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6 p.m. to 3 a.m. nightly. So if you can’t sleep, need a Ukranian take out or are stressed over a missed episode of Star Trek, call us, 398-6246. Anonymous and confidential. It’s cool - call us! WalkSafe Network: Monday to Thurs day leaving at 10:45 p.m. from McLennan Library. Anyone interested in volunteer ing should contact the Womens’ Union. McGill Entrepreneurs’ Club: pres ents “The Essential Clothing Sail”. Union 107/108,9:00 a.m.-5:30 p.m. 10% of prof its will be donated to CHILDFIND. Janu ary 15-26. Info.: 398-6818. Compeer Montreal/Entre-Amis, a bi lingual non-profit community organiza tion working in the field of mental health, needs volunteers between 25 and 45 to help provide friendly relationships with per sons struggling with mental health prob lems. Training and support provided. Info.: 342-0057. Make that special difference in someone else’s life. Caribbean Students’ Society: Office hours: 11 a.m. - 1 p.m.. Union 408, 3986814. T-Shirts Available ($10). Environmental Awareness Week:
Bring your clean cans, white glass, and plastics to the Union Bldg, this week. Also, plan to attend a Waste Management Work shop every day this week in Union 302, 1:00 p.m.. Sponsored by QPIRG-McGill. McGill Association for International Students' (M A IS ’)t Winter Clothing
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iam H. New, professor of English, Univer sity of British Columbia, speaking on “Who’s Been Reading Katherine Mans field? Some Reflections on Canons, Colo nies, Critical Judgments, and Literary History”. Leacock 232, 6:30 p.m.. Info.: 398-4216. Amnesty International: Letter Writ ing Meeting. Union 425, 7:00 p.m.. All Welcome. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 24TH Serving Sun Youth: A 48 hour Ping-
Pong Marathon to benefit Sun Youth. Brought to you by the members of Alpha Epsilon Pi Fraternity of McGill Univer sity. Across from the Union Bldg., 10:00 a.m. today til 10:00 a.m. Friday. Come show your encouragement and support. Seminar: “The Land and English-Canadian Literature: An Informal Discus sion”. Arts Council Rm. 160, 12:00 noon. Native Awareness Week: Theme: Environment, B09/10, 12-2 p.m.. Theme: Arts and Culture, Otto Maas 428,3-5 p.m.. Two films, "Poundmakers' Lodge: A Healing Process", and “No Address" , followed by a discussion with the director Alanis Obomsawin, FDA Auditorium. CoSponsored by QPIRG and Canadian Stud ies McGill. Study Skills Workshop: Powell Stu dent Services, Rm 301, 1:00-3:00 p.m.. Info.: 398-3601. Development and Peace: Meeting, Union B09/10, 5:00 p.m. Uhuru na Ufahamu-Development StudiesGroup: Meeting, Union 410,5:00
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current affairs program on Southern Af rica. CKUT FM 90.3, Radio McGill, every Wednesday, 7:00-7:30 p.m.. McGill Choral Society. We’re a large group of students from all faculties who have fun while singing some great music. Come check it out. No auditions necessary. Registration ends soon.Every Wednesday, Strathcona Music Bldg., Rm C310, 7:30 p.m.. McGill Outing Club: General Meet ing, Leacock 132, 7:30 p.m.. Jan. 27-28: Ski Camp, Val David, beginners. Feb. 3-6: Hike Camp, Mount Washington, difficult. Feb. 10-11: Snowshoeing, Andirondacks. McGill Film Society: Friends of First Nations present Alanis Obomsawin and two of her films Poundmakers' Lodge: A Healing Process", and "No Address", about Native peoples in Canada. FDA Auditorium, 7:30 p.m.. FREE. THURSDAY, JANUARY 25TH McGill Departm ent of Epidemiology and Iiiostatistics: presents John Esdiale, M.D., Associate Professor of Medicine, McGill, Director of Rheumatology, Mon treal General Hospital, on “Lupus - A Disease in Need of Side-Effect Free Ther apy: A Randomized Withdrawal Trial of Hydroxychloro quine”. Purvis Hall, Rm. 25, 1020 Pine Ave. W., 1:00 p.m.. Native Awareness Week: Theme: The Urban Experience, Union B09/10, 12-2 p.m.. Guest George Wapachee, Vice-Grand Chief of the James Bay Cree. Leacock 26, 7 p.m.. Departm ent of Anthropology-Semi nar Scries: presents Professor David Gilmore, SUNY Stonybrook, speaking on “Land and Labourin Rural Spain underthe Old Regime”. Leacock 738,4:30-6:00p.m.. QPIRG Housing Project: Meeting, Eaton Bldg., 5th floor, 5:00 p.m.. New volunteers welcome. Work to preserve af fordable housing in Montreal. Help plan Housing Awareness Day! QPIRG-McGill and PGSS present the
Ethics and the Academy Series: Judith Miller, Director of the National Council of Bioethics in Human Research, speaking on “Remembering the Human Elements: past, present, and future directions in the protec tion of human subjects”. Leacock 232, 7:00 p.m.. McGill Film Society : Raging Bull. USA 1980 (130 min.). Dir.: M. Scorcese. Lea cock 132, 7:30 p.m.. Department of English-Irish Studies:
presents Maureen Murphy, Hofstra Uni versity, speaking on “Hope from the Ocean: The Irish Servant Girl in America”. Arts Council Rm. 160, 8:00 p.m.. McGillFaculty of Music-Concert Cal endar: CBC/McGill Series, 21st Anniver
sary Concert: Guests, Lise Daoust, flute, and, Pierre Béluse, percussion; with the McGill Percussion Ensemble. Pollack Hall, 555 Sherbrooke St. W., 8:00 p.m.. Info.: 398-8933. McGill TheatreSports: the Thursday show, 10:00 p.m. in the ALLEY. Hey, it’s FREE Improv. Theatre!! FRIDAY, JANUARY 26TH Native Awareness Week: Theme: SelfGovernment, Leacock 232, 12-2 p.m.. Theme: Education, Leacock 232,3-5 p.m.. Benefit Concert for the Montreal Women ’s Shelter. The Alley, 3480 McTavish, 8:00 p.m.. Caribbean Students’ Society: Gen eral Meeting, Leacock 26, 6:30 panMcGill Film Society: East o f Eden. USA 1954 (105 min.). Dir.: J. Woodward. Leacock 132, 7:30 p.m.. Syn-aes-the-sia: A Composers’ Col lective Concert. Maxwell Cummings Auditorium, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 3400 Avenue du Musee, 8:00 p.m.. Info.: 274-0606. McGill Faculty of Music-Concert
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8933. The Yellow Door Coffee House: pres ents “Live Music” with Mike Rossiter and Sarah Hill, opening set; and Sean Fortier and Jeremy DeBurgh, main set. 3625 Aylmer St. (above Pr. Arthur), 8:00 p.m.. $2. Coffee, herbal teas, and fresh baking, etc.: $0.50. Info.: 398-6244. Trash Bash II: Bring in 15 articles of plastic (including plastic bags) to Gerts tonight and QuébecPIRG will give you one free beer. 8:00 p.m.. McGill TheatreSports: The Friday show. NOTE!!! this week’s show is in the Alley, 10:00 p.m.
SATURDAY, JANUARY 27TH McGillTheatreSports Workshop: For Beginners. 2-4 p.m. Union 107/108. McGill Film Society: Dr. Strangelove. USA 1964 (97 min.). Dir.: S. Kubrick. Leacock 132, 7:30 p.m.. Syn-aes-the-sia: A Composers’ Col lective Concert. Maxwell Cummings Auditorium, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 3400 Avenue du Musee, 8:00 p.m.. Info.: 274-0606.
SUNDAY, JANUARY 28TH Centre Interculturel Monachin pres ents a Visit to a Sikh Temple. Participate in a religious ceremony accented by singing, classical Indian music, and prayer. A light meal will follow and an exchjange with guests. Gurdwara (Temple) of Lachine, 1090 St. Joseph Boul.,Lachine, 11:45 a.m.2:00 p.m. FREE. In English. Info.: 2887229. MONDAY, JANUARY 29TH McGill F acuity of Music-Concert Cal endar: Music for Strings with guests T.
Williams and E. Svensson, violins; D. McNabney, viola; M. Saint-Cyr, cello; works by Beethoven, Dvorak, Kodaly, and Pleyel. Pollack Hall, 555 Sherbrooke St. W., 8:00 p.m.. PASS Required; Info.: 3988933.
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Senate opposes entry of part-time students B Y R O S A L IN D W A R D -S M IT H The Senate has rejected Stu dents’ Society efforts to allow parttime students to run for Senate. A t a Senate meeting on Wednes day, the SSMUpresented a motion to change Senate statutes which
require students to be taking at least 18 credits in order to run for a student senator position. An overwhelming majority o f the Senate, which includes such members o f the administration as the Principal, the six Vice-Princi pals, and the Deans, voted against the motion.
The proposal to change the Sen ate statutes is the result o f a student referendum held this fall which decided that any member o f the Students’ Society could run for an elected office. This means that SSM U ’ s executive, council, and Senate positions would be open to part-time students.
