The McGill Tribune Vol. 06 Issue 13

THE MCGILL TRIBUNE

Wednesday, December 3, 1986

Published by the Students' Society of McGill University

Volume 6, Issue 13

Photo - Mark Baltzan

The McGill Tribune Wednesday, 3 December, 1986

W EDNESDAY

WHAT’S ON

Wednesday, December 3 • Christmas Craft sale! Be crafty, don't delay and buy those gifts now. Check out the selection from 9:30 am to 4:30 pm in room 107/108, Union building.

• Photo exhibit/contest '87. Take your photos now! Deadline is February 14.

For more information: 392-8943.

• International Students: are you stay­ ing in Montreal over Christmas? Do you have anywhere to go during the holidays? How about a traditional Christmas and/or holiday dinner with a Canadian family? For information: 392-4804.

• Players Theatre presents Fool for Love

by Sam Sheppard, December 2 to the 14th, 8pm in the Student Union Building. Admission: $10 general public, $6 students and seniors. For more information: 392-8989.

Laval, Apartment 1...Contact Trib Editors for more information.

• Wassail, wassail! The annual DESA/GGSA Holiday Party w ill be heldbetween 4 and 7 pm on the third floor of the Arts Building. There w ill be a $1 admission which w ill go toward the Gazette Christmas Fund. Refreshments w ill be served. All English students and faculty are cordially invited.

• Red eyes and red noses...Phi Delta Theta fraternity is putting on its 6th an­ nual Toys for Tots drive. Party at the Red Door, 3647 University. Admission $1 or a toy. All funds raised w ill be donated to needy children.

• The McGill Choral Society w ill hold its annual Christmas concert with carols starting at 8pm in Redpath Hall. Works include Benjamin Britten's A Ceremony o f Carols and selections from West Side Story. Free!

THURSDAY

SATURDAY

Thursday, December 4 • The Yellow Door is holding a Christmas Party for seniors and volunteers. All welcome, 3652 Aylmer.

For information: 392-6742.

FRIDAY

Friday, December 5 • Invasion Time Warp Party in the Union Building from 9 pm to 3 am 50's music in the Alley, 60's in Gert's and 70's and 80's in the Ballroom. Admis­ sion: $4. Presented by Studsoc and CFRM. • Ray Condo and his Hardrock Goners with Special Guests w ill be playing at the Spectrum at 9:30 pm. Tickets only $3 at the Concordia VA Building, 2nd Floor.

• Faithful (or fun) staff members are in­ vited to the Trib Christmas Party. 3725

Saturday, December 6 • A Yoga Workshop w ill be held by Lin­ da Dubeau at the Yellow Door, 3625 Aylmer. Admission is Free! For more in­ formation: 392-6742.

• Unsolicited extensions...McLennan Library hours have been extended for finals cramming. Contact the desk for detailed schedule.

munications from 8:30 to 4:30 at Hotel du Parc. For registration or information: 866-1929.

• Anglican Morning Worship at Christ Church Cathedral, 8 am, traditional Eucharist and 10 am, contemporary Eucharist with choir and sermon. For in­ formation: 392-5890.

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Monday, December 8 • Anglican Chaplaincy students and staff Eucharist at noon in the Newman Cen­ tre, 3483 Peel Street. For more informa­ tion: 392-5890.

SPECIAL

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WHAT WILL BE ON...

Friday December 12 and Saturday December 13 • Dance/Movement Therapy workshop at Concordia University, 1425 Dor­ chester West. Topics include develop­ ment of the profession and its methodologies. Session lasts from 9:30 am to 4:30 pm. Call 482-9944 for further information.

•Judah and Jah Children Band at the Sun Rise Club on December 13. Admis­ sion $7. For information (and directions) call 739-9742.

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Receive a Free à la carte main course when a 2nd à la carte main course of equal or greater value is purchased at the same time.

SUNDAY

Sunday, December 7 • Morning worship at 10:30 am with Presbyterian/United Church campus ministry, followed by brunch at StMartha's-in-the-Basement, 3521 Univer­ sity. For more information: 392-5890.

• The Business and Professional Women's Club of Montreal w ill be holding a professional development seminar on Effective Business Com­

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NEWS

The McGill Tribune Wednesday, 3 December, 1986

VP Armour:

“I Never Said Every Penny Would Go To Course Materials.

by Jennifer M ori “ How have the fees from the course materials charge been allocated?" asked Chris Alexander, Arts Senator, querying administration about the $100 photoco­ pying charge newly imposed this semester.

VP Finance, John Armour, answered that the $1.6 m illion generated from the fee was given directly to the departments based on enrollment, as a supplement to their operating budgets. In response to remarks from student senators that students were not getting their money's worth and that many students receive lit­ tle or no course materials, Armour stated that the revenues were being spread across the entire system and that allowance must be made for the labour costs incurred by the production of extra materials. “ The $1.6 million is still not covering all the costs; there is no cost ac­ counting system because it costs too much," he added.

Lee Iverson, Graduate Studies Senator, was critical of this lack of financial ac­ countability. "W h y are there no guidelines for monitoring the funds?" he asked. "There are huge loopholes in the system. It is possible for a professor to withdraw an originally required text and charge for course materials in lieu of this text. Course materials that used to be distributed are now on reserve and must be photocopied by the student."

"I never said that every penny would go towards course materials," answered Armour. "O ne must remember that secretarial and technical costs are in­ volved." He added that it would be ab­ surd to create a cost restraints system for the course materials fee when there is

none for departmental spending as a whole.

Professor Samuel Noumoff suggested that some account of spending should be solicited from the departments fo r reference. Armour agreed with this pro­ posal, stating that a review should begin as soon as possible.

There was a prolonged debate about the proposed appointment of a Dean of Admissions. The argument centred on the need for such a post. "Most of the proposed functions of the Dean of Ad­ missions are already being exercised by the Director of Admissions," said Noumoff, referring to the Report of the Ad Hoc Committee on the Dean of Ad­ missions, presented by Samuel Freed­ man, VP Academic. " If we are adding only two new duties ^(liaison and residence) why is such an elevation necessary?"

"W hat are the problems with the pre­ sent admissions procedure?" asked Paul Pickersgill, Studsoc President. "I have heard many good things about the Ad­ missions Office and there appears to be no need for a Dean."

"W e are trying to make a good pro­ cess even better," replied Freedman.

"W e must make a unique initiative to be a national university, to attract the best and most outstanding students." He said that the present setup is "wasteful and inefficient." Apparently, the'expenses of the new post can be met by the savings incurred from the merger of the liaison and admissions offices under the new Dean.

"Attracting new students is all very w e ll," said Grace Ann Baker, Studsoc VP (University Affairs), "but what about

PGSS Surveys Students

by Glenn Pierce The Post Graduate Students' Society (PGSS) and Students' Society of McGill University (SSMU) are currently conducting a phone survey of graduate and undergraduate M cG ill students to determine student use of various services and activities.

The purpose of the survey, according to Daron Westman, PGSS VP Ad­ ministration, is twofold. "SSMU w ill be interested in the practical aspects, to find out how well certain services are used. This w ill also be of interest to the service organizations themselves, like the Daily and the Trib. PGSS, on the other hand is looking for empirical data on how SSMU services have been used by grad students."

The survey is an endeavor of the PGSS Special Committee on Graduate Membership in SSMU, which was formed last summer. "The mandate of the committee is to gather information on whether PGSS members use enough SSMU services to justify the fees they pay," said committee chair Yves Prairie.

Said Westman, "After the results have been tabulated, the committee w ill meet and discuss recommendations regarding the fee structures. Options could include having SSMU divert some fees back to PGSS, or eliminating SSMU fees for grad students, and having PGSS make transfer payments for the SSMU services its members use."

Lindsay Glassco, SSMU VP Internal, stated that "w e 'll work with the results.

If PGSS students aren't getting as many benefits from our services as they should, options for change can be considered.

"SSMU wants to see which services are being used, and if they need im­ provement," continued Glassco, "and also whether there are services that are not used."

350 undergraduate and 350 graduate students are to be polled. Costs of the survey (about $700) are being split by SSMU and PGSS. Results of the survey w ill be made public, according to Westman, at the PGSS council meeting in January, which is open to PGSS members, and also in press releases to the Trib and the Daily.

improving the quality of life for students already at M cG ill?" One of the recom­ mendations of the consultants' report which advised the creation of the new office was that the University appoint a Vice Principal for Student Affairs. In a dissenting opinion, Ian Brodie, Studsoc VP (External) and member of the Senate Ad Hoc committee, advised the creation of such an office instead of the creation of a Dean of Admissions.

Several members of the faculty were critical of the terms of reference, especially the responsibility for advising.

"Advising ought to be a faculty respon­ sibility," said Richard Salisbury, Dean of Arts.

ing non-commercial licenses — most notably Radio Sir George, Concordia's downtown radio station, which is seek­ ing some 50 watts of transmission power.

