The McGill Tribune Vol. 06 Issue 15

THE MCGILL TRIBUNE

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P u b lis h e d b y th e S tu d e n ts ' S o c ie ty o f M c G ill U n iv e rs ity

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------ WHAT’S ON------TUESDAY

THURSDAY

T u esd a y , January 2 0

• The Rev. Paul Geraghty will be con­ ducting a service at the University Chapel, 3520 University, at 12 noon. All Welcome!

• A m n e sty I n te r n a tio n a l general meeting will be held at 7 pm in Union 410. Come and see how you can g e t in ­ v o lv e d .

• Professor Quy Toon Do of the Faculty of Management will speak on " O r i e n t a l V a lu e s

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E c o n o m ic

D e v e lo p m e n t"

Union B107/108 at 3 pm. All Welcome!

• Dr. Lucy Manueliar of Tufts University will give a slide presentation on " E a s t m e e ts

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A r m e n i a . " In the Union B107/108 at 11 am. All Welcome!

• Arts and Science Undergraduate Society meetings will be held in Leacock 210 at 6:30pm. ^ • E v e r y 17 M in u te s a W o m a n is S e x u a l­ ly A ss a u lte d . Lecture and discussion at 7

pm in the Molson Hall common room.

WEDNESDAY W e d n e sd a y , January 21

• Ethnic

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clubs will be presenting d i s p l a y s highlighting their culture in the Union Bldg, from 10 am to 3 pm as part of Fiesta '87. Come join the fun!

• The M c G i l l S q u a s h C l u b is having a club night at 7 pm in the Currie Gym. New members welcome. Ladder mat­ ches continue this semester. For more in­ fo: 254-8607.

• P a ssio n o f Joa n o f A r c will be shown in the Union Ballroom at 7:30 pm. Ad­ mission .is free. Presented by the McGill Film Society.

• T e s t A n x i e t y g r o u p s now forming at McGill Student Counselling Service. 6 weekly sessions to help you relax and concentrate on exams. Phone 392-5199 now!

• Robert Taft, from the Faculty of Music will speak on " M u s i c a n d R h e t o r i c : T h e E m p ir i c a l M e t a p h o r " from 12 to 2 pm in Bronfman 630. RSVP 392-4567.

• The original classic T h e Po stm an starring John Gar­ field and Lana Turner, will be shown in Leacock 132 at 7:30 pm. Admission $2.

Presented by the McGill Film Society.

• A b u f f e t - s t y l e m e a l 'featuring ethnic foods provided by the different cultural organizations of the Students' Society, will be held in the Ballroom at 6:30pm.

Entertainment will be provided after the meal. Admission: $8 general public; $7 students with ID. Tickets available at the door and at Sadie's.

A lw a y s R in g s T w ic e ,

• D o y o u h a v e s e m i n a r p r e s e n t a t i o n j it ­ ters? F r e e z e u p w h e n y o u w a n t t o p a r ­ tic ip a te

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a r e o r g a n iz in g a p u b lic s p e a k in g a n x ie ­ ty g r o u p . F or in fo a n d w o r k s h o p in te r ­ v ie w s : 3 9 2 - 5 1 1 9 .

FRIDAY F r id a y , J a n u a r y 2 3

Messenjah will be performing along with Jah Cutta in the Union Ballroom to close festivities of the third annual McGill Fiesta. Doors open at 8:30 pm. Admis­ sion is $6 for students with ID; $8 for general public. Tickets available at Sadie's and at the door.

• N D P - N D P M c G i l l will hold its general meeting in Union 107 at 3 pm. Get in­ volved!

• The McGill Debating Union will hold a general meeting in Arts W270 at 3 pm.

All Welcome!

• An A n i m a t i o n F ilm F e s t i v a l will be ap­ pearing at McGill by special engage­ ment at 7 pm and 9:30 pm in Leacock 132. Don't miss these twenty Award winning shorts from around the world.

Admission: $2.25.

• The M c G i l l I r a n ia n S t u d e n t S o c i e t y , a social, non-political" organization, is holding a general meeting at 4 pm in Room 213 of the McConnell Engineer­ ing Building. All interested are invited to attend.

• E n jo y a n e v e n i n g o f r e g g a e !

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with Nastassia Kinski and Henry Dean Stanton will be shown tonight in Leacock 132 at 7:30 pm. * Don't miss this Award winning film. Ad­ * mission: $2.25. Presented by the McGill * Film Society. * * * * * * S u n d ay, January 25 • Morning worship at 1,0:30 am with * Presbyterian United Church Campus * Ministry followed by brunch at St- * M artha's in-the-basem ent. For * info:392-5890. * • A n g l i c a n M o r n i n g W o r s h i p at Christ * Church Cathedral, 8 am — traditional * Eucharjst — 10 am *contemporary * Eucharist. With choir and sermon. For * info: 392-5890. * ■* * * * * M o n d a y , January 2 6 * • McGill Debating- Union will be holding an in-House Debate at 6pm in * * Union 425. All welcome! * • Each and every Monday, the M c G i l l C h e e r l e a d e r s hold practices from 9 pm * to 11 pm. Come join the squad and * show your school spirit! Everyone * welcome! * * * * * * McGILL * NIGHTLINE * Î92-82M * * For information and volunteering * Union B-07 or coll 3 9 2 -8 9 7 6 * * * * * * * * * sfc * * * * * * * * * * sfc * * * * * * * * * * • Paris, Texas

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ÏM1 S tu d e n ts W e lc o m e !

C ritics, c u r io u s, in te r e ste d

eturning Residents b y J a n e t M it c h e ll

Dean of Students, Irwin Copnik, stated that a change in residence policy is "a crucial factor for the continuing health of the university" when he spoke at Douglas Hall last Thursday.

Dean Gopnik was invited to speak to students by the Douglas Hall council.

He began with a brief description of the duties of the Dean of Students but spent most of the evening addressing the issue of a residence admission policy change.

A' large group of students from all residences showed up to vent their op­ position to the proposed changes, which

would greatly restrict the number of returning students allowed into residence starting in September, 1987.

Gopnik stated that the main problem facing the administration is a waiting list of approximately 450 names every August, plus a large number of entrance rejections, believed to be related to the lack of residence space. A task force has considered acquiring more space by ren­ ting or renovating old buildings and con­ verting them into student co-operatives but the idea has been rejected because of insufficient funds.

In order to create more space in the

MaBe Squeezed O existing residences the Senate Commit­ tee on Residences recommended restric­ ting returning students to 20% of the total number of students in each residence. All first year students can app­ ly for re-entrance for 1987-88, he said, but only twenty percent will be ac­ cepted, and second and third year students have very little chance of being re-admitted.

Gopnik said the reasoning of the com­ mittee was that second, third, and fourth year students are more prepared emo­ tionally than new students to search for an apartment and live on their own.

Many students objected to this, however, saying that they may never have come to McGill if they had known that residence life would be restricted to one year.

