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w h at’s on WHAT’S ONIS COURTESY OF THE INTER-GROUP LIAISON NOTICES: Centre for Continuing EducationDepartment of Languages and Translation: Classification Tests for

the Summer English and French Lan­ guage Programs. English Classifica­ tion Test: April 2nd and 12th, 7 p.m..

French Classification Test: April 4th and 10th, 7 p.m.. Info.: 398-6160.

Don’t throw out that out-of-style shirt, those old pants or windbreaker.

Save them for the Shelters and Mis­ sions in the Montreal Clothes Collec­ tion. Boxes: Otto Maass, Leacock, Stewart Biology, and Union bldgs.

March 12th-April 2nd. Sponsors: McGill Volunteer Bureau.

McGill Nightline - is open through exams from 6 p.m. to 3 a.m. nightly!

So take a study break and call us. 3986246. Friendly, sensitive, and oh so cool!

WalkSafe Network: McLennan Li­ brary at 10:45 p.m., Monday to Thurs­ day. Interested volunteers contact the Womens’ Union.

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Office hours, Monday/Thursday, 11 a.m.-l p.m.. Info.: 398-6814. Last chance for T-shirts! (still only $10).

Liberal McGill: Annual General Meeting. Election of Executives. Un­ ion 107/8, 5 p.m.. Thursday, April 12th. Nominations are now open for the following positions: President, V.P. Communication, V.P. External, V.P. Finance. Info.: 284-6816; 499-8571.

Visions: a creative journal is pres­ ently seeking submissions for an up­ coming issue. Poetry, short stories, photography, illustrations, and other creative work. Drop submissions at SSMU desk or mail them to 7950 Verone, St. Leonard, Quebec, HIP 3E2. Enclose a S.A.S.E. if you want work returned. Info.: 325-6941; 3986818.

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Departmentof Russian and Slavic Studies presents an Informal Semi­

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Robertson, Gazette columnist, on "The Flowers that Bloom in the Spring” Spring Gardening. Leacock26,7 p.m..

All Welcome. Info.: 398-3557.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4TH Annie MacDonald Langstaff Workshop: “Big Brother, Little Mother, and the Law of Fetal Protec­ tion” presented by Prof. Patricia Wil­ liams, School of Law, University of Wisconsin. Faculty of Law, 3644 Peel, Rm. 202, 12 noon. Info.: 366-8765.

Lou Gehrig’s Disease (Amyotro­ phic Lateral Sclerosis) Awareness Day: Conferences: 12 noon: Dr. Jack

Antel, neurologist, MNI, presents “A.L.S. and the Immune System”. 1:30 p.m.: Long Term Rehabilitation from the Constance Lethbridge Rehabilita­ tion Centre. 3:04p.m.: Janine Corbeil, psychologist, on “The Psycho-Social Effects on A.L.S. on Patients and their Families”. Union 108.

“How are we affected by the model of an “ideal” man or women? Dis­

cussion group for women and men.

Union423,5 p.m.. Everyone welcome.

Uhuru na Ufahamu-De velopment Studies Group: Media Study: Case

Study of the Nicarguan Election. Un­ ion 410, 5 p.m.. All Welcome.

McGill Southern Africa Commit­ tee presents AMANDLA, a weekly

news and current affairs program on Southern Africa. CKUT FM 90.3, Radio McGill, Wednesdays, 7-7:30 p.m..

The Young Alumni (McGill of the last 10 years): present Prof. Judith

Castle, LaSalle College, on “Business Protocol” - role and value of etiquette in business and professional environ­ ments. Leacock 26, 7 p.m.. All Wel­ come. Info.: 398-3557.

McGill Film Society: B ehind the Veil: Nuns. Canada 1984 (92 min.).

Dir.: M. Wescott. FDA Auditorium, 7 30 p.m.. FREE. THURSDAY, APRIL 5TH

McGill Book Fair: Book Fair Depot Day. Wanted: Books - of all descrip­ tions. Redpath Hall, 10 a.m.-2 p.m..

Info.: 398-3556.

Department of History presents an Informal Seminar: “The Popular Hero in Russian Folklore”. Leacock 324, 10:30 a.m.- 12:00 p.m..

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The Young Alumni (McGill of the last 10 years): present Stuart

nar: “Tatiana Tolstaya and the Burden of Talent”. Bronfman 655, 2 p.m..

Amnesty International: Letter Writing Meeting. Union 425, 7 p.m..

All Welcome.

Montreal Democratic Forum-Per­ spectives in Socialism: presents “Which socialism are we defending?” with Prof. Presh Chattopadhyay, UQAM. Centre for Developing Area Studies, 3715 Peel, Rm. 100,7:00p.m..

Info.: 931-1262.

Ethics and the Academy: presents Gregory Baum, Faculty of Religious Studies.”Closing Lecture”. Leacock 232, 7 p.m..

Environment Workshop Series: “Managing the Commons”. Unitarian Church, 3415 Simpson, near Sher­ brooke, 7 p.m.. Register at 935-1522.

McGill Film Society:/ezebc/. USA 1938 (104 min.). Dir.: W. Wyler.

Leacock 132, 7:30 p.m..

Yellow Door Coffee House: pres­ ents “Literature Live” with Pankaj Patel. “Open Stage” follows. 3625 Aylmer (north of Prince Arthur), 8 p.m.. Admission: $2.00. Coffee, tea, herbal teas, etc.: $.50. Info.: 398-6244.

McGill Players’ Theatresports:

Improvisational Comedy. The Alley, 10:00 p.m.. FREE. FRIDAY, APRIL 6TH D.O. Hebb Lecture Series-Depart­ ment of Psychology: Dr. Fernando

Nottebohm, Field Research Center for Ecology and Ethology, Rockefeller University, on “Brain Rejuvenation in Birds”. Stewart Biology Bldg., Rm. Sl/4, 1205 Doctor Penfield, 2 p.m..

Info.: 398-6105.

Benefit Concert for Lou Gehrig’s Disease: McGill Choral Society. Eg­

lise St. Viateur d’Outremont Church, 183 Bloomfield, 7:30 p.m.. All pro­ ceeds to the A.L.S. Society Quebec.

Tickets at Sadies and the door: $5, seniors and students with I.D.; $10 others.

McGill Film Society: Planet o f the Apes. USA 1963 (112 min.). Dir.: F. Schaffner. Leacock 132, 7:30 p.m..

McGill Players’ Theatresports:

More Improvisational Comedy. After the Show in Players’ Theatre or 10:00 p.m.. Admission: $1.00. , SATURDAY, APRIL 7TH McGill Players’ Theatresports:

Weekly Improvisational Workshop.

Free. Union Bldg., 2-4 p.m..

McGill Film Society: Casablanca.

USA 1942 (102 min.). Dir.: M. Curtiz.

Leacock 132, 7:30 p.m..

ADVANCE NOTICE: Faculty of Music presents The McGill Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in a Benefit Concert for the

Faculty Scholarship Fund. Gustav Mahler, Symphony No. 2 in C Minor, “Resurrection”. Timothy Vernon, Conductor; Iwan Edwards and Fred Stoltzfus, Chorus Masters. Eglise Saint-Jean Baptiste (Rachel St. be­ tween Drolet and Henri-Juline), 8:00 p.m.. Tickets: $15 ($10 for students and seniors) at Pollack Hall (555 Sher­ brooke St. W., 11:00 a.m.- 5 p.m.) and at the door. Info.: 398-4547.

The Tribune will be having a seri­ ous party later in the month. Serious people will listen to serious music and get seriously impaired on seriously cheap hooch. Seriously. Stay tuned.

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ASU S cuts Pillar funding after problem -filled year

BY LARA FRIEDLANDER Blaming a lack of new issues and financial problems, the Arts and Science Undergraduate Soci­ ety (ASUS) has discontinued fund­ ing for the ASUS P illar magazine.

ASUS Vice President (Science) Richard Press said the ASUS ex­ pected four issues this year, but the P illar has only published one.

Because of this, he said, the ASUS has cut off the rest of this year’s

able to read it,” said Fraser.

P illar editor Daniel Binnie blamed himself and his staff for the failure to put out more than one P illar this year.

“The real reason is that we’re just too lazy,” he said.

“It’s a magazine that’s always been done by two or three people.

One issue would take 100 hours [per person].”

Binnie noted that the magazine has never published four issues in

“ F ran k ly , I d o n ’t th in k th e u n iv e rsity m e rits th is [m a g a z in e ’s] q u a lity ...”

-Pillar E d ito r D an B in n ie funding for the Pillar. Press said extra funds from this year will go towards next year’s P illar budget.

ASUS President Jennifer Fraser said she received complaints of unattended meetings, poor editing, and late issues. She said the one P illar issue this year came out during the December exam period, when there was little interest in it “We wanted it to come out dur­ ing a time when students would be

one year. However, he said that this year’s only P illar had been distributed twice.

