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What’s On WHAT’S ON IS COURTESY OF THE INTER-GROUP LIAISON NOTICES: Term Paper Special: The Phys. Sci. & Eng. Library is offering special rates on computerized literature searches to under graduates. The offer is restricted to a select number of databases, such as the Applied Science and Technology Index or the General Science Index which cover about 300 North American, easily availablejour nals. For more information, come to the Reference desk at PSEL and ask for Albert or call 398-4767. Eben Hopson Fellowship: Applications for two fellowships are invited. Preference to Northern Undergraduate and Graduate Students in any discipline. Sponsored by The North Slope Borough. Info.: Centre for Northern Studies and Research, Bumside720398-6052. QPIRG/GQRIP. Recycling bins are in the Union, Education, andBurnside build ings. Come help recycling at McGill grow! Walk-Safe Network: This program, be gun during Sexual Assault Awareness Week, is run by and for students and is designed to provide an alternative to walk ing home alone at night. Male and female volunteer walkers needed, only 1 hour a week. Info.: 398-6823. McGill Film Society: Film production program. Weekly workshops, Saturdays in the Union. Contact the Society’s office. Volunteer to visit isolated elderly living near McGill. The Yellow Door Elderly Project. Info: Mike or Chris 398-6243. McGill Nightline: If you have a problem and you don’t know who to turn to, give McGill Nightline a call. 398-6246,6 p.m.3 a.m. every night. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28TH Anthropology Symposium: “The Future of Anthropology”. Featuring Prof. Aron son, Prof. Galaty, Prof. Little, and Prof. Phillips. Reception to follow. Arts W125, 4:30pm.
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Project Ploughshares: (McGill’s Peace Group) General Meeting, Newman Centre, 3484 Peel. New meeting time: 6:00pm. NewAge Dawns at McGill : The NewAge Society is now an official club and wel comes all to a general meeting in Union 302 at 7:30pm. Energetic supporters en couraged. Find out about Herbology and its astrological roots in exchange for help ing in the preparation of an exciting project regarding life in the third millenium. Info: Curtis, 495-2965. Amnesty International: Letter writing meeting. Union 425/426, 7:00pm. “Feminism and the Jewish MystiqueWomen in Judaism...three steps behind?”: with Rabbi Ronnie Fine. Chabad House, the Jewish Student Centre, 3429 Peel St., 8:00pm. Info: 842-6616. Free. McGill Folk Society: Every Tuesday at 8:00pm. ‘til late. Yellow Door, 3625 Aylmer. Newmembers welcome. All types of Folk Music. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1ST Northern Studies Film Scries: Atisat. A Kalaallit-Nunaata Radioa (Greenland Broadcasting Corporation) production about the Greenlandic National Museum. Leacock 15, 12:00-1:00pm. QPIRG-GQRIP-McGill: ALL CANDI DATES MEETING. Come hear the candi dates for Board of Directors speak on their positions; ask them questions. Union Ball room, 12:00 noon. Free donuts and coffee. Info: 848-9869 (Mike). Nicaraguan CofTee and other “Bridgehead-Oxfam”products. Yellow Door, 3625 Aylmer, l:00-5:00pm. Inexpensive and socially just. Sponsored by SCM. Speakers Series: Dept, of Political Sci ence presents Prof. Ronald S. Beiner speak ing on ‘“What’s Wrong with Liberalism”. Leacock 738, l:00-3:00pm. McGill-Qucbec vous invite à la Version Français, de 16h à 18h, au salon des étudi ants du Pavillon Peterson (3460, me McTavish). On y discute de tout. Those who want to practice their French are
welcome too. Café et beignes. Dept, of English Drama Program: pres ent Michael Hamburger of Deutsches Theatre, speaking on “Brecht and the Language of Consent”. Gold Room, Fac ulty Club, 3450 McTavish, 4:00pm. Info: 398-6558. McGill Youth Parliament: Meeting, Union 310, 4:00 p.m. Government resolu tions will be voted on and cabinet positions chosen. New Members welcome. Info: Brian, 284-6291. McGill GO Club: Meeting. Union 302, 5:00- 10:00pm. Ever read “Shibumi”? Hillel Student’s Society and McGill Civil Liberties Organization: present Stephen Nowell of Comité 178 speaking on “Re cent Developments in Civil Rights in Quebec”. Hillel House, 3460 Stanley, 7:00pm. FREE. Info: Howard, 845-9171. “Apartheid and International Debt”: A lecture by Piniel Philip Ole Long’iou, Secretary General of the Evangelical Lu theran Church in Tanzania. Newman Centre, 3484 Peel, 7:30pm. Info.: 3984106. Sponsored by the Justice and Peace Committee of the Archdiocese of Mon treal, the Social Justice Committee of Montreal, McGill Chaplaincy, McGill Christian Leaders, and Development and Peace. McGill Outing Club: General Meeting, Leacock 232, 7:30pm. Winter (almost Spring!) Activities: Early March hut-tohut ski trip to Mt. Tremblant; Telemaric Festival in Vermont-March 18-19; Week end or Weekday trips to the House when ever you want. Info.: Union 411; 3986817. McGill Film Society: Blood and Sand. USA 1912 (100 min.). FDA Auditorium, 8:00pm. FREE. Centre Interculturel Monchanin-Juvenile Delinquency in Various Cultures Workshop Series: Haitian perspective (in French), 4917 St-Urbain, 7:00-10:00pm. Info.: 288-7229. THURSDAY, MARCH 2ND Faculty of Arts-Seminars: “Post-Social
ism in Guangdong”. Leacock 738, 10:00am.-12:00 noon; and “Research to Technology, Industry, and Government in Japan”. Room TBA, 2:00-3:00pm. Etude de la Bible Francophone: lecture et discussions sur un passage choisi. Union 425, de 12h30 à lh30. Apportez votre “lunch”. Etudiant(e)s et personnel de McGill seulement. Organisé par le McGill Christian Fellowship. Comedian Frankie Kramer at the Cam pus Centre, Loyola Campus, Concordia University. Upstairs in the Oasis Lounge at 3:30pm. Labatt beer $1.50 from 3-5 p.m. Sponsored by CUSA and Labatt Brewer ies. Archeology Speakers Series: Department of Anthropology presents Dr. Peter Rowley-Conwy, Cambridge University, speaking on “Settlement Systems of the European Mesolithic: Evidence of Animal Bones”. Leacock 720, 4:30-6:00pm. McDonald Currie Lecture: Faculty of Arts presents Ezra F. Vogel, Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs, Harvard University, speaking on “Beyond Success: New Japanese Goals?”. Leacock 232, 6:00pm. Info.: 398-4216. Dept, of English Drama Program: pres ents RichardSchechnerof theTisch School of Arts, New York University, speaking on “Restoration of Behaviour: The Perform ance Process in Theatre, Ritual and Every day Life - Viewed Interculturally”. Arts 230, 8:00pm. Info: 398-6558. McGill Writers’ Guild: Meeting every Thursday. Student readings, followed by discussion and writing exercise. Arts 350, 6:00 p.m. Information: 284-4421. Scrivener’s NewMcGill Reading Series: presents Erin Moure, governor general’s award for poetry, finalist; and Gail Scott, QSPELL award winner for fiction. At Le Bistro Duluth, 121 Duluth E., 8:00pm. Info: 287-9096. Co-sponsored by CKUT 90.3 FM. McGill Film Society: Touch of Evil. USA 1958 (110 min.) Dir.: Orson Welles. Lea cock 132. 8:00pm. “The Action”: in the Alley, 3480 McTavish, 9:00pm. $2.00. Proceeds to the
Montreal Children’s Hospital. McGill Player’sTheatre-Theatrcsports: Improv Comedy. Every Thursday in The Alley,10:00 p.m. FREE. FRIDAY, MARCH 3RD Centre for Developing Area Studies: Fellows Seminar Series presents Stan ford Mukasa speaking on “Development as a Basic Human Right: Strategies for Empowering Women in Development Communication". 3715 Peel, Rm. 100, 12:00noon. Faculty of Arts-Seminars: “Challenges for Social Theory in Japan and China”. Leacock 738, 3:00-5:00pm. Comedian Ricky Bronson at Reggie’s Pub, Concordia University, 1455 de Mai sonneuve, W., 3:30pm.. Sponsored by CUSA. Caribbean Students’ Society: General Meeting, Union B09/10, 6:00pm. Cultural Show preparation, presentation on Barba dos, introduction of elections. McGill Christian Fellowship: presents Paul Garnet speaking on“The Holy Spirit”. Leacock 26, 7:00pm. FREE. India-Canada Student’s Association: presents a series of 6 video tapes, in colour, of discussions with J. Krishnamurti. Every Friday, Leacock 111, 8:00pm. Info: 9326362:481-0547. McGill Film Society: Un Zoo la Nuit. Canadal987 (100min.) Dir.: J.C. Lauzon. FDA Auditorium, 8:00pm. McGill Player’sThcatre-Theatrcsports: ImprovComedy. Union 425/426.10:30pm. FREE. SATURDAY, MARCH 4TH McGill Film Society: Gone with the Wind. USA 1939 (220 min.) Dir.: V. Fleming. Leacock 132, 8:00pm. MONDAY, MARCH 5TH McGill GO Club: Meeting. Union 302, 5:00-10:00pm. Ever read “Shibumi?”.
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T h e f u r o r o v e r th e BY NICHOLAS VASIL
partment of Islamic Studies at the University of Toronto, offers an explanation for the riots and fulmi nations. “The book has been seen [by Muslims] as an attack on the lifestyle and message of the Prophet Mohammed...[and] as ridiculing
“The author o f the book entitled The Satanic Verses is hereby sen tenced to death.” -Ayatollah Ruhollas Khomeini, spiritual leader of Iran. February 14,1989 “The book that is worth killing people fo r is not the book I wrote." -Salman Rushdie, author of The Satanic Verses. A man is in hiding, his novel ablaze upon the stake of religious con viction. Authors throughout the world brandish fire-extin guishers, and on them, in time-worn and timewithstood letters, West ern onlookers read the inscriptions, “Freedom of Expression.” In Islam, the same letters spell, “Blasphemy.” These two interpreta tions have, in the course of three weeks of pro test, divided the world. The sides, East and “find the cost of freedom...” West, have lined up, each hurling threats and counter the Prophet’s wives and, also, threats, sanctions and obstinance Abraham, the archetype of all into the peopled wasteland between prophets.” Many Muslims, like Ridwan their respective camps. A third group deplores the conflict but Yusurf, Principal of the Muslim maintains a firm opposition to the School of Montréal, “regret the book” and its defamatory content. text, The Satanic Verses. Some others, a minority, have Why? vowed to avenge their defamed HadiaDajani-Shateel, aMuslim and Associate Professor in the De Prophet by killing the author of the
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added, “I know there are some [here in Montréal]. Some of them have even threatened to kill me because I publicly denounced Khomeini’s action.” This brings up an interesting point: Muslims wiling to kill other Muslims over a 547-page book of fiction. The former invariably be-
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“Muslims are people of the book - the Koran. The book is guidance. The book is religion. The book is [God].” This from Ryszard Ka puscinski, a close friend of Rushdie’s, and a journalist who has worked in the Muslim world for many years. No one is question ing their faith. No one is opposing himself or herself to the right of a Muslim nation to ban the novel. But when Muslims speak of kill ing a man, of banning the book from the nonMuslim world, the ac cusations begin to fly. Authors, Muslim and Western alike, have been the most vocal in denouncing the death threat and the attempts to have The Satanic Verses banned entirely. “Every writer must be able to expect in a free society that if his book is published, it will be sold,” said Leon Wielseltier, writer for The New Republic. “Once somebody decides to [prevent] the ability to pass on books, then we are leaving our selves open to intellectual [castra tion],” said Peter Hamill of the New York Post. He continues: “Freedom is the issue [here]. Not religion. Not blasphemy... The choice is ours.”
