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W HAT’S ON IS C O U R T ESY O F T H E IN TER-G RO U P LIAISON N O TIC ES: Too shy to call that special someone? Fear no more, McGill Save the Children will do it for you-on Valentine’s Day. Buy your Val-O-Grams in the Union Lobby starting Monday, February 12lh until Wednesday, February 14th. 12-2p.m.Only

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Scarlet Key Award: Reminder - nomi nations for 1990 close Friday, February 23, 1990. Application kits are available at the Students’ Society Office. Info.: 3983556. Last Chance to run for the GRIPQuébec-PIRG Board of Directors, 1990/ 91. Active members and others who have a lot to contribute are urged to get a nomina tion sheet. Info.: Eaton 504; 398-7432. Domincan Republic. From $ 799. Taxes not included. Embassy Beach Club. Voy ages Cuts, McGill. 398-0647. McGill Nightline - We may not know the answers to all your questions - but do we try! So call us, 6 p.m .-3 a.m., nightly, if you’re fed up with Valentine’s Day, oryou just need to talk - 398-6246. Call, we’re anonymous, confidential, and eternally hip! W alkSafe 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 Association for International Students’ (M A IS’): Winter Clothing Depot for International Students is open Thursdays, 2-5 p.m., at the Presbyterian College, University and Milton. All Inter national Students welcome. Info.: 2861490. Caribbean Students’ Society: Office hours, Monday and Thursday, 11:00 a.m.1:00 p.m.. Union 408, 398-6814. Carib bean Newspaper on sale ($ 1.75). Cultural Show, March 10th, tickets - $6.00. Info.: 848- 9382.

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Department of English: presents Robert Schwartzwald speaking on “Fear of ‘Federasty’ : Quebec’s Inverted Fiction”. Arts Council Room 160, 3:00 p.m.. Info.: 398- 6558. Amnesty International: Letter Writ ing Meeting. Union 425, 7:00 p.m.. All Welcome. Vernissage: MacDonald-Harrington Bldg., Rm. 310, 8 p.m. Sponsored by Architectural Undergraduates’s Society. Info.: 398-7120/6700. Faculty of Music-Concert Series: Brandon U niversity T rio: Gordon Macpherson, piano; Francis Chaplin, vio lin; Ingemar Ohlsson, cello. Works by Brahms, Hummel, Eckhardt-Gramatté, and a newly commissioned work by Ken Nichols. Pollack Hall, 8:00 p.m.. Info.: 398- 4547. WEDNESDAY, FEB R U A R Y

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Uhuru Na Ufahamu-Development Studies Group: Meeting, Union 410, 5:00 p.m.. Media Study. All Welcome. International Socialists: Meeting, Y ellow Door, 3625Aylmer (north of Prince Arthur), 7:00 p.m.. Topic: “Native Op pression”. Black History Month: presents a Panel Discussion by Quebec Black Profession als. Leacock 219, 7:00 p.m. Info.: 3986815, 1-6 p.m.. McGill Southern Africa Committee presents AMANDLA, a weekly news and current affairs program on Southern Af rica. CRUT FM 90.3, Radio McGill, every Wednesday, 7:00-7:30 p.m.. McGill Film Society: Going the Dis tance. Canada 1979 (89 min.). Official film of the Commonwealth Games in Edmonton. FDA Auditorium, 7:30 p.m.. FREE. Faculty of Music-Concert Series: Jazz Ensemble I. Gordon Foote, Director. Pol lack Hall, 8:00 p.m.. Info.: 398-4547.

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Centre for Developing Area StudiesSemnar Series: “The Muslim Education Movement” with Lois Helms. 3715 Peel St., Rm. 100. 12:30- 1:30 p.m.. M cG illFilm Society: GayandLesbian FilmNight. Canadian and American inde pendent and experimental films. Leacock 132, 7:30 p.m.. Co-sponsored by Gays and Lesbians of McGill. Yellow Door Coffee House: presents “Live Music” with Roger Blaise and The Ballad Mongers. “Open Stage” to follow. 3625 Aylmer (north of Prince Arthur), 8:00 p.m.. Admission: $ 2.00. Coffee, tea, herbal teas, etc.: $. 50. Info.: 398-6244.

McGill Canadian Studies ProgramStaff-Student Seminar: presents the Hon. Flora MacDonald, speaking on “The Poli tics of Canadian Broadcast Regulation”, 3465 Peel, Room 203, 4:00p.m.. Co-spon sored by the Graduate Program in Commu nications and the Centre for the Study of Regulated Industries. Department of Anthropology-Semi nar Series: presents Dr. Kathleen Reichs, North Carolina, speaking on “The Research and Applied Applications of Skeletal Biol ogy to Anthropology". Leacock 720, 4:30 p.m. McGill for the Ethical Treatm ent of Animals. Working meeting to make ban ners. Union 410, 5:30 p.m.. All Welcome. Info.: 276-0914. G RIP-Q uébec-PIRG : Housing Proj ect Meeting. Eaton 504, 6:00 p.m.. New members welcome. McGill Film Society: Aguiree, Wrath ofGod. Germany 1972 (90min.). Dir.: W. Herzog. FDA Auditorium, 7:30 p.m.. Faculty of M usic-Concert Series: Chamber Music Recital. Anne Simons, violin; Dan Moses, hom; Judith De Repentigny, piano. Works by Brahms, Mozart, Sinding. Redpath Hall, 8:00 p.m.. Info.: 398- 4547. Yellow Door Coffee House: presents “Literature Live” with Deborah Eibel and Allan Bechard. “Open Stage” to follow. 3625 Aylmer (north of Prince Arthur), 8:00 p.m.. Admission: $ 2.00. Coffee, tea, herbal teas, etc.: $. 50. Info.: 398-6244. McGill TheatreSports: the Thursday show, 10:00 p.m. in the ALLEY. FREE Improv. Theatre!! FRID A Y, F E B R U A R Y

Yellow Door Coffee House: presents “Live Music” with Myk Gordon; and Mike Rossiter and Sarah Hill. “Open Stage” to follow. 3625 Aylmer (north of Prince Arthur), 8:00 p.m.. Admission: $ 2.00. Coffee, tea, herbal teas, etc.: $. 50. Info.: 398-6244. February 23rd. Black History Month: Presents “a Performance Evening” sponsored by the Black Student Network and the Black Community Council of Quebec. 2121 Old Orchard. Saturday, February 24th. Pres ents “Myma LAshley” on “Black Sexual ity”. Union 107/108, 7:30 p.m.. Monday, February 26th. Presents “a Heritage and Craft Display". Union 107/108, 9:00 a.m.4:00 p.m.. Monday, February 26th and Tuesday, February 27th. Presents “a McGill-Concordia Rap Session". Multic ultural Lounge, Union 401, 6:00 p.m.. Wednesday, February 28th. Info.: 3986815, 1-6 p.m.. Co-sponsored by CAPI TAL IDEA. The McGill Young Alumni present “Career Development for the “90s”. With Don McMahon, career consultant, speak ing on career counselling and long range visions of north american and global work environments in the 90s. Leacock 26, 6 p.m.. All Welcome. Free. Info.: 398-3557. Tuesday, February 27th. McGill Cancer Centre-Department of Oncology-Public Lecture Series 1990: presents “The Sociology of the Cancer Cell: Implications for Therapy". With Dr. Annette Herscovics, Professor, Department of Medicine, McGill and Dr. Pnina Brodt, Assistant Professor, Department of Sur gery, McGill. Palmer Howard Amphithe atre, McIntyre Medical Sciences Bldg., Sixth Floor, 1200 Pine Avenue W., 8:00 p.m.. Wednesday, February 28lh. Ethics and the Academy: “ Ethics and Journalism ” . With Robert Walker, Ga zette Ombudsman. Leacock 232, 7 p.m.. Presented by P.G.S.S. and GRIP-QuébecPIRG. Thursday, February 22nd.

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A m nesty In te rn a tio n a l Y outh Conference: Third Annual Conference at Marionopolis College, 3880 Côte des Neiges. Workshops and guest speakers on human rights issues. Registration at 9:30 a.m.: $2 (including lunch). Info.: 284- 4257. A m nesty In te rn a tio n a l B e n e fit Concert: T.J. Plenty (of the ASexuals), Fall Down Go Boom, The Griffins, and Me, Mom, and Morgentaler will be rock ing Foufones Electriques (97 Ste. Cather ine E.) in support of human rights. Doors at 7:30p.m.; Show at 8:30p.m.. Tickets $6 at the door. ADVANCE N O TIC ES: East European “Freedom and Peace Movement”. With Jacek Czaputowicz, Freedom and Peace, Poland; Malgorzata Tarosiewicz, Freedom and Peace, Poland; Jana Petrova, Czech, Independent Peace Association; designers of Citizen Assem bly-Parallel Helsinki Accord. Unitarian Church, Sherbrooke and Simpson, Wed nesday, February 21st, 8:00 p.m.. Spon sored by West Islanders for Nuclear Disar mament, Project Ploughshares, Westmount Iniatives for Peace, and Voice of Women. Info.: 695-2675, 935- 1571.

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Black History Month: presents the McGill Black Student Network Cultural Exchange with Howard University, Wash ington, D.C.. Today until Sunday, Febru ary 25.

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BY PAUL HORWITZ A group of McGill students was to meet last night to dicuss oncampus civil disobedience after Wednesday’s General Assembly voted 120 to 76 in favour of block ading the Administration Building to protest Québec ’s tuition fee hike. Tonight’s meeting follows a blockade-planning meeting Friday attended by an estimated40 under graduate and graduate students, including four Students’ Society executives. Students at that meeting sug gested a sit-in in the Administra tion Building, and an attempt to prevent a meeting of the Senate or the Board of Governors as pos sible actions. The civil-disobedience group, which remains unofficial and nameless, could not agree on spe cific plans during the three-hour meeting Friday. Participants spent much of the meeting discussing procedure, secrecy, and the role of Students’ Society. “There was a feeling that as long as Students’ Society listened to the group, then everyone would be

fine,” said second-year Arts stu dent A.C. Carlson, who attended Friday’s meeting. “Most people were worried about being marginal.” Vice President (University Af fairs) Kate Morisset says the Stu dents’ Society blockade will con tinue regardless of whatever else the group decides to do. “The Students’ Society is going to organize a blockade, because that’s what the General Assembly decided,” Morisset said. “But [the students] can certainly decide to embellish the blockade.” The civil-disobedience group also recommended two referendum questions which according to Vice President (External) John Fox, would be debated at the SSMU council meeting tonight. The first question would ask students if they support a tuition fee increase. The second would ask students here to strike if 20 other colleges and universities, of which 10 would have to be univer sities do as well. The decision to blockade the Administration Building was reached at Wednesday’s General

STUDENT GROUPS AGREE TO STRIKE The student group Réunion nationale du mouvement étudiant, of which McGill is a member, agreed to go on strike to protest tuition fee increases last weekend. The 60 student groups who attended Saturday’s meeting at the Université de Montréal agreed to discuss the details of a strike in a RNME meeting scheduled for February 24. A strike might occur as early as the 27th, said SSMU Vice President (University Affairs) Kate Morisset.

CONTRACTOR BLUES HALT RECYCLING PROGRAM McGill administration yesterday temporarily put a stop to this cam pus’ recycling program. Sarah Seckinger, a QPIRG board member, said the program was stopped because of problems with the recycling contractor, Récupéraction Énergie. Seckinger said paper had been piling up since Christmas, creating a fire hazard and a lack of space. Derek Remsen, recycling program director, said the administration would look for a new contractor or an alternative way to recycle at McGill. The paper that is currently in recycling bins will be picked up by Physical Plant, and will probably be thrown away.

UNIVERSITY BOOSTS BEER COSTS The university has raised the cost of the beer it buys for the SSMU for the fourth time this year, said Vice President (Internal) Ray Satterthwaite. As of the newest cost increase on February 5, beer prices have risen by more than one dollar a case since November. Satterthwaite says he believes the price increases do not necessarily reflect increased costs for the administration, and said he will ask the administration to explain the increases. Since the administration holds liquor licences at McGill, Students’ Society must buy its liquor through the administration, which holds McGill’s liquor licences.

ENGINEERING WEEK RAISES MONEY FOR MEMORIAL FUNDS The Undergraduate Engineering Society raised over five thousand dollars last week for two funds set up in memory of the 14 women killed at École Polytechnique in December. Some of the $5225 raised will go directly to a scholarship fund at École Polytechnique; the rest will help launch a national fund to promote women in engineering. The fundraising activities -which included soliciting donations, selling buttons and a ‘trikathon’ - were part of similar activities across Canada during National Engineering Week, said EUS Vice President Finance) Guy Lafond.

Assembly after students voted not to go on strike. Students at the Assembly voted against both the proposal for an unlimited strike, and an amend ment which would have limited the strike to two days. The students voted in favour of a blockade just before the General Assembly ad journed. “The vote went in favour of a barricade because of frustration [about the strike vote],” Carlson said. Jean-Pierre Morin, Director of the University Relations Office, said the administration was un happy with the SSMU’sblockade. “Frankly, we don’t see the point in having students bar the admini stration from entering the build ing,” Morin said. “It’s the government that is imposing the tuition increase, not the university.” Some students have blamed the failure of the strike proposal on at least 100 students, many from the engineering, medical, and physi cal and occupational therapy fac ulties, who entered immediately before the vote and left immedi ately afterwards. “It would have been nice if they’d

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D e m o c r a c y in th e d a r k : stu d en ts vote f o r a b lo c k a d e had the opportunity to think about things beforehand,” said Fox, but he added that the students had not broken voting rules and were en titled to vote. At its height, as many as 500 people attended the General As sembly. Arts Councillor Joanna Wedge, who chaired the Assem bly, said this was the first time quorum has been reached in a General Assembly in SSMU his

tory. In addition to the blockade mo tion, the General Assembly voted to participate in a demonstration by students from Québec universi ties and CEGEPs. The demonstration takes place Wednesday at 3 pm It will start on the lower campus and march to the Montréal Stock Exchange in sup port of an education tax for busi ness.

Rape case settled out of court BY SHANNON ALDINGER MUC Police Sergeant Dave Adamo, who investigated com plaints that members of the Zeta Psi fraternity raped a McGill woman last year, has said that an out of court settlement in case proves that “there must have been something that the people involved couldn’t defend.” “Obviously if the three accused [men] felt that they were better off [with an out of court settlement], there must have been something embarassing that they couldn’t defend, otherwise they would have settled in civil court,” Adamo told the Tribune Friday. Last October, a McGill Univer sity student filed a lawsuit charg ing she was sexually assaulted by three members of the fraternity during a party at the Zeta Psi frater nity house on Sept. 22, 1988. Crown lawyers decided there was not enough evidence to proceed with a criminal trial. The out of court settlement con------------ 3 5 m m p i . i p re s e n ta tio n 0 I I Q 6 S

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for the Crown to take the case, but the Crown pretended that there wasn’t enough evidence. But of course there was enough proof, the out of court settlement reinforces my contention,” Adamo said. “It shouldn’t be the Crown’s place to decide, it should be the court’s.”

