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TheatreSports will hold regular shows Thursdays in the Alley at 10:00 p.m.

(FREE) and Fridays at 10:00 p.m. AF­ TER THE SHOW IN PLAYER’S THE­ ATRE ($1.00). Come see Improv Com­ edy, Mental Gymnastics and other crazy stuff at its funniest.

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 3RD India Canada Students Association: General Meeting and Elections. Union 310, 3:30 p.m.

McGill Personal Finance Club: pres­ ents their first guest speaker. Bronfman, Rm. 426, 4:30-6:00 p.m. New members welcome; Sign up for Stock Market tour; Refreshments served. Info.:659-2079.

Uhuru na Ufahamu-Development Studies and Action Group: 1988 McGillM.I.T. Student Pugwash Conference on Science and Development Video: Helena Norberg-Hodge, winner of the Alterna­ tive Nobel Peace Prize, on “La Dak of Tibet”. All Welcome. Union 425/26,5:00

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Amnesty International: Letter Writ­ ing Meeting. Union 425/26, 7:00 p.m.

Auditions!: The 1990 Production of the Pirates of Penzance. Strathcona Music Bldg., 7:00-9:00 p.m. Everyone welcome.

Info.: 398-6820.

Hillel: presents “The Revival of Islam and the Arab-Israeli Conflict”. Leacock 26, 7:00 p.m. all Welcome. Free.

McGill Outing Club: General Meet­ ing. Leacock 132, 7:30 p.m.. Equipment Swap!! Barter, trade, wheel and deal! Sell your skis and buy a meal.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 4TH McGill Figure Skating Club: Meet at the Winter Stadium with your skates! 8:00 a.m. Free donuts. Info.: 526-3843.

M cG ill Lawyers for Social Responsibility: present a “Conference on China”. Speakers will discuss the Beijing Massacre, the ensuing terror, and the Ca­ nadian Government’s response. Moot Court, Chancellor Day Hall (NW comer of Peel and Dr. Penfield), 12:00-2:00 p.m.

Info.: 271-0758.

McGill Department of English: pres­ ents Professor Max Nanny, University of Ziirick, Switzerland, speaking on "Visual Forms in T. S. Eliot’s Poetry”. Arts Coun­ cil Rm. 160, 2:00 p.m. Info.:398-6558.

McGill Entrepreneurs’ Club: Meet­

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ing, Leacock 232,5:00 p.m. Special guest: James D. Raymond. All Welcome. Mem­ bers please bring membership cards. Info. : 398-6818.

Uhuru na Ufahamu-Development Studies and Action Group: 1988 McGillM.I.T. Student Pugwash Conference on Science and Development Video: Helena Norberg-Hodge, winner of the Alterna­ tive Nobel Peace Prize, on “La Dak of Tibet”. All Welcome. Union 410, 5:00 p.m.

Womens’ Union: presents a Rap Ses­ sion on “Insecurities and how they affect relationships”. Union 423,6:00 p.m. Info.: 398-6823.

International Socialists of McGill: presents a public meeting on “Abortion”.

The Yellow Door, 3625 Aylmer (north of Prince Arthur), 7 :30 p.m. Info. : 484-8567.

McGill Film Society : Nota LoveStory: AFilmAbout Pornography. Canada 1981 (69 min.). Dir.: B. Klein. FDA Audito­ rium, 8:00 p.m. FREE. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5TH McGill Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics: presents Sarny Suissa, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Division of Clinical Epidemiology, Montreal General Hospital and Department of Epidemiol­ ogy and Biostatistics, McGill University, speaking on "Binary Methods for Con­

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tinuous Outcomes”. Purvis Hall, Rm. 25, 1020 Pine Ave. West., 1:00 p.m.

Centre for Developing Area Studies: presents David Beer, member of the Cana­ dian Observer Team to Namibia, speaking on “The Elections in Namibia". 3715 Peel, Rm. 100,2:00 p.m.

N.D.P McGill: General Meeting, Un­ ion 310, 4:30 p.m. All M cGill TheatreSports: After the show in Player’s Theatre (10:00 p.m.) $1.00; Free if you bring a doorknob.

ADVANCE NOTICES: McGill Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics: presents T. Kue Young, M.D., Associate Professor, Chairman, Northern Health Research Unit and De­ partment of Community Health Services, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, speak­ ing on “Studies in Canada’s Native Popu­ lations: Lessons in Epidemiology”. Host: Dr. Elizabeth Robinson, D.S.C., Montreal General Hospital. Purvis Hall, Rm. 25, 1020 Pine Ave. West., 1:00 p.m. October 12th.

McGill University and Royal Victo­ ria Hospital- Interdisciplinary Endo­ crine Research Seminar: Presents Dr. Beth Schachter, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, speaking on “Variant Estrogen Receptor Gene in Humans”. Primrose Amphitheatre, 3rd Floor Women’s Pavilion, Royal Victoria Hospital. 4:45 p.m. October 12th.

Black Rock Group: 5365 Lasalle Blvd., 8:00 p.m. October 13th GALOM-Gays and Lesbians of McGill: L’Amour Classique. Gays and Lesbians of McGill Dance. Union Ball­ room, 9:00 p.m. $4.00. Saturday, October 14th.

SATURDAY,OCTOBER 7TH TheatreSports: presents its regular Beginner’s Workshops. Union 425/26, 2:00-4:00 p.m. All interested in learning Improv are welcome.

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 8TH Thanksgiving Service: St. Martha’son-top-of-Mt. Royal (weather permitting).

Meet at 3521 University (above Milton) at 10:30 a.m. Everyone Welcome. Info. : Rev. Roberta Clare, 398-4104.

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 10TH Access McGill-Learning Disabled Students: General Meeting, Powell Stu­ dent Services Bldg., 3637 Peel St., 2nd Floor, 4:30 p.m. Discussion of Upcoming

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The McGill Tribune, October 3-10, 1989

Engineering, computer science students wait for computer space

BY ANDREW YOUN G 1000 engineering and computer science students with M U S IC and U N I X computer codes this year are stuck with the use of only 48 computer terminals.

Lack of space, construction de­ lays, and a poor computer organi­ zation system have caused crowd­ ing and massive line-ups in termi­ nal rooms for M cG ill engineering and computer science students.

School of Computer Science (S O C S ) Systems Manager Peter Deutsch said that staff from SO CS and the Faculty of Engineering’s Vectra Lab are looking at short term solutions to the demand for computers, but added that “they don’t solve the long term problems of not enough facilities and per­ haps not enough organization.”

Students currently have access to only 48 terminals, 20 modem lines, and 20 connections to M U S IC through the Vectra Lab. A ll 48 terminals in the M cC on­ nell terminal rooms, for undergrad engineering and computer science students, are often compeletly in use. The modem lines to the sys­ tem are also often busy.

There are 68 P C clones in the

Vectra Lab where up to 20 people at a time can gain access to M U ­ SIC. Users must pay a $5 nonrefundable laserprinter fee per term to use the Vectra Lab. The shortage of facilities is being blamed on a lack of space, and not a lack of funds. S O C S has 600 thousand dollars to spend on equip­ ment for its new Majors program, but space allocation is a problem.

“Wehave money for equipment, but no place to put it,” said Deutsch. “ W e can’t even store it. A good part of the school’s space is used for facilities,” he said. He added that some graduate students in the School do not even have offices.

Dean of Engineering Pierre Belanger agreed that there is a space allocation problem. “ Th e rooms just simply do not exist,” he said. “ The Equipment Committee have all stated categorically that there is not enough space; Allan Greenberg [Director of M c G ill’s Computing Centre] agrees that there’s not enough space, but the Dean [of Engineering] decides, and the Dean doesn’t think it’s appro­ priate to give us more space,” Deutsch told the Tribune.

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shortage is in sight. The demand for terminal time will likely in­ crease once students have had enough computer language instruc­ tion to be assigned programs to write.

Th e Faculty of Engineering was scheduled to open a new lab on October 15. Th e lab would have 30 to 45 new terminals and approxi­ mately 30 PS/2 computers, and would replace the old Engineering Terminal Facility on the fourth floor of M cConnell Engineering, which was closed two years ago.

