i l e o 's lo t in lif e : a t th is cum bed to the dole-drum slot o f m om ent w e find G alileo G alilei "w hiny daughter." spending m ost o f his nights peer­ G a lile o 's " little sh a d o w " is ing at the cosm os under a m artian n icely ca p tu red in th e c h a ra c te r g reen lig h t, th ro u g h h is ra d ic a l o f A ndrea Sarti play ed by B ird. invention, the telescope. H e also A s G a l i l e o 's s tu d e n t, A n d r e a staunchly believes that the E arth Sarti em bodies the id ealism 's o f is n o t the belly button o f the uni­ youth and inner strength. A ndrea verse, a statem ent that m any find is the "sponge" o f th e p lay and d iffic u lt to dig est. T h is p ro d u c ­ tion charts his scientific and p e r­ m ir r o r s G a li le o s n a i v e té a n d sonal life and exam ines the co n ­ stubbornness. T he play, although f lic t b e tw e e n e s ta b lis h e d r e l i ­ i n h e r e n tly s e r io u s , m a d e m e g io u s an d p o litic a l d o c trin e s o f c h u c k le in s o m e u n e x p e c te d th e e r a w ith G a l i l e o 's unorthodox theories.

L ife of A n n a M a ttiu z z o G a l i l e o , th e first M ainstage p r o d u c tio n o f parts, largely in part to the excel­ th e s e a s o n , is d i r e c t e d b y lent stage dynam ics betw een the A lex an d re M arin e (A rc a d ia and C entaur's The W inter's Tale). T he cast m em bers.

G alileo's tran sitio n s in ch ar­ play is opulent and intellectually strirrin g , and th e stro n g p e rfo r­ a c te r w ere e x p e rtly re p re se n te d in th e p r o d u c ti o n th r o u g h m a n c e s o f P h ilip G ra e m e In fern o -esqe lighting and perfect ( G a lil e o G a l i l e i ) , L is a B ird m u sica l o rc h e stra tio n . T h e p ro ­ (A n d rea S arti), and S arah M ack (V irginia), attest to the caliber o f d u c t io n f l u c t u a t e s b e tw e e n s c e n e s o f c a r n iv a l m ir th ( in the acting. w hich flam boyant prostitutes and G raem e as G a lile o p ro je c ts h a r m o n i c a - w ie ld in g s q u e e g ie an air o f frustration w hich evokes s y m p a th y f o r th is g e n iu s o f a k id s fro lic ) and the so m b ern ess m an. H is p erfo rm an ce also illu ­ o f G alileo 's c o n fro n ta tio n s w ith re lio g io u s fig u re s o v e r h is d is ­ m in ates the m ulti-layered nature coveries. C oupled w ith effectiv e o f " G a lile o th e g e n i u s ” b o th and m e tic u lo u s c u sto m d e sig n , ch arism atic and cruel, especially th is is an e f f o r t I c a n n o t ra v e to w a rd s V irg in ia , h is ch a rm in g y e t f r iv o l o u s d a u g h t e r . M a c k enough about.

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T his production is c h a lk fu ll o f eye candy: the costum es are s u b e rb . T h ey ra n g e fro m th e ta t­ te r e d g a r m e n ts o f the peasantry in the 17th ce n tu ry to the m o d e rn , cre ep y lo o k in g o u t f i t s o f th e a c to r s in g a s ­ m a s k s . In th e s e c ­ o n d s c e n e o f th e p la y th e s ta g e b ec o m e s a sea o f m en in p ro fessio n al g ray b u sin e ss suits.

In sc e n e th re e , th e tw itt e r in g , c o o in g g ro u p o f w om en f a w n in g o v e r th e baby are d ressed in n e u tra l h u es o f ca m e l an d b ro w n .

T hey rem inded m e o f sexy secre­ taries.

T he plag u e scene ch aracters in gas m asks and sterile anti-con­ tam ination suits, rem iniscent o f X F ile s, E .T. an d O u tb rea k, ro am about on-stage. T he co lo r schem e w as co n ciev ed to em p h asize the co rrelation betw een the costum es a n d th e v is i o n o f th e p la y .

C a th e r in e B r a d le y , h e a d o f C ostum e D esign, explains, "[W ]e w anted to shake a little co m p la­ cency o u t o f th e au d ien ce [w ith the co stu m es],...[W e] d o n 't view it as a story that has no relevance to a m odern day au d ien ce.” T he

creation o f the costum es w as, as B rad ley states, "a team effo rt to a h u g e d e g r e e ." H e r c l a s s c o ­ d esig n ed th e show , co n trib u tin g th e ir c re a tiv e v isio n s an d in te r­ p r e ta tio n s . O n e s tu d e n t, T ro y S e id m a n , r e i n t e r p r e t e d m y favourite scene o f the play w hich in clu d es a glam orous, fluffy boa to tin g tran sv estite, a b lack boot, s tile tto h e e le d p r o s titu te an d a g r o u p o f s g u e e g ie k id s . T h e re su lt is v isu a lly lu sh , e ffec tiv e and m em orable.

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The Waterboy snags the Three Stooges demographic

By Rich Rftyi T ra ile rs show ing around the c lo c k on the o n e -e y e d m o n ste r flashed one and a half second clips o f b ru ta l a th le tic v io le n c e and Adam Sandler in football pads. No hints at plot, no sign o f su p p o rtin g a c to rs. T he only d ialogue consisted o f a high pitched squeal e m e r g in g fro m d e e p in s id e a d ro o p y e y e d S a n d le r as he c h a rg e d headlong into a Colonel Sanders lookalike, utter­ ing the phrase "m edulla oblongata."

T h is w as N o rth A m erica's first sense o f w hat A dam Sandler's lat­ e st fo ra y in to co m ed y , The W a terb o y w as all about. W ell, at least no D re w B a rr y m o r e th is tim e around.

T ra v e llin g th e w ell b e a te n p a th b la z e d by su c h f ilm s as S la p s h o t, N e c e ssa ry R o u g h n e ss a n d S a n d le r 's o w n H a p p y G ilmore, The W aterboy is another tale o f an underdog athlete with a heart o f gold, noticeable cognitive problem s, and a penchant for seri­ ous violence. T he H anson broth­ e rs, H ap p y G ilm o re , and M anu M anu the Slender are now joined by w a te r b o y -tu r n e d - lin e b a c k e r B obby Boucher. Bobby, a thirtyo n e -y e a r-o ld , v o lu n te e rs as the w aterboy for a cham pionship col­ lege football team. H e drives a rid­

in g la w n m o w e r an d lo v e s h is mama. W hat m ore could you ask fo r in a p ro tag o n ist? P o p u latin g B obby B oucher's w orld is m am a (K athy B ates), SCLS U niversity s k ip p e r C o a c h K le in (H e n ry W inkler), delinquent love interest (F airuza B alk) and special guest

en su es is six ty m in u tes o f lig a ­ m ent shredding hits, cheap laughs, an d fo rty -sw illin g c h e erle ad e rs.

G ood fun, no doubt, but not exact­ ly highbrow horseplay. The laughs are right up on screen; don't expect to work too hard to get the jokes.

Besides, w hat fun w ould a m ovie about a (arguably) m ildly retarded s h ith e a d b e w ith o u t g ra tu ito u s , slow m otion, m ulti-angled scenes o f v ic io u s ta c k le s a n d a s so rte d free-for-alls se t against a backdrop o f c ra s h in g h e lm e ts an d g u ita r rock?

T h ere is n o th in g in h e re n tly w rong with such stupidity, though m ost fem ale view ers will p roba­ bly tire o f the testosterone-fueled orgy o f m ayhem and violence by about the third gam e o f the SCLS M ud D ogs' season. Seeing as the theatre w as clearly dom inated by m ales betw een the ages o f 13 and 27 (m any sporting authentic N FL a p p a r e l) , th e d e m o g ra p h ic T ouchstone P ictures had in m ind w h e n th e y s ig n e d th is o n e on b ec o m e s p re tty clea r. E v ery o n e can find a chuckle here and there d u rin g T h e W a te r b o y , b u t th is m ovie is best suited for fans o f the T h re e S to o g e s , m o n d a y n ig h t R aw , and F o x 's W hen S tu n ts Go Bad.

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W h e th e r th e s c rip t is u n d e rd e ­ v e lo p e d , o r w h e th e r th e y tru ly b eliev e w h at th ey are saying, is open to in te rp retatio n . A g ain , it is so m ew h at irrelev an t, becau se u n lik e F u r lo n g , N o rto n c o u ld rea d th e Phonebook an d s till g et th e m e s s a g e across.

Norton d o e s h is b e s t w ith w h a t he is g iv e n , b u t p e r h a p s th e technical a s p e c t o f th e f ilm s h o u ld h av e been left K a y e ’s hands. The f ilm , n o t as c o n c is e an d tig h t as K aye w o u ld h av e p ro b a ­ b ly h o p e d , c o n t a in s so m a n y lo o s e e n d s th a t it b o r d e r s on co n fu sin g . T he m o st p erp lex in g is s u e is D e r e k 's r e f o r m a tio n .

W h ile in p riso n , a b lack in m ate, (w h o a d d s u n n e c e s s a r y c o m ic r e lie f in a ro le th a t C h ris R ock co u ld have' d one w o n d ers w ith), b e frie n d s D erek an d u ltim a te ly m a k e s h im r e a l i z e t h a t h is e n e m y is h is f r ie n d . P e r h a p s clich é s are n ecessary w hen d ea l­ ing w ith c o n tro v e rsia l su b jects, b u t th is o n e , a lo n g w ith o th e r s c h m a l tz y v ic e s , p r o h i b i t s X f ro m b e i n g th e f ilm i t c o u l d h a v e b e e n . A v e r y B r o o k s as D e r e k 's f o r m e r h ig h s c h o o l p r i n c i p a l , M r. S w e e n e y , p r o ­ v id es th e M o rg an F reem an L ea n O n M e s u p p o rt sy s te m , b u t as w ith D erek 's reaso n fo r refo rm a­ tio n , th is r e la tio n s h i p s h o u ld h av e been m o re d e v e lo p e d .