“We thought they [ASUS] wouldn’t notice. We didn’t think they read i t ” said Binnie.

Vice President (Finance) Laura McNeilly said the P illar also had some financial irregularities. She said debts to last year’s publisher were still outstanding in January when the magazine was supposed

BISHOP’S BROTHERS BEHIND BARS About fifty students were cited for public drinking and at least three students wen jailed in Lennoxville this weekend, as students engaged in acts oi vandalism during initiation rites for a Bishop’s University brotherhood.

Police said two butchered hens and a dead suckling pig were found in a student’s apartment on Friday night. Students also caused $5000 worth of damage to a newly renovated local residence, and graffiti was found throughout the town.

The police said the annual Brotherhood Weekend, in which select students drink and go from house to house as an initiation into a brotherhood, has been getting more rowdy every year.

QUÉBEC SUPPORTS POST-EDUCATIONAL TAX, POLL SHOWS More than 70% of Québec’s voters would support a post-educational tax for university students, a poll by Québec university magazine InterU niversités shows.

The poll was carried out by polling organization Omnibus Sorécom.

It asked 966 Québec citizens of voting age if they agreed with the re­ placement of tuition fees with a post-education tax which would be paid by university graduates. The response showed 26% strongly in favour and 43% in favour of the tax.

The poll also showed that 59% of Québec citizens believe private industry does not pay enough for university education in Québec, while 59% believe the government does not pay enough and 41% believe students do not pay enough.

SENATE VOTES TO LOBBY GOV’T ON UNIV. FUNDING The McGill administration will lobby the government to investigate alternative methods of university funding, the Senate decided last Wednesday.

The Senate voted unanimously to support a motion by SSMU Vice President (University Affairs) Kate Morisset which asks McGill ad­ ministrators to lobby the government both individually and as mem­ bers of university groups.

Morisset cited a post-educational tax and a tax on industry as pos­ sible methods of funding. She said administrators and faculty had expressed interest in the post-educational tax. Most university mem­ bers feel the current system of university funding is “inadequate,” she added.

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to receive funding for the second term. By the time the money was paid off, there was no money left in The P illa r’s account.

“Somewhere between last year’s P illar and this year’s P illar...there is $3000 missing,” said McNeilly.

McNeilly said the P illa r would be watched more closely from now on.

“We realize that they cannot be an autonomous organization,” McNeilly said.

That attitude of watchfulness is reflected in a new ASUS constitu­ tion, which will be submitted for student approval next fall. The

constitution increases the society’s authority over the Pillar by creat­ ing a new Board of Directors. The Board will consist of two Pillar staff members, two voting ASUS members and one non-voting ASUS member, and one student at large. One of the magazine’s two signing officers will be the ASUS Vice President (Finance).

Press said the new board will “guide the management of the magazine...we don’t want to cen­ sor anything.”

But editor Binnie disagreed.

“They want to put in articles by

people like Richard Press...I don’t think they [ASUS] should be in­ volved at all,” he said.

“Frankly, I don’t think the uni­ versity merits this [magazine’s] quality...there’s not enough aca­ demic or intellectual interest in it..people just don’t read it,” he said.

Coincidentally, the funding cut at the Pillar comes at the end of a difficult fiscal year for the ASUS. Press said the ASUS “spent a lot of money on Open House and Spike Lee.” “Unfortunately, we spent a little too much money.”

Arts and Science voters oppose strike; are split on fee hikes

BY ROBERT STEINER Student’s society leaders are “barking up the wrong tree” in their oppostion to tuition fee in­ creases, ASUS President Jennifer Fraser said last week after a plebi­ scite in her faculty association revealed that Arts and Science students were nearly evenly split on the issue.

A plebescite question asking whether Arts and Science students opposed the hike was favoured by only 515 voters against 513 voters who opposed the question. The question was asked during three days of ASUS elections which attracted an unusually high turnout ofl4 percent Eight hundred and fifty of 1100 voters also opposed a question asking them whether they would favour a student strike to oppose

the fees.

“Science students in particular are completely in favour of the fee hike,” Fraser said.

Science students also voted overwhelmingly to continue con­ tributing $25 each year to a lab equipment fund until another ref­ erendum on the fee is held in 1992.

That decision may reflect a widelyheld view that the tuition fee in­ crease will not give science facul­ ties the money needed to improve labs.

But in a telephone interview Saturday, Fraser complained that science students were partly ig­ nored during the vote.

“There were no polls in the McIntyre [medical] building or the Lyman Duff [Microbiology and Immunology] Building, where a lot of science students spend their

whole days,” Fraser explained.

“Science students always com­ plain about being left out and this is a perfect example of that.”

Chief Returning Officer Eric Steinman admitted he “did not know the Lyman Duff building existed until two days ago” but said polling booths in nearby build­ ings should have accomodated any students on the upper campus.

“If you can walk three blocks to get to a federal polling station, you can walk one building to get to an ASUS booth,” Steinman said.

“Polling booths cost $150 each to set up. Our seven booths were already more than we’d ever had before.”

Last week’s elections also gave McGill’s largest undergraduate CONTINUED ON PAGE 6 page 3

op/ed S c a rle t K e y sn u b s so m e stu d en t le a d e rs To the editor The Scarlet Key award is a sham.

A special little sham, but still a sham.

The award is supposed to be given to outstanding students for their leadership abilities and active involement in student life at McGill. They have made some excellent choices. But by overlooking a number of very deserving students, they have demonstrated that the Scarlet Key Society does not fully understand who makes McGill student life better.

• Blatant Case 1: Jean Charles Viens. 1988-89, very involved in the Programming Network; 198990 VP Finance SSMU. He has worked very hard on Food and Beverage Committee and turned around finances at SSMU. • Other equally appalling oversights: Mike Davies, very active in debating and the Programming Network; Charlie Quinn, Editor of the McGill Tribune; Dave Ohayon, EUS Internal; various Networkites, department and faculty society executives.

McGill Athletes have many awards and generally enjoy a high status on campus. The same is true for McGill’s scholars who receive academic acknowledgement and scholarships. But many students who selflessly spend their time organizing, planning, volunteering, and generally devoting themselves to the benefit of the McGill community do not get any acknowledgement. The Scarlet Key award is supposed to fill this void. Instead it seems to pat some on the back and slap others in the face.

Of course all of these students appreciate the sage-like words of Geoff Warren, chairman [sic] of

S c a rle t K e y W in n ers The Tribune would like to congratulate the following Scarlet Key recipients.

Jean-Paul Bedirian, Pierre G. Boucher, Ian Brodie, Martin Catellier, Eric Darier, Anthony M. Fata, Nathalie Gagnon, Pater Golden, Jul ie Griffin, Mona Gupta, Cyril Jay-Rayon, Shelley B. Krieger, Guy Lafond, Pierre Larouche, Santo Manna, Paul Michell, Kate Morisset, Kelly Nickerson, Patricia Dong-Sook Park, Geoffrey Douglas Phillips, Jo-Anne Pickel, James A. Reeve, Nancy Jennifer Roberts, Robin Ruggiero, Maria Saccucci, Daryl Salama, Lina Souki, Bruce Tracy, Rita Verma, Cameron Young, and an honorary Scarlet Key to Mary Jane Puiu. page 4

the Key selection committee, that “contribution to the student community has given you a lot of personal satisfaction.” These contributors, as Geoff ‘the-nearestto-a-prophet-as-I-know’ so aptly points out, surely get oodles of inner satisfaction from helping out.

This is not the p o in t Geoff. McGill needs to fully acknowledge those who have demonstrated their contributions and leadership skills, no matter how much personal satisfaction they gain.

Perhaps if Scarlet Key Society was a responsible organization and interviewed candidates as they have done in past years, this blunder would not have occurred. Perhaps if Scarlet Key Society truly got grasp of all student leaders, so as to award all who met the criterion then these outrageous oversights would never have happened. Then again perhaps McGill students expect too much from such an apparently innocent process.

Charles Robison Arts Representative to SSMU

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G ra d stu d e n ts reject S S M U E x e c u tiv e p a y ra ise To the Editor: I was puzzled to read in your issue of last week that Students’ society is considering to “raise” the annual incomes of its Executive in order to “be roughly equivalent to the salary of a TA in the arts faculty” in order to “encourage more graduates to run for office”.

The only problem is that the best TA salary at McGill is about $7,300 (including fees) and that according to the article, SSMU President gets an annual income of $9,291.1 am sure that most TAs - and students would love receiving an income “roughly equivalent” to SSMU President!

The existing discrepancy of income between a TA and SSMU President is about $2,000. If grads were only motivated by money, this discrepancy would have been enough to generate a rush amongst the 2000 graduates-TAs to run for

T o ro n to -b ash ers, b e w a re !

