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Tuesday, October 1, 2002

Wind the body's clock Natalie Fletcher

NATHAN LEBIODA

Sixty-five years after graduating, these Engineering alumni still know how to celebrate McGill-style with drinks in hand.

State of the Arts: joining teaching and research James Grohsgal Laura Saba Students, professors and administrators in the Faculty of Arts are exploring ways to improve education for undergraduate stu­ dents who must deal with capped classes, crowded conferences, limit­ ed course selection and a high stu­ dent-faculty ratio. The most promi­ nent proposal is to increase oppor­ tunities for undergraduates to par­ ticipate in research with their pro­ fessors.

“There aren’t enough research opportunities for undergraduate students,” said Fred Sagel, Students’ Society of McGill University Vice President of University Affairs.

Sagel sits on the Senate Subcommittee for Teaching and Learning, which is meeting this

month.

Sagel and the Subcommittee are considering the implications of the 1998 study by the Boyer Commission on Educating Undergraduates in the Research University, entitled “Reinventing Undergraduate Education: A Blueprint for America’s Research Universities.” Known as the Boyer Report, it outlines how large research-intensive universities can mobilize their resources to improve undergraduate learning.

Carman Miller, Dean of the Faculty of Arts, has seen how pro­ fessors’ courses and research inter­ ests can coincide. Fie cited a semi­ nar taught by James McGill Professor of History Brian Young, in which students look at archival family papers in the McCord Museum and present their findings at the end of the course.

“This is a chance to do handson writing of history, not just ran­ sacking a number of books. This is a chance for a person to practice being a historian,” said Miller. “I always say to Professor Young that the only difficulty is that at the end, everyone wants to be a historian.”

Arts also offers seminars for first-year students, but Miller said that their popularity and a shortage of professors have led to fewer courses and an increase in class sizes.

The Faculty received some good news this fall: 50 new tenure or tenure-track positions are being created and the Faculty is receiving some of the $4.3 million in research funds granted by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

Both more research money and new professors will benefit stu­

dents, according to Miller.

“People often falsely juxtapose research and teaching as if they were contradictory,” said Miller. “There are ways in which we can and should construct courses so that students in undergraduate forma­ tion in Arts have an opportunity to do hands-on research.”

Dean of Students Bruce Shore believes these positive steps correct an imbalance in government atten­ tion and will give students greater access to their professors.

“These new appointments also tell Arts students that what they are studying is important to McGill,” said Shore. “In recent years most of the federal and other special pro­ grams have helped the natural and medical sciences. As Dean of Students I can only add that all stu­ dents are important... More profes-

Late-night crammer? Early-bird exerciser? University students lead busy, eclectic lives, most of the straining, unhealthful variety.

Shifting sleep patterns, coupled with mental exertion and frantic athletics, make for a jerky schedule, one that often neglects important aspects of time.

Unlike contemporary cultures, many ancient civilizations had a dualistic view of time: the planetary conception and the bodily concep­ tion. The famous ecclesiastical say­ ing, better known as the pop hit by the Byrds, reflects this presumed concept: “To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven.”

Yet the world today generally operates according to solar move­ ment, leaving little appreciation for the particular seasons individual bodies experience and prefer.

“Underneath this cheerful façade of eternal daylight and per­ petual summertime, there lurks a primitive sense of real time,” explains Valerie Vaughan, an astron­ omy professor. “Inside each of us is a child of nature who can tell it’s actu­ ally dark, who knows it’s really win­ ter.”

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Silenced vigil goes on

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Kate Rhodes The Arab Students’ Association (ASA) held a silent vigil last Thursday on the front steps of the Arts Building in oppo­ sition to a possible US war on Iraq, despite the university’s refusal to authorize the event. Around 40 students gathered with candles and words of peace and unity. They blamed the American government and President George W. Bush, hut not the American people, for the impending conflict in the Arab world.

ASA President Wassim Moukahhan addressed the crowd.

“We are here to tell McGill campus, to tell the Canadian gov­ ernment, that we oppose this war.

So we will sit here and enjoy our freedom.”

Regardless of university objec­ tions, the ASA felt it was their duty to hold the vigil and spread mes­ sages of peace.

“We are here to make a change in this world,” said ASA member Ramez Kastour, “To go after one person, one ruler, you don’t kill millions of children, women, and grown men, men who deserve to live, too. The govern­ ment does everything for them­ selves — no one chooses.”

Two weeks ago, the ASA asked the McGill Planning Office if they could hold the vigil in front of the Arts Building steps, but See IRAQ VIGIL, page 4 PHOTOS BY ADAM SHAMOON

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Jeremy Dietz Students who own or borrow laptops with wireless network inter­ face cards can access the Internet at various campus locations because a wireless LAN (local area network) was set up by Network and Communications Services in con­ junction with McGill Libraries. A pilot program last year, the wireless LAN is now fully operational.

Wireless LAN service is avail­ able to all students and faculty within its designated “wireless zones.” The zones include all McGill libraries and selected nonlibrary areas such as the Bronfman Building and Burnside Hall.

Wireless zones across campus are marked with signs showing a target around a radio antenna. Students and faculty can now surf the Internet on their computers in new settings, like lounges, cafeterias, previously unequipped classrooms, lecture halls, or even outside, if the laptops are within 300 feet of an antenna.

To gain access to the network, users may either borrow a laptop from the Instructional Communications Centre (ICC), or purchase a wireless network inter­ face card (NIC) for their own lap­ top. The ICC, located in the Redpath Library, has 40 wirelessequipped laptops that can be rented free of charge for 24 hours.

Alternatively, a wireless NIC costs around $125. ICC distributes instructions explaining how to log on to the network, making access to the LAN simple and straightfor­ ward. All one needs is a McGill Dial-Up Access Service (DAS) account and password. The system is designed to be user-friendly for the average student.

Simal Bindra, a U2 Science student, likes the flexibility of wire­ less access.

“It’s pretty convenient. I can borrow a laptop for a day and use

the Internet while I’m having coffee or working on the sixth floor [of McLennan Library]. I don’t have to wait in line to check my email any­ more. I even saw someone using it in class.”

The wireless LAN changes the school’s approach to the Internet, as it allows users a great deal more mobility and affordability. It pro­ vides high-speed connections for no cost other than the purchase of a NIC. Quan Nguyen, NCS Associate Director of Systems Engineering, stressed the low maintenance costs associated with the network.

Nguyen likens the network to those

“I can borrow a lap­ top for a day and use the Internet while I’m having coffee.”

— Simal Bindra U2 Science student

of cell phones, as they use the same radio frequency, require little money for their upkeep, and func­ tion in coordination with base units set up in strategic locations. To cre­ ate the wireless zones, transmission units, costing $1000 each and sup­ porting 30 users, were installed.

Nguyen explained that the sys­ tem’s cost, around one dollar per user, is currently being absorbed by the NCS’s budget in its bid to pro­ mote long-term usage of the new technology. These services come at no additional charge for students using the LAN in public zones, such as the libraries. However, if faculties, departments, or offices want to use the wireless LAN next year, they will have to pay for it.

Students will continue to have free access next year, as the costs will be factored into student technology funding.

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Canada, US conflict on war, money. earth Mark Sward Despite conflicting policy approaches between the Canadian and American governments on sev­ eral important issues in the past year, government officials and inde­ pendent experts agree that the two nations are still as closely aligned as they have been through the past decade.

Professor Earl Fry, who cur­ rently holds the Thomas O. Enders Fellowship in Canadian-American Relations, a joint appointment to McGill and l’Université de Montréal, stated that disagreements over military commitments and trade issues have done little to change the fact that these neigh­ bouring countries share the most complex bilateral relationship in the world. Yet apparent cultural barri­ ers and diverging national interests create a visible schism in the coun­ tries’ financial and political interedependence, leaving some McGill students feeling there are winning and losing sides in every interna­ tional agreement.

“Among two major nations in the world, there’s not that sort of complexity...that continues to be a very dynamic relationship,” said Fry. An example of this co-depend­ ence is the immense amount of

transnational traffic, ranging in activity from merchandise crossing the border in trucks to Canadian residents crossing the border to work in the United States.

He went on to note, however, that US President George Bush and Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien have sparred over several issues in recent memory. Steel and lumber tariff initiatives taken by Bush, for example, as well as agri­ cultural subsidies, have angered the Candian government and interest groups alike. “Bush talked the talk on free trade, but he has taken a more protectionist stance since he took office,” said Fry. More recently, Canadian poli­ cy makers have been dismayed at the development of energy legisla­ tion in the US Congress that intro­ duces government intrusion into a proposal to lay a pipeline from Alaska to the 48 contiguous states.

This bill includes influence over the route of the pipeline and subsidies to keep American energy prices low.

As Michael Kergin, Canada’s ambassador to the United States, stated, “In Canada's view, the pri­ vate sector is best suited to decide its route, subject to regulatory and environmental review procedures.”

In addition, Kergin fears that the

“price-depressing effect [of the US legislation] could slow production in conventional areas in Canada and the United States and could hinder prospects for new gas devel­ opment elsewhere.”

This sentiment is echoed by US officials off Capitol Hill — ear­ lier this year, Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham agreed with Kergin, saying the planned pipeline subsidies would distort markets, cause a loss in revenue and “likely undermine Canada's support for construction of the pipeline and thus set back broader bilateral ener­ gy integration.”

In addition to disparities in trade policy, Canada has recently become a voice among the chorus of nations warning Bush not to uni­ laterally intervene in Iraq.

Canadian Foreign Minister Bill Graham has made it clear to the American president that, despite Canada’s involvement in the war in Afghanistan, it will not participate in, nor will it condone, attacks on Iraq unless given a mandate from the United Nations to do so.

The United States and Canada have been working closely together, however, on many issues relating to the increased security demand post September J l . A 30-point “smart border” policy has been jointly

implemented by Deputy Prime Minister John Manley and US Homeland Security chief Tom Ridge. This agreement will facilitate the movement of traffic at all bor­ der crossings between Canada and the United States with “fast lanes” for low-risk travelers, and an expe­ dited system for assessing the risk of other shipments and travelers enter­ ing either country. This agreement will also include a similar "fast lane" system at Canada’s airports, allow­ ing pre-registered frequent travelers to clear customs without waiting in the longer lines that have plagued travelers since last September.

“There’s been tremendous cooperation.. .to keep the continent more secure, but also to keep trade open,” says Professor Fry, noting that keeping smooth movement of goods and services is of utmost importance to both countries.

Military cooperation has also been strong since September 11, with Canada playing a pivotal role in the war in Afghanistan. Despite the tragic friendly-fire incident that killed four Canadian soldiers and wounded eight others this past April, Canadian support of coali­ tion forces in South Asia has remained strong, and has been commended by the US govern­ ment.

The American government has, however, criticized Prime Minister Chrétien on his meagre defence spending, arguing that the Canadian Forces lack the necessary “strategic lift” to transport troops.

“A modern military needs to get its troops to where they're need­ ed quickly,” argued US Ambassador to Canada Paul Cellucci in a speech in Alberta on Thursday. “We saw it with the incident in the Ivory Coast where it was French and US troops moved in quickly to rescue American and Canadian children and citizens,” he said, referring to 'the civil war in the West African country where French and American troops rescued, among others, 18 Canadian children from an international boarding school for missionaries’ children.

This does not, however, show a lack of respect for the Canadian military on the part of American officials, argues Fry: “The feeling among the American military is that the Canadian military person­ nel are first rate, they just don’t have much to work with.”

These sometimes stark differ­ ences in opinion have little effect on public opinion in the United States; Americans still regard Canadians as their best friend and closest ally in See CANADA, page 5

ASEF charges on without quorum James Grohsgal McGill is continuing to charge Arts students a fee for the Arts Students Education Fund (ASEF), despite the absence of quorum, after too few students voted on the refer­ endum question to renew the fund last spring.

Both the Arts Undergraduate Society and McGill administration wanted to retain ASEF and agreed this summer to keep charging stu­ dents. ASEF gives half of its approx­ imately $30,000 per year to the Work-Study program, and the other half to tenure-track professors in their first year so they can hire Arts students for research projects. Full­ time Arts students pay an ASEF fee of $6.50 per semester; part-time students pay $3.25.

Arts Undergraduate Society President Rachel Telch, who was acclaimed to her position last year, said the AUS constitution is unclear about what ‘quorum’ means.

“The AUS constitution doesn’t specifically state what happens if there’s not quorum,” said Telch.

“The numbers of students that came to vote overwhelmingly voted to renew ASEF... Our own [voter turnout] was missed by 80 students.

It’s not that the question passed or failed. It’s just that quorum wasn’t reached.”

Article 16.5 of the AUS Constitution states, “Quorum for all Referenda shall be ten percent (10%) of the AUS.” O f the 6082 Arts students eligible to vote in March, only 8.6 per cent (around 525) students voted. The Oxford Encyclopedic English Dictionary defines quorum as “the fixed mini­

mum number of members that must be present to make' the pro­ ceedings of an assembly or society valid.”

Based on the reasoning that the 1999 referendum establishing A$EF omitted a reference to the threeyear sunset clause stipulated for all referenda in Article 16.6 of the AUS Constitution, the six AUS execu­ tives decided unanimously to ask Dean of Students Bruce Shore to continue collecting the fee.

“When ASEF was first voted on three years ago, the referendum question didn’t say there was a sun­ set,” said Telch. “When students voted to implement fees they were not made aware of the fact that it was for three years.

“Dean Shore and [Provost Luc] Vinet were tacitly asked to renew ASEF for one year,” said Telch. “AUS asked Shore, who for­ warded the question to Dr. Vinet, to continue collecting the fee for the period of another academic year, until we have another referendum in March 2003. Also, an amend­ ment was written by the By-law and Constitutional Review Committee, and was accepted by AUS Council, in keeping with AUS protocol...This tacit renewal allows rectification of the oversight of the three year sunset clause.”

Dean Shore viewed the prob­ lem with ASEF as a technicality and, seeing no opponents to keep­ ing the fee, allowed collection to continue.

