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w h a t ’s o n WHAT’S ONIS COURTESY OF THE IN TER-GROUPLIAISON NOTICES: McGillNightline: NewandImproved!!Now open6p.m.-3a.m.,7nightsaweek.Stressedout? Bored?Lonely? Can’t findtheLibrary?Giveus acall. 398-6246. WalkSafe Network: Long night of studying...worriedthatyourdefensesaredown? Comewalkwithus.theWalkSafeNetwork.You’ll find us in the McLennan Lobby Monday thru Thursdayat 11:00p.m.. McGill Association of International Stu dents (MAIS) and Chaplaincy are collecting WinterClothingforInternational Students. This willrunthroughthesemester.Donationboxesare at: Bronfman-ManagementUndergraduateSoci ety; McConnell-Engineering Undergraduate Society; Thomson House-Post-Graduate Stu dents’s Society; Union- Students’ Society of McGillUniversity; NewmanCentre-Chaplaincy Service; Presbyterian College. Thank you for yourgenerosity. Peter RedpathMuseumofNatural Science of McGill University: presents "The Feather Book of Dionisio Minaggio”. Weekdays and Saturdays 10:00 a.m.-5:00p.m.; Sundays 10:00 a.m.- 3:00 p.m. Until Sunday, Nov. 5th. Info.: 398-6754. TUESDAY, OCTOBER24TII McGill-IslamicStudies: presentsMr. Adam Gacek, Ilead,InstituteofIslamicStudiesLibrary, givingalectureandslidepresentationon“Arabic Culture as Portrayedinthe Manuscript Collec tions of McGill University”, MorticeHall, 321, 2:00p.m. WUSC-McGill: Meeting re CARAVAN. Union413, 5:00p.m. QPIRG/GQRIP: WasteManagement Com mittee Meeting. The campus paper-recycling program,QPRIGmugs, andusingrecycledprod ucts. 501EatonBldg.,5:00p.m.Info.: 398-7432. All those interestedinworkingonthe campus recyclingprogramarewelcome. Uhuru na Ufahamu-Development Studies andAction Group: “Media andDevelopment Study Series”. All welcome. Union 425, 5:00

p.m. STAND(Students Taking Action to Networkagainst Discrimination) andtheMcGill DebatingUnion: present adebateon“Affirma tiveAction: ReverseDiscriminationorJustRep resentation”. 3460Stanley,7:00p.m.Info.: 8459171 (before5p.m.); 284-6211 (evenings). WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER25TH Uhuru na Ufahamu-Development Studies andAction Group: “Media andDevelopment Study Series”. All welcome. Union 410, 5:00 p.m. QPIRG/GQRIP: RadioShowMeeting, Ea tonBldg., 501,6:00p.m. International Socialists ofMcGill: presents a discussion on “Prisons: ASocialist Perspec tive”.TheYellowDoor, (3625Aylmer, northof Pr. Arthur). 7:30p.m.Info.: 484-8567. McGill OutingClub: General Meeting, Lea. 232, 7:30 p.m. Sign upfor Trail Clearing and HalloweenPartyat theHouse- Oct. 28-29; Ice BreakerCanoeTrip- Nov. 11-12. QPIRG/GQRIP: HousingCommitteeMeet ing, EatonBldg., 501,7:30p.m.Info.: 398-7432. McGill Film Society: H a s Anybody Seen Canada? A History o f Canadian Movies 19391953. Canada 1978 (85 min.). Dir.: J. Kramer. FDAAuditorium,8:00p.m., FREE. THURSDAY, OCTOBER26TH Meet Your Chaplains. Coffee andDonuts. Junior CommonRoom, Birks Bldg., 3520 Uni versity, 1:00-2:00p.m. McGill Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics: presentsGregorySherman, Ph.D., Head, Childhood Diseases andInjury Section, LaboratoryCentreforDiseaseControl, Ottawa, speakingon“Anencephalus: HasFetalScreening made animpact or not?”. Purvis Hall, Rm. 25, 1020PineAve. W., 1:00p.m. MiddleEastStudiesProgram:presentsProf. DovShinar, CommunicationsInstitute, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, author of Palestinian Voices: Communication and Nation Building in the West Bank

(Rienner, 1987), speaking on “PalestinianCommunicationsandNationBuild ing”Lea. Ill, 3:00p.m.Info.: 398-5075. McGill University and Royal Victoria

The McGill Tribune, October 24-31,1989 Hospital- Interdisciplinary Endocrine Re searchSeminar: presentsDr. J. F. Yale, McGill Nutrition Centre, speaking on “Preventative Approaches totype 1 diabetes in the BB rat”. Primrose Amphitheatre, 3rd Floor Women’s Pavilion, Royal VictoriaHospital. 4:45p.m. QPIRG/GQRIP: WineandCheeseinPSSA. Comeandchat withpeoplefromacrosstheor ganization. Whosaid“Social Justice”isn’t fun. 5:00p.m. McGill Department of Anthropology-An thropologySpeakersSeries: presentsDr. Maria Pandolfi,UniversityofRome,LaSapienza,speak ingon"TheSubjectinthePresent, SubjectWith out aPast: The Life of Womenin aVillage in SouthernItaly”. Lea. 738, 5:00-6:30p.m. McGill Entrepreneurs’ Club: General Meeting,Lea. 232,5:00p.m.CocktailPartyafter ward. All members andinterestedpersons wel come. McGill for the Ethical Treatment of Ani mals: LetterWritingMeeting, Union425, 5:30 p.m.Info.: 272-5064. IrishStudiesat McGill: presentsCsillaBer tha, University of Egar, Hungary, speakingon “Irish Drama froma Hungarian Perspective”. Arts Council Rm. 160, 8:00 p.m.. Info.: 3986558. McGill FilmSociety: 81/2 Italy1963(135 min.). Dir.: F. Fellini. Lea. 132, 8:00p.m.. McGill Theatre Sports-Improv. Comedy: its weekly showinthe Alley, 10:00 p.m. Free Improv. Comedytochase awaythosemidterm blues.. FRIDAY, OCTOBER27TH LawyersforSocial Responsibility: presents aPublic Lecture onEast Timor. Theme: “East Timor:TheQuietAnnihilationofaPeople”.With JamesS. Dunn, formerAustralianConsulinEast Timor, Chair of the Australian Human Rights Council,authorofE astTim o r: A People Betrayed ; andJose Guterres, Refugee fromEast Timor, MemberoftheFrontfortheNationalLiberation of EastTimor (Fretilin). Facultyof Law, ChancellorDayHall, 3644Peel, Rm.102,12:00noon. Info.: 933-6695. McGill Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics,PharmacoepidemiologyProgram, Special Seminar: presents Hans Petrie, M.D.,

Department of Epidemiology, University of Limburg, Maastricht,TheNetherlands,speaking on‘Temporal Relationships of DrugUse as an Indicatorof anAdverseDrugReaction”. Host: StanleyEdlavitch, Ph.D., ActingDirector, Phar macoepidemiologyProgram,McGillPurvisHall, Rm. 25,1020 PineAve. W., 2:00p.m. McGillDebatingSociety: Meeting,Arts270, 3:00p.m. Gay/Lesbian/Bisexualdiscussiongroup.The YellowDoor (3625 Aylmer), 5:00 p.m. Info.: 597-0363; 499-1766. BlackStudentsNetwork: Party,UnionB09/ 10,9:00p.m.Thebest inPunk, Hip-hop, House, andReggae. Cover$5. The YellowDoor: FridayOpen Stage with local performersChris McKool, JoyTakefman, andJayBarret. 3625Aylmer(abovePr. Arthur), 7:30p.m.$2. Coffee, herbalteas, andfreshbak ingserved. Info.: 398-6244. McGill FilmSociety: Annie H a ll. USA1977 (94min.). Dir.: W.Allen. Lea. 132, 8:00p.m.. McGill TheatreSports: presents its Friday Showat 10:00p.m.(oraftertheshow)atPlayer’s Theatre. Admission$1.00; orbringaGNUand get infree. Come andenjoy our zany, improv brandofcomedy. SATURDAY, OCTOBER28TII

stageandfilmactress, speakingon“Reflections intheEyeofaLens”. H.Noel FieldhouseAudi torium,Lea. 132, 6:30p.m.Free.

