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This December 6 marks ten years since Marc Lepine walked into the Ecole Polytechnique and murdered fourteen women. December 6 is now Canada’s National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women. The murders at Ecole Polytechnique were not unique examples of misogyny, but some of the most chilling and blatant. Ten years later, how do we remember those events, and what actions have we taken to prevent them from ever occur ring again? It is far easier to disclaim the deaths of those female engineering students as casualties of a madman, rather than a manifestation of an underlying violence against women so pervasive in our soci ety. Premier Robert Bourassa, after all, tried to assert that the Polytechnique shootings had no larger societal signifi cance when he was quoted as saying “it was not a matter of deliberate acts of political violence.” That interpretation of events omits the crucial aspects of the

By Julia C arbone __________________________________

Are our personalities genetically pre-determined ? Maybe it is the way in which we are cared for as babies that determine which genes will be expressed in us. Can parenting be learned ? Is it affected by environment or is it also genetically pre-determined? A team of researchers led by Dr. Michael J. Meaney, a professor of Psychology and Neurological Sciences at McGill University, has tackled this exact question. In examining the maternal behaviour in Norway rats, researchers found significant proof to support the idea that nurturing affects personality and that behaviour is learned. The recently released results of the study show that the maternal care received by the pups (baby rats) as well as the environment in which they were raised ultimately influenced their parenting behaviour. It also affected the development of behavioural and endocrine (release of hormones) response to stress. This behaviour was then passed down through the generations. The question of the inheritability of mater nal care and the impact of environment on maternal care are not new questions. However, as Meaney said, “ The question is to identify how this occurs”.

crime that first, Lepine shot only females and second, the man screamed “I hate feminists!” before pulling the trigger.

G u n C o n tro l In reaction to the events at the Montreal engineering school, one of the survivors, Heidi Rathjen, co-founded the Coalition for Gun Control, which over hauled Canada’s gun control policies first in 1991, and then again in 1995. As the Canadian law now stands, Bill C-17 and the Firearms Act require: all firearms to be registered, strict screening licenses for all gun owners, a national informa tion system with data on who owns what guns, a ban on semi-automatic military assault weapons and short-barreled hand guns, controls on the sales of ammuni tion, more strict controls on import, export and tracking of guns, and more stricter penalties for firearms misuse. Rathjen just wrote a novel called D ecem ber 6, of her journey from hiding in an empty classroom at Polytechnique the night of the shootings to her gun-con

trol activism. Gun lobbies are still fierce ly resistant to the two bills she helped pass through Parliament, so much so that both the Conservative and Reform par ties have vowed to repeal them if elected. At 2 p.m. on December 6, the Coalition for Gun Control will hold a press confer ence at which the parents of the victims and public health and safety experts will provide an update on the status of gun control in Canada, The conference takes place at 3725 St. Denis, room 514.

W h ite R ib b o n C a m p a ig n The violence displayed that December 6 sparked activism on the part of men as well. The White Ribbon Campaign was founded in 1991 as a world-wide effort by men working to end men’s violence against women. For the days between the International Day for the Eradication of Violence Against Women on November 25, and Canada’s National Day of Remembrance and C o n tin u e d on Page 2 2

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W e e k o f S e p te m b e r 1 Beverage giants court McGill

Both Coca-Cola and Pepsi approached McGill on July 15 with proposals for an exclusive contract with McGill. The University award ed a letter of intent to one of the beverage giants on August 28. Though the exact size of the contract remains unannounced, sig nificant revenues will be shared by the Students’ Society of McGill University and other faculties over the next 11 years. It has since been revealed that an exclusive agreement was signed between Coca-Cola and the University.

Quebec tuition costs. SSMU is currently arguing the matter in court. It is appealing a judgement handed down in February of 1998 in which SSMU lost.

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CKUT le ft w ith no station m an ager

Staff at CKUT-FM were left scrambling when they found them selves without a station manager. The night before he was to arrive in Montreal, the newly selected station manager withdrew from the posi tion, leaving the station up in the air. Mopa Dean, former Program Co-ordinator at the University of Toronto’s CIUT, was chosen for the job. The evening before he was to begin work at CKUT, Dean called and notified the station that he was unable to take the job. Until a new station manager is found, three members of the steer ing committee - the CKUT equiva

D iff e r e n tia l tu itio n in creases again

An ongoing legal battle between SSMU and the government heated up as the differential tuition for out-of-province students and Quebec residents increased further this year. Out-of-province students’ tuition costs have risen to $3,438.30. SSMU argues that the discrepancy is discriminatory, espe cially now as out-of-province fees rise to 106 per cent more than

W eek o f S e p te m b e r 14 McGill and Coke wed them selves to an eleven year partnership for the sale of cold beverages on campus. A privacy clause in the contract has left actual dollar amounts some thing of a mystery. What is known is that a little less than half of the money will go to SSMU and will then be distributed across the facul ty associations according to a divi sion formula. The remainder will go to the University.

W eek o f S e p te m b e r 21 Your space health

Space health was the main topic discussed at McGill in the first meeting of the Association for the Development of Aerospace Medicine (ADAM). The group brought in a panel of five speakers from the Canadian Space Agency to field questions from knowledgehungry students on everything from robotic arms to space-politics. McGill's profs get a raise

The SSMUis now accepting applications for the position of TREASURER. Constitutional duties include: ■ P r o v id in g t h e E x e c u ti v e C o m m i t t e e a n d C o u n c il w ith m o n th l y r e p o r t s o n t h e f in a n c ia l s t a t u s o f t h e S o c i e t y ; • C h a ir in g t h e F i n a n c e C o m m i t t e e a n d c o o r d i n a t e its a c t i v i t i e s d e v e l o p i n g th e an n u a l b u d g e t of th e SSM U e n s u rin g th a t n o g ro u p d is b u r s e s th e S S M U f u n d s w ith o u t a u th o riz a tio n ;

McGill professors have been given a raise. The move came after a determination last year that McGill staff’s salary rests at between nine and fifteen per cent below the average in the Group of Ten, a group of Canadian universi ties that compares facts and figures. Salary is being increased by 3.1 per cent. One per cent of the raise is for all faculty, with the remaining 2.1 per cent based on a merit com ponent. Gun-toting police storm student hang-out

Local police aggressively removed pedestrians hanging out side of Vol De Nuit, a bar on the corner of Prince Arthur and Saint Laurent. According to eyewitnesses, the police formed a line across Prince Arthur and began herding pedestri ans towards Saint Laurent at rough ly 2 am. The area is patrolled by police station 38 at 1033 Rachel S. The station was contacted but would make no comment or acknowledge this incident had occurred.

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25 years ago, the merging of Loyola College and Sir George Williams College gave birth to Concordia University. To com memorate the birthday, Concordia is launching a veritable cornucopia of events all year, ranging from con certs to the Concordia Shuffle, which raises money for undergradu ate scholarships and bursaries. CKUT defrauded

CKUT, McGill’s radio station, defrauded of about $11,000, finally resolved the situation by working out a repayment agreement, renting out another broadcasting band that the station owns and trimming from station income. The problem arose inadvertent ly through CKUT’s for mer station manager, Adri an H arewood. He reported ly met a refugee who l a t e r obtained Harewood’s long distance code at the station. The refugee allegedly made phone calls to Europe and Africa on the station’s bill. Ha r e wo o d plans to repay the money over a four to five year period. C F S-Q rage

W e e k o f O c to b e r 5 Spies on campus

The Canadian Security Intelligence Service recently acquired the power to hire informers to spy on terrorist activities on uni versity campuses without the approval of the Solicitor General. Various student groups were up in arms about the new policy. The CSIS Act always allowed the use of human sources in certain circum stances. The only difference now is the decision can be made without consulting a higher authority in the government. Charest addresses McGill

W eek o f S e p te m b e r 28 Office for Chemistry and Society

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The new Office for Chemistry and Society opened amidst a furor of public and academic support. This unique institute, dedicated to the education of the public, rede fines McGill’s position in Montreal. Dreamed up by Chair of Chemistry David Harpp, bolstered by Dr. Ariel Fenster and riding on the popularity wave of Joe Schwarcz, who is also a well known radio personality, the OCS promises to be a great tool for Montreal citi zens. The OCS is a centre for com munity outreach, specifically geared to educating the public on matters related to science. The centre will make chemistry accessible to Montrealers and students through exhibitions, public lectures, courses, stage shows, and media presenta tions.

Jean Charest, provincial leader of the opposition Liberal Party in Quebec, paid McGill a visit to talk to both administration and students about the state of education and funding for universities. Charest called McGill “a crown jewel in the city of Montreal.” At a question period organized by the SSMU, Charest spoke out against differential tuition, but admitted there was little political resonance in Quebec against higher out-ofprovince tuition fees. M cG ill professor wins in te rn a tional architecture award

McGill School of Architecture professor Avi Friedman took a short trip to Dalian, China to receive the most prestigious award in the field of architecture, the World Habitat Award. He was honoured in recog nition of his pet project, the Grow Home. The Grow Home is an afford

able townhouse that was construct ed as a demonstration unit on the downtown campus of McGill University in 1990. The blueprint for the project is a two-story unit built with an optional basement; and the whole unit can be constructed for as little as $40,000 if required. The project was subsequently adopted with great enthusiasm by the home-building industry.

W e e k o f O c to b e r 13 T u itio n hikes fo r in te rn a tio n a l Ph.D students

Mixed reactions arose as McGill’s international Ph.D stu dents learned that they will have to pay over three times as much tuition for a fourth year of school as they would have previously. Ph.D students having reached the fourth year of their program are

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considered to have fulfilled the min imum requirements of their pro gram. Until this year, after this peri od, the students would be required to pay only an additional session fee, significantly less than the full tuition fee. Over the summer, how ever, the Quebec government declared that McGill’s international Ph.D students would have to pay the full tuition fee in their fourth year. SSMU climbs on CASA bandwag on

Representatives from SSMU took part in the CASA Campaign during October, a national rally to promote government awareness of student issues. This year-long campaign focuses on four themes: building excellence, knowledge, future and the nation. Individual issues include lowering interest rates on student loans, abolishing the GST tax for textbooks, rebuilding deteriorating campus buildings and eliminating out-of-province and international tuition fees.

W e e k o f O c to b e r 19 New student complex opens

The William and Mary Brown Student Services Building was inau gurated in a ceremony celebrating the complex and those that helped make it possible. In her address, Dean of Students Rosalie Jukier made refer ence to the many donors that con tributed to the construction of the four-story building, but stressed that students were especially instrumen tal in getting the ball rolling. Through an SSMU referendum,

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the undergraduate body at McGill pledged $3 million towards the new building.

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t h reporting| of results w a s; apparently not fol lowed and the University was not even aware . the referenda had taken place.

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F irs t year students ask fo r vote on SSMU

SSMU councilors voted to dis solve the First-Year Students’ Association and to replace it with the First Year Council Committee if a referendum passes. The new com mittee, FYCC, differs from FYSA in that it is a standing committee of council. FYSA is an independent student group only loosely tied con stitutionally to SSMU. The results of the referendum have not yet been reported. Ir w in C o tie r sets s ig h ts on Parliament Hill

Professor Irwin Cotier of McGill’s Faculty of Law had his sights set on a new career - federal politics. His campaign was a whirl wind from its very start and Cotier was widely considered to be the leading candidate for the traditional ly Liberal Mount Royal riding. Cotier is widely known as a human rights lawyer and professor who has defended the rights of vari ous political prisoners such as Nelson Mandela. Cotier later won the election, which took place on November 15.

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to fourth posi Waving placards and chanting tion in Maclean’s annual ranking of slogans such as ‘Tax the corpora Canadian universities this year, Dr. W illiam Osier tions, not our education,’ 1,000 pro falling behind the University of honoured testers marched throughout the Toronto, UBC and Queen’s in the One of streets of downtown Montreal in a Medical/Doctoral grouping. McGill’s most demonstration organized by the McGill was near the bottom of famous graduates Quebec component of the Canadian the list in terms of library funding had a street Federation of Students and the and conditions, particularly library renamed after Concordia Student Union. acquisitions. McGill ranked eighth ' im. Montreal Approximately forty McGill stu in terms of reputation, one of the ayor Pierre dents joined the rally. most disputed sections of the sur SSMU refused to endorse the vey, despite having topped a recent ue and c G i 1 1 protest because it is a member of the Gallup Poll on the same issue. h a n c e 11 o r Canadian Alliance of Student This is Maclean’s ninth annual ichard Pound Associations and not of the CFS. ranking of universities and McGill’s unveiled a lowest overall showing so far. Rebecca Catching plaque designat Admissions lawsuit McGill University is being Music professor w orld Scrabble ing the upper section of Drummond street as sued by its former director of champion Promenade Sir-William-Osler, in admissions, Peggy Sheppard, for honour of one of the nineteenth cen $1.4 million in tury’s most renowned physicians. damages and a senior manageri W eek o f N ovem ber 9 al position at the University in a Constitutional mayhem at coun trial which began cil Mo n d a y , The constitution of the SSMU November 1 at may be invalid, according to a dec the Palais de laration made by the Chief Justice. Sheppard is Returning Officer at SSMU’s coun cil meeting. suing the The issue arose when the CRO, University for Paul B. Flicker, was asked to accept what she feels the Council’s referendum question was wrongful regarding the amendment of the dismissal. She SSMU constitution in order to allow also described the First Year Councilor a vote on pressure she felt council. At the meeting, Flicker sur to bend the rules prised members of the SSMU coun in the admissions cil by both rejecting the referendum office when she question and declaring that the cur was there, to let rent constitution of the SSMU is not in unqualified valid. students. The hearing In light of the uncertainties, SSMU responded to the situation took a surprising on Construction continues quickly. They set a mandate to turn Mike Colwell appeal the CRO’s decision regard W e d n e s d a y ing the referendum to the Judicial morning when Sheppard asked Joel Wapnick, chair of music Board. They also decided to contact Judge Jean-Guy Dubois to recuse education, became the new world legal counsel to defend SSMU’s himself from the case because of a Scrabble champion in Melbourne, position. Until a hearing can be possible conflict of interest on his Australia on November 7. CFS-Q demonstration

In the final he faced off with arch nemesis Mark Nyman. In 1993, Wapnick lost to Nyman in the finals so this time he was prepared. In a best out of five series, Wapnick won the first, third and eventually fourth games to claim victory. The World Scrabble Championships are held once every two years and the competition lasts four days.

W eek o f N o ve m b e r 23 Muggings near Solin Hall frig h t en students

Two residents of Solin Hall were accosted early in November on the bike path leading from LionelGroulx metro station to Solin Hall. On November 9, a male student was intimidated and had his bank card and PIN number stolen. Five days later, a female resident was pushed to the ground on the same path and her purse was stolen. The two incidents left residents wonder ing just how safe the area is. Peggy Sheppard's case at Court of Appeals

Peggy Sheppard’s wrongful dismissal lawsuit against McGill took a detour in Quebec’s Court of Appeals to have a previous decision about the admissibility of evidence relating from before 1994 over turned. Standing before Judge Louise Otis on November 17, Sheppard requested that her evidence previous to 1994 be admitted in court to rep resent the entire situation fairly. Otis ruled that Sheppard would be allowed to present all her evi dence. The motion to have Superior Court Judge Dubois recused from the case on the grounds of question able partiality will be heard in midMarch 2000. Bector new FYCC president

Sarah Bector was elected the new president of the First Year Committee of Council, the group representing the entire first year student population, with only 197 votes. She beat out opponents Andre Legaspi, Mona Nesrallah and Matylda Ganor for the posi tion.

Cafeteria employees left in dark

With the food services changes currently being ushered in by the new food contractor MTY Tiki Ming, many employees were left wondering whether their jobs will still remain under existing terms with the new management. Several cafeteria employees were worried about wage cuts and scaled-back hours under Tiki Ming’s management. The main issue of contention was that Tiki Ming was offering fewer hours and lower salaries to the employees who had been working in the cafeteria for many years. R eferen d um m o n ey n ever co l lected

Due to a miscommunication regarding the reporting of referen dum results between student soci eties and the Dean of Students Office, a total of approximately $500,000 was never collected from students during the last school year. In the spring of 1998, the Management, Arts, and Science Undergraduate Societies all held referenda to renew their respective improvement funds. These referen da passed, however, McGill never billed students the fees they had agreed to pay. Proper procedure for

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Andrew Tischler as the Cheshire Cat

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Golden Touch:

Students' Society of McGill University in Wonderland We’ve been their Alice, we’ve voted them in, we followed them down their holes and this is what we’ve found...

Introducing Executive Report Cards By Rhea “Can’t believe you said that” Wong, Karen “Military Woman” Kelly and Jonathan “Boom-Boom” Colford (Golden Touch refers to kudos, props and all things nice, Not so much refers to the moments that they’d rather forget. But we didn’t...)

