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Redmen roll over at soccer nationals

By T he M inh Lu o n g

The M cG ill R edm en’s reign as C anadian U n iv ersity so c ce r champions came to a disappointing end this week at Molson Stadium.

A s h osts o f the CIA U N ational Tournament, the Redmen won one match and lost their remaining two to p la ce fourth in the six team event.

After a som ewhat lacklustre season that saw them finish in third place in the Q uebec U niversity Soccer League, the Redmen played three strong games but were ulti­ mately done in by a lack o f finish­ ing touch and som e questionable calls.

“W e weren’t outplayed in any o f the games this week,” said visi­ bly distraught M cG ill coach Pat Raimondo after Saturday’s loss in the bronze medal game. ‘T w o set plays knocked us out. It was just lik e the rest o f the sea so n , the b oun ces d idn ’t go our w ay lik e they did last year when we won the Nationals.”

The Redmen were looking for a bronze medal and a measure o f revenge in Saturday’s affair with cro ss-to w n rival U n iv ersité du Q u éb ec à M ontréal C itad in s.

UQAM , having defeated M cGill three times this season including a p la y o ff v ic to r y , has forg ed an intense rivalry with the Redmen in the process.

UQAM defeated M cGill 1-0 to take third place in a match that was chippy at times.

“It was difficult to get moti­ vated for this gam e, w e played here to defend our title,” said Rai­ mondo. “Nevertheless, I’m proud o f the way they cam e out today.

They left it all out on the field.”

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McGill experiment blasts off with shuttle Discovery

By Jo h n Salloum

When John Glenn went into orbit on the space shuttle Discovery, one of McGill’s science experiments w ent alon g with him . B acterial research experiments by Dr. James Coulton, a professor in the depart­ ment of microbiology and immunol­ ogy, were sent into space on Octo­ ber 29 as part of a study into design­ ing new 'smart drugs.'

Coulton's research takes advan­ tage o f the micro gravity environ­ ment in space to create a medium through which to study proteins, the guardians at the entrances to bacteri­ al cells.

"This is opening a whole new area of drug design. It is based on knowing what there is at the surface [of bacteria], rather than just throw­ ing things at the bugs and saying 'I hope you get killed by this,’" notes Coulton. “That is what w e have been doing over the last 25 to 3(f years...search ing for an tib iotics without really knowing the way they get inside [bacteria] or how they kill."

Smart drug design is becoming a n ece ssity as bacteria b ecom e increasingly resistant to traditional

drug prescriptions.

"They've been prescribed liber­ ally in the last four decades and bac­ teria are now resistant to many of the clinically useful antibiotics that are prescribed by p hysician s," explains the professor.

"We have an interest in identi­ fying things at the surface of bacte­ ria, which are the pores or the chan­ nels across which these antibiotics pass," he continues. "A pore is made o f a protein, and the protein has a certain shape. It might have a hole through the middle, and this hole or channel is the way in which things can go from the outside o f the cell to the inside of the cell. So not just nutrients...go through these chan­ nels, but also antibiotics."

Coulton's research seeks to map out these channels in the cell wall in detail, to determine what shape and size antibiotics must be, in order to pass through the channel to get inside and begin to kill it.

"It turns out that [antibiotics] are less and less useful because bac­ teria now have ways to...chop them up," he notes.

In order to map the entrance to the ce ll, the proteins need to be organized in a particular manner. A crystal grown over a protein can

identify this organizational frame­ work.

"I’m using x-rays to identify the size, shape and organization o f a protein in a crystal," says Coulton "Gravity ca u ses p roblem s w ith growing crystals on earth because gravity causes the proteins to crash into each other. If you do it in micro gravity, where these collision forces aren't as great, it is possible that they will gently position themselves one beside the other, and the inter­ nal order created [may be] greater than that created on earth.

"We got our preparations made, and w e took them to St. Hubert, w hich is the C anadian Space Agency palace on the South Shore."

From there, the agency loaded it and other experiments into a special box designed for space travel, and trans­ ported the box to the K ennedy Space Centre in Florida.

Coulton provided the shuttle crew with protein samples in one container, and a solution in another container which, when mixed with the proteins, create the crystals.

"John Glenn and crew just have to turn the switch in order to mix the cocktails," Coulton says.

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D ru g sm u g g lin g While preparations were being made for the shuttle's experiment, a more dow n-to-earth experim ent received some attention of its own.

In conjunction with researchers in Konstanz, a German-Swiss border town, Coulton mapped the protein channel in high resolution detail here on earth.

Coulton is quick to note, how­ ever, that this breakthrough does not invalidate the future findings of the shuttle mission. "The space mission may provide an even better [map­ ping] o f this protein than what we have achieved [on earth]."

Coulton's detailed mapping of the protein channel may now enable researchers to design an antibiotic which cloaks itself in the size, shape and organization o f a nutrient that bacterial cells require such as iron.

Coulton notes that this is effec­ tively a drug smuggling operation.

"The bacterium is tricked into taking up [the hidden antibiotic] because it thinks that it is taking up iron."

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The McG ill Tribune, Tuesday, 17 November 1998

Inside the new McGill Superhospital $1 b illio n p ro je ct w ill b rin g th e u n iv e rsity 's fo u r te a c h in g h o sp ita ls u n d e r o n e roo f b y 2 0 0 4

By James G rohscal

Four M cGill-affiliated hospi­ tals officially merged and integrated their managements in July o f this year and will be united into a single hospital scheduled to be built in Montreal by 2004.

The group of hospitals includes the Montreal Children’s, the Mon­ treal General, the Montreal Neuro­ logical and the Royal Victoria. The McGill University Hospital Centre is the controlling body of the four and the coordinator o f the merge.

According to Donna Bastien Riley, planning director for MUHC, the total cost of the project is estimated to be close to $1 billion. The Que­ bec governm ent w ill contribute $300 million and the federal gov­ ernment will give around $100 to $200 million. The balance will be covered by capital campaigns and savings from operational efficiency.

"The Quebec government signed the m erger agreem ent that created MUHC in July 1998," said Riley.

"They have committed to give us $300 m illion — $250 m illion for construction and $50 m illion for transition measures."

Dr. Abraham Fuks, Dean of the Faculty o f Medicine, believes that accessibility is a major issue, espe­ cially for Royal Victoria and the Neurological Hospital.

"Youngsters have no problem making it to hospital or the [Bishop Mountain Hall] dormitories," he noted. "The access of the sites is not good for the patients. They're on a hill, there's not easy access and no Metro stop."

Critics of the new superhospi­ tion,” said Fuks. “When you call it tal b elieve that upgrading current facilities would be more econom ical and e ffi­ cient than constructing a new b u ild in g from scratch.

According to Riley, howev­ er, McGill's present hospital facilities cannot be renovated or expanded to provide ade­ quate services to patients.

Furthermore, she b eliev es improving the atmosphere of the hospital would be a boon for patients' recoveries.

“R esearch on d esign p rin cip les has show n the impact o f lighting, sound, temperature, and colour on healthcare ou tco m es — F a r e w e l l t o t h e V ic Michael Colwell these factors have a very m easurable im pact,” she explained. “The healing process is ‘super,’ people think of it as a giant best engaged in this kind o f envi­ machine.” ronment” Others have claim ed that the The new h o sp ita l’s d esig n , construction of a new hospital will although tentative, will be collegial, take funding away from day-to-day with open spaces and unimposing operations as well as research, but buildings that are low to the ground Riley says that won’t happen. with bright and airy interiors. For “The sources o f money are dif­ reasons of patient privacy and fears ferent capital budgets [for construc­ of the spread of infectious diseases, tion] and research budgets are not most rooms will be singles. the same as operating budgets. We Many members of the Montreal can't use the global budget [given community fear that the so-called by the Quebec government] for any­ “su p erh osp ital” w ill in tim id ate thing but services. We believe that patients with its scale, but propo­ this project is going to make operat­ nents o f the MUHC compare their ing hinds work better for patients.” design with the im posing Royal Victoria Hospital, which is made of F a c ility to b e lo ca te d gray stone in the Scottish Baronial on G le n Yard style.

“The new hospital is not going Two weeks ago, on November to be a gigantic impersonal institu- 4, the MUHC announced that the

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new hospital will be built on Glen Yard, a railway yard that straddles the Westmount border and is owned

by Canadian Pacific Railways. CP w ill remove soil contaminated by diesel fuel and other chemicals at its own expense. According to MUHC C om m unications Services, Glen Yard was chosen because it is large enough to accommodate the new hospital, and the site is accessible by car and public transport. A tun­ nel may even be b uilt from Vendôme, the nearest metro station, to the new hospital.

Peter Trent, Mayor o f W estmount, where a third o f the Glen Yard property is located, voiced some concern about how the hospi­ tal will change his community.

“What I have to worry about is the effect on my own city. People are very concerned about traffic and noise,” said Trent. “Public consul­ tation will be required to allay the fears of the public. There's no ques­ tion that the MUHC is very w ell aware of my concerns.”

N evertheless, Trent believes that a large percentage o f W estmount residents would also support the construction of a nearby hospi­ tal.

"I w ould su sp ect that the majority of Westmount residents are in favour o f having a hospital on their doorstep,” continued Trent.

“It's a matter of balancing the needs of the majority who want the hospi­ tal with the minority who w ill be affected by its construction.”

Medical students' reactions to the new superhospital are mixed at

best. Although some students are indifferent to the fusion of medical services in Montreal, others hold varying view s about the benefits and inconveniences of the merge.

"One of the advantages is that by merging all the hospitals, you'll have a critical mass of patients and doctors available. Clinical research and training will improve because there will be more patients with the same condition in one place," said Rina B ansal, VP finan ce o f the Medical Students' Society.

Antonia Stang, a second year medical student, believes that stu­ dents w ill lose a broad education about different types o f hospitals when the hospitals merge.

"There is no question that the merger won't affect m edical stu­ dents. Once the four smaller hospi­ tals become one big hospital, stu­ dents won't have the opportunity to experience different hospital cul­ tures and organizational structures."

According to Riley, the extent to which the operations of the Fac­ ulty of Medicine will be moved to the new superhospital site has yet to be determ ined. M UHC has not decided on uses for the old hospital buildings, although they have sug­ gested luxury and middle end con­ dominiums and apartments, senior housing and office space. The Mon­ treal N eu ro lo g ica l H osp ital is ow ned by M cG ill U niversity, so once operations are moved out, the building w ill be returned to the school.

Another lab in McConnell Engineering targeted by thieves

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created, the potential pharmaceuti­ cal applications for such a discovery could be astronomical.

Total v a lu e o f e q u ip m e n t sto le n a p p ro x im a te ly $ 3 5 ,0 0 0 C o m m ercial p o ten tial A ccord ing to Dr. Marvin Miller, Clarke professor o f chem­ istry and biochemistry at the Uni­ versity of Notre Dame and a collab­ orator with McGill on the research project, it w ill still take a lot of work before any kind o f discovery is applied to the antibiotics for pub­ lic use.

"Typically, before a pharma­ ceutical com pany can make one cent on a drug, they have to go through [a detailed] process, and the average cost for that now is $500 m illion (U S). So there is a huge expense in investment because...we just can't have things put into people before they are [proven] safe and effective."

He notes that if a really effec­ tive drug were to evolve from such a discovery, pharmaceutical compa­ nies would be working in the billion dollar a year range of the drug mar­ ket.

M cG ill w ould m ost lik ely receive a few per cent of the royal­ ties, some of which would filter to the original investigators; most, however, would probably be put back into research program s, explains Miller.

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Experiments such as Coulton's are an incredibly costly undertaking.

The Canadian Space Agency, the organization responsible for helping scientists execute their space-related exp eriem en ts, purchases space aboard the shuttle for Canadian experiments. According to Dr. Alain Berinstain, project manager in space and science programs at the CSA, "...[space] is normally purchased by w eight. They give you a certain price...it could be anywhere from $20,000 to $50,000 per kilogram..."

Only later this w eek when results from Coulton's experiment will be available will the CSA know if its investment was worth it. But Coulton remains optimistic about the results of the experiment.

"These are the best protein preparations we've ever made. I just hope John Glenn remembered to turn on the switch."

T h iev es struck M cC onnell Engineering again this past week­ end, stealing approximately $35,000 worth of computers from the Centre for Intelligent Machines laboratory.

CIM was hit between the hours o f 10:30 pm and 1:30 am Friday night by thieves who made away with two mid- to high-end worksta­ tions. There were also attempts to steal another com puter, but it appears som eo n e or som ething interrupted their looting.

“The thing is, they apparently had a third machine, but they left it...,” said CIM Director Frank Fer­ rie.

According to Ferrie, CIM lost two pieces of valuable equipment that will have to be replaced, but more importantly, CIM’s research schedule w ill have to be pushed back as a result of the theft.

“You lo se a major p iece o f equipm ent, you have to get a replacement. W e [had] plans for [the eq u ip m en t’s use] in our research,” stated Ferrie.

Chris Falagaris, McGill securi­ ty supervisor, could not comment on the latest robbery in the engi­ neering building, beyond mention­ ing that “[we are] taking every pre­

caution...we are extra vigilant.” She stated, however, that McGill securi­ ty cannot solely be blamed for the rash of thefts that have been sweep­ ing through McConnell.

“The engineering com plex is very large...you can do as many rounds as you like but say you’re at one end...[the thief] might be at another end,” Falargis explained.

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u McGillsecurityis responsibleforexterior checks. We'reonlyresponsi­ blefor walkinginthehall­ ways, checkingtheexit doors, doingperimeter checks. Wedon'ttakeakey andopeneveryone'sdoor.

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that the security of McGill rooms should be the shared responsibility of the person in charge of the room and the security officer.

“McGill security is responsible for exterior checks... W e’re only responsible for walking in the hall­ w ays, ch eck in g the e x it doors,

doing perimeter checks... We don’t take a key and open ev ery o n e’s door,” she stated.

As a result of this most recent robbery, Ferrie intends to beef up security in his labs, although he is doing so primarily because he has doubts in security’s ability to ensure the sa fety o f h is departm ent’s equipment.

“One of the first things is w e’re locking everything down until we have some confidence in building security — w e’re going to lock all the laboratories,” said Feme.

A ccording to CIM Manager Marlene Gray, the laboratory is also talking to the electrical engineering department concerning plans which w ould restrict a cc ess to M cC onnell’s labs. N evertheless, Ferrie believes a fine balance must be reached between securing CIM’s laboratory equipment and the need for flexible working hours for their researchers.

“This place has always been pretty freeform , p eop le worked around the c lo c k ,” said Ferrie. “[Extra security measures will be] sort of a compromise between peo­ ple doing work and security.”

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The McGill Tribune, Tuesday, 17 November 1998

Confidentiality of sexual harassment files under fire at Dal L a w y e r fo r a c c u se d sta lk e r w ill try to h a ve th e u n iv e rsity 's in te rv ie w n o te s in tro d u ce d a s co u rt e v id e n c e

By Jason S igurdson _______________

Legal counsel for D alhousie University will be forced to defend the confidentiality of client records at the Sexual Harassment Office follow­ ing a lawyer's demand to have docu­ ments introduced as evidence in a case before the courts.

Lonny Q ueripel, law yer for accused stalker and convicted mur­ derer William Shrubsall, will go to a Halifax court December 23 and ask that the judge order the release of file s kept during an interview betw een D alhousie student Tara Cookson, Sexual Harassment Advi­ sor Susan Brousseau and Dal Wom­ en's Centre staff member Patricia Thom son. A ccording to p olice records, Cookson was subjected to repeated harassment from her former boyfriend between February 4 and 22, causing her to fear for her safety.

The interview in question took place February 12.

While the files of victims' ser­ vices are often targeted in cases of sexual assault, it is unusual to see it occur in a case o f criminal harass­ ment. Brousseau has been working as Dalhousie's sexual harassment asses­ sor for nearly five years, and she believes that this is the first time that anyone has tried to access the office's records. In an interview with the Tri­ bune, she stated that the university plans to do everything it can to pro­ tect the confidentiality of their files.

"We have retained legal counsel to argue that it's the nature o f this office to protect the records that are kept," she stated. "There are situa­ tions where people expect that the university will protect the informa­

assessors, stated that tion provided to McGill has never had its them." confidential files threat­ Shrubsall, a 27ened with a court sub­ year-old American, poena. He does know, w ill be facing however, that the possi­ charges of criminal bility exists. harassment in court "Our files are kept on January 6. It is confidential and locked one o f 15 charges, up... but we have been including three told that there is a possi­ counts o f sexual bility that our files could assault and one S h r u b s a l l be subpoenaed," Idziak count of aggravated www. newsworld. cbc. ca explained. "If the sub­ assault in the beating poena is granted, the university could of a Halifax store clerk. Shrubsall be brought in to testify." was arrested in Canada on June 22, The records of all complaints almost ten years to the day that he murdered his mother in his childhood filed at McGill — both formal and home using a baseball bat. He served informal — are kept for four years.

They consist of a listing of the state­ 16 months for the crime. ments of the complainant and a list­ Despite the grocery list of new charges against Shrubsall, his lawyer ing of statements by the respondent. is still hoping to gain an opportunity While there is always the theoretical to pore through Dalhousie Universi­ looming threat of having these docu­ ty's file s and try to construct a ments brought into the public light, Idziak stressed that the application to defence. Thomson, who has been subpoena sensitive documents can working for over a year as the full­ often amount to little more than legal time paid staff member of the Dal Women's Centre and was present at maneuvering.

"It doesn't mean that [an applica­ the m eeting with C ookson and Brousseau, declined to comment on tion] will be successful in court. The lawyers w ill have to present their the application before the courts. arguments before the judge and speak Brousseau, how ever, sees the lawyer's strategy as a classic attempt their 'legal-ese'," Idziak said.

"Any lawyer can try to subpoena to poke holes in the reputation of the whatever document they want. It's up victim.

"The defence is looking for any­ to the judge to determine whether or thing that will allow them to tast the not the information is released," he concluded. credibility of the women in question," Lonny Q ueripel, law yer for she stated, referring to a recently pub­ lished newspaper article. "Normally William Shrubsall, did not respond to these types of [legal] applications are the Tribune’s calls by press time. made in sexual assault cases.”

—with files from Dr. Edmund Idziak, one o f The Buffalo News M cG ill's four sexual harassment

McLennan-Redpath gets plugged in with new electronic classroom

dent operations, including student a c c o u n ts, re g istra tio n , co u rse selection and buying books will all be able to be done over the Inter­ net. This will eliminate all o f the hassles o f line-ups that are normal­ ly a ssociated with these tasks," explained Pennycook.

25 n e w w o rk sta tio n s in sta lle d on first flo o r as M c G ill stu d en ts lik e F aye Kenny, U1 science, are optimistic th e re su lt o f a jo in t stu d e n t-lib ra ry in itia tiv e about the addition o f this electron­ tron ic c la ssr o o m is c r u c ia l in

By Le'N ise B rothers ic w o rk p lace. She b e lie v e s the today's information age. efforts are quite significant.

"The way that information is Starting this w eek, students "It is important for a universi­ studying in the M cLennan-R ed­ appearing is changing very rapidly. ty with such a strong reputation as path Library will have a new elec­ People need new skills on how to McGill's to implement all the latest find information. This is the next tronic classroom at their disposal. tea c h in g m eth o d s, in order to Located on the main floor o f step in teaching students how to ensure that its students are receiv­ get to electronic formats," he stat­ the library, just next to the MIDAS ing the education they are paying workstations, the new classroom is ed. for.”

This classroom , along with intended for use as an additional Jo Morrow, AUS VP Internal electronic resource room for stu­ tw o others in M cC onn ell Engi-* and a member of the library advi­ dents and as a location for profes­ neering and the Education Build­ sory committee, concurs. "I think sors to use computers as a teaching ing, are a part o f the university's that these electronic classroom s aid. The room was built as a joint mandate to allow every student to are something that are sorely need­ project between students and the have the opportunity to access the ed at McGill. It represents the shift library — with the Students’ Soci­ electronic resources that are now from dark, dank cla ssro o m s to available at McGill.

