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Jeremy M orris If all the gurus of the informa tion age are correct in their hyper bole, then Harry Potter and The Lord of the Rings will earn more money than the gross domestic product of Uzbekistan. Sorry to all Uzbeks, but that wee bespectacled lad has more charm than a windswept night in the desert of Qyzylqum. Therefore it is simple conjecture to assume that myth and magic are in “vogue”. So where might this magic lie here in our own confines? Under rock, tree or burning bush? Maybe magic lies in a tiny poorly ventilat ed room far from all sunlight in the upper throes of the Shatner build ing. Yes, the Tribune is reporting directly from the mysterious land known as the office of the Gamers Guild. Amidst a friendly round of Trivial Pursuit, the stakes being the fate o f the tiny island republic of Fiji, the executive is eager and wel coming. Daphne Brunelle, the Guild President, gives a brief club history. “The Guild began in the late 1970s as a simulation and war games club. Today we have 80 members or so, with an office, a yearly convention and a movie night once a m onth,” she says. “The office serves as a liaison spot to find players and start games.” The guilds main event is a convention in the first week of March, with gamers attending from across Québec to play roleplaying games (RPGs). Members of the guild can play old favourites such as Scrabble or Risk, RPGs such as Dungeons and Dragons and Rifts and quick games such as Please see GET, page 10

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Robberies plague McDonald-Harrington Recent thefts at fifth floor studio remains unsolved John Sciascia Approximately $1500 worth o f books, Discmans, and other materials were stolen from a work studio in the M cD onaldH arrington Architecture Building last W ednesday according to Students’ Socitey o f M cGill University Architecture represen tative Chryssi Tsouponarias T h e robbery took place between 2:00 am and 4:00 am . This incident was the second reported act o f theft to take place in the complex last week. Building A dm inistrator

Jonathan Rousham com m ented on the opportunistic nature o f the thieves who com m itted the recent acts, beginning from a Discman theft th at was reported last Monday. "They [thieves] come in to the building on the speculation o f finding som ething," revealed Roushman. He spoke o f how the robbers use tools they find in the studio to break into the students' personal desks. "This happens every few years. These acts tend to go in cycles," Roushm an said. H e explained that the thefts seem to

occur when students feel a level of comfort that compromises security measures, such as leaving the stu dio doors unlocked after use. Roushm an encouraged stu dents to become more careful about locking the studio doors and personal desks. H e believed that increased student vigilance will lead to a halt in robberies, and did not expect the trend to continue. "Thieves do move on, because they know that they are more like ly to get recognized in the same area," Roushman mentioned. Tsouponarias expressed her discontent with the situation.

“You could be almost anyone walking into the building; they barely ever check you,” com plained Tsouponarias, who felt that stricter security measures are required for the building. She expressed sincere con cerns over the perceived feeling of insecurity shared by students in general. “If someone’s working there late, the thought is kind o f scary,” related Tsouponarias. Roushman stated that security measures in the building are rea sonably suited to the needs o f the

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Philanthropy Month does good Vince Lun November marks McGill’s first ever Philanthropy Month, where student groups and clubs hold fundraising events across campus and Montreal. Mid-way through this cam paign, many clubs have raised money through creative charity events, while others are still searching for volunteers and con tributors. In response to the McGill Greek Society raising over $10,000 for charity last year, the Students’ Society of McGill University conceived Philanthropy M onth as a way of creating visibility for the many campus fundraising events. “Philanthropy M onth came about to ensure that student groups and clubs receive the cred it for their efforts and to push awareness for their causes,” explained SSMU VP Com m unications and Events Brian Ker. “McGill students care about their community, and we all want to give something back. This is a reason why most of the charities are Montreal-based.” One o f the most successful Philanthropy M onth events was the Science Undergraduate Society’s benefit concert, A Promise for the Future at The Metropolis on Friday,

November 16. Artists included, Ocean Hope, Catherine Durand, Diaga, Nancy Dumais, J. Gaines (formerly o f the

Soul Attorneys) and Marie-Chantal Toupin. All the artists had just returned from a concert tour of Canadian Forces bases in Kosovo, and acknowledged the importance of giving to the less fortunate. “Whenever we get the chance

to help out the kids, we’ll be here,” said J. Gaines in a backstage inter view after the show. “We’ve got it really good.”

For their efforts in Philanthropy M onth, the SUS raised over $1000 for the Montreal Children’s Hospital and F’Hopital Sainte-Justine. Philanthropy M onth organiz ers are still looking for volunteers, as there are still events that need

support up until the end of the month. One such event is the Phi Delta Theta fraternity house’s Hearts for the Homeless, an all-day Hearts tournament running in the Shatner lobby and Gert’s on November 22. Phi Delta Theta member Brian Ker commented, “Everyone loves to play Hearts, and we wanted to raise some money for charity, so this is why we’re having t h i s marathon.” Last year, this event raised over $575 in about 18 hours. All proceeds will go to the Montreal O ld Brewery Mission, a local homeless shelter. Another charity event, the Student’s Society Programming Network’s (SSPN) “Movie Marathon”, will take place in the Shatner Ballroom on November 23.

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All earnings will be going to Care Canada, who will be asked to direct the funds towards an emergency relief fund in Afghanistan. Philanthropy Month ends with the International Relations Students’ Association of McGill’s (IRSAM) World AIDS Day Ribbon Sale. Volunteers will be selling fundraising ribbons across campus on November 30, just in time to bring awareness to World AIDS Day on December 1. It is IRSAM’s belief that, “McGill students not only care about AIDS, but also want to do something about it.” Philanthropy M onth is only half over, and there are still many McGill clubs that need support and assistance. For more information on charity events, you can go check out www.ssmu. mcgill. ca!events.

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Car crash near McGill puzzles officials Driver fled the scene as baffled w itnesses looked on John Sciascia A red Jeep Cherokee crashed into the stone barrier near the cor ner of Dr. Penfield Avenue and McTavish Street last Friday m orn ing at 12:20 am. The driver was apparently unharmed but fled the scene of the accident, according to eyewitness reports. The driver hit the security bar rier surrounding the Arts Building and the McGill Senate room in the Leacock Building before coming to a stop about thirty feet further up the road. The car left noticeable skid marks on the pavement indicating the extreme velocity at which it hit the barrier. “This has got to be the weird est thing I’ve ever seen,” said one anonymous eyewitness, who claimed that the driver appeared dazed but unharmed following the accident. “He seemed all right after the crash...I heard him mumble some thing that I couldn’t make out,” he said. “I tried to talk to him, but he unbuckled his seat belt and tried to open his door, but found that it had been jammed, so he hopped out of the window and ran away.” Because of this event, witness es at the crash site suspected that the vehicle might have been stolen. McGill security officer Michel

Duhamel was the first public safety official to arrive on the scene, roughly ten minutes after the acci dent had occurred. Station 20 police arrived about 20 minutes after the accident took place.

cers, the Jeep was racing down Dr Penfield at an estimated speed of 160 kilometres per hour. The speed limit on the street is 50 kilometers per hour. Duhamel disclosed one reason

They revealed to Duhamel that the driver had already been involved in three hit-and-run inci dents involving parked cars on its way up from Sherbrooke Street prior to the crash. According to the police offi

why the driver may have been speeding. “It is believed that he was at some point being pursued by a black Cadillac,” said Duhamel, who further said that the pursuing vehicle had allegedly given up chase

somewhere along Dr Penfield. He described how the suspect had fled the scene along the south side of the street, clearing the secu rity fence of the M. H. Wong Building and presumably fled t o w a r d s University Street. McGill security officers were unable to apprehend him. H ow ever, the driver had left his wallet and other per sonal informa tion in the car. T he autom o bile itself appeared some what suspicious in nature to officials. “The Jeep carried a Manitoba license plate with a tempo rary Montreal sticker on it,” said Duhamel. McGill’s Dean o f Students Bruce Shore heard the sound of the crash from his office and rushed to the scene to inspect the site. “It really looks like [Dr Penfield] street is a drag raceway,”

said Shore, who made the initial call to 911 from his cellular phone. He thought it was unlikely that the accident was alcohol-relat ed, given that the driver was able to run away from the crash site so quickly. The wreckage of the vehicle was noticeable to passing drivers, as the rear bumper had been knocked off 12 meters from where the car came to rest, and assorted audio tapes and auto parts were scattered along the sidewalk next to the car. Surprisingly, the vehicle’s airbag had not been deployed. McGill Security Coordinator Louise Savard commented on the response time to the incident. “We ask that the response time be at a maximum of ten minutes,” indicated Savard. She insisted that officers generally adhere to this rule, but explained that the limited staff has mandatory security meas ures to carry out that may impede response time. “The agents don’t just sit around waiting for a call. They do building checks and inspections,” said Savard, who stressed the importance of the officers’ locations during these duties. “If they are on the other side of campus when a call is made, it will unfortunately take them longer to respond,” said Savard.

Consumerism takes a day off High levels of consumption are not without consequence. It takes material, energy, fuel for transport, and a manufacturing infrastructure to make any product. O ur general consum ption patterns are why Adbusters started their Buy Nothing Day campaign. Adbusters is a Vancouver—based magazine concerned about the erosion of our physical and cul tural environments by commercial forces. Buy Nothing Day (BND) is one of their social marketing cam paigns. It is the day after American Thanksgiving, which according to the Adbusters website, is America’s busiest shopping day. Now eight years old, BND has spread to more than thirty coun tries. This year, however, there is much debate over whether or not to celebrate it as the events of September 11 are sending the North American economy into a recession. The message from both Washington and Ottawa is to shop, shop, and shop. The Bush Administration expressed it best, soon after the attacks, "Each and every American should know that by continuing to work and spend, they are doing their part to restore our nation and our economy.”

Shopping is now a patriotic duty. Adbusters and others have questioned the validity of this short term shopping spree at the expense of long term environmental harms, even questioning the adequacy of the G DP to measure real economic progress. “... we measure the goods, but we do not measure the bads —and, unchecked, it’s the bads that will bury us.” There is no traditional way to celebrate BND besides the obvious act o f not buying anything. Thus each year there are countless acts of creative observance. A girl wander ing the streets of Ste. Catherine with the sides of her shopping bags cut out, to the Santa Buddha medi-

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Cold beverage agreement returns Clare McIntyre The Students' Society o f McGill University (SSMU) is in the process o f negotiating w hat is one o f the last spheres o f student control over on-campus food and beverage services. A new Cold Beverage Agree m ent (CBA) will be presented for the consideration o f SSMU coun cil members on November 22. It comes almost two years after a pro posed campus-wide beverage deal sparked conflict w ithin the univer sity com m unity and led to student rejection o f the exclusivity deal in a referendum. H istory not repeating itself Raoul Gebert, SSM U ’s VP Operations, stressed that the agree ment currendy being developed is entirely different from the one that was so controversial two years ago. “T he one thing now that’s really im portant is that we’re talk ing about a different kind o f CBA. This is not Coke coming in and gaining campus-wide control,” he explained. “We’re really just talk

ing about supply o f beverages to the University Centre — the eight vending machines we have, and then the food court.” T he previous contract for the University Centre was with Pepsi. SSMU has been negotiating a new agreement for the Shatner build ing since January. T he negotiation o f this year’s agreem ent for the University Centre represents one o f the only areas in which student organiza tions still control food and bever age services. “McGill University is looking to unify and streamline the food and beverage operations on cam pus,” Gebert explained. “They’re looking at gathering as many food and beverage opera tions as they can, in order to create an exclusivity situation in which the University will derive the most benefit.” Two years ago, students had control over virtually all on-cam pus beverage distribution. Controversy arose when a m onop oly contract was proposed which would have given Coca-Cola an exclusivity agreement in exchange for substantial funding to student

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organizations. T he variety o f student organi zations that controlled beverage distribution at that time would each have shared in the profits from such exclusivity agreement. T he idea was resolutely voted down in a March 1999 referen dum. Since last year, however, con trol o f food and beverage services has been taken from the majority o f faculty associations and trans ferred to the University Admini stration’s Ancillary Services divi sion. “All the different cafeteria machines that students used to run, this past year the University has stolen back from us,” said SSMU President Jeremy Farrell. “The first thing they did [...] was to take out all the Pepsi machines, shrink wrap them, and send them back to Pepsi — which is a sign of what the university’s intentions are.” M cGill’s VP Administration and Finance M orty Yalovsky explained that the transfer o f con trol was initiated with a view to precipitating the move towards a unified campus food service. “W hen the agreem ent ex pired, the University inform ed these students associations that the food service rights were not going to be renew ed,” Yalovsky ex plained. “T he prime reason for this was to allow the University to move forward with its plans to cre ate a fully integrated food service operation on campus.” Yalovsky was confident that integrated food and beverage serv ices would provide many benefits to students. “A fully integrated service would provide the opportunity for residence students to complement their residence meal plans by allowing them access to other cam pus locations w ithout any further cost,” he said. “T he University wishes to deliver to the entire campus a greater variety and an improved quality o f overall food services in more m odern and renovated areas.” Farrell felt that the move rep

resented a significant loss to the Faculty associations, most impor tantly in terms o f independence and control. “In this case, the most im por tant thing is that they’re losing the right to say, 'We don’t want to be exclusive,'” he said. University Centre pressure W hile the university did offer substantial grants to the faculty associations as financial compensa tion, these transfers will have to be renegotiated in four years. Farrell felt that there could be no guaran tee that the University would con tinue compensating faculty associ ations in the long term. “The University has paid off the faculties, if you will,” Farrell stated. “At the end of four years, they have to go back and renegoti ate these agreements, and there’s nothing there to ensure that at the end of these four years they will still get this grant money,” he explained. Farrell further com m ented that the transfer o f control was essentially forced upon the faculty associations, whose existence is dependent on University approval. T he terms o f existence for each Faculty Association are outlined in each association’s letter o f agree ment, several o f which came up for renewal last year. D uring the renewal process, the University placed a clause in the letters o f agreement o f several associations whereby they gave up their rights to control o f food serv ices. President of the Arts U ndergraduate Society (AUS) Jennifer Sloan commented on the methods used by the University in convincing AUS to sign on to the revised Letter o f Agreement. “We were offered a signing bonus if we signed right at the beginning o f [last] year, and we didn’t,” she stated. “There were a num ber o f pressure tactics that were used throughout the year. They did at one point threaten to close down SNAX, and our stu dent fees in the second semester were also w ithheld until we signed.”