Bilingualism scarce at McGill B Y BEN R O V E T Although a significant propor tion M cGill students are franco phones, anglophone and franco phone students say there is little active bilingualism in the McGill community. “ Although the administration is pretty much bilingual, the students are not verv bilingual,” M cG ill Daily Français editor Philipe Archambeauit told the Tribune. A c c ru in g to Registrar J.P. Schuller, French is the mother tongue o f just over 22 percent o f the M cGill student body. This is an increase o f over 12 percent since 1970. “ I think if there is a significant proportion o f Francophones at M cGill it will ensure a vibrant
French community at M cG ill,” Schuller said. Nevertheless, many anglophone students are not readily exposed to French on campus. “ I ’ ve met a lot o f people from out o f province and the U.S who came here to learn French, but they haven’ t learned much because everything is in English around here,” Archambeauit said. Schuller hopes that most out o f province and foreign students will be able to develop their French speaking skills by living in Mon tréal. “ I would find it hard to imagine that after three o f four years many students will be immune to the French culture and community,” he said. But that community may not be
SC H O L A R SH IP S TO R E M E M B E R SL A IN W OM EN Engineering students from across Canada w ill set up two funds encouraging women to study engineering in honour o f 14 women engineering students killed in December at the Universté de Mon tréal. Members o f the The Canadian Congress o f Engineering Students voted unanimously on January 13 to establish the funds with money raised during National Engineering Week, which will take place on February 5-9. The first $20,000 will go to a scholarship at the U deM ’ s École Polytechnique for women engineers. Other money raised w ill go to a national fund to encourage Canadian women to go into engineering.
E N G IN E E R S W A N T B L O O D The EUS and the Canadian Red Cross Society are seeking blood donors this week in the annual Engineering Blood Drive. The Blood Drive takes place every day this week from lOh to 18h in the Common Room o f the McConnell Engineering Building. Co ordinator Geneviève Beaumier says she hopes for 2000 donors this year, over last year’ s total o f 1976 donors. During the40 minute donation, donors receive a free lunch, andean win a variety o f door prizes. Donors should eat before donating, and should not be ill or convalescent Montreal is in the midst o f a blood shortage, EUS organizers say.
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making itself felt on campus. Andréa Hitschfeld, a francophone who is a second-year computer science student, says many stu dents view the opportunity to prac tise English as an incentive to come to M cGill. She noted that a great deal o f French is spoken in some science faculties, but denies that the school fosters a bilingual at mosphere. Francophones who wish to speak French are more likely to speak it at McGill-Québec or in small groups, she says. “ There is no bilingual feeling at M cG ill,” Hitschfeld said. Jeff Curry, a first year Arts stu dent from Boston, says his French has improved in Montréal. “ Al-
Morisset:“ It was in conceivable to us that this was going to be a problem, given that the student body had al ready decided they wanted part-time stu dents to be able to rep resent them,” SSMU executives say the Sen ate’ s opposition to their proposal is unexpected.
“ It was inconceivable to us that this was going to be a problem, given that the student body had already decided they wanted parttime students to be able to repre sent them,” said Vice President (University Affairs) Kate Morisset. Those who opposed the proposal felt that a change in the statutes would result in the appointment o f professional student Senators who would remain in their positions for years on end, and who would be out o f touch with the student body. Student Senators have pointed
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Death by demographics
Falling into Bourassa's tuition trap The tuition fee increase announced by the Bourassa regime in D e cember has resulted in some intelligent and articulate debate, but much o f this discourse has been lost in a sea o f idiotic raving and foaming at the mouth by so-called student leaders. The first thing to realise about the increase is to put it into perspective. By 1992, according to SSM U ’ s “ worst-case” scenario statistics, the total cost for a full-load arts course at M cG ill will be $1752.60. That is less than students c u rre n tly pay in N ova Scotia, Ontario, or British Columbia. What needs to be examined is whether such an increase adversely affects accessibility to university educa tion; tuition fee increases viewed in isolation from other social and economic realities are essentially meaningless. The case can be made that this increase should be opposed precisely because the governments commitment to a reform o f the loans and bursaries system is weak, and that there is no guarantee that the extra funds raised will actually go to the universities themselves. SSMU executives have argued convincingly that tuition fee increases are really a smokescreen to camouflage the government’ s shameless underfunding o f the system itself. The battle to be fought, therefore, is not against fee increases p e r se : the struggle should be to force the Quebec government to institute a more comprehensive and fair loans and bursaries system, and to increase its overall contribution to higher education. By slavishly repeating the mantra o f re a d m y lips— n o n e w tu itio n f e e in c re a se s , the Québec’s so-called student movement has allowed Bourassa’s mendacious attempts to make tuition fees issue the centre o f debate to succeed; Government underfunding is the root cause. This is not the time to bespoutingoff calls for the increased bureau cratization and dilution o f higher education, or to naively appeal to some mythological European educational utopia ( lo o k h o w g re a t the S w e d ish sy stem is: th e y d o n 't e v e n p a y tu itio n !) Whatever one’ s philosophical motivation, higher education is objecti vely vocational training for a higher paying career than one would ordinarily have. Under the current system, the taxes o f the working and middle classes heavily subsidize the education o f the children o f higher-income families. Such a system is extremely regressive. Instead, why not make richer families and students pay a higher tintion rate and subsidize pow er families and students through a fuller loans and bursaries program? Under a new and improved tuition system, tuition would vary by faculty according to the expected earnings potential o f graduates and the actual cost o f the degree program. Lawyers, dentists, and physi cians are generally highly paid relative to arts or religious studies graduates, and it costs more per capita to train them; why not have their tuition fees and taxes reflect this reality? L et’s stop pretending that university is some sort o f philosophically-transcendent experi ence (h o w can yo u p u t a p r ic e on e d u c a tio n , d u d e ?) A comprehensive loans and bursaries system would allow even the poorest student to borrow against future earnings in order to attend university. Those who are drawn to socially-valuable but low-paying vocations (social work, legal aid, public service) could benefit from programs similar to Stanford Law School’ s financial aid program, where loans are for given for students entering such careers. Not everyone wants to be an investment banker, but even philosophy Ph.D.’ s can have a high standard o f living, apocryphal tales o f taxi night jobs notwithstand ing. While SSMU has done an admirable job presenting its case and representing an apathetic student body, self-proclaimed student leaders have run a fundamentally reactionary campaign. ANEEQ (the M ay 1968 memorial association) and C A PE (an organic sclfgovemingpeople’ s collective Composed o f perpetual student bureau crats and media types) float along with delusions o f student strikes and pathetic mock funerals with decidedly un-Tianamen-like turnouts (2 0 p e o p le ? ) while avoiding the opportunity to make any realistic alternative proposals. The proposal for a 1% surcharge is perhaps a step in the right direction, but 37,000,(XX) (which sounds a little low by my calculations) doesn’ t go very far anymore. Where are the new ideas? Where is the vision? Perhaps they are dead and buried as w ell.
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On the upper left hand o f Saturday’ s Montreal Gazette is an adver tisement, placed by the rental/leasing Alexis Nihon Group. It is true to the advertising trend that supposes that people who live to make money actually have something to say: it features a pseudo-profound quote that reads, “ You start thinking and weighing and you are immo bilized.” How approriate that this ad appears in the newfangled, revamped Gazette. The new Gazette is proof that too much thought is discour aged on the highway to demographics hell. It is colourful, full o f unin formative photos, and obtrusively large headlines and bylines, light on copy, and weak on content. The entertainment section has been rechristened “ Show” - correct. This section shows much and tells little. A profile o f a Canadian astronaut featured a bio which gives prominent space to her marital status. It is, in short, a triumph o f style - and not even good style, but gaudy and populist instead- over sub stance. W hy the change? Demographics. Too many in the journalism busi ness have been led down the garden path by people like USA Today, who preach the god o f the dollar to the exclusion o f decent reporting. In trying to reach the kind o f reader who w ill bring in wealthy and desirable advertisers, these people tailor their look and their news, painting a picture which they think their demographic group wants to see. And these demographic groups are invariably exclusive. The groups advertisers want to reach are affluent, ‘professional,’ consumerist. Who will speak for the the people the money men don’ t want to reach - the homeless, the elderly, students? Instead o f being courted, these people are targeted; for example, RJR-Nabisco until recently mar keted a new cigarette, Uptown, whose advertising images were designed specifically to attract lower-class African-Americans, a group who already suffer from disproportionate amounts o f lung cancer. Even the Globe and Mail, which is usually a paper o f integrity, let loose its labour reporter and several foreign bureaus to seduce its elite business readers. W e should know better. People are too complex, one should hope, to be victimized and manipulated like that; and the news should be too important a thing to be degraded and cosmeticized and chopped up to please a specific reader group. The more we seek out exactly what we want to know, the less we may hear about what we should know. The truth can set you free; but, as the cigarette ads show, an attraction to the mirror can be fatal. I f you stop thinking and weighing, you become immobilized. Remember that the next time you look at the pages o f the splashy new Gazette. They were designed to attract you - but they may entrap you.
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HYDRO WATCH W ell, as it is becoming routine for me to tell you about the five or six blackouts that occur every Monday on the island o f Montréal, I thought 1 would digress a bit this week, and talk about something that is equally close to our hearts. (Note, this is not to say that there were not any blackouts yesterday - according to a Hydro spokeswoman there wereseven small blackouts affexting fifty to sixty people). I f it was not bad enough that we are told by Hydro to watch the weather for Hydro forecasts, we are now being told by the M U CTC to look out for warm days if using the bus system figures into our plans. Why? Because they have no idea how many buses w ill be running on any given day. In fact, they are not completely sure if there w ill be any buses. A spokesman for the M U C TC told Hydro Watch that “ W e never have any idea o f how many buses we will have until they leave the garage.” Couple this with the STR S M ’ s unions going on their monthly holiday (strike) and you start to think that w e should change the watch from the number o f days since the last blackout to the number o f days since the last transit strike.