Librairie Pathfinder-October Forum Series: presents“FreeNamibia”.Translatedinto English.7:30p.m.6566boul. SaintLaurent(metro Beaubien,bus18). Voluntarycontribution. Info.: 273-2503.

MONDAY, OCTOBER30TH Fiesta Week: Weeklongactivitiescelebrat ingMulticulturalismatMcGill. LunchtimeFood Fair andDisplaysinUnionBallroom, Speakers Series,Movies,FashionShow,BuffetDinnerand Cultural Show,FundraisingParty atGerts(pro ceedstotheMissingChildren’sNetwork). STAND(Students Taking Action to Net workagainst Discrimination): presentCharles Small, Concordia University, speakingon“Ra cismin Canada”, FREE. Part of Fiesta Week, Union107/108,1:00-2:00p.m. DepartmentofEnglish-Stone-Consolidated LectureSeries1989: presentsJackieBurroughs,

ADVANCENOTICES: TheYellowDoor: presents“LiteratureLive” withJohanneLaFleurandHowardTessier, 3625 AylmerSt. (abovePr.Arthur), 8:00p.m..“Litera tureLive”is aprogramof readings, recitations, anddramatizations by Montreal writers, every firstandthirdThursday. “OpenStage”. $2. Cof fee, herbal teas, and fresh baking. Info.: 3986244. Nov. 2. QPIRG/GQRIPMcGill &Post-Graduates Students’ Society“Ethics andthe Academy” LectureSeries: presentsProfessorJanetDonald, Director of the Centre for UniversityTeaching andLearning, McGill, speakingon“Ethics and Teaching”. Lea. 232,7:00p.m.Nov. 2. McGill University and Royal Victoria Hospital- Interdisciplinary Endocrine Re search Seminar: presents Dr. Trang Hoang, Director, laboratory ofHomeopoiesis, Institute deRescherches Cliniques deMontréal (IRCM), speakingon“Cellproliferationinacutemyelobastic leukemia: Role of hemapoietic growth fac tors”. PrimroseAmphitheatre,3rdFloorWomen’s Pavilion,RoyalVictoriaHospital.4:45p.m.Nov. Israeli Folkdance Marathon: featuringIs raeliandInternationalFolkdances.Animatedand ledbyMauricePerez. Onedancetaught.YMHAGroverAuditorium,5480 WestburyAve. Info.: 738-8867. $6.00. Nov. 4. FurFolliesPlus’89Sale: Furcoats,furlined coats,jackets, stoles, scarves, hats, etc., newand slightlyused. Muskrattominkstyles. “Pricedto Sell”. Also “Attic Treasures” and “Florence’s Fripping”(CostumeJewellry andAccessories). Sir MortimerB. Davis JewishGeneral Hospital, East Wing Auditorium, 10:00 a.m.-8:00 p.m. ProceedsgotowardaComputerizedMonitoring Systemfor theIntensiveCare Unit. Info.: 3408216. Nov. 7 and8. DepartmentofEnglish-Stone-Consolidated Lecture Series 1989: presents John Updike, American Novelist, As Himself, readingwith commentary. H. Noel Fieldhouse Auditorium, Lea. 132, 6:30p.m.Free. Nov. 6.

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Though an Education Ministry spokesman said the principal could Principal David Johnston went ernment has had four years to rec think “what he wanted”, Minister on the warpath and McGill stu tify the situation, and they still Claude Ryan issued a nine-page dents stayed home during a week haven’t.” critical response to Johnston’s of rising tensions be speech the next day. tween the provincial “ McGill has continued, in spite govemmentand uni of funding reforms in the last two versities. years, to incur a substantial debt,” In an O ctoberl6 Ryan responded. “The univer speech to the Cana sity administrators who made these dian club, Principal decisions are trying now to blame Johnston suggested the government for its d eb t” that M cGill was Ryan cam e close to adding that bearing an unfair Johnston was right p ortion o f the “Francophone universités still Québec’s education need to catch up to English univer underfunding be sities in enrollments and degrees cause of government given,” he said. “ As long as such discimination s disadvantages exist, it will be against anglophone ■§ impossible for the government to univçfsities. He also ^pretend to treat each university stressed that the ■g equally.” government’s image ^ The McGill administration will of McGill as a rich tis s u e a full public response to university has led to S Ryan’s com m entsnext week. “... an inequitable -|_ According to Education Minis system of govern ter Claude Ryan’s press attaché, ment funding.” Luc Rhéaume, the image of McGill “This is not any- O n e s m a l l v o ic e a m o n g m a n y s m a l l v o ic e s . as a wealthy university has been an important factor in the unequal distribution o f funds among Québec universties. Rhéaume pointed to the large private dona New food a t G ert’s tions that McGill receives from the Tacos, hamburgers and potato skins are set to take their place community and graduates as evi alongside Gert’s famous pizza and hot dogs this Thursday, SSMU dence of McGill’s resources. executives said yesterday. “McGill is a rich school .Just ask The popular student pub in the union building has been serving the other principals. They all say pizza and hot dogs for as long as most people can remember. After McGill is rich,” Rhéaume said. “ It CVC introduced specials of the day last year, student leaders prom has had $ 3 0 0 million in dona ised Gert’s would soon offer new food. tions.” “Now we’re going to give students all the food their parents told How ever, M cG ill’s present them not to eat when they went away to university,” SSM U Vice President (Internal) Ray Satterthwaite told the T rib u n e.

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C asual policy causes struggle Relations between M cGill’s two highest decision-making bodies faltered last week after the board of governors implemented McGill’s new casual worker’s policy against the wishes o f Senate. The policy, which distinguishes between the rights of part time and full tiftle students who work for the university, was suspended by Senate until Principal Johnston could discuss it with student and academic staff representatives. Senators were told that the policy’s problems could then be changed before implementation. But on October 15 McGill Non-Academic Staff Association (MUNAS A) reintroduced the same policy at a meeting of the Board of Governors. Governors ignored Principal Johnston’s advice by implementing the policy as written while establishing a consultative committee to discuss it Senators may yet have a chance to turn the Board o f Governors decision down when Governors send their decsion back to the lower body for approval. According to SSMU Vice President (University Affairs) Kate Morisset, “People who need the jobs more than most, like women with children, might be unable to get the jobs they need.” International students group begins winter clothing drive The McGill Association for International Students (MAIS) and the McGill Chaplaincy began soliciting winter clothing for interna tional students last week. MAIS volunteers are asking people to drop off warm winter clothing at boxes in theUnion Building, Thompson House, the Presbyterian College on rue Milton, the Newman Centre, and the EUS and MUS offices. Clothes will be distributed to inter national students in the Presbyterian College on Fridays from 2 to 5pm, from now to Christmas and possibly in January. MAIS V -P (Finance) Johanne Wilson said initial donations by McGill students have been slow but added that at least 10 interna tional students received clothing last Friday. “They’re very glad to get the clothing. Winter clothes are not only expensive, but it’s hard for international students to know what to buy. They’re glad for the extra help,” said Wilson.

