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Silverman begins Obamania hits McGill undergrad union 3S A C f u n d i n g o f f i c e o n U n iv e r s it y S t r e e t T h o m a s Q u a il

Former Students' Society Vice-President External Max Silverman's unlergraduate labour union campaign went public last Thursday at activities light. Despite tense relations between the McGill administration and cam)us unions recently, Silverman believes that now is the time to act.

"This association is about protecting undergrads in the workplace. Eviryone we talk to agrees: this is something that needs to be done," Silvernan said.

The idea crystallized last March while Silverman was still in office. In his apacity as VP External, a few students approached him—two work-study tudents, one research assistant—with union plans.

Fortunately for them, Silverman had intended to work with the Public Service Alliance of Canada, a union, over the summer.

"It was a wonderful confluence of events," Silverman said.

After the students chose PSAC as their union, Silverman was then se­ eded as the liaison between PSAC and his nascent student union at McGill: he Association of McGill Undergraduate Student Employees.

PSAC is funding the operation by renting an office on University Street md covering additional costs.

Forming the union, however, will be difficult. According to Quebec la>our laws, work associations must obtain the names of 35 to 50 per cent

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With only a month remaining until Canada's federal elec­ tion, McGill's campus political groups were in full swing at last Thursday's activities night in an effort to recruit volunteers and sway potential voters. While the official election notice came as a surprise for most Canadians, political groups on campus were not startled by Prime Minister Stephen Harper's an­ nouncement.

"We weren't really surprised by the election call as there were a lot of rumours and signals that this would happen. It doesn't really change our plans by much but we'll definitely be out there organizing our volunteers, postering, and making our presence known," said Stephanie Chouliareas, Vice-Presi­

dent of Events at Liberal McGill.

Aleana Young, Co-President of NDP McGill, seemed the least surprised by the announcement of the impending elec­ tion, which will be held October 14.

"We were already in election mode since the summer which resulted in [NDP MP] Thomas Mulcair's win in Outremont—a former Liberal stronghold for over 70 years," Young said.

A by-election was scheduled to be held on September 8 in the Westmount—Ville-Marie riding, but was abruptly can­ celled with last week's call for a general election.

Representatives of campus political groups were also eager to voice plans for an inter-party debate to be held among student leaders during the lead-up to the election.

McGill students can expect plenty of controversial issues to be debated as representatives from these groups were already keen on discussing a number of relevant issues, including stu­ dent debt and the environment.

"Dion's Green Shift plan is good in theory but when you look at the specific details of the platform it just doesn't add up," said Chris Hunter, VP External of Conservative McGill.

The federal Liberal party has received considerable flak from other parties concerning its environmental platform, which seeks to balance a carbon tax with income-tax cuts. Ac­ cording to Olivier Coulombe, Director of Clubs at Young Liber­ als of Canada (Quebec), however, the Liberals aren't concerned

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Haven Books: Part III of III J ames G ilman & T heo M eyer

To mark the one year anniversary of Haven Books' reopening under Students' Society ownership, the Tribune is running a three-part investigation into the bookstore's controversial past, current status, and forseeable future.

Textbook sales will slow to an abrupt halt today with the end o f the undergraduate course change period. Following tw o weeks o f hectic activity for Haven Books, the Tribune's three-part series cul­ minates this week with an evaluation of the store's performance this year, and considerations for the future.

Students' Society's Vice-President Finance & Operations Tobias Silverstein said he was satisfied with the bookstore's performance this semester.

"I'm pretty happy with the way the bookstore's run so far,"he said. "We've been selling a lot o f books, and we've been helping a lot of people because of that and saving them money."

In addition, Silverstein lauded the hard work of new manager Raimi Marx. According to Silverstein, replacing the old manager has been the most sig­ nificant change made to the bookstore.

"Raimi's really on top o f everything," Silverstein said. "She's very organized and I'm happy with how she's been able to manage, because she came into a completely new operation to her.”

Another indication of Haven's success this school year has been the satisfaction of the teachers and students who have used it. Economics lecturer Mathieu Provencher, who ordered the textbook for his ECON 225: Economics of the Environment course through Haven, is one example.

"As far as I can tell with my students, it went well [and] they received good service," he said. “So far, I like my experience with Haven Books and I'm going to continue with them [for ECON 225]."

Provencher said he initially chose to use Haven mainly because o f their price—-it was about 10 to 15 per cent lower than the McGill Bookstore's. His deci­ sion to stay with the store in the future, however, was based on the congenial service.

Although Haven's detailed earning figures for this semester are not yet any available, the book­ store seems to be doing better than at this time last year.

But short-term successes will take Haven only so far. Whether or not the bookstore will prosper in the long run depends in large part upon the type of plan put forth now.

Silverstein said his main priority for this year is the establishment of an improved inventory system which would enable students to browse books on­ line as well as in the store.

"Right now, our first priority is an inventory system and inventory management” he said. "Once we get that under control, then we can look else­ where."

A new inventory system would replace the cur­ rent consignment software. SSMU currently pays royalties to the Carleton University Student Union for this software. The amount o f this fee is confiden­ tial.

While a new inventory system would give Haven an online presence, Silverstein is not planning to take the bookstore exclusively online as suggested by former VP Finance & Operations Imad Barake.

"Imad's plan . . . was to put [Haven] online," Sil­ verstein said. "That's a long term plan. This year, we really need to take the steps to institute that. Hope­ fully sometime at the end of this year, maybe next year, or sometime in the near future rather than the distant future, we could put the bookstore online."

Although Barake told the Tribune that put­ ting the bookstore online would save SSMU up to $80,000 in fixed costs, Silverstein argues that this scenario is impossible because SSMU would still need a place to store the books.

"Imad just sort of forgot about that little de­ tail," said Silverstein. "So if you're wondering about the $80,000 in fixed cost savings, that's not going to happen. But it is a good plan and it will make it more accessible to students. That's what we're looking for this year."

There are also plans to change Haven's name to further reflect its SSMU ownership.

Silverstein said that while a name change will occur this year, he is unsure what the new name will be, or when the change will take place.

SSMU also has no plans to relocate the book­ store from its current location on Aylmer Street, which Barake suggested in original plan for ssmubookstore.ca.

"We would still need another place to put the books, so we would have to sign a lease somewhere else. It's looking like it just makes more sense to stay in the physical location right now and deal with the lease later," Silverstein said.

Silverstein has taken steps to improve Haven this year with new management and increased or­ ders of textbooks. The bookstore's future remains uncertain, and there is no clear end in sight for Ha­ ven's financial troubles.

The three-year Haven saga has involved four dif­ ferent SSMU VP Finances. They negotiated the sale of SSMU's stake in the McGill University Bookstore, purchased an independent bookstore called Haven Books, created a plan to break the lease on Haven, and then abandoned that plan. SSMU's yearly exec­ utive turnover, and inability to plan far in advance, are the greatest threats to Haven's future. ■

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AMUSE to w ork on pay, contract disputes Quebec labour laws make union formation somewhat difficult

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of all workers on campus; these names are then sent to the Labour Relations Board. At that time, the association votes on whether to unionize. Silverman thinks a referendum, at the earliest, would be held in the spring. For now, AMUSE is collecting names.

Members of AMUSE say the campaign has little to do with pay. Their cursory goals revolve around support infra­ structure; guaranteed work contracts, a pay scale, and non­ casual work status.

"The biggest problem, without a union, is that there is absolutely no recourse,"Silverman said.

Without a guaranteed work contract, undergraduate employees can be fired at any time. In addition, if an employ­ ee were to have a problem regarding pay, there is no one to turn to.

"You're isolated and alone in the McGill machine," said Dave Schechter, a volunteer organizer with AMUSE. "If I were to have a problem, there's no structure to go to."

In addition, research assistants who have problematic work relationships with their professors end up foundering.

"There are awkward moments negotiating pay... with someone you have a relationship with— a relationship you want to cultivate because you'll be working with them aca­ demically," Schechter said.

According to U2 Kinesiology student Stephanie Palmer, an employee at the gym, their boss does not train new work­ ers, and reprimands them when something goes wrong.

"We show up for work on our first day and it is up to whomever we are working with to teach us everything, so there is lots of room for misinterpretation, and forgetting information. Then, we are reprimanded by our boss for not performing every task to his liking, when he's never trained us for the job in the first place," Palmer said in an e-mail to the Tribune.

Palmer said she would join an undergraduate labour union.

For the most part, however, undergraduate employees are happy with their working conditions. Sheri Clish, U2 Eng­ lish and McGill University Bookstore employee, enjoys the congenial atmosphere at work, even in peak times.

"Thus far, they've treated me very well. If you do your job properly, everyone's happy,"Clish said.

Schechter also said he has had great supervisors over three years.

"I've been really lucky; I've had a great experience. But while doing it, I could see how it could have turned sour. It was all based on the personal relationship," Schechter said.

The province of Quebec is far behind the rest of the country regarding undergraduate labour unions; the Univer­ sity of Quebec at Montreal has the only one in the province.

Legally, the university is not able to comment. AMUSE says the project is something the university should em­ brace.

"This is not a radical project... In theory the union makes [the administration's] job easier: more structure for workers, and a healthier relationship with their worker base. I don't see it as detrimental to McGill whatsoever,"Schechter said.

AMUSE is holding a general interest meeting in the Shatner ballroom at 4 p.m.today. ■

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Student vote could be pivotal Conservatives, Liberals, NDP organize on campus lo n tin u e d fro m COVER

ibout Conservative reach into Liberal ridings, especially in Quebec.

"They've gained maybe one or two seats but Quebec still remains a predominantly Bloc [Québécois] and Liberal stronghold,"Coulombe said.

Campus political groups were also planning appearances from party :andidates, including Westmount—Ville-Marie candidates Claude William jenest of the Green Party and Conservative Guy Dufort.

"We're currently in talks with Green Party leader Elizabeth May in order or her to speak on campus," said Danai Reynold, president of the McGill Green Party of Canada.

One of the new features of the upcoming election is the buzz surroundng the Green Party after gaining its first Member of Parliament in Ottawa. _ast week, public backlash also reinstated Green Party Leader Elizabeth May as a participant in the televised leaders'debates after major Canadian tews outlets and other partly leaders initially refused to yield.

"It's really exciting. It's really given us a lot of publicity and students are pecoming more aware of the party's work. The public outcry [over May's exclusion] really shows that there are people who are really interested in this party," Reynold said.

While one can expect a steady disagreement on issues between groups on campus, most of the campus reps agreed that it was equally important to have every McGill vote represented.

According to Chouliareas, much of the problem lies in misleading per­ ceptions of the voting procedure.

"A lot of McGill students think they can't vote because they're from an­ other province and one of our main priorities is to ensure that every McGill student knows where they can fill a ballot," she said.

"No matter what side of the coin you're on, the main goals here is to get everyone out to vote," Hunter said. ■

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Reclaim Your Campus kicks off with protest Alfaro's new campaign attempts to unite diverse campus groups T heo M eyer Approximately 8s McGill students and staff joined Stu­ dents'Society Vice-President External Devin Alfaro at the Rod­ dick Gates last Wednesday in a rally to launch Alfaro's new Reclaim Your Campus campaign. The campaign aims to unite undergraduates with groups such as the Association of Gradu­ ate Students Employed at McGill, the McGill University NonAcadamic Certified Association, and the Quebec Public Inter­ est Research Group to confront the McGill administration.

The rally kicked off at noon with several speeches pro­ jected from a large pair of portable speakers borrowed from CKUT Radio. AGSEM representative and chemistry teaching assistant Hari Darmawan was one of many speakers who an­ grily denounced McGill's administration.

"We believe we are victims of corporate attacks on the university," Darmawan said. "They look at us as workers that need to be squeezed as much as possible."

Alfaro's campaign has begun by listing five cursory de­ mands for the administration, the most visible of which on Wednesday was the call for an elected principal and board of governors. Other demands include a fair contract for MU-

NACA, a settlement for TA's who lost their non-union employ­ ment during last April's TA strike, reduced bureaucracy in booking space on campus, and respect for democratic deci­ sion-making.

According to Alfaro, the undergraduates and workers that the campaign seeks to unite are disproportionately affected by the university's underfunding.

"McGill's underfunded . . . but they're trying to pass the burden down as low as possible," Alfaro said. "Heather Munroe-Blum makes more than the prime minister."

MUNACA President Maria Ruocco, who led a sizeable MUNACA contingent at the rally, said the union's involvement in the campaign had, in large part, to do with respect.

"We want fairness and respect . . . respect is a very big word for all of us," she said.

At approximately 12:45 pm, the campaign's leaders began a march around the Redpath Museum to the James Adminis­ tration Building. Protesters walked to the tune of a four-piece band and carried protest signs with slogans such as "McGill Admin. Transparency Now," "Solidarity Across Campus," and "MUNACA: A Fair Contract is a New Beginning." The McGill martlet motif featured prominently on many signs.

The protest continued for another 30 minutes outside the

James Administration Building before winding down. Mic night Kitchen provided by-donation vegan lunches to a Ion line of protesters near the Ferrier Building.

The SSMU executive maintained a visible presence in th protest, with President Kay Turner, VP Internal Julia Webste and VP Clubs & Services Samantha Cook joining Alfaro.

Former VP External Max Silverman also attended the prc test, which he said was long overdue.

"It's something that's been necessary on campus for th past four or five years," Silverman said.

Silverman attended the protest in an effort to promot his new undergraduate labour union, the Association of McGi Undergraduate Students Employed at McGill.

The university had no immediate response to the derr onstration.

"It is certainly understandable that not everyone wi agree with everything the administration does," Deputy Pro vost (Student Life and Learning) Morton Mendelson said whei asked about the protest.

After the protest, both Alfaro and QPIRG co-coordinato Indu Vashist said that they thought it had gone well.

"It's definitely a good barometer for the mood on cam pus,"Vashist said. ■

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Twenty-two cases of listeriosis have been linked to contaminater cheese in Quebec following the initial Maple Leaf meat products outbreal last month. The Quebec Department of Agriculture, Fisheries, and Fooc (MAPAQ) has ordered thousands of kilograms of cheese produced by twc Quebec cheese companies, the Fromagerie Medard and Les Fromagerie d« la Table Ronde, to be immediately discarded.

Le Fromentier, a relatively new Montreal cheese store, was one of the cheese merchants forced to pull cheese off their shelves on September 6— which in Le Fromentier's case was as much as 325 kilograms. Oliver Laurin, i trainer at Le Fromentier, expressed concern with the plight cheese maker: might face following the inspections.

"Just imagine the losses that cheese stores, especially small ones, migh face," Laurin said. "Financial loss isn't the end of it—their reputation coulc easily be ruined."

Though cases of salmonella cheese contamination—where bactérie are passed from the feces of people or animals to other people or othei animals— break out every year, such large-scale preventive measures are rare. Joe Schwarcz, the director of McGill University's Office for Science anc Society, said the government overreacted to the issue.

