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Running out of room in Ghetto and residences Jam es Grohsgal

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Students arriving in Montreal this week hoping to find affordable apartments close to school are fac ing the tightest housing market in decades. This is happening particu larly in the McGill Ghetto, the area east of campus bounded by Sherbrooke Street, University Street, Avenue des Pins, and Avenue du Parc. Others are living in temporary accomodation until McGill Residences give them a room. Ditte Sayers a U0 “temp” in a Solin Hall 2 1/2, considers herself lucky to have a room, as 6 students are sleeping in bunk beds in the basement. “They’re calling it Camp Solin,” said Sayers. “They look like refugees down there.” While first year students received special assistance from McGill Residences, and returning students had the chance to sign

leases in the spring, incoming international and exchange stu dents may find it hard to lease an apartment or get a roommate, especially for students staying for only one semester. After the housing guarantee for qualified first-year applicants was dropped two years ago, stu dents have been chosen for resi dences by a lottery system, with 85 percent of incoming students receiving housing through McGill Residences. The remaining 15 per cent, approximately 300 students, have been matched with apart ments in the McGill Ghetto. McGill has five dormitories for new students: Douglas, McConnell, Molson and Gardner Halls, and Royal Victoria College, together housing 1100 students. McGill Residences also has apart ments and shared facility space for 600 students at Solin Hall near the Lionel-Groulx Metro, in See LACK, page 3

Arts Frosh do their best to take the Freshmen Fifteen to an entirely different level

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“I have never let my school ing interfere with my educa tion. ” - M a r k Tw ain

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McGill was the only Canadian university to appear on a list of “hot” colleges released by Newsweek and Kaplan Education Services Provider this August, raising the ire of those at Queens University in Kingston, Ontario who feel that their institution was more deserv ing. The list of 12 colleges, which includes both well-known schools such as the University of California

at Santa Barbara and smaller insti tutions, namely Davidson College in North Carolina, cites McGill’s location as a major part of its appeal. List authors Barbara Kantrowitz and Susan Smalley describe Montreal as “a popular col lege town that’s exotic yet still rela tively close to home for students from the Northeastern states.” However, location was only one criteria for list winners. The article claims schools making the list were those offering “excellent

academics at more affordable prices” than private Ivy League schools. It was McGill’s compari son to one of those Ivy League schools that drew the most criticism from Queen’s. The article opens with the commonly-made assertion that McGill is the “Harvard of Canada.” Queen’s alumnus Mike Lindsay, president of the school’s alma mater society, offered a rebut tal in the August 27 edition of the National Post, claiming that

Queen’s students “love to call them selves the Harvard of the North” and that Newsweeks comparison of McGill with Harvard would be a “devastating blow” to the universi ty’s students. He further argued that Queen’s had more in common with the Massachusetts school, including a high academic admission require ment and historical campus archi tecture. While Principal Shapiro could have readily argued that McGill also See M cGILL, page 2

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Radical Frosh on hardcore tour The alternative to SSMU frosh keeps it real with city exploration and discussion Jam es Grohsgal

Many first-year students may have blurry memories of drinking unlimited Moison, listening to con certs on the lower campus, getting lost in a sea of foam at Le Dôme, dressing up like 80s rock stars at SkyBar, and runningbetween bars on

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the pub crawl. But students who chose Radical Frosh, an alternative, organized by QPIRG McGill's Brianna Hersey, saw another side of McGill and the city of Montreal. In the workshop "Native Histories of Montreal," McGill First Peoples Coordinator Ellen Gabriel offered Rad Froshies her perspective as a Mohawk. The Mohawks, who lived on the island of Montreal long before European settlement, now occupy two reserves on the South Shore. On a bus tour given by L'Autre Montreal guide Kate Brown, stu dents saw the opulent houses of the Golden Mile and Westmount, work

ing class neighbourhoods like Little Burgundy, Point St. Charles and St. Henri, and the factories where the city's poor used to work. Students also saw the Lachine Canal, polluted fromyears of indus trial production and recently reopened for pleasure craft. On the canal sits the former Redpath refin ery, to be converted into luxury con dominiums, against the wishes of local activists who wanted a commu nity exhibition space to makejobs for the neighbourhood's residents. One ofthestops on the tour was Rutherford Park where Brown point ed out the Allan Memorial Institute among the trees of Mount Royal, where mind-control research funded

by the CIA's MK-ULTRA program once took place. "Ravenscrag, built by Sir Hugh Allen, was the largest house in the Golden Square Mile," said Brown. "His heirs gave it to Royal Victoria Hospital in 1949, and it became the Psychiatry department. In the 1960s, Dr. [Ewen] Cameron, whowas apsy chiatrist working at the Allen Memorial Institute, carried out a series of experiments on psychiatric patients involving giving them LSD, putting them through sensory depri vation, and performing lobotomies on themwithout their knowledge." For participant Rachelle Magil, Radical Frosh was the obvious choice.

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"I'm not into drinking, and the main frosh says they don't encourage you to drink but that's BS," said Magil. "If you go on the boat cruise, they're like, 'So is everyone drunk?' and I'm like, 'No. I'm really not. I'm sober, laughing at the drunk people or talking to the fewsober ones." Said one Rad Froshie named Catherine, "After all the drinking in the Arts one I needed some time to chill out." Radical Frosh, like SSMU Frosh, went whitewater rafting on the Lachine Rapids early Sunday morning. Though the water was warm, the early morning air made them shiver between sets of rapids with names like The Devils. In the still water, they saw mallards, loons and herons flying and floating by the small islands of rock and vegetation sprinkled in the St. Lawrence River. The first day's lunch of chick peas, potatoes, bulgar wheat, salad, breadandapplecrumble, was provid edby Midnight Kitchen and eaten in Tupperware containers given to Rad Froshies in their goodie bags. After the meal, organizer Hersey rallied the troops. "We're having a radical frosh radical cheerleading contest. “So within your group through out the next fewdays, come up with some cheers," said Hersey. Then she yelledout one ofher own: “Froshwill not be corporatized! What's that you say? I say Frosh will not be corpora tized!"

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fulfills both of the above men tioned criteria, he chose to give the Post a more tongue-in-cheek answer. “We have never called our selves [Harvard]. It’s something that no one should ever say about themselves.. .it’s something some one else says.”

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Lack of vacancies plagues students McGill residences full, while cheap and close apartments are as scarce as hen's teeth Continued from page 1

the Greenbriar and Westside build ings in the Ghetto, and in the MORE residences, where 13 to 20 students live together in houses converted into apartments. Others are living in unexpected places. Alex Northover, U0, was told this summer he’d be staying in the First Peoples’ House. “I was surprised since I’m not native in any way,” said Northover.

“Landlords give us first crack at their apartments. " —Janice Johnson Residences McGill Director “But the rooms are nice and big.” Some first-years who were guaranteed housing are living in “temporary doubles” until Residences gives them a permanent placement. James Guthrie, the Summer Office Assistant at Solin, asks incoming students to be patient. “When they first check in, we tell them the worst case scenario is that they’ll get a permanent spot in a month,” said Guthrie. “Since we don’t know exactly what’s going on, we have to refer them to Rez.” For Residences McGill Director Janice Johnson, a strong relationship with landlords has been critical for securing adequate offcampus housing for new students. “Landlords give us first crack at their apartments,” said Johnson. “They help us by taking students

that can’t come to Montreal... McGill acts as the intermediary." The concentration of first-year students into one patch of real estate has reduced the options for

“They look like refugees down there.” — Ditte Sayers Solin Hall Resident homeless visiting and returning stu dents, but Johnson believes the first year students' placements doesn't hurt housing availability in the Ghetto. "I don't think our efforts are impacting the Ghetto all that much," said Johnson. "I don't think we're taking houses off the market. " Regarding rent increases, Johnson believes McGill Residences' negotiations with land lords prevent price gouging. "If anything, I think it'll keep prices down. All landlords are out to make a profit, but some are out to make more." U 1 student Zael Zelunka began looking for a 4 1/2 in the spring and only just found a place. “I’m paying $1500 for a dump that’s too far away from campus to live in, but now I’m stuck there,” said Zelunka. “And I can’t even move in yet.” Geneviève Simard, Apartment Hunter in the Enhanced Assistance Program for new students, says that the housing crunch makes students vulnerable to unscrupulous land lords. “Some landlords are taking advantage of students," said Simard. "They're hiking up prices

JAMES GROHSGAL “Rezfugees" make camp in the basement of Solin Hall while they await proper housing

and demanding three months’ rent in advance." Pamela Chiniah, the McGill Residences Housing Clerk, encour ages students to get comfortable with public transportation and expand their searches beyond downtown. "A lot of students arrive with small budgets and want to live close by... Some don't want to go farther than St. Laurent," said Chiniah. "For the first two days, they con centrate [their search around cam

Athletics upgrade: tiles for Currie Pool, turf for Forbes Field Jam es Grohsgal

The repair of leaking tiles dis covered during final stages of reno vation has delayed the reopening of the Memorial Pool. The $2 million renovation project to overhaul the pool, expand Aquatics offices, install a men's locker room, and make a larger spectators' area was scheduled to be completed by the end of June, but now Athletics Director Robert Debeau believes that the pool will not be open until September 16. When the Memorial Pool, located in the Sir Arthur Currie Gymnasium, was closed in March for improvements, swimmers used the 53-year-old Garfield-Weston Pool on Sherbrooke Street. With a small mens changing area and lanes only 25 yards long, it is to be demolished to make way for a new Music building. Debeau said that the replace ment of 100 to 2 0 0 square feet of tile, while expensive, is necessary

for the safety of students. "When we emptied the pool, we realized that there was some sig nificant damage to tiles at the bot tom. . .due to water seeping in through the grouting and effective ly lifting the tiles," said Dubeau. "It's a minor danger to people who are going to step on the bottom of the pool. You could cut yourself." Hi-tech turf takes trampling

On August 15, McGill became the only university in Canada to have two artificial playing fields when the installation of a new sur face on Forbes Field was completed. The material that replaced the natural grass, called FieldTurf, is made of polyethelyne and polypropylene blades of simulated grass that stand on an infill of sand and rubber to produce a soft, resilient surface that may help pre vent injuries associated with other artificial playing surfaces. To make full use of the field, a lighting system is to be installed.

Debeau expects it to be in place by the end of September. For Intramural Coordinator Jeff Phillips, Forbes Fields transfor mation is a welcome change from regular grass. “By the second week in September, after football training camp, Forbes Field was just a mud bowl,” said Phillips. “The new field is going to allow us to play more games in better conditions.” The new surface and its advanced drainage system are also good news for Bishop Mountain Hall residents who walk across Forbes Field to get home from the bars of St. Laurent. “No muddy shoes,” Debeau promises. Molson Stadium strengthened

The first phase of a two-year, $ 1 2 .6 million dollar project to expand and renovate Percival Molson Stadium was completed this summer, as sections of the north stands were reinforced. See ATH LETICS, page 4

pus] and find it's not in their budg et, so they begin to look outside. Chiniah recommends taking public transportation over a high-priced

apartment nearby.” “It's better to pay $25 for a bus pass and travel thirty minutes to school.”

