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Fringe program onthe verge B y Ja y Po u lt o n

The African Studies program, not unlike many others at McGill, is facing an uncertain road ahead, faced with continual budget cut backs and a lack of support from both the government and the University. As a result, students in African Studies are having to rely on each other for financial support. The program, begun thirty years ago under substantial student pres sure, continues to struggle, to find money and members today. S e tt in g a p r e c e d e n t The African Studies program, the only one of its kind in Canada, tries to deal with issues from across the continent with limited resources. McGill’s program cur rently sits without a chair; it is run by a rotating program co-ordinator. Ray Murray, a U3 African Studies minor who sits on the stu dent-run African Studies Committee, says that the program is in "a constant battle to survive." As it stands, the program receives support from the university in terms of relatively minimal "pro motions;” in terms of funding, however, African Studies is often overlooked. "At the committee meetings, many professors rarely show up for support," Murray stated. The African Studies Committee has been left to its own devices to keep the program afloat in many cases. Throughout the month of February, Black History Month, the committee launched awareness campaigns geared at schools across the country. Measures included sending out pamphlets and appearing on uni versity radio shows with the hopes C o n t in u e d o n p a g e 2 2

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McGill StudentsFundapprovedinreferendum N e w $ 3 8 p e r s e m e s t e r f e e m u s t c le a r J u d ic ia l B o a r d h u r d le b e f o r e b e c o m in g r e a lit y By Stephanie Levuz

Despite counting delays and a fire alarm, Elections 99 finally came to an end last Thursday at 4:30 a.m. Central to this year's election was the referendum on the McGill Students' Fund, a $38 per semester fee that will be split between the libraries, the Shatner building and an access bursary. Since its inception in late January, the MSF has been a continu ous source of debate both within the Students’ Society and on campus. In addition to lengthy debates on all aspects of the fund in Society council meetings, the MSF motivated mem bers of the Namby Pamby Positive Action Committee to occupy SSMU offices two weeks ago. By the time the last poll was counted, the MSF had been approved by 1,669 students. 1,219 students voted no and there were 112 spoiled ballots — the least number of spoiled ballots in any race. Duncan Reid, SSMU president, thinks the passage of the new fee marks a step forward for students. "It hasn't truly sunk in yet it but I think this means a truly big change for students, the SSMU and the universi ty. This fund will make an appreciable

difference in student resources and I can't wait for it to become a reality." Brock McDonald, science repre sentative to SSMU and a major part of the yes campaign for the fund, was also pleased. "The students in the end support ed the MSF regardless of the protests. It is a true victory for the student body," he stated.

MSF goes to the Judicial Board Although the student body has approved the MSF, there is still one more step to go before the fund becomes a reality. Last month, the Law Students Association voted to contest the MSF on the basis that the question was unconstitutional. Although Chief Returning Officer Drew Cormack approved the legality of the question, members of the LSA, including Francois Tanguay-Renaud Civil Law rep, feel that the question was unclear for the student body, and as such, violated the constitution. Consequently, the LSA has chosen to appeal to the Judicial Board, a group of upper year law students who have the last say on all matters pertaining to the SSMU constitution. “As the question stands and

regarding the awful management and decision process, we are going all out against a questions and a process that violates student rights,” said Renaud. Should the Judicial Board decide that the referendum question was invalid, the MSF will be overturned and the SSMU will have to seek fund ing elsewhere. Reid is confident, how ever, that this will not be the case. "[The LSA] is reaching out through multiple arguments that are weak and they are compensating for their weakness with the many argu ments. 1think the J-Board will see this and decide in our favour." The decision of the J-Board is expected within the next few weeks. Once it has been given, the current SSMU council will be spending the final part of their mandate ironing out the rules and regulations governing the new fund, specifically the bursary. "There are a lot of procedures that remain to be legislated," said Reid. "But we expect to have every thing running, including the bursary, by October of this year."

Students just say 'no' In addition to the question on the MSF, students were presented with three plebiscite questions designed to

gauge popular opinion on a fee for First Year Students Association, smoking space in Shatner and security on campus. 78 per cent of students were in favour of more non-smoking space in the Shatner building, but noted down the idea that first year students should pay a one time fee for the FYSA. On the subject of campus security, a major campaign issue, students were clearly divided. 54 per cent said they felt security was adequate, while 45 per cent think it still needs some work. Because of a photocopying mixup, students who voted in the morning of the first polling day did not receive the plebiscite questions, one of several problems that plagued the election process from the beginning. In addition to running out of bal lots at several major polling stations in the first few hours of voting last Tuesday, many students were unaware that they could vote for two Arts Senators, as opposed to one. The ballots were changed later on in the day to clarify the problem. S e e

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Études supérieures en aménagement u n c h a m p d 'é t u d e m u ltid isc ip lin a ir e L'aménagement est un champ d'étude multidiscipli naire. Il englobe des pratiques professionnelles, des disciplines scientifiques et des secteurs d'expertise issus de l'architecture, de l'architecture de paysage, du design d'intérieur, du design industriel et de l'urbanisme.

u n e fo r m a tio n tr a n sd isc ip lin a ir e Les programmes de 2e et de 3e cycles conjuguent les connaissances et les savoir-faire des différentes disci plines de l'aménagement. Ils permettent aux étudiants et étudiantes de se donner u n e s p é c ia lis a tio n tra n s d is c i p lin a ire dans l'un ou l'autre des domaines de formation offerts.

un e n v ir o n n e m e n t a c a d é m iq u e stim u la n t Des professeurs aux expertises variées et des équipes de recherche, intervenant tant au niveau international que local, intègrent des étudiants à leurs activités.

le s c o n d it io n s d 'a d m is s io n Une formation de base en aménagement n'est pas obligatoire.Toute formation complétée dans un domaine compatible avec l'objet du programme est recevable. Diplômes spécialisés

Montage et gestion de projets d'aménagement (en collaboration avec l'École des Hautes Études Commerciales) Gestion urbaine pour les pays en développement (Environnement urbain - Habitat urbain) Maîtrises à caractère professionnel

Conception, modélisation et fabrication assistées par ordinateur Conservation de l'environnement bâti Montage et gestion de projets d'aménagement (en collaboration avec l'École des Hautes Études Commerciales) Paysage Urbanisme (Aménagement et gestion des services urbains - Design urbain - Environnement et cadre de vie - Habitat et stratégies urbaines)

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Sexual assaultawarenessweek passesunnoticedbymany By A drienne M atheson

Last week's exposition of women's issues and sexual assault awareness combined the efforts of McGill's Women's Union and the Sexual Assault Centre of McGill Student's Society. Events of entertainment and celebration attracted many, while those with the goal of education and aware ness passed relatively unnoticed. An information fair kicked off the week, which continued with panel discussions, lectures, debates, and a sex workshop. Concerts, benefits, and creative performances balanced education with entertainment. But the turnout, especially for the education portions, was considerably less than hoped for. U3 Chemistry student Preeya Shah helped organize the week and believes that student society elections during the same week hampered the efforts of SACOMSS. Not only did the event's pro motional material get lost in the sea of election posters, but many of the people interested and active in the event's issues were them selves tied up in election cam paigns. Sexual assault statistics at McGill are lower than at other institutions. According to law stu dent Cara Cameron this is not, as it might seem, a good sign. She says that McGill tends to resolve situations at basic levels, for instance, simply moving a student into a different conference group if his or her TA is causing prob lems. Cameron explains that McGill has a responsibility to cre ate an environment in which com plaints are handled seriously and claimants made aware of the legal

and disciplinary options they have. Unfortunately, awareness cannot be forced upon someone without a level of initiative on their part. A debate organized by SACOMSS and M cGill's Debating Society, addressed the currently controversial issue of consent. It was proposed that law should recognize only explicit consent. That is, a person could charge another with sexual assault not only if he or she said 'no', but also if he or she never actually said the word 'yes'. Those opposed to this noted that by this definition, many sexu al encounters might come to be perceived as assault. All men would seem potential rapists and all women potential victims — effectiv ely disempowering women. S t r e n g t h o f W o m e n 's D a y d ilu te d According to Gala Arh, spe cial events co-ordinator for the McGill W omen’s Union, the Women's Union wanted to turn International Women's Day into a week-long celebration of women's lives and empowerment. But this celebration seemed lost amongst debates, discussions and exposi tions on sexual assault after SACOMSS approached the Women's Union about combining the two groups' events. Arh readily recognizes the benefits of the collaboration with SACOMSS. She regrets, howev er, that strength may have been taken away from the Women's Union's aim to celebrate International Women's Day. "I recognize that sexual assault is an important issue and

S tu d e n ts c o n s id e r " N o im p lie d c o n s e n t" precedent

It screws up normal relationships...What is the process of get ting explicit consent? You go to a desk in an office and you both sign a sheet, then they set up a video camera in the bedroom to make sure you're saying yes yes yes the whole time?”

-Marie-HélèneDaigle, U3 Psychology "it empowers people with nasty motives. Then, it's not only bad for the guy who's going to become paranoid, it's also bad for all women who get a reputation of having ideas of exploitation in their mind."

-Marie-MichèleNadon, U3Culture Studies If there are rules set out that make explicit consent necessary, people will have to think about what they're doing and will have to talk about it. It opens up com munication."

-PreeyaShah,U3Chemistry should be dealt with, but International Women's Week is supposed to be a celebration about the beauty and power of being women," explains Arh. "There is a lot of negative stuff in dealing with sexual assault, and we felt that it took away from the positive aspects we wanted to address."

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th e ir w a y to n u m b e r o n e By C arolyn Kessel

The McGill Debating Union took first place at the National Debating Championships the weekend before last, making it their fourth major win of the sea son. The University of Western Ontario hosted nationals this year and the competition was fierce, with teams representing all of the provinces and twenty universities. McGill sent eight teams of two students each to verbally spar on topics as varied as to whether the pope should use graffiti to spread his message or if the government should subsidize NHL teams los ing money. Any contentious sub ject, as long as it is original and resolvable (unlike euthanasia or abortion), is fair game for the debaters who have 34 minutes to

prove their point to the judges. Champions Sacha Bhatia and Dena Varah, also Debating Union President, share a notable modesty and a desire to elim inate the stereotypical idea of a debater as only someone who likes to hear himself talk. “Although those people do exist,” states Bhatia, there is defi nitely a mix, some are quiet and shy who come alive onstage.” Bhatia is a graduate student in his first year of a five-year MBA MD joint program. He has spent this year taking Management courses and realizes the immense impact the ability to debate plays in the professional world. It has taught him “how to be more ana lytical and to look at things more rationally. I can’t overestimate what a useful skill debating is in business where people are always

asking you to speak off the cuff.” Varah, a U2 History major, wants it to be known she is not taking this win for granted. Her one-year term as president comes to an end Monday the 22nd when elections for next year’s council are held. O fficial nominations have not taken place yet. Earlier this year McGill prevailed at the Novice Championships for young talent (those in their first year of debate), the Central Canadian Championships and the Counihan Cup. According to Varah the Debating Union has always had a strong record and this year’s win at the N ovice Championships shows that the legacy will contin ue. “W e’re the oldest club at McGill, started in 1880, and we show no signs of slowing down.”

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P u b lic le c tu r e o n A PEC b r u ta lity d r a w s f e w M c G ill s t u d e n t s By Jonathan C olford

An APEC protester spoke to a sparse crowd at McGill last Thursday in order to raise aware ness of their poor treatment at the hands of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the federal government. Garth Mullins and fellow Democracy Street activist and APEC protester Alissa WestergardThorpe, who was scheduled to speak at McGill but did not attend because she was sick, are touring the country in order to "get out a few messages that the media has, not surprisingly, not covered.” Mullins fears that the issues he and the other protesters were demon strating against during the APEC Summit have been reduced to "pep per spray and police and not gov ernment intervention." “We were protesting globaliza tion, which implicitly denies human rights and the right to protest how ever,” Mullins said. Democracy Street is the group of 27 protesters who filed suit with the Canadian government, several British Columbia municipalities, and approximately 200 officers of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police over the treatment of protest ers during the APEC leaders' sum mit held on November 25, 1997. On their website, Democracy Street accuses them of "assault, battery, false and wrongful arrest, false and wrongful detention, false and wrongful imprisonment, negli gence, gross negligence, malicious

or wilful misconduct, intentional Graduate Students' Society of infliction of emotional distress, sex McGill, and the Namby Pamby ual harassment, and infringement of Positive Action Committee, the [their] constitutional and legally group which two weeks ago occu pied the SSMU offices in Shatner protected rights and freedoms." Mullins stressed that to protest the controversial McGill Democracy Street does not repre Students’ Fund. “I was puzzled that we raised a sent a single political point of view. According to him, it "is diverse, ton of money for them and they didn’t come and ask us for sponsor even on political opinions." Currently the group is present ship [for the lecture],” said Feiner. ing evidence of wrongdoing to the “But the money still went to a good RCMP's Public Complaints cause.” Although the federal govern Commission. Mullins believes that the federal government has played ment last month pledged financial a direct role in suppressing not only support for the legal fees of the the APEC demonstration, but also APEC protesters, Mullins acknowl the integrity of the legal process. edged that student donations had He mentioned that the protesters been spent on the first round of have been denied the right to sub legal battles and that the group is poena government officials where already in debt. Now Democracy as they are under a legal obligation Street has launched another fundraising campaign. to answer their summons. Mullins is proud of what "We aren't allowed to get blank forms of summons... They Democracy Street and other APEC know very well we’ll call [Prime activists have accomplished in the Minister] Jean Chretien and 15 months since the APEC inci [Foreign Affairs Minister] Lloyd dent. He feels they have helped generate a greater public awareness Axworthy," he said. The Students’ Society of of police violence and an increas McGill University and the Law ingly critical attitude towards the Students’ Association had raised government amongst average citi over $2,000 for the APEC protest zens. "We've been able to communi ers last fall to help them organize their legal fight against the govern cate a lot of messages about police ment. As such, SSMU VP External violence...[and] to show that if you Jeff Feiner was somewhat surprised don't watch the government like a that the Students’ Society had not hawk they'll get away with a lot," been informed about the lecture, said Mullins. "People would be set nor had they been approached as a back if we had done nothing. If potential sponsor. The talk was people are woken up by this, are organized by the Canadian shocked, then that's good," he Federation of Students, the Post added.

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A cheaper option may soon be available to McGill students who now pay $45 a month for STCUM metro p asses. Last month the STCUM Board o f D irectors agreed to consider offering a reduced fare to stu dents from 18 to 24 years of age. The C oalition Etudiante pour le Transport En Commun has been pressing the issue of getting reduced fare for universi ty students for som e tim e. CETEC is an organization repre senting 150,000 students in the Montreal area. Right now students under the age of 18 can pay a reduced fare o f $19 per month, w hile university students above this age pay full price. VP External of the Student Society o f M cG ill University Jeff Feiner, worked with CETEC this year in fighting for the uni versity fare. “We have a petition,” Feiner said. “ We have a w eigh t o f 20,000 signatures supporting [a student fare].” CETEC, however, was not

lucky when it came to the mayoral race in Montreal this past year. “The three mayoralty candi dates that supported [the reduced fare] lost,” Feiner explained. The announcem ent that STCUM is considering imple m enting a student fare that would benefit university stu dents did not convince Feiner. “W e’ll see what happens,” he said, not getting too excited. “It is entirely possible, but it’s just a matter of finding the polit ical will.” Serge Savard, a communica tions representative of STCUM was not convinced either. “The Board of Directors just decided to study the possibility of offering a reduced fare for students,” he said. “It could be long.” In fact, the B oard’s next meeting will be March 17th, and the agenda is not scheduled to include d iscu ssio n s o f the reduced fare as of yet. Savard questions the afford ability o f the reduced fare for STCUM. Cuts to government

funding for STCUM have been heavy over the past few years. “If they bring [the student fare] up [in age], the money will have to be fou n d ,” he said. “Who’s going to pay for that?” Another question concerns students over the age of 24. For now, STCUM will only address the p o ssib ility o f helping younger students. While the issue of student fares is being discussed, McGill students will start paying more for STCUM services in April. The cost of monthly passes is going up a dollar.

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Radio Broadcasting in the Incitement & Interdiction of Genocide • Dr. Frank Chalk Concordia University

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The Holocaust in Comparative Perspective • Dr. Robert Melson Purdue University

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The Armenian Genocide: patterns of destruction, patterns of denial • Dr. Roger Smith College of William & Mary

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Genocide: What have we learned? What must we do? • Dr. Irwin Cotier McGill University

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Genocide by Starvation: historical lessons of the Holodomor • Dr. Roman Serbyn U.Q.A.M.

