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"I d o n 't c a r e a b o u t t h e b y -la w s a n y m o r e " CRO censures presidential candidate Saeed Fotuhi J a m e s G ro hsgal

As the McGill Tribune was about to break the story that Students’ Society presidential can­ didate Saeed Fotuhi ran a party using personal funds and continued to associate the event with his first name after Chief Returning Officer Sarah Huggins told him that she “might be forced to disqualify [his] candidacy” if he per­ formed those actions, Fotuhi confessed to violat­ ing campaign by-laws by placing posters with his name and the words “Slanderous and Biased” next to McGill Daily stands, some of which are in full view of polling stations.

(For full coverage of Fotuhi’s conflicting accounts of his campaign, see www.mcgilltribune.com.)

Huggins said earlier today that she did not pursue previous accusations that Fotuhi’s ‘Speed Speed Saeed’ posters violated campaign by-laws because, “I’ve asked several member of the stu­ dent population and it seemed like the only peo­

ple that noticed these things were SSMU peo­ ple,” but she said who they are shouldn’t matter.

She censured Fotuhi yesterday afternoon for his illegal posters.

Fohuti, who formerly used the name Saeed Navid Fotouhinia, is executive director of Youth Against Racism, a United Nations-accredited non-governmental organization. He said Monday afternoon that he again jeopardized his eligibility in the SSMU presidential race “because they printed stuff that calls me a ‘schmuck’. Forget about the elections, I have pride. ... They can’t just insult me like that with­ out even knowing me.”

After the CRO issued the censure, Fotuhi said, “That’s the penalty I’m willing to take to defend my name. I don’t care about the elec­ tions. ... I only hope they state why they’ve cen­ sured me.”

He said, “I don’t care about the by-laws any­ more. This has nothing to do with campaigning. ... I even put it in the Shatner building. I’ll put See SAEED, page 2

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There’s a wide range of clubs and services that The Students’ Society Accreditation ‘Yes’ are supporting the Shatner renovation fee as well committee has been vying for the 4,167 yes’ as accreditation,” he said. “I do not know of a votes necessary to pass its accreditation referen­ single student leader who is opposed to accredi­ dum. Should the referendum pass, SSMU tation.” would be legally recognized by the Quebec gov­ Some student groups, however, felt that ernment as the representative body of McGill taking a formal position on accreditation would undergraduates, and thereby entitled to certain pressure its members. rights within the University and province.

“We have a large and diverse constituency,” Committee Co-Chair and SSMU President said Newman Society Vice-President Social Martin Doe said that eight student faculty asso­ Justice Jessica Worden. “I think it is better to ciations have unanimously voted to formally remind them that they can vote, tell them when support accreditation, and many SSMU clubs the voting is, and ask them to be responsible stu­ and services have also been campaigning for a dents rather than trying to influence the vote.” yes’ vote.

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something that calls me ‘Schmuck year’s Board of Governors represen­ tative. Doe, who was at the installa­ Schmuck Saeed .”

Lawrence Cinamon, U2 tion of Heather Monroe-Blum as Economics, wrote a letter to the edi­ principal of McGill, was unavailable tor in yesterday’s Daily that included for further comment at press time.

Huggins on Monday afternoon Continued from page #1 On Sunday night, after Fotuhi the above phrase. The Daily is before Fotuhi’s latest alleged infrac­ it on the office of the CRO.” required to print the letters to the was informed that, if he won the tion was discovered in the Shatner election, he would be brought to the Election by-law 15.9 exempts lobby by an elections coordinator editor it receives. the McGill Daily, le Délit Français and Deputy Returning Officer Ian “It’s really kind of sad,” said Judicial Board, he said he was and the McGill Tribune from the Sidey.

Phil Todd, coordinating editor of unafraid because “I made sure that the chief returning officer okayed requirement that campus publica­ the Daily.

Fotuhi, a U2 History major and tions be neutral in Students’ Society English Literature minor, gained Kirsten Weld, who was respon­ everything that I was doing.”

After Fotuhi called back to ask elections. All three papers may attention this January after he placed sible for Elections 2003 editorial, endorse candidates. However, by­ posters on and off campus that he said, “It makes him look worse than what the Judicial Board was, he said, “I wonder if they would have law 15.13 prohibits “campaigning claimed at various times were for a it makes us look.” during any other period” except psychological experiment, or for a SSMU President Martin Doe authority over this, over the top of campaign period. The campaign fashion show, or for a party and an said on Sunday that he intended to the chief returning officer.”

The Judicial Board has ultimate period ended at midnight Monday opera. Fotuhi plans to stage an opera challenge the SSMU elections if legal authority over SSMU elections. morning.

Fotuhi won the race. on March 26 and donate the pro­ According to a student in “Candidates leave posters up all ceeds to Youth Against Racism, but “If Saeed wins, I will personally Introduction to the time where students are voting, he has not yet found a venue. take this to the Judicial Board, where Fotuhi’s Presidential candidate Saeed Fotuhi Performance class, Fotuhi first which can have a direct effect on the I think that this needs to be adjudi­ As for the newest posters, candidate they’re choosing. ... To which show an arrow pointing to the have no vision, and it’s completely cated and decided,” said Doe, who announced his intention to run for me, that’s a more serious violation “Picks and Pans” issue of the Daily, biased, and in the same article, the would have until March 25 to president on January 16, the day before he left for the World than putting up some ‘Speed Speed “I put them up myself,” said Fotuhi. same person who is in charge of the appeal the outcome of the election.

Saeed’ posters in January,” said “ [The Daily says] I have no ideas, I commentary edition publishes Doe was acclaimed as next Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. On the 16th, the stu dent came to the Tribune office to tell the news staff that Fotuhi had announced his candidacy. Two other students in the class said they had similar recollections. Fotuhi denied the claims, and said his three class­ mates probably have ulterior motives.

A more detailed history emerges in an email correspondence initiated by Huggins on January 19 after she was informed that the ‘Speed Speed Saeed’ posters were linked to Fotuhi and a tentative SSMU campaign.

On January 20th, Huggins wrote, that “if a candidate genuinely wants to host a public party for pur­ poses other than campaigning, then he/she would be advised (1) not to call this party by his first name; (2) to relegate him/herself to a second­ ary organizing position; (3) to be very careful not to use the party as an opportunity to campaign; (4) not to use his- own personal finances to hold the party. This last point is crit­ ical, as candidates have a limited campaign budget and that is done to keep a level playing field for all can­ didates. Should you decide to go ahead with the party AND run for SSMU president, I might be forced to disqualify your candidacy.”

COMMUNITY SERVICE • ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT * LEADERSHIP • INNOVATION Fotuhi wrote back that day. “[S]o as to not burn any bridges,” he said: “1. I will cancel the ‘Saeed Party’ and simply have an intimate gathering of my friends (which I do not think goes against any by-laws).

“2. I will, as soon as possible, take down all of the ‘Speed Speed Saeed’ posters.”

Despite these statements, Fotuhi distributed ‘Saeed Presents’ advertisements and hosted a party in his sister’s Cours Mont Royal pent­ house apartment on February ”, which cost Fotuhi $20 out of his own pocket after he charged $10 to attendees, about a dozen of whom were attracted by his postering. He said he was the organizer and that he If you meet the criteria and are entering yo u r last two ye a rs of co lle g e or u n d e rg ra d u a te “never had any intentions of can­ u n iv e rs ity s t u d ie s , this sc h o la rs h ip , w orth $ 4 ,0 0 0 to $ 1 0 ,0 0 0 , m ay be fo r you. celling” the party.

Fotuhi said on Thursday night that his newly acquired name recog­ nition was a springboard for his can­ To learn more: didacy.

“And out of that new reputa­ tion, which I think is important in a candidacy, as a result of that new reputation, I decided to run.”

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C h ré tie n to US p u b lic : W a r a lr e a d y w o n that I’m not very comfortable with because, where do you stop?” asked The United States has already Chrétien.

US National Security Adviser won a war against Iraq by pressuring Condoleezza Rice, who preceded the Saddam Hussein to disarm, said PM on the program, argued that Prime Minister Jean Chrétien on containment of Iraq is not the American television Sunday.

“Saddam cannot do anything answer.

“How long does anyone think any more. He has troops at the door, that we can keep him in a box, and inspectors on the ground, planes fly­ ing over... it’s been won,” said what box is he in? He’s still making Chrétien, speaking to ABC’s George demands on the UN with more than Stephanopoulos on the public affairs 200,000 troops in his neighbour­ hood, and he’s not contained. ... He program This Week.

The Prime Minister, who was is continuing to threaten his neigh­ introduced to the American televi­ bours. ... The problem with the sion audience as “America’s closest notion of containment is, first of all, ally,” cautioned the US on the issue that it’s not working, and secondly, what about the Iraqi people? Are we of regime change.

“The question of changing going to keep the Iraqi people in a regime is... not the debate at the perpetual state of isolation from the United Nations,” he said, stressing international community?” she that UN resolution 14.41 calls for asked.

Rice argued that there is no Iraq’s disarmament, not the depar­ alternative to regime change, ture of its dictator. because “[Saddam] is showing... that “[Regime change] is something he doesn’t intend to disarm.”

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US President George Bush will call a vote on a new resolution for war in the UN Security Council this week, giving Saddam until March 17 to prove that he is disarming.

Although Chrétien said that Canada will remain a close US ally no matter what happens in Iraq, he stresses that Canada will not partici­ pate in a war not sanctioned by the UN. “When George Sr. went to war in 1990, he had a resolution from the UN... and my predecessor Mr. Mulroney said... you need a resolu­ tion of the UN, and [Canada] will be with you. I said the same thing a year ago to President George,” he said.

Chrétien did say that Canada will be willing to send peacekeeping forces into Iraq, should it become necessary.

The Prime Minister ended the interview by saying, “If I were in [Saddam’s] boots, I would be shak­ ing.”

GAINST H E WA JENNYGEORGE McGill students participated in an anti-war strike Wednesday, boy­ cotting classes and picketing at the Roddick and Milton Gates. They marched to Concordia, where they met more protestors and continued on to a Canadian Forces recruiting centre. The crowd of several hundred protestors marched across the city, where they met riot police at the US consulate. The rally finished at Complexe Guy Favreau, a federal office building. The strike was supported by a SSMU General Assembly on February 20. See an online photo gallery o f the strike at www.mcgilltribune.com.

S S M U v o t e s t o d o w n g r a d e t o CASA 'a s s o c i a t e ' J e n n ife r J e tt

Students’ Society councillors sent a strong message to the Canadian Alliance of Student Associations Thursday night, voting nine to eight in favour of down­ grading SSMU to associate mem­ bership status.

SSMU was a founding mem­ ber of the national student lobby organization in 1995.

SSMU President Martin Doe opposed the motion and informed Council members that CASA has already rejected the possibility of associate membership, as it violates the organization’s constitution.

“We have a by-law that states that anybody that wants to go into the -associate level of membership can’t have been a full member in the prior year, so obviously that would be McGill,” said Tyler MacLeod, acting director of CASA and Chair of the Board of Directors.

MacLeod replaced former national director Liam Arbuckle, who resigned February 14 after an investigation found he had dis­ closed confidential information to a candidate during the national direc­ tor selection process.

This is not the first time a CASA leader has been implicated in a scandal. In 1998, former acting director Pat Fitzpatrick pleaded guilty to fraud after $4,000 went missing under his administration in the fall of 1995.

Associate membership was one of several recommendations made in a report prepared by the Community and Government Committee and presented to Council on February 13.

The recommendation that SSMU should withdraw from CASA unless it can become an asso­ ciate member was replaced by one calling on SSMU to inform the Board of Directors of its disap­ pointment with CASA during the 2002-2003 school year. Members passed this resolution by a vote of

19 to one.

Last summer, SSMU VicePresident Community and Government Nick Vikander pre­ sented CASA with a list of recom­ mendations called Fighting for an Effective CASA: The Winds Are Changing Again. These suggestions included increased mobilization of members and an external review of the organization. They were approved by SSMU Council early this year.

SSMU Vice-President University Affairs Fred Sagel told councillors Thursday that they should allow more time for the rec­ ommendations to take effect and gain support from other member schools.

“We have to work to build allies within CASA, not just simply leave because we’re disgruntled with it,” Sagel said.

Councillors wondered how SSMU’s membership fee was spent, since CASA’s “Generation Debt” campaign was delayed a year.

“This year they haven’t come up with a single campaign and that’s basically kind of disappoint­ ing,” said Engineering Representative Alan Powell, a mem­ ber of the Community and Government Committee.

MacLeod said money that would have been spent on a cam­ paign was mostly used to pay for the external review of CASA, which SSMU recommended.

SSMU will also ask that CASA reprimand Communications Coordinator Erin Stevenson for an email she wrote to Doe and Vikander stating what councillors felt to be “unprofessional”.

“There was a lot of swearing,” said Powell, “[and] some personal insults at Ira [Dubinsky].”

McGill Daily News Editor Dubinsky has covered relations with CASA in that paper and is a member of the Community and Government Committee.

Council members decided that

next year’s SSMU Executive and Council should continue to consid­ er the merits of membership in CASA and the Canadian Federation of Students, a national lobby organization of which SSMU is not a member.

“The ball is back in [SSMU’s]

court,” MacLeod said. “We would love to be able to accommodate them... but the by-laws are there for a reason. We don’t want various levels of membership.”

At Council, Sagel said that, although he is disappointed with CASA’s recent performance, SSMU

should remain a member.

“We cannot afford to leave CASA,” he said. “We wilf be with­ out federal representation.”

Federal representation could be especially critical, Doe said, during next year’s budget negotiations.

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Senate candidates debate Arts In the Arts senator debate Friday, incumbent Senator Nick Peters demonstrated his knowledge of institutional minutiae, while Ewa Krajewska and Ruth Chen showed a shallow understanding of academic and administrative issues.

Peters and Krajewska concurred with Dean of Arts Carman Miller that getting a new Arts building was the highest priority for the Faculty, while Chen pointed to undergradu­ ate research opportunities.

Peters and Krajewska also held that the environmental policy was Senate’s most significant achieve­ ment this year, and Chen said that preventing the ‘A+’ policy was equal­ ly important.

Peters’ current priority is a “comprehensive policy to improve current exam conditions”. He would like to sit on the Committee on Student Affairs and highlighted the need to “revisit the recent imbalance of allocating only two out of 25 [scholarships and student aid funds] to Arts.”

her represent the broad scope of Arts students and build coalitions. Her priority is establishing departmental peer advising for students and mak­ ing advising more comprehensive.

Chen hopes to sit on the University Admissions Committee, where she would encourage maintaining the student body’s 60 to 40 female to male ratio; she said that minorities’ disadvantaged backgrounds should be considered along with academic and extracurricular criteria.

Krajewska said her experience as a don in Royal Victoria College gives her a “closeness to students’ rights grievances”. Her priorities are the University’s anti-discrimination policy and undergraduate research.

Krajewska hopes to sit on the Academic Policy and Planning Committee to investigate under­ graduate research and incorporate vocational counselling into academ­ ic advising.

—Kim D’Souza

Engineering Candidates for Engineering senator all hope to improve the quality of education in their faculty; none, how­ ever, outlined clear ideas for change in the debate Friday.

Nafay Al-Alam Choudhury hopes to promote equality, better representation, and aca­ demic well-being for engineers; to do this, he wants to improve stu­ dent-teacher relation­ ships and support an MARKSWARD anti-discrimination poli­ cy in Senate.

Engineering Senate hopefuls square off Former SSMU Chen said her experience as an councillor and previous mayoral executive in the Political Science candidate Ian Fichtenbaum stressed Students’ Assocation and in the that he “[has] no platform, and McGill Association of North [makes] no promises.” He promises American Born Asians would help only to “put in effort” and “deal with

[issues].”

Amer Kattan hopes to bring in new profs and create co-op opportu­ nities for engineers. He also wants to

MARKSWARD Peters, Sagel, Krajewska, and Chen

allow engineers to take supplemental exams.

Engineering Undergraduate Society President Phillip Carpenter, by far the best-informed and most articulate candidate, proposed an increase in student networking with alumni, and hopes to raise student awareness of the Code of Student Rights and Responsibilities, combat plagiarism, push an industrial practicum and an anti-discrimina­ tion policy through Senate, and wants to see Senate address ques­ tions of student privacy.

—Mark Sward Science Three candidates debated Friday for two available Science sen­ ator positions. Michael Kuan, a fourth-year Anatomy student, emphasized the importance of inte­ grating more diversity into the Science curriculum in his opening remarks.