Farrell too expressed his disap pointm ent with the way that the University had conducted the transfer o f control. “I’m extremely disappointed,” he said. “I’m disappointed with the way the University carried these things out — we’re supposed to be an institute o f intellect, one o f those utopian examples o f how people should be treating each other —- and this is the example the university is showing, threat ening and sending ultimatums — that’s not a good thing.” Since the University gained control o f so many campus food operations, more and more oncam pus beverage services have been provided by Coke, a develop m ent which Farrell viewed with suspicion. “O ne o f the major concerns we have as a society is that the University, although the students said no to an exclusivity contract, has been moving towards one any way,” Farrell said. “In fact, if you’ve noticed, there are more Coke machines on campus than ever before.” Raoul Gebert felt that if this trend continued, the university would soon be operating under an exclusivity agreement, but with none o f the financial benefits which would normally ensue from such a deal. “At some point or another they’re probably going to come to [SSMU] and say, okay, you either let us do the food and beverage operations, or you’ll be out o f busi ness,” he explained. “And that would then basical ly pave the way for food and bev erage exclusivity, where the stu dents don’t benefit at all — and I d o ubt th at students will w ant that.” In light o f these develop ments, Farrell stressed the impor tance o f the University Centre CBA in providing students with choice. “The students voted that we wanted some options on campus,” Farrell said. “A nd if the University is not going to see to it, then [SSMU] can at the very least see to it in our building that they have a variety.”

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Ottawa hosts IMF protest

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complex. "We d o n 't w ant to have to hire extra security guards, and I don’t think that students would want to pay for this through extra fees," Roushman related. “The agents stationed at the building are regulars,” said McGill Security C oordinator Louise Savard, who felt that the guards have a general idea o f the students who frequent the building and thus do not always ask for identifi cation. She discussed the implausibility o f running strict identifica tion checks for the building. “Too many people go through the Frank Dawson Adams doors

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[to enter M cDonald-Harrington]. It would be a nightmare to check every student’s identification,” claimed Savard. She claimed that such a practice would significantly slow down students traveling between the buildings. “Before 10:30 pm , there is no agent stationed at the entrance, though he starts patrolling the building at 6:00,” said Savard, who indicated the possibility for students to stay in the building after 6:00, and that it is too diffi cult to keep track o f all students who do this. “We don’t have the manpower to do such a thorough search of the building,” adm itted Savard.

Supreme Court on Parliament Hill. foreign nations,” she said. William Peterson, a representa It was briefly stopped by police offi tive from the Red Flag communist cers at Bay and Laurier Streets, just Nearly 100 McGill students group, felt that the IMF and the outside the corner store. endured the bitter cold in Ottawa Storeowner Peter Duffy who World Bank were committing eco this weekend to protest the meet nomic crimes and going unpun was watching the scene said he was ings of the International Monetary not overly concerned about the ished. Fund (IMF), World Bank, and G“We are here to protest against protests. 20 countries being held there. “I’m glad they are here to the injustices being committed by They joined some 2000 protesters the west. The IMF and the World protest. Someone needs to do it. from across Canada in what was Bank are making poor countries Most of the people here in the deemed a ‘march for economic jus poorer and rich countries richer. protests are peace-lovers. They don’t tice and peace.’ Someone has to raise a voice against need so much security here. They’re Mike Rosen, a representative not bothersome, not here. The few them” from N17 Montreal, was responsi Among the peaceful protesters, that are violent are just a little bit ble for orchestrating the Montreal a few were seen clad in black, and scary” delegation. Gabrielle Bardall, who also covering their faces with bandanas. “T he N 17 Coalition raised They moved in small groups and helped organize the Montreal trip, money for buses, and coordinated were carrying the black flag of the mentioned that the Ottawa protests with Global Democracy Ottawa were not quite as violent as those in anarchy group. (GDO) which organized the entire A member of the Black Bloc Quebec. protest. N 17 also had teach-ins in “In Ottawa, there was less vio Anarchy group who wanted to Montreal about the protest,” he remain unnamed, believed that vio lence and more creativity. People said. lence was sometimes necessary to played soccer and other games. The students joined protesters They had poetry circles and inter turn heads. who represented interests ranging “The whole idea of the Black pretive dances. The police tried to from labour standards to environ Bloc is actually a media invention. make people get bored but the pro mental reform to gay rights. In The Anarchy group believes that testers found ways around this. addition to the standard slogans of violence is sometimes necessary if Saturday was not so violent but “Human need not corporate greed” our voices are to be heard. None of Friday was another story because and “Drop debts not bombs,” sev those rich men sitting in that con there was a snake march where eral signs carried messages as diverse ference are going to listen to a there was no planned route and as “US imperialism out of bunch of kids who want to talk. We groups were divided so that it creat Afghanistan,” “Free Palestine,” and need to throw stones, and rush bar ed confusion for the police. “Spank the Bank.” ricades and make our voices heard McDonalds’ windows were broken Alma Norman was there with on Friday. But all in all, it was in a language they speak” the Raging Grannies, a nation-wide T he protest began in the Please see IMF, page 6 coalition of elderly women, who Lesbreton flats and made its way up attended these protests regularly. She said joining the protest was the only way to have her voice heard on important issues. “The media zeroes in on the few violent acts. But we insist on N o talent will go to waste! speaking out and criticizing and we have to do that. We have to refuse to be intimidated. So if there are police around saying ‘we hope that you won’t gather,’ we have to be saying whatever needs to be said, cause the only place it’ll get said is Share your experience and knowledge and in places like this. We [the govern help next year's incoming class! ment] provide money for wars, we provide money for fighing terror Call now for more info: 398-6913 ism but we don’t provide money for

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“We are expecting problems today — definitely. I know most of the protesters are peaceful, but there are going to be a few violent ones that will make problems for all of us,” he said, adding that “hun dreds of police officers” have been mobilized. Rosen said he couldn’t believe the agression displayed by the police, but was convinced that these protests were making a difference at high levels.

“The IMF is reacting to us. They have started talking about debt relief. The protests definitely had an effect on them. But the police repression was unbelievable. They had dogs with them and they tried to intim idate us. They stopped random people and searched them illegally. They could n’t gas us because we were right out side the Conference Centre. Instead they had two large fire trucks to hose us down with cold water.”

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The Greeks did it for the Ancient Olympics. An international truce was declared one month before every Olympiad, allowing athletes from the farthest Greek colonies to arrive at Olympia safely. The philosophy behind this act was the recognition of the existence of institutions that were of greater value than war. It is time for the US to steal a few pages from Ancient Greek foreign policy and stop the war in Afghanistan for the holy m onth of Ramadan. In the Lunar calendar, which Muslims follow, Ramadan commenced on Friday the 16th of November. This m onth is a period of fasting for Muslims, when, according to the Koran, they may only eat during the night, until such time when they can clearly distinguish a white thread from a black thread by the daylight. Then they must keep the fast until night. When the Muslim world decided to join the western war on terror ism, the US had won their most important battle against the Taliban. They had convinced the world that this wasn’t a religious war. The US must now reinforce that conviction. The US should delay all further attacks until December 16th, when the Arabic month of Shawwal begins. They shouldn’t do this out of con sideration for Osama bin Laden, whose self-proclaimed links to Islam are absolutely spurious. Nor should they go out of their way to accommodate the religious practices of the Al-Qaeda network or the Taliban, for no reli gion — Islam or any other — would share any beliefs or doctrines with these groups. No, the only people that the US has an obligation towards are the poor and the weak in Afghanistan. It is for these people, who will attempt to observe the fast through local political power struggles and the US air strikes. It is for these people who will remember that the telling of a lie, slander, a false oath, greed, or denouncing someone behind his or her back, could destroy the good that is acquired through Ramadan. It is for these Muslims that the US must stop the war. By stopping this war on terrorism, at least temporarily, the US could have executed one of the cleverest moves in military strategy in history. Cornered in Northern Pakistan, the Taliban and bin Laden are currently surviving on the support of their few remaining followers. They know that the conservative military leaders in Pakistan are unhappy with General Musharraf’s cooperation with the US. W hen the US sends ground troops into Northern Pakistan (as it must, in order to capture bin Laden), they are counting on the conservative forces to seize control and retaliate against the US. The Al-Qaeda sees this as the beginning of their religious war. If the US were to declare a truce now, for the one-month Ramadan period, the Taliban would not dare attack, out of fear of an Islamic back lash. The last thing bin Laden wants to do right now is reveal his blatant disregard for Islam. N ot only would the Al-Qaeda network be pinned in Pakistan with their hands bound, the US would also win admiration from the Muslim world, and specifically, from the conservative forces in Pakistan, who are bin Laden’s last hope for a victory. The US will be expos ing the Taliban to the criticism of the entire Muslim world. Bin Laden’s dream of a religious war will be crushed. Where the war on terrorism failed, the peace of Ramadan will tri umph.

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Pickin' up is hard to do Apparently the topic o f the week is who, be it male or female should make the first move. I have no idea, and despite my mesmeriz ing record o f staggering failures over the course o f m y life to ‘get it right’, I still can’t. There’s that great expression that if I could go back to ^ high school knowing 4J what I know now, C I’d be on fire. In my 3 case, you’d figure X after a long time at •a McGill I’d possess ^ the same wisdom. ” Nope. Therefore, just because I can, I’m going to say that women should make the first move. Now ladies, the reality is that guys just have no clue. Supposedly there are these things called signs that tip you off as to how you stand in relation to the person you’re trying to make a move on. One female friend told me that if you are throwing out

some vibes and the other person is still talking to you, still tolerating you for that matter —you’re in busi ness! This is a scary prospect and one that I don’t feel overly confident putting my money on see ing as the whole enterprise is based on how you ‘read’ those signs. W hat if you were never taught the lan guage and remain, like me, at a seventh grade ‘sign’ reading level? There is always the balls-out move, in which one leaves no room for mis conception. I have been known to employ this manoeuvre, which essen tially goes to the tune of: I’m going to kiss you now. Now, this did work, but I was told not only by friends but also the person I actual ly kissed that this was a laughable attempt. As I said before, I got no clue, but at least everybody is clear as to what is about to happen. There is also the tricky business o f location. I suspect that the style of the boys at 737 isn’t the

same as the crew at the o f Bifteck. H alf the time you can’t even converse with someone so you’re running on pure aesthetic appeal. T hat’s also tough because it involves a form o f self scrutiny or self-praise, either o f which leave one too confident o r not confi dent enough. In this case you’re in trouble before you even get through the bar room door. M y solution is very simple. As 1 said before: guys are clueless (now, for all you genuine Macdaddy’s out there I apolo gize for lumping you with the rest o f us degenerates, maybe you can hold a con ference or som ething to help us out). Nonetheless, the solution remains thus: the female population holds all the power in this game. Therefore, help us out. Make the first move; just make the first move so this madness can end.

I’m writing this week’s Fallacious in honor o f my boyfriend, who for safety pre cautions, will not be referred to by name (it’s a very new relationship). In my early years, I was the typical bad-boy girl. I loved mean men. I would only be happy dating the m ost exclusive, brooding, “artistic” (by which o f course I mean the type who writes love songs on his Casio in his mom’s basement) men who never really got to know me because they were too busy trying to convince me I didn’t understand them. Then, sud denly, I underwent a second sexual puberty, and started going for personality. Personality. T h at little word you normally use when someone’s not attractive but you’re too nice to say so. Fortunately, it seems that if you choose carefully, you can find a man who’s attractive and nice. Unfortunately, if you go for that type, it’s also likely that you’ll end up mak ing the first move. W hy do girls always have to make the first move? I hate

asking you to recall times before the sexual revolution, but you have to admit, there was something sweet about 50s romances in a Leave-ItTo-Beaver sort o f way: The pre-pubescent dork sidling his way up to the girl with the big bow in her hair and asking her to the ice cream social. And the way she would giggle embarrassingly in the direction o f her friends. O f course, I wasn’t alive in the 50s, but television has graciously re-created those moments for me. It’s not like that anymore. It took my boyfriend about two weeks to clue in to the fact that I was interested in him. Apart from continually inviting him over to my place for dinner, wrapping fistfuls o f his curly hair around my fingers whenever I got the chance, batting my eyelashes, and poking his stomach, what else could I do? Finally, I had to spell it out for him. I walked myself all the way up to residence (something which, after last year, I swore I’d never do again) on the night o f the first snowfall, and

announced I had a crush on him. He still didn’t get it. The problem? I casually mentioned how surprised I was at my own inter est in him, as he’s not my usual type. It took him another couple o f minutes to realize what I was saying was a good thing. D on’t get me wrong: I’m not telling those greasy 737 men who consider them selves “chivalrous” to keep up the good work opening doors for ladies and slipping drugs in their drinks. I’m just asking that all you nice, wellrounded men out there take a step off the deep-end and let that girl know you like her. Chances are, she likes you back. If you grow the balls you need to make the first move, next time she won’t have any doubts about asking you to the Sadie Hawkins dance.

Welcome to Club Redpath Ladies and gentlemen, wel come to Montreal’s hottest new party scene. The guys are on the prowl and the ladies are lookin’ fine. It’s Club Redpath. Exam time approaches once again, a time when people should be dressed in sweats covered in toothpaste from the night before. But they’re not. It’s 737 24/7 at the library. Leather jackets, bitch-boots, make-up and gelled hair. It appears that television has lied to me once again: the library was supposed to be a place for los ers and nerds. Instead, the library has turned into the local hotspot of late. It’s almost impossible to get any work done without running into a million people. However, I am hypothesizing that this is pre cisely why people go: they just want a little lovin’. I saw a guy last semes ter that was ‘bored’ and was just going to the library to hang out. Does anyone else see anything wrong with this picture? All right, I must confess, I’ve done my fair share of scoping at the library. W hat I want to know is, does anyone actually pick-up? If so, congratulations. I’m trying to imag ine how this might be done. How about a romantic dinner at Tim Hortons? (That would win me over any day. Bonus points if you buy me 25-cent candy for dessert.) A slight digression if I may. Those machines are run by the

Devil to steal hard-working people’s money. Sometimes I wait, and nothing comes out. Chocolate almonds are the worst: they tanta lize you by only giving you a few shreds o f chocolate, which you pro ceed to eat since you paid for them. Now you have the taste of chocolate in your mouth. You repeat the same mistake again, except this time rage forces you to kick the machine to loosen the chocolate and proceed to be ejected from the library. (True story.) O r you could try some of these library pick-up lines to impress your future mate: “Is that Dickens’ Hard Times in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?” or “Let’s go fuck in the library”. I’m sorry, I’ve got nothing, but I guess that’s why I don’t pick up in the library. T hat’s not to say that I’ve never picked-up in any library, because I have. Picture this: Toronto Reference Library, a man in his 30s-60s, greenish teeth, and foul body odour approaches me. Apparently, he’s ‘in love’ with me. So what do you think hap pened next? We made sweet love right there on the table. O f course not, my beloved readers, I’m not that easy. He didn’t even buy me 25-cent candy yet. But this is another phenome non that perplexes me: disgusting, insane, haggardly old men who try and pick-up pretty, young girls. I can’t even imagine the rationale that goes on in their minds, “Well, I am a hundred years old, I collect cans from the garbage for a living, and I wear an eye patch...why hell yes, that twenty year old girl will go out

with me. Especially since the male: female ratio at McGill is so bad.” Good God. I am a personal favourite o f this individual, but believe me, it is N O T a boost to the ego to get asked out thrice daily by this type o f man. In fact, it’s a downright insult. N ot only is he slightly blind, but he’s also a drunk. It takes that much visual distortion

me attractive. Single tear. All right, back to the library situation. I think that the real prob lem with the library-turned-scene is that the library lacks some funda mental ‘library’ properties. Like books. O h don’t get me wrong, if you speak Russian, German, and Swahili, you’re gold: there are eight million books on every topic in every language except English. So,

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Methylene magic: when Art Fart met science A tale of artistic mortification turned to scientific admiration Natalie Fletcher Meet Art Fart, a keen humanities-lover with zero knowledge of the scientific world. One Tuesday afternoon, Art Fart gets acquainted with Science, through an anti-can cer lecture on the coupling of N M R spectroscopy and electron crystal lography. Will there be chemistry? N ot exactly. A more likely hypothe sis: Art Fart will be left gawking and mortified beyond salvation.

