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R o m é o D a lla ire le c tu re s o n C a n a d a ’s n e x t g e n e ra tio n Lieutenant-General delivers inspiring speech to full house at Concordia

L ieutenant-G eneral and Sena­ tor R om éo D allaire has seen a lot.

FO X past, w hich is yesterday.”

O ne o f D allaire’s main con­ cerns about the future stem m ed from his apprehension regarding how we, and in turn our politicians, spend too

In fact, he has seen m ore than most

much energy “m anaging” the risks

people can possibly im agine.

This was m ade clear during a lecture delivered by D allaire at C on­ cordia U niversity last Thursday. The

o f the future so as to m inim ize any possible problem s. Instead, Dallaire said, we should be anticipating and taking risks in order to build the best

talk and accom panying book signing w ere part o f a tour prom oting Dallaire’s new book, T h ey F ig h t L ike

future.

“H ow can you look into that

By Matt Essert News Editor

S o ld iers, T hey D ie L ik e C hildren.

Before D allaire’s talk, Frank Chalk, a history professor at Concor­ dia and the director o f the M ontreal Institute for G enocide and H um an Rights Studies, introduced the sena­ tor to a crow d o f m ostly students.

“In G eneral D allaire’s case, com passion m eans m ore than em pa­ thy and sympathy, for he com bines those virtues w ith action and with w isdom , and that is w hy he is with us tonight,” C halk said.

D allaire delivered a powerful lecture on the im portance o f the next generation’s ability to understand

“All humans are human,” said Dallaire in his talk, part o f the tour for his new book, T h ey F ig h t Like S oldiers, T h ey D ie Like C h ild re n .

the past in order to m ake the right decisions for the future.

“W e’re going to get a feel for the past,” said D allaire as he ad­ dressed the audience at the begin­ ning o f the lecture. “A nd th at’s going to be farther than C N N past, w hich is last w eek, and even farther than

future and leap into it if y o u ’re not going to take any risks?” asked D al­ laire.

D allaire argued that good lead­ ership w ill often produce better re­ sults than w hat m anagerial statistics and theories say are possible.

“T here is no lim it to what hum an beings can do,” he said. “So, ladies and gentlem en, the future is in leading, not in m anaging and handling and avoiding the risks and perceptions o f the future.”

A nother them e discussed dur­ ing the lecture w as C anada’s po­ sition in the global framework.

A lthough thousands o f Canadian troops helped storm the beaches of N orm andy, no C anadian general w as consulted on the strategy o f the m ission. Canada, D allaire said, used to be view ed sim ply as “the good cousins from across the pond."

Today, he argued, C anada is one See “SEN. DALLAIRE” on page 2

(Alice Walker / McGill Tribune)

A rc h ite c tu re C afé w as p ro jected to lose $ 7 3 ,0 0 0 in ‘i o - ‘n Docum ents released last week by M cG ill’s Board o f Governors show food outlet ran deficit

By Theo Meyer_________________ M anaging Editor M cG ill’s Board o f G overnors m ade public several docum ents last w eek regarding this sum m er’s clo­ sure o f the A rchitecture Café, in­ cluding som e o f the financial figures that protesting students have been asking for.

The docum ents revealed, am ong other things, that the café had lost m ore than $15,000 last year and w as projected to lose m ore than $73,000 this academ ic year.

S tudents’ Society President Zach N ew burgh had requested a re­ port about the café’s closure at the B oard o f G overnors m eeting on Sep­ tem ber 28, w hich Stuart Cobbett, the

b o ard ’s chairm an, then asked D epu­ ty Provost (Student Life and L earn­ ing) M orton M endelson’s office to provide. The resulting m em oran­ dum , sent to the B oard o f G overnors on O ctober 22 and made public last w eek, details the M cG ill adm inis­ tration’s decision to shut dow n the popular student-m anaged café.

A ccording to the financial infor­

m ation in an appendix to the m em o, the A rchitecture Café roughly broke even last year, aside from the money allocated to M cG ill Food and D in­ ing Services, w hich m anaged the café jointly with the A rchitecture students. If the Food and D ining Services contributions are included,

loss w ould have resulted from the hiring o f a full-tim e m anager for $49,200 to replace its five part-tim e student m anagers.

W hile he agreed that the hire m ade sense, N ew burgh said that the adm inistration had failed to exhaust all its options before closing the

the café lost $15.

This y e a r’s projected $73,211

café.

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N ew s News in Brief AUS makes recovery plans D espite a series o f significant financial setbacks so far, the Arts U ndergraduate Society President Dave M arshall is still optim istic about the com ing year.

N avigating the issues, M arshall said, requires the A US to renew its vision and reinforce its principal d u ­ ties.

“Yes, it’s an unusual year, but that doesn’t necessarily m ake it a bad year,” he said. “I t’s a re-im ag­ ining,” For exam ple, AUS has launched an initiative to coordinate with com ­ panies w hich are in the interest o f students and students’ futures.

“C om panies find the Faculty o f A rts a great place for recruiting students, and students benefit a lot from inform ation about w here they can get jo b opportunities,” M arshall said.

O ur success com es from their suc­ cess. We need to find a w ay w hich ensures that we are financially stable w hile not detracting from the abil­ ity o f our departm ent associations to m ake progress.”

AUS has invested in an online collaborative tool com parable to the W ebCT system , called ARTSNET, for the departm ental associations to use.

M arshall em phasized that re­ gardless o f budgeting concerns, stu­ dent am enities will not be hurt.

“There are a lot o f expenses that we have to face that are significant,” he said. “T hings like our contribu­ tions to the A rts Student E m ploy­ m ent Fund. W e’re not going to reneg on that because it’s som ething th a t’s good for the students.”

Elem ents o f this strategy are al­ ready in place. L ast w eek ’s B ar des A rts w as co-sponsored by Rogers, which ran a contest that included a B lackberry as a prize.

At the practical level, AUS

Problem s with AUS Frosh and a federal back-tax collection have caused A U S ’ financial difficulties.

“I t’s com e to the point w here this year m any issues have com e to their maturity, w ith an expiration date, and now we have to deal with everything,” said M arshall.

is autom ating and digitizing some tasks, such as bookkeeping, to re­ duce overhead.

“W e’re getting sm art w ith a lot o f the things we do, to reduce

However, M arshall view s the obstacles as opportunities to better understand w hich organizational J and financial strategies w ork best for the AUS.

redundancy and stream line o ur pro­ cesses,” M arshall said.

“This year allows us to wipe our slate clean,” M arshall said. “I think it’s a really pow erful y ear for us.”

M arshall em phasized, however, that the AUS prioritizes the student body over innovations.

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“W e’re students first, not nec­ essarily politicians,” he said. “The AUS is big in and o f itself, but w e’re nothing w ithout our departm ents.

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S e n . D a lla ire o n C a n a d a ’s fu tu r e Continued from COVER o f the m ost pow erful nation-states in the w orld. D allaire believes Canada, and C anadians, should realize this and aet accordingly.

“W hen I hear som eone say­ ing C anada is punching above their w eight, I think that person is on another planet than us, because we have never yet punched above our w eight,” he said. “F or [C anada’s] potential has not yet been fully m ax­ imized. We have a lot m ore to give.

You have a lot to give in this time fram e, on this planet, to hum anity.”

B ut D allaire said that Canada m ust be responsible w ith this power.

H e talked about C an ad a’s m em ber­ ship in NATO and the dangerous pow er o f nuclear w eapons. D allaire said that hundreds o f m illions o f dol­ lars have been spent on upgrading nuclear w eapons system s that are now useless because serious threats from superpow ers no longer exist.

“H aving nuclear w eapons in existence is an affront to our h um an right to security,” he said.

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w eapons and to secure all people’s rights.

“All hum ans are hum an,” R om éo D allaire stressed. “All hu­ m ans are hum an.”

unrelated topics. time to m ention their lam entable lence around the in Africa.

B ut he still made child soldiers and prevalence in vio­ world, specifically

A ccording., to D allaire, there are currently close to 30 conflicts throughout the w orld w here child soldiers are the prim ary w eapons system. D allaire recounted graph­ ic details o f child soldiers being drugged and used as killing machines and explained that there are serious m oral issues for any third party who becom es involved in these conflicts.

“D o you kill children, who are under duress, w ho havè been abducted, w ho have been drugged up, w ho have been indoctrinated, w orking out o f fear, raped, w ho are engaged in using force and barba­ rism ?” asked D allaire. “Is the an­ sw er to shoot them ?”

T he event was put on as a joint effort by several organizations, including the C oncordia Student U nion and the M cG ill Bookstore.

A nna Stein, the events adm inistrator at the M cGill B ookstore, said that bringing D allaire to talk to students w as an easy decision.

“W hy G eneral D allaire? B e­ cause he is this exceptional figure.

Exceptional beyond w hat people can articulate,” Stein said. “W hat h e ’s been through is astronom ical and im possible to describe, and yet he keeps so busy, he has a hand in so m any things.”

s till p u s h to re o p e n th e c a fé Continued from COVER “Clearly, if we were facing fi­ nancial deficits, we needed to ensure sustainability by raising prices,” he said. “A ccording to calculations, if you raised prices by about 50 per cent, you w ould have seen the p ro­ jected deficit disappear.”

Carly R oualt, a form er m anag­ er o f the café w ho has been a vocal opponent o f its closure, declined to com m ent for this article.

D espite the release o f the docu­ m ents, N ew burgh said that SSM U

“W e’re still going to be pushing for the reopening o f the A rchitecture C afé,” he said.

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D allaire’s answ er w as an ada­ m ant “no.” He m aintained we must w ork to end the use o f people as

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w ould continue its efforts to reverse the adm inistration’s decision to shut dow n the café.

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A lthough the talk w as billed as part o f a tour prom oting D allaire’s new book on child soldiers, much

ations such as liability risks. A s vari­ ous student groups’ M oA s cam e up for renegotiation, the adm inistration declined to renew their authoriza­ tion to sell food on cam pus, with ex­ ceptions for operations like the A rts U ndergraduate Society’s SN AX and the E ngineering U ndergraduate So­ ciety ’s Frostbite.

However, the A rchitecture Stu­ dents A ssociation, w hich opened a food outlet in the M acdonaldH arrington B uilding in 1993, never negotiated an M oA with M cG ill. As other cam pus eateries shut dow n, the A rchitecture C afé continued to operate beneath the radar. (It did not pay taxes, for exam ple.)

A fter the adm inistration at­ tem pted to close the café in 2007,

we dealt with against a backdrop o f m assive changes in the organization o f food services on cam pus.”

W hen returning students found the café closed in Septem ber, M en­ delson said he w as nonplussed by the force o f their response, which included tw o large student protests outside senate meetings.

“I w as a bit surprised by the feeling outside the School o f A rchi­ tecture for the A rchitecture C afe,” he said. “The space had alw ays, at least notionally, been the A rchitec­ ture students’ space.”

Though it has steadfastly re­ fused to reconsider the A rchitec­ ture C afé’s Closure, last month, the adm inistration announced the cre­ ation o f a new consultative body, called the Student C onsultation and C om m unication W ork Group. The body, com posed o f adm inistrators and reprentatives from SSM U , the

The docum ents also describe m uch o f the history o f student-run food services on campus.

A ccording to the report and a subsequent interview w ith M endel­ son, student-run food services first

the eatery reopened under the partial control o f A ncillary Food Services, w hich operated food services on cam pus at that time. O ver the next

cropped up on cam pus in the early 1990s. Partly in response to m as­ sive financial cuts, the university struck m em orandum s o f agreem ent (M oAs) w ith several student groups on cam pus w hich allow ed them to set up food operations.

ganized food services on cam pus, com bining the adm inistration o f operations in residences w ith those on cam pus. The decision to close the A rchitecture C afé, M endelson said in an interview, w as ju st one part o f the process.

Post-G raduate S tudents’ Society, the M acdonald Cam pus Students’ Soci­ ety, and the M cG ill A ssociation of C ontinuing Education Students, is designed to increase student input in adm inistrative decisions.

N ew burgh has high hopes for the new group.

In the late 1990s, how ever, the university decided to retake control over food services on cam pus, citing problem s with the student-run oper-

“The A rchitecture C afé,” he said, “as im portant as it was to many people, w as, in term s o f the w hole schem e o f operations, som ething that

“We are institutionalizing a process o f student consultation that this university has never seen be­ fore,” he said.

three years, the adm inistration reor­

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M c G ill e a rn s B + in u n iv e rs ity s u s ta in a b ility ra n k in g s A dm in istra tion criticizes m ethodology used to determ ine cam pus’s green bonafides

By Kyla Mandel Contributor The Sustainable Endow m ents Institute gave M cG ill a B+ on its an­ nual report card for university sus­ tainability released on O ctober 27.

H owever, m em bers o f the university com m unity raised doubts about the g rade’s accuracy.

A ccording to Susan Paykin, director o f com m unications for the Sustainable E ndow m ents Institute, sustainability grades are calculated w ith data from a num ber o f sources.

"Grading the schools entails conducting research based on pub­ licly available inform ation," shesaid.

In addition, schools are asked to fill out a survey assessing their perform ance in nine different cat­ egories, including food and recy­

cling, green building, transportation, and student involvem ent.

A ssociate V ice-Principal (U ni­

because w e ’re already way beyond w here anybody else is,” he said. “So th ere’s som ething w rong betw een

versity Services) Jim N icell, whose role is to oversee cam pus sustain­ ability, expressed concern about this procedure.

"We d o n ’t find that th ere’s a w hole lot o f transparency in the pro­ cess,” he said. “W e d o n ’t even know how the inform ation that w e’re sub­ m itting is used to com e up with the

how th ey ’re assessing us and w here

grades that are received."

N icell pointed out that over 95 per cent o f the M cG ill com m unity does not com m ute in single-user cars, but the university received a B in the transportation category.

"If w e’re being ju dged on our

actions are m eaningful.

O ne w ay Paykin suggested M cG ill could im prove is by "ex­ panding green building practices in new construction o r renovation by developing an official green building policy." B ut given the dow ntow n lo­ cation o f the university, N icell noted, there is now here else to build.

M oreover, M cG ill sits in a le­

efforts, then perhaps we should have an F in transportation because we d o n ’t [have to apply m uch] effort

w e ’re at."

Jonathan G lencross, a U3 E nvi­ ronm ent student and m em ber o f the M cG ill Sustainable Projects Fund, explained that the grade does not really allow for schools to articu­ late everything they do in term s o f sustainability, and in w hat way these

gally defined natural and cultural historic zone. "U nder the green building [category], if we w anted to be green, the best thing we could

ties may falsely advertise as being g reen—a process know n as green­ w ashing.