Students were also concerned about the criteria that will be used to imple­ ment the restrictive policy. In an inter­ view before the meeting, Maria Shin, President of the Douglas Hall Council, said that the administration is encourag­ ing that academic merit be the main criterion, but student representatives generally agree that "contribution to residence life has to be the key."

“ Little W rangling” At Council M eeting b y J e n n ife r M o r i

"It was very much a social affair," said J. Peter Nixon, Arts Rep. to Council, describing the first Council meeting of the semester. The bulk of the meeting was devoted to semantic changes to the by-laws of the Student Society Constitu­ tion.

"There was remarkably little wrangl-

ing," said Students' Society President, Paul Pickersgill.

cess and have as many candidates run as possible," Gardener told the T r ib u n e .

One amendment enables students to nominate more than one candidate for Studeru Society elections. The amend­ ment, moved by François Longpré and seconded by Carlene Gardener, is in­ tended to "facilitate the democratic pro-

Another by-law alteration involved the procedure for the removal of a club representative from council. Prior to the amendment, fifty per cent of the electors of the clubs reps, present at a club assembly would be required to remove a

Making 1/2 The World Disappear

by Melanie Clulow In a public relations plug for Canadian foreign-aid programs, CIDA president Margaret Catley-Carson delivered a lec­ ture at McGill last week entitled W om en:

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While Catley-Carson's emphasis seemed to shift between enthusiasm over the Canadian International Development Agency's recent steps designed to ensure the advancement of women in the Third World, and vehe­ ment denial of cultural imposition by benefactor nations on recipient coun­ tries, many important issues were raised and subsequently discussed by a panel of McGill professors.

Catley-Carson, president of CIDA since 1983, stressed the fact that she is "a practitioner, not an academic.''

Clearly concerned with the plight of underdeveloped nations, she recognizes both the rewarding progress and systemic barriers that characterize aid programs.

"We tend to see the third world in stereotypes of symbols of despair^and clinging to these images may be o u r pro­ blem as well as theirs." She cited as positive indicators increased literacy rates and life expectancy in even "basket case" countries.

While Catley-Carson is wary of positing all-encompassing solutions to the problems of the Third World, she feels strongly that if women are allowed to expand their role in these countries, development could be hastened.

"Harry Houdini was not the greatest il­ lusionist," said Catley-Carson. "He never tried to make half the world disap­ pear." She reminded the audience that women contribute two thirds of the world's working hours and receive less than half the income. They are the main educators, but at the same time they swell the ranks of the illiterate. The un­ paid, unacknowledged work of women is worth approximately four trillion dollars to the world economy. Accor­ ding to Catley-Carson, economists, statisticians, and governments have tended to ignore women when for­ mulating plans for aid packages.

New CIDA regulations introduced by Women In Development (WID) stipulate that all program proposals must include a detailed description of the benefits to the women of the recipient country.

Women are to be recognised not only as passive beneficiaries but as participators

M a r g a r e t C a tle y -C a r s o n

in the development process, said Carlson.

This new approach seems initially laudable; however, according to CatleyCarson, it introduces problems of cultural imposition. On one hand, aid officials have traditionally been unwill­ ing to interfere in the established gender patterns of underdeveloped countries, while thinking nothing of interfering in issues of landholding traditions and racial policy. Apartheid is denounced as discrimination on grounds of colour, while discrimination on sexual grounds is accepted on grounds of "cultural respect."

Yet, to attempt to overtly assert women's equality on North American terms smacks of ethnocentric high­ handedness. Catley-Carson is adamant that WID principles are based on what she calls "positive subversion." Since the developed world "can't go around

setting priorities for the Third World even if it wants to," Catley-Carson ad­ vocates working in conjunction with na­ tional governments in order to arrive at compromises which are r e la t iv e ly pro­ gressive, even if not by Western stan­ dards.

Catley-Carson cites the Pakistani case as an example of this. In order to educate and integrate women into the labour force without violating religious traditions, women are being trained in such jobs as TV repair at which they can work during the day, while the men are away from their homes, thus avoiding il­ licit contact between the sexes.

In the panel discussion, Anthropology Professor Laurel Bossen, brought up the problem of the appropriate channeling of aid to t r u ly benefit women.

"Women are focused upon as con­ sumers of domestic labour-saving devices but not as producers or income­ generating individuals," she said. Im­ proved domestic equipment does not ensure that women get access to proper­ ty, capital, or education. According to Bossen, it merely shifts them to o t h e r low-paying and primitive tasks previous­ ly done by men. "Women are out of the forest, but still in the kitchen," she said.

"They must have the tools to help them improve their own status."

Catley-Carson responded that "burden-lightening" is the fundamental goal of CIDA on the question of women in development. Beyond this, aid pro­ grams can only s u p p o r t positive attitudes towards the equality of women that already exist in the beneficiary country.

Donor countries can encourage changes, but not initiate them, she em­ phasized.

councillor. As of last Tuesday, fifty per cent of all recognized clubs are required to vote for the removal.

The resignation of Daron Westman from Council came as a surprise.

Westman has left the Post Graduate Students' Society Vice Presidency (Ad­ ministration) to take a teaching position.

He consequently resigned his Council seat as well.

Elections of councillors to External Af­ fairs Sub-Committees and Ad Hoc Com­ mittees were also held. André Couture, Grad. Rep., was chosen for the Federal Research Funding Committee and j.

Peter Nixon for the Bill 31 Committee to review the Quebec student association accreditation bill. The Constitutional Committee (to determine necessary amendments to the Students' Society Consitution in order to allow General Assemblies to take place) gained Couture, Longpré and Alexander by ac­ clamation. John Kaplan, Arts Rep., Bernie Anzarouth, Engineering Rep., and Grace Baker, StudSoc V.P. (University Affairs) were elected to the Policy Manual Review Committee.

The open Council meeting for this semester was announced for January 28.

Back To The Veil b y T a n y a V a n V a lk e n b u r g

Why are so many Islamic women go­ ing back under the veil, and how is this a reflection of the current crisis in the Arab world? This was the gist of a discussion given last Tuesday by Professor Yvonne Haddad of the U n iv e rs ity of Massachussetts.

"The situation for Islamic women is changing," said Haddad. There is a strong movement to make women quit their jobs, return to the home and, often, revert to the restrictive custom of wear­ ing a veil. An increasing number of books are being written, discouraging women from wearing make-up, working or marrying foreigners. Boutiques are springing up, featuring Islamic fashions, which can be alluring, but austere.

These changes in attitudes towards women, said Haddad, reflect a move by

Fiesta W eek Combines Cultures b y M a r ia m B o u c h o u t r o u c h

m e e ts W e s t : F a b le d S t o r y o f A r m e n ia ;

"This is an event, it is for us, so let's do it and have fun doing it," said Maro Akoury, President of the M cGill Multicultural Society, about this year's Fiesta week.

Sponsored by the Students' Society and the Programming Network, Fiesta '87 will bring together people from dif­ ferent cultures, represented at McGill.

The festivities will begin today with two speakers, Dr. Lucy DerManuealisan, of Tufts University who will speak on E a st

and Professor Quytoon Do of McGill who will discuss Oriental values and Economic Duties. To close the week, Messenjah and Jah Cutta will play in the Ballroom on Friday.

