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O h, there's an electio n g o in g on? per cent, a growing lack of interest in exer­ cising our basic rights as citizens can be delineated. Yet high voter participation is often a sign o f instability, McGill history professor Gil Troy explained.

“The countries that have the highest voter turn-out — either Italy, Israel or England during Thatcher’s period — are either inherently unstable or going through a particular transition,” he said. “So you have this ironic situation where voting is on the one hand a basic democratic act, the essential defining act for all of us being in a democracy, as citizens, in fact becoming something of a barometer for trouble in the society.”

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If you did n ’t know , d on ’t feel too embarrassed - in a small sampling of seven students only one could name a single cam­ paign issu e in the upcom ing Students’ Society election.

Voter apathy is not confined within our walls: voter turnout for people between the ages o f 18-24, in the 1996 American presidential election was as low as 20 per cent. This problem has raised questions over the effectiven ess o f their, and our, dem ocratic system as leaders b ecom e accountable to fewer eligible voters.

Often political apathy can be the result o f a simple lack o f political urgency. It often indicates that everything is more or less okay and no one is up in arms about instigating change. But to rely whole-heart­ edly on this explanation would conceal the growing voter disillusionment.

S y ste m h a m p e rs p a rtic ip a tio n There are many reasons for which we can attribute this disinterestedness. Political science professor Harold Waller believes many o f these problems stem from the nature of our electoral systems in Canada and, more significantly, in the U.S. “B eca u se o f the electo ra l c o lle g e which operates in a winner take all basis [in the U .S.], the plurality o f votes in a given state gets all of the electoral votes,” Waller explained. “This means that a per­ son in a state were the race is not close has little incentive to vote.”

The corollary o f this phenomenon is that if a race is not going to be close, candi­ dates will not run because they sense that people will not vote. The next step follows that without opposing candidates, people don’t have have the choice of voting. This problem, which plagues both the Canadian and American systems of government, does not exist where there is a system of equal representation which often produces many small parties. Under equal representation, governments are formed on the basis of their proportion of the overall popular vote.

Troy explained how voter participation is increased when people can identify with the smaller parties.

“Having lots of parties does help peo-

S tu d e n t a p a th y : a g lo b a l p h e n o m e n o n Magnus Vestnik, a visiting history stu­ dent from Norway, recounted the same tales o f apathy with regards to the student councils at his home university.

“I think that [apathy] is a global matter because at home I see that young people are not that interested in political matters in terms o f the student council,” he said. “And also I think our generation has becom e more politically ignorant because we have everything we want and we don’t think we have to fight even though there are still great problems. There is always something to fight about but for some reason we have become politically ignorant, and that is not good for a democracy.”

Apart from students, voter participa­ tion is notably higher in Europe and other areas o f the world such as Australia and Israel. However, participation in the west is flagging. Over the last fifty years the over­ all turnout rate is 48.8 per cent in the U.S. — 67 per cent in Canada.

Compared with C osta R ica, which boasts a voter turnout rate of close to 90

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TORONTO — The Martlets have finished the 1998/99 season as the fifth ranked team in Canada. The d istin ctio n cam e on Sunday at the Canadian Interuniversity Athletics Union National Championships in Toronto, where the Martlets beat St. Francis Xavier 5-2 to secure their place among the nations elite.

Their trip to Toronto was granted on the strength of their 2-1 playoff win over UQTR February 19. The game was a wild one that featured boots thrown on the ice and the riot squad o f the Montreal police.

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T he Mc G ill T ribune, W ednesday, 3 March 1999

Feeble alarm system at Solin set for upgrade B y F red S ac el

In the past several weeks, student complaints of inadequate fire detection systems at both Solin Hall and McLennanRedpath library have prompted action from the McGill adminis­ tration.

After concerns were voiced by several McGill students, Solin Hall, located near Lionel-Groulx métro, has decided to re-equip its fire alarm system.

Students living in the upper portions of the eight-year-old building are unable to hear the alarm when it sounds; this has caused concern among both stu­ dents and parents.

Nikki Bryan, a UO manage­ ment student who lives on the top floor of Solin, is angry that McGill Residences has taken this long to remedy the problem.

“It is a safety hazard. It’s life and death. With university stu­ dents drinking, partying, crash­ ing, you need to hear this. It’s not alarming at all. If you are listen­ ing to music or TV then you’d never hear it. That’s dangerous,” she stated.

Third floor resident Bianca Magyenyi, UO biology, con­ curred. “I can kinda hear a noise but I don’t know what it is.

People sleep right through it. It’s not loud enough at all. We really need a change.”

Florence Tracy, director of McGill Residences, has been made aware of the problem and insisted that she and the McGill Fire Prevention Officer, Christopher Cross, are in the process of reviewing and updat­ ing the system. She disclosed that

her office plans to spend $ 1 mil­ lion this year and a subsequent million next year among the dif­ ferent projects at each of the six residences, including Solin.

“We have companies in get­ ting quotes. It’s happening.

We’re doing it bit by bit,” she stated.

Tracy added that Solin resi­ dents should have the least to worry about when it comes to fire detection. Solin Hall is the only residence which has a sprinkler system channeled throughout its

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six floors which would immedi­ ately respond to a fire. Bishop Mountain Hall residences do not have this detection tool, but Tracy promises that by the 2000 academic year all six residences will be equipped with advanced sprinklers.

W a lk m a n s a h a za rd in M cL e n n a n The McLennan-Redpath libraries have just completed repairs on their fire alarm system after complaints of random soundings. The library’s detec­ tion system experienced various problems in the early part of the

McGill software developers to share profits with University

semester but the administration claims that the system is now in perfect order. Donna Hedge B y M ike Ja n c ik Cormier, director of the Under a new regulation conMcLennan library oversaw the ' cerning intellectual property repairs.

“We did have a problem. As rights, McGill will obtain 35 per far as I’m aware, everything is cent of profits from all nonfunctioning and everything is patentable software developed at fixed. It’s something we take i McGill. Faculty, academic staff and students who have developed very seriously here,” she said. | software using university faciliCormier explained that dur­ I ties and/or in the course of their ing the first week of January, the academic pursuits will still keep system would either sound ran­ the bulk of the returns from their domly or not operate at all. She j research efforts. recalled three random soundings Most software developed at of the alarm before the library McGill will be affected by the took steps to remedy the prob­ ! new policy. According to Vice lem.

Principal Information Technology “We had a problem with our Bruce Pennycook, the majority of sensors,” she said. “We had to software developed at McGill is dismantle thirty or so sensors just not patentable. He believes the to find out which one was caus­ policy came about as a response to a substantial hole in McGill ing us the problem.”

The fire alarm system is test­ policy. ed weekly at McLennan and has functioned properly since the M c | | f7 / has fa c ilitie s and repairs were made several weeks development tools you just ago. don't have access to else­ Although students have raised concerns that the library’s where. It's reasonable to no-walkman policies are a little share the profits. harsh in regard to fire safety, Noah Sawyer Cormier asserted that the policy U2 computer science was put in place for general safe­ ty reasons.

“It’s not just the fire alarm.

“If you look carefully at the There are thefts occurring all the statutes, and you look at the page time. There are lots of pickpock­ | on copyright, you’ll see that ets. [By not wearing Walkmans] there’s an entry called ‘software we’re making students aware so | policy and no text, because the that they don’t suffer the conse­ software policy was still under quences of unfriendly people. consideration, and it just never This policy was developed with made it anywhere,” explained [the Arts Undergraduate Society] j Pennycook. “So here we were and the head of security to deal with a pointer to a policy that just j didn’t exist and a pressing need to with the safety factor.” meet numerous requests from developers.”

“The 65-35 ratio is the same one used in the existing policy on inventions and patents,” explained Vice Principal Research Pierre Bélanger. “This step brings the policy on software development in line with the existing policy on inventions and patents.”

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Since the adoption of the new policy by the Board of Governors last December, how­ ever, concerns have been raised about the process that led to its adoption. At a February meeting, Senate, the academic decision­ making body at McGill, passed a motion presented by Senator Samuel Noumoff rebuking BoG for not consulting Senate about the software development policy before it was approved.

Senator Myron Frankman argued that although the policy applies to students as well as pro­ fessors and academic staff, no student sat on the working group that presented the proposal.

Moreover, he noted that no body on which students are represent­ ed, like the full Senate, was con­ sulted during the drafting of the policy.

“I really think we’ve lost a sense of the importance of process and of involving people, said Frankman. “[A]nd I think it usually works to the advantage rather than the disadvantage. It takes a little bit longer but you see perspectives on things that just hadn’t otherwise been antici­ pated.”

Bélanger did admit, however, that normal procedures were not followed when the policy was sent to a Senate committee with­ out full consultation before Senate.

“This was a non-standard way, not the best way of getting things done,” said Bélanger. “By the time we were ready to pro­ ceed [with consultation] it was too late. There were people with developed software who were looking for a policy. A number of things slowed the process down.

There was a staff change in the legal services office...and VP Pennycook was appointed, and had to be brought up to speed.”

In sampling of five students, none were aware of the existence of the new software policy. After it was explained, Noah Sawyer, a U2 Computer Science student, thought the policy reasonable in light of McGill’s involvement in the development process.

“McGill has facilities and development tools you just don’t have access to elsewhere. It’s rea­ sonable to share the profits.”

By contrast, Aravind Sreenvasnan, a U1 Philosophy student, voiced concerns regard­ ing sharing profits with the uni­ versity.

“I don’t think that’s the kind of thing you could assign one proportion to. And 35 per cent is very high. There should be some recognition, but I don’t know if it should be a percentage, and not such a high percentage,” he stat­ ed.

Frankman noted that the soft­ ware policy is only a temporary measure expiring in October and that a broader policy on intellec­ tual property rights will be for­ mulated in the spring. He men­ tioned that the development of a new overarching policy on intel­ lectual property provides a good opportunity for Senate and stu­ dent consultation, such that “all stakeholders will be heard.”

“I guess in a way I’ve been more concerned about the process than what’s actually in it,” con­ ceded Frankman. “But certainly the fact that it seems to apply to students would be one reason to be unsatisfied with it.”

—with files from Adrienne Matheson

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T he Mc G ill T ribune, W ednesday, 3 March 1999

Presidential buzzwords: accessibility, communication and cooperation B y P a u l F uthey

The race for Student Society President could prove to be the most hotly contested of all the campaigns for executive portfolios.

Four students — Tamana Kochar, Melissa Pallett, Jaime Stein and Andrew Tischler — have declared their candidacy.

Kochar, a U3 management student and floor-fellow at Royal Victoria College, cited her experience with various executive portfo­ lios as a key com­ ponent o f her campaign.

• “The presi­ dent has to be som eone with experience and people sk ills ,” she stated. “My experience has qualified me.”

being the spokesperson for the society.

“It’s important, especially in Québec, to be able to speak English and French,” noted Tischler. “Not only that, but to also be able to listen in either official language.”

All of the candidates agreed that estab­ lishing a unified student voice is essential in the job, especially now that it is expected that the president will work closely with the VP University and Community Affairs. In addi­ tion, the executives themselves must be uni­

answer questions people may have abut his campaign.

“If you look at my platform, I didn’t write this by myself,” he stated, noting that he consulted with various faculties, clubs and groups to identify the needs of the society and the university. “This is a month and a half of hard work.”

Tischler, too, has been discussing needs of the university and the society with students and administrators and estimating their feasi­

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Kochar alluded to her involvement on a myriad of com­ m ittees, among them financial affairs and the building plan­ ning committee.

Another candidate with an intense involvement in student politics is Pallett. She feels that, if elected, her experience will translate into a smooth transition period when current president Duncan Reid leaves office on May 1. The president then can spend more time working rather than learning the job; the latter would mean losing valuable time.

“The continuity is key,” she stressed.

“There’s alw ays going to be a learning process, but I’ll be ready.”

Stein, one of council’s two speakers, has a family history at McGill; he is the third generation of his family to attend the univer­ sity.

“Since first year, I’ve taken a look at McGill and I wasn’t happy with what I saw,” he explained. “I want to give something back.”

Tischler rounds out the list of candidates.

He sees a lot of opportunities to improve the current situation in which McGill resides. In particular, he looks forward to the role of

Society. Both currently sit on council as members, with Pallett as an Arts senator and Kochar as a Clubs and Services representa­ tive.

Pallett admitted that the SSMU needs to be more accessible: something which can be done, she said, by improving communication.

“There needs to be some type of middle ground in terms of student involvement,” she noted, saying that involvement either meant all or none of a student’s life. “SSMU is seen as a bureaucrat­ ic blob that doesn’t affect everybody.”

fied.

“Problems come from a lack of ability to be an effective leader in council,” stated Stein, noting that executive committees in the past which did not get along had trouble accomplishing anything.

Pallett pointed out that McGill’s student elections, unlike Queen’s where Students run as a part of a slate, necessitate that differ­ ences of opinion may result with a newly elected executive.

“Students shouldn’t be penalized,” she said.

Speaking more generally in those terms but also in those of SSMU’s relation to facul­ ties, Kochar echoed similar sentiments.

“We all have ideas, but the only way we can achieve them is if we can all work togeth­ er,” she surmised.

In terms of specific campaign platforms, while all or most of the candidates touched on issues such as campus security and the environment, specific solutions varied.

Accessibility issues form a large part of Stein’s campaign. He has his own website to

bility. He said his platform stemmed from two needs: increased student accessibility to McGill and saving students money.

“I know how to make a good idea hap­ pen,” he stated. “I don’t like suggesting an idea if I can’t make it work.”

Pallett has divided her platform into three areas: outside of SSMU, inside of SSMU and the environment. In the first cate­ gory, she targeted the library as an area of much needed improvement.

“We ranked 79th in library collections,” she stated. “It’s a big problem.”

Kochar specifically alluded to campus security in her interview, even going so far as to express dissatisfaction with the perfor­ mance of the company which currently ser­ vices McGill.

“It might be time to re-evaluate Pinkerton’s contract with McGill,” she said.

Another issue which came to the fore­ front was access to the Students’ Society, especially in light of consistently low voter turnout. Two of the candidates — Pallett and Kochar — are heavily involved with the

been too involved with what goes on in this building,” Kochar added, w hose slogan ‘a more person­ al, not political, SSMU’ accom­ panies her posters. “It’s time to educate the students.”

Neither Tischler nor Stein see their rela­ tive lack of SSMU experience as a detriment to their respective campaigns.

Stein cited his involvement in activities with intramurals and as a photographer for the Tribune as examples of how he tries to embody more aspects of student life outside of SSMU. “I know some people might say ‘Jaime Stein doesn’t have experience’,” he admitted, since his position of speaker on SSMU is neutral, “but what about knowledge of all aspects of student life?”

Tischler, co-owner of Sucré Bleu, a candy store on St-Denis which he opened last July, feels that more students can get involved. Here, he specifically noted one part of his platform, Discover McGill, which would make students more aware of what their university is all about.

“I’ve spoken to a lot of students,” he said. “People want to get involved. We have to let students know that the SSMU is theirs.”

Vice-President Operations position acclaimed B y S t e p h a n ie L evitz

Kevin McPhee, the sole can­ didate for the p o sitio n o f VP Operations for next year’s SSMU executive, hopes his acclamation won’t prevent students from tak­ ing an interest in his new job.

The VP Operations portfolio is new to the SSMU executive council for next year, thanks to changes in the Students’ Society co n stitu tio n . M cP hee w ill be resp o n sib le for m anaging the S tu d en ts’ S o ciety in term s of their operations inside and out­ side of the Shatner building. As C lubs and S e r v ic e s Commissioner this year, McPhee cited his experience within the Society as his biggest strength.

“I’ve gained know ledge of how this o ffic e w o r k s,” said McPhee. “I’m familiar with the

accounting system, I’ve worked on the bank tender contracts and the fin a n cia l p o lic ie s o f the SSMU and have complete knowl­ edge of our financial positions.”

Accessibility being the buzz­ word for this campaign, McPhee presented ideas on how to make SSMU run smoother, both for its council and its members.

“W e ’re reached a point where we are very disassociated with students,” said McPhee. “It is the role o f the S tu d en ts’ Society to bring students in. A system is not established where stu d en ts can com m ent on the problems here.”

M cP h ee’s p o r tfo lio w ill include the management of tech­ nology within the Shatner build­ ing. He view s it as the way to make the student body more con­ nected.

“I’m looking into applying new er tech n o lo g y to increase communication between the soci­ ety and students,” he stated. His ideas include an electronic ride board, student initiated textbook ex ch an ge and more d etailed information on the current SSMU web page.

“W e’re seein g a trend in other universities towards this sort of thing,” said McPhee. “It’s a good trend and w e have to make sure students stay aware of what is goin g on. The web is good for that.”

McPhee is also hoping that students will be able to opt-out of the Health Plan on-line.

Although in past years, the establishment of a copy centre in the Shatner building has been a goal for the VP O perations, McPhee doubts the feasibility of

this venture, and hopes instead to use the space available in Shatner and the new Student S ervices building for services that aren’t easily accessible for students.

“Copy centres aren’t practi­ cal,” said McPhee. “We wouldn’t be providing a service that isn’t in the community already.”

He is hoping to set up a gen­ eral information desk at the front of Shatner and is also exploring the possibility of a post office.

Describing himself as a “fis­ cal c o n se r v a tiv e ,” M cPhee is committed to working on ending increases in student fees.

“The last cou p le o f years have seen student fees increase once or tw ice a y e a r ,” said M cP hee. “I w ill be taking a strong stand against this. I don’t believe in all of this government intervention, we should be giving

the students what they want.”

In M cPhee’s opinion, it is far too easy for referendum ques­ tions concerning fee raises to be passed.

“Ten per cent of the student body is not enough to change fees,” he stated. “There has to be an increase in quorum so there is more student support.”

M cPhee expressed chagrin over his acclamation. “I’m a little disappointed. A campaign would be fun and it would give me a chance to meet people and hear concerns.”

Nonetheless, he is enthusias­ tic about his new role. “ I’m excited about the new portfolio.

It will be interesting to define it for future years,” he concluded.

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T he Mc G ill T ribune, W ednesday, 3 March 1999

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University Affairs a race for "student union" B y Ka r en Kelley

Election fever is finally get­ ting into full swing on the McGill campus this w eek. The race betw een Jawad Qureshi and Xavier Van Chau for the position o f V ice President U niversity Affairs on the Student Society of M cG ill U n iversity ex ecu tiv e promises to be an exciting one.