"The recruitm ent offices are

do is knock dow n our historic build­

going to try and m ake the schools seem better than they are-luckily M cG ill doesn’t do that," he said.

B ecause the grading w as based on the past calendar year, it did not account for the closing o f McTavish Street and L ow er C am pus to cars.

"These grades m ean noth­

ings," N icell said.

G lencross suggested that one thing M cG ill could im prove on, is raising aw areness regarding sustain­ ability issues. "[It] scares m e to think how 20,000 students are currently going to M cG ill and how m any o f those are going to be in positions to effect change in various [issues], but that their understanding o f sustainability is going to be minim al," he said.

A ccording to G lencross, one

ing," said G lencross. "If you want m eaning, do stuff. The assessm ent is ju st supposed to give people an idea, a vague idea o f w here we are.

It doesn’t really m atter at all. W hat m atters is w hat we do."

o f the m ain things students look at w hen choosing a university is its level o f sustainability, w hich can be dangerous since som e universi­

WEATHER

C lim a to lo g is ts try th e ir lu c k a t p re d ic tin g c o m in g w in te r La Nina may bring more w inter storm s to M ontreal, but experts have a hard tim e agreeing

By Sean Wood News Editor F or a few hours on the night o f O ctober 30, M ontrealers got their first taste o f snow this season .T hough they m ight get a break for the next few w eeks, students shouldn’t put their hats and m ittens in deep storage.

This year, w aters are cooler in the Eastern Pacific, a phenom ­ enon know n as L a Nina. W hile these w aters are thousands o f miles away, they exert significant influ­ ence on w eather patterns in North

rologist.

W hatever happens, it w o n ’t be nearly as w arm and dry as the record breaking levels last year.

“The oddest thing o f all, was that O ttaw a had less snow than W ashington [D.C.],” Phillips said.

“C om e on, w e’ve never seen that before. O ttaw a is the snow iest national capital in the world and it was beat out by W ashington:” In an average winter, M ontreal w ill have 19 days on w hich the tem ­ perature is -20 degrees C elsius or

you w ould probably bet a few more loonies on it being colder and snow ­ ier,” said D avid Phillips, a senior cli­

less. L ast year, it only had three.

The Eastern U.S., on the other hand, had its roughest w inter in recent m em ory: Philadelphia, W ashington D .C., and B altim ore all shattered their seasonal snow fall records.

“I spent the w inter in F lo rid a— it w as the coldest w inter I ’ve ever

m atologist at Environm ent Canada.

The rules, how ever, are not hard and fast, and La N ina years are notoriously difficult to forecast.

spent,” Phillips said. “A nd it cost m e m oney! It was really the pits, and I ’m sure a lot o f Q uebecers in Florida w ere thinking, ‘L e t’s go back hom e

In fact, in their tentative long­ term forecasts, experts are going against the general La N ina trend this year. E nvironm ent Canada is predicting above average tem ­

... the w eather is w arm er up th ere.’”

A m erica. In L a N ina years, tem ­ peratures tend to be below average, w hile precipitation is above average.

“If you w ere an odds player,

peratures and low er precipitation.

A ccuW eather agrees that tem ­ peratures w ill be higher, but says that there w ill be m ore storms.

“We do expect above norm al snow fall this w inter,” said Andy M ussoline, an A ccuW eather m eteo­

M eteorologists agree that w in­ ters have been generally w arm er recently, though they disagree about the causes.

“I ’m not sure w hat y o u ’d call it: clim ate change, global w arm ­ ing,” Phillips said. “It could be cyclical, it could be sunspots, w hatever you w ant to call it. [But] we know that our w inters are not as brutal as they used to be.”

The Janies McGill statue prepares for its 15th winter on McGill’s campus. (Gabriela Gilmour / McGill Tribune) For the foreseeable future, though, w inters are still going to be w inters. W hile the data sug­ gests som e sort o f clim ate shift, it’s still going to be hard to get up at 8:30 a.m. in February.

D espite E nvironm ent C an­ ada and A ccuW eather’s pre­ dicting a w arm er-than-average w inter, it’s still going to feel cold com pared to last year.

T he w ay the public perceives w eather trends can be very differ­ ent from w hat’s actually happening.

For instance, it seem s like there’s been m ore rain than ever this fall.

been record w et, it’s that it’s been like

R ainfall totals in Septem ber and O c­ tober w ere well above average, but th ey ’re far from record breaking. In­ stead o f raining a lot, it’s only rained o ften —consistency, not quantity.

“I t’s not so m uch that you’ve

positively for a w eek, and then nega­ tively for m any w eeks,” said G areth D icker, U 0 m echanical engineering.

the w ater torture test,” Phillips said.

H ow ever it pans out, it’s proba­ bly safe to settle in for a long winter.

“I feel [the winter] w ill affect me

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SPEAKER ON CAMPUS

C o n c o rd ia p r o f s p e a k s o n b ilin g u a lis m in in fa n c y At M cG ill, Byers-Heinlein discusses her studies on early language acquisition

By Morgan Abraham Contributor Last W ednesday, Professor K rista B yers-H einlein o f C oncordia U niversity spoke to a crow d o f pro­ fessors and PhD students at M cG ill on the effects o f bilingualism in in­ fants.

O ver the past tw o decades, there have been several contradic­ tory studies regarding bilingualism and its effects on w ord association in young children. In one o f her studies. Byers-Heinlein exam ined infants suckling w hile listening to language. The study revealed that infants w ere able to recognize when they w ere being addressed in a new language.

“W hat we did w as catch lan­ guage determ ination in our study,” B yers-H einlein said, explaining that the experim ent consisted o f two phases, the experim ental o n e-w h ere English w as spoken for several m in­ utes w hile infants suckled-and the

testing phase, w here infants were presented with four m inutes o f an­ other language.

“The im plication is that the infants can detect the difference b e­ tw een the English and the [other lan­ guage],” said Byers-H einlein. “They should show induced interest and in­ crease sucking in the test phase.”

A nother o f B yers-H einlein’s studies looked at mutual exclusion, w hich is when children only recog­ nize w ords in a specific language.

The result o f her study on sev­ eral groups o f m onolingual, bilingual and trilingual infants o f 18 m onths show ed that im m ersion in multiple languages m ade it m ore difficult for the subject to associate a w ord with a specific language.

O ne exam ple B yers-H einlein used w as an experim ent in w hich bilingual children learned both the English w ord “book” and the French w ord “livre.” These children seem ed to have m ore o f a challenge recog­ nizing objects for w hich they learned

tw o sets o f words.

A fter answ ering a few questions from the audience, B yers-H einlein talked about the im plications o f her w ork and its effects on society. “ I ’m really interested in bilin­ gualism for tw o reasons,” she said.

“First o f all, as m uch as we know about language acquisition, we know m uch m uch less about bilin­ gual acquisition, so there is really such a need to learn w hat the norm al path to bilingual acquisition is for infants that experience a bilingual environm ent.”

“T here are babies all over the world in that condition, so it w ould be good to have a norm so parents w ould know w hat to expect, know w hen som ething is going awry.”

A fter the talk, Jonathan B erken, a PhD student from the in ­ tegrated program in neuroscience, said, “It brings up a lot o f paradigm s for w hether it’s really the w ord that a child recognizes.”

Sham ea M ollai, a PhD student

Multilingually raised infants can face difficulties, (nervyb.blogspot.com) in com m unications, reflected, “I t’s interesting to see the differences be­ tw een the bilingual and m onolingual m ind and how they interact with

their environm ent and how they com m unicate w ith others.”

CITY

S T M re c o g n iz e d as N o r th A m e r ic a ’s b e s t tr a n s it s e rv ic e City transport provider praised at American Public Transportation Association m eeting in Houston

By Dylan Doyle Contributor L ast month, the M ontreal T rans­

o f the criteria w as ridership.

“In 2009, a year w hen many public transit system s saw declines in ridership, the STM provided near­

port C orporation (STM ) received

ly 382 m illion trips, w hich is a 5.2

the prestigious honour o f O utstand­ ing Public Transportation System in N orth A m erica, bestow ed by the A m erican Public Transportation A s­ sociation, as part o f the 2010 A nnual M eeting in H ouston, Texas.

The accolade was aw arded by a com m ittee o f peers throughout North A m erica. The STM w on in the category o f “largest public trans­ portation system .” Yves Devin, the

per cent increase since 2006,” M iller said. “D uring this sam e period, the m etro increased levels o f service by 30 per cent and its reliability im ­ proved m ore than 30 per cent.”

R id ers’ overall satisfaction w ent up from 84 per cent in 2006 to 86 per cent in 2009. In addition, the bus netw ork service jum ped 18 per cent in 2009.

“They are already doing a great

ST M ’s general director, w as one of many officials w ho com m ented on the honour.

“I am very proud o f this aw ard,” he said in a press release. “I t’s as if the STM had ju st won the Stanley Cup in its field. M y pride is shared with all the em ployees w ho did a fantastic jo b and who spare no ef­ fort, every day, to provide our clients with quality services.”

jo b ,” M iller said. “The STM was consistently in the top tier am ong quantitative m easures that judge ef­ ficiency. By w inning the 2010 O ut­ standing Public Transportation Sys­ tem A chievem ent Award, they serve as a m odel for public transportation system s in N orth A m erica.”

A nother factor considered was safety, an area in w hich the STM w as a leader in im plem enting a

Powered by eco-friendly biodiesel, STM buses were given high marks for environmental sustainability.

(Miranda Whist / McGill Tribune) the STM has proved to be efficient im plem entation o f those techniques.

“T his is a great honour, as it was in other fields, including environ­ A dditionally, the STM launched given by our peers w ho acknow l­ mental sustainability. T his can m ost a successful educational cam paign edged our excellent results,” said

9Q-n n 4

APTA granted the honour to the

variety o f new m easures in recent

likely be attributed to tw o things.

last year that focused on the benefits

STM in light o f the results that they had achieved with regard to efficien­ cy, grow th, and overall satisfaction.

A ccording to Virginia Miller, the senior m anager o f m edia rela­ tions for APTA, there are a variety

years. A ccording to M iller, the STM introduced a m odem crisis m anage­ m ent room to coordinate em ergency m easures. They also created a part­ nership with the M ontreal Police D epartm ent in order to dedicate a

First, the entire fleet o f STM buses runs on biodiesel, a non-toxic and biodegradable fuel that produc­ es few er greenhouse gas em issions

o f qualitative m easures considered when surveying the efficiency o f public transportation systems. O ne

neighbourhood police station spe­ cifically to the metro.

Beyond ridership and safety,

than conventional fuels.

A second initiative w as the edu­ cation o f m ore than 2,000 bus driv­

o f public transportation for the envi­ ronm ent, and encouraged people to use public transportation The aw ard provides definite distinction to the STM and to C an­ ada in general, as an aw ard o f this calibre has not been given to a C a­

ers that the STM em ploys on green driving techniques, and ensuring the

nadian public transit system in more than 15 years.

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M ichel Labrecque, the Chairm an o f the STM B oard o f D irectors. “There is no denying that the efforts we put into im proving transit services and increasing ridership since 2007 have produced im pressive results and that we m ust continue with our w ork.”

Hiesday, November 9, 2010

SCIENCE

A lc o h o l w o rs e th a n c ra c k , says B ritis h s tu d y Researchers claim alcohol users hurt others more than illegal drug users for M cG ill students, many o f w hom are beginning to drink for the first time. Furtherm ore, binge drin k in g — often found in universities—fosters

o f social and environm ental harm caused by each substance. The study

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suggested that when com bined with A lcohol is w orse than heroin, according to a recent study by the British Independent Scientific C om ­ m ittee on Drugs.

The study, conducted by D avid N utt, a neuropsychopharm acology professor at the U niversity o f B ris­ tol, along w ith Drs. Leslie K ing and Law rence Phillips, ranks the harm ­ ful effects o f alcohol and other ad­ dictive substances out o f 100, with 100 being the m ost harm ful and zero

the effects o f harm to others as well as to the individuals using it, alcohol is a m uch m ore dangerous substance than others.

The co-authors suggest in their study, published in the British m edi­ cal journal Lancet, that governm ents should begin “ aggressively targeting alcohol” as a “valid and necessary public strategy.”

“Fixing a m inim um price for liquor, reducing advertising, and re­

N evertheless, G upta agrees that the behaviour associated w ith alco­ hol use is often violent, because it

a sim ilar attitude.

Professor R ina G upta o f the M cG ill departm ent o f educational and counselling psychology agrees that the kind o f people w alking out o f bars or w arehouses are m ore like­

interferes w ith our inhibitions. Thus, crim e, bullying, date rape, and other types o f aggressive behaviour can be found when alcohol is involved.

A nd w hile addiction to heavy drugs does cause significant physiological harm to the individual, it appears

ly to com m it violent acts.

B ut G upta was not entirely con­ vinced by the study’s findings. She m aintained that drugs and alcohol

that the m ajority o f external harm is being caused by alcohol consum ers.

“I ’m not surprised at all [with the study’s findings],” said K ristina

are view ed as separate classes o f

Valentine, a M cG ill a U1 psychol­

being the least. Alcohol was at the top o f the list, scoring 72, w hile her­ oin and crack are ranked at 55 and 54, respectively.

A lcohol’s high ranking on the “dangerousness” scale doesn ’t m atch

stricting the size o f prem ises w here it can be consum ed,” w ere am ong the options K ing suggested in an em ail to the Tribune.

K ing said that the traditional

substances for m any reasons. There is still a line to be draw n betw een substance abuse (activities such as drinking and driving, and violence) and dependency. Those w ho fall into

ogy student.

“I have a friend w ho’s the nic­ est guy, but w ho head-butts people w hen he drinks whiskey. A lcohol

English pubs have been replaced

the policies o f m ost governm ents, w hich take a harsh stance on drugs w hile keeping alcohol legal. This is because heroin, crack, cocaine, and m etham phetam ine have been found

w ith w hat he calls “drinking ‘w are­ h ouses’ w hich have no seats and loud m usic,” affecting the drinking culture since people w ho are stand­

the use o f hard drugs are already vulnerable to dependency, and many participate in substance abuse as a form o f escape.

“In my m ind, the personal­

ing tend to drink faster, as do those

ity type w ho goes and takes hard

culture is not only socially accept­

to be the m ost deadly substances.

This study, on the other hand, took into account external effects o f alcohol use, factoring in the am ount

w ho c a n ’t hear others speak.

