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Broken code Rights, responsibilities and racism Justin Renard_____________________
As is policy at nearly every university, students and faculty are in most cases governed and protect ed by equal rights laid out by the university and overall government. But what happens when the insti tution itself or institution leader himself breaks the rules it has established? And what if it is because of racism? Last week, two expelled Concordia students and Concordia Student Union (CSU) Elects Laith Marouf and Tom Keefer began tak ing steps to fde charges under the University’s Code of Rights and Responsibilities against several uni versity officials including the Rector himself, Dr. Fredrick Lowy. The charges are the result of a con frontation that took place July 20 between Vice Rector Michael Di Grappa, Marouf, Keefer and securi ty staff, at which Concordia records two cases of assault and a death threat made against members of security by the two students involved. According to Marouf and Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights (SPHR) McGill Chapter President Ahmed Abu Safia, an eyewitness to the events, no assault or death threat was made. The resultant expulsion of Marouf and Keefer was made without any for mal hearings or rebuttal from those expelled, and no questions were asked of witnesses, said Laith. Please see RACISM , page 7
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From Molson to the show McGill suddenly a breeding ground for N FL long-snappers Jeremy Kuzmarov "Seattle’s long-snapper is a frenchman — not Jacques Cousteau but Jean-Philippe Daaaaaaarche from M cG ill University in Québec. ” —Dennis Miller: A B C Monday Night Football Broadcast vs. Kansas City Chiefi, October 2nd, 2000.
As his teammates looked on in amazement, then-Toronto Argonauts special-teamer Jean Philippe Darche calmly diagnosed that he had broken his right fibula after falling awkwardly in the 1999 Eastern Conference semi-finals
against Hamilton. While being carried out of Ivor Wynne stadium on a stretcher, the former medical student on leave from McGill University could see the writing on the wall: his brief interlude in pro football was seem ingly over and it was time to finish his quest to become a doctor. A funny thing happened, though, while Darche was undergo ing physiotherapy on his leg in the proceeding months while bracing for a return to school: the National Football League came calling. A few tapes sent around the league by agent Rick Polgar had caught the attention of more than a
few General Managers, and by the end of March, the former McGill Redmen standout linebacker, who broke the all-time school tackles record, had signed a contract with the Seattle Seahawks. In September, his leg fully healed, Darche became the first McGill player, and only eleventh Canadian university player ever to suit up for an NFL team. "I was all set to retire," said Darche, the 1998 recipient of the Russ Jackson Trophy for combining excellence in academics, athletics and community service in Canadian university football. " I never thought it was possible to
make the National Football League, and it was a dream come true.” Darche, who still plans to return to medical school after his football career is over, even earned the praise of normally reserved head coach Mike Holmgren - and he also earned a contract extension through next season. "He’s been very, very consis tent. Kind of a surprise since we got him late, and his background wasn’t the usual background —and he talks funny!" said Holmgren, winner of a Super-Bowl while at the helm of the Green Bay Packers, himself unable Please see C H EV R IER, page 16
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The McGill Tribune, Wednesday, September 5 2001
Pot luck: that marijuana thing Dr. Henry Haddad, gastroen were bestowed upon various abuse plays a major role when dis terologist and President of the researchers. Some of them included tributing marijuana. At present, While many of us may have CMA, said that these concerns McGills Pain Centre at the end of there are few legal methods of spent the summer mowing the include placing pressure on physi July just as the authorization passed obtaining the drug. Canada made a mark in drug politics when the gov grass, our government has been cians, who will have to play the role Health Canada. ernment became directly involved But the compassionate use of of gatekeepers, explaining both dealing with some weed issues of its in the process, and hired the private marijuana has been approved for risks and benefits to patients that own. This summer saw the company Prairie Plant may see marijuana as a Canadian authorization of growth Systems Inc. in Flin magic cure of sorts. and use of marijuana for medicinal Flon, Manitoba to However, Dr.Haddad purposes, with an expanded list of grow quality-con is quick to point out that eligible users. trolled cannabis for The amendments to the the association is not sim distribution to per ply dogmatic. Controlled Drugs and Substances mitted individuals. “The CMA does not Act were made July 30, creating Although the object to [marijuana’s] three different categories for the Office of Cannabis compassionate use and legal use of marijuana to ease severe Medical Access could pain. The first of these categories is does see benefits to the not be reached in time medical use of marijuana clearly designated for terminally ill for this article, its for first category patients.” patients, defined as those facing website reports that Haddad added that inevitable death within twelve Prairie Plant Systems the uncertainties arise with months. should be ready to the other two classes of pos According to Health Canada, deliver its first prod sible patients recently the second category includes uct by January 2002. patients with persistent muscle tagged on. Currently, other “If you look at the spasms, anorexia, weight loss, mul narcotics used in med tiple sclerosis, spinal cord injury, third category, almost any icine, such as mor epilepsy, and cancer. The third cat one could fit into it, while phine, are still being with the second category egory includes patients for whom placed under strict we are dealing with pro all conventional treatments have supervision. At longed use of the drug for failed. Available at a hospital near you _________ Aventis, an interna _____ Controversy abounds within chronic diseases.” The effects of prolonged use terminally ill patients as of May tional pharmaceuticals and agricul the medical community on the sub ject. An open letter addressed to are still unstudied, which creates 1999. Since then, approximately ture corporation, the drugs are kept members of the Canadian Medical great concern for the president of 250 to 300 Canadians have been in huge armed vaults with limited Association (CMA) dated August the CMA. Usually, before a drug is given permission to use the famous access. Should marijuana be distrib approved, it must undergo vigorous herb, without significant clinical uted by pharmaceutical companies, 3 rd, 2001 clearly relates their wor Krystof Bieniecki, quality assurance testing of its properties, which is the trials conducted. ries about the new act. “It is as an academic that I director of external manufacturing “[The CMA] is standing in reverse of the present circum deplore the fact that we don’t know at Aventis, emphasized that opposition to the Marijuana stances. “Because of the court ruling, anything about these patients. [The cannabis transactions would be car Medical Access Regulations, as CMA] is just trying to protect the ried out with the utmost security. [they] believe they create significant we’re playing catch-up,” he said. Others are of the opinion that public, not punish the needy.” Grants for the investigation of concerns for both [doctors] and the drug approval process is going Haddad explained. marijuana’s potential health bene [their] patients.” to extremes senselessly. Taking the In the meantime, prevention of fits, totaling some $7.5 million, coin’s flip side, Eugene Oscapella, lawyer and co-founder of the Canadian Foundation for Drug Sept. 8 13H30 Policy (CFDP), is in favour of even Bishop's further reform of narcotic regula tions, ultimately hoping for the complete legalization of marijuana. “Society is irrational in choos ing which drugs to deify and which to condemn. With marijuana, there 2 9 J3 h 3 0 is even no question of overdose.” Oscapella went on to point out REDMEN that the narcotic control regulations for the medicinal use of such drugs Molson Stadium Student Tickets $5 as morphine, heroin and even cocaine are not as complicated as RED M EN FO O TBA LL those imposed for marijuana. tv iv tv A t h l e t i c s m e t ] i l l c a Whatever debates may occur, .W '0 0 0 the law has been passed and mari M c G iL L S O C C E R juana might just be here to stay. Though Canada is lightening up on its policies concerning this poten Sept. 14 UQTR tially entertaining drug, it’s unlikely that we will be blessed with a visit from Afroman. With marijuana currently being used only for the treatment of serious ailments, Sept. 21 Sherbrooke chances are slim that one will ever get out of, say, being late for a dead line, with the excuse “Because I got high, because I got high, because I got high.” Sept. 28 UQTR Dorota Nowodworski____________
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News briefs Committee called to elect new principal The Principal Selection Committee has been formed to determine who will succeed Dr. Bernard Shapiro as Principal of McGill University in 2002. The Committee is chaired by Chancellor Richard Pound, and is made up of twelve members repre senting various sectors of the McGill community. This includes students, faculty and non-academic staff, the Senate and Board of Governors, as well as alumni. According to Pound, the Committee will periodically meet to discuss and assess the job description and applicants, and can also nominate candidates for the position. Details regarding the actual candidates and nominations are to remain confidential. “As part of the process, the Principal Selection Committee has met with the Principal, Vice Principals, Deans, students as well as many other members of the University community,” said McGill’s Vice-Principal of Administration and Finance Morty Yalovsky. “That has been my only involvement in the selection process.” Pound said that the Committee’s final recommenda tion will be announced at a November Senate meeting.
