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w h a t ’s o n NOTICES Sexual Assault Awareness Week March 4-8. The splendiferous Red Herring is ensnaring submissions for our April issue. The deadline fast approacheth: March 11th! Submissions may be gin gerly taken to the SSMU front desk or to Union406. Call398-6816 for support and comfort O ooooh -eeeeh -ooooh -eeeeh aaaah!! !The Red Herring is hosting its ultra-infra-amazing Jell-O BakeOff! Contestants can pick up their pow dered Jell-O in the A.M. of Friday, March 8th, and return the finished product to be judged on Monday, March, 11th. The winning Jell-O chef will get BIG PRIZES' Hooooo-yaaaa-weeee-haaaa!!! The Red Herring is hosting it's nifty ReWrite The Three Little Pigs Contest!!! You may re-write a selected paragraph of the well-known children's story in the style of your favorite author for BIGPRIZES! Come to Union406 orcall 398-6816 for more information! The Department of English, Drama and Theatre Program presents Twelfth Night - March6-9, and 13-16th in Moyse Theatre. Tickets available at Sadie's. Ticket info also available by calling 398-6795. Pray for Peace, a 15 minute prayer vigil takes place every noonhour in the University Chapel. McGill Photo Contest's deadline has been extended to March 8! For details go to Union B06 or call 3986786. Open to students, faculty and alumni. Volunteers are needed for cycling
events June 7th, 8th and 9th organized by Le Tour de Pile de Montreal. To register call 847-8687. For info, about theJames Bay Coali tion call 286-0743. Get involved in the upcoming events that we are planning. McGill Newman Center (3484 Peel Street) presents Holy Week Services. Holy Thursday (March 28 at 8pm); Good Friday (March 29 at3pm), Easter Vigil (March30at 10m and reveillons); Easter Sunday (March 31 at 11 am) "This Blood's forYou!". ..The McGill Medical Blood Drive will be held March 12 to 15th. 10-6 at the McIntyre Medical Building. Upcoming election for next year's SSMU executives - March 12, 13 and 14th. Vigil for those who have died in the Gulf War, every Wednesday, 5 pm at the Roddick Gates. Organized by Troops Out. Auditions - A QPIRG /McGill Film Society 16 minute film production concerning violence against women is holding a casting for male and female leads, 18-24, bilingual preferred. Shoot ing early Saturday, Union B09/B10, 2:00 p.m. Call 843-6259 or284-6275 for information. TUESDAY, MARCH 5 The Faculty of Music presents Jazz Ensembles II and III inPollackHallat 8 pm. McGill Entrepreneurs Club Meet ing with Rob Fetherstonhaugh of KPMG discussing "How to write a business plan." Arts 160 at 6 pm. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6 For a free rip-roaring, hilarious kneeslappin' good time show up at the Alley at 10 pm for McGill Theatresports.
Free movies in Leacock 132 at 7:30 pm.. The Film Society presents Women's Union Night - Five Feminist Minutes; Killing Us Softly;and Still Kill ing Us Softly. The Department of Religion and Philosophy in Education presents a continuing series of video tape presen tation on The Nature of the Mind with J. Krishnamurti - 8 pm in conference room of the Faculty of Education. Call Mary, 937-8869 for info. Caribbean Student's Society presents Caribbean Day in the Alley Caribbean music and tropical drinks all day long; live performance in the evening. SSMU executive Candidates' De bate from 11 to 3 pm in Union B09. Help yourself make an informed deci sion when you vote March 12,13 and 14. The Faculty of Music presents McGill Chamber Winds 8 pm in Pol lack Hall. Tickets $7.50. Benefit concert for Montréal Children's Hospital. Affirmative Action Debate spon sored by the McGill Debating Unionin Union 107/08. No time given so call 398-8222 to find out. CKUT Funding Drive continues Haïtienne Band Georges Rodriquez and his group with MC El Guero and DJ Butcher T. at Keur Samba 5408 Parc Ave. Requested donation $3. The Ncwman Lenten Reflection Se ries presents Fr. John Wickham and Sr. Gloria Garbarini speaking about the life of St. Ignatius and Ignatian spiritu ality. 8 pm at the Newman Center 3484 Peel St. The Social Concerns Committe of the Unitarian Church of Montréal presents Alanis Obomsawin speak ing onNativeWomenat3415 Simpson St. at 7:30 pm. Debate at l'Université de Montréal
on sexual harassment at 12. Z-110 in the Pavilion Principal. Coffee will be served. THURSDAY, MARCH 7 The McGill Sexual Assault Center is presenting an Information Seminar on "The Legal Issues of Sexual Assault" at 6 p.m., Stewart Biology Building 1205 Dr. Penfield, Room Sl/4. Guest speakers include Laurie Weitzman, Crown Attorney and Sgt. Det. John Gauthier, MUC Police. Admission is free. The Political Science Student's As sociation presents Corky and the Juice Pigs at the Comedy Nest 1459 Crescent St. at 8:30 pm. Admission is $5. Student Council Meeting, 7:30 pm in Union 107-8. McGill for the Ethical Treatment of Animals meeting to plan for Vegetar ian Festival. 4:30 in Union 410 - 3455679. Caribbean Student's Society pres ents a Caribbean Lunch Special in the Union Cafeteria. 11-2 pm. Call Mark for info 284-5555. The Film Society presents 1990 in Leacock 132 at 7:30. The Faculty of Music presents Peter Collins, bass trombone and Danielle Boucher, piano at 8 pm in Redpath Hall. CKUTFunding Drive continues with "The anti-war-almost-women's-daybenefit-acoustic-cabarct" 13 perform ers with 6 acts. Librairie Alternatif at 8 pm - 2035 St. Laurent, 2nd floor. $3/$4 requested donation. The Department of Anthropology present Professor Sergei Kan on "Ritual and History: Rethinking Con temporary Northwest coast Ceremo nialism." 4:30 pm in Leacock 738.
Mom and Morgentaler and Furnace Face. $6.50 for Friends of CKUT and students, $8 for everyone else. Women's Day at the Yellow Door 3625 Aylmer St - door opens at 8 pm, admission is $2. For info call398-6243. Celebrate 'International Women's Week' at the Women's Union. 7:30 Wine and Cheese. Union 423. SATURDAY, MARCH 9 The Film Society presents Fellini's Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl at 7:30 pm in the Leacock 132. McGill Caribbean Student's Society presents Colourful Rhythms at 6:45 in the Westmount High Auditorium (4350 Ste. Catherine W.) For info call Markat 284-5555 or Maxine at 939-9605. Party in Union B09/10 to follow. Réunion fondatrice des Jeunes néo démocrates du Québec avec Audrey McLaughlin, Phil Edmonston et Svend Robinson. 3480 McTavish, Salle 302.9 a 17h00. 467-3651 ou 987-9520 pour renseignements. Department of English Students' Association presents McGill Media Career Day '91. $3 in advance - tickets available at Sadie's. 398-6588 for info. Ticket stud will get you in free to hear Modechai Richlerspea ko n March 14th. Meeting in Union 410 at 2 pm for anyone interesting in the position of Art Director for a QPIRG/Film Soci ety film production concerning vio lence against women. Film to be shot in May. Portfolio requested but not re quired. Call 843-6259 or 284-6275 for info. CKUT Funding Drive presents a Celebration for Inti. Women's Week at Bar Kiev - 812 Rachel E. at 8 pm. $3 requested donation. SUNDAY, MARCH 10
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The Film Society and the McGill Literacy Council present Stanley and Iris in FDA Auditorium at 7:30. Deadline for the McGill Photo Con test is today. Call 398-6786 for info. The 1991 McGill Skating Club Show starring Cynthia Coull. 5:30 at the McConnell Winter Arena. Free. The Faculty of Music presents Jean Lebuis, organat!2:15at Redpath Hall. CKUT Funding Drive Benefit in the Union Ballroom at 9 pm with Me,
The Social Concerns Committee of the Unitarian Church of Montréal presents aCree spokesperson onJames Bay Two: The Cree View. 11 am at 3415 Simpson St. MONDAY, MARCH 11 Vegetarian Festival - Food, fun and informationl 1-3 pm, Union 107/8. MD Michael Klapper will give a short talk on vegetarianism at 12:05. Organized by META. 345-5679.
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The woman, whose identity is protected under a court publica tion ban, charged Booth with rap ing her at the fraternity house during a party January 21, 1990. Testimony duringthe trial showed that both the plaintiff and the ac cused had been drunk at the time of the incident. There were no wit nesses. Trudel concluded that although 'no means no', each case must be judged on its own merits. "Saying 'no' doesn't mean she has to be beaten, bruised, threat ened or have her clothes torn," Trudel said in his verdict. "A no is a no and before the law that is suf-
Approximately 200 students from McGill and Concordia pro tested outside McGill's Phi Delta Theta fraternity house Friday night following one member's acquittal of a sexual assault charge. Demonstrators waved placards reading "a woman was raped here" and chanted "whatever we drink, however we dress, no means no and yes means yes", outside the house at the corner of University and Milton. Earlier that day, Québec Court Judge Luc Trudel acquitted frater nity member Patrick Booth on the grounds that Booth had reason to believe the woman had consented to intercourse.
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Laurier’s newspaper shut down Laurier University's student government shut down the univer sity's student paper two days ago, after the paper printed a controver sial article about safe sex. The article described a series of a gay man's sexual encounters. It also listed safe ways to engage in a variety of sexual activities. The article first appeared in the Memorial University's student newspaper, in Newfoundland. It was reprinted in a number of student newspapers across the country, including Laurier's Cord and McGill's Daily. Laurier students are circulating petitions and organizing a forum to protest the newspaper's closure.
Solin Hall residents challenge lease Three Solin Hall residents are taking McGill University to the Régis du logement, the provincial tenancy tribunal, to challenge the legality of the university's residence lease. McGill will not allow Solin residents, the only residents who have a twelve month lease, to sublet their apartments during the summer. Instead, the university wants them to transfer their leases to summer occupants. But according to Students' Society VP External Alex Usher, Solin residents do not want to transfer their leases because then they lose their legal right to renewal. McGill does not automatically renew leases. Students are challenging the practice on the grounds that it contradicts Québec law. "The interesting thing is that students aren't trying to break their lease, which is what 1 would have expected," Usher said. 'They want to be able to sublet so they can keep their places next year."
