The McGill Tribune Vol. 8 Issue 1 by The Tribune

Wednesday September 7,1988

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W e d n e s d a y , S e p te m b e r 7 •One week today! The McGill Volunteer Bureau presents its Fall Volunteer Symposium in the Union Ballroom. Sept. 1 4 , 9:15 am to 4:15 pm. Turn up and feel needed. •Rock/Blues jam session at Station 10,2071 Ste. Catherine W. FREE.All welcom e to perform. •SPLASHBACK presents... COMEDY FEST. 9 :00 pm in Leacock 132 . Featuring Dr. Bertice Berry, Jeff Rothpan, and Ernie Butler. Tickets $3 at the door. •The Tiny Tim Fund Beerathon takes place at Pub Stanley II from 4 :00 pm until closing. Part o f the Tiny Tim Charity Blitz presented by McGill Engineering’s Plumbers Philharmonic Orchestra. •McGILL NIGHTLINE RE-OPENS! Call for information or just to chat, Monday through Friday, 9 pm to 3 am, 398 - 6 2 4 6 . Students talking

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•McGill Sexual Assault Centre needs volunteers to answer phones. W e train all those who are interested. Please call: 9 34-4504

•McGill Choral Society has its first meeting at 7:30 in C 304 Music Building. Come amateurs one and all and join in the fun.

•Shuffle Demons, 8 :30 pm Union Ballroom. $3 •Comedy Night, 9 pm in Leacock 132 . A ll part o f the fun o f W elcome Week. Tickets at Sadie’s, $ 3 .

F r id a y , S e p te m b e r 9 •Street Dance, 9 pm Top o f University Street.

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S a tu rd a y , S e p te m b e r 10 •Raise Cash Car Bash! From 2 to 5 pm in front o f the Macdonald Engineering Building. For more info call EUS office 398-4396 •Conference on Latin America. Le Caf’tiers, 4837 Parc Av. 270-5336 •McGill W omen’s Union meeting. A ll welcome. Room 4 2 5 , Union Building. 398-6823 for more info. •Used course books - buy and sell. Bronfman Building Lobby, Monday to Friday, 12 to 6 .

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E x e c u t iv e by Tribune News Staff While most students worked or travelled with scarcely a thought of McGill this summer, the 1988/89 Students’ Society Executive was being initiated into the realm of Uni versity student politics. Each execu tive has organized his or her portfo lio, continuing the work from last year’s team, as well as implementing some new programs. The President “Summer is really a time of learn ing and networking in an interesting atmosphere”, saidNancy Côté, Presi dent of the Students’ Society of McGill University (SSMU). In June, Côté attended the Univer sity Presidents’ Conference at Carleton. Graduate and undergraduate presidents from across Canada dis cussed the prospect of a federal elec tion occurring during the school year. They examined methods of getting students’ views and concerns across to the general public and to political leaders. In Québec, Côté hopes to improve the relationship between McGill and the other Universities in the province, especially the three in Montréal. “When the federal election is called,” she explained,’’the most effective method for student views to be heard.

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is to band together with the other Montréal Universities.” McGill’s negotiations with the city in regards to the proposed athletic facil ity continued over the summer. A committee was formed to examine what kind of structure would best meet both the city’s and the university’s needs and guidelines. Côté said that the only real complication remaining is the fact that McGill will have to renew its referendum question because it states that if construction does not begin by June, 1989, the money collected will have to be used for reconstructing the present facilities. “It is really just a problem of time,” stated Côté. “Both the city and McGill will benefit from a new facility.” More public hearings will be held in the fall. A, SSMU and the Post Graduate Stu dents’ Society (PGSS) have continued negotiations during the summer break, this after PGSS’ attempt to separate from the Students’ Society last year. “The negotiations arecontinuing,” said Côté. “Some very constructive and friendly discussions have occurred this summer.” As for the rest of the year, increasing student involvement is Côté’s major concern. She hopes to increase the visi bility of Students’ Society in a number a ways: A radio show on CKUT- Radio

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McGill, wider distribution of a news letter informing students about the decisions being made, and meetings with the student councillors and repre sentatives from the residences arejust a few. Côté’s personal interest is com municating with the faculties and so cieties. “I hope to meet with their rep resentatives in the fall and let them know what our plans are and get them involved,” she said. “Communication is the key.” External Issues such as underfunding, the athletics facility, loans and bursaries and communication with other Québec universities have crossed VP External, Mark Cameron’s mind more than once in the past four months. McGill’s relative level of underfunding continues to plague both McGill’s Administration and the SSMU. “The University recently made a new proposal to the government, in which they have outlined a new for mula for funding,” explained Cameron. The new proposal bases funding on a student’s course of study. This would mean that students in engi neering and medicine, would receive a greater amount of funding, given that it costs more to educate an engineer or a doctor than it does to educate a sociolo gist or political scientist.