Qureshi is currently the presi­ dent of Queer McGill and feels his exp erien ces sin ce com ing to M cGill qualify him for the VP University Affairs position.

“I think I’ve got the personali­ ty characteristics, as well as the experience, in terms o f student issqes and academic issues, to per­ form in the U n iversity'A ffairs portfolio,” he explained.

Van Chau, former president of the First Year S tu d en ts’ Association, worked this year in the SSMU front office. His interest in the University Affairs position stem s from working with Sam Johnston, currently in that posi­ tion.

“I worked with Sam all year, basically,” Van Chau explained. “[VP University Affairs is] that position where you have the real link between administration and students... where the whole funda­ mental idea o f ‘student union’

lies.”

The work-study program is a common issue on both Qureshi and Van Chau’s platforms, howev­ er focus on different aspects of the issue.

Van Chau’s interest lies in expanding the program as it is now.

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“How are we going to help students cope with the [rising costs at McGill]?” he asked. “I want to further w ork-study programs, [and] try to see if I can get the administration... to get fixed fund­ ing [for the program].” Van Chau is also focusing on getting jobsearch information to students.

“CAPS does provide work­ shops, [but] these are very, very ill-p u b lic iz e d ,” he explained.

nication,” she added.

“It’s going to take somebody who is going to be happy on a daily basis and who is going to be very dedicated to the job because take them on full force, something [without that person] someone is I’ve done since I was very young,” going to get tired very quickly and the work will not get done,” Gross said Gross.

“It’s going to take somebody concluded.

Ki, member o f the M cGill who is going to be up and up every single day. I’ve seen how stressful Intercollegiate Students’ Council, [working at Clubs and Services] executive for the McGill Redmen can be: there are over 120 groups rugby team, bartender at Gert’s, that are going to be demanding and a returning candidate from last things every day, from room book­ year’s VP Internal race, cites his reliability and his involvement with clubs at a participatory level as main qualities he will bring to the position.

“One of the things I have always prided m yself on was the ability to get things done. If people have any problems, they need something, they have a question, I always find a way of getting it done,” said Ki. Ki believes he speaks for the average student, the student who is involved at a grassroots level with clubs, away from SSMU politics.

John Ki Wen Lee Soo “I have my own voice, I’m not afraid to go against the group ings to redoing constitutions, to if the group’s interests are not in complaints about not getting their room b ook in gs, to com plaints the best interests of the people I about the building as a whole, to represent. I feel that I could bring complaints about lack of commu­ something different to [council]

Two vie for VP Clubs and Services B y Jo n a t h a n C o l f o r d

Patience and strong will are two characteristics that Sam Gross and John Ki think are essential for the new VP Clubs and Serivees position on next year’s Students’ S o ciety o f M cG ill U niversity executive.

VP Clubs and Services and VP Communications and Events were born through the split of the VP Internal’s portfolio under the new SSMU constitution. The VP Clubs and Services oversees the management o f SSM U ’s clubs, services and publications, and of the Shatner building.

Both Gross, a U2 psychology student, and Ki, in his third year in political science, believe they have what it takes to m eet the chal­ lenges of the new position.

Gross, a receptionist at the SSM U front desk this year, believes that her experience with the inner w orkings o f the Students’ Society, and her enthusi­ asm will assist her in performing the VP’s duties.

“Dedication: I don’t do things half way. When I take tasks on I

“[The workshops] need to be more centralized for the students... there need to be more of them, more vis­ ible.”

Qureshi feels that the workstudy program is especially impor­ tant to international students such as himself.

“A ccording to my visa, I legally cannot work anywhere off M cG ill cam pus... and most international students coming to McGill pay a lot for tuition,” he said, explaining the situation. “[I think we should] at least give a lit­ tle special priority to international students when they apply for work-study, because they can’t work anywhere else.”

Qureshi also feels that first and second-year students some­ times experience difficulties when trying to get information about their programs, departments, or particular courses. He proposes that the university hire more advi­ sors “to smooth out the process­ e s ... in all the undergraduate offices.” Qureshi also proposes an alternative program should the cost o f hiring advisors be too great.

“Through SSM U, [we can] have at least a day or two of peer­ advising by students themselves in Shatner or wherever on McGill campus,” he said.

Van Chau feels that helping first-year students should be a pri­ ority and he plans, if elected, to organize a three-part orientation lecture-series for first-year stu­ dents, in general assembly format.

“At the beginning, [we would] talk to students about all the ser-

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vices we want to provide, [and] that are provided by the university, so students know what is there for them,” he said.

The second lecture w ould concentrate on several issues such as time-management and sexual assault, and be more broadly based. The third one would be about choosing a major.

Qureshi is hoping to introduce a community involvem ent pro­ since I com e from more o f the clubs, more of the sports aspect,” Ki said.

“I have no fear of rejection, no fear of failing, if I get knocked down I’ll get right up and keep on going,” Ki added.

Assessing the workload she

gram if he should be elected , where students can get credit for their involvement off campus. He also has an idea to motivate stu­ dents to participate: a small per­ centage discount off tuition.

“If I am doing a lot of com­ munity work, and getting three credits for that, I d o n ’t have enough time to have a part-time job because I’m going to school and have all this com m unity work,” he said. “You don’t have time to earn for yourself.”

Qureshi also wants to recog­ nize students who contribute sig­ nificantly to the community and take initiatives with rewards from the university, and says that after speaking to members o f the McGill administration, his under­ standing is that it can be done.

Van Chau is interested in con­ tinuing research that Johnston has started this year concerning ser­ vices. “[It is] research to see which services students wish to see bet­ ter-funded,” he says. “[It will be] an assessment that we can bring together, make into a formal docu­ ment, bring to the administration and say, ‘This is the student voice,’ and there we have a much better bargaining tool.”

If he is elected, Ki believes his skill as a mediator will help him serve student clubs and ser­ vices next year. He emphasized his experience in public relations, working in sales and with charita­ ble organizations.

“Overall, I feel that I am a very good mediator and I have very good planning and social skills,” concluded Ki. Some o f the challenges Gross and Ki perceive the VP Clubs and Services facing next year are to improve communi­ cation between club leaders and the SSMU administration and to increase the reach of Activities Night.

Gross plans to hold open forums within clubs and ser­ vices in order to allow leaders to v o ice their concerns. Ki wants to create a clubs and ser­ Samantha Gross w en Lee Soo vices new sletter in order to foster greater contact between w ill face if elected as the new club leaders. executive, Gross stressed the need As for A ctivities Night, Ki for someone with a lot of patience. w ould lik e to see com m unity “Working with students is at groups getting involved as well as times a very difficult thing to do. McGill-based clubs. Gross wants Each case is extremely important, to target first year students espe­ and especially with clubs and ser­ cially and plans to hold an addi­ vices each club needs equal atten­ tional A ctivities Night in upper tion and it takes a lot of patience. I residence. definitely have the patience,” said Gross.

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Community initiatives central of VP Community and Government Race B y S t e p h a n ie Levitz

With the differential tuition case stuck in the Quebec court system, next year’s VP Community and Government Affairs better have other plans up their sleeves.

Experience and dedication are things that candidates Wojtek Baraniak, Jeff Roberts and Ali Noormohamed see as important to the position.

“I’ve been involved with the portfolio this year,” says Baraniak, “and it has given me a solid understanding of the issues.

I’ve always been involved in the McGill community and the fact

that I can’t imagine being here and not being involved can help me make a difference.” Baraniak believes that the position if a very political role, while Roberts sees it from a different perspective.

“I’m motivated and have a' genuine interest,” says Roberts.

“This isn’t a stepping stone for me to a job somewhere else.

There are a lot of good things happening out there in the com­ munity and I want to bring them to [the McGill] community. I’d like to take a year and see what I can do to improve things.”

Noormohamed was inspired to run by a desire to make a dif­ ference. “If I see something that will be good for students, I will

bring it to the table, even if it isn’t part of my portfolio. I feel like I have a calling to make a change and make a difference. By nature, I’m not a politician but this is an arena where changes can get made.”

Although all three candidates come from different levels of involvement at McGill, they all feel that lobbying the government on behalf of students is an extremely important part of their portfolio.

“Look at the last [federal] budget,” explains Roberts. “There was room for that $10 billion sur­ plus to put money back from where it has been taken out — post-secondary education. We

can’t expect McGill administra­ tion or the student body to pick up the slack where funding is con­ cerned. We have to make sure McGill is getting fairly represent­ ed at at the student level.”

While Baraniak intends to continue past efforts against dif­ ferential tuition, he sees another problem area that is worth addressing.

“Yes, we have to continue our fight against differential tuition and funding but at the same time these can’t be the only avenues we explore,” said Baraniak. “We need to sit down with the Quebec government and have an open dialogue - we can examine their position and they

can examine ours. Then we can find more common ground and work from there.”

One of the issues that Baraniak, if elected, plans to bring to the government is the issue of portability of loans.

Currently, students from Quebec cannot get provincial loans to study outside of the province, unless they are in search of a spe­ cific program. While Baraniak can see some of the advantages of the Quebec loan program, he hopes to pressure the government to ease loan restrictions making easier for Quebec students to study elsewhere.

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Staying in touch a priority for VP Communications and Events B y Jo h n S a l l o u m

Two qualified candidates are battling for the newly created VP Communications and Events posi­ tion for next week’s Students’ Society of McGill University elections.

The VP Communications and Events portfolio is a new position whose duties are derived largely from the former VP Internal’s duties but its main mandate involves promotion of communi­ cation between SSMU and stu­ dents.

Jo Morrow is currently VP Internal for the Arts Undergraduate Society. A 20 year old born in Dorset, England, Morrow has also lived in Hong Kong, Saudi Arabia, the United States and Canada.

“My most fond memories were definite­ ly from Hong Kong, just because it was such a multicultural centre... and you have the oppor­ tunity to meet people from all over the world.

I find the same thing at McGill...”

Morrow also sits on the Library Advisory Committee and Arts improvement Fund Committee, in addition to being a co-ordinator of the Ghetto Residents’ Association, a newly formed group representing all inhabitants of the McGill ghetto area.

“We’ve been working really hard to get it off the ground... Our first plan is to have an informa­ tion session in Upper Residence.

We’re [also] in the process right now of making a handbook to give to students... about their legal rights as tenants, and what

really solid base on the webpage to start from, but we really have to provide not just information online, but services. Online resume postings, online job post­ ings, free web space for all stu­ dents. Every student at McGill should have free webspace.

Schools in the states have it, man­ agement has it - it’s a great idea...

We should have volunteer post­ ings, ride boards for people [trav­ elling]...”

to look for in an apart­ ment.”

Matt Wyndowe is currently SSMU’s mini­ course co-ordinator and webmaster. A 20 year old from Northern Secondary School in Toronto, Wyndowe has succeeded in expanding SSMU’s mini-course program significantly. “[This year], I ’ve doubled the size of the program in terms of rev­ enue and enrolment...

One of the things I’m happiest about doing this year, is taking that same

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formula that’s worked for dance classes, and expanding it to get­ ting the MCAT prep class which I started... [It] essentially gives [students] what they charge $1000 for at Princeton Review or Kaplan, for $150...It really addresses a need of students, I think it can be expanded to cover all the standardized tests...”

If there is one thing that both candidates agree on, it is that communication between SSMU and its membership can be signif­ icantly improved.

Morrow notes that part of her plans are to facilitate student involvement through better online communication.

“My main [goal] is... that students want to get involved, they want to know what’s going on. There isn’t a method in place of communicating... information from SSMU to the students. With that in mind, I’ve decided that I’d like to create a webpage. I know SSMU already has one, but I want to have maybe a link from that webpage, so that any students can log on from... any computer, and find out exactly what’s going on at McGill.”

Wyndowe, the creator of SSMU’s current website, feels that SSMU should go beyond online information, and provide online services for students.

“Right now I think we have a

“It’s a great party, but some­ thing that has to be improved is the fact that people [were] lining up for like four hours halfway

down the block,” Wyndowe exclaimed. “During frosh, people with frosh bracelets who paid $60 for the program should not be lin­ ing up for two hours outside. It’s ridiculous. Why not run it like a real party? Have advance ticket sales, have a ticket holder’s entrance or a frosh bracelet entrance. Get that coat check moving and working well, run it [downstairs], with two different entrances...run it quickly, run it well.”

Morrow echoed similar senti­ ments about bring the party back once the renovations to the Shatner building are complete.

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For Noormohamed, change at the government level can only be made through open dialogue, regardless of the issue. “I’ve had people tell me that differential tuition is a problem, that govern­ ment job creation programs are a problem. I want to find out why these things are a problem. Talk to the government and find their logical reasoning. If we explain this to students, together we can find a solution.”

While all candidates agree that lobbying the government is an important side of their job, Roberts feels that government contacts that he will create can have another benefit for students.

“The position doesn’t have to be one of antagonism all the time,” he says. “My office can also be a place where students can come to me with an idea, let’s say for a project or something, and I cah show them to the correct level of government. We can make pos­ itive links between students and the government and not just polit­ ical ones.”

C o m m u n ity iss u e s a lso im p o rta n t The other side of the Community and Government portfolio involves working with the off-campus McGill communi­

ty. On this issue, the candidates each have different goals.

“McGill suffers from an image problem in the communi­ ty,” says Roberts.

“People perceive it like a preppy community and I think that can be changed. There are a lot of students actively involved in the McGill community and if we bring these people together we can create a network to improve our image. Making links with community groups to bring McGill students out into the com­ munity can help.” While Roberts praised the idea of the Ghetto Residents Association, his main goals centre on making the McGill Community more envi­ ronmentally friendly. He stressed his desire to continue work on Greening McGill, a project he is currently spearheading.

Baraniak sees students as a social force in Montreal and wants to have them perceived as such.

“The hardest part is getting Montreal students involved,” says Baraniak.

“We have to start offering things like student discounts in areas all over the city - we have to make it worthwhile not just to come here but feel part of McGill.

We have to capitalize on the Ghetto Residents Association and make it a strong group of students

in the area. The Ghetto isn’t just a place to live, it is a community.”

Noormohamed takes a differ­ ent look on issues facing the off campus McGill community. His goals include improving safety in the area and working with city officials to clear up large puddles on corners.

“I want to try and figure out what the community wants and find out how McGill students can get involved.”

As a final idea, all three can­ didates hope to work on improv­ ing. Francophone involvement at McGill Says Baraniak, “Francophone students pay student fees as well.

I don’t think they are getting their money’s worth. Although it is a challenge to get them involved, it is necessary.”

Roberts thinks that “the image of McGill as a bastion of old English culture is breaking down - and this can be improved with more French involvement.”

NoOrmohamed feels that diversity at McGill is its biggest asset. “If we incorporate the French language more into McGill, for example into the handbook, then the Francophone students will get more involved.

I’m looking for win-win situa­ tion,” he concluded.

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Finance Minister Paul Martin delivered the govern­ ment’s latest budget on Monday, February 15. Dubbed the ‘health’ budget, Martin increased the Canada Health and Social Transfer by approximately $11.5 billion over the course of five years — most of that will be allo­ cated as health care spending.

SSMU VP External Jeff Feiner had mixed feelings about the budget.

“The health budget seems to be a lot more of a health budget than the education budget was an education budget... I'm feeling healthier already,” Feiner said.

“There was very little in there for students.”

Government spending on education has been declining steadily as a result of budget cut­ backs.

“Canada was always known as having a system of high acces­ sibility and high quality,” Feiner stated. “Different provinces are reacting in different ways. Some are compromising quality, and some accessibility. There needs to be a re-investment in post-sec­ ondary education.”

There is, however, some good news for students. The basic personal amount that Canadians can claim every year has been increased by approxi­ mately $675, increased from $6,456.

But Feiner notes that the education system could use some life support of its own.

“As far as post-secondary education goes, this budget is not going to improve our system’s health. Nevertheless, we’re

VP E xter n a l elec ted C A S A DESIGNATE NATIONAL DIRECTOR

SSMU’s VP External Jeff Feiner has been elected designate national director of the Canadian Alliance of Student Associations after the national director resigned for personal reasons.

Feiner was Quebec’s region­ al director until his election.

CASA must now appoint a new regional director for the province.

“The members have given the CASA head office a mandate to do some re-organizing,” Feiner said. “I will continue to the lobbying efforts and take care of the general aspects of CASA...

One of the things I would like to work on is improving communi­ cations with member schools.”

Feiner now directs a staff of three, and says he will be making weekly trips to the Ottawa head office.

He will hold the position until a new national director takes office sometime after the April elections. He currently has no plans to run for re-election.

“SSMU is a founding mem­ ber of CASA...so we have a responsibility to the organiza­ tion... [The election] will mean that [SSMU1 has a lot more input into CASA. It shouldn’t really affect the external operations of SSMU and if it does, it will be positive.”

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pie have their home team, a par­ ticular club or group or party that they are aligned to or can be com­ mitted to and makes them more likely to vote,” he said. “The downside is that having two par­ ties in fact means that you will have more compromise.”

C a m p a ig n an d v o tin g c u ltu re Peer pressure plays a key role in voter participation. In the nine­ teenth century, this was especially evident.

“If I was at the one little polling station in our town and I was hanging out there all day, I would see if you showed up there or not to see whether you voted for me,” explained Troy.

Free ale was a strong voting magnet in the nation’s youth; elections, moreover, were seen as both social and political events.

Part of the loss of voter turnout may be attributed to the absence of this small town feel.

Today’s elections involve less ale swilling, baby kissing, and apple pie and more antiseptic television spots.

Waller explained that “They are not getting out touching the flesh, exposing themselves to the vagaries of real voters, they are doing it through TV, where the fdm is tailor made for everything you wanted to accomplish in this film.”

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Short of implementing mandatory voting as has been done in Costa Rica, Italy and Australia, the U.S. has few options to increase participation.

Yet there is some hope of a re­ kindling of voter involvement.

Waller warned that participation does not only involve voting but a host of other activities such as watching political events, going to rallies, passing out literature, donating money and discussing issues. In this sense of the term, Americans have a higher rate of participation than is often cited.

Canada shows signs of a politically active population in its numerous parties, wealth of tele­ vision and radio political humour, weekly and daily radio phone in shows on different political issues.

In Canada especially, the focus often lies on political com­ plaint. But at McGill at least, next year’s licence to complain can only be issued at SSMU ballot boxes. mm----— H

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back, but I don’t want to compro­ mise student safety. All the facul­ ty associations I talked with thus far want that back... I’m going to work very hard to bring that back for next year.”