GET INVOLVED WITH immediately: Treasurer The duties of the SSMU treasurer include being a member (ex-officio, non voting) of the Executive Committee; to providing the Executive Committee and council with monthly reports on the financial status of the Society, ensuring that no group disburses Society funds without authorization, ensuring the long term financial stability of the Society, performing ad-hoc audits where necessary. Examples of some current responsibilities are Clubs audit, administration/chair of finance commit tee, administration of Campus life funding, and Clubs and Services budgets. Time commitment is approximately fifteen hours per week, with additional work required during the first month of each semester.

For more information: contact Kathleen Morrison, Vice-President Operations at 398-6802 or operations@ssmu.mcgill.ca

Chief Returning Officer The Chief Returning Officer supervises all electoral officers of the Students’ Society of McGill University, oversees the operations of Elections McGill (the non-partisan organization of the Students’ Society of McGill University commissioned to conduct the electoral process in a fair and equitable manner) and is responsible for administering the Society's elections and referenda. Time commitment varies throughout the semester. Interested candidates should be most available for the month surrounding the fall and winter elections periods.

For more information: contact Martin Doe, President at 398-6801 or pres@ssmu.mcgill.ca Both o f these positions a re stipended positions within the society. In terested applicants should g e t in touch with the above contacts fo r m o re inform ation. C over letters and C.V. a re due by M onday, S ep tem b er 9th by noon a t the SSMU office front desk These a re ju st som e o f the opportunities with the Society, to g e t involved check out www.ssm u.ca o r stop by Activities N ight on S e p tem b er 10th a t the S h atner Building fo r m ore inform ation on the SSMU and its clubs, Services, and Publications.

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Rediscover McGill: a 21st economic reality faces our venerable Institute “I trust hereby to make it manifest w ith w hat small willingnesse I endure Jam es Grohsgal to interrupt the pursuit o f no lesse hopes then these, and leave a calme and pleasing solitaryness fe d w ith cheerful a n d confident thoughts, to imbark in a troubl'd sea o f noises and hoars disputes, putfrom beholding the bright countenance o f truth in the quiet an d still a ir o f delightfull studies to come into the dim reflexion o f hollow antiquities sold by the seeming bulk... ”

—John Milton Outside the McLennanRedpath Library, new students waited to have digital photos of their faces taken and saved on Network and Communications Services’ computers. NCS issues every student with a plastic ID card, whose features include a magnetic strip for building access and a barcode for checking out

library books. On the lower field of campus last Saturday afternoon, the first day of SSMU Frosh, new students filled out forms for Blockbuster rental cards and Visa credit; Telus Mobility phones and Look Television, and whitewater rafting on the Lachine rapids. Plastic logo cups filled from Molson cases, once emptied by the thirsty throngs wearing wristbands, were scattered on the grass. A u ton om o u s stu d en t se r v ic e s

Across McTavish Street in the Shatner Building, and inside offices cluttered with boxes of goodies for Frosh Week, student groups at McGill, confronted with increasingly visible economic and political forces on campus, were plotting strategies to protect the autonomy of their services. The Students’ Society of McGill University, faculty student societies, and activist groups like QPIRG, face big challenges this year. That is, to elaborate how the actions of corporate, government and university leaders, and the

Athletics upgrade Continued from page 3

crumbling because it was hol lowing underneath, because it's 50 to 60 years old, so the first thing that had to be done for safety rea sons was to repair and fill in those areas," said Debeau. "That was done this year at a cost of about $600 thousand, with close to $400 thousand in work to be done next spring."

The federal, provincial and local governments have each pitched in $4.2 million for the ren ovation project, a condition of a 10 year agreement reached between McGill University and the Montreal Alouettes last October. McGill will be spending just $400 thousand this year to fix the run ning track that loops around the playing field.

JAMES GROHSGAL Currie Pool receives two million dollar facelift

links between them, will change the nature of university education at McGill. However, absent a coa lescence of diverse groups’ efforts, individual voices have been muted, and shared concerns have not reached the ears of students. Student-controlled services, such as the Shatner and Engineering Undergraduate Society cafeterias, generate income that stays with students, and prof its are directed towards improving student life. Since the executives who run the operations are fellow students, people with questions or complaints can talk to the execu tives in charge of the services they use. And since student officers are democratically elected, they are accountable to their peers for how they manage their societies. Student-run organizations will survive on campus only as long as they provide services McGill students will refuse to go without. The justification for a stu dent society is also its only source of strength; without buildings to run, food to sell, course packs to print, and parties to host, student democracy has no purpose. But because some control remain in students’ hands, we have a choice to drink coffee from Tim Horton’s or the Architecture Café. Democracy gives students options, and a voice in the decisions made for them. Funding disparate b etw een Arts, S c ie n c e s

But while students can design some aspects of their life at McGill, they have less control over the edu cation current and future McGill students will receive. Current con struction projects will not improve the crowded conditions in faculties like Arts, because not enough pri vate and provincial funding has been found to build a tower where the old Powell Student Services building now stands. Instead, donors have been contributing money for emerging technology and innovative research promising

direct application to the global economy. North of lower campus, the Lome M. Trottier Building, on University Street near Prince Arthur, is being erected. The build ing, when completed in 2003, will form one face of Tomlinson Square, part of McGill’s vision to be the preeminent North American university for training highly skilled workers in the infor mation technology industry. The donor and namesake, McGill

“[T]rue collabora tion between the pub lic and private sector is the only way that McGill and other Quebec universities can fulfill their poten tial in service to socie— Bernard Shapiro McGill Principal Engineering graduate Lome Trottier, co-founder of the technol ogy firm Matrox, gave $10 million. Quebec’s government, eager to make Montreal an IT hub, gave $7 million. At last December’s ground breaking ceremony for the centre, McGill Principal Bernard Shapiro praised the Quebec government and Trottier for funding the building. "By investing in our young people, and the space required to

teach them, our leaders recognize that vision requires support and that true collaboration between the public and private sector is the only way that McGill and other Quebec universities can fulfill their potential in service to society." At the Royal Institute for the Advancement of Studies, named by its first benefactor, James McGill, venerable ivy-covered stone halls stand beside hot wired concrete and glass constructions. Both give character to this univer sity, whose growing prestige is known throughout the world, and all kinds will stand in the future, but this year’s students, faculty, staff, and administrators will all depart eventually. The duty for the leaders and scholars who stand here now is to choose which con struction reflects their idea of this university.

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McGill's new BANNER wavers Oracle database launched, but not without first stumbling Roberta Yeo

Minerva, the ancient Roman goddess of wisdom, sprang fullygrown from the head of her father Jupiter. At McGill, MINERVA, the computer database students use to register for classes, has for its pro genitor not Jupiter but BANNER, a multi-tasking administrative system purchased through a joint venture with Concordia University. BAN NER became fully-operational for the first time this summer. While many grew to love the voice of the MARS lady, the administration decided her retro charm was no longer appropriate for a school as complex as McGill. Also, the university’s computer sys tems for the departments of finance and human resources were becom ing obsolete. A committee on New Student Information Systems was created through the McGill Senate,

with a mandate to investigate pur chasing modern software for McGill. A Philadelphia based com pany, Systems and Technology Corporation (SCTCorp), submit ted a winning proposal, and its product BANNER2000 ™ was purchased by McGill in mid-1998. According to SCTCorp’s web site, Banner offers “a unique solu tion that unifies teaching, learning and administration on the college campus.” Nick D ’Addezio, Account Analyst for SCTCorp, says the program is both an administra tive and academic system. “It’s a pretty large Oracle data base that stores all data on student records, human resources and finances for the campus,” he said. “Its goals are to help the campus run more efficiently. With a school the size of McGill that has to man age so many facets of information integrating everything really makes a difference. For example, if a stu

dent’s parents are McGill alumni and an administrator goes in to change their address, that student’s home address can automatically be changed as well because it’s all kept within the same database.” Roger Rigelhof, Project Director for McGill University, also emphasized the self-service aspect of BANNER. “There are more and more ways for the student and faculty to access information independently — an advisor can easily call up a student’s transcript from the inter net now without having to be linked to one computer hard drive.” McGill students can also now access the school calendar electron ically, and perform automatic searches for courses by professor, subject or course number. G litches an ger stu d en ts

Despite the glowing reviews

from people who work with it and from students who find course selection easier, BANNER’S arrival has not been problem-free. Many students’ fee statements arrived much later than in previous years, due to a problem generating address lists for mass mailings. While the late receipt of tuition statements was an inconven ience for most students, Students’ Society of McGill University VP Operations Kathleen Morrison points out that the problem is hard est for student globetrotters. “For those travelling or for international students especially, it could be a real problem. There’s just not time between receiving the fee statement and the deadline for paying without interest for many students to send their money in.” Morrison concurs with the supervisor of student accounts Pat Champagne, however, that this is

just a one-time problem. “We haven’t really had that many kinks in the system,” said Champagne, “and the ones that we have had we’ve resolved successfully. Familiarity with the system will pre vent these problems in the future.” Rigelhof remains optimistic. “With new systems and new ways of working, people don’t always adapt to the system immedi ately. Once these things are worked out, users will see more of a positive difference. I think especially for students it will make life much eas• » ier. Many students don’t know if they’ll incur interest penalties for late payments related to the delay. “I received the bill a bit late, so I couldn’t mail my check in on time,” said a student named Jess. “But I don’t know if they’ll charge me interest for sending it in when I did.”

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Rhodes Scholarships for 2003 Jam es Grohsgal________________

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Cyber-Martlets

The Students’ Society of McGill University has a new web site. According to SSMU Vice President Communications and Events Naeem Datoo, the new for mat makes it easier for the site to be updated. “It’s now much easier for peo ple within the SSMU office to update the site on their own, as well as for students to post infor mation about events,” said Datoo. “And it’s also in French, which has never happened before.” Datoo says that Council docu ments will be updated frequently and posted as PDFs on the site soon after Council meetings begin. www.ssmu.ca Fly Banner, Why? Health b ook let never se n t

Booklets explaining the cover age and benefits of the SSMU Health and Dental Plan ASEQ, scheduled to be mailed to students this summer, could not be distrib uted because of technical difficul ties related to the BANNER data base system’s launch. SSMU Vice President Operations Kathleen Morrison said rhat she received many calls about the health care plan’s details. “I’ve been taking lots of calls from parents, but I got only one from a student,” said Morrison. “1 feel sorry for that kid.” The ASEQ booklets are avail able in the SSMU office in the Shatner building, and ASEQ has

FEUQ le a d s fight for stu d en t rights

La Federation des étudiants universitaires du Québec is prepar ing a memorandum to the provin cial government as members of the National Assembly review Loi 32, which deals with accreditation of student representations. SSMU Vice President Communications Nick Vikander, who attended a conference of

FEUQ members in Quebec Git)’ this August, has proposed that the memorandum include a specific number or a percentage of seats for students to sit on the highest deci sion-making body of their universi ty, in McGill’s case, the Board of Governors. “ An actual number in the law would let students in the province make substantial gains in represen tation,” said Vikander, who added, “SSMU and FEUQ think it’s very important for legislators to have a student perspective.”