"The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking." -Albert Einstein Imagine you are Art Fart, entering the Maas Chemistry build ing for the first time. You feel you’ve penetrated another galaxy. You swear even the air is different — you can suddenly sense the particles of oxygen breaking into your lungs. Seated in the lecture hall, you’re sure you stand out; your arts fluids must be oozing out o f you. Political theory shouts out of your m outh. You’re ashamed for pretending you have anything in common with these highly-accomplished geniuses. Although a huge advocate of liberal arts, on chemistry, you are a certi fied moron. If these people were aware of your ignorance, they would either pinch your cheeks uttering “oh, you’re so cute” —read, adorably asi nine —or pin a photograph of your deficient brain cells on their wall of shame, under ‘scientifically-chal lenged.’ You shift uncom fortably in your chair. Yours is the only one that creaks. Figures.

"Science, after all, is only an expression for our ignorance of our own ignorance." -Samuel Butler, English author The guest speaker, Dr. Jim Snyder from Emory University in Atlanta, declares it is a “pleasure to be here,” and you think: ah yes, always pleasurable to discover the limitations of your knowledge. His specialization is synthetic chem istry, which to you, means poly ester. Flustered, you think of that obscure American playwright who exclaimed: “There’s nothing colder than chemistry.” You shudder. To kick things off, Dr. Snyder reveals the lecture’s central ques tion: Is there a connection between the conformation of a ligand in solution and the bioactive format of a protein binding site? His inquisi tive eyes scan the room, pausing on you: Don’t look at me, you think, your nervous face taking on a curi ous shade of methylene blue. T h e engrossed specta tors begin to lean increasingly for ward; their heads, heavy with new informa tion, cupped in their hands. Meanwhile, you’re staring at your neighbour’s socks, convinced they’re mismatched. It’s not that you’re purposely being inattentive, but listening to this mumbo-jumbo is like being a blank-faced 6-yearold watching the news. So you just smile and nod.

"Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich." -G. K. Chesterton, British author

Or, in this case, to confuse the scientifically stupid. Do you mean discodermolide, Dr. Snyder, as in intense disco fever? Oxetane, like that new carpet cleaner? You feel outwitted by these tales of molecu

bons, are really two cliques named Alpha and Beta playing bumper boats against each other to win over Taxodol, the wonder-drug. As though sensing your desper ation, Dr. Snyder opts for a more

is hovering menacingly above your head like the sword of Damocles. Don’t say anything, don’t make a sound, or you’ll embarrass yqurself to death. Luckily, for Art Fart, many spectators have intelligent questions to offer: how does the communication work with the adjacent protein? Are higher energy species common structural elements? These queries give rise to scientific inside jokes: everyone laughs contentedly, as you just slap your knee jovially for show.

"There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly." -G. C. Lichtenberg, German physicist

lar dynamics with their legendary cellular heroes; it’s all paranormal vocabulary to you. Your brain starts playing Balderdash against itself. Select the true meaning of ‘microtubules’: a) Teletubbie vitamins, b) very small tube tops, or c) the self-assembling structures that contribute to the maintenance of cell shape and regu lar cell division. Your ears are exhausted by all these new sounds. You think, sylla bles must get an incredible ego boost from these lectures.

"Science is all metaphor." -Timothy Leary, American psychologist Dr. Snyder breaks out the graphs. W hat you gather from the accompanying images is that those protein dudes, though they may appear to be tangled Christmas rib

graspable explanation: the protein interactions are similar to those between the wife and husband of a troubled marriage. Oh, okay. W hat “beautiful molecules,” Dr. Snyder says of the next image. Hmm, beauty ideals here in the sci ence realm are definitely unique, you think. Wonder if these science buffs use such molecular designs as their wall-paper motif.

"The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right ques tions." -Claude Lévi-Strauss, French anthropologist Magically, the hour has ended, and you’ve managed to reach record heights o f bafflement. Now for the infamous question period: once again, Dr. Snyder’s eyes meet yours, and you freeze. A table of elements

Seriously though, despite your shame, the lec ture leaves you with great respect for Dr. Snyder and his team. O f course, yours is not an educated opinion, since 99 percent of his words were unintelligible, but you were able to feel his determination, his perseverance. This man has hap pily devoted himself to overcoming the problems with the latest anticancer drugs, by exploring ways to increase their water solubility. He believes he is near finding the “nee dle in the haystack,” that “2-D N M R is the link!” In America, one person dies of cancer every five minutes. But after today, you, Art Fart, have full faith that Dr. Snyder will eventually change the statistics. The final conclusion? There may be no chemistry between Art Fart and Science, and Art Fart may indeed be a total scientific nitwit, but henceforth, there is certainly deep admiration between these two star-crossed subjects. |Are you courageous? To win a nice foot m assage, Submit today, bub.

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Homophobia under the covers

$'M B ra w n After over-indulging in the gay party scene for the past few weeks, I decided to get involved in some thing to ameliorate my "gay charac ter." So I found myself at the Town Hall Meeting on Homophobia and Transphobia on November 14, in Wilson Hall. The meeting had an interesting hodge-podge of charac ters, ranging from transvestites to straight pro-gay activists; about 45. They began with a brief and necessary overview, explaining that the event was intended to "raise consciousness" and to gauge the overall attitude at McGill in regards to homophobia and transphobia. The McGill Work Group organized Queer People, a selection of stu dents and faculty, in order to ‘prove’ to the Joint Senate-Board of Governors that there is in fact a

general intolerance to "alternative" sexuality. The event got off to an awk ward start as it seemed at first that no one wanted to break the ice. Eventually, the participants really began getting into the discussion, to the point where there was a line up of about four or five people at the mic. So many issues were brought up, things were shooting out of people’s mouths as if they had been trapped inside, waiting too long to be released in a comfortable situa tion. Instead of the over-sensitivity that I had expected, people brought up beautiful stories, like students coming out to a teacher who had disclosed their own sexuality, or seriously disturbing ones, which included eggs being thrown at a gay activist, and cars being vandalized. There was a pinpointing of the programs that were typically more intolerant than others, like Engineering and Religious Studies. Even those departments usually thought o f as more progressive, like Psychology, Nursing, and Social Work, still need to overcome a gen eral feeling o f intolerance. We

noted how depressing it is that fac ulty members are reluctant to come out until receiving tenure, thus explaining the small number of openly gay professors. There was agreement that one just gets "weary of pushing the agenda." As a Julie Andrews lookalike noted, “after being physically attacked, threatened, and mistreat ed, sometimes [she] just need[s] a break. " The participants came to a general consensus that the school is not responsive enough to the queer community, with a lack of queer courses, mentors, and role models. Most identified with a vague feeling of discomfort, the need for a gener al workplace harassment policy, and increased visibility. All agreed that the community had come a long way since ten years ago but there is still a lot of progress to be made at McGill. I left feeling seriously empow ered. I loved hearing people’s sto ries, whether they were war stories or more uplifting. All there had sur vived to tell of what they had dealt with, and we were able to learn what exactly needs to be addressed

and what the homosexual and two-spirited commu nity is still in need of. And while I sat there, enjoying myself and getting involved in people’s experi ences, I couldn’t help but think o f hom ophobia I have experienced. I had suffered through my mom’s family’s continued assumption of my hetero sexuality, asking me about my current girlfriend, making negative gay com ments and even stooping Those hips weren’t made for birthing to give me a nasty Hooters "dykes" and "fags" using the terms restaurant calendar. Luckily, I take them with a as negative connotations or vowing grain of salt. But unfortunately, for never to date a "femgay." There is a fine line between some, homophobia can result in a nasty backlash of homosexuals dis casual playfulness like "Oh, be criminating against heterosexuals. I quiet you big crazy homo” and have dated guys who were extreme "God, what a ‘mo.’" Hopefully ly homophobic, ragging on those something good will come out of "tired ol’ queens in West the Town Hall Meeting and eventu Hollywood." As if they weren’t ally, society will also come around looked down upon enough by soci and be less homophobic and trans ety, some catty gays discriminate phobic. Because not being able to against each other! Saying things accept someone for who they are, like "Oh, he’s way too gay", they’ll not their sexuality, is “just sooo differentiate themselves from gay”-

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as Before I Kill You Mr. Bond... In fact gaming has a rich and varied history throughout North America, though this history has been frequently misrepresented in the media. In the 1982 movie Mazes and Monsters, Tom Hanks played a gamer who, while playing a fictional Dungeons and Dragons type board-game, goes insane and runs around with a broadsword spouting phony Chaucer. Needless to say it was not the pinnacle of his thespian career. Gamers have even been accused of witchcraft and Satanism. G uid member Eytan Bernstein maintains that there are no known worshipper in the Guild. “We have no Satanists mem bers as of this tim e... except for Peter.” Peter, fearing natural light, was unavailable for comment. Brunelle said, “We have never had any reli gious protests about our Club, Thank God!” Readers take note: Jedi Knight is still not a recognized religion. Do gamers ever go too far? Is there ever a fistfight after a Risk game? Bernstein clarified the rules. “The Golden Rule is ‘Don’t touch!’ We have not had any fights in the last few years, but we used to have bopper swords.” If the victor cannot cleave the weak, then what is the victorious gamer supposed to do? Brunelle explained the terms o f victory; “Winners get to ‘Happy Dance’.” This writer enjoys Happy Dancing to the tune o f Kenny Rogers’ The Gambler. Every gamer has fantasies about who they dream about play ing. For instance, one may fantasize from time to time about playing

Sorry with Steven Hawkins, espe cially with his voice saying, “Sorry you Bastard.” Bernstein’s favorite was, “W illiam Shatner playing Before I kill you Mr. Bond... Nowyou-w ill-die-a-slow -and-painfuldeath-Mr-Bond”. Catchy. Games such as Dungeons and Dragons assume that gamers take on mystical powers. Now what powers would the members of the Gamer’s Guild take on? Answers range from teleportation to divine power -to the ubiquitous energy solidification shield. And what exactly is an energy solidification shield? “It’s the ability to transform negative energy into solid matter and control it,” clari fies Bernstein. Everyone nodded their heads, “Yea I guess that would be sort of useful.” W ith this fun and offbeat atmosphere the guild has had many longstanding members, some for a decade or more. Bernstein informs that, “Louis is actually a living undead who can use mind control over the M ount Royal squirrels to do his bidding.” Louis being, undead, was unable to comment. Sure, it would be sweet to have telekinesis or a legion o f Evil god less squirrels to do one’s bidding, but such things are unfortunately beyond our clutches. In the mean time, anyone can play Dungeons and Dragons with many like-mind ed people and just maybe, maybe Steven Hawkins will drop by and kick someone’s ass at Trivial Pursuit.

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Understanding the universe Inside the m ystery of the Falun G ong practices and ideologies Jay Poulton The world first became aware of Falun Gong in July 22, 1999 when the Chinese government, concerned about its growing popu larity, outlawed its practice. Since then the world media has directed its attentions at the many docu mented cases of human rights viola tions where Falun Gong practition ers have been beaten and tortured while in government detention. Yet with this constant media attention focused on the issue o f human rights little has been said o f the actual practice and practitioners of Falun Gong.

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Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa, is a form of Qi-Gong practice (energy cultivation) that aims to cultivate the body and mind through m editation and special exercises that resemble Tai Chi. Where Falun Gong differs from other forms of Qi-Gong practices is in the emphasis not just on «the physical but also on the spiritual and moral character of the individ ual, the Fa (laws and principles). Translated, Falun Gong literal ly means “Law-wheel Practice”, or “cultivation energy”, meaning a type of energy developed and culti vated through practice. Practitioners are guided on their path by several texts written by Falun Gong founder Li Ffongzhi, the Zhuan Falun (Turning the LawWheel) and many other lectures and articles. The goal is to apply these laws and principles to daily life in pursuit of a per sonal form of enlightenment.’ Dan Sky, who organizes group meetings on the McGill campus, says that for him Falun Gong, “is a compre hensive and very per sonal journey that is based on as Master Li Hongzhi says ‘eleva tion through reason and application.’”

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However, with its recent surge in popularity comes the obvious increase in scrutiny and criticism of its practices. Falun Gong’s biggest opposition has come directly from the Chinese government whose official position accuses it of “spreading fallacies, hoodwinking people, inciting and creating distur bances and jeopardizing social sta bility.” The Chinese state sponsored news agency even reported that there were many cases of people committing suicide, or even refus ing treatment for illness believing that Falun Gong can cure any seri ous malady. One of China’s main concerns about Falun Gong has been the increasing list of members that could, in their view, pose a risk to the security of all Chinese citizens. They point to the mass demonstra tion that took place in Beijing at a government compound of around ten thousand Falun Gong support ers who they claim have their eyes on some political objective. To this both Sky and K.W (a Falun Gong student who wishes to remain anonymous) agree that such demonstrations are only a fight for individual human rights. Falun Gong as a political force can never exist because “we have no specific goal to achieve some type of dhange in society or government.” W hat most practitioners point to is the strange fact that the Chinese government has yet to pro vide any evidence of these claims against what they call an “evil cult”. Sky says such misconceptions arise from a lack of understanding of Falun Gong. The key is “to try and learn, otherwise how could one know what it is all about.”

O ne o f the most popular impressions that K.W wishes to dis pel is that the group has the beliefs and structures of a religion. “The purpose is to cultivate

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Meditating is all a part of getting in touch with the inner wheel of life

the inner self. We don’t rely on any outside messages. It is not religion because there is no ritual, no wor ship, and nobody preaches.” According to Sky, the problem with such practices is that in the West people have never been exposed to concepts like Falun Gong. In the east, there has been a long history of exposure to forms of cultivation practice schools such as other Qi gong forms and various styles of Kung Fu that have a more developed spiritual element to them. Sky says in defense that “the priciples taught in Falun Dafa are definitely spiritual in nature, but not exactly based on a belief sys-

m itm ent toward its cultivation remains strong. KW says that, “The key is to cultivate the heart. To get rid of all desire and attachments and be a better person.” The hope is for people to look at Falun Gong with an open mind and see it for what it really is and not what others claim it to be. W hether this can be done or not remains to be seen. Sky says that what they do, “is for validating and verifying the principles of our prac tice and for letting people know the facts of the (Chinese) crackdown.”

