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Vol. 23 Issue 20

Tuesday, February 10, 2004

Administrationbakingupa cafeteria monopoly Student associations fear price hikes Robert Church Starting in May, competition between cafeterias on campus could suffer a significant blow.

Sixteen cafeterias will be up for contract renewal with the universi­ ty. The university administration is only soliciting offers from bidders who are willing to take control of all 16.

The tendering process is not going unanswered, however.

Representatives of the Students’ Society, faculty associations, the Midnight Kitchen and the Organic Food Co-op, as well as university staff, convened yesterday at the first meeting of the Coalition for Action on Food Services (CAFS).

“I think we ll be very success­ ful at mobilizing support from var­

ious institutions as well as spread­ ing awareness about the issue,” Law Students’ Association President Pascal Zamprelli said. “I do think we ll be successful in withdrawing this tender process, and at the very least we ll have made an issue out of it.”

The main goal of the coali­ tion is to have the tendering process withdrawn. Suggestions at the meeting included soliciting statements of support from faculty associations and deans, boycotting cafeterias and circulating petitions.

One completed petition already claims 1,662 signatures.

Library assistant Elizabeth Martin posted the petition in the Burnside cafeteria in November. The total also includes signatures collected in the McIntyre Medical building and some of the residences.

“I just hope something hap­ pens,” said Martin, who attended the meeting. “I hope the university heeds the desire of the McGill community and puts people over profit."

The outsourcing process is particularly troubling not only to students, who face price hikes such as those that occurred in the Engineering cafeteria earlier this year, but also to the independent owners and operators of cafeterias on campus.

Pino Abbruzzo, who has run the cafeterias in the Stewart Biology building, Chancellor Day Hall, and the athletics centre for five years, said he is worried about what will happen to him in May. He placed the blame squarely on

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Management deansewnupincontroversy Gildan m arked for m istreatm ent of workers Jeff Roberts The M cGill Tribune has recently learned that Faculty of Management Dean Gerald Ross sits on the board of directors of Gildan Activewear, a controversial garment company. Montrealbased Gildan has come under fire the past two years for its treatment of workers in Quebec and Honduras.

Tales of the company’s mis­ conduct have been reported by CBC’s “Disclosure,” the Gazette and the McGill Daily. Last week, Gildan’s annual shareholders’ meeting was the target for protest­ ers accusing the company of numerous labour violations. Last

November, the Quebec Federation of Labour dumped the 2.6 million shares it held in the company as a response to what it alleged was the firing of pro-union employees in Honduras.

In an interview, Ross support­ ed Gildan, saying: “[The compa­ ny] pulled in people who don’t mess around when it comes to governance... Every company has flies in the ointment somewhere. I wouldn’t have joined the board if there wasn’t a top level of profes sionalism.”

Ross also noted that Gildan has recently agreed to allow a third party audit to be conducted by the Fair Labor Association, a US-based organization that moni­

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Gildan and globalization Over the past decade, Gildan has become a major player in the garment industry by taking advan tage of liberalized trade regulation in the Americas. It has compart­ mentalized manufacturing in order

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“Let’s look at the audit. If there’s a problem, let’s bring it into the open,” said Ross.

He added that he will resign from the board if the company does not adequately respond to any problems that might be listed in the forthcoming audit

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FoodServices: McGill's needs better served Continued from cover

W ith few er positions available, Engineers are feeling the pinch Laura Saba

Twice a year engineering and computer science students have the opportunity to attend the Tech Career Fair. This semester, however, organizers are finding that compa­ nies are reluctant to participate when they have no jobs to offer.

A decline in the private sector and the end of the technology boom in the past few years has raised employment concerns among engineering students. No wonder, then, that engineering students have taken to wearing T-shirts that say, “Flipping burgers after graduation, I’m loving it!” as a play on the McDonald’s commercials.

“A few years ago, electrical and comput­ er engineers would have at least one or two jobs with very high salaries to choose from because the economy was booming, especial­ ly in the field of information technology,” said Gregg Blachford, director of both McGill’s Career and Placement Service and Engineering Career Centre. “As a result, the private sector has experienced a pull-back, and the tech boom collapsed.”

People in those fields were laid off, and recent graduates from the same disciplines are finding that they have fewer opportuni­ ties.

“There is continuous change in the economy and demand and supply for engi­ neers, economists, consultants, etc. is always moving upward or downward,” said Eleanore McNaughton, advisor at the M ECC. “The economy does, therefore, influence the choice of job opportunities. " The reason the economy so heavily influences engineering students’ options, Blachford said, is because they are graduat­ ing with a professional degree.

“Students going into engineering usual­ ly know what their occupation is likely to be,” he said, “whereas a degree in Arts does not necessarily lead to a particular job. c il l s s p r in g 2 0 0 4 It is for this rea­ son that engineers, like Management stu­ dents, are more sensi­ U N D E R T H E "B IG T O P " tive to fluctuations in the economy.

O N LO W ER C A M P U S Blachford said that the tight job mar­ ket is affecting differ­ ent disciplines to vary­ ing degrees.

“The biggest dif­ ference is mainly for f i t . f i i . r .

•• i electrical and comput­ er engineers," he said, “whereas for others Management Monday, M ay 31 [10 am] like mechanical, civil Health Sciences Monday, M ay 31 [03 pm] and chemical engi­ Continuing Monday, M ay 31 [07 pm] neers, things are Education worse, but not to the Education and University Librairies Tuesday, June 1 [10 am] same degree.”

Education and University Librairies Tuesday, June 1 [02 pm] He attributed Arts and Religious Studies [10 am] W ed, June 2 this distinction to the Music* [02 pm] W ed, June 2 fact that there is still Science Thursday, June 3 [02 pm] demand within the Law [10 am] Friday, June 4 public sector for Agricultural and Environmental Sciences** [2:30 pm] Friday, June 4 mechanical, civil and chemical engineers.

Debra Hamel, coordinator of the *The Faculty of Music ceremony will be held at Pollack Hall Internship Year for **The Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences ceremony will be held Engineering and at Macdonald Campus Science, said that, a few years ago, more M ore inform ation available at: www.mc3ill.ca/convocations internships were avail­

the shoulders of the administration. , “[Director of Food Services Bill Pageau] told me that you have to bid on all 16 cafeterias,” Abbruzzo said. “For me, that is impossible. To bid on 16 cafeterias, you need $1.5- to $2-million. I cannot run it... Not everyone has $1.5- to $2million to run cafeterias. McGill wants one guy to run the show. ” Abbruzzo operates his cafeterias as a family business, saying that his mother, father and uncle all work to help him out.

“The difference between me and Chartwells is that my food is better,” said Abbruzzo. “Chartwells is all mass produc­ tion. You can see my mother behind the counter, cutting up the vegetables and putting the pasta in the soup. ” Along with Abbruzzo’s cafeterias, the operation of cafeterias currently run by Veggirama in the Arts, Music and Education buildings will also be tendered.

While Charade did not return calls seeking comment, he did say in a previous interview that while the administration has not ruled out the possibility of multi­ ple bidders, Chartwells is McGill’s “cur­ rent partner of preference.”

The result of the tendering process is not preordained, Pageau said.

“The objective of this request for proposal is to acquire a contract which will provide... continuing food service operations wherein quality, quantity, type of food, adaptability, responsiveness, manner of service and economy of price to the consumer are primary considera­ tions,” Pageau said. “All bidders will be given the same opportunity to respond to the request for proposal.”

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CAFS members hope to obtain stu­ dent representation on the committee considering bids.

Executives of both the Engineering Undergraduate Society, which has already felt the impact of Chartwells’ manage­ ment of its Good Bytes Café, and the Science Undergraduate Society, which would face a corporate-controlled Stewart Biology cafeteria, fear that a monopolized food service on campus could possibly raise prices and lower food quality.

“It does not surprise [the EUS] as the McGill admin is trying to put the campus cafeterias under one management,” said EUS President Michal Wozny. “The prices have gone up in the Engineering cafeteria and there is nothing stopping it from happening in the other cafeterias. ” SUS President Joshua Vorstenbosch shared similar concerns, and expressed his satisfaction with the current cafeteria management.

“Mr. Abbruzzo is a friendly and out­ going man who answers to the needs of the students by keeping his prices low, his selection high, and makes his menu reflect the desires of his customers,” he said. “I would be upset to see the management of this cafeteria change for these reasons and, as a result, am concerned about the poten­ tial outsourcing of the Stewart Biology cafeteria.”

Abbruzzo said that the people for whom he feels most badly are the stu­ dents.

“If Chartwells comes in, the prices are going to go up, he said. “They’re a big company. They don’t care. It’s all about money— same with the university. ” ■ — With files from Mark Sward, Lisa Varano and Jennifer Jett

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able than students and now it is the other way around.

“Students are getting a bigger taste of the real world than they may have wanted,” she said. “A lot of students are interning at companies where they see layoffs and budg­ et cuts taking place. Sometimes internships have to end, or companies that post jobs have to withdraw the position because they cannot afford it.”

All three agreed that McGill’s reputa­ tion allows for more visibility among employers. McNaughton and Blachford said that companies that have already hired McGill graduates usually welcome future McGill applicants.

McNaughton said that about four years

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Either flipping burgers or begging for coin. ago, the demand for electrical and computer engineers and computer science graduates was so great that companies pushed for a Tech Career Fair to be held in winter in addition to the fair held in the fall every year.

Companies set up booths on campus where students can enquire about the opportunities available to them, but the number of booths dwindles in the second term.

“In the past two winters, due to a big drop in demand, we have had a hard time to find interested companies,” McNaughton said. “Normally one Tech Career Fair a year is adequate.”

“If companies do not need anyone, they do not spend the time and money needed to set up a booth," said Blachford. “However, some companies like to maintain visibility for the turnaround.”

Some students find this frustrating because the companies do not have any spe­ cific jobs for them.

Blachford and McNaughton empha­ sized that it is important to put effort into searching for employment without becom­ ing discouraged. McNaughton advised stu­ dents to examine other capabilities, go back to school, do other work on a temporary basis, or offer to work for a reduced salary while proving oneself.

McNaughton is confident that the situ­ ation will change as the economy recovers.

“There are signs of a slow upswing cur­ rently.”

The T-shirts that engineers are sporting may be funny, but until such a recovery occurs, the search for employment will be no laughing matter. ■

The McGill Tribune, Tuesday, February 10, 2004

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Arts students to goto the polls next week F iv e -w a y

Emily Harris Dany Horovitz Facilitating communication with students, improving the rela­ tionship with the faculty and lobby­ ing for the proposed Arts building are a few of the main issues in this year’s Arts Undergraduate Society election campaign, which kicked off yesterday.

Presidential candidate Eric van Eyken said that, as the current vicepresident finance, he has the experi­ ence and insight necessary for the position. He said that he is the first vice-president finance to file taxes in five years, which has increased rev­ enues through returns by 15 per cent.

Van Eyken’s platform includes the reduction of the price of course packs.

“Right now, the more pages in a course pack, the more expensive it is,” he said. “I want to make sure that learning more doesn’t cost you more for any given class. ” Van Eyken supported a stu­ dent referendum this year that would have introduced a fee to help pay for the new Arts building. Rob Salerno, another AUS presidential candidate, is strongly against any new fees.

“I want to work with McGill to ease the financial burden on stu­ dents... I am also strongly against executive stipends, particularly the retroactive stipends that VPFinance Eric van Eyken tried to introduce for himself last semester, Salerno said, referring to the work that van Eyken and Vice-President Internal Geoff Simpson did for AUS over the summer for which they later requested compensation.

AUS council did not issue payment to the executives.

Salerno aims to improve “mul­ tilateral communication with stu­ dents.”

Salerno also said that AUS needs to improve student represen­ tation on faculty committees.

“Students are a powerfiil vot­ ing bloc on these committees, but their potential has been squandered this year due to poor organization.

Salerno’s frustration with the current AUS executive was echoed by fellow AUS presidential candi­ date Jason Chung.

“Everything that the society does should be as transparent as possible,” he said. I would like to seek more input from students, especially with regards to setting priorities for the society, be they academic, fiscal or otherwise.”

Chung’s top priority is the immediate construction of the new Arts building. However, he opposes the idea of students paying a fee, “especially in light of the university administration’s previous [un] will­ ingness to [divest] funds for its con­ struction.”

Chung has served on the SSMU presidential affairs commit­ tee and was a manager at Open Air

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flexible degree options for stu­ dents,” he said.

Transparency was also a main Vice-President Academic There are five candidates for concern of candidate Adrian Angus, the position of vice-president aca­ who said he plans to have an open door policy. demic.

Angus said that his experience Zach Finkelstein, who is run­ ning on the same platform as with residence student government Salerno, emphasized the impor­ and Inter-Residence Council will tance of creating a larger variety of allow him to create “an interface with the undergraduate students programs for students.

“I am upset that a media stud­ and the faculty. ” Hannah Poole, also running ies program that we had a $ 2-mil­ lion grant to create has failed,” he for vice-president academic, shared said. “The administration dropped Finkelstein’s views on the need for accountability. the ball.”

“I see this position as an Finkelstein criticised the faculopportunity to work with both the dean and associate deans on the effi­ ciency of the administration and hope to make it more accessible to students,” she said.

Poole said she intends to con­ tinue the most promising projects of the current vice-president aca­ demic, in addition to easing the transition from UO to U1 with mandatory advising sessions.

