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Arts andScience Students takingcourses inStrathcana Music Buildingarealsoinvited. Animal Rights Day: Union 108, 10:00 a.m.-4:30 pjn.. Information, books, T-shirts, workshops, and a raffle of "cruelty-free” beautykits. Groups fromaraasMontreal. AHWelcome. OrganizedbyMETA. Info.: 276-0914. Black HistoryMonth: Presents"aMcGill-Concor diaRapSession". MulticulturalLounge, Union401,6:00 pjn.. Co-sponsoredbyCAPITALIDEA. UhuruNaUfahamu-DevelopmentStudiesGroup: Meeting, Union410,5:00p.m.. MediaStudy: CaseStudy oftheFebruary25thNicarguanElections. All Welcome. LesbianandGayEmpbyeesofMcG111-L.A.G.E.M. (formerlyG.A.LE.M.): 2ndMeeting. YellowDoorCof fee House, 3625 Aylmer (above Prince Arthur), 5:30 pjn.. Info.: 842-5573/286-2388 (leavemessage). McGill Southern Africa Committee presents AMANDLA,aweeklynewsandcurrentaffairsprogram onSouthemAfrica.CKUTFM90.3, RadioMcGill,every Wednesday, 7:00-7:30pjn.. Filmsabout MozambiquebyDirector, RanHallis. TheAlley, 3480McTavish,7:00pjn.. FREE. Sponsored byMcGill SouthernAfricaCommittee. McGill FJlmSociety: Open City. Italy 1944 (100 min.). Dir.: R. RosseUni. FDAAuditorium,7:30pjn.. OpenForum: “WhyDon’t Visible MinoritiesSee Themselves on the Six O’Clock News”. Panel: Mike Donegan, Vice-President, News and Current Affairs, CFCF Television; David Bazay, Executive Producer, CBC Television News; and several representatives of Canada’svisibleminoritiescommunity.‘‘StudioA”,Hall Building, 1455 de Maisonneuve W., 7:30 pjn.. Vide otapedfornational broadcaston"Newswoiid". All Wei-

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McGill Film Society: The Killing Fields. U.S.A. 1985(142min.). Dir.: R. Joffe. Leacock132,7:30 p.m.. SUNDAY, MARCH4TH Environment Workshop Series: “FoodSecurity" withDr. Stewart Hill, Associate Professor of Entomol ogy, MacDonaldCollege, McGill, andDirector of the Ecological Agriculture Project. UnitarianChurch, 3415 Simpson,cornerofSherbrooke, 1:00pjn.. Call 935-1522 toregisterforthescries. MONDAY. MARCH5TH Maxwell-Cummings Lectures: presents Professor SeymourM.Lipset, ProfessorofSociology, CarolineS. G. MunroProfessorofPolitical Science, SeniorFellow, HooverInstitution,StanfordUniversity,speakingon"The Politics of AmericanJews". Leacock738, 10:30 ajn.12:00 pjn.. Co-sponsoredwithJewishStudies, McGill. Info.: 398-6847. McGillTaxClink: CollectionofTaxReturns,March 5thto8th, 10:30ajn.-3:00p.m., Samuel BronfmanBldg. Lobby. Formswill bereturnedMarch26thto29th, same time, sameplace. Maxwell-Cummings Lectures: presents Professor SeymourM.Lipset, ProfessorofSociology, CarolineS. G. MunroProfessorofPolitical Science, SeniorFellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University, speaking on “ContinentalDivide:CanadianandAmericanValucsand Institutions”. Leacock232, 6pjn.. Info.: 398-6847. Presentation on Animal Experimentation with KathyAbran. Leacock26,7:30-9:00pjn.. AllWelcome. Arrangedby McGill for the Ethical Treatment of Ani mals. TUESDAY, MARCH6TH Maxwell-Cummings Lectures: presents Professor SeymourM.Lipset, ProfessorofSociology, CarolineS. G. MunroProfessor ofPolitical Science, SeniorFellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University, speaking on "Social DemocracyinComparativePerspective”. Lea cock738,3:00pjn.-5:00pjn.. Info.: 398-6847.

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BY PAUL HORWITZ AND LARA FRIEDLANDER Student protests last week failed to stop the Board of Governors (BoG) from approving a fee sched ule for the next two years that in cludes both the provincial increase of $350 a year and an additional $35 a year increase. The protests highlight a rift be tween the SSMU and a group of student protesters that may have worsened after administration threats against the SSMU execu tive. Governors at last Monday’s Board meeting voted against a motion by SSMU President Santo Manna to postpone tuition busi ness until after a student referen dum on the issue next week. “It got killed,” said Manna. Board Chairperson Hugh Hallward adjourned the meeting when student protesters rose to voice opposition to a tuition increase. Manna says he was then asked to go to Principal Johnston’s office for what he thought was a private meeting. But when he arrived in the office, he found the rest of the Board there. The Board reconve ned and passed the fee schedule. Student protesters in the BoG meeting room were escorted from the building by guards and a plain clothes policeman. Outside the administration building, departing governors were met by about 60 other loud protesters. “This is our last chance to be vocal at McGill before tuition in creases,” said Dave McCullough, a spokesperson for the students.

SSMU drops out of blockade group The students who planned the BoG protest originally met to plan a blockade of the administration

building after a General Assembly vote made the blockade Students’ Society policy. But ties between student pro testers and the SSMU weakened on February 16, when the SSMU Executive announced that it would reject the General Assembly block ade policy. The Executive was to reverse the policy last night at a meeting of Students’ Society Council. Execu tive members said they could not endorse any acts of civil disobedi ence that might be considered ille gal. They added that a blockade policy would upset many McGill students. “From the beginning, we were skeptical about whether something like that could be done through SSMU policy,” said Manna. “Students’ Society would have alienated a lot of people with a blockade,” said Vice President (External Affairs) John Fox.

