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Vol. 22 Issue 15

Published by the Students' Society of McGill University since 1981

Tuesday, January 7, 2003

Fire guts frat house across from Milton Gates J a m e s G ro h sg a l

Firefighters saved the Phi Delta Theta fraternity house from complete destruction after a fire broke out early yesterday morning.

Four students were slightly injured.

Firefighting equipm ent blocked University Street between Sherbrooke and des Pins until noon and area residents reported losing power.

T h e blaze began just before 5 :0 0 am when a sofa on the first floor caught fire. Fraternity mem­ ber Darcy Lacuvée attempted to smother the fire, but it spread through the walls to the second floor and the roof, according to Operations C h ief Gaétan Larivière o f the Montreal Fire Prevention Department. Fraternity members and Fire D epartm ent officials declined to speculate on the cause o f the fire.

Intense heat inside the build­ ing caused windows to blow out and witnesses reported sheets o f flames lapping at the blue Greek letters on the second storey o f the turn-of-the-century grey stone town house, which the fraternity has occupied since 1989.

O f the seven students sleeping in the fraternity house, four received treatm ent for small injuries: Lacuvée received burns to his leg, two suffered smoke inhala­ tion and one had asthma problems.

At 8:00 am, the fire was still consuming the wood frame o f the house at 3501 University Street.

“There’s still trouble because the fire is going inside the structure.

It’s still burning,” said Larivière.

“T h e house was built with big pieces o f wood and then bricks and stone around it. We have to find the fire inside the walls, but we don’t want to demolish— we want to save this building.”

T h e inside o f the house appeared almost completely gutted, and residents did not expect to recover many belongings, said Ben Monroe, the fraternity president.

“All I ’ve got is this ratty pair o f jeans and the boxers I’m wearing,” said Monroe. “Most o f the guys ran out o f the house wearing their underwear.”

M onroe and his fraternity brothers sought refuge at the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority house on M ilton Street.

“W ere staying here or in a friend’s house,” said Monroe. “This is the first place we called when we were standing outside barefoot and next to naked.”

Monroe has contacted the fra­ ternity house’s insurance provider and is awaiting a response.

However, irreplaceable documents and photographs were also destroyed. Phi Delta Theta has had a chapter at M cGill for nearly a century.

Students’ Society President M artin Doe expressed his sadness.

“It’s a tragedy because the house is not just a residence for stu­ dents but it’s also a house steeped in tradition,” said Doe. “It’s certainly not something that makes the first day o f classes especially nice for people walking through the ghetto to the M ilton Gates.”

Kappa Kappa Gamma house See FRAT, page 4

NATHAN LEBI0D A

The new year began tragically for the brothers of Phi Delta Theta when a fire ravaged their residence yesterday.

WebCT crash causes exam-time exasperation A d a m K le v in a s

During the final exam period, on the weekend o f December 7 -8, W ebC T, was inaccessible. Prof­ essors use the internet-based pro­ gram to post class notes and announcements. T h e crash left stu­ dents w ithout access to lecture notes, class updates, marks, student discussions and M cG ill e-mail accounts. O ther internet-related resources also went down, includ­ ing the online version o f exam schedules and locations.

T h e crash resulted from a firm wire in a single faulty drive among the numerous drives in the system.

Technicians from Sun Engineering were brought in to fix the problem. They originally calcu­ lated that the system would be down for 14 hours, but students had to wait 22 hours before they could access W ebCT. W ebC T manager Gerry LeClerc explained that computers can crash, but that problems can be prevented.

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The McGill Tribune, Tuesday, January 7, 2003

McGill moves disabled students to Brown J a m e s G ro h sg a l

M cG ill moved the Office for Students with D isabilities from Burnside Hall into the W illiam and M ary Brown Students Services Building January 2, despite contin­ uing safety concerns related to the building’s location.

T h e University completed a series o f renovations this fall, mak­ ing the interior o f the Brown Building accessible to students who have a physical disability, but the buildings perch on the side o f a steep hill may be inaccessible to stu­ dents w ith vision and m obility impairments.

For more than six years, the O S D fought with the University to prevent the relocation and achieved some success: last year the M cGill administration postponed the mov­ ing date four times. However, Bruce Shore, who has been dean o f stu­ dents since 2 0 0 1 , said that the planned centralization o f all student services in the Brown Building required the O SD to vacate the space it has occupied in Burnside Hall for about a decade.

As endgame approached last semester, O S D D irector Joan Wolforth concentrated on monitor­ ing the improvements that the University was making. Education student John Doyle more forth­ rightly requested that the Quebec Com m ission on Human Rights investigate whether the move would

violate disabled students’ rights.

The Q C H R found that M cG ill did not com m it any human rights vio­ lations, but Doyle plans to appeal.

Doyle. “They should not have put that building up there in the first place. A building like Student Services is pretty important, but T

NATHAN LEBIODA

Stairways now have textured floor strips to alert the visually impaired.

Doyle, who is blind, said that the O S D should not have been moved from a first-floor office at the corner o f Sherbrooke and University to a third floor office at McTavish and Docteur Penfield.

“It’s a very accessible building inside. It is not outside.” said

making the O S D accessible to the students it serves is essential.”

Doyle refuses to enter the building and is asking M cGill toaccom m odate him elsewhere.

Doyle’s personal discomfort in the Brown Building stems from once falling down the stairs because there

was nothing to indicate the pres­ ence o f steps. In addition, Doyle said that the building was difficult to navigate because sound echoes o ff the walls, which lack accoustic panels.

All the doors to the Brown Building now have automatic door buttons and there are textured pads on the stairs to alert the visually impaired. Shore has ordered stu­ dent publications to remove news­ paper racks from all areas o f the building except the lobby because he contended that students with disabilities could slip on papers dis­ carded on the floor.

M cG ill has reinstalled the wheelchair ramp at the basement entrance o f the Shatner Building.

Physical Plant workers had built a ramp based on specifications that W olforth approved, but after two students who use wheelchairs had difficulty ascending the ramp safely, she said the turning radius was too small. M cGill then tore out the ramp and built a wider one.

Form er Principal Bernard Shapiro, who approved o f the move but was not actively involved in its planning, said that the O S D should not be complaining now.

“They were involved in plan­ ning from the beginning and had enough input to register their con­ cerns,” he said.

Doyle, who met with Provost and Vice-Principal (Academic) Luc Vinet before Christmas to discuss

his safety concerns, is not optimistic about his appeal to the Q C H R .

“As far as the law goes, I don’t have a leg to stand on. There’s noth­ ing. M cGill is doing what it can to make Brown’s interior accessible,” said Doyle.

He and V inet also discussed how the City o f Montreal might help M cGill students with disabili ties. Doyle hopes that the universi­ ty will pressure the city for better snow removal on McTavish, audible street crossing signals on Docteur Penfield, and extended hours for the adaptive transport buses provid­ ed by the Société de Transport de Montreal.

Dean o f Students Bruce Shore did not return several calls request­ ing comment Monday.

Point A to Point B: Directions to O SD To get to the O S D ’s new location, students who use wheel­ chairs should enter Shatner through the two sets o f doors in the basement, pass G ert’s, turn left, and take the elevator on the right to the ground floor. Turn left out o f the elevator and make another left down the corridor.

Then open the automatic door to the Brown Building, take the ele­ vator on the right to the third floor, make a left, cut through the unmoving line o f grumpy stu­ dents waiting at the financial aid office, and make a right.

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the most relevant study source since professors base the exam on what they teach, which is often not exact­ ly what is in textbooks.”

Sco tt G ordon, a U1 Management student, was hassled by the crash because he could not access PowerPoint slides.

“We needed PowerPoint infor­ mation and lecture notes, but could

pertinent information posted on the W ebC T system.

Many students with exams on “Computers fail; however, this Monday, December 9, following is not something that happens reg­ the crash did not know in which ularly,” commented Leclerc. “T he rooms their exams were located, problem was simply a hardware fail­ because they could not find sched­ ure. Problems like this can be ules and locations on either avoided by monitoring the operat­ W ebC T or other student-related ing system.” sites.

M cG ill Network and M y r n n e C o m m u n ic a tio n s O ’Connor, a U 3 Services is responsi­ Political Science ble for monitoring student, was late the operating sys­ to her exam. tem.

However, “I left for my when more diffi­ exam really early, cult problems and wandered the occur, outside con­ halls until I found tractors are it,” she said. brought in to trou­ I n fo M c G ill, bleshoot and make w hich used to repairs. contain schedules, T hough the locations, calen­ problem was cor­ dars and other rected, students felt useful inform a­ it could not have tion, no longer occurred at a more exists, and exam inconvenient time. schedules are now Becky Rich, a posted o ff the U 0 Science stu­ main M cGill web­ dent, said the crash JEN N Y GEO RGE site, under “sites o f the system made for students.” it impossible for WebCT’s exam-time crash prevented students from accessing material.

Som e students her to access essen­ not access them because o f the appeared not to know how to do tial study material. crash. W ebC T has a lot o f informa­ things the old-fashioned way; how­ “M ost o f my classes post rele­ tion which we need for our classes.” ever, hard copies o f exam schedules, vant information on W ebCT. T he Students in every faculty were which provided both times and crash occurred a few days before my locations, were posted in m ost affected by the loss o f W ebC T and Chemistry exam and I wasn’t able other web-related material because major buildings around campus. to access lecture notes to study so many rely on the notes and other from,” said Rich. “Lecture notes are

The McGill Tribune, Tuesday, January 7, 2003

Council moves for peace in Iraq, against cam pus racism K a te R h o d e s

Students’ Society Council passed a four point resolution sup­ porting a peaceful conclusion to the crisis situation between Iraq and the United States. This motion was brought up as old business December 5, after it was sent back to the Committee on Community and Government at the November 18 Council meeting. To the disap­ pointment o f some councillors and members o f M cG ill Students Against War and Racism, the motion was made less divisive: lan­ guage directly “condemning any pre-emptive strike on Iraq” was excised.

At the November 18 Council meeting, councillors debated i f it was appropriate for a students’ rep­ resentative body to pass a motion designed to create a formal stance on a foreign issue.

Members o f M SA W R in the gallery urged Council to consider the motion rel­ evant because foreign politics affect students as much if not more than student politics.

“You talk about taking care o f campus; i f there is a war, and people are running in the streets, there won’t be a campus,” said a MSAW R member. T h e m otion’s original wording included sections about writing to the United Nations and Parliament Hill condemning the war effort.

The motion’s new language, moved and seconded by former Clubs and Services Representatives to Council Raoul Gebert and Ahmed Abu Safia, respectively, con­ tained a resolve that SSM U “recog­ nizes and condemns the human rights violations committed by the current Iraq regime.” After open debate, Council also voted against including this statement.

“I think [MSAWR] were disap­ pointed ...The resolution end-[ed] up meaning less, and how can you say you want peace when you don’t say you condemn war? It was an issue [for MSAWR] that prevented the war [from] be[ing] addressed,” said Gebert.

“It could have been stronger, more explicit, but at least it was coherent. There was a broad consen­ sus that we prefer a peaceful resolu­ tion, for all kinds o f reasons: it diverts resources from education, diverts the attention o f the media— we can’t ask the government to make good on our demands when they’re at war. All kinds o f reasons— people have relatives in the region, relatives in the military. We found a coherent way o f expression our view,” Gebert said.

SSM U President Martin Doe

News 5

Students and University seek residence options as Montreal housing shortage persists J e n n if e r J e tt

Students in need o f a place to live this semester face an ongoing housing shortage and a negligible [ vacancy rate in the downtown Montreal area. was satisfied with the motion that The problem is exacerbated by passed. insufficient space in M cG ill “I did not think that the SSM U Residences, where first-year students could represent students in this way. cannot be guaranteed rooms.

It was an external issue and an exter­ Though there are 1750 stu­ nal position. In the new resoltuon dents living in Residence this year, we have an internal position. It thin an additional 2 5 0 students were it was a good compromise between turned away due to lack o f space, both sides; students who felt strong­ said O ff-Cam pus Housing and ly on the issue and students who felt M ORE Coordinator Janice it was not our issue,” he said.

Johnson.

MSAW R sent representatives to “M cGill has been actively look­ the Committee meetings and was ing for a number o f years for ways o f involved with writing the motion. creating more residence beds,” “The resolution is in their spirit but Johnson said. [the new wording] fits everyone There are three ways new resi­ else’s bill a little bit better,” said dence spaces can be created— con­ Gebert. structing, buying, or taking out Wording that did pass included management contracts on nearby buildings— but Johnson said that M cGill has been priced out o f the nearby neighbourhood real estate.

“They haven’t found any viable solutions yet,” Johnson said. “Land downtown is expensive, and McGill is pretty landlocked. It’s not an easy solution.”

Any new residence M cGill cre­ ates would have to meet certain requirements, said Johnson.

“It should have a common room. It should have spaces to put floor fellows and to put a director in so that we’re providing the students with the same kind o f support. It should be within a reasonable com­ mute.”

While the vast majority o f stu­ dents living in Residence are in their first year, the presence o f more upper-year students would create a more diverse Residence population, Johnson added.

“W hat would make my life easy is if we had 300 more beds. What would make residences a more diverse place would be if we had 600 beds on top o f that.”

Housing advocate Arnold Bennett is director o f the Housing Hotline.

“Any o f these projects obvious­ ly takes a while,” Bennett said. In the meantime, students are responsi­ ble for finding their own housing.

“M ontreal was accustomed until about three years ago to having vacancy rates o f about 6 or 7 per cent,” Bennett said. Although the vacancy rate recently increased slightly to 0.7 nercenr. the market

for vacant apartments remains com­ petitive.

“It’s a real jungle out there at the moment,” he said.

The low vacancy rate is partly the result o f an improved economy, Bennett said.

“The economy improved, peo­ ple who were doubling up stopped doubling up. The downside on the [improved] economy is when you have a good economy you have a housing problem.”

Securing an apartment might be difficult no matter how early stu­ dents start searching.

“It really isn’t a matter o f when you start looking,” Bennett said. “In a tight market, basically it’s luck o f the draw.”

Finding housing downtown is especially unlikely.

“Don’t expect to find anything very close to the university,” Bennett said. “Now many people are staying in outlying districts, which was fine a few years ago when there was a high vacancy rate, but now the out­ lying districts are tightening up.”

Students who need more infor­ mation can call the Housing Hotline at 488-0412 or come to a weekly clin­ ic at 1440 Stanley, Sundays at 11:00 am.

P McGill Dear Colleagues, A D AM SH A M 00N

The Iraq conflict is a passionately debated, defended and disputed topic. The Arab Students' Association protested last semester. a resolve that SSM U “urge relevant political actors to work towards a peaceful and democratic resolution to the current situation in Iraq,” and “SSM U commits to actively pre- I venting a racist backlash against Arabs and Muslims through a | themed workshop during Campus Equity Week and other means that may be presented.”

Doe feels that the resolution’s consistent with the Leadership sec­ tion o f the SSM U Constitution Preamble, which states that SSM U must exhibit a com m itm ent to demonstrate “leadership in matters o f human rights [and] social jus­ tice.”

Doe also said that he discussed the resolution with the president o f the Canadian Alliance o f Students’ Associations, Liam Arbuckle.

“He thought the reasoning was viable and that something bigger could come o f it,” said Doe. SSM U Council also voted to send delegates to the Pan-Canadian Student Anti-War Conference at the University o f Toronto in late January.

The current term o f Dean Carman Miller, Faculty o f Arts, will come to an end on May 31, 2 0 0 3 . Therefore, and in accordance with the Statutes o f the University, an Advisory Com m ittee has been struck. The composition o f the Com m ittee, which I chair, is as follows: Senate Reoresentatives: Professor Roderick Macdonald Professor Philip Oxhorn Mr. Kendall Wallis Professor George Weisz

Factiltv Reoresentatives: Professor Philip Buckley Professor Catherine Desbarats Professor Kerry McSweeney Professor Lydia White

Board o f Governors Reoresentatives: Ms Gretta Chambers Mr. Jam es Wright

PGSS Reoresentative: Mr. Brian Sarwer-Foner

SSMU Reoresentatives: Ms Jennifer Bilec Ms Rachel Telch

Secretary: Mrs. Mary Shaw

The Committee held its first meeting on September 2 7 , 2 0 0 2 and I now invite any interested person to apply for, or to subm it in writing the names o f possible candidates for the position o f Dean o f the Faculty o f Arts. These applications or nominations will be more useful if accompanied by a detailed curriculum vitae. I would also like to invite any general com ­ ments that you believe are important for the Com m ittee to consider. All correspondence will be treated seriously and in the strictest confidence.

