TttCMCGILL TRIBUNE Wednesday, September 9,1987
Published by the Students' Society of McGill University
Volume 7, Issue 1
The Daily has a seizure by: Jennifer Mori
This year's Executive Council, clockwise from top left: Maria Bataglia, Daniel Tenenbaum, Ferry Sbrissa, Don McGerrigle, Chris Alexander and Don Samoil
StudSoc Reveals Plans For 87/88 by: T rib News Staff Although “serving students better” is the Students’ Society’s timeworn motto, most students are unaware of the extent of StudSoc’s exertions on behalf of students. Each Students’ Society executive outlined specific goals for this academic year in inter view with the Tribune. A joint Post-Graduate Students’ So ciety - Students’ Society task force has been set up, “to explore solutions to the student housing problem, namely housing feasibility and financing," said Maria Battaglia, VP University Af fairs. The task force presented a brief protesting the lifting o f the moratorium on conversion o f rental housing to condominiums to a Quebec Parliamen tary Commission on Aug. 18. "The City o f Montréal is initiating a long term study of the development of the downtown area and students should give their view, as M cGill is such an integral part o f the downtown area,” remarked C hris A lexander, VP External. An urban planning student has been commissioned to prepare a brief for presentation to the city that will incorporate Students’ Society’s views on such things as pedestrian safety and public transit. Don Samoil, VP Finance, assures students that although CVC food serv
ices has requested price increases, “those who can least afford them will not be left out in the cold.” Samoil intends to, “squeeze the most out of every student dollar,” although infla tion has limited the moneys that the Students’ Society has to work with. “ It is diffucult to anticipate a fee increase.” commented Samoil, “but it must be thought about.” Re-organizing the Union Building is a main priority for Terry Sbrissa, VP Internal. “The clubs on the 4th floor are really at a disadvantage because they’re cramped for space and nobody can find them,” she said. “W e’re redo ing the signage in October.” When CKUT Radio McGill moves out o f the Union, a space study will be carried out. Sbrissa and Daniel Tenebaum, Stu dents' Society President, want to pub licize Students' Council and motivate its members. “Council attendance is sad," commented Tenenbaum. “Stu dents should know that they don’t necessarily have to go to Open Council (open forum Students’ Council meeetings) to express their views. They can ask any councillor for speaking rights.” Tenenbaum wants to emphasize the importance of the Francophone and ethnic element at McGill. “We must emphasize the multi-cultural, multi
lingual aspect of McGill and offer serv ices (like Welcome Week and the buddy system) to meet its needs,” said Tenenbaum. The Students Society supports the Multicultural Society, a coalition of ethnic clubs, and the new M cGill Quebec in promoting the visibility of, and providing services for, M cGill’s ethnic community. “W e’ve been keeping in close touch with the Quebec student movement,” Alexander told the Tribune, "both with the Association Nationale des Etudiants(es) Quebecois(es) (other wise known as ANEQ, a provincial student coalition) and with other uni versities. "W e ’re doing a survey of incidental fees with ANEQ and shouold be getting the results in a few weeks.” Alexander calls incidental fees like the S I 00 course materials charge, “disguised tuition" and intends to hold a campus survey to determine what students are getting for their S 100 in both qualitative and quantitative terms. All the Students’ Society executives will be speaking to classes throughout the week. “The only time most stu dents have seen the executives in the past is during their election cam paigns,” said Tenenbaum. “We intend to be accessible.”