Morrow also noted that she believes the Frosh program can be somewhat confusing for new stu­ dents.

“I would like to make [frosh] less confusing for incoming stu­ dents because I find that a lot stu­ dents get these things in the mail, and they say ‘I’ve got manage­ ment frosh, but then I’ve got SSMU frosh. What’s the differ­ ence? What should I do? What can’t I do? Do I have time?”’

Morrow explained that she would like to try and have all of the frosh information mailed togeth­ er, saving postage and delivering only one frosh information pack­ age to students.

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Posters have always played a large role in communicating event information to students on cam­ pus. It’s a fast and efficient way of conveying information to a large number of people in a small area. Morrow explained that putting up posters for this year’s Arts Taverns helped improve the event’s attendance.

“I thought to myself, ‘how am I going to get this event to become on par with an engineer­ ing pub night?’ Because there’s no excuse why it can’t be. So I got together a team of publicity who were in charge of making posters and postering the campus, spreading word of mouth... the most difficult part was getting students to the tavern... but I proved this year that it’s extreme­ ly possible to do so, it just needs

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Wyndowe explained that after dealing with posters for the mini-courses, he feels SSMU needs a postering service avail­ able to clubs and services.

“I want to have a real central­ ized system... You can say let’s get rid of postering altogether, but it’s not going to happen... what you can do is make it better. A big part of this role is conveying to people what SSMU is, what it’s about and how can it help me? I think that’s key, that you’re bring students closer to SSMU.

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interest and qualifications for the position, While everyone was running around talking about restored funding for health care under the 1999 Federal Budget, Finance Minister Paul Martin managed to slip in a tax cut — for those most able to afford it.

There s little doubt that the state of the health care system has become a crucial issue across Canada, needing urgent attention from fed­ eral and provincial leaders. Repeated cuts to funding transfers to the provinces have weakened the vital signs of hospitals, as evidenced by spi­ raling waiting lists for surgery and overflowing emergency rooms. This budget was supposed to fix this, and on the whole, Canadians heralded it as something designed to protect the nation’s most cherished social pro­ gram — a budget which will allocate $11.5 billion in federal transfers over the next five years. Few people, however, talked about how this bud­ get has also worked to destroy a key component of “Canadian” values: equity.

Under the new budget, Martin eliminated the three per cent surtax on incomes over $50,000 and set out a timetable for eliminating the five per cept surtax for those paying over $12,500 in taxes. According to the Canadian Centre tor Policy Alternatives, the two surtaxes were responsi­ ble for generating $2.55 billion in revenue for the federal government in 1996. In terms of its impact on the tax system, it bumped the income tax rate from 29 per cent to 31.3 per cent for those people in the highest bracket. Clearly, the surtax was part of what gave our tax system a more progressive nature — those who have the means to pay higher taxes should take on a larger responsibility. Embedded within this system is an idea of equity, fairness, and collective duty. You would never have made this link, however, when you heard the budget come down.

The unfortunate demise of the federal income surtax was announced and reported without much fanfare. While some might say it is a reflec­ tion of a bourgeois press, systematically censoring everything which runs contrary to its upper-middle class interests, the answer is probably much more simple — it’s tough to conjure up much excitement about some­ thing as staid and mechanical as an “income surtax”. For a family earning $60,000, the elimination of the surtax means an annual savings of $179.

For someone earning $150,000, the savings add up to $1,094. On the sur­ face, it looks like dollars and cents, economic gobbly-gook. Dig deeper, and it means a lot more.

Buried within tax policy is a set of values which define what is just in our society, what constitutes the idea of “paying your fair share.” Martin’s recent elimination of the surtax changes this dramatically — it erodes our sense of collective responsibility and it benefits individuals proportionally to their earning power. It says to the middle class family, “You deserve $15 worth of better food on the dinner table each month.” To the nation’s economic elite, it says that they should be able to make their investment portfolios another $1,000 fatter each year.

Individuals earning more than $150,000 make up one per cent of the Canadian population, yet they account for nine per cent of the income col­ lected in the country. It’s a huge disparity, and one that Paul Martin just made wider.

It’s time to get excited about the surtax. As Canadians, we’ve already managed to perform some significant mental gymnastics in terms of national identity. It’s hard to believe that so many people have been able to attach a warm and fuzzy nationalist sentiment to the public support for the delivery of medical services. In fact, our socialized health care system has become part of the nation’s humour. How many times have we heard the joke “What defines Canadians? T hey’re Americans... but with medicare.” If w e’re talking about tax policy, it’s not likely that w e’ll make it funny. At the very least, though, we should realize that it does count as part of our collective values.

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Lettre aux candidats en lice pour les postes ouverts à l'AÉUM et eurs.M » t Les francophones forment à peu près 20 pour cent du corps étu­ diant mcgillois. C'est une part con­ sidérable de l’électorat étudiant, capable de décider de la victoire d'un candidat sur un autre. Mais la communauté francophone, vous direz, garde le silence et reste invis­ ible. Alors pourquoi la considérer?

L aissez-m oi vous suggérer quelques bonnes raisons d'inclure parmi vos priorités, pour l'an prochain, des projets qui intéresseront tout spécialement vos électeurs francophones.

Tout d'abord, remarquez bien: à McGill, il n'est pas de minorité étudiante moins plaignarde que la francophone. La majorité d'entre nous refuserions net, si on nous l'of­ frait, de former une faction close sur elle-même, uniquement centrée sur ses propres réalités. Nous sommes à McGill pour en faire partie, non pas pour s'y isoler. Cependant, vu notre absence quasi totale dans tous les clubs et organismes parascolaires, nous sommes bel et bien «isolés» à McGill.

Qui brisera l'isolem ent des francophones dans M cG ill, qui répond à celu i, plus m anifeste encore, des anglophones mcgillois dans Montréal et au Québec? Vous, ou plutôt ceux d'entre vous qui serez élus. C'est à vous qu'il incombera l'an prochain de relever ce défi. Et, parole de commissaire, si vous prenez ce défi, vous vous

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ferez du bien! Dans la grisaille actuelle, chacun de vos projets fran­ cophiles feront les manchettes, déclencheront l'enthousiame. La communauté francophone, habituée d'être invisible, se trouve dans un état tel qu'il est facile de lui faire plaisir. Et pensez à votre course électorale, le vote francophone pourrait bien en décider l'issue... Ça me semble assez manifeste, il y a correspondance d'intérêts entre vous qui aspirez à des fonctions poli­ tiques, et la communauté francoph­ one, le cinquième de votre élec­ torat! Dans le meilleur des McGill possibles, ce serait inutile de le rap­ peler.

Plaire à la communauté fran­ cophone ne vous mettra personne à dos. Combien d’étudiants anglo­ phones, pétris de bonnes intentions mais trop occupés ou paresseux pour sortir du ghetto m cgillois, serait fâchés de voir venir à eux le Québec français, sans qu’ils aient à bouger le petit doigt? Aucun, sans doute. En revanche, plusieurs en seraient bien heureux. La demande existe, ce serait sage d’y répondre.

Comme les autres universités mon­ tréalaises, McGill serait très bien capable de produire en spectacle des artistes francophones, et, par dessus le marché, d'en tirez des profits! Non seulement ça ne tuerait personne d'inclure plus de français à notre "student life" mais ça pourrait rapporter des sous.

Notez bien, dans cette lettre, j'ai pris grand soin de ne suggérez que des raisons payantes. Il en est certe de plus désintéressées, mais je voulais bien insister le point suiv­ ant: s'ouvrir à la communauté fran­ cophone n'équivaut pas forcément à lui faire la charité, par amour pour les minorités. Il est possible d’oeu­ vrer pour nous, non pas pour la beauté de la chose, mais de manière intéressée. C'est une bonne nou­ velle.

Il reste à souhaiter que vous répondrez à cette lettre par des promesses précises et réalistes, durant cette campagne, puis par des actes concrets, par des réussites, l'an prochain. Tout au long de cette campagne, et tant que se prolongera mon mandat, je serai toujours disponible pour vous aider de mon mieux.

Il y a plein de projets fran­ cophiles possibles et profitables, susceptibles de soulever votre intérêt, et que cette lettre ne men­ tionne pas. N'hésitez donc pas à m'appeler (398-1881), ni à entrer en contact avec l'équipe du D élit français (Julien, Patrick, Julie, 3986784) qui, en passant, suivra de près votre campagne.

Bonne chance à tous!

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SSMU Elections 1999: first impressions Disjointed observations at the start of campaign season: There are to be five SSMU vice-presidents. The positions have acquired nicknames: VPCommunications and Events ("VP-Four-Floors"); VPUniversity Affairs ("VP-Bemie"); VP-Operations ("VP-Shatner"); VP-Community and Government ("VP-Schmoozing"); VP-Clubs and Services ("VPSACOMSS").

Current president Duncan Reid is "pulling a Sevag" this year, following in the footsteps of an SSMU president of a few years ago by running for the under­ graduate seat on the Board of Governors. He's running against Cyrus Boehlman, the invisible man who's held the position all this year. Boehlman is reputed to be a very good guy who's wildly out of his depth, having been acclaimed to the job. Speculation is that the electorate might have finally got royally sick of Duncan, and will choose to vote for his cherished McGill Students' Fund but kick the man himself in the teeth. A substantial portion of the SSMU establish­ ment would love to see this hap­ pen.

It's a little weird that Duncan is pursuing the BoG seat while Karen Pelley wants a Science Senatorship and Jeff Feiner is running for Arts Senator. You wonder if these people don't have regular lives to get back to.

None of the candidates for the presidency this year has much talent at working a room. Jaime Stein cracks jokes that fall flat.

Melissa Pallett can come off as a phony even when she's not faking it. Tamana Kochar never looks at home. Andrew Tischler has been campaigning for so many months—years, even—that it's difficult for him to pretend he's not.

It’s not actually clear at this point whether Tischler’s even in the race. He’s a partner in a candy store on St-Denis, which got held up the afternoon that the nomination packages were due.

He had to spend hours dealing with it, and got his package in about five minutes after the dead­ line. It’s a very difficult call— Tischler was the victim of some­ thing terrible and beyond his con­ trol, but he did have two weeks to get the package in. It wasn’t like

he was still getting signatures in the little extra time, but the rules are the rules. Drew Cormack, the Chief Returning Officer in whose hands the final decision is, left for England on the Friday before Reading Week without having rendered a decision. Cormack is notoriously hardassed about the rules (as a CRO should be), but he’s human. If he lets Tischler

Nigeria, or South Africa under apartheid.) It's widely rumoured that, in unguarded moments, some of them refer to themselves as the new Molson Hall Mafia, after the current group of coun­ cillors who all used to live on the sixth floor of that residence building. This might be signifi­ cant when a member or two of the new Mafia has actually won a position somewhere.

VP-Schmoozing candidate Wojtek Baraniak, under duress (and perhaps embarrassed by the recent Tribune valen­ tine section), seems to have stopped wearing those shades on his forehead. When suffering great stress, however, he puts them up there again, like a child with a security blanket or favourite teddy. Baraniak’s irra­ tionally great fear of having to run a campaign seems to have been justified, with QPIRG deciding to run its usual sacrifi­ cial lamb candidate for the posi­ tion after the nomination deadline was extended.

Nobody in the whole world seems to have a bad word to say about Kevin McPhee, running for VP-Ops. Several candidates are preparing to make the perennial mistake of thinking that knocking on people’s doors in residence is a good campaign tactic. Year after year, candidates get the idea that freshmen and others will react really well to being both­ ered in their homes by aspiring student politicians and having to walk across reams of campaign literature on their ways to the bathrooms. The most notorious door-knockers in recent memory have been Adam Giambrone, Alex Waxman, and Steven Erdelyi. Who are they, you ask?

That's all you need to know.

Queer McGill is hosting one of the debates this year. Its head, Jawad Qureshi, is running for VP-University Affairs. There is something wrong with this.

It seems that an outrageous proportion of the candidates this year are declared supporters of the Progressive Conservatives.

Stein and Baraniak, for instance.

Virtually no New Democrats.

Very strange, in student politics.

NEXT WEEK: The Slitting Throats anti-endorsements!

Slitting Throats D avid Reevely

run, as most people would like him to do, he risks having the validity of the presidential elec­ tion challenged to the Judicial Board, which would almost cer­ tainly mean having to hold a new election sometime in April. This is not an enviable position for an election official to occupy..It was, however, a very nasty thing for Cormack to do to leave the country for the week with the issue unresolved. It was Cormack who—properly—upheld the elec­ tion by-laws in refusing to allow SSMU Council to change the erroneous MSF referendum ques­ tion it had accidentally submit­ ted. It would be easier to think of him as a good man doing a diffi­ cult job skillfully if he didn’t seem to enjoy so much the oppor­ tunity to make life difficult for the people whose political careers he administers. On the other hand, it is a delight to see some­ one make them all squirm a bit.

Jaime Stein is widely believed to be little more than a figurehead for the political ambi­ tions and goals of his friends, several of whom are running for assorted minor positions in the SSMU hierarchy. Jobs on the Financial Ethics Research Committee ("FERC") are popu­ lar, because there are rarely enough candidates to fill the available positions, and because there's virtually no outside scruti­ ny of what FERC does, you only have to take the job as seriously as you want to while still being close to the action. (It’s FERC's job to vet all of SSMU's contracts with outside agencies to make sure that it's not doing business with people who engage in unsavoury dealings with nasty regimes in places like Burma,

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Howard & Michael, Although the article was informative and probably very useful to students, I wonder if either of you really went to the Burnside basement snackbar.

Had you done so, you would have found that the food served there is mostly prepared at the McGill residences and isn't halfbad. It is run by the same people who run the McIntyre cafeteria and not Miraval with whom SSMU currently has the cafeteria contract. Since the food is pre­ pared elsewhere for the Burnside snackbar, it may not reach the standards at the McIntyre cafete­ ria, that is the cost of conve­ nience.

On the subject of cafeterias, Lorenzo .Pederzani, VicePresident Finance, intends to accept bids for the cafeteria con­ tract that is currently held by Miraval. Perhaps he might con­ sult students and find out what they do not like regarding the menu and other aspects of the cafeterias run by Miraval and also what students would like to see changed.

I urge all students to make Mr. Pederzani aware of their con­ cerns before he signs another long-term contract for the cafete­ rias that hungry students are forced to patronize. His decision will affect students long after he has left McGill.

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Re: David Reevely's "Ron Hawkins band a little rusty" Upon reading David Reevely's review of a recent show by Ron Hawkins and the Rusty Nails, I thought that per­ haps he had attended a different show than I myself had witnessed the night of February 12th. Mr. Reevely describes the band's per­ formance as "disapointing." The only thing "disappointing" about Ron Hawkins & the Rusty Nails' show that particular Friday evening at Le Swimming was the poor to non-existent response of the overly laid-back crowd that was in attendance (which admit­ tedly might have had something to do with poor advertising and the fact that the show took place at perhaps one of the worst live music venues in the city, with an insufficient sound system and miniature stage...). As Mr. Reevely notes, the band was "extremely stylish and multital­ ented... [and] had a lot of fun on stage," but sadly that enthusiasm did not carry forth into the crowd-who could sadly muster up little more than some polite clapping, and did not seem at all interested in inviting the band back on stage for a w As for Mr. Reevely's disapointment in the fact that so few familiar tunes were played by Ron Hawkins from his earlier career as the frontman of Lowest of the Low (and a more recent solo album), well my friend, that's the point of playing live to support his NEW band and NEW album. Lowest of the Low broke up more than five years ago now-get over it. I suggest that if it was Lowest of the Low you wanted to hear, then you would have been better off listening to their albums or busying yourself trying to invent a time machine.

My suggestion to Mr. Reevely is this: next time your out to review a rock’n’roll show in this fine city, be a little more open-minded and take better note of your surroundings...and for pete's sake, clean the rust out of your ears!

Brendan Edwards MLISI

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To infinity and beyond ecently I took a week­ end trip to Toronto. This “holiday” however, was more along the lines of a forced kidnapping rather than a plea­ surable retreat. It’s never really been a huge secret that I’m not the biggest fan of Toronto and that I shame Montrealers who flee in search of the proverbial pot of gold at end of the 401.

The reality is, however, that even I may have to give in and live there someday. This being said, when I received a plane ticket from a friend who felt it was his duty to try and change my false impressions of the city, I agreed to go. He assured me that with the right guidance and care, I too could learn to love Toronto.

It’s not that I have anything against the city as a whole, I guess I’m just partial to places where where the bars don’t close one hour after I arrive. I like the fact that in Montreal bagels are more than just buns with holes in them, and that we

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“Toronto,” he tempted me, “is without a doubt, the khakis capital of the world.”

“Perhaps”, I began to think, “ it has potential after a ll.”

After a stop at the Disney Store and a bite to eat at Movenpick, it was time to settle down for drinks at my usual Toronto hangout, Whiskey Saigon. By the time last call rolled around I had pretty well agreed that maybe Toronto wasn’t so bad after all.

So that’s it. That’s how I came to reevaluate my impres­ sions of Toronto. After giving it a fair chance, I can now admit that Toronto’s really not so bad after all. It may have its strong points and I may some­ day even be willing to move there, but one thing will never change; I will never, ever cheer for the Maple Leaves.

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Part Owe: Student drinking — Why we do it, How much we Drink, and When it Goes too Far

By Maggie Gilmour

to drinking in students.

“Many students are shy and find it easi­ er to socialize after a few drinks,” says Garlick.

Maurice Dongier is a professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the Douglas Hospital who does research on alcohol relat­ ed problems. Dongier says that “People feel a sense of euphoria and a release of psycho­

leads to dangerous behaviour.

As Garlick notes, “Binge drinking leads to a whole bunch of problems, includ­ ing sexual assault and other kinds of vio­ lence (fights etc.) And death and injury resulting from drinking and driving. It’s not very conducive to good grades either, of course.”

Although binge drinking is fairly com­ mon among students, alcoholism is not.

According to Dongier, alcoholism is a very severe disease where “you can’t abstain without experiencing withdrawal symp­ toms.” It is also, according to Dongier, very rare at McGill.

“What you find in 95 per cent of cases on campus is alcohol abuse, which is con­ suming too much alcohol, binge drinking, etc...”