The so-called “w arehouses” are not too different from clubs in M on­ treal, a fact w hich hits close to hom e

drugs is not necessarily the type that drinks. M any people w ho drink w ould never, ever touch crack or co­

able but expected.”

does that to you.”

“The bottom line is this,” G upta said. “U niversity is the first time [these students] can really go out on a regular basis and get heavily in­ volved in alcohol consum ption. This

caine,” G upta said.

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The American message wars The m ost com m on weapon in the battle o f A m erican politics is the message. A candidate’s policy po­ sitions, record, and personality are secondary to the political m essage uniting them. In theory it’s a sim ple articulation o f the candidate’s posi­ tion, but in reality it’s usually ju st a m ix o f political m arketing and rhetoric: visceral ideology disguised as com m on sense. This is the logic o f the m essage war, accepted with equal dogm atism by both parties.

M oney buys the attention o f the A m erican people.

creed. The top D em ocratic are found in the ranks o f law yers, w om en’s rights and pro-choice groups, to

nam e a few. T heir com m on goal is to tax and spend in the interests o f the people.

This setup favours corporate interests. As long as D em ocrats have to face anti-governm ent politi­ cians w ho can sim ply respond with a resounding, visceral call to give the pow er back to the people, they w ill be fighting an uphill battle. Par­ adoxically, the only way D em ocrats can generate equal force is by ask­ ing for tainted m oney and com pro­ m ising their principles.

W hile battles in many other W estern dem ocracies are fought over w hich interests the govern­ m ent should w ork for, A m ericans are fighting to keep governm ent alive. D em ocrats have recently been reduced to vaguely asking voters to “hope” that they can “change” things. These backw ard-looking ap­ peals inevitably im ply that D em o­ crats w ant “ m ore governm ent.”

Sim ultaneously, the corporate m es­ sage attacks every facet o f the D em ­

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Life Lines gets angry It started slowly: the clicking o f a pen here, the answ ering o f cell phone there. Then it rippled out and gathered speed: the disregard for library etiquette is grow ing into a tidal w ave. We need to stop it before it gets there. It m ight ju s t be m y Spidey senses tingling w ithout reason, but various research techniques have bolstered this feeling o f im pend­ ing doom . T hese include the usual colum nist tactics (asking questions w here “yes” is the only option pro­ vided and m aking assum ptions that

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place w here people com e to have quiet. I t’s pure and sim ple respect.

The last tim e I was in M cL en­ nan, a student actually played a YouTube clip for a friend. She, in utm ost consideration, had the de­ cency to keep the volum e low. But it still proliferated through the area and stopped people dead in their studying tracks. In order not to be “the jerk ” w ho says som ething, and because the respect norm is still quite high, nobody said anything.

For five m inutes 20 stressed-out budding academ ics listened to som e horrible acoustic cover o f a Lady G aga song.

I did in fact conduct an experi­ m ent o f my own. Shortly after the YouTube incident I w alked down one o f the aisles and loudly dropped

ocratic position, every policy point and ideological im plication.

The basic anti-governm ent as­ sum ptions have been proven w rong by m ore socioeconom ically robust

will provide w itty w riting m aterial), but it has also included borderingon-legitim ate experim ent set-ups (asking questions w here “ Yes” as well as “ Probably Yes” are pro­ vided and m aking observations that are non-biased and true ... and will provide witty writing m aterial). I ’ve been noticing the shit hit the fan re­ garding respect for others in librar­ ies and that has to stop. Now. First, it’s only one sense that re­

nations,

Sweden,

ally needs to be m onitored—sound.

You can m ove as m uch as you w ant and if you really w ant to touch people then by all m eans, w ith their perm ission, do so. B ut d o n ’t bring your earphones that have speakers

m essage, w hich sounds inherently

and the N etherlands. A “sm aller” governm ent is not a b etter govern­ m ent. B ut y o u ’d never know it by looking at A m erica w here, to quote President C linton, “The era o f big governm ent is over.”

A m erican and dem ocratic: govern­ m ent is trying to control us, and “we, the people” w ant the pow er back.

This is a significant obstacle for any

Right now the corporate inter­ ests have a m onopoly on the A m eri­ can political im agination. U ntil cor­ porate spending in A m erican politics

on the outside to the library. W hat is the point o f that? Furtherm ore, there are tim es to express your individual charism a, but doing so w hile study­ ing in the library is not one o f them.

as students. A nd w e’ve been good at it. The library has for the m ost part been a place w here any person is w elcome, as long as he or she sits dow n, shuts up, and does work. The subtle tw ittering o f rebellion that I am sensing m ay be the first step to losing this norm . A nd I suggest we squash this rebellion. I am all for w alking to the beat o f your own drum , but there are no drum s in the

governm ent regulation policy.

ceases, voters will be afraid to vote in their ow n interest. Any sem blance o f “D em ocrats versus R epublicans” w ill turn even m ore into “politics versus entropy.”

I ’m sorry to all you libertarians out there, but this is one place w here you follow the crow d. You walk in line and do w hat others do (mainly, by shutting up), not because y o u ’re

library. There should never, ever be any drum s in the library. Tip-toe in, get your stuff done, and tip-toe out.

M aybe smile at fellow tip-toers on the way. B ut th at’s it. End o f story.

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dom . They sought to determ ine the harm ful im pact o f 20 different drugs by scoring them out o f 100 on a vari­ ety o f perceived harm s posed either

tively, ducked their heads dow n and stepped forw ard to claim silver and bronze. (M agic m ushroom s cam e in last, with a score o f 6.)

In 2004, 80 per cent o f C ana­ dians reported to have consum ed alcohol w ithin that year. Unless our governm ent is prepared to anger

ing dem entia. Alcohol has fanned the flames o f dom estic abuse, it has destroyed m illions o f relationships, and it has single-handedly created

to the individual (e.g. drug-specific death, dam age to health) o r society (e.g. crim e, econom ic cost). One hundred indicated the m ost harm

A ccording to this study, alcohol causes m ore harm to a person than 16 other drugs, and m ore harm to society than alm ost all the other 19 drugs com bined. A lcohol is the only drug that poses more harm to soci­ ety than to the individual w ho con­ sum es it. A lcohol, w hich is sold vir­ tually unrestricted to anyone above the age o f 18 in our province, poses up to 50 tim es m ore harm to others than at least 10 illegal drugs, includ­ ing LSD , ecstasy, anabolic steroids, m ushroom s, and ketam ine.

To m e, this suggests either an illiterate governm ent o r a govern­

four out o f five C anadians and sober them up to the inadequacy o f their politics, they’re better o ff looking the other way. A fter the dism al fail­

“drunk driving.” A bove all, alco­ hol tastes plain awful. Yet you, or som eone you know w ell, w ill drink tonight anyway.

ure o f the 1920s Prohibition, law ­ m akers learned that legislation is a pow erless tool to m anipulate drug abusers. In fact, it likely encour­ ages the opposite result. Thus, any sincere effort to reduce drinking am ongst C anadians m ust rely on the ancient w isdom o f conviction w ith­ out com pulsion.

We can certainly talk about drinking “m oderately” (an unde­ fined term ) and the fact that some

The age o f the m essage w ar is increasingly defined by the free reign o f the corporation in political financing, especially after this y e a r’s C itizens U nited Suprem e Court de­ cision, w hich allow ed for unlim ited donations from 527s (anonym ous corporate “non-profit” donors). In this era o f mass politics, the m es­ sage cycle, unlike the election cycle, is truly never-ending.

The aim o f corporate conser­ vatism is corporate profit, w hich is generally thought o f as hindered by regulation. A s a result, corporate in­ terests form ulate a sim ple political

The interests o f D em ocrats, on the other hand, are m ore diverse.

T here’s a m assive asym m etry b e­ tw een their m essage and the cor-

Alcohol for the win!

C rack cocaine sm iled euphori­ cally. Heroin snorted from ner­ vous laughter. A lcohol slugged and slurred. Standing under the blinding floodlights o f the stage, all three finalists joined shaking hands and

like

Germ any,

possible, and zero indicated none.

Each drug received three scores: one for “harm to users,” one for the “harm to others,” and an overall sum.

H ushing the anxious crow d to pin-drop silence, a boom ing voice finally announced the winner. “A l­ cohol!”

braced for the m om ent o f truth. W ho will claim the title o f “the w orst drug in the w orld?”

Last w eek, Dr. D avid N utt and his colleagues published the results

Rising to their feet, the judges nodded at each other w ith hasty approval. It w as hardly a contest.

W ith a score o f 72, alcohol d id n ’t

o f a study w hich aim ed to categori­ cally assess the harm s caused by the m isuse o f drugs in the U nited K ing­

ju st surpass its com petitors, it h u ­ m iliated them . H eroin and crack co­ caine, w ho scored 55 and 54 respec­

m ent that legitim izes drugs based on reasons beyond the facts.

The reason is quite simple: C a­ nadians love drinking.

a book on the floor. I did so again.

N obody flinched. It w ould have m ade my day if som ebody—any­ b o d y —had stood up, w alked over, and w hispered, “D ude, do you w ant to be throw n out a w indow ?”

T here are security guards w ho patrol our libraries, but they’re more interested in confiscating Tim H or­ tons cups than in shushing anyone.

T hat has traditionally been our job

You know the facts: alcohol has been linked to mouth cancer, breast cancer, bowel cancer, oesophageal cancer, pharyngeal cancer, laryngeal cancer, and liver cancer. A lcohol has been correlated w ith various types o f cognitive im pairm ents, includ­

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health benefits have been shown in lighter drinkers. B ut these ben­ efits are easily obtained from other sources w ithout the accom panying harm s o f alcohol. A nd w hile some people may have an unfaltering selfdiscipline and an unassailable im ­ munity to peer pressure, it’s safe to say that the overw helm ing majority o f drinkers d o n 't do it for the health benefits.

A ll o f this leaves m e with a puzzled question. W hy drink?

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there should be a levy on students, many o f whom are w ithout income, for issues that aren’t directly related to campus life. In many cases, stu­ dents’ parents pay their tuition, and

proval o f the 75-cent opt-outable

while costing students less than a cup

SSM U shouldn’t be responsible for

This is a worthy initiative and it should pass. O ther small groups on campus, like students in Architecture and Education, have their own repre­ sentatives, and there is no good rea­ son why Arts and Science students

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dents. The Tribune’s understanding is that if this new position were cre­ ated, Arts and Science students could no longer represent either faculty, but only their own “distinct entity.”

tion. Some o f us believe it should be approved because any effort to­ ward the “relief o f acute suffering” is worthwhile, and because it could raise a significant am ount o f money

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fee that funds the Sexual Assault Centre o f McGill Students’ Society.

SACOM SS provides a good and im ­ portant service to the McGill com ­ munity, and the Tribune endorses this

o f coffee.

Others, however, believe that while the proposal seems theoreti­ cally innocent, it m ight have a few practical flaws. Even though disaster

deciding how these fam ilies’ chari­ table donations are allocated.

Plebiscite Q uestion R eg ard in g A d d itio n o f a n In te rfa c u lty A rts a n d Science R ep resen tativ e on the

motion wholeheartedly. If you aren’t com pelled to vote on the basis o f the other tw o more controversial issues, at least take two minutes to go on­ line for this one, to dem onstrate the M cGill com m unity’s overw helm ing

relief is important, there’s an argu­ ment to be made that students should be able to make their own individual choices about donating to charity A US-organized fundraisers for Haiti

SSM U L egislative C o u n c il—Y ES Currently, students in the Arts and Science program can represent either faculty on the Students’ So­ ciety Legislative Council and are

last year raised thousands o f dollars

represented by both. However, the

support for this worthy organization.

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and proved that students are willing and able to donate to causes they be­ lieve are important.

Another concern was that the

“whereas” clauses o f this question

shouldn’t blind anyone to the fact

This asks students to approve a $0.50 opt-outable fee for disaster relief that would be, overseen by a new “SSM U Charity Com m ittee.”

The Tribune is divided on the ques­

Charity Comm ittee, in deciding where to direct the funds, could get mired in controversial politics, as seems to happen so often on this cam ­ pus. Also, some of us don’t believe

claim that Arts and Science students constitute a “distinct entity within the M cGill student body whose needs and interests are not com pletely aligned with either” Arts or Science. There­ fore, the argum ent goes, there should be a representative on council whose sole purpose is to represent these stu­

that it is largely inconsequential. Arts and Science students will continue to be represented no m atter what hap­ pens with this question, and SSMU

sho uldn’t, as well. Ironically, as there are currently four Arts and Sci­ ence students on council, designating a single representative for this faculty could result in less representation.

The complexities o f this issue

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Ottaw a M PP Lisa M acLeod wants Remem brance Day to be a statutory holiday in Ontario. She may be on to something. Federal em ployees already get the day off, as do workers in five provinces and all three territories. Remem brance Day is an important day for the rest o f the

Given all that, it’s a little baf­ fling that Rem em brance Day is not

allow them to participate in the range o f com m em orative activities

tell themselves. T here’s something m ore im portant than a day o f work

already a statutory holiday across the country. C onsider the other public days provinces celebrate. Easter and Christm as are religious holidays in a supposedly secular society. Victoria Day celebrates a British monarch

country to have off, too.

Notwithstanding some recent objections to a perceived glorifica­ tion of w ar accom panying the day, most Canadians appear to value R e­ membrance Day as a non-political occasion on which to pay tribute to fallen soldiers. Schools across the country conduct cerem onies, public transit—and many other services— stop for a m om ent o f silence at 11 a.m., and the red poppy in the lapel becomes ubiquitous as soon as H al­

who reigned outside anybody’s liv­ ing memory. The Civic Holiday was created just because people needed a break between Canada Day and La­ bour Day. Family Day was too, but at least its institutors made up some kind o f meaning for that one. There are plenty of holidays with little

that occur. From the tom b of the un­ known soldier on Parliam ent Hill to municipal centres around the country, a myriad o f cerem onies are currently conducted that tend to be lim ited to politicians and retirees. If people want to attend these cerem onies, they

in that.

Naturally, not everybody will use Rem em brance Day to attend pub­ lic cerem onies and reflect deeply on the sacrifices o f soldiers. They might instead claim the right to have some tim e for them selves with nobody

should be em pow ered to do so.

Tributes to fallen soldiers may also be taking on an increasingly im­ portant role. For better or for worse,

getting in the way. A nd taking R e­ m em brance Day as a holiday would be totally legitimate. Almost every

w ar and the soldiers w ho fight them are seen with increasing cynicism.

M em bers o f the generation coming

a day off from work, making it a drab 30 days during which with the most mom entous occasion is the sudden

meaning for plenty o f Canadians. It m ight be a good idea to give time off for a really meaningful day.