Don't rain on my parade: a look at the Avenger accessory Eric Warwaruk This is the first in a three part epic mini-series on the umbrella. This week’s musings focus on the origins o f the umbrella. I’ve never owned an umbrella until a couple o f weeks ago. Imagine: all my life I’ve been walk ing in the rain and getting soaking wet. It causes me to wonder what moment of revelation, what m onu mental experience o f epiphany, made me realize that there are, in fact, devices invented specifically for the purpose o f keeping the body, when walking in a full-blown rain shower, dry? At first, I thought that my pre vious lackadaisical behavior was born of some kind of innocent naivete, or even better, a kind of live-for-the-moment, rebellious, don’t care bout nuthin attitude that wore a sneer and a black leather jacket that was not weather proofed. Now, in light o f the fact that I never had a leather jacket, and the closest I have come to a sneer is a lopsided grimace with wonky teeth, I have to come to the

understanding that I never both ered to get an umbrella because I simply did not comprehend the essential need for one. O f course, this logic is akin to being totally ignorant of the utility and function of Underwear—and underwear, as everyone knows, is used to guard against a killer bee attack to the groin. Sheesh! Even I know THAT! I'd like to think I'm not a freak in my ignorance of the umbrella, especially when you consider its his tory. The origin of the umbrella is written to have its roots in China or Egypt and Babylonia, but historians are not too sure who the heck invented the umbrella. Everyone agrees, though, that the umbrella is VERY OLD, and can be traced back to ancient times. In fact, umbrellas are known to have been used to keep the sun off the ol’noggin rather than the rain. "Women carried them in ancient Greece and Rome," writes an umbrella-dude named Reg Atkins. "Roman women first began to oil the paper sunshades to water proof them .” O ther various umbrellaexperts-well, tw o-scram ble to

mention at this point that 'umbrel la' is derived from the latin word 'um bra', which means "shade." Actually, in this regard they are wrong, for "umbra" is defined in Latin to refer to the spirits of the Roman Underworld, or "shades”, and has the reciprocal meaning of "blackness," thus giving the word the connotation of absence, i.e. blackness as an absence of light. W hat difference does it make? Absolutely none, but I'd like to think of Latin as still USEFUL. (Sic est: ego insanus sum.) In ancient times, the umbrella was reserved only for royalty. "As a shade from the sun," notes R.L. Chambers, an Englishman writing the history of the umbrella in the 1850's, "the umbrella is of great antiquity. We see it in the sculptures and paintings of Egypt, and Sir Gardner Wilkinson has engraved a delineation o f an Ethiopian princess, travelling in her chariot through Upper Egypt to Thebes, wherein the car is furnished with a kind of umbrella fixed to a tall staff rising from the centre, and in its arrangement closely resembling the chaise umbrella o f the present

time. "In shape," he continues, quot ing a fellow umbrella-enthusiast named Layard, "it resembled very closely those now in com mon use, but it is always seen open in the sculptures. It was edged with tassels and was usually adorned at the top by a flower or some other ornament...On the later bas-reliefs, a long piece of linen or silk, falling from one side, like a curtain, appears to screen the king com pletely from the sun." Apparently, the parasol, usu ally carried by a slave, was reserved exclusively for the monarch and is never represent ed as borne over any other person. The umbrella appeared to stay in Roman, society as it broke apart through the centuries, regarded only as the province o f nobility, and in that context, only used by women and effeminate men. By the time of the Middle Ages, the umbrella seems only to be known about and commonly used in Italy. In 1608, after he describes the fans of the Italians, the Englishman

Thomas Coryat adds: "Many of them do carry other fine things, of a far greater price, that will cost at least a ducat (5s 6d), which -* they commonly call, in the Italian tongue, umbrellaces; that is, things that minister shadow unto them, _ _ _ _ _ for shelter against the scorching heat of the sun. These are made of leather, something answerable to the form of a little canopy, and hooped in the inside with diverse little wooden hoops, that extend the umbrella into a pretty large compass. They are used especially by horsemen, who carry them in their hands when they ride, fastening the end of the handle upon one of their thighs; and they impart so long a shadow unto them, that it keepeth the heat of the sun from the upper part of their bodies." Next week’s installment will dis cuss the prevalence o f the umbrella in literature.

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She'll be your lady marmalade Justin Renard She is on a mission — a mission to figure out the keys to body and happiness. And to do so she has cho sen stand-up. Margaret Cho, the self-made American comedian and author of I ’m the One That I Want, is busy in the middle of her new sexually charged tour, Notorious C.H.O, which will make a stop in Montreal tomorrow. Notorious C.H. O is Cho’s way of exploring happiness in a body that is not socially accepted, amongst other things. In a phone interview, the Tribune was able to explore those other issues and get a closer look into the mind behind the “ass-master.” TRIBUNE: How is the Notorious C.H.O tour different from the I’m the One That I Want tour? Margaret Cho: It’s new material. But it sounds like me, and it’s still what I do. TRIB: How do you come up with the content, as far as working your messages into jokes? Cho: I think that I take what I think are funny situations from my life, then taking that out and seeing what meaning can be derived from that. What does that mean and how does

that relate to what I am trying to convey? I come up with the jokes first and then find a way to release them. TRIB: As a comedian, when do you find most of your jokes come to you? In the shower or on the road? Cho: It’s not just any one thing. When I am intense terms of writing it’s the best time for me. [I work best] when I am not doing a lot of other stuff. TRIB: Do you think your content speaks out to the younger audience? Cho: I think it is really important for younger people to listen to. I mean, when I was younger I really felt that my happiness was derived from what other people thought of me, and that brought me into a lot of pain into my life, and a lot of suffering. I longed for a way to think differently about my situation and so I find that my work in general, really speaks to young people. Outside of doing stand-up comedy, I speak to univer sities quite often. I almost do an informal class about different topics. TRIB: Such as the university discus sion on race relations in Los Angeles? How did you get into that? Did you just decide you had something to say? Cho: They contacted me first, but I

had been doing that in a couple dif ferent schools anyway. That just sort of came about. That’s just something that I try to work in my life as much as possible. I think it is really impor tant for me and for university stu dents. TRIB: You’ve been quoted as a “gay man trapped in a woman’s body.” Notorious C .H .O — that sounds more like fat black man trapped in a woman’s body. Cho: Right. Well it’s actually not even from the Notorious B.I.G, but from Notorious K.I.M., which is Lil’ Kim. To me, I identify the tide more with her than with Biggie, because I like her a lot. TRIB: Have you met her? Cho: No, No. She’s great though. I really admire her and her music; not just her music but her whole sensi bility. To me she’s just fabulous. I like the aesthetic too. I like these ladies of rap. They really are so powerful, and that’s what I am borrowing the look from.

TRIB: Do you have any other favourites? Cho: I love Missy Elliot. TRIB: Nice, Missy Misdemeanor

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TRIB: What do you think about this so-called Asian fetish? Cho: It’s interesting because it kind of brings into the relationships and sexual arenas all this politics and sex ual baggage from society and from stereotypes that really don’t have that much of a place in human relation ships. I have dated a couple of guys, Caucasian men who exclusively date Asian women, and there was a kind of energy that was a little weird because they kind of expect you to be a certain way. TRIB: Weird for you? Cho: Weird for me, and weird for them too. I am not maybe what they are looking for. There’s this guy that I know that belongs to this club where there are only Caucasian men and only Asian women. They rent out a big hall and have dances. It’s kind of a weird thing to me. TRIB: [Laughs] Cho: It’s these silly young girls kind of there. TRIB: Do you find it validating that there are transvestite males who try to be you? Cho: It’s really an honour and a priv ilege. TRIB: Do you find it hard to date as a celebrity? Cho: No. I date too much. It’s weird cause I have too much going on in that department, I’m just a little over saturated in that department. I kind of have to pull back a litde bit. It’s the balance between men and women when the woman is really successful, it’s harder to find men who are willing to tolerate that. It’s a weird thing socially. TRIB: Having a career centered on race relations and body image, have you considered ending your comedy career and doing something different with all this experience on the issues? Cho: [I get] very much joy [in doing] what I do and— there’s this freaky thing in the world of come dy— that it’s not just comedy but a kind of activism. I don’t have any plans to change, maybe to expand and write more books or something.

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If farts had enemies, Jiro Yamaguichi of Ozomatli would be it. These are just one of the things that the guys in Ozomatli have time to contemplate while living on a bus with 13 other guys while on tour promoting their second release Embrace the Chaos. For Ozomatli, a six-year-old band out of LA, Embrace the Chaos comes after the tumult of the 2000 Democratic Convention in LA which inspired the name for their CD, a change-up of band members and their ever-evolving eclectic mix of hip-hop, rap, salsa and social activism. Ozomatli first lit up the local LA music scene for a fundraising event to drum up support for a local youth centre. Since their last self-titled debut, this ‘band with a conscience’ has traveled more, played more and continued to spread their own brand of music with a message. The Tribune sat down with Jiro Yamaguichi and Asdru Sierra of Ozo to talk about life, touring, music and family. Tapping into Asdru’s love of videogames, we’re kicking it back old school to Super Mario Bros, to explain the ups and downs of Ozomatli. Just play along. A one-up mushroom for per sonal growth Jiro: There are a couple of main differences this time around. We’ve changed as people which has contributed to the sound. We’ve

been together for six years, which is kind of like being married to each other, but we’ve been through a lot together as a group, our personal relationships have come out of that and w e ’ ve changed as people. Asdru: I don’t think we’ve changed as m uch as m atured and grown. We have become better musicians because you can never get to the top of your instrument, there’s always going to be more that you can do. Facing off with Bowser for surviv ing the music industry without all that "poppy chulo shit" Asdru: The music industry isn’t about music. It’s a fac.L tory where the music 7 is the widget. Jiro: And we’re WP the kind of widget that doesn’t fit into a particular category. The key to the music indus try is exposure on the radio and we don’t get a lot of air play. We’ll never be part of the mainstream rotation. Astru: I wouldn’t say never because we’ve been played on music stations in LA, but never regularly. Sometimes we’ll get on if the DJ has been to our show. We don’t fit into any one category, and people need to start jthinking out of the music

Fire Power for social activism Jiro: The group started out of a labour dispute and we have several mem bers who are very active in the com munity. Some of the groups we support are Free Mumia and United Farm Workers. We’ve done shows for these causes and it’s been that way since the get-go. Overall, the message is positive and we’re look ing at humanity as a whole. Asdru: Everyone in the group is coming from different back grounds so we fight about who to support, but in the end, it’s about looking at a fucked-up situation and saying it should change. We’re a musical group with a conscience. Jiro: At the same time, we’re not wearing politics on our sleeve. We’re not here to preach. In our show, were not talking the whole time and passing out fliers.

Invincibility' star for magic pow ers, farting and doorknobs Jiro: If I could have any super hero power? It would be taking away fart smells. O n the bus, guys are always farting and I would take away the smell. Asdru: I would get a hold of that Star Trek Enterprise beam so I could go back and forth. That would be cool. After every show, I could go home every night and see my wife and kids. Actually, instead, we could just beam the audience to us. W hat about if we could beam the stage too so we wouldn’t have to soundcheck? Jiro: The one recurrent conver sation we have? Please don’t fart. I think Wil-Dog is the most flatu lent. But when you’re 12 or 13 on the bus you have to deal with every thing that every person brings which means every obsession, every compulsive behaviour. Like, Uli [tenor sax] has to clean the door knobs before every show. He keeps a towel with him.

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have to find an elf. The elf talks in this made-up language, but you just carry it around and you develop a real affinity for it even though you don’t know what it’s saying. And this little boy is going through this castle beating crazy spirits up with a 2 x 4 and that’s all you have. Tribune: It’s kind o f a metaphor for Ozomatli. Asdru: Yeah, it’s like the little boy is Ozomatli, the little girl is my family and the castle is the music industry we’re trying to get out of. Mario trium phant for last words Asdru: Keep an open mind Jiro: Peace. Game over.

Finding the Princess for videogames and family Asdru: I really like videogames so I lock myself in the back of the bus and play. I’m really into this game called Eiko where this little boy with horns is in a castle and you

Koopa Troopas for touring Asdru: It takes a lot o f strength to tour. It’s a %>■M f really serious thing ' J i f i l because a musician’s life is one of a nomad and |V it’s a different kind of life. And if you’re the kind of guy who has never left home, still lives with his parents and has a girl he really cares about at home, you may not be ready to tour. Jiro: It’s a different kind of mindset when you’re thrown into a bus with a bunch of other crazy dudes and the stuff that they bring. Asdru: It’s hard not living at home or even having a sense of home.

Kenny Bobien, Ivana Santilli Im presses, M oonstarr prom ises Dan Zacks As exams approach it becomes ever more difficult to rationalise multiple nights out. But a good performance, whether from a disc jockey or a live band, can provide just enough inspiration to keep you sane, or at the very least, offer some much needed escapism. The past week saw one concert do just this. Thursday, November 13 Jello Bar was at capacity, if not far, far beyond, for Therapy resident Jojo Flores’ birthday celebration. Further demonstrating Therapy’s commitment to booking innova tive, top-quality artists, this night hosted sets from both house-legend Kenny Bobien and Toronto’s own Ivana Santilli.