Protesters join CAPE But Manna also said Principal Johnston warned him two weeks ago that the Executive could be held responsible for any SSMUsponsored protests under univer sity rules of student conduct. Pun ishment for breaking those rules includes expulsion. Paula Gunn, a spokesperson for the studentprotesters, said she was frustrated by the SSMU decision, but that there was “no bad blood” between the groups. She blamed administration threats for the SSMU’s decision. “They had to withdraw their support for a movement they be lieve in,” Gunn said. The studentprotesters responded by deciding to join the student group Coalition Against the Priva tization of Education (CAPE) in a meeting last Wednesday. CAPE

members said the group would work with the SSMU, and would strengthen ties with the Associa tion nationale des étudiants et étu diantes du Québec (ANEEQ) stu dent lobby. CAPE students will be cooper ating with the SSMU on Thursday at a peaceful demonstration organ ized by the SSMU, to take place in front of the Administration Build ing at 11:00 am. Fox said the demonstration should convince more students to become involved in the tuition fee increase issue. “We want to create an atmos phere of debate among the student population,” said Fox. “I’d rather see an entire popula tion of students for a fee hike, than students who don’t care.” Spokesperson McCullough said CAPE plans to speak to students and distribute pamphlets in the residences and in classes. Future civil disobedience plans are not definite, he said. One reason for a focus on educa tion may be that the group has gone from about 100 people who met with SSMU approval after the General Assembly to a core group of only about 30 people. “We agree on the same prin ciples, it’s easier to do things,” said McCullough. CAPE spokesperson Mike Falk said CAPE does not reflect a mi nority view on campus, despite its increasingly small size. “It’s the SSMU that’s marginalized itself,” said Falk.

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strike], the quicker it’ll be,” said CAPE’S McCullough. SSMU executives say a second strike vote is unnecessary. The last General Assembly gave Students’ Society a mandate against a strike, they said. “Once the students have spoken,

they’ve spoken,” said Fox. Still, both the SSMU and CAPE say their messages are essentially the same. “We’re sending a message to McGill students that there are other alternatives besides tuition hikes,” said CAPE spokesperson Gunn.

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New General Assembly CAPE members say they will also encourage students to attend an SSMU General Assembly, to take place on March 5 in the Union Ballroom at 1:00 pm, which they convened. CAPE members at the Assembly will urge the SSMU to join a Québec student strike, now scheduled to begin on that day. “The more people we get out [to

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Union Building might be fixed McGill’s Physical Plant is considering putting a new temporary roof on the Union building to stop the building’s leaking problem, accord ing to a letter sent to SSMU ExecutiveRaySatterthwaite from Physical Plant head Sam Kingdon. Kingdon said physical plant is also paying to clean the building’s vents and fix them after complaints that rooms there are too hot.

Executive candidates debate this week Thirteen candidates for SSMU executive positions are set to debate in the Union cafeteria between noon and 2 p.m. daily until this Friday. V.P. (Finance) candidates are scheduled for debate Thursday; V.P. (Extemal)and V.P. (University Affairs) candidates will match wits Wednesday; V.P. (Internal) will chatter Thursday; Presidential can didates will wrestle on Monday.

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AL and GEORGE Al and George are emotionally retarded psychopathic twins who were separated at birth. Re-united in Toronto in 1984 by the Sun Newspaper, they turned their malevolent fantasies to musical satire. Feeling pain when the other is hurt, Al explains: "We attack institutions. In this way I find I carry garden shears around less and less." With a theatre revue show, record album, and numerous television appearances to their credit, AL A N D GEORGE are making excellent progress. In reality, AL A N D GEORGE have overcome middle class backgrounds to become the leading edge in musical cabaret.

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BY JOHN FOX Egos can take up a lot of space, enough to fill a bus. Last Thursday evening, one seat of space on the hockey team’s bus was denied to a member of the Tribune sports section who wanted to make the trip to Trois Rivières to witness what would be the end of the season. “It is a team policy that members of the press are not allowed on the team bus,” explained Coach A1 Grazys. This so-called policy is not a policy at all, members of the press had been given spaces on the bus a number of times this season. The fact that McGill was about to lose in the playoffs to UQTR for the fourth straight year may have had a lot to do with Grazys’ decision. But the biggest reason is the fact that almost exactly a year ago, after McGill had lost to UQTR, Aaron Margolis, a Tribune columnist, criticized the effort of the players and coaches. Ever since then, Grazys has ap proached members of this paper with a certain degree of animosity. All we wanted was the chance to take a boring two hour bus ride so we could watch and report on a team we have been following for the past four months. I guess that was too much to expect. We forgot that it is our duty to be blind and narrowminded, printing consoling words instead of critical ones. We had not realized that the Currie Gymnasium was not made of bricks and mortar, but rather glass and silly putty. The guard at the front door isn’t there to check ID, he’s there to make sure no one gets in and breaks the glass. Only a few panes have been broken this year. Assistant football coach Ray Lalonde shattered a couple last December when he decided McGill Athletics was a sinking ship and thought he’djump off. Hockey goaltender Richard Rubin tossed a rock or two when Grazys failed to make clear his decision on whether Rubin had been cut or retained on the roster. In each instance the administration offered only a nervous shrug of the shoulders, and told us it was a non-story. It seems the McGill athletic administration cares very deeply about the press it receives. If you cross them, they’ll get back at you; you need to be taught how things run around here. If that energy were diverted toward an honest work ethic, devoted to winning and good sportsman ship, and toward putting more rear-ends in the stands, then the admini stration wouldn’t have to worry about what is printed about them. So instead of watching the hockey team prepare for the golf season, the sports section turned out in full force at the Concordia gym, and were lucky to witness two superb McGill basketball victories. And at the mandatory post-game celebration at Gert’s, Men’s hoop Coach Ken Schildroth shared his thoughts on a number of topics over a beer. Only a few weeks earlier, Aaron Margolis had criticized his coaching decisions in his Sports Pit. Apparently Schildroth realizes, like so few of his peers, that criticism is not always cause for revenge. Nick Leonardos

