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Facing significant funding cuts, McGill Athletics instituted major changes to its varsity sports structure this Fall. See story page 1 4 . ( Adam Scotti / McGill Tribune ]

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is [t o ] in t r o d u c e a r e a d in g w e e k d u r

to ta k e e v e n in g o r w e e k e n d e x a m s .

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re d u c e o ld i n f o r m a t io n in E n g l i s h is

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in g b r e a k ,” h e s a id . “ T h e o t h e r p o s

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ta u g h t to E S L s tu d e n ts . “ W h a t w e a re d o in g is th e b a s ic re s e a rc h to fin d th e p a tte rn s s o w e

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“ th r e e ” a re b e in g c o m p a re d , s o t h e y

e x p e rim e n ts w e ra n w h ile

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and we hope to see you in January.

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Tuesday, November 30, 2010

T o m F a b ia n VP Internal Tom Fabian's remake of the SSMU listserv has given people something to talk about this year. Is he refreshing SSMU's announcements or is he getting in the way? Is he funny or not? The Tribune leaves this to its readers to decide. If nothing else, he's a risk-taker who's not afraid to try new ideas on a traditionally apathetic student body. Most importantly, he introduced HomeKoming, a new series of SSMU-sponsored events around October's Homecoming football game. It was a new and ambitious idea, but not a runaway success (despite offering a pancake kegger at Gert's). Events often take a few years to become well-established, however. Don't be

surprised if it becomes a bigger event overtime. Fabian also introduced the Get Ready website to hype SSMU events, which is a welldeveloped promotional tool. His edition of 4Floors was a huge success, and a winter semes ter sequel is in the works. With Gert's making plenty of money, the second annual Week 101 in January should do well. Fabian also plans to have a three-day music festival tentatively called SSMUthFest. The VP Internal has always been an event coordinator, and Tom Fabian is an excellent one. Whether you think he's funny or not, he's doing his job.

A n u s h a y Irfa n K h a n VP Clubs and Services

N ic k D re w

VP Finance and Operations

Nick Drew has done an impressive job managing the finance and operations portfolio this semester, especially with his effective pro motion of G ert’s. Drew has built on the work of his predecessor, Jose Diaz, and turned the bar into a popular campus hangout space with rev enues to match. We hope the bar will perform just as well next semester. SSM U’s decision to shut Haven Books, its financial sinkhole of a bookstore, at the end of last year has made Drew’s job much easier than for previous VP FOPs, though SSMU will con tinue to pay rent on the space into the winter se mester. Drew’s replacement for Haven, an ini

tiative called the Book Bazaar, was held at the beginning of the semester in the Shatner Build ing with modest success. The business model may need some tweaking, but w e’re excited to see it improve next semester. Due to a budget shortfall this semester, Drew has temporarily cut the funds allocated to bringing a speaker or musician to campus in the spring. Though we understand the decision, the Tribune hopes he will be able to reinstate the funds next semester. Last year’s Girl Talk concert and Salman Rushdie address were both extremely popular with students, and w e’d love to see a similar event this spring.

Anushay Khan has started the year off well for the most part. She has taken on some worthy new initiatives, such as facilitating the establishment of the Plate Service, creating a rubric to help standard ize office selection, adding sections on sustainability to club “how-to” documents, setting up the SSMU break-out room, and putting advanced room bookings online to help clubs get space in the Shatner Build ing more easily. She has also maintained her portfolio well, running a smooth Ac tivities Night and otherwise supporting many of the services and clubs. At the same time, Khan has made some decisions that call her priorities into question. Particularly, she spent significant time defending QPIRG during the opt-out period, a strange decision considering that QPIRG is not under SSMU, and thus does not fall under her purview, except for "maintaining relations.” Moreover, she adopted some unprofessional rheto ric in her responses to those encouraging

the opt-outs like the Swiss Club. She also wrote “FML” as her entire report about opt-outs, ànd told councillors that a Gen eral Assembly motion about club sover eignty discouraged them from advocating opt-outs. Still, Khan has shown admirable de votions to students’ causes. Next semester, we would like to see her take up the mantle on clubs being allowed to use the McGill name again. She spent a lot of time on this at the beginning of the year, but has not reported on it since it went unresolved in September. This is something important to all clubs, and a worthy priority for her to renew. We recognize that this involves nego tiating with an often stubborn administra tion, and that she does not have as much interface with administrators as the presi dent or VP university affairs. Therefore, working with these members of her execu tive should be a priority and Khan should focus on regular reports to council.

SSMU L e g is la tiv e C o u n c il Grading any large public body—whether it’s Parliament or the Students’ Society Council—is some thing of an exercise in futility. Like Parliament, SSMU Council pos sesses a number of bright, articulate members as well as more obnoxious, less informed councillors. On the whole, however, this year’s coun cil has been fairly competent, with many members speaking up during debate. This year’s executive has been less vocal than their predeces sors, and councillors have stepped up their participation accordingly. That council spends too much time debating trivial issues is a pe rennial complaint, and this year’s council has been no exception. De

bates about procedural issues, such as changing certain aspects of Rob ert’s Rules of Order, have taken up too much time this semester, as well as motions to provide pizza, coffee, and tea to councillors. Council has been noticeably di vided between the left and right of the political spectrum this year, but councillors have kept their debates impressively civil, as Spencer Burg er and Maggie Knight—who fre quently but respectfully disagree— noted last week. This is a welcome change from previous years, when councillors had been known to storm out of the Lev Bukhman Room when motions failed to go their way.

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There are few places in Mon treal that feel like home. Bars, most ly. One has such a special place in my heart that when it went through a renovation last year, I was nearly distressed. Would my favourite bar change? Would it become a spot where I was no longer welcome? Accepted? No, of course not. This is. after all, Bar des Pins w e’re talk ing about. In my opinion, BDP is a Montreal landmark of such immense proportions that it makes the moun tain seem redundant. Unfortunately, I have seen a disturbing trend within the confines of BDP. This has noth ing to do with the hyper-masculine, popped-collar polo wearers who do pushups in between tables and argue over beer pong rules and protocol. No, these people are much more frightening. They are BDP patrons who dress nicely. They come wear ing skirts, dresses, button-downs tucked into actual pants. Heels! Only someone with a death wish would wear heels in BDP, the floor covered by so much spilled beer on Tuesdays that it makes a cracked bone or two inevitable. Recently, while spending a quiet evening drinking with friends and cast mates, we observed one particular group. They did not ap pear to be misinformed first-years, but rather a group of recent club or party attendees who somehow ended up at the comer of Parc and des Pins. Now, far be it from me to judge how people dress or what they wish to wear, but BDP is a place where, if

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For once, dear reader, I get to take o ff m y conservative colours and w rite about som ething agree able. L ast w eek, the C row n in B ritain announced the engage m ent o f H is R oyal H ighness Prince W illiam o f W ales to Kate M iddleton, his girlfriend o f eight years. I am absolutely overjoyed at the new s, as are m any C anadians. From around the w orld a chorus o f congratulations has risen up for

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you dress exceptionally well (fancy, to be exact), it will be noticed, and it will be ridiculed. And, believe me, it was. One of the girls had a skirt so short, while standing in her 4-inch heels, the cusp of her posterior was more than noticeable. It was staring at us. The shiny red shirt worn by one of the males immediately con jured images of bullfighters or up scale waiters. We were appalled that such outfits could make their way into our simple bar, and the jokes were merciless and abundant. While my aim is not to deter individuals from going to BDP (and in the process, acting as a detriment to a business that has meant a great deal to me in the three and half years as a McGill attendee), I do have to say that I like my bars simple, and my outfits even simpler. While BDP is not Gogo Lounge or Tokyo (thank God), it’s still a place with a cer tain aesthetic and atmosphere that doesn’t lend itself well to those who attempt to break the casual nature of the bar by introducing outfits of a particularly “fashionable” nature. Perhaps the older regulars enjoy seeing the ass of a tall, leggy girl hanging out from below the hem of her dress, but for the rest of us it’s a distraction from our conversations and our beer, and not in a favourable way. I hope those who go out club bing and somehow end up at BDP realize that while their business is very welcome, it is also a source for much laughter from the other guests, such as myself, who see BDP as a place of delight, hilarity, and con sistent $12.50 pitchers. I hope we can de-classy-fy BDP from this point forward, and accept that it’s a bar where jeans are the standard, and that shiny red shirts should be relegated to the entrance outfits of the UFC fighters who adorn the flat screen TVs of my favourite Mon treal watering hole.

E very tim e I go through se curity, I get a com plete check: shoes arid ja ck e t off, m y bag is alw ays searched. I still beep and w ait patiently w hile airport per sonnel check m e w ith the m etal detector. O n a recent trip hom e, it w as clear that I had nothing on m e but the shirt and skirt I w as w earing. O f course, I still had to follow protocol, so I w aited for that m etal detector search and a new security procedure that tests your hands to see if there are any chem ical residues on them . W hile this w as going on, one security guard turned to m e and said, “It’s a little bit stupid, isn ’t it?” We laughed about how it w as a w aste o f tim e, but a necessary part o f his job. G oing through security is tim e consum ing and often irritat ing, especially for those o f us w ith dark hair, dark skin, and a M iddle Eastern appearance. B ut the last thing I w ould call it is stupid. Recently, com plaints over the T SA procedures have caused uproar am ong travelling citizens, w ho call them “invasive.” O ne unnam ed A B C N ew s em ployee said her experience w as “w orse than going to a gynecologist.” E ven i f the m ost extrem e sce narios people have described are true, such as T SA officers feeling around travellers’ groins, breasts, and thighs, they hardly constitute that dram atic exaggeration. A nother traveller, a US A ir

w ays flight attendant, com plained that she felt like she w as taken advantage o f after a TSA agent checked h er extensively. Perhaps she thought that she, as a flight attendant, w ould be exem pted from these searches. However, security m easures should apply to all travellers, regardless o f their occupation. I ’ve been follow ing these stories in the new s the past few w eeks and I ’m genuinely surprised. A lm ost a decade after 9/11, people have already forgot ten w hy security m easures like these are in place. T he reason w hy even chil dren, the elderly, and 20-year-old girls go through rigorous testing .is that in order to ensure secu rity, you have to think like your enemy. I f a terrorist w anted to tam per w ith the flight, d o n ’t kid y o u rself into thinking he or she w o u ld n ’t stoop so low as to force a child or an older person to hide the explosives. Perhaps the procedures seem a little silly or even inappropriate, but the purpose is im portant and should be com m ended. I f an in nocent person is checked for 10 m inutes, then w e can be hopeful that m ore suspicious people are checked for even longer— and that guilty ones m ight get caught. I understand that w e all have a right to basic privacies, but in this case, protecting privacy m ight also cause harm to our fel low citizens. R educing the use o f these procedures only m akes us less safe. T hat particular airport em ployee w ho told m e the proce dures w ere “a little stupid” prob ably had a long day and w as tired o f checking 20-year old girls for bom bs. It m ight seem redundant to him , b u t to everyone w ho has to fly, it’s a life-saving m easure and one I ’m thankful exists.