However, Engineering Systems Director Dave Dedic told the Trib ­ une that it would be “ hard to give an exact time” for the opening of the lab, citing construction delays for the hold up.

The new lab “w ill go a long way towards alleviating any discom­ fort,” Dedic said.

However, some senior Computer Science students disagreed with D cdic’s statment. “ These new ter­ minals are a fraction of what was in Burnside,” explained Stefanos Daminakis, who is a U 3 Computer Science student.

Short term solutions to the computer crunch have included temporary offers of facilities or space between departments. C om ­ puter Science allowed both Elec­ trical and Chemical Engineering to use their facilities. The Comput­ ing Centre will loan Room 112 in Burnside Hall to S O C S for a single term. Deutsch says that this new room may be open in a week or

two. Both of S O C S ’s computer rooms on the ground floor of Burnside were closed this year. “ You can’t point the finger and say ‘Somebody blew i t ’ There’s nothing we can do about it,” said Deutsch of the people “on the front lines” facing student complaints.

In an effort to alleviate the prob­ lem, Math and Computer Science Undergraduate Society President Andre Vachon presented a peti­ tion, signed by 280 engineering and computer science students, to Dean Belanger yesterday. The petition called for an increase in the number of terminals for under­ graduates. Despite an unenthusiastic acceptance by the dean, Va­ chon was “cautiously optimistic” about a possible solution.

EU S O PEN S IT S O W N C O P Y C E N T R E Engineering Undergraduate Society (E U S ) last week invited M cG ill students to use its new photocopy centre, C o p iE U S , in the basement of the M cConnell Engineering Building. Th e E U S is renting four copy machines- two high speed copy machines and two normal pho­ tocopiers - from the University, which it pays for through a charge per copy. Th e cost is 60/copy for the first 350 copies, and 50/copy charge after that. The cost for power installation and room construction was paid for by an E U S budget surplus in 1988-89. C o piEU S employs one full-time worker and several part-time workers. E U S V -P Finance G u y Lafond promised, “ If you want fast and good service, this is the place to go.”

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E M E R G E N C Y T E L E P H O N E S R E A D Y IN J A N U A R Y T w o campus emergency telephones may be ready for use by January, S S M U Vice President (University Affairs) Kate Morriset said this week.

The plexiglass-encased telephones would be set up next to the glass tunnel between the Leacock Building and the Arts Building as well as in Burnside Hall. Both telephones would connect a caller to a 24hour M cG ill security guard.

Morisset said another two telephones might be installed on M c G ill’s upper campus in the future.

D IS A B L E D B U S S T A R T S R U N N E X T W E E K A shuttle-bus for M c G ill’s disabled students is set to make its first run next Tuesday, an Access M cG ill organizer said. Th e bus, a “big red van” , would be available to both permanendy and temporarily dis­ abled students and would run according to their schedules.

Students wishing to make use of the new service are asked to call 398-6009.

E T A T S G E N E R A U X : IN T E R E S T IN G B U T U N A T T E N D E D Fewer than 150 people attended last weekend’s general assembly of Québec students at the Université de Montréal. The assembly was called to address education issues in the province and, according to S S M U Vice President (External Affairs) Fox, concluded in part that the province has not taken a “ clear look at education” for at least 20 years.

Fox added that the wide coverage given to the meeting in Quebec’s commercial press has “put education in the public eye for the first time in a while” .

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Chopping Disneyland To borrow a phrase from a truly remarkable letter printed by the T r i b u n e last year, “I lake issue with the puerile, juvenile, snotty schlock being spewed out by some of the publications at McGill.” 1 take issue in particular with the bi­ weekly column, “The Disneyland Tapes.” Is this supposed to be an opinion? An inane editorial? Crea­ tive writing? Camp? Or is it sup­ posed to be the literary equivalent of dog vomit?

If Mr. Horwitz’s intention is any one of the above save the latter, he

fails miserably. And if the editors of the T r i b u n e choose to resurrect the moldy argument, “If you don’t like it, don’t read it”, then I ask, “Where are your senses? Have you no editorial abilities at all?” There are many fine writers at McGill, why give carte blanche to one who produces the work of a fourth-rate, navel-gazing hack. Please, for our sake, consider putting Mr. Horwitz on a shorter leash.

Sincerely Laurie Wesley

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must be something else going on that does that.

Thank you for informing me of where I could go tojoin your “soc ial action task team” which sens “volunteers to the Pregnancy Counselling Centre.” Perhaps it would be wise for your members to read Matthew 6 v.2-6,1 Timothy 2 v.11-15, Deuteronomy 22 v.5, v.28, 23 v.1-2, and 25 v.11-12. I found these passages very enlight­ ening about the Word of God.

off-hand slight in the first para­ graph, bashing Cineplex Odeon.

Little writes that Cités-Cinés “leaves Cineplex Odeon whimper­ ing in the dust.” What she obvi­ ously fails to realize is that Cin­ eplex Odeon is the company that is responsible for bringing CitésCinés to Montréal and is also the chief producer and sponsor of the show. Without Cineplex (and Bell Canada), there would be no CitésCinés in Montréal and she wouldn ’t have been able to write about any­ thing!

Little also states that the price for Cités-Cinés is“only $2.50 more than Garth Drabinsky ‘audiciously’ [misspelled] skins you for.” Garth Drabinsky, the president and C.E.O. of Cineplex Odeon, is himself one of the members of the honorary committee rcsposiblc for Cités-Cinés. I guess he has just “skinned” Little for another $9.50.

Finally, 1 would like to add that thcnamcofthisexhibition isCitésCinés and not “Cité Ciné” as it is written throughout the review.

Christine Clurolas U? Arts

Jamie Golombek Management U2

I read wiLh much amusement your movie review on the spcctatcular show, Cités-Cinés (CitésCinés: a Movic-blc Feast, Sept 19). ' would like, however, to suggest o Melanie Little that when she writes future articles for the T r i b ­ u n e , which undoubtedly she will, she should get her facts straight.

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Abortion and the Bible Ms. Kelly has argued well in her article “Anti-abortion: life not to be taken” (Sept. 19-24). However, I feel that neither the Bible nor biology conclusively demonstrate that upon egg fertilization a group of cells is a unique human being. A fetus/embryo is not seen as having the same value as a bom human in Exodus 21 v.22-25 as follows: “When men strive together, and hurt a woman with child, so that there is a miscarriage, and yet no harm follows, the one who hurt her shall be fined, according as the woman’s husband lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine.”

“If any harm follows, then you shall give life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, bum for bum, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.”

Thus, if the fetus dies, there is a fine - yet if the mother dies due to the fight the one who struck her is to die. It doesn’t appear as if the mother and fetus were seen as equals - nor does it seem that the fetus was considered “life” enough for the rule “life for life” to apply.

Is a zygote/fetus/embryo devel­ oped enough to know God? Docs it know God? Psalms 22 v.10 im­ plies that one can know God from birth: “Upon thee was I cast from my birth and since my mother bore me thou hast been my God.” God may know us as pre-natal beings, but can we know God be­ fore we are bom? Psalm 71 v.6 states: “Upon thee I have leaned from my birth; thou art he who took me from my mother’s womb.” page 4

Can we ever know when a fetus possesses a human spirit? I don’t know. Ecclesiastes II v.5 states: “As you do not know how the spirit comes to the bones of the womb of a woman with child, so you do not know the work of God who makes everything.”

Docs this mean that a fetus must first develop bones before it has “the spirit”?

I do know that a DNA structure separate from one’s mother docs not make a unique individual if one has an identical twin. There

More tuition madness I would like to respond to David Gruber’s arguments in favour of a tuition fee increase (published in your issue dated 19-24 Sept. 89).

Gruber contends that “the argu­ ment that a raise in fees would lead to decreased access for potential students of low income is false.”

The only evidence to justify his asertion seems to be based on his own personal acquaintance with “many students of limited resources who are managing to attend uni­ versity.” Perhaps he would like to enlighten us with some scientific evidence.