BLACKADER.LIBRARY.MCGILL.CA Candidate Elliot Pasztor emphasized the lack of knowledge ty’s “condescending attitude” and said it should be held more many students have regarding the AUS. accountable to students.

“Ninety-nine per cent of peo­ Richard Ambrosio, also run­ ning for vice-president academic, is ple... don’t know what they do,” he also concerned with the lack of said. diversity available in the curricu­ Vice-President Administration lum.

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Jane Park, a candidate for the position, emphasized communica­ tion with students.

“I find that Arts is a large fac­ ulty and it is easy to lose connection with AUS,” she said “I think it is important to be aware it exists and what it does.”

Her plans to make AUS more transparent include posting infor­ mation from AUS council meetings on the society’s Web site.

Park said that her two years of experience in an organizational capacity on the McGill tennis team will assist her in this role.

Also running is Victor Seow Kian Giap, who emphasized his past secretarial experience as well.

“It will be challenging and I am capable of doing it,” he said.

He hopes that AUS will find even more relevance in the lives of newcomers... ongoing support that helps in [the] transition to universi­ ty life.”

Giap also plans to increase the use of the Arts lounge.

“I plan to have more activities on a small scale,” he said, “but increase the frequency to utilize the space we have, for example screen­ ing foreign films on Friday nights.

Candidate Julia Rapori also

highlighted more efficient use of the Arts lounge in her platform.

“Maybe by having a beverage service and making it more attrac­ tive. A lot of people don’t even know that it [the lounge] exists.”

Rapori said her experience with residence government— she is the current vice-president adminis­ tration for RVC— will assist her if she is elected.

Vice-President External Two candidates have come forward for this position, whose portfolio includes AUS relations with SSMU and the Montreal community.

“I think that it is important for the faculty of Arts to be proper­ ly represented within the McGill community,” said Jamie FergusonWoods. “Aspects such as charity work, career fairs, and graduate school fairs are also very impor­ tant.”

The second candidate, Casey Reynolds, could not be reached for comment.

Remaining positions Two other executive positions were acclaimed. Andrea Navin will be the vice-president finance, while Roslyn Freeman will take over as the vice-president internal. ■

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The Scarlet Key Award The Scarlet Key Honour Society cGill has a vibrant and active accepts applications from potential student body including many candidates, or nominations by other students who have distin­ within the McGill Community who guished themselves while at McGill. believe that ah individual is deserving Students who build and create change. of the award. To be eligible for the Students who leave their mark on Scarlet Key Award the nominee can be McGill long after they have left. For either a current student (undergraduate over 75 years, the Scarlet Key Award has or graduate) who has attended McGill been granted to over 1,500 recipients, for at least one full academic year and and each year the Scarlet Key Society is in satisfactory standing, or a McGill seeks to recognize the achievements of graduate from previous years. more outstanding leaders at McGill The application procedure is University. A Scarlet Key recipient is an simple. Pick up an application package individual who goes above and beyond from the Dean of Students Office, the the call of duty, is committed to the SSMU front desk, or download it at McGill community, and inspires www.mcgill.ca/scarletkey. Get two passion and creativity. If one can say without hesitation - that McGill and its reference letters from your peers or anyone you feel is appropriate; list your students have benefited extraordinarily from this person's involvement, then he main contributions to the McGill community; and tell us how you feel or she is deserving of recognition.

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Students push CKUT for greater access David M. Nataf At Wednesday’s CKUT meeting, station representatives came under pressure from about 20 students for not doing enough to involve the McGill community. Nevertheless, the station has been emphasizing student involvement in recent months as responsibility for its operations is being transferred from the university to the Students’ Society.

Arts Undergraduate Society Vice-President Academic Daniel Friedlaender said that CKUT is “definitely a community radio station, [but I] don’t know if it’s a campus one.”

Friedlaender, who has attempted to launch a current affairs show in the past, had been put off by the station’s reaction.

“What I would like is for McGill students to have access to more of the programming,” he said, describing the meeting as “an effort to look like they’re helping.

“I fear it will just be a way of sidelining students who are concerned,” he said.

David Ryshpan, U1 Music, said that life in the music build­ ing “feels pretty much sequestered” and that he would like to see student musicians being featured. “[There are] so many bands made up of McGill students that

play,” he said, and “not [much] McGill exposure outside of us taking it in our own hands and postering everywhere. ” C KU T ■ Vice-President Finance and Administration Zev Tiefenbach cited high student turnover as the reason CKUT has asked students to think of themselves as contributors rather than hosts, although he and Brett Bundale, C K U T’s McGill promotions coordinator, listed a number of CKUT shows hosted

by McGill students.

“A lot of things that we do are based in the community but are there for McGill students,” Bundale said.

One student at the meeting spoke of the vital need for a sta­ tion such as CKUT. “There are a lot of people out there who don’t want to lis­ ten to commercial stuff all the time.”

The relationship between McGill and CKUT has also been discussed at SSM U recently, where SSM U Vice-President Clubs and Services Mia Gewertz is handling the file.

“We agree there should be more student involvement,” she said. “This is the McGill campus radio station and were reclaim­ ing the McGill part of it.”

Gewertz expects to present the final letter of agreement to SSMU council on February 12.

SSMU: pony up, PGSS Lauren Consky The issue of who pays for and who uses the Students’ Society Daycare was brought up at the PostGraduate Students’ Society meeting Wednesday night. In a presentation, SSMU Vice-President Operations Rodrigo DeCastro asked PGSS members to consider implementing a $3 fee per semester to help fund the daycare. This money would go toward keeping the daycare open in the summer, which costs at least $35,000.

If the necessary money is not available, the daycare will shut down for four months during the summer, putting its 31 users in a difficult situation.

Although there is a 2 to 1 ratio of graduate to undergraduate stu­ dents who presently use the daycare, only undergraduate students con­ tribute to its costs through a SSMU-imposed fee of $3.

Undergraduate and graduate par­ ents who use the daycare pay $15 and $20 per day, respectively, per child.

“I’m not going to have under­ grads off my back until I have PGSS making the same contribution as undergrad students," DeCastro said.

However, PGSS Vice-President

Finance Alex Borque said that PGSS contributes $16,000 annually to SSMU so that graduate students can participate in SSMU clubs and services, even though McGill’s 7,000 graduate and post-graduate students rarely use them.

The daycare is subsidized nei­ ther by the government nor the McGill administration. The univer­ sity has its own daycare for faculty members.

On top of this. Dean of Students Bruce Shore has consid­ ered charging rent for the daycare space in the Brown Student Services building. According to SSMU exec­ utives, payment would start next year, and may include two-year retroactive pay, even though under­ graduates contributed $ 2-million to the building when it was construct­ ed. Paying rent would further strain the daycare’s annual budget of $178,000.

PGSS President Yves Levesque said that the PGSS has looked deeply enough into this issue, and suggested an alternative to satisfy both SSMU and PGSS. “[The SSMU Daycare] could be a golden recruitment tool to attract graduates and post-graduates to McGill," he said. “We should look at having the university pro­ vide this service. ■

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Lisa Varano The Organic Food Co-op recently began taking orders and distributing food from an unas­ suming location— the coat check at Gert’s.

The co-op reduces the cost of buying organic food by purchas­ ing it in bulk and then distribut­ ing it based on advance orders.

“We’ve been kind of nomadic since we started,” said Greg Prescott, a co-op volunteer.

Leah Tivoli, who co-founded the co-op last March, explained that orders used to be collected in Leacock while distribution occurred at the McGill School of j Environment and later the Yellow Door in the McGill Ghetto.

Those locations were only temporary. While in transition to a new location, the co-op operat­ ed out of Gert’s Pub for about two weeks, according to coordinator j Celia Kutz.

The co-op now books the coat check on Mondays and Tuesdays, when it collects orders, as well as on Fridays for distribu­ tion. At night, the space is used | for its intended purpose as the j coat check for Gert’s, but the co­ op keeps two wooden boxes there for storage.

“It was hard to get tables... in Leacock,” said Kutz. “We fig­ ured this would be much more permanent."

However, Kutz said that the co-op is far less visible in its new location, in the basement of the Shatner building. Hardly anyone walks by, in contrast to the con­ stant flow of people through

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Co-op facilitator Michael Simkin said that the current loca­ tion is less than ideal.

“It’s unrealistic to run a busi­ ness... without a telephone and fax machine,” he said, adding that the co-op uses the School of Environment’s machines since there is no access in the coat check.

Students’ Society VicePresident Clubs and Services Mia Gewertz, who proposed the coat check in response to a request by the co-op for ordering and distri­ bution space, said she is interested in finding the co-op a better loca­ tion.

“If another opportunity aris­ es that will make [the co-op] more successful, we will gladly look into that,” Gewertz said.

Kutz said that Gewertz has proposed room 108, situated by the elevators in Shatner.

“As much as I would love to have that be our space... you never know,” said Kutz.

If the co-op agrees on the room, she said, members will sub­ mit a proposal to the building committee.

Since the space is small, Kutz said it could only be used for tak­ ing orders throughout the week.

In that scenario, she said that they would probably continue to book the coat check on Fridays when more room is needed to distribute orders.

The co-op receives about 60 to 80 orders a week, 15 to 20 of which come from students on the Macdonald campus, said Kutz.

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Members of the Food Co-op receive a 10 per cent discount on their orders.

As of last Tuesday, the co-op had 101 members, Simkin said.

He added that the non-profit does about $1,500 in business per week.

Kutz said that the co-op has applied to change its status from a club to a SSMU operation and expects the change will be made

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The Students’ Society submitted its vision of post-secondary education to the Quebec parliamentary com­ mission on education Friday in the form of a 40-page brief, after a special session of SSMU council was called to approve it.

The brief, prepared by the com­ munity and government committee, makes 23 recommendations to the commission, mainly on tuition fees, student aid programs, and sources of university funding.

“This is the first time we’ve cre­ ated a document of this scope... in many years," said SSMU VicePresident Community and Government Brianna Hersey. “It’s incredibly important that the SSMU is asserting itself in this way. ” SSMU President Kate Rhodes agreed.

“It’s an extraordinary opportuni­ ty for us to speak,” she said.

Almost one-third of the pages are about student fees. The paper calls for the elimination of differen­ tial tuition for out-of-province and international students, as well as a freeze on ancillary fees. Until that happens, SSMU wants the govern­ ment to freeze tuition rates for all students, not just residents of

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“We’ve done a lot of work this year” on differential tuition, Hersey said. “It’s something we’ve been fight­ ing for a long time. " The brief praises the Quebec government’s student aid program as one of the “most generous in the Canadian federation.” However, the paper adds that for many students, the largest obstacle to accessing a uni­ versity education remains high tuition fees and the resulting debt burden. Consequently the brief states that one of the best ways to fight ris­ ing student debt is for the provincial government to change its program to one favouring non-repayable grants over loans.

SSMU’s brief also reminds the commission of the provincial govern­ ment’s role as the “sole central form of financing” for universities. It emphasizes that the government should contribute enough to make tuition, ancillary fees, corporate sponsorships and private funding supplementary rather than necessary.

R u shjob The document needed council’s approval before it could be sent to the parliamentary commission. Because of deadline pressures, a proxy vote was held to approve it, forcing coun­

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cillors to vote and debate by e-mail.

The last-minute nature of the voting drew criticism from councillors who demanded more transparency.

“I do not agree with this one bit,” said Clubs Representative Roberto Caluori during the e-mail debate. “This is wrong and last minute and our constituents... deserve more.”

Science Representative Lazar Konforti also disapproved of the rushed nature of the proxy vote.

“We can’t just rubber stamp (the document) over e-mail and pretend we stand by it 100 per cent,” he said.

In an e-mail, Arts Representative Rachel Marcuse said she was sur­ prised by the negative reactions.

“The process was very flawed, yes... but it’s not like the content of the document is anything new,” said Marcuse. “SSMU already has policies on almost all of these recommenda­ tions.”

The motion failed by proxy vote, but was reconsidered at a special council meeting Thursday night, where it passed with few changes.

The parliamentary commission will decide which groups can make formal presentations when hearings begin later this month. ■

Faculty members expressed concern at the lack of academ­ ic staff representation on the Board of Governors, collegiality, corporate influence and other issues connected to proposed restructuring of BoG at a forum organized by the McGill Association of University Teachers yesterday.

“The first thing that struck me at when I went to my first [BoG meeting] was how irrelevant it was,” said Senate Representative to BoG Morton Mendelson. “One has to read the minutes to find out what one has done at the board.”

The four seats on BoG for senate members are to be reduced to one seat under the current proposal.

BoG executive committee member and former VicePrincipal Research Roger Prichard said that it is vital that senate be well represented on the board as it is the senior academic forum of the university.

“I feel there is room to reduce size and still keep [adequate] senate representation,” said Prichard.

A concern was raised by a professor of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences of the continued under representation of faculty and students from Macdonald Campus’ in the reform proposal. Chemistry Professor Patrick Farrell noted that the observer position to be allocated to the Macdonald Campus Students’ Society is practically the same status enjoyed by the public.

University Secretary-General Robin Geller said that the impetus for the proposed reduction came from Principal Heather Munroe-Blum, board members and the a desire to adapt to the environment in the so-called “post-Enron" era.

The trend in corporate governance should not be an alter­ native to finding a unique “McGill way,” said Students’ Society Vice-President University Affairs Vivian Choy. Farrell echoed that he finds the corporate analogy unconvincing.