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Mandela speaks to Key to success is realistic action the Soo Imagine Nelson Mandela in Sault. Ste. Marie. The picture is a difficult one, to be sure. His dignified bearing would certainly crouch before a bitter wind chill. Instead of slowly raising his fist-insalute as he did outside Victor Verster Prison Sunday, the Soo’s ice air would force his hands around his ears and send him running to the closest heated building. But the speech he gave to millions of South Africans from CapeTown’s city hall this week could bear repeating in the officially-English Ontario town. Canada’s identity crisis now has us splitting into groups based on language, region, and descent. To the extent that those groups thrive on mutual fear and ignorance, our crisis mirrors the psychological war which has already ripped South Africa. South Africa’s identity crisis is admittedly more entrenched than our own - that may be why Nelson Mandela has hit on a solution to the problem. When, in his speech Sunday, he recognized the contributions of white South Africans to the anti-apartheid movement, he spoke of something called ‘Common Experience.’ Citizens who recognize Common Experience look beyond the world of competing groups to a stage on which individuals act to solve the problems they share. The recognition that apartheid stifles both black and white lives led Afrikaner friends of mine in Johannesburg to battle against the race rule which had spoon fed other whites into collaboration. The same recognition of a Common Experience led black friends of mine to invite whites to their Soweto homes for discussions about a common future. On a larger scale, the common black-white experience in South Africa underpins the ANC’s Freedom Charter, which demands a non-racial South Africa as opposed to a black one. South Africa’s sense of Common Experience is young and fragile at best. But it is growing. South African citizens are finally starting to see themselves as compatable individuals while the walls which define their conflicting groups collapse around them. We Canadians, meanwhile, ignore any sense of Common Experience choosing instead to lose our identity in increasingly hostile mazes of sub-arctic tribes. Ironically, we retain the gall to lament our ‘lost-identity.’ Mandela would first tell us that we do have an identity. Then he would explain that its strength lies in the unity of individual Canadian experiences, not in the anger of our groups. We would interpret that to mean that the full power of Canada's identity can only emerge when an Edmontonian, for instance, realizes that the struggle for Canadian French is his own. Or when a Rimouskien can feel the pain of a Saskatchewan drought. But Mandela would probably draw words from his last court-room speech in 1964. “Brothers and Sisters,” he would say simply, betwen gusts of Sault. Ste. Marie wind, “your freedom and mine cannot be separated.” ROBERT STEINER

Steiner spent four months last year reporting from South Africa for a business magazine.

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WITH PAUL HORWITZ They got it all wrong on Wednesday at the General Assembly. Maybe it was my fault. Maybe I just wasn’t speaking clearly enough. I said, “Let’s blow up all the television antennas;” but what they heard was, “Let’s have a student strike.” Perhaps if I hadn’t been mumbling - or if whole faculties hadn’t suddenly invaded the room to vote without listening to the debate - we could have won that vote. I said, “Let's beat Brandon Tartikoff about the face and neck.” What they heard was, “How about blockading the Administration?” Enunciation is obviously key in student politics.

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Why this concern with the one-eyed monster medium? Well, the second I took some time off from television watching to discuss minor issues - like Panama, or media conglomerates - all hell broke loose on television. Apparently, the price for a lack of vigilance is a regular TV series on the life of Elvis Presley. That’s right. The King. The guy who wore all those hugejumpsuits and ate too many Ding-Dongs and may now be living as a recluse in a small town in Ohio. What better way to demonstrate how unironic Americans are about their cultural icons, than for ABC to inflict on us a half-hour a week of Elvis’s exploits? And what does the series’ star, the man who would be Presley, have to say about the show? “There’s a lot to be learned from his life story.” He didn’t elaborate, but I think I know what he means. Here’s what we can learn from Elvis: ExploitBlack culture, and you’ll be rich. If you’re in a movie, leap into song at odd moments. When taking an overdose of barbituates, be sure you’re sitting on a toilet. And after you ’re gone, let ABC do the really vulgar stuff. Granted, Americans have the market cornered on vulgarity; but don’t sell us

It seems that half the world has been treading in the direction of an open society. Mandela is no longer in prison; multiple parties can compete for the leadership of the Soviet Union. The changes in the rest of the world have been guided by a massive popular demand for reform. Democracy and an open society in Canada are predicated on education, as access to the benefits and power of this society is effectively limited to the more educated groups. When Québec’s Minister of Education Claude Ryan imposed a tuition fee increase on December 19, 1989, students in the province began to act to preserve something the signatories to the United Nations charter have declared a human right - education. The power of the movements in other parts of the world has been the united efforts of the people within them. Their power has also come from their successes. Success is a factor that cannot be ignored by groups who seek to change the policy of a government. Idealistic purity is laudable, and a continuing tuition freeze is a desirable goal. It is not, however, attainable by anything other than a full out action - like the province wide student strike McGill students rejected at the General Assembly last Wednesday. The ultimate goal of the Soviet Republics may be national sovereignty, however, by their willingness to agitate for compromise goals they are able to make substantial progress towards their greater objective. The group assembled at the General Assembly did vote to blockade the Administration building. There were some good reasons to choose that target. Not only has the administration accepted the Ryan hikes, but they have taken advantage of the opportunity to raise our fees by an extra 10%. Furthermore, one member of the Board of Governors declared, in one of the more elitist statements on record, “we’re a class act and if they can’t afford us they can go to Concordia.” The group which blockades the Administration building will be most effective if it is large, and represents a cross-section of students. While all those who blockade may continue to express our belief in accessible education, we cannot hinge our demands on the issue. By asking for something in which we are unlikely to succeed, we only marginalize our efforts. A blockade by students has all the makings of a successful tactic for change, if it is carefully controlled. Saul D. Alinsky had several Rules For Radicals when he wrote his pragmatic primer, and it might be worth keeping them in mind.

Power is what the enemy thinks you have; A good tactic is one that your people enjoy; Ridicule is man's [sic] most effective weapon; Wherever possible go out o f the experience o f the enemy; a tactic that goes on too long becomes a drag. The first day a massive group of students blockades the administration building, we should make the front page of the Gazette. The third day, we will not be saying anything new, and accordingly, will be lost in the rapid pace of current events. Let’s make the first day something that people will remember. The final rule to keep in mind is that the price of success is a constructive alternative. If we are going to accomplish a larger end, we will have to be prepared to negotiate. Kelly Gallagher-Mackay Canadians short. We can get just as culturally obsessed as any damn Yankee. Case in point: Ken Dryden's Home Game, a little - actually, six parts - documentary/obeisance to the sport which occasionally occurs in between ice boxing matches. Two books, one TV series, and endless McGill alumni functions later, Ken still doesn’ trealise nobody ’s interested in obsessively nostalgic ex-athletes.

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The McGill Tribune Publisher TheStudents' Society of McGill University Editor in Chief Charlie Quinn Assistant Editor Paul Michell News Editors Paul Horwitz Rob Steiner Features Editors Kelly Gallagher Mackay Stephanie Small Entertainment Editor Kim Farley Sports Editor Nick Leonardos Photo Editor Neal Herbert Assistant Photo Editor Linda Miller Mr Layout and Production David Gruber Production Assistants Alisa Black, Andrea Hitschfeld, Jenny Lin, Melissa Meyers, Kirsten Myers, Elaine Palmer, Zoe Rolland Cover Graphic Courtesy CIDMAA Lindsey Pollard Publications Manager Helene Mayer Staff Shannon Aldinger, Jason Arbuckle, Marc Druin, Joshua Fellman, Sean Gordon, Lisa Harrison, Walter Kemp, Aaron Margolis, Susie Osier, Colin Scott, Rosalind Ward-Smith, Andrzej Szymanski The McGill Tribune is published by the Students' Society of McGill University. Opinions expressed do not necessarily represent Students' Society of McGill University opin ions or policy. The Tribune edito rial office is located in B -01A of the University Centre, 3480 McTavish St., Montréal, Quebec, H3A 1X9, Telephone 398-6789, 398-3666. Leters and submissions should be left at the editorial office or in the Students' Society General Office. Letters must be kept to two typed pages. Other comments can be addressed to the chairperson of the Tribune Publication Board and left at the Students' Society General Office. The Tribune advertising office is located in roomB -22, phone 398-6777. Publishing is done by Payette and Simms, St.Lambert, P.Q.

new s McGill building experts question city's plan on future development

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BY ROSALIND WARDSMITH_________________ ____ Two McGill experts on urban planning and Montréal say that a plan released by the city earlier this month, which sets out a vision for future development in the city ’s center, is inadequate and lacks substance. The critics each attacked differ ent aspects of the report. Urban PlanningprofessorJeanWolfesaid the plan’s height restrictions would not protect a view from downtown of Mont Royal. While graduate student Luc Jolicoeur, who has been involvedforyears in McGill’s relations with the city, said the plan has good intentions but ex presses some reservations. The report was released by Montreal's Bureau de plan d’urbanisme in early February, and still must go through public consulta tions before it is approved. Once approved there would be a man date to preserve the distinctive characteristics of Montréal, pro tect the quality of Montréal’s ur ban environment, and develop the international character of Montréal. The report is composed of two parts. One section concerns future development in the downtown core, while the other discusses the pres ervation of natural features such as Mont Royal and the St-Lawrence River. Both sections outline re strictions it says will be necessary to make the plan succeed. Because of McGill’s central location, and its proximity to the mountain, both sections of the report will directly affect McGill. Downtown institutions such as McGill are currently zoned as resi dential areas, making it difficult to get approval from the city for new development (eg. the proposed Athletics complex). The report proposes that each institution de vise a “master plan” in conjunc tion with the city, which would describe plans for future develop ment and give details on any pro posed buildings. The zoning would then be changed from residential to institutional. Other objectives outlined in the report include the construction of 1 million square meters of office space and ten thousand new hous ing units in the next ten years, and the confirmation of St. Catherine Street as the main commercial street in downtown Montréal. The report also said it would keep the area around Park Avenue and Milton Street, which makes up most of the student ghetto, residential. The need to “conserve the im portance of Mont Royal in the sil houette of Montréal” is also heav ily emphasized in the report. The

CHAIRPERSON - ACTIVITIES NIGHT COMMITTEE The student holding this position will assemble a committee to organize Activities Night. The Students' Society annual "Meet the Clubs' function will be held in September 1990. Communication with club presidents must be made during the summer months.

CHAIRPERSON - DAYTIME PROGRAMMING This committee will organize activities such as day-time entertainment, con tests, games, comedy, improv theatre, and tournaments. Emphasis will be placed on participatory, day-time forms of entertainment.

CHAIRPERSON ■NIGHT-TIME PROGRAMMING This Committee will organize concerts, dances, lectures, dance performances(ballet, modern, Jazz) and the theatre. The Chairperson of the Concerts Committee should be prepared to attend the entertainment confer ence sponsored by the Canadian Organization of Campus Activities in June 1990.

CHAIRPERSON ■WELCOME WEEK The Chairperson of Welcome Week will chair a large committee of events coordinators. He or she will ensure that all activities planned for Welcome Week are properly organized and encourage maximum participation by McGill stu dents, especially those students at McGill for the first time. Welcome Week will take place during the last week of August and first week of September 1990. The Chairperson should be prepared to attend the COCA entertainment conference in June 1990.

CHAIRPERSON - WINTER CARNIVAL The student holding this position will be in charge of the week-long Carnival festivities in January 1991. As with Welcome Week, the Carnival Chairperson will direct a large committee of event coordinators and volunteers. The Chair person should be prepared to attend the COCA entertainment conference in June 1990.

ADMINISTRATIVE COORDINATOR The Administrative Coordinator of the Network shall act as secretary at Network meetings and shall provide the proper adminstrative back up to the committee chairpersons. He or she shall ensure that committee chairpersons are aware of and follow Students' Society, University and government regulations concern ing room bookings, liquor licences, audio-visual equipment, room capacity maximums, etc... The Adminstrative Coordinator shall also be responsible for the ordering of office, promotion and other supplies.

W ill M o n tr éa l su rv iv e n ew d ev elo p m en t? report proposes a 200m height restriction on future building downtown to protect the view of the mountain. But Professor Jean Wolfe, Di rector ofUrban Planning at McGill, said the height restriction will not secure the view of Mont Royal. “Mistakes have been made before,” said Professor Wolfe, citing the McIntyre Medical Building as an example. Luc Jolicoeur, a Ph.D student in Urban Planning and a former member of the McGill Committee on Physical Development, said the

report lacks a substantive plan of action regarding future develop ment of the city. “The report has lots of good intentions, but unless they (the city) devise the necessary tools to trans form its many objectives into real ity, it will be useless,” Jolicoeur said. McGill’s proposed athletic complex on the southern flank of the mountain is not discussed in the report. Instead, the report says a report devoted to development on or around the mountain will be released in the near future.

L e t t e r s There were no letters printed this week, due to space restrictions. The letters that we have received will be printed in the next issue of The Tribune, on Feb. 27. Have a nice day, week, break, and don’t come back with a tan.

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

NOTE: All of the above positions are considered voluntary and are responsible to Students' Council. Except as noted above, joint applications will be accepted from not more than two (2) students for any one (1) position. All applications will be treated confidentially and will be reviewed by the Students' Society Nominating Committee. The best qualified candi dates will likely be interviewed by the Committee. HOW TO APPLY: "General Application" forms are available in the Students' Society General Office, University Centre, Room 105,3480 McTavish Street and at Sadie's II in the Engineering Building and at Sadie's III in Chancellor Day Hall. All applicants may expect to have a written response to their application by the end of March. Completed applications must be submitted to Leslie Copeland, Operations Secretary, Students' Society General Office, University Centre, Room 105, NO LATER THAN 4:30 P.M., FRIDAY, February 16, 1990

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S ou th A frica n jo u rn a lis t, a n d a C a n a d ia n d ip lom at. T h e s e a r tic le s w ere w ritten in the m id st o f r e fo r m s th at ev en tu ally sa w th e r e le a s e , on Sunday, o f A N C le a d e r N elso n M a n d ela.

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Canadian diplomats man front lines in South Africa BY ROBERT STEINER This month’s major shift in South African government policy is “greatly encouraging” and signals a victory for Canada’s sanctions stand, a senior diplomat at the Canadian Embassy in Pretoria told the Tribune last week. “There’s no doubt in my mind that sanctions have worked. Inter national pressure combined with the internal pressure of liberation organizations has brought the South African government to the point where it believes in negotia tions,” Canadian Chargé d’Affaires

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which pays for meetings between white and black South Africans ranging from elementary school exchanges to meetings between business leaders and ANC leaders in Zambia. Canada’s government also pur sues a two-pronged strategy on South Africa’s campuses. While funding anti-apartheid actions at South A frica’s two most presitgious Afrikaans universities

- Stellenbosch and the University of Pretoria - Ottawa has commit ted an $8 million education fund and CIDA development programs to the improvement of black edu cation there. Off campus, Canada finances training programs for South Af rica’s major opposition newspa pers and supports press-freedom groups in the country. Canadian diplomats themselves

attend almost all major demonstra tions in the country as observers. “We’re in the front line being teargassed, with the protesters who are being teargassed,” Schram said. “That’s the kind of thing that makes our role here different than those of Canadian diplomats any where else in the world.” Schram added that Canada’s on site efforts have contributed to making South Africa “mindful of

its global isolation” and are likely to continue with added emphasis on “breaking down barriers and encouraging negotiations for posi tive change”. “The South African government is anxious to resume its place as a member of the international com munity and in particular as an engine for development in south ern Africa,” Schram said.

