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What's on WHAT’S ON IS COURTESY OF THE INTER-GROUP LIAISON WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25TH Canadian Association of Sport Sciences: Will have an information kiosque at the Sir Arthur Currie Gymnasium, 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Cancer Auction: The management faculty will raise money to fight can cer by auctioning a CD player, dinners for two, theatre tickets, and more. Bronfman Bldg Cafeteria, 1001 Sher brooke W., 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Help Buy a House. Nicaragua must survive. Union Bldg. Info: 341-4979. L ibrary Tours: 11 a.m. -12 p.m ., in 11 campus libraries. See Tuesday. Meet at Info./Reference desk. 3985030. T our de la Bibliothèque McLennan: 11a.m. -12p.m. Rencontre, vestibule de McLennan. Renseignements: 3985030. Library Workshop: Introducing the McGill On-Line Catalogue. McLen nan, Health Sciences, and Physical Science and Engineering Libraries, 1:00-2:00p.m. Meet at Info/Reference desk. Information: 398-5030. Nicaraguan Coffee and other “Bridgehead-Oxfam” products. Yellow Door, 3625 Aylmer,l:00-5:00p.m. Inexpen sive and socially just. Sponsored by SCM. Student Christian Movement: Gen eral meeting at the Yellow Door, 3425 Aylmer, 4:00 p.m. McGill-Quebec vous invite à la Ver sion Français, de 16h à 18h, au salon des étudiants du Pavillon Peterson (3460, rue McTavish). On y discute de tout. Those who want to practice their

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French are welcome too. Café et beignes. Juggling and Unicycling Club: Meeting, Union B09/10, 7:30 p.m. Information: 499-0236. McGill Outing Club: Meeting and slide show (on “Mt. Logan”). Find out about weekend retreats at “The House” and other ways to get out of the city. Stewart Biology S1/4,7:30 p.m. Infor mation: 398-6817. McGill Film Society: T rois Milliards Sans Ascenseur France 1972(90min.) Dir.: R. Pigaut. FDA Auditorium, 8:00 p.m. FREE. _ McGill Cancer Centre-Public Lec ture Series: Presents Dr. Henry Shibata from the Department of Surgery, McGill University, speaking on “Malignant Melanoma”. Palmer Har vard Amphitheatre, McIntyre Medical Sciences Building, 6th floor. 8:00 p.m. Free. THURSDAY, JANUARY 26TH Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics: Presents Marc Renaud, director of GRASP, speaking on “La Commission Rochon and its aftermath.” Purvis Hall, 1020 Pine Ave West, Room 25, 1:00 p.m. Liberal McGill: General Meeting. New members welcome. 4:30 p.m. in Union B09/10. McGill W riters’ Guild: Meeting every Thursday. Student readings, followed by discussion and writing exercise. Arts 350,6:00 p.m. Informa tion: 284-4421. McGill Film Society: Being There USA 1979 (130 min) Dir.: H. Ashby. Leacock 132, 8:00 p.m. Classical and Folk Music at the Yel

low Door Coffee House. Brad Klump, guitarist, S. Hill, M. H. McCleese and A. Conde, followed by open stage. 3625 Aylmer, 8:00p.m. $2 admission. Information: 398-6244/6243. FRIDAY, JANUARY 27TH Centre for Developing Area Studies Lecture Series: Professor W. Millward, Concordia University, on “Canada and Iran: A Promising Part nership Renewed?” Seminar Room 100, 3715 Peel, 2:00 p.m. Liberal McGill: Policy committee meeting. Any club members inter ested in formulating policy are wel come. 4:30 p.m. in Union 425/6. McGill Film Society: Yellow Subma rine U.K. 1968 (87 min.) Dir.: G. During. Leacock 132, 8:00 p.m. Reggie’s Pub-Concordia University: Presents THE BEARDS, a contempo rary Electric Jazz band. 1455 de Mai sonneuve West., 7th floor, 8:00 p.m. Info: 270-2475. Literature Live at the Yellow Door Coffee House. Catherine Wiedman and J.P.W. Cross will read original works. Followed by open stage. 3625 Aylmer, 8:00 p.m. $2 admission. Information: 398-6244/6243. SATURDAY, JANUARY 28TH India-Canada Students Association: Dinner and Dance. Thompson House, 3650 McTavish St. Dinner by Reser vation 398-9442. McGill Film Society: The Unbear able Lightness o f Being U.S.A. 1987 (172 min.) Dir.: P. Kaufman. Leacock 132, 8:00 p.m.

SUNDAY, JANUARY 29TH Ethnocide culturel en Roumanie? Le Départment d ’anthropologie de l’Université de Montréal présente une journée porte ouverte., 1:00 - 5:00. M. Boros décrira le “Plan de systéma tisation” et la destruction des villages en Roumanie et danses traditionnelles seront présentées, 3 p.m.. Mini-expo sition des oeuvres artisanales et des photos. MONDAY,JANUARY30TH McGill Students’ Council: Annual General Meeting. 12:00 p.m. Union B09/10. Sexual Assault Awareness Week: A Demonstration of Strategies for As sault Prevention and Self-Protection. 2:00p.m. in Union 107/08. This is a Woman Empowering Event. Sexual Assault Awareness Week: Discussion “Do Fraternities Perpetu ate a Negative Attitude Towards Women?” All Welcome. 3:00p.m. in Union 107/08. Canadian Studies: Presents David Mills on "The Blue Line and the Bot tom Line: The Business of Hockey”. Dean’s Committee room, main floor Arts Bldg., 4:00p.m. Information: 3983863.

ter. Weekly workshops will be on Saturdays in the Union building. Contact the Society’s office. McGill Undergraduate Journal of History Historical Discourses is ac cepting submissions at Leacock 625 until January 31st. Nous sommes une publication bilingue. Info: 289-1825. Volunteer to visit isolated elderly living near McGill. The Yellow Door Elderly Project. Info: Mike or Chris 398-6243. Assistant Directors, Residence Fel lows, Dons for McGill Residences in 1989-90. Applicants should be McGill students and can contact the director’s secretary at Bishop Mountain Hall, 398-6363. Deadline: January 27,1989. M anagement U ndergraduate Soci ety Elections: Nomination forms are available at the MUS, Bronfman 55, beginning Tuesday, January 17th. Nominations must be returned Mon day, January 30th. Elections are on Thursday, February 9th. Info: leave messages in the “CRO” box in MUS. The Jackrabbit Johannsens CrossCountry Ski Group: A friendly cross country ski group holds weekday and evening outings, at a casual pace, along the Lachine Canal and Le Vieux Port trails. Free. Info: 631-1016.

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R e g is t r a r c r a c k s d o w n o n I.D . fra u d BY PAUL M ICHELL_________ Massive I.D. fraudon thepart of McGill students andothers has led toa tightening of I.D. replacement procedures. SSMU VP (University Affairs) Maria Battaglia had received sev eral complaints from students concerning the new processes for I.D. card replacement and valida tion. “People had been coming to me and saying, ‘They [the I.D. centre] wouldn’t let me validate my friend’s I.D. ’, andsimilar com plaints.” The new I.D. centre in theEaton Building (that Bauhaus shoebox across from the Rutherford Phys ics Building) was meant tostream line I.D. problems, but student complaints led Battaglia to inves tigate. She was surprised to learn of widespread fraud on the part of students. “They were having as many as one case of fraud per week. That’s pretty high,” said Battaglia. Alison Verkade, Manager of Records and Registration at the Registrar’s Office confirmed that

the I.D. centre staff has noted nu merous cases of fraud on the part of students, and also by non-stu dents. “The problem is that people come in with a couple of pieces of identification, claiming tobeaparticular student, when really they are someone else. It’s a very diffi cult problem to deal with,” Varkade said. In an effort to combat what has become an increasingly serious problem, theRegistrar’s officenow maintains a photograph and a sig natureof all studentson file. When a student comes to the I.D. centre for a replacement card - or to get someone else’s card, in the case of fraud - the file card is brought forth, making it exceedingly diffi cult toperpetratefraud. Verkade is confident that the new system will cut down on the problem. “Everytime that we instituted a newcheck,peoplewouldfindsome wayofgettingaroundit -we would ask for other pieces of I.D., and they would get some. Then we asked for signatures, and people started practicing other people’s^

signatures. We think that having a photo and a signature will elimi nate the problem.” So far, no one has been caught this year. Verkade said that the Registrar’s office would not rule outlaying criminal chargesagainst offenders, but that the normal pro cedure would be to send those caught trying to get ‘fake I.D.’ to their respective Faculty Discipli

McGill’s 14th annual Cancer Auction will be held on Wednes day, January 25th from 9:30 to 5:30 in the cafeteria of the Bronfman building. The auction is part of the Winter Carnival organ ized by the Management Under graduate Society (MUS) which takes place this week (23-27 of January.) Students and staff from all fac ulties are encouraged toattend the event. While the Auction’s under lying goal is obviously ofa serious nature - to raise money for cancer research -theatmosphereandmood of the overall Carnival always persists at the Auction. In fact, “Camivaling” seems toencourage student and faculty generousity: last year, the event raised $11000 for research! Some of the items to be auc tioned off include a car stereo, a Weider rowing machine, Larry Robinson’s hockey sweater, and a compact disc player. Travel Cuts has donated an all-expenses-paid trip to Québec City, while such C

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hotels as The Four Seasons, The QueenElizabeth, Delta, and Shangrila have contributed weekends for two. There are theatre tickets, tickets to see the Montréal Sym phony Orchestra, as well as tickets to Montréal Canadiens’ hockey games. There are also meals for twoat manyrestaurants, including Chrysanthemum, the Atlantic Pavilion, and Moishe’s Steak House. It seems that most participants who purchase items at the auction end up with ridiculous bargains. A benchpress worth more than $200 sold for only $70 last year. On the other hand, the bidding wars do sometimes get out of hand...the person who paid $40 for a bag of bagelsatthe’88Auctionwill surely vouch for that. What is important, of course, is that all money raised goes directly to cancer research. All of the expenses of the auction are payed for by the MUS. Howard Clossman from CJFM, alongwithCHOM’s Harry Schaef fer, will be around to share in the fun. Rumour has it that Theodore

facilities...I guess that’s the main reason whypeoplehavebeentrying to do this,” she said. Maria Battaglia echoed this sentiment,andfeltthat'Tt’sapretty serious offence to use someone else’s I.D.” The penalties for such use - and the difficulties now in volvedonactually gettingfakeI.D. will probablydissuademostpeople from trying to do so.

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S t u d e n t s ’ R ig h t s C a m p a ig n u n d e rw a y BY SHANNON ALDINGER McGill’s first-ever Students’ Rights Awareness campaign opened its doors yesterday tokick off a week-long schedule. The campaign focuses on whata student can and cannot do in an academic andacampus life. It pro motes awareness on issues such as grievance procedures, discipline

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nary Officer. Verkade denies that fraud was a major reason for thechangeover to the new I.D. cards, but does say that anability tocut down on fraud and to make all previous bogus cards obselete was “an important and fortunate spinoff.”

the Carebear will also make an appearance. There is certainly no need to bring large amounts of moneytotheauction, as on theday of the auction, thebuyer needonly put down a deposit of 10% of the final price. He/she will then pay the difference when he/she col lects the purchase in the following few days. Management alumnus Richard Simon began the Auction 14 years ago, andit has since becomeavery popular and successful tradition. Although Simon is now engaged in different business enterprises, includingownershipoftheShadow Bar, he has returned to serve as auctioneer for the past four years. This year’s co-ordinators are U3 Management students Randi Dankoff and Alain Neemeh. With the help of approximately 30 vol unteers, they have elicited dona tions fromover200companiesand individuals. The committee has high hopes that last year’s record of $11000 can be broken this year, but only with strong student and staffparticipation. With yourhelp, cancer can be beaten!