Wotjek Baraniak as The White Rabbit Golden Touch:

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there really is so much to do with so little time. Whether he’s defend-

Xavier Van Chau as The Queen of Hearts Golden Touch:

Quite possibly the most rene gade exec on the team with his Senate hoop dreams, controversial statements to the press and snazzy sense of style. Much of Van Chau’s initia tives have been shadowed by his Senate Caucus involvement. The most recent buzz was Peron-gate, which created a stir because the appointed Arts Senator happened to be his (GASP!) girlfriend. Van Chau, however, handled the gossip like a champ and informed indig nant members of council that he abstained from voting for the Senator because of a conflict of interest. Two thumbs up for taking the high road above the Council

ing the rights of damsels in distress in the Ghetto or getting cozy with Jean Charest, Baraniak knows how to make himself heard. Baraniak’s platform at last year’s

election was to increase Millennium Scholarship money and decrease

and Faculty Association rumour mill. Together with Team Senate, Van Chau champions the rights of libraries everywhere. Also, his new course evalution looks to be right on the money when it comes to receiving student input on professor tenureship. “7 out of 10 of the Canadian universities we compared with McGill do have that student repre sentation [for professor tenureship],” Van Chau explained. Van Chau’s royal court seems to be in fine working order. Coming attractions: Distribution of Library Improvement Fund money and McGill Student Fund money currently in the bank. Not so much:

Even this royal’s reign is not without static. Though everything

That winning Cheshire grin from ear to ear sparkles as Tischler watches mere mortals from his perch high in the trees. This cat’s no fool; he can talk the talk and walk the walk. Tischler is quite the man about town whether he’s on his soapbox, in front of the camera or just handing out candy to babies. Some issues near and dear to Tischler’s heart (and portfolio) are differential tuition, Canadian Alliance of Student Associations , the Quebec Student Federation (la FEUQ), a travel program for stu dents and an entrepreneurial fund which started this businessman on the Candy Cane road of success with his company Sucré Bleu. When Tischler isn’t out press ing the flesh and mingling with the proletariat, he’s meeting with any number of the twelve committees he sits on. Tischler is all about managing his many volunteers to create a veritable juggernaut of problem-solvers whether he’s talk ing about getting the poor Vancouver students home or reach ing out to the francophone stu dents. Too many pies, not enough thumbs.

differential tuition. So far, he’s on track by recently rallying Council to support pressuring the Quebec government to sign on to the schol arship fund and talking about dif ferential tuition to every man, woman and child. On his favourite subject Baraniak said: “CASA is becoming a more effective organization. We have a bit to learn in terms of pre senting things to Ottawa. I worked very, very hard promoting CASA this year on campus [with ‘The Wall’]. I tried to inform our con stituents as to what CASA is and what [students’] problems are.” Baraniak’s most visible pro ject to date has been “The Wall” which students across campus were encouraged to sign in step with other CASA-affiliated universities for more government funding. His next Big Thing is participating in

seems to be much quieter on the Van Chau front, he seems to have knack for stirring up controversy. Much earlier in the year, Van Chau was ruffling some faculty association feathers when he pre sented his proposal for Senatorial appointments. Many faculty presi dents got themselves into a tizzy over what they believed was Van Chau’s attempt to assemble his “all-star team” without the input of the faculty associations. Most notably, AUS President (and Van Chau’s roommate) Daniel Artenosi had quite a lot to say about Senatorial appointments and appointment by-laws. After all, Van Chau has to expect some sort of reaction when he says “I have the end-all, say-all on who sits on any committee.” Also, this former First Year Students Association president

something about a lot of every thing and he’s spearheaded many initiatives, he failed to provide any hard and fast results. For the most part, Tischler seems to be a one-trick pony. His main concern is money: who’s not getting enough of it who’s paying too much of it, how students can get their hands on more and how students can hold on to what they have. All well and good, but where’s the proposed shuttle bus around campus? Where is the “business incubator”? Where is that provincial/federal money that we hear so much about? Despite the noble intentions, there is a seri ous lack of follow-through on any of his initiatives as yet. We reached Andrew Tischler, “I think for our executive the the Quebec Youth Summit, becom ing Ghetto Supastar and advertis ing education as a lobby rather than a student movement. He is plan ning to introduce Look for him to continue attempting to pressure the Quebec government to sign a Millennium Scholarship agree ment. All this, and he puts together slick powerpoint presentations, too. Not so much:

Though he may be busy, it seems that Baraniak has been mainly focused on rubbing elbows with the bigwigs in Ottawa instead of addressinijfie needs qf his con stituents right outside his door. So far, there have only been five meetings of the McGill Ghetto Residents’ Association which is a far cry from addressing ghetto needs on a consistent basis. Most recently, Baraniak chose to win his

real accomplishment is building this sense of us as a team,” he commented. “I’ve been very interested in our provincial lobby because I speak French,” he said. “We can listen to student concerns in both English and French and represent student concerns in both English and French. I think it’s been an unprecedented year in terms of [this] representation.” With regards to next semester Tischler added, “some of the biggest things are yet to come.” Tischler might give good face, come up with the smooth sound bites and shmooze with the best of them, but what have you done for me lately? Exec grade: B-

way into Ghetto hearts by posting safety signs all over about the “Tarot Card” assault, but what of other crimes which happen daily in the Ghetto? And what happened to the Ghetto garage sale for students just moving in to their apartments in September? “We are scheduling [the Ghetto garage sale] for the end of the semester,” Baraniak said, explaining that permits were not issued in time from the city for the original September 6 date. Sure, there is something to be said for partying with politicians in Ottawa, but this white rabbit is for ever late when it comes to concerns closer to home. This is one exec who likes to play without getting his hands dirty. Exec grade: B

claims to have stregthened the firstyear student organization. “I worked a lot with the First Year Co-ordinator and Dean of Students...

work on ‘Discover McGill’, [an orienta tion program to begin next September].” Guidance might be guidance,

but the last time we looked, Catherine Weiler was the driving force behind the First Year Council Committee. Be careful not to cross him, though, or he might decree, “Off with your head!” Exec grade: C+

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Kevin McPhee as Tweedle Dee G o ld e n T o u c h :

McPhee’s work with the Cold Beverage Agreement and new food services with MTY Tikiming means lots of money and better food. To be fair, McPhee has been bogged down with much work held over from last year concerning the CBA and new food services, and he seems to doing a good job of maintaining good relations with the faculty associations, Tikiming and the cafeteria workers once it was brought to his attention. McPhee gets props for doing some damage control by issuing a formal apology to the Black Students Network after Essie Mwanwenda put her foot in her mouth. Also, rest assured that McPhee is working with Wyndowe to make sure nobody goes cold or hungry if the

big, bad Y2K meltdown threatens any of us. Watch for his future initiatives which include reinvesting some SSMU money and getting a rental car service for club activities. N o t so m u c h :

Pushing paper and crunching numbers, this Tweedle Dee has yet to start his mandate. He has failed to work beyond Lorenzo's legacy and is relegated to being every one’s sidekick. Prior to the Tribune article on the subject being published, McPhee knew nothing about the cafeteria workers’ trouble despite their claiming to have left several messages for him. On top of that, McPhee did not keep up to date with Tikiming about current cafete ria employees. The list of committees that McPhee sits on, the number of peo ple he works with, the extent of his constitutional duties and the

amount of insight he lends to Council meetings are sorely lack ing, especially in comparison with the other execs. Last year’s VP Finance Lorenzo Pederzani sought to make this position less political, and he succeeded. McPhee is quite possi bly the least political of all the execs because of the mundane nature of his job. He’s not even responsible for the SSMU budget anymore. Being frustrat ed by holdovers from last year is o n e thing, overcoming them anc getting things done is quite another. U nfortunately, McPhee was not

Matt Wyndowe as the Mad Hatter

G o ld e n T o u c h :

A very merry Unbirthday to this Mad Hatter and his par ties. So far, Wyndowe’s initia tives have been highly visible and effective. It is fair to say this new executive position was tailor-made for this man. “[Communications and Events] is a new position, so it’s been exciting as well as frustrating, in that it has to be . defined,” Wyndowe said of his

Sam Gross as the Caterpillar Golden Touch: A centre of sage wisdom in the eye of the storm, Sam Gross clocks in as the Caterpillar of SSMU and the lone female in the boys’ club. Though Gross’s portfolio is very internal and not highly politi cal, she seems to be doing some top notch work in making sure all the clubs are towing the line. Much of Gross’ work deals with constitutional issues. “Constiutional issues... regard ing clubs, are being refined,” Gross explained. “I ’m going back through all the old constitutions looking for name issues. A lot of groups are using the McGill name off the campus.” Gross’s shining moment was her stand against the Universal Education Club and their fradulent use of the name McGill University to endorse their “diplomas.”

Another accomplishment from the Clubs and Services VP was on Activities Day. This year’s event was on a much greater scale than in previous years. “Activities Day went really well. Attendance was well above anything I’ve seen since I’ve been here.” Also, her work on renovations are moving along smoothly. Her revamping of Shatner fourth tloor is the first project we’ve seen com pleted and all the offices look just grand. Gross told the Tribune she was looking forward to the imple mentation of Phase Two of the ren ovations. Her latest move is taking out an ad informing all the clubs to submit their budgets for audit. Current issues on Gross’ plate include the possibility of taking on SSMU’s minicourses within her portfolio, an awareness event and campaign organized with the new Philanthropy Co-ordinator and the creation of an alcohol awareness group on campus, in co-operation with Bacchus Canada.

Next up: moving on to the new William and Mary Brown Building. Not so much: “Communication is always something that could use some work,” Gross said of her position. “Half the stuff I do [with clubs] is confidential, so students don’t get to hear about much.” For the most part, Gross’s activities are not highly visible and her job seems to be more insider than exter nal. She could improve her visib i 1i t y among the stu dents. Also, she seems not to be available very often whether it’s for interviews

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available to comment on his work this semes ter. b x e c gra d e: K f o r in c o m p le te

portfolio. Wyndowe has had a very busy year at the halfway mark of fulfill ing his mandate. From his BFT party to the spankin’ SSMU handbook to the SSMU Open Meeting, Wyndowe is all about productivity. He has significantly raised the bar on this newly created position by pursuing enough projects to make heads spin. The new SSMU web site is sharp and SSMU is more visible than it has ever been thanks to Wyndowe’s co-ordinated SSMU Open Meeting and a two-page SSMU progress report in the Tribune. And, of course, Wyndowe got the word out with his new SSMU POST program geared to poster events all over campus faster than a roadrunner on speed. Wyndowe was quick to praise others for his office’s successes, however. “DriveSafe, to me, I found it inspiring to watch it happen. The people who worked on it have been exceptiona. And the Frosh co-ordior open meetings. Our sug gestion: s t i c k around more often and tell us what you do exactly. Exec grade: B+

nators... they just did so much stuff. It was amazing to see it all happen.” Whether he’s planning the events, telling people about the events or organizing DriveSafe to get people home from events, Wyndowe is doing a bang-up job ensuring every student is informed and entertained. “I plan to continue the focus on getting out information on SSMU, student events, sudent issues and getting more feedback from students. Coming soon: Wyndowe is fulfilling campaign promises with the planned SnowAP to take place next semester. N o t so m u ch :

SSMU’s golden boy can do no wrong. He’s friendly, accessible and quote-worthy. Though some have lamented his environmentally-unfriendly SSMU POST initia tives, let us not split hairs. Mr. Wyndowe is hereby named “SSMU Productivity Superhero”. E xec g rade: A

E le c tio n Q u estio n n aire R e su lts During the recent fall elections, SSMU included a short question naire. The purpose of this questionnaire was to get to get a feeling for student awareness on certain lobbying issues, as well as to get feedback and suggestions on how we can continue to improve our services. Here were the questions asked, the correct answers and the per centage of students who answered correctly. Who sets tuition rates at McGill? 45%

What is CASA? 18%

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McGill follows the tuition rates that are set by the Quebec Provincial Government.

Will Quebec students benefit from Millennium Scholarships?

CASA is the Canadian Alliance of Student Associations. This is the federal student lobby that SSMU helped found; CASA was instrumental in the creation of the millenni um scholarships. One of CASA p rin cip le demands is greater funds for education through increased federal transfer money to provinces.

What is la FEUQ? 27%

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The answ er is no. Quebec is the only province whose students do not have access to Millennium Scholarship Fund money. Currently, the provincial and federal govern ments have not made an agreement on how to administer the $70 million in funds to students. SSMU has been actively lobbying the feder al and provincial governments, as well as the Millennium Scholarship Association to speed the process and get the money in the pockets of students.

FEUQ stands for la Fédération des étudiants Universitaire du Québec, a very effective provincial lobby which represents the vast majority of university students to the Quebec Government. La FEUQ was instrumental in maintaining the tuition freeze for universi ties in Quebec.

We also left some room for students to give general questions and suggestions for SSMU. Check out the Trib in January for answers to some commonly asked questions. Thanks to everyone who took the time to fill out the forms. Got any other questions or suggestions? Contact SSMU VP Communications and Events at 398-6799, or any other of the SSMU executives via 398-6800.

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Food for Thought at McGill Ensuring stu d en ts d o n 't go h u n g ry d u rin g th e holidays B y T a s h a Em m e r t o n

McGill’s reputation as a school for elite rich kids is a misnomer. For every student who heads home this holiday season for turkey dinners with family, there is another strug gling to make ends meet. Food for Thought, a student group at McGill, is trying to help those with tighter budgets enjoy the holidays. Volunteers in the group are collecting non-perishable food items from residences and various faculties at McGill which to be included in Christmas baskets for students in need. The group, in its second year of handing out food baskets, hopes to improve on last year’s total of twelve baskets distributed. Due to a lack of a sufficient stockpile of food, Food for Thought was not able to make more baskets nor to advertise the service to a large number of people. The baskets will contain basic non-perishable food as well as some more festive items, depending in part on the recipient of the basket. Belinda Howes, a third year exchange student from the University of British Columbia and a member of Food for Thought, explained that Food for Thought differentiates between households according to their need. “We thought we would be par ticular to the particular household,” she said. “If it was going to a single mother with several children, it would be different from a house with a bunch of international students.” The group accepts donations all year long to supply their drop-in food bank. Food for Thought tends to

focus on giving during the holiday season, but as Laura Bickel, a U3 Arts student pointed out, the need always exists. “Projects like the Christmas bas kets are excellent, but I hope that peo ple will continue to give after the hol iday season ends,” Bickel said. “Food for Thought does exactly that.” Food for Thought started last year as a project by some McGill stu dents who recognised that extent of need among McGill students. According to organizers, it was not formed to promote any political or religious agenda. A similar group pre viously existed at Concordia, but there was never a food bank or soup kitchen available for McGill students. According to Hillary Kael, co ordinator of Food for Thought, there were few options for McGill students in need of a little help with food in the short term. “There’s a need so we fill the need,” she commented. “Unfortunately, a lot of the food banks around Montreal don’t accept students ... which is understandable. They have a different community to serve and there are tonnes of people that need these things.” To fill this void, Food for Thought now holds a food bank for McGill students every Friday at the Yellow Door from 2 to 5 p.m. As Kael related, the food bank can pro vide more than just food. Sometimes it also gives students a chance to express their frustrations or to relax. “A lot of students that will come in and grab food will also sit down and chat or if I’m ... in the midst of making calls for the food bank they’ll help me out. It’s really nice.” Kael finds that students make

use of the food bank for a number of reasons and with varying frequency. “We get regular people that will come back every week. Especially among mature students there’s defi nitely a need ... and international stu dents, those are groups we generally try to target and that do come in a lot. There are always extenuating circum stances.” Particularly around the holidays, mature students and international stu dents may have less access to support from their families and more respon sibilities of their own. These are by no means the only McGill students who benefit from the food bank though. “People tend to forget, I think, that students aren’t well of, just because you’re at McGill doesn’t mean that you have any money,” Kael said. Donations to the Christmas bas ket campaign can be dropped o ff at th e Y ellow D oor, lo c a te d a t 3 6 2 5 Aylmer St. Students can request a basket by calling Food fo r Thought at 398-4886 before Decem ber I Oth.

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A man was caught peeking at a female student in a stall in Motrice Hall’s women’s washroom. According to the Manager of Security Services at McGill, Steve Paquin, the man entered the stall adjacent to the student’s and peered at her through a metal vent last Thursday evening. "He was noticed by the female student, who confronted him,” Paquin explained. "He then went to the men’s washroom and locked himself in.” The female student reportedly had a camera and took a picture of him when he exited the men’s wash room. A struggle ensued as the sus pect attempted to take the camera away. Friends reportedly came to her rescue and attempted to detain the suspect, but he escaped. A male student got involved and chased the suspect through Morrice Hall, through Leacock and out to the ter race. "He bumped into a [passerby]

which slowed him down. He was then apprehended by the male stu dent. A parking supervisor saw the commotion and assisted the mate student in detaining the suspect until Montreal Urban Community police arrived and took over,” Paquin said. Paquin read from the incident report that the suspect had incrimi nating evidence on his hands to the effect that he may have been mas turbating. The report also noted that the suspect admitted as much. "He has been known to fre quent the University, but he is not [currently] a McGill student. He was charged by police in Novemer of 1991 after beeing caught in the ladies washroom, peeking over the edge of the next stall," Paquin explained. The suspect is reportedly a for mer McGill student, expelled "offi cially and permanently" in December of 1992. According to Paquin who read from the suspect's file, the Dean of Students at the time

noted upon the expulsion of the stu dent that "...I have explained to him that he is not permitted to enter campus.” The report also noted that he had been involved in similar inci dents and had charges pending as a result of an incident at Concordia's campus. Paquin explained that because the University has no signage pro hibiting trespassing, McGill cannot press charges. He explained that the University is hesistant to put up such signs because of the public nature of the campus and the institu tion. But Paquin explained that stu dents should not hesistate to call for help. "Anytime anything of this nature is observed, don’t hesitate to call 911.” If the call is placed from a McGill campus telephone, the call is received both by the MUC emer gency services as well as campus security.

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Nurtured rats C ontinued from Page 1

The question at the core of the study was based on previously con ducted research. It has already been shown that rats who were licked, groomed and nursed often tended to react less to stress whereas rats who did not receive a great deal of nur turing reacted strongly in stressful situations. Differences in responses to stress were measured by examin ing which genes (dealing with behavioural and endocrine respons es to stress) were expressed in the individual rat. Following this study, Meaney and his team of researchers examined the way in which these genes were passed down. There were two possible answers. The links found were either because both the maternal behaviour and low reactions to stress were part of a common geno type (inherited characteristics that belong a group of organisms), or because the maternal behaviour affected the expression of the genes in offspring. This behaviour was consequently passed down through generations. The researchers attempted to prove the latter. The first of three experiments, to prove that in fact maternal behav iour and reactions to stress were not part of a common phenotype, involved a “cross fostering” study. Two types of mothers were involved; mothers who licked, groomed and nursed their pups (high LG-ABN) often and those who did not demonstrate this same motherliness (low LG-ABN). From each litter, pups bom to a low LGABN mother were integrated into a litter cared for by a high LG-ABN mother and vice versa. The results were undeniable. The pups born to low LG-ABN mothers but raised by high LG-ABN mothers showed the same low response to stress as those pups bom and raised by high LG-ABN moth ers. They also showed a consider ably reduced response to stress in comparison to pups born and cared for by low LG-ABN mothers. Given these results, the link between moth erliness and the development of responses to stress could not be based on a common genotype. The second experiment showed that maternal behaviour could actu ally be learned and was not geneti cally pre-determined. Cross fostered pups from the first experiments were matted. It was observed that their maternal behaviour was the same as the mother which reared them. Their behaviour was not the same as that of the mother to which they were born, further disproving the idea that the behaviour is geneti cally pre-determined. Amazingly, this behaviour was passed down through generations. To further demonstrate the effect of environment on the devel opment of offspring, researchers undertook a third experiment. The hypothesis was proposed that in handling pups bom to low LG-ABN mothers, licking, grooming and

nursing would increase. The pups should therefore grow up and behave as if they had been reared by high LG-ABN mothers and pass this behaviour down to proceeding gen erations. Effectively, this hypothesis was proved true. The pups bom to low LG-ABN mothers were handled and this increased the amount of nurturing they received, as if being cared by high LG-ABN mothers. Their response to stress was consequently the same as that of pups reared and born to high LG-ABN mothers. Therefore, it was shown that the environment impacted the maternal care and altered the genes expressed in offspring that dealt with the stress response system. The study proved the hypothe sis that nurture affects what genes are expressed in a rat and this nur turing behaviour is learned. “Although these results were anticipated, the magnitude of the correlation was not expected,” Meaney said. It was proved that maternal behaviour can be changed and that the pattern of transmission can be altered. The next step in this new development is to apply what was learned about the rats to humans. The questions surrounding the characteristics and nature of mater nal behaviour and its impacts on off spring have been around ever since Freud. Meaney spoke of a conserva tive British sociologist, who about four or five years ago got to the core of the issue. The sociologist spoke about family life and claimed that there were essentially good and bad parents and that in order to properly raise children, we had to find a way to change the bad parents. This would later be a driving force behind welfare reform in the United States. It is not surprising that a poor, single, nineteen year old mother will not have the same patience in deal ing with a baby as a mother who does not have the same stresses to deal with. Meaney believes that the most important issue surrounding the study is that; if parenting behaviour can be changed, affect children and passed down to the next generations, then being able to teach mothering skills and the creating a nurturing environment is all the more impor tant.