Eleven Rhodes Scholarships are open for Canadian stu dents. These Scholarships are tenable at the University of Oxford, England and are granted for two years with the possibility of exten sion for a third year. The winners will be required to commence their studies in October 2003. The eleven Scholarships are allotted as follows: three to the Western Region (Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta); two to each of Ontario, Quebec and the Maritime Region (New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island); and, one each to British Columbia and Newfoundland. Qualities o f both character and intellect are the most important requirements for a Rhodes Scholarship. The criteria which will be considered in making the selection are: literary and scholastic attainment; fondness for and success in sports; qualities of truthfulness, courage, devotion to duty, sympathy for and pro tection of the weak; kindliness, unselfishness and fellowship; exhi bition of moral force of character and of instincts to lead, an to take an interest in one s contemporaries.

CONDITIONS OF ELIGIBILITY A Candidate must: 1. be a Canadian citizen or a person domiciled in Canada; 2. have been bom between October 2, 1978 and October 1, 1984; 3. except for medical students, have received an undergraduate degree by October 1, 2003. Please register for an information session: ❖ to find out about McGill s pre-screening process ❖ to find out about what is required to receive the University s recommendation if you are applying independently ❖ to obtain an application form Information Sessions will be held in the Brown Student Services Building as follows: (Duration: one hour) Friday, September 6, 2002 10:00 a.m. or 2:30 p.m. (two sessions) Monday, September 9, 2002 4:00 p.m. Tuesday, September 10, 2002 9:00 a.m. or 3:00 p.m. (two sessions) To register for a session or obtain further information, please contact: Office o f the Dean of Students 3600 McTavish, Room 4100, 398-3825 McGILL s DEADLINE: 12:00 Noon, TUESDAY, 24 September 2002

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A new school year has begun and the sights and sounds around McGill’s downtown campus in the heart of Montreal are enough to put a smile on your face. Every year at around this time, occurs the quintessential moment in the lives of a good many young adults across the country when the arrival of ‘another year’ creeps up like so many late night poutine will the next morning. With warm visions of Friday nights spent at the library and pressure packed exam schedules still dancing in their heads from the year before, it’s in late summer when the McGill faithful return to discover that the ‘real work’ doesn’t begin for at least another few weeks. There it is. The triumph of the uncluttered mind in all of its glory. To the September student, the scholastic burden is light, the snow, slush and cold of winter is but a distant memory, and everyone is in a great mood. The slate is clean. The sky is the limit. Life is good. Though as surely as pages are marked in an agenda, the student diet is composed of equal parts affirmation and self-denigration, and lurking behind September are the same old nemeses we thought we’d rid ourselves of for good: cold, exams, the library. And so it goes, the implicit agreement amongst students, annually renewed. You don’t ask me about mid-terms, I won’t ask you about 8:30am class. I won’t remind you of your student debt, you won’t remind me that I owe you money from last night. You suntan on lower field, I’ll play with the Frisbee, and then we’ll both meet up at the OAP when we’re finished. It’s not as though consuming caffeine in mass amounts and settling down with a textbook isn’t enjoyable. It’s just that these endeavours are best reserved for later in the year. For now, the hope that this year we’ll get it right is genuine. Square meals, good grades, athletic activity, a stimulating social scene, all will be ours. And when in mid-October as it becomes clear that perhaps this year will instead be much like last, take solace in knowing that we’re not alone. When it’s as easy to feel weighted down by other people’s expectations as it is difficult to get out of bed some mornings, it’s clear why perspective is sometimes in short supply in the life of a university student. Remember; All of the people some of the time, every story is the story of Genesis, water of a duck’s back, Robert’s your father’s brother. In the world of publically subsidized, corporately sponsored, private ly funded education that’s somehow still really, really expensive, nothing is simple, never mind what you’re going to do with you life once you gradu ate. Relax, it’s only September. Where else would you rather be?

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Opinion

Op/Ed 7

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I will be serving Snacky Cakes with this column An insider's look at the humour and relevance of la Belle Province, our home and native land

Hello, my name is Jeremy and I will be your columnist today. Now I know what you may think? Why would I read a seven or so paragraph article based on some guy’s interpretation of the world? Well, I’ll tell you why - cryptoMasonic references. That’s right, every article will contain secret communiqués to the Masonic brotherhood at large instructing them to commit various acts of plus-sized mayhem. It is up to you laymen to read this article and stop

possible world domination —as if you could. Te deum lao domus. Now here is a short history about myself. My name Jeremy Morris but I have been known as “Jeremy Morris qui pisse dans ses saucisse” (French grade school taunt) or “El Gringo Guappo” (My Mexican wrestling title) or “Jerry” (name given by my lazy bastard friends who can’t enunciate three syllables). However, for the pur pose of this column, I shall simply be known as Le Quebecker. My job description is as fol lows: to cover Canadian and Quebec politics and culture to the best of my abilities. I hate saying “and” because it sounds like an afterthought and reinforces the idea of division. To make my point more clear ly, Québec culture, albeit distinct and unique is just as fundamental to Canadian identity as say a

Mounty in the wild mosquitoinfested nether-regions of the Yukon getting his man/woman/water buffalo. Thus right off the bat, I’m going to say that I am a federalist. Don’t mix that up with a love of federal politicians, but take it more as an amusement with the silly can tankerous way our country is gov erned. So I’m sorry to the Gitainesmoking Camille Parent wannabes from Jonquière, but there will be no flowing eulogy entitled “René Léveques: Sage parent ou lutin malentendu?” Naturally, as a child of Bill 101, referendums and Constitutional reform, my Canadian identity is one searching and tolerance. My ancestors were chased out of Ireland, my Grandfathers built the country on the batdefields of Europe and my parents witnessed the FLQ; there

fore, I don’t believe in slogans, easy answers or Heritage moments. I do believe that Celine Dion is crime fighting superhero and a national treasure. To me the Canadian identity is expressed in the subtleties of our two languages. It has to be subtle because anything too brusque would upset our powerful nuclear armed neighbour to the South. The fact that our neighbour is hooked on our oil, timber, water and electricity like a crazed crack junky further complicates matters. So Canadians in our neurotic Woody Allen-like search for identi ty have invented several technical differences in our language. For example, there is the all-pervasive “zed” instead of the pedantic “zee.” We add “u” to labour, colour and courage. An American friend in all her imperialistic wisdom tried to cor

rect me on that last point. Silly Yankees. As for my linguistic idiosyn crasies, I have the inability, largely due to my French upbringing, to pronounce ‘th’ sounds in the mid dle of words. ‘Birthday’ becomes ‘birfday’ and ‘with’ becomes ‘wif.’ I know that I am an anal pain the ass when I do this and everyone West of Gatineau makes it their God anointed duty to correct me, but it’s the difference that matters. These pain-in-the-ass differences are the core of what is Canadianess. We are the refugees, rejects and rascals from all parts of the world, and we are thrown up here on this freezing snow-globe of a place. It is up to us to find some thing unique and common that we all share, even if that means adding a few letters to our words.

And your summer? The politics of small talk

N icole Cordeau

I’m going to start this column off with a scenario. Returning stu dents: you know it well, froshies: after a week of boat races and for gotten names, you soon will. So...you are sashaying across campus on a typical day. You feel pretty good about yourself; the sun is shining, birds are chirping. In the distance, you spot a familiar face. In a slight panic (what if you can’t remember her name?), you quickly run through your catalogue of acquaintances. Maybe you met her in a lab, or she lived on the floor above you in first year, or perhaps she drunkenly hit on you one hazy night at Le Swimming. Whatever the connection, the point is that you do not know this girl (or guy) very well. You haven’t the faintest idea of what her favorite color is, or who she has a crush on, or even what she is majoring in. In short, she is one of a hundred casual acquaintances that one seems to accumulate like so many beer calories at university. As she approaches, you both prepare for interaction, Walkman headphones come off, your likable social-butterfly look comes on and you take a deep breath: “Hey” you casually say (not wanting to come across as trying too hard). “Hey — How are you?” the

invariable reply. “Not ba-” you whirl around only to see her quickly receding into the distance. She is in full stride, requisite McGill shoulder bag swinging beside her. She didn’t even wait for your answer! The nerve! What if your cat had just died, or your boyfriend had dumped you? What if you real ly needed a shoulder to cry on? What kind of friendship is this, dammit!? W hat is the point of this mind-numbingly empty ritual? Some variant of this dialogue occurs at least twice a day, for a total of a minimum 240 times every year that we are at McGill! A particularly popular version for this time of year is the old “how was your summer?” This one is espe cially annoying. It is usually asked after not having seen the question er for a long time — already they don’t care about your life. Plus, it ain’t easy to sum up four months in two words, but like sheep, we all do it. At this point, some fundamen tal questions come to mind. First of all, why do we voluntarily intro duce this predictability into our lives? Secondly, why does this offend? I mean, we all do it, and besides, what else is there to say? Which brings me to my third ques tion, why bother with social niceties for people that we don’t know? So here is what I propose we do to relieve the monotony of these ‘conversations.’ First off, a choice must be made as to whether or not any kind of discussion will take place. If you don’t intend on saying anything insightful or interesting to someone, that’s fine. But at the very least, don’t ask a question that has a pre-programmed response. Try something new, like maybe, “how

is your mom?” or, “do you support the local sports team?” This would make things a little more interest ing, plus we’d all learn cool facts about each other. If you happen to fall prey to someone who has either not read, or simply ignored my advice, I sug gest coming up with an unusual reply to such banal inquiries. “How am I? Why I’m stupendous! Look at my new Christmas theme socks!” Anything, ANYTHING, but some

half-assed affirmation that you’re simply “OK.” The summer question could be dealt with in a similar fashion. Or, if inventing wacky summer adventures isn’t really your style, you could take the simple route and give the bastard a blow by blow account of some horribly boring event that went down during your summer. Some possibilities include grandma’s ‘denture incident’ at this year’s family reunion, or something

as classic as your prick of a boss. Trust me, you will be performing a public service — something to make the person think twice about asking questions when they don’t really care about the answer. This new system may seem weird at first, but I think it would revolutionize small talk. At the very least, it would save us from some of the tedium that becomes our walks through campus.

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World Youth Day and popularizing the Pope Ad blunders, good cheer, controversy and debt Natalie Fletcher

World Youth Day 2002, with all its joyful, controversial and fiscal undertones, was among the most anticipated events in Toronto this summer, heralded by a ton of talk, excitement and advertising, includ ing this amusing radio spot: ‘“You goin’?’ ‘You know it man.’ ‘You goin’?’ ‘Going where?’ ‘World Youth Days. You know, hundreds of thousands of people from around the world in Toronto. Music, concerts, cafes... the celebra tion of life, youth, diversity and faith.’ ‘Oh yeah!’ World Youth Days in Toronto July 23rd to 28th. Make sure you're part of the crowd.” Just to clarify, World Youth Day is a bi-annual event uniting half a million Catholic youth aged 16 to 25 from 172 countries to celebrate their religion alongside their most prized leader, the Pope. What it’s not: a street party, a music festival, a teenage bash— exactly what it was being made out to be by the 2002 advertising cam paign, featured on stations like Toronto’s Kiss 92 FM, in an attempt to make the pontiff look cool. Confusion and a pinch of irony inevitably accompanied the event, since no mention of the pope was

included in the promotion, save for a mere reference to faith inter spersed in a sea of teenage slang. Reverend Mario Salvadori from Woodbridge, ON, in charge of pep ping up the event, admitted WYD publicity was somewhat misleading: “We did the best we could to help people better understand the event, [but] I know when we weren't getting hordes of registrants it was because people didn't know what to expect.” Yet this is one party that didn’t seem to need hyping up, having pre viously attracted flocks of partici pants in such diverse locations as Rome, Buenos Aires and Denver since 1984, when it was launched by Pope John Paul II, with the goal of joining youth in a communal prayer for peace. The 2002 WYD festivities were preceded by the Days in the Dioceses, during which pilgrims participated in community service work in various regions throughout Canada. Once in Toronto, they were received into the welcoming hands of over 35,000 volunteers who housed them and escorted them during the city portion of their pil grimage, which included an overnight vigil, the Sacrament of Reconciliation and the Way of the Cross ceremony, all complemented by bouts of wholesome entertain ment by performers like Leahy, a Canadian Celtic-pop band.