Dongier estimates that only about two per cent of the student population could be classified as alcoholics. “There are probably more serious alcoholics among professors than students,” says Dongier. “In order to develop alcoholism you need a few years.”

Pierre Paul Tellier, Director of Student Health Services at McGill, disagrees howev­ er, claiming that “Some people can be defined as alcoholics while they are here [at school]. Some people, it’s a phase, others, there is something more serious going on.”

very night there’s a bar on St. Laurent that fills with students. It’s cozy, warm, and always welcoming. The waitresses are fast and attentive, the drinks cheap and the clientèle pleasant and friendly (with a few notably sketchy exceptions that hover near the comer of the bar). The music is per­ fection; it sets the mood, provides impetus for a few amusing performances by the small, well used pool table, but never inter­ feres with conversation, of which there is a lot of, and usually interesting conversation at that.

The bar is Copacabana and every­ where around me, students are drinking.

Beer in pitchers, watered down Gin and Tonics, blood red Vodka Cranberries, doesn’t matter, alcohol is being slurped by nearly everyone in the vicinity. Student culture seems almost impossible to sepa­ rate from a drinking culture, and for all those around me, having a few cocktails seems as natural as breathing.

Leah Cheyne is the nicest bartender in the world and I swear the reason some peo­ ple come back to Copacabana over and over again. Cheyne looks around and nods her head. “Yep. Students drink a lot. It’s always busy here.” Cheyne is, of course, entirely accurate in her assessment of the Cheers!

Catherine Farquharson student body’s habits. A recent study found that among Ontario university students, 94.5 per cent of students reported drinking logical tension. Shyness is decreased, there alcohol in the past 12 months, as compared is a boost in self confidence, they are able to Tellier, who can himself remember get­ to about 80 per cent of their non-university talk to people.” ting so drunk in his first year at Ottawa There is also another force that makes peers.

Although this fact is both universally students drink, and it is not the clichéd idea University that he “vomited out of the win­ recognized and taken for granted, the ques­ of peer pressure, according to Garlick. It’s dow of a car” notes that this is a time of tion of the future popped into my head after called social pressure, and it is responsible “experimentation and making choices. Some my third Vodka tonic. What happens when for most of the drinking on campus, sug­ of those choices just lead you down the wrong path. these glory years fade? Will the drinking gests Garlick.

“People often don’t recognize they “It’s long been thought that peer pres­ habits we acquire in university lead to lives of alcoholism, ruined by a frivolous attitude sure (students pressuring each other to have a problem when they are in the thick of towards a substance that is just as potentially drink) plays a big role. But recent studies it but they often come back and say, a year fatal as heroin? Or should we all just lighten indicate that the real culprit is social pres­ later, T had a problem’ or T was an alco­ up and have a beer? Turns out we have very sure... Social pressure in the belief that holic.’ But while they’re in it, they deny it.”

Kathleen Tremblay has seen these little to worry about. Alcoholism is very rare everyone else is drinking heavily and that in students, and what most students are you need to do the same to be an adult.” types. Tremblay is a bartender at Bifteck.

Students drink then, not so much because You might have seen her — she works the prone to, experts say, is alcohol abuse. their friends force them to, but just because upstairs section, and has an air of worldli­ it is “the thing to do.” This kind of mentality ness about her that makes you think she has is hard to counteract, says Garlick. Most stu­ seen every kind of human behaviour that dents seem unaware of the concept of exists. Tremblay claims that she has seen students who she would classify as alcoholics.

The typical pattern for a col­ “Some people come here and lege drinker, according to drink until they stumble out... I’ve Richard Garlick, Director of seen one guy who just didn’t know Communications for the how to stop. He’d come to a bar and Canadian Centre on Substance his friends would have to carry him Abuse, is what he calls “fre­ out, keep him out of fights. You can quent-heavy drinking”, which is always see the ones who are going to five or more drinks on one or have problems later on. more occasions a week, or “binge “It always starts socially. And drinking” which is characterized then, you see, they become friends by five or more drinks less than with the bartender. The staff. And once a week. Students drink then all of a sudden, they’re here all twice as much as the general the time.” population, according to Garlick Cheyne has seen the signs too. and the numbers are rising.

“You know someone has a problem “If anything,” says Garlick” the rate [of drinking in college Which one is the alcohol abuser?

Catherine Farquharson when someone can go through about 10 mixed drink specials an evening students] shows signs of increas­ ing in recent years... while the drinking lev­ “social pressure,” however. As Carrie and they are just A OK.” els among the general population have been Schoemer, a U2 drama and theatre student Student Drinking Continues next week comments, with a trace of irony, “I drink to declining steadily for many years.” relax and have fun. All the cute guys are at with a bartender’s take on student alco­ holics, an interview with a non-drinker the bar!”

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Problem Drinkers Although most student drinkers drink to have a good time, there are also problem drinkers, those who drink so much that it

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•M a les are m ore lik ely females to be heavy drinkers •Students aged 23-25, an 26 older are less likely to consum e! more than 15 alcoholic drinks per week than students aged 17-19 . J! •Students with D, C. or B a v er| ages are 2-3 tim es m ore likely to co n su m e th ese a m o u n ts thaiff&g average students •Students living in residence are 2.7 times more likely to consum e these am ounts com pared to s tu -| dents living at home with their ents •Students enrolled in arts a n a l social sciences are two tint® moret' likely to drink heavily than sciej^B students 'Jb •F irst year stu dents are m ore lik ely en g a g e in heavy w eek ly drinking than upper year students •The earlier you start drinking, the more likely problems will devel­ op: Individuals who started drink­ ing at the age o f 14 or y o u n g er showed a rate o f lifetim e depen­ dence on alcohol o f 40 per cen t, while those who started d r ln ® |g f^ the age of 20 or older showed rates of only ten per cent. ë — All stats from, a 1997 stu d |j on Alcohol and Other Drug Use by O n ta rio U n iv ersity S tu d e n ts (Gliksman, Newton-Taylor, Adiaf, G iesb rech t) and a stu dy by B .F G rant in 1997 in the Jou rn al o f Substance Abuse

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E a r to th e G ro u n d A brief look at the latest patterns, trends and developments Work hard, play harder According to a recent article in Shift magazine, Korean electronics giant Samsung sends all newly hired execs to its own theme park in an attempt to foster team spirit. There, teams of 40 to 60 execs spend two days doing aerobics, mountain climbing and floating down a fake river in inner tubes, all the while wearing their mandatory suit and tie office garb. Richard Sobol, a Boston based photographer who has done extensive coverage of Asian work environments, explains that this kind of “forced play” is an effort to create a sense of cohesiveness in the work place. “The company’s phi­ losophy is that by placing its new hires into these weird physical situations while they wear business attire, the executives will better cope with the challenges they face in the office.”

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World Bank changing its colours?

The World Bank has a decidedly bad rep in interna­ tional development circles — more environmentally dis­ astrous projects have been funded by this multinational than can be counted. But according to a recent article in This magazine, a new project called the Grassroots Immersion Program (GRIP) might be evidence of a more humane global development outlook. GRIP promises to send World Bank employees into the developing world for a week, forcing them to leave their cell phones behind, in order to gain a better understanding of poverty in developing countries. Although this move is in the right direction, Richard Sandbrook, a political science professor at the University of Toronto, doubts that the program will create any real waves of change within the organization. “They’re still not going to break out and be a radical organization. I think the individuals who are involved in the pro­ gram are sincere. But I don’t think that neoliberal globalization — which is what they are still proposing — is going to lead to poverty reduction in the near future.”

Dropped a class? Broke up with your boyfriend? If you have recently stumbled upon an unexpected chunk of free time — then why not try starting a nudist club at McGill? You wouldn’t be the first. According to a recent issue of Campus Canada, The U of T Naturalists, a nud­ ist society that gained club status at U of T in late August, held its first nude swim in September. The com­ pletely unclad event attracted 37 participants and was a huge success. Also, a co-ed naked volleyball tournament was held last December at the University Athletic Centre. “The club leases space from the university,” points out Director of Community Relations Kyle Winters, adding, “It’s not as though we’re programming for the nude.”

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here have been several trials of the century in the past little while, but the one that will still be in the books in five hundred years is the one just concluded in the United States Senate. William Jefferson Clinton, the forty-second president of the United States, was acquitted two weeks ago on two impeachment charges brought by the House of Representatives.

The long national nightmare of Gap dresses and indelicate prosecu­ tors’ reports is finally over. What good has it done?

A lot of commentators have argued that the persecution of Bill Clinton is the final warning to all of America’s power élite. Candidates in the impending election, they say, will have to have angelic personal histories if they are not to be destroyed in a frenzied attack by reporters and mouth-foaming radical Christians.

On the contrary. The Lewinsky scandal is the final chapter in the diary of America’s fascination with its lead­ ers’ personal lives. Americans always cared about what their presidents had done (Grover Cleveland, president at the end of the 19th century and father of at least one illegitimate child, was beset by the chant, “Ma, Ma! Where’s my Pa? Gone to the White House, ha ha ha!”), but rarely flung professional condemnation on those guilty of per­ sonal indiscretions. Cleveland, after all, got elected.

The modern story began in earnest with the Camelot fantasy of the Kennedy administration — with Jackie’s televised tour of the White House, in fact. It progressed through Richard Nixon’s paranoid psychoses, Betty Ford’s alcoholism, Jimmy Carter’s confession to having secretly lusted in his heart, and Ronald Reagan’s narcolepsy and wife Nancy’s astrology. It took a little break with the skullclutchingly dull George Bush, about whose personal life nobody really cared. And then, Clinton.

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harassment a “high-tech lynching,” declaring that his race, rather than his misconduct, was really under attack.

The gambit worked; the Judiciary committee, then controlled by Democrats, was cowed, and approved Thomas’s nomination to the Supreme Court with a minimum of further fuss.

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the end of a line between Kennedy and Clinton that runs through Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and former Senator Bob Packwood. with minor fillips \ through former

that were determined to make person­ al misbehaviour a ground for profes­ sional condemnation could not have asked for a better target than Bob Packwood. The Republican senator from Oregon was unmitigated scum — a mediocre senator and a cad whose apparently pathological com­ pulsion to abuse women with whom he had a professional relationship eventually moved beyond harassment into assault. Furthermore, where Thomas disputed the facts in the charges against him, the most damn­ Preced ents ing evidence against Packwood came from his own diaries. alread y set What is interesting about the It was with Clarence Thomas Packwood case is that his diaries that the mixing got seriously under­ became public evidence at all. Besides way. His alleged sexual harassment of the privileges of confidentiality Anita Hill fell on the continuum between lawyer and client, doctor and between personal and public activity, patient, American law recognizes a and in fairness, probably closer to the privilege between husbands and public. It launched the torrent of dis­ wives, and also between people and cussion on sexual harassment and sex their personal journals. A diary is in the workplace that informed the merely a record of private thoughts, Clinton scandal. Thomas chose to per­ and is therefore protected by a certain sonalize the committee hearings fur­ inherent right of privacy. Packwood’s ther, calling the accusations of sexual diaries, however, were demanded by

House Speaker Newt Gingrich (who filed for divorce when his wife was in the hospital for cancer treatment) and almost-Speaker Bob Livingston (chased away from office before he even got to it, after admitting he’d cheated). Each of those cases marked an increased merging of the politi­ cians’ personal histories with their professional careers, in a progression of which Bill Clinton’s tribulations are the culmination.

the Senate’s Ethics Committee, which happens to be exempt from all the legal procedural legislation that the Senate imposes upon everybody else in the United States. Packwood had to turn over his diaries, they incriminated him beyond question, and the randy old goat was forced to resign.

In each of these two cases, American society has gone into con­ vulsions over how far the public’s right to expect proper behaviour from its public figures can extend into those figures’ personal lives. The case of Bill Clinton seems to have settled that.

The American people, by a huge majority, have declared in poll after poll that Clinton’s affair, even with a co-worker, even in the actual Oval Office, is none of their business. The Republican senators, in the end, seemed to agree. Nobody really doubts that Clinton told bald-faced lies to a grand jury, and did it more than once. But the people and their representatives have decided they don’t care.

Clinton had to go deep into the abyss to make that point. It got as bad as it could possibly get for him with­ out tearing asunder the fabric of America. No American president besides Nixon has ever been so close to being removed from office for a plausible cause. (Andrew Johnson was impeached on the basis of a law later ruled unconstitutional.) His place in history is assured for the worst rea­ sons imaginable — for reasons that will be remembered after everything else about him is long forgotten. It seems clear, however, that the searing of the Lewinsky scandal has exorcised the spectre of the personal from American politics, if only because nobody wants to hear any more about it.

The public is utterly sick of Bill Clinton’s private indiscretions. He has been redeemed by the scorching fire of the impeachment process, so that the last thing anybody will want to have 20/20’s Sam Donaldson talking about in six months is whether A1 has ever run around on Tipper, or Texas governor George W. Bush has fooled

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India, Canada, and the right to bear nuclear arms N u clear co n fe re n ce ra ise s q u e stio n s, h o p e s for d isa rm a m e n t B y Kris M ic h a u d

For years, the “old guard” of the US, UK, France, China and Russia has controlled the highest council of the largest peacekeeping organization in the world. All of these nations also happen to possess huge arsenals of nuclear weapons.

The irony is not lost on Senator Douglas Roche, former Canadian Ambassador for Disarmament.

Roche wants to break this monopoly by establishing a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council for India. Roche has only one reser­ vation.

“I don’t want [India] to come in as a nuclear state,” Roche said to the large audience in Leacock 232. “I want them to come in as a non­ nuclear state. Let’s have Gandhi him self...” Roche hesitated, then began again. “Can we not have some of Gandhi’s spirit unleashed on the world?”

The Senator did not receive the ovation he had expected. Many of the Indian students in the audience appeared visibly upset. A few groaned loudly.

Roche was, to borrow an oftrepeated phrase from that evening, “operating in an old paradigm.”

Today, there are two Gandhis in Indian popular memory: the Gandhi who preached universal nonviolence and the Gandhi who fought to free India from colonial rule. It was clear from the audience response that India’s current generation empha­ sizes the second model.

N uclear h y p o crisy and th e South A sian crisis “There is a kind of resonance of one expert in the West talking to another expert in the West, and none of them are listening to what India is saying,” argued K. Subrahmanyam, India’s leading strategic analyst, who was introduced to the audience as “India’s Henry Kissinger.”

“If there is interest in talking, it cannot be on the basis of nuclear apartheid. After 200 years of colo­ nial occupation, India is not about to enter the next millennium under nuclear colonialism.”

In reminding the audience of India’s painful colonial history, Subrahmanyam had invoked Gandhi in his own way.

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concurred with Subrahmanyam when he said that “the heart of the problem is not India — the problem is the insistence of the nuclear states to maintain their arsenals well into the next century despite their support of the non-proliferation treaty.”

Lo sses for d isarm am e n t in the 90s Roche joined Subrahmanyam in cursing the events of May 12, 1995, the “day of infamy” when “the most horrendous weapons of mass destruction were legitimized by the international community.”

Roche was referring to the last day of the Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference of 1995, which yielded no progress on nuclear tech­ nology exchange or disarmament. A proposal for a strict timetable of nuclear weapons reduction and elim­ ination was shot down by the exist­ ing nuclear weapons states as “unre­ alistic.” This left the NPT effectively crippled until the next conference, scheduled for 2000.

Interviewed at the close of the 1995 conference by the NonP ro lifera tio n R eview , Pakistani ambassador Ahmad Kamal had remarked, prophetically, that “if you ask people to give up an option, then you must provide them with a degree of security,” adding that non-nuclear states “felt they had gained nothing by becoming signatories.” Faced with an NPT that only maintained the nuclear status quo, India, Pakistan and several other non­ nuclear nations declined to sign the revised Treaty.

Subrahmanyam argued that the aftermath of the failed conference ended up encouraging, even enabling, non-nuclear states in South Asia to develop their own weapons programs.

Subrahmanyam was also care­ ful to point out that nations cannot go nuclear without the help of oth­ ers.

“No developing country is in a position to go nuclear unless they are helped by an existing nuclear or industrial power,” Subrahmanyam reminded the audience. As an exam­ ple, he criticized past technology exchanges between Iraq and several nuclear nations, saying “If Saddam Hussein was guilty of roguery, there were a lot o f supporters of his

roguery. abstained, demonstrating their dis­ Another spur to India’s nuclear satisfaction with NATO’s current program was the threat of a Chinese policies. The resolution passed with Plutonium plant located in Pakistan. overwhelming approval. The majori­ Subrahmanyam complained that, as ty o f those opposed were, pre­ a major trade partner dictably, either exist­ with the West, China ing nuclear powers or was not penalized for states hoping to join providing nuclear assis­ NATO. tance to Pakistan.

The Reid poll “Instead, they looked clearly shows a man­ the other w ay.” date from the Subrahmanyam insisted Canadian population. that, under such circum­ This has yet to trans­ stances, India was late into a mandate forced to pursue a from the Canadian nuclear future. government to the rest “Perhaps it is not o f NATO, although the best solution, but it Anti-nuke crusader Senator there are some promis­ is the only solution in a Douglas Roche ing signs from the world which has legit­ House of Commons. imized nuclear weapons.

On December 10, 1998, the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and international Trade (SCFAIT) issued C a n a d a , th e UN an d a report backed by four of the five d isa rm a m e n t major political parties entitled “Canada and the Nuclear Roche, however, presented Challenge.” another solution: nuclear disarma­ Among the SCFAIT report’s 15 ment. A recent Angus Reid poll recommendations are statements that found that 93 per cent of Canadians Canada should work with other agreed that the government should countries to apply pressure to support an international agreement nuclear states, work within NATO to to abolish nuclear weapons. The re-examine the Organization’s cur­ same poll found that 92 per cent rent nuclear policy, and lobby for the believe Canada should take a leader­ removal of nuclear weapons from ship role in such a negotiation. alert status, in order to prevent acci­ Roche takes these statistics very seri­ dental launch. One further step is ously. required, however. The Canadian The Senator pointed out recent government must respond to developments in Canada and the UN SCFAIT by May 7, 1999. The that may provide some hope for dis­ response could conceivably run the armament. There are, according to gamut from outright acceptance to Roche, “an enormous confluence of total rejection. forces working together for a nuclear-free world. It’s that move­ A le a d e rsh ip role for ment which so needed [a non­ nuclear] India.”