Responses to this letter should be fo rw a rd ed to m e or to the secretary o f the Advisory C om m ittee, Mrs. Mary Shaw, by em a il or in w riting, to: Secretariat, J a m e s A dm inistration B uilding, Room 608 (e-m ail: m ary.shaw@rncgill.ca). T he review o f candidacy w ill start F ebru ary 1, 2003.

Cordially, Luc Vinet

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The McGill Tribune, Tuesday, January 7, 2003

Frat fire Continued from page 1 m em ber and In ter-L etter Greek C o u n cil V ice-P residen t E xtern al Béatrice C hartrand welcomed the seven brothers this m orning.

“T h ey cam e to the door at 5 :3 0 am with plastic bags on their feet,” said C h artran d . “T h e y ’ve been here all m orning, and we’re getting them clothes and too th ­ brushes. W e’re just glad we can give them a place to stay until they work things o u t.”

S S M U President M artin Doe and Dean o f Students Bruce Shore are coord in atin g w ith M cG ill

Residences and O ff-C am p u s H ousing to find accom m odation

jewel cases. H e was guarding a few dresser drawers con tain in g his

for the two first-year students and the one international student in the fraternity.

IG L C President Naom i T h é said, “W e’ll be fundraising for them , and we’ll be helping out with

brothers’ possessions while they took turns searching for belongings th at were not dam aged or destroyed.

“T h e ro o f’s basically a skylight now and the second floor is gone,”

their cocoa drive charity fundraiser this winter.”

Fire trucks left around noon, and then officials told the brothers o f Phi D elta T h eta that they could re-enter the house. T h e trees that were drenched by fire hoses in the m orning were now sheathed in ice.

Akshay Srivastava, U 1 Engineering, stood before a pile o f charred beams, a sofa, a mattress, a televi­ sion and a lump o f melted C D

said Srivastava, who was living in the house and was to be initiated into the fraternity this week.

In the front room o f the first floor, the m en on the foosball table were black plastic blobs and the pool table was covered in debris.

Brown-stained water dripped from every surface into puddles on the floor, as drops rolled down the ornate bannister.

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“It’s just a little charred, it’s still good, it’s still good,” yelled a frat brother. The Phi Delts are keeping spirits high.

McGill The Department of Jewish Studies Call for Submissions:

BLACHER AND GLASROT FAMILIES MEMORIAL AWARD FOR HOLOCAUST RESEARCH Established by Mr. and Mrs. Josef Glasrot, survivors of the Holocaust and residents of Montreal. Open to any McGill student, the award will be pre­ sented for excellence in research in Holocaust and related studies, and par­ ticularly on the history of the Ghettos in Warsaw and Kovno [Kaunas], The award is administered by the Department of Jewish Studies in cooperation with the Jewish Comm unity Foundation. Presentation of the Blacher and Glasrot Families Memorial Award will take place at the Closing Exercises of the Department of Jewish Studies, in June 2003. The value of the Blacher and Glasrot Families Memorial Award is $1000.

• The competition is open to undergraduate and graduate students at McGill University.

• Students must submit 2 typed copies of their essays.

• E ssa y s can be based on primary or secondary materials.

• Essay submissions must reach the Department of Jewish Studies Office, 3438 McTavish Street, by April 28, 2003.

• E ssa y s must be accompanied by full contact information.

Accreditation: an opportunity to make SSMU legal, guaranteed rights Kate Rhodes In w hat has been described as “a no-brainer,” S SM U has priori­ tized obtaining provincial accredi­ tation as the official representative body o f undergraduate students, with plans to hold another accredi­ tation referendum voting period and form a “Yes” com m ittee. This will be S S M U ’s second attem pt at accreditation, after last year’s elec­ tion failed to reach a quorum o f 2 5 per cent o f students.

S SM U President M artin Doe said, “T im e is o f the essence for sev­ eral reasons. I am confident that the laws will b oth m odernize and change the requirements for accred­ itation. B u t m ost im portant, last year 8 6 per cent o f students voted yes’ on accreditation. Never before has S S M U had such overwhelming approval and a clear m andate to become accredited.”

A t the D ecem ber 5 Council m eeting, D oe, seconded by form er Clubs and Services Representative Raoul G eb ert, V ice-President University Affairs Fred Sagel and Senate Representative Alex O u im et-S to rrs, m oved th at the accreditation referendum be put forward to the undergraduate body for a vote.

Council was presented with the proposed wording o f the ques­ tion.

“D o you agree that the S SM U should becom e accredited as your legally recognized undergraduate student representative body, under the Q u eb ec A ct respecting the accreditation and financing o f stu­ dents’ associations? Yes/N o.”

T h e Q uebec act on accredita­ tion o f students’ associations defines a students’ association as “an organization whose m ain pur­ poses are to represent stud en ts... and to prom ote their interests, par­ ticularly respecting teaching, educa­ tional m ethods, students services and the adm inistration o f the edu­ cational institution” (C h ap ter 1, Section 3).

D oe’s m otion includes the rea­ soning that as “it is necessary to have a student governm ent on the M cGill cam pus,” and “the SSM U has been serving as such for over 9 0 years,” accreditation is an appropri­ ate and im p ortant initiative for SSM U .

N oted C o u n cil critic Rod D eC astro, who approves o f accred­ itation, says he is uncom fortable w ith som e o f the referendum ’s wording.

“V oters shouldn’t be led to believe that they are voting on the continuance o f student governm ent at M cG ill, rather solely on whether or not the SSM U should be accred­ ited,” he said.

T h e referendum question also

reports that “a vast m ajority o f undergraduate, campus-wide stu­ dents’ groups, [parallel to SSM U ] in the Province o f Q u eb ec are accredited [in this w ay ].” T h e C o n co rd ia S tud ent U n io n is accredited.

It has been indicated that Doe would like to leave a legacy o f accreditation.

D oe said that the special elec­ tion period will last eight days and have 2 0 polling stations operating.

“T h e goal is to have the refer­ endum period happen right before spring break to raise awareness about the im portance o f accredita­ tion .” S SM U does n ot yet have spe­ cific cost estimates for the election.

In a presentation to Council last year, G ebert suggested various pros and cons o f accreditation.

M ost importantly, accredita­ tion “makes S SM U the legally rec­ ognized representative body for all M cG ill undergraduate students internally and externally [and] guarantees S S M U the right to levy a membership fee,” Gebert wrote, “ [but] if not campaigned properly, a no vote can be wrongfully per­ ceived as a vote o f non-confidence [and] the adm inistration may take offence to accreditation.”

“I fully support accreditation and feel that it is a win-win situa­ tion for M cGill students. W e have n oth in g to lose by having an accredited Students’ Society and m u ch to g ain ,” said D eC astro.

“W h en I discuss the m atter with friends, however, I always learn that they interpret accreditation to be a confidence vote on the curren t executive.”

G ebert also pointed out in his presentation that while accredited status w ould m ean “guaranteed m in im u m rights from the University, [including] a list o f all u ndergraduate stud ent society m em bers [a n d ...] provide the S SM U w ith a room , furniture, a telephone, bulletin board space and access to student building during business hours,” this could be interpreted “against us as ‘letter o f the law’ versus ‘spirit o f the law.’”

T h e S S M U ’s office is considerably larger and better equipped than the provincial m inim um requires, but, “it will do a similar service to S S M U w ith som e cru n ch -tim e issues when S S M U ’s letter o f agree­ m ent [for control o f the Shatner Building] w ith the U niversity comes up for renegotiation next year,” he said.

A ccred itation procedure requires a voter turnout o f at least 2 5 per cent o f the represented stu­ dent body. Last year, about 4 8 6 7 students voted, and though 8 6 per cent voted “yes,” S SM U missed the needed 4 1 8 5 affirmative votes by 1 5 4 votes.

The McGill Tribune, Tuesday, January 7, 2003

Lefty is leavin g L a u ra Sab a

After serving as the Students’ Society’s Vice-President Operations in 2001-2002, and as Clubs and Services Representative to Council in the 2002 fall semester, Raoul Gebert is leaving student politics upon his graduation from McGill.

Gebert’s first encounter with SSMU was in August 1999, before starting his first year at McGill, when SSMU was dominated by what he characterized as a conserva­ tive clique. He had just arrived from Germany, and had come in to register for SSMU Frosh Week. He arrived close to the closing time; after being told to wait for a while, he was refused and told to come back the next day. He thought, “If

I’m here to pay what’s due before the deadline, and am refused, something must be wrong.” He would later propose changes within SSMU to bring it more in touch with students and streamline a “very bureaucratic system” with more staff rather than SSMU mem­ bers. “It was very set in its ways,” he says.

He became more active in SSMU when he opposed the Cold Beverage Agreement in 1999-2000, and when SSMU and the McGill Daily went to court over a lease dis­ pute, it was clear to him that a lot of student groups did not have a positive relationship with SSMU. “Student groups should not be suing each other and wasting expenses on lawyer fees over a ridiculous issue,” he said. He felt that it was important to bridge the gap between the two camps.

“Even glaring things such as the [Shatner] renovation project, and the way it was handled, or the daycare that students had been pay­ ing for two or three years without seeing any services, even no-brain­ ers such as bringing in recycling bins were not being taken care of, [partly because] the person in office at the time [former Vice-President Operations Kevin McPhee] was not interested enough in these issues, but rather in issues that had noth­ ing to do with being a student rep­ resentative.”

He called McGill VicePrincipal (Administration and Finance) Morty Yalovsky “VP Squeeze the Lemon” and said the

University should not “squeeze every last dollar” out of students as it had enough resources to run a good university. This was not a "maximizing strategy, as McGill is not a corporation,” he argued.

During his years in office, Gebert tried to bring SSMU and students closer together, while improving the society’s efficiency.

When tension between staff and SSMU executives resulted in the firing of several staff members, he said at Council that certain people should not have been retained as long as they had.

Gebert says that SSMU now has much better communication with student groups, as they do with each other. According to Gebert, students are now able to come to SSMU with an issue and have it dealt with accordingly.

SSMU in the past “played one student group against another, getting nowhere, which is not what cooperation looks like,” he said.

In the spring of 2002, Gebert ran for President of SSMU, but lost to Martin Doe. Not wanting to end his career in student government, he instead took the position of clubs and services representa­ tive to Council. He felt that his position was not fully defined; although this made it difficult to deal with complaints and offer better services, Gebert dis­ agrees with a strict mandate because “as a councillor, you represent all student interests, and should not just reflect the interest of [one] faculty.”

He would have liked for there to be a specific way of bringing all the clubs together on a regular basis and having a forum for discussion.

He also feels that clubs should have a better handle on their accounts, but it would be too expensive to have separate accounting services for clubs.

Now that he is leaving, he says that it is difficult to let go, and he’s hoping that the next people in office are more able to take on the strategic tasks necessary to get SSMU where he feels it needs to be.

Gebert is glad that SSMU has changed as much as it did, with the executives taking their responsibili­ ties much more seriously than before. He still hopes to see more renovations to Shatner, and wants SSMU to get accredited.

News 5

N e W s B rle F s WF: The scarlet letter

Choy insists “this is a positive and necessary change for the aca­ demic needs of our students.”

—Sue Han

If Senate decides to change let­ ter grading policies, students who withdraw from a course after the Cafeteria contention continues midterm examination period may soon only receive a W (withdraw) The Students’ Society Council mark on their transcripts, rather than a WF (withdraw failing) or an approved a resolution expressing concern about the McGill adminis­ unpleasant letter grade.

Student representatives have tration’s takeover of food and bever­ spoken at Senate about problems age services on campus. In his with the current rules, but “the mat­ .motion at the December 5 meeting, ter has not been discussed at Senate outgoing Clubs and Services Caucus nor has it been addressed by Representative Raoul Gebert con­ Senate itself since commencing in demned the takeover of cafeterias September,” said Science Senator previously run by SSMU and stu­ Vivian Choy. When Senate recon­ dent societies in the Management, venes this month, she plans to bring Arts, Music, Education, and Law this matter to the Caucus for exam­ faculties, as well as the impending ination and to present it to the stu­ repatriation of Engineering cafete­ rias. He also criticized the adminis­ dent population for discussion.

This is also an effort to make tration for signing a deal with Cocawithdraw grading procedure consis­ Cola, despite the defeat of a similar cold beverage agreement in a 2000 tent between faculties.

In the current arrangement, student referendum.

The resolution included students receive a W on their tran­ scripts if they withdraw after the demands that Ancillary Services add/drop period but before return control of cafeterias to their respective student associations and midterm examinations occur.

Therefore, students considering that students’ input be considered withdrawal are unable to make an in dealings with food and beverage accurate assessment of their per­ vendors.

One clause of Gebert’s original formance in the course.

If Senate passes a resolution motion also asked for the resigna­ based on the proposed changes to tion of Ancillary Services head Alan the grade policy, students who have Charade, but councillors quickly taken midterms will be able to with­ agreed that such a resolution was draw from a course with only a W unnecessary and improper.

According to the amended res­ on their transcripts instead of a fail­ olution, “the SSMU advocates an ing grade.

integrated system of food and bev­ erage services, under the inclusion of all relevant student associations.”

Council also agreed that the society’s Executive Committee should include a food and beverage policy in its policy manual, a move that is currently being explored by the committee. SSMU VicePresident Operations Kathleen Morrison expressed her enthusiasm about the resolution: “It was passed unanimously, so we think it really reflects the broad base of student associations that feel that [food and beverage takeovers are] wrong, [need] to be stopped, and should be reversed immediately.”

— Mark Sward

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McGill Chers collègues, Le mandat actuel de Carman Miller, l’actuel doyen de la faculté des arts, prendra fin le 31 mai 2003.

C est pourquoi, conformément aux Statuts de l’Université, un comité consultatif a été créé. Ce comité, que je préside, comprend les members suivants: Représentants du Sénate :

Représentants du corps enseignant :

Professeur R od erick M acdonald

Professeur P h ilip B uckley

Professeur P h ilip O xh orn

Professeur C atherine Desbarats

M. K en d all W allis

Professeur K e rry M cSw eeney

Professeur G eorge W eisz

Professeur Lydia W h ite

Représentants du Conseil des gouverneurs : Représentant de l ’Association des M m e G retta Cham bers

dip lôm és de M cG ill :

M. James W rig h t

M. B rian Sarw er-Foner

Représentants de l ’A E U M :

Secrétaire :

M m e Jennifer B ilec

M m e M ary Shaw

M m e Rachel T elch

O pening on Council

As Gebert is retiring, a Clubs and Services Representive to Council postion is now available.

Rachel DeLorie, vice-presi­ dent clubs and services, will dis­ tribute forms to all clubs executives to indicate whom they have select­ ed as electors, and whether or not a club member will be running for the position. Electors will assemble before the next Council meeting to choose a new clubs representative. “[A]t the first Council meet­ ing on January 16, there will not be an empty seat,” assured President Martin Doe.

Le comité a tenu sa première réunion le 27 septembre 2002 et j'invite aujourd’hui toute personne que le poste de doyen de la faculté des arts intéresse à le postuler ou à présenter par écrit le nom d'éventuels candidats. Les candidatures ou mises en candidature seront d'autant plus utiles quelles sont accompagnées d un curriculum vitae détaillé. Je vous invite également à formuler des commentaires généraux qui, à votre avis, revêtent de l’importance pour le comité. Tout échange de correspondance sera traité avec le plus grand sérieux et en toute discrétion.