During the 20-minute presentation and the subsequent question-andanswer period, Kleinhans presented a strong case to the Commission. The sta­ tion manager told the CRTC that CFRM was on a stable financial base. As a result of the referendum passed last fall, Radio McGill w ill gain approximately $80,000/year through student tariffs. The station also has an agreement with the University whereby McGill w ill lend the station $112,000 to finance "start-up

answered that a pamphlet has been pro­ duced outlining the services available to students, that the tutorial service has endeavored to include disabled tutors who would be more understanding of the problems of disabled students, and that the Student Services Office is con­ sidering improving mobility for disabled students by negotiating a contract with a taxi company, the costs being borne, as far as able, by the university.

Other Senate business included the approval of fee increases to the Law Students Association and the approval of various committee minutes.

New Information Access Policy

by Janet Mitchell Student Council agreed on a new stu­ dent information access policy when it met last Wednesday.

Approximately one third of the three hour meeting was spent debating a pro­ posal made by Kevin Davis (Clubs Rep.) to increase student knowledge of coun­ cil activities. His proposal suggested that press conferences be held weekly and public hearings be held whenever con­ troversial issues arose.

Gary Saxe (Social Work Rep) agreed with the proposal and added that the press conferences should be held in various buildings to ensure "participa­ tion of the greatest diversity of students."

The motion was carried.

Much .debate ensued concerning the details of the proposal. François Longpré (Law Rep) and Gary Saxe both agreed that the idea was innovative and would illustrate council motivation. Longpré motioned that both an executive member and at least one local member be available at the press conferences and that "Press conference" be changed to "information session." Both motions carried.

Heather Corcoran (Arts Rep) and Rick Chance (VP Finance) both disagreed with the proposal, saying tbdf council members are already available during of­ fice hours and council meetings. Chance noted that student interest is not great enough to warrant the information ses­ sions.

In a vote, the motion to have public hearings passed unanimously while the information session proposal passed with a small majority. The final resolu­ tion reads that there w ill be monthly in­ formation sessions between 9am and 6pm which w ill last for one hour and be located in alternating buildings on cam­ pus. There w ill be at least one executive and one local member present and meetings w ill be advertised in student newspapers.

CFRM Optimistic About FM Bid

by Michèle Dupuis Over a year of planning and scrambl­ ing finally came to a head last Thursday as Radio McGill appeared before the Canadian Radio and Telecommunica­ tions Commission (CRTC) last week. The radio station was defending its bid to ob­ tain an FM licence at a frequency of 90.3 MHz with a power of 5700 watts.

"It went very w e ll," said Martha-Marie Kleinhans, Station Manager of CFRM after the presentation.

CFRM has asked the CRTC to grant them a "special institutional" FM license, entitling the station to broadcast in a non-commercial format. There are three other Montreal-area stations seek­

Student senators were confused about the difference between a Director and a Dean. "There is a fog before my eyes," stated M ike MacKinnon, Science Senator. "W hat does a Dean do that D ire c to r d o e sn 't? '' "W e should endeavour to keep students here and not waste money on a title," he remarked.

Freedman said that an individual with greater prestige than a Directorship was required to carry more weight with the world outside McGill. It was clarified that a Dean makes policy while a Direc­ tor executes it.

Professor Irwin Gopnik, Dean of Students, was asked what is being done for disabled students at McGill. Gopnik

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costs of equipment," and the setting up of that equipment necessary to broadcast on the FM dial. Other costs w ill be ab­ sorbed by the Student Society of McGill and through advertising. The radio sta­ tion w ill operate as a debt-free business, if all goes according to plan and to budget.

In an interview after the hearing, Kleinhans told the Tribune that Montreal is the "only urban-metropolitan centre in Canada that doesn't have a campus radio station."

Anne Langford, Public Affairs Director of CFRM also spoke on behalf of the sta­ tion. She told the Commission that what continued on page 13

Other business included several reports from officers. Rick Chance, VP Finance, reported that this year's overall financial statement is "very impressive."

Copies of the statement are available from the student Society Office.

Lindsay Glassco, VP Internal Affairs, reported that two members at large are still needed on council and invited nominations. Ian Brodie, VP External Af­ fairs, invited nominations for two students to serve on subcommittees for Bill 32 and for Federal Government fun­ ding of research done at McGill. Peter Nixon (Arts Rep) was nominated to the Bill 32 sub-committee.

During question period President Paul Pickersgill, was asked whether a deci­ sion has been reached on the hiring of a new executive director. Pickersgill replied that the number of potential can­ didates had been reduced to two and a

decision would be made this week.

There was also a question on the status of two non-voting members. Pickersgill stated that the constitution is currently being ratified and as soon as the legal process is completed the members w ill obtain full status.

New Business included discussion of the Terms of Reference of the Policy Manual. François Longpré (Law Rep) made a motion that the final report of the Ad Hoc Committee should indicate all amendments made to the original policy. The motion was carried. A mo­ tion to add a member-at-large to the committee, made by Gary Saxe (Social Work Rep) failed. Saxe also motioned that a member-at-large be added to the Consitutional Amendment Ad Hoc com­ mittee. This motion carried and Kevin Davis, Clubs Rep, was nominated for the position.

Santa To Be Arrested in GI Joe Heist

by Marc W ills Word is out that Santa is going to get arrested.

Sore Throat, The Tribune's source at the North Pole, has revealed that Santa is none too pleased with the success of GI Joe, that product of renegade elves at Hasbro Bradley Inc. of Pawtucket, Rhode Island. Apparently Santa has been grumbling that toys like GI Joe "encourage aggressive and violent behavior and lead to the glamorization of hostile activity." So on December 12 Santa and a group of devoted, politically correct companions are going to enter Montreal's major downtown department stores to repossess the GI Joe toys on display with the intention fo sending them back to Hasbro. Santa's going to get there by reindeer-drawn sleigh, he/she's likely to leave by squad car.

GI Joe, that rough-and-tumble, blood-and-guts, man-cum-doll-of-action was first introduced to the North American market in 1964 but was yanked from the shelves in the mid-1970's because of poor sales. In 1983, after 7 years of post-Vietnam hibernation, GI Joe returned to the stores complete with twinbarrel guns, missile-bearing jet, rocket-bearing helicopter and a motorized tank.

And Old Joe has been blasting holes in the lucrative North American toy market. In 1984 Hasbro made an estimated $730 million, $125 million of which was booty from GI Joe. Santa's complaint is that war toys promote aggression and a disrespect for life. To this sort of criticism Stephen Schwartz, Harbro's senior vice president has responded: "The GI Joe team is an anti-terrorist force dedicated to preserving the American way of life and protecting your right to your own opinions. GI Joe symbolically represents the American soldier who has bravely defended our rights...rights we so often take for granted. GI Joe happens to be the leading boys' toy this year — not because it is a military toy, but because it represents things young boys, down through tJTe ages, have looked for in toys: action, adventure, detailed styling, the chance to act like a hero. Be it King Arthur, George Washington, or Patton."

In any event get ready for December 12 when the jo lly fat person in red .akes on Rambo Jr. and department store security at the Bay, Eaton's and Woolco's.

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D ep artm en t o f A th letics

The McGill Tribune Wednesday, 3 December, lBBb

CAMPUS RECREATION

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IN T R A M U R A L S P O R T S

WINTER - 1987

SHINNY HOCKEY Monday Wednesday Thursday Friday

SPORTS Basketball (M,W,CR) Volleyball (M,W,CR) Soccer - Indoors (M,W,CR) Ball Hockey - Indoors (M( Ball Hockey - Outdoors (M)

Schedule Changes for Winter 1987

Floor Hockey (M) Broomball (M,W,CR) Innertube Waterpolo (CR) Squash (M,W) Badminton (M,W)

12:00-13:45 12:00-13:45 11:45-13:30 11:45-13:30

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M: Men; W: W o m en , C : C o-recreational

Cross Country Ski Equipment Rental

REGISTRATION OPENS: Tuesday, January 6 - 09:00 hrs CLOSES: Monday, January 12 - 16:30 hrs

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The registration fee must be paid when registering the team.

The Campus Recreation program provides employment opportunities for students, positions are available as instructors, sports organizers, referees, supervisors and office assistants. Apply to the Campus Recreation Ofice or call 392-4730 for further information.

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Day and Time: Tuesdays 20:00-22:30 Location: Currie Gym Duration: 12 weeks First Class: Tuesdays, January 20, 1987 Cost $100/$ 145 -v LIMITED REGISTRATION Registration is now underway for the Fitness Instructor Certification Program only.

TOTAL WORKOUT Total W orkout resumes for the W inter Semester on Monday, January 5, 1987 at 1 7:00 hrs. * Saturday Workouts have been moved to 12:00 hrs.

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Improving Canada's Defence Image At Innu Expense

by Marc Wills The North Atlantic Treaty Organiza­ tion (NATO) is to announce in April 1987 whether it w ill establish a jet fighter ' training centre at Goose Bay, Labrador.

