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McGill unable to capture crown A aron S igal For the first time all year, the McGill Martlets, the top-ranked team through­ out the regular season and playoffs, were simply outplayed.

In a struggle between two of the most powerful programs' in university women's hockey, McGill again emerged on the short end of the stick as the Mart­ lets fell 4-0 to a third-seeded, Canada West champion University of Alberta squad in the CIS national final in Ottawa.

In the most important game of the year— televised nationally on The Score— McGill came out with a lacklus­ tre, lethargic performance that cost the team a first Canadian university title in nine tries, a first McGill championship in any CIS female athletic pursuit and hand­

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ed the Alberta Pandas their sixth title in the past seven years. The Martlets were also unable to avenge a 2-0 loss against the same Pandas program suffered in the 2000 CIS national championship game.

The Martlets found themselves be­ hind early in the affair as only 40 seconds into the game, a nervous Gillian Merrifield committed an egregious turnover at her own blueline, allowing an untouched Panda, Taryn Barry, to rifle a snap shot over Charline Labonté's glove hand from the slot.

Clearly rattled and not used to trail­ ing, especially so early in a contest, McGill seemed to unravel under the pressure, reverting into a low-pressure defensive shell. As a result, only eight minutes after

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Web site to streamline opt-outs Ken S un While many student fees such as the levies for CKUT and the Quebec Public In­ terest Research Group have always been technically opt-outable, going to each and every organization to get a few dol­ lars back has hardly been worth the time or effort. But a new online system being put together by Students' Society VicePresident Finance and Operations Dave Sunstrum will allow students to opt out of their fees online.

The plan has the support of the Stu­ dent Accounts Office and is expected to be implemented in time for the fall se­ mester.

"We are very much in support of the process to opt-out of student fees being streamlined and to that end would prob­ ably provide links on Minerva to the sites that host the opt-out process,” said Mary Jo McCullogh of the Student Accounts

office. "It will still be within the jurisdic­ tion of the particular student society to manage the opt-out process and then submit the lists to our office for process­ ing."

As of now, the project is still under discussion between SSMU and Student Accounts.

Sunstrum, who plans to make the new opt-out Web site.work in a similar way to the online voting system, intends to complete this project before the end of his term.

"My aim is to have this done by the time I leave and if not then at least have enough done so [incoming VP finance and operations] Imad Barake can finish it

by September,"Sunstrum said.

There are currently two SSMU fees that are opt-outable. The first is the Mc­ Gill Undergraduate Student Fund, which incorporates the Library Improvement

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Council and dissenting exec concerned over 'CFS propaganda' Kayvon A fshari After problems with the production and content of the Students'Society handbook last fall, several SSMU executives recently decided to explore outsourcing production of the book to the Canadian Federation of Students. But in a moment of disagreement between most ex­ ecutives and SSMU Council, 17 councilors sent a resounding 'no' to the plan, agreeing with Vice-President Finance and Operations Dave Sunstrum, who presented a report to Council detailing his opposition to the proposal.

"Why are we giving CFS propaganda to SSMU members immediately before a referen­ dum on CFS?"heasked in the report."CFS obvi­ ously has a serious interest in getting this hand­ book into the hands of McGill students."

One of the main issues highlighted in Sunstrum's report was the required 16 pages of CFS content that would be included in every hand­ book under the rules of the contract. A number of councilors expressed deep concerns about the effect that this content would have on newly-admitted students who would be par­ ticipating in the fall referendum regarding full membership. Under the regulations of SSMU's current prospective membership, this referen­ dum is required.

Rob Church, clubs and services repre­ sentative, was particularly frustrated with the requirement's potential influence.

"It would definitely have an effect,"Church said. "We are putting CFS materials that we do not have any control over into the hands of thousands of new McGill students. They don't

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know the issues the way that Council does, they are going to assume naturally that the CFS is a good thing and they're not going to hear any dissent."

Flowever, VP External Max Silverman felt that there would be benefits to using CFS's handbook service and said that the mandatory CFS content was more in­ formational than promo- „ tional.

"The only effect that the CFS handbook would have had is that students would know what it is that the organization does and would be aware of where the money [sent] to this organization would or wouldn't be going," he said.

CFS Quebec organizer George Soule said that the content in question could sway the ref­ erendum results in either direction.

"As people become more aware of what the organization is, that certainly affects the ref­ erendum and I think that it can affect it both ways," he said. "I would hope that it would en­ courage them to participate and vote, but I don't think that it would push them in one way or another."

The 16 consecutive pages in question in­ clude information about CFS including a list of its members, its founding principles and its methods for achieving its goals. They also in­ clude several graphs highlighting post-secondary education issues such as government fund­ ing and tuition rates.

Soule also highlighted the fact that the 80 pages of McGill-specific content of a handbook produced under the CFS contract would be the responsibility of appointed members of SSMU, not CFS employees.

Financial concerns were also, raised at council, as the estimates indicated that printing through CFS would cause the Society to lose over $6,000 in revenue, mostly from decreased advertising income, compared to the 2006-2007 handbook that was produced in-house.

Silverman noted that the numbers pre­ sented to Council were not yet set in stone and that CFS was still open to negotiations. Fie also said that there were benefits worthy of the loss in revenue.

“It would have been worth it given the sheer niceness and practicality of the handbook

This was not done for the benefit of stu­ dents reading the handbook, this was done for the CFS elite and our political players who want to join the CFS eventually."

— Rob Cnurch, clubs and services rep. in comparison,"Silverman said. "Moreover, there would be fewer advertisements in it. Advertise­ ments aren't necessarily a bad thing but where possible, we should minimize the amount of advertising by companies."

Church, however, was particularly unim­ pressed by the finances and overall contract and speculated that the proposal was more po­ litically than pragmatically motivated.

"This was not done for the benefit of stu­ dents reading the handbook, this was done for the CFS elite and our political players who want to join the CFS eventually," he said.

While he acknowledged that he can't speak with certainty, Church speculated that the ex­ ecutives behind the alleged political move were Silverman and President Aaron Donny-Clark.

"From every indication that we have, [Donny-Clark and Silverman] are pro-CFS and signing another contract with CFS for our hand­ book is a very pro-CFS thing to do when there are absolutely no benefits that I can see."

Silverman, however, felt that Church's accusations were off the mark.

"It was a decision of the entire executive other than one to go with this handbook option, not just me and Aaron... Rob [Church] is way off base in accusing me and Aaron of this,"he said. "The discussion in executive committee is confiden­ tial, but it involved the benefits in doing it." ■

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Campaigning concerns lead to speculation of a Judicial Board case Kayvon A fshari In what was probably the closest result in recent Students' Society election history, the battle for the SSMU presidency came to an epic end last Wednesday, with Arts Sena­ tor Jake Itzkowitz winning over his opponent, Vice-President Clubs and Services Floh HerraVega by only 54 votes. Itzkowitz garnered 2,824 votes (47.8 per cent) while 2,770 students voted for Herra-Vega.

"I'm feeling tired," Itzkowitz said imme­ diately after the result was announced. "I'm happy it's over and I had a lot of fun. I'm really excited for next year."

Itzkowitz felt that his small margin of vic­ tory was not an insurmountable challenge, noting that he won "by less than quorum at a GA." "It just means that I will have to work that much harder to be everyone's’ president be­ cause there is only one of me," Itzkowitz said.

"I have to represent all 19,700 students on campus, which is what I've been doing at the Board [of Governors] and is what I'll do next

year."

Herra-Vega maintained her composure, commenting on her loss as "a tough race and an interesting result."

to undertake.

"I think that it should go to the J-Board because Jake [Itzkowitz's] mandate is not legitimate until the J-Board rules that it is le­

"This is a last minute attempt to keep me out of office. But if that's the way Aaron [Donny-Clark] wants to take it, it's a good thing that nobody listens to him on campus."

—Jake Itzkowitz, arts senator and president-elect Flowever, an incident involving the re­ moval of Flerra-Vega's posters in an upper residence building by unknown students has led some, including President Aaron-Donny Clark, to question the legitimacy of the race and muse about challenging the result before the Judicial Board, SSMU's highest decision making body.

Donny-Clark said that he would not per­ sonally bring a case before the Judicial Board for the campaign infraction, which resulted in a hefty fine for Itzkowitz rather than a censure.

Fiowever, he did note that it might be an ap­ propriate recourse for another SSMU member

gitimate," Donny-Clark said. "I know that I don't have a mandate to bring it to the J-Board, how­ ever, I won't be surprised if it ended up there all the same. It's in everyone's best interest to have this cleared up, because otherwise this will haunt Jake's presidency throughout the next year and that's not good for students."

Itzkowitz said that the complaints were sour grapes and an attempt to block his of­ ficial victory.

"I think they're really upset that I won," he said. "A lot of people, particularly on the more left-wing political spectrum of campus, are concerned about my presidency, which -I

think is unfounded. And this is a last minute attempt to keep me out of office. But if that's the way Aaron [Donny-Clark] wants to take it, it's a good thing that nobody listens to him on campus.”

Itzkowitz did acknowledge that the poster removal was an inappropriate action but felt that it probably had no effect on the votes.

"It's unfortunate what happened to Floh's posters and I feel bad," he said, "but it's not.rny fault and I don't think it affected the outcome of the election. The margin was thin but at the same time, I think the voting blocs were already made up when we went into this."

Itzkowitz said his top priority for the com­ ing year was regaining undergraduate repre­ sentation on McGill's Board of Governors.

Herra-Vega noted that she will not search for other methods to be involved in SSMU politics next year.

'I will be at GAs and that will be pretty much it,” Herra-Vega said. "I want to work on some of the projects that I started this year, such as the Harm Reduction Service." ■

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Gert's is electrified amidst referendum and executive results Tribune Staff Wednesday evening saw the unveiling of election results for every race for the Students' Society executive, along with results from the many referendum questions on the ballot.

Adrian Angus will be shoulder-deep in university affairs this fall after beating out Malek Yalaoui by 1305 votes for the behindthe-scenes job.

"I'm glad I have so much support from the students," said Angus, who won with 57.1 per cent of the votes. Yalaoui took 35.1 per cent.

Angus claimed that the most pressing is­ sues on his plate right now are going through the many documents and responsibilities of the position. He also outlined his plans to hit the ground running in September.

"I think the part of the job that scares me the most is learning how to work with a team," he said, "and learning to work on an executive and making it work for the entire year. It's a big part of being on the SSMU executive."

Yalaoui, who did not appear for the results Wednesday night at Gert's, was unavailable for comment.

In the race for Students' Society vice-pres­ ident communications and events, now re­ named VP internal, Kay Turner won with 2,985 votes (50.5 per cent) over Genevieve Friesen's 2,262 votes (38.3 per cent).

Turner said that recent allegations that her rival was responsible for $15,000 to $20,000 lost during Science Frosh probably "didn't make much of a difference."

With past experience as a SSMU councilor and VP external of the Arts Undergraduate So­ ciety, Turner said that she has a solid founda­ tion of credentials to rely on.

"I definitely feel that I stacked up in terms of past accomplishments to my opponent," she said.

Friesen had kind words for her victorious opponent.

"Kay is a very qualified candidate and she's going to do a great job next year."

Students also confirmed their approval of current Vice-President External Max Silverman, handing him a resounding vote of confidence for another mandate in the portfolio. Silverman

passed, leaving only CKUT and the Daily Publi­ vour. was reelected to the post with 3,300 votes or "This will affect the quality of the paper 55.8 per cent, defeating his opponent Geoffrey cation Society out in the cold. that you see in terms of number of pages and Students voted to continue tbe $3 QPIRG Hall, who drew 2,022 votes or 34.2 per cent: fee, institute a $1.25 fee for the Midnight Kitch­ colour," said Erika Meere, the Yes committee "I really appreciate the confidence placed co-chair and former Daily coordinating news in me by the voters for another year in office," en and create a new SSMU Environment fund editor. "Most of the fees only passed margin­ Silverman said. "I think it was a fairly solid mar­ at a rate of $1.25 per student. Each fee will be ally, so it could just be a general student senti­ gin of victory and I think it's a clear mandate for opt-outable. A fee to support the Tribune also ment against fee increases, but we do have to passed, but by a smaller margin. Almost 49 per what voters want on the external front." cent of students voted yes to the $0.50 fee, take it a little bit as a reflection on us."

Hall said that he knew going into the race All four of the constitutional amendments while close to 38 per cent voted no. that Silverman would be difficult to unseat. passed with large margins. The results of the Over 52 per cent of students voted against "I thought it was an uphill battle against question on reinstating blood drives in the an incumbent," he said. "My goal in this elec­ raising the CKUT Radio fee, which has not been Shatner building will be sealed until the Judi­ increased since 1988, from $4 to $6.04. Voters tion ultimately was to show Max Silverman also rejected the Daily Publication Society pro­ cial Board can rule on its constitutionality. ■ that not everyone on campus agreed with his posed fee increase, which would have raised political opinions."

—With reporting by David Blye, James.

Silverman will strive to continue the suc­ the paper's non-opt-outable fee from $5 to Gotowiec, Traci Johnson, Kate Spirgen $6.50. Fourty-eight per cent of students voted cess of his past year in the office and wants against the fee, while 39 per cent voted in fa­ and Trip Yang.

SSMU to maintain its position of leadership in the student movement.

Marcelle Kosman will be moving offices come May 1, from the current Shatner base­ ment space of the Sexual Assault Centre Of McGill Students'Society into the Society's suite in the Brown building. Kosman beat out her opponent, Alison Verba, for the post of vicepresident clubs and services with 3,195 votes (54.1 per cent) while Verba took home 2012 votes, or 34 per cent. Students chose to spoil 704 ballots.