To the editor “Honestly guys, I’m not really from Toronto!” Last week’s “Disneyland Tapes” was a classic case of bandwagon jumping, yet another unnecessary “Ooh, look how Yuppie Toronto is” diatribe.

Hey Paul, I love living in Montréal too, but you don’t have to shit on Toronto to prove it; they’re not going to kick you out if you don’t.

Being from Toronto I too have met people who eagerly insult it “yup, I’ve been to Toronto - up and down Yonge Street twice - that was enough for me!”, or the more direct “Toronto, ed? I hate Toronto.” Something tells me they don’t know it very well.

Sure there are irritating bits, but no city is perfect. People seem to ignore the fact that Toronto also has a lot going for it, including a live music scene that puts Montréal to shame. Yes, the drivers are more careful, but I don’t think the reason Montréal is fun and exciting is because you have a better chance of getting run over.

But what really bothers me is this idea that Toronto is completely made of of young execs in Volvos.

Maybe that’s the Toronto Paul knows, but there’s more to it than that. Torontonians come from varied economic and cultural backgrounds, and live in diverse areas, not just some giant sandblasted townhouse. There’s little Portugal, Chinatown, the Greek area on the Danforth, as well as the Indian area in the east and many others. Toronto has the largest concentration of Italians outside of Rome.

Most Torontonians are not waspy bourgeois money-

worshippers, although, like any city experiencing aboom, they are there if you look for them; yuppification is a problem in Toronto, but that is not everything that Toronto is about.

Paul, not all neighbourhoods in Toronto have well-paved streets covered with jeeps and mountain bikes. Why don’t you get on that mountain bike, and have a look around before you try and tell us about it?

Peter Atto U2 History

F a ir r e p o r tin g To the Editor: I wish to express my appreciation to you for the article by Shannon Aldinger in the McGill Tribune of March 20-26,1990.1consider this a fair and accurate account of the situation which we currently face with regard to the Nursing/Social Work Library. The reporter is to be commended for her careful description of both sides of the issue.

Ms. Aldinger’s article was all the more welcome in that a particularly inaccurate and even mischievous article appeared not long before in the McGill D aily.

This article, by one Stéphane StOnge, was so filled with

SSMU office. This hasn’t materialized. The real reasons why graduate students don’t run for SSMUelection are simple; l)grads are not interested in SSMU, and, 2) when grads run for election - even on a pro-SSMU platform - they don’t get elected.

I doubt very much that this financial incentive would encourage more grads to run for SSMU office. First of all, 96% of graduates voted in favour of getting out of SSMU, not in favour of a raise for SSMU executive.

Secondly, SSMU Council has shown again its ignorance of the distinctiveness of graduate students. For example, SSMU executive are expected to work 40 hours a week in the Union building during the summer. This might be good for undergrads. However, many graduates cannot afford spending this amount of time during the summer because they are working on their thesis or in their lab. In any case, most research supervisors would not allow their graduate students to work 40 hours a week for SSMU. SSMU Council should address the real issue and accept the inevitable: graduate autonomy.

Eric Darier VP External, PGSS The Tribune will publish al­ most any letter we receive on a first-come first-serve basis, as long as it is not racist, sexist, homophobic, or promotes con­ spiracy theories.

a p p r e c ia te d inaccuracies, distortions, false attributions and outright fantasies as to be unanswerable. I would like, however, to correct one malicious assertion by Mr St-Onge that the Education Library was one of those being considered for possible merger. This is not true.

The Education Library has never been a candidate for merger except in Mr St-Onge’s imagination.

I am sincerely grateful for the McGill T rib u n e ’s scrupulous account of this contentious issue.

Thank you very much. $incerely, Dr Eric Ormsby Director of Libraries

THE WATCH Firstthere wasHydro Watch where weallleamedthatonany given day there were at least four “small” blackouts, and some really neat explanations. Then there was Ryan Watch where we found that whle Claude is not only a very busy man, his fax number is (418)643-4493.

Unfortunately this week we are reduced to being petty, the Trib. party will be on the 20th, and a lot of serious barley will be consumed.

The McGill Tribune Publisher TheStudents’ $ociety of McGill University Editor-in-Chief Charlie Quinn Assistant Editor Paul Michell News Editors Paul Horwitz Rob 3teiner Features Editors Kelly Gallagher Mackay Stephanie Small Entertainment Editor Kim Farley Sports Editor Nick Leonardos Photo Editor Neal Herbert Layout & Production Editor David Gruber Production Assistants Andrea Hitschfeld, Melissa Meyers, Kirsten Myers, Elaine Palmer, Zoe Rolland Cover Photo Neal Herbert Publications Manager Helene Mayer Staff Craig Bernes, Mike Curry, Marc Drouin, Magdalena Fahmi, Lara Friedlander, Shawn Fry, Sean Gordon, Sam Hayes, Sarah Johnson, Steve Kokker, Aaron Margolis, Linda Miller, Euclidavia Moonfoot, Susie Osier, Joel Schwartz, James Stewart, Andrzej Szymanski, Helga Tawil, John Watson The McGill Tribune is published by the Students' Society of McGill University. Opinions expressed do not necessarily represent Students' Society of McGill University opin­ ions or policy. The Tribune edito­ rial office is located inB-OlAof the University Centre, 3480 McTavish St., Montreal, Québec, H3A 1X9, Telephone 398-6789, 398-3666 Letters and submissions should be left at the editorial office or in the SSMU Office. Letters mustbe kept to two typed pages. Other com­ ments can be addressed to the chair­ person of the Tribune Publication Board and left at the SSMU Office.

The Tribune advertising office is lo­ cated in room B-22, phone 3986777. Publishing is done by Payette and Simms, St.Lambert, P.Q.

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McGill's new Board of Governors Chairman headed anglophone lobby groups

BY PAUL HORWITZ The new Chairman of McGill’s Board of Governors won an Order of Canada for his work as the head of anglophone rights lobby groups in Québec, the University Rela­

rights Positive Action Committee from 1977 to 1982. When the Positive Action Committee and other anglophone groups formed Alliance Québec in 1982, he be­ came that group’s founding chair­ man.

"Vandal attack" could cost Daily $400

BY ROBERT STEINER

“I’m eight years away from Alliance Quebec,” Paterson told the Tribune this week, adding that he currently has no direct involve­ ment in the group.

Paterson said McGill was in a good position in Québec, because

“ C h a m p io n o f th e E n g lis h -sp e a k in g m in o rity in Q u é b e c , a n d o f c o o p e ra tio n - ra th e r th a n s e p a ra tio n - b e tw e e n la n ­ g u a g e g ro u p s ” - P a te rs o n ’s O rd e r o f C a n a d a c ita tio n . tions Office announced last week.

Alex Paterson was elected by the Board to a three-year term as Chairman beginning on July 1. He has been on the Board of Gover­ nors since 1987. Paterson was the Co-Chairman of the anglophone

Paterson won the Order of Can­ ada in 1982. He is described in his citation as a “champion of the English-speaking minority in Québec, andof cooperation - rather than separation - between language groups.”

students could work in an English environment while still enjoying Québec’s culture and language.

“I think it’s a tremendous oppor­ tunity that McGill sits at the middle of the crossroads,” Paterson said.

With a partner, Paterson also bought the Stanstead Journal, an English-language newspaper in the Eastern Townships. He is currently the Chairman of the Board at the Journal.

“It was the oldest English news­ paper and I felt it was a disaster that this thing was about to collapse,” he told the McGill R eporter last week.

Paterson received a law degree from McGill in 1956, and has rep­ resented McGill’s teaching hospi­ tals since 1960. In addition to his law practice, he is on the Board of Directors of the Montréal Neuro­ logical Hospital and Institute. He is also the head of the MacKay Center Foundation, which oper­ ates a rehabilitation center for deaf and physically disabled children.

Paterson said he hopes to main­ tain McGill’s academic reputation while defending the university from poor government funding.

“We’ve just got to chop away at the government funding [problem] to make sure we don ’tget shafted,” said Paterson.

New BoG Chairman Paterson: From one anglo institution to an­ other.

Special final issue next week.

McGill ,Gamers' Guild

General M eeting and Elections April 6th, 1990 6:30 p.m. Union 426 Info: 735:7337

Featuring: Mon: Tues: Wed: Turs: Fri: Sat:

An apparent April Fool’s Day attack on the M cG ill D aily may cost the campus newspaper as much as $400 in damaged equip­ ment and has forced the post­ ponement of today’s D a ily F rançais until Friday, editors at the paper said yesterday.

Vandals hid fourcomputerkey­ boards in a garbage can, cut two cables linking keyboards to com­ puter terminals, put glue in the office’s keyholes and scrawled “April Fool” on the wall, Coordi­ nating Editor Susana Bejar said.