Board rules referendum questions valid Students will vote on changes to Students' Society's constitution, Post-Graduate secession and affirmative action during next week's election polling days. Post-Graduate Eric Darier had asked Students' Society's Judicial Board for a legal opinion as to whether Students' Society had given students sufficient notice of the questions. According to SSMU refer endum guidelines, students must be given at least eighteen days notice of Council-initiated referendum questions to allow any dissent ing students time to form an opposition committee. The Judicial Board ruled the three questions to be valid in a hearing last Thursday. "We all want the questions to be approved," Darier said at the hearing. "I'm just playing devil's advocate so the issues won't be open to challenge in the future."
Protestors gathered outside the Phi Delta Theta house last Friday night.
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Frat parties are not safe for women, as events re called in a court case this week confirmed. Neither are a lot of other parties, the back seat of a "friend's" car, or even homes. But women are naive if they expect to find protection in the courts. Evidence laws in the Canadian justice system are structured in a way which almost guarantees that date rape will continue without a statistically sig nificant number of rapists feeling the force of the law. The pain, aggravation and delay of court proceedings are a disincentive for womento bring their cases to trial. And there is a stigma attached to the victim of rape: that she may have "asked for it"; or that she did not do enough to stop her aggressor. These are some of the factors which keep sexual assault a crime hidden in society and before the courts. One woman in three is assaulted in her lifetime. But it is estimated that for every forty women who are assaulted, only one will bring her case to the courts. Last Friday, more than a year after the night she said she was assaulted, a former McGill student sat in a Montréal courtroom. She listened to a judge tell her that precedent informed him that it is irrelevant "if jurors do not believe the accused." The question before the court was whether the victim of a rape could demonstrate conclusively that her rapist waslying when he declared that he "hon estly believed" that the woman he sexually as saulted was a consenting partner. The victim testified that she was seated having just vomitted on the floor of a bathroom in the Phi Delta Theta frat house. The accused entered, and forced his penis into her mouth before penetrating her against the bathroom sink. It is rather difficult to imagine a woman in such a state of innebriation being able to consent to any thing. Furthermore, she asserted to the judge that she said no, repeatedly, throughout the encounter. She even fabricated a boyfriend on whom to foist the responsibility for her refusal. However, the court does not want the victim of a rape to prove that she did not consent to her violation. Instead, she is expected to account for the workings inside the head of her rapist. The onus is on the victim to prove "beyond a rea sonable doubt" that her partner did not believe she was witholding consent.
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To make the situation still more complicated, she must prove this in a situation where most frequently the she is the only witness. In a case like this one, where the victim was drunk, she is liable to be told by the judge that "while a no is a no and before the law that is sufficient...I do not believe that her testi mony had the quality of proof beyond doubt." Had the accused beaten her, or torn her clothes, then perhaps there would have been the corrobora tion the judge sought. But if the victim, deeply afraid, did no more than protest, then her testimony is unlikely to be considered conclusive by the court. Even though the letter of the law declares that con sent is not to be equated with phsical resistance that "no means no"- legal practice and rules of evidence work against any application of that law. 'Benefit of the doubt' and 'innocent until proven guilty' are a major underpinnning of the liberal constitutional democracy in which we live. When this guiding principle was first drafted, the only sexual offense in British common law was adultery by women. As long the burden of proof remains entirely on the victim of a rape, and the accused is entitled to the full benefit of the doubt, the courts will never be able to provide recourse for victims of sexual assault or incest. The courts will be particularly inadequate at resolving cases of date rape, which accounts for 80% of sexual assaults. The consequences of that failure are severe. The scale of the problem of sexual assault is not docu mented, nor recognized. Without some change, date rape will remain a crime for which the victim will probably feel guilty for her "lack of control", her "inadequate" resistance or for "encouraging" her rapist. Without convic tions, men are not held responsible for the fact that "no means no." The two hundred demonstrators marching in front of Phi Delta Theta house Friday night chanted "we will not be silenced by your violence" to the frat members partying within. As long as the current laws of evidence are in place, however, it is not only violence that silences victims of rape. It is the system of "justice" itself. -Kelly Gallagher-Mackay, Stephanie Small, Shannon Aldinger, Amy W ilson, Allan Tait, Matthew Scrivens, Elaine Palmer,Kirsten Myers
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Affirmative Action is a means of ensuring that oppressed groups can achieve their own empowerment. Next week, students will have a chance to vote to put this principle into practise. The Students' Society wants to express its commitment to groups, programmes and activities which work to ameliorate the condition of in dividuals or groups who operate at a disadvantage in our society. We, as students, have a chance to support the model of the Canadian constitu tion, which includes a similar provision, by voting yes to affirmative ac tion. The clause is proposed for the objective section of the constituion: that is, its influence could affect anything in Students' Societies constitution, by-laws, or policies. But it will primarily affect club memberships. 11will allow groups disadvantaged by race, sex, disability, sexual orientation or social class to decide who can run their own groups, or even who can join. This is not a form of discrimination: these groups are not trying to tell anyone else what todo. They do not have that power. We must remember that the clause applies only to societally disadvantaged groups, groups which, by definition, are not in a position to control their own position in society, let alone anyone else's. Oppression and disadvantage is a condition for which one must occaisionally compensate artificailly. Before such a condition can be overcome, it is necessary that those who experience it have self-confi dence. One way to gain that confidence is to organize, at least initially, in isolation. For example, a woman who has been sexually assaulted is unlikely to feel comfortable discussing her experience in the presence of one or more men. Since one woman in three is sexually assaulted in her lifetime, even women in the pri veleged community of McGill, we should allow student groups formed to meet women's needs to organize in th eway they consider most appropriate. That may include barring men from some ac tivities or discussions. Other groups which may be affected at McGill are the Black Students' Network, Walk-Safe Network, Gays and Lesbians of McGill, and McGill Association of International Students. The needs of members of each of these groups may be best evaluated and best met by their members. Council, which has expressed support for the principle by adopting a by-law to allow some clubs to limit their membership. But the campus as a whole must speak out strongly to recognize the needs of our society's disadvantaged. We must formalize our concern into a commitment to change in the constitution. We must vote yes to affirmative action. When you read the follow ing question on a ballot on March 12,13, orl4, vote yes. The Students' Society of McGill University is committed to groups programs and activities that are devoted to the well-being of a group disadvantaged because of, but not limited to , race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, sex, age mental or physical disability, sexual orientation or social class. Affirmative Action Yes Committee
Erratum: In “Scrivener regains faculty funding after long delay” (Feb 26-Mar 3) we mistakenly identified the Department of English Students’ Association as the publisher of Scrivener maga zine. The magazine is in fact in dependently organized and pub lished, though it receives finan cial support form DESA. Also, the letter supposedly from Mat MacMurty was actu ally from Mat MacMurtry.
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To the T rib u n e : Although I was outraged to read that the Students' Soci ety's Chief Electoral Officer Eric Steinman was being paid for voluntary services, I was not entirely surprised. (CEO received $2500 for "volunteering time", Feb 12-18). This is typical of the reports coming out recently about "question able" decisions and conflict -of-interest issues that have plagued both the current and past Students' Society Execu tive. Kickbacks, the hiring of key SSMU executive members to full-time employmentafterthecompletion of their terms, are jus t tw oof the issues that have disturbed both myself and many other students who are concerned about the "fairness" of SSMU spending policies, most of which seem to go un checked. Surely Steinman should have known upon his acceptance of the position of Cheif ELectoral Officer, that this position, as it always had been, was mostly a voluntary position which paid a nominal amount for three or four days of actual
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Around about election time every year, people hear a lot of platitiudes and claims about policies and finances. Some times, these figures can be misleading, yet rarely are errone ous facts and figures cleared up. This year, I found one I just couldn't let pass. Eric Darier is running for Sudents' Society VP Finance. On his pamphlet, Mr. Darier claims that "$50 000 was spent on FEUQ before students had even voted on whether or not to join." In point of fact, when McGill students voted ont he issue, a little less than $12 000 had been spent on the organi zation itself, while $3500 had been donated to a legan chal-
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lenge against last year's tuition fee hike, and $6500 had been spent on a 1989 conference called "Les Etats Generaux sur l'Education". All of this for a grand total of $22 000, Less than half of what Mr. Darier claims, and all of it passed by council. Mr. Darier's campaign speaks of political and fiscal ac countability. I'd like to ask Mr. Darier to be accountable to the facts, as well. He may have a problem with the way Students' Society has handled graduate students with re gards to FEUQ; that is no reason to resort to untruths which harm the reputation of both FEUQ and SSMU. Students deserve more than this from their prospecive leaders. Alex Usher, SSMU VP External, BA U2
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I am writing in réponse to your article on sexual harass ment and would like to support your interest in and concern about this serious problem on campus. I consider it totally unacceptable that any persons find themselves in this type of situation yet many students, especially women students at McGill, are sexually harassed and/or intimidated not only by professors, but also by teaching and research assistants, lab demonstrators, etc. McGill has designated special sexual harassment officers to whom students can bring their claims about those in athority who harass them. It is imortant to note however, that this is a difficult process and requires time and energy. Unfortu nately, some students are so intimidated by what has hap pened to them that they are unable or unwilling to undergo the process required to press charges. As the Ombudsperson I see many such students. In all cases I explain the procedures and encourage them to call an assessor. However, if the student is unwilling to do so, I am a vai lable to provide support and encouragement, to discuss their situations, and to try to help them find some inner peace and resolution. Although I do not remember the micro immunology student you quoted in your article, I do regret that she felt I had not advised her of all her options. I apologize for this and hope she can now bring the case to the assessors so that justice can be done. I would like to close by pointing out that if w e wish to get rid of sexual harassment on our campus then it is up to those of us in authority to ensure that all students are treated with respect. There is no place for sexual innuendo, or sexual jokes or comments in the classroom or in the labs. N o student should be pressured for sexual favors. This message must be clear and unequivocal and those who contravene it should be appropriately sanctioned.