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f o r m a t io n o f F E E Q TRIBUNE NEWS STAFF Last Saturday and Sunday, in the Union Ballroom at McGill, six universities officially formed Quebec’s newest federation of stu dent organizations, the Fédération des Étudiantes et Étudiants de Québec (FEEQ). Once formed, the group immediately put forth its first official policy statement, re garding loans and bursaries. The six schools participating in the weekend’s activities were McGill, Sherbrooke University, Université de Montréal, Univer sité Laval, Université de Québec à Rimouski, and École Polytech nique. Of these schools, the first four joined FEEQ provisionally, pending the outcomes of individ ual campus referenda. The other two schools did not join, but Ri mouski’s suggestion that it host the first meeting of the FEEQ General Council indicates it will express an interest in joining the organization in the future. On Saturday, the schools fin
ished running through the FEEQ constitution, ratifying each article by consensus. According to SSMU External Affairs Coordinator John Fox, the only issue of contention was that of the role and makeup of the yearly Congress. In the end, it was agreed that the Congress would set general guidelines for the fed eration’s activities, and that each institution would have the same number of votes. “The Congress will not be a bind ing body, but clearly a lot will come out of it, such as workshops”, said Fox. After the discussion on constitutional affairs, the school representatives went through the process of provisionally joining the organization, which had been in corporated several weeks earlier. On Sunday, the federation’s con cerns shifted towards the political, as FEEQ adopted a program re garding loans and bursaries. Their policy, adopted by consensus, is essentially the same as SSMU’s policy on loans and bursaries, with
the added stipulation that on the completion of a degree program, 25% of a student’s debt should be forgiven, in order to encourage the completion of the student’s educa tion. Fox stated that the group believes that much of Québec’s high dropout rate can be attributed to the extra pressure of carrying a loan. “We’re extremely happy that it happened at McGill”, said Fox on Monday. “It’s a good thing that the External Affairs Committee com mitted the $1000" to FEEQ ex penses, some of which went to wards covering the expenses of hosting the weekend. FEEQ has recently come under attack at the Université de Mon tréal, on the grounds that McGill and U de M will have different opinions on Bill 101. Fox re sponded, “That’s part of what’s good about being a federation. Being in federation means that you can do what you want in other areas...Our common concerns are in education.”
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The Disneyland Tapes P G S S V .P . re sp o n d s
WITH PAUL HORWITZ
The Union Building lias become a trifle crowded of late. First there were crowdsof Queen’s students (you know, the ones with the leather jackets and mousse), all on their unnaturally, arro gantly well-scheduled spring break, sampling Gcrt’s pizza and bothering women (“You should visit me in Kingston...Did I mention that I'm wealthy?"). Albeit they were tiresome, they could always be politely gotten rid of with a simple set of directions to the nearest Club Monaco. These other people, though, are different: their eerie, strangely frozen smiles can be seen on bulletin boards all over cam pus, they trap you in your very classes, and they lurk in the Union Building with all the tenacity of rats trying to gel on a sinking ship. They are the Candi dates, Completely fair, unstraitjacketlike editorial guidelines forbid me to tell you about the Candidates (but make it your business to find out about them), but, for safety reasons, IT1 tell you how to spot one. The first thing you notice is their eyes - big, round, strained with lack of sleep, pleading for your trust and attention, and...is that fea r I see? The fear of an animal in a brutal trap? You bet. Their leg muscles are preternaturally well-developed from pounc ing, leopardlike, on large groups of voters. Their lips can frequently be seen muttering this refrain to them selves: “Oh my God, I ’m gonna lose.,.I can'tbelieveit...all thattimcspenL.no, must think positive...oh my God, I ’m gonna win.:," They will want you to shake their hands, but DON’T! Their palms sweat like fiends from ambi tion, exhaustion, and pure adrenaline, and they have monster calluses from nailing dozens of campaign posters.
Okay, so maybe I exaggerated a little. The important thing is, take advantage of their frightening ubiq uity now, before they fall into the inac cessibility pit. And, as Steve Earle has said, “If you don’t vote, don’t bitch.” Alright, hold it right there! I was checking out the Rolling Stone singles chart today, and I noticed a horrible aberration. No, 1 don't mean Rick Astley, he’s sadly inevitable. The cur rent number one song is Sheriff’s “When I ’m With Ypu”- that is to say, a mediocre song by a defunct Cana dian band that is about seven years old. To give you a better idea of what all this means, the nucleus of Sheriff is now Frozen Ghost, which, asyou know, rhymes with “execrable". This exhu mation of old songs on the American rock market seems, distressingly, to be becoming a trend. The same thing happened this fall to UB40’s “Red Red Wine”, which at least deserved to be dredged up. Still, considering how random this nostalgia/forgetfulness thing has been so far, l dread what might happen; they might start playing...no, I won'tsay it. Just be sure and bum your Village People records before it’s too late. That’s all for now, but let’s end Feb ruary on a high note, shall we? Tabloid readers last week may have been pleas antly surprised, or perhaps sickened, by one obviously Yuppie-influenced headline last week: “FAX machine re ceives photo from heaven”. And from the cover of GQ, the magazine which epitomizes the wit and style of preCambrian man, comes this charmer: “Hairy Men...and Why Women Love Them”. Somebody, oh somebody, please make them stop. Next week: John Tower talks to us over a few drinks.
Painters are your peers To the Tribune: Nicholas Vasil is wrong. But what is worse is that in suggest ing on February 14 that this generation of Canadians is creatively starved. Nicholas Vasil has represented a view which can only damage his peers and his country. First let me ask what statistics Mr. Vasil saw which would lead him to the “scientific” assertion that “creative moments in Canada have decreased significantly in the past decade’7 What is a creative moment? How did Statis tics Canada - andl give him the benefit of the doubt by assuming that is his source - arrive at that conclusion? I suggesthis conclusions come from the arrogance expressed by some that little short of a novel, painting, play, song or sculpture reflects creativity. True, Mr. Vasil mentions the discov ery of “irrefutable laws of physics” as being creative but fails to recognize that no scientific law is irrefutable and probably does not consider lesser sci entific achievements to warrant the term “creative”. Here’s a list of some creative things I do on a day when I do not write articles, short stories or doodle: -dream -schedule my day -decide how to dress -decide what excuse I will give to my professor when I show up late for his class -decide how to evade his stares because I didn’t do my German exer cises -analyze newspaper columns, let ters and articles during lunch debate various matters with my page 4
friends (ie: “This isn’t chicken salad, this is turkey salad” or “You have to take a relativist approach when con sidering the Palestinian problem.” -determine a study strategy to let me write two midterms and hand in three papers on the same day. -write a paper -cook dinner -convince my roommate to stop watching Alf -make my girlfriend happy -kindly convince her I have to work now -decide what boxer shorts to wear to bed -decide whether to sleep with my nose above or below the sheets -dream Add to that the fact that I am con stantly thinking of new things to write and you, Mr. Vasil, have far more than the 3.4 creative acts per year you allot me. If I am very lucky I will paint one Sistene Chapel in my life. But, like you, I create every day. I am, in any event, a poor represen tation of your country ’ s creativity. Mr. Vasil. Canadahas survived greater odds than most other countries without arming its borders because it is crea tive in its every breath - artistically, scientifically, politically, linguistically, climatically, nutritionally, morally... I applaud your optimism (and your fishing analogy) - it is rare. But the Sistene Chapels whose ab sence you mourn, are already all around you. And the painters are none other than your peers. Jeremy Gail U2 Arts
To the Tribune: The articles and letters that SSMU President Nancy Côté has recently writ ten in defense of SSMU’s virtues are symptomatic of precisely the weakness of its case! If SSMU was such a good deal for both graduates and undergradu ates, that fact should already be evident to them! I would like to reply to some of the ar guments raised in Côté’s most recent letter (Tribune, 21 February). First of all, the issue of the amount of SSMU services used by graduates is controversial. However, even if gradu ates decide to discontinue their mem bership in SSMU, PGSS has always agreed that graduates should pay for the SSMU services they actually use. This is open for negotiation. Graduates’ criti cisms of SSMU over the years has been that SSMU offers, on the whole, poor quality services unadapted to graduates needs because: ( 1) undergraduate-domi nated SSMU doesn’t understand gradu ates’ needs, and, (2) graduates will always be in a minority position regard less of how much they participate in SSMU. Secondly, Côté’s argument against the fact that the national trend toward autonomy for graduates is to reply that SSMU graduates have not been “sub sumed within federative system” and “benefited from the two-tiered system”. I am not quite sure what Côté means. She fails to prove that graduates’ current position at McGill is distinct from (i.e. better than) those at other Canadian universities. Thirdly, Côté argues that “SSMU cannot, and does not block PGSS from doing anything”. Well, thank you very much! However, I would like to point out that because graduates are currently ‘taxed’ twice (fees for SSMU and PGSS),
PGSS has had to restrain the amount of fees it asked its members to pay. Therefore, in practice, graduates’ membership to SSMU has impaired PGSS’s ability to provide services relevant to its members. Fourthly, Côté finishes her letter by lecturing the readers on the fact that the current situation “has been achieved within true student democ racy”. Côté’s definition of “true stu dent democracy” is not very clear. Is Côté referring to low turn-out during SSMU elections? Is she referring to the fact that graduates are 25% of SSMU members and have only 10% of the seats on council? If Côté and SSMU are so keen about “true democracy”, they should openly state that, in the eventuality of a majority of graduates voting “YES” in the PGSS mail ballot, SSMU should accept the DEMO CRATIC result of the vote and act accordingly. Not only Côté and SSMU will not promise to obey by the results of a democratic vote, but they also turned down the offer made by PGSS to form the “NO” commit tee in order to give graduates the SSMU’s point of view. Côté’s definiton of “democracy” is certainly neither “participative” nor “debat ing”! After over 29 years of conflict betwen Students ’ Society and gradu ates, it is time to solve once and for all this issue. Both undergrads and graduates deserve to have their spe cific needs and interests taking [sic] care by their fully autonomous so cieties. Eric Darier Post-Graduate Students’ Society Vice-President
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A c t u a lly , m u c h fe w e r th a n 43 To the Tribune: Once again I feel compelled to write, in order to protest the inclusion of the Disneyland Tapes in your February 7th issue. Paul “Mickey Mouse” Horwitz has once again stepped over the accept able limits of good taste. In his first paragraph, he not only attacks the NBC network again, but he also resorts to name calling. Is “dickhead” the best response Mr. Horwitz could come up with in the limited space of the week? The rest of Horwitz’s article is devoted to television, except for one paragraph which tells us to invest in the music of Bruce Cockbum, a musician whose simplistic politics are obviously on the same level as Mr. Horwitz’s intelligence. It comes as a surprise that Mr. Horwitz has even heard of any musical group, since he spends most of his time writing about, and I presume watching, TV. Get out of your armchair Paul, and experi ence the real world. Television is only a one part of popular culture. When was the last time, Mr. Horwitz saw a film or a play? Or perhaps his literary energies are limited to bashing only the lowest level of pop culture. Everyone knows that TV sucks and we don’t need him wasting space in our student newspaper telling us this every week. Paul, either get out of the house more often or save
a few trees and stop writing such trash passing it off as journalism. Erin Berry U1 Arts P.S. It took 43 of you to publish this paper?