"The government was thrown into such a panic in light of the listerio­ sis story," Schwarcz said. "Too much packaged cheese was discarded, anc [there's] no way was it all contaminated."

Indeed, health officials claim seven pregnant women, who were infect­ ed with listeriosis, have had premature births— one of them even lost hei baby altogether. Investigations are still underway as to whether or not the cases are linked to cheese contamination.

Cheesemongers were angry that MAPAQ threw away their cheese without contaminative evidence.

"I would rather they shut down the cheese store for a short period of time to carry out a thorough inspection" Laurin said.

Ian Picard, a master ripener at Le Fromagerie Hamel, expressed similar sentiments.

"The government is throwing Quebeckers into a state of panic. In Eu­ rope, where listeriosis is more prevalent, they never had cases where they had to throw out cheese that wasn't even inspected," Picard said.

Schwarcz suggested an alternative to the measures adopted byj MAPAQ. "The authorities could have confiscated suspicious products for in­ spection," Schwarcz said.

MAPAQ has not promised any compensation. Laurin said a collective might form to sign a petition, and file a lawsuit against the government.

The public's reception to the cheese recall has been largely apathetic.

Though business has slowed down at Le Fromagerie Hamel over the past few days, it seems Quebeckers are too fond of cheese to eat less of it. ■

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Zhancellor Pound praises Beijing Olympics O C m e m b e r c it e s b e n e f ic i a l e f f e c t o f t h e G a m e s o n C h in a S ean W ood McGill Chancellor and International lympic Committee member Richard und spoke Tuesday at McGill about the ipact of the Beijing Olympics on China, und, who served as the vice president of le IOC for eight years, offered an insider's ew of how the Games were awarded to eijing, their execution, and their signifince.

The focus of his talk was the relationlip between sport and politics.

"Political things and the economic tings the government can explain away, ut it can't explain [the question] 'Why ill nobody in the world play with us?"' he id.

Pound said the Olympics accelerated te ascent of China. In addition, he cited xamples of how the Olympics can play a eneficial role with international issues.

“I think the IOC expulsion of South Afca because of apartheid actuafly helped te resolution of that problem to occur uch faster than all the political and ecoomic sanctions," he said.

Because of this effect, Pound said he ad pushed for the idea of an Olympics in hina from the beginning of the selection rocess.

"I must say I was one of the... few Westrn members [of the IOC] that thought it /ould be a good idea for the Chinese to ave the Games in 2000," he said. "It was igh risk, no question about it, but the M c G ill C h a n c e llo r ward was even higher. Even the mental licture of the gates of the Forbidden City pening up, [saying] 'Here's China inviting the world,'was comelling for me."

He thought the Chinese had done enough to fight the congestion and pollution problems that have plagued Beijing, nd praised their logistical genius.

"They did things like saying,'On Monday, Wednesday, Frilay, if you've got an odd-numbered license plate, you're O.K. o drive. If you've got an even-numbered plate you can... come on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday,"' he said.

Pound also loved the spectacular opening ceremony held in August 8 .

"Nobody on earth could duplicate the opening ceremo­

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ny," he said. "[Westerners] don't think on that kind of scale, we don't have the resources, human and otherwise, and it was an extraordinary performance."

Looking back, Pound felt the Chinese came away relative­ ly unscathed from the world's scrutiny— especially concerning Tibet.

"In terms of human rights, I personally ... think we could have been a little more assertive with the Chinese," he said.

Pound, a former Olympian, reached two swimming finals for Canada at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. In addi­ tion, he holds Bachelor's degrees in Civil Law and Commerce from McGill.

Ultimately, however, Pound said the international scru­

tiny that came with the Games was healthy for China.

"In the process of organizing the Games, China learned an awful lot. Dealing with 204 other countries in the process of putting an event like this together can't help but [make] some­ thing rub off," he said.

The few students in the audience found Pound's insight refreshing.

"I thought his perspective was very interesting," said Josiane Couture, a Concordia international affairs student.

Agnes Wang, a McGill master's candidate in political sci­ ence and a native of Beijing, concurred.

"He [views] the Olympics as an opportunity to improve China,"she said. ■

C IT Y

Conservative candidate an Opus Dei member D u c e p p e r id ic u le s C h a r b o n n e a u B a r r o n f o r c o n t r o v e r s i a l b e lie f s J ames G ilman Bloc Québécois leader Gilles Duceppe attacked the Conervative party last week after it was made known that one of ts candidates in the October 14 election is a member of the ontroversial Catholic group Opus Dei. Duceppe claimed that Nicole Charbonneau Barron, who s running in the St-Bruno—St-Hubert riding on the south ;hore, should not be barred from running, but that her canlidacy was illustrative of the Tories' narrow-minded views. He vent on to suggest that the Conservatives were attempting to jring right-wing religious views into parliament.

Duceppe criticized Charbonneau Barron and Opus Dei )f holding views that are out of step with "Quebec's modern mentality."

"Those people certainly share a kind of ideology that doesn't correspond at all to modern times in Quebec," he told eporters in Quebec City, according to the CBC. "I'm not sayng they don't have the right [to run]. What I am saying is that hose people are against a lot of things that are generally ac:epted in Quebec."

Opus Dei, whose name is Latin for "God's Work," is an or­ ganization within the Roman Catholic Church founded in 1928 ay Spanish priest Josemaria Escrivé. It places special emphasis an the lives of ordinary Catholics and states that everyone is

called to holiness. According to the doctrine, ordinary life can serve as a path to sanctity.

Focus on Opus Dei increased dramatically after the publi­ cation of Dan Brown's novel The Da Vinci Code in 2003. Follow­ ing the release of the movie based on the bestselling book, Charbonneau Barron served as a spokesperson for Opus Dei in Canada.

The organization has been widely criticized for its secre­ tive nature, practice of self-mortification, and its conservative views.

There are approximately 200 members of Opus Dei in Quebec, the majority of whom live in Montreal.

Isabelle Saint Maurice, a spokesperson for Opus Dei in Canada, said that the organization is not politically active and is not pressuring Charbonneau Barron. "[Charbonneau] Barron is one person, she can speak in favour of her conscience, Opus Dei is not giving her any direc­ tion, but she knows why she believes something; she will go with her conscience I'm sure,"Saint Maurice said.

According to a report in La Presse, the Conservative party was not aware of Charbonneau Barron's membership of the controversial group when she was chosen to run in StBruno— St-Hubert.

The Conservatives were quick to point out that this is not important, as they respect Canada's religious diversity.

"We don't do any profiling on our candidates, but we ob­ viously have a lot of respect for pluralism in this country, and I think it's up to the Bloc Québécois to explain why they don't," said Deirdra McCracken, a spokesperson for the federal Con­ servative party.

The Tories have been quick to turn this issue on Duceppe, and use it to attack the vulnerable Bloc, questioning why Du­ ceppe and his party have the right to decide which religions are correct and which are not.

"They're clearly out of touch with the values of Quebeck­ ers, and obviously the values of Canadians," said McCracken.

"We're a party that accepts pluralism, and you know we're more than happy to welcome [Charbonneau Barron] as a candidate of ours, and again I think it's up to the Bloc to ex­ plain what issue they have with different religions."

Much of the Conservative response has focussed on former MP and catholic priest Raymond Gravel. Gravel was a Bloc MP until he was told by the Vatican to either give up the priesthood or politics, forcing him to abandon his seat.

Gravel was criticized by conservative elements in the Church for his support of same-sex marriage and criticism of church orthodoxy on a number of issues.

A Bloc Québécois spokesperson declined to comment, saying that the party was no longer speaking about the issue. ■

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Thom as Mulcair sees reinvigorated NDP

Outremont MP seeks to hold on to seat, ana expand party in Quebec Incumbent Outremont MP Thomas Mulcair, elected in a sur­ prise by-election victory last year, is the New Democratic Party's only Quebec MP. The Tribune recently sat down with Mulcair, a McGill alumnus, to discuss the NDP, his re-election campaign, and his time at McGill.

Y o u r b y -e le c tio n w in la s t y e a r in O u tr e m o n t ha s b e e n c ite d as p a v in g th e w a y f o r A n n e L a g a c é D o w s o n 's c a m ­ p a ig n th is y e a r. W h a t d o y o u t h in k o f h e r c h a n c e s n o w t h a t a g e n e ra l e le c tio n h as b e e n c a lle d ?

She was heading to a victory this Monday, and I know that's easy to say when you're in politics, but all our numbers demonstrated that. By-elections are an occasion for some people to express protest or dissatisfaction with something and maybe in a general election some of them will go back to the older parties. That's a possibility. But there's something else that comes into play in Anne's case that's going to be to her advantage—an election on September 8 would have made it singularly more difficult to get the students on the voters lists. Now, with the October 14 election and with UQAM, McGill, and Concordia in her riding, we're counting a lot on getting that student vote out. The student vote, for the first time in Montreal anyway, could very well determine the out­ come of a major riding in the general election.

It's b e e n a lm o s t a y e a r sin ce y o u r b y -e le c tio n v ic to ry .

H o w w o u ld y o u d e s c rib e y o u r firs t y e a r in P a rlia m e n t?

I think it went well. It's interesting as the only NDP [MP] from Quebec; I've been able to work both the English and the French media. It's been fun, because it allows me to translate Quebec from the point of view of someone who spent many years in the Quebec National Assembly and who knows both sides of the linguistic file in this province very well. I come from an Irish background on my dad's side, French-Canadian old stock on my mom's side, so it's always given me the oppor­ tunity to understand both sides of the language, culture, and historical institutions maybe a bit more easily.That's been fun, and I think the NDP message getting out to Quebec has been part of it. Quebeckers in Outremont were the first ones to say, "We can actually elect this guy."

T h ere's a p a lp a b le se n s e t h a t th e B loc Q u é b é c o is is b e c o m in g less a n d less e ffe c tiv e y e a r b y y e a r. Y o u r e le c ­ t io n in O u tr e m o n t in 2007 w a s a r g u a b ly a id e d b y a p ro te s t v o te fro m B loc s u p p o rte rs t o u n d e r m in e t h e L ib e ra ls . W ill th e B loc v o te b e a fa c to r a g a in th is year?

They're in free fall. And they're in free fall because they failed to renew. Mr. Duceppe's been there for far too long— he even tried to run away himself, to the PQ, and then he had to come back. It's not a party that's ever had any form of renewal.

It was formed as a protest movement 18 years ago in the wake of the failure of the Meech Lake Accords, which attempted to find constitutional accommodation for Quebec's aspirations.

Ja c k L a y to n h as b e e n to u te d b y s o m e as a re a l a lte r n a tiv e to M r.

H a r p e r a n d M r. D io n . D o y o u t h in k th e N D P is r e a lis tic a lly in a p o s itio n to b e in p o w e r in t h e fo r e s e e a b le f u ­ tu re ?

The distant future being October 14, yes. It's the most interesting election campaign in my lifetime. It's fascinating to watch. In the countryside, the Bloc and the Conservatives are going after each other hammer and tong. We have archbishops weighing in on the elec­ tion campaign. Religion is becoming an issue—we have a candidate who wears a hijab and that's become a big issue in the media.

I think there are going to be sur­ prises, especially in the outlying areas.

There are going to be four-way races developing... the NDP is going to pick up seats in areas that nobody's expect­ ing to see us win in.

H o w a re y o u b a la n c in g y o u r tim e b e tw e e n O tta w a a n d O u tr e m o n t in th e m o n th le a d in g u p th e e le c tio n ?

ADAM SCOT N e w D e m o c ra tic P a rty M P T h o m a s M u lc a ir o f th e O u tr e m o n t rid in g .

When I started my career, I was one of those rare English-speaking Quebeck­ ers in the Quebec civil service. I started as a lawyer fresh out of law school in the Quebec Justice De­ partment up in Quebec City, so I've been used to balancing my time between the two: frankly, Montreal's a lot closer to Ottawa than it is to Quebec City, so it hasn't been too hard.

I'm often complimented on the fact that I'm very pres­ ent in the riding, at events an everything, simply because the people who were there before, the Liberals who had been in the riding, never felt that they had to go to any events because it was such a safe seat.

Y o u 're a M c G ill a lu m n u s . H o w d id a tte n d in g M c G ill s h a p e y o u r p o litic a l v ie w s a n d in flu e n c e y o u r ca re e r?

The first thing I can say is it's great to live in a country that recognizes that every student, who has the ability, should be given the assistance necessary. If not for the fact that I was in Canada, I'm not sure I would have been able to have a couple of law degrees from an institution as extraordinary as McGill.

McGill itself, at the time, in the early 70s, was an interesting place. You got to have lectures from someone of the level of F.R. Scott, who was one of Canada's greatest civil libertarians and political and legal thinkers, so that was extraordinary for me. The legal training I got ai McGill in both languages has served me well in Quebec.

It's v e ry ra re to h a v e a C a n a d ia n e le c tio n c a m p a ig g o in g o n th is clo se t o a U .S. o n e . D o y o u t h in k t h e U .S. pre< id e n tia l e le c tio n s w ill a ffe c t e le c tio n s h e re in C an ad a?

I'll turn it around a little bit— I think that Mr. Harper's tin ing was largely informed by the American election. You migf have seen them scrambling over the summer trying to inver a reason for an election. There was none. It was a transparer decision to go around a law that he had brought in.

My analysis is that there are two primary reasons [that M Harper called the election]. One is that he was concerned tha if Anne Lagacé Dowson won in Westmount, that the Liberal would dump Stéphane Dion immediately. So he wanted t flush the by-election... the last thing he wanted to do was t lose to someone as weak as Stéphane Dion.

The other thing that's interesting, again having to do wit the leader of another party this time in another country— G nadians, especially in other provinces, have a view of them selves as being intrinsically left of the Americans. If Barac Obama became the next president of the United States, would have been very unlikely that Canadians would hav found Stephen Harper attractive. A lot of Canadians wouli have a hard time voting in someone who was so clearly to th right of the American president.

—Compiled by Theo Meye

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McGill profs aid in Large Hadron Collider Particle accelerator on the Swiss-French border the world's largest T homas Q uail At 4:28 a.m. Eastern Standard Time last Wednesday, a beam of ionized hydrogen atoms was successfully steered around the Large Hadron Collider—the world's most powerful particle accelerator. After breathing a collective sigh of relief, the international team of project members was ecstatic.

"This is a giant step towards realizing our common dreams," said Peter Jetti, the spokesperson for the ATLAS ex­ periment. "We're set to launch into the new era after more than ten years of development and tests."

The ATLAS station's primary function is to observe and record collisions.

The LHC is a very large piece of experimental physics equipment. Straddling the Franco-Swiss border just outside Geneva, Switzerland, the circular structure is buried 100 me­ tres underground and has a circumference of 27 km.The tun­ nel is lined with 9,000 magnets cooled to negative 271 degrees Celsius.

Crudely put, the LHC project observes particle collisions.

Decay fragments from these collisions are recorded and ana­

lysed. Particularly energetic proton fragments are then used to shed light on the age-old question of what the universe is made up of.