Letting people out o f w ork and

o f age may have had grandparents in the Second World War, but that’s probably their closest link to the casualties o f that conflict. R em em ­

school on N ovem ber 11 w ould give

loween ends.

them more than a holiday; it would

brance Day is an im portant means of rem embering stories that no longer

switch to 5:30 sunsets.

Rem em brance Day is important for a lot o f Canadians, and it’s about time the governm ent started letting them observe it. L et’s make it a statu­

month but N ovember right now has

tory holiday—lest we forget.

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In a House o f Com m ons com ­ mittee on Monday, a proud legacy o f M cGill students was crippled. Since 2003, M cGill students have been the leading edge of Canadian civil soci­ ety clamoring for Parliam ent to allow Canadian generic drug companies to produce low -cost medicines for people in poor countries. This solu­ tion would cost taxpayers no money, and had the go-ahead from the World Trade Organization. All that stood

in the way was political will, and M cGill students led the way by lead­ ing marches down M cGill College, testifying before the House comm it­ tee in Ottawa, and visiting Big Phar­ ma offices to demonstrate. The bill was passed, but it was too restrictive; it only helped send one shipment of drugs to Rwanda.

In 2010, the opportunity to fix the bill (called C anada’s Access to M edicines Regim e, o r CAM R) was before us, but in comm ittee this week, joined by the Conservatives, the M P for the riding that contains M cGill and the entire ghetto (Liberal Marc G am eau), introduced am end­ ments that scuttled reform. Even the

other Liberals on the com m ittee were shocked and w ould not comment.

There is still a possibility that the bill can be saved in the House.

McGill students must again lead the way to ensure Bill C-393 is strengthened and passed. Express your frustration with M arc G am eau, the Conservatives, and m em bers of the Bloc who stand in the w ay of helping people access m edicine that will save their lives. We are again uniquely placed to make a huge dif­ ference, and we m ust continue to do so.

Ju stin N oble, B A ‘05 F o rm er director, M cG ill G lobal A id s C oalition

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tion” is an inadequate word; rather, doors in my subconscious opened, em itting rich nostalgic air. I let it out, breathed, and fell under its spell.

I flashed to a Phillies gam e at Veterans Stadium , one o f the first sporting events I ever w ent to. The

The stadium mystique I recently had to do a story on the renovated M olson Stadium , so I w ent to check it out one day. I was m oved to recollection as I w andered through the concourses. “R ecollec­

lingering sm ell o f fried food in M olso n ’s concourses rem inded m e o f being an ecstatic four-year-old. M y dad had announced a few days be­ forehand that we w ere going, and my anticipation began then. The day o f the gam e, I checked the clock 20 tim es an hour w hile at school. My disbelief o f the w hole situation grew,

and by the tim e I got o ff the school bus I w as in a near-trance. A rriving hom e, I donned Phillies clothing and anointed m yself with holy paints, so I m ight be considered acceptable to the other fans. A fter w aiting in traf­ fic, we em erged into the stadium and I saw the perfectly green field—the H oly o f Holies.

It w as sensory overload. N ot only w as the grass greener, the lights w ere brighter and the crow d w as louder. The players w eren ’t ju st men in uniform s, they w ere living m yths capable o f supernatural feats.

The evening prom ised hom e runs,

French fries, and ice cream ; it d id n ’t m atter that I ’d probably fall asleep in the seventh inning, or that I ’d be carried to the car long before the gam e reached any resolution.

The door to M olson field was w ide open. I ’m alw ays am azed at how easy it is in C anada to w alk into places A m ericans consider forbid­ den; even the high school near my house in Philly didn’t let anyone on its field. I stood in the m iddle o f the stadium and dream ed that the stands w ere filled w ith 25,000 people pay­ ing to see me. I ran tow ard the end zone, made dazzling spin m oves,

and faked the roar o f a crow d with that w hispered “E H H H H ” noise.

The dream o f athletic glory is an in­ eradicable weed; it can lie dorm ant for a long tim e, but never entirely disappears.

Sports are a quasi-religious phenom enon. M y closest encounters w ith pow er and grace d id n ’t happen in church, but at Phillies gam es. I ’m still residually aw ed by the stadium experience. It’s tough not to respond to the grandeur o f a sporting event.

W hen people tell me that sports are a waste o f money, there’s too much star-struck child in me to agrée.

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G e n iu s B u m b le b e e s

R e p o rtin g in D .C .

C om puter scientists look to bees for solutions

A M cG ill grad bowls w ith M itt Romney

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By Tim Mak Contributor

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E very m orning I roll over and check Twitter on my phone. W ash­ ington, D.C. runs on inform ation, and if you d on’t have it, people look right past you. Since I d o n ’t have it,

One o f the m ost challenging problem s in theoretical com puter science has been solved. K ind of.

It was solved, m oreover, not by re­ searchers at MIT, C al Tech, or C ar­ negie M ellon, but by bum blebees.

Scientists researching the critters at Q ueen M ary and Royal H ollow ay o f the U niversity o f London noticed that the bees were able to quickly and accurately identify the short­ est possible distance they needed to travel in a day o f pollen gathering.

How the bees are able to do this is still unclear.

The corresponding human

I rely on Twitter.

A s a reporter for a D.C. politi­ cal w ebsite, it’s my jo b to generate stories, often by having uncom fort­ able conversations w ith people far sm arter than me. You learn fairly quickly w hat the pecking order is, and y o u ’re now here near the top.

The top is ju st a dot to you.

W ashington lives on ubiqui­ tous happy hours. You m ight think, as you read this at a c in q à se p t on

challenge is quite simple: given a

Prince-A rthur, that this w ould be glam orous. It can be, but m ore often than not, it’s just work. D rinks with people y o u’ve never m et can get pretty aw kw ard pretty quickly, not

set o f cities, and an associated cost o f travel betw een each city, w h at’s the cheapest way to visit all o f them and return hom e at the end o f the day? D espite its innocent sound­ ing structure, the problem belongs to a fam ily collectively know n as N P-hard. T his m eans that algo­ rithm s w hich solve the problem are all exponential in running tim e, so subtle increases in the data set lead to im m ensely slow er problem solv­ ing times. W hile a polynom ial-tim e algorithm m ight take several days to solve, a very large problem such as an exponential-tim e algorithm could

(paulandscruflfy.wordpress.org) an optim al solution to the travelling salesm an problem and im plem ent it, despite having a brain thousands o f tim es sm aller than the hum ans they tend to terrorize.

But some national m edia sourc­ es may have, overestim ated the b e e s’

take many tim es the age o f the uni­ verse to solve. The difference only grow s with the input size.

Bees m odel this problem by gathering nectar from flowers. The bees in the experim ent w ere m oni­ tored as they learned the location of

capabilities. The original problem is slightly m ore com plicated than w hat the bees m anaged to solve. The p ri­ m ary difference is that the num ber o f flowers the bees solved the prob­ lem for is lim ited, w hile the travel­ ling salesm an is interested in visit­ ing any possible num ber o f cities

a num ber o f flowers. Later, it was observed that the bees w ere taking the shortest possible route to visit all o f the flowers and return home.

F or the set o f flowers the bees dis­ covered, they had m anaged to find

w ith any possible set o f connections and costs. A dditionally, the travel­ ling salesm an m ay not be able to m ove betw een som e cities, as there is no connection, w hereas the bees could m ove freely from any flower

to any other flower. C onsider a bee confronted with one trillion flow­ ers, som e o f w hich cannot be flown betw een. The bee w ould likely be unable to solve the travelling sales­ men problem for this set.o f flowers, w hich m ore accurately represents the true problem.

W hile the bees have not, in fact, solved the set o f N P-hard problem s, they have nonetheless dem onstrated a rem arkable capability o f nature.

For an insect with such a sm all brain to be able to solve a problem w hich could keep your laptop busy for days is quite im pressive. W hile the m eth­ ods the bee uses to rem em ber and traverse the flowers are unknow n, one thing is sure: bees will do any­ thing for som e nectar.

to m ention tedious.

To exacerbate the situation, the A m erican capital is obscenely status-conscious. O bscure individu­ als hand out cards w ith their national press secretary’s nam e on it; others have chiefs o f staff: the vogue term for a glorified personal assistant.

Lam entably, I have not been entirely im m une to this trend, but at least I ’ve put a M cG ill tw ist on it. I tell anyone w ho asks that I was a geography and political science student, rather than the other way around, because here poli sci de­ grees are a dim e a dozen. On the other hand, leading with geography gives the im pression that I know w here Tajikistan or the Republic of K iribati is. I don't.

I bum ped into a M cG ill gradu­ ate the other day w ho has found em ploym ent as a lobbyist. A regu­ lar part o f the job: the tw o-m artini

lunch. “I guess y o u ’re one o f the few w hose M cG ill experience actu­ ally prepared you for the real world, eh?” I quipped.

B eing a reporter puts you in odd situations from tim e to time. I once found m yself bow ling w ith M itt Romney. H e was in D.C. glad­ handing big donors, but rather un­ fortunately cam e dressed in a bright w hite shirt. Incidentally, the bow ling alley had a specific rule that custom ­ ers not w ear white shirts. Romney being the star attraction, I suppose they m ade an exception. B ut there are reasons for rules: R om ney ended up w ith a bright Jesus-like glow be­ cause o f the black lights, a glow that follow ed him for m ost o f the night.

T hat is, until som e savvy “personal im age strategist” handed him a blue bow ling shirt.

To steal a phrase, D.C. is not a place to take friendship personally, w hich is truly regrettable. Though it’s possible to find a trustw orthy friend h ere—form er Tribune edi­ tor and superstar Politico reporter B yron Tau, as well as erstw hile C anadian studies scribe Thom as L am berti com e to m in d —there’s a certain level o f skepticism that you have to bring to every situation, not to m ention a certain am ount o f ego that y o u ’re forced to check at the door.

Life after M cG ill can be excit­ ing, but nostalgia kicks in from time to time. G o out on a Tuesday night, or have a beer in class. D o it today, because pretty soon yo u ’ll be a chief o f staff to the personal aide o f the as­ sistant deputy secretary for the D e­ partm ent o f A griculture, and you’ll wish you had.

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The Professor "The philosophies o f one aye have become the absardities o f th e next, a n d the foolishness o f y e ste rd a y has become the wisdom o f tomorrow. " -

IVilliam Osier

ien a young William Osier was attendng medical school at McGill University in the early 1870s, the existing body of medical knowledge was increasingly being called into question. The discoveries of bacteria and insulin were revolutionizing medical treatments, effec­ tively putting ancient practices such as bloodlet­ ting and homeopathy to an end. Until his death in 1919, Osier was at the forefront of this ref­ ormation, helping to transform medical schools into what they are today.

“Osier was not single-handedly responsible, but was certainly the flag bearer of a reform movement in medical education that was to make medical education scientific,” said McGill history of medicine and science professor Faith Wallis. “ [This reform movement] was going to change this antiquated and inadequate medical system, and was going to bring it up to speed with new scientific discoveries.”

The changes Osier proposed were not eas­ ily implemented, however. Wallis explained that because medicine is not limited to a scientific paradigm, changing the system is a complex process.

“Medicine is indeed a science, but because medicine is also an art and a practice that hap­ pens between doctor and patient, change is very complicated in the medical world,” she said.

When Osier died in 1919, he left approxi­ mately 8,000 books to McGill, a collection that he had been avidly building up since his early years in Montreal. The Bibliotheca Osleriana, located on the third floor of the McIntyre Medi­ cal Building, now holds this collection and is a symbol of his legacy.

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y the age of 25, Osier was a medical professor at McGill. He then went on to be the chair of clinical medicine at the Univer­ sity of Pennsylvania, and shortly thereafter went to John Hopkins to work at both the university and the hospital. He ended his career at Oxford as Regius chair of medicine.

What made Osier unique were, among other things, his teaching methods and his beliefs about how a physician should be educated. Osier believed that lectures could only cover a fraction of what medical students should be learning. Ac­ cording to Wallis, prior to Osier’s advances it was conventional that “many students never saw the inside of a hospital.”

Dr. Richard Fraser, a pathologist at the Royal Victoria Hospital, elaborated on another of O sier’s beliefs, the union of university and hospital.

“Shortly before he died, he wrote letters to McGill saying that they needed to modern­ ize and build a closer association between the university and the hospital to develop teaching methods,” Fraser said.

Although this was something Osier had been developing during his time in Montreal, there was still a long way to go until a mandatory medical residency would be fully implemented at McGill.

O sier’s dedication to teaching is evident from a story Wallis recounted of his time at the University of Pennsylvania. While conducting an autopsy on a patient, Osier told his students to gather around and observe. He told them that he had diagnosed the patient as having died of disease X, but that if they looked carefully at certain anatomical characteristics that could be observed post-mortem, he had been incorrect.

Instead the patient had died of disease Y. Wallis paraphrased Osier telling his students, “I really blew it, now you take note of this and don’t you ever make the same mistake.”

The student who recorded this event was shocked that a professor would so openly admit his mistakes. With this act, he brought himself to the students’ level, demonstrating that learning was not only for the student but for the professor as well.

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“He believed in teaching by example, and by his own example what he wanted to model for them was.intellectual honesty,” Wallis said.

“If you don’t learn from your mistakes, how can you learn from your successes?”

The Individual ?Oflsler’s accomplishments extended bekc^Syond his professional and academic ca­ reers; his sincerity and earnestness did not end when he left the classroom. Letters and testi­ monials compiled after his death show that very few people who knew Osier did not like him.

However, with the passing of time, history is ro­ manticized and the dead are often glorified. Did Osier have any vices? Award-winning author and renowned historian Michael Bliss wrote the second biography on Osier.

“Virtually everybody who knew Osier idol­ ized him, and you say to yourself, ‘Oh well surely that’s an exaggeration.’ The trouble that I found as a biographer was that going through private correspondence that was never meant to be seen by anyone you still found this adulation of Osier, which is really, truly remarkable,” Bliss said.

According to Bliss, Osier thought of medi­ cine as his vocation. Osier believed that “once you had become a doctor, you lived, breathed, ate, slept, and drank medicine, it was your full­ time profession.”

This brings us to O sier’s bedside manner.

He was able to remain calm and emotionless as a doctor, no matter how deep his personal or emotional involvement in a case. Wallis told one story involving a young girl who was on her deathbed. Osier sat by her side and comforted her, but as he left and was walking down the hall, he started whistling. When asked by his colleagues how he could emit such a merry tune, Osier apparently responded “I whistle so that I do not weep.”