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have w o rk e d ” John Schram said in a telephone interview Friday. “[StatePresidentFW] DeKlerk’s government understands that the only way to preserve Afrikaans culture is to make it a part of South Africa. I have no reason now to doubt the government’s commit ment to scrap the Group Areas Act [which determines where one can live according to one’s race group].” Canada is a recognized leader of Commonwealth sanctions policy, although anti-apartheid activists S A ’s n ew g e n e r a t io n : b l a c k a n d w h ite stu d en ts a t J o h a n n e s b u r g ’s W its U niversity d e m a n d a n e n d to a p a r th e id complain that Canadian trade with South Africa continues to grow. In a speech responding to DeKlerk’s February 2 announcements, Cana dian Foreign Minister Joe Clark pledged to continue advocating sanctions until Pretoria commits itself to irreversable change. But Schram said Canadian pol BY RICHARD MAGUIRE an impromptu celebration by Uni he simply realized that some of the media and is consequently image icy-makers would have to make a versity of the Witswatersrand stu fierce pressure - from inside and conscious andpublicly urbane; and “judgement call” about what con This article by the president o f dents and workers in Johannes outside the country - that built up his first months in power were stitutes “irreversible change”. during the repressive reign of PW characterized by strategic decisions the South African Student’s Press burg, hospitalizing four. “There won’tbe any single thing Union will appear in campus This act of swift retribution - not Botha had to be released in an aimed at lessening the crises the which will be the symbol for that the only one that day - served as a attempt to stem the tide that threat government faced: cuts in govern newspapers across South Africa moment,” he explained. sobering reminder that the basic ens to sweep white minority rule ment spending; a highly publicized this week. Within South Africa, Canada is jaunt into Central Africa and the structures of apartheid remain in away for ever? known for more than its strong willingness to tolerate high profile South African reality, as most place, a somewhat altered state of sanctions rhetoric. In both govern people know it, was turned upside emergency is still in force and the protest which would present him Still a Nat ment and liberation circles, Can down last Friday [Feb. 2] by FW armed might that has defended immediately as a new, tolerant ada’s two missions are often seen DeKlerk’s announcement of the apartheid in the face of bitter oppo Certainly, DeKlerk is a more leader. as opposition offices with diplo unbanning of the ANC and South But in the recent words of Peter sition is still ready and willing to sophisticated politician than his matic protection. predecessors, there is a lot less of Mokaba, president of the militant play its role. African Communist Party. The embassies in Pretoria and Is DeKlerk a bold reformer, the petulant finger wagging that South Africa Youth Congress A few hours later, that reality Cape Town administer such moving ahead of recalcitrant ele characterized PW’s [Botha] reign; (Sayco), “DeKlerk is still a memwas brutally reasserted by batonschemes as the Dialogue Fund, wielding police who ploughed into ments in his support base? Or has he is aware of the power of the CONTINUED ON PAGE 7

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DeKlerk and his changes, more reform or reality ... CONTINUED FROM PAGE 6 ber of the National Party govern ment and he has been an important one through all the repression. Even PW Botha promised reform when he came to power.” Mokaba’s response to Friday’s reforms (which included the un banning of Sayco) has not been recorded - he was detained six days before the announcement and is still being held. That his detention was in terms of Section 29 of the Internal Secu rity Act, which is largely unaf fected by the reform measures, indicates how deeply the National Party’s hold over formal power remains entrenched. Even if FW had lifted every aspect of the emergency -which he did not by a long shot - Mokaba’s detention would still be legally valid. It is in this context that FW’s speech must be viewed. Media conscious Therepression meted outto Wits students in Johannesburg can be read about in all its detail for the first time in years. But in place of the newly-lifted emergency media regulations is a soon-to-be- formulated clause allowing for the pre vention of the dissemination of

visual coverage of unrest. Our media-conscious State President is aware that a picture is worth a thousand words - and how damaging pictures of violent state action against, for example, white students, would be to his carefully constructed image.

making it clear that the govern ment was determined to unilater ally define the agenda even on such far-reaching matters of prin ciple as a future constitution.

The ANC has demanded the freeing of the political process as one of the precursors to negotia tions. How free will they be to organize, canvass opinion and lobby support if and when they return to the country? It is precisely this mass-based, bottom-up democratic tradition which DeKlerk is trying to sidestep with his reforms. If one has to accept the inevitability of change, then a negotiation table of various not-very-accountable notables discussing an agenda which the Nats have had a large say in form ing is far more palatable to apart heid rulers. DeKlerk’s speech was, in part, to prepare the way for the Nats’ version of a negotiated settlement and undermine the ANC’s moral high ground. In revealing that he planned to introduce a bill of rights and to set up a law commission to draft a “democratic” constitution, was

To the outside world, sweet words about a commitment to drafting a democratic constitution must have been pleasing, but they are unlikely to have impressed the ANC. DeKlerk’s plans are also a re sponse to the ANC’s Constitutional Guidelines, which have up to now set the framework for debate around the future. DeKlerk’s strate gies, in the main, are ultimately defensive responses to the initia tives of the ANC and opposition movements, which have already made unpopular laws unworkable. Press regulations have been lifted only after most newspapers with any desire to report accurately had found loopholes to break them anyway

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. This tradition of mass partici patory democracy survived the re pression of more than three years under the states of emergencies. It ensured the state remained on the

D e K ler k 's r e v o lu tio n : spotty p a s t g iv es way to b ig h o p e s . defensive. government. One thing seems certain how Early responses to DeKlerk’s ever: the flood gates have opened speech indicate that the ANC won’t and a process has begun which be wooed into loosening either the could lead to far deeper change international or internal pressure than anyone envisagedjust a couple that has forced changes out of the of years ago.

Planning for failure: ANC's economy of liberation BY PATRICK MAFAFO Patrick Mafafo is a black jour nalist fo r South Africa s leading business weekly - the Financial Mail. He wrote this article fo r the Tribune late last week. JOHANNESBURG - Now that the country’s three leading politi cal groupings- the ANC, the Pan Africanist Congress and the Black Consciousness Movement of Aza-

nia - are free, the stage is set for economic pragmatism. Indeed, Black economic empowerment is a vital part of the liberation straggle. It is a challenge to those who seek a prosperous, non-racial post-apart heid South Africa. The ANC economic policy of nationalization is well-known. In a statement released through the United Democratic Front- the larg est ANC supporter inside South Africa - the ANC confirmed its

policy to nationalize banks, mines and monopoly industries in a post apartheid South Africa. In the statement, ANC leader Nelson Mandela said it is “incon ceivable” that this view would change. But ANC Secretary-Gen eral Alfred Nzo is reported to have said that nationalizations would be subject to negotiations with those corporations targeted for govern ment control. In particular, the ANC would likely try to nationalize three of South Africa’s largest corporations - Anglo American, Barlow Rand, and Rembrandt - while leaving small businesses untouched. Such a move would do nothing to solve South Africa’s economic ills, which are largely the result of wealth concentration in a very few hands. Nationalization would re tard economic growth and do little to re-distribute wealth.

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Furthermore, the ANC nation alization policy seems to contra dict economic policies of South Africa’s labour unions. At a recen t Paris conference, the economic advisor to South Africa’s largest black union group, COS ATU, said old-style economic thinking had to change. COSATU, Alec Erwin said, had abandoned a strict pro nationalization view in favour of some free-market economic truths. African history is littered with ruined societies bom in a flush of

liberation, only to wither for the lack of a viable economy. Black economic empowerment demands total independence from white political and economic domina tion. But a document prepared by the Black consultancy Co-ordi nated Marketing and Management Services, points out that, histori cally, endeavours to gain political liberation without economic lib eration from colonial masters “result in the hollowness of politi cal liberation.” While recognising the funda mental importance of political lib eration, it can be argued that eco nomic liberation is a necessary pre requisite for meaningful political power. Effective political power cannot be achieved through largescale nationalization. Nationalizing mines, banks and monopoly industry would cost tril lions of dollars. Twenty years ago, Zambia could nationalize its cop per mines with foreign aid money. But today the wells of foreign aid are drying up and international financial institutions are unlikely to forward loans for such schemes.

Inappropriate means The ANC’s economic intentions - to make South Africa’s blacks prosperous - are morally commend able but its means are inappropri ate. A two-pronged approach could start redistributing South Africa’s wealth today. While the existing

government privatizes, major companies can “deconglomerate”, or sell off subsidiaries that do not fit their core business. At the same time, major employment-creation projects could help keep secon dary industry in South Africa rather than sending our raw resources abroad for processing. Foreign companies could sell their South African subsidiaries to Black South Africans.

Financing from the community But financing both deconglom eration and disinvestment is bound to be expensive. The World Bank could fill that gap as a source of project financing, particularly as reports surface of negotiations between the Bank and the South African embassy in Washington. Perhaps more importantly, in digenous lending schemes known as stokvels are already operating in South Africa’s Black commu nity and need only be mobilized. Billions of dollars in fluid savings are generated through these schemes. This phenomenon is a particularly important one among low-earning Blacks. Estimate are that 800 000 Stokvel clubs each generate about $100 each month. These represent $1,2 billion each year. But the money does not go far to empowering blacks because the clubs are social and community-oriented. They are not designed to raise wealth. page 7

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R o m a n ce n o v e ls: e n jo y m e n t o r ste re o ty p in g ? BY LISA HARRISON_______ When I was seven years old, my mother got this great idea. She decided to write a Harlequin. She thought it would be easy to write one. ..after all, it wasjust a formula, wasn’t it? Man meets woman, they have misunderstanding/conflict, admit their love for one another and live happily ever after, right? She tried to write one...and failed miserably. Then she started to read the books in earnest. She tried again. This time the product was a more mar ketable but terribly clichéd version of a classic cliff-hanger plot. The characters included the hero, the heroine, the villainess (complete with aristocratic French name, blood red nails, and appropriately slinky breakfast wear) and the vil lain. This scoundrel’s goal was to seduce the oh-so-virginal-andnaive heroine and take over the hero’s terribly prosperous com pany. You get the idea. Well, the book sold...surprised? We were. The novel was bought for a series of romance novels called CandleLights (later retitled Can dlelight Ecstasies). A wave of publishers across the United States had suddenly clued into the fact that there was a load of money to be made in the romance genre. This was not a surprise to the owner of Harlequin books in Toronto, who had been pumping out the romance novels for thirty years.

S uddenlyreaders of romance had a choice of more than seventy paperbacks each month where, previously, there had been four teen. A romance reader’s dream? Maybe. The increase in available titles resulted in declining quality. Writ ers whose manuscripts had been rejected by Harlequin found a market for their novels with other companies. You could say that my mother was in the right place at the right time. The book sold, although it wasneverpublished. After writing three romances for Simon & Shus ter’s Silhouette Romances, she finally broke into Harlequin. Perpetuating sexist myths? 20 million American women readromance novels. Demographic studies done by Harlequin have

shown the market includes edu cated professionals. The average novel, ranging from 180 to 200 pages, is a quick-fix, escapism with a predictably happy ending. One reason readers are ashamed to admit their romance habit is because the books are often ridi culed by the men in their lives. After all, how many men can live up to the book’s image of a real man? Women seeking arguments to justify their choice of reading material won’t find them in either the academic world or the feminist movement. Debates rage about whether or not romance novels are “good literature,” or whether they promote sexism. The novels can hardly be con sidered literature - they neither enlighten nor teach, and they scarcely satisfy the dictionary defi nition of being “valued for form and style.” The characters’ behav iour will always fall within a cer tain range. The hero, for instance, is always confident, witty and, in the end, reveals a sensitive side to his nature. Many feminists object to the

romance genre because they feel the novels are sexist They argue that, in identifying with the hero ine, women readers are being taught they need men to fill their lives. The formula for reaching the ulti mately unrealistic goal of com plete happiness is to find - and marry - Prince Charming. Heroines are often subjected to mental cruelty by the hero; they are sexually submissive; and, in the past, they were often innocent, virginal and held against their wills. Sex is often the end result of an argument - agression towards the heroine turned topassion. Romance novels are seen as peipetuating and romanticizing rape. Sex in romance novels is a new phenomenon. Until ten or fifteen years ago the novels always ended in a chaste kiss. Modem romance novels can be described as almost graphic - although the language is inoffensive. The romance genre cannot be accused of not changing with the times. As the sexual aspect of the novels has become more open, so has the heroine become more ca pable. The women in the stories

today are independant, successful, educated and intelligent. However, many of the questions that arise

about romance novels have yet to be resolved. Their resolution might spell the end of the romance novel.

Top 10 Hot Spots at McGill Now that you all know who’s got a passion for you, here’s a carefully researched list of tried, true and proven locations for lusty love-ins: ★ The “smoking rooms” in McLennan Library on the third and fourth floors for a quicky relief from study stress. ★ The 50 yard line in Molson Stadium - many a completion has been made there. ★ Suspended between floors in one of the elevators in the McCon nell Engineering building. ★ For those with a more vocal tendency, the sound proof room, also an engineering favourite. ★ After a sultry sex dance at Gert’s, those in a hurry have found a good place to stay hot - the stairwell above the fourth floor, just short of the heating room in the Union. ★ For those who want to reach extra heights, roofs are a popular option, in particular, under the stars on the roof of Douglas Hall. ★ Or plumb the depths of passion in the tunnel between the Eaton and Rutherford buildings. ★ At least one couple has found more than just intellectual stimu lation among the stacks on second floor Redpath. ★ The balcony of the chapel at Birks Religious Studies has been found to provide almost divine inspirations. . ★ R.V.C.