Downtown, the WYD herd was hard to ignore, identifiable by their recognizable garb of wooden cross necklaces and bright red shoul der bags, sewn by rehabilitation inmates from Saskatchewan and Quebec. But if ‘party’ is synonymous with silliness, a party it was not. Serious belief motivated both joyful tears and beaming smiles, as youth chanted this year’s theme: “you are the salt of the earth, you are the light of the world,” meaning, as the pope explained, that his “saints of the third millenium” have been “sea soned” with the new life from God and, like salt, must preserve the faith they’ve inherited and embody the light of truth. From the moment he carefully stepped down from his private jet to the times he touched audiences with his hearfelt, albeit at times indeci pherable speeches, the frail but determined Pope John Paul II man aged to sway even the toughest of cynics. Testimony to this were the countless newspaper articles and tel evision specials on the holy father, and a papal mass that attracted 800,000 people in the pouring rain and hogged seven ofToronto’s major cable stations. Yet this was one party that also created controversy on many levels. For starters, World Youth Day does not designate all world youth, but world Catholic youth, a detail too blatant according to those non-

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Catholics who felt overwhelmed by the exclusivity of the event. Further, in a speech preceeding WYD, the Pope’s stern views on contemporary life gave the trou bling impression that Toronto was chosen as a city to be redirected on the proper path towards salvation by the only true God, the Catholic God. “In the heart of a multi-cultur al and multi-faith city, we shall speak of Christ as the one Saviour and proclaim the universal salvation of which the Church is the sacra ment,” he said.

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“The Vatican has oodles of money and artwork, and it was very much the Vatican agenda, so they should be the ones to pay.” A ccum ulating holy debt

Despite merchandise sales and funding from the government, WYD did not generate enough money to cover its $80 million dol lar expenses, largely due to poor reg istration. Because of Canada’s low popu lation, the still stinging effects of September 11 and the Pope’s ailing

Pope m eets criticism

In the eyes of social activists, Pope John Paul II is notorious for his uncompromising views against abortion, contraception, premarital sex, homosexuality and ordained women, a collection of antiquated opinions that do not mesh well with Canada’s progressive and generally open-minded society. Among these liberalists are Catholics themselves, like Challenge the Church, a social-justice associa tion that handed out condoms dur ing the event in an attempt to con vince Canadian bishops to permit the use of artificial contraception to combat AIDS. “Banning condoms kills,” the slogan used by the organization Catholics for a Free Choice, out raged clergy members, who still uphold that abstinence is the only foolproof preventive measure. According to Jane Walsh, a Catholic lesbian organizer, those pil grims that agree with this outdated perception constitute a church minority, “These are young people who are quite right-wing.” Even more controversial as an aftermath of WYD 2002 was its exorbitant deficit. Though a spiritu al success, the event was a financial failure. Many Torontonians were angered to learn the event cost their city over 30 million dollars, a bur den the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops was expecting them to help shoulder. Joanna Manning, also a spokesperson for Challenge the Church, was agitated by the Church’s audacity:

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health, beset by Parkinson’s Disease at age 84, many pilgrims decided against making the long trip to Canada. Yet, when it was clear the Pope was in good form, last minute arrangements were made without paid registration. “If all these people had regis tered, come early and paid, we wouldn't be looking at the shortfall that we have,” explained Meagher, who hopes donations will translate into the success Paris experienced after its 1997 WYD deficit. Any leftover debt will be cov ered by Canadian dioceses through fundraising and savings intended for church repair and activities. “The church is a good citizen,” asserted Msgr. Peter Schonenback, general secretary of the conference of bishops. “We realize that all of this costs money.” World Youth Day left a pro found mark on Toronto this sum mer, touching those involved, spark ing controversy among the skeptics, and prompting extensive discussion as to the future of faith in today’s society. And the pope left the country quite the popular guy.

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Features 9

A view from above for those of us below "Earth from Above" brings art to ground level Ric Lambo

Situated in the heart of Montreal’s downtown core and financial district, Rue McGill College is recognized by the abun dance of business suits and boardrooms which clutter its vistas. This past summer, however, thanks to Yann Arthus-Bertand’s exhibition “Earth from Above” McGill College lost its fiscal feel and instead provided perspective of the natural world rarely seen before. Over the past three months, absolutely anyone walking down McGill College will have noticed the exhibition. A collection of 130 aerial photographs taken from different regions around the world over a five year period (1995-2000) graces the street. This summer, similar exhibi tions were held outdoors in other major cities (London, Stockholm, Oslo and Chicago); nearly 10 mil

lion people have already seen the photographs and 900,000 copies of the book collection of the pic tures have been sold. In an inter view, Arthus-Bertrand was asked if he had expected his project to be so successful. “No, not at all,” he answered in an interview with Le Français Dans le Monde this summer. “If the exhibition had to be held on the fences of the Luxembourg Garden (Paris), it was because nobody wanted us to display them in an art gallery.” Arthus-Bertrand took his photographs at heights varying from 5 to 2 0 0 0 metres above ground and they are displayed outside on large plaques measur ing 1.60 by 1 .2 0 metres, giving one a rare opportunity to look closely and leisurely at the earth from above. The photographs have also fascinated people because they are colourful and show many different scenes, objects and landscapes.

Flying doctor started it all

Arthus-Bertrand first took up photography at 25 years of age in Kenya where, with his wife, he was undertaking a study on the habitat of lions. At the time, he was also working as a hot-air bal loonist, but the idea for the proj ect came from a friend who had flown over the Masai Maara Reserve with an AMREF ‘Flying’ doctor, and had thought that aer ial photographs of the reserve would interest tourists and other visitors to the reserve. ArthusBertrand was inspired by this idea and decided to take photographs of different parts of the world. The photograph of the heartshaped mangrove swamp in Voh (New Caledonia), or the photo graph of a horse carved out of chalk on a hillside in Oxfordshire (England) are perfect examples of the familiar redefined by an unusual vantage point. And here in lies the appeal of the exhibit: it

JAMES GROHSGAL Pedestrians along McGill College enjoy environmental photography exhibit

takes scenery that we know as commonplace and literally turns it upside down until we see its true beauty. O ne can see in ArthusBertrand’s work that one of his favourite themes is how small man appears when shown against large open spaces of the earth. The photographs of the single fielder in the Yankee Stadium (New York, USA), the single plane fly

ing across Lake Myadi (Kenya), the abandoned city of Pripiat (near Chernobyl, Ukraine) and several others are meant to be por trayals of solitude and loneliness. Somehow, however, this seems unnecessarily ‘profound’ because the scenes depicted are already beautiful to the viewer and pleas ing in a simple way. One thing that one cannot See EARTH, page 10

No bull at Pamps - just music, wine and intense partying Liz Arias*ta.

“What the...?” squealed a girl as warm champagne was sprayed over the masses of people congregat ed to witness the chupinazo, the commencement of The Running of the Bulls in Pamplona, Spain. At noon, the lighting of a single rocket signals the beginning of a nine-day, 204-hour party. The crowds roar with anticipation and in a single sweep, everyone has placed their traditional red scarves, or panuelos, around their necks. People of all ages spill into the narrow streets, yelling for water to be thrown down from balconies to combat the sweltering heat. Small groups gather at opposite ends of the street and begin hurling flour and eggs at unsuspecting victims, their white clothes soon caked with wine and other delicacies of the fies ta. Music of all genres, brass bands in particular, filter through the streets as do endless supplies of wine, only exarcebated by the chaot ic cacophony of movement and sound. The annual Running of the Bulls, held this year on July 6 , dates back to 1591. In those times, local daredevils would run in front of bulls weighing approximately 600 kilos to take them from the country side into the corrals. Today, the festival, popularized by Ernest Hemingway’s novel The Sun Also Rises, attracts tens of thou sands of people from around the world. Although the Running of the Bulls began as a homage to the martyred Catholic saint San Fermin, only traces of religious acts remain, such as an elaborate procession, which is complemented by the more popularized events like the encierro. Encierro, meaning enclosure, is the single most distinctive event of the Fiesta of San Fermin, also occur-

ing on a smaller scale in many towns of the Navarre region throughout the summer. The 800-metre run from the Plaza San Domingo to the bullring takes place at eight in the morning

catch the bulls’ attention; be aware of what’s going on around you; and avoid bottlenecks. There is also a daily corrida, or bullfight, in the early evening, dur ing which the most prominent bull

Although there are many bars to choose from, the preferred nightlife takes place in an outdoor block-party style. The reveling does not falter for a single beat as dawn breaks over the sleepless town. Though drinking is as constant as the crowds, fights are a rarity due to the camaraderie that prevails. Still, pick-pocketing is a notorious reason for keeping wallets under wraps. As the first rays begin to show, the crowds slowly dissipate behind the wooden fencing to bear witness to a new day of San Fermin merri ment and a new encierro, which can

never be repeated in quite the same way. The lucky ones have a hotel bed to sleep in, while others content themselves with any free patch of grass they can find. The Festival of San Fermin is dramatically concluded with the Pobre de Mi, or poor me, during which the lighting of a candle extin guishes the celebration. In typical San Fermin fashion, the countdown for next year’s event begins almost immediately after the closing cere monies. As the old cliché goes, see ing is believing, and this is one expe rience not to be missed.

LUIS AZANZA Bullfighters’ dance with danger is peppered with parties

and typically lasts only a few min utes. All are welcome to take part, though the majority of participants are young, thrill-seeking males. A herd of six bulls are released daily and make their way through the cobblestone streets at an impressive speed. Most of the time, the encierro takes place without a glitch. The more dangerous moments happen when the bulls stray from one another, or when runners opt to par ticipate after a heavy night of drink ing. Since 1924, there have been thirteen recorded deaths, the latest being a young American gored in 1995. Many runners are foreigners unaware of the unwritten gospel: If you’re down, stay down; don’t try to

fighters showcase their talent to eager, sold-out crowds in one of the most exacting arenas of the world. Whether one is an aficionado who considers bullfights sacred, or is among those that scorn them, the event creates a matchless atmos phere. To both young and old, Spanish and foreign, the beauty of San Fermin is that total strangers are treated like lifelong friends. B lo ck parties rule the night

Walking along the streets in the early evening, one is sure to be dis tracted by the regional Navarre and Basque dances, music and tradition al sports found at every corner. Many visitors come solely for the unparalleled evening entertainment, clutching their large plastic cups of kalimotxo, a mixture of wine and Coke.

