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Emotional council debate for students' right to choose in the MSF referendum By Karen Kelly The debate over the M cG ill Student Fund peaked at last Thursday's Students' S o cie ty o f M c G ill U n iv ersity C o u n cil meeting. First presented to the SSM U council three weeks ago, the M SF was a proposed fee o f $70 per semester over a five year period. Backlash against parts o f the fee resulted in a reduction to $38 per semes ter over the same period. P r io r to th e m e e tin g , th e S S M U L egislative Council approved a referen dum question concerning the fee includ ing the understanding that i f the M S F were to com e into effect, “a full opt-out is possible.” The clause provoked unprece dented emotions from councillors. President Duncan Reid explained to council why he wanted to make the optout clause an option. “W e are doing right by all students, b e c a u s e e v e ry stu d e n t c a n c h o o s e whether to pay it or not pay it,” he stated. “I [feel] very happy that we are not bind ing any students.” B u t many co u n cillo rs fe lt that the spirit behind the fund was the notion o f community and that making the fund optoutable would challenge this idea. This prompted a proposal by Douglas Painter, senate rep to SSM U , that there be no optout clause at all. “I think that th e re ’ s a philosophy behind this motion. That philosophy is that we as students have got to have prop er resources, a proper student society and that we have to take care o f those who can't afford to be here but are here never theless because o f their marks," he said. "W ith the o p t-o u t we are sa y in g that we're giving a carte blanche. You come to the student society centre, you can see all the renovations, you can see every thing that some people who didn't opt-out paid for and you're enjoying it." A significant part o f the debate sur rounding whether or not to make the fund opt-outable also dealt with the idea that without it, the fund would be a hard sell to students. "W e're shirking our responsibilities i f we put a rule in fo rcin g students to pay," said Sam Johnston, V P University Affairs. "Y ou'll have to convince people that they're getting the things they want."

Education Rep Lisa Silver, however, disagreed. "It should be what people want," she said. "Then you wouldn't need an optout." The vote for the amendment passed with a significant margin. Although harsh words were exchanged between council lors and the vote was reconsidered, the removal o f the opt-out passed yet again. Reid had ch oice words fo r council members who voted against his clause. “ I am so a n g ry at w hat you are choosing to do to your constituents and p e o p le w ho w ill n e v e r b e y o u r c o n stituents,” he said. A fte r a b re a k , the q u e s tio n w as amended again to change the distribution o f money to the Shatner renovations and the A c c e ss bursary fund to $ 1 2 ea ch , keeping the total fee the same. R eid then m ade an announcem ent that quickly changed the direction o f con versation. "I g o t a c o m m itm e n t th a t the libraries will be matched 100 per cent by the u n iv e rs ity d o n o rs ," he h a p p ily informed council. "I further got a com mitment... from the V ice Principal... that money would be found to match all the bursary money. "Above and beyond that, we're also going to go and get donations from indi viduals and organizations," Reid contin ued. "I can promise you two dollars... for every single dollar that students put into this fund." Despite R eid ’s reluctance to accept no op t-ou t fo r the fund, a la st m inute change in attitude saw him vote for the question. “I will do this because it is still the right thing to do,” he stated. “It will still work, it will. I have no question about it. The value is there. The students know it is needed.”

Legality of question As an aside to 'th e argum ents con cernring the n e c c e ssity o f an op t-ou t, L aw S tu d e n ts ’ A s s o c ia tio n m e m b er F r a n ç o is T a n g u a y -R e n a u d in fo rm e d councillors that the referendum question was unconstitutional. Am ong the prob-

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Flying high in the sky Trapeze gym transforms circus art into an activity for everyone By Laura M ac N eil went on a flying trapeze the other day. I stood on a tiny little blue platform at least 80 feet in the air with both hands on the bar o f the swing until I pointed my feet into the void below me and swung. I lifted my legs up, hooked them over the bar and then hung upside down to co m p le te my fir s t tric k in fly in g trapeze: the knee-hang. I haven't had such an adrenaline rush in months. Hidden in the industrial wastelands o f eastend M ontreal, the Trapezium gym offers the flying trapeze as a recreational activity for any one with an interest in exciting, unusual hob bies. I walked into the Trapezium warehouse to

find two men on ladders setting up the safety harness for that evening's two hour session. The set-up or "rig," as co-owner René Gasse called it, consists o f two swings suspended from the ceiling with a small blue wooden platform on one end and a thin ladder leading up to it. A safety net stretches under it all. Recreational flying trapeze is an individual activity; ju st you, the swing and a "trick," or manoeuvre on the swing, to accom plish. The tricks advance from the basic knee-hang to such fa n cy on es as the "b ird 's n e s t," "p la n ch e ," "whip," and "straddle cutaway." The co-owners G a s s e and Ja c k D e R o s a e m p h a siz e that Trapezium isn't a school but a recreational

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American students at McGill laughing all the way to the bank Lower tuition fees and quality of education attract Southern neighbours to Canadian universities By Leo W

P rofesso r Craig M orrison

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T h e D a y t h e M u s ic D ie d February 3 marked the fortieth anniversary of the deaths of Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and the Big Bopper, three of the biggest names in rock and roll in the 1950s. Professor Craig Morrison was on hand at Chapters bookstore to talk about the legacy they left behind. “What’s the appeal of Buddy Holly?” Morrison asked the crowd. “He wasn’t a rebel or a misfit. There’s no scandal, no substance abuse, no handicap that he had overcome [like so many artists in that period]. I think it is following the hero’s journey - a confident and determined young man joined by trusty companions. Buddy had somehow a great talent for inspi ration, and, in the course of this journey, Buddy found true love.” Morrison is considered something of an expert on rockabilly music, the precursor to rock and roll, having recently published a history of the genre G o Cat Go. The book took him 15 years to write from start to finish and began as his master’s thesis. According to Morrison, his work was one of the first on the subject. “Rockabilly is a really interesting mix because it is a mix of music from different races. A lot of people like to look into the Black influence on rockabilly, but no one had ever really looked at it this way before.” Morrison teaches Popular Music since 1945 at McGill, and a similar course at Concordia. He is also the lead singer in a band called Craig Morrsion and the Momentz. — by Stephanie Levitz

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More American students are applying to M cG ill than ever before. With the American green back worth about 45 per cent more than a Canadian dollar, it's no won der that U.S. students are banging on the Roddick gates for admission. "It's a great opportunity to com e to M cG ill," said C harlie Hammons, a U1 Arts student from Atlanta, Georgia. "I'm gaining a first class education from a presti gious university that is internation ally recognized and I also have some money left in my pocket." Hammons admitted that the financial factor was important in choosing McGill instead of some of the best American universities, although he stressed that he wanted to come to McGill because o f its quality of education and the oppor tunity it provided to travel. "M cGill is a great university and that's why I came here," said Hammons. "Although money is important to get you through uni versity, what really matters is how good the education is and how good the degree you get [is]." G abriel Ja co b Flaks and George Everett Waters, co-presi dents o f the American Students' So ciety, argued that increasing Am erican interest in M cG ill is "excellent" news. American stu dents make up 3.2 per cent of the McGill population and their num bers are rising: applications from the United States increased by 27 per cent in 1998. "McGill is great for American

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students. Montreal is a stylish city. The cost of living here is cheaper and the cost of education is undeni ably cheaper in Canada," Flaks said. The approxim ate co st o f tuition, room and board for an international student coming to McGill is CDN $16,200, compara tively affordable to a public Am erican institution like the University of Michigan. U Mich charges CDN $36,500 for out-ofstate students. The elite and private Harvard University slaps its stu dents with a staggering CDN $47,120 in fees. McGill's policy is to encourage applications from abroad. McGill is considered the most international university in Canada, and Principal Bernard Shapiro wants to further increase the number of international students to about 18 per cent of the student body. Currently about ten per cent of M cG ill’s students are from abroad. The Recruitment and Liaison Office is responsible for promoting McGill in the U.S. through a net work of high school career council lors and college fares. The universi ty also recently hired a public rela tions firm to help raise the profile of McGill in the American media. The promotion has resulted in several Am erican newspapers, including the Chicago Tribune and The Boston Globe, running articles highlighting the "bargain" that Canadian higher education repre sents for many American students. Anne R ou ssell, execu tiv e director of Recruitment and Liaison was quick to stress the benefits of

an increasingly cosm opolitan campus. "It is wonderful that McGill is such an international community. It is one of our greatest strengths and the cultural diversity at McGill is wonderful for all students." R oussell was also keen to emphasize that the rise in applica tions from abroad is less a reflection of a low Canadian dollar and more an illustration of McGill's drawing power as a world class post-sec ondary institution. M cG ill is hoping that by recruiting more international stu dents, their profile will be further raised abroad. Roussell denied that increasing numbers of international students were taking the places of Canadian students here at McGill, and also dism issed claim s that admission standards had risen as a result of foreign recruitment. She also stated that McGill receives no extra financial benefit from interna tional students, even though interna tional students’ tuition fees are con siderably higher than Canadian and Quebec students’. Tuition fees are actually collected by the provincial government who then give the money back to the schools through education grants. Value for the dollar is a power ful force driving American students to Canada's universities. For some, however, migrating North involves more significant issues. "The best part is that I get away from all those bleedin' Americans," Hammons wryly said in his southern drawl.

Here's a sample o f what the American press has to say about Canadian universities ‘“ While, in truth, the weather isn't much different from Chicago's, the pace is,’ said Emily Johnson, a sophomore at McGill from Evanston who ended up at the Canadian university because she had friends there, was interested in the culture and knew it was a great bargain. She said her parents were thrilled that she selected McGill over her other top choice, Northwestern. 'Life here is slower,' said Johnson. 'When I go home, I almost get run over...Sometimes, I miss the urgency and energy...and other times, that leisurely pace is just really nice.'" — The Chicago Tribune November 9, 1997 "Some Quebec politicians already question why the province should 'subsidize someone who doesn't pay taxes,' says Mr. [Bernard] Shapiro. But he notes that they are also proud of McGill's role in making Montreal an international city. Most Canadian provinces have been scaling back their fund ing of higher education, and some schools have had to lay off faculty, raising questions about whether Canadian schools will remain

desirable for US students." — The Wall Street Journal November 26, 1997 "Canadian Universities see U.S. as a Fertile Recruiting Ground: sure it's cold up there, but prospective students are wooed by low tuition and safe campuses" — The Chronicle o f Higher Education O ctober 24, 1997 "One of history's first intercolle giate football games pitted McGill against Harvard in 1874. Although the two schools no longer tussle over the pigskin, Quebec’s pre eminent English-language univer sity enjoys an academic ranking in a league with some of the best U.S. private institutions. But when it comes to costs, McGill and other top-flight Canadian schools are in another league altogether. And for American students, that difference is becoming an important attrac tion." — The Boston G lobe January 10, 1999

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McGill's parental leave policy accused of being discriminatory

By A drienne M atheson

M cG ill p o licy , Sh au gh n essy m oved that ad optive parents should be consid ered , w ithout prejudice, under the leave policy o f natural parents until a revised adoption leave policy is im ple mented.

Any Senate motion preceded by the words "I was advised I should wear a bullet-proof vest before I introduce this motion" is destined to be controversial. W ith this prelu d e, V P One step forward, Academic T.H. Chan presented a two steps back motion last Wednesday to remove a su b sectio n o f the A doption It was only after the motion Leave R egulations. The clause currently gives all full-time faculty passed with Shaughnessy's addi members who adopt a child the tion that some Senate members, inclu d ing S e n a to r M yron right to twenty months paid leave, the same privilege accorded to nat Frankman, realized that "what was passed in fact perpetuates the same ural m others. T he d iffe re n c e between the two sets o f regula p ro b lem ... and m aybe m akes tions is that male staff members things worse." The gender neutral are included only within the adop Adoption Leave Regulations are now legally sound, though if BoG tion leave policy. This problem became signifi were to approve this motion, both cant when a M cG ill professor, a adoptive and natural fathers could natural father, filed a complaint legally claim discrimination — by sex. with the Quebec Human Rights In an attempt to remove dis Com m ission in the fall o f 1998 against M cG ill. The university's crimination from McGill's policy, more discrim policy to offer paid leave to adop ination would tive but not natural W h a t was passed be created. If fathers was deemed 4 4 by the Commission in fact perpetuates the motion to to be discriminato the same p ro b le m ...a n d be sent to BoG w ere ry. M c G ill, now legally vulnerable, maybe makes things worse. approved, no fathers — natwas advised by Myron Frankman, ural or adopL eg a l S e rv ic e s to McGill University Senator five — would rem ove the paid be eligible for leav e clau se from paid leave. Many recognized later the Adoption Leave Regulations. that a more appropriate, and legal Before voting on the motion, ly sound, course o f action would D ire cto r o f the E m ploym ent be to abolish the maternity leave E qu ity O ffic e H onora Shaughnessy made a suggestion to regulations in favor of an inclusive accompany the motion when for parental leave policy which would cover equally all categories of par warded to the Board of Governors. ents — ad optive and natural, T o avoid a situ atio n in w hich adoptive parents would find them mothers and fathers. An inclusive policy has been selv es not co v ered under any

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Senate to Board of Governors: stop undermining consultation Handling of software copyright policy draws criticism By A drienne M atheson S e n a to r Sam u el N o u m o ff waged a personal campaign at the February 3 meeting o f M cG ill's Senate to remind both the Board o f Governors and Senate itself of the consultative role o f Senate in the process o f co lleg ia l gover nance. N oum off hoped his motion would restore "the equilibrium of mutual respect" between Senate, which has control over academic decisions, and B oG , which has final authority over all universityrelated matters. " [ I w anted] to rem ind the B o a rd that they m ust g iv e a greater degree o f regard for the fact that [Senate] has a legitimate role in this process — at times consultative, at times consultative and approving — but we cannot be disregarded."

No consultation N oum offs discontent comes after B o G adopted a com puter software policy without consulta tion or approval from Sen ate. Now a su b sectio n o f M c G ill's copyright regulations, the policy makes all software developed at M cG ill the jo in t property o f the developer and McGill. VP Information Systems and T ech n o lo g y B ru ce P en n y cook responded to N oum offs motion by referring to a "pressing need" that required immediate action, a need motivated by McGill devel opers who desired explicit proce dures. Though M cG ill's statutes acknowledge the need for a soft ware p olicy, such a policy has never developed beyond planning stages. Since discussions regarding a software policy had been ongo ing, Noumoff felt that speeding up the consultative process would have been a preferable procedure. For BoG to declare a policy with

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revised policy, and the recognition that the motion perpetuates dis criminatory practices, Frankman intends to send a letter this week to Principal Bernard Shapiro. He will ask Shapiro that, in light of this situation, Shapiro postpone forwarding last week's motion to BoG until after the parental leave com m ittee m eets to draft their alternative policy. For Senator Samuel Noumoff, Chan's motion was simply another

in the planning stages at M cGill for years. A jo in t com m ittee o f adm inistration and the M cG ill A sso cia tio n of U n iv ersity T e a ch ers are steps away from drafting such a policy, w aiting only fo r fin a l ev a lu a tio n s. Frankman, also President-elect of M A U T , p ro je c ts that at th eir February 19 meeting a policy will likely be agreed upon and drafted for Senate consultation. Due to the im m inence o f a

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you do slip into that mode, there out Senate's approval, stressed Noumoff, "undermines and vio will be a great sense o f betrayal." P o st G rad uate S tu d e n ts’ lates the whole spirit of consulta So ciety Representatve to B o G , tion." Reza Forghani, highlighted that ".I have to agree with Professor Noumoff that this pro the Governors were unhappy with the amount o f time they them cedure is irregular and is certainly selves were given to examine the not a desirable way to proceed," software policy. He argued that co n ced ed V P R e se a rch P ierre Bélanger. "In hindsight, I can say b ette r co m m u n ica tio n w ithin BoG, as well as that p o ssib ly it Senate could have been / £ [I wanted] to remind between and BoG, could d o n e the Board that they im prove the better...[but] the process dragged must give a greater degree decision-making process. on until we found of regard for the fact that “The acade th at we had to take som e we have a legitimate role in mic issues will be passed,” said action." this process. Forghani, Noumoff Samuel Noumoff, “though I ’m not ex p la in e d that McGill University Senator sure how much everyone under feed b a ck from stands if BoG is Senate is needed. [There is] more forced to bypass Senate due to than adequate discussion [at BoG] tim e con strain ts. A ccord ing to on most issues...[I]n many ways P re s id e n t-e le c t o f the M cG ill the BoG takes its time to reflect A s s o c ia tio n of U n iv ersity Teachers Myron Frankman, how on the issues.” N e v e rth e le ss, a sen se o f ever, this policy was revised into betrayal "has been gestating for its final form last August. "In this som e tim e ,” a cco rd in g to particular case, there was time a v a ila b le to m ake th is d raft Noumoff. Last year’s change in known to the community and to m anagem ent o f the M c G ill Bookstore to the Chapters chain sam ple o p in io n s," Frankm an was done w ith ou t S e n a te emphasized. approval, as was th is m onth's drafting o f the motion to abolish BoG's betrayal paid adoption leave for M cG ill The issue, as N oum off and staff members. “The Principal runs the show, Frankman see it, has nothing to with somewhat o f an iron fist,” do with the software policy itself. said Steven Cohen, Senator for As N oum off explained, though M cG ill's statutes do give exclu the P ost G rad uate S tu d e n ts ’ Society. “When we pass a Senate sive ju risd ictio n to B o G in all m otion to reprimand B o G , it ’ s fin a n cia l areas, the B oard has fairly serious. It’s trying to claw developed "fo r com m on sense reasons" a tradition o f consulta for our rights in Senate.” N oum off was pleased with tion with Senate on all decisions. the support for his m otion, the "S e n a te ca n 't im p ose its w ill," stressed Noumoff, "but it minutes o f which will be forward can make its views known — and ed to B oG . "I believe this is a statement to the Board and to the that's the way it should be. So com m u nity that su g g ests we [B o G ] cou ld b y p ass Sen ate should be revisiting the defini entirely, but that is not the way you govern a university. And if tions o f consultation."