the Prince and his new fiancée. S peculation as to w hen the couple w ould tie the knot had for years provided copy for scores o f tabloid pages. The P rin ce’s popularity has rocketed w ith the announcem ent, and it seem s C a nadians o f all sorts adore M iddleton. W hat is it about this couple that excites us so m uch? I balloon w ith pride at the confidence these tw o people bring to the C row n as an institution. It seem s people o f all ages, from faw ning fangirls to retired w ar veterans, brighten at their m ention. W illiam and K ate have reinvigorated the m onarchy for all ages, and I hope that feel ing continues. Y oung people have taken strongly to M iddleton. M any laud her for her fashion sense, or her quiet and dignified astuteness. She d id n ’t need to be engaged: she is

already royal in her com posure. She is a com m oner, easier to feel em pathy for than an aristocrat. A ny girl in C anada could have been K ate M iddleton, and th a t’s w hat w e love about her. H er par ents w ere involved in the airline industry before starting their ow n business and m aking m illions. She m et W illiam at the U niversity o f St. A n d rew ’s, w here she g rad uated w ith an H onours B.A. in A rt History. She once w orked as an accessories salesw om an, and now she w ill som eday be Q ueen Consort. A s for W illiam , he is kingly. H e brings both charm and his m o th e r’s sense o f duty to his role as second in line to the throne. A fter leaving university, he served his country as a search and rescue helicopter pilot. H is supe riors have lauded him as an ex em plary soldier. O nly a day after

his engagem ent, he helped save the life o f an injured com patriot in a crisis. W hat I like m ost about W il liam is that he rem inds m e o f his grandm other. Elizabeth II is the picture o f a statesw om an. T hrust onto the throne w hen she w as only a teenager, E lizabeth has now b e com e the living em bodim ent o f the Crow n. H er enorm ous p o p u larity can be seen w herever she goes. She draw s vast crow ds w ho sim ply w ant to catch a glim pse o f her. H er M ajesty ’s recent tour in C anada is only one exam ple o f h er m agnetism . Q ueen E lizab eth ’s reign has show n how exceptional our m on archy is. M onarchism has served C anada w ell precisely because it disconnects the patriotic from the political. In A m erica, an elected head o f state represents a partisan and deeply divisive figure. B arack

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O bam a cannot w alk into a class room w ithout R epublicans accus ing him o f corrupting children. In Canada, w e chose som ething m ore austere, m ore unifying. We have a C row n, and a tradition that connects ancient British history to our young country. We are in terw oven into the diversity o f the B ritish C om m onw ealth, a famil o f form er colonies and our moth er country. We have all o f this at a cost o f only $1.53 per C an a dian per year. T hat is far cheaper than a republican head o f state in A m erica o r F rance. I believe W illiam an d K ate w ill help C anadians em brace the unity that stem s from monarchy. I have no d oubt they w ill m ake the case for m onarchy stronger w hen W illiam takes the throne. I w ish them all the happiness in the w orld. Long live our future king and queen!

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The M cGill holiday w ish list Merry Happy Holidays Christ mas Chanukah Kwanzaa! Happy November 30! Chanukah’s first can dle will be lit tomorrow night, and Christmas has been well underway for a month now, at least based on the decorations and music in stores on St. Catherine Street. With snow lining the streets and festive music all around, McGill is wrapped up in the holiday spirit. There’s love, com passion, and everyone is asking the most important holiday question of all: What present will I get this year? As always, the Tribune aims to give answers to your pressing problems. Take a look at this year’s McGill holiday wish list:

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Last week I wrote a Fea tures article (“Sexual Harassment at McGill,” November 23) about sexual harassment at McGill. I ex pected it to be a straightforward assignment—resources for this type of thing should be easily accessible. But by the time I sat down to write the article, I was disturbed by what I had uncovered. To begin my re search, I spoke with a young woman who had issued a complaint against a faculty member. The recovery pro cess has taken years. She still hasn’t gotten justice or even seen the in vestigation file.

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The security guards are ask ing for heavy snowfall this year, or least enough so that bikers will fi nally have to dismount. Layer-clad students are tak ing a study break to ask Santa for someone to figure out how to control the temperature in McGill buildings. Campus

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want those super sweet Dyson Airblade hand dryers that dry your hands in exactly 12 seconds. No, seriously. Those are great. Arts Students are wishing for no more class in Stewart Bio. It’s far. And ugly. Gert’s wants wet blankets to stop killing their buzz and let them pump the music. Morton Mendelson wants students to shut up about the Arch Café already.

Zach Newburgh still wants someone to join him at a Meet the President lunch.

The Martlet hockey team wants a challenge.

QPIRQ Opt-Out wants post ers that are harder to rip. Tadamon! wants more punc tuation in its name. S SM U Council is hoping that people get drunk enough over the break so that they won’t remember about voting to change SSMU’s name to SSTEIRBBQSAUCE. Professors want something to make them more interesting than the Internet. That girl across from you in Cybertheque really w ants a boy

All McGill students want construction to end.

The Quidditch team wants Harry to find the rest of the horcruxes and end this terrible war. Patrons of Midnight Kitch en want smiles to be free instead of by donation..

The EUS wants to continue its hostile takeover bids; next up, AUS. Hipsters can’t tell you what they want because if they did it wouldn’t be cool anymore, and you probably haven’t heard of it any ways. II MB wants Uggs. The Tribune wants something to report on besides the Arch Café.

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Everybody at McGill should come to the Christmas!Chanukah Pageant on December 10 at 6 p.m. in Shatner 110.

My first few stops were SACOMSS and the McGill Legal In formation Clinic. Armed with a copy of the Sexual Harassment Policy and list of questions, I was prepared to translate hordes of legal jargon into colloquial language. Instead I found a constant pattern of redirection. I went to the SACOMSS office without an appointment to discuss the services they offered, as most victims would. The volunteers at the time were perfectly polite, but said they had never fielded a call before. When I asked about the complaint process, they directed me to their advocacy group. They seemed to be there only for emotional support. I called the group’s hotline number, and was told I should have sent an email instead. I repeatedly asked for a phone num ber—much like any victim would w ant—but instead was assured that my email would be answered quickly. I know that the McGill administration likes to do everything via email, but I had

hoped for less red tape from a student service. I eventually did get a hold of someone, but for an organization that operates on the foundation of urgency and dispensing information, this redirection was unacceptable. My next stop was the McGill Legal Information Clinic. I wasn’t hopeful, as the clinic is run by Law students who can’t guarantee client confidentiality. I was told at the front desk to consult M cGill’s policy on sexual harassment, and that if a vic tim wants to pursue legal action, the clinic can direct him or her to a law yer. Again, answers seemed elusive. The harassment complaint pro cess is like any other bureaucratic process: lots of forms, waiting, and ambiguous language. Some stipula tions seem designed to deter investi gations, such as time limitations and the fact that the provost can overrule the report. McGill staff investigates cases of harassment against mem bers of the McGill community, so there’s always the potential for a

conflict of interest. Justice can be attained within the system, and vic tims are encouraged to seek outside recourse if they’re unhappy with the results M cGill’s process. But given how emotionally draining this pro cess is, it’s unlikely that victims will want to speak up again. SACOMSS is a great organi zation that provides emotional sup port, but on its own it’s not enough. The university should work with SACOMSS and Mental Health Services to ensure that victims are receiving full support, and should allocate staff specifically for issues of assault or harassment both on and off campus. There is a silver lining to all of this: when interviewed, Associate Provost Lydia White wanted feed back on the harassment complaint process. There are opportunities for change, but in a situation like this, no one realizes how deterring the current process can be until they’ve been through it themselves.

fear that the country is moving to the right, away from its more liberal traditions. SunTV was originally champi oned by Kory Teneycke, then Quebe cor vice-president of development, who is also a former communica tions director for Stephen Harper. The prospect of a cable news net work run by a former Harper staffer perturbed many critics from the left, causing some to derisively nickname the channel: Fox News North. The air of scandal that has sur rounded discussions about SunTV since its inception gives off the impression that the entire issue is a much bigger deal than it really is. First of all, despite the nick name that has become so ubiquitous in the media, SunTV is in no way af filiated with Fox News, NewsCorp, or Rupert Murdoch. If SunTV proves

to be the Canadian equivalent of Fox News, then this will likely inflame the tone of political debate and news coverage in the same way as it has in the United States. However, it is presumptuous to assume that this is what Quebecor has in mind for its new channel. Yes, SunTV may lean right of centre, but leaning right does not necessarily mean that SunTV will replicate the more divisive as pects o f Fox News. In reality, it is unlikely that the channel will survive in Canada if it offers a platform to the Canadian equivalent of Glenn Beck or Bill O ’Reilly. Although it certainly ex ists, the Canadian radical right has neither the following nor the power that it does in the U.S. W hat scares our neighbours to the south most about Fox News is its. overwhelming popularity and politi

cal influence. However, the channel did not create the far right in the U.S.; it simply articulates their polit ical opinions. If SunTV is approved, it will not cause cause millions of socially conservative Canadians to come out from the woodwork. Our health care system and women’s right to choose will not be in dan ger just because' SunTV becomes an option in a cable package. To think otherwise is to assume cable news channels have much more influence on people’s political opinions than they actually do. By approving SunTV’s applica tion, the CRTC hasn’t made a radi cal decision; it has simply confirmed freedom of the press. Luckily for Canadians, they can also exercise their freedom of choice: if you don’t like what you’re seeing on SunTV, change the channel.

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What is it about Times Square that would make someone want to destroy it? What is it about the much smaller, more quaint Pioneer Square in Portland, Oregon (in which I have also people-watched), the site of another attempted car bombing this past weekend? As good liberals, we want to reject anything resembling the early Bush-era formulations of answers to this question, anything along the lines of “they hate us.” This would be oversimplification, racism, or, worse, neo-conservatism. We don’t really know what to do with Islamic terrorism. We pause before even calling it terrorism. And w e’re very uncomfortable calling it Islamic. Every time a new plot is thwarted and revealed, a deafening silence erupts from the left. There’s a slew of mental hurdles a good lib eral must overcome before coming to a rational conclusion about what has come so close to taking place. We worry about government secrets.

media secrets, chickens coming home to roost, the culture of fear, racial profiling, religious intoler ance, about being swept up in selfcongratulatory patriotism, wasting our precious critical resources, and being complied. Moreover, as a good liberal, I also dislike Times Square and all the corporate fetishization it stands for. I, too, think the world would be a better p lace if it were not America, and if this America were not fast becoming the world. I, too, suspect modernity of trickery and don’t wish for a second American Century like the first. I considered all this while read ing the story about the Portland plot in the New York Times. Do I consider myself, after finishing the article, privy to the whole truth? If the repeated Wikileaks disclosures have taught us anything, it’s that government secrets didn’t end with the release of the Pentagon Papers, nor with the Iran-Contra hearings, nor with illegal domestic wiretap-

ping. Despite my liberalism and my passion for crossword puzzles, I have as healthy a skepticism of the New York Times and its partners in the “lamestream media” as any un educated Sarah Palin fanatic. I don’t trust the Times to deliver news with out spin. I don’t trust it to form my ideas about terrorism. However, we also must not let our sheltered North Amerian lives deceive us about the way the world works. The Times reported that Mohamed Osman Mohamud, the 19-year old Somali-born American citizen accused of the attempted Portland bombing, when told there would be a lot of children in Pioneer Square for a tree-lighting ceremony, replied, “Yeah, I mean that’s what I’m looking for.” It requires seri ous logical contortions to bend that statement into anything other than evidence of pure hatred. The onus is on the person trying to situate M ohamud’s comments in the context of anything to prove he or she hasn’t been terribly deceived.