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E A R L Y B IR D S P E C I A L Thursday, January 26 11a.m. - 2p.m. Bronfman Lobby •Accepting Visa/Mastercard •Faculties and departments call for group rate information •Private individual appointments Your Campus Rep.: E y a l B a ru c h 624-0593

guidelines, plagarism, cheating, failing, vandalism, francophone rights, sexual harassment and the roles of the Students’ Society, the Dean of Students, the Ombuds man, theStudentSenators andvari ous security personnel. “McGill has never had anything like this. We thought it was time to let students know their rights and theappropriate steps totake if they have any problems. We’re not tryingtocauseconflict, butinstead to resolve it,” says Maria Batta glia, SSMU VP University Affairs andcampaign organizer. Battaglia had vowed during her election campaign last spring to instigate suchacampaignas anannual event The Union ballroom is the cam paign’scentral location, openfrom 11:00 to 2:00 Monday, Tuesday andFriday, andfrom 11:00 to4:00 Wednesday and Thursday. Cam paign information is also on dis playandavailableatthefronttables oftheUnion Building andatbooths in various faculties around cam pus. Aparallel set-upis alsoorgan ized at MacDonald College. Most information is communi catedtostudents throughtheuseof pamplets, guest speakers, videos and displays. Pamphlets are avail able concerning subjects ranging from the McGill Student Charter to therole of the Student Senators.

“We have pamphlets that cover all thedifferentareasof theuniver sity. We even have pamphlets on the Student Senators listing what Senators are, who they are and what they do,” says Battaglia. Combatting student ignorance and apathy is one of the prime goals of the campaign: students are often intimidated by what they perceive as an insensitive and bureaucratic McGill administration. Hopefully, the Student Rights campaign will informstudentsabouttheiroptions. Guest speakers are scheduled daily to make presentations: Mon day, SamKingdon, Assistant VicePrincipal of Physical Resources for ‘Security at McGill’; today, Law professor Ron Sklar on ‘Stu dent Responsibility and Discipli nary Procedures” and sexual har assment assesor Prof. Pat Wells; tomorrow,^Ombudsman Annette Werk with*‘What is an Ombuds man’ and Dean of Students Irwin Gopnik with ‘Grievance Proce dures’; and, Friday, speakers from the Legal Aid Clinic. SSMU (Students’ Society of McGill University) plans toaward door prizes to students daily. Donated by local businesses, the prizes include tapes, books, food and drink tickets, photocopies, singing telegrams and Expo tick ets. c o n tin u e d o n p a g e 5

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O p /Ed C o m m e n t: When I first heard what M. Bourassa had done to us, visions of his violent end (which I would of course gleefully carry out) raced through my mind. I equated him with other “special” people like Hitler and Mussolini instead of the mild-mannered, articulate man who we all thought would reaffirm the rights of anglophones and banish the despicable tyrants (Levesque, Parizeau, Laurin, etc.) and their radical views to Hades, where they belonged. My negative emotions shifted gradually to men like Paul Rheaume, and the banner-waving Paul Sauve Arena Bunch. Then there were the street marchers, the callers on Cross Country Checkup, the guy who scrawled “101” on an English sign in Peterson Hall, the chaps who vandalized the Academic Bookshop, the French newspaper columnists, and the nice boys who ruined Royal Orr’s party at Alliance Quebec. This list grew larger every day, and I began to realize there was a very large, very motivated, and most im portantly, very militant group of francophones ready to torch your average “fat damned English sales lady from Eaton’s”. It is because of this social unrest, that I must now throw my support wholeheartedly behind Bill 178. I believe the foundations and the specifics of Bill 178 to be pure idiocy. My support of the legislation is based solely on an examination of the prevailing political and social forces in Quebec. My argument

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places the alternative available to Mr. Bourassa within the context of these forces and allows logically only one possible conclusion: the •necessity of Bill 178. Bourassa’s first option was to enforce French only signs, inside and outside. I will not go into detail arguing the implausibility of this solution, but suffice it to say the reaction from anglophones and allophones within Quebec, coupled with that of the rest of Canada already ill- disposed to Quebec’s special status and special treatment would be too great a political and social burden for Quebec. Ruling out signs in the language of the individ ual’s choice (why does this sound so foreign?) as too good to be true, we are left with the choice of bilingual sides inside, one can only assume that this bilingualism in its most pure form, would have caused social unrest of epic proportions. It’s fine to screw 17% of the population, but the other 83%, the most militant of whom have historically proven themselves predisposed to violence and terrorism, could knock Quebec off its feet. Who is ready for the return of bombs in mailboxes, . kidnappings, and tanks stationed on Cote des Neiges? Who can advocate a return to the very real possibility of fear and bloodshed? Who can ignore the glaringly real feelings and actions of the francophone popula tion? My object is not to deride or criticize francophones. My belief is

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that their fear of the erosion of their culture is legitimate and wellfounded. Who can separate Big Macs, Harley Davidsons, and Hollywood from the real French Canadian culture ( or English Canadian culture, for that matter)? The mistake made by the supporters of Bill 101 lies in their identification %o( the threat. Is it us, minority anglophones, and our measly commercial signs (Eaton or Eaton’s), or is it the monstrous, rapacious creature to our South? Will the 13% anglophones swallow up the rest of Quebec or will we be assimilated by our imperialist buddies: this is the error of the nationalists, the fervour brewers, and the source of the irrationality and illogic of the nationalist position. I submit, however, that this argument does nothing to change the anger and resentment of the average franco phone. We must try to understand his/her anger and alienation, for it is not only real, but completely understandable: francophones are isolated within an English speaking continent and were dominated too long by a tiny anglophone minority. It is through the maintenance of some sort of social peace and our will to understand each other and voice our concerns about legislation restricting language that we will one day achieve a society that respects and promotes the culture and language of every man and woman. Sam Sniderman

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Le numéro “178: Antiloi” de la Tribune de McGill, du mardi 17janvier, part d’un bon sentiment, si l’on voulait présenter une loi dans son applicationmécaniqueetbête. Cepen dant, il souffre d ’élémentaires et d’in acceptables vices de style. Même si les éditrices, Kim Farley et Heather Mitchell, semblaient de très bonne foi, le numéro spécial contient de graves erreurs, et dans un contexte aussi sen sible que la langue, les erreurs ne peuvent être prises autrement que comme insultes. D’abord au niveau de la présen tation: La première page du journal, uniquement en français, montre une vitrine fracassée avec une mention anti 178. Veut-on dire que les franco phones sont violents? Ou plutôt que pour combattre une loi sur l’affichage, la violence serait le meilleur des atouts puor la communauté anglophone? Dans les deux cas, le message journal istique est négatif it n ’incite pas au dialogue. Deuxièmement la qualité du français est innommable, même au niveau des titres. Si nous nous amusons (façon de parler!) à relever toutes les fautes d’orthographe, pour les titres seulement, nous avons: “envers un dialogue” (pourquoi pas “un mono logue à l’endroit”), “englais”, “Le Carnival”, “mediocre”, “hèro_”, “événements” “no tté”, “éxprimé”, “les équipes de natation prennent la v ague” (elles boivent la tasse ou elles sont comme des poissons dans l’eau?), sans compter “une plante à moitié intéres sante”, titre qui n ’a rien à voir avec l’article.

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Les membres de lé Tribune au rait pu et aurait mêmeAlû attendre d'avoir une traduction acceptable provenant de ressources compétentes (genre: dictionnaire...) avant de pub lier le numéro spécial. Faire paraître un français minable mine la crédibilité du journal dans tout dossier linguis tique. How woud yu like if we vrote in anglish like that? Troisièmement, Hans Marotte n’a pas la distinction de “héros na tional” de la part de la majorité de la population à ce que nous sachions. Hans Marotte représente les actions spectaculaires d’un certain groupe mais n 'a rien d ’un “héros national”. D ’ailleurs même lui n ’irai t pas jusqu’à se prendre pour un Charles de Gaulle, une Jeanne D’Arc, un Winston Chur chill ou une Laura Secord. Certains membres de son entourage se prennent peru-être pour les nouveaux messies, mais lui, non. Dans le débat linguis tique, il représente une action média tique ponctuelle. Ni plus. Ni moins. En passant, au sujet de la loi 178 et de la loi 101, il est curieux de voir le libraire Stephen Nowell passer sous silence le fait que la loi 101 permettait l’affichage bilingue pour toutes insti tutions culturelles, y compris les li brairies. Mais pas la loi 178. Sauf à l’intérieur. Ni plus. Ni moins. Finalement, ce numéro spécial peut montrer l ’absurdité de la mécanique bête d’un nouvelle loi lin guistique. En cela, ce numéro serait un succès. Cependant, nous demandons, de la part de la Tribune: - Une excuse formelle pour la

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qualité déplorable du français publié dans la Tribune du 17 janvier. Une excuse formelle pour l’insulte ainsi faite à tous les francophones qui l’ont lue. - A formal apology for the poor quality of French in the January 17 special issue and for the insult then made to all francophones who read it. Le conseil de McGill-Québec François Donneur, Eve Soucier, Nathalie Benoit, Danielle Plamondon, Claude Girard

P e n p a l so u g h t To the Editor: Would someone at McGill like to have a pen pal in Seattle? I’m a pub lished poet, 42, and would enjoy corre sponding (in English)about ideas, per sonal experiences, and books. My interests: investing, art history, literature, geography, Asian philoso phy and religion. Favorite authors are Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, Thoreau, Doris Lessing, Wendell Berry, and Studs Terkel. I admire Bertrand Russell, Castro, Camus, Sartre, An tigone, and Martha Quest. My address: Ron Richardson 4003 50th Ave. SW Seattle, Washington, 98116 USA Ron Richardson

PROGRAMMING NETWORK POSITIONS: (Deadline: 4:30p.m.. Friday. February 3rd,1989) CHAIRPERSON - ACTIVITIES NIGHT COMMITTEE The student holding this position will assemble a committee to organize Activities Night. The Students' Society annual "Meet the Clubs" function will be held in September 1989. Communication with club presidents must be made during the summer months.

CHAIRPERSON - ALTERNATIVE PROGRAMMING COMMITTEE This committee will organize activities such as day-time entertainment, con tests, games and tournaments as well as events that do not fall under the purview of the other Network committees. Emphasis will be placed on participa tory, day-time and alternative forms of entertainment.

CHAIRPERSON • CONCERTS COMMITTEE The Concerts Committee will organize concerts, dances and comedy shows. Particular attention must be paid to the Canadian and Montreal rock music scenes. The Chairperson of the Concerts Committee should be prepared to attend the entertainment conference sponsored by the Canadian Organization of Campus Activities in June 1989.

CHAIRPERSON - PERFORMING ARTS COMMITTEE This Network committee will bring to McGill events such as classical concerts, dance performances (ballet, modem, jazz) and the theatre.

CHAIRPERSON - SPEAKERS COMMITTEE The student holding this position will familiarize him or herself with guest speakers currently on the university lecture circuit and, with the assistance of the Speakers Committee, organize McGill's speakers programme for the 1989/90 year (including Welcome Week and Winter Carnival)

CHAIRPERSON - WELCOME WEEK The Chairperson of Welcome Week will chair a large committee of events coordinators. He or she will ensure that all activities planned for Welcome Week are properly organized and encourage maximum participation by McGill stu dents, especially those students at McGill for the first time. Welcome Week will take place during the first two weeks of September 1989. The Chairperson should be prepared to attend the COCA entertainment conference in June 1989.