Other activities include a Gala Dinner, lunchtime entertainment and infor­ mative kiosks. All events will occur in the Union Building.

Three years ago the Multicultural Society began to bring students of diverge backgrounds together and to

Gopnik emphasized that returning students should be suitable as "role models" for new students. He said that the criteria included academic merit but that equal consideration would be given to "citizenship" (contribution to residence and university life) and "per­ sonal need" (eg., age, distance from home, disabilities.).

Many students expressed dissatisfac­ tion with Gopnik's explanations. A cen­ tral concern was that a policy was being implemented prematurely and that more information was needed before an in­ formed decision could be made. Many students were concerned that the pro­ posal is at best a temporary solution and that the University administration is evading the real problem because of un­ willingness to commit funds to building a new residence.

Douglas Hall residents said they felt particularly affected because of the Hall's traditional status as a haven for older students. The present proposal, they said, will ruin the atmosphere at Douglas. One student added that the building is too old to endure the "trashing" effect of first year students.

Most students agreed that a grand­ father clause should be implemented, which would allow students currently in residence to be exempt from the propos­ ed changes. New students should be warned of the new pol icy as wel I so they can make an informed decision before coming to McGill.

When asked if student input could af­ fect the decision of the administration, Gopnik replied that he would report stu­ dent criticisms and suggestions to Vice Principal Freedman, who has the final say. A change in policy is assured, he said, but the administration is willing to be flexible on how it will be im­ plemented.

Gopnik agreed with students that the policy is not ? permanent answer and admitted that negative effects are unavoidable. However, he said that the University is determined to devise an immediate solution to the problem of overcrowding.

promote cultural awareness. .

The kiosks presented by different cultural groups will include displays of the artifacts of various cultural groups and possibly films and musicians to in­ troduce students to traditional musical instruments.

"In previous years the Fiesta has not been a success," stated Akoury.

However, she stressed that it was not due to a lack of enthusiasm from the stuc o n t i n u e d p a g e 11

society back in the direction of Islamic fundamentalism, in reaction to the in­ creasing influence of western culture on the Islamic world. Arabs find themselves in the following cirsis: the threat of Westernization.

Televisions in villages portray many consumer items, previously unheard of, as necessities; people are led to believe that all Americans live the way the characters do in the television soap opera D a lla s ; and women and men have a tendency to try to imitate Western characteristics.

In response to the belief that the West is watching, manipulating and effective­ ly trying to Westernize them, the dif­ ferent Arab governments are reacting with paranoia. With their future seem­ ingly at stake, they are encouraging the return to Islamic doctrine. Nationalism and socialism having been already at­ tempted, this new move is a last resort.

Why the focus upon women? It is believed, said Haddad, that women know how to influence men. "It is the women who fashion the children of Muslims," said Haddad. Therefore, women could be the destroyers or the saviours of Islam. Furthermore, as the oil crisis results in large numbers of workers leaving the Gulf to return home, a con­ flict has arisen between men who now need jobs and the women who filled their positions when they left. The result is that women, by working, by wearing Western clothes, and by seeking tojive in the relatively unrestricted and in­ dependent manner of North American women, become the scapegoats in a paranoid society. page 3

B ill 101: L anguage A n d M edia S en sation alism The D ecem ber 22 Q u éb ec Court of Appeal ruling that the “ French only provision of Bill 101 ran counter to the Q uebec Bill of Rights seems to have sparked a marked reaction among some members of the M ontréal populace; resulting in pro-FLQ (Front de libération du Québec) graffiti and violence. Recall the bom b threates at O gilvy's, Simpson's and Birk's dow ntow n stores, the broken w indow s at M cK enna Côte-desNeiges Flower shop and the firebom bing at the St. Laurent Zellers store. The Bourassa governm ent has 9 0 days from the date of the decision to appeal the ruling to the Supreme Court of Canada.

Prior to this new upsurge, the past few years — perhaps even since the referendum — have seen, except for a few m inor in­ cidents, a great deal less hostility between the tw o language groups. Since D ecem ber 1985, w ith the election of the Bourassa Liberals, it seemed that resentment and tension bet­ w een the English and French w ould be even further reduced.

Instead, the Parti Q uébécois leader Pierre-Marc Johnson, began to make noise about the num ber of English signs there were in dow ntow n M ontréal and in the predom inantly English west end of the city. In fact, the perpetrators w ere made up of a relatively few stubborn and shortsighted individuals, some of w hom could not even spell the English words on their signs properly.

At this point, the French media caught hold of Johnson's idea and made an issue of it at a tim e w hen there w ere few othe local issues to fill space on the newspages and broad­ casts. W ith the Liberals so quiet, the francophone m edia seiz­ ed on this most sensational opportunity for hot copy w ithout thought of the repercussions.

W h at the French media did was cross that fine line between partiality and objectivity. O n e can be partial to a side of an issue w ithout foregoing objectivity, by ensuring the proper representation of fa c ts . The francophone presseras generally been quite biased toward the notion that signs in M ontréal should be bilingual w ith the French language given pro­ m inence on the sign, and rightly so. This is a French nation and few dispute that Q uébec should retain its French face and character. H ow ever, the French media crossed the fine line in­ to subjectivity w hen it b lew out of proportion the importance of the outcropping of a few English language signs in a small part of one city. W h at the French media did succeed in doing 'was awakening dorm ant violence and xenophobic tendencies in a population that had thought it was finally going to get some peace.

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■; r The development of McGill's proposed new sports com­ plex is expected to reach a critical turning point this winter.

Montreal Mayor Jean Doré's new administration has begun addressing the issues and problems surrounding the com­ plex within the next few weeks, the city will announce its position on the athletics hall proposal.

The McGill Athletics Board began to examine the feasibility of the project in the late 1970s, when the need for expansion and renovation of facilities became apparent.

The original plans called for the new facilities to be con­ structed on the roof of the existing complex, at an estimated cost of $10 million. Some years later, a new estimate raised the cost of the project to $13 million.

Part of this the funding problem was solved by a 1978 referendum, which enabled the McGill Student Society to pledge $4 million to the project over a 15-year period, with funds derived from a special fee levy on students, ft was the first time such an enterprise had been launched by a Cana­ dian university.

The athletic complex project received another financial boost in 1984, when the McGill Advancement Program ex­ ceeded the student commitment by pledging $6 million of its own.

Despite the contributions, however, overall financial restrictions caused planners to consider the less expensive option of building the new facilities on the parcel of land im­ mediately east of the present complex. Although this land is zoned as part of Mount Royal Park, it is neither particularly scenic nor extensively used, and McGill officials were hopeful that the Drapeau administration would approve a special bylaw to allow construction on the site.

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The "east end” option subsequently met with a series of delays: the mayor's illness, a provincial election and, most recently, a municipal election.

