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By Theo Meyer_____________ ____ Managing Editor

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In an effort to pressure the McGill administration to reopen the Architecture Café, the McGill Students’ Society Council voted to support a student boycott of McGill Food and Dining Services at its meeting on Thursday, despite the vocal opposition of several council­ lors.

The motion, brought to council

by Arts Senator Tyler Lawson and Arts Representative Kallee Lins, represents the most direct attempt to engage students in SSMU’s efforts to convince administrators to recon­ sider McGill’s summertime decision to close the popular student-managed café.

Erin Hale, a former McGill Daily editor, first proposed the idea for a campus-wide boycott of Food and Dining Services shortly after the September 21 rally outside the Leacok Building, where of hundreds of students gathered in support of reopening the café. Hale started a Facebook event urging students to boycott all McGill Food Services, which had more than 3,000 mem­ bers at press time.

Lawson and Lins proposed the motion after seeing the groundswell of student support for the boycott.

The Engineering Undergradu­ ate Society Council banned the Quebec Public Interest Research Group from using its resources for up to one year at their meeting last Tuesday.

The ban will prevent QPIRG from booking table space in any en­

gineering building on campus.

The ruling followed last week’s incident between members of QPIRG and the QPIRG Opt-Out Campaign, a campus group that en­ courages undergraduates to opt-out of paying QPIRG’s $3.75-per-semester fee. According to the QPIRG Opt-Out campaign, QPIRG support­ ers allegedly attempted to prevent Opt-Out Campaign members from

According to Lawson, the motion commits SSMU to supporting the .boycott until McGill releases the financial data showing that the café was losing money—a major point of contention for Architecture students, who have claimed that the café was in the black—and agree to discuss reopening the café. The motion ex­ empts students with prepaid meal plans, however, as well as first-year students in residence.

“The point is to try and get some consultation on the issue,” Lawson said.

However, several councillors declined to support the motion on Thursday, with four dissenting and five abstaining, with the latter group including SSMU President Zach Newburgh. One of the most vocal councillors who opposed the mo­ tion was Lauren Hudak, a Science representative to SSMU and an oc­ casional Tribune contributor.

“I felt that we could do some­ thing more constructive, more posi­ tive, in trying to get the administra­ tion to listen to the demands of stu­ dents,” Hudak said.

Along with other councillors, Hudak argued that passing a mo­ tion supporting the boycott did not address students’ frustrations with the administration, which contracts See “ MOTION” on page 3

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distributing their fliers, which re­ sulted in Opt-Out members calling McGill Security.

But Rae Dooley, a member of the QPIRG Board of Directors, said the situation wasn’t enitrely one-sid­ ed. Members of QPIRG alleged that Jess Wieser, leader of the Opt-Out Campaign grabbed Maddie Ritts a QPIRG board member.

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being confrontational in that envi­ ronment,” Dooley said. “Our stu­ dents could have just as much called security.”

Allan Cyril', vice president in­ ternal of the EUS, said that although QPIRG could have also acted in for­ mal avenues at the time of the inci­ dent, they did not.

“QPIRG didn’t call security and didn’t make a complaint to us at

the time,” he said.

The EUS Council responded by passing the ban last Wednesday, citing concerns about how the inci­ dent reflects on their ability to man­ age table bookings in Engineering buildings.

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By Maria Flores_________________ News Editor David Suzuki, the famed Ca­ nadian author and environmentalist, was welcomed by the McGill Book­ store last Tuesday. With the release o f his newest book The Legacy: An Elder’s Vision fo r our Sustain­ able Future, the author addressed an eager McGill audience in a full Pollack Hall, presenting what he referred to as “a lifetime of thought distilled into a one-hour lecture.”

“It’s his legacy project, and it’s probably one of his final projects,” said Anna Stein, events administra­ tor of the McGill Bookstore. “He is getting older and he js recognizing that and so it’s his big push to pass it on to the youth.”

To set the right mood, Suzuki began his lecture by taking the audi­ ence on an imaginary journey to four billion years ago, when the Earth was unsuitable for life. He stressed that the human race today has a large ecological footprint, due to the vast amount of resources needed to sus­ tain an exponentially growing popu­ lation, as well as our increased ap­ petite for “stuff,” which has led to an ever increasing consumer culture.

“We have become cut off from the world that keeps us alive,” Su­ zuki said. “We forget that the word economics comes from the same group word as the word ecology ... which means home.”

This way of thinking, Suzuki

David Suzuki addresses an eager crowd in Pollack Hall on Tuesday ( Anna Bock / McGill Tribune ) said, has led to value economy over ecology, an unsustainable idea in a world constrained by the laws of na­ ture.

“We depend for our very sur­ vival on ecosystem services, but economists are so smart they fig­ ure we don’t need that,” he said.

“They’re not even in the economic equation. They refer to them as an externality.”

Suzuki argued that the 2008 economic recession was a wasted opportunity to change the direction of the economy. Instead, trillions of dollars were injected back into the system that led to the recession in the first place.

“The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result,” said Suzuki.

As the night proceeded, Suzuki moved on to climate change and the federal government’s inaction on the issue.

Stephen Harper’s government, Suzuki said, has decided to focus on the economy, and has failed to act on climate change. He used the ex­ ample of Sweden, a country that has managed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 8 per cent below 1990 levels and at the same time achieve an economic growth of 44 per cent over the same period of time, to

demonstrate that the two targets are not mutually exclusive.

“Our prime minister for more than four years has said there’s no way we are going to act on climate change [...] because it will ruin the economy,” Suzuki said, “How dare you tell us that? It’s time to put the ecology back into the economics.”

As the talk progressed, Suzuki said that the exponential growth of the human population, coupled with the ever-present desire for growth in a fixed biosphere, is leading human­ ity on a “suicidal path.”

“The only two systems that think they can grow forever are can­ cer cells and economists,” he said,

adding a little humour to his lecture.

Suzuki, 74, also took the lec­ ture as an opportunity to reflect on his legacy.

“We’ve gone off on this weird tangent to think that stuff is what makes us happy, [but] the most im­ portant things in life have to do with people and the things that we share and do together,” he said.

“At this stage in my life, what­ ever governments, corporations do or do not do will have very little im­ pact on my life,” he continued. “But what corporations and governments and society does or does not do will reverberate through the entire life of our children and grandchildren.”

After the talk, a question-andanswer period followed. Befitting Suzuki’s desire to pass on his knowl­ edge, a 12-year-old boy asked the final question.

“It’s amazing to see he’s doing this decades after and still going strong, and it’s an inspiration more than anything, that you can’t let anything let you down,” said Ana Vadeanu, a U3 Environment student who attended the talk.

“We’ve partied as if there’s no tomorrow, and we’ve forgotten to think about future generations,” Su­ zuki said. “Well, the party is over, it’s time to silver up, and clean up our mess and work towards a fu­ ture that we can imagine into being.

We’ve done it in the past, we can do it in the future, all it takes is the vi­ sion and the will to do it.”

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D r i n k s , M e h d i d i s c u s s e s c l i m a t e c h a n g e ’s e f f e c t s

W a r m e r t e m p e r t u r e s m a y h e lp C a n a d ia n s fa r m a g r e a te r v ariety o f c r o p s

By Richard Ramcharan__________ Contributor Last Tuesday night, another Green Drinks Montreal Chapter event took place at Thomson House.

Bano Mehdi, a PhD candidate in the department of geography, presented a talk titled “Climate Change Im­ pacts on Agriculture in Canada.”

Mehdi addressed the small but attentive crowd and attempted to dis­ pell the common belief that climate change is negative. Instead, she ar­ gued that “climate change vis-à-vis agriculture is seen as good.”

Focusing on three main points— how the climate has changed in Canada over the past century, future climate predictions for the country, and the possible impacts of climate change on Canadian agriculture— Mehdi presented statistics that re­ vealed clear evidence of tempera­

ture changes, but also possibilities for adaptation.

According to her presentation, there was an overall increase in temperature of 0.9 degrees C across Canada over the past century. The change came with variation, though, and the temperature decreased at times.

Mehdi also said that Canada has had a 12 per cent increase in pre­ cipitation over the past eight years.

“Expect Canada to be warmer and wetter with occasional varia­ tions,” she said. “This changing climate will be more welcoming to high-value crops, such as grapes, which need specific temperatures at which to grow.”

Along the mid-latitude regions of the northern hemisphere, where Canada is located, there is the most potential for longer planting and har­ vesting seasons and new crop types.

In the coming century, Mehsi said, most of these areas will be able to maintain a climate that will allow for optimal planting and harvesting.

The same cannot be said for mid-latitude southern regions. Only a minority of the world’s climatic regions, Mehdi said, will experience changes in their climates that will give them beneficial conditions.

But even for countries like Canada, the changes in temperature and precipitation have variability and cannot be predicted accurately enough to prevent natural disasters.

Mehdi warned that no systems are currently in place to deal with such events, which could destroy crops.

Mehdi argued that it is up to farmers to adapt their methods to the climate. “They must have good soil and a ready water supply,” she said.

She also said that to ensure food security, the government will have

to step in to help farmers with these burdens through access to knowl­ edge, technology, and funds.

“The agriculture sector is very adaptable” Mehdi said. “But if not enough attention is paid to these changes, Canada would not be able to keep up and therefore have a very difficult time feeding itself.”

Chris Wrobel, a Master’s stu­ dent in plant science, is a member of the Post Graduate Students’ Society Environment Committee and a co­ founder of Green Drinks Montreal, an informal organization that seeks to promote discussion on environ­ mental issues. He explained that is­ sues like the one addressed in this talk are what Green Drinks tries to promote. “[The organization aims to] provide a forum for environmental­ ists with different views,” he said, asserting that “sustainability is a

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binding force” and that through them common projects amongst many groups can be undertaken.

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M o tio n p a s s e s d e s p ite o p p o sitio n o f s e v e ra l c o u n c illo r s a n d la c k o f E U S , M U S su p p o rt fo r b o y co tt Continued from COVER out the management of food outlets on campus to Aramark, an outside company.

“I think by placing the pressure on McGill Food and Dining Ser­ vices, we’re moving away from the original reasons students were upset that the Architecture Café closed,” she said.

Other student associations on campus have echoed Hudak’s con­ cerns. The Management Under­ graduate Society discussed passing a motion in support of the boycott at a meeting on September 26, but ultimately decided against it.

The MUS, said Eli Freed­ man, Management representative to SSMU, decided to not to take a stance in the fight over the Architec­ ture Café, which few Management students patronized, fn addition, the MUS feared damaging its relation­ ship with Sinfully Asian, the popular eatery in the Bronfman Building.

“To be honest, I don’t know

how many people in Management are that concerned and are participat­ ing in the boycott,” Freedman said, though he added he was personally supporting the boycott.

The Engineering Undergradu­ ate Society also decided against en­ dorsing the boycott at a meeting on September 29, instead leaving the decision of whether or not to boycott up to its members.

“We wanted the debate to stay centred on the lack of support for student initiatives, the lack of con­ sultation with students,” said EUS President Daniel Keresteci.

Though the boycott will not affect the McGill administration di­ rectly, Newburgh said he hopes the indirect pressure on the university will convince administrators to re­ open the café.

“Because this will affect Aramark’s sales,” he said, “which are unrelated to any kind of profit that would be received by the university, Aramark will then have some kind

of incentive to approach the uni­ versity and say, ‘Listen, it’s time to reconsider the closure of the Archi­ tecture Café.”’

SSMU is currently exploring several options for promoting the boycott, Newburgh said, including Facebook and the listserv emails.

All six SSMU executives have been boycotting Food and Dining Servic­ es since the motion passed.

Along with representatives from other campus groups, including the EUS and the Architecture Students Association, Newburgh said SSMU has been planning additional events to protest the Architecture Café’s closure. A potluck outside the Mac­ donald-Harrington Building, which housed the café, is planned for the near future. Newburgh also intends to bring up the issue at the next sen­ ate meeting.

“I am confident that the univer­ sity will hear us,” Newburgh added, “and that they will respond positive­ ly and constructively.”

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O u t C a m p a ig n Continued from COVER lose those privileges in the future,” Cyril said.

Dooley lamented that QPIRG was banned because of last week’s event but said that “[QPIRG is] in an open dialogue with EUS and we are interested in working with them, reaching out to more Engineering students, and hopefully over the next year we will gain that ability back.”

QPIRG and the EUS met on September 27 to discuss schedul­ ing a moderated discussion between QPIRG and the Opt-Out Campaign.

However, QPIRG requested that the EUS wait at least a week before holding the session in order to allow tempers to cool. The EUS has also considered bringing in an outside mediator.

The proposed session between QPIRG and the Opt-Out Campaign would facilitate discussion on the proper handling of issues between conflicting interest groups, espe­ cially in the context of using EUS

facilities.

- “We are trying to speak to QPIRG Opt-Out,” Dooley said. “We are trying to make sure events like that don’t happen in the future.”

Dooley also expressed concern regarding hdw the incident is being “sensationalized.” She said QPIRG is trying to move on and that their “major concerns are running QPIRG right now and challenging the entire opt-out system.”

According to its website, QPIRG is an organization that “con­ ducts research, education, and ac­ tion on environmental and social justice issues at McGill Univer­ sity and in the Montreal commu­ nity.” According to a press release, QPIRG Opt-Out argues that QPIRG has “grossly violated their mandate, funding organizations whose basic principles are opposed to those of McGill students” and therefore in­ forms students how to opt out of the organization.