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In his column "Thinking positively about the War", Robert Steiner uses inac curate, misleadinginformation to accuse McGill University of unethi cal research, believes rumours are facts and confuses ethical with unethi cal research. He writes that the "McGill ballistic expert" Gerald Bull developed a "super gun" in the late 1960's and 1970's. In fact, Professor Bull left McGill in the late 1960's to start his own privaate company. We cannot accuse McGill of unethical research since it has no control over a private com pany. Concerning the special cannon, there has been speculation on whether the Iraqis have it, but there seems to be no concluding (sic) evidence. How ever, Mr. Steiner writes that "the Iraqis have the gun". He writes that Professor Bull was killed by a Belgian. The professor was killed in Belgium, but themurderer was never found. A trivial mistake, but the information is wrong. Mr. Steiner then goes on to define FAEs as fuel air explosive, which is incorrect. The acronym really stands for Fuel Air Explosion, a very general term which means that an explosion occurs as a result of the combustion of gas and air. Thousands of fuel air explosions occur in the cylinder of a car every minute. There are also accidental FAEs involving explosions of flour in mills or coal dust in mines. Mr. Steiner's definition implies that McGill FAE research was for military applications. His definition is misleading and simplistic. It is akin to calling psychiatry the science of brain washing. Basing himself on the opinion of a "student loosely acquainted with the field", he condemns McGill's possible involvement in the development of an antidote fopr nerve gas. He is basing himself (sic) on very little and questionable evidence to make such a serious accusation. Finally, even if McGill is involved in the development of such an antidote, it is not unethical. Does he believe that letting civilians die from poisonous gas is more ethical? Does he believe that such research is unethical because people may be hospitalized due to the fact that they took the antidote while no nerve gas was present? Whatever he may think, research in the treatment of the wounded is ethical, not unethical. Mr. $teiner reports information which is incorrect and misleading, presents rumours as facts and confuses ethical with unethical. I agree that ethics should come first when conducting research, but accusations should not be made based on such innacuracies and questionable evidence. Albert Venturelli, B. Eng. U2
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BY SARA BORINS Attempts to improve security by installing emergency phones on campus have backfired due to a lack of communication, and may even have created a new danger. In the year since they were in-
"In order to use them you sometimes have to enter into a corner and wait. I would never advise people to use the phones." - Catherine Annau stalled, the five red emergency phones have been used only twice. Callers must enter an unlit corner to use this new "security service" and wait approximately fifteen minutes to a half an hour until help arrives. 'The phones are in completely ridiculous locations," said Cather ine Annau, member of the Senate Committee on Women. "In order to use them you some
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times have to enter into a comer and wait. Imagine if a woman was being followed by an assailant. I would never advise people to use the phones. They should call the Montreal Police instead." But Physical Plant Director Roy Dalebozik thinks the phones' lack of use is due to the level of safety on compus. "The two calls indicate that there are very few attacks at McGill," Dalebozik said. Dalebozik thinks the phones are a "vast improvement in campus security" and that they pro vide an adequate service. Dalebozik said McGill's fifteen m inute response time parallels that of the Montreal Police and that the emergency phones are less of a hassle to use than regular phones. "When someone dials 911 they need a quarter and once they get through it is necessary to answer a list of police questions before assis tance is dispatched," said Dale bozik. A 911 call is free. The Montreal Police claim that in an emergency
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BY STEPHANIE SMALL McGill is going ahead with plans to slash $6.6 million from next year's budget, despite promises from the provincial government that it will make up McGill's rela tive underfunding. Included in "budget correction" measures is a 50% increase in mis cellaneous student fees such as exam rereads and acquiring tran scripts. $6.6 million is needed to make up the balance of McGill's underfunding relative to other universi ties in the province. The university had planned this year's budget in hopes the government would make up the underfunding. But at a meeting with Principal Johnston last month, the Minister of Higher Education, Lucienne Robillard, refused to help McGill balance its budget. Since that meeting, the 'Work Group on Immediate Measures' has suggested ways to come up with income increases and expen diture reductions totalling $6.6
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situation where someone faces bodily assault, the average re sponse time is two to three min utes. The only question the caller faces is that of his or her location. Physical Plant spent about
$10,000 on the five phones and on improved lighting on campus. The new security system was installed without any correspondence with the Senate Committee on Women about response times or locations of the phones. Last year, Students' Society President Kate Morisset, then publicity co-ordinator of the Stu dents' Rights campaign, lobbied
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million. But when Robillard met with representatives from the Fédéra tion étudiante universitaire du Québec last week, she promised to " reb a la n ce the underfunding" of universities in the prov ince, accord ing to the federation's VP Univer sity Affairs Robert Fabes. "She said she was put ting $10 mil lion in for the 1991-92 year. She was very specific about that," Fabes said. $6.6 million would go to McGill, while the remaining $3.4 would be given to three other Québec uni versities. Principal Johnston greeted the announcement with scepticism at last week's Senate meeting.
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for the phones. "At that time I just assumed that when people used the phones their response time would be im mediate," Morisset said. "O therwise, the phones shouldn't have been installed." Morisset dis cussed possible phone locations with Associate V ice-P rincipal Sam Kingdon. But she does not remember approvingany final list. When asked how the phone locations were decided Morisset explained, "it just kind of hap pened." D a le b o z ik claims the Envi ronmental and Physical Conditions Committee, a sub-division of the Senate Com mittee on Women, decided the phone locations. But the head of the environ mental committee, Rhonda Amsel denies such a decision was ever made by her group. There is no evidence in the minutes of the environmental committee that the phones' location was ever dis
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When asked how the phone locations were decided, Morisset explained, "it just kind of happened." only been advertised in SSMU's Student Handbook. The phones are located at the south entry doors of the Leacock Building, the west entry doors of the Strathcona Anatomy and Den tistry Building, the north entry doors of the McConnell Engineer ing Building, the north wall of the Education Building and the south entry of Stewart Biology (north block). □
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crease a number of "miscellaneous student charges" by an average of 50%. The revenue generated from charges for trancripts, late regis tration, I.D. card replacement and exam rereads will rise from about $1 mil lion to $1.5 million next year. "I don't think that some of the m easu res, such as raising parking fees, will do any harm," Stu dents' Society President Kate Morisset said. "But it's not necessary to raise student fees if we receive that $6 million." The university's plan to cut $6.6 million is part of a larger plan to eliminate McGill's deficit. Princi pal Johnston has also set up six other "workgroups" todecidehow
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"We'll believe it when the cheque is in the bank and cashed." In the meantime, the ad ministra tion will go ahead with plans to cut the $6.6 million from next year's budget with a hiring freeze and with salary increases below the cost of inflation. The university also plans to in
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to eliminate McGill's $77 million accumulated deficit over a period of 15 years. The work groups will sift through budget cutting proposals received from across the univer sity and come up with a prelimi nary report by mid-April. Senator deTakacsy expressed concerns about coordination among the various groups dealing with everything from academic programs to personal policies. 'The committees will look at separate subjects in isolation," deTakacsy said. 'The Vice-Princi pal Academic appears nowhere on these committees and he is proba bly the most knowledgeable on how to evaluate the various claims and trade-offs." But Vice-Principal Tavenas de fended the budget-cutting process. "McGill may come out of this whole exercise stronger and leaner and therefore better adapted to meet the needs of the next 10 to 15 years," Tavenas said. Q
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BY RICH LATOUR With Students' Society and sev eral faculty society elections only a week away, candidates are blam ing the electoral system for their inability to arouse voter interest. Students' Society elections two years ago yielded a 14% voter turnout. But last year, the figure was down to 10%. Current SSMU President Kate Morisset won only 870 votes out of a possible 22,000 eligible voters. "It's a serious problem that hin ders the democratic process," Morisset said. "It makes your job as a student representative more difficult, [but] nobody is prevent ing students from getting in volved." SSMU Presidential candidate Scott Mitic blames the current elec toral regulations for students' elec toral apathy. 'The student population is feel ing alienated by elections," Mitic said. "Campaign regulations make for a very impersonal campaign." Mitic believes the current elec toral policy undermines candi dates' ability to adequately pres ent themselves to voters because it prevents candidates from hanging up banners with their names on them and from advertising in any form of media. 'The ways in which I can make personal contact with people are very limited, [therefore] fewer
people are going to vote," said Mitic. Mitic says he cannot try any unique campaign tactics because of the stiff electoral policies. "If I haven't been able to touch the voter to make him or her vote for me then that's my fault and the fault of the system." According to Leigh Bulman, VP Internal candidate for the Educa tion Undergraduate Society, uni versity administration is equally apathetic. "We should make students ap preciate they are involved in the process, that if you don't like something there is something you can do about it," Bulman said. "[But] changes seem to come only two years [after they are first proposed]," Bulman said. "Most students only have three or four years at McGill- it's hard to see action coming out to help your self." Bulman suggested SSMU lobby professors to allow election an nouncements to be made in classes on polling days. Engineering Undergraduate Society President Bruce Tracy also believes the problem results from poor communication between can didates and voters. "A lot of students don't care because they don't know enough to make an informative choice," Tracy said.