“It wasn’t an issue so much of a failure, but of timing and rewriting the question,” said Shore. “I had to verify with the legal department and finance department that we could charge students. The university is

hesitant to collect student money without their approval. In this we are with a technicality, an ‘oops,’ and there were good feelings all around— no adversary—so we con­ tinued to collect funds. For funds to be collected, the Dean of Students must approve.”

While the AUS constitution does not specify what happens to a referendum question that fails to meet quorum, Robert’s Rules o f Order dictates that in the absence of quorum, no official business except

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The McGill Tribune, Tuesday, October 1, 2002

SSMU needs permanent fee to fix Shatner S e th O ffe n b a ch

The Shatner building, owned

by McGill University and leased by the Students’ Society of McGill University, is in violation of numer­ ous Montréal fire and safety regula­ tions, according to several SSMU executives. The staircases leading to the basement as well as the quality of the sprinklers on the upper levels are both fire hazards. The garage door next to the Gert’s entrance is a safety hazard. The lack of a female washroom in the basement is a vio­ lation of liquor laws.

These issues have been known for some time by SSMU and McGill but all previous plans to find financing for the renovations have failed. According to SSMU, renovation plans, bringing Shatner into compliance with fire and safety

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codes would cost an estimated $150,000.

If last year’s capital fee referen­ dum question had been passed, compliance costs would be covered, according to SSMU Vice President Operations Kathleen Morrison.

“We would have started reno­ vations [by] May 1 and been fin­ ished before September 1.” The capital fee would also have paid for

plans, which are still being pursued

by SSMU despite the failure of last year’s referendum, have been halted until the Society can come up with sufficient funds.

One option is for SSMU to institute a permanent capital fee.

The idea, as proposed by some executives, would entail a long-term fee that would cost about $10 a year, as opposed to a termed fee

a ventilation system and permanent coat check for Gert’s, added muchneeded aesthetic changes to the first and third floors, and expanded club office space for the ever-growing number of clubs on the fourth floor.

The Society collects about $1 million a year in student fees, which is inadequate to cover renovations and pay for regular SSMU opera­ tions. Total costs for renovations are estimated to exceed $1.5 million.

The current construction

(four to five years) that charges more per year (about $15-20).

SSMU Vice President Clubs & Services Rachel DeLorie believes SSMU should propose a permanent fee referendum question.

“It really would be worth it in the long run,” she said.

Besides paying for the immedi­ ate and necessary construction, this fee would pay for the upkeep of the building to help alleviate any aes­ thetic shortcomings. Also, SSMU would be able to make changes that

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would make more efficient use of the space in the Shatner building.

As Morrison pointed out, the needs of SSMU change over time. These changes require constant modifica­ tion of the building.

Yet a permanent building fee is not a guaranteed solution. With the failure of last year’s referendum, the student body may reject a similar, albeit lower, fee this academic year.

Also, with the exception of the garage door, the other fire and safe­ ty hazards would not be corrected until September 2003 at the earli­ est. With these renovations cover­ ing approximately 10 per cent of the total construction costs, SSMU executives have stood by their initial claim that they cannot afford the renovations without implementing additional fees.

Morrison says SSMU is under severe financial constraints.

“The SSMU operating budget has no squeeze room,” said Morrison. “Decreasing cafeteria revenues and staff and contract service increases are squeezing things up into a no-fluff budget at SSMU.” With a lack of funds and plen­ ty of time between now and March, SSMU seems content to wait for a successful referendum to gain the necessary money to pay for all the renovations.

Because SSMU wants to main­

tain the responsibility of controlling Shatner, it has been hesitant to press McGill to pay for the improvement to the building’s fire code viola­ tions. According to Morrison, every year administration allocates the minimum amount of funding nec­

essary to service the Shatner build­ ing. She also said McGill has reneged on previous promises to SSMU regarding payment for the construction of elevators. Because of this, SSMU remains hestitant to ask McGill for more money under the assumption that their requests will not be fulfilled.

Iraq vigil against war Continued from page 2

were cold there were delays in pro­ cessing the request.

“They were stalling and I sat there and said I was not leaving until 1 got an answer,” said Moukahhan, who was then told that the vigil could not take place.

“1 was told that even though other groups have had similar vigils, ours could not take place because it was different. No political events for peace were allowed on campus.”

Moukahhan believes McGill is hesitant to support any Middle East political events after violent protests at Concordia last month.

“We decided to have [the vigil] anyway because it is our right... in an academic setting we cannot have a fear of talking. We are here to learn about our world and this uni­ versity’s biggest sin is silencing that.”

Security guard Delight Mensah was assigned to oversee die vigil activities.

“We were told to watch stu­ dents, that they were not allowed to pray because that would cause a lot of people to gather and there could be violence, but now we under­ stand what they wanted to do, just sit, pray, talk and observe - it’s fine.

I’m just here for prevention. We don’t want to cause any problems, we’re just want to protect the stu­ dents and maintain the peace.” A police unit was dispatched to cover the scene, but their presence appeared unnecessary. ASA Vice President Internal Khalil Almoayyed said security told them that they could not hold their can­

dles in their hands, but must leave them on the ground. “I guess this was seen as a security threat,’ he said.

Director of University Planning Chuck Alder and Dean of Students Bruce Shore visited die scene as well.

“The event was well-in-hand, and such discourse is what univer­ sity is all about,” said Shore. “I was there to be available to the studc us and make myself known as a pi esence, if they were feeling ignored.”

Shore added that McGill has not authorized many outdoor political events because the administration prefers indoor events staged as lec­ tures or debates.

Kastotu said the vigil support­ ed peace in a unified Arab world.

“We are united as an Arab race in unity, language, culture and i istory, and not by lines on a map.”

He said that any violence in any part of the Middle East is bad or all Arabs, and chat military conflii t creates more feelings of hatred and alienation with the rest of the world.

“This war cannot be allowed. The United States failed in their war against Afghanistan and cannot be allowed to use Iraq a a decoy to promote national pride...

The American government is not honest to its own people... This war would destroy the lives of every person in Iraq.

Wassim concluded the vigil with this remark: “We will mobilize ourselves to pressure our govern­ ment. We’re doing our job. We can make a difference, we can change the world. Peace for Iraq.

Peace for the world.”

The McGill Tribune, Tuesday, October 1, 2002

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Forces Avenir participants praised Even though Clea Minaker hadn’t finished packing for her flight to France, she found time Thursday to attend a reception at the Faculty Club, where McGill honoured Minaker and fellow students for their participation in Forces Avenir, an awards competition for students who have initiated projects that ben­ efit the community.

“We want to honour students for the exceptional things they do,” said Dean of Students Bruce Shore at the reception. Shore said that McGill provides only one half of education; the other half comes from the initiative of students them­ selves.

Minaker, a member of the Puppet Project, a theatrical group created in 1999 to present the art of marionettes in a contemporary con­ text, is following her passion to France, where she will study the art of puppetry.

The Puppet Project, among four finalists from McGill, shares the honour with two projects and one student. The Scala Project collected computers for one year and this summer trained people in the Philippines for jobs in the informa­ tion-age economy; Horizons is a tutoring service for children in Rosemount. Naomi Lear was nom­ inated for an individual award to recognize her commitment to the disadvantaged, particularly through her work with the Sexual Assault Centre of McGill Students’ Society.

“Their success reflects well on McGill,” said Forces Avenir President and Director-General François Grégoire. “These finalists have gotten the recognition they deserve.”

At next Thursday’s gala, win­ ners and finalists will be awarded cash grants and internships in the

developing world.

SSMU Equity Committee In an effort to create an institu­ tional framework to address issues of accessibility and discrimination on campus, the Council of the Students’ Society of McGill University created an Equity Committee on Thursday.

The Equity Committee will organize an “Equity Week” informa­ tion session in November, and serve as a forum for clubs, services, and students to address their concerns about discrimination based on race, religious beliefs, sex, sexual orienta­ tions, or disabilities. It will also serve as a shadow committee for the Senate Committee on Equity, which has yet to produce an anti-discrimi­ nation policy.

“This is a very positive step towards addressing constituencies that haven’t been included in the SSMU before,” said SSMU Vice President University Affairs Fred Sagel. “Our committee will provide a student voice that wasn’t expressed to the Senate Equity Committee before, except through the Vice President University Affairs.”

Many at SSMU, including Sagel, credit Jen Bilec, last year’s VP University Affairs, for stressing the importance of equity issues on cam­ pus during her tenure.

Getting their FEUQ on La Federation des étudiants universitaires du Québec is lobbying the provincial and federal govern­ ments to ensure accessibility to a quality post-secondary education.

In the face of upcoming provin­ cial elections and the meeting of the Free Trade Association of the Americas in Quito, Ecuador at the end of October, FEUQ SecretaryGeneral Philippe Jacques spoke to

SSMU Council Thursday night about the goals of his group’s cam­ paign. For FEUQ’s provincial cam­ paign, they are seeking provincial regulation of university fees, reform of the financial aid system, and funding for rural universities. They are appealing to the federal govern­ ment to exclude education from control by the FTAA and to increase Health and Social Transfer Payments from Ottawa to Québec.

Jacques believes that politicians must be pressured to support stu­ dent interests.

“Students need to be better informed,” said Jacques. “We want to get students to vote so that the parties give their positions on these issues, on questions of fees and accessibility to education.”

FEUQ fought successfully for the 1994 tuition freeze for Québec students, but differential tuition fees for out-of-province and internation­ al students continued to rise, an area of great concern for non-Québec Canadians and international stu­ dents at McGill. Now they are advo­ cating abolition of differential fees as well.

“In August we adopted a posi­ tion to combat differential tuition for Canadian and foreign students,” said Jacques. “Changes to the differ­ ential tuition structure have to be made at the governmental level to be fixed throughout the university sys­ tem. I can’t say if the fees will be reduced or if there will be an increase, but we have the desire to fix the fees and eliminate differential tuition.”

SSMU Vice President Community and Government Nick Vikander wants to mobilize on sev­ eral fronts, but for the moment he is focusing on the Quito meeting.

“We’re working on coalition-

sors... can mean more choice of courses and programs, smaller classes... and more opportunities to knock on doors and get to meet professors personally and find out about their research.”

Sagel and Miller agree that students at large universities can get lost without human contact.

Sagel is investigating a mentor­ ship program to foster studentfaculty links.

“We need to give students a sense of community right when they come to McGill,” said Sagel.

“Second-year through fourth-year students have departmental advis­ ing, but first-year students don’t have affiliation to anything but their faculty. The mentorship pro­ gram would pair students coming into their first year with a profes­ sor. It might mitigate scholarship losses, and help students who change their majors. It gives them building with [the Canadian Association of Student Associations] and other independent student asso­ ciations in Canada,” said Vikander. “[The Canadian Federation of Students] is already against the FTAA. We hope CASA will be working on it with the federal gov­ ernment. The federal government will see if tens of thousands students are standing up because of their con­ cern.”

SSMU, a founding member of FEUQ, left the group in the mid90’s in opposition to its sovereigntist stance. McGill students voted to rejoin during last spring’s elections, when Vikander, who supported FEUQ in his platform, was elected to the SSMU executive. Although SSMU remains in CASA, Vikander has forged links with CFS, using that group’s research to bolster his

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a chance to discuss with professors their academic interests.”

Miller believes that while programs like WebCT can help professors keep in touch with large numbers of students, the university’s information technolo­ gy infrastructure must never replace personal relationships.

“Learning takes place through a multiplicity of means and encounters. The human one is very important,” said Miller.

“People often conjure up this notion that we can access all the information we need from our offices. If that were possible, I don’t think it would be desirable.

One shouldn’t confuse informa­ tion and knowledge. Knowledge comes from a different process.

It’s important to create a commu­ nity where interaction can take place between professors and stu­ dents, and students among them selves.”

case against the FTAA. Nine advising 1700 UO’s To accommodate the academ­ ic advising needs of first-year studentsin the faculties of Arts and Science, the Student Affairs Office has assigned nine advisors, three of them temporary, to advise 1700 incoming freshmen.

Fall term advisors are telephon­ ing all U0 students to discuss course loads and how to balance academics with non-academic activities. They plan to reach everyone by the withdrawl deadline, which is October 11.

-Jennifer Jett For the complete Jrehsmen advising article an d expanded News Briefs, please visit www.mcgilltribune.com.

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the world, followed by the United Kingdom, according to studies done by the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations. The general American populace still knows lit­ tle about their neighbours to the north, however, since “Canada tends to be peaceful and civilized, and the [American] news media just doesn’t focus on that type of society,” according to Fry. Canadian public opinion is much more charged about Americans, however, as Canadian media has no choice but to report the happenings in the monstrous nation to the south. At McGill, many students seem to agree that US foreign policy decisions are not reflective of all American citizen.

One U3 Anthropology' student, who wishes to remain anonymous, expressed her fear that, as an American, Canada and the world judge her based on her govern­ ment’s decisions, with which she disagrees.

Maïda Vandendorp, a U2 Linguistics student and Canadian citizen, affirms this sentiment.

“(There are a] lot of Issues with the United States as a world power, but Americans are good people. They contribute to the international environment at McGill and provide a different pe spective for us to consider.”

U3 Biology major Karen Kelly, a Canadian, agrees that Americans are an asset to the university since they improve McGill’s reputation in the United States.

Moreover, many Canadians fear that the country is losing its independence on matters relating to the United States, especially given some of the Bush administra­ tion’s unilateral responses to September 11. Vandendorp posits that “Canada has no choice but to be influenced by the United States,” and that as a Canadian, that bothers her.

Fry, however, argues that “[we haven’t] come to any major thresh­ old where Canadian sovereignty is being sacrificed on the altar of the battle against terrorism,” as Canada still succeeds in making foreign policy decisions that often differ greatly from those of the United States.

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Junglist a misogynist

“Liberty consists in the power o f doing that which is permitted by the law. ” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Québec's doctor draft Nathan Lebioda An emergency sitting of Quebec’s National Assembly in late July concluded with the passing of Bill 114, the article of legislation requir­ ing that Quebec physicians work shifts in understaffed, rural emergency rooms. Upon its passing, the distinction between Marxism and Quebec Socialism was diluted once again.