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“The External Affairs Committee is deciding whether or not it can support the new proposal,” said Cameron, “And we are talking to other universities to see what they think about it.” With regards to plans for the year, the VP External is very concerned with the cutbacks in native students’ education. Cameron intends to spend time with international student issues as well. “They pay the highest inter national students’ fees in the coun try”, he explained. On the municipal scene, Cameron is working with the city because “there is talk of closing McTavish to traffic and incorporating it into the campus.” SSMU is working with almost all other student unions in Québec to create an organization “which would buy computers in bulk and then sell them to students at a cheap price”, said Cameron. “Right now we are talking to the Provincial Government to set up a loan program so that students could get loans to buy the computers”, he stated. Cameron hopes that the buy ing program will be set up by the end of October, with the loans program in continued pagelO

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by Kate Morisset A misunderstanding has evolved be tween the McGill Legal Aid Clinic and the Students’ Society of McGill Uni versity (SSMU). In May, Legal Aid was informed of a recommendation made by the Joint Management Committee (JMC) to cut their budget in half, an amount equiva lent to the salary of two Directors. As four Directors had already been hired in February, the Directors of the Clinic lobbied intensively, and eventu ally JMC saw that full funding ought to be provided for 1988/89. “JMC recommended three things in regards to Legal Aid; That there be only two Directors; That funding be sought from outside groups such as the gov ernment, the Faculty of Law the Law Students’ Association; And that their mandate be changed, limiting the Clinic to McGill students only”, ex plained Maria Battaglia, SSMU VP University Affairs. "The Legal Aid Clinic is unique”, said Annette Lefebvre one of the four Legal Aid Directors,’’Any change in its mandate would threaten its existence.” “We specialize in student issues”, continued page 10

Students to pay more for photocopies by Mariam Bouchoutrouch As of September 1st the charge per photocopy in the McGill libraries will be raised to seven cents for debit card users and ten cents in change. “The part that upset us most was that

M c G i l l e m b r o il e d in e m b e z z l e m e n t While Students were plodding through summerjobs, summer courses or Europe, McGill campus was em broiled in an embezzlement scam. The full-time secretary of the McGill university Association of Non-Academic Staff Association (MUNASA) had, for the three and a quarteryears she worked there, ending February 1988, embezzeled “ on the order of $15,000,” according to Irene MacArthur, President of MUNASA. MacArthur didn’t release the name of the perpetrator to the Tribune be cause “We didn’t go to the police at all; we made aprivate deal, so you can’tuse her name.” The woman paid back most of the money to the Association; the association did not press charges le gally. According to MacArthur, an “indirect “ result of this scam was the dissolution of all MUNASA executive committee members and the calling of an election for September 30, four months early. MacArthur claimed that continued page 10

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we found out indirectly”, commented Maria Battaglia, Vice-president Uni versity Affairs. In response the Stu dents’ Society is calling for letters of protest from Faculty Association Presidents and will be meeting with Dr. Eric Ormsby, Director of Libraries, this week to discuss the actual costs.’! don’t think something like this can be done by consensus”, Ormsby said. “We worked out the arithmetic and this is what we came up with.” Ormsby categorized the costs of run ning the photocopy machines, allotting a certain percent for each. Service contracts accounted for twenty-one per cent of the budget. Salaries for library workers were second, twenty per cent. According to Ormsby workers were polled to see howmuchtimeeach spent servicing the machines. Replacement and maintenance, supplies, distribu tion of debit cards, and buying books were allotted between seven and six teen per cent. Another concern of Students’ Soci ety is the amount of profit. Students are already paying a $3.33 per credit fee to pay for materials. According to Ormsby, the libraries do not receive any of this money.

“You could say there is a profit but it goes into buying books”, commented Ormsby, emphasizing the need for books in order to photocopy. The coin operated machines generally cost more to maintain because they are easier to tamper with. According to Ormsby he would just assume replace all coin operated machines but that would not be fair to students who do nothappen to have a card. McGill has the lowest photocopying fees in Montréal. Concordia and Uni versity of Montreal charge ten cents each and University of Québec at Montréal charges fifteen cents. Ormsby stated that the increase might discourage non-McGill users. Battaglia expressed doubt that the li braries will change their minds about the charge but suggested some alterna tives, including selling photocopied material at a set price and setting up copying machines in the Union build ing for bulk copying. Students who have unused debit cards from last year will incur an unus able balance and may contact the Di rector of Libraries for compensation. “I’m sorry students are so unhappy about this”, said Ormsby.

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SURVIVING THE SMASH by Kim Farley A little shattered glass can’t stand in the way of true enthusiasm. After a van accidently backed through R.V.C.’s courtyard window just hours before the annual dance was to begin last Thursday night, Welcome Week offi cials faced a test of resourcefulness... and passed. Determined never to cancel an evening’s events during Splashback week, these irrepresible souls decided to move the whole extravaganza over to the Union Ballroom. This entailed reaching Assistant VP of Physical Resources Sam Kingdon, who was in Québec City, so that he could author ize the transfer of the liquour license, finding a student council member who

could grant an Emergency Quorum (Leslie Copeland did the honours), and convincing the porters to let swarms of beer guzzling kids into their spotless ballroom. With this accomplished, Ray Satterthwaite, the co-chairman of Wel come Week, rode around campus in the infamous van shouting to anyone and everyone that the dance had moved. Flexible people were obviously listen ing, because the Ballroom was packed and overflowing by 9:30. During the course of the evening, an R.V.C. resident won a $100 gift certifi cate from Le Chateau just for recount ing the accident to the crowd. Because the dance is apopular tradi tion, R.V.C. will probably host a re prise sometime next week. No vans allowed. page 3