picture for a security guard behind the scenes of your completely ex posed birthday suit. The guard kept in a separate room then relays to the security guard if something is being concealed or if you are free to go. I find it an obscene violation of travellers’ privacy to submit to this x-ray pom, even if the individual who monitors the scans is complete ly isolated from passengers. What is worse, however, and what has drawn the most scrutiny, is the al ternative to the full body scan being implemented by the TSA. Putting it loosely, it can be described as a more “intimate” version of the security pat down, meaning that the security guard will get to shortstop with you without even asking for your pass port or inviting you for sushi dinner. Clearly, only 10 years after 9/11, airport security is still a rele vant concern. So is security in trains, buses, and other public institutions that could be targeted by terrorists. I see no justification for why these particular new security measures,

which I believe to be unconstitu tional, unjust, and disturbing, are necessary. There are a few simple arguments against the necessity of these new devices: for one, seeing that they are not at every airport, and are only in the U.S. (so far), a ter rorist with any amount of brains can simply choose an airport without the new technology (a list of airports is available online), or go on a flight en route to the States. Secondly, the absence of successful terrorist at tacks cannot be proven as a sign that these increased security measures work. Rather, we can only say that millions of passengers are being inconvenienced and robbed of their civil liberties. Still, polls show over 80 per cent of Americans approve of the new security measures. Only in a fear-driven, reaction ary society could these and other similar airport regulations take foot. A failed shoe-bomber means that every passenger must take off their shoes. A failed underwear-bomber and we now must be subject to in

trusive full-body scans or a “gentle pat-down.” The new scanners don’t penetrate body cavities: how long until it becomes standard to find ex plosives trapped in the place “where the sun don’t shine?” Security regulators are missing the point, and violating passengers’ rights and dignity. I, for one, believe that simple interrogation and a metal detector is plenty sufficient to ensure my safety on board. When a traveller is flying to Mexico from New York with no suitcase, no return ticket, and is visibly nervous, maybe you ought to pull him aside for second ary testing and further interrogation. But don’t treat millions of passen gers, elderly and children included, like terrorists with this disgusting treatment. If we do not stand up now and reverse this unjust practice, the next two words you might be hear ing at an airport are “spread 'em .”

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I had an hour to spare this past Sunday while waiting for the bus from New York to Montreal. Push ing through the crowds of 42nd Street, I found my way to the metal chairs and tables in Times Square, which, for better or for worse, is America. I sat watching the crowds. I thought about this year’s attempt ed car bombing of Times Square, the success of which would have marked May 1 forever in the world’s consciousness as the anniversary of an immeasurable tragedy, the failure of which preserved it as just another

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“ D o n ’t to u c h m y ju n k , b ro ” Don’t be surprised if you run into increasingly shocking and ob trusive security measures at airports this holiday season, courtesy of the Transportation Security Administra tion (TSA), a body of the United States Government. The latest twist in the ongoing farce of increased airport security measures is the installation of approximately 385 “advanced imaging technology ma chines” (read: full body scanners) in terminals across the country. The scanners work by emitting x-rays that easily travel through clothing but are stopped by the higher den sity of your skin, thus painting a

Eli Freedman is a UI Econom ics and Finance student, and can be reached at eli.freedman@mail. mcgill.ca.

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Re: Fighting the anti-free speech Frenzy (editorial, November 23, 2010) November 23rd’s Editorial, “Fighting the anti-free speech fren zy,” is based on a fundamental mis understanding of the legal concept of freedom of speech. Freedom of speech is a negative freedom: the government (or university) can not censor or forbid speech that it disagrees with (which is what hap pened in the case of George Gallo way). However, protests by private citizens are not “censorship” and they certainly are not “anti-free speech frenzy.” Just because the government cannot forbid you from speaking does not mean that you can say whatever you want without suffering the consequences. Not all opinions have equal validity. For example, if a Holocaust denier came to speak at McGill, I think shutting down his talk would be a reasonable reaction for the simple reason that the McGill community doesn’t want Holocaust denial on campus (I hope). Additionally, it seems some what absurd to complain about the abridgment of Christie Blatchford’s right to free speech. She has a col umn in a national newspaper, shut ting down one of her talks is primar ily a symbolic action. She still has all the free speech she needs. - Jonathon Booth

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view of campus recreation. Because members are no longer considered varsity athletes, they can no longer use the varsity gym. These teams no longer receive funding from Athletics and m ust instead pay the adm inistra tion an annual fee of $100 per team. They are also not perm itted to com pete in CIS, OU A, or QSSF leagues or competitions. According to Athletics Director Drew Love, this restructuring was partially the result of budget consider ations. Facing shortfalls in some pro gram expenditures, McGill Athletics cut approximately $ 120,000 from in tercollegiate sports. Love emphasized, however, that these changes were also the result of a major review of all Ath letics programs and sports which the departm ent conducts every four to five years. "W hen you look at how you deliver your programming you also have to look at w hat's happening at other schools across the country, at our leagues, and w hat w e have avail able to deliver," he says. "Q ueen's has m ade similar moves as w e've done." For the 30 members of the McGill ultimate team, the team fee is not a major issue, according to its president Rumi Tejpar. However, the loss of var sity status has a significant impact. "It's a heavy commitment, and to not be able to say that you play on a varsity team, that you're just a club, means you have very little credibil ity," he says. "People w on't choose to come to McGill now if they can't say they're a varsity athlete." Halbrook says that while los ing varsity status was disappointing, the main challenge the Martlets have faced has to do with medical services. Now, Halbrook says, simply obtain ing a roll of medical tape is a five-step process. "If someone needs their ankle

taped, I do it," she says. "The only ex perience I have is from watching You Tube videos." Tom Fabian, Students' Society vice-president internal, former Var sity Council president and m en's vol leyball team member, says that while he understands the restructuring from a sports management perspective, he's concerned w ith the lack of trans parency behind the decision-making process. "The main issue for a lot of ath letes is that there was no real criteria for us to see," he says. "I understand w hy they did it, but it w asn't a fair process." Both Halbrook and Love ac knowledged that the OUA's prior re structuring to eliminate its w om en's lacrosse, squash, tennis, and figure skating leagues impacted these teams' position in McGill's new system. With the OUA's decision, these McGill teams lost leagues in which to com pete. However, Halbrook says when she approached the Athletics adm in istration w ith questions, they were unresponsive. "The varsity people told me I w asn't under their jurisdiction, and the recreation adm in said they didn't know w hat to do with us," she says. "I wrote long, impassioned emails to Drew Love and Lisen Moore and they responded by sending me a Power Point presentation." Although there is no longer an OUA w om en's lacrosse league, the team competed through the Fall in a private league organized by Halbrook and the coaches of the teams that pre viously played in the league. While the OUA is sponsoring a women's lacrosse championship, the Martlets cannot attend due to a McGill regula tion which stipulates that teams who are not part of officially sanctioned leagues cannot compete in champion

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opted to go elsewhere—in Dominic Kucharski's case, the University of Montreal. "I applied [to McGill] because it's such a great school academically, and combined with volleyball, it would have been the perfect school for me," he says. "As much as I w anted to go to McGill, I w anted to play volleyball as well, so I had to look at other op tions." Kucharski said that while he is happy to be playing volleyball, he is still disappointed. "I was devastated w hen I found out. I felt like all my future plans were gone out the window," he says. "I knew w hat rez I w ould be in, I knew some of the guys on the team. I was really looking forward to playing for McGill." For former Level III teams, how ever, McGill's new sports model has provided increased support and rec ognition. Love cited the m en's baseball team, who recently w on the National Championship, as an example of the possible success of such a system. Synchronized swimming Head Coach Cassandra Bilogan said the increase in pool time her team received this year is just as significant as any financial support. "It's frustrating having minimal pool time and having one of the only teams at McGill that consistently wins nationals and places well at all their competitions," she says. "I've been fighting for this for years, and this is the first year we actually got more time and it's been really helpful." In addition to increased support for new Level II teams, Love explained that the departm ent has hired a parttime clubs coordinator whose main task is to offer support and guidance to the competitive clubs. Roffey said the support structure in place has been particularly beneficial for her team.

"I think it is important to note that the newly formed sport club of fice has been extremely understand ing, helpful, and patient with our team as we navigate through this season," she says. "They are working w ith the teams to create competitive program s with the fewer resources we now have." According to Norm an O'Reilly, associate professor of sport business at the University of Ottawa, a lack of resources has become an issue for university athletic departm ents across Canada. O'Reilly agreed with Fabian and Love that such a system of pri oritizing certain teams is becoming a common response to financial issues among Canadian schools. "The bottom line is athletics departm ents w ithout exception are cost cutters for universities," he says. "They're not revenue generators." According to O'Reilly, different Canadian universities have imple mented various models in response to the funding cuts that began about a decade ago. Some schools have chosen to prioritize and promote one specific team—for example, Laval's football program or Carleton's power house m en's basketball team. O'Reilly explained that these teams are now revenue generators for their respec tive schools, w ith money being in vested into other teams and facilities. Other schools, including Nippissing and Lakehead, have moved to mixed funding for some teams. Under this model, the m en's hockey teams are underw ritten by a group of alumni. With regard to McGill, however, O'Reilly explained that while teams representing less prom inent sports can often support themselves finan cially, they often need official recog nition from the university in order to survive. "If you accept your reality then

you can figure out a w ay to make your resources work," he says. "But in order to be able to do that, you have to be able to maintain your varsity sta tus. With a tiered system where teams actually lose their varsity status, you're basically killing them. They'll be a club for a while, then it will even tually peter off."' Tejpar echoed a similar senti ment. "I understand that McGill doesn't have that m uch money. But varsity status doesn't cost them any money," he says. "It's a glorified intramural, and that's not w hat we are. We are a varsity team." Love says he is confident the re structuring has been beneficial since it has clarified the roles of varsity and club teams, and added that similar re views will continue in the future. "This has set us up for the next four years or so in a w ay that lines consistent with w hat other universi ties are doing and w hat the sport sys tem is doing in Canada with respect to university sport," he says. Roffey is hopeful that the Mart lets will regain varsity status, but also em phasized that her team is still mov ing forward regardless. "Fancy practice uniforms and unlim ited access to trainers are a ben efit, but they do not change the heart o f a player," she says. "My players have heart. That is why we still have a team." Brant, however, was not as opti mistic. "All the effort we p ut in to build this team up now means nothing. I felt like we were leaving a dynasty," he says. "I gave 30 or 40 hours a week for four years, for nothing. My dream was to coach this team someday. And now it's gone."

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ed only a month ago when many Facebook users were exploited through a program called Firesheep. The same is possible if you shop on a non-encrypted site. You can tell if a site uses SSL encryption if the ad dress starts with “https://” or if there is some sort of lock symbol in the address bar. If you’re not sure, wait until you get home. That said, make sure your home Internet connection is equipped with at least WEP level encryption.

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As exciting as it might be to see those new Uggs on sale for only $200 when you’re studying at Sec ond Cup, it might be a good idea to wait until you get home to make the purchase. Some less popular sites do not use secure socket layer (SSL) encryption when making server re quests with your sensitive informa tion. This problem was demonstrat

Don’t just memorize your credit card number, keep your other bank account information handy, too. If you’re doing a lot of shop ping, you should be checking your account balances daily. Early detec tion is one of the keys to prevent ing identity theft. While your credit card company should let you know if there’s any strange behaviour on

your card—such as an all-inclusive trip to Cambodia—they can’t tell the difference between more mundane purchases. Checking your balances often can be the difference between $5,000 and $50. Remember what you purchased and how much it was. This tip will also help some from exceeding their budgeted holiday shopping expenses.

