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Red men tie Stingers By Paul C onner Sometimes, you tie the lastplace team in the division , look back, and shudder. That is, unless you’ re in the Ontario Universities Athletics Far East division. Friday night’ s 2-2 stalemate at Concordia Arena saw tw o teams battling not only for the final play o ff spot but also to keep their topten national rankings. M cG ill, two points out o f first, but tied for last w ith C o n c o rd ia , m o v e d th eir record to 9-3-4 with the draw. “ W e ’ re not happy with that,” said head coach Martin Raymond, disappointed but not upset. “ W e had our chances to take the game away, and w e didn’ t, especially in the second period when we outshot them 15-6. “ W e th ou gh t our p la y e rs worked hard tonight. It wasn’ t a qu estio n about w o r k ,” said R a ym o n d . “ W e had a fe w bad breaks — hitting the crossbar at the end, [D a v id ] B u rgess and [Mathieu] Darche near the end had a good chance... but there’ s not much to say about this game — it was a boring game.” D on’t often disagree with the coach — that’ s a rule to live by. But this gam e, especially in the second half, wasn’ t boring. Classic shot blocking, open-ice play, and stellar goaltending on a fe w key ch an ces m ade e v e ry o n e fo r g e t about the bright yellow bee mascot called Buzz playing air guitar on his hockey stick behind the boards. Concordia opened the scoring early in the second period on a p o w e r p la y g o a l by Jonathan N a n te l. A p a ir o f tw o -m in u te minors on the Stingers follow ed , leaving Concordia scrambling for most o f five minutes o f play before Redman David Grenier took a pass a dozen feet out, took the initial shot, and slid his own rebound past a strewn-out Benoit Richard. M cG ill controlled the pace for m ost o f the second. T h e y kept

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Taking shelter: the first sharp blast o f winter sends students scurrying to avoid the cold.

Catherine Farquharson

SSMU proposes new fund and new fee for students B y Stephanie L evitz P r o p o s e d h ig h e r s tu d e n t fe e s p r o v o k e d a c tiv e debate at j last w e e k ’ s Students’ S ociety o f M c G ill U n iversity council m eet in g as P re s id e n t D uncan R e id unveiled what he called his lat est 'b r a in c h ild ' — the M c G ill Student Fund. T h ro u g h a f i v e y e a r -lo n g , $70 per sem ester student le v y , S S M U hopes to raise $10.5 m il lion fo r a v a rie ty o f in itia tives — m o s t n o t a b ly th e L ib r a r y Im provem en t Fund and ren ova tio n s to the S h atn er b u ild in g . j

The rem ainder o f the m oney w ill be spent on faculty renewal pro jects, special academ ic projects and an access bursary fo r stu j dents. | T h e M S F e v o lv e d out o f a | d e s ir e f o r S S M U to c o n tin u e r a is in g m o n e y f o r the lib r a r y im p r o v e m e n t fu n d as w e ll as co llect m oney fo r renovations to Sh atn er. T h e o th e r th ree p r o posed b en eficia ries o f the fund are areas in which R eid believes student contribution cou ld help

the u n iv e r s ity — the re n e w a l p r o je c t w i l l d is trib u te m o n e y am on g the fa c u ltie s w h ile the s p e c ia l a c a d e m ic p r o je c t s m o n ie s w i l l b e g iv e n ou t by ap plication to S S M U . T h e bur sa ry, m o d e lle d a fte r a re c e n t U n iversity o f A lb erta initiative, w ill act as a last financial resort fo r students w ith no other w ay o f funding their education. S ince all new fees must be approved by the student body in a r e fe r e n d u m , R e id f e l t that c o m b in in g a ll th e fin a n c ia l re q u e s ts u n d er o n e u m b r e lla w ou ld be simpler.

students that $140 a y e a r was necessary. “ G o in g out and asking stu d en ts f o r an e x t r a $ 7 0 [p e r sem ester] is g o in g to be a hard s e ll, ” said A r ts re p to S S M U W o jte k Baraniak. “ A superfund w ith f i v e parts is g o in g to be confusing fo r p eop le.” M a n a gem en t rep to S S M U Jon F eld m a n said the fe e m ay burden those w h o are intended to ben efit from it. “ P eo p le w ho need the bursary are the people w ho can’ t a fford the $140 to pay fo r the bursary,” he stated. S o c ia l W o r k re p M a r c ie Gibson argued that it w asn’ t the

“ It w ou ld be in co n ceiva b le to try and run four or fiv e sepa ra te fu n d s . It a ll sp ea k s to a com m on cause — students help in g w here they see a need,” he stated. A lt h o u g h the m a jo r it y o f councillors approved the idea o f

p la c e o f the students to c o v e r M c G ill’ s and the g o vern m en t’ s cutbacks. “ M c G ill as a university has a r e s p o n s ib ilit y to p r o v id e c o u rs e s and p r o fe s s o r s ,” she said. “ I d on ’ t want the bursary

the n ew fu n d on p r in c ip le , an u n p r e c e d e n te d 25 o u t o f 27 council m em bers present at the m eeting spoke out on the topic. M o s t o f th e c o n c e r n s r a is e d iden tified being able to convince

fund to take aw ay our responsi b ility to dem and from the g o v e r n m e n t and M c G i l l th a t w e have a right to education.” Jam es W is h a r t, h o w e v e r , fe e ls the need is to o urgent to

SSMU has a For inform ation on clubs and services upcom ing events, links to h e lp fu l sites, the health plan and much more check out t you think. W hat e ls e would yo u like to s e e on

wait. “ I f w e w ait until the g o vern m ent com es through, w e w o n ’ t have a university to g o to.” T o counter fe e lin g s am ong councillors that the $140 fe e was e x c e s s iv e , R e id stated that the n u m b ers c o u ld c h a n g e . “ T h e numbers aren’ t fix e d ,” he said. “ I just lik e the w ay they look — I like the order and the priority, but they can be changed.” O th e r c o u n c illo r s such as M u sic rep to S S M U Z o e L a n g and D ouglas Painter, S S M U rep to Senate, o ffe re d unconditional support o f the fund. “ I think it w ou ld be a g o d sen d ,” said L a n g . “ I think the fund w ou ld help ease the finan cial burden on the faculties.” Painter stressed the necessi ty o f the fund fo r S S M U . “ I th in k fo r S S M U this is essen tial. T h is puts the m on ey back w here the u n iversity can’ t tell us w hat to do. T h is is stu dents saying w e ’ re not go in g to take any crap. T h is is students

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SSMU Council approves 1998-99 operating budget B y R h ea W

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The 1 9 9 8 -9 9 S tu d e n ts ' S o c ie t y o f M c G ill U n iv e r s it y budget, approved by C ou n cil at their last m eeting b efore w inter break, provided fo r an increase in

add ed a n ew e le m e n t b ecau se now w e have distribution where as b e fo re w e w ere ju st m aking d o ," he added. " W e have three sh ow s w h ic h are the

spending on clubs, services and publications and A dm in istrative Operations, but rem oved funding from S S M U council. S tu d e n t-r e la te d a c t iv it ie s have received a notable increase in fu n d in g . T h e s u g g e s tio n to increase funding fo r clubs, ser v ic e s and p u b lic a tio n s c o m e s from the consultants o f S S M U ’ s Y 2 program . T h e Y 2 program , dubbed Y 2 S S M U , was designed to re a s s e s s S S M U ’ s r o le at M cG ill. One o f the recommenda tions the com m ittee made was to devote greater resources towards r e a c h in g S S M U 's m e m b e rs through the m ed ia. S S M U V P F in a n c e L o r e n z o P e d e r z a n i

cations. “ First o f all, I categorize and look at the different groups such as clubs, publications, services, fo o d and beverage. I try to get a total fo r all o f them taking into accou n t th eir s ize , th eir in flu ence, the source o f revenue, their expenses.” One club which specifically reaped the ben efits o f S S M U ’ s n ew d ire c tio n w as T V M c G i l l . A c c o r d in g to P e d e r z a n i, this m ove was made to better utilize the m e d ia re s o u r c e s a lr e a d y existing within SSM U . M ic h a e l Jon es, e x e c u t iv e producer o f T V M c G ill, explained that the m oney facilitated a much n eed ed e x p a n sio n fo r the n et work. " W e ’ v e a lw a y s s a id [to S S M U ] that i f they really wanted to get a station going and i f they really wanted us to start bringing in m oney fo r them, w e needed to start o f f on a reasonable le v e l," Jones said. "O th e r w is e , w e ’ ll spend some money, but it w o n ’ t be enough fo r a good amount o f distribution in talking to advertis

Entertainment show, T V M N e w s and Latenight M c G ill...w e ’ re try ing to add a L iv e show at every day at midday as w ell as a M usic show and possibly a quiz show." Another department that saw an in c re a s e in fu n d in g , in an e ffo rt to get S S M U te ch n o lo g i c a lly u p -to -d a te , w as Adm inistrative Operations. A cco rd in g to Pederzani, the expenditures fo r computer relat ed expenses increased by 450 per cent to allow fo r a new network, new softw are and new com put ers. “ In my opinion, the im p or ta n c e o f c o m p u te rs has b een g r e a t ly u n d e rra te d at the Students’ S o c ie ty fo r a number o f years. A ll o f the b ig computer projects such as the Infopoint sta tion s h a ve a ll b een crea ted b y student and faculty societies, not the un iversity. W h en I arrived, the computers w ere outdated and the networks crashed frequently and it was not the best use o f our volu n teers or p ro d u ctivity . W e got a new server, new computers and a n ew n e tw o r k u p ," Pederzani said. T h e in crease in fu n d in g to some areas, how ever, meant cost cutting in others. C ou n cil ser vices sustained a seven per cent d ec re a s e this yea r, an am ount s im ila r to o th e r d e p a rtm e n ta l decreases. “ In essence, this year I tried to increase public service fund ing. I also cut costs where possi ble, some o f which w ere in coun c il s e rv ic e s , som e in b u ild in g funds and som e in adm in istra tion. E ssen tially, I tried ju st to u ltim ately transfer about tw ic e the am ount o f m o n e y in to the C a p ita l E x p e n d itu r e R e s e r v e fund as our contingency fo r a lot o f the w ork s and p ro je c ts that w ill be occurring next year.”

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S S M U , w o n d ered w h eth er this le v e l o f fu n d in g w ill be m ain tained in the future. "O ver the last three years the total am ount c o lle c te d through student fees has decreased from $ 9 0 5 ,0 0 0 t w o y e a r s a g o to $902,000 last year and is now at $ 8 8 6 ,0 0 0 f o r th is y e a r ...T h e decline in revenue...is a potential p rob lem fo r the future to m eet w ith the in crea sin g [fin a n c ia l] demands o f clubs, services and publications," Kochar said. She a lso n oted that clu bs, services and publications did not receive an equal increase in fund ing compared with the Clubs and Services Commissioner. " T h is y e a r th e re w as an in c re a s e in the stip en d o f the C lu b s and S e r v ic e s C o m m is s io n e r by $ 1 ,0 0 0 . A lth ou gh clubs and services do b e n e fit fr o m th e w o r k o f the co m m is s io n e r, I think that fo r

G e r t 's b o u n c e s M ir a v a l , OPENS DOORS TO SUBWAY For the next few months, patrons at Gert's Pub can grab a Subway sandwich with their pitcher o f beer thanks to the replacement o f Miraval's food counter with a Subway food cart. According the Students' Society o f M cG ill University V P Finance Lorenzo Pederzani, the food counter in Gert's was “ redundant” and an unprofitable venture given the volume o f food consumed at Gert's relative to beer intake. As a result, M iraval approved moving the Subway kiosk originally in the Shatner cafeteria into their spot in Gert's. Miraval earns a

percentage o f all sales from the Subway cart. "Y o u can get the same food upstairs...[P]eople would go upstairs and bring [fo o d ] downstairs to Gert's," said Pederzani. Although SSMU is still in a food services contract with M iraval, Pederzani is hoping that food services in Shatner will be dramatically trans formed by September 1999. "Students are more health-con scious... I think [they] would be will ing to pay a few more dollars for food like Grano sandwiches, pastries," said Pederzani. The Subway cart in Gert's is on a three month trial ran.

fu tu re yea rs the clu b s b u d g e t should be increased by $1,000," Kochar explained. "[O v e ra ll] it is a w ell-accou n ted budget, g iven the decline in revenue from stu dent fees."

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FirstY2K glitch: MARS blocked Attempts to fix student records programming code results in temporary registration shutdown By A drienne Matheson_________ The first glitch in the conver sion o f M c G ill's student records system to Y 2 K compatibility man ifested itself early last week as stu dents found them selves without access to M A R S 's automated reg istration. On the m orning o f January 11, M cG ill administration realized that p ro g ra m cou n ters, w h ich count the number o f enrolled stu dents in courses, w ere failin g to reset. Though students were drop ping courses, computers still iden tified these courses as full. Other students were then not able to add

ÛVith a million lines of code, "it's not inconceivable th at th ere may be more pro b lem s h iding so m e where." Doug Jackson,

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CKUT finally changes 11 -year-old by-laws By A ndrew Ross M cG ill’ s radio station is trying to work itself out o f a bureaucratic knot that has nearly prevented it from changing its ow n rules and regulations for eleven years. S ince C K U T was issued its F M license in N ovem ber 1987, it had been fo r c e d to n o tify a ll M cG ill students individually when ever the radio station’ s Board o f Directors wanted to change any o f its by-law s — every M c G ill stu dent is a m em ber o f C K U T - F M Radio M cG ill Inc., the corporation responsible for the radio station’ s operations. The board wants to change this rule in their amendment formula, b ecau se in ord er to n o t ify all 24,000 M c G ill students o f any am endm ent, C K U T w o u ld be forced to spend nearly $10,000 for p rin tin g and p o s ta g e . It is an expense the station simply cannot afford.