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B Y R O B E R T S T E IN E R AND P A U L H O R W IT Z _____________ Student politicians are finally trying to make themselves known to their voters through three new sets of SSM U publications, SSMU Vice President (Internal) Ray Sat terthwaite said this week. An SSM U Communications Committee is planning to release one-page newsletters to students in each faculty introducing them to their councillors and describing council debate. The newsletter will contain comments from SSMU leaders and messages from the

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endowments can be used only for specific purposes. These restricted donations cannot be used to even pay for the interest charges on the $ 5 4 million deficit that McGill has accumulated over the years. Rhéaume added that Johnston’s remarks would not hurt the rela tionship between McGill and the Québec government. “ Mr. Ryan was surprised by the remarks,” Rhéaume said. “ B ut this is a democracy. You can say what you want.” While Johnston was criticizing the government for its unequal distribution of funds, students from Québec universities and CEGEPs organized a march to protest pos sible tuition fee increases. At

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given faculty’s councillors. Already the Arts newsletter has been prepared and will be distrib uted in early or mid-November. Satterthwaite said other faculties should receive their publications before Christmas. Each faculty would receive two such newslet ters next semester. The cost for a whole year of newsletters for the Arts faculty is $ 3 0 0 - less than the cost of publicizing one SSMU event. As well, the group has already published a monthly calendar list ing SSMU events including coun cil meetings. Another publication would list

TO HEAR THE DRUMS OF PROTEST. least1000 students ta lk e d from the McGill campus to Premier Robert Bourassa’s office in the HydroQ uébec building on R en éLévesque Blvd. McG ill was represented by about thirty-five students. Seventy-five people had voted at last week’s Students’ Society General Assem bly that McGill take part in the protest SSMU officals had pre dicted last week that the total number of marchers from McGill and other universities would be seven times the amount that actu ally showed up.“I had hoped that at least the people who voted would have shown up,” said SSMU Vice-Presi dent (External Affairs) John Fox.

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Finding Canada in ourselves Last week an American professor taught me something about my country. In a report released to the Toronto Star on Tuesday, Stanford soci ologist Seymore Lipset said that Canada is the only developed nation not to have a national ideology. Nonetheless, we have a successful and rich country. So, if Lipset is right, Canada is the only country which has not needed a national ideology in order to develop. W e are, in other words, the only devel oped nation which asks its citizens only to obey the law and be them selves. W e are the only developed nation bound by nothing more than mutual respect. Accept that and it becomes obvious why Canada has no love of national symbols, mottos, flags or armies. Mutual respect between individuals is, of course, a thin thread with which to bind 25 million people - definitely not the stuff of which pretty constitutions are made. But it is also the very principle o f democracy. And it is our survival weapon. Think for a moment o f how ideologies and symbols have weakened other nations. Ronald Reagan had to commit his first term as President to the “rebuilding” of America after Vietnam, Nixon and Iran destroyed its ideology of victory. He had to commit his second term to finding a new enemy - first Libya then Panama - around which America’s regained victory ideology could be played. France reeled and nearly toppled when Algeria finally set her Impe rial sun. In Britain even the destitute and unemployed rest their prayers on a remote Queen. W e, on the other hand, have no external banners to fail us. Our only ideology is the experience of each individual. It is fantastic that in a nuclear age, our country needs only itscitizens’ self-esteem and mutual respect to survive - no stirring anthems or missiles, thank you. America needs its glory, Britain needs its tradition and France needs to be needed. But, if Seymore Lipset is right, Canada needs only its Canadi ans. On the other hand Lipset also signals our Achilles heel. As soon as we have lost our self-confidence and confidence in other Canadians, we have lost everything. Such a catastrophe looms on us now. W e are now encouraged to define ourselves as Westerners, Mari tim ers, Northerners or Ontarians. In Québec we are Anglo, Franco or immigrant. W e sell our individuality to semi-mythical groups and regions. And we ignore the worths of people from ether groups, whether by joking about them or complaining about them. When the time comes, every now and then, to harness our individual strengths, we are handi capped. W e wait for the group to join us. For instance: the 35 McGill anglos who joined 1,000 students from across the province to protest possible tuition-fee hikes last week were encouraged to keep their mouths shut or pretend they were franco phone. The thousands o f francophones who live in English Canada are similarly encouraged to become English or mute. Ultimately, we trick ourselves into believing that there is no such thing as a Canadian experience. Everything belongs to a particular group and our groups are built to be irreconcilable with one another. No wonder then that we cannot find our nation’s identity when we speak as groups. If Lipset is right, and I think he is, then Canada’s identity is in the individual.

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W IT H P A U L H O R W IT Z I’m not a shallow guy (at least, not according to my biodex); I, too, have suffered losses. The smithy of my soul has had bad mornings. I have grieved over the passing of friends. That’s why my pop culture tear ducts have been doing overtime shifts in the last couple o f weeks. The pains of separation and, for once, of reun ion, have taken my usually sunny outlook and made it a little more like something out of Munch. Hand me my hankie, and we’ll press on. The worst news cam e out of California on an ominous day late last month. “They need some time away from each other, a breather,” a source told sycophant-to-the-stars Rolling Stone. W as it the Reagans? San Francisco and Oakland? W orse. Everybody’s favourite beacon of regressive girl-rock mediocrity, the Bangles, had de cided to split up. It seems it’s more of a trial divorce for now, at least a year-long hiatus. Of course, we saw what happened when the Po lice took time away from each other: in the end, we had to endure Sting taking off his shirt in public to make a statement about the rain forests. Can you imagine what would happen if Susannah Hoffs were to do a solo album? It would be Belinda Carlisle again, only this time we might have to cope with The Allnighter 2 ! If I had it in me to shed a tear over the band respon sible for “Walk Like An Egyp tian”, you can bet I would have been weeping my eyes out. The loss of easy targets of bad culture is bad enough, but when targets you had almost forgotten come back, targets so horrific that you’ve blotted them out of your memory, well, then the grief really starts. Hollywood, long used to dealing with the undead, has a

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knack for artificial resuscitation, and this fall we saw a shining example of this skill. NBC, the network with the great reputation and all the really cruddy programs, came up with adoozy this time: An Eight Is Enough Wedding. Thrill! to the sight of Willie Aames as a satanic 30-year-old Tommy. Gape! at the weight intake and corpulent, post-drug excess, corrupt face of young Nicholas (who, may I re mind you, is our age). Wonder! how Dick Van Patten can resist the aging process so convincingly. And how...unusual to see a family of 8 adults, none of whom seem in clined to move out of the house! By my watch, Armageddeon is a little late. The next resuscitation is a little more shameful, because it seems McGill may have had a part in it. It seems there’s a school humour paper which appears periodically. It seems that paper solicited an ad from a student organization which represents students from the school’s two largest faculties, hint: that’s Arts and Science. They (the paper) claim that the organization refused, saying they’d blown their budget on a concert...a concert to be given by the Village People sometime next semester. Gee, what an excellent way to spend a budget paid for by students! Bad musi cians in Indian costumes! If this is so, all I can say is, it represents parfor-the-course fund management for this student group. Still, not all is lost. The shuttle was launched safely, Kate Bush has a new album, and we have the last page of the Red H erring. The rest of it is up to you, but the annotated map of McGill on the last page is simply the best, most humourous guide to the campus since James McGill wrote to pros pectors, “W e’ll be rich!” Post it on your wall. The page is 14" bylO", so if you live in residence, you might need to use two walls. There are about 65 days left until the end of term. Forget about it. Next: 35 student demonstrators, 15, 0 0 0 students, and long divi sion. ..

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HYDRO WATCH

With winter on our doorstep, and a work slow-down by Hydro Québec, blackouts will once again become a normal part of student life. In an effort to keep the situation in a good light (sic) we will be keeping track of the number of weeks between blackouts. So bundle up, keep warm, and light a candle. Weeks since the last blackout:

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The victims: a ten block area close to Pine and St. Laurent were hit with four blackouts in 2 4 hours last Thursday and Friday.