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MSF debate

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You don't need to travel all the way to the circus to see a show By Steph Levitz and John Salloum

C o n tin u ed from P a g e 7 lems with the question is that it includes three issues in one and that the fund is a modification of students’ society funds that can only be changed once a year - the fees were modified during the fall referendum. “Each referendum question shall deal with one, and only one is s u e ,” said Tanguay-R enaud . “Why is that there?...it’s to protect our rights as students. “I ’m not against the essence o f this fund,” Tanguay-Renaud said later. “But the way this is structured now, it is a whole lot of crap.” The Law Students’ Society intends to bring the qu estion before the judicial board to see if it is in fa ct u n co n stitu tio n al. However, the board can only rule after the referendum. “It w ill be taken to the JBoard if it is the wish of any stu dent,” said Reid. “At that point, we will obviously choose to con test it and the J-Board may rule. If the SSM U were to lose, then we would simply contest it.” The L SA plans to hold an emergency meeting Wednesday, February 10, to decide whether or not they will support a constitu tional challenge.

students at council, they remain igno rant about procedure and suffer from By the time the Students’ an inability to pay attention. Arts rep Society of McGill University execu to SSMU Danielle Lanteigne tried to tive made their way into last argue a point that had been decided Thursday’s council meeting 20 min on fifteen minutes prior, and Arts VP utes late, councillors were already External Daniel Artenosi interrupted mad. But the four hours of disorga with points of information for clarifi nized and hostile debate that followed cation on issues discussed while he made them furious. was busy talking to his neighbour. At issue was the ability for stu Two of the most respected peo dents to opt-out from the $38 fund ple on council have always been which is going to referendum in the President Duncan Reid and Senate spring voting period (see cover story). rep to SSMU Douglas Painter. On The executive finalized the ref Thursday they were in fine form — erendum question only minutes watching them was much like observ before the council meeting. The ques ing a tennis match, heads following tion, as presented to council at the the arguments back and forth and beginning of the meeting, included an opinions changing with every word. ability for students to opt-out of the Painter argued vehemently against fund; the question also altered the having an opt-out clause, saying he allocations of money in the fund from would not support the motion with it. what council had previously agreed “I am very very upset about this. on. If the amendment [to withdraw the Councillors seemed to have the opt-out clause] does not go through, I biggest problem with the opt-out por cannot support this. I will vote for it tion of the question. Many argued that because I think that it is essential, but having an opt-out violated the sense I will not campaign. I will not cam of community that was behind the paign.” Reid later volleyed back at fund — the idea that students who Painter. chose to opt-out of the fund would “I will not campaign if [a refer still be able to use the services the endum question with no opt-out] fund paid for did not agree with passes,” Reid said. many. Both gentleman, as well as sev This argument saw the meeting eral other councillors let their emo degenerate into a circus like atmos tions take over their common sense phere — with the ringleaders last Thursday. nowhere to be found. Tensions in the council room Speakers Jamie Stein and Sarah rose as councillors, now forced to Clarke all but lost control of the meet choose whether to vote against ing, allowing interruptions and insults Painter or Reid, debated the merits of to fly across the room. It didn’t help the opt-out. Senate Representative matters that more than five months Melissa Pallett was visibly angered. after councillors began representing “I ’ m really not a big fan of

threats...this isn’t us or them,” she stated. She later exited the room near ly in tears. In one of Reid’s angry speeches, he told his fellow council members that “[M]ost of you are just talking fucking heads.” Reid later refused to return to the council meeting after a short recess, instead waiting outside the room on the staircase until the meeting had nearly ended. Within minutes of his return, Reid threatened council once again saying, “...I’m leaving again if you call the question [without letting me speak].” But Reid wasn’t the only person to leave the council room angrily. Wojtek Baraniak got up and left after an amendment to remove the possibility for students to opt-out of the fund was passed. Melissa Pallett, who had earlier in the meeting voiced her objections to pressure tactics, evil looks from colleagues and threats, objected vocally to his departure. “If you walk out of this room, I will have lost every ounce of respect for you...” she stated. Baraniak apologized saying, “I’m sorry, I can’t fight for something that won’t win,” and left. He returned shortly after. Law Society Association mem ber François Tanguay-Renaud made a big show of striding madly over to LSA representative Axel Barnabe whenever he felt something was wrong, and VP University Affairs Sam Johnston heckled one of Painter’s more emotional speeches, muttering “bullshit, bullshit,” across the room. Painter’s speech, made during

Reid’s extended absence from the room, alluded to his and other coun cillors’ sentiments that their votes on council mattered naught to the execu tive. “Faculty representatives, clubs and services representatives, senators, our decisions don’t count. I’m sorry but it’s true, because if it wasn’t true [Reid] would be here...is this an elect ed body or are we going to compro mise everything so that we can screw around with the rules, so that we can get our own way? We are acting like children, and I know because I have three... This motion is like fighting over a toy.” But if there was any councillor who kept her composure, spoke her mind calmly and kept to the facts, it was First Year Students’ Association President Catherine Weiler. While the fact that FYSA does not have a vote on council may have kept her above the fray, Weiler argued against the inclusion of an opt-out clause. “I want to know who’s going to explain to the 4500 students coming in [what the M SF is all about...]” Weiler said. She later explained that “[First year students] won’t know what the financial needs of this insti tution are yet...so [they’ll be] more likely to opt-out.” No swearing, no threatening, no stunts. Perhaps one councillor, who wished to remain unnamed, said it best when he said, “In two years, this council has never seen Duncan Reid take things so sensitively, so person ally. If this continues we’re going to have a big problem.”

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PSSA wins 2000 conference association was experiencing a declining membership base until a The Political Science Students series o f successful conferences Association of McGill has secured over the last few years. This year’ s Toronto confer a bid to host a major national con ence offered its fair share of appeal. ference in the year 2000. The PSSA Among the keynote speakers were will host the Canadian Political B ob R ae, form er prem ier o f S c ie n ce Students A sso ciatio n Conference at McGill, following its Ontario. Schroeder noted that the attendance at this y ear’ s Y ork Toronto conference provided a University sponsored event. valuable starting point for the orga According to Emily Schroeder, nization of next co-Ul representa y ea r’ s M cG ill tive, this year’ s 6 We just want others conference. conference “One person focused on to see w h at our organized [the a d m in is tra tiv e political science program is Toronto confer matters within the C P SSA , includ about and gain some expo ence] and it was very simple and ing setting long sure for the school. not too well orga term goals for Galit Dobner, n ized ,” stated better communi conference coordinator of PSSA S c h r o e d e r . cation with other “There was lots schools in Canada through a new political sci of room for improvement and we got a lot of ideas about what to do ence students’ journal. “This year we worked to set next year. Though I don’t want to down a constitution, a structure [of downgrade York’s efforts, I think the association], and elect members McGill is capable of doing a better for the ex ecu tiv e com m ittee. job.” Though the concentration of R eally, we wanted to tackle the instrumental organization o f the the Toronto conference was mainly association and to establish that our administrative, next year’s organiz basic mandates will be growth and ers are hoping to have more politi recruitm ent o f m aritim e and cally geared activities, a greater diversity of high profile speakers Quebec schools,” Schroeder said. Though the CPSSA has been and more universities participating. open to schools across Canada, the Furthermore, the PSSA expects that

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the central location o f Montreal will attract schools who have never before participated in addition to presenting regionalism issues of Quebec. The coordinators for McGill’s 2000 conference seek to expand the popularity o f the CPSSA among other political science student asso ciations and highlight the activities and calibre of McGill’s own rapidly growing political science depart ment. Galit Dobner, conference coor dinator of McGill’s PSSA said that “[t]he main thrust of the conference is growth and being held centrally located will hopefully attract the French-speaking and O ntario schools. Our main goal is to net work and attract schools because CPSSA is really in embryonic stage and so we’re just trying to encour age growth. "This year’ s conference was geared towards adm inistrative activity and next year’s focus will be on more political things such as mock trials and high profile speak ers in order to encourage schools to come and participate. The high pro file speakers might attract some media exposure, but mainly we want to shed light on our depart ment here at McGill. We just want others to see what our political sci ence program is about and gain some exposure for the school.”

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A l b e r ta s t u d e n t s to EXPECT TUITION RAISES AGAIN Students at the universities of Calgary and Alberta have spent the last month lobbying against their schools' annual tuition raises. In Alberta, institutions each determine their own hikes, up to a province-mandated limit. For the past two years, the limit has been 8.29 per cent. After negotiations between the University of Alberta and its student association, a number

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Black history month at McGill By Jonathan C olford C elebrities and community leaders across North America will be commemorating Black History in the month of February. Locally, the McGill Black Student Network will take part in Montreal's events over the coming weeks. Last Tuesday's opening cere mony at M on treal's C ity Hall kick ed o ff a series o f events including film screenings, panel discussions, poetry readings, shows and speakers being held across M ontreal by sev eral groups, including the B la c k Students' Network. Thus far, the BSN has hosted a discussion regarding the purpose o f B la c k H istory M onth last Thursday and held a movie screen ing two days later. According to B SN Political Coordinator Karen Richardson, Black History Month provides an opportunity for the black commu nity to express itself, despite the accusation that it assumes a single black experience. "[B lack History Month] is a highly debated thing in the Black community. Some people think of it as a token celebration and many [question it] because it assumes [that there is] one black culture, one b lack h erita g e," said Richardson. "However, it’s a time where there are more opportunities to be heard. We try to make sure we rep resent ourselves very w ell," she added. The BSN has not encountered any problems this year in holding

the ev en ts. A ccord in g to Richardson, the reason for that is that these events are not very con troversial. "The focus [of Black History Month, recently] has been either historical or cultural, and not very controversial when you talk o f advocacy. [The BSN] has not had a very activ e advocacy role this year," said Richardson.

African studies For students seeking academic study o f black history, M cG ill's African Studies program offers a seminar every year, as well as pro viding a list o f A frica -rela ted courses taught by other depart ments at the university. The M cG ill African Studies Program was established during an era characterized by independence movem ents throughout A frica, ongoing liberation struggles in the Caribbean, and civ il rights and B la c k Pow er m ovem ents in Canada and the U nited States. Since 1969, when M cG ill intro duced an interdisciplinary minor in African Studies, courses on the his tory of Africa and its diaspora have been available at the university. More recently, the program created a major program. On January 30th, the Africana Studies Committee held a benefit in order to celebrate 30 years of A frican Studies at M cG ill. The benefit, titled Echoic Rumbling, featured music, poetry, dancers, and art, and raised much needed cash for the chronically underfund ed program. Close to 1,000 McGill students checked out job opportunities at the February 2 AUS, SUS, and CAPS career fair. More than 30 companies, including govern ment agencies and major busi nesses, attended the event.

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E D I T O R I AL “Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.” — Samuel Johnson

Political maturity and the social union By Jason Sigurdson_______________________ Finally the “rest o f Canada” has emerged from its awkward political puberty. The social union agreement reached last Thursday by nine o f Canada’s provincial premiers and the federal government is more than a dry legal accord dealing with health care and the creation of social pro grams — it marks a new phase in the political maturity o f English Canada. The agreement limits the ability o f the federal government to unilaterally implement new programs and requires the provinces and the federal government to set joint objectives. Despite venturing to build federal-provincial relations, it isn't the magic solution to Canada's con stitutional woes as some idealists dreamed it could be. Quebec Premier Lucien Bouchard refused to sign on to the project, holding out for the right to opt-out of new programs with full financial compensation. His opposition to the plan, however, didn't keep a mish-mash of provincial leaders of all political stripes from hammering out the Social Union S to p th e P r e s s Framework Agreement. A Quebec veto is usually the death knell for any federal-provincial negotiation. Ever since the repatriation o f the constitution in 1982, signed without Quebec's consent, politicians have tried to reach an agreement which would bring Quebec back into the political and consti T h e ‘ S u s h i ’ is s u e h as tutional fold. This time, the story ended differently — provincial pre grow n to m y th ic p ro p o rtio n s miers in the rest of the country decided to move on. Perhaps it's a case of and I m u st now re s p o n d to lowered expectations, where the pursuit of the "art of the possible" -led what I said. I have been much Canada's first ministers to reach an agreement regardless of whether m aligned in the op/ed section Quebec was willing to participate. Ideally, there's more than political in the la s t tw o is s u e s o f the pragmatism behind the agreement. After years of uncertainty and con T rib , as a result o f Steph an ie stant attempts to carve out a political identity which could corral L e v itz ’ s Ja n u a ry 20 th a rtic le Quebec's political and policy aspirations, it appears that English-speak on the M c G ill Stu d en t Fund, ing Canada may be building a social and political project of its own. which in itially proposed a $ 7 0 If English media coverage is any indication, the social union isn't in crea se (now at $ 3 8 ). In her something the public despises just because it doesn't include Quebec. article I was quoted as saying That says a lot about national identity and the sense of political security the increase was “not much — in the country. The fear of allocating "special privileges" to Quebec — a it ’s the price o f a sushi n ight.” political sentiment which consumed Canada-outside-Quebec during the Y e s I s a id it . B u t w as th e Meech Lake and Charlottetown negotiations — has taken a back seat q u o te put in to c o n t e x t? N o! when it comes to the social union. There isn’t the expressed need to B efo re I defend my reputation make "Quebec a province like the others." With a new-found political security in English Canada, Quebec can pursue its own projects and it I firs t w ant to state that I do doesn't mean that Canada is any less o f a nation. not b e lie v e th at th is rep o rter Political security gives us the ability to engage in creative federal ind ented to d efam e my nam e ism as a nation. The social union acknowledges that it is desirable and and hence my good reputation; beneficial to deal with certain social programs throughout Englishyet by not quoting what I pas speaking Canada, and that there are commonalties that may not be uni sionately said before this com versal from coast-to-coast, but are still worth building on. Conversely, m e n t I in d e e d lo o k lik e an the destructive atomization o f the country advocated by the Reform ‘ a s s ’ and have lo s t my good Party — a sentiment which stresses "provincial rights" — fails to see name. that. It is more concerned with the abject pursuit o f random ideals like W hen I stood up to address "ten equal provinces" instead o f policy making which focuses on meet co u n cil regarding the ben efits ing needs. o f th e M S F I b eg a n w ith by True, the social union hasn't exactly taken the country by storm. It statin g that my w ife ju s t lo st hasn't monopolized conversation around the dinner table for millions of her jo b , and that M c G ill and Canadians, and if it wasn’t for dutiful social policy reporters, it would PQ lo a n and b u rsa ry m o n ey have probably passed by almost completely unnoticed. Hopefully time will give us perspective, and with any luck, history will look back on the had b ee n e x h a u s te d (n o t on social union agreement and call it the starting point o f a mature and su s h i).A n d by the w ay I am politically-renewed Canada. n o t p a id by S S M U as w as implied by Laura B ic k e l’ s le t

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ter. I don’t have the tim e for a p art tim e jo b s in c e I am the p rim e c a r e g iv e r to my th ree c h ild r e n ; h a v e a fu ll co u rs e load, am a senator and co u n cil lo r , and am ta k in g fu r th e r stud ies in preparation for the Ordained m inistry. My point to c o u n c il w as th a t I had no money, in fact my food bill is $ 8 0 0 , day care $ 4 6 5 , and rent $ 5 0 0 . I would be one o f those w illin g to c o n tr ib u te to th is fund f o r I w ou ld be a b le to b enefit. E veryone was unaware o f my fin an cial situation and I wanted them to be able to put a face on student poverty. My ‘ su s h i’ co m m en t cam e at the end as a fa cetio u sly sa rca stic com m ent on the m ed ia ’ s p e r c e p t io n o f r ic h c o u n c ilo r s blow ing m oney away in some b o u r g e o is e l i t i s t w a y . M y intent was indeed to shock and cre a te d isc u ssio n ; little did I know that my reputation would b eco m e the issu e. M y tongue in ch e ek com m ent pointed to the m edia and th e ir id ea that cou ncilors are sushi-heads that p artake in som e stran ge post co u n cil ritu al is outrageously exaggerated. Ju st b efo re the C hristm as b re a k [ c o lu m n is t D a v id

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I hope that the McGill Tribune Recently many letters to the will one day return to the essence of a Tribune have reported a sense of student newspaper and publish the sig disgust with one o f Douglas nificant campus events that occur on Painter’s comments made in a recent campus each day. council meeting. I was present at the —D avid S. Rovins council meeting when the comment was made. Had I only read the arti C l a s s A c t io n H a s S t u d e n t cle that was printed on January 19th, S upport I might share the sentiments of the letters. The truth is that the entire Regarding your Op-Ed piece speech Mr. Painter made before the about Class Action [Jan 19, p.7[. It was comment was regarding his current nice to see some of the features of financial situation, which I assure, is Class Action 1999 in The Tribune. The as bad or even worse than anybody writer had remarked that ‘you’d think who has written any of the recent there would have been a greater out letters. He certainly is surviving off pouring of funds over the past decade.’ less than the $600.00 per month that However, when you consider that the Ms. Kruzynski seems to have to average gift to the program hovers spend. Not only that. Mr. Painter has around $30, the results are quite to worry about his wife and three impressive. I know that in Law for sons as well. In short, Mr. Painter instance, the accumulated funds gave one of the most impassioned received from graduating students have speechs I have ever seen in a council provided us with much needed books meeting on behalf of students who and computers in our new library. are struggling financially and the Student support for Class Action at need for increased bursaries. The McGill may be broader than was made comment ‘It's not much — it’s the out in your article. For my part, I have price of a sushi night’ was made no mutual fund advisor, and I certainly wholly in jest and the fact that this won’t be calling mum and dad for a was the only part of the speech the donation. I’m just happy to give in Tribune reported was completely whatever small way I can. unfair. Mr. Painter is certainly not an ‘ass’ and has fought and will con — Stephanie Taylor. tinue to fight for the best interests of U4 Law students.

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In an open letter by Duncan Reid, I have recently been asked to pay an

additional $76 per year to the $239.28 that SATURN (half of which goes to the Health and Dental Plan) tells me that I pay to the SSMU. I am offended, this money is not towards restoring McGill’s excellence, but is more cash for the SSMU. The SSMU is an evapo rating money pit and I refuse to give more. The MSF includes $24/year for Shatner, a direct fee increase for the SSMU, not McGill. SSMU reasoning says that it enriches the quality of life for alj, students. No doubt, but at what cost?’ Some friends and I got together and tried to think of exactly how this enrichment occurs and came up with a list of every useful thing that the SSMU does for its students. Things such as its Clubs & Services like the Model UN-, Debating, Walksafe, SACOMSS, etc. etc. came to mind. Obviously these organizations aren’t profitable, so they absorb about $100000 from Mr. Pedarzani’s recent budget. No problem. Next we thought of other SSMU things like the Tribune, Gert’s, cafete rias, Sadie’s, Frosh, Four Floors, mini courses, you name it, and, all along the board, we found that we have to pay extra for these services or that they are self-sufficient, ie. the Trib from ad sales. We pay for beer at Gert’s (unless you are SSMU exec), we pay for food at the cafeterias, we pay for mini courses, etc., we don’t get any of these free, or even for a discount, even though we have paid $200 up front to the SSMU. The SSMU does not subsi dize any of these ventures to make them cheaper for us, instead, it makes money from them.

