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Evaluating wildlife welfare in Canada L o o m in g c h a n g e s in w ild lif e le g is la t io n b rin g C a n a d ia n s t a n d a rd s into q u e stio n B y W ei L e n g T a y ______________

As C an ad ian s, m any of us take pride in the fact that our nation is home to some of the m ost b e a u tifu l and d iv e rse w ild life in the world. W hat far fewer people are aware of, how ever, is the degree of vulnerabili ty of a s ig n if ic a n t num ber of th ese sp e c ie s th at in h ab it our country. 340 species have been listed as protected species in Canada, with 151 that are vulnerable, 75 threatened, 87 en dan gered, 15 extinct in the w ild, and 12 that are extinct. The list was compiled by the Committee on the Status of Endangered W ildlife in Canada. COSEWIC is an independent scientific decision-making body, made up of scien tists from the p ro vin cial and fed eral govern ments, universities and museums across Canada, and non-govern mental organizations. The chair is M cG ill p ro fesso r Dr. D avid Green, a herpetologist with the Biology department. “COSEWIC makes its deci sion based on all the information that it can,” explained Dr. Green. “CO SEW IC does its jo b v ery thoroughly ...[an d ] tries to get facts straight so that we can give an ho n est assessm en t and an answ er to serve to anyone who wants to know.” The com m ittee’ s decisions on the classification of species in the five categories are based on e v id e n c e such as p o p ulatio n decline, abundance, and environ m ental d istu rb an ce. The c a te gories reflect a step-wise deterio ratio n of the s p e c ie s ’ statu s, w h ich can e v e n tu a lly le a d to extinction. C o n tin u e d o n Page 21

Electoral inquiry sheds light on referendum disappointments S tu d e n t a sso c ia tio n s v o ice d isco n te n t o v e r th e e le ctio n s p ro ce ss referendum: third party involve ment and referendum question An Electoral Inquiry conduct choice. The question of third party ed on T u esd ay, M arch 28 by Leeanne Bourrassa, justice of the involvement was met with equal S tu d en ts’ S o ciety of M cG ill frustration by all faculty associa University Judicial Board, probed tions. The restriction placed by the series of numerous controver elections by-laws restricting cam s ia l d ecisio n s m ade by SSM U paigning to the Yes and No com C h ief R eturn in g O fficer Paul mittees resulted in the shared prob Flicker during the Cold Beverage lem of student associations being Agreement referendum campaign unable to communicate information and the ineffectiveness of election regarding the CBA to their con stituents. by-laws. “Faculties should be able to The inquiry consisted of issues brought up by the No committee, join ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ sides in a refer Y es co m m ittee, S cien ce endum. The CRO should have no U ndergraduate So ciety, and the control over Faculty Associations. Law Students Association, all of Our resp o n sib ility is to put out whom felt they were marginalized unbiased views, and the greater the through the course of the referen third p arty involvem en t in the dum process. The ultimate result process, the better. It was apparent was a charged examination of two that both sides put out a lot of mis of the most debated issues of the inform ation and I feel that our B y M ike B a r g a v

information was more objective,” dents and reach a mutual decision.” The SUS representatives fur exp lain ed A rif Chowdhury and Winston Maricar, SUS VP finance ther exp ressed regret that the CRO’ s decision to allow them to and academic respectively. Chowdhury and Maricar main dissem inate information to their tained that their objective was to constituents came too late, just one allow third party information dis day before campaigning closed. “We only had one official day sem in atio n as opposed to fu llto put out info rm atio n . There fledged campaigning, to aid their co n stituen ts in m akin g more wasn’t enough time to discuss the issue in council and come to a deci informed decisions. “I do not think that third par sion on w hat stand should be ties should have the right to cam taken,” said Chowdhury. The L SA rep resen tativ e paign and there should be bylaws brought up sim ilar concerns on that control third party actions. It’s not really our place to tell the ‘Yes’ both the crip p lin g restrictio n s or ‘No’ side how to run their com against furnishing constituents with mittees. It is, however, our place to inform ation, and the short time put out our opinion. We have more allowed to circulate information. “It seems to be nonsensical information to give out to students than they would otherwise have. that no external com m ittee can We see ourselves in a role where speak on the issu e ,” L iz Drent, we can debunk propaganda and C o n tin u e d o n Page 5 help interpret information for stu

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D isabled students and the O ffice for Students w ith D isa b ilitie s are irate that 680 Sherbrooke West building, a build ing p artly owned by M cG ill University, is not fully accessible to

handicapped students. The b u ild in g , located ju st opposite the M cG ill C o llege entrance to the University campus, houses the M cG ill In stitute of L earn in g in R etirem en t, is the University’s Centre for Continuing E ducation and as of late has

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becom e home to its L anguages departments. It is M cG ill policy to equip every new building on campus with the appropriate physical aids that allow ‘barrier free’ access of the building to all disabled students, staff and personnel, from proper automatic doors and appropriately equipped washrooms, to ramps and elevators. The university has also set aside $100,000 dollars per year in order to renovate older buildings.

E le v a to rs at issu e Entering the 680 Sherbrooke West building, McGill’s branch of the building has its own separate sep arate en trace. C o-ow ner Industrielle-A llian ce’ s floors are inaccessible from McGill’s entrace. “We don’t have anything to do with McGill, take a left, there we do,” said a security guard who did not want his name printed. From there, an escalator is the only means of getting from the ground floor of the building to the second floor, w here a ll the U n iv ersity f a c ilitie s m ay be accessed. This has been the main source of complaints from the Office for Students with D isabilities as not everyone can use an escalator. D irector of the O ffice of Students with D isab ilities Jane Wolsorth has always been the first to criticize the building’ s new ly installed escalator system. “This building has got some very important departments in it,

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ones that require it to be barrier fre e ...” explained W olsorth. "... [An] escalator, well, not everyone can take an escalator,” she added. The six availab le elevators, only three of which McGill owns, cannot be accessed by the disabled without a card which must be either picked up from the O ffice for Students w ith D isab ilitie s in Burnside Hall or from the security desk at the building. In the latter case, the d isability must be con fessed and explained to the security guard. “The problem is an attitudinal one, someone with a disability has got to do something completely dif ferent [from ] everyo n e e ls e ,” Wolsorth said. “A lso, having to identify yourself every time you need to use U niversity facilities, that is ap p allin g . It is again st McGill policy and it is not going to work.” The problem extends to the after hours use of the building, when no one is available to give a disabled person a card to use the elevators. This prevents them from using the building for important purposes such as registering for a course or even attending continuing education classes, which usually begin after-hours. Better access to cards w ould alm ost com pletely solve the problem; however that has been a problem itse lf, says Wolsorth. “We were told that this office would receive cards to give out. We have not yet received anything. They are requesting a complete list

of names of disabled staff and stu dents and we w ill sim ply not do that. We w ill continue to try and resolve the issue, I am just not sure that they are willing to resolve it.” Three incidents with disabled students forced into using the esca lator have resulted in accidents. One woman was even hospitalized and kept overnight due to a fall while using the escalator. The main source of resistance has been the co-ow ners of the building. McGill vice-principal of fin an ce M orty Y alo v sk y told Senate two weeks ago that negotia tions with In d u strielle-A llian ce have been extremely difficult. Wolsorth remains committed to the problem and hopes that it will be solved before the U niversity summer session begins in May. “It is frustrating and discrimi natory. I am now going to personal ly be involved in the discussions, but it is im portant that the University commits to solving the problem by co n tin u ally putting pressure on the co-owners. As for the co-owners, I think they need to look at the attitude they are portray ing. It seems as if they are saying that these people do not really mat ter.” Just before press time, Danielle B ru n elle, property m anager of Industrielle-Alliance, returned the T ribune’s calls. “The problem is solved,” she said. “We gave cards to every per son.” It remains to be seen if this will resolve the issue.

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Students rally over dissatisfaction with McGill B y C a r o l y n K essel a n d A s c h H a r w o o d ________________

Over three hundred students, teachers and administrators were crammed into a small lecture hall in the M cC onnell E ngin eerin g building on M onday evening to express their opinions and concerns over the q u ality of teach in g at M cG ill. The event was an open forum organized by concerned stu dents. The im petus for th is open forum was history Professor Jeffrey Kuhner’s statement in the Montreal G a z ette last w eek that sparked U n iv e rsity -w id e co n tro versy. Kuhner, a Ph.D. student hired to teach American history temporarily at McGill, wrote that a crisis has struck M cG ill b ecause the University is not committed to pro viding a first-rate education to its students. “The Harvard of the North, as it used to be called — has slowly, but relentlessly been sliding into decay and mediocrity. The students know it; the professors who teach here also recognize it - at least in private,” wrote Kuhner. H istory professor Gil Troy rebutted the next day with his own e d ito rial in the G azette w hich defended M cG ill’ s dual commit ment to teaching and research, even in light of funding problems. “Y es, M cG ill risk s b ein g strangled by government cutbacks, ridiculo usly low tuition and the failure of individuals, corporations and foundations to fu lfill th eir responsibility and keep the univer sity funded...” Troy’s commentary countered. “The truth is that the only w ay M cG ill U niversity has remained one of the great intellec tual centres of the Western world has been because of its unyielding commitment to research as well as teaching.”

M eeting The meeting, composed pre dominantly of arts students, was an open forum for everyone in the McGill community to voice their opinions and exp erien ces. The organizers had written a contract as well as a list of cost-free ways to improve the quality of teaching at McGill. The contract was signed by two hundred students at the forum and it dem anded reduced class sizes, a commitment to hiring and retaining quality professors, longer office hours, and a minimum of three lecture hours a week. Science Undergraduate Society President Andrew K ovacs also presented suggestions for improvement of

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ing reso urces is a serio us one. There was higher value placed on research but that is no different from any other university in North America. The way the system oper ates, we have been in a situation where rewards for doing a good job are low and the penalties for doing a bad job are very high. Ways have to be found to increase the enthusi asm people have to teaching. With all honesty, doing their research is a tremendous benefit for teaching,” Bisson suggested. He also added, “I see no division between research and teaching. Research informs their teaching.” Bisson also discussed a morale problem amongst faculty because of a lack of resources at McGill. There is not enough non-academic staff, he said, and so many admin istrative jobs have been allocated to professors, taking aw ay time to spend w ith students and/ or research. “Decline in resources has cre ated real problems in that bureau cratic tasks have been passed onto professors. This kind of thing takes tim e aw ay. There is a c risis of morale,” Bisson said. The discussion that ensued focused on the importance and use of course evaluations at McGill. A question was posed that asked how serious the adm inistration takes course evaluations. Bisson again fielded the ques tion. He explained that poor course evaluations are reviewed by depart ment chairs. The department chair then discusses the situation with the professor. Unfortunately, the monetary reward for doing a good job is very low although a profes sor can be penalized for doing a bad job at teaching. “Evaluations are reviewed by the department chair. The point is , if a professor has low evaluations, there is a monetary cost for bad performance. It is the duties of the chair to fix it. Technically, there are informal controls and it is diffi cult to evaluate,” Bisson explained. He also added that the mone tary compensation for doing a good job as teacher is equivalent to buy ing two m icro w ave b urrito s a week, demonstrating how low the rewards are. He said that in order for a department chair to deal with pro fessors that aren’t doing there job, students must make it aware to the department. “If there is a genuine problem with the course then the chair needs to be informed,” he said. “If a chair doesn’t know about problems, then they can’t act.”

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Monday. There was a dispropor tionate number of Arts students. We thought with keeping with the momentum,” Sloan commented. Stephen Manfredi, organizer of Monday night’ s forum, began the m eeting by h ighlighting the issues brought up at the Forum. He "W h e re w a s o u r talked about the contract he pre p rin cip a l?" sented at the last meeting which included student participation in Very few high level adminis trators, besides Dean of Students hiring new professors, longer office hours and teacher student interac Rosalie Jukier, were present at the forum, however Principal Shapiro tion. He also highlighted the need sent his regrets over a campus-wide to address these issues. “If McGill doesn’t do some e-mail. thing, we are either going to rise to the o ccasio n or fade aw ay. M cG ill has put research over lecturing. We have to go over our p rio rities a g a in ,” Manfredi explained. The organizers then opened the forum to dis cussion. One of the first issu es concerned the qualifications of profes sors as teachers and how they can improve on their teaching skills. P rofessor Faith W a llis, Departm ent of History was first to field this issu e. She alerted everyone to the existence of the C entre for University Teaching and L earn in g, w hich is directed towards making professors better teach ers. She also addressed the issue that although C u ts a c ro s s th e b o a r d , fro m h is to ry t o th e s e a m o n k e y la b (just a d d w ater) phiihp Trippenbach (j-,ere m ay be teach in g opinions to the highest ranking “I was unable to be there due problems at McGill, in a professors University administrators.” to a prior commitment to a meeting contract, they have three areas they The forum itself was more of a with Premier Bouchard to discuss must fu lfil, including teaching, chance for students to feel solidari — and, in some cases, demand- research and administration. “Department chairs who read ty , vo ice th eir g riev an ce s, and higher levels of public reinvest course evaluations that are prob make a statement to the administra ment in Quebec’ s universities in tion rather than being a place where general and McGill in particular. I lem atic are to direct them to the decisive changes were made. Dan am, however, grateful to those that Centre for University and Teaching Spiegelman, a U3 Biology student, did o rgan ize the Forum since and Learning. “W e have a co n tract w ith expressed his reasons for organiz teaching is one of the crucial com ing the event. ponents of the quality of the learn McGill that says we must fulfil our academic duties, teaching, research “I don’t expect a whole lot to ing agenda of this University.” and administration. These are seen be done because of one meeting... not as in competition but as syner But everybody had been saying A rts U n d e rg ra d u a te getic,” explained Wallis. 9* what the students... the administra S o cie ty fo ru m M ike Bisson, Department of tion, even professor Kuhner and I Anthropology, followed up W allis’ wanted first and foremost [was] for C ap italizin g on the success comment by noting that although students to speak for themselves,” from Monday nights open forum, there might be a lack of dedication Spiegelman explained. Arts Undergraduate Society hosted to teaching, the U niversity does Students at the forum made another open forum to d iscu ss place a higher premium on research suggestions like drawing more on alumni resources for funding, cre teach in g and budget issu es at as do a ll m ajor u n iv e rsitie s in North America. He also mentioned ating more small courses like the McGill on Friday. According to Jen Sloan, AUS that a lack of resources makes it first year seminar, and even doing an honours degree because it gives E x tern al-elec t and one of the difficult to reward professors for one more contact with professors. forum’ s organizers, the point was doing a good job at the teaching Students expressed their desire to to use the mom entum from aspect of their jobs. “There are a couple of differ be inspired and have teachers who Monday’ s forum to follow up on ent issues but they are sufficiently are passionate about their subjects. what had been discussed there. “We both attend the forum on interconnected. The issue of declin A U3 p o litic a l scien ce and women’ s studies student observed that McGill is changing from being a very individualistic place to hav ing a community style, and that we are looking for a that community aspect in our classes.

teach in g w hich in clu d ed -an acknowledgment that students are not satisfied with class sizes, pro fessor-student interaction, or with the current format of releasing the results of course evaluations to stu dents. The document had a few original suggestions: “Make professors who receive below average course evaluations three years in a row attend a Centre for U n iv ersity T each in g and Learning sponsored sem inar on methods to improve teaching. “Commit to holding bi-annual town hall meetings with students, where students may voice their

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A n i m a l s a n d m e d ic a l re s e a rc h a c o m p lic a t e d r e la t io n s h ip By A aro n IZENBERG

While some would insist that animals should and must be used in medical research, others argue that such p ra ctice is w rong or unnecessary. The argument has no simple answer. Experts and con cerned parties met last Tuesday evening in the Leacock building to tackle the issue of animal-use in medical research. The discussion, put on by the Quebec Public Interest Research Group, featured various speakers from a ll sides of the argum ent. The ev en t took the form of a panel discussion, with each party having fifteen m inutes to state their case. M c G ill’ s own Dr. P ierre Lachapelle, a self-adm itted sup porter of the use of an im als in research, opened the discussion, noting that he would be taking the standpoint of a researcher. “My purpose is not to defend a ll that is d o n e,” e x p lain e d Lachapelle, “I will concentrate on what I have experienced as a stu dent and as a professor in the sci ences.” Lachapelle began by defining some of the more common atti tudes on the use of animals in sci en tific research . He noted that there is currently more support for the use of com puter m odels in

research than the use of animals. stan d in g of hum an d ise a se . He fee ls that, co n seq u en tially, Animals are also used in the test some sciences, such as physiolo ing of products for human con g y , can no lon ger be taught as sumption. M arie Bedard also spoke on domains of research. “M any advocate the use of behalf of the CCAC, explaining com puters...we deny the right of the assessment system that is used future p h ysio lo gists to develop to evaluate research institutions. Both announced and surprise vis their experimental skills.” Lachapelle went on to reflect its to institutions take place, after on h is e x p e rie n c e s in ex p erim en tal re searc h . R oughly 50 per cent of h is ex p erim en ts use human subjects, and fifty percent in v o lv e an im al subjects. While he insist ed that the use of animals in research is important, he did admit that it is not a lw a y s the m ost favourable option. “T hough it is , at tim e s, n e c e s sa ry , W henever possible an i m al research should be a v o id e d ,” com m ented Lachapelle. The second party of speakers represented the D e b a t i n g a b o u t o u r f u r r y f r ie n d s C an ad ian C o u n cil on A nim al C are. Dr. G illy G riffin which, a serious, major, regular, explained that the CCAC is dedi or com mendatory recom m enda cated to ensuring that w herever tion is m ade, she said . B edard animals are used in research, that noted that McGill is a holder of a C e rtific a te of Good A n im al they are treated properly. Griffin further explained that Practice, issued by the CCAC. The next p arty spoke out the use of animals is seen most in field of biomedicine; in the under a g a in st the use of an im als in

research. Dr. R ay Greek took a practical standpoint in his argu ments, as opposed to discussing the ethical issues involved in the use of animals in research. “There are really two issues in this argument,” explained Dr. Greek, “the first is scientific: is it really necessary for the advance of medical science? The second

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results from animal research could often not be used to predict any thing about the human condition. “A n im als and hum ans do have some sim ilarities, but they also have some c ru c ia l d iffe r ences. Drugs that work on animals w ill not always work on humans,” he argued. The fin al segm ent featured tw o re p re se n ta tiv e s from the Fauna Foundation. Dog-groomer Gloria Grow and McGill Master’s Student Arryn Ketta discussed the ethical issues involved with the use of animals in research. Grow related heart-felt sto ries of her experiences with chim panzees at the Fauna Foundation Sanctuary. Ketta followed a simi la r v ein , te llin g the story of a chimpanzee that had been subject ed to years of use in research at NYU, and then ev en tu ally was m oved to the sa n c tu a ry . C om parisons w ere made to the use of humans in holocaust as lab rats. A fter a ll sides of the panel had spoken, the floor was opened up to the audience. The questions varied in type, but all seemed to have in common a general tone of concern. A lthough opinions on the m o rality and u sefuln ess of an im al re searc h did v a ry , the topic was treated, by the speakers and the audience, as a worthwhile and important issue.

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mittees should control an institu tion’s ability to disseminate infor mation. Active campaigning should be restricted to the Yes and No com m ittees, w hile passive cam

president of the LSA, said. SSM U P resid en t A ndrew Tischler expressed mixed opinions on third p arty p articip atio n in the referendum p ro cess. He ex p ressed his frustratio n at b ein g unable to provide his con stitu en ts, the M cG ill student body, with infor m ation he fe lt was pertinent in the referendum process. “Neither did we say vote yes because of all the m oney, or no because of other reasons — these are concerns, we merely addressed them. Whether or not the inform a tion we provide was factually true / b e l i e v e i t w a s P r o f e s s o r P l u m , in t h e k i t c h e n , w it h t h e was unimportant. We have the right to spread infor paigning — opinion without active m ation. W e did not have any campaigning, should be a right of recourse to reach our constituents,” all third party institutions,” said Tischler said in reference to a pro- Gohier. CBA web site that was forced to be When questioned about the taken down by Flicker. speculative but highly incriminat T is c h le r’ s gen eral view of ing relationship between the No third part involvement, however, com m ittee and Naomi K lein , was a negative one. Gohier maintained the No commit “The big problem is faculty tee’ s position of detachment from associations. They often have con the speech. stitutions that disagree with the “As a committee interested in SSMU constitution in certain areas. restricting the commercialization of These discrepancies can result in a public space, of course we were duplicity [concerning] what must interested in a speech by Naomi be done,” Tischler explained. Klein. However, was Naomi Klein Philip Gohier, representing the invited to talk about the C B A ? No committee, spoke of the need to Absolutely not,” Gohier explained. set better restrictions on what third parties can and cannot do. C h o ice “If third parties are acting like an invisible hand, Elections McGill The second issue of im por should try to stop th ird p arty tance was the controversy over the action,” he said. “I do not think, question choice in the referendum-. however, that the Yes and No com

adequately informed why the ques tion was rejected. Without a formal explanation, everything was left to conjecture. If [it was] thrown out for a good reason, it still appeared as if it was thrown out because of political influence.” In sp eak in g about the CRO’ s v acillatio n between referendum questions, Drent was h igh ly disapproving of Flicker’s decision to reject the already accepted question. “CRO decisions should be fin a l,” Drent said. “The CRO should make clear that their decisions are final and only reviewable by the SSMU Judicial Board. Different rep resen tatives have d ifferent responsibilities and positions, and this must be respected.” G ohier stated that the nature of the question should have been e th ic a l, and not financial. “The first student initiat ed question ‘Do you believe SSM U should preserve stu dent choice on campus by not accepting exclusivity agree ments?’ was intended to prove Max Lewkowski c a n d l e s t ic k .. . the philosophical and ethical the question as presented during issu es,” Gohier explained. “The the CBA referendum, leaving many major focus was the philosophical incensed at Flicker’ s ambivalence issu e of student choice and not finance. We definitely agree that it of question choice. The SU S spoke re g retfu lly should have been accepted. The about the decision to overturn an nature of the council question was alread y accepted student posed inherently clear, as it addresses financial issues, but the student ini question. “In our opinion it is to tally tiated questio n sent a much unacceptable to reject the question stronger philosophical message.” G ohier ex p ressed further at a later date,” saif Maricar. “The question was thrown out after the regret at the belated rejection of the deadline because of external politi second student initiated question. “W e’ ve had the question cal influences, such as the issue of finances in the CBA. We weren't rejected after it was accepted, after

A student initiated question was brought to council first, then modi fied to a second question which was approved, and belatedly over ruled by the CRO to make room for

modified and after the submission deadline. There was plenty of time to address the issues before the deadline. Where does this leave the students who proposed the ques tion?” he asked. T isch ler w as supportive of both his decision to oppose the ini tial question choices in council and the CRO’ s decision to belatedly reject the second student-posed question. “The initial question was obvi ously biased and intended to lead the electorate toward certain quali tative decisions,” he argued. “‘Do you believe that SSMU should par ticipate in an on campus exclusivi ty agreem ent?’ — concise, clear and a hell of a lot less biased than the previous question. A referen dum should deal with one issue, in this case the CBA and the initial questions dealt with several. I think this was ineffective.” The last word, however, went to CRO Paul Flicker who spoke not of disparities and shortcomings in this year’ s referendum, but of the overall limitations of current by law s, and improvements for the future. “I think that it is inappropriate for CRO’ s to restrict presidents from speaking to their com m it tees,” Flicker admitted. “It’s a hor rib le system and I don’t see the damage caused by letting faculties choose sides. The solution is get ting rid of [by-law] 5.5, stating that only Yes and No committee mem bers may actively campaign. The problem is that the CRO has very little leverage — the worst he can do is fine 30 people $300. The only other option is throwing [out] the question.”