D aily Layout Coordinator Mike Sportza added that another miss­ ing cable, linking the newspaper’s computers to a laser printer, is due to be replaced today but made it impossible to produce any news­ paper last night.

“We will be able to come out with the rest of this week’s edi­ tions. But the postponed D aily F rançais could lose us anywhere between $200 and $500 in adreve­ nue, depending on who wants re­ funds,” Sportza explained.

“This had to be planned. The people who did this knew about computer equipment and they didn’t take anything.”

Bejar says the vandals must have attacked the D aily some­ time between Saturday night and Monday morning, when D aily Français coordinating editor Alan Bowman found keyboards in the office’s garbage can.

The office’s main door shows no sign of forced entry, prompt­ ing Bejar to believe that vandals may have entered the office through a back door next to the D aily andTribune darkrooms.

“This is not something that I have ever heard of happening be­ fore,” she added.

But Union Building Manager Albert Vaskovics says the build­ ing is regularly vandalised during weekends and that the D aily was probably not specifically targeted.

“We can be pretty sure that stu­ dents were behind this and we think it happened on Saturday, but we have no idea who did it or why,” Vaskovics explained.

“On other weekends, people vandalise something or other. This week it just happened to be the D a ily "

Bejar and Vaskovi cs agreed that there is no need to improve Union Building security.

“There is always someone in the building as it is,” Bejar said, adding that things could have been much worse for the campus news­ paper.

“There’s no major equipment missing, the disks that were sto­ len only had old files on them.

Anything that was lostor wrecked is insured, although someone may have had an essay on one of the disks.

“This was a token effort.”

MUC police have not yet said whether they will investigate the apparent vandalism.

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Federal gov't wants Redpath Museum open to public

BY SHAUN FRY The federal Department of Communications has launched an $80,000 feasibility study to look into making McGill’s Redpath Museum more accessible to the public.

Museum officals said the grant

is being used to hire consultants to study a possible renovation of the museum.

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Redpath administrators have used the federal grant to hire Michael Carroll, an official from the Museum Corporation in Ot­ tawa and from the National Mu­ seum of Civilization in Hull, as a consultant in the feasibility study.

Julia Gersovitz, a McGill profes­ sor and partner in the Montréal architecture firmGersovitz Becker Moss, will also look into renovat­ ing the museum to make it more publicly accessible. Redpath ad­ ministrators are discussing how to change the museum’s administra­

tive structure to reflect changes in museum policy.

“One of the main aims is that [the Museum] still maintain a strong liaison with the University,” said Green.

Once the study is complete, the federal Department of Communi­ cations and the McGill administra­ tion will determine whether the entire project should be pursued.

“If die [renovation] program is started up, this will obviously re­ quire much more money from ei­ ther McGill or the government,” Green said.

The required money would be allotted during a time of widespread government and university budget cutbacks. Greenjustified the spend­ ing by saying the project has been planned for several years in con­ junction with plans for other Montréal museums.

“The museum has essentially been closed to the public for too many years,” said Green.

“It now seems like a very rea­ sonable time to [initiate the proj­ ect], and once the study is com­ pleted, hopefully it will be decided to get the complete program started.”

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Acclaimed to the executive were: Vice President-elect (Administra­ tion) Peter Iannuzzi and Vice Presi­ dent-elect (Science) Shawn Khan.

Mary Margaret Jones, Scott Mitic and Lev Bukhman are set to be Arts Reps to the SSMU. Mike tremblay and Muriell Castillo are to be Science Reps to the SSMU. Michelle Horowitz and Erik Lee will be Arts Members-at-Large.

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The lost list: distractions for the unflinchingly bored

BY EUCLIDAVIA MOON The thesauraus can come up with 17 synonyms for “bored” (tired, weary, blasé, apathetic, lethargic, languid, languorous, lassitudinous, listless, detached, indifferent, in­ curious, unconcerned, perfunctory, lukewarm, tepid, pococurante.)

“Entertained” gets only six (diverted, beguiled, amused, en­ thralled, absorbed, piqued.) The adjective ratios are not in our fa­ vour. Start seeking diversion immediately, before your forehead splits open from the weight of brains pushing onto your skull (this frightening accident is caused by excessive leaning over computer terminals.) TA’s don’t take kindly to brain jelly all over that essay, even if it has been carefully proof­ read. Take heart, take a break.

Tuesday, April 3 The Lesson and The B ald S o ­ pra n o run nightly this week at

Player’s. Theatre of the Absurd is the absolute best antidote for stress, topped only by screaming into a cold sink of water. Dharma Head Trio at Quasimodo might also prove useful. Remember to bang your head on the walls. Running all this week in the area of still life visuals: LatinArtCa, shows by local artists originally from Latin Amer­ ica and the Caribbean, all at Com­ plexe Dejardins. (Phone 496-1108

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Friday, April 7

for info). And for those with itchy feet, Life magazine has a photo exhibit out at Marsil Museum in St. Lambert. “Life Through the Sixties.” A tide too vague to pass up, a decade replete with photo opportunities-what will they pick?

Also, get your Jewish folklore fix at Saidye Bronfman with The Sages o f Chelm , nightly performances.

(739-2307). And of course the African Film Fest (see insightful article hovering somewhere around here), on all week (info 284-3322).

Wednesday, April 4 Oh W ednesday ,thou irredeem ­ able day o f week. Wedged in the

middle with a hazy weekend in its distant memory and only dim pros­ pects in its future. Perk yourself up with a little Sam Shephard- the No Free Lunch Theatre Bunch is per­ forming Fool For Love in Arts W. 20. Bring lunch and listen to the bulldozers sing outside. (Presuma­ bly working on Moyse Hall, a delicious irony) This one’s a steal at $ 1.00. In the evening you have a choice of B eh in d the V eil , a docu­ mentary on nuns (free, FDA 7:30) or R oadkill, a “rock nToad movie about a girl who learns to drive”, now playing all month at the Paris.

Film #2 has pictures of cute bun­ nies all over the poster. Sadistic.

Skip both and go see Kenneth

Brana gh stride like a God through Henry V at the Rialto. It’s also Blues Jam at G Sharp, Omar and the Howlers play Café Campus, and Native Spirit are into their second night at Club Balattou.

Thursday, April 5 Jezebel on at Leacock, 7:30.

Bette Davis in her most frighten­ ing glory. Jazz Multi-Ultra at the Café Centrale. James McDonald plays a benefit for women’s shel­ ters at Bar G-Sharp. Also, to bust up all that subliminal alliteration comingatyou, Michael Perm plays the Spectrum, along with the intriguingly named Toad Wet

STARTING TODAY, that moment we’ve all been waiting (qt...E rnest G oes To J a il opens at theatres everywhere. Previews feature Ernest digging his way under the wall with a giant kitchen spoon. I for one am excited. Much cheaper to go see theatresports at 10:00 in Player’s Theatre, though they lack that manic energy. Also don’t forget to get your tickets for Peter Murphy and the Nine Inch Nails(April 18 at Metropolis),The Blushing Brides’ tribute to the Rolling Stones (April 13, Club Soda). Also try out for Ed Solo­ mon’s Variety Show- he needs singers, stand-ups, dancers, and yodelers (no joke). 731-7771.

Saturday, April 7 I have only one thing left to say.

Casablanca. (Leacock at 7:30)

A rt pilgrimage down Sherbrooke yields art finds

BY MARC DROUIN Alright, so this isn’t Montpar­ nasse and it’s not exactly Soho either, but Montréal does have a few points of interest for the afici­ onado of art. Take Sherbrooke street for example. A number of smaller galleries there offer a dynamic and constantly changing variety of art for the curious.

The atmosphere within the galleries is relaxed and open to the casual in­ quisitiveness most art admirers demonstrate.

Heading west, the first stop is the Walter Klinkhoff gal­ lery. Concentrating mainly on Canadian artists, the gallery has an interesting assortment of 19th and early 20th century works including those by members of the Group of Seven. The gallery puts on approxi­ mately four major exhibitions a year, with styles ranging from the realistic to the modem style which Les Fauves dabbled in around the turn of the century.

Next stop along the gallery strip is the Lippel gallery, which spe­ cializes in African, Pre-Columbian and Inuit work. If effigies are your thing, there is ample opportunity to indulge here.

The Bernard Desroches gallery has various works from the 19th century, including numerous Ro­ mantic and Neo-Classical paint­ ings, including Arthur Fitgler’s piece depicting a battle scene from the Iliad- almost exactly what one would expect to find under the

Neo-Classical heading. The Desroches gallery is definitely worth looking into.

Finally, there is the Claude La­ fitte gallery. A new exhibit of its latest acquisitions features works

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Chagall and Jean-Paul Riopelle.