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Earth From Above Continued from page 9

tell by looking at the photographs is how difficult Arthus-Bertrand found the project. Just to rent a helicopter for one hour cost about 5000 francs (approximately $1300 Canadian) and whether or not he would be able to take good photographs depended on the

weather. He was only able to visit 60 o f the 200 countries in which he had originally intended to take photographs, and part o f that problem was getting authoriza tion from governments to take aerial photographs. He spent three weeks in Russia and was only permitted to take photo graphs on two days. In India, ninety percent of the photographs he had taken were confiscated at

the border, and in China he was refused permission to take any aerial photographs. An exhibit with so c ia l c o n s c ie n c e

W hen Arthus-Bertrand was preparing his exhibitions, he insisted that such statistics be a part of them mainly because he hopes that his project, which was sponsored by UNESCO, will

make people more aware about environmental and political issues Printed on the side of each plaque are facts relevant to the current state of the world such as: ‘1 in 5 of the world’s population does not have access to safe drink ing water’ and ‘Last century, the planet’s population was m ulti plied by 3 — world water con sumption was multiplied by 6’. Already his work has done

some good: for instance, at the exhibition in London, money was raised to help provide safe drink ing water and educational pro grams to poor communities in Africa. However, even if his pho tographs won’t directly solve any of the world’s problems, people in Montreal, at least, will appreciate them for transforming the walk up McGill College into a more interesting and colourful stroll.

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World Film Festival fascinates film fans Ric Lambo

In what was surely just another exercise in the art of the press junket, reporters gathered around a subdued Robert De Niro last Wednesday as part of the Montreal World Film Festival. The profound thoughts of the Raging Bull himself? “It’s a terrific event. It’s exciting for me, and Montreal is a great city," De Niro told the anxious throng of scribes

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As Robert De Niro said, film festivals are good because one gets to see films that aren’t usually screened. A good example of this is the German film Absolut Warhola, directed by Stanislaw Mucha and entered in the category World Cinema: Reflections of Our Time. It is a documentary about a visit to the home town of the par ents of the American artist, Andrejku Warhola; the name by which Andy Warhol, ‘King of Pop Art’, is known there. In the film, Mucha goes to Mikovâ and Medzilaboce, Eastern Slovakia, to see the Warhola Museum and to talk to those of Warhol’s relatives who have remained in their native town. The film is meant to be funny and it portrays Warhol’s rela tives as simple rural types, many of whom drink severely and who have many conflicting stories about their famous relative. One of the first interviews is with Jenko Zavasky, one of Warhol’s cousins who tells us that: “Everybody knew that Andy was a painter. But we didn’t now whether he painted houses, buildings or

surrounding him. "Film festivals are always good because they show movies that are not always seen or that are not always shown — all countries should have them”. De Niro was at the conference mainly to promote his new film, City by the Sea, which was shown that night at Theatre Maisonneuve, but his words encapsulate the feeling that film-enthusiasts in Montreal have for the Festival. Michael Caton-Jones ( This Boy’s

Life), the director of City by the Sea, and the president and originator of the festival, Serge Losique, were also at the conference to promote the movie. De Niro was one of the most well-known actors at this year’s festi val and his film was entered in the World Greats category (films in this category do not compete for an offi cial prize) along with 21 other films from around the world. This year’s event, the 26th festi val, was held from August 22 to

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PATRICK FOK Binamé {La Beauté de Pandore, 2000) from Canada, Nina Campaneez {L’Alleé Du Roi, 1995) from France, Heino Ferch ( The Seagull’s Laughter, 2002) from Germany and Majid Majidi {La Couleur du Paradis, 1999) from Iran, and Maurizio Nichetti {Tous Les Jours Dimanche, 1995) from Italy. Majid Majidi is also the president of the jury and a three-time winner of the festival’s Grand Prize of the Americas - which he won most recently in 2001 for his film Baran. Although the Official Competition is one of the most important, many might consider Films à la belle étoile to be the most pleasant. Every evening throughout the festival films are shown on the big screen at Place Des Arts and hundreds of people gather there to enjoy the night air and watch recent and classic popular movies such as; Amelie Poulin, Crouching TigerHidden Dragon and Le Grand Bleu.

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walls... It was only in 1987 that we clearly intended to mock them learnt through the newspapers that because it is cut so that their con he was a world famous artist... It’s a tradictions are obvious. It is also pity he’s dead, otherwise he’d bring patronising because his relatives are us a bottle of vodka and we’d drink encouraged to talk and give their opinions on serious topics so that to him.” Aunts and other cousins of they are shown up as old-fashioned Warhol’s are interviewed about rustics. There is still some serious dis Warhol’s sexuality and death. Helena Bezekova, a cousin, tells us cussion about the current state of that he died after “he was shot just the town. Most of the inhabitants the below the heart by his girlfriend interviewed said that life was much because he refused to marry her” better under a communist govern and that just after he was shot “he ment than it is under the present had just six words to say on the sub democratic one as crime and unem ject of marriage: ‘I don’t have time ployment have flourished under the transition. for that.”. Michal Warhola tells us that Another cousin insists that he died when his gall bladder explod Andy Warhol’s paintings were ed, which is almost correct since banned in Czechoslovakia until the Warhol died in 1987 during gall fall of communism, and he adds, ‘We have more rights under a bladder surgery. There is also a lot of discussion democracy. I don’t understand what on whether or not Warhol was these rights are — but that’s what homosexual. Michal Warhola, a I’ve been told.’ The other focus of the film cousin, denies it saying simply: ‘I don’t believe it. No homosexual has concerns the rights of Gypsies liv ever come from Mikovâ.’ His other ing in the town. Those interviewed cousins also deny it, appear embar- say that they are refused jobs and rased by the issue and in broaching harassed in the streets by natives of the subject prefer to use the euphe the town and are generally discrim inated against. mism “a you-know-what”. They are even prevented from Warhol’s relatives are inter viewed separately and the. film is. entering - the Warhola « Museum, ' * * * * * t t t t t * * * » ». *•.*,•••*>.'.'.<*****»* * *******

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collect the rain water which drips through the roof and there is hard ly any of Warhol’s original artwork there. Mostly prints of his work and small pieces of property once belonging to Warhol and his parents (his sun glasses, his sports jacket, his mother’s diary etc) are kept there. During the film, the curator’s assistant takes the opportunity to read the number of a bank account into which the film’s viewers can donate money. But even in this part of the film, Mucha's directorial tone remains mocking of the town's members. Although Absolut Warhola is intermittently funny, its overall feeling is Warhol’s 1985 ad for his fam’s drink of choice leveled by Mucha's intent on revealing the medieval and that: ‘we don’t admit people aspect of Warhol’s ancestry. The who don’t smell nice, don’t wear film might have been made more nice clothes, and who steal from us. relevant by exploring the role that fame, wealth and notierity played in We don’t let filthy people in.’ The director’s words are ironic fouling Warhol's life, three concepts given that the Warhola Museum of which the residents of Mikovà itself is an old and dilapidated and Medzilaboce remain refreshing building with a leaky roof. There ly unaware. *are buckets, on «tbq floor, «to ■» ,

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Louisiana blues, reggae rock the Jazz Fest Free outdoor concerts proof that the best things in life are free Scott R. Medvin For two weeks in the middle of the summer the downtown core of Montreal was transformed from a place of business to a space for dancing thanks to the 23rd Edition of the Montreal International Jazz Festival. Despite the scorching cli mate, music junkies were willing to brave the heat, as over 1.5 million people (a new record) attended the festivities. For some attendees, the best part about the festival was that there was no need to spend any money to participate. Five outdoor stages were set up, offering free shows to many who would not oth erwise drop cash for bands that they had never heard before. Each stage tried to commit to a unifying theme: the du Maurier stage on the corner of President Kennedy and de Bleury offered shows by mostly dub bands. This series of slowed tempo reggae music featured local DJ Mossman’s collective Ark of Infinity, which features members from a number of Montreal bands. However, High

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ensemble worked its way through Kraftwerk tunes and early rave anthems to the delight of the aston ished audience. At some points, you could swear that there had to be some machines up there making those sounds. In the middle of Sainte Catherine Street was the General Motors Stage, and if you thought the traffic around here was bad during rush hour, you should have seen it on the evening of July 2, when King Chango played the Big Event. Over 500,000 people packed the street— it was almost impossible to move through the sweaty crowd from Jeanne-Mance to St. Urbain— to witness a lacklus ter performance by this moderately political band. King Chango takes aspects of specific musical genres: Latino, ska, punk, reggae and hip-hop, amongst others, and sufficiently waters it down enough to suit the masses. The band was able to play all these kinds of music—just not well enough to be good at any of them. The bands’ dreadlocked front man, Blanquito Man, changed more times than a runway model on a humid night. His energy carried the show, and when he ventured into the audience to spread his excitement, all those around him responded in kind. Six gigantic screens strategically placed in the

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street allowed those in the far back to see the stage, and the release of dozens of large soccer balls provid ed more entertainment for the crowd. With literally hundreds of shows to attend, the Festival offers more than any human music fan can possibly attend. If you are like me and on a student’s shoestring budget, then it is a little bit easier to decide what to attend if you stick with what you can afford. The five free stages at the Twenty-Third Edition of the Montreal Jazz Festival provided great tunes from around the world and across the ever-blurring spectrum of musical genres. From noon until midnight,

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all fun and games. The film docu ments both the ups and downs of plastering, including Cynthia’s lawsuit against Frank Zappa’s for mer manager Herb Cohen to get her babies back and her battle with Gene Simmons of KISS. The footage of Cynthia personally inviting her idols to be cast and the actual castings are simultane ously extremely uncomfortable and hysterical. Cynthia tells her potential subjects: “The point is that you are a very talented man and for that I’d like to make a cast of your cock.” Director/Producer Jessica Villines ends the film with Cynthia’s first art show, accentuât ing the talent that lies beneath the groupie exterior. Essentially, this fan now has fans of her own. Her art show, a display of her collec tion o f castings, was very well attended and received press atten tion. However, her mother, a.k.a. the Warden, has yet to find out about her daughter’s hobby. Cynthia says: “I’ll never tell her. She’ll have to find out what I do for herself.” Cynthia Plaster Caster is cur rently working on a few projects, including her first series of breast castings and her autobiography. Check out her very funny— and phallic— home on the web at www.cynthiaplastercaster.com.