It is a decision awaited with apprehen­ sion by Canadian peace groups and by the Innu Natives who live near the Goose Bay site.

The Canadian government first offered the Goose Bay base to NATO in July 1984, during Liberal PrimeMinisterJohn Turner's brief term in office, it is clearly a project dear to Canada's defence establishment as well as to members of the Goose Bay community. The Goose Bay location is in competition with the Turkish site of Konya (on a desert plateau 200 km south of Ankara). Indica­ tions are that Turkey w ill be chosen because of lower costs and greater prox­ imity to Western Europe. But Canadian officials are publicly confident that the Canadian offer w ill be snapped up by MATO. Since 1980 low-level flight testing over Labrador and northern Quebec air space has been undertaken by Cana­ dian, British, and German flight crews.

Canada recently signed bilateral flight testing accords with two other NATO partners, the Netherlands and Belgium.

As well, a $93 million 10-year project to upgrade the facilities at the present Canadian Forces base at Goose Bay has been approved by the Canadian govern­ ment.

In recent years, Canada has been criticized by its NATO allies, particularly the United States, for its apparently poor contribution to the alliance's defence ef­ forts, Canadian Defence officials argue in a public information brief that establishing the new base on Canadian

soil would "reaffirm Canada's strong comrhitment to the NATO Ailiance" and "have a major economic impact on the Goose Bay area and the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador."

The Department of National Defence estimates that the new Tactical Fighter and Weapons Training Centre would in­ ject $500 m illion into the local economy and "w ould generate a significant number of jobs in the Goose Bay area."

The Defence department's glossy brochure which outlines the Training Centre proposal emphasizes the "availability of 64,000 kilometres of airspace for low-level flying down to 50 metres."

Environmental concerns are gently dismissed by defence officials who remark that local caribou population has increased from 60,000 to 500,000 since the early 1960's. An environmental im­ pact report, examining the ecological and socio-economic effects of low-level flight testing is currently under way. But the Environmental Assessment Panel on flying activities in Labrador and Quebec w ill not be submitting its report to the federal government until the spring of 1988.

Carol Martin, the executive secretary of the Panel, assured the Tribune that a new NATO jet training centre cannot be installed until the Panel gives its ap­ proval. The entire training centre pro­ posal could conceivably be scrapped if environmental concerns override poten­ tial military or economic benefits. But that prospect seems unlikely given Ot­ tawa's already strong commitment to the project.

A major consideration the impact report must address is the effect of lowlevel flight testing on- the traditional lifestyle of Labrador's Innu Natives. The

Innu are presently negotiating with the federal government claims to the land over which flight testing takes place. The Innu have complained that the flight tests have upset the environment on which they depend for their livelihood.

They have also said that the noise of the low-flying jets represents a serious danger to their mental and physical health. For these reasons the Innu Na­ tional Council is opposed to the training centre project as well as to low-level flight testing in general.

But the Innu account for Only 850 of Labrador's 36,000 inhabitants.

John McGrath, a representative of the Newfoundland government quoted in the November issue of L’actualité, believes that the Innu no longer have a traditional lifestyle to preserve and that they are simply living off government handouts. It is an argument echoed by many who feel that the NATO training base would bring untold economic benefits to Labrador and its people, in­ cluding the Innu.

But the Ecumenical Council of Chur­ ches and a variety of Canadian peace groups have taken up the Innu's cause.

For instance, in Montreal there is a Com­ mittee for the Demilitarization of Nitassinan (Nitassinan is the Innu word for "O u r Land").

On November 12, 58 people were ar­ rested by the Ottawa police for blocking the entrance doors to the Department of National Defence. Their act of civil disobedience organized by the Alliance for Non-Violent Action (ANVA) was a protest against the flight tests in Labrador and northern Quebec and constituted a demand for the respect of the Innu's way of life.

But ANVA, which brought together demonstrators from Montreal, Toronto,

Peterborough, Kingston and Ottawa for the day after Remembrance Day protest, is clearly taking aim at something larger than just the Goose Bay jet training base.

A self-described "collective of social change activists," ANVA is critical of Canadian defence policy in general, and in particular of testing agreements with NATO and the United States such as cruise missile testing in northernAlberta and submarine weapons testing at Nanoose Bay, B.C. ANVA and other peace activist groups want to dispel the myth that Canada is an international peacemaker. The jet training base at Goose Bay would repre­ sent "a real threat to peace and a major acceleration in the spiral of the arms race," said Daron Westman, a McGill student active in the peace movement and one of those arrested at DND three weeks ago. Westman and other activists argue that the NATO base is designed to test American first-strike technology to be used against the Soviet Union.

Westman believes that the Canadian government "apparently speaking in the name of all Canadians" is mortgaging off Canadian territory to the American military.

ANVA is challenging the idea that Canada's security and peace are inex­ tricably linked to a policy of deterrence and collective security. This was the thrust of the protest at DND on November 12. It touched a nerve in Defence officials that day. BrigadierGeneral Terrence Liston speaking to the media after the protest responded that the Canadian military is "the singlemost effective force for peace in this country."

NATO is scheduled to announce its decision on the location of its Tactical Fighter and Weapons Training Centre in April. Even if NATO sets up shop in

Konya, Turkey instead of at Goose Bay, low-level flight testing is likely to con­ tinue and increase in Labrador and nor­ thern Quebec as the Mulroney govern­ ment tries to upgrade the image of the Canadian military and rely on military spending to create jobs in an outlying region of the nation.

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The McGill Tribune Wednesday, 3 December, 1986

David Suzuki: A World On Loan

by Alexis Campbell "Science is one of the major factors in­ fluencing our lives today," asserted Dr. David Suzuki at a lecture at McGill last Thursday night. Suzuki, a scientist and journalist, host of CBC's The Nature of Things, gave a lecture entitled "Towards

the Year 2000: A Challenge for Sur­ vival."

According to Suzuki, as a society we tend to ignore the effects of science on our lives. This ignorance, he believes is due to "powerful social myths" which we unquestioningly accept as truths. In his speech Suzuki presented and demolished several of these myths.

Suzuki considers as fallacy the idea

that we require continuous economic growth. "Anyone with the most basic knowledge of science is aware that you can't go on growing indefinitely."

To the current "o il glut" he respond­ ed, "H o w the hell can you have a glut of a non-renewable resource?" Earth can only support a constant increase in population and consumption for a limited time before things begin to run out, Suzuki reminded the audience.

unreasonable to expect these politicians, who are often "scientifically illiterate," to make informed decisions about such issues as whether or not to build nuclear reactors or to go ahead with oil drilling projects in the High Arctic.

In Suzuki's mind, environmental im­ pact assessments and cost-benefit analysis are not effective ways of manag­ ing technology. For him, environmental impact assessments are "statistical aber­ rations," not representative of reality. He gave the example of a two-year assess­ ment done by Pan Arctic on Lancaster Sound, which consisted of drilling two oil wells. Suzuki feels these types of limited test situation can hardly reflect

He dismissed the notion that our elected representatives w ill "chart the waters" into the unknown future. Cana­ dian politics, Suzuki said, contains "a disproportionate representation of lawyers and businessmen." It is

the real impact of technology on the en­ vironment. Suzuki asked the audience if observers could reasonably conclude an accident rate of zero for the actual pro­ ject if the assessment went smoothly.

About as reasonably as " if one of the holes blows, you have a 50% failure rate," he concluded emphatically.

Cost-benefit analysis is similarly inef­ fective because "W hile the benefits of technology are usually imediately ap­ parent, the costs are almost always hid­ den and long-term." Oral contracep­ tives, for example, showed no significant side effects when tested. "O nly after be­ ing used by millions of healthy, normal women” were any effects detected.

Suzuki offered no definitive solutions other than education. It is his hope that "a scientifically literate public" would tend to elect representatives who were more sensitive to scientific issues. He hopes that the younger generation, who have "less invested in the present system," w ill be more open to change. It is for them that he wrote the four books he was in Montréal to promote.

Suzuki concluded his discussion with an ap p ro p ria te quote from the Greenpeace movement: "W e aren't in­ heriting the world from our parent; we're borrowing it from our children."

Sam Delaney On The Literary Fringe

by Greg Smiley If Samuel Delaney's own title "Through Skenectady with Gun and Camera" had been my only hint as to what his discussion on Contemporary Science Fiction was going to be about, I probably would have assumed a quiz­ zical apprehensive look, a look sug­ gesting not only my skepticism of this writer's cryptic state of mind but also in­ dicating my wonder at that "paraliterary genre," science fiction itself.

Science fiction has sat on the outside

of the defensive walls built around 'respectable' literature for so long that I had begun to wonder myself whether it could be considered respectable in any kind of mainstream sense, since it has avoided such categorical constraints for so long, and with such subversive relish.