So after our Health & Dental Plan illusion of a confrontation between the fees are collected from the SSMU, the IOC and the press pretending to repre sent the Tittle guys’. The public is also Society still keeps about $900,000 from student fees, almost a million dol being fed the story of Richard Pound as lars, in addition to the money it makes a hero. The Canadian press is doing from its businesses. However, it only everything to portray him as the best successor to Samaranch because he is spends $100,000 on its Clubs & Services, where the hell does the other so good. Yet he mentioned that he was $800,000 go? I looked in the budget once offered a $1 million bribe 15 and I couldn’t find an explanation. years ago. The question is why did he Sure they have to pay for the building wait so long to share such a revelation? maintenance, almost $175,000 worth, We are to assume that he ignored it — but that still leaves $625,000. Are you stout (indignant man! Yet isn’t it risky telling me they need $625,000 to to mention that in the light of the pre administer $100,000? How much sushi sent scandal? His lawyer’s judgement and executive trips to Mont Tremblant must be off. Exactly the same is with the does that buy? So before you fork over more media that has accepted Mr. Pound for money to the money pit ask Duncan to an internal corruption investigation split the MSF into three parts so that instead of requesting an external body. we can vote on each of their individual Unfortunately, he has only proven to be a good chameleon in protecting merits. Tell Duncan’s minions to clean himself and the IOC Politburo. Why up the house Shatner built before they did he not want to ask for names and other details after getting a complaint come knocking on our doors for more. They shouldn’t need more money from from the Toronto committee eight us, but if they did, they don’t need $76. years ago what was supposed to be a And while you are at it, ask Duncan for legal follow-up procedure. The real hero is an 80 year-old a free beer at Gert’s, $1 for the $200 he IOC member who, at the end of last takes is still a great deal for him. —P aran Thamagurkar year, decided not to keep any more U2 Science dirty secrets to himself. He deserves to have a monument as soon as possible; the ceremonial P ound a cham eleon center for the opening of the Salt Lake City Winter Olympic Games would be There is a lot of force-feeding an ideal location. This monument (with around us. Why are the media laying one hand raising the Olympic torch and so much emphasis on the IOC scandal? another one holding a traditional Perhaps it’s because Rupert Murdoch teacher's scourge) founded by the IOC and Conrad Black have been paying and SLC-WOG organizers, will fulfill all conflicting demands; for the proseMr. Samaranch to resist their press campaign while they feed readers the C o n tin u e d o n p a g e 8

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Duncan Reid's martyr act In a four-hour SSMU meeting last Thursday, Duncan Reid tried very hard to present himself as a martyr for the M SF cause. Perhaps fittingly, his Council betrayed him three times before the night was over. It was the first really significant test of Reid's tal ents as a president and a leader. He failed it, by falling victim to his usual weakness — taking business issues personally. Things began very badly. The beginning of the whole affair was delayed half an hour while all the exec utives but Jeff Feiner holed up in the SSMU office, still frantically writing the motion that thirty people were wait ing for them to present. Eventually, irate councillors decided to start the meeting anyway; unless the executives arrived before the end of the opening formalities, the MSF would be dead in the water. They got in just under the wire, narrowly dodging the worst possible effect of Council's first betrayal of the night. The photocopies were distrib uted, and a ripple of surprise went through the room. The original plan contained provisions for library fund ing, for a capital fund to fix the Shatner building, and for a bursary fund; Duncan has been saying that the third component would be something stu dents could opt out of. The question he presented to Council included an all-ornothing opt-out provision — students who wanted to opt out could only get out of the whole plan. The executives did this to head off a promised constitutional challenge of the plan to the Judicial Board. The SSMU constitution prohibits different issues from being grouped together as one question, and if students could opt out of pieces of the levy, it would be clear that the pieces were too disparate

to be connected legitimately, and the Judicial Board would strike the ques tion down. A $40 levy with no opt-out provi sions will be much, much harder to sell. Reid and the rest of the executive know it, and so do the candidates for office who have publicly pinned their careers to the MSF. These are people like Wojtek Baraniak and Melissa Pallett, who is likely to have a tight race for the SSMU presidency. Reid, expected to run for the undergraduate

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seat on the Board of Governors, proba bly dreads the prospect of having to face the hard-nosed corporate bosses on the BoG on behalf of students who voted down his most beloved pet pro ject. Reid's argument was that $40 is a lot of money, and it seemed wrong to him that students in three or four years ought to be bound by a decision made by undergraduates now, almost none of whom will be around to see the end of the plan. Douglas Painter countered that levies for things like the new Student Services building were imposed on us by past undergraduates, and also that things like library improvement ought to be community responsibilities. The fundamental problem was a deep conflict between principle and practicality. An opt-out provision would make the plan easy to sell, but even more morally repugnant. A lack of an opt-out provision would be dead

ly at referendum. Voting that way would mean running afoul of the exec utives, upon whom all the councillors, for whom SSMU is a lifestyle, depend. The debate was more than politics — it was a social circle falling to ruins in full public view. Principle, for a change, won the day. The prevailing opinion after three hours was against an opt-out provision. The vote wasn’t close, with Melissa Pallett changing her mind during a tense pause in the roll-call and voting with the winning side, and Karen Pelley coura geously doing the h ro a ts same. So they betrayed Duncan again. In the face of a Council revolt that deformed his project in such a way as to make it nearly impossible to selling a referendum, Duncan made the biggest mistake of his whole politi cal career to that point. He stood up and gave a pathetically petulant speech that was, more or less, a declaration that his feelings were hurt. Melissa Pallett was the first to cave in. She gave Duncan the motion he wanted, and there was another vote. Pelley, perhaps spotting the unpleasant prospect of being in office until April with a president who would never for give her, switched sides too. It was not enough. Council betrayed him a third time. Reid topped his previous blunder by stomping out of the room and sulk ing for forty-five minutes. Various of his allies on Council slipped out after him to try to come up with some way of rescuing the initiative. Jeff Feiner led a silly attempt to turn the one ques tion into two — one on the fund itself,

There were no hassles from clingy girlfriends or fights with unromantic boyfriends, and you never felt obliged to call someone if you didn't want to. Physical contact was limited to the occasional slug in the shoulder or kick

pretty romantic about promising the one you love a lifetime supply of Scooby Snacks. Remember the cards with the cartoon dogs on them which read ‘doggone it, I like you,’ or others with little trains on them reading ‘choo, choo, choose me’ ? Face it, nothing says I love you like a cartoon cat sitting under the caption ‘You’re H o g a n ’s H e r o e s purr-feet.’ Hell, they just C ath erin e Hogan don’t make them like that anymore. Forget all this ‘your love makes my life worth liv ing crap,’ .give me a Valentine that in the shins. Kissing was not only says, T like you. I think you’re swell,’ gross or somehow responsible for and I’m set for life. making babies, but more importantly, Today, we drag our loved ones it was also known to be a major cause to fancy restaurants or weekend get of cooties. Valentine’s Day or not, the aways to celebrate the holiday, but opposite sex still existed for no other five stars aside, the real celebrations purpose than to be a pain in the butt. happened when we were kids. There In school, the teacher would dec was always a class party with heartorate the bulletin boards with red shaped sugar cookies covered in red crepe paper and shiny tin-foil hearts, sprinkles and white fluffy cupcakes and place a box wrapped in pink cel glazed in pink gooey frosting. The lophane at the front of the room in teacher would pass out heart shaped which to place love notes. There was candies with little sayings on them very little stress since we had to send like ‘be mine’ or ‘kiss me’ and for a card to everyone in the class, but of weeks we would eat those red cinna course the best cards would always be mon heart candies, that made your reserved for our metaphorical ‘little tongue numb and tasted like Close-up red headed girls, and dream date toothpaste. Kens.’ The best part of the entire day Valentine cards were way cooler would be the class dance. I never when we were seven. I remember one understood why we called it a class year my Mom bought me Scoobydance. I think a much more appropri Doo cards. ‘Zoinks’ was I ever cool ate name would have been a class with the honeys! There’s something ‘stand around and feel awkward.’ The

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one on whether or not the voters want C o n tin u e d fro m p a g e 7 ed an opt-out provision. Danielle cution of law-breakers, the punishing Lanteigne, having forgotten why it was of ‘blinded’ earlier IOC top execu an all-or-nothing proposition in the first tives, for comforting losers of Olympic place, tried to get the question split into bids, for praising old age activity com three. bined with high moral values, and for Every second Reid was gone did awakening the majority of brain more damage to his stature. Leaders washed citizens who sit in front of who have lost votes do not flee the globalized tubes or browse through scene, and everybody but Duncan colourful magazines and what neutral seemed to know it. Losing gracefully, izes our innate objections for multieven on big issues, is a vital skill. dimensionally growing unfairness Duncan Reid does not have it. When (violence). he does not get what he wants, the —Slawomir Poplawski child in him throws tantrums. Technician, Mining and Douglas Painter stood up and Metalurgical expressed his vehement disgust at the P.S. I am disappointed by McGill way the group was conducting itself. University’s decision to nominate Mr. For one thing, he said, these decisions Pound as the Chancellor just at the should not be made on the basis of time of his Switzerland press confer friendship; for another, the people who ence. Focusing too much on promot lost the vote should not have tried in ing the good name of the university or three separate ways to thwart the deci country by media-created personali sion Council had made. Painter said ties, is a very risky business but it may that he needed to re-examine his hav happen everywhere in the world. ing anything to do with a group like Everybody loves celebrities and home this, and quietly walked from the room. made the most. The meeting came to a close shortly thereafter. Before it did, Reid, M S F POTENTIAL under harsh pressure from his more politically astute friends, came back Duncan Reid is more intelligent and gave a half-hearted promise to than people give him credit for. The campaign hard for the revised plan, McGill Student Fund (MSF) has the which nobody really believed. potential to confront not one but both Reid's unfortunate psychotic of the major problems students face at break last Thursday has shot his credi McGill. bility with Council, and he will now Put yourself in Duncan’s shoes have to campaign for a plan that he has for a moment. Not only are students already argued is fundamentally unjust. confronted with rising debt loads, With no real support from the execu decreasing government funding, and a tive, other councillors skittish about decreasing quality of education, but what supporting the plan will do to McGill has an administration intent on their own careers, and no provision for running this University in spite of its students to opt out of the provisions students. Duncan must find himself with which they disagree, the MSF is stuck in between the proverbial rock doomed. and a charging freight train. So what does he do? The MSF not only provides some much-needed bursary, library, and ren ovation funds but it forces this admin istration to take students seriously. I know that Duncan has been working on getting McGill and other corporate sponsors to match the donations. More than that, this is an opportunity to ensure that students are an integrat boys would gather on one side of the room trying to look cool, while the ed, not token, part of decisions on how girls would gather on the other side of this University is run. This is an the room, trying not to notice the boys opportunity for real influence on looking cool. A lot of whispering McGill budget decisions, on the allwould take place, until eventually one important Board of Governors, Senate, etc. lone brave soul would venture over into the uncharted territory of the Moreover, the M SF can only opposite sex and ask a girl to dance. increase accessibility despite claims Not only would he receive the praise suggesting otherwise. For those that find $38 a semester too much of a bur and admiration of his male peers, but also from that day on, he would be den, know that $12 of that goes to a forever known to the male race as bursary program to alleviate those class super stud. even the University has abandoned. If you were lucky, the teacher David Reevely (Slitting Throats 2 February 1999) labels the M SF would dim the lights and little by little couples with sweaty palms would “regressive,” an act of “cowardice” meet without eye contact of on the and “short sighted” for the precedent it classroom floor to dance. Looking sets of students assuming more direct back I don’t know how teachers kept financial responsibility for their a straight face while watching this University cost. A true act of “cow awkward prepubescent mating ritual. ardice” would be to stand by submis The ‘dancing’ which took place was sively while the value of our education falls as quickly as our Maclean’s rat essentially comprised of two kids standing an arms length apart and ings, As usual, Reevely is long on crit icism but short on solutions. moving side to side like stick men to the beat of some cheesy make-out Duncan’s MSF is the most innov tune like “Love B ites.” I can still ative and important proposal to come remember dancing with a boy in the out of SSMU in years. As a result, stu sixth grade to “Broken Wings.” He dents ot McGill are faced with an wore a red wool sweater. It’s funny opportunity to take control of our edu how these memories stick with us. cation — to put our money where our Sure it’s fun to get roses deliv mouth is — and demand that the ered to the door, a surprise dinner or administration stand up and pay atten tion. an engagement ring, but when it comes right down to it, the sweaty —Paul Ruel palms and cinnamon candies are all U3 Political Science and that really matter. International Development Studies

From sweaty palms to forced "I love you's: the evolution of Valentine's Day It’s that time of year again. The mall is decorated in shades of pink and red, and the florists are charging black market prices for roses. Girls without boyfriends are depressed and guys without girlfriends are drinking at Peel Pub. Everyone is poised to celebrate Valentines Day, and what a production it has become. When we were young, and relatively innocent, V alentine’ s Day wasn’t stressful, forced, or depressing. Like so many other days in elementary school, it was just another excuse for a class party. As we’ve aged, however, we’ve trans formed Valentine’s Day from the candy filled fest we loved as kids, into the stressful, ‘obliged-to-say-I-loveyou’ mess we’ve come to accept as adults. Somewhere around the sixth grade, Valentine’s Day took a turn for the worse and hasn’t been the same since. Now don’t get me wrong. Personally, I like Valentine’s Day. Tm a sucker for flowers, tongue-tied guys and sappy cards, but it seems to me that roses and romance aside, Valentine’s Day was much more fun back in our pre-pubescent days. Think back to when you were seven years old. February 14th was little more than the day your Dad had to cook supper, you got to eat choco late and your Mom made you tell your brother that you loved him.

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▼Laura: “When our two souls stand up erect and strong, Face to face, silent, drawing high and nigher, Until the lengthening wings break into fire at either curved point,—what bitter wrong Can the earth do to us, that we should not long Be here contented?” — E.B. Browning y Jeff Good luck with those $ women. Please get the T-shirts! You are such a boy! Love All of Us. y Igor Valenovitch - oh dear sweet humpbacked one. I miss your extra fin ger as much as you must miss your kneecaps. Wherefore are thou Igor? Please come back into my life....Steph y CRACKRAT GANG - and you all know who you are. Here's to RVC, Charlie's Angels, and really great times. Happy Valentines to you all. Love, Steph y Laurie: “Ye faithful saints, fresh courage take: The clouds ye so much dread — Are big with mercy, and shall break — In blessings on your head.” — William Cowper y John, I love you John, I love you John, I love you John, I love you John, I love you John, I love you You are my Beowulf y To my “back from Africa” pookie: words to express my love for you for all the public to see. My love, my life, my sesame. —me y L.A.: Hey, you ravishing Jane covermodel, you. The Face called me and wanted you to do a photo shoot with Ewen. He’s leaving his wife for you, you tart! I'm not jealous. P.S. Jarvis is destroyed. He wants you back and promises to let you play tambourine on his next album. Happy V-Day, Grunge. y Bummer Jones: Thank god it's your smiling face I see every morning when I get up...what will I ever do without you? Happy Valentine's Day...maybe we'll have a full house, xo Renaldo y Wah-Wah - You are my favourite. My absolute favourite. What am I going to do without you next year? I'm so glad you exist to sit in the Alley with and go to class with and see weird movies with and go on a double date with! And you even write me letters. Wow. Happy Valentines. Love, Wa. y Jo - Whistle while you work, it makes for a happy living environment. I’m glad we understand each other my domesticat ed friend. Maybe one day we can write our own cookbook - Jo and Steph cultur al delights. I love you. Happy Valentines. 4T ______^__

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him to call his favourite news editor sometime.

y Dear Features beauty: It's been so good working with you...on this day of love, I'll think you you...love, your better half.

y Steph, happy Valentines. Two net briefs, no snark.

y SEM: Artbabe alert. More time in Montreal oovered in paint and less time in Ottawa with the boy. Love is grand and all but we miss you! As a cunning strategy, L.A. and I have arranged for " you to play host to Malcom, his charm ing young wife, and the dawg for a few weeks. Nothing personal, all tactical. Study date? Cheers! Elaine. y Dirty - Hey Mickey, yes Sylvia. I'm so glad we discovered each other that fate ful night in January. As our voices soared over the din of Nostra I realized I had discovered another kindred spirit. May you never have to say "I earned a water melon.” Happy Valentines. Love, Dancing. y Hey Buddy: You don't move like no...never mind. I love having you around. Feel free to stay as long as you like. Always...xoxo y Salloum - BEEP, babble babble babble babble bauble babble babble babble bab ble babble babble babble babble babble babble babble babble babble babble bab ble babble...anyway, I'm babbling so I'll end here. Talk to you soon. Happy Valentines to the original dirty - let's go hunting for a non-Montrealer who can vote and actually cares. See you in the papers! Love, Steph

▼ Katie - And the times they are a changing. From Nepean to Montreal we've been through it all. Maybe we have stayed friends because I like your hair. Happy Valentines. Love, Steph y Dommy - does anyone else call you dommy? And to think I never used to call you anything because I was scared of you. Let's go sit in the Alley - maybe we can get them to play some Iranian music. Happy Valentines. Steph y Larissa: Just because you love me so much...Happy Valentine's Day. You mean the world to me. xo Renée ▼ Jason, it’s all good. The key to never let them know whether you're relaxed or on the brink of flying off the handle. PC y Vid-sies: You can be a crackwhore with me any time, babe! Congrats on your new job, welcome to the blackmarket. I hope I'll be getting deals. Bring me back some opium. Luv, Lainey. P.S. Date Your Boss!

y 3667: Make me some sambidges!