EDUCATION

O n lin e n o te s e rv ic e h its U o f T N o te s o lu tio n p ro v id es an altern ativ e to g o in g to c la s s

By Anand Bery_________________ Contributor Notesolution, a newly released online points-based service allows students to electronically exchange notes with each other. Students earn virtual “credits” for posting their class notes which they can use to purchase others’ notes.

The service, founded in De­ cember 2009 by University of To­ ronto alumnus Kevin Wu and re­ leased at the start of this academic year, has gained popularity among U of T undergraduates. The site cur­ rently boasts over 1,000 registered users and has received positive feed­ back.

The University of Toronto Stu­ dent Union (UTSU), intrigued by the concept and wanting to support the ideas of alumni, formed a part­ nership with Wu over the summer.

“I think that there is a clear need for students to have access to as much information as possible for their courses,” said Adam Awas, president of the UTSU. “Given the shortened academic year, it is often difficult to keep up with a full course load, working, and commuting.”

Wu also cited the difficult tran­ sition to university classes as mo­

tivation for starting the company.

“Adapting to a new way of life takes its toll,” he said. “I felt there was not enough out-of-classroom course as­ sistance for additional guidance to reach every student.”

As with McGill’s note-taking clubs (NTCs), there is concern that students will see these services as an alternative to lecture attendance, and use others’ lecture notes as their only class resource. But Wu said that his service “is not meant to be used as a substitute for regular lecture attendance.” Some students aren’t eager to use others’ notes, though, and instead prefer to rely on what they picked up from a lecture.

Victoria Bonar, a U0 Arts stu­ dent, finds it difficult to imagine de­ pending solely on her peers’ notes.

“During lectures, I just have to write what I’m thinking. It’s im­ mensely valuable to go back and see what ideas I had during lecture, especially when it comes to essay time,” she said. “[However], there are times when the professor is just talking so fast and it’s very easy to miss a point.”

Students have different learning styles. For some, the physical act of putting pencil to paper helps engrain material into memory and aids com­

prehension. For others, taking fewer notes during class and sharing notes with classmates later allows for bet­ ter participation and concentration in class. Notesolution aims to provide a service for the latter group allow­ ing students to collaborate with each other and gain access to supplemen­ tary material at exam time. How­ ever, the anonymity associated with posting information online may lead some to doubt the quality of content posted.

“Some students may be wor­ ried that the notes on Notesolution are not the best quality, or written by students who you would not ask if you knew them,” said Gavin Nowlan, president of the University of Toronto Arts and Sciences Student Union. “This could be one of the reasons why students may be wary to join up.”

Notesolution uses a ratings sys­ tem, and users rank a poster’s notes upon downloading. These ratings are averaged and displayed alongside a user’s profile and uploads. Member­ ship to the site is steadily increasing, and the company hopes to expand to universities across Canada in the near future.

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By Mookie Kideckel_____________ Managing Editor Balke Sifton, a McGill gradu­ ate, along with nine other University of British Columbia journalism stu­ dents, became the first group of stu­ dents ever to win an Emmy Award last week.

The group produced the docu­ mentary: Ghana: Digital Dumping Ground as part of an international reporting class at UBC’s Gradu­ ate School of Journalism. The film picked up two nominations at this year’s news and documentary Emmys, and won the award for Out­ standing Investigative Journalism.

Ghana: Digital Dumping Ground aired on PBS’ Frontline/ World, where it was described as “A global investigation into the dirty se­ cret of the digital age—the dumping and dangerous recycling of hundreds of millions of pounds of electronic waste across the developing world.”

It documents poor workers-often children-buming the European and American computers that recyclers ship to developing countries, and sifting through the toxic residue to salvage and sell tiny pieces of pre­ cious metals.

The film also documents anoth­ er problem: functioning hard drives that contain Westerners’ personal documents and sensitive informa­ tion. In a particularly memorable scene, one of the teams purchased a hard drive containing sensitive details about U.S. government con­ tracts with one of the country’s larg­ est military contractors, Northrop Grumman. Ghana is adjacent to Ni­ geria, which Sifton describes as “the epicentre of cyber-crime.”

But the real story is “that we’re poisoning the Third World, not that some African is going to steal your family photos,” said Sifton.

Socially conscious journalism is nothing new for Sifton, who first “got into journalism from activism” during his years at McGill.

Sifton, who graduated from McGill in 2007 with a joint hon­ ours degree in political science and international development studies, was involved with a group called Students Taking Action in Chiapas during his time at university, which “raised awareness of and money for

the plight of indigenous population in southern Mexico.” He travelled with the group to Chiapas in 2004 and 2006 with donations and to vol­ unteer in communities there.

On his second trip, Mexico was caught in the middle of an election crisis, and Sifton eventually turned the trip into a feature for the McGill Daily. He managed to take a picture of one of the electoral candidates in the midst of an enormous throng of people, which the BBC later pub­ lished on their website. “[That] was this really incred­ ible experience that taught me that I could do that, that I wanted to watch history unfold like that and be a for­ eign correspondent,” Sifton said.

He later used the feature in his UBC application.

This may be the first studentdriven documentary to win anything as prestigious as an Emmy, but for project leader and multiple-Emmywinner Professor Peter Klein, stu­ dent involvement can add an im­ portant dimension to this kind of project.

Students, Klein said, bring a lot of fresh ideas and smart questions to such projects.

“Working journalists kind of get into certain patterns and certain ways of doing things, and you kind of just accept those norms,” he said.

“Students question things in ways that experienced journalists don’t.

And in that respect I think it actually improves the project. It improves the ethical approaches and the quality of the reporting.”

Klein helps his students by bringing expertise and connections to the media world. For the stu­ dents, many of whom are employed at major news organizations, win­ ning an Emmy at such a young age is a promising career start. In a few weeks, Sifton will be joining AlJazeera as a deputy news editor in Doha, Qatar.

As for Ghana and other e-waste recipients, Klein said the situation has not changed significantly since the program aired last year. Regard­ ing what students can do, Sifton ad­ vises researching the recyclers you use to dispose of your computer products to ensure they are being as responsible as they claim so that they don’t “destroy your hard drive.”

Last week, the Tribune reported that SSMU’s Book Bazar lost $17,300 . In fact, $17,300 is the total amount budgeted for both Book Bazars schedueled this year. The Tribune regrets the error.

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By Noah Caldwell-Rafferty Contributor

McGill history professors Jason Opal, Thomas Jundt, and Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert spoke at a pub­ lic forum on Wednesday to address last April’s oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

The aim, according to Opal, was to tackle “the legal, cultural and political dimensions of deep­ water drilling in and near American waters and relate it to the American sphere.”

The speakers took a historical, rather than strictly environmental, approach to the subject. The idea for the forum, Studnicki-Gizbert said, began by discussing how the Deep­ water Horizon disaster could be a turning point in the environmental and political consciousness of the United Sates.

“We said, ‘If we did some his­ tory on this, we could look at how environmental crises feed into en­ vironmental consciousness, envi­

ronmental politics, and in particular issues of regulation,”’ he said.

History Students Association VP Internal Mami Isaacson coordi­ nated the forum and reached out to the professors.

“They were all very enthusias­ tic about coming together with the McGill community to both share their insight on the topic and hear what the public had to say,” she said.

The forum, though long after the initial oil well blowout, took place just 10 days after the U.S. government announced that the spill was officially over.

The forum and discussion were pertinent to the summer-long fiasco, and allowed academics, students, and the public to reflect on, as Opal said, “what we find to be most trou­ bling, what we find to be most com­ pelling, and above all perhaps where we are now and where we are going to head in terms of environmental disasters and the political response to them.”

On April 20, a fire erupted early in the morning on the drilling rig Deepwater Horizon. The failure of a “blowout preventer” resulted in a massive explosion, the death of eleven workers, and the release of a continuous stream of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico.

Each professor approached the disaster differently. Opal, who stud­ ies early American history, com­ pared aspects of the disaster to the 19th century American frontier.

“British Petroleum had a repu­ tation as ‘cowboys.’ The terminol­ ogy of the frontier suffused this disaster and is everywhere if you look carefully,” he said. “A frontier, or horizon, relates to or describes a specific relation of peoples to the environment and the people living there.”

The notion of untouched tracts of wilderness, Opal said, gave people the sense that anything they conquered would be theirs, and the frontier was the future. Now, he said, we see the consequences of similar

attitudes regarding oil, and “a sense of being impotent in the face of cri­ sis.”

Studnicki-Gizbert, on the other hand, who researches mineral and resource extraction in Latin America and the involvement of Canadian mining companies in these activi­ ties, discussed the spill in the context of other environmental disasters.

He linked the spill to similar ones in the last century, like the spills of the Exxon Valdez or the Newtown Creek in Brooklyn.

“It was a highly mediagenic event, because of the kind of his­ torical resonances with other disas­ ters and other events,” he said. “We inherently relate images of today’s crises to those for which we already have an understanding. This in turn dictates our reactions to current di­ sasters.”

Jundt, an environmental histo­ rian, took the most straightforward approach to the disaster.

“In the case of the BP spill, it speaks quite loudly in terms of being

representative of issues that charac­ terize 20th century United States history,” he said. “It reflects a long­ standing tension between protecting the environment and promoting the economy.”

Jundt discussed the issue of responsibility, and where the blame should lie. While all of the present­ ers agreed there was no clear-cut answer, Jundt explored the complex relationship between excessive cor­ porate power and governmental in­ volvement.

“The U.S. government, through tax exemptions and lackadaisical egulation, has helped big companies get a foothold in this deep-water drilling,” he said.

Over five months after the envi­ ronmental disaster took place, McGill faculty and students were able to analize the issue from a historical per­ spective rather than the traditional environmental view, by relating and comparing the oil spill to previous events of the same nature.

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“How am I going to celebrate?

I ’m going to spank some ass.” -Terri Jean-Bradford Terri has a lot to celebrate. She is a dominatrix, and last week the Ontario Superior Court of Justice struck down three provisions of the Criminal Code related to the opera­ tion of a “bawdy house” (a brothel), “living on the avails of prostitu­ tion,” and “communicating for the purposes of the trade.”

Personally, I find the sex in­ dustry disgusting; my principles scream against it. The purpose of prostitution is to turn a woman (or man) into a sexual object: a thing to be used like a common toy. It turns an intimate act into a cheap one. No one involved in the sex industry is free from this taint. The pimps and bawdy house landlords are profit­ ing from it. While some prostitutes are subjecting themselves to it, far too many of them are doing so to pay for drugs, or because they were forced into it. As for the so-called “johns” who solicit, many of whom have wives and kids at home, they are buying sexual gratification at the expense of another human life.

Legally, however, prostitu­ tion can be a victimless crime. Be­ tween two consenting adults, sex can sometimes be sold without seri­ ous harm. I’m comfortable with the ruling on bawdy houses—the more this industry can be removed from streets, the better. Prostitution won’t go away—it’s called the world’s oldest career for a reason. Let’s give it a legal space, controlled by the prostitutes themselves, where it can

C o n fid e n c e a n d fe m a le a c h ie v e m e n t When it comes to diversity in politics, Canada has a long way to go.

This is true even compared to the United States. Only one woman has ever been elected as a premier in Canada, and we’ve had only one female prime min­ ister. The U.S., on the other hand, currently has eight female state governors, and 22 states have had

occur safely.

I am also comfortable striking down the section regarding “living on the avails of prostitution.” It will allow prostitutes to hire bodyguards, and this is also a positive outcome.

However, removing the sec­ tion on “communicating for the pur­ poses of the trade" is a slap in the face to every community with a sex industry problem. To allow prosti­ tutes to wander the streets and sell sex as openly as they please will do nothing but harm public space.

I don’t want our families to wander downtown knowing that others are legally permitted to sell sex there. I especially don’t want anyone’s chil­ dren to have to do that. If prostitutes want to work, they should have to do it privately, not in a public space where we all have to live.

The ruling raises serious policy questions. If brothels are allowed to operate they need to be regulated and zoned. They cannot exist in any suburb or downtown neighbour­ hood, that would be unfair to those communities. The industry will need to be constrained to small areas and kept separate from residential or commercial centres.

Additionally, we need to find a way to deal with the huge prob­ lem posed by human trafficking in the sex industry. Any brothel owner hosting trafficked prostitutes should face the same 14-year sentence faced by those who prostitute mi­ nors. If the questions surrounding human trafficking are not answered, legalized prostitution isn’t an ex­ periment we should be undertaking.

Canada also needs study whether the violence endemic to prostitution will be lessened by these changes or if they will only worsen.

In the end, our courts should not be answering these questions.

The House of Commons should strike a royal commission on the topic so we can formulate a solution to prostitution’s many vices, legal or otherwise.

female governors. When it comes to representation by immigrants and visible minorities, Canada falls even further behind. The U.S. has one governor of South Asian descent, a Latino governor, and, of course, an African-American president. Comparably, Canada’s ministers are almost uniformly white males. The two most no­ table Canadian female political figures, Adrienne Clarkson and Michaelle Jean, were both Gov­ ernor-General, a largely symbolic role. Despite a relatively liberal immigration policy and more fe­ male births than male, Canada’s political institutions remain over­ whelmingly comprised of males of European descent.

