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Martlets clean house Tournament MVP Vicki Tessier led McGill to second straight Martlet Invitational Basketball Tournament title last weekend at McGill's Currie Gym. See page 17

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Inside This W e ek News: Workgroup established to exam­ ine alleged inequities at the Department of Athletics.

See page 3 Op/Ed: Students need to start paying for the education McGill gives them.

See editorial, page 6 Features: The T rib u n e sits down with Bernard Shapiro, McGill's next princi­ pal, and poses tough questions about his attitudes and plans for McGill's future.

See page 10 Entertainment: Anthony Hopkins kicks butt in Sha dow la nds, but T ru d e a u M e m o irs is stale.

See page 13 Sports: Back from Barbados: swimmers hope tan lines will mean first at finish lines.

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LBGM has a weekly Bi-group discussion. 5:30 PM, Eaton Bldg. 5th floor. Friendly atmosphere, all wel­ come.

The L a tin A m e ric a n A w areness G roup is holding a general meeting today at 5 PM in Shatner B04.

SACOM offers 2 facilitated mutual aid support groups: “Women Survivors of Domestic Violence* and “Men Survivors of Sexual Abuse.”

6:30-8:30 PM, private rooms at McGill. Caff 398-2700.

The M cGill Co-ed M edical F ra te rn ity is holding its first gen­ eral meeting of the new year at 6:30 PM in Shatner 425. All students welcome.

Thursday. January 13

A m n esty In te rn a tio n a l M cGill meets every Tuesday at 6:30 PM in Shatner 435. Everyone wel­ come. For info come to Shatner 410 or call 398-1209.

W elcom e back to all W alksafe volunteers! A mandatory general meeting and information session will be held for all new and returning volunteers at 7 PM in Leacock 132.

The Sexual A ssault C entre o f M cG ill (SACO M ) offers a “Women Survivors of Sexual Abuse” facilitated mutual aid support group.

7-9 PM, private room at McGill. Call 398-2700.

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SSMU C ouncil M eeting to­ day at 6 PM in Shatner 302.

The B ioch em istry D epart­ m en t presents a seminar by Dr. Michael Green of the U.-Mass. Medi­ cal Center. 11:30 AM, Room 903, McIntyre Medical Bldg.

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The M cG ill Law / InterA m icus H um an Rights Fo­ ru m will be inaugurated this semes­ ter by the Honourable Peter Cory of the Supreme Court of Canada, speak­ ing on “Freedom of Expression.” 1 PM, Moot Court Room, 3644 Peel.

The G lobal C oop eration N etw ork o f QPIRG has invited Pina Gianneschi to speak on Oxfam’s Bridgehead project. 6 PM in the Alley.

The F a c u lty o f M u sic presents a graduation recital by Nigel Smith, baritone. 8 PM, Pollack Hall.

Free. For more info call 398-4547/ 8101.

The McGill Co-ed M edical F ratern ity is holding general meet­ ings today at 1 and 2:30 PM in Shatner 425. All students welcome.

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6:30-8:30 PM, private room at McGill.

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The McGill Co-ed M edical F ratern ity is holding its annual General Assembly at 7 PM in Leacock 132. All members should attend; all other students are welcome.

FliJ^Yi tan n ary 14 The Y ellow D oor Coffee H ouse presents live music by Keith Donahue (folk music) with Don Lebrun, followed by an open stage. $2.00. 8 PM, Yellow Door, 3625 Aylmer. For more info call 398-6243.

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For more info call 398-4547/8101.

LBGM offers 2 discussion groups: a Coming Out group at 5:30 PM, and a General Discussion group at 7 PM. Both are in the basement of the United Theological College, 3521 University. Friendly atmosphere, all welcome.

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The O sier M ed ical Aid Fou n d ation is sponsoring a benefit party towards medical aid to BosniaHerzegovina. Quiet pub at 7:30 PM, dancing at 9 PM. Tickets $6 in ad­ vance, donations at the door.

Thomson House, 3650 McTavish.

For info call 948-3635 or 672-4319-

M cGill Students fo r Lit­ e ra cy is holding a general meeting for all members at 7 PM in Leacock 232. Please attend to hear important announcements for the new year.

The School of Social Work’s C entre fo r Applied Fam ily Stud­ ies presents Liesel Urtnowski and Inuit community workers speaking on “Social Service Challenge in Nunavik.* 12:30-2:30 PM, Wendy Patrick Room, Wilson Hall, 3506 University. For more info call 3 9 8 5286.

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M cG ill N ig h tlin e is an anonymous, non-judgmental tel­ ephone listening, information, and referral service open from 6 PM-3 AM. Call us at 398-6246!

W alksafe Foot Patrol hours: Sun.-Thurs. 6:30 PM-12:30 AM; Fri.Sat. 6:30 PM-2:30 AM. Call us! We’ll walk you anywhere you want to go.

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Work group to study gender equity in Athletics B Y C HARLES THOMAS A lthough intercollegiate sports teams are now resuming their com petitive seasons, uni­ versity sports m ay not fight all its battles on the playing field in 1994. A motion passed by the Advisory Committee on W om ­ e n ’s Student Issues (a su b com m itee o f the Senate Commit­ tee for the Co-ordination o f Stu­ dents’ Services (CCSS)) on D e­ cem ber 7 will establish a work group to study allegations of gender inequities at the Depart­ m ent o f Athletics. The proposal w as ap p roved alm ost unani­ mously, with D irector o f Athlet­ ics Robert Dubeau offering the only abstention.

Students’ Society (SSMU) VP U n iv e rsity A ffairs R uth Promislow initiated the motion after discussions with som e fe­ male athletes on intercollegiate team s at McGill.

“I had spoken to a couple o f w om en in athletics w ho had expressed concerns about the

situation,” said Promislow. “Af­ ter that I started to ask questions informally [of] other athletes and other problems started to com e out.”

She did not reveal the names o f the athletes w hom she had contacted, but al­ luded that the issues raised w ere valid enough to w ar­ rant a review.

SSMU President Mark Luz agreed with Promislow.

“I’m w orking on fi­ nances at CCSS and in par­ ticular at Athletics and there is som e indication o f dis­ crepancy betw een budgets for m e n ’s an d w o m e n ’s teams at Athletics,” stated Luz. “I don’t know w hat the reasons are for this— that’s the reason for the review: to find out w hether w om en are considered equitably in their treatm ent from the university.”

During debate on the pro­ posal a fe/nale student-athlete on the advisory com m ittee ar­ gued that the working grou p ’s mandate should not b e co m e too

broad, but Promislow insists that the review should exam ine as

"There is some indication of discrepancy between budgets for men's and women's teams at Athletics."

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many issues as possible.