According to ety of McGill University donating som ething new and ex c itin g — V ice-Principal Information S y s­ $ 1 0 0 ,0 0 0 out o f the Library som ething w hich represents the Im provem ent Fund for the pur­ tems and Technology Bruce Penfuture." chase of equipment, and the library nycook the new classrooms allow A lon g with the educational paying for the renovations to build c la sse s to be taught u sin g w eb benefits that students w ill receive based materials. He hopes this will the room itself. The new classroom from the new classroom , library will contain 24 workstations, along give students new ways of looking s ta ff w ill a lso be e x te n s iv e ly with an instructor's station, that at course information. trained in computer use which will "The electron ic classroom s can be used by cla sses or as an allow them to show students how are a part o f the push to bring extension of the MIDAS system. to access resources as extensively John Hobbins, McGill's head M cG ill in to the 2 1 st cen tu ry. and efficiently as possible. librarian, feels that the new elec­ Within the next 24 months, all stu­

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A University of Victoria profes­ sor who specializes in fam ilies in society has pleaded guilty to growing and possessing marijuana for the purpose of trafficking.

Jean Veevers has been a faculty member at UVic since 1980. A raid on his house two weeks ago resulted in p o lice seizin g 122 marijuana plants, and 8.6 kilograms of marijua­ na. Mel Hunt, Veever’s legal counsel has asked the court to consider an electronic monitoring service as pun­ ishment for his client, as opposed to a jail term.

The University o f Victoria is waiting for Veevers to be sentenced before deciding on any administra­ tive action.

“I guess we’ll just have to wait and see what happens," said Patty Pitts, a university information offi­ cer, who noted that it is a unique sit­ uation. “There’s no cut and driedpolicy for this kind of thing.” Veev­ ers will be sentenced on November 27 in the British Columbia Supreme Court.

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A female student at McMaster University, living in residence was diagnosed with a case of bacterial meningitis last week and has been admitted to hospital.

The student, whose name could not be released for reasons of confi­ dentiality, was living in the Brandon Hall residence. All those who have been in close contact with her have been given the drug Rifampin in order to ward off the illness.

Meningitis, which is transmitted through the sharing of saliva in direct contact such as kissing or the sharing of utensils, can cause an infection of the bloodstream of the lining of the brain spinal cord.

Sym ptom s in clu d e fever, headaches, vomiting, stiff neck, skin rash and a general feeling of malaise.

Although this is the sole case reported at McMaster, university officials have launched an informa­ tion campaign outlining precautions that should be taken if students’

become ill. According to health offi­ cials, the close proximity of people who live in residence creates an easy breeding ground for the illness.

“The important thing is to pre­ vent close contact,” said Andrew Hodge, acting associate m edical director in the Hamilton-Wentworth public heath department. “If exposed, there is a potential to get the disease. It is easy to kill once diagnosed.”

The student is expected to make a full recovery.

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Last m onth, the D alh ousie Association o f Graduate Students voted in favour o f a one-year prospective membership with the National Graduate Council, a caucus of the Canadian Federation of Stu­ dents.

Unlike many graduate student organizations, which are separate from undergraduate student unions, DAGS is mn as a society under the D alhousie Student Union, which belongs to CFS’s rival organization, the Canadian Alliance o f Student A ssociations. As a society under DSU, DAGS is already a member of CASA, which was in part founded by the DSU itself.

The m ove to CFS was made during an impending teacher’s assis­ tant strike earlier in the year. DAGS felt that CFS could have kept them better informed than did CASA. Despite the fact that DAGS now belon gs to CFS, there does not appear to be any tension between them and the DSU. “[DAGS will] keep working on a [good] relationship with the DSU, because we are accountable to the D SU ,” said Brent Powers, DAGS president.

The Post-G raduate Student Society of McGill University, which is an entity separate from the Stu­ dents’ Society of McGill University, also belongs to CFS, while SSMU has its own separate CASA member­ ship.

— with files from the Dalhousie Gazette

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The McGill Tribune, Tuesday, 1 7 November 1998

Symbolic A+ may replace 4.3

By Johnathan C oleord

Yet another open forum was held last Thursday in order to discuss the addition of an A+ grade to McGill's grading scale. The 4.3 grade point average scale has been scrapped in light of student opposition.

The new proposal would see the implementation of a symbolic A+ grade within a 4.0 GPA system. The purpose of such a grade would be to reward exceptional students without altering the GPA scale.

According to Dean of Students Rosalie Jukier, the new proposal was made to address student opposition to the 4.3 scale while still making room for the possibility o f recognizing exceptional academic achievement. "[After the consultation] the mes­ sage we received was loud and clear: the McGill student body did not want to adopt an A+ and a 4.3 GPA...[S]eeing that we initially pro­ posed [the A+/4.3 GPA] because we thought that it was a benefit to stu­ dents... if students did not perceive it to be a benefit then [we asked our­ selves] why force the benefit on some­ body who does not perceive it to be one."

Jukier explained that a new motion was made by a member of the Academic Planning and Policy Com­ mittee to consider bringing in an A+ grade, but without a separate GPA to it. "In other words, an A+ would be worth the same amount as an A, both being worth 4.0 — a symbolic A+ [grade]," she stated.

The proposed sym bolic A+ would also help to bring McGill's sys­ tem more in line with other Canadian universities without departing from a

4.0 grading scale. Jukier is uncertain as to how the other universities not operating on the 4.0 GPA scale will consider the symbolic A+ grade. "[The other universities] can do one of two things: they will take the A+ grades and assign those a higher GPA or they will say, [McGill] is still on a 4.0 scale and they will lower [the A+ grades]," commented Jukier.

When asked how many students in other institutions on this system actually benefited from the A+ grade, Jukier believes the number is signifi­ cant.

"At the University of Toronto ... a little less than ten per cent [of stu­ dents obtained an A+ grade], which is pretty high," said Jukier.

The major student concern was the lack of consultation prior to Thurs­ day's forum. With only six students in attendance, along with Professor Nick de Takacsky and Jukier, those present wondered about the possibility of fur­ ther consultation before arriving at a decision.

Heather Bradfield, president of the Arts Undergraduate Society, echoed this sentiment at the forum.

"With [the issue of] the 4.3 GPA, there was a lot of time for consulta­ tion. My one concern would be [to have] more time for student consulta­ tion."

Professor Jukier concurs that there was not adequate consultation prior to Thursday’s forum.

"There have been six students [present at the forum]... I hesitate to say that we've had adequate consulta­ tion."

The issue will be discussed at Senate on Monday.

N E W S b rie fs S A C O M S S FUNDING AND C o n s t it u t io n a p p r o v e d

■ E U S CANCELS PUBNITE ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ m i The infamous Shatner Building Both the Sexual Assault Centre Report, which has highlighted the of McGill Students' Society funding fire safety problems with the build­ and the new Students' Society consti­ ing, caused the Engineering Under­ tution were approved in last week's graduate Society to cancel its variety referendum, but not without a fuss. show and pubnite last Friday.

By the end of the second polling According to EUS President day, the referendum was approxi­ Kleigh Heather, engineering was mately 800 votes short of making informed by the Students’ Society of quorum. SSMU councillors and McGill University the day before execs were left scrambling on the last their event that Shatner was unsafe day, many of them going out onto for large gatherings and to hold their campus begging for voters to go to event would be to do so at their own the polls in order to approve the con­ risk. SSMU is responsible for the stitution and SACOMSS funding. management and operations of Shat­ SSMU President, Duncan Reid, ner. although concerned about the low Although SSMU was willing to voter turnout, believes that it had less share the cost of providing profes­ to do with student apathy than the sional security at the event, it was lack of controversy surrounding the not enough reassurance for Heather.

“We were told we could still issues at hand.

"Both SACOMSS and the con­ have the event if we wanted to,” said stitution were completely uncontroHeather. “But we looked at the versial issues. They've been done, report and decided that is was irre­ they've been passed and I think it is sponsible to hold an event where stu­ time to move forward." dents could get hurt.”

In the end, the new constitution EUS is now seeking compensa­ was approved by 1,443 of 2,082 vot­ tion for their canceled event, ers, and SACOMSS succeeded in although SSMU has not yet respond­ getting 1,971 votes out of 2,198 in ed to their demands. SSMU VP favour of continuing their funding for Finance Lorenzo Pederzani said that the next three years. “to say that we are going to finan­ Voter turnout for the First Year cially compensate other groups, is Students' Association also demon­ somewhat farfetched in my opinion. strated a lack of interest by first year We didn't know about [the state of students - a problem which plagued the building] at the time and there­ the elections from the get go. Only fore I don’t think we should be liable three of the six positions available for it post factum. Yes, I understand required an election. Catherine Weilthat faculty associations and any er will be the new FYSA president, other groups that have booked an winning the spot with a comfortable event are taking a loss, but hey, lead over opponent David Schanzle.

SSMU is taking a huge loss.”

The new VP Academic will be Kinga SSMU President Duncan Reid Grudzinski, and the position of VP said the move “communicated the External will be held by Alice Han. need to make the building safe.”

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Marketing the student body SSM U trie s to m a x im ize re tu rn s on e x clu siv e food, b e v e ra g e a n d se rv ic e co n tra cts

By Rhea W ong

The Students' Society of McGill U niversity's m ove to restructure catering services in Shatner raises issu es about grow ing corporate involvement in Canadian universi­ ties.

SSMU is attempting to redefine Miraval Food Services’ role as the primary food distributors on campus.

Miraval signed the deal with SSMU in 1995 and still has a year remaining in its contract, although falling prof­ its are prompting SSMU VP Finance Lorenzo Pederzani to take a look at alternative arrangements.

“The last few yëars have seen the Student Society go through four different catering companies and, generally, the trend has been that stu­ dents are buying less and less food through the cafeterias on campus and, obviously, that means they’re either bringing more food from home or they’re getting more food from off-campus," said Pederzani.

The com prom ise betw een shrinking profits and consumer dis­ satisfaction would lie in offering alternative catering arrangements for students.

“There are a number of different options,” Pederzani continued. “One would be to completely get rid of Miraval. The other option would be to keep Miraval on as a catering company, but to bring in other fran­ chises. The third option would be to keep no catering company at all and just offer all franchises.”

There has been an increasing trend towards the corporatization of campuses as private companies ally themselves with student societies in a bid for student dollars. According to Pederzani, more often than not, stu­

dent societies are accepting their o ffers, as did SSM U when they entered into a five-year contract with beverage giant P epsi Co. In exchange, Pepsi agreed to a one-time contribution of $50,000 to the Award of Distinction Fund, an annual slice of the commission on Pepsi drinks sold in Shatner and some other minor perks.

“In the absence of government funding and public funding, it seems inevitable that universities and other social bodies have looked to the pri­ vate sector for funding," stated Ped­ erzani. "It’s a very serious reality for universities to get involved in the pri­ vate sector for not only funding, but for financial help in lobbying the government. I think it’s just really the function of the times.”

However, McGill groups like Corporate Watch, a working group o f the Q uebec P ublic Interest Research Group that review s the business ethics of companies that do business with McGill, object to the considerable influence that corpora­ tions have on an educational system.

“I sympathize with the dimin­ ishing government support, and I don’t mind if corporate money is there,” said Amanda Sheedy, co ­ coordinator o f Corporate Watch.

“It’s a noble thing to donate money to schools, but it is not a noble thing to use students as an advertising body.

"For example, big pharmaceuti­ cal companies make contracts with sciences and they want their product to be a part of the student’s mentality and want their company’s philoso­ phy to be taught. The decisions are never brought democratically. The main thrust of my issue is that they disregard the student’s right to

choose. The public isn’t considered in these contracts and the hugest part of decision-making is not put to ref­ erendum and that puts the whole power structure into perspective.”

The reach of corporations has been gradually extending beyond student societies to universities at large. This past summer, Brock Uni­ versity signed a ten-year exclusive contract with Pepsi, an agreement Brock VP Finance S teve Smith believes is for the greater good of the student body.

"The m onnies received from [Pepsi] were split... one-third to the Student Union and two-thirds to the University,” Smith explained. “All the money we receive goes to student initiatives, and though there was a concern about our involvement in a monopoly, there really isn’t a prob­ lem in light of the student allocation of money.”

A ccording to U niversity o f British Columbia Alma Mater Soci­ ety President Vivian Hoffman, UBC has made a number o f corporate deals without student input. She voiced concern about the mounting privitization and secrecy of negotia­ tions with giants like Coke and the Royal Bank.

"The reason the university is pursuing these deals is that they're just not getting enough funding from the government," said Hoffman. "We cannot approach it as a partnership; it is a business deal and that's all it is. I also think that universities should disclose all the details of these con­ tracts. They're public institutions and they owe the public that transparen­ cy. At the moment, none o f these deals are public knowledge and that does a disservice to all universities entering into contracts."

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E D I T O R I A L “ F o r t h o s e w h o w il l f i g h t b r a v e l y a n d n o t y ie l d , th e r e is t r i u m p h a n t v ic t o r y o v e r a ll t h e d a r k th i n g s o f lif e .”

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...charges dropped in the APEC case.

In a com pletely unrelated story, the federal gov­ ernm ent has reversed its deci­ sion to cut funding to the CBC

J. Allen

The CBC and the Politburo

By Ja so n S ic u r d s o n

Suspended without pay, subjected to a gag order, veteran CBC news reporter Terry M ilewski has been hung out to dry by the execu­ tives at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. It makes one ask the question: who do his bosses really work for?

M ilew ski was assigned to cover the A sia Pacific Econom ic Co­ operation summit in Vancouver last November. He was on the front lines as protesters were brutally driven from sight along the motorcade route running through the University o f British Columbia campus. He talked to those who had their signs calling for democracy and human rights ripped down by the RCMP. And he was the one to follow-up on the allegations that the Prime M inister’s O ffice may have explicitly ordered the police crackdown on visible dissent.

Thanks to M ilewski, the CBC broke the “pepper-gate scandal.” His reporting o f APEC’s security preparation was rigorous, revealing the links between the PM and the acts o f police brutality which took place on the UBC campus. The mounds o f evidence he dug up forced the PMO to scramble around and explain to the public how it could allow the RCMP to hose down peaceful protesters with canisters o f pepper spray, all for the sake o f trying to avoid embarrassment to visiting dic­ tators.

All the attention that has been generated over this situation, how ev­ er, has been craftily dispersed by the PM O’s Director o f Communica­ tions Peter Donolo. He has transformed “M ilewski the news reporter” into “M ilew ski the new s maker” through one complaint letter to the C BC ’s ombudsman, alleging that the Corporation’s journalist assigned to the APEC beat was biased against the government. W hile it’s true that D onolo has the right to file a com plaint, the CBC has a clear responsibility to defend an em ployee who was only doing his job — especially when the complaint com es from a spin doctor working for the highest political office in the country.

Some staffers at the Corporations’s headquarters in Toronto seem to forget what journalism is all about. They spend more time worried about how to please the government — which determines funding for the public broadcaster — than actually hustling to report the news. Fol­ lowing an opinion piece published by M ilewski in the G lobe and M ail last w eek , on e sen io r C BC producer w as quoted as sa y in g that “M ilewski is right, but is it worth it if the government reopens the sta­ ble-funding issue for the CBC? If 5,000 people lose their jobs? Fine, h e’s right. But how right does he have to be?”

The fact that “h e’s right” should say it all.

One would like to think that we can trust the CBC because it w on’t kowtow to big business, big government or any specific interest. That’s what makes it a public broadcaster — w e pay for it, and it’s account­ able to us as a collectivity. With the recent turn o f events, this seems to be far from the case. The executives at the helm o f the CBC are buck­ ling under government pressure to transform the public broadcaster into a sta te broadcaster, where “handout journalism ,” subservient to the government’s every whim, becom es the order o f the day.

A public broadcaster like the CBC has to provide a structure which allows its journalists the room to strictly adhere to the principles o f ethi­ cal coverage, instead o f playing a game o f self-censorship that funda­ m entally runs against the public interest. Terry M ilew ski should be upheld as a model o f good journalistic practice. The C BC ’s leadership, however, will have to stop taking their cues from D onolo’s Politburo if they’re ever going to realize that.

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Examine your motivations for voting Exercising y o u r rig h t to g o to th e polls is an im p o rta n t p a rt o f citizenship, b u t b a rrin g mass uprisings, y o u r v o te p ro b a b ly w o n 't m a k e a crucial d iffe re n c e I read with som e interest the article on the upcom ing provin­ c ia l e le c tio n in you r N o v . 3rd issue. One woman quoted, a stu­ dent from N ova Scotia, wanted to v o te b e c a u s e o f th e ‘Q u e b e c q u e stio n ,’ although she did not like relinquishing her N ova Scot­ ian voting rights. To all ou t-of­ province students contem plating a sim ila r d e c is io n , y o u m ig h t w ant to ex a m in e you r m o tiv a ­ tions for voting.

If you fo llo w Q uebec p o li­ tics and want to engage in them by v o tin g , in ste a d o f b e in g a mere spectator, this is an ex c e l­ len t rea so n . I f y ou co n sid e r it your civ ic duty to exercise your dem ocratic right to vote, that is all the reason in the world. If you are a partisan, anyone tied to a p o litica l party k now s that they depend on numbers and percent­ ages to point to as levels o f sup­ port. But if you want to vote in order to help the party o f your choice gain (or retain) control o f governm ent, I su ggest you look first at where you live.

Since w e live in a parliamen­ tary system w hich does not use proportional representation, but rather first-p a st-th e-p o st, your

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v o te m ig h t n o t m ake q u ite as much difference as you like. Par­ ties w in electio n s by taking the m ost ridings, not by receiving the m ost amount o f votes overall. If you happen to live in the M cGill gh etto, for in stance, you m ight have guessed that W estmount-StLouis (the riding that encom pass­ es it, the campus and downtown) is a bastion o f federalist a n g lo ­ phone Liberal support. It voted an o v e r w h e lm in g 7 9 per c e n t Liberal in the 1994 election, not to mention 85 per cent and 87 per cent for the ‘n o ’ side in the 1995 and 1980 referenda, respectively.

The chances o f an upset victory for the PQ in this riding is, to say the least, unlikely. If you live in m y riding o f M ercier (east and north o f l'Esplanade and Rachel), on the other hand, its M N A , PQ minister Robert Perrault, enjoyed a solid victory by alm ost 8 ,0 0 0 votes (in a riding that voted 63 per cent ‘y e s ’ in 1995, in cid en ­ tally).

The realty o f this system is that barring mass uprisings, your vote probably w on’t make a cru­ cial difference unless you live in a sw ing riding (one that was won by le ss than 2 ,0 0 0 v o tes in the

la st e le c tio n ). If yo u v is it the w ebsite o f the Directeur général d es é le c t io n s du Q u é b e c (w w w .dgeq.qc.ca), you can find a list o f these ridings. A list o f all 1 9 9 4 e le c tio n r e su lts , b rok en down by riding, can be found at w w w .dgeq.qc.ca/inform ation/tab _resu_elec94.fr.htm l. Better yet, look up your riding and find its electoral map, a history o f voting p atterns and a s o c io e c o n o m ic description to get to know it bet­ ter, at w w w .d g e q .q c .c a /g e n erales/index.htm l.

U pset votes can happen. And v o t in g is part o f b e in g an involved citizen — which is why I w ill truck across the street on the 30th to v o te for the frin g e party o f my choice, even though it w o n ’t w in. But if ex e r c isin g this right can only happen in one province, and your main m otiva­ tion is a change in governm ent, then you might want to consider spending your vote where it will h a v e the m o st im p a c t— w h ich may w ell not be here.