Tuition increases in Quebec According to a recent report from Statistics Canada, undergrad uate arts students in Canada will pay twice the tuiton they paid ten years ago. The nation-wide average of $3,453 is a 2 % increase from last year’s $3,384 and a 101% increase from the 1991/1992 average of $1,714. In the past ten years, average tuition rates for arts undergradu ates have more than doubled in Nova Scotia, Ontario, Saskatchewan, and in Alberta, where students are paying two and a half times the tuition paid a decade ago. Provinces that will witness a decline in tuition fees include Nova Scotia, where average fees will drop 10%, and British Columbia, where they will drop by 2 .2 %. British Columbia has the least significant increase over the past ten years, rising just 30% from $1,911 to $3,465. This is largely a result of the province’s tuition freeze, now in its seventh year. British Columbia’s low rates are bested only by Quebec, where tuition rates for native Quebec res idents are frozen for the fifth con secutive year at $1,668. Out of province students in Quebec will face a 7.4% increase, and interna tional students a 9.1% increase. McGill programs with the highest tuition rates continue to be Medicine, Dentistry, and Law. These faculties will also experience the greatest increase this year. Both public and private insti tutions in Canada were included in the average calculation.
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The McGill Tribune, Wednesday, September 5 2001
Unexpected tuition h ikes hit international students Students criticize the university for lack of prior notice “Given the increased costs dent’s academic standing, and can associated with the delivery of possibly lead to a loss of student status and ultimately, deporta A $500 increase in tuition fees quality education and the increase tion.” and the withdrawal of health care in funding for those students According to Judy Stimest and benefits for on-campus student under the Government funding Pauline L’Ecuyer of International formula, an increase in tuition for employees take effect this year for Student Services, however, the fee McGill’s international student deregulated students is warranted,” he said. Deregulated students increase has not been a major issue community. for students up to this point. The Students’ Society of include those whose fees are con “The health care cut has been trolled by the university rather McGill University’s Vice-President a bigger issue among students,” than by the government. of University Affairs, Jennifer Current MISN President said Stimest. “International stu Bilec, commented that while dents who worked on campus are McGill’s tuition hike is lower than Miguel Bernal-Castillero organized no longer eligible for Medicare as the province-wide average 9.1% a rally last March along with Bilec of May 31st, and have to buy Blue to file a petition asking the McGill increase for international students Cross medical insurance. “ Senate to provide advance notice in other universities, McGill’s own For single coverage, the cost is fee increase came virtually unna- of any increase in international roughly $500, but for a student student fees. nounced. with two dependents, for example, “The rally was effective in the “Students at the University of that figure can rise to around Laval received letters in the mail sense that it pressured the universi $2000, according to L’Ecuyer. earlier this year warning about a ty away from raising the proposed Other problems the ISS has potential increase. McGill students $500 increase to match the faced include a large number of had no such notification,’’said province-wide increase for interna international students who have tional students,” Castillero stated. Bilec, who last year served as not brought their student visas He contended that while the President of the McGill with them, as well as longer wait International Student’s Network increase may not seem extreme, it can create a serious burden for ing periods for appointments with (MISN). Immigration Quebec. “I am hoping for smoother some students. Despite the hardships faced by “Because getting a student budget planning this year. Any international students, there may new increase should be passed by loan is especially difficult for inter national students, some may take be some relief in the future. February at the latest,” she said. According to SSMU’s VP of According to McGill’s VP of on one, sometimes two part-time Community and Government jobs so that they can afford not just Administration and Finance Danielle Lanteigne, a provincially school, but also leases, living Morty Yalovsky, the Quebec gov funded International Work Study ernment only finalized the per expenses, and insurance. Taking on Program is set for unveiling within centage increase to be levied on more jobs means less time for the next two weeks. studying, which can hurt a stu International students in early July.
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for it,” remarked Castillero, who claims that the university has taken little initiative to inform students on key matters regarding interna tional students. He explained how a large number of returning stu dents would only find out about the tuition hike when they register on MARS. Yalovsky is uncertain of what budget increases, if any, may occur next year. “At this point in time it is too early to tell; we will formulate a position for deregulated students as we develop the 2002-2003 budget early in the new year.The majority of our international stu dents are not deregulated and their tuition rate continues to be set by the Government.”
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Editorial 'Forward motion is everything." -K elly Preston in Jerry Maguire
Gettin' busy Apathy is selfish. Cynicism is lazy. Boredom is simply unacceptable. Three years ago, as I began my McGill Tribune career as one of the res ident News Lackeys (we like to call them editors), I was sorely tempted to jump ship. On top of my full courseload, scraping together a news sec tion, coaxing writers to produce and writing weekly stories seemed like a tremendous joke. I wasn’t even sure I had wanted to be a news editor, but my name was slapped into the staff box faster than you could say "sucker." Eventually, I learned to eat pressure like candy. I ended up making the news section my gimp as I learned to tame and maintain that wild behe moth. I reigned triumphant by April’s end. Five papers, a midterm and ten stories to write? No problem. To make a long story short, I now find myself donning the Editor-inChief hat. How I ascended from a lowly staff writer to Head Lackey is a story in itself. Joining the Tribune might have been a mistake, but it might be the best mistake I’ll ever make. The stress is worth the payoff. The sat isfaction of a good paper justifies the achy-breaky journey to get there. To dispel any illusions, starting off as a news editor was painful. I won’t lie. Much of the section was accomplished with tears, sleepless nights and a lot of phone calls. It meant rescheduling classes. It meant reordering my life. Friday nights were sacrificed for moonlight encounters with the computer over exciting editing sessions. Mondays were dreaded because of long hours proofreading sets. The fun never ended. And I won’t even start with the gory details of my Assistant Editor-in-Chief career. Why would I come back for more? Quite simply, I had found something to get excited about. Tracking down stories and dishing the dirt fueled my blood. I had found something that inspired me enough to crawl my way out of my self-absorbed hole and move. I can’t pretend to accept inactivity anymore. Too often I’m faced with hordes of students who do nothing except pick their noses and occasional ly roll over to avoid bedsores, as far as I can tell. At McGill, there are dozens of clubs, teams and volunteer opportunities available. This is to say nothing about the greater Montreal community. It infuriates me to meet people who participate in nothing and have the audacity to complain of boredom. It gives me an itch to hear people criticize things while doing nothing to motivate change. I fight the urge to throttle people and scream, "Whaddya mean all you do is go to school?" Follow your bliss. Find something that motivates you to live beyond the limits of your world. If that means learning how to knit, choreo graphing your own interpretative dance based on Dieter, getting a job or starting your own club, then so be it. Paint a picture. Learn a song on the harmonica. Meditate. Realize the world is bigger than your apartment. Do what you do in such a way that it challenges you. At the end of the day, you can sit on your bum and do absolutely nothing if that’s what you choose. But, as a wise man once told me, "If it was too easy, then it would be too easy."
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he boy to girl ratio at McGill is brutal. Some might claim that it hovers around the 60:40 (boy:girl) mark however, any girl at McGill will tell you that that statistic is a fla grant lie. Let me break it down for those of you who have thus far remained blind to the truth. Let’s imagine there are 30 fine McGill ladies to every ten McGill men (I believe I am being VERY generous, seeing as I am an Arts major and the ratio is probably around 1:100). So, out of these ten guys, three have girl friends. Maybe they are long-term girlfriends from high school or from ‘the summer’, or perhaps some lucky chica managed to rope him during frosh. The point is that they are out of the equation. Out of the remaining seven, three are gay. Yes, I am explicitly stating that 30% of the guys at McGill are gay. I can think of five male friends of mine who came out last year, and five more who are still denying the obvi ous. We are left with four. Without being too superficial, two of these boys are completely undateable. Maybe they have a gun obsession, maybe they smell foul, or maybe they are just old-fashioned crazy. You two just don’t have that magi cal connection felt by Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks in any film, or of Tony Micelli and Angela Bower on
1) A serious drop in standards. (“I think that guy in my Poli Sci class with missing teeth/limbs/personality is SOOOO hot. Besides, being a Dungeons and Dragons gatekeeper is a highly respectable social posinon ) 2) You become a ‘mackalicious’ action queen. I mean by this that you too become a player. Hey, if I can’t get a boyfriend I still need somewhat regular action. If this means hoochie-ing yourself up for Gerts or Arts Tavern, my friend,
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you do what you have to do. However, this poses a problem for those of us who mentally confuse a night of random hook-up for ‘love’. This symptom may lead to other symptoms such as stalking (or rear ranging your schedule as I like to call it), constant implausible fan tasies, sweating and fingernail sensi tivity. 3) Embitterment. Scowling, screaming or spitting at happy cou ples. Thinking that people who hold hands should “get a room”. Or predicting when their happiness will end, and the pain will begin. The pain you already feel in your dead, blackened heart. 4) Visions of spinster-dom. I do this quite often. I like to be a crazy lady with a hundred cats, who the neighbours fear. However, I have recently developed an allergy to my precious feline friends. But I guess that doesn’t really affect you. 5) Going far outside the usual dat ing-pool. This includes younger brother’s 15-year-old friends (“but he looked so old!”). This last point, sadly, is the last recourse we single ladies have. In conclusion ladies, go forth and seek out men in other places: the Concordias, the Dawson Colleges, and even the CEGEP across the street (they may be m ohawk-sporting-French-punks who smoke inside the Adams build ing, but they’re still fresh meat). Be patient and love will come. Or something else will.