Veuillez fa ir e p a rv en ir vos réponses à cette lettre à m oi-m êm e ou à la secrétaire d u com ité consultatif M m e M ary Sha w, p a r courriel ou p a r écrit à l’adresse : Secrétariat, pavillon Ja m e s de l ’adm inistration, b u rea u 6 0 8 (courriel : m ary.shaw @ m cgill.ca). L’exa m en des candidatures débutera le 1er fé v rie r 200 3 .

Veuillez croire, chers collègues, à mes salutations les plus cordiales.

Luc Vinet

Stop the Press

EDITORIAL

War on Iraq does concern students

“ The great enemy o f clear language is insincerity.”— George O rwell

Orwell, doublethink and the real live truth Ric Lambo_____________________________________________________________ F ifty -th re e years ag o th is m o n th , G e o rg e O rw e ll d ied o f tu b e r­ cu losis, c o u g h in g up his lungs a t a sm all s a n ito riu m in B erk sh ire, E n g la n d . C o n s id e rin g h im as h e w as a t v ario u s stages o f his life, an A n g lo -In d ia n , an E a to n ia n , an Im p erial p o lic e m a n , a leftist sold ier in S pain an d a stru g g lin g w riter, w e see th e to r tu r e o f a c o n s c ie n ­ tio u s

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C o n s id e rin g th a t h e w as also im p o v erish ed , n e g le cte d , cen so red an d ig n o re d , w e c a n see o u r p resen t a ttitu d e to th e tru th s he trie d so d esp erately to tell, w h ich , h eavily satirised in 1 9 8 4 , b ro u g h t h im fam e o n ly in th e last year o f his life.

N o w , in th e ce n te n n ia l o f his b irth , a n d a t th e b eg in n in g o f a y ear in w h ich glo b al c o n flic t (G u lf W a r II) seem s in evitab le, it seem s th a t O rw e ll’s m essage is esp ecially p e rtin e n t. L a st Friday, ig n o rin g K ofi A n a n ’s s ta te m e n t th a t th ere is n o t en o u g h evid en ce fo r a w ar o n Iraq , G e o rg e B u sh rallied his tro o p s b y sayin g th a t su ch a w a r w o u ld be ‘n o t to c o n q u e r b u t to lib erate th e c o u n try . H e illus­ tra te d p e rfe ctly O rw e ll’s c o n c e p tio n o f ‘d o u b le th in k ’ an d h e m ig h t ju st as w ell h ave s h o u te d th e slogan ‘W a r is P eace’ , ‘F re e d o m is S lavery’ o r ‘Ig n o ra n ce is S tren g th ’ . M e a n w h ile , variou s th o u g h tcrim in als s u ch as Susan S o n ta g , F ra n ç o is e D u c r o s , H e r ta D a e b le r-

In response to the editorial published in The M cG ill Tribune (N ovem ber 2 6 ), entitled “U N says S S M U w ho?” the M cG ill Students Against W ar and Racism would like to refute the assertions put for­ ward by the Tribune with the fol­ lowing reply. Firstly, it is entirely incorrect and misleading to tacitly accu se the o rigin ators o f th e m otion calling on S S M U to con ­ dem n a w ar on Iraq as being “antiA m erican .”

T h e absurdity o f the notion that the authors m ust be “antiA m erican” is com p ou n ded when considered in light o f several o f the m o tio n ’s orig in ato rs being Am ericans. N either are they selfloathing A m ericans, although the failure o f your article to make any distinction between a con d em n a­ tion o f G eorge W . Bush’s oil driven war m ongering and universal co n ­ dem n ation o f all A m ericans would necessarily lead to that conclusion.

W e find your con tention that it is “false” for the S S M U to believe they are m andated to step into the foray o f “issues o f international

im p o rt,” to be d ogm atic, and in

hom e?” T h e inference is that there

fact, you con trad ict yourselves fur­ ther on in the editorial when you laud the S SM U for endorsing the protest(s) against the FTA A , a mul­ tilateral trade deal encom passing 3 4 states and irrefutably o f “inter­ n ation al im p o rt,” as being an example o f “a student society rally­ ing for its constituents.”

You also state th at “its (the res­ olution’s) appearance on C o u n cil’s agenda brings with it implications o f the expansion o f the scope o f

is som e kind o f d ich oto m y between “issues o f international im p o rt,” and the local needs o f any com m u n ity . T h is red u ctio n iv analysis makes for bad science as well as bad politics. Just as the FT A A is inseparable from the availability o f quality education, so too does a war have m anifest reper eussions for an educational c o m ­ munity. First, the potential spend­ ing o f billions o f dollars on a wai represents funding that should go back to education, n ot slaughter,

students go vern m en t...”, an asser­ tion .th at we find to be entirely baseless when taken into consider­ ation w ith the afo rem en tion ed su p p o rt fo r the con troversial protests against inclusion o f educa­ tion in the FTA A , the fact that the S S M U passed a resolution co n ­ dem ning the system o f apartheid in South Africa, and the general history o f student anti-w ar m ove­ ments stem m ing from the V ietnam W ar. In fact, far from being the aberration, student condem nation o f war is an integral part o f the his­ tory o f the student m ovem ent.

A gain, you ask the misleading question, “If o u t student govern­ m en t is busying itself with an international agenda, w ho will be there to p rotect ou r interests at

G m e lin c o n tin u e to be b lack -listed fo r ‘c o m m ittin g acts o f rev o lu ­ tio n ’: tellin g th e tru th .

D u rin g th e S e co n d W o rld W a r, O rw e ll w as in th e h a b it o f k eep in g a w a r-tim e d iary, in w h ich h e re c o rd e d v ario u s ‘signs o f th e tim es’ so as n o t to c o m p le te ly fo rg e t th e p ast w h en ev er g o v e rn ­ m e n ts ’ official versio n s o f th e tru th ch a n g e d . O n e e x c e rp t, suitab le to d escrib e th e p ast y ear o f w e ll-in te n tio n e d ‘su rg ical’ o r ‘p recisio n ’ b o m b in g (itse lf an O rw ellian ism ) ov er A fg h an istan goes: “F r o m a n ew sp ap er a c c o u n t o f a raid (n o t iro n ic a l): ‘B o m b s w ere fallin g like m a n n a .”

P rob ab ly, if o n e w ere to keep a sim ilar d ia ry ov er th e c o m in g

Sorry for Wilner D ear Sirs and M adam s, Stop them presses, already!

Since this letter will be pub­ lished after the break, let m e briefly rehash Josh ‘N o Joshiri W iln er’s last colum n, to which I wish to respond. Josh had a frightening

year, it w o u ld be p articu la rly d esp airin g . B u t n o t c o m p le te ly so.

experience prior to the holidays.

A fter his inebriated com panions made faces at the occupants o f

O n e has o n ly to lo o k to B razil to see s o m e th in g th a t even O rw ell

another car, the angry occupants o f

w o u ld h ave ap p ro v ed of: th e e le c tio n o f L u la d a Silva in O c to b e r last year. L u la w as a w o rk in g m a n w h o ro se u p fro m b ein g a sh o e -

said other car proceeded to chase j Jo sh and his friends th rou gh sh in e boy, a m e ta l w o rk e r an d a tra d e u n io n lead er to even tu ally W estm ou n t for six or seven para­ b e co m e p resid en t o f th e c o u n try , lo sin g o n e fin g er alo n g th e w ay j graphs. After finally pulling over, d u rin g his days w o rk in g in a steel facto ry . H e w as b o th p o lite an d just a stone’s throw away from ad v an ced e n o u g h to in vite Fid el C a s tro to his in a u g u ra tio n last w eek an d is p a rt o f B razil’s final triu m p h o v er d ecad es o f m ilita ry d icta to rsh ip s. It is also a n illu stratio n o f w h a t c o u ld h a p p e n o n th e rest o f th e c o n tin e n t w ere th e U S to sto p m e d d lin g an d allow it to d evelop o n its ow n .

A q u ick glan ce a t th e c u r re n t state o f th e w o rld m ak es it seem th a t u ltim a te ly O rw ell failed in his w arn in g s. T h in k a b o u t th e C B S sh o w B ig B ro th e r, th e use o f th e p h rase ‘R o o m 1 0 1 ’ o r th e p o p u ­

Josh’s parents’ M urray Hill m an­ sion, Josh rolled down his window and shouted, “W h a t the fuck is your problem , buddy? Are you fucking crazy o r som ething?”

N ow here’s the crux, so pay attention. T h e driver o f the other

u n d e rs to o d his ideas h ave b e co m e . T o read O rw e ll is really to e n te r

car reportedly replied, “D IE Y O U F U C K IN G E N G L I S H !”

(Capitalization not m ine.)

W h a t poor, m isguided Josh

a w o rld o f a lm o st d isa rm in g san ity in w h ich w e m a y ju d g e clearly

gleaned from this incident was that

th a t im m e d ia te m ilita ry a c tio n ag ain st Iraq w o u ld be w ro n g , o r to reco g n ise th a t ‘ty ra n n y n eed n o t, a n d o u g h t n o t, triu m p h ov er tru th

the o th er driver obviously was angry about his people’s “frustrated

a n d ju s tic e .’

patriotism , one th at made som e

la rity o f 1 9 8 4 an d A n im a l F a r m in th e v e ry so cieties he w as c riti­ cisin g . In th ese o n e ca n see h o w p ervasive b u t c o rr u p te d a n d m is­

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innocent gesturing and face-m ak­ ing by m y friends seem like a per­ sonal attack on the French way o f

after it was stripped away through cutbacks. Second, the potential for racist backlash on cam pus is verr real as the 1 6 0 0 per cent increase in an ti-A rab /M u slim attack s in A m erica since Septem ber 11 has shown. T h ird , any w ar creates an environm ent w hich stifles academ ­ ic freedoms and labels political detractors as “u np atriotic.” Thus is specifically in the nam e o f oui interests as students “at h om e” that o u r stud ent governm ent should take a stance against the war on Iraq. Ignoring the issues at hand would be nothing short o f irre­ sponsible leadership.

M cG ill Students Against W ar and Racism car, I m ight m om entarily consider harassing them . However, if I was driving late at night and saw a b u n ch o f d ru n k idiots from

life.” Josh’s sheltered life was no lon ger u n to u ch ed by “A n g lo-

W estm o u n t in a Volvo m aking

Fren ch h ostility,” alas, alack, pathos, bathos, etc., etc.

I have six things to say about

faces at m e, I would seriously con ­ sidering running them o ff the road and making them shit in their god­

this:

dam n khakis.

4 ) I am n o t im pressed by W iln er’s accoun t o f his harrowing adventure being chased past the

1) I find it extrem ely amusing that W iln er’s first encounter with “A n g lo -F ren ch h ostility” in M ontreal was from the driver’s seat o f his Volvo near M om m y and D addy’s house in W estm ount. Ha! 2) D id it ever o ccu r to W ilner that his antagonist could not have

private schools, SU V s, and m ani­ cured law n s/m oats o f upper W estm ount. I’ve had m ore harrow­ ing experiences trying to merge on to the Ville M arie Expressway.

known that the inhabitants o f his Volvo were English speakers until

C ry me a fuckin’ river.

the very end o f the m ad chase, when some actual language was

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exchanged? H e and his friends and his Volvo were m ore likely victims o f road rage because they are idiots, not anglophones. Unless, say, the Volvo proudly displays an anti­

5) I find it irritating that the always “sics” m in or

spelling errors in students’ letters to the editor. Like, just correct them.

T h a t’s

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are

for.

Someday I will com e by with an issue o f T h e Tribune covered in

m erger “Save W e stm o u n t!” b u m p er sticker, o r his friends’ heads are particularly square-look­

“sic”s and we’ll see how you like it th en , M r. Jam es “Fan cy-p an ts” Em pringham .

6 ) Yes, I am procrastinating

ing.

from studying for m y exams.

3) I f I was driving late at night

T h an k you,

and saw a bunch o f drunk idiots making faces at m e from another

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O p i n i o n

Op/Ed 7

E d i t o r i a l

When I w as young and Catholic in Québec

I was sick at Christmas this year and consequently I missed the Christmas Mass. I don’t like missing that Mass, because it is, after all, the root o f the holiday. Still, the hiatus gave me a chance to sit in m y pyja­ mas and think over some things about my religion, or more precisely the religion o f m y youth.

Knowledge and age can be dif­ ficult things to endure and some­ times it is essential to remember things that happened a long time ago.

Being o f Irish Catholic her­ itage, I was baptized when I was a wee lad, and in Québec the resulting docum ent becomes your Preuve de Naissance. This is a funny little

and the glory was never lost on my six-year old imagination. There were gold crosses, velvet red drapes, pol­ ished brass organ pipes and the 14 marble Stations o f the Cross.

W hen I was little, religion was carried over from the pulpit to the pupitre o f the French C ath olic school o f St-Gérard. Every day, la M aîtresse, would im plore us to devote our forthcom ing schoolwork to the Good Lord in a vain attempt to reduce the strain on the red pen which she kept engaged in a perpet­ ual struggle against improperly con ­ jugated passé simple exceptions. If her teachings on participe passé would not spur us on to the gram­ maire ideal, then perhaps the allconsuming power o f the Holy Spirit would.

In m orning prayer, I always prayed for two things: that m y uncle Alex could walk again and that I could have superpowers. “Jesus, he’s a crime-fighting man that no one

o f bullies.

W hen I was getting ready for my First C om m union, I took reli­ gious lessons with the local Priest. I remember him as a nice little old man who wore little round glasses, who had a long Polish name and who would explain quietly and sim­ ply the value o f piety, his love o f G od and the meaning o f Church in the greater community. After every Sunday o f diligent study, he would pour each o f us a glass o f milk, open a tin o f arrowroot cookies and we would sit down and watch Bill a n d T ed’s Excellent Adventure till m y par­ ents came to pick me up. W ild stal­ lions rock on.

T h e day o f the cerem ony itself, there were 4 0 or so o f us and we all put on white robes over our best clothes and polished shoes. T h e boy in front o f me had the standard issue white robe that barely concealed his burned ou t m angled flesh. T h e burns had licked round his neck and

be transmogrified into auras o f pri­

understands! Hurry St-Michael, it’s

mary colour, kissing the lips o f the Saints congregated there. T h e power

the prayer signal!” W h at do you expect? I was six and there were a lot

face. Parents whispered to younger siblings, “T h at’s why you don’t play with fire.” I wondered why he still

metaphor for the province o f the Quiet Revolution. As M ark Twain said, “You can t throw a rock in M ontreal without breaking stained glass.” Well, in Quebec your parents may be Raeliens and you may be their clone, but till you touch the H oly Waters, you are not quite a person in the eyes o f the law.

M y earliest memories o f the Church involve my squinting at the enorm ous chandeliers suspended midair in the 198 year-old Church o f Saint-Thom as M oore in St-Jeansur-le Richelieu. W e shared the sacred grounds with the Anglican parish (the rest o f the town was French and they had their own Churches) and one can only wonder what would have happened at our joint Hallowe’en pot-luck supper, with the paprika potato salad, if someone had dressed up as Henry V III ... But back to those chande­ liers. I remember that if I squinted hard enough the white light would

took the short bold steps towards the embroidered cloth draped altar. I don’t know why, but I will always remember and respect his slow pur­ poseful steps past the stares.

I don’t know why some details become transfixed in your mind and then what makes you think about these tiny details years later. Maybe it is the sex scandals in the Church, or the prospect o f an uncertain year filled with cruise missiles, or squab­ bles with my brother at the dinner table. Sometimes it is just easier to think about easier times, when you took things for granted. But still, the past is useless unless it teaches les­ sons for the future.

W h at I remember most about m y early religion was, despite the background politics and Fears, a tremendous love. There was always a trem endous sense o f love and belonging in a com m unity o f bigger people. As the year 2 0 0 3 starts off with so m uch fear and uncertainty, I just want to remember that love.

The depths of a shallow existence College students are conflicted with feelings o f intrigue, anticipation and fear o f what lies ahead. Soon enough, we will be “real” people with “real” jobs in the “real” world.