CHAIRPERSON - WINTER CARNIVAL The student holding this position will be in charge of the week-long Carnival festivities in January 1990. As with Welcome Week, the Carnival Chairperson will direct a large committee of event coordinators and volunteers. The Chair person should be prepared to attend the COCA entertainment conference in June 1989.

NETWORK OFFICE MANAGER The Office Manager of the Network shall act as secretary at Network meetings and shall provide the proper adminstrative back up to the committee chairper sons. He or she shall ensure that committee chairpersons are aware of and follow Students' Society, University and government regulations concerning room bookings, liquor licences, audio-visual equipment, room capacity maxi mums, etc... The Office Manager shall also be responsible for the ordering of office, promotion and other supplies.

NETWORK - VICE-CHAIRPERSON, PUBLICITY The Vice-Chairperson, Publicity will offer advice concerning promotion of events to the committee chairpersons and if so requested by committee chairpersons, will take charge of promotion for particular events. The ViceChairperson, Publicity will assemble a small group of volunteers to assist with the design of poster and newspaper ads as well as the issuing of press releases.

NOTE: All of the above positions are considered voluntary and are responsible to Students’ Council. Except as noted above, joint applications will be accepted from not more than two (2) students for any one (1) position. Allapplications willbe treatedconfidentiallyand willbe reviewedby the Students'Society Nominating Committee. The best qualified candidates will likely be interviewed by the Committee. HOW TO APPLY: "General Application" forms are available in the Students' Society General Office, University Centre, Room 105,3480 McTavish Street and at Sadie's II in the Engineering Building and at Sadie's III in Chancellor Day Hall. All applicants may expect to have a written response to their application by the end of March. Completed applications must be submitted to Leslie Copeland, Operations Secretary, Students' Society General Office, University Centre, Room 105, NO

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Why a column? W e ’ll get to that. But first, the modem world: These are strange and wondrous times we live in. Hun dreds of people kill and are killed in senseless wars every day - in the West, the sane response is to pass up the roast beef and have some falafels instead. It took a nation only one day to give George Bush, a reprobate junkie swindler and ex-CIA director, supreme execu tive power in the U.S; while repre sentatives of the international community take a week to decide thatchemical weapons really aren’t such a nifty idea after all. And Neil Diamond has already covered a Tracy Chapman song, which means that it’s only a matter of time until Liza Minelli discovers Megadeth. Indeed. Not a decent age in which to live. Sanity is impossible: just another heavy piece of bag gage to deal with, and it’s of no help at all when it comes to phe nomena like Vander Zalm, or de forestation , or Pat Sajak having his own talk show. No, there’s no chance that any of us can retain a healthy psyche; those who try invariably end up either as fascists and accountants, or as weirdo flakes

with severe drug dependencies. But survival is possible - and for that, you need information. The problem is, decent in formation is about as hard to find these days as it is to find a person with brains and beauty (for which, by the way, I can be reached care of the Trib ). I mean, if you ask some body with strong political beliefs for information, you’ll get a lec ture on the militarist allegiances of Captain Kangaroo, or - my recent fave - how fluoridation is actually a capitalist plot. As for journal ism, a journalist wouldn’t know the truth if it walked up to him or her and offered free drinks, and you wouldn’t believe how far a journalist will go to get a free drink. Plus, the ink always runs on those Marxist-Leninist pamphlets with the long wooden headlines, so that’s out too. Well then, the reason for the column -that is, aside from the picture above my name and the notoriety and the chicks and the hefty pay bonus- is, most simply, this: I’m here to prove that infor mation can be fun. It’s not just about the average volume of rain fall in a Brazilian rainforest (if you can find one), or the size of the

Liberal Party budget (if you can find it); it’s aboutElvis’ ghost, and justhow many movies Gene Hackman and Michael Caine make every year, and why we’re all having so much fun when our school’s com pletely broke and so many people have a tendency to use automatic weapons. Okay, so popular culture is a diseased cesspool, devoid of both quality and conscience - but why are people acting as if that’s a bad thing? These and other issues are worth going into, if only for the sake of offending people and pre serving an immensely cushy job. That’s about all for this week, kids. But before you go, a little brain-teaser: with all that Montreal has to offer, why do some people persist in going to the Peel Pub? I know, I know, everybody has their own way of having a good time. But - and I may be going out on a limb here - doesn’t it seem to you that anyone who willingly lines up with a group of imbeciles for an hour for the privilege of sitting in plastic chairs in an undecorated cellar, being fed watered-down drafts by surly waiters, to the sound of terrible music and hundreds of voices raised in a living monument to ignorance, and then somebody

pukes on your shoes, might be a...complete blockhead? A good journalist would investigate this. Still, remember what a certain Dr. H.S. Thompson said about jour nalism: “Journalism is not a profes sion or a trade. It is a cheap catch all for fuckoffs and misfits - a false doorway to the backside of life, a filthy piss-ridden little hole nailed up by the building inspector, but just deep enough for a wino to curl up from the sidewalk and mastur bate like a chimp in a zoo-cage.” Tell me about it.

Paul Horwitzis the Tribune’sresi dent muse and pop culture critic. He has leftist sympathies, without the conviction that humankind has a hope in Hades. He is convinced that Three s Company is the logi cal extension o f post-Hegelian philosophy. The Disneyland Tapes will be a regular column...until Paul manages to resolve the inher ent contradictions o f Anglo-Ameri can bourgeois culture, something which could, o f course, occur at any time, depending upon how much he has had to drink with lunch.

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Vicomte only after genuine suffer ing. I wonder how it can be then, that the audience still has the ca pacity to sympathise with the Vicomte, even while knowing that he fully anticipated and craved her very suffering. Does there lie any meaning or purpose in the soap opera of this immoral tale? Rather than confront the considerable potential that this story has for exploring the psycho logical impact of the strange games people play, the film Dangerous * Liaisons regrettably stresses the frivolous and decadent element in {g the characters inter-relationships. | If only there had been a second ^ chance for Montreuil and Valmont ^ to see the err of their ways and give I'in to “true love”, but love is 1 squashed by corruption. Whatever 2 happened to “love conquers all”?

" 0 what a tangled web we weave whenfirst we practice to deceive.” Here is a story of deceit and se duction woven taut with sexual tension and a struggle for power, based on the classic novel Les Liaisons Dangereuses, published in 1782. Filmed on location near Paris, Dangerous Liaisons pro vides a unique historical and cul tural setting for today’s audience to study corruption and deceit The era is marvellously portrayed, mostly thanks to costume designer James Acheson, who won a 1988 Academy Award for his contribu tion to The Last Emperor. The strength of Dangerous Liai sons lies in the appeal of its sto ryline which indulges in bizarre turns of event and a bitter struggle for power and revenge. The cun ning and clever Marquise de Merteuil (Glenn Close) and th Vicomte de Valmont, (John Malkovich),an immoral scoundrel whose great pride is his scandal ous reputation, conspire to com pete in a game of revenge through the manipulation and control of others’ sexual encounters. The heartless Marquise determines to arrange the seduction of the young

Close, (left), Malkovich, and Pfeiffer: love conquers all? battle against the fortress of Tourand inexperienced Cécile dc Volavel’s innocence. Valmont, how gnes, but the Vicomte is more in ever, breaks the most important trigued by the challenge of seduc rule of the game by falling in love ing the steadfastly virtuous with Tourvel. Love is something Madame de Tourvel (Michelle to which the Vicomte cannot re Pfeiffer). spond, at least, not until it is too As their scheme unfolds, the late... Vicomte seduces the beautiful Glenn Close is cold as ice in her Cccile long before winning the mercilessly controlling position of power. She is a woman who gets what she wants and is a force with which everyone else must reckon. Not until the end of the film does the frozen mask the Marquise wears begin to melt. After Dangerous Liaisons and Fatal Attraction,

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Revenge is sweet, but although the Marquise and the Vicomte manage to quence their initial thirst for revenge, they hurt many people, including themselves, in the proc ess. In his closing scene, the Vicomte gets the last laugh by disclosing some secrets about the Marquise’s past. His revenge is sweet and final, but results from a game taken too far, and somehow, his revenge isn’t very sweet after all. Dangerous Liaisons is at CineplexLe Faubourg, 1616 Ste-Cath erine West.

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dull throbbing in your mouth a toothache, and doesn’t the only dentist that you know in town have a “pay now and you mess with the government later” policy? Cheer up! You could be a poor orphaned kitten deserted to the weather’s ravages by the unfeeling population of New York City. A l ternatively, you could go watch the coloured, positively boppy new cartoon by Walt Disney, Oliver &

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The story is loosely based on Dicken’sclassic OliverTwist, with differences, of course: the hero is now a kitten, the gang is now a pack of street dogs. Somewhere along the line, Fagin became a to tally sympathetic, impoverished, tugboat-dwelling dog lover, who has assembled around him a crew of charming canines. Collectively, the dogs adopt Oliver, and helpful hounds try to effect a scheme to get Fagin free from trouble. Along the way they meet Becky (a poor little rich girl) and Georgette (a showdog), two terribly grouchy (okay, this is Disney - downright evil [no ambiguity here]) dobermans and their dastardly boss. The show zips along. It ischarming, colourful, and features some of the best voice-casting to which

Tt ’ -1 I . I’ve ever pricked up my ears. Billy Joel is Dodger, the dog with street savoir-faire. Cheech Martin is ‘dee damdest chihuahua dis shide of Mashiko’; and my favorite was Bette Midler as Georgette the show dog. Sophie Tucker would have admired the way that woman belts outhernarcissism. The soundtrack, also featuring Huey Lewis in an ode to New York, is terrific. I hate to cast a dull note on all this frolic, but there is one problem with this flick...this movie seems to have inherited Dickens’ 19th century view of women and mi norities. There are three female roles: the innocent, the bitch (no pun intended) and the earth mother. Cheech’s hilarious Tito would be all the more charming if he were not just first in a long line of racial stereotypes: the latino, full o f fake bravura whose specialty is hotwir ing anything with voltage; Louis the fat Italian sausage vendor with cigar and, I seem to recall, tatoos; a black and hunchback villain; and a black kid in bright colours doing the moonwalk. There is no break from the stereotyping. Walt Disney is supposed to be the great storyteller of America. The sexism was bad enough in continued on page 7

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Fervent performances propel B Y M IK E C R A W L E Y Most ‘based-on-a-true-story’ films with double-figure million dollar budgets manage to gamer a modicum of attention from critics and a vault-full of cash from filmgoers. Yet most of these movies showcase wooden, flavourless acting to propel the story forward in a monotonously straight line. Mississippi Burning leaps away from such a restrained path with fervent performances by stars Gene Hackman and Willem Dafoe. The epic scope of the events occurring around and behind the men pro vides a vividly contrasting back ground, enhancing rather than over whelming their characters’ per sonal importance. The film basically tells the story of the FBI investigation into the disappearance of three young men on a voter registration drive in the south. Seen as outsiders, the inves tigators face a stonewall of “I dunno”s from the protectionist townspeople. When the bodies are uncovered and the case becomes one of murder, the Bureau gets down and dirty, zeroing in on the local powers-that-be. Director Alan Parker, recently extracted from Angel Heart sex scene controversy, gives visual life to an otherwise listless script. He takes few cinematographic chances, relying primarily on the power of his cast to convey the sense of a racist outpost and the hopelessness of a struggle against it. He bums too many churches and

presents too many empty, rhetori cal truisms, but overall offers a quality movie. In this film, Gene Hackman could charm the wig off a bald man. He plays a crusty, old school FBI agent named Anderson whose roots are in Ole Miss, providing him with the insight which his squeaky-clean, seemingly daft partner is unable to achieve. (Les son # 1: When everyone knows you are an agent, DON T talk to a black man in full view of the entire racist town. Clever, huh?) This is only the first of the flaws in the development of Dafoe’s character, Agent Ward. Straightlaced and collegiate, Ward must dream “Bureau procedure” whilst in his pj’s. He seems stereotypically thick-headed: all knowledge and no common sense. Yet he does not come across as the brains of the operation, either. This is not Dafoe’s fault, how ever. From Sergeant to Christ to FBI, he has proven himself a ca pable character actor. Unfortu nately, he is hindered by a some what preachy, clichéd set of lines which forces him to deliver mon strosities such as “Anyone’s guilty who watches this happen and pre tends it’s not... As guilty as the lunatics who pull the trigger. Maybe we all are.” Such profun dity should only emanate from the depths of a scriptwriter’s waste basket. The supporting characters are equally well portrayed, yet simi larly handcuffed by stilted dia-