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Wheredidall theprofsgo? N e w S e n a te re p o rt reveals th a t d e p a rtu re s o u tn u m b e r n e w hires By Jo h n Salloum

“I really hope that with the funding that seems to be made According to the Report to available, the Faculty of Arts will Senate on Full-time Academic make [staffing] a priority,” Hires and Departures, M cGill Bradfield said. University has hired 144.5 full Sam Johnston, VP university time academic staff but lost 273 affairs for the Students’ Society in the past five years. of McGill University, explained The report, presented in the that the departures affect staff as Senate’s March 3 meeting, lists well as students. each faculty’s hires and depar “I think that in a faculty like tures since the 1993-94 school Arts...one of the biggest impacts year. is on the morale of staff... you According to Heather always need fresh b lood ,” Bradfield, president of the Arts Johnston said. “But there’s still a Undergraduate Society, the high lot of good people, great minds number of departures has had and new thoughts... Good profes adverse effects on students. sors bring good students.” “W e’ve all seen class sizes Dean of Arts, Carmen Miller, increase, and black dots appear explained that the large number all over our course calendar,” of departures may be related to Bradfield explained. “As stu retirement packages offered due dents, we invest a lot of money in to budget constraints. our education. To be limited in “[The departures] correspond taking courses that... are neces to the University offering special sary for our university education incentives for professors between is a huge and problematic con 55 and 60, [which was] a ‘special cern.” early retirement’ package,” Miller Kleigh Heather, president of said. “The Faculties of Arts and the Engineering Undergraduate Science professors took up the Society, agreed, arguing that for offer at a higher rate than was eign competition is steep. expected... this may have had “The biggest problem is in something to do with the age of electrical engineering. The U.S. faculty members, which would offers much more money [in have said something about hiring terms of] facilities and research practices in place [in the past]... dollars. [As a professor] when The University has been very you go to an American university, reluctant to authorize replacement not only do you get a great salary, hires.” you get start-up money for your Bradfield explained that stu lab... McGill doesn’t have any of dents have come to her worried this to offer,” Heather said. about the departures. Bradfield feels, however, that “There is concern about the the worst may be over. quality... we’re never sure who’s

going to be teaching what... and if they’re going to be teaching at all,” Bradfield said. “There are very good quality professors... that aren’t being hired on as per manent staff,” Bradfield said. “The faculty has done really well to maintain the quality of courses and its reputation... but this pat tern cannot continue.” M iller also explained that Arts hopes to hire ten new tenure track professors this year — pending approval of the Budget Planning Group which w ill reportedly be making final deci sions sometime this week. “There has been a 1.9 per cent cut in base budgets — for the Faculty of Arts that means about $340,000 or so in base money,” Miller said. Base money refers to the portion of a faculty’s budget devoted to paying the salaries of full time professors. “So actually w e’re cutting, not adding... but having said that, part of that cut was made in order to create a University fund [going towards] $1 million for new fac ulty positions. The Faculty of Arts has a claim for some of these positions,” Miller said. W hile the faculty has had taken a budget cut this year, Miller noted that the cuts may still result in the hiring of acade mic staff. “I’m hoping that between this year and next, we can replace many of those we lost.”

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In protest of the American gov ernment’s violation of human rights, the McGill Chapter of Amnesty International organized a march to the U.S. consulate Saturday March 13. The protest followed a day of workshops during the second annual Amnesty International Canadian Universities Conference which ran from March 12 through March 14. The McGill Chapter hosted the conference which brought university Amnesty International supporters together for three days to discuss human rights violations throughout the world. The conference coincided with the Montreal Amnesty International Regional meeting on Saturday. “The purpose of the Canadian Universities Conference is to bring together amnesty groups in universi ties across Canada to share strategies to promote human rights, to hear speeches, and become informed about current human rights events,” explained Sarah McLean, the public ity coordinator for Amnesty International McGill. The main focus of the confer ence was the U.S., which reflected the current Amnesty International campaign on the American govern ment’s violation of human rights. This campaign focuses on police brutality, the use of the death penal ty, especially with regard to minors and the mentally ill. Additional top ics include the U.S.’s failure to ratify certain international human rights treaties, the detention of internation al asylum-seekers in U.S. prisons, and the sales of arms to warring nations. The group raised the profile of Amnesty International’s concerns by marching from the Shatner building to the U.S. Consulate. “We hope to raise Montrealer’s awareness of human rights viola tions. [In addition] we want the con sulate to know that Canadians care about human rights in the U.S.,” McLean said. “People often view human rights violations as occurring in far

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away and less developed countries. That is a mistake. Human rights vio lations occur everywhere including such countries as Canada and the U.S.,” McLean continued. Raising awareness was the main theme of the march. Intended to be a peaceful statement rather than an aggressive attack, many of the protesters stressed their desire to inform the Montreal community about U.S. human rights violations. As the group walked, they received support from honking cars and cheering bystanders. Amongst the posters carried by protesters one captured the march’s main message: “Torture, Beatings, Executions. They happen right next door.” Chantal Bourbon, a member of a local community group, highlight ed the violation of U.S. women pris oner rights. “When you go into prison you give up your human rights which shouldn’t happen because you have rights since you’re bom and no one can take them away from you.” Julie Henderson, U1 arts, and Ted Murata, U3 Management, vocal ized their concern for the U.S.’s endorsement of capital punishment. “If its an eye for an eye, it makes everyone blind,” Murata stat ed. Posters such as “Walter Lagrano. Executed in the U.S.A,” were intended to attach a name to a statistic and provoke public sympa thy. In addition to the posters, the protesters carried white candles, which they lit in front of the con sulate, and petitions with which they intended to solicit public support against U.S. human rights violations. Amnesty’s International sym bol, the candle, is supposed to sym bolize hope. Prior to the march, Amnesty International McGill informed the consulate of its intentions. In response the consulate invited the organization to submit a letter describing some of Amnesty’s concems.

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President elect Tischler gets his candy and eats it too N e w p re s id e n t o f S tu d e n ts' S o c ie ty w a n ts to p u t w o rd s in to a c tio n By N ilima G

Tischler savoured his victory given it was the second time he was running for the presidency. Last year, he lost to current SSMU presi dent Duncan Reid. "I can’t believe it's a year later," he said. "I’m really grateful that peo ple remembered me."

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Students elected political neo phyte and candy connoisseur Andrew Tischler to lead the Students' Society of M cGill University into a new building and a new millennium. Capturing approximately 30 per cent of total ballots cast, Tischler was unofficially acknowledged as the winner of the SSMU presidency before ballots from the Shatner polling station had been counted. Results slowly trickled in throughout the evening with political hacks, number crunchers and the occasional candidate intensely scrutinizing the tally board set up at the kiosque in front of Shatner. Official results emerged at 4:30 a.m., two hours after the fire department evacuated Shatner because of a false fire alarm. Tamana Kochar, Tischler's clos est rival, captured 22 per cent of the vote. 20 per cent of ballots cast sup ported Jaime Stein while Melissa Pallett received 18 per cent of the popular vote. 10 per cent of ballots were spoiled, this including ballots left blank. As it became apparent that Tischler was the winner, a stream of congratulations and hugs followed him wherever he turned. "I'm beside myself," he exclaimed. "I’m getting excited to do whatever we’ve been talking about over the last three weeks. I appreci ate the amount of support... What I really want to say is I’m giddy, crazy happy."

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W o rd s fro m th e ca n d id a te s Although losing presidential candidate M elissa Pallett never stepped foot in Shatner on election night, she accepted her defeat with grace. She still intends to remain involved with SSMU-related activi ties. "I’m very glad that for the most part, between Andrew and I, it was a very professional, amicable race," she stated. "Congratulations to Andrew and I hope he has a very good year." Tischler reciprocated by prais ing his opponents and their battle at the polls. "I’m very impressed, they all ran fantastic campaigns and were able to make more awareness of SSMU. I look forward to working with them in the future," he said. Candidate Jamie Stein was con siderably more emotional over his defeat to Tischler than Pallett, advis ing the incoming president to cau tiously proceed with his new man date. "[He should] remember that he represents every single student at McGill...not to forget that," Stein

advised. "I trust that he’ll be a good voice for the students." Stein initially admitted that he needed some time to recuperate from his political loss before deciding how to get involved next year. He later retracted this statement, stating hed is considering another run for the presidency. He advised Pallett and Kochar to stay involved because “they are two of the best people SSMU has.” His friends and cam paign team also earned high praise. "It was a full team effort, people went out and fought hard every day. That’s what hurts more than every thing," he concluded. "I feel for everybody that put in a month’s worth of effort." Tamana Kochar was similarly impressed with the quality of all can didates’ campaigns. A woman of her word, Kochar’s loss at the polls meant she did not experiment with her first alcoholic drink as she promised during her campaign. When asked when she intended to have her first sip, she responded "I have no idea."

T is c h le r w h o ? An economics and political sci ence major, Tischler is also co owner of Sucre Bleu, a Pez candy store on Saint-Denis that he started last year. When asked how he intends to juggle his work and politi cal responsibilities, Tischler state \his partner will assume most of the responsibilities for the store during his term in office, and there are plans

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to hire a full-time manager. His previous involvement with SSMU is limited to his failed run for the presidency last year. According to Tischler, however, this lack of experience has probably worked to his political advantage. "People have said it’s refreshing to have a fresh face and someone who is relatively politically neutral. I'm looking forward to seeing the different [SSMU] structures but I think the biggest thing is liking to work with people and hearing what they say." Alexander Fane, a U2 political science student, seemed more hesi tant about proclaiming Tischler's inexperience as an asset "I respect Tischler — he's got a lot of good ideas," said Fane. "However, he ran last year and didn't win and it doesn't appear like he was involved a lot o f the time in the

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meantime.” When asked whether cutting the long mane of brown hair that he had last year during his election bid had been a deliberate attempt to reverse his political fortunes, Tischler appeared genuinely taken aback by the question. He noted that his change of hairstyle had been innocu ous and actually "makes it cold in winter." Tischler was pleased that the McGill Students' Fund had passed and interpreted the "yes" vote on the McGill Students' Fund as a powerful signal."It show that students are very interested that the University gets better. Personally, I'm happy to know that the next generation of stu dents will have access to the same resources as I did."

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U niversity A ffairs Xavier Van Chau Jawad Qureshi Spoiled

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C lubs and Services Samantha Gross John Ki Spoiled

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C om m u n ication s and E vents Matthew Wyndowe Jo Morrow Spoiled

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C om m u n ity an d G overnm ent Wojtek Baraniak Jeff Roberts A li Noormohamed Spoiled

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Smoking Space in Shatner Fewer smoking areas 1601 (78.98%) More smoking areas 426 (21.02%)

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Van Chau takes VP University Affairs B y Karen K elly______________________

It was not until almost 4:30 in the morning last Thursday night that the official results o f the VP University Affairs race for the Student Society o f M cGill University were released. Xavier Van Chau won the position 1288 votes to 1072 over Jawad Qureshi. Qureshi is currently the presi dent of Queer McGill and hopes to stay involved with SSMU, at least until his planned graduation date in December. “It was a very close race,” Qureshi said after the final results were posted in the Shatner building lobby in the early hours of Friday morning. “[It] shows that people want me to be involved in the [University Affairs] portfolio.” Both candidates had been very friendly to each other during the campaign. Van Chau and Qureshi hugged each other earlier in the evening in a gesture of mutual sup port while waiting outside Gert's in the Shatner building for more results to come in. “I think the elections were very amicable between me and Jawad particularly,” Van Chau said after learning of his victory. “People came out to vote and decided who they wanted to be elected and I’m happy.” Qureshi held no hard feelings about the results, although he was visibly disappointed.

Baraniak sweeps VP Community and Government Affairs

“I am so happy that Xavier won because he’s an excellent guy,” he said in support of Van Chau. Van Chau celebrated victory on another front as well. The referen dum question on the McGill Students’ Fund, which he supported, had a clear ‘yes’ majority. “I’m very, very happy for the MSF,” he said. “ That [fund] is key.” The evening at the Shatner building was not without the usual excitement and drama that seems to follow the SSMU of late. The fire alarm went off with only Shatner’s poll left to report. It was 2:30 a.m. when every one, including the crowd in Gert’s, were forced to evacuate the building while fire fighters searched for what was soon deemed a non-existent fire. Most candidates and party-goers were left standing outside for close to half an hour. This only added to Qureshi’s stress while he was hoping he would win the final poll by a great enough margin to overcome the lead Van Chau was already holding. “I smoked four and a half packs of cigarettes,” was all Qureshi would say of the anxiety of election night. Presently, Van Chau is hoping to ease himself smoothly into his new portfolio with the help of this year’s VP University Affairs Sam Johnston, with whom he worked this year as an SSMU front office employee. “Right now [I need to be] sit

ting down with Sam Johnston and talking about the committees and the structures and finalizing my plans.” Van Chau’s campaign platform included setting up an orientation lecture series for first-year students, furthering the work-study program already at McGill, setting up a web page for academic issues as well as student services, researching stu dents’ needs for particular services, and improving on the course evalua tion system. Van Chau is still planning to work on all these issues, saying that they are his projects for the next year. “My campaign is not ended now,” he said with a smile, watching SSMU’s new executives celebrate their victory. “My campaign is the next year.” Qureshi is planning to make sure that Van Chau delivers on all his promises and serves the students next year. “If he doesn’t do [the job] well, I am going to whoop his ass next year,” Qureshi threatened jokingly. Van Chau will join Samantha Gross, Wojtek Baraniak, Matt Wyndowe, Kevin McPhee, and Andrew Tischler on next year’s Executive Committee. “I’m happy for the other execu tives and I’m proud and I think we will be a good team,” Van Chau said as everyone finally got to go home.

leave aside issues such as education, reinvestment in education, student loans, the community which are the most important issues facing stu dents today."

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With wins from all 14 polls on campus, Wojtek Baraniak became the Students’ Society of McGill University’s VP Community and Noormohamed admitted his Government A ffairs-elect last inexperience at campaigning for stu Thursday night. dent elections. The three-person race offered “Given that this is the first time no surprises as Baraniak commanded I’ve ever done anything like this, the an overwhelming majority of votes. other candidates were helping me He beat out candidates Jeff Roberts out and giving me advice which was and Ali Noormohamed — but by all really good.” accounts, the race was decided even Baraniak reflected on his cam before it started due to of Baraniak's paign and discussed his plans for the aggressive and widespread cam future. paigning, previous experience, and “These were the three hardest popularity. weeks of my life and I learned that I According to James Benn, a U0 can't please everyone, and that I education student, some students felt couldn't do this without friends. I the outcome of this race was prede was pretty convinced that I was the termined. best person for the job. I had a broad "The sentiments of many of my base of support and my previous fellow first year students was that involvem ent with the AUS and Wojtek would win. It didn't seem to SSMU helped a lot.” be much of a competition," Benn VP-elect Baraniak plans to start said. "It was definitely a foregone implementing his plans soon. conclusion that Wojtek would come “Number one, is the safety out on top because of his strong rap commissioner which will be a posi port with first-year students, his solid tion that deals specifically with safe campaign and name recognition. ty on and off campus... I'd like to You saw Wojtek, and you heard [publish] reports in the Tribune or Wojtek whereas the other two candi Daily and tackle issues of off-camdates lacked that exposure." pus security... Secondly, they're cur Candidate Jeff Roberts agreed rently setting up the rules for the that the race was a cinch from the Millennium Scholarship Fund and beginning. [a] report just came out that said that "I came in as an outsider. I'm first-year and part-time students pleased with the turn-out I got, I'm won't be eligible and that is some pleased with the people who helped thing I fundamentally oppose... I'll me, but this race was pretty much make sure that the lobby at the decided before I entered. I wish the national level will hear McGill's and race had been decided a little more my committee’s views on the sub on the debates, but McGill is an ject," Baraniak explained. insider school and Wojtek was very Baraniak also stated his plans adroit at it and had his network in for keeping up a dialogue with the place," Roberts said. students. The primary source o f con "I will be sure to attend every tention during this campaign sur faculty council meeting to tell them rounded Noormohamed. of my initiatives. Secondly, I will try “I was suspicious of his motives and speak to the larger clubs on cam for running and I don't think he pus. Thirdly, I'd like the executive brought enough knowledge of the committee to publish reports month issues,” Roberts said. “He didn't ly in the Tribune to keep the con even know what the MSF was when stituents informed." he started running. His platform wasn't strong, but as an individual he's a very decent guy.” Baraniak agreed with Roberts, noting that Noormohamed’s simul taneous election race in manage ment may have called his motives for the position into question. "I think Ali lost based on the fact that he ran for management president at the same time. In all honesty, he had no clue about what this position entailed. He admitted in debate that it did not matter what initiative came under his portfolio, he would go for it, anyway. That meant to the voters that he would C o u n t i n g b a l l o t s Catherine Farquharson

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Saturday recount leaves Wyndowe a winner By Jo h n Sallo um

After a very close election race for the VP Communications and Events portfolio, Matt Wyndowe was elected by a narrow margin of 80 votes. Thursday night's vote tabula tion proved to be very tense for both Wyndowe and Jo Morrow, currently VP internal of the Arts Undergraduate Society, as the two were within thirty votes of each for much of the evening. As the last poll's votes were being counted, Wyndowe led by a margin o f only five votes. At approximately 2:30 a.m., the fire alarm in the Shatner building was triggered and the building was par tially evacuated. "You couldn’t have written a more dramatic ending to the [elec tion]," Wyndowe joked. "To tell you the truth, when it starting hap pening, I started laughing. I was like, this is ridiculous, I mean this [has to be] a joke. Then when they kicked me out of the building, I [realized] it wasn't a joke." After the six firetrucks depart ed the scene when no fire was found, the results were posted with Wyndowe beating Morrow 1268 to 1188. There were 525 spoiled bal lots. Morrow was pleased with the campaign race. "Both of us we worked really hard — evidently by the vote count almost equally as hard," Morrow stated. "We were both really strong candidates and one of us had to lose. But the campaign was good, it was very clean."

Wyndowe agreed, noting he was happy with the way the race was run. "I think the campaign went very well. I was happy with all aspects [of it]. [Morrow] was a strong competitor, there's no doubt about that," Wyndowe said. Morrow expressed her desire to remain involved in student poli tics. "I want to stay extrem ely involved in Arts, it's so near and dear to me... I'm still VP Internal of Arts, and 1 will be until May. 1 will continue to be working as hard as I have been on that portfolio... defi nitely I will stay involved [with SSMU], that's what I want to do, I mean that's why I ran for the posi tion."