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S S M U e x e c m e m b e r s e e k s A S U S p r e s id e n c y BY SUE POWER One of Students' Society's ex ecutives is running to save the Arts and Science Undergraduate Soci ety, an organisation plagued by al legations of financial and adminis trative mismanagement. Students' Society VP External Alex Usher is running with a slate of candidates advocating structural re-organisation of the Arts and Science Undergraduate Society. The ASUS is the largest faculty undergraduate society, represent ing over 8,000 students in approxi mately 30 faculties and managing a budget of over $100,000. But Usher's leadership abilities came under fire earlier this semes ter when two members of his Ex ternal Affairs Committee resigned. Ex-members Robert Fabes and Mary-Margaret Jones cited Usher's poor communication and organi sation abilities as reasons for their resignations. Usher defended criticisms of his leadership abilities. "It's been a controversial year up here 'cause we've been doing a lot," Usher said. Usherand other slate candidates
believe past ASUS problems stem from financial mismanagement and poor prioritization. They think the problems require a structural overhaul. "You can't attribute it to any particular person or body.," Usher said. "It's a structural problem which has in the past led to a weak or greedy administration." Members of the slate plan to divide the ASUS into two separate bodies, an idea proposed but later rejected by this year's body. "ASUS is just too big to be able to provide effective representation for students," Usher said. He noted the division would have to consider factors of equi table distribution of assets between the two bodies and an acceptable offer for departments which straddle the two faculties (for ex ample psychology). Usher also hopes to increase ASUS's role as an academic pres sure body. He plans to develop the peer counselling program and widen the distribution of the asso ciation's anti-calendar (a calendar containing student evaluations of courses).
Usher admits the slate's sights are set high and emphasizes the importance of the slate as a whole. "Thesearebiggoalsand weneed a good team," Usher said.
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defunct 'Coalition Against the Pri vatization of Education', were involved in a demonstration against tuition fee hikes last March. They occu pied Chagnon's offices in an effort to have the MNA set up a meet ing w ith Claude Ryan, then Minister of Education.
"The only frustrating thing is that w hen w e put together our defence, essentially w e were putting together a political forum. We really wanted to force the political side of this." - Susan Vivian received no fines or criminal rec ords. The students, members of the
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T a s k F o r c e o n P r io r it ie s r e c o m m e n d a t io n fo r s t u d e n t c o m p u t e r s r e c e iv e s c r it ic is m BY TED LA N G LA IS Dean of Engineering Pierre Be langer is asking McGill not to force students to buy their own comput ers. The recommendation that "each student purchase or acquire a computer suitable to her or his work" is part of a 70 page report presented by the Task Force on Priorities in January and currently being discussed in Senate. "It doesn't make sense for every student to buy one/' said Belanger. "[In some cases] it may be useful for students to own them but this doesn't follow for every faculty and not necessarily the ones you might think." Belanger cited Engineering as one faculty were it was particu larly unreasonable to ask students to buy a computer "suitable to their
academic needs". He explained that the required software for the Faculty's programs is highly specialized and designed for a narrow market which makes
software via modems. "Every access line is a phone line and costs $35 a month. (So) if you had 50 phone lines, that would be $1700 a month," Belanger said.
tee that interest free computer loans were available," student senator Sujit Choud ry said. Kate Morisset, the only student member of the Task Force, admit
"It m akes m ore sen se for the U n iversity to channel resources into im p rovin g facilities. The w h o le idea is to m ake sure that there are m ore com puters on cam pus and m ore places to u se them." - Science Senator Sujit C houdry it very expensive, "way beyond the students' ability to purchase it." Belanger also pointed out that it would be financially impractical to increase significantly the number of students using the Faculty's
But in addition to the expense of software, the mere purchase of a computer would be a formidible rise in the financial burden of many students. 'There seemed to be a miscon ception on the part of the commit
ted that this was an error on their behalf. But Morisset also seemed appre hensive about discussing specific issues in the Report. "[One] can't look at the Task Force report as isolating one chap
ter from the rest of it ... [We are] not setting out to ram anything down people's throats. On the whole, the package has to be looked at to gether." Choudny agreed the Report should be seen as a plan, but in sisted certain issues had to be dealt with specifically. "You can't expect that people aren't going to dicuss these issues...If the report is to mean anything, it's going to go beyond mere philosophy." Choud ry suggested there are others ways McGill could achieve the same goal. "It makes more sense for the University to channel resources into improving facilities," said Choudry. 'The whole idea is to make sure that there are more computers on campus and more places to use them." Q
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from each of the three undergradu ate years. Each team worked un Students from the school of der the supervision of a Montréal Architecture took time out from architect. their regular studies last week to Noted San Fransisco architect design emergency housing for Donald MacDonald headed the victims of environ panel that judged mental disasters. the groups' de “Disaster victim s The first annual signs. are generally in a "Charette" w as "There w ere held for 36 hours some extremely state of shock, and from last Monday creative entries. It the dislocation m orning until is always instruc doesn't help. W e Tuesday night. Stu tive to see how generally try to dents were asked to students, w ith design emergency make resettlements their fresher eyes, housing for victims approach a prob seem as close as of a disaster com lem," MacDonald possible to the parable to that of said. original. It helps Bhopal, where an In addition to entire town was the curing the architects, rep contaminated by resentatives from process/' the release of toxic Health and Wel - Dr. Carlos gas from a chemi fare Canada, Pub Patrickson cal plant. lic Works Canada, R eq u irem en ts and Emergency for the design included that the Preparedness Canada were on settlement for 5000 victims be ready hand to instruct students as to the within 30 days of the disaster, and sociological needs of disaster vic that it be liveable for a period of up tims. to three years. Dr. Carlos Patrickson, a director Students were grouped into of Public Works Canada, explained, teams of nine, with representatives "disaster victims are generally in a
state of shock, and the dislocation doesn't help. We generally try to make resettlements seem as close as possible to the original. It helps the curing process." McGill professor Avi Friedman said the School of Archi tecture wanted to ex plore more experimen tal forms of teaching, like the Charette. "It allowed students to go beyond simply architectural problems, to work with people from the industry, and to work with students at other levels," said Friedman, who coordi nated the project. Second year student Sandra Bekhor agreed. "I enjoyed working with students who were both older and younger since everyone had dif. ferent experiences to share. It was also interesting to work with an architect rather than for an archi tect," she said. The winning entry was a pro posal for converting unused rail way boxcars. According to team
member Patricia Sarazin-Sullivan, "the cars would be insulated and finished in a factory. Kitchen-bath modules would be inserted and would serve to divide the units. Then windows and doors would
to their original communities, the cars could be stored for use in a later disaster relief project," Sa razin-Sullivan said. While the majority of students enjoyed the experience, some
be cut in the appropriate places. Each car could house apartments for singles, couples, and/or fami lies of up to eight members." 'The finished cars could be shipped to the site either by rail, or by sea. Once victims were sent back
complained the university w as too cheap. "We w ere promised free pizza and ended up having pay; there were not enough donuts to go around; it was disgusting," said one first year student. Q
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tr ia l v e r d i c t A C Q U ITTA L FRO M PAGE 3 ficient. But w e must look into each case." "I do not believe the testimony has the quality of proof beyond a reasonable doubt." Members of McGill's women's groups were appalled at the ver dict. "In other words, he's sayin g 'no m eans no' on ly som e times," said C o a litio n Against Sex ual A ssault member Val erie Renwick who attended the trial.
nesses and the Crown's inability to provide conclusive evidence that consent had not been given as reasons for his verdict. "It comes down to her word against his. It's a typical example of a judge taking the man's side," Renwick said. "Obviously a woman wouldn't go to court if nothing had happened." As students demonstrated outside the frat house last Fri day, members held a party inside. Some demonstrators believed it was a party to cele brate the ac quittal. Several p a r ty -g o e r s con g reg a ted o u tsid e the house.
"It comes down to her word against his. Obviously a woman wouldn't go to court if nothing had happened." - Valerie Renwick
"In a rape case, the woman is the expert in tell ing when the boundary [between con sent and rape] has been crossed," Women's Union member Katar ina Soukup said. "In this case, the judge let Pa trick Booth off because of how he interpreted the situation. That's wrong, it must be the woman who's testimony is heard."
The judge also cited the drunk enness of the woman, the absence of ripped or soiled clothing and other signs of struggle, the defen dant's reputable character wit
"I'm totally against rape," said one unidentified member. "But you have to accept the fact that sometimes it happens." 'That's bullshit," Women's Union member Seema Goel said. "No one has to accept that.That's the whole point behind demon strations like this: women always retain the right to say no."
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When Chagnon left without an agreement havingbeen reached, the students decided to remain in the office. "We had gone in there trying to negotiate for a meeting ... [Chagnon] was an absolute pain all day," recalled Sue Vivian, one of the nine arrested. Despite their unconditional discharge, the students were dis appointed that the plea-bargain stopped them from using the court as a public forum for their views. 'The only frustrating thing is that when we put together our defence, essentially we were putting together a political fo rum," Vivian said. "We really wanted to force the political side of this. Maybe (accepting the plea-bargain) was a cop out." But if the students had not ac cepted the plea-bargain, the trial would have been postponed until next fall. Chagnon was sub poenaed as both witness for the defence and key witness for the crown but did not appear at the court session. A strange twist in Québec law exempts MNAs from legalities if they have to attend to parliamentary duties. "If we had not accepted the plea-bargain we would have had to wait until [fall]" Vivian said. The students worried that a delayed trial would not have generated enough public inter est to be worthwhile. Originally the students had planned to plead innocent on the grounds of "defensive ne cessity", or that all other ave nues of protest had been ex hausted. "We had exhausted all the normal channels. We were there as representatives of ANEEQ. We were sort of emissaries for Québec as a whole," Vivian said. Q
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f o c u s The GST N o b o d y lik e s it, it is an a d m in istra tiv e n ig h tm a re, and th e tim in g o f its im p le m e n ta tio n w a s le s s than superb. W e tak e a lo o k at h o w b u sin e ss is d e a lin g w ith th e ta x , h o w th e fig h t a g a in st ta x in g rea d in g m a teria ls h as g o n e , and a fe w relev a n t g litc h e s. W e a lso hear w h at so m e o f y o u h a v e to say.