Canada Last fall, the New Agenda Coalition, a group of non-nuclear Both men raised valid points in states comprised of Brazil, Egypt, their speeches. Roche revealed how Ireland, M exico, New Zealand, close Canadians are to persuading South Africa and Sweden, brought our government and the international forth a UN resolution designed to community to take real steps toward pressure existing nuclear states to a nuclear-free society. make an “unequivocal commitment” Subrahmanyam effectively criticized to disarmament. Unlike the NPT, the paternalism and hypocrisy of the this resolution was a mandate for nuclear powers and the NATO immediate practical steps and nego­ establishment. Nuclear colonisation tiations required for elimination, can be seen from two angles, howev­ such as removing missiles from alert er. From Roche’s perspective, India status and pledging “no first use.” and Pakistan have already been colo­ Despite heavy pressure from nized — by the nuclear mentality. within the North Atlantic Treaty Canada, Roche reminded students, Organization to reject the resolution, was capable of developing nuclear 12 NATO members (every non­ weapons long ago but refused to, nuclear NATO state except Turkey) setting a global precedent.

Both men agreed that, had the global community stood up to the nuclear minority in 1995, India and Pakistan might not have taken the path they did. The 2000 NPT confer­ ence may give the world a chance to turn back the nuclear tide. By May 7, 1999, the Canadian government will have decided whether it is will­ ing to accept the mandate of the peo­ ple and assume a leadership role in these negotiations.

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Wake Up Tour hits Montreal: It's Judaism baby, yeah!

The concert, though, is only A series of Jewish-themed events, the Wake-Up Tour2’s high­ one highlight of a ten-day marathon The lights go out. More than light is a performance by Israel’s of Jewish joy, fire and spirituality.

1,500 people are standing beside Moshav Band. Imagine a giant Combined again with a Shabbaton you, crowding the Medley’s dance mosh-pit only instead of people and the immensely popular Purim floor and barely leaving you room elbowing you, they’re putting their party, this year’s installment will to breathe. And when the first note arms around your shoulders. And also differ slightly in its addition of is hit, it’s like nothing you’ve ever you slowly realize when you stop one other impressive component.

“We’re going to pack the Just dancing long enough to catch your seen before. for Laughs club with hundreds of breath, that some of the words are Unless, of course, you were very psyched and empowered Jews in Hebrew. there last year.

“What do they sound like?” and, basically, debate the most “It’s one-hundred per cent uncensored youth and better yet, says Shore, with an all-knowing important issues facing our peo­ smile starting to form. “Well, ple,” says Shore. “It’s a little hard it’s pure Judaism.” they’ve been called the Israeli pair­ to describe, because nothing like it Say what?

McGill philosophy major ing of the Grateful Dead and Pearl has ever happened here before. But Sigmond Shore is describing a little Jam. But you’ve got to see it and if I had to call it anything, I’d say it’s a party/late-night intellectual something called the Wake-Up dance to it to really understand.”

With close to 1,200 fans on discourse.”

Tour, a week-long Jewish celebra­ “We’ve introduced the ‘Stay tion that hit Montreal last March hand for last year’s show, the first Wake-Up Tour was one of the Up’ part to the Tour this year,” and returned this week.

“To give you an idea of our largest Jewish student events this adds Korda of the March 11 allapproach to this thing, last year’s city has seen. However, Korda, night event, “because we want the slogan was ‘It’s Judaism, baby, Shore and the dozens of other stu­ high to last.”

While the initial project was yeah!’” says Justin Korda, a McGill dents who have put the event Political Science student and, together hope to top even that per­ the result of a year’s efforts to pro­ together with Shore, a principal formance as the Moshav Band mote, fund and execute a month­ plays an encore this Saturday night. long circuit of North American uni­ organizer of the tour.

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versities, the Wake-Up Tour2 came about far more easily. With last year’s success still fresh in many students’ minds, a 1999 reprise was inevitable.

“The demand was overwhelm­ ing,” says Korda. “We were being asked about it constantly, so we fig­ ured why not? Let’s do it again.”

The scope of the Tour does necessitate a certain level of fund­ ing, and for that the organizers had to turn to adults. Charles Bronfman, Avi Sochaczevski and Federation CJA are generously supporting this year’s project, in addition to Austin ‘Danger’ Powers’ words of inspira­ tion.

Also closely allied with Hillel Montreal, the Tour remains a stu­ dent endeavour, and Shore and Korda appreciate the autonomy.

“It’s not often that [people] hand over so much responsibility to stu­ dents. They’ve put tremendous trust in our abilities and our dedication,” reiterates Shore.

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Birthday parties just don’t get any worse. What starts out as the celebration of a patriarch’s sixtieth birthday soon develops into a hard-edged revelation of the darkest of dark family secrets. Winner of the Special Jury Prize at Cannes in 1998 and triumphant accolades at the Toronto Film Festival last September, The Celebration is a true gem. This Danish film ’s appeal lies not only in its visual beauty but also in its ability to intersperse its emotional punch with occasional flashes of bril­ liantly orchestrated comic scenes.

Director Thomas Vinterberg is triumphant against the current state of commercial mediocrity in film. He is a member of the Danish filmmaking collective Dogme 95. This group of four film directors, which includes acclaimed Lars Von Trier (Breaking The Waves), was founded as a rescue operation for the current state of cinema.

Dogme 95 opposes the premises on which commercial film is based: pretense, illusion, and dramatic predictability.

The Celebration lures the audience into a false sense of security when wild, sex-crazed son Michael (Thomas Bo Larsen) promises his father Helge (Henning Mortiza) to be on his best behaviour for the weekend.

Things go well at the start; guests are settled into their rooms, drinks are served and din­ ner is set. It’s up to the demure eldest son Christian (Ulrich Thomsen) to drop the first bomb­ shell as he rises at the dinner table to give a tribute to his father’s 60 years.

Asked to choose between the two speeches Christian has pre­ pared, Helge un w ittin g ly demonstrates the ease with which he chose b e tw e e n Christian and his deceased twin sister in a repeat­ edly playedout incest rit­ ual. Helge’s s u p p o r tiv e wife attempts to restore a sense of nor­ malcy to the gathering by responding to Christian’s remarks with detailed descriptions of her three remaining children’s short­ comings.

First is Michael’s rebellious attitude that necessitated a spell at a strict boarding school, then Helene’s unconventional career choices and successive boyfriends, and finally Christian

with his mental instability and lack of commitment; no details are given of Christian’s recently deceased twin sister Linda. It is left up to Helene to cast light on Linda’s suicide in a heartwrenching reading of the suicide note.

The event spirals into scenes of ironic surrealism as the guests become more and more outra­ geous and fantastical while the re s p e c ta b le facade of Helge’s fam­ ily becomes increasing­ ly trans­ parent and is eventual-

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Vinterberg creates a true dilem­ ma for the audience as they are torn between join­ ing the guests in denial that such events could have taken place and join­ ing Christian’s triumph in con­ fronting his repressed past. The Celebration puts the viewer on an emotional seesaw between uninhibited jocularity and over­ whelming remorse for the theft of childhood innocence.

Dizzyingly giddy camera work testifies to the film’s adher-

ence to the puritan ideals of Dogme 95’s manifesto. The movement’s ideals include hand­ held camera shooting, natural lighting, and no use of back­ ground music or props. Rather than portray cinema as an escape from reality with saccharine-

D o n 't go to The Celebration expect­ ing a cheerful evening of escapist voyeurism. .

sweet plots and happy endings, Vinterberg wants to take his audience into the inner lives of his characters and The Celebration offers an unflinching exploration into the darker side of human frailty.

Don’t go to The Celebration expecting a cheerful evening of escapist voyeurism; you are more likely to come out feeling emotionally exhausted. Still, don’t let this stop you; The Celebration is a must-see and leaves you wondering how the devastation from this party will ever be cleared. You’ll never view a post-party clean up in quite the same way.

The Celebration is playing at Loews.

people are still recovering from Monday night’s Purim party at Tokyo, it is just the beginning of two weeks during which, according to Shore, “This city will rock.”

“We like to think of it as bringing Jerusalem to Montreal for ten days.”

The Moshav Band plays the Medley, 1170 St. Denis, Saturday, March 6 at 9:00 pm with special guest San Citrus of Montreal. Tickets are $9 with $1 going to Le Mercaz food bank and can be purchased at all Admission outlets or by calling 790-1245. For more information on the Wake-Up Tour2, contact wakeuptour@yahoo.com.

T R IB picks C inéma du Parc C loses This is more of an "anti-Trib Pick." really. The Trib's A&E section wishes to hereby express its disgust at no one in particular for allowing this abomination to occur. If they can't pay the rent, fine. But think about this: what does a commercial landlord do with three empty movie theatres?

Put in more vacant stores?

The landlord is Crown Life Insurance Co., telephone 282-1900.

M c G ill D rama F estival The biggest event of the McGill Drama season kicks off on Monday and for the first time represents the combined efforts of the Players' Theatre and Tuesday Night Café Theatre. There are two shows per night on a rotating sched­ ule. Call 398-3816 or 3986600 for information.

March 8-13 and 15-20 at Players' Theatre and TNC.

La N ouvelle S phere Intermédiatique For you culture and media thinkers out there, the Musée d'Art Contemporain is present­ ing a very intellectual series of discussions regarding the impact of new media on cultur­ al thought. $ 15 per day for stu­ dents, or $60 for the entire conferece. 343-6111. ext. 5578 for info.

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T he Mc G ill T ribune, W ednesday, 3 March 1999 tionship remains unexplored.

The issue of lesbianism is left virtually untouched which, in the context of this film, is perhaps a good thing: it depicts a regular family where homosexuality is but a minor issue.

As a whole, this “romantic com edy” was rather entertaining and you are almost guaranteed to leave the theatre feeling as though you just witnessed something really good. But with every good there’s a bad and, although I wouldn’t go so far as to call Keaton’s character bad, it was nothing phenomenal. She played a typical nagging, concerned mom who stands in the way of every endeavor Carla and the rest of the family try to embark on. Skerritt’s character is in this same ballpark.

He plays the nonchalant, non-intrusive, sup­ portive father. Lewis and Ribsi, on the other hand, share the position of the backbone of the film, sustaining their characters with almost brilliance. Both actors gave sincerity to their characters that made them, as individuals and as a couple, very believable. If there is one serious criticism of this film itfs that the rela­ tionship between almost every character except Lewis and Ribsi is undeveloped.

In essence this film challenges our notion of capability and does so in a humourous and touching fashion — it even had some people in the theatre crying. For a rating, The Other Sister is not worth seeing on a regular movie night (what movie is worth paying $8 for?), but it is worth seeing on a Tuesday night or on video.

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In its time, Hollywood has been both the producer of straight-edged, entertainment garbage and mind-boggling, controversial, or gruesome flicks which have pushed the bound­ aries of the ordinary and our traditional values.

The Other Sister, Touchstone Pictures’ latest release, is caught in limbo between these two and exhibits qualities of the regular “feel­ good” movie while tackling specific issues which are not necessarily in keeping with mainstream entertainment protocol.

The Other Sister attempts to explore the realities of living as a mentally challenged per­ son through the depiction of the lives of Carla Tate (Juliette Lewis) and her relationship with Daniel McMain (Giovanni Ribsi). The film centres around Carla’s constant drive to inte­ grate herself, as a competent individual, into the rest of society. It begins with her gradua­

tion from “special-school” and her move from this boarding school back home.

The continuous struggle between Carla’s need for independence and her moth­ er’s (Diane Keaton) wish to protect her, brings forth the issue of treating people as people and not as invalids.

Once Carla joins polytechnic school she meets a man with similar challenges, Daniel McMain, and throughout the movie the development of their relationship is traced The last two glass Coke bottles in Hollywood from friendship to romance.

Carla asserts her independence not only by transportation. This assertion causes her mothattending what is referred to as “regular er intense anxiety as she repeats throughout school” but also by managing her own apart- the movie that it is now her time to protect her ment and by getting around herself on public daughter.

The Tate family is divided, between mother and the rest of the family, on how to deal with Carla as an adult and is further plagued with the constant bickering typical in the depiction of a wealthy, socially active and socially conscious family. This fam­ ily consists of three daugh­ ters. One strives to be a grade school teacher and gets married to a Ph.D. stu­ dent. The other is a lesbian book editor in New York and finally there is Carla.

The dynamics between the sisters is fairly surfaced and the underbelly of their rela-

The Other Sister is playing at Loews.

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Swing's Dying Breath

October Sky doesn't shoot the moon

reluctance to give in to a life of coal mining. The drama is fairly intense, and captures the diffi­ culty of succeeding in a place where no one really wants you to.

October Sky benefits from the relative anonymity of the

Based on a true story, October Sky follows the ambi­ tions of a high school boy set on doing his part to help America keep up in the Space Race with the Soviet Union. Growing up in the late 1950s, Homer Hickam (played by Jake Gyllenhaal) gets inspired to build rockets after seeing the Russian Sputnik satellite soar across the West Virginia night sky.

Rather than offering patriotic support, the people of Homer's small coal-mining town are largely skeptical of a 17-year-old having lofiter ambitions than Them rockets are the Devil's work! their own. Fighting the small-mindedness of Coalwood, WV, Homer cast, allowing more freedom in development. forges ahead on his own, character attempting to build rockets in However, we don’t get any his basement and testing them in insight to the motivation behind his back yard. Acquiring some Homer’s fascination with rock­ knowledge from the class nerd ets, other than his initial wonder and with the help of his buddies, upon seeing the Sputnik. Homer he assembles a crew of junior is not portrayed as having any rocket scientists to design larger scientific inclinations or apti­ scale projects. Laura Dern, one tudes, but begins building rock­ of the few recognizable names ets immediately. Nevertheless, in the cast, portrays a teacher the real character development who helps inspire the boys and comes as Homer struggles against the town and his father, fight off their detractors.

The movie then sets on a showing everyone how far his fairly predictable track of the H, earns will drive him.

There is not much that a boys building better and better rockets, gathering more support bigger budget could have done from the town and getting closer for the film: the model roclcets to their dream of the National are actually supposed to portray Science Fair in Indianapolis. model rockets. The cast is very There is even the requisite competent, despite a few poorly Baywatch style ten-m inute chosen extras and Laura Dern’s progress sequence, where a slightly hollow character. month’s work is compressed October Sky is successful as an into a cute musical interlude. inspirational and bittersweet Nevertheless, the audience never family movie, the kind that you loses interest in the boys’ suc­ will likely be dragged to over cess and there are plenty of the holidays... maybe Easter. minor plot tw ists to keep it October Sky is playing at interesting.

A father-son conflict drives the Foubourg. much of the story, as Homer Sr., played by Chris Cooper (you’ll recognize him from something)

It wasn’t chance that led me to Jello Bar on Monday night. I was on a mission: to find out if swing was really dead.

I read somewhere that swing died when Ashley and Mary Kate ; (those annoying twins from Full House who were unfortunately given their own show) did an episode with swing dancing. If that wasn’t the crushing blow, perhaps | it occurred when a swing band j played at the Superbowl half-time JR fe

of lava lamps, and settled in to make my observations.

Observation number one: no matter how many snarky comments I make, there is no denying that Jello Bar was packed. People were dressed up in zoot suits, fedoras, saddle shoes and swing skirts and could actually dance. No one was staring at their shoes, mouthing to themselves “one and two and backstep, one and two...” In fact, even the infamous Miss Sophia was pre­ sent, leading the crowd in some basic steps. For all intents and purposes, swing seemed very much alive. The music of Kami kaze Mustang, a jump swing band with a mean horn section, kept the dancing moving, and well... swinging.

I spoke with Andrew Zadel, frontman and bassist for Kamikaze Mustang, to get an insiders per­ spective of the swing scene Although he seems light-hearted and keen in stage, swing has hard­ ened him. “We sold out before we even began, giving the crowd what they want and making money. We are the Backstreet Boys of Swing,” he said.

When probed further, Andrew’s deep-seated dissatisfac­ tion surfaced. What originally was music about “sticking it to the man,” became some lame retro movement. He explained that the swing movement perpetuates the patriarchy because of it domination by males... and too many bands are

Style/Profile Maria Simpson i f next to pop star dinosaurs lipsynching their bygone hits. Yes, even I, who could hardly be described as being on top of the | trends, could smell the faint waft of j the fish beginning to stink. So nat­ urally my nose lead me to Jello Bar’s swing night.

Jello Bar, located at 151 ; Ontario E., went out of style before it even opened. Supposedly “the beautiful people” hang out there, | but every time I’ve gone I end up running into a slew of people from my first year residence instead. It’s a fairly small bar, so it’s not partic­ ularly conducive to the arm flailing style of swing dancing, nor are the low couches, which are just biding their time until a jive-step related injury ends this trend for good. I | bought the requisite pretentious 1 martini, sat back next to a wall-full

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named “Daddy.” He also referred to what he calls the “ghetto-ization” of swing. Basically, the scenesters, or “swing Nazis” as they are also known, have been brain­ washed to enjoy only swing and strive to keep their tight-knit group exclusive. If you can’t dance, you’re not in. In any case, Andrew sees the death of swing on the hori­ zon, and the Kamikaze Mustangs are planning to accommodate by morphing into a funk band.

I wish I could impart a clear answer about the death of swing.

Sure, it’s commercial, it’s lame, it’s retro, and even annoying TV brats are doing it, but when I looked around at Jello Bar, all these people were really enjoying themselves. Perhaps swing will finally crawl into the corner of a velvet couch at Jello Bar and die in the near future, but until then, swing is very much alive.

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uiz: How to spice up your magazine?

B y C a r o l P io v e s a n

Riddle me this. When your ad c o n sists o f a h a lf naked woman with enorm ous silicon breasts hanging out o f a string bikini top, lying unconscious in the middle of a boxing ring with b lo o d on her fa ce and a tri­ umphant boxer standing directly above her with his boxer-bimbo cheering for him on the sideline — what the hell kind o f message was that?

This is but a brief description o f one o f the many notorious Serial Killer ads which explicitly and rem orselessly degrade the im age o f w om en. The under­ ground and skate m agazin es which carry them are testosterone packed from cover to cover with 16-year-old boys docum enting them selves drinking and skate­ boarding. Fine. But to fulfill the immature fantasies of these bare­ ly p o st-p u b escen t boys w ith images of beaten and half nakéd w om en is not only tiring but offensive.

The common conception is that these street magazines, with their editorial len ien cy, and a young male target audience, tend to be more offensive to women.

