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The constitution of the Students Society of M cG ill U niversity may be invalid, according to a declaration made by the Chief R eturning O fficer at last T h u rsd ay ’s S tudents’ Society of M cGill University council meeting.

The issue arose when the CRO, Paul B. Flicker, was asked to accept the Council’s referendum question regarding the amend­ ment of the SSMU constitution in order to allow the First Year Councilor a vote on council. The FYC currently sits ex-officio, that is, non-voting.

At the m eeting on Thursday night Flicker surprised members of the SSMU council by both rejecting the referendum question and declaring that the current con­ stitution of the SSMU is not valid. Flicker presented a declaration stating, “In order to alter C ouncil, one m ust am end the C onstitution of the Society. The C hief Returning Officer notes that on its face the ‘current’ Constitution is invalid.”

Article 23.3 of the SSMU constitution states that “The CRO shall ensure that refer­ endum questions are clear, concise, and do not violate this Constitution and By-laws (unless they are proposed amendments to

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In front of their largest and loudest crowd of the year at M olson Stadium , the M cGill Martlets successfully defended their QSSF soc­ cer title by defeating the Laval Rouge et Or 5-4 on penalty kicks on Friday night. The nation's second-ranked team will head to Waterloo for the Canadian University Athletics Union cham­ pionships next weekend.

After a tense 120 minutes of play left the teams deadlocked in a 1-1 tie, McGill keeper Jessica W hite's stop to start o ff the shootout sequence proved to be the difference.

"I’ve never stopped a penalty kick before; I just pictured doing it in my mind while she was setting it up," said an ecstatic White after the game.

Laval defender Marie-Claude Dion drilled a hard shot to White's left, but the 17-year old Tennessee native dove accordingly and smacked the ball away with her left hand.

A wounded Eva Melamed then hobbled to the penalty spot, and promptly booted a low shot past Laval keeper Melisande Blais, to give C o n tin u e d o n p a g e 21

this C onstitution or B y-law s).” Flicker believes that it is unclear which constitution is still in effect, as the new one may be invalid. Therefore, he cannot accept any ref­ erendum questions that seek to alter the SSMU constitution.

“A question cannot be considered clear when the electorate does not know which constitution it is being asked to amend,” Flicker concluded.

This decision poses an obvious impedi­ ment to the planned referendum, and if the analysis is correct, it has severe repercus­ sions on the validity of the SSMU. Flicker believes that the by-laws of the constitution that were enacted on May 1st of last year are problematic. They do not fulfdl constitutional requirements that would make them valid and, therefore, they along with the entire new constitution are rendered inoperative. One problem is that the by-laws were never translated into French as required in articles 37.1 and 39.6 of the constitution.

The declaration also points to a technical error in reference to the numbering of the constitution as a possible justification for its invalidity.

Despite these details, the decision of the CRO does not necessarily mean that the con­ stitution is invalid. Only the Judicial Board

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may officially invalidate the constitution.

In light of the uncertainties, the SSMU council responded to the situation quickly.

By the conclusion of the meeting they had set a mandate to appeal the CRO’s decision regarding the referendum to the J-Board.

The decision was also made to contact legal counsel to defend the SSMU’s position.

Until a hearing can be arranged, the affairs of the SSMU will continue to run under the assumption that the constitution is valid.

Flicker stated that he "ha[s] continued to place ads in the Trib[une] and the other newspapers so that if I am indeed wrong no damage will be done and if the Judicial board disagrees with me, the question will go through as proposed."

Law councilor Francois TanguayRenaud believes that it was not unforesee­ able that such an issue would arise.

“I think it was in the understanding of council last year that they were leaving to the council of this year to take in charge the changes or to clarify to make the constitution adequate to fit the requirements that had been enacted,” Tanguay-Renaud said. “Now things haven’t been done. We’ve been pres­ suring them to do something. It hasn’t hapC o n tin u e d o n p a g e 3

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CFS-Q dem onstration draws scant McGill support B y Jo n a t h a n C o l f o r d

Waving placards and chanting slogans such as 'Tax the corpora­ tions not our education’ 1,000 pro­ testers m arched throughout the streets of downtown Montreal last W ednesday in a dem o n stratio n organized by the Quebec compo­ nent of the Canadian Federation of Students and the Concordia Student Union.

The p ro te ste rs g ath ered at Concordia's downtown campus and marched for two hours, picking up fellow demonstrators from McGill, UQAM , and m em bers o f the M ouvem ent p our le D ro it a T E ducation. A p proxim ately 40 McGill students joined the rally.

During the march, a window of a police car was smashed and an offi­ cer beaten to prevent a student from being arrested.

Two hours after rallying at Concordia, a much-dwindled group of about 300 protesters made their way to Q uebec P rem ier Lucien Bouchard's Montreal office, located in the Hydro-Quebec building on

Programme; [to] reinvest the $1.9 Billion cut from education since 1994; a democratization of the gov­ erning bodies of educational institu­ tions with the following composi­ tion: 1/3 student representatives, 1/3 teachers, 1/3 school support staff; [to] eliminate all administration fees and surcharges; [to] abolish the CEGEP Failure tax; [to] cancel the Y outh Sum m it and all PR cam ­ paigns of the government's youth wing; better pay and working condi­ tions for teachers and support staff."

"The current governm ent is behaving in an irresponsible man­ ner, they're putting millions into office renovations, w hile class­ rooms are over capacity. I'd like to see Pauline M arois or Francois legault (sic) sitting on the floor in a class room like students," said CFSQ Chairperson Mistie Mullarkey in a press release issued by the CFS-Q. A ndrea H ugill, a third-year International Development Studies and Philosophy major at McGill, was mostly interested in maintain­ ing accessibility to higher educa­ tion.

"W e're interested in making sure that educa­ tion is accessi­ ble to e v e ry ­ one," she explained. "The m ove tow ard p r iv a tiz a tio n and increased tuition decreas­ es accessibili­ ty-" P o s t -

Fighting 'the man' the co rn er o f C lark and R eneL evesque. The leaders of the demonstration listed the CFS-Q and the MDE's demands to the govern­ ment while protesters banged on the windows of the building's lobby.

The p ro te st then broke up.

Many demonstrators burned their placards in a bonfire in front of the Hydro-Quebec building while oth­ ers taunted the police officers on the scene. Reports of officers being assaulted were made following the protest.

Protesters' dem ands The seven dem ands of the CFS-Q and the MDE are to "elimi­ nate student debt through reform of the L oans and B ursaries

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H a r u n u r Rashid noted that the number of applications to McGill declined 17 per cent in the past three years, and th at the p ro fe sso r p o p ulation declined 10 per cent in the past four years.

"This is a reflectio n o f the money that we don't have in the M cG ill budget," R ashid said.

"That's the loop, and that's why we're saying the money which will come in, the 1.9 billion dollars, you rem em ber [Tuesday] night Paul Martin said [Canada would have a] 96 billion surplus over the next five years. W e're asking for only two billion."

E stim ates o f the num ber of McGill students who turned out for the demonstration vary from 30 to

70 participants, a far cry from the 650 C oncordia stu dents who showed up. Recent graduate Andrea Schmidt recognized that M cGill student participation in these rallies has been low in the past.

"In my experience at McGill it's kind of distressing on some lev­ els but once you get used to the pretty low num bers... It's good [com pared to the usual M cG ill turnout for dem onstrations] but really pathetic when you think of how many people should care about these things," Schmidt said.

Both the PGSS and the S tudents' Society of M cG ill University refused to endorse the protest, but for different reasons.

SSMU is a member of the Canadian Alliance of Student Associations and not of the CFS and usually sup­ ports demands for reinvestment into education no matter which umbrella association makes them. SSMU VP C om m unity and G overnm ent Affairs Wojtek Baraniak, reached the day after the protest, criticized the organizers for letting it get out of hand.

"Now that we're speaking after the event, SSMU will never ever endorse a rally that turns violent," Baraniak explained. "We've always believed in peaceful protests when necessary.

"Education is growing as a pri­ ority for the country and for policy­ makers and I don't think that violent protest... helps us in our cause," he added.

The PGSS, unlike SSMU, is a member of the CFS. However, due to the late inclusion of the demand to cancel the Youth Summit, which PGSS had not had a chance to vote on, PGSS VP External Kate Meier also refused to officially endorse the protest.

"It was a procedural issue," she said. "The council had not had a chance to see the demand for the cancellation of the Youth summit and because they had not had offi­ cially a chance to discuss and vote on it PGSS could not officially sanction it."

"Grad students were encour­ aged to go, to represent themselves as students," she added.

At their monthly council meet­ ing held Wednesday night PGSS voted in favour of this last demand, which was to take the money that would have funded the Youth sum­ mit, in order to alleviate student poverty.

NETWORKbriefs SFU PIE-THROWER GETS SUSPENSION An ex-student at Simon Fraser University, suspended for throwing a pie at British Columbia Attorney General Ujjal Dosanjh in a lecture to criminology students, has appealed for a reduction in his sentence to the Senate Committee on Disciplinary Appeals.

Dave Saraceno argued that his punishment, three months suspen­ sion from SFU, was too severe for his crime. When asked during his hearing what his motives behind the pie-ing were, Saraceno answered: “1 wanted to protest, but I want­ ed it to be different. Students with placards are the oldest cliché there is.”

Saraceno did apologize for his pie-throwing escapades however, saying “1 wish that event could be taken right out of my life. I just wish I could eliminate it from my past.”

Saraceno’s remorse is probably also due to the fact that if he is sus­ pended, he may be forced to repay his student loans immediately. One disciplinary com m ittee member seemed to catch on, commenting “This seems like contextualized remorse. You seem sorry that you are being disciplined, not sorry that you actually did it.”

—with files from U-Wire, Simon Fraser University Peak S peech

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The Lieutenant Governor of Ontario opened the thirty-seventh Parliament of Ontario with a Throne Speech that articulated post-sec­ ondary funding priorities for the Tory government.

Included in their plans is the creation o f a $20 billion “Supergrowth” fund which will be spread evenly among education, health care and institutional infra­ structure, and “Aiming for the Top” scholarships intended for the top 10 000 Ontario students in need of financial assistance. The private sec­ tor is being challenged to match the government’s $35 million annual contribution to Aiming for the Top. The Throne also indicated that accessibility to post-secondary edu­ cation for “willing and qualified stu­ dents” remains a priority for the government.

—with files from the Waterloo Imprint

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An ad airing on Ottawa radio stations was pulled last week by Carleton president Richard Van Loon after complaints that it slighted the university’s history department.

Running since Oct. 11, the ad advertised Carleton University as a place where education is about tomorrow, not yesterday.”

Van Loon was contacted by D eborah G orham , chair of Carleton’s history department, about the message it sent about the study of history of Carleton. Though he pulled the ad, Van Loon does not feel new students will be deterred from the university because of the ad.

“If you parse the ad it could be seen that Carleton is devaluing his­ tory. But I doubt people listen to the ad that closely,” he said. “We’re try­ ing to get people to go to our web page.”

The C arleto n 's ad received front page coverage in the October 26 issue of the Ottawa Citizen, cov­ erage that incensed Van Loon. In response to quotes in the article which criticized Carleton for down­ playing history, Van Loon had this to say.

“It’s bullshit that Carleton is giving the finger to history. We’re trying to maintain it and improve it.”

—- with files from the Carleton Charlatan N O MORE INJECTIONS FOR D ia b e t ic s

A researcher at the University of Western Ontario believes he may have come up with a way for diabet­ ics to administer their drugs through the lungs rather than the stomach.

Should the technique work, diabet­ ics may soon be able to switch from painful injections to inhalers.

Jesse Zhu, a chemical and bio­ chemical engineering professor at Western, is the main developer of this new technique called pulminary drug delivery. According to Zhu, inhalers deliver the drug directly to the lungs, a more effective and effi­ cient than injections that administer drugs straight to the digestive sys­ tem.

Zhu’s research is expected to end in 16 months and inhalers for diabetics are expected to be on the market within the next few years.

—with files from the Western Gazette

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Adm issions law suit: Peggy Sheppard tells her side of the story in court

By Karen K elly

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McGill University is being sued by its former director of admissions, Peggy Sheppard, for $1.4 million in damages and a senior managerial position at the University in a trial which began Monday, November 1 at the Palais de Justice.

Sheppard is suing the University for what she feels was wrongful dis­ missal. Hired by McGill to work in the adm issions office in 1971, Sheppard became director of admis­ sions the next year. She held that position until 1986.

The trial, which was originally anticipated to take three weeks, cen­ tres around 1986, when an agreement was signed by both Sheppard and the University before she left her posi­ tion. She was told at that time that the director's position would be changing.

Vice-Principal Sam Freedman, to whom Sheppard reported directly during her last year, introduced a pro­ posal to Senate in 1986 that led to the establishm ent of a Dean of Admissions. Sheppard read Senate minutes from October 8 that year aloud during her testimony on the first day of trial. "[Freedman] stated that during the past summer there had been an outside consultants' review of the

Registrar's Office and the Admissions Office," Sheppard quoted to the court. "... and noted that the consultants report had recommended that a Dean of Admissions be appointed."

The new position was estab­ lished and according to Sheppard, who held a bachelor's degree in edu­ cation at the time, she was told that the Dean's position would require a doctorate. Sheppard took a year of leave to do her masters in education at McGill for that reason.

"McGill promised to give me an appropriate senior managerial posi­ tion when I returned," Sheppard stat­ ed to the court. "That has yet to hap­ pen."

Sheppard has exhausted what money she had on this case. She was representing herself at her trial because she could no longer afford a lawyer.

"M cGill has som ething like 6,000 em ployees [to call on]," Sheppard said to Judge Jean-Guy Dubois. "I have no alternative but myself."

Sheppard never returned to a senior position at McGill after she took leave. She claimed in her testi­ mony that her reputation was dam­ aged by the fact that she never actual­ ly had to leave her position in admis­ sions. She accused McGill of getting

Sheppard’s damage claims to go back as far as 1994 because she only first filed for wrongful dismissal in 1997.

Sheppard argued that she would have filed sooner, but she always trusted that the University would follow through on their prom ise. She claimed she thought she would even­ tually be given the position she was waiting for.

When Dubois did not bend, Sheppard asked for the recess, saying she would have to change her whole case now and she needed time to call witnesses and determine what she would present.

her to sign the agreement in 1986 under false pretenses. "[When I didn't come back] is when my reputation was first dam­ aged," Sheppard explained to the court. "I was known as a liar."

Sheppard began to describe the time period immediately preceding the agreement she signed in 1986.

She described pressure she felt to bend the rules in the admissions office.

"I felt a tremendous amount of pressure to admit people who were not qualified," Sheppard alleged, cit­ ing alumni, prominent people in soci­ ety and politics, wealthy parents and athletes as examples of those who allegedly pressured her to admit unqualified applicants. Sheppard’s case indicates that because she was unwilling to do so, she claimed that McGill wanted her out.

Judge Dubois would not let Sheppard discuss anything leading up to 1986, however, as he said he could not see how it would play any role in his decision concerning her wrongful dismissal.

Sheppard asked the court for a day of recess, in fact, after Dubois also placed restrictions on the timeframe she could use when presenting witnesses. Dubois would only allow

Wednesday's court hearing The hearing took a surprising turn on Wednesday morning when Sheppard asked Judge Jean-Guy Dubois to recuse himself from the case because of a possible conflict of interest on his part.

Sheppard announced that because Dubois had been a liberal MP between 1980 and 1984 and had therefore known a “very senior mem­ ber of Parliament” whose son had been adm itted to M cGill as an unqualified student, Dubois’ impar­

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Dubois declined to recuse him­ self on the grounds that the link would be tenuous for an event which occurred some 15 to 20 years ago.

Moreover, because Sheppard refused to give names, Dubois claimed not to know to whom she was referring.

“I ’ve been involved in politics and I know how political connections work,” Sheppard said. “[You might be biased] and I have no way of knowing that.”

Frank Clamph, co-founder of the group Equal Justice for All, was pleased about Sheppard’s presence in the courtroom.

“She took the high road. She didn’t blast McGill.” He later added, “To me, that’s the most courageous woman. It rem inded me of Tianenman Square. She’s standing up. She’s standing up as a person against the establishment.”

Sheppard will then proceed to the court of appeals with a motion to recuse Judge Dubois. Clamph later noted that if need be, they would be prepared to appeal the case and the recusation of the judge all the way up to the United Nations. The decision will be rendered in approximately two weeks at which time the trial will reconvene.

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esearch shows links between physical brain structure and intelligence B y A a r o n Iz e n b e r c

The next time you receive a bad mark on a midterm, try not to beat yourself up too much. There is a possibility that forces beyond your control are responsible for your intellectual shortcomings. Your brain may not have been built as others.

The field of neurology has helped to explain much about the mind of humans. A variety of recent neurological studies have shown very significant correlations between the physical structure of some areas of the brain, and intelligence.

Q ueen’s U n iv ersity , in K ingston, Ontario, has seen a lot of recent research in this area. Queen’s has access to a very unique neurological research facility, the Brain Bank. The Brain Bank is a collection of pre­ served human brains, with complementary intelligence tests that were written by the brain-owners before death. Using the bank, researchers are able to look into possible cor­ relations between brain structure and success on tests.

“We have over 100 cases available to us,” explained Sandra Witelson, professor of neuro-psychology at Queen’s. “It’s a very unique tool that aids us quite a bit in looking for correlations between anatomy and psy­ chological ability. A lot of the work in my lab focuses not just on location of brain struc­ tures, but also on the nature of brain struc­ tures, and their link to intelligence.”

One recent study that W itelson was involved in has suggested a relationship between cell density in the prefrontal cortex and intelligence; the more tightly packed the

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cells are in this area, the more intelligent the person may be. The cases of five men and four women were used for this research, which involved comparing scores on intelli­ gence tests to neuron counts in the subject’s prefrontal cortex.

Another recent study that was performed at Queen’s showed uniqueness in the brain of Albert Einstein, which may help explain his outstanding intellectual abilities.

“The Sylvian fissure tends to interrupt the parietal lobe in the human brain, the area responsible for logic and m athem atics,” explained Witelson. “This is not the case with the Einstein brain. This allowed for a unique kind of connectivity.”