“If we are really in the post-Enron phase, where is the effort to ensure transparency? None of that [is what] I see here; all I see is reduced numbers,” said Law Professor Richard Janda.

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Jennifer Jett This year’s graduating stu­ dents will cross the stage under the towering skyscrapers of downtown rather than under basketball hoops. With the exception of the Faculty of Music, convocation at both the downtown and Macdonald campuses will be held outdoors under large tents.

Lower Field was chosen for the downtown ceremony because it is the only location large enough to hold a single ceremony for all graduating Arts students, University Marshal Kate Le Maistre said. The size of the Arts faculty had previously led adminis­ trators to divide its convocation into two ceremonies: one for social sciences and one for the humani­ ties.

“We decided the only place we could do it was either on the stadium field, which was impossi­ ble because we can’t damage the surface there, or on the west side of the campus,” Le Maistre said.

The large open-sided canopy will accommodate any possible kind of weather, she said.

In recent years convocation has been held in the Tomlinson Fieldhouse, which students have criticized as too informal a setting.

Arts Undergraduate Society VicePresident Academic Daniel

Friedlaender was pleased by the decision to change venues.

“Were very happy that the administration has finally agreed to our requests,” he said. “We’ve been asking for this for years now.

It allows all students, at least by faculty, to graduate together so that... you’re not separated by some random alphabetical or departmental division. ” One reason administrators have favoured shorter ceremonies, Le Maistre said, is the tendency of people to leave early.

“It’s pretty embarrassing for invited guests on the stage to watch people creeping out one at a time after an hour and a half, two hours,” she said. “I hope [people

are] courteous enough to stay to the end. They haven’t been in the past, but this year’s graduating class might be very different.”

Friedlaender said that hold­ ing the event outdoors will make it enjoyable despite the length of a combined Arts convocation.

“I think that it’s a compro­ mise that students are definitely willing to accept to graduate with their friends,” he said, “and not have to worry about which day they re on or which group.

There is no guarantee that this is a permanent change.

“This is something that we re trying this year, ” Le Maistre said, “and we ll evaluate after the cere­ monies how it went. ■

Schedule o f ceremonies Management: May 31, 10:00 am Health Sciences: May 31, 3:00 pm Continuing Education: May 31, 7:00 pm Education and University Libraries: June 1, 10:00 am Engineering: June 1, 2:00 pm Arts and Religious Studies: June 2, 10:00 am Music: June 2, 2:00 pm (Pollack Hall) Science: June 3, 2:00 pm Law: June 4, 10:00 am Agricultural and Environmental Sciences: June 4, 2:30 pm (Macdonald Campus)

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M cG ill engineers, w arriorsofthem ind Some two dozen McGill engineering students traveled to Mont Tremblant last weekend to participate in the Quebec Engineering Competition.

McGill was represented in all three QEC events: junior design, senior design, and debate.

The competition was a mix of fun and games, said Engineering Undergraduate Society Vice-President Internal Shane Saunderson.

"QEC seems to be getting more and more elaborate every year,” Saunderson said. “I felt like an overpaid corporate exec­ utive all weekend with the epic meals we ate and lavish treat­ ment we were given. “ Saunderson participated in the debate with Meryl Sponder.

They will head to Hamilton in two weeks to compete in the national championships, by virtue of their second-place fin­ ish.

"I became addicted over the weekend to having people so intent on my every word, all the while knowing that I'm pulling it all out of my ass,” Saunderson said.

One of the senior design teams won the team spirit award for rapping during their presen­ tation, but McGill’s other teams did not fare as well.

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M cG ill getsaspindoctor Seasoned Montreal journal­ ist Jennifer Robinson has been named associate vice-principal communications. The ncvt> posi­ tion is designed to promote the university's visibility.

"I am absolutely thrilled."

Robinson said of her appoint­ ment. “I am extremely proud as a Montrealer of McGill’s accom­

plishments and contributions to society.”

Though her responsibilities are broad and varied. Robinson will focus on enhancing the uni­ versity’s profile.

"McGill has a wonderful reputation and that makes the job all that much easier," she said. "McGill is the finest uni­ versity in Canada— I want peo­ ple to know that and also believe that.”

Fluently bilingual, Robinson has more than 25 years of experience in the field of media and communications.

She is a former columnist and editor of the Montreal Gazette, and more recently was a senior consultant at Montreal-based National Public Relations.

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Indictm entfor childincitem ent Speaker Itamar Marcus painted the indoctrination of Palestinian children as an ethos romanticizing and glorifying the notion of Shahada, or martyr­ dom, by the Palestinian Authority at a speech Thursday night. Addressing an audience of about 50, he explained that this was done largely via the educa­ tional curriculum and popular media that the Palestinian Authority controls.

“We really believe that it’s more important what the Palestinian third-grade teacher is telling the children in class titan what Yasser Arafat or Prime Minister Abu-Ala are .telling President Bush," said Marcus, Marcus, who is the director of the Jerusalem-based organiza tion Palestinian Media Watch proceeded to show a series of Palestinian music videos featur­ ing lyrics such as “your death gives life to our will” and “my stone becomes a Kalashnikov."

“The message to the chil­ dren is, you can effect a change, you should be out there where the violence is going on, don't stay home, be on the front line,”’ he said.

At one point, Marcus put forth the notion that "Palestinian Islam" was teaching that all Palestinians, even chil dren, should aspire to martyr­ dom. Marcus said that this obli­ gation is common in die way Palestinians express Islam.

“This is not authentic Islam. The Palestinians have hijacked Islam.” Marcus said, quoting an unnamed Islamic scholar who Marcus said attend­ ed a similar lecture of his given before a conference of the American Bar Association.

Jesse Rosenfeld, a member of the McGill chapter of Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights, said that the Palestinian curriculum is held up to the same international standards as those in the United States or Canada regarding racism and violence, Rosenfeld, who emphasized that he is not connected to the Palestinian Authority, said that his search of the UNICEF Web site revealed no violations of such standards.

"The evidence of the Palestinian curriculum is from a highly biased source. ’ he said.

“There are extremist groups [that indoctrinate children!... but that’s not the PA, that’s not mainstream Palestinian culture.’

Focusing attention on the activities of extremist groups is “a way of circumventing the realities of occupation."

Rosenfeld added.

The lecture was organized by the newly formed McGill branch of Operation S.I.C.K.— Stop Inciting Children to Kill.

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Heather Haq Lawrence Students in Upper Residence facing an emergency situation can now call McGill First Aid Service for emergency pre-hospital care.

February 3 was the first night of the pilot program’s on-call service, which is available three nights a week from 10:00 pm to 8:00 am.

“The average response time for an ambulance in Montreal is eight minutes,” said Geoffrey Shoesmith, MFAS vice-president external. “MFÀS can guarantee response times far shorter than this in the upper residences. In drastic cases, the extra time where an MFAS responder is on scene before an ambulance arrives can mean the difference between life and death.”

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Responders hold a minimum certification of Red Cross Standard First Aid with CPR and oxygen administration.

“This is a fantastic way to ful­ fill our mandate of providing emer­ gency first aid and pre-hospital care to the McGill community,” Shoesmith said.

The University Residence Council voted unanimously in favour of the program in January, said Gonzalo Riva, Inter-Residence Council president.

“The presentation by MFAS was really convincing... [MFAS] also seems to have precedent on their side because lots of other uni­ versities have similar programs,” Riva said.

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for minor injuries that ambulances would not respond to.

“People often call an ambu­ lance for something that doesn’t require it,” Riva said. “This pro­ gram will benefit students because they will be able to receive fast attention, and it will also be good for the city because ambulances won’t be wasted. ” Rahim Ladak, president of Molson Hall, said all the Upper Residence presidents welcome this program.

“It has the potential to avert disasters, but it remains to be seen whether the need [for an on-call first aid service] is actually there,” said Ladak, UO Science.

Determining the need for an on-call first aid service is one of the primary goals of the project, Shoesmith said.

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MFAS will also explore the feasibility of expanding similar pro­ grams to Royal Victoria College, Solin Hall, New Residence Hall, and other areas of campus in the future.

“Upper Rez is a good place to launch the program,” Ladak said, “because they [MFAS] can affect the greatest number of people in

the smallest area. ” MFAS President Meghan O ’Brien emphasized that students should still dial 911 first in an emergency situation.

“We are not here to replace 911, but we will respond to provide first-aid care while they are waiting for an ambulance. ■

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People say springtime is the season of love, and perhaps that’s true, considering that in the winter our clothes weigh more than we do. But this whole engagement trend may just be the latest age-appropriate step in the elaborate Valentine’s Day conspiracy.

No doubt my mother has orchestrated it all.

And damned if it isn t a true conspiracy. Even if you think Valentine’s Day was con­ structed solely to boost sales of pastel paper, processed chocolate, and sparkly trinkets, there’s always that voice inside asking, if you’re single, “Why am I single?” And if you’re taken, “Isn’t our relationship just a tad more important to my partner than this dump of a restaurant would indicate?” It’s like an entire year of Cosmopolitan, condensed into one friggin’ day.

And happy as I am for them, seeing so many of my friends get engaged is a reminder that, although I don’t want to be wed anytime soon, it is what family and society expect of me. And so my hopeless romantic-ness comes face to face with my cynicism.

It’s all moving too fast for me. My dating strategy relies on the fall-in-your lap phenom­ enon, reflecting my pathological laziness. Unfortunately, I ’m short, so I have a very small lap, but experience and observation have taught me that the right person really does tend to mag­ ically show up when you least expect it. Sometimes that means that the girl who puked all over your car is actually your soulmate, but isn’t that a cute story to tell the kids?

O f course, the laissez-faire approach doesn’t always work in this bacchanalian paradise of ours. It isn’t a matter of selection, though, as one friend remarked— some people only inspire a cloud seven. This school’s huge, and the aca­ demic structure doesn’t M y d a tin g s t r a te g y r e lie s o n t h e f a ll-in always promote interac­ y o u r -la p p h e n o m e n o n , r e fle c tin g m y tion. Science has it easi­ est-—labs give ample p a t h o lo g ic a l la z in e s s . opportunity to mingle. But then there are those poor Engineering students, whom I’m sure exist, but only because some of my friends swear they’ve signed leases with them.

You see these barriers on a bigger scale, too. To be political— thereby satisfying my edi­ tor— in Canada even the most conservative politicians can’t make anti-gay statements, but 100 miles south, being pro-same-sex marriage is something to deny, like you’re demanding the removal of one testicle from every newborn male or something. In many countries, gov­ ernment silence leads to teenagers not knowing how babies are conceived, or grown men thinking that sleeping with a virgin will cure them of AIDS. In some areas, it is simply out of the question to date someone outside your religious, ethnic, or socioeconomic group.

So even though McGill, the world, and likely our parents are conspiring to fit us into their different plans, I’d say we’re pretty damn lucky. ‘Cuz bottom line is, we re able to love with relative freedom.

It’s tempting on Valentine’s Day to take out that mental ruler and measure yourself against what everyone expects, but that’s just masochistic. Love is the stuff of goofy smiles, cheesy ballads, and much mysterious passion. As nice as a ring on a finger can be, love is most certainly not limited to that.

So, if the conspiracy is aimed to remind this old cynic that this thing we label love can transcend everything— be it vomiting, the law, or stale candy— then dammit, I think it won.

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Time toexpand the ethical horizon ean of Management Gerald issues relating to Management are not proper­ Ross’ involvement with Gildan ly addressed. When students are only given Açtivewear calls into question the opportunity to pursue this option outside the integrity of the faculty he of the faculty, the importance of learning heads up. Ross defended the about the effect business has on areas of poli­ integrity of Management at McGill despite tics, labour and the environment diminishes.

McGill could look to the Harvard the fact that he sits on the board of directors of a company accused of violating labour Business School for an idea to improve the rights of workers in Honduras. He remarked Faculty of Management. According to the that students are not taught shareholder value HBS Web site, Edwin Gay, the first dean, “believed that the art of management could and profit “come hell or high water. " Ross believes that Management provides be refined through the analysis of both histo­ an education beyond the Milton Friedman ry and contemporary case studies.” McGill view of the free economy, where the only obli­ should incorporate this holistic idea to devel­ gation directors and managers have is to the op courses that would address business in company’s shareholders. However, the faculty relation to social and ethical issues.

Perhaps the financial resources that US could be doing more to educate students about the ethical dilemmas and social con­ schools possess preclude such a development cerns that the Gildan board of directors is currently fac­ ing.

T h is s itu a tio n re p re s e n ts a n o p p o r tu n ity The McGill Bachelor f o r M c G i l l t o a d d re s s m a jo r la b o u r r ig h ts of Commerce, which con­ sists of three possible c o n c e rn s , a n d to sh o w M a n a g e m e n t stu d e n ts streams, requires students t h a t b u s i n e s s is m o r e t h a n j u s t p r o f i t m a r g i n s . to take a certain number of core courses. O f these core classes, only one deeds with issues other than in Canada. However, McGill’s management maximizing organizational efficiency and faculty, working in coordination with other effectiveness with the goal of enhancing the faculties, can overcome this barrier. We have bottom line. From Introduction to Financial recently seen the creation of a joint Arts and Accounting in first year to Organizational Sciences degree. Work should be done to Policy in fourth year, the focus throughout facilitate integration of Management with the core courses is on how the components of other faculties.