Gruber makes a good point when he states the low fees favour the children of the upper and lower classes. The obvious solution would be a progressive taxation system to tax the wealthy. I would like to point out that many students from upper and middle classes do not receive parental support. Un­

der the Québec Loans and Bursar­ ies program 40% of students do not receive the “parental contribu­ tion” due to them. While a tuition fee increase may hardly affect the majority of students from the up­ per and lower classes, it would seriously affect those from the lower middle and working class backgrounds. A recent independ­ ent survey has indicated that a doubling of the fees would result at least in a 12.5% drop in the number of students. The majority of the 16,500 students affected would be individuals with a low income, women and part-timers.

Gruber argues that university graduates are the “primary benefi­ ciaries of university education,” and therefore should be paying for it. In fact, they will. As they will get a belter than average salary, they will be taxed more than the non-graduates. Graduates arc also

less likely to be on welfare or unemployed than non-graduates, and therefore will cost less to soci­ ety.

A fee increase would worsen the indebtedness of the poorer students.

Currendy a PhD graduate who has been receiving the maximum loan would personally owe $28,000 ($40,000 if one includes interest).

In view of the fact that the average income of a PhD graduate after 5 year of graduation [sic] is $43,000, one must ask if it is not madness to do a graduate programme if you arc not from a well off background.

Gruber and the other who be­ lieve that fees arc not high enough should show the example them­ selves and give a donation to McGill. It is nice to preach virtue and morality especially when one can afford it.

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The McGill Tribune, October 3-10, 1989

CVC mismanaged profit reports, source alleges

BY EVAN K FR T C V C Food Services, M c G ill’s food and beverage service, failed to properly report its profits from Gert’s Pub last year, a C V C em­ ployee told the Tribune. C V C , the employee said, was able to avoid increasing payment percentages to Students’ Society by underre­ porting their profits from the pub.

C V C General Manager André Em ond told the Tribune that the allegations “ were absolutely not true.”

“W e ’re being audited by To u ­ che Ross and Clarkson Gordon. If there was something like this, they would have picked it up,” said Emond.

The C V C worker, who requested anonymity, told the Tribune that C V C had taken profits from Gert’s Pub and showed them as cafeteria revenue. “ The C V C was stealing money by fiddling the Gert’s books to make it look like Gert’s had sold less. Then they would boost the cafeteria sales,” the C V C employee said.

C V C is hired by the Students’ Society to manage food and bever­ age operations for most of the school’sca! .crias, Gert’s Pub and the Alley. According to their con­ tract with C V C , this year the S S M U

will receive the greater of $225,750 or a fixed rate of 10.5 % of gross sales from the cafeterias. The same rate applies to the gross sales of Gert’s Pub and the Alley as well, but as sales rise in these outlets,

Teaching shortage hits philosophy department B Y L A R A F R IE D L A N D E R The Philosophy Students Asso­ ciation (P S A ) is planning to stage “ loud” sit-ins and sponsor peti­ tions to protest the department’s severe teaching shortage.

Following the sudden departure of Professor R. J. Hankinson, phi­ losophy undergraduates have found graduate and post-graduate students teaching some of their upper-level courses. “ [Hankinson] resigned very late and we couldn’t arrange to have people teach his classes. W e had to get some graduate students to teach,” said Professor M cG ilvray, Acting Chairman of the Philoso­ phy Department.

The sudden departure of Profes­ sor Hankinson left four courses without professors. Other profes­ sors in the Department are taking over the courses, but there is not enough staff to cover the entire course offering.

As a result, there are four gradu­ ate and postgraduate students tak­ ing responsibility for one course each. O f these four courses, three are at the 300 level.

M cG ilvray explained that the students are teaching at the 300 level because 200-level Philoso­ phy courses are harder to teach than those at the 300 level.

Although there are graduate students teaching introductory

courses' throughout M cG ill, Arts Dean Michael M axwell said that teaching at the higher levels is “ very unusual”. “ I am very anxious to insure that most courses are taught by full­ time staff. The faculty does not encourage part-time teaching in any way,” he said.

Nonetheless, P S A Vice Presi­ dent Sander Shalinsky told the Tribune that he is “ 100% behind having [graduate students] teach­ ing classes.”

Ultimately, the philosophy de­ partment’ s problems may be symp­ tomatic of M c G ill’s chronic underfunding problem.

Shalinsky explained that underfunding results in a poor staff-tostudent ratio in the Philosophy Department. Sincel978-79, the number of students taking Philoso­ phy courses has more than doubled, while the full-time staff has actu­ ally decreased from 12 to 11 1/2 professors.

M cGilvray said, “Philosophy has traditionally been a subject best taught in small classes. It requires a lot of student-teacher interac­ tion.” He also pointed out that student-staff ratios should be re­ flective of the nature of the subject.

Dean Maxwell called the Phi­ losophy Department student-staff ratio “absurd” , but added that the ratio was “not as bad as in some other places.”

C V C must give a greater percent­ age of sales to the S S M U .

Such allegations may already be reflected in the discrepancies be­ tween Gert’s Pub’s 1988-1989 profits and its projected earnings this year under the new manage­ ment hired by C V C .

But Jean-Charles Viens, V .P . F i­ nance of the S S M U , stressed that the 5 0% increase in revenue might be a result of the pub’s recent reno­ vations and more intensive mar­ keting procedures. “ Students now like to hang out at Gert’s at night,” said Viens.

Nevertheless, rumours of mis­ appropriation of funds and other

management problems within C V C have prompted S S M U to conduct an operations review of its food and beverage services.

In a letter to S S M U President Santo Manna, Touche Ross, the accounting firm hired to direct the investigation, wrote that “the allo­ cation of revenues between food [cafeterias] and beverage [Gert’s Pub and the A lley] outlets” is a key concern of the review. The report plans to address C V C ’s use of personnel, and the potential for increased revenue. Viens expects the review to be ready by the first or second week of October.

“There are obvious signs of dis­

satisfaction from the students,” said Viens. ‘T h is review w ill tell us where we should go and how to get there.”

Student dissatisfaction with C V C has already prompted the E n ­ gineering Undergraduate Society (E U S ) to end its contract with the company. Nabil Tarazi, last year’s E U S V.P. Finance, explained that they felt food services could have been improved. “ In 87-88, sales went down with really no explanation,” said T a ­ razi. “W e thought there was much higher potential for sales and we wanted a more aggressive com­ pany.”

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No vandalizing of library property or materials.

No smoking.

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No careless misplacing of books.

Use the MUSE terminals.

No book hiding.

Enquire about the many reference resources and services.

No rough handling of books.

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Condoms: more than birth control

80% of students still not practising safer sex B Y S T E P H A N IE S M A L L

Chlamydia. It sounds like a new Japanese dish or a fear of llamas, but it’s neither. It’s the most prevalent S T D on campus.

And no, that’s not a Short Term Deposit or adirt bike, it’s a Sexu­ ally Transmitted Disease. Yo u know, like A ID S or syphilis.

Flip introductions aside, the fact is with all the attention fo­ cused on A ID S these days (do you know what the acronym stands for?), we tend to neglect the 24 other diseases which are spread through sexual contact.

Once a taboo subject, the topic of sexually transmitted disease has now risen to the forefront of social discussion. The walls of the women’s washroom in the Union Building now read “ latex lovers live longer.” More and more people are learning about the variety of S TD s , and how they can be avoided. Many people still do not practise safe sex. Yet persistently ignoring safe sex guidelines can have devastating consequences.

Th e incidence of S T D s that occurs in the general population is star­ tling. According to the W orld Health Organization, one out of every 20 teenagers and young adults in the world contracts one form or another of S TD s annually.

That’s scary. S TD s are the sec­ ond most common type of conta­ gious disease in Canada, second only to the common cold. In the U .S ., S T D s affect more than 40 million people, two-thirds of whom are under 25 years old.

Last week’s Sexual Aware­ ness Week, sponsored by the M c G ill Student Health Services, was originally aimed at inform­ ing freshmen C O N T IN U E D O N P A G E 8

Diseases such as chlamydia, syphilis, gonorrhea, and venereal warts can cause serious complica­ tions if left untreated. Still other S TD s , such as genital herpes, are incurable. Perhaps the most fright­ ening development in S TD s has been the appearance and prolifera­ tion of A ID S in the last decade.