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Micheal Wilson served us a reminder last week. The Federal Finance minister restricted trans fer payments to the provinces. That means about $220 million less in Québec’s already tight budget One third of that money was for post secondary education. If the quality of education offered here is to remain the same, that money will have to be made up from some where else, and if Québec follows the nine provinces it likes to com pare itself to, that money will be made up through tuition. Many students have expressed a willingness to contribute more to their education provided that the quality improves (read: newer équipement, better libraries...). Problem is.ifgovemmentscutback as tuition rises, there can be no improvement in the quality of education. Pretty basic math. As students, we shouldn’t be blind to these realities, particularly since Québec has decided to up our tuition. It is becoming increasingly clear that McGilLstudents want to drive this point home to the gov ernment as hard as possible. That’s why Student Senators from every Faculty voted against the hike. That’s why the Students’ Society is presenting a brief to the parlia mentary commission on education today. We will be making the ob jections of McGill Students very clear. And that’s why, along with other associations, we will be ex

amining the possiblity of taking the government to court over the hike. Three weeks ago, Students’ Council held a General Assembly to examine means of attacking the hike. You’ll recall that we voted against a strike and for a demon stration. Nowa popular movement has asked, through a 200 name petition, to hold a second General Assembly to re-evaluate the situ ation. It will take place March 5 at 1 p.m. in the Union Ballroom. Opportunity for information and debate in preparation will abound. There will be an information cam paign all week that will culminate in a “Freeze for All” in front of the administration building on Thurs day. There will be food, there will be skits, and there will be heated discussion. Come and tell us how you feel about the hike. Also this week is the Students’ Society election campaign. Any candidate that is worth the ballot their name is on, will have taken an informed position on the issue. Ask them what they think, and then ask them why. If they’re clueless, well.... draw your own conclusion. Don’t let this week go by with out getting informed. Ask students, ask your profs, ask your Dean, hell, ask the Principal if you must! Your tuition is your business and you have a right to know the im pact it will have on your education. Don’t ride a fantasy, get Ihe facts. Get them now.

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HYDRO WATCH Now that the strike seems to be having an effect, Hydro has decided, hey let’s talk to the media. And talk they did. Well some of the time anyway. Last week they managed to selectively blackout the transmitters for several French and English radio and television stations. Consequently they spent the next couple of days explaining to Dennis Trudeau andLynn Desjardins that the blackout was due to labour problems, and not the amount of snow that we have received this week. On a more recent front, over 5,700 people in the Mont-Royal area were busy trying to cook their dinner with matches and camp stoves last night While Hydro’s spokeperson was quite sympathetic to those who were hungry, his only helpful hint was to pray for snow or rain so that there would be more power available- then we would not have to rely on the union quite so much.

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Chretien workers accused of giving free Liberal memberships BY ROBERT STEINER Allegations that Chretien organ izers have given away scores of free Liberal Party memberships have marred the Liberal leadership campaign at McGill two weeks before McGill Liberals decide who they will send to the Calgary lead ership convention this June. Sheila Copps’ McGill organizer Anthony Housefather says a tape recording of a Chretien worker giving away a free membership confirms his allegations against the rival campaign. The Copps organ izer explains he asked a “politi cally neutral” Concordia student,

who identifies himself on the tape as Jamie Shatzky, to conceal a tape recorder when he approached Chretien workers at a desk in the Union Building last February 9. On the recording, Shatzky tells a Chretien worker that “Chretien is someone I think I’d like to back.” “Does it cost anything tojoin the party?” he asks. “It’s five dollars, but if you don ’t have it it’s not a big deal,” the Chretien worker replies. Later Shatzky asks again “if there is a five dollar charge.” “Forget that,” the Chretien workerreplies, adding “this is your receipt. Hold onto that You should

Homosexual employees form campus group BY SHAUN FRY McGill employee Robert Head, Chair of a new group for homosex ual McGill employees, said the new group will address homopho bia on campus and fight discrimi nation against homosexual em ployees. Head, the Chairperson of Les bian and Gay Employees at McGill (LAGEM), said the group held its first meeting on February 21. The group adopted a constitution and sent a letter to McGill’s SecretaryGeneral asking for recognition. The group is also seeking recognition from the Board of Governors. Head says he has encountered barriers in founding the group. Head said the administration "distanced themselves from the association,” adding that the group has already received negative com ments from university administra tors and academic employees. “We were hoping the university would look at the association in a positive light,” Head said. “Traditionally, universities are not generally receptive to openly gay or lesbian staff, and McGill is no exception.” The group’s first meeting also addressed such issues as allowing employees' homosexual spouses to receive health benefits. Homosex-

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get your membership card in the mail but if you don’t you can still vôte anyway.” Shatzky could not be reached for further comment. Liberal party memberships offi cially cost $5.00 each. Chretien, Martin, and Copps supporters spent the first two weeks of February recruiting 481 mem bers for the party’s campus club up from its 53 members in January. At a meeting March 14 each member can vote for two male and two female delegates who will represent the campus club in Cal gary. Chretien officials estimate they recruited about 350 McGill members during the blitz. Martin and Copps organizers each say their campaigns can depend on 150 new votes. Chretien’s McGill campaign chief John Caldwell told the Trib une yesterday he was “really sur prised” to hear about the record

ing. “As far as I know, if we didn’t have the money we tried to phone people back to get it, and didn’t process their applications until they paid. But it was definately a minor ity of people who didn’t pay us on the spot,” he said. “I assume no unpaid applica tions were processed, but there could have been one or two over sights. Taping a private conversa tion without someone’s consent is unethical.” But Copps organizers at McGill say they may lodge a complaint about the Chretien campaign’s recruiting techniques which, if accepted by the Liberal Party’s Quebec wing, woulddisqualify any unpaid members of the party. “The Chretien people got really scared when they saw that Martin and Copps were selling lots of memberships, and started giving away their cards for free at their

booths across McGill,” Housefa ther explained, adding that “people started coming to our campaign desk to tell us about this.” “The Copps and Martin cam paigns will probably do something about this. My guess is that ninety percent of the people on the Chre tien list would say they got their cards for free.” Martin organizer Tanya Smith says her group is “not yet looking into the appeals process.” “You can’t just walk into an appeal,” she said. “You have to be sure of what you have to back you up.” Liberal Party Quebec Wing Director-General Gilles Dufault says it is illegal to give away free memberships, and that an appeals committee would have the power to invalidate unpaid memberships if a complaint is lodged at least 72 hours before the March 14 meet ing.