Riopelle’s “Fionta” is of particular note. One can only speculate as to the mentality of Riopelle when he completed the work. The “Fionta” de-constructs the subject to un­ cover the pure emotion underneath.

There seemed to be purpose in the

apparent confusion, the intention becomes visible by the various shades and tonality of his effort.

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A magazine which began last fall isW igwag, which is similar to H ar­ p e r 's in its assortment of grab-bag items, but is more fiction-oriented.

Its most interesting section is ‘Let­ ters From Home’, which prints in­ teresting little stories from writers and readers. W igwag is a promising magazine which occasionally tries to sound a little too New Englandish (it’s actually from New York).

Just about everybody already reads S py , an unabashedly New York-oriented satirical monthly.

Those who don’t read the magazine may be too late, as S py has been losing its edge recendy in its fever to find more readers. But this maga­ zine, which sets its comedic barbs into every person and subject it can find, is still a great read. Check out the Spy List, an encoded list of names which quietly betrays embarrassing secrets about the people named. And remember, Spy pioneered the use of “short-fingered vulgarian” as a term for Donald Trump.

For Canadian content, the strong­ est bet would have to be Saturday N ight. This magazine’s popularity has been increasing recently, with good reason. Its columnists are at best lackluster and clichéd, but it has a superb range of investigative and feature pieces that are so excit­

ing it’s hard to remember they’re Canadian. Politically savvy and cynical, without resorting to the whining and cavilling of other Ca­ nadian political magazines such as This M agazine.

Despite the hit-or-miss tendencies of the alternative press, it does pro­ vide a lot of interesting and hard-tofind stories. That’s whereU tne R eader comes in. This magazine, which comes out every two months, publishes the most controversial, interesting, and amusing stories from the alternative press, as well as some from the mainstream press. Its spe­ cialty is looking at an issue by using stories from different magazines dealing with the topic. Tough to find, but well worth finding.

Finally, there is the strangest and most enjoyable magazine around, M onk. This magazine is published quarterly by two gay men who travel the United States in andpublish from a mobile home (they call their enter prise “the world’s first totally home­ less magazine”), writing about re­ gions such as Texas and the Ozarks.

They’re obviously good guys, and their style - a combination of down home and ironic - is a joy to read.

This one is almost impossible to find, but you’ll find it very addic five.

I feel like I should be standing or my head instead of trying to review Eugene Ionesco’s plays. That’: probably what the absurdist play wright would have appreciated best When his play The L esson opened ir 1951, he was pelted with rottinj vegetables, which was exactly wha he had been hoping for. Neverthe less, no organic material is likely t( be thrown at the superb double-bil o (T h e B a ld Soprano and T heL esso currently at the McGill Players Theatre.

The B a ld Soprano is an “anti play”, a mock drawing-room fare enthusiastically concerned wit deflating the British national chai acter. Apart from that, it’s aboi nothing at all, since there’s no res plot and/or character developmen Mr. and Mrs. Smith (Andrew Morr and Diana Solomon) bicker with eac other and the maid (Roxann Maranger) at their house in a Loi don suburb. Another couple, M and Mrs. Martin (Ken Cameron ar Nicole Zylstra) drop in. Polite coi versation is interrupted by the ei trance of the Fire Chief (Da\ Pluskauskas) who tells a few stori< and charms them all, and then ever one goes home to bed.

It sounds uninspiring, and in fa Ionesco is hard to do well. His no: sensical dialogue heavily relies c subtext There’s not much profu dity to be found in lines like “I w give you my mother-in-law’s sli pers if vou give me your fathei coffin 'onesco’s plays stand or fs on their interpretation, and this ps ticular rendition is so imaginative hyperactive that you’re pulled rig

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Journées du cinéma Africain offers glimpses

BY STEVE KOKKER

lays 'play' Theatre in. Alter all, could you tail to be charmed by a climax where one of the dinner guests stands on a chair yelling “Cascades of caca” at the top of his lungs? There’s even a little sex ► tossed in (but of course, it’s all sub­ text).

The acting is all just fine, espe­ cially Solomon, who as Mrs. Smith is all popping eyes and spasms. The Dr. Seuss in black and white sets are great, and the costumes give the production a professionalism which MPT often lacks.

The other play on the bill, The Lesson, is about a wide-eyed young pupil (Rebecca Taichman) and her professor (Evan Solomon) who is a combination of fractured nerves and pompous verbiage. Solomon can certainly enunciate, which is quite effective as he tortures his slow but willing pupil with his knowledge.

However, The Lesson was not as successful as its predecessor. This is partly because of a problem with the direction. In a way, the play is about the exchange of power, and should start off with the pupil at first confi­ dent and in control and then gradu­ ally losing it as the professor turns into a monster at her expense. In this production, the relationship is not clearly established at the outset, so the result is one-note weirdness. To be fair though, the play itself just isn’t as good. Even the knowledge that it’s supposed to be boring and repetitious doesn’t alter the fact that it is boring and repetitious, at least some of the time. It’s still worth seeing, however, because of what Ionesco was trying to do and because both productions really are good.

They’re more fun than Gert’s, and only a staircase away.

The 6th annual Journées du cinéma Africain starts on April 2nd in an atmosphere of greaterjubilation than in previous years; the recent politi­ cal events in South Africa are defi­ nitely positive signs of change. Yet the innumerable social hardships of those living on the world’s second largest continent should not be over­ shadowed by political advances, and the films in this unique festival pro­ vide priceless glimpses into the difficultiesofcultures farremoved from our own.

This seven-day festival features 90 films and videos from 26 differ­ ent African and Creole countries.

Screenings are being held at the Goethe Institute, the Cinémateque Québécoise and the NFB Cinéma and cost only $3.50 each.

This year, many films bravely deal with seldom-discussed topics. Indi­ vidual rights are highlighted, par­ ticularly those dealing with feminist concerns. Women make up over half of the earth’s population, do twothirds of the world’s work, and re­ ceive one-tenth of the world’s sala­

ries, one film tells us. We see how the unquestioned imbalance between the sexes is kept in place by the over­ stuffed egos of the male population.

F inzan (Cinémateque, April 3, 9:15; Goethe, April 4, 7:30) is the first African feature film to deal with the surprisingly common custom of excision - the removal of the clitoris.

There are some 80 million women around the world who have under­ gone this crudely-done ‘operation’ or have had their vaginal lips either partially cut off or sewn together in a process called infibulation. This practice, widely accepted in many countries as a rite of passage to­ wards greater maturity and respon­ sibility, has come under criticism

and is increasingly seen as the asser­ tion of control by men.

This contentious issue, also ex­ plored in another festival film, M a fille ne sera p a s excisee, will be­ come an important issue in Africa in the next few years as more and more women are taught that they don’t have to undergo this painful proceedure. F inzan sparked much controversy after its premiere in Bamako, Mali.

B adis (Cinémateque, April 6,9:15; Goethe, April 7, 7:30), filmed in Morocco, is an excellent and often humorous look at the destructive power system men have imposed to keep women tightly under wraps. A teacher drags his flirtatious wife to a

small village where he can keep an eye on her. She forms aclose friend­ ship with a local woman and to­ gether plot to escape from their re­ pressive lives. B adis is consistently interesting and smooth-flowing, and about as close to a mainstream film as you see in African cinema.

The African Film Festival opens a window onto an unfamiliar world and shows that there’s more to the Dark Continent than the violent images we see on the news. Many of these films have a looser narra­ tive structure than Canadians are used to, and they take the time to focus on fascinating aspects of daily life. Trésor des poubelles, for ex­ ample, is a series of shorts examin­ ing the various uses of waste prod­ ucts such as empty bottles and coke cans.

Other festival highlights include M apantsula, a South African film dealing with the political situation in Soweto, and Yaaba, which won the Prix delà Critique at Cannes last year.

Screenings continue through April 8. For more information, call 284-3322.

Opportunity Knocks?

This Wednesday last a promotional screening was held for O pportunity Knocks, the new film starring Dana Carvey of Saturday Night Live fame. It was a sparkjing evening, attended by a multitude of mature, well-behaved high school and CEGEP students. Unfortunately the film was less than sparkling.

O pportunity K nocks is a farce with no premise; a movie for ten year olds - deserving of a G rating. Carvey fans may laugh, but they will certainly feel guilty afterwards. Any line that was not already cliché could certainly have become so. If you can get in for free, and you have nothing better to do, don't go. -David Gruber

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The Homeless They present one of the most heart­ rending problems in cities today.

Homeless people are such a diverse group that finding a common solution is nearly impossible. In the past few months efforts have been made to improve the situation of Montréal's homeless.

