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Envirofest sets tone for coming Senate vote Vote on green policy set for Wednesday Katy Forgues As the Senate prepares to vote tomorrow on a set of Environmental Principles, some earth-friendly students who came to Envirofest last week may still be get­ ting over their organic beer hang­ overs.

Bash on the grass McGill students seen toting green recycling bins around lower campus late last week were taking part in Envirofest, a two-day festival to promote environmentalism at McGill. Students stayed for the folk rock and progressive music, vegan meals compliments of Midnight Kitchen and genetically unmodified beer served in reusable cups. Tables at the festival sold hemp lollipops and vegan lip balm, and students signed up for yoga classes and mas­ sage lessons.

Among the activities stressing individual and collective steward­ ship was a workshop on vermi-composting, a method of decomposing kitchen waste indoors with worms now being used in the Douglas Hall cafeteria kitchen. The demonstra­ tion by Vicky Baker was so convinc­ ing that this reporter was sent home with a plastic Molson cup filled with wriggling worms.

Organizers Leah Tivoli and Spencer Mann hope that Envirofest brought more awareness to the McGill campus.

“The vision is to provide a very holistic view of the environment, keeping in mind physical aspects

like recycling, sustainability and | green movements, as well as agricul­ ture and healthy living,” said Tivoli.

“By making yourself healthier, you make the environment healthier.”

Green McGill The Accompanying Principles to the Environmental Policy, six directives adopted in March by the Senate Committee on Physical Development (SCPD), chaired by i Vice President (Administration and Finance) Morty Yalovsky, will be voted on by the full Senate tomor- ! row afternoon.

Enactment of the Principles would require McGill to make more consistent and concerted efforts to promote environmental sustainabil­ ity in areas like research, invest- j ments, purchases, recycling and energy consumption.

McGills reluctance to form a : comprehensive environmental poli- j cy has long aroused the ire of cam­ pus environmentalist groups. For j the past several years, the Environmental Policy has received ! public attention as students have set up tents on the grass of lower cam­ pus for an overnight sleepover called the Green Ghetto Campout.

The campers could claim measured success after the Senate passed the Environmental Policy in April 2001, but many continue to press for firmer standards. The Policy’s vague language commits McGill to promoting the environ­ ment through increased community awareness, in teaching and research See GREEN, page 5

JENNYGEORGE The McGill Redman Rugby team defeated Concordia in season opening 31-27 victory

Redmen w in opener Jam es Scarfone The highly anticipated chris­ tening of Forbes Field by the McGill Redmen rugby squad will likely be put on hold until next year; however, the wait is over for a win against a highly competitive Concordia Stinger team.

The Redmen thrilled the spec­ tators at Rutherford Reservoir last Wednesday by hanging on, defeat­ ing the Stingers 31-27. The game ended with some tension as McGill

needed the last play to seal the win.

It’s only the second victory for the Redmen against their cross-town rival in the last four years.

“It’s definitely great to get that monkey off our backs,” said flanker and team president Andrew Warkentin. “But it’s too early to cel­ ebrate right now; we need a lot of improvement. We failed in many aspects of our game.”

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visual impairments have not been completed. As a result, the building is dangerous for disabled students.

Even after automatic doors are installed, students may still have problems accessing crucial services.

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On Monday, John Doyle, an Education student who is blind, fell down a flight of stairs in the Brown Building. Doyle had organ trans­ plant surgery last year, and had he gone into shock, the fall could have been fatal.

"I fell because the university has not installed markers or reference points for the blind in those halls and stairwells," said Doyle. "Usually divots are put in the floor before stairs as a warning."

The OSD has repeatedly cau­ tioned that the Brown Building is unsuitable for students with disabil­ ities.

"The decision made by [McGill Provost and Vice-Principal (Academic) Luc Vinet], which will have us move to a much less accessi­ ble location on the 3rd floor of the

upgrades to the University Centre.

These renovations were delayed as a result of insufficient Students’ Society of McGill University fund­ ing," said Karasick. "Once the SSMU work was finally completed, the decision to move the O.S.D. was made by the provost, on the basis of following through with the original plan established for Brown. An addi­ tional amount of approximately $50,000 was recently expended to make final adjustments to ensure all access needs were met."

It remains difficult for students with mobility impairments to enter Brown. Because McTavish Street is quite steep, and adaptive transporta­ tion buses with wheelchair ramps need a flat stretch of sidewalk to let olf passengers, students have to exit below the Shatner Building and

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Brown Building has been met with concern by both students and staff," read the Annual Report of the OSD, which was submitted in June.

Brian Karasick of the University Planning Office explained that the OSD was always supposed to move to the Brown Building.

"The Office for Students with Disabilities was intended to be locat­ ed in the Brown Building, in a space that was designed specifically for its needs," wrote Karasick in an e-mail.

"The new building was intended to consolidate all of McGill’s Student Services in one location. This was also in keeping with the University’s long term plan to continue to cen­ tralize student service oriented func­ tions along McTavish Street."

OSD Director Dr. Joan Wolforth, while critical of the move, thinks the new office has some ben­ efits. At Burnside, lack of space, especially during exam periods, required the office to borrow rooms to accommodate large numbers of students.

"The new location definitely has its advantages such as sufficient and much needed office space that will be put to immediate use," said Wolforth. "It would also mean that disabled students would no longer have to travel a distance across cam­ pus to receive service from other departments."

Karasick says that renovations have made Brown accessible. "[T]he move was delayed pend­ ing completion of access related

enter through the doors to Gert’s.

Then they must take the elevator to the first floor and travel the length of the hallway to the doors of Brown, and finally into an elevator to reach the third floor. None of the doors on this route have automatic openers installed. Although a ramp was built to connect Leacock’s second floor exit to the sidewalk, the crosswalk over McTavish from Leacock to Brown is too steep for a wheelchair to cross safely, especially in ice and snow. Car traffic also makes the crossing dangerous.

Karasick contends that the OSD was consulted when Brown was being designed. "[Former Dean of Students Rosalie Jukier] consulted the OSD, as she did the other units under her jurisdiction during the planning of the Brown Building," said Karasick.

"The building was specifically designed to accommodate the needs of persons with disabilities."

Students involved in the discus­ sions think otherwise. In 1996, Doyle and other disabled students spoke to Jukier against the proposed move.

"Students weren’t even given a chance to explain why the move was inappropriate," said Doyle. "It became Jukier’s ideal over ours I say leave things that work alone. At the new third floor location, students will have to navigate around the financial aid lines. It just doesn’t See OSD, page 4

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loana Luca Alongside candlelight vigils, chill-inducing organ music, and rain-flaccid red and white carna­ tions, a different kind of memorial took place on Wednesday, September 11, 2002: “Operation: Enduring Freedom, a critical examination of the effects of September 11.”

The event, organized by QPIRG, brought to the McGill community the voices of Sarwat Viquar (Rebel Desis, Centre l’Asie du Sud-CERAS), Singh Singh (Anti-Capitalist ConvergenceCLAC), Tess Tessalona (Immigrant Worker Center-IWC), Dolores Chew (South Asian Women’s

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Community Center-SAWWC) and poet Kaie Kellough. A QPIRG representative explained the purpose of the talk.

“This is not a lecture nor abstract rhetoric and propaganda.

Here are people who work in the city,” she said.

Panel members work for the rights of people thought expend­ able by policy makers who are marginalized by the press: Afghan and Algerian refugees, Filippino workers, Mexican and Bangladeshi World Trade Center employees, black activists, poets, the Iraqi people and many others.

The issues presented by the panelists gravitated around the war on terrorism, but it should come as no surprise that their testi­ monies are not to be found in the media’s supposedly exhaustive coverage.

Sarwat Viquar described the grue­ some situation in Afghanistan even after the US govern­ ment branded its intervention a suc­ cess story.

When she visited the bor­ der region of Afghanistan and Pakistan, where five mil­ lion displaced Af ghan refugees are being pushed back into their country, she saw a people

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left in the hands of the new funda­ mentalist rule of the Northern Alliance, of a governing Tribal Council composed of criminals “who have raped and pillaged” and lack legitimacy in the eyes of the Afghan people. Viquar saw a coun­ try of destruction, fear and uncer­ tainty where “[the US] works with religio-fascists for oil pipelines.”

She spoke of the 5,000 civil­ ians killed (a conservative esti­ mate), and argued that only “the vengeance and reckoning of the American people” seem to have been satisfied, while the spotlight has moved away from the Afghan people’s struggle and towards new and expendable victims.

Singh Singh lived up to his explosive reputation by unfolding his timeline of US terrorist and criminal actions since the September 11, 1973, Chilean coup d’etat perpetrated by Augusto Pinochet (with the alleged help of the CIA) against the democratical­ ly-elected socialist president, Salvador Allende.

“Let’s talk about the real crim­ inals,” Singh proposed, with the conviction that “it would trivialize the deaths [in New York and Washington] not to speak out against oppression and state terror­ ism.”

Singh then fleshed out the racist and imperialist dimensions of the war on terrorism. He conclud­ ed that in this campaign, it has become obvious that “certain lives are more valuable than others,” while “certain people are seen as expendable and exploitable because of ethnic origin and religion.”

He cited the Afghan civilians who were killed in American bombings, and Iraqi people who die every day as a result of the sanc­ tions, deaths whose numbers far exceed those in the World Trade Center and should be considered just as distressing.

When discussing the victims and heroes of the attack, Singh sug­ gested that border refugees, who endure hardship and sacrifice in their search for safe havens, should be elevated by the media to the same heroic level as firefighters who gave their lives during the World Trade Center rescue efforts. Singh, who defined imperialism as the “maintaining of certain power rela­ tions through exploitation and dis­ possession,” argued that the renewed US campaign against Iraq is an imperialist exercise, only justi­ fied as a means to control Iraqi oil resources.

He claimed that racial profil­ ing and the disappearances of peo­ ple held for minor immigration violations undermines the American rhetoric of human rights and democracy. Along with Viquar, he condemned Canada’s removal of a moratorium against deporting refugees back to Afghanistan and Algeria.

“Our freedom is bound up in other people’s freedom,” said Singh. “Nobody is free until we’re all free, and we should all act

a c tio n accordingly.”

Singh concluded with discus­ sion of last Monday’s protest at Concordia University, where demonstrators prevented Benjamin Netanyahu, the former Prime Minister of Israel, from giving a lecture.

He commended the protesters (he was one of them) and stressed that since the event was a fundrais­ er for Netanyahu’s bid for Prime Minister, and since Netanyahu was able to speak at press conferences he held before and after the inci­ dent, the protesters did not block freedom of expression.

In response to an audiencemember’s question on whether free speech was indeed hampered, Singh added that it was the police, not the protesters, who terminated the event. The police, he said, did not think before gassing the interi­ or of the building, thus making the venue inaccessible. He claimed it was a provocation on the part of Hillel to organize a controversial talk with a selective audience in a public location, as opposed to pri­ vate venues like Place des Arts or a synagogue, where such events have happened before without glitches; and that, as much as Netanyahu has the right to free speech, the protesters have the right to assert their dignity and inform the com­ munity about a man they consider a war criminal.

After fervent applause, the electricity emanating from the audience was brought to a cool, mellow mood by Kaie Kellough, a poet and activist from within the Montreal black community.

Kellough broached the issue of discrimination by reminding the audience of the Anderson Affair of 1969, which resulted in the incar­ ceration of black students at Sir George Williams University, after the students spoke out and demanded their rights. He read his poem “Election Rally” and imme­ diately formed a connection with anyone who has ever felt outside the system (“we shadows ephemer­ al we, subconscious we”), critical of it (“we still can’t conform”), and in need of a form of expression (“jazz was free because we...we wasn’t”).

Kellough’s melodic sound, smooth rhythm, and ingenious alliteration, reminiscent of Maya Angelou and e e cummings, entranced the audience. His final rhapsody ended with the invita­ tion: “catch my riff, ride with me/ This sense of tense distance, this is we. » Next, Tess Tessalona, the coor­ dinator of the IWC, introduced the audience to the “hidden front of the war on terror.” She described the situation in the Philippines, where the US, which believes their Manila embassy is a terrorist target, is conducting anti-terrorism activi­ ties. Consequently, US troops are “raiding and storming unarmed civilians in their homes,” and the Philippine government considers that it has a “blank check for repression” of legitimate political

organizations like the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP).

The Filippino diasapora find themselves threatened with depor­ tation from countries such as Malaysia, Israel, the US and Korea. Tessalona was pessimistic about the future of rights and lib­ erties in the Philippines. “We can only expect more terror as the US military machine rolls over the Philippines,” she said.

The final speaker was Dolores Chew, who represents the South Asians Women’s Community Centre. She gave a more personal outlook on the post-September 11 world with an essay she wrote.

Her sadness about the attacks and the deaths which saturated them turned into anger at the thought that “no lessons had been learned,” while “irony, hypocrisy and stupidity” have characterized the US government’s actions in the past year.

She was incensed that Mexican and Bangladeshi families of workers who died in the World Trade Center had not received remittances given to other families simply because they don’t live in the US, while the government has shown little concern overall for human rights and justice and has adopted a “guilty until proven innocent” mentality. What has been learned by the “militarized mourners who bomb people who had nothing and had nothing to do with what happened” was that “it’s OK to kill and torture as long as the religion fits.”

Her strong words sparked a similarly powerful reaction in the audience, who responded with applause and approval. Her opin­ ion on the Concordia protest mir­ rored the indignation she had expressed in her essay; “After all the killing, how can we lend legit­ imacy to more?”

The issues laid on the table during the talk impacted the audi­ ence, who appeared heartened that such free and strong expressions of what is considered taboo in main­ stream society could occur.

During the question and answer period, the audience had a chance to share poems, thoughts, and fears. The message expressed by the event, and the message received by the audience, was, as Singh put it, that “the protest has just begun.”

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on Persons with Disabilities, is unequivocal in her opposition to the move from Burnside to Brown.

"The Senate sub-committee is absolutely, unanimously opposed to

the decision to move the OSD, for safety and architectural reasons,” said Aston-McCrimmon. Being dependent on multiple elevators to access the ground level poses a major fire hazard. The VP Administration and Provost have the ultimate say it

what will happen, but there is even discouragement from the Board of Governors to implement the move."

In March, Tracey-Beck Fenwick, representative of students with disabilities for the PostGraduate Students’ Society Equity Commission, wrote a letter to Vinet in which she argued that moving the OSD violates Articles 15 to 19 of Chapter 11 of the Handbook on Student Rights and Responsibilities.

"The administration did not respond at all to our letter," said Fenwick. "The argument that stu­ dent services should be in one build­ ing is not valid, as the OSD is a seri­ ous academic support service. The

idea that students should have to walk through Gert’s bar where peo­ ple are hanging out is unaccept­ able... There are always beer and Pepsi trucks parked over the side­ walk ramps. The university is not even responsible for the snow removal in front of Brown. It’s the city’s jurisdiction and thus accessi­ bility is not truly under the universi­ ty’s control."

The OSD, which has been helping students with disabilities in Burnside Hall since 1995, provides over 400 students with services including alternative examinations, note taking, and classification test­ ing.