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Who’s the Boss?. You two are more like Dorothy and her ex-husband Stan Zbornak on the Golden Girls. We are left with two finalists. These boys are now placed in an extraor dinarily powerful position: they are hot commodities. They do not need a girlfriend when they can have action every night of the week. They are players (pronounced ‘playas’). If you are like me, you have a love/hate relationship with these boys. It’s like Chef Boyardee said as a young boy in Italy, “Why does everything that’s good for me, ataste-a so bad?” I intended the aphorism of the good chef to mean that you want the boy, yet you know he’s bad for you. The chefthing made no sense in retrospect. I believe the lack of eligible men for girls who desire substantial and meaningful relationships, has caused many McGill girls to experi ence the following symptoms:
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likely new to the city, lonely and excited for the year up ahead. In residence, your food is taken care of, your friends are just around the comer if you need them, and if you’re on the hill, you get a terrific workout every day. Last year, I could safely say my ass had never looked so good! Some might argue that kids in rez are living in a bubble-like existence. They are spoon-fed and babied and kept away from "reallife" worries such as bills and rent and debts. W hat is wrong with that? Ideally, don’t first-year students have enough to worry about with out "real" problems to get in the way? Last year I needed to be living in residence, hav ing all my accommodations taken care of, so that I could get to know McGill. I need ed to explore and push my limits. I needed to experience the maximum quantity of alcohol my body could carry and still allow me to walk in a straight line up the hill. Mostly, I needed to know that, regardless of where my neighbours came from, I could walk into any room at any time, express a concern or complaint about my new life at McGill, and hear the reassuring words o f "Me, tt too. Residence forms a strong feeling of community among its inhabitants. After living so closely with those hordes of people, you come out with a further-developed sense of self. You can leave the system and say it works: you’ve found where to party in Montreal, you’ve found the Stuart Biology Building, you’ve found the kind of people you want to hang out with and the kind you want to stay away from. With that sense o f purpose intact, you’re now ready to take on life as an undergraduate stu dent. Don’t believe me? After life in Molson last year, I’m ready for anything. There’s no experience in Montreal, which can frighten or per plex me. I can safely say that after surviving there, I have nothing to fear. So this year? Piece of cake. Bring it on.
very time I reflect upon the fact that I once spent an entire year in the McGill Residential System of Bishop Mountain Hall and its surrounding buildings, I am overcome by an amazing sense of nostalgic wonder, which quickly gives way to seasoned horror. I believe it was my third night in rez when, for the first and last time for a long while in that twisted year, it occurred to me that things were not as righteous as they would like to appear to be. Another person on my floor had just, and I mean literally just, stepped off a 24 hour plane ride from Asia only to find the entire mountain raging in a frenzy of alcohol and smoke. It was a good party. This poor guy was absolutely shell-shocked at the chaos surrounding him. He asked another guy and me whether we had any intention of doing any work that year. We laughed. That semester I had "trouble" with one of my classes. Ha-ha. I recollect, with fond nostal gia, that impenetrable glow that hung— and hangs, over rez. Such wanton excess, such liberties abused, such garbage. That night, this person who had just arrived from a very long distance looked at me as if to say: ‘what are you doing here?’ and that proposition remains immutable. Really, what does residence offer? In and of itself it is not a completely condemning experi ence, but let’s please step away from the idea that upper residence is all things to everyone at McGill. Furthermore, let us take one step further and suggest that residence is in actuality a detrimental process for instead of harvesting a sense of community it breeds a form of egoism which insists that that which is confined to the halls of BMH is all that matters at McGill. In essence, either you are in, or on the outside of whatever social line is drawn in the sand. How self-fulfilling. Another person I met, who is studying to be a Reverend, once noted with displeasure that his greatest sadness was that University, in his mind, should stand for the many voices of the multitudes that came to learn, but increasingly only one synthesized monotonous voice emerges. The bubble world of the mountain fosters this contempt for it har bours no sense of reality. The loss
of perspective is mind blowing. Between trashing the bathrooms, the halls, one’s room and each other, the tragedy occurs when no one is held accountable. Vomit on the stairs, urinate on the rug, harass the weakest mem ber of your floor and magically, in the night, all responsibility is swept away. It’s survival of the fittest party style and in such a close space and limited environ ment many people are crushed. Furthermore, how many people coming out of rez are prepared to assume responsibility over rent ing and owning an apartment, let alone finding one? The economic stress of budgeting is lost in the great money pit that is BMH, which in return belches out breakfasts, lunches, and dinners at an astonishing rate considering the quality of the food. I came from a large high school in Toronto so rez was just an extension of the previous five years of my life except for the lack of parental units and no escape from the noise. How is one to develop any sense of self or other when all that is valued is survival in the big hierarchical 90210 game of the mountain. Respect isn’t in the residential dictionary. Only the truly adventurous souls and those at SOLIN or MORE experience the rest of the universi ty or Montreal, because they must. Such people, the ones left off the mountain, away from the Ivory Tower of BMH and sentenced to the trenches of McGill are at an advantage for they learn to talk to people, not just pass them in the halls. Without touching too much on the politics of the situation, it stands to reason that all frosh should experience the same experi ence, at least from the start. Either put all people at a disadvantage and therefore in residence and at least the social ladder of who lives there will dissolve. Or, throw all the rookies into the city of Montreal and let them all learn to find their way among the ghetto. W ith this division of upper and lower, selected and rejected, the only lessons learned are those of compare and contrast. O f course, all that I have said is not true for all people atop BMH. In fact, I suspect that as the year passes most will fall out of this picture. Nonetheless, it remains unfortu nate that in order to reach such a point one must still experience a fall.
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the moment, look ing out the win dow of my new little 5 1/2 apartment on Hutchison. There’s nothing better than watching the cars drive up Sherbrooke and University crammed so full of luggage that they look like Swiss Cake Rolls stuffed with too much icing, just waiting to explode on the face of a fat kid. Look at those parents with their knuckles clasped white around the steer ing wheel, complaining about the traffic. And the new McGill students inside: they’re gazing up the hill, gaping mouths, wide eyes, thinking, I’m going to have to walk up THAT HILL every day? Now entering my second year, I suddenly feel a great envy for all of those nervous first-year students arriving in residence. I won’t soon forget checking into Molson Hall, my hands shaking as I tried to fit my key through the lock of room 335. I remem ber smiling at everyone who passed by, scanning the faces for potential friends. Everyone smiled back in those first few days, all of us feeling a universal sense of confusion and anxiety, those common emotions that gave all the new kids in rez an easy way to relate to each other. A friend confessed to me yesterday that he’s been nauseous since the drive from home to
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Waxing toiletic - the writing is on the stall And the Nobel Prize for lavatory literature goes to . . . Raquel Kirsch_____________________
There are many names we give to our washrooms: the loo, the john, the powder room. Few people would call it a forum for freedom of expression. That is, of course, unless you’ve visited the washrooms in the base ment of the Arts or Leacock buildings lately. On many stalls, you can find a range of topics including capitalism, chemistry, anarchy, or rants about a horrible exam. But even if some one’s just chalking up about how much they’re crushing on James Mark Shields, is this really something we want to see on our walls? Second-year Electrical Engineering student Faisal Ahmed doesn’t find bathroom scribblings too exciting, but consid ers them as much a part of the bath room as the faucets. "They are interesting, but a bit vulgar. I take them as a joke - noth ing serious," he says. "But when it starts victimizing people, that’s just going too far." Many anti-gay and racist com ments can be found in the stalls, alongside the less harmful criticisms of the Yankees’ playing season and a
that a student is caught, a formal complaint made to a security guard would bring about formal proceed ings and a hearing with the Dean of their faculty. Catching someone in the act is not very easy. Short of installing video cameras à la Big Brother, someone has to act very obviously to be caught. "As a form of expression, students are the ones who are more prone [to vandalizing] than a little kid," says Quaroni. [Fear of authority] doesn’t fall into a university stu dent’s problems." Even with the pos sibly ugly messages, any possibility of public pen panache ends with the person responsible cleaning it all up. Pierre Lafleur has been a custodian at the University for over 31 says. "It’s unfortunate that students years. As Porter of the Leacock harbour these kinds of prejudices.” building, he finds the writings sad Despite the messages’ offensive and discouraging. "People probably don’t do this meanings, they are hard to discour age. According to the Handbook of at home, so why at university?" he Student Rights and asks. "We clean it up and it’s gonna Responsibilities, defacing school come back. It’s hard to repaint property is an offense that is pun because the chemicals (used to ishable by a range of penalties, remove the ink) are so strong that among them fines, admonishe- you have to wear a mask." Despite the janitorial implicament, and restitution. In the event
drawing of a pharaoh. When mes sages become hateful, it not only hurts the school physically, but intellectually, remarks Associate Dean of Arts Enrica Quaroni. "It shows a lot of aggression against certain types of people," she
tions of writing on the wall, it is not a form of expression that appeals to everyone. Simon Hutton is in his last year of studies in finance and international business. He has seen the writing on the stalls and doesn’t find them to be worth the read. "I’ve seen no intelligent text on the walls," he says. "Some of the issues on the wall are pointless and foolish. Others show an unspoken tension between different groups of people from different back grounds." He adds, however, that some of the issues are not acceptable for
public discussion. "There are more constructive ways to get your message across. You’d think that the people at this university would be more mature." Whereas anonymity is some thing that many scribblers rely on, Ahmed would not waste his ink on something that he couldn’t take credit for. "If I knew that people would get a rise out of what I wrote, then maybe I’d put something down," he admits. "But if I can’t see them react, what’s the point?"