Bobien has sung with an incredible diversity of artists, from Japan’s Mondo Grosso, to Lauryn Hill and Quebec’s greatest export, Celine Dion, but it is as one of the original house vocalists that he is best known. Bobien played a large role in bringing the now ubiquitous tenor-voice into house with an incredibly successful series of early 90s 12”s that perfected the sound of deep, gospel house music. Imagine relatively conservative four-on-thefloor production with the soaring, soulful singing and inspirational messages o f traditional AfricanAmerican gospel. In the world of underground house, it’s certainly not everyone’s cup o f tea, but those who consider themselves fans absolutely love it, finding it offers

the same the same sort of spiritual fulfilm ent that straight ahead gospel brings to those less inclined to spend their nights in dance clubs. This is something that the disarmingly jocular Bobien appreci ates and encourages. "I’m always trying to make sure the spirituality stays there because that’s always been a part of who Kenny Bobien is. So I try to keep that because I live a spiritually centred life and I try to let that come through in everything that I do." There was no shortage of fans for his set and, true to form, he laid on the spiritual vibes deep and thick with track after track of classic Bobien house. Packed ridiculously tight on the dance floor, people

raised their arms in enthusiastic appreciation. Bobien reciprocated, declaring his love of the Montreal massive and offering words of inspi ration between tracks. Bobien’s set was top-notch insofar that he demonstrated why he is at the forefront of gospel house. However, multiple songs containing essentially the same message sung over disconcertingly similar tracks easily approaches the tedious. One Bobien track intelli gently included in a mix, something frequently done by the masters of spiritual house, Joe Claussel, Francois K. and Danny Krivit, can be several minutes of inspirational bliss. Six or seven Bobien tracks sung in quick succession can be dif ficult to swallow. Consider this

before running off to see Bobien when he next performs in Montreal. Ivana Santilli is also in posses sion of an incredible voice, and her singing, both alone and with Bobien, amounted to dance floor seduction. Her sound is at once earthy and sophisticated and she has the sort of ludicrously captivat ing stage presence possessed only by the very talented and very lucky. Santilli followed her singing with a set of trum pet improvisations against Jojo’s work behind the decks. This combination of the electronic and organic, the live and recorded, is something rarely encountered in Montreal but, as Santilli explains, "There was a kind

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fui candlelighting ceremony mate rial." He includes a picture of him self complete with hairy chest, gold pendant, smoked aviator glasses, white-man-afro and paedophile smile. And then he records the songs. Fourteen songs, to be pre cise, and each one absolutely bril liant. Brilliantly bad, that is. The ‘Stayin’ Alive and Night Fever’ medley is so earnestly sung, so heartfelt and yet so ridiculously stupid that laughter is simply inevitable. I guarantee you’ve never heard a worse version of ‘I Will Survive’ than Steve’s, and his per fectly insipid ‘H ot Stuff’ is only surpassed in hysterical awfulness by the album’s zenith (or is that nadir?), ‘Everybody Hora.’ The ludicrousness of a revolu tionary song (‘Guantanamera’) and

Featuring guest columnist Danno el Manno muy Guapo Albert Van Dam Soft Shoulders and Dangerous Curves: musical fantasies about women Stemra (dlp758)

This week Dave Barclay Ouagadougou tracking down an ultra-rare Burkina Faso-only release of Krafterwerk’s ‘Les Mannequins’ sin gle. Let’s all wish him luck. Meanwhile, the institution that is Je Cherche must continue and so I present to you a selection o f my all-time favourite long-play ers. These albums are all on vinyl, are all relics from a passed-time, and above all, are all fantastically weird. Albums such as these demand sharing and so I extend this invitation to you: come by the Trib office with a blank tape and I will make you a copy of any record you chose.

This 1975 LP from semi. A famous composer Abert Van Dam is dated saccharine orchestral pop. Granted beat-heads might find some sample potential— occasionally a sweet clave beat pops up and every so often, there’s good drum break, but this album is basically musical trea-

As the liner notes eloquently explain, this 1958 long-player is "a stereo spectacular stereophonic hol iday in New York.'' Perhaps the introduction of esteemed narrator Dr. Harlow White, B.S.S.R.E, will further clarify the intention of this space-age marvel: "We’re about to embark on a tour of the city that will include many of the points of interest. We will take you, through the miracle of the Stereo Spectrum’s Authentiphonic Stereo Process, fro:n your luxurious American Airlines Mercury DC-7 to Times Square to Carnegie Hall, fabulous Palisades Amusement Park and New York’s amazing subway... " Authentiphonic balance, indeed! Dr. W hite proceeds to guide us, with the complete lack of humour this sober task so obvious ly requires, through all the marvels of New York. Why, we even have our "heads twisted" by a ping-pong game in the New York YMCA! If your mother warned you about those deviant New Yorkers, now you know why. It’s not so much the record itself that’s funny, although it is ter rifically absurd. Rather, it’s imagin ing the reactions of countless June Cleavers following the stereophonic action, hands clenched with excite ment to the edge of their Formica counters, that cause the hysterics. Thank you, Dr. White, for some unmitigated Stereo Process bliss.

kitsch value, but also because it was the soundtrack to countless scenes of mixed-drink induced licentious ness throughout middle-America. Oh, to return to the glory days of the Tiki Bar and white men capital ising on Puritan America’s repressed sexuality.

‘Y.M.C.A and Macho Man’ med ley) finding their way into the repertoire of Bar Mitzvah standards

also contributes to the hum our fac tor of the long-player, but ultimate ly, it’s Steve’s profound lack of tal ent and the absurdity of finding a self-release from South Florida in Montreal that makes this the classic that it is. Quite honestly one my all-time favourite LPs.

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cle. But the title! Musical fantasies about women? M on Dieu! Throw in some supremely classic (and innuendo filled) song titles like ‘The Strip’ and— prepare yourself, now— ‘Lesbos-A-Nova’ and this record is elevated to full-on classic status. There’s nothing like rumi nating over the glories of Sapphic love to a bossa beat is there, Mr. Van Dam? Dr. Harlow White Holiday in New York Stereo Spectrum Records (DS-1)

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Arthur Lyman Taboo High Fidelity Recordings, Inc. (R806) "Dear, what is that naughty music playing on the HiFi?" asks the blushing suburban housewife as she fills her husbands Tiki mug with another mai-tai. "Why it’s Arthur Lyman’s newest. Look here, the liner notes say those native cries are real! Natives, how very.. .Taboo!" Taboo? Well, only if you’re liv ing in American suburbia circa 1958. This album sold millions, stayed on the Billboard charts for over sixty weeks, and now occupies a hallowed place in the pantheon of

Country crooner W ilf Carter (of Let’s Go Back to The Bible fame) puts a country bumpkin spin on Christmas classics. Included are favourites like ‘Punkinhead (The Little Bear), ‘Ting-a-Ling-a Jingle’ and ‘Christmas time in Canada.’ W ilf makes Stompin’ Tom look like a pansy. Steve Fortgang The #1 Bar Mitzvah Band Manufactured by T.S.M. Records Producers, Inc. for Steve Fortgang Entertaining Orchestra So it’s 1979 and Steve Fortgang of South Florida wants to increase his Bar Mitzvah business. W hat does he do? He puts out a promotional LP, of course. In the liner notes he advertises how his band’s "latest Rock hits, disco and their rendition of the old standards, Latin and Jewish are outstanding" and brings to attention ”his beauti-

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Son of Sam Songs from the Earth Nitro Records Do you miss death metal? O f course not, no one does. And yet, all-star outfit Son of Sam gather ‘round the autopsy table to inject new vitality into the rotting, stink ing corpse of a genre that would otherwise be better off toe-tagged. The blaring question rattling in one's head should be why? "I quit drinking and doing drugs and just didn't know what to do with myself," professed guitarist, writer, and producer Todd Youth, alumnus o f a number o f offensive bands, including Danzig, D-Generation, Agnostic Front, and Samhain. Fair enough. So last year, Youth took his newly straight-edged self to drum mer Fondon May, who has been known to hit stuff behind the likes of Tiger Army and Samhain, and started writing music. Bassist Steve Zing (Chyna, Samhain) joined the melee at one point and, for the lyri cal and vocal faction, the trio recruited front-ghoul Davey Havok (curiously enough, a huge Samhain fan), whom they stumbled upon in a graveyard or something. Youth dubbed his collective "Son o f Sam," a mangled pronunciation of (guess) Samhain, and Songs From the Earth was recorded within a gunshot ten days thereafter. Listeners can rest assured that Songs From the Earth is a safe death metal record. Because the group was a one-off project, Davey, bless his little tattooed heart, has vowed

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that Son of Sam will never, ever tour. Thus, there will be no ridicu lous "cabaret of necromania" con cert theatrics to cornify the music through visual association. Also, the album is touched by too many nonmorbid influences to drag it too far down into the inferno. May’s dis tinct get-up drumming and the "whoa-whoa" back-up vocals by the S.O.S Hellfire Choir (including the likes of Joey C. from Danzig and Howie Pyro of D-Generation) add a signature hardcore feel and merci fully divert the album from its death metal target. Furtherm ore, although Havok’s lyrics are seasoned with a little extraneous macabre ("...the flesh starts to split like the wrists that I slit as I prey and they spit"; scary, no?), they manage to retain their strangely poetic air. Also, although Havok has toned down his signature shrieking in an effort to sound more morbid, his voice retains its recognizably adolescent quality and ends up coming off more gloom-cookie than deathmuffin, not unlike the episode of the M uppet Show guest-starring Alice Cooper. Despite what anti-cheese activists will vehemently argue, Son of Sam is harmless. The project gave its veteran members an opportunity to re-visit the genre's unmarked grave, allowed younger members to experiment with a slightly more abstract type of music that goes beyond the confines of three-chord shoutiness, and may reach an audi ence that missed out on early camphorror bands like Danzig, the Misfits, and the Cramps. Failing these, it can always serve as another reason for why musicians should not go straight-edge. Songs From the Earth readily fills the coffin-shaped void in the guilty pleasures section o f any death metal enthusiast’s heart. -Leah K. Nchama Mo ‘Horizons Remember Tomorrow Stereo Deluxe/Fusion III Remember Tomorrow is the sophomore effort from Mo ‘Horizons, a.k.a. German produc ers, musicians, and beat program mers Ralf Droesemeyer and Mark Wetzler. It is an attempt to match the success of 1999’s Come Touch the Sun, an album which included two hit 12" singles, including ‘Foto Vida,’ which has been included on over 25 compilation discs to date. Mo ‘Horizons amorphous sounding grooves draw heavily from musical styles such as Brazilian, Latin, jazz and soul, Afro, funk, and dub. On Remember Tomorrow, they spice things up with a little bit of boogaloo, which adds a 70’s go-go sound to some of the ethnically-flavoured tunes. ‘Do the Boogaloo’ mixes the

signature style with a drum ‘n bass beat and some snazzy lyrics. At points, this track bares a strong resemblance to James Brown. A

pretty damn good album. - Scott Medvin Solid Steel Presents DJ Food and DK Now, Listen! Ninja Tune Named after the long-running radio show of the same name, this first installment in a series of Solid Steel mixes showcases the turntable talents of PC and Strictly Kev, the current incarnation of the partner ship we know and love as DJ Food. The idea behind this album is to represent the musical attitude of those involved with the highly suc cessful radio programme. Created by label founders and Coldcut members M att Black and Jonathan More in 1988, the show originally aired on the then-pirate station Kiss FM, before moving to the spot it now occupies on the BBC’s London Live. In 1993, PC and Strictly Kev became regular fixtures, and under the name DJ Food they played an increasingly important role in its evolution. Producer DK joined the team four years later, adding yet another dimension. The result of this thirteen-year odyssey is an exceedingly eclectic long player displaying a wide range of genres and styles. It is a collage of sorts, and tracks from artists as diverse as Boards of Canada, Herbie Hancock, Jeru the Damaja, and the Commodores are mixed seamlessly together along with snippets of dia logue and a host o f atmospheric sounds. It is nothing short of amaz ing. Although almost impossible to replicate live due to the nature of some o f the turntable (and sequenc ing) madness, DJ Food and DK will nevertheless be dropping bomb after bomb all night long in the company of Mr. Scruff and Bonobo this Thursday, November 22 at Jingxi. This is a show not to be missed, so fuck studying, grab a drink, and kick it with some musi cal masters of cultivated mayhem. -Chris Little N itin Sawhney ^

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I remember some years ago making my way through a friend’s CD collection and pausing upon one particular track from British artist N itin Sawhney. W ith the release o f his fourth album, Prophesy, Nitin Sawhney has more than found his place within the world’s musical consciousness. W ithin the soundscape of Prophesy, Nitin has moved out from the illu mination of the modern BridshAsian experience from albums such as Migration and Displacing the Priest into a dispersed search for a global sense of self in the new mil lennium. Drawing together his usual array of talented musicians from the inspirational voice of Nina Miranda (of Smoke City) to rhythmic per cussion o f veteran Trilok Gurtu, Nitin takes the listener from the first song through to the last along a path of images that connect effort lessly through sweeping melodies to heavy guitar-driven anthems. Essentially, Prophesy seeks defini tion of self, of others, of freedoms that fade within a world surround ed by clouded realities, along which path we find definition. The album provides no certainties except that "we are free to be free and make our own realities." Sunset falls fittingly into the first spot on the album, setting a nice blue transcendental theme that flows through each song. W ith a

dark funky beat, two individual poetic voices, and a tabla interlude that weaves itself within the heart of the song, anyone that can turn from this com position could not or should not venture any deeper into the many layers o f this album. Wandering on, we pass through a downtempo gem, ‘Nothing,’ led by the vocal beauty of Tina Grace, over to ‘A cquired Dreams,’ a low-key drum ’n’bass-breakbeat sound accented with wonderful sweeps of string instrumentation, eventually landing on ‘Moonrise,’ a song that brings together three influences into one coherent illustration. The Algerian voice of Cheb Mami beck ons to the listener, backed by the sensual vocals of Nina Miranda. The song ‘Breathing Light’ takes us onto the international front as the song opens with a news report from wartime Sarajevo and a proclama tion o f freedom by Nelson Mandela. Only a glimpse, yet all in all an album of great variety and tal ent. Sawney’s music defies easy cat egorization (HM V falsely classified it under Drum n’ Bass). W hat does present itself is music that can hit from heavy funk groove to smooth rock anthem. It is in this defiance of classification that Nitin Sawhney will continue to find new inspira tions and hopefully more albums in the future. -Jay Poulton

November 21 Maragaret Cho at Theatre Maissoneuve: The legendary comedian brings her Notorious C.H.O. show to Montreal, performing here for the first time ever . Check out our interview on page 13. For more info,! check out margaretcho.com. November 23 Moonstarr at Jai Bar: This Toronto DJ and producer must not be missed. His innovative broken-beat and hip hop are the source o f much international buzz and for good reason— it’s brilliant. More im portant ly, his regular Public Transit Recordings parties, named after the label he founded, are some o f Toronto’s best and if he brings a fraction of their energy to Montreal we are in for a real treat. Francois K at Stereo: Larry Levan was the Charlie Parker o f the turntables, the greatest DJ that ever lived and will ever live, and the Paradise Garage was his Birdland. Francois K spun regularly at Paradise Garage and played with Larry Levan. This means that if you have even the most passing interest in underground dance musics, you will not miss Francois K. Even if witnessing an originator o f the scene doesn’t pique your curiosity (shameful!), then the strength o f Francois K’s recent accomplishements should be enough to bring you out. While continu ously releasing sublime house on his Wave imprint, he comprises a third o f the New York-based Body and Soul DJ collective that weekly pro duces one o f the world’s great parties. Combine Francios K withj M oonstarr and you have the makings of one o f the most incredible nights o f dance music possible.