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S u c cess, o th erw ise know n as victory o v er potential failure, is a slippery prize. E veryon e w ants it, m any are w illin g to w ork for it till they co lla p se, and a lu ck y few have it dropped in their laps, all w rapped up and tied w ith a b ow . I f y o u d o n ’t fall into that irritating last group, life at M c G ill w ill be a constant ch allen ge, filled w ith great o p portunities to d ev elo p y o u rself as you navigate the rivers o f high er ed u cation - and try to step around its puddles. O f cou rse there w ill be tim es you trip and fall in, but d o n ’t let a little m ud throw you off. It’s worth it to g et up, ch an ge clo th es, and start back to w ork on th ose rivers. L u ck ily, ev ery b od y has a talent. If y o u ’v e d iscovered yours, it can pull you through the rocky p eriod s, (by the to en ails i f it m u s t ) , and g iv e you the co n fid en ce you need to su cceed in university. If you still have no idea w here you r sp ecia l area lies, but you ju st sen se that you are an a m azin gly gifted ind ividu al, be patient and try as m any different things as you can here at M c G ill.( start by jo in in g so m e writer-hungry n ew spaper or som eth in g...w as that subtle??) E v en tu a lly , you r talent w ill ju st hit you. It m ay h ave to w h ack you a co u p le tim es to get you to n o tice it, but be fo rg iv in g . S o m ed ay it w ill save you r ass. D o n ’t m isunderstand, talent is v ery rarely all it takes. Hard w ork is T a len t’s m od e o f transportation w hen y o u ’re trying to g et o v er to S u c c e ss’s h ou se for the b ig party. W hether y o u c h o o se to d rive the m op ed or the M ercedes w ill m ake all the d ifferen ce. T he sta ff o f the M cG ill T ribune w ou ld lik e to w ish you a year o f e x p en siv e cars and rainboots. In other w ords, a year o f su ccess. W ith a little en th u siasm and a lot o f c a f fe in e, y o u ’ll be m ak ing oyster stew out o f the w orld in no tim e-

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C a l l it , B r ia n ! S ep tem ber 4th has c o m e and gon e. A n d so have four years o f Brian M u lro n ey ’s P rogressive C on servative G overn m ent. N o w , Brian M u lron ey has a duty to call an electio n and g iv e C anadians the ch a n ce to d ecid e on the m o st important q u estion the nation has ev er faced: F ree Trade. T he T ories recen tly p assed the Free Trade B ill through the H o u se o f C om m on s w ith the m a ssiv e m ajority g iv en to them four years a g o w h en the P C ’s sw ep t into p o w er on a w a v e o f bitterness and an o v erw h elm in g d esire for ch an ge. G ranted, the T ories cam p aign ed on the n eed for a clo ser trading relationsh ip w ith the U .S . and so C anadians sh ould not be to o surprised at the current situation. B u t Free Trade is som eth in g w h ich tears at the v ery fabric o f the C anadian identity. A s so m e see it, b eing C anadian is not A m erican , and this arrangem ent co u ld bring us in very c lo s e and c o z y w ith the Y an k ees. On the other hand, w e m igh t w ant to fa c e up to the fact that w e already d o m ost o f our b u sin ess w ith our n eig h bours d ow n south. Supporters o f the agreem ent say noth in g in it threatens our ec o n o m ic , p o litica l or cultural sovereign ty. M any Q uebeck ers support the plan, reasonin g that c lo se ties w ith the U .S . is n oth in g but g o o d b usin ess. Perhaps Q u eb eck ers fe e l m ore secure b eca u se their culture is m ore ea sily d efin ed w h en stacked up against the rest o f Canada or the U .S . o f A . W hatever the drive o f Free Trade pushers, there are a lso p lenty o f p eo p le w h o v eh em en tly o p p o se g lu in g the ties that bind. S u rveys, fo r w h at th e y ’re w orth, say Canadians are fairly split on the issu e. S o m e p o liticia n s have been cu riou sly fick le on the w h o le question. A n electio n w ou ld clear the air, at least. C all it, Brian!

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by Kate Morisset The Reagan Administration has re ceived an abundance of criticism over the past seven years, muchof whichhas been aimed directly at the President. Rap Master Ronnie, Players’ Theatre’s first production of the season, is a sa tirical look at the Reagan Era. Each scene is based on Reagan quotes such as “I would have voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964”, and “ I am a lazy fellow. I work to a certain point, but beyond that point, I say to hell with it.” Ed Caissie and Maggie De Filleau, who play the First Couple, present a realistic and humorous view of press conferences, speeches and other events in the White House. The five member “Company” makes up the rest of the cast. Russ Justason, Howard Kane, Teresa Leclair, Patricia Place and Louis Taillefer give solid perform ances and bring life to dry criticism. The authors, Elizabeth Swados and Garry Trudeau (of Doonesbury fame) intended to present an opposition which “raises hell artfully enough”, as they explain in their introductory note. Rap Master Ronnie provides for some chuckles, but it falls short of “raising hell”. The energy and enthusi asm present in the cast is not carried through to the audience. Perhaps this shortfall is due to Trudeau’s and Swados’ attempt to incorporate Reagan’s views on women, the home less, Star Wars, the military, gays and lesbians, minorities and other issues,

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Ron (Ed Caissie) and Nancy (Maggie de Filleau) acting like world leaders. into an hour and a half show. The over abundance of issues does not allow for depth or insight, and thus the audience is left feeling empty. Luckily, the play has wonderful music to alleviate the void. The songs themselves are upbeat and alive, and the cast, especially Teresa LeClair and Louis Taillefer, make each individual scene enjoyable. When Rap Master Ronnie is looked at in its entirety, however, it seems choppy and compressed. Trudeau and Swados have indeed presented an “opposition”, yet it lacks fire. Because the script tries to deal with so many

issues, it neglects to probe any one of them deeply. In an age where we need social awareness, it seems a shame that they did not limit the issues in order to adequately cover each one. Rap Master Ronnie may not be the most inspiring play you will sec, but it is well worth the admission charge just to see the McGill talent. Rap Master Ronnie runs until Sep tember 17th, Tuesday through Satur day at 8pm. Admission: $4 students and seniors, $8 general public. For information and reservations: 3986813

