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International Woman’s Day was M arch 8, and in my high heeled stiletto boots, I stand tall, I stand proud, I stand “ballsy” and a little haughty to say the least, because I am a woman. Even if this room at Le Café Campus is filled with an unusual amount of a clouded haze of smoke, I will not relent. I am here and I have come to show solidarity, to celebrate the marvels of womanhood, to pay respect towards my fellow w om enfolk, and to satisfy my soul of its yearning addiction to the deliciously smooth sound of the blues.

T o n ig h t’s evening of the blues, a re-occurring theme of every W ednesday n ight at Le Petite Café Campus, highlights a performance titled “Les Grandes Dames du Blues.” The headliners of this evening are five incredibly talen ted vocal perform ers, all

from very different backgrounds, different generations, and various styles, doing their version of the blues. Like the audience, these perform ers com m em orate International Woman’s Day and to celebrate life: a generation of sisters, all living and learning from each other on this planet.

Dawn T yler W atson, Montreal’s “queen of folk” Penny Lang, Jackie Richardson, Carole Vincelette and an unmistakable Janis Joplin-like raspy vocal pres­ ence simply known as “Angel,” covered folk, gospel, R&B, funk, and jazz . If you like m usic steeped in tradition and genuine feeling then this show was for you. These women were a knock­ out; they played saucy, bawdy roadhouse style blues that incor­ porated an updated twist to the music by adding soul and funk.

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The results of the student refer­ endum on the Cold Beverage Agreement sent a clear-but-slim ’No’ to the administration and CocaCola against the exclusivity con­ tract. The results of the vote, held during the Students’ Society of McGill University’s general elec­ tions, may be jeopardized due to the number of electoral violations com­ mitted by the ‘No’ side.

According to the unofficial results made available after the counting, 2,690 students, or 56.4 per cent of the total of 4,770 nonspoiled ballots cast, voted against the CBA. During the campaign the Chief Returning Officer, Paul Flicker, served the ‘No’ committee with three letters of sanction for electoral violations ranging from postering off-campus to campaigning during the voting period.

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Deputy Returning O fficer of Elections McGill, if the campaign violations have, in the opinion of the CRO, “adversely affected” the outcome of the referendum, then the CRO is empowered to throw out the referendum as per the by-laws.

"The severity of the violations [will influence the CRO's deci­ sion],” Lack said. “The 'No' com­ mittee, in my opinion, had a very blasé attitude about our rules. [But] it's not just about their attitude, it's about whether what they did influ­ enced the outcome and a lot of by­ laws were broken.

"On a higher level, on the one side you have to think about what precedent you're setting where you have an important issue one side can get away with whatever they want and disregard the rules. Do you want that? They are there for a reason,” Lack continued. "On the other hand, 5,000 students showed up to vote which hasn't happened in recent history. Is it the right thing to

do to throw all those votes out?”

Law Student Association VP External François Tanguay-Renaud was deeply involved with the No­ side. He countered the accusations of violations withan assertation that the battle was fairly fought.

Regardless of whether the question is thrown out, Tanguay-Renaud feels the students have made them­ selves heard.

"The message has been sent to the world. People know about the CBA even without the unrecog­ nized vote. People clearly exercised their voice and though there might be some who are willing to abuse their power, we don't consider their reaction acceptable in a certain way.

With the question thrown out, I don't thirtk the students would be very happy to see SSMU autocrati­ cally dismissing their votes."

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What distinguishes humans from animals? Why has natural selection systematically favored intelligence? These and many other questions were tackled by renowned ecologist and anthropolo­ gist Dr. Paul Colinvaux, last Thursday and Friday at McGill.

Dr. Colinvaux’s lectures were part of the “Geospectives”seminar series, organized by the McGill Department of Geography and the McGill School of the Environment.

Colinvaux expanded on his scientif­ ic research in the Amazon river basin as well as his views on human behavior through the eyes of an ecologist.

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The audience was no doubt surprised when Colinvaux proceed­ ed to say that such a time machine does exist. C olinvaux’s time machine relies on the sediment of lakes. He claimed that if you drilled down more than twenty thousand years of layers into the Amazon basin, you should find pollen grains from vegetation of the Savannah.

In studying the lakes of the Amazon Basin, Colinvaux found evidence to suggest that the Amazon Basin cooled by six degrees during the last ice age and so certain heat intolerant species that otherwise only flourished on top of the mountains, could actually

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“ We are not naked apes. We do not go to war through some des­ perate desire... In fact, the prime difference between us and all other animals is that we are able to throw out what I call stimulated behav­ ior.”

This ability to consciously pre­ vent stimulated behavior (ie. vio­ lence) is a product of our free will asserts Colinvaux. It is assumed that intelligence developed through natural selection, but what was the selective advantage of human intel­ ligence?

According to Colinvaux, human intelligence increases our ability to have offspring that sur­ vive. An individual has many off­ spring, all genetically different and natural selection works to reduce vari­ ety by removing the genetic deviants.

Only the fittest off­ spring will survive to reproduce and have an effect on the gene pool.

Colinvaux went on to say that due to the nature of human intelligence, we are able to create a situa­ tion where the weak­ est offspring are as fit as the strongest off­ spring; thus humans are very likely to have reproductive success.

In his first lecture entitled “Exploring the Ice Age Amazon: the Last Great Unknown,", Colinvaux spoke mainly of his sci­ entific research. The origin of diversity of life on earth has plagued naturalists ever since the Darwinian revolution. Colinvaux explained that this topic is espe­ cially relevant when examining the Amazon Basin since it is one of the most ecologically diverse areas on earth.

C olinvaux explained that about one hundred and fifty years ago, Alfred Russel Wallace, an evolutionist who worked in the Human sucAmazon Valley, claimed that the Dr. Colinaux and Ecology Nema Etheridge CfîSS S t f a i l l S “Amazon was a museum of species resources which had never gone extinct.”

This view did not explain why in flourish below. This led to the As a consequence of our abili­ the Amazon, certain species of ani­ development of other species. ty to learn, the population of mals only existed in certain areas.

Controversial humans spread to every place on During the last ice age, the Amazon earth without speciating (develop­ Colinvaux was arid and dry. Rain forests only ing into other species). Colinvaux survived in certain areas and so cer­ The reason why Colinvaux is pointed out the problem that in a tain species developed in these areas but not in the dry lands. often referred to as “Controversial society difference in wealth and Colinvaux published this hypothe­ Colinvaux” became evident during resources causes the family size to sis in The Ice Age Amazon. Ten his second lecture, "The Fates of vary. Wealthier people use more years later, Colinvaux changed this Nations", which was based on his resources to raise their young and so to maintain their fitness for sur­ hypothesis as his research findings book The fa te s o f Nations: A vival.

They will need more Biological Theory o f History. led him to the same conclusion as C olinvaux questioned why resources in the long run compared Wallace.

Colinvaux revised the hypothe­ humans become violent and engage to poor people. Colinvaux thus had in war. He rejected behaviorist returned to the original question of sis simply by testing it.

"If you had a time machine and explanations that we are simply ani­ why humans fight wars.

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sonal deep seated worry is that our population will grow so large that we will overwhelm the wealth of the earth and be miserable. I am frightened not that twenty thousand million people can’t be fed on the earth, I am worried that they can”.

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involved with keeping the vote cen­ tre around the message sent to the students and the sanctity of elec­ tions by-laws.

"The anti-CBA has admitted that they've broken every single elec­ toral by-law ever created through the SSMU in the past years. Postering outside of campus, campaigning dur­ ing elections, outside support all the things you can think of that are undemocratic, they did and they did it happily." said Tischler.

"Otherwise, I think it's been great for me and when I go to the media to speak, I'll say look, students, the rea­ son why we're having this debate is that we don't have the money, and it always goes back to that.”

"Paul [Flicker] is in a difficult position. If he denies the election results, there's going to be big politi­ cal pressure with people misunder­ standing why it would be thrown out. People would say it's undemoc­ ratic and you hear the same the vapid arguments you hear before. If he does let it go, then Elections McGill and our by-laws aren't worth the paper they're written on. We'd just have them, but obviously they don't seem to be enforced. It's a tough call ahead," stated Tischler.

Change on the horizon?

The heated campaigning for both sides highlights the need for changed election by-laws to deal with large-scale referenda in the future. Lack speculated that CRO Flicker would start working on the changes right away.

"The by-laws could handle small internal things like FYCC. But when it comes to big things the by­ laws just aren't realistic. For exam­ ple, each side is allotted 300 dollars, but I would guess the No-side spent 2,000 dollars or more on their cam­ paign and full-page ads. The by-laws cannot handle something that becomes this heated and this big, especially when you have people campaigning who are not on the committee because these by-laws regulate people on the committee," Lack explained. "For example, if Coke takes out a two million dollar ad campaign, do we penalize the Yes-committee? Do we give the No­ side two million dollars? Do we even have two million?"

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fought by the rich against the poor, to maintain their resources”.

Colinvaux concluded by thank­ ing the audience for being more polite then his Oxford audience and for not throwing things at him.

When Dr. Colinvaux was asked about his biggest fear for the future, he said, “My private worry, my per­

Tanguay-Renaud expressed his pleasure over the results of the refer­ endum. He indicated that the stu­ dents' decision marked a milestone in student solidarity and the forma­ tion of a cohesive voice.

"I think this is a powerful state­ ment that not just the PGSS voted no

but the undergraduates did as well and now we have a unified voice that expresses our views." He later added, "This vote is a great thing.

Students have now made a statement about what they will accept and what they're not ready to accept. Now there's one voice in the student body that we can get together. We know what we want so let's lobby.”

François Legault has put his career on the line by saying that he'll invest in education. “This vote is sending a very strong message which is that students don't want money with strings attached. We want McGill to blossom in the future with govern­ ment support. With the provincial government coming out on Tuesday, ïm hoping for some pleasant surpris­ es."

Tischler regretted the decision made by the students in light of min­ imal government funding for the University.

"I think it’s a lot of fear-mongering. I think they brought a lot of people from the outside who were looking to make a name for them­ selves...When they pretend that the message to send to the government through lobbying, the number of people who showed up on Friday demonstrates how committed they are to lobbying.”

"The people who claim that the administration has to do more for lobbying don’t know what they're talking about. We've been doing it for ages and McGill has no political power in Quebec," he said. "If you want to do something, mobilize peo­ ple. These people who are blaming the administration, get over your­ selves."

Tischler argued that the University will continue to see a short-fall in its operating budget.

"There's not enough money at the University and it's not like they can just print more and it's there," he said. "People who say that's it's a fal­ lacy, that fees will go up if we don't have the money, where else is the money going to come from?

"If this thing doesn't get signed, we'll talk about how bad Coke is in Nigeria next year, and how the library doesn't have any books, and I'll buy you a Coke while we're doing it. They'll still be on campus, you'll still be drinking it and they'll still be in Nigeria," Tischler later opined. "Is anything else going to change? Nope. If students feel like they want to pay for it out of their own pocket, then that's their choice."

Correction In the M anagem ent Undergraduate Society’s elec­ tions, it was Dennis Barrington who finished second to Patrick Lynch and not Elana Backler who, in fact, finished third. The Tribune regrets the error.

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Student Services fee hits self-funded programs

Banks walk away from Canada Student Loan Program Five years later, government set to retake loan operations contracted to commercial banks

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The federal government will resum e ad m in istratio n o f the Canada Student Loan Program after an announcement late last week that commercial banks will not renew their contract with the gov ern m en t afte r July 2000.

Although no additional costs are anticipated for student borrowers, the governm ent stands to lose about $150 million a year from the change.

The B ank o f N ova S cotia was reportedly the first to opt out of the program, followed quickly by the Royal Bank of Canada. As the only remaining party to the deal, the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce was forced to with­ draw from the CSLP. “Banks have seen this as a business agreement,” said Aaron Windsor, executive chairperson for the Post Graduate Students’ Society. “They aren’t thinking of the long run benefit of an educat­ ed student populace... [I]n reality, students shouldn’t have to ask for loan s, p eo p le sh ould w ant to make education accessible.”

In 1995, the government con­ tracted out the delivery of the

CSLP to the CIBC, the Royal B ank and the B ank o f N ova Scotia. It agreed to pay a five per cent risk premium, or around $50 million a year, as compensation for higher than average default rates. In exchange, private lend­ ing institutions assumed full man­ agement duties of the CSLP. As student default rates rose in the first two years of the con­ tract however, the costs of admin­ istering the program skyrocketed to over $300 million and severely diminished banks’ profit-margins.

In F ebruary, the governm ent offered to raise the risk premium paid to lending institutions to seven per cent, w hich w ould mean a reportedly $100 million in tra n sfe r paym ents to p riv ate banks.

The o ffer was form ally rejected last week.

Some students are hoping that the withdrawal of bank man­ agement of the CSLP will see a return to 100 per cent government gu aran tees for stu d en t loans.

Before 1995, these guarantees had cost the governm ent $225 million a year, according to Gino Trifiro, senior communications ad m in istrato r for Hum an

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Resources Canada. Under the cur­ rent agreement, the government is spending approximately $75 mil­ lion a year.

“Every additional cost [of the change] w ill be borne by the G overnm ent of C anada,” said Trifiro. “Right now, however, we don’t know how much this will cost the government.”

The government is hoping to contract adm inistration of the CSLP to Service Bureaus, inter­ mediaries already used by finan­ cial institutions to manage the CSLP. W ally Hill, director of cpmmunications and brand man­ agement for the service bureau E dulinx, was upbeat by the changes happening to the CSLP. “[I]n so far as you’re talking about student elements, the gov­ ernm ent should be w illing to work with all parties involved to improve the program,” said Hill.

“I think that the government is now indicating its commitment to work with all stakeholders.”

Students with existing loans under the old agreement do not have to fear any disruption in ser­ vice nor any additional costs.

With McGill’s refreshing ren­ ovations to such complexes as the William and Mary Brown Student Services and M cC onnell Engineering buildings almost com­ plete, issues such as funding for these projects have been called into question. One of the areas where McGill bank books may be trying to make up for the University’s spending is in Student Services fees. In particular, a hefty new Student Services fee of $166.00 per year, starting as of the 2000-2001 season, will be a required payment for each term attended by all graduate and undergraduate students in socalled 'self-funded programs.’

A ccording to the annual report of the Committee on the Co­ ordination of Student Services, distributed at a March 8 Senate meeting, “The only change in this year’s [student services] fee sched­ ule affects the fee for students in self-funded programs. For these students, Student Services does not receive the per capita government grant of $63.00 and thus recom­ mends this amount to be added to the Student Services fee of such students.”

Rosalie Jukier, dean of stu­ dents at McGill, further rational­ ized the supplem entary $31.50

charge per term to students in selffunded programs as simply a need to “replenish revenue.”

“It is a large mandate of the CCSS to trace sources of missing revenue from student fees,” Jukier explained at a senate meeting last week. “In our efforts to reimburse a government grant of approxi­ mately $18,000, we must imple­ ment ourselves more directly to rep lenish our revenue. Since tuition fees are different in supple­ mental programs, it correlates that additional fees be added on top for additional functions.”

Self-funded programs range from Bachelor of Commerce to MBA studies. As well, self-funded programs apply to both undergrad­ uate and graduate students, and are most often applicable to interna­ tional students who already pay a higher price than either Quebec or Canadian residents. According to the 1999/2000 McGill Calendar, while Quebec students are charged $1,668.30 for 30 credits, fees for international students can reach up to $13,500 in tuition alone. Considering the significant fee that international students are required to pay for tuition, they have not been thrilled about the additional $63.00 fee for self-fund­ ed programs.

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B leary -ey ed clerk s and scrutineers started counting the last poll, the Shatner poll, at 4:55 AM last Friday.

U nlike for m ost o f the races, which were effectively decided by then, the results of this poll would play a determin­ ing role in deciding who would be the next p resid ent of the S tudents' S ociety of M cG ill University.

At the end of it all, Wojtek Baraniak emerged as the new president of SSMU with a 220vote victory over his nearest riv a l, T am ana K ochar.

Baraniak's election was much closer than it appeared. After the first nine of fifteen polls

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had reported, he held a 76-vote lead over Kochar; after 12 polls reported, his lead was 108 votes.

Rom S everino finished in third place with â total of 853 votes. B araniak tallied 1,798; Kochar took 1,578.

Baraniak's campaign promot­ ed him as the most experienced of the candidates, a focus which he feels helped him win last week.

"The fact that I had a positive message with an achievable plat­ form [and] some new ideas [was a factor]," said Baraniak. "Also, campaigning on [being] the most experienced candidate [helped]."

Severino based his campaign on improving SSMU’s communi­ cation and reducing student apa­ thy, in the first case most notably by organizing a super-conference for student leaders with speakers coming in from the federal and provincial political scene. He felt that his loss was due to not being taken seriously enough by the e lec to rate; how ever he also thought he "opened a few eyes."

"Student rep­ resentation is the m ain thing [that SSMU should focus on,]" Severino said.

One o f the m ajor foci of K o ch ar’s cam ­ p aign was to change the politi­ cal cu ltu re in SSMU. “ [SSMU] has become too politi­ cal and less p e r­ sonal w hen it comes to being in contact with stu ­ d e n ts,” K ochar said. “The execs spend m ore tim e Mike Colwell with the administra­ tors than with students. This has w idened the gap betw een the execs and the students.”

“That’s what I have observed both from being on the inside and on the outside of the SSMU,” she added.

While Kochar is graduating this June, Severino expressed a w ish to rem ain involved with SSMU next year. He is uncertain

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whether he will be able to carry out his conference project as he will not be in Montreal this sum­ mer and recognizes that it is a large project.

Kochar, who will graduate w ith a d egree in E conom ics, Finance, and M arketing, is still unsure what she will be doing after her graduation. While disap­ pointed w ith the re su lt o f the vote, she credited her campaign team for their commitment to her campaign.

Mike Colwell “I had a very com m itted group of people who stuck by me [and] helped me out [with the campaign]. I’m more than grate­ ful for that.”

“It would have been an hon­ our and my pleasure to [be SSMU president] next year... [and] to bring about this m uch-needed change in the SSMU,” she added.

“I’m very disappointed.”

Baraniak promises to attend to many projects after he takes o ffic e, esp e cially the SSM U Daycare which he hopes to have operational by next September.

Between now and then, besides h an d lin g his C om m unity and Government portfolio and train­ ing the new v ice-p resid en t, Jeremy Farrell, he will be resting and "m ak[ing] sure each new ex ecu tiv e fam iliarizes [them ­ selves] with their portfolio."

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Clara Peron was elected the new VP University Affairs o f the S tu d en ts’ S o c ie ty o f M cG ill University, defeating opponents Am arkai L aryea and Jacq u ie P oitras, fo llo w in g the SSM U e le c tio n s that took place last week, by 1984 votes.

Peron, w ho th is year w as appointed as Senate representa­ tive from the Faculty o f Arts, outlined som e o f her first pro­ jects in the U niversity A ffairs portfolio.

“I [will] work at establishing the equity commission... And get to know the p e o p le in the [U n iv ersity ] ad m in istra tio n ,” Peron explained. “I’m starting to draft up how to change the way Senators are elected because I want them to be accountable to their faculty associations.”

L aryea cam e in seco n d behind Peron in the election, but his campaign aimed more at get­ ting issues out that he felt were important, andencourage voter turn out. He wanted to get issues of equity at McGill into the pub­ lic eye so that they could be dis­ c u ssed and r e so lv e d . E quity issues became apparent to him when he discovered that a sub­ com m ittee o f the Joint Senate Board of Equity, the subcommit­ tee on race and ethnic relations, had been in active since 1997.

Furthermore, this subcommittee had drafted a policy on discrimi­

nation and harassm ent, w hich had been left inactive. “[My] campaign [concerned] issues o f equity at the school and getting people to vote,” Laryea said. He then expressed his anger about the in a c tiv e p o lic y at McGill.

“One subcommittee on race and ethnic relation s has been inactive. How can this be? They drafted a policy on discrimina­ tion and harassment. Everyone forgot about this. It raises issues about this unimplemented policy and to g et p e o p le in v o lv e d ,” Laryea explained.

Jacquie Poitras was the sec­ ond runner-up. She does plan to remain involved with the office o f U niversity A ffairs and said she would apply for the student representative position to the VP University Affairs, Clara Peron.

Despite the results, Poitras said she ran the campaign she wanted to run and was happy with the results, as she felt Peron was well prepared for her new position.

“There are student represen­ tatives that work along with the VP and I would like to be one of them,” Poitras explained. “I ran the campaign I wanted and I’m happy so many people voted, an amazing turnout. I’m very happy for Clara. A ll o f us were very qualified.”

Chris Gratto was victorious in the hotly contested race for SSMU Vice-President o f Clubs and Services this past Thursday.

Gratto drew 1654 votes or 44 per cent of the votes cast for this race, edging out his opponent Akin A laga by seven per cent and André Nance by twenty-five per cent.

Gratto is experienced in the world o f student governm ent, having served this academic year as the VP Finance o f the Arts Undergraduate Society.

“I used [ideas, organization, and attention] to ensure depart­ ments and events were well-fund­ ed and had access to the neces­ sary resources.”

Gratto plans to get right back to work Monday morning for a m eeting on the Cold B everage Agreement.

“M onday I have to get updates on Phase II renovations [of the William and Mary Brown B uilding] and find out w hat’s happening to the referendum. The CBA would help a lot, and create a lot o f money for clubs.”

Gratto’s plans for next year as VP C lubs and S ervices are already mapped out.

“I’m going to com plete the club guide, make sure the consti­ tutions are up to date and make a guide for the building. I also want to get the first floor lounge up and running a little and get some fur­ niture for the fourth floor lounge.

I’ve got to go over budgets with Kevin McPhee [VP Operations],

and find out where to get more money.”

Alaga, Gratto’s closest oppo­ nent, wishes Gratto a good year.

As political co-ordinator o f the Black Students' Network, Alaga’s platform had included linking club interests with the needs o f students by creating free te le ­ phone access in Shatner. He also wanted to have a monthly calen­ dar of events to increase club visi­ b ility , and to organize strong events. As for next year, Alaga w ill be graduating in December but will not be out o f sight.

“I d e fin ite ly aim to stay involved. I’m already working on ideas from my platform so I plan to carry my initiatives out.”

N ance had prom ised to streamline the booking processes for rooms, develop an interactive clubs database and ensure clubs had a strong presence.

“I’m definitely going to stay involved, it was a lot o f fun. I w ish Chris all the luck in the world and I think he’s going to do a really great job.”