A m e r i c a n H i s t o r y X is H o lly w o o d iz e d b y th e c o lo u r flash b a ck s o f little ch ild ren fro l­ ic k in g on a b e a c h , r e p e a te d clich és, an d esp ec ially the in a p ­ p r o p r ia te c o m e d y , a lth o u g h F a ir u z a B a lk , as D e r e k 's n a z i g irlfrien d S tacey , m akes a m uch m o re c o m p e llin g S a n d ra B u llo c k , h a v in g se x w ith h e r c o m b a t b o o ts o n . P e r h a p s N o rto n p u rp o sely b u tc h ered th e fin al cu t o f th e film to allow his t a l e n t to b e s h o w c a s e d m o re th a n i t o r i g i n a l l y w o u ld , en h an cin g his risin g star status.

I f so, it w o rk ed . I f you can g et p a s t th e H o lly w o o d c o n t a m i­ n ants, N o rto n 's p iercin g stare, if n o t X as a w h o le, ca n at tim e s be cap tiv atin g .

D o es C h ris R ock h av e the p o w er to refo rm A dolph H itler?

A p p aren tly so, at least in T ony K a y e 's d ire c to ria l d e b u t, A m erican H isto ry X. T he film , w h ich ev o k e d g asp s as w ell as c h u c k le s fro m m e m b e rs o f th e a u d ie n c e , a tte m p ts to d is g u is e itse lf as a n o n -H o lly w o o d , indie p ro je c t à la K id s, b u t is o n ly a fe w s h o r t s te p s a w a y f ro m A Tim e To K ill territo ry .

K a y e , a f o r m e r E u ro p e a n TV co m m er. c ia l d ir e c to r , is n o to r io u s ly meticulous a n d K u b r ic k e s q u e in h is m e th o d o lo g y .

Unsatisfied w ith th e f in a l cu t o f his film , d e p i c t i n g th e sta rs w ho play th e m se lv e s. Pay tria ls and p articu la r atten tio n fo r a cry p tic tr ib u la tio n s o f cam eo by Law rence T aylor com ­ th e n e o - n a z i p le te w ith p r o d u c t tie - in s fo r | c ro w d , and G a to r a d e , E S P N a n d J im m y fee lin g sh afted Johnson. j b y N e w L in e , The story begins when Bobby j V s d istrib u to r, is fired from his jo b and lands the K a y e a p p a re n tly a p p lie d fo r position o f w aterboy w ith perenni­ A lan S m ith e e c re d it, a p se u d o ­ al losers South C entral L ouisiana nym d irec to rs use w hen th ey no State U niversity. O ne thing leads G rab som e na ch o s a n d litre lo n g e r w an t to be attac h ed to a to another and B obby's p red ilec­ o f C o ke a n d h e a d d o w n to T h e p ro ject. H e ev en p laced d efa m a­ tion tow ards violence and stupidi­ W a te rb o y , in w id e re le a se th is to ry ads in trad e m ag azin es such ty com es to the fore, catap u ltin g w e ek . D o n 't f o r g e t y o u r N F L as V ariety. K ay e's ac tio n s w ere him in to the sta rtin g lin eu p and apparel. n o t u n w a rra n te d , as te n s io n E S P N h ig h lig h t r e e ls . W h a t g r e w w h e n X 's s t a r , E d w a r d N o rto n , w as g ran te d p erm issio n to e n te r th e m o s t p r iv a te an d e x c lu s i v e p la c e in th e m o v ie p ro d u c tio n p ro c e ss: th e ed itin g room .

N o rto n , a Y ale grad, should b e sm a rt e n o u g h to k n o w th a t h is p la ce is in fro n t o f th e cam ­ e r a . A s D e re k V in y a rd , a re fo rm e d iib e r-n a z i r e c e n tly rele ase d from p riso n , N o rto n , as in P r im a l F e a r, is b e tte r th a n his film . W ith a sq u in t o f an eye h e c a n c o n v e y a n y e m o tio n , w h ic h is w h y h e h a s b e e n la b e lle d th e S e a n P e n n o f h is g e n e ra tio n . B u lk in g up fo r th e ro le, he rises to th e o ccasio n o f p la y in g a s w a s tik a - ta tto o e d m e n to r to y o u n g e r b r o t h e r D an n y (E d w ard F u rlo n g ).

W h ile D erek c o m p le te s his th re e y e a r p r is o n s e n te n c e , D anny tran sfo rm s into a m a n ia­ c a l w h ite s u p r e m a c is t, f illin g th e v o id o f h is b ro th er's absen ce Think o f it a s h ig h er learning. in a lo c a l V e n ic e B e a c h s k in ­ As Canada's largest music site, Jam ! Music is like getting h e a d g a n g . W h e n D e r e k is a backstage pass inside the music industry every day. released , he is su rp rised an d d is­ g u ste d by D an n y 's m e tam o rp h o ­ With a focus on Canadian music and all the news about sis, and does his b est to rev erse your favourite acts, Jam! Music features concert listings th e p r o c e s s 't h a t th e b o y h a s across Canada, SoundScan Charts, the Canadian Music u n d erg o n e. T h ro u g h su p erflu o u s Index, a full Artist Archive database, new album reviews, fla s h b a c k s , so m e c o lo u r, som e the Anti-Hit list, newsgroups, release dates, live chats, — m o re c o m p e llin g — b la c k concert and album reviews, Indie Band listing, contests, and w h ite, w e can see w hy and photo galleries, the Question of the Day and more. h o w D e r e k tu r n e d f r o m b r i l ­ Think of this site as the part of your education that lian t, literatu re -sp e w in g stu d en t, w w w .can oe .ca/Jam M u sic redefines the Pop Quiz. to b rillian t, p ro p ag a n d a-sp ew in g A m e r ic a n H is to r y X is in r a c is t. W e a re a lso sh o w n w ide release.

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Asian Dub Foundation gets political

By Paw an G irclani Last Saturday, Montreal was g r a c e d w ith th e p r e s e n c e o f A sia n D ub F o u n d a tio n at the C a b a ret. T h e band fo rm ed in 1993 in London, and consists o f DJ John Pandit (Pandit G), MC D e e d e r Z am an (M a ste r D ), bassist Aniruddha Das (Dr. Das), guitarist Steven Chandra Savales (C h a n d ra so n ic), and keyb oard player Sanjay Tailor (Sun-J).

The fact that they fuse reg­ gae, punk, jungle, futuristic con­ scious ragga ("blade ragga") and rap as w ell as a touch o f Hindi c l a s s ic a l m u s ic , s h o w s that A sian Dub Foundation (h e n c e­ fo rth A D F ) are d e f in it e ly an e x p e r im e n ta l band.

As Chandrasonic says, “Rock music is p retty m u ch a d ea d d u ck ...Y ou know what I m ean... the sim ple guitar, bass, drum s... in fact w e are quite sad that w e

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are o n e o f th e fe w liv e b ands which actually sound like w e ’re from the nineties.”

N o t o n ly are A D F a great band m u s ic a lly , but th ey u se their m usic to educate their audi­ e n c e on th e p o lit ic a l sta te o f Britain today. Their song "Free Satpal Ram" recounts the story o f an A s ia n m an liv in g in B r ita in , w h o , w h ile b e in g a tta c k e d b y f iv e arm ed m en , defen ded h im self using a knife and stabbed one o f his attackers, w ho subsequently refused m ed­ ical help and died. Ram is now serving a life sentence. A D F is also involved with organizations such as C ivil A ction Protection A s s o c ia t io n , w h e r e P a n d it G u sed to w ork, w h ich m on itors p olice brutality and its effects.

"Naxalite," a song on their latest album, R a fi’s R ev en g e , is about the uprising o f peasants in W est B engal, where a guerrilla

arm y to o k b a ck th e ir la n d . “'N axalite' is b a sic a lly w h a t’ s h a p p e n in g w ith M a rg a ret T h a tc h e r t o d a y .... sh e is th e landlord and sh e is p rom otin g racial propaganda.... that girl is gon n a be b eh ea d ed o n e d a y !” e x c la im s M a ster D . A D F are unrepentantly political, pointing out T ony B la ir’s in sin cerity in his statement at an Indian func­ tion: “The Asian Community is a great contribution to the British E conom y.” M aster D also m en­ tions that m ost o f the food and money that went to Africa from L ive-A id ju st cam e back to the supermarkets.

A D F are also so cia lly co n ­ scious; they've been organizing co m m u n ity m u sic w o rk sh o p s.

“W e are setting up som ething for people who don’t normally have th e o p p o r tu n ity or a c c e s s to .

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how to use the technology,” says M aster D , “and h o p efu lly soon enough w e w ill have som e more set up all over Britain and w ho know s, all over the world.”

A b o v e a ll, A D F a d v o c a te action. "Buzzin'," Master D said, "is an anti-slacker track. Y ou’re just sitting there, yo u ’re wasting you r t im e ... y o u ’re go n n a d ie soon. U se your time, man, w hile you can. Be buzzin’, like the fly in th e s k y .” From A D F , w h o have pursued w orthwhile causes w hile virtually creating the audi­ e n c e for th eir u n iq u e m u sica l fu s io n , th e se w o rd s carry the w eigh t o f exp erien ce. Far from b e in g p r e a c h y , th e y le a d by exam ple.

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C o n tin u e d fro m P age 1 H aring’s death at a young age. ro b o t se r v in g hot d o g s.

The saddest painting in the co l­ Dedicated to preserving context, lection is a unfinished work from the museum has gone so far at to the very end o f the artist’s career. create a “night life ” room com ­ Only the top-left quarter has been p le te w ith cu rtain s, thu m p in g finished. Since Haring’s patterns dance m usic by Grace Jones, a are like k aleid oscop es, one can vid eo o f Haring dancing, and a easily imagine how the rest o f the fully operational disco ball. This p ain tin g sh ou ld appear, but in “n ig h t l i f e ” room is m ean t to p la c e o f that p a in tin g is an sh o w th e in flu en ce o f d a n c e c u l­ ture on H ari ng ’s work.

T here are also less subtle form s o f contextua liz a tio n in th e e x h ib it.

A t the front e n tra n ce , th e re is a sm a ll sig n which states, Two turntables and a m icrophone at the Beaux-Arts Press Photo “d u e to th e m ature su b ­ ject matter o f som e o f the images em p ty, w hite can vas. H aring’s in this exhibition, viewer discre­ [l]t was always tion is advised.” This sign is not unjustified: the exhibit contains impossible to sepa­ the fo llo w in g exp licit material: rate art and life for me and s o d o m y , f e ll a t io , b e s t ia lit y , org ies, m asturbation, drug use, life was inevitably dominat­ and torture. T h is m aterial is a ed by sexuality. It is proba­ necessary part o f Haring’s art. As bly the driving force behind he wrote in a journal entry, “it w as alw ays im possible to sepa­ all my work. rate art and life for me and life Keith Haring was inevitably dominated by sex­ uality. It is probably the driving en ergetic sym bol patterns here force behind all my work.” Yet it com e to an abrupt, chilling halt. w o u ld be to o ea sy to say that H aring’s early death is sad, H aring co n d em n s or en d o rse s but it d o e s n ot d am p en the any o f the concepts represented excitem ent which his art creates. in his works. The graffiti artist Though normally a bit o f an artop h o b e, I le ft this show feel­ in g u n in tim i­ d ated and far le ss ign oran t.

