The McGill Tribune Vol. 22 Issue 20

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P u b lis h e d by th e S tu d e n ts ' S o c ie ty o f M c G ill U n iv e rs ity s in c e 1981

T u esda y, F e b ru a ry 11, 2 0 0 3

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re s ig n e d as M c G i l l ’s a c tin g d e a n o f L a w , a n d h e

one

w i l l le a ve th e f a c u lt y a y e a r e a r lie r th a n h is c o n ­

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fa c u lt y ’s re s o u rc e s are in a d e q u a te ; h e a d d e d t h a t

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f o r o r a g a in s t p r iv a t iz a t io n , o r o n a n y c h a n g e in

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th e f u n d i n g s tr u c tu r e , b u t m a n y s tu d e n ts a n d p r o ­

L e u p r e c h t re m a in s c r y p t ic a b o u t th e re a s o n f o r h is

fessors b e lie v e t h a t th e f a c u lt y is le a n in g to w a rd s

s c h o la r ly a n d

p r o fe s s io n a l a c tiv itie s .”

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r e s tr u c tu r e d f u n d in g . P ro v o s t s a id t h a t L e u p r e c h t

o n th e m e m o ’s e x p la n a tio n .

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c o m p le te

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c o m m e n t o n L e u p r e c h t’s r e s ig n a tio n .

fa c u lty .

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L e u p r e c h t is a k n o w n o p p o n e n t o f p r iv a tiz a tio n .

r e s ig n a tio n a n d w i l l n o t re s p o n d t o s tu d e n ts ’ q u e s ­

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th e re

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tio n s a b o u t th e d e a n ’s a n n o u n c e m e n t. T h e issue

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p la c e d a m o n g th e c la s s ifie d a d v e rtis e m e n ts th a t

h ig h e r e d u c a tio n . I fe e l t h a t i t w o u ld b e h ig h ly

d o m in a te th e lis ts e rv . T h is has b e e n th e o n ly o f f i ­

r e g re tta b le i f i t b e c o m e s h i g h l y c o m m o d if ie d , ” h e

c ia l n o tic e o f L e u p r e c h t’s r e s ig n a tio n t h a t th e s tu -

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s tu d e n ts h a ve h a d a s im ila r e xp e ­

o f o n lin e v o t in g t h a t’s g o in g to

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rie n c e .

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The McGill Tribune, Tuesday, February 11, 2003

L e u p r e c h t 's a n n o u n c e m e n t u n e x p e c t e d , o f f e r s f e w

an sw ers th is c o n f ir m s M c G i l l ’s in t e r n a t io n a l

absence

a m o n g s t th e stu d e n ts. . . . H is class­

th re e tim e s a ye ar,

es are a lw a y s f u l l . . . [an d ] w h e n he

r e p u ta tio n

u s u a lly fo r o n e o r tw o w e e ks e a ch , b u t

sp e aks, p e o p le lis t e n .”

Je ffre y F e in e r, p re sid e n t o f th e

w ere to tra v e l a b ro a d , m o s t p e o p le w o u ld m e n t io n M c G i l l w h e n a sk e d

a p a r t -t im e v is it in g p rofesso r. P r io r

L e u p re c h t in s is t s th a t h is U N p o s i­

Law th a t

a b o u t C a n a d ia n la w sch o o ls.

P ro v o st p ra is e d th e d e a n fo r

to c o m in g to M c G i l l , h e s p e n t the m a jo r it y o f h is care er in E u r o p e . H e

t io n h im

d id n o t le a d to re s ig n .

L a w . . . . H e h a s d o n e a lo t to foster

r e c r u it in g a d iv e rs e fa cu lty.

“O n e o f th e t h in g s

h e ld th e p o s itio n o f d e p u t y secre­

R a th e r, h e s a id th a t

re la tio n s b e tw e e n stu d e n ts a n d fac­

[L e u p r e c h t ]

t a r y -g e n e r a l

le a v e s

C o n tin u e d fro m p a g e 1 d e n t b o d y h as re ce ive d .

L e u p r e c h t w a s a p p o in t e d as d e a n o f L a w a fte r o n ly tw o ye ars as

of

trib u te d q u it e a b it to th e F a c u lt y o f

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e ffo rt in d o in g is b r in g in g n e w p e o ­

a p p r o v e d b y th e f a c u lt y and in f r in g e d lit t le o n h is o b lig a t io n s at

p r o file fo r h u m a n rig h ts aw aren ess a n d [th e f a c u lt y ’s] in t e r n a t io n a l re p u t a t io n .”

L e u p r e c h t w a s h e s it a n t to

p le to th e f a c u lty ,” h e s a id , n o t in g th a t so m e fa c u lt y m e m b e rs c o m e fr o m as fa r a w a y as A u s tr a lia .

L e u p r e c h t s a id th a t h is su cce s­

a w a rd e d

M c G i ll.

sp e c u la te o n h is o w n c o n t r ib u t io n

so r faces several ch a lle n g e s.

P r ix

C o u n c il

S tu d e n ts A s s o c ia t io n , a d d e d D e a n L e u p r e c h t “h a s c o n ­

and

E u r o p e u n t il r e s ig n in g i n 1 9 9 7 .

L e u p re c h t h as a r e p u ta tio n as an e x p e rt in h u m a n rig h ts t h e o ry a n d in t e r n a t io n a l law , fo r w h ic h h e w as th e

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E u r o p é e n in 1 9 9 1 .

A f t e r h e leaves M c G i l l in J u n e , L e u p r e c h t w a n ts to w rite a b o o k a n d p u rs u e h is w o r k in C a m b o d ia , w h e re h e is th e U N s p e c ia l re p re ­ se n ta tiv e fo r h u m a n rig h ts . T h is JENNY GEORGE

p o st, w h ic h h e h a s h e ld w h ile at M c G i l l , h as re q u ire d h im

to take

C o u n c il w h e th e r A U S s h o u ld p o st­ p o n e a c c re d ita tio n . S o m e d o u b te d

A c c r e d ita tio n C o n tin u e d fro m p a g e 1 h a d fa c u lt y -s p e c ific b a llo ts a n d have in c o r p o r a t e d

re fe re n d a

o rg a n iz a tio n s .”

A lt h o u g h A U S ,

Leuprecht defends a cc e ssib le public education.________

to th e F a c u lt y o f L a w . “I a m a m o d ­

p e ars to h a v e cre a t­ ed a la s t in g im p re s ­ s io n o n fa c u lt y a n d

est m a n a n d I w ill n o t s e lf-a d v e r-

p r o b le m

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q u a lit y o f th e fa c u lty. . . . I w o u ld re g a rd a c c e s s ib ilit y a n d d iv e r s it y o f th e s tu d e n t b o d y h ig h ly ,” h e sa id , a d d in g th a t f u n d in g is a h ig h p r io r ­

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Z a v e n K o ja k ia n a n d

p e r c e n t o f a ll stu d e n ts, the q u o r u m

s a ry 2 5 p e r ce n t yes vo te. W it h a v ig ­

K r y s t a l T it a n ia C h o n g

needed

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S M Y L E V a l e n t i n e ’s

t io n re fe re n d u m ,” s a id T e lc h .

V o rs te n b o s c h , w h o s a id th a t h is C o u n c il

a b o u t th e j o i n t e ff o r t, th in k s t h a t

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w e r e s o l d a t t h i s y e a r ’s

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PAULA MAGAHAES

P EER A D V IS E R S W A N TED !

a pMcGïîVs s Career

Pwww.caps.mcgiil.ca

& Placement Service P

The Arts Undergraduate Society (AUS) and the Science Undergraduate Society (SUS), in conjunction with the Student Affairs Office of Arts and Science, are looking for Peer Advisers!

Helping fellow students in decision making, explaining drop/add procedures, referrals to other RESPONSIBILITIES campus resources, and more. Accepted volunteers are expected to make a committment for the full academic year, and will receive a letter of recommendation from the Faculty attesting to the services provided.

February llill

■

2 0 0 3

NGOs Wednesday February 1 2 ,12pm-1:30pm Brown Bldg Rm 5001

W r it e r s & E d it o r s Thursday February 1 3 ,12pm-1:30pm Brown Bldg Rm 5001

H e lp in g P r o f e s s i o n a l s

Sucessful applicants must have a minimun CGPA of 3.00, be at least a U1 student, be prepared to commit a maximum of 2 hours/week, and QUALIFICATIONS attend training sessions in March 2003. Listening REQUIRED skills, the abilily to respond in a non-judgemental manner, and compassion for others are also valuable assets.

Thursday February 1 3 ,1pm-2:30pm Brown Bldg Rm 2007

Q u e e r s & C a r e e r s ■ “O u t ” a t W o r k , o r N o t ?

Thursday February 13 ,4:30pm-6pm Brown Bldg Rm 2007

S a l e s & M a r k e t in g Monday February 17,12pm-1:30pm Brown Bldg Rm 3001

S u c c e ssfu l W om en Monday February 1 7 ,1:30pm-3pm Brown Bldg Rm 5001

Contact Rahim Surani at AUS at: ausaca@po-box.mcgill.ca or Evan Lewis of SUS at: academic@sus.mcgill.ca. Applications will HOW DO I be available in the lobby of Dawson Hall as of F IN D O U T M O R E ?

February 11, 2 0 0 3 . Completed applications must be submitted to Dawson Hall, Room 1 1 0 , in an envelope labelled "Peer Advising" by March 3 .

E n t r e p r e n e u r ia l Tuesday February 1 8 ,12pm-1:30pm Brown Bldg Rm 3001

M useu m s Tuesday February 1 8 ,1pm-2:30pm Brown Bldg Rm 5001

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The McGill Tribune, Tuesday, February 11, 2003

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D e m o n stra to rs a tta c k P e t t ig r e w 's r e c o r d , m o t iv e s F e d e r a l T r a d e M in i s t e r d e f e n d s F T A A n e g o t i a t i o n s a s a c tiv is ts p ic k e t o u s t id e R it z - C a r lt o n Brandon Schott As T ra d e

th e

M in is t e r P ie rre

M o n tre a l

fo r

I n t e r n a tio n a l

P e ttig r e w

fo r

a

a r r iv e d

c o n fe re n c e

in

w ith

p r o v in c ia l re p re s e n ta tiv e s a t th e R itz C a r lt o n H o t e l, p ro te s to rs o p p o s in g th e

F ree T ra d e A g re e m e n t

o f th e

A m e ric a s c h a n te d “ À bas la Z L É A ” c a rrie d

p la c a rd s

S h e rb ro o k e

and

p la s te re d

e n tra n c e

to

th e

th e

h o te l

w i t h a n t i- F T A A messages.

In s id e th e h o te l, P e ttig r e w s a id h e w as f ig h t in g a g a in s t th e in c lu s io n o f in v e s to r - s ta te

clause s

in

tra d e

a g re e m e n ts , as w e ll as im p r o v in g th e a g re e m e n t’s tra n s p a re n c y .

In v e s to r-

sta te p r o v is io n s , s u c h as th e N o r t h A m e r ic a n

F ree T ra d e A g r e e m e n t’s

C h a p te r 11 clause , a llo w fo r e ig n c o r ­ p o ra tio n s

to

sue

n a tio n a l

g o v e rn ­

m e n ts f o r v io la tio n s o f tra d e agree­ m e n ts . “ I a m th e m in is te r w h o has p r o ­ p o s e d , i f n o t im p o s e d , o n m y c o l­ leagues o f M e x ic o a n d th e U n it e d S tates, p ro g re s s o n th a t m a tte r ,” said P e ttig re w . “ F o r t w o years th e y t o ld m e ‘ N o ’ . . . . I w as s ucce ssful [a t g e t­ tin g ] a c o m m it m e n t f o r th e c la r ific a ­ tio n s

o f e le m e n ts

o f C h a p te r

11

w h ic h I th o u g h t w e re d a n g e ro u s .”

A t a press c o n fe re n c e o u ts id e

E r ic

o f th e F T A A . F o r th e f ir s t tim e in

S q u ire , fr o m th e S o lid a r ity N e tw o r k

h is to ry , a tra d e a g re e m e n t n e g o tia t­

to

h o te l, S to p

p r o te s t

th e

o r g a n iz e r

a

in g te x t w as m a d e p u b l i c . .. T h a t w as

R e u te rs n e w s s to r y i n la te 2 0 0 2 , in

a n in it ia t iv e o f C a n a d a a n d a n in i t i a ­

w h ic h

a

FTAA,

p o in te d

m in is tr y

to

s p o k e s p e rs o n

tiv e o f m y s e lf. ... O n b o t h c o u n ts ,

a d m itte d t h a t C a n a d ia n re p re s e n ta ­

C h a p te r 11 a n d tra n s p a re n c y , th e y

tiv e s

are so m e o f th e b e s t [p o in ts o n ] m y

a t th e

O c to b e r 2 0 0 2

FTAA

n e g o tia tio n s in Q u it o , E c u a d o r, w e re

re c o rd as T ra d e M in is t e r . ”

p u s h in g f o r in v e s to r-s ta te p ro v is io n s to

be

in c lu d e d

in

th e

FTAA.

A im e e v a n D r im m e le n o f S N S F e x p la in e d

th a t

A c c o r d in g to S q u ire , a le a k e d m e m ­

re le a se d

o ra n d u m

p e titio n e r s

F o re ig n

fro m

th e D e p a r tm e n t o f

A ffa ir s

and

T ra d e , o b ta in e d i n

I n t e r n a t io n a l

N o ve m b e r and

dem anded

in v e s to r-s ta te

th e

clauses

in c lu s io n in

a ll

of

tra d e

a g re e m e n ts .

P e ttig r e w

p u b lic ly

opposed

s ta te d in in te rv ie w s a n d in th e H o u s e th a t

he

w o u ld

not

a d v o c a te th e r e p lic a tio n o f N A F T A ’s in v e s to r-s ta te

not and

p re s s u re d

th e

m in is te r

th e A m e ric a s in Q u e b e c C ity .

S q u ire s a id t h a t g o v e rn m e n ts ’ e x c lu s io n o f c iv il s o c ie ty fr o m n e g o ­ tia tio n s “ re a lly b o ils d o w n to th e e ro ­ s io n o f d e m o c ra c y , e ro s io n o f th e

C h a p te r 11 in 2 0 0 0 a n d 2 0 0 1 , a n d o f C om m ons

te x t w as

d e m o n s tr a to r s

b e fo re th e M a r c h 2 0 0 1 S u m m it o f

d e s tin e d f o r C a n a d ia n c a b in e t m in is ­ te rs ,

th e

u n til

ru le s

in

th e

a b ilit y o f th e p e o p le t o c h o o s e d e m ­ o c ra tic a lly .

... W h a t

JENNY GEORGE

a b o u t h a v in g

c iv il s o c ie ty re p re s e n ta tiv e s a c tu a lly

M ellow p ro te sto rs aw ait P e ttig re w o u tsid e th e R itz -C a rlto n hotel F rid a y .

in

i z in g

th e re ,

at

th e

ta b le

d u r in g

th e

n e g o tia tio n processes?” h e asked.