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1798 1578 853 531 (11.2% of 4760)

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University Affairs Clara Péron Amarkai Lariyea Jacquie Poitras Spoiled

1984 975 665 1203 (24.9% of 4827)

Community and Government Jeremy Farrell Louis-Philippe Messier Spoiled

2488 1429 916 (19.0% of 4833)

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1022 990 806 630 340 1032 (21.4% of 4820)

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1654 1390 723 1063 (22.0% of 4830)

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1602 1501 667 1052 (21.8% of 4822)

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SSM U E le c tio n 2 0 0 0 — Afterm ath Incumbent McPhee re­ C hodos discu sses p lan s for VP elected to VP Operations C om m unications a n d Events B y Jo h n S a l l o u m

Hockey, beer, pizza and potlucks: the nuts and bolts of VP Comm & Events victory, Chodos explained his first actions as VP of Communications and Events.

The air at Gert's was abuzz on “I was talking to Matt Students' Society of McGill [Wyndowe] and we’re going to University elections night with the start interviewing frosh coordina­ anticipation of the campaigns and tors at the end of March," he said. race results. VP Communications "Right now, the priority will be and Events, with a total of five can­ Frosh Week with around 200 Frosh didates, saw Mark Chodos emerge leaders and after I will definitely triumphant. familiarize myself with the SSMU.” Mark Chodos won the position Chodos also stressed the need with a total of 1,022 votes in the for communication with the stu­ race against Bob Tarie, Jesse dents through Andrews, Kosta mass e-mail.

Dritsas, and, final­ “One of ly, Pete Wielgosz, my biggest pro­ who was 32 votes jects is a bilin­ behind in the total gual mass email vote. Among the to all the stu­ main duties for dents, prepared the position are by the first of improving the the month out­ events and parties lining SSMU at M cGill and activities and increasing the other relevant attendance at faculty activi­ these events. ties," said Inside of a Chodos. "Also, very crowded Hockey Night Gerts as the votes is the other pet were being tallied, project where Andrews said, we can maybe with a smile, that hang out at she would party G erts’ during whether she won playoffs, get or lost, while access to the W ielgosz was A checkmark for Chodos Mike Colwell satelite dish and unavailable for cheap pizzas.” comment.

In the face of a productive year After the election, Tarie was Chodos' next year under Wyndowe, Chodos was con­ enthusiastic about the experience. fident about living up to the legacy For now, Tarie plans to follow Chodos' stated at the all-candi­ other opportunities he has rather dates debate that his future plans left by the last VP communications than keep him self involved in included a bilingual emails about and events.

“I wouldn’t say overwhelmed, McGill politics. events at SSMU, open mike night, “I have absolutely no regrets pot-luck forums and hockey night I would say impressed. He’s done a really good job and he’s left a lot to but I think the things that win elec­ at McGill. live up to and I hope I can do it.” tions are face to face interactions All of the candidates had the with students in front of classes and similar goal of increasing the size He later added that Wyndowe-initivideos," he said. "The campaign and amount of people attending ated events will be continued, “I hope to have Open Meetings about was a very good experience.”

McGill events next year and Following the election, Dritsas increasing school spirit. After his twice a semester, especially if there is a big issue like the CBA. Also, we’ll keep Snow AP, but I’ll try to do something about warming it up.”

Diana Fridyland, C hodos’ campaign manager stated before the final results that nothing went wrong with the campaign.

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“I had no regrets really but I didn’t take it as seriously as I would have liked to because of school and mid-terms, but it was fun.” he later added, “Maybe [I might run again], but it depends on how I feel next year. Now it is time for a break.”

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In a race that went down to the wire, incumbent Kevin McPhee was re-elected to the position of VP Operations in the Students’ Society of McGill University’s elections last week. Candidates Arif Chowdhury and Jay Antao placed 1501 and 667 votes respectively, behind McPhee’s 1602 votes. 1052 votes were spoiled.

Antao explained that he was pleased with the race for the posi­ tion.

“It was incredibly clean... all three candidates did really well. I thought it was a good, clean, fair race,” Antao said.

Chowdhury also felt it was a clean race but felt there was an area of his campaign that could have been improved. “ [I should have been] more focused on Bronfman," Chowdhury said of his campaign. "I think [the campaign] did take off near the end during the voting days in terms of getting people out to vote. That is the key to everyone’s campaign. If I had to do it all again, I would put more emphasis on Bronfman.”

McPhee, happier with his race, added that there were some people his personal campaign did not reach.

“I would have liked to talk to more students on an individual basis, and there are some faculties I didn’t get to with classroom speeches... that’s something that I could have done more with,” said McPhee. He explained, however, that his position as an incumbent is advantageous to the SSMU because of his familiarity with the role.

“I think it’s going to be a great opportunity for me to get a lot more done. I’m not going to spend the four months of the summer going through files, finding out what’s in them, try­ ing to learn out how to use the accounting program. 1 have all that knowledge now... May I for me is a regular working day.”

Antao stated that he plans to remain involved with the Students’ Society.

“I really hope to stay as involved as I’ve been in this past year, if not more," he said. "I think there is a lot to be done with the portfolio and others. I was fairly involved with Wojtek [Baraniak’s] Community and Government Affairs portfolio this year, and I’m hoping to continue to do the same with Jeremy [Farrell] next year... I [also] hope to sit on [McPhee’s Financial Affairs Committee]...”

Antao also noted that he intends to keep fighting for some of the changes he sought as part of his cam­ paign platform.

“Very clearly... I’d really like to see more financial information available regarding the Students’

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Chowdhury planned to stay involved as well.

"I can't not be involved," he explained. "I'm that type of a person.

I may apply for an appointed posi­ tion with SUS [Science Undergraduate Society] or SSMU or a combination of both. I will remain involved for sure.”

The Cold Beverage Agreement was closely tied both to the finances of the Society and the VP Operations race. McPhee, a proponent of the CBA, admitted that there was a time when he wondered if his fate would parallel that of the referendum ques­ tion.

“That was Monday for me.

Monday I was very nervous, we were getting a high voter turnout... it was a result of the CBA... For all of Monday I was very concerned that people would be voting ‘No’ to the CBA and ‘No’ to me. I think that probably happened a little bit, but luckily for me, not enough. ...Once we’re mandated by the referendum, there’s nothing I can do, no matter where I stand on the CBA,” McPhee said.

“As far as the referendum goes, it makes it pretty clear for us that we can’t support it. My understanding from that is that if the students aren’t supporting it, then it’s not something that’s going to proceed.”

Antao noted that he was not necessarily averse to the idea of cor­ porate funding at McGill.

“A position I’ve always taken is that just because the CBA has been voted down, doesn’t mean [we should] not continuing to look for corporate dollars in terms of invest­ ment in McGill. I think my problems [with the CBA]... were more that this particular contract had some problems. I think as long as financial accountability... and openness [are] kept from the start, I don’t think I have any problems with continuing to look to other corporate avenues of funding,” Antao said. “In the federal budget and in Quebec’s case, certain­ ly lots of money was contributed to health cqre and education. [An] avenue that needs to be explored there is the provincial lobby, to see how much of that money that has been committed... [toward] McGill specifically.”

M cPhee’s plans for the VP Operations portfolio for the moment revolve around finishing up his cur­ rent mandate. “[I will be] finalizing... and set­ ting up [the daycare], there’s going to be the resolution of the Cold Beverage Agreement... [and] trying to come up with a revised plan for those [Shatner building] renovations.

[In addition to the] food court reno­ vations, [and] getting that second floor done in the next two months.

Those are my immediate plans. If I can get all that done over the next couple of months, then F11 have the summer to work on my platform ini­ tiatives.”

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Getting women to run for office G ross did not feel th at it should be necessary to try to get more women, specifically, to run for office.

“I have never thought [of the situation] as having women to run as much as I’ve thought of it as having people to run...” Gross said. “I have never thought of it as sim ply helping w om en to [run]. I am certainly a feminist to some degree, but I will help enable anybody’s activi­ ties.”

As for being the only women on the SSMU executive, Gross felt pleased with her experience. “ [It] was fabulous. I love m en ,” G ross ad m itted.

“I th in k th e y ’re w onderful and th e y ’re great frie n d s... We Mike Colwell really enjoyed our tim e together and they would like to say that I have a fair amount of testerone as well so I was a good addition to their boy’s club being not too much of a girl. I derive a certain unique pleasure being a mother-hen sort of person which was very character building. It gave me more of a say on certain issues because when the men w ere discu ssin g the p o litica l issues and not being a political person, but more of a service ori­ ented person, I was able to give a different perspective and edge in political discussions and more serious issues.

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[into the issue]. W hat are the expectations we have o f o u r­ selves? What are the leadership m odels we are looking to ?...

There have been very few female presidential candidates who have changed the model for women.”

W hen asked w hat she thought was the reason behind the lack of female candidates, Science rep to SSMU, Zainab Abdurrahman suggested that stu­ dents were used to looking for male candidates.

“I don’t know if I could give an actual reason, but in the public

There were only four women in a field of 19 candidates in the S tu d e n ts’ S ociety o f M cG ill U niversity election last week.

Only one was voted into office, matching this year’s female exec­ utive total, illustrating a lack of wom en in student p o litics at McGill.

According to VP Clubs and Services Sam Gross, though, the small percentage of women at the executive level of student gov­ ernm ent is deceiving.

“T here has been really strong fem ale leadership in years p a st,” Gross, the lone wom an on this y e a r’s exec, explained. “Very strong wom en are involved in a lot o f the se r­ vices... If there w ere more wom en going out at the [SSMU] level, it Clara Péron, next year’s sole female representative might influence how many more would run the year after... I know that a lot of eye, when people describe who women don’t go out for SSMU looks like the best presidential politics [because] they feel they candidate, the word ‘he’ is used can make more of a difference in synonom ously with president, their areas of interest by being w hich is qu ite u n fo rtu n a te ,” more involved as executives on Abdurrahman said.

Troy su ggested that men the club level. There is som e­ may be more likely to run for thing to be Said for that.” more public governmental roles because they see those kinds of Models for female models, while women have more leadership opportunity to identify with other Department of History pro­ women in less public leadership fessor Gil Troy agreed that men roles.

“Maybe we have to be more and women may be more attract­ ed to different types of leader­ bold,” Troy continued, in saying ship. He felt that the key to this maybe men are more comfortable discussion was leadership mod­ in certain kinds of leadership roles and maybe women are more els.

“I think that we have moved comfortable working at [a news­ beyond the age-old problem of paper]... W hat is im portant in men saying ‘No, you d o n ’t society is not deciding that the belong,” Troy opined. “Now we most valid form of leadership is are delving into issues of psy­ the most important, the most pub­ chology, p erso n ality , gender role... and leadership models. I think we have to take a deep look

For Claire Abeille, an interna­ tional student in her second under­ graduate year, the news of yet another increase in student fees means more money spent on ser­ vices that she does not use.

“I don’t know whether to be more disturbed by the fact that I will be charged for services that I rarely make use of or more so by the classic act of McGill adminis­ tration to inform me as little as possible about this fee increase,” Abeille complained. “Inevitably, I will have to pay these fees as a full-tim e student of M cGill. I guess that McGill needs to find their revenue from some source, and figures, ‘Hey why not pick on those international students a bit more?'”

To explain what, in particular, the new fees will pay for, Jukier made the distinction between fees and funding.

“These self-funded program students are taken out of the gov­ ernment granting, program where­ by they pay a tuition fee directly to McGill but not actually funding McGill,” Jukier said. “With the increase in fee-paying students, we have been able to start limited initiatives such as a grant to the F irst P eo p le’s House and the extension o f M cG ill Health Services to evening hours.”

At the senate meeting where student fee adjustments were final­ ized, Senator Nicholas de Takacsy also commented on the new fees.

“Although it would be nice to separate the various elements of this [self-funded program] sum, it is difficult for me to discuss those aspects without the figures avail­ able to me.” He added only that some of the fees would go to spe­ cial scholarship funds.

As pleased as some students may be about their new and reno­ vated buildings on campus, some students’ faces may express less cheer than others about these nov­ elties. In particular, it will be those distracted facial expressions of students in self-funded programs, preoccupied by a peculiar light­ ness in their change pockets.

AM ENDED

Senate passed an amendment to the ‘G uidelines for the Awarding of Honorary Degrees’ at its meeting last Wednesday, stating that voting members of the Board of Governors will no longer be considered for hon­ ourary degrees while they hold this office.

The amendm ent was pro­ posed by Stephen Déry, the University and Academic Affairs Coordinator of the Post Graduate Students’ Society, in light of the fact that several members of the Board of Governors sit on the Honourary Degrees and Convocations Committee.

Already excluded from con­ sideration for honourary degrees are active or newly retired mem­ bers of staff and Canadian politi­ cians currently in office. The addition of members of the Board of Governors to the list follows a controversy that arose earlier this year when Senate confidentiality was broken regarding the recom­ mendation of John Cleghorn for an honourary degree. Déry made reference to this event as one of the factors motivating the propos­ al of this amendment.

“Of course with the past experience that we have this hear, it makes sense to focus on the Board of G overnors. The Honourary Degrees Committee is mostly comprised of members of the Board of Governors.”

Déry originally brought the motion to Senate last December.

He explained that at the time, “the Secretary General asked me to bring the motion to the Honourary Degrees Committee.

That is why it has taken so long.”

The Honourary Degrees and Convocations Committee sup­ ported Déry’s motion and it final­ ly passed in Senate on Wednesday.

There was little opposition voiced in regard to the motion.

The short discussion that sur­ rounded it related primarily to technicalities in the wording.

Déry was pleased with the result.

“Pm happy that the motion passed and I hope it will make things clear and keep unfortunate events from occurring in the future.”

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By M aria Simpson F or fo u r ye a rs n o w , I h a v e h e a rd th e w o r n la m e n t o f " s tu d e n t a p a ­ t h y " e c h o h o llo w ly a t s tu d e n t p ro te s ts , e le c tio n s a n d e v e n ts . A lm o s t e v e ry c a n d id a te in th e re c e n t S tu d e n ts ' S o c ie ty o f M c G ill U n iv e r s ity e le c tio n s h a d a b a ttle s tra te g y to c o m b a t th e e v il a p a th y p la g u e — s o m e w a n te d to squash it w it h w e b s ite s , s o m e w it h p o t-lu c k s , o n e c a n ­ d id a te e v e n su g g este d a ra ve p a rty as a p o s s ib le s o lu tio n .

W e ll, h o ld o n to y o u r g litte r p a n ts , th a t ra ve w o n 't b e n e ce ssa ry ju s t y e t. A w h o p p in g 5 ,0 0 0 s tu d e n ts (th a t's a b o u t 3 0 p e r c e n t o f u n d e r ­ g ra d u a te s ) tu rn e d o u t to v o te . C o m p a re d w it h an a p p ro x im a te 2 0 p e r­ c e n t tu r n o u t in p re v io u s ye a rs, th is is an a s tro n o m ic a l ju m p . W a s it th e lu re o f c e le b ra tin g a c o m m u n ity s p ir it w it h p o u n d in g d ru m n ' bass in t h e S h a t n e r c a f e t e r ia ?

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A g re e m e n t p le b is c ite w h ic h d r e w o u t th e m asses.

T h e p a tte r o f fe e t to p o llin g s ta tio n s w a s a ls o th e s q u e lc h in g n o ise o f th e th e o r y th a t M c G ill s tu d e n ts a re a p a th e tic . It has b e e n a lo n g h e ld n o tio n th a t s tu d e n ts a re so b la sé th a t a p ro fo u n d c h a n g e to t h e ir u n iv e rs ity w o u ld o n ly re s u lt in an ir o n y - la c e d lif t o f th e e y e b ro w s a n d a " h o w d r o ll" a s id e . A lth o u g h th e C B A w a s v o te d d o w n b y a s lim m a r­ g in , th e r e fe r e n d u m ta rg e te d a c a u s e s tu d e n ts fo u n d im p o r t a n t a n d im m e d ia te to t h e ir liv e s a t M c G ill, b u t a ls o h a d w h iffs o f la rg e r causes

the student plight

I am writing this letter in response to Kent Glowinski’s col­ umn in last week’s Tribune entitled, “Cutting Queer McGill: More Money in your Pockets.” (Column, 7 Mardi) Glowinski argues that given students’ financial burden, SSMU should cut the funding it offers to services, such as Queer McGill, whose activities “benefit a small minority of students at the expense of the entire student body.” He argues that “if Queer McGill were to be eliminated, queer students would still have other effective resources readily available to them [in the greater Montreal com m unity].”

Finally, he suggests that students should be able to “opt-out of funding any club they wish.”

I find many things problematic in Glowinski’s column. First of all, Glowinski is attacking not only Queer McGill but all services that contribute to the welfare of the entire McGill community. Let me stress T he F ederal

v o te d yes o r n o , it w a s an issue p e o p le fe lt p a s s io n a te ly a b o u t.

T h e " n o " c a m p a ig n tu rn e d a v o te a b o u t w h e th e r o r n o t to e n te r an e x c lu s iv it y c o n tr a c t w it h C o k e in to a s tru g g le w it h " th e m a n ." Even th o u g h th is w o u ld n o t b e th e f ir s t e x c lu s iv it y c o n t r a c t in t o w h ic h M c G ill has e n te re d , it t o o k o n th e p r o p o r tio n s o f a n e p ic s tru g g le .

S a y in g n o to th e C B A w a s a ls o s a y in g n o to c o r p o r a tio n s th a t h a v e s h a d y h u m a n rig h ts re c o rd s . S a y in g n o w a s a b o u t p ro te s tin g th e rise o f c o rp o r a te m o n o p o lie s . S a y in g n o w a s a b o u t d e n y in g an in frin g e m e n t o n s tu d e n t rig h ts b e c a u s e w e c o u ld n 't rea d th e c o n tra c t. T h e re w e re m a n y rea so n s p e o p le v o te d n o , b u t th e se rea so n s a ll fe lt lik e a f ig h t fo r lo ftie r id e a ls .

C o m p a re d w it h th e " n o " c a m p a ig n , th e " y e s " c a m p p a le d . In a le t­ te r to th e T rib u n e , A n d r e w T is c h le r u rg e d s tu d e n ts to v o te yes in th e re fe re n d u m , s ta tin g , " i t is tru e th a t [th e C B A ] is a B a n d -A id s o lu tio n , h o w e v e r, I p re fe r th is a lte rn a tiv e to w a tc h in g M c G ill a n d its s tu d e n ts b le e d to d e a th w h ile w e w a it fo r an ir re s p o n s ib le a n d m is m a n a g e d g o v e rn m e n t to c o m e to th e re s c u e " (1 M a r c h , 2 0 0 0 ). P e o p le d o n 't r a lly a r o u n d B a n d - A id s o lu tio n s ; s tu d e n ts s u p p o r t an issu e th a t th e y ca n d ir e c t ly in flu e n c e . T h e " n o " c a m p a ig n h a d a sense o f u rg e n c y , w it h p o ste rs e m b la z o n e d w it h " M Y T H : A n y 'F A C T 1 th e S S M U has to ld yo u a b o u t th e C B A ." T h e " y e s " c a m p a ig n p ro d u c e d th e fla c c id " th e r e are th re e s o lu tio n s : g o v e rn m e n t, in d u s try a g re e m e n ts a n d s tu d e n t fees. T h e g o v e rn m e n t has fa ile d u s ." T h e re w a s n o g lo ry , n o s o u n d a n d fu ry , a n d th e re fo re , fe w e r v o te s . Even th o s e w h o v o te d yes w e re re a c tin g a g a in s t th e "n o " c o n tin g e n t's c a m p a ig n ; th e ir c a m p a ig n p ro d u c e d v io le n t o p in ­ io n s fo r a n d a g a in s t th e e x c lu s iv ity c o n tra c t.

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You know, there was a column in the February 1 edition of The McGill Tribune by Chris Selley which kind of got on the nerves of a whole wack of music students, including this one right here. The column, The Federal Arts Bailout: A Farm B oy’s Perspective, although slightly hum orous in nature (in the sense that how could anybody be so damn ignorant?) seemed to drive all of my music buddies up the wall. It’s not the fact that Selley believes the Canada Council for the Arts is a big waste of money (especially the $21 mil­ lion that it spends on music) that annoys me beyond belief, but his inability to get some simple facts straight.

I’m a U1 Music Composition major, and I know I got my big start in com posing as a result of a Canada Council project. The Edmonton Symphony Orchestra has this “Young Com posers Project,” where you get free com­ position lessons and get to write a piece of music for the orchestra.

Not bad, eh? Like the Young Composer’s Project, most of the Canada Council’s grants are used to make opportunities for people, many of them young, who are will­ ing to put in the perseverance required to be successful in a very competitive market. Imagine that — making opportunities for people who want to work for their money.

Don’t get me wrong — I think we need to help those who are on the streets, but instead of giving them a

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against one another to determine which students are most deserving of funding. The danger in such an approach cannot be overemphasised, as it can easily lead to discrimination and exclusion. In light of the current (and very real) funding crisis, stu­ dents at McGill need to present a united front to the McGill adminis­ tration and to the Provincial Government rather than fight amongst themselves about who gets how much. As students we need to refrain from blaming each other for the deterioration of our education and school environment; we need to work together to channel our energy in the appropriate and most effective places. Glowinski’s recommenda­ tions will serve only to foster bitter­ ness and resentment. I urge students to reject his proposal and seek to find real solutions.

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arts bailout : a c o m p o s e r ' s perspective

a n d g re a te r s tru g g le s . T h e C B A q u e s tio n g ra b b e d p e o p le 's a tte n tio n a t M c G ill a n d th e rest o f C a n a d a ; it b e c a m e n a tio n a l n e w s . W h e th e r o n e

that McGill is a community in and of itself, whose students should not be compelled to look elsewhere for the services that they need. I would also argue that all services benefit all stu­ dents at McGill. Instead of putting “more money in our pockets”, cut­ ting Queer McGill, or any other ser­ vice for that matter, will serve only to weaken and impoverish us as a community.

While I appreciate Glowinski’s concern for the financial burden of his fellow students, I fear the impli­ cations of his suggested solutions.

Glowinski’s attempt to prioritize one service over another and to go so far as to suggest the privatization of ser­ vices is perhaps an understandable reaction to the lack of funding but, in my opinion, it is the wrong approach. His column demonstrates the extent to which this funding cri­ sis is dividing students on campus; he is encouraging the students to fight over the scarce funding that does exist and to discriminate

“little change for booze,” we should give them also the opportunities to work for their money.

“It m ust be nice having a cushy union job at the symphony, tooting your horn a couple of nights a week and living the good life.”