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W h y I d o n ’t c a r e a b o u t th e A rch C a fé I don’t care about the Archi­ tecture Café. Maybe I ’m a traitor and you hate me and I’m com­ pletely wrong, but at least I’m honest. All the protesting and ral­ lies meant little to me even after I found out the café was the only student-run food spot on cam­ pus. I understand that the mes­ sage goes deeper than “We want a place to buy coffee,” but what­ ever that message is was drowned out by the ever present “Save the Arch C a f’ theme on fliers and posters scattered around the cam­ pus. Fiery words like “McGill students against administrative silence” would have been more poignant. Can you imagine that slogan blazing red and glorious, splashed across giant banners, marched through the main gates and right up to the front of Lea­ cock?

To me, the Architecture Café never felt like something that was run by students. It felt like just another place on campus where you couldn’t use debit or credit and that rejected meal plan cards, much like all the restaurants on the second floor of the Shatner Building. In fact, any of those places could easily have been moved to where the Architecture Café was and I would have barely noticed. I find it hard to be sym­ pathetic to the cause because if students want a place where they can get food from a student-run business, they should try their own kitchens. I hear that’s got some good stuff!

women are in their own abilities.

As I found out in my political sci­ ence class last week, even though women now excel in many “male” fields, they tend to feel less con­ fident, often negating their own skills and expertise. I was struck by this paradox: women have advanced their careers, achieved political milestones like equal pay, voting rights, and accep­ tance to previously barred fields.

Yet even as women become more capable and more confident, they are rarely as confident as men.

It seems that this research hits close to home at McGill. I haven’t had the opportunity to conduct a study to determine if women and men are equally se­ cure in their abilities as students and educators, but there is a clear

Maybe I’m just bitter. Maybe I ’m a hater and a jerk and have no compassion for the efforts of my fellow students and friends.

I never have cash and don’t like coffee and the one time I got food there the Jamaican patty was cold. But I don’t want to belittle the efforts of my fellow McGill students. I am in awe of their pas­ sion, determination, and knowl­ edge of the situation.

However, most people see the campaign to save the café as simply an attempt to save a café, and one that many of them proba­ bly didn’t— and still don’t— even know the location of. The closure is being used as a screen on which students can project any other problems they may have with the administration. The café became an all-important cause only when it became a popular cause.

In the end, the entire thing is about money. McGill won’t re­ lease the financial figures. They didn’t take students’ ideas into consideration. They simply dis­ regarded what the students tried to do. It was learning about the background behind the struggl that appalled me, not the actual café closure. If more attention had been given to the secretive way in which the administration handled things, I believe more students would have vocalized their support.

If this truly is the end of the Architecture Café, it will be a martyr in the continuing struggle between students and administra­ tion when it comes to food ser­ vices at McGill: a battle that has raged since at least my first year at McGill. Fare thee well, Archi­ tecture Café. May your sacrifice show the administration that stu­ dents actually do care, and are smarter than the administration would prefer to think. And what could possibly scare them more?

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discrepancy between the two in higher-level positions. For in­ stance, out of 13 student senators bn the university senate, only four are women. How can we expect women to feel equally confident when there are so few apparent examples of female achieve­ ment? Luckily, there are efforts to overcome obstacles to female political involvement. McGill’s Women in House is a great pro­ gram that encourages women to get involved in politics. It offers female students a trip to Ottawa to hear politicians speak and to shadow an MP. Through this program, McGill encourages its young women to develop their interests and achieve the exper­ tise necessary to give them con­ fidence in their own abilities. It’s

time we spend more on programs that encourage political engage­ ment from all backgrounds and introduce new voices to the stu­ dent body.

Canada prides itself on being a multicultural, inclusive, and tol­ erant society. But the leaders of our political parties are far from diverse or multicultural, espe­ cially when compared to the lead­ ers in American politics. Canada is proud to be a country where political representation does not depend on money or image, as it often does in the U.S., but it too often seems to depend on some­ thing else entirely: irrelevent bio­ graphical details like gender or ethnicity. It’s time we see more female faces representing our di­ verse society.

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B o y c o tt s h o u ld In response to the closure of the Architecture Café, the Students So­ ciety of McGill University Council passed a resolution last Thursday in support of boycotting all campus food locations owned by McGill Food and Dining Services until the administration proves more willing to engage in student consultation.

While the Tribune applauds the spirit of this motion, we are worried that it may be both misdirected and ineffec­ tive. Instead, SSMU should consider supplementing this sort of negative action with an increase in positive ones.

Several councillors raised im­ portant concerns regarding the boy­ cott’s efficacy. For one thing, it may not be as direct as it appears. The primary target is not McGill—which profits little from their food sales— but Aramark, the company that has an exclusive contract to provide McGill’s food. Even if, as one coun­ cillor noted, few students lose sleep over cutting into the profits of a large corporation, we are wary of endors­ ing a boycott directed at the wrong target. That’s not grassroots democ­ racy—it’s mob populism.

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boycott’s effectiveness. Aramark is a multinational corporation with an­ nual revenue exceeding $12 billion.

Moreover, the majority of its ordi­ nary McGill customers are first-year students in residence, for whom it is impractical to boycott, and pre­ paid meal plan users, whose money Aramark already has—two groups which are exempt from the SSMU resolution anyway. Should the rest of us commit to the boycott, there is only a small chance that our efforts will cause a financial loss significant enough that Aramark will approach the McGill administration about re­ opening the Architecture Café. The lost business may be but a dent for the company. In the unlikely event it does cause a major decline in busi­ ness, the people who will feel the most pressure will probably be the food services employees, who have done nothing wrong.

Despite these concerns, if a cause is right then it is worth pur­ suing even if there are doubts about its feasibility. This is one of those causes. Even if neither Aramark nor Food and Dining Services nor the McGill administration feel any negative effects from a boycott, the

places to which business is diverted will surely feel the benefits. Places like AUS Snax have already seen increases in sales. Despite Deputy Provost (Student Life and Learning) Morton Mendelson’s claim that the Architecture Café was financially untenable, and that McGill isn’t in the business of subsidizing student lunches, the university’s own Food and Dining Services seems only able to sustain itself through monopolistic business practices. A boycott of Ara­ mark may also serve as an expression of widespread campus support for small, student-run food services, and indicate that that is where demand would flow were it not coerced by the university into other channels.

The boycott is a good idea that may have some tangible rewards for certain small groups .Ultimately, though, the Tribune would like to see more of a positive effort from SSMU, rather than merely passive support for a negative strategy. We recognize and applaud executives’ continued efforts to address this in direct talks with the administration. However, we feel that more visible displays would provide a more valuable catharsis for impassioned students. Alternative

coffee stands run by SSMU, for in­ stance, would be a more convincing argument against Tim Hortons than just saying, “Don’t go.” There must also be more attempts to show the administration directly—rather than via Aramark—that students are still fuming over the lack of consultation in the decision to close the Architec­ ture Café. Finally, if SSMU is truly interested in promoting student-run food services, it needs to literally put its money where its mouth is. Its sec­ ond floor cafeteria tenants’ contracts are coming up for renewal this year, which is a perfect opportunity for SSMU to tangibly demonstrate its support for the idea of student consul­ tation and student-run food services.

If they truly believe in the principles they claim to be supporting, SSMU should hold forums and consider leasing to students before asking the administration to do the same. If they do not—if they decide that student businesses are not even suitable ten­ ants for the Shatner Building—then it will be hard not to sympathize with the administration in thinking our representatives, and the boycott they support, might be full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

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At their council meeting on Tuesday, the Engineering Under­ graduate Society banned the Quebec Public Interest Research Group from using any promotional tables in the McConnell Engineering Building for one year. This ban came in response to the September 23 confrontation between QPIRG and the QPIRG Opt-Out Campaign, which resulted in tom flyers and an allegation about the improper use of physical restraint by an Opt-Out member. It is under­ standable that EUS wants to ensure there are no further disturbances within its jurisdiction. The Tribune wouldn’t want outside groups caus­ ing trouble in our office. However,

while EUS acted within their rights by passing the motion, the yearlong ban appears to be both somewhat presumptuous, given the differing accounts of what exactly happened, and an overreaction, as nobody was actually physically hurt.

We don’t want to exaggerate the importance of either what transpired in September or the EUS tabling ban.

It is after all only for a year (or less, if EUS deems that the issues between the two groups have been resolved), and QPIRG will not collapse just be­ cause it cannot promote itself in one specific building.

But we find it strange that EUS chose to only ban QPIRG from ta-

bling, without regard for any role members of the Opt-Out Campaign may have played in the escalation of the conflict. Because each side has its own story of what took place, and its own witnesses to corroborate their version, it would have been more appropriate for the EUS to ban both groups, rather than to pick only one to blame and punish. In any event, the Tribune feels that any ban, even one affecting both groups, is a hasty and overheated response to the Sep­ tember 23 incident.

As we argued last week, the behaviour exhibited by both sides in McConnell that day was not appro­ priate for a university setting. None-

theless, there was little risk of some­ body getting seriously hurt, and we doubt there is a significant possibility this will happen in the future. How­ ever fervently we may disagree with other students on this or that issue, and however frustrated we are when they forget basic decency in the heat of the moment, we should concede that our fellow students are not fun­ damentally violent or dangerous.

We sympathize with the EUS’s desire to set a precedent that disrup­ tions in its domain will not be toler­ ated, but the Tribune believes a stem warning—to both QPIRG and the Opt-Out Campaign—would prob­ ably have sufficed.

I read with interest McGill’s de­ bate over the Quebec Public Interest Research Group (“QPIRG confronts Opt-Out Campaign in alleged alter­ cation,” September 28) and would like to give a Concordia student’s perspective. Like McGill, our tu­ ition includes fee levies: funds di­ rectly taken off to finance initiatives like our food co-op. Like McGill,

students can opt-out of certain fees.

Unlike McGill, however, Concordia opt-outs must be done in person.

This leaves students with financial constraints or legitimate concerns with the actions of groups receiving student money in a conundrum.

QPIRG, at the axis of this de­ bate, is one such fee-levy recipient.

Concern goes beyond mere inconve­ nience of in-person opting-out. It is an infringement on students’ rights to assume that they unequivocally support all causes, subjecting those desiring to opt-out to the heavy ap­ plication of guilt of “withholding

money from oppressed people.” It is ironic that QPIRG condemns the Opt-Out Campaign as “undemocratic.” What is democratic is knowing what one is funding and having the freedom to legitimately withdraw money from automatically support­ ing causes, insinuating student con­ sensus on the groups’ policies.

While opt-out advocates should have substantiated their cause- be­ yond universal appeals of frugal­ ity, they are correct in questioning student money being funnelled into programs such as Tadamon! an avowedly anti-Israel group which

self-promotes as a human rights or­ ganization. As a coalition, groups under QPIRG’s umbrella must sub­ scribe to a unified stance dictated by QPIRG; in supporting gender advo­ cacy, you are also inadvertently pro­ moting Israeli Apartheid Week.

Regardless of your politics, it is .incumbent upon students to know what they are funding, and make cor­ respondingly conscious decisions.

Opting-out is a student’s right.

Marian Pinsky Sociology Master’s Student, Concordia University McGill B.A. Sociology, 2007

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C o m m e n ta ry Christian Scott Martone H o w T o G e t R id O f a C a m p u s G r o u p *23 1) Chose a group with an opt-outable funding system (these groups are usually “progressive”, e.g. QPIRG) 2) Coordinate a mass-flyer campaign with a catchy slogan like “save some money” detailing how to opt-out o f their fee.

3) Don’t provide any info about the organization (if you do, it must be misleading and/or exaggerating the “extremist” elements o f the or­ ganization.)

By the time you read this, QPIRG McGill has already lost a big chunk of funding thanks to the misleading and manipulative cam­ paign led by Conservative McGill and other groups. If you opted-out of QPIRG’s $3.75 per semester fee knowing what QPIRG does, then I can’t debate your decision (and your right to choose what student groups you fund). But if you didn’t know what QPIRG does, I invite you to visit the website (qpirgmcgill.org)

so that next year you can make an informed decision.

The funny (or sad) thing about the QPIRG Opt-Out Campaign is that the same arguments they use could be used against them. Not everyone agrees with Conservative McGill’s activities or ideals. They don’t represent "most” McGillians, and they are still receiving fund­ ing from our student fees. And you know what, dear reader? We don’t have the option to opt-out from Conservative McGill. If QPIRG is on the “extreme left” (according to Conservative McGill), then it would be logical to assume that they are on the “extreme right.” Both groups are equally non-representative of the student body.

Conservative McGill is not alone. Last week’s front cover of the Tribune showed a photo with the instructions of how to opt-out from QPIRG, not a very neutral action from an “objective” paper during such a sensitive “campaign.” But wait! The Tribune is known to be the conservative paper on campus, my bad! On that same issue, the ar­ ticle reporting on the “altercations” between the QPIRG Opt-Out Cam­ paign and QPIRG members and al­ lies was not accurate. I was there: Students were never obstructed from accessing Opt-Out’s table and the only thing we did was to talk,

one-on-one, with the people that had received a flyer from them—we were not giving flyers. The article doesn’t mention the intimidation we received from McGill Security, but that’s another story.

This is not a matter of money or ideology, but a matter of the diver­ sity of voices at our university. Even though I don’t agree with conserva­ tive ideals, I’m glad they’re around.

As Voltaire reportedly said: “I might not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” Sadly, Conservative McGill doesn’t think the same way.