Despite the guidance o f M cGill’s acclaimed advisors, our place in the ruthless, bill-paying, tie-wearing world is uncertain.

As time passes, we grow older and older; long gone are the days o f wearing Teenage M u tant Ninja Turtles sweatpants and peeing on the front-lawn. W e have com e to under­ stand that time is an inevitable fact o f life; suddenly, our own mortality is painfully brought to light.

O ur childhood aspirations o f fame, fortune, and success resurface.

Lying in m y bed in small-town New Jersey, I used to fantasize about a future overflowing with love, wealth, power and happiness. It all seemed so easy— they would come in due time.

Soon, I will be 2 0 years old. As I examine my life, I am overwhelmed with feelings o f helplessness and incompetence. Monkeys have flown in space and migrating birds traverse the globe. Why, even our curious canine friends seem to gain immeas­ urable experience and wisdom freely sniffing the array o f crotches offered by m en, w om en and children.

Indeed, I have never been to space and my travels have been limited.

And if truth be told, despite the vast treasures offered by co-ed dorm life, I do not get much crotch action. Tell me, what are the advantages o f being human?

At the age o f five, Wolfgang Amadeus M ozart perform ed for monarchs. W hen I was five years old, I pooped in my diapers and

pleaded the fifth.

Having been “sniffed out” by the school nurse, I cried for m y m other.

Ruth Lawrence, Britain’s m ost famous child prodigy, studied m ath at Oxford at the age o f 12. W ith an IQ o f 181, Bobby Fischer grew up studying chess. Later, Fischer was to win every tournament in which he participated from December 1962 through the W orld Championship match 1972.

At the age o f 17, Britney Spears released her first album and took the world by storm, while teenage Andy Roddick climbs the pro-tennis rankings.

My trivial achievements hardly compare with those o f a prodigy.

Once, I went snorkeling in the ocean and spotted two naked w om en swimming towards the shore. That was awesome.

I am not the trailblazer I dreamed o f being; I merely follow a programmed route set by society. I went to a public high school, where I spent the majority o f m y time spying on the girls’ track team and gorging dinners.

Afterward, I opted to attend McGill University and join the ranks as a college student.

There is nothing exceptional about m y experiences. Across the globe, millions o f kids our age are doing the same things.

Looking ahead, I begin to fear the worst. Am I doomed to a trivial life o f ordinari­ ness? Does my future consist o f a tedious desk job, real estate invest­ ments, and scheduled checkups at the family proctologist?

After all, the last thing I want is to die unknown, my existence for­ gotten. I want to revolutionize the world and leave my imprint in the annals o f history. Struggling with my burgeoning sexuality, I yearn for passion— an eternal romance chron­ icled in a proverbial motion picture featuring Freddie Prinze, Jr. Today, I am what puberty hath wrought.

W hile hairs may be sprouting hap­ hazardly on my chest, while rippling biceps and ape-like legs have some­ how found peace on my body, I am still the same wide-eyed child seek­ ing grandeur.

But then I look at these suc­ cessful child prodigies and observe a com m on characteristic: they are all freaks!

Mozart went mad, Ruth Lawrence ran away from hom e, Bobby Fischer disappeared and Britney dated Justin Timberlake. As for Andy Roddick, he plays tennis.

T h e pressures facing young icons are immense. Their success com m on ly leads to fundam ental social ineptitude. Child prodigies exhibit an overwhelming fear o f fail­ ure, making them panic-stricken. As for me, my most humiliating catas­ trophe was when I was incapable o f finishing my Grande Com bo at Taco Bell. I have nothing to worry about; m y life is quiet and simple.

Individuals obsess over fame, fortune and success, sorrowfully plodding through their everyday

routines. W ith patience, acclaim, prosperity and true love will come in due time. By no means do we lay our youthful ambitions to rest.

Rather, we foster them and transfer our dreams into accessible realities.

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Progressive program or Chrétien s misguided legacy?

R u s s e ll S e id le W h en the Kyoto Protocol was first agreed upon at the Decem ber 1 9 9 7 m eetin g o f the U nited Nations Framework Convention on Clim ate Change, it was heralded as the beginning o f a new era o f inter­ national cooperation on the issue o f global warming.

N early five years later, though, several signatories to the accord have yet to ratify Kyoto. Significant debate is currently taking place in Canada as to whether the country should submit to the terms o f the P rotocol. K yoto has engendered intense feelings o f either hope or consternation for the m any groups affected by its wide-ranging pre­ scriptions.

T h e K yoto P rotocol: W h a t It Entails T h e Kyoto Accord is aimed at decreasing the greenhouse gas emis­ sions linked to global warming.

U nder the agreement, industrialized countries are required to reduce releases o f specified gases by an average o f 5 .2 per cent (from 1 9 9 0

levels) by the period o f 2 0 0 8 to 2012.

E ach cou n try has a unique reduction target under the Protocol: for Canada, the goal is a six per cent lowering o f carbon dioxide emis­ sions from 1 9 9 0 levels. Kyoto will not com e into effect until 55 coun­ tries accounting for at least 55 per cent o f global carbon dioxide emis­ sions have ratified the agreement.

This goal can be reached with the participation o f C anada (which ratified at the end o f 2 0 0 2 ) and Russia (expected to sign this year).

As o f January 3 , ratification stood at 101 countries representing 4 3 .9 per cent o f worldwide emissions.

T h e Kyoto Protocol includes three so-called flexibility m echa­ nisms (emissions trading, join t im plem entation and the clean development mechanism) allowing nations to implement novel pro­ grams toward the achievement o f reduction targets.

International emissions trading would perm it countries that outper­ form their targeted levels to sell the difference between targeted and actual perform ance to countries

that would otherwise underachieve their own emissions goals.

Joint implementation allows a n ation to fund greenhouse gas reduction programs in other coun­ tries and to claim the achieved sav­ ings against its own targets. Finally, the clean development mechanism (C D M ) is geared towards the estab­ lishment o f projects that reduce emissions and create sustainable developm ent in the developing world. Again, the initiating country would receive credits against its own Kyoto targets for all such ventures.

T h e Case For Kyoto Prime M inister Jean Chrétien has been unequivocal in his support for Kyoto. At the Johannesburg sum m it in September o f last year, Chrétien announced that he would ask Parliament to ratify the agree­ m ent by the end o f 2 0 0 2 .

In addition to its anticipated environmental benefits, pro-Kyoto advocates point to the potential econom ic advantages o f ratification.

A ccording to a study commissioned by the David Suzuki Foundation and the W orld Wildlife Fund, the

financial surplus accrued from cleaner econom ic activities in this country would be significant.

“T h e benefit o f implementing these policies to reduce annual greenhouse gas emissions would exceed the costs,” states Dr. Stephen Bernow, principal author o f the study and vice-president o f the Boston-based Tellus Institute. “O ur study forecasts the net addition o f 5 2 ,0 0 0 Canadian jobs by 2 0 1 2 , and a $ 2 billion addition to the GDP, over and above the growth forecast in ‘business as usual’ Canadian govern­ m ent projections.”

“Global warm ing is a worldwide problem, and Canada has to do its part to help solve it,” says U 0 Science student Samuel M oo re. “I f the K yoto Protocol is not ratified, we will have missed a huge o p p ortu n ity to address clim ate change both in this cou ntry and around the w orld.”

O p ponen ts are not convinced, however. T h e biggest criticism o f the federal governm ent’s stance on Kyoto is that

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endorsement o f the accord is based m ore on a concern for establishing Chrétiens personal legacy than with any sense o f environmental respon­ sibility per se.

Detractors also point to the fact that the Federal government has been either n oncom m ittal or unrealistic in term s o f how the Protocol’s targets are to be achieved T h e m ost recent Federal plan for meeting Canada’s goal (a 240-m iI-

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P H 0 T 0 T R A V E LS .C 0 M

The far-reaching effects of the environmental agreement Kyoto offers hope for our fragile biosphere In m any respects, 2 0 0 2 was a proud year for Canada. W e distin­ guished ourselves in several respects: gold at the Olym pics, suc­ cess on the battlefield, prizes in arts and literature. All o f these were noteworthy endeavours, but history will unarguably identify Kyoto as It was in Yellowknife this past sum m er that the implications o f cli­ m ate change stru ck m e m ost forcibly. O ne June day, scientists north o f the city reported on find­ ing th in, fam ished polar bears.

Because o f m elting ice, these bears— the ones represented on our money— had a shorter hunting sea­ son and were therefore unable to store enough fat to sustain them ­ selves. Meanwhile, on the W eather Channel, residents o f Toronto were being advised to stay inside owing to another in a record-breaking string o f hot, smoggy days.

Flum an activity is changing the fragile biosphere and all forms o f life are suffering. It is not just societies o r cou ntries th at are threatened. W h at is in peril is the fundam ental elements from which we draw life— the air, the water, the earth. It is no hyperbole to state that we cou rt the apocalyptic if we fail to address clim ate change. In light o f this, Canada’s decision to ratify the Kyoto A ccord was both courageous and necessary.

our most noble achievement this year.

T h e sheer scale at which cli­ m ate change is occurring will make Canada’s initial reduction o f green­ house gases a m odest contribution to the process o f reversing global warming. In empirical terms, these reductions represent an almost neg­ ligible am ount, but in moral terms, C an ad a’s K yoto co m m itm en t is enorm ous. T h e Kyoto A ccord is no less than the Marshall Plan o f our generation. Kyoto is not perfect, but it represents countries o f the world making a dedicated, unselfish effort to address w hat is probably the gravest problem hum anity has ever faced. By joining this m ultilat­ eral endeavour, Canada can rightly claim to be acting as a moral state with citizens who are capable o f com prehending priorities greater than personal indulgence.

T h e case for Canada’s Kyoto pledge is not only moral. Lest the topic need even be addressed, there is abundant scientific support for taking actio n against clim ate

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change. T h e Kyoto “debate” is in m any senses a chim era. O pponents o f the accord cite a lack o f certainty regarding the current information that describes clim ate change. This is entirely true in one respect: scien­ tists are uncertain as to w hat degree the average surface temperature o f the earth will rise in the next centu­ ry, citing estimates ranging from one to six degrees centigrade. In light o f the planet’s fragility, the only genuine ‘debate’ is to ask if what we face is a catastrophic prob­ lem or merely a serious one.

T here are also those who have decided to regard clim ate change as an environm entalist conspiracy.

T h eir lonely cham pion is a telegenic, 32-year-old statistician from D en m ark who in 2 0 0 1 penned T he Skeptical Environmentalist, a tom e that urges the reader to be com p lacen t towards global w arm ing and a host o f other ecological concerns. Feted

ple reason. Namely, to ask for total consensus and perfect information before a course o f action be taken is to ask the impossible. N either gov­ ernm ents n or individuals behave this way. W e do not insist on seeing rain before leaving the house with an umbrella. Certain governments are glad to launch w ar w ithout any­ thing approaching consensus or perfect information.

W ith regard to clim ate change, a very large m ajority o f scientists have declared that it is a reality and th at it is occu rrin g because o f hum an activity. To cite a lack o f perfect consensus as an excuse to do nothing is absurd. By this reason­

by The Economist and the petrole­ um industry, the handsome Bjorn L o m b o rg has been th oroughly shredded by the scientific com m u ­ nity.

Last w in ter in Scientific A m erican, four o f the world’s lead­ ing scientists (including a dean from Harvard) reviewed individual portions o f Lom borg’s book. All found his scholarship to be shoddy,

ing, we should cease the teaching o f evolution until Kansas school boards are in accordance with its validity.

Economically, too, in the long term , Canada m ay reap benefits from its K yoto pledge. Power derived from fuel cells, wind and other clean energy sources wifi be in increasing dem and as countries around the world seek a respite

Nevertheless, well-funded oil inter­ ests continue to huddle like so many deluded Chamberlains, urg­ ing us to sit cautious and im potent in the face o f com ing crisis.

T h e arguments o f Kyoto oppo­ nents seem specious for a m ore sim­

from the harmful effects to health and security that com e with reliance on conventional fossil fuels. Kyoto gives Canada’s engineers and entre­ preneurs further incentive to hone their expertise with new fuel tech­ nologies, and eventually to position themselves to export their knowl­ edge around the world.

Ultimately, though, the bene­ fits Canada wifi receive from join­ ing the Kyoto A ccord are o f a m ore fundam ental nature.

C an ad a’s pledge represents a new ecological m aturity, as Canadians have an opportunity to re-em brace the val­ ues long understood by the First N ations people. O u r perception o f the natural world is beginning to shift to one that encompasses a sense o f duty and stewardship.

In a sym bolic way, K yoto reminds Canadians o f how very crucial the earth is to our lives. It is us; we are it. W e m ay envelop our senses in concrete, metal and plas­ tic, but we are ever dependent on the natural forces o f the planet. W e are obliged to the source o f our food and water and air.

A new understanding o f our relationship with the planet can also serve as a means o f drawing us clos­ er to others around the globe. O u r current efforts represent a partner­ ship with m any cultures and races, all o f which depend, as we do, upon providing a stable biosphere under which to live. M ay we succeed.

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Kyoto straight up Continued from page 8 lion tonne reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2 0 1 0 ) includes a 70-m illio n ton n e clean energy credit’ for exports o f natural gas and hydroelectric power; the U nited Nations has not yet agreed to this proposal.

T h e Case A gainst Kyoto T h e m ost vehem ent opposi­ tion to the Kyoto Protocol comes from the province o f A lberta, whose oil and gas industry is one o f the largest net contributors o f greenhouse gas emis­ sions.

Alberta disputes the optim istic econom ic sce­ nario advanced by the Tellus Institute.

A ccord in g to estim ates cited by the provincial governm ent, ratification could produce a loss o f 4 5 0 ,0 0 0 jobs, a substan­ tial rise in incom e taxes, and a 1 0 0 per cent increase in domestic electricity costs.

M ost disconcerting to the antiKyoto cam p is the ultimate lack o f certain ty w ith respect to the P ro to co l’s effects on C anada.

Premier Ralph Klein argues that rat­ ification is tantam ount to “signing a mortgage for a property you have never seen and for a price that you have never discussed.”

O pponents o f the accord also argue that Canadas contribution to global warm ing (two per cent o f total greenhouse gas emissions) is negligible, especially when co m ­ pared to the 6 5 per cent o f total emissions represented by countries such as China, India, M exico and the U nited States, who either have not signed on to Kyoto or have not been given specific reduction targets under the terms o f the accord.

“I f the actions o f large pollut­ ing countries are not addressed by Kyoto, Canada should not com pro­ mise itself economically, simply in

order to enact standards that won’t have a significant im pact on the global clim ate,” says U 0 Science student Terry Smith.

Alberta has advanced its own strategy for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. According to this plan, the province will com m it to a 6 0 million tonne emission reduction by the year 2 0 2 0 . T h e federal gov­ ernm ent, though, has moved to pre­ em pt debate concerning this initia­ tive, and is com m itted to the terms

to deny federal jurisdiction,” claims M atthew Bramley, director o f cli­ m ate change for the Pem bina In stitu te. “C arb o n dioxide and m ethane are pollutants. N atural

global warm ing is a naturally-occur­ ring phenom enon.

“M ost o f the 20th -cen tu ry sur­ face warm ing is inconsistent with a hum an-m ade enhanced greenhouse

resources are things like trees and oil and gas that are in the ground.”

effect,” they argue. “T here is strong evidence that variation in the sun’s energy output is a m uch m ore sig­ nificant driver o f surface tem pera­ ture than hum an-m ade greenhouse gases. W h en it comes to climate change, humans aren’t the culprits.”

This view, in turn, can be con ­

specified by Kyoto.

“Canadians w ant Canada to show leadership,” states federal

achieve the accord’s goals, especially as the boundaries between federal and provincial con trol b ecom e points o f con ten tio n for both sides.

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N ext Steps T h e Canadian debate over the Kyoto Protocol has not ended with ratification. T h e bigger issue is im p lem en tation o f policies to

governm ent should shift the discussion with the provinces to how it actually plans to im p lem en t K yoto, w hat the econ om ic im pact would be, and who would be the hardest hit before start­ ing to think about rati­ fying,” says M BA 1 stu­ d ent L orea G arcia.