The unusual placement of this fissure may have allowed for a connection between cortical areas that are responsible for math­ ematics and those responsible for visual spa­ tial conceptions. It is possible that this would have fostered more efficient communication between these two areas.

There has also been a significant amount of important research taking place at the Montreal Neurological Institute’, often hailed as one of the foremost neurological research centers. Common research techniques used at the MNI include the study of patients with frontal lobe excisions, and the use of positron emission topography; a technique that uses rays of positrons to point out areas of high activity in the brain.

Dr. M ichael P etrides, head of the Cognitive Neuroscience Group at the MNI, has done some recent research that has shown links between memory and a specific struc­ ture in the frontal cortex.

“There is a specific part of the frontal cortex, the mid-dorsal-lateral, which has been found to be important for keeping track of inform ation in short-term m em ory,” explained Petrides. “This area provides you with ways to monitor what you have done and what still needs to be done.”

Petrides explained that this particular area provides representations for tasks that one plans to complete. As a person performs these tasks, these representations are marked.

This provides the brain with a way to keep track of tasks performed, and tasks yet to be performed. The variance from person to per­ son of the structure of this part of the brain may also explain a variance in people’s mem­ ory abilities.

The common thread through these dif­ ferent studies is that they all point to ideal brain structures with respect to psychological abilities. A possible eventuality of these find­ ings could be the manipulation of cortical structures, through the use of genetic engi­ neering. This subject is a source of significant controversy, and could create obstacles for future applications of some neurological research.

Whether or not you choose to believe that your mental capacity is a result of the structure of your brain, the prospect is at the very least intriguing. The next time some­ body tells you that you were in the bathroom when God was giving out brains, you may have more reason to consider the truth in this statement.

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He does think that the council is now mov­ ing in the right direction.

"I think the SSMU took the right decision to go immediately to the Judicial Board ... You can not allow such an important issue to be left stand­ ing," he said.

Although it is apparent that the potential invalidity of the constitution is a serious problem, no one is sure what the exact repercussions would be. It may be that SSMU has been operat­ ing without a constitution since last May. "I suspect the old constitution remains in effect, but that’s a decision for the J-Board," Flicker said.

Either option would raise issues. The validi­ ty of this organization, which controls over $2.4 million, is in question. A paradoxical situation exists if the old constitution has been in effect for the last six months because SSMU has operated based on the rules of the new document. For example, several of the executive positions that students now hold, such as VP Clubs and Services and VP Operations, did not exist under the old constitution.

For now the SSMU council continues its regular business including making plans for the referendum. SSMU president Andrew Tischler hoped the J-Board would rule in SSMU’s favour, although he did not seem certain about this out­ come.

“It’s unfortunate, I don’t know if it’s going to hold water,” a disconsolate Tischler said. “I don’t think it will, but it will be a real pity is this is an error. The only people who will really suffer will be the first year students.”

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Chapters under scrutiny Federal Competition Bureau looking in to Chapters' wholesale practices

N EW S b riefs SSMU ENDS ASSOCIATION WITH U n iv e r s a l E d u c a t io n S o c ie t y

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T he F e d e ra l C o m p e titio n Bureau is investigating a claim that Pegasus Ltd., the wholesale division of Chapters, is demanding a 50 per cent discount from pub­ lishers, 5 per cent more than the accepted rate. This could mean an increase on the retail price of hard­ covers by up to $10 a book.

The wholesale industry acts as a middleman between the publish e r and the re ta ile r, b u y in g

Book prices under scrutiny

directly from the pub lish er and selling to various bookstores. The new P eg asu s b ra n c h allo w s C hapters to serve as th eir own wholesaler, and in order to maxi­ mize profits, they are requesting a discount which could result in an increase of millions of dollars over time.

T his extra discount, if it is o b tain ed , w ould put both co n ­ sumers and booksellers not related to Chapters at a great disadvan­ tage, w hile C hapters could sell their books at the same price and make a larger profit.

Scott Anderson is the. editor of Q uilt and Q uire, a m agazine that focuses on the Canadian book industry.

"If Chapters is able to get this extra discount, the pub lish er is going to w ant to [co n tin u e to] make their money, and will raise the price of their books...to recoup that.”

Com petition Bureau steps in In response to this proposed action by Chapters, the Canadian

Booksellers Association has filed a c o m p la in t w ith the F ed eral C o m petition B ureau. T he CBA represents independent booksellers in C anada, the in d u stry w hose business is most threatened by the ever wider growing dominance of Chapters.

Richard Taylor, a representa­ tive from the FCB, commented on the nature of the complaint.

"W e're looking at [the com­ p la in t] u n d e r th e A b u se o f Dominance Provision to determine

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i f th e y h av e w hat is c a lle d a monopoly, and could they use it, if they have it, to raise prices to the public. We are looking at that and we expect to conclude that exami­ nation shortly."

T aylor was not at liberty to comment further, as the investiga­ tion is confidential. He did state, how ever, that the results o f the prelim inary exam ination, which are expected in December, will be announced to the public.

According to the FCB's legis­ la tio n c h a rte r, th e A buse o f Dominant Position Act focuses on th re e m ain item s: w h eth er the co m p a n y 's a c tio n s can cause prices to rise, w hether it could restrict competition, and if it could r e s tric t o v e ra ll se le c tio n .

According to Anderson, the FCB has a strong case against the first two points, but it may by difficult to prove the third, on the basis that th e se le c tio n w ill re m a in and increase despite the cost.

"I think [the bureau] certainly has the power to stop this. It's a pretty significant step when the CFB steps in."

The U niversal Education Society’s club status was revoked last Tuesday for having violated agreem ents with McGill and the Students' Society of M cGill University.

According to SSMU VP Clubs and Services Samantha Gross, the UES misrepresented their relation­ ship with McGill by naming them­ selves “The Education Society of McGill University” and further vio­ lated their agreem ent with the Student Society by collecting higherthan-agreed-upon dues from its members and by deviating from their mandate. The SSMU has terminated this group’s association with the Society, their operations on the University campus, and has insisted on a full refund of any fees collected by this group.

"They falsely advertised their affiliation with McGill University in the Mirror and on posters throughout Montreal,” Gross said. "[The UES was] collecting dues much higher than were originally agreed upon and not acting towards the realiza­ tion of their mandate.”

As o f yet, the UES has not acknowledged the termination of their club status. Gross however plans to escort them out at their next meeting in the Shatner Cafeteria.

“I’m sitting on the edge of my seat to see what happens next," she said. "I don’t expect a confrontation, though.”

— Carolyn Kessel

R e m e m b r a n c e D ay CEREMONIES AT M c G lL L

This Thursday M cGill will observe Remembrance Day with a ceremony commencing at 10:50 in front of the Roddick Gates. The cer­ emony is a jo in t project by the Students' Society o f McGill University, the Arts Undergraduate S ociety, and the M usic U ndergraduate Students' Association.

Other faculties have been asked to donate floral wreaths.

“It’s a great thing for society to do,” says SSMU president Andrew T ischler, who encourages all to attend.

W ojtek B araniak, VP Community and Government Affairs added, “McGill has a very proud military history; John McCrae, the Molson family, the names in the Arts building say it all where so many McGill students gave their lives in the First World War so 1 think it important that we do take the time out and that we do remember

lest we forget.”

Baraniak also looks forward to the inclusive nature of the ceremony.

“For the first time this year this is a joint partnership between the AUS and the Music Undergraduate Students’ Association,” Baraniak said. “[It is] an effort to make this a more traditional event that all stu­ dent associations and all students can take part in.”

Baraniak is also sure “this event will be the best ever.” SSMU Music Representative Sage Firman agrees.

This year. Firman and the MUSA have acted as a mediator between the organizers and musicians.

“We’ve been a go-between in order to help hire affordable musi­ cians,” Firman said. “Usually this is something [in] which music plays a great part but we [music faculty] have never been much of a presence.

This year I’m helping Wojtek to organize it and it seems to make sense because 1 have connections with musicians."

The m usical program will include a flute and clarinet piece by Aaron Copeland. Firman had com­ posed an original piece for the event but the vocalist took sick with no possibility of a replacement.

— Emily Jean Carroll

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The Arts Undergraduate Society raised $800 for Centraide in its third annual Charity Fair held last week in the Leacock building.

The two-day fair raised money for Centraide. an umbrella organiza­ tion which distributes funds to chari­ ties too small to raise money for themselves.

Some of the events included tarot card reading, palm reading, piethc-p ro f and cotton candy sales which added to the money raised by AUS's "Loonie Line” earlier in the year.

The event was begun by Jeff Feiner and continues to do well.

Jeremy Farrell, VP External of AUS, was pleased with the $800 raised during the fair in addition to the $680 made from the Loonie Line.

“Participation has been excel­ lent both from the department's end who have helped put the events on and the people wlio’ve been very generous, Farrell said. "As a matter of fact, McGill people are very, very generous. The problem is more of getting McGill people involved, because once th e y 're involved, they'll give money. That’s why this

event has been so successful, every­ one’s been willing to get involved.

C o u n c il r e f u s e s LETTER TO BRITAIN

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A motion to send a letter to the British government regarding the trial of Chilean ex-dictator Augusto Pinochet presented failed to pass at last Thursday’s Students’ Society of McGill University council meeting.

The letter had originally been presented to council at the previous meeting, where councilors voted to table the motion and send it to com­ mittee for further discussion.

C ouncilors were m ostly opposed to sending the letter for three reasons. Some felt that it was intervening in the internal affairs of the British government, beyond the mandate of the SSMU, others that it would involve a lot more work on council’s part and that it could be divisive amongst students.

“There is a lot of work involved and this could bog council down,” said SSMU VP Com m unity and G overnm ent A ffairs W ojtek Baraniak. “My personal feeling is that this letter is a good thing... but we could be focusing on other issues... 1 can’t stand up and say that, w holeheartedly, I do not believe that this is a divisive issue.

If not all of us can agree, than it’s divisive,” he said.

C lubs rep resen tativ e Clare Jennings, who presented the letter, disagreed with the majority of coun­ cilors. who voted against sending the letter in council Thursday. “ [I d o n ’t agree that] this is something that is beyond our man­ date and will be ineffective so why bother,” she said. “I think that [if that is council’s position] then we would never have an impact on the international human rights scene. I think that one letter from one person makes a difference, that’s the entire mandate of Amnesty International...

I don’t think that we would be inef­ fective.”

“If we make it known that we are watching the situation in the same way the international commu­ nity lets other countries know that they are watching what’s going on, that is what helps stop human rights violations,” Jennings said.

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T he M c G ill T r ib u n e , T u e s d a y , 9 N o v e m b e r 19 99

EDITORIAL “Ideals are thoughts. So long as they exist merely as thoughts, the power in them remains ineffective.”

— A lbert Schweitzer

R e m e m b e rin g w ith p rid e o u r fo rg o tte n v e te ra n s

T his R em em brance D ay, 1 w ill rem em b er tw o C an ad ian s w ho gave ev e ry th in g fo r th e ir country; Fidele Joseph Bastarache and Je rry S q u ire s. F id e le and Jerry are REA L h eroes, unlike B y K a r e n K elly a n d N il im a G u l r a ja n i R am bo (w h o , in c id e n ta lly , thought himself “too good” for the " M c G ill ad m its sla c k e rs" and " M c G ill ad m issio n s sca n d a l" are m ilitary in real life). Fidele and ju st a han d ful o f the h e a d lin e s p lastered in student press acro ss the Je rry m ake m e p ro u d to be co u n try o f late .

Canadian.

In a tria l th at began last w e e k , Peggy Sh ep p ard , fo rm er d ire cto r F id e le is one o f 3 0 ,0 0 0 o f a d m issio n s at M c G ill, a lle g e d th at th ere w as p ressu re on h er 40,000 Canadians who served in o ffice from u n ive rsity a d m in istra tio n to ad m it a c a d e m ic a lly u n q u a l­ the US m ilitary in V ietnam (of ifie d stu d e n ts. Sh ep p ard w ill n e ve r be ab le to go into an y d e ta il whom 110 never returned). He abo ut her c la im s, h o w e ve r, b ecau se o f re strictio n s im posed by the was only sixteen when his family jud ge in h er w ro n g ful d ism issa l su it. moved from Saint Antoine, New A lth ou g h th is u n so licite d p u b lic ity is not the kin d that M c G ill B ru n sw ic k to G a rd n e r, a d m in istra to rs lo v e to fla u n t, th e ir s ile n c e is u n n e rv in g , a lm o st M assach u setts. L ess than four in c rim in a tin g . W ith o u t an y o ffic ia l u n iv e rsity p o sitio n , tho se w ith years later, he received his draft co n n e ctio n s to M c G ill are left em b arrassed by h avin g th e ir sch o o l's notice. Since Fidele was still a Canadian citizen, he could have nam e dragged in the m ud, M c G ill's riv a ls are left g lo atin g abo ut its legally followed the crowd North, trag ic fa ll, and those in the b roader co m m u n ity are left w o n d erin g gotten him self a pee haich dee, w h e th er o r not the alle g atio n s are tru e . and b eco m e a dean o r re c to r.

A d m is s io n s d e c is io n s a re n o t as b la c k an d w h ite as so m e In ste a d , he re p o rte d fo r b asic w o u ld lik e them to be, nor can th ey e ve r be as c le a r-c u t. A t w h at training. He was assigned to the p o int e x tra c u rric u la r ach ie ve m e n t co m p ensates fo r ste lla r m arks is a 1/ 6th In fa n try , 198th L ig h t co m p le xity w ith w h ic h ad m issio n co m m ittees e ve ryw h e re g rap p le.

Infantry Brigade, 23rd D ivision A t issue in the Sheppard la w su it, h o w e ve r, is not w h e th er M c G ill (the “Americal”), based out of Da adm itted a p p lica n ts w h o w e re teeterin g on the ad m issio n s th resh ­ Nang in South Vietnam. He was a o ld . H er a lle g atio n is m uch m ore sta rtlin g ; that M c G ill co u ld eve r big h it w ith fellow m ortarm an th in k o f acce p tin g rich o r a th le tic students w ith c a te g o rica lly sub­ W illiam “M ac” McMurtray from stand ard grades is d ista ste fu l fo r an yo n e w h o b e lie v e s th at m erit Texas. M ac says Fidele w as “a sho u ld be the u ltim ate standard fo r ad m issio n to a u n iv e rsity . very classy guy” for “helping to G ra n te d , an ath lete w h o spends the m ajo rity o f h is or h er free tim e on the fie ld , on the ice o r in the pool o b vio u sly devotes sig n ifi- | fight this unpopular w ar,” when “he did not have to be th e re .” c a n tly less (few er) hours to stu d yin g or e x tra c u rric u la rs . S in ce th is n o n -acad em ic co m m itm ent is b en efitin g the ath le te 's sch o o l, som e j F id e le w as k ille d on 27, M ay 1968, less than a month before the argue th at ad m issio n s co m m ittees sho u ld be m ore le n ie n t in ju d g ­ end of his 365 day tour. ing th e ir m arks, or even put ath letes in a d iffe re n t ad m issio n s ca te ­ M ac, by the way, is one of gory co m p le te ly. T h is co u ld n ever be c a lle d a fa ir p ro ce ss. T a k e the the bravest people on this planet. e xa m p le o f a stu d ent w h o m ay h ave d evoted h o u rs o f th e ir free I t ’s n o t ju s t th a t he w on the tim e to co m m u n ity s e rv ic e rath e r th an a th le tic s . If th at stu d e n t's |

Bronze Star for jumping from his safe foxhole to give first aid to w ounded soldiers tw enty yards away (with the enemy dropping extrem ely lethal ordnance every

there.

O ttaw a w ants you to forget because Ottawa wants a clear con­ science. O ttaw a does not w ant F id e le , or the seven C an ad ian unrepatriated P O W ’s from V ietn am , to g et in Chair Shots the way of business Jo e Fernandez dealings with Hanoi.

O tta w a d o es not want to think about Jerry w hile “in h al­ INCH of those twenty yards). It’s in g ” the la te s t fo re ig n p o lic y also that Mac re-lived very painful craze. What Ottawa will do to fur­ m em ories he spent nearly three th e r th is en d is frig h te n in g . decades trying to forget, ju st so O tta w a to ld th e p u b lic th a t that Fidele’s sister would know ...

Vandoos Corporal Daniel Gunther Jerry Squires of Millertown, was killed in Bosnia on 18, June N e w fo u n d la n d w as k ille d on 1993 by a random, indiscriminate A u g u st 25, 1999. H e w as a mortar round, when he was really sergeant w ith the 1st Battalion, k ille d by a d e lib e ra te ly aim ed Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light RPG. If that w asn’t bad enough, In fa n try a tta c h e d to K FO R in O ttaw a w ouldn’t have said jack K osovo. Jerry left b eh in d tw o about Gulf W ar Syndrome and the daughters aged eight and four. He p o iso n in g o f o u r p e o p le in is the only C anadian know n to C ro a tia , had it n o t been fo r h av e d ied as a re s u lt o f L ieutenant L ouise R ichard and M ad elein e’s W ar. As sick as it Warrant Officer Matt Stopford. sounds, maybe we should consid­ Now, I did not write this col­ er ourselves lucky here. At least umn to trash Ottawa, or to make seven Americans died because of anyone feel guilty for “eating and the A lb rig h t/B erg er/C o h en tr i­ d rin k in g w h ile to m o rro w they umvirate’s mess. die.” I wrote this to remind you of O ttaw a w ants you to forget F id e le , Jerry and all the o th er Fidele and Jerry. That’s why the Canadians who served and never CBC and History Television focus re tu rn e d . It say s m uch a b o u t on WWII this week. I respect our Canada that we still have people W W II veteran s, esp ecially our who will give all in order to make prisoners of war who were “liber­ right w hat the corporations, the a te d ” by the S o v iets, but w ho politicians and the generals made never returned. The pain and the wrong. d y in g , h o w e v e r, d id n o t stop

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m arks su ffer as a resu lt o f th e ir d evo tio n to se rvin g o th ers, w o u ld a u n iv e rs ity be p rep ared to c o n sid e r h is o r her m arks in the sam e lig h t as the ath le te's?