“I think it should b e a broad m andate for the com m ittee to guarantee that w e don ’t over­ lo o k a n y t h in g ,” r e m a rk e d Promislow.

S occer team captain and McGill In terco lleg iate Sports Council (MISC) co-chair Gayle Noble suggested that a review from outside the Department of

Athletics m ay have som e merit, but that ultim ately, Athletics should decide its ow n des­ tiny.

“I can see the value of having it done b y som eone outside Athletics,” she com ­ mented. “W hen something is dealt with internally, there is always a ch an ce of things getting overlooked.”

“I don ’t think an exter­ nal com m ittee can com e in and reclassify teams for the department. If that’s being addressed, then it’s not g o ­ ing to w ork,” she added.

Noble asserted that if any problems existed in pre­ vious years, they have b een addressed or are in the process o f being rectified.

“I think in the past, there m ay have been funding inequi­ ties, but it’s getting better,” she said. “Since they instituted the [1991 reclassification o f teams], if there are still inequities, its b e­ tw een sports, not betw een m en’s and w om en ’s teams [within a sport].”

Promislow explained that going through the external re­ view p rocess m ay b e just as significant as the findings it will generate.

“The importance is to show that review s do take place and that attention is directed tow ard the cu rren t environ m en t for w om en at Athletics,” she co m ­ m ented.

The group’s m andate as well as its com position has yet to b e determined, partly as a result o f Promislow’s suggestion that people from outside the advi­ sory com m ittee b e allowed to participate in the working group.

Advisory committee Chair Judy Stymest was unsure as to whether such a proposal required the permission o f CCSS. S ty m e st c o u ld n o t b e reached for com m ent.

If no permission is needed, Promislow hopes to have the working group ready within the next two weeks. If permission is required, the review m ay have to wait until the n ext CCSS meeting on February 17th.

P r o v i n c i a l g o v e r n m e n t th w a r ts M cG ill p r o j e c t i o n s

BY RAM R A N D H A W A Th e provin cial g o v ern ­ m ent’s announcem ent to limit the increase in university tuition fees to 1.9 per cent last D ecem ­ b er has left McGill struggling to co m p en sate for a budgetary shortfall.

Students’ Society (SSMU) VP U n iv e rsity A ffairs Ruth Promislow explained that the 1.9 p er cent permitted fell far short o f w hat the university had planned for in its budget.

“They had anticipated a 400 dollar increase per student, but the governm ent ch ose to allow only 1.9 per cent, or about 31 dollars p er student,” said Promislow.

In preparing n ext year’s budget, McGill administrators an­ ticipated that the provincial gov­ ernm ent w ould approve a 25 per cen t increase in tuition fees for Canadian students. This increase o f approxim ately 4 0 0 dollars per student at McGill w ould have brought tuition at the university close to the national average, while providing an additional 8 .9 million dollars in revenue.

The Q u eb ec government, how ever, has decided to allow a limited 1.9 p er cent increase.

This m odest rise equates to about 31 dollars p er student, and de­ creases the anticipated revenue

to just under 7 0 0 ,0 0 0 dollars, leaving a gaping hole o f 8.2 million dollars in the university’s budget.

In addition to the tuition fee hike, concerns have also been raised regarding the size of the cut to the university’s grant.

The budget w as prepared with an anticipated cut o f four million dollars. Assuming that this cut is not increased, the university had expected to com pensate in part for this cut through the 8 .9 mil­ lion surplus from tuition fees.

Promislow explained that three million dollars had been earmarked from a discretionary fund to com pensate for disparity betw een the university’s approxi­ mation of tuition fee increases and the governm ent’s announce­ ment. Even with the extra m oney the university falls 5.2 million dollars short of being able to absorb the mitigated increase decreed by the ministry of edu­ cation.

SSMIJ President Mark Luz called the governm ent’s m ove surprising.

“This year the Q uebec gov­ ernment gave indications that they w ere planning to raise Q ue­ b ec tuition fees,” Luz explained.

“The minister had said several times that they w ere going to raise tuition fees to the Canadian average.”

VP Planning and Resources Francois Tavenas fa ces major budget restructuring These indications prompted the university to speculate on a 25 p er cen t increase. W hile the Canadian national average for university tuition fees is about 2,250 dollars, tuition fees in Q ue­ b ec are, how ever, still well b e ­ low 2,000 dollars.

“A lot of people w ere sur­ prised that the governm ent kept [the tuition fee increase] below even inflation,” said Luz. McGill VP Planning and

R eso u rce s F ra n ço is T av en as explained that McGill's initial prediction o f 25 p er cent was based on several indicators set forth b y the provincial govern­ ment.

“In the provincial budget in May 9 3 ... the governm ent policy w as to increase fees to the national average,” said Tavenas.

“W e had repeated indications that the increase w as going to be about 25 p er cent. The govern­

ment w as on a specific track until late D ecm eber.”

Luz attributed the govern­ mental decision to lobbying b y student groups, suggesting that the governm ent did not wish, in an election year, to risk student unrest. Luz also speculated on McGill’s situation after the gov­ ernm ent’s announcem ent. “[McGill is] in a very, very bad situation. I’ve no idea w hat they plan to d o ,” he said.

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Students join to make ghetto safer place B Y SARA-JEAN GREEN V ario u s McGill stu d en t groups, w orking with the E xter­ nal Affairs Com m ittee (EAC) o f Students’ Society (SSMU), h ave planned a safety audit o f the McGill ghetto. The grou p s affiliated with this project intend to investigate areas that p o se safety p rob ­ lem s for McGill students and ghetto residents. A list o f recom m en d ation s will b e subm itted to d ty officials.

T h e S exu al A ssau lt , Centre o f McGill Students’ Society (SACOMSS), the W om ­ e n ’s Union, Shakti, the W alksafe N etw ork, G roup Action and the Lesbians, Bisexuals and Gays of McGill (LBGM) have all accepted invitations from the EAC to par­ ticipate in coordinating the au ­ dit. T h e aim o f the audit is not only to raise aw areness regard­ ing violen ce within the area but also to com pile realistic reco m ­ m endations for im provem ent.

B ecau se McGill d oes not o w n m ost o f the buildings in the ghetto, interior safety audits of individual buildings are beyond the jurisdiction o f the group.

Furtherm ore, there is n o guar­ an tee that any recom m en d a­ tions stem m ing from the safety audit will b e im plem ented sin ce su ch changes w ould b e the city’s

“Perhaps we can contribute in a small way to making people feel safer in the ghetto.”

— EAC member Nick Benedict responsibility.

N o n e th e le s s, N ic k Benedict, a m em ber o f the EAC, is confident that im provem ent in ghetto safety is feasible.