Congratulations, Conservative McGill: your campaign successfully provided a false image of QPIRG, inciting students to opt-out en masse.

You have provided an excellent case study in manipulative campaigning.

I also congratulate the people that opted-out without knowing what our organization does: your ignorance has debilitated QPIRG, a very cre­ ative and active student organization on campus. I don’t know how saving $3.75 per term alone will make up for the lost conferences, student-research projects (some with stipends), Rad Frosh, movje screenings, urban gardening, environmentalist events, and so on.

Christian Scott Martone is a U3 Sociology and IDS student, Chris­ tian .scott@hotmail.com.

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Alison Bailey’s preface to the article on Kashmir (“Srinagar: Capi­ tal of Conflict in Kashmir,” Septem­ ber 21) is so blatantly biased in tone and composition that I am forced to wonder if the Tribune has any editors at all, or if their definition of “fair and balanced” coincides with that of a certain American news net­ work. That Srinagar is not even in Kashmir is indicative of the poor quality of research that went into this report. Yes, India has had to make painful choices in its administration of Kashmir, and some of them have been wrong, but to focus on those alone is to present a dangerously incomplete picture of a complex situation. In doing so, Bailey has done the Tribune’s readers a dis­ service and insulted the sentiments and sacrifices of millions of Indians, including many Kashmiris. Does the “majority” of Kashmiris include the countless Kashmiri Hindus (In­ dia’s first prime minister, Jawahar­ lal Nehru, was one) who have been forced to leave the valley in the face of Islamic terrorism and are refugees elsewhere in their own country?

That is, the ones who might have wanted to visit that Shiva temple in the first place? Or Kashmiri moder­ ate and reform Muslims (Salman Rushdie comes to mind) who find themselves unwelcome in Kashmir as it stands and are denied access to their own birthplace? The callous­ ness and insensitivity that has been

I was pleased to see the Tri­ bune report on the recently ap­ proved guidelines for the use of mobile computing and communica­ tions devices (MC2) in classrooms at McGill (“Guidelines proposed for laptop ban,” September 21). I would encourage interested students to consult the full document, available on the TLS home page (mcgill.ca/ tls). However, while the guidelines do clearly state that one option for instructors is to ban MC2 devices in their classes, the article neglects to mention the other two possibilities, namely that devices may be allowed under specified conditions or as long as they are not disruptive.

The APC Working Group on Guidelines for Acceptable Use of MC2 Devices was created in re­ sponse to instructor and student concerns about the sometimes inap­ propriate nature of the use of MC2 devices in classes and the resulting distraction for other students and the instructors. The Working Group, which included four professors and four students, was mandated to produce guidelines that would help

evident in the treatment of this con­ flict calls for a correction from the Tribune, if not an apology.

Srinagar is not the capital of this conflict—Islamabad is. Most states have an army; the Pakistani army has a state. It is an army that is contemptuous of democracy and civilian control and is fixated on India to the extent of refusing to reciprocate India’s “no first use” atomic weapons policy. Add to that the Inter-Services Intelligence—the Pakistani intelligence service that has been implicated in everything from the bombing at the Indian em­ bassy in Kabul to aiding the insur­ gency in Afghanistan—and one be­ gins to see why the situation is what it is and why Indians find it difficult to believe that Pakistan can actually be a preferred choice for all, if any, Kashmiris. If anyone imagines that Kashmiris will be able to preserve their traditionally heterodox culture as a part of Pakistan and be respect­ ed solely for being Muslim, they are deeply mistaken. Ask Bangladesh.

Again, India has not been per­ fect and there are shades of grey in this issue as in any other, but there is a democracy in India working to rectify the situation, and its aim is a country equal for every citizen regardless of faith and culture. One can’t say the same for Pakistan, or any Islamist puppet-state of it that Hurriyat might want to establish.

Manosij Majumdar U3 Chemical Engineering Ed. Note: According to the In­ dian Government’s website, Srina­ gar is the centrally located capital o f Jammu and Kashmir.

instructors create a climate of re­ spect and understanding in support of individual and collective posi­ tive classroom experiences. During the 2009-2010 year, the Working Group surveyed the McGill commu­ nity widely through a representative sample of 1,000 students and 300 instructors, compiled an inventory of best practices at peer institutions, and conducted a comprehensive lit­ erature review. This data informed the development of the McGill guidelines, which then benefited from input from relevant academic committees and individuals with pertinent administrative experience and specialized knowledge.

It is our hope that the guide­ lines will encourage discussion about appropriate teaching and learning environments at McGill, as such discussions can only benefit all concerned.

Laura Winer, PhD Chair, APC Working Group on Guidelines for Acceptable Use of MC2 Devices Associate Director, Teaching and Learning Services

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* tV \ e # Montreal was definitely “pop­ ping” Friday night as Place Des Arts filled for the highly anticipated Pop Montreal performance by The xx.

Opening with one of their most pop­ ular songs, “Crystalized,” the British pop phenomenon took to the stage with guns blazing. The show’s light­ ing and set were outstanding, add­ ing to the experience as they soon became just as much a part of the music as the notes being played. The overall stage presence was undeni­ able as the show flowed flawlessly from one song to the next. After touring for nearly two years, the group has developed a sense for their live performances—which though I

wouldn’t have believed it possibletake their songs to the next level.

Perfectly synchronized lights and sparring cymbals highlighted Jamie Smith’s mixed bassline beats and the sultry voices of bassist Oliver Sim and singer-guitarist Romy Madley Croft left the audience melting in their seats. The show’s two openers, Warpaint and Zola Jesus, both per­ formed with great intensity and high energy levels, setting the crowd up nicely for their headliner.

At one point, Sim made note of the group’s numerous Montreal appearances, starting out first play­ ing at Le National, then Metropolis, and now in front of 2,990 people at Place des Arts’s Wilfrid Pelletier

Hall. But there was still a sense of intimacy and connection between the performers and their vast audi­ ence-something often lost in big­ ger venues. The band’s high inten­ sity made for great audience vibes and had the entire crowd swaying in unison for crowd favourites like “Is­ lands” and “VCR.” The volume was perfect and the acoustics amplified their sound to perfection. Clearly identifying with this city and its mu­ sical hospitality, The xx have made their music known and appreciated in Montreal. As light fell to shadow with every alternate beat of the bass, I could have sworn I was transported to another universe.

—Bianca Van Bavel

t K e te m p e r The atmosphere in Le National this past Saturday was buzzing with anticipation as a crowd of teenagers and adults awaited the performance of the Australian-based indie rock quartet, the Temper Trap. After what seemed like an unreasonably long wait, the crowd became restless and began chanting for the band to take the stage.

Opening up with the fast-paced song, “Rest,” lead singer Dougy Mandagi managed to capture the im­ patient crowd (or at least the giddy girls who couldn’t stop shouting his

name). The setlist was nicely bal­ anced, allowing fans to dance one moment to the ‘80s pop hit “Fader” and then quickly slow down the tempo with ballads like “Fools.”

The show’s turning point came with the song “Down River,” where the crowd lost control, dancing and belt­ ing out the chorus almost louder than Mandagi himself.

Other highlights included the cute clap-along conducted to “Love Lost” and the song people were dying to hear, “Sweet Disposition.”

Overall, the band didn’t disappoint,

and the impressive lighting effects made each song all the more memo­ rable. As the set came to a close the audience was clearly eager to hear more. When the guys left the stage the crowd erupted into yet another chant, this time stomping their feet so hard the whole theatre seemed to shake. The encore rounded out the show’s beginning with a slow acous­ tic song, and the band finished on a high note with “Science of Fear.”

—Kathleen Masaki

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J^oJIefAcio Hollerado’s worked hard to get the recognition they’ve received in the Canadian music scene, but on Friday night the band showed that hard work can be fun. The fourpiece group from Manotick, Ontario played two Pop Montreal shows, the first at Cabaret Just for Laughs at 9 p.m. and the second at Le Divan Orange at midnight. In between, the boys held their annual Nacho House, ( Adam Scotti / M cGill Tribune )

a loft party for all their fans, com­ plete with live music and, of course, nachos.

Although the police made an unwelcome visit to the Nacho House, the Divan Orange show went off without a hitch, with favourites such as “Juliette” and “Got to Lose” getting the crowd hopping. Regular sprays of confetti flew at sweaty fans who sang along, while lead singer

Menno Versteeg showed everyone what a good rock band should be.

The highlight of the night might not have been the music though: Hollerado capped off their event-filled evening by having the audience paint their new tour van, supplying paint and brushes for drunk musiclovers. The result was a colourful mess on St. Laurent, and a great night for fans. —Laura Tindal

%\o\y “f u c k There may have been a mini­ monsoon Thursday night, but that didn’t stop droves of people from making the trek up Park Avenue to Espace Reunion for a 2 a.m. set from Toronto’s Holy Fuck.

Taking the stage clad in a “Poo Teens” t-shirt (talk about catering to a local audience), Brian Borcherdt and company played their brand of instrumental and experimental dance music to an energetic and ex­ cited crowd.

Songs like “Jungles,” “Red Lights,” and “Stilettos” showed Holy Fuck’s knack for layering sound and building intensity before

letting it dissipate only to start up again, keeping the venue on edge and filled with anticipation.

You can’t talk of a Holy Fuck show without mentioning that nei­ ther Borcherdt nor Graham Walsh use computers of any kind to make their music. Instead, they favour keyboards put through a multitude of guitar pedals. Watching the two of them go to work at their stations was like watching scientists in a lab, as they carefully manipulated every knob and pedal to create some of the most interesting sounds to ever come out of mini-Casios. It looked like a very involved process—Borcherdt

had to hold his microphone in his mouth a few times to keep both hands free, and the group requested more light on stage so they could better see what they were doing.

A minor complaint would be that “Lovely Allen” didn’t hit as hard as it usually does, but playing it mid-set was a welcome change from being the obvious set-closer.

When all was said and done, people appeared more disappointed that it was over than about having to head back out in to the rain.

—Ryan Taylor ( Holly Stewart / McGill Tribune)

You didn’t have to be familiar with Mahala Rai Banda—a Roma­ nian Gypsy band—to have found yourself dancing your head off at Cabaret Mile-End last Wednesday night. Literally meaning “noble band from the ghetto,” Mahala Rai Banda has managed to turn tradi­ tional gypsy music into a frenetic, multi-genre, club-hopping synergy that is undeniably entertaining to any discerning (or even non-discerning) listener.

The idea of Montreal’s Think About Life playing a free show at the tiny Le Divan Orange during Pop was a great idea. Except that the show was at 4 p.m. on a Saturday. So while the venue was packed for their late afternoon set, the things that make a Think About Life show so great—namely crowd and performer energy—were lacking, since most were busy nursing hangovers.

During their brief 30 minute

The band boasts at least 11 members—each of whom triple as musicians, singers, and dancers— playing an array of brass instru­ ments, furious violins, accordions, and stomping percussion in an effort to combine inventive arrangements with traditional elements no doubt unfamiliar to the average Canadian.

At once jazzy, bluesy, klezmer, club, and rock, these incredibly gifted mu­ sicians know how to put on a show, and were a welcome addition to the

slew of standard indie bands at the festival.

Though a far cry from the streets of Romania, Cabaret MileÈnd was the perfect venue to sit, drink, and most importantly dance in an intimate but sizable atmosphere.

Mahala Rai Banda is the rising band from the Balkans, and at Pop Mon­ treal, locals had the opportunity to get in on the wild party.

—Brahna SiegeIberg

danceable grooves, all Think About Life trademarks. Front man Martin Cesar was his usual engaging and charismatic self, asking the audi­ ence about their “single status” and questioning the sociological value of Nike. It was all good fun, but it didn’t live up to the legendary Think About Life shows of the past.

—Ryan Taylor

set, the band stuck to crowd favou­ rites from their sophomore effort Family (an album I will admit I was wrong about), including “Havin’ My Baby,” “Sweet Sixteen,” and “Set You On Fire,” the latter with an ex­ tended outre from guitarist Graham van Pelt based on the “Bed Intruder” Internet meme. They also played two new songs that would have fit in well among older material with soulful vocals, poppy synths, and

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VM Km W > Google Street View cars, mount­ ed with nine cameras, roam the earth recording whatever happens to ap­ pear before them, from tumbleweeds floating across deserted highways to Justin Bieber’s grandparents in the front yard of the pop star’s On­ tario home (earning Street View the apt nickname “Googlerazzi”). The Google cameras act as detached ob­ servers, providing glimpses of land­ scapes and life captured in passing.

Art45 exhibition Within Which All Things Exist and Move—the high­ light of Art Pop—brought together and juxtaposed artist Jon Rafman’s

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cK Google Street View images with documentary photographer Gabor Szilasi’s urban shots from the 1950 to the 1980s.

Fascinated by Google’s global archiving, Rafman selected Street View images which he thinks pose questions about the nature of the relationship between the individual and his or her environment. Raf­ man’s most poignant image pres­ ents the backside of a nude woman in Puglia, Italy, standing on rocks at the edge of the ocean and watching the tide come in. While the Street View cameras indifferently record

the woman, Rafman reasserts her individuality by selecting and fram­ ing the image. A particularly striking contrast was created between a black and white photograph of a group of Italian nuns in the 1950s and a Street View image of three women wear­ ing niqabs, their eyes deliberately blurred, on the streets of London.

Szilasi’s stunning historical photo­ graphs emphasize the intimate, voyeur-esque quality of Rafman’s im­ ages, which act as a window on the world by capturing daily life within the process of global surveillance.