A Lasting Legacy? fferences from original Oslerian pracice have developed since the beginning of the 20th century.

Osier and some of his contemporaries open­ ly admitted to their mistakes, noting them down

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transparently in reports. Current physicians do not openly admit to mistakes at the risk of hav­ ing malpractice suits filed against them. Instead, medical students are taught to present options to their patients. In this way, the relationship be­ tween doctor and patient has evolved since Os­ ier’s day. Patients have become more educated, and there is no longer a sense that the doctor knows best.

Additionally, the doctor’s priority seems to have shifted from his patient to his family.

“Osier’s generation of physicians thought that your obligation to your patient was that you’re with them every hour of the day and night that you’re needed,” Bliss said.

Yet despite an obvious and inevitable evo­ lution of the medical system over the course of almost a century, O sier’s ideals are still very relevant today. Osier Fellows, positions cre­ ated four years ago in the Faculty of Medicine at McGill, are a concrete example of how his impact is still felt.

“Osier Fellows are meant to help the stu­ dents make the transition from being a student who doesn’t know anything about medicine to a physician who deals with patients,” Fraser said.

The Library cording to Pamela Miller, the history f medicine librarian at M cGill’s Osier Library, Osier chose to leave his collection to the school because this is where he built his reputation.

“He said in his will that he was giving it to the Faculty of Medicine in gratitude for their support of him as a student and as a professor,” Miller said. “Their support of him gave him faith in himself which he thought was the best form of education.”

Canadian architect Percy Nobbs and Os­ ier’s wife Grace Revere worked diligently for the decade after Osier’s death to build a place that would hold his books, and in some ways his legacy. The library was originally housed in the Strathcona building, but was moved to the McIntyre Medical Building in the 1960s.

Thanks to donors, the library’s collection now boasts about 100,000 rare books. The li­

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brary is also home to both Mr. and Mrs. Osier’s ashes.

Some of the pieces the library has come by are priceless and irreplaceable. These include a collection of Thomas Browne’s multi-volume the Religio M edici, a facsimile of M cGill’s old­ est diploma, and literary works that date as far back as the eighth century. Osier’s goal for the library was to collect the great works of medi­ cine, and to potentially create a curriculum for medical students.

O sier’s influence ranges far and wide; peo­ ple come from all over the world to visit his library, a sort of Mecca for Oslerians. Christo­ pher Lyons has been the liaison librarian for the Osier Library for the past six years and has seen many different people come to visit.

“When I started working here, I started to appreciate the extent to which Osier was in­ fluential in medicine in the space of about one week,” Lyons said.

The first three people that came to the li­ brary when Lyons started working there came from opposite ends of the world, from Austra­ lia, Brazil, and Japan.

In one way or another, Osier had inspired these people and had brought them all to the Bibliotheca Osleriana.

“They all came from thousands of miles away. W hat’s driven them to this place?” asked Lyons.

The Bibliotheca Osleriana is locked at all times, but the librarians are wonderfully wel­ coming and will gladly give curious students a guided tour. They are also hoping to open this part of the library as a study space for students sometime after Christmas.

“ven if Osier graduated over a century ago, McGill is be proud to call one of the greatest Canadian physicians, and perhaps even one of the greatest Canadians, one of their own. In Bliss’s words, Osier was the doctor’s doctor, but his message that learning is a con­ tinuous process can be extended beyond the medical profession.

“As people said after his death,” Bliss con­ cluded “This truly was an unusual and remark­ able life.”

The Holmes Heart: part of Osier’s collection of 130-year-old specimens in the basement of the Duff Medical Building.

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M a c h u P icch u : a lo s t c ity in th e h e a rt o f Peru W inding roads lead trekkers to ancient Incan haven

By Wallis Grout-Brown__________ Contributor

metry o f the ruins: the C entral Plaza in the m iddle, the sm aller Sacred Plaza to the right, the tem ples, and

The creaking w ooden ladder felt like it was going to break any second, but nothing w as going to stop me from reaching the top. A fter a nerveracking, steep hike with 3,000-m etre

the row s o f stone w alls descending in the agricultural sectors.

It was a long and arduous jo u r­ ney to get there: tw o long bus rides (including a couple o f hours strand­

drops right next to me, I w as finally ed in the Peruvian desert when one close. E ven through the rain and the broke dow n), a train ride to A guas fog, the scene from the top o f W ayna C alien te—a village filled with hos­ Picchu was am azing. Clouds below tels in the valley n ear M achu Pic­ us w ere flowing through the m oun­ c h u —an early m orning bus ride to tains, covering M achu Picchu every the entrance, and a 5 a.m. race to the now and then, giving it a m ystical | entrance o f W ayna Picchu, since only am biance. From here you could see 400 people are allow ed on M achu all o f M achu Picchu and its tourists Picchu per day. This m om ent, how ­ scattered betw een the ruins w earing ever, m ade it w orth the wait. their coloured ponchos.

G oing through the ruins was W ayna Picchu is a m ountain a different experience than clim b­ right beside M achu Picchu, the one ing W ayna Picchu. Some research­ typically in the background o f m ost ers think that M achu Picchu was shots o f the fam ous w orld heritage a sort o f sanctuary for the Incas site. The sum m it looks like a pile and w as w here the Incan K ing re ­ o f big boulders and m ade m e w on­ treated. M achu P icchu’s existence der how it could hold the 30-some today depends on the level o f detail tourists w ho w ere already at the top when I had arrived. From m y com ­ fortable spot on one o f the boulders, I could see the com plexity and sym ­

and com plexity that w ent into its creation. The Incas d id n 't use any material (like m ortar) to keep the stones together. Instead, they relied

The winding road up to Machu Picchu and the view from the top. (Wallis Grout-Brown / McGill Tribune) on geom etry and shaped stones in order to fit each other like a jigsaw puzzle, w hich allow ed M achu Pic­

Intiw atana, a large square stone with its four points directed tow ards the cardinal points, and with a block on

chu to w ithstand natural disasters for so long.

top w hose shadow show s the posi­ tion o f the sun.

The Incan site is rich with ar­ tifacts. A large stone on the ground shaped into the head o f the largest

A t the end o f the day, the sun finally peeked out from the clouds, and the fog slowly lifted. The dras­ tic change from grey m ist to intense, bright light was magical. As the site started to clear o f tourists and the sun began to set, you could see people in deep m editation facing the bright

bird in South A m erica, the condor, is o f particular significance. H istorians believe that sacrifices w ere once per­ form ed on this stone. G oing through the Sacred Plaza, I cam e across the

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setting sun. We w ere surrounded by a spectacular calm ness. You could alm ost feel the presence o f the Incas w ho once lived here.

H ow to get there: train (perurail.com ), hiking.

Cheap places to stay: Pirw a (roughly $ 10/night, pirw ahostelsperu.com ), Varayoc (roughly $10, hostels.com ) Budget: around $200-400

BITS & PIECES OF MCGILL

T h e Rod o f A s c le p iu s

Friends & Family Days November 10-11-12,2010

Architectural details not to be missed

By Holly Stewart

K nown as the R od o f A sclepius, in

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G reek m ythology it w as carried by the healer A sclepius and now repre­ sents many m edical institutions. It’s som etim es confused w ith the rod featuring tw o snakes tw ined around

Eccentric architect Percy N obbs, w ho taught at M cG ill in the early 20th century, designed the Pathology Institute on the corner o f Pine A venue and U niversity street.

A t the age o f 28 he arrived at M cGill w ith an am bitious plan to redesign the university’s buildings. H e was equally well know n for his 1908 O lym pic silver m edal in fencing.

The buildings he designed at M cG ill have details that are easily m issed. O n top o f the tow er ju st be­ hind the bus stop on Pine Avenue is a staff with a snake winding around it.

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it and w ings at the top: the caduceus.

N obbs was perhaps thinking o f C a­ nadian history when he designed w hat is now called the D uff M edi­ cal Building in 1921. The A m erican A rm y M edical Corps had adopted the caduceus as their sym bol only a few decades earlier, but the C ana­ dian Forces M edical Service wore the single-snake R od o f A sclepius on their uniforms.

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RESTAURANT REVIEW

HOW-TO

C h ia n ti a n d c h a rity a t R o bin d es Bois

S e w in g y o u r rip p e d .clo th e s w it h o u t m o m ’s n e lp

A m ultitasking meal in the Plateau

An easy guide to m ending seams and sewing on buttons w ith your tongue then passing it through the tiny hole at the end o f the needle. Pull three to four inches o f the thread through the eye and tie a knot at the end to prevent it from slipping back through the needle.

2. Turn the garm ent inside out

end o f the rip.

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To finish and secure the seam, m ake a few sm all, basic stitches by pulling the needle in and out o f the fabric but not pulling the thread all the w ay through. Run the needle

so you can see the seam. Pull both sides o f the fabric together and in­ sert the needle a quarter inch from w here the rip begins. Pull the thread through until there are four inches

knot.

necessary m oney o r getting rid o f your favourite shirt, you can most likely fix it yourself with ju st a sew ­ ing needle and som e thread. D on’t let hand sew ing intim idate you; the ba­

left at the other end and tie a knot.

It do esn ’t m atter w hether you work from left to right or right to left. For this explanation, how ever, w e’ll as­ sum e y o u ’re w orking from left to

needle for a button is a bit different: pull the thread through the eye until both ends are the sam e length (12 inches on each side o f the needle).

Tie a knot w here the tw o ends meet.

sics are m uch easier than you think.

Sim ple sew ing kits are available at any pharm acy o r grocery store.

right.

3. To sew a seam , use a back stitch, w hich is quite strong. O nce the thread is tied in place, pull the needle over the top o f the fabric and pull it through both sides o f the fab­ ric a quarter o f an inch to the right.

Pull the thread all the way through.

4. Now, repeat w rapping the needle over the top o f both pieces o f fabric, but this tim e insert the needle an eighth o f an inch in the oppo­

By Tori Crawford_______________

Tucked on a quiet stretch o f St. L aurent below Villeneuve Street,

ing o ff the plate. The accom pany­ ing salad w as good enough, but the fries, w hich spilled gently onto the steak, were the real attraction on the sid e—crispy and alm ost as good as

R obin des B ois possesses all the characteristics you’d expect from a w ell-heeled Plateau bistro: candles on the tables, a sophisticated w ine list, and canard confit on the menu.

The one thing it’s lacking? Profits.

D espite this, R obin des B ois is

the addictive ones at Frites Alors.

They even cam e w ith a red pepper aioli, served in a sm all cup.

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not a failing restaurant, but rather one based on an unusual concept.

The four-year-old bistro donates nearly all o f its proceeds to local

nam ed Sm oking Loon W ine C om ­ pany. T hough I ’m not a w ine expert, our b o ttle’s strong, sm ooth notes set the steak o ff quite nicely.

D espite the restaurant’s chari­

unteers, with chef Julie R abouin as one o f the few exceptions.

If nothing else, this conceit w ould make R obin des B o is— nam ed for the m ythical rogue o f Sherw ood F orest—a great place for a m ultitasking meal: Chianti and charity at the sam e time. Fortunately for its patrons, R obin des B ois offers excellent fare as well as charitable satisfaction.

On a recent evening, my date

table m ission, Robin des Bois is slightly less charitable to the w al­ lets o f students w ho may dine there; entrées run from about $13 to $20, and w ine, o f course, is,extra. Still, the bistro ’s an elegant alternative to m ore popular dow ntow n spots like L’Entrecôte Saint Jean, w hich serves a much lesser steak frites. Once in a w hile, it’s worth it. Sadly, though, the bill is not tax deductible.

and I both ordered the superb bavette de boeuf, passing up the m ore exotic options like the Tunisian shrimp. It w as a good choice. The steak, sub­ stantial and succulent, cam e bathed in a sauce o f shallots and red wine that w as difficult to resist drink­

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D espite the frustration that com es w ith a fridge that looks full but lacks actual substance, there is an advantage to stocking up on this kind o f stuff: w hen you have o p ­ tions like m ustard and fish sauce, the possibilities for dinner are endless. So today I present to you one o f my food staples and a great reason to keep som e dark soy sauce and sam bal in your fridge: spicy bean stir fry.

In g re d ie n ts: • Handful o f French green beans (haricots verts) • Yellow, orange, or red bell pep­ per cut into thin strips • 4 oz o f m ushroom s chopped

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A&E MOVIE REVIEW

W e g e t it: life is m e a n in g le s s W oody Allen preaches the same lessons in his newest film ,

Y o u W ill M e e t A T a ll D a r k S tr a n g e r

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(G em m a Jones), and their daughter Sally (N aom i Watts) and her hus­ band R oy (Josh B rolin), the film explores the classic Allen them e o f dissatisfaction in relationships, and in life m ore generally. Alfie, played

m arriage is to seek answ ers from a fortune teller, w ho tells her, am ong

Roy, to the beautiful D ia (Freida Pinto), at w hom he creepily gazes

interjects to deliver banal lines like, “ Shakespeare once said, life is full of

he could m ake a decent m ovie in his sleep, and apart from P in to —who, though a killer beauty, is a thor­ oughly unconvincing actress—the acting is quite stellar. H elena’s lines are often silly and clichéd, but Jones captures her frivolous naiveté like the veteran that she is. Watts is very persuasive as a frustrated daughter, artist and wife, and H opkins is noth­ ing short o f slighted by participating in a film so clearly beneath him . The ever-sexy A ntonio B anderas also lends his talents to playing Sally’s boss. Brolin, how ever, is not entirely credible as a struggling writer. The scenes betw een him and Pinto were especially stale, as the idea that her insipid character w ould fall in love w ith his dishevelled one seem s im ­ plausible.

I t’s the fact that You W ill M eet a Tall D a rk S tr a n g e r explores the very sam e them es that A llen has ex­ plored over the past 40 y ears—but this tim e so m uch less intelligent­ ly —that m akes the film such a dis­ appointm ent. Life is a m eaningless crapshoot no m atter w hich road you take; you can neither predict nor es­

by a knobbly—kneed, w hite-haired H opkins, w akes up one night to the terrifying realization that he has to spend his rem aining years with an aging wife to w hom h e ’s been m ar­

m any foolish things, that she will m eet “a tall dark stranger.” Sally is, o f course, skeptical o f her m oth­ e r ’s m indless adhesion to w hatever “Cristal says,” but, with R oy’s flail­

through his bedroom window, and for Alfie, to the lewd, form er call girl C harm aine (Lucy Punch), w hom he m et on the job.

In classic A llen fashion, New

sound and fury, signifying nothing.”