Third-year Microbiology major Robert Kozak raised issues like the need for greater accountability regarding the distribution of aca­ demic advising funds. He discussed his familiarity with the workings of the Senate and promised to address all potential challenges with “... the combination of hard work, openness and dedication that [he] demon­ strated” in his previous position as

Science Undergraduate Society rep­ resentative to the SSMU council.

SUS VP Communications Laila Nurmohamed stressed her desire to effectively listen to and communi­ cate the needs of the Science Faculty as a whole, and promised to lobby for increased undergraduate research opportunities and an anti-discrimi­ nation policy.

The issue of re-amalgamation between the Arts and Science facul­ ties brought out differences between the candidates. Nurmohamed felt

that the number of students was too large to merge effectively. Kozak also expressed reservations, stating that such a move would “take away from McGill's reputation as a researchoriented centre of learning” while leading to more bureaucracy prob­ lems. Kuan, however, views integra­ tion between the two faculties as a possible method of “challenging the stereotype of the science student who can think logically, but not crit­ ically.”

—Jacob Wolpert

VP Ops candidates differ on experience, ideas Laura Saba The two candidates for Students’ Society vice-president operations have similar priorities, but bring different ideas and experi­ ence to the portfolio. Perhaps the most significant difference arising in Wednesday’s debate concerned the value placed on accounting experi­ ence for the position.

Rod DeCastro, a U2 Political Science and Economics student who ran against current VP Ops Kathleen Morrison last year, empha­ sized that he has the necessary finan­ cial experience, having taken

experience.

Rosenfeld, a SSMU club treas­ urer, is opposed to DeCastro’s pro­ posal for setting up a dépanneur in Upper Residences, saying that it was proposed in 2000 and did not receive support from McGill.

Instead, he supports a proposal for a student-run cooperative café in the Ghetto area, which he believes would create more jobs.

DeCastro presented three broad issues he plans to work on. He said that, in order to improve servie es, students need a student dépan­ neur, renovations to the Clubs Lounge and the Shatner building

GRACIAJALEA DeCastro gestured to an unamused Rosenfeld at Wednesday’s debate.

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open seven days a week. He would accounting courses and worked at work to see that these issues are not Merrill Lynch. His opponent Jesse dependent on passing the referen­ Rosenfeld, U0 Arts, argued that, dum for the Shatner Renovations because SSMU has an accounting Fee. He said he will also reach out to staff to manage its budget, political students by making SSMU more ideas about how to allocate money visible on campus, and support fac­ according to student demand are ulty-run businesses. The third broad more important. issue he presented was involving stu­ Rosenfeld, who supports the dents by creating an open forum to progressive platform, said that, in discuss the budget and changing the order to have a “real student democ­ budget process for clubs. racy”, an open consultation process The candidates both support of is needed to create a budget propos­ the daycare service, and promise to al, which would then be debated work with the Quebec government and amended by a General to get its support. They also think Assembly. He would support a refer­ that it is important to demand that endum to make the constitutional the University pay back the money changes necessary to address these it promised SSMU for an elevator as issues. a means of access to the Brown Kevin McPhee, who held the Building for disabled students.

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CAMPAIGN ANALYSIS 2 0 0 3

P re s id e n tia l ra c e J a m e s G ro hsgal

John Doyle, Alex Kemeny, Saeed Fotuhi and Naeem Datoo support accreditation, the Shatner Renovation Fee, funding for campus groups that have strong political opinions, and an equitable tuition policy. All are running for Students' Society president.

Their leadership styles differ.

Vice-president operations candidate Rod DeCastro asked them how they would respond to the attempted break-in of the Queer McGill office.

Datoo said he would ask his vicepresident clubs and services to make a recommendation to be brought to the SSMU Executive and then to Council. Doyle said he would ask Queer McGill what they would like done. Kemeny, who spoke after Doyle, agreed with him. Fotuhi called for an open forum.

Fotuhi, a U2 History major and English Literature minor, was unknown on campus before his pos­ tering blitz. He misunderstands innumerable aspects of university politics, from Shatner to the James Administration.

Datoo, a U3 Computer Science major and Management minor, has been involved in student politics for three and a half years. While a SSMU insider, he lacks experience in University decision-making bod­ ies and in negotiations with admin­ istrators.

Doyle, a third-year Education student, persistently pursued Dean of Students Bruce Shore and Provost Luc Vinet to secure the rights of McGill students with disabilities, and was the president of a campus club.

Kemeny, a U2 History major, runs McGill Hillel, which has diverse services and activities, but his interest in SSMU only coalesced when he opposed what he calls the sidetracking of Council from educa­ tional to political issues.

While Kemeny has tabled in Shatner to defend the Israeli govern­ ment, under his leadership as presi­ dent, McGill Hillel has focused on such social and educational activities as parties, lecture series and a film screening organized with Queer McGill. He was also treasurer of the group of about 1,000 members, which has a building on Peel Street that houses a café.

Fotuhi lobbied Heritage Canada to help fund a United Nations youth conference that he was involved in, but other than deciding against applying to make his group, Youth Against Racism, into a SSMU club, Fotuhi has little experience in McGill political life.

He said that students should vote for him based on the motivation he has demonstrated during his campaign to become SSMU president.

As SSMU vice-president com­ munications and events, Datoo con­ centrated on his portfolio: Frosh

GRACIAJALEA Doyle, Kemeny, Datoo and Fotuhi faced the public at Wednesday’s presidential candidates' debate.

Week, two 4Floors parties, Open Air Pub, BFT and Snow Air Pub, all of which made money. He redeveloped a website for SSMU, which has no listing for “Judicial Board”, and which for a long time lacked a French version. Datoo also helped put together the SSMU Handbook and conducted a survey on Shatner usage.

Doyle was president of Access McGill and is president of the Quebec Kidney Foundation. He was on the Dawson College Board of Governors for three years. Last year, he asked the Quebec Commission on Human Rights to stop the move of the Office for Students with Disabilities from Burnside Hall to the Brown Building; now he is appealing the QCHR’s denial.

Kemeny said that SSMU

should avoid divisive issues and focus on lobbying governments for more money.

Fotuhi’s platform, which advo­ cates labelling for diamonds, proba­ bly cannot be achieved within Shatner.

Doyle said he may disagree with political positions, but he would not stand in students’ way if they wanted SSMU to take political stances.

Datoo argued that the General Assembly resolution supporting a student strike demonstrated that SSMU was “relevant”.

While Fotuhi borrows from the progressive platform, his C.V. shows a preference for rhetoric over grass­ roots activism. None of the presi­ dential candidates will satisfy both left and right because three of them

never told students exactly what they believe in, and the fourth said that that both his personal beliefs and students’ political beliefs are irrelevant to SSMU. SSMU politics may be more divisive next year. As the imminent US-led war on Iraq diverts global attention from the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, so responses to the Persian Gulf crisis preoccupy McGill activists, who three years ago protested civilian deaths in the Levant. As attention will return to Jerusalem after victory is declared in Baghdad, so students will re­ encounter the tension left unre­ solved after September 11. It will fall on SSMU’s next president to hold Shatner together when the older conflict returns to rue McTavish.

VP C&S: G ew ertz, 'Dr. R am i' d isc u ss ro o m b o o k in g J e n n ife r J e tt

Although the two candidates for Students’ Society vice-president clubs and services agreed on many issues facing student groups at the Wednesday debate, they approach the race from different perspectives.

Rami Hourani, U3 Chemistry, is an active participant in clubs, while Mia Gewertz, U2 Environmental Health and Political Science, has more experience in services.

Hourani and Gewertz both said the VP clubs and services should be more accessible and com­ munication should be improved.

The VP clubs and services manages relations among more than 150 clubs and 12 services at McGill and manages the Shatner Building.

Hourani said what sets him apart is his experience. He has served as president of the Arab Students Association and Students Making Young Lives Easier. This year, he was a clubs and services representative to SSMU Council and a member of the Finance Committee. “[My experience] gave me the ability to be more knowledgeable and more to the point with issues that concern clubs and services,” said Hourani. “I know their needs, and I’m going to work for their needs.”

Hourani, who supports the progressive student platform, would

establish a clinic to help clubs make budgets and find sponsorship for their events. As “Dr. Rami,” he plans to conduct regular “checkups” on clubs. He also wants to create a link for clubs on the SSMU website so they can advertise their events and services.

This year Gewertz is opera­

tions coordinator for McGill Walksafe. She is also a member of the McGill Association of North American Born Asians and the International Relations Students Association.

At the debate, Gewertz empha­ sized the importance of direct involvement with clubs.

“The VP clubs and services needs to go to executive] meetings, needs to go to events, needs to be

present and be their biggest sup­ porter,” she said.

Gewertz would run more lead­ ership workshops and discussion forums, and said she would work with clubs rather than dictate to them.

“The key is to be a mediator and a resource, not a parent,” she said.

This year, student groups have criticized the University’s room­ booking policy and accompanying security fees as discriminatory and obstructive to free speech.

Gewertz said addi­ tional security at most events is unnecessary.

“The administra­ tion and McGill Security is solely target­ ing groups which are holding events pertain­ ing to Middle Eastern issues,” she said.

“These issues stir up passions with people, but we are all adults, and we are able to act responsibly.”

While Gewertz said security fees should be subsidized by SSMU, Hourani believes the University should pick up the tab.

“It’s part of their duties to pro­ mote student association and stu­ dent groups on campus and make sure that they are secure,” he said.

Hourani said he will fight to

eliminate room-booking fees alto­ gether.

Both candidates support the SSMU accreditation and Shatner renovation fee referenda. If the Shatner renovation fee does not pass, Hourani said, clubs could use space in the basement or partition the Clubs Lounge into smaller rooms.

Current VP Clubs and Services Rachel De Lorie believes that either candidate would fill the position

well.

“They’re both very qualified candidates,” she said. “They’re both experienced in different aspects.”

The candidates focused on their personal qualities during the debate.

“SSMU issues pertaining to clubs and services aren’t that divi­ sive,” Gewertz said. “It shows in our platforms that a lot of our ideas are similar. Now the key thing is, who’s going to get the job done?”

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Students are voting this week on whether to approve the sevenyear, $ 1.8-million Shatner Building Renovation Fee proposed by the Students’ Society Council last month. If approved, the $11,84-per-semester fee will pay for the last part of the three-phase renovation project, which began in 1999.

The planned renovations will bring the entire building in line with City of Montreal fire and san­ itation codes, with the installation of a basement women’s washroom and sprinklers on the second and third floors. It will also create eight new club offices and two meeting

rooms, add a student kitchen, improve the Players’ Theatre and the ballroom, add club storage lockers, provide a darkroom for the McGill Tribune and improve Sadie’s Tabagie.

If SSMU fails to bring Shatner up to code, Montreal officials could shut the building down, according to Doe. “I’m truly scared for the build­ ing if this doesn’t go through, because it’s not that [the city has­ n’t] taken notice that the building is not up to code— it’s once they decide to actually pay attention to it, they will see a long string of evi­ dence showing that their isn’t a will to bring the building up to code, and will start taking action: they

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will start citing us, fining us, and eventually condemn the building,” said Doe. When SSMU began its threephase renovation project three years ago, the city gave the Society two years to bring the building to code. Because of funding delays, the renovations are still not com­ plete, leaving SSMU exposed to possible citations. Doe says the city has been “reasonable”, but that its patience will not be unlimited.

The fee will also repay the out­ standing balance of the second phase of renovations, completed in the fall of 2001; the SSMU cur­ rently pays $90,000 each year in interest payments to the University, according to VicePresident Operations Kathleen Morrison.

If the referendum passes, the planned renovations will be com­ plete by September, said Morrison.

Since SSMU will not finish collect­ ing the fee until 2010, the University will finance the project in the interim.

Although no student or group has voiced opposition to this refer­ endum, some have criticized its terms. VP operations candidate Rod DeCastro, who supports the

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Morrison also says that the piece of the MSF intended for Shatner went to an overhaul of the fourth floor that is already com­ plete, and that the two projects are at “different ends of the renovation project.”

Both candidates for VP opera­ tions support this referendum, but would have different priorities should the referendum fail.

“I am in complete support of the referendum,” said candidate Jesse Rosenfeld. “It is necessary to make Shatner more accessible... to be best utilized by students.” He also stressed that the proposed fee is “incredibly reasonable.”

If the referendum fails, and Rosenfeld is elected, he will first seek to address club space issues.

He also puts high priority on a stu­ dent kitchen, to give a permanent facility to the Midnight Kitchen.

“Also, the fire issues are important,” added Rosenfeld.

His opponent Rod DeCastro disagrees, putting fire- and sanita­ tion-code violations above club facilities.

“Let’s get the essential stuff— we don’t have the ability to miss this one,” he said. His priorities are shared by Morrison and Doe.

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referendum, questioned the validi­ ty of “double-dipping” into stu­ dents’ pockets-when the motion came to Council, since the McGill Student Fund is already supposed to include money for Shatner ren­ ovations. He also argued that the fee would extend beyond a ‘McGill generation’ since it will last for seven years. “[F]ive years from now a stu­ dent will arrive and pay the fee for the entirety of his stay never having desired or consented to doing so,” said DeCastro. To remedy this, he suggested that there be an opt-out clause.

Unlike the $38 McGill Student Fund, students will not be able to opt out of the renovation fee. Morrison argues that, unless the fee is mandatory, students who do pay will have to contribute more.

“If a fee is made opt-outable, it comes at a cost to other students, because adding an opt-out clause to a fee referendum creates more risk inherent in financial projec­ tions... No student should be penalized by rights exercised by other students,” said Morrison in a letter to the McGill Daily in February.

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Choy believes that the accredi­ president university affairs. Most of the focus has fallen on Choy, as tation of SSMU will further the Tremblay has yet to make a public goal of creating more seminars, since it would allow SSMU more appearance.

The VP university affairs sits leverage in fighting for academic on a number of academic-related rights and changes.

With regard to SSMU’s committees, works with student involvement in senators and external politi­ acts as a general cal issues, liaison between Choy thinks students and that it is valu­ administration. able for stu­ C h o y ’s dents to play a platform high­ role in interna­ lights three tional issues main goals: such as the improving Free Trade Area undergraduate of the research oppor­ Americas or tunities, lower­ the potential ing the stuwar in Iraq, dent/faculty but that SSMU ratio, and revis­ should only ing the aca­ demic advising support such actions when program. there is an Choy’s pri­ GRACIAJALEA e x t r e m e l y mary objective in the debate. ________________ broad consen­ is to work to Choy had no opponent sus among the create more undergraduate seminars, especially student population.

Choy worries that too much in the second and third years.

“These years are really critical, focus on issues that do not directly as students are finding their major,” pertain to McGill could take atten­ said Choy. She said that seminars tion and resources away from more are also a valuable learning tool, as pertinent local concerns. However, they allow students more participa­ “if all students are on board for an tion in classes and closer affiliation issue, I’m all for it,” she said.

Tremblay, who was encouraged with professors.

Though she admits that the to run for VP university affairs by candidate Saeed creation of new classes at McGill is presidential a laborious process, requiring the Fotuhi, did not return several tele­ coordination of each faculty and phone calls and emails. Also, she often each department, Choy did not respond to a note placed on believes that as VP university affairs her apartment door.

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Accreditation referendum gains support Continued from page 1

Doe and ‘Yes’ Committee Co-Chair and Arts Representative to SSMU Council Seth Offenbach debated without opposition in favour of accreditation Wednesday night.

“This is an extremely important year for the SSMU—we will be renegotiating our let­ ter of agreement and lease for Shatner with the University,” said Offenbach. “Accreditation will be an important bargaining tool to ensure that the University provides us with a bare minimum of support.”

The PowerPoint presentation used at stu­ dent faculty association councils states that accreditation will increase SSMU’s influence on the administration. “[Accreditation] guarantees a legal framwork that would not allow the McGill University administration to withhold fees from student association as leverage in con­ tract negotiations. The McGill administration has done this in the past, specifically with respect to student-run cafeterias once owned by the Arts Undergraduate Society and the Science Undergraduate Society.”

The presentation also says, “The McGill administration may take offence to accredita­

tion,” but Doe reports that Dean of Students Bruce Shore has said that the administration is neutral about SSMU accreditation.

“I see no reason for the University to apply ill will,” said Doe at the debate.

Shore was unavailable for comment at press time.

Doe said that the Society would benefit most from accreditation because it entitles SSMU to a list of contact information for its members, and the ability to levy student fees directly.

“Every five years, our letter of agreement with the University expires and the University uses the facts that we enjoy these rights as priv­ ileges right now to withhold our student fees unless we sign on the dotted lines with these conditions, ‘we will not give you your student fees’... [Accreditation] will allow us to sit down at the negotiation table and actually discuss student issues like cafeterias and textbook exchanges, on a more even playing field with the University,” he said.