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Students finally w in traffic light across Pine Ave. After several years o f student pleas, the City o f Montréal has announced plans to erect a traffic light at the intersection o f Pine A v e and Aylm er St. Eric Darier, Vice President (External) o f the Post Graduate Students’ Society, said he believes the traffic light will be constructed sometime this spring, “ hopefully by at least M ay” . An official date has not yet been set by the City. The lights will operate by syn chronized hook-up with the traffic lights at the comer o f University and Pine. Students will also be able to use a button to change the lights manually. Darier said the double mechanism would allow pedestri ans to cross the street even when the light at the University and Pine intersection is red. “ I f no pedestrians or cars are waiting to cross the University and Pine intersection, there is no need for the lights at that comer to change,” Darier said. “ Instead o f walking to that cor ner or waiting for the light to
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Near m iss at one o f M ontréal's m ost dangerous intersections: City Hall m oves ahead on a Pine/A ylm er traffic light. change, pedestrians at the Pine and Aylmer intersection can push the button and cross the street where they are.” The City o f Montréal w ill also install a five to six foot high barrier to replace the existing meridian that separates the two streams o f traffic along Pine A v. The barrier will ran from the intersection o f
..More Bilingualism C O N T IN U E D F R O M P A G E 3 though I knew some French before I came here, I find I use it a lot more frequently then I ever have be fore,” he says. However, Curry added that he has never used French at McGill. Peter Gilbert, a second year Science student from Toronto, has found that his French skills have actually declined since coming to McGill. “ During high school I was able to converse in French, but I have found no opportunity to use these skills since coming to M cGill,” Gilbert said. Dave Smythe, a second year Architecture student from Ottawa, says even the presence o f Frenchspeaking people in his classes has
not helped his language skills develop. “ There are several fran cophones in my class but my French has not improved from being on McGill cainnus,” he said. Archambeault proposes that the French laneuat c should be more present on campus, and suggested that signs providing information on parties and speakers be made in French as well as English. “ Signs for information are always in English ,” he explained. A check o f the Union Building event notice board shows that only one in ten notices are bilingual or in French. In an interview with the Tribune in early January, Principal David Johnston said he believes 90 per cent o f the M cG ill student body is functionally bilingual.
PUBLIC SPEAKING SEMINAR A F re e P ublic Speaking sem inar is being offered to the M cG ill com m unity by the D ebating U n ion and the S tu d en ts’ Society. Date: Saturday, January 27th Time: 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Place: L e a c o c k 26 To Register: F ill out
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Park Ave. and Pine to the traffic lights at Aylmer. The fence-like structure is meant to prevent stu dents from crossing at dangerous locations. “ With the installation o f the barrier, pedestrians’ only option will be to cross at the Aylmer cor ner,” said Darier. The installation o f the light is a victory for McGill students who have been demanding a safer
method o f crossing the street for several years. The intersection o f Pine and Aylmer has always been a hazard for McGill students .Until recently, City Hall refused to meet their demands. The reported death o f a pedestrian at that comer in October strengthened students’ appeals. Student demands culminated in early December with a press con ference held outside Currie Gym.
Darier believes the combination o f the press conference, student peti tions and SSMU and PGSS pres sure forced City Hall to resolve the issue. “ It just goes to show that stu dents can achieve goals through campaigning,” said Darier. He cited his concerted efforts with SSMU Vice President (External) John Fox as an example o f cooperation be tween SSMU and PGSS.
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Students’ Society has put out a call for tender to replace the existingfoodservicesprovidedbyCVC. However, CVC is not out of the bidding. Two tenders, or offers for work, were put out on January 15 re questing “submissions for the man agement and operation” of the eight food counters and cafeterias across the McGill campus, as well as the operation of Gert’s Pub. The present five year contract
that McGill has with CVC runs out on May 30. At this point their con tract will either be renewed, or they will be replaced. The tendering process involves asking companies to submit offers to the university with proposed plans and an outline of capital expenditures. A tender committee will then decide upon the best package presented. According to SSMU Comptrol ler Jon S hifman, “The tenders give basic information about the needs of McGill and [the bidders] must
then tell us what they can do for us. We are not giving any guidelines as such.” The requirements of the tender include providing food for a McGill population of approximately 20,000 day students and 10,000 night students. The contract will bring in about $1,800,000 annu ally in food sales, with an addi tional $800,000 in vending sales and $400,000 in bar sales. Shifman says there have been about twenty replies so far. “At a cost of $200 for the tender
package, it is only for serious bid ders,” he said. CVC executive manager Tazim Mohamed said the CVC will also participate in the tendering proc ess. “It’s a normal business practice. We didn’t think a renewal of the contract would be an automatic process,” he said. The CVC has suffered several problems and received numerous complaints over the past five years. Mohamed says their poor image resulted from the exaggeration of
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some negative aspects of their tenure. “We’ve had to work under less than adequate circumstances. At least students can getawarm meal,” Mohamed said. According to Students’ Society President Santo Manna, ‘There have been problems with the qual ity of food in some of the smaller, satellite cafeterias. People have also complained about the prices, but there really isn’t much that can be done about that.” The CVC underwent an opera tions review early last fall to assess their performance. Manna said the outcome of the review would help provide specific recommendations for improving service. “We’re looking for a better deal for students. The review may help us bridge the communications gap between the SSMU and the cater ing company which will improve quality of service,” Manna said. Tenders will be accepted until February 9, when negotiations will begin.
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continued from page 3 out inconsistencies in current Senate statutes. For example, the Students’ Society President and Vice President (University Affairs) are Senators by virtue of their of fices. These ex-officio members are not required to meet the eight een credit regulation, and are only boundby SSMU’srequirementthat they take at least one course per semester. However, students wish ing to be elected directly to the Senate must take at least 18 credits per year. Student senators say that inher ent in the student body’s approval of part-time students being able to run for office lies the fact that stu dents feel responsible enough to elect competent representatives regardless of their course load. This opposition comes at an inconvenient time for Students’ Society, as nominations for elected SSMU offices open this week. This decision might prove to be detrimental to student-faculty re lations if it is viewed as an example of the administration undermining the Student Society’s constitution.
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First-tim e visitors to the disabled students C oordinator: “T h ere are m ore disabled stu dents at M cG ill now .”
Access McGill seeks to continue student fee B Y SHAUN FR Y Students from Access M cGill intend to ask students to open their pockets again this spring to in crease disabled access on campus. Kate Morisset, Students’ Soci ety Vice President (University Affairs), w ill ask SSMU Council tonight to continue the two dollar per semester student service fee that Access M cG ill presently re ceives. The request comes at the behest o f the student organization, which provides essential services for physically and mentally dis abled students. “ It’ s necessary, because the funds have given a lot to disabled students, and there’s a growing number o f them,” said Morisset. The fee was initiated in 1986 by Sam Miller, then Chairman o f Access McGill. Miller organized a
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student referendum whose out come established the service fee. The money acquired is used to fund the improvement o f disabled facilities on campus. T o date, the funding has perm itted the purchase o f a campus transport van and the construction o f a ramp leading to the Union Building and an eleva tor in Wilson Hall. It has also bought laptop computers and other equipment for deaf and blind stu dents. The fee was to have been levied for two years, after which it would be subject to review. The applica tion before Council will result in a student referendum to determine whether funding will continue at its present level or be stopped alto gether. The referendum should take place in March. Access M cGill member Graham McCord explained that his group’ s
primary concern was that it not be allowed to lose funding altogether. The problems o f the disabled on campus were highlighted in early November on Disabled Awareness Day, when students attempted to get around campus in wheelchairs or in blindfolds. Disabled Student Services Co ordinator Meribah Aikens says over 115 disabled students re quested some kind o f assistance last semester. She says the student service fee helps bridge a funding gap caused by university underfunding problems. “ You can’ t believe how great having this money has been. It’ s made the difference for us,” said Aikens. “ W e’ re not asking students to fund something that is the univer sity’ s responsiblility. W e ’ re talk ing about instruments o f learning,” Morisset says.
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R o a ch e s lets director A lex C happie and student film m akers bug hunt w ith PIR G funding in R edpath M useum .
R oaches : a futuristic student film w ith foresight B Y J O N A T H A N B E R N S T E IN Reduce. Reuse. Recycle. These alliteration s are the three buzzwords o f the Québec Public Interest Research Group(PIRG). They are also three things that can have catastrophic results if not heeded closely, or so the M cGill Film Society brashly suggests to us in its new 90 second short: Roaches. Shot last March, Roaches re cently premiered before a Film Club screening oïThe Shining, and will continue to open for Leacock films all semester, with possible screenings at the Rialto. The film
is a futuristic, black comic view o f what the world could resemble if humans do not stop trashing the environment. PIRG offered fund ing in exchange for the “ ad” , which enabled director/ co-writer Alex Chappie, a history major, to shoot the film along with acrew o f twenty students. The $ 5,000 film was shot en tirely in Redpath Museum, which doubles for a museum in the hazy future, where the film is set. The crew spent a weekend in the mu seum carefully moving artifacts and relics around in order to make the museum look even more eerie than it normally does. The finished
product shows innumerable ani mals (dogs, cats, etc.) which we arc led to believe are now extinct for some creepy, senseless reason. One o f the voice-overs exclaims o f the fierce stuffed lion: “ It was the king o f the beasts. W hy did it die?” Take a guess. This kind o f film assumes stu
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that they would respond to” . Complete with abstract scream ing, thunder and lightning, the look o f the film is powerful, with a comic twist at the end which for the sake o f potency w ill remain anonymous. Though it does make interesting use o f cockroaches.