Beyond making changes to the Bachelor the business system work together like a fine­ of Commerce degree, the issue still remains: Is ly tuned profit-maximizing machine.

There are a few attempts to provide a Ross’ involvement with Gildan a conflict that McGill must rectify? Not necessarily. well-rounded education. One core class, Social Context of Business, discusses the Observers should be heartened by his promise implication of big business and critiques con­ to resign from the board of directors if Gildan sumerism and consumption. Furthermore, does not adequately respond to problems that students can take electives from other facul­ may come out of the forthcoming Fair ties and a minor in either Arts or Science, an Labour Association audit.

Student leaders and the university opportunity that many choose to pursue.

This option provides students with knowl­ administration must hold Ross to his pledge. edge from a variety of disciplines in an This situation represents an opportunity for attempt to augment the Management educa­ McGill to address major labour rights con­ cerns, and to show Management students that tion.

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n the past few weeks I have heard some disturbing comments being thrown around. Time and time again during Equity Week and in the wake of Management Carnival improprieties, I heard Arts students claim their peers in other faculties are less aware of the need to be culturally sensitive. This is a statement that grossly underestimates the character and interests of non-Arts students.

The argument goes that Arts students are hit over the head with the history of gender oppression and the politics of identity the same way students in science might live and breathe chemical formulas. With all those numbers in their heads, how can students not already assigned to wade through the interminable questioning of Judith Butler possibly have room to muse on the meaning of equity? There are barely enough hours in a day for most students to complete their assigned read­ ings.

The main targets of this line of thinking recently have been Management students, some of whom cele­

brated their annual Carnival in “rasta” and “Indian’’ cos­ tumes, later (appropriately) deemed to be offensive. But since when did the behaviour of anonymous students in a group setting suddenly become an accurate description of every individual Management student? D ont forget that many non-Management students (about 75 out of the total 600, according to the Management Undergraduate Society) signed up for Carnival as well and wore the same costumes.

It is not just Management students who are belit­ tled, however. Engineering and Science students have been mentioned as well for inequitable comments or behaviour. This is a snobbish and elitist attitude that reveals a basic insecurity among Arts students. At the risk of making yet another generalization about a facul­ ty, perhaps we are feeling defensive about the lack of obvious practical application of our education that Engineering and Management students enjoy. Our future employment may be uncertain, but at least we can comfort ourselves by pitying the mathematically-

inclined students not lucky enough to be as enlightened as ourselves.

Arts students did not discover equity. It is a concept that can be just as revered by the future capitalists of Canada as any English major. Respect for others is some­ thing that is mostly cultivated outside the classroom, long before any of us step onto campus. But Arts stu­ dents need something to hold onto, something to make them feel equal to other students, so they stereotype stu­ dents in other faculties as ignorant. It is exactly this kind of condescending, narrow-minded attitude that events like Equity Week are designed to erode.

Instead, some of the very same people who decried the racial and cultural stereotypes reflected in the cos­ tumes students wore during Management Carnival are now promoting academic stereotypes. Students in all faculties would do well to remember to judge people not on the basis of what letters will appear on their diplo­ mas, but by the character of the individuals who receive them. ■

10 Op/Ed

The McGill Tribune, Tuesday, February 10, 2004

Front desk trying its best After having read the article “Club execs accuse SSM U of rudeness”(Feb. 3), it became obvious that both sides of the story were not being told. Club execs complained of rudeness, bureaucracy and room booking problems.

Having worked as part of the front office staff for three years, it came to my attention that many of the complaints issued have nothing to do with the front desk. The front desk does not establish the rules and red tape of SSMU. These are set out by the SSM U, its executives and Council inclusive; the front desk simply follows and enforces these regulations.

Many club execs come to the front desk in search of a solution for a problem that they want solved immediately. Often, it is only the SSM U execs and/or accountants that have the authority to resolve these issues. It is not the responsibility of the front desk to create the office hours of the SSM U exec­ utives and staff, nor it their duty to enforce them. Yet when staff and execs are not present, or have cancelled their hours, it is the front desk that must deal with irate and often rude club executives, making last minute requests.

Personally, as far as office hours for the front office are concerned, Tanya Volpe-Standing, the Office and Services Manager, and Sherrydene Phillips and I, the Administrative Assistants, are available every day, and often see individuals outside of our hours, if necessary. We hold two sets every day, five days a week, for two hours in the morning and two hours in the afternoon, with the exception of Friday mornings.

Overall, many of the complaints listed cire due to uninformed club execs.

With club executives constantly resigning, and a high incidence of turnover, it is the responsibility of fellow coordinators to instruct new members on the policies of the SSMU. Each year the VP Clubs and Services creates a hand­ book and holds a club conference instructing club executives on procedures such as accounting, room and table bookings, and office hours.

People must realize that the front office staff is trying our best. We do not create the rules, but we are hired to enforce them. In the future, if there are problems with the front desk, hopefully these can be brought to our attention, and thus a resolution can be found.

— Tania Thykootathil Administrative Assistant for the SSM U

The smiles are free I was pleased the Tribune shed light on the bureaucracy SSM U groups have to tolerate. It is time to change these policies, many which hinder more than help. It is, however, unacceptable and extremely offensive to lay total blame on the front staff. They do not set the rules nor can they change them. After dealing with these hardworking staffers for three years, I have never had a problem if I planned my events accordingly and promptly— and after working with most SSM U groups, punctuality is an asset that can always be improved upon. We must respect the fact that they try to accommodate the needs of over 140 organizations. It is pompous and ignorant for anyone to believe their group deserves extraordinary treatment even though others need similar assistance.

Nevertheless, many times have I seen a vulgar person stomp into the office, argue with the front staff and then expect a favour. If roles were reversed, would you bend the rules for such an ill-mannered individual? SSMU execs change annu­ ally, but the front employees can continue working each year to assist new or the same Clubs and Services executives. Give them a rest— or even better, give them a smile.

— Chip Arnaldo Culturefest Coordinator

We write in response to an article entitled “Club execs accuse SSMU of rudeness” (Feb. 3). As employees of the SSM U front desk ourselves, we were both shocked and disappointed to learn of the dissatisfaction voiced by a number of clubs regarding our work. As receptionists, we are the visual rep­ resentation of the SSM U as we are the first people you meet when you come into the office, and the last you see on your way out.

Interestingly enough, many students have complimented us for both our helpfulness and courtesy. In addition to being extremely good looking, we deal with a number of really “difficult” questions such as: “my friend has class today, can you tell me where I can find her?” to “my car is stuck in the snow.

Can you get someone to move it?” Clearly, we find our jobs both entertain­ ing and satisfying.

But more importantly, we do deal with a number of impatient students who expect all of their demands to be met at once. We are students just like they are and can only do what is within our power. Given this position, we believe that we do great job of maintaining grace under fire. We are here to help Monday to Friday from 9-5, so feel free to drop by anytime for a friend­ ly hello and, if you would like to, give us some free food.

— Amina Doherty Stephanie Beynon SSM U Front Desk Receptionists 2 0 0 3

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t was halftime and we only got half the show. There it was, in all its glory, spilling out of a little more than a chink in Janet Jackson’s armour as Justin Timberlake whined the coda, “Gonna have you naked by the end of this song." A single breast dotted by a pierced nipple supporting a sun. I threw caution to the wind and stared directly at it.

As the fallout sunk in, mothers all over America started their carping.

They were incensed. There was no doubt about this one; it was right there for everyone to see, a weapon of mammary destruction, and it was point­ ed right at their innocent children.

Bigwigs from the NFL, CBS, MTV, and the FCC spoke up in an attempt to fix the PR flap. They too were incensed. The uncovering was, in their minds, a debacle of indecency, a wanton display of depravity. And to think! An estimated 140 million people viewed this profligate “wardrobe malfunction.”

“We all as a society have a responsibility as to what the images and messages our children hear when they’re likely to be watching television,” said Michael Powell, chairman of the FCC. He is right. The Super Bowl is supposed to be a G-rated show, nice family entertainment. It is supposed to be a time when mother and father and kids can cozy around the television set to watch America’s greatest war analogy, watch the controlled fits of seething, sweaty anger in the trench­ es, and watch Tom Brady, standing in the shotgun, fire bullets and long bombs.

It’s a time for the household to gawk at commercials for chips and beer and razors and drugs for erectile dysfunction (so we can all buy things and be happy little consumers), and drool over the scantily clad, bulimic cheerleaders who pout and pom-pom as helicopter’s fly overhead in an imperialistic display of military might. That is what the Super Bowl is about, not a breast.

When I saw that single lonely body part protruding out there in the Texas air, my jaw dropped. It was just so corrupting. What kind of mes­ sage is this, I wondered. What are we teaching the children these days? I mean, what gives? Only one breast? What about the other one? What does this say about our work ethic? I want to know.

I think Viacom, the parent company of CBS, would also like to know. Its stock price rose only about one and a half per cent the Monday after the game. Had Janet worked a little harder maybe it would have been three. How selfish.

Janet’s message two Sundays ago was, you can quit before the jo b is done and still succeed. She did a half-assed job, and what happens?

Constant media coverage. Just what she wanted. Well I think this is a very dangerous lesson for kids, rewarding mediocrity like this. It says, to be successful, just give it 50 per cent of all you’ve got.

Did the Little Engine That Could quit halfway up the mountain?

Did Horton the Elephant give up on hatching his egg? Did Dorothy et al. stop halfway down the yellow brick road? No! They battled on, and they reached their goals. It is Janet Jackson’s duty, as a role model, to fol­ low through. Enough of these half-hearted, half-monty halftime half­ measures! I want the full monty.

And furthermore, Justin is no more a role model himself. Naked, by all accounts of the word, does not mean fully clothed with right breast exposed.’ Where is the credibility, the commitment to a jo b well done?

Where is the accountability of our public figures? How will Justins young and impressionable fans learn the values of trust and truth if their idol cannot keep his word?

I was left with these nagging questions at the end of his song. ■

Titillating, eh?

I am mystified as to the value of this head­ line, article, and highlighted subject (Masturbating for mom and doing the dirty with dirty girls, Feb 3), clearly titillating to the editors and members of the Tribune afflicted with that oh-so-unattractive condition known as arrested development, and offensive not just to parents but to any female (or male, I hope) who would have thought that privacy/parents/masturbation, et al. were subjects well cov­ ered in the middle school years.

Having now read quite a few editions of school papers from universities in the northeast corridor, I am fairly confident in saying that this is not just offensive but pathetic.

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Strauss lived in Kibuye, a lakeside town, and travelled to Kiziba, a camp of 15,000 refugees that was a 40minute “super bouncy’ drive away.

“Going there is losing all of your anonymity.

Everywhere we went we were stared at. People would want to touch the hair on our arms, children would ask us for money. I had a taste of what it would be like if I was famous,” Strauss says.

When he returned to Canada six months later he admitted that he would walk down the street and won­ der why people weren’t looking him in the eye or approaching him with the same curiosity that they had in sub-Saharan Africa.

While there, Strauss spent most of his time working.

“I observed gym classes at local schools and intro­ duced games and sports to the teachers and students.”

He postered and helped create a buzz and interest about Adifferentsortofprocrastination More and more students are taking time off at some the SportWorks program that he was setting up. “We point during their post-secondary academic career in taught games like British bulldog, dodgeball, duckduck-goose, although we changed the name to goatsearch of the great adventure.

Simon Strauss, MAI Arts, was looking to volunteer goat-cow to make it more applicable to our surround­ between his undergraduate and graduate degrees. While ings.

“Additionally, we provided a lot of equipment for pursuing his B.Sc. in biology, Strauss spent a semester of 2001 in Panama as a part of the Panama Field Study playing soccer, volleyball, baseball and other schoolyard Semester. In December 2002, having acquired a taste for games, which was really lacking in the camp.”

After the initial introduction and implementation, travel, he applied for a position with Right To Play, a Strauss and his fellow NGO mates made frequent trips non-governmental organization based in Toronto. back to Kiziba to check up on the program and organize play days. He G o in g t h e r e is lo s in g a ll o f y o u r a n o n y m i­ and his Right To Play co-workers filed monthly reports, program sum­ ty . E v e r y w h e r e w e w e n t w e w e r e s t a r e d a t . ” maries and financial statements to -—Simon Strauss the office in Toronto.

“Right To Play gave us guide­ M A I Arts lines, an outline for the six months, but we really appreciated that they Right to Play evolved out of the organization left a lot of the direction of the program up to us,” he Olympic Aid. Johann Koss, a Norwegian speed skater said. “I departed with a sense of satisfaction: we had with four Olympic gold medals, was chosen as the lead gone from nothing to a program with 37 coaches who athletic ambassador for Olympic Aid and played a large teach 60 kids each. If I didn’t have to come back for my masters, I would have stayed longer than the six role in the organization’s fundraising effort.

In 2001, Olympic Aid made the transition from months.” fundraising to program implementation. Two years later, Theroadlesstravelled with Koss acting as president and CEO, Right To Play Like Strauss, other McGill students are seeing the was bom.

On the Web site, www.righttopIay.com, the Right To advantages of taking time off to volunteer and travel.

Play philosophy is: “Look After Yourself, Look After Jacquelyn Cragg, U1 Engineering, and Maud Warner, U1 Science, are already planning their year off. Cragg One Another” The site says, “Sport teaches us to look after our and Warner are going to either Ecuador to participate in bodies. To play we need each other. Through our pro­ a Habitat for Humanity program, or to Ethiopia to vol­ grams and our communications efforts, Right To Play unteer at the Addis Ababa Fistula hospital run by Dr. will use this philosophy to promote positive health Catherine Hamlin.