E v en i f y o u have no inter­ e st in g ra ffiti art, the oppor­ tunity to see a fully function­ ing d isco ball in a m u seu m o f f in e art is worth the price o f a d m is s io n A m ore traditional setting Press Photo a lo n e . B rin g y o u r d a n c in g u ses th ese co n ce p ts ju st as he shoes. uses “Jesus S a v es” stickers: he arranges them in a wide variety Keith Haring runs N ov. 5 o f patterns to show how each pat­ Jan. 10 a t the M ontréal M useum tern o f sym bols carries a different o f F ine Arts. m essage.

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Garbage show far from trashy ! B y Ka m a Leier

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fo rm in g so n g s from Shirley, Butch and company both' their debut and k ep t their crow d (h ig h sc h o o l V e r s io n 2 .0 . G reen girls trying to look older and thir­ and p u r p le stro b e ty-som ething men trying to look lig h ts (and a healthy younger) rocking to that heavy dose o f m oshing near a lte r n a tiv e -p o p -d a n c e beat at the front o f the stage) M etro p o lis last T hursday. The p r o v id e d th e a m b i­ co n ce rt w as near c a p a c ity for ence.

Garbage, on the road in support Ms. Manson (lead o f their latest release V ersion 2.0. vocals) was sleek and Girls A gainst B oys warmed captivating, prow ling up the crowd with their hard-hit­ around the stage. The tin g rock (s o m e c a ll it p un k) w h o le sh o w sh o u ld tunes. The crowd was responsive, have been marketed as but as soon as the last song was th e S h ir le y M a n so n p la y e d th e c h a n ts b eg a n for band: th e s p o tlig h t G arb age. W hen the trash w as never once left the singer, rele fin a lly brought out, the ven u e gating the rest o f the band to total darkness. Yet Manson was polite and sincere, rare at a concert for an international band nowadays.

Her manners were put to the test when drunk CEGEP boys began hooting and cat-calling Manson from the front o f the m osh pit, yet she handled them with such charm that the whole bitch/gothic im a g e sh e w a s try in g to p la y melted and we saw a sincere and gracious performer. At one point a young m ale fan professed his undying love for Garbage (mean­ began to vibrate, as Manson and ing Shirley Manson o f course), to the b o y s g a v e the crow d what which she sm iled and responded

"Garbage loves you too. baby!"

One thing is clear: Montreal loves Garbage and Garbage defi­ n ite ly lo v e s th e fan su p p o rt (Canada saw Garbage receivin g its fir st p la tin u m alb um fo r V e rsio n 2.O .). B etw een all the thank yous and Manson worship­ ping, the crowd was treated to a set full o f energy and drive which kept everyone partying and m ov­ ing all night. When the band fin­ ished their set, no one was ready to ta k e o u t th e G a r b a g e , so Manson and band were recycled fo r an e n c o r e - n o o n e c o m ­ plained about the smell.

The Eels' Electro Shock showmanship B y Ka r e e m F a h m y

“I w o n ’t be denied this time / ‘Fore I go out o f m y mind over m a tters / G ot m y f o o t on the ladder / And I’m clim bing to the m oon.”

This is one o f the precious few p ositive statements made by E, lead singer o f the California based b a n d T h e E e ls , w h o to o k to th e C a fé C a m p u s s t a g e la st Tuesday. Their recent­ ly r e le a s e d s e c o n d album , E le c tr o S h o c k B lu e s , w as w ritten in response to three trau­ m a tic e v e n t s in E ’ s lif e : f o l l o w i n g h is m o th e r ’ s d ea th from cancer, his sister com ­ mitted suicide, and his father had a fatal heart a tta c k . I f th a t h e lp s e x p la in th e a lb u m ’ s s o n g t it l e s , “G o in g T o Y o u r F u n e r a l,” “T he M e d ica tio n Is W earing O ff,” and “M y D escent In to M a d n e s s ,” it d o e s n o t explain how so m uch heartache can produce such engaging and catchy m usic.

E and his bandmates, bassist A d a m and d ru m m er B u tc h , m o u n ted th e sta g e d r e sse d in three p ie c e su its and sm o k in g

p ip e s , as i f a lit t le la te fo r H allow e'en. Launching into the r o l lic k in g “ C a n c e r fo r th e C u r e ,” T h e E e ls im m e d ia te ly c o n n e c te d w ith th e a u d ie n c e .

Throughout the alm ost tw o hour sh ow , the group captivated the c r o w d , d e s p it e th e f a c t th a t

m any se em ed u n fa m ilia r w ith their m usic.

W h ile not the m ost en g a g ­ in g sta g e p e r s o n a , E is an assu red k ey b o a rd ist, gu ita rist, and singer: his em otional lyrics n ever b ecam e m audlin. Bathed in y ello w light, E played several b a lla d ’s fro m th e b a n d ’s tw o album s, in clu d ing a w renching ren d itio n o f “C lim b in g to the

M oon,” and the excellen t “D ead o f W in ter.” A fter thanking the a u d ie n c e for “p u ttin g up w ith the slo w s t u f f ,” the. band tore into what they called “som e o f the d e v il’s m u sic.” A hilarious v e r s io n o f “ M y B e lo v e d M o n ster” got th u n d e r o u s applause.

W h ile E is th e c r e a t iv e f o r c e b e h in d b a n d , B u tc h em erg ed as the sh ow m an . H is s o lo p e r fo r m a n c e o f “E f i l ’ s G o d ” and m asterful drum m ing throughout, m ade him an audi­ en ce favorite. The h ighlight o f the sh o w w as a fifte en -m in u te version o f “N ot R eady Y et,” a hard r o c k in g tun e from th e ir debut, B e a u tifu l F reak. The real s u c e s s o f th e s h o w w a s th e b a n d ’ s a b ilit y to e x p e r im e n t w ith their m usic, creating new version s o f their son gs, in clu d ­ in g th e ir b r e a k th r o u g h h it, “N ovocain e for the S ou l,” which th e y fla v o u r e d w ith S p a n is h sounds.

A ft e r tw b e n c o r e s , th e crowd cheered for over ten min­ u tes to g e t the group to co m e out for m ore. T hey d id n ’t, but the audience left satisfied, m ys­ tified, and enthralled.

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h ard. L e t's ju s t say yo u can afford to be a half-hour late fo r the show.

It’s hard to know what to ex p ect o f a com edy show put on by a group o f M cGill students. One m ig h t th in k th a t y o u would need to be drunk o u t o f y o u r s k u ll to even break a sm ile; but W ith o u t A n n ette, fo r ­ merly known as M cGill Im p r o v , is a p le a sa n t surprise. Y ou can save your beer m oney.

M cG ill Improv has b e e n arou n d fo r ten y ea rs as an u n o ffic ia l u n iv e r s ity c lu b . T h e group and their sh ow s are co m p letely student o r g a n iz e d and p r o ­ d u c e d . T h e y start Tempers flare at Bistro 4. recruiting early in the year at activities night, N o w for the m ain attrac­ and newcom ers learn the tricks tion: W ith ou t A n n ette. T h eir o f the trade at w orkshops held show is m ainly based on audi­ in the S hatner B u ild in g . T he group w as given the chance to en ce participation, and in turn, the crow d seem s to g en u in ely perform when the good people enjoy the show. Basically what at B istr o 4 o p e n e d up th e ir

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The show opens with a cou­ ple o f local com edians to warm up the crowd. T h eje guys might m ake y o u c h u c k le , but d o n ’t worry about pulling an abdom i­ nal m u scle frm n lau gh in g too

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happens is a spectator w ill give the group an idea for a skit, and then the group w ill make asses o f th e m se lv e s tryin g to act it o u t. T h e sh o w c l o s e s w ith a segm en t that g ets ev ery o n e in the place in volved , even those slouching down in their chairs, tryin g not to be n o tic ed . The crowd involvem ent actually sets a more relaxed m ood, taking a

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w h o ’s m aking an idiot o f him ­ self. The people in the audience b eco m e part o f the attraction, and are g iv e n th e c h a n c e to laugh at them selves.

The group’s technical merit is a ls o w o rth n o tin g .

Improvisation is all about being a b le to c o m e up w ith fu n n y ideas in a very short tim e, and often in front o f an au d ien ce.

“It’s m aking stuff up and hop­ in g p e o p le la u g h ,” e x p la in s group m em ber Brian S in isa c .

There was evidently quite a bit o f practice put into this sh ow , ju d g in g by h o w s m o o th ly it flow ed. Try to im agine instanta­ neou sly com in g up w ith a skit about a com m ercial for Viagra, and then acting it out in front o f a room full o f people. That’s the ty p e o f c o m e d y W ith o u t Annette specializes in, and they do it pretty w ell.

If th e B ards of B la b b erm ou th w ere a v e h ic le , they w ould definitely be a sport u tility tru ck .

T h e s e th r e e com edians are a b le to ta k e h ig h sp eed corners over r u g g e d te r ­ rain, d isp la y ­ in g a w id e v a r ie t y of sk e tc h e s in a powerful, w e ll p o lish e d p a c k a g e .

T hey are able to ach ieve this with very sen­ s itiv e sh o ck a b s o r p tio n , m a in ta in in g a sm ooth ride. Perform ing togeth­ er fo r the past tw o yea rs, they have been patiently b uilding to this le v el o f passenger com fort.

T h e B a r d s , th r e e M c G ill stu d en ts, Jam es S en io r, Harry W h e e le r , an d R y a n M u rp h y , have been tuning their particular b ran d o f c o m e d y in to a w e ll oiled m achine. Harry and James originally m et several years ago th r o u g h th e ir c h o ir and th en later ran into Ryan w hile he was drunk in a d itch. "He w as ju st s a y in g , I w a n n a m ak e p e o p le laugh," reco u n ted H arry. T h is w as the fuel that got them going.

The Bards o f Blabbermouth are not purely a com edy group.