Keep your Computer Safe Even if you follow all of the tips above, you can still have your identity stolen if someone gains ac cess to your machine through a tro jan. A trojan enables other people to see what you’re doing. One popular application of these is to install what is known as a keylogger on your ma chine, which then remembers every key you press, and sends it to the hacker. By simply scanning your keystrokes for strings of 16 num bers, they can steal your credit card

number quite easily. Scanning your computer at least once a week with your favourite anti-virus software should keep you safe. Also, be alert if you think your computer is behav ing strangely in any way. The most important thing to remember when shopping online is common sense. Not losing your cool in the heat of a vicious eBay bidding war on those new gloves that even let you use your iPad while you’re wearing them can make all the dif ference in the world. All you have to do is make it hard for crooks to steal your information, because when it gets too hard, they’ll just target someone else. When in doubt, shop from home, on your secure com puter, with your secure internet con nection, with a secure grip on your wallet.

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Liz Perle graduated from McGill in 2008 with a degree in English and Political Science. She is now living the dream in New York City working as the assistant to the editor-in-chief at Seventeen Maga zine. In an interview with the Tri bune, she elaborates on the highs, lows, and craziness involved in working at one o f the world’s most popular magazines.

Can you describe a typical day for you? What type of tasks do you have as assistant to the edi tor? I am the captain of our editorin-chief’s schedule. Pretty much every document going into and out of her office goes through me first. I do a ton of administrative work for the magazine as well, but I won’t bore you with that. In my “spare” time, I edit pages for the magazine, pitch stories, write for the website, cover events, and participate in brainstorming ses sions. I would describe my typical day as an adrenaline rush from the moment I walk in to the moment I leave, in the best way. My colleagues joke that I know more about how a magazine works than anyone else here, and in some ways, they’re probably right. I get an amazing inside view into the interac

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How did you land this job? Before my final semester at McGill, it dawned on me that all I wanted to do in life was live in New York and be a magazine editor. I went online and applied to about 30-40 summer internships in NYC. I heard back from two. Seventeen was one. I interned here while the Amer ican election was happening, and it became clear to me that teenage girls were interested in what was going on, but that no one was talk ing to them directly about it on any major forum. There was a great op portunity to create a space for them to talk about the election on their own terms. One of the web interns and I got together and put together a pitch, which ended up on the desk of the editor-in-chief and was ulti mately approved. We started a politi cal blog on seventeen.com, which I continued to manage remotely from McGill after I left my internship. It was a big success and I’m really proud of the work we did. When a position opened up here in December, I was just gradu ating and still on their radar because of the blog. It was incredibly lucky timing. I should also mention that I

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What’s your favourite part of the job? Least favourite? I head up a number of readerbased networks for the magazine, and I also run our internship pro gram. A huge part of my job is to have long conversations with teen and college-age girls and relay what I learn from them to our staff. I love that part o f it. Least favorite? Fashion week. I have no idea how our editors get through it. Their schedules are in sane. An aside: As a feminist, I get a lot of flak for working at a fash ion magazine. My perspective on the matter is that there aren’t many voices talking to young women as constantly and as thoughtfully as Seventeen does, and if I can con tribute to that conversation in posi tive ways, I feel fortunate to be able to do so. Teenagers are an amazing age group. It’s incredibly humbling working with them.

Who are some of the people you get to meet? Celebrities? Who’s the meanest and nicest ce lebrity you’ve ever met?

My lips are sealed on celeb horror stories. Nicest? I screwed up Paris Hilton’s coffee once, and she pretended not to notice. That was nice of her. I went to a small cocktail event recently and ended up infor mally chatting with Eric Bana and Joe Wright. I was pretty starstruck, which is something that doesn’t hap pen all that often anymore in this job for me. They were brilliant. My 12-year-old self died when I interviewed the Backstreet Boys backstage before a recent concert. AJ even recorded a little shout-out video for my mom.

Do you have a celebrity crush, and what would you do if he or she walked into the office? Hillary Clinton. What would I do if she walked in here? Pee my pants.

What’s the most awkward moment you’ve ever had with a celebrity? I ran into one of the stars of the new Star Trek movie at a party, and decided it would be a great oppor tunity to talk to him about the TV show and my mild William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy obsessions. Strangely, he wasn’t as excited as I was about it.

What are some of the perks of the job? I don’t really pay for beauty

products, clothes, or accessories anymore. That’s nice, but I think my friends enjoy those perks more than I do. If I wanted to, I probably could fill my schedule with an event every night of the week. Being part of such a big brand definitely helps with ac cess, but even more than that, being young, being in NYC, and being in media in general is its own perk. There is so, so much happening all the time to take advantage of.

How has your McGill expe rience proven beneficial (or not) while in New York? Do you ever reminisce about your time at McGill? Some of my closest friends from McGill are in NYC, and I have some new McGill grad friends that I’ve met through alumni networks here. And obviously all I know about life, the universe, and everything came from my time at the Trib. I f you’d like to dip your toe in what Liz does fo r a living, there’s a game on seventeen.com where you can pretend to be the assistant to the editor-in-chief and see i f you can survive. Follow Liz in her adventures at Seventeen Magazine on Twitter at @lizperle or @seventeenmag. - Compiled by Wallis Grout-Brown

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Student #2: A threesome was something I saw as a right of passage to bidding my college years adieu. It was some thing I knew I wanted to experiment with, and I saw these years as the platform to do so. However, the pro posed threesome snuck up on me in a way I never planned. My friend, Alexandra, and I wandered our way down St. Lau rent Boulevard to our default late night prowling location: Biftek. I wouldn’t exactly describe this as a place where dreams come true, but we were desperate to sit down. Im mediately we struck up a conversa tion with a man who was standing

near the door when we walked in. An hour later the man had wedged his way in between Alexandra and me and we were all drinking and laughing. Fast-forward to two hours later when we were in a cab heading back to the m an’s house and all settled down on the living room floor. I closed my eyes and tried to take in Blonde Redhead’s haunting voice, but it only added to my apprehen sion. The man began kissing Alexan dra as I sat a couple of feet away, but then pulled my hand in and involved me in the situation. Then he began kissing me as Alexandra’s hand lay on my leg. I wanted to want it but there was nothing about the situation that was turning me on. While the flow was genuine and natural, the problem lay in the man himself. I curled myself up in a ball as I watched the man and Alexandra continue to kiss. Then it happened— after four years of friendship, Alex andra kissed me. Surprisingly, that

was the only act of the night that made me feel something other than doubt. Perhaps it was the familiarity of warmth and her smell or maybe I just found her more attractive than the man. It was in this moment that I felt what I was lacking with the other partner, and I urged Alexandra to call a cab so we could leave. I wasn’t willing to push myself in a situation that felt so fundamen tally unsettling. I would like to be lieve that I am capable of such an act, but perhaps it’s just not for me. After much reflection I thought that the problem was the foreignness of all the elements involved. If I were to try it again, I would do it with two people that I knew. If you’re experimenting, I urge you to take all the necessary steps to make sure that you’re as comfortable as possible. It’s already quite an ex otic act, requiring boundary pushing and personal release, so make sure you take the doubt out of the other key elements.

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Copy Editor We’ve all seen it happen be fore. You dropped some books or spilt your coffee only to have your irritation and slight embarrassment punctuated by some giddy oppor tunist chiming in with a cringe wor thy four-letter f-word: “Fail!” Aside from being grammatical ly incorrect, the real problem is the term ’s origin. What was once solely a verb has morphed into a noun, ad jective, and exclamation. In case you didn’t know, w e’ve got the Internet

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Similarly, the band’s sound can be tracked over time and the new est album demonstrates some key aural transitions in Stars. Cranley says that In Our Bedroom After the War was more of a “celebratory rock record,” while the band tried to use more synthesizers on the new record to achieve a somewhat darker feel ing. “It might seem like small dif ferences to people who have listened to our catalogue, but I mean I always try to push something that hasn’t been pushed before,” Cranley says. “I think this time it was important that we push the synths a little bit more, and it was almost an intent to be a little colder. Cranley feels that the band was able to push themselves to new areas of creativity by surrounding them selves with less familiar equipment. “I think [unfamiliarity] re ally offsets the lyrical content as well with the synths,” he says. “So it was all very on purpose; we tend to be quite calculated in how we do things.” With this being the first album released on Stars’ own label, Cran ley says that a lot of their friends and peers have been impressed by the band’s initiative to launch them selves, but not much has changed in the way the band produces music. “We just kind of curated this home for ourselves and hopefully it’s a place where we can keep put ting out Stars records for a long time,” Cranley says. “Its purely a business decision and also kind of an aesthetic imprint as well. I think Stars records—they way they sound, the way they look, they way they’re

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Stars get more personal than this photo on their new album, The Five Ghosts, (youarestars.com) performed live—will only happen on the imprint that we made.” As former members of the To ronto supergroup Broken Social Scene, Stars are no strangers to work ing with their friends on projects and invited Apostle of Hustle’s frontman Andrew Whiteman to work on what is his second Stars album.“Inviting Andrew Whiteman to play was really a no-brainer, because the five of us are tremendous fans of how he approaches the instrument,” Cranley says. “I just think he added little flavours here and there that re ally brought the songs to another level.” “As far as musical community is concerned,” Cranley says, “I ’m friends with a lot of musicians here and I find that community in music is really important because it helps to push one another creatively, and maybe business wise, because it’s

nice to have a support system of people that are doing the same things that you do.” Further considering the effects of personal lives on music, Cranley and singer/guitarist Amy Millan are expecting a baby and says the arrival will definitely change the way the band operates and the sound of their music. “I think just your whole out look on life will change, so it has to musically,” he says. “I don’t know how it will change yet. I suspect I’ll take things a lot more seriously ... or maybe I won’t, I don’t know. The roads are going to change, physical ly —there’ll have to be nannies and different ways of travelling, but you can’t stop doing what you love, and I think that’s important.” “And artistically who knows,” he adds. “It will definitely influ ence what we do on the next record.

which w e’ll hopefully start doing early in the new year.” For the last show of the tour, Cranley is very excited to be playing in Montreal. “I ’ve always used the city as 9 texture and an inspiring place to fuel me and I know other people in the band really like to write and create here, it’s a special place,” he says. Cranley added that unlike pre vious shows showcasing the new album, he expects this Saturday’s performance to be a “real celebra tion of our catalogue and the last 10, 11 years of the band.” “It’s my favourite place to play in the world,” he says. “I can’t wait.”

Stars plays Metropolis Satur day, December 4. Tickets are $28.