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Listening to the sounds of indie darling Feist is always a treat, but Look at What the Light Did Now, a documentary portraying the artist’s journey as she recorded her Grammy-nominated album The Reminder, turned the audible into a visual treat as well. This year, Pop gave Montre­ alers the unique opportunity to see the world premiere of this beautiful film about the shockingly camerashy superstar.

Despite her clear musical

acumen, enormous fan base, and physical attractiveness, the former Broken Social Scene member has always been afraid of “the light,” and the film uses footage from in­ terviews, sold-out arena concerts, music video rehearsals, and intimate home-studio recording sessions to reveal the ways in which the artist has managed to stay in the spotlight without really being in the spotlight.

During performances, Feist has had shadow puppeteers drawing the fans’

gaze while she remained in shadow in the fore, and photographers have kept her hidden even on the cover of her albums. Look at What the Light Did Now reveals the importance of collaboration in producing- art, and the often blurred lines between art and life. Although Feist likens her­ self to a peacock—a scrawny bird made beautiful only by its colourful plumes—it’s clear that this song­ stress speaks for herself.

—Brahna Siegelberg

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The glitzy, gender-bending al'ter-ego of Toronto’s John O’Regan, Diamond Rings brought his ‘80s-inspired glam pop to Le Divan Orange Saturday afternoon as the not-so se­ cret guest.

With his kitschy costumes, cheesy dance moves, and dinky keyboard lines over the top of pro­ grammed beats, there’s a lot to not like about O’Regan’s performance.

But his ability to write a pop song

and his endearing performance stops his act from becoming a novelty.

Playing from his series of 7-inchess as well as his upcoming debut Special Affections, O’Regan commanded the stage, dividing his time equally between guitar and keyboard. Bookended by the Pitchfork-approved “Show Me Your Stuff’ and “All Yr Songs,” O’Regan’s set proved that simple is often better, and his straightforward

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Katie Moore is a Montrealbased songstress who needs nothing more than a guitar and her hauntingly beautiful voice to entrance an au­ dience. And at Le Cagibi on Friday night, that’s exactly what she did. As she performed some tunes from her 2007 solo album Only Thing Worse, including “It’s all Your Fault” and the poignant “Getting Older,” Moore guzzled beer and told off-colour jokes.

She performed a few songs with her long-time collaborator and

and accessible songs elicited enthu­ siastic responses from the crowd.

Though backed by a computer, his songs had a strangely human qual­ ity to them, and O’Regan performed with enough personality that it was clear he is sincere about his schtick.

Plus, it’s hard not to smile at lyrics like, “In the summer weather we’ll put on sunscreen together/ I would not want your skin to bum.”

—Ryan Taylor

friend, Warren Spicer, who lent his voice to a few moments of powerful harmony and added a pulsing elec­ tric guitar to the more energetic mel­ odies. Moore also accompanied Joe Grass, an experimental country-soul singer who performed before her in the night’s lineup.

Although Moore’s effortless vocals are often sought out to ac­ company other renowned artists.

She sang live with Feist at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics, supported Gonzales on his tour, and occasion­

ally sings with the bands Socalled and Yonder Hill. The singer more than stands her own ground, and the incredibly intimate nature of the venue made the subtle tones of her music that much more powerful.

With a sound reminiscent of both the dark tones of Stevie Nicks and the country flair of Dolly Parton, Katie Moore’s performance transports you from the bohemian streets of Mon­ treal to the backwoods of a bygone country past.

—Brahna Siegelberg

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By Theo Meyer Managing Editor In the opening minutes of The Social Network, David Fincher’s new film about the founding of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg’s girlfriend Erica (Rooney Mara) breaks up with him in a Cambridge bar. “You’re going to be successful and rich,” she tells him as she gets up to leave.

“But you’re going to go through life thinking that girls don’t like you be­ cause you’re a tech geek. And I want you to know, from the bottom of my heart, that that won’t be true. It’ll be because you’re an asshole.”

Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg) spends most of the rest of the film proving her right, selling out his only friends as he builds Facebook, a network paradoxically designed to help péople connect. After running back to his dorm room from the bar, Zuckerberg, Heineken in hand, vents his anger at Erica by creating a web­ site, facemash.com, on which users can rank the attractiveness of their female classmates.

The stunt crashes the univer­ sity’s network and lands Zuckerberg on academic probation, but it also attracts the attention of Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, a pair of tall, obnoxiously good-looking twins trying to develop a dating site called Harvard Connect. Recognizing the idea’s potential, Zuckerberg strings the twins along, pretending to work on their site while developing what he calls thefacebook.com.

Fincher often juxtaposes scenes to highlight Zuckerberg’s social awkwardness and inability to con­ nect with real people. On the night Zuckerberg and his friends launch facemash.com, Fincher quickly cuts between scenes of Zuckerberg writ­ ing algorithms on his dorm room window, with shots of girls dancing

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The entire film is set against the background of two civil suits brought against Zuckerberg several years after Facebook’s launch—one by the Winklevoss twins, who al­ lege Zuckerberg stole their idea, and Eduardo Saverin (Andrew Garfield), who co-founded the site with Zuck­ erberg. Fincher fluidly cuts between the Harvard scenes and the plaintiffs’ later depositions against Zuckerberg in a corporate boardroom, some­ times switching mid-sentence.

Eisenberg’s Zuckerberg is sul­ len and robotic, barely cracking a smile in the two-hour film. He is carelessly, almost casually cruel, even to Saverin, his only friend at Harvard, dismissing his acceptance into one of the finals clubs. Zuck­ erberg’s fantastic arrogance makes even his friendly gestures seem un­ feeling. When he lists Saverin as co­ founder and CFO on the prototype of thefacebook.com, Saverin tells Zuckerberg he has no idea what this will mean to his father. “Sure I do,” Zuckerberg deadpans.

Screenwriter Aaron Sorkin’s di­ alogue crackles throughout the film, with his fast-paced banter defining some of The Social Network's best scenes. The back-and-forth shines,

especially during a scene in which Sean Parker (Justin Timberlake), a co-founder of Napster, wakes up in the bed of a Stanford co-ed and tries to convince her that he is who he says he is.

For a complex film, The Social Network rarely stumbles. Fincher’s camerawork and Sorkin’s script (along with a Trent Reznor pulsating soundtrack), move the film along at a fast clip. Some the dialogue can feel a bit forced—such as when Parker tells Zuckerberg to drop the “the” and call the site Facebook—but this is a minor quibble.

The more pressing concern for audiences may be how much of the movie is true. The film is based on The Accidental Billionaires, a book about Facebook’s founding whose author, Ben Mezrich, did not inter­ view Zuckerberg. Mezrich based much of his book on interviews with Saverin, who, perhaps not coinci­ dentally, comes across as the closest thing to a hero in Fincher’s film.

The Social Network, however, is not a documentary. As a work of fiction, the film succeeds brilliantly, merging the dialogue of Sorkin’s The West Wing with the events that made Mark Zuckerberg the world’s youngest billionaire and forever changed how we socialize.

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Maroon 5: Hands All Over Maroon 5’s third album, Hands All Over, is a revamped ver­ sion of their typical sound. With bold guitar riffs, distinct vocals, and a crossover into a medley of genres, this bittersweet funk album is typical Maroon 5 with a few un­ expected, but excellent, twists.

The opening track and single “Misery” is a winner, with a synco­ pated walking bass line and funky percussive guitar riff that uses rhythmic and poppy hooks to draw in listeners. Second single “Give A Little More” is equally catchy and boasts Adam Levine’s distinct fal­ setto. “Stutter” is a power pop bal­ lad that combines passionate lyrics with cheeky big band type chords.

The band’s collaboration with country group Lady Antebellum on “Out of Goodbyes” adds a senti­ mental dimension to the album that meshes Levine’s voice with Lady Antebellum’s western twang.

The one problem is the the­ matic nature of the album that follows the male perspective in a dying relationship, a far cry from the more positive content of previ­ ous releases.

Hands All Over offers a couple great tracks, but the rest of the 12 songs are unmemorable. They aren’t bad, they’re just not filled with the passion and fun we’ve come to expect and love from Ma­ roon 5.

-Lauren Pires

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By Alex Shiri Contributor When walking into a romantic comedy, there is a basic narrative you can expect: boy meets pretty girl, a bunch of stuff in between, and the eventual union of the two. Life As We Know It, however, doesn’t follow this classic romantic comedy formula Holly (Katherine Heigl) is an up-tight single girl consumed with her bakery/catering business, who is set up on a blind date with Eric Messer (Josh Duhamel), a sports

John Legend & The Roots: Wake Up It’s hard to believe that an album covering 35-year-old soul songs could generate so much hype, but with John Legend and the Roots, it’s hard not to take notice. The songs discuss war (frequently mak­ ing a connection between Vietnam and Iraq), poverty, violence, and so­ cial justice. But the sound has been revisited using modem production techniques.

The songs vary in quality.

“Wake Up Everybody” is an en­ ergetic duet between John Legend and Melanie Fiona. “Compared To What” is funky, but it lacks the frustration of the original. “I Can’t Write Left Handed” is a tragic song, but is sung with too much self-in­ dulgence.

The fundamental problem with this album—and all cover albums in general— is that you inevitably have to compare the new version with the original. This sets a high standard for John Legend & The Roots, which is a shame when you consider that they probably didn’t intend to one-up the original performers, but to interpret the music in their own style. Loyal Motown enthusiasts may not warm up to the idea of a Marvin Gaye song being remade and re-mastered, regardless of the talent involved, but for the rest of us, more John Leg­ end is a good thing. And teaming up with the Roots makes Legend even better. Together they have an album that is well produced and a good les­ son in civics.

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network director. The date does not get very far after Duhamel’s charac­ ter introduces himself as “Messer,” and upon entering Holly’s Smart car, the two decide that their friends were completely wrong to set them up.

The movie proceeds happily as their mutual friends get married and have a baby girl named Sophie.

The parents name Messer and Holly as Sophie’s godparents, setting up the main plot of the movie. When Sophie’s parents die in a tragic car accident, Holly and Messer are left with the task of raising a newborn baby, turning their happy-go-lucky

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single lives into what is essentially being married with a kid.

This is where the movie starts to get interesting. Although the conclu­ sion of the film is very predictable, Life As We Know It had me guessing just how these two characters, who pretty much despised each other from the first scene of the movie, would end up together in the end and live happily ever after.

Initially, the two are definitely unready to raise Sophie. As Messer explains in one scene, “I always wear the condom, but somehow, I ended up with a baby.” Hilarity en-

sues, including a lot of mushy and smelly things that end up on Holly’s face.

The film is a rollercoaster of happy, sad, and funny, but Heigl handles the role quite well. We have seen her dramatic chops on Grey’s Anatomy, and she has definitely proven that she can carry a comedy as well (with films like Knocked Up and several other rom-coms). I wasn’t so sure about Duhamel on the other hand whose last film, When in Rome, was pretty terrible, and a complete flop at the box office. It turns out the two have pretty good

chemistry, and from early on in the movie, you really want them to end up together.

The secondary characters who find their way into Holly and Mess­ er’s lives add much of the film’s hi­ larious moments. The neighbors on their street (including Melissa Mc­ Carthy) bring a lot of laughs, as does preteen babysitter Amy. Life We Know It was a very enjoyable romantic comedy, and be­ lieve it or not, you cannot predict the in-between details that make this hi­ larious and sentimental flick sure to be a box office success.

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Contributor Until recently, I’ve always lived with girls. If I decided to play Miley Cyrus on repeat for weeks on end, or buy a vanilla scented candle, it was never a problem. But things change when you live with a member of the opposite sex, which I’ve discov­ ered by acquiring a well-dressed, well-groomed European boy as my roommate this semester. The most important thing to say about my new roommate is that he has really, really good-looking friends. He also, for whatever reason, rarely leaves the house, leaving me with very little time in my natural habitat. He spends his days relaxing, and his nights con­ gregating with his gorgeous posse in shared territory, which turns my apartment into a Eurotrash Esquire magazine headquarters. Two months of living with him has thoroughly modified the looks and content of my apartment, room by room.

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boys as girls. It’s infuriating. Having a boy in your kitchen is a constant reminder of all the things girls can’t do in fear of morbid obesity, like eat a pizza as a snack or drink Gatorade instead of water. Suddenly my fridge—which previously contained a carrot, cheap white wine, and a tub of margarine—is filled to the brim with meat products and beer that’s at least 85 cents more expensive than the type I usually buy. Jerk.

Moreover, for reasons I can’t really explain, I am too ashamed to eat my feelings in front of my new roommate. When I have the urge, I now have to go to my neighbour’s house to eat a tub of peanut butter with a spoon.

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Our apartment is configured so that people have to walk through my room to get to the kitchen. It’s unfortunate, but it’s cheap. How­ ever, this means that my bedroom is public domain to French and Ger­

The bathroom

What used to be a washroom facility is now a stronghold of ob­ jects masterfully hidden from the male gender. Age-old feminine se­ crets like the fact that girls poop, use tampons, and occasionally have weird facial hair can’t be tastefully tucked aside, and are instead now iron-bolted in an opaque container underneath a floorboard.