Sam antha M cG avin B.A. ‘98

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I can't begin to express how d isg u sted I am by the b lin din g ignorance that went to print in this paper, for many the only decent source o f objective journalism that a b u sy u n iv e r sity stud en t can obtain. As this is surely the case, then I'm afraid Mr. James McGill h im s e lf, our in stitu tio n 's very founder, must be doing a 360 roll in his grave, as he lived in times when the foundations o f journal­ ists opinions were strengthened by not o n ly ed u ca tio n but a little common sense thrown in for good measure.

T he a rtic le in q u e stio n , "Overcoming the Stereotype— A Second Look at Frats" was written by the T ribune’s apparent Greek Society experts, Ms. Gilmour and Ms. Hamer. These seemingly selfprofessed know-it-alls displayed a frighteningly high level o f oblivi­ ousness as to the true nature o f an in d iv id u a l w h o lo o k s at their H o u se N O T as a "sym bol o f oppression and conform ity" (as stated in their lamely sensationalis tic m ann er), but rather as a cathedral o f sorts, where friendly brothers or sisters await with an open palm, a shoulder to lean on, an attentive ear, and an under­ standing o f the word integrity not found on any sports team and in little more than a few clubs avail­ able at our school.

Especially disturbing was the apparent v e n g e a n c e so m eo n e showed, possibly the article’s pho­ tographer, and their shallow need for drama in displaying a photo­ graph of a fraternity house (Alpha Delta Phi). This targeted fraternity has a particularly clean record in its 101-year history at McGill. My hope is (a sentiment shared by a great many others as w e ll) that future information articulated, in regards to the subject o f fraternity and so r o rity lif e , m ay be researched and written by individ­ uals who present evidence illu s­

trating that they have an iota o f a clue as to what Greek S o cieties are, in fact, all about.

— Chris Lally U1 Industrial Relations

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rm ed to th e teeth

In re sp o n se to C o n w a y et al’s (10/11/98) letter, here is my s o lu t io n . In 1 9 8 7 , F lo r id a a llo w e d its c i t i z e n s to carry ",45's in their jackets." A 1993 F lo r id a D e p a r tm e n t o f L ay E n forcem en t study fo u n d that h o m ic id e , rap e and p ro p erty crimes had DECLINED since the 1987 legislation.

Would Conway et al call the M i'K m aq naiton an "anarchist state?" The M i’Kmaq are armed and the governm ent did not use force against them.

C iv il r e b e llio n d o es N O T always mean civil war. In 1914, arm ed U lste r m e n c o m p e lle d Britain to defend U lster without firing a shot, despite being num­ bered by thousands more armed Irishmen.

I compared the E cole P o ly ­ t e c h n iq u e and J u ly B e lf a s t W orld Cup 1994 m assacres to show that gun control would not have saved these students. If gun deaths persist even when the law can shoot you dead for carrying a gu n , gun co n tro l w ill s o lv e nothing.

L a s tly , it ta k e s m uch courage for three people to take on one.

— Jose P ierre F ernandez C ertificate in H ealth and S o cia l Services M anagem en t P rogram

SSMU LIABLE ONLY IN EVENT OF INJURY The author of the November 10 article "Safety and accessibility of Shatner Building not up to par" visited the McGill Legal Informa­ tion Clinic to inquire about the lia­ bility of SSMU regarding the poor state of the Shatner Building. After identifying provisions o f the Que­ bec C ivil Code concerning civil liability for Ms. Levitz, I looked forward to reading an informative article. However, rather than citing law, she misquoted me and instead ran an erroneus statement o f little legal significance. By attributing such words to a member o f the L egal In form ation C lin ic , she clearly hoped to lend more credi­ b ility to these w ords than they deserved. In reality SSMU can be sued only if som eone suffers an injury that is directly related to a negligent action of SSMU. This is in stark contrast to "potentially putting hum an liv e s in danger makes them liable and negligent."

If the T rib u n e purports to uphold journalistic ethics, it should begin with one o f its pillars: stating facts accurately. As News Editor, Ms. Levitz has a greater responsi­ bility to the truth. I hope the future will see more care taken in articu­ lating such information.

— Danistan Saverimuthu Law III Volunteer at M cG ill Legal Information Clinic

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STUDENT^ At a recent Academic Policy and Planning Committee meeting, the University's proposal to adopt an A + grade and 4 .3 G PA w as rejected. Much of the credit for it's [sic] defeat, as desired by many students, belongs to Sam Johnston, SSM U VP University Affairs, as w ell as Dean o f Students Jukier

and A sso c ia te VP A ca d em ic DeTackasy. Through their public and faculty consultations, a con­ sen su s em erged am ong student leaders that their constituents did not want the change.

I personally find it reprehensi­ ble that a world-class institution such as M cG ill, in deference to th o se w ho do not a c h ie v e 9 0 s (m yself included), will not recog­ nize our superior students. For it is they who, through the reception of grants, conducting of leading edge research and winning o f national awards, largely define our reputa­ tion. With the defeat o f the A+, they will, for various reasons, con­ tinue to be at a disadvantage.

Nonetheless, this case can be viewed as proof positive that the S SM U , w hen w ork in g in c lo se association with the administration, can act to reflect the will of many o f the students it represents.

Other changes to the grading system will now be considered. In a well-intentioned but ultimately cowardly attempt to recognize our greatest minds, McGill will consid­ er the adoption of a ‘symbolic’ A+ on transcripts, whereby A +s are shown, but still only count as 4.0.

The defeat o f the A + grade was based largely on the percep­ tion that it would not benefit the m ajority o f students. It fo llo w s then that we should expect the sec­ ond change under consideration, the reflection of all class averages on transcripts, to also m eet with defeat. The majority o f students are, after all, average— and would not benefit from potential employ­ ers being made aware o f this.

Yet w e can expect much less commotion from student leaders on this issue. For while they may not achieve A +s, they m ost certainly do better than the class average.

—Andrew Kovacs Academ ic Policy and Planning Committee U2 Biology

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DTF LAWSUIT F ollow in g the recent letters published in this section, it has become necessary for the SSMU to reassert the importance of our legal challenge against the Quebec Gov­ ernment's differential tuition policy against out-of-province Canadians.

This policy — which costs McGill students over $8 million per year — is econom ically destructive to Montreal, and financially threaten­ ing to all Canadian university stu­ dents — present and future.

A recently com pleted report

by McGill's professor Handa has shown that our out-of-province stu­ dents contributed over $160 million to the local Montreal econom y.

However, since differential tuition fees were imposed, out-of-province enrollment at McGill has dropped by 8 per cent. If the government's policy is allow ed to stand, other p ro v in ces m ay fo llo w suit and im pose differential fees o f their own. This kind of Balkanization of the Canadian U niversity system w o u ld u n d ou b ted ly p la g u e all Canadian students with higher fees — including Quebec residents — who are looking to continue their studies elsewhere in Canada.

It quickly becomes clear that Quebec's differential fees adversely affect everyone: Quebec residents, out-of-province Canadians, and the greater M ontreal, Q u eb ec, and Canadian communities. The SSMU needs no more impetus than this to fight against a policy which is so evidently destructive and so clearly misguided. It is imperative that we w in our case before for the full effects of this unfair policy are felt across the country. W e stand by our named plain tiff, Paul Ruel, with w hom w e w ill continue to work towards achieving the worthy ideal of educational mobility.

—Jeffrey Feiner, Vice President External Affairs

Stop the Press

Shatner safety issue necessitates "more prudent" numbers at events R e c e n tly , so m e d istu rb in g facts about the Shatner Building have been uncovered by the Stu­ dents’ Society through an investi­ gation performed on behalf o f the E xecutive Comm ittee and Coun­ c il. T he study in q u estion w as com m issioned earlier this year by the S SM U , in w hich a team o f engineers, architects, and munici­ pal co d e con su ltan ts exam in ed e v e r y a sp e c t o f our b u ild in g .

T h ere is no q u e stio n that the results o f this report w ill change the way in which everyone makes use o f the Shatner Building.

S e v e r a l is s u e s w ere h ig h ­ ligh ted in the final report from that stud y, relea sed last w eek: First, the building is not up to par in safety standards. Second, we are years behind the norm in pro­ v id in g a cc ess to stud en ts w ith disabilities. Third, w e can make far m ore e f f e c t iv e u se o f our

sp a c e fo r c lu b s , s e r v ic e s and operations if w e rationalize the floorplan. A ll o f these concerns w ere an alyzed, and som e b asic r e c tify in g m easu res w ere o u t­ lined. These measures are by no m ean s u n su b sta n tia l — th ey could cost more than $2 million.

The S hatner B u ild in g is a poorly designed, thirty-five-year o ld b u ild in g th a t has b een neglected for its entire lifetim e.

That is why the study was com ­ m issioned in the first place. Thus, w e now find ourselves in a posi­ tion where w e are acutely aware o f the problems that we face, and the potential solu tio n s to those p r o b le m s. F u r th er m o re, w e b e lie v e there is a strong desire within the SSM U to take im medi­ ate and decisive remedial action, g iv e n the e s p e c ia lly p r e s s in g nature o f the safety issue.

However, such steps — even

taken as quickly as p o ssib le — w ill only be able to resolve our difficulties by late summer 1999.

W e k n o w th is fo r a fa c t. A s result, w e are left in a challeng­ ing predicament: what do w e do in the m eantim e to preserve the safety o f M cG ill students? For the rest o f this year, how do we b a la n ce the d esire to co n tin u e holding our activities and events with the need to ensure that we are not r e ck le ssly en d angerin g students?

After extensive consultation w ith our leg a l c o u n se l, w e are esta b lish in g an interim plan o f action. Because the major safety concern raised is with regards to the lim itations on ex it capacity due to the main stairwell, w e w ill have to be more prudent with the number o f students allowed at an event at any one tim e. W e w ill also hire extra security staff, and

be e x tr e m e ly v ig ila n t that all building p o licies are being fo l­ low ed. This approach w ill allow us to continue holding the major­ ity o f the events that w e currently do while providing the necessary degree o f safety and protection from le g a l c o n c e r n s o f n e g li­ g e n c e ; M u c h -e n jo y e d p a r tie s such as Pubnites and Arts T av­ erns w ill be able to continue this year, albeit in a slightly modified and regulated form.

Y et this is not g o in g to be sim ple: the im m ediate im p lica ­ tions o f all these concerns were m ade ta n g ib le this w eek w hen the executives o f the Engineering U n d ergrad u ate S o c ie ty (E U S ) and the S cien ce U ndergraduate S o c ie ty ( S U S ) in fo r m e d the SSM U that they had ch osen to p o stp o n e th eir an n u al v a riety show due to the problems raised.

W hile outright cancellation was

perhaps a drastic resp on se, the SSM U joins the EUS and SUS in their regard for student sa fety , ab ove all e lse . But that such a highly enjoyable event could be cancelled, despite all the efforts o f student ex e cu tiv es, can only serve to underline the necessity o f facing the ch allenge that lies before us. W e shall do everything possible to ensure that the SSM U and faculty associations are able to continue providing the events that contribute so substantially to cam pus life at M cG ill, both for the rem ainder o f this year and into the long-term future.

— D uncan R eid SSM U P resident — K aren P elley S SM U Vice P resident Internal A ffairs

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Lament for a sausage party Saturday night, 10:23 pm . A h a n d fu l o f y o u n g m en — m ere boys, really — are crow ded onto a g r im y c h e s t e r f i e l d in th e ir c la u s tr o p h o b ic M c G ill g h e tto a p a r tm e n t. A te le v is io n , tu n e d in to H o c k e y N ig h t in C anada, b la re s in th e c o rn e r. T he b o y s laugh a little too eagerly a t D on C herry's p ith y post-gam e adm oni­ tio n s. M e a n tim e , an a r s e n a l o f r e c e n tly - e m p t ie d b e e r b o ttl e s g ro w s on th e c o ffe e ta b le . The do o r buzzer rings, and a fe w m ore guys enter the room, cases o f beer in to w . O ne o f th e s e a te d la d s r e a c h e s u n d e r a c u s h io n a n d retrieves a tattered copy o f Hus­ tle r , w h ic h h e f l i p s th r o u g h a b s e n tm in d e d ly . A n o th e r b o y lounges in the corner, smoking.

W hat w e have here are the winning conditions for a sausage party.

L argely unplanned, w h olly unintentional, sausage parties are one o f the strangest social phe­ nomena ever to plague the male

undergraduate. T h ese a ll-m a le revues usually begin innocuously en ou gh , but th ose o f us on the inside know just how easily they can sink to the low est depths o f depravity. Whatever form sausage

Spencer Institute for the Study o f H om oerotic Tension at the U ni­ versity o f Bonn. "When they get together for a few drinks, and it suddenly erupts into a full-scale, s a u s a g e - in te n s iv e p a rty , the a b se n c e of la r g e-b r ea sted n y m p h s w ith m a ttresses for b a ck s can be w ith Sean C. Jordan very demoraliz­ ing."

A dded Dr. parties may take, however, they're S c h iffh a u s e n , w ith no sm a ll all marked by a co llectiv e sense amount o f schadenfreude, "I must o f shame and embarrassment. The go now to Leipzig to attend a con­ extent o f that shame and embar­ ference on the deleterious effect rassment tends to be proportional o f lederhosen as le itm o tif in fatal to the siz e o f the sausage party cases o f autoerotic asphyxiation." itself, or, in other words, the num­ Dr. Schiffhausen has a point. ber o f sausages present. But why?

At a sausage party, a sense o f fail­ "Y oung m en ju st en terin g ure permeates the air. Gee whiz, university have been conditioned the sausage partiers think, are we to a n tic ip a te a h igh d eg ree o f th a t rep ellen t to w om en? C on ­ social interaction with members versely, though, sausage parties o f the opposite sex," notes em i­ tend to be a lot o f fun. A study in nent German sociologist Dr. H el­ contrasts, they extract the women mut Schiffhausen, director o f the from the w ine and the song and

add a healthy dose o f uninhibited behaviour. Y ou can ignite farts, for exam ple, at a sausage party.

Y e t th e n ex t d ay n o b o d y w ill a c k n o w le d g e that a g o o d tim e w as had by all; sausage parties are, by d efinition , a thing to be avoided.

Twice I have felt the sting o f h o stin g a sa u sa g e party. There w as on e la st year that w as the truly epic king o f all sausage par­ ties. I m ean, I really struck the m o th er lo d e on th is o n e . M y roommate at the time — let's call him 'Gary' — and I th ou gh t it w ould be a great idea to have a barbecue with a keg o f Guinness.

So w e made up in vitation s that advertised all the great features o f our barbecue/party: the Guinness, the bring-your-own-m eat policy, the raucous games o f foosball, et ce tera . It had fa ir ly u n iv e rsa l appeal, I thought.

About forty guys showed up, as did one girl. O ne girl. Forty sausages and one lousy bun. For som e reason the girls stayed away

Raising the Roof

in droves, and to this day I still can't figure out whether it was the stout beer or the towering piles o f raw m eat w aiting to be cook ed over the open flames. And despite d ra in in g th e k e g , and h a v in g som e excellent rounds o f foosball, there was a palpable sense o f dis­ comfort to the event.

Which brings me to my con­ cluding point. What with all these retro-crazed youths jum ping and jiving to this latest swing revival, eventu ally we're g o in g to co m ­ pletely exhaust the 20th century. I say the next d ecad e w e should resurrect is the 90s. The 7890s, that is. Way back in those days, sausage parties w ere de rig eu r.

A fte r d in n er , th e b o y s w o u ld retire to the parlour — no girls a llo w e d — to g e t lo a d e d and entertain each other with hilarious repartee. No shame in that!

T h is is M r. J o r d a n 's f i r s t deliberate a ttem p t to alienate his fe m a le readership.

Halfwits and Half Nelsons S u p le x in g y o u r w a y to th e G u b e rn a to ria l title Jesse "the Body" Ventura, red­ neck icon and former wrestler, was recently made the people's choice as governor of the fair state of Minneso­ ta. While a big day for fans of the eye-poking and hair-pulling past and present, the win repre­ sents a sad decline and even sadder emerging pattern in Am erican politics.

Although it's true that M innesota can now proudly boast "our governor can beat up your governor" to any other state in the union, it should be noted that they've elected a man known not for his cunning strategy and political manoeuvring but rather for his pecs and his pile drives.

The downward spiral began per­ haps with Ronald Reagan, who Americans seemed to elect chiefly because he spent a substantial portion of his career co-starring on screen with a monkey. While this may, in fact, have made him a uniquely exceptional candidate to handle other politicians, it still is a dangerous and short-sighted whim.

Reagan is only one of many for­ mer actors that have made the tidy transition from Tinsletown to Wash­ ington. Clint Eastwood brought his six-shooter justice to the Californian town of Carmel, Sonny Bono was a

David Reevely has papers to w rite like everyone else.

Slitting throats w ill be seen again here next w eek.

go-go as House Rep from California, and Fred Granby docked the Love Boat for long enough to gopher his way into D.C. Not surprisingly, Ven­ tura has three big screen credits to his name with cameos in Batman, Preda-

When before have we had a prime minister who went about clubbing intruders, punching hecklers and laughing in the face of pepper spray?

His administration reads more like a B-movie vigilante script than the regular shades o f due process and bills that lit­ ter most Canadian His­ tory texts. Oh, for the days o f leaders like Lester B. Pearson, who upon being heartily strangled

by President Lyndon B. Johnson,

apologized profusely and begged for­ giveness through a series of personal letters.

Oh sure, it may be entertaining to have a m indless oaf like Jesse "The Body" Ventura determining laws and budgets, but Americans are ultimately yielding dangerous power to under-qualified individuals and that's only going to come back to slam them firmly upon the political mat. It won't be long before politi­ cians, as dense as they are, start noticing this trend and start doing

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tor and The Running Man. What's happening is that the American public is turning to politics not as a source o f leadership and strength, but as a source of entertain­ ment. The only reason Clinton got elected to a second term is because Americans collectively realized they couldn't live vicariously through the sexual antics of Bob Dole. The Land of the Free after all demands more than just banal, m issionary style m onogam ous sex from its tribal heads, and men since JFK have only been too happy to oblige. That's right, Clinton was set up, and you heard it here first.

Much o f this blame must be made to rest solely on the narrow shoulders and hollow spines of the media, who in the pursuit of a punchy headline have made the bedrooms of p olitician s the bedroom s o f the nation. Unfortunately, since we live so close we're bound to inhale some second-hand smut. Chrétien for one is showing signs o f being heavily influenced by his Southern chums.

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Fear of the Screen The Hollywood elite know some­ thing that you and every other cel­ lu loid lo v in g sap d o n ’t. I S till Know W hat You D id Last Sum m er had no chance o f bein g a good film. Neither did A ntz. Ditto for I 'll Be H om e F or Christm as. Yet they still keep churning out these formula stories about underdogs, cop buddies against all odds and Johnathan Taylor Thomas. Sadly, we are one o f the biggest reasons for this trend in poor filmmaking.

The 16-25 demographic is respon­ sible for the bulk of ticket sales in North American theatres, thus the powers that be gear many of their summer, Christmas, Thanksgiving and St. Patrick’s Day blockbusters towards our collective style and taste. That’s why The W aterboy earned $30 odd m illion its first weekend and D ie H ard 4 is in the works.

L et’s not be too harsh on our­ selves though. We aren’t responsi­ ble for all the down trends in the world o f cinema. The dishearten­ ing rise in popularity o f reissued and rem astered c la ssic s can be attributed to weak screenwriters and w ealth o f bad ideas. When Urban Legend can break even, you know the idea mill in California is running dry.

Unfortunately there isn’t much to look forward to in the coming year.

A side from the much anticipated Star Wars prequels, you’ll see a lot o f trailers for a lot o f stinkers, many of which you’ll actually pay good money to see. To help you plan your yearly budget, here’s a look at film s that are still a- few m onths (m in im u m ) from their release date. Some are in prepro­ duction or rumoured to b ecom e projects in the near future.