REDVALTERZAPHOTO GRAPHERS.N ET “This will help to get the support to actually implement M inister David

E n v iron m en t A nderson. “T h e y do n ot w ant Canada to continue with indeci­ sion, with endless delays and with half measures. It’s time to roll up ou r sleeves and w ork w ith the provinces, the territories, with busi­

nesses and, o f course, Canadians and get out those innovative solu­ tions.”

T h e latest salvo fired by Alberta comes in the form o f its recently introduced clim ate change legislation. T h e province’s Clim ate C h an ge and Em issions M anagem ent A ct declares green­ house gases to be ‘natural resources’ falling under provincial jurisdic­ tion.

T h e bill arrogates to Alberta the exclusive power to set and enforce emissions reduction targets, irrespective o f the goals advocated

by Kyoto or any other national or international plan.

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the measures needed to com ply with the P rotocol.”

Premier Klein weighs in with the following thoughts regarding implementation: “W h at happens if we [Alberta] simply say, ‘Well fine, Canada— you go sign your own agreement; we’ll develop our own plans, and so what? Try to enforce it.’ W e’ll con ­ tinue to keep the battle up because there is nothing in the Protocol that says that you’re firmly com m itted to it.”

A nd even though m ost C anadians are con vin ced th at industrial em issions are directly responsible for producing global cli­ m ate change, debate has again resurfaced on this m ost basic point.

A report co-w ritten by Tim P atterson , a professor o f E arth Sciences at Carleton University, Dr. Sallie Baliunas and Allan M . R. M acRae, advances the theory that

trasted with the opinion that Kyoto does not go far enough to address worldwide climate change issues.

“D eb atin g em ission targets really obscures the real issue,” claimed M cGill Econom ics profes­ sor Chris Green, when debate first began regarding the targets pro­ posed under the Protocol. “The only way to actually control global w arm ing is to make massive invest­ ments in research and development to develop alternative energy sources.”

It is clear, then, that the effect o f hum an activity on the physical environm ent— and, by extension,

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what measures (if any) Canadians should take to curtail greenhouse gas emissions— will continue to be contested for the foreseeable future.

W hile this dialogue is necessary to create awareness on all sides o f the issue, this impasse m ust ultimately be broken if any effective action is to be undertaken.

Perhaps the only w ay to achieve agreem ent is through a detailed plan for the implementa­ tion o f environm entally-friendly alternatives to cu rren t industry practice, one that is equally accept­ able, economically speaking, to the largest emitters as it is to the green­ est producers.

W hile some com prom ise may be necessary if such a pact is to be achieved, there are only two alterna­ tives to this situation. T h e first is to do nothing. T h e second is to unilat­ erally enact an agreement that can­ not succeed, and that only serves to further alienate those industries and regions whose active support is m ost crucial to the future health o f the environment.

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As m ore and m ore countries become part o f the global village,

schools in m ost cities which serve im m igrants, businesses and travel­

English has become an increasingly appealing language. W ith Chinas en try into the W orld Trade O rganization and the upcom ing 2 0 0 8 O lym pics to be held in Beijing, China has becom e a huge market for E S L schools. In Korea, there are currently over 1 0 ,0 0 0 for­ eign teachers and still thousands o f

ers.

Taiwan is a small island o f 2 2 million people off the east coast o f mainland China. W hile living there last sum m er teaching English as a Second Language (E S L ), I noticed something: it seemed like everyone o f those 2 2 million people wanted to learn English.

I was approached alm ost daily— in bookstores, cafés, even stopped at traffic lights— by people who w anted m e to teach them English. T h e school in which I taught had a class for toddlers as young as two years old. Indeed, par­ ents pay hundreds o f dollars every m onth for their children to be in a classroom that has English building blocks. It’s m ore like daycare in English than an actual E S L class.

vacancies.

Yet while the bulk o f ESL jobs— 4 0 per cent are in Asia— teachin g op p ortu n ities abound worldwide: from Siberia to Sudan, from the M iddle E ast to Latin Am erica, people are keen to learn English as their second language.

E S L jobs aren’t only limited to nonEnglish speaking countries; within N o rth A m erica, E ngland and Australia, there are private language

Brent M cTavish, a recent M cGill grad, teaches at T h e English Loft, a school run out o f an office building in T oronto. McTavish sim­ ply searched for “E S L schools Toronto” on Google, compiled a list o f schools in the area and mass e-mailed his résumé before landing his current job.

“I’m doing this temporarily to make some money,” he says. “I would have liked to go to Japan or somewhere abroad, but this way I can live rent-free at hom e for a while and still m ake a d ecen t salary.”

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What confers substance to university life The modem day quest for happiness is a dogged pursuit, especially for students L a u r a R u d y_____________________________ W ith the advent o f a new semester and the hustle and bustle o f the academic grind, the stress can som etim es be overwhelming. A sense o f happiness and well-being may, at times, be harder to attain.

M uch research has been con­ ducted in recent years on what

th at happiness com es in simple everyday rewards.

A ccording to Alice Isen, a Psychology professor at Cornell’s Arts College, people experience a

or a jog.”

Exercise is fundam ental in encouraging a positive disposition.

“attitude o f gratitude” has the power to change your life. This concept focuses on emphasizing what is right

According to Buddhist practices, the mind and body are one. It is thus hard to have an unhealthy body as well as a holistic approach towards life.

with life and steering clear o f the negative aspects. H e believes that becoming optimistic is a choice: the good, the beauty, the kindness and the compassion o f the world will thus seep through rose-coloured glasses. According to Carlson, your

“E xercise releases endor­ phins which help com b at anxiety and manage stress,” adds Segal.

“I usually exercise four times a week for an hour at a time and that makes me happy,” expresses David Shefner, U2

perspective guides you in your com ­ merce with the world.

makes people happy. According to the February issue o f The Journal o f Personality a n d Social Psychology, published by the A m erican Psychological Association, autono­ my— feeling that your activities are self-chosen and self-endorsed— is vital to prom oting happiness.

Com petence, a sense that you are effective in your activities, relat­ edness, a feeling o f closeness with others, as well as self-esteem con­ tribute to a meaningful life. The

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Balance is also essential in m aintaining a pleasant lifestyle.

study further concludes that popu­ larity and m oney do not render peo­ ple content and are situated at the bottom o f psychological needs.

“Happiness is a feeling that grows out o f an attitude towards life.

Each individual has a choice to focus on the good aspects o f life and to be grateful. H appy people do not dwell on the negative,” asserts Vicki Stark, a Montreal-based psychotherapist.

“People are in general less satisfied presently compared to 5 0 years ago due to the role o f materialism .

Happiness is approached in terms o f external things such as possessions and achievements which do not enhance one’s gratification with life.”

Recent studies have concluded

Exercise is key to promoting a sense thrill when they get a free sample, receive an unexpected gift or find a quarter on the street, making them feel m ore generous, friendly and healthy.

“Everyday rewards are vital to prom oting happiness,” proclaims psychiatrist Dr. Marilyn Segal. “Try to reward yourself daily with some­ thing small like a talk with a friend

The ancient Greeks believed m oderation is W SU.EDU best. of well-being.

“Social net­ works, physical activity, rest and extracurricular activities prom ote happiness,” says Evelyn Rodinos, a psychologist at the M cG ill C ounselling Service.

“W e are indeed social creatures and have a profound need for connect­ edness. Isolation breeds discontent.”

In his book entided D on’t Sweat the Small S tu ff a n d It’s A ll Small Stuff, Dr. Richard Carlson states that an

“Humans experience a whole spectrum o f emotions ranging from negative feelings such as anger, jeal­ ousy and hurt as well as positive feel­ ings like happiness and love,” says Rodinos. “Happiness is not a sus­ tained em otion, it varies day by day.

The trick is to live the life that you choose. W e have a profound need for connection and to contribute to society. Discovering who you are is im portant.”

H ow does one escape a vicious cycle o f negativity? Behaviour modi­ fication therapy is one option.

“M ind and body cann ot handle incongruence. If you act happy, you become happier,” notes Rodinos.

“W h en you act happy, people start to treat you differently and respond to you more positively which thus reinforces your happiness. Perhaps the saying is true: W hen you smile, the whole world smiles with you.”

Contributing to your com m u­ nity also helps to generate optimism.

According to the authors o f Everyday Health Tips, which offers tips on achieving health and happiness, giv­ ing back to the com m unity provides a boost in self-esteem. In addition, volunteering furnishes the benefit o f

connecting with others in need as well as engendering a feeling o f use­ fulness.

Sleep is another essential ele­ m en t in m aintaining a positive frame o f mind.

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The Sunday Painter m akes his rounds AGO's Gauguin to Matisse exhibition to visit Montreal at end of month R ic L a m b o T h e A rt Gallery o f O ntario’s exhibition o f impressionist paint­ ings entitled “Gauguin to M atisse,” ran throughout Christmas and the New Year and offered, to those who wanted it, a break from the usual stress and bustle o f the season. To see these paintings means to literal­ ly step o ff the busy streets o f Toronto and enter the world o f Gauguin o r the paradise he sought half way around the world in the South pacific. (The same exhibit will grace the streets o f M ontreal later this m onth.)

T h e first painting in the exhi­ bition is his famous M iraculous Source, depicting two w om en by a river, one eating an apple, the other dozing, surrounded by villagers, wild birds and flowers, and the green country which stretches off behind them. T h e second painting is his equally famous The M onth o f M ary, showing a Tahitian girl sim­ ply dressed in white picking flowers in the Mangrove forests o f that region.

These simple scenes o f aborigi­ nal life, and others that follow, are

hardly Christmas card material, but in their apparent innocence and simplicity they make, by contrast, Gauguins point: that o f a m an who rejected his family and comfortable middle-class job as a stock-broker in Paris to paint what for him was the ideal — a civilisation uncharged with religiosity and unspoiled by the evils o f industrialist capitalism.

T h e other works in the exhibi­ tion could be said to illustrate the same them e.

T h ey • include Rousseau’s In a Tropical Forest show­ ing a tiger fighting a bull in the jun­ gle, and C ezanne’s M o n t SaintVictoire showing simply a house in t h e woods against t h e b ack ­ g ro u n d of a moun­ tain in o f A ix en

his hom e province Provence.

Further along the exhibition there are the paintings o f Matisse,

d epicting idyllic scenes o f the M editerranean and the boats along

haphazard nature o f his collection because he only began buying these paint­ ings around 1 9 0 4 (one year after G auguin’s death) back when postimpressionism was new, and probably even harder to comprehend.

N evertherless, the exhibition has a nice coda.

its shore. Particularly arresting is his p o rtrait Standing M orrocan in Green, which is arresting not just because o f the quantity o f green on the subj ec t— green tunic, green b a c k ­ g ro u n d , green

In another room in the gallery there are the paint­ ings and decorations off the walls o f the M usic room o f M orozov’s palace.

T h e five panels depicting

b eard — but also because o f his fixing eyes and slightly regal pose.

T h e only works that don’t seem to fully belong to the exhibition are

Cupid and Psyche superfi­ cially show the scenes we usually associate with the bacchanalianism of ancient Greek life: nudity, wine drinking, sex etc.

H owever, just as G auguin has shrouded his rejection o f society in naïve paintings o f village life, these paintings are also encoded and actually symbolise the creation o f Pleasure from the m ergence o f the Soul (Psyche) and Love (Cupid).

those o f Picasso. T here are only two o f his cubist paintings on display, and they show rather uninteresting objects rendered uninterestingly; a brick factory (with a square funnel) and a collection o f angular bowls and vases. There are also a few paintings o f native life, but again these are slightly disappointing in com parison to G auguin’s busy scenes.

T h e exhibition consists mainly o f the private collection o f the Russian m erchant Ivan Morozov.

And we can forgive him the slightly

PHOTOS CO U R TESY OF THE ART G A LLER Y OF ONTARIO

The exhibition Voyage int Myth: Gauguin to Matisse will be presented at the Musée des Beau ■ Arts de M ontréal fro m January 3 1 to A pril 2 7 . For more information see www. mbam. qc. ca.

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that they are still masters o f the scene they created. Korn’s unique sound and Jon Davis’ haunting lyrics are a stand alone musical style

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head o f hair and flailing body.

Davis was in excellent shape, despite having to cancel the rest o f the tour due to d octor’s orders dem anding less abuse o f his voice.

Davis is a beast, but if he was hurt­

each o f their five albums. K orn, for

ing, he didn’t show it.

A lthough concerned parents undoubtedly look at Davis and the band as negative role models selling

J e n n y G e o rg e B ria n M in ich ie llo K orn arrived at the Bell Centre on D ecem ber 5 to play the last show in their Pop Sux! tour to a

many, would be hard to swallow, but the crowd fed off the band’s energy.

Davis held the audience in his hand the w hole night, m oving from song to song breaking only to use an oxygen tank between songs to ease the stress on his vocal cords.

Davis let his lyrics speak to the crowd, refraining from the usual banter between stage and audience.

T h e m ost pleasant surprise o f the

hate and anger, in fact their songs offer an outlet for fans to deal with these feelings. Fu rth erm ore, the band sticks by its fans, selling dis­ cou nt tickets to younger fans wish­ ing to see the show, though the M ontreal date was 18+ only.

Davis him self is a bit o f a freak, which is why he can sing

serial killer museum (perfect for family visits on Sundays), that will house mem orabilia associated with famous m urdering criminals. Davis used to be an assistant coroner, and that is only an indication o f some lyrics. (Issues was the title o f Korn’s fourth album ).

T h e lyrics “So I take m y face

away on the ears while a m ean set o f guitar and bass contests for d om ­ inance. T h e sound produced by the band grates on the ear, abusing the lowest register it can.

T h e show ended with Davis’ infamous bagpipes, leading us all to salvation, and to a sweet encore.

A nd to top it off, they ended the con cert with “G o t the Life”, blast­ ing silver confetti from cannons, into and covering the whole audi­ ence in an anti-celebration o f pop.

T h e relief o f finishing the tour was evident— the band congratulated itself onstage with heartfelt hugs, and the audience roared their appreciation.

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E a sy on the e a rs Sexsm ith clim axes. Blue Rodeo's Pa/ace o f Gold shines. C h e ck these latest releases R on Sexsm ith Cobblestone Runway Linus

Poor Ron Sexsmith. T h e lovely Canadian troubadour has the back catalogu e, critical respect and enough friends in big, high places to be a really successful singer/songwriter. A nd yet, fame eludes him at every tu rn . Hopefully, this will change with his newest and sixth album, Cobblestone Runway (appar­ ently the title com es from Ron’s op in ion o f a landing strip at H eath row A irp ort in L on d o n , England), which puts another new spin on Ron’s introspective, sharp songwriting. Sexsmith’s last album, Blue Boy, had the venerable Steve

Earle in the producer role (under the name twangtrust), thus giving Ron the chance to turn up the vol­ um e and rock out, but he goes in the opposite direction on Runway, instead turning to Swede M artin Terefe and some subtle electronics.

H e also goes back to the lovely,

o f the song at different times and when com bined with Ron’s melodi­ ous “O o o o ’s,” this three minute songs does m uch to raise goose bumps in this reviewer’s opinion.

O n “Dragonfly on Bay Street,” Ron starts to get dow nright funky, which is quite a change from the slow, sad songs seen on earlier album s like O th e r Songs and W hereabouts. Also probably the only song you’ll ever dance to that concerns T oron to’s financial dis­ trict.

Finally, Chris M artin, singer o f now -hot Coldplay, shows up for a “remix” o f “Gold in T h em H ills,” and w hat first seems like another last-ditch effort to get Ron some decent records sales actually ends up being one o f the best songs on the album. M artin and Sexsmith do seem to have similar voices and they trade verses, while also beefing up the guitars and backing instru­ ments, since the original was only Ron and a piano.