At the debate, Doe also spoke to a stu­ dent’s concerns that accreditation will legit­ imize radical behaviour.

“The [Concordia Student Union] was radical before they accredited and is radical

after they have accredited, that disproves that theorem. If you want to influence policy with­ in the SSMU, that is dependent on who you vote for to be your executive. Accreditation is separate and will not make us all-powerful, but it will level the playing field against the University.”

While some students have criticized the wording of the referendum question, Doe and Offenbach believe their campaign has ade­ quately informed the student body of what accreditation is.

“We spent two weeks giving almost 400 classroom announcements, 700 posters and have tried to get to as much press coverage [as possible],” said Offenbach.

Last year, SSMU ran an accreditation ref­ erendum that failed to meet the required quo­ rum of 25 per cent of the undergraduate stu­ dent body voting yes’, by 154 votes. O f those who voted, 86 per cent voted yes’.

Elections McGill Chief Returning Officer Sarah Huggins had scheduled a seven-day polling period for accreditation in an effort to reach quorum, but has since cancelled the March 17 poll date, as Quebec laws prohibit accreditation voting after March 15.

Doe said that, if the referendum fails this

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year, SSMU should consider pursuing accred­ itation a third time. “Last year 86 per cent of the students that voted, voted yes. That makes it the strongest mandate SSMU has ever got to do anything, and if we receive a strong... affir­ mation once again, then it should be pursued again.”

Zell, Cassis, but unfortunately not Bonhomme, vie for C&E S c o tt R. M ed vin

using off-campus venues would most likely entail extra costs.

If elected, Cassis also wants to coordinate a ‘Battle of the Bands’.

“We have a lot of musically talented students at McGill. We should exploit the talents of the students that we have. All students can appre­ ciate it, and it offers the bands another gig and the possibility of the new audience.” Cassis cites his role in the local music scene as a relevant

In the communications section of the portfolio, both candidates advocate more frequent and thor­ The candidates for Students’ ough updates to the SSMU website.

Society vice-president communica­ Cassis wants to “modernize the tions and events are vying to fill the design to make it more accessible, shoes of current VP and presidential easier to read and more obvious candidate Naeem Datoo by rehash­ where the links are... I can make the ing a number of his ideas, and design more user-friendly.” Both adding a few innovations of their candidates can speak French, and are own. committed to a French version of Both Kimberly Zell, a U2 the SSMU website and to promot­ Sociology major and Environmental ing events in French.

Science minor, and Zell is in favour Alexander Cassis, a U1 of using Frosh as a History student, stress the way to introduce new events portion of the students to the work­ portfolio. Zell particularly ings of the SSMU. emphasizes the need.for “The best place to more varied events. start is Frosh. During “I think that 4Floors Frosh, new students is good, but could be don’t find out what more diverse,” she said.

SSMU is or does, Zell assisted Datoo and only sees leaders in the role of event organ­ in SSMU t-shirts get­ izer for the International ting smashed. This 4Floors held earlier this creates apathy right year. She is also vice-pres­ from the start,” she ident events of the South said.

American and Latin Cassis also advo­ Students Association and t GRACIAJALEA cates open discussion is ah executive of Zell and Cassis both have experience organizing social events. forums, where stu­ Students Making Young skill to the communications and dents can voice their opinions and Lives Easier.

Zell has also borrowed from events portfolio: “I can have easy concerns, and provide input on events when they are in the planning Datoo in proposing a street fair that access to bands,” he said.

Cassis’ pensketch says he organ­ stage. He also “wants to extend the allows McGill students the opportu­ nity to meet their neighbours. ized a Penthouse Party at les Cours ‘Ask Me’ people longer in the begin­ Datoo’s fair was cancelled at the last Mont-Royal. According to Saeed ning of the year to make people minute in September, when resi­ Fotuhi, a candidate for president more knowledgeable about the dents of the McGill Ghetto voiced and a supporter of Cassis’ campaign: SSMU.” “It was mostly a party that I organ­ Zell also supports ‘grassroots their objections.

Cassis is anxious to move events ized with Vivienne Bakos and Nadia promotion’, such as increased com­ off campus and into Montreal ven­ Polukhin. He had some involve­ munication with floor fellows, clubs ues and bars. “Some of the events on ment.” Fotuhi said that Cassis lent and student groups, and hype teams campus end too early,” he said. organizers his car, handed out flyers for every event.

Zell supports the progressive “While discussing with the adminis­ and drummed up interest in the platform. “I do very much agree tration to extend the end-time of event.

Zell organized SALSA’s Saca la with the platform... I don’t under­ events, we can organize them offcampus.” Datoo has questioned this Lengua Fiesta and their Reading- stand why anyone would disagree approach, as SSMU is already Week trip to the Dominican with the platform unless they have responsible for Gert’s and other Republic, which she says is the best ill intentions.” The platform’s only reference to the C&E portfolio is a spaces in the Shatner building, and party she has been to all year.

desire to change the “tabling, poster­ ing, room booking and leafleting policy.”

“I want to give postering prior­ ities to student groups,” states Zell.

“Outside businesses and promoters

cover up our stuff, and take away from campus life.”

Naeem Datoo has given careful consideration to the person he thinks is best fit to succeed him: “Vote Bonhomme for VP C&E!”

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EDITORIAL “Morality, w hen vigorously alive, sees fa rth er than intellect, and provides unconsciously fo r intellectual difficulties.”

— James A nthony Froude

It's never fair gam e N a ta lie M a lo -F le tc h e r an d J a m e s G ro h s g a l_______________________

The desire to win at all costs should never coincide with fairness. When rule-makers forget to enforce regulations, rule-breakers are given free reign to revive a chaotic state of nature where being fair is a foreign concept. Such is the condition of this year’s SSMU election campaigns, in which the com­ bined disregard for by-laws and the lack of official responsibility entice con­ siderable ethical debate.

What is it to be fair? Above all, it is to embrace justice as an important social principle, and to abide by its authority when making decisions about behaviour. This, of course, implies a universal notion of what’s right and wrong, when it’s clear that every SSMU candidate has his own idea of what can and should be done.

For the egoist, fairness is embodied in any action that fulfills personal interests, a stance that is defended anthropologically by the instinct for sur­ vival, and philosophically by the notion that self-promotion is rational. So, it would seem Saeed Fotuhi is caught in a Sartrian solipsism, which has him aware of others only in their capacity to benefit him. He preaches the impor­ tance of name recognition, only to object that the party posters that popu­ larized his name did not give him an advantage. He is only “defending [his] name now”; his obligations are self-directed. Yet as Thomas Jefferson stated, obligation requires two parties.

In a less extreme sense, Naeem Datoo’s election by-law violation reflects a subjective approach to consequentialism. By using a computer in the Tribune office while carrying out his duties as vice-president communications and events, he took advantage of his position to further his campaign, a choice of actions personally determined to maximize his own end results.

On the other hand, John Doyle is leaning towards altruism by embrac­ ing a poster-free campaign, as he does not Want to spend students money or risk breaking the rules to the detriment of his fellow candidates. Could this disinterested concern for others be indicative of Doyles moral superiority over his opponent?

Surely, this kind of radical benevolence is not expected of SSMU candi­ dates. Common sense would consider it perfectly acceptable to pursue per­ sonal projects, as long as the self-motivated actions such projects require to do not negatively affect others. As Charles Fried emphasizes, respect for oth­ ers must supersede personal interests.

However, can the magnitude of a candidate’s wrongdoing be objective­ ly determined by his opponent? Alex Kemeny seems to think so, yet his objectivity is questionable. His hyper awareness of the rules may demonstrate his personal inclinations towards moral behaviour, but his efforts to construct cases against other candidates, like Fotuhi, reveal more paranoia than ethical direction. Still, his vigilance may not be out of place considering the ambiva­ lence of Elections McGill.

In its campaign by-laws, SSMU has imposed limits on candidates’ behaviour, which vary from straightforward prohibitions on unrecycled paper to the more ambiguous requirements in article 15.16 to uphold “the spirit of a fair campaign.” Chief Returning Officer Sarah Huggins has the onerous responsibility of interpreting the actions of candidates, and further, evaluating their intentions. In her attempt “to determine whether or not [she] believe[s] what they have to say,” Huggins has adopted a case-by-case approach, when her position would really benefit from an impartial one, which applies already established principles to ensure all candidates’ actions are measured on the same scale. A criterion for fairness that develops over the course of the election cannot create ethically-minded candidates.

An election should not be dictated by ambition alone, since the ultimate purpose of the process is to ensure a public good. Impartiality on behalf of the authority is essential to quench the candidate’s desire to win at all costs, at the expense of his opponents, his supporters and his morals. Fairness may be an elusive leader, but for the sake of an already apathetic electorate, its role is not to be underrated.

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guage, D’Souza has implied that the AUS executives are incompetent and are in some way trying to dupe Arts students. Let me set the record straight. As anyone I write in response to Kim D’Souza’s front page involved with AUS will know, holding an executive ‘story’ about the AUS on March 5, 2003.1 feel I should position at AUS requires a huge time commitment. A inform students of the blatant lack of objectivity illus­ former exec himself, even Mr. Offenbach could attest trated by the McGill Tribune through their coverage of to this. These execs are not paid; rather they volunteer AUS. D’Souza’s story lopsidedly attempted to explain to often spend over 30 hours a week serving Arts stu­ the debate over the referendum questions that will be dents. There is no personal gain, nor do they volunteer posed to the Arts electorate in the upcoming election to be degraded in the newspapers. So to suggest that period. It failed miserably. these executives have any motivation to try and pull a This story, like most others that have been written fast one on Arts students is shameful. AUS Council has recently about AUS, disproportionately cites Seth consistently approved the decisions of executives, and Offenbach, an Arts Representative to SSMU who was most recently, they defeated Mr. Offenbachs changes not elected, but rather appointed, to his position. It is and supported the AUS executive by a vast majority. not a coincidence that Offenbach was, in fact, a writer Again, there was no reflection of this majority at the Tribune until this appointment. I find it quite belief in D’Souza’s story. Nowhere. So I’ll do some disturbing that Offenbach’s recent views, which have ‘Tribune-style news reporting myself. Here goes: “Mr. been consistently and overwhelmingly voted down at Offenbach, who is going to run for AUS President, is AUS Council (made up of about 40 Arts students from using his influence with the Tribune to have his minor­ different departments in the Faculty of Arts) are flout­ ity views plastered on its front page. He is further ed in the headlines of the Tribune as if they represent attempting to block changes to the AUS Constitution, the majority opinion. Let me be specific. changes that were overwhelmingly approved by AUS As reported, Offenbach did propose changes to Council. Also, selective, biased information given by amendments in the AUS Constitution, amendments Kim D’Souza in articles about AUS are preventing that students will vote on in AUS elections. He readers from forming educated and accurate views on believed that planned changes to the Constitution important issues.” Students deserve objectivity in news would give AUS “incredible power to tax students with stories. little limit.” Mr. Offenbach’s proposed changes were Ian Matthews discussed, and almost unanimously voted down by U3 Economics AUS Council, who strongly disagreed. Yet this majori­ ty belief was nowhere reflected in the March 5 article.

Ed. Note: When speaking to the Tribune on February 18 Further, D’Souza, in his last two articles about about the AUS constitutional debate, Ian Matthews AUS, has alluded to an even more inaccurate claim. declined to comment on the record.

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Maybe it’s the language barrier, but the fact that this guy didn’t even know what he was protesting FOR, or even what his sign MEANT, scared me. Apparendy the S tu p id H ip p ie s This is an open letter to those noble strikers who student took that line of questioning pretty hard, as 1 risked life and limb Wednesday to bring liberty to the came back a few minutes later and he gave the sign to someone else. sidewalks of Montreal.

I would like to end with three pieces of advice to You are ignorant jackasses.

I caught the student protest at Milton Gates. Not those who protested.

1) Don’t call yourselves strikers. Striking implies a only were people harassed (“Don’t go to class!’ union.

Uhion implies you are able to get something “Support Canada!” “Don’t go on campus”), but the slo­ accomplished besides getting Canadian truck drivers to gans were uninformed and moronic (excuse my Jouai).

I am usually the last person I know to get offended but honk. As influential and powerful Québécoise taxi drivers are at lobbying the international political sys­ the following slogan touched a nerve: tem, there are better ways to spend your valuable “Canada, Irak, Solidarité!”

Now, my French isn’t that great, but I was under resources and time. Like going to class.

2) Don’t be lemmings. Please don’t protest just the impression that translates to “Canada and Iraq, because some knowledgeable fourth-year IDS student Solidarity”. Are the protestors saying they actually sup­ with a Che Guevara t-shirt hands you a “Books for port Iraq? I thought they were just opposed to war!

Bombs” sign.

THINK about WHY you are protesting Last time I checked, Saddam gases women and chil­ dren for fun, invades neighbouring countries (Iran and besides “war is bad”, “the US is a neo-colonial power”, Kuwait) to distract his own people from their domestic “Bush wants oil”, or whatever facts were pummeled woes (like starvation), and tortures anyone in his party into your brain in last week’s GRASS meeting.

3) Get informed. Smoke that bud, put down that who disagrees with him. But let’s not start using facts; Chomsky, and get a fucking clue. Read newspapers. that just takes the fun away from good old-fashioned Daily. Learn what the signs you carry actually mean. anti-war protesting!

4) Don’t you dare tell McGill students not to go to Anyway, fed-up with walking past this “activism” to get to my classes, I decided to head straight to the class, or tell professors to cancel class for a SSMUsource of my problem: the slogan-bearer. When I tried sponsored protest. The only people you are hurting are to pry answers out of the student holding the poster yourselves, and the rest of the student body.

To the rest of the student body, I have this mes­ mentioned above, he had no idea what solidarity sage: stand up and be counted, for your sake. meant. I asked him if he thought Canada should sup­ Zach Finkelstein port Iraq’s policies, and he replied with a silent shrug.

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Ways McGill’s war protest movement (WPM) behaves like Saddam Hussein: Saddam thinks it is okay that Iraq be ruled by a very small group, Mcgill’s WPM thinks it is okay that a meeting where only 200 people make quo­ rum has the right to set ‘student political policy’ for a school with tens of thousands o f people.

Saddam uses coercion designed to inflict maximum duress to quell political dissent (in Saddam’s case torture and execution), McGill’s WPM uses coercion designed to inflict maximum duress to quell political dissent (a picket line in front of our university). Saddam proposes to tell the world that he accurately represents the views of all of his people (he got 99.9 per cent approval in his most recent sham election), Mcgill’s WPM proposes to tell the world that it accurately represents the view of an “overwhelming majority” of McGill students (I think it does not).

I applaud McGill’s WPM for being involved in civil society; democracy wouldn’t work without it. I think their methods, however, are reprehensible. On March 5, I will exercise my democratic rights to freedom of opinion and of movement to cross what I believe is an illegitimate and outrageous picket line.

Ken Stretch U I Political Science

Upon encountering the finals schedule posted in Leacock, I was distraught to discover that, although there are no exams scheduled on Easter (it is a nation­ al holiday), exams have been scheduled on Passover.

Considering McGill’s diverse stu­ dent body encompasses many dif­ ferent religions, more care might have been taken when scheduling exams.

While it is disturbing that such an important religious holi­ day affecting many students was overlooked, the issue has been brought to the attention of the administration and alternate test­ ing is available. However, it is the students’ responsibility to check schedules and, if an exam falls on any of the holy days of Passover, it is well within their rights to sub­ mit an application for reschedul­ ing. The deadline is March 14th, so act quickly or risk taking your exams in the fall. Although the sit­ uation is disheartening and could be construed as offensive (perhaps a demonstration of the desensiti­ zation of society to certain issues relating to ethnicity, race and reli­ gion, while it has become hyper­ sensitive to others) there is recourse! Exams can be taken May 1st and 2nd if appropriate docu­ mentation is submitted by the deadline. Think of it this way, we get a few extra days to study!

Rachel Davidson U0 Arts

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The body co u n t w as pretty high

Yep, I was down in the shit, day 164 of a tour of duty as a mem­ ber of the Princess Vikander Pacifist Regiment and Charlie was not let­ ting up. First it started snowing. It snowed hard for hours with no end in sight. Mother Nature can be a cruel mistress. Butch “Petal Power” Ramsey to my right had gone loco from all that fucking snow. He started muttering technical data on the guidance system of Tomahawk cruise missiles, and if Lieutenant Brown hadn’t intervened with a “No blood for oil” lullaby then Petal Power may well have screwed the pooch. It is a sad sight seeing a grown man lose it, but then, protesting is not for the weak.

