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what’s on WHAT’S ON IS COURTESY OF THE INTER-GROUP LIAISON NOTICES: Don’t throw out that out-of-style shirt, those old pants or windbreaker. Save them for the Shelters and Missions in the Mon treal Clothes Collection. Boxes: Otto Maass, Leacock, Stewart Biology, and Union bldgs. March 12th-April 2nd. Spon sors: McGill Volunteer Bureau. Auditions: “Ed Solomon Show” Ama teur Night. Call 731-7771. McGill Nightline - is wide awake when the rest of the world sleeps peacefully. Call us if you need to talk about the myriad complexities of life or if you need a tele phone number for your favorite take out. 398-6246,7 nights a week, 6pre.-3 areAnonymous, confidential, and eternally hip! WalkSafe Network: Leaves McLen nan Library at 10:45 p.m., Monday to Thursday. Interestedvolunteers contactthe Womens’ Union. Caribbean Students’ Society: Office hours, Monday/Thursday, 11 are.-l preInfo.: 398-6814. TUESDAY, MARCH 13TH Vegetarian Festival: Food samples, in formation, displays, speakers, films. Un ion 107/8, 11 are.-3 pre. every day this week. For more info call 276-0914. Tuesday Night Theatre Café: pres ents Marie-Lynn Hammond’s bilingual musical play Beautiful Deeds/De beaux gestes. Directed by Carol Thew (McGill DramaandTheatre) and BenStein (McGill Music). Todayuntil Thursday, March 15th, 8:00 p.m.; Matinées Friday, March 16th and Saturday,March 17th, 2:00p.m.. Mor tice Hall Theatre. Tickets $6; $4 (students and seniors). Limited Seating, call for res ervations - 398-6000. Department of English: presents Prof. Miriam Hansen, Director of Film Studies, University of Chicago, on “Goldilocks at the Movies: Gender, Ethnicity, and Consumerism in Early Cinema”. Arts Room
230, 3 p.m.. Info.: 398-6558. - Maxwell Cummings Lecturer: José Luis Abellén, Univeridad Complutense, Madrid, on “El Renacimienlo espanol". McLennan Library 24, 4 pre.. S5 .M.U. Council Meeting. B09/ 10, 6 pre.. Come one, come all. The Young Alumni present Ian Adelman, Wood Gundy Inc., on “Slim Down Your Taxes”. Leacock 26, 6 preinfo.: 398-3557. Amnesty International: Letter Writ ing Meeting. Union 425,7 pre.. All Wel come. Public Meeting on Abortion Rights: “What’s Wrong with the Proposed Abor tion Bill” with Sherie MacDonald, and Cynthia Kelly. Union 302, 7:30 p.m.. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14TH The McGill Society of Montreal: presents Dr. Patrick Kenniff, on “Mon treal, 1992: A City Celebrates its Heritage andits Future”. McGill Faculty Club, 3450 McTavish. 12noon. Cash Bar, 12:30 p.m., Lunch. $ 14.50perperson (includes lunch). Advance registration required. Info.: 3983551. GRIP-Québec-PIRG-”Housing Awareness Day”: Workshops (Union 425): 12-1 p.m.: “Social Housing vs. Pri vate Housing” with Pierre Gaudreau. 2-3 pre.: “Municipal Politics and Housing” with Pierre Goyer (in French). 3-4 pre.: “Tenants Rights” with Arnold Bennett, MCM Councillor, Housing Activist. Workshop (Leacock 212): 5-6 pre.:”The Overdale Affair" with Lisa Jensen, ex tenant of Overdale. Public Forum (Lea cock 26) 7:30 pre. Info.: 398-7432. Annie MacDonald Langstaff Workshop: presents Prof. H. Patrick Glenn, Faculty of Law, McGill, on “Femi nist Legal Theory and Voices from the Past". Chancellor Day Hall, 3644 Peel St., Room 202,12 noon. Maxwell Cummings Lecturer: José Luis Abellén, Univeridad Complutense, Madrid, on “La filosofia del ‘modemismo hispénico"’. ArtsCouncil Rm. 160, Ground floor, 4 pre.
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Uhuru Na Ufahamu-Development Studies Group: Media Study: Case Study of the Februaty 25th Nicarguan Election. Union 410, 5 pre.. All Welcome. Liberal McGill: Delegate Elections for theCalgaryConvention. FDAAuditorium, 5 p.m. Identification required to vote. L.A.G.E.M. (Lesbian andGay Employ ees of McGill): Meeting. Thomson House, Room 401, 3650 McTavish, 5:30 preinfo.: 842-5573;286-2388(leave message). McGill Film Society: High Grass Circus. Canada 1976 (57 min.). Dir.: Schioler and Iangelo. FDA Auditorium, 7:30 p.m.. FREE.
FRIDAY, MARCH 16TH Centre for Developing Area StudiesSemnar Series: “Simone Weil on Rights, Language and Force” with Tricia Roche. 3715 Peel St.,Rm. 100. 12:30-1:30 p.m.. “There’s Fire in My Eye”. A Celebra tion of Women. Player’s Theatre. 3480 McTavish, 3rd Floor, 2:00 pre- FREE McGill Debating Union: Meeting, Arts 270, 3 preMcGill Chinese Students’ Society: Elections. Info.: 939-5886;286- 1091. J. Krishnamurti andDr. David Bohm. Videotape Dialogue. AuditoriumRm. 129, Faculty of Education, 7:30pre.. Every Fri day until March 30th. McGill Film Society: Sex. Lies and Videotape. USA 1989 (113 min.). Dir.: S. Soderbergh. FDA Auditorium, 7:30 p.m.. Yellow Door Coffee House: presents “Live Music”, “Open Stage”follows. 3625 Aylmer (north of Prince Arthur), 8 p.m„ Admission: $2.00. Coffee, tea, herbal teas, etc.: $0.50. Info- 398-6244. McGill Players’ Theatresports: More Improvisational Comedy. After the Show in Players’ theatre or 10:00 pre.. Admis sion: $ 1.00.
THURSDAY, MARCH 15TH Faculty of Religious Studies: presents Dr. Mary Gethart, Hobart and William Smith College, Geneva, New Yoric, on “AnotherTroy for Herto Bum: The ‘True’ Story of Euripidies’ Helen”. Bilks Bldg., Rm., Ill,at 12noon. Guardian Angelswith Curtis and Lisa Sliwa. Gerts, 12:30-5:00 p.m„ Self-De fense for women follows. Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics-Seminar Series: presents Mona Baumgarten, M.Sc., on “The Physical and Psychological Healthof FamilyCaregivers of Patients with Dementia.” Rm25, Purvis Hall, 1:00 p.m.. “There’s Fire in My Eye”. A Celebra tion of Women. Player’s Theatre. 3480 McTavish, 3rd Floor, 2 pre- FREE. Maxwell Cummings Lecture: José Luis Abellén, Univeridad Complutense, Madrid, on “The Spanish Exile of 1939:Its Cultural and Political Consequences”. In troduction by Dean Michael Maxwell. Leacock Council Room 232, 6:30 preMcGill Film Society: Some Like It Hot. USA 1959 (122 min.). Dir.: B. Wilders. Leacock 132, 7:30 p.m.. Yellow Door Coffee House: presents “Literature Live” with Sonja Skarstedt and Taylor-Jane Green. “Open Stage” follows. 3625 Aylmer (north of Prince Arthur), 8 pre- Admission: $2.00. Info.: 398-6244. McGill Players’ Theatresports: Im provisations! Comedy. The Alley, 10:00
SUNDAY, MARCH 18TH St Martha’s-In-The-Basement: pres ents Zefferili’s “Jesus of Nazareth". Every Sunday in March after worship. 3521 University, 10:30 a.m.. Info.: 398-4105. MONDAY, MARCH 19TH Anthropology of Development Work shop Series-”Lands, Resources, andCoop eration in Development”: Dan Albrecht on “Transaction in Cooperative Fisheries Management - Yup’iit and Biologists”. 3434 McTavish, Rm. 100, 1-2 preBeatty Memorial Lectures-Series on the Environment: “The Listening Earth”: presents Dr. Norman Myers, Brit ishauthor,conservationist andinternational consultant, on “Safeguarding the Bio sphere: What Cost, What Payoff?”. Lea cock 132, 6 p.m.. TUESDAY, MARCH 20TH Beatty Memorial Lectures-Series on the Environment: “The Listening Earth”: presents Dr. Francis Bretherton, former director of the National Center of Atmosphericresearch(U.S.A.), on“Under standing the Earth System”. FDA Audito rium, 6p.m„ Environment Workshop Series: “Industry: Producing More with Less", Unitarian Church, 3415 Simpson, comer of Sherbrooke, 7 p.m.. Call 935-1522 to register. Faculty of Medicine-From the Bench to the Bedside Lecture Series: “Cystic Fibrosis: New hope for young sufferers” with Hinda Kopelman, MD, FRCP(C), and AllanCoates, MD, FRCP(C). Leacock232, 8pre- Info.: 398-6748.