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logue. The killers, corrupt officials, and prej udiced townspeople, though transparently one-dimen sional, appear authentic enough that the viewer can virtually smell the hatred looming within their piercing eyes. Brad Dourif as Deputy Pell, Gailard Sartain as Sheriff Stuckey, and Michael Rooker as Frank stand out for their graphic performances. Mississippi Burning carries an underlying theme of complacency. Without the FBI invasion, the case might never have been solved as no one in the town had the intesti nal fortitude to speak out. The Dep-

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uty’swifeundergoesanguishedlurmoil weighing her devotion to her cowardly slime of a husband against mere justice. It is easy for eighties Montrealers to laugh with

When I think of Spain, an image forms, transcending the simple and basic five-letter word the English language has utilised to name the country. There is a mystique, an undefined aura of allurement Yet Spain offers more to the inquisi tive (hah!). Perhaps it is the lan guage itself. The Romantic Castil ian dialect invokes visions of parched,barren, mountainous land scapes, fields' of sunflowers wav ing to and fro in the warm breeze, golden hued Romanesque churches shimmering in the noon day sun, whitewashed and red tiled abodes under blossoming orange trees. For more than a decade now, the Spanish people have been revel ling in a new-found democracy, thriving after Franco’s suppressive 35-year military rule. Joining the EEC three years ago established the increasingly apparent slate of affairs that Spain is again ready to confront the modem world. What does this mean for the underground society of struggling artisans? A diluted form of glasnost?

Yes, to a certain degree. A l though not as formally stringent as your average miserable East Bloc government, Franco’s regime tended to repress the more inde pendently-minded forms of artis tic and creative expression. It is fortunate then that Pedro Almodo var was not publicly lynched. His career in the ‘arts’ began with the production of porno graphic comic strips, novels, and dozens of Super-8 films. He then turned to merely soft pom in the 16mm Pepi, Lucy, Bom and Other Girls Like Mom. It became an in stant hit in the classic overnight sensation mode. He has continued to cement his notorious reputation through the eighties with films like Matador and Law o f Desire, popu lated by drug-dependent house wives, sadomasochistic lovers, transsexuals, and diffused with an unrelenting decadence. His latest work, Women on the Verge o f a Nervous Breakdown, is a slight step up from this morass of debauchery. Still dealing with the universal subject of infidelity and vice inherent in all people, it is a

disbelief at the blatantly racist m atter-of-fact statements made on screen by six ties’ Mississippians. Perhaps Mr. Parker could make a film about today’s more subtle prejudices, which keep most ethnics perma nently in the lowest economic class. Such a film would be food for thought as com pared to the now too obvious rhetoric of the old days. Maybe this film was made 25 years too late to have an effect on the real racism of

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B Y M IK E C R A W L E Y ________ Saskatoon’s Northern Pikes blew into the Spectrum on Friday night with all the hoopla of a prai rie windstorm, but the ensuing show left you feeling a little like the prairie itself: flat. The band has a wonderfully harsh touch in the studio, as their tracks present a gritty texture, laced with yearning harmonies and brittle guitar work. But live, the Pikes are almost cold fish, only loosening up once in a while. Their edge gets lost on stage. Their harmonies are inevident among the noise of Jay Semko’s overmixed bass, while the jangles of Merl Bryck’s rhythm work dis appear behind Bryan Potvin’s unimpetuous guitar solos and Don Schmid’s unoriginal thumping drums which verge on monotony. But their music is so good, it’s unfortunate for this hard-working band that their live show sells their songwriting short. The foursome ran through all but two songs from their two al bums, giving the receptive audi ence members more than their ten bucks worth. The opening three numbers, including the infectious Stars in the Sky, featured that toowell-rehearsed sound which domi

nated the concert. The simultane ous live broadcast with CHOM•FM probably sounded terrific, but the cleanliness created an aura of sterility that is the deathknell for live performers. The band loosened up a little on Wait fo r Me, the first single from the Secrets o f the Alibi album. This was the first of a few examples of spontaneity and a gradual loosen ing up in front of the crowd. It could be that their act is still a little unnatural to all of them, each per haps ‘trying’ to be a rock star: Jay takes off his shirt for the encore, Merl tries to ‘dance’, Bryan does his ‘heavy-metal guitarist’ impres sions every once in a while, and Don tosses his sticks to the crowd. Does the word contrived leap to mind? Don’t get me wrong: I think the Pikes' music is gutsy stuff and I’m eager to see where they go from here in the studio. And when Brian launched into the opening twangs of Things l Do fo r Money (they’re relatively politically correct, too), when Merl bounced to the energetic Dancing in a Dance club, when Jay plaintively croons the workaday lament of Place That’s Insane, or when Don thunders along through One Good Reason, (“...a song about guns and money,” said

Semko Friday night), the vitality of their studio work comes to mind. More performances like these songs will make \hcNorthern Pikes concert a more enjoyable event for both the audience and band. But I’ll go out on a limb: one of these days, oneof these albums, the Pikes will break into that great capitalist market south of the border. They will do well for themselves cause they have a sound. The Northern Pikes played the

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because she does not want to be implicated with the crime. Pepa's lover’sson and girlfriend coincidentally happen to be the couple interested in renting out Pepa's apartment. He unwittingly falls under the charms o f Pepa’s best friend while his girlfriend drinks apitcher o f spiked gazpacho and remains incommunicado fo r the rest o f the movie. Pepa wishes to hire the services o f a supposed feminist lawyer to help in her best friend's plea o f innocence in the possibility o f her convicted involve -

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Her lover's wife had been com mitted to a psychiatric ward since the discovery o f her mate's extra marital affairs. After a few com placent years in the institution, she has just recently taken the liberty to exact her vengeance on him. Pepa's best friend tells o f a week end fling with a man she had just met. He disappears and returns to her apartment with a few o f his friends, discovered to be Shiite terrorists planning to bomb aplane to Stockholm. She is hysterical

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continued from page 6 Snow White, but that, at least, had the feeble excuse of being made in 1952. As it is, kids going to this totally modem movie are going to be faced with some pretty serious negative reinforcements of roles. If you perchance are accompany ing a child to this move, perhaps you should begin to think about some source of positive role mod els to go with it. If you go by yourself, or with friends your age, then your best bet is grimace every few minutes,basically, butsitback and enjoy the show. Oliver & Co. is at Famous Play

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R O C K 'N ' R O L L I N A H A R D P L A C E : T H E O C C ID E N T A L T O U R IS T H IT S M C G IL L BY P A U L H O R W IT Z , P A U L M IC H E L L AND R O BER T STEINER P.J. O ’Rourkc gulps a large swig of B udweiser, jams a large piece of limp pizza into his mouth, and talks about the world. 1988 has been a bizarre year for P.J. O ’Rourke. His fame as inter national humourist and subsidized lounge lizard for Rolling Stone magazine has spread far and wide. His third book, Holidays in Hell, received critical acclaim from as an austere institution asThe Wall Street Journal and appears to be headed for even wider distribution than his cult success Republican Party Reptile. Yet PJ. may be fading just as he reaches the pin nacle of his career. O ’Rourke looks like a weather beaten version of Alex Keaton: he’s forty-one years old, and the wrinkles arejust beginning to show. But his eyes twinkle with the glee of a recalcitrant schoolboy, indi cating that he has managed to maintain some boisterousness af ter all these years. Theformeredi tor of National Lampoon during its brief tenure on the cutting edge of

American humour, O ’Rourke wears a navy Brooks Brothers blazer and ratty gray corduroys: apparendy PJ. is a confirmed Republican from the waist up, but anything below the belt belongs to the night. P.J. comes out of the late sixties’ tradition of The New Journalism epitomized by Hunter S. Thompson and Tom Wolfe, a kind of bour bon-infused stream-of-consciousness style which proved to be a breath of fresh air - more like a cloud of extremely potent Jamai can, actually - to a disenchanted America. The U.S. loves to resur rect its cultural heroes about fif teen years after they have produced their best work, give them a bunch of money, and let them produce glossy but ultimately unsatisfying albums/novels/canvases/films/sitcoms. One needs to look no farther than Mick Jagger, Bill Cosby and Dennis Hopper to see this disturb ing trend. HunterS. Thompson, the godfa ther of Gonzo journalism, brought out a new book, Generation o f Swine last year. Tom Wolfe’s Bonfire o f the Vanities topped the best-seller lists for months:

O ’Rourke looks destined to com plete the hat trick with Holidays in Hell. A resurgence of The New Journalism - or Neo-New Journal ism, if you prefer, is upon us. It was with all of this and less in mind thatPJ. O ’Rourkehit McGill

for a night of international bedlam and cross-cultural chaos on Janu ary 12. After the requisite ASUS pleas to the audience to drink more beer- which were amusing in them selves for the first ten or fifteen times, O ’Rourke got down to busi

ness. Almost immediately, there was a sense of disappointment, because hard-core O ’Rourkeans were looking forward to a drunk Dennis Miller look-alike. Oh well. O ’Rourke launched into a rightoff-the-page recanting of his ex ploits in Beirut...much of which had already been printed in Roll ing Stone. O ’Rourke aficionados caught many of his funnier lines like Jerry Falwell shooting all of the Episcopalians. Please P J . , they were saying, give us ourfix o f new material. There was a little new information, but the South Africa routine was delivered almost ver batim from an earlier article as well. The Q. and A. session - as in “I’ll save time for a little Q. and A.,” was largely uninspired: silly questions met with blasé responses. One student, clearly in the throes of a spectacular acid trip, attempted to liven up the evening, but to little avail. The audience tittered nerv ously,and O ’Rourke’s delivery left much to be desired. The big problem seemed to be that O ’Rourke’s material, ex tremely funny in the slick layout of Rolling Stone, loses a lot in the continued on page 13

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T he B ody Shop: b io d e g r a d a b le c h ic B Y K IM F A R L E Y There is something most cosmet ics companies do that will turn your stomach. It’s called the LD50 test, a deliberately vague, pseudo-scientific name which loosely translated means the “we stuff lethal chemicals down guinea pigs’ throats so thatresearchers can clock the time it takes them to die” test. This test is not only inordinately cruel; it is stupid. Any idiot knows that eating cosmetics will harm you, and the same idiot can also tell you that it does not take the same amount of chemicals to kill a guinea pig as it does to kill a human. Oblivious to sense, most cosmetics companies persist in this senseless cruelty. Most. Not all. One cosmetics company condemns the LD50 test, squirting acidic substances into the eyes of rabbits, and other charming forms of animal testing. The Body Shop in stead tests new products on the skin of volunteers, mosdy staff, in the English factory where the company began in the late 70’s. They have no shortage of eager skin. As Montreal employee Jeanette Nadeau puts it, “Aloe vera has proved itself over the years- people are not afraid of it.” Body Shop products are made from totally natural (mainly plant) products. Strict Vegans can choose from over 75 supplies ranging from strawberry body shampoo to hair gel, although the main attraction of