▼ Elspador Daily - Chaos, control. Chaos control. You like? You like? We say WHOOO, we say WHEN, we say how much. I think our friendship has gotta lot a potenchial. I love us. Steph

y Dear Bemie, Live fast, die young and leave a good-looking corpse. Love, McGill.

y Band Girl - You sure as hell don't move like no virgin! Love you tons. Furry hot water bottle.

y Table Damelin — Talking about love is like dancing about architecture. We must do a lot of dancing then. I love you and I am glad you are in my life. Here's to those damn cats. Happy Valentines. Love, Louann the Camel

y To the most handsome man in Dorval, you make every moment of every day, St. Valentine's Day. Happy Anniversary, my darling. I love you. E.B.

y Dean: Due to your relative proximity, I expect the frequence of your social calls to increase - markedly. Leave your card at the door with my butler. The board stays outside too. Bring gifts. Elaine. ▼Kris, You're the eerie calm which keeps this place in check. PC ▼Nick Spirit! Rice! Conflict resolution! We love you. ▼LOST - One carpenter with ability to put up desk or help hang curtains. Has tendency to show up drunk at 3 a.m. but has not been seen for months. Answers to the name of Fuzzy. If seen, please tell r

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▼ Derfer: The office and the class is a Bleak House without you. You and your g-friend take care. Luv, Elaine.

y Dear Alley, I cannot bear to be parted from you. But after four long years we must bid adieu. Oh, how I will miss your bewitching scent: the smell of stale foccacia and cigarettes will haunt me. My toes curl at the remembrance of our pre tentious philosophical debates of yore. Oh, the memories, the moments, the time-suckage! Good bye my love! — Cult Stud U3 ▼ H. "C'est vrai.” Yeah, I know, trans late. Love, E. ▼ Wa: It's true, you are my sunshine...and hopefully, if you'll have me, my Valentine. Cheers to you my dear friend, and always know that I love you. Wa-Wa

y Moe-Moe thinking of you. your beeper. ▼Eve - happy Valentine’s from ur fran cophone roomate/lover. ▼Burly: To the girl that I think may be my soul-mate...We may be the only true voices of our generation. Let's keep talkin', xo Renée ▼Mark: I'm writing this because I know that you only read the articles that I write and I thought you'd like seeing your name in print. Thanks for always being you. Love, Renaldo ▼ Oooh Liz... shivering petal in the soothing summer breeze... Thanks for still being such a solid, chubby source for our conversations, buddy. Love. Littl' Tommy ▼ Allison Crevier, I am unabashedly, utterly, truly, madly, deeply, head over heels in love with everything about you, From: The Stripper ▼To my sweet little guy, S.M. May our 2nd Valentine's bring us closer together than ever before. I love you always. XXX S.L. :) ▼Ms. Farq..., Happy Valentines. Maybe we’re both freaks PC ▼ sue sue, my little monkey thanks for those naked peeks on the white flour sand where love manifested from leaping fish and one hallow pineapple under the full moon your mouth amazes me. your hot Vientiane princess ▼kerri my angel living with you has been the best i ate all your ice cream your toes are perfect i look forward to popcorn and yams watching DC together kissing you was a delight, your bordelique superstar ▼truc wonderwoman i may not be derek but i love you too thanks for being so wonderful and teaching me about zhen ai. ▼ROB BY we don’t just love you because you cook well we also love your apart ment. you are a great guy. i salivate thinking of your vinegared ginger ▼Steph: I’ll smile more. I promise. ▼robyn you will find him just face south be patient you are one hot chick i will always love you

Ambassador to Canada ▼shaunagh with the warm brown eyes, i will meet in you phnom penh i will wear my lingerie if you wear yours, it's great to have you back, i missed you. ▼Amy, we are so keen because you are so super duper and chipper Love Us +@!— r=? ▼ Christine my snowboarding expert greeting a metal pole between my legs was worth it because i got to spend the day with you. your hot hot plumtre ▼ emily sweetie four years later and i still think about how you crack me up to bits, keep teaching religion, i am still try ing to reduce. ▼antonio your body is so firm your lips so tender i should've put lip balm all over you. your lesbiana ▼ Jason - thanks for being my mentor and my friend...Steph ▼ K — they still can’t put fire out with gasoline. I love you. ▼ brandi you are so hot why are you wasting your time on those garbage boys? girls are better, we will always have olio's pesto chicken. ▼TVZ Do you think he knows about the chair yet? EV ▼ DUNC: My sweet plastic skin has been missing your firm caress.- Garbage Bag Booty ▼EV: What’s Tuesday again? Oh yeah it’s a finger day! — Science Carnival ▼Dear Wojtek, Your sunglasses are the thing I like best about you. Don't ever take them off. ▼ Nat Hoitz: you wanted a Valentine, here you go. Sorry, no swimming article alongside... Paul C. ▼val working with you tortures my soul all i can think of is fresh tartar. ▼ameh i'm sorry i didn't come skating, i broke my leg. i think you are hot. ▼ patrie - if i tell you i love you and bring you cakes will i get an A? ▼ val in hisai you are as hot as chicken dipping sauce on a fat cat's leg.

▼to the Thomson House Society Happy Valentine's Dr. Julius Hibbert

▼ to my IB prof on Wednesday nights you are so hot (and intelligent too) your french accent drives me wild, your audi tor

▼Jen - we appreciate ur moral support. Happy Valentine's His excellency, the Libanese

▼ rachel - why do you only have sex with american boys?

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▼Nilima to making me remember that people are from Montreal too! We need a pl an. . . Happy Valentines....Steph

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▼anna - you big tough army girl i think your eyes are beautiful. ▼To my favourite Pine Nuts... I'm glad you guys keep life fun. Cuba, man. y To the old man sports editor - I'm glad we cared enough to see beyond the stereotypes...Steph y Emilie and Trish — roses are red, vio lets are not, you can deny it but Frank is still hot. y Kayla - You always manage to keep your cool, even when Mondays are giv ing you a 6 pt runaround! Happy Valentine’s Day! Jason y colleen, amanda & maggie you three make french class even more intriguing, i wish we could do more cof fee together. y Johanna, Everyday with you I become a better person. Thank you for showing me what true love is. Together Forever, Love, Jeff y Dearest BBYou know who you are better than. Have a fantastic Valentine's Day! Lx>ve, Lubes. y Dear MSF, I love you so much I can hardly think straight. XOXO, Duncan R. y KP: You make my herring red. RR y ACZ: Thank God it’s Thursday, Thursday, Friday. EV & DR y MissTiming: You’re always #1. DR y Matt - Just wanted to let you know that I think about you and how horribly sorry I am about everything. Hope every thing is going well for you. All the best. Lisa y To Ry, U've been there from the start. Wouldn't know where I'd be w/o U. Thanx & Luv U always. y NGX, Dr. Pepper really isn’t the right way to try a smooshie — when they get pepsi back in there we’ll try again. Happy Valentine’s Day. DJx

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y Jenne - I choo choo choose you! Choose me too. LUV your secret admirer

y Nick Piaza U r so cute sincerly, your Hair.

▼Network Boy sorry 1 harass you so often...but we really need briefs this week...Happy valentines...Steph

y Dear Brian, Met a while ago at Cheers, thought you were really cute. You took me to Burger King, had a great time. Wanted to get in touch, thought a Valentine would be best. Meet me at Cheers this Friday. MarieAnne

▼ Laura - We were too afraid to say any thing except DT sucked. We love you. WS Exec

y Chuck Darling, I do believe it’s time to talk politics, otherwise you'll be getting a swift one in the kidneys. Love, Muffy

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y Chris L.: I think of you every Sunday. Felicity xo

▼Dear Ry (Dukie), I’m not afraid to feel. -titiiÙ l I’m afraid of the truth. I'm not afraid of love. I just don't know. -Cheryl (Currant7) y Pooky, after all these years, I still love you more and more each day. 1 miss you more than anything! Always thinking about you... y Laura: Thanks for the purple panties. KP y KP: You make my herring red. RR y Happy Anniversary April & Alex Happy Valentine's Day too. Hope you 2 last forever. Cheryl (Currant7) y Stephanie Levitz...lt has been many moons since last my extra finger knew your touch, and eons from our last caress. Please close your eyes and come to me (that way you will not see me). I miss you and love you. Be mine? -Igor Valenovich y Carson and Bangers... You may think that the days of my life are over, but I continue to live on under the roads you walk on daily in my ultimate quest for crack. This Valentine's Day, I send you a piece of my heart. —The Crackrat y Kris... Exploring the land of fire and ice this year was great. In fact, can’t think of a better person to see the world with. (Eg er flakklâtur.) Let’s plan on some future travel journalism. - J y Jose A.: go buck. Go Habs. PC y Court —- get angry, get even, get drunk (in no particular order) - Sarah y SammyJ: May that academic bubble never burst in any adventures in skiing, wakeboarding, cruising for hookers and heroin addicts, or lentils and granola. DR

y To all the girls I've loved before: Jenn, Sarah, Marisa, Amy, and Larissa. Ah yes, definitely Larissa. I salute you all. GOD SAVE THE QUEEN. y Vania, Do you have a mid-term on Valentine’s? WS Exec y Nilima - I’m glad you’re not a “miss ing Montrealer”! Happy Valentine’s Day! -Jason y Roses are Red I've said it before That Jess Katz Was a Boston Crackwhore y Roses are red But the violets are dead Tell Wojtek Baraniak To take those shades off his head y Thanks for the rash, Keith. TVZ y Please let me out of the box Jam. I promise I'll tape Pokemon tomorrow. Please. y Girl who was Employee of the month at Sadies for November, I think you're hot. See you on Fridays. Poop Hauft y I'll miss you guys. Please don't let them take me to TVM or the Tribune. They're so lame! Publication of the Year y DR, JF and LP - to media strategy and the dissmeniation of information. Thanks for seeing me beyond the pages of the paper. SL y Hello over there. I don’t have a sweet ie on this school. But I hope I can send a message to all of you. I am a girl from Norway. I am 18 years old. And have a dream to travel around in different coun tries.

y Shmarky, I'm sorry. Let's be exclu sive again. Jeffy. y Dearest Sam, I have longed for your glowing warmth and your quarantinal caress. Your sublime beauty almost makes me wish that you didn't poke out my eyes so that I could look upon you. Love, Coco. y Uncle Larry, I wish you would pay more attention to your media strategy. I've had to settle for another man. My new boy Robert rales. Mikey, You and Me. Liquid Scintillation. ART y SLX & DJX: Council will be yours, Senate mine, but in the end, it actually works It's been a fun 18 issues. NGX. y E - you might be the master of enzymes, but can you explain our chem istry? Maybe the basic weirdness of it all doesn’t need a reason... Hugs and kisses, J. y Hugh — my business partner and friend, hope your time here has been fun and don’t worry we’re going to make a million bucks! Sarah ▼my dear pilo ecstasy is wrapping my legs around you all night long you were worth the $3 i paid. y To my room-mates Andrea, Jen & Greg: It's time for another marguarita party. Thanks for a wonderful year. y Pacey your sense of decency has impressed the plethora of girls who watch your moves intensely and wonder why there aren't any mcgill boys like you. ▼Brian Cheers to life's subtle differences! Caah, carrrr... who says we can't be friends! Enjoy Monet. The brand new "Atlanticer” ▼ JF: From a Robson St. bathroom to stories of three-hour foreplay, here’s to the man who got smoked by the tortoise. ▼ CHALK; Where would you like it? Real Trooper. y Keri Who says engineers have no personality? I think you're swell. Happy Valentine's Day! y Matina, Take it easy in 10. We shouldn't get so distracted. Badness

y HANDSOME - a.k.a Muffin With love's light wings did I o'er perch these walls For stony limits cannot hold love out, And what love can do that dares love attempt. — Romeo and Juliet 2:2 Love, Monica P.S. - To fancy stationary, never taking ourselves too seriously and scrabble...Happy Valentines P.P.S - this is the actual text like I promised

y My partners in crime (JS, KM, PC): getting to the office for 9 am... a good idea in theory only

y NMS - You have the special some thing that no one else has - ME! Be my Valentine. Love NH

y Mannie - even though you are sooo much older than me, I think you are terrific....Happy Valentines...Steph

▼kitty tsui i sleep with your teddied book next to my heart and hope that one day you will put your fist up my ass.

y Paul: From one P to another: we run this place.

y Dearest ed board - Working with you guys is always an honour and a pleasure (...and yes, in the end, even production Mondays are all good!) Love.jsx

▼Dearest Nono, I'm so want you to be at my side now to say I love you forever. Your baby.

▼Dave, Your blond hair is so hot... oh so hot! So glad you didn't go down with the ship.

y To SAM J (AKA), scrappy little mouth piece that I love Although I will not be there for Valentines Day. Will you still be my Valentine? Ryan M

y ode to mochi mochi i want to eat you inside out on a plane or on a mountain your devoted butterly

y Jim F, SJ, pelvic-injury pelley, Larry: You made it worthwhile, meaningful, and memorable. DJ y TBaldi, B-Door & Tates...The compe titions dificile they have been, but to arms warm of yours, we return. The moguls of my coeur will change into iron crosses when your eyes do we see. With all of our hearts...Dominique, Stephan & Jean-Luc

y The Borg (of 2001 ) The Borg no more, whatever happened to The collective consciousness? we still

▼Christa N. I would be happy live under the same stars as you, but I get to live under the same roof. Happy Valentine's Day! You are so so sooo HOT!

XOXO, DR. ▼Mike, You’re hot as balls, man! Happy VD... ▼Brittany, You and the possibility of getting your phone number are in my every lustful thought. Please teach me your ways of perfect oration... ▼Cher Rob, Your culinary expertise and overflowing spice rack makes me want to... thank you for your hospitality. ▼TVZ Do you think he knows about the chair yet? EV ▼ DUNC: My sweet plastic skin has been missing your firm caress. -Garbage Bag Booty ▼ Johnathan C., Thanks for your help and remember there is life after council:) ▼ You are my cook, my cleaning Lady AND my boyfirend. What more can I ask for?! From one sweet Ti to another, Happy Valentines Day! ! ! ▼ To Andrew (aka "the good-lookingguy in physiology") Roses are red, violets are blue Have you noticed I've been Stalking you?? I want you baby! Love, Margaret (Antler) ▼To Jimmy I want to give you more than some spare change. I want to give you my heart. Love Sarah p.s. how many times do we have to go for coffee before you get the hint?? ▼ Dear the sunglasses, I think you're so much cooler than that dweeb who wears you everywhere. ▼Hey Features goddess Thanks for being such a great co editor all year long and picking up the slack when there was... slack to pick up! You're a generous and lovely chiquita and I love working with you - love M. ▼To the SACOMSS girl with the blond streak, somebody likes you more than you realize. ▼Chrisitine P. We love your long articles and messages (it's Jason who keeps editing them).. ▼Christina, I'm so lucky to have met a girl as cute, sweet, funny and smart as you. Make my life complete and be my valentine! Jake ▼ Dirty John: keep smiling, look both before crossing the street, and say hello to TinTin when in France. ▼ Anne: Happy Sex-drugs-&swearing day. Walksafe loves you. ▼Nadia: As my friend you’ve made me laugh. Now I’m on bended knee asking you to please be my valentine. Mr. "Junky" Dan!! ▼ A.A., L.W., A.R., J.C., R.R., L.B., Smarten up goddamit! ▼ hey lawyer-boy did you think your bmw would impress me? it did. until i got to know you. know means know.

▼Sonia Bet you never thought you would see a valentine for you in the Trib but here it is: happy valentines day you sexy lady with all your recently acquired fashion and your triumphant new job and your wise advice for the lovelorn - love ya, XOXO MG

▼ Oh my goodness how shall I put into words the love I feel for my sweet Lorena - photographer sex goddess, loyal friend, flatterer extraordinaire, and confi dante till the world stops turning (occa sionally to your chagrin, no doubt)... Your good spirits and sweet nature, divine sense of humour and endlessly amusing essence are a daily inspiration... love your pal M

▼To Duncan and his cronies, thanks for making it so easy. I love you for it.

▼ Jacques, mon papa du sucre...can I nudge you for breakfast? I want to prove

your Chinese horoscope wrong. Happy Valentines. Love, S. y House on fire, put it out, put it out. y EV: What’s Tuesday again? Oh yeah it’s a finger day! — Science Carnival y JF: From a Robson St. bathroom to stories of three-hour foreplay, here’s to the man who got smoked by the tortoise. y Adrienne, You are headed for fame. I'll be happy to say I know you. NG y Fred, Your non-environmental pieces are awe some. Did your heart pound with Pound? y kerri: are your pubes really red? y Topolski You're so lady-like we don't know what to do with you. WS y HOT HOT HOT HOT HOT HOT CHRISTA IS HOT HOT HOT HOT HOT HOT

ish and eternally amusing Carrie you always know how to make me laugh at myself and the absurdity of the world and its constant ability to thwart us both - love M

y Daniel Artenosi: The tighter your pants get, the deeper in love I fall with you. Your secret admirer.

VDJR, If you were 20 years older... Dean RJ

y Kayla And the rain... fell down... on the beach like a torrent of my past life., the seag ull... flops lazily to the ground and breathes its last... Ahhhh... poetry: to my poetess roomate and pal Happy Valentines Day from MG

y Nilima: I know you really do love sub way. PC y Joseph- When it rains, it pours... my sociable ssmu-ite, I'll join you at Gert’s next week. Unfortunately I leave the bitchsticks to you, shania! love e.