Tremors: devouring perfection with tacky humor and horror B Y C O L IN S C O T T
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dents already have a fairly high level o f consciousness with regards to environment exploitation. Says Martin Brown, the co-writer and sound designer, “ Our audience is already pretty aware o f the envi ronmental issues. W e wanted to find a way that we could spur them into action by creating something
Giant worms are devouring the already sparse population o f Per fection Valley, Nevada (pop.14). That’ s the premise o f the movie Tremors, a new sci-fi-horrorcomedy. Kevin Bacon stars as handyman Val McKee. Fred Ward plays his sidekick Earl. And they have a plan. But all plans are soon disrupted by the introduction o f four very
large sand worms with an appetite for the population o f Perfection. Not only are these creatures hun gry, they are also smart. They manage to knock out the phone lines and what’ s more, block o ff the only road into town. Presto, therein lies horror film material. Although billed as a horror flick,Tremors is also very funny, in a very tacky kind o f way. Most o f the humour comes from Val and Earl, who trade insults and banter throughout the movie. (“ W e plan ahead.That way we don’ t do any thing right now.” ) But no matter how hard the pair plan, they could never have planned for what hap pens to the innocent little town o f Perfection after the worms come. It starts with the discovery o f the very dry, very dead, town drunk clinging to the top o f a telephone pole. Weird? Not as weird as the flock o f sheep that is devoured shortly after. Then a farmer and his w ife are eaten. Get the idea? The movie would be incomplete
without a character to walk in and make sense o f it all. Finn Carter plays the student seismologist who tries to do just that. The cast is topped o f with cx-Family Ties fa ther Michael Gross as the gun-
The giant worms aren’t given a name as such, though one is lovingly dubbed “Stumpy” after Val finds one of its ten tacles attached to the rear axle of his truck. toting dream o f the N R A , along with country and western singer Reba McEntire as his wife.
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IT'S GROW ING... Im p ro v e x p a n d s o n to th e club scene B Y C A R O L IN E H E A D L Y
If you have trouble envisioning a Shakespearian comedy sketch about diarrhoea in a shopping mall, you’re not alone. As ludicrous and impossible as it may sound, it can and has been done by The National Improvisa tion League, Montréal’s promis ing new improvisational comedy troupe. Though unaffiliated with La ligue nationale d ’improvisation, the city’s much publicized franco phone troupe (the anglo League may be legally forced to change its name because it is a direct transla tion), the newcomers have sparked fresh interest in English-language improvisational comedy since their debut at Club Soda on January 12. Formed in March 1989, the League consists of about twelve students with a knack for comedy. Although the group has given only one performance as The National Improvisation League, four of its members had previously appeared in Theatre Schmeatre’s Politics Schmolitics productions. Among them is John Sheridan, 22, a fear
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Art should be accessible to eve ryone, at least that’s what they tell us in Intro to Art History. W e’ve all heard the big names thrown around, right? “Don’t you love Degas and Renoir?” Well, if you’ve been wondering what all the hype was about, take a stroll over to the Montréal Museum of Fine Arts for its latcstcxhibit: Discerning Tastes, Montréal Collectors 1880-20. The paintings will speak for themselves. What curator Janet M. Brooke has put together is a surprisingly diverse collection of paintings which have all at one point been a part of various Montréal collec tors’ portfolios, accumulated around the turn of the century. High profile Montrealers such as Sir George A. Drummond and Sir Wil liam Van Horne collected a num ber of different paintings by such artists as Monet, Renoir, Dégas, Cézanne, Whistler and Constable. The styles represented include Realism, Impressionism, and Romanticism.
What makes the exhibit particu larly interesting is its link to the city’s cultural past. Taking into account Montréal’s size and dis tance from Europe, the fact that art afi cionados were able to build up such eclec tic collections is es pecially remarkable.
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T his m ovie is filled with action and enough tension to keep you on the edge o f the seat for m ost o f the Lime. T he only draw back is the re dundancy: everyone seem s to get eaten in the sam e w ay an d so there isn ’t any m ystery left. Tremors isplaying at le Faubourg
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anything almost instantaneously, but it’s really pretty easy when you do this sort of thing a lot and lose your inhibitions,” says John. The future of the group looks bright, and once they get enough members, they plan to start a full blown league. Sheridan explains, “Our goal is to get enough people together to be able to form an actual Anglo version of La ligue nationale d ’improvisation, whose perform ances feature two competing teams of eight people, a referee and a judge who proposes the title, style and duration of a sketch. The two teams then try to outdb each other in meet ing the challenge.” So, if you’ve always fancied your self as a comedian, and have kept relatives entertained for years at family reunions, you might be just what the League is looking for. The National Improv League will be hitting the Montréal club circuit for the next little while, although no new shows have been scheduled as yet. Keep your eyes open, because while you might not know what will happen, you can be comfortable in knowing that you will enjoy your self.
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Environmental Concerns: All of the responsibility for the reconstruction of our environ ment cannot rest in the hands of the major corporations. In the future, concerned consumers are going to have to take charge. Not only will we have to start behav ing in a more ecologically sound way in our own lives, but also, we must demand accountability from governments and pollut ers , and seek out technology that will have a positive, not destruc tive impact on the environment. This section is about what is being done, and what you can do...
Demand is needed to complete recycling loop BY SH A N N O N A L D IN G E R M oney m akes the w orld go ‘round. A s w e find ourselves am idst a global environm ental crisis, we realize that the chief obstacle to saving our environm ent stem s not from a desire to further destroy it or even from the absence o f w ant ing to save it. T he obstacle is a m atter o f econom ics: saving the environm ent w ill cost money. T hink globally, act locally. A cting locally used to entail re cycling w aste by dropping the w aste in the nearest bin and forget ting about it. W hile it is still im por tant to bring recyclable garbage to recyling bins, w e are now faced w ith the realization that recycling
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sound ones. W ithout a m arket for recycled goods, m anufacturers are hesitant to produce them and can not afford to increase production to a m ore cost-efficient scale. T he issue is sim ply a m atter o f supply and dem and: the supply of w aste to be recycled exists, b ut the dem and for recycled products does not. And as the supply and dem and cycle com es to a halt, so too does a future for recycling. Solutions do exist. T he m ost obvious solution, econom ically speaking, is to enlarge the m aiket for recycled goods - to increase the dem and. M ost econom ics m ajors will tell you that once a m arket is established, product prices drop. The price decrease w ill, in turn, expand the m arket, thus stim ulât-
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ing the supply and dem and cycle. T he solution lies in generating the initial m a rk e t T he m ost effective ‘initiators’ are large institutions w ho are, on their ow n, a large enough m arket to cause the price o f the recycled good to fall. Such institutions in clude the governm ent, large cor porations or even universities. M cG ill could m ake an im pact by using m ore recycled paper, as it currently consum es an average o f fifty m illion sheets o f paper in a single year. O rganizing a large collection of individuals to support the recycling cause, and buy the recycled goods at their initial high price is another solution. B ut this option would probably be less effective, and certainly m ore difficult than the
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Student power goes national in the United States B Y A U B R E Y K A S S IR E R
Som e good things do com e out o f the U nited States. L ast O ctober, a group o f 1700 students from forty-three states gathered at the U niversity o f N orth C arolina (Chapel H ill) to partici pate in Threshold, the largest stu dent conference on the environ m ent ever held in N orth America. This m arked the start o f a national Student E nvironm ental A ction C oalition (SEA C), representing “the youth o f the future.” SEA C has focused on m ajor issues. Their first issue was the G lobal W arm ing Prevention A ct in the U nited States. O th e r issues have included the concept o f creating university cam puses that have a “m inim um im pact” on the environm ent. Today, m ost o f their efforts are directed at preserving and enlarg ing A m erican forests, w hich SEAC believes are faced w ith extinction. N ational m edia attention and stu dent com m itm ent w as given a huge boost by the T hreshold conference. C onference organizers and the founders o f SEA C intended to raise
aw areness about environm ental problem s and conduct cam paigns supporting w orkable solutions. A ccording to SEA C-U N C co-chair Alec G uettel, “ [previously] w e felt as if w e w ere w orking hard, b ut we w ere w orking alone and thus inef fectually.” SEA C set out to form a netw ork that w ould serve as a “clearing house for relevant inform ation, a com m unication source for m em bers, and a vehicle to coordinate and conduct large-scale cam paigns,” explained G uettel. S ee ing the potential for a student m obilization that w ould defend their country’s (and the p lanet’s) natural assets, the m em bers o f SEA C -U N C prepared a national conference. T hree objectives w ere m apped out for the conference: to equip students with “effective tactics for grassroots activism ,” to inspire the desire to carry out these actions, and to m obilize the coalition. According to G uettel, there w ere three parts to the conference. The first elem ent w as a “plenary session” w ith several im portant
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speakers, including the founder o f Friends o f the Earth and E arth Is land, and environm entalist B aity Com m oner. T he n ex t stage w as a set o f w orkshops, “focusing on pow er, recruitm ent, and m ethod ology.” This w as follow ed by dis cussion groups and an assem bly, during which tim eplans w ere m ade for a national rally and students resolved to dem and action to cre ate a M inimum Im pact Cam pus (MIC). On W ednesday, N ovem ber 15, students at cam puses across the USA entered the offices o f cam pus adm inistrators, calling on educa tional institutions to im plem ent environm ental reform . T he stu dents rallied local supporters and presented statem ents o f environ mental principles. A lthough each cam pus created its ow n m andate, students united around the sam e ideas o f health, conservation, selfsufficiency, renew ability. A spects o f the M IC proposals at various cam puses includedreform s in physical operations such as food services, w aste reduction, recy cling, w ater and energy conserva
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tion, alternative transportation, and investigation o f hazardous wastes. Som e interesting ideas included providing bus passes for univer sity em ployees and boycotting com panies that are deem ed to be environm entally destructive or socially unjust. A t present, SEA C is coordinating sim ultaneous dem onstrations in every state to protect the rem ain ing US virgin forests. T hey believe that their decentralized approach to organizing dem onstrations will save fuel, m oney, and tim e, as well as m aking for an effective news punch. On February 26, every state in the US will find citizens m arching to save their com m on inheritance from the short-sighted m ism anage m ent that annually destroys a w il derness area nearly the size o f two Rhode Islands. O ne o f the group’s main goals is to pressure theU nited States Forest Services to m anage natural resources m ore effectively. SEA C opposes the U SFS ’scurrent practice o f leasing out forest lands for clearcutting in order to gener ate large revenues w hich then fund such activities as habitat preserva
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tion. The Forest Service effectively destroys som e habitats in order to earn the m oney to save others. SEA C plans to present a national forestry protection proposal at the cam pus rallies, w hich will also serve as a lead-in to Earth D ay on April 22. T he SEA C is hoping to becom e an international organization. At present, no such coalition exists in Canada. W hen various groups at M cG ill w ere asked w hether they would be interested in forming such a coalition, they w ere hesitant to com m it them selves. O ne possible problem is the absence o f a solely environm ental group at M cGill. Shannon D odge, a m em ber o f the Board o f D irectors for Q PIRG / G RIPQ , said, “it’s not really within our m andate, and as a group based in Québec, w em ostlikely w ouldn’t take the initiative...but I ’m not saying w e wouldn ’t be interested. ” Students in the U nited States have show n how pow erful a uni fied body can be. N ow all that is needed is for som eone here in Canada to step forw ard and take a chance on som ething big.