A d ria n H a re w o o d , S tation M anager o f C K U T , believes that changing this rule is the first step towards making the radio station easier to run. “ When you have measures like this, it b eco m es p r o h ib itiv e to change,” he explained. “ W e realize that by-laws are critically important to running an organ isation ....[A ] by-law shouldn’ t be an obstacle; it should work for the organisation.” In order to change the rule, the ra d io station s till has to send n otices to each M c G ill student, e x p la in in g w h y a ll students received a copy o f the proposed change to C K U T ’ s by-law s with their winter tuition statements. By piggy-backing on M c G ill’ s tuition mailings, C K U T only had to spend $700 fo r p rin tin g costs. Unfortunately, that was a one-time deal. Louise Burns, C K U T ’ s Sales Manager, explained that although the current rule didn’ t cause too

bers...we’ ve had consistent debates on what exactly a member is.” A lth o u g h all students at M c G ill are m em bers o f C K U T , there is a clear distinction between the volunteers and paid staff who work at the station and those stu dents who are not directly involved in d aily operations. Y e t, current membership by-laws leave that dis tinction vague and confusing. This new initiative w ill also make it easier to change rules in the future. “ [This change] w ill allow the station to respon d to ch an gin g needs, and p eo p le w ill actu ally u nderstand our b y - la w s ,” H a re w o o d said. “ T h ese m echa nisms should allow change.” W h e th e r o r not this ru le change w ill help the radio station in the lon g run is unknown. R igh t now, response to the recent mailing has been positive and C K U T w ill hold a general meeting to pass the amendment later this spring.

many problems in daily operations, it still needs to be changed, “ It wasn’ t impossible to func tio n , but it w as fru stra tin g at times,” she said. T h is d oes not m ean that M c G ill students w i l l not be in form ed o f changes to C K U T ’ s rules and regulations in the future. Instead o f individual mailings, the radio station w ill run ads in campus n ew sp a p ers and d u rin g C K U T broadcasts, advisin g students o f any proposed change to its by-laws. I f the rule is changed, it w ill also lay the groundw ork fo r the com plete revision and translation o f the 14 pages o f current C K U T by-laws. According to Burns, the radio station’ s current rules are too d ifficu lt to understand. N ow , jo b definitions are unclear and some by-laws even contradict others. “ W e want to simplify the lan guage so that there is less potential fo r m isinterpretation,” she said. “ Even in the definitions o f mem

New electronic library classroom opens Last W ednesday, students, faculty and staff gathered to o f f i c i a l l y o p e n the n ew e le c t r o n ic c la s s r o o m in the M cLennan-Redpath Library. T h e cla ssro o m , w h ich has been nam ed the M c G ill U n iversity L ib ra ries’ Electronic C lasroom , was largely a result o f the Students' Society o f M c G ill U niversity Library

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libraries around campus to im p rove their collection s and update existing equipment, is a jo in t e ffo rt o f S S M U and

these phantom-capped courses to their records. The Registrar's Office, in con junction with Information Systems Resources, decided to block access to M A R S . The problem was fixed, and the system back up and run ning Tuesday morning. "T h e p ro b le m had noth in g w h atsoever to do w ith M A R S ," asserts A s s o c ia te R e g is tra r Customer Services, Steve O live. "T h e m anifestation was through M A R S because this is where stu dents access student records." T h e rea l p rob lem was in a subprogram in the student records system which had been altered in preparation for the potential com puter chaos o f the turn o f the m il

the P h y llis and B ern ard S h a p iro L ib ra ry Fund. S S M U donated an additional $100,000 to the $425,000 pledged last year for the new classroom and the funds w ere matched by the Shapiro Fund. Since 1996, students have been paying $10 per semes ter into the L IF — a contribution that is expected to be renewed in the spring referendum. A t the o ffic ia l o p en in g o f the cla ssroom , P rin cip a l

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Bernard Shapiro thanked the students fo r their support. "Th e library is so crucial. This w ill be a source fo r professors and students that w ould otherwise not be here. Thanks very much to the students w ho supported this." S S M U V ic e President o f U niversity A ffa irs, Sam Johnston was also pleased that the students contributed to this in itiative."Th e w illingness o f members to g iv e is that which makes this school what it is,” she said. The new classroom contains 24 net worked computers that, when not in use by classes, can be used by individual students.

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lennium. D o u g Jackson, d ire c to r o f IS R , explains that in converting the system to Y 2 K compatibility, "W e accidentally introduced a new bug which didn't becom e visible until M o n d a y ." Jackson warns that, with a million lines o f code, "it's not inconceivable that there m ay be m ore p ro b lem s h id in g somewhere." "W e are very pleased that up to now this is the only glitch we've run across," O liv e notes. "There may w ell be more, but w e won't kn ow fo r a y ea r, u ntil w e g o through the cycle o f things where problems could arise." O live assured the students that student records data are now back in proper form and that nothing

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Robberies at McGill show no sign of abating

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End of semester thefts in Shatner latest target B y J o n a th a n C o lfo r d The Shatner building was the ta rg et o f th ie v e s late last N ovem ber as several club offices were broken into, with two report ed equipment thefts. The culprits broke the locks on the doors to the offices o f the A rm en ia n S tu d en ts’ C lu b , the Lebanese Students’ S ociety, the W alksafe Network and the Black Students’ Network. The latter two reported thefts as a result o f these break-ins to M cG ill Security; the B SN had the hard drive o f its com puter sto len , w h ile W a lk s a fe reported the theft o f one walkietalkie and a stereo. T h ese losses o f equ ipm en t have caused in co n ven ien ces to both organizations. A ccord in g to Selom Chapman-Nyaho, commu nications coordinator for the BSN, the loss o f the hard drive set back the club’ s project to catalogue its library. "[B e fo r e the theft] w e w ere attempting to get our library com pu terized. [T h e ro b b ery] set us back a few months at least," said Chapman-Nyaho. According to Anne Topolski, public relations coordinator for the W a lk s a fe N e tw o rk , W a lk s a fe ’ s loss o f one o f its six $300 walkietalkies was a problem atic fo r its staff. "T h e b rea k -in ra ised tw o

problems. First, the service and the c lie n te le w ere in con ven ien ced . Second, the individual who stole the [w a lk ie -ta lk ie ] w o u ld have been privy to confidential informa tion such as w alkers’ names and pick-up locations," said Topolski. T op olsk i added that preven tive measures have been taken in order to preserve confidentiality. "In order to avoid [the th ief obtaining access to con fiden tial information], w e used a different m ode, the p riva te m ode, w hich made it m ore d iffic u lt fo r us to communicate with each other but preserved the confidentiality o f the in fo rm a tio n b ein g ex ch a n g ed ," said Topolski. This break-in follow s a series o f thefts which occurred earlier in the m onth in the F a c u lty o f Engineering, wherein thieves made o f f with approxim ately $65,000 w orth o f eq u ip m en t fro m the departm en ts of E le c tr ic a l Engineering and C ivil Engineering and Applied Mechanics, as well as the Centre for Intelligent Machines L a b o ra to ry . A l l o f these thefts occurred in the M cConnell build ing. SSM U General Manager Guy Brisebois indicated that the securi ty o f the Shatner building would be reinforced after its renovation. “ W e are going to install more cameras so it w ill be easier to mon ito r the b u ild in g . W e ’ re [a ls o ] looking to change the locks to a

smart card system,” said Brisebois. Topolski expressed her dissat isfaction with M c G ill S ecu rity’ s response. "W e filed a report and there was a lack o f resp on se fro m M cG ill Security to our report. T o the best o f m y k n o w le d g e they haven’ t acknowledged our report," said Topolski. T o p o ls k i c re d ite d the S tu d en ts’ S o c ie ty o f M c G ill U n iv e r s ity and S S M U C lu bs, Services, and Publications repre sentative Tamana Kochar for their efforts, even though the Society responded slowly at first. "A t first, [S S M U ’ s] response was not ideal. They now seem to be h e lp in g us out and at this moment [Kochar] is very helpful," said Topolski. S S M U has already repaired the damages to the doors o f the clubs’ offices, whose locks were sm ashed by the p e rp e tra to r(s ). N ew codes were also assigned to the locks. C u rrently, K och ar is putting together an insurance claim for the stolen goods. "W e ’ re in the process o f gath e rin g re c e ip ts [fo r the stolen goods]. I f the figure is above the d e d u c tib le , w e w ill be a b le to claim reimbursement for the loss o f the equipment," said Kochar.

S n o w f o l l i e s a t O n t a r io UNIVERSITIES

I n ew fo u n d la n d an n o u n ces H t UITION FR EEZE

Four southern O n tario uni ve rs itie s d ecid ed to c lo s e their doors fo r part o f last w eek due to [ heavy snowfall. T h e U n iversity o f Toron to, Ryerson, Y ork , and M cM aster all d e c id e d , b e tw e e n W e d n e s d a y morning and Thursday afternoon, to su spen d o p e r a tio n s as the region clamours to deal with the snowfall. Chris Ramsaroop, president o f S tu d e n ts ’ A d m in is t r a t iv e Council at U o f T, explained that | the p rim a ry co n c e rn s w e re o f safety and access to the schools. I " T h e s u b w a y s h a v e b een shut down and other public tran sit m ethods are u n relia b le and s w a m p e d ," s a id R a m s a r o o p . "Th e army is here and they w ill be h elpin g the city as a w h ole. H opefu lly this w ill g iv e everyone a ch an ce to catch up w ith the weather."

The p r o v in c e of N e w fo u n d la n d announced last T h u rsd a y its in ten tio n s to cap tuition at universities fo r the next tw o y e a rs . T h e m o v e fo llo w s sim ila r announcem ents already m ad e in Q u e b e c and B r itis h Columbia. In a press release, Elizabeth C a rlyle, N ational Chaiperson o f the C a n a d ia n F e d e r a tio n o f Students, exp ressed a p o s itiv e r e a c tio n to the g o v e r n m e n t ’ s m ove. "F in a lly another p rovin cia l g o v e rn m e n t has a cted on stu d e n ts ' d em a n d s by fr e e z in g tu ition fe e s ," said C a rly le . " A t last decision-makers are realizing that there are alternatives to hik in g tuition fe e s and tution fe e freezes in Newfoundland, British Colum bia, and Quebec prove it." C FS warned, h ow ever, that w h ile the tu itio n f r e e z e is a strong step forward, the govern

O ffic ia ls added that despite the closures, residences have had fu ll p o w e r and r e g u la r sn o w rem oval. H u m p h . L e s s o n s to be learned from Montreal.

m ents must b egin to tackle the u n d erly in g p ro b lem o f student debt.

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Learning to adapt to being 'a s m a ll fis h in a b ig p o n d ’ at M c G ill can be e s p e c ia lly star tling fo r the first year student. L a s t w e e k , the C e n tre fo r U n iv e r s it y T e a c h in g and Learning organised a symposium on the firs t y e a r e x p e rie n c e at M c G ill in order to help students in their transition to M cG ill. A panel o f students and pro fessors spoke about their experi ences at M c G ill in their first year and te a c h in g th e F ir s t Y e a r Seminars resp ectively, raising a nu m ber o f p e d a g o g ic a l issues including the cultivation o f criti cal thinking in the classroom. A n d rew K ovacs, a U2 Science student b elieves that crit ical thinking is extrem ely im por tant —- especially in the exam ina tio n p ro c e s s . M u lt ip le c h o ic e exams, where the inform ation is purely factual, doesn’ t measure a student’ s most valuable skills. "Th e point o f learning at uni

v e rs ity is that w h en you see a p r o b le m , yo u can a p p ro a ch it w ith c r i t i c a l l y in d e p e n d e n t thought," stated Kovacs. M y r o n F rankm an, an e c o nom ics professor w ho teaches a First Y e a r Seminar entitled “ The R ole o f Governm ent,” added that he likes to foster an excitem ent fo r lea rn in g in his students by raising issues in his classes that demand student involvem ent. "W hat w e should be doing is th in kin g c ritic a lly about lea rn ing," said Frankman. "I'd lo ve to see a w ide range o f discussion at M c G ill on the state o f know ledge o f how people learn. M any think that learning and teaching is one in the same," A ssociate Dean o f Students Rhonda A m sel said, "W e w ould all agree that its p refera b le fo r students to be tested on high er order learning rather than repeti tion," she stated. "It's a better test than just facts." F irst Y e a r S em in ars w e re created as an attempt to facilitate

personal interaction between stu dent and professor. The intimacy o f th ese e n r o llm e n t-r e s tr ic te d classes o ffe rs a dynam ic that is missing from large lecture halls. D u rin g the sym posiu m , su rvey results emphasized the success o f the seminars. "F irst year students should be en cou raged to take one, but right now , there are not enough o ffered ," added Kovacs. The s y m p o s iu m a ls o a d d re s s e d c la s s s iz e s and the ad a p ta tion p ro cess to M c G ill. Students vo iced a w id e range o f experiences, with som e explain ing that the process required too much independence and needed m ore support fro m p ro fesso rs. Others, how ever, liked the auton om y, b e lie v in g that they w ou ld seek out help through the neces sary avenues i f needed. "Education at M c G ill is fos tering independent thought," said Kovacs. "O ne might have to find the professor and this might be a struggle in first year, it w ill pay

o ff. Som e students want the fa cil ities to be brought to them." S c o tt M c F a y d e n , a U O Engineering student, commented that large classes at M c G ill are sim ply something he has com e to expect and deal with. "I know what to do. I f I have problem s with a course, I know w ho to talk to and where to go," he said. "M y classes are big, but I don't really see that as a b ig deal. I d o n 't r e a lly th in k abou t it, I expect it." P a rticip a n ts at the s y m p o sium also discussed the im p or tance o f the first w eek o f school in setting thé tone o f a M c G ill

Internal, believes that integration can take place outside the class room. She emphasized the im por

experience. "O n e o f the m ost important things is the firs t co n ta ct w ith students during their first w eek at M c G ill. A t this p oin t, students n eed h elp in o rg a n iz a tio n and in te g ra tio n . P e rs o n a l tou ch es, such as the outreach and recruit in g o ffic e phone calls are v e ry

forum can provide valuable feed back. “ It’ s a positive experience. It is g o o d to k n ow that there are people in the administration who care about first year students," he concluded.

important," said Am sel. Jo M o rro w , AUS

ta n c e o f F ro s h W e e k f o r the s o c ia l in te g ra tio n o f n ew stu dents. " T h e g o a l is to m a k e the transition to university as smooth as p ossible, w h ile m eeting new people and becom ing orientated with the city." Plans are in the works fo r a fo llo w -u p sym posium som etim e next year to exam ine the ev o lu tion o f the first year experience at M c G ill and the effectiven ess o f solu tion s p ro p o sed and im p le m e n te d . K o v a c s b e lie v e s the

New fee m ay be a tough sell

A Breakdown of the McGill Student Fund • Libraries and Information: $20 per semester, $ 600,000 per year, $ 3,000 000 total • Shatner: $ 12 per semester, $360,000 per year, $1,800 000 total

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have to d evote all their efforts to

d ire c tin g w h ere things g o . I t ’ s n ot m uch — i t ’ s the p r ic e o f a sushi night.” S am J o h n s to n , VP

selling the idea to students. Said Tamana Kochar, Clubs R ep to S S M U , “ H o w do you get students to v o te fo r this? Y o u prove to them they need it.”