Cragg, who is taking the year off for various reasons behaviours and bring awareness, understanding, and such as timing, boredom and curiosity, thinks this funding to important health issues.” opportunity might give her a sense of accomplishment The NGO promotes development through sports, games and health education in the most disadvantaged she could not find at McGill.

“As contrived as it may sound, I picture myself communities worldwide. Right To Play initiatives are targeted at refugee communities, former child combat­ going to Ethiopia or Ecuador and having an impact on ants and children who have been orphaned by one person’s life, someone who I will have connected HIV/AIDS. With programs in over 19 countries, with despite language and cultural barriers. I’m not going to save the world and I know that, but I think that including Angola, Tanzania, the Palestinian territories, Thailand, Belize and Afghanistan, Right To Play sends I have realistic goals.

“A lot of people are in a hurry to graduate, but roughly 50 volunteers biannually to run existing pro­ most— myself included— don’t know what they are grams and implement new ones. going to do with their lives. I’m hoping to gain work experience and to travel, but at the same time I am hop­ R ig h ttoP layatw ork Strauss was accepted into the program in February ing to find some direction and broaden my perspective 2003 and completed a two-week group-training session of the world.”

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University can serve a variety of functions. It pro­ vides us with the opportunity to be challenged intellec­ tually; credits are earned towards a degree that will grant us good job opportunities, and we have the chance to meet all sorts of people from every imaginable back­ ground. For some, living in a city with great food, cheap drinks and a picturesque landscape ideal for mischief is a good enough reason to go.

Occasionally though, the stress kicks in, spirits go down and never-ending cold spells send even the biggest winter enthusiasts indoors. Times like these cause one to wonder whether the correct post-secondary choice has been made. Whether you’re antsy, restless or just plain bored, there is a solution to shake things up. ~

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The options are endless. Gaggles of undergrads ven­ ture off to party on the beaches of Melbourne or in the castles of Edinburgh for exchanges. But the road less travelled, taking time off to volunteer, may offer some­ thing that school alone cannot. The experience has the potential to settle boredom and determine career paths.

After working months inhaling dust and getting sun­ burned during the dry season, you might actually be revived and ready to hit the books once again. ■ For more information on the Right To Play experience, contact Simon Strauss at simon_jtrauss@yahoo.com. For information on applying, visit the Web site or e-mail info@righttoplay.com. For more volunteer possibilities, try www.idealist.org, www.fistulahospital.org or www.habitat.org

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Ross: "I can be sued as a director" C o n tin u e d fro m co v e r

to locate operations where labour and environmental costs are cheapest. Profits last year were over $500-million.

Last year, the company closed its Clark Street factory after several years of conflict with its employees. According toTessTessalona, an organizer of last week’s protest, Gildan committed numerous labour violations during this time.

These included group quotas and the intimidation or dis­ missal of employees who had signed union cards. Such practices are illegal under Quebec and federal labour law.

“Many of the workers are women who came to Canada for hope of a better life. They never in their wildest dreams thought they would end up in such conditions of work,” said Tessalona, who works at the Immigrant Workers’ Centre in Côte-des-Neiges. “Where is justice?

How can such people accumulate such wealth without rec­ ognizing the contribution of the workers?”

A former Gildan worker, who wished to remain anonymous, echoed Tessalona’s complaints.

“They said that if ou signed the [certification] paper, you were fired,” said the worker, who had been with the company for 10 years.

Criticism has also been leveled at Gildan’s operations in Honduras, one of the locations to which the company has outsourced work formerly done in the Clark Street fac-

opinion... With success you meet a lot of friends and enemies, and a lot of competitors who aren't happy. ” Tisch added, “You should call [Gerald] Ross... he’s only been on the board for six months, but he under­ stands the flavour of the company. ” Dean and director

In response to a question by the Tribune, Ross said that his director position at Gildan did not undermine the Management faculty’s ability to impart a sense of social responsibility to its students.

Ross urged critics to compare Gildans off-shore poli­ cies to what occurred when Canada was industrializing 100 years ago.

“The company provides clean drinking water and access to medical care, which is something many of these people never had before.”

Ross also defended the overall ethos of the Management faculty, noting that its programs serve to fos­ ter international diversity, and that its expertise has proved useful in non-commercial sectors such as health and reli­ gion.

“Were not like US business schools where share­ holder value and profit is taught come hell or high The university, as a public institution, water. McGill is one of the most un-businesslike man­ should be accountable to society at large. agement schools in North America.”

Ross also pointed out that his position with Brianna Hersey Gildan was subject to legal liability.

Students' Society Vice-President Government “Unlike managers, I can be sued as a director.”

Others were less sanguine about the dean’s associ­ tory. On “Disclosure,” Honduran workers complained of ation with Gildan. poor air quality, monitored bathroom breaks, and forced “Unless he’s there to try to reform it, he shouldn’t be pregnancy testing. there. As a leader in management education, he has a pub­ The Maquila Solidarity Network, a Toronto-based lic and educational responsibility to promote fair labour NGO, has further accused Gildan of firing more than 100 practices within the school and as part of the curriculum," pro-union employees in Honduras. Spokesperson Bob said Eric Shragge, a professor in Concordia’s School of Jeffcott said he is pleased that the company, after repeated Public and Community Affairs. stonewalling, has finally agreed to a third-party audit.

Students’ Society Vice-President Community and “There’s been progress. It took one year for us to con­ Government Brianna Hersey was also skeptical about the vince them to do it. We hope they will cooperate with the other hat Ross is wearing.

Fair Labour Association."

“It doesn’t surprise me. It makes me uncomfortable.

Over the past year, Gildan has also threatened legal The university, as a public institution, should be account­ action against both the Immigrant Workers’ Centre and able to society at large. We think there’s a problem when Maquila. religious groups have close connections to the state; in the “They've never withdrawn the threat, ” said Jeffcott. case of corporate sponsorship, such connections are also of For its part, Gildan largely denies the allegations laid concern. ” against it. Executive Vice-President Edwin Tisch accused The Tribune contacted the Office of the Principal on activists and business rivals of unfairly targeting the compa­ several occasions last week with questions about Dean Ross’ association with Gildan, and about ethical garment pur­ ny“We feel it’s really an opposition to free trade, global­ chasing. As of the press time, administration had yet to ization, and industry off-shore. People are entitled to their reply.

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On a broader level, universities have had a dubious relationship with garment manufacturers for some time. In September of 2002, the M cGill D aily revealed that the school’s athletic clothing was manufactured by companies, including Gildan, that had been widely accused of shoddy labour practices. Other campus organizations, including SSMU and the Law Students’ Association, have been equal­ ly wont to turn a blind eye to the source of the clothing they procure.

Unlike many other Canadian universities, McGill does not have a policy to govern who manufactures its clothing.

The University of Alberta, Dalhousie and Waterloo are among the schools that have such a policy.

The University of Toronto’s licensing and trademark office requires companies to provide affirmative proof that they are in compliance with basic labour rights before they can receive permission to print the university’s logo. The policy was brought about after members of Students Against Sweatshops occupied the principal’s office.

According to Ashley Morton, president of the school’s student association, companies must prove that they don’t use sweatshops in order to get on a list of approved suppli­ ers. Although the policy only binds the university adminis­ tration and not its student groups, Morton says, “it pro­ vides a handy list for us as to whom to order from. I think every group on campus uses it.”

According to the president of the Law Students’ Association, Pascal Zamprelli, such a system would be wel­ come at McGill.

“We put our names on limited products, be it a mug or a T-shirt, and when we do we’d like to know that the thing is being ethically produced. But we have limited resources. If a larger association like SSMU or the adminis­ tration would pass a resolution for an ethical buying policy with guidelines, this would be a better way to pass this across campus instead of everyone doing the legwork them­ selves." ■ — with files by Ada Kuskom ki an d Alex Law

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From Ms. To Mrs.— Chasing Emily on her way to the altar PART FOUR: Queer Eye for a Young Bride he look at the unique Invitation No. 86, at which point he offered “hmmmm” and began to fidget. I finally chose three styles, one that he enjoyed and two that I liked. I wrote them down and asked him to decide. Justin threw up his hands and yelled “Ahhh!” and began to shuffle the pages in the book around.

At that point, F lost it. F slammed the books shut, said goodbye to my parents and got into the car.

As we drove back to his house, I pouted. I just wanted Justin’s opinion— was that too much to ask? I needed his help to make sure the wedding was what we both wanted and I valued his opinion. Justin glanced over at me from the driver’s seat and asked with a laugh: “Are you pouting?”

I shook my head vigorously as my lower lip protruded even further. Then I shouted, “Yes, I m pouting! Why don’t you care about invitations? Why won’t you help me choose one? I don’t know what I’m doing!"

Justin smiled and continued driving. “Emily,” he said, “The truth is that

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n wedding mythology, it is understood that all details concerning a wed­ ding and anything aesthetic is something all brides-to-be are attuned to. I am certainly not that kind of girl. I need major fashion help. Since I have not been planning my wedding since I was two, I had no idea that the virtue of one napkin colour over another would one day enter my mind.

But now that day has come, and I feel completely unprepared. Fashion and design interest me greatly, but I can never seem to pull myself or my apart­ ment together, let alone a wedding for 120 people. I dress in Old Navy and Gap clothes almost exclusively. Whatever is slightly preppy and comfortable, I wear. The same rule applies for how I decorate an apartment. I want my space to be fully functional and still look clean and neat. But a wedding that is preppy, clean and functional is not a wedding that I would want to host.

Therefore, I turned to the king of all television stations for help in making my wedding stylish on a limited budget— TLC. I would not be a wedding-dominating bride!... We would be I watched “For Better or Worse,” “Trading Spaces," and a fashion team, deciding what worked and what didn’t, using our “What Not to Wear,” in hopes of finding clues on how to pull together a look or a theme for my wedding. But none of these own judgment to create the wedding of our dreams! programs was much help; I love all the shows but the designs end up being too extreme for my taste. And when I saw a girl in a fuchsia wedding dress, it only confirmed I was looking in the wrong place. I really don’t care what the invitations look like. The same goes for pretty much everything else. The flowers, the cake... you have good taste, and if you So I turned to Carson and the Queer Eye gang on Bravo.

They work wonders with the average red-blooded American male, but I use it, the wedding will be exactly what we both want. It will be us. I don’t feel don’t need help with my fiancé. Fie dresses well and knows that socks should as if I need to have an opinion because I trust your taste. If I didn’t, I’d let you match. Fie washes his face regularly and even owns a few suits. FFe is fasltion know.”

My lower lip retreated. Aha! I had unlocked the mind of men. forward. As F realized this, I had a wonderful idea. I would not be a wedding“So Justin, your complete indifference to everything in the wedding is a dominating bride! F would plan all the picky little details with Justin! i would ask his opinion on everything and bring him with me everywhere! We would compliment? And by saying ‘yes dear’ to everything, you are simply expressing be a fashion team, deciding what worked and what didn’t, using our own judg­ confidence in my fashion tastes?"

“Exactly,” he said. ment to create the wedding of our dreams!

I knew there was a reason I was marrying this man.

No. Definitely not. Out of the question. Justin has been great about In the end, I know I will probably lie sleepless on the night before the going to the florist, meeting the baker, and dragging home books of sample invitations. But when it really comes down to it, he just doesn’t care. Oh sure, wedding worrying that I went with the wrong napkin colour. The morning of he loves me and he wants the ceremony to have good music and the reception the big day, I know Justin will be on the golf course totally relaxed and I will to have good wine. But beyond that, he is the “yes dear” groom that is always be in the reception hall frantically adjusting centrepieces. At the heart of the talked about. For example, he came with me to the printer’s to look at invita­ matter, though, we both just want the other to be happy with the wedding. I tion proofs and while I flipped eagerly through the pages looking for just the will achieve that through having things the way I want them, and Justin will right shape and color, Justin made sarcastic suggestions, such as, “Look hon, achieve that by letting me have things how I choose. Though that concept was how about the one with Cinderella riding in her pumpkin coach? We could frustrating at first, I have come to accept it. O f course Justin trusts my taste. even use a pink font colour!” FFe then stared off into space until I demanded After all, I chose him. ■

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ladimir and Estragon— the Laurel and Hardy of existentialist theatre— make their appearances on the McGill stage in the Tuesday Night Café Theatre’s interpretation of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot. Directed by Holly Greene, the comic, yet wistful duo aims to seek meaning in life through idle banter. One receives the impression that the characters bide their time in waste, yet by the end of the play, we realize that the story has only come full circle.

The original version of Godot was written in French; as a result, various allusions to French culture are lost on audiences viewing the performance in its English-language interpretation. However, the TN C cast does a fine job of taking the absurdity of Beckett to the next level.

“I wanted to do it justice, ” Greene said. “There is so much character development and interaction that it gives us lots of room to play with. Not getting lost in a script is a big thing. It’s so easy to get stuck in your own text. ” With a minimalist set design and a cast of five mem­ WHAT: Waitingfor Godot bers, the magic of Godot is left to the text of the WHERE: TN C Theatre script itself and the con­ Morrice Hall vincing nature of the 3485 McTavish actors who seem to fit PRICE: 56Students/Seniors their roles.