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Rebecca Catching A ssistant Ed ito r -In -C hief

John Salloum N ational Editor

N ilim a G ulrajani

K ate M eier External Affairs and G overnm ental R elations C oordinator P ost-G raduate S tu den ts’ Society.

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convey a lot more than a few polite letters and meetings alone. Come February 2nd, when stu dents across Canada will be mak ing noise, I hope that ALL McGill students will join them, in large numbers, in the streets, to signal that funding to education is crucial to all of our futures.

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VP’s and deans... however, despite these efforts, $1.9 billion has been cut from secondary education in the last 5 years, in Quebec ALONE!!! This may not be the Vietnam war, but in the time of budget surpluses and when educa tion is STILL experiencing cut backs, we are setting the tone for the grim future of Quebec and Canada. Demonstrations don’t equal militance, and skirmishes do unfor tunately happen. But there is strength in number, if students take to the streets for a few hours and display their grievances, they can

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The recent debate in the pages of the Tribune reflects more clearly that some students have bought into the Zeitgeist of complacency and “not in my backyard,” than the demise of the demonstration as a form of protest. Rhea Wong sug gests that student activism would be better pursued through alterna tive means. Now here’s a prime example of 90’s black and white, all or nothing attitude — student issues ARE actively pursued through participation on university committees and senate, through let ter writing to government officials and through relationships with

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son. They had the age of homo sapi ens to welcome and the era of cum bersome stone tools to bid farewell, respectively. Reason to celebrate? I should think so! But I suppose quite a bit did go down during this particular time period that’s coming to a close: important advances in liter ature and the T h e S ly C h is e le r social sciences, mankind’s mas tery of the atom, and so on. And alas, these argu witty things to say about $150 par ments won't hold much water on the ties in Dorval warehouses, but my night, when I and my associates grizzled façade is somewhat weak will be debating where to go and ened each time I have this awful what to do and trying to mask our dream about spending New Year's wholesale mortal panic with drunk enness and laborious wise-assery. stuck in traffic. Conversations have already There’s something distinctly malodorous about an occasion so been had. Comments have been important that social custom dic made to the effect of "Hey, you've tates that you must go out. Mind got a great place. You should have a you, that happens every New party.” Well, sure! What do you Year's. The problem this year is that want in the keg? You see, it's that not only must you go out, you must caustic attitude that will no-doubt have fun. Getting hopelessly drunk brand me a New Year's malcontent, and chundering all over Ste- a stigma even the most experienced Catherine Street at 10:30 isn’t just of milquetoasts cannot hope to an embarrassing faux-pas this year. shirk. And it's this latent millennial Screw up December 31st and you paranoia in all of us that prevents us might never screw up again, if you from committing to anything - let know what I mean. You're not real alone organizing anything - lest ly going to be you anymore; you'll something far cooler arise and leave be that guy, that guy who didn't us with a fridge full of bubbly and have monumental fun on New phone messages ending in "Yeah, Year's. There will be a stain upon so, hopefully we'll hook up with your soul, and I don't mean vomit. you later." It’s kind of sad, really. For Nothing's going to get this one out. I've tried to convince myself hundreds of years we all assumed, that this really isn't such a big deal. quite logically I think, that great After all, I muse, those celebrations strides would be made in the years ringing in the Holocene Epoch or leading up to the millennium, and it the Bronze Age must have been far was only recently that we began to more jubilant, and with good rea realize how behind schedule our There are exactly 31 days until the end of this millennium, people, and as a man named Presuming Ed once put it, there's gonna be a lot of refugees. Nor apparently am I as immune from "millennium mad ness" as I would like to think. Don't get me wrong - 1 still have plenty of

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floating condos and rocket cars were. And now the reasoning seems to be, "Well, our lives will be dishearteningly similar on January 1st to what they were on December 31st, so it’s imperative that we shoot the lights out on Friday night." I love a good time as much as the next guy, but have you looked at Montreal’s New Year’s schedule? There’s at least four massive parties going on, all featuring assorted turntable talent from NYC and CHI and even MTL in a pinch. Now, I must confess that the thought of my attending one of these shindigs arouses in me the same sort of anticipation I would ascribe to selfimmolation. Not only that, but the cynic in me sees 20,000 tired saps wandering around Dorval wonder ing where that damn bus driver is, and perhaps dodging plummeting aircraft as well (if Y2K: The Movie was even half right). Beyond that, we have Bryan Adams and Celine Dion at the Molson Centre, and, well, words fail me on that one. Then, finally, there’s the "regular bars," some of which are charging outrageous cover and some of which aren’t. Is that admitting defeat, slinking dejectedly into some tavern that any other day in your life would be more than good enough? I don’t think so. In fact, I think the stack of money burning a hole in my pocket on Saturday morning will more than make up for the relative banality of my New Year’s experience. This is my resolution, unless something cooler comes up. Save me a seat at the Vieille 300, and let’s raise a glass of Baby Duck to the next thousand years!

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T h irs ty fo r m ille n n ia l p o e tr y T h e l a n d ’s s h a r p f e a t u r e s s e e m e d to be T h e c e n t u r y ’s c o r p s e o u tle a n t H is c r y p t th e c l o u d y ca n o p y The w in d h is d ea th la m en t

A uthor Thomas Hardy penned the above lines of his famous poem, ‘The Darkling Thrush,’ on the last day of the 19th century. This poem is quite metaphysical and abstruse, and as such I don’t really understand it, but I know that it involves a bird (from whence the title) and impending doom. For this, the Tribune’s Holiday/M illenium issue, I figured I would get into the ‘Millennial Spirit’ by com posing my own Piece of Profound Poetry. (Look at that alliteration; you know this is going to be good!) My verse, however, takes the form of the classic Japanese contribution to world literature, the Haiku, and contains a slight reworking of Hardy’s theme. I call it ‘Mr. T has Thrush’. F ungus in m y m outh 1 p ity th e f o o l w h o m u st K iss m e a t m idn igh t

No, but seriously, let’s talk about the year 2000, the big Y2K, millennial anxiety, all that jive. I would like to go on record and make a prediction about The Future. First of all, I am sure that human civilization will not live to fret over Y3K problems, and I’ll tell you why: water. Yes, folks, you heard it here first. Well, actually, maybe you didn’t. In fact, the alarm has been sounded by various individuals and organizations, but no one seems to listen much. Ismail Serageldin, vice-president of the World Bank, has declared, ‘The wars of the next century will be about water’. The United Nations says that more than a billion people cur rently lack access to fresh water, and global water consumption doubles every 20 years. Factor in the ever-increasing rate of popu lation growth on this planet, and we’re cruising for a frenzied skir mish for every last H 20 mole cule. ‘Enough of this QPIRGesque bellyaching,’ you may say, T can see there’s a problem, but what can we do about it?’ Fear not. As part of my on-going effort to provide you, the reader, with practical, real-world solu tions to life’s many little prob lems, I have composed a short list of my suggestions for curbing population growth and, conse quently, preventing a World War over water. And I swear I did NOT ask my friends at the Chinese governm ent for help with these:

A lis t o f t h in g s t o d o t o c o n t r o l t h e p o p u la t io n f o r Y 3 K 3. Instead of parking tickets: politicians, legislators, educators, 1. Chocolate-covered birth tubal ligations! defibrillators, or anybody else in control pills. Get the lassies 4. Replace souvenir cap a position to do something about day’ at the this problem, feel free to contact ballpark with me. I would be happy to speak ‘free vasecto further with you regarding my T a le s o f t h e R id i c u lo u s my day.' inventive social programs - as soon as I finish assembling this Jason McDevitt 5. At the ‘Home Desalination Kit’. end of The Hope you survive the holi Price is Right, day spasm, and I’ll see you next hooked on them early! instead of Bob Barker reminding millenium, after the dust settles. us all to have our pets spayed and 2. Sneak intothe Trojan fac neutered, have him urge us to C o m m e n ts ? S u g g e s tio n s ? tory and replace all the lubricant have ourselves fixed. M is tle to e ? with super glue. And there are plenty more jm c d e v @p o -b o x . m e g ill, ca where these came from. So any

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Mmmmm New Year's kiss. Mmmmm beer and Champagne and a New Year’s kiss. We like your logic. A millennium make out session sounds like the per fect way to bring in a new year and who better to do it with than an old pal (okay Ethan Hawke doesn’t count and neither does Pam ela A nderson). And yes we’ve got some tips for you:

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• At dinner each night, some one at the table asks "Habari • Dec 26 1966, Kwanzaa is first gani?" meaning "What is the celebrated. news?" Another person answers Today with the principle or belief being r'. • Jonathan Swift, honoured at that particular dinner. m û m . ■?K /? >7) satirist, is born in • The dinner table features a 1667 > r T i Kinara, a holder of three red can • Mark Twain dles, three green candles and on (Samuel Langhorne black candle in the center. N o te s o n K w a nza a ... • Food served on the various Clemens), author, is born in • The Swahili term 'Kwanzaa1 nights, is made from recipes origi Florida, Missouri in 1835 translates into English as "fresh nating around the world, symboliz • Winston Churchill, statesman, is fruits," and refers to the originally ing a union between all peoples of born in Blenheim Palace, 1874 • Oscar Wilde, Irish author, dies in African American holiday created African descent. 1900 S ou rces: fu n tr iv ia .c o m , by Maulana Karenga of California • Dick Clark, the ever recurring State University. It is celebrated Sym patico. ca fe a tu re s Times Square party host, is born, from December 26 to January 1 of 1929 W h ile w e 're in th e each year. • Billy Idol is born today in 1955 • Thirty-three years old, h o lid a y s p ir it . . . S ource: fu n trivia .co m Kwanzaa is a non-religious holi • A priest was arrested and day, spanning seven days of festiv ities, and is based upon seven prin charged with smuggling before he D rin k s o n us... ciples. Each of the principles is boarded a plane destined for Drink responsibly over the Amsterdam. He reportedly had 11 honoured on a different night. • The principles, called the kilograms of cocaine under his holidays — but if you're drinking Nguzo Saba, celebrate unity, self- robe. Allegedly paid $30,000 for anyway, why not try something determination, collective responsi each drug run, reports indicate that ( new? Collectanea present a couple bility; co-operative economics, the priest told police that he did it of drinks you may not have tried: • Freddy Fud-Pucker: (try to fund a day care centre desperate purpose, creativity and faith. refuses to give more press to the millennium. The event, as it shall be referred to herein, is reaching a coverage sat uration point in the media. As a result, we wish to divert your attention for a moment toward the holiday season. C o lle c ta n e a

The first and most important thing to do is make sure that you are wherever this sly stud or buxom beauty happens to be on New Years. Call him /her a few days before the event, and casually ask what he/she is doing for New Years and if he/she already has plans, show up at the event. If not suggest doing something togeth er, which undoubtedly the cutie will agree to, because you two are “pals”, hee hee. Then proceed as usual. Chill, hang out, drink some beers, talk a bit. But beware of the time. As the clock inches toward m id night, move closer toward your sexy sweetheart. Apply chapstick and breath freshener. No one wants to kiss a stinky mouth (but do all of this very subtly). Hang out with the object of your desire and be within reach. At precisely 11:59, slyly wrap your arm around the waist of your honey and act all noncha lant, like any friend would when wrapping an arm around another friend. As the clock strikes mid night, the ball drops in Times Square and people start singing

that song, you know the one, just lean in quickly, deftly, and kiss away. If you miss the mouth ini tially, don’t worry about it. Just keep working your way there and enjoy. We know that this seems a little bold, but c’mon you only live once and this is more than likely the only time you’re going to see a new millennium. Live it up. And what’s the worst that can happen? Your friend is a little confused and you have to have a post-kiss talk. Which can be explained in a short sweet sen tence, “1 really wanted to bring in the new millennium in a special way and I couldn’t think of any one I’d rather share it with than you, buddy.” Enough said. And to every one of our fine, talented, exquisite readers, have a great holiday and be sure to find some one to kiss in the New Millennium. We sure will...

saying that with your relatives in the room after you've had one or two...) A light orangey tasting drink, good for chatting it up at parties. Build this drink in a high ball glass with 1 oz. Tequila, once around the rim of the glass with some Galliano, and top up with orange juice. • C hocolate Y M artini: A classic drink stirred in a martini glass (none of this shaken stuff). For a change, try making it with White Crème de Cacao instead of Dark. The white crème tastes similar to the dark, but is a lot lighter which means it doesn't sink to the bottom of the glass every couple of seconds. Dark Crème de Cacao is so heavy, the only thing listed as heavier in many alcohol gravity charts is Grenadine.

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History repeats itself: one thousand years later H o w o u r f o r e b e a r s c o p e d w ith im p e n fears? By M am i Brot____________ According to Faith Wallis, pro fessor at McGill’s History depart n every billboard, in every O ment, the concept of a millennium mall, and on every flyer, was and still is significant to the you see those immense Christian world. Wallis pointed to numbers staring at you, yearning for the Bibles impact on the medieval something. The number 2000 — conception of time. In the New standing alone amidst all the other Testament there’s a verse that claims that “for God, 1000 years is like a numbers that have stood before it. day.” In other words, that for the The dawn of the third millenni Judeo-Christian God who is eternal, um screams future, globalization, multiculturalism and technology, the constraints of time are inconse quential. The verse itself was literalamong many others. It seems to penetrate the lives of ized during the medieval period. Because it was believed that God cre individuals around the world, rang ing from Y2K problems to the lack ated the world in six days, people of the time made the symbolic leap that of cruise ship 2000 openings. Yet we seem to forget, the world will last for 6000 years. and place little emphasis, on The ensuing popular conception of the mere fact that this isn’t time believed and feared that when the only millennium that the world was 6000 years old, life as the world has seen. one knew it would cease to exist. Before the eight century there While we plan for the existed three methods of counting future and hope that all of our years. The first expectations will determined the be fulfdled, it year based on the might be benefi traditional dating cial to under of Creation accord stand how the ing to the biblical idea of the narrative. The sec importance of a ond based the on m ille n n iu m evolved. One won ders what it was like to live in the year 1000, what sort of expectations existed, and most of all what foundation of i Rome. And the most popular method was to count as of the year a king or

d in g d o o m o n th e e v e queen was put on the throne. The contemporary setting of the year was introduced by the medieval historian Bede. The moti vating factor for Bede was to find a dating system that would predict the Easter Tables. Easter was the primary medieval holiday involving a vast amount of preparation and pre-cele brations. The Church required that Easter fall on a Sunday and that it be calculated according to a lunar calen der. Using the other methods made predicting Easter extremely difficult because it always meant counting backwards. To fix this dilema, Bede adopted a chronological system beginning with the year 1, when Christ was born. Bede took up this method from Dionysius Exiguss, which translates into Dennis the Shor. “Bede strongly suspected that Christ was not born in the year one, but he adopted it because he thought Dionysius’ formula was foolproof and correct in predicting the Easter Tables,” Wallis said. A p o c a ly p s e d e f e r r e d Surprisingly, the average person in the Middle Ages wasn’t too worried about 1000 AD. The reason is that the papacy in Rome did not begin to use A.D. counting methods until 1050. It was primarily clerical members who used the A.D. method. Because of this, peasants who

o f th e f ir s t m ille n n iu m formed the majority of the popula tion weren’t as conscious about the year’s dating. Despite this, 1033 A.D. received most of the millenial hype because it was the thousandth anniversary of the crucifixion and resurrection of Christ. During these years mass pil grimages to Jerusalem took place. Much of the fervour was ignited by the hope of Christ’s return. This belief was inspired particularly by St. John’s vision of the apocalypse narrated in the Book of Revelations, the last text in the New Testament. The idea that the end of the world would witness the Battle of Armageddon, the resurrection of the dead and the kingship of Christ on earth for a thousand years inflammed the spiritual climate. According to Wallis, people of the time didn’t view themselves so much as crusaders, they viewed themselves rather as pilgrims. Ironically many went to Jerusalem believ ing they would die. “When they cap tured Jerusalem from the Muslims in 1095 they didn’t know what to do with it because they expected Christ would come back. The sense of awareness among the people of the importance of 1033, is in some aspects the first social millenni um,” Wallis com mented.

Wallis interestingly explained that the hype surrounding the sec ond millennium which is mostly fueled by the fear of Y2K can be seen as a “secular armageddon.” The panicked frenzy to prevent societal breakdown at Y2K could very well point to a modern “cru sade”, if you will. The loss of tech nology, and humankind’s control of it, seems apocalyptic enough. If nothing significant or antici pated happens at the turn of the millennium, society will most likely experience a similar need to find a new focus, much like it might have felt after the survival of the first millennium.