G e ttin g sta rted Wyndowe explained that he’s planning on getting started immedi ately in order to start interviewing event co-ordinators. "The first thing I want to do, and this is even before May, I want to work with Karen to make sure that we have the right people to co ordinate the major events, [people] who can get an early start on it.," Wyndowe said. "There’s also going to need to be a lot of work done in terms of making sure the building is going up okay, and also in terms of... the webpage, ideas about postering ser vices, and improving the communi cations amongst the executives and from the executives to the students." Wyndowe wants to improve upon Walksafe's initiative called

Drivesafe, to get students living in the Montreal area home from school related events. "I want to make sure that Drivesafe is up and running for all the major SSMU events. Also, if possible I want to make sure that [individual] faculties can use the service for their major events." Other summer plans include the promotion of more efficient and cleanly communications with stu dents. "I want to work with McGill to make sure that we can get some more billboards up. I think it's silly that [at] the Milton gates, for exam ple, there [are] no major billboard there." In terms of long-term plans, Wyndowe has also begun prepara tions for Snow-AP, a winter version of the Open Air Pub. "I've already talked to... ten companies," Wyndowe said. "Most of the pricing stuff is down, it's just going to be a matter of hiring the right co-ordinators and continuing to talk to faculties [about] how they can use it."

N E W S b r ie f M c G ill’s belt- tightening MAY GO UNREWARDED Last week’s provincial budget reinvested $600 million in educa tion, $170 million in debt-relief for Quebec universities specifically. Given that McGill has striven to maintain its debt and deficit levels at a minimum, it is unclear to what extent McGill can expect to benefit from this windfall however. Last Friday, the financial rep resentatives from all of Quebec’s universities met with Education Minister Francois Legault to dis cuss the details behind the recent budget. VP Finance for McGill Phyllis Heaphy refused to com ment on the outcome of that meet ing except to say that she was not at liberty to give any information out at the moment. “Suffice it to say that McGill

will be fairly treated,” she stated in a curt e-mail. Students’ Society VP Jeff Feiner was more hesitant in speak ing about the provincial budget. Although not a participant in Friday’s meeting, he raised some concern that McGill might be shortchanged for the austerity mea sures it has taken. “We're wondering if schools with the highest debts will be tar geted first..that’s not fair really,” said Feiner. In a Saturday article in the Gazette, Education M inister Francois Legault noted that the money will make a dent in the $350 million of debt that Quebec universities have accumulated over the last few years due to govern ment cutback, freeing up $14.6 million per annum. McGill's debt currently stands at $53.4 million.

Gross captures Clubs and Services By S tephanie Levitz

Busy working at the bar instead of clinging to the Shatner kiosk with calculator in hand, two time candidate John Ki ceded defeat to Sam Gross for the position of Vice-President Clubs and Services of the Students' Society of McGill University last Thursday night. Over 2,500 students voted in the race for VP Clubs and Services. Gross captured 1,509 votes, while Ki gar nered 959. There were 517 spoiled ballots. Ki said his decision to work last Thursday night, rather than absorb himself with the numbers was a backlash against Election M cG ill’s request that he not work at Gert’s dur ing the election. “That I wasn’t allowed to work was not a rule in the nomination pack age or the bylaws. I thought that was very unprofessional so I just contin ued working.” he said. Ki also remarked on the differ ence between last year’s race and this year. “The race was very fairly run, a lot more laid back and a lot less intense.” In terms of his own campaign, Ki said he did things differently the second time around and was happy with the result. “ I got a little more informed of the issues and took more advantage of different clubs and services available

to me.” Ki offered his congratulations to Gross and promised to stay involved next year by working on the creation of a promotion team for McGill. Happy with her win, Gross is ready to jump right in to her position. "The first thing I am going to do is learn about the office. I think I'll be studying a lot," said Gross. The only female elected in six races. Gross's first task will be to define her new portfolio. "I am going to start working on defining the portfolio with the VP Communications and Events so we aren't overlapping,” she said. "I know our mandates are similar where com munication is concerned — we have to find the point where clubs and ser vices ends and communications begins." In addition to her positive feel ings about the election as a whole, Gross was very thankful to her team of supporters. "My team did well. Considering we have never done this before, I think it went really well." Once she has defined her posi tion, Gross will concentrate on incor porating clubs and services at McGill into Frosh Week. Her position will take effect on May 1.

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Every year after the SSMU elections, the low voter turnout becomes the focal point of discussion. It is generally accepted that the normal turnout — 20 per cent — is indicative of McGill’s position at the forefront of Canadian student apathy. This year, Chief Returning Officer Drew Cormack has become the con venient scapegoat for all election concerns great and small. Last week’s vot ing was fraught with administrative error; polling stations ran out of ballots, the counting was egregiously delayed, and the event as a whole was poorly publicized. Thus far, many are unhappy with Cormack’s job performance. While the responsibility of getting more students to the polls is within the domain of the CRO, it is worthwhile examining whether more votes are necessarily better. While a particularly effective “get out and vote” campaign might result in improved numbers, those new votes might very well come from uninformed or disinterested students who have been cajoled into casting their ballots. Twenty per cent seems low because it concerns the entire student popu lation of McGill. But as much as SSMU executives might try, and despite what they might like to believe, only a small fraction of those 15,000 under graduates get anything from SSMU but a line on their bill. Consider those students who have time commitments outside the University — jobs, com mutes, families. Also consider the student who simply chooses to go through their undergraduate careers quietly, never really getting involved in extracur ricular activities. It’s their choice, of course. And while SSMU should be providing every opportunity for student involvement on any level, it should realize that a vote Reflecting Montreal’s cultur without involvement means nothing. al make-up, McGill’s student pop Looking at last week’s voter turnout, who is to say that even that repre ulation is one of the most diverse sented an informed electorate? How many voted for their friends without in Canada. In such an environ knowing a single thing about their campaign? How many of those people, ment, where a wide spectrum of faced with four other choices on the executive ballot, opted for the cool identities and view s converge, sounding name? lsome degree o f respect for one And then there’s the matter of Mr. or Mrs. Spoiled, who outdistanced another is essential in maintaining poor Ali Noormohamed in the race for VP-Community and Government by a tolerance on cam pus. On the scant 54 votes. A spoiled ballot is traditionally viewed as a negative result, whole, McGill upholds the spirit but surely it is preferable to the cool name vote. This is not to disparage Mr. Noormohamed in any way; that he was running in a race that 507 voters of co-existence by providing out didn’t care about says nothing negative about his campaign. lets for differing views, while at If the spoiled ballot represents a conscientious decision against making the same time ensuring that this an uninformed vote, then an 80 per cent truancy rate for these elections could creates minimal friction within the very well represent the same. McGill community. For those of us who spend half our lives in Shatner, it is all too easy to J It is for this reason that we forget that the vast majority of students spend mere minutes a week here, if are saddened by an upcom ing that. SSMU exists for all students, but it isn’t actively used by all students. event organized by the Palestinian Similarly, many radio dials never find their ways to CKU1, and few ever try Solidarity Committee (PSC) in their hand at activism at QPIRG. You won’t find either of those organiza a sso cia tio n with A m nesty tions dragging disinterested students to their polls. International and U .N M cG ill. The CRO should definitely be concerned with the problems that plagued last week’s election, but he needn’t number the now traditional low voter j Entitled “Palestine A w areness Week”, the purported goal of this turnout among them. This “apathy,” now a fixture in the McGill lexicon, and activity is to educate students worse, a term associated far and wide with McGill students, is not unique to about the Palestinian Arabs’ situa this university. It is relatively in keeping with all Canadian universities, because all Canadian universities have student societies in which people may tion. However the contents of the or may not choose to participate. Those student societies are all seeking ways presentation imply a more sinister to improve that level of participation. move. But they should all realize that there will always be students who, for | Through the use o f inciting whatever reason, simply aren’t interested. SSMU should not be concerned exhibits and one-sided portrayals, about those students not voting, nor should those students feel badly for a the PSC is engaging in a gratu split second. itous cam paign o f defam ation Why would they? They wouldn’t even be reading this.

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against Israel. Citing the Jewish state as the only source of hard ship is intellectually dishonest. Failure to acknowledge Arab and Palestinian aggression against Israel presents a highly skewed characterization o f the M iddle East conflict. The idea that one party is responsible for the entire region’s troubles is absurd; only propagandists could deliver such a m essage w ith a straight face. After all, Israel too has been the victim of many Palestinian terror attacks. As Bill Clinton said dur ing his December trip to Gaza, “we must acknowledge that nei ther side has a monopoly on pain or virtue.” We call on the executive of the PSC to withdraw this selective presentation of the Arab-Israeli conflict. To begin with, it threat ens the good rapport and positive regard that exist between students on campus. More important, it counters the spirit o f rapprochm ent that Israeli and Palestinian leaders are trying to foster within the context o f the Oslo accords. Instead, we suggest that both groups in McGill focus

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ly be damanging to futures of the bright people who choose to run. If the Tribune is planning to include student feedback about the debate, do not depend simply on one or two people who most likely have already decided who to support. Finally, the Tribune, should respect its crucial role in SSMU elections.

who spent a week and a half living at my house running the show. To all of you, who have helped me out, I am forever grateful and can not state in words how much I value each of your friendships.

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S lit T hroats I was stunned by the last issue o f “Slitting Throats" by David Reevely. Understandably, SSMU elections make for great editorial material but the last column was spiteful, inaccurate and just plain cruel. There is nothing wrong with attacking a person’s political posi tion, experience, or platform ideas. However, to attack a person's char acter or make assumptions about their motivations or inner thoughts is downright irresponsible. Moreover, as David Reevely did not attend most debates, I fail to see how he is in a position to judge any candidate. Leslie Litrnan U2 Economics David Reevely responds: The last Slitting Throats was not in any way spiteful; I do not have sufficient personal involvement with any o f the candidates to fe e l spite toward them. In fact, I rather like most o f the people to whom Ms. Litrnan accuses me o f being cruel. The column was not inaccurate, per se; most readers understand that a column is only a vehicle fo r the c o lu m n is t’s p e rso n a l o pinions (which should be well-informed, but cannot be, and do not pretend to be, in any way definitive), and the last Slitting Throats was an honest com p ila tio n o f m ine. F inally, Ms. Litrnan (as an Arts Undergraduate Society politician herself) is well aware that the election season does not begin with the fir s t debate— most campaigns last between two and three years— and an observer like me would be serving his read ers poorly if he troubled them with the minutiae o f platforms everyone is already forgetting. B ut they didn ’t inhale , HONEST It seems exceedingly difficult at McGill to get students involved in their student government. After reading last week’s coverage of the debate in the Tribune, the cause of this is no longer enigm atic and even justified. The Tribune was unfair to the candidates vying for the position of SSMU president. One complaint stems from the paragraph addressing the question asked by Jawad Qureshi about which drugs the candidates had experimented. This was not the sole query from the floor intended to lighten the “serious nature of the debate.” At one point the audience was serenaded by T ischler and Kochar, strip-teased by Stein, and amused by Pallett’s “bird-calls.” It would have been more responsible

of the Tribune to have not men tioned this question which may prove potentially damaging in the future for these candidates. If these intelligent and motivated candi dates decide to enter public office, they now may be haunted by an article thoughtlessly published in the Tribune. It was inaccurate o f the Tribune to report that “all candi dates but Kochar admitted to the use of various substances including marijuana.” None of the candidates admitted directly to having tried any illicit drug. The peer pressure to answer made the situation uncomfortable. How is this matter relevant anyway? This was not a national election where the candi dates should, on a respectable level, be scrutinized for their pri vate activities. It is no mystery why so many students are reluctant to get involved with student govern ment. After all, is it really worth their while? It was unprofessional of the Tribune to not look for more exten sive feedback from the audience. In this article, one of the interviewed even admitted that she “had already decided who she was going to vote for prior to the debate.” It is the responsibility o f the Tribune to report the facts without bias. The student body of McGill depends heavily on this newspaper as a resource for information about the candidates for the SSMU execu tive. Very few students attended the debate and there is only so much one can learn from the thirty second introductions before lec tures over the two week campaign period. The MSF was not “a touchy subject in [the] presidential debate” as the headline read. All the candi dates agreed that it was a short term solution to some of the many problems facing McGill libraries, students, and Shatner. This issue has been addressed by protestors who attempted to occupy the SSMU office in protest of the MSF that night. Therefore, this misrepre sentation of the candidates’ stance may have potentially skewed refer endum results by making MSF appear more controversial. Recommendation: do not pub lish anything that may unnecessari

Ashley Zarella U2 Political Science S top your whining and su p p o r t M S F The controversy surrounding Duncan Reid and the M cG ill Student Fund both intrigues and disgusts me. I am appalled by how viciously and quickly students con demn someone who is making a concerted effort to improve the uni versity. We, the students, elected Mr. Reid in good faith that he would serve his term, whilst mak ing decisions which he thought would benefit us as a whole. Though the prospect of paying $38 is not absolutely thrilling for me, I must ask myself why certain people are being so harsh. We are quick to cry “impeachment”, but how many of us have better ideas that are effective? The majority of those who protest do not have access to information Mr. Reid has and are thus unequipped to make informed decisions. Thus, Duncan Reid is in a better position what will benefit the university and what will not. It is no doubt a slap in the face for Mr. Reid, after all he has done for his fellow students, to hear the cries, to hear the cries of “impeach ment” from the throats of ungateful students. If Mr. Reid sat and did nothing to solve the problem, would there still be protest? It is likely that many students who reject the MSF becuase it “costs too much money” are likely to be forking out substantially more than $38 per weekend on beer and hard liquor. If people are so keen on saving m oney, go complain about the price of beer and do not chastise those who have your best intentions in mind.

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Salah Abu Bakr Abdul Hameed Ph.D student A ppreciation extended I write this letter for two rea sons. First, I would like to congrat ulate all the candidates in this year’s SSMU election s for the time, effort, and dedication they have put into McGill for the past two wishes. Best of luck to all the winners, and the utmost success as next year’s executive. Second, I would like to thank all those people who have helped me throughout the past month and a half with my campaign. I appreciate all the help, from the telephone calls, to the 7:15 am poster-breakfasts, to those

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D o u b l e - edged attack Amid the election hype in the March 3 edition o f the Tribune were two commentaries that caught my attention: the first being Jason Sigurdson’s analysis of the “collec tive responsibility” of Canadians to pay their fair share of taxes, and the second was David Rovins’ scathing condemnation of the tobacco indus try in which he refers to cigarette companies as the “merchants of murder.” First of all, Mr. Rovins should not be drawing a moral judgement about a business that our country says is perfectly legal and is taxed like crazy by it. Nor should he insinuate that tobacco companies murder anyone. No one is forced to light up, and cigarette packs offer descriptive warnings of the reper cussions of doing so. As for the collection of taxes, I find it amazing that Mr. Sigurdson wrote the words “equity” and “fair ness” in the same article that asks certain Canadians to pay more and more of their salaries to an increas ingly inept governm ent. Jason explains that the top one per cent of the population takes home nine per cent of the income in Canada, but he fails to mention that these indi viduals also contribute twenty per cent of the taxes collected. Damon Stoddard U3 Biochemistry

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I was recently talking with the current PGSS VP-External regard ing the SSMU referendum who was soliciting undergraduate stu dents to vote NO. I am not writing this letter to analyze whether the referendum is right or wrong, but to comment on the actions of the PGSS VP-External. He mentioned that he “did not mind spending $800 to propogate his view (Vote NO) in his media tool (The Daily)". I wonder who is misusing stu dent fees? Who is making a lateral deci sion without asking the student body? How is it dem ocratic to monopolize on a decision that was made by only him and/or his coun cil? Don’t we as graduate students have the right to know how and where our money is being spent? Should PGSS-Council consult with their constituents on these important issues or only on voting them in on their Election Day?