In th e p a st th e y h a v e s h ifte d

g ea rs and p erfo rm ed as sto ry ­ te lle r s and as ch ild ren 's en ter­ tainers. T od ay, as w ell as per­ f o r m in g in c lu b s and at th e F rin g e F est, th ey star on Late

N ig h t M cG ill te le v isio n , every three w eeks, and on CKUT com ­ m u n ity r a d io , 9 0 .3 F M , on Fridays at 6 PM. A s for now , the Bards attest that they aren't about to drop out o f university to pursue com edy.

In ste a d , th ey w ill c o n tin u e to d r iv e o n , p e r fo r m in g in th e M o n tr e a l a rea an d tr y in g to "take over the world." Steer over to t h e ir n e x t s h o w fo r so m e hearty laughs.

H itch a ride w ith the B a rd s (y e s , m o r e c a r m e ta p h o r s ) a t th e ir n ex t sh o w a t B istro 4, w ith o r W ith o u t A nnette.

I f y o u ’re l o o k in g f o r a laugh, W ithout Annette w ill be a p p ea rin g a t B istro 4, a t 4 0 4 0 S t L a u r e n t, n e x t W e d n e s d a y .

T h e s h o w s ta r ts a t 8 :3 0 p .m . a n d ru n s u n til 10. I f y o u j u s t w a n t to c a tc h the Im p ro v s e g ­ m ent, it sta rts a t a b o u t 9:00.

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The Gert's TNT revisited A ft e r m o v in g o u t o f louder and started to shake my R esid en ce, I d ecided I w as too chair slightly. c o o l fo r G e r t's. H o w e v e r , "B eer....T N T ...G ert's...G E R re ce n tly I've b een h earing the T’s...G G G E EE R R R TT T’SSS! !!" s tr a n g e s t w h is p e r in g on cried the voice.

Thursday n ights.

O ne n ig h t w h ile to ilin g at my lap to p , a v o ic e called from under Maria S im p so n my chair, "TNT...

T h u r sd a y N ig h t Tradition... a d ol­ lar a beer..."

"I don't n eed you, Gert's! I "Beeeeerrrr," I drooled. Pull only go to the Shatner Building you rself together, I reprimanded to hang out at the A lley because m y se lf, tryin g to fo cu s on the I'm in English litera tu re and I'm ta sk at h a n d . I h a n g o u t at deep! That's right, DEEP!" B ifteck, M iami and Copacabana The truth is, I was wrong. I b e c a u s e I h a v e a s o u l, g o d ­ do need Gert's and it was only a dammit. I'm mature and sop his­ matter o f tim e until I threw on a ticated; I talk about my feelings. tank top and returned for one o f B u t then the w h isp e rin g grew the infam ous Thursday nights.

That night did co m e. I am friendly with a num ber o f p eo ­ ple in the D eb a tin g U n io n , so when I w as told they were rais­ ing m oney at the door Gert’s on a Thursday night, I w as all too w illing to com ply. Sure, I said it w as a favour, but really I was all to o ea g er to return to old sto m p in g g ro u n d s. A fte r the usual coat ch eck in g and hand stam ping I entered the all too fa m ilia r sc en e. A t first I had m y doubts. H anging in the back o f the bar, I sipped my beer and o b se r v e d . It w a s d e f in it e ly a beer, not m ixed drinks, crow d.

T he m a le -to -fe m a le ra tio w as about 4 to 1, co u ld be m arked by an aura o f desperation em a­ nating from the m ales. The dress cod e w as plaid shirts and b a se­ ball hats for guys, tank tops and

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tig h t b la ck p ants for g ir ls. To w ear sle e v e s w as instant so cia l d e a th . "W hy am I h ere?" I th o u g h t. W as the v o ic e under my chair wrong?

I ca n ’t rem em ber w hen m y c h a n g e o f h e a r t o c c u r r e d . It cou ld have been after my third M olson Dry, but my suspicion is that it had nothing to do with the b eer. W h en " S exu al H ea lin g " b egan to p la y I re a liz ed that I had never left Gert's. If any song represents Gert's for m e, this is it. P e r h a p s I m o v e d o u t o f R e sid e n c e and b egan drinking gin and tonics, but Gert's is part o f m y h e r ita g e . I p u sh e d m y w ay through the b ottle-n eck at the front o f the bar and onto the dance floor.

I don't k n ow h ow I en d ed up on the risers in the m iddle o f

the dance floor. I suppose I just w a s so m o v e d that it w a s the only tribute appropriate enough.

M y s e lf and s o m e d e b a tin g friends forcibly rem oved several a m b it io u s g o -g o d an cers.

Together w e celebrated the sp e­ cial atm osphere that can only be fo u n d in o n e p la c e . F o rg et.

Copacabana, M iami and Bifteck — Gert's is home.

P e r h a p s y o u are a T N T fanatic. Perhaps you are too cool fo r w ord s and hang out at Jaï Bar. Perhaps you don't go out at all and thin k that v o ic e under y o u r c h a ir is G o d c a llin g . It d o esn 't m atter. A s stu d en ts at M c G ill, G ert's is our h isto r y , and som etim es w e need to g iv e it the deference it deserves.

Cl L o c a l L ls l l i n g s T his W eek (N ovember 10-16)

Spectrum with M X P X , along with G et Up Kids and X-Large.

co n tin u es w ith S v e n V a th , Pharcyde, B iz M arkie, C an-i-bus, R o g e r S a n c h e z , S t-G e rm a n and V ictor C alderone, at Metropolis, $30 (or $45 for the two nights).

T oday M onday H ayden and his new band will have to work pretty hard to top May's captivating performance at the Cabaret, and it won't help that they'll have to do it at the very inappropriate Café Campus. In a move that can only be described as bizarre, J u lia n a H a tfie ld , who headlined Campus just weeks ago, is opening.

Though they are very popular and talented, it says here that the D ave M atthew s B a n d is incurably dull. No doubt the Molson Centre's legendary intimacy will help mat­ ters. The New M eanies open.

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C larence G a tem o u th B ro w n at Café Campus.

Cabaret is at 2111 St-Laurent, 845-2014.

B ra n Van a n n o u n ced — lo c a l Metropolis.

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D eftones and P itchshifter at Metropolis.

B ig B a d Voodoo D addy at the Spectrum, $16.50.

M e t r o p o lis is at 59 S teCatherine E, 273-2739.

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A p ril W ine at the Spectrum.

M a y fi e ld F eaturin g Smith at Cabaret.

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T h e W a tc h m e n , w ith B ig W reck and M a y fie ld F o u r at the Spectrum.

Friday

Club Soda is at 5240 du Parc, 270-7848.

Jesse Cook at Cabaret, $16.50.

Jo n Spencer B lues E xplosion at the Spectrum, $15.50.

The Spectrum is at 318 SteCatherine W, 861-5851.

K IS S at ISART — no, wait — at the Molson Centre.

N e il D ia m o n d at the Molson Centre.

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Martlets stun Rouge et Or to claim division title McGill on their way to National Championships on the heels of impressive 3-0 shut-out at Laval B y T he M i n h Lu o n g

The M cG ill M artlets ended the Laval Rouge et Or’s string o f tw o Q u eb ec U n iv ersity S o cce r League titles with an outstanding effort, winning 3-0 in Sainte-Foy last Sunday. The victory earned M cG ill a sp ot in th e six -te a m N a tio n a l C h am p ion sh ip s to be held in Victoria this week.

The game was played in front o f a large, enthusiastic, pro-Laval cr o w d . D e sp ite the j e e r s , the M artlets won the battle between the best o f the Quebec conference.

“Laval has a couple o f really strong players, but w e showed we h a v e m ore dep th to d a y ,” said M artlet captain A m anda Shaw .

“W e re a lly d ese rv e d th is w in , everyone stepped their game up.”

Looking to displace the cham­ pions, the Martlets came out with a g g r e ssiv e play from the start.

T h ey stru ck fir st in the 10th m inute, w hen Sue B ela ir’s free kick from the left side found Shaw at the far post. She redirected the shot past Laval keeper Melisande Blais for the eventual gam e-w in­ ner. The home side never seemed to recover.

M cG ill co n tro lled the first half, with most o f the play focused in the Laval end o f the pitch. Even with their zone dom ination, the red and white had to contend with sp e e d y A ll-C a n a d ia n duo o f B r ig itte C h an d on n et and L isa N o let. The R ouge et Or started

applied pressure with dangerous rushes but were stopped short o f shots as the Martlets cleared the balls to the sidelines.

“W e were mentally prepared for this game — we followed our gam e p lan ,” said M cG ill coach Marc Mounicot. “W e didn’t want to give Laval any chances to give our d efen ce any trou ble. A fter that, our goal was to take advan­ tage o f any little m istak es that Laval would make, and w e capi­ talized on three d ifferen t o cc a ­ sions.”

The Martlets came out o f half time in an equally strong fashion.

Not content to sit back on the onegoal lead, they forced the play to start the second half.

Kiran N ayar in crea sed the Martlets’ lead to two goals in the 5 5 th m in u te, k n o c k in g in a rebound on Eva M elam ed’s shot that the R o u g e et Or g o a lie couldn’t handle.

L aval’s fate was sealed five m inutes later. Shaw crossed the ball behind a couple o f defenders that B la is tried to in te rc ep t.

M cG ill in the past tw o Q uebec However, Melamed beat fin a ls. In d efea tin g their arch­ her to the ball rivals, the Martlets not only over­ and lobbed it cam e their b ig g est hurdle, they posted their eighth straight win. o v er the “It w as a p e r fe c t en d to a prone g o a lie great season,” said All-Canadian and in to the open net for a defender Nayar.

The Martlets had three play­ com m anding ers named to the first team confer­ 3-0 lead. ence all-stars. Nayar, m idfielder After the Ju lia S cra se and forw ard E va m arker, the Melamed. desperate The second team featured all­ R o u g e et Or stars Sue Bellair, Amanda Shaw squad buzzed and Tanaquil Chantrill. the M cG ill T h e M a rtlets w ill fa ce zon e sea rch ­ W estern and h o st V ic to r ia in in g for the round-robin action at the National e lu siv e goal.

Championships this week. McGill A g g r e s s iv e entered the weekend ranked sixth defensive in the country, but the d ecisiv e p la y by win w ill surely boost the team ’s M c G i l l standing. defenders Defence will be a key for the Belair, Krista Martlets this week. M cGill assis­ C h in , and tant coach A lex Da Rocha reiterat­ Julie Laurin was able to contain ed this idea. the potent Laval offence.

“I think our defence could be M cGill goalie Debra Keitzke recorded the shutout, the team ’s the best in the country,” he said.