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the health and beauty products still seems to be that they are hypoaller genic. N o matter. Whatever the reason people are attracted to The Body Shop, their patronage is ensuring that one of the most environmen tally conscious companies in exis tence stays active. The success of the company al lows it to lay down certain ground

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rules when dealing with suppliers. They obtain in writing an assurance from all suppliers that their materi als have not been tested on animals within the past five years. Other wise, the company deals elsewhere. Other policies, outlined in the pub lished ‘statement of philosophy’, include promises that whales will not be slaughtered to provide mois ture creams and placenta will never

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Lastnight, while men and women plunged to their deepest, darkest slumbers, the earth was raped and ravaged by an industrial explosion which densely insulated Atlantic coastal waters beneath a layer of toxic chemical reactants. Now these reactants pound the shores o f North America. This morning, under a dimmed, polluted sun, we slipped down to the beach and had a look at our futufe-no, stolen moment from the past. White snow, blue-black sea were a dead gray paste, the runway o f our debilitated haste. Smoke rose off the mucky water, jutted with birds and tree limbs tangled in fallen power lines. The scene is tragic, drastic per haps, yet palpable, if only for a moment, given the current mesh of our activities on the planet: the ecologists rumble with the indus trialists, and we all crumble be neath the fight Even the most local ized o f acci dents,chemical or nuclear,can leave their poisonous aftertastes in mouths all across the continents, what with global winds capable o f sweeping thousands of miles o f Earth in a week and a new model of the planet, entitled G A IA . Brief, yet cleanly efficient like the swipe o f man’s will, this theory states that all life on Earth functions as one organism; an organism which defines and maintains the condi tions necessary for its own sur vival. The biosphere is kept at or

around a comfortable ‘room ter peraturc’ . And if we clumsily ha one or more of these mechanisr away, through accidents such as tl one described above, our life-si taming climate could take a drv and like Mars, we could turn intc freezing hell, or boil over, like Ven at 500'C. Proposed by J.F. Lovelock, the i dependent scientist, the theory radically different from any j echoed from the caverns o f the $< entific community. Yet, itsatisfies more than any oti offered to date. It demands atte tion, and it offers a bright new la at our world. In the course of pi

senting,maiming, and sending ba to the caverns the other theori Lovelock throws out striking c amples of and thoughtful evider for Gaia. He bases his hypothetical stri

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The Heart o f th BY M ARK FREEM AN As we enter another new year, os tensibly with fresh resolutions, an ugly situation persists: the ecologi cal crisis. Ironically, in the political sphere today, many are saying that this crisis may in fact be the ideal option for a collective, universal cause. They have stated that we may be entering “The Ecological Age”, an age in which the ideology of environmentalism can serve as an international, unifying force. How ever, many of today’s most promi nent theologians are skeptical of this “secular optimism”. They argue

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that unless the relation between ecology and human spirituality is recognized, there can be no prog ress. What these theologians advocate is a new “creation theology”. Two of its more well-known advocates, Father Matthew Fox and Friar Tho mas Berry, are attempting to reach the public’s attention with an urgent message: it is crucial that we regain a lost “intimacy with the earth”. Emphasis is placed on the sacred ness of nature (ie. of the Creation), rather than the traditional Christian emphasis on the fall and redemp tion, which effectively caused people

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to view the world as impure and unholy. In short, creation theology involves a return both to the tradi tion of Jerusalem, and to medieval mysticism. A series of contrasts should help to illustrate their ideas. Since the passing o f the Middle Ages, wo/ man’s relationship to nature has been one based on domination. Many have claimed this a divine right, referring to an oft-cited passage from the Old Testament, in which God grants humankind dominion “over every living thing that moveth upon the earth”.(Gen.l.28). It is this kind of thinking which led Descartes to

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declare that “man is lord and possi sor of nature.” In contrast with tl posture, the Jewish and medic traditions have historically regard the creation as something good a beautiful; that is, as something to revered, rather than desecrated.

For the purpose of comparison, us call these two different postui modem and ancient The mod( view is distinctly anthropocenti and as such, it conduces to the id that the creation was made for v man’s unimpeded use. However, the ancient tradition, there is a ( cidedly theocentric inclination,

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leed in g piece o f E arth... rv on three main points: 1. Fossils from the beginnings of life 3,500 million years ago show that the Earth’s climate has changed very little since then. But the sun’s output has increased by 30% over the same period. Some mechanism must have existed from very early on in order to preserve this delicate balance. 2. The presence of many essential gases in theatmospherc, which regulatesuch absolutely necessary things as the notorious ozone layer and oxygen content, “represents a viola tion of the rules o f chemistry in the order o f tens o f orders of magni tude” States Lovelock. The fact that

these gases arc whirling around us, keeping life flush, suggests not that our atmosphere is living, but that like a bird’s feathers, it is an exten sion of a living organism (Earth) designed to maintain a comfortable

environment for it 3. The composition and climate of the planet seem to have always been optimal for life. As Lovelock writes, “For this to have happened by chance is as unlikely as to sur vive unscathed a drive blindfolded through rush-hour traffic.” Gaia has done her share to see to it that we have come out alive and well. But what does this Gaia prin ciple mean for us, the rate of intel ligent humans? The Earth, like our bodies, has certain necessities. If deprived of them, she would dismantleanddie. These organic systems provide the mechanisms of adjustment which Gaia uses in her quest for optima. They produce the ‘essential nutri ents’ which keep our blue-swirl globe from turning grey. Herein lies their importance. They consist predominantly of the oceanic continental shelves found off the coasts of water-bound nations and the tropical rain for ests. It is in these regions, where critical watch is thin (especially in die continental shores) that, as Lovelock puts it, “harmful prac tices may be pursued to the point of no return.” If we destroy or reduce their capacity to produce the ‘es sentials’, we are leaving Gaia a mere cripple in the face of our follies. But the rain forests are now fall ing. And the consequences may be life-stopping. Gaia, J.F. Lovelock. $14.95

-vanning o f the earth’s atmosphere which w ou ld result an levels could be raised high enough to submerge Canada annually. Individual contributions amount to

Ecological Crisis which human dominion is set within the context of G od’s dominion over the whole world. Moreover, be cause reason and faith have become so separated in the modem age, we seldom relate to nature on a spiritual level; instead, we speak of it in terms of order and efficiency. As Martin Buber expressed it, our relationship with all that is not human is too often an “I-It” relationship, rather than “IThou”. The creation theologians have claimed that it is precisely this objectification of the natural world, especially o f animals, that has brought us to the verge of environ mental apocalypse. They are trying

to get across the message that hu mankind does not in any way standabove nature, but always within it; we exist in a state of mutual interde pendence. This is not to say that there is no human will to mastery, because humankind will always strive to improve his/her condition, butwemustbecarefulnot to believe ourselves to be masters. Whether or not one believes in God is irrelevent, so long as one does not believe oneself to be a god. The prophesies of Nietzsche and Dostoevsky have indeed become all too real. Nevertheless, at the risk of sound ing optimistic, it should be re-as

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... m o r e b o d y s h o p be used. According to their state ment, “ Animals should not suffer for our vanity.” The Body Shop’s environmental consciousness, however, goes be yond animal testing. Last year they joined forces with Friends of the Earth, a high profile environmental ist group, in a campaign to raise awareness about ozone layer deple tion because of use of aerosols. In

stead of aerosols- which are also non-recyclable, dangerous when empty, and 40% gas for your moneyThe Body Shop encourages natural hair gels, (which of course they sell). Another unique idea has been incorporated in the area of recy cling. In England, you can bring your bottles back to be re-filled and pay only the cost of the product. In Quebec, this is prohibited because

of sanitary regulations, but the shop offers a refund for botdes instead. In order to learn the details of the company philosophy, policies, and accumulate an in depth knowledge of every product, Body Shop staff must complete a three month train ing program. Only after passing an exam do they get to don their little greenjackets. According toNadeau, employees are asked “every ques tion under the sun” by customers, which they are expected to answer in a way which spreads conscious ness about the environment. Employee education that goes beyond the ‘such and such shade of blush is appropriate for so and so’s skin tone’ style of training is but one example of how the direction of the health and beauty industry is gradually changing. Says founder Anita Roddick in her preface to theBody Shop’s book, “The cosmetics industry today is dominated by men, who use fear to create needs women don’t have, and sell them under the heading of ‘beauty’.” As the company spreads outlets into the U .S ., (The number of stores is expected to pass 1,000 in the next Body Shop manager Carlos Telmo serves yet another happy customer. ten years), it hopes to revolutionize photo by Paul Stanley the industry by shifting the priority to health-which entails a symbiotic relationship with the environment. Mass consumption may just be the new way to mass consciousness. Clinique be warned. serted that it is not too late, although have us believe; for this crisis is not it’s getting pretty damn close. The only physical, but also spiritual. To Although o il spills ac creation theologians are urging us to quote scientist, Rene Dubos: count fo r some o f our “My own view o f man as a bio question not only how we arrived at this ecological crisis, but also how logical animal suggests that some oceans’ pollution, land we can get out of it. Their entreaty is thing worse than extinction is in neither naive nor utopian, but is both store fo r us. Man will survive as a based pollutants are still demanding and practical. W e must speciesfo r one reason: he can adapt the biggest culprits. The be careful not to rely solely on tech to almost anything. / am sure we can nology to solve our crises , as we so adapt to the dirt, pollution and noise city o f Saint John, N e w often do, because it was precisely o f a New York or Tokyo. But this is Brunswick dumps over the spirit behind technology which the real tragedy— we can adapt to brought us here. Worse still would it. It is not man the ecological crisis 10 m illion gallons o f be to turn away from the spectre of threatens to destroy, but the quality raw sewage in the Bay environmental apocalypse, to con o f human life, the attributes that vince ourselves that it is not as dan make human life different from ani o f Fundy...daily. gerous a situation as some would mal life.”

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The McGill Tribune, Wednesday January 25, 1989

by Gallagher Mackay

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A nd over and over and o v e r a n d ... At McGill, we consume 538 tonnes of fine paper, 109.79 tonnes of newsprint and 953.25 tonnes of computer paper. Each tonne of paper represents ap proximately nineteen pulp trees consumed. That is to say, McGill’s annual paper con sumption sees the death of 13,261 trees. To combat this waste, the Quebec Public Interest Re search Group (QPIRG), in cooperation with Project Plow shares, is in the process of implementing a pilot paper recycling project at three loca tions on campus: the Student Union building, Burnside Hall and, provisionally, the educa tion building. Additionally, as they have been working closely with the administration, they will be establishing a desktop recycling project (boxes on the desks of upwards of 600 mem bers of the administrative staff.) Two kinds of bins, both clearly marked, will soon be placed in those buildings. One type will be for more valuable

Recycling makes sense. It uses one half the energy and half the water necessary to make paper out of wood pulp. It reduces air pollu tion by 74%, and water pollution by 35%. It produces five times the number of jobs. Twenty-five to thirty percent of the municipal waste stream is made up of organic (ie. recycleable) domestic waste. Recycling is the most cost effective form of waste disposal available to municipali ties: a curbside recycling pro gramme costs about $20 per tonne to operate, either at the same time or separate from conventional

tact QPIRG at 3986818. What is most important, however, is to have everyone at McGill consistently makeuseofthe bins o n campus...it’s easy, and it makes a big differenoe.

fine paper, including computer paper, while the other will be for newsprint. As well, one day a week, there will be some provision made for newspapers brought from home. An intensive awareness cam paign will be starting at the begin ning of February. Look forward to posters, table presentations, class talks, buttons, a campus media blitz, and some sort of Trash Bash,to be held in the Union Ball room on February 16. As well as paper recycling, the SSMU has already started a proj ect to recycle cans. Bins can be found around pop machines, in the Arts Building, the Union Build ing, and any other CV C cafete rias. Volunteers are needed to collect the paper every day, and to help out with thi initial and ongoing recy cling education cam paign. Students who are interested in helping out, or want more infor mation, are asked to con

garbage. Comparatively, it costs $40 - $50 to haul garbage to landfill sites, and $70 to incinerate it. Not only are there obvious envi ronmental and economic gains as sociated with recycling, but this process is also a useful starting pointin ‘recycling’ people’s aware ness of the questions associated with garbage: Why do we imagine that we need to spend ten cents out of every grocery dollar on packaging? What are the ways we can permanently reduce our consumption of nondisposeables?