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Bob Dylan still manages to captivate Thobey Campion Today has been a fantastic fail ure. Our recendy purchased satellite dish has been ‘zapped’ by an unknown agent bringing the channel count from 800 to 1, the Quebec ran dom nudity channel. Our allusive satellite repairman, Manny, haunts me every hour, his smiling, jerry curlclad head saying to me: “you need more wires, your only problem is a lack of wires.” To make matters worse, they’ve repaved Hutchison Street between Sherbrooke and Milton. Though not a huge ordeal for the average student, the dip in the road has been smoothed over. I can no longer stop on my way up the street and watch from the safety of the sidewalk as unknowing, speeding drivers tap the belly of their cars on the cement, being caught off-guard by the dip. Dramatic irony is dead and in its place is an empty void. To fill this void of depression and anxiety a short story often comes in handy. On a bloody-skied evening some time back in 1966 a couple expecting a baby, Johanna and her husband, were walking down the highway towards a Bob Dylan concert. Their bare feet, treading the ground, forced dust to mingle with the air. They turned right off the highway, meeting up with thousands of other bare feet. It was an exodus, for them at least. An hour into the show Johanna went into labor. There, at the medical tent, her first-born came into this world; however Johanna did not survive. Dust from the air settled on the baby’s skin making it tough and leathery. The crowd stood in awe at the spec

tacle, and some of the more observant lookers-on noted the baby’s piercing gypsy eyes. The death of Johanna had struck the father’s heart brutally and he had never worked up the gall to tell his son, Karl, the truth of his birth. On Karl’s 19th birthday his father told him the story I have just recounted. The next day, Karl was nowhere to be seen and would remain that way for twenty years. Always, sitting in row 22, wearing boots of Spanish leather, he recorded everything he saw at Dylan shows while always studying the lyrics of the now 66-year old poet. The night of November 8th, 2001, I took my seat at the Air Canada Cenre in Toronto beside a desolate character in the 22nd row. This would possibly be one of the last Bob Dylan shows to come through Toronto ever. The fellow was a griz zled and worn musical warrior who had followed Dylan everywhere. I tried talking to bim but he replied only with a jerk of his hand, pointing to bis ear. He was in the process of digitally recording the show, a cardi nal sin by Dylan’s standards. The lights came up to reveal a white-suited figure encased between the band members, all wearing pur ple. The first set opened with ‘Hummingbird’ and then ‘The Times They are A-Changin.’ Though possibly a questionable move putting these two at the begin ning of the set, Bob redeemed himself with ‘Desolation Row’ and ‘Tangled

Up in Blue.’ ‘High Water’ was per formed at the ACC better than any other time I have heard it. The song, written for the feisty blues man Charley Patton, possesses two lines in it that are integral to its own under standing. The first: “High water ris ing... High water everywhere,” con jures up lines for the poem Rime o f the Ancient Mariner. The lines “Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink” signify the growingly des perate situation of both the protago nist/antagonist in the Coleridge poem and Charley Patton and his musical obstacles of being oppressed by men with power. The second line is in the 6th stanza of the song. It reads, “As great as you are, man, you’ll never be greater than yourself.” A tribute to Patton and a comment on his wild and sometimes violent lifestyle, Dylan does the old performer justice. A question that plagued me after the show was why did Dylan save ‘All Along The Watcbtower’ for his finale? It finishes with the line “Two riders were approaching, and the wind began to howl.” My first thought was that it was Dylan’s response to grow ing international conflicts and thus he saw it as suitable to finish with. I know there’s more to it but I’ll leave the answer to you, the reader. Dylan looks tired, as he physical ly stumbles out his songs. He does, however, seem to dig even deeper for the proper accents and stresses of lyrics. At the end of the show, I got up and gave Karl a glance and he returned the favor. No words were exchanged. A conversation after the show just seemed so futile while cheering for one of the mas ters of words.

lntroducing...Cheyenne...Luck S h e slipped away like a south ern breeze, her macramé necklaces falling to the ground. The horse stood far away, desultory, still stamping the ground with its hoof. She had always been the most delicate of belles, even when she crossed great Texas, through desert and dry hell, to my ranch in Colorado. We had gone riding. The horse had sensed her panic. I don’t blame the horse for rear ing, or Mme. Blanche for losing control of the reigns. But things have a way o f not making sense, and now she’s dead and so is her pony, and Cheyenne Luck is not just a cowboy, but a vessel. * * * You know, I’ve been many places, and in some of them they talk about a cycle of birth and rebirth, Samsara, and about eternal suffering. They say you can get out of it if you’re good enough. But I don’t know about being good, just polite (a polite drink, a polite smoke, a polite shiver down your spine as the rifle slips ever so polite ly past your tonsils.) Jesus knew it. He was a cowboy, just like me. He didn’t ride horses but he didn’t have to. I can’t walk across a river unless I’m riding. This epistle is a message to all

of you across the world. Cowboys do exist, .and they don’t just care about shooting guns and riding horses. But if you’ve never done either, then you haven’t lived. Cheyenne Luck is here to explain to you what passion is. O n my ranch there aren’t any televisions or com puters. The only things on my desk top are a gun, a typewriter, and a forged Matisse. I don’t care that it’s a forgery. As long as I look at it and cry, I know what truth is. Cheyenne’s never met a whore he didn’t like. He’s loved Picasso and Matisse. He’s been to Paris and fucked Rodin; in London he made love to Warhol. But Cheyenne Luck doesn’t need intercourse; his sex is in his eyes, his ears, his hands. Cheyenne Luck is a passionate man. Cheyenne can smell humans in the forest. He can tell you why Immanuel Kant is wrong. Cheyenne can hear all of the instru ments talking to him when he lis tens to Pharaoh Sanders. It’s dark in the mountains at night, but only if you don’t know what you’re trying to see. In the city, sometimes you can’t tell when it’s day or night. The lights beam down on you and sink into your skin turn ing you into a glowing monster. That’s why you can always spot city folk. They glow. They glow with ignorance and watches and blank expressions when all they hear is silence. They’re lucky that cowboys are gentlemen. There are prophets everywhere,

and art is what you make it. I don’t have time for trick riding or gam bling for anything but souls. I don’t shoot my guns for fun. I shoot them to keep myself sane. Misplaced pas sion is one of the reasons that the world seems so useless. People hunt animals they don’t want, and they nurture ideas that they won’t use. They build muscles that sit on them like oversized wallets, stuffed to the brim with consumption. *** The police stopped me on my way back to the ranch. They told me that my spurs had cut a man’s dog, and that I had to hand them over. I politely obliged. They left, and I took out my second pair. Some people think poetry exists in cities only, in rooms with closed windows. It is fine to sit and read in your room. But if you never leave, only your walls will bear the markings of your knowledge. You have to rip your walls open and touch the fiberglass inside and feel the cuts along your palm. You have to feel the cold metal of a trigger in your hand when a life has found itself at its end. Cheyenne Luck is here to show you art. Art is life. You have heard it before but five it now. Cheyenne is a poet cowboy. Cattle are words, and you have to brand both. Only when you grapple with them will you understand. Cheyenne Luck will show you what’s missing. Look around. Listen. The city is filled with horses.

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tar in the other, croaked and squirmed about the floor while groaning and screaming his tor tured rock-poems. Daddy’s Hands m ounted a guitar assault whose screeching density complemented well the asphyxiated-crow vocal delivery. The overall aural effect was something akin to chaining one’s ears to the rusty bumper o f a pickup truck careening suicidally into a gravel pit. Each song was punctuated with frequent takings o f the Lord’s name in what can only be described as vain. But the best part of Daddy’s Hands was the selfless generosity o f the lead singer,

whose ill-timed shouts, interpretive dance, and licentious rubbings directed at the two subsequent acts redefined the ‘performative’ audi ence. Playing immediately before Freezepop, Lifestyle shared instru ments (and one band member, Sean T. Drinkwater) with the head liners. "We do a dancey thing," proclaimed Drinkwater, and so they did, merging disco, power bal lads, and "70s schmaltz" into a sweetly effulgent elixir. W ith titles like ‘Prom N ight,’ ‘My Favorite Song,’ and ‘It Doesn’t Mean That I Don’t Love You If I Forget to Call You Back,’ Lifestyle laid down some fun, danceable, intelligently self-aware tunes. Unfortunately, by the time Freezepop took up their solid-state instruments, most o f the audience had disappeared into the warm Montreal night, leaving only the seriously devoted to a personal audience with these popes o f syn thpop. "We’re doing what we like. Obviously, it’s not like it’s popular; we’re not trying to capitalize on it or anything," says Enthusiasm. But it was that energy that comes only from a band in love with their music that captivated the remain ing vigilant crowd Wednesday night.

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OH! ‘Tis torture, waiting for the jailer to come! To hear his heavy, black boots, grinding down the con crete with every slow and agoniz ing step, coming to take me away to the jump-ntwitch chair! And for what?! Why do I deserve such vile and horrible pun ishment? All because I wanted to love what I wanted to love— my tender, young, white-as-snow lamb! Well, that, and I wrote a quite pathetic his tory of the Beach Boys— but W HO REALLY CARES ABOUT THEM ANYWAY! But hark? I hear thee steps, soft yet stealthy, down the stone hall—who goes there, prithee? VOICE: HUH! Get on the— G O O D FOOT! O O U H W O U ohH-O! ME (hands around iron bars with face pressed between, gasping): James BROWN?! But what are YOU doing here? JAMES BROWN (body twitch ing as he spins and splits): Heeyyy— UH! I see, a-yuh, ah SEE, a-nother bru-ther in the SLAM— be-Cause o’tha MAN! ME (desperately): Oh, yes, Mr. Brown! Well, actually, I could’ve loved my lamb all I wanted—but the Man doesn’t like academic incompetence too much. Ahem. But are you here to save me, oh Godfather of Soul?! JAMES BROWN: Weill, NO, mutha-trucka! "UH— Get on th’GOO D FOOT! OOWWW!" I watch as Mr. Brown collapses on the ground, and then feigns a hurt back. ME: Is there, uh, something the...matter Mr. Brown? What a farm boy loves

JAMES BROWN (pause, then after a moment, looks up and around him in annoyance): Those good-fernuthin black HONKYS! They’re sup posed to DRAPE— the CAPE— around ME! O O U H W O O H -ohOh!! (Jumps up, then does a fanky foot-twiddle) Hey! UH! I’m black-nI’m proud! ME: Uh, Mr. Brown—what are you doing here? JAMES (All of a sudden straight ening and putting on some glasses): Well, actually, I’m here to talk about the desperate situation farmers in the Western Canada are in right now. For instance, if you take a look at these statistics, you’ll see that less than 3% of Canada’s population is located in the rural area, and that this number itself is dwindling rapidly, with family farms being forced into foreclosure by banks and the land being bought up— dirt cheap, if you pardon the pun— by large-scale industrial farm ers and corporations. The aid pack ages offered by the federal govern ment are pathetic—AIDA, the feder al government disaster relief fund offered to farmers two years ago, has such anal guidelines that of the 1.7 billion money it supposedly offers, only 41% of it has been paid out to farmers, which prompts the question of how much importance the govern ment sees in saving the family farm— an industry that contributes 8.4% to Canada’s overall GDP. ME: Uh, Mr. Brown, I fail to see what this has to d— JAMES: There is an increased corporatization of the farming indus try, with fewer farmers able to afford the expensive chemicals and fertilizers needed to continue producing bumper crops to export to the world, which chemicals in addition play havoc with the soil quality and the natural balance of the environment. I

don’t even want to mention genetical ly modified food. Plus, the Canadian government refuses to subsidize the farmers that are left, even though the EU and the United States continue to do so in the face of a trade-agreement stalemate. Compared to EU’s $6 dol lars for every bushel produced and the US $2.75 per bushel in subsidies, Canada only gives a measly 40 cents! Moreover, Canada is known as the Boy Scout in international trade negotiations: not the best buddy to have negotiating for your position on the agricultural global scale. The con sequence is that the majority of farm ers can’t make a go of it, even though they have diversified, as the agricul tural economists have told them— but guess what? Diversification is not working. There are too many large corporations who depress the price of grain in order to make sure they get as much for as cheap as possible, and too many interests sucking out money on both the inputs and outputs of the food economy with no money going to the farmers. How much is MacDonalds paying for its meat if you’re paying less than a dollar for a burger? Guess how much profit is in a bushel of corn flakes as opposed to the $4 paid for the raw corn product? $133 smackers. And because there is negligible profit in farming for the reasons above, no sons or daughters would want to take over the family farm. Thus, in ten to twenty years, with the average age of the farmer being in his late fifties, there will be no such thing as a rural population or the family farm—where 90% of fam ily farms in Canada are located in the Western provinces. ME: Uh, Mr. Brown, I’m on death row. I don’t give a flying rat’s ass about farmers. JAMES (screams and throws away glasses): uh-UHH-yeauHHH!?

I’ll give you THREE GOOD REA SONS WHY YOU SHOULD CARE! (Kicks a mop towards himself if it is a mike stand, then postures over it) UH! NUMBER ONE! 1. Farmers are the root of all economic-political social structures— they have the unique knowledge and ability to grow something out of nothing. If the first human being back in ancient times didn’t notice that by planting seeds he or she could get grain for food, migration in order to follow the herds would continue, the stability needed for modern socie ty would not evolve, and you would n’t be here today in a democracy. Hey, we wouldn’t have Medicare if it weren’t for Saskatchewan farmers— the province Allan Fotheringham hailed as "the most Canadian of provinces." JAMES (does a funky jig and kicks the mop around): UH! YEAH! So Funky! NUMBER TWO! 2. Diversification and a rural population is a necessary balance that provides a now-more-than-ever neces sary connection between a human being and the natural environment. From a poll, British children believed that bananas grew in their homeland, and similarly, Australian children believed cotton grew on sheep. Maybe British and Australian chil dren have their knee-high socks on too tight, but I don’t think so: There is a clear indication of a separation between the food you buy at the supermarket and the raw material from which it is produced. Finally, it is a clear indicator of how mass indus trialization on the global scale results in the consolidation of control to the few—and thus consolidates the pro duction, distribution and marketing of food you eat to abstract forces you cannot touch or see and thus have no control over.

JAMES (does a back flip and another split): And— UH! EEEOOHHW! NUMBER THREE! 3. Finally, by having many peo ple in the rural environment manag ing small farms, sustainable farming practices are promoted, so that valu able top-soil is not leached of its nutrients due to over-fertilization or chemicals. In addition, a safer and more reliable food product that is not reliant on chemicals created by huge consolidated companies is produced for consumption, resulting in a safer food product that resists mass-pro duction and homogenization. In addition, such a product has its roots in the local economy, thus adding to the overall economic well-being of the nation. For as much as we hate to admit it, we can’t eat .corns. James Brown remains in his split on the floor, breathing heavily, then slowly collapses onto his side like a ruptured vessel. ME (appropriately confused): Okaaayyyy.. .why do you care so much about Western farmers, Mr. Brown? JAMES (mumbling from the floor): Because farmers have the abili-ty to funk-i-tize your sorry ass...they have the funky soul-power needed to make a POP-u-LAYshun— of the PEOPLE! UH! OHHOWW-OH-EEOWÜ (Jumping to his feet with renewed energy) Just remember—EDUCATE YOURSELF! Oh, well.. .Gots to go! With a final foot stomp and a twirl, James Brown disappears. I grip the iron bars and close my eyes, and think of the complexity of modern life...are things too big that Nothing can be done? Then I think again— of my lamb! My love! OH! Whenever shall I SEE THEE Again?!