The service is funded by the Quebec Ministry of Education, and four dollars from each student’s Student Services fees. McGill University provides funding for the wheelchair transport buses around campus. The OSD assists under­ graduates and students in Medicine, Law, and graduate programs.

Continuing Education students, who do not pay Student Services fees, also receive OSD services.

The OSD is looking for tudent volunteers to read bo >ks aloud onto tapes. If interested, please contact Jeff Grommeit at 398-6009.

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Students in the audience used the event to vent their anger at the uni­ versity for allowing the controver­ sial former Prime Minister of Israel to speak at the school, and for imposing a moratorium on Middle East-related activities.

In an auditorium at the Henry F. Hall Building, where plywood boards covering smashed windows remind passersby of the confronta­ tion between supporters of Arabs and Israelis, students said last week’s violence has created a tense atmos­ phere on campus. The university’s decision to quell unrest by suspend­ ing debate meant that a scheduled lecture by Norman Finkelstein had to be cancelled. Finkelstein, a critic of Israeli government policies and alleged Holocaust denier, was to be one of a series of speakers organized for the Concordia Students’ Union Orientation Week. In Finkelstein’s place, CSU and the university

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The moderators, CSU President Sabine Freisinger and Concordia Rector Frederick Lowy, tried unsuccessfully to limit speak­ ers’ time and steer the dialogue away from the events that led to the forum they were hosting.

Panel members, like [Dean Jerry Tomberlin], argued that inflammatory speech threatens the university community. “[Free speech] must be exer­ cised within a context of tolerance and indeed sympathy for divergent views,” said Tomberlin. “Free speech is most useful when it is designed to educate, to inform, and to persuade. Free speech designed primarily to provoke, to intimidate, and to inflame is of no use. I believe that here at Concordia we’ve come very close to this destruction of civil society.”

Samer Elatrash, a Palestinian student on the panel, said that many Arab and Muslim students feel they are treated with “seeming contempt” by the university.

“I think that a failure to take that into account is an act of irre­ sponsibility,” said Elatrash. “And I think that a failure to assess that Palestinian students, like myself,

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whose relatives have been killed under the premiership of Mr. Netanyahu are going to sit outside and peacefully, you know, demon­ strate with a placard while Mr. Netanyahu spews his venom in this room. I think that this is also symptomatic of this contempt that I’m speaking of.”

Elatrash’s words were met with roars and applause from the audi­ ence.

Patrick Amar, a Jewish Concordia student on the panel, called for peaceful coexistence between Jewish and Arab students.

“The hatred that filled the streets of de Maisonneuve, Bishop, and McKay and the halls of this university should never, ever be present again,” he said.

When the floor was opened up to audience questions, students and faculty lined up behind the micro­ phones. Speakers from the floor directed the conversations towards debate about the Middle East.

For two Arab Muslim students attending the event (who did not give their last names), Netanyahu’s presence alone created an atmos­ phere of hate. Mohammed, in his third year at Concordia, said Netanyahus presence fomented hatred towards Muslims. “[Netanyahu] is a war criminal coming to give a hate speech about the relationship between the Muslims and September 11,” said Mohammed.

Abdul, also a Concordia stu­ dent, believes the decision to let Netanyahu speak was ill-advised.

“I was outraged,” said Abdul. “[I am] angered that my university allowed a man such as Netanyahu chance to speak here.”

Though Lowy called the free speech forum a positive develop­ ment, he was disappointed that stu­ dents continued to take sides in the Arab-Israeli conflict.

“I was hoping that we could have a discussion of this sort in a civil fashion and that was achieved,” said Lowy. “I am not happy of course with some of the content because it was not in the spirit of reconciliation that I was hoping that we would get to. But you can only do one thing at a • » time.

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9/11 A n n iv e r s a r y o b s e rv e d a t M c G ill S o m b re re m e m b ra n c e o f te rro ris t a tta ck s p ro m p ts s tu d e n ts ' p e rso n a l re fle c tio n Jerem y Dietz_______________ O n the anniversary o f last year’s te rro ris t attac k s in th e U n ited States, m em bers o f the M cG ill c o m m u n ity pau sed to reflect on the catastrophe th a t killed over 3 000 people, in c lu d ­ ing 24 C anadians. For m any at M cG ill, th e events o f S eptem ber 11 p ro m p te d disbelief, shock, and horror.

A series o f events at M cG ill allowed people to express their em o tio n s an d thoughts ab o u t the m en an d w om en w ho died in the crashes o f four hijacked flights.

T h e S tu d en ts’ Society o f M cG ill U niversity an d th e P ost-G raduate S tu d e n ts’ S ociety m a rk e d th e anniversary w ith red and w hite carnations th a t they d istrib u ted th ro u g h o u t the day.

S tudents were encouraged to m ake a d o n atio n to the Red Cross a n d to lay the flowers at th e base o f James M cG ill’s tom b. By the end o f th e day, 2000 carnations w ere resting on the w et grass.

SSM U P resident M a rtin D oe explained th a t the in te n t o f the event was "n o t to be a cerem ony" b u t rath er "to provide a w ay for stud en ts to reflect m ore personal­ l y ’’ PG SS P re sid en t R on M cTaggart-C ow an added th a t the event’s aim was n o t only to co m ­ m e m o rate th e attac k s on th e U n ited States b u t also to sym bol­ ize awareness and sym pathy for violence and strife aro u n d the w o rld . B oth p re sid e n ts w ere h eartened by th e swell o f em o tio n generated at M cGill.

The U n ite d T h eo lo g ica l College held a candlelight vigil to

rem em ber th e anniversary. T h e R everend G w enda W ells o rgan­ ized th e vigil in co llab o ratio n w ith St. M a rth a ’s in th e

...the intent of the event was “not to be a ceremony” but rather “to provide a way for students to reflect more personally.”

— M artin D oe President, SSM U

B asem ent, a "group o f progres­ sive-m inded C hristians" w ho are a p a r t o f th e E cu m en ical

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and by making decisions to m iti­ gate the environm ental costs o f operating a university.

W hile M cGill has signed two environm ental declarations w ith other universities, at Halifax in 1991 and Talloires, France in 1990, the university has not adopted a comprehensive environm ental poli­ cy for itself. O ther N o rth American universities, such as the University o f Toronto, Q ueen’s and Harvard, have policies that compel them to consider the environm ental conse­ quences o f adm inistrative and aca­ demic decisions.

People at M cG ill who deal w ith environm ental issues every day, like W ayne W ood, M anager o f the Environm ental Safety Office, are optim istic that the university will foster programs to reduce dam ­ age to the earth. W ood is making a road map to determ ine the best areas for new m ulti-container recy­ cling bins to be installed around campus. Also, the Environm ental Safety Office hopes to install metres to m onitor energy consum ption in each university departm ent.

T h e S ubcom m ittee on the E nvironm ent m et w ith the SCPD this sum m er to discuss am end-

C haplaincy.

Before th e vigil, th e Rev. W ells described it as a "totally relaxed an ti-ev en t w here people can take th e tim e to reflect."

W ells began th e cerem ony w ith a prayer urging those in atten d an ce to "fo rg et th e day" a n d to "rem em ber those b eh in d closed doors o f fear an d h atred and to be th an k fu l for ou r ow n safe places."

P articip an ts lit candles and ca rrie d th e m o n to U n iv ersity S treet, w here th ey w ere given chalk an d encouraged to w rite th eir feelings on the sidew alk.

T h e light stru m m in g o f a g u itar an d th e gentle rh y th m o f percus­ sion in stru m en ts eased th e silence an d d isc o n so la te to n e o f th e m em orial.

M an y acted u p o n th e Rev. W ells’ belief th a t "th e chalk is m ig h tie r th a n th e sw ord," by

scraw ling sentim ents like "heal­ ing" an d "I have hope." Passersby w ere p ro m p te d to v en t th e ir feel­ ings an d jo in th e su b d u ed g ath er­ ing w ith a carn atio n an d a piece o f chalk.

W h ile m ost w alked th ro u g h th e se ctio n o f sid ew alk w ith dow ncast eyes as if the event were a funeral, som e d id accept carna­ tio n s a n d in sc rib ed sim ilar expressions o f h o p e, rem e m ­ brance, an d respect.

T h e relaxed a n d casual atm o sp h e re o f th e vigil was refreshing for p articip an ts, m any o f w h o m so u g h t an alternative to th e g rief and sorrow p ortrayed in th e m edia. A lth o u g h th e g ath er­ ing was som bre, it con firm ed a faith th a t tran scen d ed th e images o f d estru ctio n repeated on televi­ sion specials.

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E D IT O R IA L “R em em brance is m ore than honouring the dead.

R em em brance is jo in in g them — being w ith them in m em o ­ ry. M em ory is survival. ’’ — T im othy Findley

C h re tie n a n d th e in fa m o u s in te r v ie w M a rk K err Last W ednesday C BC Newsworld released an interview w ith Canadian Prime M inister Jean Chretien. W hen asked how last year’s events had changed the world, Chretien stated that “you cannot exercise your powers to the point o f hum iliation for the others. And that is w hat the Western world— not only the Americans, the western world— has to realize. Because they are hum an beings, too.”

T he Prime M inister immediately faced criticism in N orth American media. M any decried the insensitivity o f Canada’s leader on a day when Americans were remembering the tragic events o f a year earlier. Chretien faced accusations o f placing responsibility for September 11 on the victims.

W hat m any com m entators have not acknowledged is that Sept. 11 no longer solely represents the loss o f life. In the rhetoric o f American President George W. Bush, the U nited States came under attack a year ago.

O n a day o f remembrance, Bush’s speeches contained many references to fighting and avenging the deaths. W ithin this context, Chretien’s com ­ ments seem m uch less controversial.

But was Chretien justified in saying w hat he did? C ontrary to the beliefs o f critics, Chretien’s com ments were insightful and n ot disrespectful o f the U nited States.

T he events o f Sept. 11 removed a certain feeling o f invincibility that we, as N orth Americans, have enjoyed. T hrough the use o f such crude weapons as airplanes, the m en behind the attack gained m ilitary power.

W hile increased intelligence and domestic laws can check future deploy­ m ent o f similar non-traditional military offensive, many Canadians feel that determ ining the root causes o f Sept. 11 can also reduce the chance o f another attack. Chretien’s statements reiterate a sentim ent which m any o f us hold.

T his argum ent does not mean that we owe the terrorists something, as Globe and M ail columnist Marcus Gee argued in last Saturday’s edition. A tragedy such as Sept. 11 should lead us as members o f a “Western” nation to re-examine the behaviour o f our government. Chretien waited a year, more than enough time, before suggesting that countries o f the Western world should change their behaviour in the afterm ath o f the attack.

Inevitably, C anada requires an open discussion on the issue. We, as citizens, have to discover whether our actions contributed to the rage which motivated Sept. 11. Let a political and philosophical discussion occur, with inform ation being released that allows the general public to gain a better understanding o f the issues.

T he conclusion could very well be that the people behind the attacks on the U nited States represent a minority. M any would likely applaud such a verdict. However, we m ust not forget the actual intent o f Chretien’s com ­ ments. A ttention m ust be directed to the growing inequalities between the developed and developing world. Even if a connection cannot be drawn between inequality and terrorism, Canada m ust work on outlining a pro­ gram that will alleviate the misery that m uch o f the world’s population is suffering from. Such work would follow the Canadian tradition o f pro­ m oting equality and compassion on the domestic and international stage.

Chretien himself, however, is not above criticism. His pronounce­ ments come at a tim e when he no longer has to concern him self with reelection. T he political system in Canada rewards pragmatic politicians.

T he system cannot be entirely responsible, though, for the cuts to interna­ tional aid packages that Chretien has made over his tenure as Prime Minister. T hat the PM has finally shown some leadership on the issue o f the developing world unfortunately falls into the “too little, too late” category.

Hopefully the next leader o f C anada will pick up where Chretien has recently begun. T he greatest legacy that Chretien can leave behind is to set a precedent whereby politicians take a pro-active approach to world issues.

T hat for me is one o f the few positive ways the world has changed since Sept. 11. t h e

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I have one question for James Grohsgal: W hat are you smoking!?

In serious though, I fundam entally disagree with the argum ent voiced in last week's editorial. Grohsgal, like some other Canadians, seems intent on legalizing m arijuana w ith­ o ut considering all the social, not to m ention policy, ram ifications o f legalizing pot. It was not— as sug­ gested— "geopolitical reality" that was recently tugging on the reins o f the pot-lobby b u t rather a genuine desire to study w hat exactly legaliz­ ing m arijuana will really entail in Canada. It w ould be irresponsible to do otherwise and the factual omissions o f Grohsgal's editorial have dem onstrated how conclu­ sions in this debate can be drawn from incomplete premises.

N o m atter how you slice it, m arijuana is a m ind-altering drug that contains over 400 different chemicals. Its docum ented effects range from biological (damage to lungs, problems w ith pregnancy, emphysema and cancer— to name a few) to psychological effects such as increased apathy, lack o f motiva­ tion, and memory. T here is no denying that pot has the possibility to be harmful; this is the point to w hich Stephen H arper was alluding when he chided the Senate Report two weeks ago. Harper, like mil­ lions o f C anadian parents, would like to do all they can to keep their children from this harm. Legalizing marijuana w ould make doing this already difficult task even more dif­ ficult.

O f course, whenever I take this stance (which is an unpopular one to take on a university campus) I usually get this m ost com m on reply: “Well alcohol and tobbacco [sic] are harm ful and they are also legal.” This is true. To be sure, there even exists some evidence that m ar­ ijuana is less harm ful than the aforem entioned. It however does n o t logically follow th a t ju st because society has a num ber or [sic] legal-ills that this is therefore a valid reason to legalize another.

Anybody w ith an understanding o f public policy can identify th at there are num erous implications— rela­ tions with our neighbours to the south being only one that will arise from legalizing pot. Yes the war on

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drugs may seem “untenable”, so w hy d o n 't we legalize all drugs then? T h at's absurd reasoning.

From another perspective, you d o n 't even need to be a policy expert to look at this in real terms.

W hile I have made the personal choice to not smoke pot, I have many friends w ho do. M any readers o f this publication are no d oubt marijuana users (probably cursing m e at this very m om ent). I asked this to some o f m y pot-sm oking friends, and you should ask yourself this: D o you really have any diffi­ culty acquiring or using marijuana?

W ith very arcane exception, the answer seems to be a resounding

“no”. Sure, the black market drive up the price o f pot, but a high! taxed and regulated legal-pot woul< cost the same as well. I wo tId b willing to bet (my beer money) tha if you smoke pot, the law against i does not stand in your wav. T fi point is simply, since pot use i clearly n ot in jeopardy from th< statute, there is no justificat; >n fo using our legal/political institution to condone pot use, which L m or or less w hat the recent Sénat Report all b u t did.

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On freedom, Bran Flakes and dodging rubber bullets

To begin this week’s episode, we find our industrious hero in the m idst o f a full-scale riot in w hich he m u st sim ultaneously karatechop several surly radicals, eat a roast turkey sandwich (with extra tom ato) and attend the lecture o f a hard-bitten form er prim e minister.