Reaching out to h elp you n g p eop le

BY MIKE CURRY It’s late evening on acold, snowy Montréal night. She moves through the metro stations, the bus terminals,the shopping malls ...anywhere to keep warm. She has no money, no home, and the pains from her empty stomach are grow­ ing stronger and stronger. She is new to the streets, as her fatherjust kicked her out in a drunken rage.

She is scared, alone and only thir­ teen years old.

This scene is an all too common one for the forgotten children of Montréal. Rather than ignoring the problem, Father Emmett Johns is trying to help youths without homes.

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of a social system that does not take into account the needs of street kids.

Many kids on the street have decided to go it alone after becom­ ing fed up with being shuffled between foster homes. They are left without any kind of protection or help because there are no shel­ ters and few services for youth without homes. Many turn to pros­ titution as the only way to survive.

Through D ans La R ue, Johns sends out a van stocked with food, clothing and condoms to help street kids. Four nights a week, Johns, two full-time employees and three volunteers drive through Montréal streets handing out supplies and providing support. They will set up medical appointments or inter­ views with social workers for street kids, and provide letters of recom­ mendation.

“Here I can talk to people on my own level. They really look out for

me - without them I’d starve,” says Scott, a seventeen year old in a black leather jacket.

Darryl Macdonald, one of the full-time employees and a soonto-be ordained Presbyterian min­ ister, explained the need for the program. “The problem is that society is not listening to street kids. We must break down the barriers and start looking at them as people. We listen to their prob­ lems as a friend, not simply some­ one who’s doing a job.”

One of the more controversial aspects of D ans L a R ue consists of the straightforward way it deals with prostitution and drug use. It hands out a “bad trick list” that describes “customers” who have assaulted prostitutes. It is also associated with CACTUS, an or­ ganization funded by the govern­ ment that hands out condoms and exchanges clean syringes for used ones.

Critics accuse such organizations of supporting prostitution and drug use. But Macdonald points out that regardless of whether or not these services are provided, street kids will continue to try to survive the only way they know how. By pro­ viding condoms and clean needles, workers hope they are saving lives.

Most of the volunteers in the D ans La R ue van are students. The street kids can relate to people close to their own age, and can also see an image of how they could be leading lives off the street.

The volunteers acquire a certain satisfaction frombeing able to help.

But the experience can also be stressful and depressing.

“After spending a number of hours on the van with them it is not easy to see them leave and disap­ pear into the streets,” says volun­ teer Ruthie Edelstein, a McGill student.

La Rue" The frustration that is felt by the limitations of what the street work­ ers can do is compounded by a lack of (unds.D ansLaR ue needs money to replace its run-down van. The organization would also like to set up a permanent shelter for street kids.

“We can give them a place to eat and sleep, but these arejust tempo­ rary,” says Macdonald.

The establishment of a youth shelter is prohibited unless it fol­ lows strict guidelines set out by the Youth Protection Act. The time required to become eligible-with all the required cutting of red tapeis time workers feel street kids don't have.

When Macdonald goes home after spending the night helping kids on the street, he finds it hard to sleep. “I think a lot about what we have accomplished...and I think a lot about the bed I have to sleep in.”

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Baumohl provides a definition of homelessness

BY GALLAGHER MACKAY Walking along Prince Arthur Avenue, the plaintive whine of a tuneless harmonica cuts through the air regardless of season. The woman who plays the instrument is part of a group who are the most obvious symbol of poverty in Canada: the homeless.

In the last few years, Professor Jim Baumohl has taught the Social Work course Poverty and Social W ork with a very specific orienta­ tion. He uses the history of home­ less people to illustrate some as­ pects of poverty and society’s particularly Social Work’s - re­ sponse to the problem.

Students have a real curiosity about the homeless today. Not everyone is comfortable, however, with talking to or about individu­ als who live on the streets.

Most of us “have an aversion to beggars,” according to Baumohl, because they represent “an intru­ sion on the orderliness and pleas­ antness of our daily lives.”

The use of the term homeless is heavily loaded, according to Baumohl. Some people include only those individuals who live in shelters when defining the term.

The people in this category are often those with severe problems, such as mental disorders, alcohol­ ism and drug addiction. With these people, says Baumohl, it is “easy

to say it’s their fault.”

group is made up of “millions of people rather than a few tens of thousands,” says Baumohl. The larger group lives a lifestyle that Baumohl describes as “a fairly common outcome of grinding poverty.”

Because homelessness so de­ fined is much more widespread, it has broader implications for social policy. To treat a problem of this scale would require “re-opening the war on poverty,” argues Baumohl, instead of the “safe, contained social service approach” presently preferred by govern­ ments.

The approach of the course also reinforces that conclusion. By delving into history, Baumohl

Baumohl defines homelessness as “a condition of precarious hous­ ing, including those who pay an astronomical portion of their in­ come in rent, ••• who frequently become displaced.”

This group is less visible. Al­ though they are “only one calam­ ity away from the street,” they could be described as ‘normal.’ Baumohl says that in their lifestyle, “they resemble the characteristics of the poor in general.”

When the homeless population includes this vulnerable group, the size of the homeless population increases dramatically. In the United States, for example, the

poses the question, “how much of what we see today was rehearsed in past economic crises?” This historical view points to the con­ clusion that the group of people who live on the streets today has highly predictable characteristics.

Poverty and Social W ork has received an excellent student re­ sponse, which has produced a high level of student demand. There are about fifteen spaces for non-social work students, although Baumohl warns that he “handpicks each and every one.”

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BY MAGDALENA FAHRNI Between ten and fifteen thou­ sand people on the streets of Montréal have no place to call home. Lacking shelter, employ­ ment and often without adequate nourishment and health care, they are the people most in need of Canada’s welfare provisions.

Until recently, the homeless

could not claim welfare simply because they had no address at which to receive their government cheques.

In November of 1989, a Montréal-based group, Project Gene­ sis, set out to rectify this problem.

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Counting the homeless

BY STEPHANIE SMALL In an attempt to understand the size of the problem of the homeless, next year Canada will be following the United States’ lead by including a count of the homeless in the national census.

Two weeks ago, 15000 census-takers set out to count the people living in shelters, bus stations, abandoned buildings and alleys across the United States. The results will help government officials allocate funding for the homeless and for programs for the more general needs of the poor.

Although the homeless will be acknowledged as people who ‘count* for the first lime, the project is not without its critics. Advocates for the homeless point to the difficulties of coming up with an accurate count In the U.S., census takers missed many people on the street, and only a fraction of the people who spent the night in shelters filled out census forms.

Any attempt to enumerate the homeless “will inevitably result in a great undercount,” says McGill Social Work Professor Jim Baumohl.

Rather than leading to increased aid to the homeless, advocates fear that “an undercount will deflate funding,” says Baumohl.

From an academic or social service point of view, “the census isn’tcapable of collecting the kind of data we’d want to have about the homeless,” says Baumohl.

Because it does not provide the qual itative data necessary to be able toaddress red problems of the homeless, Baumoh 1 considers the census “really irrelevant to the study ofhomeless as a problem.” There is a particular lack of information about psychological health, drug addiction and alcoholism.

Although there are numerous limitations to this process, some observers are encouraged by government recognition of the situation of the people on the street.

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lished to enable the home­ less to receive welfare cheques. The fight to expand this programme will continue next month.

According to Domin­ ique McCaughey of Proj­ ect Genesis, the pro­ gramme operates on two principles. First, under section 59 of the Welfare Act, welfare recipients can pick up their cheques at their local welfare offices.

The radical aspect ot die programme is to use community organizations as mailing addresses for the homeless. This encour­ ages street people who might be intimidated by a bureaucratic environment to come forward.

The programme also allows workers at the community centres to assess and try to respond to recipients’ other needs.

Although the main prob­ lem of the homeless is a lack of shelter, their cases are often complicated by mental disorders, malnu­ trition and substance abuse.

Montréal is the first city in Canada to have adopted the programme. The city is divided into nineteen welfare districts, each of which has one community groupacting as an address.

Organizations catering Counting only those people on the streets excludes the vast number of to specific sectors of the people who are "only one calamity away from the street" population, such as the Native Friendship Centre, also act as addresses for the home­ simply move from shelter to shel­ of identification required to claim less. Ten of these groups, mainly ter. For obvious reasons, Project welfare. These restrictions have in the downtown area and the east Genesis has no interest in “playing prevented Project Genesis from helping many of those most in need end, are in the process of being detective” in this situation.

The government was initially of welfare. recognized.