Right. I know the reason why I went into music, and alongside with the rest of the 700 students here at the Music Faculty, was for the vast and incredible amounts of money that we would make tooting our horns a couple nights of the week.

The fact is that hardly any perform­ ers could afford to feed their fami­ lies their “caviar sandwiches,” as Selley likes to put it, without doing some kind of secondary or even ter­ tiary job, like teaching or freelanc­ ing. The apparently “high” salary that performers get paid doesn’t even take into consideration indi­ vidual practice and preparation time required to maintain a professional standard of performance. Besides, at the union rate of $75 an hour, who wouldn’t get that much if they had dedicated so much of their lives labouring over their profession? I know that I started playing the piano when I was four — when I was sixteen I started to do gigs at $60 an hour. Granted, it did feel weird to be making that much (com pared to my buddies at M cD onald’s), but one of my employers put it this way — if she had spent twelve years in school learning her profession, she was going to make sure that she was getting paid the big bucks.

You know, every time we see

a homeless person out on the streets begging for some change, we always tend to question our priori­ ties, and arts funding is an obvious target. Sure, it is hard to justify the making of music over the guy who is freezing his butt in Montreal’s harsh weather. I think it almost becomes a point of laughter between all musicians, about get­ ting a job, and feeding a family. It rem inds me of a joke that my teacher, Sean Ferguson told our orchestration class. “What’s a com­ poser without a girlfriend? (to be politically correct, we shall replace the word girlfriend with the word “partner”...)... homeless.”

The arts is a place where we indirectly record history — the events around us influence the medium in which we express our­ selves, and to cheat the next genera­ tion out of their own history would be a fatal flaw. Besides, how can you pick on arts funding when the federal government is bailing out banks (who make $7 billion +) on student loan defaults, and are trying to bailout hockey clubs with their multi-million dollar payrolls? There are different opinions on different subjects, but as a musician, I have to defend the profession I chose to go into (for the money, right?). If you worked so damn hard to get where you wanted to go, you couldn’t afford not either, right ?

Darren Fung U1 BMus (Composition)

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S ervices

T heatre

play a n integr al role

Mr. Glowinski seems to be con­ fused about what a service is, or should be (Cutting Queer McGill: more money in your pocket, Tribune, 7 March 2000). He states that Queer McGill cannot legiti­ mately be called a service. This would suggest that providing infor­ mation and resources to students is not a service. Evidently he also believes that providing discussion and support groups for students is not a service. His statement also implies that providing support and advocacy for students who have been harassed at McGill are not ser­ vices, because Queer McGill does all of these things, in addition to the QueerLine listening service they offer.

If Queer McGill is not a ser­ vice, then what does Mr. Glowinski define as a “beneficial service” that he has “no problem funding”? He lists SACOMSS as one example.

Perhaps he is unaware, then, that we also provide resources and informa­ tion to students. We provide support groups. We also provide support and advocacy for students who have been harassed at McGill. In addition, we offer a HelpLine listening ser­ vice. We even publish Fire With Water, a journal for survivors that one might consider our own version of a queer poetry reading.

McGill is a diverse campus. We hope that many students come from backgrounds where they have never experienced marginalisation, harass­ ment, hatred, assault, or fear at the hands of their communities. But oth­ ers have, and need services that recognise and value their experi­ ences, and create spaces within which they can find support, com­ munity, and maybe healing. McGill also needs services that remind us that we are not all the same, with the same experiences, and that help us to combat our own ignorance.

SACOMSS is just such a service.

So is Queer McGill.

stan ers i Can co mmui i >lc.

We the students complain of underfunding and the embarrassing state of our libraries and classrooms. We have a vested interest in maintain­ ing if not improving the level of education that we receive. One of the most important things that we, as a school, can do to keep this institution from failing, is to con­ tinue to provide students with knowledgeable, dedicated, and pas­ sionate professors. We as a school should do all that we can to entice new professors and to keep the superb educators that we already have from leaving.

I am a student in Professor Jeffrey Khuner’s American History class. Recently he informed us that he is considering leaving, not because of money, but because of stability. He is looking for a long term contract. He is one of the finest professors at this school.

Every lecture that he gives is impassioned and well informed. He cares about his students, he moti­ vates us, encourages us, and demands excellence from us. In a class of 200 students he makes an effort to know us by name and to give us personal feedback. He is an asset to this school. The adminis­ tration and the students should be doing everything in their power to keep him here. He wants to stay here. We are the ones who will lose if he leaves.

Jenna Rinas U2 Political Science

Clare Jennings, External Coordinator Sexual Assault Centre of McGill Students ’ Society Participate

in debate

As co-organizer of the Francophone debate that took place on Friday, March 3 at Alley Cats, I’ve been remarkably surprised to realize that we had more student par­ ticipation than was expected.

In fact, I’ve been particularly impressed by the larger number of students attending this debate who were not as current or former office­ holders in SSMU, campaign man­ agers, or journalists, but simply aver­ age students. That gave me some hope. Hope in future, our future* You know, we are tomorrow’s lead­ ers... And I’m convinced that we can find leaders everywhere in our soci­ ety.

As a matter of fact, contrary to common belief, executive political power is not the only way to change our society. Anyone can do his/her little part towards the achievement of the common good in exercising his/her citizen power. Let me explain this concept of citizen power. This is the power that a citizen has (and of which he’s/she’s rarely conscious; in fact, I strongly believe that the only image he/she can get is the one claiming that this power is null) which justifies our democratic sys­ tem in giving it its pluralism and its dynamism. For his/her voice to be

heard, as a simple citizen, one has to get involved, to attend public debates, to question one’s represen­ tatives, to make their representatives give them satisfying answers to all the issues the citizen judges impor­ tant, to send letters to the editor, to protest.

For those of you who wouldn’t understand what I tried to explain to you, I think it’s only because you don’t want to understand what citi­ zen power is all about. But if so, you deny the simplest expression of what, in my sense, a democratic society should be. Having said this, I think that we don’t give, in our own McGill society, that power the place it deserves. I would say that we have a long road ahead of us before these prejudices disappear.

N.B. : We apologize for the candidates that were not invited to the debate. It wasn’t a way to favour some candidates, but more a matter of time that dictated this to us.

Thanks!

Catherine Foisy, Co-organizer of the francophone debate

iis letter is being written as a '«ponse to last week’s •e Over The Rainbow” ' Kent Glowinski - 6 v?ueer McGill: more money in your pocket”, 7 March). In the column, he argues that “it’s time to ask, should students even be fund­ ing clubs and services that have no relevance to them whatsoever.” He continues on to argue that he has a problem funding “frivolous activities [...] which benefit only a small minority of students at the expense of the entire student body.”

As a group of some of the largest SSMU organizations on cam­ pus, we ask you — the McGill stu­ dent — to consider the following: - Most SSMU services are designed for minority groups of stu­ dents. Indeed, a great number of ser­ vices across the entire campus exist in order to assist (proportionally) small groups of people.

- SSMU services are designed to respond effectively to the needs of students and staff on campus. For example, issues of discrimination and harassment in the residences cannot be properly addressed by external agencies. Additionally, students may not feel comfortable seeking support in the greater Montréal community for a variety of reasons (language, age and cultural barriers among oth­ ers). SSMU services provide neces­ sary safe spaces and programmes that cannot be provided by other agencies.

- In his article, he mentioned Queer Line, SACOMSS and Walksafe as legitimate and beneficial services. While available to all, only a small minority of McGill students use them at any given time. All ser­ vices should be available to all stu­ dents, despite the fact that some stu­ dents may not currently use them.

- Most importantly, the entire McGill community benefits from the activities, services and programmes organised by all SSMU services.

Events such as Black History Month, International Women’s Week and Queer Pride Week (March 17-24) all serve to raise awareness of the pres­ ence of these valued communities on the university, and help to fight dis­ crimination on campus and beyond.

Discrimination is not only relevant to those being discriminated against.

To emphasise what Mr. Glowinski is calling us all to consid­ er, try substituting the names of any other SSMU service in the place of “Queer McGill” in the article: “I do, however, have a problem funding frivolous_________ activi­ ties such as ‘_________ camp-outs’, ‘_________ open-mikes’ and ‘________ dances’, which benefit only a small minority of students at the expense o f the entire student body. ” “I f ________ were to be elimi­ nated,________ students would still have other effective resources readily available to them.”

In a day and age where we strive to be a diverse and non-discriminatory society, Mr. Glowinski’s argu­ ments are both cancerous and offen­ sive. We strongly condemn his attack on the merits of our services which are beneficial to so many students on campus.

Signed, Black Students ’Network McGill International Students Network McGill Studentsfor Literacy Night Line Queer Line Queer McGill Sexual Assault Centre of McGill Students’ Society Women’s Union

b elo n g s o n the stage

It is apt that Herbert Spencer’s quotation, “Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not the intellect”, appears on the same page as Kareem Fahm y’s latest attack on the Player’s Theatre execu­ tive (Letter to the Editor, “McGill Drama Festival”, March 7). Indeed, there is little intellect and much feel­ ing underlying Fahmy’s meandering letter which appears to have less to do with his concern for the McGill Drama Festival and more to with flogging a dead horse and seeing his name in print (again!).

It is true that the Player’s con­ stitution is out of date; however, the demands of running a theatre that produces up to eight shows a year, and a student written drama festival often means that there is no time to spend arguing over an outdated piece of paper which has little to do with the actual running of the the­ atre. As a member of last year’s Player’s executive, I have experi­ enced Fahmy’s apparent concern for the health of the theatre. I was left with the feeling that more could have been accomplished for the good of the theatre if the executive was not continually dealing with Fahmy’s often melodramatic com­ plaints.

One has the feeling that when Fahmy talks of the “many talented and enthusiastic individuals whose rights to take part in theatre activities have been compromised” he is talk­ ing only of himself. One wonders

about Fahmy’s “concern” for the welfare of the theatre when he pub­ licly criticized the Player’s executive in the “Closer” program notes. One wonders about Fahmy’s “concern” for the welfare of the theatre when he directed a show without securing the^ theatrical rights. And one still wonders about Fahmy’s concern for all the people who are in the midst of the current McGill Drama Festival — how many potential audience members will be put off because of his insinuation that the shows are under-rehearsed?

I believe the theatre needs pas­ sionate people to undertake the diffi­ cult job of running a theatre under the auspices of SSMU. I believe that simply maintaining the status quo kills creativity, and that new blood creates new life. Go and support the McGill Drama Festival, the Contemporary Dance Ensemble, the Directors Projects, and the Savoy Society because you will see people committed to their work, experi­ menting with their art, and that should be the bottom line.

I wish Fahmy every success as the writer, actor, producer, director and theatrical savant he aspires to be.

I suggest he stop creating so much drama outside the theatre and starts putting it on the stage where it belongs.

Philip Graeme U3 English (and still wondering why this feels like high school)

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Out with th e Birds, in with th e Bs F lipping through new spa­ pers, e ith e r lo cal or national, y o u ’d th in k th a t to be a real Canadian columnist, you would need to w rite a colum n about Canadian currency. This being my twelfth column, I figure it’s time for me to step up to the plate, and take a couple swings at our currency.

No, don’t worry, this won’t be a column about economics who am I to base an entire col­ umn upon som ething I know nothing about? According to a story in March ninth’s Globe and Mail, we’ve grown tired of those damn birds, and instead w e’re going to cover the backs of our monopoly money with pictures of famous Canadians.

A p p a ren tly i t ’s up to us Canadians to decide exactly who will go on the bills, and accord­ ing to the Globe, we have “very high standards” regarding our currency, including a strict “no a lc o h o lic s ” p o licy , so w e ’re going to have to get John A off the ten ASAP. Now, there are five bills up for consideration: the five, ten, fifty, hundred and the tw enty,

been doing it.

Ten dollars seems to be the going rate for a gram of pot (I heard), so who better to be on the back of the dixie than Tommy Chong, idol of potheads every­ where. His fine roles in film s such as Up in Sm oke, not to mention his bril­ J j j Burning the Sambuca liant later work, as ex e m p lified Zm C h r is E s s e r t

by H alf Baked, have placed him high in the act­ body ever, ever buy a Barbara ing pantheon. A chievem ent on this level must be recognized.

Streisand album?

Fifty dollar bills are the most B ut seriously in case you d id n ’t see this com ing, I ’ve commonly counterfeited denomi­ looked back through Canadian nation, because of their high ratio history, and found a few people I of value to availability (I guess.) think should be on the new bills. C anada has one c o u n terfeiter First things first, the fin. I figure, more noteworthy than all the rest, five dollars, five quintuplets, eh? and he deserves his place at the The Dionne quintuplets have no top, too. I mean, the one-tim e w orld-class skills of any type, fastest man in the world is toiling and have done nothing notewor­ away as a personal trainer to the thy since being born. B ut we son of a third world dictator, of need to honour them as pioneers all things. Let’s get Ben Johnson in the field of being famous for out of there and put him where being famous -th e y ’ve done it he belongs; it’s not like he was since they were bom, and since the only one who was cheating, they started the trend, everyone’s he was just the only one dumb which is the ‘money’ bill, given that it’s the most common. So th at m akes five fam ous C anadians who could soon be looking up at you from inside your wallet. Immediately, one is inclined to ask, why would any­

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enough to get caught.

As th is co lu m n w ent to press, a hundred dollars was still a lot of money, so our hundred dollar bill should honour some ‘achievements’ of Canadian busi­ ness. There are so many people to choose from, so I propose a portrait-style shot, à la the old American two dollar bill. Around the table, bankruptcy form s in hand, we could have the Eatons and the R eich m an n s. B eing e sc o rte d aw ay by th e p o lice co u ld be A lan E ag le so n and G arth D rabinksy, and C onrad Black could be there, lobbying for few er social program s and more tax cuts.

F in ally , the tw enty do llar bill, the highest honour o f all.

Canadians, we are reminded by the Globe, are “quite traditional” in these matters, so on the twen­ ty, we should stick with a woman with lots of money, world fame, and no purpose. Luckily, we have one of those stashed away right h ere in La B elle P ro v in ce: Céline! Come on folks, the poor girl’s been through so much, and here’s what she deserves - a spot on a bill amongst these other fine

Canadians.

I encourage you to write to your MP to get those damn birds off those bills, and replace them with something to really remind us o f all the things C anadians have done. complaints? hesser@ po-box. me gill, ca

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A public service a n n o u n c e m e n t If Crown Prosecutors took their gig seriously, a good num­ ber of our politicians, media per­ sonalities and intellectuals would be in the Big House for violating S ectio n 318 o f the C rim inal C ode, the p ro h ib itio n against “obstinate prom otion of hate.”

Alas, Lady Justice is like a wine co n n o isseu r. She is selec tiv e about which cases she picks up.

One thing that helps her discrimi­ nation here is the fact that the victims are Americans.

Now, I am not an unabashed

cept of cross-checking to some of these mothers-of-uckers.

I suppose there have always been some Canadians who never had to work for a living, leaving them the time to m editate and flatulate Chair Shots about how to h a t e J o e F e rn a n d e z A m e r ic a n s .

T o d a y ’ s incarnation of ever, one of the few who have this hatred sounds like something physically demonstrated the con- from Hilary Clinton or the militia

b o o tlic k e r o f all th in g s from Down S outh. L ike m ost' Canadians, I despise loudmouth American tourists who act like they own everything. I am, how-

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jabronis; a vast American con­ spiracy to infiltrate, take over and incorporate Canada. The Trojan horses are A m erican co rp o ra­ tions, and American TV shows.

B ut are th ese tw o re ally American?

American corporations have more in common with other cor­ p o ra tio n s than they do with A m erica.

They “V ince M cM ahon” A m ericans ju s t as m uch as they do C an ad ian s.

Thanks to NAFTA, many of them absco n d ed to M exico w ith Am erican jobs, leaving behind countless American workers who are just as angry at the corpora­ tions as are activists. Only, the American workers aren’t playing angry just to look cool in front of their little buddies.

You want another example?

Take the capo de tutti capo of A m erican m edia, Ted T urner.

Turner has been trying for years to m o n o p o lise the w restlin g industry and drive family-based pro m o tio n s out o f b u sin ess, putting God knows how many Americans on unemployment. In the spring o f 1998, T u rn e r’s baby, CNN, ran the infam ous “Valley of Death” story, which falsely accused the Studies and O bservation Group, A m erica’s bravest soldiers who took the war behind the lines to enemy active sanctuaries in “n eu tral” Laos, Cambodia and North Vietnam, of using poison gas on their own people.

Hell, many California film industry workers are upset that their corporations have opted to shoot in lo w er co st p astu re s.

These lower cost pastures are

V an co u v er and M o ntréal.

Sim ilarly, W iebo Ludw ig and many Sudanis would probably say the sam e things about the A lberta Energy C om pany and Talisman, both CANADIAN cor­ porations, that activists are saying about Coke and Nike.

As concerns American TV, most of your favourite shows are film ed in New Y ork or California. How accurate are they in depicting the real Am erica?

Take Friends, which supposedly takes place in New York. The only one o f those six slap n u t icons who sounds like a genuine New Y o rk er is the one who guest-starred as Kelly Bundy’s b o y frie n d in M arried W ith Children.

How much do New York and California resem ble the rest of America? There are some places south of the Mason-Dixon Line (yes, Slappie, I know where it is, and the patches on my Colours prove that I was below it when many were still breast-feeding) where driving around with New York tags will get you a ding on your vehicle— if you’re lucky. As far as the other state, Folks, the phrase “M ore assholes than in California” is entirely American in origin. That should tell you a lot.

Da Jock says this. It doesn’t MATTER where you are vis-àvis the 49th parallel. Both of us have similar problems with cor­ porations and TV garbage. Now, you can promote those who make a career over our differences, or you can be part of the solution.

T he M c G ill T ribune, T uesday , 14 MARCH 2000

Stop the Press

Letters to the Editor S ervices

play a n integr al role

Mr. Glowinski seems to be con­ fused about what a service is, or should be (Cutting Queer McGill: more money in your pocket, Tribune, 7 March 2000). He states that Queer McGill cannot legiti­ mately be called a service. This would suggest that providing infor­ mation and resources to students is not a service. Evidently he also believes that providing discussion and support groups for students is not a service. His statement also implies that providing support and advocacy for students who have been harassed at McGill are not ser­ vices, because Queer McGill does all of these things, in addition to the QueerLine listening service they offer.

If Queer McGill is not a ser­ vice, then what does Mr. Glowinski define as a “beneficial service” that he has “no problem funding”? He lists SACOMSS as one example.

Perhaps he is unaware, then, that we also provide resources and informa­ tion to students. We provide support groups. We also provide support and advocacy for students who have been harassed at McGill. In addition, we offer a HelpLine listening ser­ vice. We even publish Fire With Water, a journal for survivors that one might consider our own version of a queer poetry reading.

McGill is a diverse campus. We hope that many students come from backgrounds where they have never experienced marginalisation, harass­ ment, hatred, assault, or fear at the hands of their communities. But oth­ ers have, and need services that recognise and value their experi­ ences, and create spaces within which they can find support, com­ munity, and maybe healing. McGill also needs services that remind us that we are not all the same, with the same experiences, and that help us to combat our own ignorance.

SACOMSS is just such a service.

So is Queer McGill.

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loss t o o many

Every year the reputation and standing of McGill University low­ ers in the eyes of its own students, Canadians, and the international community. This is not acceptable.

We the students complain of underfunding and the embarrassing state of our libraries and classrooms. We have a vested interest in maintain­ ing if not improving the level of education that we receive. One of the most important things that we, as a school, can do to keep this institution from failing, is to con­ tinue to provide students with knowledgeable, dedicated, and pas­ sionate professors. We as a school should do all that we can to entice new professors and to keep the superb educators that we already have from leaving.

I am a student in Professor Jeffrey Khuner’s American History class. Recently he informed us that he is considering leaving, not because of money, but because of stability. He is looking for a long term contract. He is one of the finest professors at this school.

Every lecture that he gives is impassioned and well informed. He cares about his students, he moti­ vates us, encourages us, and demands excellence from us. In a class of 200 students he makes an effort to know us by name and to give us personal feedback. He is an asset to this school. The adminis­ tration and the students should be doing everything in their power to keep him here. He wants to stay here. We are the ones who will lose if he leaves.

Jenna Rinas U2 Political Science

Clare Jennings, External Coordinator Sexual Assault Centre of McGill Students’ Society Participate

in debate

As co-organizer of the Francophone debate that took place on Friday, March 3 at Alley Cats, I’ve been remarkably surprised to realize that we had more student par­ ticipation than was expected.

In fact, I’ve been particularly impressed by the larger number of students attending this debate who were not as current or former office­ holders in SSMU, campaign man­ agers, or journalists, but simply aver­ age students. That gave me some hope. Hope in future, our future.

You know, we are tomorrow’s lead­ ers... And I’m convinced that we can find leaders everywhere in our soci­ ety.

As a matter of fact, contrary to common belief, executive political power is not the only way to change our society. Anyone can do his/her little part towards the achievement of the common good in exercising his/her citizen power. Let me explain this concept of citizen power. This is the power that a citizen has (and of which he’s/she’s rarely conscious; in fact, I strongly believe that the only image he/she can get is the one claiming that this power is null) which justifies our democratic sys­ tem in giving it its pluralism and its dynamism. For his/her voice to be

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heard, as a simple citizen, one has to get involved, to attend public debates, to question one’s represen­ tatives, to make their representatives give them satisfying answers to all the issues the citizen judges impor­ tant, to send letters to the editor, to protest.

For those of you who wouldn’t understand what I tried to explain to you, I think it’s only because you don’t want to understand what citi­ zen power is all about. But if so, you deny the simplest expression of what, in my sense, a democratic society should be. Having said this, I think that we don’t give, in our own McGill society, that power the place it deserves. I would say that we have a long road ahead of us before these prejudices disappear.

N.B. : We apologize for the candidates that were not invited to the debate. It wasn’t a way to favour some candidates, but more a matter of time that dictated this to us.

Thanks!

Catherine Foisy, Co-organizer of the francophone debate

This letter is being written as a joint response to last week’s “Somewhere Over The Rainbow” column, by Kent Glowinski (“Cutting Queer McGill: more money in your pocket”, 7 March). In the column, he argues that “it’s time to ask, should students even be fund­ ing clubs and services that have no relevance to them whatsoever.” He continues on to argue that he has a problem funding “frivolous activities [...] which benefit only a small minority of students at the expense of the entire student body.”