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By Matt Essert their jeans than I do on my rent. The News Editor sacrifices I’ve made are probably for my own benefit, but embarrassing Last year a girl I didn’t know nonetheless. Long gone are the days | moved in with me and my two other of hanging around in the flowery male roommates. It was weird. But sweaters my mom made for me when during that semester, no matter how I was a fat fifth grader. I’ve even had much I fought it, my living style to purchase a fair amount of lace [ changed, sometimes for the better, underwear just to surface-cover my but mostly to the lamer. But, besides good old Fruit of the Looms while certain aspects of my life changing, doing laundry.

I noticed a few things that surprised me about living with a member of As you can see, my current liv­ the fairer sex. ing situation has caused a fair amount of trouble in my day-to-day life. But The bathroom let’s be honest, when my roommate No matter what anyone tells brings his friends over to pre-drink you, girls are definitely messier in and walk around shirtless (because j the bathroom than guys. This re­ that’s what hot people do), and when ally shouldn’t come as any surprise they insist on kissing both cheeks after seeing how long it takes girls to instead greeting me with a hug or a get ready for class or, God forbid, a hand shake (because that’s what hot night out. I guess I had originally as­ European people do), I know all the sumed that girls take 30 seconds to trouble is worth it. apply makeup and then stand in the bathroom, not doing anything for the other 59 minutes and 30 seconds. I finally figured out that girls take so long to get ready because of all the products they apply everywhere on their bodies. Lotions, perfumes, po­ tions, soaps, pads, dabs, appliances, colours, and unidentifiable contain­ ers with Chinese writing were al­ ways abundant in our bathroom.

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playing video games for three hours at a time. When it’s just me and mes chiens, I had no qualms pwning noobs. But with a girl around, it became slightly embarrassing.

Also, my television watching had to change. Either I felt compelled to watch more manly things, or when I did watch Say Yes to The Dress, I had to act like I didn’t love it (but come on, it’s a great show). Our pre-drinking situation also became way less manly because it turns out that hanging out without my shirt on while pounding PBRs before going put is not very attractive.

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Maybe it was just my personal experience, but I have found that girls cook differently than guys.

Girls are very into heating things up or cooking one small thing, and then leaving the dirty dishes next to the sink for five days. On the other hand, when I cook, I am using the whole kitchen and usually at least two or three burners. It can get messy, but I will clean up after dinner. Again, this could just be my experience, but every girl’s kitchen I’ve seen has al­ most been messy, and the leftovers are gross. Sorry, ladies.

There were a few big changes in our living room when the girl moved in. First, I felt extra nerdy

Obviously, there are differenc­ es when living with a lover rather than just some girl you know-, but I can tell you this: althoiigh chicks are awesome, living with dudes is sometimes just a lot easier.

boggling societal value. So far, neither has been especially helpful.

Every time I’ve received a prelimi­ nary screening call from a prospec­ tive employer, I’ve been unable to stop myself from fantasizing about what Successful Me would look like 10 years down the road, after I’ve moved all the way up the com­ pany/organization/Quizno’s ladder through a combination of savage intelligence and knee-weakening charm, much like a half-Asian Don Draper. I’m fully aware that this is a counterproductive attitude to have as a recent grad without any real world experience, and eventually I’m sure that some combination of credit card debt, self-loathing, and a fast-drying reservoir of parental sympathy will catalyze a shift in my behaviour.

Actually, I do have the begin­ nings of a plan. I’m currently taking a certification program that will allow me to teach English to non-native speakers in strange, far-off lands.

Having grown up in a strange, far-off land myself, I’m not anticipating too many problems adjusting, although I am a little worried that overly warm temperatures will severely hinder my ability to wear a suit and fedora once I rise to the top of my future language school. Thinking about it now though, I could definitely see myself leaning against a palm tree, lost in thought, gazing into a tropical sunset as I contemplate the follow­ up to my Pulitzer-winning literary debut. I think that would make for a great photo on the inside of my book’s dust jacket.

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By Kailan Leung Contributor Every morning I walk down­ stairs to the kitchen and make coffee.

At what point my days began to ne­ cessitate a hot injection of caffeine, I can’t be sure, but what I do know is that the ritualized act of pouring Starbucks Kitamu into a filter and hitting a switch satisfies two of my most important recent-graduate needs: starting every day with a pur­ pose, and trying my damn hardest to feel like a grown-up.

Of course, I am not a grown­ up, and making coffee is usually the most productive thing I do in a day.

But it helps sustain the illusion of a vibrant, worthwhile existence. Most of the time.

When I graduated from McGill in the spring, many of my friends asked me what I planned to do if I wasn’t going to graduate school.

The majority of conversations went like this: Friend: “What are you going to do with your lack of experience and English degree?”

Me, full of confidence and irony: “Probably end up working at Quizno’s!”

Friend, nervously: “Ha, ha, ha!”

I would kill for a job at Quiz­ no’s. Well, not really, but making sandwiches is much more lucrative than sitting at home playing guitar, checking Facebook, and deciding whether the photograph that will end up on the back of my bestselling first

novel should be in colour or black and white. Sure, if I worked four days a week waiting tables, I could have time to enjoy all of the above while still making enough cash to pay rent, but when you factor in the return of 30 Rock and It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.... Well, a man has to prioritize.

But I don’t want to sell myself short. I recently scored an unpaid in­ ternship at a well-known media out­ let, and on my days off, I sell fruit at various farmers’ markets around Toronto. Take that, English Lit. de­ gree.

Having been out of school for five months, the two most important things I took away from my time at McGill were a love of poutine and a very clear picture of my mind-

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Steve Smythe Please answer the following ques­ tions truthfully. Provide verifiers for specific activities.

Describe a situation when your actions had a positive influ­ ence on others.

I’m sorry, people who will de­ cide my future, but 1 did not find a cure for malaria, nor have I traveled to Africa and saved a village from starvation. I did not go to Machu Picchu to help excavate it, nor did I teach English or the general val­ ues of life to impoverished children in India. I am not the Dalai Lama’s North American youth ambassador, nor have I raised millions of dollars for Leonardo DiCaprio’s tree-saving charity. I did, however, give a girl the best lay of her life last night.

By the sounds of it, I influenced her very, very positively that evening.

Verifier: Suzie? No, Sam ... Ser­ ena?

Are you a “ big picture per­ son” or are you more prone to

detail? Give an example that illus­ trates your orientation.

This is one of those questions where there is no right answer, right?

Asking me whether I see the big pic­ ture or scrutinize over minute details is like asking whether I’d prefer walking on the right or the left side of the street. You’re just looking for a skillfully bullshitted answer. On the left side, I may benefit from some cool shade on a bright day and might even avoid a pothole or two. Con­ versely, taking the right hand route would definitely save me some time, and time is money, right? No. You know what? Maybe I am gifted with a broad perspective and at the same time have a knack for precision. So I should walk down the middle of the street? No. I get it now! I have been brought up to avoid generalizations and not be fussy over what’s on my plate, so I won’t walk at all.

Verifier: My friend Hans Leutermann who, if you call, will tell you that I will be an amazing doctor/ lawyer/whatever position this appli­ cation is for.

Describe a situation in which you were in “ over your head” and how you dealt with it.

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At the same time?

Describe a situation when you went above and beyond and gave 110 per cent. Reflect on your rea­ sons for doing so.

My incredible stamina and solid work ethic shone like a laser beam the night my Science Carnival team fought for the winning title against the arch nemesis team Pocahumpus. Earlier that night, tired and hungover, I thought I wouldn’t be able to make the final event as I was tempo­ rarily impeded, projectile vomiting in an alley near Brutopia. My team­ mates suggested I go home and rest, as unfortunately I was clearly physi­ cally incapable of performing any kind of action which didn’t involve puking Chicken McNuggets. How­ ever, the final event was a lightning round of bros icing bros and with­ out my lack of gag reflex, I knew that my team would suffer. After an hour of belligerent crawling, I ar­ rived at the event like a phoenix out of the ashes, except covered in its own urine. I secured our gold-medal status, and we celebrated like kings before I had to be hospitalized due to alcohol poisoning. This is a clear indication of my resilience, and how I will go above and beyond to fulfill my destiny.

Verifier: Hobo up the street from Brutopia, Crescent Street.

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A computer worm is a type of virus which spreads itself from machine to machine, with the sole purpose of reproducing. One of the most famous examples of this is the SQL Slammer worm, which man­ aged to bring the Internet to a halt in early 2002. While a worm itself might not be malicious, they often carry a “payload,” another piece of malware which contains the mali­

cious code that reproduces with the worm. Typically worms, trojans, and other malware have targeted home and business computers. While many are harmless—and sometimes even playful—the worst can result in computer crashes, lost data, or stolen personal information.

Don’t turn off your com­ puter just yet. Stuxnet isn’t inter­ ested in stealing credit cards; it’s potentially much more dangerous.

Stuxnet targets machines used in industrial processes, like those in nuclear reactors and manufacturing plants, allowing the virus writers to reprogram these systems. Stuxnet conceals itself by hiding changes from plant operators.

Stuxnet duplicates itself through intranet connections—lo­ cal networks and portable storage devices—by exploiting four previ­ ously unnoticed security holes in the Windows operating system. Worms usually exploit only one hole, saving the others for future attacks. Upon infection, Stuxnet investigates the

host machine, looking for Siemens software used in industrial ma­ chines. Stuxnet then takes control of the computers, thereby controlling industrial processes. The virus is capable of reprogramming the pro­ grammable logic control device of the computer—the core of an indus­ trial machine.

Upon hijacking a machine, Stuxnet reports back to a central server for further instructions. Be­ sides attacking unusual targets, Stuxnet also includes many features not often seen in malware: digital signing, multiple programming lan­ guages, knowledge of industrial pro­ cesses, and use of multiple zero-day exploits.

The worm has spread quickly in Iran, where an estimated 60 per cent of computers are in­ fected. Elsewhere in the world, the worm is less widespread, suggest­ ing that the initial infection started in Iran. Experts have hypothesized that the attackers are targeting the country in an attempt to sabotage

its nuclear reactors. The virus was likely created by a team of hackers and took years to create. This level of dedication and sophistication in creating malware has never been seen before and suggests that the folks behind the virus have serious intentions (they also probably had insiders and experts on their side).

Security experts say there is little chance of catching those behind Stuxnet, who did a good job cover­ ing their tracks.

While you shouldn’t be worried about your laptop getting a case of Stuxnet, the implications of industrial process monitoring machinery being hijacked and con­ trolled by criminals are unthink­ able. The methods the virus uses to spread, target, and control its victims are unprecedented and may be in­ dicative of a new kind of terrorism: cyber-terrorism.

There are currently 441 nu­ clear reactors worldwide. If we assume that terrorists are able to control a quarter of these using in­

dustrial-targeting viruses, and they are capable of disabling tempera­ ture monitoring of the plants, ter­ rorists could theoretically trigger 110 nuclear reactor meltdowns. If we assume statistics similar to the Chernobyl nuclear reactor disas­ ter, each of these meltdowns could lead to more than 200,000 deaths in the long-term. These conserva­ tive estimates lead to a death toll of 20 million people worldwide as a result of the Stuxnet-enabled attack. A more widely targeted attack, or some bad meltdowns could easily inflate the death toll to 40 million or more. For pur­ poses of comparison, if the larg­ est nuclear bomb ever produced, the Tsar Bomba, were dropped on the most densely populated city in the world, Mumbai, the result would likely be less than a million deaths. Let’s hope that this is a trend that can soon be stopped. If not, it could lead to scenarios much more serious than the Y2K bug.

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By Sam Hunter Sports Editor In a sloppy game drenched by some of the nastiest rain Montreal has seen in years, the Carleton Ra­ vens’ varsity lacrosse team managed to out-hustle the Redmen, 10-8.

The win solidified Carleton’s place atop the Canadian Univer­ sity Field Lacrosse Association East while it knocked the Redmen down to third.

“First place isn’t out of reach yet, but we’ve got a lot of work to do,” said McGill captain Mike Ting.

Eight-year veteran Rajinder Wasson led Carleton’s slipping-andsliding charge with five goals. Was­ son wasn’t overly quick or strong, but he read the defence expertly and appeared in the right places at the right times. Wasson leads the CUFLA in scoring with 21 goals and 27 total points.

Noah Miller led McGill’s pffence with a hat trick, Ryan Besse chipped in with two goals, and Mike Ting, Jishan Sharpies and Nolan Prinzen scored one apiece.

The weather ‘ affected the level of play on both sides. Players dropped the ball, and had trouble scooping it from the wet ground.

“It seems like every time we play them we get torrential down­ pours,” said Mike Ting.

The sloppy play frustrated both teams. Unfortunately, the referees punished the Redmen strictly. The Redmen were penalized eleven times, while the Ravens were penal­ ized twice.

“We didn’t get the best offici­ ating,” said Ting, “But there’s no

excuse, we’ve got to come out and compete.”

The weather made things dif­ ficult for both goaltenders. The first few goals were off of soft shots, which wouldn’t have found their way in without visibility issues or a rain-slicked ball.

After the first quarter, both McGill’s Guy Fox and Carleton’s James Drake adjusted, making spec­ tacular saves to keep the game com­ petitive.

“Carleton’s a lot better team than they have been in years past,” said Ting. “They have a lot of new guys coming in, a lot of old guys but we were definitely geared up for the game. It’s a tough one to swallow, this loss.”

Although Head Coach Mur­ doch spoke highly of the Ravens, he was also hard on his team.