"It feels surreal,"a celebrating Kosman said.

"I'm really excited."

The mood of the evening was tempered somewhat by Floh Herra-Vega losing her bid for the presidency.

"I was really excited at the idea of working with Floh next year," Kosman said. "I'm sure that working with Jake will be fine and wonderful, but it's not my dream team, so I'm a little disap­ pointed."

In the immediate future, Kosman said that she had two priorities.

"Priority number one is going home to write my paper that was due before reading week!" she said. As for her new position, Kos­ man said that she was ready to learn the ropes of her new job and get down to work.

In an election that saw a record number of fee referenda on the ballot, students gave at least tepid support to almost all of the ref­ LEETIPTON erendum questions. Nine of 11 ballot initiatives New VP U niversity Affairs A drian A n g u s sh o w s his pearly w h ites after secu rin g his w in.

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Queer clerics strive to reach understanding between communities S onya Bell Rabbi Steven Greenberg, the first openly gay Orthodox rabbi in the world, gathered with other leaders of various faiths in the Shatner Ballroom to discuss the trials faced by people of faith that are gay, lesbian, biséxual or transgendered.

All three panelists, including Father Ihor Kutash of the Eastern Orthodox Church and Reverend Ellie Hummel of the United Church, dismissed the presumption that there was any­ thing to reconcile in being a queer person and a person of faith.

"I think the receptive nature of the en­ tire event was very uplifting," said Inès Ribeiro, U2 environment. "It was really good to see so many opposing viewpoints so respectfully ad­ dressed."

Greenberg spoke enthusiastically about the increasing number of homosexual people he has observed opting to stay active within the faith community, and not being silent or leaving.

he has blessed the homes of people living in a "This is as powerful as the statement that same-sex relationship, he would not perform a we're going to create a new world,” he said. same-sex marriage.

Kutash openly addressed the fact that he In a surprising alliance, Greenberg stated was "defending a position which is not held that he was not comfortable performing the with great delight on the part of many people same marriage ceremony for homosexual nowadays." couples that he performs for heterosexual Walking a delicate line, he stated in his opening remarks that"all of God's creation is good" and claimed I d o n 't say change th e law. That's o f­ that all humans are natural mem­ ten th e last step. C h a n ge th e hearts bers of the church by the nature and m inds o f A m erican s first." of their creation.

— Rabbi Steven G re e n b e rg "I wasn't too sure what his position was. He should have been stronger," said Christina couples.

Woronowski, U3 finance. "You know that being "Marriage ceremonies in Judaism use queer in religion is not always accepted. It's many Adam and Eve metaphors; it would not nice for students to feel good about it and be appropriate," he said. know that they can associate with organized Greenberg, hailing from New York, reflect­ religion, but there's a huge struggle going on ed on the current definition of marriage in the for acceptance. It's not all sunshine and happy United States. songs."

"I don't say change the law," Greenberg The three panelists took separate stands said. "That's often the last step. Change the on gay marriage. Although Kutash said that

hearts and minds of Americans first."

In contrast, Hummel did not express any qualms over the celebration of gay marriage in the United Church and hoped that with time it will no longer be an issue.

"There are more important things for the church to address, such as poverty,"she said.

All three parties agreed that the value of communication between the queer communi­ ty and the members of the church is crucial for creating an accepting, open-minded society.

"We have to take a difficult topic and ad­ dress it," Hummel stated. "The religious right has been accused of being closed-minded; the left can be accused of that in the same way."

She indicated as an example that, in con­ trast to the largely welcoming nature she has encountered within the United Church as a queer woman, the queer community is some­ times less welcoming of her as a member of a church. The key, Hummel believes, is open communication.

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Fund, the Bursaries Fund and the Campus Life Fund and comes to $19 per student per semester. The other opt-outable fee is the referral services fee, which goes towards the Union for Gender Empowerment, Queer McGill and Nightline, totaling $1.75 per semester.

Though the new Web site will be an option for all opt-outable fees, clubs and services will still be given the choice of not participating and maintaining their original system, though Student Accounts aims to clarify the process.

"Where a society requires the student to complete a paper form, as is the case for some of the fees, we could provide a link to the form to facilitate the process," McCullogh added. “All this is still in the discus­ sion stage."

In the face of rising tuition and ancillary fees, levies from campus clubs and services are often met with tepid student support. Most of the fee referenda proposed during the recent election period are opt-out­ able so that those students who do not wish to pay the fee can choose not to contribute.

Gretchen Virkler, former chair of the Midnight Kitchen Yes'Committee, argued that it is better to pay the fee and reap the benefits from using the organization's services.

"If you eat daily at the Midnight Kitchen, you could be saving $10 every week. Compared to $10 per week, every week for a month, that fee of $1.25 [per semester] is not that much," Virkler said. "We hope that students, instead of opting-out, will

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Virkler added that though Mid­ night Kitchen needs the money to run, she believed that the organiza­ tion will participate in the online ini­ tiative.

"We made sure that the fee was fully opt-outable because we know that students don't want to pay the rising fees,"she said. "I hope that there won't be a mass opf-out campaign because we really need this money.

We're not going to make this fee dif­ ficult for people to opt out of."

Ed Fludson, a member of the QPIRG board of directors, said he supported the new initiative.

"We wouldn't be opposed to [the Web site]; it would make opting out administratively easier," he said.

"We wouldn't put barriers in [stu­ dents'] rights to opt out."

Fludson added that, presently, few undergraduate students choose to opt out of QPIRG's $3 levy, but the new opting out process may change that.

"Out of all the McGill student population, we generally get less than 0.5 per cent of students opting out of the levy," Fludson sard. "All of our budget-comes from the student levy. Ultimately, we have no real way of knowing how many more students will opt out, and how [the Web site] will affect it."

Sunstrum does not know how much the students opting out will change the budgets of student ser­ vices.

"If [students] want to opt-out, who are we to stop them?"Sunstrum said. "[The organizations] just have to decrease their budget expectations accordingly."*

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A woman was arrested on drug charges in Oklahoma last Sunday after mistaking a police officer for a coke dealer on the telephone. The woman had been looking through her son's cell phone and mistook the officer's number for a drug dealer. The officer played along, set up a meeting with the woman and arrested her on a drug complaint. • Pizza has become a luxury food in New York this week with the invention of a $1000 pie. The inventor has only sold one of these concoctions which is topped with six kinds of caviar as well as lobster. At $125 per slice,.this pizza is more than just junk food. • Most people's dream houses are not built of trash, but in Rio de Janeiro one man has turned old bottles into a new home. The house floats on hundreds of empty plastic bottles in a dirty channel in a Brazilian slum. "I don't have money to repair it and kids were messing with it in the street, so it's safer here," he said. • The best way to fly is first class, but luxury took a turn for the worst when one passenger found a dead body seated next to him on a flight from Delhi to London. The economy section was full and the staff wanted to give the family room to grieve. "I didn't have a clue what was going on.

The stewards just plonked the body down without saying a thing," the passenger said. • We've heard of bombs in shoes and bombs in water bottles but bombs in honey pots? Guards in Kazakshstan arrested a man for attempting to smuggle a home-made grenade through an airport in a pot of honey. When caught, the man said that he did not know there was a bomb in the pot and that his wife had given it to him as a gift for relatives. What would Borat say? • College graduates go on to do amazing things with their degrees, including finding ways to make getting drunk more easy. A Duke graduate, missing his days of drunken college classes, invented a refrigerator that will toss him a can of beer at the touch of a remote. The graduate spent over $400 and 150 hours on the contraption.

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Web site promotes conscious consuming N ora Coghlan A new Web site encouraging McGill students to "think outside the box-store" with their consumer choices will be launched later this week by a group of management stu­ dents. The Web site, www.thinkoutsidetheboxstore.com, will profile over 25 Montreal businesses that sell organic, fair trade and environmentally friendly products.

“We're trying to encourage students to think out­ side the large chain and retail stores and evaluate their consumer behavior," said Megan Poss, U2 management, who founded the Web site with fellow U2 management students Carolyn Wheatley and Marie Pierre Chabot-Belanger.

Although sites like Rethink McGill and the Montreal Business Directory feature consumer-conscious store op­ tions, Poss and her group found that much of their in­ formation is outdated and often limited to just the store location.

"Our goal is to give students a more comprehensive profile of these places," said Poss. The group browsed each store's products and interviewed managers to offer details such as prices, student discounts and bulk options.

The Web site caters specifically to the McGill commu­ nity by featuring stores and products that are accessible and financially feasible for students. "We do realize that one of the main advantages of'box' stores like Wal-Mart is that they are competitively priced and conveniently lo­ cated," said Poss. "We want to encourage students to find alternative ways to meet their daily needs."

Launched for the group's "Taking Action" project, part of their Social Context of Business course, the team's goal is to explore alternative business models and themes of development and globalization. Warren Nilsson, a doc­ toral student who has taught the course for the last four years, said the "Taking Action" project has brought a new

climate of social awareness and student-faulty interaction into the halls of Bronfman. In addition, the project encour­ ages students to connect with other student-run campus initiatives for social change.

"It helps management students get out of Bronfman and get into other parts of campus where social change is going on," Nilsson said.

Poss said the course and the "Taking Action" project have opened her eyes to issues of responsible consump­ tion and hoped that the Web site will help do the same for the rest of the McGill community.

"If we're starting with students now, hopefully they will continue on through their adult lives with responsible consumer habits already ingrained in them."*

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Do you su p p o rt th e tuition freeze?

"I think that it's necessary. If we give in to the government now, there's no stop­ ping the hikes in tuition and I don't want to end up like the States. I think if anything, we should be pushing for free tuition, even if it means higher taxes."

— Ashley Ofshang, U3 economics "I really don't have a stance at all. I have no idea how all of that works, but it sounds like a good idea."

— Josh Schopenhaur, U2 psychology "I don't agree with it. I think it's unnecessary because I feel that services at the university are seriously being pressed and very cut and I'm not sure that the tuition freeze is an appropriate response in light of other broader economic considerations."

— Mallory Berard, U3 political science and history "You need to adjust to inflation. It's really nice that tuition fees are low, espe­ cially for Quebec students, but if you want to maintain status as a top research university you need a constant-source of income."

— Jessie Taudres, U3, history "We need this tuition freeze. If we lose the freeze, the price of tuition is only going to go higher and the people who can barely afford it now aren't going to be able to come to a university like McGill.Tuition is a right, not a privilege and it should be open to everyone."

— Sindhuri Prakash, U2 education "I think that we shouldn't be stopping at a tuition freeze. I'm not saying that we should have all-out free education because that's just not practical, but it should be lower than it is right now, especially for international students like myself. It's extremely hard to afford at this point and just a freeze isn't going to fix that."

— Adam Charleston, U2 political science and economics

—Compiled by Kate Spirgen

STEVECAMPBELL In light of the four-year anniversary of the American invasion of Iraq, a worldwide day of action brought demonstrators to Norman Bethune Park in Montreal. Don't let these protestors' light-hearted makeup and costumes fool you; they are serious about their anti-imperialist convictions. ________________

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Joint effort to send our soon-to-be doctors across the Atlantic Kristin M aich Members of Initiative Benin, a project founded last September by 13 first and second year medical students from McGill and the University of Montreal, are preparing to depart on a trip to Benin this July.The program, which is affiliated with the Quebec wing of the Inter­ national Federation of Medical Students Asso­ ciation, aims to share medical knowledge with the Beninese'population.

The idea for a trip rose "as a means not only to provide medical aid to a developing African country but also to gain some clinical experience," said group member Valerie To. According to To, the group decided on Benin as the destination of choice after tak­ ing into account factors such as the needs of different populations, political stability and

language. She explained that Initiative Benin's objectives are four-fold: clinical, preventive, cultural and long term.

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plore the conditions under which tropical diseases-as well as the most common STIs arise," To said, and in doing so, to "sensitize the Beni­ nese to ... the transmission of such diseases by means of informative workshops and semi­ nars".

"I really wanted to do something to make a difference, to put my en­ ergy into and decided to do something humani­ tarian," said Gabriel Altit, founder of Initiative Benin. "We looked at dif­ ferent projects that were already in place at McGill. Especially when dealing with people with health problems, you really want a lot of clear communication. We decided on Af­ rica, where there are a lot of French-speaking

"I really wanted to do something to make a difference, to put my energy into, and de­ cided to do something humanitarian."

—Gabriel Altit, Initiative Benin founder medical knowledge in direct medical assis­ tance, which involves tasks like physical ex­ aminations, vaccinations and basic medical care. Practicing medicine will be done under the supervision of local physicians.

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countries."

"Culturally, we want to develop trustful relationships with the community," To said, hoping to "establish a partnership with the local physicians in the goal of maintaining a long term association between the medical faculties of Quebec and hospital centers in Benin."

The group is relying mainly on applica­ tions for government bursaries to fund its trip, as well as on companies for sponsorships or donations.

"We want at the same time to sen­ sitize our peers and seek their support in our project," To said, "by organizing fundraising events, such as parties, a pizzathon, bake sales, [and so on]."

Group members plan to return from Benin in August. ■

BY THE NUMBERS McGill students fork over a good chunk of cash every year for services. But how m uch m oney are w e paying in opt-outable fees?