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The student newspaper at the University of Manitoba w ill pre se rv e its e d ito ria l au to n o m y thanks to a new agreement nego tia te d w ith the U n iv e r s ity of Manitoba Student Union. E a rlie r in the m onth, the U M SU had vo ted to end its autonom y agreem en t w ith the Manitoban due to allegations that the paper m ism anaged $22,000 worth of student funds. Although the council vote was overturned due to a procedural oversight, a su b seq u en t m eetin g h eld tw o w eeks later again resulted in a decision to force the paper from its office and terminate its fund ing agreem ent. U M SU co llects $6 from ev ery studen t for the Manitoban. Matthews denied all accusa tions of fin a n c ia l m ism an ag e ment, claim in g the discrepancy arose when the Manitoban decid ed to bypass UMSUs payroll ser vice and to independently handle $22,000 of its accounts. “[UMSU] was talking about a $22,000 discrepancy to im ply that there was mismanagement,” said Kevin M atthews, editor-inch ief at the M anitoban. “[TJhat w as a p a r tic u la r ly v ic io u s rumor.” Students and Manitoban staff w ere outraged when they w ere denied the opportunity to speak at the M arch 22 C ouncil m eeting that decided to freeze the agree ment with the Manitoban. A sub seq u en t forum o rg a n iz e d by UMSU on the issue was also crit ic iz e d due to the ab se n ce o f

U M SU re p resen tativ es. A n gry stu d en ts o ccu p ied U M S U ’ s offices in a protest that received national coverage. “Students showed up [at the forum] and asked ‘What the hell do es [U M S U ] th in k t h e y ’ re d o in g?’ ” said Kevin M atthew s, editor-in-chief at the Manitoban.

L a s t d itc h e ffo rt Although a court battle pit ting the Student Union versus the Manitoban seemed inevitable due to the acrimonious nature of the deb ate, a last ditch effo rt last W ednesday resulted in an agree-

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ment that satisfied both parties. “Coming into [these negotia tions], we didn’t know where we were going,” said Matthews. “We w eren’ t going to budge an inch on editorial autonomy but shuttle diplom acy between our law yers and theirs, and our represen ta tives and UMSUs, let us figure it a ll o ut. W e ’ re not out o f the

woods yet, but [The Manitoban] has agreed to the term s of the new agreement.” The UMSU Council w ill be asked to ratify the agreement this W ednesday, although Manitoban staff has given the new document its stamp of approval. The agree ment w ill create a three-member Ombudsman Board that w ill have the ju r is d ic tio n to h ear co m p lain ts about fin an cial m atters and co n d u ct th at v io la te s the M a n ito b a n ’ s c o n stitu tio n . In cases where the newspaper does not address complaints forwarded to it by the Board, the issue must be referred to a student referen dum. The agreem en t also p re serves the new spaper’ s editorial autonomy. “W e w ere r e a lly am azed ab o ut the a g re e m e n t,” said M atthew s. “It m akes the paper accountable to students... there was a lot of creative thinking that night.” U M SU P re sid e n t Stev en Fletcher was unable to be reached fo r co m m en t at pres& tim e , although he is quoted in a joint press release with the Manitoban as being “very pleased with this new ag re e m e n t [b e c a u se it] ad d resses a ll of U M SU ’ s con cerns about financial accountabil ity and transparency while main ta in in g the p a p e r’ s e d ito ria l autonomy.”

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Two males were led away by p o lice from C u rrie Gym last Thursday for questioning about thefts of Athletics this academic year. One of the individuals arrested is a cleaner on contract at McGill, the other is an employee of McGill A thletics. D irector of A thletics Bob Dubeau confirm ed that the em ployee was not a member of Athletics' professional or clerical staff. In November 1999, an unspec ified department working out of Athletics had a $20,000 computer stolen. There w ere no sign s of forced entry. “One could only assume that the perpetrator or perpetrators must have had keys,” said Steve Paquin, m anager of security services at McGill. A second theft, this tim e a $1 3 ,0 0 0 com puter, occurred between the evening of March 24 and the morning of Monday March 27. After A thletics reported the November theft, M cGill security undertook an investigation which culminated in the arrest of the two

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Three com puters, one k e y board, and one m onitor w ere recovered by the police after the arrests. Two of the computers were those stolen in N ovem ber and March, the other was supposedly stolen from M cG ill and security and police are trying to determine which department it was stolen from. Paquin said these thefts were isolated to Athletics and not con nected with thefts of computers that have occurred in Engineering. He refused to discuss the methods security used to discover the identi ty of the culprits.

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in d iv id u als by M ontreal Urban Community police last Thursday. The two men were charged with breaking and entering, conspiracy, and theft. McGill Staff Relations is tak in g furth er actio n s ag ain st the McGill employee, while the clean er was sent back to his employer. Both em ployees w ill be tried in court. Both com puters contained research material being worked on by students.

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V P O p e r a tio n s A s t h e d a r k c lo u d s o f e x a m t im e lo o m a b o v e , s o m e w h e r e in t h e n o t - s o - d is t a n t f u t u r e g lim m e r s t h e r e li e f o f s u m m e r t im e . F o r m a n y s t u d e n t s , s u m m e r p la n s in c lu d e t r a v e l, w o r k in o t h e r c it ie s , o r t a k in g s u m m e r c o u r s e s a t h o m e t o w n u n i v e r s i t i e s . F o r t h e s ix e x e c u t iv e s o f t h e S t u d e n t s ’ S o c i e t y o f M c G i ll U n iv e r s it y , t h e s u m m e r m o n t h s a r e p r e p t im e . T a k e a lo o k a t w h a t t h e y h a v e p la n n e d .

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Baraniak’s first objective is to acquaint himself with the new executive. “We’re going to be spending a lot of time together,” he explained, “So, it’s very important that the new execs get familiarized with both their positions and the SSMU office. June is probably the time I’ll take a course — I want to graduate someday.” But more importantly it will be the month where he plans to begin his new mandate. “By mid June I want to have the entire first semester planned out. I’d like to have a large map of dates where we know what’s coming up so we don’t have to deal with scheduling issues. July is vacation time,” he noted. “August is gearing up for everybody coming back and it is essentially spent planning for September and October, prob ably the two busiest months for an execu tive.” Baraniak also noted that he is looking forward to attending the annual national student executive conference, this year to be held in Newfoundland.

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Farrell’ s first months w ill be spent familiarizing himself with the

legalities of McGill, which includes reading all the student constitutions and researching previous spending procedures of other universities. Midway through the summer, begin ning at the Newfoundland confer ence, Farrell plans to network. He wants to have a strong communica tion line between his office and those of other community and government reps across Canada, especially within the Montreal area. “If there were a free flow of thoughts and ideas, university stu dents could more easily collaborate their efforts and organize for similar causes. If the student execs from McGill, Concordia, and Université de Montreal communicated more freely, the student bodies of their respective schools could all be informed to rally and protest on the same days. They’d have strength in numbers and thus be more effective.” Farrell explained. His other big project will be organizing McGill for the Terry Fox Run in September. He’s still looking for volunteers and coordinators for this program and encourages all those interested to contact him.

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McPhee plans to work on the events highlighted in his platform as well. “One thing I will be spending a lot of time on is preparing for the opening of a Sadie’s in [Bishop Mountain Hall]. This includes meeting with administrators to finalize a location as well as determining what ren ovations will be needed for the prospective site.” Surveying the site for a new McGill Day Care is another project in the works for McPhee this summer. “Whereas the present McGill Day Care is only available to the chil dren of faculty and staff, McPhee plans on expanding the service to stu dent parents as well. The legalities of the plan include checking out the prospective site, finding out whether the board is willing to take on the m anagem ent of a new day care.” And the paper on h is desk w ill continue to grow this summer as he works on two other projects: the renego tiations of interna tio n al stu d en ts’ health plans and the posting of monthly financial statements on the web.

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C la r a P e r o n begin working with her U n iv ersity A ffairs Comm ittee in order to gath er ideas and establish other jo in t in itia tives. Among the pro jects she has begun are meeting with the senate and address ing issues like confi dentiality.

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Gratto foresees his summer outlined by the same points used in his campaign platform. “I want to begin by working with [SSMU VP Operations] Kevin [McPhee] to mitigate the effects of budget cuts on the clubs. Also, I plan on organizing several means for clubs to stay in touch both with each other and the student body.” This includes the creation of the clubs newsletter that he talked about during his campaign. Another aspect from his platform he plans to work on this summer the creation of a clubs night at Bishop Mountain Hall as soon as school begins. Gratto also mentioned making navi gation around the SSMU office a bit easier for students by creating more information packets and leaflets.

Getting to know the rest of the staff is the first thing on Peron’ s agenda for the sum m er. But in terms of work, she plans to begin organizing her projects immediate ly“Some of the things I’ ll be working on this summer include developing projects for internships, ch an gin g the w ay senators are elected, developing the legislation for an equity commission that will be established this September, and meeting with library executives to see w here im provem ent funds should be allocated.” In addition, Peron wants to

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Frosh. Frosh. Frosh. Frosh. Chodos’s job is already underway. O verseeing the event, the largest of his mandate, will keep

him occupied from now until the end of August. In addition, he’ll be keep in g an eye on Shatner building renovations — for nearly two years now, his portfolio has been unable to use the building for ‘four floor’ parties because the building is not up to fire code for such events. “We want to use Shatner to its fu ll p o te n tia l,” Chodos explained. Chodos also mentioned con ferences. He’s looking forward the Newfoundland conference in early June, and o utlin ed another he expects to take part in. “Another [conference] that I plan to attend teaches communica tions and events coordinators how to get bands to com e to our schools.”

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Two hundred and fifty students from McGill, UQAM, and Concordia took part in a nation-wide protest against government funding cuts to education. The protest, organized by the Canadian Federation of Students as part of their Access 2000 campaign, saw strikes and walkouts take place across Canada

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Two McGill research grants were implicated in an audit done on projects funded by the Human Resources Department of Canada. In one of the projects, a student exchange program coordinated with European universi ties, McGill received $100,000 more than they had asked for.

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A surprise announcement at the Africana Congress 2000 conference has given the African Studies Program at McGill reason to believe it will soon receive a new Chairperson and an injection of funding. McGill plans to solicit private funding in order to fund the chair, which requires about $1,5 million.

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Students w alking up McGill College past Roddick Gates would not have missed a huge tent set up in the middle of the field on lower campus. Snow Air Pub furthered the tra dition of September’s Open Air Pub by making cheap beer available to stu dents, all the while providing them with a space to relax between classes and some live entertainment.

Quebec Premier Lucien Bouchard announced $1 billion in financing to education at the dose of the Quebec Youth Summit. McGill officials were encouraged by the $650 million promised to post-secondary education, but are reserving judgement until the government releases a distribution for mula for the funding.

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Breach of Senate confidentiality A senator breached the confiden tiality of a Senate vote on honourary degrees by telling the McGill D aily that Royal Bank CEO John Cleghom had been considered and turned down for such a degree. Senate later launched an investi gation into who was responsible for the breach.

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The federal government was plan ning to rescue private banks losing money in administering the Canada Student Loans Program. Student lead ers, objecting to the bailout’s reported $100-million price tag, contended that the money would be better spent else where than padding some bank’s bot tom line.

Rez renovations cause continued disruption Disruptive renovations in McGill’s upper residences resumed on the first day of the semester after being halted during the exam period, much to the annoyance and dismay of the students who live there. The residences are being reno vated in order to bring them to com pliance with municipal fire safety reg ulations. The project costs five million dollars.

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A disappointing student turnout characterized the Students’ Society of McGill University-organized Day of Protest. The protest was geared towards raising awareness among students and the Montreal community about government underfunding of McGill.

A lack of response from the Quebec government regarding the financing of a new Music building prompted the faculty and students to launch a letter-writing campaign to Quebec Premier Lucien Bouchard. A new building for the Music faculty is necessary because of a lack of space for staff and students in the current facilities, said Music Dean Richard Lawton.

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McGill and SSMU had mixed reactions to the provincial budget presented by Quebec Finance minis ter Bernard Landry on March 14th. The budget, which allots $600 million to post-secondary education over the next three years, disappoint ed university and student officials who are saying that Quebec universi ties need an additional $650 million per year in order to have the same amount of funding per student as Ontario universities.

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Students voted down the pro posed cold beverage agreement by a margin of 600 votes in a referendum held during the spring elections. The referendum campaign was marred by multiple electoral bylaw violations committed by both sides.

McGill lib raries are set to receive an additional $240,000 per year from a student-initiated fund, due to last year’s McGill Students’ Fund being passed in referendum. The Library Improvement Fund will now contribute one million dol lars per year to libraries, of which $700,000 w ill go to journals and books, $200,000 to replacing the MUSE search system, and $100,000 devoted to a 24-hour study space and renovations to Redpath Library.

Banks gone from CSLP Following an announcement that commercial banks w ill not renew their contract with the federal govern ment to adm inister the Canada Student Loans Program when it expires in July 2000, the government will resume administration of the pro gram. It is expected to cost the govern ment upwards of $150 million to pay for the CSLP.

SSMU elections Mark Chodos won the Communications and Events race by

A d m in is t r a t io n h ik e s fees by $150 McGill is imposing a $150 fee on students in order to fund informa tion technologies such as an online registration system and other student services.' The roughly $3 million dollars that will be raised through the fee will go towards funding the Banner 2000 project, which has already exceeded budget.

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] $2.5 billion Federal Finance minister Paul Martin delivered some goodies to post secondary education in his budget with a one-time $2.5 billion injection into the Canada Health and Social Transfer. Provincial governments can access the extra cash at any time over the next four years, although the gov ernment is suggesting expenditures of $1 billion in 2000-01 and $500 million a year until 2004.

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M o n tre a l th e N o rth A m e r ic a n u n iv e r s it y capital Montreal was declared “the uni versity capital of North America” after a study showed that the city had more students per 100 inhabitants than any other in North America. The study, done by M cG ill’ s University Planning Office, drew a lot of whining in the op-ed pages of Massachusetts papers. Montreal edged out Boston, the traditionally-assumed #1 university town in North America by a margin of .01 students per 1000 inhabitants..

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S tu d e n ts am b u sh ed w ith p r iv a t e c o lle g e proposal A proposal to establish a private liberal arts college at McGill drew fire from students and faculty alike at a Faculty of Science meeting held right after classes ended in December. Science voted down the proposal, however, at a Faculty of Arts meeting the faculty voted 23-12 to create the McGill College International commit tee to explore the issue.

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Reports of incidents of non-aca demic offences such as physical abuse, harassment, disruption and dangerous activity are on the rise at McGill, according to a report present ed at Senate on March 22nd. Dean of Students Rosalie Jukier noted that the trend is continuing into 1999-2000.

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• At the beginning of the school year, CKUT found itself without a station manager after M opa Dean fa ile d to show. C oupled w ith th eir $1 1,000 phone bill thanks to a renegade refu gee, CK U T’ s had better y e a rs. And you thought your phone bill was bad.

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• C old B ev erage A greem ent. With the rejection of the CBA and no money in the coffers, what will happen next? Shatner needs renovations and the students need serv ices. The M cG ill Student Fund can only stretch so far. S ta y tuned for the next ep iso de of Institution: Desperation. • La Fédération étudiante univer sitaire du Québec and Canadian Alliance of Student Association. In this time of provincial government abuse, SSMU needs th eir a llie s . W ith the PostGraduate Students Society as a member of the Canadian Federation of Students, SSM U is stick in g w ith C A SA and scratching their heads over how close they should come to cozying up to the soverigntist FEUQ. • New SSMU executives. Great H elm sm an B aran iak is gu id in g this eclectic crew. Is this group steering their SSMU Boat toward glory or an iceberg?

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• Textbook vortex. The beginning of last year left many students wondering where their beloved course read in g went. Chapters, admittedly has not had much ex p erien ce w ith the University crowd, which left stu dents in a bind!

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• A ll h erald the long aw aited Brown B u ild in g ; S h atn e r’ s b ig g er, brow ner, brawnier brother. Most services and clubs, with a few exceptions, have now moved in, but renova tions to Shatner are still pending. • Shatner, much like the actor h im self, has seen better days. The SSMU execs have tried to make the building accessible to the disabled with the snazzy new elevator. Yet, Shatner is still not fire-safe for the number of people who w ant to use the p lace to party on all four floors. • Food, wonderful food. The long-promised food courts have yet to m aterialize . W ith MTY Tikim ing locked into the food contract, renovations have been pending sin ce last year. Where have all the concessions gone? I want my Veggirama.

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• New fees. Though not yet a fa it a c c o m p l i , a ll un d ergraduates could! potentially face a new $150 administra tive fee to make up for what Bernard Landry, minister of finance, is unwilling to give up. Where’s that anti-CBA squad when you need ’em? • Banner project. The project is designed to drag M cGill into the 21st century with online registratio n and updated SATURN type information. • McGill College International. Plans are still in the works to create a tw o-tiered educational system within M cG ill. A private liberal arts college would be established for international students to the tune of roughly $28,000 per year.

S c ie n c e U n d e r g r a d u a te ^ S o c ie t y • w w w .b o o k s4 exch an ge.co m capitalized on student dissatisfaction w ith the M cG ill B ookstore. Subsequently, the venture took off and is linking up with other websites for greater visibility. Watch where this star shoots. • Cash Flow Problems. At the beginning of the year, SUS found itself with roughly $2,800 in the bank which led to bounced cheques and late bills. After drafting a contract for a possible loan from the A rts U ndergraduate Society, SUS fixed its financial problem without having to use this option

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• The rejection of the campus-1 wide CBA does not necessarily preclude| a faculty association exclusivity agree ment. Faculty associations may just bel prepared to negotiate their own deals| with Big Business.

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• The halls are alive with the sound of music. After nine long years of promise, where oh where has the new music building go n e? The new b u ild in g w as m ysteriously omitted from the province’ s capital projects list and it remains to be seen what the fate of the Music building will be.

After a long year of news, it’s time to look to the future and pass the torch. To all our news writers, thank you for the help and the good times. This page is our legacy to the next year’s newsies. Good luck. Love, Ronnie Williams, Boom-Boom and Gl Jane (aka Rhea, Jonathan and Karen)

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Notes at five By Paul C onner A fe w thoughts from five years at M c G ill: • D esp ite w h at an y sp ell c h e c k w ill ever say, m y fa m ily nam e has never been C o rn er. • T h e m ost b e a u tifu l ro o m at M c G ill is, u n d e n ia b ly , the B irks R eading R o o m . It is not the m ost o rnam en ted room , but the o ld style b o o k sh e lv e s and the c re a k in g flo o rs b in d six o r seven genera tio n s o f students together. • T h e p o in t o f e d u ca tio n , I th in k, is le a rn in g to learn. If I never o p e n a b o o k o n lin g u istic s o r m u ltip le regression again in m y life, I'll still k n o w w h a t it takes to p ic k up a n e w trade. • W h ile a r o o m - f u ll o f o r g a n iz a t io n s a c ro s s th e U n iv e r s it y deserve praise and are w o rth y o f e v e ry o n e 's attention, I w o u ld n 't trade m y tim e w ith the T ribune for a n y o f them .