“This is a team on the rise and we’ve been keeping an eye on them,” he said. “I think we’re pretty equally matched but, unfortunately, we didn’t play particularly well in many facets of our game tonight, so that’s why we lost.”

“Our offence just was kind of sputtering and our defensive mid­ fielders were giving up too many goals to their midfielders,” he added.

Murdoch wasn’t completely gloomy. He singled out some of his own players for their efforts.

“Jishan Sharpies, I don’t know how many goals he had, but boy, he was really our spark plug,” he said.

The Redmen play next on Octo­ ber 3rd at Queen’s and their chance for revenge against Carleton is on October 16.

As playoffs start, Tribune sports staff looks into crystal ball Leaves are changing colours, the air is crisp, and the days are get­ ting shorter-At must be time for the MLB playoffs. Only fools would bet on baseball in October, but we’ll take a stab at predicting it.

A.L. Divisional Series Rays vs. Rangers—The Texas Rangers (90-72) are one of only three teams tthat have never made it to the World Series. Cliff Lee leads a strong pitching rotation of C.J Wilson, Tommy Hunter and Colby Lewis, but he’s the only one with significant playoff experience.

The Rays’ David Price, Matt Garza, James Shields, Wade Davis and Jeff Niemann form arguably the deep­ est pitching staff in the post-season.

Rangers MVP candidate Josh Ham­ ilton looks to return to a potent line­ up that includes Vladimir Guerrero and Michael Young. Evan Longoria is looking to return and help a strug­ gling Rays batting lineup that is led by Carl Crawford. Ultimately, whoever is healthier should win this matchup. While the Rangers are ex­ cited to return to the playoffs, the Rays’ great pitching depth, excellent defence and ability to manufacture runs will result in a hard fought win.

Tampa Bay in 5.

Yankees vs. Twins—The Min­ nesota Twins had an incredible stretch in August and September but will be missing Canadian slugger Justin Momeau for this series. The injury leaves the Minnesota offence with little depth behind last year’s MVP Joe M^uer. Delmon Young, Jim Thome, and Michael Cuddyer

need to step up if the Twins are to compete with the Bronx Bombers.

Twins ace, Francisco Liriano, leads an unproven rotation of Carl Pavano, Kevin Slowey, and Scott Baker.

They might have trouble against New York’s lineup, which is easily the best in baseball. Though the Yan­ kees’ pitching rotation looks very shaky behind Cy Young frontrunner C.C. Sabathia (21-7,3.18 ERA), the Mariano Rivera-led bullpen should be able to hold enough leads to beat the Twins despite not having home field advantage. New York in 4.

—Walker Kitchens

they limped into the playoffs, going 14-16 over their final 30 games.

Against playoff pitching their hitting might not be consistent enough to win. Unfortunately for the Braves, the Giants have two legit aces at the front of their rotation. If pitching wins championships, Tim Lincecum and Matt Cain could take the Giants far. But which Giants will hit Tommy Hanson and Tim Hudson? Their best hitter is a rookie catcher who’s never played this far into a season. Don’t forget about the Hinske effect: utili­ ty man Eric Hinske is in the playoffs for the fourth straight year with a fourth different team. The past three won the pennant. Braves in 5.

N.L. Divisional Series —Gabe Pulver

Phillies vs. Reds—The Phil­ lies are absolutely the team to beat.

Roy Halladay’s finally pitching in the playoffs, but he’s already logged 250 innings this season. Can his arm hold up? The whole team could get tired; no regular is under 30 years old. With a suspect bullpen after Brad Lidge, and the wicked Cincin­ nati lineup featuring the terrifying duo of Jay Bruce and Joey Votto, late-inning drama is guaranteed in this classic pitching-hitting match­ up. Cincy has the best offence in the N.L., and if anyone can get to the Phillies aces, it’s them. Plus, their playoff rotation of Edinson VolquezBronson Arroyo-Johnny Cueto fin­ ished the season strong, and could keep them in every game. Still, Phil­ lies in 4.

Braves vs. Giants—The Braves won’t go down easily in Bobby Cox’s last season, although

The Big Picture The Yankees and Rays should hook up in the ALCS. The series will be tight but Joe Maddon’s rota­ tion will be enough to get the Rays to their second World Series.

On the Senior Circuit, the Phil­ lies and Braves will lock horns in the NLCS. Roy Halladay, Cole Hamels and Roy Oswalt should neutral­ ize Jason Heyward and the upstart Braves to secure the Phillies’ third straight pennant.

In a rematch of the 2008 World Series, the Phillies and Rays will give us a duel for the ages. Two out­ standing pitching staffs will go up against two high-powered offences.

Something’s got to give. Look for these more mature Rays to avenge their loss from two years ago and win their first-ever World Series.

—Adam Sadinsky

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Redmen continue to blaze through regular season With 44-0 victory over Sherbrooke, team has outscored opponents 143-16 in four games

By Rebecca Babcock____________ Contributor The McGill Redmen rugby team conquered Sherbrooke Univer­ sity on Sunday afternoon in a 44-0 victory. Despite a very slow first half, the Sherbrooke defence began to tire and the Redmen (4-0) turned on their game in the second to suc­ cessfully shut out Sherbrooke’s of­ fence and score six tries in their fourth straight victory of the season.

With a number of knock-on’s and penalties in the first half, the Redmen were hardly in control. But with 12 minutes to go, Gideon Balloch scored a kick to open the scor­ ing. Three minutes later, the Red­ men built on their lead as Joshua

Blair scored the first try of the game with Balloch making the conver­ sion. In the last few minutes of the first half, Liam Brown broke from Sherbrooke’s defence with a beauti­ ful long run to end the half at a score of 15-0.

The second half began much better, as scrum half Joshua Reznick scored the third try of the game in the first three minutes. With Balloch in the sin bin for a high tackle, Bren­ dan O’Sullivan converted and made a penalty kick a few minutes in to extend the lead to 25-0.

Ten minutes later, Cameron Perrin received the ball on the wing after some spectacular, precise pass­ ing by the backs and outran the fad­ ing Sherbrooke defence to score the

fourth try. It was his first game with the team after he was called up from the Club A team, and he made a big impression. Balloch made the twopoint conversion to make the score 32-0 for McGill.

“There is a great team atmo­ sphere [here] and I really enjoy playing with this team,” he said. “It is great to have this opportunity to show what I can do.”

After his try, Sherbrooke at­ tempted two kicks in an effort to get on the scoreboard, but failed as one fell short and one went wide.

Eight minutes later, Collin Gallacher scored McGill’s fifth try.

With only a few minutes left in the game, there was a knock-on

by Sherbrooke near their end and

McGill got the ball. Because of McGill’s continuous rucking and mauling and Sherbrooke’s mistakes, fullback Mathieu Sidoti got the ball out on the wing, easily broke away from the defence, and scored the final try of the game. O’Sullivan made the conversion to close out the scoring.

“It was a tough game for the first 30 minutes and I was really im­ pressed with Sherbrooke’s defence, but then it seemed that our fitness got the upper hand as they fatigued,” said Head Coach Craig Beemer. “It looks like we will be facing Sher­ brooke in the first round of playoffs so it’s good to see such a decisive win... It was also great that we got the younger players into the game

and gave them a significant amount of time to play, and a lot of them proved themselves.”

Fullback Joshua Balloch was more cautious, describing the team as a work in progress.

“We played OK, but we’re al­ ways hoping to do better,” he said.

“Our season isn’t very long so we have to get practice and get used to ... being on the same page in respect to strategy and tactics.”

The Redmen will face thirdplace Bishop’s this Friday in Lennoxville. Their next home game and final game before the QSSF playoffs is on October 24th at 1 p.m. at Molson Stadium against second-place Concordia (2-1).

MCCIU TMBUNI1 5 A S T 6 R N coNFaRgNce ATLANTIC blVlSlO» Pittsburgh Penguins: The Penguins are looking to bounce back after a disap­ pointing loss to the Canadiens in last year’s playoffs. Once again, their forwards look incredible. Sid­ ney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin are two of the best play­ ers in the NHL and Jordan Staal is an emerging star. With a defence improved by the additions of Paul Martin and Zbynek Michalek, the Penguins should the best team in the Atlantic Division.

New Jersey Devils: Year in, year out, the Devils are one of the best teams in the NHL, and 2010-2011 will be no different. Ilya Kovalchuk, one of the best snipers in the league, is return­ ing to play with forwards Zach Parise, Patrik Ellias, and Travis Zajak. They’ll combine to challenge Pittsburgh’s triple threat. With 38-year-old Hall of Fame lock Martin Brodeur returning, the Devils are looking to make one last

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Philadelphia Flyers: After a surprise run to the Stanley Cup final, the Flyers are looking to build on their post-season success.

Another season with coach Peter Laviolette behind the bench should result in a strong regular season.

While Michael Leighton is a shaky goalie, the forwards led by Mike Richards and the defence headed by Chris Pronger should make the Flyers one of the best teams in the Eastern Conference.

New York Rangers: The Rangers are looking to sneak into the playoffs after barely missing out last season. Marian Gaborik had an incredible 42-goal first year in New York and is looking to build on that success. However, no sig­ nificant off-season moves were made on a team that lacks

depth up front and on the blue line. While Henrik Lundqvist is one of the best goalies in the game, the lack of tal­ ent in front of him will likely result in another post-season outside the playoffs.

New York Islanders: Once again, the Islanders are a mess. Still in recovery mode from the ridiculous contract handed out to av­ erage, and oft-injured goalie Rick DiPietro, the Islanders have no shot at making the playoffs. While there are signs that John Tavares will have a breakout sophomore season, that is about the only thing they can be excited about. With little depth anywhere, the Islanders are a lock to finish last in the Atlantic Division and near the bottom of the Eastern Conference.

—Walker Kitchens

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Boston Bruins: All five teams in the division have a puncher’s chance at the play­ offs, but only two have a chance to win it. The Bruins are extremely deep, and if Tuuka Rask is only half the goalie he was as a rookie, their talent will make up the difference. They lost Marc Savard to injury, but they’re not going to miss him thanks to new additions Nathan Horton and Tyler Seguin.

Buffalo Sabres: This is a team on the rise. With the best goalie in the world, Ryan Miller, and 20-year old defensive superman Tyler Myers, as well as decent production from all four forward lines and leadership from the defence, Buffalo will finish near the top of the division and the middle of the conference for years to come. Their goal this season will be making up for last season’s embarrassing first-round playoff exit.

Ottawa Senators: This year the Sens Up come down to a question of age. Captain Daniel Alfredsson has managed to take some modestly talented teams to great places, including—mi­ raculously—to the playoffs last year, but he’s not getting any younger. Alfredsson, Alex Kovalev, and Sergei Gon­ char are all over 36, and some of the young guys under 25 like Nick Foligno and Milan Michalek are almost fantas­ tic, but maybe a year away. No number one goalie and a patchwork D means the team could finish anywhere in the East from 5th to 15th.

Montreal Canadiens: There’s a lot of optimism in Montreal this year because of the team’s surprising Eastern Conference final ap­ pearance last season, but this may be unwarranted. They finished the playoffs 9-10, and the reason they won those nine games, Jaroslav Halak, went west to St. Louis. They’ll

get scoring from Mike Cammaleri, but no one else. May the Lord guide Carey Price and P.K. Subban through the waters of tremendous expectations. Seriously, who gets booed in the pre-season?

Toronto Maple Leafs: Captain Dion Phaneuf and Coach Ron Wilson said the play­ offs is their goal, but they’ll be secretly happy to finish 10th. They’re deeper than you think, though.

New faces Colby Armstrong and Kris Versteeg are the penalty-killing grinders the team sorely needed, and they will both pot about 20 goals this year. They’ll make teams work hard for wins, but end up on the wrong side of most of them. If their defence bounces back from last year and Jonas Gustavsson continues his development, perhaps an eighth seed isn’t out of the question.

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Washington Capitals: Last season’s / c a p iiB ils' Presidents’ Trophy winners are anxious to play after an early post-season exit brought about by Montreal goaltender Jaroslav Halak. The Stan­ ley Cup favourites were sent packing in Round 1, while Halak’s hot hand hoisted the Habs high. This year’s Caps are equally intimidating up front, and all signs point to another blockbuster season for mega-star Alex Ovechkin, who will be busy scoring 100+ points and admiring his reflection on Coach Bruce Boudreau’s shiny bald head.

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Tampa Bay Lightning: The Bolts had an active summer, re-signing marquee forward Martin St-Louis and snatching snip­ er Simon Gagne from Philadelphia. Victor Hedman, the top draft choice of 2009, spent last season working un­ dercover as a pylon but is set to emerge this year as a top defensive defenceman. Add to the mix Steven Stamkos, for whom the experts are predicting another stellar season,

and dramatic improvement and a playoff berth are in store for the team.

Carolina Hurricanes: Lacking seri­ ous depth, the Hurricanes do not have much going for them heading into this season, yet that is still good enough to take bronze in the “south-least” division. Key veteran, Ray Whitney, has departed and the Canes are banking on inexperienced youngsters to power the team’s offence. The only variable here is goalie Cam Ward, whose past play shows potential to steal more than just a game or two, if he stays healthy.

Florida Panthers: It’s easy to dismiss the Florida Panthers as a lacklustre and in­ consequential team, probably because they fit that description quite well. The Cats had an unreward­ ing off-season, most notably shipping top forward Nathan Horton to Boston for a pair of draft picks. The only likely

time we will see life at the Bank Atlantic Center is when Canadian snowbirds pack the place to cheer on their re­ spective teams.