It seems a shame that Ron has to resort to all this creative.wandering in order to find his wide audi­ ence, but if he keeps pum ping out albums o f this caliber and quality, I hope that he never does find his audience as there will be m ore for us, the smaller group o f core fans, to savour. D efinitely noth ing bum py about this landing.

— Chris Whibbs

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their seventh album to date.

O ne thing must be put out o f the way: Caution is not a ground­ breaking album. Following in the steps o f A Flight a n d a Crash with a faster, m ore rock-oriented sound, the band sticks to its Fugazi-influenced form ula o f dueling guitars and roughed-up vocals com ing out o f the studio with a slightly more polished and, well, m ore produced sound than before. “Sellouts!” will

T h e first song on the album, “D ead Passengers,” is rich in lounge melodies and is com plete with ‘doo­ w op’ backing vocals. In “You

cry out the few jaded fools who can’t stand to see their favorite little underground discovery sell a few more records.

T h e truth is, H W M just have

This is the kind o f song that will stick in one’s m ind once the album has finished playing.

T h e entire album is fresh and fluid. It is so good that it’s difficult to have a favourite one because all the songs are harm onious. T h e band really makes full use o f both C uddy and Keelor’s powerful gifted voices. For all those who love The C ou ntin g Crows’ August and Everything After, this album is simi­ lar and is easily just as good.

— Isabelle W est

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lilting ballads that have become Ron Sexsmith’s trademark, with the excellent “Gold in T h em Hills” being the perfect example. His dis­ tinctive singing voice is an incredi­ ble tool, and he uses it to great effect here to provide a wonderful, soft counterpoint to the electronic backing that dominates m ost songs.

W h y, one could alm ost call it croo n in g, but w ith o u t the schmaltzy Englebert Hum perdink connotations. T h e song, “For A M om ent” strikes the right balance between the electronics, strum m ing guitar and Sexsm ith’s adm irable voice, ft starts with a nice undulat­ ing beat that sets the laid back m ood and the guitar adds another layer, and then Ron starts to sing,

I f you’re a Blue Rodeo fan, now would be a good time to m arch . .. no make that sprint over to the nearest record store and pick up Palace o f G old. This is a very solid and flowing album, and once you turn it on you won’t be able to stop listening until you’ve heard the entire album. T here isn’t one bad or unfitting song on the album.

T h e title track is really upbeat and pleasant, kind o f like a jingle . .. but a first-rate, award-winning one.

T h is song is uncharacteristically upbeat for Blue Rodeo but it m esh­ es w ith the rest o f the record because it’s still a mellow song. T h e lyrics are well-written and have seri­

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“Bulletproof,” which has been getting some radio airplay recently is very melodious and the ever-talented Jim Cuddy’s voice really res­ onates. This is the first single o f the album and though it may not be the best track, it’s definitely sm ooth and pleasant. T h e lyrics are person­ al and in tim ate, just w hat one would expect from Blue Rodeo.

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access to better recording facilities and had m ore time to work on their sound. However, there seems to be a limit as to how good a H W M record can get, as they all leave a similar aftertaste: a few mem orable songs surrounded by a larger num ­ ber o f average ones. Caution is no exception; Apart from “I Was on a M ou n tain,” “It’s all Related” and “the Sense” the rest o f the album won’t stick in the listener’s head.

D on ’t let me scare you off th ou gh , the album is definitely w orth a listen. V ocalist C h u ck Ragan still sings with the same pas­ sion, feeding C aution w ith the intelligent, em otionally charged lyrics the band is known for.

F u rth erm ore, I sincerely believe that just for the art work on the lay­ out o f a H W M album, Caution the m ost resplendent one to date, everyone should own a H W M album . So should you get this record? If it’s going to prevent you from getting the latest Creed or Nickelback piece o f garbage out there, then I urge you to.

O therw ise, you should probably just keep you r eyes peeled for H W M ’s incendiary live show.

— Antoine G uinard

Sondre Lerche Faces Down Astralwerks

C ategorization is som ething we just can’t help when it comes to music. H aving been described as everything from punk to m elodichardcore to em o-core, Gainesville, Florida quartet H o t W ater Music has ignored all o f those hollow labels applied to them and just focused on making records.

Em erging from the croc-infested swamps o f Florida eight years ago [Ed’s note, there are no crocs in Florida, only gators.] the boys have since m igrated west to the sunset strip, finding a new hom e at m am ­ m oth indie label Epitaph, where they released A Flight a n d a Crash in 2 0 0 1 . Less than a year later they are back with Caution, their sopho­

Listening to Sondre L erche (pronounced “Lair-kay”) is almost like listening to every oth er wannabe pop star cuurnedy being im ported from Europe. Unlike sev­ eral o f his other Scandinavian coun­ terparts (T h e Hives, The Soundtrack o f O u r Lives), Lerche’s sound echoes th at o f D onovan mixed with some N ick Drake.

L erch e’s N o rth A m erican debut C D on Astralwerks Records, Faces Down, is geared towards the vapid Britpop melodies o f such com m ercial failures as Starsailor or Elbow. Norway’s Sondre Lerche is only 19 and although his music writing skills are less pretentious than that o f John Mayer, there is som ething overall uninspiring in his

K now So W ell,” L erche sings m atu rely ab ou t broken love.

“T here is one thing I know /It goes like this/It’s that when I lose m y sleep/It’s you I miss,” he pines.

Surely this should make for a prime radio single if David G ray hasn’t already topped it with his own recently released album.

As the album progresses, Lerche’s voice becomes increasingly familiar and sounds rather mature.

T h e harmonies on such tracks as “M odern N ature” are soothing, as m ost o f the album is, but nothing is too com plex. A fter a while, the soft fluidity o f the album becomes a reassurance.

In com p arison to some o f his peers, Lerche writes about the little things in life, while

addressing them on the m acrocosm ic level.

T h e solidity o f the album com es in the diverse blend o f styles incorporated in the music. Rather th an necessarily im itate those w hom he patterns his music after (A im ee M an n , B u rt B ach arach , etc.), Lerche uses his influences to forge his own p ath. W h ile the songs have a similar tone, they’re not all generic and formulaic like m uch o f the music that is written by other 19 year olds.

In some respect, this C D is a great debut recording from a young artist. H e addresses issues also fea­ tured on Beck’s Sea Changes, but still leaves a lot o f personal ques­ tions unanswered. U nfortunately, it’s hard to see someone like Lerche writing such music as this.

T h e C D is enhanced, with a music video and a photo gallery that is viewable on your computer.

Fo r a debut C D , it makes me ques­ tion A stralwerks’ p rom otio n o f Lerche as som eone who will be appealing to younger audiences and divert them away from the current phase o f teen-pop. I f th at’s the case, this is definitely the album that should do it, however, musical­ ly I would rather look forward to seeing where he goes on his next album.

— Spencer Ross

It's a Canadian game, Wright?

Newly appointed commissioner gets indepth on his job, the challenges and his goals S a r a h W right It’s six weeks later. T h e cam era crews, broadcasters and reporters have moved on. Season stats have been form ulated and trophies have been handed out. T h e Canadian Football League’s playoffs are a dis­ tan t m em ory, as the N ation al Football League and all o f its fans prepare for the Super Bowl.

T h ou gh as he sits in his newly decorated office located in the heart o f M etropolitan T oron to, there is m uch for new C F L Com m issioner Tom W right to be happy about.

This year’s Grey Cup saw the high­ est viewer ratings ever recorded by the league. A ccording to the A .C .

Nielsen rating, a total o f 5 .2 6 3 mil­ lion Canadians tuned in to see the gam e.

N ot since the 1983 E d m on ton -T oron to Grey C up have as m any people revelled in the awarding o f N orth American pro­ fessional sport's oldest trophy. This season the growth in fan support that the C F L has sought in recent years was felt in sports bars and family rec room s across the entire country.

W h at has seemed to plague the C F L over the last num ber o f years, ap art from m eagre ratings, was meagre leadership. T h e league’s last commissioner, Michael Lysko, was fired after a short and unsuccessful 16-m o n th tenure. T h e Board o f Governors needed to find someone capable to fill the gap left by Lysko who was fired last M arch. B .C .

Lions owner and chairm an o f the Board, David Braley, who took over as interim commissioner, was not the answer the Board o f Governors desired. Club managers and owners wanted a big change. T h ey desired stability. T h ey needed a new front m an.

E n ter W right, a 49-year-old Toronto native who hopes to pro­ vide the answer to the league’s chal­ lenges. A day before the Grey Cup was handed to the M on treal Alouettes for the first tim e in a quarter century, W right was intro­ duced as the 11 th com m issioner o f the C F L , checked jacket and all, earning him a nod from Brian W illiam s who com pared his style to that o f Canada’s m ost popular fash­ ion guru, D on Cherry. All in good fun o f course.

W right assumes the head post buoyed by the praise and high hopes from m any people in the sporting and media world.

“W right is a real quarterback type,” said Mike Cham bers, presi­ dent o f the C anadian O lym pic C om m ittee in a Globe a n d M a il interview. “H e’s the guy who’d run on the field and get the guys togeth­ er and say, ‘Let’s win this gam e’— and do it.”

T h e new com m ission er is

equally excited by the challenges this new position will yield.

“I feel a bit like a student who is going to the new school on his first day,” he said at the press con ­ ference th at an noun ced his appointm ent. “I feel like I’m going to m y first year o f university except, I’m pretty lucky, I get to go to nine different cam puses.”

Six weeks now at his new

C F L , however, is a m uch m ore pub­ lic job th at allows anyone and everyone to scrutinize his actions and words, m ore so than any other position W right has held in his career.

“There is nothing in a univer­ sity course that properly trains you for public life,” W right said regard­ ing his new spot on the media’s dance card. “It’s exciting, but it’s

ity that they m ay one day face sim­ ilar problems to those th at the N H L is currently confronting.

“H e would look at [obstacles] the same way he looks at every busi­ ness, which is how to improve the league, rather than just making m oney for the owners,” said D oug Hayes, who took over from W right as the president o f adidas-Salomon Canada. “H e’s the kind o f guy who would make all the difference to all concerned. H e would work for making both the league and the gam e better.”

JOHN S 0 K 0 L 0 W S K I

Tom Wright poses for the first time as the Commissioner of the CFL in Edmonton. school and W right is just as eager about learning the aspects o f his new job as he is stimulated by the challenges it will present him with.

Wright On...

T h e m edia W right comes to the C F L with a lengthy resume in sports market­ ing. H e was director o f marketing then president o f Spalding, and later spent 11 years as president o f adidas Canada. His m ost recent position was president and C E O o f Salomon N orth Am erica. H e has also been extremely active with the Canadian Special Olym pics as vicechairm an in 2 0 0 2 .

T h e C o m m ission er o f the

challenging because it’s learning a whole new skill when you’re 5 0 , which is kind o f fon. It’s a whole new learning experience for me, and it’s always fon to learn.

“M ore so than when I was run­ ning a [private] business, you have to be selective in w hat you say because what you say and the co m ­ ments you make will end up being interpreted by m any people and will show up all over the place. It also requires you to be that m uch m ore definitive and accurate in w hat you say.”

G ary Bettm an, the com m is­ sioner o f the N H L , has been in the news recently associated with the financial woes o f the Buffalo Sabres and O ttaw a Senators. T h e C F L and W right cannot rule out the possibil­

Business experience C on n ectio n s and n et­ working are im portant to a m an whose mandate is to co m m u n icate w ith nine clubs, league sponsors, and the media on a regular basis.

In order to keep the league on the upward slope it rode at the end o f the season, W right’s marketing and pro­ m otional expertise will be vital.

“I’ve had the experience and good fortune to work w ith great brands and to understand the perspective that it brings to the C F L brand is im portant. W orking in a marketing-oriented busi­ ness th at is national and international, you are able to see that brands have different strengths in the different countries and regions o f the world. You have to respect the different levels o f devel­ opm ent that represent each country and each league.

“T h e m ore you can co m m u n icate and m ore often and consistent you do it, the better. W h en you’re trying to bring consensus to a certain issue, you w ant to spend m ore tim e trying to im plem ent a decision, not researching all the aspects—

that should already be done.

M y philosophy is, if anything, to over-com m unicate. " T h e C F L has a lot o f m om en­ tum behind it and what was needed was a leader to capitalise on the swelling o f energy, said form er league president Jeff Giles.

“H e knows a lot about sports marketing and could have a pres­ ence at the Board o f Governors and actually get things done,” said Giles in a T S N interview. “I don’t think anyone could argue with his cre­ dentials. If there is a person who I could think o f that the Board o f Governors would give free reign, this would be the guy.”

CFL, not NFL W right emphasizes that his pri­ m ary focus with the C F L is m ain­

taining its Canadian distinctiveness.

Instead o f looking at the N F L as the com petition, W right proposes to em brace w hat that league does well and learn from it.

“W e are trying to build an environm ent that will encourage the sharing o f ideas with other clubs, not only learning from the com p etition in term s o f selling m ore tickets, but by sharing best practices to create a culture where we can continue to grow. W e need to ask— why has the league been reenergized? W e also need to under­ stand and emphasize why it has grown.

“W e w ant to continue to focus on what the C F L is, and not what it isn’t. It failed to penetrate the U S audience [in the m id 19 9 0 s] because the gam e is uniquely Canadian. A t the same time, we can learn from emulating the best; take television, for example. It’s a faster, more wide open game; it’s unpre­ dictable and highly entertaining.

“T h e challenge is to maintain that which is distinctly Canadian. If you take a look at the production value o f how F O X or A B C pro­ duces a game, the graphics and the whole package is a huge part o f their game and they have a trem en­ dous am ount o f resources to do that. C anada, by con trast, does n ot.”

T h e future Despite the enormous high the C F L ended the 2 0 0 2 season on, W right has already been faced with daunting tasks. Juggling variables such as com m unity-ow ned clubs versus privately owned ones, Canadian versus American owned teams, as is the case in T oronto, and salary-caps, the negotiation o f a new television con tract and sponsor agreements have been exigent.

But W right is confident that these negotiations will be positive for the league and will only make the quality o f the C F L better.

“W e as a league, w ant to be m ore relevant to youn ger c o n ­ sumers, while rekindling relevancy with the boom ers,” many o f whom were lost to a badly-promoted era o f the C F L .

So how can W right improve the C F L ? Simple.

“By ensuring that the gam e is accessible to football players across N orth Am erica, the quality o f the coaching and training facilities that we provide, and the competitive environm ent that we provide,” said W right, who insists that the C F L has a strong tradition to build on that very few other sporting leagues have. “M ost o f the [athletes], while it’s a job and they w ant to be paid, don’t play this game for financial reasons, they play for the sport and

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Winter season will bring improvements, renewed efforts and maybe even a national title to McGill S a r a h W right M cG ill was so close. So close to a national title n ot once, n o t twice, but three times. W h a t you m ight have missed in the h oop la sur­ rounding the Redm en football play­ o ff run was th at b oth M artlets rugby and R edm en soccer were one win away from a gold medal.

M cG ill cross-country produced som e o f its fastest tim es to date, sending the m ost runners to the C an ad ian In teru n iversity S port cham pionship in years. C ross-cou n ­ try coach D ennis Barrett, w ho also heads the track and field p rogram , was recognized as the Q u eb ec Student Sports Federation coach o f the year for both the m en and w om ens cross-country.

B arrett was n o t th e on ly M cG ill coach to receive recogni­ tion. Football head coach C h u ck M c M a n n was n am ed Q u eb ec Intercollegiate Football Conference coach o f the year and was subse­ quently awarded the Frank Tindall T ro p h y as th e best co a ch in C anadian university football.

O verall, it was an excitin g semester o f M cG ill sport, capped o ff with five provincial titles and tw o national bronze medals. W ill it be m ore o f the same at M cG ill ath­ letics this semester? N o t exactly.

W h a t gives m e the au thority to make such a statem ent? N oth in g really. However, if the results pro­ duced by the w inter team s before D ecem b er are any in dication o f w hat is to com e, m y predictions shouldn’t be too far off.

M cG ill’s best hope for a n ation ­ al title this w inter rests on the M a rtle t h ock ey players.