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Starring LL Cool J as a biomed ical scientist.

B abv G eniuses When a shrewd business woman recognizes the ability o f a pair of orphaned tw ins to com m unicate before they are able to speak she hides them away in a secret lab to decipher the language. One of the orphans escape and m obilizes all the babies it can to free it’s twin.

D ie H ard 4: Tears o f the Sun John Maclane is in the rainforests o f South America trying to save the lives o f a plane load o f civil­ ians. The crew and passengers, in clu d in g M aclan e, have been exposed to a biochemical weapon

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Love her or hate her, M ia Kirshner is back.

Former McGill student and b u d d in g m o v ie star, she’s featured on this m on th ’s cover of M en z m agazine. And she gets pretty naked inside (not that that’s a good thing).

EUS in sid e jo b s, la p ­ top s w alk in g aw ay in law b u ild in g s, ca rs being broken into next to th e fa c u lty c lu b ... while our campus crime figh ters sleep at their p o sts and h a v e th e ir walkie talkies pinched.

I, for one, feel safe.

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Starring B ru ce W illis as John Maclane (again).

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B u t th a t’s b esid e the point, way to go Dunk!

F irst that kooky S ad ­ dam tu rn s aw a y U .N inspectors, then he sees the B52s coming and he ca v es in. W h at h a p ­ pened to a line in the sa n d ? M o th er o f a ll wars? Shit, give me a war before I die a bro­ ken man with no stories to tell my young’uns.

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A mysterious and powerful hero of the classic kind, Buddy is as skilled with his guitar as he is with his samurai sword. Thrown together w ith a kid w hom he sa v es in a spectacular battle, the tw o must esca p e their en em ies and reach “Lost Vegas”, the rock ‘n’ roll cap­ ital of the future. *Researchfrom the Hollywood Stock Exchange

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One journalist's missile crusade turns into quest for the truth R o b e r t F is k s la m s g u tle s s jo u r n a lis m , a b ia s e d m e d ia a n d h is t o r y s p in d o c to r s in s p e e c h t o p a c k e d h o u s e

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s the wind and rain swirled around the dark sky last Thursday evening, around 300 people sat in complete silence watching a video screen in a lecture hall in the Stuart Biology building.

On the screen, a white battered V olvo-tumed-makeshift-ambulance drives through a UN checkpoint, west of the South Lebanese village o f Mansouri. There are fourteen Palestinian citizens inside, fleeing violence from Israeli troops.

As the camera moves to follow the vehicle, there comes a noise, a strange whooshing sound. A cloud of smoke engulfs the car.

In the next shot, there is a w ounded man standing b esid e a body, weeping and shrieking “My God, my God, my family has gone.”

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Scraw led on the fragm ent w as a clearly legible serial number. This piece of information began a journey that would take Fisk from Georgia to London, Paris to N ew York and finally to Montreal, as the guest of Amnesty International amongst other groups on campus. isk’s story of the m issile frag­ ment was the beginning of a fas­ cinating lecture that covered conflict in the Middle East, a biased media, and the kind of ahistorical journalism that dominates the news these days.

Fisk spoke about the morals of those who manufacture missiles and bul­ lets. He talked of gutless journalism, biased and slanted, avoiding the truth and spinning lies to suit those with the chequebooks.

After Fisk filed the story on the grievous death o f six women and

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armour weapon in the world. You can fire it through a basketball hoop at five miles and it would do it every time.”

Fisk remembers thinking, “So not much chance for the women and children in the ambulance.” When Fisk produced the fragment for the two men, explaining where it was found, an eerie silen ce filled the room. Then — an angry reaction.

The two men tried to distance the company from the terrible effects of the arms trade by saying, “You can’t blame a knife-maker if somebody stabs someone.” After Fisk persisted in asking the two executives if they felt any moral complicity in the six deaths that resulted from the use of their m issile, the C olonel leaned across the table and asked: “Are you on some kind of crusade?”

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you will not have real peace.” Fisk stressed that it is not a journalist’s job to sort out the nation’s problems, but it is their job to describe the w orld’s events with honesty and courage. In his words: “Justice does not belong to us. It belongs to other people. We journalists... should try to handle honesty and truth.”

was attacked instead of a Palestinian one, the author “would have put the attack in the first paragraph.”

his biased reporting is an epi­ demic in the West, claims Fisk.

Palestinians are painted as terrorists, Israelis as freedom fighters with legitimate claims to land. Arabs are continuously shown in a negative isk is reminiscent o f a history light, as meddlers who resist Israel’s professor, all glasses and cords, occupation of their onetime home­ land. N ow here in the reports o f with a avuncular cheery manner. But crazed Palestinian terrorists does it unlike most historians, he has seen mention that, as Fisk says, “Palestini­ the effects that the past has had on ans were occupied for more than the earth. He has been to Auschwitz and put his hands into ash pits three decades, they increasingly believe that the Oslo agreement is a “where you can actually pull out the fraud, they have been denied a ashes of whole cities in your fist.” He has nation, and 700, 000 Arabs lo st their The agreement P aim m w v haw a t o a S homes when they fled S»*sl m l tse SaBsJ-ïsf-ssfaî® Bar* «ootwfcy that part of Palestine

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The camera still rolls. Another man goes into the orchard by the side of the road and returns carrying two children in his arms. Both are badly wounded. A young girl runs franti­ cally along the road, eyes wide and covered in blood, finally collapsing on the ground in fear and shock. A child of about two months lies three metres from the twisted wreckage of the car, her body riddled with bullet holes. The camera moves closer to the car.

The driver o f the ambulance, along with Fijian UN troops, is now tearing at the wreckage, which was thrown 60 feet by the explosion. In the car is his w ife and two o f his children, all dead. Also dead are a sixty year old woman and her eleven year old niece, their liv es extin ­ guished in a cloud o f smoke. The missile that exploded came from an Israeli Apache helicopter, which hovered for five minutes after the explosion to watch the results of its work. obert Fisk was one o f the first journalists on the scene. Fisk is an award winning Middle East corre­ spondent for the British newspaper The Independent. While investigat­ ing the scene of this horror, Fisk dis­ covered a fragment of the m issile that had blown up the ambulance.

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children killed by a missile as they fled civ il strife, m ost journalists would have called it a day — a tragic incident. Nothing more. But Fisk went on the longest mission of his 23 year career, a mission that took him all over the world to track down the people that make the weapons that killed six Palestinians one sunny afternoon.

Fisk tracked the missile to its manufacturers, a company called Boeing, located in Duluth, Georgia.

The m issile’s name was, chillingly enough, Hellfire. Its ad read: “All for one. And one for all.” Hellfire is an anti-armour m issile, which should never, according to its usual condi­ tions of sale (rules the seller imposes on the buyer for how and when the missile can be used), be used against civilians. Its use against civilians, Fisk noted, actually makes its use a war crime. isk arranged to meet with two Boeing executives, saving the surprise reason for his interview until the end of the visit. Meeting with two men, “intimately involved with the making o f the H ellfire,” Fisk chatted about the ‘virtues’ o f the weapon. One o f the executives, a Vietnam veteran who Fisk named “the C o lo n el” com m ented, “It’s probably the m ost p recise anti­

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The executives looked at them, and gently returned them. Fisk left them the fragment. As he left the room, he heard the men say “I don’t think w e’ll put this in the trophy room.”

His journey might have ended there, if not for a phone call he received from a Boeing executive a day later. During a tense and whis­ pered meeting in Paris, Fisk learned that the serial number matched the number on a group of missiles that had been sold to the US Marines, and not Israel. Fisk, to his astonishment, d iscovered that the H ellfire had found it’s way to Israel as part of a quid pro quo gift from the American government, as reward for Israel not m eddling them selves in the Gulf War. The missiles were a gift. There were, obviously, no restrictions on its use.

If Robert Fisk is on a crusade, it is a crusade to tell the truth about the conflict in the Middle East. Fisk sees the reporting in the US as pro-Israel and anti-truth. To give an example, Fisk pointed to the placement of the ambulance tragedy in the New York Times. Fisk methodically read out the article file d the day o f the tragedy. The reporter waited until paragraph six until mentioning the crime at the UN checkpoint. Fisk claimed that if an Israeli ambulance

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Mein K am pf is available for sale form such a noble role with con­ straints like an unsympathetic boss in Beirut, and Fisk’s book Pity the and a need to “pay the rent”. Fisk N a tio n : The L eb a n o n a t W ar is said, without pausing, that “journal­ banned. In America, the press cite Arab killers as terrorists, and Israeli ism is a vocation, not a job.”

As the crowd stepped out into killers as ‘zealots’. And alongside, or perhaps b ecau se of, this web o f the freezing cold night, the atmos­ deceit, relations between all parties phere of passion and even rage was palpable. Fisk was surrounded by are deteriorating. “The Middle East is on the verge, I fear, of an explo­ those who had listened. Voices were sion.” Does Fisk have an answer to raised, tempers flared, but in the mid­ dle of the throng was a passionate all this?

“P eople are saying ‘How do Englishman, speaking the truth. you solve the Middle east?’ I have not the slightest idea. But unless all sides acknowledge the crimes which they committed, all of them, then

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Features

Dining with dignity at Chez mes Amis

By Maria S impson When I first heard about Chez mes Amis, a place that only charges $1.25 for a meal, I didn’t know what to expect. Would it be like a soup kitchen or a restaurant? It turned out to be very different from either of these places. Chez mes Amis is far more than a place to grab a quick meal, and its warm atmosphere goes beyond the often impersonal and institutional feel of a soup kitchen.

Chez mes Amis is a non-profit organization in N otre-D am e-deGrâce that is dedicated to preserving the self-respect of financially vul­ nerable people by providing a digni­ fied place to eat. Instead o f the degrading atmosphere o f a sonp kitchen, Chez mes Amis is located in a bright, former d elicatessen, where the patrons are served, not made to wait in line.

Upon first entering Chez mes Amis, the thing I first noticed was it sp a rsen ess. T ab les w ith greenchecked, plastic tablecloths sur­ rounded by folding metal chairs fill the single room and the only decora­ tions are various framed, inspirationaT sayings on the w alls. The kitchen is at the back of the restau­ rant connected by a serving w in­ dow. Several volunteers worked busily in the back, while others set tables and prepared to serve the d a y ’s meal o f turkey, peas and mashed potato with gravy. People began filtering in at 4:30 pm and were promptly seated and served.

Some sat alone and spoke to no one,

where betw een the lin e-u ps, the but most gathered in groups to chat. church basement atmosphere and Conversation was spirited and flew sneaking in if th ey ’re not quite back and forth between the diners, volunteers and Tracy Dorion, the “poor en o u g h .” M aking p eop le prove their poverty creates a gap founder of Chez mes Amis.

Dorion, a former mental health between the server and the person worker, opened Chez mes Amis fol­ being served, Dorion says. “I want­ lowing the philosophy outlined in ed to erase the separation between Article 45 of the Quebec Charter of us and them, because we are them.”

Chez mes Amis started with Human Rights, that says that every citizen has the right to a decent stan­ nothing. Dorion had no prior experi­ dard o f living. Dorion’s natural extension o f that philosophy is that people should have enough to eat, and the restaurant stands as a testament to that ideology.

The standard price for a meal is $1.25 for adults and free for children under six, but some com­ munity members pay more to help keep the restaurant running. Dori­ on describes the unique atmos­ phere: “here we can have a busi­ J o v ia l a t m o s p h e r e o f C h e z m es ness person sitting next to a home­ Amis a co m p lim en t to the cuisine less person next to a person with a Rebecca Catching seeing eye dog.”

Dorion hatched the idea for ence in restaurants or business. She and one other person began to ask Chez mes Amis in the fall of 1996. for donations from local churches, She had been w orking in soup food banks and door to door. “Peo­ kitchens to im prove her French, ple would donate money but also w hen she realized she could their time or an old stove or some­ improve on those kitchens' often thing they didn’t need,” says Dori­ degrading practices. She describes on. “It was a community effort.” many places she worked at where C hez m es A m is opened its you were required to prove your poverty by showing welfare docu­ doors in April 1997 with, according to Dorion, “enough money to pay m ents. One p lace had a system where people were assigned a plas­ rent, insurance, and food for two tic chip once they had gained the weeks.” This happened at the same right to eat there. The chip was a time the Queen Elizabeth Hospital humiliating reminder of their pover­ closed, which had served the com­ ty. People lose their dignity some­ munity’s disabled, elderly and men­

tally ill for many years. Dorion sees Chez mes Amis as filling part of the gap left by the closure.

The volunteers have a very per­ sonal relationship with its clientele that goes far beyond “feeding peo­ ple.” Dorion says that seeing people every day at meals “allows us to be more involved in their liv es. We keep in touch with their doctors and social workers and remind them about taking their medication.”

The more time you spend at the restaurant, the more you realize what a unique place Chez mes Amis really is. In accordance with Dori­ o n ’s philosophy, the people who were there seem ed to genuinely enjoy the atmosphere, beyond being a place for a cheap meal. Bruce, an assistant janitor who receives wel­ fare, says he goes about six days a week for dinner. “I like the food and it’s cheap. Sometimes I help George [a volunteer] with the dishes. Every­ one knows each other.”

D iana volu n teers about 20 hours each week at Chez mes Amis.

Recently she moved from Alberta and wanted to volunteer somewhere.

She picked the restaurant at random from the phone book. “The day I started, they had me washing dishes for four hours,” she laughs. “When I came back after that, they knew I was serious. Now the people here are like family to me.”

Christine comes to Chez mes Amis because the food is good and inexpensive — standard answers, I began to find — but also for the social atmosphere. At first it was

just a place to meet before going to Forward House, a nearby drop-in centre for people with mental ill­ nesses. Now she has made friends and likes to come to meet people. “I had a girlfriend who had a birthday party here.”

Dorion states the biggest prob­ lems facing Chez mes Amis are a lack o f funding and volunteers.

Because it is a privately-run organi­ zation, getting government funding has been difficult. Dorion is frustrat­ ed with “the number of hoops you have to jump through.”

“And then, when you get to the end, the rules have changed. The government has no problem funding clubs, sports and planting flowers around the city. They should try sending a starving man a bouquet of flowers.”

Chez mes Amis always needs more volunteers. Currently they have approximately 30 people, but turnover is high. Since having a stroke in June, D orion has been operating the restaurant for dinner only. She worries about the future of Chez mes Amis and if it will be able to maintain the same quality of service she has worked so hard to achieve. “We will be here as long as there is a need. When you start to burn people out, it comes down to feed in g p eop le — lin e-u p s and trays. If that’s the best we can do, I don’t want to do it.”

C hez m es A m is is lo ca ted in NDG at 5942 Sherbrooke West. For more info, call 482-2210.

Architecture and music at the new law library If each building plays a song, the Nehum Gelber library amounts to a lot of noise “A rchitecture in general is frozen music,” said Friedrich von Schelling in his book Philosophy o f Art. With this thought in mind, if you walk around the M cG ill campus observing the buildings and really lis­ tening carefully, you may hear a wide variety of music. Unfortunately, in recent cases, all you w ill hear is noise.

The newest addition to McGill architectural heritage is the Nahum Gelber Law Library on Peel Street. It was designed by the firm Dan Hanganu Architects. The total project cost was approximately $11 million, with funds provided principally by private donors.

Tom Schweitzer, an architect for Dan Hanganu, played an important role in the library’s design. He explained that M cGill essentially wanted an “intelligent building that wasn’t just high tech, but that was also integrated in the ‘golden square mile.’”

Sandwiched in between Chan­ cellor Day Hall and a law faculty building located at 3674 Peel — both Victorian style buildings of impres­ sive design and craftsmanship — the library’s design was not meant to be “subservient [to the older architectur­ al styles], but needed to acknowledge existing patterns, be true to itself and to its time.”

In other words, project designers sought not to answer to architectural standards of the past, but represent and be faithful to contemporary aes­ thetic and constructional innovations.

Schweitzer pointed out that “a lot of [people] want [older looking build­ ings], that they have a hard time with accepting that we are not in that peri­

od anymore, and that we need to work with where we are.”

Even though there are very strong dissimilarities with the golden square mile buildings, the design of the library is in dialogue with its older neighbours. As Schweitzer indi­ cated, “the main entrance is not on Peel, but facing south” along with a multiple-story triangular window that looks out on the large front yard of

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Chancellor Day Hall. A more subtle form of the dialogue that Schweitzer signalled is the “negative turret” on the north-eastern corner o f the library. Right above this is the Victo­ rian style turret of 3674 Peel. Instead of copying, or even suggesting a vari­ ation to the Victorian turret, the design seeks to create dialogue in a spatial void to accentuate the comer of the library.

The design’s special aspects, however, don’t seem to be concen­ trated in the box-shape form of the library, but in what Schweitzer quali­ fied as an “introspective” building.

Naturally, this is more apparent upon entering the library. Small rectangu­ lar windows each represent an inde­ pendent work-station along the sides of the walls. On both the fourth and

fifth floors, the centre of the building is flooded by sunlight through what Schweitzer called “clear-story light­ ing,” a feature that can be seen from outside through the window facing Peel. Another feature of the design is that the use of colour in the lobby is reversed. Instead o f being a dark shade, the floor is light. The purpose of this, Schweitzer said, is to serve as a “light reflector.” The light coloured floor in this case enhances the natural sunlight that»is coming through a window that covers two stories on the north side of the library. Schweitzer also mentioned that the “quality of light differed from one place to the other as to create a heterogeneous environment...and to always have something to look at.”

When asked about the role of architecture in society, Schweitzer indicated that “architecture [creates] the infrastructure for a community, it is setting up possibilities of how peo­ ple meet, how they will interact with each other and the building.”

Concerning the reflection o f society through architecture, Schw eitzer criticized the current trend in “exaggerated concern for personal comfort through mechanical and electrical systems.”

“It has become outrageous.” He explained that “a client is more will­ ing to invest in the electrical and mechanical systems than the building itself.”

The quality of the materials used for the library, however, is nothing to boast about. The reason behind this was the project’s relatively small budget. Unfortunately, the use of banal materials has repercussions for the overall craftsm anship o f the building. To put it succinctly, it prob­ ably wouldn’t be unfair to say that

the most developed craftsmanship of the library is, in Schweitzer’s words, “to use common materials in inven­ tive ways.” He cites examples such as the use of chipboard stained with lac­ quer. Sim ilarly, designers added white metal grids on the fifth floor — an aesthetic qualified by one law stu­ dent as “institutional.”

The craftsmanship in this case amounts to the aestheticizing of com­ mon materials, and in some cases, the aestheticizing of the lack of tradition­ al craftsmanship. The creation of aes­ thetic value in the construction of the library is unquestionable. However, one must question the permanence of such aesthetics, or whether their inherent quality over the long term is superficiality. Is the Nahum Gelber Library a building that will gather more character as time goes by — which is the case for its southern neighbour, the Chancellor Day Hall — or will time reveal that its aesthet­ ic value withers when the inherent nature of the building is revealed?

Such architectural examples may be compared to two bottles of wine, one good and one bad. The determining factor, of course, is whether time will improve the body of the wine or turn it into vinegar.

It is interesting to note that Schweitzer quoted Louis Kahn in saying that “the building comes alive only once it falls into ruins.” Archi­ tecture that is representative of its generation is certainly frozen music.

Perhaps what Kahn is alluding to in saying that a building is alive in its ruins is that only in its death do we perceive the true essence that once gave the building its vitality — and only then can we clearly understand, perceive and hear the music that it once sang.

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•Autism was first described in 1943

By M atthew M urphy

For parents of autistic children, the struggle to find an effective treat­ ment can be all-consuming.