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Anti-m illennial fashion movement: where have the Jetsons gone? F u t u r e s ty le s s e e k t o k e e p te c h n o lo g y a t b a y a n d a d o p t f u t u “[VJisions of the future gen Not many designers, are con By Grace Carter____________ tent (or sufficiently ambitious?), erated in the past—the stark, hile flipping through to roll with an exponentially antiseptic landscapes that Flash W accelerating culture. What we Gordon and Princess Leia inhab my “Millenial” Vogue have instead, in our millennial ited, the tech nightmares of issue, I was struck by Vogue and elsewhere in fashion, Bladerunner and Alien or the the insane smorgasbord of tex is an anti-millennium movement cool modernism of 2001 : A Space tures, colours and styles that filled of sorts. Many designers seem to Odyssey—are just out of date.” Instead, the future of style have taken the opposite route; rather than predicting, they have may be a multi-faceted balance revisited the past for their mil between keeping technology at lenial collections. John Galliano, bay and adopting its conve for instance, released a slew of niences. For one thing, take a gander shimmery, lacy evening gowns inspired by the ladies of the early at the blanket revolution that hit 20s. Anna Sui went for peasant runways as early as last spring. elegance—think Eastern Europe Donna Karan, Calvin Klein and a meets the 70s-in fall of 1999. Betsey J. busted out some turnAnna Sui livery Pressshot L L of-the-century, Gothic scullery m w w e 'v e s e e n The maid styles the same season. Are the pages. I wondered if an alien, these people all scared by the J e tso n s ; w e ’v e s e e n B a rb a rella . chancing to descend upon the pending new epoch, or just con It is n o lo n g e r c u ttin g e d g e to Earth and picking up the same fused? w r a p a fo rm in a lu m in u m fo il issue, could find some hint that But let’s face it: the future’s a n d c a ll it a v a n t-g a r d e . this magazine allegedly represents been done. We’ve seen The the most definitive fashion state Jetsons; we’ve seen Barbarella. It ment leading up to the next 1000 is no longer cutting edge to wrap years? Tt’s doubtful. Where are the a form in aluminum foil and call other designers brought their futuristic fabrics; the teched-up, it avant-garde. In fact, didn’t sil duvets, their throw rugs and their highrise chic; the prescient gloss ver die with the mini-backpack wall tapestries to the runway in a and foretelling lines of the new back in the mid 90s? Jessica surprising array of coats and pon age? The lack of such things is Kerwin and Miles Socha, of W chos. It was an attempt to bring the home sphere into focus. Magazine, suggest that: telling in itself.

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writer DeeDee Gordon. “People are trying to steady themselves and realize that everything is still okay.” Last spring comfort was made into clothing and clothing was made into comfort. This reminded everyone that there should always be time for tea breaks like in the good old days— a welcome realization in our cor porate, Japanimated now. Although pre-millenial Earthlings cling to the familiar, they also look for inspiration out side of themselves. Certainly, a response to the sense of rapid change prior to the big 00 has been an increasing interest in

spirituality. With high tech cul ture and the “global village” phe nomenon comes a heightened interest in different, sometimes “exotic” religions. What better time to turn to ancient Buddhist images of tranquility and dissoci ation from material desire, or to finger the timeless texture of handmade Indian brocade? When the Mandarin collar and Chinese silk pajamas came into the fash ion arena in ‘94, who knew it would spawn such a long-lived interest in all things Eastern? I pick up the Vogue again and find a postmodern jumble of historic ideas recycled: minimalist class, fur and stretch, the frilly, the bouffant, the raw, leather in every shade and type. Once, as a child learning the piano, I came across that ubiquitous piece of music that every would-be musi cian has seen in one form or another. It was called “Variations on a Theme.” It is this simple piece that comes crawling back to mind as I look at the glossy pages. What has been and what is always affects what will be— in Y2K and beyond.

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there’s a whole psyche around it. It has been drilled into our heads.” People have been pounding their credit card digits into key boards around the globe, send ing their savings away in a series of binary swirls along the infor mation gateway. And it’s not only safety and survival gear that

on the VCR, replaced the microwave and postponed your New Year’s Day plane ticket. But have you really achieved immu nity from the millennium? Maybe you should check your wallet. From special millennium bug buttons and certificates to survival gear to Y2K lingerie, companies have been prepare you for the new year with a med ley of pointless items and a seri ous strain on your credit card. We re not talking expensive trips to the shopping mall. Actually, you don’t even need to leave your home to contribute to the fastest growing marketplace in the world. While software and technology buffs fluster on the edge of their seats waiting for the bug to bite, companies in the Internet marketplace are cashing in on millennium memorabilia. “It’s just capitalism at it’s best,” says McGill Management Information Systems Professor Richard Donovan. “A lot of companies are using [Y2K hype] as a public relations gim mick... With any gimmick

they’re stocking up on. From countdown clocks to the special millennium edition Trivial Pursuit, there is no product that cannot be tied into the year 2000. While M&M tries to con vince us that there is only one chocolate of the millennium, Knudsen’s Candy is offering the “Year 2K milk chocolate bug.” You can pleasure your palate with one for about five dollars, plus shipping and handling, of course. Items are not necessarily sold exclusively on the net. Some elaborately designed web pages act as Infomercials for products that can be ordered by mail. For example, to get a pair of glowin-the-dark 2000 glasses, cus tomers first view a little audio/video advertisement on the net and get the address where they send in a cheque or money order. “So what,” you think, “I’d never go for that.” But then, are there actually people who would? Many consumers already use the Internet to buy and sell merchandise, aside from the hype about the millennium. But

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he Musée d’art contem porain recently opened its doors to a refreshing break from the stale excitement of the Y2K phenomenon. The new show, entitled MILLEN NIUM, MY EYE! Head over Heels: A Work of Impertinence, arrived on November 17th and will continue to light up the Musée until April 23rd. Nearly two dozen artists from a range of generations and origins con tributed their works to the imaginative collection of instal lations, videos, paintings, sculp tures and prints. Curators, Paulette Gagnon and Sandra Grant Marchand, selected creations that “depart from solely theoretical territo ries and occupy the realm of enchantment through ideas and their incisive look at the pre sent.” This playful exhibit com bines “enchantment” with a fresh look at our times, a view that is both tongue-in-cheek and thoughtful. The common thread, or one of its strongest fibres, is the prevalence of absurdity throughout the col lection. This is not to be con fused with its evil cousin, “that’s not art.” Despite the outward sim plicity of the display, the artists present a full palette of ideas to chew on. The objects engage in a dialogue with the viewer and open up a window to many pos sible interpretations. The absur dity and impertinence of the art that forces the viewer to ques tion reality. But the works are certainly not disconnected from their place and time. A very sen sible aura of cynicism— irrefutably one of the great trademarks of the latter part of the twentieth century—floats within the walls of the exhibit. The show is a truly enjoy able experience, with its unex pected turns and unpretentious attitude. Ilya and Emilia Kabakov’s We Were in Kyoto, 1997, is a raw installation, where the visitor becomes a par ticipant in an almost surreal, utopian, wooden passage. A whirlwind of hole-puncher garbage snow, like the petals of cherry blossoms, swirls in the air and decorates the partici pant’s coiffure upon exiting. T

P o s t-in d u s tria l d is a s te r-m o b ile Robert Therrien’s No Title, 1996 is an entirely different vehicle for absurdity. The instal lation assigns a new function to a utilitarian and intimate object, the bed, by distorting it and setting it in perpetual visu al motion. The dream-like object transports the viewer

into a similar state. Kim Adams presents a more recognisable absurdity called Breughel-Bosch Bus, a work in progress since 1996. The piece is a Volkswagen bus from the sixties, with a skeleton in the driver’s seat. The outside of the bus is teeming with pop ular action figures and cartoon characters, rusty factories and freight trains. Curator Marchand sees it as “a kind of theme park on the disaster of the post-industrial age.” The immobilized vehicle approaches the viewer’s expectations for a millennial exhibit more closely than any of the other compo nents of Head over Heels. It lends itself to interpretation as the artist’s prophetic vision of the future. E at m e In contrast, Felix Gonzalez-Torres’ poignant pile of candy, Untitled (Portrait of Ross in L.A.), directs itself to the past. The 79 kilograms of colourfully wrapped sweets symbolize the artist’s partner, who died of AIDS in 1991. The initial weight of the bright candy mountain equals Ross Laycock’s weight, before he fell ill. Visitors participate in the artwork by taking away a piece of Ross as they please. The poly chromatic “body” slowly dimin ishes, finally revealing an aban doned, empty corner in the gallery, only to be resurrected at the next exhibition. Marchand says the metamorphosis “is like an enigma that transmutâtes a presence/absence and gives it body.” Among other interesting features are Serge Comptes Post-it note self-portraits and Jean-Pierre Gauthier and Mirko Sabatini’s playful acoustic installation, which appeals to curious visitors of all ages. If you’re fed up with the Y2K hype, Head Over Heels is the exhibit for you. You will jour ney through an imaginative space and think about questions far deeper than the likelihood of your December 31st-January 1st flight to Sydney diving into the ocean.

M IL L E N N IU M , M Y EYE! H ead Over Heels: A Work o f Impertinence opened a t the Musee d ’a rt contemporain de M ontreal (185, rue Sainte-C ath erine Ouest) on November 17th a n d w ill remain there u n til A p ril 23rd, 2 0 0 0 (unless...well, you know) Admission to the Musee is $ 3 fo r students, $ 6 fo r adults. M usee hours are Tuesday to Sunday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m ., Wednesday, 11 a.m. to 9 p .m .

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You’ve heard the news sto ries, read the comics and bought the T-shirts. Everywhere you look, there is one story that dominates the media: the Y2K Bug. Interestingly enough, despite the deluge of coverage of the subject, many people still don’t know what the Y2K bug is, or how it can affect them. Considering the recent hype surrounding the subject, it is easy to see why there is so much public confusion. Facts about the millen nium bug often get lost in a sea of rumors and half-truths, and the number of conflicting opinions put out by reputable sources can make it impossible for the casual observer to figure out what’s going on. In the interest of clarity, let’s begin with the facts. M e e t th e b u g The year 2000 bug is a pro gramming problem that applies to a staggering number of computers, including everything from 40 year old mainframes to laptops made

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mere months ago. The problem arises from the way in which com puters handle dates. Most operating systems that use date values store them as 6 digits, usually in the for mat of YY/MM/DD. For example, if you were to enter the date February 10th, 1965 into a com puter, it would most likely be stored as 650210. This method allows the computer to make simple date comparisons — the later date is always the one corresponding to the larger number. Unfortunately, things get complicated on January 1st, 2000. This date is represented as 000101, a day that the computer takes to be earlier than any other that has occurred in this century. So how could any of this apply to you? Well, imagine a scenario where a criminal is set to be released from jail in the year 2020. The computer compares the date of release to the current date (ie. 1999) and finds that it is smaller, and our felon goes free. Following similar logic, it is easy to imagine situations where people are billed 100 years of interest on their gas bills, or are 1f i I I D'

billed for 53 million minutes for phone calls that span the transition to the new year. Sadly, our awareness of this problem is but a tiny first step towards a possible solution. The next stage is to take action and begin to rewrite programming code so that it can handle four digit years, or at least infer the appropri ate century from the last two digits of the year. This doesn’t sound like an exceptionally hard task, given that we have the technology to put computers into pens and send satel lites into the farthest reaches of our solar system; however, the problem is complicated by several factors. The most prevalent difficulty with the situation is the massive amount of code that must be rewritten. Estimates from the Gartner Group, an information technology consulting firm, suggest that there are 180 billion lines of code in the COBOL programming language that would need to be changed in existence. The cost to correct them would be an estimated US$ 48-65 billion. And this is the cost for just one programming lan guage; there are hundreds more to consider as well. The relative antiquity of some of the systems that are commonly in use also poses a problem. Back in the 1960’s, when program mers put up mainframes that were not Y2K compliant, they never imagined that these same systems would still be in use 'some forty years later. Now that it is time to go back into these systems and re c o n fig u re them, none of M a x im L e w k o w s k i the original programmers are available to do the work— indeed, there are many cases where the programmers are no longer alive. Younger programmers attempting to restructure rhese pro grams are often faced with mon strous amounts of code; code whose very purpose is unknown in many

A p o c a ly p s e n o w Given the magnitude and complexity of this problem, it isn’t surprising that many people are in a panic. Doomsayers everywhere are forecasting catastrophe and famine in the wake of failed businesses and downed information networks. Among them is Gary North who runs a web site about the Y2K prob lem at www.garynorth.com. North cites corporate and governmental deadlines for Y2K readiness as cause for alarm. “The US government, still non compliant, has had numerous dead lines [for Y2K compliance], begin ning with September 30, 1998. It never meets these deadlines,”

explained North. He also says that many corporations release mislead ing PR statements, claiming to be readier than they actually are for the new year. Joe Boivin, founder of the Global Millennium Foundation (www.globalmf.com), concured with North. “We’ve seen numerous positive reports from companies publicly declaring their readiness, when even

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their own internal reports suggest otherwise.” Boivin, however, felt that not all hope is lost. “Companies are at least concerned about the millennium bug. Many employees have had their vacations canceled for the crucial transition period, so there will at least be someone on hand to deal with whatever comes up.” Even so, a good measure of caution is in order, if only due to the uncertain consequences of the bug. Boivin predicted a lengthy period of economic uncertainty fol lowing the transition, one where large companies may falter and smaller, more flexible ones may have to pick up the slack. “In all likelihood, we probably won’t have a good idea where the economy is going until things have settled down, which may not be until about late March of next year,” explained Boivin. B e p rep a re d So what can the average user do to be ready when the clock strikes twelve? A good first step is to ensure that your own computer will continue to function on January 1st. The highest priority is to make sure that your operating system is Y2K compliant, and that any appli cations such as word processors and spreadsheets will not fail. Generally speaking, soft ware manufacturers have informa tion on their products’ Y2K com pliance on their web sites, as well as correctional patches that may be downloaded free of charge. Installing these patches and backup up your data are two fairly effective ways of making sure that no impor tant files are lost. As for the possible dangers or large scale power grid and com munications failure, Professor Gerald Ratzer from McGill’s Computer Science department of computer science had this to say:. “A reasonable amount of preparation is in order, but don’t blow it out of proportion. One to two weeks’ worth of currency should be enough for most people. Aside from that, I can only recom mend stocking up on two things: firewood and champagne.”

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only drastic thing I see happening. Otherwise I’m not scared. I hoping that there is a mas sive computer failure in the McGill system, so that we can have a few more days off.” -► Zubarr Kazami, U3, Science “Getting copiously drunk, hopefully. Fears? The beer pump might not work.”

-► Tobin Cable, U3, Arts “I’m not sure yet, but I have a hunch that I won’t remember. I would rather be in a hotel suite with Sarah Michelle Cellar. Fears? My liver will explode.” -► Lori Smith, U 1, Arts “For the millennium I’m going to Florida to see Phish. They are going to be playing for two days so it should be fun. I wish I could be with all my friends, unfortunately not all of them will be there. But I’m going to be with a few of them, so I’m pretty happy with what I’m doing. I don’t think anything drastic is going to happen. If any thing bad does, it maybe some cults deaths or mass suicides, that’s the

I love Montreal, but if I could go to another place I would go to Europe, probably England. Because I’m big classic rock fan... I would tour around there to see where the concerts, and bands are. As for Y2K problems, I not worried about anything. Nothings going to happen.” -► Dave Mollison, U l, Management “For New Years Eve, I’m going to either New York City or just stay in Toronto and find something interesting to do. If I could, I would go some where near the international date line. Like New Zealand or Hong Kong. My only problem with Y2K is the bad hangover you get from

won’t have a lot of time at home so I’m not going to come back right away. Any fears? Not really but when it happens, I might be ner

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civilisation. I don’t really have any fears for the Millennium. I really haven’t given it much thought. I think it’s probably over hyped.”

Juan Jarrah, U3, Chemical -► Jeff Heaton, U2.5, Arts Economics Engineering “I’m spending the “I’m going to Boston. Millennium in Gananoque, Nothing special, just visit some Ontario. I’m going to dinner with friends. my family. I would like to go to I would rather be playing Acapulco, Mexico. I heard a whole hockey in Napanee Ont., Center bunch of things about them of the Universe. The center of the •spending millions of dollars on universe is the place to be. No, no fire works. I really would want to fears. I guess I’m confident, right, be a part of that. I fear that on the 1st of January, I’m not going to have any money in my account. I’m afraid so I don’t know if I’m going to take it out before its too late. I’m really worried about that.”

champagne.”

Jonathan Kishfy, U2, Management “For New Years, I might be going to a concert or otherwise partying with friends. Getting drunk. The usual.

-► Josh Sommerfeldt, U 1, Arts “What I’m doing is, I’m spending it with my mom and lit tle sister back home in Cambridge, Ontario. I would probably like to come back to Montreal with my friends but I have a late exam. I

“► Rami Doughan, U3, Computer Engineering “Hopefully, I’m going to be drunk like hell. I’m probably going to be partying with friends. -► Jessica Wilczak, U3, Arts Where else would I like to be? Economics Somewhere hot... Australia. That “I have no plans whatsoever would be so nice celebrating for the Millennium. Christmas on the beach.” I don’t want to let people think I’m afraid. I’m a Rez Dog, I got no fears!”

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A b a ll, f ir e w o r k s o r C e lin e , j u s t s o m e o f th e p o s s ib ilitie s open bar included. World renowned DJ Josh Wink will be spinning. “I’ll probably just stay in. Everything is going to be so expensive” So, you don’t have any money. Not a problem. Just haul your ass down the hill to our very own McGill College Avenue for a Times Square inspired celebration. With good mix of street performances and crazy drunk people, it’s sure to be a night to remember. Another excellent idea for the finan cially impaired will be the Mise a Feu 2000. This 20 minute fire works explosion on top of Mont Royal is set to go off at 12:00 mid night, and will be seen throughout the entire city. For the best view, grab some friends and head up the mountain. “I’m going to ride the subway ALL NIGHT LONG!!” Not sure how you’re getting from place to place? For the first time since it’s open ing in 1967, the STCUM is offering free transportation all night. Just because most people will be using this service for trans portation doesn’t mean that you can’t make a night out of it. Remember, it’s your New Years Eve. And with all that money you’ll be sav ing on the subway, why not check out the Oliver Jones Farewell Concert? The Festival International de Jazz de Montreal is organ ising a dinner concert featuring Henry Butler which begins at 8:00 pm. The Oliver Jones trio and guest Carol Wilsman will perform at 10:30 p.m. Dancing will

follow. At $300 a pop, the tickets are pretty pricey, but definitely worth checking out. Besides, there are a lot worse things to spend your money on... For the two of you who don’t already know, Celine Dion will be putting on a concert at the Molson Centre. Even with tickets in the $500 dollar range, this concert will probably sell out soon. If this interests you, drop this paper and sprint to he tick et booth. Or you could just call 932-CLUB. For the truly sick only. “All I know is that there are going to be tons of riots” Amist all the Y2K confusion, you may think that it’s high time to “pick up” that new stereo. Before you break out the crow bar and ski mask, there are a few things you should know. Officer Stéphane Banfi explains that because of the enormity of the night, the police will be taking emergency measures in the form of Operation AROBOS to secure the safety of Montreal and it’s citizens. Security hits the beat starting December 31 at 7 am and lasts until January 3 at 11:59. “Forget New Years Eve. The end of the world is coming soon. Montreal shouldn’t be this warm...” Not interested in any of the above ideas? Okay. Attend a church celebration, go to a party, or spend the night with your family. No matter what you end up doing, remember to enjoy yourself. Who knows, this may be your last chance...