$86.40 goes to the SSMU Health Plan w hich is only opt-outable fo r Canadian citizens $13 is charged fo r the Arts Student Em ploym ent Fund, b u t only to arts students $49 goes to the SSMU Campus Life Fund, w hich includes th e bursary fund and the library im provem ent fund, w hich is opt-outable. $6 is charged per year by the Quebec Public Interest Research Group $98.20 goes to the SSMU Dental Plan, w hich is optoutable fo r all students $3.50 is charged by SSMU as th e Environm ent Fund w hich ju st passed in the past referendum $8 is charged by CKUT Radio McGill to provide radio services $3.50 goes to the referral service fee, w hich works tow ard the Queerline, N ightline and the Union for Gender Em pow erm ent $5 is charged by the Daily Publication Society to put o u t both the Daily and Le Délit $1 is charged by th e paper you're reading rig h t now. It's w o rth it, isn't it? $306.60 is the tota l am ount o f opt-outable fees charged to an arts student per year Source: McGill Web site

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Charlie Walsh My name is and I am Spencer Ng and running for VP I am running Academic. It is for President of my belief that the SUS for strong work 2 0 0 7 -2 0 0 8 . ethic and My motivation desire to succeed are the to do this lies greatest driving forces to behind my achievement. As your VP desire to Academic, I will work tirelessly to improve the see concerns relieved and Science student expectations matched. I will experience for everyone in our fight to improve faculty advising, both in accessibility and quality.

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Having been VP Academic this I will ensure that administration knows that we value increased past year on the SUS, I have had the opportunity to be exposed to course diversity, and I will work to continually improve the the issues that are important to you! My experience has given me freshman program. Finally, it is my objective to significantly the ability to address these issues in a constructive and timely expand research opportunities for undergraduate students. I manner. Voting for me means a sincerely thank you for your vote for experience, a vote for consideration. change and a job well done!

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Hello! My nam e is Eva Kong, and I ’m running fo r VP Finance. My experience as co-Chair of SUS Finance C om m ittee and coordinator of C areer/G rad Fair C om m ittee, Sponsorship C o m m ittee, and Charity Fair gave m e th e necessary training and experience in finance. I assisted the current VP Finance in reclaim ing $ 1 4 0 0 0 .0 0 in sales tax and prevented the governm ent from retrieving $ 5 8 4 0 0 .0 0 from SUS. I f I am elected, I ’ll ensure strict m onitoring over th e Frosh budget, expand the C areer/G rad Fair, increase sponsorships, and allocate funds to buy m ore fu rniture for Burnside Basem ent and color printers for com puter labs. Vote EEE! Eva Exceeds Expectation!

Hello everybody! I ’m a U2 student in Physiology and Math.

For the past 2 years as VP Events for Make a Wish McGill, I've dealt with many money issues including fundraising activities . A few of my plans for the upcoming year include increasing sponsorship and pushing for a science improvement fund. I'm well organized and I pay close attention to detailattributes which are valuable assets for this position.

Given my experience and skills I believe I can do a good job as your VP Finance. You can count on me to keep count of your cash!!!

S S M U R E P R E S E N T A T IV E

I realize th at McGill has diverse people with varied interests. So, w h eth er you're aim ing for a sparkling 4 .0 GPA, or getting drunk at every pub in M ontreal (o r quite possibly bo th ), I will be listening to your ideas/concem s, and ensuring th at every single science student has a voice. I have the organizational, leadership and interpersonal skills to effectively represent science students on SSMU. Furtherm ore, I am a good candidate for SSMU Rep for SUS as I will em brace responsibility in order to Im prove student life at McGill. So, vote fo r the little guy who's going to get big things done!

D e a r science students, As a SSMU representative for our SUS, m y goals are to: increase th e science studen t voice on SSMU, by ensuring th a t propositions j h adopted in council concern us V------ _ * J iP .. w ork fo r a sustainable campus increase advising hours, courses and career keep th e fees frozen tow ards free education.

I attended an United Work) College as a Quebec representative. I was a delegate for Am nesty Intern ational to the Hum an Right College. I am on the SSMU external com m ittee. Only few are sciences students in national reunions. O ur voice has to be heardl W ith solidarity, Jessica Boulanger

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C hange; resources; opportunities; tradition. You cam e to McGill looking for th e se and now I'm offering them to you. If elected as your VP External, Steps to enjoy I prom ise change. Ill provide | your experience at opportunities to give back to McGill: th e com m unity through increased - Buy a warm w inter coat. enrollm ent in blood drives and - Learn to speak involvem ent in Charity Fair. You'll have French...chicks dig th e resources to find th a t lab job th a t gives you th e experience you need or th at. even check o u t what o th er stu d en ts - Ensure th a t your - VP Academic Science of BASiC have to say about courses in the experience is - Academic Coordinator of SUS brand new Anti-Calendar. For those Socially, culturally, Worked under this year’s SUS VP Academic graduating next year, I prom ise to and academ ically portfolio keep with tradition but still m ake Red fulfilling.

- Managed this year's Science Academic and White b e tte r th an before.

The latter is w here SUS com es in. As events your VP External, my focus will be the I plan to work on: organization of extracurricular - Providing more research opportunities activities. I will work to improve SUS' - Increasing student-professor p ast ideas, while realizing som e new interactions (Ahem, reference letters, ones a s well - ideas ranging from anybody?) volunteering opportunities to athletic - Lengthening Schulich library hours - Improving the advising system tournam ents. If you're looking for - Expanding the Grad/Career Fair som eone approachable with novel I’ve been heavily involved with SUS this ideas, leadership experience, and a year, fully have the experience, and know m odel work ethic...I'm your guy. the position's ins and outs. So let’s WIN Let's m ake next y ear th e y ear to with WINata! rem em ber!

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My name is Nathaniel Winata. Very quick, here is what I did this year:

V P IN T E R N A L EXPERIENCE and CREATIVITY are absolutely required as VP In te rn al, although a high tolerance doesn't h urt either.

Som ew hat of an SUS veteran, I have Coordinated th ree Carnivals (IC UK , Absolut Olympics, 0 0 7 ), Coordinated Frosh W eek (Vegas), Frosh Led in 2 0 0 5 , Co-C haired the SUS Sponsorship C o m m ittee and was Assistant D irector o f th e 2 0 0 7 Carnival. I would like to build on the success of past In te rn als, while expanding the portfolio beyond Frosh, C arnival, and M ovies-In-The-Park, to engage you all with events and initiatives th a t will strengthen the sense of com m unity in Science. Vote Experience, Vote Hussein!! \ . . I'll see you a t Eva's!”

V P C O M M U N IC A T IO N S Hey Science, I'm Ritu! There are several goals I'd strive to m eet as you r VP COM MUNICATIONS. I propose a re-m odelled and regularly updated w ebsite, including an online forum in the hopes of strengthening connections betw een students and SU S Executives.

A new em ail form at allowing quicker access to relevant Inform ation, as well as increased security and im p ro vem ent o f the overall state of Burnside basem ent are also priorities.

My experiences as current SUS Executive Administrator, entailing responsibility of logistics and com m unication betw een all science departm ents, and as last year's FUSS VP Comm unications, allow m e to bring the asset o f experience to you.

Students like you, w ant to know their com m unity, w ant to get involved, and provide innovative inputs to the betterm e n t of the university. I am willing to listen and provide the resources you need to m axim ize your experience at McGill.

M eet th e Executives Night: G et to know the execs, have a drink with th em , and share ideas.

SUS Guide to Comm unication: Thinking about m ed school? W ant to ta lk to a prof?

Would a guide w ith suggestions from students help?

Sustenance W ebsite and Science Blog French Emails G et involved, m ake this com m unity truly yours and s ta rt by VO TING FOR THE "DONG".

S S M U R E P R E S E N T A T IV E I'm running to give you and SUS a strong voice at SSMU. As your Science Rep, I'll put m y experience as First Year Council President to good use. I'll be open to | all your opinions and concerns, work constructively with the rest o f SSMU to enact positive change, and always put one hundred percent effo rt into everything!

Vote Andrew Ling, and I'll w ork to: • Foster dem ocratic renewal a t McGill so th at SSMU accurately represents YOU, - Reduce ancillary fees to keep McGill affordable, and - Put sustainability into action so w e can do o ur part to save th e world.

Hi, I am Jean-Francois and I am running for SUS R epresentative to SSMU. I'm running because I w ant to m ake su re th a t the stu d e n ts of the faculty of science a re well represented.

I think I could be a good representative because I have a lot of experience related to SSMU and SUS. I w as th e Residences Representative to SSMU last y ear and I intend to use th at experience to give th e b e st representation possible to science stu d en ts. Elect experience and reliability, elect J-F.

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here is an old saying, "Find a penny, pick it up and all the day you'll have good luck."

These are hardly words to live by, but prob­ ably the first lesson about money I learned as a child.

I understand the relative worthlessness of the penny, Canadian or U.S. version. I also ac­ knowledge that a coin with the denomination of the penny no longer makes practical sense.

There is no more penny candy, nor are there any penny arcades. No one guesses your weight for a penny and no one really ever offers you a penny for your thoughts, but does that mean there is no longer any use or room for the penny in to­ day's world?

Recently, politicians in the United States have been trying to make the argument that the coin is no longer relevant in an economy that offers no goods or services for that penny. They are right that you can't buy anything for a penny, but public sentiment for a coin that most of us have childhood attachments to runs strong.That is why when I read the commentary that actually seemed to advance the notion of throwing them away ("Pennies from heaven? More like pennies from hell," 13.03.07) it struck me as, well, harsh and hinted to me that the author may have other issues that need to be looked after that are far more pressing than just a disdain for this simple little coin.

A few years back, on a walk at lunch, I was amazed to find a pile of 639 pennies dumped on the street— not scattered about, bot dumped in one pile on the street like discarded cigarette butts. It was then, after I picked them up, that I decided to begin an experiment and see how much money, in pennies, I could find in one year.

I found pennies in piles and alone, In parking lots and the occasional telephone booth. The best place to find them was in and around bank ATMs and fast food drive-through windows. There I found them sometimes neatly stacked in rows along a window sill, or dumped unceremonious.ly in the dirt. In that one year, I collected over $84 (U.S.) just in pennies thrown away by those more,

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Our two countries share many values, one of them being a tradition of taking care of those less fortunate than ourselves— charity. We as a people also share a concern for our natural re­ sources and both Canada and the United States are leaders in concern for environmental issues.

So why, in these enlightened times with home­ lessness, poverty and various charitable works of all kinds needing funding, would anyone advocate the waste of any resource, especially money? i now keep a jar on my desk at work. It holds up to 5,000 pennies— $50.1put all of my found pennies there. Many of my coworkers will give the pennies to me, gratis, as thanks for getting them out of their pockets or purse and some­ times I exchange their pennies for larger coins, a nickel here, a dime there and it adds up rather quickly. Once the jar is full I take it to my local credit union where they allow me to use a coin counter to exchange the pennies for paper money. I then have the option of spending it on myself or donating the proceeds to any number of worthy organizations. The last full jar went to the Girl Scouts— a $50 cash donation to their troop, since I don't need any more cookies— and now I am starting over again. i would advocate that instead of railing against the penny as a worthless, outdated monetary unit, we should all embrace it and the wonderful things that pennies in vast numbers can accomplish and find out just what a bunch of them can do together. Save them, don't toss them out; donate them to any number of youth organizations, homeless advocacy groups or your local rescue missions. I don't believe that any of these organizations will turn down any donation and those pennies can do a lot of good for someone, much more so than resting in a landfill. ■

Stefan Kamieniecki is an avid coin collector from Washington state who found the Tribune on­ line. He’ll takeyourpennies ifyou don't want them.

I went to see 300 last Sunday. Let me start off by saying two things: I didn't know that blood looked like little red discs in mid-air and that the troll-thing from Lord of the Rings could get another job in Holly­ wood (if you don't know what I'm talking about, watch the movie and tell me that the guy with the axe does not look like he was in Fellowship of the Ring). Granted, I understand that this is historical fiction with a Sin C/ty-style emphasis on fiction, but anybody walking away with the no­ tion that modern ''freedom'' was actually preserved or ever existent in such a soci­ ety has probably been gored in the head by a few too many computer-animated (CGI) rhinos.

In actuality, "freedom”to spend all of one's time fighting and training to per­ fect the Spartan physique is only possible when there are more slaves than citizens doing all of the labour. Having that many disgruntled forced labourers also provides great motivation to stay fighting fit be­ cause revolt is always on the horizon. Re­ gardless, liberty has always been a plastic word and if the ancients had cinema, a Spartan blockbuster would have looked something like 300.

Historical inaccuracy, unfortunately, is not something that many are going to let slide, even if fiction is obviously the idea from the opening CGI sequence and even though many "experts" find it just as difficult to agree on historical fact. While Ephraim Lytle, assistant professor of clas­ sics at the University of Toronto, provided several good rebukes to the movie's ideas in the March 11 issue of the Toronto Star, he also missed the point. Although many historians agree that Athens may have "saved" Greece by wrecking the Persian fleet at Salamis, the Spartans nonetheless believed that Plataea, the last battle in the

movie, was the crucial blow and would insist that it and Thermopylae were what repelled the Persians when they went to war against their Grecian neighbours dur­ ing the Peloponnesian wars. Furthermore, it is important to remember that signifi­ cant academic opposition exists to the idea that Spartans also saw themselves as "Greek" in the nationalist sense, espe­ cially considering that the ancient Greeks warred with each other more often than they did with outsiders.

At times, the Persian army looks like an Orientalist fantasy with everything east of Greece piled onto the battlefield: Xerxes' personal bodyguards— the Im­ mortals— look like ninjas; elephants and rhinoceroses are described as strange beasts, Zulu-like tribesmen throw spears, magicians toss grenades, officers arrive in litters and almost everyone is masked to enhance the feeling of"other"-ness.This is not to say that the movie is irredeemably racist or inaccurate, but its emphasis is on spectacle first and foremost. The film's producers as well as Frank Miller, author of the graphic novel upon which the nrfovie is based, recognize their embellishment— the narrative's faults are addressed largely by placing it in the speech of a Spartan captain whose mission was to rouse his fellow Spartans into a frenzy before bat­ tle, making it even easier to dehumanize and kill Persians. To then demand that the story be free of bias would be ludicrous.