Faced with the incurable and fatal spectre of A ID S , many or­ ganizations were forced to launch campaigns promoting awareness

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and the prevention of the disease.

Other S TD s have received at least some illumination in the spotlight on A ID S . Governments are pro­ ducing extensive education and advertising campaigns. Schools are promoting greater sex education.

Here at M cG ill, students receive safe sex guidelines in their student handbook and other campus media and Health Services devote a week to S T D awareness.

This barrage of information has led to an increased awareness of exactly what the diseases are and how they are transmitted. Accord­ ing to D r.Law lor, of the M cG ill Religious Studies Department, figures published by the Federal A ID S Centre show that approxi­ mately 80% of young people in Canada now know how S T D s are contracted. However, an over­ whelming majority of these people still admit to not practising safe sex.

It is difficult to measure how effective S T D awareness cam­ paigns are in changing sexual prac­ tice. Although some campuses in the United States have tried to measure changes in the relative incidence of S TD s , similar studies have not been done here at M cG ill.

Dr.Tellier, of the Student Health

Service, suggests that there may be a slight decrease in the rate of contraction of S TD s at M cG ill, but that cannot be verified According to Dr.Tellier, "m any students seem to know the basic facts about S TD s , but don’t proc­ ess them, or put them in use.” He cites a number of possible reasons for this refusal to practise safe sex.

In particular, many students have not yet developed a high enough level of self assurance that they feel comfortable discussing safe sex with a new partner. Young people also tend to be in the proc­ ess of discovering what they want out of relationships. He stresses that what may seem stable at one point can change dramatically two months later. Therefore, even stu­ dents who do not see themselves as particularly promiscuous can end up having a number of different sexual partners.

Another function of this age group, points out Dr.Tellier, can be a tendency towards sexual ex­ perim entation, during w hich people may or may not practise safe sex. Finally, many students have a sense of invulnerability.

Th ey simply don’t want to believe that either they or their partners could contract an S T D . This is particularly strong when students

have not been directly touched by the problem of STD s. In contrast, the gay community has responded to the devastating threat of AID s.

Through awareness and by prac­ tising safe sex, the rate of increase of new cases has dropped off in the gay community. A t the same time, the spread of other S TD s such as syphilis and gonorrhea has gone down dramatically.

Despite the persistence of atti­ tudes that prevent students from consistently practising safe sex, Dr.Tellier feels that awareness campaigns are a valuable way to educate and to encourage more open discussion of STD s. In par­ ticular, campaigns in which stu­ dents provide advice and counsel­ ling is the most effective way of changing other students’ attitudes.

Peer education at M cG ill consists of having students hand out pam­ phlets and trying to answer ques­ tions along with the doctors and nureses during S T D awareness week. Dr.Tellier would like to see more extensive peer education campaigns develop to help remove some of the fear associated with S TD s and enable students to talk about and deal with S TD s more responsibly.

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Axworthy silent 01 B Y A U B R E Y K A S S IR E R A N D GALLAGHER M ACKAY Llo yd Axw orthy’s candidacy for the leadership of the Liberal party was announced by his four year old son. A t show-and-tell in day care, the day after John Turner resigned, he said, “m y daddy’s boss quit his job yesterday, and I think m y daddy wants it.”

Axworthy spoke to over fifty supporters at M cG ill last Thursday, about leadership and his national v i­ sion of Canada. He could cite nu­ merous problems with the current state of the nation but had few con­ crete solutions.

Axworthy suggested a cure for the country’s ills, which includes investment in people and infrastruc­ ture, economic restructuring, and development of the environment and Canada’s regional diversity.

He stressed the importance of de­ veloping human resources and went on at great length about the plight of impoverished children. He would focus on education, developing lit­ eracy, and ongoing job training, as

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well as increasing funding to univer­ sities and colleges. He advocates a guaranteed family income, which ensures all families a subsistencelevel income.

In one of the few concrete ex­ amples of the type of policy he would like to see in place, he pointed to a programme under his jurisdiction as Minister of Employment and Im m i­ gration under Trudeau. In a joint effort with the Y M C A and Y W C A , the extensive programme placed steet kids into the workforce with a 7 0% success rate.

Generally, however, his concern tended to be melodramatic rather than practical. Axworthy reminded us that it has been a long time since we have seen Prime Minister M u lroney mention the one million Canadian children living in poverty.

But he, himself offered no remedy beyond labelling the problem his top priority and claiming, “ if we did just that alone, it would be enough.”

He noted “ an enormous sense of exclusion in this country,” and pro­ posed a centralised federalism for Canada. The cancellation of V IA

One night stands and STDs: fade to black A woman sits alone at a bar, sip­ ping a glass of wine. She is wearing a low-cut red dress and lots of make­ up. Dance music plays in the back­ ground. She pulls out a bottle of perfume and dabbles it behind her ears and on the backs of her wrists.

A ll of a sudden she is surrounded by men. She looks at one across the bar and mouths, “ Hey, you.” He walks over to her, puts on her shawl and they leave. A n announcer’s voice says “Hey Y o u, the provocative new scent that guarantees you w on’t ever be alone.” Fade to black.

longer prohibited women from going out to a bar alone and leaving with someone she had just met. A nony­ mous sex was a great new discov­ ery: pleasure without strings.

This was epitomized in the seven­ ties with the advent of discos, glori­ fied pick-up spots. N ow , in the late eighties, people are caught between the freedom of the one night stand and the fear of S TD s . Safe sex is in, but that does not necessarily mean no sex. Th e notion that people must “ save” themselves for marriage has almost disappeared, and successive generations are becoming sexually active at ever younger ages.

This is a Saturday Night Live skit, but like many of their spoofs it is based on the absurdity of real life. In this case it is the one night stand.

This expression is now infamous, a carryover from the free-love of the sixties. Th e new “ me” generation no

The eighties is also a “ me” gen­ eration. W e have become selfish, and no longer give to others. The corporate world has taught every­ one to look out only for themselves.

Looking out for oneself implies a one night stand, for what better way

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to avoid intimacy? The players do not need or want to know anything about each other. Sex feels good, and if it feels good, do it. Romance and relationships require time and effort, and people in the eighties feel time is running out, so who wants to waste it with someone else? Women and men now have careers to which they can devote all their time. It seems careers have replaced ro­ mance.

W hile feminism was seeking re­ lationships that could function on a basis of equality and partnership between men and women, they also indirectly encouraged the one night stand. Th e women’s movement re­ claimed the idea of independence for women by stating they no longer need men to give them an identity.

One night stands further assert this independence, because women are doing what they want. B y going

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I think the nineties will bring about a new attitude in free sex. A ID S has brought back sex without sex, and people are beginning to realize it is much more fun to cuddle with a loved one and feel wanted than leave a stranger’s house in the morning and feel used. W e have forgotten one thing. One night stands are lonely, an empty physical act that cures the appetite but not the hunger.

The end of the Saturday Night Live skit shows the woman the next day hailing acab. She is still wearing the sexy red dress, but her hair is a mess and her make-up is stale. She is alone and hops into the front seat of the taxi. Everyone laughs. Fade to black.

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He blames the squabbling of the premiers for a lack of con­ certed national action and sug­ gested instead an increased role for an elected re­ gionally repre­ sentative senate. Axworthy said, “the problem with the Liberal party is everyone pays lip service to senate reform but puts it down to #92 on their list I think number one on the list should be senate reform.”

...prev C O N T IN U E D F R O M P A G E 7 of the dangers and primitive meas­ ures. But as M c G ill nurse Lori M cCurdy noted, “ we’re finding out quickly that it’s not just the fresh­ men who need education.

T o underline her point with ex­ amples: the sad but popular myth that condoms aren ’ t necessary if your girlfriend is on the Pill. O r the mis­ conception that you can catch an S T D from a public toilet seat.

W e all need to be better informed, moral principles or sexual habits aside.