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Estragon (Kyle MacDougall) are two men standing by a country road, waiting for the supposed Godot. The team dis­ cusses when and where Godot is coming, while simultaneous­ ly relating the dual nature of their relationship. Although Woertendyke’s Vladimir is, at times, forced and over-annun­ ciated, the comedic pairing with MacDougall, a Dawson College graduate, brings good balance to the duo.

“I wanted to find the right chemistry among the actors,” Existentialism abounds in remarked Greene. “ [Kyle and I] were trained by the same teacher, so we could understand the same acting ‘language.’

This relationship seems to pay off for the ensemble. In the second act, Vladimir remarks, “One is not the master of one’s moods.” This is soon countered by Estragon com­ menting that, “We are all bom mad. Some remain so.”

Interjecting through the banality of Vladimir and Estragons repartee is the circus ringmaster Pozzo (Adam Conter) and his “slave” Lucky (Danny Coleman). Conter gives one of the most enthusiastic performances, even though his character only serves to highlight the odd Sisyphean nature of this play. Between Pozzo’s first act departure and his later return in the second act, Estragon comments, “We always have something... to give the impression we exist.”

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Ian Temple’s role as the little boy is perhaps one of the funniest aspects of the show— yet it neither detracts from the seriousness of the content matter nor adds to the farce of the absurdist comedy. According to Greene, Beckett was very specific about how he wished his play to be produced.

Despite using Beckett’s original directorial notes, variables such as age and gender proved to be difficult obstacles for Greene to overcome.

But regardless of the fact that Godot tackles serious subject matters— from interpersonal relationships to arrival and departure, personal disparity to circular obses­ sion—TN C does an excellent job of diffusing the comedic nature of this play with the reality that we are all waiting for something. ■

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Mike Ichioka At first, Markus Acher seemed like a pretty shy guy. The lead singer/guitarist of the Notwist spent most of his time onstage with his back to the audi­ ence, as if he were jamming with his bandmates in someone’s garage rather

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When Acher was obliged to turn around and sing, he did so with his eyes halfclosed, perhaps to block out the sight of the packed house at Cabaret du Plateau.

Such a reserved persona might have been expected from someone who helped create the Notwist’s latest LP Neon Golden, released in 2002. The album, which earned the German quar­ tet widespread praise and an expanded fanbase, was an unlikely yet beautiful blend of poppy indie-rock songwriting and glitchy digital processing.

Throughout Neon Golden, Acher’s mel­ low, melancholy singing rarely rises above conversational volume, while warm guitar chords and synthesized melodies slowly unfold beneath.

However, on Friday night, Acher and the rest of the Notwist (bassist Micha Acher, drummer Mecki Messerschmidt and laptop electronics whiz Martin Gretchmann) proved that they could rock out onstage just as easi­ ly as they could be subtle and introspec­ tive on record.

After a subdued opening song, Acher broke out of his shell, launching into the driving chorus riff of “One With the Freaks” with a manic energy that belied his skinny, T-shirted frame.

Throughout the show, Acher attacked his instrument like a man possessed, slamming his palm against it and play­ ing high, screeching notes above the fretboard and at one point wailing on it so aggressively that he broke a string.

The rest of the band was no less impressive, infusing the songs with an intensity only hinted at in the recorded versions. Anchored by Messerschmidt’s crisp beats and Gretchmann’s droning textures, the performance ran through the majority of Neon Golden, as well as several older and edgier tracks that reflected the band’s punk/metal roots.

Halfway through the set, members of supporting act Themselves (rapper/singer/weirdo Dose One and keyboardist Dax Pierson) made a guest appearance to help perform an unre­ leased collaborative song, which received a frenzied response from the crowd.

The show understandably lagged a bit after this mid-set climax, but the Notwist finished strongly, closing with an extended version of “Pilot,” followed by an encore of “Consequence.” This last song found Acher quietly pleading, “Leave me hypnotized, love.” For the audience at Cabaret du Plateau, that was exactly what the Notwist did. ■

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© M atu re In fo r s o m e S u p e r F u rry fu n mmsmmmmmi were introduced in the relatively inti­ mate confines of Café Campus.

The band eased into its set with The Super Furry Animals, “Slow Life,” the song lead singer minus the 40-foot inflatable bears or Gruff Rhys deems the most epic song the blue army tank it was known for on its latest album Phantom Power, tugging along on previous tours, which was concurrently released with brought just its vibrant energy, comic a DVD early last year. This concept and creative selves this time around, of simultaneous C D -D V D release in promoting its sixth album originally began with its previous Phantom Power. Armed with good album, Rings A round the World, tunes, politically cynical commen­ breaking preconceived notions of the tary, and its signature furry-as-ever way music is to be experienced. yeti costumes feverishly revealed dur­ A stream of cartoon animation, ing the peak of their encore appear­ with a similar style as in its album ance, it gave Montreal a taste of what booklets and DVDs, appropriately is raved about in the Welsh music accompanied the songs as the band scene. was playing them on stage. Phantom Since the time the Furries Power, which essentially features formed in 1993 in Cardiff, the group themes of oil wars, loss of life, envi­ has completely evaded the grasp of ronmental meltdown and the lovable rigid musical categorization, leaning hound, a golden retriever, was visual­ towards what might be described as ly represented on the screens above. neo-psychedelia— pop/punk/tech- Ranging from the heroic cartoon fig­ no/rock. However you describe it, its ures of “Liberty Belle” versus unique sound, identity and frank Memory Lane, signifying freedom messages strike a memorable chord and the harsh lessons of history with its fans without fail. respectively, to the blaring black and The musicians played a solid set white images of George W. Bush and on Friday evening, interchanging Tony Blair repeatedly flashed during hard-rocking guitar driven songs— a sound loop of “all governments are highly produced sounds— with mel­ low acoustic tunes. Even techno beats S e e MWNC!, p a g e 19 M irella C hristou

V a g in a s on m y rig h t, strip p e rs on m y le ft Julie Peters

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Do you want to talk about my vagina?

To be honest, I'd feel more comfortable talking about my mind, or my heart, or even my hair.

According to Julia Pagel, that is just the problem the Vagina M onologues is trying to address. “I think a lot of girls have trouble feeling comfortable talking about their sexu­ ality, and then they see the monologues and suddenly they have a whole community of women they can relate to,” says Pagel, an actor in this year’s McGill presentation of the show. She believes that many people, male and female, regard sexual inequality as a thing of the past, but the taboo and oppression women face every day still needs to be dealt with.

The McGill campus is currently in the middle of V-Weeks, an eight-day initiative in which workshops and events Eire being put on in the name of the vagina. One of the more interesting and controversial events, however, is the Vagina-Friendly Strip Show this past Friday night. Before the show, Pagel asserted that while she understands some people’s discomfort with the idea of strip­ ping as a mode of empowerment, “it needs to be an open thing.” She believes that attaching it to something like the Vagina Monologues gets people thinking about it in a new way, and removes some of the taboo

from stripping, making it less intimidating.

Nevertheless, when faced with writhing naked women being ogled by drunken old men, a few of the girls at the show men­ tioned feeling uncomfortable and that it was “just not that positive of an experience.’

What, watching coked-out strippers hump a pole doesn’t make you feel empowered?

But again, the other side of the coin glints just as brightly. These girls were good.

Britney Spears would not have been able to hoist herself up a pole and splay her legs as skillfully as these girls. Regardless of the taboo, strippers Eire still individuals, some of whom must feel like tools for the oppressive patriarchy, but surely a comparable amount feel empowered to an extent.

The point of the Vagina M onologues is not to tell audiences what to think about vaginas, but to actively force them to think about it, and get used to saying the word out loud.

Vagina. So there. ■ The Vagina Monologues

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© b v ies You need a thick skin for this one Liz Treutler

Don’t be surprised if your eyes dart to the floor in hopes of self-preservation.

In My Skin is Marina de Van’s first featurelength foray into directing. The film is an explo­ ration of a young woman’s growing obsession with, and displacement from, her own body. It begins with a woman named Esther (de Van) suffering a serious leg laceration but not feeling any pain. A doctor is perplexed and jokes, “Are you sure this is your leg?” Thus begins Esther s exploration of her body and the physical limits to which she can push it.

The film is both horrific and fascinating at the same time. De Van pulls off Esther’s utter disorientation with skill, and she is supported by a talented team of actors. Most notable among them is Léa Drucker as Sandrine, whose combined fear of her friend’s actions and jeal­ ousy at her coinciding success at work lead her to distance herself from Esther and escape emo­ tionally unscathed.

But it is the combined cinematographic efforts of de Van and director of photography Pierre Barougier that deserve the most praise. As Esther slips further and further away from real­ ity, the camera follows skillfully. The shots are

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In My Skin: an eerie exploration of m utilation. stomach-turning, but there is underlying beau­ ty behind each moment, whether the screen is cut to pieces like the skin it is capturing or pre­ senting viewers with a grotesque, yet arresting, close-up. Audiences are pulled in to the movie and see what Esther sees when she buys a cam­ era and creates a cannibalistic pornography with herself and her blood as the sexual fluid.

Esther wants to understand her relation­ ship with her body. Some might be scared off by her methods of experiment, but others will turn the question to themselves, just the way the film intends.

De Van creates an intimate yet claustro­ phobic bubble around Esther’s life. The audi­ ence is sucked in by her masochism and held captive until the madness is complete. The total immersion doesn’t end when the credits roll, either; the world seems a very different place as In My Skin haunts the whole way home. ■

Art for art's sake?

Lind say Peterson

An onion serves as the opening shot of Peter Webber’s film G irl with a Pearl Earring. As its layers are slowly and delicately peeled away, it soon becomes clear that this simple object is central to the film. The story is based on Tracey Chevalier’s novel of the same name, a fictional and speculative account of the process behind the creation of Jan Vermeer’s famed painting.

G irl with a Pearl Earring is the latest instal­ ment of postmodernist historical fiction on film. The 2002 novel-turned-film, The Hours, also borrowed another artist, Virginia Woolf, and her work “Mrs. Dalloway” in proceeding to augment fact for the sake of art. Similarly, 1998’s Shakespeare in Love freely fused history with fiction to make its own entertaining tale.

What makes G irl with a Pearl Earring cinematically effective is its ability to immerse viewers not only in the fictionalized story, but also in the actual process of painting. The pace is almost agonizingly slow, which deftly reflects both the forbidden romantic yearnings and the creation of the painting itself. Yet the film is not tedious and even manages to seem surprisingly short.

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It is careful not to go too far in its fictional elaborations, to keep the painting open to some degree of personal interpretation. Alongside the excellent Scarlett Johansson as muse and maid Griet, we are drawn into the awakening and inspirational effect art can have on the outsider.

G irl with a P earl Earring is unique in that it does not insult its audience, but chooses nuanced embellishment over Hollywood exaggeration in the telling of its story.

One of the few faults of the film is that audiences are left wanting more. The talents of Colin Firth, who plays the Dutch painter, are insufficiently used, and the final scene seems as though it is an awkward afterthought.

Overall, G irl with a P earl Earring is a mas­ terpiece in its own right. To some, the film might be like watching paint dry, but to many others, it is the very process of watching the paint dry that makes the film enjoyable. ■

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The Wrens and Arcade Fire ignite audience

Jonathan Mever Friday night saw a quadruple threat to the judgment of the astute concertgoer. Four appealing shows had all been scheduled for the same night.

The seemingly nonsensical decision by Montreal promoters presented an interesting dilemma.

However, the performance featuring the Wrens and the Arcade Fire at the Montreal’s intimate Casa Del Popolo presented itself as a promising and inexpensive alternative.

The Arcade Fire is an energetic, local Montreal band with rap­ idly growing popularity.

Its sound often evades clear genre distinctions, though some sort of danceable-alt-folk-indiepop description seems to fit. The band has become known for its vivacious stage performances and Friday’s show was no exception.

As the members of the Arcade Fire emerged from the crowd in their standard Russian military garb and began to play “Old Flame,” the first song off their new record Us Kids Know, the eager crowd was immediately captured. For the next 45 minutes, the band played the musical equivalent of a Chinese fire drill. An upright bass was exchanged for a tambourine and a steel drum, and again for an accordion, as key­ boards and guitars were switched among the band members with impressive inconsistency.

After the Arcade Fire had finished its set as delightfully as could be asked for, the Wrens took

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the stage. The Wrens have been around for a long time— 14 years, to be precise. After a turbulent history with the record industry, including reject­ ing a lucrative corporate record deal, the band ended its seven-year hiatus last year by releasing the acclaimed LP The M eadowlands. The new record showcases a radically different, matured sound, with heartbreaking lyrics that seem to invert the youthful intensity of the group’s earlier works.

Songs about personal failures and broken relation­ ships infuse the album with a confessional feel while infectious harmonies coerce the listener to sing along. The M eadowlands is a phenomenal record, but Friday’s pressing question was how the band’s long break and developed sound would trans­ late on stage.

To say the least, the Wrens rocked significantly harder than anyone expected.

Walking onto the stage a cool 15 years older than the aver­ age audience member, the band showed itself off with inspirational spontaneity, pos­ sessing an animated stage presence. The enthusiasm was mirrored by the crowd. It was the first Canadian perform­ ance the Wrens have made and, as they thanked the audi­ ence for its support, the band received excited hooting and repeated calls of “we love you” from the audience. Material was drawn from all albums and executed with furious vitality as the members mercilessly assaulted their instruments.