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Thursday, March 15,1990 - 4:00 p.m. University Centre, Room 425/426 The organizations listed below must register the name, address and phone number of their delegate to this election meeting by completing the official delegate registration form at the Students' Society General Office, 3480 McTavish Street, Room 105, NO LATER THAN 4:00 P.M., TUESDAY, MARCH 13,1990. Completed forms must be signed by the president or chief officer of each respective organization and should be handed in to Leslie Copeland, Operations Secretary at the Students' Society General Office by the deadline noted above.

ORGANIZATIONS ELIGIBLE TO SEND DELEGATES

1. AIESEC McGill 2. Amnesty International 2. Arab Students' Society 4. Armenian Students' Assn 5. Assn, for Baha'i Studies 6. Black Students' Network 7. Blood Drive 8. Caribbean Students' Society 9. Chess Association KJ.Chinese Christian Fellowship 11 .Chinese Students' Society 12. Choral Society 13. Christian Fellowship 14. Croquet &Cribbage Club 15. Debating Union 16. Development & Peace McGill 17. Entrepreneur's Club 18. Film Society 19. Folk Music Society 20. Foster Parents Association 21 .Gamers Guild 22. Gays & Lesbians of McGill 23. Go Club 24. Hellenic Association 25. Hillel Students' Society 26. Hindu Religion Association

27.lndia Canada Students' Assn. 51. PC McGill 28.llnternational Relations Society 52. Personal Finance Club 29. Iranian Students' Association 53. Photographic Society 30. Irish Society 54. Players' Theatre 31 .Islamic Culture Network 55. Programming Network 32. Islamic Society 56. Project Ploughshares 33.lsmailia Students' Association 57. Red Herring 34. James McGill Productions 58.Save the Children 35. Korean Students' Association 59.Savoy Society 36. Latin American Awareness Group 60.Scandinavian Club 37. Lebanese Students' Society 61 .Second Hand Textbook Sale 38. Liberal McGill 62.South-East Asian Students' Assn. 39. Mature Students' Association 63.Spanish & Latin American 40. McGill for the Ethical Treatment Students' Assn. of Animals 64.Student Handbook 41 .McGill Quebec 65.Students for Global Responsibility 42. McGill Student Pugwash 66. Uhuru Na Ufahamu 43. McGill Students' Committee for67. United World Colleges Society Native Peoples 68. Vietnamese Students' Assn. 44. McGill Tribune 69. Volunteer Bureau 45. Muticultural Society 70.Women's Union 46. NDP McGill 71 .WUSC McGill 47. Newman Students' Society 72.Youth Parliament 48.0ld McGill 49. Pakistan Students' Association 50. Palestine Solidarity Committee

NOTES: 1. Quorum for this meeting is fifty percent (50%) of the total number of organizations registered by 4:00 p.m., Tuesday, March 13th, 1990. 2. Organizations eligible are only those which are DIRECTLY recognized by the McGill Students' Council and fall under the headings of Functional Groups, Activities and Interest Groups. 3. Organizations which are recognized by one of the fourteen (14) faculty and school societies or through the Students' Athletics Council are NOT eligible to be represented. 4. The Inter-Residence Council has its own representative to Students' Council and is, therefore, NOT eligible to send a delegate to this meeting. 5. All delegates must have been active members of their respective clubs for at least two months prior to the meeting. 6. All delegates must be members of the McGill Students' Society (i.e., any McGill student except those registered in Continuing Education). 7. A delegate who is not the president or chief officer of a particular group must be approved as the official delegate by the organization he or she is representing. 8. Only registered delegates may be nominated as club representatives. 9. Only registered delegates may vote for club representatives. 10. Organizations NOT listed above which ARE eligible to send a delegate should contact the Program Co-Ordinator in the Students' Society General Office as soon as possible. 11. Organizations not registered by the deadline will NOT be permitted to take pari in the meeting.

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The McGill Tribune , February 27 - March 5,1990

Hockey season ends with a whimper, UQTR does it again BY IAN SIROTA The formality of eliminating the McGill Redmen was accomplished Friday by the Patriotes as they sub dued the Redmen by a score of 7-5, winning the East semifinal 2 games to none. This is the fourth straight year thatUQTR has ended the McGill hockey season. On this night, though, McGill was not prepared to go down without a fight Despite a horrible perfomance from Jamie Reeve (play ing in his last game for McGill), who let in four goals mi seven shots and was grate by the nine minute mark of the first period, McGill refused to quit. Down 4-1 at the 8:13 mark, two goals b y -Alain Cusson made the score a respectable 4-3 by the pe riod’s end. The two teams then exchanged goals in the second period, but it was the Redmen who were carrying the play to UQTR. After Luc Filiatrault had restored a two goal lead for the Pats, Martin Raymond benefitted from a bad clearing pass by UQTR goalie Denis Desbiens to score a short-handed goal with just 35 sec onds remaining in the second frame. McGill finally got back onto even terms with the Patriotes when Marc Thiffeault beat Desbiens with a ris