Chlamydia, for instance. N ot a common word in our collective vocabulary. Like most other S TD s , it is caught through sexual inter­ course with an infected person. You and your partner may or may not be promiscuous, but if your histories include someone carrying the dis­ ease, one or both of you can become infected. The risk is escalated if you

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solutions W ith respect to the other ongoing [uestion of national unity, Meech .alee, he feels “it is time for the third jption: we must get beyond the enrenched and sterile debate and de­ cide what is going to work.”

Hedid not spec­ ify his third o p tion , but when he does, it w ill undoubt­ edly be his top priority.

B y stating “environ­ mental d e ci­ sions are eco­ nom ic d e c i­ sions: how we produce things and what costs we attach to a,:, th e m ,” Axvorthy uncharacteristically showed i good understanding of environnental solutions. His suggestion of in “environmental affirmative acion clause,” making environmental esponsibility the key criterion in

bits and bites.« awarding federal grants and loans, was quite progressive. Unfortu­ nately, he belitded his position by superficial analysis of problems. For example, he cited as the key urban transport issue that “ gas gets lo st” It was shocking to hear a former Minister of State for the Status of Women regularly use sexist lan­ guage. The most glaring example of this differentiation was a reference to other leadership hopefuls as “M r.

Martin, M r. Chrétien, and even Sheila [Copps].”

Throughout his speech, Axworthy emphasised talking to people across Canada on an individual level. His presentation was warm and infor­ mal, though almost exclusively english. After the presentation, he spent close to an hour in informal discussion at The Alley.

Axworthy quoted Napoleon on the potential for leadership in everyone, “Every foot soldier carries in his knapsack the marshall’s baton. The question is, when will he take it out of the bag?” As for Axworthy, he has already stepped toward the front of the ranks.

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Chlamydia is a half viral/half bacterial infection. That means that the virus attacks the cells, but it can be treated with antibiotics. Treat­ ment and testing are available, but it doesn’t show up on a Pap smear and the sym ptom s are hard to identify.The symptoms resemble those of gonorrhea (would you rec­ ognize those?), and if not treated, it can lead to infection, possibly of the heart and liver, and to sterility for both women and men.

This relatively unpublicized dis­ ease is the most common S T D in Montréal, direedy followed by her­ pes. Let’s hope that last week’s Awareness effort reached a lot of people, and educated some who thought a condom was just for birth control.

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The reactions were mixed: shock, outrage and a sense of powerlessness.

Fortunately, the latter did not persist.

Instead, the incident sparked the for­ mation of a broadly based “Coalition Against Sexual Assault,” which kept assault at the front of students’ minds throughout the year. Member of the coalition Alex Pike described the group as “concerned students acting together for support and education.” To that end, they sponsored an awareness week in March which presented a number of speakers and forums. One popular event was a weekend long self-defense workshop which empha­

sized the steps each participant could take to increase her safety on the streets.

Out of that concern for empowerment came another programme. Many uni­ versities sponsor a walk-home service from late classes or the library. The McGill administration not being one of those, the coalition decided to initiate their own service: the walk-safe net­ work. Groups leaving McLennan library at eleven o’clock walk together towards home. The network goes to four areasthe plateau north of Pine, the downtown region as far as Atwater, through the Ghetto, and residence.

Mariam Bouchoutrouch, one of this year's coordinators, believes that walk­ ers should be in control of how they use the network. “We will walk with people as far as they want us to. “ It is important that walkers feel comfortable and secure with volunteers For this reason the network interviews men who volunteer to ensure that walk­ ers will not feel threatened. Each group of walkers will be accompanied by two volunteers - either two women, or a man and a woman (never two men, or a single man alone).

Last year, there was an excellent

response to the programme from both genders. After a summer away, the issue of safety on the streets may have slipped to the back of people’s minds, so thisyears' organizers cite problems that have slowed the renewal of this programme. As well as decreased awareness, the operation is running on a shoestring budget.

What is still exciting about the pro­ gramme is the grassroots nature of its work. They provide two volunteer walkers from Monday to Thursday, which helps participants to form a network of walkers in their own neigh­ bourhood with whom they can pair up. The effort encourages coopera­ tion between individuals taking ac­ tion, making safety on the streets an everyday priority. Only through pro­ grammes like these will pedestrians be able to “take back the night” for once and for all.

If you want to participate, walkers leave the M cLennan library weeknights at 11. For more involve­ ment, please leave a message in the Women’s Union box at the Students’ Society desk...... and read “what’s on” for meetings.

T u to rin g serv ice to p a ir stu d en ts’ fin an cial an d ed u cation al needs B Y M ATTHEW STARNES Richard Rimran hopes his new city­ wide tutoring service will match highschool students who need academic help with university students who need financial help.

The McGill U3 Management stu­ dent says Montréal Tutors would solve “the major problems of education student employment and education” in one blow.

“I see this as a students helping students, without the red tape of gov­ ernment involvement,” he said.

Mimran has been a tutor for twelve years. He decided to set the program up because he had more clients then he could have handled. He had noticed that there seemed to be a great need for competent help for school age stu­ dents.

“I kept hearing the politicians say­ ing the degree of education was declin­

ing, and this was a way to address that,” Mimran said.

Mimran and partner Jack Edery have set up Montréal Tutors as a non-profit organization. The students’ fees will be used to pay the tutors’ salaries and the organization costs. All the excess money will be donated to charity. The response to the program, both from the schools and the tutors, has been encouraging to date. “The demand has been overwhelm­ ing. The phone hasn't stopped ringing”, said Mimran. According to Mimran, the schools have been happy to have an easily accessible tutoring service for those students who need it.

The number of university students interested in working for the program is also very high. Already, sixty experi­ enced tutors from McGill, Concordia and the Université de Montréal have signed up, covering every major subject area.

Elementary and high schools would simply give the names of a student

wanting help to Montréal Tutors, Mimran explains, adding that he would then act as a coordinating referral serv­ ice between students and tutors.

The tutors are paid $11.45 an hour, and the cost to students is slightly higher. Montréal Tutors suggests that students who cannot afford individual tutoring can form small groups to lower the cost. Some students are also ac­ cepted for a reduced fee. Said Mimran, “I really don't want to turn anyone away.”

Currently, Montréal Tutors only covers the Montréal area. But local success might spread the program across Québec at both the high school and CEGEP levels. To that end, Mimran plans to meet with provincial government officials, and university student societies.

The program will also be looking for some financial help to offset its start up costs.

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Dance Fest 89 : energizing the present, embracing the past B Y K IM F A R L E Y

...Clearly, dancing can't be separated from living but where should we start to dance? When the question comes down to this, / hesi­ tate. I f I start dancing without asking this question , then it means I neglect the essentials o f human life. Dance begins in the serious­ ness o f human life or in the confusion o f liv­ ing....

captured the essence of Nouvelle Dance.

There is a story which circulates reverently around the international dance community that once, as a

and gently led him off.

Watching Kazuo Ohno feels like holding your breath and jumping off the end of a pier, then quietly breathing in the water. He allows

Kazuo Ohno, butoh took on the resonances of a protest dance, though it kept the intention of revitalizing life through dance. It grew more violent, more erotic.

Mercé stirred in him, so that we may worship her as he did. His music is Callas, Schumann, Puc­ cini, and Bach.

Milk is backed by the electronic keyboards and synthesiz­ ers of Shuishi Shino, of the Japanese rock group

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Kazuo Ohno

Kazuo Ohno is wise, in the way that the ocean is wise.

He is also a consum­ mate performer, able to lose himself in his art without closing it off to those around him.

As the‘guest of hon­ our’ for the Festival International de N ou­ velle Danse, which Montreal hosted for the past two weeks, Ohno set a tone of energy, K a z v o O h n o in ‘ H o m m a g e a l a A r g e n t in a . s p iritu a lity , and an audience to eclipse the sensa­ middle-aged man, Ohno becamed warmth that crept into all the per­ tion of ‘ watching’ . W ith Ohno you so absorbed in performing and in formances. But though some of the ‘enter’ . Together you and he are the joy of talking through his body, troupes - particularly Belgium’s worshiping something larger than that he couldn’t stop dancing after Ultim a Vez and Canada’s O Ver­ both of you, that w ill eventually the music stopped. He danced for a tigo Danse - delighted their audi­ consume you., .though not before half an hour in total silence, while ences with the incessant leaping of life has been full. the audience barely breathed. F i­ many bodies, it was the restrained Not by coincidence, Ohno moves nally his son came onstage, crying, solo of the 84-year-old Ohno that in the Japanese dance form called butoh, the “ dance of creation” . It is Japan’s attempt to infuse the tradi­ tional elements of Japanese dance with the wilder rythyms of the West. Ishii M aku, one of the inno­ p r e s e n t s vators of the form, met with a cold reception from international crit­ ics when he premiered it in 1919. “ It’s like being fed fermented western-style tofu” , wrote one dis­ gruntled, North American critic.