But the biggest roadblock to the completion of the facilities may prove to be political opposition from groups opposing any development on Mount Royal Park. Heritage Montreal and "Les Amis de la Montagne" are two such groups which have voiced opposition to the location of the neW1athletic Sam Kingdon, M cGill’s Director of Physical Resources and the person responsible for the development of the new complex, reported on the status of the proposed facility at a recent Athletics Board meeting. Kingdon explained that a modified athletic complex proposal would soon be presented to City Hall and that the month of January could be critical, since Montreal's new administration may show which direction it will take concerning the issue.

The revised proposal has lowered the new building by one floor, eliminating Physical Plant storage space, while keeping sports-related areas intact.

Kingdon was questioned about the commitment of McGill administrators to progress on the new facilities. He respond­ ed that no other project was as important a priority for the university as the proposed athletic complex.

The political opposition to the new facility may ultimately prevent its construction, however. The aforementioned lob­ by group seem so firmly attached to their preference of the status quo that they fail to recognize the advantages of an athletic complex on a relatively ignored piece o f land.

The efforts of such groups have generally gone unoppos­ ed. A strong show of student support may be the only way to convince city officials of the importance of the project.

FEATURES

The M cGill Tribune Tuesday, January 20, 1987

Q u e e n E liz a b e th a n d G e o rg e V I

p h o t o c o u r t e s y M c C i l l A r c h iv e s

Plus Ça Change.. .M cGill In History *

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1 9 1 3 : S tu d e n t e n r o llr q e n t: 2 1 1 7 .

War years: 3059 McGill men served in the armed forces; 363 gave their Jives.

Roddick Memorial Gates erected.

1 9 3 7 : Douglas Hall residence for men opened.

1 9 3 9 : S ir A r t h u r C u r r i e M e m o r i a l G y m n a s i u m - A r m o u r y completed. T o t a l e n r o l l m e n t : 3 2 8 6 .

1 9 3 9 - 1 9 4 5 : During the six years of WW II, 6298 men and women served with the armed forces; 287 gave their lives.

1 9 4 0 : H e a d q u a r t e r s o f t h e I n t e r n a t i o n a l L a b o u r O r g a n i z a t i o n moved from Geneva to McGill Campus.

1 9 4 4 : Special Convocation to confer degrees to Sir Winston Churchill and President Roosevelt.

1 9 1 4 -1 9 1 8 : 1925:

T h e lig h ts a r o u n d th e fe s te a l ( s ic ) b o a r d , o n g la ss a n d s ilv e r q u iv e r , T h e g e n 'r o u s w in e is fr e e ly p o u r e d , th e toast a w a its t h e g iv e r , S o h e r e 's a h e a lth to o ld M c C i ll , w it h fe e lin g s p r o u d a n d t e n d e r, L e t e a c h a b r im m in g b u m p e r fill, a n d lo v in g h o m a g e r e n d e r .

1 9 4 6 : S t u d e n t e n r o l l m e n t j u m p s t o 7 5 5 8 , f r o m 3 9 3 3 in t h e s p r i n g o f 1 9 4 5 .

1951:

1874

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Some things are prone to change, and others not. The spirit held in the above song still rings as true in many ways for us at our McGill of 1987, as it did when it was written over a hundred years ago. For while the setting, structure and general character of the university would be truly unrecognizable to a citizen of the 1920s (let alone the 1820s), the continued dedication to the advancement of higher learn­ ing stands as evidence of that which does not change.

The establishment of McGill University was due primarily to two factors: the gradual migration of Anglophones to Montreal following the surrender of the French in 1760; and their desire for an institute of higher education. One such Anglophone was James McGill, a wealthy fur trader and merchant.

Upon his death in 1813, McGill made a bequest for the establishment of a university in Montreal. With an endowment of £15 000 in land and funds, a college was founded on James McGill's Burnside proper­ ty, the present site of the university. It was not until 1821 that a charter for the university was granted by King George V, and while that date stands as the official birthday of the University, the battle to realize McGill's dream had scarcely begun. The next thirty years would see the university through immense struggles, first to open its gates, and then to keep them open. Ironically, with the charter in 1821 there came also a bill for £221.05, so that devoid of funds as it was, McGill University began its career in debt.

Some things don't change...

McGill's official inauguration is presided over by Bishop Mountain, the first Principal. " A d e c i d e d l y A n g l i c a n a f f a i r , " wrote Stanley Frost in his biography of the school. At this time, McGill College exists only on paper, aside from the newly incorporated Medical Faculty which had been a lively Montreal institution long before McGill's conception.

1 8 9 3 : Building is commenced on the Burnside property as foundations are laid for the Arts Building and the East Wing, which is now Dawson Hall.

S e p t . 6 , 1 8 4 3 : After a summer spènt assembling an academic staff, the College opens and the Arts Facul­ ty is established.

1 8 4 5 - 1 8 5 0 : Financial limitations continue to force the school to struggle for its very existence. A state­ ment by the Board sums up the situation in 1845: " t h e p r e s e n t m e l a n c h o l y c o n d i t i o n o f t h e c o l ­ l e g e , t o t t e r i n g a s it w e r e o n t h e v e r y b r in k o f r u i n . " The overall debt at this time amounts to ‘ £2754.

1 8 5 2 : A new era in McGill's history is initiated. There is a new, amended charter and with it a new Board of Governors. It i s t o b e a t i m e o f g r e a t r e c o n s t r u c t i o n u n d e r t h e l e a d e r s h i p o f J o h n D a w s o n .

1 8 5 3 : Faculty of Law established.

1 8 5 5 : Sale of lands below Sherbrooke is commenced. T o t a l s t u d e n t e n r o l l m e n t : 6 4 .

1 8 6 2 : Molson Hall and its connecting buildings complete the Arts Building facade.

June 2 4 ,1 8 2 9 :

1 8 6 8 : T o ta l s tu d e n t e n r o llm e n t: 3 1 2 .

1 8 7 6 : Student Society begins a bi-weekly 1884:

— later weekly publication called U n iv e r s it y G a z e tte .

Lord Strathcona makes donations to provide for the education of women. W o m e n s t u d e n t s a r e

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m itte d t o t h e F a c u lty o f A r ts.

1 8 9 3 : MacDonald Physics and Engineering,

and Workman Engineering buildings opened. Original Redpath Library (now Redpath Hall) opened.

1 9 0 1 : S t e p h e n L e a c o c k b e g in s h is t e a c h i n g c a r e e r a t M c G ill.

1 9 0 4 : A s M c G ill's f o o t b a ll t e a m d e f e a t s T o r o n t o , s t u d e n t s fig h t w it h p o lic e o n P e e l S tr e e t.

1 9 0 6 : M c G i l l U n i v e r s i t y o f B r i t is h C o l u m b i a

University of British Columbia.

1 9 1 1 : F o u n d i n g o f t h e M c C i l l D a ily .

is established in Vancouver, which in 1915 becomes the

1960:

Government of Canada enacts legislation to provide federal grants to universities.

The Computer Centre is opened.

McGill wins the Inter-Collegiate Football Championship for the first time since 1938. T o t a l

d e fic it:

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New men's residences — Gardner Hall, McConnell Hall, Molson Hall and Bishop Mountain Hall opened by the Duke of Edinburgh.