In the morning there were a few sporadic skirmishes. Some studes (I know that it is not PC, but that’s how we call them down here) tried to cross the picket perimeter and Free Love Evans opened up with a nasty round of “Georgie Bush lover, go home Georgie Bush lover.” The scatologi­ cal remarks mortally wounded the kids and when I went over to check the body count I realized that...

Oh, Jesus, they were only U0 Art History students. I mean, they never hurt anyone! They just want­ ed to come to school like anyone

else and learn about Picasso’s Guernica. I’m sorry! I’m sorry, but even pacifists cry...

So, the next thing I knew, the Lieutenant was calling me up on the CB, and apparently we were expecting a heavy stude push through the picket perimeter.

“Assholes and elbows let’s move,” I cried as I pulled the grunts of Flower Company back and called in for VW bus close air support.

We waited in anxious silence for the faint rumbling that is the call­ ing card of VW air superiority.

Then, at the next intersection they appeared. It is quite a sight to see a squadron of minivans laying down some serious honking fire on a group of U2 Biology studes.

But that didn’t stop those dili­ gent bastards. They just kept on coming. Wave after wave of studes launched themselves at the picket line. After about ten minutes, we ran out of things to scream and had to send a runner for rhetoric ammo. But the studes kept on coming. Why? Why did those Polisci, Philosophy and Anthropology studes come at us like that?

When we thought we were about to be overrun and the studes would reach the lecture hall, the studes stopped. I kept one caustic remark for myself just so that they wouldn’t take me prisoner. But the quiet remained in the Sherbrooke Street no man’s land. I lit up a roach and passed it ‘round the company.

Then, I started thinking to myself about the SSMU back home. I thought about SSMU pass­ ing an anti-war resolution concern­ ing a conflict upon which it has no

legal jurisdiction. To do this, SSMU broke it’s own constitution, which states that it cannot pass res­ olutions on divisive issue? It desper­ ately passed the motion with just over 200 students, when in fact the McGill student body is around 20,000 students. How could SSMU even attempt to voice the opinions of 20,000 students?

I thought about the monetary costs of the protest and how SSMU was spending most of its budget on accreditation, cutting student fund­ ing and then asking for an addi­ tional $ 11 per year in fees. Who profited from the protesting? It clearly wasn’t the student body, nor the studes individually. It was the socialist-SSMU-industrial complex of QPIRG, MSA et al. I thought about all of this as Flower Company moved out, and burned down the Leacock building in order to save it. “... There’s something hap­ pening here. What it is ain’t exactly clear...”

Changing gears: In other Canadian news, the Canadian Studies Arts Undergraduate Society (CSAUS) is holding it’s third annual Film Festival from Wednesday March 12 to Friday March 14 in Room G10 of the Architecture Building (McDonald Harrington). Internationally rec­ ognized producer Robert Lantos will be present to give a talk. The screenings start at 6 pm with stu­ dent films on March 12, “Men With Brooms” on the 13 th and “Un crabe dans la tête” on the 14th.

Collective information, individual intellect and true knowledge

On an investigation of my the­ saurus, I discovered that “knowl­ edge” functions as a synonym for “information”. Hastily, I completed my assigned essay, disregarding the observation. However, the uncer­ tainty lingered on my mind: can knowledge wholly be defined as information?

To begin with, the word “knowledge” implies the intellect of a single person. Knowledge is not a communal attribute; rather, it is gathered in the private mind of an individual. Only an individual mind can absorb, understand, and construct knowledge. Moreover, Webster’s National Dictionary defines knowledge as a “clear per­ ception of a truth or fact.”

Amusingly, the thesaurus lists “opinion”, “view”, and “judgement” as synonyms to “perception”.

Consequently, knowledge necessi­ tates an opinion. However, if knowledge is derived from a private opinion, how can it be identified as

the truth?

Here we confront a critical inaccuracy. The definition pre­ sumes that truth is a universal mat­ ter of fact. However, this is not the case. Since knowledge requires per­ sonal judgment, it cannot be collec­ tively true. Each person has separate thoughts and feelings that he draws from his unique experiences; there­ fore, each individuals interpreta­ tion of information is distinctive.

Thus, the only means to identify something as the truth is to accept the widely held view on a matter.

Knowledge can therefore represent what the majority accepts as being factual.

History is plagued with illus­ trations of deluded masses deter­ mining universal truths. Once upon a time, the earth was believed to be flat, while it remained stationary as the centre of the universe.

Moreover, hoping to alleviate the world’s dairy malnourishment, many assumed that the moon was made of cheese. These were facts that “knowledgeable” people per­ ceived as being true. But Magellan circled the globe, while Copernicus and Galileo theorized on the sun’s centre of gravity. To add to our dis­ may, Neil Armstrong made one small step onto solid rock. These are unambiguous instances signifying

the dangers in trusting the majori­ ty-held view of “truth” and “knowl­ edge”.

Thus, it is our objective as stu­ dents to be exposed to and under­ stand all perspectives of a debate, leaving us to form our own conclu­ sions. Consequently, it is the stu­ dent government’s responsibility, as the representative of student inter­ ests, to promote our ideals, namely, freedom of thought. It must serve as an open forum, sponsoring an unconstrained exchange of ideas between opposing views.

On February 20, SSMU resolved to suppress education and eliminate open dialogue in an aca­ demic setting. It disregarded our foremost principle: freedom of thought.

It is not in SSMU’s authority, simply as a student government, to falsely communicate partial opin­ ions as collective truths. On the contrary, expressing opinion is the foundation of a student’s academic entitlement; thus, it is SSMU’s obli­ gation to defend an individual’s right to self-expression. It does not decide on “right” or “wrong”; rather, it serves as a medium to present both sides of an argument.

In instances where emotions are profoundly intertwined with prin­ ciples, it is the student government’s

task to mediate as an unbiased body to defend students’ privileges to independent thought.

Illogically, the motion passed

by SSMU resolved to block us from entering our own institution’s learn­ ing facilities. The SSMU indis­ putably trampled on our student liberties with its overzealous appli­ cation of authority. A student gov­ ernment is expected to defend the principles of student prerogatives— to enhance our ability to acquire information. Contractually, the stu­ dent government cannot infringe on my basic student right to con­ clude my own judgement. On the contrary, its duty is to employ its resources to enhance our capacity to learn.

McGill’s outreach programs are inadequate. It is SSMU’s responsi­ bility to extend unique opportuni­ ties to students looking to obtain hands-on experience outside of the classroom. Hardly any internship, volunteering, or exchange opportu­ nities are offered to our student body, and yet, those programs pres­ ent a student with intrinsic expo­ sure to a specific field of interest.

We have a severe shortage in stu­ dent housing, and many of our facilities are antiquated and inca­ pable of accommodating such large class-sizes. Rather than address

these issues and improve student facilities for learning, the SSMU has pushed its responsibilities aside to launch a prejudiced crusade and impose particular views on the entirety of our population.

The last thing I think students at McGill want is to have a collec­ tive meaning stamped on their fore­ heads. We are independent thinkers, discovering our individual viewpoints. Knowledge is a deriva­ tive— rather than a synonym—of information. In order to ascertain knowledge? a person must absorb information, which is a communal attribute, and construct his person­ al opinion.

Thus, SSMU must encourage our independence of thought by expanding our outlets to informa­ tion. Nonetheless, I stand by my right as a student to formulate my own knowledge based on impartial information. It is possible that the SSMU has an excessive degree of authority and wealth, or that it is utterly misguided. Either way, our money is lost on an ineffectual organization confused by its own bumbling disorientation. But we lost more than our parents’ hardearned dinero—we missed the opportunity to acquire knowledge from an educational discussion of ideas.

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ELISHA SIEGEL deconstructs a word with attitude he limits of acceptable behav­ ger’ was created by whites with the intention iour have eased. Clothing has of being derogatory towards blacks. At its become more creative and root, it is always going to be a put-down. expressive, taboos over sex and When a white person says ‘nigger’, it stings.”

The term ‘nigger’ is a descendent of the sexuality are failing to with­ Latin for black. According to stand the tides of time and, in word intellectual discourse, no voices are silent. It scholars, the term has not always carried the is fair to say that North American society is pejorative associations it holds today. Rather, becoming increasingly accepting of people the corruption of ‘nigger’ did not emerge until the era of the American slave-trade. and open to change. “‘Nigger’s use is very closely tied to slav­ But it does not take a Mensa member­ ship to recognize that there are limits to sen­ ery and its legacy,” says McGill American sible behaviour. Nap-time with Michael History Professor Leonard Moore. “It has Jackson, peeing on an electric fence and always been used as a way of stigmatizing Gert’s on a Thursday night come to mind. African-Americans. It is a part of the larger There is no clearer example of this than the problems of racism in the US.” “Words get associated with the attitudes issues associated with race relations and racial sensitivity. Common sense tells us that of those who use them,” adds Charles it is best not to imitate foreign accents or Boberg, a McGill professor of linguistics, belittle non-Western behaviour in situations sociolinguistics and dialectology. “‘Nigger’ came out of a negative usage, so it is now where they would be perceived as insults.

Moreover, there is a category of taboo associated with racism.”

For the white community, ‘nigger’ has behaviour that has been deemed unaccept­ able under all circumstances. Expressions of become the most uncomfortable of racial racial superiority and stereotyping of ethnic taboos. Everyone knows how to say the word groups often elicit strong opposition in this but they tend to strategically avoid it in age of political correctness. And then there is potentially volatile situations. Take a look in the golden rule of racial sensitivity: if you are a bar or club when a black and a white per­ not black, no matter how ‘down you are son are listening to hip ahop together. They with the culture, you absolutely cannot say both know all the words but when the artist drops an N-bomb, you can be sure the white nigger’, under circumstance.

“If you are white, I don’t think it is ever kid, no matter how low his pants or how tan acceptable to say nigger’,” says Kataisee his skin, will undoubtedly mumble his way Richardson, U2 International Development around ‘nigger’.

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“African-Americans use ‘nigga’ as an insider term,” Moore explains. “It takes the power of the pejorative away. This is not unusual for [minority] groups. A lot of Native Americans now refer to themselves as ‘Indians’ and Hispanics refer to themselves as ‘Latino’. Black use of ‘nigger’ is criticized as giving in to racial oppression and a nega­ tive inward approach. What matters more are the intentions and the context.”

By making ‘nigger’ a word only accept­ able for black usage, African-Americans are showing pride and a rejection of racism.

Tupac Shakur used to say that ‘nigga was an acronym standing for “Never Ignorant, Gets Goals Accomplished”.

“When you want to advocate change, you look for symbols,” adds Boberg. “‘Nigger’ is so loaded that it’s a perfect sym­ bol of blacks rejecting a derogatory image.

Pejorative terms are often reappropriated by subcultures as a sign of solidarity, a rejection of rejection.”

So where does the future of the con­ tentious word lie? It is tattooed on the col­ lective North American consciousness and is not going anywhere in the near future. At the same time, awareness of the power of language has grown immensely.

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“Systemic barriers exist that prevent blacks from being on the same level as whites,” concedes Richardson. “The only way the sting attached to ‘nigger’ goes away is when blacks are on equal footing with whites.”

“Political correctness gets made fun of, but people use them with good intentions.

They are a symbol of desire to move towards a more just system,” Boberg adds. “People can be hyper-sensitive about these words.

Maybe the connotations of ‘nigger’ will change over time, but these words have wellknown connotations and one knows the consequences of using them.”

It is hard to find another word that car­ ries with it the controversy and emotional baggage. Few terms have ever had the farreaching historical legacy attached to them as the N-word.

Like the contents of a cocktail drink, the word is irreversibly blended into the English vernacular. While context and usage of the word can change, one can never ignore the painful heritage that is indelibly imprinted at its core.

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t was a beautiful day in Upper Rez. A Saturday afternoon, and the second round of essays and multiple midterms were around the corner. The temper­ ature was abnormally freezing and everyone in Molson Hall had decided to stay in. There were movies being watched, laundry being done, a bit of studying here and there and—as always—smok­ ing.

The nauseous smell of smoke did not for a moment escape the walls of Molson Hall. As one ciga­ rette was put out in the carpet, a dozen more were lit. Everyone was thankful, once more, that McGill’s residences, unlike most others I know in Canada, allow smoking.

And, again, those of us who can’t

EVAN PLACEY discusses the smoking debate stand smoke remembered the one pitfall of rez life at McGill.

Grown-up rules The residence policy states that, in the confinement of their room, students can smoke if they wish to do so. Sounds fair enough, but everyone knows that smoke has a tendency to seep under doors.

“I don’t care if people smoke in their own rooms,” says Lindsay Rudyk of Royal Victoria College residence. “I care when it seeps into my room, as a non-smoker.”

Although the policy seems to be looking out for the rights of stu­ dent smokers, it does not seem to take into account the rights of the students who don’t smoke while in the privacy of their own rooms.

Contrary to Rudyk, Lauren Favret, her neighbour, thinks the policy “is just one of the most amazing things about this school.

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The policy does state that there is to be no smoking in the halls, but Strolling and smoking not much is done to enforce this Although smoke can easily part of the policy. Adie Smith of escape someone’s room even if their Molson Hall says that, due to comdoor is closed, there seems to be an See CIGARETTE, page 14

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i Denis G agn on Imagination reigns supreme in Gagnon’s new Spring collection, as ruffled silk crêpe is intermingled with pretty florals, and theatrical slashes are tossed in with flam­ boyant patchwork skirts. A designer known for blurring the lines between fem­ ininity and masculinity—he believes they constrain creativity—his men’s collection features hard-to-find items such as men’s garter belts as well as leather jackets with slits every which way. The line is frenzied and often contradicts itself. Far from con­ ventional, Gagnon seems defiant in the face of the fashion status quo. “When I see men in suits and ties, I think, ‘What club are they a part of? Can’t we get out of this?’

We’ve still got a long way to go,” he has said. With a flare for over-the-top drama, he just may be the one to take us there.

M orales Renata Morales has been dubbed the hottest new designer in Montreal, and is arguably among the most intrepid. Her designs are a blend of Asian kimono princess and military combat. Morales is not afraid to experiment with mixing styles that many are too conservative to go near. Women who wear her clothes usually “want an exclusive piece” and are not fearful of wearing something bold, she notes. Morales says her design concepts come from modern paintings and artwork in general, and she uses her models just as a painter might use a canvas.

Every piece is distinctive, and it’s clear that much thought and effort went into the creation of each outfit. The colours this season are muted yellows, purples and beiges, occasionally con­ trasted with gold or black. But what she leaves out in colour is unquestionably made up for in fabrics and design. The sharp, vibrant shapes and textures are enticing and leave one pining for more. This vampy, glamorous line has only just begun its journey.

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G u id o and M ary “Damn, your ass looks fine! I just want to grab it.” Looking over to the recipient of the comment, the culprit is evident: a Guido and Mary-clad behind. With only two years under its stylish belt, the company has stormed onto the Montreal fashion scene with its dis­ tinctive denims. Many students have found themselves among the stretch denim and unique detailing of Guido and Mary in their perennial search for that perfect pair of jeans. Designers Winnie Wong and Dyaniv Moyal started the line out of their apartment as a fun, casual project focused on “urban, basic, wearable pieces for the sexy tomboy”. With inspiration being cited as everything from interior design to the economy, they believe their clothing is embodied in “confident girls who know what they want”. Signature side-zippers, asymmetrical pockets, unexpected stitching and dirty washes round out the line.

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

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

• Students must submit 2 typed copies of their essays.

• Essays can be based on primary or secondary materials.

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

• Essays must be accompanied by full contact information.

K itch en O ra n g e Kitchen Orange is the story of the little coats that could. Five years ago, the designers began making jackets in a basement and the operation has since evolved into a full-fledged line, characterized by its bold edginess and trademark ‘tech’ fabrics. Tops from the winter collection seem to have enjoyed serious engineering processes, as sharp, jagged lines and details work together to create pieces of wearable art. “Our style is based on the making of streetwear,” says designer Gill Zagury. Sounds absurd, [but] that’s what we do.” The line screams urban, featuring dar­ ing curve-hugging cuts, wrap-around waistbands and bell-bottom jeans.

Although not for the girlie-girl, its understated funk and creativity in con­ struction makes this line attention-worthy.