SCOTIABANK’S MBA SCHOLARSHIPS: SUPPORT YOU CAN BANK ON. Even the most dedicated student needs financial support. So in 1987, Scotiabank created a unique scholarship for outstanding MBA students. The Scotiabank Scholarship Program reflects our com mitment to the education and development of future business and community leaders. Scotiabank awards two scholarships an nually at both Dalhousie and McGill Universities. Each Scotiabank Scholar will receive $12,500 per year and be offered a position of em ployment with Scotiabank between Dalhousie University Graduate Admissions Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 4H6

academic years. Applicants should be under 28 years of age on September 1st, 1990, and must be Canadian citizens, landed immigrants, or citizens of Caribbean countries (Dalhousie only) or Asian countries (McGill only). The deadline for applying is April 16th, 1990. Students must also complete an application to the MBA program at either university by this date. For more information, write to your preferred university today. McGill University MBA Admissions Office 1001 Sherbrooke St. W. Montreal, Quebec H3A IG 5

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♦I.N .F. To my invaluable partner in 301, my amazing dance partner and my French teacher. Te amo, mon amour. Red Hair ♦Aubrey, Take good care, observant one. Keep writing and providing a steady font of dating wisdom. KGM ♦Avery, Be my vivacious, voluptuous valentine. Love, Parag ♦ Jill, Happy Valentines Day, you’re evil and useless. ♦Caro 11, thanks for the knives, too bad about the T-bird, eh? Happy V-day. ♦K im , I owe you some nut bran crunchy oat Sake strawberry apple ring-o-lo creamy cereal. From, Dana ♦ T o my darling, honey Joe N., I ’d love to see you in nylons sometime. I didn’t know football players could be so spontaneous!! Love, SLY

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♦Perry, Just a little reminder to let you know thatlloveyou. Thank you for the best 4 and a half months. Happy Valentine’s Day! Love, love, XO, XO, Sher ♦Elaine, ok the shoes were a little large — but look on the bright side, you didn’t die in them on the way home - chk ♦Andréa, Elaine, Kirsten, Melissa, Jenny, and Zoe: thanks for the memories. Don't get out the inerrogation couch anytime soon. You've been the best (andbest looking) production staff a person could have. -Dave ♦Dear Izzy, When you get tired of sleeping with Molson, give me a call. Happy Valentine. Love, Anon ♦Roony, Cut a monshta schlice of hobble. Shorty ♦B.Bud: Yikes! Almost two years and you’re still my favorite! The twins are waiting—D.Y.S.L.M? L.Bud ♦Charlsy-Boy, Happy Valentine’s Day. I ’m the lucky one. Your African Girl ♦Dear Amy, What would you do if I leaned over to kiss you? Tarzah ♦ T o the sisters of AOII: Happy Valentine’s Day! You guys havebeen great thisyearil’ll miss you. The Prez. ♦ T o Dawn K. the Destroyer, I wish our hockey games Sat. PM were more physical. Maybe I’ll CHECK you out sometime. Love, Mr. T. Ram ♦ T o Hessam and Cecil-Your method of conducting interpersonal relationships really sucks but Happy Valentine’s Day anyway. From, Cecily ♦Dear Tony of Gerts I know we kiss every day or almost but lets make this one day a special one: lets kiss twice, love Andrea ♦Dear Carolyn, Boyfriends suck. Enjoy it while you can! Love, Deb + Mooky ♦Elaine, Keep on layin’ out, sweetie. Looks pretty good so far. See you Saturday. SS + KGM ♦Dear Hua:We wuv you to bits and bits. From your sisters. ♦ T o : Tom G. I love your firm little tooch please be mine. Love, Vixan ♦F o r Richard: My darling “Mr. Puffy," I long foryour delicate touch, and to carress your glowing head. I wait impatiently for our blissful uniion. Fondingly, Gregory ♦ForP.P.: Stop shopping at Felix and Norton! I ’m getting fat. Owe you tons - come to Ottawa and we’ll de-stress. Best mid-term luck! LH ♦Shmoo, Pecpka Doopka. Ya cheb yeh lub yen. The Friendly Giant ♦ T o : HeidiWe think you’re cute and sexy,but boy, what a mouth! ! ! Love, the Mech Boys ♦M y dearest Toad, I love you to such distraction that I would vacation with you again, again and again. Ever your Karen. ♦Dearest Val, If I stay in Canada I ’ll go insane - Espana es eh mi corazon!? ♦Susie-Q , My Physio buddy, fellow cavewoman, and wine-drinker extraordinaire. Happy Valentine’s Day, Guess!! ♦F all from the highest mast to the deck, Fall from a tree and break your neck, Fall from the starry heavens above. But never, never fall in love. Happy V-Day my good friend Kelly, ...........Always, Jessica ♦Hose, je veut votre corp! ♦Ion V: Thought I was Dead, didn’t you? Well, it was close (a lust overdose.) Butl’m alive and kicking. My heart still beats only for you.Miss Kitty. ♦ T o my Pa in Paris, with Love. XXXXXXX Sandrine-Serey ♦T o : Johnny B. You expose more thanpictures in the darkroom. Love always, Carol. ♦M arf Happy V.D. and B .D. Your cockroach lovin’ roomies.

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♦Dear Pooh, Happy Valentine’s Day to the best friend anyone could ask for. XOXO, Cesm ♦Happy Valentine’s Day, Ye spud-faced bastard. Ye've got puddin’ for a face! Miss you in Philosophy and out chats in the Alley. Love, XO, your friend from Glashan ♦ T o : Leigh-Anne G. Roses are red Violets are blue I’m so-o lucky to have a cutie-little sister like you! ♦ E P S - I am tangled up in blue. ♦ J e t’aime (2x) Mon cher Patrick Je t’aime Je t’aime beaucoup Je t’aime comme fou Je t’aime(3x) (Moué) ♦Simon, I’ve been taking my vitamins - have you been eating your vegetables? ♦H ey ladies! Marry me! Love, you know who. ♦ T o Uncle Steve, Long live Elvis & Brosky. Love, Sisky ♦H appy Valentine’s szépséges kisbiny gondollor rod mindig szeretettel-Joci ♦Nicholas You are the last gentleman left at McGill, Happy Valentine’s Day! ?? ♦See-no-evil; Let the dreams of frolicing in the snow with mazola and leather teddy bears come true. Submissively, L. ♦ T o Mr. Economics ’92, Happy Valentine’s Day, Love, ? ♦Dear Ms. Lee, Just wrote to chit-chat. See you at Sandiford. G. ♦Skippy the WonderTank: HappryV-D (That’s Valentine’s Day, you fool..._ Your greatest admirer, no doubt. ♦G alit Janco- Looking great lately - it’s been inpossible not to notice - 1 hopre you notice me. ♦ N , For the cutest Psi U. kid - Happy Valentine’s Day. ♦ T o the lusty Pirates Directress, You sink my soul. ♦Patrick, I wouldn’t be a member of any club that would have me! ♦C ynthia C., Don’t forget our relationship...and thanks to the guys at Peel for reminding us. Try to avoid your students... L.H. ♦ T o Mitch, A friendship like ours is hard to find. Hop>e this closeness never ends. Happy Valentine’s Day! Friends always, Sheri ♦ T o Miss S. Perry, Wednesday lunches will never be the same. Nor will the entire Education System! Love US ♦Wendy, One Valentine isn’t enough to tell you how much you mean to me!! Love you always, John ♦ T o Rohi. 5:05,1 love you very much. ♦Bigger Part, Bemy Valentine andl’ll letyou win at 5. Little Part ♦Janet: How about a midnight snack? Love, Andrew ♦ L ife ’s journey’s hard Long is die road So be on your guard And trust in your Toad. ♦Michal, I am crazy aboi you. ♦Bruno, We want you meet us at Gert’s - Thurs. ♦Sandra, Laurence, Sara, Kelly, Alex, Caroline, Cece, San: Happy Valentine’s Day! Love Di XXOO ♦Wendy S. Have a supjergood Valentine’s Day - from the bartender who’s madly in love with you! ♦ S o Kelly, just how do you know about that tunnel, and why are you worried about the implications? - sscqx ♦Joyce & Pain, My two favorite Long-Island Girls. Happy Valentine’s Day! Love, your barkeep. ♦Came-Rebecca’s #1&2 Happy Valentine’s Day, sweeties!!!! Love, your Uncle John ♦F o r all you Malaysians out there - Happy Valentine’s Day!!!!!!! Love, Sheryl. ♦ T o my dearestMary, Here’s looking at you, kid! Since we first met, you’ve made all the difference in my life. This Valentine’s Day will be the best either of us have ever had! Love and kisses from your sweet baboo. ♦YesNat, there is a Santo Clause. SM ♦ T o : Erinnn Please stay with me. I’ll get over this bout of impjotency eventually. Please forgive me, Marc S.

♦ T o the Greek lover...do you want to make love with me? Remember that you are the Greek God of love and party ass off in Venezuela! ♦Struan Sinclair: You Scottish rogue! Oh, how you make our blood boil. The world is your clam. Will you be mine? Your partners in crime. ♦D ear Sweet Val, Be my Valentine forever & ever & ever & ever!!!!! Lots of Love, Robert ♦ T o all my students: Merry Christmas. Prof. Elliott ♦ Y o Dave, I won’t take the blame for it this time! Esquino ♦W h o me? I would never...Face it Chk everyone knows who it was. ♦Steal Cabins much?!@# Venezuelahereyoucome..Jiave an awesome time sweety, but don’t forget about me! Next year, to the Greek Islands we g°♦ T o : Ernie I hate it when you eat cookies in my bed, but I love it when you squeeze on my rubber ducky. Love, Bert ♦Tijani: Ahabookah katheeran ya azeezee. Min azeezika amirati. ♦Dave: Gotta love a center spread. With or without cover. Kelly. ♦ A t your service,-always Love, Dave ♦ T o : Carol You look good in the Dark room, but not in the light. Love always, Johnny B. ♦Valentine’s Day lepapjoupapis needed, low price a must, actual value much more, leave credentials in the Trib. ♦Dear Debbie I love you, be my Valentine please??? Andrea. ♦Dearest Shady, I want you for my V alentine for years to come (pun intended) Love your Shadyette ♦Dammit Jim, I love you. Kathy Pistols at dawn? ♦Lori, I love you very much, gorgeous. Love, Ari. ♦ T o the Tit-tag Queens , You know who you are - keep the calendar hot. Your reporter roomie. ♦Happy Valentine’s Day to all those Devoted Walkers of the Walk Safe Network. We think you’re the greatest! XOX BB, MB, AO. ♦AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA Happy Valentine’s Day Marlene, Marleene, Claudia, Jenifer, Suzzane, Isabelle, Rosie, Cara, Lits a, Voula, Gail, Amie. Love Michael and Jenn, Mark. ♦Puisque tu n’es pas l’à, le journal te le dira Je Fort-Poutine♦ 2 0 cartons of Rothmans, 4 bottles of Jack Daniels & a px>und of weed. Sounds like happy camping to me. Tell me, buddy, how did we become friends? Later and other L -words. KGM ♦Musher and Jessu. Lovinkyou more & more each day! K.B. ♦ T o JoJo, you’re the best, better than all the rest Today I’Ukiss you, tomorrow I ’ll miss you. From your love, YO XX ♦ L - You drive me crazy but I still love you! S.B. ♦ T o : M. A.T. Bend over and let me show you low much I love you. From R.O.B. ♦M ike, I wouldn’t say no. H.F. ♦ T o the “rich man from Burlington”! Thanks for always being there, you’re a sweetie. Happy V-day. XO, Love M ♦ Jo h n H., Happy Valentine’sday.I’il alwayslove you. XXOO Diane ♦ T o Irina, Love you Kiddo. Where’s my Valentine’s Day message? Love, Michael ♦ K T . You are the very best. Happy Love Day. Lots of Love. J.A. ♦ T o my two favourite beasts - Love, Alison X ♦Elaine: You know, Mia Sara bears a striking resemblance to you. PH. t Dear God: Happy Valentine’s Day. Love, Jesus. ♦Paris, Sorry ‘bout all the fuss. Hopre you’ll still be my valentine?! Bad timing? ♦K im Bursey and Jessica Rubinger : You are the hottest babes on campus. You make all my organs throb. Your not-so-secret admirier. ♦ T o : Erinn Every time I gaze into your eyes, a smile crosses my face. Love, Mos ♦Anthro Man. Let’s evolve together! Your Devotée ♦bub, b my funny valentine? toi amo, bar ♦ M a Carrotte - Happy Valentine’s day - 1love you - Cookie

♦Mich, have you lost that tripping feeling? Well 32 c in the bush is always fun - chuck da burple ♦ T o Josie the “Hot Resources” Manager, What strat^ will you use to recruit more men? An enquiring mind ♦ T o Sylvain “Macho” Marcoux, How are you goind handle ah those women who need despserate help] coordination next year? Your superiors ♦To Tule, Rememb communications starts the ball rolli| Everything else will follow. ♦ T o Jeannine, Who ya gonna when you’re in the mood? 9-1-1! ♦ T o Julie, Are Yugoslavian ready for you? (Find out how old I are first.) ♦ T o Mama Sesula, Now that youl gotthatTurkeyfromoutWest, AIE; I men will never be the same! Love f your kids. ♦ T o Lucious Lia, We’ll have turned over and ready to go by Marclj ♦ T o Angie De Sensual, When i you going to pull that cuckoo stunt I the guy from Laval? We love you! Your “exprerienc 1 sisters. ♦ T o Nicole, the Sexy Tantalizing Passionpup, He] Cuba will fulfill all your needs. Your Psycho Manager: ♦ T o Scott “the Hot” Requadt, We know you’d lovej have an orgy in the snow with us, but you know we’re i that typ>e! What’s a marketer’s respxmse to that? Love, \ favourite ladies. ♦Sandra and Steph "don't worry, I know exactly well do it." thanks for your patience on the chair. -Dav ♦ T o Avo, that hot-blooded passionate Armen masseuse, Baby,my body’s aching, whendo I get amassapj Love, your Democratic Dames. ♦ T o Bruno “Hard Drive” Kaiser, When you are look for an easy lay, make sure she knows how to use a ketch bottle! Dr. Ruth-in-AIESEC ♦ T o VP Finance “Kiwi,” Have you modelled black, sexy, lacy, X-mas undies to that special guy y| Love, the Matchmakers. ♦Dear Château, Why am I loving you? Paul R. ♦TJ.-.How much longer? Summer next year sooner????? Love, P. ♦Thanks for a swell year my little Monchichi. ♦Strom, You can throw flaming oil over my shoul<j anytime. T. ♦ T o my pie, I love you always. Your faithful pie. ♦Catrin - you are beautiful. ♦ T o James Fintel, WOOOO! Love, Groupies (C&J) ♦Kev., You are my sunshine. My only sunshine. You make me happy, when skies are grey. If this doesn’t tell you, I don’t know what will. Please don’t ever take my sunshine away. Miriam. ♦ T o Mark Lepage: If you ever meet a tired, overachieving, neurotic, lagomoiphous law stude don’t let her go! From, Wigger. ♦ T o our darling Belphoeben, Our communal passion thee offer. Love, Kent, Kenneth, Kent, Ken. ♦ T o Lina, Oh baby, oh baby, you wanted one, you ; one. Hurray! Love, Sandy. ♦Janet, I may be no Tim But you’re looking pretty slim I think you’re swell You ain’t no dumbbell Weight Room Admirier ♦Dear Jandal, HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY fr< your buddy in crime! Devils stick together always a forever in each other’s HEARTS. Love, your one and ot Handle. ♦Cara Pike, please prick up item at SSMU desk on Ft 14th. ♦ T o the Tigers, I saw you singing Jungle Love in Body Shop. Such a pjrimaJ pair is simply diVine. Hap Valentine. Fred. ♦ T o my beloved Marmaduke, I had a wonderful time Acapulco, it was the real McCoy! Happy Valentine’s Di Love forever, Crooked eyes. ♦Stewie, To Champagne Wishes and pleasant Drea “to the Future” The Man of Steel. ♦ T o whom it may concern: willing to elopje soon maybe somewhere where the weather is hotter than politics? Some girl at the trib who...you ♦L B K , Happy Valentine’s Day! I loveyou! SJB ♦David O. Thinking about old times...Well? L.S. ♦Dear S ariani, Be my special puck-bunny. Love, Bubl ♦Suzita and Patricia: Valentine greeting from yo Spanish amiga. DK ♦ T o Kim & Chris, I ’m honored to be part of our litl “lab group from hell”! ! ! ! ! ! It’s been a great year. Keep copying! Bri. ♦ T o the whistler man from an admiring, lovable blon american...miss ya lots. Happy Valentine’s Day wish from afar. ♦K ay, Se-King and Sonja: Thanks for being gr< roommates. Shaula