• Faculty Renewal Projects: $15 per semester, $450,000 per year, $2,250 000 total

U n iversity A ffa ir s b e lieves that the fin a n cia l problem s the uni versity is currently facin g neces

• Special Academic Projects: $5 per semester, $150,000 per year, $750,000 total

sitates student action. “ M a k e no m is ta k e a b o u t h o w b ig this p ro b le m is ,” she s ta te d . “ W it h th e la c k o f resources that w e have, w e are a void in g solutions altogether or

• Access Bursary Funds: $18 per semester, $540,000 per year. $2,700 000 total • The $20 per semester for Libraries and Information is a $10 increase on an existing fee.

com ing up with ad hoc ones that don ’ t w ork at all.” I f th e f e e s tru c tu re is approved by council at their next m e e tin g , c o u n c illo rs w ill then

• The money that will be raised to cover the costs of renovating Shatner will go towards the loan that SSMU took out in order to pay for the renovations.

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• Although some councillors argued that the Faculty Renewal project was unnecessary because faculties col lect their own fees, SSMU would have no say as to how the faculties spent the money. • Reid is hoping that outside sponsors will match the amount set aside for the Access bursary funds so that more money will be available to students.

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EDITOR!A L

Remember you had to call the operator for those local calls

Where did all these

One third o f the people in the U.S. promote while the other tw o thirds provide.

—* Will Rogers

The new face of Bell By Manny A lmela and R enée D unk Globalization has become the buzzword o f the late 1990s. In fact, it is arguably one o f the most over-utilized catch phrases o f our era. It's easy to assume that globalization has positive connotations like "global disar mament" and "global village" — but with combatants like the Council o f Canadians’ Maude Barlow, you can never be too sure. Unfortunately, Bell's recent decision to casually outsource 2,400 operators to American Excell Global Services has given the normally faceless concept o f global ization a new dimension, Simply put, the telecommunications giant has opted to take the easy way out and has subsequently turned its back on its operators — the foun dation that helped the corporation find the success it has enjoyed since the late nineteenth century. Once the backbone o f all that Bell stood for, the now dispensable operators have seen their value diminish dramatically and systematically over the last 40 years. The outsourced workers now find themselves in a complete state o f limbo. In addition to facing a proposed pay cut o f upwards o f 40 per cent, they w ill also be stripped o f their seniority and w ill no longer be union ized. These severe measures would be difficult enough to swallow even i f the workers in question were given ample advance notice. Bell's handling o f the situation, h ow ever, was nothing short o f a rude awakening. Employees were greeted not two months before the outsourcing date with a long-winded printed version o f why they would no longer work for Bell as o f March 31. The announcement, arriving with little warning, clearly demonstrates the company's lack o f respect for their employees. One would like to believe that a middle position could have been found before these drastic measures were taken — but now those implicated find themselves with nowhere to turn. Each day since the announcement has brought a different rumour o f what the future might hold. Bell Quebec president Guy Marier can be heard reassuring those affected, and a union representative can sing a completely different tune moments later. Many have given up on hopes o f salvaging their present jobs, instead sim ply lookin g to get straight answers to their growing number o f questions. And there is good reason to ask questions. The manner in which Bell has handled this situation has heightened suspicion concerning the com pany's motives for this very rash decision. They have cited considerable losses as the key motivation for the move and claim to have lost upwards o f $30 million last year.

S to p the P r e s s Congratulating Science Winter Carnival F o r the r e c o r d , S c ie n c e W in t e r C a r n iv a l, w h ic h to o k

project, and I hope that the SUS has realized that.

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place last week, was a resounding success. I don't b e lie v e that the M c G ill Tribune has had a chance to take n o tic e o f that fa ct, but

S p ecifically, I w ould like to congratulate the members o f the S cien ce W in ter C arnival teams; fr o m fir s t y e a r to fo u rth y e a r

despite that, I fe lt it was neces sary that this event get the recog nition that it deserved. It is time ! to congratulate all the participants in volved and recognize the value o f their efforts.

there w ere fiv e teams and hun

tioned above and to the Science Undergraduate Society, with one p ie c e of s im p le a d v ic e . M o m e n tu m is k e y h e re . T h is e v e n t can ca rry in to n ext yea r

F o r m an y y e a r s , s im ila r events have been held by both the F acu lty o f E n gin eerin g and the Taking Bell seriously becomes increasingly difficult when the focus of M a n a g e m e n t. is shifted to the impending pay equity settlements which were rumored to ! F a c u lty Speaking from m y experience in be on the horizon for these very operators — an employee pool which is 98 per cent female. Some say that Bell ditched its operators because they the Faculty o f Management, I can didn't want to obey the looming court-ordered wage increase. As serious say that these events add a great an allegation as this is, it is quite possible i f not probable. deal to the lives o f students in the Bell's disregard for pay equity can be seen as a complete disregard facu lties in vo lved . I don't think for equality in general. Sure, Bell may be looking at the "global" picture that any o f the 200 or so com peti in the sense that they are plowing forward with technological develop tors w ho took part in last w eek ments, but they are certainly not thinking "globally" when weighing the end's events would disagree with human consequences o f their actions. that. N o other event provides the Nobody knows for sure what type o f financial predicament Bell is degree and scale o f student inter facing in the global marketplace. Their reluctance to open their books in action that Carnival does. I have order to lend credence to their "competitiveness" argument doesn't help always felt that with all the criti any — in fact, it is inexcusable. The company conveniently hides behind c is m s lo d g e d a g a in s t the the veil o f "glob alization " as it deflects their responsibility fo r their M a n a g em en t. U n d e r g r a d u a te employees' predicament. S o c ie t y this fa c t g o e s la r g e ly Bell's treatment o f their employees has been anything but humane. unheard amongst our detractors. I This type o f corporate conduct is an all-too-familiar by-product o f global am aw are that the argum ent is ization. Apparently, as a company's scope grows, the importance o f its m ore com plicated than that, but workers shrinks accordingly. in the business o f providin g stu

dreds o f s a tis fie d p articipan ts. T h e c o m m itte e to o d e s e r v e s recognition; Lee, Brock, Melissa, C olleen, Shelena and Dave. They pu lled o f f the im possible. T h ey built an even t from the ground up, w ith lim ite d resou rces and plenty o f the adversities ex p eri enced by all student activities and c r e a te d an e v e n t th at w a s an instant success. T h ey m ade just one m is ta k e a ll w e e k e n d , " o c c u p h e lia c s " w as sp e lt "o c to p h e lia c " on the scaven ger

C h e e rs to a ll th o s e m e n

with the popularity and strength o f the unanimously rave review s o f 1999. I hope that the SU S is w illin g to nurture it and that it can be expan ded to in v o lv e an e v e n g re a te r p ro p o rtio n o f the S c ie n c e fa c u lty . P e r s o n a lly , a thanks to th ose w h o m ade the event possible and see you next year! — Hugh Sturgess Test Tube Babies '99

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G o o d -B ye R o b in so n P u tz I write this column knowing full w ell the powerful emotions it w ill evoke and the sorrow it w ill doubtlessly stir. Alas, the role o f the journalist is not excused o f its burden o f r e s p o n s ib ilitie s . So, when the w orld's most fa m o u s re tire m e n t announcement occurred last w e e k , 1 d u tifu lly w ent to cover it, Dictaphone in hand, as I would any other confer ence o f its nature. That the retirement was o f my life-long friend, Robinson Putz, was only part o f the job. W hen I arrived Robinson was ju s t p re p a rin g to address the throng o f media that had gathered for his historic address. "I'd like to thank everyone for com in g today," he began, in his words that school children one day w i l l no doubt h a ve to lea rn to recite. "Th ere are many frien dly and familiar faces out there and I'd like to thank you for your support; especially those o f you who have helped me to make this very d iffi cult decision. A s many o f you are n o w a w a re, th ere h a ve been a num ber o f rum ours circu la tin g about m e during this last w eek, and I called this press conference tod a y to c la r ify those. So here goes. R etroactive as o f Tuesday, I'm officially retiring." A t this, o f course, pandemo nium naturally ensued among the re p o rte rs , but R o b in s o n , as always, managed to keep his com p o su re, in a w a y that o n ly an experienced public figure can. " P le a s e ," he co n tin u e d , "T h e r e 'll be p len ty o f tim e fo r questions afterwards. As those o f you who have follow ed my career c lo s e ly k n o w , I 'v e been at this now for 36 years, and there comes a time in every man's career when he must think towards the future. N ow , that's easier said then done, particularly when your entire iden tity revolves around your profes sion as it does for me.” " M e " . Such a sim p le little w o rd r e a lly , but c o u ld a n yon e other than Robinson have pulled it o f f ? S u re ly h is e x e c u tio n is beyond compare.

"It becomes difficult to think o f you rself doing anything else," he continued," but a time comes in e v e ry m an’s life w hen he must m ove on. That's why despite the thrills and challenges it has pro-

v id e d , I can no lo n g e r s h o v e l snow." A single flake o f snow could h a ve b e e n h eard b ru sh in g the linoleum . The silence was short, however, and sharply punctuated by Robinson's freely flow in g sobs. "I'm sorry, I promised m yself I w o u ld n 't do th is," he gasped, excu sing his tears, fo rg e ttin g at least tem porarily that gods need never excuse their actions. "Y o u k n o w , yo u g r o w up d re a m in g about clearing the sidewalks after that first dum ping and you just never think it's going to end. You n ever prepare fo r a life b eyon d shovelling, but suddenly, one day when you're not looking, the years sneak up upon you and you're 44 years old, bent o v e r an icé pick with greying temples. T o any kids listening out there, you can beat back w in ter, but you can't beat back old age." Ah, just so old friend, just so. "I'd like to thank a number o f p e o p le b e fo r e I g o on. M rs. Washbuck, I want to thank you for taking a chance on a kid so young and n aive he tried to m elt your sn ow w ith his b reath . M rs. K ro g g le , thanks fo r lending me your shovel fo r the last 36 .years. Mrs. K atz, oh gentle Mrs. K atz, thank you for hiring me year after year even though the other neigh bourhood kids o ffe re d to shovel y o u r w a lk fo r ch e a p e r. M r. Finkleman, thank you for showing me which end o f the shovel to use. Dr. Leary, thank you for pumping

my stomach after I ate that bag o f street salt, and fin a lly , T im m y Smothers, w ho helped me when ev e r my tongue go t stuck to the drainpipe. Y ou 've all been a won derful source o f inspiration to me, and without the help and encouragem ent y o u g a v e m e, I c o u ld n 't h a ve had half the career I did. Thank you all, you are the wind beneath my wings." Perhaps the words w ere not all his own, but surely the moment belonged to no other. A t th is p o in t, R o b in s o n opened the floor to questions. The first query was from H e a th c liff Fitzgerald o f the Globe and Mail, and addressed the one concern o f everyone in the room. "M r P u tz," he asked in his w o n d erfu l baritone, "W h a t's to b e c o m e o f y o u r fa m ed s h o v e l, W onder B oy?" W ith a spark o f pride unmis ta k a b ly in his e y e s , R o b in s o n responded in that wonderful way he has o f s trin g in g nouns and verbs together, "The Smithsonian has expressed interest in having it displayed, but o f course it does b e lo n g to M rs. K r o g g le , so the choice is ultimately hers." R obin son a ffa b ly answered questions fo r the next two hours, charm ing the audience on hand with his wonderful array o f shov elling stories. Fittingly though, the fin a l q u e s tio n w as m y o w n . "R o b in s o n ," I asked, d o in g my best to fight back the tears, "What are you g o in g to d o n o w that you're retiring?" " A r e you k id d in g m e?" H e responded, "I'm going to go some p lace w here it doesn't snow ten months a year. Thank you all for coming. Good-bye." Th an k yo u , R o b in so n , and G od bless. Y ou 'll be missed.

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here's your chat^ÿOjjpi So... you've been ranting for years about how the government should hike tuition fees so we can ensure a high "quality of education" at McGill. If the thousands are burning a hole through your pocket, the latest Class Action cam paign is a chance for you to put your money where your mouth is. If, like most o f us, you're trying to dodge the bill collector while simultaneously scraping together enough o f a food budget to avoid scurvy, the recent request for a donation to the Marlet House Class Action cam paign naturally comes as a bit o f a slap in the face. After all, isn't it enough that you managed to pay for your tuition? Some students, however, can afford to pull out their cheque book one more time. N ow in its tenth year, Class Action is a program that solicits dona tions from graduating students for faculty-specific projects. For example, Arts students graduating between 1990 and ‘97 have donated $180,000 to library acquisitions. Nursing '92 donated $3,675 towards student lounge renovations. With the number o f students who advocate tuition increases and make fun o f protestors fighting for accessible eduction, you’ d think there would have been a greater outpouring o f funds over the past decade. How many people have you heard make the argument, “ I know I'm going to make good money one day, so I should pay my fair share. Tuition should go up — it’s an investment in my future.” W ell, take care o f that guilty conscience and endow a scholarship fund for the rest o f us, thanks. W hile you're at it, you can also tackle your obsession with aesthetics. If you've ever said anything like, ’’W hy can't we all just pay another $2,000 or so a year and put that indirect lighting stuff in every building?” then Class Action is right for you. So, rich kids; Call up your mutual fund advisor, call up mom and dad... do whatever it takes to round up some money for the latest Class Action campaign. After all, it's only a cash advance on your future, right?

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your main contribution to M cG ill and tell us how you demonstrated leadership in the M cG ill community.

The Scarlet Key Society has been around M cG ill for almost 75

Better yet, pick up a package and nominate a friend or a peer

years. In 1971, the Scarlet Key Award was introduced with a view to recognizing the achievements o f M c G ill’s outstanding

who you perceive as a leader at M cG ill. Past winners include a

student leaders. Since that time, the contributions o f over

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wide range o f student leaders at M cG ill — artists, athletes,

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C.M.: In m em oriam Has it been du ly rem arked

n ailin g d ow n e v e ry aspect o f a

fo r p o s te r ity that C h ris to p h e r M u ld o o n 's la st c o n s e q u e n tia l m o tio n as a S S M U c o u n c illo r was to extend a Council meeting

n ew S S M U p o lic y or in itia tiv e has served the S S M U , students, and the M c G ill com m unity very w ell.

b y f i f t e e n m in u te s p ast its appointed lim it? A curious detail, and not without its sardonic o ver tones.

It is that same commitment, which sometimes reached obses s iv e le v e ls , that u n d e rla y his

ow n interests. M uldoon is a mas ter o f the u n exp ected qu estion d e sig n ed to em barrass another p o liticia n in front o f a C ou n cil

choice o f the Tribune's editor-inc h ie f, or by cen so rin g the Red H e r rin g 's e d ito r ia l c o n te n t to

m odest — M uldoon's occasional m e lo d r a m a tic s p e e c h e s w e r e rarely w e ll received , even there

n ot t o t a lly c e rta in o f w h a t is

make it funnier to the people o f w h o m it is m a k in g fun —

W hen he cam e to the clim ax o f

g o in g on. W h en M u ld o o n p re s e n te d th em w ith a c h o ic e between an inquisitive Clubs rep and a

M u ld oon has been there. W hen an initiative has been sandbagged by a procedural trick, M u ld oon has been there. W hen a m otion is

h is m o s t h is t r io n ic s p e e c h e s , there w e re snickers am on g his fe llo w p o lit ic ia n s , and no Hosannahs.