What are the sources? To the Tribune: I found your February 21 Features dedication to the ills of alcoholism seriously lacking in an exploration of the causes of alcoholism. I do congratulate you on the expo sition of the dangers and misconcep tions surrounding alcoholism, how ever such an exposition must include at least a contemplation of the sources and causes for a deeper understand ing of the disease. And certainly it is that deeper understanding which will help all of us to better deal with and solve the social problem. Scott Verity Stevenson
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Grads discuss G r a d u a t e s t u d e n t s t a lk s h o p secession from SSMU BY ANDREW GREEN
BY DEBORAH ROSENBERG
Last Thursday, the issue of graduate student secession from the Student’s Society of McGill University (SSMU) was once again debated. Present at the dis cussion were Nancy Côté, Presi dent of SSMU, Lee Iverson, Presi dent of the Post Graduate Stu dent’s Society (PGSS) and about 25 graduate engineering students. This meeting was called in re sponse to the mail referendum sent to graduate students from Febru ary 21 st to March 14 th which asks if PGSS members want to secede. Côté urged these students to vote “no” on the referendum, stressing that graduate students do use SSMU services such as the Union building, the cafeterias, the SSMU information counter, Sadie’s, activities, clubs, sports, the Tribune and many others. As President of SSMU, Côté natu rally wants to keep the students united under one body. Says Côté, “The PGSS represents its own needs, just like other societies. You pay fees to both, for your distinct interests and as part of a central association.” Iverson disagrees on the effi cacy of the SSMU for the gradu ate students of this university, in sisting, “We spend almost as much time protecting graduate students from the SSMU as we do associ ating with outside groups.” Con cerning the SSMU, Iverson says, “The students’ society does not
adequately serve our needs.” On March 7th, 8th and 9th, a campus-wide referendum will be held to increase representation and reduce fees for the graduate stu dents. Côté thinks these changes are fair and that if PGSS has a problem with SSMU, it should solve it through the system. Ac cording to Côté, the Senate does not have power to release a par ticular society from SSMU. How ever, if PGSS still decides in its mail referendum to leave the S SMU, graduate students will still have to pay their fees but receive no representation. In contradiction to what Côté says, Iverson believes that Senate does have this power, though thus far it has only been used in emer gencies, such as when a society has been unable to pay its fees. Last year, when PGSS approached the Senate with its case, the Sen ate thought the PGSS did not have a large enough mandate from its members to secede. Iverson hopes that the mail referendum will change that decision. Other more moderate members of PGSS feel that secession is not necessary to bring about change. David Wright, the first graduate student in recent years to run for the SSMU Presidency, says, “Graduate students must get in volved in student government in order to change the system.” By holding an executive position, Wright thinks the PGSS will fi nally get fair treatment in the SSMU. ____
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Sue Young of the University of British Columbia also brought up some of the additional issues that Canadian universities face in common: the accessibility of edu cation, and the stratification of funding of social sciences and humanities versus natural and applied sciences. Many of the graduate represen
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Graduate students from across the country discussed issues fac ing Canadian graduate students, and met final year McGill under graduates at McGill this past week end for a National Graduate Coun cil of Canada (NGC) conference. The conference featured a lunch Friday to which graduating McGill undergraduates were invited to meet graduate students from dif ferent universities, and in different fields of study, to discuss infor mally the universities’ post-gradu ate programs. As well, representa tives of graduate students associa tions from over 20 Canadian uni versities each reported on graduate student concerns and activities on their respective campuses at a Fri day morning session at Thompson House. According to Eric Darier, VP administration of the Post Gradu ate Students’ Society (PGSS), which organized this year’s NGC conference, there are several com mon topics that these associations are currently concerned with. A hot topic at McGill lately, the po litical relationship between gradu ate and undergraduate student so cieties, is an equally important issue on other campuses as well.
tatives present said that the confer ence was a good forum to “miti gate concerns”, as Young put it, and to share experiences in dealing with graduate issues. In addition to the common concerns to which Darier referred, Young praised the opportunity to view the “different variety of problems” that Cana dian universities face. But ultimately, after the discus sion is over, the “power of this group is in unifying our goals”, underlined University of Calgary student Jill Johnson. Canadian Federation of S tudents (CFS) presi dent Beth Brown told the Tribune that the group can then unify on re search and lobbying efforts through the CFS. The NGC is a member organiza tion of the CFS, although members of the NGC need not be members of the CFS. According to Brown, most of the people at the confer ence were also CFS members, so that concerns raised could be ad dressedby the Ottawa-based CFS’s research and lobbyist staff of ten, whom she says are actively work ing on issues related to federal fund ing. Internal and constitutional mat ters of the NGC were addressed at its annual general meeting Satur day.
The question of tuition fees, also very relevant here in Québec, is re ceiving attention across Canada. James Hoch of the University of Toronto told the Tribune that the struggle for funding from both the provincial and federal levels is common to all. Graduate students at the conference were also con cerned with graduate students’ share of resource allocation within the universities themselves. The recent controversy at the University of Western Ontario over research alleged to be for racist purposes illustrates that, while in search of money, graduate students are also asking themselves the question: “Who should receive research funding, and for what?” Hoch said that academic freedom and social responsibility are some of the very important ethical ques tions that graduate students must face.
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M e e t th e P r e s id e n t ia l c a n d id a t e s ... BY PAUL HORWITZ AND PAUL MICHELL
Presidential Candidates:
Doug Fowler, Santo Manna, Alex Nerska, Ian Palm, Sander Shalinsky, Montgomery Shillington, Peter Thomas, David Wright.
Each candidate was asked each of the following questions:
1) What is the role of graduate students In the university, re the PGSSSSMU conflict? 2) Should students groups receive funding through referenda? 3) How do you feel about McGill’s role in the FEEQ-ANEEQ split of the Québec student movement? 4) Do you support a stronger review system for permanent SSMU em ployees? 5) What are your personal priorities? Doug Fowler Age 20, U3 Management Not Bilingual PGSS-SSMU PGSS should not be allowed tojust leave - it sets a really bad precedent. SSMU should stop what has become a war of principles and words, and they should sit down...and work out a compromise. Funding through referenda It depends what kind of student groupyou’re talking about. CKUT...that should be a referendum, but I think that it would depend on the size of the group, basically. It’s a very difficult question. FEEQ-ANEEQ I’m in favour of McGill going with FEEQ, simply because ANEEQ seems to catertoo much to CEGEP interests-it’s divided too much. FEEQ will represent McGill’s needs. Review of employees It’s hard because SSMU staff is employed by the university, so it’s a very sticky situation for the SSMU. Although we pay all their [salaries] and such, if there were to be stronger review procedures, there would be problems with the union. Personal priorities One of the things that I would really like to get across in this election is that, one, the students should better represented by their Students ' Society; the communication should be much stronger between them. Two, school spirit at McGill is extremely low...such things as the Redmen and the Martlets, basketball and hockey don’t get supported at all. It’s really sad, actually. The President of SSMU should work to support school spirit. Santo Manna Age 20, U3 Mechanical Engineering Bilingual PGSS-SSMU They are students like us, though they are unique. They should remain part of SSMU. I would like to see a referendum question posed which ex plains in detail what would be entailed by certain actions taken by PGSS, then maybe I would agree with them in holding this question. But the way the question is posed right now, I don’t agree with it at all. Funding through referenda I don’t like that kind of system, because I think that there shouldbe a hub which everything revolves around. Once you start becoming much more independent in that way, it becomes more difficult to control what comes out of that. I’mnot saying that SSMU should control every single activity, but they should have some kind of a say as to what goes and what doesn’t go. I’d rather have it go through SSMU. FEEQ-ANEEQ I’m absolutely for FEEQ. There have been a lot of questions raised that the formation of FEEQ will weaken the position of ANEEQ in terms of dealing with the provincial government. I don’t think that will happen. I think that universities need their own voice; not everything we do will be compatible with what the CEGEPS want to do, though a lot of it will be, in which case we can debate on the same level, together. McGill should be an active member, and should act that way. Review of employees That’s an important issue. I was on JMC [Joint Management Commit tee] last year, and that’s one of the areas where they say that staff has too much input. They’re managing student incomes, and there should be a review measure. It would be difficult, due to problems with MUNASA. But there should be some kind of review. There’s no room for a staff operating without any student input at all... Staff should be advising students, but the input should be coming from the Executive Committee. Any review would have to be very specific, in order to get past Senate. Personal priorities I’d like to see the construction of the Athletics Complex. I like to see an improvement of the cafeteria and pub services on campus - it’s really ri diculous right now. I’d like to see a student commission study a possible tuition increase. I’d like to see JMC have some kind of a training session so that the student representatives...could have more input and take on a leadership role. We can educate the student groups and clubs about budgets and the JMC process. There are some fundamental changes that we can make. I like to see the loan system for students purchasing computers be extended to all students. Alex Nerska Age 21, U3 Arts Functionally bilingual. PGSS-SSMU I was a member of the No Committee for the constitutional amendments which came out last year because I didn’t think that it was an ultimate solution to the grievance of the PGSS. If the PGSS feel, in a referendum, that they would like to secede politically, I don’t think that any organiza tion has a right to stop students from doing that. But political secession doesn’t necessarily mean economic secession. PGSS has expressed will
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ingness to provide transfer payments based on a user survey of services by graduate students. Funding through referenda Student representatives are not necessarily given a mandate to spend great amounts of money. There’s an understanding that SSMU has special relationships with interest groups, and they are divided by function, and as such the funding structure is reviewed by JMC. JMC hasn't been open in the past, and that’s something I’d like to change. A referendum is an excellent way of discerning popular opinion, and I’d like to see more of them. FEEQ-ANEEQ I think that it [FEEQ] is an excellent invention. I understand the reasons why it originated - people thought that ANEEQ was dominated by CEGEP students, and I would have to agree with that. I think that the goals of both organizations are valid, and I don’t see any reason why McGill can’t be an active participant in either. Review of employees Absolutely. As in any organization, there are measures for the perform ance review of the staff, and I think it’s definitely essential in an organi zation such as SSMU. If paid-staff employees of the SSMU are not living up to their job descriptions or are simply superfluous, then a staff review committee has to be established. A regular review, every one or two years, would be good. I’d like to get more student part-time employees working in the SSMU office. Personal priorities SSMU has a very real problem in communicating with students and being receptive to their needs. I’d like to see the executive offices open I want a walk-in policy, that’s essential. I’d like to see more consultation with students in policy-making areas in the Executive Committee and the Joint Management Committee. Ian Palm Age 23, U3 Management (M.I.S.) English, some French PGSS-SSMU I wonder about howmuch interest graduate students have in PGSS. This PGSS voice, is that the voice of all graduate students? If there’s something wrong up there - and I think there is - and they’re willing to go as far as to secede, then we should be trying to do something about it. I think that SSMU would be stronger with PGSS, but if PGSS wants to secede, that’s their wish. But I’ll listen if they want to stay; I’m willing to negotiate. Funding through referenda Yes, in certain ways. At the rate its going, it may get abused after awhile, because there are so many organizations which want space in this building but which aren’t really accountable to SSMU. That’s something that Stu dents’ Society is at fault for - they haven’t been able to provide the serv ices which were necessary, so people went elsewhere. SSMU should be kept much more open to student groups’ interests. Why couldn’t groups like QPIRG start up within SSMU? Why were we so hostile towards Legal Aid? The tendencies towards decentralization...are a negative point. FEEQ-ANEEQ I think that we should be represented...I’m not totally positive on ANEEQ because I think that we are more effective on the inside. Inside of demonstrations, we should be at the bargaining table, and FEEQ seems to be more interested in that. Also, FEEQ is more interested in representing university students. Ideally, I think that there should be one student group, but I think that the first step is FEEQ. ..we can work together with ANEEQ. Review of employees Yes. That's one of my first steps. If elected, I will institute a staff review committee which will oversee hiring and complaints concerning any SSMU employee. After all, they make up 17% of our overall budget, they’re not accountable to us in any way, and they’re paid by us. They should be accountable to us, too, not to the Dean of Students or someone. Personal priorities I want to open up this building. It’s ‘pseudo run-by-students. ’ There are too much full time staff here. I think we should ran the campus pubs ourselves, by students, for students. I think we should get more part-time jobs. I’d like to see the receptionists behind the SSMU desk be part-time students, have ten of them full time. We could make more profits and use them more effectively. Also, I want to put a desk-top publishing centre upstairs for the use of clubs. Sander Shalinsky Age 21 U3 Philosophy Bilingual PGSS-SSMU What’s happening is that there is a rift. PGSS wants to ran away, they want to separate. What happens when you separate is that you dilute. I’m not in support of that. If there’s a problem, you go inside...you don’t have to break things up. I strongly believe that we ought to fix it [the SSMUPGSS ‘split’], and I think that we can. PGSS is an intelligent bunch, and we can work together. Funding through referenda I’d like to make an amendment to that. Lately, a lot of groups, like the Daily, have gotten direct funding from the students. Right now, the prob lem is that a lot of people aren’t happy with what the Daily is doing. What I’d like to see...is a review board. I think if the Daily went to a referendum again, they’d lose that money. So what I want to see is a review. Every few years they should come under review. The people who voted for them two or three years ago are not the same people today. FEEQ-ANEEQ I’m in full support of ANEEQ for the same reason I’m in support of keeping PGSS here. People say that there is a problem with ANEEQ, because universities are not represented. ANEEQ is the only association that has ever gotten anything done with the education minister. We’ve gotten three major concessions this year alone for universities...so when people say that ANEEQ is too responsive to CEGEP’s, that is a bunch of