G S T m a k e s r e a d in g a h ig h -c o s t a c t iv it y BY LISA H A R R IS O N Last Tuesday, the publishing and bookselling industries waited for the new federal budget with bated breath, hoping that the GST on books would be lifted. It was not. "Canada is the only civilized country in the world with a tax on books," said Edward Borins, ow ner of Edward's Book & Art in Toronto. Of all book buyers, university students, who must buy text books and other course supplies, are perhaps the hardest hit by taxation on printed materials, a captive audience of the GST. To help out students during the month of January, the McGill Bookstore of fered a seven percent discount on textbooks. "The GST still appeared on the bill, but the discount cancelled it out. It was done to give students a
break," said bookstore employee Danny Leduc. Unfortunately, this discount was offered only duringjanuary. From now on, students can expect to pay an extra 7% on their textbooks. Luckily, lobbyists convinced the
sales tax with the federal Goods and Services Tax," said Gerald Léfèbvre, president of the Associa tion for the Distribution of Books in the French Language. But the Québec government's change of heart was due to sensi tivity to the fragile North American French language p u b lish in g and bookselling indus try. The federal government seems to have had no such nationalistic con cerns. Léfèbvre d e scribed the differ ent forms of unsucessful pressure his organ ization , a coalition of various industry associa tions in Québec, pu t on the federal government: "We collected 350,000 signatures, senta 200 person delegation to meet with
L éfèb vre b e lie v e d that lo b b y ists in E n g lish C an ad a, n o ta b ly th e D o n 't Tax R ea d in g C o a litio n , w e r e en co u r a g e d b y th e fed eral g o v e r n m e n t to rem ain sile n t a b o u t th e GST. ÆkMr ....... Québec government not toimpose a provincial sales tax on books for at least another year. "A Québec coalition was created in September when the provincial government decided to align its
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March is the most trying one of the fiscal year for her industry. Store Manager of Anthony S., Gloria Cormier, painted a less than rosy picture of the economic situ ation. She noted that the GST came at a period marked by in creases in energy costs, and reces sion. "We can't af ford not to to pay for these taxes," she explained, w arning that consumer confi dence is already terribly low. The McGill Bookstore, which absorbed the 7% GST for the m onth of January, can no longer afford to pay the tax by itself. In a single month, more than $100,000in discounts were given away. General Manager George Franks revealed that this figure would triple if McGill again paid for the tax in September. O
T h e M cG ill B ook store, w h ic h a b so rb ed th e 7% GST for the m o n th o f January, can n o lo n g e r afford to p a y th e tax b y itself. In a s in g le m o n th , m o re th an $100,000 in d isc o u n ts w e r e g iv e n aw ay. what they buy," she said. This GST absorption at all BE LXD retailers across Quebec and Ontario began in January and will end on March 10. Ms.Goncalves explained that the time limit is important be cause the period from January to
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Many Canadian retailers have, in recent months, absorbed the costs of the Goods and Services Tax, instead of charging the tax to their custom ers. This technique is being used as a means of keeping old customers and luring new ones whoareotherwise reluctant to make purchases in this time of economic difficulty. Owner of Les Géants du Futon Georges Megela exp lain ed that paying the GST himself "attracts new customers and is profitable". Instead of hav ing a sale, which often includes rebates of 40% and more, he offered to pay the tax, a mere 7% cut to the item's mark-up value. This ploy is an increasingly effective means of generating busi ness. Jacqueline Goncalves, manager of
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to absorb the GST. "Despite all the publicity w e re ceived for [the offer] I did not get a call from the Canadian Booksellers Association, which is active in the Don't Tax Reading Coalition, even though the media represented us as protesting the tax on books." This lack of interest m ay have been due to the fact that coa lition lobbyists were hoping that the tax would be lifted in the new budget. In addition to Masse's promise, M ulroney was himself quotedas saying "taxing books is a problem" in a Vancouver speech last fall. Later however, Mulroney informed the Coalition that "he [couldn't] address the issue due to the Gulf crisis," reported Léfèbvre. Mixed signals like these seem to plague the government. Q
'T a x in g rea d in g is o b scen e. H o w can y o u tax ideas?" -E d w a rd B orins, B ook store O w n er
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According to George Franks, General Manager of the McGill Bookstore, "a monster has been created in terms of the collection of the (Goods and Services) tax". When foreign goods are purchased by businesses for importation into Canada, often the GST is applied directly to the foreign invoice. Once the goods arrive at the Canadian border, the tax is mistakenly applied a second time. Neither Revenue Canada nor Canada Customs could be reached for comment. The well-advertised GST hotline proved equally useless. The people answering the telephones were unable to answer any questions about the absorption of the tax by Canadian businesses or about how the GST is collected by the government.
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BY TIM STANLEY The Western Gazette If the University of Western On tario students' council doesn't return the $40,000 it wrongly collected from students, Revenue Canada says it will the force the corporation to remitthe money to the government. During budget preparations last spring, the Univer sity Students' Council decided to collect an addi tional $1.95 from each student in case activity fees were subjec t to the new federal goods and services tax. N o other stu dent council in On tario collected the tax. When it was discovered that stu dent fees were not applicable to the GST, the money was placed into the council's reserves to cover unex pected shortfalls. VP-FinanceTed Remillard referred to the extra money as a "windfall" for the council. But Jean-Pierre Roy, Media Rela
anybody7s eyes here.The money still belongs to the students, it's not going to anyone's coffers," Deighton said. Roy explained that because the USC files its tax return annually, it will have to remit the $40,000 in quarterly installments. D eigh ton ar gued that the USC should keep the $40,000 and that students should realize the money is being put to good use for stu dent services such as the Copy Centre. "In fact, I'm con fident that stu dents would be willing to contrib ute an extra $5-$l0 to the USC if they knew they would be getting their money's worth," he added. Students may be able to recover money paid to the USC under the premise of the tax. Roy said that any consumer who wrongfully pays the GST can fill out a General Rebate Application form and submitit to Revenue Canada for a rebate. □
At present, McGill University has the status of Educational Institution, and bears no liability for the Goods and Services Tax. If, however, McGill adopted the incorporated or privatized status of such universities as Concordia and the University of Western Ontario, the entire Students’ Society budget would be GST-able. The following is an edited yearly budget breakdown, including the GST which we (lucky us) don’t have to pay:
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"It w a s a p r u d e n t m o v e to co llect th e m o n e y a n d I'm g la d w e d id it. W e're n o t p u llin g th e w o o l o v e r a n y b o d y 's e y e s here. T he m o n e y still b e lo n g s to th e stu d e n ts, it's n o t g o in g to a n y o n e 's coffers." -U SC P resid en t, S te v e D e ig h to n
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"There was a lot of balking for the GST implementation by not only oppositional political parties ... but everywhere you went there were petitions to be signed. Nothing was heard, the Prime Minister said sev eral times that he would put the GST through no matter what. Hisactions make it clear that he will do what ever he wants as long as he has his four years." -Christopher Buckner Film and Communications
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Last Thursday, a panel spon sored by Amnesty International discussed a few "Reflections on Reality: Representations oflndiginous People by the Media", at Concordia University. Although chairperson Mich elle Gagne explained that the need for such a public forum came to light during the "urgent and humiliating" crisis at Oka last year, the hour long discus sion focused on relations between the media and Native people from North, Central, and South America. Responding to Gagne's ques tions concerning news coverage of Oka, Cree radio-journalist Ernie Webb spoke on behalf of Native Canadians. "Oka reinforced ideas as to w ho w e were," explained Webb/'It happened once before; Louis Riel tried it out West. It's a disgrace that world attention came so late". "Conflict is what we thrive on in our business", explained Peter Crutenbrauer of the Montreal Gazette. Crutenbrauer conceded, however, that the Gazette added a permanent Native Affairs jour nalist only after the events of last July. Quoting John Greerson of the National Film Board, documen tary film maker Peter Raymant also agreed that the role of re porters and editors alike is "to
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make peace as exciting as war". Added Webb wryly, "1learned nothing new about the Mohawk nation [during the Oka crisis] except that they do not negotiate after sundown - which is also false." Canada's reliance upon the United States for news coverage was also discussed at length. Three of the five international wire services are based in New York City. "There are only two Canadian journalists south of the Rio Grande," Raymant divulged. The panel u n an im ou sly agreed that the calibre of news coverage ultimately depends upon the agenda (what ends up on the cutting room floor), not upon the journalists. Raymant criticized the time constraints of "short and flashy" programming which hinder quality coverage. He noted that the CTV nightly news broadcast is only 19 min utes long. When asked what it would take to put indigenous Canadi ans back on the front page, Webb smiled and hinted, "James Bay is coming up !"
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e n te r ta in m e n t B o w s e r a n d B lu e a t t a c k o u r i n s e c u r i t i e s BY A N D R E W R O S E N M A N Wednesday, February 27th, saw the return of Bowser and Blue to McGill's Union building, where they were greeted by a congenial but sparse crowd in Gert's cafeteria/showbar. George "Bowser" and Rickie "Blue" will satirize anything, especially if they can touch a nerve or two. The two ac complished musicians and humor ists perform in the tradition of Tom Lehrer and Martin Mull. Their latest release, " W estm ou n t R h od esia n s" contains their first real hit, an underground answer to bill 101, "Anglo phone in Que bec . " Commercial su ccess has come slowly to the duo, whose '91 album marks their fourth release. Their self-titled "Bowserand Blue"(l985)and "IsIt In Yet?"(1987) garnered them enough popularity to try a live album in 1989. Since they estab lished their reputation as a live act, the performers hoped that "The Lovely And The Talented" would translate well to vinyl. "We recorded it at all the CEGEP's we could play in a. week" recalls George, "but we were plagued by technical problems." Murphy's law of production was apparently in full effect. The al bum contains flawless recordings
of mediocre shows but it misses the mark on those nights that went well. The album is still good for a few laughs, however, and anyone unfamiliar with their material might want to check it out. "It cost a fortune, but w e had fun." Having fun is the only thing these guys take seriously at all. By the end of Wednesday's show the hundred or so people in the audi ence were enthralled. "My philosophy of life is this," says Bowser, "I take off my pants,
Repeated references to buggery, feces and other unmentionables might overwhelm the faint of heart. One of the two women at the show stated what seemed to be the general concensus; "Personally I wasn't offended, but I could see how some people might be. Homo sexuals, feminists, 'French Cana dian as an oxymoron', you know." But that is precisely the point. Anybody who is too "P.C." to rec ognize the difference between humor and epithets is strongly ad v ised by Bowser and Blue to relax. "We don't do ethnic stuff at all" they say, with the ex ception of "The Japanese Song" ( A Series of Japa nese nonsequitors which have become incorpo rated into west ern language, sung to the tune of "Do You Want to Know A Secret?" and "It Aint Easy Being White", a bluesy la ment over the misfortunes of underpigment. They promote a brand of hu mour higher than say, "The Simpsons", because it relies mostly on metaphor and implied connota tions. What you find yourself laughing at is your own uneasi ness with the subject. Perhaps this is why they play so well to University crowds, where there is such mass insecurity it would be hard to bombcompletely. On Wednesday, for example, the
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show my bare ass and genitals, and make a complete asshole of myself in the first three minutes." Their absolute lack of inhibition is the key ingredient in getting the audi ence on their side, and rolling in the aisles. After one or two numbers, any one who is still uncomfortable with the subject matter, (from muff diving toSenatereform) will proba bly have left, leaving the rest of us to confront our own insecurities about these issues. Two women undergraduates described the show as "hysterical, but shocking."