Ultimately, those expecting a com­ prehensive history lesson on Spartan soci­ ety will be sorely disappointed. However, I don't know how the ranks of Speedo-bedecked spear-chucking Scotsmen on the movie posters could ever have given one such an impression. Think of this as how the Spartans "may" have seen themselves and not how they actually were. ■

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D ominique Z ipper DOMINIQUEZIPPER@GMAIL.COM n ex-boyfriend's mom once made up a word: "fauntrum." I'm not sure if this spelling matches her personal vision for the word, but it will do for the pur­ pose of this article. "Fauntrum" refers to situations of empathetic embarrassment (during karaoke, premature ejacula­ tion, etc). Since its adoption by my circle of friends, the word has proven increasingly capable of aptly describing many of life's awkward situations.

For example: "Oh my god, it was such a fauntrum, the Prof had no way out and this girl in the front row just kept badgering him and he was so clearly wrong" or, "It was the ultimate fauntrum. She was hammered and going on about their terrible hook-up in front of the whole dinner table, In­ cluding the bitchy waiter!"

Although, granted, you may never have found yourself in one of these particular settings, it seems plausible that you may have been accosted by a “fauntrum" of a more reticent type: the first (or 14th, depending on your patience) date kind. Let's go with a heterosexual example, as I am speaking from experience: • Dinner date. You're both obviously excited to be there. All is going well.

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Girl could, for all Guy knows, have grown up in Yucatan, have a regular diet of bull's testicles or be an Olympic gold medalist. Of course, he doesn't know, because he has nei­ ther posed any questions nor even reciprocated any of hers with a mere "and you?"

Fauntrum! Yes, fauntrum for Girl. How embarrassed would you be for yourself if, assuming you weren't asking it in the late nerd-chic spirit of Seth Cohen, were forced to inquire "So, uh, do you have a middle name?" I would say fairly embarassed. it truly all comes down to questions. It sounds far too simple and far too prescriptive, but it's true: if you want to get laid, get to the altar or even just get through dinner without the person clearing your table showing you up in terms of common decency, just ask her about herself.

I'm sure that you're wondering why this university newspaper columnist isn't writing more intellectually stimu­ lating material. The simple answer is that this lack of ques­

tion-asking has escalated to pink elephant proportions.

We're stuck in a social crisis where we seem to think that we're still in"show and tell"hour, with Narcissus as our gradeschool teacher.

Okay fine, i understand that you might be nervous on a date. I also don't care. If the person on one side of the table can ask you about your friends, school, family, future plans, past vacations, childhood, going out preferences and day-to-day life all before you think to say, "So, where are you from?", then all the nervousness in the world shouldn't work in your favour. After all, no matter how intimidating, boring or judgmental she may seem, she's probably not. If she is, it's going to be far easier to get yourself out of the situation if you have set up a good rapport.

I'm not trying to be Carrie Bradshaw and I'm not telling you to discard all of your current social skills and purchase a friend-making manual. I'm just saying it shows a vital lack of respect for the other person's time, effort, expectations and personality when you fail to express any interest in them.

As a hard and fast rule, if she is asking you about your favourite herbs for making gazpacho, she's not enjoying her­ self or the fauntrum you're putting her in. ■

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ome of the greatest comedies of all time in­ volve an exchange of identity or daily lives that places diametrically opposed characters in each others'shoes, forcing them to act in a man­ ner opposed to their lifelong habits or fundamental values. Classic examples date back to Shakespeare's early days and the timeless Comedy ofErrors, where­ as modern examples include Jim Belushi's Taking Care ofBusiness, the Olsen twins' It Takes Two and the Dan Aykroyd/Eddie Murphy gem Trading Places.

McGill, ever the trendy institution, has decid­ ed to jump on the place-trading bandwagon. In a series of recent endeavours to foster stronger and more lasting student-administration bonds, Provost Anthony Masi has agreed to swap lives with an un­ dergraduate for part of a day in April. Said under­ grad will be able to follow Masi around McGill's ad­ ministrative headquarters and find out what kind of behind-the-scenes work our provost actually does and Masi will then sit in some morning classes to gain some perspective on student life.

As interesting as that could be, it would have been much more amusing to rig some Wifeswapesque interpersonal/sociological collisions and set up a few pressure-cooker scenarios that would have ended as all student fantasies do: with some good, old-fashioned bloodshed. In the spirit of hav­ ing prominent campus figures "go ape," we have compiled a set of suggestions for life-swaps that students would actually want to watch.

First, if you're going to have Tony Masi trade places with anyone, it should be one of the execu­ tives of the Sexual Assault Centre of the McGill Stu­ dents' Society. The former could use some sensitiv­ ity training after last year's space-allocation debacle, while whoever took his place would doubtless take little time to evict the McGill administration and turn the university into a non-hierarchical educa­ tional collective where there are no right or wrong answers.

While we're on the topic of McGill admin, let's have Principal Heather Munroe-Blum trade places with bathroom stall iconoclast and former Stu­ dents' Society presidential candidate Sean Turner.

While the campus infrastructure would definitely crumble under the latter's administration, funds would be reallocated so that every student could proudly don a Sean Turner button and a secret po­ lice service would be set up to "disappear" people who disputed whether Sean Turner was actually a bowl. Munroe-Blum's position on campus, however, wouldn't change a bit. Practically no one on campus would have any physical proof of her existence (or even see her around much), but her name would

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Captain: "FUCK YOU! GIVE ME YOUR CANS!" If you're going to get wet, you might as well go swimming. If McGill is actually serious about this swapping business, they ought to throw cau­ tion and sensibility to the wind for the promise of a few laughs. We will probably all be sick of this place soon, given that finals are just around the corner and after all, laughter is the best medicine. ■

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Chad Ronalds tuition dollars on plasma screens in the libraries, finds the connector, screws it in, grabs the remote, Sure, you won't have the slides ahead of time, but points it at the projector, pushes the power button, that will force you to actually pay attention in class. wireless Internet for the campus, projectors in the Contributors Speaking of paying attention, when McGill then waits. Did something happen? Did the light classrooms and those ill-fated remotes from firstHeather Anderson, Sonya Bell, sends in teams of technicians to get rid of the pro­ turn on? Go out? Oh wait, yeah, there it goes. Now year science classes. Instead, they should buy some Naomi Brodkey Nora Coghlan, we just have to hit this button and... nothing. Hmm, jectors, they should take out the wireless Internet. new blackboards and chalk. Lots of chalk.

Mallory Dash, Iris Erdile, Judah that's odd. Check the connector. Check the projec­ Why do we need to be able to log in and check Why? Because the electronic classroom is a Issa, Stefan Kamieniecki, Natasha our email in every classroom on campus? I have no massive fraud. Perhaps not a fraud on quite the scale tor. Computer 1? Yup. Try the button again. Nope, Luttrell, Alii Maclsaac, Kristin Maich, problem with being able to use your laptop to do nothing. Now we have the five-minute countdown. of cigarette company executives, but we should be Liz McLaughlin, Joanna Reznick, research in the library, but there is no reason that IT going after technology company CEOs for over-sell­ The pressure's on. Okay, no problem, stay calm, just Matt Segal, John Semley, Shea dollars need to be spent equipping classrooms so reboot the computer... ah yes. Okay, there it goes. ing and under-delivering on the miracle that is sup­ Sinnot, Richard Tseng, Carolyn Yates, that you can chaton MSN and surf Facebook instead And there goes 15 minutes of class right along with posed to be the electronic classroom.

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poration that has ties to the candidacy of former Republican senator Rick Santorum?

If we're gossiping about fashion, let's be ac­ curate: Some progressives look like they stepped out of Vogue (Erica Martin) or a J. Crew catalog (Max Silverman). Martin and Silverman have been two of the most active politicos on campus for the more lefty issues that are supported by the "Cheshirts," but you couldn't find two people who fit Tseng's stereotype less.

I could deconstruct each of his stereotypes one-by-one, but I'll stop at saying that each of his bullet points was more inaccurate than the last. If anyone wants to research this more, I would sug­ gest that they start with the difference between "Marxist," which is what Tseng called "Che-shirts" and "social democrat," which is much closer to what they really are.The differences are vast.

Readers of the Tribune might be surprised to find out that Daniel King, one of next year's arts Senators and a former president of Conservative McGill, stood up at this semester's General Assem­ bly and said"Flello, I'm Daniel King. I'm straight and I'm proud... to support the ban on blood drives."

Ohio-born Alison Verba, the more centrist candi­ date for VP Clubs and Services, protested at the Feb. 7 Day of Action, which called for a nationwide tuition freeze— a concept supported by Verba.

Tseng wants to believe that the "Che-shirts" are too far removed from campus politics to be a relevant voice for McGill students, but DonnyClark and company were elected last year with a clear mandate. Students are all invited to GAs, no matter what their affiliation— it's a simple matter of showing up. If anyone felt misrepresented this year, they should have -v showed up at the GAs instead of letting someone like Richard Tseng do their think­ ing for them. ■ I would like to correct several false statements published by the Iris Erdile, U2 sec­ McGill Daily in their March 12 article "SUS misplaces $20,000." ondary english, is a The Daily reported that SUS and Frosh Organizers did not know campus lefty. the exact number of registrants for Frosh 2006. Detailed financial re­ cords are kept and officially, there were 806 registrants. This coupled with sponsorship was supposed to generate a total of $56,330 in rev­ enue and $13,9-19.73 in profit. Flowever, only $35,355-78 was received, resulting in a $5,238.60 loss.

The claim that SUS Frosh has regularly had loose bookkeeping for cash transactions is false, it has always been the duty of organiz­ ing executives to tabulate their own financial data, regardless of the event. If this is not possible, a coordinator is assigned to take care of it or the VP Finance coordinates these transactions. Receipts and contracts between SUS and the corporations we hire during Frosh are retained— regardless of the amount— and used as proof of an exchange, including during the pub crawl. The only cash exchanges that were not included were tips (usually 10 to 15 per cent of the bill).

There have been concerns that these funds were removed from student fees and paid to departmental councils (i.e. equalization).

These funds were from Frosh profits and were misspent as a result of a personal lack of judgment on the part of the Organizational Com­ mittee. Registration fees for event's like Carnival were not raised to cover this loss, but to meet higher demand for tfie event and orga­ nizational costs. There were tighter controls for this event to prevent inappropriate expenditures. Executives reduced their own portfolio expenses to partially offset these losses: Academia Week was $4,000 under budget and the Career Fair generated over $2,000.

SUS is required by McGill to be audited by a third-party accoun­ tant every year and we are required to file taxes with the provincial government. As of March 8 ,2007, the SUS also put in place financial affairs by-laws (a copy of which can be downloaded from the SUS Web site) that provide tighter security and more stringent checks and balances for cash and non-cash transactions. In addition, science stu­ dents are always permitted to access SUS documents by submitting written requests to the executive administrator.

It is unfortunate that these events have taken place and been publicized at this point in time. In the future, I encourage science stu­ dents to bring their concerns to the SUS Executive Committee and other representatives. We have been elected to serv^you and your needs; if they are to be addressed properly and in a timely fashion, we need to be informed. Specific questions regarding this issue can be directed to me.

disappointed that a qualified candidate might have lost the Students'Society presiden­ tial race based on misconceptions of current campus politics. In his last column, Richard Tseng joined hordes of middle schoolers in the act of stereotyping people based primarily on shallow distinctions like t-shirts and CD collections (“Resist the tie-dyed tide,” 06.03.07). Imagine how many Tribune readers would have voted differently in 2007 if they had been more educated about who the people representing them this year actually were.

The main designation Tseng used was the category of "Che-shirt." This statement is inac­ curate— as a frequent patron of the Midnight Kitchen, as someone who did Radical Frosh, as someone who is active in the queer community and is friends with campus lefties, who would be more likely to see a Che shirt than I? Yet, in my two years at McGill, I have never seen anyone wear aTshirt with the image of Che Guevara. This is prob­ ably because Ernesto Guevara used hatred to turn his troops into cold-blooded killing machines. No one should forget that fact when they casually throw his name around or use him to stereotype other human beings.

Tseng (who should probably become a po­ litical columnist for Cosmo based on his fashion observations) wrote blatant untruths when he claimed that "Che-shirts"shop at Urban Outfitters.

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he question of reinstating blood drives in the Shatner building has finally been brought to a campus vote, just as it should have been from the start. I would like to thank the mover of the referendum ques­ tion, Marc-André Rousseau, for his initiative. It felt wonderful to see conviction in people's eyes as they campaigned and voted, even if I did not necessarily agree with their platforms or arguments. While the results are sealed and the issue is being taken to the Judicial Board for a ruling on the question's constitu­ tionality, I would like to offer my thoughts on the matter as a McGill student who requires blood transfusions regularly.

During the campaign for SSMU execu­ tive positions, I observed the word "represen­ tation" used rather flippantly. My rights as a student with a medical disability have not been acknowledged by SSMU executives and Councilors, nor have any of them shown the least bit of compassion. Rather, this is a battle between minorities that is being fought with the all too familiar ultimatum, "You are either with us or against us.'The problem with that argument, otherthan reeking of my Kentucky political heritage, is that one minority is by its very essence more physically vulnerable than the other with respect to blood transfusions.

The knee-jerk reaction elicited when one liberally tosses around the word "homopho­ bia" to suit one's argument detracts from the situation at hand.The word homophobia has created wormholes through which statistics, practicality, science and the distinct purpose for which blood drives exist have been lost.