T h e M c G i l l T r ib u n e Publisher TheStudents' Society of McGill University E ditor - in Chief Charlie Quinn Assistant E d itor Paul Michell News Editors Paul Horwitz Rob Steiner Featu res E d itor Kelly Gallagher Mackay E ntertainm ent E ditor Kim Farley Sports E ditor Nick Leonardos Photo Editors Neal Herbert Linda Miller Layout E d itor David Gruber Production M anager Andrea Hitschfeld Production Assistants Nancy Fergu son , M arilena F itzsim o n s, John Gunnip, Kirsten Myers, Elaine Palmer, Pierre Tellis Cover Photo Neal Herbert Publications M anager Helene Mayer S taff

Jason Arbuckle, Magdahlenc Fahmi, Joshua Fellman, Trudy Gold berg, Lisa Galloway, Andrew Green, JenniferHaberman, Michael Harrold, Sam Hayes, Evan Kert, Aaron Margolis, Dan Margorian, Jessica McBride, Allison Palmer, Zoc Rolland,Joel Schwartz, Tricia Siliphant, Stephanie Small, James Stewart, Andrzej Syzmanski.Helga Tawil, Nick Vasil, 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 in B-01A of the University Centre, 3480 McTavish St., Montreal, Quebec, H3A 1X9, Telephone 398-6789, 398-3666. Leters and submissions should be left at the editorial office or at 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 located in room B-22, phone 3986777. Printing by Payette and Simms, St.Lambert, P.Q.

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IR C to formulate alcohol policy BY ANDREW GREEN McGill’s Inter Residence Coun cil (IRC) has announced it will meet this Thursday to discuss ways of making its alcohol policy more “responsible”. Currently, the IRC patrols its parties with its own security and demands McGill IDs at all its func tions. But ID rules have only been enforced for the last two weeks. Some residence student leaders believe more stringent rules might also be necessary to bring resi dence “in line with a growing trend towards alcohol awareness”. New IRC drinking rules could include training servers not to serve very inebriated guests and educat ing students in residence about over-drinking. “We are simply responding to a growing trend towards more aware ness of the dangers that overdrink ing can cause,” explained Molson IRC rep Leonard Olein. Residence Director Flo Tracy added that students in the dorms are “acting responsibly”. IRC’s move comes after a lec ture on civil liability given by University of Western Ontario Law

Professor Robert Solomon. Solomon told student leaders from across the campus that more and more people are suing univer-

bility of possible injury” to some one who has “lost control” can also be grounds for a civil suit. Such concern would make Residence’s

IRC is only the latest student group to review the responsibility of its drinking rules. In November last year SSMU passed an alcohol

sities for being irresponsible alco hol providers. He added that serving alcohol in an area where there is a “forseea-

railings, low window sills (about 2 feet high), and nearby cliffs legally as well as physically dangerous to students.

policy featuring a mandatory des ignated driver program, security forces and a minimum beer price of $1.25.

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Elephant artist gives sick kids mural BY ROBERT STEINER The Montréal Children’s Hospital’s newest resident is al6 square meter elephant with a flower in its trunk. It took 26 year-old Mexican artist Leon Alva one week to paint the elephant. “I have been in Montréal with an exhibition since August, and friends of mine suggested that I give something to the community,” he said. “So I painted an elephant for the hospital.” Alva hopes that “Uri the happy rainbow cos mic elephant” will make patients at the McGill teaching hospital “a bit happier”. “There was one nine-year old girl with a bro ken arm who wanted to help me paint the elephant. Her mother thought that it would not be possible, but I let her paint a square of blue,” he said. “We both got a bit of a high off it.” Alva valued the ink-on-china paper mural at about $5000. He has painted similar free murals on walls around the middle-class Mexico City neigh bourhood in which he was raised. Alva says he finances the community work with sales from his permanent exhibition in Cancun. Alva paintings fetch anywhere between $500 and $3000 and are hung in private collections throughout North America and Europe. S ic k kids and E lephants : A M exican artist brings jo y to a M ontréal children ’s hospital .

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Adams met up with David Harris, a disturbed sixteen year-old run away. They spent a day kicking around Dallas in Harris’ stolen car. Later that evening, police officer Robert Wood was shot five times from the car he had pulled over for a minor concern. The car was Harris’, so was the gun. And it was Harris who brags to all his friends that he “killed the P*g”But it was Adams who was convicted, and sentenced to death. A s Adam s’ law yer lam ents, “Someone set the wheels of justice in motion in the wrong direction.” The lawyer’s assistant postulates a more chilling hypothesis: Harris’ age excludes him from the death penalty, whereas Adams, at 2 8 , is well within the full range o f Texan laws. In this movie, the wheels of jus tice propel a disturbingly flawed judicial system. W e learn that the

Would it be proper punishment to rape a rapist? Or bum an arson ist? If this “eye for an eye” logic is not just, speaker Ian Heidi argued at the Amnesty International screening of The Thin Blue Line at the Rialto, should killers be killed in the name of capital punishment? The Thin Blue Line , Errol Morris’ deservedly acclaimed 1988 documentary, questions whether the judicial system should be al lowed to hand out the highest punishment when it is prone to serious errors in judgement. By keeping the film in front of the public eye, Amnesty hopes to continue energizing the debate over capital punishment. One of these errors is the case of Randal Adams, jailed eleven years for a murder he did not commit. One day in November, 1976,

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Director Roland Joffé speaks not taken as seven-dollar sedatives, and is determined to start the ball rolling by speaking to as much of the media as he can. “The film is about the corrupting affect of secrecy. It gives you con trol over another person, that is not yours by right.” Unfortunately, some folks get it anyway, and genius is the easiest ticket to ride. Joffé admits that fact, but hopes the public will see this as a warning not to blindly trust the policies of its political lead ers. A nation must never tolerate secrecy, because remaining ignorant is relinquishing power. “As [the players in the Manhattan Project] got closer to having ulti matepower, itbegan to corrupt them. Corruption begins when you start saying T am not the same as any body else’. At that point you have lost a basic sense of human being: J o ffé speaks that we are all fallible. You have lost your sense of equilibrium, and can since he first began to research the managed to write himself out of the justify almost any action.” making of the A-bomb (he also co history books, he is the actual Devil The mafioso mentality is already responsible for the atomic age, wrote F a t M a n 's screenplay). And forged territory for Joffé. Like De Oppenheimerjust his tortured Faust. now that he has made his formal Niro’s character in T he M ission , comment on what can happen when “The making of the atomic bomb was a clear case of people’s techno people of genius swell up on their Groves and Oppenheimer are ac logical skills outstripping their moral egos and lose sight of morality, he countable to nothing but their own wants film-goers to do their own egos, and they are able to rationalize ability,” he says. even worse an action than slavery. “Oppenheimer didn’t make it elaborating. Oppenheimer justified making the He wants his films to be discussed, because it was moral, he made it bomb, Groves dropping it. Both were able to explain away actions which, looked at objectively, are insane. Joffé sees the ones who sound calm and rational as the most dangerous of madmen. After seeing the film, Joffé hopes the public will pay a little more attention to the words of

Paul Newman plays General Leslie Groves, the tightly controlled mad man who gathered the scientists in close at Los Alamos, and pushed them all the way into the atomic age. As Joffé sees it, though Groves has

BY KIM FARLEY In a suite at the Four Seasons hotel, British director Roland Joffé waves his hands and delivers sen tences in sharp staccato blasts. He exudes the charisma of a politician, the kind of stuff that helped him shape heavyweights like De Niro and Newman around his visions. Suitably, he wants to talk about power. “Human beings with a tremen dous amount of power often exer cise it cruelly. That’s why power should be given to almost nobody,” he says. The subjects of his latest film are the creators of the atomic bomb, men who had to come to terms with their own power and failed. The director who washed poetry over atrocity in T h e K illing F ield s and T he M ission , has extracted an other moral lesson from history with F a t M an a n d Little Boy.