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The importance of not being earnest F u n n y f l i c k s f ly a t C o m e d i a F ilm F e s t i v a l and the masked Mexican wreak havoc on the army of darkness that threatens society. One of the most overlooked This absurdly low budget flick parts of this year’s Just for Laughs took advantage of the breathtakingfestival was the self-contained ly grey scenery of downtown Comedia Film Festival which took Ottawa and featured a punk sound place from July 11 through July 2 1 . track with tracks by The The ever-popular (and always Hammerheads, Furnace Face, cheap) Cinema du Parc played host Lucky Ron, Johnny Vegas and Dr. to over two dozen fdms from Bruce Murphy. This thrashing around the world, including a cou music was a perfect accompani ple from Montreal. ment to the slapstick humour and The Mallory Effect, from direc kung fu fighting action of the tor Dustin Guy, was filmed in our movie. fair city during an 18 day bender of If punk does not do it for you, creativity. Crowds crammed the and you’re more into song-andtheatre to see the film, a story about dance routines, you may have liked how much worse it is to be replaced the interludes where the film turns by someone new than merely into a full-fledged musical, with dumped by your significant other. dance routines and full-cast choral If big budgets and Hollywood extravaganzas. If you like movies stars are more your thing, then with a far off premise that barely there was plenty on Comedia’s makes any sense, than I’d advise menu to perk your appetite. Denis you to check out this film. Leary, Elizabeth Hurley and Steve Eat My Twisted Shorts was a Buscemi starred in Tom DiCillo’s collection of animated and liveDouble Whammy, the story of a action short films. There were 15 recently widowed cop (Leary) who shorts shown, ranging from the seems to have no luck at all. hilarious to the absurd. Montrealer The only enjoyment in his life David Uloth’s hybridized short comes from watching exercising “The Shine” combined the con cheerleaders jiggling on TV and cepts of Kubrick’s adaptation of The smoking hash, but not even these Shining with a television commer simple pleasures can perk him up cial for a household cleaner. once he becomes the laughing stock After the show, Uloth of his department. While attempt answered questions and discussed the making of the film, which starred a six-year-old girl who had never heard of the film’s inspiration and an actor playing a crazy man who came in to shoot ing still high from the night before. Fake commercials were a running theme in this collection, as “Fireplace: the Trailer” showed a preview for the new special edition DVD of the hit fake film and “No More Mistah Nice HAHAHA.COM Lama” gave audiences a The Dalai Lama kicking some ass! glimpse at the Dalai Lama is his first action hero role. It ing to capture a murderer he expe was ridiculous to picture the Dalai riences a back spasm and drops his Lama acting like Rambo— I guess gun, which is picked up by an this is what drove the audience to eight-year-old boy who saves the stiches during this five and a half day. This film was presented by the minute gag. foulmouthed Dennis Leary, who The animated shorts also did a question and answer period brought laugher to the full theatre. with the audience after the film had Veteran MTV animator Bill concluded. Plypton’s “Parking” showed a war I had the privilege of being of wits between a parking lot atten able to attend some of Comedia’s dant and a stubborn piece of grass. films, and I left the theatre laughing “Judge Tracey: Tommy’s Day in each and every time. The first flick Court” lampooned courtroom dra I got to see was Canadian director mas and the proliferation of horri Lee Demarbre’s cult-classic-to-be ble shows like Judge Judy and Texas Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter. In the Justice which are ever so popular film Christ has returned to walk south of the border. amongst the living, but first he Eat My Twisted Shorts is one of must deal with a threat from the the two collections of short films undead. A clan of lesbian vampires that screened in at Comedia, and who can walk during the day have both of these will probably return gone on a killing spree, and neither to the Cinema du Parc sometime men of the cloth nor virginal co-eds soon. Those of you with a slightly are safe from their sharp fangs and twisted sense of humour will prob killer bodies. A group of priests ably want to shell out the six bucks whose preordained task is to pre for a ticket next time, as it will be vent the takeover of the world by money well spent. As E.E. these ladies of the night contacts Cummings once said, “the most Jesus and puts him in contact with wasted of all days is one without El Santo, Mexican wrestler extraor laughter.” dinaire. Together, the Son of God Scott R. Medvin

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Tabla Beat Science: mystical fusion and musical eclecticism at its very best! Scott R. Medvin

The normal crowd at Place des Arts is a bit more upscale and digni fied than those who gathered to see the eclectic and unpredictable Tabla Beat Science at the Théâtre Maisonneuve on June 28 as a part of the Montreal Jazz Festival. Those inside were looking for something musically different from the jazz purists who were flocking to some of the other shows in the festival. And they got what they were look ing for: genre-bending fusion that incorporated elements of classical Indian rhythms, a slick-handed scratch DJ, female vocalists singing traditional African chants and a thunderous bass guitar. Oh, did I forget to mention two Indian musi cians, both virtuosos on their respective instruments? The collaboration known as Tabla Beat Science began as a studio project involving bass player Bill Laswell and the Indian-born tabla and percussion master Zakir Hussein. Both came into the project bearing impressive credentials. Laswell has produced and played on over 300 albums by a diverse list of artists including Herbie Hancock, Iggy Pop, Mick Jagger and Yoko Ono. Hussein showed promise on the tabla as a child and cut his teeth touring with John McLaughlin’s groundbreaking fusion group Shakti in the 1970s. These men are the core members of a loose collec tive that has included Talvin Singh, one of the foremost ambassadors of the Asian Massive movement in drum ’n bass. When the lights went down on the theatre’s full crowd, the band’s full line up emerged. In the centre of the stage a small riser was set up, upon which Hussein sat with his various percussion instruments. Next to him was Ustad Sultan Khan, considered by many to be one of the most talented sarangi players in India. (The sarangi is a multi-stringed instrument that is played with a bow to invoke a tone similar to the human voice.) They have mastered ancient instruments, and their sweet sounds melded with the futuristic tone taken on by some of the other players. To the left of the riser was the turntable setup of DJ Disk, a scratch-happy record-spinner who has worked with legends Q-Bert and Mixmaster Mike. On the right hand side sat Karsh Kale behind a drum kit, as he chose to leave his electronic tabla and set of turntables at home. His decision to assault the crowd with the quick-handed and organic route to drum ‘n bass was a good one, as the interplay between the drums and the tablas made for beats designed to move your feets. Unfortunately, this was a sit-down show so all dancing was done plant ed firmly on the ground. With gusto which would have made the Vandellas proud, nearly the entire crowd were dancing in their seats: by the end of the show my whole row was rocking to the intricate beats coming from the stage. The tabla is a haunting instru-

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ment that produces a rich beat that can be bent and shaped through the movement of the player’s hands. Zakir Hussein’s hands rarely slowed, and at peak speed were barely more than a blur. He opened the show with a ten-minute exhibition of the intricacies of his instrument before the rest of the band joined him in a raging rock tune that was led by the thunderous bass notes supplied by Bill Laswell. This was the kind of sound that rumbles your body and

can be felt vibrating through your soul. The next tune was slowed down and featured Ejigayehu "Gigi" Shibabaw singing in Amharic, the language of her native Ethiopia. Any illusion of antiquity was shattered, however, when the whole band left the stage allowing DJ Disk to emerge and wow the audience with his skills on the decks. The scratching continued as Hussein and Kale reemerged and the musical duel that commenced between the three could not deter mine who had the fastest fingers of the bunch, as the agility of the men on stage made my jaw drop. It stayed on the floor as the rest of the band returned to their positions and played without stop for the rest of the show, skipping from a reggae groove to heavy break beats and back to three-part vocal harmonies. The show ended on a mellow note, and just like in theatre where the cast is loved, the band was beckoned back out for numerous curtain calls. Tabla Beat Science is combin ing elements of music’s ancient past with some of the leading technolo gies of the sound of the future. When the crew gets together on stage, the potential for magic is evi dent, and on one early evening in June, they did not disappoint.

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F IT N E S S & W E L L N E S S A e r o b ic s - C la s s ic C a r d io A e r o b ic s - F u n k y H iq h tL o w B o d y D e s iq n B o d y W o rk s B o d y D e s ig n M id C u tz B oot Cam p C a r d io S t r e n g t h C a m p T ae Box S te p & P u m p L a t in A e r o b ic s S p in S p in S p in - R a c e & P a c e S p in & T r im S p in - R a c e & P a c e P A Y -A S -Y O U -G O STEP P A Y -A S -Y O U -G O T A E B O X P A Y -A S -Y O U -G O A E R O B IC S P A Y -A S -Y O U -G O S P IN P A Y -A S -Y O U -G O Y O G A W e iq h t T r a in in g An introduction W e i q h t T r a in in g (Private) W e i g h t T r a in in g (S em i-Private) F itn e s s A p p r a is a l Fitness In s tru c to r T ra in in g C ourse Personal Trainer Developm ent Course C P R IF irs t A id C P R R e -C e r t H a th a Y o g a 1

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H a t h a Y o g a II P ilâ t e s P ilâ t e s Pow er Yoga T a i Chi 1 M A R T IA L A R T S A ik id o A ik id o - Adv C a p o e ir a Judo K a ra te d o Kendo 1 K e n d o II

1 /2 hr 8

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$5.00 or 2 tickets $2.50/$2.00 * 2 5 /3 0 4 0 /4 5 5 6 /7 0 4 5 /5 0 2 0 0 /2 3 5

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tickets for $20.00 can be purchased in advance in the Business Office G-20C

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A d u lts L e a r n T o S w im L e v e l 2 (In te rm e d iate ) A d u lts L e a r n T o S w im L e v e l 3 (A dvanced)

COURSE M A R T IA L A R T S K ic k b o x in g - S a v a t e 1

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REGISTRATION INFORMATION: Register in Client Services Centre, located in the McGill Sport Complex - Monday through Friday 0 8:3 0 -1 9 :4 5 hrs. Registration continues through Friday, September 27, 2 00 2 . Non-members registered in courses may use the facility only during their designated class times. Most classes begin the week of September 16, 2002. Full time McGill Students may register at the member’s fee. All prices include G .S.T. and Q.S.T.

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McGill ATHLETICS

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Hassle free non credit courses No prerequisites required! Held in the Shatner and Brown buildings Weeknights. No conflicts with classes, conferences or labs Learn a new skill. Brush up your job and social résumés! ... and of course get a chance to meet many more people!!

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The courses being offered this year are: Pilâtes .Wondering how the fitness class that makes you shed

No one can deny the benefits of the 6000 year old mirac

Back year after year due to popular demand, the Shiatsu

pounds with minimum movement works? Pilâtes is the new rage

ulous science of yoga. It helps reduce stress, improve concentra

Massage Mini Courses are “the” dass to take. Leam how to do

and we made sure it was included in the list of courses this year.

tion, tone muscles, and increase flexibility. Come, explore and experi

wonders with this andent Japanese form of bodywork. Vou know this is

Whether you want to lose weight, get more toned or just improve your bal

ence for yourself all that it has to offer with our yoga and stress manage

one skill you just have to master! Shiatsu is one of the most complete

ance and posture, you know you want to sign up for this class. After all,

ment instructor. Control of appetite, a more toned physique and increased

massage techniques of the world and focuses on using pressure to release

everyone agrees on the wonders of the “Pilâtes” body. The class is intend- j , alertness are only a few examples of how yoga can help you. It’s done mira- / des for everyone you know, so why not go ahead and get yourself pam- ; ed for people from all fitness backgrounds so go ahead and make your fat more exciting! Wear loose clothing and leave the rest up to usv Mondays 5:30 to 7:00 pm

Cost {40

blocked energy while redudng pain. It is also used to hdp relieve stress, migraines, sciatica and a host of other distressful conditions. It’s done

pered too this fall? Wearing loose clothing is all you need to

fully clothed so there’s no need to get undressed. Bring a towel

worry about for this class.

and wear loose dothing. Partners recommended.