bull. Review of employees The reason that we have permanent staff is that we have not been able to manage our money. In 1975-76, we went under because of mismanage ment of money. What I bring to the SSMU is good management of money. I took a year off...and now I’m putting myself through school. I’ve been speaking to [the Faculty of] Management about this... we made policies to gether, and we’re at one together. Personal priorities I want to see two things happen. I want to see representatives become more responsible to their constituency...I’m going to get it done. The other thing is that right now, SSMU is a financial clearing-house...they’re just giving and getting money. It has to be a communications hub. Students are not used to dealing with $15-20,000 at a time, so it [SSMU] has to be a communications hub. Montgomery Shillington Age 21, U3 Political Science Not Bilingual PGSS-SSMU I think that SSMU should represent grad interests as well as undergradu ate interests. I think they do...PGSS is autonomous, and SSMU has never interfered with them, and they never will interfere with them. Funding through referenda It seemed that there was no alternative for legal aid this year. I would hope that situations like that could be avoided. FEEQ-ANEEQ It’s good that FEEQ is organizing the schools that aren’t represented in an organization right now. My concern is that the neworganization will be hostile to ANEEQ when cooperation is needed. Two hostile student movements competing against each other will leave us worse off than we are now. Review of employees Yes I do. In fact Freya [Kodar] and I, and two other people, put forward a proposed amendment to the constitution this year...and we brought up that issue. It was tabled due to legal matters. It’s a very complex question, and we’ve been looking at it now. I’m sure we can reach something next year. We don’t have a runaway renegade staff right now...but it needs to be looked into. Personal priorities As someone who has experience on council. I’d be better prepared than someone who has no experience on council whatsoever. PGSS is the major problem right now, and I’m behind the SSMU referendum right now to decrease their [PGSS’] fees and increase representation to something that is a more fair representation on council. Peter Thomas Age 21, U2 Mechanical Engineering “Almost functionally bilingual” PGSS-SSMU I’m really interested in finding out what the graduate students think. We’ve heard what Lee Iverson thinks, we’ve heard what other PGSS Council members think, I want to know what the referendum comes up with. At the same time, I don’t think that they presented a fair referendum. I want to wait and find out what they want. Funding through referenda It’s really difficult to ask students to vote, because you’re only going to get 2,000 students voting, and it could be a large sum of money. It should be approved by Council at some time. On the other hand, you want to give them some freedom to work, though, with some real money that’s guaran teed, so it’s more individual than a blanket statement. FEEQ-ANEEQ I think FEEQ’s a great idea. ANEEQ is far too CEGEP-oriented - we’ve heard that a thousand times. We’re not even a member of it. We need a voice that represents students, and I think that the voting policy of having student representation per student population is important, because it’s not representing universities, it’s representing students. The more students you have, the more votes you should get. Review of employees I really do. I’mnot sure what structure they should get...we’ve heard one proposal that got shot down for technical reasons that I can’t remember. I think that there should be [a review] for sure. Personal priorities I've read some of these leaflets that other candidates are giving out they’re huge! You know, your mother gives you shopping lists, go out and buy these things. And then, when you really look at the proposals...they’re just spending money. It’s like, look, here's my C.V! I have a short fist of things that I want to accomplish, andI really want to do those, anddo a good job in doing them. David Wright Age 23, M.A. History Not bilingual PGSS-SSMU PGSS does have a role to play within SSMU, a very important role. PGSS itself already has semi-autonomous status within SSMU, it’s just a matter of exercising their own rights, and being allowed to exercise their own rights. PGSS has representatives to BoG and Senate, just like SSMU, and it’s important to have graduate students voicing their concerns within SSMU, because SSMU is a union. If SSMU doesn’t represent the largest single faculty within the university, then certainly the whole concept has fallen apart. Funding through referenda It’s an excellent idea. A lot of people think that it’s SSMU trying to skirt
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....More Presidential candidates Continued from previous page their own responsibilities, but frankly, it's a hell of a lot more democratic than the current situation of SSMU sort of deciding, “student political organization A gets $200, and student political organization B gets $2,000.” A fee referenda allows for a ‘Yes' and ‘No’ committee, argu ments for both sides...it’s much more democratic and flexible than the present situation. FEEQ-ANEEQ Frankly, I’mglad that McGill’s gotteninat the groundlevel with FEEQ. I think that McGill’s always had a problem with ANEEQ and the political
direction of ANEEQ, and I share those concerns. I think that a stronger, university-based Québec federation of students would be a much stronger voice. I do philosophically believe that there should be some sort of united student voice within Québec, but I’m not a supporter of ANEEQ. Review of employees No, I’m not. I think that this is a ‘sexy’ issue, because a lot of people think that there is great waste in SSMU. To be perfectly honest, the mechanism is there for review within SSMU, so it’s whether or not those whom we elect happen to have enough maturity and enough guts to criti cally examine whether or not...SSMU services are being wasted or are
being effectively put to use. The ‘solution’ of having some sort of review committee is not that simple. Personal priorities I would like issues that affect all students to be addressed more fully by SSMU. There’s a general perception, not only by graduate students, that SSMU is anundergraduate organization. I’dlike SSMU to start addressing those issues which are a lot more important, like the library system, which I think is a disgrace right now. Issues such as daycare. Also, restructuring the SSMU system - student referenda on policy issues which would be binding on SSMU - this would create a much more democratic structure.
...and the Vice-Presidential candidates BY PAUL HORWITZ AND PAUL MICHELL
VP Finance , Freya Kodar Age 21, U3 Political Science Not Bilingual Review of employees I’m in favour of a hiring committee for ail the staff; currently there are only hiring committees with students on them for the comptroller, the executive director and the programming coordinator, and I’min favour of a hiring committee for all staff. I think that there should be some way for complaints...and student input to receive attention. Funding through referenda I think that it’s a good thing, except what happens is that we tend to have a lot of it! It is a way for groups to become autonomous from Students Society, and to give themselves a better funding base. And if the students wanted them [the groups] and are willing to give themthe money for it, I don’t see anything wrong with it. Tuition fees If tuition fees went up, /couldn’t go to school. But I think that McGill’s stand on it right now - that if you raise tuition fees you have to raise loans and bursaries accordingly - is not great. Unless you raise tuition fees dra matically at once, you’re not going to solve the massive underfunding that exists in Québec right now. And that wouldn't be very effective. Personal priorities I want to prepare a budget so that students know that they’ve had some input into it, and that when it comes to Student Council, Councillors will know what people asked for, and what JMC recommended [that they be given]. It’s just so people can find out, and so that JMC’s recommendation process is accountable to Council and to students, so they know why their money is going where. Jean-Charles Viens Age 21, Management (Marketing and Int’l Business) Bilingual Review of employees I think that it’s important that every person who serves students, people who deal with people and services, get reviewed. People change, services change, andoften quality alsochanges, soI think that it is important to keep an eye on this. Funding through referenda I think that it’s the best way, because the SSMU has expenses and revenues - if you want to keep up with the operation of the building, you have to use the fees that students are paying. I guess the best way to make sure that organizations get funding...is through asking the students whether or not they want to continue to pay for a certain service, and referenda are the best way to ask them. Tuition fees I think it’s a good thing that tuition fees will be raised. My position is like Principal Johnston’s; I think that fees should be ratsed as long as accessibility to education is also raised by increasing the amount of bursaries andloans. Services cost money, and costs increase every year, so that tuition fees must be raised as well. Personal priorities I want to increase the communication between the VP Finance and the JMC, and also with clubs and groups which deal directly with the VP. I
want to issue a booklet of information to make sure that the procedures are well understood. JMC is seen to be a power instrument, but it s not...this booklet will allow budget applicants to be better prepared to work with JMC. That way, we’ll be sure that the money is used properly. I want to improve student services - we have bad service from the cafeteria, from Gert's and the Alley - and I want to stay in touch with student needs and desires.
VP University Affairs John Atanasiadis Age 20, U2 Political Science/Economics Bilingual PGSS-SSMU They [graduate students] have concerns and I think that some of their concerns you cannot equate to those of undergraduates /Diey have different needs, they’re older, some of themhave families to think about...I would attempt with all myheart totry andmake themnot secede, but 1hope that it will not come to that. Funding through referenda When you have a thousand students voting for 30,000, you get die people who usually want it [passage of the referendum] turning up. But that’s part of democracy...and if students really, really don t want some thing, they should go out and vote against it. Review of employees Yes I definitely would want that. I think the power should stay with the students, and if you don’t have the power staying with the students, you’ll get...apathy. Personal priorities My main goals would be tackling the T Policy, finding an answer to that really quickly; making ourselves more status quo with otheruniver sities; and also hopefully getting exams published before the Add/Drop week so we don’t have that conflict where you have two or three exams m on; da* .Hopefully, with our new money, major faculties like Medi cine, Law and Engineering will not lose their funding, but I don t see how
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Arts can survive without more money. Kate Morisset Age 20, U3 Political Science Bilingual PGSS-SSMU The role of graduate students is to stay within the Students’ Society. Right now, they are having a mail-in referendum, and I don’t think, whatever the result of it is, that Senate is going to pass it [any secession proposal.] What they’re doing is putting salt on old wounds, and they’re festering with anger, and I just think that we should redirect that andfocus on compromise and reconciliation. Review of employees Absolutely. We need a staff review committee with students on it. We need to redefine the role of staff in this organization, redefine their job descriptions, maybe rework their contracts generally andbreak away from MUNASA, but we’ll have to see. Funding through referenda Well, sometimes it’s the only way for them to become autonomous. If they want to become autonomous, then they have every right to do it. Personal priorities As VP University Affairs, I want to find an alternative ‘J’ Policy. Right now, there is a ‘J’ Policy Committee of Senate, but they’re not doing very much. We needto find an alternativeto ‘J’ policy, not simply put band-aids on the present one. I want to establish real academic advising, by putting an advising proposal together and giving it to professors who are going to be advising. Right now, students don’t have any rapport with the profes sors who are signing their forms. I want to review the exam period policy...four exams in three days is not considered a conflict...but it kills students. I want to reduce class sizes, and try to get more TA’s and professors hired.
Ray Satterthwaite and John Fox were acclaimed to the positions of Vice-Presidentfor Internal and External Affairs respectively. Interviews will appear in next week's Tribune.
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Experience and continu ity are two very important elements in the efficient op eration of the Students’ So ciety. As candidate for prési dait of the Students’ Soci ety, my experience on the Senate andonStudent Coun cil, as well as on several committees, has given me the opportunity to see clearly the aspects of student gov ernment which can be improved. I would be able to bring continuity to the Students’ Society as I will be following through with the work that I was involved with this year. Therefore, I will not be wasting any time in ‘‘familiariz ing” myself with the organization. I have gained the leadership skills necessary in the fulfillment of a prési dait’s duties through my involvment within the Engi neering Faculty. Namely through organizing Pubnites and charity events, as well as in being speaker at EUS council.
ExE£nkn£i^ClubRepresentative to Council 1988-89, Inter-fraternity Council President 1988-89, Open Air Pub Manager 1987, 1988, Inter-Residence Council, Representative- Molson Hall 1986-87 Goals; «Fight for accessible education. •Fight to ensure that severly underfunded faculties are funded equitably under the new government funding formula. •Push to have campus pubs student run and managed. •Work for a fair policy concerning "J" grades. •Establish a staff review committee to handle hiring and complaints about Students’ Society staff. I ama tireless worker with a great deal of experience organizing and running student activities. If elected, I intend to decrease bureaucratic inertia and make better use of student’s money.
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Peter Thomas I feel that the diversity of myexperiences stronglypar allels that of McGill Univer sity. This kind of experience has exposedmeto numerous student groups as well as to their viewpoints. I’ve been involved inmany intramural sports, the Debating Union executive, Residence activi ties, organization of Student Commonwealth Confer ences anda teaching assistantshipin Engineering. These, and many other varied experiences, have lead me to see the common concerns students share. Some of these are the underfunding problem and that of the new sports complex. Tackling these in co-operation with University Administration'will be my main goals as president.
Alex Nerska
Glasnost finally come to S.S.M.U.! Students’ So ciety is in dire need of ; change of attitude. Here1! the platform: •create, on campus, a 2‘ hour micro-computer lal with free access to all stu dents •revise the alcohol pol icy at Gerts and the Alley in order to make students’ favorite potables more affordable •give McGill Quebec improved status as an interest group independent of the Multicultural Society •allow, on condition of both a positive referendum and a workable transfer payment arrangement, for the secession of the Post-Graduate Students’ Society from the S.S.M.U. Remember: A vote for Nerska is a vote for integ rity, open and receptive student government, and kept promises.