Yet, as I strolled along the isles o f the McGill Bookstore maga­ zine section, what I discovered was that more mainstream, wide­ ly read m agazines were almost worse than this other genre. If you c a n ’t g u ess what type o f m agazin e I ’m talking about

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12:00 p.m. 5:00 pi.

Avoid the Cabaret at all costs.

Today Café Campus' blues night features guitarist Deborah Coleman, appar­ ently one of the brightest young stars in the world of, well, blues guitar.

Her band is called the Thrillseekers.

P.W. Long with Reelfoot seems to be a critical success, even if I've never heard of them. The website calls the latest album a "schizophreic (sic) hodge-podge of Long's tradbased solo work and full-tilt electric rockers." He has a song called "Pooh Butt," which the same website describes as a "shameless fuck plea."

At Jailhouse Rock.

Thursday Have you heard that new Offspring song, "Why Don’t You Get a Job?" It rocks. It's fabulous. It's not enough to go see a concert, but that's just me.

At the Molson Centre with Living End and Ozomatli.. $25.

Saturday Sepultura's back, baby... to the extreme! At M etropolis, with Biohazard and One M inute Silence, on a Saturday night! What is it with Quebecers and metal?

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in tradtional veil and the caption w ritten beneath the picture read, “who is the op p ressed ? ” Good point! With the con­ stant reinforcement to be p h y sic a lly fit, you n g-look in g, w ell made-up, and in tune with the reactions and d esires of men, women in our society are under extrem e pressure to please.

The worst part is that we are the ones prop egatin g these im ages o f o u rselv es. E ditors, writers and models for these mag­ azines are almost always women capitalizing off of the entrapment o f our lib erty. And when the question is put forth to an editor o f any genre “how to spice up your magazine," the consensus from skateboard, underground

Friday Extreme skiing, extreme soft drinks, extreme potato chips, and now the International Extrem e M usic Festival. The totally extreme line-up features the extreme sounds of C ryptopsy, D ivine Em pire, Gorguts and Vader. This extremely diverse line-up will no doubt come with an extremely reasonable price tag and will provide extreme enjoy­ ment for all in attendance. At l'X.

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maybe this vtfill help. “What men think about your look” or even better, “Put more bliss in your kiss: Master these man-melting mouth-to-mouth m oves.” These are the dreaded w om en's m aga­ zines. They are as brainless as skate magazines portray women to be, but they masquerade under the guise o f “self-help.” Case in point: "60 self-esteem secrets,” w ere d iv u lg ed in this m onths issu e o f G la m o u r m agazin e.

T hese w o m en ’s m agazines attempt to inform and fulfill the modern woman with insightful and telling know ledge on such th in gs as sex , lo o k s, fitn e ss, weight, image and men. In fact, what they are doing is trivializing women’s concerns by presenting this information in a “goof proof’ manner (as stated on the cover of Girl). One magazine had a picture of a typical North American pseud o-lib erated w om en standing opposite another woman dressed

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Sunday Eagle Eye Cherry's follow-up sin­ gle is still extremely anticipated.

Whatever can its conspicuous absence indicate? Find out, at the Spectrum.

Tom Cochrane is a boring old bitty.

Emm G ryner probably is too.

m agazin es to m ainstream women’s magazines is to exploit the female form regardless of the rep ercu ssion s it may have on men’s perception o f women and w o m en ’s perception o f them ­ selves.

Joee and Maestro [Fresh Wes!], at the Spectrum.

Fri.. March 19 Jonny Lang, with Chris Whitley at Théâtre St-Denis.

Sat.. March 20 Wide Mouth Mason, at the Cabaret.

Sun.. March 21 Sharon, Lois & Bram, at Théâtre Maisonneuve.

NEXT WEEK Tuesday Sebadoh, with The In Out, at Cabaret.

Wednesday Elmo Williams, Hezekiah Early and R.L. Burnside, at Café Campus.

Rufus Wainwright, with Imogen Heap, at the Olympia Theatre.

Veda Hille, at Club Studio.

Thursday Jay-Z. DMX and Method Man, with Redman and Ruff Ryders, at the Molson Centre.

Saturday Jazzberry Ram (love that name) at le Swimming.

Monday Salt-N-Pepa, with L.F.O., at the Dome. We'll double-check that.

Shania Twain, with Leahy, at the Molson Centre, $49.50 and $39.50.

Tom Jones, also Tuesday night, at Théâtre St-Denis.

New Listings Thu.. March 18 98 Degrees, with Jessica Simpson,

Mon.. March 22 silverch air, with LIT at the Spectrum.

Tue.. March 23 Snow-Jam 5: A.F.I., Chixdiggit, Ensign, Planet Smashers, Satanic Surfers, 88 Fingers Louie, AntiFlag, Bouncing Souls, GOB and Misconduct. That's bloody ridicu­ lous. At Metropolis.

Wed.. March 24 Collective Soul, at the Spectrum.

NOTE: Eve 6 and the Flys are now opening.

Skeeter Brandon & Hwy 61, at Café Campus.

Mon.. March 29 Candlebox, with Goodness, at the Hard Rock Café. Chuckle.

Wed.. March 31 E lliott Smith, with Jr. High, at Cabaret, $15.50.

Sat.. April 3 Asian Dub Foundation, at Cabaret, $17.50.

Wed.. April 14 Sparklehorse, with Varnaline, at Cabaret.

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CKUT's Board of Directors determines the future direction of M cGill's radio station. As the student representative this year, I provided a student voice in the meetings and worked to form a stronger link between CKUT and univer­ sity students. I want to be the represen­ tative again in order to finish what I started. I have worked at CKUT for three years as a programmer of a one-hour weekly show and I co-organizea a benefit concert for CKUT last semester. I am committed to the station and I want to make CKUT a stronger presence on campus.

My name is Sarah Clarke. I am a sec­ ond year student in East Asian Studies and Political Science and am currently involved at SACOMMS and as the SSMU Council Speaker. I will ensure that course evaluations are made wide­ ly accessible to all students. I believe that departments need more financial attention and more TAs. In addition I think that it is time that you as students are made aware of what the administration is doing with the future of your education. I have a strong voice and will ensure that your voice will be heard, too.

Senate requires the leadership of a Representing students for three years has strong-willed, responsible, dedicated given me the necessary skills to effective­ individual. I will bring these qualities ly serve student interests on the Senate. as your Arts Senator. As a writer for As VP E xternal o f both the A rts the Tribune, I am well aware of many Undergraduate Society (AUS) and the issues currently plaguing McGill. I am _____ SSMU, I have g a in e d the re quire d committed to fighting against further knowledge about the workings of McGill to hold it account­ able. As Arts Senator, I plan to vocally and forcefully defend downsizing of the Arts Faculty and I hope to bring a our views. These include our rights to make informed acade­ responsible perspective to various committees, especially mic choices with improved course evaluations, a desire to sim­ the Admissions Committee. I am intent on listening to your plify the nightmarish red tape which plagues us here, and our concerns, committed to bringing about action and I look right to be a more informed student population. Votez pour forward to representing you in the Senate with dedication and enthusiasm. Vote Fred for strong representation! Avec Jeff Feiner pour améliorer McGill.

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As YOUR senator, key issues I will address are: more stu­ dent awareness and involvement on senate decision, extended Howard Ross library and Sandiford lab hours, and any of YOUR other concerns. Don't forget to vote because this decision impacts McGill, Management, and most importantly YOU!

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This is my second year in Management and I am running to represent this facul­ ty's concerns in the M cG ill Senate.

Since the Senate is.the highest academic decision-making body at M cG ill, any _____ ruling it makes can have either a benefi­ cial or adverse effect on Management students. As Senator, my job would be to prevent the latter. This past year I fought hard to stop the 4.3 GPA system from coming into effect because it didn't benefit us. If elected to the Senate, I intend to continue to work hard on behalf of Management to ensure our interests are fairly represented.

Hi! I am Ambereen; a U2 biology major running for the senate. If elected as the science representative to senate, I inte nd to address the issues o f improving facilities provided to stu_______________ dents, academically and otherwise.

Our libraries: the quality and quantity of books; studentteacher interaction; and University buildings are my prime concern. I want to make senate more accessible to stu­ dents. The senate, with its sub-committees is the most important decision making body at McGill. It is responsible for shaping McGill. It is responsible for shaping McGill and its student community. Casting a vote is your opportu­ nity to make a difference. Use it wisely!

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U D U A K ID IO N G Hi, my name is Uduak Idiong and I'd like to be you r Science Senator. I believe I have many qualities and that I can bring to the position. Some of you may know me from SUS events and know that I am hardworking, enthusias­ tic and a good listener. So, don't hesi­ tate to stop me. I w ill be going to into U2 micro and immuno next year. I know the M cGill system and the resources available. As Science Senator I would provide a communications link, for your concerns, to the administra­ tion.

It is time that the voice of Education stu­ Senate makes decisions concerning dents be heard. Hi. My name is Sheriff important issues such as academics that Abdou and I want to be your representa­ affect all of us at McGill. It is made up tive on the Senate caucus. As a mostly of faculty members and adminis­ Secondary Education student, I plan to trators. However, students also have a voice your concerns and bring them to say on Senate, through our Senators. the forefront o f the table. ITs time to get W h ile at M c G ill, I have been very involved, most recently as the Vice-President, Internal off the sidelines and get involved in the action. W ith both your A ffa irs o f the SSMU. Through my experiences I have help and vote, changes can be made. Vote Sheriff. learned about how McGill operates and how decisions are made. I want to know what are your concerns and make sure that they are heard on Senate. So make your vote count and vote for me for Science Senator!

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There are politicians and there are lead­ ers. Leaders are visionaries. They guide, motivate and promote team spirit. Next year involves dealing with Shatneris ren­ ovations, the construction of the new Student Services building, the new constitution & executive structure. The President will be responsible for this transition from the old to the new. Campus security & in creasing student representation are necessary. A good President requires experience and strength of character. As SSMU Clubs & Services representative, member o f B uilding Planning Committee.

Finnncin Affairs Cnmmitfpp R, n Committee, Chair or of Financial Committee & a flnnrfloorfellow, lim ready to take this responsibility.

Vote TAMANA for a new SSMU. A more personal, not political, SSMU.

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Je ferai marcher l'AEUM pour vous. As your future president, I w ill use my experience to link your needs w ith opportunities and resources. Having served as IRC president, Arts Senator and two-time SSMU councillor, I have the skills and proven commitment to lead McGill undergraduates into the 21st century. It is time f o r a re alistic re-evalu ation o f SSMU effectiveness, Greening McGill has and will continue to be a priority for me. W e must focus on concrete academic initiatives; impiempntnfion ovnnndnn of reserves, and mentation of nn an ovnm exam k/ir»L bank, expansion overall library improvement. Vote for commitment and experience. VOTE PALLETT O N THE BALLOT!

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I feel that the job of president requires Votez pour votre voix. The Students' someone who is an effective communi­ Society is here to make McGill accessible cator and leader, with firsthand knowl­ to students. As your representative on the edge of several aspects of student life committee for student affairs, I've worked qualities I believe I possess. My main with various faculties to create projects to goal is to establish a more user-friendly better serve students next year, including McGill by creating more student jobs, improving security, a Shuttle Bus, increased inter-faculty implementing an innovative environmental strategy, and communication and the implementation o f the in cre a sin g d ia lo g u e betw een SSMU and students, Program. These projects, like me, are here to s J'aimerais aussi établir des meilleurs relations entre étudiants Avec un président qui peut vous représenter dans francophones et anglophones. Avec votre support, ma institution provinciales, nous avons l'opportunité de '_ l:i.' \With a/:i L ___ _____ . my ... \ vision de McGill ___ sera réalité. your support faire entendu. L'association des Etudiants compren of McGill will become a reality, étudiants de McGill.

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9H H y tÈMMÊÊÊm SA M G R O S S I am incredibly excited that McGill has recognized the importance of clubs and services by giving them their own VP. Being a vital part of the McGill commu­ nity, they deserve the representation. As a frosh leader, Walksafe volunteer, and employee at SSMU, I have the experi­ ence necessary for understanding the concerns of SSMU clubs and services. M y mission w ill be to strengthen the clubs community through extensive leadership and organi­ zational programs, monthly open forums to discuss clubs ideas and concerns, more involvement at the frosh level, and detailed information about clubs on the web. New job, new face, VOTE SAM.

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Hi, I'm John Ki. I am running for Vice President of Clubs and Services. I am a Taurus at the tail end of a Political Science degree. For over three years, I have been active in the McGill Student arena; and I am determined to make improvements. I enjoy long walks on the beach and I am looking for someone who is both con­ cerned with Campus issues and unafraid of new approaches. This person must be open-minded, willing to voice their opinion and have a desire to get involved. If you are are interested, VOTE JOHN Kl 4 VP. Questions?

Jki4@po-box.mcgill.ca.

M ATT W Y N D O W E

As this yearis AUS VP Internal, I have shown that itis possible to take events that are alre ady in place and make them more successful. Through creative publicity I have developed Frosh and Arts Taverns to appeal to a broader audience. Next year, I will bring back 4 Floors without compromising safety. I w ill continuously update the SSMU webpage to provide students with more information about campus events. By promoting communi­ cation between SSMU and each of the faculties, I will sup­ po rt the emergence o f a more unified student body.

Experience, Knowledge, and Fun: Vote Jo Morrow for VP Communications and Events.

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As Mini-Course Coordinator and design­ er of the new SSMU webpage, I have experience im proving both the events and communications of SSMU. My ideas include a winter OAP in a heated tent, a DriveSafe shuttle bus program covering m ajor SSMU events and doubling the number of mini-course classes. Communications can be enhanced through an environmentally friendly postering service for clubs. In addition, I want to continue develop­ ment of the webpage with online textbook exchanges, event listings and free w eb space for all students. The VP Communications and Events should bring students closer to SSMU. What's needed are clear ideas and clear solutions.

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W mm ÊÈm: JA W A D Q U R ESH I VP-University Affairs portfolio focuses on academic and student issues. What makes me qualified for the position is that my three years of university have revolved around making M cG ill an environment where students feel they are the first priority of this institution.

W ork has been done to reach this goal but a lot of work is still needed. The issues, which I intend to work on, revolve around recognizing student involvement in the university environment and awarding it through formal recognition.

Education before administration and bureaucracy. Votez Jawad Qureshi pour V-P des Affaires Universitaires.

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W O JT E K B A R A N IA K

After two years of involvement, I have come to understand the role of student leaders in the im provem ent o f University life. Having worked closely with the VP University A ffairs, I see four issues that should be tackled.

First, further developing job-creation and job-form ation possibilities. Second, conducting research to establish which services students wish to see better funded. Third, opening communication channels, en Anglais et en Français, to maintain awareness of student services and issues of academic importance. Finally, developing more constructive orientation for First Year stu­ dents. I have the dedication and the experience to be your VP University Affairs.

I'm W ojtek B araniak, a U2 Political Science and Economics major. My three years of involvement in my departments, the AUS and the SSMU have provided me with the insight into students' needs regarding community and government issues. This experience leads me to stand behind the following initiatives: COMMUNITY - addressing student safety by publishing incident reports. Organizing a ghetto garage sale and having an HMV-McGill student day.

GOVERNMENT: Lobbying to end differential tuition and pro­ moting accessible education. I am to strengthen ties with provincial lobby groups. J'encouragerai notre présence et vos sentiments dans la communauté et le gouvernement.

ALI N O O R M O H A M E D To my fellow peers, It is you that define the culture, look, and feel of the SSMU. In your thoughts you breed the actions o f tomorrow. Hence the expression "You are what you think". Our environments, past, present, and future, dictate our thoughts. Thus it is you that dictate my goals and aspirations as your VP Community and Government Affairs representa­ tive. In light of that, my first plan of action is, to set up a mechanism to determine your wants and needs, and there­ with, implement the plans necessary to materialize yours requests.

Vote for action; vote for Ali

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A . x JEFF RO BERTS W ann a do som ething? This school should be a place that helps students transmit knowledge and ideas into their community, the city, and the w orld.

Give me your ideas and I'll help you take them to government, business and people that matter. Concerned about student fees, jobs, APEC, the environment? So am I. Experience in student politics (VP North American studies/ Coordinator of Greening McGill) means that I have the tools to express opinions in a strong and realistic manner.

Changeons les choses. Let's do something.

Jeff Roberts, VP for Community and Government Affairs

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JA S O N A N T A O

In addition to solving all the w orld's problems, I would like to make student life at McGill as easy as possible. I will work to make SSMU more accessible through a student lounge and increasing awareness of already existent student services. 1 also hope to study the need for new services while improving services, such as the everconfusing health plan. I have a year of experience as the Clubs and Services Commissioner and I know that SSMU doesn't mean anything if it doesn't improve student life.

Force me to give more details: call 844-1824 or email kmcphe@po- box. meg i 11.ca.

This is a position that requires the abili­ ty to make difficult decisions regarding the finances of SSMU. Teamwork is also essential. These are qualities that I will bring to this position. The bulk of my experience is w ith the Financial Management Committee of AUS. In this capacity, allocations of the AUS budget were made and, while occasionally con­ troversial, these decisions were always made in a fair and honest manner I assure you all that my committee's deci­ sions wflf be similarly equitable. Je ferais tous que possible pour vous assurer une committee hônnete.

■ CH ARLOTTE G A R D EN As a member of the Financial Ethics Research Committee, 1 promise to work towards an environmentally friendly and socially responsible McGill. 1 am involved with several organizations, both within McGill and in the Montreal am very aware of social issues and know that many McGill students are as well. Therefore, I will use my leadership abil­ ities to help McGill balance its financial interests with ethical concerns.

SAM I K A M H A W I 1 am a third-year Economics major and have been involved in numerous clubs and services since my arrival at McGill. My experience includes lead­ ership positions in the Economics Students' Association (Vice-President) and the M a nagem ent C onsu lting Association (President). As a FERC advisor, I will ensure that the standards set by SSMU are adhered to and that all our 'corporate partners' have sound environmental and social policies. Je ferais de mon mieux pour assurer que ce travail est accomplir soigneusement.

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vino CHELI My name is Vitto Cheli, a U2 Political Science major. As an involved, wellinform ed and de dicated student, I believe that I am an excellent candidate for this position. In the capacity of FERC advisor, I w ould be responsible for ensuring that expenditures from and revenues to SSMU meet the criteria of ethical business practice. I strongly believe that autonomous review o f SSMU's financial transactions is essen­ tial to ensure the most efficient, effective and honest use of student monies. Je veux que nous ferons partie intégrante de les affaires financières de l'AEUM.