If Sh ep p ard 's alle g atio n s are tru e , it m eans M c G ill m ay be tak- j ing a step to w ard s e m u latin g the p o lic ie s o f m any o f its co u n te r­ parts in the So uth. In the U nited States, there h ave been alle g atio n s Just a thought, but if Jerome o f p rofesso rs u nder p ressu re to in fla te grades fo r student ath le te s.

E ith e r w a y , a reaso n ab le person w o u ld p ro b ab ly agree that profes- | and Jerem y Farrell w ere Asian, would Dave Bledin refer to them sors are under the gun to pass ath letes so that th ey can represent as "two colossal Mongolian horde the sch o o l on the fie ld . If M c G ill students b e lie ve d th at th e ir ow n members" instead of "two gargan­ professors w e re su b je ct to sim ila r p ressu res, w o u ld th ey p lace the tuan Zulu warlords?" sam e v a lu e on th e ir degrees?

How about if they w ere G ra n te d , in these tim es o f fin a n c ia l c u tb a c k s, p o st-seco n d ary S can d in av ian : "tw o g ig an tic in stitu tio n s are often left to th e ir o w n cre a tiv e d e v ice s to fill h oles in th e ir budgets. It's a fa ct o f life th at c o lle g e sports team s, e s p e c ia lly j Viking marauders?"

Or C entral A m erican: "two w in n in g o n e s, bring reco g n itio n and m oney to th e ir sch o o ls. R ich e r Brobdingnagian Aztec warriors?" students req u irin g less fin a n c ia l assista n ce can also be exp ected to Now, I'm not out to accuse do nate g reater am ounts to th e ir alm a m ater. Y e t, th is fin a n c ia l and re p u ta tio n a l w in d fa ll c a n n o t ju s tify th e ab a n d o n m e n t o f m e rit- J anyone of racism or anything, but based ad m issio n s c rite ria , a p o lic y w h ic h ensu res co n siste n cy and j it really makes you think. fairn e ss in the u n ive rsity ad m issio n s p ro ce ss.

Thanks for your coverage of me and my book. M inor points aside, 1 have a bit of a problem with the misquote claiming that I depicted the study of philosophy as "studying the arcane and igno­ ble." W hat I actu ally said was " s tu d y in g th e a rc a n e and unknowable."

The point may seem a minor o n e, b u t as the d a u g h te r o f a w orking-class family, I strongly o b je c t to th e te rm "ig n o b le " (meaning, roughly, of low class, as though that were a bad thing) for its class bias, just as I object

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T h e initial p u b lic offering o f m e copy of Hustler.

Now, recently, it seems some­ thing weird has been going on in the hazy-crazy world of the stock m arket, because o f these IPOs. A pparently, som e in ternet-type com panies decided they should IPO since they wanted to expand their businesses. Amazon.com, the online bookseller, put its stock out, and it went up about a ten thou­ sand percent in its first 30 seconds o f tra d in g or so m e ­ th in g like the S a m b u ca that.

OK e v e ry b o d y ...g e t y our m oney out. Based on w hat I ’ve been reading, as well as current events in my life, I think I’m ready to Go Public. Yes, that’s right, I think it’s about time for an initial public offering of, well, me.

See, as you read this, I am recovering from a major event in my life. I decided (actually, it wasn’t up to me at all, but phras­ ing it this way gives me a pleasant

Burning

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illusion of control) that I ’d had about enough of teenagerdom, so I walked myself down to the recruit­ ing office (err...b ar) and signed m yself up for tw entysom ethingness.

I don’t know about you— my friends and I seem to be evenly split— but I’m finding this experi­ ence to be not altogether pleasant.

It’s not the event itself, obvious­ ly— I don’t have any tadpole tail that needs to fall off before I can becom e a fro g — i t ’s m ore the peripherals that irk me. I quite liked being a teenager, with all the associated lack of responsibility, and I don’t really know for sure how I’m going to be able to deal with adulthood, even if it is just young adulthood.

N ow , I ’m no m a n ag em en t student, but as I understand things, when a company is moving into a m ajor new p ro ject and decides they need some more money, they decide to do an IPO — an initial p u b lic o ffe rin g . 1 sta rte d to research this on the in tern et to check this info rm atio n out, but that fell apart for two reasons: i) I ’m a colum nist, not a reporter, facts play no part in what I write; ii) trying to find anything of actual worth on the internet is like trying to find som ething in M cLennan lib rary , ex cep t th e books have been shelved by an illiterate child, and between every two books is a

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Next, 1 tell you that I’m plan­ M c G il l a d m is s io n s s h o u l d b e ning an IPO . I th in k I ’ll start Former McGill administrator small— shall we say about a mil­ Peggy Sheppard's claims that she lion shares on Nasdaq? I worked at had to ad m it a p p lic a n ts, even a computer company last summer, though they did not meet McGill's so the eager-beaver technology investors seem to be the best can­ requirements, because their parents didates for an easy buck. had been generous donors to the Now, here’s the best part. I university, deserve more attention o ffe r you a chan ce to buy my than one might think. Indeed, if her stock at a ridiculously low price. I claims are true, then it will only be suspect that if I had some analysts the evidence of a phenomenon that look into my future earning poten­ almost everyone has been suspect­ tial or whatever, and they’d proba- j ing of taking place at McGill. bly put me at about $2.12 a share. | H ow ever, the focus o f this B ased on my c a lc u la tio n s, the j sh o u ld not be e n tire ly on big stock should probably be som e­ donors' children. Recently, McGill where in the range of $75 by about openly declared that it was trying 10:00 in the morning on the first to attract more international stu­ day. You can’t lose. dents, and to increase their per­ Just send me an em ail with [ centage at McGill. There are only how many shares you want, and two ways to acheive this goal: first, your credit card information, and to increase the publicity in other I’ll set it up. countries. Second, to tamper with H elp me m ake me a b etter the application procedure. I don't Chris Essert. th in k I need to te ll you why hesser@po-box.mcgill. ca M cG ill is so e a g e r to a ttra c t international students.

T hen say th is: If th e re is indeed something wrong with the a p p lic a tio n p ro c e d u re (and I

co m p an ies f o l lo w e d su it Y a h o o , RedHat and others, and now any­ th in g w ith a d o t-c o m a fte r its name at least dodecatuples in price on its first day.

Not to be left behind by ‘this crazy internet th in g ’, the savvy entrepreneurs at the WWF decided that they should IPO, too. I mean, th e y ’re cool - th e y ’ve got that DeGeneration X thing or whatev­ er, so they thought they’d fit right in. And, wonder of wonders, they were right - their stock shot up like an ad d ict after b reaking out of rehab.

So now, somehow, even peo­ ple are IPOing. Example: the mis­ tress of, well, let’s face it, every­ thing. Martha Stewart IPOed what amounts basically to herself and in the p ro cess m ade a ton (m ore) money. Seems odd to me, I mean sh e ’s ju s t a hom em aker, but to paraphrase PT B arnum , nobody ever went broke underestimating the s tu p id ity o f A m erican investors.

N ow , ca ll m e a sh am eless opportunist if you will, but I cer­ tainly don’t want to be left out of this veritable orgy of ridiculous overvaluation of basically worth­ less things. I think it’s high time for me to IPO me.

So, I don’t know if you know how this stuff works, but here’s the impression that I get. I tell you about my new project (my twen­ ties— done and done).

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believe there is), and if M cGill continues to lobby the government for more funds while this "prefer­ ential treatment" takes place, the government should first require an independent and thorough investi­ gation into M cG ill's application procedure. If indeed students from Canada (I mean average students, not students whose parents write a five or six-figure cheque payable to McGill), and, more importantly, students from outside Quebec, are discrim inated against when they apply here because the University favours rich kids and international students, then I don't see why the g o v e rn m e n t sh o u ld g iv e any am o u n t o f m oney to th is University. After all, government funding is supposed to help stu­ dents who don't have any money, not those who have.

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I am writing with regards to the Tribune’s article “Referendum money never collected by McGill.”

A fter the 1998 referendum , the Faculty of M anagem ent and the MUS did in fact communicate the results to the Dean o f Students.

U nfortunately, contributions for the 1998-99 school year had not been collected. Through student initiative and the assistance of the Faculty of Management, we raised $70,000 to make up for the loss in non-collected fees. A dditional funding was sought out from out­ side third party donors. With the raised funds, 40 existing machines were upgraded and the Sandiford facilities were expanded with the addition of 33 new computers and

not the o p p o site as had been reported.

I find it ironic how all three student associations succeeded in not reporting their results for the sam e type of referendum . It is unfortunate that during tim es of such continuous reductions in gov­ ernm ent funding, the University fails to have measures in place to su p p o rt and a ssist stu d en ts in assuring such initiative. Not only w ould th is h elp to co n tin u e im proving the learning environ­ m ent at M cG ill, but avoid such costly mistakes.

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A s ab o ve, so b elo w Numbers and figures in astrology: • the traditional viewpoint of astrology is that each number is a symbol • numbers were not invented for counting but were discovered as an e x p re ssio n o f th e ir own intrinsic archetypal value • Pythagoras believed that the mechanics of numbers arose from the cosmic music of the spheres planetary harmony • Plato believed that God used the four elements to create a per­ fect world and that the universe was a sphere made up of these ele­ ments within each other, making the world a scheme

H oroscope for Nov 8 - Nov 21 Aries (March 20-April 19) Partnership plans are on th.“ agenda; news received about pub­ lishing, legal or educational matters.

Try to realize your goals, use diplo­ macy; travel plans? Job related research; finances need planning.

Taurus (April 20 - May 20) Long distance calls are fre­ quent. Conflict over money might push you to greater income possi­ bilities. G reater responsibility at work. Chance to proceed in areas previously marked failure.

Gemini (May 21 - June 20) S ecret dates. You m ay be engulfed by your love life. Stay away from crowds on the 9-11th.

Keep some balance and watch your health! Show imitative to get busi­ ness. Remember: friendship and business don’t mix. Pleasant sur­ prise offer.

Cancer (June 21 - July 22) Money could be held up. Enjoy love, attraction to someone else is connected with the occult if he-she is unattached. Health is ok, watch m uscles. Chance at work, team ­ work. Scrutinize financial propos­ als.

Leo (July 23 - August 22) 12-14th: watch your diet. You are easily fooled in money matters and contracts; commit yourself well after the 24th. 19th - avoid rash talk, keep a low profile!

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Libra (Sep 23 - Oct 22) Circumstances move in your favour. You are b eau tifu l.

Communication is not clear. Have a good talk with your significant other 15-18th to exchange expecta­ tions. 21-22nd - family money mat­ ters.

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Scorpio (Oct 23 - Nov 21) This month is fulfilling your w ishes. An intim ate connection intensifies. Happiness surrounds you. Social schedule is hectic. Good for research.

Sagittarius (Nov 22 - Dec 1) A new start. Get your finances stream lined. Free yourself, you have to see people and travel. 14th - don’t strain yourself physically or mentally! Beware of intrigues, trou­ blemakers.

Capricorn (Dec 2 - Jan 9) Harmonious time with partner and family. 13th; push for success.

Watch your health from 15-17th.

Remove reasons for depression. Get out into the world.

Aquarius (Jan 10 - February 17) Many new doors open to you this month. 10-14th: uncertainty about a relationship; the sudden revelation arrives the 15th. 16-20th: share goals with one special person.

21st - argument about money mat­ ters.

Pisces (February 18 - March 19) Action in places on long dis­ tance effect you. Watch politics and the economy. Iron out money mat­ ters. 16-20th: ex citin g new encounter! C o nsider additional electronic studies.

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Check this space in two weeks time fo r your next reading.

D ear S&M Dear S&M, I will be attending an event in the State where my friend is attend­ ing graduate school. We have kept in touch up until last year. I usual­ ly send her e-mail greeting cards or e-mail on special occasions (i.e. b irth d a y, C hristm as, etc.).

H ow ever, this y e a r w henever 1 send her an e-mail, she never sends back a reply. I also tried to ask her if she is still interested in keeping in touch... no response came from her. My question: Should I call her when / am in town or just stop keeping in touch with her?

Signed, Confused Dear Confused, Ah, so you’re friend lives in A m erica, eh? Hmmm. Okay, so now everyone who is reading this is expecting an American-bashing joke, but we have decieved you... we at S&M kind of like Americans.

Our neighbours down south have protected our asses on more than one occasion and for that we give props. But we digress, let’s move on to the heart of the matter.

First and foremost, is it possi­ ble that your friend’s email is not w orking right now? U nlike, the most superior and technologically advanced system of McGill email,

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U ndergarm ent w atch I t’s Tuesday. Do you know where your underwear is?

• An Elmville, Ontario teen is mor­ tified after police discovered over 100 pieces of women’s underwear in his house. Police were investi­ gating the theft of only four pieces of underwear when they made the d isco v ery . “As humorous as this could be p o r­ tray ed , we still have a crime. We still have stolen property outstand­ ing,” said Constable mark Kinney of the Ontario Provincial Police.

P olice are actively seeking the ow ners. The 16-year-old boy is charged with trespassing and theft.

Y2Bra? • W ant to make New Year’s Eve 2000 even more special? For only

CDN $2.85 million, you could be sporting a new diam ond-studded M illen n iu m B ra.

T rium ph International Limited’s design fea­ tures 24-carat diamond studs, hand woven with gold thread in bobbin lace and topped with a single 15ca ra t diam ond in the cen tre.

Weighing in at about eight times the weight of a regular cotton bra, its design is an effort to “bring the timeless beauty of ancient Egypt to the daw n o f the new age.” The design has been Y2K compliant for decades.

Sources: dailynews.yahoo.com

Foreign new sw atch Punch me. Please!

• For US $10 you can buy three minutes to punch Jun Sato on the streets of Tokyo. A human punch­ ing bag, Sato dresses up in protec­ tive equipment and earns his living

other universities may have prob­ lems and hence your friend may not be receiving email or be able to write to you.

H ow ever, if you have tried other methods, then the problem may be personal, rather than tech­ nical. For w hatever reason your friend is missing in action or per­ haps a little “tied u p ” . W hile bondage is always a good excuse for failing to attend to other aspects o f life, yo u r frie n d ’s lack of response is definately dishearten­ ing.

You could call her while you are in the States but there are a couple of things to keep in mind. If you do call her, there is a possibili­ ty that she won’t want to see you which could put a serious damper on your trip. And, even if you do see her, that in no way means that she will keep in touch after you’ve returned. (She probably won’t). So, if you are willing to hang out with your friend with the know ledge that the trip may be the last time you hear from her, then do it and enjoy her company without expect­ ing anything in return.

If you can’t already tell, we, the smartie-pants of S&M, feel that the best option is to enjoy your trip without contacting your lost pal.

You have previously addressed the

problem by asking her whether or not she still wanted to talk and she did not reply.

W hich m eans: a) you have done the best that can be expected from a friend to work things out and b) she is not being a friend to you. So, really the only thing you can do is let go. If you are a priori­ ty in her life (as you deserve to be) she will contact you eventually and try to work things out.

We at S&M would like to take a minute to applaud you, Confused, for trying to address the problem and make your relationship work.

You are a rare breed and if there were more friends like you, prob­ lems like these could be easily avoided. Straightforward and hon­ est...we like it.

while overcoming his fear of being hit — a fear developed as a result of being ised during high school.

“I enjoy being used as a punching bag. I t’s good business and also another way to experience life. I want to continue as long as my body holds u p ,” he to ld the M ainichi D aily News. You can also buy one minute for US $9 and Sato charges women only 50 per cent of his regular price.

Source: Mainichi Daily News

completed divorce proceedings ran into trouble recently when they could not agree on how to divide up their Beanie Baby collection.

Frances and Harold Mountain were to have split their collection even­ ly, but the two could not agree on which Beanie Babies w ould go to w hich person. When Harold M ountain filed suit to get his share of the ap p ro x im a te ly US $3,750 collection, a no doubt somewhat annoyed judge ordered them to split it up on the floor o f the courtroom. “Because you folks can’t solve it, it takes the services of a... judge, a bailiff and a court reporter,” said Judge Gerald H ard castle o f F am ily C ourt.

Frances Mountain objected, argu­ ing that “It’s ridiculous and embar­ ra s s in g .” A cco rd in g to F ringe News, Maple the Bear was the first bear decided upon.

Source: w w w .cn n .co m ’s Fringe News

Just not funny • Ai-Thawra, Iraq’s official govern­ ment newspaper reported to readers on April 1 that government rations had been ex p an d ed to in clude ch o c o la te , a case o f P epsi and bananas. A couple of pages later the newspaper explained that the story was in fact merely an April F ools’ day joke and that rations had not in fact been expanded.

Source: Agence France Presse

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You're not a d irty girl for having a little fun From o ils to o rg a sm s: w o m e n ta k in g se x u a l p le a s u re in to th e ir o w n h a n d s B y S t e p h a n ie L evitz

“ Sex s e lls ,” says D eena Altman, a U3 student in history and women’s studies. “But it is always sold to men. We are coming into an age where women are becom ing sex consum ers.” And A ltm an is their salesperson.

D eena w orks fo r D e lic a te In d u lg en ces, a M o n treal b ased company that trains women to sell sex. Not in the way you’re thinking though. Deena sells sex toys and other erotic goodies to groups of women in their own homes — most of the time, no men allowed. While she does have a catalog of items for

job. “ I ’m d e m y stify in g the sex industry and sex toys in general,” she says. “And breaking down pre­ conceived notions. Sex shops are taboo, especially for women. You c a n ’t ju s t w alk into a sex shop where you are faced with a wall of vibrators. I com e to your house with these things, I answer your questions before you even have to ask them. I sell women sexual self­ esteem. And at the same time I sell them romance and fun.”

Products included in Altman’s repertoire range from fur covered handcuffs - “ a popular item,” she says, to a wide range of videos, sex games, lingerie and massage prod­ ucts. Not to mention BOB’s, or bat­ tery o perated b o y frien d s b etter known as vibrators. “Most women want something discreet,” she says as she in d ic a te s the 4 1/2 inch m ini-vibrators that her company carries.

Goodbye Tupperware, hello BOB women to choose from, her parties give women a chance to see, taste, touch and feel all the p ro d u cts available. She’ll answer any ques­ tions a woman might have about a product, for as she explains, “if you are thinking about it, chances are som eone else already has, and I have the answer.”