I find it rather ironic that the Québec government, which was the only province to denounce mandatory military conscription during World War II, is now opting to conscript some of the most educated and respected professionals in the province. By forcing doctors to work in emergency rooms, the provincial government feels that the safety of its people is being bettered, when in fact, quite the contrary is occurring. I am not sure how safe I feel knowing that the emergency room that I may need in the middle of the night is being staffed by health care profes­ sionals that are being forced to work there against their will. More importantly, I am not confident that a doctor that has been treating sprained ankles and head colds in an air-conditioned (and mold-free) office for the past 20 years has the necessary skills and experience need­ ed to treat the victim of a head-on collision at 4 am.

A similar piece o f legislation introduced several years ago entrenched Quebec’s physician famine. This particular law required that all out-of-province students studying medicine in Quebec sign a binding agreement that forces them to either work in rural areas of the province or emigrate to another province or country within four months of grad­ uation; if they fail to fulfill the agreement, medical school graduates face fines in excess of $300,000. A five minute trip to any one of Montreal’s remaining emergency rooms would lead you to conclude that the province lacks doctors and health care resources in general. One would expect that the millions of dollars spent on various health commissions and inquiries spanning several years would be able to conclude the same.

I could have written the report for half the price.

Though it is difficult to argue that the need for additional doctors in our emergency rooms is nonexistent, it is ludicrous to suggest that the Parti Québécois’ solution is viable. At first glance, it may appear as though Québec was in a state of unexpected disrepair when passing the legislation. Upon further reflection, one can’t help but argue the oppo­ site. For over a decade, the physician shortage in emergency rooms has been problematic all over the country, not just Quebec. As the statistics worsen every year, the population complains and the government responds by making promises to “look into” the problem. It should then be of no surprise when the same government that has been elected and reelected when these problems began, enacts such preposterous legisla­ tion. . —...— Premier Bernard Landry and his Minister of Health, François Legault, have had more than enough time to weigh their options and construct fair legislation that would best serve the community at large.

By conscripting doctors into mandatory service, the Québec government has sewn a temporary patch on a problem that will leave a hole twice the size when it inevitably rips. th e

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what we might accomplish if we didn’t have people who shared your twisted views of male-female rela­ tionships. I find it difficult to believe that at a university with stu­ dents of the calibre that McGill attracts, there is not enough good written material to avoid the publi­ cation of purile and sexist writing that does not contribute to our community in any way other than to offend. Perhaps the Tribune edi­ tors will consider this in the future.

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McGill's first ever female cheerleader Elizabeth MacDonaldDhapiro (1939) and Donald Sterling cele­ brate the Redmen's 58-0 romp over l’Université de Montréal last weekend at Molson Stadium in what was McGill’s annual Homecoming contest.

Former McGill students from across the globe returned to Montreal to remember the drunken, inde­ cent and thor­ oughly enjoy­ able life they once led.

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Not being a regular Tribune reader, it was with disgust and sur­ prise that I came across the piece (September 24) written by Mike Jarzyna, who apparently is "The Junglist."

After reading the entire article it became obvious that only editori­ al oversight could have prevented this columnist from being dubbed "The Misogynist." The opinions of this man are a stark reminder to a campus which is more than 50 per cent female that there continues to be men in our community who

possess backward and frankly unac­ ceptable sexist views that they may or may not be aware of as being inappropriate. Contrary to Mr. Jarzyna’s "You’re-hot-so-I’m-gonnalook" and "Don’t-be-insecure-it’s-acompliment" mentality; no, women should not be subject to overt and offensive visual assaults on their bodies whenever they leave their homes.

Such attitudes and the actions they encourage constitute a climate of sexual aggression that neither women nor men should be forced to contend with on a daily basis.

Sorry, Mike, I’d rather imagine

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Saturn eats his children with HP Sauce

We should all eat homeless people for supper. It’s simple. All you have to do is sauté them in olive oil with some onions and gar­ lic. Serve with white wine and mixed greens et voilà! Other culi­ nary possibilities include using their kidneys for pie, eyes for soup and medulla oblongatas for hot dogs.

Sure some people might have a problem with scabies, crabs, lice and the stench of feces, but I’m sure that with proper slaughter­ house techniques combined with thorough delousing we will be able to produce steak a cut above the rest.

Or we could just leave the

homeless on the streets as we do now. Sure, it may be more morally palatable to let schizophrenics jab­ ber around children, while allow­ ing them to self-medicate them­ selves with glue sticks and crack and letting them freeze to death on heat vents when the temperature drops to -30C. The status quo is a perfectly acceptable solution; still, it leaves my stomach rumbling.

It wasn’t always a common sight to see a blind woman covered in filth playing a ukulele on the corner of Peel and Ste. Catherine.

But then you might say, “What talent she has!” Indeed, once upon a time, back around the late 70s, we had something called a welfare state and virtuosos were protected.

The welfare state was a glori­ ous thing (unless you come from Alberta and in that case you don’t count) which fostered social pro­ grams far and wide. Unfortunately, a lot of these social programs did­ n’t work and the only lasting results are the Olympic Stadium and some really long highway offramps near Saguenay. The gen­

eral idea was that if the govern­ ment threw enough money at a problem, then it would be solved.

There was, hélas, a small catch to the equation in that someone had to pay for all these social programs.

Well, it seems that nobody fac­ tored in an oil crisis, stagflation, the arms race, stock market crash­ es, Gulf Wars and Ronald Reagan.

We had Brian Mulroney, which meant twice the hatred, half the charm.

On they marched; Mulroney, Chrétien, Harris, Klein and a legion of Alex P. Keating wannabes, who in true American Psycho form, slashed budgets left, right and centre. Later, with some strong economic growth and a lit­ tle luck, the budget was back on track. “Hooray!” cried the Canadian people, “Now we have somewhat low taxes and a bal­ anced budget.” Except that right near the Peel Pub, we were begin­ ning to be regaled by the unmis­ takable sound of an out-of-tune ukulele.

It seems that the legion of

Keatonites, while bringing the economy back on track, decided to cut and close the mental hospi­ tals too. “Hey, crazy people have the capacity to self-administer Thorazine, right?” Well, no they don’t and it seems that they prefer to drop acid, which allows them to have intimate conversations with 20-foot tall Alsatian wolfhounds named Eustache and So’s Your Momma.

Being the young idealist that I am (and a bit crazy to boot), I decided to try and make a differ­ ence in society and did a co-op placement at a homeless shelter. I experienced a lot o f interesting things at the Shepherds of Good Hope. I saw lesbian AIDS patients have a knife fight which I got to clean up. I faced down a crazed schizo who threatened to beat my face in. I even had a seven-foot tall psychopath named Chief threaten to rape me in a Trainspotting-style bathroom. These things happen all the time in homeless shelters because some of the people in the shelters aren’t just homeless, they’re

really crazy.

When I think back to that time, I realize that someone must have really messed up the costbenefit analysis, because I don’t see how having to pay worker’s comp to a co-worker who had his face remodeled by Chief is humanitari­ an or even decent (to say nothing of cost efficiency).

Homeless people don’t belong on our street, pure and simple.

They belong in mental institu­ tions, half-way homes, hospitals and hospices where they can receive the medical care that they need. There was a time, way back when they actually talked about cure rates for people with diseases such as schizophrenia. The cure rate was less than 30 per cent but at least some people got better.

The state and the people of the state have to take the responsibili­ ty to care for these citizens, fellow citizens, or else some day we may all all be enjoying flambéed drunk with a side of roasted potatoes.

Empowerment through Seventeen magazine G et o v e r fear of public sp eak in g and b righ t red lipstick in

N ico le C o rd e a u People who know me well may be surprised to learn that as a teenager, I had an insatiable appetite for so-called ‘teen mags’.

No, I’m not talking about those thinly disguised tabloids like Bop and Tiger Beat. Being the highly sophisticated intellectual that I was, I read only the good stuff: YM, Seventeen and others of similar vin­ tage.

Now, I don’t think that any market researcher had me in mind as YM s target audience. I was always pretty bookish — a major jock, bad fashion sense. Defiantly not a cheerleader type. But for me, these magazines were a great escape from the sterile reality of my buttoned-up, uniform laden private school.

There was something strangely soothing about reading a six-page study on how to tweeze one’s eyebrows. More significantly, these pages embodied the typical all-American high school experi­ ence — football games, cheerlead­ ers, jocks and dweebs, the latest fashion craze (there was only so much to be done with a green blaz­ er and plaid kilt) — or basically everything that Hollywood had led me to expect from high school.

For some reason, even when I was 1 5 ,1 was always embarrassed to

buy mags. I guess they were a guilty pleasure. Well, whatever awkward­ ness I had felt as a teen was nothing like walking into Multimags last week and picking up the latest issue of Seventeen — for research purpos­ es only of course. I wanted to see how it had changed, having seen enough Britney Spears videos to expect the worst.

Alas, I must confess to having been a bit harsh in my assumptions.

Oh sure, there was the odd article to remind us women that we haven’t really come all that far in the last 500 years (“From Russia With Lip Gloss”?). There was also a dis­ concerting amount of print that was dedicated to that doofus Josh Hartnett. This included an absurd piece that pitted him against some guy from Delaware that shared his name in a cuteness duel. Most seri­ ously, I was dismayed to see that Seventeen has passed the numerolo­ gy torch off to Cosmo and dispensed with a monthly tradition.

Still, aside from this grave omission, an oppressive amount of advertising, and the occasional arti­ cle that made me question how dif­ ferent we really are from primates, I was pretty damn impressed. By my completely biased count, there were 78 pages of potentially empowering material in this issue. Not bad, con­ sidering that over half of the maga­ zine is advertising (I won’t even start with how this affects young, impressionable minds). It’s certainly an improvement on the old days.

One article discussed the insti­ tution of mandatory drug testing in some high schools. It was surpris­ ingly well written, informative and balanced. Further along, I came

across the requisite what-a-stardoes-to-get-pretty piece, but instead of some rail thin, self­ esteem assaulting princess, the sub­ ject was Kelly Osbourne. The quin­ tessential “Have the Best School Year Ever!” section that in my day addressed such important issues as strategies for flirting with that cute guy in geometry, and the latest fall nail colours, was now giving sugges­

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“What was going on here?” I asked myself. Are we witnessing a revolution in the teen mag indus­ try? Or are the marketers just subtly manipulating us by creating a false sense of liberation? Whatever the reason, the result was a product of a much higher quality than I can ever remember.

Okay, let’s not get carried away here. You won’t find me sneaking a YM behind my African Politics coursepack in the library. Still, see­ ing how these magazines have changed gave me a little hope for gals like me who never fit into the jocks and dweebs dichotomy.

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Walk this way... in knee-high go-go boots Montreal's A ID S walk and the Black and Blue party design fun for a good cause

Nancy Sinatra may choose to slip into some boots when she goes out walking, but my three-dollar Old Navy flip-flops work just as well. On September 22, I joined thousands of others to walk the seven kilometre route of Ça Marche.

From René-Lévesque Boulevard to the Gay Village and back, we came together for the annual battle in the war against the AIDS pandemic.

Early Sunday morning, I hauled myself out of bed to get my walk on. At 10 am, I found myself with a cluster of Queer McGill folk at Place du Canada, drinking free Starbucks and chomping down low-fat muffins.

After participating in AIDS walks in NYC, I expected a bit

more pre-walk excitement as the dedicated marchers began to assemble. Most of us were still in a post-wake daze, including myself, apparently, as a friend let me know the bags under my eyes were so puffy they looked painful. A few did manage a bit more pep in their step as they participated in the cal­ isthenics in front of the main stage.

I remained incognito with over­ sized sunglasses and tried to stum­ ble around the park to check out some of the organization’s booths.

At about 10:30, we started ‘walking’, which really only involved some limited foot shuf­ fling, as we tried to stay in our assigned spots in line and not push past other sauntering sisters in the front.

Personally, I felt that the departing song was a little too som­ bre: as we marched like zombies, the whole affair seemed more like a funeral procession than an opti­ mistic fundraising walk. The pace picked up on Ste. Catherine St. as we wound our way down to the Village, but as it was still a relative­

ly tame walk, my friend and I squeezed in a pit stop at the Black Eagle leather bar for a quick pickme-up midday cocktail.

Finally, people started waking up. Apples and water bottles were handed out to the walkers by the social-problem savvy department store, The Bay, as nearby speakers blared “I Will Survive”, getting all the disco-divas to add a little kick to their step.

I was petrified when Ms. Gaynor faded out and some Franco-country replaced her voice on the speakers. The affair took on a cutesy carnival feel as stilt walkers danced around in fabric heart cos­ tumes and wove dangerously through the moving crowd in gig­ gly, hand-holding chains.

The spirit award definitely goes to the AIDS Community Care in Montreal (ACCM) entourage , who whistled, hooted, did the wave and spun their noisemakers. A troupe of super-cute drummers also kept the energy soaring, revving up the parading peeps for the completion of the

walk. By 12:30, we had made it back to Place du Canada for hot dogs and beer (ugh!), and the yayfor-all-of-you-walking’ speech.

Hundreds of white balloons were released into the air by the organiz­ ers, which prompted scores of oth­ ers to let their balloons go as well.

It was sickly ironic that we were there for one cause but blatantly ignored another in the process. Ça Marche celebrates its tenth birthday this year, and with one person in Quebec infected with the AIDS virus every six hours, it seems we’ll be walking for many years to come. Maybe for next year’s walk, I’ll get to follow in Ms. Sinatra’s footsteps by donning some knee-high go-go boots of my own.

Black and Blue On a lighter note, Black and Blue is coming up. The Bad Boy Club of Montreal (BBCM), a non­ profit organization that raises money for Montreal's AIDS groups and other local gay and les­ bian groups, is legendary for throwing this soirée. Seven days of

parties, get-togethers and great times, all for a good cause, kick off October 9. So, family, shmamily— tell them you’ve turned vegetarian and you won’t be coming home this year to butcher that poor Thanksgiving bird. Crowds have peaked at 80 000 people. This isn't your backyard BBQ, baby.