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Roaming the deep centrefield of your heart by Mike Crawley Stealing Home isn’t really a base ball movie. The baseball scenes are few, far between, and rathercliché for anyone who considers himself or her self a devoted fan of the sport. And it really isn’t a serious film, as the ad vertisements would indicate. Yet it also isn’t really an all-out comedy or a syrupy love story. So the question remains, what is Stealing Home? It’s a good show, actually. It is also Jodie Foster’s latest chance to shine in a film as she plays the kind of character that dominates the screen, not because of intensity or because of her role in the plot, but because of her alluring personality. Yajust gotta love her. She plays Katie Chandler, a character who makes you regret that you weren’t as crazy as she is during the teenage years. Katie re sembles Foster’s character Frannie in The Hotel New Hampshire, full of impetuosity, non-comformity, and a compelling desire to be free of the world’s tedium. Foster pulls off the role with ease, convincing the audi ence that it is indeed possible to live life on the edge and survive, at least for a while. This is where Bill Wyatt (Mark Harmon) enters the big picture. He is living life in the dumps, with no edges in sight, when a phone call from his mother informs him that Katie killed herself. (Life on the edge was perhaps too demanding.) The story unravels in two major flashbacks, as Billy re turns home. We see Bill and Katie’s

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relationship develop from the days when she was his babysitter and he was a baseball-mad ten year-old, to a turning point in his life, the ‘fateful summer of his sixteenth year.’ Here enters the major fault with this movie: normality. One would expect that in a film with a character as offthe-wall as Katie Chandler, the plot itself would be a little crazier. But instead Billy experiences the old ‘everything - that - happens - to - every - teenage - boy - in - every - Holly wood - movie - ever - contemplated’ shopping list of adventures. And it all happens over one weekend, in that ‘fateful summer of his sixteenth year. ’ It makes for aconcise course of events but not for enjoyable viewing. Such is the paradox in Stealing Home. The most believable seg ments, and by far the most entertaining, are the bizarre scenes, such as a 38 yearold Bill climbing through his best friend’s parents’ bedroom window at 3:00AM to retrieve a high school baseball uniform. Reality is in the eye of the beholder. This is all tied together in a nice, neatly bundled moral to the story. Katie convinces Billy to play baseball again by helping him conquer a nag ging doubt about his ability, perpe trated by a simple incident. The movie conveys in a concisely unpretentious manner that the world is always bound to doubt you for whatever petty rea sons, so you had better believe in

We are the Shuffle Demons We’re here to do some screamin’. The Tribune spared absolutely no expense to send this reporter to Saint John, N.B. to catch the Demons at one of their most recent engagements, a gig called Festival by the SeaJSur Mer (alias Festival in the Fog). This is one of those hip scenes where the bands jam in the street and in local shopping malls so anybody who wants to can catch the act for free. Similar to the Montreal International Jazz Festival, except they don’t sell cold beer, cause, well, you see, this is New Brunswick. Now the Shuffle Demons were not exactly one of the hottest acts in Saint John, a city that tends more to the Whitney Houston and Kenny Rogers style of muzak. So, when the Demons hit town. Saint Johners were not ready. They thought Spadina Bus was some new type of venereal disease. But when the boys brought out the horns and got down, even the old age pesioners got into the groove. So soon enough, the inhabitants of the “Greatest Little City in the East” started to say things like “Out of my house, roach” upon meeting one an other in the grocery stores. The De mons were a smashing smash. Now you too can catch the dudes right here in your own backyard, just in case you weren’t around Saint John in mid-August. Compliments of the McGill Programming Network and

d ir e c t io n Splash Back Welcome Week, the Shuffle Demons hit the Union Ball room (that’s the third floor, kids) this Thursday (i.e. tomorrow) at 9pm.

User's Guide to the Shuffle Demons: Q. Are these guys really devil wor shippers? A. Contrary to what the name may imply, they are actually a band of three saxophones, a bass guitar and a drum set. Oh, and five guys, too. Q. Am I fulfilling CRTC Canadian content requirements by seeing these gentlemen? A. Definitely. They hail from that Toronto place, but four of them were bom in the Maritimes so that’s okay. Q. Do they deal with the socially conscious issues of the 1980s? A. Absolutely., What with songs with names like The Puker, East Berlin Rap, and Demon Reggae, one can tell that they read the New York Times every day. Q. Is it true that the Shuffle Demons are dull and have no sense of humour? A. If you can listen to them play the theme from Hockey Night in Canada and not crack a smile, then you're the one with no sense of humour. Q. How do I get tickets? A. Just cough up a paltry $3.00 at Sadie’s Tabagie in either the Union Building or the McConnell Engineer ing Office. Get ‘em while they’re hot, folks, cause the Shuffle Demons tend to draw a cool crowd.

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What Controversy? by Paul Michell The controversy surrounding Mar tin Scorsese’s latest film, The Last Temptation of Christ is, by now, well known; ragged bands of placard-toting fundamentalist zealots have been pick eting theatres across North America and raising anti-Jewish sentiment (some of the top studio executives are Jewish.) Unfortunately, the film itself has been deluged under the wave of protest, and the issues of the larger debate have all but obscured the artistic message. The Last Temptation of Christ is neither blasphemous nor very good. There have been many cinematic de pictions of the Gospels over the years, most of them epics such as The Great est Story Ever Told and The Ten Com mandments which use the Bible almost verbatim. Director Scorsese, hailed for his excellent work in Taxi Driver, Raging Bull andAfter Hours, has based his interpretation of the life of Christ upon Nikos Kazantzakis’ book, a fic tional exploration of the duality of Jesus - human and divine. Kazantzakis’, best known for his Zorba the Greek, explores the human side of Christ in a very emotional ex amination of his own beliefs, and Scorcese’s adaptation of the book is faithful to the novel in this respect, at least. Although Scorcese has the best of in tentions, the film is disappointing,