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••Terry Corcoran, your eyes are so blue and your legs so tiusclely, the mouse under your bed. ••Tony Gerstein, the King you bighunk you! XOX ••Squeaky, AKA Defy Soli, All my hugs you trolop fOX the Chuckster ••To my favourite executives - Happy Valentine’s Day, lour only woman! ••Lindsey Tachlin, drop by SSMU desk on Feb. 14th. ••To my main squeeze. Happy Valentine’s Day babe! Iliad we’re finally spending it on the same continent. Te Juiero mucho! An American Woman ••Dear Lyn, Leslie, Karen, Barbara, Mary, Linda, Angela, Miver, Helene, Albert, Jon Don, Happy Valentine’s Day T. ••Hey Lina, Let’s get together for some kippers! Love, four Valentine Mr. Bits. •J , 2+3=5 What a lucky number. Will you be my Valentine? - J. ••To Daniel who works in Redpath on Monday nights, lappy Valentine’s Day. You’re beautiful. - M&M’s ••Tam & Joel, Sending you Love and fisses on Valentine's Day! XO, a fellow tainer. •Michael Harrold - CHEEZY CHEEZY CHEEZY - bully bait, much? Patch. ••Irene, so when are you taking me lut? may love be yours, -Dave ••Rida Biwott, I think you’re real cute kinda funny too. XOX Me. ••To my favourite world famous lumble little country doctor to be. Let’s let into trouble baby. ••Dan, You have a chance with me! Jlow about a movie sometime? The best |ept secret. ••Liz “Hicky” B . You light up my life. You are beautiful nd I love your flat stomach - secret crevice on 5 th floor. •Dear Joe: You’re the hottest thing since...or so SLY lays. Too bad she’s been blinded. Happy Valentine’s Day ayway. •Wing-See, aka Wendolyn, Do you know what day it is Jay? NaCl ••DP, I love your Bacon & Beans. T.O. Exec. ••Angela Dowson, something that will make you laugh *waiting for you at the SSMU desk on Feb. 14th. •Matthew S., You are the best. Your big blue eyes Ignite our thighs But to our dismay We must Say We’re not protected. ••Lina - So you think I ’m the nicest guy...Wanna try? DKH ••Hamlet, To be or not to be...is there a possibility? Ophelia (aka Desdemona) ••The “Knightly” household. Holy Mythra, Tempus Fugit! But, you still have time to get a fettucine recipe. ••Make my Day, Sarah, D. ••Kerry, Thanks for inviting me to your party, asshole! Conveniently Overlooked ••P.H. What’s the best kind of guy? 3 ft. tall, little teeth nd a flat haircut to rest a beer on. Love, Conny Lingus. ••Beautiful Betsy, my hands long to massage your slender >ody once again! te amo Roberto! ••Dear Wally: Just admit you love me. Love, Jody Q. ••To Woon, mysterious like the Moon, Babe, once we end you overseas, European men will never be the same. Von’t you share your Oriental love secrets with us? Love rom your bosom buddies. ••To All the Gribblers, Gerbils, Gefilte Fish, A Happy lallmark Day, from the Angst Mama. ••Mike, How could you know to look here or I know how ine you are, and how would we be sharing the incredible ightness of being - if not for Al. Yours! Be mine. L.L. ••Dear Catherine, Happy Valentine’s Day to our Centucky Fried Chicken buddy! Love from the ones who ake you hostage (Cynthia & Esther) ••Shyan Ku: Y ou cool dude - one day 'ou will break many hearts. ••To Purple Haven, 3 long days ‘til >ur rendez-vous in Venezuela, :ufferance, Christophe. ••To: Tanya M. You are the woman vho fabricated my existance. I without 'ou is like com flakes without milk. I lever thought it possible for godess to lescend on earth and grace me with lour prescence to enlighten my soul ind light up my life. Happy Valentine’s Day, K. ••Doo-Bluh-Vay. SmoochieiVoochie. - Gang-0-4 ••Jane, If you knew how many ireams you are involved in! You have all my heart. Sharky. ••Jen, Have my baby! Chris ••Happy Valentines to my little black rabbit. Love, your ittle white rabbit. ••Sue Rogers, Please be my Valentine! No one else can :ompare. Your secret admirer! (PS...Congratulations on an sxcellent performance! Brava!) ••Alex: Be my pirate. A theatre-goer.

••Maria Loh. You are so fresh. ••James, you beautiful babe you! You make me shiver and shake with musical passion. Kasim, you make me quiver with you spine-tingling licks. Simon, you make my heart do triplets when you’re grooving to your beat. From one music lover to three others, here’s to us! Your friend, Chris. PS. You’re all beautiful! ••Debs, have a sly Valentine you foxy lady the Phantom ••To Eeeeeeeeelin Ice Queen, have apoifically mahvoloose V.Day on the phone.(gotta laugh) Love you much. Thanks for pointing out those red lights (oops). KF. ••MM from mushroom forest you crawled out of the primordial slime and left happy murky flipper prints acrossmy microwavedheart. Eye’ll heart you ‘til the skeletons take us. CM ••Deborah, you recycle the way no one else can. -QPIRG ••Leonard, Thanks for all the nights you taught me Algebra. I love you. Shaula ••To theboy with funny hair, enjoy your book. I ’ll be out having the time of my life. CWA. ••Dear Michele M: Happy Valentine’s Day. Thanks for everything. I love you. VKM ••To all the happy men (and women) in our lives SFOGOM loves you! ••Alycia, gotta love that short hair, Love Catrin ••Oh really Dave?Well I love you too,and hope that you walk through litein funny looking shoes.so there,Elaine ••Alan and Sylvie: you two fence and do everything with style. Happy Valentine’s Day. Yer Bal. Banane. ••Caroll Lee - want your body desperately. Giorgio Armani. ••To little and no butt Like peanuts We want to crush you both away On this special Valentine’s Day Love, Root and Smiley ••To Robbie- kiowsd? sdfuiewfj asdkjowejkyifghghf? I have avenged myself. KF. ••SJK - Wishing you lots of luck and all of my love, Em ••To: Amy R. Roses are red Violets are blue Even though you have trouble keeping one eye open at night We still love you The Moron & Roseanne ••Sheila and Phil. Thinking of you both on this very mushy day. Have an awesome time. L. ••Breaking up is never easy I know but I ha-ave to go. Oct 21 - Feb 4. GL and KV ••Attention long dark haired gentleman with black baseball cap and nice smile who frequents the Alley. I ’m watching you! Please be my valentine, your secret admirer, xo. ••Becky-1 put this in because you’re my only friend who reads the Tribune so I knew you’d see it. (she said, removing her glasses for emphasis) O.K.? KF. ••To my roomies, we’ve proven that beer, pizza and T.V. are essential to establishing an effective roomie relationship. Cheers to the Greek, Québécois, and the Moroccan. Your pal, the Italian. P.S. Molson Party in April?!? ••Nathalie-I love...your beautiful hair, your soft skin, your sharp mind, your funny laugh, your wonderful smile, you. Je t’aime, Santo. ••M. “crev” H.- You’re the best. Last Word. Mickey Roony. ••Dear Exec, The past 9 months have given us a chance to come together in a special way. We’ve lived through alot, together, and I wouldn’t have wanted any people other than the four of you to share it with. I love you people. The Prez. P.S. Long livestudly SSMUs. ••Snoogums: I’m waiting for my tofu dinner, and Greg is waiting for his bourbon. We’re not patient people. ••Kristin-You sexy Lady....And you are Emma’s roommate, too. Lucky!

••If the past 9 months seem as though they have been hell, then remember nominations for next year’s fun and games close Friday - love Santo ••Kirsten - try to wear those high heels for me tomorrow. The rest is optional. Love, Paul. ••Kate-Happy Valentines Day Not. I’m yo’ mother. I’m yo’ daddy, I’m dat------ in the Alley. Love Catch. ••Bette! What a day! I want to do my best leading you back to you. Thank you for letting me be there in the first place. You are beautiful. Huggably Yours, Chris (Chewle?) ••DearestMarty! You’re one old but awesome roomie, much love, Donald. P.S. Another late night Pictionary ROMANCE, yea right! ••C. Peake. In the middle of the road, that’s where I’ll find you.-your mother Catrin. ••Brian, to the guy who keeps me awake all night with his oral wonders: La la la la. The goy who never sleeps. ••Rox, Lisa, Sheilah, Roses are red, Violets are blue, You three sexy babes, I love you! Your Secret Admirer. ••Cynthia: as Jimmy might say "weel, ah guess sooo." old movies forever. -Dave ••To Michael, my fellow love-wimp, “Oh no, he’s up again!!” I LOVE YOU! Jeanhy ••Beast, I send you, with tempestuous desire, my love. Stormy. ••Sara Annie D., Happy VD. Thanks for being a hoho friend. Love Mela. ••C.W. You’re the best! love your platonic lover! ••Oy Vey! Happy Valentine’s Dey, Alison. Love, Moishe. ••Deb, make commitment part of your vocabulary. Make SSMU your love. Seduce the student body this valentine’s day by running for Pres. CAPE. ••Mike, Kiss me kiss me kiss me sexy Delvis. ••For Naomi, I leave the last crumb for you because I love you and would not want you to go hungry. ••Jim-If you’ll be Goode. I’ll be strict Fairly, Kate. ••I squared. Risks?Games? Phhhhtt! Same old stuff. Babe ••To Sandy R., Sensual voice; beautiful eyes, I can only imagine but soft luscious thighs, your sweet fruit is forbidden, so my lust must tay hidded, a V alentines wish my only device. Tall & Bad ••To the king of thepoutine, I love you, I love you... Tons & Tons & Tons xox K. ••Dear Kim B ., On Valentine Day, I had seriously thought of of drafting symphonious philosophical essay, carefully and haughtily matured by the fruit of a thorough and elaborate reflection, painting an exhaustive picture of our exceptional relation and its highly emotive character... But my pen broke. Be my Valentine. K. ••Dearest Alex, Light of my life, fire of my loins, rotator of my tires. My undying love forever and ever and ever, your big bear, Chris. ••Shishmee, You ARE a wonderful person. Palinka. ••Dear Bill Sunday afternoon was great we have to do it more often love ya Andrea xxx ••Terrorist, the red threat has come and been discovered wonderful, said he. Happy VD, said he. ••To the cute guy who looks like ELVIS in Film as Art. You can cut my hair anytime. The New Order Chick who copied your number from the recycling petition. ••Will: I’m still waiting for that carrot. Dotty. ••Dear Mop Head, I love you. R.P. ••Mike & Boozer, we love you as much as we love sand in the crotch of our bathing suits. ••Happy V.D.! Love xo A. & J. ••To “you guys” aka C.C., Have a stingingly fine Valentine-love Buzz. ••To George S.(PSS A Pres), have a pumped up Valentines day. No girly stuff Georgy -Porgy. flex your political muscle.-love Hans and Frans. ••To Bev, Predicting Radical Love in your future. Love Always. Happy Valentine. Garvin. ••K.G. Don’t know you can’t buy me love? I don’t want any more sex, lies and videotape. No more dangerous liaisons. Peggy Sue gotmarriedagain- why can’t we? Do the right thing. PVM. ••Desi Belter,Hockey Bo-Hunk Meeting

tonight. Molson 522. Glen. ••Ziyad, keep being one of the greatest paradoxes to modemscience: You’rerealhot and real cool at the same time. Happy Valentine’s. •• Horwitz. Musical education much appreciated. Friendship also. KF. (p.s. television males the insides of your eyelids black and slimy from all that rotting of the brain.) ••Jane and Tom. Happy Valentine’s Day from Kristin ••Dear Robin, How are those glucose + frutcose free carrots? Happy Valentine’s Day. Love The Luneh Crowd. ••Angela and Dereck: Hope you both have the best day and lots of love andkisses. La Cité. ••To Grant- Happy Valentine’s Day from someone you don’t know. Yet. Kristin. ••Kerry & Rony. We know your every step. Beware! Happy Valentine’s Day. ••Dear Prairie Boy- Happy Valentine’s Day! Love “Jim” ••To my little NERSKIE, I love seeing your white ‘tush’ wiggle on those Harlem streets. Love, the white night. ••Dear Valentine, How lucky I was to meet a compassionate gentle, intellegent, understanding, supportive, hunky, passionate man with a great BUTT. Love Buns. ••EGROEG, EVOL !YAD SENTTNELAV YPPAH YLLEK ••Dear Danielle and Marcia, On this day I command the curse to begone. Good luck. Love, Ev ••Magdelena - Thanks for always saying yes with a smile - sskgm ••Hey yo Mike,the bunnies send their love and I think you sould smoke more,Elaine ••To my sweaty hairy monster: te guiero Cil. ••For Austrian Harold “Supposing a tree fell while we were underneath it.” “Supposing it didn’t,” said Pooh after careful thought. Piglet was comforted by this. From a third floor Redpath friend. ••GJC please stay F.S. love kgm ••Dear OPn (Opus.Wolf,Spidey,Lucifer,PeeWee) I love you all, please be all my valentines and I’ll be all yours...Hybrid/Bucket ••Kendall, There are friends, and then there are friends. Thanks, love MLRS. ••Kirsten , thank you so much for all the lint that I love so dearly,Elaine ••Joce, Can you say “aerobics”!? Lisa ••Kelly, Can you raise one eyebrow sardonically? S woon appropriately? Keep reading those Harlequins - great literature is only one step away! LH ••MJH, Its not far from here to Yucatan. Here’s to flourishing together over the ruins of antiquity and the soft sands Of the casual but captivating moments shared these days. Love David. ••Dear Gregory, My love gun fits you like a flesh tuxedo. I’d like to sink you with my pink torpedo. Your one and only, Richard ••Dear Judy, You are the only gal for me. Love Andreas ••Dear Janet, You are the only gal for me. Love Andreas ••Dear Jessica, You are the only gal for me.Love Andreas ••To the Cute Guy, I love men with lots of hair (among other things). Come over to my place, you know where. Love, the Cute Girl ••To the Waffler, I had a great time that night, but can’t find my bra. Meet you today at 3 at Gert’s so we can lose another. Love, Baya ••Dear Desmond, Why haven’t you ben by my place lately? I ’d love to get to know you, but that long hair has got to go. This is, after all, the nineties. Love, Le Blonde Waitress ••To Santo Mannal love you. I love you. I love you. I love you. I love you. Love Santo Manna ••Felicé, I’m so bored, so won’t you fill the void. ••Dear Binky and Clyde, Let’s hang from pipes in the basement and fuck like bats. Love Ed. ••A-Hab, You make my thighs quiver! Love Bonehead ••To that girl with the long brown curly hair in my Third World Politics class - Moose is looking for you. ••Hey Stan! This one’s for you! (No! I ’m not kidding!!) Here’s hoping you have a fabulous Valentine’s!! (We’ll see who has a better time, eh?) Love always, Sheryl

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v a l e n t i n e s CONTINUED F R O M PA G E 11 ««Dearest Cecilia - Soul to Soul! ««Professor Manfredi, Great power suits! Wish we could co-ordinate out fashions! Love, an admirer ««Ex-848 Yummy: So you don’t do Valentine’s Day? How about 522 days of me and you? We’lLdo the 525lh in New Orleans... Your high-maintenance girlfriend a* Love to my dearest pukey with your technicolor yawn,GET WELL SOON,Elaine ««Poochky-Bear, 37 Seven Days of trouble free romance and still going. Hope you will be my valentine too. Through all the turmoil I love you. I really do. Sweeties #2 ««Juan, Though the Spanish Armada sank, it did have fantastic results. Love A-C ««Emileeee! Ek hou van jou, jou regteg mooie nooi! Vok my in *n trein na wanneer my "ears bleed." Love, The Homy Boer ««A.C. George is right! C.W. ««Kath, Hope the sun is shining on you! Sorry I can’t be with you today but my heart is here. I love you. J. Dear Kath, You’re making me sick. Lisa ««Kyler Smith- Hey number #6! How about a little #69? I want to puck you. Love ? ««Darling Dangnese, I’ll get down on my knees foryou... Love andkisses, "the huge one” a#Annette, Your eyes so sweet I’ll just have to keep You and me Forever will be Together this day St.Valentine’s Day. I love you, John. ««Hi Valentinina! Hope you have the most wonderful valentine’s day of your life. Lots of love, Vaval, the carnival girl. ««Esther and Erit, Valentine's Day is a time to think of old friends, for example Rhonda Amsel, well Happy V-day, love Michael. ««LAJ, I want all “11” inches of you! Cum on over in nothing but your shin pads and I ’ll give you a body crushing “blow”. Love J.W.