FTAA.

M any

a n ti- F T A A

e c o n o m ic

tr a d e ,”

s a id

a

w as l i t t l e v io le n c e , a n d th e fe w p r o ­

C o n c o r d ia s tu d e n t. M a n y o f th e p r o ­

te s to rs w h o

p r o te s to r s

te sto rs s u p p o r t g lo b a liz a tio n , p r o v id ­

h o te l’s e n tra n c e a n d e n te r th e lo b b y

d id

try

to

b lo c k

th e

P ro te s to rs fe a r th a t i f p r o v is io n s s im ­

w e re q u ic k

o u t th a t th e

e d i t is c a rrie d o u t w i t h m o re re spect

w e re e a s ily d is c o u ra g e d b y s e c u rity

ila r to C h a p te r 11 are in c lu d e d i n th e

‘a n ti- g lo b a liz a tio n m o n ik e r g iv e n to

t o w o rk e rs ’ rig h ts , th e e n v ir o n m e n t,

a n d p o lic e .

FTAA,

th e m b y th e e s ta b lis h e d press is in a c ­

h u m a n r ig h ts a n d d e m o c ra c y .

th e a b ilit y

o f C anada and

L a t in A m e r ic a n c o u n trie s t o re g u la te

P e ttig r e w s a id h e w as m a k in g tra d e n e g o tia tio n s o p e n to s c ru tin y . “ I...

[h a v e ] m a d e p o s s ib le th e

p u b lic a tio n o f th e n e g o tia tin g te xts

p o in t

c u ra te .

th e ir o w n e c o n o m ie s w i l l be u n d e r­ m in e d .

to

A lt h o u g h

“ [ W h a t th e F T A A re p re se n ts is]

p r o te s t w as

O rg a n iz e rs

th e t u r n o u t f o r th e

lo w

c o m p a re d

to

th e

a tt r ib u te d

th e

lo w

t u r n o u t to th e in c re a s in g p o s s ib ilit y o f a w a r in Ira q , w h ic h has b e c o m e

e c o n o m ic g lo b a liz a tio n , o r b e tte r y e t

th o u s a n d s w h o m a rc h e d o n O c to b e r

th e

n e o -lib e ra l g lo b a liz a tio n . . . . A r e th e y

31,

a g e n d a f o r m a n y w o u ld - b e d e m o n ­

g lo b a liz in g e n v ir o n m e n ta l stan dards?

clo se to

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enough

A re

th e y

g lo b a liz in g

hum an

rig h ts? N o — th e y are s im p ly g lo b a l­

th e

d e m o n s t r a tio n tw o to

la s te d

fo r

h o u rs a n d w as la rg e

a ttr a c t b o th

th e

m ost

im p o r t a n t

ite m

on

th e

s tra to rs .

m a in ­

s tre a m m e d ia a n d lo c a l p o lic e . T h e re

— w i t h f i l e s f r o m S a m G o ffm a n

P a le s t in ia n le a d e r a d v o c a t e s t w o - s t a t e s o lu t io n N u s s e ib e h c a lls Is r a e lis a n d Molly Kay Marra

P a le s t in ia n s n a tu r a l a llie s , s e e k s e q u a lit y

g r o u n d s i n t o a c c o u n t.

say th e r a tio n a l, lo g ic a l, m o r e d e s ir­

“ O n o n e h a n d , y o u h a ve a p e o ­ S a ri N u s s e ib e h , th e re p re s e n ta ­ tiv e f o r th e P a le s tin ia n A u t h o r i t y in J e ru s a le m , s p o k e W e d n e s d a y a b o u t th e im p o r ta n c e o f r e v iv in g h o p e in th e

M id d le

East

if

Is ra e lis

and

P a le s tin ia n s are t o a c h ie v e peace.

N u s s e ib e h o ffe re d t w o p e rs p e c ­ tiv e s th a t h a v e e m e rg e d f r o m

th e

w h ile

th e

B e n - G u r io n

P a le s tin ia n s a n d Is ra e lis s h o u ld liv e to g e th e r o r else th e y w i l l d ie to g e th -

w o r l d . . . w h o c a m e [to th e M id d le

a P a le s tin ia n sta te a n d a sta te f o r th e

w o rd s

E a s t] i n search o f s e c u rity , a n d also

J e w is h p e o p le .”

in sea rch o f th e ir o w n h is to ry . T h e y

If

m ake

J e ru s a le m , re fu g e e s, s e ttle m e n ts a n d b o rd e r s . m e n ts

ues, b u t th e c o n f lic t [ its e lf] has c re ­ a te d so m a n y n e w reasons f o r b o th sides t o j u s t i f y w h y i t s h o u ld in d e e d th a t

b e lie v e s ,

are

reasons

h o w e v e r, w hy

MARK KUPFERT

[th e

c o n f lic t ]

c o n tin u e s ,

liv e s

fo r

b o th sides w i l l n o t be w o r t h liv in g .

S o m e th o ug h t N u s s e ib e h ’s a rg u m e n t w a s m o d e ra te .

M c G i l l ’s e n v ir o n m e n ta l

S tates, b u t

t h e ir P a le s tin ia n n e ig h b o u r a n d p e o ­ p le .” N u s s e ib e h s a id t h a t Is ra e l a n d P a le s tin e are n a tu r a l a llie s a n d m u s t o n e a n o th e r f o r

a

c o m m o n fu tu r e .

H o w e v e r, re la tio n s b e tw e e n th e tw o g r o u p s a n d th e re s t o f th e w o r ld p e o p le s ’ b a c k ­

[B r it is h ] r u le ,” h e sa id .

N u s s e ib e h

w o u ld

en ce. “ W h e r e th e o p p o r t u n i t y w i l l s u p p o rt

a

c o m e , w h e r e i t is p o s s ib le t o m a k e

n e g o tia tio n t h a t ad here s t o th e p r i n ­

an

c ip le o f e q u a lity .

l o o k f o r th e c o n se n su s w i t h i n

a g r e e m e n t...

we

s h o u ld

[n o t ] th e

“ E q u a lity c a n b e tra n s la te d in t o

sam e p o p u la tio n , a m o n g th e sam e

a o n e -s ta te s o lu t io n , w h e re a ll m e n

p e o p le , b u t a c o n se n su s b e tw e e n th e

are e q u a l b e fo re th e la w w i t h e q u a l

tw o

rig h ts , o r t w o states s id e -b y -s id e as

d iv id e . . . . W e are so in te r m in g le d

e q u a ls . O f th e t w o o p tio n s , I w o u ld

w i t h ea ch o th e r t h a t i t is p u re m a d ­

p e o p le s ,

a cro ss

th e

in s u -

|

la r i t y w as d iscu sse d a t a G re e n in g

|

M c G ill

w o rk s h o p

on

T h u rs d a y ,

in g th e sco p e o f th e g re e n m o v e ­

n a t io n a l

in g F e b ru a ry 17.

The

f i n d in g

th e

lin k s

th e e n v ir o n m e n ta lis t a n d

th e s o c ia l ju s tic e m o v e m e n ts ... a n d ad dress [in g ]

r o n m e n ta l p ro je c ts , in c lu d in g a f u l l ­ tim e e n v ir o n m e n ta l o ffic e r.

d e e p e r issues s u c h as

e n v ir o n m e n ta l ju s tic e a n d ra c is m ,"

E n v ir o n m e n ta l S a fe ty O ffic e , sa id th a t N g w ill m o n ito r c a m p u s p r o j­ e cts, s u c h as th e r e c y c lin g b in o p e r­ a t io n ,

E c o lo g y C e n tr e w as s k e p tic a l a b o u t w ith

“ I t w o u ld b e b e tte r n o t t o in t e ­ g ra te th e m o v e m e n ts o r e ve n address or

S e n a te

“ T h e r e are a l o t o f g re a t ideas f lo a tin g a r o u n d — i t ’s ju s t a m a tte r o f c h o o s in g th e on es w e c a n w o r k o n , ” she

s o c ia l ju s tic e .

d iffe re n c e s

th e

N g has m e t w i t h m e m b e rs o f

L u c ia K o w a lu k o f th e U r b a n

th e

a ssist

th e S C E a n d a p p e a rs e n th u s ia s tic .

s tu d e n t T i m M u r p h y .

e n v ir o n m e n t a lis m

and

S u b c o m m itte e o n th e E n v ir o n m e n t.

s a id c o - o rg a n iz e r a n d E n v ir o n m e n t

lin k in g

2 0 0 2 -2 0 0 3

W a y n e W o o d , m a n a g e r o f th e

“ I t ’s a b o u t b e tw e e n

U n iv e r s it y ’s

b u d g e t a llo c a te d $ 1 2 0 , 0 0 0 f o r e n v i­

m e n t.

“ W e w ill ne ver have a con sen­ su s,” N u s s e ib e h re m in d e d h is a u d i­

th e D e p a r tm e n t o f H u m a n S ervices, as th e e n v ir o n m e n ta l o ffic e r, s ta r t­

one,

n o n e th e le s s , s h o u ld h a ve h o p e . . . . I f

is o u r c o m m o n in te re s t. Is ra e l’s re al

m u s t ta k e th e t w o

“ th e re

He

B e n ja m in

w h e re p a r tic ip a n ts d e b a te d e x p a n d ­

e x p la in . . . w h y th e c o n f lic t c o n t in ­

f u t u r e . . . a n d t h a t fu t u r e

n e g o tia te w i t h

and

o n e o f th e t w o s id e s ... s u ff ic ie n t to

c o n t in u e . ”

to

Paula Magahaes__________

is th e c o m p lic a te d h is t o r y o f each

s a id

a lly is n o t th e U n it e d

e v a c u a te d

o f h o p e , N u s s e ib e h s a id , “ N o t o n ly

to

th e

be

a ttr ib u te d

t h a t J e ru s a le m

A lt h o u g h h e stressed a m essage

w h ic h

by

s h o u ld

Is r a e l’s

G r e e n u p d a t e : P o lic y a t w o r k

of

t o a n e w P a le s tin ia n state.

th e y ca n

b e g u id e d

s a id

p r o b le m s

re fuge es s h o u ld b e a llo w e d t o r e tu r n

“ A s th e y n e g o tia te I b o th

He

th e

s h o u ld r e m a in a n “ o p e n c it y ” , s e ttle ­

N u s s e ib e h .

b e lie v e t h a t . . .

a d d re s s

of

succe ssfu l,

m ust

c ris is

s a c r ific e s ,

be

o f a lo n g p e r io d o f b e in g . .. u n d e r

dem ands a ne w ro u n d o f

need

to

th e o th e r h a n d , w h o h a v e c o m e o u t

p o lic y - m a k in g process.

in

are

N u s s e ib e h b e lie ve s t h a t n e g o tia tio n s

c u s s io n s , d e b a te s a n d th e

sides w i l l

th e y

are th e n c o n fr o n te d b y a p e o p le , o n

h o p e fu l q u e s tio n s i n d is ­

b o th

F r a n k lin : “ ‘W e b e tte r h a n g to g e th e r, o th e rw is e w e ’ ll h a n g se p a ra te ly .’ . . .

U n iv e r s ity , c lo s e d th e le c tu re w i t h

c a n b e re s o lv e d b y a s k in g

n e g o tia t io n s ,

P ro fe s s o r J im m y W e in b la t t , re c­ to r

s id e

c u rre n t

ness t o c o n tin u e [th e v io le n c e ].”

th a t

o n d o n e — th e c re a tio n o f t w o states,

be lie ve s t h a t m a n y issues

The

o p tio n

s h o u ld b e w o r k e d to w a rd s is th e sec­

c o n t in u in g , o th e r

a c c e p ta b le

p le t h a t h a v e c o m e o u t o f a h is to r y

h o p e a lto g e th e r a n d sees c o n f l ic t

and

o f . .. s u ffe r in g i n v a rio u s p a rts o f th e

c o n f lic t : o n e s id e has lo s t th e

a b le

c o n t r a d ic t io n s

b e tw e e n th e tw o . . . . In s te a d , each g r o u p s h o u ld b r in g t h e ir o w n p e r­ s p e c tiv e to in d iv id u a l p r o je c ts .”

s a id .

o r g a n iz in g

M c G i l l has h ir e d K a th le e n N g , n o w th e a d m in is tr a tiv e c o o r d in a to r f o r th e e x e c u tiv e d ir e c to r ’s o ffic e in

th e

ESO

is

c u r r e n t ly

second

“ R e t h in k

Y o u r E n v ir o n m e n t ” c o n fe re n c e .

S in c e S ena te passed th e a c c o m ­ p a n y in g p r in c ip le s t o M c G i l l ’s e n v i­ r o n m e n ta l p o lic y in S e p te m b e r, th e a d m in is t r a t io n som e

E n v ir o n m e n t a l O f f i c e r h ir e d

The

has

s m a ll- s c a le

H o w e v e r,

John

h ig h lig h t e d

im p r o v e m e n ts .

E n g le r ,

S tu d e n ts ’

S o c ie ty re p re s e n ta tiv e t o th e S C E , s a id t h a t M c G i l l s h o u ld re s tru c tu re its e n v ir o n m e n ta l p o lic y .

The McGill Tribune, Tuesday, February 11, 2003

4 N ew s

G R A SP arg u es a g a in st w a r; M cG ill se cu rity stay s a w a y Jennifer Jett

th e y

b e lie v e

in h ib its

fr e e d o m

of

spe ech.

A n t i w a r a c tiv is t C h r is

u rg e d s tu d e n ts t o p r o te s t a p o s s ib le US

w ar on

Ira q

in

“ I t ’s o u r

B ro w n

a sp e e ch la s t

M onday.

d e p e n d e n c e o n o i l im p o r t s i n re c e n t years. A p p r o x im a te ly 11 p e r c e n t o f

iz e d b y th e G ra s s ro o ts A s s o c ia tio n

T h e series is b e in g h e ld , in p a rt, as

a

d ir e c t

c h a lle n g e

to

U n iv e r s it y ’s r o o m - b o o k in g GRASP

m e m b e rs

h o s te d

th e

spe ech in th e A r ts B u ild in g w i t h o u t f o r m a lly b o o k in g a r o o m

to re s is t M c G i l l S e c u r ity p e rs o n n e l i f

K o re a ? ” h e aske d. “ B ecause N o r t h

th e y

K o re a a c tu a lly has th e c a p a c ity f o r a

th e

e v e n t w as

h e ld

a d m in is t r a t io n

fe e

and

a p ro c e s s

U n iv e r s ity t o a d o p t. N o n e o f th e le c ­ tu re s w i l l b e h e ld i n ro o m s b o o k e d th r o u g h th e U n iv e r s ity .

D e b b ie Y a c o u lis is i n c h a rg e o f b o o k in g e ve n ts i n m o s t o f th e b u il d ­

“ W h y is th e U S n o t a tta c k in g

in g s o n c a m p u s .