A fter fa llin g sh ort o f the se v en th straigh t. H er p erson al h ighlight cam e on a spectacular N ationals last year, the Martlets diving stop with 19 minutes left to are excited about the prospect o f preserve the shutout. Her perfor­ facing teams from across Canada.

“I ’m e x c ite d ju st to p la y ,” mance earned her game MVP hon­ said Melamed about her first trip ours.

McGill had set their sights on to the Nationals. “It’s going to be a challenge, and it’s great to be this championship game from day facing new teams. If we play hard one. Laval handed the M artlets [lik e today], I think w e h ave a their only loss this year; that loss was preceded by their defeat o f great chance.”

Alouettes ambush Argonauts in CFL playoff action Montreal defeats Toronto 41-28 to advance to Eastern Division final against Hamilton next Sunday B y M a n n y A lmela

The Alouettes have taken one step closer to a berth in this year’s Grey Cup by defeating the tw otim e d e fe n d in g ch a m p io n A r g o n a u ts 4 1 - 2 8 at M o lso n Stadium on Sunday.

The excuberant 17,495 spec­ tators went home satisfied as the A ls showed why they were pen­ ciled in as preseason favorites by turning in an im p r e ssiv e team effort.

“W e came out ready to play,” said A ls quarterback Tracy Ham. “W e were not about to let our sea­ son end today and Toronto was in our way o f reaching our ultimate goal which is the Grey Cup.” Ham was on top o f his game and capitalized on the Argos pre­ o c c u p a tio n w ith sto p p in g the CFL’s premier running back Mike P ringle. The distracted d efen se allow ed Ham to com plete 20 o f 29 passes for 271 yards including three touchdown passes.

“W e know w e have to pass the ball if w e expect to win it all”, Ham said. “W e can’t just rely on M ike [Pringle]. Our offence must be balanced in order for us to be successful.”

ted A rm strong. “Our o ffe n ­ sive line gave him all kinds o f time and he was throwing the b all as g o o d as he has th is year.”

T h e g a m e se e m e d to have the makings o f a rout as the A ls jumped out to a quick 1 4 -0 le a d , but th e A rg o s refused to quit and kept the game close until the end.

A solid game from quar­ terback Kerwin Bell, 38 o f 49 for 365 yards, was not enough for the A rg o s on th is d ay.

Toronto’s turnovers were their u n d o in g as B e ll fu m b led a total o f three times including o n c e in h is o w n en d z o n e w h ic h le a d to a M o n trea l touchdown.

D e sp ite the tu rn o v ers, the A rgos made things inter­ estin g and kept their hopes a liv e until late in the final quarter. After a Kerwin Bell Jaime Stein to u c h d o w n p a ss to P in b a ll Ham finds open receiver Clemons the Argos drew with­ Ham’s favourite target on the in six, and the score was 34-28. day w as again Chris Arm strong W ith tim e w inding dow n, M ike w h o am assed 161 yards on 11 Pringle took over and led his team receptions with a pair o f touch­ downfield with a huge run which downs. set up his own touchdown.

“Tracy and I have been on P r in g le ’ s c o n s e c u tiv e 100 the same page all season,” admit­

yard ru sh in g streak seem ed in jeopardy having gained a modest 39 yards in the first half. However in ty p ic a l P r in g le fa s h io n , he exploded for 96 second half yards giving h im l35 yards total and his remarkable 14th con secu tive 100 yard rushing game.

“You can hold [Pringle], but you can’t stop him,” warned head coach D ave Ritchie. “He alw ays seem s to find a w ay to g e t h is ya rd s and to d a y w a s a g reat example o f that”.

R itc h ie w a s n o t sh ort on praise o f his team, w hile realizing that there is still a great deal o f football to be played this season.

“The guys played hard today and it was a good game all around - a real team effort,” concluded R itchie. “They never let up and kept the pressure on throughout the gam e.”

The Alouettes must now pre­ pare to face the Hamilton Tigercats in the Eastern Division Final on Sunday. The Ti-cats lead the season series 2-1-1 and the teams are very evenly matched.

“N ext w eek is a big test for us in Hamilton,” admitted Ritchie.

“They are going to be ready and w e ’re going to have to keep play­

ing the way w e have been if w e want to be successful.”

The 4 1 -2 8 victory w as f o l­ low ed by an unexpected display o f fan lo y a lty . T he em o tio n o f beating the Argos spilled out onto the field as players and fans cele­ brated on the field. The display that would only com e on the heels o f the m ove to M olson Stadium which has asserted the viability o f football in Montreal.

It was a great scene and the perfect way to end the A louettes’ season at home.

Comingupthis week Redmen hockey vs. Concordia, Wednesday November 1 1 ,7 :3 0 p.m., at McConnell Winter Arena.

Martlet hockey vs. UQTR, Saturday November 14, 2:30 p.m., at McConnell.

CIAU Soccer National Championships - see page 28 for teams and game times.

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T he M cG ill T ribune , T uesday, 10 N ovember 1998

Sun sets on brilliant career of Redmen star J.P Darche Defensive leader reflects on past glory and future aspirations in football and beyond

By Jeremy Kuzmarov

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“H e’s one o f the best players I’ve ever coached,” said Redmen head coach Charlie B aillie, after completing his 27th year with the R edm en. “H e ’s e x c e p tio n a lly demanding o f himself, the players

on my brother and m e ,” said a berth in the play-offs. think I’ve got a good shot at getting D arche, w ho at 23 is tw o years “It was really a lot o f fun play­ drafted, especially because o f my W ith his lon g and storied older than M atthieu. “He got us ing with these young guys, a lot of skills as a long-snapper on punts, M cGill football career now com ­ involved in all sports. He taught us them impressed me,” said Darche, which is a valuable tool for a CFL p lete, Jean-Philippe D arche has the value o f hard work, and the who finished the season with 90 team. secured him self a place in McGill proper way o f approaching sport. ta ck les, g o o d for seco n d in the “I hope to model myself after a football history. As a pure ath­ Even today, he’s the biggest sup­ O-QIFC. “There was a great spirit guy like [former Redmen and cur­ lete, D arche w as one o f the port for m y brother and I. He on the team, no bickering or fight­ rent Alouette] Michael Soles, who best, but what makes him stand rarely m isses one o f our games, in g or an yth ing lik e that. W e balances a career in the CFL with a out is his true completeness as and even travels to Ontario and proved a lot o f people wrofig with career as a professional stock-bro­ a student, athlete, and person. other places to see us play.” our play. Next year it’s gonna be a ker, or a gu y lik e Jock C lim ie, Proud o f all that he has After playing in CEGEP for great team.” who’s hoping to become a lawyer,” accomplished on the gridiron, Andre-Grasset, Darche, like many D arche and ru n nin g-b ack added Darche. “H opefully, I can Darche cannot help but feel others b efore him , had trouble Shawn Linden, the only other fifth arrange so m eth in g w ith the saddened that a chapter in his adjusting to McGill. On the field year player on the team, asserted med-school so that I can delay my life has concluded. he w as lim ited in his freshm en themselves from the beginning as studies if the opportunity to play “It really hit me hard on year to special-teams. team leaders. Their exam p le o f professionally arises.”

Monday morning when I real­ “It’s a tough tran sition . hard-work and dedication to the While hopeful o f furthering his ized I didn’t have to go to prac­ Coming from CEGEP where I was program rubbed o ff on the young football career, Darche can rest tic e , and that there w as no a star to McGill where I was just team. com fortably with the know ledge game this week,” said a nostal­ one o f many talented guys wasn’t “Shaw n and I talk ed a lo t that he has made his mark on the gic Darche. “There’s a lot o f easy. The game was much faster, about how we handled ourselves in sport at McGill. While flattered by em otion in volved in playing and it took time to adjust,” said our last year, especially in the mid­ all the accolades and awards, praise your last game. You work so Darche o f his humble beginnings dle o f the season w hen w e lost from Baillie and the respect that he hard togeth er w ith such a at McGill. “That year we had a some games, and spoke up in order has garnered from teammates and Big man on campus great group o f guys, and put great team, and lost in the con­ to spark the guys,” said Darche. “I coaches alike is what he treasures Natasha Emmerson so much into it for so long ference finals to Bishops, but I think w e both handled ourselves most from his playing days. that it’s really tough to handle when around him, and even his coaches. didn’t feel like I contributed much very well. On defence other veter­ “Gaining the respect and admi­ it’s all over. It’s really sad. In the He works extremely hard during the to the effort.” ans like Randy Chevrier, O livier ration o f my teammates and coach­ end you’ve just got to remember the off-season to prepare himself.”

Things changed quickly for L efeb v re and John M acdon ald es m eans a lot more to me than good times.”

Perhaps what’s most amazing Darche in his second season. That deserve the credit too, they’re great b ein g nam ed to a co n fer en ce Fortunately for Darche, there about Darche’s career at McGill is year he led the team in a ll-sta r tea m ,” said have b een m any m em orab le the fact that he has been able to tackles and w as se c ­ Darche, who was quick moments in his career o f which he excel in the classrooms amidst all ond in the O-Q IFC to point the impact the can look back on with pride. o f h is a th letic a ch ie v em en ts. with 77.5. He was also coaches have had on his H e’s been a key m em ber o f Darche graduated with a degree in aw arded M c G ill’s life. some very solid football teams at P h y sio lo g y in 1996 w ith Great L o u is O beck “T hese guys g iv e M cGill, two o f which made it all D istin ctio n , and has sin ce been Memorial Trophy for up their time to help the the way to the conference finals, in enrolled in Medical school. He has b ein g the m ost program , and th ere’s ‘94 and ‘96. Individually, his mar­ been a C IA U -R o y a l Bank im p roved p la y er on little financial reward. quee performance at m iddle-line­ Academic All-Canadian for the past the team.

Seeing that dedication backer and on special teams have four years.

“In my and love o f football is earned him many personal acco­ “I’m proud that I’ve been able se co n d -y ea r , the in sp irin g . The pride lades. to combine the two — I’ve learned coaches gave me my taken in McGill football Darche holds the all-time mark the art o f time management,” said first op portu nity to shows in the sense that for tackles at McGill with 283, hav­ Darche. “It helps that I still live at start in the opener. In guys want to come back ing eclipsed the record held by for­ home. My mom is very supportive. that gam e I cam e up and h elp o u t,” said mer R edm en stand out V in ce I don’t have to worry about making w ith tw o D arche. “I fee l that I Colizza. He was named three times supper or doing the laundry, when I big-knock-downs and g o t so m uch out o f to the O-QIFC conference all-star get home I can focus on studying.” an in te r c e p tio n ,” p la y in g fo o tb a ll at team, and holds the all-time McGill L ik e m ost C anadian b o y s, r e fle c te d D arche.