Project Genesis attempts to Of the fifty-five people that reluctant to implement the pro­ Project Genesis has helped since gramme for fear of being inun­ conduct six-month long “follow­ last December, ten found perma­ dated with applicants. As a result up” checks on clients to determine nent addresses after a month. Cur­ they have put several other restric­ their needs and whether or not they rent government policy allows the tions in place. Under the new wel­ have signed a lease and obtained homeless to receive their cheques fare law, the housing allowance of employment. By extending the at a Project Genesis address for a $85 a month is deducted from the “two consecutive months” clause maximum of two consecutive welfare cheques of the homeless to a longer, ideally indefinite, pe­ riod of time, they would stand a since they “have no need for it.” months. greater chance of servicing the Furthermore, many of the home­ After that time a person must have a fixed address. Many less do not possess the two pieces needs of the homeless.

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FOURTH IN A SERIES Over the last three weeks we have addressed various aspects of the financial problems faced by McGill athletics. To conclude the series, this week we take a look at the general philosophy and atti­ tude of McGill - from staff to stu­ dent.

From a distance, you might think that McGill University contains a student body filled with vigour and enthusiasm for its varsity teams.

Usually, schools like McGill have developed a great sense o f tradi­ tion and support for their teams.

But the school at the heart of Montréal whose sporting history goes back to the late 1800s is dif­ ferent.

McGill suffers from a chronic case of apathy. It starts at the staff level and the malaise carries on right into the students.

McGill’s Athletic Director, Bob Dubeau, had a lot to say about this in a recent interview.

“There’s no question that there is not a tremendous amount of support from the university com­ munity for intercollegiate sports,” he said choosing his words care­ fully.

“There are certainly some people in the administration, the Principal (David Johnson) is one, who [are] very, very keen supporters of the athletic programmes. There are not a lot o f others. People say McGill students are kind of apathetic, well, I think that McGill faculty and staff are twice as apathetic. The number of faculty members at a football game we could probably count with two hands.”

There is obviously a problem.

People try to argue that McGill teams get poor attendance at games because Montréal is a diverse city

with so many different things to do. But on a Saturday afternoon in the fall there’s no contingent of people heading out to Gert’s or Peel Pub. There are also very few people heading out to Molson sta­ dium for a football game.

An honest estimate of average attendance at McGill football games this year would be about 2500. The hockey team would have to be playing UQTR if it were to make a substantial draw and the Currie Gym usually looks full because it’s so small. Sports other than the big three suffer even more from a lack of fan support.

So what is the problem?

“One o f the things about McGill,” said Dubeau, “is that we have become more of a 9 to 5 type of institution than a lot of people would like. Not only a lot of stu­ dents but a lot of professors come here and do their job and go home and don’t do a whole bunch else for McGill. That’s depressing (and) demoralizing.”

McGill Redmen hockey star Tim Iannone is not so certain it is apa­ thy that our school suffers from.

“I don ’t know if you could really call it apathy to be honest with you,” the fourth year Economics major said. “I’ve talked to hockey players from other universities and they don’t get any better support than us. It’s a mystery to me why people don’t come out and support us all the time.”

Tina Fasone o f the Martlets basketball team agrees.

“I think there is general apathy but it is not unique to McGill. It’s like this everywhere. Some people feel intercollegiate sports are not as good as say, professional or the NCAA with basketball.”

Iannone offered this explanation: “A lot o f people here are very academic [minded] and haven’t

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The state of athletics at McGill: Apathy is our motto

been brought up going to sport events, so maybe they’re just not interested.”

Travelling around to various intercollegiate events, one discov­ ers that Iannone and Fasone have made a good observation in point­ ing out that apathy is not unique to McGill.

And yet there are anomalies, such as Queen’s Homecoming Game and the Carleton-Ottawa Panda football game. The McGill-Concordia rivalry is strong as well. But these are exceptions to the rule.

“There are certainly a number of things that we can do and probably should be doing with regards to

gettting the university community more involved in the intercolle­ giate sports programme,” said Dubeau.

Plans include the hiring o f a full time person to promote and seek support for McGill athletics.

It remains to be seen if these things will be done.

Covington's gold a hint of bigger things to come

BY SEAN GORDON There are two exceptional male athletes who run track for McGill.

The 100 metre dash man, Bruny Surin, is hoping to compete for Canada in the 1992 Barcelona Games. The other, a second year Geography major from Westmount, specializes in hurdles. His name is Dereck Covington and he has just completed a very satisfy­ ing season.

Three weeks ago he won a CIAU gold medal for the 60 meter hurdles, a first for a McGill athlete.

“I was really happy with my performance at the Cl AUs because that’s the most important winter meet o f the year for me; the provin­ cial club championships and all the prior events work up to the CIAUs. It also helps me gauge where I am in terms of preparation for the outdoor season and more

specifically for the Canadian Track and Field Championships.”

The fact that the Canadian Na­ tionals this year will be held at the new Claude Robillard track here in Montréal is a definite plus for Covington, whose main goal this year is to win a medal and to earn a spot on the senior national team.

This will not be easy, Covington mentions that he hasn ’t yet had the opportunity to race against some of the higher-caliber athletes this year because a few elected to pass up the CIAUs. The sprinter’s de­ termination and resolve haven’t been dampened by these factors, and if all goes well, months of exhausting training will bear fruit in the summer o f 1990.

In the aftermath o f the Ben Johnson steroid scandal, Coving­ ton readily admits that the legiti­ macy of the Canadian track scene

is still in question. “The Canadian Track and Field Association has played a very positive and pivotal role in the effort to remove the problem from our track clubs. The new random testing and disclosure o f offenders’ policies have had a profound impact on the way that athletes and coaches go about their training.”

Covington also appears to be of the mind that these recent reforms have demonstrated the willingness o f track’s governing body to adapt itself to the growing concerns of Canadian track enthusiasts towards this highly sensitive issue.

It seems, however, that track has begun its resurgence, and it is young athletes such as Dercck Coving­ ton and fellow student-athlete Bruny Surin who, with steadily improving results, might someday return Canada to Olympic glory.

D e re c k C o vin g to n w on M c G ill's fir s t-e v e r g o ld a t th e C IA U s

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Paul Brousseau: M cGill's big blue collar all-star For the affable Paul Brousseau, playing basketball is almost a job.

Watching him play is like watch­ ing an engine - the guy works and works. This year, he was the hero in many a game for the McGill Redmen.

Brousseau started playing ball in grade 9 at Sir Robert Borden High in Nepean, Ontario. “I was really bad that year, totally unco­ ordinated.” he says. In the summer between grades 9 and 10, he grew from 5’10" to 6 ’4", and beginning in grade 11, he began to improve by similar leaps and bounds. “I worked a lot on my rebounding and began to get more confidence.”

In 1986 he came to McGill to en­ roll in a Management program.

Why McGill? “It’s a great school, and I got into the program I wanted (Entrepreneurship con­ centration with a Finance minor).

And in my senior year of high school, I watched McGill beat Concordia by 30 points on TSN when Concordia was number 1 in the country.”

It has not been easy forBrousseau to stay away from the injury bug.

He broke his ankle in grade 11 playing against now-Guelph star Tim Mau in the city finals. In his second year at McGill, he broke his wrist in practice after a solid start. Last season, he was among the league’s rebounding leaders before fracturing his foot in prac­ tice.

This season, “Horse” had a spec­ tacular year. He was the number two rebounder in Canada, fourth in scoring, and an OUAA first team All-Star. He was the CIAU athlete o f the week on January 15 and won

the December and January Molson Cups. In many people’s opinion, it is a black mark against the CIAU that he was not selected as an AllCanadian.’This year, I had a slow start,” he explained, “but then I had a couple of 30-point games, and I got a lot more confidence.

The guys started giving me the ball more, and I was putting it in. In other years, I would worry about making mistakes and getting pulled, but this year Ken (coach Schildroth) kept me in a lot longer.

The confidence level has a lot to do with that - it was mainly this year that Dave (Steiner) and Mike (Soussan) showed their faith in me, and I got the ball a lot. It seemed like Dave just knew where I was all the time, he had that sixth sense.”

Brousseau hit the 30-point pla­ teau seven times this year. He averaged 23.8 points and 12.3 rebounds per game. He put down a career-high 38 points against Ot­ tawa in January after scoring 28 points and 26 rebounds against Carleton the week before. He broke David Steiner’s single-season scoring record with 429 points in 18 regular season games.

The Redmen lost to Bishop’s in the OUAA East semi-final playoff to end their season. “W e’re in such a tough division”, says Brousseau, “that any team can beat any other team on a given night. That time, it was Bishop’s night - they’re a great defensive team, no question, and they just shut us down.” The sea­ son wasn’t a total disappointment, though. “We hadn’t beaten Con­ cordia in 10 games, so the win against them was a big one for us (93-86 victory in the Stingers’ gym).”

Win or lose, it’s great to play on

a team as loose as this one. “The guys aren’t all serious or anything.

We might not win the most games, but I can’t see any team having more fun than we do.”