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Alleged racism in Concordia continued from PAGE 1
"Unfortunately there is only one explanation," said SPHR Concordia Chapter President Sami Nazzal. "Concordia practices dis crimination and racism against Arab students of Concordia University." For Concordia University offi cials, this is .not the case. Dr. Dennis Murphy, executive director of University Communications and spokesperson for Lowy, said that racism has nothing to do with it. Concordia did not consider Keefer and Marouf students of the University when they were filed for expulsion as they had not registered for this fall term. Explained Murphy as to the basis for expulsion: "the banning is the banning of two individuals of Canada...at the time in this case neither of them was a student of the university." But Marouf explained that the story began long before the socalled scuffle between security
guards and him. He believes that a history of related debate following his election as CSU Vice President contributed to the ultimate deci sion by Lowy. "Since we went to the elec tions, I was the only Arab person on the slate," tells Marouf. "Opposing slates were saying ‘don’t let Arabs take over the university.’" Once elected, more criticism followed. Marouf remembered the Jewish Tribune writing, "and now the Arab leadership has infiltrated the Concordia Student Union." Marouf, consequently, approached Concordia administration to sup port him in refuting such state ments in a press release. This was to no avail. Marouf was not alone in such accusations. For the past ten years, Muslim students have been trying to establish a prayer space at Concordia. However unsuccessful in the past ten years, it seemed like things were changing recently when they finally got a space this year.
Since Muslim prayer service involves kneeling on the ground, Marouf said they intended to refit the space for that purpose. Marouf was outraged by Concordia’s response. "They gave us shoe mats to pray on; these actions were either racist and discriminating or stu pid," reproached Marouf. "We met with Rector’s cabinet to discuss pro posals to solve this problem...they were both sexist and racist so we walked out." That is when Marouf decided to take action. On July 20 at one o’clock, Marouf spray painted the words, ‘End Israeli Apartheid’ and ‘Free Palestine’ on the now demol ished and University-owned York Cinema. At this .time, the con frontation took place which led to the alleged assaults and death threat. The letter of expulsion soon followed, citing reasons of non-reg istration. With Concordia on one side, Please see EXPULSION, page 8
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Marouf, Keefer, the CSU and SPHR on the other, and the issue yet unresolved, many uncertainties remain about equal treatment under any university’s policy, even McGills Director of Student Advocacy and University Affairs Daniel Iny expressed disapproval on the handling of this case. Comparing Concordias actions with policy at McGill, Iny explained that "the worst the Associate Dean can do is suspend [a student] and refer [him] to a hill committee." The Fairness and Consistency clause of Concordia’s Code of Rights and Responsibilities states: "Complaints made under this Code shall be adjudicated in a manner that is consistent with the principles of natural justice and fair for all par ties to the complaint, regardless of constituency." Similar to Concordia’s Code of Rights and Responsibilities, McGill has a Charter of Student Rights
based on the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The Charter is separated into eight sections dic tating fundamental rights, academ ic rights, procedural rights, rights of association and representation, access to personal information, amendment, interpretation and implementation. In addition to the Charter of Student Rights, McGill also has in place a Code of Grievance Procedures and a Code of Conduct and Disciplinary Procedures which outline methods of dealing with nearly every situation students or faculty might run into. "If there is a process in place, and they circumvented it, it’s extreme," said Iny in response to recent coverage. When compared to the types of graffiti on bathroom stalls throughout McGill’s campus (see graffiti page 7), Safia affirms that "what Laith wrote is not racist. He’s fighting an ideology." It is still unclear at this poim
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whether the real issue is Concordia’s definition of Keefer and Marouf as students, or that racism is the true culprit for seemingly extreme meas ures. One thing is for sure — the decision has already received highprofile negative feedback. Last week, both Noam Chomsky and the New Democratic Party wrote letters to Lowy stating their concern and discord with actions taken by Concordia. "I was deeply disturbed to learn that two students, Tom Keefer and Laith Marouf, have been expelled from the University on charges that seem questionable, to say the least, and as far as I have learned, without due process. I would like to express my concern, and hope and trust that this deci sion will be reversed, and that every effort will be made to ensure that the University remains an open arena for free expression and legiti mate activism," wrote Chomsky. M cG ilLC oncordia Student Rights Clauses Compared Pan: one, article 2.1 of McGill University Charter of Students’Rights states: Every student has a right to equal treat ment by the University, this right must not be impaired by discrimination based on race, colour, ethnic or national origin, civil status, religion, creed, political con victions, language, sex, sexual orientation, social condition, age, personal handicap or use of any means to palliate such a handi cap. Parts five and six of Concordia University CixJe of Rights and Responsibilities states: All faculty members, administrative and support staffand students may reasonably expect to pursue their work and smdies in a safe and civil environment. Concordia University therefore ikies nor condone discrimination, harassment, sexual harass ment, threatening or violent conduct or oflenses against property. All faculty members, administrative and support staff and students are expected to refrain fromviolating this Code. Members of the University who havt: supervisory authority over others bear a particular responsibility to act in a timely and effec tive manner ifthey become aware of any violation of this Code.
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As the rays of sunlight gendy wake you from your long and deep sleep, you notice the clock flashing 11:35 AM. You slowly get out from under the covers and head to the trusty PC in your grand-dad slip pers and Scooby-Doo boxers. “It’s time for class,” you think to your self. With the computer booted and humming, you hit the log-on but ton. “This is the way to learn,” you say to yourself, feet stretched out on the desk. Online courses provide a fasci nating new option for students who wish to have more control over their education. By logging on to a classroom, lecture materials and a hypertext syllabus become available to you, as well as links to online resources selected by your instruc tor. One can meet with his class for assigned group discussions and lec tures, or arrange online chats with classmates to discuss course work. E-mail is used to turn in assign ments or to correspond privately with the instructor and fellow stu dents. Technology, however, can only be taken so far, as textbooks are still an indispensable resource for most online courses, acting as the basis for test material. One is subjected to evaluations in vari ous ways, such as fre quent homework assignments and essays to be e-mailed to the professor, online prac tice tests, and a final exam that must be mailed to and invigilat ed by a nearby profes sor or teacher. T raditionally Internet courses have not been taken nearly as seriously in academ ic and professional cir cles, due mostly to the fact that those provid ing the courses were not well-known or reputable insti tutions,. Now, however, highly regarded universities such as Cornell and Michigan State, and in Canada, Queen’s University, Concordia University and the University of Guelph have all started offering courses over the Internet. It has thus become increasingly difficult to dismiss the legitimacy and value of the course credit. Online courses have become a practical and attractive option for students who have a difficult sched ule to manipulate. Some institu tions offer a limited number of full degree programs to be completed solely online, which include the University of Phoenix and the “Canadian Virtual University” which is a partnership formed between ten small universities
across the country. Without a doubt, drawbacks do exist to the online course sys tem. Most colleges offering online courses are based in the US, and so tuition for courses given by private American schools comes with pri vate American price tags in the upwards of US $1200 per course. How can McGill students ben efit from online classes? At present, not very much. The policy follows that the registrar will consult with the faculty on an individual, ad hoc basis. The faculties are then able to make the final decision. Student Affairs administrative clerk Zelda Ghan admits, however, that the University generally will not accept distance education. But there are some options. Registrar Robin Cellar explains that things are changing. “There is no consistent policy across campus. This is not a very large phenomenon,” Geller says. However, as the number of students with this type of credit steadily increases, “a more formal policy will eventually be developed.” The online method of learning does put the control of your enlightenment in your own hands, but also puts its weight and respon sibility on your shoulders. Odelia Borten, a U1 psycholo gy student, began and then dropped online courses from the
University of California in Berkeley. “It’s hard to keep a schedule, because there is no schedule,” she says. “There is a maximum time to finish the course, but no set time for anything. It is not like in class where you can get others’ input. It’s boring—just you and a book.” The days when distance-learn ing meant Sally Struthers teaching TV and VCR repair ' are quickly fading as this new method of edu cation takes shape. The idea seems intriguing enough, as one’s sched ule contorts while enjoying the lux ury of comfort and relaxation faster than you can click your heels three times. No, there is no place like home, but hopefully in the end you will not be wishing the wizard gave you the brain instead.