Atlanta Thrashers: This past Febru­ ary the Thrashers sent Ilya Kovalchuck, face of the franchise for eight of its 11 years of existence, to New Jersey. Even in Kovalchuck’s heyday, the Thrashers were hardly competitive, but now it is safe to presume a real free fall in the standings. In fact, even the chronically ignored Florida Panthers have a better shot at a Stanley Cup. Heck, even the Boston Red Sox have a better chance of winning a Stanley Cup. —Jacob Kanter

m NHL PREVIEW WESTERN CONFERENCE Detroit Red Wings: The Red Wings managed to tread water for the first three quar­ ters of last season while dealing with a ridic­ ulous rash of injuries. After getting some of their guys back they finished the season 13-1-2 and snagged the fifth seed. With a full season from Dan Cleary, Homer, and the Mule, and solid play from second-year goalie Jimmy Howard there’s no reason this team won’t take its division back. i|K§llr

Chicago Blackhawks: The Blackhawks had two distinct off-seasons. First, they celebrated bringing the Stanley Cup back to the Windy City for the first time in 50 years, then, just as suddenly as Patrick Kane’s weak wrister ended their Cup drought, the front office was scrambling to dig the team out of the depths of self-inflicted cap hell. After being forced to trade away nine players from the Cup-winning team, the

boys in white won’t have last year’s vaunted depth this time around.

5k Nashville Predators: Somehow the Preds keep making it to the playoffs, and then losing.to the eventual Cup champions in six games. This year, the woefully underappreciated Shea Weber will continue to lock down the blue-line and destroy nets with the power of his slap shot. If Pekka Rinne controls the crease like he should, then this season should be another playoffs—and another quick exit.

St. Louis Blues: Two years ago this was a young team oozing with potential. Last year they finished ninth, missed out on the playoffs, and failed to develop their young players. The addition of Montreal playoff hero Jaroslav Halak will be nice, but shouldn’t make a huge difference in the standings, since former

goalie Chris Mason was already pretty good. Improve­ ment has to come from within for the Blues to move up this season.

Columbus Blue Jackets: The club’s most important off-season addition won’t be on the ice this year, he’ll be behind the bench. Scott Amiel coached the Manitoba Moose of the AHL last year and should be ready to make the jump to the NHL. Outside of that hire, there’s uncertainty: third-year goalie, Steve Mason, has to prove that his terrible performance last sea­ son was a fluke, and Nikita Filatov has to show that he can not only score but (maybe) back-check every once in a while.

—Sam Hunter

»0t£THWeST bMSlO/0 Vancouver Canucks: The reigning division champions are expected to win now.

They were the second-most dangerous offen­ sive team in the league last season and have a strong core to lean on, namely Hart and Art Ross champion Henrik Sedin, his twin Daniel, and franchise goaltender Roberto Luongo. Still, the team must stay healthy on the blue-line and the revamped third line must contribute in order to reach those lofty-expectations.

Calgary Flames: The Flames proved last year that having the fifth-ranked defence alone does not secure a playoff berth. The team desperately needs scoring, and judging by GM Sut­ ter’s acquisitions, he believes his core of veterans will have bounce-back campaigns. If they do, there’s no rea­ son to believe that the Flames can’t be playoff contenders

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Colorado Avalanche: Last sea­ s o n , Colorado surprised the hockey world "by sneaking into the playoffs with a very young, unproven team. Any potential success this season will depend on the hope that the kids will continue to perform and hope that goaltender Craig Anderson will continue to steal games. If not, the team will have a long off-season next year. jfgg--'.

Minnesota Wild: The Wild really suffered from the departure of coach Jacques ™ Lemaire last season. While the team played a more uptempo style than Lemaire’s stifling system, they fared no better offensively (the same 2.61 goals per game) than the year before and left goaltender Nicklas

Backstrom in the headlights way too often. With no highend scoring threat on the team, the Wild have to focus on defensive strengths to stay afloat in the division.

Edmonton Oilers: Much like the Avalanche last season, this is a team in full rebuild mode. Highly-touted rookies Taylor Hall, Jordan Eberle, and Magnus Paajarvi-Svensson may bring pandemonium to.Rexall Place occasionally, but this is a team with too many shortcomings to get out of the basement; namely the worst defence in the league and horrific goaltending. The lone potential bright spot lies in the possible rewards the next draft brings.

—John Hui

PAC\¥\C bMSlOH Los Angeles Kings: Their furious pur­ suit of Ilya Kovalchuk made the Kings one of the top stories of the off-season. LA fans should be excited about their home team even with Ilya on the East Coast. Anze Kopitar had the breakout year everyone was waiting for last season, and Drew Doughty proved that he was ready for the big time. Making the playoffs brought hockey back to Hollywood and the Kings have the firepower to go further this year.

Phoenix Coyotes: Mired in rumours of relocation, the Coyotes didn’t let the dark clouds over Arizona get to them and made it to game seven in the first round of the playoffs in 2010.

Dave Tippett won the Jack Adams award by getting the most out of his players, and that should continue this year. Ray Whitney will join the resurgent Wojtek Wolski on the first line and if Ilya Bryzgalov stands tall the ‘Yotes should pick up where they left off.

Anaheim Ducks: When Scott NieSan Jose Sharks: Todd McLellan’s dermayer retired in the off-season, the wily Sharks want to get rid of their “underachiev­ veteran signaled the end of an era in Orange ers” moniker and get into the Stanley Cup Final. San Jose let long-time netminder Evgeni Nabokov ■County. Four years removed from their first Stanley Cup walk in the off-season and replaced him with cup-win­ triumph, the formerly stout Anaheim defence is a shad­ ning goalie Antti Niemi. Names like Thornton, Heatley, ow of its former self. A long-term deal for Bobby Ryan and Boyle will make sure that the Sharks excel until ensured that team’s forward core of Ryan, Corey Perry, and Ryan Getzlaf will stay together but they will have a April, but they still need to prove they can do it in June.

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Dallas Stars: The Stars lost the soul of their team in 20-year veteran Mike Modano (to Detroit), starting backstop Marty Turco (to Chicago) and unsung hero Jere Lehtinen (to free agency). The cupboard has gone bare, as the Stars don’t have much veteran depth past Brenden Mor­ row and Brad Richards. Loui Eriksson, James Neal, and Jamie Benn are the Stars of the future but Dallas will need a serious rebuild to get back to where it once was.

—Adam Sadinsky

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Redmen break losing streak, Martlets continue cruising UQAM Citadins swept in Friday night double-header; outscored 4-1 by desperate Redmen, Martlets

By Haruki Nakagawa Contributor The McGill Redmen avoided losing their third game in a row with a hard fought 2-1 victory over the Université du Québec à Montréal on a chilly Friday night. The match was more a war of attrition than a dem­ onstration of good soccer, but Head Coach David Simon was uncon­ cerned with style points after losing two straight games.

“It’s a very important win,” said Simon. “I told the boys beforehand that the win was the most important thing and I’m pleased that today, un­ like our last couple of games, they fought for the win.”

McGill (4-3-0) was shocked by a UQAM counter-attack in the 24th minute to fall behind 1-0, despite a clear advantage in territory. UQAM split McGill’s central defence with ease to set up the shot, a crisp strike that left goalkeeper Jean-Lou Gosse­ lin with no chance.

The Redmen responded imme­ diately, continuing to keep UQAM in their own half. They were reward­ ed just seven minutes later when de­ fender Graeme Tingay scored off a comer.

The second half saw lone striker Sebastian Munro replaced by the duo of Kings and Banks, which seemed

to give the Redmen a spark. Munro struggled to stay out of trouble with the referees, but worked hard to un­ settle the UQAM defence.

“Sebastian played well,” said coach Simon, “he was always press­ ing UQAM. He had a yellow card and did a couple of fouls after that, so we decided to give him a rest. He is my starting striker.”

Munro was isolated for much of the game but his replacements.

Banks and King, profited from each other’s company up front and looked dangerous in the second half.

It was not a substitute, however, but a more familiar face who scored the winner for McGill. Yohann Capolungo brought a cross under in­ stant control and bounced his finish

into the UQAM net to give the Red­ men a permanent lead.

The Redmen owned the closing minutes of the match, with scoring chances for both King and Banks.

It wasn’t pretty, but the Redmen earned themselves a vital win.

The Redmen play next on Oc­ tober 17 against UQTR.

Martlets plod on The McGill Martlets soccer team continued their excellent sea­ son with a 2-0 win over the visiting Université du Québec à Montréal, earning their sixth win in eight tries.

McGill (6-0-2) looked like the superior team, but the game entered halftime in a scoreless deadlock. The winner came soon after the break.

however. Hannah Rivkin, who had just missed with a spectacular volley in the first half, found some space at the edge of the box after a neat in­ terplay with Simmons. A beautiful lobbed shot was just out of the reach of the UQAM goalie and gave the Martlets a well-deserved lead. Han­ nah Simmons put the icing on the cake with a goal in injury time of the second half.

McGill’s technical superiority was clear from the opening whistle.

UQAM struggled to deal with the neat midfield play of potent duo Ginger Jefferies and Laura BlandLasso. Chances were few and far between though, as UQAM looked to set out their stall and keep from conceding.

“This is what teams do when they come to play at McGill,” said Head Coach Marc Mounicot. “They set up at the back, they have some­ times nine or 10 players behind the ball and us we have to be patient and we know that we will have chanc­ es.”

UQAM’s defensive outlook nearly paid off in the opening ex­ changes. A moment of defensive confusion gave UQAM a good op­ portunity, but the shot was nicely saved by McGill goalkeeper Valerie Labbé. Despite remaining a spectator for much of the match, she snuffed out any brief chance that UQAM generated and was in full command of her penalty area.

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Vert et Or aerial attack dooms Redmen Redmen can’t earn win, score touchdown Saturday for Homecoming crowd, fall to 0-5

By Mari Mesri Contributor At the annual McGill Home­ coming, the Redmen failed to im­ press the alumni with a 34-8 loss to the Sherbrooke Vert et Or. The match was televised live by CBC and was attended by over 1500 fans, many of whom were sporting McGill gear.

Almost every pass made early in the game by Vert et Or quarterback Jean-Phillipe Shoiry went to Simon Charbonneau-Campeau, who set a school record with 223 yards on nine receptions. However, the Vert et Or missed their first field goal, resulting in a rouge and only a 1-0 lead.

Though they were outshone, McGill’s distinguished wide receiv­ ers, Charles-Antoine Sinotte and Justene Edwards, were impressive in their own rights. Edwards, a fresh­ man, has 267 yards over 16 recep­ tions thus far this season. However, despite opportunities, the Redmen passing attack failed to score.

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ed the game. With two minutes left in the first quarter, CharbonneauCampeau caught a 78-yard pass from Shoiry for the game’s first touchdown. William Dion, the Vert et Or’s punter, converted the extra point and Sherbrooke advanced to the second quarter with an 8-0 lead.

Sherbrooke widened their lead at the start of the second quarter with two field goals by Dion. Undeterred by the scoring difference, the Red­ men defensive line solidified. Se­ nior defenders Patrick Bourgon and Ben Thompson broke up plays and slowed down the Vert et Or attack.

Freshman linebacker Jesse Briggs completed crucial sacks, inhibiting the Sherbrooke offense. Junior de­ fensive back, Matthew Quigley, also performed well. Though he’s been on the roster for three years, this season is his first on the field and off the DL. Kicker Austin Anderson put McGill on the scoreboard with a field goal.

With five minutes left in the second quarter, Shoiry went down

due with an injury, bringing in back­ up James Goulet. The Vert et Or re­ sponded with an 83-yard punt return touchdown from Raphael Gagné.

The second quarter concluded with Sherbrooke leading 24-3.

“We were a little flat coming out and we got down early and just couldn’t crawl back” said a disap­ pointed defensive end Ben Thomp­ son.

The Redmen couldn’t make up the difference in the third quarter. Ju­ nior running back Taylor Kuprowski was efficient rushing throughout the game but was not able to find a path to the end zone. He registered 89 yards on 12 carries with four recep­ tions for 47 yards. Despite Kuprows­ ki’s solid efforts the offence was un­ able to get to the end zone. “We can drive the ball, but once we get inside the 30 we stall as an offence” said quarterback Ryne Bondy.

The Vert et Or even contained star kick returner JT Thompson, though he showed flashes of bril­ liance.

Early in the fourth quarter,

Sherbrooke’s backup quarterback, James Goulet registered the team’s third touchdown of the game. Gou­ let’s stellar performance insured that there no decline in the Vert et Or passing game after Shoiry’s exit.

The Vert et Or scored a final point with an attempted field goal that resulted in a rouge before the match concluded with the score 34-8. As the players exited the field, the alumni continued celebrating with undampered spirit, despite the lopsided loss.

Although the score doesn’t show it, the McGill defence per­ formed respectably. However, Sher-

booke’s big, early lead rendered their efforts moot.

“If there is one thing to take away, it’s that Sherbrooke made more big plays than we did,” said former star player and Defensive Back Assistant Coach Anthony Lukca. “That was the determining factor in this game. Sherbrooke came out and made the plays, caught the balls, made the interceptions ... and it ended up killing us in the end.”

McGill (0-5) will travel to Concordia next Saturday hoping to avenge their 34-29 loss on Septem­ ber 17.