SATURDAY, MARCH 17TH McGill Media Career Day ’90. Pro fessionals from film, television, radio, theatre, newsprint, advertising, and public relations. Representatives from CBC, CHOM, The Gazette, CJAD/CJFM, and others. Tickets: $6 (students with I.D.); $7 at the door. Available at Sadie's (Union Bldg.) or at the door. Leacock Bldg., 2nd Floor. 10a.m.-4pre. Info.: 733-5545; 9336174. March Against Meat. Demonstration at Philips Square (across from the Bay at Ste. Catherines). 1-4 p.m.. Organizers: META and CARA. Info.: 276-0914. ‘There’s Fire in My Eye”. A Celebra tion of Women. Player’s Theatre. 3480 McTavish, 3rd Floor, 2:00 pre- FREE
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McGill will not strike today, after an umbrella group of students from across Québec defeated a strike motion Saturday. Students at an SSMU General Assembly early last week decided this campus would strike against tuition fee hikes only if other groups representing 50% of Québec’s university students and 50% o f its CEGEP students walked out as
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news FRATERNITY APOLOGIZES FOR SEXIST POSTER A spokesperson for the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity yesterday apolo gized for a sexist poster advertising a party last week, and called the poster “a complete mistake.” The poster advertised the fraternity’s “Immaculate Conception” party held last Friday, and pictured a woman being offered a beer with the words “Just say yes.” It was placed over posters advertising Sexual Assault Awareness Week, moving Awareness Week organizers to complain. The fraternity member, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the poster had been distributed by one member without the fraternity’s approval. He said it was unlikely the member would be punished, and did not say if an apology had been offered to Sexual Assault Aware ness Week organizers. ‘Once we found out that it had been done, we tried to tear them all down,” the frat member said.
plained the REME results were no indication of McGill’s ability to impact the student movement most student associations had al ready voted by the time the results of McGill’s second General As sembly came in, he explained. “Our vote was too late,” said Usher. “We would have had a big im pact had we voted for a strike in February. I see us as a leader and I think the rest of the student move ment sees us as a leader too. The most important thing is not to be labelled isolationist or anglo phone.” SSMU Vice President (Exter nal) John Fox added he thought “the credibility of Student’s Soci ety has gone up quite a b it” But even before REMÉ defeated the strike, it was clear some stu dents were considering other ac tions to fight hikes. Last Friday, ten McGill students were among CAPE members ar rested for occupying St.-Louis MNA Jacques Chagnon’s office;
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Chagnon’s riding encompasses McGill, Concordia and UQAM. The next day, after REMÉ closed its meeting, 100 students occupied Radio-Canada’s Montréal TV newsroom until the station agreed to read a statement protesting the tuition increase. The report was read to a national audience imme diately before a hockey game while students stood behind the news reader. There were no arrests, and one student leader called station workers very friendly. At UQAM last night, students were to occupy university build ings. Concordia students hoped to lead a one-day walkout on their campus today. Closer to home, a group of McGill Law students are research ing a possible lawsuit against the Québec government for breaking the 1976 International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights which states that education is a right. Canada signed the cove nant. A breach o f contract suit in Québec could lead to similar suits
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in other provinces, Fox said. Law students hope to finish their re search and release a legal brief within a month. McGill’s own strike vote, ap proved by 199 students in a Gen eral Assembly, has itself been called undemocratic. John Fox admitted the issues surrouding McGill’s two strike votes had not been “explained properly.” Some students and professors yesterday told the Tribune they agreed with Fox’s assessment “I was told something different about it in every class I went to. One professor had no idea about whether a quiz would or would not be cancelled,” U 3 Arts student Vaneska Litz.
Student: “I sup port a strike, but it turned into a very elitist movement with a few people making all the de cisions and not bothering to inform the rest of us. >» Added student Schabacker: “I support a strike, but it turned into a very elitist movement with a few people making all the decisions and not bothering to inform the rest of us.” Strike planners had also never officially asked professors to stop teaching during the strike. Monty Newborn, a professor in Computer Science, explained that while he believes that tuition should go up and did not support the idea of strike he would “have to take into account what his students would have to say” before decid ing how a strike might affect his classes. One English professor added he had spoken with colleagues at UQAM who suggested that a “student strike wouldn’t material ize anyway.
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op/ed R o slin and th e D a ily m arch on , u n h in d ered b y reality It has been a tacit policy among the editors of the Tribune this year not to engage in a war of words with our erstwhile col leagues at the McGill Daily. Arguments between newspapers quickly devolve into wars o f attrition; and, though staff opinion is divided, many of us believe that the Daily, for all its failings, is an important part of the campus media. But sometimes they do something so ridiculous that it be comes necessary to say something. Such is the case with a ^ “news brief” in Friday’s Daily, entitled “Early election results.” The brief was written by Features Editor Alex Roslin - and the use of a byline itself, an extremely rare practice for news briefs, presages the kind o f opinionated honors the reader soon encoun ters. Its purpose, ostensibly, was to announce the election of Kate Morisset as SSMU President for 1990-91. Before going any further, we should point out that last year Morisset was the Editor-in-Chief of the Tribune. We were both on the editorial staff, and know Morisset very well. She is our friend - but she is not our master. When she embarked on her candidacy for sflident office last year, she ceased having much to do at all with the Tribune - often to our dismay, as she effectively left us without an editor for much of the second term. We do not agree with everything she has done as Vice President (University Affairs), and wUl no doubt disagree with some of her actions as President We write this editorial, not in her defence, but in defence o f responsible journalism. The Daily, indeed, has much to fear from Morisset She has shown signs of having a private agenda in office this year, and this agenda has much to do with the destruction of the Daily. Recent changes in Union Building lease policies seem to be designed as a threat to the Daily, and Morisset will no doubt go further than threats next year. If student opinion is with the paper, she will drive her plans through Council; if not, she will cite “democracy” - meaning prejudice and mob rale - to crash it. All journalists should be afraid of that But Roslin’s comments about Morisset, his scabrous, ill-de fined, unsubstantiated comments about her, hardly serve any purpose. He says that “many expressed concern” about Moris set’s policies. Journalists should know that “many is a writer s way o f saying anything from “my best friend” to “everybody.” Roslin should have specified people or groups. Instead, he moves into a fawning interview with PGSS candidate Eric Darier, ignoring the opinions o f the other two presidential candidates. Eternities later, Roslin cites a student who compares Monsset’s victory to the 1968 US presidential victory o f Richard Nixon. Admittedly, Morisset’s political slickness is discomfit ing; but Nixon? Her policies have nothing to do with Nixon, and the whole comparison is so absurd that it would make about as much sense to compare her with Joan o f Arc, or Mussolini, or Jimmy Page. Roslin goes on to quote ex-Daily editor Karen Valihora, who chalks up Morisset’s win in part to her being on the brink of her fifth year .Well, Eric Darier has been here since the dawn of time, but that’s hardly a black mark. Would she prefer we elect first-year students? “I’ve always worried about former newspaper hacks-tumedpolitician,” says Valihora. Interesting. At the Tribune, we worry about newspaper hacks who turn politician but remain newspa per hacks - and who then retire, to be quoted by their old papers. Why was this “news brief’ written? Was it to announce Morisset’s election, and point out real worries? Or was it written so Roslin could find story copy and vent his spleen at the same time, by mixing hearsay and balderdash with one or two odd facts? The latter seems far more likely. There used to be a myth in journalism that pure objectivity in the news is possible. We know this to be precisely that: a myth. But relative degrees of objectivity are possible, and journalists are able to overcome their biases by grappling with them in public view. Alex Roslin and the Daily should stop using the myth of objectivity to deny the possibility of any balance, and thus abdicate their responsiblity as journalists. The kind of writing evident in the character assassination o f Morisset is not journalism, it’s not even politics; it’s just sloppy work. Paul Horwitz Paul Michell
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C om m en t A n o p en letter to P rincipal Joh n ston Dear Principal Johnston: I would like to bring to your at tention the results of a Stuents’ Society plebiscite with respect to Mr. Ryan’s tuition increase. Last Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thurs day, students approved Council’s decision to oppose the fee hike by a margin o f 1110 to 1007. What is clear from these results is that there is a great deal of concern amongst our members with respect to the hike. These concerns, in our opinion, revolve around two main axis: 1. Quality of Education: Students worry that the government will reduce its subsidies to the universi ties, thus nullifying any impact on quality that the hike might have. This was reinforced recently by Minister Ryan’s refusal to give Students’ Society representatives a guarantee in this respect when we met the education commission last month. 2. Accessibility: Mr. Ryan’s own prediction that the hike will cause roughly 12 000 students to drop out of university reveals the brutality with which the hike affects accessi bility. Students understand that every effort should be made to re duce financial barriers to university education. Alternative methods of student contribution should be fully examined before tuition is raised. I have enclosed a copy of the Students’ Society brief to the edu cation commission. Itaddressesboth these conceams. No student is blind to the need for greater financial
resources if McGill is to improve and even maintain the quality of education it now offers. Tuition hikes alone will not solve our prob lem. As a result, we propose a long term financing solution that in cludes increased contributions on the part o f the government, the private sector, and the students. Further, we propose that alterna tive methods o f collecting the stu dent contribution, such as a post university tax (one is currently implemented in Australia), be fully explored. Simply put, we want stu dents to have the option of paying the higher fees when they actually have a steady income. In summary, we feel that stu dents, as prime beneficiaries of the education they receive, should contribute more. However, it must be done within the context o f a long-term solution to the province’s university funding crisis, and every effort must be made not to create greater financial barriers to educa tion. Minister Ryan’s tuition hike filfills neither of these goals. I hope that the university will join us in working towards these objectives. A top quality, acces sible education system is impor tant to us all. Sincerely, John Fox VP (External Affairs) [ed. note: copies of the SSMU brief to the education commission can be picked up at the SSMU front desk in the Union Building.]