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explanation, it is a certainty that M uldoon has been at work.

The m ore sw iftly the politi ca l v o r te x w h irle d , and so the

T h e most stalwart "life r " in the Shatner B u ild in g is lea vin g

S litting Throats

M c G ill, and I am the poorer for it. Once upon a time, w e each sat on the Inter-Residence Council— he from M olson Hall, and I from M c C o n n e ll. It is traditional fo r candidates fo r the S S M U execu tive to court the rez vote through the IR C (n o t that it does them any g o o d ) b y d e liv e r in g lit t le speeches to that council and tak in g a fe w questions. That year, nobody could w ait to shove them all out the door. M uldoon insist ed upon questioning them intent ly on th eir ex p e rie n c e s and on the d e ta ils o f th eir p la tfo rm s . W hen all everybody else wanted to do was ignore the w eird p eo p le fr o m D o w n T h e H il l ,

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other, darker side. Student p o liti cians e v e r y w h e r e rise and fa ll based on th eir ch arism a, th eir ability to m ob ilize apathetic vo t ers. There is, I'm certain, a direct causal link betw een the c o lle c tive visceral appeal o f any given

M uldoon took the chances to put

c r o p o f c a n d id a te s and the turnout at the polls. M u ldoon is not the sort o f person w ho gets b o d ie s to the v o t in g ta b le s . Throughout his p o litica l career, fro m re s id e n c e to the Sh atn er B u ild in g , as c h a irm a n o f the S S M U 's obscure c o m m ittee on

all o f our prospective representa tives through their paces. It was an experience, I'm sure, that few o f them forgot quickly.

constitutional reform and eventu ally as a cou n cillor representing clubs and services, M uldoon has d e p e n d e d on k n o w in g m o re

It is in circu m sta n ces lik e that that M u ld o o n has a lw a y s

about any issue that m ight com e

been at his best. T h e y say that th e-d evil is in the details. I f so, he undoubtedly had to share his desk. M uldoon's com m itm ent to

under d iscu ssion than an yb od y e ls e w ith w h o m he m ig h t fin d h im self discussing it. That meant relying on other people's ignorance to advance his

therefore r e fle x i v e 1y

in the heart o f his home ground

m ore chaotic the conditions, the more pow erfu l M uldoon became H e c o u ld stand c a lm ly in the h e a rt o f it, and w ith g n o m ic

areas o f endeavour where there is no such thing as fighting dirty. I f th ere w e r e , that w o u ld s u re ly qualify.

In the end, it was his co m m itm ent to con trollin g in form a tion that destroyed him. There is so m u ch to k n o w a b o u t w h a t goes on in S S M U and at M c G ill, and only so much time available to learn it. M u ld o o n set asid e h alf o f the requirements fo r being a student politician. The conven tion al w isd o m is that p ro v id e d you are prepared to keep paying

T a k in g a d v a n ta g e o f an opponent's weakness or laziness is on e th in g. W o r k in g to keep s o m e th in g in the b ack ro o m s

tuition, M c G ill w ill let you back after even the most catastrophic sem ester. T h e e v id e n c e n ow is that there are acad em ic depths

him that.. H e was also one o f the first to understand what it really meant, the w ay I used it. H e was a p o litic a l anim al in the truest

until it can be h au led out and flung up b efore the masses fu lly fo rm e d , w ith no tim e fo r a n y

from which even a direct plea by an S S M U president cannot res cue you. M u ld oon knew e v e r y

body to understand it fu lly — let a lon e ga th er a coh eren t attack upon it — b e fo r e it has to be im plem ented...that is som ething else entirely.

th in g there w as to k n o w about some things, but in the end they tu rn ed ou t to be th e w r o n g things.

sense - he w ould do whatever it to o k to w in , but he p la y e d the gam e like a pro. M uldoon under stood the distinction between the

One w ho thrives on control lin g in fo rm a tio n is at his peak when he can operate behind the scenes. W hen S S M U has tried to slap down insubordinate publica t io n s — b y m a n ip u la tin g the

the most appropriate o f the possi b le ends. A gloriou s graduation w as u n lik e ly , and to c o n tin u e such a c a r e e r f o r la c k o f any

e v a s iv e ) q u e s tionee, he could always count on winning. P o litic s are on e o f the last

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inscrutability pluck out the e le ments he needed to arrange the w o r ld to his s a tis fa c tio n . H e, with Don M cG o w a n and Steven E rdelyi, was one o f the very first people to be tagged as a W anker, and with good reason. But he k n ew w h y I c a lle d

personal and the professional in a w ay that fe w student politicians ever do. H e and I are tw o sides o f the very same coin, and without him, I w ill be diminished.

altern a tive is ign om in iou s. H is talents in front o f the scenes w ere

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Unite the Right — A new political approach to Canada form ed the governm ent but with on ly 38 per cent o f the popular vote. A ccordin g to U A statistics, In the last tw o federal e le c since 1935 the Lib eral party has tions, the Liberal party won control won two thirds o f all Federal elec o f the government — not by a plu tions, but since 1968 the majority rality o f votes but by winning the o f Canadians have voted not for the m ost seats in the H ou se o f Liberal party but for other alterna C o m m on s. C ritic s c a lle d fo r a tives. redesign o f the In the op in ion e le c to ra l sys / / In the last federal election tem or even a fnewconservatives and the o f th ose such as Mark Buzan, a sup re d ra w in g o f reformers split the vote. There porter o f the United ridin g bound wasn't one opposition party in A lt e r n a t iv e and a aries. candidate for Action C anada’ s place to overcome the obstacles Démocratique in the new est p o liti cal fo rc e , the set up by the Liberal govern last Quebec provin R eform Party, ment. We need to build a solid c ia l e le c tio n , this v o te r s p lit has had another alternative to what we have impeded the growth id ea — the o f Canadian politics. now. U n i t e d “ In the last fed Mark Buzan, Alternative — eral e le c tio n , the a p ro p o sed United Alternative supporter c o n s e rv a tiv e s and shakeup of the reform ers split federal politics and realignment o f

By Stephanie Levitz

political parties to take Canada into the 21st century. The United Alternative began as a R eform party initiative after the 1993 fe d e r a l e le c tio n . Reform ers were upset by the fact that their lack o f prominence in the Canadian government was not due to a lack o f support but rather a "voter s p lit b e tw e e n the Conservative, N ew Democratic and Bloc Québécois parties. This was again dem onstrated in the 1997 fe d e ra l ele c tio n the L ib era ls

the vote — not to mention the sup port the Bloc had in Quebec. There w a sn ’ t one o p p o s itio n party in place to overcome the obstacles set up by the Liberal government. W e need to build a solid alternative to what w e have now.” The goal o f the U A is to pre sent this altern ative. B egin n in g w ith a n ation al c o n v e n tio n in February o f 1998, R eform Leader Preston Manning has been gather in g support fo r the id ea o f a Reform and Conservative coalition

whose sole mandate would be to oust the Liberal party from the go v ernment. A p tly nicknamed Unite The Right, the U A has been receivin g support fro m across the country — although it has n ot been en d o rsed by Joe C la rk , le a d e r o f the P r o g r e s s iv e Conservatives, w hose o ffic e c o u ld not be reach ed fo r comment. The U A is currently con s id e rin g a num ber of steps it cou ld take to present a m ore s o lid o p p o s itio n to the L ib e r a l g o v e rn m e n t. A t th eir upcoming convention at the end o f February, ideas ranging from a for mal m ergin g o f the R e fo rm and Tory parties at the federal level to a b ro a d er based a g reem en t that

political party during the next year. The sky is the limit.” S in ce the U A is cu rren tly nothing more than an idea gather

w ou ld see some ridings running Conservative candidates and others running Reform w ill be discussed. A ccord in g to Buzan, the options

recognize that at this point, no one is being asked to endorse any spe cific options. In the spirit o f con stru c tiv e d ia lo g u e , the U n ited Alternative steering committee has proposed several ideas fo r every one to consider, reflect upon, and im prove," said Manning. "I hope

everyone w ill continue to be openminded, constructive, and prepared to have a dialogue with their fellow citizens." "It’ s like the on-going deb ate o v e r w hat the L ib e r a ls h a ve done to taxes and health care. The more people involved, the better," he concluded. The c o n v e n tio n , w h ich w ill be h eld in O ttaw a the w eek en d o f February 19 is aim ed at attracting people interest ed in becoming supporters o f this new political initia tive. Students are being encouraged to attend the conference. “ T h is is som eth in g that is going to affect this generation on the eve o f the new millennium,” said Buzan. “ It is imperative that they are in v o lv e d in this resh ap in g

United 4Alternative,

are endless. “ It w ill be very exciting to see what happens. I f we can come to a new agreement w e might see a new

ing momentum in Canadian politi cal circles, they have no concrete political policies — something that R efo rm leader Preston M anning was encouraging about in a recent press release. "I think it is very important to

process.”

Students interested in attend ing the conference can visit the UA website at www.unitedalt.org, or call Mark Buzan at 819-328-6275.

Life after university: profiling McGill's recent graduates From destruction to repatriation: using popular education as a building block in Ei Salvador B y R enée D unk The road leading away from M cG ill may seem impossibly long and w in d in g but recen t M c G ill grads show that with a little direc tion and d eterm in ation , the prospects are endless. Such is the case with Karen Austin, who graduated from M cGill in 1995 w ith a B .A . in Anthropology and Latin American Studies. Au stin is cu rren tly e m p lo y e d as an intern through Human Rights Internet, a non-parti san group affiliated with the federal department df foreign affairs, dedi cated to the dissemination o f infor mation through websites, programs and books to 7,000 non-governmen tal organizations across the world. Most o f Austin’ s energy, how ever, is d irected into a personal endeavour called Companeros para Cambio — a project she first started developing w hile researching her honours thesis on El Salvador at McGill. “ [After graduating], I lived in a village in El Salvador and worked with a school in Guarjila. The teach ers there proposed a high school as an option.” she said. “ [Companeros para Cambio] is a fund for children to go to high school.” As in many other developing nations, the lite ra c y le v e l in El Salvador is low . A c c o rd in g to a Human Rights Internet newsletter, in the 1970s, it was estimated that

A student in Guarjila only 10 to 20 per cent o f rural adults could read and write. Austin described rural life in El Salvador as d ifficu lt at any time. But during the 1986-92 c iv il war, she explained, many citizens were forced to flee the countryside and fin d refu g e in n eigh b ou rin g Honduras. In the midst o f the war, however, the refugees organized a mass repatriation and the communi ty o f Guarjila was born. Since then, the residents o f the community have worked to build their community form scratch with little help from

their country’ s government. One o f the first steps to build ing a strong community was to edu cate the residents. While in refugee camps, many El Salvadorian youth took lite ra c y classes and when Guarjila was established, the newly educated took steps to teach other you n g p e o p le what they had learned. “ N ow the school in the village goes to grade nine,” Austin said. “ That’ s pretty amazing since the level o f education in the country as a whole is low.”

During her stay in El Salvador, A u stin liv e d in G u a rjila w h ile researching her Master’ s thesis. She ended up, however, working very c lo s e ly w ith the teachers at the sch ool w ith d iscip lin es such as math. “ You don’ t realize how hard math is if you have never had any use for it,” she explained. In the ten years since the com munity school’ s inception, interna tional organizations have stepped in and offered the teachers both high school and university equivalency tests. “ Many o f the teachers received all their education in less than ten years,” said Austin. “ Many are even certified, w hile before they were considered clandestine and subver sive by the government.” Although the school uses the officia l El Salvadorian curriculum and the language o f instruction is in Spanish, the com m u n ity has encountered problems while build ing the school. “ M any o f the teachers aren’ t paid,” Austin said. “ They are volun teer and often their salaries come in the fo rm o f rice and beans. A Germ an N G O now pays som e a small salary but many still remain unpaid. There are subtle differences between the teachers and the rest o f the community, but there is no dis tinction really, they all still hang out... it's a democratic society.” E nter C om p an eros para

C am b io. Au stin stressed that although the p roject has not yet been finalized, it w ill be used as a low-level scholarship fund for chil dren to leave the villa ge to go to high school until one is built in Guarjila. A u stin stressed that Companeros para Cam bio w ill be only an interim solution, until the community gathers the resources to educate their youth. Austin is hop in g to g e t support fro m p riva te fou n d ation s fo r donations but admits that it is hard to establish a charity status with respect to tax returns. “ I need to find an organization to affiliate with for tax purposes,” she said. Although the project is still in the “ embryonic stage,” Austin has goals o f targeting local CEGEP and perhaps university students to help plan projects and to participate in small-scale trips to the community. “ Students in upper level classes may even be interested in helping to teach English [in G u arjila],” she stated. “ Really, w e’ re just trying to fill the gap until the school is built.”

Students interested in finding out more about Companeros para Cambio can contact Karen Austin via e-mail at companeros ©cana da, com.

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The erosion of culture, ecology and the hum an spirit For one Vermont professor, globalization is a poison that snuffs out our collective values and institutions. His crusade to educate people on the processes unfolding around us is meant to inspire action — "living in the belly of the beast" requires an active citizen response, he claims By A nna Mattiuzzo

then fast forwarded to the collapse o f the S o viet U nion in the early "G lo b a liz a tio n is ra p id ly 1990s. He pointed'to the fact that globalization isn’t anything new — spreading like a cancer." it is a process that has been brewing From the onset, the lecture on for nearly 450 years and has been o f g lo b a liz a tio n g iv e n by D r. Dan Chodorkoff had an impassioned and an inherently com m ercial nature serious tone. from the C h o d o rk o ff, the o n s e t . £ | J think that anyone who "Globalization d ire c to r of the Institute fo r S ocial has a concern for the well takes these Ecology in Vermont, being o f the earth or for the processes and spoke on the roots o f expands them globalization and its p eo p le d w ellin g on the out and deep insidious pervasive earth need to educate them ens them in ness into "every con ways that are selves about globalization. p e r h a p s tinent, every nation, every province, every unprecedent state and ultimately Dr. Dan Chodorkoff, ed." every village." M ost D u r in g Director of the Institute for Social im p orta n tly, he the lectu re, Ecology addressed the steps n o to r io u s that can and are lending agen cies such as the World Bank and the being taken by grass-roots activists and individuals alike around the International Monetary Fund were globe to counter and stagnate the named as significant contributors to process. the globalization problem. The for "I think that anyone who has a mula became a fam iliar refrain in concern for the w ell being o f the the creation o f econom ic depen earth or for the people dwelling on dence: W o r ld Bank lends vast the earth need to educate themselves amounts o f money to an underde about globalization." veloped country with the expecta tion that the borrowing country will eventually be able to return the sum.