ing shot at the 2:35 marie. The tie did not last long, though, as the quickstrike UQTR offence notched two goals inl3 seconds. At 8:22, it was Redmen killer Patrick Emond with his fourth in two games against McGill. Jean Bois then capped the scoring at 8:35. In the end, the Redmen could leave Trois Rivières holding their heads high, in the di rection of the golf course. In the series opener on Thursday, at the McConnell Winter Stadium, the Redmen played two games. In the first period, they skated to their best twenty minutes of the season, outscoring UQTR 2-0 on goals by Patrice Tremblay and Tim Iannone. This was in spite of a 15-10 edge in shots that UQTR had managed to build up. The second and third periods, however, were strictly no contest, as McGill failed to show. In the second frame, UQTR got on the scoreboard quickly, with Patrick Emond scor ing his first of three power play markers on the night at the 2:30 mark. Eighteen seconds later, it was Jean Bergeron tying the game up on a nifty feed from Alain Bisson. Bisson was a thorn in McGill’s side all night as he became the human

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equivalent of chalk screeching on a blackboard. The binge of goals in the period continued as Martin Hétu briefly gave the Redmen back the lead. Francois Loranger tied the game up again at the 6:57 mark. Patrick Emond’s second goal of

the game gave the Patriotes the lead for good. The second period ended with UQTR leading 5-3. The third period was more of the same, as Emond completed his hat trick just 34 seconds into the period. The saddest part of the game was that Tim Iannone and Jamie Reeve,

two veterans who have been the heai and soul of the Redmen for the pa: four years, ended their home sea sons on such a dismal note. The again, in a season where nothing hr gone according to plan, perhaps th type of ending should not be surpri: ing.

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Currie Gym, and the Redmen were looking for some sweet revenge. Perhaps the S tingers sensed that it wasn’t their night. They tried to delay the inevitable by pulling down their rim during pregame warmups. But fate would not be thwarted so easily. After a slow first half, things re ally took off, and McGill sucked it up. The score was tied at 75 with less than four minutes remaining when the Redmen made their move. They went ahead 81-75 on three quick end-to-end drives, and then grabbed everything that came their way. The Redmen kept the pressure on right down to the wire. The relent less Paul Brousseau, Canada’s lead ing rebounder, had 17 boards in the game, the biggest coming in the crucial final minutes. The Redmen virtually lived on the foul line in those long minutes, and made al most every free throw. McGill’s scorers became unstoppable, and near-flawless defence shutdown the highest-scoring team in the OUAA. In the end, the rim that had come

down before the game was all but tom down again on a thunderous buzzer-beating dunk by Brousseau. It was poetic justice. McGill won the game 93-86, and the all-star Brousseau had put in 27 points. At first, things hadn’t looked very good. Concordia had led for most of the game, and owned a 40-31 lead at halftime. The Redmen had their chances in the first half, but couldn’t put it in from right under the hoop. McGill came out gunning in the second period, and all-star guard Steiner(24 points) worked in tan dem with Michael Soussan(17 points) to control the tempo andbegin the comeback. At the other end, the team was playing stellar defence. McGill was hustling like they hadn’t since the beginning of the year, and even after rookie forward Bruce B ird came in to give the big men a rest, it was run, ran, run. Concordia was holding its own with star guard Michael Cohee, who wound up withl6 points and 14 rebounds. The Redmen pulled even at60-60 with lOminutestoplay.and

the dogfight began. From end to ent both teams ran on high-octane oi fence and played at the top of thei game. McGill would steal the ba and score on the fast break, only be overpowered in their own end b the Stingers’ huge and very ugl post men. The game was almost blur. And then McGill turned up th heat in those last few minutes with total team effort. For all its drama, the game did nc change the OUAA East standing Concordia finished first, and th third-place Redmen will take Bishop’s in a semi-final game Concordia this Friday. The winne advances to the final on Saturda night, and a victory there means berth in the national championship McGill’s win on Friday was th first against Concordia in the last 1 tries, the first in more than two year But Mr. Hustle Bruce Bird put it perspective after the game. “How’s it feel?” “Ah... okay.” He knows the biggest games the year are still to come.

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The McGill Tribune , February 27 - March 5,1990

THE SPORTS PIT BY AARON MARGOLIS Busy Friday night? Nothing better to do? Forget the movies. Don’teven bother flipping through that TV Guide. The best show in town is playing at the Concordia University gymnasium. It’s the hottest gig in town. It’s got thrills, profanity, exotic animals, a Sports information director with a penchant for crude blind man jokes. There will even be free motivational speeches offered by a hip sugar daddy. Ladies and gents I give you... Ken Schildroth’s Wild Kingdom and All Star Sideshow Extravaganza. For those who have attended a Redmen basketball game this year, you undoubtably know the game itself is only half the fun. Many McGill supporters bring their own shtick to the games. Take Ricky Daly. Daly is the unofficial guru and head shrink to the Redmen players. Dressed in flashy duds (last week his ensemble was a bright aqua blue velour sweat suit), with a woman on his arm, the Daly entourage will park themselves behind the Redmen bench. During the game Daly will offer choice words of advice to “his boys.” So fanatical is he about Redmen basketball, Daly has been known to burst into the McGill dressing room at halftime for impromptu pep talks. Other interesting sidelights include Tina Fasone. Fasone is the star guard on the McGill womens basketball team. Her stinging comments have pro voked responses from opposition players DURING the game. Three weeks ago with the Redmen and Bishops locked in a tight match, Fasone went to work on interrupting the concentration of Gaiters guard David King who was at the foul line. With the crowd silent in anticipa tion of the shot Fasone simply yelled, “Hi David”, just before the shot. As the ball clanged off the rim, King turned to Fasone, waved, smiled, and saluted back. For Fasone, a job well done. Then there is McGill Sports infor mation director Earl Zukerman. At basketball games Zukerman turns into a referee baiter. With such tasteless lines as, “Hey ref, if you had