The band ended its set with a brief attempt at swing. Though not terribly successful, its charm­ ing, sporadic nature only complemented the Wrens’ explosive aesthetic. ■

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liars and murderers,” the backdrop surely accentuated the politi­ cized undercurrents of the music.

“Out of Control," one of the most hard-rocking songs per­ formed, combined with animation of planes flying overhead, drop­ ping bombs, leaving behind graveyard crosses, gives insight to the title of the album: “Holy wars / Phantom Power / Phantom lies / On the hour / Bear in mind / We are one kind. ” It leaves us with a reflection of discord, while nevertheless an ultimately unifying mes­ sage— one that has been carried over from Rings album, and the hit, “Juxtaposed With U .”

The band diversified its set by playing songs from most of its albums, and an especially welcome tune from Mwng, recorded entirely in the group’s native Welsh. With M wng—incidentally the biggest selling album ever in Welsh language— SFA has proven to be wildly successful in its home country.

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edmen captain Bruno Lemire pedalled a sta­ tionary bike in the weight room of McConnell Arena following his team’s 5-2 loss to the Queen’s Golden Gaels on Friday night. It was the Gaels’ first win at McGill in the regular season since 1968.

“We weren’t ready for this,” said Lemire dejectedly.

He watched his legs work the bike’s pedals, exorcising his frus­ trations over a game in which the Redmen allowed three shorthand­ ed goals.

“I ’m very disappointed. We didn’t show up,” Lemire said suc­ cinctly.

It was a fast-paced game rid­ dled with penalties and unexpect­ ed twists. A trio of infractions in the first minute of the game put the Redmen on a power play, but Queen’s centre Andrew Haussier broke through to score an unas­ sisted short-handed goal. Rookie goaltender Patrice Godin got a piece of it, but the puck bounced up, dropped behind him and rolled into the net, nonetheless.

Centre Andrew Gilbert scored an even-strength goal for Queen’s five and a half minutes later.

“I’m disappointed with the way we started the game,” said

Redmen Head Coach Martin Raymond. “We weren’t ready to fire on all cylinders right from the start. We have to be ready to go right off the mark, and we didn’t do that.”

Later in the first, the Gaels found themselves down two men.

However, McGill’s special teams seemed disorganized on the ice and failed to score on Queen’s goaltender Matt Kenney. In a bizarre turn of events, Queen’s centre Brad Walford got a break­ away, after which he fell just in front of netminder Godin but still managed to flip the puck into the net, giving Queen’s a 3-0 lead at the intermission.

A Queen’s penalty late in the first period combined with one in the opening minutes of the sec­ ond frame gave the Redmen another shot with a two-man advantage, but nothing would come of it. When the first penal­ ty expired, Queen’s forward Mark Norman stepped out of the box to create a 2-on-l rush down the side, which found McGill defenceman Alexandre Pagé guarding the fort alone. Walford then scored his second shorthand­ ed goal of the night, widening the gap to 4-0.

The power play has been one of the weakest aspects of the Redmen’s game this season and

the unit was extremely inefficient on this night. McGill did not score on any of its 11 power plays against the Gaels, and has not converted its last 28 opportuni­ ties with the man advantage.

In the hopes of turning around a desperate situation, Raymond pulled Godin after he gave up the fourth goal in favour of freshman goaltender Stéphane Beaudoin.

“Pat [Godin] has been play­ ing outstanding since Christmas, ” said Raymond of the decision.

“For the most part, he’s been real­ ly solid. He had a bad game— he hasn’t had too many bad games so far— but he’ll bounce back.”

First-year forward Mathieu Leclerc created several chances for himself and his teammates throughout the game, but McGill’s efforts were stymied by the Gaels’ star netminder. Kenney was on top of his game all night, stopping 32 of 34 shots and daz­ zling the crowd with his moves, especially his throng of fans behind the south goal.

Sophomore centre Benoit Martin finally put McGill on the board at the start of the third period, but Matt Macdonald of Queen’s responded shortly there­ after to sap the Redmen of their momentum.

Mark Debusschere provided

the other McGill marker with just over nine minutes left in the game, but the scoring stopped after that.

“We weren’t ready,” said Raymond of the loss. “We didn’t have the same jump that we can have, and it really put us behind the eight-ball. It’s another living experience.”

“There’s really no reason [for it],” said Martin of the poor per­ formance. “We played badly for the first two periods. The third period was good but it was too late.”

Back in the weight room, Lemire reflected on his team’s dis­ appointing loss.

“Obviously, we didn’t take advantage of a lot of the chances we had. We were given chances.”

He continued to bike hard, eyes intense as if set on something in the distance.

“We just have to start over tomorrow morning," he huffed.

“That’s the way it works in hock­ ey ” Concordia, by winning its Saturday night game against the Toronto Varsity Blues, took over the third and final playoff spot in the Far East division. The Redmen now trail Concordia by two points, and have four games left in the regular season to regain lost ground. ■

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B A S K E T B A L L

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Run and gun Martlets crush expansion Citadins Shelby Parnes

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he McGill basketball Martlets took advantage of the expan­ sion team from l’Université du Québec à Montréal Friday night, snapping their losing streak at three games with a decisive 7148 victory over the 0-12 Citadins.

The 71 points are the most the Martlets have scored in a confer­ ence game this season.

The Martlets came on strong from the opening tipoff, and never let up. On offence, the women seemed to be scoring at will, while shutting down the Citadins defensively. Eleven min­

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utes went by before UQAM reached double digits on the scoreboard, and the first half ended with the Martlets holding a comfortable 40-23 lead.

Head Coach Ryan Thorne was impressed that his team came out with such intensity, rather than looking past its winless opponent.

“This is one of the biggest games of the year,” he said. “It’s the kind of game you’re expected to win, and sometimes you don t get up for those games. ” The Martlets emerged after the break with even more energy and speed. Guard Cheeka Mitchell got off to a quick start, scoring five of the Martlets’ first seven points in the second half, on her way to a game and seasonhigh of 20. Mitchell also finished with three steals and three assists.

The fast-paced tempo of the contest proved too much for the Citadins to handle, as demon­ strated by their sloppy play and missed scoring opportunities. The UQAM women were repeatedly left in the dust as McGill pushed the brill up the court.

NICOLE LEAVER A m anda Costa calls out the next p lay in her team 's crucial win.

The result was'a comfortable lead that the Martlets maintained for the entire half, as they pushed the gap between themselves and UQÀM to as much as 30 points.

Contributing to the effort were Isabelle Provencher, who finished with 15 points, and Sarah Gagné, who added 14 points and seven rebounds.

While UQÀM has yet to put a check in the win column, the Martlets’ victory is nonetheless decisive. According to Thorne, the game was a crucial one in terms of both team morale and league standings.

“Every game is a big game.

It’s important to get a head of steam going into the playoffs, he noted.

The win moved the Martlets to within six points of third-place Concordia, but the team squan­ dered a chance to gain even more ground on Saturday, falling 69-65 to the Stingers. The Martlets now sit eight points back of their cross-town rivals with four games left on the schedule. The team can make up some of that dis­ tance on Friday if it upsets 10thranked Laval in M cGill’s final reg­ ular-season home game. ■

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eather Bell won four gold medals and broke one of former Olympian Marianne Limpert’s records, helping McGill’s women’s swim team to the top spot at Saturday’s Quebec Coupe 5 held at l’Université de Montréal. The third-year biology stu­ dent from Barrie, Ontario, claimed Limpert’s sevenyear-old record in the 100m breaststroke, finishing with a time of 1:10.58. Bell also shaved 1.2 seconds off her personal best and now owns the best time in Canadian Interuniversity Sport this season. The 5’3 speedster also came first in the 50m breaststroke, the gruelling 800m freestyle, and swam the second leg on the winning 4x100m medley relay. Other members of the relay included Toronto’s Carolyn McCabe, Janice Tijssen of Pointe Claire and Emilie Sandman of St-Lambert.

McGill also won the 4x100 freestyle in 3:54.68, the second fastest time in the CIS this season. The quartet was composed of Brieanne Brannagan, plus McCabe, Katherine Trajan, and Tijssen. Brannagan also earned herself a spot at the CIS championships next month in the 50m freestyle with her leadoff time of 59.69 seconds.

On the men’s side, McGill placed second behind Montréal. Captain Ryan Tomicic of Aylmer won the 50m freestyle in 23.61 seconds to lead the Redmen. He also swam the anchor leg of the silver medal-winning 4x100m medley relay. ■

Martlets’ hockey head coach Peter Smith, taking a short leave to serve as an assistant coach to the Canadian under-22 women’s team at tlie European Air Canada Cup tournament in Germany on Saturday, earned his 100th victory as the women’s head coach Sunday in absentia. Smith, the all-time winningest bench boss in Martlets’ history, missed his team’s dominat­ ing 7-0 win over the Carieton Ravens at McConnell Arena.

The game, marred by 70 min­ utes in penalties, saw rookie Valérie Paquette of Terrebonne net two goals and fellow freshman Jacinthe Nolin of Val d’Or back­ stop the Martlets to earn her first career shutout in her first start.

During the match, forward Katherine Safka was given a fight­ ing major and dealt an automatic one-game suspension as a result.

However, video footage of the game shows otherwise, and McGill is appealing the suspension in hopes of getting Safka back for the Martlets crucial game versus Concordia on Friday.

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The men’s squash team came

home with two all-stars and a bronze medal from the OUA championship, held in Burlington, Ontario, on Saturday. The Redmen rebounded from a disap­ pointing 4-2 semifinal loss to Toronto with a resounding 6-0 victory over Queen’s to end up third overall in the eight-team league.

It was McGills best season in recent memory as the Redmen ended up with an impressive 6-0-1 regular season record, winning 36 of 42 games heading into the championship. Overall, they fin­ ished at 7-1-1 with 44 games won against only 10 lost.

No. 1 seed Diego Diaz-del Castillo, an engineering freshman from Bogota, Colombia, and cap­ tain Mark Smith of Montreal were selected to the first and second allstar teams, respectively.

The University of Western Ontario defeated Toronto to win the OUA crown for an unprece­ dented 21st consecutive year.

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The expansion l’Université du Québec à Montréal Citadins put a dent in McGill’s attempt to rise in the standings while keeping their own playoff hopes alive, as they

upset the favoured Redmen 90-80 at Love Competition Hall Friday night.

The game was played 100 years to the date after the first intercollegiate basketball game in Canada; a contest in which McGill beat Queen's 9-7 in overtime.

Lightning did not strike twice, however, as the previously winless Citadins ran out to a 49-30 half­ time lead behind the strong play of Jules Diagne, who finished with a game-high 23 points.

McGill made a game of it late, narrowing the gap to five points with four minutes remaining.

Denburk Reid and Derek Armstrong helped the Redmen draw close with their strong allaround play, but the team didn’t have enough left to put away the Citadins. Reid led McGill with 22 points, nine assists and six steals, while Armstrong added 20 points and nine rebounds.

That loss, combined with Saturday’s 90 -7 0 defeat at Concordia, ensured that the Redmen would fall short of catch­ ing Bishop’s for third place in the Quebec conference. The Redmen sit at 3-9, two points back of the 47 Gaiters, while the Citadins are now 1-10.

—Andrew Segal

The McGill Tribune, Tuesday, February 10, 2004

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Redmen nickname leaves some disgruntled O m ar Rawji

n the wake of a Management | Carnival debacle to I two weeks ago, C£ Ellen Gabriel, coorUJ dinator of M cGill’s First People’s House, was quoted in the M cG ill D aily saying that in addi­ tion to the “Indian’ headdresses worn during Carnival, the name of McGill s men’s sports teams is one example of many offensive references still being made toward aboriginal groups.

A look into the history of the name reveals that from 1947 to 1992, the Redmen team logo included a drawing of a Native headdress. But in 1992, an inves­ tigation into the name’s origin showed that it had nothing to do with First Nations. According to M cG ill’s Communications Officer for athletics, Earl Zukerman, the name “was in ref­ erence to the red school colours and red jerseys worn by McGill teams.”

Research done by McGill historian Dr. Stanley Frost in the same year had similar conclu­ sions.

“In ancient times, Celts were known as the Red Men because of their hair... our own Red Men were no doubt Celts in honour of James McGill’s Scottish descent.”

Upon being presented with this evidence, Gabriel was pleased that the name was not meant as a reference to Native Americans, but she maintains that “some abo­ riginal students may be discour­ aged from coming to McGill” because of the perceived meaning.

Her opinion is that even though discrimination may not be intended, people who do not know the history of the name may still be offended.

“Why can’t they just change the name so that everyone is satis­ fied?,” she offers.

However, to the majority of McGill students, the school's nicknames— Redmen and Martlets— have no significance in their daily lives. When asked if they are satisfied with them, or if

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they would like to see a change, the most common reply is that the name is fine. When asked if anything is wrong with the name Redmen, the most critical reply was, “Maybe it’s not intimidating enough.”

Most current varsity athletes are content with the names, espe­ cially the members of men’s teams. But those on teams like track, cross country, and swim­ ming— where the teams are com­ prised of both men and women— may appreciate a change.

“It would be better if we had one name to unify us as a team [because] the men [wear] T-shirts saying ‘McGill Men’s Cross Country’ and the women’s say ‘McGill Women’s Cross Country, ” says Ismail Kassam, a former member of the cross coun­ try team.