1963: Public funds begin supporting the University sparking concern over sovereignty and in­ dependence.

1 9 6 5 : Opening of Stephen Leacock Building for Humanities and Social Sciences. Total Student enroll­ ment exceeds 12,000.

1962:

M a r c h 5 : D a y o f s t u d e n t p r o t e s t t o c o m b a t a n u n a n n o u n c e d r a i s e in t u i t i o n f e e s .

Opening of McIntyre Medical Building, Otto Maass Chemistry Building and Stewart Biological Sciences Building.

1967: Full-time enrollment exceeds 15,000.

Nov. 3: A n a r t i c l e p u b l i s h e d in t h e D a i ly d e n i g r a t i n g t h e a s s a s s i n a t i o n o f P r e s i d e n t K e n n e d y i s c o n ­ 1966:

f is c a t e d b y P r in c ip a l R o b e r ts o n a n d s e t s o f f a p e r io d o f s t u d e n t u n r e s t.

1 9 6 8 : A p r o t e s t / b r e a k - i n a t t h e P r i n c i p a l ' s o f f i c e r e s u l t s in 3 1 s t u d e n t s b e i n g p u t o n c o n d u c t p r o b a t i o n .

1 9 6 9 : " M c G ill F r a n ç a is " d e m o n s t r a t io n d e m a n d s t h a t M c G ill b e c o m e a F r e n c h - la n g u a g e u n iv e r s ity .

Opening of McLennan Research Library and the Redpath Undergraduate Library.

1 9 7 0 : D e f i c i t i s in e x c e s s o f $ 2 , 0 0 0 , 0 0 0 .

1971:

McGill's 150th anniversary,

M o l s o n H a ll b e c o m e s t h e fir s t c o - e d r e s i d e n c e .

brings labour relations to center stage on campus. On Monday October 15, 15,260 maintenance workers walked off their jobs.

1 9 7 4 : T o t a l s t u d e n t e n r o l l m e n t : 1 8 , 9 2 7 . Artificial turf is laid in Molson Stadium.

1 9 7 3 : S e r v ic e E m p lo y e e 's U n io n s tr ik e

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Student's Society constitution is suspended after a period of ongoing problems and a commit­ tee is established to implement changes in the Society's structure.

1 9 7 6 : The 'Founder's Elm' a tree that James McGill planted on the Burnside property before his death, is declared dangerous and uprooted.

D ec. 1975:

1 9 7 9 : W ith t h e P r o v in c ia l G o v e r n m e n t 's n e w b u d g e t , U n iv e r s it ie s b e a r t h e b r u n t o f t h e c u t b a c k s .

Students at McGill stage a demonstration to protest the lack of funds at the university.

In April, the University Senate passes the Charter of Student Rights guaranteeing amongst other things, the right to write essays and exams in either French or English.

1983:

1984:

1 9 8 7 : A c c u m u l a t e d d e f i c i t is a p p r o x i m a t e d a t $ 3 0 , 0 0 0 , 0 0 0 !

McGill has seen many changes and a lot of continuity in its 166 years. The nomenclature of campus ar­ chitecture reads as a fairly complete history of those who effected much of the change. Perhaps the most striking change was the transformation of McGill in the 1920s and 30s from a homogeneous, primarily Anglo-Saxon, solidly Protestant body of students and faculty, into a cosmopolitan, polyglot community.

In the 1960s, McGill faced the problem of a far-reaching student revolt, combined with a domestic Francophone population which did not perceive the aforementioned transformation of McGill's character and saw instead a handsome bastion of Anglophone privilege built by the Molsons, Mac­ Donalds and Strathconas, situated in the heart of Montréal. It is to McGill's credit that the University emerged from those times of upheaval adjusted, but without major disaster or destruction, to face the equally difficult problems of underfunding in the 1980s, problems which once again threaten the viabili­ ty and reputation of the institution. page 5

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by Melanie Clulow Student unrest at McGill does not have a particularly illustrious history student population has traditionally been too diverse to focus on single issues and effect change on a large scale. Yet McGill students have, over the years, been able to unite on issues of direct and general concern; freedom of the press, representation on university committees, and tuition fee bikes continue to incite varying degrees of fervour on campus. t of Sir Arthur Inklings of student dissatisfaction began with the appotn Currie to the position of Principal of the University in 1923 .nti-war feeling e twelve year began to make itself heard at McGill and letters poured in old D a ily denouncing the CQTC. In T h e M c G i l l Y o u K n e v Itn L. then editor of the D a ily , wrote, "Some of the letters exp the view that the University should not be madéinto a military insitutiôn ju because it had a general at the head of it." However, McGill's student j dation was still small, and although anti-war sentiment was prevalent in the wake of the First World War, protest did not go beyond the pages of the student newspaper.

Similarly, the extent of political involvement during the Depression years was also sparse. It reached its peak at the 1931 convocation ceremony at which one socially aware young man brandished a placard which read, "This is the most distinguished parade of the unemployed this year,'" as the graduates filed in behind Principal Currie.

Student concern was not aroused on a large scale until 1932 when a seem­ ingly innocuous story concerning a tour by the Commerce students of the Molson Breweries, (complete with free samples), appeared on the front page of the D a ily . The article was deemed un-newsworthy by the Faculty, and Council promptly suspended the D a ily news editor. The entire D a ily statf resigned in protest.

The issue sparked the largest general meeting of students up to that time.

McGill students failed to uphold the decision of their Council, and President Deane Nesbit resigned from his post in dishonour, to be savagely attacked later in the pages of the B la c k s h e e p , an independent newspaper published by ex-Dailyites.

The freedom of the press issuedid not end in 1932, however. ln November, 1967, English student John Fekete was summoned before the Senate disciplinary committee to answer a charge of the publication of an obscene ar­ ticle in the D a ily . The article in question was a reprint, under Fekete's byline, of a political satire which had originally appeared in the R e a lis t . It related an allegedly obscene account of fictional events involving President Johnson following the assasination of President Kennedy.

Administration threats to take disciplinary action against Fekete, Peter

Infiltrating The B oys’ Clul male staff. Women were concentrated in

by Jennifer Henderson the lower ranks and promoted much less When the McGill Faculty Club admit­ rapidly than males. Women received ted its first female member in 1936, lower starting salaries, which tended to seven years after its establishment, be perpetuated in subsequent salary pat­ women at McGill claimed a small vic­ terns, And the bargaining power of mar­ tory. But it would be years before female ried women was assumed to be weak academic staff would be welcomed out­ owing to their decreased mobility and to side the walls of the small flowery tea prevalent discriminatory attitudes within room reserved for them at the Club. the academic community.

The women's movement at McGill has A 1976 survey by the McGill Commit­ been historically consistent with the tee on Teaching and Research on women's mqvement in North America.