Autism is a developmental dis­ ability that interferes with the normal development of the brain in the areas of social interaction and communica­ tion skills, which makes it difficult for afflicted children to communicate with others and relate to the outside world. At worst, it can lead to aggres­ sive behaviour — some autistics even injure themselves and others. What­ ever form it takes, it can be a pro­ foundly frustrating experience for parents as they search for a treatment, and children as they try to communi­ cate with people around them.

The name Lovaas means a lot of things to parents of autistic children.

But for most, it means hope. Ivar Lovaas is unknown to most people, but to the parents of autistic children, the name has the same importance that Banting and Best have to diabet­ ics.

About 40 years ago, Lovaas, a behavioural psychologist in Califor­ nia, began his postdoctoral position in a child development institute. The children at the institute were retarded in their language and social skills.

Lovaas noticed subtle ties between the way a child spoke and his behav­ iour. By observing them, Lovaas developed a treatment program based on behaviour and language. The pro­ gram does not improve the children’s language or social aptitude by leaps and bounds — instead it requires the patience and repetition o f “baby steps.” It focuses on early behaviour intervention (the earlier, the better) and aims to reduce, if not eliminate, the signs of autism.

forcing basic behaviours that focuses on positive encouragement rather than criticism. This form of behav­ ioural psychology is very often used by parents on a young toddler. Every time your mother told you how won­ derful you were for finishing all your dinner, they were, perhaps unknow­ ingly, using modelling as a teaching technique.

With autistic children, however, modelling is a way of taking small steps with the children to developing normal behaviour. For example, a parent might ask a child to touch his nose, and though this will register with a autistic child, he may not act out the instructions. The parent will then “model” the action for the child, either by doing it themselves or by guiding the ch ild ’s arm, and use rewards to “reinforce” the behaviour.

This therapy can take up most o f , the day, until the children master the action and move on to tackle more sophisticated behaviour. Modelling teaches children how to not only per­ form specific behaviours, but also teaches the child how to direct and focus their attention. The autistic child not only learns, he learns how to learn. This modelling program can take place on a home program basis, or through their school systems.

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The Lovaas method is what psy­ chologists describe as applied behav­ iour analysis. Joanne Lefevre, of the A utism S o ciety o f M ontreal, describes it as an “intense program­ ming where we assess the child’s [mental] strengths and weaknesses, and work on the weaknesses using modelling.”

Modelling is a method of rein­

A ccording to L efevre, the Lovaas method o f m odelling has been very su ccessfu l. In one o f Lovaas’ initial studies, 51 per cent of the children using the therapy went on to attend and com plete regular school, normally not a possibility for untreated children. Such children who do not participate in therapy rarely progress in grade school, and

instead languish in “special-ed”.

Lefevre knows that it is worth the effort to be able to give the child a normal education, instead of years o f special education. Two years of the Lovaas method promises to erase the signs of autism. For society and for parents, this is a far better alterna­ tive to the “usual solution o f more medication or institutionalization.”

With such a high success rate, Lefevre laments that the Society and the parents do not receive govern­ ment funding. Considering the time invested in the therapy (the program must be intensive, one-on-one and over 30 hours per week), there is an obviously exhausting strain on the parents, who take on the responsibili­ ty of most aspects, from modelling to special diets. They rely heavily on the Society and on student volunteers to help them through the two-year pro­ gram.

Studentvolunteers

Students don’t need a psycholo­ gy degree to help.

The Autism Society regularly trains students to help autistic chil­ dren, and typically nine hours are spent educating the volunteer on autism and the Lovaas method. Both

the volunteer and the parents take part in the training session.

There is no m edication in volved , and the student works intensely with a therapist and a parent in the rigors of the Lovaas method.

Jane Simpson, an undergraduate stu­ dent in psychology at McGill, is a volunteer who g iv es her tim e to reliev e the burden o f parents.

Through the Autism Society, she and other students are assigned to work with families, and until the arrival of government funding, they are a pre­

cious resource for over-taxed parents — a thought that is, for Simpson, “very rewarding.”

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Dr. Leslie Klein, an expert on autism at D ouglas Hospital, uses behavioural approaches such as the Lovaas method. While he does incor­ porate the method in his treatment, he does not recommend solely relying on one technique in the treatment of autism.

Klein does not “prescribe a uni­ fied treatment approach to all autistic children” and is concerned parents are “blindly led” to a treatment that is inappropriate for the child.

Klein directs a “multi-modal treatment centre,” and children that are strictly on the Lovaas method will not come into his hospital. However, he does believe that “the treatment must suit the child,” and that there are cases in which simply the Lovaas method is appropriate. W hile the Autism S ociety shies away from m edicine or pharmaceuticals, for Klein, medication is one o f many tools that may or may not compose the unique treatment given the indi­ vidual child.

Both hospital and home care seem viable options in the care of the child and improvements of the symp­ toms of autism. What is disconcert­ ing, however, is the strain on parents who decide to help the child in the familiarity and comfort o f a home environment. Parents must struggle with a lack of funding and support in implementing a program that requires immense patience and dedication.

The economics of the situation is clear: two years of preventive med­ icine is far less costly to parent and state then a life spent in special-ed or institutions. And although it’s hard work, it seems for many children and parents that the rewards are worth it.

Students are welcome to volun­ teer at La Société de l ’Autisme de la Région du M ontréal M étropolitian 911, Jea n T a lo n E st, L o c a l 124 Metro Jean-Talon. Tel: 278-4106.

•Autism usually appears in the first three years of life •Autism is four times prevalent in boys than girls •Family income, lifestyle and educational levels do not effect the chance of autism's occurrence •Autism occurs in an esti­ mated 1 in 500 individuals •Autism is the third most common developmental disor­ der, more common than Down’s syndrome •Autism is referred to as a symptoms can appear in any range of mild to severe •Autistic children are often misdiagnosed as having mental retardation, a behavioural disor­ der, or problems with hearing •Possible symptoms: slow language development, using words without attaching usual meanings to them, communicat­ ing with gestures instead of words, spending lots o f time alone and showing no l make friends, a lai in spontaneous or ii play, doesn’t initiate imaginary games •Possible approaches to treatment including behaviour modification, speech/language therapy, vision therapy, music therapy, medication and dietary interventions •20 to 30 years ago, over 90 per cent of people with autism were placed in institutions.

Today, a highly structured, spe­ cialized education and behaviour modification program is the favoured approach

infofrom: Autism Society of America, Bethesda, MD: http://www.autism society.org/autism.html

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According to P o p u la r S c ie n c e , there’s only one prob­ lem with duct tape. “You can patch a tent, seal up a box, or even repair a leaky garden hose with it. But there’s one thing duct tape doesn’t do well: seal a duct.” According to the U.S. Department of Energy, just about any sealing material is better than duct tape at keeping air inside a duct where it belongs. “Of all the things we tested,” says researcher Max Sherman, “only duct tape failed. It failed reliably and often quite catastrophically.” This is a big deal because in the average house, 20 to 30 per cent of all the energy used in heating is wasted by bleeding out of holes in the ducts. Sherman says that heat from the ducts tends to melt duct tape’s adhesive, so manufacturers should reformulate it. That bodes ill for those devoted to using duct tape for other purposes — if getting the glue’s residue off of things is hard now.

This month sees the launch of a new magazine for real ■ women. W om en in T ouch isn’t about sex, makeup, landing

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The premiere issue has a feature on the growth of women’s clubs, formed for specific purposes like making invest­ ments, getting support for dealing with chronic illnesses, and dealing with the stresses of balancing a family with a career. These are all challenges that are best met in a group — pool your resources and you can make more money; keep active and avoid isolation and you’ll maintain the I psychological resources to fight a disease; rely on a co­ operative approach to getting everyone’s kids to school and it can all get done quicker. To anyone who might want to start that kind of a collective, W om en in T ouch suggests first sitting in on a few meetings of a club that already exists, setting careful ground rules (including legal documents if there’s to be any money involved at all), and promoting heavily to increase membership — because numbers, after all, are where you derive your strength.

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"Splash of water - not ice": Scotch for the poseur says that it’s functionally impossible to really understand Scotch unless you’re a professional. “We’re not talking about eggs here. We’re talking whisky. Her­ itage liquor. The dark spirit the Scots started making some 500 years ago when the English were still struggling with home-brew.” Want to look like a pro? Here’s what you need to know. Scotch comes in two basic varieties: blends and malts. Some puritans say that blends, which are made up of a whole bunch of different malts, are inferior — like the difference between concentrated apple juice and apple punch. G Q points out that, to the contrary, the good blends combine the flavours of 40 different quality malts to cre­ ate a kind of super-Scotch — like twelve-year-old Johnnie Walker Red Label. When bluffing expertise as you con­ sume, G Q advises that you first “nose” the glass and take note of smells of the sea, smoke, or honey. Then swirl the whisky around, casually remarking on the oily “legs” that run back down the glass. And, importantly, add just a splash of water (not ice, you barbarian!) to unlock the flavour of the whisky and also spare yourself the embarrassment of spluttering wildly and having to wipe your eyes on your host’s kilt. E a r to th e G ro u n d suggests Speybum, a highland single-malt, which comes in eight-, twelve-, and eighteen-year-old varieties __if you’ve got the dough, the eighteen-year-old is best...and we understand that the true poseur never drinks with minors.

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T ric y c le is delighted at the recent growth of interest jn Buddhism in the West, but isn’t happy about some of j p /i i p I A the misconceptions being bruited about regarding its funI a » fr \ j l V damentals. The top ten list of wrong beliefs: “Buddha” is T.T spelled “Buddah.” All Buddhists meditate. All Buddhists are bald. All Buddhists are vegetarians. The Buddha is the tun**y fat guy (maybe he is and maybe he isn’t, says T ric y c le ).

5 FOR THE WEST *kcwm*Mrs All Buddhists live in monasteries. All roads lead to the Wtettfce&ridfc» same mountain top (that is, it’s a misconception that Bud­ TwsM lo amx dhism is a path to the same enlightenment that can be SEXUAL HARASSMENT achieved by any system of belief, if you try hard enough — Buddhism is “the only route to the summit”). All Bud­ dhists are pacifists. Buddhism is a philosophy (“Bud­ dhism is a religion”). Perhaps most interesting, T rik e claims that it’s wrong to believe that reincarnation is fun.

“There is no place you have not been reborn,” it says.

“No form of sentient life that you have not already been a zillion times. It should all be a tedious bore right now, and all you should want to do is get out.” Some students, perhaps, might not need reincarnation to feel that sentiment.

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W e’v e all heard the hype surrounding the H a n g t h e D J m o v ie. A t fir st, the talk w as about Euro D eli’s LaVilla twins, and the documentary-style film, and the b ig nam es — R oger Sanchez, Junior Vasquez, and QBert. Just as the novelty o f the movie was starting to wear thin, the o b lig a to r y “p a r ty -o f-th e year” was declared and the Hang the DJ World Tour took form.

Reigning in a few of the film ’s featured artists well,— one of the big three — posters and flyers have since plastered Montreal’s streets.

The Canadian portion of the world tour finishes in Montreal, and the party looks prom ising.

Beginning November 20, H a n g th e D J presents Underworld with DJ’s Pfreud and Rob Brown at Metropolis, followed by an after party at S tereo w ith D a v id Morales. But is that all? Mmm, not rea lly . If you can handle more, on November 21 an more, on November 21 there’s there’s an

a ll-n ig h t ev e n t at an unm entioned location (corner o f M ilton and Clark? You know it!), with artists Sven Vath, R oger Sanchez, Pharcyde, and Biz Markie. A number of local Montre­ al artists, in clu d in g Shades of Culture, will carry the C anadian fin a le into the early morning.

A co m m en d ab le feature of the H a n g th e D J tour is the emphasis placed on the un ifica­ tion o f not only differ­ ent genres of music but also on the amalgama­ tion of both internation­ al superstars and local talent. The T rib u n e met w ith S h ad es o f C u l­ ture’s Orion to get his take on the tour.

“T h is is a w orld le v e l th in g . I m ean, y o u ’ve g o t Junior Vasquez and you have O rio n g e t s c a n d id

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R oger S an ch ez on the sam e but that’s just bringing the main­ b ill, w ho you know through stream people into the under­ different industries. It gives a ground.”

But are they actually bring­ good unity.”

This local hip hop band, ing the mainstream to the under­ formed in 1991, has been spot­ ground, or the underground to ted p layin g a lo n g sid e KRS- the mainstream? And either way, One, NoFX, House o f Pain, and is it a good thing? Regardless, Ice-T, just to name a few. They H a n g th e D J organizers seem to recently released the full-length think that b ig bucks and the album M i n d S t a t e on 2 1 1 2 underground scen e is a good R ecord s. S h a d e s’ new 12” m ix. C ase in p o in t, the tin y , vinyl mixes it up. Dave 1 pro­ nonetheless emphatic motto on duces “M indState” (featuring their flyer: “finally the scene can D esi D ilauro), and Sim ahlak enjoy the credibility it deserves produces “Island I’m From Pt without compromising the con­ cepts on which it was built.”

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“It’s really about hip hop,” Hang the DJ, N o v e m b e r 2 0 says Orion. “That’s what drew the three o f us to g e th e r ...It w ith U n d e r w o r ld a t M e t r o p o li s . deals w ith real p roblem s as D o o r s o p e n a t 1 0 p . m . A f t e r opposed to pop music which, p a r t y a t S t e r e o , 1 - 1 0 a m . O n 90 per cent o f the tim e, is a N o v e m b e r 2 1 b u s e s w i l l l e a v e love song. Hip hop is really the f r o m M ilto n a n d C la rk . I n fo r m a ­ vo ice o f urban youth. It’s an tio n a t 4 9 9 - 0 0 9 4 . T ic k e ts a r e $ 3 0 undergronnd m u sic, a street f o r o n e n i g h t , $ 4 5 f o r b o t h , le v e l th in g, and has alw ays a v a i l a b l e a t A r ith m e tik , J u a n & rem ained that. It is crossing J u a n ita , I n b e a t R e c o r d s a n d o th ­ over a bit more these days into e r s . T h e Trib h a s s ix f r e e p a s s e s biggershows shows and andDigger biggervenues venues j foor r i,th e e x p e d ie n t. bigger

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have never been photographers, my sources have alw ays been painters.”

M ichals’ words are always scratched directly onto his prints.

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poetry, but usu­ ally fu n ction s as a literal Last week in the descrip tion o f T r ib u n e , we the photograph. focu sed on the For exam p le, Haring show . one of his pho­ T his w eek , we tographs pre­ will take a closer sents a man at a look at the desk staring at a M ichals e x h ib i­ telep h on e. He tion. L ike the look s at the Haring sh ow , telephone with W ords and an am biguous I m a g e s does not m ixture of demand sophisti­ dread and fas­ cated knowledge Press Photo B a r b a r ic W a lt cination. The o f art history in text accompa­ order to be nying this image states that “Tom enjoyed.

Upon viewing the show, one had no idea how long he had been realises that M ichals’ works do sitting there. It did not matter. She not den igrate photography. w ou ld never c a ll. Y et, deep Rather, his specific artistic vision in sid e, he still b elieved in his requires written language as well. power over her.” These simple This addition of written language phrases alter the photograph by does not make his work better clearing away the ambiguity in than other photography exhibits, the m an’s (now T om ’s) facial only d ifferen t. M ichals is not expression. Not that ambiguity is interested in strict boundaries alw ays a bad thing in art, but between media. He explained that M ichals’ specific vision for that “photography students have seen photograph requires the context too many photographs, and they which those words provide.

M ich als d oes not alw ays have been imprinted with all these visions o f other people, so it ’s write the texts which accompany im p o ssib le for them to see his photographs. In the exhibit, he through the layers... My sources also combines his images with the poetry of Walt Whitman. In these K e ith H a r in g : a R e tr o s p e c tiv e .

trib­ works, Michals’ images pay tribute to W hitman, but they also serve to interpret the poem s.

Michals, a gay artist, stresses the latent homoerotic themes in Whit­ man’s works. However, this stress on homoeroticism is not dogmat­ ic: M ich als’ photographs may imply certain views, but any final interpretation if left to the viewer.

Both the images and words of M ichals’ exhibition have a raw, unpolished feel. Nearly all the photographs are shot with natural light. The accompanying texts are

Reality.” In this works, he graph Reality. writes, “I am a reflection pho­ tographing other reflections with­ in a reflection. To photograph reality is to photograph nothing.”

M ichals’ show, without the disco balls and subway sets, lacks some o f the energy found in the Haring Retrospective. His work is more gentle and in trosp ective than Haring’s iconic graffiti art.

S till, this d oes not mean that Michals’ show is without value. If you have a taste for great pho­ tographs and very earnest writing,

" R IB picks D ub Lounge Tired o f p retentious dow ntem po-m artini-sw ing-houselava lou n gin ’? M ossm an and friends bring basic fat reggage beats back to B lizzarts.

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S lam N ation Fam e, glory, and poetry. An unlikely com bination? S la m N a tio n w ould have it other­ w ise. This docum entary goes V ox H unt-ing am ongst som e o f N orth A m erica ’s next G insbergs. See it for T aylor M ali alone.

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always stream -of-consciousness performances; m ost are ridden with spelling errors. Still, this raw quality in the works makes no claim to be realistic or natural.

One d isco v ers this in the one work at the exhibit which is only text, “A Failed Attempt to Photo-

include W o r d s a n d I m a g e s as part of your next trip to the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.

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T w isted, eerie, funny, sick, and disturbing. If T N C ’s production o f H o u s e o f Y e s even com es close to the genius o f W endy M acL oed ’s script, or the m ovie ad ap ta­ tion, it will be a m ust see, even w ithout Parker Posey N ov. 18-21, a t M o rric e H all, tic k e ts $6-8.

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The walk to the Delta Hotel was a walk of sheer excitement, filled with adolescent anticipation which destroyed my usual calm demeanour.

On the path to my first rock-journalist experi­ ence I realized that I had to c o lle c t my thoughts. We, referring to myself and my rockjournalist partner Black Market, were sitting in the hotel bar formulat­ ing a step-by-step interview with Greg Dulli, the vocalist and rhythm guitarist for the pow er-rock-quartetwith-soul, the Afghan Whigs.

The bar was deco­ rated with the usual conservative-yet-tacky colours you w ould expect and the bar chairs were comfortable but deceiving; they allowed one to slouch down to the floor, but did not allow the comfort one might exp ect from their

appearance. All tasks at the bar were handled marginally: the chips were stale, the salsa bore too close a resemblance to ketchup, and the smell was similar to the nauseating

odour of hospitals. The mood was set for our interview with the selfproclaimed “people person.”

As Greg Dulli entered the bar it was obvious that he is no longer

the budding young bitter soul from the Whigs third LP G en tlem en . He has “let himself go” a little, and eleven years on the road seem to have taken their toll; he is over­

weight, but still trying to hold on to his youthful rock-star roots. At the age of thirty-three, Greg Dulli is “just happy to be alive,” and he makes this apparent by ordering a

coke from the bar. I felt obliged to match his coke, but my photogra­ pher ordered a beer, courtesy of Sony Music.

The interview, which turned into an informal conversation after our recorder failed to function, revealed the contradictions of Dulli: a beautiful soulful voice influenced by Prince and Curtis Mayfield, yet with a weakness for rock-music trappings, an emotion­ ally scarred man of failed love who can not repel the temptation to overtly, with emphasis on overtly, procure a beautiful woman in the bar.

Dulli feels honoured by the position of the Whigs in pop-music culture; he is not one to launch into antagonistic ramblings about the “m usic industry,” and remains astounded about “being paid to play music.” After releasing his fifth LP with the W higs, 1 9 6 5 , Greg Dulli is content to be “living an uncomplicated life,” while only surrounding him self with “good people; like the other four members of the Afghan Whigs.” Dulli does not hide anything: he was even gracious enough to smoke a joint

with us after the interview and feels comfortable inquiring about “hard­ er drugs, and directions” for the drugs. During the concert, he devalued these earlier remarks by expressing similar frustrations to the audience about buying drugs in “Blanada.”