Events range from movie screenings to swim-a-thons, leather parties to the Jock Ball. The main event is on October 13 from 10 pm until noon the next day. If you run down to Wega on Ste. Catherine St., you can get a stu­ dent discount, so buy those tickets in advance.

But don't think this Black and Blue party is just a gay thing. Last year, I saw about a million straight guys and gals who just wanted to get down to some really amazing after-hours music. Plus, the Human League will be performing their 80s hits like Don't You Want M e and A ll I Ever Wanted. So see you there, and if you’re lucky, I'll have my boots by then.

Chronobiology and the student: timing is everything Living according to the body's clock means improved grades, mood and performance Continued from page 1

Chronobiology, the science of body time, is trying to revive this natural tendency with a new method called chronomedicine, intended to help sustain and opti­ mize health through increased con­ sciousness of the body’s clock.

Since the 1937 founding of the International Society of Chronobiology in Sweden, factions have arisen around Europe, Asia and North American, making chronobiology a now recognized scientific discipline.

According to the theory, the human clock divides the human population into the dawn-loving larks and the nocturnal owls through individual rhythm types called chronotypes— determined by genetics, lifestyle and age— that help dictate the appropriate times to conduct various daily activities.

The body is host to over a hundred circadian rhythms, based on the earth’s rotation, that collectively influence such bodily functions as blood pressure, body temperature and heart rate.

“One of the simplest, and per­ haps healthiest, things we can do is to align ourselves with the seasons,” asserts Mari Alvig, a chronobiology therapist, who cites Seasonal

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Chronotypes dictate the appropriate times to conduct daily activities

Affective Disorder as her prime example. SAD, or the ‘winter blues’, officially recorded as a med­ ical condition in 1984 by the American Psychiatric Association, is a natural biological reaction to sea­ sonal changes as winter is associated with hibernation time.

Clearly, chronobiological research can now prove that timing is indeed everything.

Minds in motion Minds in motion are especially sensitive to the biological clock.

Naturally, effort mostly impacts mental competence, but as leading

chronobiology authority Michael Smolensky upholds, one’s mental ability can vary by 20 to 30 per cent throughout the day.

“Proper timing can make the difference between a 2.4 and a 3.0 grade point average,” he affirms.

Biologically speaking, night­ time equates to downtime for the body’s clock, which explains why late-night cramming feels tortur­ ous, but becomes increasingly easier as morning perkiness builds up.

“Much research has proven that information processed after midnight fades much faster than at other times,” confirms Smolensky, meaning that frenzied midterm cramming will not suffice for a final exam unless a hefty revision ensues.

Short-term memory works best in the morning, which is why daybreak review for multiple-choice type exams is beneficial.

Mathematics is also best grasped early in the day, as morning minds are most able to rapidly process information.

Work necessitating reasoning abilities like essay questions, howev­ er, are much easier to tackle after a good night’s sleep.

“Creative thinking is signifi­ cantly impeded by sleep depriva­ tion,” warns Smolensky.

As for the powers of retention,

long-term memory reaches its zenith in the afternoon, making it the ideal time for history and lan­ guage readings.

Categorically not a morning person? You may not have shaken off your teenage tang.

“Biologically, adolescents are at their worst in terms of alertness and ability in the morning, reaching their pinnacle only after the regular school day finishes, a reality several high schools are striving to address by rearranging school hours,” explains Smolensky.

A survey conducted by the College of the Holy Cross in Massachusetts confirmed that suc­ cessful students embrace their beds earlier than students plagued with failing grades, and usually sleep half an hour more.

Mood over matter Another major factor in the art of studying is one’s frame of mind.

Moods change according to body temperature, which is highest in the day, and lowest at night. “[This] accounts for the many cases of depression in graveyard workers,” says Smolensky.

Mid-morning sees alertness soar due to the body’s “calm-ener­ gy,” a mood best for challenging projects, while the mid-afternoon, See OPTIMIZING, page 9

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when “tense-tiredness” rears its ugly head, is infamous for temper tantrums and post-lunch stupor, making problem-solving a seeming­ ly unfeasible task.

Luckily, a feeble working mood is easily enhanced simply by slightly adjusting sleeping habits to better conform to the body’s clock.

A line often heard in high-flying businesses, “sleep is a perk of the truly successful,” is no understate­ ment. Just one hour more of shut­ eye jumpstarts alertness in dead­ beats while further improving the already sharp-witted. “[Sleep] is only natural and is not a sign of laziness,” affirms Alvig.

Naturally, humans are pro­ grammed to sleep at night and to nap in the afternoon, a concept that does not tie in well with contempo­ rary lifestyles. Even the Mexican siesta ritual was changed in 1999 by government officials who wanted to maximize working hours.

Many individuals are thus troubled by midday drowsiness, rendering performance difficult, and making afternoon lectures twice as challenging for professors who must work harder to maintain student interest.

Slowly, companies are begin­ ning to address this issue: Camile and Bill Anthony co-wrote the

book “The Art of Napping At Work”, encouraging workplaces to offer nap rooms, a novelty that seems amusingly preposterous at present, but could do wonders for business efficiency.

“At-work napping would dras­ tically change the ‘time is money mentality of society,” assert the Anthonys.

Yet sleeping doesn’t always ensure a calm wake-up. As German neuroendocrinologist Jan Born dis­ covered, the brain retains schedules even during sleep, motivating the release of stress hormones one hour before wake-up time.

“This is the first evidence that expectation and anticipation, which are associated with conscious wakefulness, intrude into sleep,” says Born.

Yet waking up is not involun­ tary: by adjusting the adrenocorticotrophic hormone, the body’s internal alarm clock, the brain can keep track of time.

“This has implications for everybody,” says Born. “If you plan your day, including when you want to wake up, you can be better pre­ pared.”

Timely movement Studying accompanied by reg­ ular exercise has been praised as the ideal way to keep the mind alert.

Yet exercising at certain times is flat-out detrimental.

“Chronobiologic rhythms have

an effect on both physiological fac­ tors and motor skills,” explains sports expert Rick Morris, who studies chronobiology for runners.

From 6 to 9 am, flexibility, strength and reactiveness are at a low point, partly because joints and muscles are stiffest, having been mostly sedentary throughout the night. The morning is good for

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The 2 to 3 pm window has been christened the worst time for exercise, as the infamous midday drowse kicks in, meaning move­ ment seems arduous and stamina non-existent, until the airway opens up and pain tolerance dra­ matically increases between 4 to 9 pm.

“Studies show that most ath­ letes perform at higher levels in the late afternoon,” says Morris.

Weight training is also ideal since 20 per cent more muscle is accumulated than in the morning.

Similarly, sports requiring speed and precision like racing, swim­ ming and gymnastics become com­ paratively effortless.

Back to the future Chronobiology may entail many positive implications for the future, but many medical authori­ ties have yet to be swayed by its innovative claims.

“When assessing sick patients, many doctors do not think about time,” says Dr. William White, a cardiologist at the University of Connecticut.

Yet health problems like asth­ ma, which worsens in the early morning, and migraines, which occur mostly before noon, clearly display daily rhythms. Still, a 1996 survey by the American Medical Association showed only 26 per cent of doctors knew about the timeliness of chronic illnesses.

“One reason is that doctors haven’t been trained in chronobiol­ ogy,” reported William Hathawa of the Times-Post News Service.

Recent changes are countering this reality: Searle, a drug company of Pharmacia Corp., now offers a hypertension drug called CoveraHS that releases medicine early in the morning to maximize effective­ ness.

“It is really an incredible con­ cept,” says Dr. Charles Leach, a professor of cardiology at the University of Connecticut.

“Everything in nature varies through time. Everything contains biological rhythms.”

The key to chronobiology is keeping in synch with the body’s tempo, scheduling exercise, studies and sleep during times that parallel personal biological preferences.

Whether a lark or an owl, befriend­ ing the body’s clock ensures the best of times. And university, ultimate­ ly, is all about time well spent.

The best of times

Miscellaneous body clock tidbits to keep all types of daily activity at their peak.

SIX: Sweet dreams: dreams intensify SEVEN: Measure up: height reach­ es its maximum NINE: Weigh yourself: body weight is at its lowest TEN: Cogitate: mental alertness hits a high note NOON: Smile: mood skyrockets TWO: Play ball: eye-hand coordi­ nation is at its finest THREE: Snooze: best time to take a power-nap FIVE: Work it: muscle strength at its prime SIX: Pig out: taste buds are at their most discerning EIGHT: Lap it up: alcohol is most tolerable ELEVEN: Get it on: sexual inter­ course is most common

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/ am trying to break your heart documents alt.country band Wilco vs. self-doubt and an evil record company Chris Whibbs

Documentary. This specific word has many different meanings to many different people. For the view­ er it’s usually: “What? A documen­ tary? I’m not going have to learn something, am I?” Well, perhaps not every viewer, but if this stereotype weren’t true, I’m sure every person worth his pension plan would be around the water cooler reciting memorable lines from any number of Errol Morris ventures.

A person who embarks upon the journey that is the documentary not only has to make the film they want, but also a film that has enough meaning and vision to appeal to any number of people. Thus, a docu­ mentary on police power and its greater implications should have a wide appeal factor, while a documen­ tary on burgeoning red wine produc­ tion in Vulcan, Alberta may not.

Such is the dilemma of the docu­ mentary film-maker—artistic vision vs. commercial viability. YOU want to see YOUR vision, yet YOU may have picked a very narrow vision.

But I digress. Sam Jones’ docu­ mentary, I am trying to break your heart, which chronicles the alt.country/indie band Wilco and the tumul­ tuous creation of their newest album, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, has a vision a tad too narrow to make it totally rel­ evant to everyone, but if the average viewer approaches it with an open mind, it has many delights to offer.

First, let’s run down the drama­ tis personae. Wilco consists of five people: Jeff Tweedy, singer and main

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composer; engineer Jay Bennett, sec­ ond banana to Tweedy (yet just as talented); Leroy Bach, multi-instru­ mentalist; John Sdrratt, bassman and Glenn Kotche, versatile drummer.

Just as important as the subject is the director; Sam Jones is a wellknown, well-respected photographer whose images of famous folk have graced such magazines as Vanity Fair, Premiere and Rolling Stone. As a fan of Wilco, his original aim was to document the making of Yankee Hotel Foxtrot for the purpose of see­ ing the Wilco ‘magic’ at work.

Yet, in the end, however, he got much, much more as Yankee was poorly received by Wilco’s label, Reprise Records, a division of Warner Bros. With Wilco’s refusal to change the album (Jones shows the tense conversation between label and

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manager), they were given the option of leaving the label scot-free with rights to the master recordings, which they subsequently did. As Tweedy stated about Jones’ presence and the ensuing drama, “Maybe it’s the law of you can’t observe some­ thing without changing it.”

Even before Jones started film­ ing there were signs that Yankee would not be produced in the vein of earlier Wilco albums like Summerteeth and Being There. Jones was notified that the band’s original drummer, Ken Coomer, had been asked to leave the band and was being replaced with Glenn Kotche, who is a less conventional and more inventive player. It was also the first time that Tweedy and Bennett would be writing together. Things were bound to be interest­ ing, even by Wilco standards.

Jones shoots Heart in grainy 16mm black and white, evoking classic rock documen­ taries like D.A. Pennebaker’s Don’t Look Back, which focused on Bob Dylan’s British tour in the ’60s.

Unfortunately, Wilco ain’t Dylan. They’re essentially five average guys who happen to be really good musicians, not entertainingly idio­ syncratic like Dylan.

The original recording sessions for Yankee really show what Jones was going for, which is a sneak peek into the cre­ ative process (and he edits it like a music video).

There’s much joy to be had see­ ing the concentration on Tweedy’s face as he sings “Poor Places” (a song off Yankee), or enjoying how a ciga­ rette magically dangles from Jay Bennett’s mouth song after song.

Jones isn’t focusing upon the guys, but rather the music they produce, and it works charmingly well. Inter­

cut with all the studio (actually a Chicago loft) goings-on are various music critics and managers who all talk optimistically about the upcom­ ing record and Wilco’s place in the music world, while the discerning Wilco fan chuckles at the dramatic irony.

Much amusement to both ears and eyes comes from a Jeff Tweedy solo concert, where he plays some damn fine songs and meets some fans backstage. When asked to describe his new album by some fans (who look the part of the indie rock fan so much, you’d think they’ve been casted), he mumbles out, “Well, there’s some holes in this one, basically more holes.” The fans nod in agreement, almost like David Carradine, or “Grasshopper” when

imparted with some wisdom in Kung Fu. But even in these surreal sur­ roundings, you don’t feel like Tweedy is egotistical in any such way. He does exert heavy creative control over the band, which is the reason Bennett leaves during the mixing ses­ sion, but really, Wilco come off as affable guys who are just awkward enough in real life for the viewer to relate to them easily. This really helps when they decide to part ways with Reprise. To give Jones credit, he

adds it in at the end of the film, when another person may have cen­ tered the entire movie on the mini soap opera.

While watching this documen­ tary, I was unfortunately struck by the thought, “Why would someone care enough about Wilco and their music to see an hour and half of just these people?” Besides Wilco fans and music aficionados, this film is throwing its line out to a small core audience, but Jones is aware of that.

As he says, “What I hope I can do is take someone who’s never heard of Wilco...and to capture their inter­ est.” I think if people give Heart a chance, they have much to gain from this little documentary.

And what about poor Wilco you ask? Well, happily, Wilco ended up signing to Nonesuch Records (ironically, another division of Warner Bros.) for almost double the orig­ inal contract they signed with Reprise Records. Thus, essen­ tially Warner Bros, has paid Wilco twice, the second time double the original price, for a record they rejected.

Also, to make things sweeter, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot ended up debuting at number 13 on the Billboard charts, selling more in its first week than all other pre­ vious Wilco albums combined.