one more eye you’d be a cyclops, Zukerman truly attempts to discover the spirit of competition and fair play. Maybe not. These are only some of the char acters associated with McGill bas ketball. The rest are on the team. McGill’s mild mannered coach Ken Schildroth must feel like a zookeeper in order to contend with some of the animals on the Redmen squad. The Wild Kingdom. Veterans David Steiner, Paul Brousseau, Michael Soussan, and Ariel Franco lead the way in the insanity department. To describe the four as merely emotional would be to say Ghengis Khan merely had people over for dinner. The best of friends away from the game Steiner, Brousseau, Soussan, and Franco live a life devoted to one-upmanship. Whether through hilarious insults, animalistic caricatures of each other, or a Neanderthal card game called “Hearts,” this crew belongs together. On the court they are McGill’s leaders. Steiner and Brousseau provide the bulk of the scoring, while Soussan plays the point, delivering passes and keeping the Redmen at an up tempo pace. Franco is the team’s sixth man. A three point shooter Franco adds of fence in addition to being the team cheerleader. Franco performs best when play ing to the crowd. Two weeks ago while holding a particularly hot shooting hand, Franco began pass ing out high fives to courtside spec tators after each swish. This Friday McGill plays Bishops in the first game of the playoffs. League all stars David Steiner and Paul Brousseau must be at their scoring best. Michael Soussan has to continue to lead the offense and Ariel Franco needs to hit the threes when called upon. For Redmen fans, the game starts at 6 PM this Friday. With everything on the line expect a night of nutti ness in the crowd and hard play on the court. Says David Steiner,” Win or lose, we still put on a show. You can never accuse us of being dull.” Such is life in the zany world of Redmen basketball.

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OUAA Basketball Feb. 23 McGill 93 at Concordia 86 Scoring: Brousseau 27, Steiner 24

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Martlets earn rave reviews

BY AMY WILSON

It’s not a game for the fainthearted. When the Martlets play basketball, they put on a show like a movie review. “Action, suspense, and grip ping tension.” Friday’s match at Concordia was an Academy per formance. They sailed through the first half, let the poor Stingers catch up within one in the third quarter, then romped away with a 15-point victory. It was all McGill right from the tip-off. Tracey Hayman drew first blood. Before Concordia could lick their wounds, Tina Fasone stole the ball for a 2-on-nothing break, a pushed pass to Beth Armstrong and a second basket Hayman came back to the basket with a steal and an open court, and the Martlets were up 6-0 in the first minute and a half. McGill’s defense was tough and deadly, denying balls left and right. Concordia finally scored on a board batde 5 minutes into the game. Fasone, in excellent form, swished one from the elbow and made the bonus for the first of many 3-point plays of the night. Armstrong poked ahead a steal for another 2-on-0 basket, and fastbreaked a pass to Hayman who wove inside and hit an underhand layup. McGill 16-10. It was swishing all night, that net McGill man-to -man defense was tight inside, but Concordia was scoring the outside shots. No prob lem; so was McGill. Debby Morse sank an all-net shot from the elbow, Fasone added an other, then whipped the next ball

crosskey to Morse who powered in a layup and made the bonus. Concor dia responded with its first lowpost move of the game for a 34-23 score. The Martlets eased up a little at the end of the half, leaving a Stinger high and dry under the basket for an easy two. But they closed the second quarter in style. Armstrong pushed the ball to Morse who sunk a beauty from the key, and Fasone hit home from the baseline, for a 40-33 lead at the half buzzer. Concordia started to toughen up on defence after this onslaught, and continued to score despite serious pressure from McGill. The Stingers picked up some momentum to pull within 3, 50-47. Hayman bounced one in off the board, but Concordia got inside and pulled up 52-51. Tension city. Fasone came to the rescue with a 3-pointer from God, and Ross dropped in a beauty on a pass from Armstrong. Martlet defense toyed with the Stingers and then shut them

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see their jobs. The SSMU executive committee consists of the President and four Vice-presidents: Internal and External Affairs, Finance, and University Affairs.

This year’s VP for External Affairs, John Fox, summarizes his position as “representing McGill students to all bodies external to the University, including governments and student associations.” In representing McGill to other student movements, he feels that the job is to “bring them ideas, and getting them accepted as valid so it’s not just McGill students speaking but Québec students.” When dealing with the government, he has to “speak the policies of the SSMU, and when the government doesn’t listen, there are actions that have to be coordinated.” The job has

recently taken on a new importance and sense of urgency, as it includes communicating the student reaction over the tuition fee increases to the government, and coordinating any SSMU sponsored actions to oppose them.

University Affairs Kate Morisset, VP University Affairs, decribes her job as being “the liaison between the administration and the student society.” Her main objective is “to co-ordinate the actions of students on Senate so that they can act effectively.” In addition, Morisset sits on the Board of Governors, chairs the student caucus for both the Senate and the Board of Governors, and a nominating committee that recruits students for Senate committees. Morisset advises whoever takes over from her to be patient next year. “You cannot expect to have everything done in two months, everything takes so long because you’re dealing with a bureaucratic organization.”

Internal Affairs Ray Satterthwaite, VP Internal Affiars, doesn’t “like dealing with politics so much” and prefers the “hands-on” aspect of his position. He sees his job as “overseeing the day-to-day operations of the clubs, activities, publications...elections are also part of my portfolio.It’s a garbage can category, anything that isn’t defined elsewhere gets dumped into Internal Affairs.” Satterthwaite is also responsible for the Union building, overseeing its day-to-day operations, and all

renovations. According to Satterthwaite the internal position requires a lot of patience. “It takes someone who can see a goal at the end, but who can also see all the steps as they come up, and not get discouraged by all the bureaucratic processes.” He advises his successor to also have “patience with all the people, the VP Internal deals with so many people.”