perhaps because one expects a great deal from a work which has inspired so much controversy. But there are other reasons for the film’s shortcomings. Willem Dafoe portrays an angry and cowardly Christ who is uncertain of his divinity, hears voices and is racked with indecision and fear. Yet somehow one never quite empathizes with his character. Barbara Hershey, all the rage for her masterful performance inA World Apart, is positively neurotic as the prostitute Mary Magdalene, and Harry Dean Stanton seems strangely miscast as Paul. Theologically, the issues that the film raises are interesting and appli cable to the faith of any viewer, but the execution of the very worthy intellec tual content of Kazantzakis’ novel is confusing and haphazard. Scenes such as the expulsion of the moneychangers from the Temple are unfocused and almost silly. Even the infamous hallu cination on the Cross, the Last Temptation of the title, where Christ contem plates living the life of a normal man but ultimately rejects it and accepts his divinity, meanders about without coming to a dramatic moment of anag norisis. With a decided lack of “neato” spe cial effects (no walking on water here, kids) and tame cinematography, the at tention of the viewer is focused almost

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by Trib Entertainment Staff Everyone’s a critic these days. Your family, your friends, opposition party politicians, morning show disc jockeys, the teaching assistant who marked your Canadian History paper, and anyone who flies on commercial airlines. So here’s your chance to be opinionated: justjoin theTribune Entertainment staff. We always have room for keeners who know everything about everything in the entertainment industry and are will ing to share their knowledge with 16,000 McGillians every Tuesday. Basically, we concentrate on three main facets of entertainment which are accessible to and enjoyed by most students: film, theatre, and music. Ourprimary objective is to give the people what they want, so we’re always open to sug continued page 11 gestions, comments, sharp objects... Hopefully, this year we’ll branch out a little more than in the past and cover more

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The land of the Union Jack is home to more than Westminster Abbey and tall, thin, long-nosed ,.reserved Englishmen drinking tea and singing God Save the Queen. Great Britain is a bristling cultural mosaic under the control of one of its most controversial leaders since Oliver Cromwell. A close perusal of the government, the society within, and the major cultures which co exist in this 'United.' Kingdom proves both enlightening end thought provoking.

ain to the bare essentials of their current events and a perpetually vo luminous dose of Royal Family. For example, only a minute percentage of Canada is likely to know that the leader of the opposition in the U.K. is a balding Scot named Neil Kinnock. Yet knowledge of the state of the British nation could avert simi lar societal upheaval in Canada, which bears more social, economic, and demographic resemblance to

by Mike Crawley ‘Reaganomics’ is simply a nasty word to many North Americans, conveying the yuppie elements of the conservative eighties’ economic scene. ‘Thatcherism,’ however, is more. It is an entire philosophy of life which has a turnultuous effect on the average citizen of Great Britain. And Maggie, more firmly en trenched in power in the U.K. than Ronnie is in the U.S., is certain to maintain her profound influence on daily existence in Britain in the coming years. The American-influenced media the U.K. than to the U.S. which bombards our country with Margaret Thatcher’s Conserva multitudes of information on the tive party took power in 1979 and United States , limits our assimila was susequently re-elected in 1983 tion of knowledge about Great Brit and again in June of last year. De

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spite capturing only 42% of the vote, the Tories won a 100-seat majority in the House of Commons, claiming 375 ridings. These figures demon strate why many liberal journalists called for ‘tactical’ ballotting: vot ing for the party with the best chance to defeat the Tories in each individ

ual constituency. The London enter tainment weekly Time Out even published a “Guide to Tactical Vot ing,” describing how voters should cast their ballots in a number of potential swing seats to prevçnt another Thatcher majority. Tactical voting, however, was in sufficient. The Conservatives are still in power and also control a majority in the ‘noble’ House of Lords, enabling the party to pass virtually any contentious bill on ward to the Royal rubber stamp. A recent example of such nefari ous legislation is the issue of a poll tax. Rather than a property tax based on the value of a dwelling, Thatcherites wanted citizens to pay a head tax, a flat rate per year regardless of personal wealth. So instead of pay ing around £700 ($1650 Cdn.) for their two-bedroom £200,000 home in the suburbs of Salisbury, a welloff retired couple would pay ap proximately £200 each, a £300 sav ing for the household. The middle to upper classes get a break. You can surmise what an extended family of five was paying for their three-room shanty outside Liverpool, and that it was far less than the £1000 the new legislation would require. Inciden tally, the proposal called for the tax to be assessed according to the vot ers list, so if people felt the tax was too high, they could escape it by failing to register to vote. Who bene fits from that? Topush this bill through the upper house, the Tories called on every not quite dead backwoods landlord and told him to raise his hand to defeat proposed amendments to the poll tax bill. The Lords then quietly slipped back by BritRail to their respective estates, having done their utmost for Queen and Country.