Not a new phenomenon

Chodorkoff outlined the glob alization process from its roots in the European expansion into Africa and A sia, right into to the postW W I I era, when a fra gm en ted Europe began to rebuild itself, and

T h is paym ent, h o w e v e r, n ever comes to be — the borrowing coun try slips further and further into eco nomic destitution and the west reaps the rewards. C h o d o r k o ff h igh ligh ted the three main constituents o f the corro s iv e g lo b a liz a tio n phenom ena. F irs tly , a h ig h ly con cen trated

amount o f w ealth and power has fallen into the grips o f a handful o f cor porations. A frightening example o f this is demon strated by the fact that 60 per cent o f the agriculture industry is controlled by only eight or ten corpora tions. The media is in the questionable hands o f five m ajor corp oration s. S eco n d ly , C h o d o r k o ff argues, the trickle down th eory o f w ealth w hich was begun by R on a ld R egan and su ccessfu lly continued by Bill Clinton is a grotesque id e o lo g y , wherein the rich becom e richer and the poor become C hodorkoff likens globalization to a cancer poorer.

Ingrained in society C h o d o rk o ff set out to show how s o c ie ty ’s in stitu tion s are increasingly succumbing to the sly m aneuvering o f corporate elites, using some very im pressive and equally unnerving examples. The legal system, for one, is feeling the pressure from corporations which want to m old it to fa c ilita te the implementation o f its agenda. With the infiltration o f the m edia into e v e ry p o s s ib le nuance o f life , Chodorkoff spoke o f the loss o f cul tural diversity as a direct result o f globalization. Though the examples o f starved Indonesians working for abhorrent w ages m anufacturing

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N ik e shoes and M cDonald's pop ping up on every corner o f the plan et as far as S iberia, C h o d o rk o ff painted a picture o f the corrupting reach o f corporate rule and its disre gard for human welfare. "Globalization is the process o f cultural homogenization in which everybody is a consumer." W hile his presentation may have seemed pedan tic at tim es, C h o d o r k o ff stressed that it is part o f our contem porary reality. "W e all have to be consumers for globalization to succeed," said Chodorkoff. "It is not a question o f production...it is a question o f redis tribution o f wealth." He feels that a non-monetary system o f exchange should be considered as a way to shift the focus from the dollar to the individual. "W e w ere not always capitalists," he stated.

Severe consequences

Mike Coldwell

The ramifications o f massive globalization are as devastating evironmentally as they are economical ly and culturally. The consequences o f exponential increases in defor estation, and o f wide scale pollution o f the oceans and air are not fully known to mankind, and the extent o f the damage is incalculable. "The e c o lo g ic a l crises has on ly been deep en ed by g lo b a liz a tio n ," he. argued. He frets over the demise o f "the gene pool for our future” which he feels is being jeopardized in a point blank manner. W h ile the situation as described by Chodorkoff is clearly dire, according to the professor, all is not lost. He believes that global ization has to be tackled on numer ous fronts. "There is no single silver bullet that w ill solve the problem,” he stated. O ne a ltern a tive that C hodorkoff mentioned was use o f

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More bang for your bang U. Kentucky profs develop nasal spray version of the anti-impotence drug Viagra B y A mber Scott K entucky K ernel

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w ou ld be an overd ose." A n overd ose cou ld mean death fo r

U n iv e r s it y o f K e n tu c k y C o l l e g e o f Pharm acy professors have d evelop ed a faster-acting version o f V ia gra by m ak

m en w ith high b lo o d pressure or car diovascular disease, D ittert said. D ittert and Hussain d id their first

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e x p e r im e n ts in F e b ru a ry 1998, and

tering it as a nasal spray. Dr. L e w is D itte rt and Dr. A n w a r Hussain have been d evelo p in g the new

file d a p ro visio n a l patent on June 25,

V ia g r a ou t o f th e ir c o m p a n y , N e w M ille n n iu m Ph arm aceu tical R esearch Inc. fo r alm ost tw o years. "H u s s a in s a id p e o p le a re c o m p la in in g a b o u t h a v in g to w a it f o r V ia g r a to w o r k , " D it t e r t s a id . T h e

1998. T h e experim ents have so far been o n a n im a ls , an d th e n e x t s te p is humans, D ittert said. T h e y are look in g fo r a sponsor to help fund their future experim ents or to sell their inform ation to . H u s s a in an d D itte r t h ave ap p roach ed P fiz e r , the co m p a n y that

V ia g ra that's currently available to men s u ffe r in g fr o m im p o te n c y c o m e s in ta b le t fo r m and is p o o r ly s o lu b le in water. T h is delays response to the drug and requires a h igh er dosage to com bat

first introduced V iagra, to be a spon sor, but they have been slo w to react. O n c e th ey d o g e t a spon sor, e x p e r i m ents on humans w ill d eterm in e the

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D ittert said. "W e w ill have to see i f this d ru g irrita te s the n asal m em b ra n es, affects the sense o f sm ell, causes can cer, or leads to other health risks."

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Ear to the Ground A brief look at current patterns and trends Suicidal tendencies in Manchester

NyQuil! NyQuil! We love you!

The Face, one o f a vast array o f British magazines with fea tures on music nobody listens to and clubs nobody cares about and lots o f weird advertisements that show a tremendous quanti ty o f skin, reports on what it claims was a huge "junglist" club fad in 1995. Seems that the E-soaked club kids o f that long-ago era weren't satisfied with using cigarette lighters as accessories. Everybody wanted to be the fellow with the biggest flame. So people took to bringing cans o f W D-40 spray lubricant, shooting a stream o f oil into the air, and setting fire to it. It only lasted a few weeks, but there were, The Face reports, "A melted roof, a temperature in the hundreds, and a remarkable lack o f personal injury." Ear to the Ground isn't sure that the last item is neces sarily a good thing — it sounds to us like maybe natural selec tion decided to take a few nights o ff in the Midlands.

Think o f it as Sambucca for wimps. Icon reports that con suming an entire bottle o f NyQ uil — call it about five shots — will give the average person a blood-alcohol level o f 0.04. On top o f that, it's packed with ephedrine, which is the same stuff that got Silken Laumann in so much trouble at the Pan-Am Games. But, its alcohol level has been steadily declining over the years. When was first sold, NyQuil was 80-proof, the same as an average whisky or vodka. Five years ago, it was 50-proof. Now , it’s a mere 20. Even with that decline, NyQuil remains a popular beverage o f the high and mighty — both in teetotalling dry counties in the United States and on certain prime ministeri al aeroplanes.

Medical breakthrough in the feathered world

Ice Storm Survival Guide A year later, for the sake o f nostalgia and also for all the first-year and exchange students, we present Winter Living's Ten Commandments for Ice Storm Survival. First, thou shalt invest in buckets, in the knowledge that it takes about 18 buckets o f snow to produce enough water for one toilet flush. Second, thou shalt be polite when people who have never been without power for more than an hour propose a candlelit dinner. Third and fourth are kind o f dumb, and can safely be ignored. Fifth, thou shalt bear with patience the fact that powerless water wells pro duce no water, while powerless sump pumps produce far too much. Sixth, thou shalt not fire upon any neighbour whose Christmas lights have begun to twinkle while thy abode remains cold and dark. Seventh, thou shalt not inflict upon others your clever ways o f surviving ice storms. Eighth, thou shalt not scrawl "The Franklin Expedition was here" in kerosene soot on kitchen ceilings. Ninth, thou shalt stand in awe o f insurance companies' ability to do anything besides actually pay claims. And finally, thou shalt not kill thy loved ones, with whom thou hast no experience o f spend ing more than six hours without television.

Discover magazine reports a revolutionary breakthrough in treating arthritis in cranes, which w e couldn't make up i f w e tried. It seems that Eduard, a rare Siberian crane, suffered from severe arthritis for fiv e years, the result o f a hard-surfaced enclosure in his zo o — technology having apparently been unable to provide him with soft surfaces that would have better mimicked his natural habitat. Eduard pretty much had to breed if his species were to survive, and this was made fairly tricky because o f the woeful condition o f the joints in his legs. So vets, in a heroic undertaking, implanted an artificial joint — normally used to repair badly damaged big toes in humans — in one o f his ankles. Eduard is recovering nicely, say his keepers, and is expected to breed enthusiastically in the next mating season.

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technology and the media against the "forces o f glob alization ." He firmly advocates the "think globally but act lo c a lly " p h ilosop h y and champions alternative forms o f edu cation in order to create a society that will be able to live in symbiosis with the planet. Our institutions require a new curriculum in order to halt the "reproduction o f the domi nant culture" and restore diversity. "W e liv e in the b elly o f the beast. W e have a responsibility to actively oppose the process," he explained. Chodorkoff concluded the lec

ture by issuing a call for increased accountability. He would like to see guilty corporations, and ultimately the p o w e r-w ie ld in g in d ivid u als themselves, held accountable fo r their actions. For him, it's key To preventing "the h ollow in g o f the human spirit.” Social awareness, h ow ever, should not be equated with cynicism — ideally, it should becom e the basis o f action and empowerment. As Chodorkoff stat ed, "W e need to construct a new world in the shell o f the old."

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René Derouin splices Mexico and Q uebec into hybrid art By G abby Jakubovits_____________ Tired o f observing cross-fer tilization, looking fo r gene combin a tio n s and m a k in g P u n n ett squares in sci en ce lab? F e e l fr e e to ch an ge your focus fo r a w h ile and visit th e M o n tr e a l M u seu m of F in e A r ts , w h ere the c r o s s -fe r tiliz a tio n is o f a pu rely cultural

v a r i e t y . F r o n tie r s , a

North, I live with soli tude, space, physical means as if I am on a temporarily pro tected little island. In the So u th , I live on the m ove and in a u ste rity , exposed to the driving force o f life.

dem onstration w h ic h p ro duced an im age o f mass es o f cross-cult u r e d

a rtis t fo u n d his place in the grand scheme o f things, or at least things geographical. The old ragged article o f lu g g a g e sits without shame in the centre o f the first room o f the exh ib it, w ith the p a in te d w o rd s

Mexicans

ago.

D e r o u i n 's

the e x c e p t io n o f the le s s - e x o t ic U n ite d S ta tes (n o offen ce, southern friends). From there sprung his quest fo r identity

origin and destiny through close obser vation o f the land o f this con ti nent,” writes Derouin. The show

exp a n sio n o f cu ltu ra l bounds and co n tin e n ta l id e n tity , which René Derouin found in Mexico.

flood in g a city square. T h ese im ages m oved and in s p ire d Derouin, along with his observa tions o f the Road o f Death along the M ayan pyram ids, on w h ich people still w alk as they did ages

Derouin, 1990 Québec M exico."

fresh ly-op en ed t w o so u rces o f e x h ib it of inspiration Q u eb ec’ s landscape M o n tr e a l- b o r n a rtis t R ené and M e x ic o ’ s energy and history Derouin, explodes with emotion. produce an interesting repertoire A sense o f th e past (o r p a sts) o f faces. They contribute equally floats in the eerie air, encased by to th e e x h ib it ’ s th re e m a jo r the texturally-rich walls. th em es: D e ro u in fir s t em barked on his jo u r g/ gp u f even crossing any l a n d , m igration n e y o f d is c o v e r y - a we are all cultural and mem borders, fam iliar old theme — at the age o f 19, p ick in g migrants undergoing pro ory. “ I M e x ic o as his destina found change and intensive p r e fe r to tion fo r the simple rea search for son that it was the clos cross-fertilization. Derouin the mean est c o u n try that he ing o f my could visit by bus, with

M useum , but there are poignant b its and p ie c e s w h ic h can b e view ed up close. Y o u w ill notice the grotesque faces o f the b u rd en ed fro n tiers is certainly very m ig ra n ts , w h ic h fe rtile gro u n d fo r the are rem iniscent o f

evolution o f the work. The project b egan to take shape in 1988 in M e x ic o C ity , during a p o litic a l

and later, a sense o f belonging to the N o rth A m e ric a n con tin en t. The suitcase he took along on his first vo ya ge across A m erica is a key p iece in understanding how th is Q u é b é c o is

Derouin's Nouveau-Québec includes several samplings o f the a rtis t's w o o d c u ts , la n d s c a p e s which often included ships pass ing by on the St. Law rence River, linking the land to m igration, or an escape to another world. The secon d d iv is io n , "M igration," is also the subject o f a nice little film ch ron iclin g the

T h e result o f all the ex c ite m en t w as th e fin a l p ro d u c t, in s ta lle d in the M u s e o R u fin o T a m a y o , M e x ic o C ity — a dark road winding its way through the museum, w ith thousands o f tiny ceram ic figures, m igrating. Each character carries something, a bur den, perhaps a memory. The pro cession must cross w ater basins, which represent a sym bolic rite o f p a s s a g e and a re b irth . " T h e M ig r a t io n " is m ad e o f b oth M exican and Canadian materials, which produce dark and light fig urines. In the film , the artist says that w ork in g on the project and la y in g out the figu res en masse fe lt like an archeological excava tion. Naturally, you w ill not find the e n tir e a rra n g e m e n t at the

War is hell and so is The Thin Red Line By H ugh O dlinc -Smee__________ In a w orld where the seven ties is seen as the golden age o f H o lly w o o d , the la s t p e r io d in which film seemed to sum up the human co n d itio n , the return o f Terence M ailck has been eagerly

ends up a mess; a beautiful one, but a mess nonetheless. The story o f The Thin Red Line concerns a b a tta lio n o f in fa n tr y , C h a r lie C om pany, who a tta ck the Japanese army on the South Sea Isla n d o f G u ad alcan al. T h a t is about it fo r plot (A m erica wins by

awaited by those wishing fo r another Taxi D riv e r o r The G o d fa th e r to chew long and hard on. M a lic k w as w o o e d back to the realm o f the silver screen after fleeing th e a ren a f o r tw e n ty years (perhaps in shame o v e r th e s tu p en d o u sly d u ll Days o f H e a v e n ),

dynam ic cast and a g o o d heart,

in d e e d the c in é p h ile o f the 1940’ s, in this film the war is the star. T h e film c o n cerns less whether the main actor w ill liv e or die, but w h y men fa ll from grace, why the beast is awakened.