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From Shamrocks and Shillelaghs to Erin Go Bragh: An insider's guide to celebrating St. Patrick's Day Being Irish, I b elieve, that bles to the meat, is beige. Beige, the festive meal, though perhaps Patrick’s Day. Throughout the celebrating St. Patrick’s Day is a as you may imagine, is not a par life threatening, is never a total city, Irish wannabes with sham task which must be taken very ticularly flattering color for a loss thanks to the thick saucy rock painted faces and incredibly seriously. Careful planning and meal, which I’ve often thought slice of heaven we call Guinness. tacky huge foam Bailey’s hats are preparation is required to make might be the cause for the other Long ago I im agine, som e lad welcomed with open arms by the the most out of the festive occa w ise m ysteriou s lack o f Irish (possibly named Seamus), tired celebrating Irish. If you can play sion. restaurants around town. o f the routine of eating potatoes the fiddle or sing pub tunes about To an ou tsid er, the St. I can honestly say that I have for supper, decided to create the g irls nam es P eggy and guys Patrick’s Day celebrations may never found m yself wanting to first and only beer that can be named Pat y o u ’re lik ely to be look like one big party, but take it say “ H oney, considered one of the family. On from me, there are some things let’s head down the surface this singing and drink you need to know before plung to C hez ing lifestyle may seem like your ing yourself in to the Ceili of fun. O ’Brien for a H o g a n ’s H e r o e s dream com e true, but I should March seventeenth is the day n ice p iece o f C ath erin e H ogan also warn you about a significant w hen the Irish honour their M utton.” That Irish secret before you apply for patron saint. Literally translated, bein g said , I your citizen sh ip and adoption this means we brag about being should also confess that until just papers. Irish, carry on about the good old now, I’d never actually ever used enjoyed both with pretzels at the Every Irish family, without days in Galway and Killarney and the word mutton either. pub or by itself as a nice little fail, has an outstanding fam ily for twenty-four sweet hours enjoy Having been force fed Irish meal. I’ve often thought that the feud w hich undoubtedly dates the fact that we have an accept “delicacies” throughout my life I Slimfast people should consider back to som etim e in the able ex c u se for drinking too have com e to rea lize that marketing Guinness as an accept Eighteenth Century. Usually such much and acting silly. For one although it is said that Irish cook able meal replacement. Not only feu d s started when som eon e day o f the year we encourage ing is based on the potato, the is it full of all the required daily named Patrick Flannagan acci everyone to be Irish and happily Irish all know that in reality, it’s nutrients, but having tossed back dentally shot the O’Doherty fami ignore the fact that to most every really just based on a dare. Most a few pints in my lifetime I can ly goat w h ile drunk and have one else, St. Patrick’s Day is just recipes, from what I can gather, attest to the fact that not only is it hung on ever since. No matter an excuse to openly drink on Ste. were created by Irish housewives a tasty treat, but a satisfying meal what the issue, the entire family Catherine’s Street. back in the Seventeenth Century as w e ll. A lth ou gh across the will brood about it for centuries. L ike m ost h o lid a y s, St. who, unable to come up with an ocean w e have com e to know We just see it as pay back for the Patrick’s Day is usually celebrat idea for dinner, just decided to Guinness as simply a beer like overwhelming enjoyment we get ed with a feast of traditional dish boil up the fam ily goat. In the any other, the reality is that throughout the holiday season, es. Unlike in other cultures; how starch filled world o f Irish haute Guinness still remains the one which depending on the family ever, Irish “cuisine” doesn’t offer cuisine, the holiday feast usually and only beer that can be eaten can last anywhere from Christmas much to celebrate. From what ends up causing more cardiac with a fork. right through until Easter. I’ve seen, everything in the Irish arrests than it does celebrations. There are always many fes A ll this being said you are diet, from the bread to the vegeta To be fair, I should note that tiv itie s to take part in on St. probably as ready as you w ill

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Fear and Loathing in the Shatner Lobby Election nights are scary. Everyone is on edge — even the peo ple who are not running for anything and are just there for kicks. A lot of people who have been forced to be extremely polite to each other while they tried to bite, scratch, and gouge their way up each other’s backs are placed in a room together, and only one of them gets to walk out alive. There is no high better or longerlasting than winning an election. A win is the confirmation of a huge complex of dreams, ideals, longings, and battles with profound insecurity and self-doubt. Winning is the ulti mate proof that you are one of the cool kids. The fact that it usually hap pens when a candidate is exhausted and raw-nerved from campaigning, completely out of reserves of emo tional stability, intensifies it enor mously. The rush is immense, and it goes on for days. You wake up in the morning thinking about your win, and you fall asleep at night with a contented grin on your face. It is, Hunter S. Thompson has written, bet ter than sex. Best of all, winning an election is, by definition, a socially approved means of getting that rush. (At McGill there’s the delightful added complication of the mixing of SSMU establishment types and the usual Thursday night Gert’s crowd— most of whom were trying to figure out what all those nerds were doing there.) Watching the candidates as results are slowly revealed is an edu cation in the deeper and darker areas of the human psyche. Precisely because the candidates (and their close friends and advisers) are exhausted and raw-nerved, you get to see them completely unedited, with no filters between their inner selves and the outside world. You get to see Andrew Tischler with a giant, goofy grin on his face (which is probably still there), com pletely different from his somewhat plastic campaign smile. It was the grin of a man who has overcome some pretty serious odds to win the battle of his life. You get to see things like Jaime Stein in a beautiful houndstooth suit, coming a surprising and disappoint ing third, staring in stunned silence at the board that was chronicling his fall. He blinked at it for a good five minutes, ignoring everyone and everything around him, trying to make it make sense. He couldn’t. The star of the night was actual ly one of the losers. Presidential can didate Tamana Kochar was counted out of the race from the very begin ning, to the point where political watchers asked one another which of the three candidates for the job was going to win. Instead, she came sec ond, behind insurgent candidate Tischler. The two insider candidates, SSMU Speaker Stein and Arts Senator Melissa Pallett, came out D o n 't M is s t h e L a s t R E D & W H IT E B A L L o f t h e /IM J M U M IM

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machine, conducted himself with admirable class. Unlike other candi dates whose evening didn’t go as S littin g T h r o a ts planned, Qureshi didn’t flee. He han D avid R eevely dled his loss with aplomb, and with a degree of class that and recalculation of totals elicited last deserves commendation. The Jo Morrow-Matt Wyndowe year, stayed ensconced in his base of power behind the bar in Gert’s while race went down to the wire, with the the numbers got worse and worse for two virtually tied right up until the last poll was counted. (The last poll him outside. Jawad Qureshi, in a losing cause was the one from the Shatner build against the Xavier Van Chau ing, which is always by far the

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:d§| Y2K. Before we proceed, let us define Y2K for the minute uninformed minority: many com puters are not programmed to accept four digit dates and may therefore interpret January 1, 2000 as January 1, 1900. Nobody knows whether this w ill happen or not, and nobody knows whether it real ly matters.

A W aste of Ink Nevertheless, few issues have, in recent memory, resulted in such ink sp illa g e. H eadlines have ranged from the sensational — “Few Answers on Monster of All Cyberbugs” or “M inding Your B usiness: Arming Y ou rself (Financially) for Armageddon” — to the hilarious — “Wanted: Retired Workers to Fix Year 2000 Problems,” chronicling the urgent pleas to senior citizen program mers to come out of retirement and “Praying for a Year 2000 Solution,” about a Baptist prayer session for Y2K salvation. Gems like “Suburbs Take Precautions Against Computer Flaw” seem to beg for ridicule. In fact, the venerable New York Times, source of all the above headlines, published 109 articles in the past 365 days containing the word “Y2K.” (By way of compari son, the word “L ew in sk y” appeared in an astounding 2,302 articles over the same period — oddly enough, six articles con tained both). Despite the pervasiveness and complexity of the issue, it is only recently that the journalistic com munity has taken a step back and examined its coverage of Y2K. A recent conference in New York City on just this subject revealed a mixture of frustration and embar rassment on the part of journalists who have covered or monitored coverage of Y2K — frustration at a necessary reliance on other peo ples’ information and embarrass ment at the extremes to which their coverage has at times strayed.

Y2K, stressing the inherent difficulties of writing about the unknown and comparing this issue to that of 1973’s much-antici pated Kohoutek comet. “ [K ohoutek] arrived, and it was a big slushy ball that hardly gave off any light at all. Nobody knew whether Kohoutek would light the skies, or whether it would be a dud. That didn’t stop the press from saying ‘this is what comets are about.’” O f course, there were few if any consumer issues surrounding Kohoutek, and pre cious little m oney to be made. Y2K, by contrast, is a billion dollar industry. Lydia M iljan o f Calgary’s National Media Archive feels that both the media and the government have allowed them selves to be manipulated by profi teering com puter consultants: “[This is a] planned media blitz by computer consultants, by millenni um consultants... Conspiracy theo rists say it’s just a way to sell more

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purportedly benevolent sources of information can contain dubious or inflamma tory advice. The Year 2000 Registry bills itself as “the international registry for com m unication o f the state of readiness o f organizations worldwide regarding the Y ear 2000 computer issue.” Access to this information, however, does not com e free. For a company to register itse lf costs betw een $100 and $ 1000 , depending on its annual gross revenue. M eanwhile, the “back ground information” that the Year 2000 Registry provides on its website at times cheats towards the sensational. While the organization predicts “a highly public lack of confidence in Year 2000 readiness” and “wide spread public concern over the lack of Year 2000 readiness,” not to mention “comprehensive media exposure,” it wades completely off the deep end in the mildly amusing “What does the Year 2000 Problem mean to me?” section. Aside from stating that “trans portation such automobiles [sic], motorcycles, [and] boats” might be

Y2K Conspiracy Opinions in scientific, media and media watchdog groups are as varied as those of journalists them selves. Ross Perigoe, of Concordia U n iversity ’s Department of Journalism, sees no serious prob lems in the media’s coverage of

computers [but in any case] there are people who are definitely going to benefit from this.” One of jou rnalism ’s most sacred tenets is its commitment to a balanced portrayal of any issue. Y2K has stretched that commit-

Y2K Profits The average consum er or small business owner, then, has even fewer unbiased sources at his disposal than the journalist. Even

affected, the website urges us to ask ourselves the following ques tions: “How would you like to receive a payment check - dated January 1, 1900? How would you like not to receive payment at all? How will a computer calculate the

value of the investments which you began in 1988, when according to the computer, the current year is only 1900?” Paranoia claims total victory shortly thereafter: “After the year 2000, [if] you need a change in... any... personal detail, many gov ernment departments and business records may read the year as 1901. You w on’t have been born yet. Your next medical check-up won’t be due for another 100 years.” The Year 2000 registry’s best advice is as follows: “The list of what might happen is endless. The best way to prepare, is to be informed.” That sounds logical enough, but Miljan thinks we have already lost too much sleep over Y2K. “I don’t have a problem with people trying to be prepared — that’s a prudent policy decision,” she says. “I do take offence to the govern ment running scaremongering ads, making it seem like there are dire consequences for not being pre pared, when who needs to be pre pared is the government.”

Bom b Sh elters Not Needed In other words, while flam boyantly unethical consultants have at times suggested that televi sions, VCRs and microwaves are at risk, the most elementary of logical thinking would dictate that they are not. In fact, a recent flyer that arrived at every mailbox in Canada essentially claimed that everything was fine save for government insti tutions and large companies, and encouraged the consumer to pres sure those entities to come up to code. Yet despite the government and consultants’ assurances that our home lives will be relatively undisturbed, organizations like the Year 2000 Registry and even the federal government encourage us to “think” and “be informed” about a phenom enon that they them selves acknowledge we can do lit tle to prevent. In the coming months, media coverage of Y2K is likely to inten sify. Whether it becomes more crit ical or not is to some extent a moot point — the average consumer has very little recourse to force large corporations and governments to becom e Y2K com pliant. In the case of the millennium bug, we might just be better off with our heads in the sand.

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At the smoky and intimate JailH ouse bar last Thursday, a benefit for female sexworkers was held, one of the many events orga nized to celebrate International W om en ’s W eek. The Cabaret showcased, among others, the tal ents of D eb b ie Y oung, B loodSisters and W omen with Kitchen Appliance. The perform ers addressed female oppression and exploitation on all le v e ls, from the corporate multi-billion dollar profits which are reaped from Tampax Tampon sales, to dealing with the trauma of incest. The crow d in front o f the stage was filled with attentive and supportive people, and yes, males were present. Debbie Young gave a spoken word performance that was the highlight of the night — she elicited wild cries of approval from the audience for her charis matic and extremely powerful per formance. The night could have belonged to Young and Young alone. As far as the atmosphere was concerned, although the crowd was by no means antagonistic, I felt strangely demure in the room full o f women with an irreverent and “take no prisoners” kind of attitude. Maybe I need to be more zealous about being a woman.

International Women's Week Which brings me to the moti vation for the event. Last Monday March 8 w as International W omen’s Day (made official in 1975 by the U N ), which com menced International W omen’s Week. Though it is a day in which women, regardless of origin, eco nomic background or sexual ori entation can unite to celebrate the common goal of attaining respect and recognition as equal members o f society, it has become a point o f contention for som e women who do not feel it is necessary, partly due to a pervasive “feminist backlash”.

The purpose o f W om en ’s Day, however, is not to further the rift betw een the sex es. Zaina A w ad , a U3 M cG ill student minoring in Women’s Studies and member o f the W omen Studies Student Association explains. “H aving an International Women’s Day is symptomatic of £

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but rather a motion towards estab “C om paratively speaking lish in g a so lid foundation o f McGill is not progressive enough respect among all people, regard on women’s issues. For instance, less of sex. When Women’s Day we do not even have a Women’s is transformed into yet another Studies departm ent...the major squabbling m ass o f anger and concentration was only im ple antagonism between the sexes and mented in the past year”. between people, we are missing However, Awad is quick to the point. W om en’s Day is the point out that the most effective rem inder that , \yay o f im p le humanity has yet a £ ^ W e n e e d W o m a n 's menting chnage long, long way to D a y t o c e le b r a te o u r a c c o m does not lie so go in terms o f * much in the aca understanding what p l i s h m e n t s a n d a s s e r t o u r demic arena, but in the home. Z p r i n c e in s o c i e t y t h e r e b y “The m ost no way is now the tr a n s c e n d in g t h e n a tio n a l effective way of t r a n s f o r m in g ~ ^ L ^ " Z d M i i o n s o n , o n g s t w o m en so ciety is by reis. g lo b a lly . eradicating sexPerhaps Awad racism , ZainaAwadis ,m ’ articulates it best in class c l sm , saying, “We need homophobia and W om en’s Day to celebrate our all other forms o f discrimination accomplishments and assert our is at the most fundamental level of presence in society thereby tran socialization — namely the fami scending the national divisions ly. There is no substitute for how amongst women globally.” children are raised and the basic values that are instilled in them from childhood. The most vital McGill: contributors to the women issues not progressive cause are mothers and fathers.” For Awad, the McGill acade mic climate exem plifies an old fashioned, backward looking men tality as far as women’s issues are concerned, and is reason enough for the existence of International Women’s Day.

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"Why waste your off hours loafing on some boring beach when you can be spat on or tortured?" In this months issue of OUT, Michael Joseph Gross reports on a rapidly growing industry of alternative vacations. Most painful choice: Butchman's SM Academy, where instead of unwinding you can learn how to get tied up (or learn how to use electro-tor ture toys). For severe discipline you can experience a week of simulated incarceration at Academy Training Institute for a mere $1,400 US. The "vacation" begins with being publicly arrested at the Atlanta airport or getting pulled over on the highway and getting stuffed in the trunk of a car. There's no shuffle board or snorkeling instruction at ATI but there are solitary confinement straight jackets and gravity boots. The ATI compound in Atlanta is a genuine maximum security facility run by off duty cops, correctional officers and military men. (Un)fortunately, management emphasizes there is no 'sexual" element.

In a recent article in Saturday Night, writer Jack Hitt spends a full week in the now infamous West Edmonton Mall. Besides housing the Fantasy land Hotel (Hitt gets stuck in the Igloo room but switches to the Polynesian), an amusement park, indoor beach, golf course, bingo, and even a theatre (cur rently showing T-Rex the musical) there's even a church that offers donuts and coffee after prayers. Not surprisingly the glamour quotient at WEM is low; Sears, Eatons and the Bay are the anchor stores, and the mall is plagued by ethnic gangs, tourists and crappy generic chain stores. Hitt is fascinated with the underbelly of the mall and hangs out with its stranger resi dents, like the eccentric old men on motorized wheelchairs, and later, a crew of smokin' and stealin' fifteen year old thugs. The tips on "how to steal a CD" are especially enlightening: "get a couple of kitchen mag nets in your pocket, put them on either side of the magnetic strip. The detector can't read it!" Jack Hitt, incidentally, has converted to Buddhism.

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Like most fashion magazines, Harpers Bazaar is a vacu ous visual market. Fashion magazines should be evaluated on three criteria: creativity of their fashion photographers, how fat the issue is and how skinny their models are. March's HB is a grand 422 pages and has a super layout by Mikael Jansson. In this issue, Ellen Dégénérés interviews Elizabeth Hurley. Now that Ellen has a hot girlfriend, she should get a hot agent. Both women are promoting their new EdTV. Ellen resorts to her usual silliness: "Do you know how to make mayonnaise?" and discusses Hugh Grant's simian features. Hurley, the current face for Estee Lauder, can't help giving the cosmetic company a few plugs. The interview highlights the already blurry boundaries between journalism and blatant advertising. A trio of super photos by Patrick Demarchelier accompanies the article. However, I have always thought that Hurley would still be ravishing even after washing her face with hydrochloric acid.