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cutting rate of five million hec tares per annum persists, forests will at that time cover only one fifth of the globe. Just twenty years ago, they cov ered a quarter. As loggers chop zeal ously, the habitat of 80% of the planet’s species rapidly dis appears, as does the vegetation cover that maintains the fertility of the soil

Versus a hole in the ground W e have to give up the notion ;hat we can “throw away” our garbage. There is no such place as ‘away”. Our garbage is going to stay with us. Our first and most reportant task is to reduce the volume of our garbage, and reduce he hazardous content of our waste, tn the meantime, we have to be ware of what happens to it Ninety percent of the world’s xash ends up as landfill. Previ3usly, this involved dumping gar3age in a hole: a notion that, with ncreasing urbanization, became juickly outdated. Now, in most of 'forth America and Europe, our garbage goes to sites that have an mpermcable rock or plastic-cell

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base. This waste is then covered with dirt in order to increase the rate of decomposition. There are two major problems with landfill. The first is that even the most ‘secure’ bases tend to leak, which results in a fluid “leachate”, (water which has flowed through the garbage and become polluted) seeping into the ground water, therefore polluting our drinking water. The Love Canal was an extreme example of this type of pollution problem. Available space is an increas ingly urgent problem. Because the pollution problem is well publi cized, no one wants a landfill site for a neighbour. Therefore, gar-

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Imperfect conditions result in by-products called products of in complete combustion (PIC). Many of these PIC’s have yet tobechemicaly identified let alone examined in terms of their health or environ mental implications. Plastics, for example, release deadly “dioxions”and “furons” into the environment. The air filtration in this process is often insufficient. Ironically, incineration leaves as much as one quarter of the initial volume of waste still needing to be landfilled. The only real solution is to change our garbage habits. Recycling can reduce the volume of our garbage by as much as one third before these problems occur.

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for future generations of forest Forests are a natural air purifier, the lungs of our planet That is reason enough to care about, and begin to protect, their future. Many nations are guilty of ag gravating the tree problem because they import from countries which cannot provide for reforestation. For example, Britain imports 98% of her wood and paper products from the Third World, where there are limited provisions for refores tation. The encroachment into the forests often takes the form of highly destructive “slash and bum” logging. Reforestation, especially with out strict government planning is generally organized in terms of ‘short run return period’. As a re sult, replanting schemes use, al most exclusively, fast growing trees such as conifers, which build up an acid base in the soil, and eucalptus trees, which take more nutrients from the soil that they return. Canada’s rain forests, found on the west coast and the Queen Char lotte Islands, will be destroyed within twenty years if logging continues in the current manner. The recycling processuses dis carded paper instead of the tradi tional “virgin wood pulp”which is produced from freshly felled trees. Although recycling won’t stop the encroachment into our forests, by reducing our demand for paper and using recycled products we can slow it down.

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At this point the indefatigable reader may well ask: “So what is McGill is doing about all of this ?” In fact, around campus a number of people at McGill are actively engaged in environmental studies. Professor Moore of the geography department is one such researcher. His work centers on the plight of swamps and their relationship to the greenhouse effect. Because it produces methane gas, a swamp inadvertently exacerbates the greenhouse problem. If the water evaporates, the empty swamp will release carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. It’s a catch-22 situ ation because either way the envi ronment is at the mercy of one of its own creations. Professor Moore feels that there

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are drawbacks to the present ap proach towards environmental studies at the university level. “Science breaks down to such an extent in the face of complex prob lems that it loses credibility,” said Moore. Rather, he feels that scien tists from different disciplines should unite in tackling the prob lems that Moore and MacDonald College microbiologist, Michael Knowles have in their swamp stud ies. On a larger scale, many environ mental problems will not be solved unless there is collaboration at the political level. Moore cites as ex amples the cases of the rainforests, the ozone layer and the issue of acid rain. He adds that the Bush administration seems to be adopt ing a complacent stance on this issue.

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translation to stand-up. Part of this is because P.J. bulks up on adjec tives like Canadian sprinters take steroids: the fast-paced, light ban ter of an article such as Terror o f the Euroweenies is lost in the “airplane hanger” known as the Union Ballroom. Also, O ’Rourke’s humour is kind of like masturba tion: one is meant to do it alone, laugh a bit, feel pretty good, and a little embarrassed...even though everybody does it For obvious reasons, this doesn’tmake the tran sition into live humour very well either. O ’Rourke just doesn’t have what it takes to work a crowd into a laughing frenzy. He’s a nervous, hesitant speaker who laughs at his own jokes, and sometimes is the only one laughing. All of this is unfortunate, be cause O ’Rourke is actually a great guy. After the two-hour show, as the audience filed out past rows of flat, unsold ASUS beer, O ’Rourke was besieged by keen pre-joumalist types seeking advice and auto graphs. He actually looked inter ested in their foolish stories and harebrained inquiries. In a not-very exclusive interview afterwards, O ’Rourke unwound a bit over brews and ‘za, and talked. In many ways, O ’Rourke is an accidental tourist...more like an occidental tourist, travelling to third-world hotspots, getting drunk with the locals and the media rep resentatives and spouting off Reaganite political viewpoints. This is all well and good. One doesn’t have to agree with his often unor thodox and sometimes downright stupid political ideas to think that he’s a funny guy. Hell, Dan Quayle’s a funny guy. And for all his talk to the contrary, O ’Rourke isn’t part of the new-right van guard: he’s actually a lot more mainstream than many of his read ers might care to believe. The fol lowing are some candid and highly

personal excerpts from the inter view.

On Hunter S. Thompson: Hunter is really shy...he just manifests his shyness in a really violent way. He’s a heavy hitter. He drinks a lot, does a lot of drugs...he’s a very nice guy, but not an example to youth. He’s a genius, an absolute goddamn gen ius. A poet is what he really is. He’s an exquisite writer, but a screwy and unreliable reporter, really. On conservatism: I don’t think that there are many conservative spokesmen who are worth a shit...they either tend to be tongue-tied or they tend to be weird, doctrinaire born-again Christians or some kind of creep. The major ity of people are conservative - and I don’t mean conservative with a capital C. Humans are conserva tive by nature...they don’t change unless they need to. It’s called inertia.

On the United States: The democrats have devised a primary system that eliminates any one that Americans would want to vote for. I think that with Bush you’re going to get someone who will be pretty popular on the inter national scene. He’saknown quan tity. TheU.S. can do nothing right - it’s just too big. Politics? Ameri cans don’t give a shit about that. People aren’t Americans in order to fuck around with that - with politics. They come there to but condos and R.V.’s and ranch houses. The American attitude towards politics is, “look, I give you a third of my goddamn money, leave me the fuck alone. I’ll go to the fucking polls if I want to go to the polls. Quit bugging me.”

Back to McGilL.Moore sees a growing student awareness about the worsening condition of the environment. The awareness is reflected in the growing enrollment figures in environmental studies course he teaches with Professor Meredith. “It’s almost like going back to the sixties,” said Moore. “Students arc aware that they can do a lot more about the environ ment.” A futuristic look past the noxious fumes in the crystal ball reveals greater attention beingpaid tosuch issues as toxic waste and acid rain. Remember...The cost of cleaning up pollutants downstream is much greater than the cost of prevention at the source.

“ H i th e re , e n v iro n m e n t” Starting early this year, expect to see a new type of product on the shelves of your local Steinberg’s: Environmentally Friendly Prod ucts.

Some products that fit the bill will be those made of recycled goods and biodegradable products. The products will be identified by a bright label-(the nicer sibling of the skull and crossbones sticker found on poisonous goods).

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McGill’s second oldest tradition, according to Stephen Leacock, is the annual deficit. Fortunately, the oldest tradition is one of benefac tion, and a stroll across the lower campus will confirm this. James M cGill, Scottish immigrant, farmer, fur trader, and philanthro pist, left his estate to the establish ment of the university that took his name. Many of the current buildings reflect the extent of the generosity of McGill’s greatest benefactors: Bronfman, Molson, McConnell, and Redpath, to note a few. Such contributions were, and remain, vital to McGill’s development and position among the best universi ties in the world. Nevertheless, ex cellence requires numerous, daily, and often less tangible expenses. The graduates’ annual McGill Alma Mater Fund is the subtle collective force of benefaction that makes such aconsistentdifference if the quality of education and student life offered at McGill is to continue to develop and blossom. Since 1948, graduates have gen erously contributed to the Alma Mater Fund ( AM F) to provide a re liable, annual source of develop

ment funds for projects beyond the parameters of the university’s operating budget. In forty years, the fund has provided more than $35 million for faculty develop ment, scholarships and student aid, libraries, athletics, and other areas that generally contribute to the quality of student life at McGill. The AMF, for example, supports McGill Nightline, provides for emergency bursaries and loans, and last year was responsible for nearly one quarter of the books purchased by the libraries. Capital campaigns prior to 1948, were the root from which the AM F grew. Other capital campaigns, such as the successful McGill AdvancementProgram (M A P) of recent history, provide large funds from the one-time contributions of graduates, parents and businesses for the purchase of “hardware”; computers, buildings, renovations, and expensive equipment. As early as 1911, one such campaign raised $1.5 million for the university, and from 1912 to 1916 a subsequent campaign raised the funds neces sary for the construction of the Percival Molson Memorial Sta dium. The dedicated and extensive involvement of graduates in these campaigns, the growing pressures

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of consistently increasing en rollment, and the omnipresent problem of underfunding increased the need for annual funds for the less hefty, but equally important, expenses associated with maintain ing high quality education. Conse quently, the AM F was established by a decision of the Graduates’ Society in 1948, on the heels of a post-war building campaign. In its first year, under the leadership of the dedicated Science graduate, industrialist, and inventor of the pop-up toaster, E.P. Taylor, the fund exceeded $ 137,000, establish ing the first annual fund of its kind in Canada. With over 100,000 graduates currently membersof the Graduates’ Society, the fund is providing an additional $2 million annually to McGill. In these times when we often have reason to bewail the lack of foresight and planning on the part of some, McGill can boast of gradu ates who recognized the financial plight of students of higher educa tion and who continue to give generously each year for the bene fit of present and future genera tions of students.