All this fun stuff, plus a singing Ariel Sharon, a tap-dancing Yasser Arafat while pondering the ques­ tion: “W h y should C anadians give a shit about Israel-Palestinian poli­ tics?”

Before we em bark on the adventures o f Le Quebecker, this article comes w ith a small dis­ claimer. T h e narrator o f this piece takes full responsibility for the absurdities b oth real and halluci­ nated by th e m ain character.

However, he ca n n o t be held accountable for the u tter insanity o f M ideast violence, nuclear war and Yorkshire Terriers nam ed Fifi.

So for the reader w ho is faint o f heart, please sit dow n, get a snack and imagine that the world is a w onderful place where people are always preoccupied w ith facial creams, soda commercials and the English.

T h e day began innocently enough; Le Q uebecker had over­

slept and turned up at his first class resembling W alter C ronkite after a thirty-eight day drinking binge.

Suddenly he recalled th a t he had a special lecture to attend. N uts to class! As a journalist he had a duty to cover this event. It did n ot m at­ ter if he shared the views o f Mr. Bibi N etanyahu, it only m attered th at he attend the event so as to voice his opinions in as loud and obnoxious a colum n as possible.

Excuse me for a m om ent, b ut here is an o th er disclaim er. Le Q uebecker may be a little naïve, b u t he is a very idealistic individual.

H e believes in free speech, the value o f an independent press and the nutritional value o f Bran Flakes.

H e even brushes his teeth three times a day just like the dentist told him . M m m , m m m , does the body good.

So he grabbed his trusted pen and paper and converged upon the scene. A t first, de M aisonneuve was an idyllic place, albeit cordoned off

by M ontréal Police and filled with P alestinian chanters striding through the open street hand in hand. A round the bend there was a large group o f pro-Israeli support­ ers enjoying the late m orning sun­ shine. T hey laughed and waited peacefully for their turn to be p at­ ted down and sent through the m etal detector.

T hen, w ith a yell the scene changed. A m ob came crashing through the pro-Israeli camp. T he Palestinian chanters, no longer content to be hand in hand waving flags, decided upon a little mis­ chief. “Aha!” T hey thought, if we

yell loud enough, then we will obviously be the ones w ho are m orally right. So they yelled. T h e pro-Israelis, sensing insult, yelled back. All were yelling so loud that they couldn’t possibly hear each other.

T h e rio t police heard th e ruckus and thought, “Merde! W e’d better do som ething!” So they ran o u t o f their minivans and assumed a line in front o f the heated mob.

T h e police stood and w atched the madness before them w ith scowls upon their faces. N o protesters were going to pass these riot cops.

“Intimidation and violence were, on this occasion, stronger than freedoms."

As the yelling seemed to pos­ sess no purpose and certainly no winner, the Palestinians upped the wager. T hey yelled even louder.

T h ey even used the w ord “racists,” w hich sounds a lot like “fascists,” and is a very useful w ord indeed.

W h en even th at came to naught, scuffles began to break out. T hey proceeded to harass w om en and children an d seniors — groups w hich individually and collectively are always such a threat to protest­ ers.

At this m o m en t, Le Q uebecker yelled, “I am a Journalist, let m e through,” and m ade a dash for the police line. But

no! Several fat, sweaty Arab men knew better and restrained him . A sm all M arxist-girl becam e th eir spokesperson, “T his is a security zone, you cannot pass.” Well, Le Q uebecker laughed and proceeded to call her several words w hich are unprintable in a weekly publica­ tion. N either the small Marxist-girl nor the sweaty Arab m en appeared to appreciate these w ords very m uch.

I’m sorry, b u t I (disclaimer man) m ust intercede again for a m om ent. Apparently, left w ing ide­ ology at Concordia University has changed in the last year. N o longer will it be following the famous dic­ tu m o f “Free Speech no m atter the issue.” Apparently, free speech is too cum bersom e and th ought will now be decided by a com m ittee, com posed mainly o f small, sweaty individuals at th e C o n co rd ia S tudent U nion. A nyone w ho dis­ agrees will be branded a capitalist pigdog, especially, it seems, those dogs w ho still believe in “Free Speech no m atter the issue.”

Well, there was m uch more strife an d violence b u t Le Q uebecker m ade it inside the audi­ torium . U nfortunately, he was then locked in th a t hot, cram ped space for the next four hours as a riot broke up top. T h e tear gas came o u t an d aro u n d this p o in t it became clear that Bibi w ould n ot speak. Intim idation an d violence were, on this occasion, stronger than freedoms.

O h I forgot; there has got to be a C anadian angle to all this chaos.

Well, Canada is entering the 21st

century prim arily as a peacekeeping nation. It seems though that being the nice guy doesn’t always w ork w hen m ost people hate each other’s guts. Cell phones, supersonic jets an d in tern atio n al ban k in g have m ade foreign issues C an ad ian issues. T h a t means we have a lot o f angry violent people operating here in Canada.

For a com parison, remember Septem ber 1972, w hen Palestinian terrorists killed a dozen Israeli ath­ letes at the M unich Olympics. T he G erm an authorities were caught totally unprepared and were more concerned w ith public relations than a com petent solution to the crisis. Now, if C anada is going to m aintain an open, tolerant society, then we m ust protect our m inori­ ties. T h a t does n o t m ean bullshit legislation an d cam era-friendly conferences b u t decisive police action. A t Concordia, the police should, from the beginning, have taken the necessary measures to prevent violent protest.

Instead, four hours later, Le Q uebecker emerged under armed escort into a devastated Concordia cam pus. W indow s, tables, walls and escalators were all smashed. A tattered hose lay where someone had fought the police. A little fur­ ther on, a dem onstrator was pinned by four officers, and all around smoke billowed from burning fires.

T hen, as our hero passed the shat­ tered exit sign, a security guard waved and said, “T h an k you for com ing to C o n c o rd ia.”

Le Q uebecker loved the public rela­ tions.

T h e lo se rs in th e N e ta n y a h u d e b a c le Events at C oncordia prove th a t it's som etim es b e tte r n o t to g e t involved Nicole Cordeau I hesitate to even venture into this m inefield o f a subject. I mean, w ho w ants to open the M iddle East can o f worms? Still, it became clear th at som eone had to w hen even I, a prairie girl from apolitical Calgary w ith no connection to either group, couldn’t help b u t shake m y head at the crap that w ent dow n at C oncordia last week.

Like every quasi-lefty universi­ ty student, I sympathize w ith the Palestinian cause and can under­ stand the hostility that they, and those w ho support them , w ould feel tow ard a controversial figure like Benjam in N etanyahu. A nyone w ho w ould criticize Ariel Sharon for being soft on security issues is pretty dam n scary in m y books. I th in k it’s a good thing th a t this frustration was organized into a protest to vocalize these legitim ate concerns. T h a t is, until it degener­ ated into a ram page th a t threat­ ened N etanyahu’s personal safety.

From the Palestinian p o in t o f view, w hat does breaking windows

and general shit-disturbing really do for th e ir cause? I m ean, we aren’t talking ab o u t little kids throw ing rocks at loom ing Israeli tanks. W e are in C anada, and dam n lucky to live in a place where we have the luxury o f debating issues in a non-threatening, n o n ­ violent manner.

So w hat did all this accom ­ plish? Well, to m ake a com parison, those o f you w ho were here last year m ight rem em ber the infam ous Israel Sham ir lecture. T here was no w indow breaking that day even though Sham ir is a pretty contro­ versial figure, being a H olocaust denier and all. His personal safety secured, he gave his lecture and, I think, discredited the cause th a t he spoke for. H e basically gave every pro-Israel stu d e n t o n cam pus som ething concrete to p o in t to w hen accusing Palestinians o f being radical extremists.

C o n tra st this w ith th e N etanyahu visit. A lthough violent action was lim ited to a sm all m inority o f the protesters, their actions basically gave the m edia a carte blanche to associate th e w hole m ovem ent w ith hooligan­

ism. It also gave N etanyahu an o p p o rtu n ity to go on and on about how dangerous all o f the protesters are. Pointing to this violence, he could dismiss any valid p o in t that the protesters had, and credibly characterize them as thugs w ho run around breaking stu ff instead o f articulating a coherent case. To m ake m atters worse, the actions o f this m inority spat in the face o f freedom o f speech. T urning violent was probably the best thing that the protesters could have done for Z ionist supporters— I know th at it h ad m e m om entarily rethinking some the scorn th at I norm ally reserve for th e Palestinians-aren o th in g -b u t-rad icals-an d -ex trem ists rhetoric.

I have to emphasize th at I’m n o t talking at all about the history and politics o f the region here. T h e co n u n d ru m o f the M iddle East is far too com plex for m e to com ­ m en t on in this space. I’m talking tactics, and although lim ited to an extremist m inority, I have to sav th a t the tactics used last week just m ade m y stom ach tu rn . Yet an o th ­ er reason I’m glad th a t I’m n o t a student at Concordia.

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To share o r n o t to share? C o n tro v e rs y o v e r c o p y rig h t in frin g e m e n t rages o n Kate W elch T he sad demise o f N apster in 2001 left m any in Rez sitting and w ondering about the point o f hav­ ing a high-speed connection if they could no longer dow nload free music in seconds. Fortunately for stu d e n t budgets, num erous N apster alternatives sprung up.

But w ith the growth o f these new file-sharing program s come increasingly sticky legal issues and ever more vindictive efforts to wipe them out.

T he technology behind P2P programs is relatively simple. P2P stands for peer-to-peer, w hich m eans th a t one user is linked direcdy to another. For example, w ith Napster, a user logs into the central server. This server keeps an index o f all users currently online, but does n o t contain any actual files. It just queries other com put­ ers online for the file requested.

O nce found, individuals can dow n­ load the file directly from any com ­ puter containing the file.

T he fact that this central serv­ er is key in the searches and in indexing the files available online left companies using this system (like N apster and Scour) extremely vulnerable to lawsuits. According to the RIAA (Recording Industry Association o f America), the cen­ tral issue in dow nloading music is copyright infringem ent. T h eir website refers to the N o Electronic T heft (N ET) Act.

Copyright is infringed “when a song is m ade available to the p u b ­ lic by uploading it to an Internet site for other people to download, sending it through an e-mail or chat service, or otherwise reproduc­ ing or distributing copies w ithout authorization from the copyright owner,” states the act.

However, since new software

ny was given two weeks to prevent users from further sharing material which they had no right to distrib­ ute. But according to Kazaa lawyer C h ristiaan A lberdink T h ijm , “Kazaa can’t see w hat sort o f files people are sharing or who its users n are.

T h e issue here is user identifi­ cation and since Kazaa uses no cen-

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tral server, the com pany claims there is no way o f obtaining user inform ation.

T he beauty o f the new way o f file-sharing is that even if the RIAA succeeds in the lawsuits, and the companies that run Kazaa are ban­ ished, the file-sharing networks could remain in place. T he com pa­ n y -m ain tain ed web pages, ad streams and bulletin boards are essentially irrelevant to the search and swap process. W ith the tech­ nology being so accessible, the m usic-sharing p h en o m en o n can now stand alone— user-run and m aintained w ithout corporate sup­ port.

T h e record industry is under­ standably upset w ith the craze o f music-sharing. U nder Section 3 o f the Canadian Copyright Act, copy­ right is infringed if a party “distrib­ utes to such an extent as to affect prejudicially the owner o f the copy­ right.” This means the party doesn’t have to make a profit from this dis­ tribution, copyright is infringed sim ply w hen the actions are harm ­

ful to its owner.

But should makers o f the tech­ nology be punished? Fred von L ohm ann, Senior Intellectual Property A ttorney at the Electronic F rontier F o u n d atio n , does n o t think so.

“T he mere making o f technol­ ogy, including P2P software, that can be used to violate the law should n ot make you liable for every misdeed com m itted with it.

If it did, innovators would never have built the photocopier, the cas­ sette deck or the personal com put­ er.,” he said. Essentially, should C an o n be prosecuted because someone used their copier to ille­ gally photocopy a book?

“T h e key question is w hether your product is capable o f a sub­ stantial non-infringing use,” added Von Lohm ann. “P2P is obviously capable o f such uses.”

H e is currently representing the makers o f M orpheus in the pending M G M vs. Grokster litiga­ tion in Los Angeles.

A nother issue that has come into the spotlight is w hether courts have the authority to prosecute individual end-users rather than the networks.

O n e possible approach, proposed by U.S. Representative H ow ard L. Berman

“There’s no money going to the artist, so music-sharing is steal• ?! mg.

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o f California, is to let record com ­ panies hack into personal com put­ ers to find movie or music files being illegally shared.

O th er tactics include interfer­ ing w ith or disabling the file swap­ ping programs themselves, or even target personal com puters w ith denial-of-service attacks to kick them off-line and stop them from

trading files. Berman’s campaign has enjoyed co n trib u tio n s o f $28,050 and $31,000 US from A O L T im e W arner and D isney respectively.

Also being investigated by the courts are cases taken directly to In tern et service providers. In E ngland, British Telecom Broadband has threatened to kick users o f P2P applications o ff its service for copyright abuse. Brirish Telecom’s systems detect file-shar­ ing applications, and as soon as a file lands in a shared folder— becoming available to the public— they send the user a breach o f con­ tract letter.

In Europe, it seems this will be the route for copyright protection, as the European U nion Copyright D irective clearly encourages Internet service providers to ban P2P applications.

Metallica, dubbed “the begin­ ning o f the end o f N apster”, were “sickened” u p o n discovery that th eir m usic was being traded online. T hey saw the practice as theft, since users are taking some­ thing that isn’t theirs.

Stacia Kean, U1 Arts student, agrees.

“T here’s no m oney going to the artist— so it’s stealing from the artists.”

O th er artists, such as John Mayer, encourage fans to record concerts and distribute mp3s. He, like other new artists, credits mp3 file sharing w ith increasing his pop­ ularity.

Clare Raspopow, U1 Arts stu­ d en t is enthusiastic ab o u t new music-sharing technology.

“I will buy the C D o f an artist I really enjoy, b u t I’m unwilling to buy a $30 C D just for one song.”

T he controversy over music­ sharing hasn’t hindered the growth o f the practice. U ntil further deci­ sive legal rulings are made, the con­ sensus am ong users seems to coin­ cide w ith M orpheus’ slogan: Your m other was right. It is good to share, share often.

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Environmental apocalypse: time to overhaul the system G e o g ra p h y P ro fe sso r N ig e l R o u le t e xp o se s th e tru th a b o u t o u r tro u b le d e a rth Rhena Howard Part one o f a two-part series on environmental awareness.

T h e list seems to grow almost daily. Forest fires, droughts, floods, irresponsible agriculture, erosion, polluted water, global warming, the exhaustion o f natural resources, sm og, species extinction— all threaten the already shaky equilibri­ um o f our natural world.

C ontem porary lifestyles seem to be based upon the assum ption that resources are endless despite M althusian logic, so how long will it be before everything is either used up or destroyed. Is there really som ething to fear?

T he answer is unquestionably yes, b u t the issues that should be given p rio rity are debatable.

Responses given by experts vary trem endously and the wide spec­ tru m o f propositions dem onstrate that we are facing a frightening num ber o f ecological problems that have each escalated to catastrophic levels. T he one thing all experts do appear to agree upon is that the remedy to w hat ails the planet is an im m ediate overhaul in the way each o f us conducts our lives.