Pop lÿietoric The Fake Shore

It would be easy to list the rea sons why the Toronto knockoff of Jersey S to re —with the face palm worthy title Lake Shore—is an awful idea. So here goes. First, I think we can all agree that w e’re sick of Jersey Shore. The flare-up cultural phenomenon’s suc cess is based on its novelty. How ever, when it’s stretched out into a second and third (and God forbid, fourth) season, viewers are no lon ger tuning in to see the show for

themselves and have a couple cheap laughs: the show actually has to be interesting enough to keep people watching. However, after an entire season of what was basically a pro longed fight between Sammi and Ronnie with some obligatory catchphrase spewing peppered in, it’s time to say enough is enough. (Seri ously, I think you can count on one hand the amount of words Pauly D said last season.) But the problem with Jersey Shore isn’t that it destroyed itself, but that for a time it had ruined our creativity as well. The show is so recognizable that it was only a mat ter of time before the producers real

ized its memetic value. Phrases like “GTL” became common in every day conversations, while Snooki and Situation Halloween costumes were outnumbered only by Heath Led ger’s Joker and dead Micheal Jacksons. And there’s a good chance you were invited to a Shore theme party at some point in the past year. The world doesn’t need more Jersey Shore. So I would say that the idea of making a cheap knock off set in Toronto would be the last thing we need, except that the To ronto version is going to be so far from the original that it’s a terrible idea for its own reasons. The main difference between Jersey Shore and

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Shore —originality, budget, and try-hard little brother mental ity aside—is that each character on Lake Shore is from a different back ground; in addition to nicknames, the characters are also referred to as “The Turk,” or “The Jew.” While Jersey Shore certainly doesn’t shy away from the commoditization of ethnic identity, it didn’t make it the focal point o f the show, either. But Lake Shore is all about drama; it won’t shut up about it. It’s being marketed with that manufac tured “attitude” that’s often used to sell sports drinks to children, and has made the lofty claim that it will be the edgiest show Canada has ever

seen. Fine. Even if Lake Shore is as controversial as it is contrived, that’s nothing to be proud of. Jersey Shore worked as a social experiment; it was a look into a subculture taken to such an extreme that most people didn’t know genuinely existed. Lake Shore is more like Fear Factor, run ning an episode where the challenge is “W hat are you willing to do to become famous?” Canada AM host Seamus O ’Regan said it best in an interview with the show’s creators (who ignored the gravity of the question): “They want to be heard, but what do they have to say?”

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tradition of provocation and people asking hard questions, and Richler took on that role.” In this sense, the Richler story is very much the Montreal story. Both represent a heritage of internal contradiction, ceaseless dialectic, and rabid self-criticism. Foran presents this idea as a substantial theme of his book. “I think Montreal is a naturally com bative city,” he says. “There are different narratives, and different histories, and it’s all on the same ground.”

Opinion Editor Few hipsters, biking furiously down St. Urbain Street in Mile End, notice number 5257, an unassuming second-floor apartment in a small, pinkish-beige brick building on the east side of the street. It’s uglier and noticeably younger than other build ings on the block, with no sign to commemorate its place in Canadian literary history as the boyhood home of Mordecai Richler. Up and down this street, the young Richler walked and the old Richler—to his great d e lig h tdrove. A few blocks down is Baron Byng High School, where he gave 10-minute speeches about current events to his peers each day and was president of his class; a block over is the famous Wilensky’s Light Lunch, which young Richler guiltily frequented and where old Richler triumphantly returned to make films based on his novels; close, too, is Fletcher’s Field, now Jeanne-Mance Park, where Richler brought girls to “neck” in the bushes - whatever that means. The streets of the Mile End are infused with the lingering spirit of Richler and the Montreal Jewish community he immortalized in his books. “Richler’s Montreal is still here,” says Charles Foran, author of a monumental Richler biography, Mordecai: The Life and Times, pub lished by Knopf Canada last month. The book begins with an expan sive portrait of the Montreal Jewish community at the time of Richler’s birth in 1931. Foran, who, upon moving to Montreal as a young man, chose to live on Esplanade Street be cause it was “Richler country,” says he asked veterans of the community to show him around the neighbour hood, to say “this was the pool hall, this was where we bought our hot dogs, this was the shul, this was the this, that was the that.” “It hasn’t been leveled,” he says. “There haven’t been any wars or urban renewal or anything. It’s still there.” I n recent months there’s been a notable surge in Richler-related activity. There’s the book by Foran, which, though the author concedes that no biography can be truly au thoritative, will surely rank as the definitive work on Richler for many years to come. In October, the Wal rus, a Canadian literary magazine, put Richler on its cover (cigarette in hand, as always) with an accompa nying story by his son, Noah, who’s also a writer. This December a film adaptation of Barney’s Ver sion, the last novel Richler

The former Fletcher’s Field, now Jeanne-Mance Park, where Richler enjoyed his youth. (Holly Stewart/ McGill Tribune) penned before he died will be re leased starring Dustin Hoffman and Paul Giamatti, presumably draw ing renewed—and maybe, finally, American—interest in his works. And in the past few weeks a debate has erupted in the local media as to how Montreal should commemorate its most famous writer. Richler’s widow, Florence, has suggested renaming St. Urbain Street after her husband. Others have proposed Fairmount Avenue, home to Wilensky’s, and only a few metres from the old Richler home. “I think it’s borderline criminal that there isn’t a street named after him already,” says Robert Lantos, the producer of Barney’s Version and a previous Richler film, 1985’s Joshua Then and Now. “It should be Sherbrooke Street, nothing less. Mordecai Richler Avenue.” Foran, however, isn’t sure Richler would want St. Urbain or any other street name changed. He proposes changing the Mile End Public Library into the Mordecai Richler Library, following the model set by the city of Lachine, which christened the Saul Bellow Library after another world famous Jewish novelist bom in Montreal. This type of commemoration, Foran contends, more than the re naming of a street Richler played on as a child and immortalized as an adult in his fiction, would connect Richler forever to Montreal. “He was a writer who needed to know the soil,” Foran says. “He needed to know the soil beneath his feet.” i r r i t e r graduating from Baron Byng, Richler attended and then dropped out of Sir George Williams College, now Concordia University, and moved to Europe to become a writer. Montreal was the city he couldn’t wait to leave but couldn’t forget once he was gone. Despite his nearly 20-year residence in Lon don, England, all of Richler’s major

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Apprenticeship o f Duddy Kravitz, St. Urbain’s Horse man, Joshua Then and Now, and Barney’s Version— are set in and around Montreal. “He was a quintessential Mon trealer,” Foran says. “Like him- or not, agree with him or not, he de fended his Montreal, his conception of M ontreal—what it was, what it should be, what it shouldn’t be.” Indeed, Richler wrestled with

( C iti e s are monuments to ir resolution. The changing skyline, the perpetual construction, social and cultural transformations, daily turmoil—the city is the quintessen tial embodiment of a “work in prog ress.” Humans, like most creatures, inhabit the spaces our ancestors constructed; and we, too, continue to build. Montreal has always taken this principle of irresolution to the extreme. It represents hundreds of years of argument, negotiation, and constant battle. It has always prom

Mile-End landmark Wilensky’s, a favourite Richler haunt. (Holly Stewart / McGill Tribune) the city of his birth in both his fiction and his life. Explaining his return to Montreal in 1972, Richler said he worried “about being so long away from the roots of my discontent.” He criticized the city and his Jewish community endlessly, but never denied his origins or pretend ed to be anything other than a St. Urbain street boy. “In no small part, he was such a loyal son to the city because of his childhood in that neighbourhood,” Foran says. “It kind of held him; it nurtured this very distinctive, outsized personality. Jewish Montreal ers, who were sort of the first people he exercised his muscles on, they got this kid—this bratty, angry, smart, iconoclastic kid. Judaism has this

ised to be different things to differ ent people, and its famed dynamism is the result of this ceaseless nego tiation. Richler’s refusal to compromise himself and his principles—especial ly what Foran called “his conception of Montreal” —eventually got him in a lot of trouble. After the publica tion of Oh Canada Oh Quebec! in 1992, outlining his ideas about Que bec separatism and odious language laws, Richler became a persona non grata for many Francophones in the province. He was and is still regu larly called a racist, a bigot, and a fraud. His list of enemies is long, and many of them are not ready to let Montreal commemorate a man they consider to be an enemy to their

city and to La Belle Province. Robert Lantos, the producer of Barney’s Version, has his own ideas about Richler’s legacy. “I suspect that there isn’t any one who has done as much for Mon treal in terms of world literature than Mordecai has,” he says. But of course not everyone agrees. Richler’s Montreal is not the only Montreal. Foran believes that Francophones living in Brossard or Laval “just don’t know what w e're talking about.” Indeed, Macha Grenon, a fa mous Quebec actress who plays a supporting role in Barney’s Version, admits that Richler represents only a part of the Montreal experience. “O f course I ’d heard of Morde cai Richler, but to be honest I only came to know that whole universe through Barney’s Version,” she says. “It was fascinating to me, because so much of it was about the neighbour hood I grew up in, and it’s amazing to read and to realize how unaware you can be of somewhere you’ve been living your whole life.” Even so, Grenon is excited by the major role the city itself plays in the new film. Whereas many film makers use Montreal for films set elsewhere—as with the upcoming production of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, which is being filmed here but is set in late 1940s Denver— Barney’s Version is securely placed in Montreal. The characters stroll in Square St. Lquis, drink in a bar on St. Catherine streets, try to kick a drug habit while staying on the Lower Main, and make off-hand references to St. Viateur bagels and even our own eminent university. “Someone not from Montreal or Canada will really enjoy the film,” Grenon says. “But I think for Montrealers and Canadians you’re on the inside of it, you really get to recognize things, and Montreal fi nally gets the stardom it deserves.” Perhaps in this way Richler will posthumously be recognized as a quintessentially Montreal art ist, who, while alternating between celebrating and criticizing his home city, created in his fiction a singular monument to its complexity and unique sense of itself. “Richler really took a stab at everyone,” says Anna Hopkins, also a native Montrealer, who plays the title character’s daughter in Barney’s Version. “I think that’s really charac teristic of Montreal in general. Selfcriticism - big time.” “Richler was never at ease in the world,” Foran says. And, argu ably, neither is Montreal, the city he never really left and which, to the end, never left him.

Ifiesday, November 30, 2010

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By Bianca Van Bavel Contributor One of M cGill’s dance crews, hip-hop group Urban Groove is host ing the university’s first ever winter performance showcasing many dis ciplines of the performing arts. From assorted dance styles to harmonic a cappella ensembles, the show will feature performances from Mosaica Dance Company, Inertia Dance Collective, Effusion, Tonal Ecstasy, and the McGill B-Boys. Though the groups themselves will perform sep arately, the show is a collaborative endeavour. The goal of this initia tive is to encourage the integration of various artistic disciplines while engaging the support of the McGill community. Urban Groove began as a small recreational hip-hop dance club in 2003. Over the last few years, the group has expanded its efforts, growing not only in number but also

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in style and magnitude. Comprised of 32 members, the group holds re hearsals once a week and performs both on and off campus, including an annual spring show, various char ity events, and guest appearances alongside other clubs. This past summer, Urban Groove hit the stage at Tonic Club Lounge, opening for Girlicious. Urban Groove offers an innovative approach to their perfor mances, appealing to a wide range of dancers from all backgrounds and skill levels. “We really value the diversity of our dancers and what each in dividual has to bring to the table,” says Bea Britneff, one of the event’s co-ordinators. “You can really see how a group like Urban Groove al lows someone to develop a sense of confidence and team building skills that carry over into other aspects of your life.” Although the event is hosted by Urban Groove, the intention is to

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feature the full range of abilities of all the performing groups. “We don’t want it to be all about us,” says Anna Lermer, a facilitating member of the group. “It really is a group effort. What the audience will see is only a small portion of the time and commitment that has gone into putting this show together.” Each group has co-ordinated their own numbers, and in some cases even mixed their own music. Add in all the organization that goes into lighting, costume design, and personal flare, in Lermer’s words, “the sheer quality of each perfor mance will blow your mind!” With all the effort that goes into rehearsing and making these shows accessible to students, it’s important to encourage the support of these clubs and the performing arts. “The challenge is getting enough expo sure,” Britneff says. “I think provid ing people with a visual is the easiest way to get our name out there and

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Urban Groove will be per forming December 3 at 7 p.m. in the Shatner Ballroom. Tickets are $7 at the door or $5 in advance in Leacock on November 30 ( 10 a.m.-5

p.m.), December 1 (10:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m.), and December 2 (10 a.m.-3 p.m.). Proceeds from ticket sales go towards AIDS Community Care Montreal.