"Experimental sub atomic physics and particle physics seek to address the most fundamental questions: what is the world made of? What holds it together? Why are these reac­ tions the way they are?" McGill Physics Professor Steve Rob­ ertson said.

The collider is divided into five experimental hubs in five different locations on the circular tunnel. The McGill contin­ gent, led by professors Robertson, Brigitte Vachon, Francois Corriveau, and Andreas Warburton, are part of the ATLAS experiment. The McGill team's major contribution has been a sophisticated trigger system responsible for differentiating pertinent decay fragments.

"The McGill group has made remarkable contributions to the high-level trigger... our physics output will depend strongly on it," Jetti said.

Somewhat ironically, this massive feat of engineering will be used to study the smallest constituents of matter: sub­ atomic particles. Through high-energy collisions, physicists will re-create the effects of the big bang, and test the standard

model of particle physics.

More specifically, they're on the hunt for the Higgs boson An atom is made up of bosons. The standard model—the cur rent model of sub atomic physics— predicts the existence o four particles.The Higgs boson would be the last particle to b< experimentally reproduced.

"As experimental physicists, we do not want to force th( data. If [the Higgs boson] is there, then great," Jetti said Theoretically discussed in the 1960s after three hallmarl papers, the boson has been a mystery ever since. Its existence contingently, would explain a variety of quantum mechanica questions. According to physicists, the LHC will be the machint that proves or disproves large parts of the standard model.

Real collisions are scheduled for the middle of October.

Dean of Science Martin Grant linked the LHCachievemen to a long tradition of success in physics at McGill.

"One hundred years ago, Ernest Rutherford received ; Nobel prize for his work on sub atomic particles at McGill. Th« work was so important and transformational that it includec not only his own field, but others. He subsequently receivec the Nobel prize not in physics, but actually in chemistry. Lool around, and you can see that legacy is still here." ■

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Liquid Nutrition branch opens Montreal smoothie chain sets up shop in Shatner T rip Yang After negotiations with the Students' Society from January through yiarch, Montreal smoothie chain Liquid Nutrition opened their ninth branch in Monday in Room 108 of the Shatner Building.

Liquid Nutrition's concept of a health-based smoothie store originated «hen the owners realized their first location—originally, a cement busiless—was triangulated by three fitness clubs.

"We were surrounded by the YMCA, MAA, and Nautilus-Plus: all fitness :enters," Store Manager Jimmy Carrière said.

"It was an ideal location. A lot of our customers come from the gym and lead active lifestyles, so why not serve nutritional smoothies and health snacks?"

IN T E R N A T IO N A L The concept of catering to a busy clientele will be applied to the SSMU ocation. Carrière believes the student market is ideal for a chain like Liquid Mutrition.

"We are the perfect complement to a mobile student life. McGill stu­ dents can swing by our lounge between work and school, or if they're com­ ing back from the gym."

Despite specializing in fruit smoothies, Liquid Nutrition emphasizes they are more than the typical nutritional beverage chain, in addition to their emblematic drinks, Liquid Nutrition also provides vegetable juices, breakfast cereal bowls, salads, soups, and health snacks.

"We target our products and our store to the busy, health conscious W ill J ennings student,"Carrière said. "In addition to our nutritional products, we decorate the lounge and play music to make it comfortable for students who just Internet giant Google has announced its intention want to relax." to bring all historical newsprint online, in an ambitious Liquid Nutrition realized it could succeed in the student market when bid to enhance its Google News Archive initiative. they received positive feedback on some of their samples.

"We started working with publications like the New York Times and the Washington Post to index exist­ "We let students sample our products at one of McGill's international food fairs. There was enough demand from students for us to be successful ing digital archives and make them searchable via the Google News Archive. Now, this effort will enable us to here," Carrière said.

Before the McGill administration approved the lease of Room 108, Liq­ help you find an even greater range of material," said Punit Soni of the official Google blog, on Tuesday. uid Nutrition had considered locations on Milton and Sherbrooke Streets.

Through the News Archive Partner Program, old "We considered locations on both streets and weighed the pros and newspapers are scanned (either using the negatives or cons of each situation," said Chris Jannal, president of Liquid Nutrition.

"Neither situation was ideal. We didn't like the flow of traffic on Milton, the physical papers), converted to a PDF format, and fi­ nally uploaded into an online reader, where (complete and Sherbrooke was very expensive. We waited for the perfect opportunity, with ads, images and text) they can be viewed instantly and in the end settled on the McGill campus. Patience is a virtue." and for free.

Tobias Silverstein, SSMU Vice-President Finance & Operations, believes Traditionally, it has fallen to libraries to stock mi­ Liquid Nutrition is a quality addition to student life on campus. crofilm editions of their local and national newspapers, "Liquid Nutrition is a positive company providing great products," Sil­ j More recently, the Internet has begun offering pay-perverstein said. "They add a different sort of feel to the SSMU building and to | view selections of copyrighted material, or a subscrip­ the McGill student life. I'm sure customers will enjoy drinking their smooth­ tion to see a limited choice of back issues. Now Google, ies." with strong echoes of its popular Google Scholar and Liquid Nutrition is also opening a 10th branch in the Cours Mont-Royal I Google Books programs, will offer entire papers for free Mall, and plans to expand to Toronto, Los Angeles, and New York City as in their original formats. well. ■ Even the Quebec Chronicle Telegraph, the oldest paper in North America, has agreed to share its archive

Google launches massive news archiving project Newspapers to be offered online for free with Google.

“It's going to open up a lot of research," said Pierre Little, publisher of the Chronicle-Telegraph. "People from all over the world that have an internet connec­ tion will be able review and look at these microfilms. It's almost as if the library has been placed on the internet and Google has provided the technology to do that."

Among professors at McGill, support for the proj­ ect appears strong. "[It's] a revolution" said Professor Malek Abisaab of the history department, "I mean, you know how much trouble we had to go through just to get a newspaper from the 1920s, but now..."

Google's project will positively impact students who will be able to easily and accurately quote primary sources.

Since Google's humble beginnings in a campus dorm room, it has aspired to make itself a favourite of students around the world. By launching programs such as Google Docs, Apps for Students, and an offi­ cial Google Students Channel on YouTube, the useful­ ness of these tools is enormous. With the appearance of the Google News Archive, the Internet behemoth is cementing its position and ability to reach the student base. ■

—Additional reporting by James Gilman

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Stop giving varsity athletes the blues

A strange way hate the arts

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TIMOTHY.MAK@MAIL.MCGILL.CA ll right, fellow Tories, the gig is up. The investigative masterminds of the Ca­ nadian left have pulled a fast one on us and have proclaimed that Conservatives hate the arts. You really can't get anything past these geniuses. The nation's entire "cul­ tural community" is now condemning the Harper government for cutting $5o-million from cultural programs. Shock and outrage abound. But in their desperate attempt to weave a narrative for the public, the left is just stooping to the lowest common de­ nominator. I mean, there's no need to think through why the Conservatives would cut these programs, right? They just hate artists and the arts! The Conservatives couldn't be listening to a large number o f citizens by cutting funding to projects that most Ca­ nadians find offensive. And they certainly couldn't be standing on principle by reduc­ ing out of control spending. I've never seen a Tory listening to music— have you?

I've also heard this rhetoric accompa­ nied by a completely backwards argument: these cuts are government discrimina­ tion against certain viewpoints, particu­ larly those o f "fringe artists." A recent Mc­ Gill Daily article accused the government of "imposing their own subjective moral standards" with the cuts. This is nonsense. If anything, the Conservatives have removed any possibility of discrimination by killing the entire funding program. It doesn't mat­ ter whether or not a project meets some subjective standard of morality— it still won't get funding. Where's the moral au­ thoritarianism?

Government programs are where we most frequently see moral judgments.

They're always about imposing subjective moral standards: a group of bureaucrats sits in a conference room and decides who gets what. They make the funding deci­ sions, and top-down moral judgments are inescapable as long as they're in charge.

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Arts and Heritage Sustainability programs is discrimination— against those who want to impose subjective standards. It favours those who prefer an objective standard: Canadians choosing what they want and paying for it. And this makes sense to the average Canadian. Why should they bank­ roll projects that nobody would pay to see otherwise?

Those who complain about these minor cuts are also losing sight of the forest for one fallen tree. The people who complain about these reductions rarely mention that the Conservatives have consistently spent more than the Liberal government in its last fiscal year. The Conservatives are now spending $66o-million more than the Lib­ erals spent in their last year in power. In the current fiscal year, the government of Can­ ada will spend $4-billion on cultural proj­ ects. That's an increase of nearly 20 per cent since the Liberals left office! But you won't find Canada's leftists quoting that statistic.

Yes, the current arts funding situation leaves all sides of the political spectrum sore. Small cuts fan the flames of leftist cul­ tural angst/ while larger increases in cultur­ al funding irk fiscal conservatives. But those who protest the supposed cuts don't realize that these are cosmetic changes, and part of an overall increase in spending. If anyone should be upset, it's the people who value fiscal austerity and smaller governments— not spoiled independent artists!

The Daily article I mentioned earlier ends with a dire warning from a McGill pro­ fessor. He claims that w ithout government programs, "we'd be left with American Fox News, with the lowest common denomina­ tor— is that what the public really wants?" If we were left with only Fox News (a laugh­ able suggestion to begin with), I'd say that that is what the public wants. Because in a free market, untainted by bureaucratic de­ cision-making, what you want is what you get. ■

or those who don't know or can't re­ member, V a rs ity Blues is a raunchy teen comedy about high school football best known for the cinematic debut of the whipped cream bikini. The football players struggle against maniacal Coach Bud Kilmer, who liter­ ally cripples his players in order to win. And while it's remembered as the movie with the whipped cream bikini (which nicely comple­ ments AN Larter's nipples), V a rs ity B lues is also an insightful look at the irrational pressures of modern youth sports.

The inflated significance placed upon children's sports sends a harmful message about priorities. Before the final game of Var­ s ity Blues, Kilmer tells his team that they're playing "48 minutes for the next 48 years of your lives.'The speech plays like a saccharine Hollywood cliché, but it also has a darker un­ dertone. Kilmer is telling a group of 18-yearolds that their lives will never include a greater opportunity than the chance to win a district football title.

Sadly, Bud Kilmer is just an archetype of the "win at all costs" mentality that permeates youth sports in North America. Beginning with T-Ball, millions of children are taught to win "or else,"and Baby Ruth League takes on Olympic significance. Physically, this approach ends in underdeveloped Little Leaguers throwing tendon-snapping curveballs. Coaches are mortgaging students' futures for ephemeral and inconsequential glory. Psychologically, the aggrandizement of high school achieve­ ment teaches children to devalue the oppor­ tunities that come along after graduation.

As evidence, I'll cite V a rs ity B lues once again. When the quarterback receives a full academic scholarship to Brown, his father dismisses the accomplishment and tells his son that the final game of the season is "the biggest opportunity of your life." Somehow, attending an Ivy League school free of charge matters less than one football game. Not all authority figures play into this stereotype, but most of us know at least one set of parents

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who lived vicariously through their teenage children.

This attitude bothers me because it im plies we should constantly focus on the past Teenagers are smart enough to notice wher parents are more interested in reliving ole dreams than being good parents. These ado lescents are taught their best years are already behind them. They may enjoy fantastically reckless high school careers, but the unspo ken downer is that things can only get worse After graduation, we can only hope to relive our glory days through the next generation It's a parasitic philosophy that closes doors before people have a chance to walk through them. Opportunity doesn't exist if you're un­ able to see it.

Unfortunately, too few coaches (and, ironically, parents) are willing to be mentors for the next generation. My high school wres­ tling coach was an exception: he made sure that every member of the team graduated, because he knew that our lives would go on post-eligibility, and I'm grateful to him. I'd rather look forward to the rest of my life than pine away for past glory. The next 60 years are coming, whether I like it or not.

Nostalgia is a poor guide in life, and par­ ents who glorify their children's high school years stifle their hope for something better.

I didn't drink or have sex in high school, but that doesn't bother me because life doesn't end at 18. I've had four years at McGill to make up for missed debauchery, and I still have the rest of my life to pursue other goals. That brings me back to V a rs ity Blues. Eventually, star quarterback and Brown prospective John Moxon tells the team to play the "the next 24 minutes for the next 24 minutes." He rejects the rear-view mirror values of his parents and coach, and is able to learn from the past, enjoy the present, and work for the future. It's a use­ ful lesson, because sometimes we forget that what's past is past— it isn't going to change.

And that's pretty smart for a movie with a whipped cream bikini. ■

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Abusive vampires are not model boyfriends Z o e D a n ie l s !z k d a n ie l s @ g m a il . c o m

hough you're all over the age of 13, some of you may still have heard of T w ilig h t, the vampire-themed book se­ ries by Stephanie Meyer. When the final book. B re a k in g D a w n , came out this summer, goth girls and prepsters alike were white-faced and red-lipped with anticipation. The New York Times has published a dozen articles about the books, but no screaming exposé or analysis of their message—just a run­ ning account of their popularity with teenage and tweenage girls. T w ilig h t has inspired the kind of midnight book releases not seen since Harry Potter's fourth year at Hogwarts. The first novel has already been turned into a film, which is slated for release in November. There are team t-shirts, like those popu­ larized by the warring biddies of L a g u n a B each, which serve as an in-joke among readers. In short. T w ilig h t is a phenomenon.

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C ultural obsessions o f this calibre m ake m e e ith e r w a n t to v o m it or b e c o m e a h e rm it. It's n o t th e v o lu m e o f a tte n tio n and brain space a llo tte d th a t bothers m e m o st— it's th e trite c o n te n t that's c h a m p io n e d as d e fin itiv e o f a g e n e ra tio n . It's insulting to e q u a te T w ilig h t w ith th e m in d s e t o f yo u n g w o m e n today. W e're n o t all so fucking stupid.

It's good to see young people—and girls in particular— enjoying books, but it's a shame when the books' protagonist is a S e ve n te e n filler story heroine brought to life. A pretty and alluring girl who "doesn't know it," Bella's the spunky and ar­ ticulate protagonist who doesn't think boys pay attention to her and lives her life in a cloud of self-delusion. Because of her naïveté, she is swept off her feet by the gorgeous vampire Ed­ ward and falls deeply in "love."

Many people are voicing their approval of the non-explic­ it romance between Edward and Bella. The New York Times quotes a director of Borders Books, one of the stores that held T w ilig h t parties for the latest midnight release, describing the books as "sensual without being erotic or explicit. Moms and daughters can read it and have conversations about absti­ nence." Yes, folks, it's t h a t pure.