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Space F B If you are a McGill student, you either own or have seen some sort of article from this fashion line around campus. Many have dubbed it the McGill school uniform, but for those unfamiliar, this line exudes simplicity and sportyness. Their Spring 2003 col­ lection is unique, however, in that colour has become the major focus. Entering their store this season can be likened to walking into a Fruitloops commercial. Bright cit­ rus tops and bottoms are the focus of the season. Denim has become a major centre point, and every style is accounted for, ranging from the ultra-baggy/hip hop to tight/booty-lickin’ jeans that are aged and colour-washed. As well, the classic track suits that made this company famous are looking as wonderful as ever. Designer Francois Beauregard has made it his mission to find the most daring colour-combos possible and it seems customers are eating it up; who would have thought, turquoise with army green? The most popular items this season are the cropped cotton top, rem­ iniscent of the 80s ‘footloose’ style, and the classic velour track suits.

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Fashionistas, take note: Pjhjassion 2003, McGills 12th annual AIDS benefit fashion show, will be taking place March 20 at Aria. The event, spon­ sored by Telus this year, will feature clothing from the likes of Denis Gagnon, Rudsak, Yso, Miss Sixty, Castle Flo, Gsus, Wants til and Nevik, among a host of other local and student designers.

Yes, boys and girls, this show just may be even more exciting than spending the evening in front of the TV analyzing the outfits of the Sex and the City ensemble. So put down those Vogues and come party for a good cause.

“We are revamping things this year by making it a new concept—a show within a giant, crazy party,” says Amina Belouizdad, one of the directors. “We will have breakdancers, beat-boxers, a hip-hop dance troupe and live DJs. It’s gonna be crazy!”

Proceeds will go the the MAC AIDS fund.

Daring necklines and tiber-revealing silks reveal that this line is not for the shy and conservative.

Head designer Payant Tavan states, “My clothing is for women who are very comfortable with their bodies, the girl who wants to tantalize.” The domi­ nant theme for this season is urban chic and the juxtaposition of the good-girl/bad-girl look. Tavan says he loves silks and satins, and it certainly shows in the new spring line, as well the heavy colour usage of black, white, pink and coral. If there is one design that characterizes Tavan and Mitto, it would have to be the v-necks that plunge so deep they often reveal the naval. Although the draping, flow­ ing fabrics add an angelic quality to the clothes, there is a hint of 50s suburbia at the same time. The best example would be the dusty pink trench coat with bold vertical lines and adorable white trim. It is reminiscent of Jackie O and her Chanel suits, but adds a strong punch of city girl. On the whole, this line just screams baby doll meets silkin’ gypsy, and represents some of the most interesting designs coming out of Montreal this season.

M ackage Primarily an outerwear line, Mackage has certainly made its stamp on the fine art of coat-making. For the Spring/Summer season, they have taken the traditional trench coat and added leather detailing, to make each unique. As head designer Elisa Dahan put it, “classy with an edge.” The colours are simple, mostly black, white, pink and beige; the fabrics consist mainly of leather, canvas and chiffon. One of their most inter­ esting pieces this season is a pseudo-gypsy skirt with a large leather waistband, exem­ plifying Mackage’s ability to mix simplicity with daring femininity. In general, Mackage focuses its clothing toward men and women who are young, hip and design-wise, the “children of Hillary Radley.” This line is a mélange of classic Italian sophistication and the desire to be distinctive in an urban cosmopolitan world. For the winter season, this line should be the first stop for those wanting a gorgeous coat decked with fur and leather detailing. But if you are an animal lover, you might want to steer clear. "

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plaints, her floor fellow spoke to her floormates to put a stop to smoking in the hall, but respect for others wavers with lack of supervi­ sion.

“When no one is around, it’s pretty much fair game,” she says. “I mean, I just had a smoke in the hall.”

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The dirty side Hallway smoking isn’t just bothersome, it also turns the resi­ dences into disgusting, dirty places.

On my floor, when the smokers decide to smoke in the hall, they prefer to leave their ashtrays in their rooms... after all, why use an ash­ tray when there’s the hall carpet?

“It gets dirty,” admits Jennifer Kagan of McConnell Hall. “There are butts everywhere, ash on the floor. It’s all gross.”

Another common complaint is about second-hand smoke.

“It’s a problem if there’s a con­ centration of smokers, because the circulation here isn’t exactly exem­ plary,” offers Jordanna Kapeluto of Molson Hall.

The other major problem, picking fights, arises precisely because the smoke-only-in-your-

room rule isn’t enforced.

“I don’t feel comfortable ask­ ing people to stop smoking around me,” Rudyk admits. “I just start coughing and gagging so they know I don’t like smoke.”

Why? (cough) Why? With all the negative aspects of leniency towards residence smok­ ing, one has to wonder: why is it permitted? Allowing students to smoke in their residence mirrors the relaxed attitude in Montreal towards public smoking “It doesn’t have the same nega­ tive stigma as it has in, let’s say, Los Angeles,” explains Favret. “In the Montreal and French culture, there’s a lot of smoke.”

“It’s very lenient in Quebec,” agrees Kagan. “Look at the age of drinking. It’s very lax here.”

“McGill prides itself on lenien­ cy and toleration,” adds Smith.

“Many people find that aspect of the University appealing when deciding where to go.”

So happy together Despite my reservations regarding residence smoking, I do see some positive aspects to it. It gives people adult responsibility. It promotes bonding between student

smokers. It provides an opportuni­ ty for residents to just chill and talk.

Turning a blind eye thus provides a venue for friendships to be formed.

Yet this venue also creates enemies and spurs fights.

Others believe that allowing smoking indoors can also prevent a lot of unnecessary frostbite.

“It’s unfair to ask someone to go outside in sub-zero weather,” claims Favret. “I’d probably quit smoking if I had to go outside.”

In the best of residences, rules would be created to ensure every­ one is happy. The most obvious solution? Group all the smokers together. This seems to have worked on Kagan’s McConnell floor, where there aren’t any smok­ ers. The reason this doesn’t work in every building, however, is mainly that people aren’t honest on the otherwise useless rez application questionnaires.

Many students’ parents are with them as they fill it them out, and they don’t want Mommy and Daddy to know they smoke. My advice: if you want adult privileges, at least have the adult guts to admit to your parents that you smoke.

And don’t be waving your butt in my face.

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The McGill Tribune, Tuesday, March 11, 2003 One Candle Power is a hard-work­ ing Montreal institution with a loyal following at home and abroad. They play an accessible mix of classic indie rock with bits of hardcore and left:field pop. Their particular area of expertise lies in doing long, flawless vocal har­ monies during raucous rock-out parts.

They have several self-distributed recordings that can be picked up at one of their live shows

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Checkout the One CandlePower web­ siteatwww.onecandlepower.com. very week, the college music charts compile record spins from campus and community radio stations across Canada and the US, Fed by student DJs, the average number of major label records to chart any given week is no more than five in the top 50. Enter the world beyond the one-concert-a-year crowd to find music fanatics and scenesters. Everyone plays in a band, has a zinc, hosts a radio show or writes for an inde­ pendent paper.

From the inside, one can easily forget about record sales and concert revenues brought forth by major artists and begin seeing the music industry as a network of bands and friends who love playing live, putting on shows, listening to records and pressing records. The result is a group of musicians playing unbounded, in any genre and format desired, and usually with a large following and gen­ eral success.

Many great Montreal/McGill acts are currently following this exact path. Take Kiss Me Deadly, a group comprised of American and Canadian stu­ dents who, in the last two years, have released a 7” and a full length CD/LP on local label BlueSkiesTurnBlack. They have also toured North America and have been met with much critical acclaim. Despite the fact that they have almost no presence on the McGill campus, Kiss Me Deadly fit perfectly into the labelled college music scene’ as independent and very active artists playing a brand of music they can easily claim as their own.

One Candle Power, The Reasons, Paper Tiger and Arcade Five are four other McGill groups that are currently active, recording and playing shows.

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The Band Andre Guerette, Computer Science M.Sc, bass guitar; Moses Mathur, Computer Science M.Sc, guitar and vocals; Julien Landry, International Development Studies and Political Science, drums; Chrissy Musacchio, left McGill to go to Concordia, guitar and vocals.

The Sound The feeling of clean socks, the taste of freshly-squeezed orange juice, two guitars, drums, a bass and vocals

TACO BELL. That is the main reason why we get out of Quebec. 1 Also, people take you way more seriously when you are an out-of-1 town band. On the road, we are very well-behaved. We take turns 1 listening to each other’s CDs, come up with elaborate border sto-| ries so that we don’t get arrested, read books, take naps, make out! with random strangers, make each other peanut butter sandwich-1 es...

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The Influences Cursive, q and not u, Parka 3, Rainer Maria, Refused, Weakerthans, Moneen, The Frenetics, Built to Spill, Sparta, The Pixies, The Contortions, James Brown, Kiss Me Deadly, The Young Idea, Enkphalin, Sunny Day Real Estate, I Hate Myself, Mike Patton, Choke, Fistful of Nature Death, Voidoids, The Ripcordz

What’s wrong with Montreal’s music scene? Lack of all ages/DIY 1 venues, the division between the French and English scenes and! competition rather than camaraderie amongst local bands. Also,! the CHOM/Chom Esprit and the bands that enter into the com-1 petition thinking that they will make it big without paying any! dues.

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The Plan We still don’t have a bio or a press kit, yet we have independently released two EPs. Our last EP was completely DIY—Iront record­ ing to manufacturing. In terms of efforts to make it big, we have added hot people to the band. Currently, One Candle Power can be said to be perhaps the sexiest band in the city. Approximately 58.9 per cent of our practice time is spent looking in the mirror and complimenting/criticizing the way that we look. We take our

Best advice ever was to get stage tuners.

The Future One Candle Power will be spending the next several months play­ ing out-of-town shows and touring eastern Canada, Ontario, the east coast and midwest USA. Hopefully, we’ll get picked up by a good label, but if not... meh.

The Reasons take their time with riffs just short of drone-rock, but played in forms far beyond pop. Songs drift from jams to concise blocks of lush, hollow guitar, structured percus­ sion and the fresh sound of clarinet. When not writing papers, they have been working on a recording that will be available some time soon.

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I can honestly say we have a pretty unique sound. I guess it s kind of a cross between post-rock and ; free-jazz. Godspeed meets Ornette Coleman?

Jordan and Kyle are both really into free-jazz: John Coltrane, Pharoh Sanders, David S. Ware, etc.

Personally, my [Julian] favourite bands are Radiohead, Gomez, Belle & Sebastian and Sigur Ros. I like a lot of miscellaneous classical and jazz stuff, too. The Kronos Quartet’s is a great album. My favourite clarinet piece (to play) is Prokofiev’s

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Recording was a long, drawn-out, frustrating, exhausting experience... and were still not finished.

Technical problems abounded and we had to make do with what was available and working. It was definitely a learning experience. On the plus-side, 1 was playing into a very good quality mic, which was really nice because usually clarinet sounds thin and tiny when recorded.

The Scene It’s a pity the Saturday Matinees ended, but, other than that, I have no complaints about the Montreal music scene. It’s far better than Ottawa’s. There seems to be a lot of support for small groups. People are actually willing to go out and see shows, even if they don’t know the band. Also, the sheer variety of music here is great.

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Win Butler, Religious Studies, vocals, guitar, bass. Other members are Dane Mills, Regine Chassagne, Tim Kingsbury and Brendan Fraiser.

The tones woke the men of station 51 and sent them into the dark at 2 am. When they pulled up to Adam’s Arcade, the biggest video arcade in Southern California, it was fully involved and little could be done. Thankfully, it had happened in the middle of the night.

If this had happened at 4 pm., the place would have been packed with teen and pre-teen children playing video games. It took them hours to knock back the flames.

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The Influences Debussy, Smokey Robinson, New Order, Neil Young, The Pixies

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1 don’t think we really consider ourselves an indie band, except for the fact that we are independent and do everything ourselves. 1 see us more in the pop music tradition. Oftentimes, there is no line between indie rock and amateur rock, but I guess that’s true about popular music too.

Saturday, March 29, at Casa De Popolo, we will release our sevensong recording from our summer in Mt. Desert Island, Maine, into the media spotlight, lap-dancing by Golden Hoops, plus dance party by The Parka 3.

Paper Tiger are a three-piece married in a tradition of bed­ room pop and indie rock. They float quiet and moody micro­ keyboard melodies over predictably rhythmic guitars and a full stepping bass. They have a recording distributed through MeNoKnow records, a CD-R label. www.geocities.com/menoknowrecords.

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The Band Greg, Cultural Studies, bass, guitar, drum machine; Eleni, History, keyboard, melodica, voice; Brian, works full-time, guitar, bass, voice.

The Sound Braid, Big Game Hunting, Tone Loc, Sixpence None the Richer The Influences We’re basically into our friends’ bands (lots of inbreed­ ing going on here; The Diskettes, Parka 3, Big Game Hunting), and then some other pop or goth favourites: Cub, Joy Division, All Girl Summer Fun Band, bauHAUS, Pavement.

The Plan I want people to hear our music for as close to free as possible and in an environment that makes them and us comfortable, which pretty much means small, cheap shows. Playing as many shows as we can with other fun bands is pretty much my idea of making it right now. We just want to make new friends in dif­ ferent places, who can stroke our egos about the music we play and also build a strong foundation of friends who can give us constructive criticism, not just blind

worship. Putting out a 7” would be cool too, but just because we like records. I definitely care about our music, but I want to keep it where it can stay at least sort of meaningful and not become too much of a product.

The Lyrics Since I [Eleni] write a big chunk of the lyrics— Brian being the other member who writes—a lot of the songs can be somewhat inspired by things I learn in school, but I also learn things from the internet and other sources of reliable media. School takes up a lot of my thinking time during the semester and so I’ll write a song about nuclear weapons; but most of the Paper Tiger songs were written in the summer and so those ones are on a more personal basis (i.e. lying to friends, about vacations, having fun, not doing lots of studying, french fries and robots).

The future We’re re-recording some of our songs with a friend on better equipment and playing with the Burdocks from Halifax on March 23 (location TBA). In early May, we’ll be touring the east coast of the US on a Greyhound bus.

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B a ll-m a u le rs a n d tro u b le d te e n s u n d e r s p o tlig h t Children with Bills This play begins with the attempt to encapsulate a stereotypical male friendship held together by magazines of naked women, unsanitary living habits, drugs, alcohol and the conquest of women. The set is adorned with posters of the Doors, Led Zeppelin, Bob Marley, South Park and a signature hand-drawn marijuana leaf.

Verge and his roommate Brad are introduced in a comical dialogue about university life and living away from home. Soon after, things begin to change in their lives, especially when Brad’s new girlfriend, Tricia, enters the scene. Tensions grow within their friendship. Verge becomes aware that he is failing his classes, does not have anyone to talk to except for his ex-girl­ friend Pia and has conversations with his hands on a regular basis.

A crisis occurs in Verges life, where he feels utterly alone and no one wants to listen to his problems. He has fits of anger that result in excessive cursing and aggressive acts. Verge is a character who is lost in this world and cannot find his place, but most of all he feels let down by Brad.

Verge flirts with the idea of the ultimate escape from life, because he hungers for some sort of control over his destiny. Pressure from every angle seems to be the main cause of his psy­

chotic behaviour. Verge takes heed of Pia’s words, that “everything in life is temporary.”

Verge’s psychological instability sparks discussion about mental health issues. Pia and Tricia both urge him to seek help from a professional. Pia reveals her own mental health condi­ tion, and informs Verge about the options available for him to start feeling better.

The actors did a fair job of express­ ing the emotions of the play, written by Mike Poblete and directed by Julia Kastner, but there were times when the message could have been relayed just as clearly without the excessive amount of cursing. It isn’t the best sign when one cannot even begin to keep count of the swear words. Also, there was an over­ load of different and troubling issues that could have been narrowed down significandy. With more focus on the central issues, the performance could have been more effective.

Nevertheless, the main issues were eventually brought to light. conveys the message that there is never one way out of a situa­ tion, regardless of how it may seem. We see that, when feeling troubled or depressed, it is easy to become blinded from reality, but also that there are many options available for constructive change.

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The Devil’s Dictionary, a satirical take on ol’ Webster, defines love as, “temporary insanity, curable by marriage”, a truth certainly borne out by Lara Chatterjee’s impressive romantic comedy, Com mitting Val. The play opens this year’s McGill Drama Festival and presents the tumultuous romance of Brett Spencer (Duncan Cameron) and Valerie Montgomerie (Jessica Besser-Rosengerg) from their university days up until their wedding.

At the start of the play, Brett sits on the edge of his bed and tells us how Val, the most popular girl in grade 12, once told him that he was unmarriageable. This remark eats away at him like a cancer until he meets Val again at university and has the chance to prove other­ wise. The only problem is that Val is something of a con­ trol-freak, a girl who planned her life at the age of six and can barely tolerate Brett’s zany unpredictable ways.