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C Y R U S G ÉR A R D B O ELM A N There is only a 1 in 17, 576 chance that my initials, C.G.B., are the same as Cancerman'sN! Since elected, 1 have built a presence on the Board.

By renewing my position, 1 can be even more effective on the Board. 1 have represented undergraduates well because I have been a part of a range of activities. I volunteer for "Dans La Rue", a program for street kids, and have volunteered for Walksafe. Though in science, I worked as an assistant director at the National High School Model UN in N.Y.C. I bring to the Board a real, non-SSMU'ed, student perspec­ tive.

D U N C A N REID As SSMU VP Finance (1997-98) and President (1998-99), I have learned a n w t great deal about M cG ill and how it works. This knowledge will be put to excellent use as the undergraduate rep­ resentative to the Board of Governors (on which I sat as President). I have gotten deeper into McGill's budget process than any student has before, and used that knowledge to defend students against hundreds of thousands of dollars in unjust fees.

Such experience is vital to being effective on the Board, and I w ill put it to good use to ensure that M cG ill is held accountable to its students.

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F a m ily a ffa ir: M a th ie u D a rch e ste p s fo rw a rd Younger Darche takes tradition of McGill athletics excellence to the ice

By Paul C onner M ath ieu D arch e sm iled w hen he said th at he and his brother J.P. used to play fight as kids. Even today, he said, the two McGill varsity stars — one in hockey, the other in football — sometimes clear the basement at their house in Ville St. Laurent to wrestle.

J.P., two years older and a stan d o u t on the g rid iro n Redmen’s defensive line for five years ending last fall, was always bigger. At times, the two worked together. Playing bantam hockey, Mathieu would often pick fights, leav in g J.P . to clean up after him. “ In bantam , esp e cially in firs t year, any. tim e som eone w ould hit me, I ’d jum p him ,” said Mathieu. “I could start trou­ ble and hide behind J.P. I had a big mouth. I’d stand behind him and he’d take care of things.”

“I ’d always get suspended and get the p e n a ltie s ,” J.P . explained, adding that he really did like the job. “That meant I d id n ’t h ave to sta rt them myself.”

S ince th en , M ath ieu has grown, literally and figuratively, to become a dominant force on the Redmen hockey team ’s top line and one of the best forwards in the country.

Iro n ic a lly , he cam e to McGill as a football recruit. In his first year, he p layed both sports, playing sparingly on the R edm en fo o tb all defence and scoring little for the hockey team he joined in November.

“I always liked hockey a lit­ tle m ore,” the younger Darche recalled. “After my first year, I said 'th e re ’s no way I can do both for four years.1 But it was a tough decision.” In the end, he chose hockey.

“Personally, I would have loved to play football with him,” said J.P, adding that he knew his brother made the right decision.

In his second year with the hockey team, Darche surprised everyone by scoring 21 goals and adding 13 assists in league play.

On a team which lost its top six scorers from the previous year, Darche emerged as the leading scorer and led the Redmen to an unlikely playoff berth. This sea­ son, he again led the team in league scoring and was honoured alo n g sid e g o a lte n d e r Ja rro d Daniel with a trip to Slovakia in January to represent Canada at the World University Games.

“Going to Slovakia was the b e st hockey ex p e rie n c e I ’ve

Sticks and medals intertwine with Mathieu Darche

had,” said Darche. “It’s the sec­ ond-biggest winter event in the world, after the Olympics.

“To be chosen to represent C anada...” He trailed off for a sp lit-seco n d , then co n tin u ed , “B efo re the firs t gam e, we walked into the room and saw the Team Canada jerseys in our stalls. Some guys actually got emotional going into the room.

One guy had tears going down

M a t h ie u D a rc h e Overall Career Stats

Year

GP

G

A

Pts

96-97 97-98 98-99

23 40 37

1 28 16

2 17 25

3 45 41

Totals 100

45

44

89

his face.

“It might not be as big as the Olympics, but for us it was. It was a once-in-a-lifetime chance to represent Canada.”

D arche e x p la in e d how whenever he tries to tell people

Patrick Fok

about the experience, there is no way to capture what he and the others felt. He couldn’t describe what it was like to play in front of 6,000 screaming fans in a rink that held 5,000.

“It was almost overwhelm­ ing. W e’d leave the rink, and it would take us 25 minutes to get to the bus because we had to sign a u to g ra p h s. I rem em b er one game, after playing Ukraine, I was the first one out of the room.

The phone was o u tsid e and I went to call my dad,” he said. “I turned the corner to leave and h eard p eo p le scream in g . I thought, ‘what the hell is hap­ pening?’ I walked out — it took me 25 minutes. I was surrounded by people. I thought, ‘what the hell, we’re not Wayne Gretzky, w e’re ju st university p lay ers,’ but they didn’t care.”

M cG ill hockey has never witnessed those kinds of crowds.

Two years ago, though, Darche w itnessed a near-full house of 1,500 at M cC onnell W in ter A rena when his team took on

rival Trois Rivières in the rubber match of a three game division final. They lost that game, but it served to elevate the rivalry.

A fte r d ro p p in g seven straight gam es ag ain st UQTR after that series, the Redmen won a loud 3-2 game last November 18. Two months later, they beat the Patriotes in Trois Rivières for the firs t tim e in fiv e y ears.

D arche talked about the game back in November, when a big crowd led by the Redmen foot­ ball team took over the arena.

“Our rink, when we have big crowds, is a loud rink. Against T rois R ivières, when we beat them, all the guys were scream­ ing,” Darche said, beginning to speak fa ste r. “T ro is R iv ières started losing. They got so many penalties that game. At one point one guy sh o t a puck in the stands. It was a great atm o s­ phere... but it was different than having 6,000 people.”

Darche is finishing up his third of four years in m anage­ ment, majoring in marketing and international business. He figures he’ll play one more season with the Redmen, but emphasized that getting a degree was his priority.

“Any pro league, it w on’t last me for a lifetime,” he said.

“To me, it’s important to get my degree first; after that, I’d like to get a try-out, just to see how I fit.

Depending on what happens, I think I ’d like to play a year or two pro.”

He added th at his parents always put the emphasis on edu­ cation, but supported him, his brother, and his sister in all their activities.

“They often went to football games in the afternoon and hock­ ey gam es at n ig h t,” said M athieu. “Sometim es, they go on the trip to Toronto. When I was at prep school in the States, they cam e to m aybe h a lf the games, a six hour drive away.”

“It’s more interesting than watching the Canadiens play,” said D a rc h e ’s fa th e r w ith a chuckle. “It’s always fun. They just like to play, they have noth­ ing to prove out there.”

Well, except maybe in their own basement, once in a while.

“I beat the crap out him a lot when we were yo u n g er,” said J.P. P ressed , he ad d ed th at M athieu still never wins when they wrestle.

“Now, it’s just more danger­ ous for the furniture.”

McGill soccer fine-tunes its engines Indoor tourney helps pre­ pare teams for season

By T he M inh Lu o n c

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In spite of the cold weather outdoors, the season hasn't yet ended yet for the McGill soccer teams. They have both been busy this winter in the Quebec Student Sport Fedaration indoor season, leading to last weekend's McGill Indoor Soccer Classic, an annual exhibition tournament.

Team s from M cGill, Concordia, UQAM, UQTR, Laval, Ottawa, Carleton, Ryerson and Humber College, as well as sever­ al alum ni clubs filled the Fieldhouse with two days of soc­ cer action last week.

Due to the much smaller sur­ face, the indoor game has some obvious differences with the out­ door game. The nets are not as big and the ball moves much faster on the floor; the games last 25 min­ utes apiece, and there are seven players on each side, with on-thefly substitutions as in hockey.

"There's a lot less space indoors, so you have to make deci­ sions a lot quicker," said Redmen defender Rob Baird. "If you make a mistake here, there'll be a couple •of players on you right away and they'll bury you, whereas in the outdoor game, you have time to make up for your mistakes."

The altered Redmen lineup took to the floor, consisting mostly of rookies from the past season, as well as several new faces. After struggling for most of the indoor season, the team has shown improvement of late, as evidenced by a solid 3-1 record in the tour­ ney.

The Redmen were eliminated in the semifinals on Sunday by their alumni counterparts 1-0 in a hard-fought match between the familiar opponents. The McGill alumni team featured many of the graduating players from last fall's Redmen squad. Former McGill star Kevin McConnell scored the winning goal on a penalty kick.

"We played a lot better here than last weekend, it was still a bit disappointing to lose the way that we d id ,” said Redmen captain Rehan Ali. "We have a young C ontinued on Page 26

Redmen Basketball QUBL Semi-Final at Concordia, Thursday, March 5th, 7:00 p.m. at Concordia Gym.

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M a rtle t g o a lte n d e r re a p s e n d -o f-se a so n re w a rd s Kim St-Pierre named rookie-of-the-year and first Martlet CIAU All-Canadian

By Jonathan C olford

from day one, plays the game in such a way that the coaches have Picture this. no choice but to start her. This ath­ You are in your first year of lete turns a doormat into a con­ varsity hockey. Coming from some tender almost overnight. nam eless sm all town in rural The Martlets’ Kim St-Pierre Quebec, or forgotten suburb of may be such an athlete.

M ega-Toronto, you show up at In her first year of women’s your first practice a high-school hockey, the physical education all-star, league scoring leader or freshman led a Martlet resurgence w hatever.

To you, this from a 3-10-1 regular season Redmen/Martlet practice is just the record last year to this year’s 7-4-3 beginning of your next step showing, their best since they went towards superstardom.

8-5-2 in 1991-92. To cap it all off, Life is good. the Martlets participated last week Then reality sets in. People are in their first ever C anadian just as big and fast as you are. The Interuniversity Athletics Union veterans, to boot, can do things National Championships. you have only seen done on televi­ The 20-year-old from sion.

Chateauguay, Quebec, is also a If you are like most varsity m em ber of C an ad a’s national athletes, you will take a couple of team, and will travel with it to years to relearn and master your Finland on March 6 for the world game before blossoming into pro­ championships. ductivity. U ntil then you will Heading into the Nationals, become familiar with every grade S t-P ierre had recorded a 2.35 of maple and pine adorning the goals-against average with three benches of the league, a mere shutouts and a 7-10-5 record in 22 spectator for the time being. games overall. She made over 50 A few exceptional athletes saves in a game on three occa­ skip this phase. The coaches like sions, including a Martlet record w hat they see in practice, and 62-save performance in a 6-0 loss seemingly right from the get-go to Concordia on October 25. they are thrust into the middle of C oncordia head coach Les “Kim is one of the premier the action. These players are the Lawton spoke of St-Pierre goaltenders in the country right unlikely heroes who often make moments after the provincial final now and her being named to the championship seasons. between his Stingers and McGill, national team has given her a lot of A rarity is the athlete who, which Concordia won 4-0. confidence. She’s obviously a big

St-Pierre made 39 saves in the loss.

part of their team. With the goal­ tending they’ve had in the past couple of years, this game would have been over after 10 minutes,” he said.

For her exploits this season she was named Quebec Student Sport Federation rookie-of-theyear and league all-star following the final game. In the Great Hall at the University of Toronto’s Hart House the Martlet netminder was announced as the team’s first-ever A ll-C anadian at a dinner last Thursday.

Martlets head coach Caroline Blanchet put St-Pierre’s accom­ plishments into a team perspective, following the loss to Concordia.

“I think we have to look over­ all, winning, it’s just not Kim, it’s not Kim who puts the puck in the net. It’s a team effort. Sometimes it’s harder then in other games, yes, Kim is there to make the saves. We try to have a very disci­ plined zone coverage, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t work.

Kim is there, but there’s the rest of the team too,” Blanchet said.

St-Pierre had few words to say about the accolades bestowed upon her. She echoed her coach’s feel­ ings by stressing the importance of her team.

“Hockey is a team sport,” said St-Pierre. “If the team wasn’t in front of me I couldn’t do [all I did].”

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Dear Undergraduate Students,

1998-99 Fall & W inter Undergraduate Student Fees (on a per semester basis)

Many of you have dropped by my office in the last fewmonths inquiring about thebreakdown of your student fees Until recently, I too wonderedjust where my student fees were being used. So I have complied aexact breakdown of student fees and hereis how it works.

(1) Stu den t Services

All student fees are collected by the Student Accounts Office ofthe University. ITte feesarethen directed toone of three recipients - 1) the Students’ Society of McGill University (SSMU), 2) your Faculty Association, or 3) within various departments or groups within the University. Each recipient then divides the fees according tothe criteriafor which they werecollected. For example, the SSMU receives funds for the Sexual Assault Center during boththe Fall andWinter semesters for which the money istransferredto the Sexual Assault Center’s internal account.

(2) C o u rse s (except M edicin e & D entistry) Variable f Pro-Rated Out of Province Quebec Resident Internationa] Students

Variable / Pro-Rated Health Plan Library Improvement Fund Invariable SACOMSS Day Care Nightline Faculty Contingent SSMU

The Courses (#2) section shouldbe self-explanatory. However, the billing sent out by the University divides thesefees (for out-of-province and international students) intobase fees arid supplements. In any case, the easiest way tocalculate themis by multiplying on a per credit basis according thevalues listed in this section.

Faculty Association Charge

Variable / Pro-Rated Registration Charge

Information Technology Charge

Transcript Charge CKUT

The Library Improvement Fund will be expiring at theend ofthis semester. This will result in a loss of over $600,000 in funding to our libraries. The 1998-99 SSMU Executives has taken measures to counteract this loss in the new McGill Student Fund (MSF) that you may have heard of. Other components include to the creation of bursaries for studentsandthe renovation ofthe Shatner Building by

Invariable Daily Publications Society QPIRG Athletics Facilities Legal Information Clinic ' Access Mcgill Student Services Building WUSC (Pilkington Scholarship Fund) Faculty Contingent Faculty Association Charge

September 1999\

I hopethis answers any questions you have regarding your Undergraduate Fees. I would be pleasedtoanswer any questions at (514) 398-6802. Good luck on all your work!

Sincerely,

Lorenzo Pederzani VP, Finance and Operations

$48,18 F a ll/$96.35 Winter $10 Full-Time / $5 Part-Time $0.75 $3.00 $0.25 $28.50 Full-Time / $5 Part-Time ('A' Faculties) $20.66 Full-Time / $10.58 Part-Time (*B' Faculties) Varies depending on Faculty (e g. Arts = $5)

(4) Miscellaneous Student-Related Charges

The Miscellaneous Student Related Charges constitute funds that aretransferredto different departments andgroups within the University. Projects such as theAthletic Facilities andthe upcoming Student Services building are included in additionto Registration and Information Technology Charges.

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$105.61 /credits $55.61 /credits Ranges from $275 61 to $450.00 /credit

(3) So ciety

The Student Services (#1) section is transferredtothe Dean of Students Office where it is usedto run services such as the Career and Placement Center (CAPS), Health Services, Off-Campus Housing, the Orientation Center, the Students with Disabilities Office, theFinancial Aid Office, and theCounseling Services among other things.

The Society (#3) sectionis the only component transferredtothe Students Society of McGill University (SSMU). However, in the billing sent out by the University, your Faculty Association fees are collapsed into the Society fee. Thus, this fee contains your Health and Dental Plan premium, your base SSMU fee, earmarked SSMU fees (e.g. Sexual Assault Center) and your Faculty Association Fee. Although listedasa Society fee, the Faculty Association fee is sent directly to thefaculties and is not received by the SSMU.

$122-9 credits and above / $73 - up to 8.5 credits

s "A" Faculties Science

$14/1-3 credits $28 /4-6 credits $42 /1-9 credits $56 /10-12 credits $70 /13+ credits $6/1-3 credits $12 /4-6 credits $18 /7-9 credits $24 /10-12 credits $30 /134 credits $8 Full-Time / $4 Part-Time $ 4 -9 credits and above / $2 - up to 8.5 credits $3.35 $3

$10 $2 $2 $20

$0.50 Varies Depending on Faculty (e.g. B.A. Tech Fee = $12.60) $ 122 - 9 credits and above / $73 - up to 8.5 credit

Arts (B.A. & B.S.W.), Education, Engineering (B. Eng. & B.ScArch.), M anagem ent, Music, Nursing, P&OT,

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M a rtle ts m a k e trip to C IA U N atio n a l C h a m p io n s h ip s C ontinued from Page 1 Championships.

Before heading to Toronto, the Martlets met Concordia for the Quebec crown. The game was no surprise as the Stingers cruised to a 4-0 victory in which they fired 43 shots at Martlet goalie Kim StPierre.

The first taste of n ational cham pionship action for the Martlets came against the Ontario champion Laurier Golden Hawks, who finished the season with a 146 regular season record.

The Hawks quickly showed what made them cham pions as they started the game with intense offensive pressure. If not for Kim St-Pierre, the Martlets would have found themselves down by two, making two outstanding saves — one straight on, the other on the glove side.

Perhaps those saves sparked something in the M artlets; they started to m ount some serious o ffen siv e pressu re m idw ay through the first period.

But Hawks goalie C harm aine B oteju was able to match her counter­ part across the ice with spectacular saves. Boteju held off the Martlets on a key penalty kill late in the period.

“We knew what we had to do on the powerplay,” said Martlet coach Caroline Blanchet about her team ’s three powerplay chances in the first.

“We really d id n ’t play our our best game so we couldn’t capitalize, not even on the five on three.”

The M artlets m ust have gotten jealous of the Laurier players spending so much time in the box, because the second period saw four Martlets penalties. Three of them would go for naught, but the first one, a hooking penalty to Julie Hornsby, would cost them.

W ith the ad vantage, the Hawks were able to get forward Caroline Hall in front of the net, w ere she took a pass from K im berly S h illington th at she rifled past St-Pierre to put Laurier up 1-0.

“I didn’t see it coming,” con­ ceded an honest St-Pierre after the game. “(Hall) had the puck on her stick and just shot. With all the people in front of the net, I was screened and got beat.”

The M artlets found them sleves shorthanded again less than thirty seconds after the goal, and the consensus was that the team would surrender another goal. But an extrem ely agressive penalty killing unit essentially neutralized the Hawks powerplay for the rest of the game.

“They ca p ita lize d on one powerplay,” said coach Blanchet.

“Sometimes one is all you need.