The T w ilig h t books may be unsullied by ripped bodices and pulsating imagery, but they're not innocuous. Meyer skill­ fully maneuvers around a premise that's only remotely cred­ ible, but the core of T w ilig h t is a "first love" story based on lies, dependence, and mortal danger. Edward constantly rescues

Bella because he is faster, stronger, and smarter than she is (as well as intensely protective). Edward is also constantly fight­ ing the urge to kill Bella, which should alarm more than a few parents. Minus the vampirism, Edward is a beautiful, posses­ sive, and dangerous boy who constantly snarls veiled threats at Bella. He's an abusive boyfriend who gets off the hook be­ cause he's a mythical creature. But vampires don't exist in the real world—abusive boyfriends do. And T w ilig h t's message for young readers is that dangerous boys can be tamed by in­ nocuous girls.

Meyer's books don't deserve to be called "good." They're not particularly well written, they weren't properly proof­ read, and they're not innovative in style or content. Moreover, they're dangerous: they pretend that situations of depen­ dence, obsession, and mortal danger are romantic.

Obviously, people are free to read whatever they want, and many of them want to read T w ilig h t. That's their choice.

But T w ilig h t readers should know that they're gorging on the Cheetos of the literary world. Like the snacks (and this pun), these books are dangerously cheesy. ■

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The road ahead for student labour so far. They've emphasized that their primary goal is job stability, not pay increases. There's no need to rewrite the book on undergraduate employment at McGill. Existing relationships just need to be formalized.

Last but not least on our list of pitfalls is membership policy. Many McGill undergradu­ ates are casual employees, and some will want to keep it that way. The Tribune's position is unequivocal: AMUSE membership should not be mandatory for undergraduates employed on campus. Stu­ dents with ca­ sual or seasonal "A M U S E h a s g o o d in te n tio n s , a n d t h e p r o b le m s positions, like tour guides or t h e y 'r e a d d r e s s i n g a r e s i g n i f i c a n t . B u t in s i t u a t i o n s sports referees, lik e t h e s e , t h e d e v i l is in t h e d e t a i l s . " may not relish the prospect of paying union dues. But their contribution to ample opportunity for bureaucratic expansion, campus life is still important, and they should so AMUSE will have to be careful. The Tribune is here to help with a basic litmus test: does be free to make it outside of a union.

These concerns have a unifying theme: this make life easier at McGill? Any policy that dealing with the diverse interests of under­ doesn't should be promptly scrapped. graduates. AMUSE is representing the interests AMUSE also needs to avoid fuelling the of their members as employees, but this has to culture of conflict on campus. We all saw the be balanced with their overarching interests as disruptive power of campus labour disputes during the TA strike earlier this year. It's in ev­ McGill students.

This editorial voices many concerns be­ eryone's interest to avoid further strikes. The cause theTribune wants to see AMUSE succeed. key to this is cooperation between AMUSE, the It's far too early for an endorsement, but we're McGill Administration, and campus employers. cautiously optimistic about their prospects.

There's a clear potential for antagonism be­ Everyone at McGill would benefit from a fair, tween the union and the administration, and the onus is on AMUSE to nip it in the bud. They stable, and non-bureaucratic labour arrange­ ment on campus, and AMUSE could make that need to be proactive in reassuring employers a reality. ■ and administrators that the labour situation will become more— and not less— stable with AMUSE will be holding a general interest their presence.

To their credit, AMUSE are on the right track meeting today at 4 p.m. in the Shatner ballroom.

AMUSE's structure and mandate will be for­ mally established in the months ahead, and the road to success has many pitfalls.

Students are already suffocating under the weight of red tape at McGill, and nobody's excited at the prospect of adding to it. In the wider world, union regulations are often syn­ onymous with inflexibility and overregulation.

If AMUSE is going to be a welcome addition to McGill, they will have to break with this pat­ tern. Drafting new labour regulations provides

tudents at activities night last Thursday witnessed the debut of a new campus la­ bour organization: the Association of Mc­ Gill Undergraduate Student Employees. AMUSE organizers handed out leaflets and approached student employees to sign association cards.

The union is largely the brainchild of Former Students' Society Vice-President External Max Silverman, who has been working with other student organizers and the Public Service Alli­ ance of Canada. AMUSE's basic goal is to repre­ sent undergraduate students employed at Mc­ Gill. And while it's still in nascent form, AMUSE is clearly gathering momentum.

There are problems with the undergradu­ ate labour situation on campus.This is most ob­ vious in the case of research assistants, whose work is intermingled with their academic life.

Research assistants sometimes have uncom­ fortable relationships with their employers, who frequently double as their instructors and academic references. McGill undergraduate employees don't have standardized pay scales or contracts. Without these structures, it can be difficult to redress issues as an employee. A grievance over hours or pay could sour an aca­ demic relationship essential to an undergradu­ ate.

Undergraduates employed at McGill also lack formal job security. This is the primary impetus for AMUSE, and the area where they stand to make the most progress. Greater con­ sistency in employment policies and non-casu­ al work status could benefit many undergradu­ ate employees, including those at the McGill Bookstore.

AMUSE has good intentions, and the prob­ lems they're addressing are significant. But in situations like these, the devil is in the details.

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O u t w ith the old, in w ith the new media C arolyn Yates ccording to a Globe and Mail writer, "the whole new media thing"only started tak­ ing off in the winter of 2007. This makes me wonder: what was that writer on, and where can I get some?

People generally use the term "new media" in the same way they use Web 2.0— to talk about user-generated online content. Stalwarts of the "old media" don't like this development.

As far as I can tell, their argument goes like this: back in the good old days— when women were real women, men were real men, and people wouldn't be caught dead near a com­ puter for fear of looking like a nerd— proper media consisted of radio and newspapers. Some people also included TV on that list—depend­ ing on the year and who you asked. That was old school media. And then, the internet came along and screwed everything up. Now any­ body who thinks they know something about anything can tell the world. They don't have to hire a publisher, satisfy an editor, or worry about political and factual correctness.

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That's the beauty of the Internet, and, come to think of it, the beauty of free speech.

For years, newspapers thrived on control­ ling the flow of information to the public. With the rise of new media, Web 2.0, and the rise of user-created content, it was in old media's best interest to keep readers in the dark. Old media relied on a captive audience, and were hesitant to embrace change. If they linked to an online article, a reader might see something else on­ line and navigate away from their content. And that would be death— sticking to print was much safer.

People often discuss the decline of news­ papers in recent years, and for good reason. Ac­ cording to the Newspaper Association of Amer­ ica, in 1990 the total average circulation of a Ca­ nadian daily newspaper was 5,814,510. In 2004, it was 4,930,417. That's a big drop, and advertisers who see these statistics have stopped buying up ad space like in years past. Combined with the rise of online classifieds, this undermined old media's financial model. The web has broken

their joint advertising and content monopoly.

So newspapers have slowly clambered onto the online bandwagon. Websites, video con­ tent, podcasts, and (in some cases) free online editions have brought them into the 21st cen­ tury. Journalist bloggers are another common ploy, although one can wonder how long their sex lives and attempts to quit smoking can stay interesting. But the old media websites haven't embraced the true online free-for-all— at least not yet. Many of them still closely moderate comments—that is, when they're not disabled entirely due to an irate conservative rant­ ing about Dion's dog, or the 18 millionth time someone has posted some well-known Danish cartoons (and I'll bet 20 dollars that the Tribune website will get extra traffic this week because of this sentence).

So let's dispense with this "new" and "old" media terminology altogether. Call online con­ tent online content, and call the old media dead— because that's what it's going to be if they don't catch up. ■

Letters to the editor S A Q s till n o t g re e n e n o u g h

The SAQ is on the right path by charging custom­ ers for disposable bags. However, this is only one small element of the environmental policy that SAQ should be adopting. A simple Google search of "SAQ bottle deposit" paints a much more interesting bigger picture. While the SAQ President and CEO claim that the environment is a priority for the SAQ and its employees, these same em­ ployees and executives have consistently rejected calls to set up a deposit system for bottles, a system well es­ tablished in most other provinces. The idea is simple: you get charged 10-20 cents extra per bottle of wine/liquor you purchase at SAQ. When you return the bottle you get the deposit back and the bottle is recycled. If you don't re­ turn the bottle and choose to recycle it (or throw it out, hopefully not the case), the deposit can be put not in SAQ coffers, but towards expansion of the program, or various other pro-environmental purposes. This system has prov­ en to be much more effective than any type of volunteer recycling program and should become an integral part of SAQ's new environmental campaign. Demand more from the SAQ and hold them accountable to their word that "[t]he environment is a priority for SAQ employees."

—Kevin Markl, U3 Political Science and History T h e re 's n o s im p le s o lu tio n to p la g ia ris m

I sympathize with Prof. Cooperstock's frustration.

During my tenure as the Director of the Student Advo­ cacy office, we saw many students whose professors did not know the correct procedure to follow when they sus­ pected a student of cheating or plagiarism. According to the Code of Student Conduct and Disciplinary Procedures, the correct procedure is as follows: when a professor sus­ pects a student, they are to pass along the evidence to the Disciplinary Officer of their faculty (usually the Associate Dean, Student Affairs). The DO then handles everything relating to that student from then on. The reason for this is that, understandably, professors are not unbiased when they are dealing with the case of a student who has po­ tentially cheated in their class. Professors tend to either be too lenient and just let the matter go, or they tend to be

(once again, understandably) extremely upset and are far too harsh on the student. Furthermore, given that exams are not anonymous, there is a strong risk that a profes­ sor could be biased against the student for every subse­ quent assignment. Thus, I believe, it is not in the interests of students (or professors) for the professors to be more involved in the disciplinary process. Furthermore, the DOs are able to make their disciplinary decisions based on all of the facts, which professors cannot. This would include things like whether the student has a previous disciplinary record and the level to which the student was honest after the offence was committed. Having sat through dozens of disciplinary interviews, I can assure you that the students are punished sufficiently and appropriately in most cases.

In fact, I would say that we received far more cases of pro­ fessors who had not followed the proper procedure than cases where the punishment did not fit the "crime."

Having said that, I would encourage the administra­ tion and DOs to be more proactive in letting professors know about the process and the rationale for the policies that are in place. I also would encourage both students and professors to check out the Student Advocacy web­ site at www.advocacy.mcgill.ca or visit the office in Shatner (next to Travel Cuts). Finally, to my fellow students: academic integrity is extremely important. The Student Advocacy office is committed to making sure that your rights are respected, but we would also be very happy if our job was unnecessary. Please think twice before com­ mitting an academic offence, and please inform yourself of the rules and expectations of the university. We owe it to each other not to devalue the degrees that we receive from this fine institution.

—Alison Glaser, fourth year Law Past director, Student Advocacy Programme M c G ill la w s tu d e n ts la c k c o m m o n d e c e n c y

These words are being written less than an hour after the events below occurred, so if the sentiments expressed here offend you, keep in mind that they are not the official views of McGill Walksafe.

I will skip over the early stages of my walk on Friday

night, which was a SNAFU of epic proportions, the likes of which we rarely see outside of 4Floors, Frosh week, and the carnivals. Suffice to say that when our taxi arrived at New Rez (please note: McGill Walksafe will not pay your cab fare) I was dealing with a very angry taxi driver and a very comatose walk. [McGill Walksafe clients are referred to

as "walks" by volunteers. -Ed] Now it just so happened that McGill Law students were holding their faculty ball at New Rez, and many of them were in the process of leaving the building. I opened the cab door and called to a group of four nearby students, asking that one of them help me manoeuvre the walk out of the cab, and another to contact New Rez staff. They ignored me. Actually, that isn't quite true. One of them smiled as they walked away. The rest of the crowd merely looked on without reacting at all. It was only after finding a law student whom I knew on a first name basis that New Rez staff were alerted, and even then, no one volunteered to help me support the walk on his/her feet.

Why such inhuman indifference? The walk was clearly in distress and I was just as clearly in need of help. The tone of my voice, if not my words, made this abundantly clear.

And yet the law students responded with indifference, punctuated only by a Cheshire cat smile. That smile re­ mains vivid in my memory, just as my arms still ache from carrying the walk down two flights of stairs and my laun­ dry hamper currently smells of vomit. I didn't ask them for much, by comparison, and even this was withheld.

These are our future judges, defence attorneys, and human rights lawyers. If they cannot act responsibly in a situation where the moral choice is obvious, what confi­ dence should we have in their ability to make ethical deci­ sions about much more difficult cases?

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M eghna M arjadi

For everyone from Michael Phelps to the average busi­ ness executive, knowing more than one language is an in­ comparable asset However, learning language becomes progressively harder the farther you get from childhood.

Programs such as Rosetta Stone, a type of language soft­ ware, can help with pronunciation and information re­ tention—to a certain extent. But whether or not they can actually reproduce childhood language capacity, as some claim to do, is questionable.

Several months prior to the Beijing Olympics, leading language softwa c o m p a n y Rosetta Stone released an ad campaign featuring O lym p ic swimm Michael Phelps. T h e on e -m in u te ad depicts Phelps and his need for speed everyday activities, including learning Mandarin in anticipation of the Olyr pics. Rosetta Stone, he explains, is "the fastest way to learn a language, guara teed."The program is marketed as a way for students to learn the language their choice memorization-free: "naturally, the way their brain is wired to."

Rosetta Stone uses a m ethod they call Dynam ic Immersion, which cor bines images, intuition, interactivity, and instruction. Images of everyday o jects are supposed to allow students to learn new words without translatio T h e software also claims to use sound technology that helps improve pronu ciation, and a wealth of online testimonials seem to attest to the methoc success.

With increased globalization comes increased exposure to different la guages. While English is currently the language of international commerc learning more than one language is always an asset. For m any people, tl most convenient w ay to do this is through com puter programs, but it remaii debatable whether learning through the com puter is a reliable method.

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D o o little : a s a n a d u lt M a k in g th e rig h t sou n d s In verbal communication, pronunciation is a chief concern, especially ice language learners often have accents in their second languages. While ograms such as Rosetta Stone may claim to fix these problems, there will ways be disagreement over w h at accent is actually "correct."

Com p u ter programs teaching a language tend to target a single dialect .g. North American versus British English), which they develop by playing lunds from that language and asking students to repeat the sounds. While is gives students the o p portunity to learn what they should sound like, there no guarantee they will be able to imitate it themselves.

"Your jaw, your cheeks— those are all muscles, and adults have been using em in a certain way for many, many years; they become set in those ways, you try to use them in other ways, that's a challenge," says Carolyn Samuel, iculty Lecturer of the English and French language centre at McGill.

Consider weight training, and the n um b er of repetitions and lengthy pead of time it takes to develop the muscles you want. As you get older, changg the muscles in your jaw and cheeks becomes harder in the same way that orking out becomes harder. Atrophied hearing is another setback.

"Adults often hear things through their first languages, so if you're not ware of a particular sound, you're not sure it exists [and] you m ight not hear ... If you don't know [the sound is] there, even if it is pointed out to you, it's at a given that you will be able to perceive it," says Samuel.

In pronunciation, some things are easier to correct than others. Stress, lythm, and intonation (called supersegmentals) are easiest to correct, bejuse muscles don't need to be retrained, while mastering the actual sounds Fa language (called segmentais) are harder.