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Reading the T rib u n e online today, I was grateful to see men tioned the sad new s of two Americans recently killed in Costa Rica. For the past three months I have been stud yin g aw ay from McGill at Universidad Veritas in San Jose, Costa Rica, and was both saddened and scared by what hap pened here. Those two students and I have much in common — young, American girls, studying and trav eling in the same fascinating for eign country; in fact, we even all share the same first name. I imag ine their parents w orried about their safety and health, despite the reassurances that Costa R ica is safe. Imagine those Emilys main tained a sense of fearlessness, I suppose they were both empow ered and enchanted by a ll that

N e a rly fiv e years ago, save a few m onths, I sat in on m y first classes, m et m y first u n iv e rsity friends, and w ro te m y first a rticle. T h e d e tails are unim p o rtant, altho ug h I d o rem em be r them alm o st Reassessing funding v iv id ly . T h e o n ly p o in t w o rth n o tin g is that I e n jo y e d a ll three; even though I d ro p p e d tw o o f the fo u r classes I attended that first I am just writing to commend day, I c o u ld n 't w a lk aw ay. N o w , after fo u r years as an editor, hav Duncan [Reid] on his recent column ing w o rk e d w ith o v e r sixty oth er ed ito rs and p ro b a b ly six o r seven in last week’s Tribune. Duncan has hun d red co n trib u to rs, the road is c o m in g to an end. done an excellent job in his fivesomething years at McGill, and has I t r u ly b e lie v e w h a t I s a id a b o u t th e p o in t o f e d u c a tio n . accomplished more than many other H o w e v e r, I sh o u ld add that I b e lie v e e q u a lly stron gly that the p o in t individuals I know who love to o f u n iv e rsity is so m eth in g else en tirely. E du ca tio n pla ys an im p o r incessantly berate him. We must stop tant role, o f course, but the real v a lu e o f three, four, five years at a criticizing student leaders who hap s c h o o l lik e M c G ill lies in the w e a lth o f e xp e rie n c e s that h e lp to pen to be more right-wing than our m o u ld us. I k n o w m ore a b o u t w h o I am to d a y than I d id w h e n I selves, and acknowledge their noble left C E G E P , even if I still c a n 't im a g in e m y se lf w ith a career. intentions (that of a better McGill) W ith respect to the T ribune, I w ill not be a b le to get through a and intense efforts amid, to be brutal M o n d a y w ith o u t in s tin c tiv e ly w a k in g up e a rly and prep a rin g fo r an ly honest, a sea of inexcusable apa intense, tirin g , e n r ic h in g te n -p lu s h o u rs in o n e ro o m for a lo n g thy. tim e . M o r e o v e r , w o r k in g to g e th e r to re a c h o n e p r e c is e g o a l, I, like all other students, am pu tting o u t the best q u a lity pap er po ssib le, has been a sp e cta cu la r traught over McGill’s internal and exp e rie n ce . external crumbling, and see no point I have spent a lot o f tim e th in k in g a b o u t the different p e o p le in continuing the rather futile lobby I'v e had the fo rtu n e o f w o rk in g w ith and b e c o m e frie n d s w ith , ing against the government. I am a both w ith in those fo ur w a lls and b e yo n d them . W h a t intrigues m e strong proponent of a proactive stu m o st is the d iv e rs ity o f p e o p le I ca n n o w c a ll m y frie n d s. T h is dent movement, and sincerely stress n e w sp ap e r has given m e — all o f us, in fact — the o p p o rtu n ity to that we should not dism iss the k n o w so m an y p e o p le w ith so m a n y d ifferent interests. Th ese are extrem ely talented student body p e o p le w h o , if not fo r th e ir lo v e for jo u rn a lism , I m ig h t never have J before us — a wealth of architects, kn o w n . engineers, writers, and so on. If a W h a t m akes a stud ent n e w sp a p e r so u n iq u e is its turn over. website has to be built, I urge com Even for those m ost in v o lv e d , a generation w ill never liv e past five j puter science majors to donate a few years. Students graduate, n e w p e o p le m o v e to the fore, and the I hours of their time for its completion. p ro ce ss b e g in s an e w . In this, m y fin a l year, the e n tire e d ito ria l If a room has to be painted, I see no board is from a n e w generation. I am the o n ly o n e w h o rem em bers reason why students can’t pick up a brush. I think it’s time for some seri the e d ito r from 1 9 95-96. A year ago, m y Sports Editor w a lk e d into ous reassessment of how we can the o ffice . M in e w as the o n ly face he knew . counter this lack of funding — and But this is the nature o f university. It is the sam e in every c o n realize that a lot of the changes can text, and it is p re c ise ly this w h ic h a llo w s it to e v o lv e and take new come through ourselves. d ire ctio n s. N e x t year's staff w ill face n e w ch a lle n g e s. A n d th ey w ill fa ce o ld ch a lle n g e s. N e x t year, the tw en tieth a n n iv e rsa ry fo r the D ave Bledin T ribune, w ill b u ild up o n the fo u n d a tio n s o f the past to co n stru ct Ul F aculty o f M anagem ent the future. G o o d lu c k to those ta kin g on the task.

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Costa Rica and its wonderful peo ple have to offer. I can only guess that when they stepped off the bus and hoisted their packs onto their backs, they were mesmerized by the smells and sounds of that little town on the Caribbean coast called Puerto Viejo. These have been my experi ences, and those of many other stu dents here in C osta R ica. How these g irls found them selves in danger, what led to their deaths, we do not know. I do know that this tragedy does not mean Costa Rica is an unsafe place, that students should no longer venture here to study and travel, or that I should worry more about my w ell being here than at home. S a d ly , they could have been anyone, and some thing so senseless can happen any where. But one can only gain the immeasurable experience of study-

in g abroad by a c tu a lly go ing abroad, and can do so safely when he or she strik es the b alan ce between common sense and fear lessness. To all of you at McGill, do not forget what has happened to these students who are much like yourselves, but do not let it deter you. If there is some faraway place that fascinates you, and you have the opportunity to go, seize the chance. That place m ay be less than perfect, it m ay be less safe than North America. Regardless, your fam ily w ill worry and you will reassure them, and good judg ment and adventure will grant you the experience of a lifetime.

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Amen to Mr. S lav o m ir Polawski for his comprehensive criticism of Naomi Klein’ s little crusade. Mr. Poplawski is right to condemn the political correctness of the m edia, who have made a “hero” out of Klein, while eternal ly ignoring investigative journalist Yves Lavigne (who, unlike Klein, was almost assasinated —TWICE — for his dedication to his work). It has been an honour to share Trib space with brave people like Mr. Poplawski, Kent Glowinski, Sandon Shogilev and Eric Oest. If dis only there were more of you in the real world... Thank you, J o e F ernandez Colum nist, C hair S hots

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As an Arts student, I would just lik e to say that I appreciate the stereotyping of Management stu dents in Rhea Wong’ s front page article in your last issue. I’m glad that the T rib u n e is finally recognising that popular per ceptions ARE, in fact, based on reali ty. Management students don’t ever do their own laundry, or wake up before noon, or “EVER get separated from their cell phones.” None of them! Thank you for having the guts to say what eveiyone is thinking. To quote Joe Fernandez quoting R. Lee Emety in Full Metal Jacket, “H e’ s got guts, and guts is enough!” D. J. Waletzky Red Herring Editor U l Poli Sci

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In his article on Ujjal Dosanjh (“Ujjal Dosanjh: B.C.’s pioneer pre mier” March 28, 2000), Ian Disend concludes that the current BC pre mier “will never lose his title as the first non-C aucasian prem ier of Canada.” A ctually, he may never have held this title at all. Prince Edward Island was under the premiership of Lebanese-Canadian Joe Ghiz from 1986 to 1993. Interestingly, BC may claim the distinction of having the first female

premier — Rita Johnston, who filled in between B ill Vander Zalm and M ike Harcourt in 1991, but PEI marks the history books as the first province with an elected female pre mier with Catherine Callbeck (19931996). Quite a bit of pioneering for Canada’s smallest province isn’t it?! M idori Yamamoto Ul M icrobiology and Im m unology

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I have trod the upward and the downward slope R obert L o uis Stevenson once wrote: I h a v e tro d th e upw ard a n d the d ow n w a rd s lo p e ; I h a v e lo n g e d f o r all, an d b id fa r e w e ll to h o p e; And I h a v e liv e d a n d lo v e d , a n d c lo s e d th e d oor. Ah, how apropos. How poignant. In fact, I find this little verse p articularly touching, as I have recently given up. Given up on what, you query? W ell, things in general, I guess. Yes, I am now officially just along for the ride. I have given up all pre tensio n s of gettin g to take the wheel for a spell. Or even of get ting to beep the horn at the old peo ple as we careen by the nursing home. I have given up try in g to understand the flurry of changes that this big mean world throws my w ay every day. W hy, I’ ve even found m yself feelin g old lately.

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Case in point: I can remember a time, dating back to a period in my memory that I have apparently not successfully repressed, when man nequins in store windows did not have hard nipples. Yes, kids. It’ s true. I have given up tryin g to understand people who wait for an elevator to go up one or two floors. You lazy people are the people who will have heart attacks. Don’t you be hoping for mouth to mouth from me. I have given up try in g to dodge a ll the dog sh it on the ground, a present from all the peo ple who didn’t clean up after their pets all winter. Yes, I am getting it on my shoes. But I am also putting some of it in a bag, and burning it on the front porch of those who left it in the park in the first place. I have given up trying to be tolerant of the cell-phone users here at our fair university. I have given up trying to figure out what is so goddamn important that you

have to take phone calls in class, in the library, at funerals, etc. (Sample McGill student conversation on a cell-phone: “Hi, Mom, it’s Timmy.

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Uh, I forgot my lunch. Can you drop it off for me at the SSM U front d e sk ?” “Y es, honey, of course. I packed your favourite, peanut butter and jelly. Try not to get any on your nice black leather coat.”) But cell-phone users, don’t d esp air. W hen you get a brain tumour from that damn thing, or end up in a car accident because you were talking instead of driving, you’ ll be able to get a hold of a doctor “stat”. I have also stopped trying to catch on to fashion. Apparently, at

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Intentionally mess up your hair. Put lots of chemicals in it so it looks greasy. (For women) W ear tight black pants, and, if possible, wear pants and a skirt simultaneously. Wear big, clunky shoes. This is the new d efin itio n of “c h ic ” . (Incidentally, although I was not consulted by the MFM when this decision was made, I do feel that I had something to do with it all. W hile I was living in Miami and dating Calvin Klein, I told him of a new fashion craze that I had seen in Saudi Arabia, which I was calling

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It is common know ledge to those in history the fiasco con cern in g P ro fesso r K uhner and P ro fesso r S h erw o o d at the moment. Both are considered by many as some of the best teachers in the History department. But in a ll th e ir w isd o m , the H isto ry department has elected to let these te ac h e rs go in fav o u r of P rofessors w ith more research under their belts. W ell where does that leave the students who pay to be educated at M cG ill? W e are left, without mentioning names, w ith professors who could not teach for the life of them. T h ey d estro y w h at co u ld have been an interesting subject and turn students o ff from that aspect of history. It is great that they are published and are w ell known but when are WE the stu dents going to benefit from that research when they cannot bring it to are [sic] attention because we are eith er skip p in g class or so bored we fell asleep! Chances are WE as students w ill never read their research. I think many would p refer to keep and h ire m ore P ro fesso rs lik e K uhner and Sherwood than keep some of the research Professors. Both w ill go out of their way to make a student understand what they are trying to get across. I can honestly say that many of the research Professors could not care less about the stu-

a meeting that I was not invited to, the M ontreal F ashion M afia decreed that the following would be d ressin g for su ccess:

dents. To them teaching a class is a task that they would prefer not to do which is manifest by their teaching abilities. T his is b eco m in g ab su rd , McGill tries to portray the image of one of the top universities in the country but yet I can count the amount of Professors I enjoyed on one hand. W ake up those in charge of the History department and if you pardon my language this is BULLSHIT F ra n co is A res VI H on ors H istory

the “Sheik look”. Apparently, he didn’t care for the “look”, but liked the nam e, stole it, changed the spelling so I couldn’t sue for theft of in te lle c tu a l p ro p erty, then dumped me. That bitch!) Finally, I have given up trying to d issu ad e those Je h o v a h ’ s W itn esses from com ing to my house. Damn it, guys, you knew the ru le s! If I won the arm wrestling match, I didn’t have to convert. And I w on! So th ere! Leave me alone! (Plus, I already signed my soul away to the Church of Scientology after John Travolta beat me in ping-pong...) Thank you for reading all year, and look for my new column in M arth a S te w a rt’ s L iv in g : “Adventures in Potpourri”. C o m m en ts? Q u estio n s? T ea rfu l g o o d - b y e s ? jm c d e v @ p o b ox .m cgill.ca

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Politicians u n im p re s s e d b y p ractical, s e e th in g ly in te llig e n t p h ilo s o p h e r John Ralston Saul’s latest trea elected. the recent enearthing of a cabinet tise on C anadian dem ocracy, a In short, I don't see how Mr. minister's dirty little secret — a speech transcribed in last w eek Saul's b elief in the potential for B ach elo r’ s degree. Only in this end's G lob e a n d M ail, has caused an intellectual Canadian democra day and a g e , when p o lic y has som ething of a stir am ong the cy can be re c o n c ile d w ith his totally supplanted charisma in the b o o k -le a rn in ' cro w d . It w as, b elief in the “aggressive in telli political arena, could this uncom above all else, a good read, and gence” of the Canadian citizenry. p ro m isin g d u lla rd h av e been we sub m issive C anadian types If the Canadian voter is pining for elected. This is a man so devoid have always been suckers for the visionaries, then why is he voting of spark, character and im agina writings of a giant mind, to lead for morons? Now, to be fair, there tion — so u n h i s t o r i c a l — that us, teach us, and scold us when is no one to choose from at the were he not so dangerous I would we have strayed. federal level. Jean Chrétien gets be hard-pressed to even remem And yet to our current crop of many of his votes because of sim ber his name. politicians, these flights of fancy ple in ertia. W hy would anyone I w onder w hether M r. Sau l must be a slap upside their prag vote for change when nothing is has allo w ed his respect for the matist heads. Mr. Saul's statement blatantly wrong, esp ecially if it m asses to cloud his pow ers of that “the past — m emory — is perception. In his one of the most powerful, practi speech’s flim siest cal tools availab le to a civilized moment, he claims democracy” must have baffled the The Sly Chiseler to see “a certain few of them who made it that far. a g reem e n t for C h r is S e lle y As it did m e, to som e ex ten t. a c tio n ” in m ost After all, the past has no place in W estern societies the cam p aig n sp eech es of the against hom eless n atio n . R ecen t e le c tio n s h ave in v o lv e s v o tin g for ness, pollution, and so on. I sim been won p rim arily by futures- some other insipid buffoon? ply cannot agree. Canada's only peak, tax cuts and prom ises of But I wonder where Ontario's outpouring of support towards the responsible spending. Common Sense R evolution fits homeless in recent memory was Indeed, this is where Mr. Saul into Mr. Saul's optimistic model further damnation by the faintest lo s e s me so m ew h at. The re a l o f C an ad ian d em o cracy . of praise. You may remember it: C anadian m inds, he says, have O ntarians have tw ice voted for “The money earmarked for NHL abandoned the political arena and one o f the m ost a g g r e s s iv e ly clubs would be better spent on the have become lobbyists, trying to u n in te llig e n t p o litic ia n s in h o m e le ss .” T ra n sla tio n : “The influence the inherently flavour Canadian history and, I hope, in only thing in Canada more worth le ss m eat of C an adian p o litics the history of the world. And it less than the hom eless is NHL with their chosen marinades and isn't as if Harris clawed his w ay hockey.” W here are the cries to spices. Sort of a government brain to power through some cunning help the hom eless now that the drain. subterfuge; quite the contrary, his NHL b ailo u t is d ead? On hold So on the surface, it is merely p latfo rm w as one of p e rfe c tly until the next unpopular spending a m atter o f e n c o u ra g in g the transparent stupidity — cuts to initiative, I'd wager. nation's elite to re-enter politics; ed u c a tio n and h ealth c a re , a Of course, that isn't consen but I don't think it's that simple. “so cially responsible” university sus. The voices that howl down D espite the su p erio r fin a n c ia l system (read: welding school) and projects like the NHL bailout and rewards of corporate lobbying, I so on. “bleeding heart” social spending b e lie v e th at the m ain reaso n If he read the G lob e a n d M ail, are not the majority; they are the Canada's intellectuals no longer all this talk of history would no loud, and som ewhere along the seek p o litical office is because doubt seem esp ecially absurd to they know they could never get M ike Harris, given his shock at

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In response to Chris Selley’s column “American student killed in America,” of 21 March 2000, the column shows not only an appalling lack of journalistic integrity, but an even more appalling lack of consis tency. He characterizes Americans as “corn-fed rubes” who view “the outside [as] a Risk board [of] vague political boundaries...” As a group of Americans studying in a foreign country, we find his position both h yp o critical and o ffen sive. To develop a derogatory view of a vast and diverse nation based upon the reading of one small city’s newspa per is indefensible, idio tic, and xenophobic (unless, of course, Mr. Selley views Canada as a part of the US). Mr. S elley mocks American students (as represented by 33 indi v id u als from the U n iversity of Cincinnati) for choosing to travel to “such treacherous locales as France, Spain, and the Czech Republic.” Aside from the dubious validity of defining American students based upon such a lim ited sam ple, his insult could be equally well applied to our own university. Check the list of universities with which McGill has exchange agreements: you will be hard pressed to find any located in “political hot spots.” As for the issue of crime rates

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To sum up our position: 1. A m ericans do not have uniform opinions on any subject. Our nation is vast and diverse, and to character ize all of its citizens on the basis of one newspaper article is irresponsi ble. 2. University students may tend to prefer industrialized Western nations, but this is neither a uniquely American trait nor a proof of xenophobia. 3. Terrorism is not exclusively the domain of “home grown militias,” and the duty to pre vent it must be shared. 4. There are in fact dangers to Americans who travel abroad which are specific to our nation, yet still American citi zens choose to travel to all sorts of destinations The US has strong pro grams which help people of many nations, from refugee support to the Peace Corps (founded by President Kennedy). 5. Mr. Selley’s poorlywritten, factually-deficient diatribe is a sorry excuse for an editorial statement. The E xecutives o f the A m erican S tudents’ S ociety Alison B radley, S ecreta ry o f State Samantha K ettle, R ecord in g S ecreta ry G eo rge Waters, C o-P resident G abriel Flacks, C o-P resident Otis Warren, C o-P resident Ju lien M arcadier, V ice-P resident

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I write in response to Jaim e Stein’s Stop The Press (“Violence in intramural hockey,” March 21). I agree fully with Mr. Stein’ s com ments that “intramural hockey is about fun and sportsmanship,” how ever Mr. Stein goes on about the issue of the female referee. As cap tain of The Tribe, I signed the game sheet at the end of the game and with a head full of emotions, I wrote a comment on the game sheet about a referee. When I wrote “female,” it was used as an adjective to describe the referee. I am not on a first name basis with the referees and did not know how else to differen tiate between two refs of different sexes. I’ m a strong advocate for females in sports. I used to play on a line with a teammate who is now the top scorer in the NCAA playing for Harvard. I also coach high school hockey and in two consecutive years, chose a female goalie over two males. I have no problems with females on the ice. My problem lies when a referee has no control of a game and blows several calls. I also have a problem when the referee is intim idated by the other team because three of their players are referees in the same league. Maybe my comment was a little harsh. Perhaps. Do I regret it? No. Do I feel [I] deserved a two game suspension for expressing my fee lin g s? Absolutely not.

But who is to blame for the sus pension? If the referee was calling the game properly, it would have been a five minute unsportsmanlike conduct penalty, just like verbally expressing yourself to an official. Who do I blame? Perry and Jeff in the intramural office. The same two men who decided to suspend both teams for the remainder of the sea son. There is no doubt that it was an ugly game all around by both teams. But how much fighting was really involved to suspend both teams? Not much. Neither team went over the ‘eight-penalty’ rule. The ‘fighting’ involved individuals wearing com plete equipment including full hel met and visor and hockey gloves. We call it shoving! Perry and Jeff were afraid to have the same two teams meet in the playoffs in the following week. So, instead of rescheduling two teams, they kicked us out of the league. They decided it was time to make an example out of our two teams so that they would have no trouble next sea son. Will all games next season fos ter friendly competition? One would hope. W ill Perry and Jeff have to deal with any disciplinary matters? Absolutely! It’ s hockey boys, not ballet! D avid Mann Captain o f The Tribe

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It is the last column of the year and we at S&M have had quite a ride. The ups and downs of sex, school, love and life has often thrown us for a loop, but at the end of this winding tunnel, we have to say that it was all worth it. Answering your questions has helped us to tackle and form opinions on subjects we had never thought about before, as well as helping us to solve our own problems a little better. However there is one problem that we have been having and we just can't figure it out. So for the first time in advice column history (we think, maybe) we would like to pose a question we have to you. D ear S&M R ea d ers, It se e m s that a s w e g e t old er, it g e ts h a r d er a n d h a r d er to m aintain frien d sh ip s. W hether th e fr ie n d b e o n e fr o m hom e, o n e fr o m s c h o o l o r o n e that w as o n c e a lover, w e an d a bu n ch o f p e o p le w e know a r e fin d in g that frien d sh ip ju s t isn ’t w hat it u se to be. When w e w e r e y o u n g e r fr ie n d s w e r e s o im portant to us, a n d n ow it s e em s like th ey o ften take a ba ck sea t to lovers, s c h o o l a n d ex tra -circu la r a ctivities. Are b est fr ie n d s a n d b o so m b u d d ies a thing o f th e p a st? Can fr ie n d s b e f o r e v e r ? Are th ere w a ys that w e ca n a ll trea t o u r fr ie n d s a little b e tter a n d sh o w them that th ey m ean a lot to us? S igned, S&M P.S. Thanks s o m uch to a ll o u r fr ie n d s w h o h e lp e d us w ith the colu m n th rou gh the yea r. You a r e th e rea so n w e lo v e g o in g to university. Answer? em ail: mlazar@po-box.mcgill.ca

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• According to w w w .review.com, the first third of the GMAT is weighted more than any other sec tion in determ ining your score. Review.com recommends focusing on the accuracy of your answers, rather than the actual number of question you complete.