You see, lam trying to break your heart gives you a little song and a lit­ tle dance, finally leaving you with a feel-good ending. Break our hearts?

Don’t think so.

In last week’s edition of The M cGill Tribune, the website for Dr. Tom’s Leather was incorrectly reported. The real web address is www.drtomsleather.net.

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Sco tt R. Medvin “W ith o u t T h e M om en t there’s n o t h i n g , ’’ p h i l o s o p h i s e s T o n y Sandler, a M cG ill Faculty o f M usic graduate and the first bass player o f the evening to grace Luba Lounge’s tiny stage. “In any m om ent o f music you can find som ething special.”

And this is the idea behind T he M om ent, a weekly jam session and meeting o f friends, both new and old, that takes place every M onday it Luba Lounge. W h a t started as a one-night deal has turned into a >emi-tradition, a place where musi:ians from throughout the M ontreal tom m unity can get together and ust play music.

Stud ents from M cG ill, Concordia, U Q À M and l’Université ie M ontréal make regular con tribu­ ions to the m ix, and surprise ippearances and special guests often idd som e other mysterious elem ent.

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“T h e crowd that com es o ut is really interesting,” muses drum m er Dave C h an, a U 2 M usic student from M cG ill. “T here’s a total m ix o f regulars who com e for the music, random s who th in k that they’re heading for a chill night out at Luba and som e random hippies and pseu-

Siveef Home Alabama not worth the trip Isab elle W est

If you’re in the mood for a totally predictable movie that’s full of clichés, march up to the box office and say, “One for Sweet Home Alabama, please.”

Melanie, played by Reese Witherspoon, has just gotten engaged in New York City and must return to her hometown in Alabama to get a proper divorce from her estranged husband.

Needless to say, things don’t exactly go as planned. What was expected to be Reese Witherspoon’s next big hit after the successful Legally Blonde is really just another lame romantic comedy with Witherspoon mimicking her blonde cinematic counterpart Meg Ryan.

Cheesy lines are plentiful, one

of my favourites being when Melanie arrives home from work to an appartment filled with roses.

Her boyfriend, Andrew (played by Patrick Dempsey, who is desperate­ ly trying to revive his acting career) has left her a message on her voice mail telling her, “There’s a rose for every moment I thought of you last night.” Vomit.

A fellow movie-goer summed up the acting very accurately, asserting that the best actor in the movie is the dog. Indeed, the dog proves to be an award-worthy comedic genius, saving several scenes from the reel cemetary. With the exception of Murphy Brown alumnus Candace Bergen, who plays Andrew’s mother the mayor of New York, the casting directors opted for comedic mediocrity.

The film also plays on many stereotypes of the American South.

Melanies father, played by Fred Ward, re-enacts scenes from the Civil War because he is proud of his roots. He is portrayed as being sim­ ple-minded, friendly and kind of backward. On the other hand,

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Melanie and her new fiancé are apparently with the times. For instance, there isn’t a single ATM machine in her hometown, which is an inconvenience to Melanie, who’s used to the ways of the Big Apple. Like the infinite fat jokes on “Fresh Prince of Bel-Air,” this overt formula wears on the audience after a short time. Overdone and then some.

The upshot is that there isn’t anything really memorable or pow­ erful in the movie. It’s not remote­ ly original, the acting isn’t great and the clichés are everywhere. The tragedy of this affair is that “Sweet Home Alabama” is a great song that will now be associated with this sub-par excuse for a movie. Say a prayer for Lynyrd Skynyrd. !

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W alking up Bleury Steet, you :an hear the music drifting out o f he open door into the night. It ingers but for a ‘M o m en t’ before it recomes som ething new. It is the netam orphosis that stands out here.

Aspects o f spacey Grateful D ead■tylc jam s and slow noodley guitar ines intertwine with the hard funky >ass and steady jazzy drumbeats, suddenly, the tem po shifts, and the lound o f 7 0 ’s progressive rock is leard. A fter a few phrases, all the nstrum ents— save for the drums tnd keys— drop o u t and a rornosonic interlude begins, soundng amazingly similar to early Stevie b o n d e r tracks. A nd then w ith a sang, the guitar returns and begins a udden o u tp o u rin g o f fran tic cream ing, produced via high disortion and flying fingers.

T h e shrieking guitar slows, and he jam ends. W ith the question, ‘You wanna play som e bass?” the sand becom es som ething new as sandier leaves the stage. In his place i new bassist and another guitarist ■ister the fray. M o re fu n k bass hythm s follow, P arliam ent m nkadelic’s “W e W ant the Funk” trains to get out, but barely makes in appearance as its unforgettable ind unmistakable bass line lingers n the background. M inim al guitar sh rases are heard before the repeat:d drum rolls and spacey keys take >ver, growing in volume until they ire all there is, a loud driving noise ike a freight train barrelling down a rack o f sound.

A fter his first turn on stage, Sandier grabbed a beer, lit a smoke ind sat down w ith som e o f his

nusical collaborators to explain vhat T he M om en t really is.

“W ell, we were really ju st lookng for a place to play, a situation vhere musicians could ju st jam out ind play together w ithout knowing he same tunes, or basically any ames at all,” he says. T h e y got lucky in their first try when they pitched their idea to their neighbours down­ stairs. “Som e o f us lived upstairs From Luba Lounge, so it m ade

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Making a moment of music.

There's m ore to life than reality TV and bad pizza;

do-hippies who’ve heard abut the n ig h t and ju st show up. T h e M om en t is really ju st a place for nerds and dweebs to vent their frus­ tration by playing their version o f pop and cock ro ck.”

Sandler adds, “Som e people com e as spectators and end up play­ ing. Som etim es things sound great, and som etim es they fall apart.” T h e players don’t practice together, so improvisation and spontaneity rule the weekly meetings. T h a t is h alf the fun o f the M om ent, you never know w hat you’ll hear.

“W e try to cross funk with e lectro n ica and jam ban d styles, while still attem pting to keep Luba’s lounge atm osphere,” he clarifies.

“W e’ve had D Js spin w hile we played to add an extra elem ent to the sound.”

Som etim es the results are good: “W e’ve had jam s that are so good that they are on the verge o f obscene,” laughs Chan. T h ey ’ve also had their share o f disasters, though to their credit, they usually com e later in the night, after a num ber o f beverages and a splifF or two.

I f you look at the walls o f Luba Lounge, you’ll realize that the art on the walls is different every week.

Likewise, the m usic produced there is never the same, though the crowd who gathers to hear it may be. T h e familiar faces— be it the bartender, the bassist or the group o f kids on the couch— are usually sm iling and friendly; the drinks are on special, and the music is a once-in-a-lifetim e experience. C o m e fo r a m om ent, stay for the night: maybe you’ll jo in the family and com e back next week.

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The McGill Tribune, Tuesday, October 1, 2002

In celebration of the first edition of Pop Montreal, the city’s only festival to realize the potential of the bur­ geoning pop and indie rock scene

SW O LLEN M EM B ER S A n d rew S m a r t

Swollen M em bers, swollen egos and how M oka O nly helped to save the day In a fall season that has found Montréal hip hop fans starving for a good show, especially after the JLive show was canceled last week­ end, it was welcome news that Swollen Members would be playing a little publicized show at Cabaret Music Theatre on Thursday night, and even better news that they would be bringing Moka Only. The show, as part of the Pop Montréal festival, would bring to the city the Vancouver duo, and, I think at this point safe to say, the flag-bearers of

the Canadian hip hop scene.

It was a surprise to walk into a sparsely crowded Cabaret, which after many well-buzzed nights over the years has found a place in my heart as one of the most fun show venues in the city. After securing a beverage it was relatively easy to amble right up to the stage for a much anticipated Moka Only set.

This cat doesn’t disappoint. Playing old tracks, ‘future’ tracks, and tracks off the excellent 2000 release Lime Green, Moka worked the crowd, slapping hands and cracking jokes.

The versatility of his artistry may have been best demonstrated by a reggae-beat Fishbone cover that was a definite crowd pleaser.

It seems imperative to note the chemistry between the rapper/singer and the female con­ tingent in the crowd. On Lime Green, Moka states, “Moka loves guitarist, singer and primary songwriter in the band, invokes the glory days of rock ‘n roll. The music is reminiscent of a time when ear-deafening guitars and crashing drums proved standard.

With the style of music in mind, it was easy to excuse Blurton’s question early in the set: “Does anyone in this room believe in rock and roll?” If any of us before the show didn’t have faith, Blurton preached his sermon loud though unfortunately, sometimes unclear.

Blurtonia chose to open the show with a thunderous number. It became apparent immediately that with both guitars going full-bore Blurton’s lyrics would be rendered inaudible. Similar sound quality pervaded an Ottawa, Ont. show by the band this past summer. The drowning out of the vocals was unfortunate, because the melodies superbly complement the biting guitars.

The sound quality improved somewhat for the second song of the night, which happened to be “Perfect Crime” off the new disc.

The tune grabbed the attention of a few spectators, bringing them to the front of the stage. The enthusi­ asm of the crowd did not match the

BLURTONIA M a rk K e r r

Crowd treated to short but rocking set from Toronto band While Guns N’ Roses prepares to once again welcome us to the jungle, Ian Blurton and bandmates introduced us to the Kingdom o f Blurtonia last Saturday night.

Judging by the show this four-piece band put on, the kingdom holds much more fun and games.

The formal coming out of Blurtonia was in 1999 with the release of Adventures in the Kingdom o f Blurtonia, a 12-song collection.

The band followed that up with this year’s self-titled disc released on Grenadine Records, based here in Montreal. Blurton, former head­ man for Canadian indie legend Change of Heart, brought the king­ dom to town for the Pop Montréal festival. And what were the few fans in attendance at Café Campus treated to? Guitar rock, and lots of it.

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the Ladies and the Ladies love Moka.” It is pretty apparent that such a statement goes beyond your typical hip hop bragging. In fact, this is the first show I’ve attended where the ladies in the audience actually shrieked. I’m talking bor­ derline N*Sync style. One of the females with whom I attended the show, when I asked her what she thought of the set, replied with lan­ guage likely not fit for print in this respectable ‘newspaper, followed by a series of statements all including the word ‘hot’. Lucky Moka. After dedicating a self-proclaimed “love song” to an especially attractive young lady in the front row, Moka finished his set in good form declar­ ing he would be back with Swollen Members to double the energy level.

Shortly thereafter, Prevail and Mad Child took to the stage, open­ ing with the first track on last year’s Bad Dreams titled “Killing Spree.”

This is perhaps the most unCanadian song title I’ve ever heard.

However, the crowd started to move with some vigor, and at this point the majority of the room was packed with jumping, fist-pumping white people. I seemed to sense a little dip in energy— although ener­ gy assessment isn’t really my forte— by the weak response to Swollen’s second song.

However, when Moka Only appeared to take the stage with his former band mates, the crowd

responded. Soon after, the familiar tag line of much-played “Fuel Injected” was cued up and a hip hop show was in the making. Mad Child, who definitely lives up to his name, suddenly disappeared from stage. It seemed a possibility that he may have been too drunk to con­ tinue with the show. However, Prevail and Moka showed off some of the best skills of the night in his absence. The pair exemplified ener­ gy, versatility, and versification marked by a well-received freestyle session by Prevail.

Mad Child’s return to the stage band’s playing, as most people were was followed by a string of hits, likely there for main act Gros including “Lady Venom” and those Mene. two new tracks incessantly played Blurton struggled to explain j on MuchMusic. Mad Child banged the discrepancy between the audi­ his head, shot feral-dog grins ence and the band. He offered up a around the room, and chugged on a classic rock ‘n’ roll explanation: the Griffon bottle throughout the set. band boozed more than the crowd At one point, Prevail managed to before hitting the stage. Yeah, man. climb up some speakers onto the Midway through their 45balcony-level, and along the edge of minute set Blurtonia played the railing where he settled on a arguably the best song off this year’s cocktail table to spit out his verse. eponymous release. The playful The group harked back to songs “Foxy by Proxy” translated well to from their album Balance and con­ the stage. The song proved that tinued with tracks like “Anthrax Blurtonia, as well as blowing your Island,” and “Dark Riders” which head off with white noise, can also sent the crowd into an aggressive fit craft an excellent tune. of jumping.

And would it really be a rock The last few tracks were intro­ show without a drum solo? Randy duced with Mad Child stating: “I Curnew got to show off his skills on don’t really know the words to this the skins during the introduction to one song. Curnew’s drumming style gave a punk flavour to many of the songs.

That leads to the best encapsu- I lation of Blurtonia. These guys rock A m y G a ja r ia _________________________ like AC/DC did 30 years ago, right down to the matching Gibson SGs of Blurton and A1 Kelso, as well as Canadian hip hop Blurton’s stage strutting, Angus | artist Spek gets down Young-like, performance. But the with rap and rock at group limits the cheese factor with [ Le Swimming a punk appeal brought home by Curnew’s drumming.

There are many things that All in all, the show made me want to break out a mickey of j Spek is not. He is no longer a Dream Warrior, no longer the 17Southern Comfort [or any other year old who lent his distinctive comparable hard liquor] and get voice to the well-known Canadian rippin’ drunk. The urge was espe­ cially strong during the last song of j hip hop crew. He is also no longer a straight-up MC, delivering the night. As the band finished rhymes over the traditional DJ “Capital Mack,” Blurton, Kelso and scratches. What he is, as he let the bassist Eric Larock, formerly of sizable crowd at Saturdays show at Tricky Woo, crashed into their Le Swimming know, is a unique amps, trashing the stage as much as artist “who tries to write hip hop an opening act can do. songs with an acoustic guitar.”

A perfect ending to a rock ‘n’ He pulls it off, too. Mixing the roll show. It’s a shame we had to sweetness of the most independent leave the kingdom so soon.