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By Manisha Aggarwal-Schifellite Contributor In his current exhibit at the Mc Cord Museum. Hungarian-born pho tographer Gabor Szilasi documents "The Eloquence of the Everyday” over 30 years and two continents. Through both black and white and colour images, Szilasi focuses on a variety of features that make up the everyday: urban and rural architec ture, private spaces, and loved ones. Szilasi’s exhibit is arranged into four sections: “Family and Friends,” “Montreal Architecture and Urban View,” “Rural Quebec in the 1970s,” and “Hungary.” In each section, Sz ilasi approaches his subjects from a unique vantage point that illumi nates both the background and fore ground; the placard for his “Family and Friends” section stresses the im portance of acknowledging the set ting of a portrait and allowing it to further represent the subject. This tactic is evident throughout the section, as Szilasi photographs local Montreal artists and writers as well as his own wife and daugh ter. The portraits taken of Szilari’s daughter as a teenager, juxtaposed with photos o f her bedroom, are par ticularly compelling, as the viewer is able to instantly connect the per son to the setting, and feels that they

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know much more about the subject than they would have otherwise. Sz ilasi’s portraits are more revealing upon second or third glance, as the nuanced details of the subject’s sur roundings come into focus and com plete the narrative. Szilasi maintains this theme throughout the exhibit, particularly in his section on Hungary. Taken in 1950s and 1980s Hungary, his portraits reveal a great deal about the political and social transitions the country went through in the in tervening decades. Again, Szilasi lets his subjects and their surround ings do the talking and allows their personalities to shine through his lens.However, perhaps the most striking portraits in this exhibit are those displayed in “Rural Quebec in the 1970s.” In this segment, Sz ilasi combines photos showcasing architecture, domestic space, and portraits of rural Quebecers in What has been historically seen as a period of great change. The images of the modest bedrooms, kitchens, and of fices of these rural residents are ef fective portraits as well, highlighting the negotiations between the mod em and rustic aspects of towns like Saint-Honoré de Beauce and SaintBenoît Labre. In some of these inte rior portraits, homeowners appear in the periphery of the shot and seem

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Szilasi’s eye captures unique moments like this; above, a man enjoys precious bath time. (3.bp.blogspot.com) to blend into the room around them, further emphasizing the fact that hu mans are often defined by their sur roundings. The final section, “Montreal Architecture and Urban View,” displays the changing nature of Montreal’s cityscape over the past 40 years. The images of familiar landmarks, while striking, are not as powerful as his portraits in con veying the struggles and simplicity of everyday life. Szilasi’s strength is clearly in his ability to draw stories from the pictures of people around him. The placard accompanying the “Montreal Architecture” section

describes Szilasi as taking an “out sider” approach to photographing the cityscape. This creates a form of detachment from the subjects of the images and makes it more difficult to appreciate the nuances of the city that make up its identity. Without the incorporation o f human subjects into these architectural photos, Szilasi’s vision is unclear and the section as a whole becomes less effective. Szilasi’s attraction to personal histories and his penchant for the towns of rural Quebec are the two highlights of his McCord exhibit. Through capturing the nature of the “everyday” from the 1970s to the

present, Szilasi demonstrates his ability to bring the subject out of the photograph while at the same time bringing the viewer in. This combi nation leads to a deeper connection between the two, leaving the viewer feeling more in touch with the sub ject, their surroundings, and the ex traordinary ordinariness of life.

Szilasi’s “The Eloquence o f the Everyday" is at the McCord Muse um from October 8 through Febru ary 6.

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Mary Halvorson Quintet: Saturn Sings

Kanye West: My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

This is tense, spooky music with a delightfully playful side. In Saturn Sings, her second album on the Firehouse 12 label, Mary Hal vorson adds alto saxophonist Jon Irabagon and trumpeter Jonathan Finlayson to her already formidable trio with drummer Ches Smith and bassist John Hébert. Without Halvorson, that combi nation might recall the special musi cal partnership of Ornette Coleman and Don Cherry (no, not the hockey commentator), and with her, it still does, as in the unsettlingly beautiful ballad “Crack in Sky (No. 11).” If you can pull that off, it means a lot, but it’s not only a matter of instruments—it’s an aesthetic. In this group, Halvorson comfortably imbues her playing, composing, and arranging with styles and methods in and out of jazz to create her own sturdy framework. It’s the sound of M onk’s humour, noise rock, ex pressionism, hard bop, and Ornette Coleman’s insouciance. It might be a disservice to Halvorson, reducing her music to components, but the point is that those components have coalesced. Near the end of Jon Irabagon’s solo in “Leak Over Six Five (No. 14),” you hear some warped, spacey noodling, like a radio broadcast played backward at high speed. Is it Saturn singing? No, it’s Mary Hal vorson’s guitar.

Before the release of his latest album, few doubted Kanye West’s ability to one-up himself given his talent, money, and endless supply of industry connections. So it should come as no surprise that My Beauti fu l Dark Twisted Fantasy is just as spectacularly excessive as we could have hoped. There are no distracting filler tracks, skits, or interludes because there’s not enough room for them. If a song isn’t speeding past six min utes’ worth of guest appearances, it’s stretched even longer to show case an instrumental solo. The mu sical versatility, whether it’s African chant, orchestral strings, or wellplaced vocal distortion, proves that Yeezy can make music that is atypi cal o f the mainstream sound but just as radio-friendly. Kanye’s lyrics are sometimes hilarious, sometimes contrite, but always intricately constructed. With the exception of guests Fergie and the RZA, every feature verse is powerful, as if each guest knew the negative consequences of a poor performance on such a highly antic ipated album. By the end, Kanye’s struggle is much easier to appreciate than it was on his supposedly poi gnant 808's and Heartbreak. The album is ambitious, fre netic, and unrestrained, and the sur rounding hype will leave both the casual fan and the music aficionado worshiping Kanye while they’re lis tening.

—Matthew Kassel

Chiddy Bang: The Preview Chiddy Bang has been on the scene since February 2009, but they didn’t release their first single, “Op posite of Adults” —sampling MGM GM T's “Kids” —until a year later. Over that time Chiddy Bang has generated a lot of hype, becoming a widely played university favourite and lauded as everything from “a hipster’s wet dream” to “the kings of the basement party jam .” Chiddy Bang’s mainstream appeal comes no doubt from their careful combination of hip-hop, indie rock, and electro. Chiddy’s rapping is articulate, full of pop cul tures references, and often political ly charged as on “Sooner or Later,” while Xaphoon’s unique choice of samples from across a wide range of successful artists keeps the listener enthralled. On “Truth” they use a Passion Pit clip to great effect, while on “All Things Go” we have a riff from Sufjan Stevens’s “Chicago.” “The Preview” is something of a teaser, filled out with mostly older songs, but enough to keep fans sat isfied until the full album drops in 2011. The Pharrell-produced single “The Good Life” is the strongest new track, but songs featuring rap per Q-Tip and indie rocker Darwin Deez are also notable new addi tions. Although the album is noth ing special, it hits where it counts with catchy hooks and refrains, and it looks as though Chiddy Bang will ride the hype for a while longer.

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Two years after the release of director Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire comes 127 Hours, a film based on the terrifying true story of adventure seeker Aron Ralston (James Franco). Ralston inadver tently has his right arm pinned be tween a boulder and a cavern wall during an afternoon hike in the Utah desert. But the movie would almost certainly never have been made were it not for his gruesome method of escape: after five days in the wil derness, Ralston chooses to cut off his own arm with a multi-tool. Revealing this by no means spoils the movie. In fact, the very concept of a man cutting off his own arm to survive is the only thing sep arating this story from your standard “lost in the woods” news headline. To some extent we are all intrigued by this type of violence, even if it’s completely horrifying. Boyle must have anticipated that the legend of Ralston would become common knowledge before the movie was released, so he wisely chose to drop hints within the movie that fore shadow the amputation. One shot in particular shows Ralston packing all the necessities for a day’s hike, as the camera slowly pans in on his multi-tool resting in the cupboard. Ralston is resourceful and care free. When he takes a spill over his bike’s handlebars, he quickly snaps a picture of himself lying exhausted on the ground. He even meets a cou ple of women on the trail and shows them his favourite areas off the beaten path. It’s all amusing until he slips into a small crevice and a rock lands on his arm. The rest of the film is a fascinating character study, a race against time, and a depiction of man versus nature.

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We see Ralston use his multi tool knife to chip away at the boul der until he realizes that he’s only wasting his energy, muttering to himself sarcastically that his blade is now “nice and dull.” We know the consequence of this, but all we can do is feel sorry for him as he figures it out for himself. Ralston’s psyche slowly dete riorates, and with this come some very abstract dreams and hallucina tions. The hallucinations are bizarre, but provide valuable insight on what would otherwise look like the inco herent ramblings of a man nearing death. The film also touches on the topic of destiny as Ralston seems to think that every bad choice he has made in his life has consequently led to this rock landing on his arm. Mil lions o f years before he was bom, this rock was fated to crush his arm. Who wouldn’t beg, plead, pray, and repent to God in situations half as scary as this? v The camera holds nothing back. From the beautiful landscape to the hell Ralston endures in the cave, no details are spared (though at times you’ll wish they were) The film can be unflinchingly gruesome, but more importantly it’s trium phant, and ultimately very inspiring. It couldn’t have had such an impact were it not for James Franco, who deserves nothing short of an Oscar nomination for his emotional con viction to the role.

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For the first time since 2006, a McGill Redmen team can call themselves National Champions. The meteoric rise of the Redmen baseball team from the brink of elimi nation to national prominence is the crown ing achievement, for McGill Athletics this semester. In October, the Redmen pulled off four wins in three days in Windsor, Ontario, culminating in an exhilarating 12-9 victory over the Brock Badgers in the Canadian In tercollegiate Baseball Association’s national title game. Max Tiemo was an offensive star all year long for McGill. He had 15 base hits in 36 at-bats at the National Championships. The third-year middle infielder also starred in a crucial series at Carleton late in the reg ular season that helped McGill wrap up the Northern Division crown. On the mound, David Haberman of Teaneck, New Jersey led the way with wins in all three games he took to the rubber. Hab erman had an impressive 1.65 ERA, joining teammates Daniel Kost-Stephenson and LJ Aguinaga in the CIBA’s Top 10 in the cat egory. The team ’s MVP, however, is the man chosen as the MVP for the entire National Championship tournament. Chan Arndt went 12 for 21, for an astounding .572 average, and had 8 RBI’s in Windsor. The native of Yarmouth, Maine, had three hits and scored three runs in the National Championship alone, leading McGill to its first title in

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four years. Sophomore Josh Gordon, of Dollard Des-Ormeaux, was named to the all-toumament team as a first baseman. He should be key to manager Ernie D ’Alessandro’s quest for back-to-back titles in 2011. M VP: Chan Arndt Player to Watch: Josh Gordon

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players to graduation, including goalkeeper Jean-Lou Gosselin, but with a majority of the team returning, the Redmen expect that strong leadership from the veterans and de velopment of the rookies will re-establish them as a national powerhouse next season. MVP: Yohann Capolungo Player to Watch: William Hoyle