•http://members.spree.com/sip/spee der/Exset.htm provides a list of GRE vocabulary words that com monly appear on the GRE exam. Some samples, complete with defi nitions: macerate: make or become soft by soaking in water bedizen: to adorn, especially in a cheap, showy manner en co m iu m : w arm or glo w in g praise propinquity: nearness in time or place, affinity of nature soporific: producing sleep penurious: poor/stingy

• W hen w ritin g the M CAT, kaptest.com recommends wearing clothes you feel comfortable in to “m axim ize the testing environ ment” as well as getting up at the same time as you would the day of the test everyday for a week before in order to get your body used to functioning in the morning. Oh, and you might want to know your units of m easurem ent of m ass, force, acceleration, work, kinetic energy, current, etc. • When it com es to w ritin g the

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Odds 'n Ends C o lle c t a n e a has a few odds and ends that it would like to bundle for you in its spring cleaning. Our notes: • Finders keepers? Nope. Twohundred year-o ld case law was cited recently, as a Stratford, ON judge ruled that $130,000 in cash found in a fire extinguisher during the demolition of a home was not the property of the finder, but of the previous owner of the house. The late husband of a former owner of the property had allegedly stored the cash. When a fire killed him, he had not told her about the hiding place. The judge ruled that because the court know s to whom the

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money belongs, it was not consid ered part of the purchase of the property.

Government o fficials noted that to d ay’ s crim in al code prohibits such behaviour in the year 2000.

• The train s sh all run on tim e: Brazilian residents got very angry with their train delays recently, and decided to burn the train down in response. After reportedly waiting for hours to get on the train, com muters then spent additional hours packed into the train but not mov ing. When they got fed up with the delay, the exited the car and set it ablaze.

• Toilet police: Nicosia, the capital of Cyprus, may enact a law requir ing all residents to fill the water tank of their toilets with rocks. The law, which may be introduced in response to a drought plaguing the area, would reduce the volume of water the toilet could hold for each flush, thereby easing water usage. The mayor of the city did not spec ify how the law would be enforced.

• Old laws: ancient law dating back to 1756 has caused a ruckus in Nova Scotia. Because the laws are so old, prior to both Confederation and the existence of the province of Nova Scotia, the provincial govern ment has been forced to consult the government of Canada with respect to a law granting hunters a bounty on the scalps of Indians. Native groups are understandably upset at the continued existence of the law. The law was implemented by the British Colonial government and the Canadian government is being asked to can cel the A ct.

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Hanging with the Birks basement Buddhist After completing a bachelor’s degree at the U n iv ersity of P erad en iya, D eegalle won the “Oh, basem ent o ffice 18? Fulbright scholarship. Choosing Down the stairs, hang a left, keep Harvard’ s Divinity School as his walking until the end of the corri destination of choice, he completed dor, it’s on your left hand side.” a master’ s in theological studies. D irections seem sim p le “In those 24 m onths,” re c a lls enough. But nothing is straightfor D eegalle, “it was am azing how ward in the basement of the Birks much (knowledge) I acquired.” building. I’m on campus, true, but Seeing Deegalle now, it is easy as I walk past the sign imploring to forget that upon his arrival to the me to “Remove your shoes” and U.S, his English was barely p assab le, his m onastic school education was far from ty p ic al academ ic style, and that being one of five people in the world to win a Fulbright scholarship carries with it a hefty pres sure to succeed. But, as geologists will attest, given appropriate raw material, sometimes a little pressure can be a good thing. Deegalle graduated as V aled icto rian from the Harvard D ivinity School and was later awarded the In tern atio n al House R esiden t F ello w sh ip , attending the University of C h icago . On a grander scale, however, D eegalle confides that, “It was in the U .S. that I becam e a monk... Ideas of changeBuddhism makes sense for me. I could see it, so it is not ab stract. Those 24 months w ere a re a lly monastic experience.” Deegalle has a monas tic aura about him. Superficially, the tradition al saffron-colour K asaya (robe) that Deegalle wears is the most blatant tip-off that he is probably not a lumberjack. (Although he does wear a Patagonia-style vest over top and a pair of slack s underneath.) However, there are certain intangibles that strike me as I sit and speak w ith P r o f e s s o r D e e g a l l e in t h e B ir k s B u i l d i n g Max Lewkowski him. Indeed, I catch myself continu actually see a pile of kicks neatly com puter term in al and behind stacked, I begin to feel like I’ ve Deegalle is a bookshelf with text ally guessing at Deegalle’s age. The books and loose-leaf paper. There number rises as I listen to his saga checked McGill at the door. Silence in the basement. I’m is little adorning the w alls in the cious descriptions of global travel looking around for office numbers. way of posters or pictures. In short, and culture. Yet, as I watch him I walk past 16, then 17, then 19, at it is an office conducive to work speak, I am thrown off-guard by the anim ation in his eyes and his which point I realise that conven and study. Deegalle points out, “there is a can dy-sto re grin. And then the tional logic will not be my ticket to basement office 18. Reverse slowly Buddhist saying: ‘your refuge is number falls. Perhaps it doesn’ t matter. yourself.’” back to 17. Deegalle describes his particu Having grown up in Sri Lanka, “Eighteen?” A voice rumbles lar area of interest in Buddhism. a country where 70 per cent of the out from deep inside seventeen. population is Buddhist, Deegalle Commenting on the nature of inter “Wuh? Yea.” I stutter. describes his early fascination with nalising Buddhism, Deegalle says, “Keep going!” As I continue through the cor becoming a monk as, “a curiosity. “At the very beginning, you don’t ridor (which, to me, seems to be You, as a child, get attracted to cer know. Then, you pick it up; it’ s expected. You gradually accumu narrowing), my sense of adventure tain things.” late the tools [to un derstan d].” But, whereas my infatuation acts up. I reach a T -jun ctio n . Looking right, only more corridor. with Lego petered out around grade Buddhism is practised in several Checking left, the view is impeded three, Deegalle’s fascination was a different forms and regions (mainly by a co lourful and w isp y cloth tad more serious. Attending monas in East Asia) so inevitably, there h anging from the c e ilin g . I ’ m tic school from grade six onwards, are variations on preaching method enticed. With one hand ready to D e e g a lle ’ s sp iritu al education ology. Deegalle’s Ph.D. dissertation grab the whip I’m not carrying, and began in Sri Lanka and has not yet focussed on the origin of the “twomy entire body trembling and ready ended. It has, however, taken him p u lp it” traditio n of B uddhist preaching practised in Sri Lanka to evade a murderously giant boul round the world. B y Ia n S peigel

der that could thunder my way any second, I approach the fab ric screen. As I push through, I am greet ed by a mellifluous chorus of bells. Tension melts, and I knock on the door to my left, basement office 18. Dr. Mahinda Deegalle, scholar and Buddhist monk in the truest senses of the terms, bids me come in. I sit on a ch air in front of Deegalle’ s desk. To my right is a

from the Ninth Century onward. D eegalle ex p lain s that the notion of A nnica, or “im perm a nence”, is the wheel from which “selflessness” and “unsatisfactori ness” flow. Selflessness is rather s e l f - d e s c r i p t i v e . “Unsatisfactoriness”, or Dukkha, refers to the perpetual struggle of stability-craving humans against the transience of real life. That life is impermanent and that change is the only constant, is the abstraction (or non-abstraction) that a Buddhist monk must eat, sleep and breathe. Which is not to say that you won’t find Deegalle chowing down on a slice of Giovan’s every now and again. Undeniably, however, insight gained from copious studies and residencies in Japan, the U.S, E ngland, and S ri L anka have allo w ed D eegalle to in tern alise Annica and Buddhism as the truth of life. P o ssessin g a CV such as D e e g a lle ’ s (H arvard, scholarships/fellowships, fluency in several languages, numerous works published, philosophical enlighten ment), could induce complacency. This, however, has obviously not happened in the case of Deegalle. Invited from his teaching posi tion at Harvard, Deegalle arrived at McGill in December, affording him little time to draft and organise his lectures. Most evenings he can be found tucked aw ay in his corner basement office. He says with a lau gh , “A fter my y ears, I am becoming a graduate student again. Working until midnight!” And, as much as the students in his c lass “M ah ayan a and Theravada Interactions in Medieval Sri Lanka” appreciate his authentic ity and energy, the praise is not one-way. Explains D eegalle, “M cG ill students, especially in undergrad, are. very bright and positive towards study. They seem to know what they want to do.” That statement strikes me as kind of strange. However, as his praise is forthcoming, I attempt to draw out a comparison with the av erage H arvard kid . To that, Deegalle replies that the intellectual level is comparable, but that the average McGill student has a more positive outlook. Accurately assessed or not, I depart basement office 18 in high spirits. I navigate the enigmatic cor ridors with the ease of a gopher, and head upstairs past the sign that implored me to remove my shoes. Blinding sunlight stings my eyes as I exit the Birks building and greet the outdoors. Contrasting sharply with the ashen sky and lonely scene that was University Ave. when I last gazed upon it an hour ago, I now squint with hands above eyes and dodge herds of people scurry ing in all directions. It’s quite a change. But, maybe that’s the point.

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T hey’re everywhere, craw l in g up and dow n the stre e ts, bursting in and out of apartment doors all over the Ghetto. They are on the prowl for the perfect place to live next year, and while there are some “A Louer” signs and a mountain of ads on Info M c G ill, yo u m ay s t ill be le ft wondering, “W ill I be homeless next year? “Everybody is looking,” said N icky M aurer, a first-year stu dent who c u rre n tly liv e s in a b u ild in g run by M cG ill's OffCam pus R esidence E xperience (MORE). “I’m living with two of my best friends and we are a ll going to be aw ay this summer. We can’t afford to sublet some thing to reserve it for next year.” U n less yo u are w illin g to fork out the cash in advance or s e rio u s ly d e c re ase yo u r sta n d ard s, fin d in g a p la c e in the Ghetto can seem pretty grim. But according to Pam ela Chinieh of Off Campus Housing, it is noth in g to fre a k out abo ut if-y o u know w hat you w ant and you keep yo u r e y e s p e e le d . It a ll depends on how far from school you are w illing to live, how big an apartment you want and how much you’re w illing to pay. Sure, that’s easy. Now what? The good news is apartment hunting in Montreal is relatively j easy. However, the bad news is that in the McGill Ghetto it is not i necessarily so. B arriers such as | the need to sublet or not being able to return in the summer to secure a place prevent many stu! dents from having any success, e s p e c ia lly gro up s o f th ree or four. C h in ieh m en tio n ed that j there are many different neigh bourhoods to be seen, each boast in g its own u n iq u e fe a tu re s. Among the more popular places | to live are the Plateau, Mile-End, Old M ontreal, W estm ount, and N o tre-d am e -d e-G râc e. W h ile they do require a bit of a w alk, the advantages of livin g farther away from campus include lower rent paym ents, more space and newer buildings, as w ell as inte g ra tio n into the c u ltu re of Montreal. However, many students are not w illin g to add m in utes to their morning w alk. “I want to live in the ghetto because I want the convenience of being close to school and living in an area that is populated by students,” said M au rer. “ [If] i t ’ s too fa r, I | wouldn’t go to class. I would sit

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Between March 15 and 22, a devastating civil war rocked a small corner of the world. The clash pro duced thousands of casualties and refugees. Millions in relief funds were poured in daily. And you d id n ’ t even hear about it. The biased, insensitive media? Not quite: the war in question, set in the troubled state of Brynania (which, for the record, is not a real country), was waged through e-mail and imagination — far more benign methods than the actual global con flicts it was designed to mirror. The week-long civil war simu lation, the brainchild of M cG ill p o litical scien ce professor Rex B rynen, is an annual hands-on approach to familiarizing students with the difficulties faced by real politicians, citizens and organiza tions in peacemaking. The battle ground is Brynen’s ‘Peacebuilding’ course, which doubles as both an undergraduate and graduate course in the departm ent. The various actors are the students. “This is a course which focus es on war-to-peace transitions, and in war-to-peace transitions there are a lot of challenges,” said Professor Brynen, who plays the omniscient role of ‘Control,’ the filter through which all measures are taken. “It’s easier to get these across in a simu

lation than lecturing about them.” ‘Brynania’ is said to be a for mer French colony situated on a sm all continent known as ‘ E quatorial C y b ersp ace.’ The region, replete with its own supra national ‘Organization of Cyberian Nations,’ features states with such lo c a lly -in flu e n c e d title s as ‘ C o n co rd ia,’ ‘ U dem ,’ and ‘Uqamistan.’ Each has a history of its own, which can be viewed on the course web page (http://w w w.arts.m cgill.ca/programs/polisci/faculty/rexb/450page. html) along with myriad other tid bits such as fictional New York Times articles. A minority ethnic group, the Zaharians, has been embroiled in a battle with the government since 1984 in an effort to estab lish a national homeland in its corner of the country. A prolonged siege on the predom inantly-‘ B rn’ city of ‘M cgilldish u’ has compelled the government to launch an assault on the ‘ Popular Front for the Liberation of Zaharia’ . The government elite, which took power in a 1995 coup, has even more on its plate. A dissident militia known as the ‘Free People’s Army’ has maintained loyalties to the overthrown president and con trols valuable territory in the north. A second ethnic group, with ties to the neighbouring state of ‘Icasia,’ has made noise as well.

Plenty of actual countries and day of the activity, also gained a humanitarian organizations, as well better understanding of internation as the United Nations and its many al peacemaking efforts. “We all kind of did it as stu parts, are also represented in the simulation, placing real-life con straints on many of the actors. Plenty of face-to-face meet ings and conferences were held throughout the week by various players. Other communication, assaults and donations were done through' e-m ail, which had the participants up at all hours, coor dinating, negotiating and plot ting. Professor Brynen, mean while, spent his days and nights reading the more than 3,500 emails sent between parties, and sending out updates. Graduate student G abriel Stern, the Brynanian president for a week, and cited (in the sim u latio n ) by A m nesty International as a war criminal, became well-acquainted with the T h e d i s p u t e d la n d s perils of being a ruthless dictator. “It’s tempting to try to be all bellicose and try to bomb the hell den ts” at the start, she said. out of each other,” he admitted, but However, by the time the critical saw the real task at hand — build ‘Lisbon Rounds’—which fostered the eventual cease-fire—wrapped ing peace — as a greater challenge. Incidentally, ‘President’ Stem up, “we were not dealing with stu had few qualms about nearly anni dents; we were dealing with PFLZ hilating the Free People’s Army on com m anders” and other such actors. the first day of the simulation. The very specific roles taken Undergraduate Elisa Kearney, as the European Commissioner who on by students inevitably leads to played a vital role in securing an very d ifferen t exp erien ces, but eleventh-hour cease-fire on the last Professor Brynen doesn’t see that

as a real problem. “Everyone sees what everyone else is doing,” he said. He also has the opportunity to make changes from year to year. “The class keeps getting bigger, which allows us to do more things,” he noted, estimating that the num ber of roles “roughly doubles each year.” (The number is buoyed fur ther by volunteer ‘donors’ from his introductory-level class). Plus, “the background gets richer each year” as students make contributions such as web pages and fabricated ‘histo ry.’ A fter a w eek (or seven ‘months’) of hostilities, the cease fire was a cathartic, if modest, fin ish to some taxing days of refugee flows, massacres and deal-broker ing. But it was not a foregone con clusion. “It almost fell apart on the last day,” reflected Stem. Capturing realities such as that possibility, of course, was the beau ty of the simulation. “It helped us realize how difficult the process actually is,” said David Reinblatt, who p o rtrayed the Portuguese defence minister and co-host of the Lisbon Rounds. Kearney, too, appreciated the su b stan tial labour in vo lved in peacebuilding “In the end,” she said, “after five, six days of six to eight hour [blocks of negotiations], it was a lot.”

logistician takes her through a veri table timeline of the conflicts of the ‘90s: L ib eria, B osnia, Burundi, Zaire, Angola and Albania. O lson, o rig in a lly from W innipeg, worked as a nurse in various Manitoba hospitals prior to working with MSF. She took a post with them in 1993, primarily out of the job insecurity in the health sec tor in Canada. Not really knowing why she decided to work with M SF, she questions her in itia l optim ism through every traumatic experience. “And, for most volunteers, one mission is all they do. Only about thirty percent ever continue in the aid business. Well-meaning ideal ists become realists very quickly in this field.” Her story is accessible, told through annecdotes and d iary entries. M SF’ s role is not lim ited to em ergency m edical care. When needed, MSF will set up water and sanitation programs, immunization programs, feeding centres and The world can be a cruel place, and Olson leaves out none of the details. The details are shocking, and at times gruesome. But despite the seem ingly unbearable condi tions, Olson manages to hold on. “I re a liz e now how easy it becomes to accept things as ‘nor mal’ when you work in such abnor m al situ atio n s. The destroyed towns, the soldiers on the streets, the shelling every day, the regular evening gunfire from trigger-happy soldiers who are just having fun, the parties you have while under house arrest. These things must be accepted as a part of normal life, or you couldn't cope.”

At other tim es, it seems too much. “For a m om ent,” Olson writes after witnessing a massacre in Zaire, “I lost every feeling of humanity, compassion or neutrality I'd ever had. It’ s pretty hard to remain ‘neutral’ after witnessing the aftermath of a massacre.” She does, however, manage to carry on. Humanitarian work is often

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and is waiting on admission to the University of Montreal in pharma cology. Finding work has also been a frustrating experience for him. “Life is nice in Montreal from

They used to c a ll them “v ag ran ts” (pronounced vah’grintz). Those men, young and old, who would jump on and off of freight trains seeking work and adven ture in “anytow n Canada.” Dispossessed of this rom anticized id en tity, in term in gled w ith the drug and alcohol culture, such people are now labelled as “homeless” or “bum s,” and for the younger, “street youth.” They are the people we associate with homeless ness and poverty, but in fact represent not even half of Montrealers hav ing a hard time to make T h e M i s s i o n , o n S t. A n t o i n e ends meet. a certain point of view. Places like the Welcome Hall Mission make it M e e t th e p e o p le easier to get by, but as far as work goes, there are few job openings,” The dem ographics of the he said. needy become surprisingly varied Maloviche had inquired about once you pass through the doors of studying at McGill but admissions the Welcome Hall Mission, situated told him his lack of English would just south of the Molson Centre and be too much of an obstacle. To the Ville-Marie Expressway. make up for that, he w ill soon be Though it is mostly itinerants taking English classes at Concordia. and the homeless who take advan Like Popa, Maloviche feels his life tage of suppers served daily, people is in limbo, but he’ s in no rush to of all ages and backgrounds congre leave Canada. gated in the centre's main hall wait “Em lost. I can’t get myself to ing for the food baskets to be dis decide whether I should stay here tributed on F rid ay, M arch 31. or go back to France. There isn’t Among them are many recently much stability here, but I’d like to arrived immigrants to Canada dis stay and study,” he said. covering that adaptation and inte gration isn’t always smooth. A well-dressed and profession M cG ill a n d th e M issio n al looking Mariana Popa is one of Due to the recent p o litical the clients waiting in line for a food basket. She’ s a Romanian refugee shifts in the former Soviet Block, who arrived in M ontreal in Canada has seen a rise in immigra September and is living the trials of tion coming out of these regions. In an im m igran t’ s up h ill battle. A fact, several of the Mission’s volun chemical engineer by education and teers are Russian immigrants who profession, Montreal isn’t showing once came here for food and assis her much love insofar as employment goes. Without a knowledge of English, and only an intermediary level of French, the lan guage barrier is prov ing to be a disheart ening o b stacle. Nevertheless, Popa is quite optimistic and happy that she is in Canada. “I hope to pursue studies here. And it seems that if you are educated here, schools have job W e lc o m in g c h i l d r e n i n t o t h e f o l d placem ent se r v ices...W h en I left Romania, I thought it would be eas tance. Two years ago, form er ier to integrate, but it hasn’t been S tu d en ts’ S o ciety of M cG ill easy. The language barrier makes it University VP University Affairs difficult to interact with people Sam Johnston set-up a Russianhere. I don’t feel ignored, but it’s English language exchange pro tough to not speak w ell. gram at the Mission between immi Nonetheless, Fm hoping studies grants and McGill students in the will be good because I want to stay Russian Studies department. The in Canada,” Popa said with a hope program is still well and alive, and current VP University Affairs Clara ful smile. A bibe M alo vich e cam e to Peron is keeping it going. Sharon M ich eals, the M ontreal nine months ago from France where he lived for three Mission’s director of family activi years. He is originally from Turkey, ties, worked with Johnston to jump

start the program and is happy to change.’ It seems like a lot of peo outbreaks that we couldn’t always control,” she said. More than just ple are resigned to die,” she said. see Peron involved. The Mission has the budget for avoiding physical altercations how “Clara and I have every single session planned-out, and gam es eight full-time employees, but they ever, M icheals b elieves that the seem to be one of the best ways for have enough specialized volunteers evangelization allows for the peo people to learn a to offer more than just the basics ple to think about lif e ’ s b igger lan g u ag e. One and help those seeking more than questions. “It gives them awareness of week they play pic- food and shelter. M ich eals was spiritual issues. They start to reflect tio n n ary in quick to point them out. “There is lots of counselling on their life...most often they need Russian, the other w eek in E nglish. available to clients. We have nurs to stop and think...A lot of these Our clien tele and es, a retired psychiatrist, pastors people have never had any moral the students love and we used to have two psycholo teaching...and many of them don’t it,” Micheals said. gists, but they weren’t volunteers feel important or valued to anyone. She also signalled- and we just don’t have the budget The chapel service tries to give them a reason for b e in g ,” she out how the stu for them,” she said. Since its foundation in 1892 by shared. dents benefit from A fter two hours at the being part of this Protestant Christians, the Welcome Hall Mission has kept its evangeli Welcome Hall Mission, you’ll be program. “The students cal roots alive with its charitable surprised at the wealth of humanity, are able to befriend ambitions. Evangelization is not a be it talking with immigrants, sin the im m igran ts, dominant feature of the centre, but gle mothers or vahgrintz. Still shy and if ever they it appears to be at the heart of its of speaking to people, I’m standing Wei Leng Tay travel to R u ssia, existence. Every evening before in the lobby and hear somebody ask chances are they dinner, clients are obliged to assist me with enthusiasm: "t’es ben done have contacts over there thanks to chapel service for half-an-hour grand toi, comment tu mesure? Six the exchange program,” Micheals where pastoral teams lead in wor p ie d s?” The interro gato r is an ship and b rief serm ons. When unshaved borderline senior wearing said. an old blue tuque This is but only a and a big grin on his minor service that the face. The answer in Mission offers. Giving a fact is six-foot-six, tour of the b u ild in g, and M aurice M ich eals opened the Richard (that’ s the door to a fa irly large m an’ s fam ous room crammed with old name) starts to talk com puters. Turns-out to me and ask in g another one of their ser me my story. He’ s v ices is a com puter one of those “home learning centre for chil le ss” guys we see dren of dysfun ctio n al on the street. families and individuals S p eakin g to rehabilitating from alco him and his friend hol addiction. The pro whom he’s brought gram is b en eficial for to the M ission for both targeted groups, but the first tim e, I for distinct reasons. Wei Leng Tay q u ic k ly forget a ll “When you see how P e o p l e o f a l l a g e s b e n e f i t f r o m t h e p r o g r a m those co n flictin g some of these kids are raised, [the computer learning cen asked how people react to the evan feelings we have when we walk tre] is for prevention. It’s a preven g e liz a tio n , M ich aels said they pass street people, and think to m yself that it really isn ’ t all bad tion from them getting into crime almost always get a good feedback. “They react very positively to after all. and dropping-out of school...The men fighting alcoholism also tend the chapel service. At one point we to have painful family backgrounds no longer made it obligatory, but and don’ t have much we soon witnessed more violent self-esteem. I’ve noticed I —I we raise th eir esteem when we get them involved and teach them,” Micheals said. Restorative justice To all Clubs and Interest Groups: is also on the Mission’s agenda. “All year long, we take formerly incarcer ated people to rein te grate them in society by doing community ser Old McGill 2000 w ill publish your v ice. W e m ake sure there’ s no discrim ina dubsiactivities and events. tion on these guys. We £ % «*1 don’ t care as long as AH that's necessary is for each club to su b m it, work and Wei Leng Tay they can aren ’ t a danger. We what interesting event and accomplishment was don’t even know what their crimes achieved during 1999-2000. Please include were,” Micheals stated. photographs if available. 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series of discussion between these five principal actors. Their argu ments create and build upon the idea that economic models match ecosystems at every level. "Economic development isn't a matter of im itating nature," says Hiram at one point. "Rather, eco nomic development is a matter of using the same universal principles that the rest of nature uses."