As it was, Delaney's lecture, the last of the 1986 Consolidated-Bathurst Lecture Series e n title d "th e L ite ra ry Imagination,” was as enjoyable as his fiction has been critically acclaimed.

Speaking in a question-answer format in

which he posed to himself the questions most commonly asked him concerning science fiction, Delaney embarked on a journey through his own Skenectady of imagination, purportedly the official land of science fiction creativity, to give the scantily filled Fieldhouse Auditorium audience a refreshingly witty look at what many see as marginal literature, even non-literature, yet what can and has been called a literature of ideas, the art of science fiction.

In "1-Camera" autobiographic stance,

Delaney delved into his own past to give the audience a glimpse at what might be hastily termed the beginnings of science fiction, but in which one could still see his vibrant and fresh wonder of the art coming through the charybidic explana­ tion of reading as the ability to be reduc­ ed to the concepts of language and desire. Since his mother brought home a library book 'with almost the same title as the one I had asked for,' Delaney has always seen 'good' science fiction, good and enjoyable reading, to be only a book away. As a writer he equates his own attempts at fiction with this same feeling, striving to 'find another book,' to bridge the feeling of absence that one feels when he senses there has to be something more in what he's reading.

Because the writer, Delaney said, is most of all a reader of the text, and reading is an 'inflationary process:' sub­ mission to a text, to a story or book, never quite matches one's desire.

Speaking somewhat carefully about the subject of literature, Delaney confid­ ed his opinion that expectations of this venerable genre are often a kind of 'benevolent enslavement' on the part of the reader, since most readers of literature begin reading with a set of somewhat academic constraints concer­ ning taste and literary value — expecta­ tions that are, in a sense, 'the first step to critical tyranny.'

Yet Delaney does not go so far as to chastize literature as such, but only presents his side as a writer of science fiction, saying that science fiction has

always attempted to tease out presup­ positions and expectations in order to study and scrutinize them, possibly even shatter them. All worthwhile fiction, he adds contains the seeds of subversion, of wanting to articulate tensions in life, in perception, and even within, amidst, or between literary genres. "The attitude of subversion lends itself to the attitude of analysis,' Delaney said, "and dramatic analysis becomes fiction."

Delaney's self-interview presented Samuel Delaney the writer toting his guns proudly and defiantly through a world of tensions, enigmas, and pre­ judices however subtle or self-justified, snapping pictures of himself to create a collage of images which, when all is said and done, left one last impression; Fif­ teen years ago, on his way to McGill for a similar lecture, Delaney was denied entry into Canada for reasons of law and opinion. Delaney did not chide the au­ dience about this fact of Canadian 'justice,' but used that instance from his past indirectly as an allegory for science fiction itself, hinting that science fiction, if it is to achieve its purpose of Criticism, analysis, excitement, and even enjoy­ ment, must remain on the fringes of literature, must remain an outsider and, most of all, must not be sublimated into what can be termed 'respectable' literature: "As science fiction is strongarmed and hustled to the border" Delaney said, "I hope it's not shot through the back in order to make it a proper topic for academic study..."

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N obody’s Baby On Parliam ent H ill

by Robert Costain ^ Hamilton-East Federal MP and Liberal "Rat Packer" Sheila Copps' main reason for speaking at McGill last Tuesday after­ noon was to promote the release o f her new book, Nobody's Baby, but it was the upcoming Liberal policy convention that was utmost in the minds of the au­ dience.

Copps confined the focus of her speech to her reasons for writing the book, and to a brief description of how the Liberal Party functions on a day to day basis. She explained that the reason she wrote the book, at a time she admits is seeing a "bumper crop" of books w rit­ ten by prominent Liberals, was in part to encourage more women to enter the political arena in Canada. ■ There are currently only 27 women in the House of Commons; approximately 10 per cent of total membership. Copps does not see this imbalance changing rapidly, because our "socialization pro­ cess holds women back from leadership roles." Although women are encourag­ ed to take part in fundraising and lobby­ ing factio ns, when it comes to political candidacy, the usual choice is still a "w hite anglo-saxon protestant chamberof-commerce man."

Copps spoke on her membership in the notorious "Rat Pack" which virtually led the opposition attack on the Pro­ gressive Conservativegovernment du ri ng the first few months of its mandate.

F o llo w in g the PC la n d s lid e in September, 1984, New Democratic Par­ ty Leader Ed Broadbent predicted that the NDP would supplant the Liberals as an effective opposition because the Liberals had been in power too long to

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know how to be an opposition. Withjn the Liberal Party itself, there were two schools of thought.

The first group, composed largely of former Liberal cabinet ministers and well-worn Liberal back-benchers, were shell-shocked by the overwhelming PC victory. They advocated regrouping and allowing the new government a chance to prove itself for a year.

The second group, to which Copps belonged, was made up largely of newcomers to the House of Commons, and a few who had survived the Tory sweep. This group advocated fighting the new government right away. Their objective was to throw the government off its first six-month agenda.

It was easier, said Copps, for these "Rat Packers" to criticize government policies and patronage appointments because most of its members were new to the political arena. They were an ef­ fective attack on the government at a time when it was difficult for old guard Liberals to attack govenment policies for fear of having the blame pinned on the former Liberal government of Pierre Elliot Trudeau.

Copps continued by describing the process involved in preparing for the daily question period in the House.

Question period, said Copps, is not an off-the-cuff kind of affair. In her book, she uses the Sinclair Stevens affair as an example of how the Liberal attack is planned. In a normal morning caucus meeting, former Liberal Cabinet Minister Herb Gray, now Liberal House leader, leads the debate over the issues of the day..

There are, according to Copps, very

distinct blocks in the Liberal Caucus and this is particularly evident in these meetings. Surprisingly, it is Gray, one of the less charismatic figures of the Trudeau years, who is the "glue that holds the caucus together." He makes the final decision over what w ill com­ prise the day's question period.

Copps described caucus in the context of the ongoing Sinclair Stevens case.

When reports of possible conflict of in­ terest surfaced in the press, the Liberals hit hard in the Commons for about two days.-After this, there were some Caucus members who, advised dropping the issue, because it would not lead anywhere. The Chernobyl nuclear acci­ dent eclipsed the issue in the media, so the Liberals could not gain any political mileage out of it, After a two or three day interim,. Rat Packers resumed their assault on the former industry minister.

Copps believes that if there are more women in the House of Commons in the future, there w ill be a change in em­ phasis of the issues covered there. Ac­ tion would be more affirmative, said

Copps. As well, there would be a greater emphasis on social issues and women's issues. She briefly mentioned the Com­ mittee of '94, a political lobby group striving for a fifty-fifty ratio of women to men inthe House of Commons by 1994.

She praised the work of such groups, but said that true equality is still years down the line.

Copps fielded questions from the floor, most of which concerned the pre­ sent state of the federal Liberals. She predicted that John Turner would win a comfortable margin of support at this past weekend's Liberal policy conven­ tion. She said that though she had sup­

ported first John Munro and then Jean Chrétien in the last Liberal leadership race, she now supports Turner. Her previous image of Turner as a "silver spoon-fed Bay Street boy" has been softened by two years of working with him in the Liberal caucus. She even hinted that she would continue to sup­ port Turner even if he lost the next federal election. However, she admitted to being essentially in agreement with Senator Keith Davey's vision of the Liberal Party as a "small T liberal, slight­ ly left-of-centre" party. She is against a review of Turner's leadership at this time.

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Missions Of Hypocrisy

by Ruari Nicholson Innocence and spirituality collide with the hypocrisy of politics in Roland Joffe's universal message: The Mission. Set in the jungles of South America, the Mis­ sion recounts the Jesuits' attempt to Christianize the Indians under the en­ croachment and ciampdown of Colonial and Church powers. Instigating raw emotion in audiences, Joffe realizes

Jesuit missions in Spanish territory and judge whether a closure is warranted.

His visit, however, is simply a matter of going through the motions, for the deci­ sion has been made: the Jesuits must be put in their place. The fate of the Guanami never stirs a consideration from these fathers of the church and one can sense the com ing massacre throughout the movie. The Pope's

focused in the pursuits of God. When the truth and purity of this man become known to us, we wish to somehow stop the sequence of grim events. Few such mediums move minds and are felt in hearts. The link between the Jesuits and the political schemers is in the form of Rodrigo Mendoza, played by Robert De Niro. A slavedriver, Rodrigo kills his brother in an argument and turns to the

His might is that of spiritual strength, such strength that would conquer worlds, focused in the pursuits of God. once again the pure power he created in the K illin g Fields.

In the opening scene we are presented with the spectacle of the Iraqui Falls. The falls serve as a barrier, both morally and geographically, between the primitive Guanami Indians and the SpanishPortuguese colonists. ' ' The hypocrisy of the church is presented in the form of the Pope's emissary, perfectly played by Tomas MacKelly, whose job it is to tour the

emissary is plagued by his morality but it fails him when he completes his work. .