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of phenomenon hap pening in Toronto where DJs would spin just breaks and people would get up and two trum pets players would harmonise and come up with horn parts." Does it work? Absolutely. The brassy warm th of Santilli’s trum pet added an intimacy to the rhythms and accentuated the tracks’ melodies. Playing against a DJ is something that Santilli also hap pens to enjoy. "I really dig it. I don’t think I’ve ever been a purist when it comes to m usic...I’m not one of those musicians that’s all about just being ‘Oh, he’s not really a musi cian because he doesn’t actually play an instrument that took him ten years to learn the scales for’— I don’t agree with that. I fully think that DJs, great DJs, hugely con tribute to music, hugely. So many of my influences have been great DJs, they’re like histori ans, they bring the history back and make it part of the present and make you realise how important and significant and relevant it still is. And just the way they mix the music together...I feel that’s musi cianship. So playing with a DJ basically provides me with what a band would do: provide me with a great percussive foundation for me to just play something over. I think the combination of DJs and musicians finish es the circle." For all her tal ent, Santilli has remained quiet since her acclaimed 1999 a l b u m Brown (Mri), plagued, s h e explains, by writer’s b l o c k . However projects are in the works

including something with King Britt and some o f Ursula Rucker’s people. Hopefully, being associat ed with a producer of King Britt’s fame and skill will bring her the international attention and acco lades she deserves. Also, keep an eye on the listings in the coming months for details of a performance complete with full band. Next week, look for a review of last Friday’s brilliant Sex Mob con cert. Also, I cannot encourage you enough to go and see Moonstarr, aka Kevin M oon, this coming Friday at Jai bar. Moonstarr is a Toronto DJ, producer and the founder of Public Transit Recordings. His recent D upont EP is an absolutely genius collection of broken-beat that has been receiving serious play by such masters as Gilles Peterson and Rainer Truby. Compost Records is featuring one of his tracks on the Future Sound of Jazz 8 compilation and his colaboration with John Kong, Toronto DJ of Movement fame, is generating quite the buzz. All of this is to say that Moonstarr is not to be missed. The tax will be reasonable and the music has the potential for transcen dence. As the venera ble Mr. T would say, don’t be a fool. Don’t be a fool indeed, go and see Moonstarr.

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observer while the simple assem blage o f chairs calms the atm osphere to create a com plem entary amalga m ation o f two stirring forces. Leccia’s display of empty chairs evoked a feel ing o f solitude and deep ened the mysterious tran quility that surrounds the absence o f an audience, while the oil-painted faces leave one wide-eyed in wonderment. At the Musée d ’Art C ontem porain de Montreal until March 31, 2002, this is a unique rep resentation o f Intersecting Views— an eclectic selec tion of works that lives up to its name and offers a brief but effective view of the innovative art that comes out o f France today.

The Musée d ’Art C ontem porain de M ontreal is currently exhibiting Intersecting Views, a collection o f works by eighteen dif ferent artists from the regional contemporary art fund (FRAC) for the Loire region. Each o f the artists come from different genera tions but all live and w ork in the Loire region o f France. The exhibit displays their works ranging from landscape photographs to sign and word-coded pieces revealing the continuance o f lan guage and communica tion. Separated into four different rooms, other pieces came in the forms o f paintings, installation and video. O ne interesting piece is the square w ooden plank completely cov- who knows what lurks in the recesses of the Loire valley ered in red lipstick by Fabrice H ybert. Entitled ‘Un metre carre de rouge a levres’ and completed in 1981, this piece a favourite by many, is made obvi ous by the perplexed, spectators who stood and observed the lip stick-smothered square for lengthy intervals. Taking a more tradition al approach was Eric Poitevin with his photograph ‘Sans Titre.’ The colour photo m ounted on alu m inum shows an atypically angled shot o f the trunk o f a tree with curled and crooked branches pro jecting out. T he blown-up size o f the photo emphasises the beauty and intricacies o f nature. A personal favourite is the room graced by the works o f Yan Pei-Ming and Ange Leccia. This room is a collaboration o f a struc tural setup by Leccia, surrounded by paintings o f Pei-Ming. There is a collection o f chairs organized in rows in the middle o f the room while two back walls are adorned with 120 oil-on-canvas paintings The only aaencv for student o f faces. Pei-M ing’s black and white paintings o f intensely con

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M artlets continue rise to the top 3-0 victory over Ottawa increases Martlets' conference lead George Hadjis In what was McGill’s toughest game in the m onth o f November, the Martlets showed why they are the third ranked team according to Canadian Interuniversity Sport rankings with a 3-0 win over the visiting Ottaw a Gees-Gees last Saturday afternoon. "It was a difficult game because o f penalties," head coach Peter Smith said immediately after the contest. "It was hard to get into a rhythm. We needed a tough, com petitive game, and we certainly got it. The girls played quite well." The Martlets did play well but not up to their potential. They can thank goaltender Amey Doyle, who put on a show for the home crowd , ensuring the victory in the process. Doyle made 38 saves on the after noon. She continually stood on her head, bailing out her teammates after they made silly mistakes and took ill-timed penalties on numer ous occasions. In the first period, the home side came out a litde slow but start ed to pick up the pace at about the five-minute mark. The period was highlighted with beautiful plays by skaters such as Sophie Acheson and

Audrey Hadd. The women in Red teams in the face o f great goaltend ’n W hite took some bad penalties ing. The Martlets’ lackluster per that disrupted their game plan; formance in the second frame made however, they played better at times their early scores extra valuable. on the penalty kill than at evenCoach Smith must have deliv strength. Rookie Katherine Safka opened the scoring in the opening frame when Ottawa’s netm inder Amanda Spence tried to play a loose puck that was closer to the blue line than it was to her goal. Safka out-skated two defenders to obtain possession o f the puck, and she then pushed it around the sprawling goalie. After that the only thing left in her way was a wide open net, and Safka made no mistake giving her team an early 1-0 lead. The second goal was a buzzer-beater, more appropri ate to a basketball game than the game of sticks and pucks. Rookie Katherine Safka fearlessly sacrificing A crisp pass from Audrey Hadd put the pill right on the tape of ered a stirring locker room address Cindy-Anne Carufel’s stick with the because in the third, the home clock winding down. She slipped it squad came out flying. Their inten between the goalie's legs as it sity paid off when rookie Hadd, crossed the goal line with half a sec after plugging away at a loose puck ond left on the clock. in enemy territory, manged to trick The second period was a quick le it through the pads of Spence. one with few whistles. Some quality H add’s tally put the game out chances were squandered by both o f reach to give the Martlets a

tighter grip on first place in their conference. Coach Smith should feel pretty fortunate: last year he had an inter national star between the pipes in

her body versus Ottawa last Saturday

Kim St-Pierre, but this year there has been no letdown with Amey Doyle guarding the fort. Along with her 38 saves and her fifth league vic tory, she recorded her second shutout of the year. "Amey’s been doing a terrific job for us. It’s great to see after 5 years in the system, she finally gets

a chance and she’s making the most out o f it," said Smith. The Martlets’ current place in the rankings is higher than any pre vious McGill team in history. If they maintain their strong play, the number one spot may soon be w ithin reach. Coach Smith downplayed the situation. "We try not to put too much emphasis on the rankings. O ur goal is to improve," stressed Smith. "If we can get national recognition at the same time, even bet ter. Nevertheless, our pri mary goal remains to continue the improve ment." W hen asked what was the major factor afternoon behind his team's early season success, the skipper saw the added experience as the best explanation. "Last year, we had 11 rookies in the lineup. All of them have gained a year of experience on and off the ice. They have a better understanding of school and hock ey."

Getting off on the right foot Womens basketball team wins convincingly in season opener David Schipper The McGill M artlets Basketball team soundly defeated the Bishop's Gaiters 68-54 on Saturday afternoon before an enor mous crowd at G. Donald Love Competition Hall. Sophomore for ward Sarah Gagné scored 19 points for the Martlets, while her secondyear teammate M aude Vallières added 18. Combined, the two play ers shot nearly 70% (16 for 24) from the field, an astonishing per centage. Veteran guard Cheeka Mitchell scored nine points and was in fine defensive form. For the visitors, fifth-year forward Melissa Le may scored 16 points while guard Amelie Rousseau had 12. Coach Lisen Moore has added six rookies to the team this season and many of the new players have fit in remarkably well early on. Kelly-Rae Kenyon, a 5’10" guard from Penticton, British Columbia had nine points, three assists, and six rebounds in 23 minutes.

Lindsay W ilmot, an outstanding free-throw shooter from St. Bruno, was a flawless 5-for-5 from the line. Katrina Young, a 5’10" forward from Victoria, scored a crucial bas ket seven minutes into the game to pull the Martlets to within one, 1615, and added five rebounds, including three on the offensive boards. "O ur team this season has trust and confidence in each other," Moore said. "We’re young and jumpy, but were getting better. We did a good job on Melissa Lemay today. "They’re a better perimeter shooting team than we are," Moore went on to say. "We need to spotup and roll-up better. Also, our box-out was not as good in the sec ond half. The defense is giving us opportunities to score though." Indeed, the Martlets got off to a slow start in this game, trailing 93 and 13-7 early on. Alisen Salusbury, a 6’0" rookie forward from West Vancouver, scored an important basket at this juncture to

close the gap to 13-9. "I feel good about things," Moore enthused. "We didn’t bring our “A” game defensively, and there was not enough consistency, but our potential is outstanding. There is room for improvement in terms of poise and the ability to play 40 minutes." Vallières and Gagné were all smiles after the game, but they real ized that this was only the first game o f the season, and that there is much work to do. "I’m happy that we won, but we could have played better. We made a lot o f mistakes on defense and we had penetration errors on offense," Vallières explained. "We’re a young team that works hard and wants to win. We need more discipline and patience though. We’re too fast on our attack but we’ll step up and do the little things better," Vallières added. Gagné was pleased with the way her team played, but was some what concerned about the occasion al flux in focus that the Martlets

exhibited. "We came back from six points down a couple of times and in the second half and we sustained our momentum," she explained. "We’ve improved a lot since September, but we still need to get better on both sides of the ball. We’re still not patient enough. We must start well in each half without making all of those mental mistakes." The Martlets scored 34 points in each half, but are capable of scor ing much more. Still, M cGill’s offense this season improves with each passing game. Another bright spot for the team is their discipline. In past sea sons, the Martlets were in foul trouble many times midway through each half. In the game on Saturday, not one McGill player had more than two personal fouls, and the Martlets succeeded in com mitting only fifteen team fouls dur ing the entire game. The second half remarkably saw no penalties against any McGill players. The Gaiter players did not

seem to have the energy needed to sustain a competitive game, some thing that Bishop's head coach Rod Gilpin tried to rationalize after the game. "We played hard, but we’re fatigued. We have a lot of injuries. It’s not a conditioning problem. N ot having ten players available for scrimmages affects our practice schedule," Gilpin explained. "We allowed McGill to dictate the tempo o f the game. We showed a lack of discipline on offense and defense. We have to concentrate on passing and moving the basketball. We're very young, probably the youngest team in the country." The first regular season win has started the Martlets basketball team out on the right foot. W ith the tal ent depth as great as it is, the team can only look for more success if future games. The action continues at McGill this Saturday afternoon at lp.m . when the Mardets play host to the Concordia Stingers.

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Redmen cagers open regular season with 74-64 victory over Lennoxville rivals Neil Schnurbach The final scoreboard read 7464. It wasn’t that close. The McGill Redmen basket ball team opened their regular sea son with a victory over the Bishop’s Gaiters in a game the Redmen led for all but 15 seconds. Only a 123 run by the visitors to close the game allowed the score to look respectable. The tenth-ranked Redmen were led by prolific guards

second half. W ith 14:12 left in the second frame, Reid stole the ball once again and drove to the hoop. After drawing two defenders to him, he made a behind the head pass to forward Andrew Bier who laid it in for an easy deuce, to give the Red n W hite a 49-39 lead. "Burkie played okay," joked head coach Nevio Marzinotto. "He runs the show for this offense. We are lucky that we have one of the best point guards in the country. He works hard in practice and in the games. It obviously pays off."

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two three-pointers. "It was surreal at first," com mented Sherbino on playing his former team. "Seeing the guys in the purple shirts and realizing that I’m not wearing one was a bit weird. But these guys [the Redmen] are my teammates now. I’ve played with them for a few weeks now and they are great team mates." Despite his lack of success in the early going o f this contest, Sherbino will be an integral part of the Redmen squad this year. He has leadership qualities that will help the Redmen become the championship contenders that they can become. Sherbino knows all about championships since he won one while at Bishop’s and com peted in three other National tournaments. “My role on this team is leadership,” explained Sherbino. “I’ve been to Nationals four times and won a championship. I think that I can help these guys get to the next level.” Sloppiness at times for Redmen

While the Redmen put o, a great show and ended up with the victory, they were extreme ly sloppy at times. Every time that it looked as if they were going to pull away, they let the undertalented Gaiters back in the contest. McGill turned the ball over 22 times including nine by Redmen guard/forward Frederic Bernard. Much of this carelessness can be attributed to the fact that the Redmen were returning from a two week lay off. Look closely enough and you can actually see the Bishop player's ankle breaking "We were sloppy at times," Reid was not only effective concurred Marzinotto, the QSSF D enburk Reid and Domenico when driving to the hoop. His coach of the year last season. "We Marcario. M arcario scored 18 jump shots were falling as well. have to work on our zone defense. points going 8 of 13 from the floor This is something that he has been We need to recognize the other while Reid also had 18 points with team’s plays and not break down working on in the off-season. a 7 for 8 shooting performance, “My jump shot is probably defensively. But we had to expect including 2 o f 3 from three-point what needed the most work and I this. We haven’t played in two land. The 5’7" point guard from have been working hard to fix it,” weeks so our execution was not Montreal added 5 rebounds, 5 noted Reid, a first team QSSF all- really there." assists and 7 steals. It was a show star from last year. “I find that Marzinotto is probably being a stopping performance by one of the shooting is more mental than phys little bit harsh. The Redmen cagers best players in the Quebec Student ical. The more that I shoot, the did manage to shoot over 50 per Sport Federation. more comfortable I am. By the end cent from the floor with a 30 for 58 "I thought I played okay of the season, I’m sure that my shot performance by the team. The win today," said a very humble Reid brings M cGill’s record to 7-1 will consistently fall.” after the game. "I think the fans including a win in their last seven had a good time, but we could play contests. Sherbino faces former team better." "We’re a top ten team," said The standing room only crowd The McGill victory and the two-time QSSF all-star Marcario. at Love C om petition Hall did Denburk Reid show were not the "Everyone is good on this squad indeed have a good time thanks in only stories in the contest. McGill and each player knows his role. I’m large part to the highlight reel per forward Joel Sherbino is playing for a scorer and my shot is going down. formance o f Mr. Reid. W ith the Redmen this year after four I felt confident today." McGill leading 13-9 in the first "Were ranked for the first time years on the Bishop’s team. half, Denburk stole the ball, ran Saturday's game was his first in years and people think it’s a down the court and head faked against his former mates. fluke," added M arzinotto. "We Bishop’s guard David Suzuki (not Sherbino looked nervous to have to prove our ranking. It’s be confused with the famed envi start the game. He clanked an open going to happen. Slowly people are ronmentalist of the same name) out three-pointer, which he shot with going to start to see that we are for o f his shorts. Reid spotted up and very little arc. But as the game real.” hit a three ball to make the score went on, Sherbino became more 16-9. comfortable. He finished the con He did not slow down in the test with eight points, including