Women found that little had changed Beginning in the late 19th century, a since 1970. In that year, only 18 percent wave of outstanding individuals fought of the academic staff was female. for their rights to higher education and Two years later, the McGill Associa­ by the early 20th century, figured on the tion of University Teachers compared wider social scene. À periocTof artificial the salaries of selected male/female pairs liberation during World War II was in six Faculties and found huge dif­ followed by reassessment of the status of women in the university, and from the ferences in favour of males — some amounting to thousands of dollars.

1960's onward, the modern women's According to Margaret Gillet, author liberation movement became a major of We W a lk e d V e r y W a r ily , women at issue.

McGill have never pushed vigorously for Or, did it? How far has McGill come change. In her study of the struggle for since 1891, the year that marked the hir­ women's equality at McGill, Gillet ing of the first woman on the academic claims that professional .women at this staff, a Demonstrator in Botany university have "tranquilly accepted the nonetheless? paternalistic status quo" because they In 1970, the Com m ittee on have traditionally been more absorbed Discrimination as to Sex in the Universi­ in their teaching and research than con­ ty reported ample evidence of sex-based differentiation in employment condi­ cerned with their rights.

The risk of potentially damaging tions at McGill. Overall, average salaries publicity, the chance of departmental of female staff were 20 per cent those of

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unpopularity and the possibility of ostracism by colleagues are very real for activist female faculty members, she says.

During the 1970's, there were four separate instances where contracts of female faculty members were either in jeopardy or not renewed for what they believed to be inadequate reasons. The case of Marlene Dixon probably receiv­ ed the most public attention. As the result of her fight with the Sociology Department over the renewal of her con­ tract, she produced a scathing attack on McGill's administrative and personnel procedures entitled T h in g s W h ic h A r e D o n e In S e c r e t .

What does it mean to be a female member of the Faculty Club these days?

McGill women seem to have mixed views. According to Patricia Illingworth, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, what is lacking at McGill is "an atmosphere of sympathy for the predicament women find themselves in when they come in to a male-dominated Department...It can be a sort of 'boys' club,' so you end up being left a bit on the fringe," she told T h e T r ib u n e in an interview.

"You come in as a woman and there is general scepticism about your com­ petency. I'm not sure the same exists for men. In Philosophy there are more women getting hired, but into one-year

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t At M cGill Alnutt (Editor) and Pierre Fournier (Supplement Editor), prompted student demonstrations. "Students for a Democratic University" emerged as a result of the censorship issue. 750 students staged a protest against Principal Rocke H. Robertson's office after they had broken in and refused to leave. Several were hauled away in a paddy wagon while shouts of "Gestapo!" rang in policemen's ears.

On the pro-censorship side, 2000 students signed a petition calling for the immediate dismissal of Alnutt on the basis ot having published "sickening filth." The petition was rejected by Council.

In the end, Alnutt and Fournier received an "official reprimand” from the Senate Committee after they were found guilty of the obscenity charge, but it was decided they had not acted with malicious intent.

Unrest over tuition fee increases is not just a recent phenomenon. Student opposition to a proposed $100 fee increase in March, 1965, resulted in a demonstration in front of the Arts building prior to a speech on the subject by Réné Levesque. This was followed by a sit-in in the Arts building corridor, obstructing the passage of the McGill Board of Governors as they attempted to proceed into the Arts Council Room to discuss the increase. However, the semester ended, and the issue died over the summer vacation.

The equalization of representation on departmental committees was a mat­ ter of concern for political science students in November, 1968. Unfulfillment of demands for an equal number of student and faculty representatives on the committees which oversee the drawing up of curricula as well as the hiring and firing of academic staff resulted in a 10 day strike by over 1200 political science students. Lectures resumed in early December upon the ratification of an agreement between student and staff which gave students inc reased, but not equal, representation. Political Science Students' Association allowed themselves to be satisfied with less than parity.

Except for a brief period in the sixties, McGill students, if,they protest at all, have been concerned primarily with issues that affect them directly. The 1985 anti-apartheid demonstration in front of the administration building, while it did ac hieve its goal (at least on paper), only managed to kindle the social con­ science of about three percent of the student body. A subsequent demonstra­ tion in the fall of 1986 attracted even fewer students.

McGill students seem to have lost faith in symbolic gestures of solidarity, to the extent that they see the future in narrowly individuality terms. This was epitomized in the reaction of many McGill students to the debate over tuition fee increases last fall: "I don't care. I'm graduating this year."

Three cheers for McGill.

World’s Oldest Hockex Stick

Hockey H eritage At M cG ill

by Chris Flanagan Few institutions, no, make that no in­ stitutions, come close to McGill when it comes to an historical sense of sporting tradition. Not only does McGill deserve credit for creating modern North American football (as you undoubtedly read in the November 14 issue of T h e T r ib u n e ), but M cG ill may also legitimately lay claim to the origin of ice hockey as we now know it.

Although absolute beginnings are often obscure, most sports historians agree that ice hockey began in Montréal in 1875. On March 3rd that year, the first game ever called i c e h o c k e y was played at the Victoria Rink, between members of the Montréal Football Club and skating members of the Victoria Rink. The captains of the teams were J.G.A. Creighton and F.W. Torrance, respectively. Both were McGill students.

It is likely that seven additional players were also students of McGill.

Admittedly, several forms of hockey had been played prior to that historic game, namely the game of "shinney" and "hurley" These sports, however; differed in almost every way from the Montréal game. Shinney was played out­ doors, often with more than 200 players on the ice at the same time; ice hockey was limited to nine a side. Shinney and hurley were played with a large rubber

W omen Profs At M cGill rns. They're not getting tenure >ns." Illingworth has been at I two and a half years. She currentds a one-year contract position, gworth supports the idea of an afive action hiring policy in the sity. Stressing that the individual's sional qualifications should not be arded, she said, "Traditionally part qualifications for hiring have been young, white and male, so it's not ing that one hire females now." laps even more than women in fields of work, the female mic who 'wants it all' faces a real na in trying to plan for a family pursuing a career. Female prohave found themselves in weaker ning positions than their male cols. A woman's mobility is very assumed to be limited after she is :d. jmen in academia forfeit marriage r to pursue their carrers and that's ily not true for men. A lot of n seem to end up sacrificing their >nal lives for their work," said Mi­ rth, who is single. When asked her own plans for a family, she red that she is optimistic, u just keep deferring. You say my graduate work,' and then 'I to publish first'...Men don't have me problem. A lot of men have n who will take care of their

children while they work," she said.

Profqssor Margaret Somerville calls herself "a case of almost reverse discrimination." During her eight years on permanent staff at'McGill, she has moved from the position of tutorial assis­ tant to Professor of Law and Medicine, and she currently holds the position of Director of the new Centre for Medicine, Ethics and Law at McGill.

Although, Professor Somerville still maintains that "there very definitely us­ ed to be discrimination" at McGill when she joined the Law School in 1976, an investigation into her case that year con­ cluded that she had not been a victim of sexual discrimination.

"But4 decided not to push further and used alternative methods to improve things. One way to get around discrimination is to go outside of the situation and get a higher level of recognition for your work," she explain­ ed.