As a group of some of the largest SSMU organizations on cam­ pus, we ask you — the McGill stu­ dent — to consider the following: - Most SSMU services are designed for minority groups of stu­ dents. Indeed, a great number of ser­ vices across the entire campus exist in order to assist (proportionally) small groups of people.

- SSMU services are designed to respond effectively to the needs of students and staff on campus. For example, issues of discrimination and harassment in the residences cannot be properly addressed by external agencies. Additionally, students may not feel comfortable seeking support in the greater Montréal community for a variety of reasons (language, age and cultural barriers among oth­ ers). SSMU services provide neces­ sary safe spaces and programmes that cannot be provided by other agencies.

- In his article, he mentioned Queer Line, SACOMSS and Walksafe as legitimate and beneficial services. While available to all, only a small minority of McGill students use them at any given time. All ser­ vices should be available to all stu­ dents, despite the fact that some stu­ dents may not currently use them.

- Most importantly, the entire McGill community benefits from the activities, services and programmes organised by all SSMU services.

Events such as Black History Month, International Women’s Week and Queer Pride Week (March 17-24) all serve to raise awareness of the pres­ ence of these valued communities on the university, and help to fight dis­ crimination on campus and beyond.

Discrimination is not only relevant to those being discriminated against.

To emphasise what Mr. Glowinski is calling us all to consid­ er, try substituting the names of any other SSMU service in the place of “Queer McGill” in the article: “I do, however, have a problem funding frivolous_________ activi­ ties such as ‘_________ camp-outs’, ‘_________ open-mikes’ and ‘________ dances’, which benefit only a small minority of students at the expense o f the entire student body. ” “I f _________ were to be elimi­ nated,________ students would still have other effective resources readily available to them.”

In a day and age where we strive to be a diverse and non-discriminatory society, Mr. Glowinski’s argu­ ments are both cancerous and offen­ sive. We strongly condemn his attack on the merits of our services which are beneficial to so many students on campus.

Signed, Black Students ’Network McGill International Students Network McGill Studentsfor Literacy Night Line QueerLine Queer McGill Sexual Assault Centre of McGill Students ’ Society Women’s Union

It is apt that Herbert Spencer’s quotation, “Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not the intellect”, appears on the same page as Kareem Fahmy’s latest attack on the Player’s Theatre execu­ tive (Letter to the Editor, “McGill Drama Festival”, March 7). Indeed, there is little intellect and much feel­ ing underlying Fahmy’s meandering letter which appears to have less to do with his concern for the McGill Drama Festival and more to with flogging a dead horse and seeing his name in print (again!).

It is true that the Player’s con­ stitution is out of date; however, the demands of running a theatre that produces up to eight shows a year, and a student written drama festival often means that there is no time to spend arguing over an outdated piece of paper which has little to do with the actual running of the the­ atre. As a member of last year’s Player’s executive, I have experi­ enced Fahmy’s apparent concern for the health of the theatre. I was left with the feeling that more could have been accomplished for the good of the theatre if the executive was not continually dealing with Fahmy’s often melodramatic com­ plaints.

One has the feeling that when Fahmy talks of the “many talented and enthusiastic individuals whose rights to take part in theatre activities have been compromised” he is talk­ ing only of himself. One wonders

about Fahmy’s “concern” for the welfare of the theatre when he pub­ licly criticized the Player’s executive in the “Closer” program notes. One wonders about Fahmy’s “concern” for the welfare of the theatre when he directed a show without securing the theatrical rights. And one still wonders about Fahmy’s concern for all the people who are in the midst of the current McGill Drama Festival — how many potential audience members will be put off because of his insinuation that the shows are under-rehearsed?

I believe the theatre needs pas­ sionate people to undertake the diffi­ cult job of running a theatre under the auspices of SSMU. I believe that simply maintaining the status quo kills creativity, and that new blood creates new life. Go and support the McGill Drama Festival, the Contemporary Dance Ensemble, the Directors Projects, and the Savoy Society because you will see people committed to their work, experi­ menting with their art, and that should be the bottom line.

I wish Fahmy every success as the writer, actor, producer, director and theatrical savant he aspires to be.

I suggest he stop creating so much drama outside the theatre and starts putting it on the stage where it belongs.

Philip Graeme U3 English (and still wondering why this feels like high school)

T he M c G ill T ribune, T uesday, 14 M arch 2000

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Out with th e Birds, in with th e Bs F lip p in g through new spa­ p ers, eith er local or national, y o u ’d th in k th a t to be a real Canadian columnist, you would need to w rite a colum n about Canadian currency. This being my twelfth column, I figure it’s time for me to step up to the plate, and take a couple swings at our currency.

No, don’t worry, this won’t be a column about economics who am I to base an entire col­ umn upon som ething I know nothing about? According to a story in March ninth’s Globe and Mail, we’ve grown tired of those damn birds, and instead w e’re going to cover the backs of our monopoly money with pictures of famous Canadians.

A p p aren tly i t ’s up to us Canadians to decide exactly who will go on the bills, and accord­ ing to the Globe, we have “very high stan d ard s” regarding our currency, including a strict “no a lc o h o lic s ” p o licy , so w e ’re going to have to get John A off the ten ASAP. Now, there are five bills up for consideration: the five, ten, fifty, hundred and the twenty,

been doing it.

Ten dollars seems to be the going rate for a gram of pot (I heard), so who better to be on the back o f the dixie than Tommy Chong, idol of potheads every­ where. His fine roles in film s such as Up in Sm oke, not to mention his bril­ B urning the S a m b u ca liant later work, as ex e m p lified C h r is E s s e r t

by H alf Baked, have placed him high in the act­ body ever, ever buy a Barbara ing pantheon. A chievem ent on this level must be recognized.

Streisand album?

Fifty dollar bills are the most But seriously in case you d id n ’t see this com ing, I ’ve commonly counterfeited denomi­ looked back through Canadian nation, because of their high ratio history, and found a few people I of value to availability (I guess.) think should be on the new bills. C anada has one c o u n terfeiter First things first, the fin. I figure, more noteworthy than all the rest, five dollars, five quintuplets, eh? and he deserves his place at the The Dionne quintuplets have no top, too. I mean, the one-tim e w orld-class skills of any type, fastest man in the world is toiling and have done nothing notewor­ away as a personal trainer to the thy since being born. B ut we son of a third world dictator, of need to honour them as pioneers all things. Let’s get Ben Johnson in the field of being famous for out of there and put him where being famous -th e y ’ve done it he belongs; it’s not like he was since they were born, and since the only one who was cheating, they started the trend, everyone’s he was ju st the only one dumb which is the ‘money’ bill, given that it’s the most common. So th at m akes five fam ous C anadians who could soon be looking up at you from inside your wallet. Immediately, one is inclined to ask, why would any­

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enough to get caught.

As th is co lu m n w ent to press, a hundred dollars was still a lot of money, so our hundred dollar bill should honour some ‘achievements’ of Canadian busi­ ness. There are so many people to choose from, so I propose a portrait-style shot, à la the old American two dollar bill. Around the table, bankruptcy form s in hand, we could have the Eatons and the R eich m an n s. B eing e sc o rte d aw ay by the p o lice co u ld be A lan E ag leso n and G arth D rabinksy, and C onrad Black could be there, lobbying for few er social program s and more tax cuts.

F in ally , the tw enty d o llar bill, the highest honour o f all.

Canadians, we are reminded by the Globe, are “quite traditional” in these matters, so on the twen­ ty, we should stick with a woman with lots of money, world fame, and no purpose. Luckily, we have one of those stashed away right h ere in L a B elle P ro v in ce: Céline! Come on folks, the poor girl’s been through so much, and here’s what she deserves - a spot on a bill amongst these other fine

Canadians.

I encourage you to write to your MP to get those damn birds off those bills, and replace them with something to really remind us o f all the things C anadians have done. complaints? hesser@po-box.mcgill.ca

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Check out tribune.mcgill.ca/apply for details.

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A public service a n n o u n c e m e n t If Crown Prosecutors took their gig seriously, a good num­ ber of our politicians, media per­ sonalities and intellectuals would be in the Big House for violating S ectio n 318 o f the C rim inal C ode, the p ro h ib itio n against “obstinate prom otion of hate.”

Alas, Lady Justice is like a wine co n n o isseu r. She is selec tiv e about which cases she picks up.

One thing that helps her discrimi­ nation here is the fact that the victims are Americans.

Now, I am not an unabashed

b o o tlic k e r o f all things from Down S outh. Like m ost Canadians, I despise loudmouth American tourists who act like they own everything. I am, how^

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jabronis; a vast American con­ spiracy to infiltrate, take over and incorporate Canada. The Trojan horses are A m erican co rp o ra­ tions, and American TV shows.

But are th ese tw o really American?

American corporations have more in common with other cor­ p o ra tio n s than they do with A m erica.

They “ V ince M cM ahon” A m ericans ju s t as m uch as they do C an ad ian s.

Thanks to NAFTA, many of them absco n d ed to M exico w ith Am erican jobs, leaving behind countless American workers who are just as angry at the corpora­ tions as are activists. Only, the American workers aren’t playing angry just to look cool in front of their little buddies.

You want another example?

Take the capo de tutti capo of A m erican m edia, Ted T urner.

Turner has been trying for years to m o n o p o lise the w re stlin g industry and drive family-based pro m o tio n s out o f b u sin ess, putting God knows how many Americans on unemployment. In the sp rin g o f 1998, T u rn e r’s baby, CNN, ran the infam ous “Valley of Death” story, which falsely accused the Studies and O bservation Group, A m erica’s bravest soldiers who took the war behind the lines to enemy active sanctuaries in “n eu tral” Laos, Cambodia and North Vietnam, of using poison gas on their own people.

Hell, many California film industry workers are upset that their corporations have opted to shoot in lo w er cost p astu res.

These lower cost pastures are

V an co u v er and M o ntréal.

S im ilarly, W iebo Ludw ig and many Sudanis would probably say the same things about the A lberta Energy C om pany and Talisman, both CANADIAN cor­ porations, that activists are saying about Coke and Nike.

As concerns American TV, most of your favourite shows are film ed in New Y ork or California. How accurate are they in depicting the real Am erica?

Take Friends, which supposedly takes place in New York. The only one o f those six slapnut icons who sounds like a genuine New Y o rk er is the one who guest-starred as Kelly Bundy’s b o y frien d in M arried W ith Children.

How much do New York and California resem ble the rest of America? There are some places south of the Mason-Dixon Line (yes, Slappie, I know where it is, and the patches on my Colours prove that I was below it when many were still breast-feeding) where driving around with New York tags will get you a ding on your vehicle— if you’re lucky. As far as the other state, Folks, the phrase “M ore assholes than in California” is entirely American in origin. That should tell you a lot.

Da Jock says this. It doesn’t MATTER where you are vis-àvis the 49th parallel. Both of us have similar problems with cor­ porations and TV garbage. Now, you can promote those who make a career over our differences, or you can be part of the solution.

T he M c G ill T ribune, T uesday 14 M arch 2000

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History • The origins behind Mountain Dew date back to the early 20th cen­ tury in Virginia. The concoction was used as a whiskey mixer and was nothing more than a regional recipe used to enhance your whiskey drink­ ing experience.

• In the 60s, the Tip Corporation of Virginia received a variation of the Mountain Dew recipe from a Tennessee company as a part of an investment. After some tinkering, and some reasonably successful market­

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As a result of the CBA and everything that came with it, I thought that it would be most appro­ priate to focus this week's Collectanea on soft drinks. Until the late 19th cen­ tury, it seemed that coffee and tea (and water) would be the predominat­ ing "soft" beverages for all eternity but, all of that changed with the advent of the carbonated, sugar-filled beverage.

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Random Facts • In Canada, Mountain Dew con­ tains no caffeine as laws in Canada prohibit the use of caffeine as an additive in all non-cola beverages (excluding coffee and tea).

• In Japan, tangerine juice is subj stituted for orange juice as the cost for orange juice in Japan is too high.

Dr Pepper

Dear S&M, I love the apart­ ment that I'm living in this year and I would like to renew my lease. The problem is my roommate. He is great guy but we just.don't get along under the same roof and there is no way that I can live with him again. Normally, I'd avoid hurting his feelings by telling him I want to move out because I want to live in a new place. But this time I can't because / want to keep my apartment, so no matter how I phrase it, he'll know I just don't like living with him. How do I tell him that I want him to move out so I can get a new roommate, without ruining ourfriendship?

Signed, Roommate Needs to Go Dear Roommate, You are right: no matter how you tell your roommate that you want him to leave, he's going to real­ ize that you don't like living with him.

This doesn't have to be a bad thing. Not everyone lives well together and if you explain that you think he's a great guy but that you might have an easier time living with someone else, he hopefully will understand.

However, there is a much greater chance that he is going to become severely pissed off at you, if you tell him that you don't want to live with him and then demand the apartment remain yours. You will sound like you are throwing him out of his place, making him find a new place and move all his stuff while you get to sit back and ask around for another buddy to move in, which really isn't fair.

So, in order to avoid coming off like a jerk and at the same time get Pepper is the world's oldest soft-drink brand. It was introduced to a national constituency at the 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis.

Source: David Feldman: Do Penguins Have Knees?

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what you want, deal with this one step at a time, remaining very aware of how you treat your roommate in the process. First, tell him that you want to move out and live with someone else next year in a really nice way. Let that settle for a week or so, Next, try to feel out whether or not he is okay with moving out or if you have hurt his feelings. Ask him what he plans on doing next year, how he feels about the place you currently live in, etc. If he seems like he has no clue as to what he is doing next year and he just loves the apart­ ment you guys have, chances are that he is not so cool with the idea that you two are no longer going to be roomies. He probably had no idea that you wanted to move out before you said it. Which means that you may have hurt his feelings, and that asking him to leave so you can keep the place is seriously going to jeop­ ardize your friendship with him. In other words, you'll have to find a different place.

But, if he seems to be cool with the whole moving out thing, (i.e. he has plans for next year, and you two are still getting along as well as before you told him you wanted out) then say, "Listen, I've been looking around and I haven't found a place I like as much as this one. Bob (or whoever you are going to live with next year) really likes this place too, and well, I was wondering how you would feel if he and I took over the lease." Hopefully, he'll be fine with it and maybe even happy because he won't have to try find someone to sublease the apartment.

Whatever happens, just try to be perceptive of how he feels and keep in mind that having a nice apartment is not worth losing a friend over. questions? e-mail mlazar@po-box.mcgill.ca

rights owners of Coca-Cola) sought to change the recipe shortly after he pur­ chased the rights in an attempt to stop imitators. Candler added glycerin as a preservative, removed the cocaine, reduced the caffeine content, and replaced citric acid with phosphoric acid. Mr. Candler wanted to keep the components completely secret, and so he created a system whereby the ingredients were stripped of all labelling, and were referred to by numbers 1 through 9. All invoices and correspondence were to only include these numbers. Following an exhaustive amount of investigative journalism, I was able to decipher this Coca-Cola code: 1. sugar 2. caramel 3. caffeine 4. phosphoric acid 5. a coca leaf & cola 6. nut extract 7. lime juice v 8. lime oil 9. vanilla — probably glyc­ erin, but is no longer used Source: www.sodafountain.com

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The feminization of poverty Interactive workshop illustrates complexities of women's empowerment in the South by

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» W hen does an individual human being start?” was an unorthodox way to begin a lec­ ture dealing with women’s empow­ erment, on the eve of International Women’s Day. A few nervous whis­ pers could be heard from the audi­ ence, until someone from the crowd broke the ice and shouted back, “[t]hat’s a controversial question.”

Controversial, maybe but rele­ vant, certainly. After all, Nyambura Rugoiyo, project director of the Early Childhood Development Programme for the Aga Khan Foundation in Mombasa, Kenya, was at McGill last week to speak about the intim ate connection between women’s empowerment and childhood development. Her opening question poignantly illus­ trated the concerns of women and the needs of children as two sides to the same coin.

Rugoiyo’s lecture was part of a national seminar series entitled “Empowering Women-Meeting global challenges in the new millen­ nium” and was sponsored by the Aga Khan Foundation Canada in collaboration with the Canadian International Development Agency.

Approximately thirty people turned up for the four-hour session at McGill which featured lectures by Rugoiyo and Roshaneh Zafar, founder of a women’s micro-finance group based in Pakistan.

Participants were also presented with case studies based on real-life situations faced by rural women in Kenya and Pakistan. Small groups were formed to discuss and design intervention strategies and present their solutions to the audience. This interactive component of the work­ shop provided students with some

sense of the practical skills used by grass-roots non-governm ental organisations, as well as the com­ plexities of devising wom en’s empowerment programs.

progressed, however, was a consen­ sus that the term was multi-dimen­ sional and that it consisted of inter­ related social, political and econom­ ic factors.

Workshop participants looked at issues surrounding poverty “It was a fairly interactive con­ ference,” said Karen Wong, a U3 Economics and International Development Studies Major. “I came because I’m personally inter­ ested in economic development and women’s property rights.”

Women's em pow er­ ment Both speakers introduced their lectures by trying to define “women’s empowerment.” What emerged as the evening discussion

“The world over, there is a deep feminization of poverty,” said Zafar.

“Being a woman in a traditional society is hard, just add poverty and labour and it's worse.”

Zafar cautioned, however, against stereotyping all women in developing countries as marginal­ ized. For example, she described the first female cab driver in South Asia as challenging traditional Pakistani gender roles and praised Pakistani women as “the most amaz­ ing arbitrage managers.”

“Women [in Pakistan] are deci­ sion-makers,” she stated. “[TJhey

are important for the economy and we fail to realize that. The status of women is not so abysmal, it’s not such a doom and gloom situation.”

Yet, women in the developing world still face hurdles dispro­ portionate to those faced by their male coun­ terparts. These sources of disempowerment include: a lack of political rep­ resentation and o rg a n isa tio n , limited access to resources such as land, r e d u c e d e mpl oyme nt opportunities, exploitation and traditional norms which limit mobility, divorce and educational opportunities. “ [ I n Nilima Gulrajani Kenya] the tradi­ tional role of a woman is to belong to the home.

This has an impact on access to edu­ cation for girls,” said Rugoiyo.

“And when there’s a lack of money, girls are the first to be taken from school."

“Women are defined as a pos­ session,” she continued. “ A woman can only divorce or separate if the dowry is returned, otherwise she can’t return home.”

The situation in Pakistan is no better.

“Pakistan had the first woman prime minister in an Islamic coun­ try, but I tell you it didn’t make a

difference,” said Zafar. “Over the past ten years, the Pakistani govern­ ment has disinvested in women’s issues.”

Z afar’s non-governmental organisation, the Kashf Foundation, tries to empower women economi­ cally by providing them with access to credit at low interest rates. In addition to improving women’s bar­ gaining position in society, her m icro-finance group indirectly induces structural change as the number of women entrepreneurs grows.

“There’s an increase in selfconfidence in these women, an abili­ ty to see a difference in the future,” said Zafar.

As Rugoiyo pointed out, how­ ever, there can often be serious repercussions to challenging tradi­ tional cultural values head-on.

“The contradiction between modernization and cultural values is often lived internally in families,” stated Rugoiyo. “The questioning of the roles of women often brings in conflicts that in itself resort to vio­ lence, leaving women as victims.”

The Aga Khan Foundation’s seminar series tours six other uni­ versity campuses across the country this month.

Women’s empowerment is also the theme o f the Aga Khan Foundation Canada Partnership Walk 2000, the largest annual event held in Canada in support of global co-operation. A ll funds raised through the walk are matched by CIDA and according to one volun­ teer, “every cent goes towards pro­ jects, nothing towards administra­ tion. ” For more information on this May 28th walk, please consult www.akfc.ca.

The battle for European security After Kosovo, many Europeans don't want to rely on the US anymore B y A le x a n d r e L e ig h

of support, it fell apart four years later. The Europeans have for a long time thought it necessary to have its own defense, but the turn­ ing point was definitely the Kosovo

'The Future of European Security in the A fterm ath of Kosovo' was the topic of discussion last Thursday here on campus.

The problem of European securi­ ty was elaborated by renowned politician Philippe Seguin, a fig­ urehead in the French political scene as former head of the main right-w ing group (RPR) and leader of the National Assembly.

The conference, which was jointly organized by the Political Science departm ent and the European N etw ork (EN), addressed the issue which con­ cerns the creation of a European military organization and what To militarize or not to militarize... direction and role would such a future organization take. This is a crisis in ex-Yugoslavia. The con­ clearly dem onstrated highly complex question; political­ flict ly intricate and very sensitive of American military superiority, with nature, considering the scope of a US led NATO taking the lead in the proceedings, even bypassing countries involved in such debates.

The creation of a European the U nited N ations Security Defense Force is nothing new, Council approval with no explicit starting with an attem pt in the mandate.

Seguin emphasized the idea 1950’s to create the European Defense Community. Due to lack that Europe should no longer

depend on the US for military oper­ ations, who he admitted, have a vast advantage in military technol­ ogy, but could be outdone if Europe decided to form a common defense u n i t .

Europe should m o v e f r o m being a ‘po litical dw arf’ to become one that reflects its economic might, co n sid ér­ e r a ' 1 ing the fact that the EU accounts for 23% of the world economy, as opposed to 19% for the US, and 7% for Japan. The distortion between the EU’s economic position and its current military force is huge, and must be rectified if Europe hopes to play a major role on the interna­ tional scene and defend its own values.

He pointed out the difficulty of the Europeans to negotiate on the same level considering the fact they had to rely on the US militari­ ly. However, the combined mili­ tary budgets of EU member states still does not sum up to US spend­ ing on its defense, which, accord­ ing to Seguin, would require an increase in budget spending on defense in each EU state. He also explained that another reason a European Defense Organization was necessary was the blatant refusal by the US to grant addition­ al responsibility to the Europeans.

His explanation was the desire of the US to maintain a strong influ­ ence in Europe, a status-quo which would only be rem edied if the Europeans went their own way in matters of security.

Is Nato enough?

The Southern NATO Command is still in the hands of the US despite numerous appeals by the French, Spanish and Italians, who believe that it should be under their control. He also questioned

the relevance of NATO, with the end o f the Cold W ar, and that maybe it was time for a new orga­ nization, more pertinent to today’s world.

Additionally, Seguin pointed out that in the eventuality that the US decided not to get involved in a certain conflict, the Europeans would be paralyzed w ithout an independent EU force. Plans to such an effect have already been put into place, with a R apid Intervention Force due to come into play by 2002. This would be a highly mobile unit, an important advantage in modem warfare, con­ sisting of 60,000 units.

The first steps have been taken, but more needs to be done, which in turn would create a pow­ erful armament industry in Europe.