R y a n W atch Luc Rhéaume is a suspicious man. For every question you have, Luc Rhéaume has two. He is friendly, but eerily circumspect . . But who could blame him? He is, after all, an aide to provincial Education Minister Claude Ryan - and M. Ryan is not about to be winning any Most Popular awards on Québec campuses. But here at RyanWatch, we don’t bear grudges. We are, after all, professionals. And Ryan is a busy man. No telling where he’ll be next, unless you have a handy Ryan Watch guide to the Minister’s activities this week: Tuesday, 2 pm: It’s an exciting week for Claude. Today he attends the opening of the new session of the National Assembly, and will be forced to answer for his actions in Question Period. Claude, is
thaL..sweat? Wednesday, 3 pm: More parliamentary chaos. “And how much did you say the bursaries program would get, sir?” Thursday, 2pm: Another hard day for the MNA. Medical assistance may be required. Rhéaume said the Minister would be in “private meetings” for the rest of the week. One last official, RyanWatch note: If you want to get closer to the Education Guy this week, phone 873-4493 in Montréal or 418-6433636 in Québec City. And when only a fax is enough, try 418-6434493. Remember, please don’t clog his lines with angry complaints and petitions.
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Shocked and appalled a bout "Lessons about democracy" To the Editor: We’d like to address some points made in Robert Steiner’s editorial “Lessons about democracy” (Tribune, March 6- 12). He seems to think that General Assemblies of Students’ Society subvert the democratic process on campus. His views are based on a rather cynical conception of democracy which suggests that students should simply vote once a year, and then expect whoever gets enough votes to “represent” them on all issues. Steiner espouses the prevalent misconception that voting and democracy are equivalent. The democratic ideal is that people control their own affairs; admittedly, democratic reality requires that our elected representatives make decisions on behalf of us. However, that power to make decisions on a day-to-day basis should not exclude the possibility - indeed the need - for the public to make known their
views on specific situations. Assemblies are one way Council can allow their constituents more direct input into the decision making process, and thus better represent them. General Assemblies, Steiner complains, are “unelected and responsible to noone.” Why should they be responsible to anyone but themselves— they are, after all, the ‘general assembly.’ He decries the fact that not all 20,000 students affected by the latest General Assembly’s decision to strike would have fit in the room where the Assembly was held, but come on, let’s havea little realism! When have more than 2500 students even voted, much less made the effort to come out to an Assembly? Steiner seems to suggest that since some students might have had to miss a class in order to participate, the Assembly was asking too much of them. Is he subscribing to the idea that
democracy must involve as little effort as possible, so that nobody need do more than make a small mark on a piece of paper? Perhaps he should instead consider encouraging people to expend some timeandenergy in the process of making their views known. Having attended the Assembly, we found that it was well-organized and efficiently run: anyone with something to say was able to say it. And, contrary to Steiner’s
insinuation that only anti-fee-hike students were there, a full range of opinion was represented. If there are people who feel that this Assembly didn’t represent them,we suggest that they ask themselves why they saw fit not to attend. “Real” democracy is not simply “controlled liberty” as Steiner alleges; it is impassioned participation. As for Steiner’s specious suggestion that only the most opinionated are represented
in such forums as the General Assembly— surely he instead means only those with opinions. What exacdy is it that those without opinions would have said if they had been ‘guaranteed’ a chance to say it? Mike Gordon U3 Communications Shannon Dodge U2 Political Science Bill Dawson U3 Humanistic Studies
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President-elect Morisset sees realistic action as key to success Action - combined with a dose o f realism - will achieve student goals, according to newly elected Students’ Society President Kate Morisset. Morisset, a fourth-year Political Science major, was elected to the SSMU Presidency on Thursday night after several years o f work in the Students ’Society. Morisset was the Editor-in-Chief o f the McGill Tribune ( 1988-89), edited 1988’s student handbook, and served this year as the SSMU’s Vice Presi dent (University Affairs). In an interview with the Tribune Friday, thePresident-electrepeated her promise to rewrite the SSMU’s constitution in order to make it more representative of the Soci ety’s faculty associations. “The Society has gotten away from things that directly affect the student,” she said. “It is time for the Society to be more representative o f them."
But Morisset added that she will be concentrating on other areas of student life as well such as lobby ing McGill administrators against the proposed increase in tuition fees. She supports SSMU policy on the issue- that the fee raise is a hindrance to accessibility o f edu cation. Morisset said students are not responsible for institutional debts, and should not suffer for them. “The Minister [of Education, Claude Ryan] says that twelve thousand students will drop out of school in the first year. That is probably an underestimate,” she explained, adding that McGill should become more conscious of its role in Québec and form more ties with other schools in the prov ince to protect common interests. By lobbying the Québec gov ernment, she said, McGill can at tempt to win province-wide goals such as another tuition freeze. She also said she would like to
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By a vote of 1784 in favour and 324 opposed, McGill students agreed to extend the $ 2.00 per semester Access McGill levy paid by each stu dent for two more years commencing September 1990.
N o n -b in d in g p lebescite on tuition-fee hikes: In a question asked for “survey purposes”, 1110 McGill students said the SSMU should oppose tuition fee hikes proposed by Education Minister Claude Ryan Dec, 19, 1989.1007 stu dents said M cG ill should not oppose the fee-hikes.
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instead of worrying about abstract issues. According to current EUS Vice President (Finance) Guy Lafond, students approved a referendum question which would have the EUS Executive do “whatever is in its power” to withdraw any fund ing by Engineering students of the McGill Daily. Every McGill stu dent pays a six dollar fee to the Daily each year. Lafond said the question resulted from a feeling among Engineering students that the Daily does not represent their opinions. But he added that voting on the issue was close, and that it might be impos sible for a single faculty to with draw funding. “It’s not so obvious how w e’ll do it, but it’s something w e’ll have to look at now,” said Lafond. Lafond said engineers elected third-year Engineering student CONTINUED PAGE 7
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Sidewalk Solutions: The student strike
1hisweek, theTribune askedstudentswhattheythoughtofourcampus'possiblestriketoopposeatuitionfeein
“It’s a problem. I don’t know if it’s the best solution, but if that’s the only way they feel they can resolve the issue, then I’min agreement” Rachel Gibbs U2 Arts
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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 6 Bruce Tracy EUS President for 1990-91 and added that Tracy’s goal as President would be the creation of outreach projects, such as making videotapes to teach sci ence to high school students. He also said Tracy wanted to increase awareness on and o ff campus of Engineering activités. “We do a lot o f things, but no body knows about them,” said Lafond. Other members of the EUS ex ecutive elected include Ritu Verma as Vice President (Internal); MarieJosée Lapointe as Vice President
“I don’t disagree with the tuition hike...I haven’t really heard that much about the strike. I would go for a one-day strike, but definately not more than five days - and even that sounds like a lot.” Deborah Miuccio U2 Arts
Management students elected Piero Cammisano President; ac claimed Nathalie Laberge and Dean Juliano as Vice Presidents External and Internal respectively; elected Stacey Schwartz as Vice President (Academic); and chose Jason Williamson as Vice Presi dent (Finance). Sheridan said the small size o f the Management faculty resulted in small campaigns by the candidates.
Tribune“It’s less issue-driven,” said Sheridan. “You get in and try to keep things the way they are, and maybe im prove things a little.”
“In Management, a lot o f people see who’s already involved in ac tivities. There’s not as much cam paigning [as in the SSMU elec tions],” Sheridan said.
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M A R C H 1 6 T H , 1990 IS THE EXTENDED DEADLINE FOR NOM INATIONS FOR THE FOLLOWING POSITIONS: JUD ICIAL BOARD • 5 Members 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 SECOND HAND TEXTBOOK SA LE - COORDINATOR The Students' Society will sponsor a second hand textbook sale in September 1990 and possibly january 1991. The Coordinator must organize all apsects of the sale which include publicity and finding student staff. (The Students' Society encourages applications from individuals representing particular campus groups which could have group members act as volunteers.) The Coordinator must be in the Montreal area for at least a part of the summer to organize this event. Any proceeds realized by the sale will go to a charity agreed upon by the Coordinator and Students' Society. CHAIRPERSON - DAYTIME PROGRAMMING This committee will organize activities such as day-time entertainment, contests, games, comedy, improv theatre, and tournaments. Emphasis will be placed on par ticipatory, day-time forms of entertainment.
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R.S.V.P.: A pplication form s are availab le in the Stud ents' S o cie ty G e n e ra l O ffice U nion 105, 3 48 0 M cTavish S tre e t. A ll ap p lican ts w ill re ceive w ritten re sp o n se s. Com pleted ap p licatio ns m ust be subm itted to: L e slie C o p elan d , O p eratio ns S e cre ta ry Stud ents' S o cie ty G e n e ral O ffice U n iversity C e n tre , Room 105
NO LATER THAN 4:30 P.M., FRIDAY, March 23rd, 1990. Fu rth er inform ation on the U n iversity A ffa irs C o m m ittees m ay be obtained by contacting K ate M o risset, V ice -P re sid e n t (U n ive rsity A ffa irs) 3 98 -6 79 7.
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“If you can get the teachers to stop teaching, then great. But if we miss exams or assignments, then it will screw us up royally. It’s for a good cause, but going on strike myself wouldn’t be possible.” Sam Ezust U3 Science
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(External); and Vice President (Academic) Andrew Mackay. Engineers also voted on five refer enda to make changes to the EUS constitution, including the crea tion of a new appointed position, Vice President (Services). MUS elections were “low-key” - concerned more with leadership o f faculty activities than policies current MUS Vice President (Fi nance) Robert Sheridan told the
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“No strike. We pay the lowest fees, and we’re suffering from it. Look at the serv ices at the libraries - hours are reduced, things are all over the place. I think these are major setbacks.” Paola Deghenghi U3 Architecture
NOTE: The above positions may be subject to change pending official Senate announcement of student positions.
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 Chairperson should beprepared to attend the COCA entertainment conference in June 1990.
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 candidates will likely be interviewed by the Committee.