Instead of speaking on behalf of hematology and oncology patients, as I feel compelled to do, I am explicitly asked to keep emotion out of my arguments. Further, I am backed into a corner and feel compelled to explain how I can advocate for blood drives, yet not be homophobic. Anyone who puts me into that situation is doing me a disservice, as it bla­ tantly neglects irrefutable science, wastes my time and demonstrates the same distortion that those who support donations from men

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A situation that could not illustrate my point more clearly occurred during the ref­ erendum debate. SSMU President Aaron Donny-Clark, with whom I have had a num­ ber of discussions on this issue, asked a ques­ tion supposedly on behalf of a student who receives blood transfusions regularly— me (he approached me later that week and con­ firmed this). The question asked to the com­ mittee was regarding whether or not there was currently a blood shortage in Quebec.

Appropriately, the committee's response was that there was no blood shortage and this was even listed as a supporting statement on the ballot as to why blood drives should not be reinstated. Donny-Clark and I never spoke about the blood supply, nor did I request that he ask a question on my behalf. The answer offered by the "no" committee is also very misleading. There is always a need for blood, especially rare blood types. Furthermore, blood shortages take place in acute situa­ tions, such as large-scale accidents like train wrecks. While there is no shortage today, it is important that Héma-Québec maintain an adequate reserve of blood.

Donny-Clark should be ashamed for using a medically compromised student as a means to his political end, all the while ap­ pearing to be a nice guy who cared. He has yet to apologize for his unethical behaviour, an unfortunate fact for someone who prides himself on promoting "dignity" in the Shatner building. It is apparent that Donny-Clark's interests are vested elsewhere. Only a select group of students is worthy of his respect and nothing will impede his ideological rampage, even if it means stepping on the backs of McGill's most physically vulnerable students. ■

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Fortunately, the new student-run Web site PhatFlat.com has made the search just a little bit easier.

The site was developed "by students, for students," says co-creator David Azose, II2 computer science. He describes the motivation behind PhatFlat.com as basic demand.

"Off-campus [housing] Web sites aren't complete or easy to navigate. We wanted something a little more accessible."

Together with Zack Belzberg and Mike Segal, both Ui management, as well as An­ drew Schaff, U2 computer science, the Web site was launched in early January after a few months of development. Just in time for the busiest apartment-hunting season, it has been met with nothing but success so far.

Azose's site stands out from other commonly used resources like McGill Clas­ sifieds and Craigslist. "Everything right now is city-based; we wanted to narrow the search, making it for the McGill student."

The Web site consolidates all the needed information into a single page,

which users can customize based on loca­ tion, size of the apartment and maximum price. Marking the apartments on a Google map, users can easily identify locations and search for homes within the area.

"You can specify exactly where you want to live and update your results based on that location," Azose says.

A login is required to save the informa­ tion, but it facilitates ease and convenience for the user. "If you find a few places, you can just add if to your [phat] list and all your favourites are there.”

The phat list contains all the necessary contact and-location information in a neat and organized fashion. You can also take notes and save it on your account, which will appear on the phat list upon re-access.

Ultimately, the four hope that their Web site will become the “Facebook of apartment shopping."

"Ideally we'd like to see it across a number of college campuses where there is significant off-campus housing," Azose says.

Since the Web site is currently divided by school, the model is easy to implement at different universities nationwide.

"The only work involved is setting it up at another school and creating another database," Azose explains.

In the meantime, he encourages fel­ low students to use common sense when searching for a new apartment. "Don't be too quick and don't be too patient. Find a nice medium." And to check out www.phatflat.com. ■

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Yet, when he is not busy controlling biomaterial properties to induce bone formation, this aspirant scuba-diver finds time to enjoy Montreal.

Something that my students would be surprised to know about me is... contrary to popular belief, I'm actually quite boring...

What drives me to go to work every day is... (With a some­ what sardonic chuckle) my students'craving for knowledge.

In my research, I am currently working on... inorganic materials that can also be used as biomaterials. Reader take note: Though reticent about his research, Professor Barralet has lately been in the media due to his recent studies in the development of new materials for bone repair. Professor Bar­ ralet and his team work to produce three-dimensional bioc­ eramic "bones" that will undoubtedly have drastic effects on the way reconstructive surgery is performed in the future.

My favourite part about my job is... going home! No, apart from that it is working with great students, travelling the world, being as close as possible to self-employment while still getting a salary and being paid to do what interests me— which is a luxury, I guess.

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Something I have wanted to do for years, but have not yet done is... go scuba-diving.

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Meet Jamie. Jamie wears flip-flops with his suit. On some days, he even comes to work wearing an iPod— keeping his ear-buds in as he ignores orders from his fortysomething co-worker (who is actually lower down on the corporate ladder than .him).

If this image seems familiar, it is probably because it is.one that has been adopted by media sources across North America to represent a typical member of the emerging

Generation Scapegoat Surprisingly, there remains a lack of consensus on the birth dates of Generation Y. The broadest definition is generally the 70 million plus Americans born between 1977 and 2002. However, some journalists, such as Stephanie Armour in a USA Today article titled "Generation Y: They've arrived at work with a new attitude," choose to put Y at ages 16 to 27, born from 1978 to 1989. She reasons that as the pace of technological advancements and overall social change accelerates, the time frame of a generation gets shorter.

"Everyone seems to be obsessed with our generation,"says Aiten Snaith, U2 geog­ raphy. "Materialism— our fault, consumer­ ism— our fault, oversexed media— our fault.

Everything I read seems to insinuate that Generation Y is single-handedly tearing down everything that is authentic about our culture, without any remorse."

Snaith articu­ lates what seems to Ibe an undercurrent jin such descrip­ tions: if Generation iX were the cool kids, we seem to be nothing more than the annoying younger sibling— bratty, loud and ieven counter X's counter-culture.

Much of the Generation "Look at me!" buzz can be linked to a study conducted last year by a San Diego State University psy­ chologist, the results of which concluded that this genera­ tion of college

new age.bracket of adults: Generation Y. Members of this generation also go by other names. Some dub them "MyPods," due to their fondness for iPods and social networking sites such as MySpace, others call them the "Baby Boomlets,”referring to their status as children of the Baby Boom generation.They are also the"Boomerang Generation,"a reference to their inclination to move back in with their parents after living on their own; "Millenials,"“Echo Boom­ ers,""Gen Next," the list goes on.

If the Baby Boomers "invented youth culture,"and Generation X-ers were "the slackers who changed the world," who, ex­ actly, are the members of Generation Y? They are self-absorbed, over-indulged and gorged with celebrity culture.They are "the generation that morality forgot,"assert many articles that discuss results from vari­ ous studies examining

students, in general,.can be characterized as being far more narcissistic than any before us.

The analysis, entitled "Egos Inflating Over Time," pointed, not surprisingly, to MySpace and YouTube as forces that have fed into Generation Y's “blossoming" G en Y: th e e n v y o f "Grups." self-regard.

The co-authors of the work based many of their findings on the outcome of a psychological survey— taken by over 16,000 college students across the United States over the span of 25 years— that asked students to react to such statements as: "If I ruled the world, it would be a better place," "I think I am a special person"and"l like to be the centre of attention."

Results indicated that almost two-thirds of recent college stu­ dents had narcissism scores that were above the average 1982 score.

Thirty per cent more college stu­ dents showed elevated narcissism in 2006 than in 1982.

The study also noted that other trends in American culture (such as lax parenting, increased materialism, celebrity fascination and reality TV) might also feed into this increasing self-regard.

Generation Paradox A question comes to mind, how­ ever, when considering the results of this report. Could it also be possible that, with the increased globaliza­ tion of communication, this so-called culture of narcissism is just a natural result of young people comparing themselves to a much larger and more competitive pool of individuals?

I brought this issue up with Jean Twenge, the lead researcher of the study and she provided me with the following response: "That's not usually how narcissism works. It's not a cover for insecurity bul usually a deepseated belief in one's superiority,"she explained. "Also, it doesn't predict suc­ cess: narcissists think they are better th other people, but they actually aren't when you look objectively."

Twenge disagreed with the idea that narcissism among young people

just who these Y people are.

According to a 45-page research docu­ ment released by the Pew Research Center this year entitled "A Portrait of Generation Next,"half of these generational deviants even have tattoos and body piercings!

However, Generation Y-ers are also more socially motivated than any genera­ tion before them and are characterized by their denunciation of suits and ties— but not corporate culture. They are "re-defining adulthood" and are a "marvel," in their own right.

As a part of this generation, I don't buy it.

Is the growing group of Y-smitten jour­ nalists currently blitzing North American media sources trying to make us believe that we are somehow different from the Boomers and Generation X because our youth culture is popular with other age brackets? Apparently, yes.

can exist partly as a defense mechanism against competition.

"In the long-term, narcissists actually end up with lower GPAs than non-narcissists,"she added.

Assuming Twenge's assertions are true, another leading quality attached to Generation Y seems contradictory.

In the Pew study, "A Portrait of Generation Next", Gen Y is applauded for being the most statistically tolerant generation when it comes to issues such as immigration, race, and homo­ sexuality.

According to a book released this year by Generation-Y-

20.03.07 • The McGill Tribune • 13 management expert Bruce Tulgan, Managing the Generation Mix2007, we are the first true cohort of "Global Citizens"— the most socially conscious generation since the sixties. Y-ers are out in record numbers working for social causes from the environment to world poverty.

We are egotists, yet we also seem to care more about fellow citizens than any group in history.

Generation Gapless Besides proving our opulence and vanity, today's older generation also seems to want something else from us: To be us.

Journalist Adam Sternbergh discusses a new trend amongst today's 30 and fortysomething adult population in a recent New York Magazine article entitled "Up With Grups."

"It is a story about 40-year-old men and women who look, talk, act and dress like people who are 22 years old,"the article begins.

Sternbergh titles this new breed of adults "Grups," after an episode of Star Trek in which the ship lands on a planet of children who rule the world (due to a virus slowing the aging process, of course). The planet's non-aging inhab­ itants begin to call Kirk and crew by this name.

Sternbergh de­ scribes the piece as "an obituary for the gen­ eration gap," suggest­ ing that Generation Y is closer to its previous generation than any before it and that this phenomenon is "per­ manent."

This claim is funda­ mentally problematic.

While a fascinating study on the nature of the X-Y generation gap, could it also be possible that Sternbergh's piece is extrapolating a metro­ politan and specifically New York, sub-culture to an entire generation?

Are "Grups" really such an overwhelming trend outside of Manhattan and the trendy parts of Brooklyn?

Furthermore, even j if this non-existent generation gap were true, the children of these "Grups" will rebel— becoming straight edge, like the Yuppies—just to aggra­ vate their parents. Adulthood will be emphasized once again, Sternbergh's purportedly closed generation gap re-opened.Thus, the circle will come back around.

The piece also posits that a "dress-down work culture" is an attribute of Generation Y. Like other articles on the subject, such as the USA Today piece "Going toe-to-toe on office etiquette" by Olivia Barker, Sternbergh, unfortu­ nately, misses the point. Casual attire among employees in higher level posi­ tions is a symbol of status, not necessarily generation. These workers are illus­ trating the idea that they are so successful that they do not need to dress up.

Are t-shirts under blazers really a wide­ spread movement in North American business culture, or just something that is more com­ mon in some jobs?

Generation nothing special So where does this leave us?

While a generation description of any sort will evidently be a caricature, Generation Y's still seems murkier than the rest— and it seems interesting to me that journalists and acadmics, especially in the past month or so, have been so determined to pin us down to such fixed, often opposing, characteristics.

Considering that most of us are just now reaching adulthood, this upsurge of Y literature also seems premature, especially taking into ac­ count the broader definition of the Gen Y age bracket.

Furthermore, the fact that Generation Y is repeatedly described using inflated vocabulary such as "revolutionary,""anomalous" and "unprec­ edented" seems undeserved.

Every generation is different— that's the whole point. Creating a fuss over the uniqueness of our generation is futile.

Gen Y's aptitude for new technology sets us apart, certainly. However, are iPods and Facebook savviness enough to make us the history-shatter­ ing generation we are being depicted as?

In fact, the media have been so quick to turn us into the exceptional Generation Narcissist, Gen­ eration Activist or Generation New York that I am tempted to come up with my own title for us.

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inancial crises: Twentysomethings face financial hut do they have a real reason to complain! [now] on higher qualified applicants and more work experience,"says future graduate Pamela Funeja, U3 economics and IDS. Apparently, it's a terrible time to be young. This What's more, it's hard for young people to find— statement might come as a shock to many, especially and keep— employment within this so-called "whiteconsidering the rather horrific circumstances of our collar sweatshop."Employment insecurity is, according generation: After all of our computer-savviness, casual to economist Richard Florida, author of the acclaimed dressing, MySpace, Starbucks, birth control, iPods and Rise of the Creative Class, a new way of life. The “creative you know, lack of getting drafted for Vietnam, life is class," which includes tech workers, entertainers, edu­ ostensibly difficult for this current group of i8-to-26cators and scientists, lives in metropolitan areas and thrives in the global economy. Much of this "class" _ ■ consists of struggling Generation Yers.'lt's be­ come a lot more difficult to secure positions," Funeja notes. "I would be very apprehensive E about entering the workforce."

Then again, is this a problem unique to V our age demographic? Only if you ask a fellow I Generation Yer. Other age groups, however, I may beg to differ. Daniel Gross, writer of the I Moneybox column for Slate magazine, mainI tains that today's economic issues, such as "job I insecurity, low savings rates, income volatility, ! the massive ongoing benefits cram-down— afI feet everybody, not just twentysomethings."