Greg D ulli confirm ed that there are “rock-stars” still living in today’s utilitarian techno-age. The Afghan W higs’ show was driven by raw emotion and reaffirmed the audience’s faith in rock music. It contained everything: from testos­ terone-driven distorted guitar rock, to the soft rendition of their touch­ ing ballad “My Curse” (sung by their female back-up singer). The concert ended with an appropriate interpretation of “If I Only Had a Heart” ( W i z a r d o f O Z ) , and a S p in a l T a p influenced simultane­ ous hand-holding bow. The Afghan Whigs are doing fine in 1998; rest assured that rock and roll is not dead.

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Venus is widely known as the goddess of beauty, the goddess of love, and currently as the goddess of the female music industry. Erin MacLeod and Laura MacNeil are loose on the airwaves of McGill’s very own radio station, CKUT (90.3 FM), and they are spreading the words of women through their program, Venus.

The show’s mandate is simple yet diverse as Erin explains: “Women in music, anything and everything with a big focus on the music; it ’s not necessarily just women in music, it’s women who listen to music, women who create music, women who are involved in the music industry and even songs by boys about women.”

The sh o w ’s concept was hatched two years ago when CKUT realized that there was a void in their programming and approached Laura. “The station was looking for female programmers about female music because they noticed there was a very under-represented [audience].” At the time Laura was sorting mail in the CKUT office, but she quickly found her way out of the mailroom and climbed the corporate ladder right into her own time slot, with the help of three other w om en, D elp h in e Foo, Christy Love and Erin MacLeod.

The four brought together unique ideas and musical tastes, which became Venus. Today’s show sees Laura and Erin continuing on with

a w ide range o f tastes and views. The listener can expect to hear anything from Can­ tonese pop music to jazz to hip-hop. Interviews with bands like Buffalo Daughter and Pest 5000, poetry and folk from Dorothy Parker and Jan G abriel, are also regularly incorporated into the program.

The V e n u s girls don’t think of themselves as a typical radio show; they like to inter­ act with the audience and include their listeners’ views and beliefs on various matters.

Erin talks of a previous show which focused on listeners: “We went out and talked to people about what they valued about music and [about] which songs mean som ething to them.” Other shows have dis­ Celine Heinbrecker cussed topics from children to V e n u s p u m p u p th e v o lu m e working in the music industry.

One of the duo’s favourite connect and reach out to the female shows was a forum on the Spice audience and to receive feedback.

Girls and their rise into pop culture Erin and Laura stress that they are legend. Laura describes the always open to suggestions and motives for the show as a way of looking for opportunities to collab­ gauging public and esp ecially orate with other people, especially female feelings on the group: “[We local Montreal talent. were] shocked at the reaction Hosting their own radio show around us on the phenomenon that and promoting the local female is the Spice G irls,” she says. music scene was just not keeping Incredibly positive, as well as out­ Laura and Erin busy enough, so right negative views, were voiced they decided, hey — why not solve and debated on a show that was CKUT’s fiscal problems while aired on International W omen’s we’re on the go? The two set up a Day. Shows such as this demon­ benefit on November 20 at Isart. strate V e n u s ’ s determination to The idea behind the event is to

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who hasn’t yet tuned in is definite­ ly tuned out. The show provides a vital voice for women and presents the female perspective of today’s massive music business. It is much more than a distant terrestrial body, it is an Earthly radio program which encompasses a whole gen­ der’s beliefs views and attitudes; so change that dial from those pre-formatted, repetitive stations and let V enus blow you right off the plan­ et!

F o r m o r e in fo r m a tio n a b o u t th e Venus b e n e f i t f o r C K U T 9 0 .3 F M a t I s a r t on N o v e m b e r 2 0 c a ll E rin M a c L e o d a t 3 9 8 -4 3 7 7 .

Correction: "They're Without Annette, but doing alright" In the Tues., Nov. 10 edition of the T rib u n e reviewing W ith o u t improv comedy show at Bistro 4, the T rib u n e incorrectly stated “appearing at Bistro 4 ... next Wednesday.” In fact. W ith o u t A n n e tte performed this past Wednesday (Nov. 11) and will be per­ forming on Wed. Nov. 25 at 8:30pm at Bistro 4 (4040 St. Laurent, comer Duluth).

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have local artists celebrate women in music w hile helping out the cash-strapped station. The show will feature spoken word. DJs spin­ ning hip-hop and music from Lisa Gamble, Pigeon Hole and Gingee.

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P u ttin ' o n t h e R itz: t h e s e a rc h fo r a d ig n ifie d c o c k ta il however, for the look of incompre­ There are some professions hension that met my simple request. where a seductive smile and a tight After a vain attempt at explanation, outfit over a trim figure are accept­ I graciously altered my order to a able substitutes for talent. Bartend­ whiskey on the rocks. Please bear ing is not one them. Forgive me if I with me here. I would not have seem to belabour the point - I have believed what followed if I had not not yet recovered from one of the witnessed it with my own, permamore harrowing experiences of my young life.

In defense of my position, and E a t T h e s e W o rd s as a warning to Howard Anglin innocent souls everyw here, please indulge me as I take you back to last Thurs­ nently scarred eyes. The bartender day. hesitated, found the bottle of The bartender at fault was a Talisker, paused, poured it into an charming young blonde in sole and, oversized c o g n a c s n ifte r , waited, it would prove, quite tenuous com­ and handed it to me... without ice. I mand of the bar of a downtown club was too stunned even to protest. I which is a frequent haunt of McGill drank the tepid offering from the students. Taking a seat at the bar, I ridiculously bloated vessel, placed ordered a Manhattan. Now, one of my money on the bar, and left. the many outstanding traits of the If this experience taught me Manhattan is that while it is not nothing else, it did reinforce my easy to mix memorably well, it is belief that when it comes to the nigh on impossible to mix poorly. I skilled professions there is no sub­ was totally unprepared, stitute for the sublime marriage of

talent and experience. And so it was, after an appropri­ ate recovery period and with the chastened air of a prodigal son, that I made my way, on Saturday night, to the bar at the Ritz.

Ideally located for a post or pre-class drink, the Ritz Bar is sadly underappreciated by McGill stu­ dents. In all my trips I have yet to encounter a familiar face from our neighbouring campus. Perhaps the prices are a deterrent, but an aver­ age drink at the Ritz will not hit the bank account much harder than a pint at the Old Dublin or a Martini Julie Fishman of dubious pedigree at Jello R a y m o n d s h a k e s th in g s u p Bar, and it hardly needs to im pressive quality, the overall be mentioned that you will never effect is refreshingly inoffensive. encounter a line-up or a coverWhat sets the Ritz Bar apart, charge. The atmosphere of the room however, are its g e n ii lo c i behind produced by the floor to ceiling the bar. On my last visit, Raymond deep-blue decor is one of subdued was in command, marshalling his civility. The tables are arranged vast army of spirits, liqueurs, and with considerate spacing to ensure fresh ingredients with a natural privacy and, although none of the grace that inspired confidence and furniture stands out as being of

V e lv e t G o ld m in e a fla w e d trib u te to a lad insane ous nature. Poignant moments simpli­ fied and condensed from Bowie’s career make V e lv e t G o ld m in e an unprecedented account of the leaps Bowie made for the gay community.

Bowie’s in-print admission of his own bisexuality, followed by such publicity stunts as an infamous instance of gui­ tar-fellatio, provided the gay world with a public visibility made possible only through a combination of star power and tabloid controversy.

somewhat tedious music video mon­ Sarah D o w d tage could have been scrapped.

Nonetheless, V elvet G o ld m in e cap­ Velvet G oldm ine is not a film for tures the essence and peculiarities of the uninitiated. This compilation of the glam rock era, eloquently book­ non-narrative film and music video is ending the film with images which sure to elicit groans and outright baf­ directly allude to Ziggy’s rock stars flement from those unfamiliar with the from Mars and the men-who-fell-toglitter rock icons of the early Seven­ earth. ties. Fans of this genre of music, how­ Viewers able to penetrate G o ld ­ ever, will be delighted with the film’s m in e ’s dense veneer will learn that portrayal of legends David Bowie, Bowie’s extraworldly charisma was Iggy Pop and Marc inherited from that most Bolan. irrepressible dandy of The stars of the British history, Oscar film, Jonathan Rhys Wilde. Wilde, we dis­ Meyers and Ewan Mac­ cover, was himself Gregor, play well against beamed to Earth from each other, synopsizing extra-terrestrial sources. the influential relation­ Bowie’s “space fop” lin­ ships in Bowie’s Ziggy eage, like most of the years. MacGregor is Curt film's plot, is a convo­ Wild, a character based luted affair, however, as heavily on seminal it cycles first through American proto-punk proto-glam star Jack pioneer Iggy Pop, round­ Fairy (aka T. Rex’s ed out with elements Marc Bolan). With so culled from the other much make-up, glitter, men (Lou Reed, Mick writhing bodies and Jagger and Mick Ronson) cross-narration, identity who have passed through confusion is a given. But Bowie’s life (and bed). glam rock’s characteris­ Curt Wild, as a compos­ D ir e c to r T o d d H a y n e s (r ig h t) li v e s o u t h is g la m f a n t a s ie s tic playfulness with ite character, unfortunately identity is not to blame Christian Bale, as a Slade- here. Bad editing is. comes across as just that — a ragged, underdeveloped manchild possessed obsessed British teenager, evokes the Criticism aside, Velvet Goldmine of charismatic anger, little wit, and a excitement and embarassment of is a two hour, glittery biography of the bad dye job. Previous roles played by homosexual self-discovery in a series idols of glam rock who set out “to of flashbacks. Ten years later, Bale, as change the world but perhaps only MacGregor, in films like S h a llo w reporter Arthur Stewart, investigates changed themselves.” The music is G rave, encouraged this rising star by granting him grace of character and the disappearance of his fallen idol. provided by several all-star combos sharp dialogue. While visually and The film contrasts glam’s neverending who perform the original songs of emotionally engaging, Curt Wild lacks party with a gloomy, dark portrayal of Iggy’s Stooges and Marc Bolan's those elements which elevated Mac­ New York City circa 1984, when a T.Rex, as well as songs created to changing political climate had forced approximate the glam-era Bowie.

Gregor to the status he enjoys today.

As a bio-pic of David Bowie, everyone back into the closet. Awk­ Insiders with the requisite patience ward, straight and sober kids huddle will revel in a cinematic recreation of V elvet G oldm in e provides expected commentary on the decisive role the around jukeboxes in their denim jack­ this colourful era, while newcomers "queen of glam" played in both the ets, worshipping a Reaganite pop star will simply shake their heads in baffle­ musical and sexual revolutions of the who seems strangely familiar. This ment. G oldm ine is a film to be mar­ early seventies. Brian Slade (a not-at- theme is one of the most important of veled at for its honest and loving por­ all-disguised Bowie) is played by the film, but is hopelessly obscured trayal of the height of glam, but dis­ ingenue Jonathan Rhys Meyers. His beneath a façade of sex-drugs-and- paraged for its lack of storytelling con­ sparkling performance made up for rock-n-roll clichés. tinuity.

Most of G oldm ine's faults could what was lacking in the MacGregor character, bringing to life Bowie’s have been solved in the editing room.

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sent expectations soaring. Raymond is an artist of the highest order who has served heads o f state, local luminaries, and common captains of industry in his years at the Ritz: just the person to restore my confidence in his trade. I ordered a Sidecar and my companion ordered a Stinger.

Unblinkingly, Raymond registered these requests and went to work.

Following a flash of bottles, fruit, and glasses, and a flurry of vigorous shaking, our drinks were placed in front o f us accompanied by the restrained smile of a craftsman in the presence of his masterpiece.

They were indescribable. If you have ever been served a truly great cocktail you may now nod and smile knowingly. If you haven’t, cancel any other plans for the evening and invite the closest allur­ ing stranger for a drink. Tonight.

Eight o’clock. The Ritz.

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Hollywood seems to work in twos these days. Rival studios crank out two Asteroid/Volcano/Alien-disaster movies with the hope that the mass audience is too slow to differ­ entiate the blitzkrieg of trailers and flashes of New York flattened in the wake of destruction. The demand for two also goes for kiddie flicks.

After the success of Toy Story, Hol­ lywood has scrambled to fill the York City and recruits some circus demand for the enhanced-animation bugs as mercenaries to whup Hop­ genre. The computer animation war per’s ass with a big plan. Throw in the has emerged as a contest of domi­ voices of Dennis Leary as, yes, a nance over marketing — a quest for ladybug and Julia Louis-Dreyfus as revenue from toys, T-shirts, and the cutie little ant princess who Flik action figures released just in time for digs. the holidays. We at the T r ib u n e Ordinarily this stuff makes me believe that some of our readers have search for a stable tree from which to kids (or at least child-like minds), and hang myself. Such was my outlook thus sacrifice their desire to see real upon entering the theatre. But what movies to their wee ones’ urge to see was shown was not nauseating at all. a whale swim or cute dogs cross A B u g ’s Life is, for lack of a pompous America with a dolphin as their travel word, neat. The computer technology pal. This time it’s bugs, cute human­ is fascinating and completely success­ like bugs and not the chomper bas­ ful in creating a concrete world of tards in Starship Troopers. insects.’The story is great for kids, A B u g ’s L ife, released by Dis­ with a simple progression of characney-owned PIXAR studios, who pio­ . ters and the conflict between the ants neered the Computer Animation and grasshoppers escalating into a big process, is in direct competition with war Disney-style. Parents who usually A n tz, another computer-made bug use their film-going time to nap or do movie that has been in theatres for needlepoint will be entertained as well about three weeks. The two films’ with the intelligence of the film. The plot concepts are ridiculously similar, makers of A B u g ’s Life don’t assume, although A ntz has been criticized for as most children’s movies tend to, that being too adult, with more mature kids are brain-dead. subject matter. A B u g ’s Life on the If I ever bring any Davidson lar­ other hand stays true to its billing. No vae into this world and they want to sex, little violence, and only brief see a movie about bugs, I’ll take them mention of poo. to Starship T roopers and teach them The film centers around Flik, a about guns and fascism, because well-meaning screw-up of an ant, they’ll have to learn someday. Most voiced by Canadian Dave Foley of McGillers won’t go to A B u g's Life K ids in the H all fame. The bad guys unless they’re quite drunk, but hey, are grasshoppers, who are portrayed take a chance. Maybe parenthood as some kind of arachnid biker gang, suits you. Take your kids. Buy the led by a baddie named Hopper, voiced toys for their stockings and feel sick

by Kevin Spacey. The grasshoppers over the commercialism of it all. want the ants to collect their food.

Flik screws up the delivery and is sent This in s e c t War of the Worlds away to keep from screwing up again. opens everyw here this week.

He goes to a bug version of New

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S o n ic R o o m too catchy — I walked around all of Wednesday singing “sheep go to heaven, goals go to hell” under my breath) and solid, thumping songwrit­ ing, Cake has indeed prolonged the magic.

Philophobia A rab S trap

(Matador) “I said with me around she’d never come to harm / and then she took a fork and stabbed her­ self in the arm. / She used to wank me off but I could never heat her up / and she used to tell all her friends that 1 beat her up” mumbles Aidan Moffat, on top of a painfully slow backing track. He continues in this comatose fashion, muttering lyrics a page long about fucked up girlfriends, impotence, betrayal, and that old standby — drugs. Lots of word action and ghostly atmosphere. Moffat is the pop reincarnation of John Donne and Henry Miller combined. Case in point is the song “Islands”: “The bed’s a mess when we’re fin­ ished and at rest, / and I just can see the postfuck flush across your chest. / The telly’s silent, the room’s lit only by the screen / and now we’re perfect moulds with just our pulses in between.” Musically, it is dose to guitar-based atmospheric bands such as the Tindersticks, pro­ viding a nice background for Moffat’s prosaic, convoluted texts. For a mature, depressed, liter­ ate, and preferably stoned audience.

-D im itri Giannoulakis

Cake P rolonging the M agic

(Capricorn)

M any people still don’t know who Cake is. A S a cra m e n to group releasing its third CD, Cake is hoping to change that.

Having estab­ lished them­ selves with smooth beats and relaxed rhythms through their first two albums (M otorcade o f G en ero sity in 1994 and F ash ion N u g g e t in 1996), Cake is advancing further into music’s mainstream with this disc. To put it as bluntly as possible, the songs are great. Cake continues with its concise, lean grooves, mixing in the band’s signature blend of guitars and trumpet. In the new CD, Cake has obviously been influenced by country music, something one might initially think dras­ tic, but which is integrated successfully into the old-school sounds. With catchy lyrics (a little

— D ave Bledin

U2 The B est O f 1980-1990

(Polygram) For those of you who think of U2 as four rich, arro­ gant, humour­ less tossers in stupid hats, here is a quick story.

Around the time of T h e J o s h u a T r e e , a death threat was issued by a white supremacist group in America. They threatened to shoot Bono dur­ ing the performance of "Pride: In the Name of Love.” U2 decided to do the concert. At the appointed hour, Bono went down on one knee, realizingthat he might soon merge with the infi­ nite. As the Edge completed his solo, Bono pre­ pared himself and opened his eyes. There, stand­ ing, shielding him from the audience, was bassist Adam Clayton. Bono, renewed, shouted out, “In the name of Martin Luther King, sing...In the Name of Love.”

Little wonder the band has been together for twenty years. To mark this anniversary, Island Records have produced a retrospective of U2’s pte-Achtung B aby work. So we have a disc full of dramatic, soulful music. Anthems stretch­ ing as far as the heart can feel. “Ain’t love the sweetest thing?” they ask.

Have you ever walked home from a night out, ever sat in a classroom and wondered: “Isn’t there something better than this?” If so, this is the disc for you. Four wee gobshites from Dublin, with the passion to lift the most airbrushed of souls. “A red guitar, three chords and the truth.” Rejoice.

-H u gh O dling-Sm ee

The Cardigans G ran Turismo

(Stockholm/Polygram) The third release from this Swedish group finds them tak­ ing a more seri­ ous, downbeat tone. After the release of their sophomore suc­ cess F irs t B a n d on the M oon , the Cardigans had

been pigeonholed as a retro-happy pop group.

With G ran Turism o , the group branches into electronica with tracks like “Erase/Rewind.”

They fail miserably; the song is one of the worst on the album, but they deserve credit for trying.

The other weak track on the album is a ballad called “Junk of the Hearts” that sounds straight out of the 80s (not in a good way). The real suc­ cess of this album is the group’s ability to record songs in a heavier, minor key. This musi­ cal style is their tribute to their idols, Black Sab­ bath. The first single, “My Favourite Game,” is probably the best on the album and has a hook that belongs on vinyl somewhere in 1972. Gran Turismo is a solid album that would be great if no one had ever heard the Cardigans before. But with music we come to expect a certain sound from a group, even when they experiment in new and interesting directions we can’t help feel a little disappointed that the pop is gone.

— Christian L ander

their soul? Have Mills’ responsibilities as CEO of Microsoft taken their toll on his music?

Whatever the reason. REM has lost its spark and panache; the music is flat and geeky and will put you to sleep, at best. The album’s only saving grace is Stipe’s lyrics, which are actually printed for once. Otherwise, a real dissapointment.

— D im itri Giannoulakis Heltah Skeltah M agnum Force

(Duck Down/Priority/Virgin) Two years ago this pair of Brooklyn rappers emerged from the underground to make their mark on the rap scene.

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should be their ticket to rap stardom.

The production is handled by a group of relative unknowns, a move which is shocking considering that this group is actively seeking mainstream play. But fortunately for the group, fame and talent aren’t necessarily the same thing. The production on the album features the New York sound made famous by the Wu-Tang Clan. Tracks like “Sean Wigginz” should let RZA know that his legacy will live on.