“Students d on ’t realize the kind o f p ow er w e have. W e have the p ow er to force issues to b e d ebated and brought u p ,” Benedict said. “If w e can put togeth er a realistic set o f re co m ­ m endations it w ould b e very difficult for the relevant d ty au­ thorities to ignore them . Per­ haps w e ca n contribute in a small w ay to making p eop le feel safer in the g h etto.”

w o u ld d e fi nitely benefit the students," said Neimanis.

“W e d o n ’t w ant to p er­ p e t u a t e th e myth that the m a jo r ity o f sexual assaults are com m itted in the g h e tto m o st a re , in fact, acquaint­ an ce assaults- but nonethele s s , we s h o u ld d e fi­ nitely address p ro b le m s o f safety in the g h etto.”

Neimanis also stre sse d th a t s a f e ty m m problem s exist for b oth m en and w om en .

Ghetto still a source o f concern fo r many student “T h e m a­ jority o f sexual assaults that hap­ with the safety audit are opti­ p en are against w om en , but mistic that im provem ents can fx m en have legitimate fears [about] m ade. The project will begin ag grav ated assau lt,” sh e e x ­ this m onth. Project organizers aim to com pile their recom m en­ plained.

All the groups affiliated dations for the end o f the ten . :.

Erin Brady, public rela­ tio n s c o o r d i n a t o r fo r th e W alksafe Network, told the Tribu n e that the majority o f Walksafe destinations o r m eeting places are in the ghetto. W alksafe also has three team s that regularly patrol the area.

“A lot o f students have ap p roach ed us with physi­ cal as well as other p rob­ lem s about the g hetto,” said Brady. “Things that affect a w o m an ’s sen se o f safety— lighting, [obstructed] sight lines, offensive graffiti— that , the safety audit can im­ p ro v e .”

A lthough W alksafe w as created for and is primarily used by w om en , the safety audit of the gh etto will aim at improving safety for all students. Nicholas Q uaife o f LBGM em phasized the im portance o f this approach.

“I h o p e they address the issue o f safety in the ghetto for b oth m en and w om en . It’s an issue that’s b een long in com ­ ing,” h e said.

A s tr id a N e im a n is o f SACOMSS e x p re ss e d sim ilar view s regarding ghetto safety.

“I think any sort o f effort to im prove safety in the ghetto

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The evaluations of fall semester courses in the 1993-1994 school year will be made available thisJanuary by the individual faculties.

Students’ Society VP University Affairs Ruth Promislow explained that students who wish to find out how students rated a particular course or professor would have easy access to the evaluations.

"Students can access [the course evaluations] through reserves. Each faculty wiH place their evaluations on reserve, probably in their respective libraries," she said When asked when the evaluations will be released, Promislow said that McGill’s VP Academic William Leggett told her that it would be "sometime this month." When asked the same question, the Department of English also replied "some­ time this month."

There will be no fee to access the information.

Council discussion no Red Herring A mock ad in the RedHerring prompted debate at the December 2nd meeting of Students’ Society (SSMU) council.

The ad that appeared on the back cover of the Herringwas for a company that would assist students in writing resumes for medical schools. Among the parts of the ad deemed offensive by councillors was a passage in which a “convicted sex offender who is currently addicted to pornography" was told to write he “needs a little work on your bedside manner and that you like literature."

Herring Editor-in-Chief Jennifer Ralston responded to council regarding the controversial passage.

"The intent of the page was to make fun of the offender," she said. "Personally, I would consider myself a discredit to all women if I produced something that was offensive and cruel."

Clubs RepJohn Saunders noted that this issue was similar to the Commerce Communiqueproblem several weeks before.

SSMUcondemned the Management Undergraduate Society (MUS) and the C.C. because of content it considered sexist.

"Have they not noticed that their arguments are very similar to those of [C.C. editor] Chris Haroun," he asked.

Management Rep Mitch Costom agreed with Saunders.

"I do see a similarity between this and the Communique.

I received more complaints about the Herringfrom my constitu­ ents than about the C.C.,' he said.

Ralston said that the Herring editors were prepared to address the issue immediately.

MUS President Ronald Balinsky also spoke to council about the issue.

"I’d like to congratulate [SSMU] on the way you are dealing with this. It’s far more constructive than the way you chose to deal with the Commerce Communique."_______________________

Those interested in writing fo r the News section this semester,; please come to the Tribune offlce-Shatner BOla on Friday, January 21 at 4:00 PM

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SSM U finally budgets time for money matters Students’ Society (SSMU) VP Finance PaulJohnson presented SSMU’s 1993-94 budget to council at a meeting on December 2nd. The SSMU budget is usually presented to council in late October, which prompted criticism from Athletics Rep James Stewart.

"We are now in the seventh month of the VP Finance’s mandate," Stewart said at the meeting. "Why has it taken so long to bring his document to council?"

Johnson apologized, and cited logistical problems as the major reason for the delay.

"This year is an important and transitional year for Students’ Society,“Johnson responded "We are operating under constraints that have never been present before.

"Because of the difficulties of dealing with these problems for the first time we were unable to hand down the budget until today," he added The budget as presented projects SSMUwill gener­ ate a surplus of $112,000 this year, which according to Johnson will allow the Society to begin repaying its debt to the University. SSMU owes McGill $360,000 as a result of its incorporation two years ago.

Engineering Dec. 6 rumours overblown Members of Promoting Opportunities for Women in Engineering (POWE) have downplayed rumours of a negative reaction in the Faculty of Engineering to events commemorating the murder of 14 women at Ecole Polytechnique December 6, 1989.

Several posters announcing a commemorative me­ morial service and explaining the significance of the event were tom down in the corridor between the Physical Science Library and the cafeteria in the McConnell Engi­ neering Building on the weekend before the event An old man, rumoured to be a student, approached students distributing white ribbons and pamphlets and said that since millions of men had been in the wars, the death of 14 women did not merit such an event POWE’s Tracy Strong stated that the rumours overshadowed the generally supportive response of the staff and students to the events.

"Despite the few negative incidents, I think that the engineers should be proud," she said. “We’re a small faculty and we managed to distribute 1500 ribbons."

Members of POWE reported that the moment of silence used across the country to commemorate the massacre was well observed in the engineering buildings, and that the Dean of Engineering’s office was closed so that staff could attend the memorial service.

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Yaqzan gets golden handshake from UNB University of New Brunswick (UNB) mathematics professor Matin Yaqzan took early retirement effective January 1st Yaqzan, who prompted a national controversy inearly November when UNB’s student newspaper, TbeBrunswickan, printed an opinion piece in which Yaqzan stated that date rape was necessary and acceptable behaviour for young men.