With questions 1ike “If you had one hour left to live and you couldn’t have sex, what would you do?” and “What’s your best pick-up line and docs it work?”, McGill’s own Dating Game, modelled after the popular T.V. show of the same name, brought lunchtime laughs to Gert’s cus tomers last Thursday during the Snowtime Winter Carnival. Student “bachelors” and “bachelorettes” played three rounds of the game to win the date of their choice (well, sort of their choice) and tickets to one of the Carnival’s remaining events. While many bachelors and bachelorettes admitted that some one else had signed them up, they all conceded that the experience “actually was a lot of fun". Says one bachelorctte Kathy Powers, “I was embarrassed to be up there, but it was over quickly and... it was certainly better than going to class.” “I was suckered into doing it,” admits bachelor Dave Gamunon. “Originally I was supposed to play Win, Lose or Draw. When I drew a stickman for my team and no

one could figure out what it was, I got kicked off the team and ended up hosting the game in stead. After that, I got talked into signing up for the Dating Game on the condition that 1 could be the one to ask the questions and not one of the dopes who has to answer them. Then guess what happened? I ended up being one of those dopes who has to do the answering, Oh w e ll” Claudette Rochon says she chose Gamunon from the two other bachelors because “he had the best answers”. When asked to sing his favorite song. Gamu non sang ‘You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feeling’. Says Gamunon, “I’m not ex actly what you’d call a great singer, but the mikes were pretty terrible so you can’t blame it all on me. Besides, the crowd seemed to like it and 1 was cho sen, so I couldn't have been too, too bad.” Rochon admits she also liked his response to her question con cerning the positive and nega tive aspects of women. Gamu non responded by listing many positive aspects and concluded continued on page 15

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N ew D ean o f A d m is s io n s n a m e d B Y C H R IS T IN E B Y R O N McGill has a new Dean of Ad missions, Professor Abbott Con way. The Admissions office of any university is recognized as one of the most vital departments to the student body. It serves as the link between potential new students and their chosen academic field at McGill. In order for it to run effec tively, it must provide, above all, communication and understanding between students and administra tion. Without an efficent Admis sions policy, the unviversity as a whole cannot function well. To ensure proper administra tion o f the office, Abbott Conway has been appointed to the newly created position of Dean of Ad missions, after Helen Gugeon, who had held the position since Sep tember 1987, suddenly passed away last year. Conway, a Profes sor of English at McG ill since 1970, has held several prominent posi tions throughout many organiza tions of the university. He is a member of both the Senate and the Board of Governors and he has been the former President of M A U T , now acting as their Past President. Conway feels thatbeing involved in so many constituencies has provided him with a closeness to the student body, an inside track to what the students need. “Being both a teacher and researcher, I’ve always been in the middle of ac tivities and I’ve found that contact with the students is extremely important.” From the students’ pointof view, Students’ Society PresidentNancy Coté feels that “the student body expects fairness and flexibility

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from a Dean, and to always have an open ear to hear the concerns of both students and faculty.” Pro fessor Conway understands this need for impartiality. “I plan to do alot of learning and listening up until June 1 when I take office , because our ultimate objective is fairness to students.” The new Dean’s plans include promoting francophone enrollment at McGill since, for reasons un known, the percentage of french students has dropped in the past few years. “W e have a responsi bility to both the anglophone and francophone communities who desire an education from McGill.” Conway strongly feels that this decrease in attendance should be studied to determine what the natu ral level of french-speaking stu dents should be. Conway also finds that all too frequently, undergraduate issues are pushed aside in favour of gradu ate and research concerns. “The University Charter states that in addition to advancing knowledge, we are in the business of educa tion.” Undergraduate education is extremely important, he has indi cated, and something that should be promoted by the Dean of Admissions. Conway seems excited and en thusiastic about his new appoint ment— he will find it a challenge articulating and co-ordinating the various concerns of the university. “He is a well respected member of the McGill community, by students and faculty alike,” says Nancy Coté. “He will be positive for the student body.” Professor Conway seems eager to take his new posi tion, and with his extensive experi ence and open minded attitude, McGill as a whole is sure to bene fit.

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R e d m e n b e a t R o y a l r iv a ls BY D E A N G E M M E L L The McGill Redmen hockey team had a busy and largely suc cessful week, crushing the Queen’s Golden Gaels, upsetting thirdranked Western 6-2 before escap ing with a 7-7 tie against last-place Guelph. The traditional McGill-Queen’s rivalry was certainly not enough to provide the enthusiasm needed by the Golden Gaels to turn Wednes day night’s game into a close contest. While the game started out fairly close, the Redmen bur ied their opposition in a barrage of third period goals. This is not a case of hyperbole here sports fans, as the Tribe scored seven unan swered goals. The first period certainly did not provide an indication of what was to come, for while McGill held the edge in play, the Redmen certainly did not dominate. Queen’s played a close-checking, chippy style of game and seemed to keep our side slightly unhinged. Tim Iannone opened the scoring at 5:10 of the first period with a spectacular goal after an impressive shift while the two teams played with only four skaters aside. An exchange of goals left the score at the end of the period 2- 1. Jamie Reeve was tested early in the second period as the Redmen defence seemed to fall asleep, and fortunately was equal to the task each time. McGill finally got un tracked as Marc Lajeunesse scored with under two minutes left in the middle frame. The Red and White also got quite fortunate at the end of the period, as Mario Debenedictis scored on an attempted pass just as the buzzer sounded. Apparently, this goal caused the Queen’s players to become more interested in thoughts unrelated to hockey, as they played the third period with all the enthusiasm that most would have for a vacation in T r ib . S p o r t s M t h is

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In the most important game of the weekend, however, the Redmen beat 3rd-rankcd Western 6-2, scor ing five unanswered goals in the third period. Mario DeBenedictis had five points on three goals and two assists, while Iannone had two

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assists, securing his 200th point in the process. Unfortunately, the Redmen appeared to have been a little bloated by their success against Western, and played to a 77 tie against last-place Guelph, although insider information says that this loss should not concern Redmen fans. Clearly, this year’s hockey team is starting to gather some speed as it heads toward the playoffs. One can surely expect some great things of this team in post-season play, and they should provide some great entertainment for McGill sports fans in the next few weeks perhaps ringing true to Earl the Pearls pre diction.

city dwellers. Mental and physical fitness are of paramount impor tance. “Never stop learning,” advises Lee, who broughtwith him, and often referred to, his own cur rent reading material. Eating is of course difficult in an age where nearly everything contains addi tives and/or preservatives. “Do

A baseball cap is beautiful thing, and I am not even a fan of the sport. On the head of a hired speaker, it suggests informality without sac rificing sincerity, a lets-not-takeourselves-too-seriously attitude, a way of life, even if the hat is worn by an ex-major league baseball pitcher. Each time I have seen Bill Lee speak, he has worn a baseball cap. Bill Lee the former Red Sock turned Expo, Rhino Party member and presidential candidate, who used to sprinkle pot on his pancakes (“...only my wife does it now.”); who was found enjoying a post game drink in full uniform (“...I was suitably punished.”). Bill “The Spaceman” Lee, goaded once by an eager photographer to pose on the mound in full N A SA dress, who is known in the Eighties for Just a good 'ole boy: Bill Lee signs his dislike of bureaucracy, bull evening in Leacock 132. shit, and his youthful, down-toyou know that egg you had for earth attitude. breakfast? Do you think it has ever Bill Lee takes his Rhino politics seen the light of day?” Ideally, for to heart. He stresses simplicity of your breakfast meal, you should living and shakes his head at the have your own chicken,’’But you staggering excesses of modem have to follow it around the yard to society. “Each time you eat a make sure nothing infects it,” says Whopper or a Big Mac,” Lee Lee. warns,” you are contributing to the Drugs and drinking are O.K. too, destruction of the world’s rain but be sure to use them wisely. forests.” If he is ever elected, you Plan your binges ahead of time, can forget about owning a car in and work them off the next day. the city. “Mass transit should be “But do not jog, it will ruin your the norm,” says Lee, “and if you back,” warns Lee. Concerning want to go joy-riding in the boondrugs,Lee says, “Don ’t sit down to docks, you will have to travel to dinner,” and points his rhetorical the city limits to get to your car.” finger at Hunter S. Thompson who In the world according to Bill he says, “Did too much too fast.” It Lee, there is a kind of Yin-Yang is possible to reach enlightenment theory of opposites. “If you are on your own, but the people in the bom and raised in the country, you sensory deprivation tanks with two should live in a city for a while in hundred hits of blotter acid might order to learn how to survive,” reach it a little sooner. says Lee. Vice versa for the native

Harassing the opposition: McGill captain Jamie Kompon (#18) battles a Queen's player during last Wednesday’s game. McGill was victorious. photo by Hetga Tawil

The tone of the evening was far from being completely moralistic. Make no mistake that when sincer ity is required, Bill Lee approaches even the mundane aspects of his life with a philosophical reflection that brews his unique blend of wit and logic. But classic bullpen and dugout stories constantly found

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David Steiner is an extraordi nary basketball player, anyone who has watched him would agree. The junior swing guard from Little Burgundy, or as he called it, “a ghetto”, is not only the leading scorer on the Redmen (averaging 20 points per game).; he exhibits true sportsmanlike qualities. In Friday’s game at Currie Gym ver sus Concordia, Dave Steiner played his heart out. Sure, he scored 22 points while pumping in four threepointers, but stats don’t begin to describe how he approaches his favorite game. During the second half, with Concordia well on their way to

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But all joking aside, Steiner is truly committed to his team, not to himself. “There are five guys on the court at all times, and I’m just one, if we are going to be a suc cessful team, we need an even distribution of effort, that’s why we’re here in the first place.” He isn’t your typical All-Cana dian candidate. “I love basketball more than any other sport, but I realize that playing basketball at a Canadian university isn’t going to lead to the NBA, the competition simply doesn’t compare to the schools in the states. I prefer team sports, over individual ones. When I play golf, I go into the woods with a white ball and come out with a yellow one.”

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OTHER Ad Hoc Committee on Mature Students (3 of whom are mature students) HUSSALAC (This is a library committee) victory, he refused to give up. He drew an offensive foul, turning a potential 2 point hoop for Concor dia into a McGill possession. He smiled as he lobbed an inbounds pass to his teammate and buddy Patrick Arsenault for a beautiful alley oop. At that point in the game, David wasn’t playing to win, or even for his own numbers, he was playing on heart. Compare him to Magic Johnson or Larry Bird in that department. Despite losing to Concordia that night, David was sincere and af fable, very down to earth. And modest too. As I introduced my self after the game, he explained that I should “speak with Patrick [Arsenault], he’s the guy, after all it’s his fifth year and he’s had a great career here.” Once I ex plained what my mission was, he grinned and said, “you know, I like you, I like your brand of cigarettes, can I have one?” Any hoop player the caliber of David Steiner who enjoys a good smoke this day and age is A-O K in my book.

At 6’2" and 190 pounds, Dave doesn’t really fit a single position. “I’m not a guard or a forward, I don’t think that classifying a posi tion is really necessary for a bas ketball player, you just go out and play your best” It’s the simplest of work ethics, and one which helps Dave become better. As for endur ance, he was the only player to play every minute of the second half against Concordia. On the tight race which seems to be developing, he offered no prediction. “'W e just can’ ttake any team for granted in our last seven games, the way it looks right now, it could come down to us and Concordia. They came into our territory tonight and took it to us, we’ll have to go down there and return the favor.” With David Steiner leading the way, the Redmen will come through. “This is a great bunch of guys, I’m damn lucky to play with them.” Although he’d be the last to admit it, I’m sure his coaches and teammates feel the same.