Throughout, the play, the audience teeters on the edge of their seats wondering, ‘will they, won’t they’, as they watch the couple’s ups and downs—such as when Val scolds Brett remorselessly for a whole four minutes of

Census Maulers What would you do if you were a telemarketer trying to sell melon-bailers or 7,000 Bulova watches and had no buyers? This is a play about what hap­ pens when a small group of wacky telemarketers— Ernst, Max and Todd—have an encounter with a census-taker, Emily, and knock her unconscious with a sock full of pennies.

Ernst Smith is a salesman who possesses way too many US government-ordered, bullet-proof Bulova watches, unfit for the Navy Seals, that no one is interested in purchasing. Max Brigade is trying to sell a unique contraption that promises to ball mel­ ons without the hassle, called “the Mauler.”

Todd Cruise is Max’s assistant and the culprit of the penny-sock blow to the head. He is hilarious in his mannerisms and especially his open-eyed suspi­ cious glare. He is a sketchy character, but definitely

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steals the show. Oddly enough, he probably has the least number of lines.

The actors are very invigorating—at one point, Max steps up in front of the audience and yells out his lines directly to select audience members, giving them a little shock.

The script, written by Eytan Bayme, is very original, and provides lots of laughter for the entire audience. The plot itself is so bizarre it oozes funny, and the staging of the play was excellent as well. One scene that is particularly funny is the one in which Todd tries to convince Emily to purchase the melon ball-mauler. Frightened, she pleads for him not to harm her, and struggles to escape.

Overall, proves successful as a comedic work. It is short and sweet—a delight that should not be missed.

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lateness, or schedules a mock break-up as a way of test­ ing his commitment.

As the quick-tongued Val, Besser-Rosenger struck the right comedic note, neither caricaturing nor exag­ gerating her sternness, while Duncan was equally con­ vincing as the absent-minded but lovable groom.

However, as we are already somewhat familiar with these types— the boorish boyfriend, the neurotic woman— and the boy-meets-girl theme, what really gave the play its freshness was its witty script and original stage direc­ tion.

As Director Evan Placey said, “There was not much stage direction given in the script, which gave me a chance to experiment and try things out.” He intro­ duced two cupids (Sarah Ucar and Aighleen O’Keefe) into the play who sing oldie love songs between scenes, move the stage props around and generally “make things happen” between Val and Brett.

Appropriately, it is the two cupids who close the play singing "Why Do Fools Fall in Love ” and bringing a ‘Just Married’ sign into view as Brett, finally alone with Vais diary, ponders her ominous last diary entry.

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Alysse Rich’s was the second play of the evening. This absurdist play presents the story of four students at a high school, which at first sight seems ordi­ nary enough, but later turns out to be something right out of

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On the first day of school, we hear the principal’s voice over the corridor’s loudspeakers, remarking with a typical administrative wit, “As you may have noticed, the school has installed new windows for you to jump out of and new lock­ ers for you to lock the younger students up in... Remember, these are the best years of your life.” However, the school quickly becomes more sinister. The school’s staff rifle through the students’ lockers, issue them prison outfits as uniforms and refer to them by numbers instead of names.

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All the students try to conform to the new rules, except for girl number 355753400 (Julia Talajic), who stands up to the administration and is consequently mocked by her peers.

They repeatedly call her “stupid, repulsive and ugly” and laugh at her clothes, saying things like, “Did you notice that outfit?” failing to realize that they are all wearing the same prison stripes.

The students’ use of high-school slang and attitude toward clothes, work and television add a comical and nos­ talgic element to the play. The cast illustrated these habits well and also mastered what must have been very difficult lines later in the play, when their speech becomes garbled by the all the formulae with which they have been indoctrinat­ ed.

Director Leora Morris said that in the play she used

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At this point, ends rather abruptly, with the suicide of one of the characters, and the play seemed to lack a satisfactory conclusion. Nevertheless, its dark gallows humour succeeds on the whole, contrasting interestingly with the light-hearted romantic comedy of that the combination of both plays made for an auspicious opening night for the McGill Drama Festival.

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P rofessors in p la tfo rm s m a k e fo r s e n s ib le s e n ility Platform 1 Train station infatuations begin when two twenty-some­ things on separate backpacking trips across Europe bump into each other’s attempts at being original’. Hyper-aware of their chemistry, they try in vain to overcome first-impression jitters by morphing into the more “beautiful and tragic” version of themselves, only to wind up conversing in clichés and later apologizing for it. is a splash of charming realism nudging two unlikely idealists into the selfish arms of circumstance once they have been abandoned in a tiny English town by a train that left from the wrong platform. James (Sanford Riley), a seemingly vapid American actor, falls for the alluring but stinging Anemone (Lara Chatterjee), who feels imprisoned by the “anomaly” of her name and projects her frustrations through random rants on a human nature doomed to technological iner­ tia.

Image-consciousness seeps into the initial dialogue, which flows smoothly and climactically as the characters play an awk­ ward version of musical chairs in the platform waiting area. The

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“I must expectorate,” insisted as his student hesitantly walked into his office to inquire about the next assignment. Instead, the student is treated to a disjointed rendition of her teacher’s life, complete with irrelevant memories and aimless meanderings.

As the aging, senile professor, Sam Everitt revealed an impressive aptitude for memorizing non-sequitur lines, which he delivered in his thesis recitation on the horrors of and velcro, and the alarming lack of young persons getting “hitched”. His increasing dementia has him not only speaking in calembours, but wittily toying with the timeliness of expressions by reversing their order, for example: “my life started the day I was born.” He also fondly remembered his child­ hood puppies, but can’t recall whether he had “one male and one female” or “one female and one male”.

The quirky nature of the professor was very welldepicted, though it was hard to establish whether it was an act or an innate quality of Everitt’s, whose solid per­ formance was hindered only by the occasional loss of his limp, perhaps also a result of his character’s failing mem-

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normalcy of the conversation has the dual effect of making the situation extremely believable and the depiction impossible to disguise, warranting writer Elise Newman sincere recognition, while leaving the actors without eccentric guises behind which to hide .

The challenge to be as genuine as the script prescribed was considerable and, despite noble efforts, there were unavoidable relapses into theatrical acting. More human than human dramatizi n g exaggerated the charac­ ters’ emo­ tions and turned dif­ ficult dia­ logue into

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moments of sensitivity made the audience very aware of Chatterjee’s hands, whereas James’ outbursts had Riley clairvoyantly throwing himself into his replies before the audience could understand the cause of his anger. The best exchanges took place with the actors sitting down, as they were not betrayed by the clumsiness of their bodies and could focus on the words, eye contact and facial expressions, which they were able to deliver with natural grace.

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Writer Erik Grayson managed to create such an effective satirical picture that audience members were left without enough recuperation time between laughs to notice the almost nonexistent plot. The humour pro­ gressed swiftly until it hit its last peak. Then, abruptly, the play ended without so much as a closing scene. Still, despite an ambiguous final destination, the trek is what tickled the most, and the overall effect produced inescapable ear-to-ear grins.

The thought process of a playwright It’s a paradox. Creative writing teachers tell you to write what you know, yet the best ideas emerge in the most random circumstances. Like on a train platform. In the middle of nowhere. Surrounded by strangers.

At least this is how Elise Newman, U2 Cultural Studies student, got the inspiration to write currently showing at Players’ Theatre.

“A couple of summers ago, I found myself travelling alone around the UK,” she explains. While there, she and six others got stranded in Stratford-Upon-Avon when their train left from the wrong platform. “It was a bonding experience. One of the girls, Megan, was teach­ ing drama to rich kindergarteners in Manhattan and was always looking for little plays to write for them. We all joked about her writing ‘Stranded in Stratford’. I don’t know that she ever did. So I wrote Newman has always wanted to experiment with the play genre, but, until now, had been “copping-out” with poetry instead, to avoid having to come up with plots.

“I love seeing plays. I love words. I love to write. I love the whole world of the theatre,” exclaims Newman, whose favourite playwrights include Conor McPherson and Jason Sherman. “To write a play means to start the process. I just love being involved in the theatre.”

Newman has also been involved in high-school and community-theatre productions, though she’s not sure her acting experience has necessarily made her a more realistic playwright.

“I haven’t been especially considerate of the actors,” she admits. “I have [Anemone] yell at an imaginary train. I have long speeches in random spots. But I did try to keep the rhythms of speech as natural as I could.”

What acting did influence was her choice of stick­ ing to a familiar age group.

“I’d just think of what I’d say or how my friends would put it,” says Newman about writing dialogue.

Other key components of her writing process included rereading travel journals, getting a new note­ book and drinking copious amounts of English Breakfast tea with milk.

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Words depicted Still, Newman doesn’t feel that the play is officially finished.

“We changed some things during the rehearsal peri­ od,” she explains. “So I think the script is a bit tighter, but it would be nice to have the patience to rehash it all.”

Of course, once all was said and done, Newman, like many playwrights, suffered from a metaphorical post-natal syndrome.

“It is amazing to see your words actualized— absolutely amazing,” she confesses, fascinated by the var­ ious kinds of interpretation that her play has motivated.

“The [characters] don’t seem like they are mine anymore.

Lara [Chatterjee] and Sanford [Riley] have become Anemone and James.”

Future drama Though the experience of playwriting was very refreshing, Newman feels she has learned a lot just watching her creation take on its own life.

“I’ve learned that you never know,” she affirms, hav­ ing sat through auditions and rehearsals. “I’ve learned that there is some amazing talent at McGill. I don’t feel so bad as a failed actor now that I’ve seen how many good actors there are here.”

As for future goals as a dramatist, Newman responds with modesty and charm.

“My next play, eh? Ha. It will be about, you know, life. Art. Philosophy,” she says jokingly. “I wanted to do something a bit more off-the-wall. Huge characters, a melodrama maybe.”

Writing is certainly in Newman’s future, but right now she’s in student mode, “just writing essays.”

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The story is about two lovers who believe that fate is against them. The heroine, Rose Maybud, played by Shannon Cohen, attempts to avoid damnation by consulting her book of dos and don’ts, and her mindless piety iron­ ically throws her from the arms of one man to another. While Rose hopes to save herself by following fate blindly, her true love, Robin Oakapple, played by Jonathan Patterson, prefers to hide from his fears rather than obey them.

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The conclu­ sion of is full of the light­ hearted message that freedom is love, and to do what is morally right can only hap­ pen once one is stripped from wor­ ries of curses and damnation.

While the story may have hints of seriousness, the performance is too satirical, and the themes of romance and com­ panionship are overshadowed by ridiculousness and humour. For example, Rachel Hamilton’s per­ formance of “Only Roses” as Mad

Margaret is heartbreaking and pas­ sionate, but unfortunately out of place, because the two main lovers, Rose and Robin, might as well be the of the nine­ teenth century. Expect laughs, not

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From February 26 to March 1, while many were doing their darndest to get schooling and aca­ demics off their backs, the Students for the Advancement of Hip Hop Culture (SAHC) were doing just the opposite. Holding a shakedown at Concordia University, their goal was to pro­ mote the acceptance of hip hop culture as a legitimate subject for academic study.

The second annual Hip Hop Symposium included a myriad of conferences, film screenings and shows. Amongst the conferences were those entitled Hip Hop and Feminism, Hip Hop and Social Change, Hip Hop and Education, Hip Hop in Cuba and Haiti and a historical perspective of Hip Hop in Montreal.

The conferences were held in a round-table style, so everyone could participate, and they tended to be more like facilitated discus­ sion groups than lectures. This worked very well because, as many active members of Montreal’s hip hop community showed up, it truly was a case of community education and everybody had the opportunity to drop knowledge or just contribute their impressions and opinions.

The link between hip hop and education has been made before, and is manifested especially in the US. At many universities you can

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study hip hop culture in its various facets, from “the Rhetoric of Graffiti” at DePaul University to “the Hip hop Aesthetic” at New York State University in Albany.

Internet websites will hook you up with all the hip hop-related course listings for US schools, and any happening hip hop conferences.

mal and informal—since that time when heads started bouncing to Grandmaster Flash’s rhyme against urban poverty and racism, “The Message”.

Something striking about the symposium was the social con­ sciousness and awareness that it promoted. With hip hop having

WNAALIVE.NCIT.EDU We have two tables, now where's the microphone? Con U is where it’s at.

Groups like the Centre for Hip Hop Education and the Urban Think Tank Institute are dedicated to promoting social awareness with publications, film festivals and other community outreach tactics that are rooted in the context of a hip hop perspec­ tive.

KRS-ONE’s moniker, Knowledge Reigns Supreme Over Nearly Everyone, has been reflect­ ed in the action of educators—-for-

gained commercial success and acceptance in the mainstream, it often seems that one has to sift through more and more blingbling and booty in order to find intelligent and conscious artists.

This event served not only as a provider of information, but also as a forum of discussion for all those participants and observers in the hip hop community looking to Continued on next page

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create some connection and cohe­ sion within the burgeoning Montreal scene. For some, it could be a vehicle towards externalizing socially conscious goals and proj­ ects through the medium of hip hop.

The atmosphere of “rap-

life, drug wars and racism, but still some of the Brazilian rappers who lay it out extra-stark and anti­ establishment face censorship, which only further proves the need for social change. In Cuba, limited personal freedoms and a state of poverty that provokes the govern­ ment to treat the tourists in their

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Tim Chan We can’t have a war. Nothing good can ever result from a war and going ahead with George Bush’s plan for an attack on Iraq would most cer­ tainly lead to devastating, if not trag­ ic, consequences. Do you know what this could mean? Just think of all the TV shows that would get pre-empt­ ed in favour of “breaking news” cov­ erage of the war or worse, yet anoth­ er “State of the Union” address by the aforementioned President Bush.

I can just see the requisite explanatory line running across the bottom of my TV screen: will not be seen tonight so that we can air live coverage of Iraqis flee­ ing their homes and running for their lives from American bombs.

Not only that, but once-entertaining newsmagazine shows such as and will stop airing inter­

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tivism” in Montreal was brought to attention with the benefit show entitled “Resistance” which took place on February 25, preceding the conference. A number of local artists, including the Butta Babees and Les Architeks took part. All the proceeds from the show (doubtless considerable, given all the folks that showed up) went to the collective Échec à la Guerre, which opposes the war against Iraq.

In the conference on Hip Hop and Social Change, graffiti was discussed as a way of reclaim­ ing urban space from the private and corporate entities to whose encroachments society often pas­ sively acquiesce. The idea of beat­ boxing and breaking as representa­ tions of the realities faced as a result of social inequalities (lack of access to musical equipment, gang fights) was also explored. Hip hop was looked at in the context of a broader movement for the eman­ cipation of black people in North America, and the issue of repara­ tions for the history o f slavery was addressed.

While hip hop has its roots and history in North America, the culture has expanded and taken hold of countries all over the world. On Saturday, there was a conference about hip hop in Cuba and Haiti. The case of Cuba is interesting because, as in other countries where the hip hop scene has begun to emerge over the last five years or so, pundits say that the nascent culture is playing a similar role to the one it played in the US when hip hop was still young and had not been “corrupt­ ed” by corporate selling-out, sneaker ads and the popular suc­ cess of tracks that have catchy hooks but lack substance.

That is to say, in these coun­ tries, hip hop is giving a voice to marginalized groups to speak of their realities, creating solidarity and pushing for change. In such countries as Brazil, this can mean telling it like it is regarding slum

country better than the citizens has created a hip hop culture that presses on for transformation inside the regime—a revolution within the revolution that has been lived out since 1959. In these countries, MGs and DJs don’t have it so easy when trying to make a living off their art, but hip hop culture still represents, to a large extent, the seed of social change.

The March 1 show was dedi­ cated to multicultural and multi­ lingual hip hop. MCs and vocalists from France, Argentina, Iraq, Colombia, Haiti, Ethiopia, Cuba and Canada (both languages) per­ formed. Feats of linguistic jiu-jitsu were staged by Lou Piensa, who raps in English, French and Spanish, and by Montreal’s own Butta Beats, whose tongue works overtime throwing down raps in Spanish and English, as well as spitting out some of the dopest beats around—especially when he works the drum ‘n bass, beat-box style. The party vibe was crunk, but especially because everyone’s brain had been satiated with nuggets of wisdom regarding international hip hop and other scintillating topics over the course of the symposium.

Montreal’s hip hop scene has substantial challenges with which to cope, such as proximity to Toronto, the biggest hip hop com­ munity in Canada, and the lin­ guistic divide between Frenchand English-speaking rappers.

However, an event such as this shows that the community here has the will to evolve, and com­ munication within and celebra­ tion of that community are keys to the enlightenment of the people.

