____LTtif MCGILLTRIBUNE T uesday, January 26,1988
Published by the S tudent's Society o f M cG ill U niversity
V olum e 7, Issue 14
"Economic nationalist"speaks at McGill by Elizabeth Smyth
“What I have to say is biased. It’s my bias. I’m very confident with it and rarely do I change it,” stated Dave Bar rett, premier of B.C. from 1972 to 1975, while speaking to a McGill audi ence last Friday. He proclaimed him self as an “economic nationalist” and “democratic socialist” opposed to a free trade deal in which “both sides lose”. Barrett is at McGill this semester as a visiting professor with the Cana dian Studies Department. Mr. Barrett berated the naiveté of Canadian manufacturing circles and
proclaimed “jingoism” to be the moti vating factor spurring support for free trade. Given the lack of flexible capital and time to get into the U.S. market, he predicted the transform ation of Canada’s industry into “not producing, but warehousing plants” resulting in a loss of tens of thousands of jobs. Of detriment to both Canada and the United States is the unlimited trans fer of non-renewable resources such as oil. Barrett implicates both countries for short-sightedly treating oil as “a cornucopia with no end” and predicts a future shortage if there is free trade. He
Winter Carnival Broomball: Engineers triumph! photo by Lionel Chow
regrets that both countries have not learned the lessons of the past. Barrett believes that the apathy toward the economic future exhibited by the Americans is mirrored in its ongoing trade imbalance and budget deficit. Barrett perceives these prob lems as symptomatic of America los ing their cutting edge as “innovators, developers and marketers” and does not want to see Canada broiled. Throughout the speech Mr. Barrett bemoaned the lack of American aware ness about the disadvantages of free trade. American exchange students
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Deanys passing by Mariam Bouchoutrouch The death of the Dean of Admis sions earlier (his month has left McGill’s Administration stunned. Helen Gougeon died January 10th at the Montréal General Hospital after a brief illness. “We are all profoundly shocked at her passing,” said Vice-Principal Academic, Dr. Samuel Freedman. Gougeon was appointed Dean of Admissions in September to help alle viate problems in the admissions process. As Dean she oversaw the ad missions process, including recruitement, entrance scholarships and pub lications providing information for applicants. Martela Johansen, manager of the Admissions office will assume all Gougeon’s responsibilities until a re placement is found, said Freedman. Gougeon graduated from Marionopolis College and did graduate work in educational psychology at Concordia and the University of Montréal. She leaves a husband and two daughters. A memorial service is scheduled for February 1st at 11:30 amt. at the University Chapel in the Birks Build ing.
Helen Gougeon Freedman commented that due to changes in the Admissions Office, the process should run more smoothly than it did last year. “We have instituted a number of changes in Admissions, including automa tion, increasing staff and reorgan izing the telephone system,” he said. The administration is also consider ing (he installment of an 800 number for students to use. “She knew she was going to die and she faced it,” commented Dr. Irwin Gopnik, Dean of Students, “She was very brave, just before her death she was still talking business.” Martela Johansen described Gougeon as “a delightful and dy namic person and we ail miss her very much.”
- Dave Barrett talks to the T ribune, see page 8.
David Barrett
BOGged Down On Butts by Ian M. Harrold
The Engineering All-Stars took on a team o f Arts & Science students in the W inter Mission ''88 broomball "War" on Friday. This one sided slaughter had reached 10-0 for the Engineers when this photographer could take no more. The victors had a lot going for them including superior equipment (broomball shoes), a partisan crowd, and an experienced squad of players.
from the State University of New York agreed. They pinpointed lack of com munication as the root of American ignorance about the problem and indi cated a desire to overcome that apathy. The presentation was hosted by the Canadian Studies Department. He will be giving lectures entitled “Experi ences as a First Minister” on January 25, 27, 29 from 2:00 to 3:00 in Maass 112. He is available for discussions with students on Tuesday and Thurs day from 2:00 to 4:00 in Burnside 419.