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Redmen Cagers Im pressive in two wins B Y M IK E M A R T IN Two weeks ago, the Redmen basketball team beat nationally ranked Toronto and York Univer sities, boosting its league record to 8-2 and tying Concordia which was third in the nation at the time. Toronto, ranked 7th nationally, succumbed to a second half Redmen surge led by the mercurial David Steiner (game-high 25 points), Ariel Franco (21 points), and Perry Douglas ( 18 points). Ilya Gutlin came off the bench to seal Toronto’s fate with five minutes remaining by hitting a three-point shot to push the lead to fifteen; McGill’s three-point shooting was mind boggling as five Redmen Steiner, Franco, Douglas, Gutlin and Bruce McElroy - shot success ful trios. This provided the Redmen with their winning margin and gave the fans some very exciting bas ketball. In the matchup, a close game turned into a blowout when Steiner began his three-point shoot ing exhibition. Toronto pulled within 7, but hoops by Mike “Aaauuusss” Millman and Steiner

two more brought the lead threes and back to ten. F r a n c o Gutlin then scored his stepped in for sixth leav his best shot at ing him 5:03. The rest with a was academic game high and the final, 22 points, 6 105-89, showed for 7 in the triple digit three-point scoring not un shooting. known amongst T h e the Redmen. Redmen As for York, ended the M cGill didn’t York mas waste as much sacre with time getting into some comthe act as the passion, t h r e e -p o o i nt allowing a shooting began 101-87 fi in the first half. nal. At the break, a Coach 58-41 lead re Shildroth sulted from nine M cG ill's David Steiner drives to the hoop m the last remaining was obvifirst half threeminutes of Friday's game vs. Concordia. o u s 1 y pointers includ pleased with his back to back vic lowed by a slew of Redmen buck ing an amazing five by Ariel tories as he noted that without highets, notably by Steiner, Millman Franco! McGill picked up in the scoring and high rebounding for and Douglas, which gave the second half where it left off in the ward Paul Brousseau (injured foot) Redman a twenty-seven point lead, first. Bruce McElroy started the and captain Pat Arsenault (broken 75-48, with twelve minutes left. second half with his second threehand) the victories were a witness The rest of the way Gutlin added pointer of the game and was folto the team’s depth. Asked if the three-point shooting will continue, Paul Brosseau commented after the game, “I hope so,” yet noted that, “we didn’t win the way we wanted,” referring to the threepoint shooting coupled with a weak defensive effort. Last Friday, nationally ranked Concordia proved to be too much as the impressive Redmen, while implementing their 3-pointers, fell short as the Stingers ran to a 118106 victory in front of a packed and hopeful Currie gym crowd.

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The score remained tied for ten minutes, but Concordia slowly pulled away. The Redmen offence, led by Patrick Arsenault, David Steiner, and Paul Brousseau amassed 49 halftime points, but Concordia led with a staggering 66 first half points. The Stingers opened up an impresive 20 point lead early in the second half, only to see Arsenault, Stiener, Jamie Simon adn Perry Douglas passing and fast breaking cut the lead to 14, 78-64, at 13:15. While Arsenault’s rebounding and twenty point ef fort, and Stiener’s solid defence were proud preformances, the Stingers 21 point margin kept the Redmen attack from getting dan gerous. Saturday, the defensive minded Redmen took their revenge against Bishops, pummeling the Gaiters, 98-79. A four point lead with 7 minutes left in the first half was widened with a 21-8 Redmen run that pushed the lead to 17 with 2 minutes to go in the first half. Ariel Franco started the run with-what else- a three-point shot, and Mike Millman scored three straight hoops while Ilya Gutlin’s threepointer capped the rally. Leading 54-36 at the half, they held on through the second half. Jamie Simon’s hoop with 5 minutes to go opened up a 20point lead, and then his rejection of David King, and pretty tip-in sealed the Gaiter’s fate with 3 minutes left. David Stiener again led in the scoring collumn, this time with 22 points, and Franco chipped in with 14 points. The Redmen visit Carleton and Bishops this weekend. They now possess a 9-3 lead record, behind Concordia in the lead.

Martlet Swimming: Ranked #2 in the nation, the Martlets defeated University o f Montreal 49-46, Saturday in a dual meet as Cana dian Olympian Andrea Nugent set McGill records and C l A U season highs in the 50m freestyle (26:16) which missed the C IA U record by only 2 one-hundrclh o f a second, but stands as the best time in Can ada this year. In the 100m frees tyle; her 57:45 lime was the best in C IA U this year too, Bom in Mon treal, residing now in Calgary, Andrea wot a bronze medal in Seoul for Canada by swimming

the anchor leg in the 100m medley relay. Other notable Martlet prefor mances were turned in by Christine Echols who qualified for theCIAU championships with a 1:15 time in the 100m breast stroke. Cynthia Aita qualified in 2 events; in the 100m freestyle with a time ol 1:18.50 and in the 200m breaststroke (2:47.40) Redmen Swimming; the males were defeated by the University ol Montreal 52-39, but Jason Meewig won gold in the 200m frees tyle with a time of 1:56.80 and the team won die 400m freestyle re lay.

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T h o s e d e v ilis h d o w n h ille r s - T h e M c G ill S k i T e a m B Y R UAR I N IC H O L S O N Raging down the slopes, the ar dent young skier successfully man euvers through a difficult series of moguls, helicopters off a jump and comes to a quick halt in front of the reporter’s feet. “Hi-low, Johnny O, social director and team spirit of the McGill ski team, at your serv ice!” My first experience with the McGill ski team was a journey, happily recanted, through the mis demeanors and misgivings of the organization. In truth, while the club is a great chance for amateur skiers to meet similarity interested young men and women, the club is presently becoming respected throughout North America for its excellence in skiing. “W e ’ve over come a lot of problems,” says the confident team captain Oliver Stef fen; “Things have gradually gotten on track.” The ski team exists as a student society club (with an of fice in the Union building) while being overseen by the Athletics department, a situation an official of the latter described as “unique”. Captain Steffen stresses, however, that the club is student-run. “We organize most aspects of the club including fundraisers, travel ex penses and, of course, the hiring of a coach.” Suddenly a gleam flashes across the captain’s face and the name Pavel Pocobradsky escapes his lips. McGill student Poco

bradsky, both racer and coach, was hired two years ago by the club and has since become a legend among the McGill skiing community. Defecting from the Czech ski team a number of years ago while tour ing through North America, “Poco” , as he is known to his team, dazzled the Canadian skiing world with such feats as the winning of the 1985 World University games. “He remains,” describes John Falvey, ski enthusiast and Bulushi impres sionist, “our most outstanding downhill skier.” Skiing at McGill can be said to have truly started in 1912 at St. Saveur des Monts, when the first intercollegiate ski meet in North America was held between Dartmouth and McGill. The club, founded in 1918, is North Amer ica’s oldest ski team, a fact which all members take great pride in. “W e have a fantastic tradition,” says Steffen, “It only makes us work harder to achieve results.” Many members of the club en joy the social aspects of a club which fields 13 male and 9 female racers. “You get very involved with the people in the club,” says Victor Becker, also a member of the men’s rugby club. “While I don’t race for the club, I’ve sure improved in my skiing and met a lot of great people along the way .’’Falvey, when ques tioned about the unity and fellow ship it takes to keep such a large body of people motivated for chal-

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IN T E R N A L A F F A IR S P O S IT IO N S :

BLOOD DRIVE - CHAIRPERSON

STUDENT DIRECTORY - EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

The annual McGill Blood Drive, sponsored by the Students' Society, will be held for five days in either September or October 1989 in the University Centre Ballroom. The Chairperson must choose a committee to oversee publicity, entertainment, door prizes, clinic volunteers, etc... The Chairperson is responsible for organizing and supervising the McGill Blood Drive in cooperation with the Canadian Red Cross. Applicants must be available to plan Blood Drive '89 during the summer.

The Students' Society may be publishing a Student Directory inthe fall of 1989. The Editor would oversee all aspects of the publication including the organization of authorization release cards to be signed during the September registration period, establishing a budget and calling forprinted quotes from various publishing companies. He or she would also decide on other relevant information to be included inthe Directory. The Editor would have to be in the Montreal area over the summer.

CHIEF RETURNING OFFICER

STUDENT HANDBOOK - EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

The Chief Returning Officer (CRO) of the Students' Society elections, by-elections and referenda during the 1989/90 school year. He or she will appoint a Deputy CRO through the normal application process as well as district returning officer (DRO's) to supervise each poll. The CRO will be paid basic minimum wage plus 25% only on election days for campus-wide elections. Only individual applications will be accepted.

The Student Handbook will be given to every student at McGill during registration in September 1989. This book will include introductory material about McGill, Montreal, the Students' Society and other campus groups with particular attention paid to helping new students orient themselves to McGill and Montreal. The Editor must be in the Montreal area over the summer.

MCGILL FIESTA - CHAIRPERSON

COMMITTEES OF COUNCIL

Each year the international and multi-cultural student groups at McGill celebrate their cultures and heritages during McGill Fiesta. Exhbitions, cultural shows, an international buffet and a closing dance are all part of the festivities. We need a well-organized individual who can work with a variety of student groups to help McGill's international students share their culture with other McGill students.

The Food & Beverage Committee is responsible for reviewing policy and for recommend ing and/or acting on suggestions and/or complaints made regarding the service provided to students.

McGILL TRIBUNE - EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

JUDICIAL BOARD - 5 Members

The McGill Tribune is published weekly by the Students' Society. The Tribune is a tabloid sized newspaper with the purpose of informing the members of the Students' Society about campus issues, events and activities. The Editor-in-Chief shall appoint and supervise a large student staff of writers, editors, photographers and production people. Applicants must be in Montreal during the last two weeks of August to prepare for the first issue during registration week in September.

The Judicial Board of the Students’ Society acts as the final authority on the interpretation of the Constitution and By-Laws as well as acts of Students' Council and any group recognized by Council. These five positions are open to law students who, during the 1989/90 academic year, will be inthird or fourth year or pursuing a graduate degree inlaw. Application forms will be available inthe SAO and LSA offices. Only individual applications will be accepted for each position.

FOOD & BEVERAGE COMMITTEE - 2 Students-at-Large

OLD McGILL - EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

SOUTHERN AFRICA COMMITTEE - COORDINATOR

Old McGill is the hard-cover, 368 page yearbook covering the entire school year. It will include photographs of all McGill graduates of that year as well as other relevant material as the Editor sees fit. The Editor shall appoint and supervise a large staff including writers, photographers, section editors and layout people. Applicants must be willing to attend a 3-day workshop in August.

The Southern Africa Committee was established by Students' Council to provide mem bers of the Students' Society and the University community with information pertaining to the situation in Southern Africa. The Coordinator shall be responsible for overseeing the activities of the committee and shall act as the official spokesperson of the committee.

TRIBUNE PUBLICATIONS BOARD - 2 Students-at-Large SECOND HAND TEXTBOOK SALE - COORDINATOR The Students' Society will sponsor a second hand textbook sale in September 1989 and possibly January 1990. The Coordinator must organize all aspects of the sale which include publicity and finding student staff. (The Students' Society encourages applications from individuals representing particular campus groups which could have group members act as volunteers.) The Coordinator must be inthe Montreal area for at least a part of the summer to organize this event. Any proceeds realized by the sale will go to a charily agreed upon by the Coordinator and Students' Council.

The Tribune Publications Board is responsible for managing and controlling the finances and legal affairs of the McGill Trbune and for guaranteeing that the objectives of the Tribune are met.

UNIVERSITY CENTRE COMMITTEE -1 Student-at-Large The University Centre Committee is responsible for establishing long term plans for the upkeep, renovation and improvement of the University Centre.

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HOW TO APPLY:

All of the above positions are considered voluntary and are re sponsible to Students' Council. Inthe past, some of the positions have received honoraria. However, the exact amounts must first be approved by Students' Council. Except as noted above, joint applications will be accepted from not more than two (2) students for any one (1) position. All applications will be treated confidentially and will be reviewed by the Students' Society Nominating Committee. The best quali fied candidates will likely be interviewed by the committee.

"General Application" forms are available in the Students' Soci ety General Office, University Centre, Room 105, 3480 McTavish Street; at Sadies II in the Engineering Building and at Sadie's III in Chancellor Day Hall. All applicants may expect to have a written response to their applications by the end of March. Completed applications must be submitted to Leslie Copeland, Operations Secretary, Students' Society General Office, Univer sity Centre, Room 105 NO LATER THAN 4:30P.M., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3RD, 1989.

Amanda Kalhok Chairperson Nominating Committee