A ltm an got in v o lv ed w ith Delicate Indulgences after attend­ ing a party hosted by another sales rep. A serious interest in the p ro d u cts and high s e lf-c o n fid e n c e are what land­ ed her the jo b and she has

A ltm an sells m uch like the Tupperware ladies of the 1950’s, getting women to host parties for up to 15 of their friends. All the hostess has to do is invite, put out some snacks and let Altman do the rest. She will show up with a bottle of wine and her wares, on a mis­ sion to erase stereotypes surround­ ing women who take their sexual satisfaction into their own hands.

“You d o n ’t have to be that kind of girl,” says Altman. “If you are a woman, then this is for

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w ith all sorts o f things in their hands that half an hour ago they never would have thought of even looking at. It is great w atching these women get comfortable.”

The ordering process is entire­ ly confidential, made alone with Deena in a room after her presenta­ tion. There is no pressure to buy, although she receives a commis­ sion on each product that she sells.

The product of choice will then be delivered in the token brown paper package. According to Altman, her success rate is quite high with 80 to 90 per cent of her customers buy­ ing at least one object.

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— Deena Altman U3 History and Women's Studies

“The number one fear people hav e,” said K enem y, “is public speaking. With us, you gain social skills, confidence in yourself and your sexuality, and it helps you pay the bills.”

The Ultimate Question Altman is moving to Toronto next year and plans on taking her job with her. Taking into consider­ ation the line of work that Altman is in, one wonders what her parents and friends think of her current,

Quality is the name of the game Altman is a true salesperson, refusing to m arket any product which she thinks is substandard.

“If I’m not comfortable with it, I won’t sell it,” she says. “You need self confidence to stand up in front of 15 women to sell vibrators.

If you are not com fortable with what you are selling then you are not going to make these girls com­ fortable with what you want them to buy. If I find it degrading to women — and with four years of feminist theory under my belt I’ve got a handle on these things — I’ll get it re m o v e d .” She cite d an example of the videos the company was carrying and how she didn’t feel that they appealed to women — so she had them changed.

She also did her homework.

B efo re g e ttin g in v o lv ed w ith Delicate Indulgences, she scouted the sex shops of M ontreal to be sure she was selling high quality fun at low cost. For Altman, while her own confidence in her sexuality has never waned, she is now way more educated on how to enhance it and sell that same confidence, thanks to training sessions and a 65 page m anual p ro v id ed by the company.

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“I just love it,” she M assage those cares away says. “I w ent Period.” aw ay fo r a w hile www.kamasutra.com Qn and couldn’t wait to get m issio n , A ltm an back on the job.”

Lest one think that Altman is seeks to make women comfortable some kind of sex fiend, she is quick with their sexuality, beginning her to explain the rationale behind her presentations with the calmer stuff, work, citing the financial benefits; like m assage oils and flavoured working part-time she often makes lubricants, leaving BOB till the enough to cover her rent, and the end.

“I start off really slow, and considerable satisfaction, in a men­ tal sense, that she gets from her eventually they are sitting there

take so m eth in g th at w orks, research it to death and make it bet­ ter,” said Kenemy.

The mission statem ent of Delicate Indulgences is to “prot vide wom en with the highest "quality sensual and erotic products and provide a unique opportunity for women to take charge of their lives and attain personal fulfillment as never before,” according to one of its founders Jeremy Kenemy.

T h a t’s rig h t.

D elicate Indulgences, a company dedicate to the pleasures of women is run by men. Ironic? M aybe so. But the th ree guys beh in d D elicate In d u lg en ces had m ore on th eir minds than sex when they founded their service in February of 1997.

“The idea was that we were looking for something original to do - or at least something that was not widely done. So we decided to

Altman sells whatever tickles your fancy

A long w ith Jaso n G ill and N ish T hakrar, Kenem y founded Delicate Indulgences as a way to create an opportunity for women to make money catering to women.

W hile many may pooh-pooh the idea of the sex industry as serious business, Kenemy was quick to point out that is a serious operation — one with plans for expansion and oîi the cutting edge of sex sales in Canada, being the only other firm that sells sex door to door.

“W e p ro v id e p eo p le w ith financial independence on a parttime basis — they are in business for themselves, but not by them­ selves. We help them along.”

Delicate Indulgences has plans for a web site in the works that will eventually allow people to shop online for sexual fun and games.

While not keen on elaborating on why he and his partners chose sex as th eir industry o f choice, Kenem y extolled the virtues of working for them.

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and perhaps long term vocation.

According to Altman, they aren’t as shocked as one might think.

“My parents know,” she says.

“And they joke about it. It’s just another crazy thing th at D eena does. My frie n d s are p retty impressed, they love to talk about it — my m ale friends think i t ’s a hoot. When it all comes down to it, people think it is an incredibly fringe thing to do, it’s very weird, I must be some weird kind of person, but I ’m ju st a typical T hornhill Jewish girl. Like any other face on campus...” she continued. “ I just have a really interesting way of making my money and boy do I have a lot of fun doing it.”

You can check out D e e n a ’s w ares du rin g at the W o m en ’s Union on November 17th at 5 p.m. on the fourth floor o f the Shatner building. Or call 634-6490 to set up your own soiree.

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M inds m ay not m ove w ith evo lutio n Philosopher Jerry Fodor argues against evolutionary psychology B y T ed S t r a u s s

The popular assumption that higher human cognition arose from natural selection is unsupported and false, says Jerry Fodor, renowned philosopher and state of New Jersey professor of philosophy at Rutgers University. In honour of the sesquicentennial (150 years) of Sir W illiam O sie r’s birth, M cG ill University hosted a lecture titled “Evolutionary Psychology and the Structure of Cognition.” A graduate o f P rin ceto n U n iv ersity , Fodor works with philosophies of mind and psychology.

The O ctober 27 lecture addressed a significant issue in cog­ nitive science, a field which is an umbrella to all fields which examine thought, including philosophy. The topic of evolution and its role in cognitive science has been the focus of debate ever since Darwin pub-

lished his Origin of the Species, advancing the idea of evolution.

Fodor explained that many psy­ chologists assume that higher human cognition arose, and can be studied, according to natural selection. His opinion is that this assumption is unsupported and probably false. In other words, psychology assumes that human mental capacity evolved into its present state in a manner similar to how physical organisms evolve. Fodor thinks that this assumption should either be proved or dropped.

Fodor’s claim is supported by three arguments: consistency, teleol­ ogy and complexity. The argument of consistency states that two fields that are related do not necessarily need to follow the same principles; human physical states are not neces­ sarily related to mental states. The argument of teleology states that nature is functionally organized and

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goal oriented. Fodor agrees that the mind is based on modules of functional control, but rejects the idea that these modules are products of natural selection — a goal orient­ ed principle. The complexity argu­ m ent states that the processes whereby physical and mental sys­ tems change are distinct and tend to follow different lines.

The Responses N ot everyone agrees with Fodor’s views. McGill Psychology Professor Tom Shultz, former direc­ tor of the Cognitive Science pro­ gram defines exactly what cognitive science encompasses. “Cognitive Science is generally taken to be the multi-disciplinary study of [think­ ing]. As such, it borrows methods rather freely from psychology, com­ puter science, linguistics, philoso­ phy, and neuroscience.”

Studying the mind with scien­ tific rigour has proved to be one of the most difficult tasks in our intel­ lectual history, and to take Fodor’s advice as the final word be to ignore an entire method of studying the mind. “ Many o f us believe that it makes good sense to consider the brain and its evolution in our attem pts to explain c o g n itio n ,” explained Shultz, “although Fodor

has contributed many interesting ideas to the study of cognitive sci­ ence, his new argument to ignore biology and evolution will likely itself be ignored. Because one line of my research concerns the devel­ opment of cognition, evolution helps by providing a coherent example of a theory of change. More generally, we have found it useful to consider how the brain might implement cog­ nition.”

How can some theorists, like Fodor, dism iss w hole bodies of work based on theoretical doubts when empirical work seems to bear fruit? McGill Philosophy Professor James McGilvray , current director of the McGill Cognitive Science Program addresses this problem. He points out that psychology’s use of evolutionary theory could be due to its inability to formulate its own principles to resolve these issues.

“If psychology is successful, it doesn't need to appeal to evolution or stories of evolving cognitive abil­ ities.”

McGilvray also added that the source of the problem for psycholo­ gy may be in the misuse of evolu­ tionary theory.

Dr. Michael Petrides, head of the Cognitive Neuroscience group at the Montreal Neurological Institute relies on evolutionary theory to con­ duct his research. The goal of his research is to learn about the mind from studying the brains of different

primates. He states that “the useful­ ness of the evolutionary approach to cognition is critical.”

He has found, consistently, that studying lower primates leads to insight of the human condition. “The monkey illuminates the human con­ dition, because the monkey is sim­ pler.”

But aren’t people different from monkeys in some dramatic ways?

The issue of language, thought by many to be the catalyst to higher co gnitive fu n ction, m ust be addressed.

“T here is no p roof that the human brain has any computational m odules different from those of other primates,” explains Petrides, “ [there is] virtually nothing where you won’t see the prototype in mon­ keys. Even linguistic notions seem to exist in monkeys... You cannot divorce psychology from the rest of evolutionary theory, it is an exten­ sion of biology.”

Unless we are somehow pro­ vided with the master blueprints of man, or a miraculous archeological discovery is made (for example, a 10,000 year old hum an society engaged in cognitive activities, found frozen in ice), cognitive scien­ tists will wrestle with these issues for some time to come.

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“Canada is a producer of natural resource products,” said Smith. “That is our strength and our weakness.”

Exporting these products, he explained, has brought in foreign cur­ rency (mostly U.S. dollars) and elimi­ nated the federal budget deficit.

The problem, however, is the long-term decline in the value of the Canadian dollar. In effect, it is a com­ modity dollar, dependent on the world market for these exports. As commodi­ ties prices have fallen, so has the dol­ lar.

Neither will the slide in prices stop. “The overall trend is downward,” observed Smith. “Commodities are becoming cheap things.”

The market will continue to exist, but recycling, conservation and exploitation of other countries’ sources have reduced the demand.

“W e’re price takers,” Smith noted. We have to take whatever the world market will give us for our nick­ el. “Since 1991, natural resource exports have represented an unchanged ten per cent of GDP,” a fig­ ure Smith considers “astonishingly high.”

The solution, he maintained, is to become price setters. “We need to pro­ duce goods which are not price sensi­ tive, and that means adding knowl­ edge, design and creativity — the foundations of the new economy."

Free trade, seen by some as a panacea to our economic woes, is not the whole answer. “Freer trade forces companies to do better than that which they’re already doing. It doesn’t change the product mix,” which is the fundamental problem according to Smith. That requires planning, invest­ ment, and research and development.

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Faces to rem em b er on N o vem ber 11 m em bers of the Royal Canadian Legion are taking to the streets, sell­ ing bright little poppies to com ­ memorate those who fought or sim­ ply served for Canada in the first and second world wars, the Korean War, and in combat zones all over

By Stephanie L evitz

With only the faintest trace of a British accent, Dorothy Perks tells her story.

“I was born at the end of the first world war and was twenty-one for the beginning of the second. I drove an ambu­ lance, but th ere is n ’t much I can tell you about it. You can’t say what it was like until you experi­ ence it yourself.”

Today she is 81 years old, and has sur­ vived a war which took her father, her brother and her husband. Perks came to Canada from England in 1957 in search o f a new life.

“I alw ays had it in my head that I would go to C anada. I w anted a change from over there. I lost my fam ily and my house.”

She joined the Royal Canadian Legion in 1968 and has been selling pop­ ning up to 18 hours in transit to reach differStephanie Levitz pies on the streets of ent bases.

Montreal for eight years.

She speaks fondly o f h er fallen the world. Not everyone who sells comrades, as she calls them, and poppies served in a war, but they all places a lot of im p o rtan ce on have a connection with it and while it is part of the duty for every Royal Remembrance Day. “It is for remembering all my Canadian Legionnaire to sell pop­ com rades, not ju s t my fam ily. pies, many view it as an honour and These comrades should always be not an obligation.

T here are m any w ords are remembered.”

It is to honour the service and associated with Remembrance Day, sacrifice of people like Dorothy but for George Magna who served Perks that November 11 is observed with the Canadian reserves in the as Remembrance Day, although for late 1950s and early 1960s, the best many it is difficult to put names and one of all is freedom.

“Freedom is what faces on those we rem em ber.

Across the country, veterans and Remembrance Day means to me,”

he says. “It is the greatest word in the English dictionary.”

Magna never saw active duty, for he served with the Canadian Armed Forces during the Cold War, when he and other recruits were being trained for the possibility of nuclear warfare. Nonetheless, he considers selling poppies part of his duty.

“I ’m what they call a young legionnaire — only 57 years old.

Although it is part of my duty [as a m em ber of the Royal C anadian Legion] to sell poppies, it’s to hon­ our all those who helped make Canada free.”

Magna holds those people who fought for Canada in the highest regard, saying “I know some people who fought [in Europe] and I keep in touch with lots of old vets. Thank g-d nobody got hurt and everyone I know now made it back safely. But there are less and less of these peo­ ple everyday.”

A connection to veterans long gone is w hat m otivates Randy Kussey to bundle up and sell pop­ pies. His fath er fought in both World War I and World War II. “He was a machinist and then he worked the guns,” said Kussey.

“He also worked in a tank. I sell these poppies to honour men like him, the ones who fought in wars.”

A lthough he has a personal connection to Remembrance Day, Kussey sees it as an occasion to remember all those who fought.

“All those people that fought in the war — they deserve a day to be remembered for what they did for us.”

People like Kussey and Doug Wright, another young legionnaire w ho never saw active duty but drove a service truck for the Royal

R&D a m ust for C an ad a C o n tin u e d fro m P age 70

“We weren’t doing that; management is not used to it.”

There has been no great progress in R&D in the resource sectors because there has never been the need.

“A little goes a long way” toward greater productivity, noted Smith.

“But the same is true for other coun­ tries.”

Globalization is responsible for the current prolonged period of noninflationary growth. “Global competi­ tion is a brake on traditional wage/price inflation,” according to Smith. It means any future recession will occur on a global basis.

The environmental impact of globalization, however, has been quite different. “Sustainable development is a non-starter for the G-77, the poorest countries,” asserted Smith.

The term “sustainable develop­ ment” has never been defined scientif­ ically, in any case. “It’s a compromise, it’s pure p olitics,” he added.

“Sustainable development cannot be used to measure anything. It’s useful to do the least harm, to give the future some weight in decision-making.”

The average Canadian believes that this country has been a leader in this area. “The truth is,” stated Smith, “that entire provincial economies depend on their natural resources.”

Resource development generally has negative environmental conse­ quences, especially with respect to global climate change. “We depend on

the burning of fossil fuels,” Smith noted. “We can be leaders in every issue except that one.”

Most lacking among the Canadian public is education. Our energy consumption per dollar of GDP is the highest of any country. Yet “hardly one in ten Canadians,” said Smith, “knows that the Kyoto accord has anything to do with energy use.”

Whether or not the Canadian economy is environmentally sustain­ able, Smith predicts that it will contin­ ue its downward trend despite the pos­ sibility of several good years in the interim. He could offer only one bit of good news: “I am frequently wrong.”

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Canadian Army Service, take care to emphasize the commitment of those veterans who are still living and give their time to the Legion, not only on Remembrance Day but throughout the year.

“We try to do things for our members on a year round basis,” says Wright. “We try to help out those in our area who are on the destitute side. We also have wheel­ chairs, walkers and things that we distribute for free to try and help as many people as possible.”

W right belongs to the last Imperial Legion in Canada - imper­ ial because it has a charter from the government, unlike other Legions in Canada. The purpose of Legion 006 is to provide services for English veterans, but according to Wright, their numbers are dwindling.

“There are only 2 or 3 English veterans from the first two world wars left,” he says. “When they go, I don’t know what we are going to.”

If nothing else, we will remem­ ber them.

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-26, 791 Canadians served -516 died, -1558 were wounded -33 were taken as prisoners of war

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Elections McGill hereby announces that the e le c tio n s fo r F irst Year C om m ittee of Council (FYCC) will be held on November 16 to 18 with advance polls being held on November 12.

Élections McGill annonce par la présente que les élections pour les positions exécu­ tives du FYCC seront tenues du 16 au 18 novembre, avec vote par anticipation le 12 novembre.

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É lections M cG ill veut par le présente annoncer la tenue d’un référendum, initié par le Conseil de l’AÉUM, sur le campus du 16 au 18 novembre, avec vote par anticipation le 12 novembre.

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Polls will be open N ovem ber 1 6 -1 7 18 from 10:00am to 5:00pm at the fol­ lowing locations:

Élections seront tenues aux endroits suivants du le 1 6 -1 7 -1 8 n o vem b re de 1QhOOà17h00:

■Shatner University Centre (Lobby kiosk) ■Bishop Mountain Hall • Leacock - McConnell Engineering (EUS counter near room 13) ■Redpath Library ■Frank Dawson Adams ■Arts Building ■Bronfman • Chancellor Day Hall • Stewart Biology (North Wing) • Education Building • Strathcona (pending University approval)

• Shatner University Centre (Foyer) • Bishop Mountain Hall ■Leacock ■McConnell Engineering (bureau d’EUS près de la salle 13) ■Redpath Library • Frank Dawson Adams • Arts Building ■Bronfman • Chancellor Day Hall • Stewart Biology (bâtiment nord) • Education Building ■Strathcona (selon l’accord de l’université)

Please note that in order to vote you must be in possession of a valid McGill student ID card.

In order to vote in FYCC elections, you must be a first-year undergraduate student.

All McGill undergraduate students are elegible to vote in the Council-initiated referendum.

Veuillez noter qu’il faut avoir une carte d’iden­ tité valide de McGill pour voter.

Pour voter aux élections du FYCC, il faut être en première année du premier cycle.

Tous les étudiants de McGill peuvent voter au référendum initié par le Conseil de l’AÉUM.

Elections McGill is also hiring Poll Clerks.

Apply at SSMU front desk.

Élections McGill aussi cherchent les scru­ tateurs. Demander au bureau de l’AÉUM.

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Musharraf solidly at the helm in Pakistan But how long does the m ilitary intend to stay there?