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Worried about a power failure? Try doing a rain dance B Y S T E P H A N IE S M A L L A N D GALLAG H ER M AC K AY
N um erous pow er failures and rum ours about a province-w ide shortage o f electricity have left som e students w orried about stay ing warm this winter. Since late last year, rotating strikes at H ydro-Q uébec have led to rotating blackouts in the M on tréal area. Pow er failures have occured m ainly during “peak peri o d s” o f energy use w hen equip m ent breaks dow n because it has n ot been m aintained adequately. H ydro-Q uébec also warns o f long-term energy shortages. An unusually cold w inter has contrib uted to high energy dem and in Québec. Officials at Hydro-Québec are w orried about w ater levels in reservoirs decreasing in the future. “W e will only have real prob lem s if it doesn’t rain or snow m ore,” says Jaques H enri C outure o f H ydro-Q uébec. Instead o f relying solely on M other N ature, Couture recom
extended pow er failure (residents o f N D G w ere left in the dark for two and a h alf days last N ovem ber), H ydro-Q uébec recom m ends putting anti-freeze in your toilet bowl to help prevent w ater pipes from freezing. Conservation is not only a m at ter o f reducing your electricity bills. Liberal Party leadership contender Sheila C opps, speaking to a group of M cG ill students last w eek, rem inded them that “C anada is known as the m ost energy-w aste ful country in the w orld,” and that we should all be conscious o f our personal consum ption. A m oury L ovins, who spoke at M cGill earlier in the year, sounded a less gloom y note. T he founder of the R ocky M ountain C enter for Energy pointed o ut that conserva tion is largely invisible in tradi tional accounting o f the energy industry. A s a result, the fact that there has been greater energy gains from conservation than from any new source - including nuclear pow er - has gone unnoticed.
m ends a num ber o f “com m on sense” w ays to conserve energy. M ajor changes, such as im proved insulation, address hom e owners. B ut there are m any easy ways that students can save energy with little or no investm ent, w hile low ering their electricity bills. A low cost form of insulation is to cover w indow s with plastic. T herm ostats can b e turned down slightly at night, or when room s are not being used. D ishw ashers and w ashing m achines should only be run with full loads. Always cover pots on the stove to m inim ize heat loss. And use 60 w att instead of 100 w att light bulbs w herever possible. A lthough conservation efforts can m ake a difference, the threat of a pow er failure is ever present in M ontréal. H ydro-Q uébec has even com e out with a brochure that of fers som e helpful hints o f w hat to do when your pow er is cu t off. A survival kitshouldincludecandles, m atches, extra blankets and b atter ies for your radio. In the case o f an
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tilizers com e equipped with rec om m ended quantities for use, w hich are im posed by the govern ment. H ow ever, the governm ent insists that the fertilizer produce guaranteed results; therefore the quantities that are used are quite often very high. A t M acdonald C ollege there is a great deal o f research being d i rected tow ards developing a flex ible system that will allow farm ers to use the am ount o f fertilizer that they need. R EA P has m anaged to keep the issue as a m ajor focus since it w as form ed in 1986, and since hosting the first conference on sustainableagriculture that year, has becom e a nation w ide group with over 250 m em bers.
“Farm ing using strictly biologi cal m ethods m ay ju st not be prac tical for every farm er, but that does not mean that there is not a more environm entally sound way to practise agriculture,” says L aw rence Tisdall, a graduate student and m em ber o f Resource E fficient A gricultural Production (REAP). REA P, a student group based at M acdonald College, has organized a conference this Friday on sus tainable vegetable production. T he conference is part o f a larger attem pt to encourage a “system s approach to agriculture w hich is environm entally sound,” accord ing to Tisdall. M ost chem ical fer
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I am scared. I am very scared. T he w orld I love to live in is falling apart at the seams. T he w ater we drink has gone through countless purification processes in order to be safe to drink. Fish, w ho have to live in unfiltered water, are dying. O ur forests are disappearing faster than w e can blink an eye (tropical rain forests disappear at a rate of tw enty soccer fields per minute. C anada loses forests the size o f V an co u v er Island every four years). T he m eat I eat has been given anti-biotics and horm ones harm ful to m y health. I am also confused. I like steak. I like D rano. I like paper towels. A ll these things m ake my life eas ier. I think this is w hat it all boils dow n to. C om fort and ease. W e ja ck up our heat instead o f w earing a sw eater because it is easier. W e drive to the com er store because it is easier. D isposable diapers and paper napkins are easier than their w ashable alternatives. The Canadian Green Con sumer's G uide,published by P ol
lution Probe, a Toronto- based organization, adresses these prob lem s and tries to offer som e solu tions. W e leam o f such things as the use o f cyanide in gold process ing. T hat fridges em it chloroflorocarbons w hich destroy the ozone layer. H ow electric kettles use less energy.T hat a sim ple w ay o f de creasing w ater usage is to leave a brick in the em pty tank o f your toilet. That, contrary to popular b elief it is not safe to flush tam pons dow n the toilet. T hat a com bination o f baking soda, salt, w hite
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vinegar and a kettle o f boiling water can replace Drano. A nd, that acid rain destroys stone m onum ents as w ell as trees and lakes. Pollution Probe got into trouble last sum m er through its endorsem ent o f Loblaw ’s “G reen” Products. Although m any o f them are an im provem ent over “regular” products, several of these are actually ecologically unsound (eg. unbleached dispos able diapers and the bio-degradable plastic bags). N evertheless, the G reen C ana dian Consum ers G uide is w orth while. It is useful because it covers
m ost every item and situation that the average consum er is likely to encounter. Topics ranging from fo o d an d d rin k .to clean ers, clothes, toiletries, gardening, heating sys tem s, transportation, and even travel and leisure. A n introduction w ritten by Canadian author M argaret Atwood com pares the ecological problem to w artim e, when people were forced to ration in order to support the w ar effort. “Reduce, Reuse, R ecycle” is not a new motto. People turned collars and tore up old clothes to use as rags.
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W hen the im m ediate shortage w as over, how ever, they began to consum e on a new scale, produc ing a huge econom ic boom . Pros perity led them to over-com pensate. “I will never go hungry again,” proclaim ed Scarlett O ’H ara in Gone with the Wind. U nfortunately this has been taken to extrem es. N ow w e are used to our D ispos able society. It w ill be hard to give up airconditioning, clothes dryers, plas tic bags, dom estic pesticides for our gardens, and the m any clean
ing products that have replaced g o o d o ld - f a s h io n e d e lb o w grease.The Canadian Green Con sumer's Guide em phasizes is not
to react and cure, but rather to anticipate and prevent. It is despairing. This book has chosen fear and despair as the way to change our habits. To stop the onging degradation o f the environ m ent, w e may have to return to a concerted national effort akin to that o f a nation in arm s. Perhaps fear and despair appropriate em o tions. As M argaret A tw ood said, “this is w ar.”