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The Martlets Cross Country Team was finally able to bring back the QSSF title this season. The team had won that title for 20 consecutive years heading into the 2008 season before losing it in 2009. The season started strong and the Martlets became regu lars on the CIS weekly Top 10 list. Returning after an impressive rookie season, sophomore Sarah McCuaig consis tently dominated the Quebec conference. McCuaig ended the season as the top run ner in Quebec and earned All-Canadian hon ours. Junior Charlène Puel and sophomore Madeleine Cummings also exhibited their strength and experience as they helped the team ’s placement throughout the season. Despite the M artlets’ victory at the QSSF championships, unexpected injuries and ill nesses resulted in their season ending disap pointingly with an 11th place finish at the National Championships. With a powerful core of runners remaining, the Martlets will be aiming for a stronger finish at nationals next season. On the m en’s side, this season was the definition of a rebuilding year. After enor mous turnover, only two veterans were left on the squad. The addition of 12 rookies formed an almost completely new Redmen team. Among the new faces was freshman Jay Boychuk. He entered halfway through the season and immediately began to pro duce results, eventually winning the bronze medal at the QSSF championships. Overall,

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After their second-place finish at the National Championships last year, the McGill Redmen soccer team entered this season with high expectations. The Redmen felt the pressure to succeed from the start, which took its toll as the team performed in consistently all year. McGill concluded their 2010 campaign with a record of 7-5-1. Although the second half of the season saw improvement, a trend of missed oppor tunities and incomplete plays defined their games. The Redmen were often left frus trated by scores not reflective of their domi nating performance. With a victory over UQAM in their final regular season match, the Redmen secured a second place confer ence finish leading into the playoffs. How ever, they lost 3-1 in their semifinal rematch with UQAM, bringing the season to an un expected and disappointing early finish. Conference all-star and midfielder Yoanne Capolungo was a valuable pillar for the team. He was a force to be reckoned with, controlling games with his speed, shot accuracy, and ability to read the field. Join ing Capolungo on the all-star roster was midfielder Olivier Babineau. Babineau and Capolungo played great offensively as they consistently created breaks for the Redmen strikers. On defence, Thomas Lucas and Graeme Tingey claimed all-star honours. They led a tough backline that covered the entire field. The McGill Redmen will lose some

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the Redmen finished in 4th place in Quebec and 13th in the nation. Daniel Kramer and Graydon Snider, the sole veterans on this year’s team, will gradu ate this year. The outlook for next season is difficult to forecast for this young, develop ing team. They will rely on the progress of newcomers throughout the upcoming indoor track season to reinstate solidarity on the squad. MVPs: Sarah McCuaig, Jay Boychuk Players to Watch: Ouiam Aabaliq, Oliver Foster

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Last year, a very young Martlets soc cer team, which had only one fourth-year player, made it to the QUSL semifinals. This year, the team ’s goal was to go to nation als. They started out on the right path with nine wins and five ties, dominating the other teams in their league, destroying teams like UQTR 5-0, UQAM 4-0, and University of Sherbrooke 5-1. In the QUSL semifinal, the Martlets played Laval, who they had already defeat ed 4-2 earlier in the season. Unfortunately, like last year, their season ended in the semis as they lost 2-1. It was a heartbreaking de feat for the Martlets. They were ranked third in the country and were looking like serious challengers for the National Championship. Not making it to the CIS Championships was obviously a major let down for the tal ented squad. Alexandra Morin-Boucher was hon oured as an All-Canadian at the Women’s CIS Soccer Gala and led the QUSL with 11 goals. Also honoured as an All-Canadi an, was first-year goalie Victoria Muccilli. Throughout the season she had four shut outs, and only allowed six goals out of 43 shots. While missing nationals was a disapointment, their season can’t be seen as a failure. They had an incredible regular sea son and were clearly one of the best teams in the nation. The Martlets are still a very young

team with obvious potential. They are being recognized as one of the favourites to win next year’s nationals, which will be held at home in Montreal. M VP: Alexandra Morin-Boucher Player to Watch: Victoria Muccilli

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After winning four straight QURL Championship titles, expectations were high for the McGill Rugby Team in 2010. The beginning of their season started well, as they consistently dominated with 30 to 40 point blowouts against Bishop’s University and University of Sherbrooke. All seemed to be going well until the team ’s 15-game conference winning streak ended with a loss to Concordia. This was the only blemish on M cGill’s record all season. They redeemed themselves in the final with their strongest performance of the season and a 22-10 win against Concordia. The Redmen controlled the game from the beginning and were never in danger of losing After losing some veterans last year, the young team grew throughout the sea son. Focusing on specific game tactics and skills, especially working on playing the full 80 minutes, the team finally came together. They destroyed Sherbrooke in the semifinal and carried that momentum into the final. Winger Gideon Balloch played spec tacularly and consistently. He scored a personal best of 20 points.twice through out the season. One of these performances was in the final, in which he scored all of M cGill’s 22 points. Cameron Perrin, a firstyear called up from the Rugby Club A team, proved himself a threat on the field. In his first game he scored a fantastic try, and in following games was considered an offen sive threat by the other teams.

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Entering 2010, expectations were high for the Redmen football team. By all measures, however, the season was a big disappointment. During the 2009 season, the Redmen made huge strides under Head Coach Sonny Wolfe and actually won a cou ple games. However, this year started off terribly, as sophomore starting quarterback Jonathan Collin suffered a season ending knee injury in a 50-9 loss to Laval. Things only got worse as McGill lost in a heart breaking double overtime game to Bishop’s and blew a 15-point lead against Concordia in the annual “Fill the Stadium” game. The dismal season’s most embarrassing perfor mance was a 68-0 loss at the hands of even tual champions Laval. Despite again finishing with no wins, there were a few bright spots for the Red men. In the final season of his remarkable career, star receiver Charles-Antoine Sinotte became the all time leading receiver in CIS football history and led the Redmen with 52 receptions. In addition, Defensive Tackle Ben Thompson was named a second-team All-Canadian at the CIS Football Awards Galji. Thompson is only the 43rd All-Ca nadian in school history and the first since 2007. While Collin’s injury played a major role in the Redmen’s struggles, they lost winnable games against Concordia and Bishop’s. The 2010 season can only be looked upon as a letdown. Despite Sinotte

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The lacrosse team came into this sea son with little in the way of expectations and even less in continuity. The team lost 16 players from the 2009 squad to graduation and 2010 seemed destined to be a rebuild ing season. However, early on, McGill looked primed for another year of contention as the team got off to a strong 5-2 start before los ing three in a row and falling to Carleton in the quarter-final of the Canadian University Field Lacrosse Association playoffs. Despite losing in the quarters, the team was competitive thanks to contributions throughout the lineup. Talented veteran Noah Miller from the University of Ver mont led the team in goals with 25 and had 27 points for a share of the team lead. There were in-house improvements from Ryan Besse (who also scored 27 points), Guy Fox and Jishan Sharpies. The rookies also chipped in, with strong performances from Ross Burst and Nolan Prinzen. Since it was supposed to be a rebuilding season, we can’t hold this year’s team to the same standards as last year. Still, the players showed too much talent and heart early in the season to be satisfied with a .500 season and an early playoff exit. The lacrosse team will lose only four players to graduation this year and should be at the top of the CUFLA East standings next fall.

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leaving the team, next season looks more promising as Collin returns from injury and McGill aims to get in the win column. MVPs: Ben Thompson and Charles-Antoine Sinotte Player to Watch: Jonathan Collin

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R O W IN G As the year’s first snowfall blankets the city, and the water is drained from the row ing basin in Parc Jean Drapeau, M cGill’s Crew season comes to an end. The McGill rowers, under the guid ance of Head Coach Philip Hedrei, trained nearly every morning since late August and had a successful season, with promising results throughout the fall. The women’s lightweight crew, comprised of Patricia Latendresse (Coxswain), Marie-Christine Razaire (stroke), Emma Sheehan, Iris Karry, Jennifer Allan, Bridget Schrempf, Fred de Muszka, Leiya Kenney, and Megan Lydon were recently voted “Crew of the Year” at the season ending banquet. Their sea son was highlighted by impressive perfor mances at the Head of the Charles Regatta in Boston (placing in sixth, a mere seven seconds off fourth place) and at the OUA final in St. Catherine’s, finishing third with a time of 6:55.8, three seconds behind the first place Queen’s University. Allan re ceived the Crew ’s MVP award and was one of four McGill lightweight women (along with Razaire, Sheehan, and Karry) to travel to Victoria in early November and partici pate in the Canadian University Rowing Championship. After making the A final, the lightweight four finished fifth overall. On the m en’s side the lightweight four, made up of veteran rowers Renaud GaronGendron, Michael Ross, Nate DeBono, and Evan Dejonghe, and coxed by Rinita Ma-

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Sports in brief Redmen and Martlet hockey teams continue to dominate the competition Both of M cGill’s hockey teams’ incredible seasons contin ued this past weekend. The Martlets * kept their undefeated season alive with two wins. They dominated the University of Montreal in a 4-0 win as Charline Labonté posted her third consecutive shutout. The Martlets jumped out to a quick 2-0 lead in the first period and never looked back. The next night, Ann-Sophie Bettez scored two shootout goals as the top ranked Martlets squeaked out a 2-1 shootout win over Carleton. Despite out-shooting Carleton 27-17, the Martlets needed a third period goal from Carly Hill to tie the game and force extra time. Over time ended scoreless and Bettez and Labonté carried McGill to victory in the shootout. Labonté now has a 7-0-0 re cord with an impressive 0.70 GAA, 0.955 SV percentage and four shut outs. The wins extended M cGill’s QUHL winning streak to a dominant 90 consecutive games. The Redmen had only one game scheduled this weekend. McGill returned home, to McCon nell Arena, after they suffered their first loss of the season against Brock

last weekend. Captain Evan Vossen scored 1:27 into overtime to give, the Redmen a hard fought 5-4 victory against the University of Guelph Gryphons. Hubert Genest scored his sec ond goal of the game 2:32 into the third period to give McGill a lead 4-2. However, they were unable to hold off the Gryphon who scored two consecutive goals to force OT. Depsite the collapse, the Redmen kept their composure as Vossen scored the game winner, his ninth of the year. It was an extremely even game in which McGill was outshot 27-26. The Redmen had their opportuni ties to put the game out of reach in regulation as they had nine powerplays, however, they were only able to score twice with the man advan tage. McGill sniper Francis Verreault-Paul scored his 21st goal of the season. He is having a year for the record books. The third ranked Redmen look to build on their momentum when they play UQTR on December 1 while the Martlets will try to extend their conference winning streak when they face off agianst Concor dia on December 4. - Walker Kitchens

For those o f you who d o n ’t keep TSN as your home page or Sports Illustrated as your bedtime reading, we know sports can be hard to understand. This section is fo r you.

Laval wins Vanier Cup over U of Calgary CIS FOOTBALL: The top ranked Rouge-et-Or won their sixth Vanier cup with a dominating 29-2 victory over Calgary. Playing in a snow storm in front of a sold out home crowd, Laval quickly jumped out to a 17-0 lead behind star running back Sébastien Lévesque. Looks like Laval can do a lot more than just shut out the Redmen.

The glass slipper doesn’t fit NCAA FOOTBALL: It was a wild weekend in the NCAA. First, the incredible Cam Newton led a 24point comeback against defending National Champion Alabama to keep Auburn’s undefeated season alive. Then, Nevada mounted an impressive 17-point comeback of their own, as they extinguished Boise State’s national title hopes.