Ishii replied in an open letter: “ The dance we invoke is an au­ thentic dance that transcends bor­ ders and peoples...The dance we n M OLSON are creating is inherently Japancseit is not a copy of Western dance.”

This dance form is proud, and firmly spiritual. After the Second W W orld W ar, when its performers c/ i ia n / / t c e/ia -.tc c came largely out of the tutelage of

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During this year’s festival, while Ohno stood as a symbol for traditional butoh, dancers Jocelyne Montpetit and Minoru Hideshima, performing Milk, showed where the form has been taken to.

Ohno danced Admiring La Ar­ gentina, his homage to Antonia Mercé, a female dancer he has idolized throughout his career. In order to translate her magic to the audience, Ohno dresses like her and enacts life, death, youth, age, love, and suffering with his dance.

His purpose is to make his audi­ ence experience the emotions

Needless to say, this one runs at a higher voltage.

Shamelessly erotic, Milk smashes East into West.

Montpetit is a stunning Ja p a n e s e / C a n a d ia n , Hideshima a riveting Japanese. Th e program best puts words on what defies verbal articulation with this poetic descrip­ tion," Sharing a world of innocence, they feed on each other’s imagination, beyond differences of sex, nationality, and lan­ guage. She eats [what looks like cottage cheese but is meant to symbol­ ize m ilk, strewn around the stage] to feed both of them, and he dances that she may free him .”

M ilk is a p o w e r struggle, and the two dancers thrash at each other until they fall down exhausted. O nly after do they real­ ize that during their war they have come to embody each other. It is too late.

In presenting the Shakespeare of Japanese dance alongside its Whitman, the Festival International» de Nouvelle Danse achieved a coup which should entrench Montréal as a capital of international dance.

Though extraordinarily different in style, both performances re­ flected the openness of this art from in 1989: young dance is now managing to carve an exhilarating future, withoutrejecting aglorious past.

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In Country goes for the heart but swings wide B Y T IM H O U S TO N Welcome to Vietnam...again.

This time around, an established director of Canadian descent, Norman Jewison (Moonstruck, Agnes o f God) has decided to take a turn, adapting Bobbie Ann M a­ son’s Tm -s u re -it’s-good-but-I’venever-heard-of-it-much-less-readit’ book In Country (arm y lingo for being on patrol in Vietnam for the first time) to the big screen.

The unrecognizable Bruce W il­ lis portrays Emmett Walsh, a Viet­ nam veteran who has survived with his capacity for rational thinking more or less intact. O n the surface he appears to be a normal Southern Joe, hangin’ out with the boys (also veterans), drinkin’ cold ones, spending his time doing odd jobs here and there. He is loved and cared for by friends and family, especially Sam (E m ily ‘up yer bum !’ Llo yd ), his impressionable

niece who lives in the same home, sweet home.

But under this simple exterior Emmett is bothered. He is tired of life, exhausted by the normal dayto-day routine in quiet Kentucky, and is therefore moody and indif­ ferent to most of what is going on around him. His exasperation is compounded by Sam’s wakening consciousness about Vietnam, par­ ticularly about the father she never knew ,who died for his country

when she was one month old. One day she discovers a shoe box con­ taining his memorabilia and let­ ters. She wants to try and under­ stand what did go on over there, and the only connection- the only close, paternal source of informa­ tion- is Emmett, who has been in the slow process of distancing himself from everything she wants to know about.

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T hree Postcards : Return to Sender B Y JA S O N A R B U C K L E It is not unusual for an actor to scream, cry or yell with convic­ tion. What is less common, and marks the better actor, is the ability to convey simple, ordinary reality - like a casual café conversation with convincing eloquence.

Despite their best efforts, it is here that the leads of Three Post­ cards come up short. And, unfor­ tunately, it is here that Craig Lucas’ intriguing “ musical play,’’directed

by Pauline Abarca, has its greatest potential.

The play concerns three women, friends since childhood (think along the lines of B eaches ), who meet for supper at a snazzy restau­ rant. Though always “ in touch” , the women engage in periodic gettogethers to indulge in old memo­ ries and catch up on new.

B ig Jane (Jennifer Spencer) is a bit of basket-case - she recently flushed her watch down the toilet and is contemplating therapy. Little Jane (Belinda Trim ble) is troubled by the chal lenges of a five-year old son who “acts like a child” and a husband who hates her. K .C . (Ellen Cohen), the more glamourous one (decked out in a Parachute en­ semble), has recently suffered a tragic loss.

Naturally, this is not what they

talk about. Th ey complement each other - “ Y o u ... look... great! ” - and rehash old stories; there are diffi­ cult pauses and anxious tittering as the conversation ebbs and flows. It is here the play could have been refreshingly true to life. But the actresses seem to be attacking their lines rather than speaking them.

The occasional glimpse of a sin­ cere delivery only reminds one of the dialogue’s potential, not the reality onstage.

Three Postcards finds a sort of rhythm when Craig Camelia’s interesting music kicks in. The songs release a lot of inhibitions, and as the actresses break free from the rigours of tableside conversa­ tions and get honest, they become more interesting. A t times, the trio is delightful. Their voices, though notchoral.havecharacter./ürtSee

little reality.

Though the play’s ingenuity often breaks through (it was cho­ sen by Time as one of the ten best plays of 1987), Three Postcards is ultimately brought down by acting that is not up to the dialogue. What might have been a intriguing comment on female friendships instead becomes only intermit­ tently entertaining.

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In country is playing in Famous Players' Loews cinema.

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How the Sun Shines (Without Me), Little Jane’s retort to her husband, is great fun.

Th e supper soon becomes little more than a framework for a motif of memories and emotions. The waiter doubles as therapist and husband; a breadbasket substitutes for a baby. The private life of each woman is gradually uncovered in song, while the table conversation flitters on in the backround, shad­ ing these personal insights with a

wood where the flashback scenes of her father fighting and dying appear to be filmed) reading her father’s diary by a warm fire, Sam learns that he actually killed people.

When Emmett finds her the next morning, he is confronted with her rather trite opinion: “ I don’t think I like him anymore.” So Emmett is dealt the pleasant task of explain­ ing ‘the way it was’. He tries to explain how it felt to fear getting close to any of his fellow soldiers because at any time they could die.

This heartfelt confession explains what died in the soldier during Vietnam, and what remains dead inside the veteran. It is the best example the film manages of why the war should not be forgotten.

The story culminates in a trip to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial (or Hole in the Ground) in Wash­ ington where Emmett, Sam, and Grandma locate the name on the wall of their lost loved one. Instead of being the powerful resolution it tries so desperately hard to be, this ending is irritatingly melodramatic.

A host of white birds (presumably doves) fly into the sun. Cue credits and uplifting music. Enough.

Though flawed, In Country does try very hard to be honest. It man­ ages at times to be touching, but never moving. L lo yd ’s Southern twang may grate, and her forced gestures of surprise, sympathy, and undaunting cutsiness may irritate, biit W illis’ performance is worth watching. Understatement im ­ presses, especially among all this melodrama.

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McGill Rowing Team captures Trent

BY MARCELLO AUSENDA The McGill Rowing Team is a force to be reckoned with. This statement reads simply enough today, but as recently as three years ago such talk was just bantering and could only produce a roar of laughter from anyone with even the most cursory knowledge of the sport.

The club’s success at this week­ end’s prestigious Head of the Trent Regatta in Peterborough will force many to change their tune. Satur­

day, September 30, 1989 will godown as a milestone date for McGill rowing in light of two his­ toric achievements.