That is precisely what Somerville did, and when the opportunity for a promo­ tion came up — she got it. While admit­ ting that she is somewhat of an excep­ tional case at McGill, she recognizes the fact that she is in a specialized field so her qualifications are highly valued. "It was important for McGill that I was a woman too. they could promote me in a very public way," she added.

Why is it that Somerville's case is an exception to the more general pattern of female academics at McGill? She gives credit for her own experience to positive interaction with colleagues outside of the work situation.

"I think to some degree women may have been excluded from access to power because they didn't have the in­ tegrated friendship-professional net­ work. A lot of opportunities come from interaction on various levels and women just haven't been part of this general pro­ gramme of work and play."

"Women have the idea wrong. People expect women to be doing other things when they're not at work. Buta lot of my colleagues are my good friends. I think men have always had it this way," she explained.

Sexism, as Illingworth points out, is not necessarily a conspiracy. It has very unfortunately been a part of our socialization procèss whether we like it or not. But it is not insurmountable, expeciàlly in our immediate surroundings.

However, even a casual look around to­ day reveals that McGill has yet to ap­ point its first female Dean, its first female Principal and its first female Vice Prin­ cipal. While sexual discrimination is legally contemptible, it will take awhile for McGill women to break through the exclusive "boys-club" barriers.

ball; the Montréalers introduced a flat, circular board which was basically a wooden puck.

McGill students were involved in several other hockey firsts: goal posts were used instead of merely a line the length of the field; goal-keepers had not been used before the 1875 game; play­ ing uniforms were first worn by the Mon­ tréal and McGill men; specific positions were defined and officials, originally two umpires, entered the game.

The 18 men of that premier game are also credited with organizing the world's first Ice Hockey Association. The league grew to five teams in the first year; naturally McGill was one of those teams.

The world's first Ice Hockey Club was, as you may have guessed, T h e M c G i l l U n iv e r s it y I c e H o c k e y C lu b .

The popularity of ice hockey spread rapidly throughout Canada and the United States. As the sport grew, the need for standardized rules became a definite priority. In 1879, three McGill students, R.F. Smith, W.L. Murray and W.F. Robertson wrote a new set of rules for .the game. These rules were presented at a Rules Committee meeting in 1886 and according to the minutes of the meeting: "The McGill rules were adopted almost without exception."

The hockey regulations were accepted throughout Canada and remained un­ changed for 40 years. At this time, Frank

and Lester Patrick, who both attended McGili, changed the structure of the game by zoning the ice. With the lines on the ice, the foreward pass became the most important aspect of the game. In 1884 team size was reduced from 9 to 7 per side and in 1911, the "rover” was dropped, limiting the teams to six a side as they stand today.

In 1902, the Canadian Intercollegiate Hockey Union was formed. The original members were McGill, Queen's and Toronto Varsity. The first game was played at McGill and was won by the visitng Queen's team. McGill went on to win all remaining matches that year, eventually capturing the Union's first championship.

The McGill Department ot Athletics remains acutely aware of this hockey tradition. Redmen statistician Earl Zukerman is currently working on a book, chronicalling the history of the McGill Hockey Team from its earliest days. In addition, The Athletic Department has possessed several hockey artifacts of museum status. Included are: the oldest existing ice hockey stick; the most an­ cient preserved hockey cup (McGill won it, by the way) and the oldest surviving photograph of a hockey team.

On February 1st of this year, the McGill Redmen host the Trois Rivières Patriotes in teh 100th anniversary (to the day) of McGill hockey.

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Margaret Atwood's second book of selected poetry is, by 64 pages, a con­ siderably slimmer volume than her first, S e l e c t e d P o e m s published in 1976.

S e l e c t e d P o e m s was comprised of poetry written over a period of about 15 years, and included poems from six previously published works. S e le c t e d P o e m s II, in contrast, encompasses the output of only ten years, and is comprised of poems from only four collections: T w o - H e a d e d P oem s, 1978; T r u e S t o r ie s , 1981; M u r d e r in th e D a r k , which also contain­ ed works of short fiction, 1983; and Inte r lu n a r , 1984. This sibling volume is also different from its predecessor in that it contains a section of new poetry; 21 of these poems are included.

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S h e is d y in g fo r th e s a k e o f th e w o rd .

In Atwood's world, individuals in better circumstances (usually ourselves) react with indifference to the fates of others.

This silence is evil because it allows the oppressors to continue their work without fear of reprisals, while at the same time it allows the victims to despair their situations. It also fools us into believing that we are immune to the traumas of this planet. Atwood writes: O u r fla g h a s b e e n s ile n c e , w h ic h w a s m is ta k e n fo r n o fla g , w h ic h w a s m is ta k e n fo r p e a c e .

wood grows older, that probability in­ creases. In one poem, she asks the reader to memprize a certain "darkness" because "You will know it again in your own time." In another, she concludes:

S le e p w h ile y o u c a n .

In chronicling these horrors, Atwood is invoking what she terms "the third eye," the sense of vision through which we are able to see them. The third eye is an embodiment of our desire to censor; we close it, and shut ourselves off from situations we are usually too cowardly to confront. "There are some who resent the third eye," she states in a prose poem. "To them the third eye shows on­ ly the worst scenery...But someone has to see these things. They exist."

The result of using the third eye is "the light." In "Interlunar," she writes: I w is h to s h o w y o u th e d a r k n e s s

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In addition to these terrifying realities, Atwood is also obsessed with the ap­ th e d a r k n e s s The dominant theme of S e le c t e d parent imminence of man's selfth a t y o u c a n w a lk s o lo n g in P o e m s II is '.'the stories that we are never destruction. In T h e E d ib le W o m a n it b e c o m e s lig h t. told/' the contemporary horrors of star­ (1969), the young heroine remarked that vation, torture, censorship and repres­ the world would probably explode The light represents not only a greater sion. In one poem, she writes of a victim: before she reached old age. Now, as At- sense of understanding, but ultimately a sense of connection with these horrors.

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In a 1981 address on behalf of Amnesty Tuesday-Sunday a the 1 International, after having recounted , A lrernative/new music situations found in this book, she con­ This week is pub show Bar cluded: "It may seem odd for me to I 4 d if f e r e n t b a n d s .---speak of hope in the midst of what my fellow Canadians will call a bleak vision, but as the American writer Flannery O'Conner once said, people without The regular price of any meal hope do not write novels." She would $3.25 or over with this coupon not doubt add that they do not write poems either. Atwood's factual tone and detached voice enable the reader to see realities clearly; it is only then that we Valid only until Feb. 1st 1987 (Saturday and Su nd ay o n ly) ° able to comprehend the passion in which these poems were written. At­ wood is cool, but not cold.

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Fire Blazes Brightly

by Moira MacDonald Fire can be an elusive thing. You may think you can keep it under control, yet it quickly flares up into a mighty blaze.

The wood it burns may emit sparks and crackle in the intense heat or it may smolder slowly. However, one thing is clear — no matter the type of wood, wood burns.

The Centaur Theatre's production of Fir e is similarly ignited and no character can escape the flames. Paul Theroux has created a smashing script which is refreshingly intelligent. He has also managed to secure a highly professional cast and director (Brian Richmond) for the script's realisation.