Juxtapoz is similar to other American art magazines like ARTnews and Artforum except Juxtapoz editors have surely experimented with acid. The magazine is garish but lots of fun. March/April is their first photography issue. As in previous issues, pages are devoted to relatively unknown artists repre sented by relatively unknown galleries; the editors are espe cially receptive to those producing the odd and excessive. Christian Witkin, assistant to the big daddies of contemporary photographers: Annie Lebowitz, Peter Lindberg and Bruce Weber, to name a few, epitomizes the young and up and com ing. Now that he is no longer dragging around tripods, he is gaining recognition for his own photos. Besides snapping celeb photos (Lenny Kravitz, Quentin Tarantino), Witkins' per sonal projects are also highlighted, like the soon to be pub lished "India: Street Journal”, completed while traveling through the country. The photogra pher focuses on the homeless, eunuchs and the severely physically deformed. Besides sever al great pieces of Witkins, this magazine is worthwhile just for the fat trailer trash women wearing sumo wrestlers costumes. —complied by Troy Seidman

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Voices of Praise were a gospel group from Ottawa. Proudly Jamaican and devoutly Christian, they brought the music to the faith ful every Sunday, and were regulars on the Jamaican festival circuit. You wouldn’t expect to meet up with a Jewish high school kid from Chelsea, Quebec at either venue. Least of all on stage, behind the keyboards, jamming on a funky break. Would you? But So-Called (currently completing an honours degree in cultural studies .ii .. ■■■! % McGill) is just 9P t h a t kind of guy. A classicallytrained pianist and ace hip-hop producer, SoCalled's musical journeys have taken him through ragtime, salsa, house, gangsta rap and everything in-betw een, Through his involvem ent with Voices of Praise, So-Called met long-tim e collaborator, rapper Termaine Downey. Fast forward five years. Our protagonist and Downey have just completed their debut CD, which couples So-Called’s moist, atmos pheric beats with the furious verbal styles of Downey and his ten-mem ber Platoon posse. Montreal and H alifax, Israel and Africa, Shakespeare and James Brown — everyone gets equal time in a cul tural collaboration brimming with confidence and vitality, drama and passion. So-Called’s Jewish roots play an important role in the equa tion. “From the minute I learned how to sample, I started slipping stuff in there that reflected me. Making beats, you don’t want to get sued, so you look for the most obscure stuff possible. And Jewish folk music happens to be as obscure as you can get.” Id e n tity p o litic s , race and m u sical cro ss-p o llin atio n In his life and work, So-Called confronts the tumultuous politics of culture and identity head-on, forg ing a personal philosophy of the rights and responsibilities of a white m usician making black music. He pulls no punches in artic ulating his vision, which encapsu lates more than just hip-hop. “The Montreal Jazz Festival is mostly white people playing black music — thirty or forty years after the fact — for an all-white audi ence. Seeing that spectacle, I felt like the Devil. 1 asked myself: in twenty years, will it be me and my white homies up on stage rapping

for a white crowd at the Montreal Hip-Hop Festival? You’d like to think that it couldn’t happen again, but it’s happening right now.” So w hat’s the difference between So-Called’s musical ethic and those of British blues gui tarists like Eric Clapton, or the legion s of white jazz tE " P h D s w ho

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sioned speaker crying out, “We still are ghetto Jews!” At first, So-Called worried if such an explicit refer ence would fly. “I put it late enough in the mix so Termaine could have edited it out if he didn’t like it.” The

sample stayed. So-Called sees himself as operating i n ---------R eb e cca Catching the tradition o f George Searching for the perfect bea t G ershwin, a Jew ishOf course. maintain American composer whose influ call it, only half-jokingly, “neofasa sincere love ence looms large over the canon of cist.” Pick up Platoon’s Warning in “Yeah, but you could use the for a musical tradi jazz. the “hip-hop” section o f HMV, or same terminology to describe rap,” tion even as they calo-| “It’s the same thing. This Jew call 848-9744. nize it? For So-called, every comes in and takes black music, So-Called offers. “Everyone wants to ‘keep it pure,’ totes guns, and beat involves a moral struggle. does his own thing with it, and “I really do think that rap is hands it right back. Gershwin is the rarely has the most progressive views on women or gays. Plus the tied to race. I could have rapped shit.” music is completely commercial over those tracks m yself, but and conservative as hell. If that’s instead I gave them away. I think it helps to have rap coming out of Pop products, fo lk roots an d not neofascism, what is? The prob lem is that both country and hipblack lips, which, I know, is racist m u sical co n servatism hop have lost any connection with as Hell. I’m appropriating the cul real folk culture. That’s why I’ve ture, but I’m trying desperately to “White people arc idiots. We started getting back to my folk make it sound like me. I’m also don’t have our own folk music any W intering M arch sucks, but giving it back, taking som eone more. We don’t know how to roots a bit. I’ve started playing who’s marginalized, who doesn’t express ourselves as white people, accordion again with a live klezmer for God’s sake, get out of the have a voice in our society, and so we latch on to other cultures.” band.” house! This week: mood According to So-Called, The providing him with the means to This potentially inflammatory state music, the sure-fire salve. express him self. Sure, he could ment led into a discussion of the demise o f folk culture is npt the only thing wrong with today’s have done it on his own. But for rise of “new country” in relation to music. b e a t s : f a n t a s t ik some reason, Termaine met me. rap. “Hip-hop and the other club And so I’m making his beats.” PLASTIC MACHINE Although the musical form has The collaboration works genuine roots in the Caucasian musics are the most conservative Ease your pain. Chill to film because there’s a mutual respect experience, contemporary country thing going," he states. "Hie club snips, jazz bits, lounge beats DJ has to be able to mix your song between the two artists that draws (second only to hip-hop in mass with import Tomoyuki with the next one so nobody notices out the similarities of their respec appeal) often seems insular and the seam. That’s seriously limiting Tanaka and locals W .I.G ., tive cultures. One song on Warning reactionary, leading some critics to what you can do. I think hip hop Luv and expensive all-cool. contains a sample o f an impas has spoiled us, in a way. There’s W ed., M ar. 17 at Jingxi the whole notion of the break, play ing the “best part” of an old record BLUES: PAUL DELAY BAND over and over again. It’s too much O r wallow in it. Random of a good thing. I try to play with that formula by stitching a lot of blues band we may or may ‘best parts’ together. I don’t really not know anything about, make club shit. I make music for but it beats sitting in your people to really concentrate on.” room listening to Kind o f Blue (or does it?). P erso n al expression and W ed., M ar 17 at Cafe th e fu tu re o f th e fo rm Campus So-C alled does not plan to limit himself to creating founda b il e : h a t e b r e e d tions for spoken rhymes. Or act it ouL Since when did Instrumental hip-hop, house, and a night of death metal not other electronic musics can often raise your spirits? Join provide a wider canvas for musical Hatebreed, Anonymous, expression than the three-minute Candrilla and G rift in a fes rap song. “I’m working on my own stuff. tive evening of urban angst. I’ve done a couple klezmer-based Fri., M ar. 19 at M edley house tracks where 1 played every thing on my accordion and key board, and added 16 tracks o f drums from all over the place. Sometimes I construct it beat by beat, sometimes I’ll find a crazy sequence from an old Latin record that I can loop. But then I’ll fuck R eb e cca Catching with it, of course.” S o - C a lle d 's s o - c a lle d lif e .

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International partnerships in film production have led to a resurgence o f intriguing film s that use the best o f many cu l tures. Canadian participation in these productions has opened the doors for talented Canadian w riters, directors and tech n i cians who have previously been d en ied a c c e ss to d ecen t film budgets. The result o f such part nerships has proven successful with the stunning multi-national

film ad ap tatioin o f B om bayborn Canadian authour Rohinton Mistry’s Such A Long Journey. Roshan Seth is brilliant in h is p erfo rm a n ce as G ustad N o b le , a bank c lerk in 1971 Bombay whose family and busi ness life begin to overw helm him. Gustad is immersed in the changes o f his city, his family, and the ambiguous affairs o f his old friend involved in the Secret Service on the eve of War with P ak istan . He is drawn in to a secret em b e z z le m en t sch em e

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direction is fascinat in g as he cap tu res the r e la tio n sh ip s b e tw e e n fr ie n d s, fathers and sons, and spouses in Bombay’s landscape o f human c o llis io n . M istr y ’s B om bay represents both the beauty and filth o f hum ans as th ey urinate on streets guilded with the lig h ts and colours o f Gods and Goddesses. What is remark ab le about S e th ’s acting is his incredi ble ability to display, almost effortlessy, a h u m an ity in every m o v em en t or g e s ture. The story and characters are com pelling in their range o f faults and v a n itie s that c o m p lic a te their lives, accompanied by an equally rich m om ents o f com p a ssio n and lo v e that restore them . A ll o f this is found in Roshan S eth ’s perform ance, a fe a t that w on him the B e st A c to r ’s award at th is y e a r ’s Genies, Canada’s sad attempt at an aw ards cerem o n y . It is a shame that there is not enough money for a hype machine com parable to Miramax to muster up an Oscar nomination for Seth. So be it. Such talent needs no praising trinket. T h is film is a m a rv el, a refreshing treat in today’s cine ma that restores faith in film ’s capacity to tell a story. The old

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I used to watch movies and marvel at the brilliant dialogue and ingenious plots. Alas, those golden days are gone, never to return. The Big Chill gives way to The Big Hit, while American Graffiti lies forgot ten under piles of American crap. Still, I have no choice but to accept the wayward path of mod ern cinema with a disgruntled heart, seeing the great profitabili ty in writing “hip” (i.e. intellec tually challenged) screenplays that droves of bra-stuffing prepubesecents will wor ship unconditionally. It’s kind of scary how easy it is to whip up one of these babies; all it really takes is knowledge o f some o f the basic essentials:

going around chopping people up with an axe. It’s just so, well, passé. Nowadays, you have to find fun and exciting ways to murder your vic tims: fish hooks, and hanging from a tree, for example. Without a doubt, the best I’ve seen was the girl choking to death on a jawbreaker in the movie of the same name. Death by P e z -d is p e n s e r , anyone?

Get yo u r n o -b ra in e r title s To draw them in, you have to have one of those titles that basically summarizes the plot in under five words: / Know What You D id Last Summer, I Still Know What You D id Last Summer. Beware of. using alle gories and metaphors that would make guys think it was a chick flick and girls think it would be one of those movies that their mom would want to take them too.

G e t y o u r B u ffy She doesn’t even have to say anything (which is better, if you ask me). Just having her in a small two-second cameo, (as in S h e ’s A ll That), is enough to get the teenage boys.

Get yo u r D iC a p rio Have you ever sat in a theatre, munching your popcorn, when all of a sudden the girls sitting behind you start shrieking into your ear, making your pop corn go fly ing and you deaf for the following week? Who would have ever thought that the little kid from Growing Pains would turn out to have such destructive powers?

their ceiling. Putting in any nudity might get risky — you don’t want to earn that deadly R rating.

G e t y o u r c liq u e s If your screenplay is going to take place in a high school or univer sity (which it must, that being one of the cardinal rules), make sure that the nerds are wearing thick, black glasses with tape in the middle and the cheerleaders are all blond and dumb. As soon as you begin crossing the lines and merging cool with geek, your audience will find your plot absolutely implausible. Sure, they’ll believe in some crazy guy that keeps on attacking after being shot three times through the heart, but once you start making Buffy wear non-designer outfits, you’ve lost ‘em.

G e t it a t Palace Once your movies done the rounds, raking in allowances across the country, make sure it gets to those $2.50 theaters so assholes like me can get in a good laugh. Catch Very Bad Things at the Palace, She’s All That and The Rage: Carrie 2 at the Eaton Centre.

It’s no secret that movies are made and marketed toward the fattest pockets. Young teenage girls are cur rently one of the most highly-targeted demographics. The young ladies of today have every major studio com peting for their disposable income. Witness the recent deluge of movies starring such box office darlings as Drew Barrymore, Jennifer Love Hewitt (and her cleavage) and all our favourite Dawson’s Creek characters. Out of this blitz of teen movies comes a barrage of past trends and formulas, dusted off and repackaged for the new generation. No thanks to Scream, we now find ourselves inun dated with an endless supply of campy horror movies attempting to re-work old characters like Carrie and Jason. This hasn’t put an end to the tried and true, syrupy genre of “ugly duckling gets beauty, revenge and the cute boy in under two hours.” There’s still lots more where that came from, and with the tragically unfunny She’s All That resting at number three in the box office, we can expect this trend to continue. Based on such statistics, we can also expect a regurgitation of the base humour captured best by Revenge of the Nerds and the Porky’s franchise. After all, if crude worked for There’s Something About Mary, why not just keep the gross jokes coming and hope for the best? I can only guess that this is the mentality behind the soon-to-be released American Pie. The marketing geniuses behind this one have banked on the notion that teenage girls can be as crass as their male peers. If American Pie is any indication, Hollywood will soon begin exploiting this hetetoforeunnoticed side of female sexuality. American Pie provides vicarious thrills by showcasing horny high

school guys talking about “gettin’ some.” The trailer also promises such hilarious voyeuristic pleasures as wit nessing a pair of naive parents who interrupt their son at an embarassing moment (note the Kleenex on hand and porno being watched through bad reception). Further yuks ensue at the sight of the same unlucky dude trying to create the sensation of “third base” by penetrating an apple pie. Not even American Pie can prepare us for H ollyw ood’s next salvo: Cruel Intentions, a film that attempts (only half-succesfully) to be a little more slick in its efforts to pillage the moviegoer’s wallet. One can only guess whether Cruel Intentions was intended to be as laughable as it is. Boredom domi nates the viewing experience, but the film boasts a few scenes that will resucitate the audience long enough to wonder how this movie snuck under the PG-13 rating. In the midst of all the moaning and orgasmic facial expressions, there are some seriously crude lines. Twenty min utes into the movie the plot is out lined: step-brother must bang “virgin of the year” or hand over vintage Jag to bitchy step-sister. Step-brother has been lusting after “sis” since their parents hooked up, so if he succeeds, she’ll “let him stick it anywhere he wants.” This movie makes a sad attempt to add artistic integrity to its one sex scene, and it’s the only occasion where sex is eroticized instead of being used as a punch line. More characteristic of the film’s tone is the scene in which the film ’s token homosexual elucidates on why he puts up with his still-in-the-closet jock lover. The kid confides that the athlete “has a mouth like a Hoover.” ‘Nuff said. Cruel Intentions is at Faubourg.

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International Festival for Humanity an artistic examination of the Global Village Two polarized perspectives on the purpose o f art are often discussed . The first speaks o f “art for art’s sake,” noting the aesthetic appeal o f art indepen dent o f extern a l fa cto rs. The second adopts a more function alist approach, noting its capaci ty to change opinion, stir em o tion, or inspire action. It is on th is seco n d p rem ise that the In tern a tio n a l F e s tiv a l for Humanity (IFH) was conceived. In October 1997, a group o f students in Peru organized the F irst Y outh F e s tiv a l for Democracy, entailing visual dis p la y s, th eatrical p rod u ction s, musical performances and circus a cts to p ro m o te d e m o c r a tic ideals, human rights, and liberty o f expression. In February o f the follow ing year, a collection o f socially conscious international stu d en ts m et in M o n tezu m a , New Mexico, with the intention of extending the aforementioned elements o f social awareness to human rights issu es in B osnia and H erzegovina, M exico, the

ferent organizations will be sta tioned and art displays shown, p ro v id in g a forum fo r the exchange o f ideas, causes, and artistic ideas. The Festival c o ordinators emphasize that this is more than a mere cultural cele bration; instead, the Festival has the intention o f expressing the integral elements that shape and d e fin e our g lo b a l v illa g e — e n ta ilin g both that w h ich is p r e se n tly b e a u tifu l and that which is need o f change.

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Brau Haus: you must be at least this Bavarian to enter than disco dancing. It was definite There are some adventures ly a no-frills approach to decorat that must be planned, executed and ing, lacking any type of adornment strived for. Other adventures are and being filled with picnic tables. unexpected twists of fate or des H overing around these picnic tiny. Brau Haus was of the latter tables was a demographic unlike kind, and it changed me forever. any I’d ever seen. The bar was It all happened one night filled with girls of about fifteen when a group of us were going out dressed in tight, white shirts and to celebrate my friend black pants, accompanied by their Christopher’s birthday. Wé were thirty-year-old boyfriends in full of anticipation as we planned a mellow evening at his favorite bar in the Old Port. When we S ty le / P r o file arrived at our M aria S im p son destination, we received a crushing blow sweater vests. The boyfriends all — the bar was shut down and we stood beside their picnic tables, were stranded by the cab driver while their girlfriends danced on with no place to go. Things were the tables with each other. not looking good for Christopher’s Overwhelmed, I tried to sit down birthday. We started wandering at a table, only to be informed they down the narrow streets, looking were not for sitting, only dancing. for some place to redeem the Andrew returned to the group with evening. Then, som eone in the a pitcher of beer (liquid ironic dis group spotted it: a gaudy sign, tance) only to report that Brau reading “Brau Haus: Bavarian Haus served Labatt B lue... and Discotheque.” only Labatt Blue. Was this the From that first moment, I was intrigued. What exactly goes on at a Bavarian Discotheque? Is it only for Bavarians? D oes it feature authentic Bavarian music, dancing and beer? What does it all mean? We all paused for a moment, in silence, then exchanged knowing looks and ran towards the bar. No one had to say anything. This was destiny. The first thing that impressed me about Brau Haus was the immense amount o f unfinished wood. In fact, Brau Haus seems more suited to housing livestock

Bavarian way? Considering that there was no place to sit without getting beaten up by a Gap-clad career-guy, there was only one thing we could do — dance. Looking around, we real ized that dancing on the floor sim ply wasn’t done here. So, taking a cue from the clientele we headed to the next obvious place, the bar. Finally, we fit in. Joining the throng we happily embraced Brau Haus culture, dancing to hits old and new. This worked out well until “Footloose” came on and Dan performed a crazy, arm-flailing dance for a girl dressed in head-totoe animal print spandex, dubbed “tiger-girl.” At this point, the staff began clearing the bar of people. The first thought that rushed into my head was “oh no, Dan’s going

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tion. The number “Never Mind the Why and Wherefore,” in which Sir Joseph, Captain Corcoran, and Josephine celebrate Josephine’s impending nuptials, is a showstop ping triumph of choreography and inspired inebriation. Vandenberg and Comrie-Picard begin the num ber as amusing comic dupes and wind up looking like Peter O’Toole and Richard Harris after a bender: two superb entertainers brimming with drink and arrogance. The romantic leads often suf fer in comparison with the other,

grey set serves as an unobtrusive backdrop for the w onderfully Many McGill students will be colourful costumes and characters familiar with Gilbert and Sullivan’s who roam its deck. light opera H.M.S. Pinafore only D i r e c t o r through the one-man performance Galpern is blessed by Sideshow Bob in the Cape with an extraordinar F ear-sp oofin g episode o f The ily talented core of Simpsons. This is not a bad intro principal actors. The duction to the work, which displays cast struts and a comic and satiric vision quite in prances with such keeping with the more modern obvious enthusiasm humour of The Simpsons, but it is that the audience hardly a substitute for the real can’t help but enjoy show, live on stage. th em selves. In a Following last year’s produc w e l l - p r o d u c e d tion of The Yeomen of the Guard, Gilbert and Sullivan which was innovative but rather opera, the true stars disconcertin gly displaced to a are W .S. G ilb ert’s netherworld o f gangsters and ingenious lyrics and gumshoes, first-time Savoy Society the gifted actors who director David Galpern has deliv can con vey them ered a fairly traditional production clearly, and deliver of H.M.S. Pinafore. This is to say them with all the that, while remaining true to the melodram a they inescapably English spirit of the demand. In H.M.S. work, he has also managed to inject Pinafore, the choicest it with the many contemporary and numbers fall to the topical surprises which we have characters o f Sir come to expect o f recent Savoy Joseph Porter and productions. The setting is the Captain Corcoran. In prow of a World War I battleship, these roles, Paul but this change o f scene hardly Vandenberg and seems necessary as the costumes Andrew Com rieremain traditional and the thirty- Picard are stand five year displacement in time is outs. Both of these actors are G&S more comic parts, but the blame not long enough to affect the veterans and their experience is lies as much with Gilbert and atmosphere of the play. But, even if evident in their assured poise, Sullivan as with the actors. The it contributes little, the looming, comic timing, and superior elocu characters of Ralph and Josephine

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of catching students attention. E n glish p rofesso r Karin Cope, who offers courses pertain ing to A frican literature, explained that since its inception, the A frican S tu d ies program never really got off the ground. “It is ironic that this being [the program’s] thirtieth year that it is always in danger of dissipat ing.”