HOW TO APPLY: General Application" forms are available in the Students' Society General Office, University Centre, Room 105,3480 McTavish Street and at Sadie's II in the Engineer ing Building and at Sadie's III in Chancellor Day Hall. All applicants may expect to have 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, MARCH 16TH, 1990.
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BY KIM FARLEY The MGM screening room in New York City is quiet and calm. It has those plush seats that tip way back and feel like worn teddy bears. Comforting. The press, waiting for director Kathryn Bigelow and actress Jamie Lee Curtis to arrive and start the interview, is almost asleep under the soothing touch of the chairs. In this case the press is a non-threat ening room full o f pie-eyed col lege students gathered up from around the U.S. and Canada. We are exhausted from the experience o f Blue Steel. Bigelow’s bloodcoated gift to the ‘cop genre’ of film-making which features Curtis as a rookie cop stalked by a lovestruck psycho (Ron Silver). From the series of opening shots, in which the camera moves up and down a decidedly phallic-looking gun, the equation between sex and violence is blatant In those first scenes, the gun is objectified, ex amined from a distance. The rest of the film is a literal assault on the senses, including graphic scenes which feature the killer rubbing his chest with his victim’s blood and roaring. Even an audience fed and burped on Rambo will be af fected. Sitting in the polite screen ing room which suddenly seems too damn cold, we are shaking. “Don’t worry about flipping ovct your tapes during the interview”, smiles cheery Marianne, the press agent, from die front of the room. “Jamie Lee likes doing that.” There’s a snort from the hall way, (Jamie Lee’s laugh), and di
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“I always wish I had some good answer for that question, like I was traumatized as a young child or something. Actually, it’s just that as a viewer I am attracted to films that get in your face, and so I make films like that. Within the safe confines of a beautiful room like this”, she says, gesturing at the teddy bear chairs, “it’s great to experience the thrill o f violence. It’s cathartic.” She retracts from the suggestion that the ideas of the film might move beyond the screening room and affect society. “Anyone who responds to my films by committing violence is a disturbed individual already. He would respond to the evening news. I take no responsibility for that
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controversial, and recently deceased pho tographer with a detailed examination of his work in a profound and original manner often absent in bio pics. The explicit sexual ity of his photos and his exploration of the black male nude form have found him nu merous detractors, but the shock value of his work comes simply from his uncanny ability to zero in on uncomfortable aspects of real ity that most would rather ignore. This is more than can be said about the bombastic Russell on Russell. Ken Russell, the talented director o f such films as Crimes of Passion and Lair of the White Worm, is portrayed at various stages of his career by
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Granted, anyone might get de fensive when asked if more women would want to. But Bigelow is overly preoccu pied with the image, the poetic flailing of abody across the screen, instead of the message. A wife abuse subplot is casually dismissed. “These are just moments to broaden the canvas.” Bigelow is a painter who happens to be using film, unfortunately the most mind shaping medium o f our time. She doesn’t care. “I work intuitively. If the vio lence is there it’s because it is in my subconscious.” She crosses her arms and Jamie Lee spits out her gum.
F e s t i v a l his own six-year-old son, in a misguided at tempt to play on his reputation as the ‘enfant terrible’ of British cinema. He comes off as a silly man with an insecure sense of self-sat isfaction that is based entirely on the wake of controversy his films have on occasion left behind. Warhol’s Cinema 1963-68 depicts the enticingly sleazy world of Andy Warhol’s Factory, the New York haven for unbridled sex and drugs. Scenes from films like Blow Job and The Chelsea Girls show the late pop artist as obsessed with voyeurism and super ficiality. All the better for us viewers. CONTINUED ON PAGE 9
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Scarpone, being presented at the Centaur Theatre, the universe centers around an Italian shoes tore in Ville Emard. This ‘day in the life’ is a bitter indictment o f the salesman mys tique in the timeless tradition of Arthur Miller and David Mamet. People reveal themselves in how they buy and sell, and ambition, lust and loathing are common cur rency within the sweltering con fines of the store. Stan the manager (David Con nor) is retiring after twenty years, and with him the old gives way to the new. The new breed of sales man is represented by Dino and Giancarlo (Ron Lea and Louis Tucci) who count each sale as beltnotch proof o f masculinity. Sell ing is control and their customers are women. Their ice-queen supervisor, Rosanna (Susan Bain), represents a betrayal of their Italian male superiority. Lisa (Angela Nevard) is the pretty girl across the street and an object of desire. Both are the subjects o f the mens’ violent and obscene frustration. This mix o f unstable elements results in a predictable explosion o f revelation
Italian machismo gets kicked around the shoe store in The Centaur's Scarpone
and rage. However, the play is also intended as a comedy and often lives up to this billing. The salesfloor is elevated so that we can see the customers from the sales men’s point o f view, and what a view-point it is. The ritual o f trying on shoes takes on a hitherto unsus pected eroticism of which the sales men are only too aware. Paedofetishism is one of the perks of the trade and locker-room conversa tion revolves around meta-tarsals. On the surface, Scarpone has all
the ingredients of success: convic tion, complex characters and per formances which are generally good. Ron Lea is particularly notable as the slimy and vitriolic Dino. However, the play does not live up to its potential. It is not subtle enough for true realism and it isn’t obvious enough to be ab surd, so what is left is situation comedy. Perhaps the real problem is that
the underlying premise of the play is itself a cliché. Rossi says all the right things, but so what? He falls prey to romanticism and this gets in the way of his attempt to show gritty reality. The depiction of Stan as the last honourable salesman exemplifies this. That breed has been dying since the notion of selling was invented. In the end, the shoestore as a metaphor for life is rather con
trived. All the plotting and passion seem overdramatic. People may like shoes and they may be ob sessed with them, but they don’t live and die for them. They cer tainly don’t live and die for the people who sell them. Scarpone is at the Centaur The atre from March 8 until April 1. For info or tickets, telephone 2883161.
Film Fest continued CONTINUED FROM PAGE 8 Other standout films included Strand— Under the Dark Cloth, a fascinating look at the photographs o f Paul Strand, whose loneliness further impassioned his work; two films by Jacques Giraldeau, Le tableau noir, and La toile blanche, which examined the machinations o f the art industry and its relation to the pursuit of profit; and Legacy
of the Hollywood Blacklist, which followed the anti-Communist witch hunts in Tinseltown in the 1950s. For those of you who missed the festival, check the cinema Paral lèle schedule for Metal, Le tableau noir, La toile blanche, and L art est un jeu in the near future. A number of the films shown are also available through the NFB.
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Spike Lee and audience conspire to disappoint BY PAUL HORWITZ “I’m justa mere filmmaker. I don’t have all the answers. I’m not the Saviour.” So said Spike Lee last Monday evening, when he spoke to a full house in the Leacock Building’s Fieldhouse Auditorium. He was right. From his beginnings as a student at New York University’s Film School, through to this summer’s controversial Do the Right Thing, Lee’s films have given a strong vi sion of the ups and downs of Black life in America. He is a clear-headed, ambitious filmmaker. But as his appearance at McGill showed, that is all he is. This might have been enough, if it were not for the insistence of a starstruck audi ence that Lee be treated like a messiah. Seated alone on center stage, the 33-year-oldLee was obviously tired and very low-key as he talked about his life, only occasionally bursting into a strange, infectious laughter. Lee’s interest in film was nurtured at the famous Moorhouse University, and further developed during sum mers in New York City, where he filmed and mixed scenes of neigh bourhood disco parties and New York’s blackout riots of 1977. At NYU, things began to take off for him. Only three or four of his
more than 80 classmates were black, but among them was Ernest Dickerson, who is responsible for Lee’s vivid camera work. Lee told wouldbe filmmakers that the value of film schools lies in their resources, not in the instruction. “When I went to film school, I never learned anything from the teachers. All I wanted was equip ment,” Lee said. His practice paid off, with a prize winning student film and his popu lar debut, She’s Gotta Have It. The film cost $ 175,000 to make, and has made more than seven and a half million dollars. The rest is history, but not exactly smooth sailing. Lee calls his second film, SchoolDaze, “my four years at college in two hours.” As for Do the Right Thing, he said it showed that “racism is not a relic. It’s here with us today.” His work continues, with Mo'Better Blues to be released this summer, and Jungle Fever, which he will begin making in Sep tember. For all the hot air surrounding Spike Lee, much of which he gener ated himself, he is a simple man. In many ways, he is a paradigm of American individualism, and espe cially of the visions of many Afri can-Am erican artists. A s a filmmaker, he knows what kind of movies he likes, and is determined to make them. He likes to get paid,
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for all the giggling and shuffling. Questions ranged from the embar rassing - one person was actually obsequious enough to say, “Wecelebrate you” - to the offensive, such as the jokes made about sexual prefer ence. Anything resembling a criti cism (and he could use some: he never adequately discussed his treat ment of women and his decision not to deal with drugs) was ridiculed, as if an intelligent question would be sacrilegious. I expect this kind of behaviour from infants; coming from a university audience, it was pa thetic. It seems, then, that Lee and the audience are to blame for what was a very disappointing evening. Those who came in the misguided belief that artists should have all the moral answers got what they deserved; but those who would have been content just to hear him say something intel ligent about his movies got just as little satisfaction.