The Thin Red Line in one sense achieves h a lf o f what it sets out to tell us. W a r, e s p e c ia lly W W I I , is bad shit, and the infantry

and ch ose to adapt the intensely personal novel of e x - in fa n t r y man 20 years in the jungle Jam es Jon es. J o n e s ’ s n o v e l, w h ic h he a ls o the w ay), as the real drama o f the waited tw enty years to produce, piece takes place in the minds o f co n cern s the beast o f w a r and the p ro ta g o n is ts . W ith such a how it truly affects those w ho are touched by its presence. Although this may have been w h a t M a lic k w is h e d to p la c e before us, the film , whilst blessed w ith s u b lim e p h o to g r a p h y ,

m in u tes scre e n tim e , W o o d y H arrelson gets o ffe d in the first h a lf h ou r, and a cto rs w h o are used to c a rry in g film s b e c o m e mere cameos in a larger tableau. W h ile this may sound disconcert ing to the modern cinema goer, or

la r g e cast, in c lu d in g as m any Am erican character actors as you can shake a stick at, in e v ita b ly c h a ra c te rs com e and go. F o r tu n a te ly , th is m ean s that G e o r g e C lo o n e y has o n ly tw o

get the most shit o f all. But that, for a filmmaker, is the easy part. T h e problem is that the technique o f tightly focusing on a group o f men in the jungle leaves the other half o f the qu estion u n an sw ered; it gives us no idea what awoke this w a r. W h y w as it n e c e s s a ry to h a v e m en c h a r g e up a h ill to alm ost certain death? W hat was all this about? W h o started this? Th is kind o f film punches us in the face with the tragic stupidity

o f conflict, with many o f the men musing on w hy they are present in this most awful o f lives, but as fo r actually attempting to answer the qu estio n s ra ised , the film ducks out the d o o r m arked too complicated. It deals readily with the human condition, the agony o f man, y e t it fa ils to address the human exp erien ce, the deeds o f man. M a yb e this is too much to ask; it is after all, just a film . But i f M alick really wants to honour th e m e m o ry o f Jon es and his comrades, perhaps he should heed the larger picture. Poor farm boys from Ohio got tom from this life on South Sea Islands fo r real rea son s, n ot ju s t b e c a u s e o f the nature o f humanity. A s Sean Penn says during th e f ilm a ft e r p e r fo r m in g a breathtakingly heroic act, “ D on ’ t thank me, it’ s all about property, just property." That one sentence is w orth a ll the m u sing on the condition o f man and all the beau tiful symbolism in the entire film . I f M a lic k had taken that senti ment as his them e, perhaps The Thin Red Line w ou ld have been m ore than ju st another “ w ar is hell” m ovie.

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Baroque. T h e room sets a m ood with dim lighting and the disturb ing sounds o f Oiseaux migrateurs, a 15-minute musical composition b y M ic h e l G o n n e v ille that is played once every hour. F ro n tie rs is c e rta in ly v e r y fertile ground fo r the expansion o f cultural bounds and continental id e n tity , w h ic h R e n é D e ro u in found in M exico.

The ex h ib it opened f o r the p u b lic on January 14 and w ill remain at the M ontreal Museum o f Fin e A rts (1379 Sherbrooke Street West) until March 14.

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Beware the Red menace. January is the perfect season for a little McCarthy- era cleaning. Flush commies out of your classes and join the youth rally at Cabaret. Inspirational poetry front the Motherland prov ided by oratory veterans bill bisset, Catherine Kidd. Corey Frost, and anthems courtesy of Martha Wainvvright and others.

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Never Swim Alone: Taking a dip in am bition's d irty w aters ( M i l l s ) , w h o c o m p e te a g a in st

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Free Tibet? No, but it's pretty cheap In the grip o f a cold January

s im p licity by the choko-khatsa,

day, when the w in d is b lo w in g

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influences o f Chinese and Indian

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subterranean refuge, the painted

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brick w alls o f which are adorned

our palates but a fu ll cup c o n

with the ob ligatory photographs o f th e P o t a la and th e D a la i Lam a. The humble decor, h o w

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that “ w e... never cared much fo r b u tte r - te a , w h ic h is u s u a lly

Chez Gaste's m odest interior

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cou rse

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A m onum ent to understatem ent: Ted Demme's M onum ent Ave. by

C hris S elley

T h e sto ry is n ’ t n ew - the s to r y is o ld . G a n g v io le n c e leaves em otional, human w reck a g e in its w a k e . T h is s to ry is about Irish Boston, but its moral dilem m as are no d ifferen t from those o f Italian N e w Y o rk , and this film is not overtly different

o n c e d u ty -b o u n d to o b e y his cousin and appalled by the v io lence that entails. His w ide eyes, e s p e c ia lly w h en d e a lin g w ith B obby, seem to search fo r some explanation as to h ow his flesh and b lood could be com m ittin g these acts. D ig g e r , a cab d r iv e r w h o ch a u ffeu rs the b o y s around to their various crim es and m isde m e a n o u rs , is p la y e d b y John D ie h l. H is p e r fo r m a n c e is a nuanced and subtle com bination o f alcoholism , intelligence, em o tional scar tissue and overw helm ing fra g ility o f character. H e is not u n lik e an o ld e r ve rs io n o f B ob b y, som eone w ho once had fle e tin g g lim p ses o f a solu tion but w ho never fo llo w e d through on them. Ian H art as M ou se is m o re lik e a B o b b y w h o has accepted defeat.

from any number o f M afia film s. It just happens to be far, far bet ter than most o f them. A gang o f criminals in volved in everyth in g from the petty to the decidedly un-petty is the sub je c t. T h e y d riv e around, drink, sn o rt c o k e , s te a l ca rs, jo k e a ro u n d . T h e y w o r k f o r the d esp otic G o d fa th er-typ e Jackie O ’ Hara (C o lm M ea n ey). B obby O ’ G rady (D en is L e a r y ) is their leader: the smart one, such as he is. But w h en B o b b y ’ s c o u s in T ed d y (B illy Crudup) gets killed b y J a c k ie ’ s g o o n s f o r ra ttin g someone out, B o b b y ’ s relatively co n te n t lit t le w o r ld b e g in s to unravel.

The w hole gang gets togeth er at o n e p o in t to p la y stre e t hockey, and the results are pre dictable, and predictably absurd. B obby is valiantly trying to play

T h e gang includes Seamus, a n o th e r o f B o b b y ’ s c o u s in s straight o f f the boat from Ireland. H e 's an in trig u in g ch a ra cter innocent, not unlike hundreds o f thousands o f Irish im m igra n ts b e fo r e him . B ut w h ile it to o k these Irish Bostonians decades to fou l up their existence, it takes m ere w e e k s fo r Seam us to be irrevocably corrupted. Played by Jason B a rry , S eam u s fe e ls at

a "frien d ly" game o f shinny with th e m an w h o had h is c o u s in killed. The court is full o f dozens o f such internal conflicts, and the ga m e u n su rp risin gly d escen ds into a series o f brawls. W hen a goal is scored, it is blow n com pletely out o f proportion - B obby has g o n e d o u b le-o r-n o th in g on his Celtics bet with Jackie. D em m e's d ire c tio n here is m asterfu l as w e ll. T h rou gh ou t

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the game w e are shown either the heads and torsos o f the players or the feet, sticks and ball - never

the s to ry s im p le and le ts the audience sift through the rubble. It w ould have been much easier to a p p ro a c h th is f ilm fr o m a standpoint o f saying som ething about Ireland, about the U nited States, about violence. Instead, this film is about a tragic series o f events, about the

film has to o ffe r . T h is a lc o h o lic , r a c is t, d ru gged -u p car th ie f is the m o ra l sta n d a rd in

s y s te m a tic e lim in a t io n o f a y o u n g m a n ’ s fa m ily . In som e w a y s , M on u m e n t A ve. d o e s n 't h a v e m an y n e w th in g s to say about its s u b je c t m a tter. Gangsterism , violen ce, fa m ily e v e r y b o d y 's g o t an o p in io n , right? N o t T e d D em m e, appar ently, or i f he does he keeps it at bay. That’ s what makes this film the m a s te r p ie c e th at it is. Monument Ave. isn't about these things; it's just a story, one b ril liantly, intricately and confident ly told.

Monument Ave.

Deep thoughts with Demme both. A s a m icrocosm o f the film as a w h ole, it w orks brilliantly. W e n ever get to see the w h ole game, just as the players can't see what they're fighting for. A hock ey game is life or death, but life and death are meaningless. Am idst all o f this is Bobby, who has a head on his shoulders even i f it is full o f coke. He sees things a little differently, maybe a little m ore c le a r ly , and w ith each fit o f violen ce he witnesses or commits there is a glim m er o f a d e e p e r u n d erstan d in g in his eyes. H e at least sees the sick ness in what he does, even i f he has no concrete ideas o f how to cure it. The aforem entioned glim m er is the hallmark o f a great actor, and D e n is L e a r y , a m a z in g ly , pulls it o f f w ith room to spare.

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B obby has a lot o f problems: he does drugs, guzzles booze, steals very expen sive cars fo r a liv in g and kidnaps a black man and threatens his life just to prove a point about a buddy's bark b ein g b ig ger than his bite. H e is, h o w e v e r , the b est this

But in his own way, h e's a w o r th y m o d e l. B ob b y's solution to this m adness is, o b v io u s ly , m ore m adness - m urder, to be precise. He has solved a problem by k illin g someone but he knows that he h a sn 't d o n e the r ig h t thing. The film ’ s peaceful, p o w e r fu l e n d in g is s p in e - tin g lin g nonetheless. It is as am biguous as B o b b y ’ s p lig h t in the fir s t place.

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D em m e's real a c c o m p lis h ment, how ever, is that he keeps

Disc Review

The Black Crowes By Your Side (American/Columbia) A fte r tw o no-m oney makers, the B lack Crowes, or what's left o f them, seem intent on shaking some southern rock and roll back into a burnt-out m usic industry. W h eth er it's the d riv in g tem po o f "G o Faster" or the dulcet choir and craggy riffs o f "Horsehead," this is sure-fire enthusiasm laced with steroid-pumped blues, polished and pure. But perhaps a tad too politely so. R igged with a couple o f new band mem bers, Aerosmith’s bigw ig producer and a bigger record label, the new album is a glossy rehash o f any number o f 70s bands, with plain lyrics and dry melodies. It's fun and fast, yet lacks the more experimental jam s o f A m orica, or the m elodic gall and groin o f The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion. Energy and gritty cheer, granted. But where's the sauce and soul? Where's the sex - gospel style?

- Thomas Map

TH IS W E E K tJanuarv 19-261 Today A cclaim ed metal band Fear Factory, fresh o f f opening for Rob Zombie, headline their own spineshaker at the Medley, with the excellent System of a Down and Spineshack. Wednesday C a fé Cam pus’ s legen d ary Blues N ig h t features Matt G uitar M urphy, the Blues Brothers’ lead guitarist! N ic e nickname. Seriously. $10, all o f a sudden. Thursday Local boys done good! The Datsons are at Jailhouse Rock Theatre (w e assume it’ s the same place), for a paltry $4. Local ska with Kingpins at le Swimming.

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Shaw n Linden reaches the end of line 2323 yards later A Bishop’s player caught Linden by his lower leg and as Linden tried to free h im self, he w as h it on both The truth about Shawn Linden sides by a pair of Gaiters. is out there. "My knee w ent one way and R ed m en f o o tb a ll's a ll-tim e my low er and upper leg w ent the lead in g ru sh er dodged his o th e r," L in d en re c a lle d . "It w as la st d e fe n s iv e b a c k fo r to rn . A s so o n as it h a p p e n e d , I McGill against the Carleton knew.” Ravens last October 31st and Linden said that the knee was is now refocusing on other “ sw in g in g lik e an elb o w e ith e r targets. w a y ,” an d c o n s e q u e n tly he had Linden, who hails from im m ediate surgery. The ligam ent F re d e ric to n , N ew down the side o f Linden's leg had B runsw ick, started playing pulled away from the bone and his football at age 13, and while Anterior Cruciate Ligament had suf playing for the Fredericton fered a pailial tear. Black K ats, Linden led the "It didn't really hurt until the team to championships year doctor started poking around and after year. In his final season pushing things," Linden said. "After with the Kats, Linden rushed the surgery all I wanted was m or for 1,300 yards and 13 TDs. m ig h t h av e b een my k n e e . T he phine." These accomplishments brace was a pain in the ass, but it W hen his d em ands fo r m o r d rew th e e y e o f c o lle g e was worth it." phine weren't met, Linden turned to scouts and brought Linden Ultimately, Linden's 1998 sea the next best pain reliever; bed rest. offers to play in num erous son was nowhere near the brilliance H e sp e n t th e n ex t th re e m o n th s schools in eastern C anada of '96, but he still managed to deliv mostly laid up in bed, often missing an d th e U .S ., as w ell as er in both yards and excitement. On Redmen games entirely. B is h o p 's and M c G ill. October 10th, Linden rushed for 64 "W hen I w ent to the gam e in R ed m en c o a c h C h a rlie yards on 13 carries and finally sur Ottawa, it was awful," said Linden. Baillie managed to persuade passed Michael Soles on the McGill As he talked through about the trip th e 6 '2 " , 2 20 lb. ru n n in g Redmen all-time Patrick Fok career rushing list. W hile the team it was obvious that the competitive back that M ontreal was the leading rusher finished a disappointing 4-4, indi fire still burned brightly in the 22 place for him. vidually Linden was able to round year-old biochemistry major. Linden fell just shy of the Redmen "Coach Baillie made an effort," out his Redmen career with 438 car "I was up in the booth helping said Linden. "He caught my atten se a so n ru sh in g re c o rd h e ld by with stats and it was the most frus ries, 2323 yards and 20 TDs. recently retired M ontreal Alouette tion, that's why I'm here." A fter th e la st g am e, L in d en Michael Soles. During his career at tratin g thing because I co uld see L in d e n d id n 't ta k e lo n g to was unsatisfied at how the season plays developing and I wanted to be M cG ill, S oles, lik e L in d en , won a d ju s t h im s e lf to th e R ed m e n wrapped up. down on the sidelines helping out." offence. In his rookie year, after sit O n ta rio -Q u e b e c I n te r c o lle g ia te "It was a m eaningless game," Football C onference rookie of the ting out the first game of the season said Linden. "A nd it w as against A new beginning year, in a season where he managed w ith a b roken w rist, an injury to Carleton. You put those two togeth to accumulate 842 rushing yards in s ta rte r C h a d L u e d tk e th ru s te d er, it was disappointing." • In h is fin a l se a so n , 1998, 1987, a fact that Linden addresses Linden into the line-up in only his A fterw ards he and team m ate L inden storm ed back, but w ith a with humility. second game. J.P. Darche, also a fifth year veter "I'm lucky to be put into Still nursing the broken wrist, an, sat on the field sipping a the sam e categ o ry as him . Linden responded by carrying the co ld d rin k , r e m in is c in g Our carries were roughly the ball for 75 yards on 18 carries. The a b o u t th e ir p la y in g d ay s same, but he accom plished following week against cross-town together. quite a bit." riv al C oncordia he rushed for 94 "T h e e n tire te a m is yards on 16 carries and was named d o n e n o w ," sa id L in d p n Injury strikes Redmen player of the week. Linden sh o rtly afte r th e gam e. "I attributed this quick start as a rookie th in k th e r e a lity o f it all Finishing '96 on a high to th e tra in in g he re c e iv e d in won’t sink in until the next note, Linden was looking to Fredericton. fall when everyone else but "We were running regular two b u ild on that w ith an o th er me starts the new season." stro n g sh o w in g in '9 7 . and tw o," he explained. "W e ran Y et for all o f his indi some full-house, but mostly it was U nfortunately, those hopes vidual records, Linden still w ere dashed on Septem ber fo u r re c e iv e rs and tw o ru n n in g m ain tain s that his success 2 0 th o f th a t y e a r w hen backs. Our blocking schemes were was a collective effort. L in d e n s u ffe re d a se aso n pretty sophisticated." "T he ru n n in g b ack is ending injury to his leg. The most dependent on everyone An impressive career injury was officially listed in else," he stated. "The offen the press book as a 'fib u la siv e lin e fo r th e la st fiv e Linden finished his rookie sea avulsion fracture of the later y e a rs h a s b ee n g re a t. al collateral ligament'. When son with 461 yards on 82 carries, E v e ry th in g I ’ve a c c o m asked about this, Linden was along with 3 touchdowns and was plished has been done as a hardly reticent. named division rookie of the year. team." "Last year was a pain in In 1995, a sprained ankle and a S u re ly c o a c h B a illie torn hamstring limited Linden's on the ass," he said. "I thought it would like to see Linden in w as g o in g to be my b e st field action. He was used sparingly, a Redmen uniform next sea usually only in goal-line situations, year. The offence had 21 of so n , b u t as L in d e n has and finished the season with 3 TDs 24 players returning, it was exhausted his eligibility, the going to be great. It really, and 247 yards rushing on 56 carries. only teams he'll be running really sucked w hen it h ap L in d e n 's b re a k th ro u g h y ear for now w ill have to pay cam e in 1996. A lthough the year pened." Linden doing his thing Patrick Fok him lor the privilege. Linden The play that ended his began w ith a slow start, he first says that he has 'received a season breaks down like this: flashed signs of true greatness when le tte r ’ ab o u t th e u p co m in g C FL knee brace in tow. The constrictive McGill was deep in their own end, he obliterated Queen's in the Shrine draft, but hinted at the possibility of Bowl, carrying the ball 25 times for lined up on their twenty. It was sec b race cau sed som e lim ita tio n in playing professionally. m otion, Linden noted. Lim itation ond down and 21 to go. Quarterback 225 yards (a M cG ill single gam e "If it h a p p e n e d it w o u ld be turned to fear during one game as record) and 2 touchdowns. He was Dave MacKinnon was getting pres nice, and sure I'd try it, but I'm not sure in the backfield, so Linden slid the brace itself broke and Linden named Shrine Bowl MVP, offensive counting on anything." had thoughts of last year's injury. player of the game, and division and off his block and found an opening "If I hadn't been w earing the in the flat. M acK innon threw him Canadian Interuniversity Athletics brace," said a thankful Linden, "It the ball and Linden headed up field. Union Player of the Week. B y T im o thy S. 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L inden continued to ham m er the com petition for the rest o f the season and rounded o ut the year with 828 yards on 126 carries, with 7 TDs thrown in for good measure.