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BY KIM FARLEY If you're interested in hearing some mean washboard, hit Gerts on March 13th. As the last of a line-up which has included the Leslie SpitTreeo, Jerry Jerry, the Bourbon Tabernacle Choir and Bowser and Blue, New York band Lucky Seven will be vibrating those giant metal doors with Zydeco, the Lousiana cajun music which gained notoriety through the film "The Big Easy." Lucky Seven is almost as inter esting to watch as they are to hear. With their ruffled tuxedo shirts, intimidating pompadours and washboards in hand, the group members seem to be prime candi dates for a cameo in the next David Lynch film.
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Gerts' manager Scott McKeown calls the band "stage oriented", explaining that the bar's latest strat egy to attract student customers is to book "name" bands who have an album and a following. "Our major problem is that we're not known for the bands we book," says M cK eow n. "But it would be nice to make Gert's into more than a Friday and Satur day night pick-up joint with loud music." Alsoslated to appear this month, on March 6th, is acclaimed Cana
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dian quartet, Three O'clock Train. Pinning a definitive description on lead singer Mack Mackenzie and his cohorts can be tricky. A fusion of country and punk, Three O' Clock Train has drawn compari
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T w o w o m e n u n d e r g r a d u a te s d escrib ed the s h o w as " h ys terical, b u t sh o ck in g ." R e p ea ted referen ces to b u g g e r y , feces an d oth er u n m e n tio n a b les m ig h t o v e r w h e lm th e fain t o f heart.
Bowser and Blue belt it out fo r Gert's patrons. biggest laughs the duo got came from disparaging other Universi ties or CEGEP's, especiallly those in Quebec. This says more about McGill than it ever could about Bowser and Blue, who had less friendly and unprintable things to say about institutions like The Daily and CKUT-FM. By listening and laughing with Bowser and Blue you have had a somewhat educational experience, according to George, "the kind an
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lineup which has been impressive both for the diversity and relative notoriety of its selections. The price is right, as well; tickets sell for as little as $4.25 if bought in advance.
publicity. However, the shifting tastes of a fickle student public can often be hard to gauge, a fact to which the organizers of the Gowan concert can readily attest.
Surpris ingly though, the efforts by McKeown to bring quality live music to Gert's, a popu lar if oft-ma ligned venue, have met with varyin g d e
Since student interest in Gert's musical profferings has been er ratic, McKeown is looking for feed back on this year's lineup, in order to decide whether to run the band series next year. He also wants to establish which are the acts he should bring in, so if there is a personal favourite you're hoping to see, from The Skydiggers to The Dream Warriors, get off your can and get down to Gert's on a Wednesday night. You can put in your vote for your favourite band, and probably catch some great live music while your at it. Q
"It w o u ld be nice to m ake Gert's into m ore than a Friday and Saturday n igh t pick-up joint w ith lo u d m usic." -Gert's M anger Scott M cK eow n sons to a diverse potpourri of groups, from CCR to The Clash.
artsy would get three credits for". They were a little concerned over the small turnout for the event, when compared to the packed auditoriums they have played here in the past. They are painfully aware however that this is McGill, where "West Indian Narcoleptics Awareness Week" might upstage something as mundane as com edy. All in all, it was a cozy affair where a selective few managed to have a really good time. Q
grees of success. Students turned out in full force for The Bourbon Tabernacle choir, but virtually ignored Andrew Cash, who received twice as much
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There I was. Pen in hand, poised to write this week's col umn on the travesty of the Academy Award nominations, when two things stopped me. The first thing was a recollec tion that the nominations dis appoint people every year and it was nothing new that they were a joke. The second thing was that I saw Dan Aykroyd's new movie Nothing But Trouble. This embarassment must be mentioned - in print. First off, a much needed ex planation. 1 had just eaten at Harvey's with a friend and we then passed the Palace 6 movie theatre. The new Aykroyd, Chevy Chase, John Candy and Demi Moore flic was starting in a few minutes. We had nothing pressing to do so we decided to act on a whim. The whim soon turned to whimper as we dumbfoundedly watched what we later agreed was worse than Casual Sex? and Flatliners put together. What hurt more, we had paid. Here is what Aykroyd has to say about it: "This story is an American gothic comedy based on the distinctive myth of the nightmare speed trap." Of the ten people I arbitrarily chose to ask in the student union building, none had ever heard of this "distinctive myth." 1 exaggerate. One person said that it sounded vaguely famil iar. The story centres around an 106 year old judge (played by none other than Aykroyd him self) who condemns undesir ables and bankers to death, no questions asked. This daringly funny premise takes place in a town called Valkenvania. Ex plains Aykroyd, "People will say 'Where did you come up with such a place? It's weird, crazy, bizarre.'" Try worthless,
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corny, boring. What's worse, I paid. The only thing I find re motely weird, crazy or bizarre is that these guys are extremely talented and there was a time when they were genuinely funny. Aykroyd, Chase and Candy have done some absolutely hilarious things in the past. What happened?
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I wanted to show people that there's options awaiting more than radio and TV out there. These andtheJustfor graduates have Laughs festival longbecome stale careers represent a very w ide field," win gather in and tired, stephasaid Wachman. nieWachman,spe- ________________________________________________________________ cial-events organizerfor Department those who have decided not to SEE M E D IA DAY... of English Students Society and the dedicate their lives to balancing coordinator of the McGill Media books or building bridges. PAGE 18
In actuality, there is very little to laugh at on the screen nowadays. Perhaps at, but not with. Maybe if s me, but I thought LA Story was abysmal. It is simply failed social commentary that falls victim to what it attempts to parody. Bottom line: not funny. Don't even get me started on He Said, She Said, Scenes From A Mall or Green Card. All fairly pathetic. All in all, it is not enough to say that Nothing But Trouble is the worst movie I have ever seen. Suffice it to say, a source over at MGM studios has confided in me that the release date of their upcoming movie starring John Candy has been pushed back a couple of months mainly because of Candy's affiliation with Nothing But Trouble. Is there no justice? Nothing But Trouble was originally titled Valkenvania. It does not surprise me at all that the studio execs opted for a more appropriate title. What is infinitely more nightmarish is that I paid.
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Recently, Tiffany Gandalfo of Hartford, Conneticut, in defend ing hearthrob rapper Vanilla Ice, claimed that Vanilla has "been treated unfairly by the press in som e ways." Some m ight accuse this very section of contributing to this subversive drive to dis credit rap's biggest and whitest wunderkind. Therefore, in an effort tobalance the scales of justice, w e, the Entertainment staff of the Tribune, are reprinting ten of the "75 Reason to Love Vanila Ice" (along with selected editorial comments), which appeared re cently in a special Vanilla Ice feature issue of Starline magazine. We w ould like to join Starlinein issuing the follow ing challenge to Ice fans everywhere: "We can think of 75 reasons to love Vanilla Ice — how many can you think of?!" 1 . ) S e e in g h i s v id e o s o n M T V s t i l l e x c ite s h i m . 2 . ) H is b o d y g u a r d s a r e n a m e d B ig E a n d C h i l l y . 3 . ) H e p r id e s h i m s e l f o n b e in g " 100 p e r c e n t o r i g i n a l . " 4 . ) T h e b a s s l i n e o f " I c e Ic e B a b y " is f r o m t h e D a v id B o w ie / Q ueen h it "U n d e r P re s s u re ". 5 . ) H e b e lie v e s t h a t " n o m u s ic w i l l e v e r b e w o r s e t h a n d is c o " ! 6 . ) " P la y t h a t F u n k y M u s ic " w a s o r i g i n a l l y a d is c o h i t f o r W ild C h e r r y i n t h e m id - 7 0 's. 7 . ) T o t h e E x t r e m e w a s r e le a s e d o n S e p te m b e r 18, 1 9 9 0 . 8 . ) H e c u ts h i s o w n h a i r . 9 . ) H is h a i r s t y l e is c a lle d a " f a d e . " 1 0 . ) H is f a v o u r i t e c o lo u r is w h it e . V a n il l a , w e lo v e y o u , a n d w e a p o lo g iz e . N o te : is s u e s o f S tar l i n e a r e n o w o n s a le a t S a d ie s, a n d f i n e l i t e r a r y o u t le t s a c r o s s t h e g r e a t e r M o n t r é a l a r e a .