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Joe Versus The Volcano goes dow BY COLIN SCOTT Mindlessly the words scroll up he screen. “Once upon a time there vas a very average Joe who had a rery lousy job.” Thus begins the tale )f Joe Versus The Volcano, the tale jf a man’s search for his soul and a ;ood plot One out of two ain’t bad. Joe Versus The Volcano, a new ■omantic-comedy-adventure, is the story of Joe Banks and his journey to be edge o f a volcano. To jump in. The film stars Tom Hanks as the average Joe Banks. Nominated last year for an Oscar tor his perform ance in Big, Hanks comes off th success of his last film. Turner i Hooch. The film also co-stars Mej Rvan who after her suDerb perform
ance in When Harry Met Sally... shows in this film her diverse acting skills by playing three very different characters. In addition, the film was directed by John Patrick Shanley who re ceived an Academy Award last year for his screenplay for the movie Moonstruck. However, although the credits feature an all-star cast and a crew o f Oscar winners, from the director right through to the music director, the film still goes down in a ball of flames. Joe tells the story of Joe Banks, a hypochondriac who hasn’t felt well in eight years. He works as a cata logue librarian for American Panascope, a company that manufactures petroleum jelly and their famous
rectal probe. Joe’s life is changed when his doctor informs him that he only has six months to live. Sud denly, things begin to happen. Joe is mysteriously hired by a billionaire, Mr. Graynamore, played by Lloyd Bridges, to jump into a volcano on the island of Waponi Woo, inhabitedby a people obsessed with orange soda. Joe’s life goes into a tailspin and along the way he manages to fall in love with Graynamore’s daughter, Patricia, aptly played by Ryan. To its credit, Joe has an ominous and promising beginning. Workers shuffle along the jagged path lead ing to the drab Panascope building in a scene that is reminiscent of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis. The film contin-
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Player's seven play Drama Festival entertains BY SUSAN ROGERS “We entertain, that’s all we do. There’s no crime in that,” says Norma in Chip Stevens: Showman. This Colin Krivy play is just one of seven being presented this weekatPlayer’s Theatre during the third annual
McGill Drama Festival. And entertain they do. With a lineup as diverse as this one, there’s bound to be something for everyone. The festival is organized to provide a forum for budding playwrights, actors, and directors. It also offers them the chance to receive some
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in flames ies to build and grow until suddenly t, like the ship that Hanks and Ryan re sailing on, sinks fast It is ridden y sloppy special effects, and a /hopper of a bad plot. Those expecting to be overcome /ith laughter by the performances of lanks and Ryan may find themelves disappointed although they o go out of their way to provide a ood chuckle here and there. The udience rapidly tires of the inconistencies in the plot and by the end f the film many are rooting for Joe :tually to jump into the volcano. In îe long run it would be much less ainless.
From the kitchen to the concert hall, local talents Too Many Cooks are cooking up their brand of rock and roll - and it is hot. The two man band from Sher brooke joined forces in 1986 after several jamming sessions in - you guessed it - their kitchen. Although they have meager beginnings, the duo exploded onto the Montréal music scene when their Beatle-esque “Rita,” which was discovered by CHOM-FM and began to receive regular airplay. Since then they have been gaining momentum, playing the club circuit in a frenzied attempt to make it to the big leagues. Founding members Dan Georgesco and Richard D ’Anjou dropped out of university and began work on their self-titled debut al bum , produced by former Men With out Hats member Jerry Arrobas. Success has come in small doses. Last summer they opened for Sa mantha Fox at La Ronde, yet they
spend most of their time playing the smaller local clubs. The band’s roots lie in everything from the Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin to Blues, and the dish they serve up is saucy, high energy, rock ‘n ’ roll. Every gig they play is treated as if it were the most important of their career. It is this enthusiasm that drives their fans wild at their gigs. Now that the Cooks have broken into the market with their first album and are gaining support, they can try to make the leap into a broader market and leave the popularity they enjoy in Montréal behind. Presently the group is working on their follow-up album, which they hope will cata pult them into the big picture. For the present, the group contin ues to play club after club, keeping their fans happy and looking for another good time. The duo will roll into McGill to cook up their party broth on Saturday, March 17, and their performance may well be worth a taste.
constructive criticism from some established professionals. This year’s festival includes Chip Stevens: Showman, a tragi-comedy exploring the plight of a game show host. Presented on the same night are a bittersweet love story titled Shyness Is Nice, and Something About Me, an honest look at sexual ity and its relative unimportance in the context of the whole person. Peace On The Sabbath deals with a Jewish/Catholic relationship and ends with a sinister plot twist. Player’s Theatre president Kristin Kieren, who also serves as the pro ducer of the festival describes Te quila Sunsets as being “as close to experimental theatre as we get.” Maze and The Girl In The Blue Sweater are the remaining plays of the festival. Each play runs for two nights during the week. On the final three nights of the festival three ajudicators will be present On the final three nights of the festival, three judges will offer a critique of each show, in addition to choosing the Best Actor, Best Ac tress, Best Director and Best Script awards o f the festival. When choosing judges for the festival, Kieren trys to get a wide variety of perspectives in order to give those involved with the plays a
balanced opinion of their work. “I tried to find a director, an aca demic, and an actor,” Kieren said. This year’s judges are Dave Clark, a member of the Association of Producing Artists and an actor and director; Lolly Golt, the entertain ment critic for the Montréal Pre view; and Barbara Poggemiller, an actress and director who also teaches at Concordia University. The criteria for plays submitted to the festival is straightforward. Plays must be one act and under an hour in length. They can be written by any student of a Montréal CE GEP or University. In past years the number of entries has grown, making the selection committee’s task more difficult. When asked for the main thing she looked for in a play, Kieren replied, “Producability. Can it be done in a festival situation?” She added that any of the 22 submis sions they received this year were good enough, though some were more suitable for a festival than others. The festival runs March 12-17 at Player’s Theatre. Tickets are $8 ($4 students and seniors). Week-long passes can also be pure hased. Shows begin at 8:00 pm. For more infor mation, call 398-6813.
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G entrification: neighbourhood im p ro v em en t forces ou t stu d en ts BY STEPHANIE SMALL Gentrification in downtown Montréal has made it increasingly difficult for students to find af fordable housing close to McGill. The transformation o f the stu dent Ghetto to “Durocher Village” is one o f the best examples of a trend that occurs as “higher in come groups discover the delights o f inner city living,” says Jean Wolfe, director o f Urban Planning at McGill. "When I first came to McGill in 1981, most o f the people I knew lived in the Ghetto,” says Sally Duscha of McGill off-campus housing. “Now people who want to live close to McGill go out and scour the Ghetto, but don’t find anything really adequate.” Gentrification occurs as apart ments and rooming houses in older neighbourhoods are renovated and converted into condominiums. Not only does the value of the buildings themselves go up, but also the cost of the neighbourhood in general. “The standard o f up keep increases and the [value] of the neighbourhood goes up,” says Wolfe. In 1987 an existing ban on con versions was tightened to try to
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prevent the situation in which people buy apartments and turn them into condominiums. But there are still ways for owners who want to convert their buildings into condominiums to get rid o f ten ants. Landlords can move their relatives into apartments and force other tenants out. Tenants can also be bought-off in an attempt to convince them to leave. Hilda Ramacière of the Comité Logement de St-Louis says that speculation forces rents even higher. “Big landlords, often special companies, buy up a lot o f apart ments and inflate prices,” says Ramacière. “Over the last 10 years, rents have gone sky high. They’re way out of proportion,” says Ramacière. Even the average cost of rent in the Plateau Mont-Royal area which is generally cheaper than the Ghetto - went up by 60% be tween 1981 and 1986, according to a policy statement on housing is sued by the city of Montréal. In the Ghetto, “rents have gone up dramatically. People are forced to shareormoveout,” says Duscha. Wolfe points to the number of condominiums now up for sale in the ghetto as a sign that conversion may start to slow down.
“We certainly had a great splurge of gentrification. But the bottom has dropped out o f the condomin ium market.” Although students are being forced out of the Ghetto, there is
still more affordable housing in downtown Montréal than in other large city centres. For example in Toronto, the problem of gentrifi cation is much worse, and most students are forced to commute.
“There’s plenty of choice for students - the Plateau, St-Henri... We still have a larger, sort of 19th century city. There’s much more inner city neighbourhood here,” says Wolfe.
For most students, March means ... time to check your lease BY AUBREY KASSIRER The month is March. If you are a tenant, you may already have re ceived a notice from you landlord regarding your lease. Before you respond, make sure you know your rights. To assist tenants, the housing committee of the Québec Public Interest Research Interest Group is operating a doorknocking project in the Milton-Park area, in the Ghetto. During this month, tenants in many of the big, rundown build ings near McGill will be ap proached to discuss two main concerns. Their first priority is to develop the idea of a tenants’ association. People will be asked what a ten ants’ association could provide, both for themselves and the com munity, and whether they are inter ested in getting involved. “We will decide in April if it is a viable
option,” says Gary Saxe, Housing Organizer for the group. The long term goal o f the project seems to be to help the tenants set up just such an association. How-
It is absolutely, categorically illegal for a landlord to force a tenant to accept a rent increase or leave. ever, Stephanie Conway, a mem ber o f the QPIRG Housing Com mittee, remarks, “People are fairly receptive, but at the same time fairly passive. There is a problem
in that the ghetto is so transitory.” She does maintain “we could set up the association in September if there is a need.” The second priority is to help tenants deal with any individual problems they are having. Door knockers can make information accessible to tenants with ques tions. According to Conway, “It is too early to draw conclusions, but we haven’t encountered as many prob lems as we thought we would. There don’t seem to be any truly terrible landlords out there.” Still, Andrea Sterling, a volun teer at McGill Legal Aid, claims, “this whole week has been flooded with landlord-tenant problems.” Landlord-tenant cases account for thirty percent of the Legal Aid clinic’s caseload. A common misconception is that CONTINUED ON PAGE 13
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a notice is equivalent to accepting the new terms o f the lease. However, if a tenant chooses the third option, it is up to the landlord to negotiate, or to approach the provincial rental board within a month. Both sides present their cases and the rental board will decide on a dollar value for the rent increase. In Québec, rental increases are limited by the Régie de logements. Rent increases are usually depend ent on the amount, of money put into the building by the landlord. Eor any lease of twelve months or more, notification must be at
least three months in advance of the lease renewal date. Any shorter term or a lease of unspecified dura tion requires one month notice. Saxe suggested tenants “keep a copy of all letters to their landlord, and send them by registered mail. This can serve as proof to the rental board.” Problems? Consult "The Key," a booklet published by the Québec government and displayed by McGill Legal Aid, located in the basement of the Union Building or the Québec PIRG’s Information Line at 398-7457, Tues, from 3-9.