W orld health at risk

Professor Greg Mikkelson o f the M cGill School o f Environm ent believes that examining the num ber o f species on earth is the best meas­ urem en t o f th e w orld’s overall health.

“H abitat destruction is one o f the top three causes: urban sprawl is one m ajor culprit here, along w ith poor forestry practices,” he explains.

T h e n u m b er o f species is declining at an accelerated pace.

T he diversity o f E arths species is being threatened, and its decline will have far-reaching effects on the plan et and on h um an beings, according to Mikkelson. A nother m ajor cause o f concern is the relo­ cation o f species around the earth.

Pollution is still another con­ cern. W riter Danylo Hawaleshka o f M acleans m agazine stressed the implications o f pollution n o t on the loss o f species, but on its role in cli­ m ate change.

“If it isn’t clear yet, it should be: global w arm ing caused by burn­ ing fossil fuels causes severe weather conditions. T h at means lots o f rain and flooding or heat that bakes farmland hard and dry.”

Professor N igel R oulet o f M cG ill’s G eography departm en t gives further insight into the threat o f climate change. H e explains that the greatest contributing factor is the change in concentration o f greenhouse gases. Such changes, accelerated by hum an activity, are reaching dangerous levels.

“Burning o f fossil fuels, land use change, production o f fertiliz­ ers, industrial activities, production o f hydro-electric power. Anything we do requires energy, and any use o f energy requires some emission o f greenhouse gases in m ost cases,”

Roulet explains. “W e have always had greenhouse gases, [but] hum an activity is adding a little bit each year, so we are enhancing the green house gases.”

H o w does this affect us?

We know statistically that the temperatures in Canada are increas­ ing- t “T he tem perature just seems [to be] going up, and up, and up.

Some places, for example, in the Mackenzie Valley and in the Artie, the tem perature seems to have gone up two to three degrees, and th at’s a big increase. [As a result], we’re see­ ing a little bit more m elting o f the frozen soils in the north, sometimes the permafrost seems to be m elting a little bit, we are seeing higher inci­ dences o f forest fire, we’re seeing droughts,” Roulet explains.

A lthough the possibility has been suggested th a t the recent changes are simply a natural part o f the Earth’s systems, Roulet believes that there is more to the story.

“T he difficulty is th at there is

forced to do this. Because w hat m ost people w ould find, in Canada, is that if all six billion people on the surface o f the earth live the way that we do as individuals, we would require som ew here between five and ten planets. We don’t have five to ten planets, we have one; we’ve got E arth,” affirms Roulet.

It seems clear th a t clim ate change is a huge problem , b ut is it safe to say it is the biggest? N ot according to Roulet.

“T he m ost im m ediate environ­ m ental problem that we have at the present tim e is the provision o f clean water for the people that are on the planet. We have invested very, very heavily in our food sup­ ply being produced by irrigation that requires ground water, w hich is n ot a renewable resource. T h at is n ot unconnected to climate. I think climate change will make that prob­ lem even worse.”

“Individuals need to reevaluate their eco­ logical footprint. We don’t have five to ten planets, we have one; we’ve got Earth.”

So w hat is the bottom line? We should adopt a pro-active attitude towards Earth’s problems and our own negative contributions towards

them . T h e environm ent is deterio­ rating: our generation may n o t have started it, b ut we aren’t helping m atters any

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natural climate variability that goes on. Those oscillations create natural variability in the climate system.

W hat hum ans are doing by putting greenhouse gases in could be am pli­ fying those oscillations, or produc­ ing new climate regimes.”

Although it is widely believed that there is a link between hum an behaviour and changes in climate, it is difficult to assess the relationship between the two at present. It will be another 50 to 60 years before conclusive analyses can be made.

Environmentalists, however worry that if hum ans continue the pattern set by current behaviour for anoth­ er five or six decades and then con­ firm that climate change is in fact our fault, it will already be too late.

Even if harm ful emissions were drastically reduced right now, con­ siderable damage has already been inflicted.

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W hile m any environmentalists suggest that the solution involves heavier taxation for oil companies, Roulet points out that “the reason w hy oil is produced is because you and I consume it.”

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“Every hum an being on the surface o f the earth should be

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Daniel Ehrenfeld W hen it comes tim e to return home after a long school day w ith a grum bling in the gut and a nonetoo-liberal budget, many have trou­ ble finding ways to satisfy their appetite, m oney supply and timetable simultaneously.

Often, getting the Extra Value Meal at M cD onald’s seems easier and less expensive than cooking a decent dinner. But with the semes­ ter just beginning, it’s the perfect tim e to start paying attention to w hat and how you’re eating, espe­ cially for those just starting their university careers, wanting to avoid the infamous freshman fifteen.

M any students find they are

eating later in the day than they used to, sometimes n ot getting a break for their first meal until the late afternoon.

“Since starting university, when and how m uch I can eat is w hat has changed most. Because o f classes during the day, I eat more at n ig h t,” shares Sameer Rai Bhatnagar, a U2 English student.

This often translates into an intense, persisting hunger through­ out the day that impels numerous students to gorge themselves with the most effortless and undem and­ ing food items available.

O thers simply don’t feel they have the tim e to make healthy meals for themselves, no m atter w hat period o f the day. Dr. Peter Jones, a professor at the McGill

School o f Dietetics and H um an N utrition has observed this reality closely.

“T he nutrition o f some stu­ dents is lacking and for some it’s pretty good. Some prioritize study­ ing and partying over eating prop­ erly, although students in my class­ es mostly look healthy enough.”

T he simplest and most im por­ tan t tip for making sure your diet isn’t headed for disaster is being conscious o f w hat you’re ingesting, whatever it is. T he more you under­ stand w hat you’re really putting into your system, the more attention you will pay to eating more health­ ful foods.

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D itto for that Starbucks white chocolate m ocha w ith w hipped cream, containing 600 calories or three quarters o f a days total rec­ om m ended saturated fat intake, effectively making it comparable to drinking a Big Mac. It’s not that there’s anything wrong with enjoy­ ing such foods once in a while, it’s when indulging becomes a daily practice that the red flags should be going up.

Generally speaking, store or restaurant-bought food is m uch more damaging to your health than w hat can be prepared at home, just by virtue o f having more control over the ingredients and, in turn, fat and caloric content.

“I really overspend on food. What else can you spend money on?

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“I buy lunch more often than I used to in high school or CEGEP. I really overspend on food. W hat else can you spend money on?” remarks U 3 Psychology student Josie Caro.

Preparing appetizing food that’s good for you doesn’t have to be a difficult or costly endeavour. A Rez staple like pasta can be made healthier simply by switching to whole wheat varieties. T he taste isn’t too different, especially with the right sauce; and whole grains such as oats, whole wheat and brown rice, are m ore n u tritio u s than refined grains.

Such whole grains retain the bran and the germ, which are rich in vitamins, minerals, and fiber, and have a more m odest effect on blood sugar than refined carbohydrates or sugars.

M any foods high in sugar, especially sucrose and other artifi­ cial sweeteners, supply em pty calo­ ries with little nutrients. In con­ trast, the calories in foods rich in complex carbs usually bring many nutritional extras w ith them.

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...a n d h o w t o d o it w i t h m i n i m a l c a s h f l o w Continued from page 10 pasta, o f course, is also key to its nutritional value. It’s better to stick to a good marinara sauce instead o f a creamy alfredo-type one. You could add some skim or 1% milk to make a light rosée sauce with much less fat than the regular creamy vari­ ety.

T he same principle applies to soups, w here it’s better to lean towards vegetable and tomato-based selections instead o f cream-based ones. M aking your own soup will also help to reduce the sodium con­ te n t th at plagues m ost instant mixes.

For those looking to boost pro­ tein consum ption w ithout the cost and hassle o f preparing m eat, peanut butter in m oderation or hum m us on grain bread are great, healthy and effortless ways to get protein. Grilling chicken breasts is an ideal protein meal, especially for those with a George Foreman-style grill, but cooking it in a non-stick pan w ith a thin layer o f oil is also a pretty safe bet.

Adding taste to your dishes, whether they be meat, vegetable or pasta, is as easy as finding a nice array o f spices and herbs and keep­ ing them handy during meal prepa­ ration. M aking a tasty pasta dish can

Student thrift: on a budget Beza Seife W ithout a doubt, being a stu­ dent at McGill has its financial perks. Despite tuition hikes in the recent past, the school boasts one o f the lowest tuition rates in the coun­ try. So why is it so easy to blow an entire savings account halfway through the year? Read on to put a strain on spending and get that financial act in gear.

Dining— For those living in traditional residence with a meal plan, the best possible advice is to eat the food provided. It may not be haute cuisine, but it is more than edible. If going out, opt for coffee or dessert outings. And grab that

mirror can cost under $150 with delivery. Funky and eclectic pieces are waiting to be picked up for dirt cheap, and new pieces are being shipped in all the time. Also check out InfoMcgifl, where students wishing to get rid o f old furniture post their ads.

Cell phones—They’re a luxury.

Yes, they’re handy, but for the aver­ age student, mobile phones become just another bill to pay. Those who do plan to use a phone should not give in to pre-paid plans that take advantage o f students who don’t have sufficient credit to set up a m onthly plan.

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be as easy as cooking some noodles and adding some extra-virgin olive oil with garlic, chopped or dried parsley, basil and a touch o f oregano.

O ther herbs like thyme or rose­ mary can liven up an otherwise bland dish. M aking grilled chicken

taste great while keeping the calories down can be accomplished by mari­ nating it in a low-cal, store-bought Italian salad dressing or by topping the finished product w ith salsa.

O ften, students will go light on liquids, fruits and vegetables. Eight glasses o f water a day are recom­

mended, which may sound like a lot but is essential, especially for the very active. Fruits and vegetables also have a hard time creeping into our diets.

“T he major nutritional prob­ lems for people o f college age are marginal intake o f B soluble vita­ m ins and, for w om en, getting enough iron and vitamin C from fruits, as well as folic acid which comes from vegetables,” maintains Dr. Jones.

N um erous students refrain from buying fruits and vegetables for fear they’ll spoil before they get a chance to eat them. T h e trick is to buy fruits and vegetables in small am ounts more often, and eat them as snacks during the day. Juice is another way to get some o f the vita­ mins found in fruit servings, and is a m uch healthier alternative to Coke and other soft drinks.

“I enjoy couscous and salad as a great and simple meal w ith plenty o f vegetables and carbohydrates,” offers Arie Pickard, a U 1 Sociology student, one am ong the many who take pleasure in preparing healthy, appealing food.

By putting a little effort into contemplating w hat you eat and, naturally, making sure to exercise regularly, you may find that it is possible to eat well while keeping your m ind on your money and out o f your belly.

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bagged lunch from the dining hall to avoid the trek up the hill during lunchtime.

Groceries— Pressed for tim e and lured by conveniently packaged foods, students often spend much more on groceries than necessary.

Picture this: a single-serve microwave meal o f tom ato sauce and pasta goes for about $2.99, while a 900 gram bag o f pasta and a bottle o f sauce costs roughly double that price and makes at least five times the am ount. Buying items like paper rowels, toilet paper and dish soap in large quantities avoids pay­ ing for extra packaging. It may lie a little awkward carrying that twentyfour pack o f toilet paper home, but the money saved will be worth the lug.

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Taxis— Splitting late-night cab fare between friends who live in your area is cost effective. Beware of cab drivers who take advantage of students unfamiliar with the city by taking costly roundabout ways.

Books— Buying and selling used books Is a sure way o f saving money. If books are kept in good condition, independent establish­ m ents like T he W ord, M ilton Street’s veteran used bookstore, will happily buy them back from stu­ dents for 40 to 50 percent the origi­ nal price, with resale value at 60 to 70 percent. All chronic textbook highlighters, beware: stores pay sig­ nificantly less for books that have been scribbled on.

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o f F e la Scott R. Medvin The A ntibalas A frobeat O rchestra is a m ulticultural m usi­ cal collective from Brooklyn, New York, a group o f men passionate about music, life and changing the world. T he music they play togeth­ er is music o f protest and com m u­ nity: Afrobeat, from its first days, was a musical criticism o f the ways o f a repressive state. Back then, the repressive state was Nigeria, but today, as Antibalas sees it, America is doing the cracking down. Civil liberties are in danger, the rights o f minorities are hanging by a thread and a never-ending ‘W ar on D rugs’ loafs along. Antibalas writes lyrics that are a com m entary on the state o f the world, hoping to bring peo­ ple w ho share their concerns together through music.

A few hours before their packed concert Friday night at le Spectrum , a smaller group o f peo­ ple gathered to spend tim e with Antibalas. T he Concordia Student U nion, who p u t on the show, also organized a conference entitled “‘M usic is the W eapon o f the Future’ and ‘So You W ant to Play Afrobeat’.”

T he conference featured seven members o f the band talking with ab out th irty people, m ostly C oncordia students, for three hours on topics such as the life and times o f Fela Kuti, the musical structure and com position o f Afrobeat, activist networking, the power o f music and the difficulties o f w orking in a real collective.

T he small conference room was set up to allow m axim um interaction between the band and those there to discuss and learn w ith them. M artin Perna, baritone

saxophonist and founder o f the A n t i b a l a s O rchestra quickly brought the small group to order and began to give a crash course on Fela Kuti, the musical iconoclast w ho paved the road that Antibalas travels nightly. All the members o f the group participated in the discussion— each more a scholar th an a fan of Afrobeat and Fela— and inform ation that one m em ber m ight not have know n was usually supplied forth­ rightly by another.

Fela Kuti: “destined to do w hat he did”

Afrobeat was creat­ ed by Fela A nukulapo Kuti, a Nigerian known as the ‘Black President’ who is still revered as a musical, social and politi­ cal icon in his home conti­ n ent and around the world.

Born to a middle-class family in the tow n o f Abeokuta, Fela was a stub­ born child who picked up distinc­ tive parts o f his parent’s personali­ ties and exhibited them throughout his life. His father was strict: a preacher and teacher w ho regularly beat his words into his children.

H is m other was a political activist, the first democratically influential w om an in N igeria’s history, a w om an who had m et and discussed w ith political leaders such as

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C hairm an Mao. From her, Fela learned his activism, and from his father, he received the dem anding nature that he used to discipline his bands.

After receiving a Western-style education in E ngland, Fela returned to Nigeria and began a musical career playing different forms o f afro-pop music, including High-Life, an African interpreta­ tion o f jazz that used indigenous rhythm s and jazz sensibilities and resulted in syrupy ditties w ithout political backbone, songs th at praised drinking and dancing.

Black Nigerian musicians o f the day also helped to make ends meet by ‘praise singing’— a hum ili­ ating form o f entertainm ent where the African ‘m instrel’ sings the praises o f his w hite social superiors, who reward him by placing m oney on his forehead, inevitably rein­ forcing the status quo.

Fela was surviving in this m an­ ner, playing High-Life and singing the occasional ‘praise song’ when

infectious grooves.

A frobeat is a u to p ian an d com m unitarian form o f music; the individual musical efforts only have w orth as a p art o f the whole.