Wu original Method Man makes a guest appearance on “Gunz ‘N Onez (Iz U With Me).”

The track is by far the best on the album, so good in fact that on its own its an essential lor any fan of New York hip-hop.

The great failing on this record is its attempt to branch out, which really just breaks the continuity. One track from Daz Dillinger called “Brownsville II Long Beach” shows how little talent and creativity he has as a producer.

Also a few failed forays into R&B are what stop this record from being one of the best of the year.

Magnum Force should be good enough to propel Heltah Skeltah into the mainstream — one good video and they’ll be in heavy rotation across the nation. The record is good, but if you have a limited budget for CDs wait for the new albums from NYC originators Method Man and RZA.

(Windmill Records) From the 1998 release of their full-length album M indState has come a remixed version of the songs “Island I’m From Pt II” and the album’s title track “MindState.” The 12” remix of “MindState” is a step up from the original song. In this version, the female singer, doing an R&B take on the refrain, has pleasantly been omitted. It is nice to hear Orion and D-Shade make specific reference to Montreal in “Island I’m From Pt. II,” produced by Simahlak. The use of brass instruments, mixed with typical hip hop features, gives the song a unique sound.

— C arol Piovesan

REM UP

(Warner) REM’s lat­ est offering is by far their worst record to date.

Except for the first single, “D aysleeper,” the album lacks the melodic ingenuity and energy that have, at times, made REM the biggest band in the world. Has REM lost its edge because of Bill Berry’s departure?

Are Stipe’s photographic and film hobbies dis­ tracting him from :_________ " songwriting? Has Peter Buck 4* become a middleaged, tired fart?

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D is c o f th e W e e k

HECK MUTATIONS!

B e ck M u ta tio n s

(Geffen)

When listening to the new B eck album M u t a t i o n s you w ill notice two things: first, it is m ellow and se c ­ ond, Beck is singing.

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he has a really great voice. He has been hinting at this voice throughout his previous albums; listeners even got a glimpse o f it in " A ssh o le,” featured on his independently released album O n e F o o t in T h e G r a v e . This is nothing compared to M u ta tio n s — Beck sings this entire album.

In fact, any previous co n cep ­ tio n s o f how a B eck album should sound will be dispelled within the first three seconds.

This album is packed full o f fo lk y , b ea u tifu l, m elo d io u s

songs.

But it does not stop there; these son gs are injected with ev ery th in g from b o ssa nova beats in tracks like “Tropicalia” and “Lazy F lie s,” to sitars in “Nobody’s Fault But My Own” and lap s te e ls in “C a n celled Check,” “Bottle o f B lues” and “Sing It Again.” Beck has traded in his samples for strings, harp­ sichords and a brass section.

If you miss the catchy Beck, he appears on the secret song after track eleven; distortion­

laden ch o rd s, heavy drum s, heavy b ass, bird n o ise s and harpsichord — w ell, you get the idea. From the demented liner art o f e sta b lish e d artist Tim Hawkinson to the polyphonous harmonies and amazing arrange­ ments, this is a pretty substantial album regardless o f the artist. It may take a few listens to get into it but you will not be sorry you took the time.

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Led by two promising rook­ ies, the M cGill Redmen hockey team m oved into third place ahead of Concordia - in the OUA Far East division by defeating the S tin gers 6 -4 at hom e last Wednesday night and winning a pair in Ontario over the weekend.

The McGill-Concordia hock­ ey rivalry always produces tense and hard-fought games, and this tilt was no exception.

Both teams were looking to set the tone early on, and when M cGill took two quick, foolish penalties in the first minute of play, Concordia capitalized by taking a 1-0 lead on the powerplay. The ban gin g and heavy action continued at both ends, w ith R edm en g o a lie Jarrod Daniel and his Concordia coun­ terpart Benoit Richard staying b u sy. The S tin g ers lead w as short-lived, as the Redmen scored the equalizer at 9:29 o f the first on a pretty goal by Carl Charland.

The Redmen went up 2-1 less than a minute later when David Grenier netted his third o f the season.

The Redmen began the sec­ ond period short-handed w ith w in ger and team captain Luc

Fournier in the box for roughing.

M cG ill k illed the penalty, but C on cord ia scored an even strength goal soon after to tie the game at two.

the season.

The Stingers and the Redmen then traded goals, as David Butler potted his fifth at 16:12 o f the second. Heading into the second

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At 9:43 of the second period, in the midst of a Stinger penalty McGill scored a power-play goal that seem ed to be the turning point in the game. Only ten sec­ onds into the penalty, Fournier beat Richard for his sixth goal of

interm ission, the Redmen held the lead at 4-3.

The third period saw a more fast-paced game, featuring two teams who could both smell vic­ tory. Fifty-four seconds into the period, freshman David Burgess,

a sp eed y centre from C rystal City, Manitoba displayed some n ifty m oves on a breakaw ay, scoring his seventh goal o f the year to put the Red and White up 5-3.

Concordia again brought the game to within one at 8:48 of the third. W ith the score 5-4, M athieu D arche sea led the victo ry for the R edm en w ith an em pty netter at 19:36, a ssisted by linem ates Fournier and Burgess.

M cG ill coach Martin R aym ond seems to have found a g ood lin e in Darche, Fournier and B u rg ess. The trio collected six points in the game, and give the R edm en a first line that could rival Mime stein any in the league.

As a team, the Redmen peppered Richard with 47 shots, and the defence also contributed admirably to the cause, led by first year player Marco Cimon, a 5 ’ 11” defender from St-JeanC hrysostom e, Q uebec. G oalie

D aniel made 27 saves for the Redmen, looking very sharp at times.

Clearly the brightest star on this night was B u rg ess, who looked nothing like a rookie. At 5 ’9”, 161 lbs, Burgess has good speed, and his ability to elude defenders gives him a distinct advantage around the net. This gam e served as a c o n fid en ce booster for Burgess and his team.

“It was a really good win,” said Burgess after the game. “I think we really played well as a team tonight, and this should give us some confidence going into our games this weekend. We have a chance to show the Ontario sch ools just how good we can be.”

Over the w eek en d the Redmen, and especially Burgess, showed Ontario how good they can be. First, a 7-1 shellacking of U of T on Saturday saw Burgess net four goals, and then in a 2-2 tie w ith Guelph he added one more to give him 12 on the year.

The w eek o f a ctiv ity has moved the Redmen record to 4-13. The team carries a seven game unbeaten streak into their game on Wednesday against UQTR.

C o ld w e a th e r, h u rric a n e : e v e ry d a y is a G o o d d a y fo r s a ilin g image is pretty contrived. People you can and liv e in a van or who are training are out there all something.”

Goodday may soon prove to day.”

120 km /h w in d s lash the be an attractive investment to a ‘All day’ in Goodday’s case N ova S cotia coast. Hurricane means teaching sailing at her club sponsor, esp ecia lly if she can Hortense has peeled a strip off for part o f the day and then improve on the silver medal that the eastern seaboard and is clos­ spending the rest her time honing she and Beveridge took at the ‘97 ing out its 1996 tour o f f the her own skills with Beveridge. Canada Games. Since she began shores of the Maritimes. Out on Their training season runs as competing, Goodday has raced in the waves of this meteorologi­ late as D ecem ber, w hen she over twenty regattas, in addition cal ch a o s g o in g for a sail: fights not only the w aves but to the weekly meets the McGill Melanie Goodday. team attends. hypothermia.

What better a way to spend Goodday, currently studying The p h y sica l to ll on the a September afternoon, no? For physiology at McGill, mentioned body is imaginably intimidating, Goodday, this couldn’t be truer. but the six-foot-tall Goodday doing graduate studies, but she Melanie Goodday was born brought out her true goals in her seems unconcerned about it. and raised in H a lifa x , N ova discussion o f sailing. She and “It’s more and endurance Scotia, and got her first taste of Beveridge are thinking about an sport than one o f p h y sical the salty seas just two w eeks Olympic run, not at the Sydney strength.

Your races keep you after she was born. Her parents, gam es in 2 0 0 0 , but A thens in out on the water from nine to avid sailors, brought Goodday 2004. five,” she said. and her siblings along for the “It takes a few years to In addition to com peting trips before they were even old organise an Olympic campaign. for medals, Goodday is in the enough to say “capsize”. By age sam e situ ation as many W e’ll have to get to as many 14, Goodday had left the decks Olympic-sport athletes, in that regattas as possible, and get some o f her parents’ boat and was Goodday receives no funding. international experience.” “tacking” in a two-person boat Goodday will continue that The teaching job brings in some w ith her sa ilin g partner and quest in July ‘99, when she will money, but its a difficult situa­ friend Jill Beveridge. be off to Spain to compete in the tion.

G oodday, now 19 and in U niversity W orld G am es. Her “W e’re not funded at all, so Patrick Fok her second year at M cG ill, is G o o d d a y l o o k s a h e a d t o lifetime of experience, skill, and w e lo o k for sp o n so r s,” said one o f the p rom isin g young O ly m p ic s . d esire w ill probably stand G ood d ay.

“I t’s pretty hard members of the McGill sailing Goodday in good stead. Sailing is team, coached by national team any other sp o rt,” G oodday because you have to have results in her blood. before people w ill sponsor you. explained.

“You wear whatever member Lindsay Staniforth.

“It is one o f th ose th in gs You go to as many regattas as you need to keep warm, but that Goodday is quick to point B

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out, though, that the sailing life is not all khakis and caps, sipping iced drinks under a sunny sky.

“T h ere’s a d ifferen ce between people who sail and peo­ ple who hang around the club.

Sailing is a sport, just the same as

where if you love it, you can do it all the time. You never get tired of it. I know that I just really love being outdoors, especially on the water - swimming or doing any­ thing, I love it.”

And not even a hurricane can stop her.

Coming up this week

Redmen hockey vs. UQTR, Wednesday, November 18, 7:30 p.m., at McConnell Winter Arena.

Martlet hockey vs. St. Laurent, Friday, November 20, 7:00 p.m.; vs. Concordia, Saturday, November 21,6:30 p.m., both games at McConnell Winter Arena.

Martlet basketball vs. Concordia, Friday, November 20, 6:00 p.m.; vs. York, Saturday, November 21, 6:00 p.m., both games at Currie Gym. Redmen basketball vs. Concordia, Friday, November 20, 8:00 p.m., at Currie Gym.

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W e s te rn b rin g s h o m e firs t C IA U

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regular season; however, his final card was handed out during a play-off game. This meant that he could have suited up for the Citadins in their open­ er.

Other teams competing in the tournament this week were the OUA c h a m p io n University of

After the final whistle had sound­ ed and the Western Mustangs were crowned soccer champions of the CIAU for the first time in their history, the praise and accolades for McGill, and the tremendous job done in hosting the tournament, began to pour in.

Toronto “Promotion, publicity, Varsity Blues accomodations, organiza­ and the AUAA tion. Everything was well c h a mp i o n taken care of. I can’t say University of enough positive things,” said Prince Edward Alberta head coach Len I s l a n d Vickery. “It truly was an Panthers. Both outstanding tournament.”

M c G ill S t r u g Photo Credit teams finished It was special five days g l e s t o 4 t h a disappointing for McGill, which had the 0-2 in round Unique opportunity of robin play. defending its national championship in Toronto, as usual, was led by Allfriendly confines of Molson Stadium in Canadian defender lonathan Robillard, front of a large crowd of supporters. who was named to the all-toumament While disappointed with their fourth team for his fine efforts in field. place finish, the experience was some­ Unfortunately, Robillard wasn’t able to thing many of the players will never spark the normally potent Blues forget. offence, as Toronto registered one “ft was such a great thrill for us to measly goal in their losses to McGill try and repeat as champs at home, with and Alberta. the crowd behind us,” said disappoint­ On the UPEI side, midfielder ed Redman Keith Dennis, overcome Brodie McMurrer and CIAU player of with the emotion after having played the year Glen Miller led the way for the the final game of his career on Panthers, came up just short in losing Saturday. “It certainly would have been to both Western and UQAM. nice to have repeated under these con­ Other standouts named to the ditions, but it just didn’t work out. Still, tournament all-star team included it’s something the guys will never for­ McGill’s Jason Forsyth who was hon­ get.” oured as top goalkeeper. Gaetano Zullo McGill lost, of course, to the of the Red n’ White was also named an UQAM Citadins in the bronze medal all-star. game. UQAM may have been able to The champion Mustangs were take a shot at the gold, had their leading represented by a sharp-shooting for­ striker Talal Idelbi had not sat out on ward Ree San, tourney MVP Michael Thursday.

Potts, and the tournament’s leading On that day, UQAM fell 2-1 to goal-scorer Xavier Paturel. Ryan eventual champion Western. The win Walker and Mike Radmanovich were allowed the Mustangs to gain entry into named from Alberta. Christian Nedard the finals. Idelbi should have been and Talal Idelbi from UQAM rounded allowed to play, however, UQAM out the all-star squad. coach Bertrand Coudraye was mistak­ The past week at Molson Stadium enly under the impression that his all- was electric, showing the skill and pas­ star forward was suspended as a result sion of CIAU soccer. While McGill did of three yellow cards incurred during lose its chance to host again next year, the season. In reality, the player would the experience should give the Redmen have been forced not to play had his an added desire to bring the tournament three yellow cards occured during the home next year.

Xavier Paturel scores winner to lead Mustangs to 2-1 victory in final over Alberta Golden Bears.

by Jeremy Kuzmarov

It was a momentous day for the University o f Western Ontario Mustangs, who for the first time in their history captured the Sam Davidson Trophy as the CIAU men’s soccer champions. Western toppled Alberta 2-1 in the national final held last Saturday at McGill’s Molson Stadium.

“We’re all just ecstatic,” said Xavier Paturel, who scored what proved to be the winning goal, his fourth of the tournament, seven min­ utes into the first half. “We really wanted this badly, and the guys played their hearts out. We’re gonna celebrate tonight with some hard­ core partying.”

Normally a play-making, defensive minded m id-fielder, Paturel’s sudden scoring prowess was the difference for the Mustangs throughout the tournament. Paturel clinched Western’s berth in the final by netting the winning goal with under 12 minutes to play against the UQAM Citadins on Thursday.

“I can’t explain it. Usually, I’m half.

With Alberta pressing for the not much of a goal-scorer,” said Paturel amidst the frantic post-game tie, Western got a break when celebrations, “Every time I touched Golden Bears midfielder Damir the ball it just seemed to go into the Jesic was red carded for tackling net. I sure picked a great time to get Mustangs standout midfielder John Hassen. With the man advantage, hot.”

CIAU all-Canadian and tourna­ Western was able to sit back on their ment MVP Michael Potts scored the lead and limit the Golden Bears’ opening goal for the Mustangs at the scoring opportunities.

“Alberta seemed to lose its four minute mark. After Paturel’s goal gave Western a two-goal lead, intensity after the red card,” said Alberta battled back to make it Mustangs coach Rock Basacoo, close. Golden Bears’ midfielder champagne dripping from his head.

Mike Radmanovich was the scorer, “It’s just such an unbelievable feel­ booting a booming low shot kick ing for our team. We’ve worked past Mustangs keeper John Dreliozis hard all season, and played an excel­ at the 23 minute mark of the first lent tournament. We had to get past

six quality teams, and we did it in great style.”

On the Alberta side, tears were flow­ ing as players were forced to accept the realities of their defeat. Nonetheless, the squad was able to hold their heads up high while receiving their silver medals and remained proud of all that was accomplished during the year.

Defender Ryan Walker led the way for the Golden Bears on Saturday, as he has done all season, earn­ ing team MVP hon­ ours. His stellar play throughout the tour­ ney also earned him a selection to the allstar team.

“No one even expected us to be playing in this tournament,” said Alberta head coach Len Vickery. “To get here we had to edge a very strong UBC team in the conference semi-finals and a tough Victoria squad in the finals.

Even though we were ranked num­ ber one, no one expected us to reach the finals.”

Vickery remained satisfied with his team’s effort despite the disap­ pointing loss.

“The boys played their hearts out all season long, and came a long way for us. Kudos to Western, they played some great soccer this week.”

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the game by both teams, UQAM got on the board in the 30th minute. After being awarded a free kick from the right side, UQAM player Jean-Robert Merisier accepted a cross to the left of the net and headed the ball past McGill keeper Eddy Zuppel.

McGill nearly tied the game shortly after as rookie Philippe Lazure slipped a low ball that beat keeper Reginald Pauyo but rolled just wide of the net.

The missed opportunity was quickly forgotten, however, due to a horrific leg injury Lazure suffered on the same play; he collided with the UQAM goalie at full speed. The game was stopped for nearly half an hour as Lazure was eventually taken away by ambulance.

“We’ve played this team four times in the past month or so, so it’s kind of hard to not have any tension between us,” said Redmen forward Jamie Watson about UQAM. “The injury to Phil put everything in per­ spective. We dedicated the second half to him.”

The second half saw McGill

buzzing inside the UQAM zone for the tying goal. With the Citadins content to sit back and protect the lead, their off­ side trap defence appeared to disrupt the Redmen forwards’ rhythm. McGill came close to tying the game in the dying minutes, but just missed the net on a couple of occasions. “[UQAM] wasn’t on today, but they still won,” said Redmen midfield­ er Keith Dennis. “Their goalie was sharp. We should have tested him with more shots; we just couldn’t find the net today.”

Early round trouble The Redmen’s task was made more difficult considering they had to do without the services of five key players. All-Canadian midfielder Sean Shepherd and Quebec All-Star Rehan Ali were serving one-game suspen­ sions as a result of receiving two yel­ low cards in the previous games of the tournament.

“It’s tough to be sitting on the sidelines and watching, you just want to help out,” said Ali. “It was great this week to be playing in front of our

friends and family, but this was a dis­ appointing result considering the team really came together at the end.”

The Redmen got off to a promis­ ing start in Wednesday’s opener, blanking the Toronto Varsity Blues 10. The Redmen were outshot 12-3 by the offensively potent Varsity Blues squad but capitalized on a chance late in the game to escape with the victory.

Defender Jason Frenette came off the bench as an attacker. In the 67th minute, he came up with the loose ball on a wild scramble in front of the net and drilled a low shot past Toronto keeper Victor Ceolin for the winner.

McGill’s defensive prowess was evident in the opener. A desperate Toronto offence pressed the McGill goal for a good part of the second half.

However, stellar play by Forsyth and the McGill defence, notably by game MVP Rob Baird, held them off the scoresheet.

Friday afternoon, the Alberta Golden Bears defeated the Redmen 1-0 to end McGill’s hopes of defending their championship.

Looking for a win to advance to the gold medal game, the Redmen started out with aggressive play in the

Alberta end. McGill nearly took an early lead as Andrew Eisenstark hit the crossbar on play set up by a free kick.

However, Alberta scored the only goal of the game in the 24th minute, when Craig Chiasson drove a free kick just under the crossbar.

The Redmen couldn’t bury sever­ al scoring chances they created in a wide-open second half. As a result of his team’s opened-up play, McGill keeper Jason Forsyth was forced to make several spectacular stops to keep his team in the game.

Alberta held on for the win after midfielder Ali’s apparent game-tying goal was disallowed on an offside call with eight minutes left.

End of an era Forsyth was named the tourna­ ment’s top goalkeeper, while defender Gates Zullo joined him on the all-star team. Earlier in the week, Shepherd and Zullo were chosen as first and sec­ ond team All-Canadians, respectively.

The disappointing finish to the season was a particularly bittersweet moment for nine Redmen veterans

who played their last game for the Red and White. Among the group is fifthyear defender Peter Bryant, who scored the National Championship winning goal last year.

“It’s been a great five years here [at McGill]. I’m going to miss the playing, but mostly I’ll miss the great bunch of guys on this team,” said Bryant. “Our goal here was to play to our potential. We played solid, howev­ er it would have been nice to end with a win.”