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a lte rn a tiv e BY LISA HARRISON________ Faced with tuition hikes, rent increases, and the rising cost of living, students are digging deeper into their pockets just to get by. Some expenses, such as tuition, can’t be avoided, but others can be diminished. Every year, McGill students search for reasonable, affordable housing close to the university. Few students are aware that there is an alternative to living in resi dence, an apartment, or at home. Co-operative housing is one op tion that some students may be interested in considering...but it isn’t for everyone. A housing co-op is formed by a group of people who want good housing at a low rent. As a non profit organization, many of these groups are eligible for certain fed eral and provincial subsidies to help purchase and renovate existing buildings or construct new ones. The building is collectively owned by the members o f the co-opera tive, and responsibilities are shared equally among them. According to Le Conseil de dévéloppement du logement com munautaire, the greatest advantage to co-ops is that “members make an indirect profit...they are saving money by paying less than they
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There are about 170 reported break-ins every night in the Montréal area. Here are some ways to avoid the scourge. •don’t leave a window uncovered to allow potential theives an initial value assessment. •put asticker announcing that you have an alarmsystem on the door: areal pro won’t be deterred (they won’t be deterred by an alarm either), but it might make an amateur have second thoughts. •put a piece of wood in the groove of sliding windows. Always lock your windows. •invest in a decent locks: a cheap one will just break when someone tries to force it. •go meet your neighbours and offer to keep an eye on each other’s place. An inquisitive neighbour is an effective deterrent. •ensure that you know where all the keys to your apartment are. Get the owner to agree to change locks as a part of your lease before you move in. •when you go out of town, hook up lights and a radio to timers so it looks like someone is home.
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would elsewhere.” Members of the co-operative work voluntarily, sharing such work as rent collection, bookkeep ing, and maintenance. As well, because of the collective owner ship and non-profit nature of co ops, rents are never increased for profit. According to Pierre Gaudreau, an organizer for Peoples’ Rights Over Urban D evelopm ent (PROUD), the “governmentdidn’t begin to consider the subsidizing of co-operatives until the late ‘seventies. Right now, the federal government subsidizes 58%o f co op housing costs and the provin cial government is responsible for 32%. The rest is picked up by individual municipalities.” Gaudreau is pessimistic about the future of social housing in Canada, “Wilson’s budget will cut 15%of the funding supplied by the federal government Co-ops get the least amount o f funding of all the forms of social housing. With current cutbacks to programs, very few new [co-op] housing units will be developed.” There are approximately 20,000 co-operative housing units in Québec, of which 400 are on the island of Montréal. Someone con sidering membership must apply to each co-op individually for
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consideration. The waiting lists are long - sometimes several years. Long waiting lists and the vol unteer work that must be done by members make this type o f hous ing unsuited to the nomadic stu dent lifestyle. Gaudreau says that co-ops “need stability...members have to belong for several years to learn to manage the co-op. Most sutdents are too busy studying and working to have the time they need to take on their fair share o f re sponsibility.” He feels that stu dents’ needs would be best ful filled by non-profit, low rent social housing that would be run by an outside organization. McGill operates residences, but other universities such as Water loo and Queen’s do operate com munal housing. These dwellings are owned by the university and, therefore, can’t be considered co operatives. They do operate on the theory of shared responsibility shared cooking and maintenace. The largest co-operative hous ing project in Canada is right on McGill’s doorstep. The Milton Park project consists of 22 coop eratives right in the McGill ghetto. A list of housing co-operatives in Montréal is available for $ 5.00 from the Fédération des coopéra tives d’habitation de Pile de Mon tréal. This organization also offers
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Low cost house to be constructed on campus this spring B Y D A V I D G R U B E R __________
Across North America the number of home owners as a frac tion of the total population is shrink ing. This is particularly true for younger families. In response to this housing cri sis, M cG ill professors A vi Friedman and Witold Rybczynski created a new program this year in the graduate school o f Architec ture that seeks to solve the problem o f decreasing home ownership through the development of afford able, single family housing. Six students are currently fin ishing the first year of the “afford able homes” program. The pro gram was created in association with McGill’s already well estab lished minimum cost housing pro gram, which is primarily geared towards the Third World. The new program differs in that it seeks to address the Canadian situation. It is the first program of its kind in North America. The culmination of this year’s activity will be the construction of a prototype rowhouse in late May on lower campus, in front of the MacDonald Harrington building. D esigned by Friedman and Rybczynski, and sponsored by
Dow Chemical and Ikea Canada, the modular, prefabricated struc ture can be built for $40 ,000, ex cluding land costs. Costs are kept low by making the structure quite narrow and by leaving the upper floor to be fin ished by the owners. Friedman believes that young families who want a house are willing to do some of the work themselves. In this way the house can grow with the family. The house will be open to the public during the month of June in conjunction with a housing conference being held in Montréal, before it is moved to a different location. The affordable homes program has also developed study projects with the city of Montréal and the town o f SL Bruno, and sponsored a lecture series. “What makes it [the program] unique is that it tries to explore possibilities of working with the housing industry,” says Friedman. Innovations in housing design result in nothing unless the indus try responds by applying them. To this end, funds for die program’s three year start up budget have been raised entirely from non-uni versity sources. The McGill pro gram is focused on working with
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builders and suppliers to combat the shortage in affordable housing. Following the Second World War, home ownership was a top priority. Huge numbers o f small, single family homes were built of about 1000 to 1500 square feet in area. Since then, increasing costs of land, labor and supplies have
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pushed developers into building larger, more profitable dwellings. The affordable homes program is focused on reinventing the small but comfortable house, without resorting to cheap materials or unconventional arrangements. “It is a very pragmatic program, we would like to teach students to develop strategies for cost reduc tion,” says Friedman. There are those who think that only market forces will eventually correct for the current housing shortage. But according to Friedman, improvements in tech nology could contribute to the driv ing of the market towards afford able homes. “The housing industry is not very advanced compared to other high volume ones,” says Friedman. While most consumer industries emphasize research and develop ment, the housing industry often
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takes a quarter o f a century or more to put new developments into prac tice. Expanded use o f computers in design and delivery, and improve ments in component technology could reduce both the cost of build ing and the time involved. Looking towards the future, Friedman says, “we would like to open up this program to students in related fields outside architecture.” According to him, the study of housing it by its very nature inter disciplinary. Students in manage ment, computer science and engi neering could be considered for the program. Currentd^mand for larger houses is lagging, while demand for af fordable homes remains strong. McGill’s new program will play an important role in developing this part of the industry, which has been ignored too often by archi tects.
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FIRST IN A SERIES As the ‘90s get started, athletics are an area about which we should all be concerned. Not only athletes and physically active people, but the average student or staff mem ber should be interested because athletic success brings greater rec ognition to McGill and attracts better, more diverse students to our school. The state o f athletics at McGill these days is a complex one. It is a situation that involves leadership, the City of Montréal, academics, money and facilities. In the com ing weeks we will take a look at these issues. But what is the root o f the prob lems McGill athletics faces today? The two main obstacles actually go hand in hand: a shortage of funds and a school with high admission standards. “Academic limits are a major hurdle for our programme,” said McGill’s Athletic Director Bob Dubeau. “It’s extremely difficult for a student-athlete to gain en trance to McGill. We have many, many athletes who have McGill as their first choice but can’t get in. It makes it very difficult” As might be expected, the Dean o f Students, Irwin Gopnik, cited McGill’s high academic standing as an attribute to our programme. “We have very high academic standards. We must maintain those high academic standards and I think we should convince [athletes] to come to McGill on the basis of the fact that w e’ve got the best aca demic standards, they’ll get the best education, they’ll have the best future. That’s how I think we should attract and recruit and be attractive to student athletes.” Combine those academic reali ties with a shoestring budget, and
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“Academic limits are a major hurdle for our programme. It’s extremely difficult for a studentathlete to gain entrance to McGill.” -Bob Dubeau difficult because “we spend an awful lot o f time on fundraising which is really not our job. We should be spending our time on building the football programme.” Almost in the same breath Coach Baillie mentioned the academic standards of McGill. “We have to spend a tremen dous amount o f time recruiting at McGill because o f the standards being so high. Most of the good students want to come to McGill. Many of the good football players want to come to McGill but a lot of them don’t have the marks.” Accordingly, McGill teams, not just football, must travel the coun try if they want to get top quality athletes who can also meet the rigorous academic standards of a prestigious university. To do this
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type of recruiting takes consider able time and money, something McGill does not currently have. Queen’s and Western are two other schools where one might expect similar conflicts between academic requirements and ath letic excellence. But Baillie offers this rejoinder. “I think there’s a different situ ation there at Queen’s,” he said. “First of all, they’re located in Ontario. They’ve developed a feeder system because a lot of their graduates are teaching in the high schools in Ontario. I think there’s an influence there.” Concordia head coach, Pat Sheahan, who spent five seasons at McGill as Offensive Coordinator, concurs, citing strong Physical Ed. programmes at both Queen’s and Western which spread teachers into the high school ranks, many of them coaching football. “They have well developed and established alumni,” he added. It seems that today the CEGEP system cannot provide the quality students that are required by McGill. “I don’t know what’s happened to the CEGEP system in Québec but w e’re faced with a situation where a lot of kids are not getting good marks,” said Baillie. This circumstance has forced the football team to draw considerably from Ontario’s talent pool to the point now where about 50% of the squad is from Québec’s neighbour ing province. The combination o f a lack of financial resources and McGill’s high academic standing makes for serious difficulties in attracting student-athletes. Clearly, the uni versity’s admission standards will not and should not be compro mised. Therefore, the financial half of the problem has to be solved. More on this problem next week.