able and interesting. source of fuel must exist. With bio terexamples) from across the board The parallels between nature logical expansion, the sun serves as - roadways, small businesses, ani Ja n e J a co b s and economies strengthen as the this initial, 'free', start-up fuel. mal husbandry, and more - and The N ature o f E con om ies dialogue progresses. Hiram begins But for a village’ s economy, range from the nearly self-evident R andom H ouse Canada a subject, say, the notion of eco the start-up fuel is less obvious. to the controversial. $29.95 nomic expansion, by discussing it The start-up fuel for a settle The book is an in terestin g as a natural cycle and then applying ment, he argues, is not the initial read. It’s worth the time, at least, to Jane Jacobs is perhaps best it to economic matters. sale of exports, but the ‘free’ gift of get a feel for Jacobs’ writing style known for her revolutionary title, In this case, Hiram opens with natural resources. Every settlement and to get a common base behind The Death and L ife of Great a discussion on biomass expansion is given an initial import that it may battling sides of an environmental American Cities . Published almost on an abandoned field. Expansion harness or export in the form of equation today. For those interested forty years ago, the book launched and diversity, Kate offers, is depen resources - salt, fish, being a trad in examining this link in a readernot only her career as a journalist, dant upon development and co ing hub, etc. friendly manner, the book is a good but uprooted the entire profession development - without each organ Jacobs uses these characters to read. of urban planning. Living in New ism working off the other and pro build upon the notion that econom York, she challenged notions of viding sustenance to still others, no ic and ecological growth need not J a co b s w ill b e speak ing today mass public housing and high-rise, growth will occur. Therefore, ele be perceived as separate from one a t th e M cG ill B o o k s to re C afé, 6 'modern-machine' living. ments in the field work together to another. Her arguments are laced p.m. After moving to Toronto, she expand the ecosystem - first with with concrete examples (and coun continued to fight against poor o rgan ism s, then seeds, p lan ts, planning. But at the same time, she shrubs, trees, and ev en tu ally worked to diversify her writing. rodents, birds, and larger animals. Jacobs' newest book is set for For a village's economy, the its official Montreal launch today at b asic p rin cip les are the sam e. It’s always hard when things focusing on their worth as human the McGill Bookstore. The Nature Individuals and com panies rely end. Well, good things. And hope beings. No more of this, I’m gayer of Economies is an examination of upon one another for goods and the fully, we can say that this column than you garb age. No more the parallel, and, in fact, unified means to purchase them. But the was a good thing. Despite the fact ag g ressiv e “w e ’ re here, w e’ re process by which ecosystems and traditional notion of exports as the that I have successfully managed queer, steer clear or we’ll run over economies function and evolve. base for an economy’ s growth is to enrage ever single demographic you, dear” Gay Pride days, no The book is structured as a fic tossed aside by two of the charac group at McGill — I think when more accusations of M cG ill as tional dialogue. The prem ise is ters, Murray and Hiram. They sug it’s all said and done, we’ll still be being a bastion of blatant homo based around three friends and a gest, instead, that imports form the able to sit down, have a beer, and phobia, no more gay support meet new fiancée coming together with a building blocks for an economy. save the violence for after drinks. ings which touted that being gay mutual interest in, well, the nature They argue that exports, in Since beginning this column, I’ve was about “sex positivity” more of economies. Armbruster, friend to fact, are discharges, the end prod- J tried to show a different perspec than humanness; overall, I wanted Kate and Hortense, is the instigator. ucts of a settlement’s economy. to un der Upon hearing about Hortense's new Given this theory, M urray stand other E c o n o m ic e x p a n s io n boyfriend, Hiram, and his interest describes the role of imports. people and Somewhere over the rainbow in ecology as a fundraiser and facil “If exports are a settlement’s their worth The debates throughout the itator, he eagerly sought to meet K e n t G lo w in s k i as people: book are natural and strong. The economic discharges, then what are | with Hiram and discuss his views. its received infusions of economic g ay or scenes and interplay between char Armbruster's interest lies in chal energy? Imports! Besieging armies straight. acters, however, are thin. But that's lenging the notions put forth by In a not the point. The overarching and blockading navies have always H iram , and, later in the book, tive on what it’ s like to be gay. known that.” sense, I asked people to take objective behind the book's dia Hiram's father, Murray. For too long, there’s been a com another look at “gay”, and take a For an ecosystem to establish logue is to make the subject palat The chapters p lay out as a mon view that being gay is “one new approach to the concept. Sort itself, Murray explains, a 'start-up' way.” To be gay was to a be a pro of take a ‘middle path’ toward it. I gressive, left-wing, social activist. w anted people to look at it as To be g ay w as to be a w ell- Buddhism would: avoiding the Need extra cre d its th is su m m e r? C o n s id e r the dressed, shopaholic, materialistic, extrem es and all-co n su m in g flexibility o f A th a b a sc a U n iversity's 460 self-paced consumer-fascist. And yes, to be nature of homosexuality, and just gay was to be a carefree, soother experiencing ‘gay’ as another fluid d ista n ce edu cation c o u rs e s . Start anytim e. S tud y sucking, after-hours club going, aspect of our fragile personalities. anyw here. E a sily transferable. bar queen. After reviewing all of I asked people to look w ithin the a v a ila b le stereo typ es, I themselves and look beyond what thought: the madness must stop! the normal aspects of being gay I hate shopping. I am not an are. NDP. I’m not a fan of gay bars, Yes, I know I pissed people unless it’s cheap night at Le Track off sometimes — but change is when all drinks are $1.75 (just ra re ly a happy, e asy process. can’t say no to that price!). I am Hopefully, what I have written fairly conservative, even on social will stick with people: there exists issues. And, so are many of my a ‘silent m ajority’ of gay people gay friends. When friends of mine out there, just like you and me, sat and discussed the essence of who don’ t share the shopping, gayness, we realized we just didn’t socialist, or club agenda. There fit in: we felt a little alienated exists a silent majority, just like from the larger community, so to you and me, who are gay — but speak. Were there other people who cares, it’ s just one part of who felt the sam e w ay as us? their personality, it doesn’t take Were there other people who had over their lives. rejected the stereotypes and expec Have a great life everyone! tations? May the force be with you! I found it further dismaying that the average McGill student, It all goes by too fast. We queer or not, was being exposed to would sincerely like to thank these stereotypes on a regu lar all of our features writers this basis by none other than our own year for their energy and homegrown queer support group: Queer M cG ill. W h ile I have enthusiasm. Without your cre respected Queer McGill, formerly ative minds, the features sec LBGTM, and “most” of its activi tion couldn’t have possibly ties for my four year incarceration done as well as it did. at our lovely institute of higher To Shirlee and Ian, we wish learning, I found it lacked focus you an endless flow of ideas and sent the wrong messages to and information. May your queers just coming out and to the deadlines be met and your san McGill community at large. ity unharmed. Good luck. In the end, I wanted people to Always have fun. set their gayness aside; that is, Yours truly, www.athabascau.ca • 1-888-784-9775 • auinfo@athabascau.ca leave it at the coat check, and start

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What is it about the ghetto? F in d in g t h a t p e r f e c t p la c e in a p e rfe c t s t u d e n t w o rld ing September is m id-July,” said school starts next year may not be C o n tin u e d fr o m P a g e 15 chinieh. “It depends what kind of a great id ea, since most of the at home and watch TV all day.” arrangement you can make with places in the Ghetto w ill be taken. K ey w ord: B eing a roll out of Ghetto. W aiting until bed aw ay from school S ep tem b er w ill not defin itely serves as the com pletely elim inate gh etto ’ s greatest perk. your chances, as each Located from University y e a r dozens of stu to Parc and Sherbrooke d en ts f ilt e r in and to des Pins, the Ghetto is m anage to find p er a microcosm of the typi fectly fine accommo cal university town. Tiny d atio n . But b eatin g dépanneurs, little coffee the rush can g re atly h o u ses and en d le ss aid y o u r sea rch . stream o f stu d en ts on M any areas w ill still foot have earned it a rep h av e p o stin g s in utation for b ein g very September, but if you social. want to find a decent “I g u e ss the o n ly place, it couldn’t hurt problem is that the rent to start now. is steep and some of the p la c e s are r e a lly Zoe Logan H u n t in ' d o w n a p a r t m e n t s in th e g h e t t o grungy,” said Maurer. M an y cu rren t Ghetto residents say that these are the landlord or whether you have among the many popular miscon the option to sublet for the sum cep tio n s about the se e m in g ly mer.” She said that waiting until most desirable area to live. “I am kind of disappointed,” said Sarah Horn, a first-year stu dent who currently liv es in the Ghetto. “I pictured college kids on front porches being rowdy and having a good time and it wasn’t lik e that. I thought it would be more of a university community, but I felt lik e I w as liv in g in a suburb. I didn’ t feel lik e I was any more of a part of McGill than if I had lived farther aw ay.” Next year Horn will be living 15 minutes aw ay in west down town with “random people who I met through Info M cG ill.” She says that she seriously thought it through, but she decided that it was worth the walk. “Looking so far away elim i In te rio r d e s ig n of the nated a lot of com petition and besides, I don’ t want to stay in C lu b s lounge, 4th floor the university bubble. I kind of Shatner. This contest is want to integrate m yself among M ontrealers and claim it as my op en to all s tu d e n ts . c ity , not ju s t be a tem p o rary W in n er may have their lodger in some random student apartment.” design implemented over Either w ay, you might want the summer. Recognition to start thinking about where you w ill be sleeping next year. “The given to the 1st through best time to look for a lease start-

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1. Probably getting robbed. 2. Umm...McDonald’ s. Can’t get any worse than that, You’ve got greasy burgers and it’s already hot enought to begin with outside. 3. I’d send you to Toronto. 4. So you can see them at night.

1. I guess it would be being here and fin a lly figu rin g out what I want to achieve. 2. The compost site I was working at. My job was to pick stones out of big piles of manure and then take the tem perature of the manure. That sucks. 3. The Old Port or Old Montreal or Tokyo (w e think she means the club). 4. Uhhh...because of light energy?

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If yo u ’ re lik e me, you miss some thing at un iversity that can’t be made up for by parents’ visits or awesom e room Under mates or excessive Scrutiny drinking — driving. The freedom of mobility without frozen feet, the peace of crisp air across your face, the scream of the engine as the tachneedle rushes towards redline, the power of deciding when to give in and sh ift... th at’ s happiness. I couldn’t live without this for another term as I have through the first, and there was only one solution: I had to start, as Michael Douglas says in Falling Down, “exercising my rights as a consumer.” I contacted Centre V ille Volkswagen to organize a test drive of the new generation Golf GTI VR6; perhaps the most enduring adolescent status symbol of our gen eration. If your puffy, overpriced North Face apparel isn’t gamering you as much attention around cam pus as you’d hoped, test-driving a cool car is another way to boost your image. When people remark “I saw you in a phat GTI yesterday, I didn’t know you had a car!?” tell them you generally keep it in storage to protect the paint job. (When they ask whom the funny car-salesman-looking guy beside you was, quickly change the subject.) I headed down to Centre-Ville on a weeknight to get things done. There I met with Director of Sales Mr. Edmond Salam ouny, a very cheerful man who gave me the scoop on the new GTI. Its styling is con current with the new look of VW’s, which began with the redesigned Passat three years ago to pre-empt the return of the Beetle. The result of the styling upgrade on the Golf is a rounder, puffier look, like the car is on Creatine and fresh from the gym. We went and got in the car and

S a r a h H o rn M a n a g e m e n t UO 1. F a llin g o ff a sp eaker at a Queen’s lame-ass bar during “Kill McGill” 2. I ’ d say telem arketin g is the worst. 3. Since Montreal is all about the night scene, I’d take you to L ’Air du Temps in Old M ontreal. It’ s very European and kind of chill. I would not take you to St. Laurent because it is a little too “chi-chi” for my taste... 4. Because black goes with every thing.

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Where minds meet 1. W h a t ev en t or experience stands o u t th e m ost for you th is year? 2. W h a t would you consider th e w orst sum m er job? 3. Supposing I were a tourist, w here would you take m e in M o n treal

Edmond took the wheel. This gave me the chance to check out the GTI’s interior. This pumped-up Golf has more interior room than its pre decessor, so I was very comfortable in the shotgun leather sport-seat exploring the plethora of controls at my fingertips. Seat heaters, passen ger and driver climate controls, and stereo buttons crowded the center console. All the buttons and displays light up in bright neon blue and red, extremely cool at first and surpris ingly legible, but I can liken the excited visuals to rave music: some people like it all the time, but most of us need a break. I took the opportunity to test the car’s sound system. While the deal er’ s driving you can do what you like, and turning the volume knob past where you dare not go in your parents’ sedan is too tempting to resist. The GTI’s eight-speaker sys tem provided enough oomph even without my jacking up the treble and bass. The CD player was disappoint ingly, an option but the GTI’s great stock system is still a waste. Most GTI buyers have an afterm arket sound system planned to transform their car into a moving emitter of seismic-scale bass tones. After driving around a while Edmond pulled over and it was time to switch. I took the driver’s seat and let my legs out towards the divine trinity: the clutcher,-the brake and the holy gas. I was like a king return ing to his throne, and boy was my royal kingdom going to get it. Our top-of-the-line VR6 GTI can achieve 100 km/h from a stand still in less than 7 seconds. If this means nothing to you, just believe me when I say this thing rips. I was whipped back into my seat if I neglected to mix a delicate blend of gas and clutch, the 6-cylinder engine shelling out 174 hp and 181 lb-ft of torque. Each shift through the fivespeed manual transmission renewed the German engine’s guttural tones —- audible inside the car without being intrusive — and reminded me

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S o cce r S w im m in g S a m ih H a m m o u d E n g in e e r in g 1. Tough question...Can I come back to it? Well, I guess it would be being accepted at McGill. 2. An engineering job. 3. Crescent Street if you’re into the nightlife. It you’re more into cul ture things...I’ll have to think about it. 4. B ecau se i t ’ s the co lo ur of asphalt?

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Eric is right on when m any the A ssociation of Independent he talks about nobility, because the All a r o u n d th e city Metro Musicians and its work in first troubadour, the forefather of S ee th e tr o u b a d o u r ” co llab o ratio n w ith the tran sit all buskers, was W illiam IX of -Tim B u ck ley, T ro u b a d o u r authority, the STCUM. A q u itain e. S in ce then, other “The Association consists of respectable buskers include: the “People are getting bored of an administrative board of four peo father of confederation, Sir John A. me,” laments Tony as he puts away ple, and it’ s only official in the Macdonald; musical-scorer, Irving his gear. Judging from the crowd sense that we have a charter and B erlin and fo lk-h ero , W oody that has accumulated around him, that we interact with the STCUM in Guthrie. Still, despite the refined I’m tempted to contradict him, but the name of all m u sic ian s,” tradition, contemporary buskers get the empty hat doesn’t lie. Tony is explains Kim Pelletier, the associa little respect. one of the dozens of performers try tion’ s president. “Musicians don’t “Sometim es, you feel lik e a ing to earn a living in subway corri need to becom e mem bers to be m usical statue,” Eric complains. dors. allowed to play.” “Or people will walk by and tell me "Can I c a ll you a busker, But you do need to know the to go to hell, or to get a real job,” Tony?" “No. I’m a dancer. You can system. Thankfully, after intensive he continues with resignation. c a ll what I do ‘ pop d an cin g’ . I questio n in g, a m u sician who Two hours later, I listen to the dance lik e M ickey Ja c k so n .” doesn’ t want his name revealed Romanian violinist play a particu Wearing a glittery jacket and a sin agrees to share his thoughts about larly difficult gypsy air as I wait for gle glove, Tony moonwalks to the the system with me. This is how it a subway to take me home. When Michael Jackson song coming out works: m usicians are allowed to he finishes, I wait for someone to of his speaker. Commuters stare, play from 6 am to 11 pm, in areas start clapping. The silence is deaf struck by the oddity of his act. “At designated by signs with a drawing ening, and it’s with relief that I hear Marie-Hélène bavard first, when I started here, it paid of a white harp on a blue back D a n c e s t e p s m t h e M e t r o the screeching steel of the train very well. But now, not so much,” ground. The first musician to show m aking its w ay into the station. world doing this. People think sub he sighs. He thinks it ’ s because up in the morning is responsible for ules for 150 performers. Only 15 Each train brings the busker a new people have got used to him and his drawing up two copies of the day’s new musicians per year are added w ay musicians play because they audience to win over. Hopefully, act. I don’ t dare to suggest that schedule. These schedules enable to the roster via an intensive audi have no the next one w ill be tion process. Freelancers are still m aybe i t ’ s b ecause M ich ael m u sician s to reserv e tw o-hour more appreciative. Jackson isn’t that popular anymore. shifts in advance and are hidden allow ed to perform , but don’ t Around the corner and down either behind a lamp, a sign or a have the right to an amplifier. In two flights of stairs, Eric is more garbage can in the area (a detailed Boston, m u sician s have to upbeat. His two-hour shift is about description of the hiding spots can obtain renewable 90-day per to end and he has collected about be found in the document for sub mits. While Tony and Eric agree that $25 in his guitar case. “You can’t w ay m usician s a v a ila b le at the M ontreal under predict how much money yo u’ ll ground buskers have it easy, both are p lanning to |ILL S t u d e n t F i l m a n d move. Tony makes most of his U a L p B B p money outside in W E DAY, $ 5 FOR BOl the summertime, but last A ugust il 6 , 6 : 3 0 p m , A p r i l 7 , <*f3 0 p m policemen warned him that tm he w ould face I n t e r n a t io n a l F e s t i v a l f o r H u m a n it y fin es if he kept performing with a >EE P . 2 4 FOR D ETA ILS) / sound system. On top of that, street perform ance in dS NEEDED FOR GAVIN HEFFERNAN*S Montreal requires a permit that can C O W » è W , '\ be obtained for llrm ïlw $105, plus $365 for an id en tity card and $50 to Am s Jr open a file. Most BY performers, some of them M cG ill m usic students, Phillip Trippenbach S p r in g t im e m e a n s m u s ic h a s a r r i v e d b a c k o n t h e s t r e e t s try th eir lu ck at STCUM security office). So if you performing without a permit simply make. I make approximately $10 an find yourself in the Peel subway b ecause fin es are rare and less hour on average, but it depends. w ith, say , your tuba and a few expensive than permits. Eric’s move is more motivated Y esterd ay I made $50 in four hours to kill, as long as you write hours; tomorrow I might make $6. your name down on the schedule, by ideals. For him, music has little to do with money and everything to You never know,” he explains. “For you’re allowed to play. months now, I’ve been eating and It’s not so easy in other cities. do with freedom of expression and paying rent thanks to this and I’ve In San F ran cisco , underground self-identity. “I don’t give a shit also managed to put some money m usic is banned w h ile in New about money,” he declares. “I do aside.” York, a transit authority program this because I don’t have to justify B y M arie - H élene Sa v a r d ________

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Cultural studies. For many, the term is synonymous with buzz words like postmodernism, decon structionism and critical theory, thinkers like Derrida and Kafka, and Italian film m akers ran gin g from Fellini to Scorcese. However, after speaking with several mem bers on the organizing committee of the upcoming McGill Film and Video Festival, it occurred to me that the word may also be synony mous with ambition. Using lim ited resources and working under a minuscule budget, cu ltu ral stu d ies students Zach K erbel, M alco lm L ev y, A aron W aisglass and Allan “Bud” Black among others, have taken a wide variety of film subm issions and organized them into an impressive line-up that w ill be p layin g this week at Moyse Hall. Levy notes that the motivation for doing so was to “continue showing films at McGill because it’ s being cut off by the higher powers that be.” He fe e ls there is a lot of talen t at McGill that doesn’t necessarily get the chance to be shown to the pub lic and that this is a forum designed to curb that problem. Though film

making seems to fall outside the normal areas of academic studies focused on at McGill, the festival has been an annual tradition at McGill — largely a result of the continuing, albeit unexpected, tal

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ent that surfaces at these events. Kerbel has high expectations for this years festival and hopes that it w ill help set the groundwork for future projects. Black suggested that the mate rial that will be showcased at this year’s festival will appeal to a vari ety of tastes and interests. “There are a lot of interesting projects — documentaries, animations, fiction

al stuff, that’s all very cool, very exp erim en tal and v ery fun to watch.” Despite this, there has been some debate concerning the form or content that would be accepted.