Yaqzan, who was briefly suspended by UNB before pressure from the Universityof NewBrunswickTeachers’ Association ledto his reinstatement, agreed to retire three years early. In a joint statement releasedJanuary 4th, the UNBTA and UNB stated that Yaqzan had‘exercised an early retirement option available to him under the terms of the Collective Agreement between the association and the university."

Though the university did not release details of the agreement, an article in Montreal's Gazettespeculated that Yaqzan will receive his full salary of $60,100 for the next three years. He is also entitled to a pension of roughly $31,000 per year afterwards, and he will- retain full access to all UNB facilities. source: files from Montreal's Gazette

Paglia defends “date-rape” professor Camille Paglia, the controversial author of Sex,Art andAmericanCulture, has condemned the suspension of University of New Brunswick (UNB) professor Matin Yaqzan.

Yaqzan vaulted into the national media spotlight when the UNB Brunswickan published his controversial statements regarding date rape last November.

"It seems to me that in a democracy, free speech...must supercede all ideology. I believe the more offensive the speech, the more it’s in the best interest of a democracy," said Paglia.

Paglia had few friendly words for the university administration, and referred to UNB President Robin Armstrong as a totalitarian, calling for his resignation.

“His behaviour is consistent with this whole master class of administrators that rose up after World War n. These administrators...are servile to the parents and their cheque books," she said.

Paglia was adamant in her defence of Yaqzan’s right to hold and publish his opinions.

‘It seems to me that one should have a million articles like this, not just one, because it’s only when we get this stuff on paper that we force these issues, and most of what he says in that article is completely true," she said. source: files from the University of Calgary Gauntlet

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O p /E 4 EDITORIAL McGill’s adm inistration took another body shot from the Q ueb ec government last month w hen the Ministry of Education limited tuition in­ creases for the 1994-95 school year to 1.9 per cent. McGill had expected the Bourassa/Johnson government, in an election year, to authorize a 25 per cent in­ crease. Maybe they w ere justi­ fied, because Q uebec had prom­ ised repeatedly to allow the province’s universities to raise their fees to the national aver­ age o f roughly 2,500 dollars.

Now the university is faced with a shortfall o f 8.2 million dollars, a sum that will prompt budget cuts across cam pus, damaging the quality of the education students receive. A cynic could argue that McGill knew they would only be per­ mitted to raise tuition by 30 dollars per student, as opposed to the 400 dollars they budg­ eted for, and planned its initial budget with excessive exp en ­ ditures. Why? Because then, w hen students and faculty are faced with cutting 8.2 million

Tuition caps unfair to students from a budget, they are painted in a corner, and the university faces little opposition to cutting programs and expenses that they didn’t w ant to pay for anyway.

Cyqicism aside, there is a greater issue at hand. Every year, McGill complains that it needs more m oney in order to provide its students with a top-notch edu­ cation. And every year, the Q ue­ b ec government implicitly says, “W e sympathize with your di­ lemma, but the vaults are em pty.’

This is not a situation isolated to Q u eb ec, either. Look across Canada, and you will find univer­ sity administrators nationwide complaining aboutunderfunding.

So what is the problem?

Obviously, the national scop e of university financial problems il­ lustrates that this problem is not necessarily within government alone. The Canadian tax system, w ith a p o lo g ie s to A u d re y McLaughlin, is stretched to the limit, and Canadians are not about to adopt a more progressive taxa­ tion system to finance the ivory tower. So w here does the m oney com e from?

McGill and other Canadian schools have several options.

They can take the route the MBA program at Q ueen’s did last month and privatize programs, or per­ haps entire universities. But is that desirable? To use Oliver W endell Holmes’s classic anal­ ogy, that will put us on the “slip­ pery slope” towards the over­ priced and inaccessible higher education system that the United States boasts.

If privatization, which al­ lows programs to pay for them­ selves, is not an attractive option, w hat is? W e can accept the status quo and let our educational sys­ tem deteriorate. Or, in a stroke of incredible progressivism and co ­ operation, students a n d univer­ sity administrators could join to­ gether and ask the government to raise tuition fees.

Students advocating higher fees sounds a bit suspect— but it works. Not only does McGill gain the financial resources necessary to subsist, but the education we receive can com e out of the in­ tensive care u n it The govern­ ment kicks in too, in the form of

a comprehensive, national p ro­ gram o f student loans that are tied to future income, therefore eliminating the up-front cost of higher education. Incom e-con­ tingent repayment plans are not a new idea, but Canada’s poli­ ticians have yet to take the most progressive step toward making higher education accessible. Cost is not the only barrier to accessi­ bility, and probably not the most significant either, but it is the most obvious and the easiest to eliminate.

Students never want to pay more, and that is understandable to a degree. But a university gets you something, so w hy shouldn’t you pay for it? The government obviously is not willing to fill.' university coffers anymore, and som eone has to for the institution to survive. Perhaps the bureau­ crats of Canada should start al­ lowing m ore creative fundraising options so that the university system can turn to private sources to assist its financial predicam ent As it now stands, McGill is raising 200 million dollars in a capital campaign, but is not allowed to

stream any o f those funds into its operating budget. New build­ ings are great— an institution must renew itself—but an en­ dowment that would provide the university with several mil­ lion dollars extra to spend every year would be o f equal utility.

As McGill Principal-desig­ nate Bernard Shapiro noted, ty­ ing tuition increases to the Con­ sumer Price Index is fine if they’re already at the right level. But, simply put, they are n o t It might be unpopular to tell students that they have to pay more for their education, but think for a moment w hat that education gains you, and you 11 realize what a steal it is. Our generation of thieves are being asked to pay for the mistakes of past genera­ tions. That might not be fair, but there is no other option.

M ICHAEL BROADHURST

Force-fed through the tube, the promise of ’94 BABBLE 01y B Y K A T E G IB B S 1 9 9 3 . In a y e a r th at spawned few originals, the worst of a bad bunch stood out, Heidi Fleiss and John Bobbitt— are a few w ho may never spawn again. It w as the year that spawned many sequels; Sister A ct2, Wayne's World2 and not to mention the identification of various half-Clinton siblings. I cam e out of my First Closet last year announcing I too was a half-sibling. Once the hub-bubba was over, my parents took it very well.

It was a year in which Kit Culkin denied gender barriers to be crow ned “Number One Stage Mother”— and he didn’t care w ho knew about it. It was a y e a r in w hich M ichael’s vertiligo will not too soon be forgotten. In short, although the big screen offered slim pickings and Mel Brooks, it was a banner year for the idiot box.