S evere b u d g e ta ry co n stra in ts As to why the program has been in constant danger, there are many reasons, among them the lack of attention. Similar interdis ciplinary programs such as Jewish Studies and W om en’s Studies have fostered wider audiences and, therefore, continue to bring in more funding during times of budgetary constraints. Cope believes that a primary reason for the program’s contin ued financial struggles is “a lack o f interest.” She explained that enrolment plays a big role in uni versity budgets and when students are not fillin g the classroom s,

there is “a real risk of [the pro gram] falling out.” While Murray recognized the problem of funding as quite acute, he also noted that because of the sm all size o f the program, the effect of professors taking sabbat ical or entering retirement has a greater impact. He also suggested that part of the problem lies in the “m inority o f black students in Arts at McGill.”

In flu e n c e o f th e c o n tin e n t But every program at the uni versity has suffered under recent cutbacks and must make do with what they have. The problems facing the African Studies are nothing new, leading one to ques tion what separates the program from the million other complaints that the university must deal with on a daily basis. In resp on se to such c r iti cisms, Cope responded that “the enormous influence of the conti nent should be represented. While the program is only a “tiny blip,” she explained, the “Western uni versity [cannot] easily dismiss it.” Questions have been raised

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often come off as bland or insipid, as they are not afforded the crowd pleasing numbers of the mincing Sir Joseph and the scurrilous Dick Deadeye — the Zeppo Marx of the Pinafore family. To their credit, Alison Thome and Klaas DeJong have used their expressive and expansive singing voices to skill fully navigate the most vocally challenging songs which threaten the success of the production. Each manages to convey the devastation and anguish o f thwarted love. Thorne is particularly moving in the languorous solo “Sorry Her L ot” and DeJong’s attempt ed suicide at the clim ax o f Act I show cases her convincing acting and forceful song. Stealing the spotlight from these musical the atre m agnates, Joel Cottingham and M ichel Jacques Gagne produced sm all but memorable prefomances. Both would have made outstanding leads, but I for one would not wish them in any other roles. The audience would do well to keep an eye on Cottingham at all tim es for his hilarious and surprisingly sympathetic reactions. Cottingham throroughly takes on the form of the Lon Chaney-esque D ick Deadeye as he growls and hunches

for this spring but due to budgetary and sch ed u lin g problems, has been pushed to next fall. The committee has also recently organized and drafted its own constitution as well as opened its own bank account which was a “very n ecessa ry ” m ove according to Murray. Although she supports the A frican S tudies student initiatives, Cope stated that, “if M cG ill were serious about the program , they w ould recruit W e iL e n g T a y som eon e w ith a substantial back ground in African Studies.” The courses currently offered within the confines o f the pro gram offer little continuity in terms o f a proper area o f study. They offer an anthropological point of view of Africa rather than an understanding of the many cul tures and h isto ries that have formed the continent. The profes sors, who often have no real rela

his way across the stage. As for Gagne, his performance as Boatswain Bill Bobstay is superb. Withough giving away one of the shows great moments, I will say that the audience is in for a treat before he leaves the building. The chorus and the orchestra buttress this production with solid accom paniment which provides support for the leads. This charming piece is garnished by the conductor Alan Iny - a capable and gracious host during the ten minute pause before the curtain. On the night that I attended, the theatre was only half full, so I urge you to buy your tickets and support this excellent production which merits the greatful applause of a packed house. This year Savoy has provided a fitting appetizer to the main production, in the short farce entitled Cox and Box, a one act play also scored by Arthur Sullivan but written by his previous collaborator F.C. Bumand. This is the Savoy Society’s first double bill in over twenty years and I hope that this precedent begins a new tradition as Cox and Box showcas es three of the society’s outstand ing talents. Warming up for their roles in the main show, M ichel Jacques, Gagne, Paul Vandenberg, and Andrew Comrie-Picard bluster their way through this amusing slapstick comedy which has been very convincingly (look out for the food) and very successfully trans ferred to the world of early blackand-white silent films. The director and the producers are to be con gratulated for this novel addition to the Society’s repertoire. H.M.S. Pinafore and Cox and Box continue until March 20th at Moyse Hall in the Arts Building. Tickets are $6 fo r students, avail able by calling 398-6826.

tion to Africa, look at the conti nent through the eyes of an out sider and as Murray explained, constantly refer to the African people as “they.” When asked about the future o f the program, Cope remained cautious. “I am very hopeful that it will exist in the future,” she said. “I am grateful to the students for their continued activism.” For the next couple of years, the program’s survival has been ensured by the Dean o f A rts’ promise to provide the program w ith a research sem inar. The committee also hopes to expand on the d efin itio n o f A frican Studies to Africana Studies which would include the history of the p eop le driven out the various Diasporas. This, they feel, would bring in more interest form out side and w ide the course load offered to new students. Professor M. Echenberg, this year’s program co-ordinator and professor in the history depart ment, remains guardingly opti mistic as to the future of the pro gram. “I think that w e w ill have better times ahead.”

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D eep E nd o f Ocean should have been left right where the title suggests: keeping Titanic company in the depths of the Atlantic. Or any ocean; it really doesn’t matter. Anything is better than subjecting this cinematic misery to poor audi ences who have enough to deal with. Adapted from Jacquelyn Mitchard’s best-selling novel of the same name, Deep End o f the Ocean is the unarguably terrifying and tragic story of a mother whose three-year-old son is kidnapped. It’s the execution of this mother’s worst nightmare that causes prob lems. Beth Cappadora (Michelle Pfeiffer giving another competent performance) is living the proto typical American suburban life with her husband Pat (Treat Williams) and three young chil dren. The film opens with her Volvo stationwagon being packed up (kids and all) in preparation for a road-trip to Beth’s fifteen year high-school reunion. Why her kids are not left with Daddy at home is a mystery until she gets to Chicago and it becomes obvious that they were brought as a living accessory to show off to all the bitches she hated in high school. It was a good idea on her part, though. No one e lse was smart enough and crazy enough to do the same. In the flurry of fake pleasantries to old cheerleaders and school sluts, Beth manages to for get that kids need to be watched. She leaves the eigh t-year-old Vincent to look after the threeyear-old Ben and, you guessed it, Ben disappears. A media frenzy ensues and the case of missing Ben is taken up by a private d etective (W hoopi Goldberg, a surprisingly small and lacklustre role for her) who pursues the quest for Ben while everyone else gives up after a few months. The Cappadora family, predictably, never gets back to normal. Beth submerges into a deep depression and begins to n eglect her two remaining children and husband Pat blames Beth for the loss but strives to keep the family together. A much more interesting story exists with the eldest son Vincent, who is all but completely neglected by his mother in the years follow ing the disappearance, but his psy ch ologica l damage is m erely glossed over. Fast forward nine years and the Cappadoras have moved to Chicago and long-lost Ben reap

pears in the form of a neighbor hood kid named Sam trying to make some extra cash by mowing the lawns o f lazy suburbanites. Beth im m ediately contacts Detective-Whoopi who discovers that Sam ’s fingerprints match Ben’s. It turns out that a crazy old schoolmate of Beth’s stole Ben and raised him as her own. Thus we have the second rule of life of the film after “Never leave your kids unattended in a crowded hotel lob b y” : “N ever trust old high school enemies.” What follow s is rather odd. Sam has no recollection of his real fam ily but he is im m ediately plucked from his “adoptive” par ents and placed back into the Cappadora nest. The effect of Sam’s upheaval is conveniently given the same treatment as poor Vincent’s traumatizing years as the neglected son. (Teenage Vincent is played by Lucky for all of you General Hospital fans.) Some stilt ed conversations and awkward silences are the only glimpse the audience is given into the turmoil beneath the Cappadoras’ pain. A perfect example of this is a party held as a showcase for Beth and Pat to display their newly repossessed Sam. As Sam leads the party in a dance, Vincent'is left at the table gulping back cheap Champagne. Look how happy Beth and Pat are now that Ben is back in the flesh! Now Vincent doesn’t have to imagine what has been on his parents’ minds all these years. The scene is brimming with inyour-face “meaning”: Hollywood at its best. The audience is finally relieved of Deep E nd’s tedium in a final scene conveniently summariz ing the complex issues: Vincent and Sam play a game of therapeu tic basketball to make it painfully clear to the audience that in end, “everything will be OK.” The most fascinating thing about Deep End o f the Ocean is the characters’ relationship to ciga rettes. Over nine years, Beth smokes a total of one and a half cancer sticks, Pat is caught puffing away a couple of times, and shock ingly, teenaged Vincent appears to never experiment with the terriblyrebellious Marlboros. You have been warned. For the masochistic or.daring (or both), Deep End o f the Ocean is playing at Faubourg.

MDF hits and misses So many plays, so little time. With the McGill Drama Festival well under way, I’ve been trying to keep up with all the theatre mad ness. The back to back showings of Capital Das and The Loud Speaker as well as Drowning , Reel Life Productions and The Fish Tank kept me running between theatres like a madwoman. Capital Das , written and directed by M ichael W heeler examines how complicated life can becom e after “the Institution” . Imagine this: within days of land ing a job in a new city, you find yourself living with your b oss’ rebellious daughter and smooching her UFO devotee brother. Sara Cassidy (Chloe Peterson) quickly discovers that life with her spank ing clean university degree is bizarre — just like her boss, a stereotypical salesman, Bob Fuller (Sim on R ice). __ His daughter Sam (Lauren Lareau) spends her time angrily sauntering about and work ing at “Happy Burger” , Her brother Xavier (D avid Lew kow ich) recently dropped out of university to follow in the footsteps of his “space fore fathers”. It is not only a bizarre cast of characters but a hilarious script. Sam’s “Happy Burger” propaganda ditty and Lewkowhich’s zealous performance are not to be missed. Peterson shines as the desperate interviewee, and Rice has the pro fessional telemarketer demeanour down pat, right down to the cloy ing salesman intonation. Some of the dialogue between Sam and Xavier could have done with a few less “try me” lines and the end of the play could have been stronger and further developed however the comedic script kept me fully enter tained. The Loud Speaker, written by Michael Kindellan and directed by Jenny Szende focuses on a preach er (Malcolm Gilderdale) and a park security guard (Dave Greenwood) who have a massive point of con tention: a loudspeaker. Gilderdale and Greenwood take firm control of their characters, making the ten sion betw een the supercilious preacher and the infuriating “by the

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book” security guard entertaining from beginning to end. With the same philosophic edge of Henry V Was A Wanker this play made my brain tick a bit faster. Judging from the script, Drowning, written and directed by Jessica Freiheit is intended to be dramatic and sombre — it isn’t. Ellen (Emma Rose) plays the role of an anxious wife dealing with many emotions pertaining to her husband Adam (Laen Hershler) and their friend N oel (Matt Swanson). The dialogue between the characters sounded forced and void o f em otional impact. Lukewarm chemistry between the actors left scenes that had the potential to be effective (and there were alot)— bland. The script was disjointed-it is only apparent that Adam is terminally ill until he’s on his deathbed. Until then, I under

stood that Adam was a pseudoswanky, previously su ccessfu l man, not that he was in a state of declining health. There were some good lines but they could not save this piece from drowning, no pun intended. At times when less would have been more, the acting was melodramatic and over the topespecially in the end scene when Emma has a nervous breakdown, certainly not provoking a heartfelt response from the audience. Fame, fortune and Big Dreams. Reel Life Productions written by Larysa Kondracki and Philip Graeme follow s Matthew Kennedy (Michael Vitorovich) and Sasha Irving-Sherman (Taliesin M cEnaney) on their “bent on fame” quest for success. The viva

cious duo drives their fed-up room mate Jen/Estelle (Raj Sohal) crazy, acting like the HollyWood tycoons they hope to become. From their attempts to getting David Cronenberg’s attention,to their interviews with talk show-host Tiffany St. John (hilarious Yetide Badaki) these two charmed the pants off me. I was hooked from the beginning, with McEnaney and Vitorovich fully commanding the stage in their glammed up outfits. In this play everything came together just right, from the on stage chemistry to the dialogue. Another play with a wacky cast is The Fishtank written by Amber Day and directed by R ebecca M aiese and Rayya Liebich. Abbie (Becky Lazarovic) has just moved into her new apart ment. Little does she know what she’s in for. During the course of one night she is introduced to her fiv e eccentric neighbours-one which was supposedly dead- who take her on a wacky nocturnal ride. Rita (Kyla Day) is her maniacal, gun wielding neighbor who barges into Babies apartment wearing a m ickey-m ouse hat and seeking solace for the death of her fortytwo pet fish. Abbie finds herself with an apartment full of neigh bours (read as lunatics) until she seizes control of the gun and clears the air. The script was funny but”fuck” was overused-after a while it just didn’t add anything to the character(s). An actor can’t shy away from using “fuck”. Either say it convincingly or just cut it. The Fishtank p la y s M arch 17.19, Drowning on March 16. 20, and Reel Life Productions runs March 15. 18. For information call Players Theatre 398-6813. Capital Das runs March 15.19, and The Loud Speaker on March 15.19. For information call: 398-6600

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The Hard Knock L ife tour finally arrived in M ontreal on March 11, and the anticipation was rewarded with an outstanding p erform an ce. Jay-Z , D M X , Method Man and Redman joined together to bring a m essage o f p ea ce, lo v e and harm ony throughout each o f their perfor mances. The a u d ien ce w as very receptive (i.e. loud) and pumped from the very beginning. The first acts onstage were the teaming up o f Redm an and M ethod Man, who set the intensifying tone for the night. They both sent the crowd into a wrenzy with “I’ll Be That” and “Judgement Day,” hits from their new albums. N ext in lin e w as DJ C lue who got a chance to display his m ixin g sk ills on hits lik e O u tcast's “R osa Parks” . Everyone by this time was anx iously waiting for the next act, DMX. Clue got his fifteen min utes of fame, and then the lights were dim m ed, a sm oke screen surrounded the sta g e and the audience suddenly heard DM X’s signature growl. He came out and livened up the crowd with such

makes me do wrong.” ly a remembrance of the death of He continued to say, “I B iggie Smalls. The lights were thank the Lord for His dim m ed and Jay-Z c a lled for guidance. Right here those with lighters to hold them and now this is Your high. house and I ask You to The concert was a resound b le ss ev ery o n e here ing success here in Montreal with to n ig h t.” DM X the presence o f a “full h ou se” showed the other side audience who showed their love o f his demeanour and for each o f the main acts. The the audience respond audience consisted o f a mixture ed w ith resp ect and o f black and white young adults love. who were very energetic. It was The “clean up hit ter” and main attrac tion, Jay-Z, literally smacked a “homer” in m aking his entrance onstage. Jigga (Jay-Z) hyped up the crowd from the very start with the tracks “Can I Get A ” and “It’s A lrig h t” featuring M em phis B leek . He then left the stage and secretly made his way to the middle of the TLC M olson Centre on a high rising Fanmail platform. He went straight into (LaFace Records) "Money, Cash, Hoes,” which had a majority pumping their hands in TLC has blessed their fans with yet another solid album that will the air when DM X joined him. appeal to anyone who loves Rhythm The night ended with the “Hard and Blues (10/10). The long-awaited Knock Life” track, which is part album from the best-selling R and B trio is "top-notch” quality and stays true to the formula from their previous gold album, CrazySexyCool. Fanmail is a dedication: they return their love to their fans on the first track, "Fanmail". The talented executive producers, Antonio M. Reid, Dallas Austin and Kenneth "Babyface" Edmunds provide TLC with this strong supporting cast. Baby face's influence is shown on such tracks like "I Miss You So Much" and "Dear Lie" both of which are bound to be hits. Tracks like "Silly Ho" and "No Scrubs” will be circulated on dance floors around the world. The sound effects blend well with the music and provides a new element to their work; they are on key and in control. TLC is at peace with themselves on a spiritual basis, and they attempt to educate their listeners to be true to themselves in order to live healthy lives; the importance of sharing and giving back to those who willingly share their love. They remind their fans to be

h its lik e the “R u ff R yders Anthem,” “Stop Being Greedy” and “G et At Me D o g .” DM X showed “mad love” to the front row by jum ping down o ff the stage at one point and greeting some fans. He also clarified the complex situation of sin and life when he silenced the crowd and said, “It’s the dog in me that

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Wilco Summer Teeth (Reprise) There aren’t many bands out there with a sound as distinctive or original as Wilco’s — certainly not after this record. Traditionally and unfairly p igeonholed into the “roots rock” category (ie. slow, boring guitar rock that’s too much pop to call country), W ilco has seem lessly com bines elem ents from last summer’s Billy Brag-col laboration M ermaid Avenue with the rawer energy of 1996’s Being There and produced an early candi date for 1999’s best album. “Can’t stand it,” the album’s first song and single, exemplifies the album’s mixture of shamelessly simple piano riffs with a new, rich, sym phonic sound that coarses through Summer Teeth with almost universal effectiveness. The truly startling addition of synthesizer on some tracks creates a sound almost reminiscent of bubblegum outfits like Fountains of Wayne, only to be suddenly and beautifully com bined with something much, much more ingenious and complex. It’s hard to imagine another single coming from Wilco’s latest. If there’s a weakness here it may be the lack of one truly outstanding song, and a bizarre refusal to exploit Jeff Tweedy’s achingly sin cere, raspy voice. N onetheless, Summer Teeth represents a stun ning step forward in Wilco’s musi cal development.