G uitarist Luke O ’Malley, spoke from experience and claimed that “playing Afrobeat is sort o f like a m editation: you have to be very selfless to play this m usic.”

Fela took the com m itm ent to the group and the end m usi­ cal result very seriously, as he took a page from the James Brown school o f band-leading and often fined the members o f his bands for leaving the com m unal musical space and forsaking the com position for the chance to solo.

O ne o f the m ost im por­ tan t com ponents o f Afrobeat is the interaction between th e different percussive instrum ents.

R hythm s interlock and repeat them ­ selves over and over w ith very little change, often for teri m inutes or more.

D ifferent d ru m styles make for more textured m usic, an d A frobeat com bines techniques from the C aribbean, Africa an d South A m erica to find this feeling. Ernesto Abreu, percussionist an d a J0*« geou ® - Cuban-American discussed these influences: “T h e percus­ sive influence is more C uban than he took his band, Koolo Lobitos, Nigerian, b u t C uba was influenced on a tour o f the west coast o f

by W est Africa in the first place.”

America. It was there that Fela met Musical cross-pollination was funk while attending a perform ­ very prevalent in African music, as ance by James Brown. H e also m et traditional aspects were brought Sandra Isodore, a Black Panther over to the W estern Hemisphere w ho in tro d u ced Fela to the during the slave trade. W h en some Autobiography o f Malcolm X, a book slaves brought or earned their free­ that changed his outlook and influ­ dom and returned to their hom e enced his w ork for the rest o f his continent they brought parts o f the career.

West’s musical culture w ith them.

W hen Fela returned to Nigeria “African music is like the w ind,” he connected w ith drum m er Tony Abreu stated. “It goes back and Allen and together they created forth an d is constantly influencing Afrobeat: a hypnotic mix o f tradi­ members o f the D iaspora.” tio n al elem ents— ch an tin g an d A nother big influence on the drum m ing— with electric bass lines Afrobeat Diaspora was Fela Kuti’s and slamming funk breaks, large use o f lyrics to com m ent on society and loud h o rn sections and a and the status quo. For this he was drum m er on a jazz-style drum kit. considered an enem y o f the Afrobeat is pure dance music, Nigerian state— he is believed to be designed to w ork the crowd into a the m ost oft-arrested m an in the frenzy. D ru m m er Phil Ballm an history o f Nigeria— and received explained it as “an extension o f the physical beatings for the words he hypnotic, shamanistic tradition of sung.

Santeria [and o th er ritualistic O ne song, “Expensive Shit”, forms] b ut w ith a very cosmopoli­ was w ritten after th e N igerian tan oudook,” a place where East See ANTIBALAS, page 16 meets W est in an explosion o f

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W orld Press Photo exhibit heart-rending in a good way Jenny George______________ Riots in Italy, child-warriors in Palestine and mass graves in BosniaHerzegovina are juxtaposed w ith the Aurora Borealis, a frog m unch­ ing on mayflies and renegade golfers. T h e W orld Press Photo exhibit is a lesson in polarities, cre­ ating a visual dialogue between drastic images o f differing topics, scales and styles.

O riginating in the N etherlands in 1955, the W orld Press Photo Foundation is an international non­ p ro fit organization th a t brings recognition and support to photo­ journalists, mainly through their annual photography com petition.

T he winners o f the 2001 com ­ p etitio n were carefully selected from almost 50,000 photos subm it­ ted by photographers around the world. These w inning photos are now a touring exhibition, and have arrived in C anada for the first tim e in the organization’s history.

O ver 200 colour and black and w hite photos are exhibited at the M aison de la culture Plateau-M ontRoyal. T h e contest has nine differ­ ent categories: spot news, general news, people in the news, portraits, sports, the arts, daily life, science and technology, and nature and the environm ent. To the viewer, these categories seem to separate the photos into either political or non­

political subject matter.

Logically, a prom inent theme o f the exhibit is the destruction o f the Twin Towers o f the W orld Trade Center last year. This them e is illus­ trated by photos o f the disaster and images o f the reaction to it that cap­ ture the disbelief and horror o f the attack. T he images are shocking b u t th e desensitizing effect o f September 11 media saturation has lessened their impact.

Directly facing images o f Trade C e n ter w orkers falling to their deaths is a series o f photographs o f the to rtu re and execution o f a Taliban soldier. Instead o f explicat­ ing each other, the political implica­ tions o f each o f the photos are over­ taken by the ghastliness o f the images. Together they engender an intense pity for h um ankind’s inabil­ ity to evolve through tolerance.

T he first-prize photo was n ot one o f the mass-publicized images o f crashing planes, or shocked onlookers or any large-scale event o f destruction. Instead, the w inning photograph by D anish photogra­ pher Eric Refner is intim ate and personal. T he image at first glance seems to be a sleeping infant being tucked in by three pairs o f ancient, weathered hands.

Reading the title o f the photo­ graph startles the viewer into the realization that the infant is a dead Afghani boy in a Pakistani refugee camp. T he child is being prepared

for his funeral rites. T he peaceful expression on the child’s face is all the more alarming w hen placed in context o f death and war.

N o t all the photos are horrify­ ing. M any o f them express the joy and beauty that are trademarks of hum an existence. T he serenity on the face o f a Chinese gymnast as she soars through the air, models in D akaar possessed w ith an unnatural level o f fashion sense and the smile lighting a child’s face while her sis­ ters peek o ut shyly behind her are testaments to the redeeming nature o f humanity. These photos balance the exhibit, allow ing breathing space for spectators, b u t also heighten the pain o f viewing many o f the other images.

T he power o f this collection o f images lies beyond the rational, in the rawness o f the reality o f visual experience. Be prepared to leave w ith a lum p in your throat and an ache in your chest.

This is an ideal exhibit for stu­ dents. It is easy to get ro (walk out o f the M ont-Royal metro, and the building’s directly in front o f you), and it’s free. T h e show is on until September 29, from one to seven Tuesday to Thursday, and from one to five from Friday to Sunday.

It is closed on Mondays.

ERIKREFNER P hotographer Erik Refner, from D enm ark, is the winner of this y e a r’s W orld Press Photo exhibit fo r this shot of the body of an Afghan refugee boy being prepared for burial in Pakistan.

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Everything you’ve always w anted to know b ut were afraid to ask about dram a at M cGill Have you ever heard words such as Players’, M orrice, Moyse and T N C being throw n around but have no idea w hat on earth people are talking about? A nd w hat about this elusive “dram a board” people keep referring to? A nd w hy is there always a large group o f people cram m ed around th a t bulletin board in the Arts building clogging up the hallway? Well, it all has to do w ith theatre at McGill.

For a school w ith such a small theatre program, we sure do pro­ duce a whole lot o f it. T here’s tons o f it all over campus and in many forms. N o m atter w hat your inter­ est there’s som ething for you; from regular plays to musicals, to improv, to Francophone theatre.

Some people can go through their entire degree w ithout ever realizing th at there are in fact three fully operational theatres on cam­ pus, two o f w hich are entirely stu­ den t-ru n . T h e am ount o f tim e,

energy and effort people p ut into p roductions all over cam pus is mind-boggling, and the fact they still have tim e for classes is unbe­ lievable.

I think that the best way to begin this year would be to intro­ duce Trib readers to the theatres on campus. Have you ever walked into Arts and w ondered w h at was behind those large, looming, w ood­ en doors in the lobby?

If you’ve ever been brave enough to wander through w hen the doors are open you w ould have seen a 300-plus seat theatre. This is w here the M ainstage happens.

Each semester there is one major play produced w hich takes place at Moyse H all (i.e. behind those large w ooden doors in the Arts building).

T hen there’s the m atter o f the student-run theatres. T hey’re a little tough to find, but entirely worth the effort. T he smallest one would be M orrice H all in ...w a it for it...M orrice Hall. It’s that little building beside Leacock past the stairs to Shatner. Tuesday N ight Café (T N C ) is the group that runs the intim ate studio theatre. It seats only 50 people so if you’re attend­ ing a show there, get there early because once it’s sold out, you’re out o f luck. A nd, please, people, when planning to see a show don’t wait until the last weekend o f the run, because guess w hat —so will every­ one else.

Now, I’m sure that at one point

or another you’ve been up to the third floor o f Shatner, be it to visit the poster sale, during a party or maybe you just got lost while look­ ing for the fourth floor. W hatever your reason for being up there, you probably never realized that there’s also a 100-seat black box theatre on that floor. Now, you m ight find yourself asking, w hat is a black box?

Well to be frank, the theatre is in the shape o f a box, and it’s painted black.

Both o f the student-run the­ atres produce a regular season ovet the course o f the school year, rang­ ing from straight plays to puppet shows to smaller-scale musicals.

But, if this isn’t really w hat you’re looking for, fear not.

T here are a bunch o f other groups around campus dedicated to theatre. T h e largest w ould be the Savoy Society, w ho produces a G ilbert & Sullivan production each year, although they seem to have strayed this year for the first tim e I believe. T here’s also M cGill Im prov if you prefer theatre sports and T héâtre de la Grenouille if French is your language o f preference.

But how do you get involved w ith all this you ask? Well it all comes down to one small section of bulletin board we like to call the dram a board. It lives in the Arts building right beside the English lounge. I t’s th a t board people scrunch around in an effort to find som ething o f interest posted there.

directed by Alison Lemoine at T N C and The House o f Yes by W endy M acLeod directed by J. Kelly N estruck at Players’.

I f improv is more your thing, swing by Shatner on Saturdays at lp m for M cG ill Improv.

O therw ise, if you’re looking to schmooze w ith the theatre crowd, stop b y T N C ’s open house on Sept.

2 0 th from 2:30 u n til 4:30 at M orrice Hall. H appy theatre-hop­ ping to all.

This is where you go to find out w hat’s going on, to sign up for audi­ tions, to find out who’s looking for volunteers, and to sign up to usher for a show. Ushering is a sweet deal; you take tickets for 15 m inutes and then get to see the show for free, definitely w orth it.

Well, I hope that m y blabbing has inspired some o f you to check o u t the dram a b oard and get involved. T h e productions sched­ uled for O cto b er are Godspell

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police planted some drugs in his home. W hen he found the stash of contraband, Fela immediately ate it, and told the authorities w ho arrived soon after that there was nothing illegal there. Fela was brought down to the police station, where men were paid to w atch him and wait for the m arijuana to pass through his system. Claim ing constipation, Fela was able to avoid the inevitable, and eventually left the Lagos police sta­ tion after relieving him self in secret during the m iddle o f the night.

T he song is a com m entary on th e sad state o f Nigeria, where employees o f the state and capital resources are used for the sole pur­ pose o f persecuting one man. T he N igerian authorities, as can be imagined, were not amused. By the end o f Felas career he was no longer able to play the piano, as his fingers had been broken so many times that they could not even be extend­ ed straight.

T h e band has all b u t removed these discourses from their live per­ formance. “Right now,” explained Perna, “we are developing a more coherent political stance th at is

Perna and vocalist D uke Amayo, him self a Nigerian who had lived and worked at Felas com pound, a chance to give impassioned speech­ es about the causes and injustices

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believe. T his new approach the audience to make their conclusions and allows the to play music that incorpo­ a political tone w ithout it

“We m ay n ot be gettin g our hands broke, but w e’re n ot d oin g that”

As the first p art o f the confer­ ence w ound down, both the band and the audience were anxious to move into a new realm, that o f the role o f music in social change.

Antibalas has recently changed their approach in this area. In the past, long extended num bers quieted down and broke open, allowing

JENNYGEORGE M em bers of the Antibalas A frobeat O rchestra (on left) leading a conference with m usicians, fans and activists

expressed lyrically.” It is one thing to lecture to an audience about the ills o f the world, it is another to write songs that provoke the audi­ ence to th in k for themselves and to organize along the lines o f w hat

that moved them . This form o f activism was troubling to some members o f the Antibalas collec­ tive, w ho found th at sometimes the sentim ents spoken on stage were n o t held by all members.

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W hen asked if his playing is purely political, bassist Frank Stribling replied: “W hen I’m on stage I play w hat’s in my heart, w hat I’m really feeling. Purely political

art loses its power w ithout the em o­ tion behind it.”

It is n o t as im p o rta n t for Antibalas to pass on their own con­ victions to their audience. T heir m ain goal is to provide a space that allows fans w ith the same convic­ tions and causes to meet.

“Maybe I can’t make m uch o f a change in the world by myself, but if I bring all o f you together, than maybe som ething can get done.”

The A ntibalas A frobeat O rchestra is able to bring people together w ith powerful, invigorat­ ing and danceable music. H allm an, w ho celebrated his birthday at the concert, joked: “N oam Chom sky w ould be a lot more popular if he could make people dance.”

E ntertainm ent value is im por­ tant, especially w hen you are trying to get a message across. Chom sky could be the m ost brilliant man alive, b u t his lectures don’t make the feet move like a hard bass line, his complex linguistic theories can’t touch the rhythm o f a complex conga solo.

An A ntibalas A frobeat O rchestra concert is a learning experience, one where the joy o f dancing an d th e happiness o f knowledge com bine to form a per­ fect m ixture o f education and enjoyment. Seeing the collective in a personal conference setting allowed those there to get a closer look at this collective o f impas­ sioned and intelligent musicians.

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Immortals of comedy exhibition provides lasting laughter Ric Lambo If asked to compose a list of candidates for a Com edy Hall o f Fame, we’d all include Charlie Chaplin, Laurel and Hardy, Woody Allen and Bill Cosby. American actors and comedians undoubtedly would make up a large part o f the list, and m ost o f the candidates would probably be twentieth centu­ ry television or film stars.

Now, would anybody think to include, Ferrial Triboulet (1474 1536), the court jester o f Louis XII and Francois I? Triboulet was the inspiration for the heroes o f Victor H ugo’s play ‘La Roi s’amuse’ and Verdi’s opera ‘Rigoletto’, and who when sentenced to death and asked to choose the mode o f execution, answered famously: “I would like to die o f old age.”

However, both obscure and famous comedians are to be found in the ‘Just for Laughs’ museum’s new perm anent exhibition: The Immortals o f Comedy. W ith over 180 humorists (including writers, actors and playwrights) from all over the world, dating from the times o f ancient Greece up until the present day, it is one o f the world’s most com prehensive com edy hall o f fames.

T he first part o f the exhibition is literally a hall, whose walls display photographs and quotations o f cele­ brated comedians from 450 BC to 1900 AD. First on the wall is Aristophanes, the Greek playwright, famous for his play ‘T he Clouds’ in which the line,’’O ld m en are in their

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second childhoods” appears for the first time. Amongst the last on the wall is Oscar Wilde, famous for hav­ ing said many things including: “Either that wallpaper goes or I go” - on his deathbed in a dirty, cheap hotel in Paris.

T he m ural illustrates how broad the definition o f the word ‘comedian’ can be, and it is interest­ ing to note those who have been included the in the hall fame o f fame and those who haven’t.

Great writers o f comedies and satires such as Shakespeare, Swift, Moliere, Rabelais and Cervantes have their deserved places on the wall, but the inclusion o f Greek playwrights such as Aristophanes and Plautus seems unusual because

few o f us are very familiar with their plays.