Coach Raimondo was effusive in his praise of the departing players, a list which includes co-captains Bryant, Shepherd and assistant captain Kevin McConnell, who all participated in their fourth National tournament.

“They’ve been class acts, and tremendous leaders on and off the field. They’ll be very hard to replace,” commented Raimondo.

As for next year, the coach remained positive about the team’s future.

“It’s back to the drawing board.

We’ve got a strong group of rookies this year, they’ll step up next season and we’ll be ready for the Nationals.”

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T he M cG ill T ribune, T uesday, 1 7 N ovember 1998

S.S. NBA hits iceburg as le a g u e goes o v e rb o a rd S tern -side Lockout forces commissioner into struggle to keep fans and Jordan aboard sinking ship crossroad s. H is lea g u e, once revered for never having walked the labour crisis plank, is now in If you can’t beat ‘em join ‘em. That, it seems, is what the the midst of self-erosion. It could NBA has decided by making the not have come at a more critical league’s first ever work stoppage titne.

With the retirement of Jordan a reality. Once revered as the J looming, a definite period of tran­ only ‘big four’ league to have s it io n is on the N B A 's horizon never suffered a major work stop­ page, the NBA has succumbed to and leagu e e x e c u tiv e s are the ludicrous reality that is pro­ undoubtedly shuddering at the thought of losing the most recog­ fessional sport in the in the ‘90s.

Faced with the familiar pat­ nizable sports icon on the planet. tern of escalating salaries and a Unfortunately fcf the NBA, they now allegedly flawed collective have bigger fish to fry right now; bargaining agreement, NBA own­ they have to first address the ers are scrambling to right the w ed gfew h ich has been driven wrongs of their relationship with between the league and its play­ ers. the players union.

EntelSïie 1998 NBA lockout, In this case, the owners are which w l basically the best idea actually their own worst enemy. the le a g u e ’ s braintrust could They have set the table |or what the NBA is today, which is the come up with concerning their most star-based of the four major on goin g c o llective, bargaining sports. Without much in the way squabble with the players' union.

Since the beginning o f the of tradition or any other true lin­ injunction there has been effec­ eage to the American public out­ tively no progress; salvaging the side of Boston, the blossoming of the NBA in the early ‘80s was a ‘98 season appears to be increas­ direct result of the way the league ingly unlikely.

The key issue in this battle is chose to market itself. that Stern wants his league back.

Players like Julius h iv in g , The owner! have come to realize Magic Johnson, and Larry Bird th at NBA players are com ing literally m a d e the NBA. A star system was firmly in place in the away with t<|> hefty at portion of eighties when M icheai Jordan, theJvagucA fevenue pie. They're the greatest star the league has trying to convince the players’ known, joined the frey. He not union that relinquishing some of only set the bar for talent, he set the elements o f the previous col­ it for earning power. His value to lective bargaining agreement is a the game is incalculable; he is good idea.

The trouble is that the responsible for the gross rev­ owner’s demands call for radical enues the NBA experiences.

Today, league com issioner changes, for example the elimina­ David Stern finds his sport at a tion o f the “Larry Bird R u le.”

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The rule, which came in during the 80s, allows teams to re-sign current stars regardless o f their salary cap. T his made the

the players.

The two sides look poised to engage in a high stakes game of chicken w hich could erase the

Chicago B u ll’s $33 m illion co n ­ tract signing of Jordan last season possi­ ble d esp ite the le a g u e ’s cap o f ju st under $27 m illio n per team.

Stern has been adamant about m od i­ fying this part o f the p la y ­ e r ’s a g ree­ ment before any b a sk et­ ball is played this season .

E x p e c te d ly , the players are not bend­ ing on this p oin t. The J o r d a n c o n te m p la t in g h is fu tu r e .

Bird rule is what ensures high star salaries regardless of the entire NBA season. Many believe that any hope for a resolution of cap.

While owners contend that as this impasse rests Chrismas Day. many as 15 o f the leagu e’s 29 December 25th is the first day of team s are lo sin g m oney, they NBC’s coverage of the NBA this continue to uphold the tradition season. It is clearly in Stern’s esta b lish ed by M ajor L eague best interest to not risk jeopardiz­ Baseball by refusing to open their ing his lea g u e’s m u tli-m illion dollar agreement with the net­ books to validate their claims.

These shady manoeuvres add w ork. T his may lead to N B A further strain to the already dicey players discovering a new collec­ relationship between them and tive bargining agreement tucked

into a stocking above their fire­ places before they can say the NBA is “fantastic.”

Regardless of what happens, the league has reached a point of no return in that they must solve their problems before they return to action. Fans will not tolerate another charade like the ‘94 base­ ball strike w h ich e sse n tia lly so lv e d n oth in g and co st the World Series.

As much as Stern wishes he co u ld , he c a n ’t go back and change the way he chose to mar­ ket his league. The NBA is alL about its stars and those stars know it. Stern has created a powderkeg of a situation. The Larry Bird Rule is one of the only rea­ sons why the players accepted the salary cap in the first place.

The result is a group of play­ ers who’s egos are almost as big as their salaries. Stern has created a beast, and now he must kill it.

Regardless of whether or not the NBA resolves this lockout in time to put together some sem ­ blance of a season the league will suffer. In college towns, people hate the NBA and blame it for a total dilution of player talent. In urban N B A m arkets, the fans have grown sick o f the spoiled m illionare attitude. The recent actions o f the league has dam­ aged their once inpenetrable mar­ ket.

In order to try and restore the N BA to the glory o f the early nineties the league w ill need a saviour. Problem is that Jordan may have already left the build­ ing.

H o c k e y M a rtle ts tie U Q TR P a trio te s in h o m e o p e n e r McGill takes big step towards a championship with strong play against bitter rival on e, and w e ’ve tied them , so at two and allow ing M cG ill to team ’s resilien cy on Saturday afternoon. w e ’re ahead o f th em ,” said escape with a point.

“W hen w e fe ll behind w e Blanchet and assistant coach Rittmaster.

The M artlets got a last sh ow ed a lot o f character [in Anny Bergeron were pleased with After a scoreless first period minute goal from veteran forward the team ’s effort. According to com in g b ack]. It was a very in Saturday’s game, the Patriotes K athleen O ’R e illy to tie the took the lead 58 seconds into the Blanchet, the Martlets’ ability to important game. It would have U n iv e r sité du Q u éb ec à secon d . U Q T R ’s sh ort-lived remain focused and sustain their been nice to come out with a win, T r o is-R iv iè r e s lead goal was erased by Julie in ten sity even when they fell but we showed some character Patriotes 2-2 in Hornsby on a clean breakaway. behind w as the key factor in and that’s goin g to help us in their hom e UQTR bounced back w ith a overcoming the deficit and avoid­ future games,” said Rittmaster. opener at power play goal 13 minutes into ing a loss.

McConnell T h e M a r tle ts p la y n e x t on “[In the past], after we would the frame.

Winter Arena on F r i d ay, 20 N ovem ber at The two teams played neu­ get scored on, we would [get dis­ Saturday.

M c C o n n e ll A ren a a g a in s t couraged] and they would score tral zone hockey for most of the O ’R e illy ’ s third period. The Martlets nearly again. Today, we got scored on C o lle g e S t-L a u r e n t. G a m e tim e is goal marked the tied it up with 4:36 to go when and we came back, we never gave a t 7 : 0 0 p m . M c G i l l th e n h o s t s second time this d e fe n d in g n a tio n a l c h a m p io n Hornsby found h erself again up,” said Blanchet. season she has “We showed a lot of charac­ C o n c o r d i a o n S a t u r d a y , 2 1 alone in front of the Patriote net denied the N o vem b er a t 6 :3 0 pm . ter,” echoed Bergeron. keeper made a clutch save. f a v o u r e d R ittm aster focu sed on the With 1:16 left in the game, Patriotes a win Patriote defencem an Nathalie over M cG ill.

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In th eir th r e e to u rn a m en t gam es the M artlets w ent 1-2 on their way to a fourth place finish.

The first game was a suprising tie against the University o f Western Ontario Mustangs. In the match, Kiran N ayar sco red w ith o n ly five seconds left in the gam e to sa lv a g e a tie. In the gam e, the Martlets outshot the Mustangs 4‘3, Debra K ietzke got the call in net and w as awarded player o f the g a m e. For her w ork in the shootout which M cGill won 5-4.

The second gam e o f the tour­ nament found M cG ill taking on host Victoria. The Martlets fell 3-1 to the Vikes. On the strength o f a Julia Scrase (M cG ill’s Player o f the g am e) goal the M artlets w er e up 1-0 at h a lftim e . But Victoria would com e back strong in the secon d and netted three goals to give them a push into the gold medal gam e. The lo ss was heartbreaking for the Martlets but the shootout win against Western propelled them into the Bronze medal game.

In the Bronze M edal gam e, M cG ill took on D alh ou sie. The gam e was a total dom ination by th e T ig e r s w h o cru sh ed the Martlets 5-0. The bright spot for M c G ill w a s se c o n d team a llCanadian Kiran Nayar w ho was named player o f the gam e. The loss means that the Martlets finish fourth in the nation for 1998.

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The trend continued on Sunday as M cGill fell 15-12, 15-2, 15-2 to finish the weekend without w in ­ ning a sin gle set. The Redmen league record now stands at 0-6.

T h e W om en p la y e d on Friday against Montreal and fell 3-1 to the C a ra b in s. T h e set breakdown was 15-5, 10-15, 158. and 15-9. The Martlet League record stands at 1-3 1 IV IO V JIL L

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T h e R ed m en a ls o fe ll to Carlelon 65-64 in a heartbreaking gam e d ecid ed by a three point shot hit with 7 seconds left by the R avens. Brady Murphy led the Redmen with 22 points, and rook­ ie Kirk R eid co n tin u es to play w ell as he scored 12. The gam e also saw Matt Watson finish with an uncharacteristic three points.

T he n ext g am e again st O ttaw a would provide the tonic for both WaLson and the Redmen. Watson scored twenty points and pulled down seven boards in the 77-66 win. Kirk Reid was again among the Redmen scoring leaders as he dropped se v en te en in the w in.

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The Martlets did m anage a split in the N a tio n ’s C apital as they beat the Ottawa Gee G ee’s 58-57 on Saturday. The gam e was a nail biter that saw Colette Anderes go to the line with tw o shots to tie.

She m issed both but was awarded a third shot on a lane violation, she sunk it and gave M cGill the close win. Martlet guard Jen De Leeuw scored 13 points and had f iv e r e b o u n d s, a ls o c e n te r Shannon Howard had eight points and ten rebounds in the win.

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At the Q u een ’s Invitational on Friday, M cG ill finished sixth ou t o f n ine tea m s, in an ev en t w on by host Q u een ’s. M cG ill’s o n ly g o ld ca m e from S o n ia Marotta who finished first in the intermediate Singles. Bronze fin­ is h e s w ere turned in by K atie M acK enzie and Caroline Tessier in the similar dance, and Jennifer Roper in the open solo dance.

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On S a tu rd a y in T o r o n to , M cG ill b lu d geon ed the V arsity Blues 7-1. Rookie David Burgess scored four goals including a hat trick in the third period for the R ed m en. M ath ieu D arch e a lso had fou r p o in ts or a g o a l and three assists. Luc Fournier and Lenny-Jo Goudreau rounded out the scorers for M cG ill. In red Benoit Menard stopped 35 shots.

On Sunday M cGill carried a 2-1 le a d in to the third p erio d

before allowing Guelph to tie it at tw o late in the gam e. B urgess scored again for M cG ill, givin g him tw elve on the year and this w e e k ’s M c G ill-A d id a s M a le Athlete o f the Week. Darche also added to his w eekend point total with a goal. Jarrod Daniel played a great gam e in goal for M cGill as he stopped 35 o f 37 Gryphon sh o ts. T h e tie m ean s that the R ed m en carry a s e v e n g a m e u n b ea ten strea k and a 4 - 1 - 3 record in to their g am e again st UQTR on Wednesday.

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The first ever CIAU National C h a m p io n s h ip s in W o m e n ’s ru g b y h eld th is w e e k e n d in H am ilton saw M cG ill w in fifth place. In their first game o f the tournam ent on F riday, M cG ill w a s h a m m ered by 3 8 - 0 by Guelph. Later in the day they lost to U B C 1 9 -5 . In th e se c o n d gam e, Stacey M orley scored the lone Martlet try. The tw o losses pitted M cGill against St. Francis X a v ie r fo r fifth p la c e . T h e Martlets rolled to a 10-0 win .and a #5 ranking in the country.

After the tournament the first e v e r W o m e n ’s R u g b y A llCanadians were announced. The team made up o f the best fifteen players across the nation included tw o Martlets. Stacey M orley, a w in g e r from G r e e n fie ld Park, Que., was a huge part o f M cG ill’s success this year. She was named M c G ill’s A th le te o f W eek for October 5th after she scored five o f M c G ill’s sev en tries against B is h o p ’s. T h e o th e r M a rtlet nam ed to the squad w as Jaim e R ock from L ach in e, Q ue. The third year fu llb a ck w as instru­ mental in guiding the Marlets to the Q SSF final and the Nationals.

E x-M c G ill and B oston B ruin hockey star J ack G elineau dead at 74 Jack G elin ea u , a star goaltender with M cG ill from 19451949.. passed away on November 12th after a brief battle with can cer. A s a g o a lie he n otched a 3 .3 9 g o a ls against average, and w as the last goalie to be named team captain. He was the corner­ sto n e o f the Redm en team that w o n th e 1 9 4 6 Q u e e n 's C up c h a m p io n s h ip . A nd th e first recipient o f the Forbes Trophy as M cG ill’s male athlete o f the year in 1948. He earned enshrinement in to the M cG ill S ports H all o f Fame in 1997.

H is a cc o m p lish m en ts w ith the R ed m en g o t him in to the N H L w h ere he w on a C a ld er Trophy in the 1 9 4 9 -5 0 sea so n .

H e p la y e d fo u r s e a s o n s w ith Boston and Chicago and finished h is career w ith a 3 .1 3 G A A in 143 games.

G elineau jo in s G e o ff Crain as the second great M cGill athlete to pass away this year. The fam i­ ly w ould appreciate donations to the M cG ill M artlet Foundation (hockey), c/o M cG ill U niversity M artlet H ouse, 3605 M ountain, M o n tr e a l, H 3G 9 Z 9 or to the Canadian Cancer Society.

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Kathleen O ’R eilly , a senior hockey Martlet from Pincourt, Que, w as given the nod as the female athlete o f the week. She scored the clutch tying goal against UQTR with the goalie pulled and 39 sec­ onds remaining in the third period.

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Clothing Exchange at Concordia

Youth Forum ‘98

Come chow down while trad­ ing in your tired duds! The Concordia W om en’s Centre is hosting a Clothing exchange and Potluck at 5pm, 2020 Mackay (downstairs). All women are wel­ come. Info: 848-7431

T hursday 19 N ovember Lecture on African-Canadian Literature The McGill Institute for the Study o f Canada presents Dr George Elliott Clarke, Seagram V isitin g Chair in Canadian Studies, 1998-1999, speaking on the “Treason o f the B lack Intellectual?”, a look at the contra­ diction and conflicts that inhabit African-Canadian literature and its criticism . L eacock 232.

Reception to follow.

Activist Video Series Beyond McWorld (APEC, MAI and Anarchy: Resistance to G lo b a lisa tio n ).

W riter and activist Jaggi Singh of the APEC hearings will talk about his expe­ riences organising to resist global­ isation. 1455 de Maisonneuve W, room 507, 8:30pm. Suggested donation $2.00-$5.00. For Info: 848-7585

Youth Forum ‘98 - A forum for ALL young Quebecers to dis­ cuss their concerns regarding: Education, Employment & Our future in Quebec. Youth candi­ dates from the Parti Québécois, Quebec Liberal Party, Equality Party and Action Démocratique have been invited to address ques­ tion s. L eacock 2 32, 1:30pm 3:30pm.

Monday 23 N ovember Rhizome Readings Rhizome Readings - France Théoret with Gail Scott for the launch of “Lawrence”. Nantha’s Cuisine, 9 Duluth E. 7pm signing, 8pm reading. Rhizome Readings are co-organised by Adina Spivak and Dean Irvine. For more infor­ mation please contact us by email: ac_spiva@ alcor.concordia.ca or dirvin@po-box.mcgill.ca.

Lorquito, Lorca, Federico The Department o f Hispanic Studies presents An International Sym posium “L orquito, Lorca, Federico. En su centenario (18981998)” Leacock 232, 9am-5pm.

All welcome. For more informa­ tion p lease contact Prof K.M. Sibbald, 398-6683.

Seeking Volunteers The Yellow Door U

The Yellow Door, with Ernie Butler of the Comedy Nest, have organized a night o f com ed ic entertainment: Comedy with a Cause. All proceeds w ill go to support the many community out­ reach programs offered by the Yellow Door. The Comedy Nest, Le N ou vel H otel, 1740 R ene Levesque, 9pm. For tickets call the Yellow Door 398-6243.

Film and Food Extravaganza The McGill chapter of World University Service of Canada will be hosting its first Film and Food Extravaganza at 6pm in room 16 of Peterson Hall. Come and enjoy fin ger-food and an even in g o f rom ance as w e screen the V ietn am ese film “S cen t o f a Green Papaya”.

Open Mike at Hillel Come out and enjoy the per­ formances of students at McGill Hillel’s Coffee House/Beit Kafe.

D oors open at 8pm at H illel House, 3460 Stanley. Admission: $2.00 including snacks. For more information call Luni at 845-9171.

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For more info call 398-6822 M-F between 8 and 11pm. Queer and queer-positive men are especially needed and encourage to consider the opportunity.

Seeking More Volunteers The Volunteer Bureau would like to make a call for Volunteers.

People are needed in all fields in clu d in g fo o d banks, soup kitchens, hospital work, office work, women & children issues, and community special events, plus many more. If interested in volunteering your time call the Volunteer Bureau at 398-7490 to leave your name, number and area of interest.

Seeking Food McGill Food Drive organised by the McGill Volunteer Bureau: 23 N ovem ber - 1 1 D ecem ber.

Please help out. Boxes in lobbies of all main buildings.

Seeking French-English translator The Comité Québécois pour la Reconnaissance des Droits des T ravailleurs H aitiens en République Dom inicaine Inc, a non-profit organization, is looking for a volunteer French-English and French-Spanish translator, for a 2-3 hour weekly commitment.

For more information please con­ tact Pérard Joseph, 523-2424.

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Weekly Scottish get-together with MATH FHEIN The Montreal G aelic Club. For information: Andrew 933-0545 or Janet 7289900.

Self-defence course Action self-defence course for women - Offered by the Montreal A ssau lt P revention Centre.

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

N o sim ulated attacks w ith a padded agressor. Sundays, 22 and 29 November, 9:30am-4:30pm. $75/person. Information: 284-

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McGill Domestic Violence Clinic The M cG ill D om estic Violence Clinic offers a treatment group for men who abuse their partners or for whom the issue of violence in relationships is of con­ cern to them. The group meets weekly on Tuesday evenings from 6pm-8pm. Services are offered on a sliding scale fee basis. For more information please contact Laura Johnston or Dong Kim at 3982686.

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Women’s Support Group Women’s Support Group - a facilitated group for women who are or who have been in abusive relationships. Meetings are infor­ mal, confidential and free of cost.

The place is safe and secure. For more information please contact Heather H olm es at the M cG ill Dom estic V iolence Clinic, 3982686.

Seeking Quilters The C oncordia W om en’s Centre is organising the making of a quilt for December 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 what­ ever materials you like (size must be 10” by 10”). You can also drop by the W omen’s Centre at 2020 Mackay (downstairs) and pick up a pre-cut design and materials.

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