His new film tells the story of two enormous egos battling - all of it done away from public scrutiny and accountability, in the petri dish of Los Alamos. As J.Robert Oppen heimer, Dwight Schultz metamorphisizes from an arrogant but moral scientist into the doctor of the most destructive Frankenstein in science.

because it was possible to be made. Groves just manipulated his scien tific conceit.” The motivation, and the dynam ics between Groves and Oppen heimer have intrigued Roland Joffé

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its own elected leaders. “Maybe the next time [view ers] see a politi cian on T.V. ra tionalizing why we need all these weapons they’ll think ‘Wait a minute, where have I heard that before?”’ The way Op penheimer’s sci entific ego bat tered his moral judgement fasci nates Joffé. Strongly influ enced by his London theatre roots, Joffé calls Oppenheimer a •on N ukes , A tragic hero for our time. “ I f Shakespeare were alive today, he wouldn’t write H am let. He would do T he T ra ged y o f J.R o b ert O ppen h eim er."

Joffé does try very hard to be a Shakespeare, deliberately packing each scene with so much symbolism that by the end the viewer is tired. He is aware of the nips and tucks he makes with history in order to make his point, but believes the end justi fies his means. “Imagination will often get you closer to the truth, while just the piling of fact on fact will often get you farther away from it.”

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by Joseph Horovitz’s Sonatina. The performance of both these works was uninspired, which is suprising because the Horovitz piece was written especially for de Peyer in 1981. The second part of the programme began with Schubert’s A rp eg g io n e

P ianist A ndré -S ébastien S avoie and clarinetist G ervase i

16) audience at the Pro Musica’s first presentation of the season was small but enthusiastic. Too bad that the man they came to see, clarinetist Gervase de Peyer, did not put on a very good show. The programme started with Char les Stanford’s Sonata f o r C larinet a n d P ia n o , which does, as the pro gramme points out three times, sound rather like Brahams. It was followed

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transcribed by de Peyer. Next came the highlight of the eve ning, Paul Harvey’s T h re e Studies on T h em es o f G ershw in. De Peyer’s rendition of this witty piece for the solo clarinet was good. The planned programme concluded with BohuslavMartinu’sSonari/w. There were two brief encores of pieces by Chopin and Gabriel Tieray, which a good number of the audience did not

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F a t M an and L ittle Boy: Ban the bomb movie! BY PAUL HORWITZ

1N AND THE NATURE OF POWER.

Fat Man and Little Boy imagines n environment in which ego took way perspective, science lost sight if humanity, and a handful of powrful men dictated the future of the vorld. The reality may not have had Iramatic tension, a great soundtrack, r Paul Newman but, as in The 'Ailing Fields and The Mission ,Joffé as resuscitated history to show how uman nature does not evolve.

Thedirector hopes people will take closer look at the power games that re alive and well today.

low start ay for. Although dePeyer’s performance ras unexceptional, the piano accomaniment by André-Sébastien Sav>e, who is on the programme comittee for the scries, was good. But verall, judging by this first perirmance, Promusica is a rather

:r at P lace D es A rts pensive way to spend two hours d probably not the best use of the aited student cultural or entertain:nt dollar. The next performance in the omusica series is by the Hagen îartet, quite a hit last year, who are wording to the programme- being aught back “by general demand”, is on November 6 at 8 p.m. at the éâtre Maisonneuve.

In the craven, gutless realm of the movie studios, principles are an unaf fordable luxury. Nonetheless, certain rules are a must. The cardinal rule held by studio execs - a bunch of pathetic suits who control the money that makes the movies - is Bank On Expectations. This rule holds as a sacred truth that the viewers will pay millions to see The Karate Kid III, or that past success guar antees present profit. What the execs seem to forget is thatyou’re only as good as the last thing you’ve done. That being said, let’s demolish Roland Joffé. No one can questionthat director Joffé has been responsible for some excellent work over the years. His The Killing Fields and The Mission were impas sioned andbeautifullymade works which stand up against the best films of the decade. Both discussed intelligently is sues of human conflict, and the struggle of humanity’s brighter values to triumph over its destructive tendencies. One can expect of a Joffé film that it will deal thoughtfully with a weighty topic. With Fat Man and Little Boy, Joffé’s newest movie, the weight simply proves far, far too much for him. The movie centers on the Manhattan Project, the collection of American sci entists under military supervision in World War II who create the most lethal of all inventions: the atomic bomb. Over the course of the film, the scientist’s enthusiasm over their groundbreaking work turns into horror as they realize that they are bringing death, not only to countless Japanese civilians, but to fu ture generations. Joffé focusses on the relationship between J. Robert Oppenheimer (Dwight Schultz) andGeneral Leslie Groves (Paul Newman). Oppenheimer is the chief scientist among the group, an arrogant, intense man who is lured into the project by his scientific curiousity andhis dream of power and glory for his work. Groves is the commanding officer of the Project, who manipulates Oppenheimer and the scientists, corralling the independent bunch andpushing themto come up with a working weapon quickly. Clearly, Joffé intended to use Oppen heimer and Groves to discuss the seduc tive and eventually corrupting effect of power. Groves is a man driven by an overdeveloped sense of mission andego. Called “provincial” by his military col leagues for his inability to compromise, he pushes the Manhattan Project to its conclusion even after the Bomb is un necessary. He is attracted by theBomb’s potential for power; he wants to be the man who gives America “the biggest stick in the playground”. Oppenheimer seems forced in the end to complete the job he started, and Schultz lets us see his inner conflict and his sense of defeat. Whatever his intentions, however, Joffé does a very weak job of making this conflict interesting and full. Groves is largely painted as a villain, but such a characterization is simplistic and use less. Oppenheimer’s conflict is reiter ated in his conversations with Groves to the point of dull redundancy, and his doubt is worse than irrelevant. In fact, the scientists’ protests as the Project nears completion are (I believe uninten tionally) a sludge of cowardice and hypocrisy: the scientists knew what they were building from the start, and signing petitions only when the project is done is the act of cowards. Joffé’s themes avoid the real ambiguities of the situation, and his simple Martichaean interpretation is invalid.

The movie’s theme is power, but it is set in the context of the Bomb, and the context threatens to overwhelm the theme. To show the human effects of the Bomb, Joffé uses a stock cliché, that of

Questions of power and the true implications of our yearn to invent get lost in the tears of the audience

are fine for those who thought Dead Poets Society was “profound”, but a good film should never revert to such shameless tactics. The movie ends just as you feared it

Fat Man : a fascinating human story reduced to avague, sentimental muddle. These are the kind of simplistic moral ity plays that studios consider profound these days. Where are our standards? If

N ewman flash es h is " I’m in command here , soldier " look.

the fresh-faced kid - the young scientist Michael Merriman (John Cusack). Cu sack is a charmer, but Joffé makes him nothidg more than a worn plot gadget. He even falls in love with a pure, white nurse (Laura Dem, one of a few under characterized actresses in a male-domi nated movie), and finally becomes the first victim of radiation poisoning. Such pathetic ploys for audience sympathy

would - with a lot of pat, shallow, selfrighteous Hollywood moralizing about our uncertain future under the Bomb. Questions of power and the true implica tions of our yearn to invent get washed away by the tears of the audience as Joffé leaves us with a final image: the earth, as seen by space. This ‘thought ful’ shot is an apt symbol of

the studios think this is the most we’re capable of understanding, perhaps it’s time we stoppedpaying for their conde scending trash. Anybody with a genu ine interest in the subjects Joffé dis cusses in this film would be better off seeing Dr. Strangelove or reading Day One, works that assume we- actually have brains. Joffé does not.