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By Krista Armstrong_______________ come into the millennium from a club D espite what some “millennium interests you, check out Club 737. purists” may tell you, 2000 is the Although the first 500 tickets are being sold big one. With Barbara Streisand at $99 (not including drinks), the view from the 38th floor of the Montreal Trust ready to sing in Las Vegas, and Dick Clark building will be unbelievable. Call 496set to “rock” Times Square, the question remains “What are you gonna do this New Years Eve?” From fancy costume balls, to fireworks, to concerts, to raves, Montreal offers something for almost everyone. What follows is a by-no -means complete guide to some of the attractions being pre sented in the city. “I’m getting fuckin’ WASTED man!” Despite more noble intentions, the average McGill student will likely mark this momentous occasion drunk off his or her respective ass—not that the average McGill student needs a special occasion. If that’s Preparing for the end via the STCUM W)eFishman your thing, head on down to St. Laurent armed with the knowledge that every bar in 9881 for info. “I don’t know what I’m doing Montreal will be staying open until 8:00 am. The additional five hours will mean yet...maybe, like, a ball or something...” For those of you who would rather that your window of opportunity to get drunk and embarrass yourself is huge. The party like it’s 1899, a number of hotels will bar/club events include Groove Society’s be hosting formal balls. The widely adver Paradise 2000, which features 20 DJs and tised Destiny 2000 New Years Eve Formal a massive sound and laser show. For the first Ball at the Hotel Wyndham features stellar 200 ticket buyers, $49 gets you in and DJs for your dancing pleasure. Call 990includes open bar from 8:00 till 11:00. 0090 for more information. Speaking of balls, you may want to Tickets available at Vibes, Da Joint and Sports Fever. For hard core partiers, Sona’s check out the Snowball. More a rave than a Blast 2000 lasts from Friday December 31, ball, this event is being put on by Tennis until Sunday January 2. Call 790-1245 for Canada at the Centre de Tennis du parc more information. If watching Montreal Jarry. Ticket prices range from $49-$ 149,

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rounds an athlete is what makes them great. The feeling that Babe Ruth or Mark McGwire will hit a homerun every time is story has already H they come to bat, that Jordan been canonized as Canadian mythology. will score every time he touches The boy from Brantford, the ball, and the instinct that Ontario scoring 378 goals in 69 when Gretzky has the puck, games as a ten year old went some way, some how, a goal will be scored. He projected the onto become the greatest hock rare belief that he could single ey player there ever was, and handedly turn a game around. our choice for athlete of the This is a rather undescribmillennium. able quality, as proven in the Choosing Gretzky over preceding paragraph. The Muhammad Ali, Michael impact on the game is another Jordan, Babe Ruth, Jim fair measure of an athlete’s Thorpe, or even Canadas own impact. The Montreal Lionel Conacher may seem a Canadiens power play changed little far fetched. In some ways the rules of penalty hockey, Wilt Chamberlin and his basket scoring widened the key, and Michael Jordan made the NBA a global institution. What then is Gretzky’s impact? For one he changed the notion the hockey player. No longer would you have to be a big, tough, toothless goon to succeed in the league. Gretzky proved that you did n’t need size, blazing speed, or an over powering slap shot. His game was all skill, all finesse, and It's made of tin...so he can lift it PressShot he paved the way for players like Mario choosing Gretzky over fellow Lemieux, Sergei Federov, “Pro-Star” alum Bo Jackson is Teemu Selanne, and Pavel Bure. an injustice. It is, however, Off the ice, however, is only an injustice if you consid where Gretzky changed hockey er a great athlete to one who forever. His 1989 trade to the excels in more than one field, in Los Angeles Kings, apart from which case Bo Jackson is breaking the hearts of Canadian Athlete of the millennium. For hockey fans, gave the second our purposes, the way to define largest market in the United an athlete is his impact on his States a reason for watching sport, and no person in any hockey. He took the game from sport has had the impact that being a secret pleasure for Gretzky has. Canadians and fans in the If we look strictly at statis Northeast US, to a level of tics there can be no other national and international choice for athlete of the centu awareness. The increased inter ry. He has scored more goals est in hockey peaked under than anyone else in history. Gretzky with the 1993 playoffs His point total is so impressive where he single handedly car that if you were to negate ried the Kings to the Stanley everyone of Gretzky’s goals, he Cup Final against the would still be the all time career Canadiens. That year, the leader in points. While it’s true NHL launched an incredibly no other sport really cumulates slick marketing campaign that points the way hockey does, led to franchises being placed this is nothing short of an in, and moved to locations that incredible record. He scored 92 seemed impossible just six years goals in a season, a number that ago. gets all the more impressive as Wayne Gretzky was the NHL scoring averages drop greatest statistical player ever, lower and lower each year. He he was the most awe inspiring is the only man to score 200 player ever, and he was the most points in a season (sorry marketable. His impact on the Mario). Statistically he will game was greater than any one never be matched. else in any sport. Where Ali’s Gmat numbers are not all impact was greater outside the it takes to be a great athlete. ring, same with Jordan, as a Proof positive is the fact that pure athlete the great one is Dino Cicarelli has more career truly the Millennial one. goals than Mario Lemieux. The image and aura that sur By Marc Wallice__________

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M c G ill f o o tb a ll p l a y e r s e ts i n n u m e r a b l e r e c o r d s a s a R e d m e n By Christian Lander orn in Point Claire, Quebec in 1966, Michael Soles and his brilliant career at McGill and in the CFL qualify as McGills B

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athlete of the millennium The 6-foot-1, 215-pound run ning back joined the Redmen in 1986 and was named OQIFC rookie of the year after racking up 779 yards on 148 carries (5.3 avg.). His dream season would follow in 1987 when he led the Redmen to the Vanier Cup. That year he rushed for 842 yards on 114 carries (7.4 avg.). In his third and final sea son he gained 610 yards on 121 car ries (5.0 avg.) to end his career with a McGill record 2231 yards on 383 carries in just 20 games. The record would stand for decade until being broken by Shawn Linden who played for the Redmen two more years than Soles in addition to suit ing up for 11 more games. Soles, however, saved his best games for the biggest games. In the 1987 Vanier Cup, he ran for 203 yards on 18 carries with two touch downs. He was the MVP of the game that McGill won 47-11 over UBC. His performance was the best of his career and came at the most critical time in the history of the program. For his continued excellence at the University, he was awarded athlet of the year for 87-88 and 88-89. He had 18 career touchdowns (14 rushing, four receiving). After his record breaking career at McGill he was drafted in the first round by the Edmonton Eskimos in the 1989 CFL College Draft. The transition that first year would not be an easy one as he was only give 33 carries which he turned into 215 yards. The next season would bring much of the same lack of playing time, but there was one big difference, he went to the Grey Cup. The game turned out to be a disappointment as Winnipeg trounced Edmonton 50-11, but it was still an exhilarating experience for a young running back. A few more seasons gave him the season ing he needed to become a legiti mate player in the league, and he used 1992 as his year to announce that he had arrived. That season he became a factor in the Eskimo offence as he racked up 656 yards rushing and an addi tional 285 receiving. He continued his strong season into the playoffs

where ran for over a hundred yards blocker for the past three seasons. The Eastern Conference Semi in two games before the Eskimos were beaten in the conference final Final loss was probably Soles last as by their bitter rival the Calgary a professional. He will retire from the game and move onto his second Stampeders. All of his team success culmi career as a stock broker. His name nated in a Grey Cup victory in will go down in the annals of the 1993 when his Edmonton team CFL as one of the grittiest running exorcized the demons of 1991 backs ever to play the game, and in and beat the Blue Bombers 33- the Redmen record books his name 23. The playoffs and the Grey now lays second. Last season Cup were bittersweet for Soles Shawn Linden broke Soles’ career who spent most of the time on the bench and was a real non factor in the post sea son. Nonetheless it was his first title since the Vanier Cup win in 1987, and he had finally lived out the dreams of the Canadian football player by winning the two most prestigious trophies in Canadian Football. As a Canadian player with a reputation for being a tireless hard worker, he was an asset to any team in the CFL. The Alouettes, then were fortunate to pick him up from The greatest Redmen ever McGill sports info Edmonton for a song in 1996. Since joining the Als he has been a part of the rejuvenation the rushing record. Though he is team has experienced the last few quickly fading into a figure from years. Now in more of a leadership the past, Michael Soles has cast his role, he emerged as a bruising full indelible shadow as McGill’s athlete back and has been Montreal’s lead of the millennium.

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s the new millennium approaches, McGill is making its message clear: we’re ready for Y2K. While McGill students decide which club, bar, or rave will be more packed that night, few of them will believe how much activity their own campus will see. Tanya Steinberg, McGill’s Year 2000 Project Manager, assures us that it will be considerable. “There are going to be many teams on campus, focusing on the James Ferrier Building. Staff from Vice-Principal of Information Systems and

By now, most people are familiar with the problems com puters could face when their clocks turn into the new millen nium. Briefly, the idea is that some information systems that process and sort information based on dates, are designed to indicate only a two-digit year (for example, “99”in stead of “1999”). Hence, at the turn of the millennium, when the date under such a system indicates “00”, systems are expected to experience great difficulties in sorting and calculating dates. A few years ago, some at McGill were worried that the university might be ignoring the problem. In November 1997, Vice-Principal Dr. Pierre

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Bélanger sent a letter to faculty deans and directors in which he expressed concern over McGill’s readiness for Y2K. “While a number of McGill departments have begun to con sider this issue and to prepare their computer systems for ‘DDay’”, he wrote, “so far there has been no concerted University wide effort to measure the extent, impact, and costs of the prob lem”. Since then, a Year 2000 Work group was set up to moni tor and direct McGill’s adjust ments to any potential Y2Krelated problems. This group has received and evaluated readiness reports from different adminis trative units drafted from tests conducted earlier this month on computers’ responses to a simulatedY2K bug. According to Steinberg, these reports have pro vided a clear idea as to the uni versity’s readiness. “In general,” she says, “the tests went well. Readiness reports show that the central systems, the Mission Critical Areas, such as information systems resource, facilities management and devel opment, are all 100 per cent compliant or close to 100 per cent compliant.” Fifty-six reports have been submitted to the Year 2000 Work group. Steinberg outlines what the group expected in these reports. “The purpose of the reports was to assess Y2K compliance. We were looking for an invento ry of what people have in hard

McGill’s mission centre According to tests conducted by the Year 2000 Workgroup atMcGill, the following core areas will have no problems adjusting to the digits “00” on January 1, 2000: • Mission Critical Areas (Information Systems Resources, Computing Centre, Telecom Office, Libraries, Facilities Management, Environmental Safety and Security & Parking Services) • Network and file servers • Systems dealing with safety, hazards, health or welfare • Student records • Payroll • Any systems dealing with finances (e.g. expenses, purchas ing, point of sale systems) • Environmental process con trol systems • Other process control sys tems • Security systems • Any systems that are con nected to McGill’s central mis sion critical areas • : Mainframe systems M ore infomation can be fo u n d a t wwiv.is. mcgill. ca/i$r/projeasJyear2 000

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Technology, Bruce Pennycook’s office will be present, as well as the Vice-Principal himself, myself, directors of information technology units, facility man agement, several information technology professionals, people dealing with heating and ventila tion, electricians and plumbers etc., and extra security guards. There will be also be huge num ber of people on call,” explained Steinberg “The university is setting up a Y2K command central at the Telecom Office”, adds Debbie Simpson, manager and senior analyst at Development and Access. “McGill will be in con tact with other countries that turn to Y2K sooner than we do here in Montreal.” So, with all of these precau tions, is McGill ready for Y2K? Steinberg stresses that McGill’s readiness for the Y2K bug involves making sure certain core areas are protected. “I view the problem on a hierarchical level. It is important that the critical areas, namely the units that deal with the students’ and the uni versity’s everyday lives, are 100 per cent compliant. The focus has to be on these areas. So in response to the question of how ready we are to deal with Y2K, I would say you must concentrate how ready these critical areas are. »

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ware and software. Different kinds of units have different set ups. In the case of brand new software, there was no problem with reporting Y2K compliance. With older software it required longer, and more careful, exami nation.” As well as considering reports, the Year 2000 Work group has been consulting with teams that had direct experience with software and hardware problems during Montreal’s 1998 ice storm. Steinberg cites two problems that impede the readiness process, and both relate to atti tudes people adopt towards the issue. “The first things is that many take a ‘wait-and-see’ view. They say, ‘Oh, nothing’s gonna really happen, and we’ll just have to wait and observe the problems if they arise’. These people don’t consider the issue as critical. The second view people take relates to cost. They say, ‘It’s gonna cost too much for me to replace my computer and/or software. So I’ll just set my date back’. So the main problem is that people are ignoring the problem” But this is a world-wide problem, rather than just a McGill problem.”

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'T i s t h e s e a s o n t o g o s h o p p i n g By Eric Benner It’s that time again. You know what time I mean. Come on, don’t tell me you've forgotten about...American Thanksgiving? Okay, so maybe not everyone real ly needs to remember something Canadians celebrated a month and a half ago. Our neighbours down south, though, do gain one advantage out of celebrating Thanksgiving later. They have an official date for the start of their Christmas season, so they know when to start buying gifts, whereas we Canadians are left scratching our heads until the twenty-fourth, when that headscratching turns to gut-reeling

panic. Fortunately, everything you need to know about shopping for the right gifts can be found below. In fact, for your consuming plea sure, it's all been compacted into one handy list. Just follow the steps, and you're guaranteed* a stress-free Christmas! *For a limited time, while supplies last, at participating loca tions

M a k e a lis t , c h e c k i t tw ic e Seriously, though, here's what you do. First, make a list. Do it right now. Take out a pen and a piece of paper and write down the names of all the people to whom

you'd like to give presents. Add to that list the names of everyone not already on the list who might get you something. Even if you don't want to, you should probably think about returning the favour. Second, and this is the hard part, think of and write down at least two gifts that might suit each person. To be considered, obvious ly, is your budget and also whether they'd like it. I can't stress this enough, you really can't just leave it to random and arbitrary brows ing. Decide what you want to get and get it. Thinking of two items per person gives you some free dom, but don't make the list too long or you may be stuck wander ing around in a shopping mall somewhere. Before you set out to make your list a reality, be certain you haven't forgotten anyone. You'll regret it if you did. Also make sure everything's within your monetary allowance. If you have a bit of cash left over, make a list of all those people you almost wanted to buy a gift but didn't — get them a card. They'll appreciate that you thought of them at all. The third and final stage in your Christmas shopping has the potential to be by far the worst. It's up to you to ensure that doesn't happen.

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low this system which will enable you to purchase maximum pre sents in minimum time: Start by dividing your list into categories. They don't have to be too specific, but they should be geographical in nature. Maybe 'stuff I can get downtown,' or 'things I have to get way in advance,' or 'this kind of stuff can only be found at Ogilvy's.’ Whatever. Just add some structure to the list, so that when it's time to get everything, you can do it in one fell swoop, without having to double back and zig zag all over the city. Get in, get out. Like a bank robber. That concludes this tutorial session, but for those of you still hung up on Step Two: The List, here's some more help for you. 1 wanted to get gift ideas from the people in the know, that is to say those who work in stores sell ing said gifts. I soon realized that quotations such as "you can shop here at The Bay for all of your gift-giving needs!" were about as useful as they were impartial.

Instead, I redefined 'people in the know,' and decided to ask all the gift-givers in my life. Here's what they had to say. "I don't know, I guess I just sort of shop around and hope to find something people will like," my Mom revealed. "It's really not easy." My girlfriend was just as useful: "I still haven't thought of anything for anyone. Oh shoot, my brother's birthday was this past weekend! Forget about Christmas, I have to get him something!" Really only my Dad seems to be on track. "I like to get every thing at one place," he told me, "That way I don't have to shop much. I don't really like shop ping." Now that's more like it. There are much better things to do during the Holidays, especially for the cash-poor, exam-cramming McGill student. Speaking of cash-poor, some advice you might actually find useful: do some footwork, and give people something hard to find or hard to think of for Christmas. If you buy something mundane, you're buying something compara ble to other, more expensive mun dane things. If you buy something rare and cheap, it would be less obvious that you got it for under ten bucks, which, of course, is how much you've got left after four months of tuition, books, and booze.