T h e r e is n o r o o m re n ta l c h a rg e , s a id Y a c o u lis , a n e ve n ts c o o r d in a to r i n th e O f f ic e o f A n c illa r y S ervices. A

r e ta lia to r y s tr ik e .”

w i t h o u t d is r u p tio n .

“ W e e x is t in w h a t’s c a lle d th e

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B r o w n s a id U S w a r p la n s also

B r o w n e xp ressed d is s a tis fa c tio n la c k

c o d e t h a t G R A S P is p e t it io n in g th e

n o t a c tin g a g a in s t th e

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sa id .

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th ro u g h

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n o w n u c le a r- a rm e d N o r t h K o re a .

p o lic y .

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c o n t r a d ic t o r y

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f o r S tu d e n t P o w e r, a n in d e p e n d e n t s tu d e n t g r o u p a t M c G i l l .

is

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th e w o r ld 's o i l s u p p ly is lo c a te d in Ira q , h e sa id .

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th e

s u b s ta n c e

w e re

m a k in g

g e ttin g

su re

th a t

d ir e c to r o f

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tr o u b le . N o t t h a t a l i t t l e b i t o f t r o u ­

a b u se

c o m p o n e n t,

w h ic h g ive s fro s h lead ers th e s k ills to d e cre a se

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th e y are n o t g e ttin g i n t o to o m u c h

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N e W s B rle F s ‘ E le c tio n ‘03 R u m o u r M ill P a rt II* S u p p o rtin g fa c t w ith s p e c u la tio n I n a s u rp ris e m o v e ( n o t re a lly ), A r ts U n d e rg r a d u a te

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a g a in a t R e d p a th because th e re is n o

t io n s .

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o th e r w a y t o t e ll w h o is a s tu d e n t a n d

M a n a g e m e n t’s S ile n t A u c t io n a n d th e

in te n d e d t o s o lic it s tu d e n t s u g g e s tio n s

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U n iv e r s it y A ffa ir s F re d S agel. “ I t s u p ­

“ T h is y e a r w e are also w o r k in g o n a

s ix th year. ( W h a t w i l l h e r m o th e r say?) S e th , a d m it y o u ’re r u n ­

p le m e n ts th e m e e tin g s w i t h th e fa c u l­

p r o p o s a l t o im p r o v e th e p h o to c o p y sys­

th e y w e re n o s lo u c h e s . . . . A lto g e th e r ,

t e m ,” s a id Sagel.

s tu d e n t

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tie s a n d th e V P A c a d e m ic s t o d iscuss

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s tu d e n ts w i l l c o m e to th e n e x t o p e n

n i n g f o r F re d ’s jo b , v ic e -p re s id e n t u n iv e r s ity a ffa irs . T h e T r ib u n e ’s

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f o r m th a t h e w i l l d o n a te h is p re s id e n tia l s a la ry b a c k to S S M U .

veys i n N o v e m b e r . . . . T h is m e e tin g w as

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e n o u g h a d v a n c e a d v e rtis e m e n t.”

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m o re th a n o n e C o u n c il m e e tin g ; R o d D e C a s tr o ; L ib e r a l M c G i l l ’s

tim e d u r in g e x a m p e r io d s .”

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are c o n t e n t to c o n c lu d e h e ’s ju s t a

p a s t T h u r s d a y , a n d a ll t h a t s e rio u s

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I f t h is q u e s t io n

lo v e - h a te

p ic t u r e a n y t h in g m o r e f r ig h t e n in g

w i t h h is re v e la tio n s a b o u t b e in g th e

is p a s s e d b y c o u n c i l , s t u d e n t s m a y f o r m

M J . H e te r r ifie s

th a n s h a r in g a p o s t- c o ita l l o l l y w i t h

re a l lif e P e te r P a n a n d d e ta ils a b o u t

“ N O ” c o m m it t e e a n d b e g in c a m p a ig n in g o n S u n d a y

m e t o th e c o re a n d y e t I a m m e s ­

th e K i n g o f P o p w h ile h e w h im p e r s

h is c o m m u n a l s le e p o ve rs w i t h c h i l ­

m e riz e d b y h is e x c e e d in g ly b iz a rre

“ h o ld m e ” i n y o u r e a r as h is n o se

d re n .

I

have

a

o n e -w a y ,

r e la tio n s h ip w i t h

e x is te n c e . W h e n e v e r h e a p p e a rs o n

c o m e s d a n g e r o u s ly c lo s e t o s lic in g

a te le v is io n s c re e n , I f i n d m y h a n d s

y o u r c h e e k o p e n . P r o c r e a tio n asid e ,

tio n s ,

i n v o l u n t a r i ly f l y i n g u p t o s h ie ld m y

M ik e

a p p a r e n t ly

s ta te m e n ts m a d e b y th e m a n h i m ­

fa ce , w h ile , m u c h l ik e a b y s ta n d e r

fa t h e r

and

a t th e scen e o f a c a r a c c id e n t, I c a n ’t

b i r t h o f h is m o s t re c e n t c h ild — l i t ­

b r in g m y s e lf to t u r n aw ay.

e ra lly . J u s t m o m e n t s a fte r th e b a b y

t o r e m e m b e r th a t i t has y e t t o be

w a s d e liv e re d , M i k e b o o k e d i t fr o m

p r o v e n t h a t h e ’s a c tu a lly b r o k e n th e la w . B o t t o m

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a th e

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ru m o u rs

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and

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to

a ssu m e

w o r s t , t h o u g h I guess i t ’s im p o r t a n t

in g t o m e b e cause th e re is n o t o n e

th e

c o v e re d i n p la c e n ta . I j u s t lo s t m y

m a tte r h o w n o rm a l a n d m u n d a n e

a ll k n o w p e o p le w h o e x h ib it w e ir d ­

lu n c h .

th e a c tiv ity , w e c a n a lw a y s c o u n t o n

t h e ir liv e s , b u t n o u t t e r ly

and

e v e r y th in g And

o n e is to t a lly ,

c o m p le te ly th e y d o . . .

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in

except M J.

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th e c re e p ie s t

w h a t i t is e x a c tly a b o u t th e N e v e r -

m a n n e r p o s s ib le . S o r r y M o m , b u t

la n d

t h a t ’s e n te r ta in m e n t.

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m id n ig h t .

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a “Y E S ” o r

in f o r m a t io n

r e g a r d in g t h e r e f e r e n d u m is a v a ila b le o n t h e E le c t io n s M c G i l l w e b s it e dum

in c lu d in g

a s t u d e n t -f o r m e d

re fe re n ­

c o m m it t e e k it .

th e

n o r m a l t h i n g a b o u t th e d u d e . W e ness i n o n e o r e v e n m u lt ip l e areas o f

of

le a v in g

w a tc h e d p la n e s c o llid in g w i t h

a t,

a u t h e n t ic it y

fe e lin g . T h e r e is n o p o ig n a n c y , ju s t

m e tre s w id e . A l l th e w h ile th e t a lk ­

s ta r in g

no

scre en are so s ta g g e r in g ly in c o n c e iv ­

to o y o u n g to b e so c y n ic a l, b u t I m y s e lf

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And

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c a l a n d g e o g ra p h ica l ch an g e s o f re lig io u s d o g ­ m as.

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“S ta y tu n e d , k id s , because after th e b re ak,

d ic h o to m ie s , how ever, creates d isse n t w h e n

w e’re g o in g to le a rn a b o u t K w a a a a n z a a !” the

d iffe re n t degrees o f s ig n ific a n c e are a ttrib u te d

e x cita b le h o st c h irp s .

to each c o m p o n e n t. In s id e r r e lig io n m a y n o t

m it m e n t to s o m e th in g , th e n w h y s h o u ld a n y ­

w it h m o ra lity , because a ll re lig io n s te ach w h a t

F la s h b a c k a d ecade ago, re lig io u s te a c h in g

be re le v a n t in a p u b lic s c h o o l se ttin g , b u t

is g o o d a n d b a d ,” states G h o s h , w h o believes

in p u b lic e d u c a tio n to o k th e fo rm o f m in i-le s ­

s h o u ld it be e ra d ica te d a lto g eth e r? W h ile m o st

b o d y id e n t if y w it h it ? ” C o m m it m e n t , ho w ever,

so ns in m o r a lit y s p u rre d b y s c h o o ly a rd fig h ts,

su p p o rt

a d h e re n ce

s p o t lig h t in g teachers t r y in g to n e u tr a lly ju s t if y w h y h it t in g is w ro n g to a b u n c h o f c o n fu se d

a w e ll-r o u n d e d

e d u c a t io n ,

so m e

u s u a lly e n ta ils

th a t it is d a n g e ro u s to asso ciate p a r t ic u la r v a l­

c u sto m s,

ues to s p e c ific re lig io n s , because these g ro u p s

en fo rce th e p a re n ta l rig h t to h a ve c h ild r e n

w h ic h so m e m a in t a in are irre le v a n t to m o ra l

start to “tak e o w n e rs h ip ” o f m o ra l v a lu e s. “I

e d u cate d in a re lig io u s e n v iro n m e n t.

to

c e rta in

r it u a ls

and

“T h e id e a [ o f in s id e r re lig io n ] is to create

u p b r in g in g .

“H o w is rit u a l related to v a lu e s ?” c h a l­

k n o w a lo t o f re lig io u s p e o p le th a t are t e r r ib ly

a n d u n c o n v in c e d c h ild re n .

T h e u p su rg e in im m ig r a t io n , the c o n c e p t

c o m m itte d [ in d iv id u a ls a n d to] g iv e p e o p le a

len ges G h o s h . “It ’s th e p h ilo s o p h y o f th e re li­

th a t is g iv in g th e m th e m o r a lit y ? ” Id e a lly , s o c i­

o f p o lit ic a l co rre ctn e ss a n d the e v o lu tio n o f

c o m fo rt le v e l w it h re lig io u s e x p e rie n ce s, to

g io n th at deals w ith v a lu e s. I f y o u lo o k at the

e ty w o u ld p r io r it iz e m o ra l, e th ic a l a n d c iv ic

m u it ic u lt u r a lis m as a n a t io n a l id e o lo g y have

in s t ill a le ve l o f c o m m it m e n t to

d iffe re n t re lig io n s a n d t h e ir ritu a ls , it ’s the r it ­

v a lu e s, e x e m p lifie d b y th e U N ’s D e c la r a t io n o f

created a n in c re a s in g ly u n d e n ia b le n e e d to

te a ch in g s a n d c o n fid e n c e in re lig io u s le a d e r­

u a ls th a t have le d to tro u b le .”

H u m a n R ig h ts a n d F re e d o m s.

raise aw areness a b o u t a fu n d a m e n ta l ch a ra c te r­

s h ip ,” e x p la in s L e v y. “I f pe o p le are o p p o se d to

“It is th e ‘ra th e r th a n ’ aspect o f th is th a t is

T h e b e a u ty o f y o u t h lie s in the s im p lic it y

is t ic

g iv in g th e ir c h ild re n a re lig io u s e d u c a tio n , I

w ro n g in Q u e b e c ,” states B e n s o n . “S tu d e n ts

w it h w h ic h c h ild r e n c a n be ta u g h t. I n Je w ish

d o n ’t t h in k th e y s h o u ld h a ve to se n d th e m to a

n e e d to k n o w a b o u t r e lig io n as w e ll as a b o u t

e le m e n ta ry sc h o o ls, fo r in sta n c e , c h ild r e n are

C h ild r e n to d a y are exp o sed to re lig io u s

re lig io u s s c h o o l. B u t I t h in k th a t th e y have

e th ics a n d th e tw o h a ve im p o r t a n t o ve rlap s

e n co u ra g e d to a d h e re to a co d e o f p ro m ise s

in f o r m a t io n in a fu n , u n b ia s e d w ay, ju s t as

sh o rtc h a n g e d th e ir k id s s p ir it u a lly b y n o t p ro ­

a n d d is t in c tio n s , w h ic h o u g h t to be p a rt o f a

in c lu d in g s u c h p led g es as “I w ill a lw ays d o m y

th e y are to A B C s a n d s c ie n t ific e x p e rim e n ts,

v id in g th e m w it h s o m e th in g o f th a t s o rt.”

g o o d e d u c a tio n .”

best” a n d “I w ill respect m y s e lf a n d o th e rs” ,

th a t

b o th

u n it e s

and

d is t in g u is h e s

C a n a d ia n s : re lig io u s id e n tity .

re lig io u s

im m o r a l, so h o w c a n I sa y th a t it is th e re lig io n

a n e d u c a tio n a l d e v e lo p m e n t th at is sure to

H a v in g g ro w n u p in ru ra l Q u e b e c at a

m o ra l p o s itio n s th at m a y be u n ch a lle n g e a b le

affect fu tu re C a n a d ia n g e n e ra tio n s p o sitiv e ly,

tim e w h e n e d u c a tio n w as p r im a r ily se cta ria n ,

at a n e le m e n ta ry le ve l, b u t c a n n o t an sw er

in te rm s o f c u lt u ra l u n d e rs ta n d in g , to le ra n ce

Gw enda

M c G ill

“I th in k th a t contem po­

a n d co e xiste n ce .

Y e t th is c h a n g in g se cu la r re a lity d iffe rs

C h a p la in c y , disagrees.

“I re co g n ize th e im p o rta n c e fo r so m e re li­

rary education’s attem p t to

g re a tly fro m w h a t the C a n a d ia n e d u c a tio n sys­

g io u s g ro u p s o f h a v in g separate s c h o o ls, b u t w o u ld

b u ild civic virtues on a lan ­

te m o n c e a im e d fo r: s c h o o lin g th at reflected th e id e a ls a n d cu sto m s o f n a tio n a l re lig io n s

in c lu d e d re lig io u s e d u c a tio n fo r a ran g e o f

t h ro u g h se c ta ria n s c h o o l b o a rd s. S o , w h a t to

g ro u p s w it h in th e sam e in s t it u t io n , w it h g o o d

d o a b o u t th is d is c re p a n c y ?

exch anges a m o n g st th e stu d e n ts in th e v a rio u s

W e lls ,

d ir e c t o r

of

p re fe r to see in c lu s iv e

th e

sch o o ls th at

p ro g ra m m e s ,” she argues.

U n v e ilin g a n d u n t a n g lin g

guage o f ‘values’ is chaotic, am biguous and doom ed to fa ilu re .”

Q u e b e c ’s e d u c a t io n a l stan ce

precep ts th a t stress in d iv id u a lis t ic p u rs u its are n o t as e a sily a cce p te d b y ra tio n a l, q u e s tio n in g a d u lts.