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A world class manufacturing and marketing company offering a wide range of agricultural, industrial and lawn care products to varied consumers. Come meet with our team and discuss the various career opportunities which will be available after graduation May 1990 We will be recruiting on campus in November for several management positions and invite interested individuals to our “ Get Acquainted Night” where we can further explain what we have available for you. John Deere has exciting and challenging careers to offer. We look forward to talking them over with you. AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

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How do you procrastinate? Students in management don’t procrastinate. Nor do they completely fill out their questionnaires; I guess that they just don’t have time. Quite a few students findnew andcreative ways to enjoy recreational drugs. Many people procrastinate by cleaning. Obviously, the are doing a good job as only 14% of the people we interviewed had household vermin (roaches and rats, not cats as one respodent suggested). Most students replied they watched T.V. (a number of participant s actually confessed to be Oprah fanatics), play music, worry, do anything but study, bake cookies, read the T rib u n e, spend time boozing with friends, sleep, and of course, use the phone. These can be mixed and matched to suit your needs. ThellItimate P rize goes to the person who, get this, said: “I organize my pig collection”. Can we also assume that this person collects vermin (possibly including cats)? Now collecting pigs seems the most innovating use of time that anyone has ever heard of. Sounds fun! Second prize to the masochist who blithely replied: “hang gliding, skydiving, rock climbing and other forms of suicide.” if anyone is perusing this article for ideas. And who says that J university students have too much § time? "5 To those people who answered -o' “filling out stupid questionnaires” ^ we send you a hearty raspberry §. (Phlrrrrrp!)

Some days when we sit in the Tribune office, we speculate on the fundamental question of all journalism... what do our readers think? As a daring departure from the norm, (where we make assumptions and cater to them) this week we asked 200 students from across the campus their opinions on topics ranging from household pests to their favorite way to procrastinate. This week, McGill talks back.

Despite being keen and eager students, an appalling number of McGill students regularly use mind altering substances. Drugs and alcohol appear to be, as ever, preferred stress relievers. However, across the facultie§ use of recreational drugs and/or alcohol seems to be about even.

What is your favorite bar/club/hangout? After laboriously sorting questionnaires for several hours, the results of the compilation were: in first place Gerts, followed closely by Peel Pub. After them were Bar St-Laurent, Annie’s,The Rising Sun, Club 2080, The Alley, Thunderdome, Brasserie St-Anne de Bellevue, The Rialto. Others were mentionned but naming them would take a few hours. Most music students said their favorite hangout was Place des Arts. So much for the younger population not being appreciative of classical music... In the realm of gross generalities, people in Engineering shamefacedly admitted to not having enough time, as did Management students. For their favorites were Engineering Pubnites, Thompson House (for graduate students) and the Management Cafe. Do they know something the rest of us don’t? Our favorite was the answer: “This town sorely needs a good bar. This came from a Montréal inhabitant Sad. Fortunately, there is a solution: New York. Seriously, there’s The Red Zone, Mars, MK’s (sort of iffy), the World and Nellie’s. If you seriously are alarmed about the lack of good clubs in Montréal, try the Yellow Pages or your local bus driver. Surprisingly you’ll have better luck with the latter.

W ho is the p re s id en t o f the SSM U ?

H a v e y o u been to any M cG ill sp o rtin g ev en t this y ea r? Only 30% of the students surveyed had attended some McGill sporting event this year. The head coach of the men’s varsity basketball team isn’t alarmedby these figures. He cites the fact that McGill is a “dynamic, downtown university” in a city where there is a lot going on. Although efforts are being made to improve the turn-out at McGill games, having people in the stands is only one component of a succesful athletic program. That athletic facilities are

D o y o u u se recrea tio n a l d ru gs a n d /o r a lco h o l?

A number of questions in the survey weredesigned to test general apathy here at McGill. Forthe75% of students who did not know, the president of the Student’s Society is Santo Manno. He succeeds Nancy Coté, and John Fox is VP External, for those amoung you who hazarded close guesses. Although Manno claims iiv he iv ia iiu u v^iaimo isn’t personally offended by the

results, he acknowleges that there is a real communications problem between the SSMU and the student body. A special communications committee has been set up to try and inform students at McGill about what the SSMU is and how it functions. Of course, hand and hand with increased awareness about the SSMU will come greater recognition fonts president.

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D o y o u b eliev e in a h ig h er b ein g ? Onto more spiritual matters, even in our seemingly cold, selfimportant and material world, there are still faithful folks. In the midst of our modem, heartless and technological age, there are still

those who look upwards for guidance. Half of the students questioned believe in a higher being. Of course for some this means Wilt Chamberlain.

A re you in the a ca d em ic p ro g ra m m e o f y o u r ch o ice? A re you en jo y in g y o u r a ca d em ic p ro g ra m m e ? Whether or not students care about student government or varsity sports, they are keen about their studies. An overwhelming majority of students surveyed are in the academic program of their choice. Close to 60% say they are actually enjoying what they they are studying, while another 30% at least “sort o f’ enjoy their academic programmes. S’

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JMould y o u be w illin g to s o rt y o u r g a rb a g e as p a rt o f a recy clin g p ro g ra m m e? Environmental issues seem to have hit home with students at •McGill. Over three quarters of the students assured us they would sort out their garbage to be recycled. Now, if only the city of Montreal would follow the lead of other cities and set up a programme to collect ^garbage for recycling...

M ore than a quarter of those wiio snow up think about the lecture

W h a t do yo u th ink a b o u t d u rin g lectu res? Surprisingly, alot of students, more than a quarter, said they try to concentrate on the relevant material. Some interesting dudes managed to be completely truthful and came out with answers such

I f y o u are sexu a lly a ctiv e do y o u o r y o u r p a rtn e r use c o n d o m s? Although McGill students haveall been bombarded with recent public awareness campaigns promoting the use of condoms, only one third of the students surveyed who are sexually active say they always use condoms. One third claim an occasional use of condoms. The final third still lag behind and never use a condom. One woman assured us she used a condom “when necessary’’ Continuing luck on the judgement score, dear. Françoise Filmon, a nurse at McGill Health Service, says that this figure is probably higher that it has been in the past. Up until five years ago, the main function of the condom was birth control : men generally relied on women being on the pill. According to Filmon, about 75% of students without stable partners do use condoms. Although her numbers were not necessarily

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representative - those without problems rarely apply for assistance- many of the 25% who don’t use condoms end up coming into the Health Services with some form of STDs.

A re y ou sa tisfied w ith y o u r lo v e life? Out of idle curiosity, we asked students to rate the satisfaction of their love lives. It seems that although there are many lucky in love (about 40%), there are still many more who haven ’t yet found that special someone. Almost thirty percent haven ’t met the perfect person, but are still having some fun,and well, theother thirty... with any luck things will change one of these days.

as: “nice clothes, sex, love, and roaches.”Is there some relationship between these four of which the common human is ignorant? Do we really want to find out? Otherwise, there were plenty of “opposite sex” (usually underlined) and also a few real beauts, such as: “I don’t go to lectures,” “recreational drug use,” “nada,” and “being on a desert island with agirl.” Someone, apparently a fan, answered “Santo”. The most original answer was

“I think of humorous analogies applicable to whateverthe lecture’s about.” Out of all these answers, some sense emerges. As mentionned earlier, many of our questionnaires contained the mysterious words: “I think about the lecture.” Now this could have some pretty deep meaning, namely that sudents actually think about lectures more than, urn, sex for instance. There is some possibility those people aren’t revealing their deep and dark daydreams to the popular press.

B attlin g d ate rape BY JESSICA MCBRIDE The sexual revolution has given people the freedom to have sex when they want and with whom they want. But, for some sex has ceased to become a privilege and has become instead, an expecta tion. For these people it's no longer goodnight after a kiss under the

porch light: some women feel that they are expected to put out at the end of a date. In a way, for both men and women sex is the prob able end to an evening, and many people of both sexes think it is a women’s duty to sleep with the guy eventually. In the end, how ever, one rule is true above any CONTINUED ON PAGE 12

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B a ttlin g d a te ra p e : L a u ra X CONTINUED FROM PAGE 11 casual traditions: if she doesn’t agree to have sex, but the male goes ahead, it is date rape. Last Wednesday there was an infor mal lecture on marital and date rape, hosted by a woman named Laura X (her name symbolizes the anonymity of women in society), director of the National Clearinghouse on Date and Marital Rape and the Women’s His tory Research Center in Berkley, Cali fornia.