In retrospect, the ability of the year to announce itself as such seems uncanny. It is diffi­ cult not to shed a crocodile tear or two as one remembers last January’s triple network Battle of the Buttafuccos. This time last

year w e were bombarded by Joey and Amy, this year our senses are dulled by CBC’s mini-series “Bom bardier:•A M an Who D ared

to Dream an d By Doing So In­ vented the Skidoo". TV times like these make a person wish that Can-con had been dissolved along with taxes and tarrifs in the NAFTA package. Perhaps the best thing to do is stick up ourchin and grin and anticipate the nights ahead.

Erik a n d Lyle's Excellent D e­ p a rtu re. It ap p ears that the M enendez brothers’ case was made for television. This is a sick, small screen drama with surpris­ ingly big potential. Rich-kid broth­ ers Erik and Lyle Menendez are currently awaiting the outcom e of their parricide case in a Cali-FomI-A courtroom. So far the pro­ ceedings have revealed the ugly entrails of a medium to prime time Hollywood household. It seems a little dry but it com es with a twist The boys’ defence rests in their motivation to execute the murder of their parents three years ago; self-defence against repeated sexual assaults. Posthumously charging their father with repeated sexual assaults, this may be a radical gender switch. As a mem­ ber of a Charlie Rose’s late night PBS panel on January 3, 1994, feminist Naomi Wolf unwittingly

revealed what may be used as the credo of the case: “The most dan­ gerous people in the world are victims w ho think they can do no harm.” Apparently Kirk Cameron and Doogie Howser have been approached.

Pantene: The Tylo H unter a n d Yancy ButlerStoryThe heart­ warming saga of how two lifeless and dry gals gussied themselves up to learn and teach the values of the Swiss Vitamin Institute.

Nashville North: Scheduled to straddle the popularity wave of the Quebec Cité country music capital and Robert Altman renais­ sance, this demanding 6 hour continuous-action-shot drama fea­ tures a cast of hundreds. The plot focuses on the dreams of MarieC laude, M arie-Louise, MarieC h antale, M arie-Jeann e, and Marie-Gaetan to make it big in Quebec country as they compete for a spot on Sonia.

CanalSun Serving up a dou­ ble scoop of Queb-con of sorts and Sunny Delight sunshine, this is a channel devoted to showing “television favourites from Florida” and all the local news from Greater Fort Lauterdale and Hallandale will be made a regular part of the Quebec cable package. All of those neige-oiseau w on’t miss what’s going on at home.

Although the attack on U.S.

figure skater Nancy Kerrigan was senseless and appears to have been perpetrated by a resident of Windsor, Ontario, w e viewers might as well prepare ourselves for her transformation into the Silken “triumph over adversity to take a b ro n z e ” Laumann in Lillehammer, Norway. By the way, Lillehammer actually means “lille hammer” in English.

Fortunately, the very, very real world of TV land will be broadcasting som e grown up shows full of promise. PBS’s seri­ alization of Armstead Maupin’s Tales o f the City appears to be worth cable alone. Equally as

welcome is the return from the back from beyond Baltimore show Hom icide: A Year in the Life, and the slew of Winter Term awards shows which Film and Comm, students can WATCH FOR CREDIT as a part of a de­ partmental attempt to move what some consider marginalized aca­ demicism into the mainstream.

(Unfortunately it appears that “The Choreography of Debbie Allen" will be reserved for hon­ ours students only.)

So, I would like to take this opportunity to wish all readers a Happy New Y ear and Good Watching._________________ _

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The McGill Tribune, January 11-17,1994

Op/Ed

Veni, Vidi, Medi I usually try to write about something interesting that I’ve b een pondering. Having spent the last two w eeks away from school in an attempt to think about as little as possible, I find myself at a bit o f a loss this w eek. The only thing that re­ ally com es to mind is how to maintain the attitude of un­ stressed relaxation I’ve tried to develop over the break. Due to the bent o f my nature, I am inclined to respond to this prob­ lem with a suggestion of medi­ tation.

The idea of maintaining a strict regimen of daily medi­ tation can seem like a daunting prospect, though, especially during stressful periods o f ex­ ams and papers. O ver the holi­ days, how ever, I was fortunate to spend som e time with a group of people who showed m e that one needn’t set aside hours a day to devote to silent contemplation.

Meditation can b e easy and even, believe it or not, quick. By using very simple techniques of concentration, techniques which can be prac­ tised while lying dow n or even sitting at a desk in front of a com puter, all one really needs is five to ten minutes o f quiet in order to achieve a state of rejuvenating restfulness.

W hile meditations can take many different forms, most simply involve prolonged con­ centration on a particular ac­ tion, usually o ne that’s very ordinary. I’ll outline here som e very simple yet effective medi­ tations which can b e done al­ most anyw here at any time.

1) O ne o f the most com ­ mon subjects on which to medi­ tate is the act o f breathing. W e breathe all day and all night long yet w e hardly ever think m uch about it, unless its fluid­ ity is constrained in som e way.

T h e re ’s an an cien t Eastern proverb which states that each person is allotted a certain number o f breaths per life.

Thus, the faster and m ore shallowly one breathes, the shorter o ne’s life. Practitioners o f yoga feel that by slowing dow n our breathing and in­ creasing the amount of air w e take in with each inhalation,

VEDAMINUTE

BY JO N ATH AN S. w e can actually prolong our lives.

A very simple breathing meditation involves closing o ne’s eyes and simply observ­ ing the breath. Feel the breath enter through the nostrils and inflate the ÿbdomen and then the ch est With the exhalation, o b s e rv e th e air e s c a p in g through the nostrils and the deflating of the chest and ab­ domen. Make sure to exhale completely. After a few breaths, split the breath in two. Inhale half the breath, hold, and then inhale the second half. Hold it in for a count o f two and then exhale in two equal parts. Hold it out for a count o f tw o and then repeat. W hen you have this down, continue by breath­ ing in three equal parts, hold­ ing in for three, etc., and then finish with four.

This meditation can be practised for as long or as short as you wish. While this may seem very simple, it can b e a very effective w ay to relax.

Make sure you concentrate on what you are doing. If you feel other thoughts getting in the w ay, it’s completely normal, just acknowledge them and gently push them aside.

2 ) Another interesting meditational practice is to take an everyday object and m ake it extraordinary. An exam ple o f this would be to take a single grape or raisin and pre­ tend as if you’ve never seen anything like it in your life before, as if it’s just fallen from another planet. O bserve it for awhile and then put it in your mouth. Taste it as if it’s like nothing else you ’ve ever tasted in your entire life. This exer­ cise helps call attention to the little things in life. It creates focus and promotes aw areness o f tasting what you’re tasting, smelling what you’re smelling, etc. It can heighten our aw are­ ness and help us to realize that many of the things w e do in life everyday are actually e x ­ traordinary.

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Letters to the E d ito r M cS ervice...

S erio u sly...