First, for the first time ever a McGill Men’s Varsity Heavy­ weight Eight has won a major Canadian race.

Second, and more importantly, the Men’s Heavyweight Eight victory was emblematic of the greater success of the entire Var­ sity programme. By the time the waves settled on Saturday it be­ came apparent, that for the first

time ever at Varsity pro, the unoffici, Sunny ski

and a slight tail wind made for ideal rowing conditions. The Men’s Heavyweight Varsity Eight crew started just behind arch-rival

Western and gained sufficient ground to clock the day’s fastest lime, a relaxed 14;42 over the 4.5 km course. continued on page 15

Redmen take sweet revenge over Sherbrooke

BY MICHAEL HARROLD Playing in their first regular season home game, the Redmen overcame a cold September eve­ ning and a battling, aggresive Sh­ erbrooke side to record their third straight Quebec University Soccer League (QUSL) victory. Although the emphatic 3-0 scorelinc perhaps belies the threat Sherbrooke posed throughout the match, it served as sweet revenge for the 1-0 defeat last October 23 which ended the 45 game Redmen home-field unde­ feated streak that had spanned the previous eleven seasons.

Redmen striker Jono Drysdale played down the individual impor­ tance of the game, but did admit that it would be nice to avenge the loss to the 1988 divisional champi­ ons. “We are yet to play at our full potential but perhaps such a grudge match will provide the necessary stimulus nedded to achieve this.”

Even with nine of last season’s regulars on the team, the “Vert ct Or” started shakily, allowing McGill to get an early grip on the game. This was achieved chiefly through the intelligent running of John Hayward which created space and time for the other McGill for­ wards to exploit.

By the twentieth minute, Sher­ brooke had grown in confidence and through the impessive and equally skilled pairing of Dicmc Olympio and Adnanc Saad up front, the game was taken increas­ ingly to McGill. A well worked comer kick resulted in a fine save

by Salim Brahimi. But only a des­ perate goal line clearance could keep the score level in the ensuing confusion around the Redmen goal.

The proximly of this attempt gave life and vigour to Sherbrooke, and so an assault followed on the Redmen goal that only a string of brilliant, and ultimately matchwinning, saves from top-class goalie Brahimi could keep Sher­ brooke from forging ahead.

Throughout this spell McGill kept the pressure on themselves by giving away a string of petty fouls that, although not dirty, character­

ised this quick moving encounter.

The fact that the defence did not break says much, for by half-time the Redmen midfield began to get back into the game. An inspired substitution in the thirtysevcnlh minute seemed to take immediate effect. For only a minute later, against the run of play, Drysdale had time to look up, and casually put the Redmen ahead.

Again thcchance stemmed from an unnecessary free kick whose cross found Drysdale un-marked and able to score with a fine low shot. Unmitigated jubilation re­ sulted and this psychological ad­ vantage of a goal just before half­ time proved vital. As although Saad and Olympio continued to com­ bine well, the pressure began to show.

Needless bookings (penalties) continued as agitation between the players culminated in the sending off of the Sherbrooke defender Chadi Mostafa for a late challenge on Drysdale in the fifty-fourth minute. The player advantage soon look its toll as Hayward raced into the clear only to be up-ended just outside the Sherbrooke penally area.

The contest, by no means over, now began to swing permanently into McGill’s hands as the one man advantage was cleverly ma­ nipulated with intelligent passing and vision from the Redmen midfield. Sherbrooke kept the game alive until the eighty-first minute, but lack of support for their front runners meant a scant few scoring chances. The Redmen finally in­ creased their lead when a good pass by stopper Stephan Kcnncpohl fell invitingly to Chris Sullivan who converted neatly with a low header.

McGill looked assured as they pushed forward, duly adding a third goal a minute from the end of the game as the Sherbrooke defence allowed Rolf Gronas to add an­ other.

The result was a convincing 3-0 victory brought about by the depth of talent on the Redmen squad, but more immediately by the first half heroics of goalkeeper Brahimi.

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B Y JA M E S S TE W A R T Perhaps the M cG ill Redmen were more interested in watching the Toronto Blue Jays drive to­ wards the American League play­ offs on Saturday than taking care of their own drive to the play-offs.

If not, it certainly seemed that way as the Redmen came up with their worst effort of the season in a 257 loss to the Concordia Stingers at Loyola Stadium.

Fumbled balls, interceptions, stupid penalties, and mental mis­ takes all contributed to the loss that leaves M cG ill with one win, three losses, and in 5th place in the 6 team O Q IF C .

Head Coach Charlie Baillie wasn’t mincing his words when he assessed the game afterwards. “ W e played about the worst game I can remember playing here at Concordia. The kids are capable of playing better,” said the veteran coach.

Coach Baillie’s memory goes back a long way, no doubt. But it can’t go back far enough to re­ member the last time M cG ill lost twice to Concordia in one season.

That’sbecause it’s never happened, until this year.

The Redmen, who have nad trouble in the early going this sea­ son, started off that way again on Saturday. Before the game was 90 seconds old, Concordia’s Johnny Dilegge returned thcopening kick­ off 100 yards. Afterwhich Basil Rose took the ball in one yard to make it 7-0.

Before the half was over Con U . gota touchdown from Andrew Reid on a 22 yard pass from quarterback Ron Aboud and a field goal by Paul Geary of 35 yards. He also had 3 converts.

M cG ill started the second half off just as slowly as the first. So slow in fact, they were penalized for delaying the game before the third quarter even started. The penalty fit in nicely with the fourteen others, 6 of which were for unnecessary roughness and another that went to Assistant Head Coach Ray Lalonde for chatting it up with the referee. Presumably, Lalonde wasn’t giving him the fourth inning score of the Blue Jays game. The penalty cost the team 3 points. But that’s the kind of day it was.

Gerry I fill can takeclaim to being the M cG ill offence on Saturday.

He rushed for 118 yards on a day

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Concordia crushes play-off hopes, 25-7

C o n c o r d ia Q u a r t e r b a c k R o n A b o u d where the rest of the team man­ aged only 56 yards. In addition Ifill accounted for the team’s only touchdown at 5:01 of the 3rd quar­ ter, on a six yard run. It was a gutsy performance.

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wasn’t at Loyola Stadium, that’s for sure. It was not a good day for the league’s leading passer. Yanik Préfontaine is still trying to figure out what went wrong. He com­ pleted just 3 of 20 passes for a

paltry 40 yards.

M c G ill tried what it could to get back in the game trailing 18-6 in the fourth quarter. There was a lot C O N T I N U E D O N P A G E 15

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Men's Rugby Redmen 32 John Abbott College 7 Tries: P. Doherty (3), J. McGrath, A. Bottereil, G. Thio.

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Martlets 22 Concordia 0 Tries: A. Coyle (2), M. Walter, C. Damas, L, Miller, (Note: The Martlet Rugby Team has not allowed a single point in three games this season.)

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...MORE ROWING

THE SPORTS PIT B Y A A R O N M A R G O L IS What do sportswriters do when they’re not out covering sporting events? They lapse into with­ drawal.

Such was the case last Saturday as I sat in synagogue, prayer book in hand, sporting a brand new suit, reaffirming m y Jewishness.

Waking up I peered outside to a sunlit, warm autumn morning, the type of day immortalized by foot­ ball historians, the type of day someone who is anyone would want to be outside watching M cG ill and Concordia test their wares.

But no, I would not be there, and even though services ended at one o ’ clock, time enough to catch at least the second half, I promised myself to stick it out in the name of greater powers that be.

Thus this article is composed from a quaint but liveable five and a half apartment at the comer of Sherbrooke and Atwater where I lay sprawled out on m y futon composing an ode to the sporting world.

T o pass the time while writing I flip on my two channel, black and white, antique of a television set in hopes the Canadian Broadcasting establishment has em ployed enough foresight to show Base­ ball’s Blue Jays and Orioles sput­ ter to the pennant N o such luck, the peoples net­ work has scheduled horse racing and the Grand Prix of Portugal.