Generation Yers are only following the ? same path as their predecessors, Generation X ? and the Baby Boomers. Boomers were thrust i into a disappointing 70s economy, gas lines and the downsizing surge of the late eighties and early nineties.

Generation Xers didn't have it so easy either.

According to Carolyn Martin and Bruce Tulgan, authors of Managing the Generation Mix, "viewed as intrusive obstacles to thei r parents'self-explo­ ration, Xers found themselves in a faltering econ­ omy that plunged them into the highest childpoverty rates— and later in their lives, the lowest wage and homeownership rates— since the Great Depression. In fact, they were the first gen­ Y in th e co rpo rate w orld: Paying off that eration of Americans to be told that they, would d ebt, but w h o n eed s to sacrifice com fort?

B J not be as well off financially as their parents."

So what then, makes Generation Yers so dis­ tinct? Perhaps the Tony award-winning musical, year -olds— a.k.a Generation Y. Avenue Q, says it best with their catchy tune: "It Sucks In Generation Debt: Why Nowis a Terrible Time to to be Me." be Young, journalist Anya Kamenetz claims that col­ Often referred to as "Generation Me,"this group lege loans and credit card debts make it impossible for of techno-sawy workers raised on video games, the twentysomethings to earn a decent living in a hostile Internet and MTV presumably has a higher sense of and competitive job market. According to Kamenetz, self-esteem and self-entitlement.They also have higher the reason that all of us young folk prolong college, expectations. move back home with our parents and struggle to find . "The type of struggle was different [for previous work is not because of laziness or self-absorp­ generations]," Funeja maintains. "For our parents it was tion, but rather cold, hard economics. more of a sustenance-type struggle. For us, it's attain­ "I personally have a lot of debt that I have ing a certain level of economic stability. It's not just to pay off," says Lili Gao, U3 microbiology and about living and surviving. We need to have money for immunology. Like Gao, many aspiring twentyour leisure activities, a car and a nice place to live in. somethings are stuck in a financial rut. A study Our standard of living has changed." conducted by the American Institute for Certi­ Constituting the fastest growing segment in the fied Public Accountants, revealed that Genera­ workforce, it is no doubt that Generation Yers find tion Yers are overwhelmed with debt, owning themselves trapped within a rapidly changing, volatile fewer financial assets than previous genera­ and ultimately competitive job market. But does that tions during their same age and encountering give us a right to complain? Not always. "We have historically expensive housing costs. more choices now than our parents'generation. There's In a recent interview with The Tribune, a lot more room for mobility and different types of Kamenetz asserted that "never before have work. At the same time, there is increased competition," two incomes been required to maintain a Funeja notes. For every generation—Y included— the middle class lifestyle. Never before have a ma­ jority of college students (two thirds) graduat­ job market has its ups as well as its downs.

And yet, we are the only ones singing the soulful ed with student loan debt. That debt has dou­ lament of how much "it sucks to be me." bled over the past decade to $20,000. Never And what about Kamenetz? As a successful free­ before have credit cards and credit card debt lance journalist and Pulitzer Prize nominee living in been so widely available to students at the New York City, the twenty-six-year-old Yale graduate age of 18. Never before has bankruptcy been is currently engaged to a software engineer at Google. as common as divorce."

A qualified spokesperson for"generation debt"? It de­ There's no denying that paying off pends on what qualifies, these days, as debt. loans, finding a decent apartment and sav­ Martin andTulgan maintain that“as the economy ing up for retirement all at once is not an gains momentum, college campuses reported a 20 per easy endeavor. Jill Andresky Fraser, finan­ cent increase in on-campus recruiting in 2005 after a cial journalist and author of White-Collar 5 per cent increase in 2004 ...Things are looking up for Sweatshop, now a commonly used term to Gen Y talent." describe the economic woes of the edu­ McGill students agree. "I'm feeling pretty optimis­ cated working class, maintains that aspiring tic about saving up some money in order to do what­ college graduates are bound to enter a ever I plan to do,”says Minoru Nakano, U3 biochemistry. workforce that is stressful, dehumanizing "I feel that as long as I have an adequate education, I and beset by long hours. "It seems that, in comparison should be qualified [to enter the workforce]."* to previous generations, there is a lot more emphasis

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CHEZ CORA Where &When: 3465 Ave. du Parc. Breakfast served seven days a week: 6 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday - Saturday; 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday.

Where & When: 220 Milton Ave. Breakfast served seven days a week: 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday and Sunday; 8 ;a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Monday to Friday.

History: Founder Cora MusselyTsouflidou bought her first breakfast shack (a former snack bar) in Ville St. Laurent in 1987. Now dubbed the "Queen of Quebec Restaurants," Cora has since transformed that small restaurant into a burgeoning business fran­ chise with 90 restaurants across Canada. Specifically, the Chez Cora on Parc has been open for five years and has been popular since its opening.

History: Established 44 years ago, this charming little res­ taurant is a Ghetto staple and is still owned by the same family. As co-owner Nick Arniotis attests, “It was passed from my father to my mother and from my mother to me." Co-owner Suzie Eu­ genio bought into the busi­ ness in 1998 and after almost five decades of service, Place Milton— due to Arniotis and Eugenio's hard work— has managed to retain its origi­ nal appeal.

Atmosphere: Quaint and — “ NADINE LESSARD cozy. The restaurant's unas­ suming exterior is indicative of its welcoming environment; it feels like a family restaurant through and through.

Service: Speedy and efficient. Servers are incredibly friendly and some have worked there for years. Expect a (maximum) 15 minute wait for brunch seating on the weekends, but even on a busy Saturday morning you can expect your meals quite quickly.

Food: Relatively inexpensive.Their eggs are delicious, as are the choco­ late-banana crepes and the Place Milton omelette. Also, the menu has loads of breakfast combo options and the servings are quite large.

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Atmosphere: Chez Cora NADINE LESSARD restaurants are known for their colourful décor and playful, child-like drawings on walls and menus.

Service: Although servers are usually quite friendly, meals often take a considerable amount of time. Expect a lengthy wait for a brunch seat ing; weary-eyed, eager McGill students can be seen loitering in the long lineup which dwindles down Parc each weekend morning.

Food: Notorious for its tasty crepes— the Spinach-Cheddar, or Straw­ berry Chocolate-Hazelnut crepes are incredible. Yet, although serv­ ings are massive (you can feel an added pound as you waltz out the door), food is more expensive here.

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lAmMyOwn VV/fefollows the unconventional lifeofa 19th-century drag queen.

Charlotte von Mahlsdorf (Brett Christopher) doesn't look like a drag queen. Dressed in simple black clothes and a string of pearls, she does not seem like a transvestite who survived openly as a cross-dresser since the age of 16, in Germany, under the Third Reich and Communist regimes.

But she did.

Von Mahlsdorf also created the Griinderzeit Museum, which was set up like a functional home from the 1890s to display furniture that she had gathered from looted houses. She also recreated a Weimar-era carabet that she rescued, piece be piece, from demolition. Using blackpainted windows to keep police from seeing in, she suc­ cessfully ran the gay bar out of her basement for years.

Described in her government file as "too easily distracted by old furniture," her story develops as Doug Wright (both the writer of and a character in / Am My Own Wife) spends several years interviewing her after becoming interested in her as a cultural icon, gay history icon and antique collector. It is told as a documentary.

"I'd been interested in the play as a documentary for a while, and this is a play that evolves into that genre... I found [Charlotte] very in­ teresting and there was something inherently theatrical about her per­ sona," says Director Chris Abraham.

The set is minimalist— with a table, two chairs, a cupboard, a Von M ah lsd o rf kept gramophones and a door in the middle, the varied locations and situations that Chris's characters find themselves in are mostly hinted at through clever lighting and sound effects that add to, rather than overpower, the performance. In keeping with-its docu­ mentary style, titles appear on a sign above the stage.

There are 44 characters in IAm MyOwn Wife and Chris­ topher plays them all, including Charlotte, Wright, various military personnel, a talk-show host, a group of reporters at a press-conference and an answering machine. Both funny and schizophrenic, while for the most part it is easy to tell who is talking to whom, at times the dialogue seems overdone. On the other hand, try talking to yourself for an hour and a half without being completely ridiculous.

At its centre, the play is about decisions. "It's a fairly unflinching and realistic examination of the choices that

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The play stays a pseudo-documentary to the end. It shows the hardships that Charlotte faced and her reac­ tions to them. It is at once about a transvestite who pre­ served a gay bar during an extremely repressive era, a gay playwright who puts an icon on a pedestal and can't decide whether or not he's been disillusioned and a child outsmarting the S.S. Unfortunately, despite a promising beginning and an entertaining middle, the play falls flat with an epilogue

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that acts as a washed-out, tacked-on ending offering no real conclusion at all. This is tolerable enough, however, as he delivers the epilogue, Christopher (at this point ap­ parently not in character) begins to decostume. Instead.of being symbolic, it makes the epilogue seem improvised, a | sudden accidental impulse of actor to audience and the subsequent on-the-spot end-tying makes for an unsatisfy- ] ing finale.

Entertaining, engaging and eccentric, with high-en- | ergy dialogue and constant contradictions, / Am My Own Wife is a touching story about.furniture and love - just don't feel obligated to stay for the epilogue. ■

Emily G ennis You'd have to be a pretty in­ tense person to write a movie about nun chuck-flinging turtles and make it too serious. Unfortunately, that was Kevin Munroe's problem when he wrote TMNT, the latest film based on Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird's comic book series about teenage mutant ninja turtles. The film focuses too much on the inner turmoil that is driving the family of turtles apart and not enough on the wisecracks and high jinks that made the comic and the cartoon series so popular.

The original TMNT comic was a parody Of others in which mutants and ninjas battled to the death to de­ cide the fate of the world. Ironically, writer-director Kevin Munroe has turned TMNT into the very thing it used to ridicule.

After a sombre introductory narration by Laurence Fishburne (The Matrix), the film opens in presentday Central America where one of the turtles, Leonardo (James Arnold Taylor), has been perfecting his ninja skills. After Leonardo's friend, April (Sarah Michelle Gellar) convinces him that his brothers need his guidance, he returns home to New York.

One of the major plotlines is the conflict that emerges when Leonardo discovers that his third brother, Rap­ hael (Nolan North), has been acting as the vigilante 'Nightwatcher'to en­ force justice in his brother's absence.

In an excessively intense scene, a fight erupts between the two brothers to determine who is the stronger ninja.

As they battle on a rooftop in the pouring rain, the contrast between the TMNTs light-hearted roots and its latest incarnation is at its peak.

Adding to the tense atmos­ phere of the film are some rather un­ pleasant graphics. The film's anima­ tion makes the audience feel like they are in a video game. Kids may enjoy the characters' distorted bodily fea­ tures, but most people will find the huge chins and angular physiques distracting.

Thankfully, after fhe fight be­ tween Raphael and Leonardo, the film takes on a happier mood. Some of the funniest scenes involve Master Splinter (the late Mako Iwamatsu), the turtles' facetious sensei who is a giant mutant rat. Michelangelo also provides his share of comic relief. As the turtles are approaching a vortex that leads to another dimension, he comments "I want one."

Kevin Munroe clearly has the comedic talent to come up with funny concepts and cute dialogue.

So one has to wonder why he didn't put more of that in this film. TMNT should have been a comedy with dra­ matic bits of action in between the wisecracks. Instead, it was a dramatic action movie (albeit, a cartoon) with bits of comic relief. ■ TMNT hits theatres March 23.

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Directing projects take homegrown talent to centre stage When it comes to year-end projects, drama students work just as hard as the rest of us, only they have more fun than we do...and we're invited! This Tuesday marks the opening night of the 2007 English department's Directing Projects, a series of 12 one-act plays hand-picked and hand-crafted by your peers in the upper year directing class. Students looking to broaden their cultural horizons without going broke can take in two to three pieces at a time, for a mere $5 a head. Professor Myrna Wyatt Sel­ kirk has overseen this festival for over 10 years and promises that her students bring "all sorts of fabulous energy" to their work.

"If you have an audience of your peers...there's an energy, care and focus that comes along with that. The stakes are very high," Wyatt Selkirk explains. The Morrice Hall rotunda offers a charming and intimate venue for the shows and technical direc­ tor, U3 student Katie McMillan, assures that students "have done some really amazing things in such a small space". Here is a look at this week's offerings, the first half of the festival.

My Own Private Oshawa Loosely inspired by the nineties cult movie My Own Private Idaho, the play explores a young man's coming of age in the suburbs and his journey of self-discovery through "friendship, memory and public transit."

The show is the semi-autobiographical tale of playwright Jonathan Wilson's childhood in blue-collar Oshawa.Told in flash­ backs, the play focuses on teenage Jonathan's struggle with feel­ ings of insecurity and confusion about his sexuality. His friend­ ship with a flamboyantly gay boy leads him to an affirmation of his own identity. The result is a poignant, entertaining tale that many teenagers and young adults can relate to.

Hidden In This Picture Many are familiar with Aaron Sorkin, Emmy-award-winning screenwriter behind The West Wing and A Few Good Men, but not as a playwright. Hidden in This Picture is one of his first works.

On a movie set in upstate New York, a writer, director, pro­ ducer and production assistant are involved in filming a movie about disillusioned marines in Guam. Chaos ensues when three cows wander on to the set, sparking a discussion on the realistic presence of cows in Guam, the ethical problem of shooting the

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offending creatures and the very meaning of art. Robert, the di­ rector and Jeff, the writer begin to question their relationship and their work as the sun slowly sets on the problem-plagued final scene of their movie.