M c G ill, and rea lly Rebecca Catching Dr. Darche disrupts opposing offence record holder for tackles in a game D arche go t h is start in sp orts “Assistant coach Joe matured as a person. I with 17 versus Bishops in ‘97. That through the game o f ice hockey. He Marshildon in partic­ appreciate the efforts sam e se a so n , he a lso w on the and his brother Matthieu, an assis­ ular took a keen interest in me at guys to play with and also lead by o f all the coaches w ho’ve helped Students Society Trophy as team tant captain with the Redmen hock­ that time and showed a lot o f confi­ example.” me out over the years, and in the MVP. ey team , p la y ed to g eth er in dence in me. He was very hard on W hile excited at the prospect future I’d like to do all that I can to For his outstanding efforts this H ig h -S c h o o l at C o lle g e me, because he expected a lot. In o f eventually becom ing a doctor, help give back to the program.” season, Darche is currently nomi­ N otre-D am e. In grade ten , J.P. the end, it helped me improve so Darche is hoping that he can delay J.P. Darche has come and gone nated for the President’s Trophy, found his future and decided to give much and I look at that season as entry into the profession for a cou­ from the McGill football program, awarded annually to the top defen­ football a try. His decision to forgo the turning point in my career.” ple of years in order to further pur­ and the team must now look to the sive player in the CIAU, as well the the ic e for the grid iron w as This year, three seasons later, sue his football career. future in order to find out what Russ Jackson Trophy for excellence endorsed by his dad, who played in Darche was skeptical coming into B e ca u se o f his su c c e ss at they’ve lost. in athletics, academics and commu­ College for Loyola. his final season o f eligibility. Most M cGill, an invitation to the CFL “He doesn’t want anything less nity service.

“My dad was a great influence o f his friends on the team, those he combine in March should be forth­ than the best for him self, and his had played with for four years, had co m in g . A go o d p erform an ce tea m m a tes,” said B a illie o f his graduated, and Darche was doubtful before the scouts could definitely departing star. “He shows a tremen­ about p la y in g w ith so m any ensure an early round selection at dous amount o f leadership and his younger guys in the line-up. the draft in April. absence will mean a big hole to fill c o p y In the end, things worked out “I’d be selling myself short if I next year. You don’t replace a guy for the best. Darche and the rest of d idn ’t g iv e my best shot at it. I like J.P. Darche.” the team finished at a respectable always dreamed o f being a profes­ 5 5 * 4-4 and narrowly missed clinching sion al a th lete,” said D arche. “I

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Award honours war contributions of football and hockey championship squads

By Paul Futhey “We fight, once again, so that war may cease. We fight, as we must always fight, to protect our ch ild ren, our hom es and ou r­ selves.

— editorial, McGill News 1939.

The Redmen football squad’s championship season in 1938 was certainly remarkable. It was a title that had eluded the Redmen for ten years previous and would elude die team again until 1960. 1938 also saw the Redmen hockey team cap­ ture yet another in a string of titles.

For the football team, it was hard work which culminated in the realization o f the cham pionship.

With their 9-0 win in the champi­ onship game over Western, McGill capped a 5-1 regular season, aveng­ ing the only blemish on their record — a loss to the Mustangs the week before.

The team , w h o se core w as formed four years earlier, received the Y ates Trophy, sy m b o lic o f Canadian intercollegiate football supremacy.

H. Glyn Owen’s article in the McGill News noted the team merit­ ed the championship “not merely for superior playing ability, but for

clean-fighting spirit, loyal team work and fine sportsmanship.”

As for the hockey team, cham­ pionships were more of a regulari­ ty; the 1938 win came in the midst of a run which saw the squad claim £ 10 titles in 11 years. Even though the 1938 version was without leg­ endary coach Dr. Bobby Bell, the Redmen continued to roll, win— ning yet another title.

T h ese athletic successes -'1 ' cam e in a year O that saw the onset o f World War II. At first, the war appeared to affect McGill athletics m in im ally, but then, in July o f 1940, it w as announced that all intercollegiate sports events would be cancelled for the duration of the con flict. Many o f the players on both those championship teams, like

those who crossed the Atlantic to fight. Sadly, their liv es were cut short as they died in the line of duty.

While it has taken some time, an award has'been established by the surviving members of those team s in tribute to those athletes who paid . _^< the ultimate sacri­ • V*®’ fice. Since 1991, C qcA the 1938 t tyO —i Champions Award has been presented ‘U nparalltU Enthusiasm r^ ' annually to those Returns H e n in Cycles Bvtt b,0t “>« Y a ^Trophy o»t a . v“r., 011:7 Peri, eay b*t M cGill student ath­ letes (numbering usu­ ally three to five) who many McGill students, have dem onstrated eventually donned uni­ high academic perfor­ forms of a different sort. mance and have shown leadership M assey B e v er id g e, Perry in the McGill community through Foster, Jimmy Hall, Joey Jacobson, contributions to student activities Russ M cC onnell, Ben Stevenson and Fred Wigle, members of those and organizations. championship teams, were among

This year, there were four p rizes awarded.

F o o tb a ll’s J.P. D arche, Basketball’s Matt Watson, hockey’s David Grenier and soccer’s Eddy Zuppel were chosen as recipients in a cerem ony on October 26.

A ll recip ien ts were A cad em ic all-C anad ian s and all w ere on the Principal’s Student Honour -remarkable feats considering the tremendous time commitment the combination o f academics and athletics is and the relatively little recognition that is given to these performances.

This award, while not among those given at the gala event at the end of the academic year, is never­ theless critically important. It hon­ ours the past acts o f heroism and bravery w hile recogn izing those athletic feats in the present. Indeed, the award is a fitting tribute, serving as a reminder of actions that, lamen­ tably, are often too quickly forgot­ ten.

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Rugby team loses heart-breaker in QSSF final M artlets drop division championship to cross town rival Concordia on final play of game

By Karen D evon After three years o f losses to both the M cG ill and M acdonald ca m p u s te a m s, th e C o n c o rd ia Stingers have finally tasted victory in wom en’s rugby.

The win was,m ore em phatic since it came in the Quebec con­ ference finals as Concordia scored an upset victory 12-8 last Sunday.

“It c o u ld g o e ith e r w a y ,” M c G ill h ead c o a c h V in c e DeGranpré said before the game.

“T h ey ’re at their peak and have m ore exp erience, but w e ’ve got some tremendous talent.”

T he m atch w a s p la y e d at M c G ill’s M acdonald cam pus in front o f a boisterous one hundred and fifty fans. G oing in M cG ill was undefeated, and before their last gam e against Ottawa hadn’t

su rren d ered a p o in t a ll year.

A m ong those shut out earlier in the year were the Stingers, who w ere look in g for reven ge in the

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season’s pinnacle game.

The match got o ff to a very slow start. In the first, possession w as ev en ly distributed betw een the tw o squads; strong d efen ce prevented any scoring opportuni­ t ie s . T w e n ty m in u te s in to the opening half, a strong run by the backs gave Carolyn O ’Grady the try to op en up the sc o r in g for McGill.

F o llo w in g the sco re, a few

m inutes o f m id field action w as followed by a strong Stinger drive.

C oncord ia capped it o f f w ith a huge forward push which allowed Erin Dance to tie the game. The co n v er sio n by D ana H urtubise gave the Stingers the lead at 7-5 going into halftime.

It was a shock for M cGill to be going into the second half trail­ ing. The closest they came all year w as against O ttawa w here they were tied at the half.

The Martlets took their famil­ iar place in the lead shortly after halftime. A Jaime Rock kick put the Martlets ahead. Rock, a con­ sistent scorer for the team all sea­ son, was named A ll-C onference.

C oncordia tried to bounce back with a kick o f their own, but the ball fell short o f the uprights as M cG ill co n tro lled the play for most o f the second half.

W ith le s s than 3 0 se co n d s b e fo r e the fin a l w h is tle , the Stingers made a rush towards the end and scored a critical try. The last-ditched effort gave them the points they needed to win.

“When we first played them,” e x p la in e d M a rtlet c o a c h L ee Beeber, “w e had no idea who was g o in g to take it. The team s are equally strong. S om eone had to lose today, it was just a matter of who was going to pull the rabbit out o f the hat, and this time that’s just what they did.”

“W e played this game with a lo t o f heart,” co n clu d ed S tacey M o r le y , the se c o n d A llConference player on the McGill tea m , w h o a lo n g w ith R o ck , M an d y B ru n et, and S am an th a M orency were all named to the Q SSF all-star team. “W e played a m a zin g for 35 m in u tes but

Concordia got lucky for five sec­ onds, and that’s all they needed.

T he se a so n has b een am a zin g , with the com bination o f players and the bonding that occurred.”

Despite the loss, the Martlets will still travel to Hamilton for the first-ever CIAU cham pionships.

Both Quebec finalists w ill make the trip this week.

Once there, the Martlets will face o ff against UBC, McMaster, Concordia, one still to be decided team from Ontario and one to be decided from the Atlantic region.

They anticipate that the teams from Ontario will be the toughest com petition, but are confidant in their chances.

“W e’re going to kick butt at Nationals,” said Morley.

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Redmen to host soccer Nationals this week at Molson Stadium

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Starting Wednesday, McGill will play host to the Canadian men's soccer national champi­ onships. As the host team, the Redmen gained an automatic bye into the event. Over the past couple of weeks, five other teams joined the fray.

The six teams have been divided into two divisions; the winner of each will meet in the finals on Saturday. Each team gets two round-robin games before the finals; losing one game does not necessarily equal elimination.

Last year, in Halifax, the McGill Redmen lost their first game but came back to win the school’s first National Championship in any sport ten years. Gone this year are tournament and McGill MVP Marc Mounciot and the league’s silver medalists, the University o f British Columbia. So here now is the Tribune preview of the six teams vying for the national title.

Toronto Varsity Blues The Varsity Blues arrive in Montreal as the fourth seed.

After winning their division in the OUA, they ousted a strong Laurentian team for a berth in the Nationals. They com e in, however, on a one-game losing streak, having dropped the OUA championship title to Western.

The team finished an impressive 9-1-4 on the season and scored 43 goals in 14 games.