It is the characterization which wins this movie greatness. The characters do not portray small personal habits and ac­ tions; they remain larger than life, universally applicable to any man in any scenario. Father Gabriel, brilliantly played by Jeremy Irons, is the pious leader of the mission above the falls. His might is that of spiritual strength, such strength that would conquer worlds,

church in remorse. His spiritual growth is in league with our growing awareness of man's higher pursuits.

In end sum The Mission is a testing of our humanity. Nothing is answered in its presentation, however, it forces us to raise questions concerning ourselves and our role in society. The Mission leaves audiences numb and on edge, wishing they could act on those emo­ tions.

by Mary Eckmahs

Blending Consumerism And Voyeurism At Ogilvy's Christmas Display

A Tradition Of Getting

by J. Marley Dickens' Ebenezer Scrooge* is possibly the most realistic man I'll ever come across, and Christmas the most commercially-implicated day of the year. (\Vith the exception o f In­ dependence Day in New York City.)

A "hum bug," I say, a sham, a decep­ tion. For thus Scrooge meant when he pronounced his most favorite word, and not some musically-inclined insect. (For a more complete definition, consult the nearest dictionary.)

Let's sit back and think on this ra­ tionally. The original meaning behind Christmas is actually quite moving.

(Whether or not you wish to consider it a myth is your own prerogative.) This is the day in Christian belief when God gave his son, humbly, in a Bethlehem stable, to the people of Earth. There are further implications, but space con­ strains a more detailed explanation. Suf­ fice to say, Christ was a gift.

Today's Christmas can become a nasty page 8

social nightmare when one tries to emulate this act of giving. How many people do you "have" to buy gifts for this year? Shouldn't you want to give?

Christmas lists become statements of obligation, and some appear as if they include the entire "surplus population."

"This person might give me something, so I'd better get him something." Or hypothetical investments; " If I give each of these persons something, I'll get the equivalent number of presents in return." Or merely attempts to avoid an unpleasant death; "If I don't get great Aunt Nellie something, my parents (or some higher authority) w ill have my head."

Christmas shopping is also a harrow­ ing experience with special implications for the struggling student. This is assum­ ing you have enough money left in the Christmas budget you've been pillaging for the last three months to even begin it.

Never mind the complication that you have a slight academic obligation to

fulfill during the two weeks immediately prior to the big day.

Call me an idealist, but it is possible to get something out of this gift-presenting tra d itio n w h ich d o esn 't require assembly, cold storage during the sum­ mer or an extra trip to the store for bat­ teries. One can get quite an adrenaline rush from the reaction to a well-received 'gift. Best of all, it doesn't even have to be expensive, merely thoughtful.

I plan to do a lot of getting this holiday season. After I get out of Montréal, I plan to get some sleep. Since I'm escaping to California, I might even get a tan.

Biological needs aside, I just might get around to giving. After all, with much convincing, even Scrooge was con­ verted.

Oh yeah, by the way, M erry Christmas. * If you are unfamiliar with this delightful character, consult Dickens' obscure novel A Christmas Carol.

As the semester draws to a close and we are forced to ju x­ tapose Christmas glee with exam anxiety, a tim ely little ques­ tion must wedge its way into the already-overloaded grey mat­ ter: What to do over the holidays? Upon reflection (something we all have unlimited time for, I'm sure) we might wish tc rephrase the question to: Where w ill I b e during the break?

One's Yuletide activity is invariably linked to where one is.

Understandably, the emergence of this nasty little question is clearly unwelcome at a time when circumstances are as straitened as capacity for original thought. For a collective con­ sciousness that has subsisted for weeks on ketchup soup, caf­ feine, and assorted texts, novels, and unintelligible manifestos, contemplation of even the immediate future appears, at best, bleak.

However, it is a question that must be resolutely faced.

W hile most of us cannot see beyond the next opportunity for intimate fraternization with Pillow and Blanket, there is indeed life after Plato, Holsti, and Neils Bohr. And if it's any consola­ tion, you'll probably get more Christmas cards than Watson and Crick put together. Lab rats have no friends. But back to the issue at hand.

Barring from our discussion all the plutocrats headed south for a month in the Netherland Antilles, we w ill confine our ex­ amination to that amorphous pool of sub-elites that comprises the majority of the M cG ill student body.

So, as you, Mitch Average, sit in your frosty kitchen (HydroQuébec rates having killed all potential for even lukewarmth) idly stirring your coffee with a pen (the only clean piece of cutlery in the apartment) you begin to realize the necessity for the mobilization of your indifference. So you decide to go home. It is warm. There w ill be food and presents. However, after a week of blissfully-indulged narcolepsy and overeating, your soul w ill begin to feel constricted. Soon siblings w ill rear their ugly little heads and Mom and Dad w ill again become Parents. Is there any escape? W ell, it depends on where you are.

For some of lis, this isn't even an issue. Radically indepen­ dent types go home Christmas Eve, bag the loot, inhale the cranberry sauce, pilfer the left-overs, and are gone by Boxing Day. W hile this approach does not take into account laundry time, it d o es offer a unique combination of both freedom and

Dreaming Of A White Christmas

by Chris Flanagan It's 10 pm on the 24th of December.

There's no snow on the ground, nor a cloud in the sky. Yet it's going to be a white Christmas.

Cocaine has been getting a lot of bad press lately but there remain a few wise men who know of the pleasures that Frosty the Snowman may bring. And there's no better time than the festive season to indulge in nature's magic crystals.

You're gathered round the blazing fireplace, warm and snug in the com­ pany of your dearest friends. The cognac feels hot as it slides down your throat.

The aroma of smoked maple fills your nostrils, A gentle chime from the doorbell resonates over the sound of wood crackling. O nly the arrival of San­ ta Claus himself, some fifteen years earlier, could evoke such a sense of childish excitement.

A warm, friendly hand offers a mirror.1 The mirror is lined with powdered, crystalline snow. A crisp, neatly rolled, $100 bill is placed between your thumb and forefinger. Before the powder is

even off the reflecting surface, you begin to feel a tingling sensation. Valhalla, here we come; all's well in Happyland.

This is Christmas Eve. But before you begin, you'd better keep in mind a few cold, hard facts. The Crinch has recruited many a friend and now lives in a big, white house. The Grinch plans to rob good, honest folk of their Christmas cheer. The Grinch. is Big Brother and he wants your blood...

No one is safe from the Grinch and his men, They'll test you at random and then test you again.

If you're happy or glad, they'll assume you are high, If you tell them you're not, they'll tell you, you lie.

Inaccurate tests are run of the mill, If you take aspirin, they'll say you pop pills.

No one is safe, George Orwell was right, Your children w ill have you taken away in the night.

But fear not fine friends, this has happen­ ed before,

Prohibition was halted and McCarthy ig­ nored.

This is merely a phase, another witch purge, You can still enjoy life and indulge in your urge.

Stay away from the Grinch, negate his obsession, Avoid imitations and use some discre­ tion.

Obviously, reckless, self-destruction through overindulgence in any vice is not a positive thing. And, granted, a great luxury. But is it not the daily stresses of our troubled society that lead to such addictions? Many previous societies have survived quite nicely with occasional drug use as a prominent pastime. The ultimate question is whether or not there are any members of society left with enough common sense and self control to enjoy such pleasures only once or twice a year. Besides, if you can afford much more than that, you're making far too much money.

îrnatives increased calorie intake at minimum emotional expenditure.

Yet most of us have a tacit moral/financial/guilt-ridden (Choose as many as apply) obligation to spend the holidays w ith those who consider themselves our nearest and dearest.

So how can the student alleviate boredom and stress w ithin the context of the family?

If you live in Montréal, there's no problem. McLennan might stay open for awhile and you can take advantage of the oppor­ tunity to get a w alloping head start on War A n d P e a c e and City O f G o d for next semester. Otherwise, long-jumping at the in­ tersection of sludge and grime at University and Sherbrooke is highly refreshing and certainly a m ost underrated endeavour.

For those participating in the mass exodus to Toronto, your options are somewhat more diverse. In keeping w ith tradition, you can all turn up at the same parties and play "G e rt's'' until you get tired of waiting half an hour for your own beer. The next day you can play ''M c G ill" and ignore your peers on the street. If this fails to cheer you up you can sit around and play Blasé-University-One-Upmanship w ith all your friends who went to Queen's and are still wearing desert boots. These are fun pastimes no matter where you're from.

If you hail from the Ottawa region, I'm sorry, city's closed for the season. You might try Hull...

Calgarites! A nice holiday project might be to think of ways o f redesigning the Calgary Tower so it doesn't seem like such an obvious attempt at keeping up w ith the Joneses in the east.

On a more personal level, you can always call up the friends you've made in Ontario and Québec. But do it late at night.

When nobody can hear.

Finally, for those of you from New Jersey, my heart bleeds.

However, to keep alert you might like to try that burgeoning new Garden State pastime — map drawing. Yes, you can calculate to the exact mile which major east coast city you live "just outside o f" w hile sitting comfortably somewhere bet­ ween Princeton and Asbury Park.