««To my doe-eyed bean, I quote Whitman: “Ebb stung by the flow, and flow stung by the ebb... love flesh swelling and deliciously aching, limitless limpid jets of love hot and enormous... quivering jelly of love... white-blow and delirious juice” Love Deborah ««To the Pearl, How ‘bout giving me a necklace? Love Moose. ««Mondy, you are simply marvelous! Love, ba beena ««F.W. You know who this is. I love our secret. Your wife, S.W. ««G.D.Swamp, Oh that would be a joke, wouldn’t it? a mousey little type » Dearest E.K. Is this as good as a birthday? Happy Valentine’s Day. All my love, J.B.B. ««Sufia L. You fantastic babe, 1 want you to be my valentine, but only if you lay off the bacon!! Love, your favorite Bartender ««Kathrina Charuk: Ever since that first romantic night on the cruise, you with your long blonde hair blowing in the wind, I knew you were a real heartbreaker... Isn’t “fishing” fun? Now that you’ve got one, I want one too... Happy Valentine’s Day! - Me ««To Heidi B. Please don’t let this end! Call me any time. Love Brahm S. ««Wendy S. The brightest point in my dark galaxy - love you so much J.R. P.S. Will you be my Valentine? ««Tanya Mushynski and Jessica Rubinger: You make my legs weak.

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««To Tina - the wicked witch of C.V.C.: Glad you had your fangs Gled down! Now, can I pleaaase have my paycheck? Happy Valentine’s Day Gert’s Bar Staff ««SRS -maybe oneday I’ll takeyou & your baby to the park to show you a real TESTDRIVE ««Gordon (friend of Butterfield/ Cam): Often I have watched you in action at Gert’s. One day you will be mine. Meow a* Anne Cahoon: Roses always wilt Violets always smell But lunches at Gert’s Have always been swell! Happy Valentine’s Day! - Me ««P.H. Get the man a bright coloured shirt. All this nihilism on production night has got to go. Reduce, Reuse, Recycle it. With something akin to affection, but scornful - KGM

A R ASS ME N T Assessors The A sse sso rs a re authorized to hear com plaints on incidents of sexual h a ra ss ment a n d a re a v a ila b le to g ive a d v ic e to the co m p la in an ts an d attempt an inform al resolution of the com plaint. A n y m em ber or m em bers of the University com m unity m ay initiate a com p lain t of sexual h arassm ent before an y assessor. Professor C a rm a n M iller h as recently been ap p o inted to su cce e d Professor M orton W einfeld a s one of the four A ssesso rs to h ear com p lain ts of sexual harassm ent. H e m ay be contacted a s follows: Professor C a rm a n M iller Departm ent of History, Leacock Building, 398-4863

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««Marie, ma chère Marie,Tu es mon professeur favori. Tu es la seule pour moi. Joyeuse Fête de St.Valentin. Soit patiente avec moi. Je viens. - Scan ««Aram - 1 still do. ««Lorraine B., Thanks for being my valentine. - P. ««Sara, Jill and Justie- Happy Valentine’s Day to the best of roomates - Love Kristin ««To: S.M. My hair is auburn; Your eyes are blue; See you at the next BEER BASH And I’ll buy you a brew. Happy Valentine’s Day! - C.O’B. ««To Flo Tracy, Happy Valentine’s Day to a great boss, from your staff in residences. ««Ail those fantastic ladies who work at Gert’s - I love you all to .excess!! Signed, your mystery bartender. ««To the sexiest bunny that ever existed on the face of the earth, Valentine’s Day will be fun, but when the sun goes down it will get that much better. Love forever, Turtle ««To the curly haired stud fromCape Breton - Happy 1st Chris! Smooch! Love forever - Alex ««To Kimmy, My biggest, bestest economics buddy! Happy Valentine’s Day - John ««Duncan Appleton, UJB. 1 yearn for you tragically. Joyce Rogers ««Hey George! Happy Valentine’s Day to the coolest Con.U. guy ever! Love, your McGill Babe - K. ««Happy Valentine’s Day ScottieBoo, I’m like.. TOTALLY in love with you. My heart pounds so hard it hurts. I count the seconds until I see you again at Gert’s. XOX Boopsie. ««Michelle, ma chère Michelle, Tu es mon professur favori. Tu es la seule pour moi. Bonne Fête de St.Valentin. Soit patiente aussi avec moi. Je Viens. - Seén ««Chris andlan, What about dinner? Time to take another shower don’t ya think? - Bouncin’ and behavin’ twins XO ««Harry Devlin: Let’s go for some “Manhattan Chowder” somtime. Happy Valentine's Day «••Roger Joyce, P.F.: A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. A.Pope ««Jessica Rubinger: To the hottest studentin the library: Please wear your bikini to street level! Here’s to those unforgettable nights of passion on the beach - Randy ««Herr Nerska; We LOVE it when you “punish” us. - the new ones ««Trish and Lar, Not much time spent together, but always wanting you 2 be my Valentines! XOX K,B. ««Charlie, I’m glad you’re thinking about what your job is next year. But sorry for the inconvenience. Peace, love, happiness and understanding - k. ««Dearest Car,(?) Happy Valentine’s Day Baby! Lots of love, Kim XX ««To the Cute Blond beside me in film class and the SAME Cute Blond who lives above me: I would love it if you’dring my bell sometime! Waiting eagerly, THE CRIPPLE. ««To my little English muffin called Clare: Oh how I’d love to butter all your little nooks and crannies. Mmmm...

««Andrew Kirby, 3 years and 4 ««Mike, you’re neat politically months are incredibly special to both correct pain in the ass. Thanks for perspective. Someday soon, we might jrou and me. Nothing will ever get in our way. Love, your Valentine always become friends, at this rate. Some bozo. and forever, Sonya...I love you! Will ««Darling A J.. I want you to read you me mine? my map and explore my soft space. ««Leariella - Ani ohev otach Lustfully yours, Melissa. Behava Adam ««Ana Miffic: Yeah, yeah, Sucker ««Helen HelenWatermelon: You will M.C.’s gonna rock the house. Don’t probably get tone of Valentines you be cold 'dissin me none, shorty. messages but this one comes from a Happy Crevice Day, love Catrin friend forever. Best Wishes. Banana. ««Dear Di, aka Sully, Solomon, ««Joe, You’re fresh enough to get Your eyes are so so big, your eyes are whatever you want - Natalie so blue,Just like your beautiful BIG ««Dear Jim, I know I shaved this BOOBIES! Love the Coremaster, aka morning, but did you? you know how Porkmaster much I hate razor bum. Love, Ting ««To Fred, Ming and Chritina... ««koibitochan, anata ga suki da yo. Happy Valentine’s Day!! Enjoy teechan. yourselves! Love Baby Five Fingers... ««Dearest Rony, I know you’re ««Greg and Jamie, I love it when always right: but I think you’re wrong you guys clean the fridge - Big Chief this time. You could take me now. I ««Elephant shoes, my little hound wish you would. I love the new look I’Hlove you forever! ! long curly hair and a dark ««Chile tan. ««Zabin, You’re a cool friend and I Won’t you let me have a taste of South wish you all the love and happiness in America. - HVD, JK the world - L. ««Christopher #1 : Do you still want ««Signe, Be my Valentine - Elvis your shorts back? Christopher #2 A.Presley ««Neal. The best thing about the ««Schmutzic - Although you’re a Northward migration is the company. 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Next tea’s hell! - Wave on me. kgm. ««Joanne - Here’s to our love 4-ever ««Louise - Je t’aime gros, puis j ’ai - SJB hâte a l’avenir! !!!!!! Ton p’tit p’tou ««KGM - Let’s do some water ««sskgm (x?) what a team! thanks colours together sometime... for rescuing me from lonely Friday ««Glen H. aka S n u ff King - Still nights. Let’s hear it for dream pie and blowing it our? Just curious conniving. ««Neil Dankoff, From Dawson to ««Everbody loves K.M. McGill - the wonder years! Happy ««GRIP Québec PIRG, Ralph serait Valentine’s Day! love forever... fier, (sorry about the french) kgm. ««Shannon- you’ll make a great ««To my luscious neighbour Kate: chair. Keep the three word slogans You can light my cigarette any time. coming, you PIRG powerhouse, you. 705 ««DP, Manage my emotions with ««Odile B . Missing you, thinking of your looovepotions, - Campbells Soup you always - Nicholas C. 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Why ««Toria, Though times can be tough order hamburger if you could have in the pursuit of happiness, the bliss is steak? Love, O.H. well worth thepain. Happy Valentine’s. ««Lynn, Don’t have a Violent-times L.C.T. day but occupy yourself. - CAPE ««A.C. thanks for doing that which ««M&M Though I spend more time I wanted to do. Also for the company, with Percy than either of you, thanks advice, and friendship inacold world.a for making a tough adjustment easier director without direction. (except for the baths), kgm.

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Mambazo sings of black life away from white gaze BY ROBERT STEINER In one gentle moment at its concert last Monday, Ladysmith Black Mambazo sang for a friend. “It was in Jo’burg, 1985, a very great day,” the South African acapella band started. “...when I met Paaoul Siiiimohn.” A great day indeed - had it not been for Paul Simon’s courage to search for music hidden by apart heid, BlackMambazo’s Zulu sound may never have reached North America. Great too because for Simon and the eight members of Black Mambazo, that day marked the beginning of a rare musical friendship. But it is sad to think that more than four years after Graceland’s release, one of Africa’s finest acapella groups still labours under the shadow of an American song writer. When Black Mambazo sang the Graceland track “Homeless”, one band member explained that

The band’s lyrics sing praises of everything from God to “girls”, but its music bears the sound of beer bottles, scratchy jazz records and frying lamb chops at a township party.___________ the song made him “homesick” for the days when he and Simon had collaborated. So strong was the longing for the American folk hero that the Spectrum almostfeltempty in his absence.

“Shame!” as they say in South Africa. All the talent any crowd could ever want was right there already. The singers, all Zulu men from South Africa’s Natal province, arrived wearing embroidered tu nics, hued in different shades of green dye. Their songs were long with intricate and undulating har monizing. The lyrics were almost entirely Zulu and appeared to be, in virtually every respect, apoliti cal. Even a song praising black gold miners in South Africa avoided slogans. The concert ended withN’kosi Sikelele, a hymn which has become the anthem of opposi tion in South Africa. But with Mambazo, the anthem once again become a powerful hymn to Africa without difficult overtones. The reason, one band member tolda CBC radio reporter two years ago: Mambazo’s songs are prayers. The effect was nearly hypnotic. Mambazo’s music repeated itself, and repeated itself and repeated

itself until a near-trance had settled on its audience. Then it broke its own calmness with something vibrant and light hearted - imitations of Zulu moth ers giving quick advice to their daughters, an exaggerated rolling “r” or a quip about old girlfriends. The resulting combination of excitement and untroubledjoy was a peak into South Africa’s black life away from the gaze of white “Baases.” Mambazo’s music speaks of the defiant, self-assured moments Black South Africans steal from apartheid. The band’s lyrics sing praises of everything from God to

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A beautiful young virgin, a dashing schemer, a duel, and more BY JASON ARBUCKLE It involves a beautiful young virgin, a dashing schemer, a duel and a string of love letters, laced together by strands of deceit and manipulation. It is not the film Dangerous Liasions; nor even that same plot of a different name, Valmont. This time the scheming ensnares a gathering of Victorian ladies and gentlemen in an offer ing from the English Department, The Rivals. Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s play77ie/?/va/s was written in 1775,

only seven years before Choderlos de Laclos’ 1782 French drama Dangerous Liasons, but their dra matic treatments of the age are very different While Sheridan uses the classic English comedy of manners as forum for social criti cism, de Laclos turns his disen chantment with aristocratic cor ruption of mores into a powerful drama. That both are finding ap preciative audiences more than two centuries later is a tribute to an enduring, near-voyeuristic fasci nation with the intrigues of high society.

Beautiful young Lydia Languish (Fiona Loewi), who stands to in herit a vast sum if she marries with her aunt’s consent, is the petulant prize that sparks the rivalry in The Rivals. Her suitors are many and varied, and one deceives with two different names. There is Sir Lu cius O’Trigger the dandy (Erin Hurley), Acres the country squire (David Hudgins), and Captain Absolute (Sanders Whiting), who is known to Lydia only as Beverly. There is also another generation of competitors to be found in Mrs.

“girls”, but its music bears the sound of beer bottles, scratchyjazz records, and frying lamb chops at a township party. Mambazo’s relig ion would seem to be one of sin cere self-confidence, against the phony smiles many Blacks feel forced to paint on their faces when they go to work each day. As apartheid crumbles - and Ladysmith Black Mambazo re leases its second album abroad the band’s religion takes on a strengthened meaning. All of which makes it that much more difficult to understand why such strong singers still speak of Paul Simon as if he were a god on angel’s wings.