"A large body of research exists to support the notion that supersegmenils are more vital to good comm unication than segmentais [and] the current iderstanding is that a balance is required. If you're really, really, weak in seglentals and people can't understand the sounds you say, that's not going to e any good. A realistic goal for adults is improved intelligibility," says Samuel, t might not be a realistic goal to want to sound like a native speaker of the nguage, and it's not necessary for effective communication."

G e ttin g o ld e r Many programs, like Rosetta Stone, claim to teach language to their cusimers in such a way that they learn like children. Children can learn language lore easily than adults, because they em p loy their innate language aptitude, ither than cognitive ability. After a certain age, learning language becomes lore difficult because innate ability is replaced by cognitive learning skills, dults, unlike children, have "metalinguistic awareness," or the capability to nalyze what they're learning, so learning language later in life may not be an ntirely uphill battle.

"Young learners, as long as they start learning yo u n g enough, will probbly learn the language," says Dr. Roy Lyster, a professor in the Department of itegrated Studies in Education at McGill. "[Learning a language] is like any ther task as an adult— there is a normal curve, some will do really well, some ron't."

T h o u g h Lyster is skeptical of the effectiveness of Rosetta Stone specifically, e does acknowledge the value of technology in language learning.

"The speed with which they're suggesting you could learn a language is jst not feasible," says Lyster. "I think there's a real future in the use o fte ch n olgy for language learning. I find the concept very interesting. B u t... there isn't ny one perfect program out there."

Immersion is one means of learning a language, however, there must be a ialance between pointing out grammatical issues and forcing memorization.

won't make a link between the two.

"It's about integration, that's the key word," says Lyster.

Classroom learning, and exposure outside the class­ room, are also essential to effective learning.

"If you are limited to the classroom then you are very limited. You need something in the environm ent to motivate and enable you to keep going," says Lyster. "One thing we do know from immersion is that simply being ex­ posed to subject matter or to content in the second language isn't enough.

[Students] develop really high comprehension skills, but they need a lot of lan­ guage support to develop their second language further, especially in terms of grammatical convention."

Success a n d th e in s tru c to r Student success depends on everything from motivation, to first language, to innate ability. "[Success] depends very often on what [the student's] first language is, and it depends on their ow n individual language learning abilities. You can have tw o people from the same first language group, w h o m ig ht make the same mistakes, because of what w e call interference from their first language, but one of those tw o people might just be a better language learner," says Samuel.

Language teachers must adjust to their students as they progress and zero in on weaknesses and strengths. O n e language teacher, Ranran Hao, the founder of Toronto Mandarin school First Class Mandarin, caters her curricu­ lum to each student by discussing the students'goals and needs.

"We have different curricula. We ask students their requirements so that we can address them in our curriculum. Some people need to go to China in tw o months and so they need a very intensive curriculum. Some businessmen need to give presentations very often, so we have to teach them that work culture," says Hao.

C o m p u te r o r te a c h e r?

There are nuances of language and customs that com puter programs can't teach us yet. Programs can't tell us if we are saying something w rong, or if we've made a hand gesture equivalent to giving the finger in another country. Learn­ ing language is one thing, but learning a language in context is another.

Advances in technology are pervading the realm of education as fast as the rest of the world, so chances are that's sooner or later a n e w and more ef­ fective m ethod will be available. However, experts seem to agree that claims of correcting pronunciation and teaching language in record time are suspi­ cious. T he moral of the story: try a class before shelling out $218 for software.

You may find an instructor more effective and influential than your com puter screen, at least for now. ■

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Money, money, m oney G e t t i n g a lo a n f o r f u n a n d p r o f i t Emm a C abrera-A ragon Student loans come in many guises, but the idea be­ hind them is always the same. Someone—the government, a financial institution, or a school—will lend you money.

To qualify, you have to meet the lender's requirements and fill out many forms. The loan must be repaid, with interest, within a certain number of years. Comparing loans based on certain factors can help you clarify an otherwise compli­ cated system and make an educated decision as to which loan is best for you.

G o v e rn m e n t loans

Start with a government loan, since banks and schools will want to know if you have one. For most provinces, there is the Federal Canada Student Loan, managed by the Na­ tional Student Loans Service Center (NLSC). For residents of Saskatchewan, Ontario, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, federal and provincial loans are managed by NSLSC as an Integrated Loan. Residents of other provinces and territories must manage federal and provincial loans separately.

The Canada Student Loans Program allows full-time students to borrow up to $210 weekly and allows part-time students to borrow $4,000 lumpsum, for a total of 340 weeks.

You must begin to repay the loan six months after complet­ ing your studies. Interest, which is paid by the government while you study, is added to the loan either at either a fixed (the prime rate plus five per cent) or floating (the prime rate plus 2.5 per cent) rate. For residents of Quebec, the institu­

tion administering the loan determines the interest rate. To be eligible for the loan, you must be a Canadian citizen or permanent resident, be registered full-time or part-time in a recognized post-secondary institution, and demonstrate financial need. Applications for loans can be found online and are usually processed faster if submitted online.

S tu d e n t lines o f c re d it

Available at major Canadian Banks, student lines of credit are intended to help with all of a post-secondary student's needs, from tuition to groceries. Most major Cana­ dian banks offer student lines of credit of up to $ 10,000 per year, on which only the interest must be paid until you fin­ ish school. After post-secondary studies are completed, the student is allowed a grace period, usually 12 months— Scotiabank is the exception at eight months— before starting to repay the full amount. Interest is normally the prime rate plus a certain percentage (one per cent for the majority of banks). The total amount of time you are allowed to take in repaying the debt varies by institution but is normally either seven or 20 years.

M cG ill

Like the government, McGill assesses applicants based on financial need, reducing the amount according to how much money came from the government, banks, parents, scholarships, bursaries, and work study programs.The major advantage of this loan is that it's interest free until the due date, after which time it begins to accrue an interest of 6.5 per cent. Applications are available on Minerva. ■

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a n d - g r a b b e r s w o n 't b o t h e r b r e a k in g in t o Stop worrying about accidentally leaving valuables in your car in the sketchier areas of Montreal— leave them there on purpose.The AS-1 auto safe by Sentry Safe anchors under a seat or in the trunk to protect valuables from smashand-grab vehicle crime. The inside of the safe is cushioned to protect objects from damage due to the vehicle's move­ ment, while the outside is equipped with anti-slip protec­ tion, and Velcro or screws to prevent the safe from shifting.

In addition, the safe is equipped with rubber feet, which keep it from sliding and use kung fu to deter would-be criminals. Security is provided by a key lock with two steel locking bolts and a steel cable. ■

C arolyn Yates The link between sleep and retaining information is now believed to be stronger than ever. While experts have long known about the mental health benefits of sleep, a University of Geneva study revealed a link to mnemonic benefits as well.

Any new information or experience is initially recorded in memory, but can be easily forgotten— or made more per­ manent. According to Dr. Sophie Schwartz, head researcher of the study at Geneva, sleep is one of the strongest of the many factors that can affect memory.

"Our results revealed that a period of sleep following a new experience can consolidate and improve subsequent effects of learning from the experience. This improvement comes from changes in brain activity in specific regions that code for relevant features of the learned material," said Schwartz, speaking at the Forum of European Neuroscience last July. Fier research was conducted by exposing subjects to visible or physical stimulus, letting some sleep while de-

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priving others, and asking them to repeat their actions the next day while their brains were scanned using functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging.

Unfortunately, the specifics of memory-enhancing sleep remain vague.

"Everybody sleeps! But some people sleep less than the average population, others have an abnormal sleep struc­ ture, and some drugs may change the duration of specific sleep stages,"said Schwartz.

However, with advances in brain imaging technology, more specific information may not be far off.

Getting a good night's sleep— or a good afternoon's nap—will improve your memory, and even if the details are vague, remember that hitting the snooze button for an hour may not always be a bad thing. ■

Source: Forum of European Neuroscience

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FO O D G U RU

Making your own beef-free burgers F r e s h , n o t f r o z e n , v e g g i e b u r g e r s in s ix e a s y s t e p s In g re d ie n ts

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This recipe is in ten ded m ainly for vegetar­ ians, b u t I'm sure even the m o st avid m eat-lover will find these m eatless burgers are sim ply deli­ cious.

I've g o t a b ee f with the fact that a lot o f veg­ etarians are buying into p ro cessed so y products.

Vegetarian chicken nuggets?! C om e on now.

"Spinach"-based chicken is a p la ce that no one w ants to go.

1 lb firm tofu 5 tbsp oil, divided.

3 scallions cut to very fine rings 4-5 mushrooms, (shiitake are delicious, but often expensive) 1 carrot in 1/ 8 " dice 2 tbsp celery

Fresh hot green chilis to taste, finely chopped 4 tbsp fresh cilantro or parsley, chopped 2 tbsp soy sauce Freshly ground black pepper to taste 1 egg, beaten About Vi cup ground flax seed (or you could use dry bread crumbs)

etarian foods. Products like those su p p o rt large scale industrial farm s that have a significantly negative im p a ct on ecosystem s a n d the envi­ ronm ent.

4 . Add egg and about 5 tbsp of the flax meal or bread crumbs, enough to form patties. Mix and form into 7-8 patties.

5 . Put the rest of the ground flax seed (or bread crumbs) on a

large plate and dredge the patties so they are lightly covered on all sides. The patties can be refrigerated for 3-4 hours or cooked immediately.

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6 . Heat the rest of the oil in a non-stick pan over mediumhigh heat and cook the patties for 3-4 minutes on each side,

1 . Put the tofu on a clean kitchen towel folded to the size of the tofu and cover with a second towel. Put a plate, cut­ ting board, or the like on top and put a weight of about one pound (try a textbook) to help press the excess water out of the tofu. Leave for an hour.

until they are well browned. Drain on paper towels and en­ joy immediately!

So here's to vegetarian living w ithout all the p ro cessed soy protein a n d artificial flavoring that is p resen t in m a n y o f the m ainstream veg­

3 . Put 2 tbsp oil into a large frying pan over high heat. When oil is hot add scallions, mushrooms, carrot, celery, and chili.

Saute for 3 minutes and then add mixture to the bowl of crumbled tofu. Stir in cilantro, soy sauce, and pepper to taste.

Mix well and salt to taste.

2 . Crumble the tofu into a large bowl until it has the consis­ tency of ground meat.

The great thing about these burgers is they will probably benefit from any other veggies you have in the fridge; try black beans, corn, chopped peppers, spinach, or whatever you can think of! ■

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C o m fo rt: Though you usually only have one neighbour, it can feel a little like sitting in the economy section of an airplane.

Level of comfort depends on how well you like your seatmate.

C o m fo rt: Seats are wide, cushy, and well enough spaced out that your knees and elbows are not constantly in someone's back or side.

P rice: Depends on which days you travel (weekends versus weekdays) as well as whether you choose to travel during the day or at night.

C o m p a re t h e cost: A Greyhound one-way bus ticket from Mon­ treal to Toronto, with an ISIC discount and leaving Friday morning is approximately $68 before tax.

P rice: Depends on the day and time, unless you purchase a stu­ dent six-pack.

C o m p a re th e cost: With a Via Rail sixpack, a one-way trip (with ISIC card) from Montreal to Toronto is approxi­ mately $70 .

F o o d a v a ila b ility : A cart comes along TOURWORLD.COM every few hours. It's a little pricey but not bad if yoLi've forgotten to bring something to eat.

T ra v e l tim e : Not needing to wait around in traffic does much

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W IN N E R : Train

T ra v e l tim e : In a word, LONG. Traffic, pit stops, and following the circuitous highway route keeps you keeping on trucking.

C o m p a re th e tim e : The shortest travel time between Montreal and Toronto is seven hours and 45 minutes.

More comfortable, nourishing, only slightly more costly and you won't waste an entire day on the road. And sometimes, there's even internet and outlets for laptops. Hop on, plug in, and get where you need to go. ■

to reduce travel time, not to mention taking the direct route through fields and forested areas alike. Keep in mind however that Canadian trains are notorious for being delayed, particu­ larly in the latter part of the day as late departures build up.

C o m p a re th e tim e : The shortest travel time between Montreal and Toronto is four hours and 45 minutes.

— Emma Cabrera-Aragôn

S T Y L E P R E V IE W

The eclectic meets the conventional at H&M F o r t h e f a s h io n - a w a r e , a n e w f a ll lin e p r o m is e s e x c i t i n g t i m e s Sarah X u On August 14 , Swedish clothing giant H&M opened their three-floor flagship store downtown on St. Catherine street. The company hasn't updated their collection since the store opening, however in November, the floors will be cleared for a special collection: Comme des Garçons's Rei Kawakubo will be designing a line for women and men, set to release in early November.

Comme des Garçons, a Japanese clothing label de­

signed by Rei Kawakubo, is known for its avant-garde designs and clothing with an asymmetric, androgynous, distressed, and Victorian feel to them. Kawakubo's past col­ lections included themes like "randomness", in which she sent models down the runway wearing clown-like pant­ suits, tutus, and sparkle capes (spring/summer 2 0 0 8 ), and "cubism", which is a more artistic collection featuring or­ ganza dresses under high waist jackets (fall/winter 2 0 0 6 ).

The Comme des Garçons H&M line fits in somewhere be­ tween eclectic and conventional clothing.

Unlike other designers H&M has collaborated with

in the past; Comme des Garçons was never a mainstream fashion label. Nevertheless, if history does repeat itself, this collection will be sold out the first day it arrives in stores.

The women's collection includes asymmetrical jackets, pea coats, a one-button blazer with tails, polka dotted shirts, and a Lolita styled dress with ruffles and detailing. For men, asymmetry and polka dots also makes an appearance. The designs are attractive and quirky, but only time will tell if Kawakubu can successfully sell her eclectic, avant-garde label to the trend-loving mass market. ■

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Go for the riots, stay for the rhythm A l o o k in s id e t h e b a n d s o f M o n t r e a l 's e x p l o s i v e p u n k s c e n e Kyle C arpenter January 13,1979. There were riots in the streets, beer bottles thrown at bands, and extensive damage to the neighbourhood. It was just another day at McGill University.

One of Montreal's earliest punk shows was held right here in the McGill Ballroom.

The damage to the university and surround­ ing property scared off Montreal promoters from booking punk acts for close to a year afterwards. However, this was not to be the end of punk in Montreal. Club Medley be­ came infamous five years ago when a riot broke out after Scottish punk band The Ex­ ploited were forced to cancel their concert after being denied border clearance. The re­ sult included damage to over 40 cars and 12 local businesses, with eight people hospital­ ized for injuries.

Rioting aside, there is much more to punk in Montreal than kids breaking things in the street—there are kids lining up to bash into each other indoors, as well. Foufounes Electriques (which earned the nickname "Canada's CBGB's") and similar venues have been host to a plethora of punk legends such as New Model Army, Social Distortion, and The Misfits. Last week Club Soda carried on the tradition by featuring political punk icons Anti-Flag, and on September 26 the city will host the fifth annual Montreal Chaos Fest, the highlight of the year for many Quebec punk enthusiasts.