“I t h in k th a t c o n te m p o ra ry e d u c a tio n ’s a tte m p t to b u ild c iv ic v irtu e s o n a la n g u a g e o f ‘v a lu e s’ is c h a o tic , a m b ig u o u s a n d d o o m e d to fa ilu r e ,” says B e n s o n , w h o fears p lu r a lis m m a y b o rd e r a n t i-r e lig io u s s e n tim e n ts. “T h a t is w h y

— Ia in Benson

th e d ic h o t o m y

s o p h istic a te d e th ic a l q u e stio n s. S im p le m o ra l

Executive D irector, Centre f o r C u ltu ra l Renewal

o n e o f C a n a d a 's greatest p h ilo s o p h e rs [G e o rg e G r a n t ] o n c e p o in te d o u t th a t ‘ ...v a lu e s la n ­

R e lig io n as a n in h e re n t p a rt o f e d u c a tio n

Q u e b e c ’s r e la tio n s h ip w it h re lig io n has

reveals a series o f d ic h o to m ie s , h ig h lig h t in g

d o n e a f u ll 180 s in c e the c o lo n ia l p e rio d , m o v ­

u sed w h e n

th e

in g fro m a syste m th a t c lu n g to C a t h o lic tra­

d e stro ye d .’”

d iffe re n c e

b e tw e e n

c o m m it m e n t

and

d itio n s to preserve th e Q u é b é c o is id e n tity , to a

u n d e rs ta n d in g .

guage is a n o b s c u rin g la n g u a g e fo r m o r a lit y th e id e a o f p u rp o se h a s been

T h e e t h ic o r th e r e lig io n ?

n e w th e o ry o f m o ra l e d u c a tio n th a t e n c o u r­

B a la n c in g o u t th e h a lve s o f th e d ic h o t o ­

B e n s o n , e x e cu tive

ages th e te a c h in g o f v a lu e s as separate fro m

m y m e an s a n s w e rin g a k e y q u e stio n : w h a t

B y in c lu d in g m o ra l te a ch in g s i n its e d u ­

d ire c to r o f th e C e n tr e fo r C u lt u r a l R e n e w a l,

r e lig io n , to u n it e a ll re lig io n s t h ro u g h th e ir

c a m e firs t, th e e th ic o r th e r e lig io n — h u m a n s

c a tio n , in th e o ry, C a n a d a is p r o m o t in g a sense

a n in d e p e n d e n t, n o n -p r o f it o rg a n iz a tio n th a t

as m o ra l agents o r h u m a n s as w o rs h ip p e rs o f

o f rig h te o u sn e ss th at w ill tra n sla te in t o a d h e r­

exp lo res th e c o n n e c tio n s betw een p u b lic p o li­

c o m m o n v irtu e s .

“T h e Q u e b e c E d u c a t io n P ro g ra m m e o pts

ence to la w s, th u s e n s u r in g s o c ia l o rd er. I f v a l­

cy, c u ltu re , m o ra l d isc o u rse a n d re lig io u s c o n ­

fo r a n a p p ro a c h th a t e n a b les [students] to f in d

th e d iv in e ?

T h e s e c u la r-m in d e d te n d to b e lie ve in an

v ic t io n . “B u t here, w e n e e d to m a k e a k e y d is ­

answ ers to q u e stio n s a ris in g o u t o f e v e ryd a y

in s tin c tiv e m o r a lit y th a t h as g en erated th e id e a

ca n v a lu e s ta u g h t th ro u g h r e lig io n succeed?

“R e lig io n s are k e y to c u ltu re s a n d alw ays h a ve b e e n ,” a ffirm s Ia in

C r e a t in g m o d e l c itiz e n s

ues ta u g h t in d e p e n d e n tly ca n ’t a ch ie ve th is,

b e tw e e n

e x p e rie n ce , to d e ve lo p a p e rso n a l a n d so cia l

o f a h ig h e r p o w e r: h u m a n flaw s im p ly the

‘in s t r u c t io n

v a lu e sy ste m ,” stated th e Q u e b e c M in is t r y o f

id e a l o f p e rfe c tio n , o n e th a t, in its u n a tta in ­

ta u g h t, b u t it d o e sn 't m e a n th a t o n e necessar

a b o u t’ re lig io n s .”

“I f y o u w a n t to d e ve lo p c o m m it m e n t to

E d u c a t io n in A u g u s t 2 0 0 0 , u p h o ld in g th a t

a b ility , c a lls fo r th e existe n ce o f a s u p e rn a tu ra l,

i l y fo llo w s th e m does it ? ” B e n s o n p o in ts o u t.

v a lu e -re la te d issues lie n o t o n ly in r e lig io n b u t

m e ta p h y sic a l force. I n c o n tra st, th e re lig io u s ly -

“W e ca n le a rn the p r in c ip le s o f v ir t u e b u t it

y o u r r e lig io n , y o u d o it as a n in s id e r; i f y o u

in o th e r su b je cts s u c h as lite ra tu re , scie n ce a n d

in c lin e d b e lie v e it is th e existe n ce o f G o d th at

w a n t to d e ve lo p a n u n d e rs ta n d in g o f h u m a n i­

s o c ia l stu d ie s.

in s p ire s m o ra l a ttitu d e s w it h in h u m a n s .

d oesn’t m a k e us v ir t u o u s .”

S t ill, B e n s o n ’s research h as d e m o n stra te d

t in c t io n .

We

‘in s t r u c t io n

m ust

d is t in g u is h

in ’ r e lig io n s

and

“O b v io u s ly ,

a n y set o f b e lie fs c a n

be

ty a n d a n a p p re c ia tio n o f y o u r n e ig h b o u rs a n d

Y e t th is p lu r a lis t ic a p p ro a c h to re lig io u s

“E t h ic s to d a y is a v e r y in te re s tin g p h e ­

th a t there is a c o rre la tio n betw een re g u la r

y o u r c u ltu re , th e n y o u d o it as a n o u ts id e r,”

in s t r u c t io n does n o t n e c e ssa rily create a re li­

n o m e n o n . I ’m n o t su re w h e th e r y o u s h o u ld

a tte n d a n ce at re lig io u s se rvice s a n d p o s itiv e

e x p la in s B a r r y L e v y, d e a n o f th e F a c u lt y o f

g io u s id e n tity.

“W h e n y o u teach re lig io n as a n o u tsid e r,

d e fin e e th ics as th e d is t ille d essence o f re lig io n

so cia l b e h a v io u r a n d th a t, fu rth e r, th is co rre la ­

w ith o u t th e r it u a l o r ju s t as se c u la r re lig io n . I t ’s

t io n stre n g th e n s C a n a d a ’s p o lit ic a l id e o lo g y.

it ’s o n ly d e sc rip tiv e ; there’s n o sense o f id e n t i­

re lig io u s v a lu e s w ith o u t r e lig io n ,” L e v y p o stu ­

“I h a ve sp e n t a great d e al o f tim e in d is ­

R e lig io u s S tu d ie s.

“R e lig io n in o u r c o n te m p o ra ry s o cie ty also h a p p e n s to h a ve a p o lit ic a l force, m o tiv a t­

f y in g w it h it ,” states L e v y. “O n e o f th e great

lates, w h o is w a r y o f the g re y areas p la g u in g

c u s s io n w ith to p p e o p le at S ta tistic s C a n a d a

in g a lo t o f issues. B e cau se o f th a t, it ’s a v e ry

in c o n sis te n c ie s in th e Q u e b e c e d u c a tio n p o li­

c o n te m p o ra ry m o ra l issu es. “I d o n ’t k n o w i f

o n th is v e ry p o in t a n d W il l ia m G a ls t o n , fo r­

g o o d id e a to t a lk a b o u t d iffe re n t re lig io n s , b u t

c y h as to d o w it h t r y in g to c o n v e y in s id e r

o n e c a n a rriv e at a t r u ly fa ir a n d e q u ita b le sys­

m e r d o m e s tic p o lic y a d v is o r to th e C l in t o n

th e p h ilo s o p h ic a l aspect ra th e r th a n th e r it u a l­

c o m m itm e n ts b y s t u d y in g r e lig io n as a n o u t­

te m o f e th ics to ta lly d iv o rc e d fro m re lig io u s

A d m in is t r a t o r , h as s a id th a t those w h o s u p p o rt

is tic a sp e ct,” notes R a t n a G h o s h , d e a n o f the

s id e r. .. It ’s a ll v e ry n ic e to im a g in e th a t y o u c a n m a k e e v e ry b o d y m o ra l b y s t u d y in g d iffe r­

v a lu e s .”

“I t h in k th a t r e lig io n h a s n o t h in g to d o

lib e r a lis m

F a c u lt y o f E d u c a t io n , w h o advo cates c o m p a r­ a tiv e r e lig io n classes th a t illu s tra te th e h is t o r i­

e n t re lig io n s , b u t i f y o u ’re n o t te a c h in g a c o m ­

n e e d to u n d e rs ta n d th a t, in

respect, lib e r a lis m

and

r e lig io n

need

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The McGill Tribune, Tuesday, February 11, 2003

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th e teachers m a y n o t be e x am p le s o f the v a lu e s th e y are te a c h in g ,” offers T h o m a s B o u c h a rd , fo rm e r lit u r g ic a l

s u m e ris t,

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th a t, w h ile v a lu a b le , C a t h o lic boards m u s t c o n s ta n tly q u e s tio n the m o r a l c h a ra cte r th e y are p re se n tin g .

“R e lig io u s te a c h in g c a n o n ly be u se fu l i f it is ta u g h t b y p e o p le w h o k n o w s o m e th in g a b o u t it ,” u p h o ld s Levy.

“O n e o f the in te re s tin g th in g s w e f in d a b o u t u n iv e rs ity

C o n t e n t io n o v e r c h o ic e

is th a t m a n y stu d e n ts w h o e ith e r h a d n o re lig io u s

C h ild r e n at a y o u n g age are in n o p o s itio n to

u p b r in g in g o r w h o w ere d is e n c h a n te d w it h t h e ir re li­

r a t io n a lly d e cid e w h a t re lig io u s b e lie fs best s u it th e ir

g io u s u p b r in g in g ... are b u s y t r y in g to get in s id e r e x p e ri­

p e rso n a lity . B u t h o w fa r s h o u ld p a re n ta l m o n o p o ly over c h o ic e exten d ?

ence a n d e d u c a tio n ... because [they] w a n t to c o m e to lis ­

“I t h in k it d e p e n d s o n th e fa m ily , th e k id a n d the

ten to a co urse a b o u t re lig io n w ith o u t b e in g s o ld that re lig io n c o n s ta n tly .”

e n v ir o n m e n t ,” says L e v y. “I n e le m e n ta ry s c h o o l, th e p a r­

B e n s o n a dd s th a t h a v in g re lig io u s a u th o ritie s as

e n ts are s t ill the p r im a r y in flu e n c e o n the c h ild ; in h ig h

in s tru c to rs “show s respect fo r a c c u ra c y a n d m in im iz e s

s c h o o l, th a t b e g in s to s h ift to in c lu d e , m o re a n d m o re ,

in a p p ro p ria te c o m m e n ta ry o n th e re lig io n s .”

th e stu d e n ts’ co n te m p o ra rie s. N o w the p aren ts are faced w ith a d ile m m a : i f th e y w a n t to c o n tin u e th e re lig io u s in flu e n c e , th e n th e y w a n t th e peers to reflect th e k in d o f re lig io u s c u ltu re th a t y o u id e n t if y w it h .”

S t ill, a c h ild ’s a b ilit y to re fle ct a n d react can ’t be u n d e re stim a te d .

Y o u g o tta h a v e fa ith T h e te rm s fa ith a n d r e lig io n m a y be used in te r­ c h a n g e a b ly b u t th e y d o n ’t m e a n th e sam e th in g . A th e is ts o r a g n o stics m a y h a ve d o u b ts a b o u t G o d , b u t s t ill have fa ith in a b so lu te co n ce p ts, lik e h u m a n g o o dn ess, love

“D o n ’t w e w a n t o u r c h ild r e n to a sk q u e stio n s? D o

a n d c h a rity , w h ic h th e y uses as g u id e lin e s to d ire c t th e ir

w e w a n t th e m to be b lin d in w h a t th e y ’re fo llo w in g ? Y o u

life . O th e rw is e s a id , it is n o t th e o b je c t b e lie v e d in th a t

c a n ’t fo rc e

m atte rs, b u t h o w th a t b e lie f d ictate s o n e ’s life .

r e lig io n

dow n

p e o p le ’s th ro a ts ,” asserts

G h o s h , w h o p o in ts to th e m a n y h is t o r ic a l c o n flic ts a n d

“F a ith is w h a t y o u b e lie ve in , a n d r e lig io n is m u c h

w ars cau se d b y atte m p ts to c o n v e rt a n d to p ro v e th at

m o re c o m p lic a te d th a n t h a t ... [it] is w h a t y o u d o , n o t

“m y g o d is better th a n y o u r g o d .”

o n ly w h a t y o u t h in k a n d , therefore, ritu a ls p la y a large

L e v y also v a lu e s th e im p o rta n c e o f p r o m o t in g re li­ g io u s u n d e rs ta n d in g “so th a t p e o p le d o n ’t see t h e ir o w n r e lig io n as th e o n ly fo rm o f le g itim a te e x p re ssio n .”

ro le .” e x p la in s L e v y “R it u a ls are v e r y d if f ic u lt fo r m e to acce p t because th e y w ere m a d e b y p e o p le fo r th e ir o w n e n d s ,” shares G h o s h w h o , th o u g h a fa it h fu l F lin d u , does n o t p a r t ic i­

‘T i s f o lly to be ig n o r a n t

p ate in th e t ra d itio n s she fin d s sexist o r p o w e r-d riv e n .

It is a n u n co n te sta b le fact th a t re lig io u s ig n o ra n c e

“ [ In o n e o f h e r la te r w o rks] M o t h e r T h e re s a a sk e d , ‘Is

c a n le a d to h o s t ilit y a n d p r e ju d ic e . M in o r it y re lig io n s in

there re a lly a G o d ? ’ [because] she h a d d o u b ts a b o u t h o w

a c h ie fly C h r is t ia n so cie ty lik e C a n a d a are b o m b a rd e d

G o d w as p o rtra y e d b y th e C a t h o lic C h u r c h . B u t o f a ll

w ith C h r is t ia n im a g e s fro m C h r is t m a s trees to E a ste r

p e o p le , i f she d id n ’t h a ve fa ith , I d o n ’t k n o w w h o does.

eggs, b u t k id s

th a t c o n s titu te th is m a jo r it y re m a in

S h e w as the s y m b o l o f fa ith ; she b e lie v e d in g o o d n e ss.”

“S m a ll d iffe re n ce s ca n m a k e a b ig d iffe re n c e ,” says

e ve ryo n e is a b e lie v e r a n d e ve ryo n e has f a it h ,” adds

un aw a re .

G h o s h , w h o se b o o k

“It is im p o rt a n t to d iscu ss in p u b lic e d u c a tio n that

R edefining M u ltic u ltu ra l Education

exp lo res th e im p o rta n c e o f re c o g n iz in g a n d a cce p tin g h u m a n d iffe re n ce s. “A t r u ly m u lt ic u lt u r a l s o c ie ty w o u ld be d e v o id o f a n y o n e o r tw o re lig io n s .”