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Ginger Rogers, but never had the time to take lessons? Now is your chance! Join the ballroom dancing course and learn the waltz, foxtrot and more. Your session with instructor Linda Chou will be filled with fun, exercise and great music. Leather soled shoes are recommend-
ROCK 'N' ROLL SWING DANCING
Now is your opportunity learn to dance to the great rock ‘n’ roll and big band music of 40’s and 50’s, as well as the modern swing revival! Swing, jive, rock 'n' roll steps, and individual choreography geared towards you will all be part of the sessions taught by professional instruc tors from the Montreal renowned Miss Woolf's Jiving School. Leather soled shoes are recommended.
INTRO TO BARTENDING
Tired of drinking the same drinks? Want to be a better host? Trying to find employment? Here’s the course that solves all of your problems! Intro to bartending will teach you the basics of being a bartender. You will learn the appropriate usage of glassware, different techniques of social preparation, as well as the mixing and tasting of tons of great drinks! What better way to start your Saturday? Instruction and equipment provided by the Masters School of Bartending.
WINETASTING AND APPRECIATION
Once you graduate McGill, you will hopefully make enough money to advance from Dep wine. So learn what lies beyond "Baby Duck" and "Si,Si,Si"!! Our pro fessional wine instructor will teach you how the wine is made, the appropriate wine to choose with a meal, and wine tasting etiquette. Learn the difference between a Chardonnay, Cabernet and a Merlot. Wine samples will be available for tasting. Check the Mini Course website to know which date this course will be offered.
PUBLIC SPEAKING WORKSHOP
Home to current and past Canadian. North American and World Champions, The McGill Debating Union cor dially invites you for a short, practical seminar on one of life's most essential skills. In small groups, focusing on practical applications, we will explore topics such as dealing with stage fright, using body language, organiz ing material and responding to questions effectively.
HIGHLAND DANCING
Partied at the Highland Games? Loved BraveHeart? Sick of Michael Flatley? Try the other form of Celtic dancing - Highland Dancing! Learn it's rich history while getting in shape and having fun. Prepare for next year's Highland Games because you could be a competitor!
CONVERSATIONAL ITALIAN
Planning to travel to Italy in the near future? Or always dreamed of learning the language of love? Our experi enced teacher will not only guide you through the basics but will also enlighten you with her first-hand knowl edge of the people, the culture, history and, of course, the food! No prior knowledge of the Italian language required.
STRESS MANAGEMENT
Do you get stressed out about exams, your G.P.A., money, the cute girl or guy in your psych conference? Everyone stresses about something, but not everyone knows how to manage their stress so that they can still function effectively. This new course caters to those who are unsure of how to react when crunch time hits. Taught by professionals, use the skills to impress and de-stress. A pen and paper are required.
BREAKDANCING
Modern breakdancing is a combination of the old East Coast breakdancing, Brooklyn Up-Rock and down-rock and West Coast Locking, Bougoulou and Popping. As well as teaching you modern breakdance moves, our instructor will teach you of the history of breakdance. Music includes the old-school styles of DJ Clue and Ghettoriginal Productions. Note that although the moves taught in this course are chosen with respect to safety, they can be physically demanding.
LATIN & SOUTH AMERICAN DANCING
Be the star on the dance floor this year! Keep up with the latest trends in dancing by learning the modern twist on the tango, salsa, merengue, cha cha and more with our professional instructors from Montreal. Music from Argentina, Brazil and the Dominican Republic, or bring in your own favourite tape or CD. Leather soled shoes are recommended.
Courses Under Consideration
These courses have yet to be finalized for this semester. Check the Mini-Courses website or contact the coordi nators to verify the status of the following courses:
CONVERSATIONAL SPANISH Beginner CONVERSATIONAL FRENCH Check our website at www.ssmu.mcgill.ca/mini or con tact us at 398-3001 ext 09244, or by email at mini@ssmu.mcgill.ca for the finalized prices, dates and times of courses.
Registration in the Shatner Building, September 12th from 6:00-9:00pm
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Antibalas surpasses expectations Dan Zacks Not only does the afrobeat live, it’s booming! Playing for a nearly packed house Friday night at Club Soda, the Brooklyn based Antibalas proved once again that afrobeat is relevant, powerfiil, and evolving. Briefly, afrobeat is the fusion between American funk, jazz, and West African music created in the late 1960s by Nigerians Fela Kuti and his drummer Tony Allen. It is a music inseparable from political action and awareness. Fela’s aggres sive and violent diatribes preached a policy of pan-Africanism and black rights and denounced the crooked Nigerian regime. This activism won Fela massive support amongst the poor and dis enfranchised of Africa and in par ticular Nigeria, but at a hefty cost. The state killed his mother, impris oned him under spurious charges, and destroyed his house and record ing studio. Afrobeat is not a music to be taken lightly, but with its dou ble bass lines, waves of polyrhyth mic percussion, and piercing brass, it is also ridiculously danceable. Expectations for the concert were tremendously high. In their first three Montreal shows (one last March and two during this sum mer’s Jazz Festival), Antibalas proved they are well aware of what the afrobeat means and what is involved in successfully honouring the memory o f its originator.
only achieve so much while sim Montrealers now ply reviving an old sound and take for granted that Antibalas seemed to appreciate Antibalas will pro this. Just like Fela’s Egypt 80 duce a high-quality, LPs sought to modernise authentic, and deeply moving afrobeat via an electronic aes thetic, Antibalas are taking the sound and expect no afrobeat foundation and revital less. ising it with elements that are The hype sur dear to their heart and of greater rounding Antibalas relevance to Western crowds. has also increased Brilliant surf guitar riffs during substantially since ‘El Machete’ (kind of like The their first perform Ventures go to Nigeria) were ance. Beyond a record deal with witty, fun and not at all inap powerfiil independ propriate. ‘Dirt and Blood’ had ent Ninja Tune, its tempo increased and the their track ‘Dirt and funky elements brought to the forefront. This stepping up of Blood’ has been brassy funk was a constant included on throughout much of the concert Snowboy’s second and worked as intended: the Hi-hat Sessions mix Jenny George crowd loved it. A call for the LP, a seminal, huge Pounding out the afrobeat breakers in the crowd to come ly influential jazzmembers, Fridays concert was sub dance compilation. Moreover, in lime. Antibalas is clearly reaping out and show off their moves the liner note write-up Snowboy the benefits of all their touring. (apparently there are no breakers in describes ‘Dirt and Blood’ as one of The band is comfortable, disci Montreal—shamefid!) was followed the best Hi-hat tracks ever and has plined and supremely tight. They by a break beat that was utterly sick. consequently given Antibalas effordessly flew through their now instant credibility that like groups infamous classics like ‘Dirt and often don’t get until long after Blood’ and ‘Si Se Puede’, showed they’ve disbanded and some bin off blissful covers of two Fela songs picking DJ unearths their now rare and played some impressive new first EP. Such infamy comes with a material. Most interesting, howev caveat: when someone like er, was the direction Antibalas is Snowboy says you’re this good, you pushing the afrobeat. had better be that good. Some of Antibalas’ appeal is But of course Antibalas is that undoubtedly their ability to play good. Although there were some afrobeat as you would have heard it new faces in the band— and the at a Fela concert in seventies noticeable lack of some regular Nigeria. Nevertheless, a band can
You won’t find that in any Fela song, but that is precisely the point: Antibalas is creating afrobeat for our time and our world, which is the way I think Fela would want it. Antibalas didn’t ignore politics either. On the contrary, they were placed front and centre. Band MC Martin C-Pema spoke eloquently and impressively about Montreal —specific concerns in addition to the general Antibalas theme of empowerment and change for the better. It is to the band’s everlasting credit that they manage to politicize their concerts without resorting to clichés. Never preachy, never dog matic but always heartfelt and well received. And so Antibalas did their job. The crowd’s expectations were met, everybody danced like crazy, and consciousnesses were raised. The afrobeat is indeed strong and well, and with Antibalas championing its cause, it will be here for a long time yet.