N otable omissions from the hall o f the fame include Voltaire [Candide), Richard Sterne (Shandy) and, perhaps the greatest comic writer o f them all, Charles Dickens [The Old Curiosity Shop).

Apart from the hall o f fame’s members, the mural is interesting because a time-line painted on it points o ut all the major events and inventions o f each age. Displayed on the tim e-line are, am ong other notable events, the invention o f the printing press (Germany, 1450), the founding o f the La Comedia dell’ arte, the world’s first improv club (Italy, 1550), and the invention of the opera by La Canerata, a group of

musicians and intellectuals (Italy, 1580).

T he hall o f fame for twentiethcentury comedians is divided into six tim e periods. For each tim e peri­ od there is a small theatre which one can enter and watch the films o f comedians popular at the time. The theatres provide a chance to see rare footage o f these comedians when they were just starting out such as a stand-up comedy routine featuring both Steve M artin and Bill Murray, and clips from early Woody Allen movies.

Strict criteria to enter hall

T h e eligibility criteria for com edians o f the tw entieth and

twenty-first century for the ‘Just for Laughs’ hall o f fame are demanding.

First o f all they had to be m otion picture or television stars, writers, producers or directors. Their career m ust have lasted at least 25 years, comedy m ust have been their main profession and they m ust have made major contributions to the art of comedy. Twenty-one judges from at least four different countries elected the candidates, and n ot surprisingly some very notable figures were inducted, including two Nobel Prize winners; G eorge Bernard Shaw (Ireland), and Dario Fo (Italy).

M em orabilia, such as au to ­ graphed letters and photographs o f Charlie Chaplin, are also on display, and outside each theatre there is a television showing news and docu­ mentaries o f events o f each time period such as Jim i H endrix at W oodstock and the USSR testing its first hydrogen bomb. New exhibi­ tions are also being planned, such as a hall o f fame for the Immortals o f Circus Comedy and another one for the Immortals o f Cartoon Comedy.

Every year during the summer, ‘Just for Laughs’ hosts the world’s largest comedy festival; but as we all know summ er flies by so quickly, and these new perm anent exhibi­ tions will satiate comedy fans for the times in between.

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A cid Jazz p io n e e r DJ G re yb o y back on hip h o p tip W ednesday's show to m ark triu m p h a n t re tu rn to M o n tre a l Scott R. Medvin DJ Greyboy, a.k.a. Andreas Stevens, is the longest running artist on San Francisco’s U biquity Records. T he San Diego D J’s first full length record is still the biggest selling title in the label’s history, despite the fact that it cost only $4000 to make and was prom oted with an advertising budget o f zilch.

But you don’t need flashy ads and radio spots when you deliver the goods, especially when the goods are something new and different, some­ thing just beginning to gain popu­ larity across the Pond. In the early 1990s the sounds o f jazz were being com bined with com puter-produced beats in Europe to form a new musi­ cal genre: acid jazz. Greyboy was the first producer to mix this cocktail in N orth America.

Rather than making his music using vinyl records o f both the beats and the jazz, Greyboy again did som ething new, form ing the Greyboy All-Stars with saxophonist Karl D enson and keyboardist Robert Walter, amongst others. T he sound o f the All-Stars was some­ th in g new and different for all involved: Greyboy had grown up as a hip-hop DJ, and those in the band who were weaned on traditional jazz were now exploring new realms, playing music infused w ith equal

doses o f funk and bugaloo.

“It’s definitely n o t straight­ ahead, traditional jazz,” says Denson. “I think the whole bugaloo thing is really obscure to most peo­ ple. N one o f the other so-called acid jazz bands have picked up on it.”

Today the All-Stars are no more, as both D enson (Karl

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Denson’s Tiny Universe) and Walter (Robert W alter’s 20 th Congress) have formed bands that are gaining m om entum and fans in both the jam band and jazz scenes. T he split with his collaborators affected DJ Greyboy differendy, as he fled the acid jazz scene that he had helped conceive and returned to his first musical obsession, underground

hip-hop.

H e remained low-key for some time, b ut recently returned to the producer’s chair and began to work on his newest release, Mastered the Art. Things are different now than they were in the early 90s, when Greyboy worked with a full band: “I only use samples from vinyl to create my tracks, and for the last few years I have been using a lot o f easy listen­ ing and obscure instrumentals for textures that have a worldly sound, as opposed to the predominantly jazz sounds that I had on my older records,” a more mature Greyboy claims.

O nce the tracks were outlined, D J Greyboy called upon some instrum entalists to fill o ut the sound.

“I would say that my approach was the same— to make tracks that I like and expand on them with live instruments— only this time I had M C ’s to work with as well. M y pro­ duction skills have grown, and I w anted to show that— including more scratching than I have done on any o f my other releases.”

Mastered the A rt is more experi­ mental than other Greyboy releases.

T he ‘wordly sound’ the artist men­ tioned is brought out with xylephone melodies and acoustic guitars, amongst other instrumental tones.

Greyboy’s hip-hop heritage comes

into the mix as well— chunky bass beats and freestylin’ M Cs round out the album’s unique sound— flawless­ ly complementing the international sound samples, and creating a m od­ ern hip hop album w ith a distincdy 70s funk and soul flair.

If this sounds good to you, if you like to dance and marvel at the man behind the decks as he works like a puppeteer, pulling strings to make the marionettes on the dance floor move, then I strongly suggest you check out Seen, a new event being held by local prom oter Alex Robbins, for Everyday Hustle.

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— Chris Whibbs

e v ie w s W ilco Yankee H otel Foxtrot Nonesuch Records A review o f this album may seem like a m oot point since it was released last spring. A nd before that, any Wilco fan with a fast com puter downloaded this sucker from their official web site, where it was posted free after the band was ousted from their label, W arner Bros. W ith the buzz around the album growing due to W arner Bros.’ hearty rejection of it, Wilco signed to Nonesuch (iron­ ically, a division o f W arner Bros.), took the songs off the internet and got this album out to the salivating public who were dem anding it. So why review it?

Well, it’s a quiet, moving album that incorporates both leftfield electronic bleeps and bloops w ith some o f the m ost summery sweet songs o f the year. So why was this lovely album so hated by their label?

In essence, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot is unlike anything W ilco has done before. Credit the presence o f uberindie producer Jim O ’Rourke (pro­ ducer to Sonic Youth, Stereolab and Tortoise) who, along with Wilco

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T h e D irty Dozen Brass Band Medicated Magic Ropeadope Records/Rykodisc T he D irty Dozen Brass Band formed in the smoky D irty Dozen Social and Pleasure Club in New Orleans sometime in 1977. Their style was reminiscent o f what brass bands would play following the funerals o f members o f Southern black society at the turn o f the twentieth century.

Sombre dirges accom panied the grieving from their loved one’s final resting place; once they were

front man Jeff Tweedy, veer away from the earlier W ilco sound heard in albums like A .M ., Summerteeth and the M ermaid Avenue series (a collaboration w ith English singersongw riter and political activist Billy Bragg on a num ber o f Woody G uthrie tunes).

All this sonic experimentation

by Wilco standards— Aphex Twin fans can still rest safely in your beds— did take its toll, as founding member Jay Bennett decided to part ways halfway through recording this album. For all this soap opera non­ sense in its full glory, one is recom­ mended to check out the film l A m Trying to Break Your Heart, which is a docum entary on all the abovem entioned back-stabbery and such.

T he songs on Yankee Hotel Foxtrot range from straightforward to subtlety obtuse. For your singalong o f the summer, try “Heavy Metal D rum m er” which exclaims to much delight, “I miss the innocence I’ve know n/playing Kiss covers/ beautiful and stoned.”

“Pot Kettle Black” is a personal favourite since it provides a wel­ com e break from introspection, allowing Wilco to turn up the vol­ ume and ham mer out some great rock ‘n’ roll. O f course, the songs that give this album its heart are songs so beautiful and brittle that you can almost imagine your C D player skipping if you pushed the ‘Play’ button to hard. “Radio Cure,” “W ar on W ar,” and the epic “Reservations” are perfect examples.

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot isn’t the easiest listen and it definitely isn’t the best starting point for people wanting to get into Wilco, but it grows, like its songs, slowly and ever

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including a cover o f the Meters “Sissy Truck”. Turntablist and fre­ quent collaborator DJ Logic plays on a couple o f songs. But the special guests really shine when they are adding vocals to the D D BB’s laiddown grooves. Up-and-coming jazz singer Norah Jones belts out a soul­ ful version o f N aom i Neville’s 1962 h it “Ruler o f M y H eart” and W idespread Panic singer John Bell adds his trademark growl to Dr. John’s “Walk on Gilded Splinters”.

Special guests aside, the D irty D ozen Brass Band provides the Magic in their latest recording.

Sammie Williams, their trombonist, holds his own w ith all o f the great featured songwriters, as the man behind the best song on the album, “Ain’t N othin’ But A Party”. Their originals are hand clapping, feetstom ping numbers. Although there are at least seven players at most tim es, their experience playing together for twenty-five years has produced an album where the dif­ ferent horns don’t drown each other out, and the solos are not to show off, but to accentuate. This album is guaranteed to bring a smile to your face and a sway to your hips.

Strongly recommended for almost everyone.

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sneaking groove coming forth from the rhythm players.

“Alive A gain,” the album ’s opening track, sweeps in with a Latin backbeat and a singsong cho­ rus that accompanies the horns.

Trey noodles a few notes, and plays w ith the horns for a bit. This is the single off the album that’s gotten the most radio airplay, possibly more than any other in Anastasio’s whole career. T he next track, “Cayman Review”, features blues riffs and soulful backup singers, who make an effort to lift the boredom from the song. T he next two songs are hard rockers that often translate into twenty-five m inute jams when played live. But the mellowness returns with “Flock o f Words”, a song that usually gets the big skip on my C D player.

Usually I go straight to the chunkiest part o f the album, which makes up the last third and rescues Trey Anastasio from the no-listen

Trey Anastasio Trey Anastasio Elektra Records For almost twenty years, Trey Anastasio was a member o f the band Phish, four boys from Vermont who slowly developed a cult following and toured incessantly, filling arenas and amphitheatres all over N orth America. In 2000, the band decided to take a much-needed break to recharge their creative batteries.

Bassist Mike G ordon p ut his energy towards film projects, while key­ boardist Page M cC onnell and drum m er Jon Fishman devoted tim e to their respective musical side projects: M cConnell started Vida Blue, and Fishman plays w ith both Pork Tornado and the Jazz M andolin Project.

Trey was also busy, and this album, his first solo release, is the result o f a few years o f musical evo­ lution which began in 1999. It was then that Trey first played a series o f shows with bassist Tony Markellis and drum m er Russ Lawton, the trio that would become the core o f the Trey Anastasio Band. In spring 2001 he returned with a three-piece horn section; and this past summer the band had expanded to include a keyboardist and another horn, as well as percussionist Cyro Baptista, whose ability to evoke sound from different nuts and seeds brings awe to those close enough to the stage to see w hat he is doing.

T he music that this band plays is a far cry from Phish, so don’t expect long jams and complex inter­ play between four musicians who knew each other almost too much.

Instead, there are com plex and upbeat horn parts, a few hard rock­ ing tunes and some mellow melodies. Trey’s trademark guitar playing is the centrepiece o f the album— it is his band after all— but the delay loop and self-gratifying solos can be a bit much when there is a very talented and powerful brass section ready to blow, and a steady

pile o f my music collection. “At The Gazebo” begins w ith the fanfare o f horns, which is soon met and com ­ plemented by Trey’s work on an acoustic guitar. After the quiet comes the storm , and “Mr. Completely” is a hard rocker, w ith a driving drum beat and more loop­ ing, masturbatory guitar solos. “Ray Daw n Balloon” is a pretty little ditty, Trey interacts back and forth w ith a cello an d a viola, and Lawton’s backbeat is barely audible.

“Last Tube” has a funky feel to it, and “Ether Sunday”, the album’s closer is old-timey, with a piano intro and crooning vocals that describe the joy o f waking up on a beautiful sum m er Sunday, w ith nothing to do b ut spend the day w ith your love. T he song is perfect­ ly placed, leaving the listener with a smile as it slowly fades away.

T he Trey Anastasio Band is a vacation for Trey Anastasio: he had­ n’t been away from his day job more than a few m onths in almost two decades. W hile on his musical jour­ ney away from home, Trey was able to touch upon musical themes and arrangements that he was not able to while playing with Phish: world beat influences, trium phant brass fanfares, and a laidback rhythm sec­ tion.

W hen I go on vacation, I usu­ ally take it easy and don’t strain myself—I think that Trey has done the same here. It seems that he has gotten it o ut o f his system: the Trey Anastasio Band has recently announced plans for w hat could be their last tour. This announcem ent accompanied a more awaited one, the veritable shot-heard-round-thejam band-w orld, th at Phish will reunite for a four-night run, includ­ ing a N ew Year’s Eve show at Madison Square Garden in New York City.

— Scott R. Medvin

R o o k ie s s t e lla r a s R e d m e n s o c c e r t r i u m p h M c G ill o p e n s season w ith 4-1 d ru b b in g o f L a va l; v e te ra n s c h ip in as w e ll Ed Gliicksm an Veterans, rookies, coaches and fans alike left M olson Stadium happy last Friday night as the Redmen defeated Laval Rouge-etO r 4-1. New recruits Alex Scott and Fernando Deluiso both scored in their first-ever league game. Carl De N itta netted his first official goal for M cGill in three years.

Veteran Justin Kerr found the net to round­ ed out the scoring.

T h e Redmen extended their unbeaten streak against Laval to 16 games. D uring the streak, McGill has outscored Laval by an impressive 36-2 margin.

Friday night’s offensive o u t­ burst boosted the confidence o f the McGill team that hopes to achieve b etter results than last year’s mediocre campaign in which the team was eliminated in the Quebec Student Sport Federation (QSSF) conference semifinals.

W inning the pre-season O ld Fours Tournam ent two weeks ago, coupled with a fast start against Laval has moved the Redmen into contender status for the QSSF title.

“This was a solid team effort and we are very proud, especially o f our offence,” said fifth-year m id­ fielder Philippe Lazure. “Somehow everybody just clicked out there; it was brilliant.”

McGill’s new players took little time to make an impression. Rookie Aiex Scott scored the Redmen’s first goal o f the season in the 37th m inute, then he slotted the ball hom e under Laval keeper, M artin Zérounian’s sprawling body.

“I was making a run, Justin [Kerr] crossed it to me, it landed on my foot, and I simply volleyed it in,”

said Scott, describing his first m om ent o f glory in his new uni­ form. “It felt good to get that initial goal so early and relieving a lot o f pressure I had on my shoulders as one o f the youngsters out there.”

M any o f Scott’s teammates felt the rookie was the m an o f the m atch.

H is presence clearly improved what used to be a rather lack-lustre offensive setup.

A nother forward who made his presence felt early was co-captain M athieu H arding. In the 45 th m inute o f the game, H arding made a run past three sliding defenders and the entire core o f Laval’s defen­ sive axis. H e got off a powerful short-range shot and his effort was too m uch for Zérounian to neady handle. T he ball ended up trickling through the keeper’s grasp and rolling towards the goalpost. There to collect the easy goal was fifth-year veteran Justin Kerr who made sure his captains valiant effort was justly rewarded.