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Last Thursday evening the McGill mens’ and womens’ Swim Teams embarked for the CIAU Nationals at Sherbrooke, with the hope that each would finish their seasons with an exclamation point. Both the mens’ and womens’ squads ended up eighth in Canada, not bad, but not exactly the punc tuation they were looking for this end of the season sentence. The Universities of Calgary and Toronto won the mens’ and wom ens’ championships, respectively. Olympic medal winner Andrea Nugent didn’t exactly disappoint. She led the way for the McGill women, earning two gold medals in the 50m and 100m freestyle events, and a silver in the 100m butterfly. For the men, Rick Cos grove earned a silver in the 100m
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backstroke. Despite the heroics o f Nugent, the womens’ team fell to eighth. A major disappointment after spend ing the majority o f the season ranked in the top three in Canada. The women finished third overall last year. “It’s a disappointment when you look at what we accomplished last year,” said Coach François Laurin. Laurin said that McGill is still the solid team they had last year, and attributed last week’s disappoint ing performances to the tough schedules many o f his swimmers have endured in the past few weeks. “Our team, overall, is very solid, our strength lies in our depth. But we don’t have the three or four really outstanding stars that you need to do well in a meet such as this.” said Laurin. “W e’re like the Montréal Canadiens, a plumbing
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As the sun gets higher in the sky and the snow finally begins to melt away, young men’s thoughts may turn to fancy, but the thoughts of the folks at McGill athletics’ turn to the outdoor sports season and to spring workouts. This is especially trueof the football program, which recently hired Ron Tondino as quarterback coach. Tondino’s appointment comes in the wake of the departure o f Ray Lalonde, 1989-90’s offensive co-ordinator. Tondino brings a wealth of coaching experience to McGill; he
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had time to make a detailed assess ment, Tondino underscores the ob vious potential of quarterbacks Yanick Préfontaine, Andy St. Louis, and Justin Raymond, say ing that the three men throw the ball well, and that they’re both brightand well schooled. “It’s nice coming into a situation where there are three young quarterbacks with the potential o f Yanick, Andy and Justin,” he said, “and because the team is often at the mercy of the quarterback, the future bodes well for McGill.” Tondino, a McGill graduate, recognizes his mandate to help the quarterbacks develop and improve, as he believes that Canadian university football is so competitive “that intangibles, factors such as leadership, which is often associated with the quar terback, separate the good from
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and parents. Baillie also indicated that if McGill hopes to have a good season in 1990, two things need to happen. First, at least four or five gradu ating players need to return for one more year of eligibility to add maturity, leadership and depth to the squad, and second, a skilled recruiting class is required to play a pivotal role in the development of the team into a Vanier Cup contender. The coaching staff seems to have the latter element pretty well cov ered, and is working towards the former as the team heads into spring workouts. All in all, then, the prog nosis for the upcoming season looks favorable, because McGill could be a lot worse off.
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in a disorganized display of preci sion line skating. The seven solos that followed were well executed and original. Although a few skat ers did fall, they seemed to take it in stride and the audience was for giving. Guest star Cynthia Coull skated
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to practice enough or take part in any competitions. Next year, I’m hoping that we can take part in an invitational competition at Queen ’s University.” Coull, who was president two years ago, says she “would be more involved if the Club had more ice time and better hours. I haven’t had enough time this year because of school and coaching. Right now my skating is on hold because of school but I know that I want to be back in the skating world in the future.” Other noteworthy performances were those of Elin Gardiner and Corinne de Langavant. Both pro grams had excellent choreography that made up for the fact that both skaters were injured and couldn’t do any jumps.
Badminton (Year-End Results) Overall Team Standings 1. Laval 2. Montréal 3. UQTR 4. McGill 5. Sherbrooke 6. Chicoutimi (Note: McGill’s Doubles team of Kim Barnes and Xia-Wen Fei fin ished 2nd in Québec, and Melissa Chaun finished 3rd in the singles competition.)
CIAU Swimming Nationals at Sherbrooke Womens 1. Toronto 434.5 2. Alberta 372.0 3. Montréal 263.0 4. Laval 250.5 5. UBC 247.0 6. Manitoba 235.0 7. Calgary 188.0 8. McGill 175.0 9. Brock 146.0 10. Victoria 99.0
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We often take our rights for granted - it is only when w e feel they have been violated that w e even stop to think “What are my rights?”. To make students more aware o f their rights and responsibilities in the university ' environment, a “Student Rights' Awareness W eek” is being sponsored from 1215th March by the Students' Society o f M cGill University. The goal is to ensure that students are cognizant o f their rights and responsibilities and where they can go for confidential assistance and counselling. For example, the O ffice o f the Dean o f Students w ill provide assistance on implementation o f the regulations and policies which are publisheed in the Handbook on Student Rights and Responsibilities, the names and telephone numbers o f (a) the four assessors for complaints o f sexual harassment, (b) the
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the course ios in the process of being taught. 14. Subject to reasonable administrative ar rangements, andprovided the request is made 1. Evtry student enjoys within the University by a student withina reasonable time after the all rights and freeodms recognized by law. notification of a made 2.1Everystudenthasarighttoequal treatment (a) every suident has a right lo consult any by the University; this right must not be im written submission for which he or she has pairedby discriminationbasedon race, colour, received a mark and a right to discuss this ethnic or national origin, civil status, religion, submission with the examiner, and creed, political convictions, language, sex, (b) everystudent has arighttoanimpartialand sexual orientation, social condition, age, per competent reviewof any marie sonal handicap or the use of any means to 15. Every student has a right to write essays, palliate such a handicap. examinationsandthesesinEnglishorinFrench 2.2Adistinction,exclusionorpreferencebased except in courses where knowledge of a lam on relevant academic or physical aptitudes or ' gliage is one of theobjects of the course. qualifications requiredingood faithis deemed 16. TheUniversity hasanobligationtoprovide non discriminatory. students with available relevant infannation 3. Every student has aright to the safeguardof concerningfinancialassistanceofferedbypublic his or her dignity anda right to be protectedby funding bodies for the pursuit of higher learn the University against vexatious conduct dis H: Academic Rights delude, where appropriate: ing. played by a representative of the University Pan 9 . Every student has a right to a quality educa- (a) a description of the topics to be considered 17. Every student shall have equal access to acting in an official capacity. non-competitive funding for which they are The University’s corresponding obliga- in the course, 4.1 Every student has a right to be free froma tion. (b)alistof requiredandrecommendedreadings eligible, andcritieria for eligibilty shall not be sexual solicitationoradvance madebyaperson tion is fulfilled where: the University offers an education capable and other materials. arbitrary; applications to the University for in a position to offer or deny to the student an (a) of providing students withanadequate level of (c) a description of the means of evaluauon to such funding must receive a fair and impartial academic advantage or any opportunity per in the relevant field of study, and be used in the course, evaluation. taining to the status of student, where this competence (b) The University makes every reasonable (d) the instructor's office hours for students, jg n,e University has an obligation to make personknowsorought reasonablytoknowthat effort to maintain the quality of education it office locationandtelephone number foroffice reasonableeffortstoprovideadequateresearch this solicitation is unwelcome. dispenses. appointments. supervisionforgraduatework, withdue regard 42 Every student has aright to be free froma 10.1 TheUniversityshall providestudentswith 11. Where students are permitted a choice of io the preference of the student. reprisal or threat of reprisal for the rejection of sufficient course informationto permit the stu- courses or course loads, the Univeisity shall 19. Every student has the right to the due and a sexual solicitation or advance where that dent to make informed course selection. This provide a reasonable change of course period, explicitacknowledgementofany indebtedness reprisal is made or threatened by a person in a informationshouldinclude, whereappropriate: 12. The evaluation of a student’s performance owedto himorherbya memberof theUniverposition to offer or deny to the student an (a) pre-requisites for courses, in a course shall be fair and reasonable, and sity forresearchorassistanceinthepreparation academic advantage or any opportunity per (b) course descriptions, shall reflect the content of the course. The Qf ^ academic work. taining to the status of student course availability, method of evaluation shall be made known to 5. The University has anobligation to ensure (c) (d) the method of evaluation, and the student as soon as practicable. that administrative decisions are made, or ac (e) HM mE*of course periods. 13. Unless the method of evaluauon renders tions taken, with fairregardfor theknown and 107 Every instructor shall provide students such adetermination impossible, every student legitimate interests of students. the first week of lectures witha written has arighttobe informeduponrequestof hisor 6. Rightsconferreduponstudentsbyregulatins during course outline. This information should in- her standing or performance in a course while may not be infringed upon by administrative decisions. Important phone nnmbers: 7. TheUniversity hasanobligationtomaintain Ombudsman: Prof. Wcrk 398-7070 safe and suitable conditions of learning and Sexual Harassment assessors: Linda Chris study. tensen: 398-4473; Prof Weinfeld; 398-6846; ^ » 8. The University has an obligation to ensure Prof. Wells 398-4504; Prof Stewart 398-7865 that adequate measures are taken to protect 1 1— Dean of Students: DeanGopnik 398-4990 security of students on university property.