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Ray Satterthwaite
Freya Kodar
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M ark Piibe
For the first time you theMcGill students willde cide the person who is best ?ualified tobe VP Finance, believe I am that person. This position requites not only a knowledge of fi nancial matters but also a good graspof the workings of the SSMU. As office manager of the Programming Network, as well as head of finance for Welcome Week ’88, open air pub, SnowTime winter carnival, and the Network commit tees, I have gained the experience which I feel is vital to this position. You as students pay a certain amount of money each year to the SSMU. Ensure it is out in experienced and capable hands by voting Jean-Charles Viens.
The Board of Governors decides someofthemostfun damental issues that affect you as a student, yet you are entitled toelect onlyone rep resentative to it. Conse quently, it is important that your one choice be a reprer sentative whois qualifiedand committed to voicing students’ concerns. I have been in volved with student government for the last three years, and have gained the necessary experience in dealing with the administration to properly represent McGill’s stu dents on the Board of Governors. Above all, I am abso lutely dedicated to ensuring that the interests the gover nors address are ultimately your best interests.
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Cyril Jay-Rayon
Nick Rontogiannis It’s essential that a strongvoice fromEngineer ing be heard on Senate in 1989. It is herethat curricu lum, courses and other majordecisions concerning us are set. I am an average engineer who knows and understandstheneeds ofour faculty. As a U2 entering my final year, my experience and dedication at Coop McGill, and constant participation in the engineering community has prepared me for this important posi tion. I am prepared to work hard, and invest time and energy for you.
Robert Fabes
Throughout the years the position of Engineering Rep. to Senate has been greatly overlooked. Engineering stu dents have been kept in the dark as to the importance of the Senate’s activities. Many important decisions aremade in Senate, and they almost always will affect YOU, the student. This position requires a responsible and dedi cated individual to maintain strong liaisons between the Senate and Engineering Faculty. I will accomplish this by establishing a heightened awareness program. Thus al lowing pertinent information to be readily available to anglophone and francophone students throughthe Faucet anddiscussedat E.U.S. council meetings. “Les ingénieurs francophone ont aussi besoin d’une personne qui re présente leurs intérêts auprès duSénat, une personne par faitement bilingue, comme moi”.
Jerem y Greenhouse
Experience: Vice President Psychology Council 87-89; Student representative to cur riculum committee 87-89; Chair McGill Welcome Week “Spash Back 88”; Chair McGill Programming Net work Publicity; Chair McGill WinterCarnival; ’’Winlermission 87” publicity; student leader, McGill Student Leader program. Combining previous experience, knowledge of the SSMU system, energy and drive, I will take decisive ac tion on concerns such as: •appealing programming •expansion of the highly suc cessful Group Leader Program •ensure clubs’ space is maintained and improved •improving the quality of Gert’s, the Alley and (of course) our Cafeterias. Concrete needs deserve concrete action. I want to be the student voice on these and many other issues.
A Students’ Society should be a catalyst for stu dent ideas and projects, not a nightmare of bureaucratic red tape. Its budget should reflect our priorities and Student Council should haveinput intoit. In thepast Council has acted as a rob ber stamp for the recom mendations of the Joint Management Committee, a committee of councillors, staff, and administration. A strong VP-Finance is needed to ensure that our interests dominate the committee andits recommen dations. As Clubs Rep to Council and a Coordinator of the Sexual Assault Awareness Week I have real ized that we need a Society that welcomes our initiatives.
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Mynameis Robert Fabes. I’m27 andinmy first year of the National Program of the Faculty of Law. I plan a ca reer in private and public international law. I have a B.A. Honours in Psychology and have worked in the chfld care and community mental health fields. My interest in being a representative to the Senate is two-fold. First, I’m vety interested in acquiring a wider experience of the interac tion between students, faculty, and the administration in the functioning of the university. I’minterested in acting as liaison forthe students in the Faculty of Lawwithin that interaction. In addition, I would also be interested in acting as one of the Student Senate Representatives to the Students' Society of McGill University. Second, as student representative to the Senate I will be able to continue to serve on the LSA/AED council. In 1988/19891was the LL.B. I class president andfoundmy experiences on council informative and rewarding.
I am currently in my fourth year of studies in the Music Faculty in the Honours Music History program, whichI switched into last year. As an execu tive member andpresident oftheMcGill ChristianFel lowship, I have gained significant leadership ex perience that would be useful to me as a member of the Senate. Furthermore, I am familiar with the vari ous aspects of studying music at McGill (this is my fourth year!) such that I can understand the needs of Music students. If elected, I will faithfully do my best to discover and attempt to meet those needs.
S C IE N C E SEN A T O R Leyls Shahabi
Mona Gupta
Myname is Leyls Shahabi and I am a first year Science stu dent at McGill Uni versity. I am inter ested in running for the position of Sci ence Representative to the Senate. I feel that I am capable of handling this important responsibility. I am prepared to work conscienciously towards the goals of the Student Society and the Univer sity, to whom I will forward your ideas, thoughts, and needs. I believe that this expe rience will not only benefit me as an individ ual but will be of advantage to the entire student body as well. Thank you for your support.
Yes, the underfunding problem must be confronted; but it’s not some thing that I, as a Student Senator, could solve in one year. I can, however, work to eliminate inexcusable annoy ances like having to write six finals in one week, sitting on the floor in class and during in-class exams, and not seeing the benefit of that twenty-five dollars extra that you’re paying each term for laboratory improve ment. This list is not exhaustive and if you elect me. I’ll rely on your input so that I can work on a practical level and deal with the things that affect us everyday.
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Sujit Choudhry
ASenatorhastodomore thanjust leadstudent opin ions;Vhemustaccuralclyrep resentstudents’views. Deci sionmakingisbasedoncon tinuous consultation. I am committedtoachievingthis *<*!■ This past year, I have gained valuable experience as amember of theUniver sity Admissions andSchol arships Committee, the S.S.M.U. External AffairsCommittee, andasacoordinator oftheStudents’ RightsAwarenessCampaign. Theissueswhichwillfacestudentsnextyeararemany innumberandwillrequirecarefuldeliberation. Aresolution toconflictsoverthe“J”policy, addressingstudentconcerns onexamschedulingandtheprospectofanewathleticscom plexwill keepourstudentleadenbusy. Icancontributeto thisprocess. 1 sincerely believe that I amable to represent the concernsofSciencestudentsastheirSenator. Iaskforyour support.
Amin Kanani The Senate is McGill’s highest aca demic decision-mak ing body. It’s actions directly affect the stu dent body and there fore a qualified' repre sentative is needed to ensure that concerns of the students are voiced and acted upon. Having completed three of my four years in Immunology (surviving Dawson Hall and Bio 200!), I reel I can be such a representa tive. As your Science Rep. to Senate one of the policies I would push for would require the university to post the final exam schedule during the first month of classes. Science students must be represented by a strong, active and committed voice in the place where it counts - the McGill Senate.
Jason August
Elected representa tives are often regarded as being a “useless” commodity for they never truly performthe “magical’* things we thinktheyshouldNoth ingcouldbefurtherfrom thetruth. I believethata Science Representative is not “magical” but rather accessible to any Sciencestudent After all, it takes neither profound wisdom nor great imagination to become a true representative. Only the prerequisites of common senseandaloudvoiceinSenatemeetingsareneces sary. I will only promise to assess and vote upon issuesbroughttotheSenateinaresponsiblemanner which is in keeping with the goals and wishes of undergraduatesciencestudents. Anexplicitexample is unfair examination scheduling which does not allowstudents to be tested at their true potentials. Atrocitieslikethismustneverbeallowedtohappen in thefuture.
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9 ,1 9 8 9 ENT Montgomery Shillington council member of he students’ society e ASUS I have the :nce necessary to be ;nt. ,e project I’d underthe compilation of a lg resource book, student organizations funding fromoutside s. It would be useful if individual groups could >n the experience of other groups when seeking g from such sources as government grants and ate sponsorship. upport recent proposals to alter SSMU’s fee and entation structure. These changes realistically rete needs of graduate students, un currently in the final semester of a honours in political science.
Sander Shalinsky Student society is only as strong as the support it gets. With election turnouts as low as 12%, it’s time to look at what’s going wrong. Maybe arts & sciences wouldn’t have lost $10 000 on their carnival if they would have asked manage ment or engineering how they’ve been running successful carnivals for years. We can leamfrom each other if we work together. It’s going to take commitment. Avec une administration enthousiate, une bonne communication entre les facultés, et de bons rapports avec les étudiants, tout le monde y gagne. Ce qui est important pourles étudiants devrait aussi l’être pour l’association étudiante. Agissons aujourd’hui.
Hi, I’m Doug Fowler, and I amrunning for SSMU president. My three years at McGill has givenme abi oad base of experience, particu larlythe2years I haveserved as residence assistant in McConnell Hall. I havebeen able to interact with a wide variety of people in the resi dences, and have developed a sense of what McGill stu Platform; _ •’’Student Employment Fund” for hiring Canadian and dents want from the university. This, coupled with my Foreign Students aimedat alleviating thecrisis inMcLen leadership skills and political background shown in ac tivities ranging from being a high school president to nan Ijbrary being captain of various sports teams, gives me the •Day Care; increase space at McGill University •New Athletic Facility: guide it through its final stages qualifications for the job. If elected, my first priority would be to bring back the February vacation, as well as •Student Initiated Referenda to work for a fall break. •’’Meech Lake” for PGSS
V P U N IV E R S IT Y A F F A IR S Chris Tromp idents need a strong mthe Board of Goverorder to contribute to ter sense of social rebility on the part of the sity. This began with nent, which must be eted. Social Responsihoul also be extended lude a comprehensive ' on weapons research. Other issues include course ials fees and the Board’s views on underfunding, l fees, and loans and bursaries. As an engineering it involved in the weapons research debate and a >er of Students’ Council, External Affairs CommitidSouthern Africa Committee, I can represent your on these issues.
ÎLIGION SENATOR Kevin T. Thornhill udent government animportant role in the y of student life at 11. It is for this reason [ have accepted this lation for the position late Representative for 'acuity of Religious ss. As past Secretary ____ Vice President of the ious Studies Student Association, present member e Religious Studies Undergraduate Society and 1er of the Program Committee of the United Theoal College, I feel that the concerns of the student lation should be brought to the Senate. It is for this n that I, as a concerned student, wishto sit on Senate, s Senator I will offer the members of my faculty the rtunity to have their concerns expressed in a forum e they can be effectively addressed.
John Atanasiadis
Kate Morisset My involvement with the McGill Tribune for the pastthreeyears,bothas Fea tures Editor and currently as Editor-in-Chief, has given me extensive experi ence dealing with the Stu dents’ Society and the University administration. The knowledge I have ac3uired will help me create a powerful link between stuents and the University. If elected, I promiseto present a strongvoice on such matters as Moyse Hall renovation, residence upkeep, campus security, a library overhaul, and having real student advising. I will provide effective representation and ensure that the University Affairs office works diligently on your behalf.
Doug Fowler
David W right
Background: •PGSSCounciUor(1988-89) •Residence Don, Douglas Hall (1987-89) •T.A. Department of History (1988-89) •IRC Vice-President (198586) •Broomball Co-ordinator (1985-87)
My interest in student f olitics is great andI believe have the necessary experi ence to fill this position. I am presently serving on McGill’s APPC andwas the President of both my CE GEP and highschool. Besides fulfilling all du ties, if elected, I intend to use the mandate to: 1) negotiate with administration and faculties to publish exam schedules before ADD/DROP week, 2) work in liaison with the scholarship office to cen tralize all outside scholarships andmakethis information well publicized, 3) set up a “Quality of Student Life” committee to deal with immediate problems. I hope you will vote John Atanasiadis - V.P. Univer sity Affairs.
VP EXTERN AL John Fox
I believe that Students’ Society must work closely with other university as sociations. Together, we can better influence up comingtransformations m theprovince’sfinancial aid system. As Coordinatorof the External Affairs Com mittee, I have recentlymet with student representatives with the objective of form ing a provincial university student federation. I have also become involved in the process of getting the new athletics complex built. With appropri ate pressure, a healthy respect for the mountain and its environment and a clear presentation at this summer’s public hearings, I am certain that constuction will soon begin. I hope to work for these changes as V-P External.