Directed by Katie McMillan and starring Murteza Khan, the story plays out with Sorkin's typically light-handed approach to heavy topics. "In comedy, I find that the audience often laughs more at characters they can identify with," McMillan explains, "So it was important to create three-dimension­ al, motivated characters."

and killed. Played by a rotating cast of four actresses, the charac­ ter struggles to cope with the loss of her child and with the re­ venge she carries out afterwards. It is a disturbing look at a cycle of abuse and violence in one woman's life, reflecting the brutality overwhelmingly present in modern society.The thought-provok­ ing drama, which plays out mainly in monologues, eerily retells and reshapes classic fairy tales, weaving together a chilling story.

Men Have Heads In Mahmoud Diyab's short comedynoir, the protagonist is at least one card Through Blue short of a deck these days: Searching A tale of human bonding... in 21 sec­ frantically first for a missing Jack and then onds. Jacques, a sky-diving instructor meets for the head of the decapitated corpse a woman named Steven, who shares his that has mysteriously been delivered to lover's name. He attempts to save her life as his home, a frustrated Egyptian business they free fall towards earth. The play is by man finds that he has lost both the re­ Canadian playwright Sarah Stanley. spect of his wife and his own ability to This thought-provoking, whimisical think. Over the course of 60 minutes, piece is definitely worth checking out. man and wife enact an entertaining and sometimes frightening personal power Never Swim Alone struggle, fueled by a search for signifi­ This comedy poses questions about cance and influence in society as well as the culture of modern masculinity, arranged in both their own and each other's eyes. as a boxing match between two men. It is In a convincing first stage performance, funny but probing, questioning the societal Erin King's calmly patronizing wife is an standards of what makes a man - is it physi­ often hilarious foil to her high strung, anal cal strength, yearly income, number of ex­ retentive husband, played with exaggera­ tramarital affairs? Presiding over this battle tive grace by Eric Weiss. Your laughter will LEETIPTON royale is a girl in a swimsuit who becomes T h ro u g h B lu e d issects life in a flash. grease the uncertain transitions between implicated in their competition when, in allegorical and actual implications of the the course of the action, a tragic story from their past emerges. couples' predicament. Director Carla Sousa lets the play speak This surreal, postmodern work is infused with humour and ridicu­ for itself, Sousa hails the piece for its accessibility, saying, "I think lous antics, but the play also has a dark side that will leave the [the play] is valuable because it's not something we get to see audience wondering whether to laugh or to cry. often. Even renting an Egyptian movie in Montreal is nearly im­ possible!". ■ This is For You, Anna Exploring the psychological mechanisms of violence and —Compiled by HeatherAnderson, Judah Issa and LizMcLaughlin revenge, this drama centers upoh the true story of Marianne Bachmeier, a woman whose young daughter has been molested Check www.mcgilltribune.com for showtimes.

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Adam Sandler's powerful dramatic turn B en L emieux It seems like no one takes Adam Sandler seriously.

Although he has starred in seven $ioo-million grossing movies, he is often dismissed as a doofus. Naturally, the same people whose high-brow pretensions led them to discredit Sandler's extensive body of work chose to boy­ cott his first "serious role" in P.T. Anderson's Punch-Drunk Love, which grossed a meagre $i7-million at the domestic box office and also happened to be one of the best films made on this side of the 21st century. Similarly vexing was Columbia Pictures'decision to push Sandler's latest film, Reign Over Me, from a Dec. i release to late March in fa­ vour of releasing Will Smith's charming but trite Pursuit of Happyness in Oscar— friendly waters. It is a true pity that no one gives any credence to Sandler's dramatic pursuits, given that both his performances and project choices are nothing short of impeccable.

Reign Over Me writer/director Mike Binder's most sig­ nificant work is a simple yet resounding picture and cer­ tainly the most momentous 9/11-themed film to date. Alan Johnson (played by the always marvelous Don Cheadle) is a successful dentist and family man who's hit a slump in his personal and professional life. His wife Jeanine (Jada Pinkett-Smith) is loving and affectionate, but has Alan on a short leash, while his business partners take advantage of his non-confrontational attitude. Cruising around the neighborhood one day, Alan bumps into a disheveled and distraught Charlie Fineman (Sandler), his old col­ lege roommate who's been unreachable since he lost his wife and three daughters in a "plane crash."Though the words "nine-eleven" are never uttered in the film, it is later made clear this is a reference to either American Flight 11 or .United Flight 175. Charlie seems to be suffering from a post-traumatic stress disorder that has caused him to regress to a child-like state, living only in the now, escap­ ing into the fantasy worlds of video games and refusing to acknowledge what has happened to his life ordeal with his grief. The rest of the film sees Alan trying to help his old friend get his life back together.

Despite the fact that we've all seen this film (or some comparable permutation of the narrative) a hundred times, Reign Over Me stays sharp and fresh thanks to nuanced performances and Binder's mature script and ca­ pable direction. The romance angle— involving Alan and Jeanine's blah marriage and Charlie's fixation with the "too good-looking" Donna (Saffron Burrows)— is kept to a functional minimum; the film's epicentre is the relation­ ship between the two old friends and this is the way it should be. The exchanges between Cheadle and Sandler strike a fine balance between humour, frustration and emotional intimacy; Binder's screenplay is unpretentious, deeply human and remarkably funny throughout.

Sandler's performance is nothing short of stagger­ ing. His oft-overused eccentric, funnyman antics, besides being genuinely hysterical here, are a perfect match for Charlie's child-like persona. Yet Sandler exercises enough maturity to stop short of overdoing it. He creates a char­ acter pitiable and lovable enough to embrace immedi­ ately, yet frustrating and disturbed enough to make one reconsider that embrace (as Alan frequently does during the film). His every emotional turn is credible and the film takes the necessary time to let this story run its course, as opposed to wrapping things up in a tidy hour-and-a-half and showing Charlie magically nursed back to full health.

It could be said that the third lead in this film is the city of New York itself. Rather than showing audiences the Midtown tourist spots they've grown accustomed to watching onscreen, Binder has Charlie coasting on a scooter down the side streets, past the small clubs and niche spots of Manhattan, a city for which the director clearly has great affection. Binder also offers a few brief, haunting glimpses into Charlie's family life pre-9/11, per­ haps hinting allegorically that the city, like his main char­ acter, has never fully recovered from the impact of this tragedy.

Simple, engaging and profoundly moving, Reign Over Me is this year's first great film. ■ Reign Over Me opens today.

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Theatre. The Merchant of Venice, March 28 to April 7 at 8 p.m.; Moyse Hall (853 Sherbrooke W.). Shakespeare's most contro­ versial play is going to be performed at McGill. The produc­ tion will combine contemporary elements with the Italian Renaissance in costumes, make-up and movement.The clas­ sic tale centres on themes of power, risk, prejudice, revenge and the lack of mercy and justice. McGill performers have been working closely with the Shakespeare and Performance Research Team to come up with this great rendition of the famous play. Tickets are $10 for adults and $5 for students, seniors and groups.

Theatre. Heaven, March 14 to 25; Mainline Theatre (3997 SaintLaurent). George F. Walker is one of Canada's most prolific playwrights, and is recognized as one of the most widely pro­ duced Canadian dramatists both in Canada and internation­ ally. His most recent play, Heaven, focuses on multicultural characters. They play out their coincidental relationships in a park on the outskirts of a city. Tickets are $15.

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Favoured Martlets tripped up by Albertan collegiate dynasty continued from COVER the first strike and with Alberta dominating the run of play, Labonté was again victimized as the Pandas'Leah Copeland fired in a low wrist shot to the stick side.

McGill did manage to slightly regroup after the second shock, but the damage was already done. The Martlets, usually a high-octane offensive machine and owners of a lethal powerplay unit, could not find the back of the net against Alberta's standout goaltender, HollyTarleton. McGill was plagued with bad luck, however, as on one of its four unsuccessful power-plays, a crossbar was hit and two point shots trickled through the goalie's legs and just slightly past the far post.

Still fighting for a goal to halve Alberta's lead, the Martlets were again demoralized by a Panda strike midway through the frame. Again, defenceman Merrifield was victimized as she was caught lunging for the puck, sending her out of position and al­ lowing sniper Jenna Barker to fire a wrister into the roof of the net putting the game out of McGill's reach. Although the game seemed mostly even, McGill was being out shot 16-11 over the first two periods and were constantly frustrated by Alberta's im­ pressive shot-blocking efforts.

McGill, never truly tested by an equal opponent this season, came out for the third period seemingly without the desperation needed from a team with its back against the wall. The lack of

experience in trying to mount a comeback under dire circum­ stances was evident on the ice, as the Martlets constantly turned pucks over, and on the bench where a stunned McGill team and staff looked utterly dejected. Unable to generate any momentum with two third period power-plays and after a retracted Martlet goal due to a kicking motion, Alberta finally put dowm the strug­ gling Red'n'White. With 1:40 left, the Pandas slipped the puck into McGill empty net, icing the game. After the game, Head Coach Peter Smith could not be reached for commment.

Special teams key The first game of the round-robin portion of the tournament pitted the Martlets against'the sixth-ranked University of Mani­ toba Bisons from the Canada West conference as both squads looked to gain a crucial game one victory. Being totally unfamiliar with one another, both sides spent much of the period simply feeling out their opponent's game plan and trying to establish pace and tempo.

"I thought we played nervous in the first period,"Smith said.

"The girls were very anxious in the room before; you could tell they were energetic but nervous. Manitoba played us very well though. They're a gritty team and worked hard and we had to earn every opportunity we got. The first was pretty even with little flow to it."

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The deadlock was broken with less than two minutes left in the opening period as McGill's defensive spark plug, Catherine Ward, picked up the puck on the penalty kill and skated end-toend, slotting home a snap shot past Bison goalie Stacey Corfield.

The goal, the Martlets'16th short-handed marker of the season at the time, swung the momentum in McGill's favour.

"The first shorthanded goal was just huge," Smith said. "A shorty is always such a momentum-builder for the team that scores it and such a momentum destroyer for the team that lets it up, especially in that kind of a situation."

While McGill only out-shot Manitoba 16-15, Captain Shauna Denis managed to score the winner eight minutes into the sec­ ond period. Denis's marker, a result of a heavy fore-check, was McGill's second shorthanded goal of the game.

In the third period, forward Kate Elzinga found the twine on the power-play, putting the Martlets up 3-0 and the game out of reach. Although Labonté's shutout bid was broken by Manitoba's Stephanie Messner, McGill was able to grab the goal back as Brit­ tany Privée scored midway through the third.

"We had a slow start to the game but as the game went along, we really picked it up," Smith said. "In the third period we had great jump and that was the best part. We certainly didn't dominate the game though."

With the win in their first game, the Martlets gained a bye to Sunday, affording the team an always needed day off to prepare for the Moncton Aigles Bleus.

Moncton blown away While Manitoba had proved to be a bit of a struggle, McGill had clearly shaken off any butterflies by game two. The Martlets skated Moncton off the ice with an impressive 8-0 performance.

Leading scorer Vanessa Davidson opened the scoring only six minutes in, as McGill quickly asserted its dominance, ending the frame with a 3-0 lead. Davidson would add another over the course of the game, Hartnoll and Alyssa Cecere would chip in with two goals each and Ward and Caroline Hill rounded out the scoring for the Martlets.

"We expended so much nervous energy last game," Smith said. "Tonight the energy was much more focused on the task at hand and the team really played well. We got back to our usual, confident, fast-paced team."

McGill outshot the overmatched Aigles Bleus 39-21, went 3-for-i3 on the power-play and added yet another shorthanded goal. With the drubbing, McGill advanced to the CIS national fi­ **» ** < nals where it fell to the Canada West and eventual national cham­ ; pion from Edmonton.

Although unable to realize on their high expectations or ultimately validate a season-long top-ranking, the Martlets will remain a force in the 2007-2008 campaign. With 17 returnees and yet another bitter motivational memory to drive fresh champion­ NAOMI BRODKEY ship hopes, the female Red 'n'Whites will look to avenge a disap­ pointing end to a phenomenal season. ■

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ll-star Cleveland Indians catcher Ray Fosse found out the hard way; bookies and Vegas found out the lucrative way; the media and fans are finding out the perplexing way— Pete Rose just can't stop himself. Whether it's sprinting to the next base, gambling on sports or confessing his sins to astonished one-time admirers, Rose's inability to find the off-switch has landed the baseball legend in yet another vat of hot water.

Appearing on ESPN Radio's The Dan Patrick Show last Wednesday, good ol' Charlie Hustle came clean— for a third time. In the interview, Rose reiterated the fact that he had in­ deed bet in the 1980s not only on sports in general and not simply on MLB but on his own Cincinnati Reds, the team he was managing at the time and had excelled for during his il­ lustrious career. Rose really claimed that he had wagered on the Big Red Machine "every night" but was adamant in his claim that "I bet on my team to win every night because I love my team"and “I did everything in my power every night to win that game."

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on games involving your own team. In return for MLB's drop­ ping of any further investigation into the gambling charges, the iconic ballplayer agreed to a voluntary and permanent banishment from baseball, thereby barring his induction into the Hall of Fame. However, within the agreement as well as on numerous occassions afterwards, Rose never explicitly admit­ ted to gambling on baseball, let alone the Reds. As such, de­ spite the damning proof of his guilt and his violation of base­ ball's premier unwritten rule, Charlie Hustle has remained an empathetic figure within many baseball circles, even among educated sports journalists and historians. Fans remember him as the lovable, old school baseball player who played the game in its proper, no-holds barred style— few can forget the standing ovation at the 1999 World Series when he was an­ nounced as a part of baseball's All-Century Team. For many, Rose represented the passion and intensity which is so desired from today's overpriced, seemingly uninspired crop of talent.