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one [either] but we’ll play it for you motherfuckers anyway.” The flag of British Columbia making it to the stage best exemplified the Canadian-ness of the experience. (I had to lean over to the girl next to me and confirm exaedy what it was). However, the crowd, likely a number of West Coast transplants, was big into the Provincial patriot­ ism. The show ended with a highenergy encore and the crowd, including myself, left well satiated.

Incidentally, Moka Only never left the stage.

It is hard to tell whether Swollen Members, and more likely Moka Only, will have the appeal to find huge success across the border.

It is also curious that Moka Only, who left the group in the early stages to pursue his solo career, is the factor that really holds the act together. Next time they come through town it would be no sur­ prise to me if the show were to be billed: “Moka Only featuring Swollen Members.” Regardless, I respect what these guys are doing and admire the high energy level of their show. Plus, it is always nice to walk into a show without being frisked. You have got to love the Canadian hip hop scene.

of Canadian rock with serious hip hop attitude, Spek manages to somehow make it all come togeth­ er. His influences range from Simon and Garfunkle to De la Soul, and the fact that his parem were sitting in the front row didn’t deter him from downing shot afte shot in the hope of getting the crowd to get up and party.

It atl seemed to work out. despite the unlucky events that lead up to the night. Both Graph Nobel (who it seems has been handed “the Next Big Hip Hop Thing” label by Torontonians) and the Canteens pulled out of the show, leaving onlv Spek to fill an entire night on tinback of one album.

Neither that, nor the fact th.-t he was playing to a crowd unfami iar with the material on his fir i CD Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff, (u> be released in Canada on Octobi r 15) seemed to faze Spek or his stel­ lar back-up band. The baby-faced, sweet-voiced singer got it all starti J

The McGill Tribune, Tuesday, October 1, 2002 sing and sound in tune shell it out to see her sing. Why? is okay in my books. She’s got a voice that cannot be Their sound wasn’t described but can only be experi­ anything overtly spe­ enced. The best set of country cial or unique, but the musicianship singing pipes in a long time, if not was excellent (great slide guitar ever.

O f course, this Neko ain’t your work), which gives them a passing grade on my opening acts quality-o- usual hurtin’ country gal. She’s part of the (much-hyped) country meter.

The second act, Trailer Bride, revival, which is a return to the is from North Carolina (or as they roots of country music when it was said in their wonderfully fractured cool and relevant, personified in the français, “Caroline du Nord”) and voices of Hank Williams, Merle were quite different in atmosphere Haggard, Patsy Cline andjohnny since instead of getting the audience Cash. Dark songs abéut life, love a-swayin’ and a-rollin’, they brought and other bad things, which Neko the mood down to a darker level. showed all'to well when, she introThey infused their slow, sad songs drtted “Furnace Rtxirtt Lullaby" as a with feedback and numerot Ron g “abratialling your boyfriend, changes in volume. The lead singer, foldi§|ifnim up and stuffing him in while having a good voice, was very the furnace of your apartment cold and distanced— I believe I saw building.”

Neko’s also a bit rebellious a smile only once.

Contrary to the demeanor of compared to the old country van­ the band, the music was quite love­ guard, as seen when she took off her ly since it reminded me of the dark shirt at the Grand Ole Opry in country songsmiths, The Nashville and played the rest of her Handsome Family, jvithout the gig in her bra. She was promptly gravelly-voiced singer. 1 was also banned for life. Other people lead­ impressed the lying of a saw ing the charge like Neko are Kelly which sounded Hogan, Hank Williams III, and fel­ with a vio; ver ne should see a low Canadian Carolyn Mark, who incrediblj his or her life. also sings with Neko in the duo, saw pi The songs veered The Corn Sisters.

Now, back to the music. between tradi­ tional country Simply backed by a multi-instru­ songs and more mentalist, Jon Rauhouse, and a magnificently bearded bassist, Tom cou n try/ in d ie rawk sounding Ray, there wasn’t much distraction stuff. Was awed to take anything away from her gor­ enough to con­ geous voice. At times, she was even sider buying the left alone to just belt out her lovely, which I lonely torch songs, which, consider­ CD will ing the absolute silence of the audi­ I find it ence, amazed everyone. Confident enough, and strong on stage, telling good gimme a stories and generally making a rap­ I’m a po’ port with the audience, she seemed invincible. Highlights of the new but album, Blacklisted, included “Deep not Red Bells,” “1 Wish I Wts the the Moon,” and really, any other song the sung. Every single one showcased night, Neko the incredible depth and range of Case. ft be as her voice. Her CD’s give a good fair as possible, I iconduction to the versatility of should first admit this one woman, but really, until my bias, which is you sec ter live, you can’t under­ that I’m a huge stand the powÜft of that voice.

Neko Case fan. Really*f^ould have wijl||| "fbisp* She could charge review in thro words ibjt wasn’t for MAXIMLEWKOWSKI $100 a ticket, those pesky editors, so rtTsetek^^n country song.

A. and I’d probably at the end. Go. See. Her.

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Neko Case leads a night of coun­ try torch songs with a voice that defies description Now, a reviewer should always try to see as much of a show as pos­ sible, but alas, I lost track of time on Friday and only saw the last half of the first opening act for the queen of the country revival, Neko Case. Opening acts are hotly debat­ ed things among concertgoers.

Some enjoy them, while others have been let down so often that they refuse to step foot in the concert hall until they’ve gone. I’m in the former category, and as I walked into Cabaret and heard a barn­ burning, country version of Michael Jackson’s “Billie Jean”, I was actually disappointed that II missed the first half of this act, The Sonny Best Band. They continued to impress me with their countryrock stompers and five-part, yes, FIVE-part harmonies. Any band that can have five different people

Neko Case belts out another good ole

with a quiet beginning, playing his acoustic guitar on the dance floor, while his band filled out the instru­ mental track from behind.

It wasn’t until the third track, “Looking for an Answer,” that things really got started. By that time, the crowd had managed to subdue itself to a passable roar and Spek was able to get up and work the stage. The song filled the Spek formula; it had quieter acoustic rock and female harmonies layered behind Spek’s considerable vocal ability to find hip hop hooks in the most acoustic of rock songs.

The rest of the first set fea­ tured the same kinds of songs earnest, honest rock that might have gotten monotonous had it not been for the considerable charisma shown by Spek and the rest on stage. It seemed to be his goal for the night to get the audience (and himself) as drunk as possible, and, as Spek mentioned, “[Le Swimming] isn’t a coffee shop, it’s a

place where people get wasted!”

He then bought a round of shots for himself and those brave enough to get up on the dance floor.

After pointing out that his guitarist was “the most chill per­ son” in the building, Spek got down to showcase more tracks from the album, as well as a cover of David Bowie’s “Life on Mars.”

The MC in him also reared its head as he freestyled through a couple of tracks, and followed the band through the final song of the first set that ended in a jazz/improv/freestyle session.

After a break, the band got to it again, vainly trying to play the chilled-out and beautiful “Back Home” and “Hey Joni,” (the latter a tribute to Joni Mitchell) as the audience seemed determined to talk over both songs. “Moving to NYC” livened things up a bit, injecting a (brief) moment of bluegrass/country music into the midst of all the rockin’ and the hippin’

and the hoppin’.

“I’m a Hippie” also got the audience excited, and Spek played to that, bringing the tempo way up and throwing a little bit of improv into the middle. He also took a moment to work his way through another bit of impressive MC’ing before returning to the song.

The final planned song of the night, Much More Music charted single “Smell the Coffee” brought enough people onto the dance floor that they were treated to a final encore of completely impro­ vised music to finish out the night.

It seems that in Spek’s blend of rap and rock the two have found a way to co-exist far away from the scary world of “nu-metal.” After all, at one point in the night, Spek summed it all up, noting, “I don’t work hard, I just be myself.”

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FO LK . Pop M ontreal’s

festival displays some great folk music amidst some real blunders.

‘J a r i ;crib|j||u ustc, tsn t: Originally, it ^ord'pqpular’, was short but nowadays îarate meaning m m beverage counterpart^ sv rot your teeth over time, a take in too much at once, it’If^fakyou sick. At least, that’s the getteral consensus university students give when asked how they would describe boy-bands and half-naked girls prancing around onstage shaking their goods (to be fair, most guys had a different response to the latter). But there is more to pop music; that’s only the side that has evolved out of disco. On the other side of the genre, artists have evolved from the roots that first originated in folk music.

Pop Montreal promotes this less commercial cousin of the big bad industry which has taken over the radio stations - the kind of music found in the coffee shops that university students flock to.

Last Saturday night at Cabaret, it was evident they did just that hop­ ing to deliver a great show. What they ended up getting was a mixed bag.

The Social Register, a real band with real instruments played well overall, but the instrumental solos fell flat, and the vocals were nothing to write home about.

They had some good tunes and did their best, but their songs were nothing spectacular when com­ pared with anything else out there.

However, there are two things worth mentioning. The first. that the drumming was ex tile she and the second is tha ved played, the keyboard is k jam| fo r# to the^mf most aeugtefu 1 way. d apt of the night Wâs "Jhno-award winning singersongwriter Julie Doiron, who, in the great tradition of folk music, sang poetry while she played her guitar. Sure, it didn’t all rhyme like pop is supposed to, but there was some great imagery about her family life. She was at her best when singing love songs about the intimacy she shares with her hus­ band. Her voice was quiet, but strangely commanding and the audience was captivated with her music. Between songs, she was very quirky and amusing. She had told all her ‘good’ stories earlier at a party and didn’t want to repeat her­ self, so she began talking about her children— this was her first concert in five months, and she gave birth to a baby just three months ago— and at one point even pulled out photographs to show the crowd.

The first two acts were a sort of build up as the music moved from rock to folk and sort of pre­ pared the audience for the artist they were all really there to see.

Hayden, the Toronto based singer-

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songwriter is known for his shyness and his close, intimate perform ances. Multi-talented, he played the guitar, harmonica and piano.

To back him up on some songs friend and fellow musician Howie Beck came onstage and the two of them jammed like they were kids practicing in a garage Hayden won the audience over, not only with his music, but also with his personality and humour. While he is very mildmannered and timid in nature, he had no problem explaining that he had written a song about doing the nasty with the reasoning that if rappers could do it, a folk artist should be able to as well. “I think up too much,” he afterwards. He told it) , some stories and music too.

The music was good through out, nut the concert was plagued with prdhl ems ripfafcfrom the start The Sociaf J^aj^^Blad a problem with their inf|jjttr^|jj|S, and actual ly had to stop to detune them the-rset. After halfway throu Julie finished (tg|about her children, she ft ttnumber the words to her she was thinking ^QjjMP was not focused <|fl th« music.

She stumbled quite! a bit for the remainder of her As for Hayden, he the worst, forgettin; about half of his si point, he needed help to just to cottt: Granted, ie and Hayden made sotijj jok about it all and got a laugh out he audi ence. Still, one. cann help but feel like he or sJpPtets^||eaied out of a potentially great rgïisic-going experience. .Aajst|pp their caliber should noj||mak|puch mistakes, and ceitsûnly not frequently.

Hayden tdmifn a that he hadn’t! pragpRt in a while: however, there to excuse fpr going into a coniared. It is very unproand extremely disappoint>r all the fans in the front rows lo couldn’t hear the full version bf their favorite song. He played two songs— both written last week— live for the first time and had to stop and re-start both of them.

When one goes to see a play, the players onstage do not make mistakes in their lines; if they do they improvise and keep going so the audience has as little clue as possible to what happened.

Musical artists do not have the lux­ ury of improvising since the audi­ ence knows all the songs, so they must be extra careful not to miss a beat.

One mistake is forgivable, sure. But when someone like Hayden cannot remember the words of much of his own music while onstage, it says a lot about how seriously he takes himself as an artist, and how seriously he takes his audience. It’s a shame because it reflects negatively on the promoters and organizers of the event who worked hard to make Pop Montréal possible, and it reflects negatively on the rest of the festival, which may have been quite good.

SCO R EBO A R D

An oh-so Home sweet Homecoming

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Redmen sit alone atop the Quebec Intercollegiate Football Conference

Mou., September 23, 2002 McGill 7-Concordia 6

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Sat., September 28, 2002 (game one) McGill 3-John Abbott College 0 (game two) McGill 3-John Abbott College 0 Sun., September 29, 2002 (non-conference games at McGill) St. Michael’s College 4-McGiJl 2 St. Michael’s College 7-McGill 2

FIELD HOCKEY (W) Sat., September 28, 2002 (at Toronto) Western 4-McGill 0 Sun., September 29, 2002 (at Toronto) Toronto 7-McGill 0 Carleton 3-McGill 0

FOOTBALL Sat., September 28, 2002 McGill 58-Montreal 0

LACROSSE (W) Sun., September 29, 2002 (2 games at Guidon) Western 12-McGill 6 Guelph 17-McGill 4

LACROSSE(M) Sat., September 28, 2002 McGill 18-Carleton 14 Sun., September 29, 2002 Bishops 17-McGill 2

RUGBY (M) Wed., September 25, 2002 McGill 33-El'S 5 Sun., September 29, 2002 McGill 19-Bishop’s 0

RUGBY (W) Fri., September 25, 2002 McGill 60-Ottawa 0 Sat., September 29, 2002 McGill 65-Sherbrooke 0

SOCCER (W) Fri., Sept.ember27, 2002 McGill 2-Concordia 2 Sun., September 29, 2002 McGill 3-UQTR 1

SOCCER (M) Fri., September 27, 2002 (Gow-Breganski Cup) Concordia 2- McGill 1 Sun., September 29, 2002 McGill 2-UQTR 2

The McGill Redmen football team said good riddance to its rep­ utation as slow starters Saturday.

McGill returned a punt for a touchdown less thati a minute and a half into the game, and scored 21 points in the first quarter, on the way to dominating the Université de Montréal Carabins 58-0. The victory came in front of 3,123 fans gathered for the annual Homecoming game at Molson Stadium.

The 10th-ranked Redmen, who moved to 4-1 on the season, had been outscored 17-13 in the first quarter of their previous four games. In this contest, however, McGill grabbed an early lead when fifth-year cornerback Andrew Cook of Abbotsford, BC took punter Michel Lavoie Jr.’s boot back 49 yards for a score 1:25 into the game.