M A N A G EM EN T SEN ATO R Tom Folinsbee Why am I running as |g your Rep. to Senate? I’m & concerned about issues that affect students. Before I decided to run inthis election, I askedother students how they would improve life at McGill if given the opportunity. I heard suggestions like in cluding final examdates in the calendar as other univer sities do, and concerns about on and off-campus secu rity, student housing, and academic counseling. It was these conversations that prompted me to run as your Rep. I want to speak on behalf of Management students on these and similar issues. To do that I need your vote. Thanks.
Deborah Pentesco Look. Senate is no joke. It is the most pertinent pol icy making body of the uni versity. The McGill commu nity must recognize that Bronfman is more thanjust a place for the bookstore. Being a U2 student my experience is widespread at McGill. Having served on the Inter-Residence Council, worked with AIESEC, and volunteered for McGill Walksafe Network I have the experience to represent Management students to Senate. My goals are three-fold: 1) To strive for a supplemental examprogramwithin the Faculty. 2) Tohaveour Faculty represented CONSISTENTLY at all meetings. 3) To extend a personal invitation to Senators to attend all Management parties.
Thomas Tse Dearfellowstudents, my name is Thomas and I am running for the position of Management Representa tiveto Senate. If you wereto ask meto describe myselfin three words, I would say, “objective, reliable, and considerate”. You can be sure that I will fulfill all the duties of being the Rep. to Senate since I believe strongly in commitment. If elected, I will bring forth issues to Senate such as: Better announcement of drop course deadline, housing and course evaluation. I will keep you upto date about the issues through the Communique and Management Magazine. Enfin, je vous souhaite bonne chance dans vos examens!
A R TS SEN ATO R Clarence Epstein McGill has a respect: reputation world wide, vever, those of us who immersed in this ool’s day to day activirealize that there are ere problems that :atcn the future of the itution. Underfundingis barrier that hinders gress. It encompasses and affects all areas of Univerlife, including programming. By attacking the prob, meeting with government officials on the federal provincial levels, I realize that all aspects of our dent society will benefit tremendously, don’t you?
E ric S. Block
Runningforoffice, studentpoliti cians frequentlyeitherpresent anout standingresumeorconstructaplatform inwhichtheyplantobenefitthestudent body by fundamentally altering the statusquo.Rather, itisinthebestinter est of the candidate andhis/her con stituentstoassessthemajorissueareas that handicapprogressandaftera full understandingoftheproblemsitisthen passibleto"buildachangeforthebet ter”. After much thought, this Arts SenatorialcandidateviewsthemainproblemsfacingArtsstudentsasbeing: 1) Ensuringthatweget a READINGWEEK!!! 2) Anoverwhelmingexamschedulethat defeatsthepurposeofexams; 3) Thelibrary: security, studyspace, andbetterhours; and 4) Pooraccessabilitytotherepresentatives. Thefirstthreeproblemscanbedealtwithpatience, compromise, com petence, andconsistent activism.Thelastproblemdependsonthenatureof dierepresentative; ifhe/sheiswillingtobeadynamiccommunicator—he/ shewillbeheardandwHIlisten.Hence,IoffermycandidacyasArtsSenator asanenergeticstudent committedtoaddressingtheproblemsweall faceas McGill students.
Arjun Singh
Christine Côté
Experience: 88-89: Member of Looking for a keen, Academic Planning and Policy energetic and dedicated Committee of Senate; 88-89: representativeonSenate? Member of AdvisoryCommittee Looknofurther. By elect toHumanitiesandSocial Sciences Area Librarian; One of the coor ing Christine Côté you’ll dinators of the 1989 Students’ be choosing astrongvoice to articulate your con bind cerns andideas forchange ing—Libraries are, in my opin and improvement. She is ion, one of themainfoundations of agooduniversity. I wouldlike committed to making to workfor improvements insecurityinthelibrary andtoensure herself accessible, while keeping you informed of the excellent services andcollection. Increasedfundingwouldfacili pertinent issues as they arise. tate this. 2) Secure more space for the Faculty of Arts—Our buildingsarethemost crowdedoncampusandmanyofourclasses aremuchtoolargetobeconducivetoafavourablelearningatmos phere. The University has resources to deal with this, we must channel themtowards resolvingthis crucial problem. 3) Senator/ Student Interaction—The above aremybiggest concerns but I’m not onlyrepresentingmyself. I WANTTOmAKE STUDENTS AWAREOFTHEISSUES ANDHEARANDADDRESSTHEIR CONCERNS. Throughmeanssuchasofficehoursand/orutiliza tion of campus media, I will do this.
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BY PAUL HORWITZ We all feel alone at times. Hell, just this weekend I was unable to find a date on Saturday night, and I admit to having felt pretty desolate. Still, my lack of acquaintances hasn’t driven me out of this world yet. Evidently this is not so for everyone, since Leacock 132 was full on Wednesday night when Stanton T. Friedman, nuclear physi cist and lecturer, presented a little show called Flying Saucers Are Real. Friedman was well informed and quite convincing; the strange thing was the dispossessed air of the audience, which, together with Friedman’s oc casional obsessiveness, went a long way towards eradicating the credibil ity he has worked so hard to gain. Mr. Stanton received his BA and MA from the University of Chicago, andsubsequently worked for such com panies as Westinghouse and General Electric. Much of his work takes place in the United States but Canada, and specifically Fredericton, N.B., is blessed with he and his wife’s pres ence as permanent residents. Friedman is a humorous and per sonable man, quite harmless-looking with his round stomach, thick glasses, and a peppered beard. This illusion of mildness was shattered almost imme diately, however, once he began to spell out the key points of his lecture. His intention, he stated, was to “take
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whole thing under wraps. Friedman has recently been involved in court actions in which he is using the Free dom of Information Act to obtain docu ments concerning UFO activity from the CIA. At this point, his lecture became highly convincing, and chilling in that it appears the CIA possesses but will not release far more UFO-related docu ments than were thought to exist. “Certain knowledge that our planet is being visited gives us a whole new knowledge of ourselves and our fu ture,” said Friedman when asked why he thought the CIA was withholding information. Friedman did not behave like an un trustworthy freak. In many ways, he was very convincing - speaking with conviction and intelligence, and back ing up his theories and statements with information. His information, unfor tunately, tended towards the dubious; far too many sentences began with “We now know that,” “Recent research shows,” “They...” and other vague terms. Still, I must admit that Mr. Friedman had me convinced of a number of things of which I had been skeptical before he talked about them. It came from Leacock 132 photo by Andrzej Szymanski I was convinced, that is, until I took aircraft.” ter of fact it seems 4000 reputable a closer look at what was going on Skeptics have knocked UFOlogists, witnesses did, and there are 2500 around me. The majority of the audi as they regrettably call themselves, on physical traces. In one famous example, ence looked as if they themselves had the grounds that such technology is Barney and Betty Hill, of Concord, perhaps ridden in on their own per implausible, and the energy and dis Massachusetts, were taken on board sonal saucers. Some were slightly tance needed to cross interstellar dis and prodded for a while. Later work in crazy-looking elderly peuple, but most tances are immense. Friedman said this case provided strong arguments were a product of that jumbled and that the frequently observed glow that at least some of these philosophically questionable collec around the saucers destroys such an alien joyriders come from a pair of tion of theories for the desperate known argument by pointing out similar de local stars, Zêta 1 Reticuli and Zeta 2 as the New Age. Of the audience, velopments in our own technology. Reticuli. This is convincing because almost 40 people believed that they A colleague of his had at one time the stars are only a 20th of a light year had seen a UFO. After looking at and built the EMS-1, a submarine which away from each other, thus increasing listening to them, I believed none of operates on electromagnetic principles. the chances of travel between the two them. Friedman himself verged, at Oxidizing the air around the ship would systems. times, on the obsessed. He constantly create the glow, and such a field would Okay, I thought, I can deal with this. railed at what he called the “Noisy make high-speed driving easy, as well The Hills are probably neat people, Negativists,” and seemed to treat Carl as making the ships hard to detect on and any friend of a Zeta Reticulan is a Sagan as a sworn and personal enemy. our radar. Friedman also cited the work friend of mine. Little did I know what he had done on the Phoebus for was coming up: the coverup of the The final result? Maybe UFOs do Westinghouse. This project was a crash at Roswell, New Mexico in July exist; there is certainly a plethora of generator, only 7 feet in diameter, 1947. evidence which would suggest they operating with nuclear fission, which Through a variety of newspapers, do. Unfortunately, the people who are was capable of producing an incred memos, and government documents, devoting their time and energy to an ible 4400 megawatts. Friedman attempted to prove that the swering this question - people like “We primitive Earthlings already U.S. Air Force had found the remains Stanton T. Friedman - have been so know how to get to the stars,” he said of a crashed spacecraft and 4 dead isolated and singleminded in their at one point "It’s apolitical choice - do aliens. These findings had, for un pursuit of the truth that one will never we want to spend the money to do it?” known reasons, caused them to put the know when to believe them...
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The v e r y l a t e s t in p r o d u c tiv e suntanning BY GALLAGHER MACKAY HEY BOSS! It’s your ace cub re porter, back from a flight of fancy. Have you missed me? Before I start, let me tell you about this morning. I was doubled over with the weight of the mere thought of finding a job (you know, the kind that pays...) this summer, and already I could feel that it was hopeless. I would be faced with an unbearable procession of interviews which would eventually result in my working at some restaurant, preparing twenty five identical salads in ninety
seconds flat, or half a mile from the nearest window, typing on behalf of a faceless corporation. Worse, I could become part of the wall of unemploy ment statistics. The thought, as I said, had me bent double, and not being very tall to start out with, I bumped into a table showcasing the materials for Triple A Student Painters. This guy, Myron Goldstein- Ron, he calls himself- was there, with his Buddy Frank Goldschlegger. They picked me up and brushed off my nose, and, before I could get a word in edg ewise, they were telling me tales of
how I could pass this summer in their hands. They have this really funky idea, see? It’s already a big hit in Ontario Students working for themselves, would you believe, to make a little pocket money, for things like tuition and rent and what was that other detail ...food, I think (It’s all probably overrated I know, but I ’m sort of an addict, don’t you know?). These two guys are from Western, and they seem to have the same idea, so they have agreed to buy a franchise from Triple A. They are going to be
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BY BRENT LOKASH In the Western world, the term re fusenik has become synonymous with violation of human rights. A refusenik is a Soviet Jew who has applied to leave the Soviet Union and has been refused an exit visa from the Soviet government. The refusals are in direct violation of Article 13 of the Universal Bill of Human Rights, adopted in 1948 by the General As sembly of the United Nations, which states “Everyone has the right to leave any country including his own, and to return to his country.” The Israeli Public Council for So viet Jewry estimated in 1988 that 200,000 Soviet Jews wished to emi grate. However, not all of these people are refuseniks, since the complicated process of aquiring an exit visa has limited the number of Jews applying. Once a Soviet Jew is refused permis sion to leave the USSR, he or she faces afutureofharassmentuntil granted an exit visa. Although this scenario still exists, the situation for refuseniks and all of Soviet Jewry has been improved by reforms initiated by Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. Before Gor bachev’s rise to power in the Soviet Union, Jewish emigration was in the process of rapid decline. In 1979, a peak year, 51,320 Jews were allowed to leave the Soviet Union. In 1984, only 896 Jews emigrated. During Gorbachev’s four years in power, Jewish emigration has once again been on the rise. According to Carol Moscovite, National Director of the Soviet Jewry Committee of the Canadian JewishCongress, 19,000exit visas were granted to Soviet Jews in 1988.Thisisanincreaseof over 10,000 from the previous year. But Moscovite asserts, “This is still a far cry from the 1979 figures.” Her guarded optimism, however, is better than the gloom which hung over the Soviet Jewry movement a few years ago, when Jewish emigration was at a trickle and life was dismal for Jews inside the Soviet Union. Regarding the domestic situation, Moscovite also sees an improvement in many aspects of Jewish cultural life. Whereas in the past the Soviet Jewry Committee concentrated on helping Jews leave the Soviet Union, there is
now a much greater focus on helping Jewish culture within the USSR. As Moscovite says, “...there are those [Jews] who have no intention of leav ing the Soviet Union.” The once thriving culture of Soviet
Jewry was brought to an abrupt halt by Joseph Stalin, following the creation of Isreal. Jewish publishing and print ing presses have been closed since the early 1950’s.The last printingofJewish prayer books in the Soviet Union was in 1956. In 1986 only 70 synagogues and three fuctioning Rabbis existed for approximately 2.5 million Soviet Jews, and most synagogues were not open on a regular basis. Moscovitz believes there is now a loosening of control over Jewish cul tural life in the USSR and thus the thrust of the Soviet Jewry movement in the West should be directed towards the cultural aspect of the situation. Says Moscovitz, “While the window of opportunity is open we have to take advantage of it.” “ (Soviet Jews) are asking for books in Yiddish, books in Hebrew, books that will explain what Judaism is about, what Israel is about, what are the holi days all about, what should I teach my children, how do I explain Shabbat to
them,” explains Moscovitz. She goes on to say that there is a renewed interest in kosher food which is very difficult to find in the Soviet Union. This problem extends to all aspects of Jewish culture, which, after
almost40 years of repression, is scarce. Fortunately, Gorbachev’s policy of glasnost now appears to be slowly reaching Soviet Jews. On February 13,1989, the first offi cially approved Jewish cultural centre in the USSR was opened in Moscow. Up to this point a legalized, institu tionalized form of Jewish culture in the Soviet Union did not exist. Jewish Muscovites are uncertain whether they will be granted the freedom promised by the Soviet authorities but they ac knowledge that it is a positive step towards giving Soviet Jews a Jewish education. Encouraging signs can also be seen outside the major Soviet cities of Moscow and Leningrad. In Minsk, the capital of Moldavia, a group of Jews led by Garik Khaitovich received temporary approval to open a Jewish cultural club in August 1988. Khai tovich and his group have been meet ing once a week for the past year to learn Hebrew and to discuss Judaism,
. . . more s tu d e n t p a in t e r s their own boss, and get government loans to do it with. Already, they have gone through an intensive interview, which determined their fitness for the job. They went through it all to be independent this summer while they make their bread and butter. The managers are supposed to work twelve hour days, and they are respon sible for getting bookings, andmaking estimates for customers. They have to coordinate, hire and train three or four crews of painters who work for them. Coordinating means that they drive around and get paint to all their paint ers, and probably get the painters lad ders as well.