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Two m em bers of the selectio n com m ittee who w ish to rem ain nameless highlighted this differ ence. The first, felt that the festival should show “anything that brings in the people,” arguing that “if it’s tits and ass that the public wants, then it’s tits and ass they’ll get.” He also continued, “Even if a flick is artistically interesting or technical ly good, the films [at the festival]

are there to be seen and that if a suitable for those with conservative given movie can’t get people into id e a ls, w h ile others, lik e Jesse the seats, it might as well be shown B ro w n ’ s an im atio n I F u ck t h e in the directors basem ent.” The W orld, and Malcolm Levy’ s The other argued that, “The film s S tory o f Try deal with subject mat should try to set a good example of ter that Jerry F alw ell m ay find w hat M cG ill is a ll about” and offensive but that most of us w ill advocated taking a more conserva probably just enjoy. Other notables tiv e approach to the film s that include R ev erse N egative by Zach shows a sensitivity to the ethical Kerbel, Sunday by Oren Ognowitz and moral concerns of the student and Manufactured Stories by Adam body. To me, it sounded like both Chasen. W hatever your view is, the had watched P eo p le v. L arry F lynt a few too many tim es, and were festival is definitely not one to be kind of hung up on the free speech missed and will prove to be a won debate. Perhaps, the recent CBA derful opportunity to check out the conflict has raised everyone’s polit creative projects that some students ical sensitivities to inordinate lev have put a lot of work into while the rest of us have our heads buried els. Zach Kerbel quickly brought in the books. the discussion down to earth and The M cG ill film an d Video f e s suggested that he thought both of the aforementioned members were tiva l sh o w s A pril 6 a n d 7 a t 7:00 “a little nuts” and that quality was p m in M oyse Hall. E ach d a y s h o w c a s e s d iffer en t the only criterion that the screening committee really used in judging film s a n d the c o s t is $4 f o r o n e d a y o r $5 f o r both. what would be shown. F or m o re info s e e w w w .theon Nevertheless, what will actual ly make it into the festival still lin efilm fcst.co m o r c a ll f o r in fo at remains to be seen. For instance, 201-8695 both Adam S ch ecto r’ s R o b yn ’ Banks, and Allan Black’s Ju st O ne K iss, which deals with the subject of childhood romantic love, seem

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The very title of C h a r m in g a n d R o se: A L ove S tory seems to offer a prom ise of p arad ise, of warmth, of lush sensuality and a happy ending. The play, written by Canadian playw right K elley Jo Burke and directed by Laura Levine, for the Directors Project is a fairy tale, centering on four characters as they deal, or attempt to deal in a world with the vicissitudes of aspi rations of true love, hope and final ly, betrayal. We laughed and cried as the characters exchanged pene trating bouts of sarcastic wit, and span an animated tale that included a prince and a castle. The audience was entranced because most of us, no matter what our age, w ill a lw a y s crave the innocence of a fairy tale. However, there was definitely a more force ful objective making us all victims of deception at the M orris Hall Theater. Perhaps it was the tiny confines of a space neatly tucked aw ay in a corner of some brown stone building on McGill Campus which served as a venue and pro vided just the right amount of inti m acy; perhaps it was due to the maturity of the subject. The truth of the matter is that we believe because the actors on stage make us believe; they take hold of our cynical adult imagina tions and we are rendered helpless. L isa Bird, the sweet impetus and em otionally charged actress who p lays Princess Rose, E lsa Perez who plays the hysterically off the w all fairy godmother Auntie Mel, and M ik lo s P erlus who p la y s C harm ing w ith im p ressive and acute conviction, hold the stage with confidence and grace. Their

easy rapport gives instant credibili ty to the script’ s sisterly banter. Amy Pagnotta is, lean and lithe as W h ite P aw s, the fem ale w o lf. C h arm in g a n d R o se is hinged on the freshness and immediacy of the dialogue. The play is built around the kinds of conversations we have in real life: fast, funny, abrasive and raw. Our heroine Rose was raised by a w o lf nam ed W h ite P aw s, because her mother died while giv ing birth. Auntie Mel took it upon herself to get her out of reach from the clutches of her father, the cruel King Harold because Rose, being the daughter of a Queen and a King, is fully entitled to all mone tary gains that comprise being bom into royalty. Rose has it all, a guar anteed future, blade sharp intelli gence passed on to her by white paws, even beautiful long tresses. The irony of it all is, should she w ant m ore, it is a ll w ith in her reach, all she has to do is wish it and her fairy God Mother can pro vide. Some of us ladies would kill for such a fantasy. No use fretting, Rose makes the unavoidable mistake of wish ing for Prince Charming. Eventually her prince arrives, not even on a white horse to boot. They meet one day in the forest and C harm ing alm ost k ills her while he is out playing huntsman to p le ase his fath er, the K ing. Right from the start, as they wres tle to the ground there is a perpetu a lly sh iftin g b alan ce of pow er between M iklos Perlus and L isa Bird as our two star crossed lovers. E bbing and flo w in g w ith ever escalating aggressive sensitivity, these two artists made the piece transcend itself into a volatile thrill for the audience. Their body lan

guage was vivid on stage. It spoke a different language, a language that contained the elem en ts of compelling raw sexuality. The two are married, much to the dismay of the king. Every night Charming visits Rose up in a room where she lay guilt ridden alone, over the death of her m other, White Paws. By the way, it is wor thy to mention it was Charming who killed her. They made mad passionate love; they slipped into euphoria in each other arms night after night. They tasted each other, they felt what it is like to be alive. How could we feel sorry for our poor fairy princess Rose, was she not b lis s f u lly and in d u lg e n tly happy? Most mortals I know only get that kind of th rill in box of H âagen-dazs ice cream . W e sit around yearn and bum with desire about our prince charming, yet we keep to ourselves, quietly hoping. Not Rose, she was brave, she was guided by pure truth and honesty of what she wanted, and it was not her father’ s kingdom she sought after, it was her prince. Lisa Bird reenacted childlike enthusiasm and adult anguish in her performance that w as nothing short of pure enchantment. The whole time the audience is witnessing the trials and tribula tions of this unusual piece of the ater between Rose and Charming, Auntie Mel is sitting quietly in the corner taking it in like the rest of us. Elsa Perez is luminous as the Fairy Godmother, even when she doesn’t speak. When Elsa delivers her lines she is divine, brusque and droll as occasion demands. Miklos Perlus is phenomenal as he por trays the poor p u ssy w hipped C h arm in g. He co n v eyed such effortless persuasion on stage, and

even though we cannot excuse his abusive behavior towards Rose, he made the audience want to see the lovers stay together peacefully. We felt remorse for him, as he deliv ered his lines about his perplexity over Rose’s clitoris and his need to control the woman he loves. Like all things in life bad or good, tragically everything must come to an end, even fairy tales. Poor Rose comes her senses and to the realization of what it is a wolf and a woman has in common; they do what has to be done. The final, p in n acle m om ent on stage removed any trace of reality the audience might have held on to. Rose’ s shriek registered first in our minds, and then instantly we felt her pain in our hearts. It was razor

sharp: it cut across the silence of the theater smoothly. Verdict — a decidedly female metaphor of social issues: relation ships, domestic violence, and con trol. A sweet and potent tale about control, femininity, sexual empow erment and a beautiful moment of sweet surrender while being taken hostage. No folks, this is not your everyday kinda’ fairy tale story. Not that we couldn’t have used a few stories like this one while we little girls. Who knows, maybe the resu lt of such stories had there been more of them in our youth, might have lead to different out comes for a few of the boys we know that impersonate men.

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squeegee kids w aste their lives away on St. Denis Those o f you who are devoted readers of the T rib u n e may recog nize this column from last year’s paper. Every other week I regaled my readers with my latest adven ture at a hokey, sleazy or down right terrifying bar. I chatted up C oncordia kids at R e g g ie ’s, danced on picnic tables at Braus Haus the Bavarian Discotheque, was given merengue lessons by the M afia at S a lsa th e q u e and experienced the intramural sports lifestyle at Bar des Pins. I lived and breathed my mandate: “I am

every night of the week. There is something eerie about watching 50 year old men with hockey hair dancing alone, but perhaps not unenjoyable. If you’re looking for a younger scene, check out Café Chaos, a favourite hot spot for punks, Goths and squeegee kids. Café Chaos is always playing loud punk music, and if you’re lucky, the music may even be live. I rec ommend this bar only if you are not very interested in actually talk ing to the people you are with. If you happen to be down in this area

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not cool. The places I go are not cool. If you are cool, this column is not for you.” But ambition makes monkeys o f all o f us, sooner or later. Somehow, on the basis of my gal livants I ended up becoming one of the Arts and Entertainment edi tors of the T rib u n e . And while the experience has been rewarding, challenging, etc. etc. etc., I can’t help but long for those days when self-aggrandizement was the call of the day. So, for the last issue of the T r i b u n e , the bar-reporter is back. Exams are upon us, and the weather has sim u ltan eou sly warmed up with its usual cruel twist of fate. My advice: no one can work 16 hours a day, so take some time off to enjoy the balmy climes. This is the season of the terrasse, and there is no better place to enjoy an afternoon of sun shine and sangria than the cluster of bars below Sherbrooke on StDenis. Here is a short tour of the hotspots in my neighbourhood. For the ultim ate terrasse experience, everyone knows that S ain t S u lp ice reigns supreme. Saint Sulpice is a converted three story house with a labyrinth of rooms and staircases and a huge terrasse in the back. It has the dis tinction o f being the only bar I can think of that is full, not just every night, but all day as well. I used to live right over the terrasse and was serenaded with indecipherable chants from about noon to 3 am every day. There is a McGill tradi tion to convene at Saint Sulpice at the end of classes. After shimmy ing through the tightly packed crowd of all the people you ever knew, the end result is inevitably being soaked in Boreale Blonde. While this is reminiscent of the good old days of Four Floors par ties, I suggest that it is more relax ing and cleanly to go in the after noon. On the other side of the street, there is a strip of bars that warrant a trip if Saint S u lp ice is too crow ded. B istr o a J o jo plays deafenin g blues m usic alm ost

on a fine, weekend afternoon and don’t feel like pissing away the day in dank and gloomy bars, try the terrasse o f L ’O dyssey. The interior design leaves much to be desired, but tables outside are right on St-Denis. This is a great place for watching the beautiful people, fights, panhandlers and con fu sed tou rists. A s the sun moves from one side of the street to the other, you can always move over to Saint Sulpice. Cheers to the day when our biggest worry is what bar is situated best for the most sun exposure. Finally, there are a few more u p scale ch o ices if you find it depressing to be hit on by 16-yearold CEGEP students. Q uartier Latin, L ’lle Noire and Jazzons are all excellent selections for the more discriminating bar patron. Quartier Latin oozes cool: there is alw ays a DJ spinning, the low lighting emphasizes the minimalist varnished wood interior, and there are more aspiring film directors and writers than one can count. The English pub experience can be found at L’lle Noire, which, features an im pressive array of im port beers on tap. This bar attracts an older crowd, and the drinks are a bit expensive, and there is no la sciv io u s dancing allowed! Keep that sort of non sense at Angels. Jazz fans should take note of Jazzons, which has liv e ja zz alm ost every night. McGill students often play here; it also draws local and national acts. So take heart, gentle reader, summer is just around the corner. Som ewhere in this w ide, wide city, there is a place begging you to take a seat and relax. Now that the snow has melted there is no excuses not to com e down and explore the varied wonders of my neighbourhood. It’s the only place in town where you find business executives, university students, squeegee kids and tourists all rub bing shoulders around the same watering holes.

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With Ben Stiller and Edward Norton in the lead roles, it would be foolish to think that K e e p in g the F a ith could possibly be a bad movie. Even with act ing train wreck Jenna Elfman in the film , the two actors would surely overcome and produce a great film. But somehow they managed to fail...mis erably. The m ovie is about three childhood friends who are reunited when Anna R eilly (Elfm an) returns to the home of her youth, New York C ity. She left for C alifornia when she was thirteen years old, w hile Brian Finn (Norton) and Jacob Schram (Stiller) stayed in the Big Apple. After Anna leaves, Brian and Jacob become best friends and form a bond that will last Press shot them well into their thir A h , s tro llin g in a g a r d e n h ig h a b o v e C e n tr a l P a r k in N e w Y o rk C ity ties. When the story arrives in the inevitably follow a couple trying to prising to see that a film about a Rabbi and Priest featuring no con present, Brian has becom e a cover up their love. E verything is going along versation with G-d, nor guidance C atholic priest and Jacob has become a Rabbi. The film makes a smoothly for the new lovers until from a holy book. Instead the main lot of self-aware references about Jacob realizes that he must make a characters choose to find advice the “a Rabbi, a priest, and a...” choice whether to stay with her from their bosses, who both give opening line of a joke. In any case, because of his religion, or because practical, not theological advice. The absurdly long running the two men have decided that of his selfish attitude, or because dw indling attendance in their he’s afraid of commitment, or that time doesn't add to the charm of respective congregations is due to he’s worried his mom won’t love this film which takes almost two the stagnation of the religions. In him. Needless to say, the reason and a half hours to develop its rouan effort to boost attendance, they why their relationship becomes tine plot. It is surprising that bring new tricks, such as rousing troubled is ridiculously convolut Edward Norton would attach his sermons with pop culture refer ed. Fortunately though, the conver name to this film twice, as actor ences and soon they are speaking sation that Jacob and Anna have is and director. He is probably the to packed houses. In other words, very emotional, with Anna point best character actor in Hollywood. they have both become phenome ing out some big realizations about Although he seems to be in good life and about Jacob as a person. If company as M ichael Caine did nal successes in their fields. ever there was an actress more make Ja w s 4, Hillary Swank made Though Brian is forbidden from dating because he is a priest, suited to deliver contrived dia T h e N e x t K a r a t e K i d and even Jacob quickly finds himself in a logue than Jenna Elfman, I haven’t Kevin Spacey starred in T h e R e f. muddle when every Jewish mother seen her. When she turns on the What that means is that even an in his congregation is trying to set tears and start emoting, it’s almost Oscar-worthy actor can make a him up with her daughter. Though laughable how terrible she is. It’s bad movie. For Edward Norton, he has little interest in many of like watching a high school drama this is his first truly terrible film them, he knows that he has to presentation about drugs. That is and will provide ample fodder for marry if he wants to be promoted approximately how bad the acting Billy Crystal to rib him when he wins. at the synagogue. So when he and dialogue is. The m ovie does have some agrees to date one of these daugh ters, Stiller predictably delivers the w w w .yesm tl.org Lo o k in g fo r a jo b ? exact same shtick he delivered in (514) 878-9788 T h e r e 's S o m e th in g A b o u t M a r y ,

though not nearly as funny. As soon as it's established that Jacob needs to find a woman that he can love, Brian tells him that Anna is coming back to New York on business. They both go out to the airport to pick her up and on sight of her, their childhood crush comes rushing back. The three of them all remain equal friends for a little while, but eventually Anna falls in love with Jacob and they begin a relation ship. Though she has some feel ings for Brian, she knows his faith prohibits him from taking a wife/lover/girlfriend, so apparently she just moves on to Jacob. For the rest of the film we see Jacob and Anna trying to hide their blossoming romance from Brian.

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His u n iversity career fin ish ed , A ll-C anadian Redmen hockey star Mathieu Darche is ready to take his game to the next level. Darche, the first McGill play er in over a decade to win the national scoring championship, has receiv ed several contract offers from N ational H ockey League teams and is expected to wrap up a deal soon. One of the teams he is con tem plating sign in g with is the Montreal Canadiens. “It’s d iffic u lt for players making the transition from college hockey to the NHL, but we think Darche is som eone who can do it,” said Canadiens general man ager Réjean H oule. “H e’s got good hands, sees the ice well and is a solid player overall. W e’ve expressed interest in signing him and hope we can reach an agree ment.” W hile exchanging his Red and White McGill uniform for a Habs jersey would be thrilling, Darche is strongly considering sign in g with the expansion Columbus Blue Jackets. “Columbus might be the best option because of the opportunity to play in the NHL right away,” said Darche. “Wherever I sign I’ll have no regrets though. I’m confi dent in my abilities, you have to be in this business, and will hope to crack the lineup. My goal is to start next year in the NHL.” D espite his optim istic out look, Houle projects Darche, if signed by the Canadiens, as hav ing to spend a year in the American Hockey league to hone and refine his skills. “Its a much quicker game at the NHL level, and we see Darche as spending time in the AHL in order to make the adjustment,” said Houle. “He’s going to have

to get used to the faster pace, and improve his skating and learn to get his shot o ff quicker. W e’re confident though that he can get to the NHL and help our club in the future.” Regardless o f his fate next season, Darche can remain proud of his legacy at McGill. Besides his scorin g a ccom p lish m en ts, Darche made a profound impact on the Redmen hockey program with his fierce resolve as a player and team leader. “He might not be as spectacu

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While Darche’s breakthrough season came as a sophomore, he exceeded all expectations as a senior. Darche gave the following explanation for his tremen dous finish this year. “It was great to play with Dave Gourde, I clicked with Burgess last year, but Gourde and I worked so well together this year,” said Darche. “Dave Grenier was a great third guy on our line. He didn’t get a lot of credit but he worked so hard, and did a lot of the physi cal work in the comers. Generally there was a great spirit this year which contributed to my success individ ually. Last year there were divisions on the team between French and English players. Some guys didn’t give their all. This year everybody was close and on the same page and it showed on the ice.

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lar as Pierre Gendron, or as skilled as Todd M arcellus, but h e ’s the m ost com plete player w e ’ve had sin ce I’ve been around,” said M c G ill’s head coach sin ce 1996 Martin Raymond, a former team captain and A ll-C anadian. “Darche is such a competitor, and that rubbed o ff on our w hole team. H e’s a p h ysically intim idating player

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who can score, create plays and kill penalties. Best o f all he’s a con fid en t player w h o ’s great under pressure. H e’s led us in gam e w inning goals for three straight years.” One of the most remarkable things about Darche is his w ell roundedness as a person. A solid student in the faculty of manage ment, Darche recently won the Randy Gregg trophy for success fully combining athletics, acade m ics, and com m unity in volve ment.

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me and my brother were raised to value our education. I’m graduating in May, and if a pro career doesn’t work out, I’ve got my degree to fall back on,” said Darche. “I’m not as serious a student as my brother, though. A medical student playing professional football is almost unheard of. When he hurt his knee this year, he was diagnosing his own injury on the stretcher, and

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guys on his team were really im pressed and taken aback by that.” Darche first caught the eye of pro scouts with his two-goal per form ance in the Ontario University Athletics all-star game against Team Canada in January. Since then, he has received a lot of attention from NHL scouts and general managers who began to show up in droves to see M cG ill play late in the year. Besides Houle, New Jersey gener al manager Lou Lamoriello and Habs assistan t GM Jacques Lemaire were spotted at Redmen playoff contests. “All of the interest during the year was flattering,” said Darche. “I like playing under pressure, and it only fueled my motivation.” The sudden interest of NHL teams in Darche and the Redmen was w elcom ed by coach Raymond. “It sure ca n ’t hurt us for recruiting purposes to say our captain is about to be signed by an NHL tea m ,” said Raym ond. “While the scouts were there to see Darche they also noticed some o f our other players, like Greg Davis, for example. Generally, the interest also shines on our players who work so hard, and it gives them a sense that they’re playing an excellent level of hockey. Habs GM Houle concurs with R aym ond’s assessm en t of Canadian university hockey. “I like what I saw at Trois Rivières in the league finals,” said

Houle who saw the Redmen lose 5-0 in game two of the series. “It w asn’t the best night to watch Darche play b ecau se he got injured early and his team got shut-out, but the game was intense. The guys gave their all out there. W e’ve had players in the past make the adjustment from college. It’s a good level of hock ey.” Knowing he’s going to have to be sharp in training camp, Darche will be spending the sum mer months working to improve his fitness level, and speed on the ice. While still nursing the knee injury he suffered in the finals against l’Université du Québec à Trois Rivières, Darche expects to be back at full strength soon. McGill track and field coach Dennis Barrett w ill be working closely with him once he is fully healthy in order to ensure his pre paredness for the rigours of a full pro-hockey season. “The major difference will be the amount of games. It will be an adjustment going from just 26 gam es in c o lle g e to over 80 games,” said Darche, “During the summer I hope to trim down, get in great shape and improve my quickness. My skating is the num ber one thing I have to work on. I want to be ready to compete for a job in training camp.”