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Claude Rajotte gets blunt BY COLIN SCOTT

his own show, Nu Music, broad cast Monday nights on CHOMFM. Last Sunday afternoon, between show breaks at the Musique Plus studios in Montréal, Rajotte talked about his life, the music business and those pesky people who press their faces up against the glass of

The age of the music video is upon us. At the forefront of this move ment in Québec is Claude Rajotte, Video-Jockey, and radio personal ity extraordinaire. Rajotte is one the V.J.’s on Musique Plus and has

the studio window. Rajotte, nicknamed the ‘fore head’ of rock and roll, is a key figure in promoting the alternative music scene in Montréal. While

“I was inter view ing M illi Vanilli at the Fo rum just before their show last summer and they’re really two dickheads ” Claude Rajotte many consider alternative music to be ‘underground,’ Rajotte sees it as the way of the future. “That’s the music I prefer. I’m always looking forward to listening to new sounds. I much prefer the future to the past.” Still, his roots are in the “heav ier” sounds of the past-Motorhead,

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a dim beacon through the fog BY COLIN SCOTT The The in concert is a bevy of contrasts. You can see them on the stage so they must be live, but they are not really there. Lead singer Matt Johnson and his band The The played to a soldout Spectrum crowd last Friday and Saturday night in their inaugu ral Montreal concerts. As this is the first tour in which the group plays live together, expectations were high. Unfortunately they didn’t quite match up to those expectations. Emerging through the haze and burning red lighting with the sound of booming thunder in the back ground, the group took the stage to try and move Montréal. Opening with their forboding song, “Armaggedon Days Are Here”, the band proceeded to pound their way through the night. The music itself was smoothe, but it sounded somewhat pre packaged. Their sounds filled the room and reverberated through the crowd, yet the group was unable to light the fire even though they had the spark. It seemed that they were lost somewhere in the fog that dominated their stage set. Still, through the fog came a beacon. It was the superb guitar work of Johnny Marr, the exSmiths man. ForsingerMatt Johnson this tour is particularly special as it marks the first time he has played live and with his newly formed group. Johnson has produced four albums over a ten year period but the group as it stands today has only been together for the past two. Previ ously Johnson was The The. Atapress conference before their Friday show, the group fielded questions on their careers and music. Johnson explained his move from a one-man band to his present configuration: “I forgot how much I enjoyed playing with people. It got to the stage where it was unsa tisfying. I wanted it to develop, for the songs to grow more. I wanted to have a great bunch of musicians, a great band. I’m not a great musi cian. I’m a writer.” In fact, Johnson’s status as a

writer is well-known. He has been recognized for the political aware ness in his music and his sensitive lyrics. Johnny Marr explained his reasoning behindjoining the group and wanting to work with Johnson in terms of Johnson’s writing. “Matt was the only male writer, to be fair, besides Morissey I consid ered to be of any value. I watched his career really, really closely and I was sort of cheering him on so it felt natural.” Johnson also explained the ex pansion of the group as a desire for his music to mature. “For the music to get that much better you just have to work with better people because it’s too inarticulate trying to do it on your own.” However, it was Johnson’s work alone that brought the group much of its fol lowing. Johnson’s lyrics, as well as bring ing reverie, have also caused some controversy. The groups latest album sports a warning sticker for its content. Johnny Marr responded to this issue and pointed out the hypocricy behind warning labels. “The fine line of irony with all this shit is that a group saying what we say through Matt’s lyrics gets a sticker on the record while we’re up against groups like Whitesnake andMoüey Crue andall thesebands who have virtually explicit sexism in their videos. These bands rake in the bread and rake in the coverage. Money is power. That’s the whole message.” The crowd at the concert was forgiving of any inconsistencies in the group’s performance. Most of the people actually spent their time shaking and grooving in time to the music while others just stood in place and mouthed lyrics. With no opening act, the show was short but people still left feeling satis fied. This is the trial run for the band on the touring circuit so improve ment can be expected. Closing the interview, Johnny Marr summed up their philosophy and put a per spective on. their endeavors. “We do have a quiet kind of feel about the group. Not that we want to be the biggest group in the world. We just want to be the best.”

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The Rivals continues to amuse.. CONTINUED FROM PAGE 13 Malaprop (Beatrice Stoklas), Lydia’s aunt, and Sir Anthony (Tom McGillis), Captain Abso lute’s father, who are campaigning in the Captain’s favour. Finally, the various servants with various loyalties are scrambling about at the bottom of the heirarchy. Considering that most of these

satirically named individuals are interested in the conquest of fair Lydia’s hand, the scheming be comes increasingly complex. Be warned that this barrage of charac ters and motivations makes for a fairly choppy and confusing though amusing - first act. Al though the intrigues are clearly resolved in the second act, Patrick

Nielson’s direction is lacking a fluency that may havebetter guided the audience. More than one of the actors had trouble with the verbose language, disrupting what might have been a splendid flow of dia logue. Sheridan ’s satire bites into some choice morsels of well-mannered society. The characters become the prime vehicles for such criticism. In particular, Tom McGillis is able to mock the upper crust with his stiff marionnette Sir Anthony, who advises that a wealthy wife should be borne as the “livestock on an estate.” Fiona Loewi as Lydia is a pouty little flower who reads books like the Tears of Inspiration and would much prefer a romantic elopement to “simpering up to the altar.” But it is Beatrice Stoklas who provides the most magnificent caricature as an the impeccablymannered spinster aunt, Mrs. Malaprop. When this “old weather beaten she-dragon” blasts upon the stage, she brings the play to its entertaining heights. Underlying the social intrigues is Sheridan’s concern with the classic discrepancy between ap pearance and reality. As deceit becomes the flipside of pompos ity, it is quickly understood that “gentile postures” simply provide a veneer from whence to scheme.

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have described as a cross between “Live Nude Guitars” and “Hard Liquor,” this is obviously one appearance that should produce some interesting results. Any group that declares itself in perpetual pursuit of its hedonistic muse deserves an attentive listen. Their self titled debut album sold in excess of 35,000 copies in Can ada alone, so the audience is defi nitely listening. With songs en titles ’ 17 Crash’, ‘Never Enough’, and ‘Rip and Tear’, the L.A. Guns are waiting to initiate you into their own private moments.

The Rivals is playing until Feb. 17 at Morrice Hall Theatre, 3485 McTavish. Tickets are $5 fo r stu dents.

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M usique Plus continued... CONTINUED FROM PAGE 14 Hendrix, and New Wave. His fa vourite band is the Beatles: “I think they are really the beginning of music as we know it today.” Rajotte has had a varied T.V. and radio career, during which he has collected some interesting anecdotes. When asked to relate the strangest interview he haddone on television, Rajotte didn’t hesi tate: “That would be my interview with Milli Vanilli. I was interview ing Milli Vanilli at the Forum just before their show last summer and they’re really two dickheads. At the start of an interview we usually attach a microphone to the inter viewees tie or coat, but since I was at the Forum we couldn’t have that We had a regular hand mike. I had the two guys of Milli Vanilli sitting at my left and the guy who was the furthest from me didn’t want to bend to speak into the microphone. He said, ‘How come you don’t have little tie micro phones? I cannot bend.’ So he just left in the middle of the interview. Live. I guess the band didn’t know they were live at the time. They don’t even really sing on their album so I really,really hate them.”

Rajotte will be the first to say that being a celebrity isn’t all its cracked up to be. Although he enjoys his fans, there are draw backs. His social life is constrained by his status as a public personal ity. “I don’t go out to clubs at all because people always recognize me. I would have to wear a wig, or I don’t know what. When I go to a club, most of the time the music sucks, so I prefer to stay home with friends. There’s always someone saying, T saw you.’” One look at the Musique Plus studio, however, shows that Rajotte’s job does not usually in volve extreme stress. He spends most of his time sitting at his desk while technicians wander around the studio carrying equipment. Every so often he rises from his throne and walks into the illumi nating circle of light to announce the next set of videos. However, walking into that light requires the aid of cosmetics and wearing makeup is not Rajotte’s favorite activity. “That I really hate! It’s a pain in the you-know-what. You have to wear it non-stop, every day. I would just prefer to wear plain nothing because when you

go home you have to remove your makeup. I remove the biggest part here at work and I have to remove it twice when I get home. If you don’t do that - plenty of pimples.” F e b ru a r y 2 8 ,1 9 9 0 For the up-and-coming music fan, Rajotte has his musical picks for the 90’s. “I’ll go with last year’s trend. I like the Stone Roses. It’s not a very new style of music though. I like KMFDM. Ministry. I like techno music, and I like dance music. Maybe there will be more originality in the 90’s because in the 80’s we really copied what happened in the 60’s and 70’s.”

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We hope these mini-courses will give you pleasure in learning opportunities fo r self-development and help you acquire new skills. Suggestions fo r improving the mini-course program are welcome and may be made by calling Karen Diaz, Program Coordinator, 3 9 8 -6 8 0 6 . CHINESE F A IN IIH Ü T Instructor: Zhang Kunlun Thursday: 7:00-9:00 beginning March 15,1990 (Union 108)

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SIM PLE VEGETARIAN COOKING:

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Instructors: Mira Cerulli and Rose Anne Doucet

fun, affordable, and nutritious

Two sections offered

Three sections offered

Instructor: Harold Wilson

Monday: 6:30-8:30 beginning March 12, 1990 (Union B09) Thursday: 5:30-7:30 beginning March 15, 1990 (Union 107)

Monday: 4:30 - 6:30 beginning March 12,1990 (Union B10) Monday: 6:30 - 8:30 beginning March 12,1990 (Union B10) Saturday: 12:00 - 2:00 beginning March 17,1990 (Union 108)

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Chinese paintingis a complete art initself. The basic essential techniques of Chinese painting will be explained, providing the solid foundation necessary for the student to further develop. Due to the short duration of the class, the teaching will be simplified. The student will acquire a meaningful knowledge about Chinese painting at the end of the class. The fee does not include the cost of course materials (i.e. Chinese ink, brushes, and Chinese painting paper). Any person interested in this course may purchase these materials on one’s own or may purchase them at cost from the instruc tor during the first class (app.$15).

This course is intended for the NOVICE photographer. Topics and skills which will be covered include: camera care and use, types of cameras and films, picture taking, format and focusing, film developing and printing (black and white). Fee includes roll of film, chemicals, paper and darkroom time. Bring camera if you have one. McGill stu dents can rent cameras from ICC ($2/day). About the instructors: McGill students with much instructional and photographic experi ence. Executives of McGill Photographic Society.

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PUBLIC SPEAKING

Instructor: T.B.A.

Instructors: Julia Rucklidge and Jamie Windsor

Instructor: TBA One section offered

2 classes Fees: McGill students: $25 General public: $30 This course will cover emer gency first aid in life threatening situations (i.e. choking, intoxica tion). Upon successful comple tion of this course students will receive a 3 year Red Cross certi fication in emergency first aid.

Two sections offered Monday: 4:30 - 6:30 beginning March 12,1990 (Union B09) Saturday: 12:00 - 2:00 beginning March 17,1990 (Union 107)

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Satursay: 10:30-12:00 beginning March 17th, 1990 (Union 107/108)

4 classes registration: 15 max Fees: McGill Students $25 General Public $40 This course will discuss the art of public speaking. For example, the importance of body language, voice intonation and modulation will be illustrated. The pragmatics of im promptu speeches and prepared speeches will be covered and re hearsed.

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Mira has been signing for five years. She is hearing impaired and can communicate through lipreading. She has taught several levels and several courses at different Montreal area schools. Rose-Anne has been signing for five years and has taught five different courses.

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Monday: 5:00-8:00 March 12 & March 19,1990 (Union 302) Tuesday: 4:30-7:30 March 13 & 20,1990 (Union 107)

4 classes Registration: 12 maximum

Duration: 4 classes Registration: 10 maximum

Fees: McGill students: $32 General public: $37

FIR ST A IP Two sections offered

One section offered Tuesday: 5:00-7:00 beginning March 13,1990 (Meet at Students’ Society Off.)

This course is intended as an introduction to vegetarian cooking. Many different types of food groups and cooking techniques will be demonstrated. Information will be provided on purchasing ingredients, preparation, serv ing and nutrition. This price includes copies of very tasty recipes. In addition, students will have the opportunity to sample many dishes. About the instructor: Harold will have a guest cook each week. This person will present his/ her choice recipes.

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Instructor: Rose-Anne Doucet

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Saturday: 2:00-4:00 beginning March 17,1990 (Union 108)

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This course is designed for those with weak or no background knowledge in sign language. Finger-spelling and gesticulât ing about 500 words will be the

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Stingers sink Redmen, raise Cup high at Forum Last Friday evening at the Montréal Forum, the Concordia Stingers overcame an early two goal deficit to win the Third An nual Ronald Corey Cup, defeating the hockey Redmen, 5-2. The vic tory was Concordia’s first Corey Cup win, as the Redmen won the 1988 inaugural 6-5, and retained the trophy with a 5-5 tie last year. “This one was for the trophy,” said Coach A1 Grazys, as the loss will not count toward McGill’s second place 12-6-2 East division record. Concordia’s record still stands at 8-13. “I didn ’t expect us to kill them,” said Grazys, “but I think our guys thought they [Concordia] would be a pushover.” McGill shot out to a 2-0 lead after first period goals by Brent Bannerman at 2:25, and a power play marker by Martin Olivier. The Redmen played a superb period, controlling the flow of the game, and hitting everything that re sembled a Stinger. The Tribe came out so high in the first twenty minutes, visions of the Corey trophy must have been dancing in their heads. It would have been simple, just switch on the cruise control and smile for the photographers after the game. The next forty minutes however, saw them slowly lose the initiative, with

it the game, and their smiling mugs to boot. The second period lacked the finesse and speed of the first, but Concordia managed to answer back, as Mark Davidson beat Jamie Reeve twice, once at 3:26, and again at 17:41, both with the manadvantage. It was this period which saw the Stingers succeed in bring ing the Redmen down to their level of mechanical, unstyled hockey. The best efforts the Redmen could manage were purely individual ones, and the team as a whole simply did not gel. The Stingers took the lead for good just 57 seconds into the third, as John Gravelle one-timed a cor ner pass from E.J. Janiszewski between Reeve’s legs to make it 3-

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As Claude Mouton’s familiar voice resounded through the old rink, registering Gravelle’s goal, the Redmen found some resolve as they began to realize they might not win this one. They managed topepper the pads of goalie Robert Desjardins with scoring chances. At the midway point of the third, the top line of Patrice Tremblay, Tim Iannone, and Martin Raymond, flooded the crease area as Concordia’s thin defence was stretched out over the ice. Desjardins, with a little help from the spirits of Ken Dryden and Patrick Roy, came away unscathed.