good thing that they spent a full week end learning how to do all this stuff. Then the rest of us come into the picture. They are hiring painters right about now to be part of their crews. As a painter, you get this really neatmanual which has a whole lot o f relevant infor mation in it. These manuals can tell you what you have to do about peeling paint and blisters and other sorts of technical stuff. As a painter you get to specialize, (i.e. choose whether you want to paint indoors or out), although keep in mind that when you choose your manager, you have effectively chosen your specialty. I’d like to re mind you that it is possible to achieve a sun tan when you paint outside.
The loans are probably going to wards car payments. Think of the power. A company car! Then, of course, they get to have all the thrills of collecting bills. But what is best is that they get to have people to work for them. As far as I can tell, it is a pretty
Still, you probably want to know how I ’d get paid, if I were to do some thing like this over the summer instead of qualifying myself to be a journalist. Well, it depends how good you are. You get paid not for the number of
hours that it takes you to do the job but for the number of hours that your manager thinks it should take you. If you can paint a house in two thirds the time they think is reasonable, you get paid an extra third. The standard wage is from $6.00 to $7.50 an hour. They need not only painters but crew chiefs, and my bet is that the chiefs get paid more. Anyway, these guys seem to have their act together, so I think that in stead of my writing for you any more, I should go fill out an application. I brought one for you, too. Hey... do you think that if I tell them I’m allergic to paint, like they ask here, they’ll still give me the job? You don’t? Does that mean I ’m stuck here in the basement of the Union Building...Forever, you say? Well, then, what’s next week’s story? Some thing proving the entrepreneurial spirit isn’t dead, you say. Whatever will I write about?
o f g la s n o s t but as yet, they have not been allowed to make other Jews in Minsk aware of their group. With an official club, Khaitovich feels they can reach out to the large Jewish community of Minsk which has been deprived of a Jewish identity for too many years. The Soviet government’s new pol icy towards Jewish culture has been accompanied by a decrease in public anti-semitism and anti-Zionism in the USSR. Moscovitz claims that, “Dis crimination against the Jews in jobs and universities is said to be on the decline but we don’t know how far this has gone or how long it will last.” Many Soviet Jews have shunned their religion in the past since since anti semitism has literally prevented some from making a living. As this barrier is removed, however, Jewish identity is expected to increase in the Soviet Union. According to Mosco vitz, the prevalence of anti-Zionism in the media has also had a profound effect on Soviet Jewry. She says the “less than desir able” coverage of Israel in the past ac counts for the major reason why the only 10% of Jews leaving the Soviet Union over the past 20 years with Israeli exit visas have chosen to go to Israel. Moscovitz went on to say that, “Last year saw a more moderate and bal anced media coverage vis-a-vis Israel. Although critical statements still ap-
approach towards Israel can be attrib uted to greater freedom in the Soviet press and a thawing of relations be tween Israel and the Soviet Union, which were severed in 1967. Last year also saw between seven and ten thousand Soviet Jews visit Israel; visits to Israel were previously not allowed. These developments are welcomed by the Canadian Jewish Congress’ Soviet Jewry Committee which encourages emigration by So viet Jews to Israel. While this policy is debated among Jews in the West, Elena Keis, a refusenik for fourteen years who was granted an exit visa in Octo ber 1988, believes that a true picture of Israel at least, “.. .gives Soviet Jews the proper chance to chose where they want to go.” Sadly, not all Soviet Jews are have a choice. There are 2700 long-term re fuseniks in the Soviet Union (those who have repeatedly been denied an exit visa and who have begun the application process again since 1987). This number is deceivingly small since it does not take into account those Jews who have not reapplied for an exit visa since 1987 and those who are unable to obtain the necessary docu ments required for an exit visa. While some Soviet Jews are pres ently receiving a taste of glasnost, it will be many years until all of the Jews in the Soviet Union aquire the basic rights to leave their country at will and to freely practice Judaism.
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T h e a p o t h e o s is o f S t e v e BY PAUL HORWITZ________ Steve E arle has finally made it. After three albums, E arle has gar nered a name for him self as one of the bad boys of the tenebrous field of country/rock; at the same time, critics and fans alike also know him as a musician with a passion for social problems. He was one of the early participants in the Farm Aid events, which raised money for the troubled American farmer, and proceeds from his la test tour and album are going to support the farm ers (“Even though there’s not a [Farm Aid] show this year, there’s still a problem”, he said in concert) and an organization to aid homeless children which he recently helped found. All this success m ight go to one’s head, but Earle seems to still feel the need to work for the audiences which have helped him. This need was expressed in one of the best concerts I have ever seen, when Steve and his band, The Dukes, came to M ontreal’s Spec trum la st Thursday for the first of two sold out shows. Without an opening band and without an interm ission, E arle and Co. played 31 songs in almost three hours of solid, rousing playing.
As the band moved into its first song, new album C opperhead R o a d ’ s title track, things on stage were looking a little impressive. Steve has a seven piece band, he looks like a bigger, fatter version of W. Axl Rose with a beard, and the skull-and-crossbones back drop (from the new album’s cover) had red lights for eyes. The sec ond they moved into song, how ever, they were warmth itself, somehow making the arena-size quality of their music personal enough to reach every member of the enthralled audience. W ith th at first song, they were off and running through the best of E arle’s m aterial. Naturally, his two biggest singles were included: the yearning “Someday”, and “I Ain’t Ever Satisfied”, which the audience sang for the rest of the show. Other highlights included “And the Rain Came Down”, about the plight of the farm ers; “Snake Oil”, a song about charlatans which he introduced by saying, “W hat I do and what George Bush does for a living are basically the same thing...we both want you to b e lieve our shit-but George has the Republican Party, not to mention the fucking CIA”; the Pogues-in-
spired “Johnny Come Lately”; “G uitar Town” and “I Love You Too Much”, both serious stomps; and the slower songs “Once You Love” and “My Old Friend the Blues.” E arle also acquitted him self on covers like “When Will We Be M arried”, which was also r e cently covered by the W aterboys; Bruce Springsteen’s “N ebraska”, in protest of capital punishment;
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and the Stones’ “Dead Flowers”, “a perfectly good British hillbilly song about heroin.” All in all, E arle was a passion ate but well-rehearsed performer. As for the Dukes, well, they are fun personified. TTie band shared most of their equipment with each other, and spent a lot of time chatting with each other mid show. O f special notice was lead
guitarist Zip Gibson, an intense looking dude who appeared to have gone from Woodstock di rectly to Nashville. Nobody played the star in this show. B u t with Steve to provide food for thought and a strong focus o f energy, and the Dukes to take it all home, the Spectrum witnessed one of the best tim es Montréal will ever have.
H a u n t in g c a r n i v a l e s q u e a tm o sp h e re BY TIM HOUSTON When the great thaw comes about in a few weeks time, when overcast skies slowly disappear and are replaced, with increased frequency, by warm, cloudless patches of blue, be prepared. When memories of stepping into the blackest and w ettest slush with your best Nikes on are eradi cated, when all the dog poop is finally cleaned up, and when the last traces of winter are all but forgotten, the music to permeate the air and the sensibilities should be Fairground Attraction’s The
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The B ritish , always extremely discem ingin their musical tastes, have been under the spell of this wonderful debutfor alm ostayear now. Both the album and its first single have enjoyed extended runs on the top of the charts. Each won its respective category a t this year’s B ritish Phonograph Indus try Awards, the U .K.’s equiva lent of the Grammys. As well, they took the award for best new artist or group. This alm ost unanimous praise derives from the unique individu ality of the band. M ark Nevin, guitarist and songwriter, and singer Eddi Reader (who has done
work as back up vocalist for Al ison Moyet, Eurythmies, and The Waterboys) formed the nucleus of the group three years ago in London’s W est End. They were found to be such inspired talents th at their immediate signing to the RCA label was no surprise. Ray Dodds, drums and brushes, and Simon Edwards, guitaron (a Mexican acoustic bass like the type Porky Pig plays whenever he is in a W estern, desert envi ronment) were soon added to broaden the English traditional sound. Boldly and successfully break ing the mold of the ‘soulless-vapidbullshit-pop’ syndrome, the mu sic is all acoustic. There is no evidence of technology ofany kind, no sequencers, no wonderful and convenient synthesizers to en hance the sound, not even a tinkle. One gets the feeling th at the entire work was completed in an after noon, recorded in the green of a quiet, remote Yorkshire village. Music is being created, not rec ords. The music comes from within, from fond remembrances, from favoured emotions and feel ings, from love... Nevin conveys the grandest of all emotions within the limiting format of a three minute pop tune.
Neither morose, nor sullen nor naively ebullient, the planned pre dominance of ballads on the a l bum does not resu lt in monoto nous repetition, developing in a stereotypical mode of expression (see Sm iths). They are infused with an integrity, warmth, and a power of observation seldom heard in contemporary music. The songs transcend the b arri ers of jazz (the lone wailing trum pet and torch song quality of Clare), folk (the refreshingly breezy first single Perfect with its groovy Gretsch guitar slap echo effect), and country (the wistful Comedy Waltz and the poignant Moon on the Rain), all encom passed by the effervescent and charism atic vocalizing o f Ms. Reader. The bared-to-the-bones ap proach of performance is accen tuated by an eclectic variety ofinstrum ents, the glockenspiel, the harp, accordion, vibraphone, and clarinet, creating the barroom in fluenced jubilance o f The Moon Is Mine and the haunting carni valesque atmosphere of F a ir
ground Attraction. Fairground Attraction’s debut album The F irs t of a Million Kisses is av ailable on the RCA label.