Isn't M cG ill starting to look good? Personally, I feel it doesn't even co m p a re w ith my holiday destination. But then, who can beat Sudbury, Ontario? Hanging out at the Big Nickel, playing Ring Around The Smokestack...We Sudburians really know how to party.

Merry Christmas and see you in January. Early.

Where Will You Be This X-mas?

by I.N. Trepid O.K., you’ve been complaining about this institution since midterms, but face it, what else would you be doing with your life? Curiosity prevailed for this intrepid reporter. Here’s what some of decadent McGill is doing with their glut of Christmas break free time.

“ Refusing to talk about my future...”

Anonymous BAU2 “ I ’m thinking of going up North to get drunk.”

Renato Mardegar Computer Science BA ’86 “ Eating myself into oblivion.”

Anonymous BA U2 “ Florida and Guadaloupe...where Guadaloupe?”

“ As little as possible.”

George Ioanidis BAU3 “ I ’m going to eat an elephant’s-weight worth o f B ittersw eet R ittersport chocolate.”

Eva Riccio BSc U3

“ I ’m going to learn how to ski with hip­ popotami from the Nile.”

Christina Campbell BAU2

‘ ‘I ’m going to sleep for three days. When I get up — I don’t know what I ’m going to do but it won’t be in Burnside Hall.”

Jacques Critchley BA U3

visiting relatives...Oh -yeah, and agitate for political change.”

Eileen Lavery B A ’82

“ Well, first I’m going to have knee surgery and then I’m going to go out and destroy what the doctor repaired.”

Marc Simmons BAU3

“ I ’m putting out my first album. I ’m also playing some shows and hopefully resting sometime.”

Rachel Green

“ Going back sleeping.”

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EDITORIAL

The M cG ill Tribune Wednesday, 3 December, 1986

The Phillipines: A Step In The Right Direction Since her rise to power in a blaze of yellow and 'people power', President Corazon C. Aquino of the Phillipines has struggled in the anything but stable political environment of a country beset with economic problems and an 18-year-old Communist insurgency. Over the past nine months there has been more than one occasion on which her ability to lead the country, or in fact, simply hold on to power, has come into question. President Aquino stated herself last week: “ O f late my circumspection has been viewed as weakness, and my sincere attempts at reconciliation as indecision. This cannot continue."

She's right. Judging from what took place last week, there is hope.

Phillipine Defence Minister Juane Ponce Enrile was a decisive factor in the non-violent uprising that denied Ferdinande Marcos a fraudulent re-election in February of this year. Since joining the Aquino government, Defence Minister Enrile has consistently been a thorn in the side of President Aquino. He opposed her negotiations w ith the insurgents and continually appeared to be building a power base among those who opposed the Aquino government.

On the weekend of November 22, news surfaced that General Enrile's "b o ys" were about to announce a rebellion. Enter Chief of Staff General Fidel V. Ramos. His crucial decision to join General Enrile was the critical factor that enabled President Aquino to come to power in February. In what has been described as separate lobbying efforts to gain support of the armed forces, General Ramos prevailed by appealing to the "professionalism of his men", professing allegiance to the freely-elected Aquino government, and issuing a directive to "Disregard any orders from the M inistry of National Defence or Colonel Honasan and the Ministry of National Defence." The follow ing day, President Aquino moved swiftly and decisively. She fired Defence Minister Enrile, dismissed her entire cabinet and gave the Communist insurgents until month's end to agree to a ceasefire. Furthermore, she named an "im peccably professional" retired general, Rafel (Rocky) lleto, a veteran of the successful

campaign against Huk insurgents in the 1950s, as the new Defence Minister.

As the week unfolded, the Aquino government and the Communist insurgents announced that they had reached an agreement on the conditions necessary to begin a 60-day truce on December 10. Although both sides admit that sooner or later their unsettled conflicts w ill probably have to be solved by war, both sides now have a chance to publicly put forth their programs and clarify their differences. This can only be judged as a positive step.

The Aquino government has over the past 10 days shown signs that it perhaps has some chance of firm ly establishing legitimacy and consolidating power.

The dismissal of General Enrile is a positive step, if President Aquino can make it stick politically, it can be considered a major victory. The reshuffling of her cabinet should work to her advantage by ridding her of some members whose allegiance is questionable.

Before the fundamental task of economic and social reform can be pursued diligently, the Aquino government must introduce some measure of stability into the country. Although a lasting truce with the insurgents seems unlikely, the ability of the Aquino government to use recent events to their advantage may provide an injection of confidence to the population whose support is desperately needed and to foreign investors whose capital could make the economic transformation of the Phillipines feasible. Furthermore, it seems reasonable to expect the countries of NATO to actively support the Phillipines, considering its strategic location, and their own highly esteemed democratic values. The United States has been the only country, with the exception of Japan, which is not a member of NATO, to publicly support the Phillipines financially and politically. Are the nations of the European Economic Community unw illing to give unequivocal support to an emerging democratic state just because it only indirectly serves their interests?

J e lly B e a n s A n d S T D s The attempt by M cG ill Student Health Services last week to bring the issue of sexuallytransmitted diseases to the forefront of student consciousness seemed an odd move on an otherwise conservative campus. The "guess-how-many-jellybeans-it-takes-to-fill-a-condom" competition seemed even odder. However, Health Services is to be applauded for this first step toward increasing awareness of a subject that has hitherto been taboo.

Sexually transmitted diseases, among them AIDS, herpes, gonnorrhea, and syphilis, can no lortger be ignored or considered the just desserts of the wanton and promiscuous. Indeed, sexually active young people living in large urban centres are at a particularly high risk of contracting STD's; no matter how careful you are, you might not always be sure of your partner's sex-life and exposure to disease.

Realizing the delicate nature of the subject and its social and emotional ramifications, Student Health Service initiated STD Awareness Week as a way of demystifying the issues and of giving out information in an informal way. The emphasis was on a v o id a n ce. Students were encouraged to make themselves aware of the first symptoms of disease in themselves or in their partners. M ortifying a task as it may initally appear, asking your partner if he/she could potentially infect you is half the battle won against contracting a sexually-transmitted disease.

The other half is the use of condoms which also cut down on virus transmission. To this end, a major pharmaceutical company donated thousands of condoms that were handed out free of charge to students visiting the information booths. W hile many of the prophylactics were later seen scattered across campus, and most students found the booths more amusing than anything else, (the jellybean gimmick d id n 't help), Health Services' Information blitz was a much-needed event. It sould save a lot of grief. Here's to safe sex in the New Year. page 10

Ezra Greenberg

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

The M cGill Tribune Wednesday, 3 December, 1986

Letters To The Editor Have you a mind? Prove it! The T ribu n e welcomes letters of comment (and even complaint) from members o f the M cG ill community. Letters should be typed, double-spaced, signed, and should not exceed 500 words. Send submissions "T o the Editor" to T h e M cG ill T ribu n e, Rm B15 of the Student Union Building. _______________________________

The Corruption Of Commerce to whom it may concern...at the North Pole I'll be blunt with you.

I want to know what the hell is going on.

Why have you, for yet another year, unleashed that odious beast Kris Kringle, Father Christmas...a.k.a Santa.

Yes Virgina there is a Santa Claus...but like so much of that which surrounds us, appearance and reality...well they're just worlds apart.

Corrupted is the innocent dream of children and with it the true spirit and virtue of a birth within death, of giving and sacrifice.

A bit shmaltzy?

Well maybe, but that's what it's all about.

Alas Virigina, thou art innocence scarred; and in truth I know no worse fate.

"W hat do you mean 'Yes Virginia there is a Santa Claus'?"

Alive and kicking, I say.

"The big fat guy who slides down the narrow little chimney?

The very one! O nly now he's too fat to come down any chimney. He is easy

to find.

Eaton's is Santa's store and Simpson's is something like 'the home of the Christmas Spirit.' Some other place is 'your Christmas saving's place'...and get this, the San­ ta Claus parade is in November. Get geared up folks there's only 28 shop­ ping days left.

Virginia, in 1986, Christmas is a shopping event, a marketing tool and an advertiser's dream.

It is profits and sales tactics, in 1986, Santa is a stuffed goose fed by a flurry of consumerism. And the oppor­ tunists milk him for all he's worth. 'Free Santa from the clutches of capitalism': no there's a slogan! in 1986, dear Virginia, Santa is the w olf in sheep's clothing, the seemingly vir­ tuous queen and more...a Trojan Horse!

I must apologize for my perfect cynicism, but in 1986, the spirit, the true spirit of Christman has been...what can I say...beautifully bastardized by coerced consumerism and gaudy gimmicks.

Whose Birthday is it Anyway?? my hopets bent but not broken...