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businesslike Edinburgh as it is ii Glasgow. The Scottish identity is increas ingly threatened by the changinj way of life in Britain. Scots an leaving their homeland and its higl level of unemployment for Englant and thus becoming assimilated int( the British melting pot, which con tains a predominantly English-fia voured brew. The Scottish intelli gentsia is continually striving t( keep its own at home, but monej and fame are the incentives dan gling in London for those who heac south. Glasgow’s John McGrath head of a touring theatre company which has worked closely in thepasi with Telefilm Canada, spoke in an informal interview about the simi larities between the Scottish and Canadian media situations: each is highly influenced, even swallowed by a more prosperous neighbour to the south. A strong and distinct Scottish element is essential for a ports have increased almost three complete and fully enriched U.K. fold while, by contrast, Canada’s Wales, the proud, scenic, and have less than doubled. However, withdrawn land to the west of Eng looking at the big picture neglects land, posseses an equally vulner many important details. One might able identity. However, this fragil say that Thatcher’s propagandists ity is a consequence of a mass cannot or will not see the trees for migration into the land rather than a the forest. On the individual level, a large exodus out. The Welsh coun large percentage of Britons have tryside is truly beautiful, a lush, been hurt by Thatcherism. Nation northern paradise of green valleys, wide figures obscure this fact. Spe endless beaches, and rugged hills, cifically in Scotland, the north of so it attracts weekend ramblers as England, and Wales, poverty is well as permanent settlers. As infla evident tion has prompted the price of an Despite its large population and a average house in the south of Eng tough exterior that frightens tour land to skyrocket in the past few ists, Glasgow boasts a thriving arts years to about £200,000 ($470,000 scene, an instinctive brand of so Cdn.), many English are retiring, cialism that entrenches c o selling their overvalued homes, and operation as a fait accompli, and a settling in Wales in similar dwell consequent spirit that openly wel ings for one quarter of the cost. The comes others. Thatcherism is remainder of the money constitutes plainly and simply ‘wrong’ here a rather handsome retirement sav because it does not allow everyone ings account. Certain areas of equal opportunity. It also causes a Wales, particularly the south, are 20% unemployment rate, primarily being gradually overrun with Eng due to the nationwide abandonment lish. The Welsh natives are conse of shipbuilding for the more profit quently abandoning local customs , able industries of the south and and the last vestiges of the Welsh midlands. However, the people are language to cater to the needs of the hardly woefully despondent about wealthy retirees. their situation. There are perpetual This influx into certain areas of benefit events, numerous political Wales has, however, strengthened meetings and discussions, and con the cause of Welsh nationalism in tinual lobbying in the streets and on other parts of the country, particu the billboards, all examples of con larly the west coast, home to the first structive attempts to improve life. Welsh university at Aberystwyth. ' Glasgow is unabashed reality The nationalist movement was at a alive within a cosmopolitan city. low ebb in the early eighties, but as 1 The contrast to Edinburgh, its rival Thatcherism has taken the nation in city in Scotland, is striking. Ed its stranglehold, many Welsh have inburgh resembles an unreal, fre responded to the great challenge o ff netic museum with nothing to do but preserving their culture with pro gawk and flash the poloroid at grams aimed at instilling a sense of countless exhibits (except during heritage in schoolchildren. One ele the pricey festival in August). Anti- mentary school teacher I talked to Thatcherism is not as prevalent in was quite optimistic that his culture will be preserved, provided that no

J R ES r ic h e r , th e iass evacuation for jobs occurs in 1rs. Thatcher’s 1990s. Outsiders may be able to observe ie British social situation and peraps draw reasonable conclusions, ut how do the people who can truly ter things, the citizens of the U.K., Æ the state of their own nation? luch of Britons’ perceptions of the Hire world stem from what they ad in the papers. Many more daily jwspapers are purchased per capa by the British (407 per 1000 apulation) than by Americans (267 ;r 1000), French (237) or West ermans (111). This indicates a adership that is surpassed only by lose of certain socialist and commnist countries. Individuals are ften fanatically loyal to the paper ley ‘take’ and are eager to discuss 'ith any willing conversationalist ie merits of their paper versus the lulls of the others. Objectivity in ie press plays a secondary role to pinionated value judgments, proucing lively prose in the ‘leaders’ xlitorials). However in recent years, leaders l the majority of the national daies, primarily the Mail, Telegraph, 'ews of the World, Sun, and Times ave strongly supported the status uo. This is unsurprising, as one ati-union, excessively wealthy usinessman named Rupert Muroch owns the latter three papers in

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Than the law of circulation that sells newspapers. The conflict among the British people is thus engendered in one major effect of Thatcher’s policies: a widening gap between the rich and the poor. A cartoon in a recent issue of the magazine New Statesman

1987 vote only indicated that those who believe they are winners under Magginomics outnumbered the los ers in a majority of federal electoral constituencies. But what about the many losers? Does the fiscal prosperity of a small elite take precedence over the com mon good of the general public? These are the questions which Cana dians and Americans should be ask ing with elections looming in the

Brunswick and Newfoundland can attest to that. And thus the similarities between Canada and Great Britain are selfevident: regional economic dispar ity, cultural diversity, linguistic an tagonism, a conservative govern ment that has benefitted the country economically on the world scene but has not provided jobs to poor areas. The U.K. is more than just London, just as Canada means more than simply southern Ontario. Both Britain and Canada have an estab lished framework for a social de mocracy, but as Thatcher’s govern ment devours more and more, one can only wonder what two more terms of Tories in Canada will pro duce. More Maggie in Britain will certainly lead to disastrous conse quences in one of the few true wel fare states in the western world.