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Tremblay pots two goals as Redmen beat Concordia Stingers B Y JA M E S S T E W A R T The rich rivalry between the M cG ill Hockey Redmen and Concordia Stingers continued last Tuesday night at Concordia’ s socalled Ice Palace on the Loyola campus. The result was favourable for M cGill athletic supporters as the Redmen skated away with a 43 victory over their cross-town enemy. W hile the game was not as in tense as most Con. U. contests, it still had its share o f pushing and shoving and extra-curriculars that have consistantly fueled the rivalry. In this game, M cG ill clearly out played the Stingers but that fact was not mirrored on the score
board. “ The boys worked hard and we outskated them,” said M cGill Head Coach A l Grazys. “ I think we had more territorial play than the score indicated. W e played better than the score indicated, so w e’re happy with that.” The coach must have also have been happy with the play o f winger Patrice Trem blay. Trem blay sparkled in the game potting two hi-light fdm goals in the' first pe riod to stake M cG ill to a 2-1 lead. A t 5:06 o f the first period Trem blay circled with the puck and just inside the blue line, he fired a slap shot by the Stinger netminder. For his second goal, Tremblay took the puck from his side o f the
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red line, skated into Stinger terri tory and swept past two Concordia defencemen and slid the puck into the far side o f the net. To be suc cinct, it was a great goal. “ Those defencemen are not re ally mobile,” said Tremblay who is in his first year o f eligibility with the Redmen. “ I know my speed is my best thing, so I have to use it, and that’ s what I did.” Concordia quickly tied the game at two at 1:38 o f second period before M cG ill opened the game up a little with two goals from Brent Bannerman and Alain Cusson. Bannerman knocked in Marc Lajeunesse’ s rebound as they skated in on a two-on-one. Cusson tipped in Bryan Larkin’ s shot from the point to make it 4-2 McGill. Both tallies came on the power play as Concordia took stupid penalties in vain attempts to slow M cG ill’ s fleet-footed skaters. The third period was probably the best for Concordia as they outshot the Redmen 13-8 (McGill held the edge overall 28-26) but the only result was a late goal, making things slightly more tense before the buzzer sounded signifycomtinued on page 19
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The folks back in KitchenerWaterloo have got to be shaking their heads. Coming into this week end’ s games against McGill, their university hockey teams had col lectively lost only lost three games all season. The high flying W ilfred Laurier Golden Hawks, ranked fifth in Canada, had a 13-1-0 record while the Waterloo Warriors, ranked fourth, sported a record o f 10-2-1. Their goalies, Rob Dopson o f Laurier and Mike Bishop o f Waterloo are ranked first and sec ond in the Ontario Universities Athletic Association (O U A A ). For their part, the Redmen entered the weekend with a modest 6-5-2 O U A A record. On paper the boys from Kitchener-Waterloo could seemingly crush McGill; seemingly. Saturday’ s game versus Laurier was an epic contest. M cGill started out quickly with a power play goal from former Canadian Olympic team sniper Eric Aubertin at 3:29 o f the first period. But it wasn’ t long before the tide began to turn. Disorganized defensive play and uncharacteristically weak goal tending from netminder Jamie Reeve resulted in the Golden Hawks taking a 3-1 lead after twenty minutes o f play. Another Laurier goal at 7:20 o f the second period buried the Redmen even deeper. The missing element was lead ership. With captain Tim Iannone out with a shoulder injury McGill had to look to other leaders, defen sive stalwart Bryan Larkin for instance (with Larkin in the line up M cGill is 6-1-1). So where was he when M cGill needed him? He seemed invisible for the first twenty-five minutes o f the game, but at 8:45 o f the second when all seemed lost, Bryan ‘ the mailman’ Larkin delivered with one o f his patented quick moves around the opposing defense. M cG ill put it all together in the third period. While bumpers and grinders David Huck, Brent Ban nerman, and Marc Lajeunesse neutralized Laurier’ s physical game, speedsters Eric Aubertin, Patrice Tremblay, and Martin Raymond kicked in the after-burn ers and blew around the Golden Hawk defence. A t4 :3 1o f the third, Aubertin showed great moves, taking a feed from Olivier and scoring his second goal o f the game. A t 6:30 Aubertin again got the
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this time firing a titanic blast into the top right-hand comer o f the net from a nearly impossible angle. With the Hawks on the ropes the Redmen continued to pour it on. Martin Raymond broke the 4-4 tie at 10:16. The Hawks desperately tried to battle back and for ten minutes both teams went full throttle in an entertaining end to end display o f old-fashioned firewagon hockey. In the final minute, W L U flooded the McGill zone with six attackers but Jamie Reeve and The Great One (that would be as in God, not Gretzky) saved the day; Reeve did so by making several big saves in the dying seconds, the Mighty Manitou by blinding both the refe ree and the goal judge on what seemed to be a Laurier goal at 19:06. This amazing comeback victory bolstered the Redmen’ s confi dence. As centerman Taro Kaibara commented after Saturday’ s game, the key now for M cGill was con sistency. On Saturday they had proven that they have all the neces sary ingredients to win, now it was a matter o f putting them all to gether for a sustained sixty min utes o f hockey. That’ s exactly what they did on Sunday against Waterloo, and a61 cake popped out o f the oven. A t 1:03 o f the first period Patrice Tremblay stripped the puck from a Waterloo defenseman and broke away to score his 20th goal o f the season. A t 2:01 o f the second pe riod Mike Grady, who had been literally knocked out o f Saturday’ s game, left the entire Waterloo defence in a daze as he craftily popped in his second goal o f the year. Tremblay capped the second period by scoring his 21st o f the year at 15:24. Although Waterloo broke the shutout 52 seconds into the third, they could not mount a comeback o f Redmen-like propor tions. Tremblay saw to this by completing his hat trick, unleash ing a bullet from just inside the Warrior blueline at 5:12. M cGill was not yet finished, however. With about twelve minutes to play, de fenseman Paul Pulver broke up a Waterloo rush by flattening the Warrior puck carrier with a pun ishing open ice check. This al lowed Kaibara to feed Martin Raymond for his 50th career goal, which came at 8:55. Brent Bannerman completed the scoring by jamming in a penalty shot at 18:03 •
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THE SPORTS PIT BY A A R O N M A R G O L IS K aren D unn. R em em ber that nam e. T here com es a point in every hockey team ’s season w here one sequence o f events or m om ent in tim e acts as the catalyst for the rest o f the cam paign. F or the M cG ill Redm en hockey team the m om ent o f reckoning cam e last Saturday afternoon. Playing W ilfred L aurier, a team ranked fifth in the Canadian col lege scene, the Redm en played ten tative, alm ost scared hockey for tw o periods. T he result being, M cG ill trailed 4-2 going into the third period. In the final fram e the Redm en cam e roaring back. T w o goals by Eric A ubertin and one from M artin R aym ond gave M cG ill the lead going into the final ten m inutes o f play. E nter K aren Dunn. Dunn is a
first year law student at M cG ill w ho doubles as a goal ju d g e when sh e’s not poring over the intrica cies o f the Canadian legal system. It was her unfortunate luck to be behind the Redm en net in the third period as L aurier aw oke from its ten m inute slum ber and began pressing for the tying goal. W ith 54 seconds left in regula tion tim e and L aurier hem m ing M cGill in their ow n zone, the puck cam e back to the left point. M eanw hile in front o f Redm en goalie Jam ie R eeve, bodies w ere flying. It was “P latoon” revisited. A t the point, L aurier defenceman Peter C hôm a w ound up and seared a shot into the m ass of hum anity. Som ew here on its trip the puck hit a L aurier stick and w as tipped up and behind R eeve’s left shoul der hitting either the crossbar or the bar and som e m esh. Question. W hich was it? W as it a goal?
L aurier players begin to cele brate. B ut wait. N o red light. W ould everyone please rise, the honourable K aren Dunn now pre siding. H er first m ajor judicial decision. Still, no red light. T he referee w ho w as right on the spot agreed. N o goal. T he Redmen have been acquitted. U p in the gallery there were many critiques o f Judge D unn’s deci sion. C K U T co lo u r co m m entator Richard Rubin: “The puck hit the m esh, there is no question about it. T he goal ju d g e d id n ’t react be cause the puck cam e out o f the net so quickly. Jam ie R eeve w ill tell you its a goal.” Jam ie Reeve: “ From the sound, the m anner in w hich the puck cam e out, and the reaction o f die players on the ice it w as definitely in.” In opposition, Redm en co-coach Al G razy s. “ I w as right behind the shooter (at the M cGill bench) .Their
player shot the puck, it hit a stick in front and struck the crossbar. O ur (M cG ill’s) nets are floppy. If the puck had gone in the mesh would have m oved. I d id n ’t see it m ove.” T here you have it, three differ ent perspectives, tw o opposing judgem ents. Still, it w as the judgem ent o f K aren D unn that m attered most. T he referee seconded her motion. C ase closed. The Laurier players, obviously, w ere incensed. A t g am e’s end Laurier forw ard Sean Davidson m ade a bee-line for the referee to discuss the m atter o f a spot tonsilectom y w ith the head official. T he bottom line is, the call gave M cG ill the victory they so desper ately fought for.