Following the end of the 2002-03 school year, York University in Toronto, facing the same problem, changed its nick­ names from the Yeomen and Yeowomen to the Lions in order to have one name to unite its troops.

Robert Dubeau, McGill's director of athletics, says the official team nicknames are currently not an issue. He noted that when it became a topic of concern back in 1992, it was resolved by changing the logo, and if the issue came up again, the appropriate steps would be taken. He also claimed that if there was a movement to modify the

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Gabriel pointed to a potential stu­ dent she spoke with, who was comparing schools in the US and Canada.

“He said that most American schools are trying to move away from names that target aboriginal groups and wanted to know if M cGill is a politically correct environment.”

If students are concluding that McGill is less sensitive to these concerns than its southern counterparts, are we potentially tarnishing McGill’s image as a university, or Canada’s as a coun­ try, by maintaining this nick­ name? Canada may be the little brother of the US in many aspects, but one characteristic many emphasize is this country’s pride for its multicultural society.

While the name ‘Redmen’ cannot be equated to the NFL’s Washington Redskins or Major League Baseball’s Cleveland Indians and their caricatured Indian mascot, Chief Wahoo, to any person unaware of the roots of the name, it can be miscon­ strued. Perhaps the solution could be as simple as changing the name to Redbirds, the moniker by which M cG ill’s baseball team already goes. This would allow the athletic department to main­ tain the same colour scheme, while uniting the men’s and women’s teams under the same banner.

Although Dubeau says that the name is fine for now, it seems inevitable that a change will even­ tually occur, if not due to appar­ ent racial intolerance, then due to the gender issue. Either way, let’s just make sure the new name is intimidating. ■

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P re s id e n t

Eric vao Eyken

Asamultilingual Montrealer, Icameto McGill becauseitisacos­ mopolitanuniversitywith studentsfromamultitude of backgroundsandview­ points. However, Iwasshockedtofindthatthis brightgroupofstudentsfelthelplesswhencon­ frontedwiththebureaucraticmachinationsof thisuniversity. AsPresident Ipledge: anewArts building(withnostudentfunding); amore profitableandprogressiveFrosh; futurealcohol salesdonelegally! Myexperienceincludes: a member-at-largeofSSMUPresidential Affairs Committee; amemberat OAP.Thetimehas cometostandformyfellowneglectedArtsstu­ dents.

Heyhey! Myplatformis prettystraightforward, and hasfourmainobjectives: nonewfees, bettercom­ municationwithstudents andtheFaculty, amore diverseandequitableacademicprogram,and accountabilityoftheAUSexecutivetothestu­ dents. Newideas?How'sthis: amoreeffective AUSwebsite, anAUSAnti-Calendar, pushing fortherighttooperateabookexchange, wider useofdiscretionaryfundsforArtsstudentsini­ tiatives, lobbyingforQueerStudiesandMedia Studiesprograms, andworkingagainstturnitin.com.VoteRobSalernoforPresidentand forthe-ArtsCoalitionforaccountability! And checkout http://salemo.uni.eeformore.

Withthreeyearsof experi­ enceinstudentpolitics, I havetheknowledgeand skillstobeanamazingAUS President. Asyourcurrent VPFinance; Ihavetaken measurestoincreaserevenueby20%and decreaseunnecessaryspending. Nextyear, I wouldliketocontinuecurrent projects: getting youbetterqualifiedTA's, abookexchange, itis crucialtohaveaPresidentwhointimateunder­ standsall theAUSportfoliosandhasagreat understandmgoftheUniversitystructuresand organizations. Forexperience, dedication, and leadership,voteEricvanEyken!

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Anthony Dursi

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FacultyofScienceIserved astheVicePresidentofthefirst-yearbranchof theSUS. Sincemakingmyimpetuousleapto Arts, Ihavebeeninvolvedwithsuchorganiza­ tionsastheMcGill Global AidsCoalition, the StudentOrganizationforAlumni Relations, and amcurrentlyamemberof SSMU'sSSPNcom­ mittee. Thelatterhasbroughtmeintocontact withtheinnerworkingsof SSMU,soifyou wantarepresentativethatwill hittheground running, voteJessicaCameron.

Areyouadientat McGill University?Yousoonmight be. Overturestoshut downstudent-runbusi­ nessesandinstall corpo­ ratecontractsarebecom­ inghardertoignore. ChartweO'swantsour foodservices, GARDAwantsoursecuritywork.

WherecurrentservicesarerunbyMcGfflfor students, thesesyndicatesarelookingforan opportunityforprofit; exdusivecontractsanda captive"clientele". Goingcorporatemeansred tapeonourevents. Ifyouelect me, Iwilldo mybesttoensurethatMcGill remainsastu­ dent-oriented, notprofit-driven. Avoteforme isavoteforyourrighttoremainastudent

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V P A c a d e m ic

Patrick Scace

Josh Pavan

David Manley

Richard Ambrosio

Iamanenthusiastic, hard­ working, andproudMcGill studentleader. Icurrently sitontheAUSCoundl as theNorthAmericanStudies representative, soIhave experienceinAUSdecision-making. Iamalso theVPUniversityandExternal Affairsforthe StudentOrganizationofAlumni Relationsand sitontheexecutivecouncil forQueerMcGill. I intendtocontinueArts' progressively-minded stanceinSSMUandwillcontinuetofightfor increasedstudentrights. Ifelected, Iwillfully representtheArtsstudentbodyandwill bring forwardyourconcernstotheSSMUcouncil nextyear.

Hiall youenthusiasticvot­ ers! Ifelectedtobeoneof yourrepresentativesto SSMU,Iwill effectivelyrep­ resent yourdeepest SSMUrelateddesireswiththe competenceandintegrityyouwouldexpect of me. I'vegainedexperiencedealingwithpeople effectivelythroughLiberal McGill, whereIhave heldthepositionsofVPExternaland(current­ ly) President. Butfearnot! Iwon't beletting anyoldpolitical affiliationsinfluencemy integrityasyourrep. AspartoftheArts CoalitionforAccountability(ACA,alongwith candidatesFinkelsteinandSalerno), Iwillhelp all Artsstudentsbyalwayskeepinganeyeon SSMU!

WhyArts?WhySSMU? Whythis'Joshperson"?

Therearemanyissuescon­ cerningArtsright nowlike thenewArtsbuilding, in termsofuniversity-funded development andtheestablishmentofa Sexualityminor, inregardtoequity. Someone's neededtofightfortheseinterests! TheSSMUis inaninfluential positiontoaffectwhat concernsArtsstudentsandit'simportantthat wehaveastrongliaisonbetweenthetwo groups. I'vebeenveryactivewithinNDPMcGill andGRASP.ISTRONGLYSUPPORTTHEPSC PLATFORM,andhavespent countlesshours workingonit Andthat'sonehellofascarf.

Someofyoumightremem­ bermefromSnoAPthis year, orfrombeing involvedin4Floorsand otherSSMUevents, or maybewediscussedpoli­ ticsoverabeerat Gert's. I'vespent ayear workingonSSPN,I'mfamiliarwiththeinner workingsof SSMU,andI'veattendedCouncil meetings. IwantArtstogetthemostout of SSMU,Iwantustohaveagoodreptotackle theissues, afterall SSMUistheretomakeour timehereat McGill better. VotePaddyforAUS Rep!

ABermudian, Iamnow enrolledintiiisprestigious andcosmopolitanuniversi­ ty!!WhatIseeatMcGill is adiversesetof individual mindsenthralledwithin theirrespectivefieldsof interest, yetalienated bythecold, unwieldingnatureof certain aspectsoftheuniversity.Athome, Iamayouth campaignmanagerforanational political party. AsaPortuguese-Bermudian, Ihavealso beeninvolvedinvariouscultural andcharitable endeavours. AsVPAcademicsIwouldfightfor flexiblemajorprograms, anewArtsbuilding butnostudentfees. IamRichardandIamat yourservice!

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1 Adrian Angus ForthepastyearIhave beentheVPof Douglas Hall. Ibelievethisexperi­ encequalifiesmetobe yourVPAcademic. Iwant tobepartofthenextyear's renewal oftheArtsUndergraduateSociety. I plantoworkwiththefacultytogetthings done. Ibelievethatbybringingthisattitudeto theSocietyIwillhelpimprovenotonlythe Society, butalsoStudent-Facultyrelations. Iwill ensuretheArtsFacultywill knowwhatyou wantbyeffectivelyandenthusiasticallyrepre­ sentingyou. I, AdrianAngus, asVicePresident Academicwillgetthejobdone!

Zack Finkelstein Heyeveryone! Ifelected, I will effectivelylobbyMcGill fornewacademicpro­ gramssuchasMedia Studies, Genderand Sexuality, and Conflict/Peacebuilding, aswell asholdthe administrationaccountableforall Artscommit­ ments. I'vehadpreviouspositionsasVP FinanceofMcConnell andChairmanof McConnell'sFloorFellowCommittee, aswell as workingone-on-oneandincommitteeswith myfellowstudents, thefaculty, andMcGill's administration. VoteZach, andsupportSalerno andManleyinourArtsCoalitionfor Accountability(ACA)!

Elliot Pasztor MynameisElliotPasztor. . | J r I'maU3political science ggi^ „ , JlSj student 1playedonthe llllil -w7J jp McGilltennisteam,until wewereexpelledfromthe league. 1cancook. 1dress well. Ishowermostdays. Iorderedthefreeart testfromtheAmericanArtAcademyandwill soonbeanartist Ifyouarewonderingwhat VPAcademicdoes, donotfeel alone. Idon't knowanyonewhodoes. Butrestassured, Iam themancapableoffindingout Bekeve-you-me IwingetthejobDONE...whateveritis.Vote forme. Elliot Pasztor.

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IamcurrentlytheVP AdministrationforRVC.I haveampleexperiencein preparingagendasand minutes, aswell aswith ensuringdearandeffident communicationbetweencoundl membersand thestudentstheyrepresent. Iamhardworking andwell-organized, andItakeprideinmy work- whatmorecouldyouaskfor?

Victorhaspreviously servedasthesecretarytoa UnitCommandingOfficer duringhistwoandahalf yearsofnational servicein theRepublicof Singapore Navy. Itisthisexperienceinmanpowercoordi­ nation, hebelieves, thatputshiminagood positiontofilltheshoesoftheoutgoingVP Administration. AU1studentmajoringin Political Sdence, heiskeenonassistingthe ArtsUndergraduateSodetyintailoringactivi­ tiestocatertothespecificinterestsofitsindi­ vidual members. HecurrentlyresidesinSofcn Halt- aplaceheisproudtocall home.

Janie FergusonWoods You'vegottolovewhatyou doinordertobesuccess­ ful. IloveMontreal, Ilove McGill, andmostimpor­ tantlyIloveArts. AsVP External IwouldensureanactiveAUSat McGill bycreatinggreaterawarenessof our careerfairsandbypromotingstudent involvementincharityworkaround Montreal. Weneedtohavestrongerand morepublicizedsummerinternprograms allowingustogainmeaningful career experience. Thisschool hassomuchtooffer andwiththeproperAUSExecutivewecan makethemostout ofourtimehereat McGill.

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Hannah Poole

AsaUl Artsstudentin International Development StudiesIamdedicatedto workingwithstudentsand theiracademicconcerns.

Previously, Iwaselectedto act asastudent-teacherliaisonandplanto applythoseskillstoconferenceswiththe administration. Anavidpublicspeaker, Iwill drawfrommyexperiencestoworktowards bettercommunicationbetweenprofessorsand students. Iplantocriticallyexaminethe advisingsystembyconstantlyincorporating students' ideas. Ifeel thatitisvital forstudents tohavegreateraccesstotheirowneducation andIanticipatefacilitatingthisprocess.

HimynameisJanePark andI'mrunningforVP Administration. l'maU2 Political Sciencestudent fromYellowknife, Northwest Temtones. I believethatI'manexcellentcandidatefor thispositionbecauseof myexperience, organizational skillsandteamworkskills. I knowthat, ifelected, Iwill bringalevelof professionalismandproficiencyrequiredfor anystudentorganizationtorunsmoothly andefficiently. Inadditiontoofficetasks, I willworktocontinueimprovementwith communicationtoensurethatArtsstudents getthebestout oftheiryear. ForaVP Adminthatworksforyou, votePark!

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David Hoeppner IamanHonoursPolitical ScienceMajorwith EconomicsandPsychology minors. Asofficeassistant intheAUSOfficeforthe pasttwoyears, andas ChairmanofArtsCoundl duringthe2003-03 fall semester, Igainedasolidworkingknowl­ edgeofAUSoperations, andhowtouseAUS resourcestogetthingsaccomplished. Iam dedicatedtomakingstudentinvolvement easiersothatstudents' voicescanbeheard moredearly, andtheirneedsandwantsbet­ tersatisfied. BringingtheAUSclosertostu­ dentswillenhanceAUSresourcesandsimul­ taneouslymakethoseresourcesmoreacces­ sibletothestudents.

Casey Reynolds Caseyisafirstyearstudent majoringinHistorywitha keeninterestinimproving McGill'sArtsUndergraduate _______ Society. AstheSecretary TreasurerofGardnerHall thisyearandanArtsandEntertainment writerfortheTribune, shehasgained experienceinmoneymattersandthe bureaucraticaspectsofthisfineinstitution.

Caseylooksforwardtogettinganearlystart tobringingherstrengthsandinsightstothe AUSforthe2004-2005academicyear!