Date rape, unfortunately, receives less coverage than other forms of sex ual assault for many reasons.lt is al most never reported (less than 1% of all rapes are reported to the police). Another reason is the idea of rape has been stereotyped into an assault in a dark alley at knife-point. The fact is 50% o f all rapes take place between people who know each other. Because of this, the crime goes unreported or is disbelieved. Laura X has been trying for twenty

years to to make marital rape a crimi nal offence in the eyes of the law in the US; in Canada marital rape has been a crime since 1983. What makes her project so difficult is not only the legal system but also some people’s atti tudes. Laura X showed a video in which a man was advocating men’s rights. Rights against women who plead rape in order to get a divorce or gain cus tody of their children. This man was pleading for men’s rights to have sex

with their wives, because as husbands sexual gratification is owed to them. This is a carry over from historical perceptions of the wife being her hus band’s property. Another factor in the dismissal of date rape from public attention is the idea thatrape has to be brutal. A simple threat, your boyfriend saying he will leave you unless you sleep with him, can be defined as coercion. The Hand book of Student Rights and Responsi bilities states a woman has been raped when she is forced to have sexual intercourse against her will, whatever the circumstances. “Even if a woman walks down the

street stark raving naked nobody has any right to touch her/let alone punish her for being, as they deem, provoca tive. Your lx>dy is your own,” com mented Laura X at one point. It is infuriating to know that date rape is occuring so frequently, espescially to realize men are getting away with it, and women are letting them. Most women who have been raped by their boyfriends or their husbands don’t realize they have been raped. Or they feel, justly, for this is what we have been taught, that as women we do owe sexual favours to our husbands and boyfriends. Well, wedon’t. And hope fully we are going to stoo.______

The T rib u n e's first cryptic crossword THIS W EEK’S PUZZLE:

Across: 1. Here and now and not any place. (7) 5. Twelve Buddhist monks advocate this. (2,3) 8. Implied recommendation. (9) 9. Beffudled map for a girl. (3) 10. A mile of fruit. (4) 12. Thieves spin Cher. (8) 14. Forty-five and alone. (6) 15. Disrobing comics. (6) 17. Weight watchers (8) 18. This god is twice as good as yours. (4) 21. Sap is healthy. (3) 22. Italian food and the gasp it evokes. (8) 23. They have big feet; yet is that a problem? (5) 25. Footrest that owns footwear. (7)

Down: 1. Space program starts passage. (5) 2. Swaggering rogue. (3) 3. The den is the perfect place. (4) 4. Coming in late requires an excuse. (6) 5 .1 ate diced hearts. (8) 6. Balloons for rockers. (9) 7. Fate seems in itself a nasty proposition. (7) 11. It can mend a beggar. (9) 13. They use 1 down to judge beer. (3,5) 14. Answer to delight. (7) 16. The bra takes this away. (6) 19. Licks with finesse. (5) 20. Shit I don't have a particular clue. (4) 23. Tow a pair of cars. (3) BY ALEXIS "MOOK" THOMPSON, INSPIRED BY TIM DALY

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N e w & im proved hockey Redmen, edition 114 BY DAN MARGORIAN

captain, Tim Iannone. He is opti mistic about the team’s future, saying that they have “good recruits...and won’tbeany weaker on offence”.

The 1989-90 version of the McGill Redmen ice hockey team will attempt to reach a plateau at tained thirteen times in their 114 year history- the Canadian In Along with Iannone, the offen teruniversity Athletic Union sive strength centers around veter (CIAU) hockey championship. ans Paul Grech, Marc Lajeunesse The Redmen hope to build on and Martin Raymond. The three last season when they posted an accounted for 28 percent of last overall 26-9-3 record, good enough year’s total point production. for second place in Ontario Uni On defence, the Redmen lost versity Athletic Association two defensive defencemen in cap (OUAA) eastern division behind tain Jamie Kompon and Mike the Université du Québec à Trois Wells. This does not leave the Rivières (UQTR) Patriotes for the best McGill performance in 43 years. Improving on last season will be a formidable task. The divisional realjgnement has placed the BY NICK LEONARDOS Redmen in what coach Jean ProThe McGill Martlets soccer seam novost calls “a tougher and more competitive[division]”. The rea ended their regular season on lignment leaves the eastern divi Sunday by defeating the Sher sion with McGill, Concordia, brooke Vert et Or 2-1. That vic YorkOast year’s CIAU champi tory, along with last Wednesday’s 1 all tie at Molson Stadium secures ons), UQTR, Queen’s, Toronto, a first place finish, and a 5-1-2 Ryerson and Ottawa. The offence will be hurt by the record in the Québec University loss of Mario DeBenedictis, last Soccer League. Natalie Ioanidis, season’s OUAA scoring champ. with her eighth goal of the season, The Redmen hope that his skates and Jane Shaw scored at Sher will be more than filled by two new brooke to bring the championship recruits, Patrice Tremblay (67 goals home. Concordia will host Sher with Chicoutimi in the QMJHL brooke in the only semifinal this Sunday, the winner to face McGill last season) and Martin Olivier. at Molson Stadium the following Pronovost believes that “on paper we have replaced Mario. B ut weekend. On Wednesday, Concordia in on the ice is where it’ll show”. vaded Molson Stadium. It was the The Redmen primary offensive third meeting of the two teams this threat comes from McGill’s alltime scoring leader, and new team season, each team had won once by a one goal margin. In sub-zero

Redmen completely naked on de fence. OUAA East all-star Alain Cusson and Bryan Larkin, who led all OUAA defencemen in goals, should cover up formidably. The defence is quite sound with return ing players Joel Sitak, Paul Pulver and Kyler Smith. A new face on defence is Michel Emond who previously played on UQTR’s championship team of 1985-86. In goal, the Redmen have five year veteran Jamie Reeve to mind the nets. Reeve is back for all the right reasons - he’s their best. He

led the OUAA last year with a 2.81 Goals Against average. So phomore Jay Allen will play backup to Reeve. This tandem will complement the defence but will find it difficult to duplicate last year’s performance of having al lowed the fewest goals in the OUAA.

nations”. Paul Grech says the veterans are “fed up” of losing to UQTR. Ian none thinks there is a “mental block” against UQTR. For the Redmen to put together a winning season they’ll have to turn their game up a notch or two against every team in their division-particularly UQTR. The Redmen have it. Talent. But do they have character? Just ask Jean Pronovost. “The men of char acter will win this thing, it takes character. Wanting to pay the price.”

Behind the bench, coaches A1 Grazys and Jean Pronovost return for their second year. It is a learn ing process for them as they are getting used to the players as well as finding “the right [line] combi

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temperatures and a biting wind, McGill got the neccessary point to stay ahead of Concordia. Concor

dia finished the season at 5-2-1. Late in the first half, McGill took a 1-0 lead on a goal by Natalie

A nn H utchinson puts a move on a C oncordia fu llback .

Ioanidis, her seventh in as many games. In the second half, McGill played more like a team trying not to lose. As so often happens, Concordia had numerous chances to score. Stopper Andrea Benoit deserves most of the credit. On two occa sions, she made beautiful goal saving tackles in the McGill pen alty area. But Concordia sustained their attack. The inevitable tying goal finally came at the seventy minute mark, as a Concordia forward caught the entire fullback rank on their heels, and beat a helpless Judith Abbott.