Harding seemed fitter than ever on Friday, something he him self only realized while on the field.

“I just got m yself into a rhythm. I felt like a gazelle out there, anticipating their tackles just a splitsecond before they occurred. I was really in the zone and it felt good,” said Harding.

McGill’s fourth and final goal came in the dying minutes o f the game when Carl D e N itto scored.

De N itto’s three-year goal drought came to an end when the 22-yearold Information Systems major pro­ duced a cracking shot from the edge o f the penalty area. Few players were happier than De N itto after Friday’s game. H e was barely able to speak after the final whistle as his team­ mates mobbed and congratulated

him.

“After three years on this team

team buildup w ith a clever chip over the goalkeeper’s head.

NATHANLEBIODA M idfielder Philippe Lazure handles the ball with finesse

such a m om ent is very welcome,” said De N itto. “I feel great after that one; pure joy. I’ve been dreaming about this for a long tim e.”

Deluiso dazzles Sixteen minutes into the second half, rookie Fernando Deluiso, H arding’s replacem ent, delighted the crowd by finalizing an efficient

D eluiso’s perform ance was promising as it showed that the Redmen have n ot only offensive clout, but also roster depth in all departments. To the rookie, howev­ er, it was just another game.

“I was just playing my style out there. I score, that is w hat I do. Any good striker should always be happy

with the ball.”

T he crowd took an immediate liking to the Kirkland-native’s fanfriendly style o f play.

“I was very happy with our crowd today. It helped to have them cheering for us, they gave us an extra push and we all appreciated it,” said Deluiso.

T h e new recruits certainly impressed the team veterans.

“Both Alex [Scott] and Fernando [Deluiso] came out firing tonight, it was an incredible sight to see those guys do so much in their first game with us,” said junior Kyle Graham. G raham played Friday’s game not only with a pulled ham ­ string, but also with the same torn knee ligament that has plagued him for the past two seasons.

Laval’s only goal came against the flow o f play in the 74th minute when M cG ill’s Jeremy Lawson received a questionable penalty for playing the ball w hilst on the ground. T he resulting free kick was curled in past Redm en keeper D ustin Diedricksen by midfielder Oscar Donoso. Diedricksen was vir­ tually untested th ro u g h o u t the opening match-up.

“I am proud o f my boys,” said coach Adam M ar after the game.

“We were excellent on all fronts tonight. It was certainly good to see some goals after last year’s lack o f offence.”

It will be interesting to see w hether M ar and his team can repeat their entertaining ways this week as the Redmen prepare to host ex-McGill coach Pat Raimondo and his Université de M ontréal Carabins.

R e d m e n r u g b y e n d s f o u r y e a r S t in g e r c u r s e Continued from page 1

M cGill’s game. T he game was rem ­ iniscent o f last year’s penalty-laden opener against Concordia. M cGill’s penalty count was less lopsided this year. However, Concordia was still the more disciplined o f the two Q uebec conference heavyweights.

“We played h o rrib le,” said M cGill head coach Sean McCaffrey.

“We missed kicks-for-touch, there were far too m any penalties, and we rarely took advantage o f our many opportunities.”

M cGill was also too anxious throughout the first half. T he boys in Red ‘n W hite lost four line-outs and three scrums, a dubious feat rarely accomplished in such a short span. M cGill had the advantage in tim e o f possession, but the players

could not capitalize on the m any other mistakes made by Concordia.

After starting the m atch with

possession an d going deep into Concordia’s end, M cGill gave up possession. T h e Stingers quickly

made o ff w ith the first try o f the game from rookie Scott Gill.

It appeared as th o u g h the Redm en were going to let the game slip away, b ut Concordia’s early try only gave the team added incentive.

M cGill scored m inutes later off a well-developed play th at saw vet­ eran A aron A kehurst tie the game at seven on the converted try. Both team s w ould go in to halftim e ad ding an o th er try each giving Concordia a slim 15-14 edge.

“N o t much was going our way in the first half. We weren’t thinking and just got too anxious m ost o f the tim e,” said W arkentin.

T h e second h alf saw a new and improved M cGill team. It appeared as though coach McCaffrey injected some life back into his players dur­ ing the break.

Graham H natiw started things off imm ediately on the first posses­ sion and got the try to p u t M cGill ahead 21-15.

M cGill’s great defensive play enabled them to light up the scoreboard and stop the Stingers from the goal line until late in the game.

Concordia came close a few times to scoring, b u t was stymied. It was fourth-year M cG ill veteran Kevin G ourlay that stepped it up and pounded in the w inning try on a great sweep play by the Redmen.

W ith tensions m o u n tin g between the two sides, Concordia scored another try to make the game interesting. M cGill’s defence stood their opponents up at the goal line at the end o f the game to take the first game o f the season.

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I n ju r ie s p la g u e y o u n g M a r t l e t s o c c e r t e a m M c G ill loses 2-1 to Laval R o u g e -e t-O r in season o p e n e r Andrew Henningar T h e M artlet soccer team stum ­ bled o ut o f the gate last Friday night, dropping their season opener to Laval by a score o f 2-1. After estab­ lishing an early lead, injuries and inexperience on th e hom e side allowed the Rouge-et-O r to squeak past the homeside. Despite being disappointed w ith the final result, players, coaches and the raucous crowd were encouraged by the team’s play early on.

T h e M cG ill w om en opened w ith great determ ination and were rewarded w ith a goal in the third m inute o f play. Nicole Shepherd p u t the Red n’ W hite ahead 1-0 as she converted a pass in front o f goal. T he goal came as result o f a great run off the ball by Shepherd, som ething fans saw a lot o f from the M artlets in the opening half.

T h e balance o f play for the remainder o f the first half was fairly even. T h e veteran defensive line o f V ictoria Lowerson, C atherine L um sden and S abrina D ufour, joined by rookie C aitlin Pierlot, did not surrender any legitimate scoring opportunities.

Sacha Liben also proved solid in goal.

Second H a lf Blues

T h e start o f the second half marked the beginning o f the decline for the Martlets. Lumsden was sub­ stituted at half tim e due to a leg injury. Just 10 m inutes later D ufour also left the game after a hard tackle.

T he injuries seemed to demoralize the team.

“W hen you lose your two cen­ tral defenders, that creates a big hole,” explained head coach Marc M ounicot after the game.

Laval did not take long to capi­ talize on the presence o f some inex­ perienced players that M ounicot was forced to throw into the mix. A questionable non-call on an offside in the 67th m inute allowed Laval’s Lisa N olet to have a free run at goal from 35 yards out. N olet slipped a shot under a sprawling Liben to tie the game at one.

N olet scored the w inning goal at the 81-m inute mark, this time potting her own rebound in front o f a crowded net.

A fter the gam e, M ounicot showed no signs that he was upset w ith the team’s play.

“I am disappointed to have lost points b u t I am happy w ith w hat I saw,” he said. M eghan O ’Reilly agreed w ith her coach’s sentiments.

“We’re a young team. It’s going to take some tim e to get used to playing together,” said the Biology major. “Laval is experienced; they’re the team to beat this season, so we’re satisfied w ith this perform ance.”

It appeared as though some M cGill players simply ran out o f gas in the latter stages o f play. T he pow­ erful Laval forwards kept on attack­ ing until they finally broke down the depleted defence w ith better fitness.

T h e problem s created by injuries and the late-game drop-off in play can be attributed to one thing, according to the coach.

“W ere not yet in the kind o f shape that we need to be to play at this level. T his will be a m uch better team when we get everybody back

from injury and on the same page,” said M ounicot.

N o need to w orry quite yet

Despite the loss, fans were treat­ ed to a preview o f w hat the Martlets have to offer this year. Co-captain Alanna M aloney showed that she is ready to accept the responsibilities that come w ith her leadership posi­ tion. She was m enacing in Laval’s end o f the field, darting in on goal several times.

“T here are a lot o f positives we can take from this gam e,” said Maloney. “T his was the first chance that we’ve had to play together since the final team was announced,” she pointed out.

A nother b right spot for the M artlets was m idfielder N icole Shepherd. Shepherd, in addition to scoring the lone goal, was instru­ m ental in leading the attack for McGill.

U p fro n t rookie A n to n ietta Pascale, a native o f Beaconsfield, showed great speed and ability prov­ ing that she is a capable running m ate for Maloney.

Fuelling the speedy forwards this season will be Sue Dockeray, a transfer student from M ount Alison University in New Brunswick. Dockeray showed Beckham-like skill w ith her free kicks, curling the ball to the feet o f her teammates in scoring positions.

“Sue is a great addition to the team ,” said Maloney, a native o f Port Colborne. “She has a great eye for the field and makes sm art plays with the ball. She’s going to be a big part o f our success.”

T h a t success is expected to

build as the team plays more games.

“Laval was n ot as good as I expected them to be. T here’s no rea­ son w hy we should drop points to any other team so we’ll have to get them (Laval) in the final,” M ounicot

said w ith a smile.

T h e M artlets take th e field against the Université de M ontreal C arabins this com ing Friday.

K ickoff is 6:30 p m at M olson Stadium.

A f ir s t t i m e t o la c r o s s e M c G i l l 's S arah W right T h is tim e tw o years ago, M cGill did n o t have a men’s lacrosse club. T his fall, however, the Redmen lacrosse team will see eight regular season games and a tournam ent.

“We only had exhibition games last year and we weren’t recognized by any league,” said team founder, president and captain Sachin Anand. “But now we’re in it and we’re m ore com petitive.”

T h e lacrosse co m p etitio n at M cG ill exists only because o f A nand’s initiative and several other determ ined players desire to estab­ lish a team. W ith o u t an official coach, A nand and m any others, like assistant team president and defen­ sive captain Ryan M cG rath, have to wear several hats to keep the team functioning.

Inaugural tales

It their first season, the Redmen w ent 1-6-0 in a series o f exhibition games against Bishop’s, Carleton, Q u een ’s, W ilfred L aurier and O ttawa.

First-year teams always have the disadvantage o f n o t know ing the other teams’ strengths and weak­

nesses. N o t only is it m ore difficult to predict the oppositions’ talent, b u t w orking as a cohesive u n it is a difficult task w hen the players have no experience as a team.

“Last year, we had to get used to a lot o f things,” said M cG rath. “We

the last.

“W e picked up six guys who have a stro n g back g ro u n d in lacrosse,” he said w ith confidence.

“O f the graduating players, only four had real experience in the sport, so it wasn’t a huge blow to the

(OUFLA).

“Last year, there was a signifi­ cant im provem ent from our first game to our last,” said A nand. “O u r first game against Bishop’s, we lost 9- 3. W hen we played them again later, the score was 13-12 [for Bishop’s] after double overtim e.”

M cG ill’s lone victory last season came against C arleton by a score o f 10- 7. However, the team’s win-loss ratio could have been m uch narrow­ er, as several games were decided by just one or two goals.

“M ost o f the teams are pretty equal [in the O U FL A league],” said A nand. “T here isn’t a clear leader and we are right there in the m iddle o f the pack.”

T ough loss in hom e opener

AISLINNREID The boys of R edm en lacrosse pose for the traditional group shot Sept. 7

had a lot o f different skill levels on the team and no real goalie to w ork w ith. T his year, though, we have a lot m ore depth.”

D espite having lost 10 players from last season, A nand believes this year’s team is already stronger than

team.

T his season, the Redm en are h o p in g to carry som e o f the m om entum they gained at the end o f last season w ith them into their first year in the O ntario University Field Lacrosse A ssociation

O n Sunday, M cGill opened its first official regular season versus the C arleton Ravens w ith a disappoint­ ing 15-4 loss. C arleton came o ut fast and strong w ith four quick goals in the first quarter, p u ttin g a halt on M cG ill’s m om entum . T h e Ravens capitalized on the Redmen’s inabili­ ty to pick up the loose balls with crisper passes and a sharper, more organized form ation around the net.

“W e weren’t able to get into

proper position play and our links broke dow n at midfield. T h ey were ju st w orking better as a team ,” said M cG rath.

W h en the Redm en got into a rhythm o f fast passing, they were able to score ju st as easily as C arleton. T h e th ird and fourth goals o f the game for M cGill came after several one-tim e passes completely deked the goalie out.

Unfortunately, they could n ot relax in the offensive zone often enough to produce m ore goals.

C arleto n distin g u ish ed itself from M cGill w ith greater fitness and stick skills. Simply p u t, M cGill was outp lay ed by a stronger team .

M cG rath believed th e score was indicative o f his team’s play.

“T h e gam e com es dow n to th ro w in g an d catch in g and we couldn’t even do th at today,” said M cG rath. “O u r real strength is in o u r defence. It m ig h t n o t have shown today because o f the break­ down at midfield, b u t we’re very solid.”

T h e Redm en will get another chance against C arleton on Sept.

28th. T h e team travels to Bishop’s this Friday and returns hom e this Saturday to play Q ueen’s at 3:00pm at M olson Stadium .

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AR O UN D TH E HORN M cG ill A thletes o f the W eek

Two rookies were named cGill athletes of the week for the :riod ending Sept. 15.

Tess Kelly, a w inger on the Dinen’s rugby team, and Fernando eluiso, a forward o n the m ens ccer team , both dazzled fans w ith cellen t perform ances over th e îekend.

Kelly, who played in the first vision of the Fédération de igby de Québec this past sumer, set a McGill and Quebec unirsity single-game scoring record ith seven tries and 37 points in cGill’s 97-0 victory at terbrooke on Sunday.

Deluiso, a Kirkland, Quebec ttive, scored five goals in two sekend victories. The finance rshmen netted a goal in McGill’s 1 victory over Laval on Sunday, eluiso improved on that perform-

ance Sunday as he scored four goals in a game that the Redmen won 50.

First h o m e run for Redbirds

With four games in as many days, the Redbirds walked away from the past weekend with a split decision. O n Wednesday, McGill faced John Abbott College in Pierre Fonds and blasted them 7-1 on only four hits. Pitcher Ben Chisholm pitched a rare complete game, giving up only one earned run on six hits, no walks and seven strikeouts. Jason Start was 2-3 on the day with two RBI’s, a double and a run scored.

W ith momentum from the win over John Abbott, the Redbirds headed to the Durham College Baseball Classic Tournament in Oshawa. On Saturday, McGill lost a tough nine inning game to Erie

College by a score of 4-3. The Redbirds got their ticket to the semifinals by beating George Brown College, 5-4. The winning pitcher was Jason Starr. Veteran Jason Katz had the highlight of the day with a home run.

The Redbirds are now 2-3 in league play.

Toronto to face the field hockey power-house York University. The Martlets were downed 3-0. In years past, meetings against York have been extremely lopsided in favour of York. By holding York to only three goals and shutting out Trent, the McGill field hockey team appears to be on its way to a suc­ cessful season.

Field h o ck ey flirts w ith th e n et Soccer Sunday

For rhe first time in years, the McGill field hockey team won their season opener. Not only did they win, but they won big. The team travelled to Peterborough and shutout Trent University by a score of 5-0. Andrea Flemming scored a pair of goals, while Savannah De Varney, Rebecca Switzer and Molly Fyfe each found the back of the net once. Rookie netminder Kathleen Dempster got the win.