Not only has Montreal hosted its share of renowned punk bands, it has also produced some serious contenders of its own. Local bands like Ripcordz—who will be one of the headliners for next Friday's Chaos Fest— have been shredding their way through scathing sets since the early 1980s. Ripcordz combine a heavy dose of punk with sounds of rock and hardcore. They've released 10 full-length albums, toured all across Canada, and were even endowed the title "Canada's Best Punk Band" by The Misfits. Ripcordz laid the foundation on which a multitude of Montreal punk bands now stand. One of these bands, Trigger Effect, has been called both "noise terrorists" and "the most dangerous band in Canada today." These tongue-in-cheek metalheads' latest release Dare to Ride the Heliocraft is a hard-hitting blend of punk and metal

that will leave your eardrums bleeding and begging for more.

Beneath their bad boy persona and ironic song titles there is an overwhelming rawness that sets them apart, even in a punk crowd. A Trigger Effect album will make a great addition to your punk roster, if you can handle it.

If you're not ready to walk that far on the wild side, then The Shifters might be the Montreal punk band you're looking for. With influences ranging from Social Distortion to Kyuss, The Shifters have more of a straight-up rock'n'roll approach.

They've built their fan base by playing with monster punk vet­ erans like The Vibrators and Rancid. Recently and fittingly, they

rocked the International Tattoo Convention right here in Mon­ treal. Their style of driving rock 'n' roll infused with punk and a touch of rockabilly makes them appealing for punk fans with more moderate tastes.

For punk fans who live for the sweating, screaming shows of a hardcore punk band, your sinful desires may be satisfied

by Ab Irato.Their blistering speed and throat-shredding vocals keeps the tradition of hardcore heroes like The Dead Kennedys and Minor Threat alive. This year, they will take the stage once S ee LA ISSEZ-FA IR E o n p a g e 19

P O P R H E T O R IC

W in d o w s to the future W il l ia m R o b in s o n

n September 5, Microsoft released its first ad in a new $300-million dollar campaign. Jerry Seinfeld, for the humble sum of $io-million dollars, stars op­ posite Bill Gates as the two discuss shoes and the future.

Visionary marketers Crispin Porter and Bogusky were hired to create the new ad in an attempt to lead Microsoft in a new and exciting direction. The consensus was that the youth of today crave absurdist humor. In much the same way that Seinfeld was a show about nothing, the 90 second ad clip brings about comedy from just that: nothing. And while most are professing, "I don't get it!" others are pro­ claiming it to be a work of genius.

The ad begins cryptically enough as Jerry Seinfeld, iehurro in hand, makes a double-take upon seeing Bill Gates in a shopping mall. Looking up to see what store could possibly entice the multi-billionaire, he reads, "Shoe Circus!

Quality shoes at discount prices. Why Pay More?"While half the internet community thinks that the store represents the PC world (which offers far lower prices than the Apple world), the others are claiming that what comes next is an

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uncovering of the farce that is Apple and the Apple Store.

The duo's discussion begins with a questioning of the Conquistador (a tight running shoe) and its ability to stretch. As Seinfeld begins vigorously bending the shoe, he finally suggests a more unconventional method for maxi­ mizing shoe comfort. He's speaking, of course, of the ben­ efits of wearing clothing in the shower, "You're dressed and you're clean. Open the door and go about your business."

Perhaps a deeper meaning lies within this mind-boggling statement. Perhaps metaphor seeps through the very fab­ ric of Microsoft's television campaign. However, for the sake of absurdity, intended meaning seems to have been done away with, as the ad leaves the complex interpreta­ tions up to the viewer. Everyone knows that Microsoft, at the cost of being adaptable, is not user-friendly.

The second ad was released last Friday. It stars bil­ lionaire Bill Gates and millionaire Jerry Seinfeld attempt­ ing to experience the real world by living with a normal family. Similarly constructed, this one has Bill do the robot, as opposed to the butt wiggle from the first ad's ending

sequence. Beyond the strange humor, the lack of branding is astonishing. Windows is never mentioned, Microsoft is mentioned once in passing and the Windows logo is only flashed briefly at the very end of the ad. Microsoft, purg­ ing itself of its old image, appears to be working on a new slogan, "The Future. Delicious." and "Perpetually Connect­ ing. PC." Quirky and optimistic, this line of branding might be the only way Microsoft may undo the damage done by Apple.

In fact, they make Apple look like a desperate Re­ publican candidate hoping to slander their opponents in a negative ad campaign. Microsoft doesn't even acknowl­ edge Apple in the ad, as they certainly shouldn't. With their recent mishap in releasing perhaps the worst operating system ever made, Microsoft is scrambling to improve its own camp. Offering something more palatable than Vista should definitely be Gates' top priority. Hence the first slogan's emphasis on the delicious nature of the future, a glimmer of hope for PC companies attempting to stomach a poisoned Apple.»

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M U S IC

BO O KS

New sound, dressed vintage for Caracol

Canadian author hits the road

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Caracol's music tells it as it is, whether it's folk, pop, or even Hawaiian ballroom. Montreal-based singer/songwriter Carole Facal, otherwise known as Caracol, launched her debut solo album L 'arbre a u x P a rfu m s la s t week. Caracol is rocking a new and more mature sound, singing mainly in French with a few English tracks.

After many years of touring and producing music with the band DobaCaracol, Facal decided to take matters into her own hands and play solo under the name Caracol. While traditional African, South American, and European sounds influenced DobaCaracol, as a solo artist Caracol now focuses on pop-infused folk. Caracol was musically inspired on the road as she toured with DobaCaracol, and by the end of their last tour, she knew it was time to move in a new direction.

"I went through a lot of things with them emo­ tionally, you know, with the travelling and all the movement. We didn't have the same vision of the future,"Caracol reflects.

Her new solo album L'arbre a u x P a rfu m s features a vintage and "old-school"theme.

"For me, it was all part of a big concept," says Caracol. "I was inspired by retro-music, music from the 40s, 50s, and 60s, old-school jazz, big band, film score, and barbershop quartet... these are things I really love these days."

Striving for an authentic sound, Caracol uses

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old instruments such as worn drums, antiquated guitars, an autoharp, and the ukulele on her album and at live shows. While these instruments help her maintain an earthy feel, they certainly don't diminish the sound quality. Caracol produces a clean, original sound both during live performances and on L'arbre aux Parfums. As well as being music to your ears, Car­ acol's performances are a visually stimulating expe­ rience. Her CD launch at Savoy was spiced up with red fog, old-fashioned photos, and wine barrels to showcase the vintage theme of her album.

"Everybody dressed up. It was really like a movie production almost. The photos were treated in an old style," Caracol says of the photo project for the album.

L'arb re a u x P a rfu m s was produced by Sébas­ tien Blais-Montpetit (DJ Champion et ses G-Strings), and was recorded in three months. Between that time and the launch, Caracol already started gath­ ering new ideas and writing new songs. She'll have plenty more time to get inspired on the road as she leaves to go off on her first European solo tour next month.

However, it's not all fun and games with Cara­ col. Her honest and genuine lyrics explore the dark­ er side of raw human emotion through descriptions of love, anger, and contempt. She emphasizes the importance of speaking the truth and telling things as they are. At the same time, she tends to include some sarcasm in her music— this is where the Ha­ waiian ballroom comes in. Caracol produces music for dancing and for pondering: two equally signifi­ cant goals of her art. ■

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Like many writers, Miriam Toews draws inspiration for her novels from her own life and experiences. What sets this Canadian author apart from the rest is that her life may contain more interesting reading material than others.

Born into a Mennonite community outside of Winnipeg, Toews grew up in a very religious and claustrophobic environment. "My family was quite liberal," Toews explains. "But they were, you know, Mennonite."

Her Mennonite childhood formed the basis of her third book, A C o m p lic a te d K indness, which was nominated for the Giller Prize and awarded the Governor General's Award in 2004. Exploring the experiences of a teenage girl coming-ofage in a strict religious community, A Complicated Kindness gives an inside glimpse into a society not often seen from the outside.

Toews's newest book, The F ly in g T ro u ts m a n s , tells the story of a woman still trying to figure out how to « *» ...... » mmtpUtmèê kmàmm* care for herself when she is called back to Canada to care for her sister's chil­ dren. Having long suffered from depression, her sister Min is now being commited to a hospital. At a loss for what to do with two children, Hattie takes her 11-year-old niece The­ bes and her 15-year-old nephew Logan on a roadtrip across America to find their father.

This leads to the pre­ dictable car troubles, sib­ ling rivalry, tense nerves, and bonding that we've come to expect from the road-trip genre, but the book is anything but un­ original. With characters as quirky as misfit Thebes, and as real as Logan and Hattie, the reader cannot help but be drawn into the Ford Aerostar with them— sparkles, bad music, and all.

The influence of Toews's life can also be seen in the authenticity of the chil­ dren and their often hilarious exchanges. With three university-aged children, Toews has spent plenty of time around kids. "I saw and heard a lot of kids coming through with their friends... There's the speech patterns, the things that upset them. There's... the types of jokes and certain things that they found funny. I tried to pay attention to that."

Hattie and the children also face the difficulties of loving a family member suffering from depression. Toews's own father was diagnosed with depression when he was 17 years old and suffered from the illness his entire life. "Sometimes he'd be fine and healthy, but then inevitably, the way the illness works, it can come and go,"Toews explains."It was horrible, particularly for him, but it affects the fam­ ily. It's hard. I can't really think of a single family I know of that hasn't been affected in some way by some aspect of mental illness."

It is her intimate knowledge of the subject matter that inevitably makes Toews's novels feel so truthful and real. Her writing is sparse and straight to the point.There is no fancy language or drawn-out descriptions.This basic straightfor­ wardness at first seems flippant and even childish, but the story does more than enough work to show that this is not the case. For example, Logan is the most reserved character and his face is usually hidden in the shadows of his hoodie. But his boyish yearning to be rid of his family, mixed with his tragic fear of losing them forever, is clearly revealed and strikes a deep chord within the reader.

Hattie herself is presented as knowing no more than the kids about what to do when her sister is diagnosed with depression. "I relate to Hattie in the sense of her confusion and bewilderment in terms of ... wanting to know what to do for her kids," Toews says. "She loves them, she loves her sister, and she wants to take care of them and be there for them. But also she wants to figure out her own life, and she's stressed out and she's not always behaving in so called'appropriate' ways with kids, and then 'gosh I shouldn't have said this or shouldn't have done th a t'... But it's just relating to that: the fact that as parents we love these kids and we do our best, and we do screw up along the way and wonder."

Already starting to think about her next novel,Toews is currently completing a cross-country book tour. It's unlikely that this trip will be as exciting as the one the Troutsmans take in her novel, but for Toews's sake, that's probably a good thing. ■

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FILM

Coen brothers deliver lots of smoke, but no fire D a rk c o m e d y c o m b in e s u n c o v e n t io n a l h u m o u r w it h t a le n t e d c a s t C arolyn G régoire

If pure, unchecked silliness and incongruously random humor is your thing, then Burn After Reading, the new film from writer/director power duo the Coen Brothers may be just the comedy you've been waiting for. Promising little in the way of logicality and plot flow, this sometimes funny but often just plain weird film features a new sort of nonsensical humor that prides itself on displaying little to no rhyme or reason There’s nothing to "get,"and most of the jokes are funny simply by virtue of their randomness and absurdity, as well as the fact that every­ thing that can go wrong does.

John Malkovich stars as Osbourne"Ozzy"Cox, a disgruntled former CIA agent who has just been fired for a drinking prob­ lem and proceeds to get drunk and start writing his secret-filled memoirs. Through a series of accidents, a disk containing the memoirs ends up on the floor of the women's locker room at Hardbodies fitness center and into the hands of half-witted gym employees Chad and Linda, played by Brad Pitt and Fran­ ces McDormand. Together Chad and Linda try to blackmail Cox for enough reward money to pay for the cosmetic surgery that Linda so desires. George Clooney makes a great supporting role as a paranoid sex addict who gets wrapped up in the whole mess after meeting Linda through an online dating site.

While the film's unconventional sense of humor will notappeal to all audiences, the Coen Brothers succeed with a talented cast and well-developed characters. Although it's rather comi­ cal at first to see brad Pitt in spandex bike shorts with horribly over-gelled and badly bleached hair, slurping a Jamba Juice and dancing to the techno beats on his iPod, by the end of the film his gym-rat antics are more annoying than amusing.

This darkly farcical comedy is characterized by a bizarre absurdist sense of humor and an array of disparate scenes and characters that come together in unexpected ways as the film takes abrupt twists and turns. A goofy comedy that succeeds on some but not all counts, the audience is left rather baffled, likely with the film's oft-repeated phrase running through their mind: "What the f*ck?" ■

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Quebec has quickly become the it-province for up-and-coming Cana­ dian bands, so music enthusiasts should stay tuned for the Quebec Indie Music Awards show (GAMIQ). Previous award-winners Arcade Fire and Pat­ rick Watson helped put La Belle Province on the indie music map, and this year's nominees promise to continue their legacy.

The third annual GAMIQ awards, produced by the Quebec Indepen­ dent Music Association, will take place on September 21 at Montreal's Co­ rona Theatre. Votes were tallied online until September 6 for the nominees, who were all artists with Quebec albums released between June 1,2007 and May 31,2008. Both the public and a jury of 200 key players in the indie music industry will vote to determine the winners in such categories as Artist of the Year, Songwriter of the Year, and International Career of the Year. Nomi­ nees were announced on August 6 by the anglophone and francophone jury, who will make up 50 per cent of the final vote. The other half of the votes will come from the public.

Arcade Fire were the big winners at last year's awards, claiming the ti­ tles of International Career of the Year and Show ofTheYear. Patrick Watson was awarded Artist of the Year and Songwriter of the Year. This year's nomi­ nees for Artist of the Year are Gatineau, Ghislain Poirier, Karkwa, Plants and Animals, and McGill grads We Are Wolves. Nominees for Indie Pop Album of the Year include Islands' A rm 's Way, Creature's N o T im e fo r Sleep, and Torngat's You C o u ld Be. A complete list of nominees can be found at www.gamiq.ca.

Rémi-Pierre Paquin will be hosting the event on Setember 21. Paquin was discovered by the public for playing Réroi alias Psyro in the radio drama Les In v in c ib le s on Radio-Canada, going on to play the role of Femina Mag­ azine's publisher in R um eu rs. This summer Rémi-Pierre Paquin is also pre­ paring the debut release of his band Balboa for this fall, for which he sings and plays guitar, on top of filming the third season of Les in v in c ib le s . Perfor­ mances for the awards show have not yet been announced.