▼Drippy, Sorry to hear about your leak. May someone “dare to stick their finger in to plug the leak”. KP

xoxo y PC: One more TinTin comment and I’m going to swat you one. love, dirty y CHALK; Where would you like it? Real Trooper. y Laura: Thanks for the purple panties. KP y emma dearest sorry i lied and gave you herpes i am just stupid your blue eyed psychopath y samuisue when my kaleidoscope met your majesties i could taste your lips on my quivering neck to motorcycle rides and fuzzy moon pics, q is for quite a lady.

y fred and anik we send kisses from montreal. y BK: A big ol' Gert’s couchie kiss from your most northwesterly admirer. And as always honey bunches of granola. See you in a few days, yippee! y Steph, sharing the peanut gallery with you makes my life worth living. Carry the torch when I'm gone. y mike i know you love her as much as i do. she is damned hot. we’ll fight a duel. y dave the ice cream was sweet your blond hair makes me salivate, will you teach me astrophysics? y New York Times published Grosghal: you have the touch. y bok thanks for not killing us when you were drunk and we were stupid. y Hey Network Boy - sorry I harass you so often...your sarcasm and wit are great ly appreciated....Steph y Paulie darling... You're right of course, no more fighting, it's the opposite of cathartic and I like you too much to bicker pointlessly... Happy Valentines Day dear Paul, soon to be successful lawyer wearing suits and dining in T.O's finest establishments... it will be a source of great pride for me to say, one day, that I knew you. Love M. y Over the hill and far away, but still beside me. ART

y Kyran Keep Smiling. Happy Valentine's. C.M.Bums VJ. I wish I could be all over you like a fat kid on a smartie...thanks for telling me about your shirt. Happy Valentines, Love, S. y Hey Rhys this is a valentine hello from your upstairs neighbour and biggest fan... to the boy with a terrorist facade and a heart of gold, who gives great advice... : Happy Valentines Day!

y AJW Four Years Thanks ART y Lorraine So stylie! So late! So Loved! So stingy! Love Us All y you are a 3 thank goodness i didn't waste the silver on you. red bus taker

y Dena Verah is the wisest chick I know... here's to a long past of long and richly rewarding chats and to many more years of most excellent friendship... love you lots Dena - MG

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VTo our perennially single partners in crime. Love, MountainMen and Engineers in waiting.

y Pete Deitz - May you too never carry a watermelon...Happy Valentines...Steph

y Jason, You are my mentor. Merci, NGX

y Buongiorno Principessa! I'm sorry we've had the winter grumps all semester but they’ll go away soon; but when will we stop carrying watermelons? love e.

y McFly, McFlee, McPhee... You look good in a hard hat. Why don’t you wear it more often? Larry + KAP

y HEY REG, BEV! Roomies, we have the best time and it's BECAUSE YOU EXIST that I get nothing done. I love us and will continue to love us next year. Happy V. Day love WIL.

y To J. Wishing you the best in law school and the future. I know we may be far in dis tance but never at heart. I luv you. From C.

y grace, let your hair loose robin

y LAMP: On the dissemenation of information...the art of the PRESS RELEASE! DR J

y Jim F, SJ, pelvic-injury pelley, Larry: You made it worthwhile, meaningful, and memorable. DJ

y Dear Emu, Happy Al’s farm called yesterday and said they missed you — thejr message didn’t babble, dj =)

y To the news crew, WE LOVE YOU! -SL, JS & NG y Sports - Ah yes you behaved very pre dictably and did not write me a valentine - you men of deeds and not words... Can't say my heart isn't broken but I should have known better... okay guilt trip over - Happy Valentines Day to two of the nicest guys on the planet who always know what to say to make a girls day. Love MG

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y Melouska. Ya Chi Koham. ART

y SammyJ: May that academic bubble never burst in any adventures in skiing, wakeboarding, cruising for hookers and heroin addicts, or lentils and granola. DR

y Dear Daily: Thanks for making us look so good. Love, The Steps.

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▼Richie Rich: y Be my Valentine Gardner 4th! I love 10 million kisses, or 50 million, what is you all!! the difference? Your significant other(s) ▼Dan, you're not on our floor but this one's for you. Happy Valentine's Day! ▼Sammy J To snowbanks, towing, getting lost, y Jim, Dawn, Jeff, Tara, Kathryn, deer... oh sh_t, and faulty equipment Marika and Kavi... To the midnight ‘coureur de bois’ Happy Valentine's day!! We’re the real troopers! Love - Uncle Larry y To Medium-One and Big-One. I must be dremin' cuz you girls are too ▼Dear Bemie, I love you. ART good to be true!

y I've had to settle for another man. My new boy Robert rules. y SL - To sharing bathwater and getting away with it Muffin y Shmarky, Let’s meet in the Lobby. Some day we’ll win. Maggie_Muffin y KayPee, please come and clean the couch at 456 Pine. Our roommate's cousin told us it was you.

▼Rhonda, You Rock My World ART ▼Allie Me and You Baby I'll show You MY Stuff ART

y An Ode to Sam and Lentils: The wind blows freely over the Northern Tundra. Messes up my dreads and ruffles my beard. Play with your dog, but donit forget to play with me too. MountainMan

▼Fooseball, You take our money, our time, our pride... and we still love your stick and balls. Kev, Pav, Woody, John, Cliffie, Henri and Larry VDrippy, 14 times in a row...Wow! LP

y Nilima - thanks for reminding me that Montrealers exist too...you can go to Senate anytime...Steph

▼To my fearsome foursome, Despite the doubts, detractor and pun dits... we’ve made it! Thanks for the great year, I love you all, Papa Sucre

y To the man who delivers chicken: • Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz........ Who’s afraid of a little cum? Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.......... Love — Princess o’ Westmount

▼LORD JIM SPEARING HAPPY VALENTINES DAY FROM BIG D AND LITTLE C

y To the whilshters, pyrotists, hymepaths, quarantinalites, and xylophonics. You are all flacivious. Love -Late Night Dancers

y LAMP: On the dissemenation of information...the art of the PRESS RELEASE! DR J y Macdonald... A mark of respect to the man who never mastered one beerSpanky y To my Canterbury lady, Worth all the trouble and more. My dear Canterbury lady, Even greater things are in store. P and the boys y HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY CHRIS! Just a little note to say thanks for everything, especially the uncondi tional love you give me. I love you. Marissa XO y D.J., Sammy J., KayPee, and Larry, let's go for full bondage next time. Love, Drippy

y Here A Philosopher Professes to You 22 times to uNDoubtably Believe In Roomates Trying to Have an expensive Dinner And You! happy valentine's day! The Fat Kid

y To the McGill-Queen's University Press: There go the external relations, time to go back to committee.... The Gang

y Nadia To the only Faerie Queen expert I know — happy Valentines Day XO MG

y Jason, Competent editor, social lubricant, hope less romantic - to the man who has it all - Happy Valentines Day. XO MG

y Shem, I long to be with you on this day. If my wish comes true, i will give you a day that you will never forget. R.S.

y Handsome - a.k.a Muffin Oh love's light wings did O'er perch these walls Stony limits cannot hold love out, For what love can do that dares love attempt - Romeo and Juliet 2:2 Love, Monica P.S. - To fancy stationary, scrabble and never taking ourselves too seriously.

y Even though we live far away from one another, you are always close to my heart. Love, M.K. y Nensi, I'm tired because you are running through my head all day and all night baby. Be mine on Valentine's day. S.B.

Dont underestimate those significant 3 years of ur life. Dr. Julius Hibbert y to that "good and innocent catholic girl", ZERO inhibitions, some shame. The Wolf y CaronOl Merry X-mas! who needs santa. y Farzad ARAB y Shmarky, I'm sorry. Let's be exclu sive again. Jeffy.

y If only you knew, 9828239, how much you brighten every Bio, Chem, Physics and Calc lecture. I salute you. Faithfully, the Invisible Man. y Roses are brown, violets are brown... hey, who shit on the flowers?? Blesse mon coeur d'une langueur monotone.

y FARZAD u r the most handsom man in all of mcgill Dr. Julius Hibbert

y Hewy photogs, Happy Valentines Day to two of the best looking, talented and creative girls I know. XO MG

y California Jason At least now u fall asleep with dignity Dr. Julius Hibbert

y Emmatrude, why can’t astronauts touch the stars?

y Cartman Nudo u still owe me 10 bucks. Dr. Julius Hibbert

▼D.J., I'm sorry. We can't see each other anymore. You only make ten million a year. I DO care about the dif ference between ten million and fifty million.

▼ACZ: Thank God it’s Thursday, Thursday, Friday. EV & DR y MissTiming: You’re always #1. DR y Lydie: so when are we going on our weekend get-away? Moe

y EVE So 1 lost "The Tablet’’ bet (have i really?). So here we go: U are the best looking girl of the 200l ’s. Adam

y Moe: u r one sexy dude. Moe

y DuchonOl The X-files rule, and so does a chicken ceaser. forget about that chicken sandwich of urs. Monty Bums

y Gaby george Micheal enuff said. The back row people + Dr. Julius Hibbert

y Jess & Eve The whole world is jealous of ur love affair. I am just not afraid to say it. Happy anniversary. Monty Burns

y Astrid i am still looking forward to that t-shirt from India. Happy Valentine's. Dr. Julius Hibbert

y Dearest Sam, I have longed for your glowing warmth and your quarantinal caress. Your sublime beauty almost makes me wish that you didn’t poke out

y EVE So we got kicked out of His kingdom. No worries. We can create our own paradise together. Adam

y HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY CHRIS! Just a little note to say thanks for everything, especially the uncondi tional love you give me. I love you. Marissa XO

y Ramy Abshlkjljalskdjaloiurporuwepoiruwpqoiu rjflaZMcz/>xmc/z>X<MC/Z>mlkasdjslkfjkjd??? Happy Valentines Mr. Bums

y Moe-Moe u r also one sexy dude, moe

y farZAD we am coming to get u. you know who we are y to the East German Terrorist from MED Funky Glasses. Think local Klaus! Pepe y Carmen The voices cry out, from under the sea. Pepe the Chupacabra

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y LORD JIM SPEARING HAPPY VALENTINES DAY FROM BIG D AND LITTLE C y This is a Ventine's Day Message for Lan Nguyen, Here A Philosopher Professes to You 22 times to uNDoubtably Believe In Roomates Trying to Have an expensive Dinner And You! happy valentine's day! The Fat Kid y Shem, I long to be with you on this day. If my wish comes true, i will give you a day that you will never forget. R.S. y Even though we live far away from one another, you are always close to my heart. Love, M.K. y Nensi, I'm tired because you are run ning through my head all day and all night baby. Be mine on Valentine s day. S.B. y Be my Valentine Gardner 4th! I love you all!! y Dan, you're not on our floor but this one's for you. Happy Valentine's Day!

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y To Medium-One and Big-One. I must be dremin' cuz you girls are too good to be true!

fjl* M cG ill has a vibrant and active student body. E ach year, the S ca rle t K ey S o ciety seeks to recognize the achievem ents o f outstanding leaders on this cam pus. Students w ho build and create change. Students who leave their m ark on M cG ill long after they have left. T h e S carle t K ey So ciety has been around M cG ill for alm ost 75 years. In 1971, the S carle t Key Award was introduced with a view to recognizing the achievem ents o f M c G ill’s outstanding student leaders. S in ce that tim e, the contributions o f over 1 ,5 0 0 student leaders have been recognized.

from your peers or anyone that you feel is appropriate; list your m ain contribution to M cG ill and tell us how you dem onstrated leadership in the M cG ill com m unity. B etter yet, pick up a package and nom inate a friend or a peer who you perceive as a leader at M cG ill. Past w inners include a wide range o f student leaders at M cG ill — artists, athletes, p olitician s, jo u rn alists and many, many others who defy

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the award is not available to students in their first year at M cG ill. T h e Scarlet K ey S o ciety is not affiliated w ith the Students’ So ciety o f M cG ill University. T h e application procedure is sim ple. P ick up an application package at the S S M U front desk. G et two letters o f referen ce

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Missing Montrealer: Whither art thousand why? The Montreal student must be prepared to face significant challenges adjusting to McGill By N ilima G ulrajani

constraints are financial ones that often compel MMs to stay at home and com m ute to M cG ill rather than move to the city. "Commuter culture", or the tendency for MMs to organize their lives around train schedules and family obligations, is hardly conducive to intense involvement in McGill-sponsored clubs and events. "T h e re ’ s alw ays fam ily re s p o n s ib ilitie s ,” said L u cas. “Often they com e into co n flict with my school work...[T]hat’s life — I take the good with the bad.”

here was no terror in the flushed faces and wide eyes o f d ebaters from across Canada and the US two weeks ago as they stream ed out o f the Leacock building after a “gun man” was sighted in the vicinity. In fa ct, they seem ed to derive immense pleasure from the excite ment o f being "rescued" by the Montreal SWAT team. "There's never a dull moment at M cG ill," an out-of-p rovince debater happily exclaimed as he Chronic under stood outside the building harbour representation ing the armed man. Pseudo-tragic even ts aside how ever, the Even without family obliga Montreal student at McGill would tions however, academic timeta be the first to argue that McGill is bles and extracurricular schedules nothing more than an alienating and lacklustre educational institu often don't mesh, forcing MMs to live at the library and bring two tion. meals to school M ontrealers, in order to É eéieed more proganda, those natives attend th eir eith er living at not just from students but evening m eet hom e or with from profs. [Propaganda] ing. It's no coin strong roots in the that M ontreal-M cGillians o ften t a k e "social p a th o f le a s t resistan ce" city, face a set of th a t values campus life cid en ce M M s are unique challenges aside from attending class they're not forced to carve out new McGill event. We have two soli underrepresent adapting to tudes that also diminish our com friendships and social networks es. ed on the M cG ill life . w hereas students from out o f mon identity as faces behind the Donald Taylor S t u d e n t s ' A lthough often Psychology professor\ Society and on province are in the opposite situa McGill name. Taylor believes this m o lly - c o d d le d tion," he stated. "[Although] com absence of a M cG ill community i n t e r - mu r a l b ecau se o f their muter students don't realize they're spirit is symbolically represented sports teams. "People don't want to nativity to this city and its culture, following the social path of least by poor support for its athletic M ontreal-M cG illians (M M s) are w ait on cam pus all day," said resistance, they do feel a lack of £ ffo m m u ter students Sonja Vojnovic, President o f the in itia lly as intim idated by this group involvement or identity with Student Organization for Alumni aren't getting challenged institution as the out-of-province the in stitu tion , but don't know student fresh off the boat. The sig Relations, a club that tries to foster why. For example, they think it's anywhere, they're not school spirit on campus but draws nificant difference, however, is because of large class sizes." forced to carve out new less than ten per cent of its mem that an existing social network friendships and social net often buffers MMs from the harsh bership from Montreal students. Lack of school spirit "If it was going to take one hour to realities o f adjustment. As nonworks whereas students 'endemic' Montreal students meet new peo get home, I wouldn't want to do ple by exploring the city, through re sid en ce, or through clubs and activi tie s , M M s can further withdraw into the famil iarity of their family and old friends. "M aking friends is d iffic u lt, stressfu l and ego-involving," said psy chology professor Donald Taylor. "It's a daring psy chological process." Som e M M s choose to avoid the stress o f making new connections by withdrawing into their already formed circle of friends. The result is that MMs estrange themselves from the McGill commu nity, taking what Taylor has coin ed "the so cia l W aiting fo r th e bus le a v es th e M ontreal stu d en t in th e c o ld Jared Byer path of least resistance." “I have a double life, MMs' sense of alienation has [activities] either." a life other than this [M cG ill] im portant rep ercu ssio n s for Taylor, however, feels that o n e,” said P atrick L ucas, a U2 M cG ill cam pus life . W ith the MMs' alienation is more likely the eco n o m ics student. “T h e re ’ s bright lights of a big city a hop, incentive but I have a group o f result of complacency rather than skip and jump away from Roddick friends here, a group o f friends public transportation woes. G ates, it ’ s hard to get a strong "Com m uter students aren't there.” n o n -resid en ce crow d to any Superimposed on these social gettin g ch allen g ed anyw here,

from out of province are in the opposite situation.

Donald Taylor teams. "Sports events happen to be a focus where the entire university community can express its identi ty," said Taylor. "It's about being there for a sin g le p u rp o se...a p ro cess that bu ilds id entity through healthy rivalry." M cG ill has often been criti cized for its cutthroat approach to academics. Too much competition, especially in the academic realm, is also a significant impediment to building a sense o f school spirit. Karim Tartoussieh, an internation al student currently studying for his graduate diploma in marketing, suggested th is is probably the hardest part about meeting people and fostering a McGill communi ty“Maybe it’ s the whole envi ronment but I feel it’s very com petitive,” said Tartoussieh. “[I]’ve taken a course at Concordia, and it’s much more relaxed.”

lared Byer Taylor argues that any institu tion that commands loyalty can build a sense o f id en tity . For example, although fraternities and sororities have “talked themselves out of existence,” Taylor feels that sub-groups are especially impor tant because they foster a sense of belonging. He strongly believes that the u niv ersity “has been reduced to a series of planned lec tures” and that the solution to solv ing M cG ill’s endemic problem of school spirit is to promote “fun” in u niversity a c tiv itie s in volvin g Montreal and non-Montreal stu dents alike. “W e need more propaganda, not ju st from students but from profs” he said. “[Propaganda] that values cam pus life aside from attending classes.” MMs could also be smoothly integrated into McGill life by rec ognizing their concerns and chal lenges. Some steps in this direc tion have already been taken, notably S S M U ’ s operation o f a DriveSafe program during Frosh W eek to get students who don’t live a walkable distance from cam pus home safely, and a campaign for reduced transit fares for post secondary students. With student elections looming in spring how ever, candidates and MMs should both make the effort to breach the gap between M cG ill’s two com munities. This can be done by addressing the concerns o f MMs and exercising the vote, respec tively. Mutual understanding and involvement are probably the only realistic means by which we can restore some sense o f pride to M cGill’s fragmented soul.

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“It’s a well known fact that animals enrich our lives in many ways,” reports Natural Health magazine. However, not only do domestic pets provide love and companionship, they also lower blood pressure, ease stress and, according to recent research, prolong our lives. Often domestic dogs, with previous training, can accurately spot skin diseases before professional dermatologists — a long as the affect ed patient is their owner. Furthermore, some dogs seem to be able to alert their owners to the onset o f epileptic seizures. Apparently dogs, who rely heavily on their sense o f smell, can sense chemical changes that occur in the human body. So before you trek up that hill to Health Services, spend a little time with your canine friends.

In a recent article in P sychology Today, psychiatrist Arnold Ludwig, M.D. examined the lives o f a thousand original thinkers of the 20th century, drawn from 18 profes sions, in which each profession was analyzed for signs of psychological instability. Mental illness was common among artsy types: actors, for example, developed mental illness at a rate of 74 per cent. But the "scientifically mind ed' creative sort — architects and composers, for instance — had rates that were ten to 20 per cent lower. (That's still much higher than the rate of mental illness among the gen eral population, which is about 35 per cent). As for writers, the rates were considerably different among fiction and non fiction authors: journalists and the like had a rate of 47 per cent, while for novelists, it was 59 per cent. Poets were most often afflicted at 77 per cent.