B e n s o n . “It is n o t p o ssib le to liv e w ith o u t fa ith a n d T o be h u m a n is to t h in k ; to t h in k is to a ssu m e ; to a ssu m e is to h a ve fa ith . T h u s , as B e n s o n em p h a size s, b o th n o n -r e lig io u s a n d re lig io u s fa ith m u s t p la y a n e q u a l

m u c h th a t c o u ld be sh are d in th e areas o f v a lu e s, to le r­

ro le in d e te r m in in g h o w m o ra l e d u c a tio n is to be c o n ­

a n ce , so cia l e n g a g e m e n t a n d p re p a ra tio n fo r liv e s o f

d u cte d .

W e lls .

“O n l y t h ro u g h d e a lin g s w it h p e o p le o f d iffe re n t re lig io n s , cu ltu re s a n d e th n ic itie s , w ill w e create a h a r­

“O u r c u rre n t c o n fu s io n s s im p ly le ad to a d o m in a ­ t io n o f s u p p o s e d ly n e u tra l in s titu tio n s b y a th e istic a n d a g n o stic p re su p p o s itio n s m a s q u e ra d in g as n e u tra l o n e s,” S o , i f it is to su cce e d , e d u c a tio n m u s t c o m b in e

a n d fu rth e r a p p re c ia tin g o u r o w n ,” a dd s S a ra h E lg a z z a r

m o r a lit y a n d r e lig io n , a n d e m p h a siz e fa ith w it h in le a rn ­

Y e t k n o w le d g e d o e sn ’t g u a ra n te e p e a ce fu l asso cia­ t io n , e s p e c ia lly w h e n p e d a g o g ic a l p ro b le m s arise.

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To court this am bitious breed o f student, you must subm it a schedule o f proposed dates and wait tw o (2 ) working days for approval. N o t that they’re really that busy, they just like to fool their enem ies by running around Shatner and consum ing copi­ ous am ounts o f Caférama products.

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D o n ’t get your hopes up, dear, this one will be to o busy dreaming about the road trip he’ll be taking w ith his buddies to see those four Phish shows over the break to even think about Valentine’s Day. Your special night w ill consist o f ripping hits o ff his room m ate’s bong and watching the D V D o f last year’s Bonnaroo festi­ val. Presents? N ah , don’t bother.

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D o n 't p a s s o n B u c k 6 5 Panthea Lee ________________________ “I’ll make no bones about the fact that I’ve becom e a bit o f a princess,” Buck 65 joked Tuesday at Cabaret. Ladies and gents, bow dow n to Princess Buck 65. Make no mistake, however: this ain’t no prissy, tiara-wearin’ princess.

T h is royal m ajesty has been dubbed the hip hop version o f Tom Waits, a more lucid Beck and even been likened to leg­ endary producer Brian Eno. H e’s a Pisces w ith a pen­ chant for B oost shakes. H e’s a mem ber o f Afrika Bambaataa’s Zulu N ation organization, and enjoys w atching crime shows on A & E. H e was scouted by the N ew York Yankees and used to work on Sesame Street. N o t bad for som eone w ho claims to be pretty dull.

Even w ith today’s vast m usi­ cal landscape, Buck 65 (born Richard Tefry) is considered to be som ew hat o f an enigm a.

W ith the num ber o f genres today m ultiplying faster than y ou can say progressivenuskoolID M — if I hear o f another one that begins w ith the prefix ‘alterna’, I’m going to shoot som ebody— Buck shrugs o ff the issue o f genre. Critics and fans alike have a hard tim e describ­ ing his music, for he disregards the laws o f categorization.

“I generally have a problem w ith hum an beings’ need to always have a category for everything,” he admits. “T hat’s particularly difficult for m e because I definitely don’t fit neatly into any category, so that causes problems in itself and it cre­ ates these weird categories that peo­ ple try to make. A nd I guess if they do make one, I’m there by myself.”

A nd don’t even think about comparing him to Em inem .

“T he E m inem comparisons are pretty annoying because that— the beginning and the end o f that— is w hite guy rapping... that’s all that is. So, it’s really w eak.”

O n Tuesday, the soundchecks being performed in preparation for the night’s show had to com pete w ith the loud thud o f im patient ticket-holders banging on the out­ side door, but Buck remained indif­ ferent. T hough a folk, country and blues aficionado, this boy’s got hip hop on his m ind. Dressed in a blue Hockey Night in Canada hoodie and jean jacket, he leans forward and talks animatedly, his eyes bright and shyly peeking out from under the rim o f his signature brown hat.

H is face lights up as he describes his discovery o f hip hop culture and his love affair w ith the music: “I had m y role m odels in hip hop that I looked up to, and they said: these are the laws o f this cul­ ture, this is the w ay yo u do th in g s... So, all those sort o f tenets that were set up in the early days o f

open and honest about w ho I am, where I com e from and the w ay I see things.”

Turntables were set up beside him and Buck did his ow n m ixing throughout the set, show ing o ff his talents on the ones and twos and flaunting a smorgasbord o f samples.

Reggae beats were intermingled with dow ntem po am bience and tossed w ith gratifying, throb­ bing bass as backdrop for his poetic lyrics. W ith his unmistak­ able voice, w hich is at times m enacing, growling and rough at the edges, Buck delivered his obtuse rhymes w ith impressive lyrical flow.

H ighlights included crowd favourite “Pants on Fire” o ff the 2 0 0 1 release M an Overboard and “Stella” o ff his latest effort, Square, an innovative album comprised o f just four songs, each approximately 16 minutes long. T he last track o f the night was a pow erful piece about cheating on a girl named Sarah, one that Buck said he had never performed before. H e tested it out and the audience ate it up.

HELENAHASSELMANN D o n ’t let the big nam e record contract he just signed with dy act, tw o parts music, w ith a Warner Brothers fool you; Buck splattering o f orgasm ic spoken still plans on assum ing D Jing, word, Buck grabbed the audiences em ceeing and production duties for attention right from the get-go and all his work. took us on a m ind-blow ing ride.

“There’s just certain aspects o f A self-described romantic w ho what goes into the m usic that are loves chocolate chip cookies and art im portant to m e that I will never, made ou t o f garbage, Buck is a cap­ ever com prom ise,” he stated firmly. tivating storyteller. From anecdotes Buck 65 is som ething o f a par­ o f his childhood in small tow n M t. adox. C hildlike earnestness peeks Uniacke, N ova Scotia, to outra­ through a sophisticated, mature geous tales from the road involving outer shell. C onversation flows strippers, drug dealers and vibrators from B M X racing to Ernest in Eugene, O regon, Buck main­ Hemingway. T h e sim plicity o f his tained a comfortable rapport w ith stories from ordinary life are easily his adoring crowd. Between stories accessible. Love and pain, joy and and poetry readings, Buck delivered sorrow are touched upon in his hard-hitting performances. songs, appealing to the base H is songs deal w ith everything h u m an ity in all o f us. I f you under the sun. From rapping about thought hip hop was just about cheesecake and calamari w ith sea­ hoes and niggas, Buck’s here to w eed to incest to his m other’s death prove that the m usic he loves can from breast cancer, Buck is not one still be thought-provoking and gen­ to hold back. Each song was driven uine. by potent, scorching raw em otion After the show, Buck hung out that stung those w illing to be mes­ to chat w ith appreciative fans merized. despite fighting o ff a raging hunger D oes he ever feel vulnerable, from having missed dinner. putting so m uch o f h im self out “I’m not where I w ant to be there? w ith m y m usic yet,” he confided “It does make m e vulnerable, post-show. “You know those songs but y’k n o w ... it’s on purpose. I guess I don’t m ind m aking m yself you hear that just blow you away and touch you in a special way? I vulnerable. It used to be scary but want m y m usic to do that for peo­ it’s becom ing less and less so all the ple.” time. I’m comfortable w ith w ho I As for the im m ediate future, am and I just figure that w hat’s B uck w ants to try his hand at going to ingratiate m e to another directing his ow n m usic videos, person is by m e being open to publish a book he’s been writing th em ,” he reasoned. “I guess it’s a w hile in Paris— an “em bellished bit o f a gamble and, once in a w hile, m em oir” he calls it— keep touring I stop and think: I don’t really know and p u t o u t a n ew album by if I’m really that interesting a per­ September. Princess Buck 65 has son. Like w h y w ould anyone really arrived, folks. Even pretty boy Beck care what I have to say? But, never­ can’t make a tiara look this good. theless, for as long as this good thing lasts, I’m just going to be

hip hop always really m eant som e­ thing to m e and I try to keep that alive, w hen I don’t really see a lo t o f other people doing that these days.

A nd that can be hard on the head and kind o f depressing som etim es.”

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T he Barburners are working on their own folktale. Originally a rock ‘n’ roll cover band, the band jumped at the opportunity to play at the Maximum Blues Festival in Carlton, Quebec, in 2000. Their performance there earned their original song “Travellin’ Bone” a spot on the festi­ val’s compilation. It was this song that caught the attention o f Dan Levitin, a renowned producer who has worked with Paul Simon, Stevie Wonder and Eric Clapton. Levitin is also a faculty member o f M cGill’s D epartm ents o f Psychology and Music Theory.

“H e took a liking to [“Travellin Bone”], and setup this 45-m inute [recording] thing. We came in and came out,” says Boyle. “T he next C D he will be producing is going to be a more polished and professional thing.”

Adding to this professionalism is a new drummer, Antonios Karelas.

“H e thinks a lot about his drum playing,” Element comments. “H e’s very conscious o f what he plays. H e’s brought a w hole new love o f the music to the band. It’s quite a differ­ ence.”

T he band is preparing to record their new album, and is incredibly enthusiastic about it. “I really think that this album is going to be inter­ esting,” laughs Boyle. “W ill it be well-received? O nly time can tell. It’s

D ayle Boyle and the Barburners, a three-piece blues band that now calls Montreal home, tries their darndest’ to put a little bit o f them selves into their music.

“Everyone’s an individual,” states Dayle Boyle, the band’s guitarist, lead singer and namesake, “Or they com e from a place or have experi­ ences that are perhaps unique, and som e o f it should be put into the music.”

“It makes it more authentic,” adds Richard Element, the band’s bassist.

Authentic, you say? H ow can a bunch o f white boys from Barachois (“a one-horse town”) in the Gaspé region o f Q uebec play “authentic” blues, a genre o f music born o f the sweat o f slaves in the American south?

W hat makes Dayle Boyle and the Barburners authentic is the per­ sonality and soul they put into their music, and the individual feelings that are expressed through it. Firmly planting “one foot in the blues”, the Barburners are able to use the other to step into any o f a multitude o f genres. Boyle and Elem ent ran through the make-up o f their forth­ com ing album, A Dog Day for the Purists, and described what kinds o f songs w ill be on this, their third recording effort.

“W e have at least three things that are rockabilly based. W e have another that is in three-four time, so it’s basically a waltz.

W e have a swing tune called “Poor Boy Blues”. Then w e have a few acoustic tracks.

O ne o f the things that we do that is different is that we bring a sense o f where we’re from into the songs.”

O ne song, currently called BARBURNERS.LISTEN.T0 “Justice Precluded A determined Dayle Boyle meditates over 12 bars.

Coffin”, is an old Gaspé folk-tale about a prospector different from the average. Its for w ho was hanged for the murder o f those w ho wanna keep the blues three Am erican hunters in the alive and are willing to embrace dif­ 1950s. “There was such a stigma o f ferent interpretations o f it.” wrongdoing around the trial,” says If you are one o f these people, if Element. “I think it had something the Texas blues style o f Stevie Ray to do with the abolition o f capital Vaughan rings throughout your soul punishm ent in Canada, because and you can feel the history o f this there were so many holes in the oft-forgotten musical genre, then a case.” visit to D ayle Boyle and the “And that happened more or Barburners is in order. You’ll have less in our backyard. There’s so much your chance tonight when they grace folklore involved in the story, in the the stage at Bourbon Street West way that oral histories are passed (1866 Boul. des Sources, 695-6545) down through com m unities [that for the first time. If you can’t make it fact] and fiction are basically indis­ tonight, check out the band’s web­ cernible at this point,” adds Boyle, site, www.barburners.listen.to, for who is currendy pursuing his mas­ new and timely information. ters’ in Education here at McGill.

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C la ire Peterso n M uch about Risk Everything can be deduced from the play’s title.

D irected by Liz T ruchanow icz, T uesday N ig h t C afe’s production o f G eorge F. Walker’s dark com edy explores just h ow m uch on e person w ill risk for money.

A th o ro u g h ly co m p e llin g piece, Risk Everything centres about a young couple, D en ise and RJ, w h o com e to the aid o f D en ise’s mother, Carol, w hen she claim s to have been beaten by her boyfriend.

D en ise and RJ soon discover that C arol’s bruises and broken limbs aren’t really due to her boyfriend, but to a notorious gangster from w h o m C arol has been stealing money.

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D en ise, a w om an trying to live a decent life in the h op e o f w in n in g her you n g daughter back from fos­ ter care, and the irony o f D en ise’s character is on e o f the m ost inter­ esting aspects o f the play. For fear o f turning in to her alcoholic, gam ­ blin g mother, D en ise strives to live honestly. In fact, the on ly reason D en ise doesn’t abandon Carol in the m idst o f her ruin is because o f her hum ane nature, w hich keeps her trapped in the mess that Carol creates.

Breton’s perform ance is co n ­ vincing, always rem aining in touch w ith the fact that all D en ise wants is a normal life. H er obvious em pa­ thy w ith D en ise produced a seam ­ less perform ance and left the audi­ ence sym pathetic to her character.

O n the other hand, Rachel H orton ’s Carol was powerful and

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m anipulative. T h o u g h it is Carol’s c o m p lete irresp on sib ility and attraction to gam bling that endan­ ger all o f the characters in the play, Carol is forever convinced that she is the victim . C arol’s sense o f selfpity and habit o f blam ing others make her appear quite despicable.

T here is obviously a great deal o f tension and resentm ent between D en ise and Carol, and Breton and H orton bring this to the right pitch in their scenes together.

T h e last m em ber o f the fam ily is RJ, D e n ise ’s h u sb an d . D u f f Sm ith plays the television addict, w h o manages to be vapid, oblivi­ ous and in n ocen tly charm ing all at on ce. N evertheless, RJ supports D en ise, and Sm ith makes his devo­ tion to D en ise quite apparent, as w ell as providing m ost o f the play’s

com ic relief.

Surprisingly, M ichael, a pornography director and a m em ­ ber o f C arol’s seedy underworld, gets m ixed up in the fam ily’s strug­ gle w ith the gangster and his tactics to regain his stolen m oney.

M ichael’s sole drive is his hor­ m ones, and his attraction to Carol is purely o f a sexual nature. D espite M ich ael’s anim alistic in ten tion s, A ndré M artin, w ho plays M ichael, reveals that he is really a good per­ son eager to help out the troubled family.