A llen is undoubtedly w ell-cultured, so it’s surprising that he w ould not only feel the need to throw in an ir­ relevant line from Shakespeare, but

cape from your fate; the m ore neu­ rotic you are, the m ore likely you are to spend tim e philosophizing about it; and finally, putting your faith in nonsense is no m ore absurd than

ried for 40 years. So, in the w ords of the film ’s narrator, he “darkens his skin and w hitens his teeth,” and pur­ sues the life o f a sw anky bachelor.

ing w riting career and delusions of leading a rom antic bohem ian life, she is busy with a failing m arriage o f h er own. B oth men end up leav­

M eanw hile, H elena’s response to A lfie’s sudden uprooting o f their

ing their respective w ives hoping to move on to som ething b etter—for

O rleans jazz m usic punctuates m ost o f the dialogue, but is insufficient com pensation for the otherw ise vapid scenes. An A llen-like narrator (sans B rooklyn accent) sporadically fills in the gaps o f the storyline, and

also m ake the m istake o f conflating Shakespeare w ith M acbeth, the char­ acter w ho fam ously stated the line.

To be clear, there’s nothing blaringly terrible about the film.

Allen is so skilled at his craft that

putting it in science or reason. These are classic A llen lessons. B ut this time th ey ’re conveyed so tritely and superficially, that you d o n ’t really w ant to hear them.

A nybody

w ho’s seen A n n ie

H all, M a n h a tta n , or S le e p e r know s

that when it com es to comedy, W oody A llen is a genius. His scripts, his unique brand o f neuroticism , and the depth o f the them es he explores m ake him one o f the m ost im portant film m akers o f our time.

But in the last five or so years, A llen has m oved his tradem ark New York style to the streets o f London to direct a series o f darker films. A l­ though films like M a tch P o in t and C a s s a n d r a ’s D rea m w ere artistic works in their own right, his m ost re­ cent endeavour. You W ill M e e t a Tall D a rk Stranger, has fallen so far from his original genius that it w ould be insulting to call it part o f his oeuvre.

C entring on tw o couples, Alfie (A nthony H opkins) and H elena Allen directs Gemma Jones and Pauline Collins, who plays Cristal, in a scene where Jones’s character visits the so-called fortune teller. (Sundancechannel.com)

Poplÿietoric Kids for Ca$h?

In recent m onths, th ere’s been an influx o f additions to the enter­ tainm ent industry, and I ’m not talk­ ing about popular university-target­ ed acts like C hiddy B ang o r M ike Posner. I ’m referring to significantly younger individuals—individuals w ho are surely not old enough to make a successful rise to fam e by their own means.

Just this past w eek, a sevenyear-old boy nam ed M atty B was covered by m edia outlets Perez H ilton and N ew York M agazine. A few hours later, a YouTube video o f M atty B rapping over a Ke$ha song w ent viral and has since gar­ nered over 1.5 m illion view s. A t first glance, you see a cute little blonde boy with “cool” style. B ut then you begin to think: W ho is this kid?

A fter seeing his video, I p ro­ ceeded to investigate this unknow n M atty B character and found m ulti­ ple other videos, all in the sam e style as the one that caught the eye of Perez Hilton. The gossip guru w ent on to notify K e$ h a’s actual producer Dr. Luke (associated with huge acts like K aty Perry and Taio C ruz), who w as enthused about the video. The point here is: W ho is M atty B? Sure, h e ’s a seven-year-old boy w ho raps and sings, but can it really be true that he films, edits, and w rites his ow n songs?

A long w ith the im m ediate praise from teenage girls, th ere’s also been a backlash against M atty B and other rising young stars. Q ues­ tions have been raised concerning w ho exactly is m anaging these chil­ dren and w hat their m otives are. It’s very possible that parents see how fast rise to fam e can be using the In ­

ternet and think that their child can m ake it in the business because he or she has “ star quality.”

Take the exam ple o f Justin Bieber, w ho w as virtually unknow n two and a h alf years ago. H e w as ju st another kid from O ntario w ho had a YouTube account w here he p ost­ ed acoustic songs. He used to sing outside o f the Stratford Playhouse, w here countless high school students from M ontreal and around Canada (like m e) m ay have dropped a loonie in his guitar case, never know ing he w ould soon be discovered by R&B m egastar Usher.

It’s true that stars can be bom via the Internet, but som ething about M atty B is a little fishy. A t least Ju s­ tin B ieber w asn ’t being edited and m arketed in a w ay that seem ed like his parents w ould be benefitting from his possible success. In contrast, M atty B 's videos are way too good

to be true. They have perfect edit­ ing and crystal clear vocals. Judg­ ing by his house (pictured in many o f his videos), one could hazard a guess that he m ight have access to professional recording m aterials. On the other hand, it’s possible that his m other is ju st a w hiz when it com es to iM ovie and G arageBand.

W illow Sm ith (daughter o f Will and Jada Pinkett-Sm ith) is another exam ple o f a young star on the rise.

H er situation is slightly different, as she was raised in the entertainm ent industry and definitely has a profes­ sional team w orking for her. She just turned 10 last w eek, but her debut single, “W hip M y H air,” has already risen to num ber 11 on the B illboard H ot 100. At first some may have w ondered if W illow was just another child o f a H ollyw ood pow er couple being pushed into the industry, but after perform ing on national T V this

w eek for the first tim e, I think she has proven her case as a good per­ former. She now joins the ranks o f Justin B ieber and her ow n brother Jaden Smith, w ho just starred along­ side Jackie Chang in this past Ju n e’s box office success, T he K a ra te K id.

D on’t get m e w rong; I ’m actu­ ally on M atty B 's side. Kudos for being recognized by huge m edia outlets and generating buzz all over N orth A m erica. He is obviously a child w ho wants to be fam ous, and he m ay even have the personality, voice, and team to pursue it. B ut not everybody is going to be the next Justin Bieber. Sorry M atty B, keep rapping as a hobby, but don’t try to m ake a career out o f it.

—A le x S h iri

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MOVIE REVIEW

R e -o p e n in g th e file s o f A Film Unfinished Unprocessed Nazi propaganda exposes the true horrors o f G hetto life O pinion Editor

The film was originally com ­ m issioned by the T hird R eich for

filed by the SS officers in charge o f producing the film, w ho bem oan the

propaganda purposes. T hat is, to show the veritable paradise in w hich the regim e perm itted W arsaw ’s Jew s to live. W ist claim s he w as specifi­ cally ordered to film scenes o f Jew s leading norm al, even opulent lives,

difficulties posed by uncooperative

If A F ilm U n fin ish ed were noth­ ing but 60 m inutes o f raw Nazi pro­ paganda footage film ed in the W ar­ saw G hetto, it w ould still be the m ost affecting film view ers have seen in a

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very long time. If the five silent reels found in an E ast G erm an bunker nine years after the w ar w ere presented to an audience in 2010 with no com ­ m entary, no elaboration, no context,

to show them enjoying them selves,

you w ould still stare blankly at the rolling credits, neither blinking nor seeing, totally stunned by the film.

Fortunately, the film —directed

by Yael H ersonski—is m uch m ore.

Those 60 m inutes o f raw footageare

w om an singing at a lavish ball, rab­

m ovingly intertw ined with com m en­ tary from G hetto survivors, descrip­ tions o f how the N azis m anipulated certain scenes, readings from jo u r­ nals kept by both Jew s and Nazis, and an extended interview with W illy W ist, exposed as one o f the film ’s cam eram en in the 1960s and the only G erm an nam e ever con­ nected to the m aking o f the W arsaw tapes.

to show life in the W arsaw Ghetto w as not all that bad. To that end, we see Jew s enjoying m ulti-course m eals with wine, close-up shots o f a bis m eeting in the office o f A dam C zem iakow , the head o f the W arsaw Judenrat, the council o f supposed “ self-governm ent” that the Nazis or­ dered Jew s to form , men and women lounging in bathing suits, enjoying cool drinks in the sun. This footage is accom panied by readings from Jew ish diaries, m ost interestingly from those o f C zem iakow , described in the film as “ an actor playing him ­ self, unaw are o f how his role will end.” He repeatedly w rote about how the Nazis staged and shot m ul­ tiple takes o f these deceptively nonhellish scenes. We also hear reports

Jews.

In addition to the original tapes, A F ilm U n fin ish ed also show s an ad­ ditional, unedited reel o f footage, w hich show s the horrifying truth of life and death in the W arsaw G het­ to. R avaged corpses lie untouched on sidew alks, frail young children w ander aim lessly, supported only by canes, skin peeling from their faces and bodies like old paint off a w all, p o licem en—som e w ith Star o f D avid arm bands—harassing Jew s, beating them , causing stam pedes. It show s m ass graves, truck-size piles o f uncollected feces, dead bodies being tossed onto w ooden carts, fall­ ing off, and rolling face dow n into the gutter. In his typically understat­ ed m anner, W ist tells the interview er that these scenes “preoccupied my thoughts for quite som e tim e.” Som e view ers m ay be left less than satis­ fied by the depth o f his contrition.

The m ost disturbing and unfor­ gettable aspects o f the film are the faces o f those w alking the streets of

A member of the Nazi-ordered Jewish police leads a fellow Jew in one o f the film’s staged scenes, (tmtmshow.blogspot.com) the G hetto. They stare curiously and blankly at the cam era, and at us in the audience, as if reaching beyond the insanity o f their situation to w hat­ ever hint o f reality they m ight im ag­ ine o r rem em ber is beyond. We stare back, transfixed, trying and failing and trying again to enter their own horrible reality, if only m om entarily.

This happens throughout the film, as children, m others, and soldiers look deep into the le n s—repeated instances o f fleeting com m union.

T hese faces, these eyes, sug­ gest the true m eaning o f the title, A F ilm U nfinished. The effect is to call into question the idea o f historical finality. The lesson, perhaps, is that by seeing all this, by entering these horrible w orlds, if only for a short tim e, we can in som e w ay preserve w hat has already been destroyed, and ensure that the N azi “ solution” was anything but final.

BOOK REVIEW

...WHAT MORE DO YOU WANT?

A n im a ls go fe ra l in S e d a ris ’s la te s t Cute and cuddly animals prove they have a dark side

By Matthew K a s s e l _____ _____ Contributor T h ere’s a clear reason w hy Ian Falconer, w ho illustrated D avid Se­ d aris’s latest book, S q u irre l S e e k s C h ip m u n k : A M o d e st B e stia ry , only uses shades o f red and black in his illustrations. It’s because the stories, w hich tersely detail single events in the lives o f anim als, are often bloody and bleak.

But it’s also a m atter o f econo­ my. Y ou’ll read this book very quick­ ly because the w riting is so m atter o f fact. Each short story is basically reducible to one sim ple, bluntly shocking action or event, and in that

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way, F alco n er’s illustrations, which are beautiful, naive, funny, and trag­ ic, m ight tell S edaris’s stories better than Sedaris can him self.

Sedaris wrote S q u irre l S e e k s C h ip m u n k, his first full book o f fic­ tion, know ing it w ould be illustrat­ ed, so the stories and illustrations w ork in a sym biotic relationship.

W hat Sedaris m ight have purposely om itted in description, Falconer de­ lineates visually.

T here really aren ’t any descrip­ tions o f the anim als’ physical attri­ butes in these stories. D o n ’t we all know w hat a bear or a m ouse or a stork looks like? Perhaps not. Fal­

coner, w ho authored the O livia chil­ d ren ’s books, show s us w hat w e’d expect. B ut there’s alw ays a little m o re —a hum an expression or pos­ tu re —that elides the inherent m or­ bidity o f most o f the stories.

It w ould be easy to say Sedaris w rote this book o f anim al fables and foibles as an allegory to critique the seem ing absurdity o f hum an interac­ tion, but I don’t think Sedaris is that kind o f writer. H e’s not that sanc­ tim onious. W riting about anim als allow s Sedaris to reveal a w orld of gore and desperation that w ould be harder to get a t—w ith taste, at le a st—if he w ere w riting about people.

B ecause these stories are fanta­ sy, it d o esn ’t really m atter if certain facts and happenings don’t add up.

A baboon groom s a cat? A mouse ow ns a snake? A squirrel dates a chipm unk? OK. T hese scenarios aren ’t really funny, and Sedaris d o esn ’t alw ays seem to try to m ake them so.

Sure, you’ll probably laugh, but som etim es you m ight be disturbed, perhaps by the lab rat injected with pancreatic cancer, the w alls o f his tank “soiled here and there with bloody paw prints and flecks of vom it,” or by the m otherless bear, w ho becom es a sort o f gim p concu­

bine, “her jaw s ... sunken, her gums sw ollen w ith the abscesses left by broken teeth.”

These descriptions aren ’t taste­ ful, but that seem s to be the point.

A lot o f the anim als are duplicitous, m urderous, and predatory because th at’s really how they are.

The stories d o n ’t form a com ­ m on thread. T heir realities som e­ tim es operate on different planes.

B ecause a parrot is a journalist in one, you m ight assum e people d o n ’t exist. B ut then in another, you get the point o f view o f a setter ow ned by people.

The point is it do esn ’t matter.

These are m ore vignettes than sto­ ries, as are m any o f Sedaris’s essays, and despite the m orose hum our prevalent in his w riting, he usually finds a way, in the end, to be bash­ fully sw eet and sensitive. Perhaps he is a hum ourist, but I usually rem em ­ ber his w riting for how he com es to understand him self. H um our m ight be a path to that, but it’s not an end.

You could view these new fictional stories in a sim ilar same way. Yes, they’re short and bleak and flat, punctuated w ith gore, but som etim es—and this is Sedaris at his b est—they can be unexpectedly and clum sily touching.

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C D R e v ie w s

F a c to r: L a w s o n G ra h a m

“ O n c e m o re u n to th e b re a c h , d e a r fr ie n d s ”

H o o d ed F a n g : H o o d e d F a n g U nlike som e indie rockers,

K id C u d i: M a n O n T h e M o o n I I : The M oon M an is back with

rappers. It’s an interesting concept,

H ooded F an g ’s ego do esn ’t get in the w ay o f producing a good album.

H ow ever, this m ight be expected from a band nam ed after the villain o f a popular children’s book series.

T here isn ’t a huge concept to tackle or a personal battle to overcom e on their self-titled debut, instead it’s an album that shines in its simplicity. It m ight not pack a serious punch, but a w ell-placed vibraphone, trum pet, and steel pan keep it entertaining from start to finish.

but long-w inded songs like “M issed The T rain” and “Every M orning” show w hy the success rate for this type o f genre m ash-up isn ’t particu­ larly high.