W hat a crowd... finally I was pleasantly surprised to see that people finally started showing up to watch this Redmen team play. The basketball squad is probably the most exciting team to don the Red n White jerseys in any sport since Columbus Blue Jackets’ forward Mathieu Darche played on the hockey team two years ago. The next challenge for the team is on Saturday November 24 at 3pm at Love Competition Hall against Concordia. Here’s one for the highlight reel Bishop’s forward Phil Miguel was a second team QSSF all-star last year. This game he looked like a first team chump. W ith 4:07 left in the game, Miguel was alone under the basket with his team trailing by 17 points. He tried to vent some of his frustration with a thundering slam-dunk. Miguel’s jam was thundering indeed, but unfortunately he was rejected by the rim. The Gaiters’ forward ended the game with seven points and three rebounds. Never play well in practice

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game a passive observer could not take his/her eyes off of McGill guard/forward Frederic Bernard. The 6’4" Laval resident was hitting three pointers and not missing shots from anywhere on the floor. But as is usually the case, he who plays the best in practice underper forms in games. Bernard, who was a second team all QSSF player last year, managed only four points in the contest, although he did lead the Redmen in rebounds with nine. My Bier friend s back and there’s going to be some trouble Oft-injured McGill forward Andrew Bier returned for the regu lar season opener after sitting out much of the pre-season with vari ous leg ailments. The 6’6" native of St-Laurent, Quebec was three for three from the floor for six points and added three rebounds in only 13 minutes o f play. Burkie’s a popular guy After the game, star point guard Denburk Reid was mobbed by a group o f youngsters who seemed happy with Reid’s perform ance. The always friendly Reid was quick to give the youngsters atten tion before heading to the locker room.

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When did American freedom become associated with American sports? Out of left field C h ris tia n L a n d e r

Minutes before the beginning of the most recent NBA season, American president George W. Bush addressed the American peo ple. His face prominently displayed on the video boards of arenas across the United States, Bush first assured the spectators in attendance that the war America was embarking upon was a just one, and that victory would eventually be secured. Bush’s second message, however, was less wartime rhetoric and more provoca tive proposal. Bush encouraged Americans to attend sporting events because it was an expression of their freedom.

To any critical observer of the bizarre Orwellian scene, the connec tion between paying $ 100 to watch a Memphis Grizzlies and New Jersey Nets basketball game and the civil liberties of the American peo ple may have been unclear. W hy are sports and freedom in the United States so closely linked? There are the usual answers: sports are a replacement for war, a source of national pride (during the Olympics/World Cup). Sports are our national pastime (baseball or hockey), they’re what ties genera tions together, we play the anthem before the games, and so forth. Though these are the best answers to the question, they only explain why sports inspire patriotic behav iour. They do not answer the ques tion of why sports are associated with freedom. Where the topic of freedom in sports is concerned, it seems as though a majority of fans believe the boundary has been crossed. For most Americans, the freedom to make as high a salary as the market allows, is a god-given right. Yet when Alex Rodriguez signs a $250 million contract these same people are clamouring for a cap on earnings because they don’t believe an athlete should make that much more than the working man. Now, isn’t that

the very reason that so many Russian hockey players defected during the late 1980s? In fact, it would seem that Americans would prefer the majori ty of their sports to be structured like the former Soviet Union. In addition to salary, another major complaint of fans is that athletes have no team loyalty anymore, that they play for too many teams, con stantly moving around in pursuit of more money. They would prefer that an athlete was drafted into a system, assigned a city to work in, and then stayed there for the rest of his life, regardless of family or per sonal liberty. Forgive me if I fail to see how attending a sporting event, which now bears an eerie resemblance to a Lenin era rally, is an expression of freedom. If anything it’s a request for repression. If attending a sporting event is actually an expression of freedom, what are Cubans expressing when they go to a baseball game? Or Africans under dictatorship attend ing soccer matches? Or Soviets when they attend a hockey game? How are their actions any different from those of an American? Think about it. In all cases the best seats are generally reserved for someone other than the working

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man, the athletes generally have bet ter lives than those in the stands, some betting usually takes place, there are a couple of fights, and the outcome of the game has no real impact on anyone’s life. The freedom of American sports is not found in the game itself, nor in the structure of the league, yet it must exist somewhere or else why would so many collec tively believe in it? If we search hard enough, we’ll find that the truest expression o f American freedom probably comes in the 7th inning stretch or in the pre-game cere monies. During the playing of "God Bless America" or "America the Beautiful" or "The Star-

Spangled Banner," one can quietly reflect on the freedom to choose which sport they feel like attending or which snack food they will eat while watching. Because in truth, Americans have more freedom in this respect than any other nation on earth. There are four major sports leagues in America as com pared to the one soccer league in most European, African, and Asian countries. Maybe with cricket in England or basketball in Greece or Spain could the total be upped to two, still only 50 percent of Americans’ wonderful freedom. Freedom in America is not in going to a sporting event. It’s in choosing it.

Around the horn Redmen Hockey dominate road trip Brock University' and Wilfred Laurier were the victims of McGill’s hockey prowess this week end. Bruno Lemire opened fire with a hat-trick in the Redmen’s 52 victory against Brock last Friday. Gaptian Dave Burgess added a pair of goals putting the Redmen total to 5. Luc Valliancourt got the win in nets, saving 31 of 33 shots. The Laurier Golden Hawks were also unable to stop McGill, losing 5-2. Greg Leblanc scored twice including the winning goal with one assist. Patrick Leblanc had his first league goal in three years as a Redmen and defensemen David Bahi and Daniel Jacob each were able to find the net against Laurier. Murray Gobb got the win stopping 27 shots. T he powerplay has struggled this season for the Redmen, but those woes were at least temporari ly remedied as the team went 3 for 7 against Brock and 3 for 6 versus Laurier. With a strong offensive weekend, Greg Leblanc was named McGill male Athlete of the Week. With a 3-3-2 record, McGill will face two strong teams, rhe University o f Guelph and York University, this weekend at the McGonell Arena with hopes to continue their winning streak. Swim team on a roll... At the second University Gup meet in Ste. Foy, the men’s swim team came out on top. Competing against six other teams, David Allard led McGill with four silver medals in the 50 and 100m breast stroke, 200m backstroke and the 4x100m medley relay. Doug McCarthy, Nicholas Martin and Paolo Magdelena joined Allard for the relay. Rookie Phillip Leblanc qualified for the CIS Nationals in the 50m freestyle with a time of 24.07 seconds. Leblanc was joined by teammate Benoit Valpe who picked up a bronze in the 50m breaststroke with a time o f 30.46 seconds.

T he women's! team placed second out of five teams. Rookie Michel k Laprade, who was named McGill’s female Athlete o f the Week, wem home with an impressive four gold medals in the 50 and 100m breast, 100m butterfly and anchored the 4x100m medley relay team rhat included Genevieve Grégoire, Heather Bell and Janice Tijssen. Tijssen picked up another gold in the 50m freestyle. McGill swimmers Bell. Laprade and Allard were named to the University Cup meet all-star team. Vanier Cup match up set

The 37th annual Vanier Cup. scheduled for December 1st at the Skydome in Toronto, will see the Saint Mary's Huskies of Halifax take on the Manitoba Bisons. The winner will be crowned the top team in Canadian Interuniversity Sport. Whatever disappointment thej McGill Redmen football team had; for not making the Atlantic Bowl game is sure to have disappeared! quickly in the first quarter as the Huskies immediately began to beat up on the Laval Rouge et Or. With; Saint Mary's amassing a 29 point lead by halftime and eventually winning 48-8, it would be hard to argue that Chuck McMann's team would have fared any better against ; the 1st ranked team in the country Quarterback Ryan Jones led the Huskies to victory, completing 9 of 17 passes for 171 yards and two touchdowns. In the second bowl game ot the day, the Bisons defeated the O ntario conference champion I McMaster Marauders by a score ol 27-6. Through the first three quar ters, the Churchill Bowl was a stag nant affair, with offensive ineptness leading to a 6-6 tie. Manitoba broke the game open in the final quarter. Tht game was won on a 57-yard dash, by quarterback Shane Munson The Bisons went on to add twe more touchdowns to seal the victo ry.

The M cGill Tribune, Tuesday,

November 20, 2001

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Sun sets on 'Eva' era at M olson Stadium Martlet soccer team to lose CIS Player of the Year Eva Melamed Patrick Fok After taking a year sabbatical in Israel last year, the reunion of co captain Eva Melamed with the McGill women’s soccer team this season marked the beginning of the final chapter in a storybook career. For the Martlets, Melamed’s return could not have occurred at a better time. This year’s edition of the team boasted an impressive ros ter that included McGill single-sea son scoring record holder Amber Allen, senior All-Canadians Ashlee Gentry, Sophie Labrom, and Julia Scrase and talented rookies Josée Busilacchi and Nicole Shepherd. This impressive collection of soccer talent thwarted all opponents in the Quebec Student Sport Federation and won silver at the Canadian Interuniversity Sport champi onships, the first Martlet soccer team to make a podium finish since 1992. Since her debut as a 19-year old freshman from Ottawa with the Martlets in 1998 and the silver medal finish last week at Nationals, Melamed has compiled an impres sive resume. During her three sea sons at McGill, 65 of McGill’s goals came from her feet, earning her two All-Canadian distinctions. Melamed also captured the presti gious Chantal Navert Memorial Trophy this season as the most out standing player in the nation, the first McGill player to receive the honor since Odile Desbois in 1997. Despite the accolades, Melamed doesn’t value the individ ual honours as much as she does her overall McGill experience. "I’ve learned a lot about soc cer... playing constantly, playing with the team, working with my teammates," says Melamed. "I

learned about pushing myself to the limits and playing to my potential." She credits her three seasons with McGill for teaching her "life skills and time management between soccer and school." Since her freshman season Melamed has undergone a change in the way she views her role on the team. "The first two years, I strug gled to find a place in the team and thought more of ‘I’," she said. "In my third year, I had a wake-up call and saw all the talent on the team. I took more of a leadership role. I helped motivate teammates to be better play ers."

According to Melamed, her "team-centric" view and mentoring role allowed her to become a more com plete player. " [Eva] brought strong leadership and vision," remarked striker Allen. "She brought the team together to function as a cohesive unit to achieve our goal, which was to get to the gold medal game." Defender Victoria Lowerson believed that Melamed’s positive attitude was what the Martlets needed to assist them in their quest for soccer supremacy. "Eva was one of the louder captains that we needed to get us pumped up and ready for each game. Despite our weak confer

ence, consistency and playing for ourselves is what she emphasized.’*12345678910' Rookies Nicole Shepherd and Mya Romilowych will most remember Melamed’s pep talks and calming nature. "In the Quebec final game a g a i n s t Lava recalls

Shepherd, "people were really nervous, but Eva got everyone ready and focused on what were doing." "Eva knew what to say before each game," added Romilowych, "She gave a great motivational speech before the Laval game that Womens hockey CIS rankings

really got the team going." Alanna Maloney saw Melamed’s dedication as captain surpass what one would normally expect. " [Melamed] brought the team together off the field, which was really important to our success. She started the tradition of giving out a bottle of beer after each game and organized potlucks," said one-time All-Canadian Maloney. This is not to say that Melamed hasn’t enjoyed her share of once-in-a-lifetime experiences. Among them I was playing for Team Canada at the World University Games in Beijing last summer. "To go on the trip was amazing; soccer was sec ond in my mind," she recalled. " Wa l k i n g into the stadium [in Beijing] was the best experience ... athletes strive for that kind of experience." Melamed also received the opportunity to play alongside topscorer Amber Allen. Last year, Allen broke Melamed’s season scoring record of 26 goals. Despite the rumors of a rivalry between the country’s last two scoring champions, a camaraderie developed instead. "I really enjoyed [playing with Amber] from the beginning," said Melamed. "There was no tension between us. We are different types of players with talents in different areas." Allen echoed the same senti-

" [Melamed] brought to the game skills which complemented skills that I had," she said. The exodus o f Melamed, Allen, Labrom, Gentry, Scrase, and Jessica Hawker leaves the team with a formidable loss of talent and expe rience. Though there is still a con siderable amount of talent on the team, the sole player with AllCanadian credentials left from the four-time defending Quebec cham pions is 1999 CIAU rookie of the year Alanna Maloney. However, a departing Melamed has no worries about next year’s team. "They have a great nucleus of players," said Melamed. "It’s just a question of players stepping up. " Although Melamed is uncer tain of what exactly lies ahead in her life, the team should not count on her to return to McGill for her two remaining years of eligibility "For me academics come first. I wouldn’t come back to McGill just to play soccer," said Melamed. "Right now, there are no [graduate] programs that appeal to me at McGill, so I highly doubt I would return to McGill." For the time being, Melamed is taking a break from soccer, allowing her focus to return to writing papers and studying for finals. Thinking back, the only regret Melamed can muster is not taking home the gold last weekend. "At the end of the day, a gold always looks better than silver on the mande,” she chuckled. Though the Martlets’ number 10 jersey may never again be donned by Melamed, a legacy remains at Molson Stadium. "I am really ecstatic about our success this season," she said. "We left a legacy to all future teams by the way we worked as a unit. "

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Mens hockey CIS rankings (Last weeks rankings in paranthesis)

Redmen forward Paul Theriault accompanied by linemate Bruno Lemire

1. Western (2) 2. Alberta (1) 3. U Q TR (3) 4. York (7) 5. UNB (6) 6. Calgary (5) 7. Saskatchewan (8) 8. St. Mary’s (10) 9. Dalhousie (4) 10. Lethbridge (9) Others receiving votes; Ottawa 2, Moncton 2, McGill 1

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