Destination GAMIQ tour, presented by Yaris and Bang Bang Magazine to promote the GAMIQ awards, will be making a stop in Montreal at Under­ world on September 20th as a part of its tour throughout Quebec. Nomi­ nees Gatineau, Empire ISIS, Misteur Valaire, Lesbo Vrouven, Millimetrik, Les Psycho Riders, Maître J, and Payz are on board. ■

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again at Montreal Chaos Fest 5. Ab Irato will be per­ forming alongside Edmonton rockers SNFU, Ripcordz and many others at the event on Friday, September 26.

Alternative bar L'Hemisphere Gauche will be host to the boisterous booze-fuelled show, and for $15 you can get in on the action. However, if you're looking for a band with a more modern approach, The Sainte Catherines are up to the challenge. The band is signed to NOFX's Fat Mike's punk label, Fat Wreck Chords, which features notable bands like Anti-Flag and Rise Against. This year, they released a DVD/CD with 25 exclusive tracks entitled The S o d a M a c h in e . The Sainte Catherines' sound shows

a well-crafted musicianship beneath its sheer power. With such controlled chaos and song titles like"Burn Guelph Burn,"these punks do Quebec proud.

The Montreal punk scene has come a long way since its humble roots in the 1970s and 80s. It has left the underground and grown into a widely heard and re­ vered genre. With so many different styles of punk and even more different local bands taking the stage every night, we haven't heard the last of Montreal punks. ■

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C D R e v ie w s Id lers. C orner. Canada's east coast has

recently become a surprise hotbed for homegrown ska. Bedouin Soundclash from Halifax was one of the first bands to popularize east coast ska with "When the Night Feels My Song."

Idlers' release C o rn e r shows that the band aims to benefit from the at­ tention drawn by that other popular trio. C o rn e r references nineties ska, which is both a strength and a tell­ ing weakness. Frontman Mark Wilson sounds uncomfortably like the late Brad Nowell of Sublime and the rest of the band is at times far too happy to tread in the footsteps of the ska legends. Unlike Sublime, who favoured black humor, Idlers keep it highbrow by commenting on local political and social issues. Idlers'greatest strength lies in their ability to meld ska/reggae with unlikely bits from folk and jazz. C o rne r's standout track "Little Wood Stove" is an upbeat number that allows Idlers to add some swagger to their repertoire. "Jiggerman" and "Guns of Navarone"are single contenders with strong harmonies, rich instrumentation, and solid hooks. However, tracks like "Massive Change" hint at Idlers tendency to fall back on tired generic elements. All in all, Idlers C o rn e r is a solid album, with a sonic complexity — N ik i H yd e

Carlos Del Junco. S te a d y M ovin'. Carlos Del Junco's fourth solo album, S te a d y M o v in ' is bringing harmonica back. A heavy statement, but no big feat for the two-time World Harmonica Champ. The Cuban-Canadian blues-man of Toronto showcases his many years of diverse experience (with a background in R&B, swing, and jazz) in his latest effort, cov­ ering multiple genres in an 11-track CD. A little much to take in at first, S te a d y M o v in ' is a record you'll have to run through a couple of times before the tracks that at first seemed like the theme from an 80s superhero sitcom start to feel fresh and unique, but they'll soon have you casually two-stepping around the room. Del Junco wields his harmonica like a deadly weapon, backed by a tight band and producing a CD that covers two-step rockabilly, tradi­ tional blues, and James Brownian funk. Del Junco is one of those artists that parents have loved for years and most of us are just starting to appreciate now. No matter the case, the man gives new meaning to the term "killer harmonica solo."

— M a r g o t B is h o p

ADAM SCOTTI For th o s e y o u w h o m issed T h e S tills' p e rfo rm a n c e a t M e tro p o lis d u rin g fro s h , b e sure to c h e c k o u t th e b a n d o n S e p te m b e r 2 7 a t Just Fo r L au g h s T h e a tre .

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P eo p le in Planes. B e y o n d th e H o riz o n .

If th e y had a h o o k th ey'd be there.

People in Planes m akes a n th e m -lik e in die-rock th a t is g o o d on paper, but n o t w h e re it counts. G reat g u ita r riffs and softness keeps th e ir rock-pop straddling p u n k accessible, yet People in Planes usually sounds like a n o th e r b an d that's b een overplayed on th e radio. G areth Jones's voice is like a g re a t cocktail: sm ooth, goes d o w n easy, b u t w ith th a t little h in t o f s o m e ­ th in g to rem in d you th a t there's p o ­ te n tia l in th e re. U n fo rtu n ately, B e y o n d th e H o riz o n never fu lly d evelops th a t p o te n tia l, a lth o u g h it gets close w ith "Flesh and B lood .'Th e electric g u ita r is g re a t (show cased best on "I W ish You'd Fall A part") an d th e songs are in of­ fensive, to th e p o in t w h e re if it's playing in th e backgrou nd you m ig h t not n o tice th a t it's on.

Form ed in W ales by Jones and guitarist Peter Roberts, w h o first united in high school, th e band's seen g re a t co m m ercial success in Britain w ith th e ir d e b u t a lb u m As F a r as th e Eye C an See. Even th o u g h B e y o n d th e H o riz o n sounds like it's fro m any o th e r band on th e radio, P eople in Planes is lo aded w ith p o te n tia l. H o p efu lly th e y 'll release it on th e ir n ext alb u m .

Tuesday: Music. F re n c h K ic k & T h e W h ig s . La Sala Rosa. Kick y o u r heels up w ith Brooklyn ga ra g e -ro c k p o s t-p u n k band French Kicks, ta k in g th e stage w ith S outh ern in die rockers T h e W higs.

Parc. Wrapping up the Roman Polanski film event is the absurdist 1972 comedy about a young girl in Italy who makes friends with a retired pimp. Like Alice in Wonderland but hot.

W e d n e s d a y : Film. P ro je c t o n E u ro ­ p e a n C in e m a . C in é m a th è q u e Q uébécoise.

T h e o p e n in g n ig h t o f PEC, an in te rn a tio n a l conference presented at M cG ill w h ic h e x a m ­ ines th e role o f streets and roads in c o n te m ­ porary European c in em a. Free adm ission.

Friday: M usic. L a n d o f T a lk . La Sala

Rosa. M on treal's n e x t big th in g , to u rin g w ith Broken Social Scene next m o n th . Lead sing­ er Elizabeth Powell has s o m e th in g to say.

Bands like this should be th e reason you live in M o n tre a l.

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sets. C lub Soda. A ustralian electronic duos pair up for a n ig h t o f m usic th a t w o u ld m ake a kangaroo dance. C o m e excited, leave tired and happy. You'll reg ret m issing this one.

Sunday: T heatre. S u n d a y N ig h t Im p ro v . T h eatre St. C atherine. Find o u t w h o w ill be th e last o n e standin g in an all-star survivor im p ro v show.

Monday: A rt. D ra w in g in a F o re ig n L a n g u a g e . W ild er & Davis G alleryon Rue Rachel. Exhibit o f D onal Andrus's w ork. A Scottish artist draw s a b o u t d raw ing.

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More heartbreak on the gridiron for McGill R e d m e n s q u a n d e r le a d in f i n a l s e c o n d s o f S h a u g h n e s s y C u p M a t t C hesser

For the McGill Redmen, 13 was an unlucky number on Friday night. Dropping their tenth consecutive regular season game last weekend, the Redmen were left heartbroken as the Concordia Stingers pulled off a dramatic come-from-behind victory. With 13 seconds remaining. Stingers'RB Devon Mitchell Jr. plunged into the end zone for a touchdown, clinching a 4641 victory in the Shaughnessy Cup game at Molson Stadium.

The loss drops the Redmen to 0-2 this season, while Concordia improved to 2-0.

McGill held a 41-36 lead with five minutes remaining after QB Matt Connell connected on a 29-yard touchdown pass to WR Tim Kraemer. A 25-yard field goal by Concordia's

Rene Paredes w ith ju st u n d er th re e m in u te s le ft to play and a costly tw o -a n d -o u t by th e M cG ill offen ce set th e stage for M itc h e ll Jr.'s g a m e -w in ­ ning to u c h d o w n .

"I th in k w e m u st have a crooked horseshoe," said C onnell. "W e n ever catch th e last break in th e s e gam es. But to d a y show ed th a t w e have s o m e th in g g o o d to build on, a n d I still th in k w e're go in g to b e a heck o f a te a m this season.

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ADAMSCOTTI C o n n e ll t u r n e d in a n o th e r p ro lific p a s s in g p e r fo rm a n c e .

While luck might have played a part in the loss, the Redmen still have many of the same deficiencies that plagued the team in last year's winless season. The run defence was virtually non-ex­ ADAM SCOTTI istent on Friday night, as Con­ T h e R e d m e n d id n o t s to p th e S tin g e rs as o fte n as th is p ic tu re w o u ld le a d y o u t o b e lie v e . cordia racked up 326 yards on the ground, including 99 by touchdown receptions at McGill— previously held by Greg Stingers' QB Liam Mahoney.

Conversely, the Redmen running game continues to be in­ Heatherington, who caught 15 touchdowns in his time with effective and underutilized; despite preseason promises by the Redmen.

Sophomore DT Ben Thompson and freshman DL David Head Coach Sonny Wolfe that the Red 'n'White would employ Daumec were bright spots on defence for McGill. Both line­ a ground game to balance their aerial attack, McGill called men pressured Mahoney throughout the night. Daumec, in only 10 rushing plays. TB David Friedman led the team with his first CIS game, had four solo tackles and two sacks. The de­ 32 yards on six carries. McGill's special teams were ineffective as well, as the Redmen began drives with poor field position fensive backs, led by CB Greg Landry who had an interception, three tackles and a blocked punt, held the Stingers' passing throughout the game. "[Concordia] had great field position all day off of their attack in check for most of the night.

"We've got roughly 20 freshmen on the team right now kick returns, and that's something we didn't have today," said and they're doing a real good job for us,"said Landry. "After last Wolfe. "It's one thing in a whole gamut of areas we have to im­ prove, though. Our kids battled hard for 60 minutes, and we season we needed some new faces in here to freshen things up and challenge us in practice. They're making some fresh­ did everything but win." men mistakes out there right now, but all things considered they've adapted quite well."

A e ria l a tta c k s till shines Concordia has now defeated McGill in nine consecutive Once again, Connell put up gaudy numbers in a losing effort as the CIS all-time completions leader went 29 for 40 contests, dating back to 2002. The two teams combined for for 440 yards with four touchdowns and an interception. Last 1,035 net yards of offence and 88 points—the second highest year's McGill Male Athlete of the Year, Charles-Antoine Sinotte, point total between the two squads in school history.

The Redmen will look to earn their first win of the nascent led all receivers with nine catches for 150 yards, while WR Erik Galas pulled in two touchdowns to break the record for career season on Friday as they take on the Bishop's Gaiters (0-2) at Molson Stadium at 7 p.m. in the "Fill the Stadium" game. ■

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I can't quit yo u , cycling ou've d o n e it all, Lance A rm strong. A fte r b e a tin g can­ cer, w in n in g th e Tour d e France seven consecutive tim es, e arn in g th e scorn o f th e French m e d ia , and d a t­ ing Ashley O lsen, th e re isn't m uch else you could d o to im ­ press m e. Your fo u n d a tio n has raised in cred ib le am o u n ts o f m o n e y to c o m b a t cancer. Your story is in spiratio nal to m il­ lions o f p eo p le aro u n d th e w o rld . W hat's le ft for you to do?

"I'm go in g back to professional cycling. I'm g o in g to try to w in an eig h th consecutive Tour d e France."

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Lance, you're 37. The oldest person to win the Tour de France was 36-year old Firmin Lambot. But that was in 1922.

No other winner has been older than 34. What makes you think, after three years away from competitive cycling, that you can even finish the race, let alone win it?

"O lder ath letes are p e rfo rm in g very w ell. Ask serious sports physiologists a n d th e y 'll tell you a g e is a w iv e s 'ta le .

A th letes at 30, 35 g e t m e n ta lly tire d . T h e y 'v e d o n e th e ir sport fo r 20, 25 years and th e y 're like, 'I've had enoug h.' But there's no e vid en ce to s u p p o rt th a t w h e n you're 38 you're any slow er th a n w h e n you w e re 32."

I suppose that's tru e . But w hy, exactly, are you cing again? W h a t could you possibly have to g ain fro m an e ig h th Tour d e France title , aside fro m g e ttin g A m erica to care a b o u t cycling fo r th e first tim e in th re e years?

"I've decided to race again...to talk about the global circumstances of [cancer]...It's not a Canadian issue, an Australian issue, or a Japanese issue. It's an international issue."

That's very respectable. There certainly is a need for cancer awareness, and who better to raise that awareness than you? The federal budget for the National Cancer Insti­ tute actually decreased one per cent in 2006, the year after your last race. 1,500 people die from cancer in America on a daily basis.

"People start to take that as just part of the deal. And it shouldn't be. If cancer got a whole new name tomorrow, and a whole new set of fears associated with it, and it had the toll that it does, we would [work harder to find a cure]."

But how are you going to work to combat cancer on your own personal tour? What can the public learn that it doesn't already know? Oh, I see—tobacco. Cigarettes ac­ count for 30 per cent of all cancer deaths, according to the American Cancer Society.

"It's the only product you can buy, and if you follow the instructions, it will kill you. 24 states and D.C. are now smoke-free—we're aiming for all 50."

That's very admirable. But aren't we forgetting some­ thing here? It seems like half of the world thinks that ste­

*all quotes taken from "Lance Armstrong Rides Again", Vanity Fair Web Exclusive, September 9,2008

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roids fueled your seven victories. Former World Anti-Dop­ ing Agency President Richard Pound, who is also Chancellor of McGill University, has led that charge under a very public spotlight. Would you say that revenge has something to do with this?

"There's a little of that revenge spirit in me now...The year that I won the Tour, many of the guys that got second through tenth, a lot of them are gone...I can understand why people look at that and go,'Well, [they] were caught— and you weren't?'So there is a nice element here where... there will be no way to cheat."

That is true as well. If you win next year, your detractors will not have any semblance of an argument against you.

But what if you don't win? L'Equipe, the French newspaper that accused you of steroid use in 2005, is probably dream­ ing of the potential headlines already. Pound is preparing his public statement. If you perform poorly, you will be remembered as the record-breaking champion who likely cheated and then choked his second time around. The 10 years you spent building a brilliant reputation could easily be forgotten, just because you're choosing to put your foot to the pedal one last time.

Actually, who am I kidding? Of course you'll win. You're Lance Armstrong. ■

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B o th h a ve a s p ira tio n s o f re a c h in g n a tio n a ls , b o th o p e n e d th e se a son o n a s o m e w h a t d is a p p o in tin g n o te o n F rid a y n ig h t a n d b o th e a rn e d a m e a s u re o f r e d e m p tio n b y w in n in g th e ir h o m e o p e n e rs o n S u n d a y n ig h t.

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The ninth-ranked Martlets fell to the second-ranked Uni­ versity of Montreal Carabins 3-0 on Friday night at CEPSUM Stadium.The game-winning goal was scored only six minutes into the contest by forward Éva Thouvenot-Hébert, and the Martlets never recovered.