I write in response to your edi­ torial of November 30, 1993 and, in particular, to your comments on the “Customer Service Review initiated by Vice-Principal (Academic) William Leggett*. I am pleased that this review was seen to be a positive step. I am, however, dismayed at your suggestion that “Leggett's program is the fust at McGill to treat students as people rather than commodities...*. Perhaps what is lacking here is a sufficient time per­ spective on similar actions in the past.

In my 24 years at McGill I have observed, time and time again, con­ certed actions by individual staff, De­ partments, Faculties, Student Services, Registrars, Admissions, Residences, the central administration and others, all of which were designed to improve serv­ ice to students, their participation in the life and work of the university, and their general well being. The review I requested was nothing more than an extension of that tradition. I share your hope that the tradition will continue, and I have every confidence that it will.

Re: Roland Orfaly’s letter (“Perfection.. Tribune, Nov. 30th-Jan. 10) The fact that Walksafe had one member who is highly insensitive to issues of violence against women means that its screening process may be inadequate. The fact that a member simply has no concept of why it is that he is needed in Walksafe indicates that criticisms of Walksafe should be taken very seriously.

How does Mr. Orfaly know that there are not more “Peters* inWalksafe?

The automatic assumption that “Pe­ ter* is an isolated case reflects the kind of attitude that Ms. Onstad warned against in the article (sic) (.Tribune, November 9-15) that sparked this de­ bate. She warned that if Walksafe becomes institutionalized, the prob­ lems that Walksafe responds to, may be neglected. I agree with Mr. Orfaly that we must work towardsperfection rather than expect it. To that end, Walksafe must accept criticism such as Ms. Onstad's and work to guard against the dangers she points to. It should not try to deflect criticisms by claiming that the situation is just fine the way it is and that everything pos­ sible is already being done.

Everybody believes that Walksafe is doing a good job of pro­ viding a necessary and important serv­ ice to the McGill community. That is exactly why we must be willing to point out its imperfections.

William C. Leggett Vice-Principal Academic

F o rget-m e-n ot...

The individuals who disrupted the November lecture on False Memory Syndrome and Childhood Sexual Abuse were not only doing a disservice to those who attended, they were also interfering with the lecturers’ freedom of speech. For those of you at McGill who are interested in FMS, you should order a transcript of the November 9, 1993 episode of the Fifth Estate(CBC) and check out Time Magazine, Nov. 29, 1993, p. 52. Both items make for very interesting reading.

James St. George

COM M ENT Re: Letter “Chanting..... ” by Jason MacLe11an (Tribune Now. 9-15) Reader Jason MacLeHan's date for the starting of the Hinduism:- “Hin­ duism dates from about 1500 B.C.* Historian E.B Havell suggested in his book TheHistoryofAryan Rule in India (p.15) that the dates of the Aryans’ arrival to the Indus valley was “between 5000 and 3000 years before Christ*. Again in the same book on page 33, he wrote with more convic­ tion, “All that can be gathered.. .is that at some remote period, reckoned from between 3000 and 1000 B.C. or earlier, a number of Aryan tribes had established themselves in Northwest­ ern India.* "Sanatana Dharma’ , or Hindu­ ism, existed in India before the arrival of the Aryans to the Indus valley.

They incorporated the religion of the people into theirs. The official Seal of the Indus Valley Civilization carried the image of Hindu God Shiva, and his vehicle, the Bull.

It is generally accepted by the present experts on Hinduism that the earliest available Hindu Scriptures called The Vedas were collected and collated by the order of sage Vyasa to his students.

The experts also agreed on the

Russell Bennett U3 Arts

B ullseye ...

Re: Article “MUS: We’re capable of handling the C.C. ourselves* (Trib­ une, Nov. 23-29) It has taken the final comment

by Ruth Promislow in the article for us

to finally realize it was time to speak up. Being two Management female students, we are outraged at the impli­ cation made by Ms. Promislow that if you are female and found the C.C. funny, you are labelled sexist. It is very hard for us to relate to the fact that * “sexism is not exclusive to men’ simply by finding articles in the C.C. amusing.

We both found the Commerce Com­ munique to be hilarious because we understood that most of the so-called sexist comments were all inside jokes aimed at particular people in the MUS. Unfortunately, Ms. Promislow never made an attempt to try and understand that this is what the C.C. is all about, inside jokes all written in good fun—by and for Management students. Another question that needs to be asked is how come the C.C. is now being trashed to the extreme when the contents of the magazine has been of the same nature since it began publication’ Unfortu­ nately, Ms Promislow didn't do her homework when investigating the pre­ tence and intent of the CC..Manage­ ment has often been criticized for be­ ing an exclusive faculty within the student body of McGill, yet it must be realized that this isn’t necessarily a bad thing, since we promote school spirit •for both the Management Undergradu­ ate Society and McGill. Maybe we will take a friend’s advice who, upon see­ ing Ms. Promislow’s picture in the Tribune, said “Can I hang it up and throw darts at it’’ Basically, we find that this issue is being taken a little too far— we will be waiting on pins and needles for more entertainment when Ms. Promislow comments on the RedHer­

ring.

Maria Greenspoon Melissa Katz U2 Management

Krishna: The saga continues with more clarification date of Lord Krishna’s death, which was February 18, 3102 B.C. The Vedas were already in existence during Lord Krishna’s life time. So the date of 1500 B.C. as the beginning of Hinduism seems to be controversial.

Jason MacLellan also raised his objections as: a) “Chanting weakens the indi­ vidual’s will": suggesting that chanting could be used as a mind-control or mind bending mechanism. b) “Aggressive proselytism"“North American* type. c) “The manipulation of diet reinforces this (weakening individu­ al’s will and creative faculties)*.

How could a vegetarian diet just do that’ The Ottawa Citizen reported on October 17,1990 that “It seems we have finally buried the notion that vegetarians are nut and seed fanatics.

More North Americans are turning their backs on meat*.

On the questions of “Chanting* and "aggressive proselytism*:In the 16th century, (1528-1545 A.D. and after), the Hindus of India witnessed the most remarkable exam­ ples of proselytisations, conversions, destructions of their religions, cultures and temples by the directions and orders of the alien preachers who

accompanied the Imperialistic Forces from the seas and Invading Forces from the Northern borders.

In the Southwestern coasts of India, alien gun-ships empowered the preacher who carried the Holy Book of his own religion in his hands, and antipathies towards the natives’ religion and culture in his heart, and aggressively proselytised and con­ verted the naive and simple Hindus who by nature, was respectful to any person who wanted to talk about God. After the preacher finished con­ verting the natives, he ordered them to destroy their Gods and temples and taught them how to hate their past religion and god, which they worshipped before. By doing all these, the preacher felt “Joy* and wrote about it In the Northwestern parts of the country, the devastations, destructions and conversions occurred in a larger scale.