Looking forward For now Linden is turning his attention to his studies and looking ahead to the possibility of MBA or PhD graduate studies. "I love learn in g ,” he e x p la in e d , Ô lf I had a choice, I w ould stay in school all my life.” B ut until he makes that deci sion, he plans to continue playing squash, studying, and watching the X -F ile s, his fa v o u rite te lev isio n sh o w . B u t, as d e fe n s iv e b a c k s across the league have found out, Linden is not about the reveal his n ex t m ove. H is p ro fe sso rs, CFL coaches and those around him are trying to figure it out, but Linden remains casual. Like the 'suspensethriller' films that he enjoys, Linden is going to wait until the last second to disclose what he'll do. Then we’ll learn the truth about Shawn Linden.

Comingopthisweek Martlet Hockey, Theresa Humes Hockey Tournament, vs. U. of T. Friday,January 22 at 5:30 p.m .vs. UQTR, Saturday, January 23 at 9:30 a.m. Redmen Hockey vs. Ottawa, Friday, January 22, 7:00 p.m, at. McConnell Winter Arena. Redmen Volleyball vs. Laval, Saturday, January 23, noon at Currie Gym. McGill Track and Field Invitational, Saturday, January 23, 11:00 a.m. p.m.. in the Fieldhouse. Redmen Volleyball vs. Laval, Saturday, January 24, noon at Currie Gym. Martlet Basketball vs. U. of T., Sunday, January 24, 2:00p.m. at Currie Gym. Redmen Basketball vs. U. of T., Sunday, January 24, 4:00p.m. at Currie Gym.

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W ednesday by defeating B rebeuf 2-1 in at M c C o n n e ll W in t e r Arena on Saturday. The Martlets g o t their goals late in the third p e r io d . T h e fir s t c a m e fro m A llis o n T ic m a n is (4 :1 4 l e f t ) .

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kills, and an ace. H ow ever, the w inning ways w ou ld soon leave the M a r le ts as th e y lo s t to M o n tr e a l on S u n d a y 3 -0 , in straight sets 15-6, 15-13, and 158. The men w ould fare no better

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half. In the loss, N a d y a D halla led the team with 16 points and eight rebounds. Another notables in clu d e Shannon H o w a rd w h o had ten points and eigh t boards in the lo s s . O n S u n d a y , the Martlets played Laval in a game rescheduled from Friday because o f the w eather. H o w e v e r, tim e was not on their side as they con

M a r t l e t s s h a k e C a r a b in MONKEY OFF THEIR BACKS, PRIMATE REMAINS ON BACKS OF R e d m e n The M artlet vo lleyb a ll team fin a lly snapped a seven match losing streak to the U niversity o f Montreal on Friday as they won 3 -2 .

On Saturday the Martlets fe ll 71-49 to Bishops in a game that saw M c G ill dow n 44-40 at the

T h e c lo s e m atch b ro k e

tinued to slide with a 73-64 loss. The team did have a strong sec ond h a lf as the m ade the gam e respectable after fa llin g behind 4 2 -2 7 at the h a lf. F o r the

fo r m e r star q u a r te r b a c k and

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record now stands at 1-8 and are all but elm in a ted from p la y o ff

In the Q u e b e c C u p I I at Q u ebec C ity, M c G ill continued

contention. The m en’ s team also fe ll to B is h o p s on S a tu rd a y 7 3 -4 9 .

to rule the p ool as they swept the meet. Both the men and wom en finished first overall. Leading the

P la y in g a g a in s t th e r e ig n in g

w a y fo r the w om en, again, was

national champions the Redm en played strong enough in the ealry

the in c re d ib le H o lly M c C o m b

secon d h a lf to a ctu a lly h old a four point lead. The team was led

w ho won four more gold medals, in the 100m butterfly, the 200m fr e e s ty le , the 400m in d ivid u a l

b y ca p ta in M a tt W a ts o n w h o scored seven teen points in the lo s s . L ik e the w o m e n , th ey p la y e d a re s c h e d u le d g a m e

m edley, and in the 4x100m relay m e d le y w ith te a m a te s L is a

against L a v a l on Sunday. But unlike the w om en , the Redm en won a clutch 77-71 victory over

first in fiv e o f the ten events. O n the m e n ’ s s id e , A le x

the Rouge et Or. The victory was esp ecially g o o d fo r the team as they w ere able to overcom e a 3935 h a lft im e d e f ic it . R o o k ie Hidesh Bhardwaj led the Red and W h ite with 18 points. But again it was Watson who led the team, th is tim e s c o r in g

P ich ette w on fou r g o ld s in the 50m fre e s ty le , the 200m backstroke, the 4x100m relay, and the 4x100m freestyle. D avid Allard, also a part o f both winning relay teams, won another g o ld in the 400m in d ivid u a l m e d le y . T h e third man on the relay teams was Sebastien Paddington w h o w on g o ld in the 200m freesty le and the 1500m freestyle. R ou nding out the relay squad was N icolas M artin in the m edley, and Matt W alker in the freestyle.

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Trin id ad and T o b a g o now hails fro m N ep ea n O n ta rio and is a fourth-year science student. It was business as usual for H o lly M cC om b as she continued to domination in the pool adding fou r m ore g o o ld m edals to her now im pressive tally this season. S h e le d M c G ill to v ic t o r y in

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taken over the post. W a ll, a fo r mer C E G E P coach o f the decade

V ir g in i, E laine Duranceau, and

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three point arc, and 4/6 foul line. The Redm en 3-6 have a solid grasp place, and are almost in

assistant co a ch at M c G ill has

Quebec and is showing no signs o f letting up as the season con tinues. M cC om b is from Dollard des O rm ea u x and in her fin a l year o f her bachelors in educa-

M c G i l l s t a r s t o j o in T e a m C a n a d a at t h e W o r ld U n i v e r s it y G a m e s tion. Redm en hockey boasts tw o members o f this years edition o f the C an adian u n iv e rs ity team . Goaltender Jarrod Daniel is one o f the p la y e rs s e le c te d on the strength o f his 3.01 goals against average and .901 save percent age. D a n ie l w ill be jo in e d by team m ate M athieu Darche w ho leads the team in scoring with 33 points in clu d in g 13 go a ls. T h e players w ill be sorely missed as the R edm en prepare to em bark on their stretch run for the play

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o ffs w ith cru cial gam es versus d iv s io n r iv a ls C o n c o r d ia , Ottawa, and U Q T R . T w o M c G ill skiers w ill also

A fte r the resignation o f Joe M arch ild on , M c G ill has turned to o n e o f its o w n to fin d his re p la c e m e n t. G e o r g e W a ll, a

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be m a k in g the trip as p art o f team Canada. Jennifer Buckley, a 19 year old A rts freshm en from U n ion ville, Ontario and Shaunna Burke a 23 yearold p sy ch o lo g y m a jo r fr o m P o in t e C la ir e , Q u e b e c w e r e n a m ed to the Canadian team. A pair o f short-track speed skaters w ill also be on their way to P o p p rad -T atry, S lo v a k ia fo r the Cham pionships January 2130. Lin sey Bartlett, a third year p h y s io lo g y m a jo r fr o m Fredericton w ill com pete along with C arol-Ann Cheinard, a third year

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Cross-town rivals battle to a 2-2 tie C ontinued from page 1

seconds into a Concordia pow erplay at 6:03 o f the third, was in reality taken from just inside the blue line.

g o o d p u ck c o n t r o l, but w e r e unable to penetrate C on cord ia ’ s p e rim e te r d e fe n c e . B oth sid es used e ffe c tiv e shot blockin g, an art lo s t on th e p r o fe s s io n a l leagues in recent years. Four m in u te s into the third, LennyJo Goudreau found a streakin g D arch e in the neutral zon e; he crossed le ft and sla p p ed a shot past

on the pow erplay. T h a t’ s som e thing w e didn’ t do tonight.” T h e la st tim e the R e d m e n p la yed in M on treal W est at the C o n co rd ia A re n a was February '98, when they w ere elim inated fr o m th e p l a y o f f s b y th e

T h a t a ll fo u r g o a ls w e r e scored with the m an-advantage F r id a y n ig h t h ig h lig h t e d an

“ D id you explain what you did Burgess bludgeoned by Stinger on the p o in t shot? im p o r ta n t p a rt o f u n iv e r s it y c h im e d in o n e o f D a n i e l ’ s hockey special teams play. defen cem en fro m the other end “ [S p e c ia l tea m s] is p re tty o f the locker room. m uch the k e y as fa r as w e ’ re “ W e ll, I didn’ t see that one.” c o n c e r n e d ,” s a id coach “ # @ % !, I was up at the blue Raym ond. “ W e ’ ve been w orking lin e,” said the defenceman. on ou r p o w e r p la y fo r the last “ Y e a h , th a t’ s w h y th e y month, and w e need to im prove scored, because you w ere screen that. Ton igh t w e had tw o goals, ing m e,” chirped D aniel w ith a that’ s good - but w e have to pre smirk on his face. The goal, fiv e vent the other team from scoring

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“ But it ’ s a ch a llen ge e v e ry gam e.”

Stingers. That night, a 20-minute m ini-gam e served as a tie-break er fo r the split tw o gam e series. The Redm en lost 3-0 that game, but the team d o w n p la y e d any thoughts from 11 months ago.

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“ I t ’ s a lw a ys better to c o m p ete again st the best team s. I f you play bad teams all the time, it d o e s n ’ t show h ow g o o d you are. I f yo u p la y a g a in st T r o is R ivieres, Ottaw a and C oncordia ea ch f i v e tim e s , y o u ’ ll k n o w w h a t l e v e l y o u ’ re a t ,” s a id Fournier. “ The fact that one team w o n ’ t m ake the p la y o ffs sucks m ayb e they should ch an ge the p la y o ff format.

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The tie leaves the Redm en in th ir d p la c e in th e O n ta r io U n iversities A th le tic s ’ Far East d iv is io n . M e a n w h ile , in th e Eastern division, T oronto, R M C and Q u een ’ s are cruising to the p la y o ffs on m e d io c re reco rd s. R ed m en c a p ta in L u c F o u rn ie r tried to be dip lom atic and even optim istic about the lack o f pari ty , and p r o c la im e d th at the in ten se c o m p e titio n in the Far East is positive.

Richard from the top o f the circle. T h e g o a l su r p ris e d b oth sid e s a lit t le . U n t il th en , R ic h a rd and D a n iel had played fla w less ly on fir s t - s h o t opportunities. A sked a ft e r th e gam e w h eth er the M c G ill defen ce is geared to a llo w the goaltender a c le a r v ie w o f the in itia l shot, D a n ie l sa id , “ I f I see the first shot, I ’ m g o in g to stop it.”