Peter Sm iths team has the experience and skill level necessary for playoff suc­ cess. Excellent perform ances by the swim team will undoubtedly co n ­ tinue, particularly with the w om en.

Wright On Continued from page 15 for the love o f the game, which is a really nice value system that m ost o f our players subscribe to .”

League expansion is another target W right is aiming at.

“If I had to rank it, I’d say that one region o f the country that isn’t represented is the M aritim es. It would make a lot o f sense to put a new franchise in the east. A place like Halifax, which has a rich tradi­ tion o f football, with Saint M ary’s winning the Vanier Cup the past two years and an obvious love for sport as the fans have shown at the recent world junior’s com petition would be great for the league.”

Prognosis Canadians are now, m ore than ever em bracing Canadian sport. T h e Salt Lake C ity Olympics were the m ost successful to date, with the team taking hom e 17 medals while

Swim team produces winning strokes

Fans should see som e excellent bas­ ketball com p etition as the Redm en look to battle Laval on ce again for the Q S S F cham pionship.

Regardless o f wins or losses, you’ll surely see hard-hitting body slams by R edm en hockey veteran Daniel Jacob. A nd the m en’s basket­ ball team , despite co n ced in g a height disadvantage o f at least a foot

M cG ill h osted th e fou rth Q u ebec C up m eet at the end o f the 2 0 0 2 season and dom in ated the com p etition . C u rrently five m en and 10 w om en have swum C IS ch am p io n sh ip qualifying tim es.

to m ost o f the opposition, will co n ­

M cG ill is on pace to break the school record for m ost swimmers to

tinue to put on a great show for the crowds at Love C o m p etition Hall.

participate at nationals. T h e swim team still has two qualifying meets

Golden glove in net U p until its recent ‘T our de Fran ce,’ the w om en’s hockey team possessed a six-gam e shutout streak.

K im St-Pierre, the team ’s starting goalie and an O lym pic gold m edal­ ist, saved every shot directed at her for over 3 6 0 m inutes o f play. St-

posted several double-digit wins, b eatin g divisional op p on en ts C arleton and U Q T R both 1 0 -0

first in Q uebec, the M artlets have nine m ore regular season games before m aking a bid for the nation­ al cham pionship. T h e only league com p etition the team has had thus far has com e from the C oncordia Stingers, w ho curren tly have 14 points com pared to M cG ill’s 19.

T h e O ttaw a G ee Gees m ay pose a threat to the M artlets’ quest

multiple events, including H eather Bell, cap tain C aro ly n M cC ab e,

closest team to M cG ill was Laval, who amassed 1 2 2 points. A t the same m eet, the w om en’s 4 x 5 0 -m freestyle relay set a m eet record.

Broken records, shattered per­ son al-bests an d C IS qualifying times are now routine for a team

D ou g M cC arth y and D avid Allard.

T h e m ost prom ising event for both the m en and w om en is the relay. A t the fourth Q u ebec Cup, both the

w ith an in credib le a m o u n t o f m om en tum .

T h e M cG ill swim team looks

m en’s A and B 4 x 2 0 0 -m e tre relay

to build on that m om en tu m c o m ­

teams w on their race com fortably

ing o ff a holiday training cam p in

w ith a com bined 2 0 0 .5 points. T h e

South Africa.

A golden disappointm ent overshadow s silver lining

Pierre’s experience and talent has given the M artlets an added defen­ sive lift to go along with a wealth o f offensive talent. T h e M artlets have

already this season.

Ranked N o. 2 in C anada and

rem aining, in addition to the Q S SF finals.

T h ere are several repeat quali­ fiers who com p ete for M cG ill in

F T F IE L D M ark K e r r A n d I will sacrifice m yself W hen the g a m e is on the line W ith my brother by my side F o r o u r country we will die Ju st to B rin g It On H om e — From “Bring It H o m e,” a song specially w ritten for Canada’s junior team coordinator Ron Pyette.

o f the ou tcom e. T h e high quality o f hockey is undeniable, but that is to

participating in the tournam ent to advance their careers, but rather to

be expected o f a gold medal m atch.

F o r Canadians, the gam e would have been truly great if the medal was gold. It is difficult to divorce the final ou tcom e from the game.

W h ile Canadians m ight hold their heads high in the face o f defeat, there is no hiding the disap­ poin tm en t a silver medal represents.

D rinking establishments across this great land were silenced as Russia skated around the H alifax M etro C entre with the top prize raised

“bring it h o m e.” W h a t they brought hom e was silver, n ot the medal they and m illions o f C an ad ians had hoped for.

Being a favourite to win makes losing that m u ch m ore difficult to accept. In sports, high expectations often lead to great disappointm ent, even if the finish looks good on

high.

T h e silver medal m ight be a

silver lining, but it is small consola­ tion to the fans.

A nd despite w h at C an ad a’s teenage hockey stars m ight say, the silver medal did not cu t it for them

paper.

W hile C anada has finished in the top three the past five years, the fact rem ains th at none o f those medals are sufficient. T h e positive mem ories o f this year’s tournam ent will linger with fans o f Canadian hockey for a while. There will be talk about the spectacular play o f goaltender M arc-A ndré Fleury, the

for gold. O ttaw a beat M cG ill 5 -2 earlier in the season. T h e six games the M artlets played over the holi­ days in France, however, should give the team an added edge on the co m ­ petition, w ith m ost teams n o t hav­ in g played to g eth er fo r several weeks.

raking in record-breaking viewing audience numbers. T h e sea o f red in the stands at the world junior hock­ ey cham pionship, followed by the chan tin g : “C a n -a -d a , C a n -a -d a ,” after the loss to Russia in the gold medal gam e are n ot uncom m on occurrences at Canadian sporting events.

Sport is on a roll in this country and W right has every intention o f seeing that it stays that way. It’s a job m any businessmen would not envy.

Instead, W right has embraced the challenges that com e with the office o f the Com m issioner as “fun” and “exciting.”

“H e’s a genuine guy who cares and I think the reason he wanted [the C F L Com m issioner’s job] is that it’s distinctively C anadian,” said T S N President Keith Pelley, who knows W right through their Special Olym pics involvement, in an inter­ view w ith the Globe a n d M ail.

“T h a t’s im portant to h im .”

Clichés dom inate sports talk.

Such phrases as “capitalizing on our chances” fly from the m ouths o f ath­ letes whenever they are asked to give the 10 second sound bite.

O n ce again the cliché, “Second Place is First Loser,” is attached to Canada’s junior hockey team .

A lthough the slogan that graced tacky N o Fea r t-shirts years ago m ay seem harsh, it is appropriate after Sunday’s heartbreaking 3 -2 loss to Russia. Plain and simple, Canada lost to its archrival for the second straight year despite holding a late lead in both games. First place was w ithin reach, b u t C an ad a’s top young hockey players could n ot put Russia away.

W ith the loss a foregone co n ­ clusion, G ord M iller and Pierre M cG uire helped to ease Canadians’ d isap p o in tm en t.

The TSN announcers quickly pointed ou t the positive aspects o f the gam e for Canada. T h e tandem let viewers know th at it was Canada’s fifth straight medal in the junior cham pi­ onships. ‘C anada had nothing to be ashamed o f as the Russians were a great team . A nd besides, Canada had a great tournam ent, with one period costing the team top hon­ ours.’

I f th at wasn’t en ou gh , the announcers emphasised the fact that the gam e itself was great, regardless

SLAM! SPO RTS

Brooks Laich and Marc-André Fleury console each other after the finals loss. either. Silver is certainly n ot the colour o f medal that the players and coaches aim ed for before the tourna­ m ent. T h e tears rolling down the faces o f m any o f the young m en are p ro o f enough.

W h ile m any o f the Canadian players have excellent futures ahead, it does not diminish the disappoint­ m ent o f the loss. As the Russians received their gold medals, m any o f the Canadian players likely forgot about the N H L con tract offers and the prom ise o f even greater hockey fame. These young m en were not

tenacity o f Jordin Tootoo and the leadership o f Scottie Upshall.

But the silver lining will fade, as it always does, and Yuri Trubachev’s gam e-w inning goal will be the d om ­ in an t recollection o f this year’s world ju nior cham pionship. T h e clip o f Trubachev scoring will be show n this tim e n ext year, as C an ad a o n ce again attem p ts to avenge the loss to Russia.

As hard as it is to accept, second place is still first loser. Never has à N o Fea r slogan been m ore fitting.

The McGill Tribune, Tuesday, January 7, 2003 up losing 5 4 -4 6 . U N B topped the M artlets in the rebounding catego­ ry by a m argin o f 4 9 - 2 8 in the sec­ ond half to steal the victory.

In its final gam e o f the tou rn a­ m ent, M cG ill played the Lakehead Thunderw olves on Sunday w inning 4 7 - 3 6 . T h e M artlets, w ho overcam e a 2 5 - 1 7 halftim e deficit, were led on ce again by Vallières, who was nine for 11 from the field and c o n ­ tributed 2 0 points. She was nam ed to the all-to u rn a m e n t team .

Focusing on defence in the third and fourth quarter, M cG ill allowed only four turnovers, while the team forced 2 3 Lakehead turnovers.

T h e M artlets finished the tou r­ n am en t 2 -1 and will open the sec­ ond h alf o f their regular season Friday against C o n co rd ia at their Loyola cam pus.

T w o -to u rn am en t holiday feast T h e M artlets basketball team participated in the C o n cord ia N ike Classic D ecem b er 2 9 - 3 1 . M cG ill’s first gam e was a disappointing loss to St. F ran ço is X a v ie r 6 0 - 4 8 .

M au de Vallières tallied 11 points in the gam e, while rookie Fanie Rouel added 10.

T h e M artlets faced C on cord ia in their second gam e, dropping a 7 0 - 5 1 decision to the Stingers. Poor shootin g hurt the M artlets as they only m anaged 3 4 per cen t from the field, while C o n cord ia shot 5 0 per c e n t. R ook ie forw ard Isabelle Provencher scored 15 points. A nneM arie Scherrer was M cG ill’s top rebounder with five. Scherrer also chipped in four points.

E ager for an oth er challenge, M cG ill travelled to F red ericto n over the weekend for the Helen C am pb ell M em orial tou rn am en t.

T h e M artlets’ first gam e was against Saint M ary’s. M cG ill w on in excit­ ing fash ion , 57-56 over the Huskies. Vallières was player o f the gam e w ith 2 0 p oin ts and four steals. Kelly-Rae K enyon had 11 points.

On S atu rd ay n igh t, the M artlets blew a 2 6 - 2 0 halftim e lead versus th e U n iv ersity o f N ew

T h e follow ing day, M cG ill inched closer to a win, but lost by a narrow 3 - 2 m argin. St-Pierre was on ce again in net.

T h e M artlets finally caught up to the national team , tying them 3 3 with Delphine R oy and Kalie

T h e trip wrapped up in Albertville w h ere the M artlets w on 1 0 - 7 against a Division III m en’s team .

R o y and T ow n send w ere b oth between the pipes for the win.

H ead coach Peter Sm ith spoke o f the difficulties associated with the first-ev er in tern a­ tio n al to u r by the M artlet hockey team.

“It was tough at first ad ju stin g to the travel and playing at a

de l’E st tou rn am en t over the week­ end. M cG ill posted a 1 -4 record in five best-of-three m atches.

In actio n o n Friday, the R ed m en lost to Royal M ilitary C ollege and M izu no C ollege, a squad from C h ica g o .

Kyle Pushkarenko was stellar on the day with 13 digs, nine kills, four stuffed blocks and one ace.

Saturday saw the R edm en play an oth er two games. T h e first m atch was an oth er loss in tw o gam es 2 5 -

high altitu d e, b u t we played well and showed a lot o f ch aracter [in] the last three gam es, which bodes well for a strong second h alf [o f the sea­ s o n ],” said Sm ith. “T h e only u n fo rtu n ate p art was the loss o f C in d yA nne Carufel w ho suf­ fered a broken hand in the tie versus F ran ce.”

C urrently first place in the Q u ebec Student Sports Fed eration and ranked N o. 2 nationally, the M artlets open up the N ew Year on W ednesday

2 2 and 2 5 - 2 1 . T h e second m atch was m o re p rom isin g as M cG ill cam e o u t on top versus O .U .C . from British C olum bia 2 5 - 2 0 , 172 5 , 15-12.

Pushkarenko was on ce again the star o f the day, amassing 2 3 kills, 15 digs and two aces.

T h e Redm en played for sev­ enth place on Sunday against St. T h o m as from Fredericton, but lost a close three-gam e m atch 2 5 - 1 6 , 2 4 -2 6 , 15-11.

Highlights o f the gam e cam e from Paul Grinvalds, a first-year player from B u rlin g to n , O n t .

Grinvalds had 10 kills, five digs and a stuffed block. A dam K ouri, a sec­ ond-year m iddle blocker, was solid with three kills, three stuffed blocks and tw o aces. U nfortunately, Chris G arratt’s season drew to a close as he graduated in D ecem ber. M cG ill also suffered the loss o f new com er A ndrew Royes, a technique player, who m ay be ou t for the rest o f the season with an injured shoulder.

M cG ill hits the road to face l’U n iv ersité de M o n tréal this Friday.

Parlez-vous hockey?

T h e M ard ets took a 12-d ay tou r o f France over the holiday break and m anaged to squeeze in som e h ock ey w hile in E u ro p e.

Brunsw ick Varsity Reds and ended

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M cG ill played mainly in B riançon, a town located in the French Alps, 1 3 2 1 metres above sea level. In five gam es, M cG ill w ent 2 - 2 - 1 despite m issing six regular players, includ­ ing S op hie A ch eso n , K ath erin e Safka, A shley C ra n s to n , Peggie D on ah ue, Julia C arlton and Patrice M ason.

W ith th ree lines an d three defencem en, the M artlets faced the French w om en’s national team and

w ith a 7:15 m atch against W isco n sin at M cC on n ell Arena.

M cG ill cu rren tly KR ISTEN MALLORY holds a record o f 1 6 -3 -2 The team watches as a Martlet practices her shot. overall and 9 - 1 - 1 in league play.

Tow nsend splitting the goaltending duties.

Pushkarenko shines fo r

lost 4 - 2 in the trip opener. Goalie K im St-Pierre’s shutout streak o f six plus games was officially snapped.