But our penalty killing worked well today. It’s ju st frustrating because we knew we co u ld n ’t give .up .goals.when we're short­

handed and win.”

When asked about the penal­ ties she offered a surprisingly pos­ itive view.

“We like the physical game, we like getting in the face, but the refs thought that some elements of our play was wrong. We tested limits and finding them meant that we spent some time in the box.”

The game would finish up at 2-0 follow ing a second period goal that ricocheted off a Martlet defender for a goal. The Martlets mustered 20 shots on the Hawks, while they blasted St-Pierre with 25.

“We lacked intensity today,” said the Martlet netminder. “We started strong, but couldn’t keep it up, it’s the story of the game. But the most important and obvious reason we lost was that the puck didn’t go in the net. We had some chances but we couldn’t finish. It was a tight game that we could have won, but we d id n ’t. The team just didn’t play good enough

to beat them.”

Rough ride against Pandas The second game of the tour­ nament pitted McGill against the Alberta Pandas, the Canada West champions and the favorite to win the pool.

The game started much like the last one, with McGill strug­ gling to get the puck out of their zone. But after settling in, and get­ ting their stride, the game moved to the neutral zone. McGill would get a great chance to score in the dying seconds of the period, but fired two shots right at the pads of A lb erta goalie Stacey McCullough.

A fter losing in the second period the day before, the team knew their backs were against the wall, and they answered by play­ ing an aggressive, dominant sec­ ond period. t “We knew that if we didn’t play well we would lose,” said forward Julie Hornsby, who was given McGill player of the game for her efforts the day before. “We know that when we skate hard, good things happen.”

While McGill controlled the puck and dominated the Pandas, the efforts of McCullough would send the Martlets away with noth­ ing to show for it as the second period game to an end knotted in a scoreless tie.

Early into the third frame, Julie H ornsby took a hooking

penalty that sent out the Panda powerplay. And even though the team had already k ille d three other penalties, they couldn’t hold the Alberta team down forever.

Some crisp passing in the McGill zone eventually ended up with the puck on the stick of Panda for­ ward Maria McKenzie who blast­ ed home a shot to put her team up 1-0.

“We really couldn’t afford to give a team like Alberta power­ play ch a n ces,” said coach Blanchet. “They are an extremely disciplined team that doesn’t take many penalties, but when we go to the box they can take advan­ tage.”

The team did take advantage one more time thanks to a interfer­ ence call against C ailee Heggestad, giving the Pandas the opportunity to score once more.

Panda forward Trish Semeniuk took a pass from teammate Lisa Kearns and just walked right in front of the Martlet net and scored an easy goal to put the Martlets down 2-0.

When things looked at their w orst, the M artlets started an offensive rush that ended quickly in a whistle. But to the benefit of the M cG ill; it was the referee awarding Julie Hornsby a penalty .

shot at 14:54. She took the puck at center ice and skated in quickly, faked rig h t and put it past McCullough for the Martlets first goal of the game and the tourna­ ment.

“I have more power on my forehand,” said Hornsby of her penalty shot. “I faked upstairs on the right, and then took the puck back to my forehand and put it in.”

McGill was energized, and with less then two minutes left to go they evened the score. Hornsby passed the puck to Dana Rittmaster who was right in front of the net. The captain of the squad didn't miss the opportunity as she buried the puck top shelf on the glove side to tie up the game.

The game was sent to over­ time and even with a powerplay in the extra stanza, McGill couldn’t capitalize and the game was sent to a penalty shootout. The tension in the arena grew stronger as the first three shooters on both sides were rejected by the goalies. But Alberta’s fourth shooter, Krysty Lorenz was able to beat St-Pierre on the glove side to put the Pandas up by one. The shootout cam e down to M cG ill’s fifth shooter, Sarah L om as, who couldn’t beat McCullough.

Penalty shots questioned again “We showed a lot of charac­ ter by coming back in this game,” said Blanchet. “The Pandas were favored in the pool. It was tough at the beginning but we kept on working hard and it paid off. As far as the shootout goes, well, you never know.”

After some considerable con­ troversy last year in the Olympics about using a shootout to decide games, Blanchet revealed she is still very much conflicted over its

use.

“P ersonally, I have m ixed feelings about using it to deter­ mine games. I mean if you keep playing overtim es and exhaust your best lines then the game real­ ly ju st becomes and endurance contest and doesn’t end in a spec­ tacular way. The shootout ensures that it’s skill over stamina. But still I have mixed feelings about it.”

With an 0-2 record in pool play, the Martlets were relegated to the fifth place game against St. Francis Xavier. The game was hardly close as Rittmaster led the team to a 5-2 win on the strength of her hat trick. The win means that the Martlets finish the year as the fifth ranked team in the nation.

“We played with pride and w ent hard out th e re ,” said Blanchet. “Our goal this year was to finish second in our league and qualify for the Nationals. W e’ve done that and I'm very happy with the way things went. We showed progression over the season and played some of our best games over the past two weeks, a 0-0 tie with Concordia (before the play­ offs) the shootout loss to Laurier the other day and today’s win over St. F.X. I’m very happy with the way it went this year and am look­ ing forward to a very competitive W o m e n ’s H o c k e y CIAU N a t io n a l C h a m p io n s h ip s F in a l R e s u l t s

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By T he M inh Luong

A fter a season where the Martlets basketball team has gone through more lows than highs, there are signs that the team is about to turn the comer. One of the key elements to their recent suc­ cess and bright future is their star guard Jennifer de Leeuw.

The education senior from Beaconsfield, Quebec, was just named a Quebec first team all-star after having her best season to date with the Martlets. She ranks fourth in the Quebec League in scoring and is second in three-pointfield goals. On a team with only three senior players, she has provided the M artlets with a consistent threat from beyond the arc, as well as a quiet leadership.

“She’s deceptively quick, a natural scorer, and has had a lot of success shooting the ball this year,” said McGill coach Lisen Moore. “She’s a bit of a sleeper, in the sense that she’ll silently kill you. You won’t notice, but she’ll nail a bunch of three-pointers and end up with 15-20 points on the board.”

Like many varsity athletes, de Leeuw played several sports while growing up. A former youth soccer player and figure skater, she stum­ bled into basketball by chance.

“I started playing when I was about ten.” explained de Leeuw.

“The coach of our soccer team in St. Bruno asked us to play basket­ ball, so I guess it was kind of a fluke that I ended up playing."

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played, so I also wanted to do what backcourt, de Leeuw clearly “Jen n y ’s d efinitely had a they were doing. I really grew to appreciated being surrounded by trem endous y ear,” said coach love the game.” such quality players.

Moore on the point-guard. “She De Leeuw came to M cGill “I didn’t play very much, but I struggled a bit last year when we after a highly successful basketball enjoyed sitting down and watching were going through our transition, career in both high school and them,” said de Leeuw. “They were but she’s stepped into her own this CEGEP. But before she even some of the best players in season. She’s also been great off arrived on campus she had devel­ Canada, and I learned a lot from the court, supporting people when oped a feel for the Martlet system the experience I gained from those they’re doing well or having trou­ while playing for the John Abbott couple of years.” ble, and has shown us the work Islanders, where ethic and commitment M oore coached required from a senior her. de Leeuw says athlete.” that her choice to “Our coach hasn’t go to McGill was put any additional pres­ quite easy. sure on me, but there are “The academ­ times where I felt that ic side m ostly I’ve had to step up my influenced my game,” added de Leeuw. decision,” she said, “The other teams seem “but I really to put a bit more pres­ enjoyed playing sure on me in the second for Lisen at John half [of games], but it Abbott. I ’ve also opens up the court for played with Alison the rest of the team.”

[Schafer] since we While her numbers were in high establish her as the school, so we just Martlets’ impact player, stuck together. de Leeuw stresses the We’re really excit­ importance of the team ed to be com ing aspect of the sport. She back for another doesn’t hesitate to give year.” credit to her teammates For the first and coaching staff for two years of her her personal success, university career, and notes that the team’s de Leeuw had the recent improvement is fortune of playing due to their play as a on one of top unit. teams in Canada, “Everyone’s name with the likes of should be m entioned form er M cGill because w e’ve all stars Vicky worked hard and grown T essier, Anne de Leeuw runs the offence tremendously over the Gary Rush M cG ill Athletics Gildenhuys and season as a unit,” com­ Jen Stacey. That team reached the Following the graduation of mented de Leeuw. “The captains, National semifinals in 1996, de most of those players in 1997, de C aroline [M alo] and Alison Leeuw’s rookie season.

Leeuw’s role with the team has [Schafer] are more of the vocal D espite being forced into changed greatly. The M artlets leaders on this team . I could more of a supporting role due to have looked to her for more scor­ almost call [the M artlets] their the team’s tremendous talent in the ing as well as to lead by example. team because of the way they took us under th eir wing. C ynthia [Santamaria] wasn’t a captain, but was a very positive force and Department of Medical Biophysics helped push the other players to become better.”

University ofWestern Ontario De Leeuw will graduate after London, Ontario this semester with a degree in ele­ mentary education, but will return GRADUATE POSITIONS AVAILABLE next year to complete a certificate that will enable her to teach in T h e D e p artm en t o f Medical Biophysics has o ver 20 positions available French. She is clearly excited for prospective graduate students. W e are a w o rld renow ned, about returning, as the team is m ulti-disciplinary dep artm ent w ith principal research fields in: poised to go from promising young team to a bonafide contender.

M edical Imaging “We’re only losing one play­ M edical B io p h y sics in C a n c e r R e se a rch er, so w e’re looking to step up M icro circu la tio n and C e llu la r B iop hysics from the wins we’ve had over the O r t h o p e d ic B io m e ch a n ic s and B io m a te ria ls past month,” said de Leeuw. “I H e m o d y n a m ics and C a rd io v a s c u la r B io m e ch an ics wasn’t sure if I was coming back or not until last month, but I want­ If you have an h o n o r s d eg re e o r an M .Sc. in Physics, Engineering ed to end on a better note team­ C o m p u te r S c ie n c e , M ath e m atics, Biology, M edical S c ie n ce s, o r a wise. It would be great if we could related field and in te re ste d in g ra d u ate r e s e a rc h , you are invited to make a playoff run and go to the apply to o u r g rad u ate p ro g ram . P rio rity w ill be given to applications Nationals next season.” received b e fo re M arch I S, 19 9 9 .

So after a long basketball sea- I son for the McGill Martlets, things Requests for inform ation and graduate application packages can be are looking up for next year, espe­ directed to: cially in the wake of a stunning I G raduate S tu dent Program upset this week of first-p lace D epartm en t o f Medical Biophysics Concordia. And in next y ear’s j Medical Sciences Bldg. (Room M115) playoffs, don’t be surprised to be : hearing frequent calls of “deUniversity o fW estern Ontario N6A 5CI laaayyy-oww” over the loudspeak­ E-mail: m edicalbiophysics@ uwo.ca er after her 3-point baskets.

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C ontinued from pae 23 team, it's taken us awhile for us to come together. We've got a good nucleus, with a couple of good recruits to plug in the holes, we should have a good team for next year."

In Saturday's action, the Redmen defeated Ryerson 2-l on goals by Rehan Ali and Matt H arding, and beat the Trois Rivières alumni later l-0 on a goal

by Peter Vail. In the earlier Sunday game, McGill eliminated Carleton 2-0, with again goals by Ali and Harding.

M eanw hile, the M artlets' indoor roster featured most of the rookies from their young Quebec championship team from the fall.

Martlet coach Marc Mounicot is an avid supporter of the indoor winter schedule.

“It provides us with an oppor­ tunity to work on some technical aspects,” said Mounicot. “It also gives the coaching staff a chance to further evaluate the talent of our team.”

After previously going unde­ feated during the indoor season, the women's team were also elimi­ nated in the semifinals by a tough Ottawa alumni lineup 2-0.

In the previous games, the M artlets defeated Humber l-0, with Sacha McLeod scoring the w inner. They later came from behind to defeat Concordia 3-1, with Julia Scrase scoring once and Sophie Labrom netting the two others for McGill.

"We played pretty well in the tournament, the team that beat us [Ottawa alumni] has been playing together for a long time," said McGill goalkeeper Debra Keitzke.

"It would have been nice to win this tournament at home, but we're pleased with our games after hav­ ing some trouble in previous years."

McGill found itself well rep­ resented on the tournaments all star teams. On the m en’s side, Rehan Ali was the only current McGill player honored, but alumni David Simon and Kevin McConnell were given the nods as all stars. For the women, Sophie Labrom was the only present Martlet on the all star squad, while Odile Desbois was the alumni's representative.

The indoor tournament is part of a busy off-season. The teams have two early morning practices per week, and com pete in the QSSF indoor soccer league, as well as several tournaments. While the indoor season may not provide the same amount of intensity as the fall one, the games are still more than just preparation for the upcoming season.

"We're mostly getting ready for the outdoor season, but there's definitely still some pride involved when playing these games," said Martlet forward Sophie Labrom.

"We've been playing very well as a team [indoors], so I think we should be doing well next year."

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On Friday February 19, the Martlets lost 67-42 to Bishop’s at home. Caroline Malo led the way for McGill scoring eleven points, with teammate Colette Anderes adding nine. The loss was espe­ cially harsh considering the team was only trailing by a basket at halftime.

The next night the team again surrendered 67 points, this time to #10 ranked Laval in a 67-51 loss.

The game would almost be a mir­ ror image of the loss the night before, as again Caroline Malo led the team, this time with 15 points, and again the team was down by only a single basket at the half.

A fter the two consecutive losses the Martlets pulled off an astonishing upset of seventh ranked Concordia last Tuesday.

They overcame a 15 point halftime deficit to roar back to win 70-62. len de Leeuw paced the Martlets with 16 points and had three steals.

Caroline Malo chipped in with 14 points and seven rebounds and C ynthia S antam aria added 12 points.

In th eir season finale at Toronto, the M artlets were spanked 86-56 by the V arsity Blues. In a losing effort de Leeuw m angaged 21 points with five rebounds and five steals. Rookie Erin Mullan added nine points and Malo had eight points with seven rebounds.

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The McGill Redmen are play­ off bound, but were looking to go in with some momentum from their games the past week. They didn't get it. First, on February 19, the Redmen took on the seventh ranked and QSSF leaders Bishop’s. The game was 45-41 for B ishop’s at the half, but the Redmen couldn’t get any closer in the second as the Gaiters went home with a narrow 85-79 win.

The red and white were led by M att W atson who scored 17 points, grabbed four boards, and went 6 for 11 from the three point arc.

The next night, the lowly Laval squad, they of the winless record, stormed into the Arthur C urrie Gym. Once there, the Redmen handed Laval their first win of the season. McGill fell behind 51-38 at the half, but man­ aged to make it respectable with a strong second to finish the game with an 83-77 loss.

Again Matt Watson, playing his last home game for McGill, led the team with 16 points and five assists.

Their slide continued in road losses to Concordia and Toronto.

The Stingers disposed of their cross-tow n rivals 90-75, with rookie Kirk Reid scoring 12 points and Brady Murphy adding 11 of his own. Joel Pearlman was the Redmen’s rebounding leader grab­ bing 7 of their 25 rebounds.

The Redmen hobbled out of hogtown following their 73-64 loss

on Sunday. Murphy poured in 19 points while racking up 10 rebounds to go with his four steals.

Other notables were Reid with 12 points and Ari Hunter with 10 points. Pearlman reaffirmed his position as chairman of the boards with 11 rebounds to go with his five points and four steals.

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Leading the pack in both cases, the host Vert et Or finished first over all.

Individually, the women were led by the outstanding perfor­ mance of Gretchen DuMoulin who won three gold medals. The 23 year-old from Vancouver, took home the gold in the 1500m, the 300m, and anchored the 4x800m relay team . Also on that gold medal team was L eslie Gold, Genevieve Shurtleff, and Carly Moher.

O ther first place finishers included Gold, who lived up to her namesake by winning the 1000m.

Frederique Boura, a senior from Winterport, Maine, won the high jump with a leap of 1.55m. She also took home a silver in the triple jump.

On the m en’s side, Jam es Roundcll paved the way with a gold, two silvers and a bronze.

The gold came in the 4x800m relay with team m ates Benoit Lebeau, Stéphane Brodeur, and Yohsuke Hayashi. One of his sil­ vers came in the 4x400m race with a time 3:21.64, which was good enough to qualify for the nationals.

Paul Drogaris continued to dominate the shot put as he won the gold with a throw of 15.50m, which will send him to the nation­ als.

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The McGill swim team, which had been flying high all year in Quebec was brought to earth somewhat at the national champi­ onships in Guelph.

Both the men and women fin­ ished fifth overall at the National Championships. The two big guns on the McGill teams, David Allard and Holly McComb, finished out the year by each w inning a bronze. Allard took his in the 50m backstroke, while McComb brought home her medal in the 400m individual medley.

A lexandre Pichette and Martin Nicolas captured the other bronzes in the men’s division with third place finishes in the 50m freestyle and the 50m butterfly respectively.

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In the w om en’s slalom at M ont Joye on February 20, Suzanne Owen brought home a bronze medal with a time of 30.47.

Her cousin also had a strong showing as Catherine Owen fin­ ished 8th. In the m en’s slalom, Patrick Boulva won the gold medal with a combined time in two races of 1:23.05.

Teammate Shawn Bonny won the bronze medal with a time of 1:23.95. The QSSF season will wrap up at Mont Original, March 6-7.

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On the women’s side, Hadiya Nedd-Roderique got her berth in the 53kg class, Amy Delday in the 65kg weight class, and Michelle Laratta in the 70kg division also made their way to Guelph this past weekend.

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G retchen DuM oulin, a 23 year-old senior from Vancouver, was named female athlete of the week for her three gold medals at the QSSF finals. The golds came in the 1500m, 300m, and for her anchoring of the 4x800m relay team.

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Mathieu Darche had a big game netting two goals and two assists in the win. In net. Benoit Menard got the win making 28 saves.

Against the secoond ranked Concordia Stingers the red and white fell 5-3. In the the loss, Carl Charland, David Bahl, and Boisvert all scored goals. In net, Jarrod Daniel made 28 saves in a game where McGill was outshot 33-32.

With the loss the Redmen finish th season with a 13-9-4 record in league play, and despite this win­ ning record they finished at the bot­ tom of the hotly contested OUA Far East.

To understand the frustration of the Redmen, their record was better than seven of the twelve OUA teams that qualified for the playoffs, and their 13 wins was the fourth highest in team history.

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