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UQTR Patriotes eke out w in over M artlets McGII comes up short after having blown comfortable third period lead B y Jo n a t h a n C o l f o r d

T he U niversité du Q uébec à T ro is R iv iè re s P a trio te s sc o re d th re e g o a ls in th e th ir d p e rio d an d e s c a p e d w ith a 4-3 v ic to ry o v e r th e M a rtlets at M c C o n n ell W in te r A re n a la s t W e d n e s d a y . T h e g am e co n c lu d e s the seaso n series w ith M cG ill ahead 2-1-1. G o in g in to th e g a m e , th e M a rtlets had alread y clin ch e d a p la y o ff b erth o f v irtu e o f a Jan. 10 win o ver U Q TR , 3-1. T h e v ic to rie s m e an M c G ill w ill h old hom e ice advantage for th e Q u e b e c u n iv e rs ity d iv is io n sem ifin al gam e again st the third place P atriotes. T hey w on't, h o w ev er, h av e hom e ice th ro u g h o u t the p lay o ffs as defending n atio n al cham pion C on co rd ia clinched firs t p la c e b efo re the C h ristm as b re a k an d has a lre ad y q u a lifie d fo r the C IA U cham pionship to be held th is F ebruary in T oronto. In W e d n e s d a y 's g a m e , M artlet cap tain D ana R ittm aster o p en ed the scoring w ith 1:34 to play in the first w hen she picked up a lo o se p u ck in fro n t o f the U Q T R n et an d f lip p e d it p a s t P a t r i o t e g o a l-

one, no one else to u c h e d it, w hich ju st goes to show you the pow er o f h er shot. She let it rip." C om m enting on her first g o a l , T ic m a n is e x p r e s s e d relief that she had finally g o t te n th e p r o v e r b ia l m o n k e y o ff h er back. " It’s ab o u t tim e." T he th ird p eriod o pened w ith a n o t h e r s tr o n g s h i f t from U Q TR , as P roulx broke up a M artlet play in the neu tral zo n e and, d ra w in g b o th M cG ill d efen cem en , m ade a p a s s to f o r w a r d M e la n ie C orbeil w ho slipped the puck p a s t th e g o a l ie to tie th e gam e at two. A fte r som e b a c k and forth play in the neutral zone, th e P a trio te s to o k th e ir first lead o f th e gam e w h en fo u r m in u te s la te r , d e f e n c e m a n N athalie D ery netted a p o w er play goal to put the P atriotes M artlets can't pull away from Patriotes up. in the m atch,-w ith a goal and tw o T he goal, w h ich cam e w ith 15:20 rem aining in the final p eri assists. F iv e m in u te s an d tw o se c o d , w a s th e l a s t s tr a w f o r o n d s l a t e r P r o u lx p u t th e P a trio te s ahead,

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M cG ill's starting g oalten d er A m y D oyle. W hile she had m ade fo u r te e n s a v e s f o r th e te a m , sh e w o u ld fin d h e r s e lf p u lle d . H er r e p la c e m e n t w o u ld b e T h r e e N atio n s C up gold m e d alist Kim S t- P ie r r e , w h o lo o k e d to s h u t dow n the P atriotes fo r the rest o f th e g am e and k eep h e r team in the gam e. T he M artlets did keep th em se lv es in th e gam e as th ey tied th e g a m e a t th r e e w ith 9 :1 5 r e m a in in g w hen H o rn s b y c h ip p e d a r e b o u n d p a s t V in e t. R ittm aster added an assist on the play to her first p erio d goal, for a tw o - p o in t e f f o r t o n th e n ig h t. H ornsby was M c G ill’s top scorer

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T eam C an ad a m em ber S t-P ierre, w a s s a t i s f i e d w ith h e r g a m e , e s p e c ia lly a fte r sp e n d in g th re e w eek s on th e s h e lf w ith a k n ee injury, th at m ean t she w as m ak ing o n ly h e r fo u rth s ta rt o f th e season. E ven w ith the loss she is b u lli s h w h e n a s k e d a b o u t th e M artlets chances in the playoffs. "1 played m any m ore gam es la st y e a r," sa id D o y le . "A s fo r this year, we are really co m p eti tive and know w e can b eat an y one in the league. I t’s d efinitely b e e n a g o o d y e a r f o r u s , th e r o o k i e s h a v e s te p p e d u p a n d w e ’ll be ready for U Q T R in the playoffs." T h e M a r t l e t s d i r e c t e d 12 s h o ts at th e P a tr io te g o a l, a n d according to B lanchet, the te a m ’s ch ro n ically low sh o t to tals stem fro m th e ir la ck o f q u ick n ess. In an e f f o r t to r e m e d y t h i s , B la n c h e t w ill c h a n g e th e s u m m er's team co n d itio n in g program to fo cu s m o re on fo o tw o rk an d Rebecca Catching agility. "W e h a v e to w o rk on o u r c h a n c e cam e ro u g h ly tw o m in u te s l a t e r w h e n U Q T R w a s s p e e d to b e a b le to g e t to th e c a lle d fo r to o m a n y p la y e rs on o th er te a m ’s zo n e quickly. W e ’re n o t a v e ry q u ic k te a m ; w e ’re th e ice. W ith 1 :1 2 r e m a in in g , m u c h m o r e o f a s m a r t te a m : M artlet coach C aro lin e B lanchet w h e n w e g e t in to th e o th e r p u lle d S t-P ierre, w ho m ade tw o te a m ’ s z o n e w e c a n m a n a g e a sav es in r e lie f o f D o y le, fo r an c o u p le Of s h o ts a n d u s u a lly a g o a l b e c a u s e w e h a v e v ery ex tra attacker. T h e M a r tle ts h a d e n jo y e d s k i l l e d p u c k h a n d l e r s ," s a id s u c c e s s w ith th is p lo y a g a in s t B lanchet. U Q T R on th e ir N o v em b e r 14th R ittm a ste r an d D o y le w ere g am e, w hen, trailin g 2-1 w ith a unap o lo g etic ab o u t the loss. "W e c a m e o u t s lo w , th e y m inute left to play, B lanchet had c a m e o u t w ith f i r e ," s a id p u lle d S t- P ie r r e f o r th e e x tr a m a n . W ith 3 9 s e c o n d s le f t , R ittm aster. "They w ere m ore hungry for O ’R eilly p ut the p u ck p ast V inet and allo w ed M cG ill to com e out th e p u c k to d a y th a n w e w e re ," o f the gam e w ith a point. added D oyle. O n W e d n e s d a y , h o w e v e r, th e P a tr io te s s u rv iv e d th e six m an a ssa u lt an d w o n th e gam e. D oyle, w ho sees less action than

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M ichael Jordan: the corporate cham pion Legend's impact goes beyond on court exploits B y C hristian Lander

W hen M ichael Jordan retired the world lost one of its best, per haps the greatest of all time, a revo lutionary. W hat they lost was a true media legend who will never be for gotten, and, less importantly, a great basketball player. The first great im pact Jordan made was in the sneaker industry. The emer g en c e o f th e A ir Jordan s h o e s

spawned a true revo lu tio n in the athlet ic apparel in d u s try . A m ark et previously dominated by ultra-sim ple, canvas covered, rubber soled Converse Chuck Taylor A ll-Stars, was now being turned on its head by the leather, plastic, and now infa mous air pocket. Cosmetically, the impact of Jordan can be felt as run n in g sh o e s to d a y are ex tre m e ly com plicated w ith some extrem ely advanced bio-kinetic technology.

But changing the look o f the sneaker is hardly the extent o f his im pact on the athletic equipm ent in d u stry . W h at Jo rd a n d id w as a tta c h the a th le te to th e sh o e. B efore him , an ath lete m ig h t Ire attached to a brand of shoe, and in a rare e x c ep tio n m ight h av e th e ir name on the label. But now, Jordan had a shoe custom designed for him, and so- when you w ore that shod, you w erè’

time, even LA Gear benefitted indi rectly from his influence. Continuing along these lines of sports equipment, we see Jordan’s pioneering role in the proliferation of sports drinks. It’s easy to forget his long standing endorsement deal with Gatorade. In another example o f fans trying to step inside their h ero , the su b lim in a l idea behind G atorade was that the ‘carbs’ and special ingredients were what made weari ng Jordan so am azing. And yes, the so m e th in g d rin k w as in v en ted y ears before d e s i g n e d ! they ever handed Jordan a contract, specifically but w ith him as an endorser they fo r use by were almost guaranteed success. If his airnessij you think about it, you realize that It w as a Jordan was such a great salesm an ch a n c e to that he was able to convince us that l i teral l y when w e’re thirsty there ex ists a ste p in to product better than water in 'thirst th e sh o e s quenching’ ability. of your hero and wear them all day. The list of advertisers is almost After Jordan, it would become endless, and his endorsem ents of impossible to release a shoe without products is in no way a new ph e a tie-in to a professional athlete, it nomenon. What is incredible is that w ould also becom e im possible to Jordan is pointed to as the reason for release a shoe that cost less than the em ergence of these industries, $100. The im pact is rem ark ab le, in c lu d in g N B A , w hich in effect w hile Jordan worked for Nike, he makes him the greatest spokesman b u ilt an e n tire in d u stry A d id as, of all time. Reebok, And 1, Fila, and for a brief B u t to be th e g re a te s t

spokesm an o f all tim e, one m ust make sure to have a great standing am ong the m edia and the public. W ith g ra c e and p re c isio n Jo rd an w as able to have both eating out of : th e palm o f his h a n d . Im ag in e a In an g ettin g paid Ignore, by larg e m argin, than any o f his peers, fans, gpr s u p p lic a n ts (m ed ia) and yet [Still being able to play a full career w ith o u t even b ein g c a lle d 1|spoiled.” Imagine A lso m an w ho p re tty m uch ‘In v e n te d trash talk ing , w ho had one of the filthiest mouths in the his tory of the hardwood, but being so charming in public that people were happy to call his behavior “competi tiv e .” And finally im agine a man w ho can re le a se his ow n lin e of cologne, clothing, and books, and avoid the cries of ‘overkill’.

Jordan w as the g reatest. He w as a c o rp o ra te m an w ho n ev e r really forced the company line. He appeared hum b le d e s p ite being the best. H e a c h ie v e d h is sta tu s th ro u g h h is own hard work th a t he put in on h is g am e and his image. He knew what it to o k to be fa m o u s, he k n ew how to h a n d le th e m e d ia , he k n ew how to h a n d le th e fans. W

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cares if he was the best player e v e r? Jo rd a n was the perfect mix of all things we envy: athletic ability, style, wealth, and fame. He was able to sell his image as a total package that made him the most desirable athlete of the 20th century to advertisers and fans alike.

New book chronicles dow nfall of Canada's gam e B y Pa u l C o nner and M an n y A lmela The Death o f Hockey JejfZ. Klein and Karl-Eric Reif Macmillan Canada $29.95

We all know where hockey has been and where it is headed, at least at the NHL level. It’s no surprise, then, that a pair of hockey fans and jo u rn alists would find them selves with a highly-touted seller in their h an d s w hen they p u b lis h e d The Death o f Hockey.

The book is a self-described love letter, expressing all the im portant feel ings but ultimately say ing nothing overwhelm ingly new. That's not to say that the book does n 't serve an im portant purpose - it legitimizes fans' fears and concerns ab o u t the state o f the game. It's headed south, say the authors. That's both literally and figu ratively. O v er 2 2 0 -o d d p ag e s, th ey described what they felt was dimin

ishing hockey from among the most g ra c e fu l and e x c itin g s p e c ta to r sports across the world to a growand-ebb fad akin to arena football and lacrosse. The authors open with tearful memories of the NHL's highpoints, and proceed to catapult the reader back to reality and the game as it stands today. It's hard to argue with their arguments for what has gone w rong in the la st tw o, fiv e, ten, tw enty-five,... seventy-five years. Ownership that doesn't work togeth er, league management that has no control over its run-aw ay trolley, overexpansion to the point of absur dity, and an ignorance of the game's history in its U.S. marketing pitch has become the norm as the N H L ap p ro a c h e s the 21st Century. The book's tone is really about disheartenment. The NHL keeps m ak in g th e w ro n g moves to get itself more m oney and popularity rampant expansion, rule tweaks which avoid the re a l iss u e s, non enforcem ent o f penalties slow ing dow n the gam e, and a refu sal to

w o rk on re v e n u e sh a rin g o r to u n d e rsta n d th e b a sis b eh in d Canadian taxation laws are among them. One of their better points looks at a history of e x p a n sio n in the league. T

sion m oney is tough to p ass up, e s p e c ia lly w hen th e p la y e rs are making big-league money without a m a jo r TV c o n tra c t in p la ce . Expansion and relocation has refo c u sse d th e N H L so u th w a rd and aw ay fro m its ro o ts. T he p ro b lem , th e a u th o rs say, is that hockey has not established its e lf in th e Sun Belt. It's a distrac tio n in ste a d o f a pastime.

W HL's m erger in to the N H L in 1979 threw o ff h o c k e y ’s scoring balance and diluted the le v e l o f p la y , th ey arg u e d , "...S e llo u t and w as o n ly crow ds in Tam pa re s o lv e d a an d p la y o ff s u c d e c a d e la te r ce ss in M iam i when the influx have gone strange o f E u ro p e an ly silent, now that p la y e rs to o k the new -car smell fu ll fo rc e. of the Panthers and Now, w ith the L ightning is long m ost re c e n t gone." rash o f expan The D eath of sio n still Only a sign o f things to come H o ck ey lay s underway, everything out on there are no significant, untapped, the table. It makes a plea that Mario talent pools left to fill the void and Lemieux's retirement from the NHL the N H L 's back o f tric k s is now in disgust over the state of the game empty. should have been a rallying point But the problem is that expan but has been reduced to a fading

smoke signal. J h e book has merit. It will, at le a st, se rv e to sp a rk d isc u ssio n among fans. They propose solutions, some on target, some off the wall, to bringing the game back to its glori ous roots. Hopefully it is the first of many books which call for change. It w on't help to teach ow ners how make better decisions. It won't bring back the Boston Garden or the Montreal Forum. But it will let peo ple know they're not the only ones who feel the game is in a tailspin.

Odds of getting to the big show: T h e \ H L dep en d s on m o re o f its ree p la y e r s to p e rfo rm a t a top le v e l th a n e ith e r b a se b a ll o r b a sk etb a ll.

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H ellen ic H ou se Party The M cG ill Hellenic Students' A s s o c ia tio n p resents the firs t House Party o f 1999 at M A C E S Lounge, 3437 Peel Street. It is a W elcom e Back Party that welcome a ll the m em bers o f M c G ill University. It's going to be a night filled with lot's o f Greek, Latin and Dance Music and lot's o f surprises. Everybody is welcome. Entrance: FR E E fo r M em bers, $3 fo r non members T

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R ed p ath M u seu m au d itoriu m . Topic: comparative studies on the development o f national cultures in the N ew World. Hosted by Gérard Bouchard, founder and director o f the Institut interuniversitaire de recherches sur les populations. Opera M cG ill w ill present Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss on W ednesday, January 27 through Saturday, January 30 at 7:30pm in P o lla c k H a ll, 555 S h erb ro o k e Street W est (and not January 28th through 31st as p r e v io u s ly announced). U p c o m in g

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The F re n c h -la n g u a g e S ym p osiu m D esja rd in s w ill be hosted from lpm -2:30pm in Arts W120. The debate on the proposed Social Union w ill center around: the centralisation-decentralisation dynamics o f the state; the role o f each pillar o f government; the sim ilarities and differences character ising each o f the Canadian part ners. Speakers w ill include: Alain N oel, Political Science professor, U n iv e r s ité de M o n tr é a l; T im T h o m a s, e x -m e m b e r, P r iv y C ou n cil; François V aillan cou rt, Professor o f Economics, Université de Montréal.

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