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wing beliefs in the conservative press, the Tories will continue to run the show. The words of the British electric-folk protest singer Billy Bragg thus ring true:

I f this does not reflect your view you should understand That those who own the papers also own this land And they'd rather you believed in Coronation Street capers

shows a billboard on the side of a Thatcher-shaped rollercoaster. The sign reads "Ride the MAGGIE MO

BILE. Sick-making, harsh, uncar ing. Poor & old double price.” The point should be well taken. To give tax breaks to the rich, the government cut spending in public service areas such as education and the National Health Service. Large tax exemptions are now given for capital gains while tough legislation penalizes unions whose workers participate in sympathy strikes. Thatcher refutes stronger economic sanctions against South Africa and sim ultaneously maintains a ‘peacekeeping force’ in Northern Ireland. Nuclear mishaps in 1986 at Sellafield in the northwest were downplayed while the Tories vocif erously parlayed the anti-nuclear policies of the opposition parties into a campaign issue. The common thread linking these is distinct and frightening. Following a drop in popular sup port as measured by polls part way through the ’87 election race, the Conservatives launched a simple, direct advertising campaign under the slogan “Don’t let Labour ruin it.” The question that faced British voters was whether ‘it’ was worth preserving or ruining. ‘It’ meant legislation that prevented citizens from joining striking miners on picket lines and legalized police escort of scabs to maintain the profit from the mines. ‘It’ meant police raids on the offices of the venerable BBC in Glasgow and the New Statesman in London when the media were prepared to release de tails of a proposed British spy satel lite. ‘It’ was and is Thatcherism. The

near future. Not everyone is experi encing wealth under the respective conservative governments. In Can ada, the many unemployed in New

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by Trib News Staff Last year the office of the Director of Libraries, in consultation with the uni versity and the students, decided to merge the McLennan and Undergradu ate Libraries. The merge is an attempt to “reorgan ize the staff and services as well as the collection, in order to have a more

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cohesive Humanities and Social Sci ences Library for students”, according to Marilyn Cohen, Undergraduate Services Director. The amalgamation of Redpath and McLennan Libraries has meant a reshuffling of the books.. Cohen ex plained that the former Undergraduate Collection has been moved to the sec

ond and third floors of Redpath, leav ing the Street and Basement levels to Botany and Blacker-Wood. All peri odicals are now in the Periodicals Reading Room, on the second floor of McLennan. In other library news, the new stucontinued page 11

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continued from page 3 Lefebvre explained,” The Clinic has been maintained because Students’ Society has seen that it is a good serv ice, and up until now we have had a good relationship.” Battaglia, herself a law student, says that she sees the importance of the Clinic being acces sible to the community. “The Execu tive Committee is not in favour of changing their (Legal Aid’s) mandate. JMC erred. We have spoken to them about it. Their role is to advise on budgets, not to make policy decisions”, she stated. Lefebvre said that the SSMU pulled the rug out and left it up to the Clinic to

find funding. Battaglia, on the other hand, said that “We (SSMU) are mak ing it ajoint effort, we are going to work on funding together. We arenot forcing them, we are going to help out. I know they need a fifth director!” The Stu dents’ Society has not, as of yet, noti fied Legal Aid of any actions they may have taken to find funding. Lefebvre said that the Clinic has no choice but to secede from Students’ Society. “It’s the only viable solution”, she said.

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continued from page 3 the probelms within MUNASA were due to “divergent attitudes; an attitude problem really.” However, Claire CooneySovetts, a member of Munasa, pre sented MUNASA with a petition signed by 25% of the membership of MUNASA on August 11 calling for an election on the grounds of “obvious and and unviable political turmoil,” according to the petition presented by Cooney-Sovetts. Cooney -Sovetts could not be reached for comment. An in-house committee of

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MUNASA declared on August 18 that the political turmoil consituted “delin quency and therefore (it) show(s) just cause for removal from office” of all members of the executive Committee, according to a lettter dated August 22, written by MacArthur. Although MacArthur claimed that this was “just a byelec tion” it came on the heels of recent resignations of two members of the executive Committee, Trevour Gar land and Jim mcVety. The current executive committee was elected in January of their year.

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continued from page 3 place by the Spring. Internal The good ol’ Union Building has experienced many changes over the summer months. “CVC, a company in charge of food services at McGill, has funded the new carpet and fresh coat of grey paint in The Alley”, explained Amanda Kalhok, SSMU VP Internal. “The Students’ Society bought a new piano so that Jazz nights could con tinue”, stated Kalhok,’’Music students threatened to find somewhere else to play because the old piano was in such poor condition.” The Ballroom is now “neater and cleaner” said Kalhok. The new colour scheme, wall panelling, curtains and benches will allow the Society to rent it out. “We will make the money back in bookings”, stated Kalhok. Sound pan elling has been installed in order to improve sound quality. Kalhok assured The Tribune that Gert’s was closed for the summer due to a shortage of summer staff and be cause the radiators needed painting and not because of further renovations. Fourth floor renovations are ex pected to begin next summer. “This gives us tome to consult with the clubs”, explained Kalhok. As for the accessibility of the Union building to disabled students “the bids are coming in this week,”she said, “We will be getting things under way once we have examined them.” ‘I think we are a very down to earth and approachable executive”, stated Kalhok,’T welcome anyone to ask me questions about clubs or services.” Page ,10

This year Kalhok wants to work with CVC to provide the best food and beverage service for students, improve the image of Students’ Society on Campus and create a network between clubs and faculty associations through an Inter-Group Liaison. University Affairs Maria Battaglia, VP University Af fairs, has been following up on the work she began last year in the same portfolio: Issues such as student hous ing, the library merger and the stu dents’ rights campaign. “We have to work out the whole library situation”, said Battaglia,” make sure it is advantageous for every one.” The University Affairs office has been working on a Students’ Rights Campaign which is scheduled for the end of October. The campaign will inform students of their rights within the university and the recourses which are available to them. Battaglia feels that the ongoing debate over military research on cam pus can be “sorted out with a student on the Executive Committee of the Board of Governors (BoG).” She is working with the University Administration in order to create a seat for a student on the BoG Executive Committee. Finance According to Titi Nguyen, VP Fi nance, the budget “balances.” “There have been increases in all categories of the society- frombuilding expenses, to administrative and office expenses”, explained Nguyen,’’even with last year’s fee increases we are breaking even.”