Finance Jean Charles Viens, VP Finance, is resposible for overseeing all of the budgets for SSMU reconized organizations, and the general operating budget of Students’ Society. He sees thejob consisting of two distinct phases. The first is the preparation of the next year’s operating budget during the summer, which is approved by Council in September. Viens describes the second phase as “the development of the Students’ Society...I make sure that business operations are run in gear with Student Council policies at their most efficient rate...at a profit” Viens says that his greatest advice for next year’s VP Finance is to “ask questions, don’t be shy.” The VP Finance needs to know everything.” His greatest challenge was to “to try to be efficient in an inefficient system.” There you have it, this year’s group sees their jobs as a liaison between students and the world in which we live. They all say that communication, patience, and understanding is the key. You might want to keep this in mind when marking your ballots next week.

The McGill Tribune, February 27- March 5,1990

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Low voter turnout: symptomatic of apathy BY STEPHANIE SMALL Unlike their counterparts at Concordia, students at McGill won’t get a chance to win a trip when they vote in next week’s Students’ Society elections. Perpetually low voter turnout prompted the Concordia University Students’ Association to offer a chance to win a trip to New York City just for casting a ballot in their

elections. Organizers feel the incentive was instrumental in an almost 300% increase in voter turnout The success of the incentive to vote at Concordia prompted calls for a similar offer here at McGill. Last year’s voter turnout of 14% for Student Society elections was one of the lowest for student government elections in Canada. But Council voted down a

proposal for any kind of incentive to vote in upcoming elections. Councillors were worried that students would not be properly informed, and end up voting for the wrong reasons. According the VP (Internal) Ray Satterthwaite, “It would bring individuals out for the trip. They wouldn’t necessarily be informed voters.” Proponents of the idea say it would bring awareness to the

Independents and SSMU: a strange relationship BY KARIM TIRO Although the Students’ Society serves as an umbrella organization through which almost all campus clubs and events are funded, several groups have set out on their own and receive their funding directly from students. The McGill Daily, CKUT-Radio McGill, the Legal Aid Clinic, and Québec PIRG are all funded directly by students, and are free from formal ties with the SSMU. Despite this official independence, the factremains that these groups serve the same constituency. They have to work together, in what can often be an often uneasy relationship. In most cases, the groups sought autonomy primarily for pragmatic reasons. In some instances, bureaucracy was interfering with the organizations’ ability to fulfill their mandates. According to its executive director Peter Golden, “the Legal Aid Clinic was just concerned about having a way to have its budget known from year to year so we could plan ahead.” The inability to obtain up-to-date legal documents would have compromised the Clinic’s ability to provide informed legal advice. Susana Béjar, coordinating editor of the Daily, cited the need “to retain a certain amount of editorial control. Our mandate is to evaluate, critically, the performance of student leaders on campus. Obviously that [could] lead to some tension.” Fiscal autonomy shields the D aily from the possible ramifications of a conflict of interest with the SSMU. Béjarcited both the censorship of the Student

Handbook, and the impeachment of the editors of Bishop’s University’s student newspaper “for not being objective” by disgruntled student leaders as two examples of such interference. Béjar characterized the informal relationship between theDaily and the SSMU as one of “limited concordance,” essentially a working relationship. The other three groups all voiced satisfaction with their relationships with the SSMU. Nadine Gelineau, station manager of CKUT described the relationship as “quite friendly.” Gelineau echoed the concern of all the autonomous groups, however, in the relation to the SSMU’s decision enabling them to impose commercial rent upon non-SSMU organizations which are located in the Union building. “Charging us rent would really set us back. Students are paying us for a service, not for paying rent to the SSMU. To me, it suggested that autonomous groups didn’t service the students just because they’re autonomous, which isn’t correct,” says Gelineau. SSMU President Santo Manna denied that independent organizations would be placed in jeopardy. He said the rent policy was meant solely to ensure that the Union building “be put to its most efficient use” in light of the overcrowding which exists at present. Furthermore, he stated that if SSMU deemed it unnecessary for an organization to operate within the Union building, “the University has a responsibility to provide facilities for student groups [somewhere else on campus].” Québec PIRG’s office space is an example of this policy. When

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time they elect representatives. Such questions could provide SSMU with official positions on certain issues, and heighten student interest in the elections. Others suggest that voter turnout mightal so be improvedby allowing candidates to get private sponsorships. At McGill, students running for President of SSMU can only spend $400 on personal advertising, while those running for VP have a limit of $300. Schools such as the University of New Brunswick allow candidates to conduct more effective advertising with the help of donations from private sponsors. However, “People come out to vote for a candidate who has offered free beer,” says Satterthwaite. Although it is too late to implement changes to the election procedures this year, next year’s Council may want to look into ways of increasing voter turnout. But they will have to grapple with the ethical price of certain methods of raising interest in student government.

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QPIRG was formed last year they were denied space in the Union building as they are an autonomous group, and the univeristy found them an office in the Eaton building. Some directors of QPIRG have said that while they cart not complain about the amount of space, they do feel isolated. As long as the heart of student life remains the Union Building, then all the organizations feel their ability to serve students will be impeded by isolation.

election campaign. Chief returning officer Eric Steinam says “it’s definitely not illegal, and it would be inexpensive and effective advertising”. About $3000 is budgeted for advertising in this year’s budget for Student Society elections. Although they voted against offering a trip, student leaders are concerned about low voter turnout because it is symptomatic of apathy and ignorance about student government. “The apathy is everbody’s fault,” says Satterthwaite, “Outgoing Council, incoming Council, and the students themselves.” One of the reasons that students often cite for not voting is that they feel they are not voting foranything important. Some suggest that students might be more likely to cast their ballots if they feel they are expressing their views on an important issue. Other schools across Canada have asked students to vote on social awareness issues at the same