The Martlets then travelled to

M artlets— For a team that was not supposed to score many goals this season, the Martlets have cer­ tainly silenced their detractors early on.

Last Sunday against Sherbrooke, McGill won 7-2. The team’s rookies had a huge hand in the final outcome of the game con­ tributing most of the goals and assists. Sue Dockeray scored twice, including the game winner, as did

Nicole Shepherd. Elizabeth Ashby and Antonietta Pascale both added a goal to the tally, while veteran Alana Maloney got an assist and a goal, plus game MVP. Sacha Liben started in net and got the win despite allowing two goals against. She was replaced at the half by Jessica White who held the Vert-et-Or to no goals over the final 45 minutes.

Now 3-5 overall and holding a league record of 1-1, the Mardets face the Université de Montréal, Friday at 7:30pm at Molson Stadium R ed m en —After playing one of their best games in several years last Friday versus Laval, rhe Redmen blanked the Sherbrooke Vert-et-Or 5-0 two days later. Rookie Fernando Deluiso scored an impressive four goals and assisted on the other tally. One of his goals came off a penalty kick. He was named game MVP. All this came despite only playing half the game.

Co-captain Mathieu Harding rounded out the scoring with the first and what would prove to be the winning goal.

Dustin Diedricksen got the win in net and his first official assist as a goalie for McGill, passing the ball to Deluiso on one of his runs for goal.

The Redmen are now 4-2-2.

The team faces the Univeristé de Montréal Friday night at Molson Stadium. Kick-off is 9:30pm.

M oore steps up to th e plate

With the resignation of Ken Schildroth as McGills Intercollegiate Coordinator several weeks ago, Li sen Moore will assume the responsibilities as Interim Coordinator. Schildroth, a former Redmen basketball coach, stepped down after 18 years of serv­ ice to McGill Athletics.

C all for A ssistant C o m m u n ica tio n s O fficer >ving from ju nior to senior scrum s, the M artlets will now work with an extra row in the pack

r w o s h u t -o u t s , 2 4 t r ie s a n d v e r y it t le c o m p e t i t i o n

Earl “'Ihe Pearl” Zukerman, communication officer for McGill Athletics, is searching for a new assistant. Any interested applicants can submit their resumé to “The Pearl” via email at earlzukerman@hotmail.com R edm en garners h on ou r

arah W right The league opener was a success ary for the forward pack of the oGill Martlet rugby team. The oncordia Stingers, on the other ind, probably would have been ippy just to have scored as they lost TO.

In most games, McGill’s scoring owess comes the backs. This atch, however, was different.

“The game was totally domiated by the forwards,” explained ead coach Vince deGrandpré.

They actually scored most of our ies.”

Kim Grubb, Meghan Stewart, indsay Hunt and Tish Jaworski all ored once from the pack while

Jessica Young, last year’s league MVP and leading scorer touched the ball down twice as did veteran, Candice Patterson. deGrandpré, although not sur­ prised by the score of the game, did express concern about getting the ball out to the wingers.

“We were having some trouble with our outside winger, which was slowing us down. But, we really focused on it during practice the rest of the week and by the time we played Sherbrooke on Sunday, 13 tries were accounted for by just two wingers.”

Problem solved. Next on the list for the Martlets: find some competi­ tion in the Quebec league.

The Sherbrooke Vert-et-Or were the next victims on McGill’s

list dropping their match with the Martlets by a score of 97-0. Young had six tries, giving her eight on the weekend, and the game winner for both games. Rookie winger Tess Kelly tallied an amazing seven tries and a conversion. Her contribution alone gave McGill 37 points to set a club record for most tries scored in a single game.

The blow-out also included tries from Sarah Mondoux who had two while Aviva “Roo” LevalleeRobert and captain Stephanie Lyman each scored once.

But this was not the best news for the Martlets according to deGrandpré.

“The score is a little dissapointing,” he said with a laugh. “These kind of scores don’t really help our

team. We really have a competition problem.”

The lack of even play will come to hurt McGill should they get beyond the Quebec league and into national play where the talent level of the opposing teams will go up four or five levels. For now, the Martlets have to focus on the regular season and giving as many players as possible the opportunity to play said deGrandpré.

The Martlets have started the regular season off with a flawless count of 2-0, bringing their overall record to 3-1. They host the Bishop’s Gaiters this Sunday at Macdonald campus.

Wide receiver Patrick Lanctôt o f Verdun, Que. was named Quebec Interuniversity Football Conference offensive player of the week.

Lanctôt, a 5 -fo o t-ll, 175 pound senior physical education student, caught six passes for 180 yards and one touchdown in McGill's 41-15 victory over the St. Francis Xavier X-Men in Antigonish, N.S. on Saturday.

Lanctôt broke the game open with a 39-yard touchdown recep­ tion at 10:55 of the third quarter to give the Redmen a commanding 20-8 lead.

— courtesy o f M ichael Hickey Bishop’s University

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James Em pringham It’s Sunday afternoon and w hat are y o u d o in g w ith y o u r life?

W atching football o f course.

A fter five days o f intensive scholarly pursuit, and two nights o f extensive partying abuse, there is no better way to tu rn off one’s brain th a n w atch in g a great football game. By the end o f the week, vegging o u t on your couch is n o t m ere­ ly deserved, it’s dam n well neces­ sary.

O r at least these were m y thoughts on the subject until yes­ terday. To the uninitiated, here’s the rundow n. O f all th e four m ajor N o rth A m erican sports, the N ational Football League is balls away ahead o f them w hen it comes to televising w hat at one tim e m ight have once been th o u g h t o f as a sim ­ ple sporting contest.

In the N FL, a game between two weak Texas-area football teams, the H o u sto n Texans and th e Dallas Cowboys, becomes T h e W ar for Texas. In the N FL , a boisterous ex­ coach tu rn ed colour com m entator, Jo h n M adden, w inds up on the

front cover o f Sports Illustrated. In the N F L everything is negotiable and judging by the countless pregam e, post-gam e, an d in-gam e com m entary, n o th in g is free from scrutiny.

W ith its penchant for parity and an u tter absence o f labour tro u ­ ble, all the credit in the w orld should be given to the N F L for packaging their p ro d u ct lovelier than a V ictoria Secret catologue.

O f course even too m any pic­ tures o f beautiful and scantily clad

Football com m entary gone overboard

w om en m ight n o t be a good thing after a while, I suppose.

T h e N F L has tu rn ed regular Sunday program m ing into a m in d altering experience o f chemical pro­ portion. T h in k quittin g sm oking is tough? Try shaking football on the seventh day.

Let’s see, we’ve got E SPN pre­ game at 11am, Fox an d CBS pre­ game at 12pm, two actual games at one o’clock, two m ore actual games at four o’clock, followed by ESPN

U P C O M IN G S P O R T IN G E V E N T S Redbird Baseball: Saturday, September 21

Prim etim e at 7:30pm , then one more actual game at nine o’clock, followed by th a t’s right, endless hours o f highlights looped on T S N and Sportscentre through the wee daw n hours o f the m orning.

W h at exactly did I learn from w atching 13 hours o f football yes­ terday? O n Fox’s pre-gam e, Terry Bradshaw inform ed m e th a t Peyton M anning o f the Colts perform s bet­ ter w hen he lim its his interceptions.

D eio n Sanders, C B S ’s pre-gam e talking head, revealed th at a wide receiver m ust run tight routes to succeed versus tough com petition.

T h e m ost insightful co m m ent o f the day, however, easily belonged to ESPN com m entator Paul M aguire who rem arked th at Jerom e Bettis wasn’t playing his best game, this after the Pittsburgh Steeler’s ru n ­ ning back had ran for a dismal 41 yards over th e le n g th o f last Sundays Steelers-Raiders contest.

For this less th an perceptive analysis I don’t blame the analysts, however. W h a t in tellig en t com ­ m ents m ight you m ake if you had to blabber on ab o u t a football game for hours on end? W h a t I do resent the same analysts for, is their ability to laugh on cue for the same m any hours. Boom er Esiason hasn’t said an y th in g fu n n y all day D an M arino! Stop laughing like you’re ab o u t to pee your pants, please!

A t the risk o f reaching the same noxious level o f repetition as those com m entators, I’m slagging. I will end this rant here and yes, o f course, see you next Sunday.

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McGill alumni and Martlet volleyball veteran MarieAndre Lessard dives fora dig during semi-final action at the Canadian National Beach Volleyball Championships in Wasaga Beach, Ontario, August 25, 2002. Lessard, the top-ranked Canadian on the inter­ national FIVB tour, finished the weekend in fourth place.

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M c G i l l f o o t b a l l m o v e s i n t o t ie f o r f ir s t p la c e M a rk K err M ost people do not relish fourday bus trips. T he M cGill Redmen, however, endured the perils o f the road last weekend and arrived back in M ontreal tied for first place in the Q uebec Interuniversity Football Conference (Q IFC ).

T he Redmen downed the Saint Francis Xavier X -M en 41-15 last Saturday before 2204 spectators in Antigonish, Nova Scotia. Frederick M artin’s 56-yard interception return highlighted a 27-point third quarter scoring outburst by McGill en route to victory.

M cG ill head coach C huck M cM ann was im pressed by his team’s effort, especially com ing after a long road trip.

“You always feel good when you get the two points,” said M cM ann, “b ut when the team is on a bus for a total o f about 30 hours, it is an even better feeling. T he team was deter­ mined and very focused on the job they had to do.”

T he win moves the Redmen to 2-1 on the season and into a threeway tie with the Concordia Stingers and the Laval Rouge-et-O r at the top o f the standings. McGill and Laval have a game in han d on Concordia. T he loss drops the XMen to 0-2 on the season.

It was the first weekend o f the new interlocking action against teams from the Atlantic Football University Conference. Concordia lost to the Acadia Axemen at home, while third-ranked Laval lost to the num ber one ranked Saint M ary’s Huskies.

A nother slow start Despite scoring first on A nand Pillais 12-yard field goal, McGill fell behind early and had to play catch up. T he X -M en scored a single five m inutes into the game off a 62-yard pu n t and then added a touchdown w ith just over two m inutes remain­ ing in the first quarter.

Marcus Fitzgerald’s four-yard run gave St. F.X. an 8-3 lead.

M cGill took a tw o-point lead into the locker room when outside guard Jim M errick recovered a fum ­ ble for a touchdow n w ith only 30 seconds remaining in the half.

For M cM ann, th at play, and n o t th e interception by M artin, altered the course o f the game.

“I believe the interception was an added impetus, but the offence, I believe, really took over in the third quarter,” said M cM ann. “T he tu rn ­ ing point was the touchdow n we scored at the end o f the first half.”

T he second half turned into the

M artin show. H e intercepted the first pass o f St. F.X. quarterback J.R. Gallant, who came on in relief o f N ick Chessa. Later in the quarter M artin repeated the feat, b u t this tim e he ran half the field for six points.

O n top o f M artin’s heroics, the running team com bination o f N ick H offm an, D anny Tai and G ilbert G uay co n tin u ed to impress.

H offm an scored a th ird qu arter touchdow n o ff the run, and Tai added one o f his own to close out the scoring w ith a m inute remaining in the game. Guay had six yards on two carries.

“W e have been working w ith a rotation o f all the backs, and we found the best com bination for that day,” said M cM ann. “T h e best com bo for the St. F.X. game was Guay at full back and H offm ann at tailback.”

Josh Sommerfeldt continued his strong play. T he political science and history major com pleted 14 o f 23 passes for 254 yards and twice he had rushes o f 14 yards.

Beyond the strong play o f the offence, the defence once again held the opposition in check.The X-M en only managed 233 total net yards.

“I thought the defence played well m ost o f the gam e,” said M cM ann.

“T here was only one

drive in the last quarter that was poor by the defence. O th er than that they played physical and sm art.”

Defensive back Pierre-Olivier Brunet had an outstanding game.

H e com pleted nine solo tackles to

ing 18 yards. H e also sackec Sommerfeldt once.

T he Redmen h it the road agair next weekend. T h e team travels tc Lennoxville to play the Bishop’; Gaiters (1-1) in a Saturday afternoon

NATHANLEBI0DA Three cheers fo r the Redm en; they m ove above .5 0 0 for first tim e this ye a r

lead the team in that category.

Adam M acD onald was a force for the X-Men. T he linebacker had 13 solo tackles, two for a loss, total­

m atch-up. T h e G aiters currently occupy fourth place in the five-team Q uebec football conference.

M cGill cross-country team lacing them up once again H ig h e x p e c ta tio n s fo r m e n a n d w o m e n te a m s a fte r last ye a r's successful p e rfo rm a n c e s John Bowden As the tem perature finally begins to drop and the leaves start to change colour, it can only mean one thing: cross-country season is set to begin.

A fter last year’s impressive achievements, the team is eager to pick up where it left off. At the C anadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) C h am pionships last November, the m en’s team earned a respectable 12th place finish.

Meanwhile, the women led by stars Sarah Ali-Khan, Nicole Portley and Zein O deh captured a third place finish. Coach D ennis Barrett expects an even better showing this year for both teams.

“T he goal this year is to win the conference title for the m en and women, and then go from there,” said Barrett.

Barrett w ent on to say that he expects another top three finish for the w om en at Nationals, and a top five placing for the men at the same level.

Team m em ber D an Kovacek agrees w ith his coach, but added that results will depend on the health o f the team.

“Last year the team started to deteriorate near th e en d ,” said Kovacek. “Guys like Ryan Beaten had the potential for top-20 in Canada. But w ith not enough tim e off in the summer, we started to get burned out.

“It’s going to be a changeover year for the men— we w ant to get focused after being fragmented last

year. It’s im portant to get the guys going in the same direction.”

Barrett will have a lot o f new faces on the men’s team this year.

T he list includes rookies such as Jeff M cCabe and D aniel W ernersson.

W ernersson, an exchange student

from Sweden, showed up on the sec­ ond day o f camp and has quickly earned a walk-on position.

Barrett believes th at a com bina­ tion o f veterans like Beaten and the new recruits should make for a com ­ petitive team.

“[It’s] good to see guys batding for the top seven spots [for CIS].

Last year we didn’t have that kind o f com petition,” noted Barrett.

Kovacek agreed that the push has brought the team closer together.

H e felt that, as everyone continues to train together, a tight k n it team is born, som ething that was missing last year.

Ali-K han looks to lead team O n the w om en’s side, Ali-Khan, w ho collected the silver medal at last year’s N ationals, is retu rn in g for another chance to reach the top o f the podium , som ething she missed by only one second the previous campaign.

Barrett feels th at having a stand­ o u t like Ali-Khan on the team has

been a huge boost to the running program, n o t just on the field b u t of! it as well. H e noted that he has received interest from as far away as Germany, based on the performance o f Ali-Khan and the team. Last year’s success has allowed M cGill to lure new students into the program out o f high school.

T h e runners have been out practicing every day since school started, preparing themselves for the the M cGill O pen on Sept. 21, the first m eet o f the year. T he team will participate in a num ber o f events before heading to the University of W estern O ntario on Nov. 9 for the CIS Cham pionships.

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