Déjà vu for Pakistanis

By Ia n D isend

The P akistan i co n su la te in Montreal is a modest building on P eel Street, about tw enty p aces north o f Sherbrooke. It’s easy to p ick out, marked by P ak istan ’s green flag emblazoned with a sin­ gle white stripe and the fam iliar crescent o f Islam, flapping gently out front when the wind cooper­ ates.

If you drop by during their scant public hours, y o u ’ll find a tranquil, almost sleepy atmosphere; not the sort o f thing you m ight intuitively expect in a consulate w h o se m other country recen tly underwent a military coup d’état.

The October 12 ousting o f Prime M inister N aw az Sharif, and his replacement by a man he had fired, General Pervaiz Musharraf, is sure­ ly on the minds o f civil servants at the co n su la te. P erhaps it even shows through on their faces. But it doesn’t affect their daily routine.

“N o, n oth in g has ch a n g ed [sin c e the c o u p ],” in siste d on e bureaucrat, referring to the day-today activities o f his workplace. As for any information about the situa­ tion in his hom eland, h ow ever, mum w as the w ord. “Y ou m ust speak with the High Comm ission in Ottawa.”

Sharif has been at odds with the P ak istan i m ilita ry b efo re.

D uring h is first attem pt at the prime m inistership in 1993, the army pressured him to resign after the Supreme Court had overturned a presidential decision to relieve him o f his position.

The Pakistani p eo p le know this tale as well. Since its indepen­ dence in 1947, their country has been marred by strife and instabili­ ty. Numerous coups, corrupt politi­ cians, and three wars with colossal neighbour India highlight the histo­ ry of this young state.

Nevertheless, the latest purge in Islam abad has been received quite cordially by the populace, with whom Sharif had fallen out of favour. This hasn’t stopped world leaders from condemning the mili­ tary takeover, however. Among the m ost v o ca l has b een the Commonwealth, o f which Pakistan is a member.

P ro fesso r T .V . P aul, an international relations specialist at M cGill, says that the criticism is warranted, d esp ite the approval voiced by Pakistanis.

“Their record is not impressive [com pared to other] m ilita ry regim es,” Paul said o f Pakistan’s current power-holders, suggesting that they have “a credibility prob­

lem.”

Paul noted furthermore that the Comm onwealth is entitled to stand by its consensus that “democ­ racy is the best way to go.”

“They did the same thing for Nigeria,” he pointed out, referring to that state’s succession o f m ili­ tary governments.

Pakistan’s political problems have b een ch ro n ic , as the Commonwealth is surely aware. It was Britain’s withdrawal from the Indian subcontinent in 1947, and subsequent outbreak o f hostilities, that began Pakistan’s violent histo­ ry with India. Presented with largesc a le eth n ic c o n flic t b etw een Hindus and M uslim s, the British colonists settled on a partition plan that saw the modern Indian state separated from two smaller patches o f territory, designated W est and East Pakistan.

Most Hindus in Pakistani terri­ tory fle d to India, w h ile m any Indian M uslim s escaped to their new nation-state o f Pakistan, but more than half a million lives were claim ed in the process. The pre­ dom inantly M uslim province o f K ashm ir w as cla im ed by both sides, and this would play a signifi­ cant role in the violence o f 1947, as

w ell as a b rief war betw een the South Asian powers in 1965 and, more recently, hostility in 1998-99.

In d ia ’s support o f East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) in its victorious fight for independence in 1971 embittered relations, while a nuclear elem ent was added when India first tested an atomic device in 1974. Zulfikar A li Bhutto, the populist Pakistani prime minister, pursued nuclear capability for his country as early as 1972, but would eventually be ousted and executed by h is arm ed fo r c e s. In tim e, Pakistan would attain success on the nuclear front.

Each state currently controls a portion of Kashmir. The latest confron tation saw In dia a cc u se Pakistan o f backing Muslim rebels in its se c tio n o f the d isp u ted Him alayan territory, w h ile both sides provocatively tested nuclear weapons. The countries eventually came to smaller-scale blows with one another, and Pakistan ultimate­ ly backed down.

Sharif’s reluctance to provide substantial assistance to the rebels in the skirmish may have been the proverbial last straw in Sharif’s falling-out with his military, but the writing on the wall had long since dried.

“You could say that [Kashmir] precipitated his fall, but it was not the only thing,” reflected Paul. He

had been “alienating the army,” for quite som e tim e, and Musharraf and com pany w ould ev en tu a lly b lam e him for their fa ilu re to a c h ie v e their o b je c tiv e s in Kashmir.

By the end o f his turbulent ten ure, in w h ich , am ong other moves, he abolished the presiden­ tial privilege o f firing a prime min­ ister, the Pakistani people weren’t thrilled with him either.

“Sharif was becoming unpop­ ular day by day,” explained Paul.

“He was corrupt, of course.”

Not a fleeting regime Paul expects the military, who has ruled Pakistan for 25 o f its 52 years, to stick around for a while.

“There’s no civil society push­ ing the government to [hand over p ow er to c iv ilia n s ] ,” he noted.

Musharraf has “little incentive” to do so, as long as Pakistanis are dis­ illusioned with parties view ed as “corrupt and incompetent.”

Instead, it is “most likely to be external factors that will push [the military] to change,” Paul predict­ ed.

N o one can be certain when that w ill co m e, in clu d in g those civil servants at the consulate in Montreal. But as long as that green flag flaps on Peel Street, it’ll be business as usual.

An honest witness to his tim e and place Mordechai Richler on Jewish upbringing in Quebec

By Stephanie Levitz

A fan ask ed M o rd ech a i Richler why he was able to draw such a large crowd to Pollack Hall la st T u esd a y . R ic h le r p a u sed , pushed his glasses to the tip o f his nose and answered: “T here’s no hockey game tonight.”

R ichler w as speaking at the behest o f M cG ill’s Jewish Studies department, under the premise o f lecturing on “Jewish Upbringing in Quebec.” Richler, by his own s e lf d efin ition is “a w riter w ho happens to be a Jew.” To that end, he made no claims to represent the Jew ish com m unity d esp ite what organizations lik e the Canadian Jewish Congress, a national orga­ nization that seek s to represent Jewish communities and interests across Canada might say. “I don’t speak for the Jewish com m unity but n eith er d o es the C anadian J ew ish C o n g r e ss , th e S atm ar Rabbi, Barbara Streisand or Sam the Record Man,” he stated.

That being said, in his portrait o f growing up Jewish in Quebec in the 1930’s and 1940’s, he drew a familiar picture for many Jewish Montrealers.

“W e were the progeny o f taxi d riv ers, fa cto ry w o rk ers, p e d ­ dlers.” He told his story much like he told Duddy Kravitz’s — typical boyhood revelry in the context of larger issues.

W hile keeping the audience laughing with tales o f his weekend exploits such as “Our destination

E a to n ’s dep artm ent store. Our m ission — to sh o p lift,” he also addressed issu es that concerned Jews in Montreal throughout and after the war years.

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b u t neither does the Canadian Jewish Congress, the Satmar Rabbi, Barbara Streisand or Sam the Record Man. — M ordechai Richler Concerning the importance o f education for Jew s, Richler was direct in placing the responsibility for that on “striving mothers who registered us [for school] before we were o f age. Birth certificate?

D e str o y e d in a f ir e .” H e a lso alluded to the assimilationist ele­ ment o f this em phasis on educa­ tion, referring to these same moth­ ers as “thrilled that their children were acceptable enough to c e le ­ b rate B r itish G r e n a d ie r s .” H e commented on the negative view both he and s o c ie ty had o f the written word, saying that he “dis­ m issed such lines as sissy stuff, rem ote to our streets,” and that “w riting, lik e housebreaking or pushing drugs was socially unac­ c e p ta b le .” H ow ever, he p laced con sid erable im portance on the role that the written word had in

shaping him.

“I grasped for the first tim e that I didn’t live at the center o f the world,” he explained.

R ich ler a lso ad d ressed the im p a ct o f a n ti-s e m itis m in Montreal at the time, referring to quota at M cG ill for Jew ish stu­ dents and to a teacher who taught how Jews make an S. “He drew an S on the black­ board, paused, smirked and drew two lines through it.”

To R ich ler’s credit, he also spoke on how he and his friends w ould h assle the Christian m is­ sionary who had an office set up in the heart o f the Jewish quarter, “assuring him w e thought Jesus w as a sw ell guy, m isunderstood by our parents and we took home lots o f free stuff.”

R ic h le r ’s b rief lectu re w as w e ll r e c e iv e d by the a u d ie n c e made up mostly o f older members o f the Montreal community, who w ere there not so m uch to see Richler the writer, but Richler the fa m o u s J ew ish M o n trea ler.

Q uestions from the floor ranged from the seriou s to the silly — while many asked about Richler’s work, g ettin g him to reveal his m ost autobiographical charactèr (Solom on Gursky), his plan for a new children’s book and his dis­ d ain fo r lis tin g h is p referred authors, some just wanted to know th e m an, a sk in g w h at k in d o f m u sic he w as lis te n in g to (M o z a rt), and w hy he m akes M ontreal his hom e, considering

how outspoken he is on the faults o f both this city and Q uebec in general. His answer? " B eca u se it is w h ere I am from."

E x itin g the sta g e to warm

applause, R ichler retreated into the r e ce p tio n h all and lit up a cigar, driving several fans outside in search o f fresh air. Leave it to M ordechai to alw ays lea v e ‘em scowling.

T he M c G ill T ribune, T uesday, 9 N ovember 1999

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Forget Hollywood, McGill is where it's at From the Golden Square Mile to the Roddick Gates, movie com panies are flocking to Montreal

By Paul C onner

W alking across cam pus the other Saturday, it was difficult not to notice that the Arts building had been bombed out. The buildng was yellowed, the ivy was thick, and the cars out front were rusted and with­ out wheels. Even James McGill, six feet under and rumoured to share his resting place with another half per­ son, was covered in ivy and blended into the scene.

And so, for one w eekend in early October, M cGill University becam e host to the w orld o f “Battlefield Earth,” the blockbuster film o f the year being film ed in M ontreal. Since June 1, in fact, McGill has become a different place for five different productions, from part o f the roaring twenties in the Great Gatsby to a quick shot o f a N ew York City bookstore in the upcoming television show “Monster Smasher.”

The reasons for McGill’s recent boom are fairly straightforward.

According to Roman Martyn, a film­ maker’s location manager, Montreal as a whole has been increasingly popular as a destination for big international shoots.

“In the States, in Hollywood, it’s getting more and more expen­ sive to film,” said Martyn. His prin­ cipal job, as he describes it, is to use a film’s script to scout out possible locations for scenes and to make arrangements for permission to use them.

“Now, producers are looking to save costs because o f rising actor

and director fees,” he continued. He noted that in recent years, costs in those areas have doubled and, in some cases, tripled. The favourable exchange rate on the Canadian dol­ lar and lower overall production fees in Canada have attracted increasing numbers of film makers to the north.

“They can save a couple of mil­ lion dollars by filming in Canada,” Martyn explained. “These American productions would [in the past] have gon e only to V ancouver and

4IP 4w These American produc­ tions w ould [in the past[ have gone to Vancouver or Toronto, b u t they're slowly seeing th a t M ontreal is able to handle big productions.

Rom an M artyn location manager

Toronto, but they’re slowly seeing that Montreal is able to handle big productions. Montreal used to be an unknown, but as more big produc­ tions like ‘Snake Eyes’ a couple of years ago come to Montreal, they attract others.”

The other reason Montreal has

become a growing centre for movie production is its environment.

“There is a wide diversity of settings,” said Dinu Bumbaru, direc­ tor o f program s for H eritage Montreal. “It’s an expanding indus­ try in Montreal, in part because we were fortunate not to have demol­ ished many of the older buildings in the city. In the ‘60s and ‘70s, there was so much dem olition o f older buildings [across North America].

But there has been a change in the apporach to urban development."

Bumbaru went on to note that in the 1970s, as people travelling abroad became more interested in heritage than sim ply good weather, those same people began to understand the role historic buildings played in their own city.

For film-makers, cities such as Montreal which have retained their history are invaluable. At the centre of all of this is McGill University.

Adrian Knight, the location manager for the film B attlefield Earth, elaborated on two of the rea­ sons why McGill is a good place to film.

"One is the period aspect — McGill thankfully still owns a lot of property from the Golden Square Mile. Second, the school seems to be interested." The Golden Square Mile is historically Montreal’s rich, commençai and residential quarter located between Peel and Pine to Sherbrooke and Côte-des-Neiges.

Benefits to the school Debbie Yacoulis, events coor­

dinator for McGill, explained that the University is willing to be acco­ m odating to film -m akers, but emphasized that the school's busi­ ness takes precidence.

"The last two years, it's been good business," she said. "It brings a lot o f revenue to us. But we only book space if it's not too much of an inconvenience — we have to get approval from each building director first." She added that the school also looks at the content o f the film s before making a decision. For exam­ ple, she said, pomo films would not be allowed to film on campus. She sm iled , sayin g that it has been pitched.

The revenue McGill receives, in light of the entire budget, is pretty minimal, noted Director o f Ancillary Services Alan Charade.

"It’s not significant net revenue when you get to the end of the year," he said, adding that the University understands that it is home to very desirable filming locations and as such allows for filming. "We're in a d eficit situation, and [m ovies on campus] help bring the deficit down a little," he said. "But it's not a lot of money." M oney received for the rights to use buildings go mostly towards paying coordinators and security staff from McGill relating to the filming itself.

Im pressions of McGill Both Knight and Martyn agree that McGill offers a good product and provides full support, if at a slightly elevated rate.

Martyn has in fact used the University for shots on several occa­ sions, most notably in last winter's filming of “P.T. Bamum.”

"Barnum, is a period film, in that it takes place at the end of the nineteenth century. Any place we found had to have that look."

Martyn noted that he has filmed at the Faculty Club, in Purvis Hall, and in a handful o f buildings w est o f Lower Campus.

McGill is very careful to ensure that whatever gets film ed neither interferes with school operations nor causes any damage to buildings. For the school, that is the bottom line.

"Our primary m issio n is to make sure we don't interrupt classes and [other University affairs]," said Professor Patrick N eilson, newly appointed Arts building director. "If it's a question o f students using another door, I don’t think that inter­ feres. But we can't have anything that alters the building fabric. They have to put it back as it was or bet­ ter."

Bumbaru, for his part, was very pleased to hear that McGill takes steps to ensure building safety, not­ ing that not long ago, an ad shoot for Bell Canada in Mount Royal Grand Chalet caused a small fire. Filming the “Last Em peror,” he added, caused significant damage to China's Forbidden City.

"I'm very happy that McGill is doing that," he said, "and it doesn't have a big impact on costs o f the movie. A few hundred dollars for security is not much to pay for pre­ serving places for the future."

W illiam Osler-McGill's Man to Remember

By Rad o slava M ileva

Medical doctor William Osier w as com m em orated on O ctober 28th by having D rum m ond St. named after him. He joins the ranks of Dr. Wilder Penfield as a former M cGill physician immortalized in the fram ework o f the university community.

Osier won fame as a teacher, clinician, and innovator in Canada as well as in the United States and England. He contributed a great deal to establishing modern teach­ ing methods for medical schools, emphasizing the importance of clin­ ical experience.

Born in Bond Head, Ontario, on July 12, 1849, Osier was the son o f English parents with his father being an Anglican minister. While at the Anglican School in Weston, Ontario, Osier developed a consid­ erable interest in natural history after becoming acquainted with Sir Thomas Browne’s Religio M edici (1642), a combination of scholarly

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contemplation about the mysteries of God, nature, and humanity. After a short period of studying at Trinity College in Toronto with the intent o f becom ing a clergym an, O sier enrolled in the Toronto University M edical S ch ool. H is friend and mentor, Dr. James Bovell, strongly encouraged the young student to

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further educate himself at the labo­ ratory and, simultaneously, urged him to read scientific publications and literature.

It was under the influence of B o v e ll’s recom m en d ation that O sier transferred to M cG ill U n iv e r s ity ’s M ed ical S ch o o l.

M on treal, at the tim e, w as the largest Canadian city and had much better clinical facilities. With his diligence and persevering inquisi­ tiveness, Osier captivated the inter­ est of Dr. Palmer Howard who was appointed Dean of Medicine in sub­ sequent years. The latter, who even­

tually became Osier’s friend and colleague, was among the earliest to recognize Osier’s genius.

William Osier graduated from M cGill University in 1872 with a prize for his final thesis. He depart­ ed abroad for two years o f post­ graduate education and referred to the activity as "brain dusting”, as it included exten sive traveling and studying in m edical centers and clin ics in Great Britain, France, Germany, and Austria. While work­ ing in the laboratory o f Professor B u rd on-S and erson in L ondon, Osier made a significant scientific contribution: he d isco v ered the third type o f blood corpuscles, the p la te le ts. T hree years later, he returned to Canada and became a professor of m edicine at M cGill.

Osier taught physiology and pathol­ ogy, and later added a course in his­ tology.

A s a p a th o lo g ist at the Montreal General Hospital, Osier volunteered to attend the smallpox isolation ward in order to increase the a v a ila b ility o f postm ortem material for his extensive patholog­ ical and clinical reports. At the age of 28, Osier’s industry and reputa­ tion resulted in his election to the c o v e te d p o sitio n o f A tten d in g Physician at the Montreal General Hospital.

According to one o f his co l­ leagu es, O sier’s origin ality and vitality in the medical profession gave crucial results in working with afflicted patients. He cleared up the m ed ical wards o f “unn ecessary sem blance o f sickness and treat­ ment” and treated the remainder of

h is p atien ts w ith m in im a lly required medicine doses.

By introducing a new method o f medical care, Osier revolution­ ized the field of medicine and its study. Due to his considerable con­ tribution to numerous reforms at M cG ill, O sie r ’s e ffe c t on the Faculty of Medicine was described as one similar to that produced by a “potent ferment”.

During a decade on the McGill faculty, Osier wrote many articles.

Among them were pieces on trichi­ n o sis and on c o n g e n ita l and acquired lesions o f the heart, draw­ ing from his pathological experi­ ence from the M ontreal General

44 Osier led a generation o f young doctors away from the textbooks and directly to the bedsides o f afflicted patients.

H o sp ita l and the V eterin ary College. His articles on clinical top­ ics were frequently published in the Canadian, American and British journals. O sier’s textb ook , The P rin cip les and P ra ctice o f M e d icin e, p u b lish ed in 1 892, inspired John D. R o ck efeller to establish the Rockefeller Institute

o f Medical Research in New York City.