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Discovering Montreal Things to do beyond the usual Frosh stupidity Peter Koven Tired? Hung over? Do your freshman requirement courses all suck? Is that Stifler-ish frosh leader of yours suggesting you go get loaded at some rez party for, like, the tenth night in a row? Well, we at the Tribune feel your pain, and in our ever-ongoing quest to get people to appreciate the finer offer ings that Montreal provides, here are some brief descriptions of some other events taking place in the city right now that would constitute far better use o f your time and undoubtedly dwindling money supply. Picasso Érotique Musée Des Beaux-Arts 1380 Sherbrooke S t West
The first thing one sees when entering the exhibit is an appalling black-and-white film reel consist
ing of various people masturbating in a wide variety of interesting positions. This sets an appropriate tone for Picasso Érotique; a tour ing collection of paintings consist ing o f the artist’s most sensual works. Originally supposed to be shown in Toronto, it was deemed too controversial for that city and was thus moved to the more liber al-minded Montreal. As much a reflection of Picasso’s decadent lifestyle as any thing one is likely to see, Picasso puts the viewer in the position of the voyeur, and literally takes them through a sexual history of his fife. The exhibit begins with represen tations of the Catalan brothels that Picasso frequented in his early years and proceeds to show his unique obsessions with individual women and issues such as rape and incest in his later years. The paint
ings become increasingly disturb ing as the years go by; playful fetishes literally become demonic rapes, and simple sex acts become mammoth orgies. This continues until his very last paintings where, as his body disintegrates, so do his charicatures, thus creating a striking por trayal of total sexual helplessness. As Picasso himself said more than once, “Art is never innocent,” and nowhere is this more evident than in these fascinating works. The exhibit is a must-see, but will only be shown in Montreal until September 14th. Bell Canadian Open September 6-9 Royal Montreal Golf Club lie Bizard
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and Nike spokesman’s worst night mare was barely averted last Thursday, as Tiger Woods con firmed that he would indeed try to defend his Canadian champi onship. Some one-day tickets for Thursday and Friday are still avail able, although the weekend is com pletely sold out. With Ichikawa - begins September 6th Cinémathèque Québécoise 335 de Maissoneuve
Kon Ichikawa was one of a small group o f several seminal Japanese filmmakers in the 1950s, who helped revolutionize the whole satiric comedy genre. 24 of his films will be screened over the next six weeks.
lie Bonsecours (Old Montreal) - September 8-9
Montreal’s 20th annual PowWow includes dance, song, and arts in a celebration of native cul ture. The Magic Lanterns Botanical Gardens (right next to Olympic Stadium) Begins September 14
The Botanical Gardens are always a must-visit while the weather is still bearable, but this exhibit is particularly great, as hun dreds of homemade lanterns light
Battle of the Bands — September 7, 14, 21 Hard Rock Café - 1458 Crescent
This three-day battle consists of eight of Montreal’s best-known bands of various styles competing for the prize of Hard Rock Montreal Band of the Year. Show begins at 9:00, admission is $6, beer is cheap. Pow-Wow
Motocross Valvoline of Montreal Olympic Stadium, September 15
Supposedly the world’s largest motorcycle event. I have no com ment, but montrealmotocross.com sure does. Hopefully some off these activities will keep you entertained for these first few weeks. Stay tuned for further information on upcoming Montreal events.
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The Cinémathèque Québécoise strikes again with this retrospective on the legendary Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman. His films, most famous ly The Seventh Seal (the chess match vs. Death scene!), are best known for probing the meaning of the human conscience and other such philosophical matters, and are considered art-house classics.
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Iowa (Roadrunner Records) Back in ’99, I covered a con cert for the Tribune featuring a per formance by the then-unknown psycho-metal outfit Slipknot. Their gimmick, which seemed novel at the time (although in ret rospect they just ripped off Mushroomhead) essentially involved the fact that the band consists of nine maniacs in boiler suits wearing various masks (a pig, a clown, and a gas mask among them) and causing general insanity onstage. Considering the extreme nature of their music, it seemed virtually impossible to think that mainstream commercial success could ever be in their future. But now, two years later, after their platinum album, Jack Nicholson video, unreal T-shirt sales, broken bones, and general world domi-
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NEEDED With the support of McGill stu dents, last year’s Terry Fox Run w a s the most su c c e ssfu l in Montreal’s history. On September 16th, we will again prove our commitment to finding a cure for cancer. If you are interested in recruiting participants or helping organize events for the run day, contact Danielle Lanteigne, the VP Community Government Affairs, at 398-6798 or extemal@ssmu.mcaill.ca.
nance, has anything really changed for these Iowa maniacs? The clear answer is a hearty “No.” Much like their debut selftitled LP, their only goal with their new release Iowa is simply to be as insane as possible, pushing extreme metal to an appallingly large fan base they lovingly call “Maggots.” The opener, the appropriatelynamed “People = Shit” starts off with a hearty “Here we go again, motherfucker!” before segueing into a rather insane Morbid Angelish death metal riff held afloat by some cool DJ scratches by that gas mask dude. The trend continues with almost no breaks, with lovely tracks like “Disasterpiece,” “The Heretic Anthem,” “New Abortion,” etc, which all serve to push the line on just how heavy music can conceivably be while still being, you know, music. In this regard, Iowa actually manages to top its virtually impenetrable predecessor. Lyrically, however, it seems to fall short. Singer Corey Taylor did an outstanding job of venting his pain and anguish on the first LP (the “You all stare but you’ll never see/there’s something inside me” section off of ‘Purity,’ a shocking
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portrayal of sexual abuse, stands out in particular). On Iowa, how ever, he seems to be venting anger purely because that’s what his audi ence wants. O f course, there could be a really sophisticated dual meaning to lyrics like “I wanna slit your throat and fuck the wound/I wanna push my face in and feel the swoon”. Nonetheless, this is an entertaining listen, and definitely recommended for those who liked their first LP. Plus, your friends will think you’re much less pretentious if you’re listening to this instead of that new Bjork record. —Peter Koven
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Samba Soul 70! (Ziriguiboom/Crammed Discs ZIR LP 07)
Just as Fela Kuti was fusing black American funk with Yoruban rhythm in the late 1960s to create afrobeat, a similar movement was occurring in Brazil. As they became conscious of the nascent American Black Power Movement and the funk, jazz and soul that
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Batonga (Wave WM50069-1)
Wave is always a reliable label and this 12” is no exception. Batonga has been out since last April but continues to make an impression as it moves ever for ward to classic status. Basically, it’s a straight ahead four on the flour garage track with some sensual string melodies (tasteful, I assure you). What really makes it note worthy, however, are the haunting Japanese vocals (at least we think they’re Japanese...) that makes Batonga unforgettable. It shouldn’t be too hard to find a copy—it’s definitely worth checking out. —Dan Zacks
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coach with the Calgary Stampeders, McMann - besides attracting a slew of promising It wasn’t a pretty sight. In the final game of legendary recruits, has worked hard to instill McGill head coach Charlie confidence in his players, and to Baillie’s 29 year career, the ensure that they settle for nothing Redmen football team was pum melled in the first round of the playoffs 50 -3 by the Vanier Cup champion Ottawa Gee-Gees. While things looked bleak for what appeared to be a sinking Red n’ White program eight months ago, the sprightly atmosphere in training camp this fall indicates otherwise. Despite the absence of Randy Chevrier — arguably one of the best players in school history, and Ben Wearing, who accounted for the bulk of McGill’s scoring as a prolific wide-receiver and special teams player last year — there is talk of winning a championship. “Our goal is to win the Vanier Cup,” said returning defensive lineman John MacDonald, who less than excellence. “I didn’t come here to lose,” recorded a team-leading seven said McMann. “In our first meet sacks last year. ing when I took over, I told the “There is an air of confidence guys our goal is not to get to the in both the coaching staff and the Vanier Cup, it’s to win it.” players that has come as a result of McMann’s competitive temeveryone’s commitment to train perment is clearly infectious. ing in the off-season. There are a Said MacDonald: “Already, lot of great athletes on the team, and if we can come together as a this teamhas more desire than any unit and stay healthy, I believe we other team I’ve played with during my tenure at McGill. Coach can become a major contender.” MacDonald’s ambitious atti McMann and his staff demand tude is undoubtedly pleasing to intensity.” newhead coach Chuck McMann, More Ickey Woods, like TD who has already earned the respect celebrations? of his players. A former running-backs One key change Redmen fans Jeremy Kuzma rov
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can expect this season will be a more wide open and fast paced offense. Besides the exploits of Wearing, last year’s offense was mediocre. This year, coach McMann looks to utilize more receivers, and also looks to make greater use of the passing and running skills of senior quarterback Josh Sommerfeldt. The quarterback contro versy which lingered last sea son is no longer in effect, as Philippe Couillard, who got the nod on several occasions, now attends classes at l’Université de Montréal. Nick Hoffmann, a bruis ing back from Greenfield Park, returns to lead the run ning attack. New recruits — most notably Rob Leblanc, who has turned some heads in camp with his tremendous athleticism — look to solidify a receiving corps anchored by vets Pat Lanctot and Stephen Koheykewich. “We’re going to run a pro style type offense. We may use five receiver, six receiver sets. We may use two backs. It’s an offense designed to keep opposing defens es off balance,” said coach McMann, from Baillie’s old office in the Currie Gym. “Josh Sommerfeldt will be our opening day starter. We’re looking for him to take on more of a leadership type role. We’ve got a lot of good athletes and talent and should put some points up on the
board.” While times are changing on offense, defensively the Redmen look to maintain the status quo. Besides Macdonald, opposing quarterbacks should be leery of senior Steve Young, who had a breakout year in 2000 after con verting from wide-receiver. Returnees Mike Mahoney and Steve Colwell look to provide veteran leadership and hard-nosed play at linebacker, while stalwarts Greg Shink, conference all-star Strachan Hartley, and the versatile Andrew Cooke should provide for one of the strongest secondaries in recent memory. While the Redmen open their season this Saturday against Bishop’s, the team will be gearing up for its end of the month homeand home showdown with the Laval Rouge et Or, who won the Vanier Cup two years ago. Oddly, the Redmen are guar anteed of a playoff spot in the new Quebec football conference which consists of only four teams, including Bishop’s, Laval and Concordia. One good thing about the league readjustment is that the Redmen will not have to face their nemesis from the nation’s capital who, with the help of now-gradu ated superstar quarterback Phil Côté, defeated McGill in the play offs for the past two seasons. At the very least, the debacle of last year’s semi-final game will not be repeated. That in itself is good reason for optimism up at Molson stadium.