Giant steps in AIDS research A monumental discovery has been made in the two decade long battle against AIDS, reports Newsweek. Earlier this month, Dr. B ea trice Hahn, o f the U niversity o f Alabama, discovered the origins o f HIV-1, the virus strain affecting 99 per cent of the disease’s victims. Her findings point to a sp e cific species o f A frican monkey, P an troglodytes troglodytes — a chimpanzee subspecies. HTV-2 has also been directly attributed to a West African monkey called the sotty mangabey. Since humans share 98.5 per cent of their genes with chimpanzees, this discovery could lead to a complete new understanding o f the epidemic. Unfortunately, Pan troglodytes troglodytes is on the brink of extinction. According to Hahn, it’s like “burning a whole library o f books before reading them.” Scientists had better work fast, the books are almost due.

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Goodbye fun fur, hello Hans and Heinrich O ur overseas correspondent flees a dismal gay scene back home and discovers unity on the other side of the qlobe By TROY SEIDMAN

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Once upon a time Montreal had one o f the best gay scenes in North A m erica, with G roove Society on Thursdays, and Sky and Playground stu ffin g as many sweaty men in as possible every weekend. When the season got stale there was an anticipation of where B B C M promoters would throw their next nocturnal extrava ganza. Unfortunately the c ity ’ s scene has become flaccid and its residents haughty and distant. It’s becom ing ea sier to find R u m p lestlitsk in than a French prince in this town.

U» When he offered me a round trip ticket to Frankfurt for $ 1 7 5 I promptly packed my bags and pledged to my parents that I could afford to miss the first two weeks of school!

Searching for a betscene mrRfôneland Frankfurt has been appropri ately nicknamed “Bankfurt” as it is the financial capital of Germany. D espite its stuffy conservative image the gay scene and club life is

A • . . t rtnm TT American to go to LOFT House. We jumped into a Mercedes taxi (those Germans know how to trav el in style) and sped to the east end of the city. LO FT House is sandwiched between a used car dealership and a bathroom fixture showroom. The bland factory facade o f the night club reveals nothing. Inside is one o f the fiercest night-clubs in the world. Three separate floors house three different dancing options. Imagine Sona as triplets. The top floor walls were covered in gold lamé and burgundy plastic deer

Anaemic drag queens at Unify Unity has monopolized the Village. Even BBC M , the genius promoters behind Black and Blue, have surrendered and staged their New Y e a r’ s Eve and upcoming V a len tin e’ s parties at my least favourite place on M ontcalm e. Unity’s crowd has become as frag mented as puzzle pieces in a box. Scraw ny C E G E P pseudo ravers wearing too much glitter and the same fun fur pants compete for dance floor domination with shirt less 40 year old men. (Personally, by the time I ’m in my forties I hope to be working on my RRSP and not my ab s.) U n ity ’ s drag queens are anaemic and awkward, although I love that big black mamma who sells candy! Its DJs are incompetent: how many differ ent remixes o f C her’s “B elieve” can you play in a six month span? “Do you believe in clic h é -fre e music” is a lyric I ’d like to sing to Cher. In “King Lear” the monarch protagonist dies after poison is poured into his ear. I am still recovering from the sonic poison of last Saturday. Fortunately for me, an e x boyfriend o f mine works for Air Canada (there are so many fags working at that airline they should replace the red maple le a f logo

B eh in d th e g lo ssy fa c a d e o f Frankfurt's c o m m erc ia l h e a r t lurks a fie rce p a rty s c e n e RICH! We arrived in Frankfurt early on December 31. We had original ly planned to party at a downtown gay disco called Blue Angel, as recommended by the “L et’s Go” travel guide. Blue Angel was hard ly heavenly. From the street we could hear the heinous voices of Brandy and Monica. Frighteningly disappointed and anxious to party we accep ted ad vice from an

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heads. Not being a fan of hip-hop and old skool, Michael and I did most o f our dancin’ and prancin’ on the lower levels. L O F T H ou se’ s basem ent aimed to recreate the energy of the original German rave scene with a dark cavernous hall with minimal but aggressive light and lasers complimenting the vigorous music. I was especially impressed with the transition from progressive house to a sharper techno sound as the night went on. One standout track was composed of a diva enunciat ing a list o f various profanities over hard beats. The music abrupt ly stops and she d efian tly announces “if you don’t like what I ’m saying, TAKE THE FUCKIN’ TAPE O U T!!!”. I don’t anticipate th is becom ing a G e rt’ s TN T anthem any time soon.

_ The crowd at L O F T House was ideal. Everyone was between 20 and 30, sexy and sociable. In Montreal my dating prospects are grim and dim (on a good day). I met so many hot boys during my trav els, I w on’t be horny until March.

Studio 54 revisited at Opium The following Friday night we went to Opium. The bar/restaurant/nightclub was hosting a Studio 54 party, timed to coincide with the launch o f the film in Germany. E x p licit posters were plastered around the city announcing the event. The rau n ch iest one depicted a glamourpuss propped up on a bar ledge with her boyfriend’s head buried in-between her legs (keep in mind this is a country that sells triple X mags in the supermarket). In general, I am wary about attending a soirée aimed at breeders unless I am ine briated to the degree that Troy Seidman spelling my sur name is a c h a l lenge. But Michael had hooked up with someone who promised that this was going to be the party or the season. Thank G-d we were on the guest list! Hordes of Frankfurt trendsters amassed outside antici pating entrance. A bald 6 ’5" drag queen was the designated door bitch. She was wearing enough eye shadow to make Tam m y Faye Baker look modest. My German is sketchy by I was able to translate the universal “You can come in, but your friend can’t." The demand to get into the club was justified. The decor was dazzling, red velvet walls crowned with oriental engravings. Asian totem poles in crimson and gold of lions and Buddhas were throughout the space. With cover at 24 DM and mixed drinks at 14 DM (the DM is alm ost on par with the Canadian dollar) this wasn’t the

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ty p ical B ierg arten crow d. The crowd was composed of some of the most fabulous looking ladies I have ever seen. I befriended a stat uesque Greek girl wearing a pink glass beaded halter top and Gucci rhinestone stiletto sandals. She decorated her hair with sm all stained glass butterflies. There are often times when gay men must re evaluate their sexuality. I didn’t know if I wanted to be her or be on top of her. It's ironic that I had to go to another city to find real unity. In Frankfurt gay party boys and hedo nistic heteros coalesce sincerely and gracefully. If a straight guy goes to a gay club in Frankfurt, it is not an E V E N T , but so cia lly acceptable if not normal. Although the S ilv e s tr (G erm an for New Year’s) party was gay, a quarter of the crowd were straight couples. A similar fusion occurred at Opium, where two topless boys in angel w ings and w hite leath er pants made out in the centre of the dance floor oblivious to the orientation of the onlookers. Try pulling a PDA like that at Sona! Frankfurters are decadent, gor geous and friendly. High they are not. Surprisingly there is no E in Germany. Although MDMA was conceived in the Rhineland, find ing it is inconceivably difficult. I was repeatedly told by Frankfurters (silly name but the residents are so sexy you forget the allusion to hot dogs) that E and narcotics in gener al went out o f style in the early 90s. Sadly it has not been succeed ed by some other sublim e sub stance. Instead o f powder or p ills, Frankfurters focus on booze. I always felt that $100 dollars for a gram o f coke was ex cessiv e (although m aybe I ’m je a lo u s because my nose can only afford Elm er’s glue). Champagne is the vice of the night. Clubbers stagger around the dance floor swigging from a bottle of bubbly. I ’m not referring to supermarket carbonat ed wines masquerading as the real McCoy. A single bottle of MoetChandon costs more than a month of groceries for me. It seemed that a facade of luxury had to be main tained regardless of one’s financial status. R egard less I have deep respect for decadent foreign habits and was smothered by European gen erosity . And N O TH IN G is sweater than free champagne from a Hans or a Heinrich. Stepping off the plane, I won dered how I will endure Montreal’s nocturnal winter wasteland. I will pray to my fairy godmother for an opportunity to return to the Rhineland and dream of Hans and Heinrich (and naturally their cham pagne)!

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As the frontman for the early '90s Toronto Indie sensation that was The Lowest o f the Low, Ron Haw kins took h im self and his bandmates to the brink o f star dom. Then, in e x p lica b ly , he stepped back. Amidst howls o f protest, the Low disbanded after only two albums and Hawkins faded into the rock and roll ether. Well, maybe not entirely. In the four years since the Low's trag ic breakup, Haw kins has fronted various bands and quietly built up a semi-legendary status as a guitar-playing lone gunman, sort of a southern Ontario Billy Bragg with fewer socialist ten dencies. His current project is the Rusty Nails, a suit-wearing hornblow ing quintet w hose new album G reasing the Wheel o f the Star M achine takes the rockabil ly-blues hybrid o f 19 9 6 ’s The S ecret o f My E xcess a step fur This is n o t a Z o ot Suit Riot! ther, while hanging on to the wiseacre lyrics Hawkins patented stardom and emerge emotionally unscathed, but Hawkins has no with the Low. Suits, horns... we've heard that qualms about starting from scratch. "I feel about as positive as I can tune before. But don't mention the s-word to Hawkins. "If you've got feel, given that the Low was at a horns and suits, people want to point in its career where it was think sw ing," he sighs over the probably bound for much bigger phone from his home in Toronto. things... I realized that when I left it, what that would mean." "W e'v e fa llen victim to th at... And though the Rusty Nails moniker, [but] I think if you look at

• .be playing > • _ the diminutive le will Swimming in Montreal, in Toronto the band is "getting to the point that the Low was at with [Shakespeare My Butt, the first album], selling a lot of records independently and

"There's^ofinitplv definitely a a I A-vear-nlrl 16-year-old punk rock kid voice somewhere in my unconscious yelling 'You've got a publicist? What the hell is that about?'" He has, however, devel oped a certain pragm atism . "There's a point where if we do a tour to Vancouver the only way anybody's going to know about us is either if we get radio play somewhere or there's somebody getting us press in the papers. It's kind of a strategic step. We hired somebody that's cool and under stands what we're doing." Still, the popular image of the Lowest of the Low breakup was of a bunch o f artistic tem peram ents in an em otional Donnybrook, crying "it used to be about the music" and symbolical ly breaking their guitar strings. It turns out, however, that garden variety self-abuse might have had more to do with it. "Things hap pened pretty quickly [with the Low]... and we got deeper into the industry than we were pre pared to get so q u ickly. And I getting radio p lay." The Rusty Nails recently sold out two nights know for me, that fucked me up pretty intensely. Rather than handle at Queen S tree t's hallow ed it in a politically and philosophical Horseshoe Tavern. Much of Hawkins' press focus ly responsible manner I ju st got myself pretty fucked up, did drugs, es on his supposedly sparkling indie cred. It is somewhat discon drank a lot and just sort of ignored certing, then, to see his biography, it. And that obviously didn't help written in fluent rockspeak, spew the internal relationships [in the band]." forth from the fax m achine.

Wu-Tang Clan in hot water: the trials of ODB his new album as G od M ade Dirt O D B is cu rre n tly fa cin g the arm. He was treated in the By Jo h n M c Eachern an d Dirt Don't Hurt. charges for attempted murder in hospital but mysteriously checked ODB is known to smoke very the first degree, attempted murder How would you ch o o se to h im s e lf out d uring the early large amounts of marijuana laced in the second degree and weapons stages o f recovery. live your life if you were a well with cocaine. charges. T h is was know n and ODB is only semi-literate. ODB recently threatened to respected record ^ ^ ids love D irty, you not the fir s t kill bouncers Said reporter Terri van Horne after he was ejected time that he had ing artist? Would a fte r an in terv iew w ith Old tiow what I mean? Every been shot. you d ecid e to Dirty, "ODB replied to each o f O D B stole spend m ost o f tim e they see D irty they my questions with such sarcastic, your money post smile. I get on my knees and a $ 5 0 pair o f irrev e ren t, n on -an sw ers that, from ing bail and pay play Lego blocks with them. N ik e s w ith each o n e, I w ondered S n e a k e r ing la w y ers? 'what's the point.'" S tad iu m . He Would you opt to Old Dirty Bastard Th e W u -T an g C lan have denied the theft spend m ost o f produced two platinum and four d esp ite b ein g your li f e behind gold records since their incep bars and in court rooms? I don’t caught on surveillance camera. tion. E ver since the release o f ODB scaled the security wall think that's what any rational per their first album, E n ter The 36 son would desire. So, what are o f the o ffic e w here one o f his C h am bers, the style and quality girlfriends works and threatened the m em bers o f the W u -T an g o f their music has gone progres to kill her. Clan doing with their time? These sively down hill. The RZA, for O D B refu sed to pay ch ild nine rappers have compiled quite ex a m p le, (w ho b e lie v e s he's support for three o f his legitimate infamous crim inal records over Zorro or Method Man), recently the last few years. Russell Jones' child ren until he was taken to released a lacklustre second solo from a night club in Hollywood. (A.K.A. Old Dirty Bastard) most court and ordered to pay. album. Perhaps this down turn As a result, he is also facing ter All together, ODB has thir recent achievements are represen can be traced to the fact the Clan rorist charges. teen children from 10 girlfriends tative o f the entire Wu-Tang Clan are too busy getting into and out ODB was removed from his and one wife. and are quite comical. o f tro u b le . T h is s c e n a rio is h o tel room in G erm an y a fte r A bo u t his ch ild re n , O D B D uring a ro u tin e tr a ffic guests com plained that he was indicative of much o f today's rap inspection in Brooklyn, ODB shot says, "The kids love Dirty, you industry. hanging out in the nude. repeatedly at Police Officers and know what I mean? Every time You don't need to be hard to Old Dirty Bastard wishes to they see Dirty, they smile. I get then sped away. w rite m u sic. A ll you need is be addressed as "Big Baby Jesus." on my k n ees and play L eg o W h ile v isitin g his co u sin , imagination. He has tentatively set the title for ODB was shot in the back and in blocks with them."

Sn So the, the new new Ron Ron Ha Hawkins is older, wiser and wears a suit. Years removed from the success o f the Lowest of the Low, he is beginning to take the Rusty Nails back up the ladder. The band will be signing a major distribution deal soon, which should boost a v a ila b ility o f G reasing the W heel — you won't currently find it in stock anywhere in downtown Montreal. As far as a major label record ing deal goes, however, Hawkins would insist on artistic control. "The indie thing isn't a manifesto with me. It's ju st something that made sense... If I get money from somebody and in order to do that the thing that com es out is no longer mine or no longer ours col lectively, then it doesn't make any sense for me to work for anyone else. [But] if somebody has enough faith in me and says, 'Yeah, he's got good instincts, here's five hundred thousand bucks,' [I’m there.] I can spend that going to Barcelona just like anyone else.”

Ron H aw kin s an d the Rusty N a ils a r e a t le S w im m in g on Friday night.

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Looking for modem dance in Montreal By D imitri G iannoulakis____ If you have been living here fo r more than a sem ester, you h a v e p ro b a b ly n o tic e d th a t Montreal is buzzing with a vari ety o f dance perform ances fea turing internationally renowned c h o re o g ra p h e rs and d a n ce rs. Just take a look at the papers or the d an ce p o ste rs around the city. Everywhere you go, includ ing the b io lo g y bu ild ing, you a re bound to c o m e a c r o s s a poster o f a pair o f sem i-naked dancers advertising an up-com ing show. Evidence o f the wide spread interest in modern dance is the su cce ssfu l festiv al held last year w hich attracted over 3 0 ,0 0 0 people. If you are interested in get ting into modern dance I sug gest that you start with F erm e L e s Yeux E t R eg ard e-M o i ( C lo se Your E y es a n d L o o k a t M e), an A teliers de D ans M oderne de M o n tre a l p re se n ta tio n w hich runs from the 11th to the 14th o f F e b ru a ry at T h e a tr e L a Chapelle. T h is p a rtic u la r show f e a tures seven short pieces choreo graphed by some o f M ontreal's most innovative and interesting

n a m es and d a n ce d by M ontreal's m ost prom ising ta l e n ts. It is the b e s t w ay (and cheapest, at $8) to get a taste o f the variety o f modern dance in this city. The program includes a piece for nine dancers created by S a ra h B ild , fo u n d e r and, artistic director o f the company B IL D A N S E . L a s t M ay I saw

one o f her pieces entitled PRAG 3 and I was taken aback by the s e n s u a lity and g r a c e o f h er movements. Next on the menu is a piece by H e le n B la c k b u r n c a lle d M i c r o c o s m o s c o n s is tin g o f a series o f duets which are set to Bartok's music. The award-win n in g H elen B la c k b u rn is the

fo u n d e r o f th e co m p a n y C as Public and has had a number o f her creations staged in France, B e lg iu m , Ita ly , H u n gry and England. Her work is fa st and d ynam ic and is u su ally about the fine line between seduction and a g g r e s s io n . F o llo w in g M i c r o c o s m o s is w o rk by M ichelle Rioux, excerpted from

B a s t r in g u e B a t a r d w hich was p re s e n te d la s t Ja n u a ry at M onum ent N ational. T his is a hum orous and th eatrical piece se t to liv e p e rc u s s io n . Je a n Pierre Mondor's piece in which the d an cers sp ea k , co n v eys a sim ilar light mood As if this is not enough three m ore p ieces are presented, including a solo created and danced by a student, Isabel Mohn. T he nine dancers who are also largely responsible for the production have been preparing sin ce Septem ber, working two to three weeks with each chore o g ra p h e r, and r e fin in g the p ie c e s w ith H e le n e L e c la ir . A fte r th ree y ea rs o f rig o ro u s training these nine dancers from L'A D M I are ready to show and strut th e ir stu ff. You w ill not o n ly b e in itia te d in to the M ontreal dance scene, but also m o v ed , d istu rb e d and e n te r tained. Ferme L es Yeux Et Regarde M oi p la y s F e b u a r y 1 1 -1 4 at 8 p m , a t t h e T h e a t r e d e la C h a p e lle , 3 7 0 0 St. D om in iqu e. T ick ets a r e $8, r e s e r v a t io n s a t 8 4 3 -7 7 3 8 .