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'McGill's best point guard' finishes amazing career M a tt W a tso n re fle c ts o n ca reer as o n -c o u rt le a d e r o f th e R edm en until that game, not a lot of coach es knew about h im ,” says With Concordia pushing the Schildroth. “So I was surprised to ball up court and the game seem see him dominating the game. He ingly out of reach, Redmen point had excellent control on the court, guard Matt Watson goes for the great ballhandling skills and that steal and gets whistled for a reach really impressed me. At the time in foul. It’s his fifth on the night we needed a dynamic point guard which means he’s out of the game, at McGill. Then, when I found out he was a great student, everything and he’s never coming back in. As he walks to the bench, all seemed to fall into place.” With Queen’s and St. Francis the emotion of realizing that his five-year career has come to end X avier pursuing him , W atson begins to show. A standing ova fin a lly ch ose M cG ill on the tion from the crowd is met with a strength of its academic reputation wave and a nod, but is quickly fol and b ecause o f the great first lowed by Watson slumping into impression left by the basketball his chair. He is forced spend the program. After taking up the sport at last 1:15 of his career on the bench watching as his team fall to a bitter age eigh t and id o lizin g Isaiah Thomas, Watson was being given rival in the QSSF semi-finals. “It fe e ls terrible to lo se the chance to play ball at the high tonight,” said Watson after the est level in Canada. He was also Concordia game. “I didn’t win a given the chance to follow in his game in this gym in my whole father’s footsteps. He played at career. It feels worse because I had Windsor for a while but gave it up a terrible game, I didn’t have the to focus on school. energy tonight. Losing, playing The deb u t the way I did, and fouling out is not the way I wanted to go out.” “The first game I played was It’s been over five years since Watson was first spotted by coach against Carleton,” says Watson of Ken Schildroth at the Ottawa city the start of his CIAU career. “It all-star game. At the game was a was great, since the game was in sizeable contingent of Watson’s Ottawa it was a homecoming for friends and family who cheered so me. I had a lot o f high school loudly that the norm ally stoic friends who came out to watch. I coach began to talk to them about was ridiculously nervous, which By C hristian Lander

went up for the ball and landed awkwardly. He felt his knee give out on him, and was taken away with a tom ACL. The resulting injury would cause him to wear a bulky brace for the rest of his career. “I didn’t feel com fortable on the court until the end o f my second year,” says Watson about the double jeopardy o f being a rookie and dealing w ith a brace. “When I fin a lly got over the nerves, I had to spend the second year trying to get used to playing with the brace. It was almost two full seasons before I really started to play.” He was able to find his way on the court in those season s, but his contribution was minimal to the strong veteran squads. Couple this with having to adjust to the brace and the new level of basketball, it seems sur prising that his best bas ketball m em ories stem from those days. “First year was my favourite, we had such an am azing team ,” reflects W atson. “There were some great guys and we should have gone to the nationals. But my favourite single-gam e memory comes from second year where we beat Concordia at home. It was great. We hit a buzzer beater that sent it into overtime. I saw how great the rivalry was and it was just such a great win.”

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the promising point guard. Over the course o f that discussion he learned o f Watson’s high marks and m erits as a person. But Watson being named game MVP that day was more likely the rea son for the interest on the part of the Redmen. “He was an unknown player

only got worse after I got a huge ovation from my friends. I don’t really remember the game I was so excited.” His first year of Redmen bas ketball was also filled with his worst personal memory, and an event that changed his basketball life forever. Against Bishop’s he

By third year, the winning stopped and Watson was thrust into a leadership role on a team that won only four games all sea son. That year, the QSSF started the interlocking schedule with the strong OUA east con feren ce, which only made McGill’s sched ule more difficult. “Third year was tough, the Ontario schools just smoked us. I remember taking a huge leader ship role that year. We didn’t have a strong team, it was a lot of tough going, and a lot of losses. Hubert [Davis, former Redmen and QSSF all-star] and I had to lead the team.” Though it matters little to him, that season was W atson’s best statistically — he averaged a career best 13.3 points per game, and led the team in assists with 56. “I didn’t think about stats,” says Watson about his goals going into each game. “There are a lot of great point guards in our confer ence, most without a bulky knee brace. I just try to do my best to contain them.” Fourth year would see a simi lar result as far as wins and losses

went, but the injection of scoring talent with a strong recruiting class that included Brady Murphy and Ari Hunter, W atson ’s shot attempts went down. His rebounds and assists, however, went up. “When I’m on the court I try to get the ball into the right guys’ hands,” says W atson about his preferred style of play. “I’ll hit the outside shots when I can, but scor ing isn’t as important to me as to play with a lot o f emotion. My goal is to get everyone on the team worked up and excited to play the game.” Heading into his fifth and final season, Watson was prepar ing for his biggest leadership role on a team that eventually featured ten players in first or second year. He was also preparing for his last in a Redmen uniform. “I didn’t think about this as my last season, I didn’t want to,” he states. “I didn’t want to think about how it was going to go. I knew we had some solid recruits and had a good class last year.” During the course of this past season the team showed real signs of promise with huge home wins over team s like Toronto and Ryerson. But at the same time they showed weakness in a horrible loss to Laval.

T h e fin a l g a m e They persevered and thanks to a wretched season by the Rouge et Or, the Redmen were able to swing into the semi-finals against Concordia. In the game, the team played about 15 minutes of out standing basketball. But games are

40 m inutes long, and in the end the team just co u ld n ’t keep up with the Stingers. “ Wi t h about five min utes left in the gam e, I was con fid en t we could beat Concordia, so I felt that the team would go on to play in the fin a ls,” co n tends W atson, eating take-out in his apartment while roommate and former teammate Mike Johnston is watching a soap opera on TV. “I felt we had a good chance against them , but near the end o f the game things unfolded — turnovers, m issed shots, and som e q uestionable calls from the ref. When I fouled out, it hit me like a ton of bricks that it was real ly my last game.” After playing five years of Redmen basketball consuming his life, it was really over and Watson had to imagine a future without playing. “During his career Watson was a leader, he hit big shots, he ran the offen ce, played superb defence, and really led the team,” gushes Schildroth. “In my 14 years as head coach, I can honestly say h e’s the best point guard w e’ve had. W e’re going to miss him.” The extent to w hich the Redmen will miss their 1998-1999 second team QSSF all-star guard is only matched by Watson’s own feelings towards his former team. “I’ll m iss the guys m ost,” affirms Watson. “You spend so much time together, in practice, gam es and the o ff-season . It’s been my whole life, so I’ll really miss them.” With his degree and his career finished at McGill, Watson will m ove on to law sch ool at the U niversity o f Western Ontario next year. He has made several prom ises to make a return to Montreal to see some of his team mates try and make a run for the 2000 nationals. “I hope those guys remember me as a cagey veteran, but overall I ’d lik e to be rem em bered as someone who left it all out on the court, someone who had a lot of fun playing the game.”

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Sherbrooke a sure bet at CIAU track nationals M a rch a n d sh a tters lo n g s ta n d in g 300m re c o rd in le a d in g th e V e rt et O r to title B y J eremy K u z m a r o v

Neck and neck with Western’s Adrian Jordan rounding the final turn of the 300m dash, Sherbrooke speed demon Alexandre Marchand displayed the heart of a true champi on, kicking it into high gear and blowing past his adversary in the final stretch to capture the victory and shatter the Canadian and CIAU records. The latter had stood since 1983. “I think 1 finished off strong, but Marchand just finished stronger,” said Western Ontario’s Jordan, whose time also broke the CIAU record and came within 1/ 100th of a second of beating the old Canadian marker. “Jordan ran one hell of a race, he really pushed me to my limits,” added Marchand a member of the Canadian National track team. “He took the lead at the 250 mark, and forced me to turn it up a notch. He’s the reason I broke the record, which feels like a great accomplishment.” At the meet, the University of Alberta’s men’s team tied for fourth overall, while the Golden Bears fin ished 11 th. Marchand’s awe inspiring vic tory in the 300m on Friday set the tone for the CIAU championships at the McGill Fieldhouse which saw the Sherbrooke Vert et Or emerge as National Champions amidst the field of elite track competitors from all across Canada. While Marchand stole the show with his heroics in the 300m as well as in winning the 600m dash and anchoring the 4x400m relay team to victory, his teammates came up

equally as big. Francois Thenault struck gold in the men’s pole vault, Andrew Lissade blew away the competition in the 60m hurdles, and Sebastien Ouellet set a new CIAU record while breezing to victory in the 1000m to s e c u r e Sherbrooke’s third champi onship in as many years, an unprece dented feat for a Quebec school. “ I ’ m proud of our p e r f o r mance,” said an elated Richard Crevier of Sherbrooke, who was named as the CIA U ’s top men’s team coach. “It shows that we have an elite program here at Sherbrooke. I hope we can maintain a tradition of excellence in track.” “It was a great team effort, all of our hard work paid off,” added Marchand, honoured as the top ath lete of the event. “Winning the title three years in a row is extra special, and tonight we’re gonna go out and celebrate.” Sherbrooke’s closest nemesis throughout the weekend were the Windsor Lancers who took home

the women’s crown. Leading the way were individual gold medalists Alicia Bryenton in the pole vault, Kim Dykxhoom in the triple jump,

and Beth Stroud in the highjump and pentathlon which combines five dif ferent events. “It’s a real exciting feeling to win the women’s title,” commented a jubilant Stroud during the frantic post-championship celebrations. “The CIAUs are always ultracompetitive and a nerve-wracking event, but we really rose to the occasion.” The University o f Toronto Varsity Blues finished second in the women’s standings paced by the dazzling performance of MVP Lami

Oyewumi who convincingly cap tured gold in the 300m and 60m dashes. Oyewumi’s blazing speed was best exposed in the 60m race, the shortest event of the meet, where she blew past the strong field and cruised to victory in near record breaking time. “I felt very relaxed, and ran a great race,” said Oyewumi with a sm ile. “It’s very exciting and a real thrill to come out on top racing against the best athletes in the nation.” T h e University of Saskatchewan Huskies were also impressive on the women’s side, fin ishing in third place in the over all standings. Kim Moffatt was a standout, earning a silver in the 300m and anchoring the 4x400m relay team to victory. “The girls gave it their all and made it happen,” said Lyle Sanderson, who in his 34th year with the team was named as the top women’s coach in the country. “It’s an honour to win such an award, but the credit goes out to our assistant coaches and athletes who have worked so hard all year.” On the men’s side, aside from Marchand, several other top-flight

athletes showed off their talent on the weekend who deserve acclaim for their performances. Longdistance specialist Jeremy Deere from Calgary, for one, remarkably won both ironmen events, outdistancing the pack in both the 1500m and 3000m runs. “It’ great to go out on a win ning note,” said the graduating senior who is hoping to compete in the PanAm and World University Games this summer. “It’s the first time I’ve won both events and I’m happy. It was a really fun weekend, and it’s always great to get all the top talent together at one meet.” Other champions over the weekend included Craig Cavanaugh of York University who toppled the CIAU record in the long jump and won the silver medal in the 60m dash, losing the gold in a photo fin ish to teammate Mike Dwyer. Antoine Scholtz from Windsor was a double winner, capturing the gold in the highjump and pentathlon, and N icolas Pauletto o f Manitoba emerged triumphant in the shot put, showing his great strength in edging Paul Drogaris of McGill to end his collegiate career in grand style. “I won in my first year, and now to win in my last, this feels tremendous,” said Pauletto, a five time All-Canadian. “It’s been a great ride, and a real fun weekend for all of the competitors. Kudos to McGill for being a great host.”

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Drogaris was bittersweet about his performance. “I set my expectations high,” said Drogaris. “I was shooting for first and I didn’t connect with my throws, I didn’t feel my rhythm and

Other notable performances at the meet were the Redmen’s fifth place in the 4x800m relay and Gretchen Dumoulin’s fourth place in the 3000m. The Redmen 4x800m relay

The McGill Martlets’ 4x800 relay team ’s gold medal and Redman shot-putter Paul Drogaris’s silver paced their respective teams in the Canadian Interuniversity Athletics Union national track and field championships held at McGill last weekend. Runners Stephanie Welsh, Carly Moher, Elaine Penny, and Leslie Gold overcame the effects of Gold’s asthma attack in an earlier event and a starstudded University of Victoria team to successfully defend the national title the Martlets won in the 4x800m relay last year. Drogaris, the bronze medalist at the 1998 Nationals, had set high expectations for himself after recording the sec ond-longest throw in the nation this year, 16.35 meters, at the McGill Invitational in January. The third year math and physics student overcame a neck injury sustained last October, which prevented him from lifting weights for six weeks, to hoist himself into the annual tourney. On Saturday, he put the T h e m o n e y s h o t , c o u r t e s y o f P a u l D r o g a r is R eb e cca Catching shot at 15.73m, good for sec ond place behind Manitoba’s Nicolas Palmetto, who took gold had to force a lot of my throws.” squad, led by starter James with 16.11m. Palmetto had record D rogaris’ silver medal Roundell, Stéphane Brodeur, ed the CIAU longest throw with nonetheless makes him the Yohsuke Hayashi, and anchor 16.53m earlier on this year. Redmen’s only All-Canadian this Benoit Lebeau, hoped to match the After the com petition, year. women ’s performance in the event.

Roundell and Brodeur kept them in the guys passed me and my concen the medal hunt as the team was tration was gone. I said, go guys, I third in the field o f twelve after can’t do anything.” eight laps. “I gave everything I had, and it The race shifted into the red n' wasn’t enough. I’m a bit disap w hite’s favour as Hayashi took pointed, I thought I could do better advantage of a strong hand-off by then that,” he added. Brodeur and sprinted ahead of the D espite the result, M cGill field, leading with six laps to go track and field head coach Dennis and second by the time he handed Barrett praised the 4x800m squad off the baton to Lebeau, with the for its overall strong showing in the last four laps remaining. race and expressed optimism for Lebeau retook the lead for next year. McGill with two laps to go. The “They did marvelously in that Redmen seemed poised to match they ran a personal best this sea the Martlets’ first place finish in the son," said Barrett. “That was nice event, when he came up behind to see. W hat’s good about the D alh ou sie’s runner, Andrew men’s four-by-eight is that we can Dunbrack, who was a lap behind start planning or looking towards Lebeau. A rookie, he refused to next year. I hope that these guys yield the inside lane, going against can focus a little bit more in that an unwritten rule of track. they did well this year and that Lebeau was boxed in. Leading three out of the four are back next with approximately 100 meters to year plus our alternate is back.” go, he saw several teams pass him Many of these athletes train all and finished a disappointing fifth. year for an event which, in some According to Lebeau, the refusal to cases, lasts only a few seconds or yield cost him the race. minutes. “I felt very good, very strong, Is it worth all those hours and then that stupid guy from training? Martlet high jumper and Dalhousie who was a lap behind us. pentathlete Frederique Boura I came [up to him] and was faster answered a “Definitely!” which her than him and I tried to pass him. teammates echoed. When he saw me, he tried to fight “I wouldn’t take away any of me,” explained Lebeau. “I spent a the stress, any of the long practices. lot of energy trying to pass him and What you get out of it is one hun I came to the last hundred meters dred times what you put into it,” the and a g u y... passed me and ebullient Boura said. [Dunbrack] was still in front of me and I was in a box and couldn’t do anything. In the last 80 meters all

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stopped long ago getting frustrated when I had asthma attacks because if I got angry and upset after every race where I had an attack I would have quit a very long time ago.” Then definitely no one would have noticed her achievements in

all very good friends and we hang out outside of track, and w e’ve been running together, with [sophomore Elaine Penny] for two years, and the rest of us [Gold and rookie Carly Moher] since cross country.”

and we knew she would run very well,” said Welsh. “But we knew that [Managh] was very fast... Leslie had her work cut out for her.” With one lap to go, Managh, who had been eating away at the Martlets’ lead, passed Gold. Halfway through the lap, Gold caught up with her and they ran shoulder-to-shoulder until only about 50 meters remained. Gold kicked at that moment. For the uninitiated, a kick in track and field is a sud den change of speed meant to throw one’s opponent rhythm. Gold had been practicing her kick all season long and it was precisely at this sort o f moment that she needed her best of the season. She got it. The M cGill Martlets are the 1999 CIAU cham pions in the 4x800m relay.