Signs of this are already emerging, with a number of mergers taking place between major military air­ craft industries. The ideal of having all EU countries involved in such a project seems however to be quite remote. Firstly, a number of neutral EU countries exist such as Austria, C o n t in u e d o n P a g e 1 4

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T3, T4, T5: tax refunds keep th e bank account alive

By John Salloum

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“I go to the H&R Block [near have been here... w ithout even tified program s on the market.

Among them is a program called me],” Sommerfeldt explained. “I having an income ... can get things do it because it costs a little bit of Quick Tax by Intuit Canada.

Quick Tax has two ways to money... [and even though] they complete tax returns: you can buy get a bit of my return, but they software from a store and install it make sure I get what I’m supposed on a computer, or you can use a to get.”

Currently located on campus, web browser and complete your return over the internet. Each Clarke & Defour is one such com­ method has its own advantages and pany offering those services.

According to Carlene Clarke, trea­ disadvantages.

Eric Gauthier, tax division surer with the firm, there are a m anager for Intuit Canada number of reasons that students explained how the software could should seek professional tax assis­ be a low cost alternative for student tance.

“We are experienced. The income tax filers.

“Using Quick Tax will help majority of our customers are stu­ you find deductions that you may dents... Our aim is to be the num­ have forgotten, and it will also ber one tax preparation service for optimize your income tax return. educational institutions across So in the end, the cost of the soft­ Canada, and because we are cater­ ware will probably be easily cov­ ing to students, our prices are quite ered by the savings that Quick Tax reasonable.”

Students hiring C larke & will find for you.”

Buying the software from a Defour begin by bringing in all of store can cost as low as $20, not their information slips. The slips go including the $5 mail-in rebate. in an envelope, and some personal Quick Tax features what is called information is collected.

“We take it from you, and an EasyStep interview, which is a process that narrows down the tax process it onsite, here at McGill. information that is required. For We have a turnaround time of five example, a student might check the business days...” said Clarke.

Additionally, Clarke noted that “I was a student” checkbox, but leave the “I owned a business” students are often unaware of some checkbox blank. The advantage to of the places where they can get using software to complete your money back. She cited cases where return quickly becomes apparent students have come in without their when the software skips everything Relève 4 slip.

“A lot of landlords don’t pro­ to do with owning a business which was indicated to be irrelevant, but vide them, [the Relève 4 slip] is ensures that student related tax provided by the provincial govern­ ment for low incom e persons. information is collected.

The second method Quick Tax ...W hatever percentage of [tax offers has an even better price tag your landlord paid] on your for most students: it’s free. Quick dwelling, you can get a percentage T ax ’s w ebsite back as a tax refund,” she stated. www .quicktaxw eb.ca offers its “A lot of students think that if they Freedom Program for low-income don’t have an income, they can’t do their taxes. But [there] are earners.

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The brutal honesty of election night Given that I had no organizational responsibilities in the campaign, I responded that I didn’t feel that I had lost. But those whose job it was to promote the “Yes” side did lose, primarily because they com­ There is an often-brutal hon­ municated too little, much too late.

I have heard talk of challeng­ esty about election night at McGill.

Friendly chit-chat and sw eet, ing the referendum result at the impossible promises are irrelevant SSMU Judicial Board. This could here — election night is simply possibly be done: the “No” side ran about winners and losers. There is their campaign with more contempt no more bullshit, because the can­ for the rules of referendum conduct didates can’t talk their way out of than any other referendum commit­ tee I have ever seen.

The C hief F a ls e Teeth R e tu r n in g Duncan Reid O fficer and others are w ell aware o f the innum erable violation s. the numerical verdict.

In the gladiator-esque theatre Politically however, The Students of it all, people’s true personalities Hath Spoken. And it seems, Coke are often naked for anyone to see. is not it.

The decision comes with some V ictory is sw eet; winners inevitably fail to hide their pleasure unfortunate consequences: students in triumph. D efeat is difficult; w ill still be the occupants o f an losers fail to hide (to those who unsafe student building with know them) the agony of defeat. pathetic access for disabled stu­ This annual festival celebrating dents. And no matter what illusions primal displays of emotion is held “No” activists have, applying pres­ every year, and this year was no sure on the university and alumni will not get the $1.5 million in cash exception.

Having been a spectator/par- necessary to do the renovations. If ticipant in election night for several it had the money, McGill would years, I had several observations make its own buildings accessible on Thursday night’s events — and and safe before giving us a penny. on the results them selves. The Out of my concern for this issue, I actual figures for the elections can hope that the University and Coke be found elsewhere in this newspa­ realize that the most widely-shared per, but here are my thoughts, cam­ concern about the CBA was the secrecy o f the contract. Perhaps paign by campaign: now all the parties will recognize The Cold-Beverage that any deal has to be totally open so students can see, ex ante, what’s Agreement at stake. Until then, though, it’s It’s finally over, and the Coke RIP for the CBA. deal went flat. The “N o ” cam ­ paigners were quick to gloat over The Presidency their hard-earned victory on Thursday night: “What does it feel N o surprise here: W ojtek like to lo se? ” was a question I Baraniak — perhaps the most well(who advocated voting in the affir­ known guy on campus — beat mative) was asked several times. Tamana Kochar and Rom Severino

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for the top job. He had the best experience background of the can­ didates, but more importantly I think students rightfully felt they could trust him more than the other candidates.

For Tamana Kochar, however, the results weren’t all bad: this was her third campaign for an SSMU executiveposition, but she seems to be getting closer to winning each time. In fact, based on a projection o f the trend over the past few years, I’d say she’s a shoo-in for the presidency in 2002!

for the Board with his half-baked economic theories (his columns in The Daily are so funny they make my stomach hurt), Matt will be an ideal representative.

VP Clubs and Services Chris Gratto beat Akin Alaga and Andre Nance to take the job.

Since the managem ent o f the Shatner Building is technically the responsibility of the VP C & S, I wish Chris the best in trying to find at least a partial solution to all the problems therein.

VP O perations VP U niversity Affairs D espite his now -infam ous “human rights blah blah blah...”

PR gaffe, Kevin McPhee won the VP Ops job over his rivals. Many thought that the tremendous antiCBA turnout might spell the end of Kevin’s political career at McGill, but it seems he has a previouslyundetected teflon coating — although if you see his next few media interviews conducted in the presence o f a publicist, y o u ’ll know why. Ultimately, no matter how he manages to extricate his penny loafer from his mouth, I’m definitely a believer in the virtues of continuity in a technical portfo­ lio like Operations.

VP Communications and Events The narrow victory of Mark Chodos over his rivals (principally Pete Wielgosz and Bob Tarie) was the surprise o f the night. Many people. — m yself included — thought that Pete’s video would probably put him over the top, but Mark’s enigmatic Chodos-Lotus comparison seems to have carried the day. There may yet be a recount between Mark and Pete, although both are impressive. But whoever it is, it’s certainly going to be a tough to follow in Matt Wyndowe’s footsteps. Speaking of which, .

What an affair, indeed: the current VP UA, Xavier Van Chau, will be passing the torch to his girl­ friend, the capable Clara Peron.

One envisions that their transition meetings might be, ahem, a little less formal than in years past.

VP Com m unity and Governm ental Affairs Pure and sim ple, Jeremy Farrell beat Louis-Philippe Messier by out-w orking the campus.

Jeremy built a better network of support and provided emphasis on the community side of the portfo­ lio, and thus managed to win over L o u is’s in tellectual charm and extensive knowledge of Quebec.

This was just one o f those ‘two decent candidates, one job’ situa­ tions. So, Jeremy, keep the pres­ sure on the government to get us some more coin — and don’t let Captain Baraniak linger in his old portfolio either!

Overall, these folks make an eclectic group; it will be interesting to see how cohesive and effective a team they can form next year. But for now they’re celebrating, as another generation of student exec­ utives fades away and a new one takes charge - with as many issues to deal with as ever.

A gain, Sir W inston said it best:

Kosovo Continued from Page 12 which would make their commit­ ment quite complicated. One must also take into account tensions between European countries such as the long-standing rivalry between Turkey and Greece. There still remains a high commitment for the project from the four main EU powers, with France, Italy, Germany and the UK remaining the driving force behind the pro­ ject. Problems will still remain with the expansion o f the EU to 26 member states (from Central and Eastern Europe) and later to 30 members (Turkey and the Balkans). Giving voting rights to all members would slow down the process considerably, which he believed would only be resolved if decision making was reduced to the four main members.

The next step would be to forge stronger ties with Russia, which is currently going through a period of instability, and maybe act as a mediator between the US and Russia when disputes do arise.

France has always worried about Anglo-Saxon dominance in terms o f culture leading towards global standardization with a single model. One method of establishing a counterbalance would be to help with the development of a number o f African countries to create a francophone culture, to stop the ‘steam-roller’ of anglophone cul­ ture from trying to establish ‘global dominance.’ Concerning the usage of nuclear weapons, Seguin admit­ ted that the ch oice w ould still remain a national decision caused by the obvious difficulties of hav­ ing a simultaneous agreement from all member countries on a issue which requires prompt action.

Chechnya and media attention, or lack of

When asked why the Europeans and the rest of the world j had intervened in Kosovo, but yet j had turned a blind-eye to the mas! sacres perpetrated on civilians by J the Russians in Chechnya, Seguin immediately indicated that Russia’s Board of Governors “The problems o f victory are nuclear capabilities combined with Representative political instability had meant that more agreeable than the problems no pressure had been exerted. For of defeat, but they are no less diffi­ I am more than happy to relin­ him, the media was partly to blame cult. ” quish my position on the Board this for this lack of interest, since public year to Matt Wyndowe, a very able opinion which is strongly influ­ leader. Despite the fact that the enced by the media had not paid as Matt’s competitor, Zach Dubinsky, much attention to Chechnya as it might have provided comic relief had to Kosovo. Little was shown of the horrors in Chechnya, which led to a lack in public interest, and con­ sequently, no pressure was exerted.

A scathing critique o f the media, but also a facing up to politi­ cal realities. Seguin also touched on globalization, com m ending its virtues yet at the same time regret­ ting the creation of a single model (Anglo-Saxon), which he said could be prevented if Europe carried out its own military project. The US backs the proposition that Europe should become more independent in security matters, yet continues to be uneasy about the idea of a mili­ tary counter-balance in the form of a European M ilitary Force.

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When friendly com petition goes wrong

By M ichael H azan “This let­ ter is to inform you that as a resu lt o f the in cid en t that took p la ce at the conclusion o f your intra­ m ural ice Under Scrutiny hockey game... your team shall be suspended fo r the remainder o f the 1999-2000 season. ” W ell, i t ’s M arch and you guessed it, my team is out of playoff contention in intramural ice hockey. W hile the circum ­ stances surrounding our expulsion m ight seem cut and dry, they aren’t. A night prior to Spring Break, my team, The Tribe faced off against the Road Apples in B league ice hockey action at the M cConnell W inter Arena. The game featured a few scuffles that resulted in one player from each team being thrown out. However, as aforementioned, the real inci­ dent took place at the end of the contest.

With both teams emotionally charged after the game, we head­ ed for our dressing rooms. Words and then a little scuffle ensued before the testo stero n e levels were brought down to normal.

Why were our respective dressing room s right next door to each other? This is a good question.

According to Perry Karnofsky of the Intram ural P ro test and Disciplinary Committee, this was a result of the M cGill Alumni league that played a couple of hours earlier and mixed up the numbers of the dressing rooms when they played. Honest m is­ take? Quite possibly. However, the incident after the game could have been avoided. In playing intramural ice hockey for the last three seasons, never once have dressing rooms been right next door to each, because of the pos­ sibility that an incident could take place. U nfortunately, for both teams, there was a minor alterca­ tion. Neither team is disputing this fact, but rather then own up to their various mistakes through­ out and after the gam e, the Intramural hierarchy decided to suspend both team s from the league and playoff action.

The game on the ice was a pretty rough contest from the out­ set. Each team accounted for some unnecessary penalties and minor altercations but nothing really out of the ordinary. The ref­ erees were trying to keep control as much as possible. Veteran ref­ eree Jamie Stein was not working with one of his regular crewmates but rather with a female referee from the game before who had to fill in on an emergency basis. The referee in question made all the right calls during the game even ejecting two players for fighting.

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went on longer than they should have; perhaps some players were not respecting the female referee as much as they should have. No referee should risk injury at the expense of two guys fighting but there should always be control.

The bottom line is that both teams were suspended from the league because of a few mistakes by a couple of their players. I asked the Intramural coordinators w hether this was ju stifia b le .

Kamofsky indicated that suspend­ ing both teams was necessary to send a message to other intramur­ al teams that this type of behavior will not be tolerated at any point during this season and in the future. Further, the fact that both team s w ere slated to fa ce-o ff against one another in the first round of the playoffs was another deciding factor.

Intramural programs are sup­ posed to foster friendly competi­ tion. However, some participants take the game too far and should be penalized for their actions. In this case, the m ajority of both team s suffered because of the actions of a handful of players.

Throwing out both teams was not the answer in this case, suspend­ ing those re sp o n sib le was.

H ow ever, the D iscip lin ary Committee did not see it this way as well as their own shortsighted­ ness in taking the proper precau­ tionary m easures. For these actions, the balance of the rest of the teams can no longer partici­ pate this year and the Intramural hierarchy has set dangerous prece­ dents in not taking responsibility for their own careless mistakes.

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The Suicide Machines have changed. Fortunately, their live show has not. For a venue so dis­ tant, Rainbow was packed last Tuesday for the Pilfers/Snuff/Suicide Machines show and the bands did not disap­ point the mass of punks.

The Pilfers, an incredible band from New York City, opened the show with their usual energy. They started the set with the title track from their latest CD, Chawalaleng with a song that showcased front­ man Coolie Ranx’s toasting and, former Bim Skala Bim member, Vinnie Nobile’s impressive trom­ bone skills.

The Pilfers are an absolutely amazing band on CD and live.

C om plete with his custom ary Pilfers jersey, form er Toasters front-m an Coolie Ranx was an im pressive stage presence.

Bouncing around the stage, Coolie soon had the somewhat hesitant Pilfers first-timers in the crowd dancing to their extremely diverse music.

Their set reflected their diver­ sity, ranging from the rock/reggae fusion that is “Hypnotized” to the fast-paced ska of “Choose Life.”

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There is a bustle of activity within a rather small, confined room tucked away in the bowels of the Bronfman building. The team o f P [H ]A S S !O N , the M anagem ent U n d erg rad u ate Society’s annual AIDS-benefit, is in preparation for next week's fashion show. Although looking slightly haggard and burnt out, they are all eager J o share their insights on what they expect to be quite the phenomenon Sascha Windich, director of P|H]ASSION, states, “this isn’t going to be lik e any fash io n show ever put on [at M cG ill] before. The people, the clothes, the energy... it’s not like the past couple of years.”

When asked what features differentiated P[H]ASSION from p re v io u s show s, W indich rem ark ed ,“T here [are] ju st so many differences. W e’ve really broken from the standard, [from] w hat ev ery o n e else has been doing all along. Just the location itself, the Windsor Train station, is unique from the clubs like

Rainbow was not in top shape and the mic kicked out in the middle of more than one song, distracting the crowd and the band. Also, the set was much too short for a band this good.

As shown by their m usic, stage-presence and overall make up of the band, the Pilfers are all about diversity. In a music scene domi­ nated by white males, guitars and drums, the Pilfers are a noticeable

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“I was upset that the set was so short,” Coolie commented after the set. “We only got a half-hour when normally we get a full hour. I hope we did n ’t upset the fans because a half hour isn ’t long enough...with the full hour we can really show them what the Pilfers are all about.”

change with a black front-man, an amazing female bass player and a predominant trombonist.

After the Pilfers, Snuff, albeit an experienced, hard-w orking band, came off as slightly boring in comparison. Hailing from Britain, Snuff claims influence from a wide variety of artists including Husker

Metropolis that this show is usu­ ally held at. The train station is incredible... very beautiful and recently renovated, yet still a part of old Montreal.”

Numerous designers are par­ ticipating in the show.

“We’ve really tried to cover the whole spectrum this year, from big co u tu re nam es like Hugo Boss and Diesel to more local, trendy designers here in M ontreal,” says Pascal, one of the show’s clothing coordinators.

“It's really cool, because we get to showcase some of the clothes you’d only see if you got to go shopping in New York or Paris and yet also expose these bril­ liant designers who have stores a couple of blocks from campus.”

As Pascal ru sh es out to attend a fitting for some of the models, Anna C zolpinski, pro­ m otions coordinator, mentions that Tiga will be spinning for the show. This name should be rec­ o g n izab le to m ost rav ers out there, as Tiga is an in-house DJ at Club Sona.

“Sona has been really good to us in terms of supvpory’ states

Czolpinski. “Tiga is spinning the choreographed tracks for the models, as well as doing a little freestyling during scene inter­ missions, which should be pretty sweet. They’ve also hooked us up with Parano Studios, which does all their im pressive light shows during their huge parties... we’re going to have some of that visual stuff going on during the show also.” phone rings and Anna rushes over to pick it up. answer­ ing perkily eve® though she has dark circles around her eyes. The room returns to its natural state of high-energy activity and ten­ sion, with any further questions left unanswered. If the determi­ nation among this small group is any evidence of things to come, this year’s show should reflect the organizers hard work.

P[H]ASSION is on Friday, May 24 at the Windsor Train Station. Tickets can be ordered from 398-6030. Students $20.

Du, Public Enemy and the Police.

This variety, however, was not reflected in their music. Their set was strong and energetic but bor­ ing.

A fter S nuff finished, the crowd was definitely ready for the band they’d come to see—Suicide Machines. However, the ‘wonder­ ful’ sound crew at Rainbow took close to forty minutes to set up which, only amplified the enjoy­ able environment created by a hun­ dred sweaty individuals packed into a small space. Fortunately, it was all worth the wait.

Many fans have been discour­ aged with the Suicide Machines self-titled latest release and its alternative and sometimes down­ right poppy themes. It seemed as if the band was aware of this less than enthusiastic attitude for their new material and played only five songs off the new album in contrast with eighteen off their more popu­ lar previous album s, 1996’s D estruction by D efinition and 1998’s Battle Hymns.

The Suicide Machines’ stage presence has m atured which, resulted in an amazing show. The fans were pushed right up and often on to the stage by the incredibly enthusiastic crowd and the band reacted

accordingly. They tolerated and often encouraged fans on to the stage while lead singer Jay Navarro sang with various fans often point­ ing the mic into the crowd allowing the fans to sing the lyrics them­ selves.

The band knew what the crowd wanted and they provided it.

With old favourites like New Girl and S.O.S. combining the original punk and ska that the Suicide M achines are famous for, they were able to please their recently critical fans. Without too much unrest, they were able to add a few of their new songs into the set in between crowd favourites like The Vans Song (featuring P ilfer’s Vinnie Nobile returning on trom­ bone) and a cover of the Romantics’ “What I Like About You.” Despite the fact that Suicide M achines rem ain an amazing punk/ska band with an impressive live show, their new music is leav­ ing many fans cold. Unfortunately, great shows like this one probably aren’t going to be around for much longer if the band continues in the musical direction they’re currently headed. After all, there’s only so much alterna-pop a punk fan can take.

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Exhibit spans a lifetime of innovative, Canadian art M o n tre a l M u seum o f fin e a rts s h o w cases th e w o rk o f H u ll a rtis t Je an D a lla ire B y R eb e c c a D o i r o n

D espite his early classical background, the works of Jean Dallaire illustrate a cross-section of modern art from the twenties to the sixties. Today, fifty years after the first public showing of his work, the M ontreal Museum of Fine Arts is featuring 130 of his paintings.

As it has evolved extensively over the years of his career, Dallaire’s style is often difficult to classify. His very first works were still lifes, typically fruit. This tra­ ditional subject matter quickly progressed to extremely creative mind-play.

For D allaire, physical and political surroundings played an integral role in the development of his work. Born in 1916 in Hull, Quebec, he began his career in an Ottawa monastery painting reli­ gious scenes, still lifes and por­ traits. The education he received there created a solid base for his talent, which quickly grew beyond classical art.

One painting in particular attracted attention for its radical departure from accepted Canadian art of the time. His cubist self-por­ trait, created w ith shockingly angular lines, showed his potential to deviate from “classical” artistic expression.

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prominent styles to influence his creations. Traces of Cezanne’s and Matisse’s work can be found in his earliest efforts. In 1940, with the beginning of the Second World W ar, he was captured by the Gestapo and held in a British camp for four years.

Once released, he returned to Canada with an intensified depar­ ture from his religious beginnings.

E vidence of the influence of Salvador Dali began to appear in his work which became alive with vibrant colors and a increased vocabulary of symbolism.

As D allaire aged, his cre­ ations evolved to include wit and, later, popular culture.

He increasingly demonstrated his wit and sarcastic humor with works like “The Madwoman” and “Nini Nono N ana.” During the 1950s, galleries took interest in showing his art, and he gained sig­ nificant recognition.

In 1958, D allaire departed Canada again for France. He even­ tually settled into Vence, a tiny city in the South of France. It was there that his approach changed yet again as it embraced a light­ hearted demeanor. His creations were full of crazy characters, Martians and fantastic creatures.

This resulted in works ëntitled “the Landing of the Martians” and “M rs. Scoubidou” which com ­

bined rich color and texture with humorous subjects.

Dallaire continued to thrive in Vence, with a wife and two sons, until his early death in 1965.

Despite this short life, He man­ aged to create a great deal of paintings, spanning a wide range of theme changes and develop­ m ents. His art contributed to Canadian heritage and pride This m agnificent exhibit spans through his entire life and multitude of themes. The size of the show is impressive, and will undoubtedly inspire thoughts and emotions.

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Burt Neilson tells all

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Blind Melon peed on their fans, Burt Neilson Band peed out of a moving van

time and eventually it reached a point where som ething had to give.

The gamble seems to have paid o ff in the end, how ever, since the band has had the plea­ sure of sharing the stage with acts like 54-40, S p irit o f the

The Burt N eilson band— a whirling dervish of six hyper-tal­ ented musicians rolled into town at the C ab aret, F rid ay night.

Com bining a m ixture o f funk, b lu e-g rass and reg g ae m usic, among other influences, the band kept the crowd liv ely and d an cin g th ro u g h o u t th e ir long set. Vocalist and bassist Jeremy Little was kind enough to spend a few m in u tes w ith the T rib u n e b efo re the show to talk about the joys of touring, bootleg­ ging and peeing out of a window in a speeding van.