M cG ill travelled to G ernoble on Jan u ary 2 and blew away Le H ock ey C lu b de G ernoble 1 2- 2.

volleyball R edm en volleyball travelled to Q u ebec C ity for the Q u ébec C o u p

QUEBEC SPORT STANDINGS AS OF JANUARY 7, 2003 M en’s Basketball Team Laval Bishops M cG ill Concordia

GP 3 3 3 3

I W om en s Basketball Team GP Laval 3 C oncordia 3 Bishops 3 M cG ill 3 M en’s H ockey Team UQTR M cG ill O ttaw a Concordia

GP 13 13 12 12

I W om en s H ockey Team GP M cG ill 11

W 3 2 1 0

W 3 2 1 0

W 10 8 7 5

W 9

Concordia O ttaw a UQTR Carleton

11 10 10 10

7 5 3 1

M en’s Volleyball Team Laval

MP 8

MW 8 4 2 0

M ontréal Sherbrooke M cG ill

7 6 7

[W om ens Sw im m ing Team M eet 1 (% ) Laval 1 6.9 M cG ill 16.1 M ontreal 7 .4 Sherbrooke 3 .5 UQTR 1.2 UQAM 0 .4

L 0 1 2 3

L 0 1 2 3

L 1 3 3 6

L 1

T 0 0 0 0

PF 256 198 226 217

PA 216 210 230 241

T 0 0 0 0

PF

PA 141 188 186

T 2 2 2 1

5 7 9

T 1 0 0 0 0

ML 0

GW 24

3 4

15 9 3

4

7

M eet 2 18.1 1 3 .0 6 .3 5 .6 0 .6 0 .4

M eet 3 6 3 .8 4 7 .0 3 2 .8 1 7.2 3 .0 0 .0

237 145 181 127

PTS

6 4

2 0

PTS

6 4

2

175

0

GF

GA

PTS

65 46

29 30 36 42

22

GF

GA

PTS

53 62 34 20

7 18

19 14

6

13

33 47 81

GL 6 12 12 21

PTS 16 8 4 0

55 41

M eet 4 1 7.4 19.1 4 .2 3 .2 1.1 0 .0

PTS 116.2 9 5 .2 5 0 .7 2 9 .5 5 .9 0 .8

18 16

11

10 2

W om en ’s Volleyball MP Team 8 Laval 6 Sherbrooke M ontréal 7 M cG ill 7 M en’s Squash Team Queen’s M cG ill Toronto Ryerson

GP 10 10 10 10

W om en ’s Squash GP Team 10 Queen’s 10 W estern Toronto M cG ill M cM aster Ryerson

10 10 10 10

MW 8 3 2 1

ML 0 3 5 6

W

L 0

7 6 6 0

6 3 3 0

15 10

GL 5 12

7

19 20

T 2 1 1 0

PTS 16 13 7 0

3

T 1 1

3 5 6 10

1 2 1 0

PTS 17 13 13 8 7 0

3 3 10

W 8 6

GW 24

L 1

Figure Skating M cGill is 11 £“' ;after one com petition at the Queen’s Invitational. Top finishes include: 4 th place in Gold Singles 6 fh place in Senior Silver Singles 6 £^ place in Gold Solo Dance C o -ed Bad m in ton Team PTS Sherbrooke 100 Laval 90 M ontréal 74 M cG ill 48 UQAM 37 M en’s Swim m ing Team M cG ill Laval M ontréal UQTR Sherbrooke

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M eet 1 (% ) 16. 2

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12.3 11. 4

M eet 2 13. 0 16.0 10.6

0 .5 1.0

0 .3 0 .0

M eet 3 4 7 .7 4 8. 1 4 5 .0 4 .0 2 .0

M eet 4 2 0. 1 12.2 7 .6 1.1 0 .0

PTS 9 7 .0 8 8 .6 7 4 .6 5 .9 3 .0

N ote: Scoring for the Quebec Cup title is cumulative over the sea­ son’s six major conference races. The men’s and women’s team with the most combined points wins the title.

The scoring formula for each seg­ ment is as follows: 10 per cent fo each o f the first two races, 2 0 pei cent for the third race, 10 per cei for each o f the fourth and fifth races and 4 0 per cent for the Q SS’ Championship meet.

CAMPUS RECREATION INTRAMURAL PROGRAM 2003 SPO RT

CATEG O RY

NU M BER OF PLA YERS

W H EN TO R E G IS T E R

CO ST

GAM E DAYS

TO REGISTER

MAXIMUM Saturday S Sunday Mar. 8 - 9

BADMINTON (Tournament)

MENAS B WOMEN

$ 15.00 per player

Feb. 10, 09:00 to Mar. 5, 17:00

1

N/A

BALL HOCKEY

MENAS B WOMEN

$ 90.00 per team

Dec. 9, 09:00 to Jan. 14, 17:00

8

14

Monday, Tuesday Saturday, Sunday

BASKETBALL

MENAS B WOMEN

$ 90.00 per team

Dec. 9, 09:00 to Jan. 14, 17:00

8

14

Tuesday, Wednesday Thursday, Friday, Sunday

INNERTUBE WATERPOLO

CO-REC

$ 90.00 per team

Dec. 9, 09:00 to Jan. 14, 17:00

7 Men S 5 Women

18

Saturday S Sunday

Currie Pool

INDOOR SOCCER

MEN A S B WOMEN CO-REC

$ 90.00 per team

Dec. 9, 09:00 to Jan. 14, 17:00

10 5 Men S 5 Women

18

Monday to Thursday, Saturday S Sunday

Fieldhouse C&D

SQUASH (Tournament)

OPEN

$ 15.00 per player

Feb. 10, 09:00 to Mar. 5, 17:00

1

N/A

TBA

TABLE TENNIS (Tournament)

MEN WOMEN

$ 15.00 per player

Jan. 3, 09:00 to Feb. 5, 17:00

1

N/A

Saturday and Sunday Feb. 8 - 9

VOLLEYBALL

MEN WOMEN

$ 90.00 per team

Dec. Jan.

9, 09:00 to 14, 17:00

8

14

Monday S Tuesday

Gymnasium 3&4

VOLLEYBALL

CO-REC A S B

$ 90.00 per team

Dec. Jan.

9, 09:00 to 14, 17:00

4 Men S 4 Women

14

Wednesday, Thursday

Fieldhouse A&B

VOLLEYBALL

CO-REC

$ 30.00 per team

Dec. Jan.

9, 09:00 to 14, 17:00

2 Men S 2 Women

Saturday S Sunday March 22 & 23

Fieldhouse A&B

(4 on 4 Tournament)

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PLEASE NOTE THAT REGISTRATION DEADLINES ARE STRICTLY ENFORCED - SPACE IN MOST SPORTS IS LIMITED REGISTER EARLY !

PAY-AS-YOU-GO FITNESS Winter 2003 Through the Winter semester the Department will be offering an exciting Pay-As-YouGo Fitness program. Classes willfeature the popular Tae Box, Power Yoga and Spin (group cycling) classes as well as the traditional Step and Aerobics classes.

STEP TAE BOX POWER YOGA AEROBICS SPIN CO ST

L O C A T IO N

Monday/Wednesday Tuesday/Thursday Saturday/Sunday Friday Friday Friday Saturday

17h00-17h55 17h00-17h55 11 h00-11h55 16h25-17h30 17h00-17h55 18h00-18h45 11 h00-11h45

Tae Box!Step! .................... $ 2.50 at the door or 1 ticket* Aerobics/Power Yoga Spin .................................. $ 5.00 at the door or 2 tickets*

*Book of 10 tickets for $20.00 purchased in advance in the client Service Office - G20-C (members only).

Tickets go on sale in the Sports Complex 15 minutes before the class

McGill

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Gymnasium 3&4 Fieldhouse A&B Gymnasium 1&2

Webster Courts

NA Courts 3,4 & 5

Cross Country I Ski Equipment For Rent!

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Cross country ski equipment is available fo r rent by McGill students, Sports Complex members, Faculty and Staff

HOURS OF OPERATION

As of Monday, January 6, 2003 Monday & Friday 16:00 -1 9 :0 0 , Saturday 10:00 -1 6 :0 0

RENTAL RATES_____________________________________________ Sam e Day

O v e r n ig h t

2 N ig h ts

3 N ig h ts

4 N ig h ts

W eek

P o le s

$ 2.00

$ 3.00

$ 4.00

$ 5.00

$ 6.00

$ 7.00

B o o ts

$ 4.00

$ 5.00

$ 6.00

$ 7.00

$ 8.00

$ 9.00

S k is

$ 5.00

$ 7.00

$ 9.00

$ 11.00

$ 15.00

$ 19.00

$ 10.00

$ 12.00

$ 15.00

$ 20.00

$ 25.00

$ 30.00

Package

All prices are tax included • Rental fe es m ust be paid at the front d esk of the Spo rts Complex. Equipment will be issued upon presentation of the rental receipt.

SPECIAL STUDY BREAK PACKAGE :$30 From February 21, 2003 to March 3, 2003 GROUP RATES ARE AVAILABLE FOR 1 0 OR MORE PEOPLE.

IN F O R M A T IO N : 3 9 8 -7 0 1 I

W I N T E R

A C T IV E L IV IN G 1C O U R S E I AQUATICS

D A Y & TIM E

Olympic Way - White (3 -1 4 yrs) White Adv (3 -1 4 vrs) Green (3 -1 4 yrs) Blue (3 -1 4 yrs) Bronze (3 -1 4 yrs) Silver (3 -1 4 yrs) Gold (3 -1 4 yrs) Adults Learn To Swim Level 1 (Beginner) Adults Learn To Swim Level 2 (Intermediate) Adults Learn To Swim Level 3 (Advanced) Swim (Private) Swim (Semi-Private) Swim Fit (Cardio-Respiratory Endurance) Stroke Improvement DANCE Ballet Belly Dancing Contemporary Dance Flamenco 1 Flamenco II Irish Dance Jazz Intro 1& II Jazz Inter II & III Latin Dance Latin Dance Social Dance Swing Dance - Lindy Hop 1 Swing Dance - Lindy Hop II FITNESS & WELLNESS Aerobics - Classic Cardio Aerobics - Funky High \ Low Body Design Body Works Body Design Mid Cutz Boot Camp Tae Box Step & Pump Latin Aerobics Spin Spin Spin - Race & Pace Spin & Trim Spin - Race & Pace PAY-AS-YOU-GO STEP PAY-AS-YOU-GO TAE BOX PAY-AS-YOU-GO AEROBICS PAY-AS-YOU-GO SPIN PAY-AS-YOU-GO YOGA Weight Training An introduction Weight Training (Private) Weight Training (Sem-Private) Fitness Appraisal Fitness Instructor Training Course Personal Trainer Development Course CPR\First Aid CPR Re-Cert Hatha Yoga 1

Sunday

Pilâtes Pilâtes Pilâtes II Power Yoga Tai Chi 1 MARTIAL ARTS Aikido Capoeira laido Judo Karatedo Kendo 1

WKS

40/60

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R E G IS T R A T IO N IN F O R M A T IO N

• Register in the Client Services Office of the Sports Centre - Monday through Friday 08:30 - 19:45 hrs. • Registration continues through Friday, January 24, 2003. • Non-members registered in courses may use the facility only during their designated class times. • Most classes begin the week of January 13, 2003 • Pay-As-YouGo classes begin January 6 and run until April 27 • Classes will not be held February 24 - March 2, 2003, due to Study Break. • Full time McGill Students may register at the member's fee. • All prices include G.S.T. and Q.S.T.

| COURSE I MARTIAL ARTS Kendo II Kickboxing - Savate 1

Sunday

13:15-14:00

40/60

8 Kickboxing - Savate II

Monday Sunday Tuesday Sunday Tuesday Sunday by appointment by appointment Tues & Thurs

18:30-19:25 13:00-14:00 18:30-19:25 13:00-14:00 18:30-19:25 13:00-14:00 1/2 hr 1/2 hr 18:30-19:25

40/60 40/60 40/60 40/60 40/60 40/60 17/22 24/30 35/75

8

Wednesday

18:30-19:25

25/45

8

Friday Monday Wednesday Friday Thursday Thursday Wednesday Tues & Thurs Tues & Thurs Monday Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday Thursday

16:0 0-1 7:55 17:00-17:55 16:30-17:30 19:00-22:00 19:00-20:25 20:00-21:25 19:00-20:25 17:15-18:25 18:30-19:55 19:00-20:25 19:00-20:25 20:30-21:55 18:00-18:55 18:00-18:55

80/125 35/80

10 10

35 50/95

20 10

Mon & Wed Mon\Wed\Fri Mon & Wed Mon & Wed Saturday Tues & Thurs Mon\Wed\Fri Tues & Thurs Mon & Wed Mon/Wed/Fri. Tues & Thurs Tues & Thurs Tues & Thurs Tues & Thurs Tues & Thurs Tue & Thurs Mon & Wed Tue & Thurs Mon & Wed Tues & Thurs Saturday, Sunday Friday Friday Saturday Friday Monday Wednesday by appointment by appointment by appointment Monday Wednesday Sat., January 25 Sun., January 26 Sun., January 26 Mon & Wed

18:00-18:55 18:30-19:25 08:30-09:25 12:00-13:00 12:00-12:55 17:00-17:55 18:00-18:55 16:00-16:55 16:30-17:25 17:30-18:25 13:30-14:25 08:00-08:55 18:00-18:55 08:00-08:45 18:10-18:55 12:00-12:45 18:00-19:25 19:10-19:55 17:00-17:55 17:00-17:55 11:00-11:55 17:00-17:55 18:00-18:45 11:00-11:45 16:25-17:30 19:00-22:00 19:00-22:00

35/80 65/105 45/90 45/90 17/34 35/80 67/112 45/90 45/90 67/112 45/90 45/90 35/80 70/125 70/125 70/125 90/145 70/125 $2.50/$2.00 *

19:00-22:00 19:00-22:00 09:00-19:00

Mon & Wed Tues & Thurs Tuesday Thursday Friday Mon & Wed Tues & Thurs Tues & Thurs

09:00-17:00 08:00-08:55 12:00-12:55 18:15-19:25 19:30-20:40 08:00-08:55 16:00-17:10 17:15-18:25 17:00-18:10 18:30-19:40 13:00-14:15 13:00-14:15 17:30-18:45 13:00-13:55 17:00-17:55 19:15-20:10

Tuesday & Friday Mon\Wed\Fri Sunday Mon & Wed Mon & Wed Tuesday & Saturday

18:00-19:55 17:00-19:55 16:30-17:55 10:00-11:55 17:30-19:25 19:30-21:25 20:15-22:10 09:00-10:55

Tues & Thurs

Hatha Yoga II

12:30-13:15

COST

45/90 60/105 70/115 35/55 35/55 35/55 35/55 35/55

$5 or 2 tickets $2.50/$2.00 * 25/30

8 8 8 8 8 8

8

Moo Kwang Tae Kwon Do 1 White & yellow Moo Kwang Tae Kwon Do II Orange-t Shaolin SPORTS Fencing 1 Fencing II Golf

Golf (Private) Hockey 1 Hockey II Skating

Skating (Private) Skating (Semi-Private) Squash Intro

10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 * Booklets of 10 tickets for $20 can be purchased in advance in the Business Office G-20C 2

40/45 56/70 45/50 200/235 200/235 110/135

1 1 1 14 14 1

65/80 33/73 33/73 52/97 42/82 33/73 42/82

1 8 8 10 8 8 8

42/82

8

52/92 52/92 54/92 42/82 42/82 45/85

10 10 10 10 10 8

87/132

10

78/123 35/60 70/115 70/115

10 10 10 10

70/115

10

2 0 0 3

Squash Inter

Squash (Private) Tennis Intro

Tennis Inter

Tennis Advanced

Tennis (Private) Tennis (Semi-Private) OUTDOOR PURSUITS Cross Country Skiing Equestrian

Ice Climbing Kayaking

Snowshoeing

Cross Country Ski Trip STAFF FITNESS Aqua Fitness Badminton Body Design Easy Rider Hatha Yoga 1 Hatha Yoga II Pilâtes Power Yoga Lite Recess Sunrise Yoga Tai Chi 1 Tai Chi II Walking Club

D AY & TIM E

COST

W KS

70/115

10

53/98

10

53/98 78/123

10 10

35/80

10

Tuesday & Saturday Tuesday, Thursday & Friday Mon., Wed., & Fri. Tue, Thurs & Friday Mon & Wed

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Mon & Wed

20:30-21:25

Mon & Wed

20:30-21:55

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Tues & Thur Mon & Wed Mon & Wed Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Saturday by appointment Friday Friday Wednesday Saturday Saturday by appointment by appointment Monday Monday Tuesday Tuesday Wednesday Wednesday Thursday Thursday Friday Friday Friday Friday Friday Saturday Sunday Monday Thursday Saturday Sunday by appointment Monday Wednesday Friday Tue & Thurs Monday Thursday Friday Tue & Thurs Tuesday Wednesday Friday by appointment by appointment

08:00-08:55 19:00-19:55 20:00-20:55 16:00-16:55 • 16:00-16:55 18:00-18:55 11:00-11:55

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McGill Lower Field All Students Welcome!

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McGill Lower Field All Students Welcome!

12pm - 8pm

McGill Lower Field All Students Welcome!

12pm - 8pm

MUS Carnival B egins

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Info: 398.4396

4pm - 9pm - Shatner Building

6pm - Bukhman Council Room 2nd Floor, Shatner Building

MUS Carnival

MUS Carnival

Info: 398.7292

Info: 398.7292

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Shatner Building, Room 1203

Shatner Building, Room 1203

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A S E Q Opt-ln

A S E Q Opt-ln

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www.aseq.com

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EU S /S U S Blood Drive

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Shatner Ballroom

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