F ir e opens with the cast members filtering through the audience greeting the crowd with, "Morning! How are 'ya this morning?" and shaking hands with as many seated members as possible.

One understands that the audience has been made part of the set: they are the congregation of the Razorback Pentacostal Church and it is Sunday morn­ ing. The Congregation is even asked to contribute to a circulating collection plate.

The story begins to unfold when Cale Blackwell (Ted Dykstra) son of the God­ fearing Reverend J.D. Blackwell (Peter Millard) becomes quite liberal in his in­ terpretation of "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" which he is required to play on the church piano during the service.

What commences as a muted, soulful spiritual soon develops into a rockabilly, bop-till-you-drop outpouring. Cale is roughly chastized by his reverend father and later receives the seal of disapproval from his brother Hershel (Ron Lea) who is intent on studying for theministry.

Yet Cale cannot stop. When he and Herschel are sent off to Bible college, Cale refuses to board the bus. Herschel can't turn the other cheek to his stillbeloved brother and the two seal themselves blood brothers for eternity.

Now the story really takes off. Cale, certain of his own damnation goes off to "wrestle with ma own devil" by enter­ ing show business. Herschel receives "God's calling" and later returns to Razorback as a preacher. Cale may have turned away from god but Herschel soon realizes that he must wrestle with h is

own devil. He, like his brother, is soon national enterprise is similar to the tempted by pride as he strives to expand movements of the Moral Majority in his 'c a llin g ' into a w orldw ide contemporary American society. evangelical enterprise complete with Theroux states that pride is the common televised services, religious cookbooks denominator of the two.

(How about some 'Self-Control Chili'?)

If one only went to F ir e for the music and political appointments.

Sound familiar? Paul Theroux has this in itself would be satisfaction skillfully encapsulated many contem­ enough. The fact that many of the actors porary themes and ideas in one play. are enormously talented (Ted Dykstra is Cale closely resembles the lives of Elvis as convincing an actor as he is at playing Presley, Little Richard, and Jerry Lee the keyboard with his feet), and that the Lewis, all with origins in the Pentecostal scriPt is both serious and hilarious (yes Church and all faced with deeply-felt folks, this time the jokes really are funny) religious conflict in their careers. The en- |s an added attraction. The pace never tire scheme behind Herschel's multi- ^a8s anc* a good time is had by all. ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦*

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SPORTS Redmen Floundering, Turnaround Expected b y M ik e D o r ia

McGill began the second leg of their QUAA season with a respectable 11-9-2 overall record and a not so impressive, but deceptive 2-5-2 league record. Go­ ing into the season, Coach Ken Tyler knew he had his work cut out for him as McGill had the highest turnover in the league. The inexperienced Redmen fac­ ed stiff competition from Ottawa and Trois-Rivières, a pair of strong veteran teams. McGill has hung tough and were it not for back to back early season 9-8 heartbreakers (in which the Redmen blew leads against Ottawa and TroisRivières) the Redmen would be a .500 + team.

In the second half of the season McGill must perform well against the fourth place Concordia Stingers, who trail them by three points. Three teams will make the play-offs and if McGill can hold on to third place, they may upset either Ottawa or Trois-Rivières. McGill demonstrated this potential in their 8-2 shellacking of Ottawa and by registering a 3-3 tie at Trois-Rivières. That tie against McGill was the only point in the stan­

dings that Trois-Rivières gave up in the first half of the season.

The following is a position by position evaluation of the Redmen's first half play and prognosis for the second half of the season: G o a lte n d in g

Jamie Reeve (4.63 GAA), who Coach Tyler is high on, went down early in the pre-season with a broken fibula. He is back now but will have to wrestle No. 1 billing back from Stephan Fortin. Coach Tyler says “ Reeve's injury gave Fortin a chance to grab a hold of the No. 1 goalie spot. He struggled in three November games, but other than that he's been stopping the puck at an over 90% stopp­ ing rate, which is all-Canadian. He's been playing the best hockey of his career."

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defense has played fairly solid in our own zone, but has been lacking on of­ fense."

Jamie Kompon (1-7-8) has found his niche in the league, Scott Daniels (3-5-8) has improved a good 40-50% — he's a good co n siste n t hard-hitting defenseman. André Martin (3-8-11) has played consistently and I'd like to see more goals out of him because he's got a bullet from the point. Vesa Surenkin (1-8-9) has settled down and adapted and I think we'll see a super second half from him. Mike Babcock didn't have a good first half as he was bothered by a chronic shoulder injury which brought him right down. I'm looking for a good second semester from these players as well as Martin Desrosiers and Joel Sitak whose game has improved a lot." Unfor­ tunately the Redmen have lost Mike Tschumi (1-5-6), due to a broken hand.

Coach Tyler comments: "We're not get­ ting beat on one-on-ones, sometimes F orw ard s we're getting beat on corner work, but McGill's offensive output was outstan­ it's the net front work that disappoints ding at the beginning of the year (26 me the most. With the size that we've goals in their first three QUAA games) got there's no excuse for us not to have but since then has been inconsistent. the net front totally clean. Overall our While the defense has been allowed to

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solidjfy, the forward situation has been confusing. High scoring Mark Reade (16-26-42) was slowed by pneumonia and sniper Tim lannone (16-10-26) was felled by a knee injury. Some eyebrows were raised when Mario DeBenedictis (15-21-36) left McGill last week to pur­ sue his junior career at Longueuil.

DeBenedictis will not be allowed to play university hockey next year and there are only a few months left in the QMJHL season. McGill will also go into the se­ cond half of the season without the ser­ vices of the talented Daniel Lamirande (8-20-28). DeBenedictis and Lamirande were No. 2 & 3 in scoring for the Redmen and the Redmen will be hard pressed to plug that scoring gap. Look for Benoit Lafleur (5-10-15) to assume a more high-profile role offensively.

Coach Tyler says "there's no question that there is pressure on Lafleur to score as per his namesake." Second year man François Olivier (10-14-24) must also assume a more prominent scoring role. It is also hoped that former Redmen foot­ ball player Louis Daigneault (3 goals in his first game) can add some scoring

punch.

"Tim lannone is a tremendously talented and hard driving offensive player, and he's learning about defense." Coach Tyler told th e T r ib u n e : "He's going to be a good one, the Mark Reade of our next few seasons. The real Mark Reade has been slowed down by illness but we saw what he could do at Christmas (Reade went on a scoring spree at the Metro Cup Tournament)."

Unquestionably a return to form by Mark Reade would be a great boost to the club's offense. Tyler also points out: "Earl Morris (3-8-11) believes in himself and it's time for him to arrive. Chris Mandelos (0-2-2) who has good jets and can score should have a good second half for us. Brent Bannerman (2-4-6) has good talent and must work on his skating and conditioning to be a good scorer.

Marc Lajeunesse is a hard working player who is capable of scoring a point a game, given ice time." Morris, Mandelos, Bannerman, Lajeunesse and McGill's other forwards are being counted on heavily to improve in the se-

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