In both cases, constant preach­ ing was the mechanism of controlling the minds of the converts; while in the North, in case there was a failure, the unwilling convertee(s) was(were) summarily eliminated.

PRIYABRATA MUKHOPADHYAY

A ccessibility focus o f cam pus audit B Y S T E V E S M IT H

mittee, said that the value of the audit will be its Difficulties encountered by a ss e ss m e n t o f disabled students attending McGill which improve­ have resulted in the organization ments should be of an accessibility audit of the emphasized. She campus. The audit is organized also said that it by the Joint Senate/Board Com­ would assist the mittee on Persons with Disabili­ ties and should be conducted in university in de­ termining where late March or early April. to spend scarce The accessibility audit was approved by the Joint Senate/ resources on cam­ Accessibility not as simple as pushing a button pus.

Board Committee on Students with Disabilities at a meeting last No­ “We ' r e com pared to other universities in vember. The audit will be con­ dealing with improvements which terms of accessibility, Wolforth ducted by teams com posed of will require a lot of money,” she responded that there are no set student volunteers and accessibil­ said. “What will com e out of the standards on which to base a ity experts. Each team will be audit is a prioritizing of necessary comparison. assigned to a specific area on improvements and a plan on the “I think it depends on a campus, which they will assess books w hen we go to the govern­ number of factors like the age of for its accessibility. The data ac­ ment for funding.” the university and the province in quired by the teams will be com ­ McGill has taken the initia­ which it is located. McGill is diffi­ piled into a comprehensive report tive in rendering the university cult to render accessible because detailing the deficiencies and rec­ more accessible. Improvements of its location on a hill, the cli­ ommendations for improvement. began last summer with the help mate, and its heritage buildings Joan Wolforth, Coordinator of a $2.5 million grant from the whose exterior cannot be altered, ” of the Office for Students with Quebec governm ent she observed.

When asked how McGill Disabilities and chair of the com ­ The audit will be compli­ cated and will require the help of experts in order to properly as­ sess campus accessibility. Yet of great importance to the audit will be the assistance of student vol­ unteers.

“We intend to follow the example of the Campus Safety Audit which used both students and experts in the hope of in­ Fun and Games on 2 Floors creasing people’s knowledge of what is necessary for improving ^Jpool tables, accessibility,” asserted Wolforth. oarts, baby foot on Wolforth explained that the committee is counting on the in­ put of students with disabilities as every day and night on the Main! well as students in physical therapy and architecture w ho possess a Bring In this ad and got 1 Boreal draft for $.99 knowledge of what improvements will be necessary.

YOUR EVENING STARTS Students’ Society (SSMU) VP University Affairs Ruth Promislow ^ coio^ W ,TH A G 0 0 D M EAL expanded on the intended pur­ W Sa ve som e money! pose of the audit.

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Chicken Leg Special (served with ric e , frie s & sa la d ). . $5.50 It was Promislow’s proposal that initiated the organization of 3 8 7 2 S T -L A U R E N T 8 4 3 -7 2 8 3 the accessibility audit. Promislow is also a member of Access McGill, a campus organization concerned with the interests o f disabled stu­ \A/ iShi \*/| dents at McGill. Her proposal was encouraged by what she perceives as the dissatisfaction of disabled McGill students with the current state of accessibility.

W ed . Jan . 12th 4:00p m “From my conversations (prior to instructional registration) with disabled students it was clear R U M M A G E SALE that they felt there was a need for change to occur on cam pus,” she ON SHOES said. $ 1 0 -$ 2 5 Wolforth also noted the chal­ V ario u s Brands & Sizes lenge the auditors will face as a result of the current state of acces­ at the Currie G ym (G ym 1) sibility at McGill.

“McGill has a long w ay to go in terms of things w e could do to improve accessibility. We do have a difficult situation as some build­ ings aren’t accessible in any way.

We can ’t afford to be complacent at this point.”

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The McGill Tribune, January 11-17,1994

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Bernard Shapiro: Re-inventing the university Bernard Shapiro was named as McGill's next principal on No­ vember22nd. HewillsucceedDavid Johnston on September 1st. Tribune Assistant Editor-in-Chief Michael Broadhurst spoke with Shapiro at bis TorontohomeonDecember30th.

Tribune: How do you feel your experience with the public sector, and I am referring directly to your experience with the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education and at Queen’s Park, will enable you to deal with the government of Quebec where McGill is concerned?

Shapiro: ...Where that expe­ rience will be particularly helpful in my role at McGill was getting to know the other university presi­ dents. It is that interaction that will be very helpful when I’m at McGill.

On the other hand, my experience at Queen’s Park, I think, would be very helpful. It has two parts to it, I think. One is, I just got to know a number of my colleagues in Que­ bec. I would visit them when I was deputy minister (DM), or they would come to Ontario for a day. So that’s one way. ...I think the other way in which it helps is that when I was DM for Colleges and Universities, I be­ gan to see what the higher educa­ tion system looks like from outside the system itself. ...It enables you not to see yourself in the same way again, because when forced to look at the world from another point of view and a different set of assump­ tions, you begin to understand that some of the things that you take for granted, no one else does. And that, therefore, you can't possibly go on pursuing them as if you just mention them one more time people will just say 'Oh yes, that’s right!’

Tribune: Your career has led you to a lot of different education environments such as Boston Uni­ versity, the University of Western Ontario, the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, and the On­ tario civil service. What type of ideas, developed through your time at those different jobs, do you in­ tend to bring to Montreal in Septem­ ber?

Shapiro: I think that the gen­ eral challenge to higher education is to figure out how the university can re-invent itself without destroying itself... .1 think that the difficult fiscal context of higher education is not a short-term thing, just as the eco­ nomic context we are facing is not a short-term thing. It may indeed get better, but we’re not going back, either to the current status quo or the status quo ante. ... I do think that there are a couple of things that the university has that are worth preserving and worth re-imagining.... One is that it has an environment of relatively free enquiry. The second thing that it has is a lot of capable people.

What it can offer is the capacity of those people to teach each other and develop something that would otherwise not be available to the community at large....

I think what’s important is that universities not all be like each other. That doesn’t mean they

mistic view—then you just sort of shouldn’t be something like each hold on and never make any choice, other. McGill has a couple of things you just let the quality slip. It’s an that distinguish it, or differentiating factors, at least. It has the environ­ easy option, you never really have ment in which it is situated—an to say no to anybody, you can be pleasant, be nice. But by the time an gloph on e institution in a the quality event actually takes place, francophone environment. And we you’re gone, and it’s somebody else’s have to figure out how to make something continuously exciting problem.