Flipping the channel I say a small prayer not unlike the ones I had been spewing out only a few hours previous. M y hands are quivering as I slowly change stations. God, let there be baseball, let there be football, hell I ’d settle for All-Star wrestling.

Finally, channel twelve, m y heart drops, legs become weak. W hat’s on? Walleye fishing in Upchuck, Saskatchewan. I kid you not.

A t this very moment m y head starts swimming. A ll at once v i­ sions of Gerry Ifill running, Paul Kerr mashing opposing quarter­ backs, and penalty flags a flying, come into m y head.

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tude or just a cruel joke. God I ’d love to be schmoozing at Concor­ dia on this majestic afternoon, hamming it up with the other wags and wanna-be athletes.

Still m y conscience telleth me to remember my promise, remember what day it is, remember who I am.

Looking up at the cuckoo clock that adorns my kitchen the time reads two thirty. Probably halftime.

M y mind again begins to wander.

Lets see, the Redmen haven’t won in two weeks, surely they’re winning now.

I begin jotting down mock scores and highlights, just as, when I was a kid and used to take a deck of playing cards and imagine my Winnipeg Jets in a seven game series for the Stanley Cup with the Habs. I ’d line up seven pairs of cards and overturn them knowing full well the Jets would win in four straight.

Are the Redmen winning? As hard as it may seem for many to believe I really hope they are.

Looking at the clock again, ugh, only two forty, time sure seems to stand still when you’d rather be some place else, especially on a Saturday afternoon in autumn with M cG ill and Concordia playing.

O ut of the comer of m y eye I can see those damm Fisherman on tele­ vision. It sure w on’t be easy.

As predicted earlier by McGill head coach Mike Lizée, all four Varsity entries finished in the top three of their respective categories. In addition to the Men’s Heavy Eight victory, the Women’s Heavyweight Eight were second (Western 1st); Men’s LightweightEight third (Queen’s 1st, West­ ern 2nd); and Women’s Lightweight Eight second, merely 3 heart-breaking seconds behind victorious Queen’s.

In Junior Varsity, McGill’s Men’s Heavy Eight recorded the fastest Uni­ versity-club time at 16:23, a convinc­ ing 16 seconds triumph over their nearest competition, Western. The women, fighting adversity in the form of the unsportsmanl ikeconductofrival boats and the ubiquitous green weeds which flourish along the banks of the Trent river, maintained their compo­ sure and paddled to a second-place finish.

After having survived initiation earlier in the week the Novice crews registered some respectable times. In a field of 13 the Heavyweight and Light­ weight Men finished fourth and sixth respectively. On the women’s side the A and B boats posted times of 20:26 and 20:27 to finish fourth and fifth respectively.

In spite of the team’s best-ever showing this weekend the oarsmen returned to Montréal on Sunday to find themseves without a practice facility.

Unfortunately, due to construction, the Olympic Rowing Basin on lie. Ste. Hélène had to be drained. This quite literally left the team high and dry. But thanks to the indomitable effort of rowing team president Annabel Coo­ per and the generosity of the Laval Rowing Club, the entire McGill crew will move their show to the Rivière de Prarie facility.

The Rowing team will hold its an­ nual erg-a-thon on the terrace in front of the Redpath Library on Tuesday and Wednesday of this week.

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address, phone number, and any other relevent pieces of identification at the Tribune office, in the Basement of the Union (B01 A) by Wednesday, October 4, at 6:00pm. We will keep you up to date throughout the season, and the final results will be printed in our last issue, on April 3, 1990. One entry per person please. So bring in your picks, and win! Prizes include a trophy, and some libation.

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...Football

continued from page 14 of confusion on the sidelines be­ fore an attempted fake punt. Admist all of the miscommunication it failed miserably.

Adding insult to injury, Con U . attempted a fake punt in the same quarter, it worked, and led to their final touchdown on an Aboud 6 yard pass to Hubert Marsolais leav­ ing the score 25-7.

The Redmen tried to make the score a little more respectable when on the final play of the game Steve Baillargeon couldn’t handle a Préfontaine pass that hit him on the numbers.

It was one of those days.

selves in a deep hole in order to qualify for the play-offs. They have to beat Bishop’s twice in a row starting with the last home game of the year this Saturday at 1:00 pm. “ W e have to focus in on beating Bishop’s twice,” said Charlie Baillie. “O ur backs are up against the wall. Wegottawin.” .....Therewere 4,000 fans in attendance on Satur­ day.

More than double what M cG ill could muster for the previ­ ous meeting between the two Montreal schools.....Running back W ally Sordo says this year’s prob­ lems can’t be narrowed down to one thing. “ Maybe w e’re young and inex­ perienced. W e have bursts of great­ ness. W e do some things right sometimes, other times...”

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Office of the Dean of Students - 3637 Peel Street Information & Referrals - Academic and Personal "The Guide" to Student Services Orientation for New Students - Welcome Week Handbook of Student Rights & Responsabilises Liaison & Orientation for Mature Students Health Insurance for International Students Coordination of Rhodes Scholarship Applications Commisioner for Oaths

Office of Student Aid and Scholarships/lnternational Student Advisor's Office - 3637 Peel Street Information and Advisory Service - Provincial Government Student Aid Programmes Budget Counselling Short Term Loan Assistance McGill Bursary Assistance McGill Scholarships Information on Student Authorization Assistance with Immigration Problems Cost Estimates for International Students Buddy System/lnternational Student Handbook On Campus Immigration Status Renewal Commissioner for Oaths

Services for Disabled Students - 3637 Peel Street Brochure of Services Available Access to McGill Buildings Guide Disability Information Handbook Off-Campus Housing - 3637 Peel Street Computer Lists of Rooms, Shares and Apartments Student Handbook on Housing and Rental Laws City, Bus and Métro Maps Temporary Accommodation Second-Hand Furniture Stores Movers Commissioner for Oaths Tutorial Service - 3637 Peel Street Private Tutoring - $10.00 per hour Subsidized rates from $2.50 - $7.00 for full-time McGill students

Health Services - 3637 Peel Street A Comprehensive and Confidential Ambulatory Care Service Periodic Health Review Gynecology Psychiatry Dermatology Allergy Injections & Immunizations Immigration Physicals Laboratory Health Counselling in: Nutrition/Family Planning Alcohol & Drug Abuse Stress & Relaxation Abortion/Sexual & Emotional Problems Mental Health

McGill Canada Employment Centre On Campus ■3637 Peel Street Job and Career Information Employer Directories Help with Résumés and Interview Preparation On-Campus Recruitment Programme Job Hunting Skills Workshop, sponsored in cooperation with the Part - Time Jobs

Counselling Service - 3637 Peel Street, Room 301 Counselling for Personal, Academic, Social and Emotional Problems Assessment of Learning Disabilities Vocational Counselling and Testing, Including Computer As­ sisted Vocational Search Programmes such as CHO ISES, Peterson's and Job Futures Workshops: Job Seeking Skills, Assertiveness Training, Eating Disorders, Stress Management, Test Anxiety, Public Speaking, Study, Skills, etc...

Career Information Resource Centre University Calendar Collection Graduate School Information Application forms for: LSAT, GMAT, MAT, SAT, G RE, MCAT, DAT, TO EFL

Athletics Department - 475 Pine Avenue West Instructional, Intramural, Sports Clubs, Intercollegiate Pro­ grammes and Fitness Testing Sports Injury Clinic Sir Arthur Currie Gymnasium Molson Stadium Winter Stadium Weston Pool Currie Pool

Chaplaincy Service - 3484 Peel Street Inter-Denominational Pastoral Counselling & Support Available to all Programmes Offered Include: Residence Visiting Marriage Preparation Courses Women's Concern Group Retreats Bible Study Lecture Series on Timely Issues Guest Speakers Volunteer Out-Reach Cults Information Worship

Denominational Centres Chabad House (Jewish) - 3429 Peel Street Hillel Students' Society (Jewish) - 3460 Stanley Steet Newman Centre (roman Catholic) & Home of the Chaplaincy Services Centre & Presbyterian/United/Lutheran Chaplaincies Yellow Door (Student Christian Movement) - 3625 Aylmer Street Also Anglican & Presbyterian, United Church, Lutheran