H ad the shot been counted a goal, it surely w ould have taken aw ay the m om entum the Redm en had built up. M cG ill had rebounded from a tw o goal deficit and w ere playing som e o f its m ost inspiring hockey o f the season. A s w ell, the victory provided a huge springboard for the team. On Sunday M cG ill took on fourth ranked W aterloo U niver sity and beat them easily, 6-1. Tw o highly ranked teams. Tw o wins. Should the Redm en go on and perform successfully the rest o f the year much w ill be m ade o f this call. TheDwnn v. Laurier decision. It was the m om ent M cGill avoided the noose. T he defence rests.
Of things broken and worn T his past w eekend w as an event ful one. I w atched the first two periods o f the Laurier gam e on Saturday, but then had to leave for a broom ball gam e, our season opener. W ell, m y team , Lady Byng, won by forfeit, w hich w as fine enough w ith m e except for the fact that I m issed the third period o f the hockey gam e, and perhaps the best M cG ill hockey com eback in years. I didn ’t let that get m e dow n and w ent on to enjoy atypical Saturday evening. Then Sunday cam e and along w ith it, my intram ural bas ketball season opener at eleven o ’clock. By the tim e I fully w oke up, w hich w as ju st after the half, w e w ere dow n 32-14. W e ended up losing, 62-16. I sw allow ed my sorrow s via a grilled cheese and fries at L ’H abi tant, and then w atched all three periods o f the W aterloo gam e at the W inter Stadium . W hile it may sound like a rough w eekend, it really was enjoyable. I got to hang out in all three arenas of sport at this institution, and I realized som ething for the very first time. I thoughtabout all the university gym s, rinks and stadium s w hich 1 have visited, and cam e to the con clusion that M cG ill’s com plex is the b e s t It is an aesthetically pleasing thing, that old C urrie Gym. L ike the rink, the gym represents a cer tain rom ance, a tim e w arp back about fifty years. T hese places m ay lack the latest equipm ent. T he pool is too small. T he gym has cornered the m arket on stale air and dust. T he rink, if you notice, drops sm all w hite pieces o f som ething (definitely not snow ) on the spectators. I f you w alk into a new er facility, like one a t m ost any Canadian university, y ou’ll probably be able to com pete, spectate and ju st plain enjoy new er and cleaner facilities. B ut consider this. .B u ild in g s are like baseball gloves. T he best ones are broken in. O ld. Fam iliar. Homey. C all m e a sentim entalist, but eighties (or rather, nineties) archi-
tecture doesn’t com pare to that o f the thirties. Light green industrial carpet, m auve-painted w alls and elevators cannot replace w orn tiles, w orn m ahogany bannisters, and a w orn wood court. N ew er facilities are too sterile, they rem ind m e o f a hospital or a m ental institution. The gym , rink and stadium are our friends. L e t’s save the money w hich w ould build new facilities and put it tow ards som ething bet ter than tearing dow n old friends. It’s tim e to realize that new er fa cilities would be w orse, n o t better. U nlike that k id ’s baseball glove, it would take m ore than a little m uscle and oil to break it in. L et’s face facts. M cG ill already enjoys a superior role in university athletics. T he football team won the V anierC up only tw o years ago.
O ur soccer teams have won Québec titles for m any years, our hockey team has consistently been one of the strongest in Canada. Both swim team s are ranked nationally. Our hoop team s are poised to make runs a t tough E ast division titles. A p o o l isa p o o lisa p o o l. D oesn’t m atter if it’s too big or too small. If it’s good enough for our McGill sw im m ers, it’s good enough for me. T he rink, though, is my favo rite. T he only im provem ent would b e to tear down the ro o f and to play outside, the way hockey was meant to be played. The gym rem inds me o f B oston G arden. D ead spots, no ventilation, dust balls and rats everywhere. It’s great. T hink about o u r hom e court advantage. W e w ouldn’t w ant to lose that. N ick L eo n a rd o s
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Swim teams prepare for dual meet at Maine While most o f the McGill com munity has been wiling away the dog days o f January by burying their heads in books or pitchers o f Gert’ s ale (or both), coach François Laurin has had his McGill swim team logging long hours in the pool in order to prepare for the upcoming dual meet against the University o f Maine. By going south, the team will forego an opportunity to partici pate in the Québec Cup meet held this weekend at the Claude Robillard Sports Center. This decision was made because it was felt by the coaches that to swim at Maine would be more advantageous in terms o f the 1990 training agenda, which will have the athletes in peak form for the Québec Champion ships in mid-February, as well as
for the C IA U Championships in early March. It is reasonable to hope that the Redmen and Martlet teams will be able to duplicate and perhaps even surpass their stunning feats o f a year ago where they came from basically nowhere to serve notice nationally that McGill would be a force to contend with. Last year’ s success was due in large part to stellar performances by Rick Cos grove and Andrea Nugent, a late addition from the Seoul Olympic team. This year the two w ill have the benefit o f returning as part o f the backbone o f the M cGill team and as veterans o f the Canadian University scene. Coach Laurin will need big performances from the team in general and his stars in particular in order to stave o ff the main opposition which is seen by both swimmers and coaches alike
as coming from the Laval and University o f Montréal squads in the Quebec federation, and from the Universities o f Toronto, Cal gary, and Alberta.
The high expectations for the team have come about as a result o f the intense level o f training they have endured and because o f en couraging results in the National
Rankings Poll, which has placed the Martlets at number one for most o f the season, and has consistendy placed the Redmen in the top five.
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M ichelle Adam gasps for air w h ile training for an upcom ing dual m eet at M aine.
STUDENT SOCIETY ELECTIONS TO BE HELD MARCH 6, 7, 8,1990
Nominations are hereby called for the following positions: STUDENTS’ SOCIETY EXECUTIVE:
President Vice-President, Vice-President, Vice-President, Vice-President,
Internal Affairs External Affairs University Affairs Finance
BOARD OF GOVERNORS: One Undergraduate Representative SENATE: Arts (Includes Social Work) Dentistry Education Engineering (Includes Architecture) Law
2 representatives 1 representative 1 representative 1 representative 1 representative
Management Medecine (Includes Nursing and P & OT) Music Religious Studies Science
1 representative 1 representative 1 representative 1 representative 2 representatives
EXECUTIVE JOB DESCRIPTIONS President: As the Society's Chief Officer, The President is responsible for upholding the Constitution, co ordinating the executive committee activities, setting the agenda for Council meetings and acting as liaison between the University and the Society. Vice-President Internal Affairs chairs the Nominating and Communications Committees and oversees the programming and internal communications. VP External Affairs coordinates activities of External Affairs Committee and is Society’s representative to various levels of government and external agencies ensuring that students' concerns and policies are prop erly communicated. VP University Affairs is the main link between the Society and all levels of government at McGill. Attends
Senate and Board of Governors meetings and oversees the University Affairs Committee as well as the Senate and Board of Governors Caucus. VP Finance establishes with the financial officers of recognized clubs, their operating budgets, oversees these accounts and ensures that all financial rules and regulations are adhered to, as well as ensuring the long term stability of the Society. May 1,1990 to April 30,1991. All the above officers must reside in Montreal during the term of office. Positions are salaried during the summer months from May 1st to August 31 st based on a 40 hour work week at a rate of minimum wage plus cost of living as determined by the Joint Management Committee. Honoraria for Sept-April: President $5,434; Vice-Presidents: $4,347 (1989/90) Poll Clerks needed: $5 per hour.
CANDIDATE QUALIFICATIONS AND NOMINATING PROCEDURES: Executive President - may be a member of the McGill Students' Society in good standing with the University except students registered in the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research who are non-resident students or full members of the teaching staff. Nominations must be signed by at least 100 members of the McGill Students’ Society along with their year and faculty. Vice-Presidents, Internal, External, Finance & University Affairs - same qualifications as for President except that nominations must be signed by at least 75 members of the McGill Students’ Society along with their year and faculty. Board Of Governors Candidates must be members of the McGill Students” Society and must be in good standing. Nominations m ust be signed by at least 75 members of the McGill Students’ Society along with their year and faculty.
• Candidates may run for one position in each of thethree cate gories provided sepe rate n om in ation papers have been handedinfor each po sition. A typed pen sketch of 100 words o ile s s a n d a p h o to o f the nominee must be handed in with the nomination.
Senate Candidates must be members of the McGill Students' Society and: i) be students in good standing who are registered for a degree or diploma and have satisfied conditions for promotion in their previous year of studies. or ii) be students in good standing who have satisfied conditions for promotion in the previous year of studies and who are registered in a degree or diploma program. or iii) be students in good standing who are registered in a limited program for a degree or diploma, and who are repeating a year for reasons other than academic failure. Nominations must be signed by at least 50 members of the Students' Society who are in the same faculty as the prospective candidate together with their year and faculty, or by 25% of the stu dent enrollment in the faculty together with their year and faculty, whichever is the lesser of the two.