"W e w a n te d to b o u n c e b a c k a fte r a v e ry ro u g h p e r fo r ­ m a n c e o n F rid a y ,"sa id C oa ch M a rc h M o u n ic o t." [U n iv e r s ity o f] M o n tre a l is th e b e s t te a m in th e le a g u e so far, a n d w e g a v e th a t g a m e a w ay. O u r g irls k n e w th a t. [O n S u n d a y ], w e tr ie d to n o t g iv e a n y g o a ls to th e o p p o s itio n a n d t o g e t s o m e m o m e n ­ tu m a n d c o n fid e n c e back."

In that respect, Sunday's game was a mission accom­ plished. Defenceman Tania Giannone opened the scoring for the Martlets against UQAM, converting a header from a beautiful corner kick by midfielder Vanessa Salasky in the 25th minute. Star forward Magalie Kolker shot home a rebound off of Citadin goalkeeper Vicky Duplessis in the 41st minute, and forward Marie-Jasmine Lalonde-Parsi came off the bench to rocket a shot past Duplessis only three minutes after Kolker's strike.

T h e M a rtle ts ' d e fe n c e w a s as im p re s s iv e as its o ffe n c e .

F re sh m a n g o a lk e e p e r S h im o n e S lo m o w itz k e p t th e c le a n s h e e t fo r M c G ill, b u t sh e w a s a id e d b y a s tiflin g p e rfo rm a n c e b y th e M a rtle ts ' d e fe n c e , w h o h e ld U Q A M to n in e s h o ts , b u t v e ry fe w real o p p o r tu n itie s . S lo m o w itz , h o w e v e r, w a s c a lle d to s te p u p in an im p o r ta n t ju n c tu r e in th e g a m e . G o in g u p fo r a h e a d e r in th e M a r tle ts 'b o x , U Q A M 's C a ro lin e G e lin a s d re w a

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o p e n e r Scholefield dribbled towards the net and rocketed a shot past Rouge for an insurance goal in the 63rd minute.

Obaid also had a goal taken away for offsides in the 32nd minute.

T h e R e d m e n d id n o t p u t th e m ­ selves in p o s itio n to score q u ite as o fte n as th e y w o u ld h a v e lik e d , re g ­ is te rin g o n ly s e ve n s h o ts o n g o a l.

"W e w e re a lit tle b it d is a p p o in t­ e d a fte r th e fir s t h a lf,''s a id E u lla ffro y .

"W e th o u g h t w e h a d g o o d c h a n ce s F o u r-p o in t w e e k e n d t o score, a n d w e o n ly s c o re d o n c e .

Immediately after the Mart­ T h e g a m e c o u ld h a v e b e e n m u c h lets concluded their thrashing of d iffe re n t." the Citadins, the Redmen came S c h o le fie ld , a fo r m e r a ll-C a n a d i­ onto the field. Coming off a hardan in his fift h y e a r w ith th e R e d m e n , fought 1-1 draw with the Carabins, r e tu rn e d to th e fie ld a fte r m is s in g the Red 'n' White defeated the th e o p e n e r w ith a s p o rts h e rn ia in ­ Citadins 2-0 on Sunday. But their ju r y . His s e rv ic e s w e re im m e d ia te ly win was not quite as dominant as p u t t o use. C o m in g o ff th e b e n c h in the Martlets', and Coach Philippe th e s e c o n d h a lf, h e s c o re d th e in s u r­ Eullaffroy was not entirely pleased a n c e g o a l m in u te s later. with his team's effort.

"I lo v e h o m e o p e n e rs," S c h o le ­ "It's a win, but we played only fie ld said. "I tr ie d to g e t th e c ro w d 45 or 50 good minutes," Eullaffroy in to it. I w a s ju s t e x c ite d to b e o u t said. "We played well for the first 25 minutes of both halves. It was J am es S c h o le fie ld , s e c o n d fro m le ft, c e le b ra te s th e re . It w a s a m a z in g . I'm b a c k fo r m y la s t season, so I've g o t to m a k e it not a very good game overall. It's his s e c o n d -h a lf g o a l w ith his te a m m a te s . special." three points in the standings, but S c h o le fie ld 's e x c ite m e n t w a s p a lp a b le , as th e c ro w d o f we'll have to play a bit better if we want to make the play­ 317 rose to its fe e t w h e n h e ru s h e d across th e p itc h a fte r s c o r­ offs." in g his firs t g o a l th is season.

Midfielder Sami Obaid was the hero for the Redmen on "I to ld th e g u y s th a t if w e tie o n th e ro a d a n d w in a t h o m e , Sunday scoring the game-winning goal and setting up the insurance marker. Only three minutes into the game, Obaid w e 'll b e c h a m p io n s ," said E u lla ffro y . "S o if w e can k e e p u p th is p ace, w e a re in p e r fe c t shape." knocked the ball past UQAM goalie Alexandre Rouge, who T h e R e d m e n p la y C o n c o rd ia fo llo w in g th e M a rtle ts ' could not control the rebound off of a header from midfielder Shawn Amarasekera. In the second half, Obaid lobbed a pass m a tc h . T h e g a m e is s c h e d u le d fo r 8 p .m . a t M o ls o n S ta d iu m .

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questionable foul against McGill's Elizabeth Williams. A converted penalty kick would have made the score 1-1 late in the first half.

But Slomowitz dove to her right, turning away Gelinas's shot.

The Martlets will try to keep up their newfound momentum at home against Concordia this Thursday, at 6 p.m.

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T h e R e d m e n lo o k to c o n tin u e th e ir success th is sea­ so n d e s p ite t h e k e y loss o f re c e n tly g ra d u a te d s ta n d o u t P a tric k D o w le r, a fo r m e r c a p ta in w ith a re lia b le th r o w ­ in g a rm a n d o u ts ta n d in g d e c is io n -m a k in g a b ilitie s , a n d y o u n g p ro s p e c t N ic k S piva w h o tra n s fe rre d to th e U n iv e rs ity o f C o lo ra d o . T h e p e rs o n n e l c h a n g e s h a ve le ft th e R e d m e n w ith s o m e w o rk to d o o n c h e m is try a n d tim in g , tw o s o ft s p o ts th a t w e re a p p a re n t in a 14-9 o p e n in g n ig h t e x h ib itio n loss t o th e M o n tre a l D e m o n , a to p -le v e l c lu b te a m . T h e g a m e w a s c u t s h o rt d u e to th e F o rb e s Field lig h ts b e in g s h u t o f f e a rly.

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Handler and cutter Demetri Giannitsios, a me­ chanical engineering PhD candidate, should remain a force as part of a returning core that includes Kuzmowycz and the reliable Piotr Mankowski. Head Coach and former Montreal Mephisto club team standout Jeremy Shaki will look to these returning veterans to comple­ ment and mentor a large pool of rookie standouts, 11 in total, including handlers Sebastian Hayto and Joe Dechery. With the influx of youth into the roster, McGill has an opportunity to change its offensive style.

The Redmen are diminishing the level of risk in their offence this season. According to returning han­ dler Tobias Froelich, the attacking unit will need to focus more on its short game and limit dropped passes in a West Coast style offence instead of relying on the risky deep pass as they did last season. A West Cost offence may be less flashy than an offence that features many deep passes, but when executed well, it leaves less to chance. This dramatic change in the offensive scheme may lead to a few shaky moments in the short term, but the Redmen's disc control will certainly improve in the long run.

Competitive showings at the upcoming Ultimate Players Association sectional tournament in Hanover, New Hampshire, and the Canadian Eastern tournament hosted in Montreal would set up this year's McGill Ulti­ mate team for a successful 2008 campaign. But with a new system and new personnel in place, the Redmen will have to work harder than in years past to return to the national championship. ■

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After the success of last year's Corey Cup hock­ ey game at the Bell Centre, which drew the largest crowd for a university hockey game in Montreal since 1968, the McGill Athletics Department is looking to promote the football program with its first annual "Fill the Stadium"game between the Redmen and the Bishop's Gaiters on Friday. The event is the brainchild of Redmen hockey rearguard Ken Morin, who orga­ nized the Corey Cup game last year as a fundraising event for varsity teams at McGill. Similar to the Bell Centre event, each varsity team can purchase tickets from McGill Athletics at the discounted price of one dollar each. The varsity squads can then sell the tick­ ets at their $5 face value to raise money for team ex­ penses.

"After the success of the Corey Cup game last year, we thought it would be a great idea to repeat an event of that magnitude on our own campus," said Morin. "Molson Stadium is probably the nicest stadi­ um in all of Quebec and it's right in the middle of our campus, so it gives us a great venue to help fundraise and create enthusiasm for athletics at McGill."

Prior to the kickoff, which is scheduled for 7 p.m., a pre-game tailgate party will be held in the McCon­ nell Arena parking lot. The pre-game festivities start at 4:30 p.m. and will feature live music from local folk rocker Shane Murphy, as well as traditional tailgat­ ing staples such as hamburgers, hot dogs, and beer.

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A p u n t, pass, a n d k ic k s kills c o m p e titio n fo r M o n tre a l re g io n m in o r le a g u e fo o tb a ll te a m s w ill a lso ta k e p la c e b e fo re th e g a m e , a n d th e to p p e rfo rm e rs w ill be h o n o u re d d u r in g h a lftim e .

The ambitious halftime show will feature 350 cheerleaders from McGill and Bishop's, as well as from Montreal regional cheerleading teams. If time permits, teams representing McGill's Students' Soci­ ety and Bishop's Students' Representa.tive Council will compete in a game of tug of war.

"W e n e e d to s ta g e e v e n ts , ra th e r th a n ju s t gam es," said M c G ill D ire c to r o f A th le tic s D re w Love.

"O n e o f th e th in g s w e d id th is y e a r w a s to m o v e o u r fo o tb a ll g a m e s to F rid a y n ig h ts , to a llo w th e s tu d e n t b o d y to c o m e a n d e x p e rie n c e a g a m e b e fo re th e y g o d o w n to w n fo r th e e v e n in g . W e 'v e u p g ra d e d o u r c o n c e s s io n s ta n d s , a d d e d h a lftim e s h o w s , a n d c re ­ a te d e v e n ts lik e th e ta ilg a te p a rty in o rd e r to c re a te a fu n a tm o s p h e re a ro u n d o u r g a m e s , so th a t— w in o r lo s e — o u r fa n s e n jo y th e ir n ig h t."

Love estimated that attendance for the game would be approximately 7,000-8,000 including the free tickets given to minor football teams and chil­ dren 12 and under.

"T h e re 's n o d o u b t th a t a b ig c ro w d is s o m e th in g w e c a n fe e d o ff o f fo r th e g a m e ," sa id R e d m e n fo o t­ b a ll w id e re c e iv e r E rik G alas. "M c G ill s tu d e n ts n e e d to s ta rt c o m in g to o u r g a m e s , n o t ju s t fo r fo o tb a ll, b u t fo r e v e ry s p o rt. W e h o p e th a t th e p u b lic ity w ill g iv e

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L a rry S m ith , P re s id e n t a n d C h ie f E x e c u tiv e O ffic e r o f th e M o n ­ tre a l A lo u e tte s a n d fo r m e r CFL c o m m is s io n e r, w ill se rv e as h o n o r ­ a ry p re s id e n t fo r th e g a m e . S m ith e a rn e d a n u n d e rg ra d u a te d e g re e in e c o n o m ic s fr o m B ishop's a n d a b a c h e lo r o f c iv il la w fr o m M c G ill w h ile p la y in g as a r u n n in g b a c k in th e CFL. B o th M c G ill a n d B ishop's c o m e in to th e g a m e w ith 0-2 re ­ c o rd s , w ith th e R e d m e n m ire d in a 10 g a m e lo s in g s tre a k — y e t to w in a g a m e in o n e a n d a h a lf seasons u n d e r H e a d C oach S o n n y W o lfe . " It'll b e a g re a t a tm o s p h e re to p la y in , b u t th a t's w o n 't w in th e g a m e fo r us," said W o lfe . "W e 've s till g o t to d o a ll th e lit tle th in g s w e h a v e n 't b e e n d o in g w e ll la te ­ ly — ta c k lin g , b lo c k in g , r u n n in g th e b a ll— if w e w a n t to w in . A t th e e n d o f th e day, th e c ro w d is n ice , b u t y o u 'v e s till g o t to p la y fo o tb a ll." ■

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The Martlets field hockey team snapped a 36-game winless streak on Friday, defeat­ ing the Golden Gaels of Queen's University 1-0. McGill had posted an 0-32-4 record since their last win on October 1,2005 against the University of Western Ontario.

Midfielder Dewi Krop, a freshman from the Netherlands, scored in the 26th minute of play. Goalkeeper Shauna Kearnes has not let in a goal in two games this season. The Martlets opened the season with a 0-0 tie against the Carleton University Ravens earlier Friday.

T h e M a rtle ts h a v e a w e e k o f f to c e le b ra te th e lo n g fo r g o tte n ta s te o f v ic to ry . T h e y tra v e l to L o n d o n , O N fo r th re e g a m e s in tw o days. M c G ill faces G u e lp h o n S a tu rd a y a n d p la y s T o ro n to a n d W a te rlo o o n S un d a y. A ll th re e g a m e s w ill b e p la y e d a t UW O. R e d m e n Lacrosse o p e n s season w ith la s t-m in u te w in

Midfielder Scott Bailey converted a pass from attackman Matt Jankowski with only 12 seconds left ensuring a 9-8 victory over Queen's University on Saturday. The lacrosse regular season opener featured 22 penalties, including two unsportsmanlike calls on Mc­ Gill goaltender Guy Fox. His replacement Sean Grogan was beaten twice in three min­ utes.

A tta c k m e n M ic k M o re a u a n d Lu ke LaCava ea ch s co re d th re e g o a ls fo r th e R e d m e n , w h o a re n o w 3-0 a n d 1-0 in C UFLA a c tio n . M o re a u a ls o assiste d o n a g o a l b y m id fie ld e r W ill E d w a rd s fiv e m in u te s in to th e g a m e . M id fie ld e r M ik e T in g n e tte d o n e g o a l and as­ s is te d o n a p o w e r p la y g o a l b y LaC ava m id w a y th r o u g h th e th ir d q u a rte r.

The Redmen will try to keep their hot streak going when they host Trent University at Forbes Field at 2 p.m. on September 20, and the University of Toronto at 1 p.m. the next day.

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P Carlos Zambrano became the first Cub to throw a no-hitter since 1972 on Sunday night. He struck out 10, walked one, and hit one batter as the Cubs blanked the Astros 5-0 in Milwaukee.The no-hitter was the first to be pitched at a neutral site.The game had been postponed and moved from Houston due to Hurricane Ike. The Slovakian women's hockey team beat Bulgaria 82-0 in a 2010 Winter Olympic qualifier on Saturday. No, that is not a typo. 15 players scored for the Slovakians, and six had eight goals or more.

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