Led by veterans Omar El-Behairy and Logan Purdy, U o f T boasts one o f the strongest offences at this year’s Nationals.

Their coach, Jim Lefkos, was named OUA coach of the year at the end of the regular sea­ son.

Western Mustangs McGill Redmen The Redmen enter this year’s tournament as the lowest seed.

Having lost to l’Université du Quebec à Montréal in the division semi-finals on November 1, the team only entered the tourna­ ment by grace of host status. Nevertheless, the Redmen have realistic chances o f going far in the tournament. As defending champions, they have experience on their side.

Defence is the team’s strength, anchored by veteran goal tender Jason Forsyth. The team scored only nine goals in eight gam es this season, but allow ed only four, the low est goals against in the tourney.

Head coach Pat Raimondo said that the team’s strength will come from its experience and defence.

“We need to approach [the tournament] as a team,” he said. “W e’ll need to rely on our experience — Peter Bryant, Sean Sheppard, and Kevin McConnell all have [been to] four Nationals. That’s unheard of in the CIAU.” The Redmen will also have to deal with a sudden rash of nagging injuries which could lead to some lineup juggling for Raimondo.

“We are pretty banged up right now but w e’ve dealt with injuries all season”, assured Raimondo. “W e’ll be ready to go and we won’t use that as an excuse.”

As for strategy, Raimondo said that he will not hold back for the draw, as they did in last year’s finals against UBC. In that game, McGill was given a red card early in the game and was forced to play a man short for most of the match. A draw after regulation play and over­ time left McGill with an opportunity to win in penalty kicks.

“W e’re going to go for it and play the University of Toronto straight up — it’s obvious that our strength is on defence, but I don’t think w e’ll go for the 0-0 tie.”

UQAM Citadins The Citadins should be a team to watch and their tal­ ented lineup will surely makes things happen this week.

The club boasts a staggering five division all stars includ­ ing forward Talal Idelbi who scored three goals versus McGill last week. As a team, they finished second in the division during the regular season with a 4-3-1 record.

They scored ten goals, while allowing 11.

This is a team on a roll and their shoot-out victory over Concordia in the QSSF final should provide them with some much needed momentum.

Their win came somewhat as a surprise, but they will be strong up the middle. Among their five all stars are three at the mid-field position, Masson Tillsme, Jean-Robert Mersier, and Jacob Jacques.

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The Mustangs represent the OUA west as their division’s champions and third seed in the tournament. The team had a record of 7-2-3, scoring 22 goals and allowing 12 in 12 games during the regular season. A 1-0 victory over Windsor secured them a spot in the Nationals.

The M ustangs’ primary threat on offence is Matt Gallo, who scored a team -high five goals before the playoffs. On defence, Mike Potts was named an OUA west all star and should be a formidable presence. Team officials call him “composed and consistent” on the field.

Redmen head coach Pat Raimondo called the Western Mustangs a “dark horse” for the Nationals.

“Western’s a team to look out for — it’s their third consecutive trip to the Nationals,” said the coach.

Alberta Golden Bears This-year’s top seed entering the tournament, the Golden Bears are one of the favourites to bring the title home this year.

Alberta finished the regular season at 8-1-1, scoring 22 goals and allowing only 7 in 10 games. The team’s only all star was midfielder Mike Radmanovich, but freshman Damir Jesic was awarded rookie of the year for the Bears. As the team’s scoring leader, Jesic, netted five goals in the pre-season and added another during the regular season.

The team upset Victoria in the CWUAA finals last week, defeating a previously unbeaten Vikes team 2-0.

Redmen head coach Pat Raimondo reflected the Bears’ strength. “There’s always a pow­ erhouse out of the west. But I don’t know how well [the Golden Bears] will adjust to the cold,” he added.

UPEI Panthers UPEI, the smallest school in the tournament, won the right to attend N ationals after defeating N ew Brunswick for the AUAA title last weekend. Ranked second coming into the tour­ nament, the could challenge for the title.

Their strength on offen ce com es from Goran Rudie, a sophomore striker who led the east with nine goals in 13 games.

As a whole, the Pathers scored 35 goals and allowed 13 in post­ ing a 9-3-1 record during the regular season. In the midfield, they will be led by veteran sweeper Glen Miller, who in five years at UPEI has garnered three school MVP titles and has been named a CIAU all Canadian twice.

Raimondo called the Panthers an underdog.

“UPEI might be the long, long shot in the tournament,” said Raimondo, who considers the Panthers a team to watch out for.

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Redmen Volleyball winless after disappointing weekend Young team shows promise despite losses to both Sherbrooke and Montreal

By D an Rosen H ostin g l ’U n iv ersité de Sherbrooke and cross-town rivals Université de Montreal this week­ end, the McGill Redmen volley­ ball team went w inless in three games at the Currie Gym. Blown out on Friday against nationally ranked Sherbrooke. The Redmen lost in straight sets 15-1, 15-3, 15-5. McGill came back on Saturday with an improved effort in the second match of the double header against Sherbrooke. But it w asn’t enough to prevent them from losing 15-10, 15-3, 15-6.

Looking for redemption on Sunday, the R edm en took on Montreal and attempted to salvage one game from the weekend. But the Redm en b a sica lly slept through the first two sets o f the game, dropping both by scores of Redmen try but com e up short 15-4.

Things started to turn around the play o f second year players Tom for McGill in the third set, thanks to Anthowiak, Mugabe W alker and R egan M orris. P ow erfu l k ills

allowed McGill to take the set 15-9.

The Redm en used their m om en ­ tum and stormed out to an early lead in the fourth set.

However, inex­ p erien ce and shaky d efen ce a l l o w e d Montreal to get back in the gam e; in the end, U o f M took what turned out to be the last set o f the match, 1510.

W hat this Natasha Emmerson you ng team lacks in talent, they make up for with enthusiasm and confidence. It would appear that

they all enjoy playing together, a good sign for a young nucleus.

McGill head coach José Rebelo w as d isap p oin ted by S u n d ay’s resu lt, but rem ained o p tim istic about the rest of the season.

“We were basically sleeping out there for the first two games,” said the coach. “But things started to turn around for us in the third set.

We should be able to beat these guys, and to make the playoffs. So now w e w ill have to beat them w hen w e fa ce them again in January.”

Rebelo indicated that the vol­ leyball program, which is only in its second year of existence after effec­ tively disbanding after the ‘96-’97 season, has a bright future, and is already looking towards success next year. Playing in a league with only three other teams, and with tw o o f those team s, Laval and Sherbrooke, b ein g n a tio n a lly ranked, chances for improvement this year will be slim.

“We thought that we had a real chance o f winning today, but the first tw o sets k illed us, and we couldn’t recover,” said Anthowiak, echoing his coach’s thoughts. The m olecular b io lo g y student from Saskatoon was clearly the most tal­ ented player on either team, and his energy and big kills kept his team and the crowd in the game until the end.

A lthou gh the R edm en now sport an 0-4 record this year, their attitude on the court g iv e s no impression that they are frustrated, or losing patience. If the games of A nthow iak, W alker, Morris and second year Philosophy major Hari Balasubramanian continue to devel­ op, then the future looks very bright indeed for McGill Redmen volley­ ball.

M cG ill tra v els to L a va l this w eeken d f o r tw o gam es with the Laval Rouge et Or.

Growing pains continue for young Martlets squad

By T imothy S. Fitzsimmons_______ Having lost some key players after the last tw o sea so n s, the Martlet volleyball program is in a rebuilding phase and will be looking to their youth and height to be the strengths of this year’s squad.

Last Friday night at the Currie Gym, the Martlets played their sec­ ond game of the 98/99 season, tak­ ing on the Sherbrooke Vert et Or. In the first set, led by the outstanding o ffe n siv e play o f M arie-C laude Ferland, the Martlets took the frame 15-11.

In the secon d stanza the Martlets jumped out to a quick 6-1

lead, but Sherbrooke stormed back.

The Vert et Or was guided by some extremely strong play up front from A nouk B oilea u and N atalie Porthault. Their play was good enough to overwhelm the Martlets and give Sherbrooke a 10-15 victo­ ryIn the third and fourth sets, the Martlets showed why they may not need too long to adjust their game.

The new personnel, highlighted by rookies Elizabeth Jamieson and Kim Barrette, played strong in the front court and Jamieson helped her own cause with a number o f excellent serves. The young McGill team dug and spiked their way to a 15-1 shel-

lacking of the Vert et Or. Saturday night the M artlets In the fourth and final set, the didn’t catch as many breaks against Martlets again came out swinging. a very strong squad from Laval. The The Martlets looked like a team that Rouge et Or, blessed with a front has played a number o f seasons court that in clu d es six -fo o te rs together, which is impressive con­ D om iniq ue D uchaine-G uay and sidering the inexperience o f this Julie Rajotte, proved why they are young team .

The youngsters masquerad­ ing as veterans were led

by Ferland who turned on the o ffen ce. A lso , secon d year setter Shauna Forster buoyed the front court defence that turned back the Sherbrooke attacks alm ost at w ill.

Sherbrooke hobbled off the court after a 15-2 trouncing.

A fter the gam e Martlet coach Rachele Béliveau acknowledged that the team is still ad justing, but was happy with the result.

“Sherbrooke played Martlets aggressive play not enough to win well and we fought until we got a break,” said the coach. “We going to be one this year’s teams to have to learn to be patient when they beat. play well and take advantage of then The Martlets carried over some when they don’t.” o f their momentum from Friday jum ping to a quick 4-1 lead, but T here's still time for Laval got their game together and ran o ff eight unanswered points before winning the set 8-15.

The Martlets seemed rattled by the strength of Laval’s offence and le last graduating class in the second frame they fell behind 2-5 early. Once the Martlets tight­ of this ened up their execution, they tied the

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score at 8-8. Breaking the stalemate was third year power player Anouk Lapointe who led the charge ham­ mering down numerous spikes and the Martlets took a 15-14 lead. But it wasn’t enough as Laval came back with some strong play of their own and after some long rallies, took the set 15-17.

The Martlets got off to another sluggish start in the bird set, barely managing o hold o f f the Laval ttacks, keeping the score notted 7-7. Laval took a ommanding lead 7-14, but llo w e d the M artlets to raw as c lo se as 11-14, efore finishing them o ff nd taking set 11-15.

L aval’s offence was iring on all cylinders by Sthe fourth frame and while Lapointe and fourth year middle player Anne Mullin did their best to block the powerful spikes o f the Rebecca tall L aval front court, they couldn’t manage to shut down L a v a l’s a g ile rook ie Nancy Labrecque. Laval’s strengths really came through as they closed out the game with a 5-15 victory.