S h o p p in g F o r S e x u a lity : T h e g a y a n t i- s h o p p in g g u id e f o r C h r is tm a s 1 9 9 9 It's that time again! Christmas shopping season. Time to go out and buy yourself and friends a new identity at Juan and Juanita: some Diesel, Tommy or GAP. Because really, what you wear says some thing about your personality, does n't it? These days, being gay seems less like challenging social dis crimination and discussing issues and more about shopping and con suming more and more useless products in search of some ballerina-stick-figure body image. And with Christmas around the comer, what a perfect time to discuss how marketers and corporations salivate at the sight of a homosexual with a bulging wallet. Let's take recent pride parades. Going to contemporary gay pride parades seems less like taking part in social activism and more like observing a massive corporate trade fair. Many of my gay friends have remarked how they enjoyed the Bell Canada and Diesel floats in this year's M ontreal Pride Parade. Many like to believe that queer role models in society are the

likes of Svend Robinson and Mark Tewksbury — but pick up any popular gay magazine and see who the real role models are: the Calvin Klein underwear boys. Buff, young, white underwear models are more readily apparent than the articles themselves. Ironically, the articles that do exist often point to where to buy the clothing adver tised on the oppo site page. Most disturbing is the popular magazine "XY" (known as the premier maga zine for young homosexuals, giv ing them all the information they need to be a good gay). For young gays, and those just coming out, this 200-page underwear advertise ment, masquerading as a magazine, would give the impression that being a good homosexual means wearing the right company name on your boxer shorts. Take coming-out, for exam ple. More than a handful of my close friends' 'coming-out' experi ence was marked with a sudden

compulsion to go shopping and buy certain name-brands of cloth ing, feeling that they would better fit the perception of what it is to be gay. During the climax of his com ing-out disaster, my last boyfriend from small-town Ontario came home one day sporting several new Calvin Klein outfits, Hilfiger

Somewhere. Over the Rainbow Kent Glowinski socks, and a Diesel book-bag to match. No wonder many young homosexuals seem to turn to con sumerism in search of an identity. Even in 1999, the general public still squabbles over teaching if "it's okay to be gay", provincial govern ments consider invoking the notwithstanding clause of the Canadian Constitution in order to override Supreme Court decisions granting equal rights to homosexu als, and the federal government

drags its feet on passing same-sex spousal benefits. The public sphere of society has failed to help shape what gay identity is. Instead of society saying "you're gay, big deal, we can accept that" it says "you're gay, you're different, we don't wanna deal with it." Young homosexuals have no solid social models after whom they can shape themselves. In effect, unregulated corporations and their magical marketing departments, seeing a new market, filled in that social void by tapping into young gay men's shaky selfconfidence. Corporations gave homosexu als comfortable labels and name brands with which they could iden tify and appropriate as "their unique identity", which is simpler than having to deal with those nasty little emotions which often surround coming-out. Prepackaged homosexuality was convenient and painless. So while governments, schools and public institutions hag gle with one another, corporate floats covered in half-naked teenagers appear more and more frequently at gay pride parades

across the country. Let's face it, you are what you wear when you're gay. So much for developing individual personality. For those of us who have spent much introspective time during our coming-out process, it is alarming to see Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger telling the next generation of young gays that who they are is defined by what they look like. This is a wake-up call to all those homosexuals out there who think they need to be a walking advertisement in order to be con sidered attractive: you are beautiful already, be yourself. Although the corporate Christmas season will provide us with enough seductive advertising to completely kill our self-confidence, be strong and keep in mind that in the end, how you think and feel is still more impor tant than how you look and dress. But if these thoughts ever get too disturbing, you can always go shopping and forget your troubles. Merry Christmas. C o m m e n ts ca n b e s e n t to kglow i @ po-box. m e gill, ca

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e t h i n g in t h e a ir m a y r e - s h a p e t h e d r u g i n d u s t r y Remember when that kid in Jerry McGuire said that dogs can smell fear? He wasn’t just trying to sound cute; he was actually on to something. Dogs can’t actually smell fear, but they may have anoth er way of detecting it. What little Timmy was referring to, is the abili ty for some animals to secrete and detect chemical messages. It is beleived that humans too posses this unique method of com munication. Though we cannot see, smell or taste the chemical signals, they may have a significant impact on our moods and behavior. The process involved would be totally unconscious; we do not purposely secrete these chemicals, and we are unaware if and when we receive them. The chemicals are often secret ed with the release of other bodily odours. Animals often sweat when they are afraid for example; the sig nals may be released at this time, sending out a message about the ani mal’s current state. New studies that test these chemical signals may very well turn the pharmaceutical industry on its head. Recently, some experts have been investigating an organ that they believe is responsible for the recep tion and processing of these chemi cal messages. The Vomeronasal organ, sometimes know as Jacob’s Organ, is located in the back of the nose in the form of two small pits. Some experts believe that it is at the Vomeronasal Organ, that chemical signals may be collected. At the VNO, the chemical messages may be converted into electrical, neural messages that are passed to the hypothalamus, which is the area in the brain responsible for basic processes such as hunger and sexual motivation. The idea for a pharmaceutical application is to create medicine that would be administered in the form of nasal sprays. These drugs would have the same types of properties as the biologically produced chemical signals, and could potentially be picked up by the Vomeronasal organ. Pherin Pharmaceuticals in California has just received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to begin the first phase of testing of these new drugs, which allows them to test on a group of about fifty human subjects. The drags would be targeted at processes that are linked to hypothalamus function. “Our lead drag is supposed to deal with P.M.S.,” explained Kevin McCarthy, senior vice-president of Pherin. “We are also working on other compounds for acute anxiety disorders, depression, appetite con trol, and sexual motivation. A plus is that the drugs are virtually non toxic, and could be administered in lower doses, while still being effec tive.” Another area which may be within the reach of these drugs is hormone regulation. “The VNO is thought to be connected to the thala mus, which is connected to the pitu itary gland, which is the gland that is responsible for hormone produc tion,” explained Kevin McCarthy. It should be noted that the path way that these drags are supposed to employ can only lead to certain bio logical processes. In other words,

E x p e r ts t e s t in g t h e f e a s ib ilit y o f p h e r o m o n e - r e la te d d r u g s you will not be seeing a nasal spray not these drags will be successful, or known if it actually serves a pur that is designed to combat the flu, or even if researchers are looking in the pose, or if it is just a remnant of our any other type of infections; the new right place. The jury is still out on evolutionary ancestors. “We don’t know whether this drugs are being designed to deal whether or not all humans even have with psychological and other basic the Vomeronasal organ. Often, in organ is physiological active, or if it order to locate the organ in a sub is vestigial, like the appendix,” stat processes. ed Frenkiel. “Some significant sci It is still not known whether or ject, it takes a very precise search. “I’d say that in all entific study still needs to be done.” Dr. Michael Hawke, an olfacto of the patients that I have examined, I have ry specialist at St. Joseph’s Health seen evidence of the Center in Toronto, wrote a study on VNO in something like the existence of the VNO in the 15% of them,” eighties that sparked new interest in explained Dr. Saul it’s function. He is also of the opin Frenkiel of the Ear ion that any significant functioning Nose and Throat of the VNO is still hypothetical. He department at the does however see some potential for Montreal Jewish drugs that employ the Vomeronasal Hospital. “That just organ. “It’s all still very hypothetical, goes to show how hard it can be to find it, if but it is possible that these new it’s even there. There have been studies in rats, snakes, rabbits and lizards that have shown existence of the VNO.” Even if the VNO F ollow yo u r n ose, it alw ays Chloë Kristenbrum does exist in all or most Canada's m o st m odem kn o w s humans, it is still not aircraft fleet!

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L o cal c o m m e m o ra tio n s speak o u t The Women’s Union of McGill, in collaboration with SACOMSS and QPIRG, are orga nizing an evening devoted to reclaiming women’s voices in edu cation on December 4 at the Jailhouse. During “Vol 612”, female performers such as Josephine Knot and DJ Farah will be followed by an open mic designed to give women the oppor tunity to speak out and give voice to their opinions. Bita Eslame recognized that the most prevalent forms of vio lence against women are those that are not voiced in public or in the media. Studying at Vanier, Eslame

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How your lost item is handled When an item is lost it is gener ally brought by whoever found it to the porter’s office in the building where it was found. Lost items are stored for a while in the porter’s office of each individual campus building and can be claimed there. But after a short amount of time, the items are taken by security car patrol officers to the central Lost and Found in the Ferrier building. These items are examined individu ally and entered into a log with a complete description accompanying

re s to re d through any source of I.D. they pos sess. This is not to say that all these items find their owners, but great lengths are taken to ensure this. And if the person with the lost item goes the distance and makes his or her way to the Lost and Found, the chances for success are naturally higher. In a university where kindred spirits fail to abound, these men real ly care about getting your stuff back to you. So give them a call, briefly explain your lost object, and if it has been turned in, they would be thrilled for you to have it. If you don’t make the effort though, it is likely that after a few months of sitting in the comer of an office on the fourth floor of the Ferrier building, your lost clothes will be distributed by Sun Youth, your books will be shelved in the McGill Libraries, your keys and credit cards will be destroyed, your jewellery will be sold, and all money collected will be deposited in a McGill account. So give it a try, call the guys at the Security Department @ 398-4652. Mon-Fri. 9 a.m. - 5 pm.

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A t L u n c h w ith D e a n R o s a lie J u k ie r B y D a v e B l e d in A girl I know approached me after my last article on Jerome and Jeremy and informed me (and I quote): “Holy shit, Dave, that was the biggest load of crap ever. I put it on my wall of shame right next to the Donald Trump quotes.” Not wanting to touch further on these issues of self-degradation, I will conclude by pointing out that I was consumed by this feeling of inadequacy as I nervously entered the Thompson House. I mean, this is the Dean of Students we’re talk ing about here. Rosalie ain’t no Farrell twin. Waiting in the lobby, I couldn’t help thinking that this particular lunch interview might be out of my league. I began to hum The Jeffersons’ “Moving on up” as an attempt to cheer myself up. No use. And then Rosalie came rush ing in. Looking at her, you wouldn’t believe she’s a day over 30 (I admit, Rosalie did slip me a fiver at the end of our lunch for me to write that., but honestly, she doesn’t look a day over 35). As we go downstairs to eat, the unintimi dating nature of Dean Jukier ban ishes whatever inferiority complex had previously been starting up. Now I don’t know if any of you are avid readers of my pseudo column, but last year I had an interview at the Thompson House with Duncan Reid. The food was horrible, but Rosalie had told me that the Thompson House was one of her favourites — along with Zen. Considering I’ve heard Zen can set you back a couple hundred for a plate of sushi (and my non existent Daddy Warbucks isn’t coming around anytime soon), I decided I could attempt to find some niche at the Thompson House where I could avoid any of their more sketchy concoctions. I play it safe ordering the tomato soup and salad. Rosalie goes for the soup and a slice of quiche filled with various deviant substances that I didn’t really care to identify. We sit at a remote table and talk. I start off by getting her scorecard. Two law degrees from McGill. Two gold medals upon graduation for outstanding academ ic achievement. Fourteen years of teaching law. Five years of being the Dean of Students. Three kids. At the risk of sounding like I’m coming on to her here (although it would be pretty nifty marching home and telling my folks that I bagged myself a Dean), I must point out that Rosalie looks really good for someone with three kids and, as she puts it herself, “is old enough to be my mother.” My editors told me that Rosalie was “a lot like your high school principal.” I ask about her role in discipline: “I must point out,” she states immediately, “that I am not a disci plinary officer. I sit on the commit tee of student discipline but I don’t vote. I’m more there for feedback and support (and the occasional lashing when she’s feeling a little

bit frisky).” I ask about the worst offences she’s had to deal with: “I can’t stand violence between students. It’s hardest because students’ well beings are at stake. It just makes me very

about Bernie in that leather] and I got a call early in the morning from somebody saying ‘Get here now, Rosalie.’ It was terrible. I had to go in there and read these stu dents their rights even though these were people I had been working

upset.” Getting a little nastier, I want to know the most brutal punish ments she’s seen given out: “There might be a fine or sus pension.. for more serious issues, we might be dealing with expul sion and involvement of the crimi nal system.” I’m thinking, that’s it? I was picturing Bernard Shapiro donning his leather S&M garb and reaching for his paddle. Or at least some especially terrible offender being shipped off immediately to Concordia or something. Rosalie relates another more personal inci dent: “A couple years back, students took over the principal’s office [to protest funds or something like that.. I wasn’t really paying atten tion at this point, too busy thinking

with throughout the whole year (ah, the rancid SSMU folk)., it was just a horrible situation.” As we continue to talk, Rosalie informs me that she will not be going on to a full second term as Dean of Students when her term expires towards the end of next semester. I ask if she’ll be doing any travelling (like my mother, whose “sabbatical” really consisted of her quitting after two weeks of teaching and fleeing des perately to Florida to drown her bad memories in never-ending gin and tonics), but Rosalie tells me she’ll be staying in Montreal to gain academic skills in order to teach more law classes. I ask any advice she has for the new Dean: “Two things have served me really well,” Rosalie confides, “the first being that one must realize

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and you couldn’t care less. You are thrilled when your partner receives your aggression with enthusiasm (it seems that the Melrose Place commercials have the same effect on everybody). Eventually, you begin to feel as though you have satisfied your animalistic desires and you’re feeling pretty damn good until your partner turns to you and utters the three words you did not expect to hear just then: “The con dom broke”. Unfortunately, this situation is relatively common. Many sexu ally active individuals are not pre pared for childbearing and when they suspect that their contracep tive technique has failed them, they experience a great deal of stress and anxiety. In the past, the number of options available to these individuals, was limited. If a woman suspected that she was

pregnant she first had to wait until her suspicion was confirmed. If she was in fact pregnant, she then had two options: give birth to the child or undergo an abortion. In some circumstances both of these options can be unappealing to the woman involved. Recently, a new form of emergency contraception was made available to sexually active partners: the ‘morning-after pill’. In essence, the morning-after pill contains a highly concentrated dosage of the same hormones that are found in a complete cycle of normal birth control pills. The morning-after pill has existed for many years but the Food and Drug Administration just affirmed its effectiveness as a form of contra ception two weeks ago. The FDA acknowledged six brands of the morning-after pill in particular: Nordette, Triphasil,

Wyeth Ayerst L aboratories’ Ovral, Lo/Ovral and Berlex Laboratories’ Levlen and TriLevlen. The initial dose of the morn ing-after pill consists of 2-4 pills and should be taken within 72 hours after unprotected inter course. A subsequent dose should be taken 12 hours later. The morning-after pill has been found to be 75% effective as a form of emergency contracep tion. That is to say that on average 8 out of every 100 women who practice unprotected sex get preg nant. If these 8 women all take the recommended dosage of the morning-after pill within 72 hours after intercourse, 6 of the pregnan cies will be prevented and only two of the women will remain pregnant. As with any other form of contraception, there is a margin for error but the morning-after pill provides an additional option to many women who desperately require the alternative. It is imperative to distinguish between the morning-after pill and the “abortion pill”. RU-486, better known as the abortion pill, termi nates a pregnancy that has already been completed while the morn ing-after pill merely prevents one from happening in the first place. The abortion pill rids a woman’s body of a developing embryo that has already been implanted in her uterus. The morning-after pill pre vents ovulation, fertilization and the implantation of an egg in the uterus but it does not interfere with these events once they have already taken place. The morning-after pill can produce some unwanted side

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S o ft-s p o k e n R o se e x p lo re s a b ra s iv e s u b je c ts M c G ill a lu m n u s R a c h e l R ose divided into four distinct sec By Adam Blinick tions: “Gathering the Skagit,” dealing with her dysfunctional R a c h e l R ose family upbringing; G ivin g M y B o d y to S cien ce “Forgiving the River,” reminisc M c G ill-Q u e e n ’s U n iversity ing on Rose's time spent in Japan; P ress “Opening the Storm E ye,” a $16. 95 series of love poems and the title In recent years, M cG ill's section “Giving My Body to English department has not been Science.” Her work is accessible, known to foster creative writing with her words flowing with ease skills in its many aspiring young through the lines and stanzas. Her verse and prose writers. Despite delicate use of language often the efforts of some extremely softens the coarse nature of her dedicated professors and interest topics. Rose deals with abrasive ed students, the English depart subjects such as divorce, isola ment offers only one three-credit tion, and sex, often depicting bru creative writing course in poetry. tally graphic images, such as in It is somewhat surprising to find “This Salt”: “bruised my lips / one of our Alma Mater succeed against the bone of your pubis. I evaporated / against you, touched ing in the creative literary world. Rachel Rose, a graduate of your sheets with salt.” This pas the M cGill English sage illustrates Rose’s harsh, but Undergraduate Program , has magical, ability to vividly recre risen to the Canadian poetry ate a moment. In the final section of scene, and like her verse, is quiet ly making a lot of noise. She was “Giving,” Rose finds the poetic at M cG ill's bookstore on maturity that seemed to be devel Tuesday, 22 November, to cele oping in the previous three sec brate the book launch of her first tions. This collection of poems utilizes rare medical disorders as book G ivin g M y B o d y to S cien ce. Rose's poetry deals with per symbolic means to examine a sonal subject matter and is some wide variety of topics. One of her what confessional. G i v i n g is book launch selections “Sestina

m a k e s a b r a v e s te p i n t o t h e C a n a d ia n p o e t r y s c e n e of the Geographic Tongue” illus trates her skillful use of medical metaphor. This work shows Rose at her best, moving effortlessly through the confining conven tional poetic form (as denoted in its title) in describing the aftermath of the Holocaust. The threepart poem,“Giving My Body to Science” shows Rose’s clever ness, and summarizes her con templations on organ donation. “You think it was easy, deciding to give you my body? / 1 had first to get over the idea of immortali ty, then vanity, and finally, the fear of being laughed at.” As most of those in atten dance at the book launch learned, Rose is as soft-spoken and pro found a person as she is in print. Though at times the pieces seem slightly coarse, her graceful lan guage prevails throughout her debut work. There is plenty of evidence offered in G iv in g M y B o d y to S c ie n c e that suggests Rachel Rose will become a for midable force in Canadian poet ry. Who knows? Maybe in the near future, she will turn up in a g iv in g m y b o d y to s c i e n c e Norton Anthology.

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lines sound like they are borrowed from the ageing men trying to pick up in Bar des Pins. "You must have some witch in you." "Why?" "Because you have bewitched me." ‘Nuff said. After all that, there is good news too. Burton is never one to disappoint aesthetically and the effects are spectacular. Gnarled trees and elongated houses seem like thinly veiled sombre and sometimes screaming faces that will haunt dreams, or maybe night mares. The film looks like it has been drained of all colour-muted greys abound, with smoky hints of yellow and sepia giving the film the look of old photographs, and contributing to the deliciously eerie landscape. The hueless backdrop is

an intentionally garish contrast to the red of the blood that gushes lib erally on screen at several points of the movie. And what blood it is! At times it has a molasses-like consis tency, at others it is diffuse and quick-flowing as alcohol. The horseman himself is ini tially freaky, maintaining humor ous fright-appeal with his head on his shoulders. Yet the energetically growling Hessian, Christopher Walken, is eventually sort of noble without his head. In the ‘sans-tete’ scenes, the signature sword flip before each beheading is perfected by Ray Parks, who some may have seen as “Darth Maul” in The Phantom Menace. The best special effect is arguably the Hessian’s horse which is mechanical and took four months to construct. However, despite the meticu lously crafted landscape (which truly does smack of spookiness), the script (by Kevin Yagher) yanks Sleepy Hollow away from achiev ing “good film” status. Tim Burton chose Depp and Ricci in part because of their “old-fashioned skin tones and eyes that look like silent movie eyes.” Maybe if we turned off the sound, the movie would find what it lacks—a bal anced relationship between form and content.