“We were talking in the locker room about coming out strong because we’ve had some slow starts,” said Cook. “I was just thinking about catching it [the punt], but I got some blocking and just saw open field and ran as hard as I could.”

The punt was necessitated by McGill’s stellar defence, which opened the game by sacking Carabins quarterback Simon Lemieux. Led by fourth-year line­ backer Mike Mahoney who record­ ed eight tackles, the unit achieved its second shutout of the season.

The other shutout came September 7 also against Montréal.

Following Cook’s return, the Redmen forced another two-andout, giving the offence, led by quar­ terback Josh Sommerfeldt, a chance to show that it was up for the game.

The unit responded, helped by an 18-yard gain on a third-and-nine fake punt by Anand Pillai. McGill’s first drive of the game ended with a 25-yard touchdown pass from Sommerfeldt to Rob Leblanc, who finished with five receptions for 96 yards.

Head coach Chuck McMann expressed happiness with how his team came out of the gate.

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the game by connecting with Patrick Lanctôt. It was Lanctôt’s only reception of the game, but his fourth receiving TD of the season, extending his team lead in that cat­ egory.

McGill’s defence continued to play strong in the second quarter.

On the first play after a Pillai field goal made the score 24-0, fifth-year linebacker Ryan Grad forced a fum­ ble that defensive back FélixAntoine Martin fell on, giving McGill excellent field position. A 22-yard run by Tai moved the ball down to the Carabins six-yard line.

Two plays later, fullback Nick Hoffman scored a touchdown off a one-yard plunge. It was Hoffman’s

fourth rushing TD of the season, giving him 18 for his career, just three shy of the McGill all-time record.

“It is on my mind, and I can’t help but thinking about it. But we play to win, regardless of who scores,” said Hoffman on his chase for the record.

McGill had one more scoring drive in the first half, as Sommerfeldt went five-for-five foi 68 yards, finishing the drive with an eight-yard TD pass to third-year receiver Stefan Kalenchuk. That toss was Sommerfeldt’s final attempt of the game, leaving him with a fantastic line, 12 of 15 passSee FOOTBALL, page 19

GAME NOTES

CROSS-COUNTRY (M & W)

McGill 5C^ place finish (131 pts.)

“I was really impressed by the intensity, the way they started the game and the way they stayed focused in the first half, because it would have been easy to become unfocused,” said McMann of the weaker Carabins, who are now 0-6 on the season.

The Redmen offence wasn’t done, though. After a holding penalty forced McGill to start a drive on its own seven, the running game, led by tailback Danny Tai and, surprisingly, receiver Steve Céolin, who gained 23 yards on an end-around, marched the ball 91 yards to the Carabins’ 12 yard line.

Sommerfeldt finished the drive with his second touchdown pass of

McGill’s Andrew Cook set the tone of the game early by returning the Carabins’ first punt for a touchdown. He also had a momentum-stopping interception in the McGill endzone with 15 seconds left in the first half. Cook made three tackles, two credited as solo, and broke up two passes.

McGill has now scored 40 points or more in four straight games, the first time in school his­ tory such a feat has been accom­ plished... Dave Campbell, who threw his first passes of the season, completed all five of his attempts for 87 yards__Carabins quarter­ back Simon Lemieux finished the game 13 of 23 for 126 yards, with three interceptions__ Danny Tai led all rushers with 115 yards on

nine carries, all in the first half....With 16 points in the game (two field goals, seven PATs, three singles), Anand Pillai is first place in QJFC scoring__ McGill is now 3-0 lifetime against Montréal, with one previous win coming earlier this season, and the other in 1971__ With the win, head coach Chuck McMann improved his Redmen record to 11-4.

_________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________ The McGill Tribune, Tuesday, October 1, 2002

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Red and White blackened in injury time Redm en lose first game of the regular season by a score of 2-1 against Concordia Ed Gliicksman The McGill mens soccer team ost 2-1 to Concordia Stingers last Yiday night at Percival Molson itadium in what was the home team’s irst defeat of the regular season. The fed men blew a 1-0 lead, conceding wo late goals to their cross-town ival.

The lone McGill goal was credit:d to midfielder Kyle Graham just ninutes after teammate Fernando Daluiso had missed a penalty kick.

Forward Ammar Badawieh cored Concordia’s first tally from the tenalty spot, and defender Martin Zhiodoni scored the Stinger’s second ;oal heroically in injury time.

The loss was McGill’s first in 10 ;ames against Concordia, dating >ack to a 2-1 defeat during the 1997 eason.

“It may not have been a fair esult, but it certainly was a good me,” emphasized stand-in Zoncordia coach Jamie Sawlor.

Concordia head coach Vladimir ’avlicik was suspended for the night ifter being ejected in the Stingers’ 1) victory at Laval two weeks ago.

Missing the Unmissable Friday’s win was Concordia’s sec>nd of the season giving them six >oints in the Quebec Student Sport federation (QSSF) standings. The Stingers won their third game on Sunday moving into a second place ie.

McGill played to a 2-2 draw igainst the Université du Quebec à Trois-Rivières Patriotes on Sunday, jiving them a 3-1-2 record. Justin Cerr scored just before half to tie the jame at one a piece. A quick goal at

the beginning of the second half put the Patriotes ahead. Mathieu Harding put the tying goal in the net in the 82nd minute to save his team from a loss.

McGill still leads the QSSF divi­ sion by two points over second place UQAM and Concordia, with both of the second place teams holding a game in hand.

The Redmen entered Friday’s match-up ranked second in the nation behind Wilfred Laurier and ahead of the University of Victoria.

McGill’s success this season has largely come as a result of rookie Fernando Daluiso’s seven goals, the second highest total in Canada before Friday’s game. Despite his obvious talent, the 20-year-old Finance major failed to make his mark against the Stingers coming up short on convert­ ing a second half penalty kick.

“I expected Fernando [Daluiso] to score on such an occasion,” com­ mented second-year head coach, Adam Mar. “That was symbolic of how the team played throughout the match. We did well all over the field but made cosdy errors in finishing.”

Improved offensive attack stifled The early games of the season have proved that Mar has finally found a solution to McGill’s offensive problems of recent seasons, as this year’s 14 Redmen goals led the league before Friday’s game. Furthermore, Mar’s squad features a virtually unbeatable defensive axis, which had been broken just three times.

Despite their recent success, the home team’s attackers fizzled out Friday against a defensive opponent.

“We had a lot of misses tonight,” said team captain Mathieu Harding.

“You cannot blow as many chances as we did and get away with it.”

McGill’s best early opportunity came in the first half when forward Justin Kerr’s shot flew off the left goalpost. His strike was the home team’s only real scoring chance, despite possessing the ball through­ out much of the first 45 minutes.

“There was a lack of shots out there although it certainly wasn’t easy playing against such a stacked defence,” analyzed Mar. Concordia’s defensive style, fea­ turing just one player up front for

“We just weren’t as strong at the back as we have been,” said Graham.

The Physical Education major once again played a key role in his team’s forward movements and felt this to be the consequence of bad marking by the Stingers. “My man simply wasn’t covering me and I took advan­ tage of it.”

It was Graham’s goal in the 64th minute that broke the stalemate when his bouncing cross skidded past keeper Steve McCauley. The ball was perhaps affected by the quickness of a badly drained and clumsy Molson

most of the game, was strictly enforced. The visitor’s chances of grabbing more than a tie relied almost entirely on counter attacks which were few and far between.

Defence unstable In addition to a sub-par offen­ sive display, McGill’s defensive unit failed to live up to its previous per­ formances this season.

Stadium turf.

“I was surprised to see it go in but I think Alex [Scott] would have gotten to it anyway,” explained the Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue native.

Forward Carl De Nitto replaced Graham just five minutes later.

For the third game in a row, the Redmen seemed to lower their game after acquiring the lead.

“We start well and then mess it up. Our focus just hasn’t been there for us at the end of each game,” said Mar. “We really need to work on showing up for 90 minutes and noth­ ing less.”

Concordia fights back Concordia’s comeback was sparked by a questionably attributed penalty to McGill in the 74th minute. The referee pointed to the spot after a Stinger attacker got sand­ wiched between two McGill defend­ ers and fell to the ground.

“They didn’t seem to have even touched him. It was an unfair deci­ sion on the part of the referee,” claimed Redmen keeper Dustin Diedricksen.

The 21-year-old netminder from Madison, Connecticut had no chance on the ensuing kick but came up big for his team on several occa­ sions late in the second half.

“We should have had the advan­ tage tonight but it fell into their hands in the end,” described Diedricksen.

McGill ultimately lost all the possible points in the very final moments of the game.

The decisive goal was scored when Chiodoni received a pass at the edge of the penalty box. The Uruguayan pivoted and struck the ball home past a bemused defence.

“It was a tremendous shot, cer­ tainly out of my reach,” said the McGill keeper.

The Redmen look to win then first home game in three weeks when they take on last place Sherbrooke on October 11 at 9 pm.

Victory slips through grasp of Martlets Andrew Hennigar A goal surrendered in the final 50 seconds of injury time cost the ;occer Martlets a much needed extra )oint in the league standings as they vere forced to settle for a 2-2 tie igainst the Concordia Stingers last Yiday night.

Despite the rainy evening it was i well-played game. However, an mproved Martlet team was unable o nail down the win.

“We played a lot better as a earn this week,” commented striker Manna Maloney. “Our game was :oordinated and we supported each >ther well.”

McGill dominated the first half, tinning the Stingers in their own :nd for all but 10 minutes of play. A Jurry of action in the 15th minute Jnally produced a goal after several near misses. Rookie Bonnie Walsh sicked up a rebound off a corner tick and buried it to put the home side up 1-0.

Friday night’s performance was a drastic improvement over last week’s sluggish play. After opening the scoring, McGill continued to work hard to win balls in the midfield and attack the Concordia goal.

Maloney came close to giving

her side a comfortable lead when her shot in the 34th minute was headed for the back of the net but rico­ cheted off a teammate standing on the goal line.

The second half opened much the same as the first half closed, with McGill continuing to press. The vis­ itors, however, notched their first goal on a free kick from 25 yards out to tie the game. Valérie Desjardins lobbed the ball on goal, beating Martlet keeper Sacha Liben with a shot that should have been saved.

“Goalkeeper is a difficult posi­ tion,” said frustrated McGill coach Marc Mounicot. “But there are cer­ tain things you have to do. Sacha [Liben] had a couple of mental laps­ es tonight.”

As the wet field continued to soak up water from the steady rain­ fall, ball control became an issue for both squads. Both teams, however, pressed hard for the go-ahead-goal.

It was again Maloney who led the McGill offence, finishing a run on the left side with a chip shot past the Concordia goalkeeper.

The lead stood until injury time when a Stinger corner kick proved to be the Martlets’ undoing. Liben made the initial catch on the high ball but mishandled it in the wet weather. The miscue allowed

had praise for his squad’s effort but was also critical of its mental tough­ ness.

“We needed a win tonight,” said Mounicot. “Individual mistakes cost us. We can’t give up two goals a game and expect to come out on top.

We gave this game away.”

Intensity is some­ thing that the team is working to improve upon.

“We came together well in the first half but seemed to let up in the sec­ ond,” said Rosanne D ’Orazio, one of the few players willing to comment on the game. “We need to play a full 90 min­ utes.”

Hard practices and a rare day off last week made a notice­ able difference as McGill challenged for every ball, something they failed to do last week. Unfortunately, a lack of mental toughness cost the PATRICK FOK Martlets the win The Martlets settled for 2-2 vs Concordia last Friday. against the Stingers.

Concordia forward Jerusha Osborne to even the score at two apiece.

Fortunately, that was all the damage the cross-town rival was able to cause, making it 22 games without a win over McGill, dating back to 1993.

Following the game, Mounicot

On Sunday, the Martlets turned things around with a 3-1 win against UQTR. Captain Maloney scored a pair of goals, including the game winner. Bonnie Walsh, who assisted on both Maloney’s goals, had the third tally.

Hopefully the win against UQTR will be a foundation which the Martlets can build upon this Friday when the Bishop’s Gaiters visit Molson Stadium for a 7 pm game.

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School shame

Young Redbirds squad prepare for postseason John Bowden What do the Montreal Expos and McGill Redbirds have in com­ mon? Both teams finished the sea­ son above .500, with only a handful coming out to watch them reach the mark.

As the Expos finished off their season at the Big O this past week­ end, the Redbirds were doing the same at Pierre Elliot Trudeau Park, in distant Côte-St.-Luc. Facing the John Abbott College Islanders in the first game of a league double­

getting out of a jam in the fourth.

With runners at the corners and two out, Starr got a key strikeout to keep the Islanders off the board.

In the top of the sixth, Starr worked himself into another jam.

With one out, John Abbott got a single off the McGill pitcher. Starr struck out the next batter for the second out only to give up another single to once again put runners at the corners with two out.

John Abbott’s coach then made a questionable move by motioning the runner on first to steal second.

scored two runs, and advanced his teammate to third. Second baseman Jason Doucet continued the McGill rally by producing a RBI single to put the Redbirds up 3-0.

That was how the game ended as the Islanders left the bases loaded in the top of the seventh.

Redbirds coach Ernie D ’Alessandro is pleased with the progress of the team, but notes that it’s been a rough year.

“We’re a young team [11 new ball players], and we started slow this year,” said D ’Alessandro. “We were playing just well enough to lose.”

Since the beginning of the sea­ son, the Redbirds have managed to overcome the inexperience of their youth with the help of returning players like Reid, Jason Katz and Craig Betts.

Chisolm to the rescue

JENNY GEORGE

The Redbirds will take their cuts vs Concordia in postseason play this weekend.

header Saturday, McGill triumphed 3-0.

The two teams battled in a scoreless deadlock until late in the game.