In accordance with the dreams of the SAHC, the Symposium has helped perpetuate knowledge and understanding of hip hop culture throughout and beyond the hip hop and academic communities here in Montreal, also consolidat­ ing bonds within a developing local movement.

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A war will also lead to a barrage of hope-filled, sentimental, “We Are the World”-type songs sung by B-list musicians desperate to get their wan­ ing voices back on the radio. I bet Kelly Clarkson is sitting by her phone right about now. Of course, once the war is over, these powerful ballads of “peace and unity” will fall off the charts and radio will return to the equally-inspiring words of Shania Twain’s “I’m Gonna Get You Good” and 50 Cent’s “In da Club”.

And finally, the uncalled for rash of patriotism will spawn an uncalled for rash of war movies, star­ ring young male actors hoping to up their big-screen credibility by appearing in a big budget war hero

flick. (C’mon, it’s almost like a rite of passage) Matt Damon had Josh Hartnett had Somewhere out there, an Ashton Kutcher army thriller is waiting to be rushed into production. Sheryl Crow recently attended an awards show wearing a “War is not the Answer” t-shirt. I don’t think she was campaigning for world peace. Crow knows that, with a war filling the pages of newspapers and dominating the airwaves of radio and TV, no one will have time to watch her latest music video or read about her sexy new image in the latest issue of I don’t know about you, but I’d take the new Sultry Sheryl over the old Sinister Saddam any day.

So you see, war is no good: the costs of war by far outweigh the ben­ efits. If you thought seeing everyday was bad, wait till you see Geraldo Rivera live from Baghdad seven days a week. Nobody wins when we have a war. And the losses are just too unbearable to even consider. So please, for the love of say NO to war.

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Spider is the nickname of Dennis Cleg, who has recendy been released from an insane asylum to a halfway house in his childhood neighbourhood. As he becomes Fiennes: one freaky, dark, fairly cool identity crisis accustomed to his surroundings, explores the odd machinations of his broken glass and even Spider’s own repressed memories resurface and mind in such a way that the audi­ dirty hand clutching his naked arm unfold like a mystery, except that the ence can begin to understand it, too. suggest a spider spinning a web, just truth at the end of the tunnel is an Patrick McGrath adapted the screen­ as Spider spins the web of his fan­ answer to an unknown, ambiguous play from his book, but the script tasies. question posed by a schizophrenic itself is somewhat unimportant. This Speaking of fantasies, this is one mind. is a story told in visuals, somewhat movie that Freud would have loved.

Ralph Fiennes plays Spider, and like watching Spider’s dreams in sur­ You want to talk about the Oedipus his performance is sensitive, con­ complex, sexual repression and round. vincing and far from presenting a The cinematography was expression through dreams? This stereotype. Fiennes’ acting helps pull another excellent aspect of this film, movie has got it all. At first, Spider’s the audience right into Spider’s and very important for understand­ relationship with his mother, as we mind, so we can begin to understand ing Spider and his memories. Peter see it through his eyes, is perfectly the genesis of his illness and the Suschitzky has won a Genie award innocent. However, as soon as he intricacies of the web he has woven for cinematography for begins to see sexuality within his over reality. mother and himself, his vision and Director David Cronenberg is three of Cronenberg’s other films. becomes" distorted. He sees the face known for his love of darkly themed Images of spiders and especially spi­ of the town whore on. his mother, or movies, such as He lends such der webs are subtly placed all over perhaps the other way around. He a deep sensitivity to the plight of a the film’s landscape. Bits of rope, See SPIDER, page 23 human on the edge of society and

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The Music, the latest big buzz band from Britain (what allitera­ tion!), has been creating quite a sensation among both the British press and public. The title is one of the many quotes from press like which try to describe what The Music sounds like and what feelings it is trying to create. In an attempt to cut through the obvious verbosity that rags like try to force onto people, I read off some choice quotes about The Music and their elusive sound to Phil Jordan, the 20-year-old (thus mak­ ing him the oldest member of the band) drummer of The Music: #1) “Danceable”, Response: “I’ll agree with that”— So far, so good, #2) “Sprawling, spiral­ ing hedonistic funk jam”, Response: “That’s pretty good”— strikes a chord, #3) “A bunch of chimps being lobotomized, slowly, by Led Zeppelin”, Response: “They can Continued from page 20 fuck off”— Hmmm, should we Another problem is that both end on a high note? #4) “Volcanic passion the male and female choruses lack and electric conviction of the homogeneity. Susanna Atkinson immediately stands out for her tumultuous, irony-free, pagan treegrace of movement against the shagging high-wire spunkfest”, overall clumsiness of the chorus Response: “That’s gotta be and, at times, this is flat out dis­ [they] try to get as many silly fuck­ tracting. Such an uneven matching ing words in a sentence”— Give the of skill works when Atkinson plays man a prize! her double role as the Dance So, what IS the sound of The Captain, but, as a chorus member, Music? A resigned Jordan states, she is too conspicuous. The male “None of us can ever answer that chorus is also made up of an question. I can easily think of 20 uneven bunch, and efforts should odd bands that could be compared have been made to aim for the low­ to us”. Hmmm, still no progress. est common denominator, so they As to their highly ambiguous would look more deliberately name, “It’s just ‘cause that’s what humourous, since at present it just we are. When we started doing looks awkward. this, we were doing music for our­ Overall, it appears that selves, and then other people start­ is not quite ripe. ed liking it so we thought we’ll play However, given a week or two, this for other people... we get off on show has the potential to turn making other people happy. And many of its weaknesses into a not for the money... all we’re about strong and unique aesthetic, creat­ is the music” ing more of an interior humour With the average age of the and a well-polished performance. band being around 19-20, what kind of influences are among the band? Jordan readily begins to list The show runs for three the bands, “Me—Jimi Hendrix, weeks at Moyse Hall— March Chemical Brothers; Stu [bassist]— 6-8, 13-15, 20-22—and opens Led Zeppelin, Jane’s Addiction, at 8 pm. Saturday matinees arcMichael Jackson; Adam [gui­ performed at 2 pm on March tarist]— Smashing Pumpkins, 15 and 22.

Mogwai.” In listening to their Tickets are S1Û for stu­ debut self-titled CD, one can truly dents. $15 for the rest of the point out those influences, with world- Reserve tickets online at Led Zeppelin popping up now and the McGill Savoy Society web again, mostly in singer Robert site (www.ssmu.calsavoy).

Harvey’s wail, yet other modern

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ones like Mogwai turn up quite notably in tracks like “Float” and “Turn Out the Light”. You could even toss in some early Smashing Pumpkins if you wanted too. The Music takes all these disparate influences and turns them into its own giant stew of musical large­ ness. The scope and vision found on the album seem way beyond the years of the band.

There is one problem though, and that is “cracking” the elusive North American market, some­ thing that many other young British bands have attempted... and failed to do. What makes The Music so special? “They [the Americans] like a lot of energy in the band... anything that comes out of America seems to be an uppaced, faster kind of music. In Britain, it rains a lot so you get a lot of bands that are plodding along, really good bands, but it’s very rare you get an energetic band, ‘cause we’re so young and naïve. It’s like when you’re 14 years old and you’ve been running all day and go home and still want to run. We have that kind of energy.”

That energy is personified in Harvey, whose dancing can be described as, with the help of an quote and a little editing' by Jordan, “Part Bruce Lee movie, part cosmic tai-chi bullshit.” Jordan adds, though, “[He’s] Never touched drugs, been like that for ages. He does what he wants to do and it looks fuckin’ cool.”

The future for The Music looks bright. Their live show in Toronto brought acclaim and apparently left the crowd wanting more, and they have plenty of songs in their heads. As Jordan laments, “I’m looking forward to coming out on the road and writ­ ing a few more songs. Probably get a studio set up on the bus so we can write on the road, we’re brimming with songs. We’ve toured for so long and not been able to do any­ thing. As a musician, it drives you a bit mad.”

The Music is currently open­ ing for Coldplay, but will they come back and play Montreal in a proper fashion? “Obviously, we’d love to tour everywhere... the world is both big and small at once, it seems to be shrinking and every­ one knows everyone. We’d love to come everywhere.”

Is the hype true? Check them out for yourselves, and maybe you will start to believe in the “bound­ less self-belief of the power of sound as catharsis and celebration.”

God bless you and your thick dic­ tionary,

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Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montreal danced to a packed house at Place des Arts on Thursday night.

In An Evening of Ballet with Jirf Kyliân, the troupe pre­ sented three separate dance pieces, each with their own distinct theme and atmosphere.

The show was not. what the layperson might expect to be a ballet. There were no frilly tutus, no sugarplum fairies and certainly no men in tights. In fact, this would be the perfect show for the person in your life who equates the ballet with a slow root canal.

The tie that bound the pieces was the particular style of dance. The choreographies were elaborate, light and fluid. The dancers moved along with the music, fol­ lowing each note to a tee. To my viewing companion, who has taken 12 years of strict, technical, classical bal­ let lessons, the choreographies were less rigid than she was used to. At the first intermission, she could not sus­ tain her shock. “Wow, I never thought that ballet could be transformed this way. If I did this in class, I’d be killed.”

The first dance, , is based on a trip Kyliân took to Australia in 1980, where he was exposed to aboriginal dancing. Set mainly to piano, this opening act was both delicate and sharp. The pointed definition of the piano notes accentuated the dancers’ movement on key and was a good introduction to Kyliân’s approach. was the most emotional piece of the three. The lights still on in the theatre and the intermis­ sion not quite done, it began with several dancers on stage, in their street clothes, warming up and hugging each other. Above, two bodies hung in clear coffins.

After the audience was fully seated from intermission, the inspiration of the dancers poured out like waterfalls.

In this piece, the curtain was taken out of its place as the invisible stage prop, with dancers holding on to it like a bar as it closed in.

The most vivid and inspiring part of was performed by two women dressed only in red skirts,

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who, like plants in the ocean, moved in large, fluid movements, setting each other in motion without touch.

Their upper bodies flailed in the air; their torsos surged with energy. This part, which is improvised, was the

most beautiful part of the show.

The last piece, was too short, but oh, so sweet. The women wore white flowing dresses, the men were clad in white britches and sported Elizabethan-era wigs. Described in the program as “absurd”, the dance delivered as promised. Choreographed to the Mozart piece by the same name, humourous irra­ tionality was carried out by dancers falling to the floor in synch, large motorized dresses crossing the stage and an ending so hilarious and obscure that I cannot reveal it out of respect for those who plan on seeing it themselves.

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watches his father murder his moth­ er to replace her with the whore.

However, while the audience at first believes that these flashbacks are his memories, it soon becomes evi­ dent that these could be dreams, fantasies or simply distortions. As Spider walks through the places he walked through as a child, his repressed memories begin to come back to him, affecting the quiet life he is trying to lead at the halfway house. Soon, he begins to see his mothers face on the proprietor of the house, played by Lynn Redgrave, and his madness spirals to the point that he actually tries to kill her. As the slogan of the movie says, “the only thing worse than losing your mind is finding it all over again.”

The movie itself unravels much like a dream, with steady, slowlymoving camera shots and a strange, uncertain mix of reality and fantasy.

There is something slightly off about the scenery and the sound.

There are no people on the usually busy streets of London where Spider wanders. There are no really bright colours, just soft, subdued, diluted browns and blues that lack defini­ tion. It seems like every store is closed except the bar that Spider goes to, and somehow these disso­ nant pieces make sense in Spiders mind. The audience is supposed to be reading Spider’s notebook as he writes in it, but the writing is scrawled and ‘spidery, and seems as if it is in his own language, deci­ pherable to him only.

The flashbacks themselves are delicious to watch. An excellent Miranda Richardson plays both the mother and the cigarette-smoking tart, and her two characters proba­ bly make up the most vibrant roles in the whole movie. The father, the normal husband and father who is seen as a demon by his son is played

by Gabriel Byrne. He plays the role in such a way that it takes the audi­ ence time to see where his intentions lie, for the benefit or detriment of his family. Bradley Hall plays the quiet, self absorbed 10-year-old Spider.

There is something intriguing about the world Spider weaves around himself, the childhood he imagines, and where his neuroses come from. Even though there is no sense of a definite mystery to be solved, the audience will be rapt with suspense at being on the edge of discovering what Spider will dredge up out of his head next. is a very well-made film.

It is so faithful to the inside of one man’s head that it is almost uncom­ fortable. Many people watching this film may feel some of their own repressed feelings and desires surface as they relate to a hero who is very distant from normal society. It’s the kind of movie that makes you feel something, alters your mood as you think about it and what it means. It’s almost as if you had been bitten by Spider, and some pleasant poison remains in your blood hours after the movie is over.

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The No.2-ranked McGill hockey Martlets captured the bronze medal on Sunday with a 32 comeback win over No. 4ranked Lethbridge Pronghorns at the Canadian Interuniversity Sport Championship in Regina.

Sophomore Justine Keyserlingk scored the winner at 11:45 of the third period. The goal capped a three-goal outburst from the Martlets, after the Pronghorns jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the first period. McGill had penalty trouble in the first, playing shorthanded for 12 minutes.

Kim St-Pierre, honoured as a first-team All-Canadian and CIS MVP earlier in the week, made 23 saves. McGill was outshot 25-15, including 10-5 in the first period.

St-Pierre finished with a 21-52 overall record this season, going undefeated in Quebec Student Sports Federation conference action.

McGill had not hoped, nor expected, to be playing in the bronze medal game Sunday. But a 3-0 opening game loss to the Toronto Varsity Blues cost McGill a chance at the National Championship.

McGill was placed in a diffi­ cult pool, having to play Ontario University Athletics champion Toronto Varsity Blues and the Regina Cougars, a finalist in the strong Canada West conference.

“Some reporters called it the ‘pool of death,” said McGill head coach Peter Smith. “We knew it was going to be competitive.

“It was really hard for the girls, especially the senior girls,” contin­ ued Smith, who was named national coach of the year, sharing the award with Saint Mary’s Lisa MacDonald. Smith was also named Quebec Student Sports Federation coach of the year.

The disappointment of miss­ ing the tournament finals played on the players minds Sunday, according to Smith.

“We came out flat in the first period,” said Smith. “It was tough because it wasn’t the game they expected to play in.”

Lethbridge opened the scoring at 18:01, as Michelle Koester scored on the power play. Just over a minute later, Kelsey Norsworthy gave the Pronghorns a two-goal cushion.

Sophie Acheson drew McGill

The third period was a defen­ sive battle, with McGill putting five shots on net compared to four for Lethbridge.

Acheson was named player of the game for McGill. Forward Samantha Ward received the hon­ our for Lethbridge.

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player of the game, while Justine Keyserlingk received similar hon­ ours for McGill.

“The U of T game was our best game [of the Championship],” said Smith. “We played 60 minutes of good hockey.

We had plenty of opportunities but we just couldn’t score. We couldn’t catch a break.”

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to within one at 16:05 of the sec­ ond period, scoring on Pronghorn’s goaltender Jenna Stanton. Freshman Patrice Mason drew an assist on the marker. The 18-year-old native of Calgary, Alberta, also assisted on the game­ winning goal.

The tying marker came at 1:47 of tbe final period. Paula Mailloux, a senior left-winger, brought McGill even. Véronique Lapierre and Audrey Hadd assisted on Mailloux’s second goal of the Championship.

Varsity Blues match-up Thursday was more than a battle between two of the top teams in Canadian women’s university hockey. It was a duel of the best goalies in Canada.

Unfortunately for McGill’s medal hopes, Alison Houston came out on top of Olympian St-Pierre.

Flouston made 24 saves as Toronto shutout McGill 3-0 on the opening day of the women’s hockey Championship. Martlet goalie St-Pierre allowed three goals on 24 shots.

Houston was named Toronto’s

scored the only goal Toronto would need, on the power play at 7:09 of the first period.

Fellow rearguard Kim Malcher put one past St-Pierre at 8:43 of the second to put Toronto up by two.

Forward Bree Kraklis put the game out of reach at 10:08 of the final period.

“There was a glorious oppor­ tunity missed in the second period.

If we had scored, I think it would have totally changed the momen­ tum and the score could have been

g o ld very different. -The score wasn’t indicative of the play,” said Smith.

Martlets forced to move on In their second round-robin game Friday, St-Pierre and the Martlets bounced back to shutout host Regina Cougars 3-0. Regina outshot McGill by a 24-13 margin but the Martlets gave their goalie some goal support, something they were unable to accomplish in Thursday’s opener.

It was St-Pierre’s 16th shutout of the season, and her 25th in 93 games of backstopping the Martlets.

McGill weathered the Cougar’s first-period attack, in which the Red ‘n’ White were out­ shot 15-3.