C om ing to g e th e r d u rin g th e ir stin t at L ak eh ead U n iv ersity , the band consisting of g u ita ris t D an iel D énom m é, b a s s is t H o w a b o u t a little ja m fo r y o u r fu n k sand w ich ?

Jeremy Little, lead gui­ tarist Michael Filipowitsch, per­ West and the New Meanies and c u ssio n ist Jeffrey K ornblum , has p layed to e n th u sia stic key b o ard ist Jeff H eisholt and crowds at venerable venues such drummer Gavin Maguire built a as the H orsesh o e T avern in strong and loyal following there. Toronto. With six people in the Giving up school to follow their band, I wondered how they man­ dream was a tough decision, but age to keep it all together and balancing academics and music play as tightly as they do. “It’s ju st became too difficult. “We kind of like being in a big fami­ started recording an album in ly ,” L ittle says th o u g h tfu lly . third year,” says Little over the “Practice and discipline [plays] a phone from the Cabaret, “and my big part in being able to settle sem ester pretty much got lost. down and play what’s necessary.

T rav el started to cut into the L eaving space betw een your

notes for others, rather than the notes themselves is also impor­ tant.” Listening to the other band m em bers is crucial for a band based on improviSational tech­ niques which they accomplish by “leaving a little space for some­ one, [to step back and let] some­ body else will jum p in .” I t’s a tech n iq u e which they’ve obviously mastered, sin ce they have been her­ alded as the “fu tu re in te ­ gral part of the jam scene,” by several critics.

M ost o f the band hails from Toronto, but have made Montreal their adopted home.

I asked why pabiQ Rodriguez they chose this city over any other, to which Jeremy replied, “we all wanted to be in a city where there was lots going on. Montreal has good bars, good music and good peo­ ple, and it’s just a great place to be.”

C u rre n tly on th e ir six th cro ss-C a n ad a to u r, the band played their 220th show at the Cabaret on march 10. “I love the traveling, m eeting new people and re-visiting places and seeing the same people there. It’s like

having lots of frie n d s,” L ittle says happily. “In the winter, we managed to get nine days up in the m ou n tain s fo r sk iin g and boarding and it’s like being on an all-expenses paid vacation.

It’s great.”

T heir m ost n otorious tour experience was an event referred to as “the van sto ry .” “It was such a b u m m er,” L ittle says sheepishly. “We were on such a high, it was the last show of the tour, and we were all drunk and

we cam e back to find all the stuff stolen out of our van. Our old drum m er was p articu larly drunk, and we found him hiding b eh in d a d u m p ster, g u ard in g what was left of the van with a k n ife. T h e re ’s a lot o f o th er things that happened that night th at I c a n ’t te ll you, but our drummer did try to get out of the van while it was doing 100 kilo­ metres an hour, and he peed out the window.

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Goodbye the Oasis of old, and hola! to their new line-up, 70’s hair, and ambiguous new-musical-direction. But don’t despair, the rudderless boat that is the band of late will soon be navigated by new band members Andy Bell (soon to be renamed Bellsy?), and a man named Gem. Although they don’t appear on Oasis’ fourth album, due to joining the band postrecording, future Oasis records should be great­ ly anticipated.

Perhaps you think the present offering must be a Noel Gallagher affair. Not so. This time, Liam is the highlight of the record. The best tunes on this album are by him and his gob, from “Go Let It Out to Put Yer Money Where Yer Mouth Is” and “I Can See A Liar.” Rock ‘n’ rolled by Liam’s singing, this album is surely one of the greatest of the past twenty-five years.

Our Kid’s done good with “Little James” too, a tune that he wrote all by himself!

But in British fans' eyes, it’s when Liam’s singing is successfully mixed with Noel’s rnusicality that we get all excited as with songs like “Definitely Maybe”, and “Glory.”

Unfortunately this doesn’t oecur on, but hey, you loved Be Here Now so go love the Giants as well, it’s a much improved formula to their cur­ rent impasse.

Hyperdramatic sure is challenging. The first challenge is getting past the album’s open­ ing sentence, the awkward “Will I ever truly love someone who 1 want to be a better person because of.” Next, you have to deal with pieces like the title track, pieces that try to sound “ambient”, but just end up with no structure to showcase Doyle’s extraordinary voice.

You must then face the challenge of ignor­ ing the heaviness and pretention of David Hodge’s production. Finally, you must accept that this album is a pleasant listen (especially the lovely “Never Too Late"), but doesn’t bring anything new to the tired adult-contemporary genre. If you succeed in overcoming those challenges, you’ll really enjoy the album.

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AUS needs strong leadership I've '.pent the last year working closely with the AUS. and the Faculty of Arts, rm on a number of com­ mittees including the MCI, Faculty of Arts and Curriculumcommittees.

I am a U2 political science and history major that effectively represented YOURVOICEthis year as Arts Rep to S.S.M.U. The AUS has not done its' utmost to be fuRy accessible to Arts Students This must change.

Next year I want to see an increase in Special Projects Funding. ! really want to see the Arts Carnival happen, I want to con­ tinue to bring you Arts Taverns, Graduate Seminars and Career Fairs for Arts students and I want to see the realization of rmAUS i ounge i will also emouraye more student involvement. I can and will make these things happen.

INCREASEVISIBILITYby holding more events, giving students more opportunity to get involved and to enjoy their undergraduate society. IMPROVE RELATIONSHIPS with facul­ ty associations, as well as other sports teams, dubs/assodations that are not direct­ ly under the AUS. ENHANCE COMMUNICA­ TIONS by establishing a weekly e-mail com­ plete with upcoming events and survey ques­ tionnaires.

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JOSHUA COHEN

1 WSm Serving as this years President of the Inter Residence Council has given me " ence, organizational ability and skills to be your VP Internal. Frc , __ the big Re/ parues at the tieginrang of the year to the IRC ski trip. I know how much energy and determination it takes to throw successful events.

As next year's VPinternat, I will broaden the internal portfolio beyond the traditional par­ ties to include events that appeal and involve, intellectually and socially, the varied interests of the Arts Undergraduate Community. I’m gonna work hard. You’re gonna have fun.

JACQUELINE VONG

Fresh new face, fresh to the world. Hi I'm Jacqueline Vong. Simply put: enthusiastic, determined, organized, dedicated and charismatic.

Am I qualified? VP Internal for IRC (Inter-Res Council) in my 1st year. Currently teaching Organizational Behaviour (a class) at McGiH Headed up the events division in a marketing firm in Toronto, and partially in Montreal (Organizing events at the Allouettes and Montreal Canadian games).

What am I going to do for? ORGANIZE, INNO­ VATE. SOCIALIZE, PARTY. DANCE and HAVE FUN. What to look forward to: Who wants to be a McGillionaire! Iwon't do you “VONG”!

JEN SLOAN

CATHERINE WEILER

To this position I'll bring experience and ideas. I've been on the external affairs com-1 mittee for two years. I'm co-chair of this year's committee and have coordinated every event under the external portfolio |'ve seen what works and what doesn't If elect­ ed, l would pursue the following; links between AUS SSMU. and other faculties; an evening event for the Charity Fair, a Career Fair focusing on arts degrees; the vocaliza­ tion of aits issues to SSMU II est temps que l'AEFA ait une vision, et des resuttas con­ crets. Vote Jen Sloan!

When deciding to run for external Iwas asked.

'What do Arts students need?" Myinitial reply, 'money, books...beer." Seriously, Arts stu­ dents need active representation. Intwoyears as a student in Economics and PoS-Sci, Ihave actively represented students as FYSApresi­ dent. SSMU councilor member of the SSMU Finance. University Affairs, and SSPNcommit­ tees.

In addition to providing experienced SSMU representation I plan to: organize a part time/summer job fair and coordinate a fundraising competition with Montreal Universities.

Cest important de choisir la représentante qui vous servira te mieux.

As an Arts student think about what you need Catherine Weiler.

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I am a fully bilingual international student majoring in Political Science. I will take an ACTIVE and COMMITTED rote as your ARTS REPRESENTATIVE by; Providing Comprehensive Representation; Increasing Communications between die students and both the AUS and SSMU; Making sure that Arts students' concerns are addrt ssed at SSMU.

A successful student representative must balance experience and enthusiasm. Having tieen extensively involved in many areas of student life, I feel that I meet this quaffication. My involvement as SSMU Faculty Relations Commissioner, Chair of the Presidents' Council, Frosh Leader. O-Staff, SSMU (98-99) have led me to appreciate and understand the many facets of lie as an Arcs Student

My involvement with the tnter-Resirtentiât Council has given me the necessary experi­ ence for this position.

Iwould certainly enjoy the opportunity to put my experience and enthusiasm to use as your next Arts Rep to SSMU.

For a DETERMINED DYNAMIC and CON­ CERNED Representation. Vote JEN FAMERY FORARTSREPTOSSMU,

Vote for Danielle Lanteigne on March 22-23.

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Extensive involvement with the AUS has pro­ vided me with the necessary experience to become your next VP Academic. I have sat on various AUS committees including the Academic Committee. I have also been a member of the Council representing Eng8sh students. In addition. I worked with the VP University Affairs. Next ye3r students vuicus will be heard by increasing student represen­ tation on the Faculty Committees. I plan to ensure improvements on the conditions under which students write final exams;.

Finally I will wofk to better the services prtF vided by the library. Votez pour ia voix de l'experiénce! Pick Nick.

My involvement with the Arts Undergraduate Society began this year, as a councilor for the International Development Studies Students' Association, and as a member of the External Affairs Committee. My goals for next year are simple. If elected VicePresident Administration, I would like to make sure that the AUS is efficient and user friendly for both students and councilors, as well as give the students of the faculty of Arts a strong representation to the adminis­ tration. The AUS needs leadership, commit­ ment and an efficient organization. Iam ded­ icated to provide your society withall three.

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Jai Guru? The band name like a certain St. Laurent bar shaking hands with a local energy drink. Yet at Gert’s on Wednesday, instead, there was a group of mysterious, trendy-titled musicians strutting their stuff at the new SSMU spon­ sored weekly open mic night Jai Guru’s tunes were a colour­ ful and expertly blended stirfry based on solid rock’n’roll with lib­ eral douses of fun, slappy funk and mellow reggae. While the audience went wild, the group played out

their recipe for the evening, which included both cover songs and some original work. Their utensils? Some cigarettes, instruments, five cute boys, and lots of love from the con­ cert-goers.

If there was ever a fear that cover songs are inextricably linked to the mundane, these musicians dispelled it resoundingly. Thanks to the daring of vocalist Marc Tetrault and lead guitar/keyboard Pablo Castro, songs by The Doors and Santanna emerged as refreshing, innovative, new masterpieces unto themselves—no small feat for a stu­ dent band just finding its legs.

Neither did their own tunes dis­ appoint, displaying a musical matu­ rity beyond their years of experi­ ence without excluding an exciting flair for the creative. The highlight of the evening was a fascinating, funked-out JG original that com­ bined elements of The Spice Girls “Wannabe” with the old-skool beat “Scenario” by A Tribe Called Quest.

Breaking dow n the group Jamie Bruce, co-writer of the band’s first piece of fan mail which now resides on the wall of rhythm guitarist Fadi Dagher said, in an interview, “I’d like to talk about the various merits of different members o f the group but it’s difficult because all of them are so, so talent­ ed.” This could not be more true.

Drummer Sebastian provides the varied and complex beats for the band, while bassist Anthony Sandler appears to be in a state of zoned-out bliss as he and Seb work together to ground Jai G uru’s sound. Fadi adds texture and depth with a series of wa-wa-ey waves and sweet background vocals. Pablo works some truly astonishing won­ ders on the keyboard and especially the lead guitar, displaying a keen

musical sensibility and fingers that move like a raver on meth.

Perhaps most dazzling is Marc’s voice which is as profes­ sional as it is versatile. The boy can sing funk, rock or reggae—three very different styles—like he was bom with a mic in his hand, and thrills the crowd with his easy affect and charming stage presence (par­ ticularly the female contingent, per­ haps, on account of his chiselled cheekbones and Romeo-esque lash­ es).

Part of the positive vibe that characterized the performance can

be attributed to the enthusiasm of those attending. While the musi­ cians worked their magic onstage, the crowd went crazy in the rest of the bar. A moderate turnout formed a nucleus around the front of the room that hooted and drank its way through the evening. Two small but hyper groups danced seemingly tire­ lessly on either side of the perfor­ mance area while those playing pool further back nodded their heads appreciatively to the beat.

Between songs the air thronged with chihuahua calls and shout-outs.

Smiles and frolicking abounded.

One enthused fan, Mo ElHalali, was heard to say, ‘They’re great. They make my day.” Shortly afterwards, Anne Saulnier, the other co-writer of Jai Guru’s first bit of fan mail, intimated her thoughts on the group. “These guys are going to revolutionize ro ck ’n ’roll. And they’re all so cute.”

Perhaps all this proletariat sup­ port is bom of the band’s socialist leanings. Though not politically active as a unit, all five share a love of the left-wing message of peace and community—movement of jah people?— promoted by singers such as Bob Marley and Peter Tosh.

It’s clear that despite their new­ bie status on the Montreal scene, Jai Gum has potentially serious staying power. Rumour has it that there may even be a record deal in the works. For now, these boys are playing where they can and basking in their local fan support. When asked about future plans, Marc T just smiles, winks a gorgeous brown eye and chuckles as he tells me, “Solidarity forever.”

With their herbal outlook, it’s clear — The Jai Guru revolution will not be televised. You can catch them next at Café Campus later this month. Look fo r show listings around town.

David

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Subtlety makes horror movies scary Tobe Hoopers The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is considered by many to be the most frightening horror movie ever made.

This story of five young people who fall prey to a family of cannibals on a quiet summer day set the bench­ mark which subsequent horror films would be judged. Since its initial release in 1974, dozens of would-be film makers have attempted to re-cre­ ate the story and atmosphere that made TCM such a success, including Hooper himself.

One of these film makers was Wes Craven who, in 1977, made The Hills Have Eyes. Craven’s film has a striking similarity to TCM. In it a fami­ ly which had recently inherited a silver mine becomes stranded in the desert after their car breaks down and end up in a fight for their lives against a fami­ ly of desert cannibals. Though it has all the elements of its obvious influ­ ence, Hills does not generate anything resembling the raw terror produced by Hooper’s masterpiece.

The success of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and the failure of The Hills Have Eyes serves to illumi­ nate what actually makes certain films terrifying. Wes Craven set out to pop­ ulate his film with villains who were meaner and more evil than those in TCM, a task that he failed miserably.

In attempting to portray his villains in this light, he showed a great deal of the action happening from their perspec­ tive in order to show what was going on in their heads. This mistake cost him whatever marginal terror he was building up to. What he didn’t grasp, and still hasn’t, was that it is not the actions or intent of his villains that make them terrifying, but what we do not know about them and what we think they are capable of. Repeatedly throughout Hills, scenes that are sup­ posed to establish the nastiness of the villains end up generating unintention­ al laughter. In going for broke he lost

sight of his original vision and wasted an ideal setting that could have made a true horror film.

This is very different form the mastery Tobe Hooper applied to TCM. Unlike Craven, he actually under­ played a lot of the scenes and went for subtlety. Consider a scene near the cli­ max of the film where the heroine wakes up in the dining room of the cannibal family: the hillbilly squalor, closeups of the terrified heroine, and what has been established already in the film all make this scene almost unbearably terrifying, yet for several minutes nothing really happens. From the beginning of the film, we know what these villains are capable of and what they are willing to do. Hooper established this with the minimum amount of on screen time for these people. One of the characters at the dining room table is introduced in this scene and though he does not talk or move very much he is still menacing.

This is all because we do not know the intent or plans of the villains.

Now consider a nearly equivalent scene in Hills where the parents of an infant sneak into a cave to save their child. What could have been a sus­ penseful scene fails because, from his earlier work, we know Craven likely doesn’t have the guts to actually kill an infant in a movie. Moreover, because we know what the villains intend to do (i.e. eat the baby), there is no suspense and their struggle plays as mindless action. In another scene where one of the bad guys is attacked by a dog, Craven generates a sympathy for the villains that could work in a comedy or even a drama, but is deadly to a hor­ ror film.

The dining room scene of TCM, in contrast, comes perilously close to becoming unintentionally funny, but Hooper understood where to draw the line. He also understood that where the horror genre is most successful is on this line between terror and comedy.

Sam Raimi of Evil Dead fame, for instance, deliberately crosses this line in his films on for comic effect by creating action scenes that are so intense and so over the top that they become hysterical.

All of this ultimately boils down to the different approaches the film makers took to their work. Hooper took his story, his characters and set­ ting deadly seriously. His intense focus drained all the humour, inten­ tional and unintentional, from the film, leaving only the bare essentials and minimum number of characters need­ ed to carry the plot Craven wanted to top him but failed to realize that what made TCM so frightening is not gore or violence but writing and directing. Contrary to what is commonly said very little on screen violence is committed and very little blood is seen on screen in TCM. It takes a true love of horror to make a truly terrifying film and this is the rea­ son why very few such films have ever been made. Hills Have Eyes, was made as if Craven did not really believe in his story. It seems as though he just went through the motions of making a horror film and the movie watches like more of an overdrama­ tized mockery than anything scary.

In the end, however, Wes Craven may have proven to be the winner in this game. Though none of his films are actually frightening, he has achieved a far higher degree of finan­ cial success than Tobe Hooper who was never able to match the chills or success of his debut film. While Tobe Hooper has gone by the wayside, Wes Craven is still around making bad movies and laughing all the way to the bank.

Les Respectables, enfin respectés?

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Pour la première fois depuis le succès radio d ’Amalgame et de l ’H om m e 7 :0 0 U p , les R espectables m ontaient sur la scène M ontréalaise la semaine dernière devant une foule com­ posée en grande partie de con­ frères du milieu artistique.

En effet, il était difficile de faire un pas sans foncer dans un membre d ’Okoumé, un v.j. de M usique Plus ou un acteur de film s de Jean B eaudin. On se se ra it atten d u à plus de fans puisque les R espectables sont o m n ip ré se n ts sur to u te s les radios depuis l ’été, mais la file d ’attente pour la table de presse était quatre fois plus longue que c e lle pour le g u ich et. Il faut cro ire que ce n ’est pas parce q u ’un clip joue vingt fois par jo u r que le succès p o p u laire d’un groupe est assuré...

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dem an d aien t 9com m ent deux extraits radio allaient être suff­ isants pour présenter un concert substantiel, les Respectables ont prouvé que leu rs nom breuses années sur la route, que ce soit à Québec ou à Los Angeles, ont fait d’eux de véritables bêtes de scène. Il ne suffit parfois que d ’un re fra in ac cro c h eu r pour hisser une chanson au palmarès radio, mais les Respectables ont aussi ce qu’il faut pour offrir un bon spectacle.

Le secret de leu r succès?

Peut-être est-ce la démarche du chanteur Sébastien Plante, qui se dém èn e te lle m e n t q u ’on c r o ir a it que son co rp s a été en v ah i p ar l ’âm e de M ick Ja g g e r. Ou p e u t-ê tre e st-c e l ’attitud e du g u itariste Pascal Dufour, la cigarette au bec, les cheveux pêle-mêle, et les solos qui nous ram ènent tout droit à une époque où les g u itaristes d e v a ie n t a v o ir a u ta n t de

charisme que les chanteurs. J ’en su is p o u rta n t a rriv é e à l ’h y p o th è se que le u r su cc ès re p o se su r le u rs v êtem e n ts : in d é n ia b le m e n t, les Respectables sont le groupe le mieux habillé au Québec (quand la co m p étitio n s ’ap p elle E ric Lapointe avec sa veste de cuir, ou N o ir S ile n c e avec le u rs chemises à carreaux, c ’est plus fa c ile q u e l ’on p e n s e .) L es Respectables vont même jusqu’à se changer en plein m ilieu du sp ectacle, p o u r s ’assu re r que nous les voyions dans leurs plus beaux atours. Chacun a même un look, comme les Spice Girls! À en ju g e r p ar les fille s en p âm o iso n dan s la p re m iè re rangée, c ’est réussi.

Et la musique, dans tout ça?

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McGill Drama Festival tackles love, angst and phone sex If you don't have tim e to see them all, ch eck out w h at the Tribune critics are sayin g jjs a witty comedy that poses fundamental questions about human nature, theahi and life. The play is a modem interpretation of the philosophical Sophists: a group of fifth century B.C. Greek teachers uninterested in speculating about the nature of the universe.

Thomas, played by Simon Phillips, is a young guy clad in worn out jeans and a Bob Marley T-shirt, who is convinced that there is no point to his existence. While his friends are educated and working, Thomas is out of school and unemployed. In typical sophist style, Thomas ques­ tions why there has to be a lesson in everything. He does not believe in absolute values or beliefs.

In contrast, Thomas’s equally sceptical friend Grey (Michael Vitorovitch) is a young middle class professional who prizes the art of rhetoric, rejects conventional religion and tries to achieve virtue through success. A hilarious plot unfolds as Grey and his wacky friend Delores (Taliesan McEnaney) accidentally murder Thomas. Both Vitorovitch and McEnaney present genuine and heartfelt performances as they attempt to come to terms with their friend’s sudden death. The comedy highlights the difficulties involved in coping with the stresses of life and theatre—no matter what, the show must go on.

—review by Amira Richier

ïié& ayJtigÉ jË td ' is a humorous look at why pe&pfe form intmfate relationships and the issues of sex, companionship and self-esteem which, surround these encoun­ ters.

The actors hold the comedy together through a complex web of relationships. Elements of fantasy and reality are expertly fused to highlight the central narrative revolving around Linus (Grant Spurling), a young male comedian who gradually evokes the sympathy of his audience. Linus blames women for his wrecking his social life. His frustrations stem from feelings of invisibility in relation to the opposite sex and an inability to know what women want. He is pleased to hold a conversation with a girl that lasts more than three minutes.

The play creates the impression that men and women come from entirely different worlds. Linus claims that men are better conversationalists than women are. While women merely engage in petty gossip, male sports talk “turns insignificant events into epic struggles.”

The characters seem to metamorphose as they grasp a more intuitive understanding of themselves and their friends. The com­ edy soon illustrates that the sexes might actually share common hopes and dreams: although men and women may desire sex, what they really crave is companionship.

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water, Venice is slowly sinking. The Death of Venice transports us to two weeks before the city completely vanishes under the waves.