T h e com edic tim ing through­ ou t the play is key, and the entire cast is successful at m aking dire sit­ uations seem hum orous. T h e cast also manages to create a sense o f drive and u rgency from the m om en t the stage lights go on to

their final escape from the gang­ ster. T h e question that dom inates the entire play is: “H o w m uch w ou ld you risk?” There is also a general disgust w ith Carol for risk­ ing her life, and those o f the people around her, for m oney, though the fear o f living your life w ith ou t risk­ in g anything is also explored.

Overall, the piece is artful and interesting, and its ideas run deep.

Its characters are realistic and the cast believable. E njoym ent is a sure bet.

Risk Everything w ill be play­ ing February 12 to 15 at 8pm at Tuesday Night Café. For more infomation contact the ticket office.

Telephone: 398-6600.

M o re o b s c u r e d is c s M any songs are then expanded much beyond the ordinary with bril­ liant editing. “Apples, I’m home” stages Adam versus a quippy com ­ puter voice, all over a great back­ ground o f processed sound that manages to respect the simple guitar backing. W ith cuts and bleeps, Adam sings fun and wonderful bed­ room recorded folk-pop music that doesn’t take itself too seriously.

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C D (Rough Trade) England w ent crazy for T he M oldy Peaches while N orth America listened for a bit then promptly for­ got. Adam Green rides on his succès with the zany children’s music group by putting together his first solo effort on British heavyweight Rough Trade. M uch like the Peaches, songwriting is less than noticeable with simple chord structures that are sure­ ly an afterthought. T he lyrics take main stage with a strong mix o f sto­ rytelling, casual use o f strong lan­ guage, but, most o f all, a great cast o f seeminly random rhymes that string together lines o f clever nonsense.

T he songs themselves begin mostly in the singer-songwriter/bedroom folk-style featuring mainly acoustic guitar and occasional percussion.

L’Infonie

Volume 333 C D (Tir Groupe) A hearty re-issue o f Q uebec’s most infamous experimental psyche­ delic pop group’s opus album.

Formed in 1968 out o f a vivid scene o f free jazz happenings, the group had 15 to 30 musicians at any given time. W ithin this chaos was the bizarre assortment o f rock and roll players, jazz musicians and the classi­ cally trained, all with similar goals.

This double C D fully explores all fusion attem pted by the band, appropriately starting with “Paix”, a 50-section piece that fills the entire first disc. D isc two equally ranges from solo baroque keyboard peices to cut up words and noise montages.

Although the occasional L’Infonie record can be found in Montreal

record stores (exclusively), this disc is worth picking up for a really cool lis­ ten and an important piece o f la

révolution tranquille.

Scene Creamers

I Suck On That Emotion L P /C D (Drag City) Ian Svervonius threads the nee­ dle from N ation o f Ulysses through T h e M ake U p to T he Scene Creamers. C oupled with ex-bandmate M ichelle M ae, T h e Scene Creamers follow the frantic 60s rock and soul styles developed on past albums, with past groups. This time they have lost the lighter go-go influ­ ences in favour o f a heavier, fuzzed out and acid-washed type o f rock, while still maintaining their signa­ ture souled-out wailing and echodrenched, overly emotive vocals. Ian and his previous bands basically wrote the book on The International N oise Conspiracy, T he Hives and pretty m uch any modern rock band that attempts the matching shirts, skinny tie, faux political/fashion thing. Long time fans w ho were sure­ ly dissapointed by David Candy and W ierd War should give this a listen if they crave the amped up soul/gospel/rock in the live! at Cold Rice vien.

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S tr a n g e c h e m is t r y d r iv e s P la y r e v o lv e s a r o u n d C la ire Peterso n There are many sentiments that I have learned throughout m y life, but one o f the most poignant o f these is that there is a very fine line between love and hate. This concept is thoroughly addressed in the Players’ Theatres production o f N oël Coward's Private Lives, directed by Liesl Barrell.

The play takes place in France and revolves around Amanda and Elyot, who were once married but divorced five years ago. The two reunite at a hotel in the south o f France, both newly married to dif­ ferent people. However, when both Elyot and Amanda realize that they still love each other deeply, events take a dramatic turn and they even­ tually decide to abandon their pres­ ent Spouses.

Brandon Finegold tackles the character o f Elyot Chase with obvi­ ous passion and effort. Finegold shows that Elyot is a slightly neurot­ ic character, extremely bent on get­ ting his own way, and rather melo­ dramatic as well. Though Finegold’s performance appears forced at times, his saving and most endearing quali­ ty is his capacity to connect with Kate Hahnen, who plays Amanda Prynne.

O ne o f the greatest mom ents o f the production is during the second act, when Amanda and Elyot begin quarreling, and then the two charac­ ters enforce two minutes o f silence in order to calm down. It is in the fol­ lowing two minutes o f silence that Elyot loses him self completely in his concern for Amanda, and the audi­ ence sees Finegold’s true ability.

In contrast to Elyot, Amandas character is carefree and self-centred,

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caring only for what may bring her happiness and pleasure. Hahnen is brilliant as Amanda, playing a glow­ ing socialite whose life’s creed is to be kind to everyone, and as gay as pos­ sible. Despite portraying Amanda in this hum orous fashion, she also shows us Amanda’s tender side with moments o f genuine concern and pain.

T he person w ho loses to Amanda is Sybil Chase, Elyot’s new wife. Alexandra Meyrick portrays her as sweet, but determined, and coun­ ters Amanda’s character beautifully.

Meyrick’s most charming mom ent is at the very end o f the play, where she at first argues passionately against Victor Prynne, Amandas new hus­ band, over their respective spouses’ adultery, but then finds herself suc­ cumbing to his embraces.

Meanwhile, Victor, played by Yann M cM ahon, has the stability o f the placid Englishman who is con­ tent with life and the decisions he has made in it. Victor retains these qualities throughout most o f the sec­ ond act, but also reveals the pain that Amanda puts him through as a result o f her betrayal. As amusing as the first m eeting between Sibyl and Amanda is, even more so is the first meeting between Victor and Elyot.

One an American and the other an Englishman, the two characters rep­ resent such com pletely different views o f human behaviour that this clash o f morality nearly brings them to violence.

The complete decency o f Sibyl and Victor play o ff well against the egotistical Elyot and the self-con­ cerned Amanda. By the end o f the play, the audience is left wondering how Sibyl and Victor ever ended up with such adulterous spouses in the

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Through Elyot and Amanda’s relationship, Coward explores the similarity between love and hate. It is clear that Amanda and Elyot care deeply for each other, but it is also clear that they are often incapable o f behaving decently towards each other. They are each the other’s lover and tormentor, which is a most frightening thought. T he depths o f humour and passion in Private Lives are very powerful, and leave the audience with a new understanding o f human relationships.

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The McGill Tribune, Tuesday, February 11, 2003 H e came to Canada to escape what he consid­ ered to be an aura o f “in s titu tio n a liz e d racism” in the U nited States. As a former w el­ terweight boxer, Biddle w ould never “hesitate to level bigots w ho get in his way,” an anonymous fan remembers.

“I can be outspo­ ken at times about racial issues, I have a reputa­ tion for that. I w on’t take that kind o f abuse; I send them on their ass,” Biddle once said.

H is attitude translated heavily into his music.

To listen to Biddle play is to understand the reason for his broadbased support and love.

H e seems to shift styles and com bine them alto­ A travelling man who made Montreal his home gether into a flurry o f jazz genres. His m ost famous tune, Trois-Rivières, Granby, Shawinigan, “Broadway”, puts him in the ring Sherbrooke, Magog, Asbestos, Val w ith one-tw o com bos o f featherd’Or and Val David. Biddle m et his light melodies; and thw acking wife, Constance, while playing at twangs o f his bass. H e confuses and her father’s hotel in the Eastern delights w ith a masterful com bina­ T ow nships. As the story goes, tion o f altered tem pos and seem ing­ C onstance had been disowned and ly seamless, unseeing descents into her father had sent seven goons out gaps in his various scales. But to take down Biddle. Being an ex­ throughout all these razzle-dazzle boxer, he made nothing o f it and moves, he maintains the rhythmic physically defended his honour and consistency o f a bass player that is love, marrying C onstance in 1955. the basis o f band cohesion.

The reason for B iddle’s Biddle’s dedication to consis­ Canadian emmigration and north­ ern exploits are surprisingly clear.

B y e B y e M r. B id d le Thobey Cam pion___________________ Aeolus is furious and the winds o f change are sweeping over this city. Gusts find their way into the smallest nooks and crannies and, as o f this week, they have blown into the basements and bassplayers o f jazz. Charlie Biddle— bassist, jazz icon, m em ber o f the Order o f Canada, and Montreal mainstay— has passed away at the age o f 76, and any semblance o f security with M ontreal’s place in jazz history seems torn asunder. H e had been battling kidney cancer.

Charlie Biddle was a travelling m an w ho passed through m any places to get where he wanted to go.

Born into a lower class family in Philadelphia, Charlie join ed the army and fought in W orld War II, became a boxer, left the army, came to Canada, worked the car dealer­ ship world and eventually settled on playing jazz in Q uebec. H e remained a U S citizen until 2 0 0 0 so as to continue to receive his veteran’s benefits, but decidedly made his hom e in Canada, receiving landed immigrant status in 1948. T his is where the story o f Charlie Biddle as we know him begins.

Biddle subscribed to the belief that a good artist should be able to play anywhere and do well. So to test his belief, Biddle played at

tency and creativity made him an obligatory stop-in for every famous jazz m usician w ho came to Montreal. Sim ply put, if you were in Montreal at a certain period and pressing som e kind o f key, valve or string, you w anted Charlie Biddle to show you the way. T helonius M onk and Charlie Parker both played with Biddle back in the day. T he excite­ m ent from this period is hard to com prehend today, as an army o f popular m usic douchebags assemble around people w ithout a last name because it’s ‘co o l’ like that.

According to Biddle, in the good ole days, “You could get up any tim e o f night, go out into a M ecca for enter­ tainers, specifically black entertain­ ers”. W hen Biddle heard people talk about the M ontreal Jazz Festival, he quickly reminisced and pointed out, “Montreal was like that every day in the 40s and 50s”.

B etw een 1979 and 1996, Biddle played four times a w eek at his club on Aylmer Street, another Montreal jazz institution. H is dedi­ cation to jazz m ost likely found fuel in the face o f other musical genres that became more popular. Rock ‘n’ roll decreased the am ount o f m oney a jazz m usician could m ake in M ontreal, like everywhere else.

Biddle dream t o f jazz in coffeeshops, on the street and on the radio 24 hours a day. But, w ith a sigh, he realized that “the system just w on ’t let it work”. Jazz Promoter and Ambassador Charlie Biddle will be missed, and so will the baggage he brought w ith him, memories and beliefs that spanned a half-century o f jazz.

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N o m o re n e o -so u l fo r y o u H eather Kitty Mak_________________ O h brother. A nother Philly neo-soul songstress. Have w e not beaten the dead horse o f Philly neo­ soul enough yet? It's like the city cannot stop churning out these bas­ tions o f critical acclaim.

Personally, I have always had the sneaking suspi­ cion that, behind it all, these P hilly n eo-soul careers have been pushed by a giant m arketing behem oth follow in g guide to propelling artists to stardom that looks som ething like this: 1) In album bio, nam edrop other P hilly scenesters (one or more o f Musiq, Jill Scott, Bilal, Jaguar Wright, Jazzy Jeff, any m em ber o f T he R oots, especially ?uestlove or Blackthought).

2) M ix m any genres together to annoy critics.

3) Tour w ith Erykah Badu, D ’Angelo, Maxwell or anyone from the Okayplayer family.

4) Sing songs about relation­ ships, but make no m ention o f bills, scrubs, or the like (which is sooooo 1999 anyway).

5) In slick m usic video, sur­ round yourself w ith a lot o f hipster female friends wearing latest trendy

fem inine, but tom boy-ish clothes.

So now w e have Vivian Green, the newest face to emerge from the P h illy n eo-sou l scene w ith her album , A Love Story. Let’s run through the checklist above. 1) She namedrops Jill Scott and Boyz II

M en, for w hom she sang backup vocals several years ago. 2) She mixes soul, jazz, and R & B on her album. 3) She opened for M axwell this summer. 4) T h e album is all about “the em o tio n a l ups and dow ns” she’s been through, but no evidence o f excessive “pay m y bills” diva-esque attitude. 5) In the video for her debut single, “Em otional R oller-C oaster”, hipster fem ale friends at club are in hill force.

Check, check, check, check and check.

I arrived at the Cabaret w ith high standards for Green. However, because o f the lack o f prom otion o f the show in Montreal, the Cabaret was filled w ith more tables than people, and a m andatory coat check was im posed. T h e small audience was m ostly the aprèswork crowd, guys try­ ing to impress their dates w ith the w hole M usiq “I’m a sensitive guy w ho doesn’t drink and just wants to be your friend, no pres­ sure” schtick.

T here was no opener. T here was also no encore. This show was about as no frills as you could get.

Green stepped on stage wearing a fash­ ion ab le tube dress made from handkerchiefs, dangly p on y bead earrings, jeans and pointy beige shoes. Very sharp. She had an elaborate six-piece band w ith tw o backup singers, a bassist, keyboardist, drum m er and gu i­ tarist. She began w ith “Fanatic”, and breezed through an absurdly short 4 0 -m in u te, seven-song set that included “W ishful T hinking”, “W hat is Love?”, “M usic”, and finally ended w ith an extended ver­ sion of “E m otion al RollerCoaster”. A lthough confident on

stage, she seem ed to w ant to get out o f the place as soon as possible.

I admire that Green started singing and w riting her ow n and other p eop le’s songs (in clu d in g those o f Britney Spears) w hen she was just 1 1 . 1 also admire the confi­ dence that she exudes on stage from her years o f singing and perform­ ing. However, it seems as though she has trouble hitting the right notes and shaping that rich timbre so necessary to be a vocal power­ house, m uch like her m entor Jill Scott.

Backup vocals are no problem.

However, things are different in the

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spotlight. W ith all due respect, Green gives it her all and really pours her heart and soul into her singing. But then again, I do that too w hen I’m sin gin g W h itn ey H ouston songs in the shower.

W hile her résumé makes it look like she should be ripe for the picking, and certainly she may go far, I can’t help but think that Green has overreached herself.

C ould this be the end o f the free ride on the Philly neo-soul band­ wagon? W ill female vocalists finally becom e popular based on teir tal­ ent, rather than their hometown?

O nly tim e w ill tell.

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M elissa S u rach “Bla bla bla, Valentine’s Day, bla bla bla,” is what w e’re all being forced to listen to as the feast o f St. Valentine rears its slutty head yet again. Valentine’s D ay leaves many pathetic souls depressed and suicidal as they realize how alienated they are from norm al hum an contact.