Bar des Pins — home of the Rez Dogs Intramural sports and Bar des Pins are inextricably linked and both can be a m ystery to the uninitiated. I tried to penetrate this m ysterious aura one night over a drink with my favourite intramural hockey team, the Rez Dogs. B a r des P ins, form erly the Brasserie des Pins, is affection ately referred to in athletic circles

as "the Brass." Tucked into a drab corner o f the Parc interchange, the B rass has an unas suming exterior, despite th e ir new green sign . The interior is similarly understated, with wood p a n e llin g and a very larg e m ural o f s o c c e r players with odd expres sions on their faces. High points

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box, and the endless supply o f peanuts. The ambience is casual; in fact, I have even seen small children there playing pool and soaking up the whole some atmosphere. T he B r a s s , by virtue o f its proximity to the gym , is the home base for many sp o rts team s, both varsity and intramur al. I must admit that I w as h av in g a hard time grasping both the appeal o f drinking in a bar that looks like my grandparents' recroom, and the appeal o f playing fo r three sea so n s on a lo sin g team . H ow ever, the Rez Dogs cheerfully showed me that although they are usually nursing a loss rather than ce le brating a victory, it's all about one thing — soul. We settle down to a few pitchers o f beer and a basket o f peanuts and the R ez Dogs tell me their story. T h e R ez D ogs beg an as a group o f rag-tag first-years from Residence. W hile several o f the

players are accomplished hockey players, particularly their talented g oalie, Graham, several members o f the team had n ev er b een on sk a tes before. Less than half the team could skate b a ck wards. Although the Rez Dogs lacked the technical fin e s s e that would win them the big gam es and bring fame and glory, they have made a more spiritual mark on D league hockey.

W atching a R ez Dog game can be described with one word — poignant. Players such as Je ff H eaton, Dan H irsch field , Sam Sewall and Darcy Scott put emo tion into every stroke o f their hockey sticks and every glide o f their skates, even when they are five points behind. The Rez Dogs also understand the importance of rem em berin g th e ir fans. They

have a web page where the avid fan can get the stats on the most recent game, plus profiles o f their favourite players. There are also Fan Appreciation Nights and the yearly Rez Dog banquet which are both widely attended. There are o c c a s io n a l in te rm issio n shows, allowing some o f the team to show the more expressive side o f skating. One o f the most mem o ra b le w as in the firs t season when four o f the players did a touching portrait o f a small seed growing into a flower. In the future, watch for an appearance by the M cG ill figure skating team. As a result o f all these factors, the Rez D ogs are much more than a hockey team, but an em blem fo r som e thing more intangible. T he R ez D ogs taught this jad ed and c y n ic a l bar rev iew er something that night at the Brass. Whether you review goofy bars for the school paper, hang out at B ar des Pins or play on a D league hockey team, it's all w hat you m ake it. A ll that's required for a good time is a little soul. The B rass is lo ca ted d eep in the h ea rt o f the P a rc an d d es Pins ju n g l e , a s i f y o u d id n 't kn ow . H ere b e ora n g e F orm ica tables!

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Central Station gets on the Italian neo-realist train By Elaine O'Connor George Orwell, waxing poetic about the “degradation o f the English language,” would, one can assume, be similarly appalled at the state of the cinematic language had he taken a cultural studies degree. The m assive onslaught o f Hollywood tripe each year func tions as a necessary antithesis to “art film s,” but also threatens to submerge the cinematic language with conventions which degrade the form. W alter S a ile r s ’ new film , Central Station, sidesteps this cine matic slang, favouring the pared down approach that signals a return to classical realism. He takes a tra ditional plot and inscribes it with signifigance; his return to story and sym bolism makes for a turn to humanity. Fernanda Montenegro is Dora, a modem day scribe caught in the crush o f bodies and stories that surge daily through R io de Janiero’s Central Station. A retired school teacher, Dora takes dictation from lost souls and the illiterate, posting their letters according to her whims. Messages from desper ate lovers, liars and the like hit the dust bin once Dora gets a chance to sort them with her neighbour (played for comic relief by Marilla Pera). Some letters are relegated to purgatory: Dora leaves them in a drawer until she decides what to do with them. Such is the fate o f a small boy ’ s letter to his absent fath er sin ce D ora b elie v es his mother is using the boy to get her

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drunk, deadbeat husband back. This mythic father is the only one the boy has left when his moth er is hewn down by a bus. The boy turns overnight into a nameless urchin, haunting the station and Dora, demanding proof that she has sent the letter. Dora, hardened by her lonely life takes him in, only to sell him off to a shady adoption agency for the money to buy a T V . A fit of guilt, coupled with her neighbours’ suggestion that the boy will not be adopted but rather killed for his organs, makes Dora run to rescue the boy in what is one of the film ’ s nost harrowing, but also most amusing scenes. This rescue is also a saving of self; her agree

ment to help the boy find his father marks the beginning of her unwit ting quest for spiritual renewal. Under Salles’ direction, these two dance a dangerous emotional pas-de-deux across the backroads and bus routes of Brazil. This is the road trip flick aged to an art form. The film is as emotionally sticky and grifty as the characters, strand ed in the midst o f their journey without money, food, or friends; in e ffe c t they becom e two o f the countless many stranded on the streets and in the stations of Rio. What saves them is the commit ment and care they learn, strug gling to stand each other and understand each other.

C y n ic a l and worn, M o n te n e g ro ca rries the film on her fa ce . The actress’ range is astounding; she moves % e ffo r tle s s ly from the comedic to the pathetic. V in iciu s de Oliveira plays the scrappy orphan with charm . The ingenue was discovered by Salles’ (as leg end or press releasew ould have it), while w orking as a shoe shine boy- in the capital s air port. Simplicity and narrative sub stance has seen reviewers slipping Salles’ film into the Italian neo realist pocket. And to some extent it is this film’s commitment to the accurate inscription of the ugly that saves each scene from a potentially overw helm ing poignancy. The director will not let you forget the context for the love story; the dirt, poverty and violence o f B razil. That, and the wry humour charac teristic to much foreign film, takes the edge off the intensity, making the obstacles of human life verge on the absurd. The film is scripted with the

intensity of a small stage play, yet set against the wide, panoramic and often desolate Brazilian country side. Walter Carvalho, the director of photography, creates this con trast with a cinematic structure and sym bolism which hold the film together, translating the storyline, told in Portugese, better than the English subtitles. Carvalho’ s eye for im age is p recise and p ic turesque. He transforms the push of hurried passengers in the film s’ opening shots later on into a crowd of pilgrims gather to sing for the Virgin Mary, flooding the small town where Dora and the boy find salvation with candlelight. The cos tuming is similar in its attention to detail. Along the route, the two trade their dirty clothes for the white linen shifts of initiates, which Dora changes out of at the closing of the film; dressed in a blue dress the ch ild has bought her she becomes the Madonna. All this has not gone without notice. C en tral Station was this years winner of the Golden Globe award for Best Foreign Language Film . Montenegro has garnered several film circuit awards for her perform ance, and rightfully so. C en tral Station is a modern day classic, an artistic example of what is possible in film when, as in lan guage, we remember simplicity, eloquence and style. Central Station is playing at Loew s with English subtitles and at C o m p le x e D e s ja r d in s in w ith French. K leenex required.

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Good: as close to bad as The Tragically Hip will ever get Legendary live act gives solid, if unmemorable performance, but no one leaves unsatisfied B y C hris S elley

The T rag ically Hip might, so m e w h e re , s o m e tim e , hav e played a bad concert. I w asn’t there and neither was anyone I know. S till, when a band devel ops a reputation as an outstand ing liv e a c t, they have to be h eld to a h ig h e r sta n d a rd . G iv en th at, F rid a y 's show at the M olson Centre was inco n s is te n t and so m ew h at d isa p p oin ting — about as c lo se to bad as the Hip are likely to get. To start with, there was the s ta g e . T h e H ip h a v e b e e n d escrib ed as a bar band gone wild, which is an unfortunately sim plistic if fundamentally co r r e c t n u ts h e ll d e s c r ip tio n o f their bizarre rise to superstar dom. B ars, however, don't usu ally have chand eliers or fauxmarble inlay floors. They don't often have any eighteenth-cen tury accoutrem ents at all. The inclusion o f these items in The Hip’s set probably represents a desire for intim acy, but arena shows have never had anything to do with intim acy. Hip shows in arenas have always relied on good sound, good tunes, good lighting and the vaguely ironic, stripped-dow n sp e cta cle o f it all.

:a t D id I ___ m en tion good sound? S t r ik e tw o . T h e p ro b le m lik e ly lay in the K e g 's dubious acoustics rather than in the so u n d s y ste m i t s e l f , bu t G ord D o w n ie 's tr a d e mark rants, which have d e c lin e d b o th in q u a lity and quantity and increased only in r e p e titiv e n e s s , are ju st dead time in a show i f you c a n 't u nderstand what the hell he's s a y in g . M r. D o w n ie 's v o ic e has alw ays shad ed s lig h t ly towards nasal and w h in y (so m e would say infu ri atingly so), but at tim e s F rid a y night he sounded lik e M ich a e_ Stip e on helium . W h en lead g u i t a r is t Bobby B a k e r 's g u ita r k ep t c u ttin g out Talk to th e b a n a n a in " G if t S h o p ,"

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1996's show at the M olson C en tre w asn 't m uch to w rite home about either, though it is s t i l l m o re fr e s h in my m ind than F r id a y 's . In a m o n th , 1 w o n 't re m e m b e r a th in g . W hether this was an o ff night, a lousy venue or an indication o f some kind o f general decline in the Hip is hard to say with out seeing other shows on this tour, or w ithout ch eck in g out th is s u m m e r's A n o th e r R o a d s id e A t tr a c tio n . A Hip show is never a waste o f time o r m o n e y , and th is w as no exception. It was good... that’s it.

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108%CUSMBIAN The second release from this trio from New York city fails to live up to the standard they set in 1996 with Come Find Yourself. Where that album was a tight, consistent masterpiece,700% Columbian is an effort that incorporates too many musical styles at once. The result is a rather mish-mash project that disappoints. "Korean Bodega," the first single off the album, mixes a Bo Diddley style intro with hard rock verse, while "10th Street" starts off sounding like something out of m id-'60s London before it regresses into a loud, obnox M o v ie P a s s e s ious copy of '80s metal. The attempt S p e c ia l can be looked upon as noble, but still a P r e v ie w failure. And while the band has admitted that they consider this " T h e O t h e r S is te r " album to be "a « mistake," it is not fainment without its

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moments. Songs like "The View Belongs to Everyone" and "We are all very worried about you," are two laid back, smooth, consistent songs that still prove the Fun Lovin Criminals are still a great band. At best, this can be considered a weak follow up. But at the same time the group is still able to put its sig nature stamp of Noo Yawk accents, "neighbourhood" mentality, and supposed mafia ties on the album. If you've ever wished that you grew up Italian in New York City, this record will certainly help you indulge that fantasy. - Christian Hinder Luciano Sweep Over My Soul (Xterminator Records/VP) Luciano, the Jamaican people’s Messenger of Love, makes a solid return to the reggae music industry with his new album, Sweep Over My Soul. He stays true to his main formula from past successful albums like M essen ger (Island Jam aica-1997) and Where There is Life (Island Jamaica-1995) by providing his listeners with soulful and inspirational tracks that tell a story of his survival in this world. Tracks like “Sweep Over My Soul and “Can’t Stop Jah Works” emphasize his humbleness and thanksgiving in the ever-living presence of Jah (God) who spiritually energizes his many live performances. This blessed vocalist is clear ly on a mission to spread a universal message geared towards showing those trapped in the darkness (trans gressions), a way into the light. Luciano has come a long way from Davyton, a small district in Jamaica to realize his dreams of making music on a wide scale. The album is definitely worth buying and will “Sweep Over Your Soul.” At Le Medley, Sat., Feb 13. — Cedric Gordon

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M artlets, Stingers blank each other Scoreless d ra w en ds 14-year, 4 8 -g am e losin g streak ag ain st c ro ss-to w n rival C oncordia By Jonathan Colford____________

and no player lagged behind in the pre-game skate. According to team captain Dana Rittmaster, the Martlets always step it up a notch when facing Concordia.

As the final buzzer sounded and the jubilant Martlets surrounded goaltender Kim St-Pierre, McGill could sigh in relief as one King Kong-sized monkey was removed from their backs. A scoreless tie at M cConell Winter Arena last Friday was the cause. M cGill had not defeated Concordia since the 1985 Provincial champi onships. Between then and now they had lost 48 consecutive games, many o f which weren’t even close. The 9-0-1 Stingers had just come off an impressive 4-1 victory a g a i n s t ............ .... defending NCAA H ard hitting action in M cConnell a r en a Division 1 champi "We’re always intense against on New Hampshire in the final of the Border Battle tournament held at New Concordia. We love to play them, we Hampshire. M cG ill put up some love to get in their faces," said strong performances against NCAA Rittmaster. In what is normally supposed to Division 3 leaders Middlebury College and R.P.I. The Martlets tied be a non-contact sport, two players the former 1-1 and drubbed the latter were ejected for checking from behind and there were several skirmishes, 10-0. You could tell the Red 'N' White especially in the third period. Referees were ready for the defending national called eight minors, six in the third champion Stingers as their passes period alone. Defenceman Paula Mailloux, were all on the mark during warm-up

. . ... -.1 r-1 1 who leads the Martlets with 51 penal ty minutes this season, said she enjoyed the relaxed refereeing. "The referees let us play a lot," noted Mailloux. "I have a much easier time in a physical game because when the referees are call ing a lot of things I end up staying in the penalty box the whole game." Traditionally, Concordia had been able to exploit its superior speed and skate circles around the McGill defence. Mailloux and fellow defenceman Allison Ticmanis explained the adjustments they made in order to compensate for their relative lack of quickness against Patrick Fok the Stinger attack "Our coach has been showing us in practice how weve got to step up at the blue line, can’t let them come in because if they do, they’ll be too fast," said Mailloux. "You’ve just got to take them at the blue line, make sure you take the body, and that you don’t let them get around you." "I always have to keep my feet moving," added Ticmanis. "I try be ready for them to come, and always look at the body instead of the puck, I

,-»non kt-inmnfT thf»m nvp.r just concentrate bringing them over to the boards in order to cut off the centre more so they can’t sneak it through." The Martlets’ improved defence and their refusal to back down from Concordia’s physical play led the sec ond period to end exactly as had the first, with neither team finding the back of the net. The Martlets’ best scoring chance came four minutes before the end o f the period as Ticm anis’ s cross-ice pass to Rittmaster got them a three-on-one. Rittmaster passed to O’Reilly, who shot wide of the net. The Martlets would obtain anoth er big chance to score with five min utes left in the third. With a little over five minutes remaining in the game, Stinger forwards Amy Coelho and Karen Kendall were sent o ff for roughing. McGill would enjoy a fiveon-three advantage for two minutes. The Martlets were shaky from the start of this power play and failed to convert. According to Rittmaster, the Red 'N' White seemed ready to settle for the tie. "When we were on that five-onthree, people were just thinking, ‘hold back and tie the game’ , and we weren’t going at them as hard as we could. Sometimes we’re just stuck on getting the shot on the net, counting the shots, instead of scoring and bury ing our chances," said Rittmaster. While the ending was spectacu lar, the game itself was, according to Martlet players, far from clean.

"W e don’t think o f them as Concordia the powerhouses. They’re just another hockey team," said Rittmaster. "They were getting cheap," said an upset O'Reilly after the game. "Usually they don’t get cheap when they win, but we saw something in them that we don’t usually see. They usually go around us as if we were cones or something. Now they just lost it and we took advantage of it." O ’Reilly pointed out that the unusual resistance of the Martlets to a Concordia offence which averages 6.5 goals per game frustrated the Stingers. This frustration, according to O ’R eilly, seemed to confuse the Stingers on defence, which allowed the Martlets to direct 19 shots in on their goaltender Lisa HerrittN the most accorded by Concordia this sea son.. "They were getting really frus trated and as soon as we circled the puck around in their zone to set up some plays they seemed to be con fused, because some players there are so used to playing offensively. So when we got in their zone we got sev eral shots," said O’Reilly. Rittmaster’s attitude must be infectious as the Martlets are starting to really come together as a team. A warning the team would like the Concordia Stingers to heed in the like lihood the two teams will meet again, this time for the provincial title in two weeks.

Martlets ambush Laval in three set domination AcGill stuns undefeated Rouge et O r to end regular season on high note By Michel O hayon_________ _ _ After some solid tournament play this past weekend the Martlets continue to show signs of success as they came together with a convinc ing upset of Laval in women’s vol leyball Saturday evening at the Currie Gym. The convincing victory capped o ff a successful weekend for the M artlets who manhandled Sherbrooke 15-7, 15-10, and 15-1 Friday to keep the Vert et Or winnless at 0-11. McGill’s weekend per formance brought their record to 6-6 as they prepare for the playoffs. Ranked fifth in the nation, the previously undefeated Laval Rouge et Or just did’t seem to have it on this night, as the Martlets fought hard to maintain their momentum and handed the visitors their first loss" of the year in straight sets of 157, 15-7 and 15-8. Martlet team members expected a longer dog fight than they got. "I thought it was going to be a long game," said Kim Barrette who had 12 kills on the evening. "Laval's a great team, but we ju st stayed focused — we kept our minds in the game, and that's a huge part of win ning." Midway through the first set, McGill took the initiative and never looked back. After a point-for-point

battle to 4-4, the Martlets opened a the M artlets jumped ahead 7-1. lead and took Laval to 13-7. From there, Kim Barrette spiked one in to make it set-point and then an errant Laval shot gave M cG ill the opening. In the second set, Marie-Claude Ferland kept a rally going at 5-2 as she hit the floor to keep a w ell-placed Laval shot in play. The Martlets took the point, and though they had to fight to keep their momentum the women took another two before letting Laval approach them at 9-7. M cG ill's M arieAndrée Lessard ended the Laval resurgence with a decisive spike to M artlet p r e p a r e to sm a sh L aval take back the serve. Barrette followed a nice dive by Anouk Lapointe with a cou- Laval fought back, however, pulling pie more spikes to put the Martlets at a streak together to tie it up. The M artlets didn’t give up 14. It was finesse rather than power another point before making it 14-7 and took the set 15-8 in the end. that determined the set-point, The Martlets were powered by though, as Anne Mullin answered a soft, sneaky Laval shot with a well- Lessard and Anouk Lapointe on this night. Lessard amassed 15 kills and placed tip of her own. The third set seemed to be nine digs while Lapointe gathered 16 going McGill’s way again early on as digs and stuff blocks.