The disappointing showing on Saturday night, leaving the Martlets with a 1-2 record, isn’t problematic for coach Béliveau. “We will take the first semester to try to adjust,” said B é liv e a u . “W e’ll g iv e the young players a lot o f court time, then hopefully after Christmas we will be competitive because our tal­ ent is close to other teams.”

The Martlets take their young talent show on the road in the next two weeks, visiting the Université de Montréal on Friday November 13th, then on to Sherbrooke on the 20th and Laval on the 21st.

T he M c G ill T ribune , T uesday, 10 N ovember 1998

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On Sunday, the McGill Men's rugby team lo st 2 0 -1 5 to the Bishops Gaiters in overtime. The heart b reak in g lo s s en d ed an incredible season for the Redmen who played great all year. In the gam e, Ben W illiam s scored one try, one convert and three penalty k ick s. The o n ly other o ffe n c e came from Ben Lee who scored on a penalty try which came on the heels o f a Gaiter infraction.

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C om in g o f f a trem en d ou s showing at the tri-meet last week, McGill swimming was looking to continue a trend o f winning against McMaster. The women fell short and sco red 112 p o in ts to McMasters' 176. The highlights in the loss was the performance o f Holly McComb, Lisa Virgini, and Elaine Duranceau. McComb won the 200 meter butterfly and the 200 meter individual medley. Virgini w on the 100 m eter and the 200 meter backstroke races. Duranceau took the 400 meter freestyle.

On the m en ’s sid e , the Redmen scored 119 points which w as not en ou gh to o v er co m e M cM aster's total of 160.

Individually, David Allard contin­ ued to impress as he won the 200 meter backstroke, the 2 00 meter in d iv id u a l m ed ly , and the 2 0 0 m eter breast stroke. Sebastian Paddington won two events as he took the 2 00 and the 4 0 0 meter freestyle races. Matt Walker was the other winner on the day, he took the 1500 meter freestyle. The swim team w ill be in action this weekend in Sherbrooke at the CanAm challenge.

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The Redmen basketball team, fresh off a winless Redbird tourna­ ment, finished 1-2 at the Golden Bear Tournam ent in Edm onton.

The first gam e saw M cGill play Lethbridge tight in the first, with the score 44-3S at halftime. But the Redmen fell apart in the second as Lethbridge cruised to a 90-76 vic­ tory. The McGill surge on offence came at the hands of Mark Rawas who scored 22 points and pulled

down five rebounds; also, rookie Kirk Reid scored 17 in the loss.

In gam e tw o o f the tourna­ ment, the Redmen were stifled by the Brandon Bobcats who crushed the red and white 87-63. Kirk Reid continued to dominate as he scored a team high 2 0 p a in ts and six rebounds. Teammate Andrew Bier came within two boards o f a dou­ ble-double as he scored 10 points and grabbed 8 rebounds.

Going into game three against Saskatchewan, McGill was riding a five game exhibition losing streak.

Growing desperate for a win, the Redmen played incredibly strong jum ping out to a 38-33 halftime lead. They then bucked their trend o f weak second half play by scor­ ing 36 points on their way to a 7461 w in .

A ndrew B ier cam e through with another big game as he sco red 20 p o in ts and again pulled down eight boards, fellow se co n d year forw ard Brady Murphy scored 13 in the victory.

The Redmen will open the regular season at Ottawa this Saturday.

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W INLESS AT O U A TO U RNAM ENT

In the OUA tournament last weekend, McGill dropped all three o f their games. The first loss came at the hands o f G u elp h w ho destroyed the team 10-2. In the game, Abagail Tannebaum scored both g o a ls. G am e tw o again st Wilfred Laurier was closer but the M artlets still lost 8 -4 . A bagail Tannebaum, Sarah Galicia, Agatha Sector, and Yen Duong all scored in the defeat. In their last game of the tournament McGill completed the trifec ta o f lo s s e s as B rock cruised to an 8-4 w in. G en eve Stew art and Tara Kamath each scored a goal in the gam e, but T annebaum sc o re d tw o w hich brings her three game total to an im pressive five goals. M cG ill's own Lisa Bird picked up the award for Most Improved Player in the eastern division o f the OUA. M

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SO U TH OF THE BO R D E R

On S aturday, the M cG ill M artlets took on N ortheastern U niversity in exh ib ition hockey action. The American school won 3-1 as they bombarded McGill with 57 shots. The barrage was con ­

tained superbly by goalie Kim St.Pierre who made 54 saves, which gives her four fifty-plus save per­ formances this year. Offensively, McGill managed only 14 shots on net and scoried only at the hands of Kathleen O'Reilly.

M cGill then played Y ale on Sunday and played to a 3-3 draw.

Even though the score indicated somewhat even play, Yale outshot the Martlets 40-15. Fortunately for M cG ill, Am y D oyle and her 37 saves kept the team in the game.

Offensively, the Martlets got a sin­ gle goal from Julie Hornsby and two, including the tying goal, from Sophie A cheson. They w ill play their home opener against UQTR on Saturday, N ovem ber 14th at 2:30 at the McConnell Arena.

T he m en p la y ed o n e gam e against Yale on Saturday and were so u n d ly d efea ted 7 -2 by the Bulldogs. The two M cGill goals came from Luc Fournier. The net duties were split between Jarrod Daniel and rookie Benoit Ménard.

D an iel p layed tw o p eriods and allowed four goals, while the rook­ ie got the call in the third and let in three more. The men play next at h om e a g a in st C o n co rd ia on Wednesday, November 11 at 7:30 at the McConnell Arena.

M c G il l c r o s s c o u n t r y T EA M S SE N D 1 4 R U N N E R S TO

N A TIO NALS

Last week, the women's team announced it's seven runners going to the nationals last week consist­ in g of: G e n e v ie v e S h u rtleff, Melodie Juteau, Stephanie Welsh, L e slie G o ld , C arly M oher, Gretchen Dumoulin, and Samantha M c G lo n e. N ow the m en have announced that they will also send seven runners to the nationals. The seven runners representing McGill will be: Paulo Saldanha, Stéphane Brodeur, Cyril Anderson, James R oun dell, Ryan B eaton , B enoit L ebeau, and Y ohsu k e H ayashi.

The fourteen athletes w ill try to bring home gold this Saturday in W aterloo at the C IA U national championships.

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Tired o f being involuntarily exposed to toxic chemicals? Come to the next meeting of the McGill A n ti-S m o k in g S o cie ty .

R efreshm ents w ill be served.

Shatner 310, 5pm. For more infor­ mation call 985-2264.

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The lesbian/bi/queer women's discussion group is hosting a safer sex workshop. All women interest­ ed in safer sex with women w el­ come. 2020 Mackay (downstairs), 6:30pm. Info: 848-7431.

McGill Cancer Centre Seminar -•

McGill Cancer Centre Seminar - Dr Frank Costantini, Department o f G enetics and D evelopm ent o f C olum bia U n iv ersity speaks on "The role of the RET receptor tyro­ sine kinase in development and can­ cer." M cG ill C ancer C entre, M cIntyre M ed ical S cie n c es Building, Room 903, 11:30am.

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The Department o f Hispanic S tu d ies w elc o m es P rofessor S teph anie M errim o f Brown U n iv ersity , w ho w ill speak on "Spectacular Cityscapes o f Baroque M exico" (B albuena, Siguenza y Gongora and Sor Juana). Bronfman 678, 2:30pm. All welcome.

Big Brothers and Big Sisters Big Brothers and Big Sisters of W est Island w ill be holding their Annual Giant Craft Sale, at the Scouts Centre, 2001 Transcanada H w y, D orval. Over 55 artisans, refreshments w ill be sold. 6pm9pm and Saturday 14 Novem ber 9:30am-5pm. Please call 684-6100 extension 33 for further informa­ tion.

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The Women's Canadian Club o f Montreal presents M ike Frost, Form er In te llig e n c e O fficer, C om m u n ication s S ecu rity Establishment, National D efence, w ho w ill speak on "Inside the C anadian In te llig e n c e Establishment". Montreal Citadel, 2050 Stanley, 12:30pm. Non-mem­ bers: $5.00. Complimentary coffee at 11:30am.

Correction We apologize fo r im properly crediting th is photograph in la st w e e k 's issue — it w as actually ta k e n by P atrick Pok.

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The 101st se ssio n o f the St James Literary Society continues with Prof Nigel Roulet, Director of the M cG ill C entre for G lobal Change Research, speaking on a topic to be announced. Faculty Club, 3450 McTavish, 7:45pm. For further information please call 7282667.

$2 Massage Stressed out? Tense? Need a massage? Then com e to Shatner 107 between 10am and 5pm. For only $2, you can enjoy a relaxing m assage from a student in the M cG ill S ch o o l o f P h ysical and Occupational Therapy. A ll pro­ ceed s go to the T eleth on for Research into Children's Diseases.

See you there!

McGill Cancer Centre Seminar McGill Cancer Centre Seminar - Dr M ica ela Fairm an, MRC Radiation and Genom ic Stability U nit, Harwell UK and her talk, "Repair or die. The role of DNA double-strand breaks in mutation, g en o m ic sta b ility and cancer".

M cGill Cancer Centre, McIntyre Medical Sciences Building, Room 903, 11:30am.

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W eekly Scottish get-together with MATH FHEIN The Montreal G a elic C lub. For inform ation: Andrew 9 3 3 -0 5 4 5 or Janet 7289900.

Women's Self Defence Action self-defence course for women - Offered by the Montreal A ssa u lt P reven tion C entre.

Appropriate for all ages and physi­ cal abilities. Taught by a woman.

No simulated attacks with a padded agressor. Sun days, 22 and 29 N ovem ber, 9 :3 0 am -4:30p m . $ 7 5 /p erso n . Inform ation: 2841212.

Quilting Bee The C oncord ia W om en's Centre is organising the making of a quilt for Decem ber 6th, to com ­ m em orate the m assacre o f 14 women at L'Ecole Polytechnique on December 6th, 1989. Make your own quilt square using whatever materials you like (size must be 10" by 10"). You can also drop by the Women's Centre at 2020 Mackay (downstairs) and pick up a pre-cut design and materials. For more info call 848-7431.

Language Exchange Learn any language simply by teaching yours in exchange.

Guided conversations, role play of different situations.

English, French, Spanish and Japanese etc... membership fee applies; two meetings per week.

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