QSSF first-team all star Audrey Hadd scored the eventual game winner at 16:24 of the sec­ ond period. Paula Mailloux and Sarah Lomas assisted on the power-play goal.

Véronique Sanfaçon added an insurance marker at 1:39 of the third period, with Suzy Fujiki drawing the assist.

Mailloux, playing in her last year with McGill, scored a shorthanded goal at 15:14 of the final frame.

McGill to host next two CIS Championships For Mailloux, Acheson, Sarah Lomas, Allison Ticmanis and Suzy Fujiki, Sunday’s game was the last in a McGill uniform. St-Pierre and Cindy-Anne Carufel are uncertain about their futures.

“We accomplished a great deal with our hockey program this sea­ son and, although we will be losing five to seven players, we will have a very talented core group of returnees, which will set us up well for a shot at the gold, as McGill will host the Nationals the next two years,” said Smith.

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The newest addition to the McGill alpine ski team is a mid-season draft pick most teams would be happy to add to its line-up card. His presence on the Quebec University circuit has been so great that it has prompted some to ask, “What the heck is he doing here?”

Nicholas Zyromski, a first-year Agriculture student, has already won five of his six races wearing a McGill pinny, often beating the entire field by over a second— an impressive margin of victory in the ultra-competitive university circuit.

Zyromski won his first provin­ cial title at the age of 13 and joined the Federation of International Skiing when on the Quebec Provincial team at the age of 14.

The FIS is an international skiing circuit requiring a minimum age of 15. There are several competing divisions based in regions such a Ontario and Quebec, from the national level all the way up to the World Cup. The young phenomenon won his first Canadian title at age 14 in the Cadet division. The following year, he entered the FIS circuit and won two national championships as a member of the Quebec provincial team. Zyromski left FIS at the age of 18.

Zyromski, now 20, says the rea­ son he has done so well is that he grew up in a skiing community. His parents bought him his first pair of skis the day after he learned to walk.

He grew up in L’Annonciation, a small town roughly 40 minutes north of Mont Tremblant, and hit the slopes for the first time at the age of two and a half.

Nicholas is not the only mem­ ber of the Zyromski family to ski competitively. His brother JeanPhillipe, currently in his final year at l’Université de Montreal, also com­ petes in the Quebec Student Sports Federation. Jean-Phillipe finished in the top three in all but one of his races last season.

There seems to be a little bit of a Williams sisters’ syndrome hap­ pening this year between the broth­ ers, who live together in a down­ town Montreal apartment. Twice Nicholas and Jean-Phillipe have fin­ ished first and second, respectively, in QSSF races.

“We get along really well, it’s good competition,” says Nicholas.

“It’s really a special situation,” echoes Jean-Phillipe. “He got a lot further than me in skiing, but I was always supporting him and cheering him. I am very proud of him and my goal is to get closer to him, [that’s] my motivation.”

Jean-Phillipe maintains that he wishes Nicholas had kept going with professional skiing because his career was so promising at such a young age.

“I would certainly like him to go further than he did,” says JeanPhillipe. “When he was 13, he start­ ed beating all the older guys, he won every race he entered [including] the Whistler Cup. They were all very good reputed races and nor­

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mally the skier who wins those races, you’ll see them on the World Cup. “His last coach was reputed to have broken a lot of athletes.

[Nicholas’s] style and motivation became worse with this coach, and I think that’s why he left,” continues Jean-Phillipe.

Nicholas maintains that his decision to leave the FIS circuit and the Quebec team was a combina­ tion of two factors.

“I used to wish to race profes­ sionally, but now I don’t. I left [FIS] mostly because I had to go to school, and also because I had some problems with my coach on the Quebec team.”

Now competing for McGill, Nicholas finds himself in a com­ pletely different atmosphere. He says he enjoys racing in a less staid environment.

“The university circuit is a lot more [about] partying and less seri­ ous,” he says. “FIS was all focus and very serious. I had to train in the summer with three-week camps in Europe and South America. The McGill team is a lot of fun.”

Although Nicholas is happy to be a part of a team that has such an emphasis on a good party, the one­ time globetrotter misses the world travel.

“What I liked the most [about FIS] was the travel and training in Europe,” says Nicholas. “I was very comfortable on the Giant Slalom and Slalom circuit, and I feel com­ fortable with it now in the [QSSF].”

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Kim St-Pierre and the Martlets came home yesterday morning as the national women’s university hockey bronze medal winners. The thirdplace finish came after a 3-0 defeat by the University of Toronto on the opening day of the tournament in Regina, knocking McGill out of gold medal contention. The decision saw St-Pierre let in the most goals in a sin­ gle game this season.

What was being predicted as the goalie showdown of the year between St-Pierre and Varsity Blues netminder Alison Houston was not as exciting as hoped.

The two goalies shared similar numbers this season. St-Pierre, in 15 regular season games, posted a 13-02 mark with a Canadian university single-season record of 11 shutouts.

She also led the nation with a 0.40 goals-against average and a .983 save percentage.

Houston, for her part, posted eight shutouts with a 0.43 goalsagainst average and a .973 save per­ centage in the Ontario University Athletic conference in front of an

best female goaltender in the world.

She was in net when the Canadian women’s national team defeated the United States to win its first ever Olympic title last winter in Salt Lake City. Whispers and murmurs among Canadian media, usually just rumours in the long run, have StPierre following in the footsteps of Manon Rheaume and Hayley Wickenheiser, pursuing a career in men’s professional hockey.

Right now, the only certainty is that St-Pierre will be playing for the women’s national team in the World Championships in China, starting in April.

It is always sweeter for an athlete to finish a chapter of her career on a high note. Even though a bronze medal is an excellent achievement, StPierre made it clear that she wanted gold.

“I enjoyed the season,” said StPierre in a interview.

“I really wanted us to get the gold medal, but this is still good. It was a good way to finish off my career with the team... if it is finished.”

Martlets head coach Peter Smith indicated that he and St-Pierre will be

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equally offensive-savvy Varsity Blues squad.

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sitting down together in the very near future to discuss her choices for next year.

“Kim is keeping all of her options open,” said Smith Monday after returning from the Queen City.

“First and foremost, she wants to fin­ ish her degree. But she is also a com­

petitive girl who wants to improve and go forward with her hockey, so we’ll have to see what happens.

“She was very disappointed [to lose to Toronto] but [if she chooses not to come back to the team next year,] her skates will be very hard to fill,” added Smith.

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the Redmen basketball team proba­ bly could have used the lanky, sixfoot-five Pichette, the Redmen When Alexandre Pichette was swimming team is that much richer 13 years old, he faced a big deci­ for having had him as a member for sion. Pichette had to make the the past five years, during which choice between continuing on in time it has won four Quebec titles. basketball or in swimming, the two Pichette’s success at McGill has sports he starred in growing up. occurred even though he doesn’t However, as often happens in these usually train with the team.

Pichette is unique among Redmen swimmers, in that he is on the Canadian national team. He fin­ ished fifth in the 100-metre backstroke at the 2000 Olympic trials.

As a result, Pichette, a Montrealborn graduate student in Electrical Engineering, mostly trains with his local club, CAMO, and his club coach, Claude St-Jean.

Although he does occasionally practice with the McGill team, Pichette explained that it can be difficult to work with two coaches at the same time.

“It’s very hard to switch between two programs. If one coach did sprints oite night, the next day you need some time for recovery. But if you switch coaches, and then you do endurance train­ ing, you get tired,” he said.

However, Pichette was quick to point out that his teammates and coach at McGill have been very supportive of his independent training. “[Coach François Laurin] real­ ly understands my situation, and that’s the best thing that could have happened to me,” he said. “It could have been a problem that I wasn’t training there all the time.

“But when I show up for the meet, I’m racing as hard as I can, and that is what my teammates and NICOLE LEAVER coach understand,” Pichette added.

Indeed, when Pichette attends Pichette won two golds and a silver at the Canadian Chamipionships this year.

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“I was close to getting in trou­ ble a couple of times [playing bas­ ketball in a rough neighbourhood], so I think that sticking to swim­ ming helped get my head straight­ ened out,” said Pichette with a laugh.

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the meets, he doesn’t let his team­ mates down. He led the Redmen to the Quebec Student Sports Federation title by recording three gold medals (in the 50-m backstroke, the 4x50-m freestyle relay, and the 4x 100-m freestyle relay), a silver and a bronze at the champi­ onship meet in Sherbrooke a month ago.

Pichette followed that up two weeks later with two golds, a silver and a bronze at the Canadian Inter­ university Sport Championships in Victoria, where the Redmen placed third overall. Pichette emerged vic­ torious in the 50-m and 100-m backstroke, and swam the anchor leg of the Redmen’s second place 4xl00-m freestyle relay. He also helped the team to a third place showing in the 4x200-m freestyle relay.

Pichette relishes the opportu­ nity to compete at the university level, where the team takes prece­ dence.

“On my other swim team, we’re always focusing on setting personal goals, or trying to make the Olympics. But the good thing about varsity swimming is that it all comes down to points,” Pichette said. “We won the provincial title overall by [very few] points, and that margin could be the difference between someone coming in fifth or eighth. It doesn’t come down to one guy who wins all three of his races.”

Because of his fondness for teamwork, Pichette hopes he con­ tributes more to his mates than simple first-class swimming. He tries to rely on his three years of national team experience to provide a calming influence for his team­ mates around the pool deck. For example, when the Redmen were getting ready to swim a relay on the

first day of Nationals, teammate Doug McCarthy’s suit wouldn’t zip up. While another teammate wor­ ried about what to do, Pichette remained cool as a cucumber.

“I said to him, ‘You relax, you swim.’ We managed to get Doug another suit, and he had time to change before he swam, and we fin­ ished second. I managed to keep the whole team focused and under control, even though something unexpected was happening,” Pichette recalled.

Unfortunately for the Redmen, Pichette has completed his five years of eligibility, so he will not be returning to the team next year.

However, he is certain that some of his teammates will be able to take on the extra burden.

“It’s tough for a team to lose two of its top four swimmers [Pichette and David Allard], but I think Doug McCarthy can take the lead on the team for the backstroke, and Ryan Tomicic is looking great in the freestyle,” said Pichette.

As for his own future, Pichette is putting his engineering degree to use in the pool, working on a machine to tow swimmers so that they can focus on their technique.

But he isn’t ready to give up on competition quite yet. Pichette is trying to qualify for the Olympics in 2004 and, if he should make it, he’s got big plans.

“I’ll go to Athens, conquer the world, and be very happy. And it would be very hard for me to quit after Athens, because in 2005, the World Championships are in Montreal, and I’m not going to let everyone else qualify for a big meet on my turf.”

The McGill Tribune, Tuesday, March 11, 2003 REDM EN H O C K EY

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It wasn’t supposed to end this way.

Despite an exciting regular sea­ son that saw the McGill hockey Redmen consistently ranked in the top 10 nationally, the Redmen fell at the hands of the Ottawa Gee-Gees in playoff competition over the spring break.

In the best-of-three series, Ottawa narrowly defeated McGill in the first game by a score of 3-2. With the second game in Ottawa, .the Redmen were on the ropes, needing a win to send the series to a third game.

With the score tied 2-2 at the end of regulation, overtime was need­ ed to produce a winner. Ottawa’s Steve Simoes came up big when he put the puck past McGill netminder Luc Valliancourt during the second overtime period.

Redmen coach Martin Raymond was disappointed that his team couldn’t translate its regular sea­ son success into the postseason victo­ ries.

“We felt we had a fairly strong season and hoped to continue that in the playoffs. We had two tight games and we didn’t play as well as we thought we could,” said Raymond.

Raymond also noted that special teams are important, but producing at even strength wins tight playoff series.

“We were scoring on the power play [2-for-3 in game two] but strug­

NATHANLEBIODA McGill captain David Burgess (9) graduates this year, giving Greg Davis (89) added some offensive responsibility.

gling five-on-five. With a close game on the road, chances of the referee calling penalties are rare.”

McGill captain David Burgess agreed that it was an evenly matched series.

“We didn’t get the little breaks, hut we played with them. It could have gone either way,” said the fifthyear veteran.

Despite the Redmen’s disap­ pointing finish, there were some high notes to end the season. Burgess and Vaillancourt were both named to the Ontario University Athletics Eastern Conference first all-star team.

Burgess, who was sixth in the OUA scoring race with 43 points in 25 games, was selected to the team for the second straight year.

Moreover, he graduates second on McGill’s career scoring list, and first in assists. Looking back on his past five years at McGill, the centreman was pleased with his performance.

“I’m happy to be able to have been so consistent,” said Burgess. “I feel I played up to my ability and my point totals were consistent over five years. It was worth it to come back for a fifth year because it was good to be with the boys.”

In o v e r m y h e a d : C r o s s -c o u n tr y s k iin g a n d t h e a r t o f t h e f a c e p la n t

Rhena Howard

I thought I knew how to cross­ country ski. My first McGill Nordic Ski Club backcountry expe­ rience over Reading-Week quickly destroyed that assumption.

I started my winter camping and cross-country skiing experience with a huge, extremely top-heavy pack on my back; admittedly, it was much smaller and lighter than any­ one else’s. I wore two very long clas­ sic-style cross-country skis on my poor, naïve little feet. The pack-ski combination yielded absolutely no sense of balance. Throw in a few hills for extra spice and flavour and therein begins the saga.

The original group of ten very brave skiers included some under­ grads my age and at least one novice skier. Having skate-style cross­

country skied many times before, my belief was that I would at least be able to keep up with the group.

Oh, how I was wrong.

I arrived on the morning of our departure to find that five peo­ ple cancelled, and I was now going with four grad students who all knew each other and apparently were born with skis attached to their feet. Then a glimmer of hope that I might have someone of equal skiing calibre: a second-year Concordia student who was a last minute addition. No such luck.

His car was the one with the ski rack mounted on the roof.

We set off to one of Quebec’s fantastic parks, where we were graced with countless deer sight­ ings, gorgeous views, perfect weath­ er and beautiful snow. Ah yes, the snow. I had an intimate relation­ ship with the crystal powder of evil.

There were the usual, first­ time, nervous butterflies, followed by some heavy breathing, then some downright groping and final­ ly we made it to the stage of screams and many pretzel-like posi­ tions.

I never knew I could bend and fall in so many directions and live to tell the story. I easily mastered

the butt-slide fall, the crossing-myskis-in-front-while-pack-falls-onmy-head fall, the no-good-reasonat-all fall and, of course, the faceplant fall. I was quite literally in over my head.

By the end of the trip my ski­ ing improved, only marginally, but at least the company I was in was stellar throughout. I was constantly encouraged and dealt a great deal more patience than I deserved. I knew I was slowing the group down, the understatement of the century, but you would never know it from the words they all so gra­ ciously said to me.

I do, however, have a sinking suspicion that I just may have inspired our leader to hold try-outs before the next trip.

To make a long story longer, I fell, I bruised, and I fell again to get the colour of the bruises just right.

I peed outside in some very cold weather, I fell some more (just to extinguish any remaining flicker of self-worth), I got a kick-ass hum­ mus recipe and I met five of Montreal’s finest people. How was your “reading” week?

With regards to the past season, Burgess had hoped to go deeper in the playoffs.

“We played really well and had a pretty good season. We didn’t expect to be knocked out this early,” said Burgess.

Burgess is not quite ready to call it a career, as he hopes to lace up his skates overseas in the near future.

“I’m looking to Austria and Germany to play some pro hockey and do some travelling.”

Defenceman David Lizotte was named to the conference’s second allstar team after leading all McGill

blueliners with six goals and 17 assists this year. Lizotte, Burgess and Vaillancourt all graduate this year, leaving some gaping holes in the line­ up for next season.

The coach admitted that the team is losing a lot of quality players, but is confident that the Redmen will ice a competitive squad.

“We lost key players last year, and this year we’re losing some big guys, but we’ve got some solid players coming back.”

When asked about the constant turnover of players, Raymond said it’s tough, but a part of university athlet­ ics. “It’s too bad you’ve got to let them go. Unlike the pros, we only get them for a few years.”

After earning a spot on the con­ ference’s all-rookie team, freshman Ken Davis is one player Raymond will call on next year to step up and assume a leading role.

With both Vaillancourt and backup goalie Murray Cobb leaving next year, the Redmen will be relying on some fresh faces to backstop the team.

“We started recruiting for goal­ tending two years ago, and have v me goalies lined up,” remarked Raymond. “We hope they’ll fill the void that Luc and Murray will leave.”

Raymond also noted that quality recruits over the past few years enabled the team to contend for first place in the OUA Far East division.

The coach is banking on a promising crop of players for the upcoming sea­ son.

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