Rose, however, has duped us long enough. It is time for us to snip the umbilical cord and let this scum bag loose once and for all. It is more than likely that Rose bet against his team— the most revolting act possible. First, Rose claimed

he never bet on sports. Later, he admitted to gambling on sporting events, but never baseball— the chief reason he was suspended from the MLB for life. In his most recent book, most likely trying to drum up interest, Hustle finally confessed that he bet on baseball specifically but denied ever wagering on his Reds. Now, Rose claims that he bet on the Reds every game, ensuring his full, proper effort managing the club. But of course he never ever bet against his beloved Reds. Does anyone else see a pattern here? At every stage, Rose has ad­ mitted to the last thing he denied— it's only logical that bet­ ting against his own team is just over the next hill.

I used to support Rose's cause. I advocated for his inclu­ sion in Cooperstown as the greatest hitter baseball had ever witnessed; after all, the Hall is for on-field achievements irre­ spective of off-field troubles. I can even understand a pro ath­ lete gambling on sports— they are human too. But Rose has proven that he is a pox upon baseball— his lies, his complete disregard for his sins and his clear contempt for the sports "code"should ensure his eternal place at the bottom of base­ ball's historical trash bin. Maybe he can find a winning horse racing stub down there. ■ -

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Rookie to represent Canada at World Cup for the Canadian under-17 team, when C harlie B lore he surprised scouts and himself alike by making the side in his first attempt.

Usually, luring a member ofTeam "I was always into track; my dad Canada to join McGill and its athletic was big into track and I liked it," Buckley program is a long and difficult process. said. "I just decided one spring to play The fact that the university makes a [rugby] for the school and it's some­ policy of not offering scholarships or thing I just picked up quick and I really reducing eligibility requirements for loved it." athletes can make recruiting top tal­ The Toronto native and Crescent ents a chore.

School grad arrived on the university Then again, sometimes you just circuit with a bang, scoring five majors get lucky. in his first two games in a red and white "I didn't tell the coach I was com­ uniform. Clearly, the adjustment to the ing, I just sort of showed up," said ranks of the CIS wasn't a difficult one. winger Kyle Buckley, who was recent­ "There's a lot more time to go to the ly selected to the Canadian under-19 gym and you can focus more on what World Cup rugby team. "I didn't want you're doing," Buckley said. "You can re­ to go in expecting to get it. I wanted ally make it what you want to make it. I to earn the spot not for what I did really like it because it allows me to train but for what I've shown, so I thought more and take it more seriously, espe­ that was a good way to do it. I chose C O U R T E S Y M C G IL L A T H L E T IC S cially for the Team Canada training that McGill for academic reasons; I really like I was just doing." the program I am in, it's one of the best That training seems to have paid off, as Buckley will programs I got into," said the U1 international business be joining the national team when it travels to Belfast, student.

Northern Ireland, for the International Rugby Board's And no one is happier about that than the Redmen under-19 World Championship, which runs from March Rugby program, which saw immediate results from its 31 to April 22. After becoming the only player from the newest member. In his freshman year, Buckley led his new team in scoring with nine tries in just 10 games— includ­ Quebec region to earn a spot on the team, Buckley has al­ ready set himself a new goal: to make the national sevens ing two in the QSSF semi-final game— before having to team— a development program in which players play a sit out the Quebec Championship game with an injury. hybrid seven-man style of rugby rather than the tradi­ "He came into training camp as a rookie and it was obvious right from the start that he had individual skills tional 15-man game. Playing for the sevens could serve that are just natural," said Redmen head coach Sean Mc­ as a launching pad to the full national squad or even a professional career in rugby.

Caffrey. "He has good speed and it was obvious right from "I imagine what's going to happen with Kyle is he's the get-go that he was arriving at camp far better skillgoing to mature a lot and understand more how to man­ wise than a lot of first year students are. When he has the age a game of rugby and how to manage the emotions ball in his hands, he's a very capable scorer." that come along with it," said McCaffrey of what he ex­ pects Buckley will learn from his venture abroad."So over­ Quick study all, it's going to be a great experience for him."

Though Buckley only picked up the game in high The team will play two exhibition games against school, he was a natural, earning an invite to the On­ tario provincial squad in his first year of competition. It English sides from Welbeck College and Loughborough University before kicking off the tournament where they was while playing on that team in the under-16 national will be seeded in Group B with Zimbabwe, Russia and Ro­ championships that the 5'n", 190 pound winger caught mania. ■ the eye of national team scouts. He was invited to try out

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I think we're all familiar with the joke in one form or another— the letters NFL stand for the National Felony League. Hardyhar-har. That's right, the NFL has a problem with its players. Or more precisely, a number of NFL players have a problem with the law: they don't seem to like abiding by it. Scan the headlines on a sports Web site orTSN's ticker and you'll find that the NBA's ath­ letes have the same problem— they are spending most of their time off the court in court.

Look at the Cincinnati Bengals. Playing for them doesn't mean you need to wear stripes all the time, but you wouldn't know it from the way they've been acting lately. Nine different members of the Bengals were arrested over the last two sea­ sons. Chris Henry, one of the team's talented receivers, has been booked four times in the past 16 months and recently spent a couple of nights in jail. His coach, Marvin Lewis, spoke of Henry needing to "mature as a person." Don't bet on him changing his... uh.. .stripes, anytime soon.

Not to be outdone, Titans cornerbaçk Adam "Pacman" Jones has been arrested 10 times since he was drafted in 2005— eas­ ily surpassing his career interception total. Even when he doesn't get booked, Pacman has a penchant for being in the thick of drug deals, gang warfare or worse. The Las Vegas police still consider him a "person of interest" in a strip club shooting during the NBA All-Star weekend.

Speaking of which, ah yes, the NBA. The list of recent trans­ gressors is topped by the notorious Ron Artest, whose wife was apparently the recipient of physical abuse as many as six times before criminal charges were laid earlier this month. Can anyone say they are surprised that Artest doesn't just reserve that kind of behaviour for fans at The Palace of Auburn Hills?

Of course, I'm just trying to be thorough— I know that you don't need me to detail the rap sheets of professional athletes.

Chances are good that the media has brought the problem to your attention. Open a newspaper and there are reports of a veri­ table crime spree not in the front section but in the sports pages.

And it's not just the news; the sports columns are jam-packed with Chicken Littles, too.

So who is sounding the alarm? Those who view the descent of professional athletes into drug and violence-filled subcultures as an allegory for the plight of young black men, that's who. After the recent descriptions of the chaotic events surrounding th e .

NBA All-Star game in Vegas ("lawlessness on the streets," as one reporter described it), sports pundits Scoop Jackson, Jason Whit­ lock and David Aldridge, among others, were quite eager to let race into the discussion. Whitlock, an African-American himself, blamed"Hip-Hop culture,"and its association of thugs he calls the "Black KKK." I think it's time we all calmed down.

As crass as it may sound, I am more disturbed by the out­ rage than by the crimes. Like all instances of crime waves, the perceptions of them are more problematic than the realities. In 1999, Alfred Blumstein and Jeff Benedict published a study on violent crimes among NFL players. Their findings? The rate of vio­ lent crime among NFLers is lower than that of males of the same age and race from the general population. Richard Lapchick of the University of Central Florida, who for a decade has run the numbers on athletes'clashes with the law, disputes that there is a pattern of players committing crimes. In an interview with the Associated Press, he concluded, "There are some athletes who definitely have a problem; but athletes are not the problem."

As trendy as guns, drugs and bitches may be for these mis­ guided players, responding with articles about arraigned ath­ letes is just as en vogue for journalists. They should realize that the ruination of society and its values isn't happening before our eyes, despite the fact that these role models are setting terrible examples.

When an athlete is arrested, it challenges our perceptions that blue collar and street crimes are perpetrated by blue collars and street criminals.Thinking that crime is linked to poverty and disadvantage insulates us from the realities of a society that con­ tains crime. Conversely, multimillionaire athletes who are con­ victed for firearm or drug offences bother us because people on easy street are choosing the hard life. Wealthy people, too, make foolish decisions without considering the consequences. And considering the studies, they do it at rates that aren't particularly alarming. When Charles Barkley asserted that athletes shouldn't be role models, he was wrong. Athletes— black or white— are role models. But that doesn't mean they need to be metaphors, too. ■

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Favourites abound as bracket-busters fall by the wayside M idwest— Florida vs. Butler, UNLV vs. Oregon

Florida and Oregon are the obvious choices to move into the Elite Eight from these match-ups. The Gators are the defend­ ing champions and return a trio of seemingly NBA-ready starters from last season in PF Joakim Noah, G Taurean Green and C Al Horford. Butler did well to avoid what would have been a clas­ sic 12-5 upset in the first round and pulled out a big win against Maryland. But AJ. Graves and company are in way over their heads against arguably the best team in the tournament. All the luck in the world isn't going to save them from a double digit beating in this one.

Oregon, meanwhile, got away from their game in the first round and it almost cost them when Miami of Ohio made a late push. They bounced back with a convincing win over upstart Winthrop on Saturday. UNLV surprised everyone by handily beat­ ing second-seeded Wisconsin to advance to the Sweet 16. The Rebels boast a senior laden squad and a balanced attack but will need to play good defence if they hope to stop the Ducks from raining down threes.

Regardless of who comes out on top in the Oregon - UNLV game, they will be hard pressed to stop Florida. The Gators just have too much talent and experience at too many positions to be stopped by either of these schools.

—Charlie Blore W est— Kansas vs. Southern Illinois, Pitt vs. UCLA

Kansas can be as dominant a squad as any when it gets hot. The Jayhawks pummelled Niagara and then easily took care of a good team from Kentucky. They also have by far and away the most balanced attack of any team in the tournament: in beating Niagara 107-67, the Jayhawks leading scorer had just 19 points. That being said, Kansas also has loads of high-end talent in guards Mario Chalmers and Brandon Rush, as well as forward Julian Wright— each of whom could single-handedly win games if need be. Southern Illinois will be no pushover though.Thé Salu­ kis are big and play excellent defence— holding Virginia Tech and Holy Cross to 48 and 51 points respectively. Nonetheless, they will

be hard pressed to shutdown the eight-headed monster from Kansas.

UCLA won't blow teams out of the water and that's prob­ ably the only knock on them. The Bruins play sound defense and get just enough scoring from the solid backcourt play of Arron Afflalo and Darren Collison.They also have experience and good coaching on their side. Pittsburgh should give them a real stiff test. The Panthers can rely on C Aaron Gray to be a force down low and some pretty good perimeter players to chip in as well.

Still, it would be a surprise if Kansas and UCLA don't hook up in the Western regional final.

If and when they do, it will be a beauty. Offence against de­ fence and whereas in other sports defence is known to win cham­ pionships, that's not necessarily the case in NCAA Basketball. Kan­ sas is the better team on paper and UCLA will have to shoot the ball well if they want to go to Atlanta for the Final Four.

—CB South— Ohio State vs. Tennessee, Texas A&M vs. M emphis

Say what you will about Greg Oden, but the kid can play ball: He's all the presence a team could need in the post and he moves the ball well for a big man with a bum hand. The Buck­ eyes get solid play from the guards Ron Lewis and Mike Conley Jr. But Tennessee brings a ton of talent to their end of the floor, too. Guard Chris Lofton runs the show but his backcourt partner JaJuan Smith is a big-time player as well. The Volunteers looked dominant in giving Long Beach State the beating of their lives in the first round and followed that up with a tight win over a very good Virginia team. The difference maker in this one will be Oden, though, as Tennessee just doesn't have the big bodies to contain him.

Texas A&M has played a vefy difficult schedule this year and stiH managed to post a good record. The Aggies are led by Acie Law IV who's an absolute beast at the point. They stumbled a bit in the last weeks leading up to the tournament and that probably cost them a number two ranking. The book on Memphis prior to the tourney was that they were a paper tiger, having not been

seriously tested in Conference USA. The Tigers will have a chance to shut their critics up if they can beat the Aggies. Guard Chris Douglas-Roberts is the team's leading scorer and F Joey Dorsey gives them solid play near the glass. Memphis will need to bring their'A'game if they hope to knock off Law and company.

The Aggies should join the Buckeyes in the eight and if they do, anything can happen because Law can take over a game by himself. He may have to shoot the lights out though because Oden and Ohio State seem destined for a trip to Atlanta.

—CB East— UNC vs. USC, Georgetow n vs. Vanderbilt

The first of two East Regional semi-finals pits a North Caro­ lina team, who many believe can win it all against a Southern California squad that pulled off one of the tournament's biggest shockers. UNC easily dispatched Eastern Kentucky in the open­ ing round and followed that up with a 81-67 win over Michigan State led by all-American PF Tyler Hansbrough. USC, meanwhile, sent Arkansas home in the opening round, and shocked college basketball with an 87-68 win over phenom Kevin Durant and his Texas Longhorns. While Trojans' guard Nick Young has had a spectacular tournament thus far, look for the Tar Heels'superior talent and depth to be too much for L.A.'s other team.

The other semi has the Big East champs from Georgetown taking on a feisty Vanderbilt side that has already upset Florida in the regular season and Washington State in the tournament. The Commodores are led by SEC player of year Derrick Byars and will hope to continue playing the role of the spoiler. But a Hoyas'team led by Jeff Green and Roy Hibbert should be able to dispatch of an overmatched Vandy.

The final might turn out to be the best game of the regional finals. Both Georgetown and North Carolina are traditional pow­ erhouses and seem to be peaking at the right moment. However, give the edge to the Tar Heels. Their superior depth plus expe­ rienced coaching from Roy Williams should be enough to get them on to Atlanta and the Final Four.

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