Everyone strives for the ideal o f Eros, but when cupid gets sick and has diarrhoea, St. Valentine makes you spend your February 14 chang­ ing his crappy diaper. Wake up!

Valentine’s D ay and everything it stands for is diarrhoea. “Love” does­ n’t exist; it was paralyzed when it got caught in the headlights o f your hideous outfit and died when it saw your ugly face. You can mourn this and cry to St. Valentine and ask him w hy G od lets bad things happen to good people, but he’ll say nothing.

Every single person is holding their breath right now in the hope that their Valentine’s D ay w on’t be another pathetic masturbating ses­ sion. Everyone secretly fantasizes (or so I’m told) about a magical, roman­

tic, starry night, like som e horrible romantic com edy like Serendipity.

T hey want a night o f warm snug­ gling into each other’s warm flesh, laying together like two babes in a crib. T hen they cry like a baby for its bottle on Valentine’s D ay when they realize how utterly alone they are in the world, and that no one loves them , wants them , or cares. Right now as you’re reading this, a lonely man is silently weeping into his pil­ low, pretending it’s a bosom , and longing for a snuggle. All he wants is som e TLC— tender love and cud­ dling. H e doesn’t w ant “sex” or “intercourse” or “sexual intercourse” or “to look at genitals under a micro­ scope”, all he wants is to cuddle, but he has no one to cuddle him because his mother died. Well, tim e to grow up, you stupid baby. W elcom e to the real world. Cuddle yourself. That’s how you’ll die. G et used to it.

Chances are you want to try to get laid on V alentine’s Day. So maybe you’ll try to score yourself a one-night-stand. If you are capable o f reflecting a little on your life, you know that one night stands are for ugly people whose sex lives thrive on alcohol. W hen you wake up next to a beautiful person, you dig your talons deep into his/her meaty flesh and don’t let go until he/she starts screaming for help and you need to have an ‘intervention’. W hen you wake up next to som eone w ho’s ugly, you kick his or her busted ass the fuck out and pretend like it never happened. Chances are the beautiful

person, unlike you, has a date on Valentine’s Day, so you get to scrape the bottom o f the bar scum barrel to find yourself a fuck. T he French word for “ugly” is “laid”, and you will find out the reason for this soon enough. You m ight get “laid” on Valentine’s Day, but not me. N o , my only chance o f getting pregnant will be from impregnation by Satan in m y sleep, and m y only chance o f catching a ST D will be from a pub­ lic toilet. It sucks when that hap­ pens.

O n Valentine’s Day, I’ll proba­ bly be thinking about the guy who dumped me eight months ago and hoping that he dies. I have m y fan­ tasies to keep m e company. In this one recurring fantasy I have, I’m trapped in an oversized pint of. beer and I have to drink m yself out. Or I’m trapped inside a chocolate and I have to eat m yself out. O r I’m trapped in a coffin and I have to kill m yself out. Sometimes I get really depressed. But not on Valentine’s Day. I’ll probably just go to a strip club as usual and make naked men dance for me and get rejected by another gay man, again.

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February 8 M cGill w on 7 -3 at Q u een s

The M cGill basketball Martlets entered Friday’s game looking for their first conference w in o f the sea­ son. T he trash talk emanating from the Concordia Stingers gave M cGill a little added motivation. “[The Stingers] are really con­ descending, and they say a lot o f negative things about us. We are a very young team, but we’re a very capable team. W e always knew that w e could do it,” said Shannon Howard after M cG ills 63 -4 6 win over C oncordia at Love C om petition Hall.

T h e w in im proved M cG ill’s record to 1-11 in the Q uebec Student Sports Federation. M cGill dropped a 67 -3 9 decision to the N o.

3-ranked Laval R ouge-et-O r the previous Thursday.

M cG ill’s M aude Vallières scored a gam e-high 19 points.

Maria-Jose Raposo led Concordia with 14 points.

“T he one thing that we did against Concordia was play aggres­ sive,” said M cGill head coach Lisen Moore. “If you don’t attack [the Stingers], their athleticism will really take a toll. We did a m uch better job o f attacking them in the full court.”

T h e tw o team s started out evenly matched, but M cGill began to build a lead midway through the first half. T he determined play on the part o f the Martlets allowed them to control the game’s m om en­ tum.

“It was a solid effort. T hey stayed true to the game plan,” said M oore o f her team. “W hen you play hard, things go your way.”

O n top o f the team’s hard work, M cGill got a timely contribution from Howard, in her last year with the M artlets. T h e Sm iths Falls, Ontario, native came o ff the bench after starting forward A lison Salusbury got into early foul trouble.

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Q SSF indoor league tournam ent N o. 2 at M cG ill February 8 M cGill w on 1-0 vs. U Q A M M cGill lost 0-1 vs. Concordia M cGill won 5-0 vs. U Q T R M cGill tied 1-1 vs. l^ival S Q U A S H (M ):

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Q SSF C ham pionship M eet at Sherbrooke, February, 8-9 Q u eb ec C up final cum ulative standings after six meets: 1 . Laval 2 6 7 .2 pts 2. M c G i l l 2 3 7 .2 pts 3. Montreal 113.6 pts S W I M M I N G (M ):

Q SSF C h am pionship m eet at Sherbrooke, February, 8-9 Q u eb ec C up final cum ulative standings after six meets: 1. M c G i l l 2 6 7 .2 pts 2. Montreal 2 3 7 .2 pts 3. laval 113.6 pts M cGill w on the com bined overall title.

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February 7 M cGill lost 0 -3 vs. Sherbrooke (2 0 -2 5 , 16-25, 20-2 5 ) February 9 M cGill lost 0 -3 at Montreal (2 2 - 2 5 ,2 1 -2 5 , 2 5 -2 1 ,2 2 -2 5 ) V O L L E Y B A L L (M ):

February 7 Ornada C up Game M cGill lost 0 -3 vs. Sherbrooke (1 5 -2 5 , 19-25, 20-2 5 ) February 9 M cGill lost 0 -3 at Montreal 23 -2 5 , 12-25; 2 3-2 5 )

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Salusbury had three fouls after only 13 minutes o f play. Howard, w ho returned several weeks early from an ankle injury, had nine points at half time, pacing M cGill to a 3 5 - 2 2 lead.

“It’s m y fifth year, and every game means that much more,” said Howard about the importance o f getting back into the line-up quick­ ly. “To get back today was the best thing that could have happened for me personally. It was great to be able to contribute to the team morale on the floor.”

As Howard struggled to find her scoring touch in the second half, Vallières stepped up. Vallières, lead­ ing M cGill in scoring this year, tal­ lied over half her points in the final 2 0 minutes.

Early in the second half, Concordia drew to w ithin seven points after N icole Demetris hit a jumper. M cGill bounced back, how ­ ever, showing a resilience that was a trademark all night. Sarah Gagné stole the ball from Alison N eill, and Vallières followed that up w ith a three-pointer to push the Martlets lead back to 1 0 .

“W hen [the Stingers] did go on a little run, it was almost like a per­ sonal o ffen ce,” said Howard.

“Usually, we are very quick to give up the ball to make a shot.

Everybody knew h ow im portant their role was in contributing to the team .”

Vallières’ play-m aking ability set up the most dazzling play o f the night. Kelly-Rae Kenyon intercept­ ed a pass at mid-court. Vallières recovered the ball, creating a 2 -o n -l opportunity. Kenyon received an excellent pass from Vallières and drove past the Concordia defender for an easy basket. T hose two points gave the Martlets a 55-42 lead with five minutes remaining.

M cGill controlled the tempo the rest o f the game, running the shot clock down on every posses-

NIC0LELEAVER Kelly-Rae Kenyon in-bounds the ball as the cheerleading squad... cheers. sion.

“W hen [the shot clock] got under 1 0 seconds, we did not rush up for a shot. We got som e positive inside opportunities,” said Moore, currently in her ninth season as coach o f McGill.

M cGill ran several back-door plays for Anne-Marie Scherrer, a first-year forward from Q uebec City.

Her versatility has greatly impressed Moore.

“Scherrer has had to play any­ where from guard defence to post defence. She has just been the wild card for us. W e are very high on her, and her athleticism.”

M cGill has three games remain­ ing in the regular season. T he team is on the road next weekend for

matches against Laval and Concordia, and will wrap up the year at hom e February 22 versus Bishop’s.

T he Martlets, officially elim i­ nated from playoff contention Thursday, w ill focus on the future over the next two weeks, according to Moore. T he fundamentals will be stressed in practices.

T hat does n o t m ean that M cGill is rolling over, a fact rein­ forced by Saturday’s performance.

“W e need to be successful now, in order to get our confidence up against these teams,” said Moore.

“T he next goal is to make sure that [the first win] is not one flash in the pan, and we raise the level o f play.”

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G o ld e n s t r o k e s p a c e s w im t e a m S a ra h Wright________________________ Last season the M cGill swim team quietly climbed the ladder o f the Quebec conference ranks. This year, the swimmers sprung from the blocks in the first Quebec Cup meet and never looked back.

M cGill was the top combined team in the Quebec championship held this weekend at Sherbrooke.

The Redmen took first place honours with 267.2 points and will be sending seven swimmers to the

Canadian Interuniversity Sport C ham pionship, to be held in Victoria, B.C., February 21-23.

T he Martlets finished second w ith 2 3 7 .2 points, qualifying 1 1 swimmers for nationals. “W e won because we swam as a team ,” said M cG ill’s Ryan T om icic. “O ther teams rely on just one or two really good swimmers, but we have a fair share o f talent com ing from all our swimmers.”

M cG ill head coach François Laurin noted that the work o f the

w om en guaranteed the combined overall win, despite com ing second to a very strong Laval team.

“T he w om en would have done better, but we had a little problem w ith Mother Nature. T hey closed tw o bridges in Q uebec and we missed a third o f the events [at one meet this season], which was an enormous loss.”

O n the day o f the third Quebec Cup meet at Laval, a snowstorm in the province delayed M cGill from getting to Ste-Foy.

Six Quebec Cup meets com ­ pose the sw im m ing season Determ ining the winner is simple: the team that accumulates the most points over the meets wins.

A modest Laurin was happy with his team’s results.

“Over the five meets and the championship, we were quite consis­ tent. They had a confident perform ance.”

In total, M cGill brought home 51 medals: nine golds, 23 silvers and See SWIMMING, page 22

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O n e ste p fo rw a rd , tw o ste p s b a c k M ark K err T he McGill basketball Redmen lost to the Concordia Stingers 84-74 Saturday at Love C om petition Hall.

M cGill currently sits four points back o f the Bishop’s Gaiters for the final playoff spot in the Q uebec Student Sports Federation conference. Both teams have three games remaining.

W hile M cG ill exhibited the intensity expected from a team fight­ ing for a post-season berth, the execu­ tion was not there, according to head coach N evio Marzinotto.

“I thought that we were tentative more than anything else. There was no flow. We talked about maybe fear o f failure at one p o in t,” said Marzinotto, as he searched for expla­ nations for the loss, M cG ill’s ninth o f the season.

T he defeat served as another set­ back for the Redmen, as they were com ing o ff an uplifting win over N o.

4-ranked Laval R ouge-et-O r

Thursday.

“We could have controlled our destiny,” said M cG ill guard D om enico Marcario, who led all scor­ ers with 23 points against Concordia.

“It’s hard, especially com ing o ff a game where we played well offensive­ ly and defensively.”

“It was a good w in against Laval because we played at both ends o f the floor,” agreed Marzinotto. “It’s unfor­ tunate that we can’t come to play two nights in a row. It’s been that way all season. I thought that we had turned a corner.”

M cG ill played two drastically different halves on Saturday night.

T he Redm en’s defence came out strong and held the Stingers to only 34 points in the first 20 minutes.

However, M cGill struggled at the offensive end, going 8-for-31 from the field, a sub-par shooting percent­ age o f 25.8.

In the second half, M cG ill improved dramatically, shooting over

NICOLELEAVER Denburk Reid escapes the swarming attack of three Concordia Stingers.

50 per cent from the field. As has been the case much o f the year, the Red ‘n W hite could not shut down its op p on en t at pivotal m om ents.

C oncordia m atched M cG ill on offence, as both teams scored 50 points apiece in the final 2 0 minutes.

“Our execution was very poor in the first half. And our defence, I thought, was pretty g o o d ,” said Marzinotto. “In the second half, the reverse was true. We did not stop the ball very well. There were all kinds o f penetrations.”

The large crowd on hand was treated to an exciting shootout in the second half.

Marcario, who sat on the bench much o f the first half with two fouls, came out flying in the second.

Unfortunately for the hom e side, Concordia forward Patrick Perrote m atched the display put on by Marcario. Perrote, the top Concordia scorer, finished with 16 points.

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with eight minutes remaining.

T h e only serious challenge M cGill mounted came in the dying minutes, when Marcario fouled out.

T he Stingers’ lead was down to seven with 59 seconds to go. Frederick Bernard, who had a strong game with seven rebounds, hit a three-point shot shortly after. Concordia controlled the ball, however, and went to the line to finish o ff the game.

“We had to make some stops, and it didn’t happen,” said Marzinotto. “The game is very sim­ ple: you stop the ball, and you take it away from them, and you put it in at the other end.”

M cGill must now win its final three games, combined with Bishop’s losing its final regular season games, if it is to make the playoffs. A long shot, perhaps, but the Redmen know what they have to do.

“We have to- go out and beat people,” said Marzinotto. “We can’t count on anyone else to beat people for us. We have to do it ourselves.

We have dug this hole, and we have to get out o f it.”

T h e Redmen are in Ste-Foy, Quebec, this Friday to play Laval, fol­ low ed by C oncordia Saturday at Loyola Campus. Tip time is 8 pm for both games.

S p o r t s b e c o m in g a v o la t ile p o lit ic a l g ro u n d

John Bowden All-star games are always an intrusive media affair, full o f trade rumours, opinions on the state o f the game and even controversy over play­ ers’ ceding (or refusing to) their start­ ing positions to older, more deserv­ ing veterans.

W elcom e to the N B A mid-sea­ son classic and, all right Tracy McGrady, you may stop kissing MJ’s ass any time now.

O ne can be sure, o f course, that little actual meaningful discussion occurs over the weekend w hen ath­ letes relax in the sun, enjoy the nightlife and com pete’ in a glitzy, yet nauseating all-star game. A nd that’s just the w ay it should be in these grotesquely com m ercialized media affairs, as fans can escape from their daily grind for a few hours.

T h e predictable sim plicity o f this year’s going-through -th em otions was thrown a curve ball, however, when Canadian basketball phenom Steve Nash made a com ­ ment on the loom ing war with Iraq at the N BA ’s all-star game in Atlanta this past weekend.

Nash stated his belief that “[the US] going to war w ould be a m is­ take... I think there is definitely som ething misleading going on right now. I think this is about oil or som e sort o f distraction.”