Bartholomew H. Clarke member, Psychix-Anonomix

Pre-Yuppie Plea Dear Santa (c/o The T rib) Now that I'm graduating, I'll need a few special things this year for Christmas. First, please bring me some clothes like the ones grown-ups wear. I also need some money for food, wool socks, snow tires, and World Peace.

And a job. Thanks a lot.

Yours Truly, Glenn Pierce

Marcos' Yuletide Yearning Dear Santa, Enclosed is a cheque for 2.5 million U.S. dollars in recognition of the fine works you have done over the years.

All ! want for Christmas are 30 elves, equipped with automatic weapons, and a sleigh ride to Manila.

Yours Truly, Ferdinand Marcos

Keep Your City Clean, Kids To the Editor Montreal is one of the cleanest major cities in the world, as is shown in the photographs of the well-known camera team, Mia and Klaus who, throughout their career have captured more than 50 countries on film.

The cleaning, maintenance and beautification on which cleanliness depends, are of primary importance in preserving the environment: it is a ques­ tion of quality of life. Cleanliness is a vital aspect of the urban fabric and in 1986 Montreal spent $56,365,600 to keep the city clean.

Every day the City of Montreal's publ ic works department takes concrete actions to ensure a clean, pleasant environment for the 1,018,000 residents living in the

192,06 km2 territory of Montreal. Clean­ ing operations respond to the needs of Montrealers, promote pride in their city while creating an attractive destination for the thousands of tourists who visit us each year.

However, cleanliness is also the responsibility of the residents in each Montreal neighborhood. In the McGill University sector, there are ways neighbours can participate through little, everyday gestures, in keeping their area clean and making it a more agreeable place to live. Precautions are as simple as: — placing garbage in strong containers; — putting out garbage between 5pm and 6pm on collection days; — throwing papers and refuse (with the

exception of garbage bags) into the waste baskets on city streets; — respecting the urban furniture which belong to us all (benches, bus shelters, flower boxes, etc.); — posting no bills on lampposts, mail boxes, etc.; — observing parking regulations so mechanical sweepers can operate.

It is a question of repecting the en­ vironment and quality of life in your neighborhood. Your sector can smell sweet as a rose if everyone lends a hand.

You can make your corner of the city smile again.

For information, please call 872-3434.

Pierre St-Laurent: Public inspector West Region

X-Mas Deathwish

Subterranean

Dear Santa, c/o th e T rib

To the Editor, The CSCUM (Campaign for a Subterra­ nean Corridor Under McTavish) group met recently, to conjecture various ways of crossing Dr. Penfield at McTavish without ending up at Pine and Universi­ ty where the Royal Victoria hospital thoughtfully located its severe trauma ward. Crossing at this intersection, it's not unusual to have parts of one's body scattered along Pine as far as the Main.

Can one's heart Pine away for a loved one? Particularly if the loved one is a spleen?

We've come up with some sugges­ tions. The Tribune would be doing a public service it would print them: 1. The CN Mount Royal tunnel is 200 metres below the Leacock basement. An access link to the tunnel could be built in Leacock 18, an another one in the basement of Thomson'Vlouse. Students could travel from McTavish south to McTavish north through an evocative underground railroad. This would not only be practical, but romantic, and might even inadvertently lead to a black spiritual or blues revival on the Montreal music scene.

2. Potential hit and run drivers would become the targets of lawsuits initiated by 3rd year law students who would man a close circuit camera attachment at

Exams are upon us, in fact are now beginning to overwhelm us, and I need some help. I can cope with the fact that I now have to commence the deciphering process of the hieroglyphics I casually refer to as my notes. I can handle the un­ the intersection. Money from lawsuits could be used to invest in a stop sigh, a fortunate necessity of memorizing a plethora of articles detailing the traffic light, or knowing the Students Society, a Lyndon Larouche lecture fascinating experiments done on the fascinating marine mollusk A p ly s ia . I series. can accept the reality of having to get 3. Change the name of Dr. Penfield to 114% on my Biometry exam in order to Pine Ave. before it actually turns into pass the course. Possibly, I can even Pine Ave., and then change the name deal with my "artsy" roommate who has McTavish to Dr. Penfield. Drivers only one exam on the first day of exams, heading towards the intersection of Pine and is planning to linger around the (Dr. Penfield) and Dr. Penfield apartment to do fun Christmasy things (McTavish) are in for a disturbing spatial like relaxing and watching her room­ anomaly; how can two streets intersect m ate s tru g g le w ith C e llu la r twice while running parallel to each Neurobiology. I am prepared for exhaus­ other? The metaphysically-minded tion, musical chairs at the library, non­ vehicles would hopefully avoid the tem­ existent reserve readings and Christmas poral confusion. shopping. However (and this is where 4. Cadillac-Fairview is widening McGill you come in), I simply c a n n o t cope with College Ave, to allow Montrealers a betthat horrible girl who plants herself in ter view of the mountain. Not only are those horrible lines at the horrible gym they too far south, they're not thinking and says in her horribly loud voice, dialectically. • McTavish should be "D id n 't you remember to study the widened to allow McGill students a bet­ obscure experiments on the irrelevant ter view of Verdun. neurobiologica! implications o f the CSCUM is also petitioning the diminished generator potential in the MUCTC for an extension of line 5 of the frog neuromuscular junction? Gee, that's Metro to the Redpath basement street too bad. Professor Fail-the-Neuro told me the whole exam is simply b a se d on stacks. Watch for an update...And be careful! that unimportant concept!" Santa., can you hear me? Kill her. That's all I want.

Eddie Paul

M.A.1 English Lit.

Love, ,

Kalli Varaklis BSc U3

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

The M cGill Tribune Wednesday, 3 December, 1986

Toronto Pair Play Folk At Cert's

by M.A. Donna

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At 9:30 pm on Saturday December 6th, M cG ill is in store for quite an even­ ing of entertainment. Gertrude's Pub w ill be the place to see, for the first time in Montreal, Andrew Heintzman and Nick dePencier. -Who are these guys? you ask. They may well be in some of your classes. Andrew has just started first year in English while Nick pretends to be a second year student — I use 'pretends' because rumour has it that Nick has been to 14.3 classes all year (.3 because he arrived late and left early).

Enough about their academic pro­ wess. Let's move on to what they really do well — singing and playing guitar.

Sound like a sing-a-long? It isn't. These guys are pros. They've been playing together or in various bands in Toronto for 5 years.

I caught up with Andrew the other day on lower campus. Andy's the guy dragg­ ing his feet through all the mud and pud­ dles because he's trying to break in his brand new cowboy boots. What type of music w ill he and Nick play on Saturday evening? When he said, "W ell I'm not really sure how to classify it but I think folk is probably the closest term to the truth," my jawdroppedlong and hard in­ to the puddle. Why in God's name is a folk act playing in Gert's? Upon further discussion I found out that when An­ drew says "fo lk " he means contem­ porary folk not 16th Century Gaelic folk.

His definition of contemporary folk, im­ plies a time span dating back 25 or so years. He says, "w e plan on doing most­ ly covers of tunes by Cockburn, CSNY, Dylan and some of our own originals.

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From the way in which Andrew speaks one w ill notice an air of determination and professionalism, something you may not expect from a 19 year old. He tells me that he and Nick got together for a week in mid-November for some base­ ment recording session. Their week together has certainly helped get them back into the playing and performing mode, as they haven't been on stage since August.

Nick is a lot easier to get a hold of than Andrew. All you have to do is call him and hope that his amp. isn't louder than

his phone's ring. Nick tells me that this summer the boys entertained hundreds at Toronto's Isabella Tavern, which can be equated with Montreal's Station 10 or Club Soda.

Nick is certainly not concerned with image and glam'. He is a musician first and foremost. Producing a good demo tape is far more important than getting nis ear pierced and wearing avant-garde clothing. Like Andrew, he is very serious about his music, but he has a laid-back outlook.

No matter how you piece it together Andrew and Nick are sure to please many this Saturday night at Gert's, and the best part of all is that there's no ad­ mission charge.

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The McGill Tribune Wednesday, 3 December, 1986

Gabe Rave

She's Cotta Have It's Got It!

by Robert Sandler

by Moira MacDonald

Tuesday's performance by Peter Gabriel reaffirmed his devotion to roots/mystic smart-rock even with the star status that has been thrust upon him as a result of the release of his new album, So. Gabriel opened the evening by introducing Youssou N'Dour, the Senegalese singer, and his entourage of musicians and dancers. Their set of contemporary tribal music had the sold-out audience on their feet and set the mood for the rest of the night.

A product of the post-glitter rock era, Gabriel's lyrics and his theatrical an­ tics delve into the murky area of consciousness. His more recent endeavours use self-exploration as a catalyst for practical reform. This concern has established Gabriel as a representative of Amnesty International and various Third World causes. His lyrics stand as a constitution of awareness.

The stage at the Forum was equipped with the newest in high tech, MIDIinterfaced paraphanalia ranging from computer disk drum sounds to four crane-like lighting stands that followed Gabriel throughout his two hour show.