Nobody noticed it. It was only when one red and white runner remained at the back of the pack in the women’s 1000 meter final that som e glances began to direct themselves towards the field side of the finish line, where Martlet m iddle distance runner L eslie Gold had just staggered off, her face locked in a grimace as she fought to rush air to her burning lungs. Gold has exercise-induced asthma, not exact ly a good thing to have when you are running any thing longer than the distance betw een the Shatner building and the M cG ill bookstore. It is R eb e cca Catching not as big an M c G ill's f a b f o u r o f L e s l i e G o ld , C a r ly M o h e r , E la in e P e n n y a n d S t e p h a n ie W e ls h impediment as it might appear, according to Gold, M e n ’s final team standings She would need that confi who takes several preventative that second race. dence going into the 4x800m relay, Just as quietly as Gold left the measures before she races to deal 1000m, the Martlet ahead of her an event McGill won at last year’s with her asthma. 1. Sherbrooke (68 pts) N ationals at the U niversity o f “I have a whole routine I go during the race, Stephanie Welsh, 2. Windsor (50 pts) Windsor. The Martlets went into through before [I race],” said Gold. discreetly placed sixth in the event. 3. York (32 pts) the 1999 Championships without “I have two different inhalers that I The fourth-year education student 4. Calgary (29.5 pts) 1998 All-Canadians Tambra Dunn take, the physio does thoracic com looked to be in medal contention 5. Western (29 pts) and Sarah Ali-Khan, who along pressions on me before the race, after the first two laps of the five6. Saskatchewan (22 pts) with Welsh and Penny had run the and I also wear a Breathe-Right, lap race, drifting out of the hunt as 7. (tie) Manitoba (16 pts) fifth -fastest time in CIAU one o f those horrible strips that Gold pulled out of the chase. (tie) Regina (16 pts) Championship history, 8:56.57. W elsh could not wait to goes over your nose to open your 9. Toronto (14 pts) The team McGill took into the nasal passages, so usually a combi redeem herself in the 4x800m . 10. UBC (12 pts) Nationals was ranked fourth in the nation of those three things can According to the veteran, the pres 11. (tie) Queen’s (9 pts) country and its qualifying time of sure of trying not to disappoint her hold an asthma attack off.” (tie) Alberta (9 pts) 9:21.18 left little hope for a repeat With the 4x800m looming, the team, who are close friends of hers, 13. Dalhousie (7.5 pts) of last year’s exploit. Moreover, Montreal native decided to pull out. is the reason the relay brings out 14. (tic) McGill (7 pt pts) the Martlets were facing teams like She was seventh in a field of seven her best performances. (tie) Laurentian (7 pts) the University of Western Ontario, “When y o u ’re running in a at the 600-meter mark when the 16. (tie) Concordia (5 pts) relay, it’s not just for you. You sort first in the nation, who ran the relay attack occurred. (tie) Guelph (5 pts) a full seven seconds faster than the of take it one step further, because “Had this been my last race of (tie) Lethbridge (5 pts) ladies in red and white, and the the weekend I w ou ld n ’t have you know that there’s other people 19. UQTR (4 pts) University of Victoria, ranked third pulled out,” the second year mas in it and we ju st want to work 20. Victoria (3 pts) and sporting double medalists as together and it really helps that ter’s student in botanical science 21. (tie) Waterloo (1 pts) their third and anchor. said. “There’s nothing I can do. I we’re so close,” said Welsh. “We (tie) Lakehead (1 pts) A m edal, maybe. Gold? Nobody would have believed it. M cG ill F ie ld h o u s e p ra ise d b y c o m p e tito rs Starting the race for the W om en ’s final team The McGill Fieldhouse, built any time.” Martlets, W elsh opened a com But a lesson learned long ago standings in 1994, finally came into its own manding 30-meter lead over her over the weekend at the Track in sports is that you can have the opponents right from the gun and National Championships. The finest facility in the world, but led throughout the four laps of her crown jewel of the McGill sports without a great set of fans, it can 1. Windsor (50.5 pts) leg. Relay veteran Penny, who did complex, the facility truly proved quickly turn into cavernous dun 2. Toronto (42 pts) not qualify for an individual event its status as one of the finest in geon. 3 . Saskatchewan ( 3 7 .5 pts) at the Nationals, maintained the “I attend all kinds of competi Canada. 4. (tie) Alberta (30 pts) McGill advantage. “1 really liked the intimacy of tions and usually no one comes out (tie) Sherbrooke (30 pts) It was Moher who faced per the facility ,” beamed Western really,” said Canadian Olympic 6. Western (29.5 pts) haps the toughest challenge. coach Vicky Croley. “You could runner Bruny Surin. “This was a 7. Victoria (29 pts) Following Penny, at a distance, see everything from any point (in great crowd and it’s a nice change 8. Manitoba (24 pts) was Victoria’s double gold medal the Fieldhouse). 1 had some doubts and I’m sure the athletes appreacit9. York (15.5 pts) ist in the 1500m and the 3000m before, but this was a great tourna ed it. That can really make a d iff 10. McGill (11 pts) Barbora Brych, who closed the gap ment. McGill did an excellent job. érence for a competitor.” 11. Guelph (8 pts) to about 15 meters. Moher handed In the eyes of the athletes and I’m looking forward to next year.” 12. (tie) Queen’s (7 pts) off to Gold, who just two hours For the athletes and coaches, coaches, the nationals will be (tie) Waterloo (7 pts) earlier had suffered her asthma remembered much more for the the competition went off without a (tie) UBC (7 pts) attack. Meanwhile, Brych handed hitch, in great part due to the experience than the facility. (tie) Ottawa (7 pts) o ff to Larissa Managh, silver “This event was a great suc superb track surface at the field 16. Calgary (5 pts) m edalist in the 1000m and the cess,” said Sanderson. “Our athltes house. 17. Dalhousie (4 pts) 1500m. “The facility is great," added are having a great time, and that’s Things looked silvery for 18. (tie) Laval (3 pts) what this event is all about—the Saskatchewan coach Lyle (tie) Concordia (3 pts) McGill. experience of it all.” Sanderson. “The track is really fast, “When it went into the final 20. Regina (2 pts) which helps all the runners. I'd be leg Leslie had a pretty good lead —The Minh Luong happy to have my team run here

1 9 9 9 T rack N ational C ham pionships - top Mc G ill finishers

W o m e n ’s 6 0 0 m 1. Isabelle Gervais, Ottawa, 1:32.87 2. K ristina Farr, W estern Ontario. 1:32.96 3. N atalie D eso u za , York, 1:33.40

7.Stephanie Welsh, McGill, 1:36.86 W o m e n ’s 3 0 0 0 m 1. Barbara Brych, V ictoria. 9:56.31 2. Catriona Morrison, Alberta. 9:57.36 3. N adine D evin , G uelph. 10:08.10

4. G retchen D u m ou lin , McGill, 10:17.10 W o m e n ’s 4 x 8 0 0 m r e la y

1. McGill, 9:05.20 (S tep h an ie W elsh, Carly Moher, Elaine Penny, Leslie Gold) 2. Victoria, 9:06.05 (Wendy Cocksedge, Stephanie Mills, Barbora Brych, Larissa Managh) 3. Sherbrooke, 9:09.10 (R o sely n Trudeau, Julie D upuis, C aroline Beaudry, Melissa Chenard)

M e n ’s 4 x 8 0 0 m r e la y 1. Windsor, 7:41.80 (R hys T renhaile, Kevin O ’Connor, Drew Macauleay, Omar Hafez) 2. Sherbrooke, 7:42.26 (Dannick Cote, Jimmy Gobeil, J.P. M orency, Sebastien Ouellet) 3. Western, 7:42.42 (C raig M cFarquhar, Stu McGregor, A lex Pablo, Jim Wardle)

5. McGill, 7:43.47 (James Roundell, Stéphane Brodeur, Yohsuke Hayashi, Benoit Lebeau) M e n ’s s h o t p u t 1. Nicolas Pauletto, Manitoba, 16.11m

2. Paul D rogaris, M cG ill, 15.73m 3. Murray Heber, A lberta, 15.66m For additional coverage o f the 1999 C IA U tra c k a n d f ie ld National Championships, visit our website at w w w .trib u n e.m o n treal.q c .ca

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The great divide: the NHL trading deadline Team s scram b le to b o o s t lin e u p s o r u n lo a d p ric e y ta le n t b e fo re M arch 23 tra d e d e a d lin e B y M a n n y A lmela

At no other time is the line between the NHL have and havenots more defined than just prior to the trade deadline. Teams in play off contention focus on bolstering their lineups while struggling non contenders look ahead to next sea son by dumping their expensive players. Any tinkering which teams wish to do with thier rosters must be done before March 23. Several teams haven’t lost any time, how ever, as the transaction frenzy seems to already be under way. The recent Theoren Fleury trade which saw the long-tim e Calgary Flame go to the Colorado Avalanche for René Corbet, Wade Belak and future considerations started what prom ises to be an active period on the trade front. The departure o f Fleury was expected and rumoured since the season began since he will become an unrestricted free-agent at the end of the season, free to sign with the highest bidder. His landing in Colorado surprised many even if his change of address did not.

H ig h stakes ch icken The Fleury trade hardly went unnoticed by the lea g u e’s con tenders, namely the Philadelphia Flyers, Detroit Red W ings, and Dallas Stars. By obtaining Fleury’s services, the Avalanche raised the bar and will undoubtedly force the hand of other clubs looking to win the Stanley Cup this year. The first to blink in this game of chicken were the Flyers, who wasted little time in snagging the other of the two coveted impending group III free agents b esid es Fleury, namely Mark Recchi. The one-time Flyer made his way back to the city o f brotherly love and subsequently provides the team with what they feel will put them over the top. There is no question that the acquisition o f a talent such as Recchi can only help a team; the surprise was how small a price gen eral manager Bobby Clarke had to pay to make the deal a reality. Montreal Canadiens’ faithful were outraged by the paltry ransom which their star player left town for. Promising youngster Dainius Zubrus (along with a second and seventh round draft pick) was all the Habs got in return. What did not help the Canadiens organiza tion’s cause in selling the trade to their demanding public was their abysmal recent track record on draft day. It’s all but com m on knowledge that this team will make about as good use of those picks as Turner Stevenson would an open net. In more than one respect, the Canadiens’ recent moves smell like fire — fire sale. Team president Ronald Corey will hopefully have enough Molson beer to douse the

flames. But that remains to be seen. The once proud organization which knew the value of keeping its loyal fans happy with contenders has since dropped itself to a level of mediocrity. These two transactions are the result o f what has happened to

N o w W h at? The Dallas Stars made it abun dantly clear last summer that the Stanley Cup was to be theirs when they reached out for free-agent Brett Hull. His injury-plagued sea

the shuffle this season are the twotime defending Stanley Cup cham pion D etroit Red W ings. They seem to be going through the motions much like last year, but they are capable of turning it up a notch come playoff time. In their present state, the Wings will not win a third straight Cup. They were fortunate to win last season with Chris Osgood in goal. This year, som e changes would serve this team well. My question is who is hungry in Detroit? The acquisition of an experienced forward who has never sipped from the Cup could energize this sleeping giant. Wendel Clark could be taken o ff o f the Lightning’s hands before the dead line to fill in this role. A goaltender would be nice but it is simply too late for a goal tending controversy and they will have to rely on Osgood once again.

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soon-to-be group III free-agents in recent years. One example concerns Mark M essier’s messy departure from New York, another occurred when the Edmonton Oilers lost Curtis Joseph to Toronto. The loss of a star player for absloutely nothing can set a team back a great deal and although these trades seem quite ordinary at best, they in all likeli hood are better than the alternative. As for Recchi and Fleury next season, they will most likely find themselves on different teams next season as they w ill be front and center in a very expensive summer auction. What these two players represent to their new clubs is insurance. Obtaining these players means that other contenders can not. The Flyers and Avs are quite content paying these players the final quarter of their salaries mere ly to be hired guns for the post-sea son.

son has triggered considerable clamouring for general manager Bob Gainey to make a move before the deadline. It was no secret that the Stars had interest in obtaining Recchi. The question now is do they have a plan B? Chances are they will go with playoff experience and tough ness as their primary concerns. Potential additions to Dallas include the Canadiens’ Shayne Corson who fits the bill on both counts. His grit and leadership are exactly what the ultra-talented Stars could use most in their stretch run. The Islanders’ Trevor Linden has been a part of more rumours than Tom Cruise and his name has also come up as a potential Dallas pick-up. Being on a contender may be what he needs to find the form he displayed in his ’94 playoff run with the Canucks. A team which has been lost in

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McGill invitational fencing meet, finished 3rd of 8 in men’s epee. Led by Jason Anderson, Farhad Riahi and Partrick Keating they defeated Ottawa 4 5 -2 8 , McGill’s women’s epee 45-15 and lost to Queen’s 45-36. Next compettiton will be at the Quebec senior fencing champi onship on March 20th in Longueil. F ive mcgill A ll-C anadians

T r ib u n e s u r v e y r e v e a ls u n s u r p r is in g a p a t h y t o w a r d s a t h le t ic s L eslie Gold, a 25 year-old Montreal native, recovered from a severe asthma attack in time to anchor the McGill 4x800m relay team to gold this past weekend at the CIAU nationals. The com e from behind victory was the major highlight of McGill’s performance as host of this year’s nationals. Martlet goalie S t-P ierre WINS GOLD WITH TEAM

The McGill women’s 4x800m relay team who won the gold medal at this past weekend’s CIAU championships were automatically named All-Canadians for finishing in the top two of their event. Joining Stephanie W elsh, Carly Moher, Elaine Penny, and Leslie Gold was Paul Drogaris who o f course won the silver in his event the shotput.

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The Tribune conducted a sur vey last week in honour o f the CIAU national track and field cham pionships being hosted at McGill. 69 students were passed a short survey on whether they go to McGill sports events, use the facil ities themselves, and whether they knew M cG ill was hosting the nationals. The results were not too sur prising. One-third of students had been to a Redmen or M artlets gam e, the same percentage as knew the track cham pionships were last weekend. Fully 80 per cent o f those surveyed said they used the facilities at least a few times per year. Interestingly, every one of the students who had been to a McGill sports event said they also used the faciliities. Last month marked the first anniversary of McGill Athletics having hired a marketing director. Over the year, in tercollegiate events have seen a marginal increase in attendance. The survey handed out reflected an interesting trend among students as to how they receive inform ation on events. O f the 23 who said they attend McGill sports events, 65 per cent learned about them through their friends. When it came to the track championships, however, 83 per cent said they knew from the posters and banners around cam pus and focussed in the athletics complex. As a form of comparison, stu dents were asked how they find out about other events on campus and around Montreal, such as lec tures and concerts. Over one third

S tu d e n t M a n a g e r(s) S T h e S t u d e n t ' s S o c i e t y o f M c G ill U n i v e r s i t y is s e e k i n g a s t u d e n t /s t u d e n t s t o t a k e o n t h e r e s p o n s ib ility fo r th e o p e r a tio n o f th e S a d i e ' s T a b a g i e l o c a t i o n s o n t h e M c G ill c a m p u s. T h e id e a l c a n d id a te (s ) w ill p o s s e s s e x p e r i e n c e in r e t a i l m a n a g e m e n t i n c l u d i n g , b u t n o t lim ite d t o , t h e c o n tr o l o f s t o c k , s t a f f in g , a s w e ll a s th e a b ility to d e v e lo p a n d c o o r d i n a t e m a r k e tin g e ffo r ts . T h is p o s i t i o n w i l l r e q u i r e a m i n i m u m o f 3 5 h o u r s o f w o r k p e r w e e k f o r a f u ll y e a r te r m ; t h e c a n d id a t e s h o u ld c o n s id e r h e r /h is c o u r s e lo a d a c c o r d in g ly . R e n u m e r a tio n c o n s is t s o f a s t ip e n d fo r t h e y e a r . B ilin g u a lis m is a n a s s e t . R é s u m é s s h o u l d b e r e c e iv e d b y th e u n d e r s i g n e d n o l a t e r t h a n A p r il 2 , 1 9 9 9

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said they found out from posters and banners, another 35 per cent said media sources on campus and in the city were their primary source. Finally, students were asked how they felt about the level of publicity of McGill sports events. This is an important question, because the school has a notorious lack o f support for most o f its events. On occasion, the stands do fill. Two years ago in a playoff match against UQTR, the hockey Redmen nearly filled the 1,600 seat McConell Winter Arena. The same year, a m uch-advertised Shrine Bowl football game against Queen’s drew over 7,500 fans to Molson Stadium. In the end, the results from how students felt were a little ambiguous. The largest response said the publicity was “poor,” but nearly as many said it was pass able or even good. A few men tioned that while the postering and general advertizing was strong in the athletics complex, it was lack ing elsewhere on campus. Of those who knew about the cham pi onships, most said they’d seen banner across lower campus. There is room for improve ment, clearly. 72 per cent of those surveyed had been to sports events outside of McGill. There is, then, an interest which can be tapped.

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