Over the next ten years, Osier rose rapidly in the academic ranks.

He had practiced, written about and taught at M cG ill U n iv ersity in M on treal, the U n iv ersity o f Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Johns Hopkins University and as a Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford.

As Chair of Medicine of John Hopkins' young faculty o f m edi­ cine, O sier organized and trans­ formed the curriculum of clinical teaching in such fashion that Johns Hopkins becam e a distinguished and world-renown medical school.

Osier was hoping to bring high standards and scientific methods into general practice in the medical occupation and to g iv e teaching hospitals a solid place in the educa­ tion of medical doctors.

The h istorian F ie ld in g H. G arrison c a lle d O sier “one o f n a tu re’s c h o se n ”. The w orld renowned medical doctor and pro­ fessor maintained that he was not e sp e c ia lly g ifted , how ever. H is secret lied in that he com bined devotion and tolerance for his col­ leagues, students and patients with industry and he taught a way of life based on "day-tight compartments."

For many years, his textbook on medicine, "Modern M edicine,1 was the standard text used at the most prestigious medical schools.

Deservedly, Osier was recognized as the most distinguished physician in the English-speaking world and was claimed to be the "most influ­ ential physician in history".

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The Source sinks into fragm entary confusion Docum entary about the Beat writers fails to explain what makes them tick

By M aria Simpson

Forty years ago, a couple o f university students rebelled against conformity, taking drugs, writing, and sticking it to "the man." The Beats, including Allan Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, N eal C assad y, and L aw rence Ferlinghetti, shocked prim society with raw poems and books about the despair o f existence.

S in ce th ese you ng upstarts began q u estion in g everyth in g America holds dear, the Beats have become a symbol of youthful, artis­ tic rebellion. The Source, a new doc­ umentary written, directed and pro­ duced by Chuck Workman, attempts to capture the original spirit of the movement. Workman has previous­ ly made Superstar: The L ife and Times o f A ndy Warhol, as well as creating the short film montages that have opened 10 Academy Award Ceremonies.

The Source has rich material to draw from. Workman uses archival footage of Jack Kerouac, Norman Mailer and Neal Cassady. He also includes new interviews with Allan Ginsberg, Gary Synder and Philip Glass. With all these voices to draw from , one w ould hope that Workman could assemble coherent insights into what the Beats were all about. Instead, the voices seem to be shouting all at once which, com ­ bined with the video montage style,

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le a v es the view er co n fu sed and empty.

The pace of the movie is fast; in 89 minutes w e see glim pses of the budding Beats of the ‘50s, to the hippie movem ent in the '60s and 7 0s. Clips of interviews and read­ ings are com bined with excerpts from the media's impression of the Beats, such as Steve Martin's imita­ tion o f a Beat poet on S a tu rd a y Night Live.

Also included are poorly-acted re-enactments of the Beats reading their own poetry, perform ed by Johnny Depp, Dennis Hopper, and

John Turturro. Johnny Depp, as Jack Kerouac, stands, back to the camera, lights a cigarette, pours a drink, and turns dramatical­ ly. As he begins reciting, all that came across was, "Has beat poetry come to this? Johnny Depp staring into a camera earnestly, hoping that someone will take him seriously?"

The movie's main flaw is that, although it has such a vast array of sources, it does not illuminate what makes the Beats tick. Instead, it focuses on the impressions the Beats made on the media and the hippie m ovem ent. T his is unfortunate,

Anything but run-of-the-m ill

By C hristian Lander

Following a major box office hit can always be a tough career decision. Remember how long it took Leo to finally commit to The B e a c h ? A g o o d fo llo w up and yo u ’re the next Harrison Ford, a

the time com es and her daughter reaches maturity, she decides that it is time to leave and head for the w est co a st. On th e d riv e, A nn delivers a voice-over line to set the tone for the entire film. She says with regards to her mother, “The only thing that keeps me going is

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bad one and you’re the next Mark Hamill.

So has N a ta lie Portm an, Queen Amidala from the Phantom Menace, made a right choice? The answ er is a resou n d in g y es. In Anywhere but Here, she delivers an incredible performance in a won­ derful and genuine f i l l The story is a three year win­ dow into the lif e o f a m otherdaughter relationship. With Ann’s father, a mysterious Egyptian song­ writer, out o f the picture, A dele marries a doormat husband to give her stability for the c irly years of her daughter Ann’s life. But when

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knowing I’ll one day leave her.”

From there the audience is given a story that traces A nn ’s d isgust, an ger, sh am e, and o c c a sio n a l amazement about her mother.

T he story sou n d s borin g enough, but it really com es alive under d irector W ayn e W ang {S m o ke, B lu e in th e F a c e ). He never lets the story line sag, and his location shooting in Los Angeles is incredible. Rather than focusing on Hollywood landmarks, he presents the city in a way that’s much closer to the terrible reality o f the city.

Wang, long established as an art house film m aker, has m ade the

script incredibly layered.

But the greatest strength o f the film is its reality. The characters, esp ecia lly A dele, are so easy to relate to and the dialogue is never melodramatic, even when it's pre­ sen ted w ith m ore than am ple opportunity. Sarandon is well cast in the role of Adele, an aging sin­ g le m other w h ose grasp on life hasn’t improved since her twenties.

She is frustrating to watch as she over sim p lifies every one o f her p ro b lem s. L if e ’s no g o o d in Wisconsin? Go west! Life not good in L.A.? M ake your daughter an actress! T h in gs not g o in g your way? B e pretty, op tim istic, and smile and it’ll all work out. It’s so sad to see her use these sim ple ideas to raise her daughter, we have to watch as she keeps trying to do the right thing and keeps failing.

W ith each p a ssin g fa ilu re, the scorn and anger in Ann gets worse and w orse, but rather than feel sorry her, we are made to feel pity for Adele.

T hrough the co u rse o f the m ovie w e see that A dele has her entire life tied up in her daughter, who because o f her nature will cerC ontinued on Page 16

b eca u se, b etw een the clips o f rallies and car­ toon s, there are som e w ond erfu l m om ents: Neal Cassady seductively dancing shirtless, a dying Timothy Leary, stating "I try to take every illegal drug at le a st on ce a year," and the drunken, aging Jack Kerouac insisting on a talk show that the Vietnam war was a p lot to capture American jeeps. Before the viewer can reflect on th ese g lim p ses o f the Beat's true nature, we're on to the next scene. The various p oets that are featured blend into one, without making distinc­ tio n s b etw een their Press Shot sty les. In reality, the poets were very different, enough that Burroughs d eclared they shouldn't be labeled as a group at all.

The fragmentary style is com­ pounded by a selection of music that

ranges from Bach to the R olling S tones to P hilip G lass to D izzy G illespie. The film opens with a Bach Cello Suite, which seems anti­ thetical to the Beat ideology— the structure and order o f Bach is a sharp contrast to the chaos the Beats embraced. At one point, a link is made between bebop jazz and the poets, but it is not explored. The music, because it is not explained, only adds to the confusion o f the documentary.

I left the theatre disappointed, because I heard their poetry and seen their faces, yet I had not come any closer to what makes the Beats important. They were rebellious, sure, and had sh o ck in g , w ild life sty les, but what was it about them that captured the spirit o f a nation? The answer to this question will not be found in The Source.

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Movies and the Apocalypse make strange bedfellows

Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch

same themes as Fight Club. Lester Burden also has a boring job, and frustrating relationships with other As the calendar days rapidly people. He states, “I feel like I’ve fall away, the millennium tightens been asleep for 20 years, and I’m its grasp on the collective imagina­ just waking up.” His awakening tion. This has manifested itself in a involves quitting his job, variety of ways. Some people are working out, and hitting stocking their cellars with canned on his daughter’s best food, some walk warily around the friend. The tone o f the computers and microwaves, afraid m o v ie is h o p e fu l, as o f a Y2K meltdown, and some peo­ Lester and Ricky repeat ple are just going to the movies. that the world is a beau­ M ovies have alw ays been a tiful place, but the beau­ source o f escape and reflection. ty they see seems o f an When the foe is defeated, the guy artificial and transient gets the girl or the world breaks nature. Lester’s new life into the ecstasies o f glorious song, could never be perma­ the audience leaves with a sense of nent, he can never be peace and a confirmation of the tri­ free from the restraints umph o f human g o o d n e ss. o f his p reviou s lif e — O b v io u sly , not all m o v ies fa ll Lester's life sucks http-//hollywoodmovie .com sending Janie to univer­ under this generalization, but the sity, supporting him self when his majority of mainstream films take w icked satire o f fascism ; as the the viewer through some problem men form an army o f public mis­ one year salary is up, and dealing with a volatile marriage. Lester rev­ or crisis, then release them from it c h ie f under Tyler, they b ecom e els in the chaos of his new life, and ex a c tly what they are fig h tin g with a happy ending.

Suddenly, Hollywood is enam­ against. Their deadened, brain­ when he dies happy, knowing that his life was beautiful. ored with movies that favour chaos washed responses to his commands The ending is slightly disturb­ over order, and rebellion over con­ mimic the numbness of their previ­ ing. The big question is, did Lester ous lives. fo rm ity. T h is is, in may w a y s, Up to this point, the movie is die because he could not exist in his refreshing. Film s like A m eric a n suburban world? It could be viewed Beauty, Fight Club, Happiness and sharp, w itty , and en g a g in g .

The Ice Storm illuminate the bar­ However, after the pivotal twist, the as an unfortunate accident, howev­ movie descends into a whirl of vio­ er, the movie sets up his temporary renness o f suburban, middle class len ce and d estru ction . h appiness in such a way that it Instead o f continuing on could only end in death.

T h ese m o v ies c r itic iz e the its critique o f fascism , Fight Club ends with acts lives o f many North Americans, but provide violence and open rebellion o f v io le n c e again st banks, the wealthy, and as the only answers. As we face the impending m illennium , fears are b a sic a lly an yone w ho gets in their w ay. The surfacing about where contempo­ rary society is going. Its like taking fin a l shot sh o w s the stock of an entire nation. Perhaps unnam ed p ro ta g o n ist looking over the city as this accounts for Hollywood’s fas­ m ultiple ex p lo sio n s go cination with these types o f movies, off. Rather than explain­ our fears are now being validated as ing the previous satire, entertainment. When Tyler declares to his fight club members “you are Wish he was in a fight club hollywoodmovie.com the movie seems satisfied here b eca u se the w orld as you that violence is the only solution to dullness of the modern know it no longer makes sense,” it life. The interesting twist to these strikes a chord in the audience. life. Consequently, the view er is m ovies is that there is no release, H owever, it’s unnerving that the jarred by the m ovie’s conflicting no catharsis for the viewer. solutions to these concerns are as F ig h t C lub is the story o f a messages.

A m erican B eauty is a lighter ch a o tic as the p rob lem s they man locked into a boring career address. who, with his flamboyant counter- film , one draws on many o f the part Tyler, develop “Fight Club.”

Fight Club is a group of men who vent their frustrations about their liv es by pounding each other in controlled bouts in the basement of a bar. The m ovie is set up as a

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Anywhere continued C ontinued from Page 15 tainly m ove on to better things, while Adele will be left alone. That daughter, p layed fla w le s s ly by Portman, is the kind o f girl that everyone knew, and looked up to, in high school. Living a relatively

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hard life with her mother, she is incredibly smart, confident, and does well in school. She maintains a sen se o f control over her life throughout the movie and we know she’s going to be alright. Portman, presumably playing herself, knows exactly how to handle herself in the shoes o f a 14-17 year old girl.

She also knows how to handle herself as an actress off the screen.

The movie called for a nude scene, and when Portman threatened to w alk , W ang and Sarandon did everything in their power to keep her on, including rescripting the scene. The m ovie is truly one o f the better films o f the season and deserves Oscar consideration for b est p ictu re, b est a ctress in Portm an, and b est d irector for Wang. The story flow s incredibly w ell, the dialogue is wonderful, and the scen es are com plex and touching. A nyw here but H ere is a m odern drama that truly stands above it’s mascara running m elo­ dramatic peers.

Since

Sam Peckinpah’s violent ode to the end o f an era is probably one o f the greatest westerns ever made, if not one o f the greatest movies of all tim e. This film is not about

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heroes or the fight between good and evil, but about a group of men who are unwilling to change their ways in a changing time.

W hen re le a sed in 1 9 6 9 , it came under waves o f controversy for a lack o f clear morals and level o f v io len ce that had never been seen b efo re.

Peckinpah’s rapid in te r-cu ttin g o f combat scenes and bloody deaths was g iv e n the term “blood ballet” by h is c r itic s . T h is was the first really v io le n t film H o lly w o o d ev er made; gun fights are lo n g , b lo o d y and painful; v ic ­ tims do not grace­ fully, but violently die in the heat o f battle. Many mod­ ern day action directors owe their careers to Sam Peckinpah.

The o p en in g sc e n e s sh ow children burning a scorpion, as Pike Bishop and his gang o f out­ laws make their way to a bank they are going to rob. A band of bounty hunters lie near the bank waiting in ambush. After taking the bankers h o sta g e P ik e se e s the bounty hunters and decides to shoot his way out of the bank. In the ensuing

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Pike leads his gang out o f the des­ olate town with the bounty hunters in hot pursuit.

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wrong, and laments about how the riches o f the west have eluded him.

Though he is on the other side of the law, Deke would rather be part o f the bunch that left him many years before.

This movie is really about the last stand these desperadoes make in a world that is changing before their eyes. Their code o f sticking together is fast being outmoded by a new generation who make their k illin g s le ss p erso n a lly . P ik es words, “W e gotta start thinking beyond our guns, because those days are closing fast” essentially capture the meaning' o f the entire movie. Pike, Deke and their gangs are old and dog tired from a life that has always left them running.

The bounty o f the west that they hoped to reap has disappeared in 1 9 1 3 , and their m eth od s are becom ing outdated in the face of g ren a d es, a u to m o b iles, and m achine-guns. The power o f the film is in Peckinpah’s willingness to cast his protagonists in a moral­ ly am biguous light. P ik e’s men have a code that they stick together and try not to shoot innocent peo­ ple, but it is best if they do not get in the way.

This was one o f the first west­ erns, after Serge Leones spaghetti westerns, to try to bring more com­ plex issues to screen than the fight between good and evil. The rail­ road e x e c u tiv e s and G eneral Mapache who take from others are bad men, but Pike, Deke and their men are not good just less success­ ful. All the characters are trapped in w ays that w ill eventually kill them.

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Irish Doom w ith McDonagh and Beckett The Beauty Queen Leenane W hat m ust it be lik e for a actor to perform at a Centaur mati­ nee? After weeks spent rehearsing a play that won four Tony Awards on B road w ay, the actor bursts through the set door on ly to be g reeted by a b ru n ette (m e ), a blonde (my friend), and a sea o f w h ite hair. E ven the p o lite preshow announcement to "turn off y o u r c e ll phones" in c lu d e d a reminder to "please unwrap your [Werther's Original] candies now," which aroused blushes and chuck­ les from the golden-aged audience

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waiting for the elderly to die.

If the old folks don’t like the storyline, they will most likely be content with the total complacency o f the genre o f the performance, w hich is not p rovocative at all.

The Beauty Q u e e n ’s harsh real­ ism m akes for a good s t o r y , although it does not experiment with the poss ib lit ie s o f the m odern sta g e.

Sim ply acting out a story is not n ecessarily a p o in tless ex ercise (especially when you have fabu­ lous actors, lik e this production d oes), but does nothing to ch al­ le n g e or e x c ite th e a u d ie n c e.

Basically, this play celebrates the traditional status quo in every way m inu s the happy en d in g .

Obviously, however, this type o f theatre is quite popular these days, but leads to p lays seem in g lik e cop ies o f each other. Even The Beauty Q ueen’s set looks remark­ ably like that o f G race & G lorie from last month at the Saidye. For the rest o f the season, I pledge to avoid young p erso n /o ld person m id d le -c la ss fa m ily dram as because I wholeheartedly believe the old saying, “if you’ve seen one (or three) you’ve seen them all.”

Despite its unfortunate genre, The Beauty Queen is an enjoyable

Up With Theatre Carrie Schoemer members.

Why did so many old people com e to see The Beauty Queen o f L e e n a n e ! W as it the C entaur's prom ise to deliver the so-called "wicked side o f contemporary Irish theatre"? Was it the billin g o f a play written by Martin McDonagh, who has been referred to as The Bad Boy o f Irish Theatre? Or, was it that old people couldn't wait to see a play about a dying mother and her crazy daughter who live all alone on top of a hill in Ireland and amuse themselves by torturing one another? The best answ er I can o ffe r is that th e se se n io r s f e lt som ehow comforted by watching the character M ag's h ellish last days, being certain that their own children could never possibly be so horrible. This shallow analysis o f audience m otivations may seem harsh, but the plot o f this play is not geared towards the elderly.

This play is w atching the clock,

piece o f theatre, it is the best o f its kind. Your expensive ticket ($ 2 0 -3 5 ) com es with great acting and comfortable se a tin g (s e e E n dgam e review). The Centaur boasts a c o z y , warm lo u n g e that is open at intermission and that serves tasty beer and snacks (see E ndgam e review). Just d o n ’t ex p ec t an yth ing that w o u ld sh o ck G ram s and Gramps.

play. My friend wondered if dirt and water had been strategically p la ce d on the grou n d by Infinitheatre technicians to remind the audience o f the barrenness o f the setting, and, by extension, the filth and torm ent o f the w orld.

Either way, it looked really cool.

But after my eyes had taken it all in, my legs became numb. It was freezing. The theatre had provided blankets to warm us, but we were still so cold. 1 think that this was a

Endgame Sam uel B eckett, everyone's favorite pessimistic playwright on the despair o f human ex isten ce, wrote more than just W aiting f o r G o d o t (a lth o u g h you r drama teacher may have you believe oth­ erwise). Beckett's Endgam e is— no surprises here— a depressing, yet often hilarious examination o f the bleakness o f life as told by some sad, c o n fu se d and sym p ath etic characters.