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Q u e b e c w im p e d by MaxHarrold A dangerous toxic PCB (poly chlorinated byphenyls) fire in the Montreal suburb of St-Basile-leGrand August 23rd could have been avoided if the Quebec govern ment had put its money where its mouth is and properly enforced safety guidelines, says a top McGill official. Wayne Wood, McGill’s director

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by Isabelle Pepin FBI undercover agent Cathy Weaver, (Debra Winger) becomes Katie Phillips, small-town cowgirl and combine operator. Gary (Tom Berenger) becomes her lover and wants to share his secrets with her. Katie’s vision of the handsome, good ol’ boy, father of two ador able children is quickly shattered as he insists she go hunting with him. Betrayed thus unfolds in the scene that follows, a shockingly visual portrayal of a man’s dark side as Gary and buddies hunt down a ter rified black youth. When the victim is finally trapped, the men insist he should be Katie’s prize, her first kill initiating her into their secret society. The moment of fear and agony that she and the boy experience turns to horror as she fails to save the beg ging victim from the cold blooded murder which is vividly splashed across the screen. Betrayed subsequently becomes a suspense thriller as Cathy tries to uncover the plans of the Ku Klux Klan group. Director Costa-Gavras

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( Missing) focuses on the mixed bag of human emotions involved in the red-hot issue of seething racial hatred and fear of foreign takeover. At times he portrays these terrorist fanatics in a very human light, revealing ordinary lifestyles, feel ings, friends and families. Yet all are very capable of the most appal l ing, brutal actions in the name of their cause - to rid America of all that is not truly American. Echoes of the Nazi era ring clearly. One shudders, realizing this is occuring now, in the 1980s, south of our border. Ultimately, Gary’s very young daughter Rachel, representative of the future of America, is the only one to stand up for Cathy/Katie, telling an angry community that Cathy can say what she wants be cause “She’s an American.” The essence of the film is deception, fear, and indoctrination of innocent minds, yet somehow, through this characterCosta-Gavras thus leaves us with a slight glimmer of hope, however small.

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Silverman at different ages) is charm ing in a laughable sort of way, while David Foster’s trite elevator music background score only detracts from the clever use of top forty oldies. Sen sitivity and a sense of humour help earn this likeable film a 6-1/2 out of 10 on this writer’s scale.

Stealing Home is playing at Loews Theatre, 954 Ste-Catherine West.

Systems Inc. picks up the garbage and disposes of it Wood said PCB storage is “a cradle to the grave” responsibility and many manufacturers are look ing for better ways to get rid of it Wood says he and other McGill experts in the field are prepared to advise the government anytime.

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Continued from page 7 entirely upon the characters them selves, and the performances are adequate rather than exceptional. A rare highlight is the wonderful sound track by Peter Gabriel, which is as refreshing as his earlier work for Birdy. Ultimately, the transmutation from novel to film does not work well here. The novel, which has inspired such thoughtful debate and emotion over the nature of spirituality is lost in Scorsese’s rather bland interpretation. The film isn’t tempting at all.

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/Stealing home continued from page 6 yourself. Stealing Home is not many things because it is not a complex story. Yet the screenplay manages to soar above the levels of the mindless drudgery most simple films use as dialogue, and proves that simplicity does not neces sarily lead to vacuity. As sidelights, the character of Bill’s friend Appleby (played by Harold Ramis and Jonathan

University does dispose of bi omedical waste from its 1,400 laboratories. The waste includes syringes, biood samples and dead animal carcasses. The garbage is the kind which closed several New York-area beaches this summer. Every week, a Gatineau com pany called Decom Medical Waste

evacuated from St-Basile during the fire, which blazed all night. They are still holed up with rela tives and in Montreal-area hotels awaiting the results of extensive tests sometime this week. But Wood says the storage of PCBs is “the easiest thing in the world.” All you need is a fence, proper labelling of the contents and instructions for firefighters, he said. The PCB warehouse had no fence and hardly any labelling. 27year-old Alain Chapleau was charged with arson last week in connection with the fire. McGill does not handle PCBs and is not licensed to do so. But the

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Welcome to McGill sports " C o m e o u t a n d s u p p o r t R e d m e n a n d M a r tle t te a m s!"

The McGill Tribune Sports section wishes to extend a warm welcome to all incoming students and hope that they can get in volved in the tremendous sports program at McGill. The Tribune has attempted to report on all aspects of McGill sports including varsity, intramu ral and instructional events. Con tinuing with the style which last year's sports editor, Jamie Alden, made so successful, this year’s staff will be including articles on McGill sports history, sports quizes and a look at the Great Out doors. In addition to the sporting events, The Tribune hopes to bring forward the individuals involved, in order to give them the recognition they deserve. This will be accomplished through several articles high-lighting out standing members of the McGill athletic community. A word on the sports; apart from the varsity and club teams, McGill offers both intramural and instructional programs. The highly credited intramural pro

Rugby remains strong at McGill

gram offers all full time McGill stu dents and gymnasium members the opportunity to participate in competi tive sports. This program is divided into fall and winter seasons and pro vides a wide variety of sports to choose from. Varsity athletes are not permitted to partake in these events. The Instructional Athletics Pro gram encompasses a wide variety of non-credit physical education facili ties which can help you to acquire or improve athletic skills. a n /* r tiir . The Tribune, o

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