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D y n a m i c D u o le a d s M c G i l l B a d m in t o n t e a m BY R O M A N COOPER The McGill badminton team improved dramatically this season. They not only placed second over all, but they handed first-place Laval its first ever tournament loss. The team was greatly helped by the improved play of the men who captured the men's doubles title in the final tournament of the season. However, the team's overall suc cess was especially a tribute to the spectacular play of the womens' doubles pair of Robbyn Hermitage and Kim Barnes. They won all thirtysix of their matches, and were a major positive influence on the team as a whole in terms of both their dedication and experience. Hermitage and Barnes have strikingly different badminton backgrounds. Whereas Hermitage has been playing fairly regularly since she was eight years old at school and at various clubs in her hometown of Kitchener, Ontario, Barnes played only once a week in high school before starting up agai n
in university. Hermitage is ranked nationally in both womens' and mixed doubles and helped Quebec to the gold in badminton with her two silver medals at the Canada W inter G am es, held in Charlottetown,PEI two weeksago. Barnes, meanwhile, plays solely on the university circuit. However, this discrepancy in experience had a positive influence on their play. "Knowing that Robbyn is ranked nationally helped me play better as itbroughtout the best in me," noted Barnes. "My role was to keep the bird in play and the rallies going until Robbyn would eventually put away the point," she added. Their remarkable success was also largely due to their ability to communicate with each other both on and off the court. "Because we get along so well together off the court, it made it so much easier to play together on the court," explained Hermitage. "Our ability tocommunicateonthecourt allowed us to regroup and over
come bad shots in a hurry," added Barnes. Along with their remarkable won-loss record, both players brought with them other assets to the team. Coach Frank McCarthy stressed that the strong assets of both players differed in light of their different badminton histories. He noted that Barnes' dedication to the sport and herincredible hard work rubbed off on the other play ers and made up for her shortcom ings experience wise. On the other hand, Hermitage's tournament experience and her raw natural abilities contributed vastly to the team. "She brought others to her level, aseveryone's playrose," explained McCarthy. Although being proud of their accomplishments in doubles, both players, as well as coach McCarthy, were delighted more with the overall success of the team. The team's stunning win over Laval in the season's final tournament not only enabled them to climb two
The Redmen hockey team was eliminated from the OUAA play offs by their perennial nemesis the Trois Rivières Patriotes, 6-4 before 615 fans Sunday night at the McConnell Winter Arena. The Redmen, who dropped the series opener 9-3 inTrois Rivières, were a half step behind the Patriotes again last night. While the effort of all McGill players was apparent the Patriotes just seemed to have too much in the end. Too much talent. There just were not enough Redmen able to keep up with the high- flying Patriotes for three full periods. While the Redmen domi nated the opening period, their ef fort was unsustained for the final two. " There's no shame in losing to them. They're a great team," stated graduating player Bryan Larkin. Larkin, who seemed never to leave the ice, played a strong game for the Redmen. It was his effort along with Martin Raymond, Marc Lajeunesse and Paul Grech that kept the Redmen close. After leading 2-1 after the first period the Patriotes took the lead 4-2 after two periods. But the Redmen character came through as they battled to tie the game 4-4 on blasts from Dan Fowler and Raymond. Both shots froze Patriote's goalie Denis Desbiens. Butbefore the crowd had time to take their seats from Raymond's tying goal, the Patriotes replied with one of their own to take the lead for good. While this goal seemed to take some wind out of the Redmen sails the ultimate punch in the stomach was yet to come. With less than four minutes left in thegameMcGillgoaltender Scott Taylor moved out to play a puck
notches in the overall standings, but also produced two significant results. Firstly, the spirit and total effort by all members of the team stressed the importance of the team compo nent to an apparently individual sport. Secondly, the victory over Laval, which had previously never lost a league tournament, is hoped in the
dumped in on net by the Patriotes. The puck went in! It what? It went in the net. It was 6-4 . Sayonara. "IPs unfortunate that Scotty may become the scapegoat. It seems the nature of the beast if you play goal." explained Redmen coach Jean Pronovost, who would not blame Taylor. Indeed, it was unfortunate, because Taylor had brought the crowd to its feet, just prior to Ray mond's tying goal with three mi raculous saves in a row. The Redmen must be com mended for not quitting. Both Pa trice Tremblay and Raymond had excellent scoring chances in the final threee minutes. "We didn't give up, w e still had a few chances at the end." said Marc Lajeunesse. "We played well as a team, we don't have their talent but we were close," offered dejected Martin Raymond. The game typified the kind of rollercoaster year the Redmen endured. Just as they seemed to be putting a string of wins together they would suffer a tough loss, such as the overtime loss to Con cordia. And just as McGill was gettingback into the game last night they were snubbed by back to back Patriote missiles. In retrospect the Redmen have fulfilled the destiny predicted of them months ago in this space They finished in the middle of the pack in the regular season standings and lost to Trois Rivières in the play offs. From the Blueline- Redmen graduating players who will not be returning to the team next year include: Paul Grech, Marc Lajeunesse, Bryan Larkinand Paul Pulver. Grech and Pulver and Lajeunesse played four years at McGill while Larkin played three. □
eyes of Kim Barnes "to get people out to see the team play in the near future in order to witness how competitive and tough the sport really is." "As a result, badminton would no longer be regarded as an activ ity, but as a highly competitive sport," emphasized Hermitage. □
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Tribune writer Paul Coleman offers a rebuttal to last week's Sidelines col umn by Sports Editor James Stewart. BY PA U L C O LEM A N There is a toilet displayed at the National Art Gallery in Ottawa. And a shovel. The acclaimed "Voice of Fire' went for 1.8 million but appears to me as only a red stripe on a blue back ground. I struggled with the concept untill it became evi dent that art is the product o f an artist...for art's sake. Framed paint ings of bowls of fruit have no more a claim to arthood than do the shovel and the toilet. James Stewart's Sidelines column last week brought
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brated, but ha ve no beari ng on com parative worth. Jousting anyone? Thanks - but I'd rather take a stab at ultimate frisbee orsailboarding. Sorry James, but all sports are at times victim to the subjectivity of judges. A panel of experts govern gymnastics and figure skating. A single referee presides over a hockey game. It seems to me that should any bias go unchecked, it would be in an in stance such as this. Furthermore, Side lines asserted that a sport's representa tion at the Olympics contributes to its le gitim acy. A ppar ently, the Interna tional Olympic Com mittee is suited to m aking objective decisions while al pine aerials judges are not. L a s t
Last w e e k 's Sidelines u n d e r m in e d itself. B y m id article o n e w o n d e r e d w h a t a c tu a lly w a s b e in g d e fin e d - a le g itim a te sp ort, a tru e g a m e, or just a h a n d fu l o f S tew art's fa v o u rites.
this ep iso d e to mind for two reasons. In 'Legitmacy', Stewart failed to look beyond the obvious. It also lent itself to toilets and shovels. Sport is an abstraction, everchanging. Wayne Gretzky rewrote the book on hockey, Kurt Brown ing added a chapter to figure skat ing with a quadruple axle in com petition. Sport is the product of a sportsperson...for sport's sake. James Stewart appears as equipped to evaluate the legitimacy of sport as I am to critique art. Heading his list of meaningful characteristics of sport was the need for a definitive time frame. Then a clear objective, followed by immense physical exertion and ability.
game series recognized by the CIAU. (I just would like credits at school for it.) Granted, sport is a physical endeavour. Breaking a sweat isn't too much to ask. Darts and bil liards, I'm afraid, constitute par lour games. The 'truest of sports', maintains Stewart, have been undertaken for centuries. Truest? Most legitimate? I have always adhered to absolute views of these characteristics. Either something is legitimate or it is not. What started as a foolishly head strong gradation of sports had es calated into the single-handed de marcation of elusive definitions. As far as the heritage of sport goes, longevity and tradition are cele
week'sSidelines undermined itself. By mid article one wondered what actually was being defined - a le gitimate sport, a true game, or just a handful of Stewart's favourites. There was no mention made of the competitive spirit, determination to achieve perfection, or the excite ment of physical excellence at all levels of exertion. Like the artistic licence of the artist, sport is the outcome of a common process. All that remains at issue is loss of legitmacy - when competitiveness hinges on illegal doping procedures, when success depends on the exploitation of an unfair advantage (see duck hunt ing), and when determination and competition lose ground to com mercialism and hostility. Q
N o n - sta rte r The plight in which McGill Redmen basketball player Paul Brousseau found himself about 10 days ago fits nicely into a column called Sidelines because that's where he found himself at the beginning of his last ca reer game with McGill. Brousseau was a fifth-year man with the Redmen this season and in his final career game with McGill against Queen's, when Coach Ken Shildroth chose not to start his team's most valuable player. It's not that Coach Shildroth had a bone to pick with Brousseau or anything like that. It's just that the coach thought he was making a fair decision. Brousseau had just returned to action in a Friday game against Concordia after sitting out a couple of weeks due to a wrist injury. Because of that time off, Coach Shil droth felt he shouldn't start a player who had missed two weeks of action. Unfortunately, for Brousseau it was the wrong decision. "He didn't start because he hadn't been at practice," said Schildroth as we took in the McGill-UQTR hockey game Sunday evening. "I played him the whole game except for the first five minutes. I think if s totally fair what happened." Brousseau did play the rest of the game and went on to score 20 points in another los ing cause for the Redmen. But Brousseau wanted to start in his final game at McGill. It meant a lot to him. "I would have been happier to start and play for 10 minutes and sit for the rest," explained Brousseau. "Playing five years I sort of expected it. I had gone to both practices before the weekend games. I knew I wasn't going to start on Friday [against Concordia] but the fact that I played five years and the game [against Queen's on Sunday] didn't mean any-
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thing... it would have been a nice gesture. I guess I was dis appointed." "I think it's the tribute at the end of the game Paul received that's more important," said Coach Shildroth. I sensed that perhaps Coach Shildroth had some second thoughts regarding that last game of Paul Brousseau's. There's no doubt he should have been given the honour of starting in his last game for a team to which he gave five years of excellent basketball. Any athlete will tell you how important starting is to them. The fact it was Brousseau's last game made it all the more significant for him. For Brousseau, it would have been one last moment to remember in a season that was worthy of forgetting. He mentioned to me how he had always looked forward to his last game with a university team since he was young. Futhermore, the Redmen had been eliminated from the play-offs long ago, rendering the game against Queen's a match for the players' pride. If Brousseau was going to play so much during the game anyway, why not start him? Fifth-year players are impor tant to McGill. No one will deny this fact. Fifth-year players on McGill's men's hockey team and football team are presented with game jerseys at the end of their five year careers to recognize their achievements. Being on the court for the tip-off would have been the proper gesture to a fine McGill athlete.