Official Nomination forms are available from the Students’ Society General Office, Room 105, University Centre - Eric Steinman, Chief Returning Officer. All candidates and potential candidates are advised to m eet with A ll n o m in a tio n s m u s t b e s u b m itte d to th e S tu d e n ts ’ S o c ie ty the Chief Returning Officer for the purpose of fam iliarization with G e n e ra l O ffic e in th e U n iv e rs ity C e n tre b y 1 6 h 0 0 W e d n e s d a y , F e b ru a ry 14, 1 9 9 0 c /o L e s lie C o p e la n d , O p e ra tio n s S e c re ta ry . the election regulations. W ed. Feb. 14 16h00, 1990, Union 302
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more swim m ing continued from page 18 “ It is som ew hat gratifying to see results this good in such a short period o f tim e,” says Laurin, “especially w hen we find ourselves having to train in a 25 m etre pool only to have to com pete against team s w ith better facilities, greater exposure and m uch larger athletic budgets.” L aurin dism isses the team ’s recent slum p, as the M artlet and R edm en ranks have been depleted by injuries affecting Rick Cosgrove (tom ankle ligam ents), Jennifer L ally (broken jaw ), and R obin Ruggiero (dislocated finger). L au rin believes, however, that the team is back on track as a result o f a two
w eek sojourn at a Florida training centre, and because the team ’s intensity has picked up since los ing their num ber one ranking. T he next big test for the team will be the dual m eet at M aine w here they w ill have to com pete w ithout the services o f A ndrea N ugent w ho is at the C om m on wealth Games, Rick Cosgrove w ho is on a European tour with the N ational Team , and the injured Jennifer Lally. T he next m eet that M cG ill will have here in town will be against the U niversity o f M on tréal and a large turn-out w ould be appreciated, because as the team revs its engines and kicks into high gear, M cGill sw im m ing prom ises to be the best show in town
TRIBUNE SCOREBOARD O UAA M en s H ockey January 20 at M cGill 5 Laurier 4 Goals: Aubertin (5, 6, 7), Raymond (13), Larkin (4) January 21 at M cGill 6 W aterloo 1 Goals: Trem blay (20, 21, 22), Grady (6), Raym ond (14), Bannerman (6) W indsor 9 Ryerson 4 G uelph 5 Laurentian 3 U pcom ing gam es Friday
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more hockey co n tin u ed fro m page 16 ing M cG ill’s 4-3 win. All gam e long C oncordia had difficulty breaking out o f their own zone and that factor, com bined w ith som e stupid penalties, m ade beating M cG ill too difficult. Ice chips- T he M cGill Tribune three stars w ere Patrice Trem blay and Brian Larkin o f M cG ill and Richard L aplante o f Concordia... T he R edm en had 20 m inutes in penalties to C oncordia’s 14.... M cG ill’s Tim Iannone is skating and is expected to return to action by the end o f this week. H e sepa rated his shoulder six w eeks ago... T he R edm en should be in the na tio n ’s T op 10 rankings this week by virtue o f their w ins over Laurier and W aterloo who w ere ranked #5 and #4 respectively. D on’t forget the R onald C orey Cup Feb. 9th vs C oncordia at the Forum . Tickets are on sale at Sadies and ju st about everyw here else. G et them early because scalpers will hit you deep in the w allet. The M ontréal C a nadiens oldtim ers play the PetroC anada oldtim ers ju st before that M cG ill gam e. M cG ill’s next hom e gam es are on Friday against the T oronto V arsity Blues and on Sat urday versus the first place York Y eom en w ho are the defending national cham pions. /■ "v
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O UAA W om ens Basketball January 19 at Laurentian 98 M cGill 49 Scoring: Glynn (14), M orse (9), F asone (8) Rebounding: M orse (9)
Saturday Y ork at M cGill T oronto at C oncordia O U A A M ens Basketball January 20 at Laurentian 83 M cGill 76 Scoring: B rousseau (16), Steiner (15), Franco (14) Rebounds: Simon (10), Brousseau (7)
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ALL HOME HOCKEY GAMES WILL FEATURE Dash for Free Cash Contest And "Score-0" Centre Ice shooting Contest And Door prizes, T-shirts, baseball caps, Champs Sports Bar vouchers HOT DOGS - POPCORN - CHIPS - REFRESHMENTS - at Student Prices Located atop U niversity Street, all games played at the M cConnel winter stadium, beside the residences. Tickets available at the Currie G ym (475 Pine W .) or at the Arena. For further inform ation call 398-7000.
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OK! SSM U w a n ts you! A ct now ...,join in th e f u n ...a n d g et involved!! EDITORS N o m in a tio n s are n o w o p e n fo r th e fo llo w in g OLD McGILL - EDITOR-IN-CHIEF In te rn a l A ffairs p o sitio n s: Old McGill is the hard-cover, 368 page yearbook covering the entire school year. It will include photographs of all McGill graduates of that year as well asotherrelevantmaterialastheEditorseesfit. The Editor shall appoint and supervise a large staff including writers, photographers, section editors and layout people. Applicants must be willing to attend a 3-day workshop in August.
POSITIONS BLOOD DRIVE - CHAIRPERSON The annual McGill Blood Drive, sponsored by the Students’ Society, will be held for five days in either September or October 1990, in the University Centre Ballroom. The Chairperson must choose a committee to oversee publicity, entertainment, doorprizes, clinic volunteers, etc...The Chairperson is responsible for organizing and supervising the McGill Blood Drive in cooperation with the Canadian Red Cross. Applicants must be available to plan Blood Drive '90 during the summer.
CHIEF RETURNING OFFICER The Chief Returning Officer(CRO) of the Students' Society elections, byelections and referenda during the 1990/91 school year. He or she will appoint a Deputy CRO through the normal application process as well as district returning officers (DRO's) to supervise each poll. The CRO will be paid basic minimum wage plus 25% only on election days for campus-wide elections. Only individual applications will be accepted.
TRIBUNE PUBLICATIONS BOARD - 2 Students-at-Large The Tribune Publications Board is responsible for managing and controlling the finances and legal affairs of the McGill Tribune and for guaranteeing that the objectives of the Tribune are met.
McGILL FIESTA - CHAIRPERSON Each yearthe international and multi-cultural student groups at McGill celebrate their cultures and heritages during McGill Fiesta Exhibitions, cultural shows, an international buffet and a closing dance are all part of the festivities. We need a well-organized individual who can work with a variety of student groups to help McGill's international students share their culture with other McGill students.
SECOND HAND TEXTBOOK SALE - COORDINATOR The Students' Society will sponsor a second hand textbook sale in September 1990 and possibly january 1991. The Coordinator must organize all aspects of the sale which include publicity and finding student staff. (The Students’ Society encourages applications from individuals representing particular campus groups which could have group members act as volunteers.) The Coordinator must be in the Montreal area for at least a part of the summer to organize this event. Any proceeds realized by the sale will go to a charity agreed upon by the Coordinator and Students' Society.
McGILL TRIBUNE - EDITOR-IN-CHIEF The McGill Tribune is published weekly by the Students' Society. The Tribune is a tabloid sized newspaper with the purpose of informing the members of the Students’ Society about campus issues, events and activities.The Editor-in-Chief shall appoint and supervise a large student staff of writers, editors, photographers and production people. Applicants must live in Montreal during the last two weeks of August to prepare for the first issue during registration week in September.
RED HERRING - EDITOR-IN-CHIEF The Red Herring is McGill's only intentionally humourous magazine. The Editor-in-Chief is responsible for the immediate editorial staff, dealings with the Students' Society, making sure deadlines are kept, checking the mail, readings of the constitution, and organizing weekly Yahtzee matches.
STUDENT HANDBOOK - EDITOR-IN-CHIEF The Student Handbook will be given to every student at McGill during registration in September 1990. This book will include introductory material about McGill, Montréal, the Students' Society and other campus groups with particular attention paid to helping new students orient themselves to McGill and Montréal. The Editor must be in the Montréal area over the summer.
COMMITTEES COMMUNICATIONS COMMITTEE - 3 Students-at-large This committee is comprised of the President, the Vice-President of Internal Affairs, the Program Coordinator, two Councillors, and three members-at-large. The main objective of this committee is to communicate between the Students' Society of McGill University, membership at large and the Students' Society of McGill University Council.
UNIVERSITY CENTER COMMITTEE -1 Student-at-Large The University Center Committee is responsible for establishing long term plansforthe upkeep, renovation and improvement of the University Center.
FOOD & BEVERAGE COMMITTEE - 2 Students-at-Large The Food & Beverage Committee is responsible for reviewing policy and for recommending and/or acting on suggestions and/or complaints made regarding the service provided to students.
JUDICIAL BOARD - 5 Members
NOTE: All the above positions are considered voluntary and are responsible to Sudents' Council. In the past, some of the positions have received honoraria. However, the exact amounts must first be approved by Student's Council. Except as noted above, joint applications will be accepted from not more than two (2) students for any one (1) position. All applications will be treated confidentially and will be reviewed by the Students' Society Nominating Committee. The best qualified candidates will likely be interviewed by the committee.
The Judicial Board of the Students' Society acts as the final authority on the interpretation of the Constitution and By-Laws as well as acts of Students' Council and any group recognized by Council. These five positions are open to law students who, during the 1990/91 academic year, will be in third or fourth year or pursuing a graduate degree in law. Only individual applications will be accepted for each position.
SOUTHERN AFRICA COMMITTEE - COORDINATOR The Southern African Committee was established by Students' Council to provide members of the Students' Society and the University community with information pertaining to the situation in Southern Africa. The Coordinator shall be responsible for overseeing the acitivties of the committee and shall act as the official spokesperson of the committee.
D E A D L IN E : Friday March 9th, 1990.