Head coach Rachèle Béliveau was pleased with her team's performance. "I'm really happy with the team's performance tonight," said a beaming Béliveau. "They played great and it's always nice to beat a good team." Her six starters played solidly throughout and Béliveau didn't need to change the win ning combination. "I was happy with the starters. They were playing well as a team," said the coach. "I didn't want to affect their confidence by substi tuting someone." Béliveau was Tach Emerson also happy with the Martlets' passing and serving, listing the latter as one of the key factors in McGill's winning performance. "It threw Laval off balance," explained Beliveau. "It surely kept the momentum going our way throughout the match." This was the M artlets' last league game of the season, and the upcoming playoffs will ultiihately

determine national rankings. Next weekend, the team goes to Université de Montréal for a sudden death semi-final match, and Béliveau likes her team's chances. "This is good preparation for the playoffs," predicted Beliveau. "The team has really progressed, and it’ s as if they're playing with so much confidence that they can do anything."

Redm en H ockey vs. Ottawo, Wednesday February 10th, 7:30 p.m., vs. Guelph, Friday February 12»h, 7:30 p.m., vs. Toronto, Saturday February 13th, 7:30 p.m., all games at McConnell Winter Arena. M artlet Basketball vs. Ryerson, Friday February 12th, 6:00 p.m., vs. Queen's, Saturday February 13th, 6:00 p.m., both games at Currie Gym. Redmen Basketball vs. Ryerson, Friday February 12th, 8:00 p.m., vs. Queen's, Saturday February 13th, 8:00 p.m., both games at Currie Gym.

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couldn’ t keep up their winning ways as they fell 82-63 to a very strong Laurentian squad. The team played tough and was only down 37-33 at the half. The McGill offence was guided by Jen de Leeuw who dropped 20 points and went 4/9 from beyond the three point arc. The team now drops to 3-11 with six games left.

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On Wednesday the Redmen fell 4-3 to UQTR. The loss saw the return of Mathieu Darche who was fresh from the W orld University Games in Slovakia and obviously not suffering from jet lag as he netted a goal and two assists. Joining him at the scorers table were Dave Gourde who returned from the injured list to notch three points on a goal and two assists, with Luc Fournier adding the third goal. In net Jarrod Daniel played poorly enough in the first period, two goals on ten shots, to be yanked in favor of Benoit Menard who stopped 24 of 26 shots in net. McGill followed up the UQTR loss with another loss to Ottawa on Saturday. Getting no help from the officials the Red and White fell 2-0 to the Gee-Gee’s. The team now falls to 10-7-4 and is six points out o f a playoff spot, with only five games remaining. M a r t l e t s sh o w BEGINNINGS OF LIFE The Martlet basketball team picked up a huge win on Friday over York 59-43. C aroline M alo led the way with 18 points and five rebounds. U nfortunately the team

R edm en s t u m b l e TOWARDS PLAY-OFFS The Redmen basketball team continued its recent slide with a 8169 loss to York on Friday. The Redmen continued to rule the perimeter as Brady Murphy hit 5/7 from the arc, and chipped in 19 points on the night. On Saturday, they alm ost matched the Martlets score against Laurentian as they lost 80-63. Also like the M artlets, they trailed by only four at the half, but a late collapse handed the Redmen their second loss of the weekend. Again Murphy paced the team with 20 points and five rebounds. The team, even after the loss es, now only needs one more win to elim in ate L aval and secure themselves a playoffs spot. S q u a sh : bro n zed IN HAMILTON At the OUA team squash cham pionships in H am ilton,

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University o f Montreal played host to the Q uebec U n iversity Championships, and M cGill con tinued to roll as they swept mens and womens titles. The men finished first o f six teams and took home their first Quebec championship since 1972. Redmen rookie Alex Pichette grabbed four golds by winning the 50m and 100m freestyle, as well as the 100m and 200m backstroke. He also took home two silvers in the 4 x 1 0 0 m m edley and the 4x100m freestyle. Teammate David Allard con tinued his domination of the CIAU by winning four more golds in the 200m and 400m medleys, the 200m breaststroke, 4x200m freestyle relay. With his silvers coming in the 50m b reaststro ke and the 4 x 100m freestyle relay. He was also named rookie o f the year in the Q SSF. The other golds came from Matt W alker who won the 200m, 400m, and 1500m freestyle races. Finally Chris Topham and Keith Sutherland rounded out the relay gold winners. The women were led by their biggest star, Holly McComb, who won six gold medals. She took first in the 100m and 200m butter fly, the 200m and 400m individual

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The destruction of the best ballpark Toronto ever saw B y C hristian Lander On February 1st, they finally tore down Exhibition Stadium. In term s o f b a se b a ll h isto ry , the quality o f the ball park is usually considered on par with the L.A. Coliseum , Jarry Park, and M ile High Stadium. More appropriate ly put, it w as a stadium ill equipped to handle M ajor League Baseball. Nonetheless, this poor excuse for a stadium carries most o f my favourite baseball memo rie s and its d em o litio n only makes me pine for the days o f the powder blue uniform s, covered b le a ch e rs, and the old double zero jersey o f C liff Johnson. W h ile o ff ic ia lly liste d as opening in 1879, the stadium did n't truly come into being until its re n o v a tio n s in 1 9 5 9 . P lay in g home exclu sively to the Argos and the occasional concert, the park was built for football. One look at the make up o f the stadi um and this fact becom es obvi ous, with a m odest capacity o f 2 5 ,3 0 3 , a huge covered grand stand shaped like a rectangle that refuses to bend around the out field fence. Across the field lay silver backless benches that did curve around the endzone and were orginally designed as the cheap seats. W hen M a jo r L ea g u e Baseball finally came to Toronto, the stadium was forced to under go ren ov atio n s. $ 1 7 .6 m illio n dollars was pumped into the sta dium to boost capacity to 38,522 for opening day, and 43, 737 by 1978. While the money helped to expand the number o f seats and lay down an infield , it was far from enough to turn the stadium into a legitimate ballpark. T he stadium was the only one in history where the bleach ers w ere co v ered and the box seats were not. In fact, one would have to pay more for the priviled g e to sit in the rig id , alu minum benches. Not only would they be absolute murder on one's back, but they would leave the poor fan naked to the unrelenting sun which, thanks to the metallic benches, would reflect into your eyes should you be unfortunate enough not to have people sitting in front of you.

L ig h t years behind stadiums o f the era, the Ja y s jo in e d the m ajo r leagues with their first game on A pril 7, 1977 ag a in st the C h ica g o W h ite S o x . T h e gam e would be the only one in m a jo r le a g u e h isto ry w here the e n tire fie ld was co v e re d in snow . The franchise got o ff to a g reat sta rt as the Ja y s won the gam e on the strength o f a Doug Ault homerun. As the se v e n tie s came to a close the Jays were a typical bungling expansion team playing in a h o rrib le stadium bu ilt too clo se to L ake O n ta rio . T h e w inds would howl in o ff o f the Exhibition stadium gone the way o f Ebbetts, Forbes and Jarry Park lake and make fly balls as p re d ic ta b le as the satisfaction o f sitting in the cheap b ered lik e F o rb e s F ie ld in P itts b u rg h , E b b e tt’s F ie ld in p itch in g o f D ave L em an czy k . s e a ts , se e m in g ly m iles from Brooklyn, or the Polo Grounds in The rains would come so fiercely h o m ep la te , and w atch in g the New York. But regardless of the you'd th in k they cam e from r ic h e r fa n s w ith b e tte r seats stadium, what it represents is uni India. As far as w eather goes, sc ra m b le fo r the e x its as the v ersal. The old stadium repre you couldn't have picked a worse downpour started. sents childhood pleasures like place in the city to build a ball The b le a c h e rs alw ays appeared way too big for the sta leaving school early to catch a park. There were huge problem s dium, as a result the Jays never T h u rsd ay a ftern o o n gam e, or felt the need to assign seat num w atching players who you still bers to the tickets and made the im agine to be a lot better than they re a lly w ere. I s till ca n 't whole section general admission. That great policy meant that the believe Damaso Garcia isn't con sidered the best second baseman first people at the ballpark got o f the eighties. the best b lea ch er seats. A fter T h e stadium had charm being exposed to the world o f because it had mistakes. I'll bet rigid seat assig n m en ts at the that if I was 2 0 when the ball Sk y d o m e, I ca n 't fo rg e t the excitem ent o f getting the b all park opened I probably would park early enough to watch bat have hated it. But I wasn't born when it was open, and I spent ting practice and get a seat close som e o f the b e s t days o f my to George Bell. Maybe it was just a twist of childhood at that ballpark, so it's fate that the most controversial b eco m e im p o ssib le fo r me to

1977: Bill Singer throws the first pitch in Blue Jays history at 3:22 PM on April 7th, 1977 with the "m istake by the lake," but it was still a wonderful ball park. The covered bleachers gave the fans, who bought the $ 2 . 0 0 Dominion Supermarket tickets, co o l shade during the summer months, and shelter against the rain. There was always a sweet

p la y er in Ja y s h isto ry was assig n ed to le ft fie ld , w ithin ea rsh o t o f the b le a c h e rs . F or those who never knew the great n ess o f G eo rg e B e l l, he was loathed by most o f the working cla ss, Sun reading fans, while being loved by most of the chil dren . At the games the combina tion o f drunken fans and Jorge, as he used to be known, meant more than one o c c a s io n w here my mother had to cover my ears. Of co u rse E x h ib itio n Stadium w ill never be rem em

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Courteau sees these actions as to the NHL, is not as tenuous as detrimental, especially considering The Q uebec M ajor Junior others have made it to be. that junior hockey is still develop Hockey League’ s all-star Game, “Our product is not in decline,” mental in nature and strongly com played last Tuesday at the Molson Courteau emphasized. “I think that munity-oriented — winning is not Centre, was not your typical all-star hockey in Canada is very healthy the ultimate goal. clash. and in great shape.” “We have to look at the dates Yes, there was lots of scoring, One fa ct which backs up of our trading deadlines,” Courteau Q M J H L i m p r o v i n g the goalies were left to fend for Courteau’s assertion is that even admitted. “W e’ve talked about it themselves, and the game was a lit with the recent influx of European with the Western league because tle more relaxed than a regular sea W hile the Quebec league is stars to the game, many o f those they’re facing problems now with son contest. There was, however, an part of the powerful triumverate of players are choosing to leave their some of their teams stacking up to element of pressure and expectation Canadian junior hockey, it has often homelands to play their junior hock get a better chance to be the rep of not normally found in games of this been looked upon as the weakest of ey in Canada, believin g it will the league in the Memorial Cup. nature. The crowd of nearly 8,000 at the three. The strongest criticisms enhance their chances of making the “We have to treat fans in a bet the M olson Centre knew it, the NHL. levied against its style concerned ter way. I don’t think it’s fair to say: media knew it, and the players and the defensive play, or lack thereof. Russian star M axim ‘Oh, I ’ m sorry, after 25 games coaches certainly knew it. That appears to be changing. Balm ochnykh was one o f those we’ve decided to trade our top play Junior hockey in Canada i-. Orval Tessier, former bench players. The Quebec Remparts for ers to another team who’s got a bet regarded as the best talent supplier boss of the Chicago Blackhawks, is ward created a stir when, after the ter chance to win a Memorial Cup’, to the National Hockey League. The very fam iliar with the Q M JH L, world junior tournament in which and we say to the fans and the spon Quebec League is one o f three especially considering he coached he participated for his native Russia, sors ‘wait till next year’ ? I don't which operates under the umbrella for eight years with the Cornwall, he announced that his stint in the think that’s the way we should do of Canadian junior hockey, with the Quebec and Chicoutimi franchises. Quebec League was stunting his business.” Western and Ontario leagues being He readily agreed when asked if he growth as a hockey player. Another concern which has the other two. thought the league was improving. Consequently, he went back home. reared its head in recent years is the Combined, these three leagues “It was a high scoring league,” Courteau was not impressed. spectre of sexual abuse, especially have a significant percentage of Tessier admitted. “Defensive play “I think that’s really bad what follow ing the highly-publicized players drafted to the NHL and did not exist. No defencemen would [Balmochnykh] did with the Quebec Graham James case. Courteau is players who play in it. Alm ost ever come out of here — at least not Remparts hockey club because they well aware that the safety of the everybody who plays junior hockey too many. But now the league has did everything they could to make player is a top priority. one day dreams of suiting up in the changed completely; it’s very com this kid comfortable at home and “W e’ve talked about it a lot,” big leagues. It’s hardly surprising, petitive, it’ s winning M emorial despite all of that he decided to go Courteau conceded. “We just want then, that the players involved in Cups, and the hockey is ju st as to make sure that we do what we the tilt between the league’s Dilio exciting.” have to do to make the player feel and Lebel divisions took this game Q u ic k f a c t s It would seem that Tessier is comfortable with one of our major seriously. ____ partly right. At the 1998 junior teams and to feel free to give With scouts, Total number of players draft NHL entry draft, the a call to anyone if they are facing a agents, and potential ed by NHL teams: 6534 percentage o f players problem.” future em ployers drafted from the Quebec watching in addition C a n a d ia n Leagues ranks was at its highest to the adoring fans, L ife a f t e r ju n i o r s level in 2 1 years. the pressure on the OHL: 1553 Sin ce the d raft’ s players was enor WHL: 1273 For those who don’t get drafted inception in 1969, of the mous. QMJHL: 697 and feel that the dream o f a pro 6534 players drafted by “W ithout a career is out o f reach, education NHL teams, 697 have doubt some o f the International: 991 takes priority. Courteau mentions come from the ranks of players are feeling U.S. Colleges: 847 that the goal of each team in the the Quebec league. That pressure,” noted U.S. High Schools: 609 league is “to develop the players for figure pales in compari Q M JH L President the NHL, and if they’re not success son to the 1,553 of the G illes Courteau. Other: 564 ful, to make sure that they can go to Ontario league and the “First of all, some C h o u in a rd : p ressure p a rt school a fte r.” Courteau is very 1,293 of the Western. o f them are not o f b e in g a p ro — Taken fro m the NHL Guide pro^,d of the league’s policy which Despite this dispar drafted and there are ensures that each player, upon and Record Book ity, Courteau claim s lots of NHL scouts in the stands. deciding to go to school, has up to there’s more than just figures. Secondly... they are.in the Molson $10,500 to help defray university “I don’t think it’s fair to look at Centre — to play in the Molson only the number of players drafted back home for reasons I don’t agree costs. Centre means a lot to those 40 play on a yearly basis,” Courteau pointed For those who decide to contin with at all,” the league president ers.” out, noting that many undrafted stated. “If [he wants] to be an NHL ue, most require a stint in the minor O f those 40 players, 21 had players still get invites to NHL player, he’s got to come play in leagues of a year or more just to get already been selected by pro teams. used to the frenetic pace of the pro training camps and sign pro con North America.” The other 19 are either draft-eligble tracts. game. “You have to work a lot on for the first time this year or had your speed because the game is This is not to say, though, that C h a n g e w ill d o been previously passed over. really quicker up there,” observed the QMJHL hasn’t produced its fair Anyone who was not a player share o f stars in the past; Guy the prized prospect of the New York you good agreed there was a lot riding on this L afleu r, M ario Lem ieux, Ray Islanders, Roberto Luongo. game. Guy Chouinard, coach of the Bourque and Patrick Roy are among Luongo has becom e accu s Despite the junior hockey sys Dilio division team, thought it was the league’s distunguished alumni. tomed to the spotlight ever since he tem’s strengths, Courteau is cog only natural for the players to be nizant of the fact that improvements became the highest drafted goalanxious on the ice. are needed, not only within the tender in the history of the NHL in C h a lle n g e s to “O f course a lot o f the guys June, 1997. Since then, he has led Quebec league, but in Canadian were nervous,” said Chouinard, his team, the Val-D’Or Foreurs, to C a n a d ia n H o c k e y Junior hockey as a whole. For “but that’s part o f the game you the Memorial Cup tournament and example, a trend has developed have to go through if you want to was outstanding in Canada’s silver Courteau, the ebullient league where certain teams have taken to have a pro career. president, believes Canada’s place stacking their rosters in time for the medal performance at the World As for the game, the Lebel in the game of hockey, specifically playoffs, and, in turn, the Memorial C o n tin u ed o n p a g e 2 7

A lo o k a t som e p a r tic ip a n ts M a n y o f t h e p la y e rs w h o p la y e d in T u e s d a y 's g a m e a t t h e M o ls o n C e n tr e a re fa m ilia r fa ce s. H e re's a lo o k a t h o w s o m e o f t h e m d id :

Dilio division

Current team: Acadie-Bathurst

Titan

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Islanders

How he fared: stopped 15 of 18

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Mike Ribeiro, centre, team captain, Lebel division

Current team : Rouyn-Noranda

Huskies

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Brad Richards, left wing, Dilio division

Current team: Rimouski Oceanic D ra fte d : 64th overall, Tampa

Bay Lightning

H o w he fared: two goals, two

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C o n tin u ed from p a g e 2 6 Junior tournament last month. | Despite the success, Luongo and other players know they still have work to do. Mike Ribeiro, the captain of the Lebel division entry, uttered a well-worn statement: “Every player wants to be in the NHL.” Brad Richards, game MVP for the Dilio division with two goals and two assists in a losing cause, echoed that sentiment. He feels that even after attending one pro train ing camp in Tampa Bay, he’ll prob ably return to his junior team, the Rimouski Oceanic, next year. That attitude is more and more prevalent among young players today. In the past, it was relatively easy for players to make the jump directly from the junior leagues to the big show. Now, getting drafted is only the start of the battle. Coach Chouinard feels that while it never has been easy to directly make the big leagues out of junior hockey, it is more difficult now. “To me, I don’t believe that 18 year olds — unless you’re Wayne Gretzky or Mario Lemieux — can make the jum p,” he said. “Now, they draft from all over the world so you have to — before you get there — be better than the rest of the world. You can be good, but you need more just to get there.” Player agent Don Meehan was another interested observer. He rep resents seven of the game’s partici pants, including Richards. Meehan didn’t appear concerned that none of the seven had signed with the pro teams that had drafted them, noting that they have a two-year window to sign players upon draft ing them “G enerally speaking, most NHL teams wait the better part of a year in any event. So [not signing draftees right away] is not uncom mon,” he stated. Meehan elaborated; “Teams are conservative. The salaries that are being paid to younger players are so high that [teams] can’t afford to make mistakes.” R oad to th e sh o w c o n tin u e s A fter the game, equipment bags, affixed with various team logos, were quickly packed. T h ere’ s still half a season left; teams will soon be jockeying for playoff positions in the hope of a cham pionship, and, then, a Memorial Cup berth. For the players, they hope their junior experience is just a stepping stone to a successful pro career. But even then, there’s still a long way to go.

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