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When Olivier Lefebvre fin ished his career with the Redmen follow ing a p layoff loss to the Ottawa Gee-Gees in October, he left little to be accomplished on or off the field. On the field he had been a captain, an all star, and winner of multiple trophies. Off the field he had finished his undergraduate degree on the honour roll, and had earned his masters degree. “After the Ottawa game, I felt a little sad about my career being over,” says L efebvre. “But I achieved almost got every objec tive I set for m yself when I first game to McGill, except for two: winning the Vanier cup and being an All-Canadian.” The second o f his m issed goals was surely an oversight con sidering the season that Lefebvre had in 1999. He led the OntarioQuebec Intercollegiate Football Conference in tackles with 84, and had two interceptions, a knock down and a fumble recovery. It served as a fitting swan song for one o f the best linebackers in Redmen history. Born in St. Bruno, Quebec in 1975, Lefebvre was first introduced to the game by his uncle, a Canadian Interuniversity Athletics Union referee. After his early introduction to the sport, Lefebvre joined the St. Bruno Barons at age eight. “I was always a slow learner for the other sports,” says Lefebvre. “I guess I have bad handeye coordination, but I got football

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defensive player of the week on a regular basis. By 1993, he had earned enough recognition to war rant a selection onto the prestigious Quebec under-19 team, which was made up of the best young players in the province to play against other similar all star squads for a national title. That year the Quebec team took home the national title, and Lefebvre began to draw inter est from universities. “The first connection we had with O llie was with Team Quebec,” says Redmen head coach Charlie B aillie. “When [former Redmen coach] Joe Marchildon was an assistant, we made contact with him and started recruiting him. I remember going to a midget football banquet at least 3-4 years before he came to McGill, he was voted outstanding defensive player in his league. But it was after his time with Team Quebec that we really started recruiting him.”

In sta n t im p a ct After choosing McGill for its combination of football and acade mics, Lefebvre enrolled at McGill for the winter term in January. That extra time gave him some advan tages over the other first year play ers in his rookie year of 1995. A lot of that class would sit on the bench for the bulk o f the season, but Lefebvre saw the field in his first game and even worked his way up to starter by the end of the season. “I dressed my first game and only got to play special teams,” says Lefebvre. “I got a little play

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right away. For a while I played hockey and football, but eventually I had to choose between Midget AAA and football. In hockey, I was more of a goon, so choosing foot ball was easy.” Perhaps another reason for L efebvre’s ch oice was that he didn’t want to live in the shadow of his brother Frederic who played hockey for Shaw inigan in the Quebec M ajor-Junior H ockey League. In any case, it was football where Olivier staked his athletic future. He stayed with the Barons until he was 17 and played for the Vanier C ollege Cheetahs under current Redmen defensive coordi nator Mike Maurovich. During his teenage years he con sisten tly improved and was being named

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ing time in the second quarter. After that, we played an exhibition game against Laval and I broke my foot. I missed a few games but I cam e back in the Shrine Bowl [against Concordia], That was the second to last game of the year and I was playing really well on special team s. But I wanted to play defence so badly, finally the coach sent me in for one play and told me to blitz. I got in there, I sacked the QB and he got a concussion. After that play, I became starter in the last game of the season.” After that fateful hit on the poor Stinger QB, Lefebvre proved that he could succeed at the CIAU level. In the ensuing off-season he also proved that he could succeed as a leader and was named co-cap

tain in only his second year. The positions as a starter and as a cap tain were two things that he would not reliquish until the conclusion of his Redmen career. “Ollie is a complete player in the sense that he’s a team player both on and off the field,” says Baillie. “He’s effective, physical, bright, fast, and he has a sense for the ball. Off the field, he’s a great leader and a very focused young guy on getting the job done proper ly ” Lefebvre certainly got the job done this season against Bishop’s as he racked up a team record 17.5 tackles against the Gaiters. The game was only somewhat of a sur prise considering that Lefebvre had long established himself as the best tackier on squad. Not only the sin gle season leader this past season, Lefebvre holds the career record for tackles. “I study the opponent a lot by using video a n a ly sis,” says Lefebvre when asked about where C ry s ta l W re d e n L e fe b v r e w ill g e t to tr y h is h a n d a t th e p r o g a m e his tackling ability comes from. “I find that if you know the plays and you can read them as soon as it working for Montreal-based CAE one talked to me from their organi starts you get an advance on the Electronics, a company that con zation. Then in January the ball carrier. That makes it harder structs high end flight simulators. Alouettes signed Jason Casey from for them to block you, and that’s Lefebvre is currently working as a Concordia. He’s a good player, but what I did when I broke the single propulsion specialist and models I was curious why the Als signed game record. I spent the whole the engine designs on the planes. him and didn’t even talk to me. I But last month, Lefebvre reached just found out that the Tiger Cats week studying their plays.” His preparation time mentally an even bigger goal; a shot at the had me on their protected list all this time, but they didn’t tell me! I and phsyically for each game CFL. was getting depressed because I His fourth year with the reveals the fundamental intensity that Lefebvre applies to football. It Redmen was Lefebvre’s draft year thought they didn’t want me. Then is that same focus that lies at the and as such, he attended the last week, after six months of wait Football League ing, I got offered a contract. So I’ll core of all of Lefebvre’s success in Canadian Com bine with teammate Jean get a chance to hopefully make the football and in school. He has man Phillipe Darche. While Darche had team, and play in the CFL.” aged to play varsity football for With former Redmen Darche, four years while simultaneously a great workout and was drafted by Samir Chahine, Val St. Germain, the CFL, Lefebvre fell a little short com pleting an undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering of expectations and was not draft and Dan Pronyk all having played on the Principal’s Student-athlete ed. That was the main reason why in the CFL, coach Baillie is certain honour roll for graduating with a Lefebvre returned for a fifth year. ly qualified to make a judgement cumulative GPA over 3.5. In his After making his mark on the O- on Lefebvre’s probability of suc fifth year of football he completed QIFC, the Hamilton Tiger-Cats cess with Hamilton. “I think Ollie is a CFL-calibre his masters in Aerospace took notice and asked for some player,” says Baillie. “He’s got all game film. After sending it off, Engineering. “My parents and my brother Lefebvre waited for months with the qualities to play the game, he’s were my role m od els,” says out a response and assumed that his fast, he’s strong he’s tough, and Lefebvre of the source of his inten dreams of playing in the CFL were he’s in great physical condition. He works hard and should be able to sity. “When my brother played over. “I hadn’t heard anything from play at the next level.” hockey he spent enormous amounts o f time training and getting in the Ticats after I sent them my shape. I would usually train with game film ,” says Lefebvre. “No him and he taught me a lot about focus and O liv ie r Le fe b v re C a re e r S tats hard work. My parents and my brother both S acks Int Total Assisted Tackles Solo taught me to have Tackles Year Tackles Tackles for loss objectives and do what you have to do to 0 2.0 30.0 0 1995 22 6 achieve them. To suc 0 5.0 56.0* 4 1996 18 29* ceed in football and in 0 1.5 54.5 1997 3 28* 22 school, I knew I had to sacrifice my social life 0 1.0 9 2 .0 * 5* 1998 51 35* to reach my goal.” 2 0. 0 8 5 .0 * 4 1999 42* 39* There is no doubt that Lefebvre has 2 9.5 318.5 16 Totals 161 131 reached his goals. denotes led team, ita lics - denotes led league P rofession ally he is

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The McGill Tribune, Tuesday, 4 April 2000

T h e s t r u g g le t o a t t r a c t t o p t a le n t t o M c G ill P re -se a so n re cru itin g is th e k ey a sp e c t to b u ild w in n in g lin e u p s B y M a r k K err

It’s that tim e o f year for M cG ill’s sports teams. The last game has been played, and now is the time to take stock of the team. Banquets are held to award deserv ing athletes for a year of hard work and determination. Furthermore, Redmen and Martlet coaches shift their attention to building a team for next year. A lot of this comes from recruiting new athletes to the university. Recruitment for the coming year in many cases will be in the final stages by this tim e. The beginning of the actual process for many teams began months and even years in advance. “I have a 10 per cent chance of getting a person that I see in September for the next year,” said women’s basketball coach Lisen Moore in acknowledgment of hav ing to start recruiting w ell in advance. “We look to develop a rapport with the players over two years.” The women’s basketball pro gram utilizes a letter writing sys tem to get to know prospective ath letes better. Moore begins by sim ply making contact with a player that is a couple years away from graduation. If that player continues to show promise both academically and athletically over the years, the letters become more intense. The development of the ath lete’s academic side is an important consideration when scouting an athlete. Like other McGill students, athletes must achieve a high aver age in order to be accepted to the university. Dennis Barrett, coach of both the cross-country and track and field teams, sees this as a good thing.

“Athletics is not the primary reason of four years of school, but it can be a clo se second,” said Barrett. Because he is responsible for

athlete can be difficult to do when there are many other universities looking at the same player. “There is a greater pool of tal ent, but more schools are offering

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the entire recruitment process, the search for new talent is done through what Barrett calls “passive recruiting.” “I don’t have the finances and resources - by resources I mean manpower - to do what I want to do,” said Barrett in the realization that recruitment must happen fore most at a local level. “First thing is to look for homegrown talent, and keep an eye on people in the club system.” W hile an important part of recruiting is identifying potential athletes that could improve the team, convincing those players to com e to M cG ill over another school is vital. Landing the star

women’s hockey,” said head coach Peter Smith of Martlet hockey in response to whether the rising pop ularity of women’s hockey made it easier to find talent.

S e llin g M cG ill To combat this competitive ness, Smith and other coaches use three sim ilar sellin g points to attract students to McGill. “The first area is M cG ill itself,” Smith said. “I tell the play ers that foremost they are getting a first class education.” Secondly, the McGill sports program is promoted as being high ly competitive. The women’s hock

ey program, especially, now with its silver medal at the national championships can boast to be a team that looks to keep maturing. The City of Montreal is the third area used to lure students to McGill. It helps that the campus is in the heart of the city, with many of the luxu ries close by. “It is very attrac tive,” said Smith of the city. “Especially to the people looking to use the French that they may have acquired from immersion.” Despite the wealth of reasons for coming to McGill, there are some difficulties in recruiting players to the university. The most prominent of these is the ability o f American universities to offer full scholarships. In Canada, however, first year athletes can Paul Conner only receive direct financial aid if they have an 80 per cent average, something that is dif ficult at a university as academical ly focused as McGill. . Coach Barrett feels that the rules restrict his ability to bring in marquee athletes. He used the example of trying to convince a sprinter from Sarnia to attend McGill in the coming year. The tal ented runner cannot afford the price o f a university education because of the family’s monetary situation. “Since she can’t get a scholar ship, she will look south of the bor der,” Barrett said realistically. Kelly Nobes, assistant coach for the Redmen hockey team, does

not portray the CIAU financial reg ulations as being absolutely restricting. “If a player has an offer from M ichigan State, we don’t even bother,” said Nobes. “Of course, we can’t compete with US schools, but we can compete with Division III and Ivy League schools.” Nobes believes that the hockey team might be more successful in drawing players to McGill rather than Division III schools because o f the superior education that McGill has to offer. In the case of Ivy League schools, the cost is just too great, and the academic qualifi cations for a scholarship are very difficult to meet. At the CIAU meeting in June, the issue will be raised with some su ggestion s made for reform. However, Barrett is not optimistic that much w ill change because most of the Ontario universities are against the proposal of lowering the academic requirements for a first-year scholarship. The CIAU regulations are not the only thing that causes difficulties in the area of recruitment, with many coaches are entirely responsible for recruit ing. This is no small task consider ing a team ’s practice and game schedule demands a great deal of time and energy. But the reim bursement of recruiting, whether it is building a winning team or meet ing so many promising athletes far outweighs the negatives for McGill coaches. “Getting out of bed early in the morning to be at a tournament two hours before can be...aghhh,” said Moore. “But I’ve never been upset once I got to an event. The reward o f meeting so many nice people is great!”

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Every athlete dreams of com peting on the highest stage. For many of McGill athletes that dream tops out at the provincial level, and for some the national level. It is only a select few that will be given the opportunity to compete on the global stage at the Olympics. At Sydney this year, one ath lete will be in familiar colours. Rower Geneviève Meredith will be trading McGill’s version of the Red and White for Canada’s. Not many people can say that they began competing in a sport a mere four years before being named to the N ational Team. Meredith, or “Baby G” as she is now nicknam ed, began rowing when she came to McGill in the fall o f 1995. She arrived at the school as a swimmer, and compet ed for the school team her first year. She soon decided that she wanted to try something new and joined McGill’s rowing team. Once she became hooked on rowing, she stopped swimming so she could

dedicate all of her effort to improving in her new sport. She was quickly rewarded as she was named the McGill rowing novice MVP. M eredith’s direction was strongly influenced by her coaches that first year. “The first few coaches were essential to the path that I took,” stated Meredith. “When I was a novice, my first year at McGill, there were three coaches working with the novice program. They were all on the national team and training in Montreal in preparation for the Olympic Trials. We were quite a successful crew and they really made us believe that we had potential. After that, I had two fan tastic, motivational coaches that really made me believe in myself and brought me to where I am.” Those coaches lit a fire under neath the St. Anne de Bellevue native and started her on a phenom enal rise to the top. She was a Canadian Interuniversity Athletics Union Academic All-Canadian and was on the M cG ill P rincipal’s

Student-Athlete honour roll. In 1997, she was named the McGill rowing team MVP, and she won gold at the Royal Canadian Henley in double and quadruple sculls and at the McGill invitational regatta in lightweight singles. She won silver in wom en’s lightweight singles at the Canadian university rowing championships. In 1999, she participated at national team Speed Trials regatta in Victoria and competed at the world rowing cham pionships in St. Catharines. Meredith is currently taking a leave of absence from school to train with the national team in V ictoria, B.C. for the 2000 Olympics, and says her training, while very demanding and timeconsuming, is going quite well. When she’s in Montreal, where it obviously is not possible to row outside during the winter, Meredith keeps in shape by lifting weights and cross training. She also does cross-country skiing and running and works on the ergometer, or rowing machine in laymen’s terms.

“In V ictoria, we can train year-round. We’re on the water two to three times a day. In addition, we weight train three times a week and do cross training, such as run ning or bike riding,” she said. The national team just recently finished what they call selections, where the team members compete for spots on the Olympic team. Thanks to an outstanding perfor mance, Meredith will be racing the lightweight single for Canada this summer and has been named as the spare for the lightweight double. “For our category (lig h t weight), there is only one boat, which is the double, and I’m the spare for the double,” explained Meredith. “The boat still has to qualify for the Olympics. So, as long as they qualify, I’ll be going down to Sydney. Although my event (the single)] isn’t raced there, there will be another regatta that I’ll be racing in. And this summer, there’s a series of races in Europe that I’ll be competing in.” “For the lightweight, because there’s only a double at the

Olympics, that’s the only thing that they’re really concerned about,” she continued. “The easiest way to measure an individual’s perfor mance is to put them in a single. So, trials for Canada are always done in singles. They took the top two girls and put them in the dou ble, and I got the single.” It was her place in that same race that earned her the honour of being the spare for the double. Meredith has one semester left to finish her degree in occupational therapy. She says that the school of occupational therapy has been very supportive of her pursuits and that she does plan on returning to McGill after the Olympics to com plete her studies. As for rowing for the McGill team, it won’t be possi ble this coming year because the Olympics and the school season conflict. But, she was quick to add that “I’m going to continue in school even after I get the degree, so perhaps in the future [I’ll com pete for the McGill team again].”

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In varsity athletics, especially at McGill, only a few athletes are able to make the jump directly from university to the pros after graduating. Next fall, the McGill Martlets soccer team will take the field with a player who already has b ig -le a g u e experience. M a r tle t defender Julia Scrase w ill play for the L a v a l

Dynamites of the semi-pro W -L e a g u e this summer. The league represents the highest level o f w om en’s soccer in N o r t h

get the best coaches in the province, which is really impor tant,” noted Scrase. “I’ve had a wide variety o f good coaching. Every coach emphasizes different things; some coaches stress the technical aspects, others stress teamwork.” After graduating from

Scrase has proven to be the team’s most versatile, playing both for ward and defence. In her rookie year in 1998, Scrase was a striker, and was second on the team in scoring to Eva M elam ed with seven goals. At the start of her sec ond year, Scrase was shifted to the backfield after the graduation of a few key defenders from the year before, and led a young defence along with Christie Finney and Ashlee Gentry that was the best in the league. “I like playing both positions, but I did better as a defender,” said Scrase. “I got more recognition as a striker. It’s not a problem , since that’s not my main objective.” In addition to her obvious techni cal ab ilities, Scrase’s other main asset on the pitch is her tremendous speed. As a result, she ended up com peting this winter with McGill’s track and field team, making the finals P a tr ic k F o k at the provincials in the 60 m sprint and winning a silver with the 4x200 m relay. “Training was the main objec tive, the competition was more of a bonus,” said Scrase. “I was sent a letter from the national team, with a daily training program. I trained this winter with both soccer and track.” A physical education major, Scrase’s long-term academic goal for the moment is to get a Master’s degree in sports psychology. In the meantime, she is looking to lead the young and promising Martlets, defending QSSF champions and

America, and maybe the world, with many o f the players who played in last year’s World Cup for Canada and the champion United States. The WLeague seems J u lia S c r a s e h a s th e s w e e t e s t m o v e s in th e Q S S F to be the per fect stage for the second-year Marianopolis College, where she defender from Dorval, Quebec, didn’t play varsity soccer but con who has proven to be one of the tinued to play for her Lakeshore province’s best young talents. After club team, McGill seemed like a being named a first-team all-star in logical choice. “I didn’t want to go to the her rookie year, Scrase was named the Quebec U niversity Soccer States. I knew a lot of girls who got League’s player of the year last fall scholarships, and then had prob lems and had to come back the next and a first-team all-Canadian. “She w ill be one of the key sem ester,” she said. “I knew players on the team ,” said McGill was very good academical Dynamites head coach Gaspard ly, and they had a great soccer D’Alexis. “She will be one of the team. The soccer team was one of best young players in the confer the determining factors.” In addition to being the ence, and is a potential rookie of Martlets’ best defensive player, the year.” D ’Alexis talked to Scrase last summer about join in g the Dynamites during their inaugural year. She politely declined, but this past December, he once again con tacted Scrase about playing for the pro team. “I was a bit surprised, I wasn’t thinking about it at a ll,” said Scrase. “I had bad shins, and I told him to wait until I got bone scans on my leg. When they showed I had no stress fractures, I decided to join.” “She was the first person I called this year. When we started last year, Julia was always one of the players we wanted to sign,” added D ’Alexis. “I coached against Julia in the youth leagues. I’ve known for a long time that she’s P le a s e su b m it a o n e to two p ag e one of the best talents in Quebec.” Scrase already had extensive cover letter outlining why you consid soccer experience before arriving at McGill in 1998. She was a member er yo urself to be an ideal candidate of the National Centre training pro for this position. gram for two years, and played with the Quebec provincial soccer team at the Canada Games in 1997. General Office, Currie Gymnasium Those two factors no doubt helped Attn: Elisa Kearney (S.A.C) in her transition to competitive uni versity soccer. “It d efin itely helped me D eadline Frid ay 7th A p ril @ 5:00pm achieve higher levels, to play with the top players in the province and

fourth place finishers at the nation als last season, to a national cham pionship. “We’ll have high expectations next year,” she said. “There was a high turnover this year, but we con nected really well. We’ll definitely improve over the next couple of years.” “Our team is gonna go all the way,” added Scrase, already excit ed about next season. “Last year we were just shooting for the Nationals, this year w e’re going after the gold.”