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STUDENT CHARTER OF RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS
GUIDE WHEN DO I HAVE A LEGITIMATE GRIEVANCE? You can lodge a grievance if you feel you've been treated unfairly by an instructor, a teaching assisstant, or by any other officer of the university. As well, if you feel that a right granted to you under the Charter of Students' Rights has been violated by an instructor, teaching assistant, etc, you have grounds for redress. W h a t d o t h e s e r ig h t s INCLUDE? As stated in the Charter, your rights include freedom from discrimination; freedom from sexual harassment; and academic rights such as fair and reasonable evaluation, acknowledgement for research and assistance, etc. For further information, consult the Charter, in the Handbook on Student Rights and Responsibilities, available at the SSMU Office, in the Union Building. W h a t d o I d o f ir s t ? Try to resolve the grievance informally with you professor, instructor, etc. If this proves unsuccessful, consult the Department Head or Associate Dean of the faculty involved. If the result is still unsatisfactory, get in touch with the University Ombudsman or the Dean of Students, who will assist you to the best of their ability. At this point, they might
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contact the Associate Dean, the Department Head, or the other party themselves. If after having followed the above steps, the situation remains unresolved, you may then approach the Senate Committee Student on Grievances(SCSG). W h a t is t h e S C S G ? The SCSG is a body of staff and students, appointed by the Senate, which deals with grievances. Members act as judges to determine validity of a grievance and the actions that must be undertaken, if necessary, to rectify the situation. Decisions are made by a simple majority vote. H o w DO I LODGE A GRIEVANCE WITH THE S C S G ? You should direct your grievance in writing to the chairperson of the SCSG, who may be contacted through the Secretariat of Senate or the Dean of Students' Office. Be sure to include a clear statement of the alleged grievance, the procedures already followed, and how you would prefer the grievance to be redressed. W hat h appens n o w ? As soon as possible after receiving your submission, the chairperson of the SCSG will distribute it to the committee members and the other parties involved. S/he will request a response within fifteen days from the accused party. You and the committee members will receive copies of the response.
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At this point, if the conflict is caused by a faculty or departmental decision, the chairperson will consult with the Dean of the involved faculty, in an attempt to take direct action to rectify the situation. If this route is unavailable, a meeting of the SCSG will be held to ascertain the need for a hearing. W h e n w il l I g e t a h e a r in g ? If the facts of the case are in dispute, there must be a hearing. If they are not, the SCSG may dispense with the hearing.This decision may be orally appealed by either side in the other's presence. W h at h a p p e n s at t h e HEARING? Hearings are closed if the parties involved might be harmed by any public disclosures. All hearings are taped. The tape is available for the use of the SCSG and the participants. If the hearing was open, it is available to the public. At the hearing, parties have the right to introduce oral and written evidence, to call and cross-examine witnesses, to examine the evidence submitted by the other party, and to question that party. Committee members may also question parties and witnesses. In addition, you have the right to be accompanied by an advisor, legal or otherwise. Try consulting the Legal Aid Clinic in the Union Building. W hat can th e S C S G d o ? The SCSG is empowered to order any
iropriate action to rectify the situation. HAT c a n ' t THE S C S G DO? The SCSG cannot change a mark or grade. However, if the original evaluation is judged to be unfair or arbitrary, it may set the evaluation aside, or arrange for a reassessment or other appropriate action. W hat h appens after th e S C S G REACHES A DECISION? Decisions are binding on the University, and will be communicated through the Secretary of the Senate to the Principal and the parties involved. The decision will be implemented without delay, and is final within the University's jurisdiction, except if there is an appeal. W hat abo ut a ppea ls? If you feel that the proceedings of the SCSG were faulty, you can appeal by notifying the Secretary of Senate in writing, without delay. All actions ordered by the SCSG regarding your case are suspended during the appeal process. T elephone N um bers to R em em ber:
Students' Society o f M c G ill University: 398-6800 Office of the Dean of Students: 398-6008 Office of the Ombudsman: 398-7070
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in # S T O P What is sexual harassment? It is not a relationship of mutual consent It is not a hug between friends. It is not mutual flirtation. Sexual harassment is unwanted attention of a sexual nature, often with an underlying element of threat or coercion. Sexual harassment may occur between employer-employee, between professor-student, or between student-student. It is usually men who sexually harass women, but women have harassed men and sometimes same-sex harassment occurs. Sexual harassment occurs when: acceptance or rejection of sexual
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Examples of Sexual Harassment A fellow student, an instructor, supervisor or co-worker hugs, pats or otherwise touches you in a sexual way that upsets you or interferes with your work. Your supervisor offers you a
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Who can be disciplined? Anyone who is registered at the university for courses or research. Even if they aren’t in a degree program? That’s right A student does not have to be trying to complete a degree. They may just be taking courses for their own interest Any student that is on leave oron suspension fromthe university can be disciplined as well. For what kind of things can I be disciplined? There are two types of offences; non-academic and academic. Non-academic offences include disrupting the normal flow of university life. Unauthorized entry and/or presence, theft damage, and destruction of property, physical abuses and han-assment are also considered to be offences. Wait! When you say harrassment, does that include sexual harrassment? Absolutely! In fact, there is a special set of guidelines whichdeal with thatspecifically. There
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promotion in return for your sexual attention, even threatening reprisal •if you refuse. An instructor promises you a better grade or academic opportunity in return for your sexual attention or implies your academic record will suffer if you refuse. A teaching assistant makes repeated sexual comments or asks you questions of a sexual nature which interfere with your work or concentration. Sexual harassment can take many other forms.
are other non-academic offences which students ought to be aware of as well. You can be disciplined if you incite violence, use the university facilities fraudulently or without authorization, andfinally, if youmisuseuniversity documents, library, or computer resources. You’ve really got to watch your step around here! Not really. Most university students come here to leant. McGill offers a wide variety of resources that are used properly everyday by thousands of students. What about academic offences? Academic offences are those that deal directly withthelearningprocess. This includes disruption of teaching, plagiarism, cheating, or to procure, distribute, or receive confidential academic material (i.e. exams). Let’s say I’ve done something like this. What happens? What is the procedure? First your case will be considered by the
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your behaviour is offensive to a colleague, employee or peer, ask the person, or call us for confidential advice. If you feel you’re being harassed: Describe the behaviour clearly, and state firmly that it is offensive and unacceptable. If you feel you cannot address the harasser, or if the behaviour does not stop, call one of the assessors. Talk to us: Telephone an assessor (during work hours) and discuss your situation in confidence. If the behaviour persists, keep a record of dates, places, times and witnesses. Write a letter to the offender identifying the unwanted
D I S C I P L I Associate Dean or theDean of your faculty. He/ she has the choice of either acting by himself/ herselforrefering it totheCommittee OnStudent Discipline (CSD). If you don’t agree with the decision of the Dean you are entitled to ahearing before the CSD. It sounds like a court. We have hearings so that we can get all the facts. Everyone is treated fairly. The system is not supposed to be intimidating, moreover, it is there to help you, to ensureyou arenot misrepresented. You are entitled to an advisor, to call witnesses, and to question the other side. Is the hearing the last word? Usually, but if there is either new evidence, procedural irregularity, or the hearing committee has made an error, you may appeal. With all these procedures, what are the penalties I can face? After ahearing, the Dean or the CSD may decide to exonerate the student (find them not guilty),
behaviour and requesting that it stop. Keep a copy of the letter. Lodge a formal complaint. The assessors can help you. P ro fesso r M orion W e in fe ld
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N E reprimand, or penalize the student. What kind of penalties? Thatdepends ontheoffence. Mostoftenpenalties are a failing grade, a small fine or restitution. Serious offences though can even result in expulsion from the university. So if I’ve broken the rules in the university, they can use any of their wide range of powers to punish me? That is not entirely true. If you are living in residence, and you deliberately damage the bathrooms on your floor, McGill cannot fail you in your Psychology course. What they can do is kick you out of residence. If you’ve stolen the exam for that course, on the otherhand, theCSD wouldbejustifiedinhanding you a failing grade, or even a letter of expulsion! For a more in-depth set of guidlines, refer to your Handbook On Student Rights And Responsibilities.
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Thursday, March 15th Curtisand Lisa Silwa are the resounding leaders of one of the nation's best unarmed crime-fighting organizations - the Guardian Angels. Their group has grown from one chapter in its base city of New York, to a group with chapters in 46 other cities across the United States. Curtis Sliwa, founder of the Guardian Angels and a native of Brooklyn, New York, has always tried to prevent crime in his neighborhood. In 1970, while delivering newspapers, Curtis risked his life to save three others who had been caught in a burning building. In another attempt to help his community, Curtis organized a cleanup campaign while he was the manager of a McDonalds in the South Bronx. This fundamen tal concern for the future of a community is the driving force behind the Guardian Angels. Curtis Siiwa heads the group with his wife, Lisa. Lisa and Curtis come from two entirely different worlds; Curtis from the streets of Brooklyn, and Lisa from a middle class suburb of Chicago. Lisa holds a degree in economics from Lake Forest College. Upon graduation, Ms. Sliwa, then Lisa Evers, moved to New York City to pursue a career In art She obtained a black belt in Karate, and then joined the growing group of Guardian Angels in New York City. It was there that she met Curtis. Three years later, in 1981, the two were married. In their lecture presentation, the Sliwas state the purpose of the Guardian Angels and the importance to every community it inhabits. They present the requirements to become a Guardian Angel, and some of the fundamentals of selfdefense as well.
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