Tuesdays 4:00 to 515 pm

Kickboxing

Mondays 7:00 to 8 JO pm

Cost $35

This course will combine basic martial art

Taught by masters at Senshido, this program is designed to

techniques with modem aerobic movements to deliver an

enhance your smvivabity. Vbu w i leam to heighten your awareness '

'you leam the foundations of toprocking, footwork, and freezes,

intense workout that improves strength, muscle tone, and

and accurately read you- intuition in order to avoid violence, agression

'you will explore the essential elements of style rhythm and movement

endurance. By the end of this eight dass session you will experience

and confrontation. Itouwi leam to de-escalate and defuse potential agres sive or violent situation using psychological strategy, tbuw# also leam to physi-

' invention. Bring your knee pads and leave it all up to Claudia to make you

caily defend youself if avoidance and de-escalation faied. Cotise covers fear

to register eariy in order to avoid any disappointment

management, basic principles of physical retaSation, attacks with and without

Wednesdays 5:30 to 7:00 pm Cost $40

beginner or advanced, kickboxing is the fitness dass to take. Taught by our I

Want to master a different form of massage? Thai Massage is a N dynamic form of bodywork performed fiJy clothed ou a floor mat The

f 2000 year old traddkm combines aaqrressure, yoga and tai d i Wde sbetdng musdes, leam to work the body’s energy hes (meridans) usrig fmgets, pahs, ' elrows, forearms and feet Thai massage also emphasizes proper body ailm ent a use of breathe for both the recipient and the practitioner, thereby ncreasing bod) ^ awareness and reduce® the risk of ij i% This is a practical come noth some theo designed to enable you to 0ve a 1-hour M-body massage to reieve physical and v emotional stress. Come prepared to stretch and be stretched! Bring a towel and wear loose, comfortatle dothmg. Partneis recommended but y not necessary. Wedresdays7-i5to8J0pm Cost $35

Salsa and Merengue

Breakdancing

Self Defence

improved cardio fitness, stress reduction, weight loss, body conditioning, and improved self-defense tactics. Whether you are in shape, out of shape,

Acupressure/ Thai Massage

Shiatsu Massage

Yoga

Get introduced to the wild styles of breakdance! As

accomplished and experienced instructor, you will receive the best

weapons, psychology of an attack and verbal diffusion, hr today’s world,

method of instruction possible! Boxing gloves recommended.

everyone should be able to physically defend themselves, and we have /

Mondays 8:30 to 10:00 pm Cost $40

made sure we have the best retractors ■ the business!

a pro by the end of the semester! This is a popular dass so you may want

Be the star on the dance floor this year! Keep up with the lat- \ est trends in dancing by learning the modem twist on the tango, salsa, meringue, cha cha and more. Music from Argentina, Brazl,

Dominican Republic, or bring in your own CD! Wear leather soled shoes an bring a partner and you are sure to have a great time by the end of the evening. Wednesdays 7:00 to 815 pm Cost $45

Wednesdays 830 to 10:00 pm Cost $40

Ballroom Dancing

Introduction to Bartending

Speed Reading

Public Speaking

If you dream of yourself as being the pro at the Slow

Intimidated by conference and in-dass discussions or

Run by the Hanis Institute, this extremely popular

Waltz, the Tango, the Foxtrot or the Viennese Waltz, this is the

presentations? Feel that you are having trouble expressing your

speed reading course is once again being offered at McGill. This

TTwnk yow (kinks could use a bit more creativity? Be the best

self? Or maybe you just think that your conference and in-dass dis

1-day class always gets rave reviews and regularly has students

host around with your new found ski. The Montreal renowned Master

they would be evaluated for ther expressive effectiveness. Prdrfc Speaking

Saturday October 5,2002 9:30 am to 4:30 pm Cost $50

course to sign up for. Develop the elegance and self assurance of ball- '' room dancing when it comes to body and mind coordination whde reveal- ' ing your talent on the dance floor. Most importantly, for the first time in your life, you know you will stop stepping on your partner’s foot and will actually enjoy the dance and the music when it comes to ballroom dancing, j Wednesdays 4:00 to 5:30 pm Cost $40

School of Bartending provides a three hour introduction to a l the basics. ! improving 50-150% in reading speed, while also helping them improve com- \ cussion grades could use a boost Let the McGSI Debating Union’s Public Speaking course offer you insights into the worid of rhetoric and communi J prehension and retention. Cure problems of wandering attention and concen-1| Diming the dass you w l famiarize youself with shaking, equpment set up, fruits and garnishes, gassware and of course the preparation (and tasting!) i trate better, especially in texts that do not easily hold your interest Don't cation! This course is especially geared towards boosting the confidence of various classic cocktails and drinks. Three hours spent being sumxmded by miss your chance to improve your reading skills for tfe! students (both new and old) in conferences and other situations where daiquiris and martinis? What better way to spend a Sunday afternoon! Section I: Sunday September 22,20021 pm to 4 pm

is the number one fear of most people. Let us hekr you overcome it!

Section II: Sunday September 29,20021 pm to 4 pm

Tuesday October 15,2002 6 pm to 9 pm Cost $35

Wine Tasting x

Leam all you need to know about the wonderful world of

French X

wines in 4 hours. Our experienced instructor will teach you the differ ence between all the major kinds of wine you are expected to come

Get a grip on all the French you need to get around in

Cost $40

Spanish

Italian

> /IA lw a y s wanted to leam the language of love but never found X

Montreal or any other Francophone city in the worid. Our experi-

the opportunity? This course is afl you need to take if you want to

' enced instructor will teach you basic conversation with an introduction to '

' leam Italian that would get you going smoothly in nightclubs, restaurants, '

across while still a student and beyond graduation. Vou will get an opportune1 the French and French Canadian cultures. Now you know that you won’t be ' ty to taste and ask questions about all the different types of wine you leam about because our instructor knows that the best way to leam is by

on an entirely different planet when your roommates are talking about the

movie theatres and even the airport!

Need to brush up the Spanish skills you picked up from your

ence between caballo and cabello. Whatever your background in the lan

gage, our teacher will make sure you advance considerably in your Spanit

Tuesdays 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm Cost $35

language and cultural knowledge.

exceptionally exciting rendevouz from the previous week!

Section I: Wednesdays 4:00 pm to 5 30 pm

practice!

Section I: Tuesdays 7:00 pm to 8 3 0 pm

Section II: Wednesdays 5 30 pm to 7:00 pm

Wednesday October 2,2002 4 pm to 8 pm Cost $40

Section II: Tuesdays 8:30 pm to 10:00 pm

Cost $35

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Laval rolls to victory over McGill in season opener Mark Kerr

Only one week into a new sea son of Quebec University football and the Laval Rouge-et-Or have established themselves as the team to beat in the Quebec Intercollegiate Football Conference. The Rouge-et-Or kick started their year with a convincing 29-10 victory over the McGill Redmen before 2506 fans at Percival Molson Memorial Stadium. Laval quarterback Mathieu Bertrand dashed the hometown crowd’s hope for early season victo ry as he completed 17 of 26 passes for 186 yards and two touchdowns. The Ste-Foy, Quebec native also got it done on the ground as he rushed for 46 yards on eight carries and scored the pivotal first touchdown for Laval. According to Redmen coach Chuck McMann, Laval’s style of play was entirely predictable. “They [Laval] showed us absolutely nothing new today, which is why I’m so upset with our performance,” said McMann who enters his second year at the helm of the football program. “We didn't want it bad enough today. Twenty-four guys weren't working hard out there,” said McGill defensive end Steve Young. McGill quarterback Josh Sommerfeldt concurred with Young. “Laval’s a team that can be beat

SCORING SUMMARY LAVAL 29 at McGILL 10 First Quarter — Lav FG Nicolas Racine 15:00

Second Quarter — Lav T D Mathieu Bertrand 3 run (convert missed by N. Racine) 7:48 — Lav TD Nicolas Bisaillon 12 pass from M. Bertrand (convert by N. Racine) 12:55 — Lav FG Nicolas Racine 39 15:00

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Halfback veteran Greg Shink in tackling position. The defence had a disproportionate amount of action to the offence in the loss to Laval.

but we didn’t play with enough heart tonight,” said the senior pivot who connected on 15 of 28 pass attempts for 194 yards with one interception. He also scored McGill’s only touchdown off a oneyard run. With the help of some very enthusiastic fans of their own Laval charged out of the gate to open the game. The Rouge-et-Or defence pressured Sommerfeldt from the outset. Early in McGill’s first offen sive series, Sommerfeldt’s pass was intercepted. “Because of turnovers on offence, the defence had a lot of short fields which made things dif ficult,” said Young. Controlling Laval’s offence proved that much harder with the early injury to all-conference mid dle linebacker Mike Mahoney. The medical staff assisted the defensive specialist off the field. He returned later but arguably not at the same level of effectiveness.

Fourth Quarter — McG T D Josh Sommerfeldt 1 run (Pillai convert) 10:20

SCO RING B Y Q U A R TER S Laval: 3-16-10-0 29 McGill: 0-0-3-7 10 Attendance: 2,506

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“We didn’t establish a running game at all which led to a lot of two and outs,” said Sommerfeldt, allud ing to the fact that McGill had only 14 net rushing yards compared to Laval’s 198. The Redmen adjusted the offensive attack in the second half, going to running back Nick Hoffman more frequently. Hoffman finished the game as McGill’s top rusher with 36 yards on nine carries. With Laval off-bal ance early in the latter half, McGill drove to within scoring range. Pillai booted a 38-yard field goal to cut the Laval lead to 16.

Laval responded by pushing the lead to 29-3 before Sommerfeldt put up six points by taking a page out of Bertrand’s book. Determined to taste a solitary score, Sommerfeldt rolled out and took the ball into the end zone him self. Sommerfeldt's romp was made possible only a moment earlier when he hit receiver Pat Lanctot with a beautiful pass on a third down gamble. The 95-yard drive late in the game gives the Redmen some need ed confidence as they prepare to play at Université de Montréal expansion team on September 7.

MATHIEU PROULX Laval Rouge-et-Or Proulx was all over the field. He blocked a punt, and returned three punts for 45 yards. On the defensive side of the ball, he led Laval in unassisted tackles with seven, one being a sack. Include an interception in the mix and it was definite ly a memorable first game for the rookie.

THE PIGSKIN DIARIES We are the champions, my friend

Third Quarter — McG FG Anand Pillai 38 7:02 — Lav FG Nicolas Racine 33 10:35 — Lav T D J.F. Romeo 14 pass from M. Bertrand (convert by N. Racine) 13:24

Laval closed out the first quar ter with a 38-yard field goal by Nicolas Racine to go ahead 3-0. Racine’s kick avenged an earlier miss from 17 yards. The turning point in the game came near the midway point of the second quarter when superb Laval rookie Mathieu Proulx blocked a punt by McGill’s Anand Pillai. Laval’s Mathieu Gravel smothered the ball on McGill’s three-yard line. Bertrand rolled out of the pocket on second and goal and charged into the end zone to give Laval a nine-point lead, with Racine’s con vert attempt being blocked. McGill struggled offensively the rest of the first half. The Redmen could not find a rhythm that would allow for sustained and effective pressure on the Laval defence. McGill went to the locker room down by 19 points after Laval’s Nicolas Bisaillon caught a 1 2 -yard touchdown pass and Racine kicked a 39-yard field goal.