The Infinitheatre's production o f E n d g a m e has a sort o f ep ic quality to it; director Guy Sprung has tried to present the definitive, all-encom passing presentation o f E n dgam e. He d o es th is in tw o ways; first, by moving the play out o f the theatre and into an aban­ doned warehouse, in an attempt to lend authenticity to the characters' world and second, by showing the play in both French and English, on alternating nights. Guy Sprung's d ir e c tin g , h o w e v e r , p rev en ts Endgame from fulfilling its expec­ tations o f being THE play o f the se a so n as, to va ry in g d eg re es, these two major decisions hinder, not help the play.

The venue w ould have been perfect except for the technical dif­ ficu lties it presented. The aban­ doned factory near Old-Montreal looked like it was made for this

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good idea, because it evoked a sort o f world-freezing-over-apocolyse, but it led to m uch d isco m fo rt.

When one character, Clov, brings out a toy d o g to H am m , I w as secretly hoping that it was a real d og, a St. Bernard in fact, w ho w ould run through the audience w ith a warm barrel o f liq u o r around his neck, giving us each a sip. Maybe this reverie highlights the extent to which my mind was wandering o ff during the perfor­ mance. Perhaps this was because I couldn’t hear most o f the dialogue because the actors were drowned out by the endless hissing sound of the w ind b lo w in g large p la stic sheets hanging outside.

Or perhaps it was because of

Sprung’s other big decision. I saw, what I thought was, the English n ig h t o f E n d g a m e , but I w as unaware that the play would not be strictly E n g lish . Instead, about one-third o f the dialogue was spo­ ken in F rench. In the program notes, Guy Sprung explains that he found Beckett's French version o f E n d g a m e far su p erio r to the English one, and wanted to incor­ porate the two. Sprung has elevat­ ed language to be one o f the play's them es, by nuancing the charac­ ters' moods with their decisions to speak either language. This leads only to confusion. Adm ittedly, I am not anywhere near perfectly bilingual, but I can understand spo­ ken French quite well. The FrenchEnglish-French switchbacks were altogether too much for my feeble mind, and I lost much o f the script, which is what I had come to hear.

Moreover, Endgam e is not a play about bilin gualism , and d o esn ’t quite work when it is forced to act like one.

If Guy Sprung had le ft the play alone, E ndgam e would have been fantastic. The script is noth­ in g short o f e x c e lle n t, and the actors were incredibly talented. I would love to see a production of Endgam e with the sam e actors, sam e ven u e (ea rlier in the fa ll maybe), and in either English or French, not both at once. Ah, if dreams could only come true...

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Le Farfelu à la rescousse de la fidélité La rhétorique am oureuse particulière cTAlexandre Jardin continue avec son nouveau roman par

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Alexandre Jardin a décidément une obsession particulière et inex­ orable avec lui-m êm e. Dans son nouveau roman A u to b io g ra p h ie d ’un amour, Jardin poursuit la veine autobiographique qu’il suit depuis son premier roman B ille en tête.

Com m e dans la m ajorité de ses romans, Le Petit Sauvage et Fanfan par exemple, le héros dans son nou­ veau roman A u tobiographie d ’un am our s ’appelle bel et bien “Alexandre.”

Au jeune âge de 35 ans, Jardin connaît déjà le goût d'un succès détonnant: il est p ub lié chez Gallimard, traduit en 23 langues, et deux de ses romans réalisés sur le grand écran (F anfan, Le Z èb re).

Bien qu'Autobiographie d'un amour aborde des thèmes typiquement “jar­ diniers,” comme la monogamie passionée et le personnage antithétique qu’est le mari-amant, ce roman d'une profonde mais honnête psychologie décevra peu de lecteurs.

Le couple vedette du roman,

Alexandre et Jeanne Rivière, vit aux Nouvelles-Hébrides avec leur deux enfants. Mariés depuis sept ans, ils ne se connaissent plus vraiment.

Incapable de susciter que le triste sile n c e de Jeanne, A lexandre Rivière se livre à des cogitations adultérines et illu so ir e s. A près quelques courtes péripéties, il se rend compte qu' il a tout à fait déçu sa fem m e et lui-m êm e, n'aillant jamais apprit comment l'aimer.

Faisant disparaître illico son héros inachevé, Jardin introduit le supposé frère jumeau d’Alexandre, Octave Rivière. Dans ce roman où la création psychologique des person­ nages occupe presque tout l’effort narratif, l ’ironie et l’énigme sont de constante rigueur afin de captiver l ’attention des lecteurs. En effet, l ’identité de T héros reste énigma­ tique jusqu’à la fin du roman: est-ce le jumeau Octave ou un Alexandre com p lètem en t transform é qui revient pour reconquérir Jeanne?

Que le héros soit A lexandre ou Octave importe peu. Ce nouveau héro sait comment être un homme

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envers Jeanne qui se voit de sa part entra”née par ses jeux ironiques, lui permettant ainsi de redécouvrir la beauté de sa fémininité.

Le vocabulaire de Jardin souf­ frant nullem ent d ’une disette est aussi divertissant que le héros far­ felu. Jardin s’approprie un language commun et parfois vulgaire dans les d ia lo g u es, m ais n ’h ésite pas d ’em p loyer un language quasi lyrique au niveau narratif. Le con­ traste souligne un trait typiquement

jardinier qui cherche à ce que le héros s ’échappe d’une “condition d’anesthésié” afin de “s’extirper des pièges de son passé” et découvrir que “l’amour [peut] être un chemin de rédem ption, une porte étroite pour se sauver de la médiocrité.”

Après avoir lu la m oitié du roman, on a l'impression que l’on doit tout simplement être maître de l'ironie pour avoir succès au jeux de l'amour. Naturellement, ça peut être décourageant pour ceux qu’y se sen­ tent moins adeptes. Cependant, le roman qui réserve son plus gros effort pour le développement psy­ chologique de l'âme féminine, fait surgir en son héro m ascu lin le besoin universel de l'amour inconditionel. Sans vouloir trop révéler, le héros Rivière admet être un amant décevant avec des fautes person­ nelles importantes. En dépit d'être un ta cticien am oureux, R ivière requête humblement à Jeanne sa miséricorde. À l’allure rapide du roman, il est plus facile tourner page après page que de s’ennuyer. La préoccu­

pation de Jardin qui se centre sur la fid é lité et la fa m ille, valeures attribuées avec m oins en m ois d’importance dans la société con­ temporaine, est raffraichissante et nous fait douter si en effet, l’amour passioné ne peut pas exister au sein de la conjugalité.

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Meyer is known for his virtuostic playing, having accompa­ nied everyone from the Indigo Girls to Yo Yo Ma. Meyer’s forte is his ability to com pose tunes that bridge musical genres. This time, he is accom panied by N ashville com panions Sam Bush (man­ dolin) and Mike Marshall (gui­ tar) and c la s s ic a l v io lin is t Joshua Bell.

Short Trip Home begins with the title track that pro­ vides a delicate channel to his world o f S ou th ern -classical music while the raunchiness of “Hang H ang” is jo ltin g yet resolving. This is all nicely mixed in with light and playful tunes like “BT”. The album concludes with a four m ove­ ment Concert Duo consisting o f only M eyer and B ell, suc­ c e s s fu lly su m m a rizin g and elaborating on the themes and tones introduced by the pre­ ceding tracks.

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Night Sun One M oment o f Grace Indie N igh t Sun brings an interesting mix o f accordion, guitar and folksy vocals into their sound. This would be a go o d thing i f they had a sense o f m usical creativity and their album was not so banal and dull. Imagine your high school English teachers form in g a band, and you may get the idea. The entire album blends into one; the songs are very sim ilar and none o f the songs are very interesting. It is not that the music is bad but, there is just something missing from the songs. Some intangible com­ ponent is lacking from their writing that makes the songs sim ply boring. The album almost put me to sleep when I was in an excited mood. I recommend this album only to insomniacs.

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Penny Lang has a won­ derfully raspy voice that’s sm ooth and hits the right notes, but it is put to waste in her re p e titiv e u n creative music. If her music was bad I would have som ething to write about, and if her music w as go o d I w ou ld have som ething to write about, but it is neither. I can’t com ­ m ent on the b a n d ’s sty le because they don't have one, they just play music. There’s no emotion in this album, it is not happy, nor is not sad.

This is the type o f album that leaves no lasting impression.

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Redmen football falls just short in home play-off thriller Last minute touchdown by Ottawa quarterback Phil Coté in 24-21 loss spells end to Redmen's season.

By Jeremy K u z m a r o v

left on the clock, and the Redmen would get a crack at the end zone, the r e a lity w as that tim e had expired on the Wearing catch and

out on some great opportunities to put away Ottawa during the fourth quarter. Nursing a four point lead, the R edm en d efen ce put heavy

ing struggled for much o f the day, was able to swiftly move the ball down-field in this case, and scored its se c o n d to u ch d o w n to bury

If not for d yn am ic O ttaw a quarterback Phil Coté, the Redmen football team would be on its way to Laval for the conference final.

Hosting the undefeated GeeGees on home turf in the OntarioQ uebec Intercollegiate Football C onferen ce sem i-fin a ls, M cG ill put forward a tremendous effort, and nearly cam e aw ay w ith an upset victory.

Leading 21-17 with under two minutes to play, the Redmen fell victim to the dazzling skills o f the versatile Coté. The Hec Crighton Trophy Candidate led his team 52 yards downfield with some timely p ass c o m p le tio n s and running plays .

On second down with under one minute on the clock, Coté had a particularly clutch 18 yard run to bring the Gee Gees to within two yards o f the end zon e. H is tw o yard touchdown run on the ensu­ in g p lay w ith 28 se c o n d s le ft proved to be the winner.

“On that [18 yard run] I bobbled the ball off the snap, I thinkthat threw off their defence,” said Coté, who passed for 275 yards, Redmen rookie Danny Tai powers his way past the Gee-Gees defence Max Lewkowski and rushed for another 88. “It was McGill. such a huge r e lie f to score. W e on M cGill’s roller-coaster ‘99 sea­ pressure on Coté and the Ottawa son. were getting very anxious late in o ffe n c e fo r c in g se v er a l key Ottawa scored its first touch­ “M y o n ly th o u g h ts after turnovers the game and McGill was playing down o f the game early on, when Early in the fourth quarter, some great defence. It felt great to catching the ball were to get down Tounkara scampered 15 yards into Redmen cornerback Greg Shink the end zone virtually untouched come back and pull out the victo­ and g e t a w h istle to stop the clock,” said Wearing who was his came up with a huge interception on a reverse. The Gee-Gees’ other ry-” deep in McGill territory to stop the major came on a fumble recovery After falling to a 17-6 lead at usual explosive self, notching 219 all-purpose yards, “I thought w e’d driving Ottawa offence dead in its in the end zone, after Sommerfeldt the half, the Redmen showed some get the benefit o f the doubt from tracks. In coming up with the pick, great character in claw in g back lost hold o f the ball w hile being the scorekeeper con sid erin g w e Shink, who also forced an Ottawa pursued by two Ottawa defenders. into the gam e, ju st as they had w ere p la y in g at h om e but w e fumble earlier in the game, wres­ done many times during the year.

“The defence did a good job tled the ball away from Gee-Gees Phillipe Couillard replaced an inef­ didn’t.” o f containing Coté, except on that fective Josh Somm erfeldt at final drive which proved to be quarterback in the seco n d the difference,” said teary-eyed half, and helped spark a reju­ se n io r lin eb a ck er O liv ie r v en a ted R ed ‘n W h ite Lefebvre who was playing in offence. the final game o f his spectacu­ W ith C o u illa rd at the lar R ed m en career. “I t’s a helm, McGill moved the ball tough pill to swallow to lose in down field early in the third the last minute. It still hasn’t quarter using a solid mix of hit me that it’s my last game.” running and p assin g p lays.

Heading into the contest, R u n n in g -b a ck N ick the Redmen were heavy under­ H offm a n n cap p ed o f f the d o g s a g a in st O ttaw a, w ho drive by plowing through the d esp ite its 8 -0 record w as O ttaw a lin e en rou te to a forced to play its first play-off three-yard touchdown run. gam e on the road because o f Going for the two point league sanctions against the conversion, Couillard stepped team for u sing an in elig ib le up in the pocket and coolly player in 1997. hit slot-back Ben Wearing in Having defeated Queen’s the e n d -z o n e to narrow in an exhilarating com e-from Ottawa’s lead to 17-14. behind win to earn the post­ L ate in the quarter, season berth, the 3-5 Redmen C o u illa rd sc o re d an oth er carried their m omentum and touchdown from three yards came close to knocking o ff the out on a naked bootleg run to favoured G ee-G ees b efore The McGill offence will need some fine tuning for next year Max Lewkowski vau lt the R edm en into the the frenzied Molson Stadium “T he g u y s r e a lly sh o w e d lead. star receiver Ibrahim Tounkara. crowd o f 1,612.

Following Coté’s major late in som e heart out there and gave it With 2:47 to play, defensive “It was a tough loss, especial­ their all, the defence came up real­ back Loris Lucchetta came up with the fourth quarter, the Redm en ly for the seniors who played their offence put in a last ditch effort to ly big,” added Wearing. “Couillard another huge interception o ff an la st g a m e ,” sa id R edm en head was great in relief o f Sommerfeldt, errant C oté throw. The Redmen win the game. After a first down coach Charlie Baillie. “As a whole, and the offensive line gave great offence was unable to capitalize on toss to Steve McKellar, Coulliard the team should be proud o f its p ro tec tio n for our b ack s. both turnovers, however. hit W earing for a big gain down efforts. W hile w e struggled early F o llo w in g a tw o and out on in the year, w e’ve always had a the sidelines to bring McGill to the Unfortunately w e couldn’t convert series, the Redmen were forced to good feeling on this team, and we the turnovers gen erated by the Ottawa thirty. defence into points.” punt the ball into Ottawa’s hands.

W h ile m any M c G ill fan s sh o w ed our p o ten tia l out there The Redmen offence m issed The lethal Gee-Gees offence, hav­ today. Just like against Q ueen’s, thought that there was still seconds

we showed character and heart in coming back and playing hard for sixty minutes.”

While the loss was extremely heart-felt for graduating upperc la ss-m e n su ch as c o -c a p ta in s L efebvre and Rob Posthumus, a glim pse o f the future o f Redmen football was seen in the strong play o f several rookies. For exam ple, freshmen running back Hoffmann led the way for M cG ill’s ground attack with 92 yards and a touch­ d o w n , d em o n stra tin g h is v a st potential in the process.

“Hoffmann is a tough runner, and a good player. W e’ve got a lot o f young guys at a lot o f key posi­ tions on our team , “ said coach B aillie. “W e had a great class o f first year players this year, and are lo ok in g forward to seein g them progress in the future.”

O tta w a 24. M c G ill 21 Ottawa....... at McGill....

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First Quarter McG- FG Pillai 37 yards ......................................7:15 Ott- TD Tounkara 15 yard run (McNiece convert).................................... 12:33 Ott- TD Gagnon fumble recovery in end-zone (McNiece convert)....................................... 13:48 Second Quarter Ott- FG McNiece 16 y a rd s ............................... 4:50 McG- FG Pillai 26 yards..................................... 7:53 Third Quarter McG- TD Hoffmann 3 yard run (two point convert Wearing 5 yd pass from Couillard)............................................................... 5:16 McG- TD Couillard 3 yard run ( Pillai convert)............................................15:00 Fourth Quarter Ott- TD Coté 2 yard run (McNiece convert)......................................14:32 TEAM STATS McG Firstdowns..................................

Yards rushing..............................

154 Yards passing.............................

242 Total offence............................... ^ qq Team losses...............................

51 Net offence..................................

345 Passes made-tried......................

16-28 Return yards............................... 12- i 83 Interceptions..............................

3 Turnovers....................................

4 Penalties-yards........................... ^ 5

Ott g 180 2 75 455 5 450 13-21 8.54 2 4 ! 2 . 84

Individual Stats Rushing: McG - Hoffmann 13-92, Tai 8-36, Duchesne 12-30, Wearing 2-16, Couillard 1-3, Sommerfeldt 2-(-23): Ott - Coté 15-88, Atram 4-40, Musotte 5-28, Tounkara 3-14, Simon 2-10.

Recieving: McG - Wearing 6-109, Lanctot 4-45, Posthumus 2-36, Duchesne 1-25, McKellar 2-22, Tai 1-15: Ott- Tounkara 8-134, Harrod 4-127, Ray 1-14.

Passing: McG - Couillard 10-15, 148 yds, 0 td, 1 int, Sommerfeldt 6-13, 94 yds, 0 td, 2 int: Ott Coté 13-21, 275 yds, 0 td, 2 int. attendence: 1,612.

Martlet Basketball vs. Queen's, Friday 6:00 p.m., vs. Ryerson Saturday 2:00 p.m.

Redmen Basketball vs. Queen's, Friday 8:00 p.m., vs. Ryerson Saturday 4:00 p.m.

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Redmen Volleyball vs Montreal, Sunday, 3:00 p.m.

T he M c G ill T ribune, T uesday, 9 N ovember 1999

Redmen victory sends team to Victoria for Nationals McGill uses team play to pull out a 3-0 win over UQAM to take the Quebec Cham pionship

By Edvar d G lücksman __________

Friday n ight at M olson Stadium in front o f their largest crowd of the season, the Redmen m anaged to beat their riv a ls, l’Université de Québec à Montréal, by a convincing 3-0 score.

This season, UQAM was the only team to beat Pat Raimondo’s team at McGill when they won 1-0 on Sept 24th. However, since that lo ss , a lot has changed in the McGill camp.

“M cGill’s big strength lies in their teamwork and their collective organization,” said Concordia coach Vladimir Pavlicik, who watched the encounter from the stands.

His analysis was dead-on as this has been a recurrent factor in the Redmen’s success this season.

After a tight and defensive first half, the home team opened up and took control o f the match shortly after half time. The encounter was won through a truly collective effort and was a great way to wrap up the provincial season and get ready for the all-im portant N ational Championships at the University of Victoria later this week.

The gam e w as in ten se and p h y sic a l, e s p e c ia lly after the Redmen took the lead and tempers flared on several occasions leading to several yellow cards and a send­ ing-off.

The match began very slowly and carefully, as is the tendency when the outcome is so important.