Right now, Brousseau sees next year as a question mark. “It de­ pends a lot on which players come back next year. Dave and Mike and Ariel (Franco) could all still re­ turn, and we’re getting some good recruits. Then there are team ques­ tions - we have to concentrate more defensively. W e’ll still be the underdog, but I’d rather be the underdog than the favourite any­ time.” With the three seniors’ re­ turns doubtful at best, the Redmen could be quite the underdogs next year.

Brousseau is realistic in his plans for his senior year and his career.

“If I have any goal, it’s to win next year. Every other year I’ve been here, w e’ve lost in the playoffs after having a good lead. I want to at least make it to the Nationals before I’m done playing.” This summer and after university, he plans to work in a securities firm.

“Next year, I’ll be taking courses for a Finance minor, which is my main interest.” When asked about going pro, he shrugs. “It’s hard to make teams in Europe, because a lot of leagues only allow two imports per team. Someone like Dave might be able to do it because he’s such a gifted player. I’d have to work a lot on my game to even try that The ideal situation would be one where I can play ball and work part-time in the field of fi­ nance.”

After such a great year, Brousseau will be hard-pressed to improve on his performance. But he’ll work on it.

Summer Gym mem berships available From May 7 through August 18, 1990, the Department of Athletics opens its doors to the general public. For McGill students, this means that if you hope to take advantage of the athletic facilities during the summer, you will have to pay a summer membership fee, albeit a reduced one. Day passes are also available.

Memberships may be purchased for either the Currie Gym, the ten­

nis courts, or the Molson Stadium track. A combined membership is also available for access to all the athletic facilities.

Gym memberships for full-time McGill students are $35 for two months and $53 for four. For the general public, the rates are $55 and $84, respectively.

Tennis memberships are $35 (two months) and $53 (four months) for McGill students. For the public, it’s $66 and $109.

For the richer and more healthy,

the combined membership is $56 for two months, and $89 for four.

General public rates for combined membership are $104 and $152.

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Zazou has been a staple for many sports fans over the past 3 years, and has just about every game being

played on a given night, but doesn ’t have food. The sad part is to enjoy Zazou, you’ll have to get there soon. The place is in the process of closing. Also in that area is Bar St. Laurent. Yes the famed BSL does show hockey. Even though they have only one big screen, if it’s the game you want to see, it’s a great place to watch a game, and the crowd is fun to watch if the game gets boring.

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As the 1990 version o f the McGill athletics debutante ball approaches this Friday night, the question of the evening will be, just whose coming out party will we be celebrating?

Who will be this year’s Prince Charming and Cinderella, the male and female athlete of the year?

There are four up for the role of Cinderella.

Swimmers Alexa Bagnell and Robin Ruggiero, squash player Jennifer Beck, and soccer star Barbara Bruckert are all in the running for the coveted “Air-Slip­ pers”, complete with pumps.

The award recipient must be a graduating student or in her final year o f collegiate eligibility. Thus, such top athletes as basketballers Tina Fasone and Debby Morse, rower Leslie Fellows, and swim­ mer Andrea Nugent are not in the running.

Other considerations for the top female athlete are involvement within the McGill community, and participation on school commit­ tees and boards.In a sense the award goes to the top all-round female athlete/citizen/student.

R uggiero, known as the “Rocket”, was one of the best McGill female swimmers this year.

She qualified for five events at the Nationals and at the Potsdam meet won an astounding six gold med­ als.

Jennifer Beck, one of Canada’s leading squash players, is currently ranked fourth in Québec.

The race will probably come down to Bagnell and Bruckert.

Bruckert was the second leading scorer in the the Québec Univer­ sity Soccer League. She also scored two playoff game-winning goals in her team’s drive to the national finals.

Bagnell not only won six golds and one silver medal at various meets, she also received a Rhodes Scholarship, in addition to her activities on numerous McGill councils. The early money is on Bagnell.

While only four are in the run­ ning for the women’s award, there are six auditioning to be Cinder­ ella’s catch of the evening. The male athlete of the year is given to the person deemed to have brought the most credit to McGill by way o f his athletic performance.

The first hopeful is skier Pavel Pochobradsky, who won his third

Québec downhill title in four years.

Redmen soccer captain John Hayward, a second team All-Ca­ nadian led his league in goal scor­ ing for the fourth time in his career.

McGill hockey goal tender Jamie Reeve won the OUAA most valu­ able player award.

Football defensive lineman (Ravishing) Paul Kerr was named the team’s top defensive player and was selected by the Toronto Argonauts in the third round o f the CFL draft.

The final two aspirants to the Prince Charming award are from

the McGill mens basketball team.

David Steiner was a league allstar and averaged over 20 points a game.

His teammate Paul Brousseau shared the league MVP award and was the league’s top rebounder and second leading scorer.

Because the voting takes place so late in the second semester it will probably hurt Paul Kerr’s and John Hayward’s chances.

Though both are great athletes the two do not stand out in the manner Mike Soles did in the past few' years.

And although David Steiner had a superb season he was hampered by injuries and spent much time in the shadow of Paul Brousseau.

Brousseau put up incredible numbers all season including a dazzling 28 point, 26 rebound performance that has to rate as the best game of the year by any McGill athlete.

On that basis eliminate Steiner from the race.

Jamie Reeve will receive some consideration, however his sub par playoff performance should take him out of the running.

The race will come down to two men, Pochobradsky and Brousseau.

My guess is the winner will be Brousseau, simply because bas­ ketball is much more publicized than skiing. Brousseau’s name and accomplishments stand out more and therefore give him the edge.

So there it is, Paul Brousseau, alias Oscar Madison, alias the Horse, will have another alias on Friday night. Prince Charming.

Accompanying Prince Chaming in the Chariot of Fire will be Cin­ derella, Alexa Bagnell.

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MCGILL STUDENTS' SOCIETY STUDENT LEADER REGISTRATION A t t e n t io n a ll M c G ill S t u d e n t L e a d e r s :

The 1990/91 President Editor, Chairperson, Co-Ordinatior or Chief Officer of any McGill student Club, Society, Publication, Service, Council, Committee or Association must register with the McGill Students Society

SUMMER REGISTRATION FORM 1. O r g a n i z a t i o n C am pus A d d ress

(R o o m N o .)

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(2 ) C a m p u s T e l e p h o n e N o ( s ) .( l ) 2 . Y o u r o r g a n i z a t i o n is r e c o g n iz e d b y t h e

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(N.B. Only the Students' So cie ty, the 14 Faculty and School Societies and the Students' Athletics Council have the authority to recognize other campus groups.)

3 . N a m e o f C h i e f O f f ic e r S u m m er A d d ress (N o .)

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NO LATER THAN APRIL 16, 1990.

R e g s t r a t io n a llo w s M c G ill o r g a n iz a t io n s t o :

1. be able to book space in the University Centre; 2. be able to book space in other cam pus buildings at McGill rates; 3. receive the summer edition of the McGill Student Leader Bulletin; 4. be kept informed about the leadership seminar in September; 5. receive updates to the User's Guide.

Campus groups not registered by April 16th will be considered inactive and will lose all campus privileges until such time as they are reinstated.

Student leaders must complete the form below or obtain a "Summer Registration" form from the Students' Society General Office University Centre, Room 105 3 4 8 0 McTavish Street com plete it and hand it in by A P R I L 1 6 T H to Leslie Copeland, Operations Secretary.

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(3) S u m m e r T e le p h o n e (l) 4 . I f y o u w ill n o t b e in the M ontreal area during the sum m er, p le a se fill in the n am e and sum m er adress o f o n e m em b er o f your organ ization w h o w ill b e in M ontreal.

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(3) S u m m e r T e l e p h o n e ( l ) ---------------------------( 2 ), 5.

A U T H O R IZ A T IO N T O R E L E A S E IN F O R M A T IO N T h e S tu d e n ts' S o c ie t y i s o ft e n a s k e d fo r th e a d d r e s s a n d p h o n e n u m b e r o f stu ­ d e n ts h o ld in g v a r io u s p o s it io n s at M c G ill. K in d ly in itia l o n e o r m o r e o f th e f o llo w in g lin e s a u th o r iz in tg th e S tu d e n ts' S o c ie t y to g iv e th e a b o v e a d d r e s s e s a n d p h o n e n u m b e r s to th o s e r e q u e s tin g th em : a ) S tu d e n t le a d e r s o n c a m p u s o n ly

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b ) A n y m e m b e r o f th e p u b lic a s k in g to g e t in to u c h w ith th e p e r s o n h o ld in g y o u r p o s it io n

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T o d a y 's D a te

H a n d th is fo r m in at th e S tu d e n ts' S o c ie t y G e n e r a l O f f ic e o r m a il to:

Leslie Copeland, Operations Secretary, Room 105 3480 McTavish, Montreal, Quebec H3A 1X9.