Despite losing to the Laval Rouge-et-Or 42-15 in the Dunsmore Cup game last year, the McGill Redmen are now consid ered the reigning QIFC champions after it was discovered that Laval competed with an ineligible player the entire year. Enrico Pierre, one of the top five receivers in the QIFC, had completed his eligibility in the NCAA. The Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) Discipline Committee handed down one of the most harshest punishments in its history. Laval forfeited all its games, was fined $5000, and returned the

money that it raised from hosting two playoff games. Laval also refunded the financial assistance it received to participate in the Atlantic Bowl game from the QIFC. “The sanctions imposed on Université de Laval are significant, and will deliver a strong deterrent message to our league,” said Marg McGregor, the CEO of CIS, in a press release. “We as a team do not acknowl edge that we are the Dunsmore champions,” said head coach Chuck McMann in reaction to the decision. “We will only be satisfied when we prove ourselves on the football field. Laval deserves the penalty they received as they did know the rules. .

“The team (McGill) is deter mined to prove that they are a championship team.” Easy as 1-2-3

McGill appears to have lucked out with this year’s schedule. The team does not play Laval again this year. It plays the expansion Université de Montréal twice, as well as Mount Allison from the Atlantic Conference. This is the first year for the interlocking sched ules. Mount Allison remains infa mous in the minds of many for its 105-0 loss last year to the eventual Vanier Cup champion, Saint Mary’s Huskies. For McMann there are both benefits and drawbacks to the .scheduliag,

“I believe that the schedule favours us, but I would be happier if we were playing Laval more than once, said McMann. “Better com petition raises the level of play.” The guy behind the guy

The Redmen started the sea son with a full time assistant coach for the first time since 1997. The appointment of Marc Schryburt, 35, was announced last spring by the athletic department. Schryburt, who instructed McGill running backs in 2001, will help boost francophone recruit ment according to Robert Dubeau, director of McGill athletics. — Mark Kerr

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McGill women break gender stereotypes and heads Sarah Wright

The name Montreal Blitz sure ly means very little to the average McGill student. And the Independent Woman’s Football League (IWFL)? Maybe even less. Four McGill athletes, however, became well acquainted with the team and the upstart league this past summer. Patricia Jaworski, Sam Rapoport, Jessie Haron and Jess Zimbler are among the 36 players who make up the Montreal Blitz, the only Canadian team in the first womans football league. Although this young league has not reached professional status, it has generated enough steam in just three years to build two divisions, both consisting of seven teams. The IWFL was designed to look just like the NFL. The rules are exactly the same, and the field size is the standard 100 yards. The unique aspect of the league, however, is the athletes that make up each team. Football, his torically, has been a male-dominated sport. With that in mind, it must be asked: where do you find women with football experience? You don't. “None of us really had any experience,” said Jaworski. “When I tried out, only six girls had ever played contact football. Even though most of us were familiar with contact sport, no one really had an advantage over the other,

because we were all new to the sport.” During the school year, Zimbler and Jaworski play on the varsity Martlet rugby team. Haron is an avid club rugby player, while Rapoport has a background in flagfootball. The McGill players were not out of place at all, as almost every member of the Montreal Blitz were rookies in terms of previous football experience. “Most of the players come from the touch-football world,” said Zimbler. “With a rugby back ground, I was in the minority.” Contrary to most other nation al sport leagues, the Montreal Blitz roster was not filled by recruiters. Instead, it was the old fashioned tac tic of postings on athletic web sites and flyers on gym notice boards that brought these women together. When evaluating the talent, the coaches of the Montreal Blitz looked for athleticism, not necessarily tech nical football skills. “There was no ball involved in our first few try-outs,” said Jaworski. “It was all based around agility drills, fitness testing and strength exercises and I think we were all pretty grateful for that.” There were no cuts made on the team, with many of the women having the requisite agility and fit ness. Even though the McGill women had the base skills, many admitted that the transition from touch football or rugby to football was a lot harder than anticipated.

“It is a totally different game [than rugby],” argued Haron. “It was hard to get momentum and I am used to going all the time and being on the field all time. I also thought that as soon as we had our equipment on, the contact part would be easy to take, but it was

actually harder.” Rapoport, a flag-football quar terback for eight years, contends that even with the experience, NFLstyle football was hard to get the hang of at first. “The contact was the hardest part to adjust to. At QB, I am in one

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of the most vulnerable positions, so I had to spend a lot of time working on the new footwork, and I haven’t perfected it that well yet." Jaworksi contends that one of the most difficult things about play ing in the IWFL is the range of skill in the competition. “We were all ready to be aggres sive, but the only team that really gave us any good hits were the New York Sharks.” Indeed, the Blitz was only defeated once by a team other than the Sharks and carried at least a 10 point margin in all their victories. The Montreal Blitz and the IWFL have not escaped criticism from the professional sporting world. It has been said that the league presents a quality of football that could rival a high school fresh man team. Many have sighted little entertainment value for their ticket. The average crowd size for an IWFL game is around 400, but that num ber has gone up every year since play began in 1998. There is no denying that increased recognition of the IWFL would be tremendous for womens sport. The league’s greatest challenge lies in the fact that its existence is still largely unknown. The athletes, however, are extremely optimistic and positive about the venture. Needless to say, all four of McGill’s participants are ready and excited for the next season; only this time, they’ll return as veterans.

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An Olympic veteran joins McGill as the new head coach Sarah Wright

Need to find a poster boy for proficiency? Ask anyone involved in Canadian rowing and they are sure to tell you that Henry7 Hering, the new McGill rowing head coach, is the personification himself. Hering, recently retired from the Canadian National team after 10 years of competition, was hired by McGill Athletics on Aug. 12 to assume control of its rowing pro gram. Since 1993 McGill has not had a rowing head coach role due to a lack of funding and necessity. This year, however, rowing at McGill will receive funding from Athletics that it hasn't in the past. It will be up to Hering, who is familiar with the program having served as an assis tant in past years, to aid in the process of building the team’s name at McGill. The highlight of his five year tenure with McGill came in 1997, when he coached the men’s varsity team to an Ontario University Athletics first place finish. In the beginning

Hering grew up in Montreal and began his rowing career in CEGEP. He took a break from the sport while he attended Concordia University. It was not until he fin

ished his engineering degree in 1991 that he tried out for the national team and became a competitive rower. As an athlete, Hering has com peted in an impressive three Olympic Games, six world champi onships and three Pan Am Games. At the Atlanta Games in 1996, his boat just missed the medal podium with a close fourth place finish. Although he prefers to row in a pair, he has also raced in eights and fours, so if experience relates to instructional ability, Hering could be one of the best in the business. "He is one of the best technical rowers in the world," praised Laura Gordon, president of McGill row ing. The precision required to create a competitive team is what McGill is hoping to find in Hering. "He is a perfectionist," said Gordon. "He knows and can coach every technical aspect of the sport.” A soft-spoken modest man, Hering insists that his experience as both an athlete and coach of all lev els is his greatest asset. "The experience 1 have allows me to be very technical and to see the sport from all angles," said Hering. Olympians are unique in that they have a familiarity with extreme pressure and intensity. Hering admits that it has helped him grow

as an athlete and a coach. Beneath the somewhat unassuming exterior is an extremely competitive man who is aware of his strengths and knows how to employ them in a coaching role. "The Olympics affords you an incredible perspective on sport. It’s a roller coaster ride of emotion that you can’t really understand or appre ciate until its over." This season, Hering will be kept busy working full time with Canadian Aviation Electronics in Montreal on top of coaching both the varsity men and womens eight. "Coaching a varsity team is the best way to exercise my experience," Hering said, referring to this season’s assignment. "My technical skills as a coach are pur to better use on varsi ty athletes rather than novice rowil ers. Gordon feels that the high level of experience will give McGill ath letes an extra edge. "He knows how to be a top ath lete," said Gordon. McGill’s new head coach is staying indefinitely. As far as his career in rowing, Hering replied without a moment of hesitation. "I will be doing this for as long as 1 can." That’s likely to be good news for a varsity-rowing program looking for a return in the very near future.

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Put a w a y th o se M o lso n t-sh irt guns

Mark Kerr

In this era of ‘sports entertain ment’, there is no escaping manufac tured excitement. Anyone that has been to a pro fessional sporting event has at least tacitly consented to the type of articial enhanced sentiment of which I'm referring. Chances are good that you have unknowingly been duped by the music and videos that are meant to ‘pump up the crowd up.’ Commercial interests have cre ated a demand for manipulated enthusiasm. Only after having watched a game at an arena can one fully conceptualize the extent of non-stop commerical timeouts that occur. Various gimmicks are employed to remedy any subsequent malaise during the television time outs in an effort to try and keep the fans in the game. The opposite effect, arguably, has occurred in that “in-between” entertainment has become the main attraction. Even the most diehard sports fan finds it difficult to pay attention to the action with all of the media distractions. Some may ask: so what? The whole package, the game as well as the increasingly indispensable enter tainment, attracts people not usually interested in attending a sporting

event. In the long run, however, the entertainment focus has the poten tial to kill genuine interest in sport. Instead of cultivating a love for the game in budding young sports fans, their attention is being diverted within sports venues to other forms of entertainment. Pac Bell Park in San Francisco, for example, features a water slide that gives it more of a theme park feel than that of a ball park. Perhaps Pac Bell's got it right though considering that professional sport itself has come to resemble an amusement park. Potential cus tomers have certainly come to approach it that way. Because it is so expensive to take a family to a game, many decide to go only once for the “experience.” There is no real expansion of professional sport pop ularity. It is little wonder then that new venues have experienced a decline in attendance once their new car shine has worn off. Another downside of putting the pizzaz before the product is that a lot of the spontaneity of a sports competition has been removed. The arena or the field has always been a place to go and cheer for a team or player, or just enjoy the beauty of sport when a near impossible play is executed. Today, the focus has been pulled away from the sport. People become more excited, for example, over a flying t-shirt, which is essen tially a beer company advertisement, than what is happening in the game. People have become so accus

tomed to being prompted to cheer that they don’t react in ways that reflect the actual competition of the game. Sporting traditions such as in baseball whereby the fans rise to their feet in the bottom of the ninth and cheer just a little louder, should remain. The crescendo hopefully encourages the pitcher to dig a little deeper and retire the last three bat ters. At a recent Ottawa Lynx game, I was only one of the few that rose to cheer Darwin Cubillan as he tried to close out the game. Immediately I was asked to sit down. Sit down? I sat down, incensed by the fan who made the comment. To me the incident was an outcome of manufactured excitement. No longer do people cheer when they feel it is right, but rather when a gimmick like a rigged noisemetre flashes on the large video screen. There is hope, however. Sports will never lose its appeal as a place for release, to cheer and jeer for the athletes they love and hate. No tshirt gun or fan metre can replace that satisfaction. By the way, Cubillan dug down and successfully saved the game for the Lynx. Obviously my wild cheer ing seemed to strike to the heart of manufactured excitement. N ext

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