M cGill's sta r p ro sp e ct Scrase will join former McGill all-Canadians Odile Desbois and Luciana C ifarelli on the Dynamites, who play in a stadium in Laval, located just north of Montreal. Their season runs from late May until July. The team received some media coverage last season, with all o f their home games reported on the nightly Pulse sports report. “I’m really excited. The com petition is going to be great. We’ll

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The women’s volleyball team won the provincial senior champi onships held at Joliette, winning three out of four matches. Their highlights were the quarterfinals, where they beat their arch-rivals Montreal 2-0, and their upset of Quebec champions Laval in the final 2-1 (25-21, 17-25, 15-11). Marie-Andrée Lessard and Anouk Lapointe were named to the tour nament all-star team. M

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Tribune Female Athlete of the Year be travelling to B oston, New Jersey, a lot of places,” said Scrase. “I went to about three o f the (home) games last year. There’s a lot o f fans (500-800 per game), many of them young, and with the bigger crowds, there’s an atmos phere I haven’t played in (at McGill).” The pro team may merely be a step for Julia Scrase. Only 20 years old, with several years of experi ence with the national training cen tre, the provincial team, and one the nation’s best university teams, the only level left for her to reach is Canada’s national team. If all goes well, in a few years she could be wearing the Maple Leaf in the women’s World Cup or even the Olympics. “If she works hard, she will be on the national team ,” said D’Alexis. “She has to work a bit on individual skills, but she has all the tools: speed, technical ability, height, aggression. This league will give her a window to prove she can play at the international level.”

ski cham pionships held at Stoneham, the women’s ski team finished first out of eleven teams, mostly from Quebec. Jennifer Buckley finished first overall for M cG ill, with a silver in the slalom and bronze in the giant slalom, while Brianne Law won the giant slalom race, and Taylor Wood was 12th. The men’s top finisher was Brian Harris, who was 12th in the giant slalom. S

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A L East New York Yankees The World Series champions noted only one big o ff season change: the loss Toad” Irabu. His Yarnall grade, but realistically he can winless win the division. Toronto Blue The losses o f Shawri Green and David Segui appear op paper to be decim ating to this club that seemed to be on the verge of con tention. But remiember two years ago the loss of Mike Stanley. Ed Sprague, and Juan Guzman looked to be the end o f the Jays. That team made a surprise run at the wild card and was only eliminated in late September. The Shawn Green trade brought the Jays a superstar replacem ent in Raul Mondesi and left handed reliever Pedro Borbon, who will shore up an already strong bullpen. After a red hot spring, former Expo Brad Fullmer looks like he is ready to break out with some power num bers in the hitter friendly SkyDome. Fullmer and Mondesi are just two more big bats in a line up that includes sluggers Carlos Delgado and superstar to be Tony Batista. Spots two to five in the pitching rotation are clearly better than Boston and have the potential to be better than New York. The only problem is the number one spot where David Wells is proba bly the fourth best ace in the divi B y T he M in h L u o n c

NL East Atlanta Braves Before their customary World Series choke, the Braves did just fine while missing slugger Andres Galarraga, catcher Javy LopcZ and closer Kerry Ligtepberg. return of theliS do even bette Quilvio Veras.ai w ill provide n starting staff iss best, despite t Smoltz for the surrounding the Bjafès LhFjq^sqn may be how opposing, loudmouth red m fc ld ^ e £ |r rtôh n. « Rocker. “ » :•?* New York ;M ||C Contrary to som e Alight think, they don’t have the best line up in the division. Todd Zeilte is a downgrade from the departed John Olerud, w hile their outfield arguably has the least power in the National League. Newcomer Mike Hampton greatly improves their starting rotation. They showed a lot of character during last year’s play o ffs. With their strengths and w eaknesses, they could end up being anything from World Champions to fourth place finish ers. Montreal Expos There’s lots o f room for improvement, as potential stars Michael Barrett, Javy Vazquez and Carl Pavano are due for breakout seasons. Rookie Peter Bergeron, with both patience at the plate and speed, gives the Expos an authentic lea d o ff hitter. C loser Ugueth Urbina is capable of pitching much

sion. Boston Red Sox Quickly becoming a trendy preseason prediction for the World Series, the team has almost all the elements to make a real run at the Yankees. Pedro Martinez will guar antee twfsnty five wins, but the rest ■tching rotation is a little iendent on big seasons from aberhagen, Ramon Martinez and die very greeh Brian Rose. On offence, the^ still haven’t had a true sluggeCsince Mo Vaughn, but they have five players capable of bitting over twenty five homeruns. What ïviîl keep this team out of the playoffs is their lack o f middle relief, a sub-par outfield, and the inevitable injuries that seem to plague Red Sox pitching every sea son. Baltimore Orioles This team still has the talent that makes a wild card spot a dis tinct possibility. Their starting rota tion is solid with Mike Mussina, Scott Erickson and Sidney Ponson. The offense can explode for ten runs in almost any game with hit ters like Albert Belle, B.J. Surhoff, W ill Clark, and Harold Baines. Their bullpen is absolutely awful and is probably .the easiest place to lay blam e. Former Twin M ike Trom bley is certainly not the answer. Tampa Bay Devil Rays Looking over the 2000 lineup, you are left with only one question: Where’s Rob Deer? The Rays are a team that looks to be the collective version of the former Brewer slug ger: they will hit a lot of homeruns, have a low average, and put up a better than he did despite leading the NL in saves, while ace Dustin Hermanson should rebound from an off-year. They also have a right fielder named Vladimir Guerrero. Holes were filled, adequately but not spectacularly, by Hideki Irabu, Graeme Lloyd arid Lee Stevens. Essentially the same team that won gam es last year, but a season and third place is [y within reach . hiladelphia Phillies heir typical strong start is ely, with ace Curt Schilling or the first month. Andy y and closer Mike Jackson are J additions to the pitching staff, boast a dangerous offence, D oug G lan ville, Bobby AHfeu, Mike Lieberthal, who all quietly had tremendous seasons, top slugging prospect Pat Burrell and Scott Rolen if he is healthy. Florida Marlins After trading virtuall entire 1997 world chartjpffmship team for prospectSytfiey havd amassed some superWyoung talent, including rook ip*pitchers A J . Burnett and Brad^nny. Not ftiach more, though.

ridiculous number o f strikeouts. The middle of their lineup is now Fred McGriff, Vinny Castilla, Greg Vaughn and Jose Canseco. It’s nice to see that the mentality of a twelve year old is not lost on a big league GM.

ed to pay rewards for pale hose pitching. Young arms James Baldwin and Mike Sirokta are the twin aces on the team, while rookie Kip Wells has the potential to be the best White Sox starter since Jack McDowell. On offence Frank Thomas w ill try to regain his A L C e n tral swing, while Magglio Ordonez will Cleveland Indians entrench his status as the best hitter Once again this team will see on the team. the regular season as a formality. The Detroit Tigers But a rash of playoff disappoint The start of the Detroit renais ments has forced GM John Hart to sance begins in 2000. The brand pick up Chuck Finley from the new Comerica Park will quickly Angels. The addition of the veteran give the Tigers a boost in atten southpaw was done to try and com dance, which makes them a hot bat the lefty bats of the Yankees in ticket, thus increasing TV rev October. The rest of the pitching enues, thus leading to more money staff looks very strong, outside of spent on the team and the start of a the lack of a true closer. But with contender. Call it the Cleveland an offence like Cleveland there will syndrome. The off season addition be few games close enough to even of Juan Gonzalez was done mainly be save situations. Roberto AlgÉar, to give the fans at least one superJim Thome, Richie S.exsq# a! ar. Manny Ramirez mal The Minnesota Twins almost unfair that onjf JL Qjrey Koskic is a Canadian. have this much tal§ That is the ben news uc can hope Kansa to S w a o c n l the Twins this year. Once again tfcyrir w ilt be a ; only othfi notable story will be fierce race| jng to sêe^who wins the Brad title of sc^md pTae«®ipe cen- ^ |e sweeplnakes. tral. The Ro%te looj young offenser A L W est pitching to keep ffl attle Mariners all season. If this*! Jo Griffey, No problem. The sort of pitching sta fanners are the team to beat in the a contender for the w ild <ftrd. AL west this year. The Mariners Emerging players like Johnny offense is still potent with Alex Damon, Jermaine Dye, and Carlos Rodriguez, Mike Cameron, and Beltran will be at the heart of a new first baseman John Olerud. squad that could contend in three Jaime Moyer, Aaron Sele, Brett years. Tomko, and Freddy Garcia form The Chicago White Sox the basis of a pitching core that will A good farm system has start be helped by pitchers park Safeco Despite these facts, it’s hard not to pick Cincinnati for the division title after acquiring the gam e’s best player for essentially nothing. Houston Astros The division’s overwhelming favourite the past three years, they will have serious competition this year. Craig Biggio and especially Ken Caminiti.are starting to show the effects of age. Trading Mike Hampton hurts, but Carl Everett was adequately replaced with speedster Roger Cedeno, while Moises Alou, rumoured to eventu ally be returning to the Expos, will look to regain his ‘98 form. St. Louis Cardinals After two years of the Mark McGwire show, the Cards went through exten sive off-season changes to build a contender. They acquired recent all-stars Fernando Vina and Jim Edmonds. They have etely new rotation consist ing o f dë’frHping former aces Kile, Pat Hentgen, and and Aphenom (Rick rospect). If , they can P pot or even

NL C e n tra l Cincinnati Reds Pittsburgh Pj^ates They would have had difitenl^ The Piratp^are a darkhorse in ty in repeating their surprising « tbfcpght Nl(Central. Pittsburgh ’s p layoff run o f last year if they young rotation, led by Jason hadn’t traded for Ken Griffey, Jr. The overrated Greg Vaughn was Schmidt and Kris Benson, may be replaced by the more overrated the best in the division. All-star Dante Bichette. Their pitching rota catcher Jason Kendall has recov tion is full of question marks, while ered from his gruesom e ankle their bullpen m ight show the injury, and Brian Giles quietly put up MVP-type numbers after being e ffects o f overwork this year. rescued from the Cleveland bench.

Chicago Cubs 1998 NL MVP Sammy Sosa continued to hit homers at a prodi gious rate but is far from a com plete player. Their other star of ‘98, fireballer Kerry W ood, w on ’t return until at least mid-season. Their trade with the Dodgers for underachiever Ismael Valdes, who will be their ace, and Eric Young improves the team, but not to the status of contender. Milwaukee Brewers Few people can name anyone not in their stellar outfield o f Jeromy Bumitz, Marquis Grissom and Geoff Jenkins. After trading their last two all-stars for mediocre young pitchers, all that beer will help Milwaukee fans take another tough season.

NL W est San Francisco Giants If Barry Bonds, and fellow sluggers Jeff Kent and Ellis Burks avoid the disabled list, the Giants will rack up more than enough runs at new Pac Bell Park. Their rota tion is now led by young power pitchers Russ Ortiz and Joe Nathan. Should their higher-priced counter parts down south falter, they could walk away with the division. Arizona Diamondbacks Their strength lies in pitching, the second best in the NL last year. The career seasons o f Randy Johnson, Matt Williams, Jay Bell, Steve Finley, and Luis Gonzalez, who are all well past thirty, helped the D-Backs to shockingly win a division titler. It seems improbable that all will duplicate those sea sons, especially Williams, who is

Field. Oakland Athletics The A ’s are going to prove that last season was no fluke. Adding Kevin Appier to the staff will give them a bonafide ace and Jason Isringhausen looks to have happily settled into a role as closer. Last year, Oakland hit more home runs than any other team in the league and will look to build on that. Matt Stairs, Ben G rieve, Jason Giambi and Eric Chavez will all continue their slaughter of American 'League Pitching

Texas Rangers The team that won the division last year has significantly declined. They still have two MVP candi dates in Palmeiro and Rodriguez, who lead a young lineup. The loss of Aaron Sole has hurt the Ranger rotation which has grown famous for producing twenty game winners with ERAs over 4.00. Anaheim Angels No one in baseball believes that one-year wonder Kent Bottenfeld and unproven Adam Kennedy for all-around great centerfield Jim Edmonds was a fair deal. This team has a nice fat pay roll and has no chance at winning the division. MVP: Alex Rodriguez, Seattle Cy Young: Pedro M artinez, Boston Rookie of the Year: Mark Quinn, Kansas City ALCS Indians over Yankees W orld S eries C ham pions: Cleveland Indians over Mets

out for the first two months. Los Angeles Dodgers Despite an excellent season from Kevin Brown, their tradition ally superb pitching staff was only average due to horrible seasons from Chan Ho Park and Carlos Perez. Acquiring Shawn Green for whiner Raul Mondesi is great, but there still isn’t enough offence in the lineup for the Dodgers to con tend unless their pitching sparkles. Colorado Rockies Less than half of the players from last year’s team are back. Coors Field lifers Dante Bichette and Vinny Castilla are gone, and two-time batting champion Larry Walker will be challenged by new teammate Jeff Cirillo. Acquiring Rolando Arrojo d oesn ’t really address their pitching situation, which is hopeless until they sign someone who can defy the laws of physics at Coors Field. San Diego Padres Tony Gwynn and Trevor Hoffman are the only star players left from their World Series team of just two years ago. With most of the players departed via free agency, they haven’t even been able to acquire top prospects like the Marlins have. MVP: Ken Griffey, Jr., Cincinnati Cy Young: Kevin M illw ood, Atlanta R ook ie o f the Year: Peter Bergeron, Montreal NLCS: Mets over Braves W orld S eries C ham pions: Cleveland Indians over New York Mets

The McGill Tribune, Tuesday, 4 April 2000

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The Martlets won a silver medal at the National championships held at Concordia, marking the team’s best finish in its history. Once again the strength of McGill was in nets where Kim St.Pierre put together anoth er tremendous season, earning all-Canadian status. The top line of Julie Hornsby, Sophie Acheson, and captain Dana Rittmaster, instrumental in McGill’s success this year, is expected to remain intact for next sea son. The Martlets qualified for the nationals by virtue of their six over time marathon victory against UQTR in the conference semi-finals. While losing in the conference finals to Concordia, the Martlets came up with a huge win in the national semi-finals against University of Toronto to qualify for the national final which they lost 2-0 to Alberta.

Once again, both swim teams continued their dominance, winning both the women’s and combined titles at the provincials. David Allard won four gold medals at the provincials, as well as a gold and bronze at the Nationals held in Guelph, while Matt Walker earned a silver to help the Redmen finish 11th. The women were even more successful, fin ishing Bth at the Nationals. They were led by Lisa Virgini, who won four golds at the provincials and a bronze at the Nationals. Men’s M VP- David Allard Women’s M VP- Lisa Virgini

MVP- Kim St.Pierre Player to Watch for the future- Cindy Carufel

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The Redmen provided a great deal of excitement for their fans up at McConnell Arena this season. Generating the most offence of any team in the nation, McGill, ranked in the top ten for most of the sea son, recorded the most wins in school history. The Redmen breezed past Concordia in the first round of the playoffs, but fell short against perennial arch-rival UQTR in a best of three series. The team was hurt in the finals by crippling injuries to second-leading scorer Dave Gourde, sniper Benoit Rajotte, and all-Canadian Mathieu Darche. While many key players will be graduating, McGill still has a strong nucleus returning. Counted on to lead the way next season will be allCanadian defenceman David Bahl, smooth-skating forward David Burgess, and rookie Greg Davis. “We felt this was our year to beat UQTR,” said Darche, “Injuries hurt us in the end.”

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The Martlets had another woeful season on the court, finishing in dead last place in their division. There were some bright spots. Fifth year seniors Jennifer de Leeuw, and Alison Schaefar, remnants of the pow erhouse teams of the mid ‘90s, provided some spark. The Martlets also got some promising performances from rookie Cheeka Mitchell who looks to be a cornerstone of the team in the future. Coach Lisen Moore will be busy this summer trying to recruit some new blood for this declining program. MVP - Jennifer de Leeuw Player to watch for future - Cheeka Mitchell

MVP - Mathieu Darche Player to watch for future- Greg Davis p h o to s b y P a tr ic k F o k

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Following the graduation of several key athletes, both of McGill’s track teams had quite successful rebuilding years. The women finished second at the provincials, and, led by CLAU track and field athlete of the year Sarah Ali-Khan, they were eighth at the Nationals held at McGill, the team was aided by a surprising silver from hurdler Christine Lagarde. The men recovered from some injuries suffered during the year to place third at the provincials, and, thanks to a gutsy silver medal performance by the 4x800 relay team, a solid team finish of 12th at Nationals. Men’s MVP-Yohsuke Hayashi Women’s M VP- Sarah Ali-Khan

Male:

Female:

1. Mathieu Darche 2. David Allard

1. Julia Scrase 2. Sarah Ali-Khan

3. Rehan Ali

3. Kim St-Pierre

4. Olivier Lefebvre

4. Eva Melamed

5. Kirk Reid

5. Brianne Law

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The Redmen turned a rather mediocre regular season into a surprising playoff run by stunning Bishop’s and then beating Concoridia for the first time in years. The team was led by a pair of great guards. First team QSSF all-star and captain Kirk Reid was joined in the all star club by second teamer Domenico Marcario. With center Mark Rawas as the only player graduating this year, the team will return four starters and most of the bench.

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The Martlets finished a solid second in a league that featured four top ten ranked teams. They couldn’t shake their cross-town rivals in the playoffs, though, as they were eliminated for the third straight year by Montreal. Conference coach of the year Rachele Beliveau will have her work cut out for her, with several key players graduating such as Anouk Lapointe, Marie-Claude Ferland and Marie-Andree Lessard. A solid nucleus of young talent that should keep the Martlets in con tention. MVP-Anouk Lapointe Player to Watch-Shauna Forster

A c t iv e L iv in g C o u r s e s S p r in g / S u m m e r 2 0 0 0

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M a y 8 -J u n e

Course

Day & Time

Cost (M/NM)

Aqua Adult

Tuesday 18:30-19:25

$35/55

6 wks

1,2, 3

Saturday 09:00-09:55

$35/55

6 wks

Aqua Quest 1 to 4

Saturday 10:00-11:00

*35/55

6 wks

Aqua Quest 5 to 9

Saturday 11:10-12:10

$35/55

6 wks

Aqua Quest 10 to 12

Saturday 10:00-11:00

$35/55

6 wks

Aqua Tots 1 to 3

Saturday 11:10-12:00

$55

6 wks

Aquacise

Tuesday 8k Thursday 12:15-12:55

$30/60

6 wks

Stroke Improvement

Tuesday 17:30-18:25

$35/55

6 wks

Latin Dance

Wednesday 19:00-20:30

$50/65

6 wks

Taebox

Monday & Wednesday 18:00-18:55

$50/80

6 wks

First Aid/CPR Basic

Saturday 8k Sunday May 13 & 14 09:00-16:00

*70/75

2 days

CPR Rec-Cert

Sunday, May 14 09:00-16:00

$38/41

1 day

Hatha Yoga

Wednesday 12:15-13:10

$34/49

6 wks

Wednesday 17:30-19:00

$50/65

6 wks

Tuesday A Thursday 18:30-19:25

$40/55

6 wks

Spin

Monday 18:00-18:45

$35/60

6 wks

Tai Chi

Tuesday 17:30-19:00

$50/65

6 wks

Hiking

Sunday, May 14 Mount Pinnacle, VT

$45/50

All Day

Saturday, June 13 Franconia Notch, VT

$45/50

All Day

Sunday, June 17 Mount Pisgah, VT

$45/50

All Day

Saturday, June 5 Riviere Rouge

$86/91

1 day

Saturday A Sunday June 12 A 13 Riviere Rouge

$225/235

Saturday, May 13 Val David

$65/70

Power Yoga

Sea Kayaking

Rock Climbing

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$35

$42

$49

$56

$63

$70

$78

$82

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$94

$99

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$104 $109 $114 $114

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S p o r t s C o m p le x (w it h F it n e s s C e n t r e )

S p o r t s C o m p le x

1, 2 0 0 0

M o ls o n S t a d iu m (T ra ck )

N o n M c G ill

2 days

$ 3 4 / M o n th

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$ 4 4 / M o n th

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F u ll- T im e M c G ill

$ 5 5 / M o n th

S tu d e n ts

1 day

F a m ily

$ 8 0 /M o n th

S t a f f a n d A lu m n i

$225/235

2 days

Equestrian

Wednesday 20:00-21:00

$90/95

6 wks

Golf

Saturday 14:00-15:00

$50/67

6 wks

Squash

T H L E T I C S

S tu d e n ts

Saturday A Sunday June 19 A 20 Riviere Rouge

Tennis

c G ill

S t a f f / A lu m n i/

White Water Kayaking

Kayaking

le s s ) $ 1 8

F a m ily $ 8 1 /M o n th

C o m m u n it y

(1 0 -1 8

$ lll/ M o n t h

$50/67

6 wks

Sunday 14:00-15:00

$50/67

6 wks

Monday 18:00-19:15

$50/67

6 wks

Monday 19:20-20:35

$50/67

6 wks

Tuesday 17:30-18:45

$50/67

6 wks

Tuesday 18:50-20:05

$50/67

6 wks

Wectoesctay 18:00-19:15

$50/67

6 wks

Wednesday 19:20-20:35

$50/67

6 wks

Thursday 17:45-19:00

$50/67

6 wks

Thursday 19:05-20:20

$50/67

6 wks

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le s s ) $ 2 3 (1 0 -1 8

C a te g o ry

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2 wks

Saturday 10:00-12:00

$27/33

2 wks

Sunday 10:00-12:00

$27/33

2 wks

Tuesday A Thursday 18:30-20:30

$90/107

3 wks

Wednesday 18:00-21:00

$68/75

3 wks

$26/32

2 wks

$49/66

6 wks

Wednesday 18HJO-19:55

$78/95

6 wks

Thursday 17:30-18:40

$49/66

6 wks

w e e k s)

$ 3 8

$27/33

Monday 18:00-19:55

w e e k s o r

Friday 18:00-20:30

Tuesday 17:30-18:40

w e e k s)

$ 2 8

Sunday 13:00-14:00

w e e k s o r

$ 1 0 3 / M o n th

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F u ll t im e M c G ill S tu d e n ts S t a f f / A lu m n i/ S p o u se

C o m m u n it y

C h ild r e n / S e n io r s

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$ 2 2

$ 3 4 $ 3 1

$ 5 0 $ 3 8

$ 6 3 $ 1 7 (4 $ 2 6

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w e e k s o r le s s ) (5 -8

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w e e k s)

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S tu d e n ts

w e e k s)

$ 6 /d a y

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C h ild r e n / S e n io r s

w e e k s)

$ 3 /d a y

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w e e k s)

$ 2 6

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C o n s u lt t h e S p r in g / S u m m e r 2 0 0 0 is

s u e o f t h e M c G ill A t h le t ic s M a g a z in e f o r d e t a ils , o r c h e c k o u t o u r w e b s it e .

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T h r o u g h t h e s p r in g a n d s u m

m e r s e m e s t e r s f u ll t i m e M c G ill s t u d e n t s m u s t a l s o p u r c h a s e a m e m b e r s h i p in

Friday 17:30-18:40

$49/66

6 wks

o r d e r to g a in a c c e s s t o t h e S p o r t s C e n t r e .

Saturday 10:00-11:55

$78/95

6 wks

a ll t h o s e w h o w e r e r e g is t e r e d f u ll t im e t h r o u g h t h e 2 0 0 0 w in t e r s e m e s t e r .

Sunday 10:00-11:10

$49/66

6 wks

Tuesday A Thursday 18:45-19:55

$98/132

6 wks

Tuesday 17:30-18:25

$35/53

6 wks

Tuesday 18:30-19:25

$35/53

6 wks

S p e c i a l s t u d e n t r a t e s a r e in e f f e c t f o r

M e m b e r s h ip s a r e r e q u ir e d o f f u ll t im e M c G ill s t u d e n t s f r o m

M ay 1 to S e p te m b e r

3, 2000.

R a t e s s u b j e c t t o c h a n g e w it h o u t p r io r n o t ic e .

C e r t a in r e s t r ic t io n s m a y a p p ly .

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