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T h e T ea P a rty : w h a t a d e lig h tfu l c u p By Marina Serrao Only the raging fans of the Tea Party can best describe what an experience this concert was. One person characterized the show as “multiorgasmic” and unparalleled in terms of live shows. That is how the Tea Party has won over fans in Canada, Germany and especially Australia. Their hyper-energetic and hypnotic performances are sure to enthrall any music lover. My first concert, four years ago, was the Tea Party’s Edges of Twilight tour where I witnessed firsthand these musical and lyrical geniuses. Jeff Martin, the singer, recognizes that there are more and more people being seduced by the band’s energy and deep passion. They demonstrated their customary

integration of different music styles and artists in the middle of their heavier rock songs. With the Metropolis packed wall to wall they could not ask their fans to sit down for the acoustic set, like they did four years back at the Edges of Twilight tour. Even the lighting technicians outdid themselves with layered colors that created an effec tive atmosphere for the band’s per formance of “The Dead Can Dance.” Jeff explained the atmos phere, saying it was, “ time to pass that special cigarette that you’ve been waiting to pass around.” The three member group plays like eight, alternating between sitars, electric and acoustic guitars, bass, violin, cello, synth and drums. Their distinct style is influenced by their travels and the African

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American music which was promi nent in Detroit where they grew up. The band’s Eastern influence came from Jeff M artin’s interest in Eastern music, which began with George Harrison’s use of the sitar near the end of the Beatles era. In their sets, they integrate David Bowie’s “Heroes” between chorus es of “Sister Awake,” with covers of Jeff Buckley’s “Hallelujah” and Daniel Lanois’ (a Quebec producer and artist) “Messenger.” In an interview with student press prior to the show, the Tea

Party addressed the lack of quality music (without disclosing namesclassy) in the industry. They believe that their great following in Australia and Quebec can be attrib uted to their deep integrity and the passion of multi-cultural Canada, as well as Australia’s good taste in music. They demonstrated Australians good taste with the fact that, Massive Attack, Jeff Buckley and Ben Harper have all reached #1 on the Australian album chart. In discussing the contemporary music scene, Jeff Martin criticized

the facades of musicians today. He referred to the “Marilyn Mansons” of the music world as market-creat ed, instant-rock-star sensations of America. In comparison, the Tea Party has often been criticized for the serious honesty of their lyrics. For them, writing songs is a cathar tic experience which makes Jeff feel “ too naked on stage, “ “bla tantly obvious” and “raped.” One example of these poignant lyrics is off their album Splendor Solice: “the sands of the ocean / are the prophets in the eye / of the sage / who has chosen to forfeit all he knows / but I know...” Jeff exposes himself with his deeply personal lyrics. Their goal is to escape being categorized by critics. Jeff the drummer elaborates on their aims “ to keep bringing more and more things into focus... We didn’t want any of those boundaries placed on us, we want to be able to expand and create.” They maintain their autonomy and high quality music in order to stay true to their sound: Jeff Martin has pulled a Jimmy Page (another heavy influence), and is now producing and writing. The Tea Party is beyond being compared to the Doors and Led Zeppelin and have consistently demonstrated both great musicianship and showmanship. They have made a mark as an original band, scoring dedicated, loyal fans.

F a c u lty o f M u s ic W e e k ly C o n c e r t L istin g s Faculty of Music Concert Listings For complete description of perfor mances, please see www.music.mcgill.ca For reservations and info contact 398-4547 or 398-5145 Tuesday, November 30 •8:00 p.m. Pollack Hall McGill Wind Symphony $5 •8:00 p.m. Redpath Hall McGill Baroque Orchestra $5 Wednesday, December 1 •8:00 p.m. Pollack Hall McGill Contemporary Music Ensemble $5

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* - P IX A R It was during the pre views that I realized I was just as excited as the hundred or so children that surround ed me to see this movie. The 7 o’clock premiere was dan gerously close to many bed tim es, as many kids were dressed in pajamas. I guess their parents thought it would be easier to put them to bed after the show, but to me it felt more like a huge sleepover party at the Paramount. Since Novem ber of 1995, when the first Toy S to ry was released, children and adults alike fell in love with Woody and Buzz L ight-year and th ey ’ve been anxiously The to y s a r e b a c k in to w n awaiting their return. Press jsh o t The plot surrounds a bunch of toys who come to life oodles of revenue. The first Toy when their owner, a little boy S to r y grossed $184 million in named Andy, isn’t looking. In the domestic box office, falling the film, Woody (voice by Tom behind only T h e L io n K i n g Hanks) is kidnapped by a collec ($313 m illion) and A l a d d i n tor (The voice of S e in fe ld ’s infa ($217 million). But what sets mous Newman, Wayne Knight) Pixar’s films above and beyond in order to complete the original the average Disney anim ated set o f “W oody’s R oundup” flick is its superior 3D innova Gang. The lovable cast of char tions. Since Pixar’s founding in acters (including Mr. Potato Head, Slinky the Dog, and T-Rex 1986, its president Steve Jobs ) lead by Buzz Light-Year (voice (the co-founder and current CEO by Tim Allen) set off to rescue of Apple Computers) has built the company up to a successful their favorite cowboy-toy. The crew battle huge chal leader in animation technology. lenges in their attempt to get to In A B u g ’s L ife and Toy S to ry 2, Woody, including crossing busy Pixar used a new laser recording city streets and climbing up an system called "Pixarvision" that elevator shaft. When they finally enhances the quality of images find their friend, Woody is tom by transferring a digital image to between his old friends and his the film stock by laser. With new found set (complete with a these technological innovations cowgirl Jessie, faithful steed and imaginative animators, it is Bullseye and Stinky Pete the no wonder that fans young and Prospector). If he remains, the old have deemed these films whole set is to be sold and dis extraordinary. Toy S to ry 2 is delightful for played in a Japanese Museum. This was the third, full- children as well as refreshing for length feature film that Pixar has adults, with humor for all ages. created for Disney and it has by It’s a cute and uplifting date far the most splendid effects. movie, and a great way to make The characters seem so life-like your little brother or sister be that children everywhere will be nice to you for a day. looking at their own toys with wary suspicions of hidden life. P ix a r’s other two film s { T o y S t o r y and A B u g ’s L if e ) were blockbusters and have generated

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record label people from the U.S. fly up to see you and there are tons of friends and family. Tribune: How did you choose

than another? Edwin: Uhh...that’s a really good question. I have no idea...Well, basically, I look at sin gles as an advertisement of the album, so obviously you want something that’s going to be catchy, that’s a good representa tion of your band. ... [TJhat’s not really true, it’s not always a very good representation of the band. Pretty much anything that’s going to pull people in, to be interested enough to buy the record, so if one song does that for more people, is more appeal ing to more people, then you use that one for the single. T ribune: Who decides which song to release? Edwin: The record label and myself. They have their sug gestions and if I hate their sug gestions then I reject them...We already talked about it while making the record, which songs would be good singles. It was hard to do on this record, because a lot of songs could be singles, but we kind of battled it out. It’s between them and me, and then we asked the fans on the web site. There’s no formula, it’s what ever you feel would do well for you. Although some people have anticipated Edwin to fall flat on his face, he has proved them wrong by releasing his album, Another Spin Around The Sun, which has spawned three popular singles, including “Hang Ten” which recent ly won a MuchMusic Video Award. Edwin, who holds absolutely no bit ter feelings towards his previous band mates from IME, is slowly but surely winning the battle against his critics and is finding success on his own.

Two years after announcing his departure as the lead singer of I Mother Earth, Edwin is well on his way with his solo career. Edwin was recently in town open ing for The Tea Party at Metropolis. I had the opportunity to interview him at a small café before last Friday’s sold out show, which was -the first of his two shows in Montreal. Although creating his own identity, separate from IME, is still an obstacle, he is optimistic that the constant comparison between them will eventually cease. The fact that Edwin and IME released albums a few months apart did not help discour age comparisons, but their record sales thus far show that Edwin, whose album is just under plat inum, seems to be winning the battle. Tribune: How long have you been touring? Edwin: I’ve been touring E dw in m u se s a b o u t su cc essfu l sin g le s since early summer: I did Edgefest, Matthew Good Band’s the band members in your band? Edwin: They wouldn’t leave Belvedere tour out East and since early November, I’ve been touring me alone! No, when I was recording the album, two of the guys -my with The Tea Party. Tribune: How did the oppor drummer and Ruben, one of my tunity to open for The Tea Party guitar players- I knew them from before in another band, Glueleg. come about? Edwin: We’ve known The Tea The other two, the bass player Party for many years through the Tony, and guitar player, Chris, were record label, EMI, and they thought studio session musicians that my it would be a good idea if we toured producer knew. I wanted the guys together. who played on the record to be in .Tribune: What was your best the touring band as well, because they play the songs better, they feel tour date so far and why? Edwin: I don’t know what was it better. You can hand a guy a CD the best. What I think was the best and tell him to learn the songs on it, may be very different from what the but I decided to have the guys who actually were creative on the record audience thinks. Tribune: What about for you, to be in the band as well. then? T ribune: What makes one Edwin: Edmonton, opening song better to release as a single for The Tea Party because there were 5000 people and they were S in c e very energetic that night, the band The n e a re s t I R I S H P U B played very well and we got the 1 9 7 8 t o M cG ill U n iv e rs il audience going pretty good. T ribune: How do you feel coming into tonight’s show? Edwin: Montreal has always been a good town to play: I always have fun here and the fans are always into the music. I feel good 1 2 1 9 A U n iv e r s it y • 8 6 1 - 4 4 4 8 because we just had some highFacing Place Ville Marie, back of parking lot pressure dates in Toronto, so I can O p e n : M on. to S at. 12 p m to 3 a m , S un. 5 p m to 3 a m relax and enjoy the shows in Montreal. W e h a v e 16 to choose from : Tribune: What makes a show I m p o r t e d Bass, Beck's, Boddington's, Caffrey's, high-pressure? Caledonian, Double Diamond, Guinness, Harp, a n d d o m e s tic Edwin: When there’s too Heineken, Kilkenny, Newcastle, Smithwicks, d ra u g h t b e e r Tartan, Keith's, St. Ambroise, and Rickard's Red many industry people there, the

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FrUheads and regular folk alike all had something in common on Thursday at Cabaret. Although some of us may not have traveled seven hours to get it, everyone was here to experience the Friivous touch. A look at the crowd was not indicative of what was in the cards for the evening. People from all over, young and old, were gathered on Saint Laurent to witness one of the most entertaining live bands in the music scene. As people were entering, Torry Cassis set the mood for a perfect night. Playing solo, his powerful Sinatra show-tune voice reached every corner of the room, while his funky guitar licks warmed up the crowd for the party of a lifetime. Through the dim lights and cigarette smoke, all eyes were fixed on the stage, awaiting the moment that had brought them all together in the first place. A few shouts and chants finally sum moned the great beast from its backstage haven. Jumping out with a blast of energy, Moxy Friivous immediate ly took over the audience with their music. They broke out the wit in first three songs, which included an improvisation about Montreal in a Reggae groove. The crowd was chanting, dancing and laughing hysterically. Our sports teams and politicians were obviously easy prey for ridicule, but the band was

Later in the night, we were even graced with special guest appearances by Grandpa Friivous and the King of Spain himself. The entire show demonstrated what is Moxy Friivous’ greatest and most important talent-having fun! After being together for a long time, bands often lose the pas sion that initially brought them success. Inevitably, they stop transmitting this passion to their audience and they soon become history. Moxy Friivous has done quite the contrary. They have found the secret to playing music. Having fun together, on stage and off, has allowed them to progress musically, to reach new levels and to continue being what they and their audience love. After the end of their set, Press Shot they were called out twice for Toronto, Ontario... we’re encores. The first was a jam, mak ing a medley of Michael Jackson’s American!” Between comic interludes with “Billie Jean” and “Love Me, Love the audience, Friivous managed to Me” by The Cardigans. With the find time to exhibit their wonderful interminable applause and a united musical talent. They played songs “Friivous, Friivous” chant, the band from their various albums, with a had no choice but to come out sound as crisp a as the recordings again. Taking advantage of the but with twice the energy. As the unique, intimate, concert-hall set show progressed, the music kept ting of the Cabaret, Friivous lined getting better. The classic Fruvous up in front of the stage without harmonies were reaching everyone mikes to sing the beautiful a cap deep inside the gut, making them pella rendition of “War Song”, dance and sing nonstop. The a from their first album B argainville. capella pieces, in particular, were The night ended in style and with the amazing Friivous touch. extraordinary.

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C a p t a i n 's h a t t r i c k l i f t s M a r t l e t s t o 3 - 3 t i e w i t h U Q T R R it tm a s te r b r e a k s o u t o f s lu m p t o s c o re a ll th r e e M a r t le t g o a ls league and she knows when peo tipped up over my shoulder and By Jonathan Colford ple are on her. We just have to get just dribbled in,” Doyle said. Rittmaster, the Martlets’ cap Entering their Friday to that open space and she gets us home opener against UQTR, the the puck.” The Martlets hockey team had a lot at stake. After a 2-1 start to the regu M a r t l e t s lar season, the Martlets were bent opened the on improving their record, and on scoring early proving to their fans that they in the first were up to par with last season’s period when R ittm a s te r team. With starting goaltender Kim b a n k e d St Pierre playing for Team Canada H o r n s b y ’ s at the Three Nations Cup, backup centering pass Amey Doyle got the nod and from the left proved that she is a reliable goalie corner past Vinet’s glove. in her own right. The game itself ended in a 3-3 UQTR evened draw, and didn’t really offer any up the score at telling signs about the future of 6:51 of the the Martlets except for the fact first period that they have a talented captain in with a powerplay goal. Dana Rittmaster. The two W ho s a y s th e M a rtle ts a r e a fra id to crash th e n e t Rittmaster, in beating UQTR goaltender Vinet for all three t e a m s Martlet goals, broke out of her remained deadlocked at one until tain, answered the tally early on in season long scoring drought in the late in the opening period. While the second period when she took a process. Linemate Julie Hornsby defenceman Paula Mailloux was centering pass from Hornsby and also recorded a hat-trick of sorts, serving two for elbowing, the powered it past Vinet high on the Martlets lost a scrum for the puck glove side to tie the game at two. adding three assists. “Julie Hornsby has been scor at the UQTR blue line. Patriote “Again that was a nice pass ing a lot of goals and [UQTR] forward Nathalie Dery picked it from Julie,” Rittmaster said. “She know[s] that,” Rittm aster said up, raced in on goal and carromed had a girl on her, she just threaded after the game. “I’m sure they said the puck past Doyle to give UQTR it over, I think it was a two-onin the dressing room before the a 2-1 lead. one, I just kept my head up and “I went for the poke check on put it over the glove.” game that they want to stay on her, that they want to shut her down. the second goal, I didn’t think A penalty and a late-in-theThat left [forward] Sophie [Dery] had control of the puck and period UQTR goal would spoil the Acheson and me wide open. Julie I poke checked it, and she took a Martlets’ efforts to regain the lead. is probably the best passer in this shot right at the last second and it With Mailloux again in the box for

tripping, UQTR defenceman Virginie Bilodeau notched her sec ond goal of the game with a shot from the top of the left circle which b e a t Doyle on the glove side to bring the score to 3-2 for the Patriotes. Penalties at the wrong time were a killer for t h e Martlets: J a im e S tie n

UQTR power play converted 3 of 8 opportunities for the match. The referees called fourteen minors during the game, somewhat high for a women’s hockey game. “I thought the girls were slow to react to how the referee was calling the game, and we have to get better at that,” Martlets head coach Peter Smith said. “Every referee calls it a bit different, and you have to figure out how they’re going to call it, and adjust your play accordingly. I thought we were too slow on that.”

Hornsby had a couple of opportunities to tie it up for McGill early on in the final period, with the second chance indirectly paying off for the Martlets. While her break-away shot was stopped by Vinet, the rebound just sat in the crease. Rittmaster put the loose puck to bed, her third goal of the game. No hats were thrown onto the ice. “I was just crashing the net. Umm... actually it went off my skate and in, but it was unin tentional,” said Rittm aster. “Before the game, all Peter [Smith]was saying was “Dana, crash the net! Crash the net!” That’s how that goal happened. It was right on.” Doyle proceeded to board up the net while the two teams skated to a tie. She did not allow a goal for the period, making 10 saves, including several spectacu lar ones. Overall, Doyle made 22 saves for the night, while her counterpart from UQTR made 21 stops. On Saturday, the M artlets pounded the Ottawa Gee-Gees 41, outshooting them 41-19. Rittmaster scored again, while Megan Hewings, Sophie Acheson and Sarah Lomas (on a penalty shot) also scored. The weekend action leaves the Martlets with a 3-1-1 record on the season, good for second place in the Quebec League.