Early Gabriel fans got quite an earful of his post-Genesis material, ranging from "San jacinto" to a powerful new rendition of "The Family and The Fishing Net." Gabriel's theatrics through "Mercy Street" and "N o SelfControl" enhanced the familiar melodies.

The rhythm section of King Crimson bassist Tony Levin and drummer Manu Katché presented a tightly woven groove over which guitarist David Rhodes and synth-prodigy David Sancious built intricate layers of reverb and echo.

Apart from the freedom manifestation of "B ikd” and a Gabriel/N'Dour duet of "In Your Eyes," the climax of the concert came with "Lay Your Hands On M e" when Gabriel allowed the crowd to pass his body over their heads, link­ ing himself intimately with his audience.

The concert overflowed with high-tech concert gadgetry. This is the Gabriel of the eighties. His dramatic presence has been upgraded, but his resilience and dissonant style remains unique. Possibly the only noticeably missing ele­ ment was the absence of Kate Bush in "D o n 't Give U p." Even Peter Gabriel isn't perfect.

Everyone says that Nola Darling is a freak. What's ironic is that in their at­ tempts to explain why she's a freak, they only succeed in proving themselves freaks. Okay, so she likes sex. So do a lot of people. But she likes a lot. And the people that she likes to do it with stretch the meaning of freak to its outer limits.

Greer Childs (John Canada Terrell) is a super-stud trying his darndest to be sophisticated and land himself on the front cover of GQ — he claims that he educated Nola (Tracy Camila Johns) from the depths of gaucherie to the (somewhat) refined individual that she is now. Mars Blackman (Spike Lee) is a complete opposite. He's smaller than Nola, scrawny wears glasses, never has a job and is known for his familiar lietmotif: "Please baby, please baby, baby, baby please! Nola!" And always linger­ ing in the background is Jaime (Raye Dowell), the only true romantic lover of the lot. He's the only one with even a slight chance of claiming Nola as his own.

She's Cotta Have It may be viewed in several different ways. From a black perspective it's a refreshing change from movies detailing the oppression of blacks — it's probably one of very few

Radio McGill continued from page 3 makes CFRM important to Montreal's airwaves is that " it offers a community service of alternative information — in­ formation that is so often ignored by the commercial media." The station also of­ fers alternative music with a large degree of Canadian content and cultural pro­ gramming.

CHUM Limited and Standard Radio Inc. acted jointly as Radio McGill's "In ­ tervener." All presentations must face in­ terveners to present opposition to their case. CHUM, owners of the Montrealarea stations CKGM and CHOM, presented opposition to all 18 groups who requested a license at this round of hearings.

The Station garnered support for the license through letters which came from the likes of Principal Johnston, Governor John Hallward and several outside cor­ porations, including Canada Cement.

All that remains from the presentation is the wait. According to Kleinhans, "w e have to wait six months now — at the most."

H E W L E T T

black comedies. The film also has value for feminists. Nola is a strong woman, not particularly agressive but not prepared to be trampled either. In fact, everyone else in the plot seems to have a problem handling Nola's sexuality ex­ cept Nola herself ("A nice lady doesn't go humping around. It's not normal.")

"It's an engaging paradox to see the tables turned and a woman being fought over by three men. Yet, in the stereotypical male version of this the man is generally egotistical with such an overkill of female attention. Not Nola.

One evening she invites all three of them to Thanksgiving dinner. The ten­ sions mount between the suitors (Greer can't believe that Mars actually tried to use the word 'gonna' in their scrabble game), Nola becomes bored by their quibbles and goes to bed — alone.

Lesbian interests are represented with Redmond Hicks' portrayal of Opal, Nola's woman friend. Opal incites one of the more sarcastically precious quotes of the film when Jaime says to her, "O pal, you're such a beautiful woman.

Why are you a lesbian?"

Writer, director,^and actor Spike Lee is an inspiration for independent unknown film makers. He produced She's Gotta Have It on a shoestring budget of $175 000, not realizing that it would become this year's cult hit at several major world film festivals including Cannes'. O f course, keeping things in the family helps cut down on costs: his father Bill Lee plays Nola's father and wrote the film score and his wife helped to pro­ duce the movie.

From a dramatic standpoint, the acting is on the feeble side. However, this real­ ty doesn't detract from the film. It merely helps to emphasize the inanity of the characters. One gains a clear sense of the absurdity of the situation with this lack of realism.

Sex obviously plays a lare part in the film, but rarely are any of these scenes unnecessary to the plot. Only one in­ stance seemed questionable and this was a rape scene when there was no clear motive.

Nola's gotta have it. But does she ever get it? I think she does. The film plays at the Laurier (5117 Avenue du Parc) until December 22 for those who want to find out what 'it' is.

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Now that the Holiday Season is upon us

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R ELA X AND H AVE A G R E A T H O L ID A Y REST U P FO R N E X T SEM ESTER Keep your eyes open for: FIESTA WEEK (Jan 21st * Jan 23rd) WINTER CARNIVAL (Feb 2nd * 7th) NEW MUSIC FESTIVAL (2nd w eek o f March) ELECTIONS FOR NEXT YEAR DESIGNATED DRIVER PROGRAM

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The McGill Tribune Wednesday, 3 December, 1986

Red men Lose As Refs Go Berserk

by Mike Doria and Chris Flanagan

play. Kaibara was leveled to the ice as The McGill Redmen ended the first soon as he made the pass. half of the regular season on a sour note The officiating in Sunday night's game Sunday night, losing 7-4 to league­ was rather severe, to say the least. The leading Trois Rivières. referee went trigger happy in the second Two days earlier, in Trois Rivières, the period, calling 15 penalties in less than Redmen played a sound hockey game, twenty minutes. Four players were playing to a 3-3 draw. Stephen Fortin ejected from the game, two from each played an outstanding game, facing 38 side. Casualties for McGill include Mike shots. Mario De Benedictis gets the Tschumi and Jamie Kumpon. Kumpon offensive honours, as he scored a pair for was thrown out when the referee toldl the Redmen. him, in French, to go immediately to the' In Sunday night's game, McGill penalty box. Kumpon, a Thunder Bay jumped ahead 2-0 and then 3-1 but, native~did not understand the ref's, failed to take advantage of the lead. Trois instructions and was subsequently Rivières responded with 5 unanswered ejected. In an even more bizarre; goals and easily dominated the final two penalty, Serge Trepanier, of Trois thirds of the game.

Rivières, was thrown out for "spitting” .

Brent Bannerman opened the scoring As if a game misconduct is not enough on a first period breakaway. Chris for such an offense, Trepanier was also Mandelos blocked a shot at his own issued a five minute major for the blueline; Bannerman picked up the infraction. McGill scored their first goal rebound, skated the length of the ice and on the resulting power play.

Redman Coach, Tyler felt the calls put the puck in the net. were really disrupting to the flow of the Mario De Bendictis scored McGill's game. Tyler added that these penalties second goal on a rebound from an can destroy the momentum of the game.

André Martin shot. De Benedictis picked Redmen Notes: up the loose puck in front of the net and - Tim lannone w ill be sidelined until at backhanded it high into the top of the least the second semester; he is mesh. suffering from a knee injury incurred The turning point in the game came two weeks ago. late in the first period when Trois - Prior to Sunday's game, Stephen Fortin Rivières scored a short-handed goal to had a save percentage of 95% for the make it 2-1. McGill regained a two goal last four games. Earl the Pearl figured lead when Bannerman tallied his second this one out. of the night, to open the second period - McGill Redmen play their next game in scoring. Bannerman was set up by Taro Trois Rivières on Friday, January Kaibara who sacrificed his body on the 8/87.

Martlets Dribble To Victory

by Ruari Nicholson McGill Woman's basketball is a very busy team. After 6 weeks, 5 tournaments and a total of seventeen games on the road these industrious women made a brief stop over in Montreal to show us their stuff. And impressive stuff it is.

Before taking on New York State University at Albany the women hosted W ilfrid Laurier University in an Exhibition game. Illustrating the motivation and refinement of skills they have realized under Coach Hubert Lacroix, the women won the Wilfred Laurier game and narrowly lost to Albany 54-51. A special effort by last year's rookie of the year, Jane Swords, and QUAA player of the week Mireille Beland held this strong rookie team together as an effective unit.

McGill is coming off a championship victory in the Brook's Concordia Classic of November 21-22. The Martlets won the tournament final with a 68-51 walk over the Southern Connecticut State Owls. Mireille Beland, MVP of the tournament led McGill with 18 points, while Captain Leah Hayman came up with 14.

This is a building year for our rookie basketball team. In Coach Lacroix's words: "This is a rookie team and consequently they make rookie mistakes, but they remain strong.” With the assistance of Anette Kiss, Lacroix hopes to come within striking distance of the QUAA championship.

The women's record stands at 8 wins and 9 losses. The next series of games occurs on Dec. 28 in Toronto when the women participate in the Ryerson Tournament.

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