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Perhaps the biggest question surrounding the Redmen this sea son ... Who will replace Randy Chevrier as long-snapper? Says John Macdonald: "The legendary position at McGill will be handled by either Mike Mahoney or Jim Merrick. NFL scouts pay attention. In the words of Eric Lindros: "Sunny Days Lie Ahead":
Some more future names for fans to remember: Says coach McMann: “We did have a vert' good recruiting year. Receiver Rob Leblanc, run ning back Scott Mao, quarterback Phil Cantin all have had good training camps. A rookie line backer Morgan Pampe has looked good, he’s already had three inter ceptions in camp. Wearing a Bomber:
Wearing became the second McGill player this summer to be drafted by a professional team. He was selected in the third round bv the Winnipeg Blue-Bombers of the CFL, and is currently on their prac tice roster.
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The hockey off-season is typi cally an anticlimactic time in uni versity athletics. The McGill Redmen hockey team ignored cus tom this summer and made news; unfortunately, it wasn’t all good. McGill lost their leading goal scorer Greg Davis to the St. Louis Blues, who signed the McGill sniper last May 7th to a two year contract. While Davis’ departure gready alters the prospects of this years’ Redmen, the signing comes as no suprise to anyone involved in McGill hockey circles.
Davis’ signing makes him the second McGill hockey player to make the jump to the NHL after Mathieu Darche accomplished that feet last season by suiting up for the Columbus Blue Jackets. “As much as Darche was a dominant player, Greg is more dominant in some ways,” com mented McGill head coach Martin Raymond. “As impressive as Greg’s stats were, his potential is even more so.” Davis led the Redmen squad in scoring with 41 points last sea son, wich included one impressive run of 28 consecutive games with a point, setting a school record.
While there is no guarantee that he will be called up by the Blues from their farm team, Davis is excited about his future. “It goes to show you that is doesn’t matter where you play, you can make it to the NHL from a number of different places. As long as you improve your game and work hard, you have a chance.” In addition to the loss of Davis, the teammust also move on without assistant coach Kelly Nobes. The 27-year-old has accepted the head coach position at the Royal Military College in Please see D E P A R T U R E S , page 17
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to shy away fromwise-cracks about Darche’s French-Canadian back ground. “Seriously, he’s a great young man, and he’s done a great job for us. He’s a bit undersized but he’s held up well on the blocking end. He’s very popular on the team, a valuable asset and we hope to hold on to him for a while.” Remarkably, the fruition of Darche’s lifelong dream may be shared with former McGill team mate Randy Chevrier, who became only the third Canadian university player to be drafted by an NFL teamlast April. The Jacksonville Jaguars, focused on ameliorating their sag ging special teams unit, selected the 6’2” 293 pound Chevrier in the seventh round. Although Chevrier was recent ly cut by the Jaguars, he still has a chance of catching on with another NFL team before the season starts on Sunday. If not he may go to the Edmonton Eskimos who drafted him in the first round of the Canadian Football League draft. “Before coming to McGill I was a wiry kid with little direction in life, and now I’m headed for the the pros. It’s been simply over whelming,” said Chevrier. Sealing Chevrier’s pro-fate was an impressive performance under
scrutiny in the East West Shrine Bowl, which featured many top senior players from the US. “We’d heard about Randy, but the best thing for himwas to play in the Shrine Bowl where he played really well before tons of scouts,” said Gene Smith, Jacksonville’s director of college scouting. “The key for us selecting Randy is his ability to long-snap and short snap, and fill in as an eighth or ninth defensive lineman. He’s got good size, and has the ability to run down the field and cover kicks which is important.” Chevrier’s work-ethic was a big reason why his teammates and coaches weren’t surprised when the Jaguars called his name. “Randy and I worked out together before the draft, and he’s made so much progress in recent months,” said Darche - who suited up with Chevrier on Redmen teams from 1996-98. “I knew there was no reason for him not to be selected given his talent, and I have no doubt he’ll have a great year. I hope to see an ex-McGill teammate in the NFL, and I can’t wait to face him .” The meteoric rise from Canadian Interuniversity Athletics Union obscurity to the Show, by both Chevrier and Darche begs the question: is it a coincidence that both players went to McGill, a
school best renowned for its lofty academic standards, not its athletic prowess? According to both of them, the answer is no. The key intangible, for both players, is former Redmen head coach Charlie Baillie, who recently retired after an outstanding 29 year career during which he led the Redmen to their only Vanier Cup victory in 1987, and became the winningest coach in school his tory. A former special teams, player with the Montreal Alouettes, Baillie devoted a great deal of time helping both Darche and Chevrier to hone their long-snapping skills, which, despite both players’ expert ise as linebackers and linemen, has been their ticket to the big-time. “After JP left I expressed my interest in long-snapping. At first I was awful, but I worked hard at it,” said Chevrier, who graduated from McGill with a degree in physical education. “Even at the age of 65, coach Baillie was always there, at any hour to snap to and practice with, and also to dispense advice. Coach Baillie’s been like a grand father to me, and I learned so much from him, and became a complete player at McGill.” Said Darche: “I believe that Randy and I were very fortunate to have had a coach like Charlie Baillie who put a lot ofemphasis on special
teams and was himself an ex-snap per in the CFL and very knowl edgeable of the position. Even though we both were an important part of the team as defensive cap tains, coach Baillie still reminded us how long-snapping is important and that by working on it, we would improve our chances of hav ing a professional career.” Jaguar scout Smith, who combs every college league for standout players, feels that the CIAU is a quality league which will only benefit from having some of its marquee players make the NFL. “Eve known about the talent base up in Canada for a while. There’s a lot of quality players up there, and I think the attention is only going to increase with players like Randy and JP making the jump,” said Smith. “It’s tough sometimes for scouts who have trouble covering the entire US in the short fall season to get up there for games, but we know about the top players from the scouting com bines. The CFL can also be a good stepping stone for Canadian kids if they don’t catch our attention in college.” For current members of the Redmen football team, the careers of both Chevrier and Darche have served as inspirations. “I consider myselflucky — not only to have played with Randy and
JP — 2 potential NFLers — but also to be their close friends,” said defensive lineman John Macdonald, recipient of the Willie Lambert trophy last year as McGill’s most dedicated player. “Their success doesn’t surprise me because both players have one important quality that has carried them to the top — determination. Those two never quit. They worked and worked so they could achieve excellence. Role models drive football teams and their workethic started a chain reaction at McGill that probably will last for years.” Darche agrees that he and Chevrier may not be the talk of Molson stadium, or the CIAU for very long. “I think that the success of Randy and myself will definitely give credibility to the CIAU,” said Darche. “I wouldn’t be surprised if there were to be a lot more Canadians in the NFL in the upcoming years. Football as a sport is gaining in popularity throughout the country, especially in Quebec with the Alouettes drawing huge crowds, and more and more kids are playing the game. In my mind, we are only seeing the tip of the ice berg.”