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Martlet track team wins provincials The McGill Martlet track team won the QSSF Indoor Track Cham pionships held in Sherbrooke last weekend. Leading the way for Coach Barrett's troops was Catherine Rendall-Green who won three gold medals in the 1500m, 1000m and 800m races. Leslie Estwick set a Quebec record in the 60m hurdles with a time of 8.55 seconds. Other gold medals came courtesy of Derek Covington in the 60m hurdles, the men's 400m relay team of Danny Painter, Charles Thomas, Co vington and Philippe Giguère the women's 800m relay team of Melanie Jamieson, Katheryn Walker, Catherine McDonald and Cath erine Rendall-Green. Kristen Fry won a gold in the shot put. The men's team placed third behind Sherbrooke and Laval.
BY JAM ES STEW ART The McGill swim team com pleted their 1990-91 swim cam paign at the national champion ships in Halifax last week with a generally positive performance. Facingthemostcompetitive field ever, the women's team placed 11th and the men's team finished in 12th spot. "We did well considering who w e had to swim against," said McGill coach Francois Laurin. Our swimmers were not of the same calibre as some of the other swim mers. All the people who did get a medal wereon the national team." McGill was shut out of the med als but was led by two top ten performances from Martlet Tracy Darling. Darling, w hoisalso nomi nated for the McGill Tribune Fe male Athlete of the Year Award, clocked in two personal bests; one in the 100m butterfly where she placed 7th and the other in the 200m butterfly where she placed 6th in the nation. Darling was the only athlete to qualify for the final heat from McGill but four swimmers did participate in the consolation heat. Chrissy Echols placed 16th in both the 100m and 200m breaststroke.Teammate Jennifer Lailey finished 11th in the 100m backstroke and 15th in the 200m backstroke. JanetMcKetsy was 16th also in the 200m backstroke. The Redmen did not fare as well, placing only two swimmers in the top 16. Jason Payne left the pool with a 14th place finish in the 100m backstroke and Terry Dimock was 14th in the 200m butterfly. The attitude of the rebuilding club returning from Halifax was positive, stressed Laurin. "They didn't come back with a negative attitude like last year," he said from his Currie Gym office. "Because we lost so many people [from last year's team, it was hard to stay at the top for a long time but the future looks quite good for us. To stay at the bottom... 1 don't like that." The CIAU Championships were won by Calgary in the men's divi-
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Cape Breton sinks football team The University of Cape Breton Capers canned their football pro gramme after only one season of play. An overwhelming majority of the school's Board of Governors agreed to axe the programme for financial reasons. Last season, the Capers, under head coach George Brancato of CFL fame won one game and lost seven.
Concordia iced from hockey play-offs There is no more university hockey in Montréal. The Concordia Stingers met the ugly eyes of defeat last Sunday by virtue of a 7-6 overtime loss to Toronto at the Loyola Ice Palace. The Varsity Blues won two games in overtime against the Stingers the other being a 21 victory in Toronto. Toronto will now meet the powerful UQTR Patriotes in a best of three series for the OUAA East Division title.
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Tracy Darling led the McGill team with a 6th and 7th place finish. sion and Toronto on the women's side. The highest McGill has ever placed was 3rd in 1989. Three-quarters of the McGill squad recorded personal bests in Halifax and Laurin is looking for ward to a strong year of recruiting to bolster his up and coming squad. □
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The Redmen football team handed out some of its hardware at the clubs 7th annual football banquet held at the Montreal Badminton and Squash Club. Jeff Challice was awarded the Touchdown Trophy as the team's most valuable lineman. Franz Wellington was named the Redmen's best defensive player while Mike Zinga was rewarded for his perseverance as the most dedicated player. Rookie of the year honours went to Matthiew Quiviger, J.P. Veri was named the most improved player and Courtenay Shrimpton won the Northern Tele com Charlie Baillie Trophy as best team player and Richard Babin was named the team's most sportsmanlike player.
Larkin named to All- Star team McGill Redmen defenceman Bryan Larkin was named to the OUAA East All-Star team this season. His teammates Patrice Trem blay and Martin Raymond were named to the second All-Star team. Larkin is also a nominee for the McGill Tribune Male Athlete of the Year.
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"They've got the experience on the court. They've played together for a long time and it showed." All-Canadian forward Cynthia Johnston led the Lady Gaiters with 19 points and teammate Melanie MacPhee bagged 22. McGill's offence was stifled by Bishop's. Jane Ross, the Martlets' top scorer, had only 11 points. Other contributions came from Debby Morse, Tracey Hayman, and Tina Fasone, who each had eight. In spite of the loss, Coach Macpherson felt the season was satisfactory on the whole. "Had we lost the semi-final [against Laval] the whole season would havebeenlostbut we played well against Laval." "We knew we hadn't beaten them at Bishop's this season," Macpher
The McGill Martlet basketball team ended their season in a queue de poisson going down to defeat at the hands of the Bishop's Lady Gaitor's in the Quebec Championship last Saturday in Lennoxville. The Martlets had advanced to the provincial finals by virtue of their 67-63 victory over the Laval Rouge et Or i n Montréal. The team was led by a 23 point performance from Tina Fasone who was play ing in her last game at the Currie Gym. On Saturday in Lennoxville, it was a different story as McGill was dumped 64-49. "They certainly played us very, very, well," admitted Martlet as sistant coach Linda Macpherson.
son said of the encounter with the division's number one team, "and that it was going to be tough." Bishop's now will go on to the CIAU tournament in Quebec City this weekend for the second straight year. Tina Fasone, who finished her career with 2120 points, was named a First Team All-Star while team mates Debby Morse and Tracey Hayman were named to the sec ond team. Head coach Chris Hunter was named the QUBL Coach of the Year. The Martlets have three gradu ating players on this year's squad. They are Tina Fasone, who this year completed a fantastic five year career, Beth Armstrong who was integral to the backcourt success of the team, and Caroline Senay. Q
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to elect three representatives to Students' Council Thursday, March 21,1991 - 5:15 p.m. University Centre, Room B09/B10 The organizations listed below must register the name, address and phone number of their delegate to this election meeting by completing the official delegate registration form at the Students' Society General Office, 3480 McTavish Street, Room 105, NO LATER THAN 4:00 P.M., TUESDAY, MARCH 19,1991. Completed forms must be signed by the president or chief officer of each respective organization and should be handed in to Leslie Copeland, Operations Secretary at the Students' Society General Office by the deadline noted above.
Tracey Hayman attempts a lay-up in a game against Laval.
ORGANIZATIONS ELIGIBLE TO SEND DELEGATES 1. AIESEC McGill 2. Amnesty International 2. Arab Students' Society 4. Armenian Students' Assn 5. Assn, for Baha'i Studies 6. Black Students' Network 7. Blood Drive 8. Caribbean Students' Society 9. Chess Association 10. Chinese Christian Fellowship 11 .Chinese Students' Society 12. Choral Society 13. Christian Fellowship 14. Croquet & Cribbage Club 15. Debating Union 16. Development & Peace McGill 17. Entrepreneur's Club 18. Film Society 19. Folk Music Society 20. Foster Parents Association 21 .Gamers Guild 22. Gays & Lesbians of McGill 23. Go Club 24. Hellenic Association 25. Hillel Students' Society 26. Hindu Religion Association
51 .PC McGill 27. India Canada Students' Assn. 52. Personal Finance Club 28.llnternational Relations Society 53. Photographic Society 29. Iranian Students' Association 54. Players' Theatre 30. Irish Society 55. Programming Network 31 .Islamic Culture Network 56. Project Ploughshares 32. Islamic Society 57. Red Herring 33.lsmailia Students' Association 58.Save the Children 34. James McGill Productions 35. Korean Students’ Association 59.Savoy Society 60.Scandinavian Club 36. Latin American Awareness Group 37. Lebanese Students' Society 61 .Second Hand Textbook Sale 62.South-East Asian Students' Assn. 38. Liberal McGill 39. Mature Students' Association 63,Spanish & Latin American 40. McGill tor the Ethical Treatment Students' Assn. 64.Student Handbook of Animals 65.Students for Global Responsibility 41. McGill Quebec 66. Uhuru Na Ufahamu 42. McGill Student Pugwash United Work) Colleges Society 43. McGill Students' Committee for 67. 68. Vietnamese Students' Assn. Native Peoples 69. Volunteer Bureau 44. McGill Tribune 70. Women's Union 45. Muticultural Society 71 .WUSC McGill 46. NDP McGill 72.Youth Parliament 47. Newman Students' Society 48.0k) McGill 49. Pakistan Students' Association 50. Palestine Solidarity Committee
NOTES: 1. Quorum for this meeting is fifty percent (50%) of the total number of organizations registered by 4:00 p.m., Tuesday, March 13th, 1990. 2. Organizations eligible are only those which are DIRECTLY recognized by the McGill Students' Council and fall under the headings of Functional Groups, Activities and Interest Groups. 3. Organizations which are recognized by one of the fourteen (14) faculty and school societies or through the Students' Athletics Council are NOT eligible to be represented. 4. The Inter-ResidenceCouncil has itsown representative toStudents' Council and is, therefore, NOTeligibletosend a delegate tothis meeting. 5. All delegates must have been active members of their respective clubs for at least two months prior to the meeting. 6. All delegates must be members of the McGill Students' Society (i.e., any McGill student except those registered in Continuing Education). 7. Adelegate who is not the president or chief officer of a particular group must be approved as the official delegate by the organization he or she is representing. 8. Only registered delegates may be nominated as club representatives. 9. Only registered delegates may vote for club representatives. 10. Organizations NOTlisted above which AREeligible tosend a delegate should contact the ProgramCo-Ordinator inthe Students' Society General Office as soon as possible. 11. Organizations not registered by the deadline will NOT be permitted to take part in the meeting.
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