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Gaels knockout Redm en in round one BY

The running game also clicked for Queen’s. Paul Beresford chalked up 197 yards and a 3 yard TD run. Their fourth touchdown was a 9 yard toss to Reid McGruer. Thanks for coming McGill. See you next week in the play-offs. Where was the McGill offence you might ask? Well, it took the day off. Hopefully, it was saving itself for the two clubs’ return engagement in Kingston this Sat urday in the OQIFC semi-final. The Redmen managed just 178 yards of offence on a consistently rainy day. They didn’t even ven ture into Queen’s territory until the 3rd quarter. It seemed punter Chuck Petipas was a permanant fixture on the field. Quarterback Yanik Préfontaine completed only 5 of 21 passes for 50 yards against the tough Queen ’s defence, includ ing their defensive line which has

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A meaningless game in the stand ings for McGill brought out a meaningless performance on the field as the Redmen were soundly trounced 29-0 by the Queen’s Golden Gaels last Saturday in Kingston. The contest, which doubled as Queen’s famed Homecoming, was virtually over by the end of the first quarter. Queen’s moved the ball at will and as a result got two quick touchdowns. Leading the way for the Gaels was all-Canadian widereceiver Jock Climie who caught two TD passes of 38 and 30 yards from quarterback Tim Pendergast. Climie finished the day with 5 catches for 105 yards- a small portion of the 447 yard total Queen’s racked up against the maligned McGill defence.

been dubbed the “Gold Rush”. Head Coach Charlie Baillie then revealed the game wasn’t all that important as all three McGill quar terbacks saw action. Andy St.Louis and Justin Raymond couldn’t muster much of anything either. Many of McGill ’s second string ers played and spark plugs Gerry Ifill, Eric Toupin and linebacker Craig Leon sat out to heal injuries. Running back Wally Sordo, who also saw limited action, quickly dispelled any notion of a let down after last week’s thrilling victory over Bishop’s. “We wanted to go in and play thinking we had a chance of win ning and [the game] was on na tional television,” said the 4th year Physiology student. “Things didn’t work out as we planned it. There was a let down after the game.”

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After last week’s often violent 2-2 draw at Sherbrooke , the 6-0 demolition of the Université du Québec à Trois Rivières (UQTR) could not have been better timed. Scoring his sixth, seventh and eighth goals of the season, striker John Hayward alone seemed too much for a lack-lustre UQTR side. Add to this the hopeless playing conditions that UQTR never came to grips with, it was surprising the score was kept down to six. The incessant rain should have helped the weaker side, hindering McGill’s quick passing game, but by the tenth minute, with a 2-0 lead already established, the result was beyond doubt. In the opening minute Hayward had put the home team ahead. Having latched onto a

fine defence-splitting pass he was able to drill home a shot from just inside the box. This early lead sparked a siege on the UQTR net, eventually cul minating in the second goal min utes later. This came after a string of comers and a worthy penalty appeal had come to nothing. Mid way through the first half Hay ward did recieve the benefit of the doubt on a penalty decision, and after a fine move down the the left side, deserved the opportunity to give McGill an unassailable 3-0 lead. Both teams looked grateful for the halftime whistle, and the brief break gave the Redmen the energy to finish the game in style. Hayward completed his hat-trick early in the second half proving how dangerous he is once given the room to move the ball. The UQTR defence had marked slackly all evening, and were now paying the consequences. After this goal, the game reverted to its first half

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The word out of the Queen’s locker room was that McGill Head Coach Charlie Baillie was trying to psyche out the Gaels with McGill’s performance. The last time Queen’s had an undefeated regular season they won the Vanier Cup. The Redmen stay in Gananoque when they play Queen’s. It’s about 15 minutes outside Kingston and helps the players avoid the hyper Kingston area at Homecoming. About 10,000 enthusiastic fans turned out for the game. Many with their faces painted purple and with several banners. All this despite a cold wind and rain.

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trend. Astute passing created space and pressure the UQTR defence could only hope to soak up. This they were unable to achieve and only added to their misery and frustration by putting through their own goal in the eighty-third min ute. This fifth goal came from a comer, but did seem to finally suggest a change in the losing side’s tactics as the realization began to grow that in order to win, goals were necessary. Although leaving this surge perhaps a little late, substitute goalie Bert Lee still needed to be alert on a couple of occasions as UQTR began to find the target. With more space now to exploit, McGill counter attacked swiftly. An accurate cross field pass found Jeremy Prupas clear on the left, and although a long way out, was able to pick his spot with a low shot in off the post. [ed note: to the four who braved the elements to see Friday’s game, at least you had a good seat.]

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Predicted Sordo,’’They are beat able. I know for sure the guys will be ready next week.” They better be.

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But Sordo conceded “the game didn’t mean much in the stand ings.” And the Redmen are not shaking in their boots over their perform ance and the fact they have to meet Queen’s in the play-offs. “We knew we played poorly but it gives us that much more incen tive to work hard this week,” said Sordo. “I think we’ve got a shot.” A shot, that is at the undefeated Golden Gaels on Saturday in King ston. Kingston, by the way isjustdown the 401 and hopefully a much stronger contingent of McGill athletic supporters will show up for this play-off game. The turnout for the game on Saturday was not worthy of school with the reputa tion and tradition of McGill. It was disappointing, to say the least.

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Two Saturdays ago, for a few fleeting moments, there was rea son to believe the McGill Redmen football team might just be this year’s Cinderella squad. The Redmen, for two games, had'played tough, gritty football, winning both ends of a home and home series with Bishops, putting McGill into the playoffs. Last S aturday the Redmen, play ing the team they will be meeting the first playoff round, received a cruel jolt of reality. In front of close to 12,000 loopy spectators in the annual Queen’sMcGill homecoming game, the Redmen were outplayed, out classed, and looked like they be longed in an outhouse, as the Golden Gaels squashed McGill 29 zip. Its an incredible shame so many McGill students and supporters made the three hour trip to Queens for the most prestigious game of the OQIFC regular season and their team didn’t even bother to show. To make matters worse the game was played in Noah’s Ark-like conditions. Cold wind followed by driving rain, a few flakes of snow, and then some more rain made it close to unbearable. Redmen supporters must have

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through the air to try and make the catch. Unfortunately for him all he got was a face full of wet turf. It was that kind of day. And so this coming Saturday McGill again plays Queen’s in Kingston, this time its a sudden

death playoff game. The weather won’t be much different, whatever momentum the Redmen had from their two wins against Bishop’s is gone. Each Redmen player will step on the field knowing only seven

days before, the same Queen ’ s team kicked their butts. The Golden Gaels will have confidence, the Redmen, only doubts. In other words don’t plan a parade down Ste. Catherine this year, schedule a wake.

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thanked their lucky stars alcohol was in such large supply because what else besides a few drinks to dull the senses would have prod ded them into watching this de bacle. McGill, playing without four starters, namely Eric Toupin, Gerry Ifill, Craig Leon, and Sam Hardy, seemed determined to lose from the opening kickoff. The coaching staff substituted liberally. The Redmen used all three of their quarterbacks and each running back throughout the after noon while Queens went most of the way with their starters. The result being the Golden Gaels looked polished and professional like a Cadillac, the McGill offence resembled a rusty, beat up Nova (No Go). On defence McGill could not stop the running of Queen’s back Paul Beresford nor could they handle Golden Gaels all star re ceiver Jock Climie. Beresford did wind sprints through the Redmen defensive line to the tune of 197 yards while Climie bagged five receptions including two long touchdown catches in the first quarter.

» T iie M cG ill M artlets field hockey team celebrates their 4-2 win on S aturday against L aurentian. ______ T hey travel to L amport S tadium this weekend for the OWIAA championship

The only bright spot in the McGill offensive scheme was first year running back Marc Thiffcault who actually appeared to care there was a game on the line. The Redm en quarterbacks looked hopefully lost whenever the Queen’s defence blitzed, which was often. The result being hurried passes thrown five and ten yards high or wide. On one play Préfon taine rolled left, threw on the run, overthrowing the probable re ceiver, Christian Masotti, by ten yards. Masotti though, made a game effort literally swan diving

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