Oregon won too, meaning that if they and Auburn win their next games the two teams will meet for the National Championship. The confusing BCS picture just got a lot clearer.

The only Harvard grad struggling to stay employed NFL FOOTBALL: Buffalo Bills starting quarterback Ryan Fitzpat rick is literally playing for his job. Heading into last year’s draft pun dits were expecting the Bills to tar get a franchise QB. but they passed. This year, team owner Ralph Wil son said the team’s top priority for the offseason was finding a starting QB. However, with every win he earns Fitzpatrick not only demon strates his value, he also puts his team further back in a draft that should include potential franchise QB Andrew Luck and decreases

their chances of getting him.

Saskatchewan devastated; rest of Canada indifferent CFL FOOTBALL: On Sunday, in a sequel to last year’s matchup, the Montreal Alouettes and Saskatche wan Roughriders travelled to beau tiful Edmonton to contest the 98th Grey Cup. The Als held onto a late lead for the second year in a row Previously labelled with the “pe rennial underachiever” tag the Als are now drawing some dynasty talk with the two-peat. Anthony Calvil lo cemented his Hall of Fame status with the win.

Quote of the week “I was going to spank him. He may not hurt. It may hurt me.”

—Boston Celtics Head Coach D<\ Rivers discussing how he planned to punish Shaquille O ’Neal for missing practice.

T IIIlll) M AX IX Basket-nomics

W hat’s going on with the Miami Heat? Following the acquisition of Lebron James and Chris Bosh this summer, the Heat became the con sensus favourite of pundits and fans across the league to win the Larry O ’Brien Championship Trophy. However, the heated discussion that ensued w asn’t reserved for whether they would win the championship, it was for whether or not the Heat could go down in history by better ing the 1995-1996 Chicago Bulls’ 72-win season. In recent history, the 2007-2008 Boston Celtics were the only team to unite three superstars, winning the Larry O ’Brien trophy in their first year together. The expecta tions for the Heat are even bigger; the only issue is that the results have been disappointing so far. With a fifth of the season over, the Heat are sitting at a pedestrian 9-8, sixth in a weak Eastern confer ence. Far from looking like the elite of the league, the Heat instead seem like a team that’s lacking direction

and leadership. The Heat have struggled in two important areas. They rank 21st out of 30 teams in rebounds per game, and they are the league’s third worst team in turnover differential. Fol lowing a loss to the Indiana Pacers, James said the issue was that, “We aren’t having fun right now.” While it may be the true that they aren’t having a good time, the reality of their struggle, it seems, is a basic economic principle: the law of di minishing returns. For those unfamiliar with eco nomics, the law of diminishing re turns simply says that if the number of workers is increased (while all other factors of production remain constant), the resulting increase in output will eventually level off and then decline. The Miami Heat are an example of this law in action, as the added superstars have been less ef fective than they were on separate teams. This has made the Heat less productive overall. Last year, Wade was the lone superstar on the Heat. This sea son he’s scoring five fewer points per game, and has just over half as many assists as last year. James,

the reigning MVP, has also seen his stats take a hit. His points per game have dropped by six, and his assist totals have dropped as well. Finally, Chris Bosh—always mentioned after James and W ade—is averaging almost seven points per game fewer than he did last season. While it was expected that there would be some decrease in scoring for each member of the “big three,” the decrease in as sists is concerning for Heat fans. The team suffered their eighth loss on November 27. In 07-08, the Celtics didn’t hit eight losses until exactly two months later, on Janu ary 27. Boston didn’t suffer from the law of diminishing returns to the same extent because their big three (Pierce, Garnett, and Allen) under stood their respective roles in the offence. They also didn’t all require the ball in order to be effective. One of Allen’s primary skills is his ability to move without the ball, and Gar nett’s tenacity on defence was, and still is, his most valued asset for that Celtics championship team. The Heat are nearly the polar opposite of that team. M iami’s big three were each the primary of fensive weapon on their respective

teams last season. This is shown by the metric usage percentage, which roughly measures a player’s involve ment in his team’s offence. Last season, James, Wade, and Bosh all ranked in the top 10 for usage per centage, and James and Wade were first and second respectively. Under that guise, it’s understandable why they seem unable to work together as teammates and instead are play ing like individuals. James conceded that fact, saying, “[Wade, Bosh and himself are] used to having the ball, making plays, finishing plays. It’s a process of having to still be aggres sive but playing off the ball. It’s an adjustment.” Additionally, Head Coach Erik Spoelstra runs an offence that is fairly isolation oriented. The Heat have been taking too many long two-point shots, as opposed to get ting the easy, efficient buckets that the three superstars were supposed to provide. Previous teams stacked with superstars were a stark con trast to the Heat, including the Bulls teams of the 1990s and the Lakers teams of the early 2000s. Coached by Phil Jackson, these teams ran a triangle offence, which is conducive

to getting more players involved. Given the lack of success, there’s been growing recognition that it might be time to replace Spoelstra. Following the team ’s seventh loss, Wade said, “We never predicted we would be 8-7. You un derstand it’s bigger than just talent. This is a prime example of that.” Jackson also stirred controversy by saying that Spoelstra should be re placed mid season by Pat Riley, like the Heat previously did with Stan Van Gundy en route to their 2006 championship. In order for the Heat to shed their early disappointing perfor mances they need to learn from their opponent, the Boston Celtics. The Celtics’ big three were able to adapt their style of play to fit, and excel in, a new situation. The Heat thus far have been unable to do so. Un less they can learn to better integi ate each other into both the offence and defence, the Heat are doomed to go down in the books—not the history books, the economics textbooks. - Jonathan Rosenbluth

Tuesday, November 30, 2010

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By Christophe Boyer Contributor The McGill Redmen defeated the UQAM Citadins 78-67 at Love Competition Hall on Saturday night to improve to 3-1 on the season. The team now shares the QUBL division lead with Laval (3-0) and Concor dia (3-1). Sophomore centre Greg Gause scored a career-high 24 points and standout freshman Simon Bibeau added 16 as McGill continued its strong play under first-year coach Dave DeAveiro. Coming off a tough 72-68 loss at Concordia on Friday, in which the Redmen were out-rebounded by a staggering 33-17 margin, McGill hit the boards hard on Saturday manag ing 41 rebounds to the Citadins 29. “Today, we were playing the number one rebounding team in the country,” DeAveiro said. “We knew if we didn’t rebound it was going to be a long night for us, so that was our focus.” The Redmen controlled the tempo of game from the opening tip as they jumped out to a 23-17 lead after the first quarter, and pushed ahead by as many as 14 points with 5:37 left in the half. Sophomore point guard Olivier Bouchard and centre Greg Gause demonstrated strong chemistry on offence, hook ing up on a number of ball screens. “We run a lot of two-man game

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ball screens with me and my point man Olivier,” Gause said. “That’s what we are looking for: if they switch, he takes the big man, or if they double, I got that shot right there in the short comer.” Momentum switched, however, in UQAM’s favour at the end of the half, as McGill failed to use the shot clock to their advantage. McGill rushed their possessions, turned the ball over and took bad fouls. UQAM forward Gregory St-Amand and guard Eric Côté-Kougnima led the Citadins on a 18-7 ran to shrink the McGill lead to 39-36. The Redmen were obviously aggravated by their inability to put the game out of reach early. “We have to understand how to play when we are winning by 10 or 12 or 14 points, we don’t have to come down and throw up quick shots. I was frustrated with that more than anything else,” DeAveiro said. “We don’t know how to play when w e’re winning. We are selfish. What we have to learn as a team is that it’s a different game than when you are up 10 or down 10 or up five or down five. That’s the thing that I talked to them about at halftime.” McGill continued to play strong defence throughout the game. They forced UQAM star Eric CôtéKougnima into bad shots late in the shot clock. Despite logging 38 min utes of playing time, Côté-Kougnima

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shot a miserable 2-10 from the field and 2-5 from the free throw line, turning the ball over three times. McGill also got a better effort from their bench players on Sat urday night, outscoring UQAM ’s reserves by a margin of 26-15'. Ni colas Langley, a 6 ’7” forward from Golden, B.C., was a nice comple ment to Gause’s career day, tallying 12 points and six rebounds in just 21 minutes of play. “[Langley and I] worked well together,” Gause said. “We were knocking our shots down, and it is

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tough to guard when we can do that.” The Redmen were again able to pull away in the fourth quarter, increasing their lead to 11 with 5:22 left in the game. UQAM frantically tried to close the gap, but the defi cit was ultimately too much for the Citadins, whose loss dropped them to 2-3 in the division. DeAveiro has added a spark to the squad this season, creating in tensity that was lacking in previous years. He seems to have the ability to light a fire under his players and

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has shown an adept ability to make effective adjustments during the game. DeAveiro’s record speaks for itself, at 210-127 overall during his 10 seasons coaching in the CIS. “I think [Coach DeAveiro’s] good,” Gause said. “So far our sea son has proven that. We’ve won some big games, and are off to a great start to the season. Hopefully we can keep it up.” McGill will look to build on its strong start on Friday, when the Redmen play third ranked Laval at home.

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By Rebecca Babcock Contributor All the Martlets want for Christ mas are two more wins to keep their regular season record unblemished going into the winter break. On Sat urday, they took a step towards that goal by beating the UQAM Citadins 76-70 to improve to 4-0. Even when the pressure was on, the Martlets kept their composure and came out on top. The Martlets led 19-17 at the end of the first quarter and 40-28 at halftime. Despite heading into the fourth quarter with a 10-point lead, M cGill’s defence floundered and UQAM was able to close the gap, gaining the lead with five minutes to play. After a McGill time out, for ward Anneth Him-Lazarenko used her signature drop-step to score, fin ishing with six points in the fourth. In the last two minutes of the game, UQAM resorted to fouling to get the ball back and the team ’s Marjolaine

Gauthier-Théorêt fouled out with 24 seconds to go. Despite UQAM’s re lentless efforts, McGill went six for six at the line in the last few min utes of the game and stayed patient on offence. Power forward Valerie L’Ecuyer, who scored eight points, made a huge contribution on the boards by grabbing seven offensive and three defensive rebounds. “It went well,” L’Ecuyer said.

“We had a great comeback at the end but I think we all need to work on the little things, like being sharp on pressure and reducing our turn overs.” • Natalie Larocque showed off an impressive all-around game with 20 points, three three-pointers, and five rebounds. She was also perfect from the stripe, making nine out of nine free throw attempts.

“Previously, I hadn’t been driv ing to the basket, but today I didn't want to settle for my outside shot,” Larocque said. “In the first half it made it really easy for me to find my teammates. In the second half, I drove to the basket because my team mates were covered and UQAM was fouling.” “The team worked really hard and we played with leadership

and poise,” said Head Coach Ryan Thome. “On our part, there were a few breakdowns on defence and communication, but UQAM also made some highly contested shots. However, saying that, we allowed too many points today. We are where we want to be at offensively with about 70-80 points, but we are aim ing for 40 points for the other team. As we are working towards the championships, we will definitely need to work on our defence.” Larocque agreed with her coach about the team ’s goals. “The good thing about this team is that every night somebody else contributes and somebody else steps up,” said Larocque. “Right now, we are feeling pretty good with a 4-0 record, but from the beginning we knew our objective is the cham pionships and this game is a little step towards that.” The M artlets’ last game before the break is at home on December 3 at 6 p.m. against the University of Laval.

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