CKUT Promises Alternative Air By: Ian Pringle The most detrimental and dispicable result o f attitudes falling victim to cliché is the eventual distortion and ultimate loss of the original perspec tive . When alternative made the move past trendy into “clichéd” the value inherent in the definition o f the word was lost to the masses. The media atmosphere in Montréal, presently saturated with mediocre status quo, will be introduced to a new face this autumn, one which aspires to a fresh radio perspective incorporating an alternative philosophy in both me dium and message. The mandate of CK U T-FM Radio M cGill, soon to be available at 90.3 on your FM dial, is to provide alternative programming of a non-commercial nature. The changes undergone by Radio McGill in its transformation from CFRM to C KU T were formidable and remain substantial. The latter is an
extension of the former. CKUT-FM is licensed as a community campus radio station bound by proportions of 55% musical programming and 45% spoken word, both facets involve immense diversity and variety. From legal to lesbian, science to theater, reggae to blues, opera to punk, sports coverage to gay issues: from music shows which concentrate on Canadian content to those of an international persective; from coverage of news and issues of a purely Montréal student context to productions which look candidly at the various international news and propa ganda services around the world. . . CKUT-FM Radio McGill has some thing for everyone. CKUT will broadcast programming with content and format geared to wards individuals, not masses. In a political context, it is media commu nism. . . radio for the people, o f the people and by the people. Part of the new Radio McGill, a very
expensive new Radio McGill, is an eight-track recording studio located in completely renovated and expanded
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The Special Registration Issue o f the M c G ill D a ily mysteriously disappeared from campus buildings shortly after it was distributed last Wednesday afternoon. The paper contained a controversial photo o f a woman holding am an’s erect penis, a photo which the McGill administration confiscated on the grounds that it was possibly illegal. “The administration had no right to do this,” said Chris Lawson, D a ily News Editor. “It is a gross violation o f the freedom of the press.” The D a ily received no notice from the administration about the seizure of the newspaper. The D a ily is a student owned and operated newspaper and the D a ily staff considered the administration's action to be beyond its jurisdiction. “The agreement between the University and the D a ily (relating to the administration’s collection of fees for the D a ily ) states that the University has the right to confiscate the n e w s p a p e rS a m Kingdom Associate Vice-Principal o f Physical Resources told the Tribune. Clause 6c of the agreement states that the administration can seize the paper “ ...if such issue contains illegal material.” Kingdon made the decision to remove the paper after consulation with collègues. “At the time of the decision (to seize the D a ilie s ), I thought it was possible that the publication would be illegal.” “The administration felt it had a right to seize the paper, whether rightly or wrongly,” Kingdon continued. The administration has not received any calls from the police about the legality or illegality of the Registration Issue.
Not The First Time Photo Was Published "L e V o ir and La Presse both printed the photo so there’s precedent," said Joe Heath, a D a ily Co-Ordinating Editor. He added that, “ the administration has never confiscated the Plumbers P ol (an Engineering Undergraduate Society publication that has published nude photos in the past) and the D a ily has printed naked women before.” Heath argued that the D a ily had run the article, “to make a political point.” The D a ily had wanted to emphasize the contrast between the
gallery owner who faced a possible ten year imprisonment forexhibiting the photo while the local pom cinema operates free of restraint. “It was not the content of the article that disturbed us,” remarked Kingdon. “It was the size of the photo. Kingdon did not learn until last Thursday afternoon that the photo had been published by other periodicals without police reprisals. Kingdon was trying to locate the remaining copies o f the D a ily to be returned to the newspaper’s offices. When asked if he would object to the redistribution of the paper, Kingdon replied, “I don’t know.” On Friday morning, the D a ily received roughly 2000 newspapers back and attempted to re-distribute them. Mike Gordon, D a ily staffer was told by, “security people in the Currie Gym that there would be no D a ilie s allowed in the building." The Currie Gym porter told the Tribune that the person responsible, A. Graczys. Manager of Facilities and Equipment, had left the building shortly after issuing the order, “and won’t be back ‘til Tuesday.” Peter Nixon, another D a ily staffer, attempted to put D ailie s in the Leacock Building but was told by the porter that he could not do so. Neither the Leacock porter nor Kingdon could be reached for comment on Friday.. “The D a ily stands to lose $6000 o f advertising revenue, as the agreement between the paper and the advertisers required the D a ily to remain in the stands
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INSIDE: Tenenbaum Speaks................................page 3 G ert’s Opens Soon..................................page3 Red men Roughed Up............................ page7