McGill’s Board of Governors voted last week to create a virtually smoke-free campus environment. The Board put the final stamp of approval on a Central Committee on Safety Task Force Report on cigarette Smoking in the Workplace. The report lays out four phases of a one year plan that could eventually see an outright ban on smoking in all indoor areas of the Uni versity or at least “all indoor areas...except for rooms equipped with ventilation systems that prevent ciga rette smoke’s airborne contaminants from entering other areas [and that have an] exhaust system vented di rectly to the exterior.” The report un derlines the “astonishing rate” at which non-smokers are affected by the same illnesses as smokers when exposed to smoke-polluted indoor air. Phase one of the plan calls for im mediate compliance with Quebec’s
Bill 84, which bans smoking in practi cally all public indoor areas. Private or semi-private areas such as offices, washrooms and lounges are not explic itly covered but the bill empowers the University to designate these areas to be non-smoking. University Resi dences are not affected by the ban. Licensed premises, however, such as Gertrude’s Pub and The Alley, are not specifically dealt with in the Report and this was the cause of some discus sion among members of the Board. Sam Kingdon, Associate Vice-Princi pal (Physical Resources), admitted the issue of smoking in public, licensed areas “was confusing in the province as a whole” (Bill 84). Governors passed an amendment that excludes licensed and temporarily licensed premises from the ban. StudSoc President Daniel Tennenbaum seconded the motion and Governor and former fed eral Health Minister Monique Bégin
was among a minority opposing it. The Board also heard a report on the status of Continuing Education at McGill. CONTED Director Pamela Stewart described steps which are being taken to reduce frustrations CONTED students sometimes feel. These include a new plastified identifi cation card to replace the current paper one. Also tabled was a report on com puting and the recent progress that has been made in this area. Vice-Principal Davenport (Planning and Computer Services) noted improvements such as the new 398 phone system and the MUSE library system. As well, the Board was told of the McCord Museum’s “revolutionary activities”. McGill’s Secretary-Gen eral, R. David Bourke detailed some of the administrative changes made at the McCord (the McCord Foundation now
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Street Angst by Danae Giannopoulos
Who are the 5000 juvenile prosti tutes living in the streets of Montreal? Why did they turn to prostitution? Did they choose this occupation? How does society view prostitutes? And what is being done to help them? These are some of the questions that were posed during a heavily at tended panel discussion in the Leacock building last Thursday. The event was co-sponsored by the M ontreal W om en’s Network, the M cGill Women’s Union, and Passages, a shel ter that recently opened its doors to female prostitutes in Montreal. Many teenage prostitutes have run away or have been thrown out of their homes, according to Shirley Shoub, co ordinator of the Montreal Women’s Network. She stated that physical and sexual abuse, inadequate parenting, and neglect are some of the reasons young people leave home. One half of juvenile prostitutes come from fami lies where a marital breakup occurred, continued Shoub. She said forty per cent had one parent who was a heavy user of alcohol. Ms. Shoub noted that prostitutes “come from every socio economic background,” and suffer from low self-esteem. Teenagers who turn to prostitution see it as a way of survival, according to Denis Menard, co-author of “Les
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A dvisors U nder Fire by Angela Chapman
Having spent the last week battling the mobs at Dawson Hall and stalking down advisors for the necessary signa ture, now would be an unpleasant time to discover that certain required courses were overlooked. McGill’s procedures for academic advising are designed to prevent this from occuring, but there are many students and advi sors concerned about the quality and effectiveness of the advising provided. M aria B attaglia, S tu d en ts’ Society’s Vice-President University Affairs, raised her concerns at a senate meeting last November. Subsequently, she has undertaken, in conjunction with the Centre for University Teach ing and Learning a report that will look at the tasks of an academic adivisor, the information with which he/she is pro vided, and the quality of the service provided. The report is to be issued
next month and the findings will be passed on to McGill’s Academic Plan ning and Policy Committee. Battaglia told The Tribune that she has received several complaints from undergraduates who “do not feel they are getting enough attention.” She at tributed this to the “time limit” and the fact that “some [professors] are not adequately informed,” all of which results in an “inefficient service, frus trating the students.” However, Batta glia stressed that “there are many pro fessors who know the material and genuinely care.” Many students have had mixed en counters with advisors. “ He basically told me to fill in the courses I wanted to take without mentioning certain re quired courses,” Leona Duncan, a third year sociology student said of her first year advisor. When she returned during
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