J e s s ie M a tia s z u k g u id e s M a rtle t r u g b y to Q u e b e c title school without a soccer team. game. Her first year at McGill was national championships for the Desperate to find an outlet for her the first year of a unified team sport, and McGill had earned a W omen’s rugby is a new athletics, she gave rugby a try on with Ste-Anne de Bellevue, which berth. sport in the Canadian Inter-univer the advice of a friend and was less translated into a more powerful “Last year was amazing, than enamored with the sport. team. Her luck was further com we’re like the pioneers of rugby in sity Athletics Union. “I never heard about women’s pounded with the fact that 1998 Canada,” says Matiaszuk of her As with most new sports it’s filled with m isconceptions. It rugby until CEGEP. When I actu was the first year of the CIAU first experience in the national would be easy to think the sport is ally played it, I finals. “I went to junior nation filled with hyper aggressive hated it for my first als a few years ago and women, who have all the same year. I didn’t under remember all of the excite awful characteristics that are stand it, people kept ment around that. But being in unfairly tied to male rugby play having to tell me the CIAU nationals last year ers; toothless, dirty in appearance what to do, I didn’t was great. We were very lucky enjoy it,” says and game play, and ruthless. to be at inaugurals, it was a “Everyone thinks it’s more M atiaszuk of her great honour and I was happy I vicious than it really is,” says early career. “The could participate.” Jessie Matiaszuk, the star winger next year a friend The M artlets were the of McGill’s championship squad. and I started a soc odds on favorite to be one of “It’s not a vicious sport. People cer team and were Quebec’s two representatives think we get catty, but it’s a real all set to play soccer at the nationals in 1999 and sport and just because w e’re that year but the they didn’t disappoint. Going women tackling each other doesn’t rugby coach called 4-0-1 in regular season play, and asked me to mean we’re vicious.” they were nothing short of Her claim of not being vicious play. They told me unstoppable in the conference. might be disputed around Quebec. they were really in a They ran through the playoffs The six women’s rugby teams in jam. I didn’t want to and captured the provincial the Quebec Student Sports do it but I did, and I title. The team, on average, Federation saw M atiaszuk run fell in love with the beat their opponent by 32 roughshod over them as she swept sport. That year I points. One of those beatings, to a league MVP on the strength of played both sports, doled out to Bishop’s, was but Rugby came her fourteen tries in five games. almost an entirely Matiaszuk Growing up in Montreal, she first.” doing. In a 37-0 victory, she As a female lived a very normal sporting life. scored five tries and kicked She played soccer, she swam, and rugby player she two converts. That effort, have did rhythmic and artistic gymnas couldn’t probably the greatest single tics. She stuck with soccer all the picked a better time game performance by a C ry 5 ta i W r e d e n way to Marianopolis CEGEP, a to have taken up the QSSF MVP d o n s th e M a rtle t s tr ip e s McGill athlete this year, By Christian Lander

earned her McGill, QSSF, and CIAU female athlete of the week honours. “That was my best memory of this year,” says Matiaszuk of her dismantling of Bishop’s. “I’d been doing well before that game. So when I found out my parents couldn’t be there I told my mom I’d score 2-3 tries for her, and that’ll be more than amazing. The game started and I just scored off the first minute, I thought ‘this is a good start, I hope I can I score my hat trick.’ I scored my third then my fourth when I scored the fifth one, it was the highlight of my season.” Her incredible play through out the season earned her the QSSF MVP award, but Matiaszuk has her feet planted squarely on the ground and knows where to give credit where credit is due. “I’ve had such a great season because of my team,” she adds. “The only reason I can score is because everyone else has played hard and gotten the ball out to me at the wing.” With a regular season that was a two month ego boost for the team, they headed to the nationals where they hoped to improve on last year’s dismal performance. C o n tin u e d on Page 31

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D r. L in d a T h y e r's 't r a c k ' r e c o rd m a k e s h e r t h e fe m a le a t h le t e o f t h e m ille n iu m By Christian Lander Being named all Canadian is an incred ible honor, and is unquestionably the dream of all CIAU athletes. Being named to the presitigous list twice in a career is phenom enal, three times legendary, four times is almost unheard of. Well, imagine someone being named first team four years a row...in two sports! Linda Thyer, a Montreal native, was named an All-Canadian four times in track and field, and four times in Cross country during her career at McGill. She was actu ally a five timer in cross-country, since she was given a second team selection once. The feat of being named All-Canadian in two sports was so impressive that the first time she did it (91-92) was the first time any McGill athlete had ever accomplished it. She went on to do it three more times. Her talents helped to guide the Martlets to a QSSF cross-country championship in each of her five seasons. More impressive

was the fact that she guided the team to seventeen consecutive wins in QSSF meets. Success at the provincial level was one thing, the international scene was a whole different world. Though she never made an impact in the bigger world of running, she was good enough to compete for Canada at the 1993 World Cross-Country Championships in Spain, and in 1994 she competed in international road races in Japan and China. With an outstanding ability to run, you would expect her to have poured her entire life into the sport and neglected her studies. But she’s one of ‘those’ people, a walking wonder. She is now known as Dr. Linda Thyer and practices medicine at St. Mary’s Hospital, and has a fellowship with the McGill sports medicine clinic. A woman who won 20 athletes of the week and three athlete of the year awards is deserving of an incredible honour. Being named McGill’s female athlete of the mille nium should just about do her justice.

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in the battle for first place in the OUA Far East Division, the Redmen lost 2-1 to UQTR inTrois Rivieres last Wednesday. Mathieu Darche continued his hot streak, scoring the only McGill goal. However, David Burgess’ seasonlong 18-game point-scoring streak came to an end. Goalie Benoit Menard made 30 saves in a losing cause for the Redmen. After being in first place at the latest point dur ing the season since 1939, the Redmen fall two points behind UQTR. and are in second place with a 9-3 record.

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The Redmen had a solid week end on the road. They were edged 71 -70 by Carleton at the buzzer on Friday, on a basket by Jafeth Mashura. Kirk Reid had an out standing game, with 28 points, while rookie Domenico Marcario had 13 points, and Mark Rawas had 7 On Saturday, the Redmen rebounded by hammering Ottawa 68-49. The win was impressive considering the GeeGees beat undefeated Concordia the day before. Andrew Bier led McGill with 18 points, while Rawas had 15 points and Brady Murphy scored 12. The Redmen are 3-3 in league

The Martlets won their first league game on Friday, taking the 6.3-54 decision at Carleton. Jen de Leeuw led the way with 14 points, while rookie Cheeka Mitchell had 11 points, 7 rebounds and 7 steals and Nadya Dhalla had 9 points. On Saturday. McGill lost at Ottawa 5546, with Lysiane van der Knaap leading the way with 14 points. The Martlets are now 1-5 in the Quebec University Basketball League. Martlet

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Again they were met with disappointment as they learned they still have a way to go before they are ready to compete at the national level. But Matiaszuk has some interesting ideas to help the Martlets inch closer to a national title. “I really think we have a short season so we have to try and meet other teams from Ontario,” adds Matiaszuk. “We don’t have to travel to Toronto or Guelph to play them, maybe play neutral site games, make it a day trip for the two teams. I’m sure we could work around it. It would give us a much needed opportunity to play against top flight teams we can’t find in Quebec University rugby.” Knowing she has only a few years left to do her part to bring Martlet rugby to the next level, Matiaszuk has cast an eye to the future. As a Physical Education major, she plans to go into teaching and coaching after she leaves McGill. Provided she treats the kids better than she did the Bishop’s Rugby team, she’ll be fine.

team for the Three Nations Cup held this week in Montreal and Sherbrooke. She backstopped Canada to a 3-1 win against the United States on Sunday, making 17 saves. Mc G ill

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In their first host tournament in over a decade at the Webster Squash Courts, the Men’s squash team fin ished second out of four teams. The University of Toronto won the tour nament. Dan Rea led McGill, win ning all of his three games. Amana Idorenyin won his only match of the weekend in a match against Queen’s to vault the Redmen into second place.

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R e h a n A li n a m e d A l l - C a n a d i a n a f t e r g r e a t s e a s o n B y T he M in h

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When Rehan Ali stepped off the soccer pitch earlier this month at the Canadian Interuniversity Athletics Union national tourna ment in Victoria, B.C., he may have ended one of the most successful careers in recent McGill memory. As one of the most dominant players in the league, the graduat ing midfielder from Beaconsfield, Quebec was named Quebec Student Sport Federation regular season MVP and an All-Canadian. More importantly, Ali captained this year’s Redmen to the provincial title, and has been to three national tournaments in three years at McGill, including a national title in 1997. “I can say I’m pretty satisfied with the accomplishments, both for myself and the team,” said a very understated Ali.

S u c c e s s fu l s t a r t Ali made his debut with the Redmen in 1997, the year they cap tured the national tournament held in Dalhousie. “It was a dream-like year, it couldn’t get any better than that,” reflected Ali. “We won the league, the playoffs, then the Nationals. I guess it became a standard that became kind of hard to live up to.” Despite being a rookie, Ali received extensive playing time and played a huge role in the Redmen’s national title run. After losing their

first game in the tournament, the Redmen needed a two-goal win in their second game against St. Francis Xavier to advance to the gold medal game. With McGill up by just one goal in the dying moments, Ali scored his first career Redmen goal in the last minute of the game to the send the team to the big final. They then upset the heavi ly favoured U.B.C. Thunderbirds in a penalty kick shootout to capture the gold. “It was a huge relief,” said Ali. “It was one of my goals when I played soccer as a kid; to know that when I hung up my boots, I had won a National championship at the club, provincial or university level.” Ali already had an impressive resumé before joining the Redmen. Fie played on numerous provincial teams and the national under-16 team, and was even drafted by the now-defunct Montreal Supra in 1991. By then, Ali was already familiar with the Redmen system. He had already played for McGill coach Pat Raimondo at the bantam and midget levels. Having also played with (and against) former and current Redmen such as Kevin McConnell, Gino Lalli, Rob Baird, Marc Labrom and Keith Dennis while growing up made Ali’s tran sition to the Redmen easier. “I had spoken with Pat several occasions about joining the team,” said Ali. “It was really nice to play with all these guys that I had already known. The team gelled a lot quicker.”

C lim b in g t h e ra n k s After being named a league all-star last year as an assistant cap tain, Ali was a logical choice as captain of this year’s talented, but young Redmen team. “I’ve captained club and provincial teams before, but this was different,” he said. “There’s more responsibility captaining a men’s varsity team.” Despite playing through some nagging injuries this season, Ali had his best year ever, placing sec ond in the league scoring race with five goals, and was named league MVP and a first team AllCanadian. Despite finishing fourth at the national championships in Victoria, Ali looked back fondly at this year’s squad. After only win ning one of its first four games, the Redmen steadily improved through out the year and eventually won the QSSF title. “(The nationals were) a bit dis appointing, we had all the tools to finish strong,” he said. “Nevertheless, it was a great sea son. It took us a while to get going, but we peaked at the right time (for the Quebec finals).” At Molson Stadium, Ali had a memorable last game in the league finals against UQAM, the same team that eliminated the Redmen in last year’s playoffs. He assisted on two goals in McGill’s 3-0 win, and was named player of the game. “It was a really nice way to end the year,” he said. "They had

our number last year; it was great that we met our recent rivals for the cham pionship.”

B eyond t h e p it c h Rehan Ali will graduate after this year with a degree in Physical Education. He has begun stu dent-teaching at Loyola High School as part of the last stage of his B.Ed., a career choice that could R ehan A li n e c k full o f g o ld ! P a tr ic k F o k e v e n tu a lly what I expected,” said Ali. “It’s steer him towards coaching. “I don’t know if I want to be a more than ‘just’ university soccer. head coach right away, I might slip When you spend 6-7 days practic in as an assistant coach first,” he ing together, you really form a said. “I love teaching and working close-knit unit. I’ve made a lot of with young students. It’s something good friendships here.” And as for next year, will Ali what I want to do later on.” Ali clearly appreciates the time return to lead the Redmen in anoth he has spent at Molson Stadium and er quest for the national title? “I really don’t know,” he said. overall as part of the McGill pro gram. Despite graduating, he is “If I am coming back, it’s too early thinking about returning next year to be thinking about it. After three to once again play some more soc months of practicing and games, I’ve had enough soccer for now.” cer. “It’s been a lot better than

J a s o n F o r s y t h : M c G i l l 's s t a r i n t e r n a t i o n a l g o a l k e e p e r By Edvard G lOcksman Montreal, Paris, London, Geneva and Australia. The list of places in which Jason Forsyth, goalkeeper for the McGill Redmen soccer team, has lived in the past is impressive. Speaking both fluent French and English as well as some Spanish, Forsyth’s cultural expo sure has been greater than that experienced by many. Whereas Jason’s international background seems impressive, his goalkeeping skills are equal or even more so. Having won the Nationals in 1997 with McGill, where he saved a crucial penalty in

the final shootout, Forsyth’s expe rience and value on the team has soared. For the past two seasons he has been an almost uncontested starter for the Redmen due to his reliably flawless play. Jason arrived at McGill from Geneva, Switzerland where he played both for his school, the International School of Geneva and for a local club team, SC Veyrier. It was there that Forsyth’s passion for playing soccer was sparked. His brother, now 25 years old, was a promising young player him self at the time. Jason idolized him and played soccer on and off as a position player.

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One day he got his first chance academically stimulating activities. to play in goal and saw it as ‘his He is also planning a minor next position’. His passion for the game year in Management, meaning that grew even more when he arrived in he will tend nets for the Redmen once again. Canada and has not let up since. Unfortunately, Forsyth will be “European and North American soccer differ greatly,” said Forsyth in a recent interview. “In Europe, soccer is a passion, life or death. Here soccer is more professionally taught and organized, espe cially at the lower ages.” This is very true as most club and high school soccer teams in Europe will not be as well equipped, orga nized, or even refereed as youth soccer is in North America. Arriving back in Montreal, the city of his birth, he quickly grew attached to the new environment. “I’m not usually a big city person, but J a so n F orsyth o f f th e p itc h Julie Fishm an Montreal is different,” he said. “The summers here are unable to hone his skills during the’ unreal and everything is so close”. Forsyth studies in the Faculty Redmen’s indoor schedule. His of Engineering. He plans, however, knee will be operated on, and is to not pursue a career as “an engi additionally recovering from a neer working with a team of 100 concussion suffered at Nationals others”. His dream is to open up an this year. Additionally, he will be alternative-type school that gives a on exchange to Australia after more rounded education to stu Christmas where he will spend the dents, emphasizing both social and entire semester.

Although an excellent student, Forsyth does not rule out an attempt of going professional with soccer. He thinks he has the poten tial but just lacks the needed expe rience, something that he can only earn while playing the game. This will surely come to being as Jason is naturally obsessed with ball sports. “Sometimes when I’m bored in the off-season, I just throw a ball around the house or play pickup with my friends. There is nothing better.” One of the reasons he has come to enjoy the game so greatly is his place on the Redmen. “I really get along with every one on the team, they are great peo ple A whole new potential group of friends has opened up to me,” he said. However, Jason and his team mates came back a little disap pointed from the Nationals this year in Victoria, with a 4th place finish. “(The tournament was) well organized but we’re kind of bitter about the way it ended,” said Forsyth. “Whatever I get in my future soccer career, I’ll want more.” This attitude is one of a winner (a proven one at that), and one to definitely look out for between the posts in a professional league sometime soon, or maybe with his dual citizenship, even the Canadian or Swiss national team.

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M c G ill f a l l s e m e s t e r s p o r t s r e p o r t c a r d s

R edm ep fo o tb a ll

One thing’s for sure, the Redmen football team provided their fans with some thrills this season!? While starting off disappointingly with four straight losses, McGill rebounded to win three of its final four regular season games to secure]the fourth and final play-off Spot in the OQIFC. The Redmen showed great fcart and tenacity in Éeir exhilarat ing comei-from behind victories over Bishop’s and bitter-rival Queen’s in crucial division match-ups, Due to some good luck, the Redmen had the privilege of hosting their first play-off game against first-place Ottawa, which lost its light to home fîetd advantage as a result of league sanctions incurred for the use of ineligible players in 1997. The Redmen came out with a great effort, and would have pulled off the upset if not for a rgamej-breaking last minute drive engineered by Ottawa Hed Crighton Trophy winner Phil Cote. M V P - LB O llie L efebvre W O n e t o W a t è h f o r th é F u t u r e - RB N ick H offm ann

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Redmen hockey

While still early in the season, the Redmen are off to a nigh-flyin’ start, and are looking like bonafide championship contenders in the OUA Far East division. With a 9-3 regular season record, McGill currently stands in second place in the division, and is ranked in the top ten nationally. The Redmen offence, powered by its stellar power play unit, has been particularly impressive. Redmen hockey fans have been treated to some exciting hockey at?the McConnell Arena season, as McGill’s line-up boasts considerably speed, size and scoring punch.

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M a rtle t rugby

M V P -M ath ieu D arche O n e to W a tc h f o r th e F u tu re - D avid B urgess

The Martlet Rugby team breezed through tEc Quebec Student Sport Federation for the second year in a row. The key difference this year was that they were able to win the title game against Concordia. Once again scores were blowouts as they consistently shut out teams while putting up huge numbers in the process. An undefeated regular season should have led towards success on the national level, but the team met some difficult competition in the CIAU tournM#nTànâ finished a dis appointing fifth.

Redmen soccer

After getting off to a slow start, Pat Raimondo’s team steadily improved during the course of the year to become the class of the league. Their 3-0 J pounding of rivals UQAM in the QSSF champi onship final served as a fitting end to the season. However, the young team had some difficulties in the Nationals in Victoria, finishing fourth. The Redmen have a strong core of returning veterans and youngsters, and their continuing strong team play should help them return to the Nationals for a sixth straight time next year.

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Cross country

M a rtle t soccer

The Martlets had an incredible season, culminating with a QSSF cham pionship in a shootout versus Laval. During the season, they went on a nine game winning streak and for firee weeks, were the CIAU’s num ber one ranked teani| Unfortunately, they suffered some injuries late in the year and could only pull off a disappointing fourth place finish at the Nationals. However, with a team composed of 12 rookies and 8 sophomores, the Martlets should form one of the league’s powerhouses for the next few seasons.

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Swim m ing

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T h e T ribune sports team w ould like to e x te n d a w arm th an k s to M r. Earl Z ukerm an. E ver sw am ped, always rig h t a n d seldom w rong, h e has b e e n a n invaluable resource all year. C h ristia n , Jerem y, and T h e .

Both teams have a strong Core of runners who Readily improved over the course of the fall. Led by race pinner SajflpAli-Khan, the women won the QSSF championship, andPfinished a solid sixth at the CIAU nationals. The men finished in second place at the QSSF championship, and overcame injuries to place Lsthat tremSionals. M e n ’s M V P - D aniel L ennox W o m e n ’s M V P - Sarah A li-K han

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Both of McGill’s swim teams haw continued tfieir dominance over the university swimming scene. They Swept the Dual Meet against Brock and Montreal last month at Currig Pool. The women also won last week’s OUA Invitational Meet, with the men finishing a solid third. With the CIAU Championships around the comer, McGill’s swimmers will once again look fog top finishes.

Redmen rugby

Having lost to Bishop’s in the Quebec conférence finals last season in a double-overtime heart-breaker, the McGill rugby team was focused on redemption. Much to their dismay; the ifedmen never even got a chance to even the score with Bishop’s as they were upset by Concordia in the semi-finals. The lossHÉ^specially disappointing in light of the great promise whiehfdcGiiLshpwed en route to a second place finish during the regular season.

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