In addition, the Dallas Mavericks star echoed the sentiments o f many o f Canada’s top politicians, stating that the decision to go to war

should not be made until the U N has finished the w eapons inspection process.

“I don’t think war is acceptable,” he said.

N ot your typical com m ent from an N B A player, when you consider that m ost stars are more concerned about wearing showy sneakers and flashing the gold chains.

U nfortunately, N ash’s state­ ments haven’t registered the slightest blip on the US media radar, w hich is a shame. Regardless o f whether or not you agree w ith N ash, his com ­ ments could engage the average bas­ ketball fan to think more seriously about the necessity o f war.

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But do fans really want to hear their sporting idols speak about such controversial issues? Probably not.

Sports provide a much-needed release from todays ceaseless political turmoil, allowing fans to revel in the pursuits o f their favourite teams and players. W hen I watch the Leafs and Habs go at it, I’m not bothered by the most recent Chrétien gaff or Bush’s perpetual call to arms.

A quick glance at the history books, however, shows that sports and politics have becom e increasing­ ly intertwined. T he 1936 O lym pic games in Germany were a platform for H itler’s propaganda m achine, w hich set out to prove to the world

the supremacy o f his regime.

D uring the height o f the C old War, the US boycotted the 1980 O lym pics in M oscow , w hile the Soviets returned the favour four years later w hen Los Angeles hosted the sum m er games. Even the 1972 Sum m it Series between Canada and the U SSR, not to m ention the latter’s 1980 clash with the U S, was rife with political intrigue, the result im plicit­ ly signaling the superiority o f either democracy or com m unism .

More recently, a demonstrator in Zimbabwe was beaten, tortured and killed. H e was using the site o f the Cricket World Cup as a venue for protest against the political repres-

sion perpetrated by the Mugabe gov­ ernment. Like it or not, sports are not im m une to political controver­ sies.

I com m end N ash for taking a stand in an industry where phrases such as, “We gave 110 per cent tonight,” and, “W e had a few tough breaks,” are com m onplace. I don’t foresee Peter Mansbridge or Lloyd Robertson asking players such as Tie D o m i or Yanic Perreault their opin­ ions on international politics any time soon. But at least som e athletes haven’t let their seven-figure incomes shield them from issues that impact us all.

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M c G ill m o r a le s ta y s h ig h d e s p ite d e f e a t Caitlin M. B u ck ley For the inexperienced M cGill volleyball Martlets, this season has been marked by injuries to key play­ ers. In the end, the lethal com bina­ tion o f youth and ailm ent ensured M cG ill’s omittance from the playoff picture. In a failed attempt to reverse the negative trend, the Martlets were swept 3-0 by the Sherbrooke Vert-etO r at hom e on Friday.

T he loss increased M cG ill’s los­ ing streak to 1 0 games.

M cG ills A nne Robitaille, w ho had nine digs, three kills, and a 2 .1 7 out o f 3 . 0 0 passing ratio, served to start the m atch, and initially it appeared that M cGill w ould walk away w ith an easy win.

T he hom e team appeared confi­ dent, as the Martlets easily w on the first five points o f the match.

Sherbrooke was unable to return the service, thanks to blocks by Vania Gamache (five kills, three aces, and tw o stuffed blocks) and Christine Borisov. But all good things must com e to an end, and soon Sherbrooke’s Patricia D io n n e was pounding serves across the net to the defensively weaker Red ‘ri W hite.

M cGill kept up to Sherbrooke’s pace for the remainder o f the first set, m atching the V ert-et-O r alm ost p oin t-for-p oin t. O ften tied and rarely more than two points apart, the two teams maintained a steady fight for the win, w ith Sherbrooke trium phing 25-20.

For head coach Rachele B eliveau, the m atch offered the Martlets a lesson or two about uni­ versity volleyball.

“Volleyball is a technical sport, and it takes more than power to w in ,” Beliveau explained.

“Sherbrooke has experience and the inform ation needed to win. W e just need to play our ow n game, learn from them , and stay as close as we can.”

Beliveau also com m ented that Sherbrooke’s v o lley opportunities were greater than M cG ill’s, adding to their deficit in points. “ [We need to be] quicker with passing and serving at the net [and have] more variation w ith the hits.”

Gamache, a third-year player w ho has sprained her ankle three tim es this year, agreed w ith her coach.

“Sherbrooke really has more experience than we do. Our centre is on ly in her second year, w hile they have tw o national players,” Gamache said. “T his is a mental game, and we need to get over being nervous.”

Nervousness, however, did not impair M cG ill in the second and third sets. T h e style o f play in the second set was similar to the first, though M cG ill w ould not gain as great a lead again, nor w ould it man­ age to stay close to Sherbrooke.

Sherbrooke took the second set 2 516.

T h e third and d ecid in g set showed strong attempts on M cG ill’s

behalf. Gamache, Erin MacKenzie, and Julie Heroux (11 digs, five kills, and a 2 .4 4 passing ratio) all con­ tributed powerful blocks and kills to keep their team in the game. In the m ost evenly m atched set o f the match, the final score was 25-20.

Gamache explained her team’s never-wavering morale.

“W e’re always positive that we can w in. W e have skills, and though today Sherbrooke’s experience was stronger, we still expect to do w ell.”

“O f course it’s more fun to win, but w e m ust be realistic,” Beliveau said. “Sherbrooke w ill lose players next year, and w e’ll be older. T he game will be in our favour.”

T h e Martlets’ season came to a close Sunday with a disappointing 31 (2 5-22, 2 5 -2 1 , 21 -2 5 , and 25-22) loss to l’Université de Montréal.

M cG ill finished the season with an overall record o f 13-26.

It is only the second tim e in nine years that M cG ill has missed the playoffs.

Robitaille had 16 digs, nine kills, and one stuffed block. Heroux also made significant contributions, w ith 13 digs and eight kills.

Second-year player Erin M acKenzie recorded 4 7 assists and four aces. Gamache amassed 10 kills and three stuffed blocks.

T h e Martlets now prepare to h o st the Provincial Senior Cham pionship March 2 8 and 29. It is the first tim e the event has been held at M cGill.

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S w im m in g h e a d e d to V ic to ria Continued from page 20 19 bronzes in 40 races. The champi­ onship is now a distant memory as the team swings into national training mode.

“T he men will be shooting for third,” said Tomicic, noting that the top ranked teams, the University o f British Columbia and the University o f Calgary, have m any o f the

focus on polishing its technique.

“We are going to practice twice a day, but not as hard,” said Laurin.

“We are going to focus on more tech­ nical aspects and specific events.”

Tomicic added that the type o f training in the week leading up to the nationals is crucial for success.

“We look to lower our mileage from about 9 - 1 0 kilometres a day, to about four or five,” he said. “We want

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Canadian national swim team mem ­ bers. “It basically comes down to a race for third for the rest o f us.”

Laurin echoed the sentiments o f Tomicic. “[The men] are aiming for third place at nationals. We don’t have any­ one on the Canadian national team, so it is a little like D avid and Goliath.”

T he M artlets, w ho finished eighth the last two seasons, will be aiming for a top six finish.

McGill departs for Victoria in 10 days. In the meantime, the team will

to work more on race pace, by going full strength and taking small breaks to simulate an actual event.”

Laurin noted that the pressure o f com peting on the national stage does not pose a problem for his spirited team.

“It’s what they have worked for all year. It’s a good pressure. “W e are entering the limelight, as I like to say, but we have to remember to have fun as well.”

Please check out mcgilltribune.com for detailed medal tally.

The McGill Tribune, Tuesday, February 11, 2002

A DAY IN TH E LIFE

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SW IM M ER DOUG M CCARTH Y

T h e p le a s u r e s o f ic e - c o ld m o r n in g le n g t h s N icholas LeP an It’s 8:30 in the morning; do you know where your friends are? Some o f them just m ight be training to becom e O lym pic athletes.

W hile m any M cG ill students are reaching for the snooze button that offers that precious extra 1 0 m inutes o f sleep, D oug M cCarthy o f the M cG ill swim team is on his way to class after practicing for tw o hours in M emorial Pool.

H e does not do it for the taste o f chlorine; he does it because he loves his sport. T he intoxicating adrena­ line rush, the sm ooth feeling o f a freshly shaven skull and an ice-cold pool com bine to create the allure o f a sw im meet.

M cC arthy’s lifestyle is, o f course, foreign to this lazy reporter.

A fter spending som e tim e w ith McCarthy, a U 2 M icrobiology and Im m unology student, the appeal o f his bizarre routine is undeniable.

There is only one reason for D o u g to rise in the morning: sw im ­ ming. It is this sport that violently rips the sleepy student from the warmth o f entangled sheets and into the tiring pool-lap routine. For him , and the average sw im team member, training demands 2 0 hours o f his w eek (not counting m eets and any necessary travel tim e). T he rest o f his tim e is spent attending classes and labs, doing all the hom ew ork and assignments you and I have to do,

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A M cG ill athlete is a proud emissary o f his/her university. T hey manage to strike a balance between sport and studies that w ould make any party-fuelled student turn green w ith guilt, though perhaps wonder­ ing, “W here are these athletes’ priormes?

and, oh yeah, sleeping. D o n ’t forget precious sleep.

D o u g “Backstroke” M cCarthy has been sw im m ing at M cG ill for the past three years, fine-tuning and perfecting a hum an sw im m in g machine. McCarthy, w ho captains the Redmen squad, is no overnight success story. H e has logged his share

T his article is the first in the “D ay in the Life” series.

Look for the profile o f basketball player M aude Vallières in next week’s issue.

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o f hours in the pool since high school, in his native Ottawa. H e w on the Junior Canadian Nationals in 2 0 0 0 , and he participated in the

2 0 0 0 Canadian O lym pic trials. H e prefers the backstroke races in dis­ tances o f 50 metres, 1 0 0 m and 2 0 0 m.

H igh school athletic stars often go on to com ­ pete on their university team s, where Canada’s b u d d in g athletes com e together. T h is is an in tim id atin g stigm a, w hich inhibits m any ath­ letes from even trying out for the varsity teams.

For his part, M cCarthy insits that the pressure did not consum e him at any point.

PHOTOS BYASHLEYHUTCHESON “It was an easy transi­ tion. .. you com pete against m any o f the same people,” he said confidently.

It is his blatant disre­ gard for the com petition that has kept M cCarthy a dangerous predator in the p ool for three years.

T h e ins-and-outs o f a day in the life o f D oug M cCarthy barely scrape the surface o f a typical com pet­ itive season for so many university athletes. T h e arduous schedule is this m an’s bread and butter from Septem ber to

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R o a d t o t h e o u t d o o r s p a v e d b y in d o o r g lo r y S a ra h Wright T he off-season can be pretty tedious for an athlete. In-team scrimmages during off-season prac­ tices are the only com petition most players get w h ile preparing for league play the follow ing year.

T he M cG ill soccer teams, how ­ ever, are the lucky few. T he indoor soccer league in w hich the Redmen and Martlets participate throughout the winter provides athletes w ith an opportunity m ost football and hock­ ey teams w ould kill for.

“It’s more fun [to have games in the off-season],” said Martlets assis­ tant coach Gayle N ob le after a fourgame tournam ent on Saturday at T om linson Field H ouse. “T h e girls like to play better than just doing drills for five months; it’s a great time for developm ent.”

O ff-season co m p etition and team play can help enhance techni­ cal skills and keep athletes in soccer­ m ode all year round. ‘ T his is the first year the Q uebec indoor soccer league, form ed in 1999, has been officially recognized by the Q uebec Student Sports Federation and Canadian Interuniversity Sport. There are three tournam ents over the winter, w ith teams playing up to four games in a single day. Games have tw o 20m inute halves, less than half o f what is usually played during an outdoor game.

W ith a greater bounce to the

ball and smaller boundaries, the game has an entirely different tem po and rhythm from its outdoor coun­ terpart.

“It’s a different gam e,” said N oble. “Technical abilities are more im portant and more visible [on a smaller pitch]. You have to play the ball differendy.”

Ball-control, fast feet and short passes are a priority for indoor soc­ cer, said M artlets team captain Alanna Maloney.

“Indoor’s a good chance to prac­ tice your technique, because you can have a lot more control, and it’s a faster gam e.”

“Games can be choppier and more disorganized,” agreed M cG ill’s M eghan O ’Reilly. “There are a lot more subs and switches during the game, w hich really interrupts the flow for the team .”

U nlike outdoor soccer, playingfield size and surface, net dim ensions and the number o f players on the field can vary between field houses.

As N ob le noted, w hen her team shows up to a new field house, the am ount o f bounce the turf generates is always a surprise. Som etim es teams w ill play five a side, som etim es six.

Gam e tim e M cG ill lost once, finishing with an overall record o f 2 - 1 - 1 on the day.

In the o p en in g gam e versus l’U niversité de M ontréal, the Martlets w on 1-0. N icole Shepherd

scored the lone goal on a cross from Toni Pascale.

C oncordia beat M cG ill 1-0 in a tough second game.

“W e just couldn’t pull it togeth­ er,” said M aloney o f her team’s offen­ sive play.

N ob le agreed, citing that it was not a one-sided game for Concordia, but the Martlets could not do what they needed to do the most: beat the Concordia keeper.

“W e’re a better technical team, but Concordia defended us well, and they have a great keeper. W e couldn’t finish our plays, we couldn’t score, and they could. That was the differ­ ence.”

The M artlets shut out l’Université du Q uébec à M ontréal 5-0 in the third game. D anielle Day, a transfer stu d en t from the University o f Ottawa and a past AllCanadian,, scored a hat trick for her new team.

D ay’s experience on the front line is very good news for a team that has struggled to produce goals recently.

“She has a lot o f speed and a lot o f experience,” said M aloney o f Day. “She can put the ball in the back o f the net, w hich is what w e really need.”

D ay scored the only goal in the final game against Laval, as the teams played to a 1 - 1 draw.

M cGill has to finish in the top six o f nine teams if it wants to make the playoffs.

D esp ite concerns about his team ’s lack o f offensive prowess, head coach Marc M ounicot is cer­ tain that the team w ill make the indoor post-season.

“W e lacked a lo t o f finish today,” he said. “But w e’ll be finish­ ing in the top four.

“W e have always had a history o f not finishing and not being able to [score] in games. It’s haunting us, but w e w ill be trying to work a little bit more on scoring [these upcom ing weeks in practice.]”

Before the indoor soccer league became official, M cG ill used to treat it as a good opportunity to train and stick together as a team. But that has changed, says N oble.

“W e were a little disappointed w ith the fall’s results. N ow, there’s more o f a focus on the w inning aspect o f the indoor soccer gam e.”

Indeed, it looks as though the indoor Martlets need to concentrate o n sim ilar areas to the outdoor Martlets.

“W e have to be better at getting first touch, finishing our plays and playing sim ple soccer,” said M ounicot.

T h e Mardets have tw o more tournam ents before the playoffs, w ith M cG ill hosting one o f them on March 15.

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