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R u n n in g th r o u g h a h a n g o v e r A n inside look at the sum m er training schedules of two of M cGill s finest athletes a normal routine.” For Carson training was some McGill athletes Jeffrey Wagner thing that helped him cope with and Brant Carson both spent their that high wire balancing act summers like any other university between work and play. “There are obviously days student would. Very banal, right down to the nine-to-five job, the late night carousing, and the proverbial burning at both ends of the candle. Wagner and Carson did it all. So what sets Wagner, Carson, and hundreds of other McGill ath letes, apart from the rest of us? Just an entire athletic training regime, which these athletes somehowman aged to fit around everything else. Carson, named McGill’s most improved male track athlete after managing a fourth place finish in the 3000m event at provincial championships in Laval last season, spent his summer training back home with the University of when you don’t want to run but I Waterloo track squad. A normal find it’s a good release and I’m week of training for Carson consist much more relaxed when I’m fol ed of three days of grueling track lowing a schedule.” The secret to finding the neces workouts, two days of long distance sary motivation? running apart from the team, and “Setting goals is very impor one day of weight training. tant. I’m a goal oriented person to “I don’t view training as being begin with which definitely helps.” ‘fit around’ everything else,” he Despite a hectic schedule, explains. “I see how other people Carson still found time for sum might, but for an athlete it becomes mer’s other more conventional Jam es Empringham
activities: “Waterloo night life is nothing compared to Montreal,” he smiles, “but there’s still a lot of partying.” For Wagner, there was no cause for any partying last season, as he
was forced to sit out part of the schedule due to various setbacks. Consequently, Wagner, who was responsible for running the lead leg of McGill’s 4X800m silver medal winning relay team at Nationals two years ago, spent much of his summer getting back to a “base” which he describes as the minimum level of fitness required for pushing the body to the max. “I concentrated on getting
back to necessary shape this sum mer. Muscles do have memory though, so because I’ve always ran a lot it was easier to get back to that base.” Wagner, who by summer’s end was running 10-12 km five times a week plus additional training with his alma mater St. Michael’s College in Toronto, contests the notion that summer is an off-season at all. “You can run on your own and you can run all year round so there really is no off-season.” Was Wagner able to reconcile his training with a still healthy dose of afternoon barbecues and latenight patio hopping? “Definitely, you can still have a social life. I worked during the week but I was a weekend warrior.” With a suspicious smile which appears as though derived from something besides training, Wagner adds, “The summer was fantastic.” Perhaps, however, there is no greater proof of the devotion with which Carson and Wagner ply their trade then to hear them joke with each other over what else? Frosh week training stories. “During my first year at McGill,” Wagner says, “I tried run ning every day of Frosh Week while doing both Management and SSMU Frosh.”
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Kingston, Ontario. Nobes takes over from Andy Scott who coached the Paladins for 12 sea sons before resigning at the end of last season. “It’s been a lot of work so far, but talking with Martin (Raymond) had prepared me for it,” said Nobes when reached in Kingston this week. For Raymond, the loss of his assistant did not come as a sur prise. When Scott announced in January of his intention to leave the team, the search for a replace ment began immediately. RMC contacted Raymond about the possibility of Nobes being a candi date. Despite the interest shown by the college, the job was not hand ed to Nobes. He participated in an extensive hiring process that included representatives from the college, the human resources department, and the hockey team. The first stage was a three hour written exam on various hockey scenarios. Of the thirtyfive coaches that applied, six were given an interview. After his inter view, Nobes was immediately offered the position. Deciding to accept the offer was the easy part, according to Nobes. “I enjoy coaching at the CLAU level,” said Nobes. “The players are intelligent, motivated and playing for the right reasons.
For the love of the game really.” Moving to the RMC program from McGill poses several chal lenges for Nobes. The foremost task will be building a competitive team where athletics ranks behind school work and military training in terms of time and effort. Nobes, however, recognizes the traditional strengths of the Paladins’ teams. “The Royal Military College has always been known for being a hard working and disciplined team. We need to continue doing those things.” During the next couple of weeks Nobes will acquaint himself with the players. Despite several unknowns, one definite is the return of star goaltender Tom Connerty. Last year, Connerty backstopped the Paladins to a playoff defeat of archrival Queen’s Golden Gaels. Even with his former col league now being an opponent so to speak, Martin Raymond does not resent Nobes’ decision. “I’mvery happy for him but I have mixed emotions,” said Raymond. “Kelly has worked very hard at McGill for the last two years. It’s a tough loss for us and I am a little sad to be losing him, but I wish him all the best with RMC.”
“He was so sick by the end of the week,” Carson laughs. Not to be outdone, Carson reveals: “As an engineering Frosh leader this year, I’ve managed to sneak away for an hour and a half each day to continue training.” While such a revelation may not endear Carson to his Pub-Nite buddies, it does go a long way towards understanding the psyche of a track and field athlete. In strange, yet quintessentially McGill fashion, Wagner and Carson even credit the confusion of Frosh Week for contributing to their successes. “Summer’s about staying men tally sharp and that includes over coming a slight hangover the morn ing after a late night,” says Carson. “It makes it a little harder at the start of a run, but it gets a lot better by the end.” “Running is so mental,” Wagner explains, “to the point that it’s your mind that restricts your body. As a result of the entertain ment which Frosh Week provides, our minds become clear and ready to take on newchallenges.” Truly logic only a university student could understand.
S p o rts b r ie fs McGill to host consecutive hockey & soccer championships McGill has won its bid to play host to consecutive national cham pionships in men and women’s soc cer and women’s hockey in each of the 2003-04 and 2004-05. The soccer championships will be co hosted by l’Université de Montréal as well. This will be the first time McGill has hosted a national cham pionship in hockey, the third time in women’s soccer, and the fourth time in men’s soccer. McGill has previously hosted 12 CIAU cham pionships in various other sports. McGill sends three athletes to World University Games McGill women’s soccer stars Amber Allen, Eva Melamed, and Alanna Maloney were selected to represent Canada at the World University Games held in Beijing August 22nd to September 1st. The women’s team finished disap pointingly in tenth place. Melamed led the team in scoring with six goals in four games, while Allen was unable to compete due to injury. Also representing McGill at the games was women’s soccer coach Marc Mounicot, Commun ications officer Earl Zukerman and Professor David Covo.
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A c a d e m ic P r ic in g P a r a d is e By: Christian Lander After the two giant glass doors slide open I am overwhelmed by the sheer size o f it. I look to my left and see an aisle with shelves filled with software that stretch into infinity. To my right a row o f monitors so large that it puts NASA to shame. I decide that my limited budget is reserved only for software and pretend that the sections marked ‘joysticks’, ‘Personal Digital Assistants,’ and ‘hardware’ do not exist. The $1000 in my bank account will have to stretch far enough to get me a copy o f M icrosoft Office, W indows 2 0 0 0 , and M acrom edia Dreamweaver.
As I make my way past the games section, I look at the price tags. They all seem to be between $49.99 and $70.00. H ow could my software be much more than this? Maybe I won’t have to ignore those other aisles after all. If I assume each piece o f software I need costs double, that still leaves me with almost $500 to spend however I see fit. Maybe a Palm P ilot isn’t out o f the question.
All o f a sudden I realize the similarities between Toys R Us and this giant store with its high ceilings and endless aisles. The one glaring difference I notice is the lack o f products on the floor from customers playing with them. As I make my way toward the cashier I find m yself wishing that a Dukes o f H a zza rd big wheel would cut me off. W hen I get to the cash I notice a Werthers candy display. H ow can I resist? I throw a package on top o f my software and dump my goods on the counter. The cashier doesn’t look at me as he rings up the software and the sweets. I can already imagine the sweet buttery taste o f that candy. “That’ll be $1897.50,” says the clerk blankly. My first thought is that Werthers has gone up in price. Momentarily I am at a loss for words. I end up blurting out “Are you kidding me:
I step up my pace and quickly scan software titles until I find the Macromedia section. Dream weaver is right near the front o f the product line. I grab one with out looking at the price and take two quick side steps to move from “Ma” to “M i” so I can get W indows and Office 2 0 0 0 . I find my copy o f W indows with no problem, but I notice that if I want Office, I have to take a piece o f paper and bring it to the front o f the store. I haven’t had to do this since I bought Castlevania for NES at Toys R Us.
The clerk points to the price tags and I see that Office costs $700, W indows 2 0 0 0 is over $400 and Dream weaver is $500. Leaving my software on the counter, I mutter a few curse words under my breath and storm out. Well, I try to storm out, but those damn sliding doors are slow and make for terrible dramatic exits. What am I going to do? Where am I going to get another $900? It was a minor miracle that was able to save up $1000. Depression washes over me like a wave.
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(continuedfrompage3) I walk back to residence and spend the rest o f that Sunday night trying to prepare a presentation using WordPad for W indows 9 5 . It was useless. I give up after an hour and try to sleep. Early the next day I walk to Burnside 1B45 for my 8:30 a.m. class. After entering the north doors I notice a computer store in the building. Checking the store hours I see that they open at 9:00 a.m.. I decide to visit the store after my class ends. W hen class gets out, I ascend slowly up the stairs assuming that I am preparing to walk into another slap in the face. Upon entering, the first thing that strikes me about the store is how small it was. M y experience up until that point was that small stores could not compete with the mega warehouse type stores. Still, I am drawn to the back wall containing a small selection o f software. Immediately I find Dream weaver for only $153.00. I began a frantic search for Office 2 0 0 0 and W indows 2 0 0 0 , but they are nowhere to be found. I am disappointed, but still excited that my software costs have dropped almost $300. I go to the counter where the salesperson asks for my McGill ID card. I think this to be very strange but hand it over anyway. W hile she is inputting my information I see copies o f Office and W indows on a shelf behind the counter. My mind flashes back to the other store that also kept copies o f Office behind the counter, presumably because it is so expensive. I am almost too timid to ask but none the less inquire about the price. “Office? It’s $194,” says the clerk nonchalantly. “And Windows is $1 6 6 .”
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