The Redbirds could not take an early lead despite several oppor­ tunities against a weak Islanders dub. With runners on first and sec­ ond nobody out in the bottom of the third inning, infielder Drew Reid came to the plate. Instead of driving home McGill’s first run, Reid hit a low ground ball that quickly turned into a rare triple play, as shortstop Jason Katz was caught in a rundown between third base and home plate.

Redbird pitcher Jason Starr kept his team in the game early on,

McGill catcher Chris Habib read the play and threw the base runner out, ending the inning and the Islanders’s opportunity to go ahead.

McGill’s Galen Davies led off the home half of the sixth inning with a slap a single to centre field.

Davies advanced to second after Habib was hit by an errant pitch.

At this point, the Islanders coach had seen enough and put in a new pitcher. The new hurler imme­ diately walked the first Redbird bat­ ter he faced. With the bases loaded, another pitching change was in order for John Abbott, but things would only get worse for the Islanders.

Rightfielder Ned Hanlon drilled a double to the outfield that

Heavy rain washed out Friday’s game necessitating a second game Saturday between the Redbirds and the Islanders. The result was similar to the front end of the doublehead­ er as McGill won by the same 3-0 score.

Ben Chisolm was McGill’s winning pitcher. Chisolm went the distance, giving up no runs while striking out seven and walking just one Islander.

With the two victories on Saturday, McGill completed the season with a league record of 7-5, good for a second place tie with the Concordia Stingers. The Redbirds finished in third place because of the tiebreaker rule. The team now faces Concordia in a best-of-three Québec Student Sport Federation semi-final this Friday and Saturday.

D ’Alessandro said that his goal for the team is to play as well as they can, but noted that getting to the Nationals won’t be easy as Concordia is a powerful team.

“The team is starting to gel, and there’s a good team spirit now.

The younger guys need to work hard, and continue to work if we’re to improve,” said D ’Alessandro.

The Redbirds hope to avenge last year’s playoff sweep at the hands of Concordia.

So what did you do this week­ end? Most of you probably decided between drinking at 737 and drink­ ing at McKibbin’s, because Percival Molson Stadium was nowhere near capacity last Saturday. What hap­ pened there, you ask?

The football Redmen hosted the Université de Montréal Carabins. I don’t even know what happened because I, like many, was off somewhere else. I buried what little school pride I have in the back of my mind. Apparently, mighty McGill smoked Montréal. A small group at the game reported the win to me, and just like that, another Homecoming is history.

It was Homecoming weekend, folks! Is this supposed tradition lost on us city slickers or what?

The idea of Homecoming is that alumni, present faculty and stu­ dents come together to party for three days. Saturday’s football game is meant to be the marquee event of the weekend.

My dad went to all the Homecoming games as a University of Western Ontario student. In my hometown of Hamilton, where McMaster University is located, peo­ ple pack the cozy stands and drink senselessly.

In the United States, it’s even more elaborate. Parents of present students even join in the fun.

Thousands of people pack places like the mammoth Rose Bowl out­ side Los Angeles to take in the col­ lege football game. Tailgate parties are in full stride as everybody comes together for a weekend of excite­ ment.

What’s the score? Who cares, is the common response. It’s fall, there’s a crowd and it’s good, whole­ some fun.

But we live in Montreal, arguably one of the best cities in North America for entertainment.

There is little time to spare for school activities. A plethora of bars,

clubs, restaurants, cafés, theatres anc concerts, not to mention the Habs the Als, and the Expos, all vie for tht consumer’s spare money and time.

Montreal is also a city of man) cultures and not everybody gets intc the university sports scene, not ever for just once a year.

“This is hockey country though,” the typical hoser wil inevitably cry. That may be true: but I don’t see you at McConnef Arena either, buddy.

The point is that few McGil students have school pride. Wi don’t join fraternities or sororities In fact, many chastise the peopk that do participate. We do not go tc see our fellow students play in tht orchestra despite the free admission But sports are supposed to b( different.

Didn’t we Canadian students al chug a beer when our hockey tearr won gold at the Olympics last year: If that is the case, why can’t we ge excited about our football team thaï is currently riding a four-game win ning streak?

I realize a game against tht expansion Carabins is not the curt for boredom. However, the atmos phere at McGill could be lifted ir such a way to create a buzz arounc campus for “The Big Game” anc united we would become, complett strangers becoming long-lasting friends. How great would it be to sii next to your professor at a sporting event?

Students at McGill are conten with the simple life. Give us a cheap brew, some scantily clad peoplt along with good tunes and we havt the time of our lives. We don’t neec large gatherings though the number; of posters around campus advertis­ ing social drinking opportunitiej would make you think we did.

Oh, by the way, the Homecom ing advertising committee must hej on its last nickel since I heard more about a street party on Hutchisor that was eventually cancelled than I did about the game. We just need something that will get our minds off of biology or philosophy for a few hours on a Saturday afternoon.

Round up your friends and get] down to the game next weekend] then tell me how it ends. I’m off foi a pint downtown.

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Storey-book rugby game at Rutherford Park

edmen drown Sherbrooke 65-0 and look solid on the road to the playoffs rah Wright If you hope to catch the best is rugby game this season, you too late, it has already happened, ou wanted to see 60-yard kicks he run, sorry to disappoint, but missed that too.

Sunday’s game at Rutherford : was very simple. The McGill men put all the pieces of the tie together, the Sherbrooke Vert )r did not. Final score: 65-0 in ur of the home side.

If the Redmen played like this nst all their opponents, their es could be described in terms dly reserved for the likes of an Ryan: perfect.

“We put everything into action ly,” said enthusiastic captain on Faber. “We had some great ortunities, and we capitalized on tally all of them.”

It is hard to imagine that the l in the red jerseys executing so y textbook plays is the same l from the beginning of the seain their first few games, the men looked undisciplined and ewhat sloppy. Though as Faber Lted out, the team has come a way since its first game.

“We’ve gone back to working the fundamentals,” said Faber, r practices have been really hard

and we have been focusing on the main parts of the game.”

Mission accomplished. From the moment the opening whistle blew, the Redmen were in complete control of the game.

Winger Kevin Gourlay opened the scoring on McGill’s first drive propelled by aggressive pushes from the forwards, hard running from the backs and a perfectly executed scissor pass by the centres. The opening drive set the tone for the game.

David Rapley, Chris Storey and Faber set a fast pace for the game by receiving passes at full speed and maintaining a constant forward motion with the ball. Rapley and Faber were rewarded with three tries each.

“Usually we do a lot of pickand-goes,” said coach Lindsay Pratt.

“It’s not really our style to play the way we did today, but we had no opposition. They just weren’t stop­ ping us.”

Tries scored by the backs were all executed in a similar fashion as the first. By using the entire width of the field and a variety of passing pat­ terns, each play right from the ball out of the scrum acted as a building block for tries scored by winger Eamon Tierney, centre Robin MacLachlan, scrumhalf Conor Finucane and Rapley at fullback.

Sherbrooke presented little to

no opposition throughout the game, often allowing McGill’s rucks and malls to travel 10-20 yards into their own end. Pratt believes that this is

The touched Redmen, day was

where the real difference in talent lay between the two teams.

“Our forwards were so good at maintaining possession. This was a real show of our potential,” said Pratt.

Faber agreed with his coach.

“We had a great game of work­ ing on the malls right at the line.”

running prowess, but the kicking game as well.

In Sunday’s match Chris Storey, who usually plays fullback, filled in for teammate Pat Weldon. Fly-half Weldon is out with an injury. Storey was able to advance his team down the field some 50-60 yards on a sin­ gle kick on several occasions.

ootball unstoppable inued from page 16

or 157 yards, three touchdowns no interceptions.

Even with the score 38-0, fill’s defence didn’t allow the ice to steal the show. On their drive of the half the Carabins ed the ball down to McGill’s rard line. Cook stopped îtréal’s charge, however, by pickoff Lemieux’s endzone pass, ring that the Redmen main:d their momentum going into lalf.

McGill shows little mercy McGill only put up four points le third quarter, all off the foot 'illai. The Stoney Creek, Ont. re recorded a 34-yard single and l-yard field goal, his second of ;ame.

Pillai added another single with left in the fourth. At that point :med the action was over for the of the game. However, three fill freshmen stepped up to e highlight reel plays. Reynalto isier, playing in his first colle: game, intercepted Lemieux ran the ball back 27 yards to the îtréal 38.

“It’s a great feeling,” Merisier of recording a pick his first time he field of Molson Stadium. “I my chance, did my assignment, it paid off. I’m really happy, and got to keep it up.”

The turnover led to a 36-yard hdown strike from third-string terback Dave Campbell to slott Greg Hetherington, which

pushed the score to 50-0 after Pillais extra point. It was the first career touchdown for both Campbell and Hetherington. Pillai followed that up with a single off the kickoff.

McGill forced another turnover, Montreal's fifth of the game. Backup tailback Scott Mao took advantage, running 75 yards and then following that up with a 13-yard TD dash for the Redmen’s final score of the game.

While almost everything went well for the Redmen, the game was somewhat sloppy at times. The Redmen had five fumbles although they recovered each time, and were penalized an astounding 19 times for 165 yards.

McMann wasn’t happy about that aspect of his team’s play.

“Both [offence and defence] played well, although they appeared to be undisciplined, picking up penalties that continued their drives and stopped ours,” said the secondyear coach who despite finding fault was encouraged by his team’s per­ formance.

McGill plays the Concordia Stingers next Saturday, 1:30 pm at Concordia Stadium. Up for grabs are both the Shrine Bowl and the Shaugnessy Cup as McGill and Concordia compete only once against each other this year.

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One for the record books

The Martlet rugby team set the Quebec Student Sport Federation record for the most points in a single game and the largest shutout victory with a 141-0 drubbing of Sherbrooke Vert et Or. Always strong on the wing, Jessica Young scored five tries. Araba Chintoh had four tries with Tess Kelly and Julia Leonard both scoring three apiece. Stephanie Lynam set the QSSF conversion record by kick­ ing 13 successfully.

The Martlets have not lost in league play in five years. Iheir record during that span is 30-0-1.

The team currently holds a 5-0 record in league play this season and will play at Concordia Wednesday at 6pm.

Welcome to the Hall

Seven new members were inducted into the McGill Sports Hall of Fame last Thursday, increas­ ing the number of honourees to 52 since the Hall opened in 1996.

Among the names added were two former Olympians, including swim­ mer Cameron Grout and hockey player Hugh Farquharson. Grout swam for Canada at the 1960 Rome Olympics, and the late Farquharson played for the Montreal Canadiens in 1934-35 and represented Canada at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin.

Also named was Jim Miller, a

ball would eventually be down 11 times by the but the real story of the not only from the teams

Montreal-native Golden Gloves heavyweight boxing champion and defensive lineman who played for the Alouettes from 1953-1958.

Other athletes honoured were Colin Adair, who competed for Canada in two world squash championships, and Vaughan McVey, a two-time allstar centre and linebacker who went on to coach the Redmen football team.

Tough weekend for Martlet Lacrosse

Early in the lacrosse season, the Martlets are winless against competi­ tion in the tough Ontario University Athletics (OUA) league.

McGill travelled to London on the weekend and lost its third and fourth games of the season. Gemma Rhodeside scored a hat trick in the 12-6 loss to Western, while Melissa Laird added two tallies. Rosy Madden scored once.

McGill did not fare well in game two of the weekend as it lost to the Guelph Gryphons 17-4.

Rhodeside and Madden both tallied a goal apiece. Katie Barron and Anne Johnson also scored one goal. looking for their first win of the season, the Martlets travel to Hamilton to play McMaster and York this weekend.

Cross-country finishing strong

The cross-country team com­ peted in a meet hosted by the Western Mustangs over the week­ end. The men’s team continued its fast start to the season, placing fifth place out of 13 teams in the 10km race. The women’s team was seventh in a field of 12 teams in a 5km race.

As one teammate said standing on the sidelines, “That is by far, the best rugby kick I have ever seen.”

“Storey’s kicks are just out of control,” said Faber. “Once we get to the playoffs, those kicks are going to make such a difference in the pace of our games.”

“I guess today was an on day for me,” said Storey of his performance.

“I have my confidence up and I feel comfortable in any position on the field.”

Coaches Pratt and Sean McCaffrey are now able to use the depth of their squad to field a very competitive playoff team. Available are several rookies such as John Reid and Tony Pringle as well as a versatile group of veterans.

“We can’t use this game to real­ ly gage our effectiveness,” said Pratt, referring to how his team compares to the rest of the league. “But [if we] can play a full game of good rugby, we’ll be ready for the playoffs.”

The only league competition for the Redmen is mounted by the Concordia Stingers, a team McGill will face Wednesday at Concordia Stadium. And what will the Redmen have to improve on before that game? Pratt could only shrug and respond plainly.

“That’s a good question.”

In men’s action, Daniel Werenersson was the first McGill runner to cross the line in a time of 35 minutes, five seconds. His fin­ ished 11th overall. Ben Brisebois was next in 28th followed by Brant Carson in 29th, Jeff McCabe in 34th and Ryan Beaton in 37th.

On the women’s side, AllCanadian Sarah Ali-Khan took home the bronze medal, completing the race in 18 minutes, six seconds.

Her rime was 43 seconds behind the winning time of Tomoko Horioka who ran for a Japanese club. Nicole Portley crossed the line in ninth place, followed by l-aura Wilson in 40th, Katy Semcow in 64th, and Jossalyn O ’Donnell in 68th.

McGill men and women run­ ners compete in the Sherbrooke Invitational meet this Saturday.

McGill Athletes o f the Week

Rugby dominated the athlete of the week honours for the period ending September 29.

Winger Jessica Young, a Political Science major, scored five tries in McGill’s record-breaking 141-0 shutour over Sherbrooke on Sunday. Young leads the Quebec Intercollegiate Rugby League with 16 tries in just five games, last sea­ son Young broke teammate Julie Brisebois’s record of most tries in a single regular season with 27 and finished with 30 including playoffs.

Fullback rookie John Reid scored 26 points in two games for the Redmen last week. The 18-yearold Economics freshman scored a try and had four conversions in games versus FITS and Sherbrooke.

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