At first, you m ight get the im ­ pression that H ooded Fang is a laidback group o f daydream ers, and in a way th at’s exactly w hat they are. “Y ounger D ays” and “Prom ise

St. Vincent) to help his “ lonely Ston­ e r ” thoughts m aterialize. The 17track release is a darker, brooding glim pse into the life o f an introspec­ tive artist w ho is easy to relate to.

The album alm ost feels like an experim ent, and it has its suc­ cesses here and there. “M ental Ill­ ness,” a confident rap by 2M ex over

L and” exem plify the album ’s fleet­ ing im agery and upbeat melodies.

B ut the m ore you listen, the m ore you get the im pression that som ething about their lives isn ’t

W hile the opening track, “Erase M e,” is the m ost radio-friendly with its light pop rock pulse, “M ari­ ju a n a ,” is the strongest piece on the album , thanks to a piano-driven

entirely fulfilling. Deep dow n, they crave to relive the past, to ignore

dow n-tem po groove and huge g u i­ tar riffs. The contrast betw een the heavily claustrophobic “The E n d ” and the w eak rhym ing in the playful “A ll A long” prove that this album is unclassifiable: it represents the

L a w so n G ra h a m is a left-of-

centre hip-hop release by veteran C anadian beat-m aker Factor. A group o f label m ates, both singers and rappers, provide som e vocals for his instrum entals, but this album begs the question o f w hether it’s hip-hop or indie rock. It’s tough to say —the tracks that give o ff the best hip-hop vibes are generally the ones that feature indie rock vocalists, and those that sound quintessentially indie rock are the ones featuring the

a chipm unked vocal sam ple is the album ’s catchiest song. T h ere’s no m ainstream , synthesized, 808-drum influence here, either. Instead, the album is m uch m ore organic, with artists w ho appear to be m ore lev­ elheaded than those in the m ain­ stream.

their responsibilities and be m is­ chievous again. A nd as tim e goes on, those m em ories becom e fainter.

N ot every m usician needs to have

Factor m akes a noble, albeit m eandering, attem pt to expose listeners to tw o com pletely differ­ ent m usical styles. A hip-hop fan

like crap when they realize they aren ’t having as m uch fun as they used to. Such a realization is the fuel that drives the album , and that's w hat m akes it w orth hearing.

w ouldn’t jum p into indie rock by listening to A rcade Fire. A n indie rock fan w o uldn't jum p into hiphop by listening to Young Jeezy. A com prom ise has to be m ade and you have to ease into it slowly. If y o u ’re open-m inded to both, L a w so n G ra ­

inner dem ons, but everybody feels

— N ic h o la s P etrillo

T h e L e g e n d o f M r. R a g e r

a surprising sophom ore album to say the least. No one expected Kid Cudi to announce that M O T M II: T he L e g e n d o f Mr. R a g e r w ould be a rock album. A t least L il’ W ayne stuck to rap for a decade before his ow n rock experim ent. R eb irth .

T h ere’s some consistency in Mr. R o g e r's m essage, as them es o f isolation and escape from E n d o f the D a y reoccur. O nly this tim e he en­

lists a few guest artists (K anye West,

spectrum o f K id C u d i’s highs and lows.

Mr. R a g e r has som ething to offer to Kid Cudi fans, but those expecting the spatial, dream y quali­ ties o f the first album will be disap­ pointed. O verall, the album misses the m ark when com pared to its pre­ cursor, w hich w as far m ore poetic and cohesive. Perhaps C udi should focus less on pushing boundaries and m ore on finding his voice.

h am m ight be a good place to start.

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By Walker Kitchens Sports Editor C om ing o ff o f their first loss in 16 gam es, the R edm en rugby team responded w ith an authoritative 69-10 victory over the Sherbrooke Vert-et-Or in the Q uebec U niversity R ugby League m en ’s sem ifinal on Friday afternoon. It was a dom inant perform ance by the entire M cGill team , w ho scored early and often to quickly put the gam e out o f Sher­ brooke’s reach.

The Redm en were m otivated to put their O ctober 24 loss to C on­ cordia behind them . They played intensely, physically dictating the play. Centre Sam Skulsky scored tw o m inutes into the gam e and wing G ideon B alloch follow ed w ith a suc­ cessful conversion. M cG ill d id n ’t let up, scoring seven consecutive tries in the first half and leading 45-0 at the break.

“We took practice a lo t m ore seriously after the loss,” said w ing B rendan O ’Sullivan, w ho scored tw o points o ff a successful conver­ sion. “We realized that we had som e com petition in this league and we needed to start taking things m ore se­ riously. We ju st put our goals against Sherbrooke to m atch them m an to man physically and play them really intense. W hen we play to that level and play with that intensity and that passion, our talent com es through and w e can pile on the points.”

Balloch echoed the sentim ent, saying that the team w as extrem ely focused, hoping to start the playoffs on the right note.

“Everyone w as really m otivat­

ed [com ing into the gam e],” he said.

“We had lost our last regular season gam e so it was a return to form for us. We scored w ithin the first tw o minutes: [that was] pretty im pres­ sive. Just overall the team w orked better together. We w orked back and forth better than we had all year.

We hardly ever let up, it w as really good.”

B alloch led the R edm en charge w ith an incredible 22 points. He scored tw o tries and added six con­ versions, but he w as quick to attri­ bute his individual success to the entire team ’s effort.

“I w as ju st lucky,” he hum bly explained. “ B ecause I kick for -the team , when [the team ] score[s] a lot o f tries [I end up] scoffing] a lot o f points out there. I also finished with

loch said. “I ’m glad C oncordia won.

Playing them again is som ething we

scored tries had to credit their team ­

A scary m om ent occurred in the second h alf w hen the gam e had to be postponed for 30 m inutes as a Sher­

m ates.”

O ’Sullivan was not as quick to attribute B alloch’s success to luck.

“O ne thing G ideon brings to the table is consistency and effort,” he said. “ His kicks are spot on and that d o esn ’t com e from now here. He

brooke player left the gam e with a serious neck injury. E ven though M cG ill earned a yellow card for the incident, B alloch explained that he d id n ’t “think [the hit] was m eant to be m alicious.”

M cG ill now heads to the Q U RL

practices his kicking every practice

final against the C oncordia Stingers.

C oncordia w on 13-12 over B ishop’s in the other sem ifinal to set up a re­ m atch w ith M cG ill. In the regular season the Stingers ended M cG ill’s 15-gam e w inning streak w ith a 17-10 victory. The R edm en are excited to get the chance to avenge their only

played against Sherbrooke,” ex­ plained O ’Sullivan. “We cannot give up silly penalties and [we have to] play really, really hard defence and then look for the offensive opportu­

conference loss o f the season.

“W e’re definitely looking for­ w ard to playing C oncordia,” B al­

have a lot o f tim e this w eek to get everything dow n and as perfect as we can for the finals.”

D engue fever, a disease so rare there have only been a handful o f reported cases in C anada and the U.S. in the last half-century. It’s a disease that’s been used in the past by the U.S. as a form o f biological w arfare. An ath­ lete catching the bug in com petition

debacle is proof that a T hird W orld O lym pic dream is ju st that. Some will argue that South A frica’s suc­ cess at the W orld C up proves that other developing countries are vi­ able hosts for an event this big. The W orld C up and the O lym pics, how ­ ever, are incom parable in logistical

tw o tries that w ere set up by my team m ates. I think everyone who

and he loves to kick. H e’s alw ays giving it 100 per cent, really running hard, running his lines.”

The M cG ill offence w as run­ ning on all cylinders on Friday as seven different players scorfed tries.

The te a m ’s defence w as equally im ­ pressive as they shut out Sherbrooke in the first h alf to ensure that a com e­ back w as not in the cards.

w ant to do.”

T he R edm en are confident that a rem atch with the Stingers w ill turn out differently if they play like they did against the Vert-et-Or. “We ju s t have to m atch [Con­ cordia] physically m an to m an and play w ith the intensity that we

nities to create them selves.”

“W e’ll be practicing five tim es this w eek,” said Balloch. “So w e’ll

THIRD MAX Dengue, typhoid, and a lesson learned

By virtually any measure, last m onth’s 2010 C om m onw ealth G am es in D elhi w ere a com plete disaster. A sm all budget w asn ’t the issue but rather a large one was. W ith a cost o f 30,000 C rore (300 billion Rupees), or close to $7 billion U SD, they w ere easily the m ost expen­ sive C om m onw ealth G am es ever.

They cost as much as any O lym pic G am es, except o f course for the B ei­ jin g G am es in 2008. All this money, and India has a 35 per cent poverty rate. B ut that’s another issue.

Right before the gam es began, the athletes’ villages had flooded, rendering m any o f the dorm itories uninhabitable. Then, a pedestrian

bridge leading to the stadium col­ lapsed. There have been rum ours o f unsafe and unregulated w orking conditions, including child labour and a m eningitis outbreak am ongst construction w orkers. In a country w ith strict labour laws and a stable econom y, none o f these things w ould have happened. I ’m not suggesting that large athletic events should be entirely w esternized: I ’m m erely proposing that they should be safe.

In May, the C anadian O lym ­ pic C om m ittee (C O C) decided that their athletes com peting in Delhi w ould arrive in India ju st in tim e for their specific events, and then return straight home. If they m issed a cer­ em ony o r a team m ate’s com petition, tough luck. It w as clear that the COC d id n ’t believe that the Indian G am es w ould be a success, and w ould be participating in only the m ost lit­

eral and passive way. In short, the C O C felt that the conditions w ould be poor, the city dangerous, and the experience detrim ental for the ath­ letes.

The Indian O lym pic C om m it­ tee, as w ell as m any C anadian and Indian pundits, was incensed. W hile India w as offended, C anada was

is sim ply unacceptable.

W hile this may seem trivial in

right.

We can ignore the one C ana­ dian athlete w ho returned hom e with typhoid fever. We can assum e that he d id n ’t get the shots required to travel to India. B ut w hat w e c a n ’t ignore is the accusation that tainted water in the sw im m ing pool led to dozens o f athletes being poisoned. We can ’t ignore the story o f A nnam ay Pierse, a C anadian athlete and 2012 m edal

isolation, consider that B razil, the host o f the 2016 O lym pic G am es, is the w orld’s leading centre for D en­ gue outbreak, am ongst other exotic diseases. It’s extrem ely im portant

hopeful, w ho w ill lose significant tim e from h er com petitive prim e because she returned hom e with

poorly for both the R io 2016 O lym ­ pics and every future O lym pics held in the developing world. The Delhi

for all countries to have equal oppor­ tunity to com pete on an international level. N onetheless, that doesn’t di­ m inish the right o f every com petitor to be safe.

The experience in Delhi bodes

difficulty. The W orld C up holds a m axim um o f four events per day, spread out in cities all over the coun­ try, w here there are m any sm aller local governm ents and individual logistical hurdles to cross. An O lym ­ pic G am es features 17 days o f over 120 hours o f com petition per day.

If Delhi and India can ’t handle an event half this size, how w ill R io cope with the real deal? M any point to the 2014 W orld C up in B razil as an O lym pic audition. Trust me, the tw o aren’t even close.

- G a b e P u lv e r

Curiosity Delivers, www.mcgilltribune.com

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S o c c e r te a m s q u a n d e rs n u m e ro u s c h a n c e s fo r th e w in O nce-prom ising season ends w ith o u t the opp o rtu nity to play fo r either the conference or national title

By Mari Mesri

W ith the C itadins’ prom pt lead,

from playm aker Yohann Capolungo.

K ing and Peter Valente in place o f

to the next round. M issed chances

Contributor

the pace o f the gam e continued to

The M cG ill R edm en soccer team was elim inated from the Q ue­ bec Student Sports Federation p lay­

pick up. H ow ever both team s strug­ gled to carry the ball deep into the opposing half. The C itadins defend­ ers w orked hard to hold onto their

A s the R edm en continued pushing to close the score gap, both team s began to play m ore aggressively, causing the referee to intervene fre­ quently.

defender A lexander D am ianou and m idfielder Sami O baid. However, the force up front w as not enough to outplay the C itadins w ho seem ed to m ake better use o f their chances.

and incom plete plays w ere em blem ­ atic o f this year.

“It’s basically been the story o f the season,” said Banks. “This w hole season w e ’ve had a lot o f gam es

A s the second h a lf began, the

“T hey had four com er kicks and they scored tw o goals o ff [them ],” said Banks. “T hey w ere ju s t playing m ore efficiently than w e w ere [on offence].”

W ith less than 10 m inutes left in the m atch, M cG ill w as aw arded

w here w e’ve outplayed team s but w e ju st haven’t been able to put the

offs in a frustrating 3-1 loss against the U Q A M C itadins this past Friday evening, m arking the end o f their 2010 season. Entering the gam e as the second-ranked team in Q uebec, the R edm en had high hopes o f pur­ suing further success and qualify­ ing for the Canadian Interuniversity Sport cham pionships, w here they w ere the runner-up for the national title in 2009.

lead by ensuring thorough cover­ age o f the R edm en offence. In the 33rd m inute, U Q A M ’s Clém ent C rozet and A ndrew R om anelli got a breakaway. C rozet took full advan­ tage o f R om anelli’s presence as he passed the ball and R om anelli’s shot saw the back o f the net, advancing U Q A M to a 2-0 lead.

“W e cam e out a bit flat and U Q A M scored tw o goals,” said Head Coach D avid Sim on in an em ail to

Redm en returned to the field with fresher legs and a strong em phasis on offence. The C itadins’ goalkeep­ er R aphael S chott w as put to w ork as he faced a barrage o f shots on net by the R edm ens’ offensive trio: striker G eorge Banks and m idfield­

a penalty kick. The final chance for M cG ill w as spoiled as Schott dove accurately and blocked O baid’s low shot. A s the end o f the m atch neared, all reservations passed and both

ball in the back o f the net at the right m om ents—the big m om ents.”

“In m ost gam es, ju st like F ri­ day, w e hade m ore shots on net and crosses in the box than our opponent but failed to score w hen required,” said Simon.

The gam e concluded with a final score o f 3-1 and ended the Redm en’s 2010 cam paign w ith a record o f 7-5-1.

Both team s appeared focused and played w ith determ ination from the very beginning. The C itadins

the Tribune. “W e then played w ith a lot m ore intensity, controlling pos­

ers O livier Babineau and Yoanne Capolungo.

However, the R edm en paid the price for their inability to score when the C itadins put the gam e aw ay with a third goal. M uch like the first,

lit up the scoreboard early w ith a goal in the seventh m inute o f play.

A com er kick by m idfielder M anuel C haffort m ade contact with defender M arvin O m ie as he headed the ball

session o f the ball and creating dan­ gerous opportunities.”