The play, written by Toby A. Cayouette, centers around a group of artists and their female muses who are coming to terms with losing their city and therefore, part of their identity. Dante Riello (Terence Metz) is a suffering writer who mns around in a mask and clown pants, writing poems for Speranza (Emma Munro), an art historian and a member of the prominent Contarini fam­ ily. The two wrestle with love, art and the death of their home, often with humour and poignancy. They are accompanied by Allegra and Niccolo (Louise McLean and Toby Cayouette), who liven up the play's often leaden dialogue with their easy chemistry.

The Death of Venice is a wonderful concept, but the pacing is at times slow because of numerous scene changes. There are times where the cast shines, for example, the last ball in Venice where there is a whirlwind of con­ versations about falling in love, falling out of love, frustrations with art and how to bridge art and financial success (an issue of particular concern to s'tudents). However, these moments were rare, and the audience was left wishing that Venice would hurry up and sink.

—Review by Maria Simpson

Srving to see one's own life on stage, and every stu­ dent who sees this play probably will feel a twinge of recognition.

Alice is about a group of film students who are supposed to be working on a project, but instead are drinking beers, smoking ciga­ rettes, having fights or having sex. The cast of characters are offbeat and funny; writer Matt Allen has convincingly encapsu­ lated a group of friends neuroses and concerns. Standout perfor­ mances were given by Dave Greenwood and Jason Maghonoy as Matt and Anwar in a hilarious scene where they swap tales about Jason's brother who works as a telemarketer in prison, and Dave's uncomfortable encounter with an old girlfriend. Chris (Sam Sewall) is the perfect example of a nou­ veau computer geek. He sports a Hawaiian shirt and sunglasses, rages against the film departmen­ t's faulty equipment and advocates more, rather than less sex in the film they're creating.

The play's title character, Alice (K ellie K night), spends most of her time curled up in a ball on the couch either sleeping or trying to sleep. Alice is asked "are you pretty?" and "what do you want?" She is dissatisfied with life, as are most of the char­ acters, but there is never any reso­ lution to her angst. Nonetheless, this play is an excellent slice of life that combines wit, insight and good acting with satisfying results.

—review by Maria Simpson

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S im ^ ia a u k C a m e r tion of being the only play in MDF that is not about love and angst. Instead, it takes place in the Middle East, where a cast of characters must deal with a changing world.

The play deals with ambitious sub­ ject matter— the protagonist, Saif (Zubin Driver), a univesity student in Iraq, must contend with tyrannical dic­ tatorship of "the Baddies" (in the pro­ gram's appendix of terms the definition of "Baddy" is "a mystery, can you solve it?" The mystery is... they're bad); a brain in a jar, perhaps his own; a ghost who was buried alive for losing her vir­ ginity; and an accident that has given him a mysterious illness.

Although Shaytaan's Corner deals with interesting issues about cultural identity and oppression, the number of issues tackled is a tad ambitious for a 40 minute play. The audience never discovers what becomes of Noor's (Tara Rihal) dream to become an archi­ tect or why it is exactly that Doctor Khalil (Fahd Beg) is trying to replicate Saifs brain. Writer Haydar Talib has managed to portray the upheaval in a small segment of the Middle East, but awkward dialogue and sometimes unconvincing delivery keep Shaytaan's Comer from pushing a good idea into a great play.

—review by Maria Simpson

^^tS& jle 'jQt^ss 'ÉÉiÛom ^ j ^ y y Ù Q â ^ m a n c e that takes place exclusively over the phone.

The play begins with a waitress named Kelly (Jessie Hirsh) bravely call­ ing Patrick (Shawn Baichoo) who left his number for her on a cocktail nap­ kin. The conversation that ensues is almost unbearably familiar, oscillating between comfortable small talk and embarrassing slip-ups. The same set serves as both character's apartment, so oftentimes Kelly will be folding clothes while Patrick is searching his drawers for forgotten food, or both will sit at the same table to pour themselves a stiff, courage-building drink. This works beautifully, making certain scenes almost surreal as they share their darkest secrets without a hint of visual recognition.

Baichoo is a marvellous actor who not only delivers his lines with flair, but is also an engaging physical actor. Even the serious bits are interspersed with sniffing his clothes, playing with toys and telling facial expressions.

Hirsh holds her own and also delivers a strong performance.

Excellently directed by Joel Fishbane and Vanessa Cassels, Call of a Waitress is fast paced and visually riveting. The script, by Fishbane, deserves a special note for its original, witty dialogue. It is rare for such a young writer to have mastered a tone that is both funny and accurate. One criticism is that despite it's auspicious beginning, the play becomes overly melodramatic when the mystery of love is compared to a rubix cube, but the first 5 minutes alone make up for this.

—review by Maria Simpson

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I guess that's why they call it the Blues Neilson, Potholes groove Continued from page l

-tained high voltage and uncompro­ mising jazz tunes. They were not afraid to confront their sensitive side; their true “blues-w om en” souls touched each and every one of us this evening. They displayed their courage by adopting the pain that it takes to belt out the blues, and they did it masterfully, each and everyone of them. Their years of experience and true mastery of the art form has enabled these women to understand the underesti­ mated power of a “blues melody” and allowed them to apply this wis­ dom relentlessly and without mercy this evening. Their full-bodied delivery of the blues spiralled the audience through a gut wrenching non-stop journey way deep down into their souls.

The crowd was almost, as enchanting as the performers. It is interesting to wonder if everyone at the show was there for the same reason. Did the crowd understand what this is all about or is this sim­ ply a fun evening out “avec les amies?” Part of me almost feels as if we should be out somewhere car­ rying banners and placards inscribed with politically conscious slogans about the oppression of women. But we are not, we are here listening to music, a form of enter­

tainment that transcends through barriers, and grabs the attention of unsuspecting listeners’ in a light, yet effective tone.

Still, a need to know the answer to these questions plagued me. Guided by a sense of moral duty, and the ease brought on alco­ holic spirits, I ask a young 20 some­ thing woman what has brought her here tonight. As she blares her response into my ear, her wellversed take on the subject soothed my fears.

“International Woman’s Day,” she informs me, “is the story of ordinary women as makers of histo­ ry: We are women often on differ­ ent continents, often divided by national boundaries and by ethnic, linguistic, cultural, economic and political differences, yet once a year we joined together to celebrate our day, Women’s Day.” After Watson’s emotive perfor­ mance opened the show, Jackie Richardson, a woman of epic pres­ ence enters the stage and liberates my spirit to levels yet unknown to me during the course of this evening. Jackie gives us a distinc­ tive treatment to a well-chosen col­ lection and beautifully crafted repertoire of blues standards. She belts out risqué lyrics and sings about women who have seen them­ selves trapped by demeaning racial

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and social conditions, and through it all they have longed for dying respect, especially from the men in their lives.

“We wom en”, says Ms. Richardson with boldness and selfdetermination in her voice, “have not forgotten what men seem to have, and that is, that we are all cre­ ated equally.”

Ah, the power of music. That night, the passion of the blues taught a powerful lesson about the centuries-old struggle of women to participate in society on an equal footing with men. That struggle was brought to Café Campus, an unusu­ al forum laced by an honest and rol­ licking musical form. The unre­ hearsed version of “M ovin’ On Up,” the theme from the hit 70’s television show The Jeffersons, brought the show to thunderous end. The band and all the women united on stage gave the audience the last, most essential ingredients to a mesmerising blues show: a heavy injection of friendly grooves and enthralling array of happy jumpin’ jives.

It is perhaps Angel who best captured the spirit of the evening in explaining that “today is the pre­ sent, and the present is the gift, and that the women performers who are here tonight are truly a gift.”

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By Shan Soe-L in A lively mixture of funk, blues and reggae was heard at the Cabaret hall last night. The event was a cosy little affair for the 200 or so lucky people who were treat­ ed to excellent sets. The smallness of the venue gave it an intimate atmosphere, making it feel like a private party.

First up were the Potholes, a six-member group of musicians whose life ambition must have been to be born in the late 70’s.

Their lively brand of fusion funk, peppered with hints of reggae and Stevie Wonder, was a hit with the excitable student crowd. Their lead singer, wearing a blue smok­ ing jacket, showed off his liquid smooth voice in his solos and duets with the keyboardist. One song which whipped the crowd into a dancing frenzy was labelled as “a little number you might hear in an elevator.” I really had no idea what he was referring to, because the song, with its lively beat was unlike anything you’d ever likely hear in a vertical lifting device.

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movies such as Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey and it’s sequel, as well as Close Encounters of the Third Kind. He, however, The latest movie by Brian De Palma does lacks the tact of Kubrick, taking this movie in nothing for his track record. His last movie, sentimental and gooey directions when it is Snake Eyes with Nicholas Cage, was not exact­ inappropriate to do so. At the premiere, the audi­ ly a good movie. Before that, there wasMission: ence audibly expressed their disapproval Impossible which was very confusing. It with wincing and groaning at each cliché seems as if he cannot decide how to direct and piece of sentimental mush. and this trend continues with Mission To Despite the ‘A’ cast, the audience also Mars. never really gets to know the characters.

It is the year 2020, and NASA is There was almost no character development sending a manned mission to the red plan­ from the beginning of the film and as a et. The movie starts off well with a farewell result, nobody really cares much if the astro­ barbecue establishing the close friendship nauts live or die. Another problem with the of three of NASA’s top astronauts, Jim film was that everyone appeared so noncha­ McConnell (Gary Sinise), Luke Graham lant with all the expensive NASA equip­ (Don Cheadle) and Woody Blake (Tim ment. When something goes wrong there is Robbins). Graham is leading the mission, no sense of urgency, no realistic concern.

Mars 1, with a group of three other astro­ The actors, much like everyone else in the nauts. We get the expected melodrama of theatre, just didn’t seem to care. These Graham saying goodbye to his wife and son as he will be gone for a few years, H e a v y is h e a v y ... e v e n o n M a rs press shot issues are not the end of this movie’s prob­ lems, but to outline them all would go way though this is nothing compared to What gravity and the space walking scenes are well beyond the scope of this article. comes later.

Unless you are obsessed with spaceflight or We then jump forward to Mars where the done and the scenes on Mars look pretty realistic.

Most of the problems lie within the script want to see a lot of good special effects don’t team has already landed and made an “amazing” discovery. They go to investigate and all NASA written by screenwriters Jim Thomas, John hop aboard the spaceship to mediocrity. If you receives afterwards is a garbled transmission. In Thomas and Graham Yost. De Palma, however, expect more than special effects, you will be response, Blake and McConnell launch on a res­ actually managed to make this mediocre script very disappointed. How this movie made pro­ cue mission (Mars 2) with Blake’s wife, Terri worse through his direction. De Palma obviously duction I will never know. borrows from the style of several previous sci-fi

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Fisher (Connie Nelson) and young astronaut Phil Ohlmyer.

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est plutôt léger. Les chansons offertes vont du reggae à la bal­ lade style Daniel Bélanger, en p assant par le punk-rock à la MC5 et le so ft-ro ck ty p iq u e­ ment québécois. C ’est bien beau la variété, m ais ça peut aussi être déstabilisant, surtout quand elle est mal intég rée dans un concert. Par exemple, pourquoi enchaîner un m orceau énergé­ tique à souhait avec une ballade si tranquille qu’elle est presque

étouffée par le bavardage de la fo u le ? En ch a n g ean t c o n tin ­ u e lle m e n t de re g is tre , les R espectables nous o ffren t un collage qui ne nous permet pas d ’apprécier le concert à sa juste valeur. Dommage, parce q u ’un re m a n iem en t du p ro g ram m e aurait sans doute résolu le prob­ lème.

Les Respectables seront de retour au Cabaret le 6 avril.

B u r t N e ils o n ja m s Continued from Page 19 A young, down-toearth and practical group of people, the band has begun to em brace the technology which, many bands have avoided.

“The in te rn e t’s been great for us,” says Little.

“We have a co u p le of M P 3’s out on the web and we think it’s a good way to get the word out.”

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The band was a lot less vocaldriven than the Potholes. Their long, funk-influenced songs were m ostly im provisational. Each member, particularly their bassist, possesses amazing musical talent; even more remarkable than this, however, is their ability to hold it all together and play as a cohesive unit.

The band has ju st released their latest alb" Orange Shag Carpet, which is ailable through th eir w ebsite at www.geocities.com/hollywood/ma nsion/7600. A wonderful, unique and talented group, the Burt Neilson band is not an act to be missed.

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Redmen push Stingers to th e limit in QUBL final series M cG ill u psets C o n c o rd ia at h o m e in g a m e tw o b e fo re fa llin g to th e S tin g e rs in series

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The Cinderella playoff run of the M cGill Redmen ended one game too soon. Sunday’s Quebec U niversity B asketball League game three loss to C oncordia robbed the Redmen of a trip to H alifax for the C anadian Interunivepsity Athletics Union Championships.

A fter the Redmen beat B ish o p ’s in a tig h t sem i-final match, few would guess that this team would be any match for the nationally-ranked Stingers. After all, the Redmen had lost fifteen straight against Concordia includ­ ing the first game of the series.

In game two, the Stingers were expected to continue their dominance and waltz into Halifax with a sweep in the series. But the Redmen did have a few signs that showed they were ready for the game: the game was to be played at McGill which meant it was the first home playoff game for every member of the current Redmen squad. And the Redmen had m atched up surprisingly well against the Stingers in the first game.

But no one really expected what happened on Wednesday.

T h e stre a k ends The Donald Love Competition Hall norm ally bears w itness to Redmen games filled with a sparse crowd who usually watch the game in front of a set of folded away seats that lie just behind the regu­ larly extended stands.

For game two those seats were unfolded and subsequently filled by one thousand fans. When the game finally tipped off, the roar was the loudest in years.

McGill again jumped out to a quick lead by making big defen­

sive rebounds, pushing the floor, and converting steals into baskets.

The Stingers finally killed the Redmen momentum with a timeout at 12:58 and McGill holding a 2514 lead.

“We jumped out to an early lead in the first game but we fold­ ed ,” said Redmen forw ard Ari Hunter, who had a double-double in the game with 11 points and 10 rebounds. “It was good for us to establish that aggression and domi­ nance, it set the tempo and said that we were in control. When we can get early leads we dictate the game, so tonight that quick start was huge.”

The Redmen cooled slightly heading into the half, but were still able to hold a 42-33 lead.

The reason the Redm en cooled off in the middle part of the game was due m ainly to Concordia’s ability to shut down Kirk Reid. A fter burning the Stingers for 35 points in the opener and starting this game with an extremely hot hand, Stinger head coach John Dore finally made the logical decision to do whatever it took to shut down Reid.

“They switched to a box-andone defence,” said Reid, explain­ ing why Concordia was able to limit his scoring. “We hadn’t seen it all year from any team. After they switched to that defense, I didn’t get the looks so I stopped scoring. When that happened the other guys had to step it up and they did. That’s a big reason why we won tonight.”

Not only would the additional scoring threats be crucial to McGill’s success, but outstanding defensive play from center Mark Rawas, Hunter, and point guard Domenico Marcario helped to pre­ serve a strong Redmen lead.

“We didn’t get nervous when we hit that slump,” said Hunter.

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“W e’ve learned this season that our defence will carry us through.

So when things break down and they put a good defence on Kirk, we knew we could stay in the game.”

In the face of a strong defence on this night, the vaunted Stinger offence was shut down in all areas.

In the post Real Kitieu had trouble against Rawas and was held to well below his season average against the Redmen. And when the team fell behind and needed the three ball to catch up, the Redmen were able to stop them from find­ ing an open shooter. Shooting only 5-of-25 from three point range, the long range threats of Eric Zulu, Mark Spence and Michael Kieran were all but eliminated.

The Redmen were able to get a significant number of big plays late in the game that helped to ensure momentum would stay on their side. Freshm an forw ard Frederic Bernard was able to keep up his defensive magic and draw charges that electrified the crowd and the team. But the play that sealed the game for McGill came at the hands of Marcario. With a little under three minutes left in the game, the 5’10” point guard drove the lane, cut left then right and went around the 6’9” Kitieu and made the seemingly impossible layup.

“He (the Stinger defender) over played me, so I drove to the middle,” added Marcario. “I knew Real would try to block me, I mean in that situation you win some you lose some, that time I got it.”

With the game in hand the crowd rose to its feet and the Redmen celebrated their first win over Concordia in five years.

“Knowing this was my last home game, it feels amazing to have finally beaten Concordia,” said Rawas, a senior who also had a double double with 12 points and 11 rebounds. “This is great, it’s the best win of my career.

This was incredible, I’ve never seen the top seats opened up and filled. We want to thank everyone who came out. We really needed that support, this was a close game and that put us over the top.”

“I ’ve never beaten C oncordia before,” added Reid, who shot 6-for-6 from three point range, and scored 24 points in the win. “It feels great to have finally done it.”

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Redmen were only one win away from a trip to the nationals. That, however, would be a tall order. To walk into Concordia’s home court and beat a top ten team almost seemed like an impossible feat.

T h e s lip p e r d id n 't fit In front of an absolutely packed C oncordia gym on Saturday, the Redmen found that the magic that had brought them this far had run out. Early foul trouble meant that key players like Marcario and Hunter would sit out much of the first half. Bad rebounding in the paint compound­ ed the problem , allow ing Real Kitieu was able to pull down 20 rebounds and score 18 points.

These two factors put the Redmen into a big scoring deficit w hich led to bad shots and a reliance on a three point shot that just wasn’t there.

“We just didn’t play,” said Rawas after the loss. “We didn’t want it bad enough. We were con­ tent with the win on Wednesday.

We weren’t hungry on defence, we didn’t shut them down, and we didn’t get the turnovers. The team just didn’t have enough intensity to win it. They outplayed us today.”

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ed M cGill had lost 76-56. The team was out-rebounded 51-33, and shot a paltry 2-of-15 from beyond the arc. Concordia also continued their defensive press on Reid, negating his offensive threat once again by holding him to only 15 points.

In a game that was mostly devoid of McGill highlights, one p ositive m em ory can be taken away from this game. With under three minutes left in the game, M ark Rawas fouled out of the game and finished his career with the Redmen. The sizable portion of McGill supporters in the audience, gave him a standing ovation as their way of honouring him for his four years with the team.

“It was good to know I ’m appreciated,” said Rawas, who played another strong game by scoring 11 and nabbing 7 boards.

“A bunch of guys from past sea­ sons came back for this game.

They all came back from all over, it was great to see them here. But it was still hard to accept that this was my last game. Four good years and it’s hard to believe it’s over, I’m just sorry we couldn’t go to Halifax.”

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McGill track and field im presses at CIAU nationals H o st a th le te s w in fo u r m ed als a n d th e w o m e n fin is h in th e to p te n at M cG ill F ie ld h o u se

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I’m a bit surprised that I won, but very pleased.”

McGill’s track and field coach Dennis B arrett was equally impressed with his star’s perfor­ mance.

“Ali-Khan was exceptional,’ said coach Barrett. “Her 1500m race made me pretty nervous as a coach. I was really pulling for her.

But she’s a great athlete and a great person. She had a really good meet.”

W hile Ali-Khan stood out, there were other great p erfo r­ mances on the women’s side. The

The McGill track and field team did not disappoint the home­ town crowd in the CIAU champi­ onships held on Friday and Saturday at the Fieldhouse. While they did not come close to winning the national title, McGill’s men’s team finished in a respectable 12th place. The women’s team fared even better finishing in 8th posi­ tion.

Leading the way for McGill was CIAU women’s track and field athlete of the year Sarah Ali-Khan.

The pharmacology stu­ dent won McGill’s only gold medal of the meet in the 1500m and added a silver in the 1000m.

She also anchored the 4x800m relay team to a fourth place finish.

A li-K han’s first race of the meet was the 1000m held on Friday night. She was leading in the contest until she allowed UBC’s Kerry MacKelvie to pass her m idway through the race. Ali-Khan turned it on in the last lap, but it was not enough, falling short by a razor thin three-one hundredths of a second. Ali-Khan had a bittersw eet reaction after the race.

“I felt good today,” said Ali-Khan.

“Although I ran a per­ sonal best, I still feel that I could have won the race. It was pretty disap­ pointing.”

Perhaps the biggest letdown for the McGill team was their perfor­ mance in the 4x800m C h ristin e L a g a r d e w ith h e r silv e r m e d a l women’s relay also held on Friday night. McGill was look­ ing for its third straight gold medal most notable of these was the effort turned in by Christine Lagarde, in this event.

From the onset it was evident who won the silver medal in the that McGill would not repeat their 60m hurdles.

Lagarde was ranked 10th in gold medal performance. In her first CIAU event, lead runner Zein the country coming into Friday Odeh struggled. She was ninth out evening’s race, and only qualified of ten runners before passing the for the finals with a wild card entry baton to second leg Carly Moher. after the heats. In spite of being a M oher ran extrem ely w ell and longshot, Lagarde ran the race of managed to move McGill up to her life, finishing in second in a fifth place. After receiving the tight race in the hurdles behind baton from Geneviève Shurtleff, national team m em ber Sonia Ali-Khan ran a strong anchor leg to Paquette.

“Usually I have a good start help the Martlets finish in fourth.

“I feel like I ran a pretty good and people catch up to me, or a bad race but the end result was disap­ start, and I have to catch up,” noted pointing,” said Moher. “We won an ecstatic Lagarde. “Today, I put this event last year. There’s a huge it all together. It was a personal difference between first place and best; my goal was 9 seconds and I ran in 8.94.” fourth.”

In her first CIAU meet, fresh­ Ali-K han finished off her wonderful weekend by winning the man Dawn Creighton finished 10th 1500m on Saturday. McGill’s star in the long jump, while Geneviève middle distance runner paced her­ Shurtleff was 10th in the 1500m. self beautifully. She was trailing The 4x400m women’s relay team the U niversity of V icto ria’s of Elisa Kearney, Kate Neligan, Barbara Brych by about five metres Sarah M illar and Ali-Khan was until the last lap. Then, with a 7th.

The men also had several superb finishing kick, she managed notable performances. The most to easily overtake the leader.

“I knew I made a mistake yes­ im pressive showing came from terday (in the 1000m) when I let Yohsuke Hayashi. In the individual her pass me, I didn’t want to make races Hayashi did not fare particu­ the same mistake by letting her larly well finishing in 9th in the gain too much of a lead,” explained 600m and in 5th in the 1000m. The Ali-Khan. “I took off in the last intense second year runner proved lap, my coaches, teammates and his true worth in the relay races.

The most exciting perfor­ the crowd were yelling at me to go.

mance of the meet came in the m en’s 4x800 m race on Friday evening. M cGill first leg, Jeff Wagner ran a brilliant race and managed to grab the lead from the onset. Despite their best efforts, the next two legs Ryan Beaton and Benoit Lebeau could not hold on to the lead and slipped into second.