Both sides were afraid to take risks and played using highly-defensive tactics. The best early chance came in the 20th m inute on a Jason Frenette free kick that flew harm­ lessly over the UQAM goal.

The encounter tightened fur­ ther as shirts were grabbed and fouls were whistled. A UQAM yel­ low card in the 21st minute was an early sign of a somewhat unsportsman-like encounter.

E ven during th ese frantic moments, McGill possessed a squad that seemed to be more organized and play-conscious. The friction

away. between the teams increased further Harding made up for it majesti­ in the 37th m inute w hencaptain cally as he scored the most beautiful Rehan Ali was booked for a late goal of the night in the 85th minute tackle on the UQAM keeper. on a mighty shot straight into the The second half started off in a corner of the net passed to him cun­ m uch m ore en erg etic and open ningly by Andrew Eisenstark. fash io n . M cG ill k eep er Jason “W e capped it o f f w ith the Forsyth, who had enjoyed an almost third goal. At that point, we knew labour-free first half showed that he who was on their way to B.C.,” said was still awake and on guard as he the South Shore forward in the dove and saved a relatively tame UQAM shot in the 48th minute.

The big break fin a lly arrived in the 5 1 st m inute when a McGill corner kick, h e a d e d tow ards the goal by Jason F renett e bounced o ff several bodies, en d ing up nearby m id ­ field e r Justin Student who Redmen preparing for a long flight to B.C. pounded home what was to be changing room after the game. the winning goal.

With five minutes left, UQAM “There is d efinitely nothing realized their chances of victory had like the buzz of scoring the winning disappeared and began to show goal in a final that takes you home signs of frustration as they commit­ to your fa m ily ,” said B ritish ted themselves more and more to Columbia native Student after the fouls and unsportsm anlike play. game.

This tendency reached its peak two The M cG ill m id field er was minutes before the end when Rehan taken off for a few minutes to col­ A li was close to assaulted whilst lect himself and came back in a few running with the ball by a UQAM minutes to have a crucial role in the midfielder who was justly shown Redmen’s second goal in the 70th the red card and booed off the field minute. A deflected Student corner by the angry fans. Two minutes kick ended up at the feet of Jason later, the final whistle was blown Frenette whose low strike beat the and McGill were champions. keeper and shook the back o f the Quebec provincial Coach of net. By now, it looked clear that UQAM were going to have a diffi­ cult time in coming back.

The game was almost sealed when Guy Anaba Anaba, on a oneon-one situation with the keeper, passed the ball off unselfishly to striker Mathieu Harding who could not quite m anage to put the ball M c G ill sw im m ing s w e e p s T ri-M eet

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At the OUA Championships, the M artlets lost three gam es.

They lost to Guelph 10-3, with Maggie Konrad, Rita Higgins and Pauline Kamath scoring. Their gam e M VP w as g o a lie Tara U psh aw . A fter a l l - 3 lo ss to Wilfrid Laurier, they lost 7-4 to York in the co n so la tio n round game. Konrad scored twice, while Higgins and game MVP Abigail Tannebaum a lso m arked.

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the Year Pat Raimondo looked on, barely a smile on his face, as ‘his boys’ celebrated.

“I g iv e full credit to all my p layers for to n ig h t’s victory.

However, there are still three games remaining and therefore three steps left until we reach our goal. We did not play this season to stop here,” said Raimondo minutes after the final whistle. The feeling was mutu­ al on the players side.

It was all summed up w ell by Rehan Ali after the celebrations and the awards ceremo­ ny where he took home an All-Star title as well as the C on feren ce P layer o f the Y ear A w ard.

A ll-S ta r Awards were also won by k eeper Jason Forsyth, defender Gino L alli, defender Jason Frenette and midfielder David Simon.

“W e’re ecsta tic.

A fter having played sin ce m id-A ugu st, Nem a Etheridge this was a great way to end the se a so n ,” said the captain. “Everyone worked so hard and even thought the game was very physical, we managed to get under their skin. W e’d also like to thank the fans who came out to support us tonigh t. They were great.”

“We co u ld n 't be h ap p ier,” commented Jason Forsyth who has recently heard rumours that the pro­ fessional indoor-soccer team, the Montreal Impact, are interested in trying him out.

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Katie Renwick, a winger for the Q S SF ch am pion M artlets Rugby team, is the female athlete o f the week. The 20-year-old envi­ ronmental education sophomore from Goodw ood, Ont. came o ff the bench to sco re tw o trys, including the game winner with three minutes remaining against Concordia in the league finals.

Justin Student, a 5 ’9” forward for the Redmen Soccer team, is the male athlete of the week. The 21 year o ld arts sen ior from Langley, B.C. scored the gam e w in ner in their 3 -0 win over UQAM in the Q S SF ch a m p i­ onship game.

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Redmen hockey stings Concordia in 8-1 blowout Win over Stingers last in the streak as team falls to Ottawa on Sunday B y J e n n if e r L o r e n t z

It is fair to say that fans were relatively tense heading into Friday night’s Redmen hockey game ver­ sus the Concordia Stingers.

Given the outcome o f the last m atch -u p b etw e en th e se tw o team s, a 7-2 pre-season w in for Concordia, and with the Redmen’s regular season winning streak on the lin e , the ten sio n w as q uite understandable.

The tw o team s approached this early season matchup surpris­ ingly with a lot on the line. The Redmen entered the game looking to ex ten d th eir regu lar se a so n unbeaten streak to seven gam es, and the Stingers sought to prove, once again, that they were the bet­ ter team.

A slaughter and a com plete turnaround are probably the two best ways to describe the ensuing 8-1 McGill victory.

“W e played a lot harder, more intense than the last game. W e just

kept up our level o f play from the last few w eeks,” said head coach Martin Raymond after the game.

“That w as the d iffe r e n c e . W e d id n ’t play really hard again st Concordia in the last game. They played really hard and beat us 7-2.

T on ig h t w e c a p ita liz e d on our chances.”

An am azing stat that speaks wonders o f the R edm en penalty killing (and horrors o f the powerplay) is that only one o f the nine goals were scored on the power play. This was was in spite o f the fact that there were w ell over 30 minutes worth o f penalties, includ­ ing a roughing call against goalie B enoit Ménard, and a couple o f double minors.

T he R edm en sco rin g spree began five and half m inutes into the first period as David Bahl car­ ried the puck in from the blue line and buried it top shelf.

Just over five minutes later, w h ile on the p ow er p lay, D ave Gourde, the first star o f the game,

beat Concordia net-minder MarcAndre Blondeau on a one-tim er fed by d e fe n c e m e n M atthieu Boisvert.

“It feels great to start the sea­ son this well. Last year I couldn’t help the team [due to in ju ries,” explained Gourde. “This year is my fourth year and I’d really like to go all the way, and I think we have the team to do that.”

A mere 44 seconds into the second period, Gourde slipped the puck into the net again, this time o ff a pass from captain Mathieu Darche, to increase the Redmen lead to 3-0.

R o o k ie G reg D a v is added another goal 29 seconds later, with a shot to the top left comer o f the net. Im m ediately fo llo w in g the goal, Pierre-Alex Nadeau skated onto the ice to replace Blondeau between the Concordia pipes.

N a d ea u m anaged to g et through 12 minutes and 15 seconds o f p lay b efo re M ich el D up ont slipped the puck past his foot on

On Sunday afternoon at MacDonald Campus, the McGill Martlets Rugby team won the uniM a rtle t Rugby versity's third provincial title of the weekend. McGill winger Katie Renwick came off the bench in the second half to score two tries in the final 10 minutes to give McGill a come-from-behind 23-18 win over Concordia in the Quebec university women's rugby championship on Sunday. Renwick tallied the win­ ning try with just under three minutes remaining. Scoring other tries for McGill were 8-man Holly Bailey, and fullback Sonia Beaulieu. Sophomore all-star winger Jessie Matiaszuk of Montreal, named as the conference's most valuable player, rounded out the scoring for the Martlets with a 3-point penal­ ty kick.

the glove side.

T h e S tin g ers were fin ally able to g et on the scoreboard early in to the third p erio d , effectively ending B enoît Menard’s cam­ p aign for his second shutout o f the season.

Though the R edm en had a c o m ­ m anding lead, they kept pourin g on the offence for the rest o f the gam e. T w elv e m in u tes and twenty seconds into the period, Darche shot to the upper cor­ ner o f the net on N a d e a u ’ s Redmen David Lizotte m aintainin' M a x Lew kow ski g lo v e sid e to dropped to 6-1 for the regular sea­ score M cGill’s seventh goal. son, still the team’s best start since D u rin g the co u rse o f the the 1984-85 season. game, M cGill’s top line o f Darche, Gourde and Bahl com b ined for seven points.

McGill 8. Concordia 1 “I’ve got players that I know at McGill well on my line. I’ve been playing with these guys for four years. I First Period 1. McGill, Bahl think w e com plim ent each other (Plourde)...................................................... 5:36 pretty w ell,” said Gourde.

2. McGill, Gourde (Boisvert,Burgess)......................................10:52 “I don’t know anything that would have triggered eight goals,” Second Period 3. McGill, Gourde 2 added Raymond. “Davis had some (Darche)........................................................ 0:44 4. McGill, Davis great moves and some great goals.

(Burgess, Rajotte)........................................1:13 Basically w e’ve been going hard to 5. McGill, Dupont (Grenier,Perrault)......................................... 13:28 the net. Som e days you execute 6. McGill, Davis 2 and it goes well; som e days you (McClean)....................................................... 16:00 e x e c u te and you stru g g le a bit more.”

Third Period 7. Concordia, Castongray It is safe to say that Friday, it (Laboissiere, Dipoalo)................................ 8:23 went well.

8. McGill, Darche (Gourde, Bahl).............................................. 12:20 Unfortunately, the Redmen’s 9. McGill, Theriault (Boisvert, Ducharme)..................................12:31 w in n in g streak w as h a lted on Sunday afternoon by the Ottawa Shots on goal Gee-Gees who defeated McGill on Concorida..... 7 19 11 - 37 hom e ice 5 -3. M c G ill’s record McGill............ 12 11 11 - 3 4

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M artlets take home second QSSF crown in as many years Team aiming for a better performance than last year at CIAU cham pionships in Waterloo C ontinued from page 1

M elam ed . “ B oth team s p la y ed very strong; you have to feel bad for the losing team, but w e’re glad w e ’re on the w in nin g end. The

after the game. “Laval was a very stro n g tea m , but o v e r a ll w e deserved to go after the great sea­ son that we had.”

and sp a rk p lu g M a lo n e y k ep t Laval’s defence busy for the rest o f the game.

M cG ill q uickly knotted the sc o r e , as m id fie ld e r Kiran N ayar dribbled to a clear point in the b o x and ham m ered a shot into the top comer in the 47th minute.

M cG ill a huge 1-0 lead after the first round o f penal­ ties. Laval was able to mark on their next th ree ch an ces.

H o w e v e r , S o p h ie Labrom, Julia Scrase and L isa D u til all easily scored on their Off tO corresponding attempts, setting up a Waterloo fin a l rou n d w ith McGill only needing At the C IA U either a save or goal N a tio n a ls h o ste d by to win.

W ilfr id L au rier “I w a s so n er­ University in Waterloo, v o u s,” said Scrase. the Martlets will try to “The first save was im prove on their per­ h u g e . I’v e p la y e d formance at last year’s w ith S o p h ie for a n a tio n a l tournam en t, lo n g tim e, after w e w hen they fin ish e d a scored, w e felt very d isa p p o in tin g fourth r e lie v e d . W e ju st place out o f six teams. w anted to k eep the In what may be a fac­ momentum going.” tor, Laurier’s pitch is A f t e r on artificial turf similar C la u d ia n n e G uay to that o f M o lso n sc o re d on her Stadium.

Nema Etheridge attem p t fo r L a v a l, Martlets celebrate their second consecutive title a t Molson Stadium on Friday “This was a great Carly Dean w as left win, but w e’ll have to w ith the task to convert on her support the crow d g ave us w as fo r g e t ab ou t to n ig h t ,” sa id In contrast to many o f their chance. In contrast to her team ­ great.” previous games, the Martlets start­ M ou n icot. “I’ll have to tell the mates, she aimed high. The ball players to achieve the other goal, ed o f f strong after the op en ing snuck in just under the crossbar, whistle. They nearly scored in the which is to get a medal. It w on’t Deadlock in giving M cGill the Quebec title. be easy.”

22nd minute, as Alanna Maloney “I didn’t know I was chosen The returning v eteran s are regulation time kicked a low, hard shot that Laval until the last m inute,” explained anxious to make up for last year, g o a lie B la is g o t a hand on and D ea n . “I tried to stay c a lm . I w h ile the ro o k ies are eager for D e s p ite f in is h in g in fir st rolled just wide o f the net. d id n ’t e x a c tly sh oot the w ay I place, McGill was not considered some more playoff action.

However, in the 27th minute, wanted to, but it went in. When I the clear favourite in this gam e.

“I’m really looking forward it was Laval who scored first. Lisa turned around, I saw that every­ Laval had won the previous three to it, it’ll be a good experience,” N o le t to o k ad v a n ta g e o f so m e body was com ing at me, it was so m a tch u p s p la y e d at M o lso n said Dean, one o f the large contin­ c o n fu s io n a m o n g th e M c G ill exciting.”

Stadium, and were on quite a roll d e fe n c e , and w as ab le to g et a gent o f rookies who immediately While most people agree that h ead ing in to the fin a ls. T hings made an impact this season for the clean shot on net. sh o o to u ts are a lo u s y w a y to Martlets.

T he M artlets o ffe n c e then lo o k e d ev e n w o rse for M cG ill d ecide a cham pionship, nobody T hey w ill open the tourna­ seem ed to sputter for the rest o f when you factor in that Martlets could deny the extremely intense ment against D alh ou sie, a team the half, unable to use their speed star forward Eva M elam ed w as atmosphere, when even the gener­ limping with an ankle injury suf­ to create chances. W hite had to whose home field is also on turf. ally reserved M cG ill crowd was “The game against Dalhousie make a leaping stop on a ball just fered tw o w eeks earlier against causing a ruckus. should set the tone, w e’ll have to Laval, and started the game on the before the break to keep the team “(Penalty kicks) are an unfor­ sidelines. op en w ith a lo t o f h ea rt,” said in the game. tunate way to end a gam e,” said Scrase.

A s in their p revious gam es “It was a tight game, but we “A n y th in g sh o u ld be an against Laval and Concordia, the dominated them, the girls played im p r o v e m e n t o v e r la st y e a r ,” with a lot o f heart,” said a proud M artlets headed to the dressing 3 9 6 3 C o I o n i added M elamed. “If w e show up M c G ill co a c h M arc M o u n ic o t room trailing 1-0. this time, I’m sure w e’ll do w ell.”

“It was just like the last game against Laval; w e just needed to com e out hard and put the ball in Q u e b e c C h a m p i o n s in the net, except w e came back this M e n ’s a n d W o m e n ’s time,” commented Scrase.

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Redmen seniors must say goodbye to team and football After five years, McGill will enter next season without veterans fike Posthumus, Denault, Lefebvre, and Tosh

By C hristian Lander

After five years in the McGill Football program, the seniors are getting ready to move on. And, as any o f the players will tell you, it’s an act that’s easier said than done.

From their initial recruiting visit to their last game on Saturday against Ottawa, these players will have spent five years in a close knit environm ent where the com m it­ ment to the team is year-round.

From drills, to road games, to off-season conditioning, they spend more tim e together than they do apart, and that’s p rec ise ly w hy leaving is so hard.

“I w ill m iss the guys on the team more than anything,” says linebacker Ollie Lefebvre on what will be the hardest part of Redmen fo o tb a ll to le a v e b ehind. “Y ou spend so much time together you get to know everyone really well.”

“I’ll miss getting up at six in the morning for winter practices,” sa y s Rob P osthu m u s w ith ou t a trace of sarcasm. “I’ll miss training all year round and just playing the game. But I’ll miss the guys and staff most o f all.”

Every player on the roster will co n firm that the team is what t h e y ’ll rem em ber b est about M cG ill, and the lack o f playing football during the fall will leave a vacuum in many o f their lives. The sport itself consumes so much time that the g am es truly m ean the world to these players.

It’s easy to see the importance o f football to these athletes as a negative thing, that it’s just a game.

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But the amount o f time these ath­ letes put into preparation for the game makes it so important to them and it would be nothing short o f a disgrace not to see them broken up after a game.

“I’ll m iss playing the game,” says d efen siv e back Tim Tosh.

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thing you can never replace.”

The void left by football may not have to be replaced for some of the grad u atin g p la y ers. A fter watching their former teammates like Dan Pronyk, J.P. Darche, and Samir Chahine all carve a niche for themselves in the CFL, a few o f the players are taking their chances but

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make in the CFL as a free agent,” sa y s L e fe b v r e, w h o sh o u ld be named an All-Canadian this year.

“But if that doesn’t work out I have my d eg ree in A er o sp a c e Engineering and I’ll use that to get a job.”

“I think I’ll see what happens in the CFL,” says offensive line­

man Martin Denault. “But I’m not banking on that or anything, if it doesn’t work I have a degree and I’ll do some coaching.”

This season was certainly spe­ cial for all the Redm en, but the seniors will carry some particularly great memories. After such a tough loss it’s hard to admit it, but taking an u n d efea ted G e e -G e e s team down to the wire will be a happy reminiscence. But for most o f the p la y er s, th ey w ere g iv e n their greatest moment a few weeks back.

“The com eback w in against Queen’s has to be my best memory as a Redmen,” says Tosh.

“The gam e against B ish op ’s was pretty good,” adds Posthumus.

“But the win against Q ueen’s in Kingston had to be the greatest.”

T he grad u atin g p la y ers o f 1999 w ill now have to accept the fact that they are leaving M cGill and the Redmen behind, but they can be confident knowing their five years with the team will help them for life.

“It’s an am azing transition from first to fifth year,” says head coach C harlie B a illie. “T h ey ’ve been through some difficult times, they’ve learned a lot about team play and sacrificing. I’d say that u su a lly the fifth year g u y s are solid citizens and will be a success in whatever they do. Anyone that can survive five years o f university football has paid his dues and will be rewarded.”

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