A m ere three m inutes later, the R edm en retorted with a goal as defender G raem e Tingey headed

Chaffort took a good co m er and the ball w as guided into the net by m id­ fielder N icolas Bertrand.

In an effort to re-establish the m om entum o f the R edm en attack,

in four yellow cards issued through­ out the match: three to U Q A M and one to M cGill.

As the w histle blew, the R ed­

the final against the Laval Rouge et O r—the first-ranked team in the regular season. R egardless o f the outcom e, both team s w ill advance

men looked over in disappointm ent

to the CIS cham pionships in Toronto

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the ball into the net, with an assist

Sim on added forw ards A lexander

as the C itadins celebrated advancing

next weekend.

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team s began to openly express their enmity. The overall tension resulted

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C o m e b a c k w in k e e p s u n d e fe a te d s e a s o n a liv e Verreault-Paul pushes Redmen to win w ith fourth hat trick and raises season total to i8 goals

By John Willcock Contributor The M cG ill R edm en hockey team ( 10-0 -0 ) kept their perfect sea­ son alive as they cam e from behind to beat a pesky N ipissing Lakers (44-2) 5-3 on Saturday night at M cC o­ nnell Arena. Francis Verreault-Paul led the gritty M cG ill com eback with his fourth hat trick and 16th-18th goals o f the season.

V erreault-Paul tallied an early goal one m inute into the first frame, but the R edm en struggled to gener­ ate any significant offence for the re­ m ainder o f the period. A night after a dom inant 9-2 victory against the U niversity o f Toronto Varsity Blues, M cG ill looked like a different team early against the N ipissing Lakers.

“We knew w e were having an o ff night as a group,” said M cG ill H ead Coach K elly N obes. “O ur ex­ ecution w asn’t good, we w ere flat, we didn ’t have great legs ... It w as a challenge, a bit o f adversity.”

M cG ill has looked dom inant thus far this season, com ing off strong wins against Q u een ’s and RM C, but struggled early against N ippising.. In a valiant attem pt to topple the C IS ’s second ranked R ed­ m en, the L akers played a strategic gam e.

1 N ipissing controlled the neu­ tral zone throughout the first period and held M cG ill to only nine shots.

N ipissing’s K evin R ebelo and Paul

C ianfrini both scored in the first to put the Lakers up 2-1. D efencem an C ian frin i’s go-ahead m arker cam e 6:42 into the first fram e from a point shot that found it’s way through traf­ fic and beat M cG ill goalie A ntoine Tardif. N ipissing peppered fresh­ man goaltender T ardif w ith 13 shots throughout the first. Tardif, who started the season w ith an im pres­ sive 3-0, d id n ’t have his strongest outing o f the year on Saturday.

Early in the second, N ipissing caught M cG ill on a bad line change with a quick transition goal from C onnor O ’D onnell to put the L ak­ ers up 3-1. This m arked the end o f the night for T ardif as H ubert M orin replaced him . M orin played stellar, m aking key saves to keep the Redm en ’s com eback hopes alive.

“H e had to m ake some good saves and it w as great that he was able to com e o ff the bench and be able to do that,” said Nobes.

Follow ing a great penalty kill for too m any men on the ice from captain E van Vossen and prover­ bial leader Francis Verreault-Paul, M cG ill w as able to shift the tides o f the game.

“We d id n ’t w ant out w inning streak to end,” said alternate cap­ tain M arc-A ndre D orian. “M idway through the second, we got more confident w ith the puck.”

Verreault-Paul finally cracked N ipissing goaltender M att Hache 12:08 into the second. Francis

McGill found its rhythm in the third with three goals off o f 19 shots. (Holly Stewart / McGill Tribune) drove w ide and forced N ipissing’s defender to lose his stick by cut­ ting to the net. M cGill capitalized with som e great puck m ovem ent in front betw een A ndrew W right and A lexandre Picard-H ooper, and though H ache was w ell-positioned and m ade the initial save, VerreaultPaul buried the second attem pt on a cross-ice feed.

“Pic [Picard-H ooper] and W righty [Wright] have good chem ­ istry and they seem to be able to find each other. It’s great for Francis and it’s great for the team ,” said N obes o f his top scoring line.

M cG ill built on th eir m om en­ tum and cam e out strong in the third period after coach N obes talked to his players about execution in the

second interm ission. “ [The coaching staff] said to keep things really simple, put the puck on the net,” said Dorion.

G uillaum e D oucet, M axim e Langelier-Parent, M arc-A ndre Daneau had tw o great pressure shifts in

turned aw ay by H ache. VerreaultPaul, w ho cut from the point to the net, potted the rebound for his hat trick and scored his 18th goal o f the season.

M cG ill, now 10-0, is o ff to its best start ever. Coach N obes plans

the early goings o f the third, culm i­

on im proving practice habits and w ork on their struggling pow er play in order to prepare for a young Ryerson R am s team on N ovem ber 11 and 12 at M acD onald C am pus. M cG ill

nating in a gam e-tying goal as Lan­ gelier-Parent put hom e a rebound at 9:47. M cG ill threw 19 shots on net and generated many scoring chances in the third period.

To the delight o f the 300 plus attendees, M cG ill took the lead m idw ay through the final stanza.

Follow ing a poor clearance from N ipissing, M arc-A ndre D orion held the point and got the puck to PicardH ooper, w ho fired a shot that w as

is confident in their gam e and will look to continue their dom ination o f the O ntario U niversity A ssociation Eastern C onference.

“We d o n ’t really care w ho w e’re facing it’s just our gam e that we w ant to play and w e’ll try and im pose that,” said D orion.

1\iesday, November 9, 2010

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Q U H L win streak now 86 games Captain Cathy Chartrand stars in grind-it-out victory

By John Hui____________________ C o n t r ib u t o r

In Sunday’s m atchup betw een the M cG ill M artlets and the Carleton Ravens, captain Cathy C har­ trand carried M cG ill, scoring tw ice en route to a 6-1 victory. The win extended M cG ill’s undefeated streak against Q U H L opponents to an im ­

F o r th o se o f y o u w h o d o n ’t k e e p T S N a s y o u r h o m e p a g e o r S p o rts I l­ lu stra te d a s y o u r b e d tim e reading, w e k n o w sp o rts c a n be h a rd to u n d e r­ stand, th is se c tio n is f o r you.

pressive 86 gam es and im proved their all-tim e head-to-head record against Carleton to a dom inant 53-

0- 1.

W hile the score m im icked M cG ill’s last victory against C ar­ leton, the play was noticeably d if­ ferent. Carleton played harder and pressured the M artlets more. U nfor­ tunately for the R avens, hard w ork alone w asn’t enough. Centre O livia Sutter was injured blocking a shot from M cGill defencem an Stacie Tardif, w hich resulted in a goal by Lainie Smith. T hree other players also suffered various injuries during the game.

M cG ill got off to a roaring start when Jordanna P eroff put her team up one ju st 8:54 into the game. C har­ trand and sniper A nn-Sophie Bettez also contributed to put M cG ill up 3-0 by the end o f the first period.

In the second period, how ever,

vens defencem an V ictoria Gouge scored the only goal in the period, slipping the puck low pad side by a

to step it up,” forw ard Leslie Oles said. “W e really respect w hat she has to say. She is our hardest w orker

besieged Charline Labonte.

“We played a very disappoint­ ing second period,” said H ead C oach Peter Smith! “We ju st sat there and w atched the play develop. Luckily, the girls picked it up in the third.”

Chartrand led the way, blasting a hard shot past R avens netm inder V ictoria Pow ers to m ake the gam e 4-1. She also shut dow n play in her ow n zone and led the M artlet’s tran­

and as a rookie, I ju st try to take in as

sition attack. The team responded to her exam ple and w ere noticeably faster on the puck after the goal.

“Cathy ju st held us accountable

th at’s probably w hy I am scoring

m om entum began to shift. The M ar­ tlets w ere often caught flat-footed and were com placent in their own zone. C onsequently, C arleton was able to put m ore shots on net and keep the play in M cG ill’s zone. Ra

for our play that period. She told us w e w ere o ff o ur gam e and w e had

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m uch as possible.”

C hartrand’s tw o-goal night im ­ proved her total to nine points, which leads the CIS am ong blueliners.

W hen asked about the key to her offence, she ju st shrugged and said, “It’s alw ays been a part o f my game. I have a hard shot and I like to use it. This year though, I have learned to pick my spots better, so m ore.”

The M artlets will try to extend their Q U H L w inning streak Saturday against the U niversity o f M ontreal at 8 p.m. at M cC onnell Arena.

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B aseball: T he San Francisco G iants won the M ajor L eague B ase­ ball W orld Series last w eek. It was a big deal: the G iants h adn’t won a W orld Series since 1954, when they w ere based in N ew York. In celebration, people burned cars.

M ontreal isn ’t so special after all.

G o lf: Tiger W oods, o f sex scandal fam e, is also a very good golfer. O r at least he w as; he just finished the first w inless season of

try. A try is w orth five points. A fter a try the team kicks a conversion.

A successful conversion has to go through the goal posts and is worth tw o points. Finally, there are pen­

his career.

N CA A F ootball: This is som e­ thing people in the U nited States care about and it’s kind o f crazy — W ikipedia it som etim e. If som e­ one asks you about it for now, just show off your know ledge that the fourth-ranked TC U H om ed Frogs dem olished num ber six U tah 47-7, and A labam a’s national title hopes w ere extinguished when they lost to Louisiana State.

You lost m e a t fly half...

R u gby: N ot many people in C anada understand how the scor­ ing in m gby w orks. H ere’s a brief explanation. In m gby there are three w ays to score; a try, a conver­ sion, and a penalty. W hen a player breaks the plane o f the goal-line (like a touchdow n in football) and grounds the ball (touches the ball

alties. If a penalty is aw arded by the referee, the team that is granted the penalty has the option to kick the ball from the spot o f the foul.

A successful penalty conversion kick goes through the goal posts and gets three points for the kick­ ing team.

R o u g h rid e rs, R ouges a n d R eg u latio n s C anadian F ootball: This one is for all the A m ericans. C anadian Football L eague rules include: a 110-yard field rather than the stan­ dard 100 yards, 12 players rather than 11, three dow ns instead o f four, a Grey Cup instead o f a Super B owl, and the rouge. The rouge is a single point, given for kicking the ball through the opponent’s endzone. It led to som e pretty funny late gam e action in Toronto recent­ ly, so YouTube it. Finally, the CFL practices inclusivity by allowing six team s in the eight-team league to make for the playoffs. Until 1996, the league also allow ed tw o team s to share the nam e “R oughrid­ ers.” T hat m eans one quarter o f the league shared the sam e name.

Season ends in heartbreak for previously undefeated team

By Walker Kitchens

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Sports Editor The M artlets’ im pressive, un­ defeated season ended in heartbreak on Friday night at M olson Stadium.

M cG ill w as ranked third in the country before the visiting under­ dogs from Laval ruined the M art­ lets hopes o f com pleting their un­ defeated season w ith a C onference and N ational Cham pionship. The R ouge-et-O r w on the hard-fought Q uebec U niversity Soccer League semifinal 2-1 after M élissande Guy scored the w inning goal in the 75th m inute.

“We failed,” said M artlet H ead C oach M arc M ounicot in an em ail to the Tribune. “We had the chance tw o tim es in one w eek to qualify to this national com petition and we m issed.”

From the beginning o f the gam e, M cG ill controlled the tempo.

The M artlets applied intènse pres­ sure for the first 20 m inutes but were unable to find the back o f the net.

T heir closest chance to breaking the deadlock cam e in the 20th minute when they hit the crossbar off a cross from a set piece.

Just three m inutes later, the R ouge-et-O r opened the scoring.

M aroua C hebbi scored o ff a re­ bound, putting the underdogs from L aval in front 1-0.

M cG ill did n ’t rem ain behind for long as they quickly responded with a beautiful goal. M idfielder M eghan B ourque flew dow n the left wing in the 26th minute and found a wideopen H annah R ivkin w ith a precise pass. Rivkin calm ly sniped the bot­ tom right co m er to tie the gam e 1- 1.

“W e scored a beautiful equal­ izer on plays that we have all season long,” M ounicot said.

The first h alf ended in a tie, but M cGill had grabbed the m om entum

w ith the tying goal. The M artlets cam e flying out to start the second h alf by creating m any scoring chanc­ es, b u t they w ere unable to solve the Laval defence. W ith 27 m inutes left in the gam e, star striker A lexandra M orin-B oucher, w ho led the Q U SL

“ Such gam es are played on de­ tails and m aking sure that you avoid defensive errors and finish your chances and we did not achieve on both dom ains,” explained M ounicot.

“Laval played a perfect gam e de­

m ore over the w inter season not to face such situations in the near fu­ ture. We need to win the big games

with 11 goals, was taken dow n in the box, but no penalty w as called. Two m inutes later M orin-B oucher found herself all alone on a breakaw ay but

fensively, their back line w as solid all night. Yes, there w as perhaps a [penalty] on M orin B oucher and we hit the crossbar again in the first half but Laval had three shots and scored

when pressure is on.”

D espite the loss, the season shouldn’t be seen as a failure. The M artlets are an extrem ely talented young team w ith only one player in her fourth year o f eligibility. Their youth didn’t hold them back all sea­ son as they finished w ith an incred­

w asn ’t able to score and push the

tw o goals. The late Laval goal was

ible 9-0-5 conference and 15-1-6

M artlets ahead.

M cGill continued to press hard, but in the 75th m inute L av al’s M é­ lissande G uy scored the gam e-w in­ ner on a quick counter attack. It was L av al’s second goal, after only tak­

a killer.”

M cG ill frantically searched for the equalizing goal in the closing

overall record.

“We had a great season over­ all,” M ounicot said. “B ut m issing CIS will be in our head for the next

ing three shots.

The M artlets controlled the gam e as they created better scoring chances and had a large edge in pos­ session. Ultim ately, M cG ill w as un­ able to finish their plays w hile Laval executed w hen it mattered.

m inutes but cam e up empty. A s the final w histle sounded the M artlets stood in shock. M any players left the field sobbing after their undefeated season ended so abruptly and disap­ pointingly.

“The m orale o f the team last night was very dow n and it w ill take tim e to regroup,” M ounicot said.

“W e will have to w ork tw o tim es

few w eeks.”

Look for the young M artlets to learn from their defeat and mature into a national pow erhouse next year when the CIS C ham pionships will be held at M cG ill. The older M art­ lets should be one o f the favourites to w in next y ear’s nationals on their hom e field.

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