When Hayashi got the baton, the Redmen had slipped to third posi­ tion. Hayashi m anaged to gain ground until the last lap and with 30m to go was about three lengths back. At the finish line, he dove in desperation and managed to over­ take Western’s Jim Wardle to earn the silver medal.

“This is the greatest moment of my life,” exclaimed a jubilant Hayashi im m ediately fo l­ lowing the race.

“My team m ates and the crowd cheering me really helped me gain extra energy. What a great feeling.”

In the 4x400m, Hayashi had anoth­ er great anchor leg, helping the Redmen team along with Sasha Geukjian, Lebeau, O m a r Gianfrancesco win their timed heat in the finals.

However, they ended up finishing fourth.

M cGill track coach Dennis B arrett was extremely proud of his whole squad and was Wei Leng Tei im pressed with the grit and deter­ mination that his team exhibited.

“We had a great meet,” said Barrett. “For what we came in with, we did great. We had a lot of personal bests this weekend. The atmosphere in the Fieldhouse really helped. The kids ran great.”

The CIAU Nationals were the culmination of a somewhat diffi­ cult year for McGill. The team suf­ fered many injuries, and lost many key bodies. Despite this, they still managed to improve their perfor­ mance over last year.

“I have mixed emotions about this season,” explains coach Barrett. “We had an awful lot of injuries. But the bottom line is, we worked with what we had and managed to have a fairly successful season.”

Looking ahead to next year, McGill should be competitive once again. Budding superstars like Hayashi and Lagarde are sure to return, while Ali-Khan is also look­ ing to continue her graduate stud­ ies. The McGill track and field community certainly hopes that she will return.

“I expect most people to come back,” says Barrett. “If we get some more new and capable recruits, we have the ability to be a real force in the coming years.

Next season I expect to perform even better than this year.”

M c G ill r e s u lts a t C I A U tr a c k a n d fie ld n a tio n a ls Men’s 600m 1. Alexandre Marchand, Sher 1:17.26 2. Darren Clarke, Cal 1:18.59 1 18«6 3. Chris Williams, UBC 9. Yohsuke Hayashi, McGill

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Sherbrooke and Saskatchewan run away with titles Vert et Or men repeat as track and field national champions for fourth consecutive year B y J e n n i f e r Lo r e n t z

M archand’s im pressive perfor­ mance earned him male athlete-ofthe-meet honours for the third con­ secutive year.

Marchand’s time of 1:17.26 in the 600 m etres set a new Fieldhouse record, bettering the

‘Expect the unexpected’ could have been a motto for the 2000 Canadian Interuniversity Athlelics Union track and field Nationals held at the McGill Fieldhouse last weekend. But the University of Sherbrooke, led by Alexandre Marchand, would disagree.

With few exceptions, it was a competition full of sur­ prises. The U niversity of Saskatchew an H uskies, ranked third in the nation heading into the meet, claimed the women’s title.

The Sherbooke Vert et Or women finished in second place despite being ranked tenth heading into the tourna­ ment.

On the men’s side, the defending champion Vert et Or ran away with the champi­ onship for the fouijh consec­ utive year.

“The kids were fantastic.

Everybody did their job. I’m very happy with the result, especially with the women’s result,” said elated Vert et Or coach R ichard C revier Y o hs uk e H a y a s h i a c c e p tin g his m e d a l f o r a amidst the championship celebrations on Saturday.

“They came in ranked tenth and record he set last year at the CIAU finished second. It’s very gratifying championships by more than a full to see that the work we have done second. This is the third straight year that Marchand has won both has given this type of result.”

Sherbrooke was powered once the 300 and 600 events.

“I feel pretty good about it [the again by Canadian National team member Marchand, who won gold 600m], In the 300 I was thinking medals in the 300 metre dash, 600 more about strategy so I could win metre race, and 4x200 metre relay. this [the 600m], I ran a pretty good

4x200 and gave the crowd a big boost. I really went crazy,” said Marchand. “That’s what I like. I do it for the show. If everyone likes it, they’re going to be back here next year to see another good CIAU’s.

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man in the CIAU, with a time of 6.79 seconds in the 60 m final. And the Sherbrooke team of Marchand, G renier, L issade and Yannick Darbouse took home the 4x200m relay.

On the women’s side, national team member Sonia Paquette took home two golds. Paquette broke the fieldhouse record for the 60 metre hurdles event with a trailblazing time of 8.42 seconds. She also earned the distinction as the fastest woman in the CIAU by shat­ tering the competition in the 60 metre dash.

W hile Paquette was impressive, Saskatchewan’s K ristin Hagel took home female athlete of the meet hon­ ours. Hagel established a new CIAU meet record in the pole vault (3.82 metres), edging out the old record of 3.80m. In addition to her gold medal, Hagel opened the weekend with bronze medal in the long jump and added a silver in the triple jump just minutes prior to her record-breaking pole vault.

“It feels great! It’s incredi­ ble... I don’t even know how r e la y v ic to ry Wei Leng Tay to describe it. It’s just been the best weekend,” exclaimed back to watch next year, I’ll be an excited Hagel after it was happy about that.” announced that her team had won Other Sherbrooke gold medal the championship. winners included Andrew Lissade A key to the Huskie victory who won the 60 metre hurdles for was their domination of the relay the Second year in a row, and events. The Saskatchewan women Sebastien Ouellet who struck gold took home both the 4x200m, and in the 1000 metre run. M artin 4x400m relays.

Grenier won the title of the fastest “The girls gave it their all and

made it happen,” said Saskatchewan head coach Lyle Sanderson, recipient of the Sue Wise trophy as women’s coach of the year for the second consecutive season. “Our anchor ran a gritty race in the 4x200 and it gave us a great boost.”

O ther highlights from the week-end included CIAU meet records being set by C algary’s Trevor Phillips in the men’s pen­ tathlon, and A lb erta’s M urray H eber in the 35 pound w eight throw . M anitoba’s Noreena Bodaglo also set a CIAU record in the women’s weight throw.

Other standout perform ers over the weekend included Victoria long-distance runner Graham Cocksedge who won a gold medal in the 3000 metre race, and a silver in the 1500 metre event. Cocksedge was named prior to the weekend as the CIAU male track and field ath­ lete of the year.

Cocksedge’s counterpart on the women’s team, Barbara Brych, a double gold-medalist last year, also won a gold medal in the 3000 m etre and a silver in the 1500 metre race. Another repeat winner from last year was Windsor’s Beth Stroud who took home the gold in the wom en’s pentathlon for the second year in a row.

Lami Oyewumi of Toronto also had a strong performance over the week-end winning the gold medal in the 300 metre dash and a silver in the 60 m etre event.

Calgary’s Saskia Winkelmann set a new McGill Fieldhouse record on her way to a first place finish in the 600 metres.

McGill track program on steady footing Middle-distance runner Ali-Khan leads the way as team produces six All Canadians rounded out a tremendous season.

“I ’m thrilled to have been Fuelled by an adrenaline kick named as athlete of the year,” said and the encouragem ent of her Ali-Khan, a 26-year old masters teammates, Martlet All-Canadian student in pharmacology. “It’s been runner Sarah Ali-Khan turned it up a great season overall. My coaches, a notch in the final lap of the 1500 Dennis Barrett and especially Alex McLeod helped me out a great meter run.

Trailing University of British deal. With all the training I did I Colum bia’s Barbara Brych, the knew I was prepared physically for gold medal winner in the 3000 the nationals, and I knew I could m eter event, A li-K han, to the win a gold, it was just a matter of delight of the home-crowd, surged being mentally focused and sur­ passed her rival in the final leg of mounting the mental obstacles.”

Besides A li-K han, several the race to bring home the lone McGill gold medal at the Canadian other McGill racers provided high­ Interuniversity A thletics Union lights for the home-town crowd at track and field championships held the nationals this week-end.

A pleasam t surprise for last weekend at the M cGill McGill came from sophomore edu­ Fieldhouse.

“I ran the race I wanted to. For cation student Christine Lagarde the first few laps, I was in the zone, who came away with the silver in trying to stay in the race without the 60 m eter hurdles event on letting her get too much of a lead,” Friday. Lagarde, ranked 10th head­ said Ali-Khan. “It was great to ing into the event, was originally have so much support and motiva­ thrilled just to find herself compet­ tion from people in the stands, it’s ing among the top track athletes in much better than ju st having it the country at the nationals.

“I wasn’t expecting a medal; from the team.”

Ali-Khan’s gold medal provid­ all season I was just trying to quali­ ed a nice complement to the silver fy for the nationals,” said an emo­ which she earned on Friday in the tional Lagarde after the race. “I had 1,000 metre race. Named the CIAU a bad lane (8th outside lane) and female track athlete of the year couldn’t see anyone. I ran really prior to the nationals, Ali-Khan’s fast, but when I finished I didn’t strong showing on the week-end know that I was in second. I still can’t believe that I won the silver.

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Its a tremendous feeling.”

The Redmen 4x800m relay team also took home the silver medal in a photo finish.

Anchor Yohsuke Hayashi took the baton with McGill in third place. Cruising for the first few laps, Hayashi, like Ali-Khan, saved his energy for the final leg when he was able to pass his nearest competitor and cross the finish line just inches ahead of him for the silver.

O ther m em bers of the relay team included freshman Jeff W agner, m ath/physics major Ryan Beaton and junior mechanical engineering stu­ dent Benoit Lebeau.

“It was a great race,” said Hayashi. “We work hard all season long, and it’s great to watch it pay off today.”

With six all-Canadians, the McGill track program was able to showcase its tal­ ents at the nationals. For the medal­ lists, the ribbons placed around their neck symbolized the reward of countless hours of training and practice.

It was extra-special for the athletes to have the shining moment of their season and careers take place at home in front of all of their teammates and fans.

“I t’s a great experience to compete at nationals, and its so much better doing it at McGill. It’s amazing to have everybody around for support,” said Ali-Khan who is considering returning next year as a PhD student.

“It’s been such a fun season,” added a nostalgic Ali-Khan. “I just want to keep on going. I’m feeling

pretty good right now, and want to continue studying at McGill and running track on the team. Who knows what can happen next sea­ son?”

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McGill swimming's new est All-Canadian M a tt W a lk e r a chieves e lite status w ith second place fin is h a t C IA U N a tio n a ls

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Occasionally overshadowed by the success of David Allard, the 1999 McGill male Athlete of the Year, Matt Walker has quietly worked his way into the elite class of swimmers in Canada.

At the CIAU national cham­ pionships on February 26, Walker earned All-Canadian status after fin ish in g second in the 400m freestyle.

The victory was somewhat of a surprise for W alker, who had not finished in the top three of any of the morning heats.

“It’s the m id-distance race that I swim in,” said Walker after his return from Guelph. “In that race (CIAU finals), I started out well, but within a few seconds the gold medal winner was really out of reach. I was not expecting to come anywhere near him; my plan was to try beat the two guys who finished ahead of me in the morn­ ing heats. I knew that if I could beat them I might get third place. I worked as hard as I could and I was lucky enough to pull it off at the end, I just barely beat the third place guy and got second.”

That medal, and the ensuing all-Canadian status, usually serves as the crown jewel in most varsity

UBC, but a fear of being o v ersh ad ­ owed and not c o m p e tin g helped bring him to Montreal.

“I chose M c G i l l because it’s a great school,” says Walker, a U2 science m ajor.

“I elected to go to the school m yself, and when I got here I talked to the coach about joining the team . I was sp ecifi­ cally trying to stay away from the big s w i m m in g schools, I wasn’t inter­ ested in s it­ ting on the s id e l i n e s .

Then when I got here, I was lucky since I was a rookie with Dave (Allard), and a bunch of other tal­

athletes accomplishments. Walker ap p reciates the honour he achieved, but nevertheless has his goals set a little higher.

“I’m going to go to Olympic trials in Montreal at the end of May,” said Walker. “I’m going to work hard and see what I can do, but I hope that I can peak for that meet and make the team.”

A stint with the national team would seem to be the linear pro­ gression for W alker, who has steadily progressed from club swimming to his current level of success. S tarting com petitive swimming at the age of ten with the Fredericton Aquanaut Swim team, he revealed a passion for the sport that is still with him today.

“I love it,” explained Walker.

“I didn’t play a lot of other sports when I was a kid because I was in the pool so much. I did play some hockey and ran a little cross coun­ try, but swim m ing has always been my favourite.”

C h o o s in g M cG ill over UBC That passion, however, was not a factor that brought Walker to McGill. He had the chance to go to a swimming powerhouse like

ented guys. The success we had that year was really unexpected.”

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team is always instrum ental in keeping an athlete happy. But when that success is very depen­ dent on one member, in this case Allard, resentment can breed in droves.

“I don’t think any of the guys on the team feel overshadowed by D ave’s success,” said W alker.

“Any success that Dave has reflects well on the rest of the team. He makes us all look great, and in relay races it’s great to have som eone like him on the team.”

For Walker, it looks like he’s found a p erfect situ atio n at McGill; he’s happy in school, he has fun with the rest of team, he’s an All-Canadian, but there is one thing he w ould like to see changed.

“I ’d love to see the Currie Pool renovated,” added Walker.

“T hat w ould be sw eet, som e stands in the pool would be great.

They would get good turnouts. It’s too bad since all the other pools have grandstands, and that helps to raise the awareness of swim­ ming. It w ould be great if we could have something to compete with the pool they have at the University of Sherbrooke.”

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The new leader of M artlet basketball Rookie Cheeka Mitchell continues her quick rise through the ranks with an outstanding season

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Over the course of the bas­ ketball season, M artlets rookie guard Cheeka Mitchell has devel­ oped in to a bona fid e ta le n t.

Combining natural skills with a willingness to learn, Mitchell has quickly become a key component o f a young and re b u ild in g Martlets program.

M itch ell’s enthusiasm and outgoing nature have made it eas­ ier for her to adjust to playing team sp o rts at the u n iv ersity level. A fter having played one full year, her propensity for lead­ ership has emerged. In addition, her dedication to fitness and selfimprovement bode well for future achievement.

Mitchell, a native of Lachine, Quebec, is from a close-knit fam­ ily. She has five older siblings who double as best friends and p h y sical tra in e rs. One o ld er brother in particular has offered to help with her off-season train­ ing, which Cheeka sees as critical in terms of her development as a b a sk e tb a ll p lay er and as a healthy, well-rounded person.

“I have to work on my condi­ tioning,” M itchell offered. “My brother and I will run at the track this summer. I want to get my cardio up.”

Ball movement Movement is a large part of her game. Cheeka is especially adept at creating turnovers, pres­ su ring o p ponents and forcing steals. She has also emerged as a true point guard on the Martlets with the ability to carry the ball

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up-court and distribute it to her teammates.

“One of my roles on the team is to bring up the ball. My game is all about fast breaks. I like a fast pace in general, moving up and down the court.”

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Mitchell interrupted herself and began to frown. “Sometimes I make bad plays when I say to myself ‘I have the ball now’. I get excited, and then I m ake silly turnovers. I really have to con­ centrate on limiting my mental

errors.”

Fortunately, Cheeka has had the benefit of joining a team with three fifth-year players whose experience, leadership and talent have im proved her gam e. She points out that the team is rife w ith ex c e lle n t role m odels.

Mitchell practically beams when talking about her fellow team ­ mates, such as co-captain Cynthia Santamaria.

“Cynthia plays hard all the time. She is intense for the entire g am e,” M itch ell en th u sed . “ [Head coach] Lisen [M oore] wants me to build off of that. I have to learn to control the ball at all times. Cynthia encourages me and shows me how I can be a bet­ ter player.”

The mention of fellow rookie and regular practice partner Jane P a ttillo b rin g s a sm ile to Mitchell’s face.

“She’s fun... cool. We get along really well. We learn a lot from each o th e r.” In fact, Mitchell points out that despite the obvious divergence in person­ alities, the team work-ethic and overriding sense of friendship strengthen the Martlets.

“We all get along on and off the court. The other players on the team make it easy for me to adjust. Now I’ve started talking to the other players in the hud­ dles, talking about what I see out th ere and w hat we sh ould be doing differently.”

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basketball two and a half years ago at D aw son C o lleg e. She made the track team but found team sports more rewarding. By her second year at Dawson she was on the Triple-A squad. Her play on that team was so domi­ nant that Moore came to see her play, and once at McGill, Cheeka joined the Martlets after a series of team scrimmages and trials in September.

Mitchell is a physical educa­ tio n student, taking academ ic courses in homeophysiology and educational psychology, as well as practical skills classes. This month, she begins placements as a teacher in a local elem entary school.

Her career goal is to teach at the high school and CEGEP lev­ els.

Mitchell is looking forward to next season when she feels she will be in a position to contribute even more to the team . She is determined to develop her jump shot and feels th a t a q u ick er release will improve her shooting and passing.

“I really started to come into my own in the last few games of the season. I think I played my best and I will keep getting better and better.”

That is an apropos statement from a player that will be instru­ mental in improving the Martlets as a team next season. Her dedi­ ca tio n , m o tiv a tio n , and skill d ev elo p m en t sh ould m ake Cheeka the star of the Martlets in future seasons.

One o f the m ost startlin g things about Mitchell is that she only started playing organized

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A quick guide to picking March M adness D o n 't lo o k lik e a ch u m p , g e t c a u g h t u p an d g o in to y o u r p o o l w ith som e d ire c tio n

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With March comes a small army of one month basketball fans. Thousands of people who can’t tell Lute Olson from Mary Kate and Ashley Olson will be entering pools and needing advice on how to win. Here then is our best guide for bringing home that coveted tournament loot.

U p se ts There is always a tendency to pick a whole slew of upsets in hopes that you can outsmart the rest of the pack. If you must make this terrible mistake, for the love of god do not pick a #16 seed to beat a #1. It has never happened, and it never will. However, there have been a few times when a #2 seed has been knocked off by a #15, and here is where you can potentially pull of a miracle. The general feeling this year, is that if it’s going to happen, it will be UNC-Wilmington stunning second seed Cincinnati who lost their best player last week to a broken leg.

Other than that, don’t pick these teams unless you are using a dart­ board system for picking these games.

If y o u ’re looking for the upsets, the best place to find them are in the #10 and #11 seeds.

These are teams that aren’t quite elite programs, but have the talent to pull together for one, maybe two, great games. A pair of last year’s upset teams, Gonzaga and C reighton, are again back for another shot, both at the #10 seed.

It wouldn’t be out of the question to see these two teams make it again.

Success b a ro m e te r Records are never a good way to estimate how far a team will go in the tournament. Strength of con­ ference can inflate or deflate those records in a big way. So if you have to pick a team that you don’t know much about, look at their three point shooting. The only way a lot of these teams can beat a superior opponent is to use the three point shot to either catch up or force the other team to change their game plan. The team that looks most likely to use that strate­ gy this M arch is the M issouri Tigers, who play in the tough Big 12 conference, and could make a surprise run in the South bracket

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R id in g th e h y p e Every single year, one “hot” team for the tournament makes an early exit. They get a lot of public­ ity about how they are ‘peaking’ at just the right time and are ready to make a run. This year it looks like that mantle will go to Iowa State,

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T h e v a lu e o f c o n s is te n c y Teams that spend the majority of the season ranked in and around the top ten, but don’t find their ways into the top five are usually able go deep into the tournament.

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Smallworld.com offers their own March Madness bracket con­ test along w ith in sights from M arcus Camby, who is a good insider since has so much in com­ mon with playes like Auburn’s Chris Porter and St. John’s Erick Barkley. In other words, Marcus understands college controversy.

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V ie w in g h a b its The tournament begins this Thursday at noon. The opening round games are often the most exciting, especially the #8 vs. #9 matchups. For once we will actu­ ally be given a sports watching advantage by living in Canada.

CTV Sportsnet will be picking up games that will not be televised by the local CBS affilia te in Burlington.

This is especially important for the opening rounds, where there are a lot of games overlap­ ping.

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SPHR-Palestine Awareness Week

Red &White fund raiser at The Dome

Engineering vs. MacDonald Campus

There will be a wine and cheese with Joe Clark, leader of the Progressive Conservative Party and former Prime Minister o f Canada on Tuesday March 14th at 3:00pm in the Clubs Lounge.

Clubs Lounge, 4th floor Shatner Building 3:00 pm - 5:30 pm.

DAY 3 - Exhibition -1455 de Maisonneuve West, Concordia Hall Bdg, Mezannine.

10:00 am - 8:00 pm. For more information contact: SPHR, Rabie Masri, email: sphr@ssmu.mcgill.ca

$4 advance, $5 at door. Tickets available at Sadies in Shatner. 9:00 pm. For more information contact: 398-1993

Variety Show and Pubnite "G et Lucky!"

ST. PATRICK'SDAYPARTY The PGSS presents The St. Patrick's Day Party, sponsored by GUINNESS and fea­ turing bands, Orealis and Swerve. Open to PGSS members and guests.

THOMSON HOUSE 9:00 pm - 03:00 am.

SPHR-Palestine Awareness Week DAY 2 - Leacock Bd., Rm. 26 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm. For more information contact: SPHR, Rabie Masri, email: sphr@ssmu.mcgill.ca or visit www.sphr.org/Week.html.

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:Gill Students Students for Literacy Spelling The Mc< Bee is a fundraising event where all pro­ ceeds go to our volunteer programs. Live entertainment provided by SPANC! Gerts - 8:30 pm - 01:00 am. For more information contact: McGill Students for Literacy 398-5100.

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AUS elections results too! Shatner Ballroom9:00 pm- 2:00 am. For more information contact: Le'Nise Brothers 398-1993.

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Queer Pride Week Panel Discussion

Sexual Assault awareness days

Huge Warmup Party in the Shatner Building. $8.

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Windsor Train Station 1160 de la Gauchetière W. Students $20, General $40. info: 514-398-6030

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Arts&Science Red & White Graduation Ball at theOmni Hotel.

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The Festival of the Environment is McGill's first all day event dedicated to the environ­ ment. The festival will feature food, games and over a dozen educational displays about environmental issues. Displays will be created by student groups, community groups and professors from your depart­ ments. For more info, please write: ssmuenviro@hotmail.com

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McGill Medicine Annual Blood Drive Shatner Ballroom9:00am-4:30pm

AUS Council Meeting

MUS Ballroom Party

Out with the old and in with the new!

Leacock 232, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm.

Party in the Ballroom!

Plumber’s Ball

Engineering Formal PGSS BLOOD DRIVE

Thomson House, 3650 McTavish.

1:00 pm - 7:30 pm.

For more information contact: services@pgss.mcgill.ca or visit www.mcgill.ca/pgss.

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