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R e d m e n H o c k e y t r iu m p h a n t v e r s u s C o n c o r d ia B Y N IC K L E O N A R D O S He always waits until crunch time. In the season finale against UQTR he waited until there were eleven seconds left in overtime before netting the game winner. In Friday’s second series game at Concordia, he waited until the third period, when the score was tied 22, before breaking out for three goals, for a total of four on the night. His name is Marc Lajeunesse and he’s gotten into the habit of delivering game winning goals in the clutch.
scored on their very first shot on net, as John Gravelle beat Jamie Reeve top comer from the left slot. The Redmen answered back, as Lajeunesse scored his first of the game, centre Mario DeBenedictis (4 assists) setting him up with a nice one touch pass in front of the net. At 6:58 of the first, Martin Raymond put the Redmen up 2-1 on the power play, as Tim Iannone fed him a cross-ice pass. Concor dia’s Todd Adams tied the score at 15:47 of the first. It stayed 2-2 untii the third pe riod, as Lajeunesse and DeBenedic-
For all of Lajeunesse’s scoring (five goals in two playoff games), this series was won on the blueline. Alain Cus son, Mike Wells, Bryan Larkin, and Joel Sitak were out standing, as they dif fused the high-power offence of Mark Mahon and Richard LaPlante. Cusson played a superb se ries: I lost count of the number of times he relieved a Stinger of his puck-carrying responsibilities. He would pick up a streaking winger, ride him into the boards, knockhim down, take the puck, and start a Tim Iannone struggles with the opposition rush back up ice. T3 That’s what wins s5 games, in any sport. the opportunity to take the OUAA o- Now the Redmen have earned East crown from defendingUQTR.
tis teamed up again, and again, and again. Lajeunesse tallied four times, DeBenedictis assisting on each one. For the second time in a week, (including the UQTR game) McGill has managed to win de spite being outshot. Friday Con cordia outshot them 40-31, but again Jamie Reeve came up big in the nets. In the first period alone, Reeve made saves that left the
B Y M O IR A M A C D O N A L D Harmony. Collaboration. Shar ing. Non-competition. Respect. No, they’re not guidelines for a tofu commune in Vermont, they’re the watchwords of one of Japan’s most ancient martial arts, aikido. Unlike other martial arts such as karate and judo which organize competitions and have higher pro files due to more publicity, aikido
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It should be a knock down, drag-out, teeth losing series. The Redmen should gain a degree of extra confi dence, as captain andde fenceman Jamie Kompon will return from his three game suspension for the first game at UQTR on March 1. Tim Iannone, however, has been going through a minor slump. In the last three games he has managed only 2 assists, far below his season average of more than two points per game. Lately, the DeBenedictisGrech-Lajeunesse line has been carrying the team offensively. It has accounted for 10 of the last 18 goals scored, over the last three games. To defeat UQTR, that line will have to sustain its high level of play, but it will need help from another line, probably the IannoneRaymond-Teolis line.
A ik id o : a m a r t ia l w a y o f lif e
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By virtue of their easy 7-2 win at home on Wednesday, the Redmen travelled down Sherbrooke St. for the second game of this series Fri day night No one expected the second game to be as easy as the first, but “sweep” was on every McGill fan’s mind. With the help of the Lajeunesse broom, McGill swept Concordia aside 5-3, taking the series in two straight. It wasn’t easy. Concordia
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stresses a sense of sharing and at tempts to modify the behaviour of an attacker rather than to harm him or her. A typical aikido defence tech nique begins with the person being attacked (the nage) stepping out of the path of the attacker (the uke), then diffusing the temper of the situation by setting the uke off balance and finally disarming him or her through the exertion of pres sure on sensitive points of the body (such as the wrist). The overall effect is a circular motion which, when done properly is highly, well, artistic. In tune with the aikido way, the nage is not simply con cerned with defence but is also interested in educating the uke how to act in a more acceptable and harmonious manner. McGill has had its own aikido club since 1972 and continues to offer classes in both beginner and advanced aikido. Social ac tivities,an extension of the aikido philosophy from the practise room (dojo) to other realms of life, are also offered. Aikido means ‘way of harmony with the spirit of the universe’ and thus is not merely a physical art. According to Daniel Laurendeau, the current director of the McGill aikido club, “If it doesn’t reflect on your life, then that’s not the spirit of aikido.” Modem aikido did not start until the late 1800s but has existed as a defence method since the 11th century when it was used by Japa nese peasants who could not af
ford sophisticated instruments as prevention against attacks. In the 15th century, Japanese samurais took the peasants’ basic techniques and worked them up to a noble and respected art form which became aikido. When the Japanese government abolished the samurai system in 1868, there were a lot of out-ofwork samurais left with a lot of idle time on their hands. Their solu tion? They decided to teach their aikido techniques to those inter ested enough to learn. Morihei Ueshiba was one of those people who inherited the arts of the samu rais through his father and went on to become the founder of modem aikido. The founder died in 1969 but he is still respected by all aikido students as ‘O’Sen-Sei’ The Great Teacher, and his ideal of global peace through aikido is upheld in the dojos which have sprung up worldwide as a result of his international vision. Daniel Laurendeau describes the aikido movements as “trying to eliminate strength” so that the size of the nage is inconsequential. A small person using aikido should not be fazed by a much larger at tacker since it is deftness and agil ity at performing the technique which really counts. The non strength idea is also demonstrated at the dojo where teachers of aikido are not seen as superior to their students but simply as possessing Continued on following page
Sports
The McGill Tribune, Tuesday February 28,1989
R e d m e n s tu n g in b a s k e t b a ll f in a l B Y M IK E M A R T IN The Redmen came close, but those damn Stingers remained a thorn in their side. The basketball Redmen finished their 1988-89 season with a first-class effort at Concordia which fell a few points short with a final surge that came a few minutes too late. Fifth-year captain Pat Arsenault lamented the outcome with the rest of the squad, and reflected that in his five years, he enjoyed playing with this team more than any other. Whether it was the high level of play brought to each game or the cohesiveness of this unit, (most players have been together for at least two years), the team commanded the respect and praise of countless spectators this season. Midway through the first half on Sunday, when the Redmen opened up a 34-20 lead, two gentlemen behind me were astonished to overhear that Con cordia had beat McGill four times this year. Such a reaction summa rizes their year; strong on paper, exciting in games, but somehow it was never enough. The Stinger menace takes the most credit for that as they proved insurmount able for the Redmen in Sunday’s OUAA East division final. The 9078 final score clouds the fact that it was a two point game with under a minute to play; 79-77, after Paul Brousseau’s bank shot. Coach Ken Shildroth, noticeably disappointed, credited the team for “executing well... concentrating and playing with a lot of heart.” But the chances upon which they could not capital ize produced frustration from the team which knew it had what it takes to win. Out of the locker room they came pumped and psyched, ready to prove their 21-9 overall and 13-5 league record was no fluke, and
jumped to a 9-0 lead. At this point they were in control, maintaining a slow tempo, executing their half court game perfectly, and not let ting Concordia’s running game off its leash. Some sweet moments: Franco’s three at 11:00 providing a 22-14 lead; Franco’s rejection of John at 9:30; and Simon’s glass cleaning and scoring with a pretty pass from Douglas at 7:30 which pushed the lead to 30-17. Then the Redmen seemed to falter; they lost that precious control. Instead of buckling under the pressure, the Redmen kept Concordia within firing range. Arsenault’s relentless rebounding and Franco’s threepointer at the end of the half helped cut the six point Stinger lead to three. Concordia led 44-41 at the break.
terized the last minute and a half. Brousseau finished with a game with a game-high 20 points for the Redmen.
four, 71-67 while Douglas and Steiner steals helped keep the contest close. Yet, the Redmen soon faced a 77-69 deficit with three minutes remaining. They responded by running off six straight points. Two Brousseau free throws, two from Steiner and a spectacular steal and breakaway lay-up by Franco reduced the margin to two, 77-75, with 2:10 left. After a Concordia hoop, Brousseau’s bank shot maintained the two point deficit, and then Arsenault’s rejection inside gave McGill possession, and provided the Redmen with a chance to erase the lead. But it was not to be. A series of Concordia hoops charac-
In a game that was no less im portant a day earlier, the Redmen earned the right to be in the final by pummeling the Carleton Ravens, 97-81. Perry Douglas led all scor ers with a magnificent 27 points, as Coach Shildroth applauded the “dominating... all-round solid effort” of his club, as it played great defence and stuck to its game plan. Aclose game throughout most of the first half was offset by a surge of Redmen three pointers in the second, as McElroy, Douglas
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Once again the Redmen began well as Simon’s three point play tied the game, and Sous’ threadthe-needle pass from the point to Steiner underneath for a reverse lay-up, and Steiner’s two free throws maintained the tie. Just as the Redmen seemed ready to turn iton,Steinerwas called for a charge from the referee who will long be remembered for his unbelievable calls. To his credit, however, Steiner came back next time down the floor to draw a blocking foul on a play that bore a striking resem blance to the previous “charge.” Nevertheless, Steiner soon there after threw home a three pointer which gave the Redmen their first lead since the first half, 59-58 with 13:00 to go. Douglas’ recovery of a loose ball, and breakaway lay-up pushed the lead to two, 63-61, but then the Stingers ran off ten straight points to take a commanding 7163 lead with 9:00 left. Brousseau’s hoop and two Douglas free throw cut the lead to
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BY J.B . GOODE The McGill Women’s Squash Team finished their season by winning 13 of 20 matches at the O.W.I.A.A Squash Champion ships. This represents a tremen dous improvement over their first two tournaments this season where they won 4 out of 20 at the Big Four, and 2 out of 20 at the O.W.I.A.A. East Tournament. TheO.W.I. A. A. Championships were hosted by the University of Western Ontario, February 11-12 at the #1 Natilus Club in London. After losing their first match of the tournament 4-1 to the University of Toronto, Saturday morning, McGill was placed in the second tier. They finished second in their round robin, losing a tight match 32 to McMaster, after beating Wilfred Laurier and York by iden tical 5-0 scores. Against McMaster, both Jennifer Beck (10) and Stephanie Dobro (5) dominated Mac’s players 3-0. Although there were only a few points sperating them from their opponents, Jane Shaw (2) Sandra
\ J 1 „ l A\ Sears /e%(3) and Charlotte MillerT (4) lost their matches. Overall, the team finished sixth out of eight teams competing for the championships. The team’s sixth player and substi tute Darlene Hubley finished the tournament with a 1-3 record in exhibition matches against other teams. Jennifer Beck, McGill’s num ber one player, went undefeated all season, losing only one game in official tournament play. At the championships, she was selected to the five-women O.W.I.A.A. allstar team as selected by the ath letes and coaches for her sportspersonship and high level of play. Jennifer had just returned from Victoria B.C. where she led the Quebec Woman’s team to a sixth place finish against Canada’s top women players. The McGill team have been playing and training for the last three weeks on the Delta Mon treal’s international squash courts, since the championships were held for the first time entirely on inter national courts, two and a half feet wider than the North American
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...m o r e A i k i d o Continued from previous page more knowledge of aikido which they wish to share with others. Aikido students may take ex aminations leading to an aikido black belt. Generally it takes about five years to earn a black belt but even then there is room for im provement. Black belt holders continue to work on perfecting their technique through a series o f‘dans’ or black belt degrees. The highest
dan is currently held by a student in Japan who has the ninth black belt degree; the O’Sen-Sei by contrast held the tenth dan. It is not an aikido tradition to highly advertise its dojos. But if you think you might be interested justkeepin mind that Montreal has the most dojos in Canada, five. Watch out for little notices in dark comers: they might be telling you about your nearest aikido club.
and Franco helped build a 61-46 lead with 12:30 remaining. Soon thereafter, Brousseau’s three-point play provided a 69-52 lead. From then on the Redmen held on, refus ing to relinquish a chance to go on to the Nationals. The Redmen placed two players on the OUAA Eat All-Star team this year which is more than any other team. Patrick Arsenault added this to his countless QUAA hon ours. David Steiner, averaging 19.9 points per game and becoming McGill’s all-time single season scoring leader with 355points, also joined the OUAA all-star team, and will be on the lookout for some all-Canadian honours.
o t courts at Currie Gym. Although only six players make up the team that go to the champi onships, McGill had eleven play ers who were qualified to compete because they had played for McGill in one of the qualifying tourna ments. This depth should aid the team in future years especially since most of the team have had at least two more years of varsity squash ahead of them. The number of quality squash players available for the team is due in part to McGill’s Harald Martin. More than six of the fifteen women playing on the team this year got their start through Harald’s excellent instuctional pro gram, which functions as a feeder system for the varsity team. Although the official season is over, most of the team will be continuing to train toward the Quebec Open Squash Championship held in the second week of March. Following that, the team will have a one month respite before starting their train ing program for the 1989-90 sea son.
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