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L.A. Guns crank power chords BY MARC DROUIN It was undeniably a night of big hair. Hair of all colours, shapes, sizes and cuts. Dyed blonde hair, naturally blonde hair, peroxide hair, black hair, crimped hair, curly hair, you name it. Hair that seemed to walk, thrash and breath with a life that was all vigorously its own. The first thing I did as I walked into the main hall of the Spectrum was issue forth a silent prayer. I asked God to mercifully prevent anyone from lighting a match within one cubic foot of the dance floor. I stayed my distance from the main concentration of ardent fans and patiently waited for the LA Guns to take their place on stage. Anticipation grew steadily until finally Philip Lewis, Tracii Guns, and the rest of the band ventured on to the stage with a huge sonic overdose. Hard driving riffs and American power chord rock were the parameters of the night. The show, which coincidentally was the first of a North American tour that ends fittingly enough in Tijuana, was fast, loud and unquestionably energetic. I had to look twice at lead guitarist Tracii Guns before realizing it was actually him and not Iggy Pop filling in. In an attempt to break away from the stereotypical image associated with hard rock bands, Guns appeared on stage not entirely clad in frilly black leather and spandez, bur rather in blue jeans and a black T-shirt. This visual deviance seemed more in accordance with the musical philosophy and open mindedness singer Philip Lewis expressed in a discussion before the show. By stating that LA had once again become a major centre for contemporary music, Lewis had a surprisingly articulate and refreshing attitude. LA Guns display mounds of flammable hair. No m atches near the stage. “I like bands like the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Faith No More, what they’re doing with keyboards is great...”

C a u g h t in v id e o lim b o ? T ry th e various pieces of equipment in cluding projectors, video cameras, and cassette recorders, all of which students can rent for a nominal charge. ICC has three collections of material. The RedCollection is probably of the most interest to the average student. With nearly a thousand titles, the Red Collection offers movies from every era, ranging from The African Queen to Sammy and Rosie Get Laid. You can lay

BY MARC DROUIN It’s Thursday or Friday night, you have nothing to do with your self. Believe it or not, there are alter natives in the video wasteland. Deep in the Leacock basement, there is an oasis, one of McGill’s little known sanctuaries: Instruc tional Communications Center (ICQ. The centre houses three separate collections and contains

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B ig a m y a n d B e n 's BY CAROLINE CLARK Although many big-budget American movies are filmed in Montreal, the city is usually well disguised, in order to pass for any American metropolis. Here’s one film, however, that features a Montreal institution intact in all of its time-warped glory, transposed onto New York City: Ben’s Deli catessen. The smoked meat empo rium appears in Enemies: A Love Story, Paul Mazursky’s latest of fering about love and bigamy in the thriving post-war Jewish com munity of New York. Enemies features Paul Singer as a Polish Jewish immigrant who survived the war thanks to the love and compassion of a Polish peas ant girl, Yadwiga, who hid him from the Nazis. They leave Poland after the war together and settle in America, where Singer, out of gratitude to his saviour rather than love, marries the sweet, innocent peasant. Once married, he divides his time between writing sermons for a rich and sleazy rabbi and an affair with Masha (Lena Olin), a beautiful, tortured ex-inmate of Dachau. But there’s a further complica tion: our hero was married before the war. His first wife turns up in New York, rising, it would seem,

from the dead. Tamara (Anjelica Huston) literally hobbles back into his life having escaped a Gestapo death squad with a bullet in her hip. Olin and Huston have garnered well-deserved Oscar nominations for their performances in Enemies, but my vote would go for Olin who’s superb as Masha, a camp survivor who can’t come to terms with living after dwelling among the dead. The tattooed number on her arm serves to remind the audi ence of all the characters’ past suffering. New York’s bustling Jewish community is a heartening symbol of human triumph over adversity. Mazursky takes an interesting stance with respect to Judaism: although the Jews have suffered beyond comprehension, their faith in God remains intact. Then there’s Ben’s of course; if you’veever been there, you’ll know that the decor is particularly ap propriate for a 1940’s setting. Inci dentally, the proprietors agreed to close their doors to the public for one day so that Mazursky could shoot the scene in question. The director evidently made them an offer they couldn’t refuse, because this was apparently the first time Ben’s had closed down in about sixty years.

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The McGill Tribune, February 27- March 5,1990

The Jesus and Mary Chain promise sixteen minutes or more BY COLIN SCOTT Over the past five years, The Jesus and Mary Chain have taken a complacent pop world by the scruff of the neck and given it a good, hard shake. Their sonic assaults of feedback guitar and grinding style of music turned some heads in the late 1980’s and their earlier habit of coming on stage to play live shows and leaving after only fif teen minutes caused quite the media buzz. But this is the 1990’s and those younger, foolish days are gone. The group is presently on tour to support their latest album, ‘Auto matic’. Their sound is somewhere between a chilled T-Rex and the latest cut from Love and Rockets. The fuzz and feedback guitar is still there but it has been toned down somewhat. The album features two hit singles, ‘Blues From A Gun’ and ‘Head On’. For those who might have thought that they had the style of this group figured out, this al bum shatters all those expectations and undermines convention. The Jesus and Mary Chain is composed of the brothers Reid: Jim on vocals, and William on guitar. The group is rounded out by Douglas Hart on bass and a variety of drummers for live shows. Their first album, ‘Psychocandy’, was a stunning assault on the industry and featured a salvo of white noise and grinding guitar work. Com parisons flew between the Chain and the icons of punk rock, the Sex Pistols. Since their first album the group has produced another origi nal work and a compilation album before coming out with ‘Auto matic’ and they have succeeded in infuriating, delighting and confus ing the musical establishment.

Their latest album is an overall composite of their recorded past although this album takes every thing to a higher stage. The group will roll intoMontréal torock down the Spectrum on March 12. They have more power, more drive and more assurance than ever before and the show promises an abun dance of all of it. Die-hard fans and newcomers alike would be well advised to check out this gig as it will assuredly be an experience worth partaking inanddon’t worry about a short show - the fifteen minute conceit days are gone! ^

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