M is s e d o p p o r tu n itie s : T im I a n n o n e (#15) c a n ’t g e t a h a n d le o n th is lo o s e p u c k . na...'' began to rise from the Con proving McGill’s chances of fin cordia faithful. At 17:14 they got ishing first or second in the East. What immediately resulted from louder, as Scott Kerins put in a The Redmen close out the season this frenzied Redmen rush, was a4 Davidson rebound the close the this weekend with two games. On on 2 breakout for the Stingers, who scoring. Friday it’s a huge one, at Cap-dehad no trouble slamming the door It was a sad day for McGill. Madelaine to face UQTR. A whole on the Tribe’s hopes of comeback, Notes lot hinges on this one, the winner as Steve Sonoski drilled a low snap On Friday, Toronto upset York, will most likely take first place. On shot past a lonely Reeve at 11:56. 3-1, and on Saturday, lowly Wind Sunday, it’s the finale at Ottawa, Faint, evil chants of “Na na na sor tied mighty UQTR, 4-4, im broadcast live on CKUT 90.3 FM The only help Reeve got was from the ghost of Bunny Larocque.

Going downhill fast with Pavel Pochobradsky BY SEAN GORDON For those o f you who happen to be skiers at McGill, the name Pavel Pochobradsky should ring a bell. Pavel, fo r the rest o f us. is the coach o f the McGill ski team, and is also one o f its integral members. In addition to being an established member o f the McGill community, he defected from Czechoslovakia five years ago. Just last weekend, Pavel moved fromfifth tofirstplace overall in Québec after two super giant slalom wins. For his efforts, he has been awarded QFFS Ath lete o f the Week Honors. The Tribune was able to speak to Pavel recently, and this is what he had to say. Q.: Why did you decide to de fect? A.: Well, I decided to come over in 1985. It wasn’t that my life was miserable; in fact I had a pretty good life, but the skiing wasn’t going so well, not so much for me but for the people who were run ning the team I was on. I saw that I had an opportunity to join a team elsewhere, so I took it while I was ahead. Q.: Why did you decide to come to McGill? A.: Well, I originally tried to join the Canadian ski team; I trained with them for a couple of years, but I couldn’t get a licence to race because I wasn’t a Canadian citi

zen, so I decided to do something else with my life, like go to school. Q.: When did you start skiing, and how good was the coaching when you were young and in de velopment? A.: I first started skiing when I was three. Back home, things are a little different because almost all the coaching is done at the club level, you are then selected to join the national team, but you still belong to the club. I was fortunate because I skied for one of the best clubs in the country. Q.: How good do you think the Canadian competition is in rela tion to some of the Europeans that you’ve skied against? A.: In Canada, it is difficult to say how good the skiers are be cause at the University level school always comes first, so many people can’t actually do both. If you look at Europe or even the States, the students get more breaks from school just to do athletics, so there really isn’t any comparison. Q.: What’s your assessment of this year’s edition of the McGill ski team? A.: I think we have a good team, a young team where the “old guys” are coming together, and I think that the whole team is also begin ning to come together. I’m hoping for top three, maybe even top two overall. I don’t really have any serious expectations, I just take it

as it comes. Q.: How does the McGill ski program compare to others in Canada? A . : Compared to the other teams, I think it’s a little harder to get people to McGill, because usually athletes don’t have the school marks to get in. It’s not because they’redumb, it’sjustbecausethey don’t necessarily have time for a lot of school work, so I guess it’s tougher to get the great talent. We don’t have any stars, we just have a solid, above average group of skiers. Q.: Is training a problem, par ticularly because of proximity? A.: No, I don ’t think so, because we have a contract with the Chantec1er resort, and every Tuesday and Thursday night we have a hill to ourselves with very good condi tions, I would say that the timing is In

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T R IB U N E SCO REBO ARD Womens Super Giant Slalom 1. J ulie Klotz, Concordia 2. Vicky Darveau, U de M 3. Isabel Amyot, Veterans Mens Super Giant Slalom 1. Pavel Pochobradsky, McGill 2. Frank Manfredi, Veterans 3. Stéphane Ricard, Veterans

300m 1. Gordon Neysmith (MAC) 2. Greg Barrett (McGill) 3. Mark Smith (McGill) Womens 600m 1. Brigit Kehoe (Ottawa) 2. Laura Rutherford (McGill) 3. Kellly Bride (McGill) Long Jump 1. Kristen Fry (McGill) 2. Heather Myrick (Platts.) 3. Gillian Amber JMcGill) 60m 1. Andrea Bacchiochi (Ottawa) 2. Miranda Kirby (Ottawa) 3. Kristen Fry (McGill)

QUWBL Womens Basketball at Bishop's 72 McGill 63 OUAA Mens Basketball at Bishop's 95 McGill 94 (OT) OUAA Mens Hockey Ronald Corey Cup Concordia 5 McGill 2 McGill Open Track & Field Mens 4x200m relay 1. MAC 1:33.87 2. McGill 1:36.17 3. Québec 1:39.63 4x400m relay 1. Ottawa Lions 3:25.50 2. McGill 3:35.66 3. Plattsburgh St.3:46.99

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BY WALTER KEMP He shoots, oh a big save! The boisterous crowd begins to chant ‘Reever, Reever’. Time after time this scenario has been played out. Who is the focus of attention, the man behind the mask? It’sMcGill’s steady goaltender Jamie Reeve. Having recently broken the rec ord for career wins by a McGill goaltender (58), a record which had stood since 1934, Reeve can be justifiably called the best goaltender in McGill’s one hundred and fourteen years of hockey his tory. Reeve will be the first to tell you that his task has been facilitated by the great teams of the past few seasons but as he admits “by the same token, I guess I have been consistent”; and modest. In his five years at McGill Reeve has run up some very impressive statistics. Last year (and so far this year) he had the lowest goals against average in the OUAA. He holds McGill career and single season assist records for goalies, and has made the most saves (over 2,300) of any goalie in Redmen hockey history. Reeve also has a very high save percentage. This was evident at the RPI Tourna ment in 1987 when he saved 98 of 108 shots in two games. Jamie Reeve grew up in Saska toon where he learned to play hockey on a backyard rink. He began playing organized hockey when he was seven and by the tender age of seventeen he was being seriously considered by professional scouts. In 1982, when he was eighteen, he was drafted by the NHL’s Washington Capitals. Washington, however, had no

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shortage of goaltending talent and Reeve went to the WHL’s Regina Pats where he was a standout for three seasons. In 1985 it was time for him to decide between a minor league contract or the CIAU; he chose the latter. Like many young athletes Reeve was attracted to McGill’s tradition of athletic and academic achieve ment. He has managed to fair well at both. Hard work, a positive atti tude and a careful evaluation of priorities have been his secrets to success. For Reeve another importantkey to being a goalie is brashness; “ you have to be mouthy, cocky and confident.” It’s a combination of this spunk and a very personable off-ice demeanour which make Reeve a favourite with both the fans and his teammates. Reeve assesses McGill’s play off chances as excellent. Says Reeve, “McGill is the team to beat Unlike in past years all our eggs aren’t in one basket. This year’s team has great depth and we can now effectively attack and defend with almost any line combination. As this season winds down, I’d like to end things off on a positive note, get the monkey off our backs and finally beat Three Rivers, get to the national championship and see how it goes from there.” National championship or not, Reeve will be graduating this May with a degree in Eduacation. In the near future he hopes to teach, most likely physical education. He has not ruled out coaching for the fu ture. With Reeve’s departure McGill Will be losing a great goalie and an equally outstanding indi vidual. Next season there will be some big skates to fill.

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BY AARON MARGOLIS McGill Sports Information Di rector Earl “the Pearl” Zukerman once told me that, when he was young, watching the Montréal Canadians play Saturday nights at the Forum was his weekly relig ious experience. So intense was he, that nobody could be in the same room when the game was on. Growing up in Winnipeg, my only access to the Montréal Forum was, like most, from images trans mitted each Saturday night on Hockey Night in Canada. We lived for the excited voices of Danny Gallivan and Dick Irvin frantically trying to keep up with a Guy Lafleur rush or Ken Dryden save. We welcomed the authoritarian voice and mannerisms of public address announcer Claude Mou ton. So it was last Friday night, the third annual Ronald Corey Cup game between McGill and Con cordia. The battle for university hockey bragging rights in Mon tréal. Only this time it was to take place at the Forum. For some, the Forum was their sole reason for attendance. For me, a radio broadcaster with CKUT, it was a chance to broad cast a hockey game from a build ing where so much Canadian hockey history and folklore has unravelled. If you walk through the Forum you can stare at the countless team pictures, Stanley Cups displayed prominently on many, the faces of hockey demigods confidently fol lowing your every move. A sojourn through my home town rink, the Winnipeg Arena, is a tad less thrilling. So you must understand, a trip to the Forum, for any reason, be it a Canadians game, the Corey Cup, or even bleacher seats for Alice Cooper’s “Let’s Trash Canada” tour, is akin to entering hockey heaven. Upon my arrival at the Forum Friday night, approximately three hours prior to game time, I was met at the door by security who checked my name, addressed me as Mr. Margolis, and showed me in. Walking into the building at the

same time and being accorded the same treatment were the players for the Old-Timers game, the match preceding the Corey Cup. Being spoken to in the same way as the players, many of whose pictures adorn the halls of the Forum was a remarkable privilege and honour. Immediately inside I found myself standing two feet from Rocket Richard, one of the great est players in hockey history. Inwardly I felt faint while out wardly I attempted to restrain my hysteria. Taking the elevator to the press box I was in awe. The excitement of the moment overwhelming. Here I was, a 22 year old hoosier from Winnipeg about to announce a hockey game from the Montréal Forum. In a few hours I would stand in the same place legends like Galli van and Irvin had stood thousands of times before describing the movements and special moments of the great Canadian passion. The press box at the Forum is a wonderful place. First class treat ment, all the food you could want to feed a battalion of hungry press folk, and state of the art electronic equipment. In the press cubicle to my left stood Dick Irvin who, along with his wife were present to take in the Old-Timers game. Everyone from the university media stood in awe. Tribune pho tographer Neal Herbert frantically searched for a pen to get an auto graph. Mostintroduced themselves and stole a word or two with Montreal’s Mr. Hockey. Before introducing myself I remember thinking, here was a man doing something 25 million Cana dians would give their right arm to do. Tonight I was getting my chance to emulate the dream. The game itself was a dull affair with Concordia defeating McGill 5-2. 150 feet above the ice surface it was anything but dull. For most of us it was a chance to partake in the episode of a lifetime. For five hours we had the run of the Montréal Forum and were accorded king-like treatment. It was a night we will always treasure.

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A cadem ic Policy and Planning Com m ittee 5 (Including 1 from M acD onald College and 1 graduate student) A P P C Sub-com m ittee on N ew and Revised Course and Program s (N R C P ) 1 A P P C Sub-com m ittee on Review of Existing Program s (R E P ) 1 A P P C Sub-com m ittee on Planning and Priorities (P& P) 2 (1 undergraduate and 1 graduate) A P P C Sub-com m ittee on University Teaching and Learning 2 (C U TL) (1 undergraduate and 1 graduate) 5 University Admissions and Scholarships Com m ittee (U A S C ) 1 U A S C Sub-com m ittee on Admissions 1 U A S C Sub-com m ittee on Scholarships 5 C om m ittee on Tim etabling and Student Records (C T S R ) (including 1 from Continuing Education) 1 C T S R Sub-com m ittee on Tim etabling 1 C T S R Sub-com m ittee on Sessional Dates 1 C T S R Student Records Working Groups (C S R W G ) 3 S enate Com m ittee on Libraries (SCL) (1 graduate student) 1 S C C E Sub-com m ittee on Courses and Program s (from continuing Education) 2 Com m ittee of Physical Developm ent 3 C om m ittee on Student Discipline 4 Com m ittee on Student G rievances

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FA C U LTY O F A G R IC U L T U R E Departm ent of Entomology Departm ent of Plant Science Departm ent of Renew able Resources FA C U LTY O F A R TS A Departm ent of Classics Departm ent of Economics S Departm ent of English Departm ent of French Language and Literature Departm ent of Hispanic Studies C E N T R E FO R C O N T IN U IN G E D U C A TIO N Departm ent of Chartered Accountancy Departm ent of Languages and Translation Departm ent of M anagem ent - G raduate Departm ent of M anagem ent - Undergraduate C F A C U L T Y O F D E N T IS T R Y F A C U L T Y O F E N G IN E E R IN G School of Com puter Science FA C U LTY O F G R A D U A T E S T U D IE S A N D R E S E A R C H A School of Social Work FA C U LTY O F M E D IC IN E Centre for Im munobiology and Transplantation N Departm ent of Diagnostic Radiology Departm ent of Otolaryngology G Departm ent of Pediatrics Departm ent of Physiology School of Physical and Occupational Therapy E FA CU LTY O F S C IE N C E Dpartm ent of G eography Departm ent of Geological Sciences Departm ent of M athem atics adn Statistics Departm ent of M eteorology R.S.V.P.: Application forms are available in Com pleted applications must be submitted to: the Students' Society G eneral Office Leslie Copeland, Operations Secretary Union 105, 348 0 M cTavish Street. All appliStudents' Society G eneral Office cants will receive written responses. University Centre, Room 105

NO LA TER TH AN 4:30 P.M., FR ID AY, FE B R U A R Y 16TH, 1990. Further information on the University Affairs Com m ittees m ay be obtained by contacting Kate Morisset, Vice-President (University Affairs) 3 9 8 -6 7 9 7 . N O TE: The above positions m ay be subject to K a te M o risse t, C h a ir p e rs o n change pending official S enate announcem ent U n iv e rsity A ffa irs C o m m itte e o f student positions.____________________________ page 19

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Old McGill is the hard-cover, 368 page yearbook covering the entire school year. It will include photographs of all McGill graduates of that year as well as other relevant material as the Editor sees fit. The Editor shall appoint and supervise a large staff including writers, photographers, section editors and layout people. Applicants must be willing to attend a 3-day workshop in August. M c G I L L T R I B U N E - E D IT O R -I N - C H IE F

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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, door prizes, clinic volunteers, etc.. .The Chairperson is responsible for organizing and supervising the McGill Blood Drive in cooperation with the Canadian Red Cross. Applicants must be available to plan Blood Drive '90 during the summer. C H I E F R E T U R N IN G O F F I C E R

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 C R O through the normal application process as well as district returning officers (D R O ’s) to supervise each poll. The C R O will be paid basic minimum wage plus 25% only on election days for campus-wide elections. Only individual applications will be accepted. T R I B U N E P U B L I C A T I O N S B O A R D - 2 S t u d e n t s -a t -L a r g e

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.

SE C O N D HAND TE X TB O O K SA LE - C O O R D IN A TO R

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 particularcampusgroups 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.

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.

S T U D E N T H A N D B O O K - ED ITO R -IN -C H IE F

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.

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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. U N IV E R S I T Y C E N T E R C O M M IT T E E -1 S t u d e n t -a t -L a r g e

The University Center Committee is responsible for establishing long term plans forthe upkeep, renovation and improvement of the University Center. F O O D & B E V E R A G E C O M M IT T E E - 2 S t u d e n t s -a t -L a r g e

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. J U D IC IA L B O A R D - 5 M em b ers

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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.

M c G IL L F IE S T A - C H A IR P E R S O N

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. W e need a well-organized individual who can work with a variety of student groups to help McGill's international students share their culture with other McGill students.

The 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.

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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. S O U T H E R N A F R I C A C O M M IT T E E - C O O R D IN A T O R

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.

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