Let me take the department of about that. It’s problematic in a history, and I take it because I know thousand different ways, and if that’s nothing about it. One of the ways of dissonant to you, you don’t belong making choices is not to decide, at McGill. If it’s exciting to you, then 'Should we have history, or shouldn’t you might. we?’ But we can decide what kind of Among other universities, profile this history department McGill can be thought of as a kind of research-intensive insti­ tution. It’s among the group that’s more research inten­ sive, at least. That implies something quite special, if you want to preserve it.

First of all, it requires choice. There isn’t a uni­ versity in the world that can afford to be in the frontier of knowledge in every field in which it has a legitimate interest. It’s just too expensive. So that means you have to choose.

I don’t think the commu­ nity of higher education is accustomed to thinking in those terms. The standard attitude is, 'If this is worth doing, then we should be doing it, and doing it well.’

We need to be think­ ing about how we relate to the communities around us. And I haven’t got much patience for people who believe that means we’re selling ourselves down the river, that we’re going to become some sort of ap­ plied research arm to some­ one else’s interests. ...We N ex t P rincipal: B ern a rd Shapiro don’t have to do things we should have. We can’t cover the don't want to do. That’s just rhetoric range; it may not even be able to in my point of view. It’s a way of cover its current range. What kind of saying, 'I don’t want to cope, I liked choices are you going to make? it the way it used to be.’

What aren’t we going to pursue? Not ...For example, we need to because it shouldn’t be pursued, but ask ourselves why we organize un­ just because we can’t do that. dergraduate programs the way we Tribune: In other words, fo­ do. ...The last thing you want is an cus on the history of Common­ undergraduate program that is a wealth countries instead of others? watered-down version of the Ph.D. Shapiro: You might. That’s program. Most people aren’t going an example, choosing by the coun­ to be Ph.D.’s. tries. You could also choose meth­ Tribune: Both today, and in odologies: 'We do certain kinds of other recent interviews you’ve hinted research here and not other kinds. that McGill is facing tough decisions We approach history in certain ways in the near future regarding how it and not in other ways, and not is going to maintain its standing as a because these other ways are bad, prominent and vital university in but because they are not us....’

Canada.

Tribune: How is the approach Shapiro: That certainly is one of reinventing the university in a of the options. As you can see by the more specialized manner going to trauma that universities go through interact with what is partially a cul­ [when] cutting entire programs, to turally-driven phenomenon, but say nothing about entire faculties, it largely a student-initiated effort to induces the kind of irrational trauma introduce new programs in areas that turns out to be very difficult to such as Africana Studies, Women’s manage. And it may be that what Studies or Gay and Lesbian Studies? that’s a symbol of is the incapacity of Shapiro: Any institution ... the university to face the future.... If must always be doing new things. the governance environment, the Just like it always has to be bringing collegiality on which we rely so new people into it. Because if not, much, is simply not capable of crea­ you just die. So, irrespective of tively re-inventing itself to deal with whether you’re making any of these an environment that's different from other changes we’re talking about, what we prefer—that’s the pessi­

you always have to organize so that something new is happening in these institutions. It could be new pro­ grams, departments, almost any­ thing. You have to make careful choices because they require seri­ ous investments. ...Let’s take Gay and Lesbian Studies. It’s certainly something of interest to a lot of people in lots of different contexts. Don’t, in the first instance, ask yourself the question, 'Should we establish a department of Gay and Lesbian Studies?1 What you do is imagine what such a program might provide, what it might look like. You get together groups of people from wherever, who might want to think about this, and you determine what we’ve got for someone who is interested in this topic.

Then what you do is focus on program, rather than administrative unit. What you want is the program to change.

Tribune: There has been a lot of resistance, at least in McGill’s typically apathetic style, to McGill’s attempts to raise tuition lev­ els up to the national aver­ age over the past four or five years. Given the Que­ bec government’s recent stance regarding tying in­ creases to the Consumer Price Index, what direction do you foresee McGill tak­ ing in that regard?

S h ap iro : I doubt very much McGill will have much choice in the mat­ ter—this is a matter of gov­ ernment policy. I don’t want to waste an awful lot of time thinking about something I can’t deal with.

I can’t say, with any honesty, that I find the government’s policy at all appropriate. To link anything to the Consumer Price Index is to imagine it’s at the right level to begin with. If it is, then that makes a very sensible policy. I don’t think it is at the right level. I’m not as sympathetic as I’m sure students would like me to be to the notion that they're being inap­ propriately treated.... That’s the short­ est way to be unpopular with every­ body. I don’t see why I should think of my objective as popularity....

Tribune: It sounds like you would be open to income-contin­ gent loan repayment plans.

Shapiro: I’m very interested in income-contingent plans. ...We need an inclusive, encompassing national program to do it though.

The ones I’ve seen that I like are the ones that depend on later income in two respects: one is the pace at which you repay depends on in­ come, and when you repay de­ pends on your income.

Tribune: How do you feel about privatising university programs in Canada, the example of course being Queen’s University’s decision to privatise its MBA program. Do you think that is a positive step or a negative step in Canadian higher education? And is that a route McGill

might take in the future?

Shapiro: In some sort of world where the student assistance program was fantastic, it wouldn’t matter. You would have access to the program irrespective of how much it was costing. We’re not in that world, so let’s talk about the world we’re in. I regard it as a negative development in Canadian higher education. It does directly say, ‘We have it if you can afford it.

If not, we don’t have it.' ...

Tribune: In the interview that the Tribunedid with DavidJohnston several weeks ago, he stated his belief that every student at McGill should spend a semester or year at another institution or in another country as part of their educational experience. Is that something you intend to pursue during your ten­ ure?

S h ap iro: I think it’s a fabu­ lous idea. I’ve always encouraged my own children to do so. In the same way that I do not encourage students to do multiple degrees at the same institution. I think there’s just more out there than there could possibly be in one place. I think that students that have the oppor­ tunity to see the world in a differ­ ent light are crazy if they don’t take it....

Tribune: In a nutshell, what’s in the immediate future for McGill?

Shapiro: I don’t know. That’s why I took this job, because I don’t know. If I knew it would be no fun.

That’s a little bit unfair by way of response, but it is true. There are, I would say, three or four issues.

There’s the obvious fiscal issue.

But that’s just really another ver­ sion of the choice issue. It’s a co m b in a tio n o f c h o ic e and reinvention. We need to reinvent the production side, but also the way in which we govern ourselves.

We need to re-imagine govern­ ance in a way which allows us to cope and to respond much more immediately than we’ve been able to in the past.

I think those are the two immediate problems. There’s also the differentiation problem, to fig­ ure out just what the objectives are by separate units. And I think there’s an important problem with under­ graduate programs. I say that in the full-flowered ignorance of the pro­ grams. I don’t know anything about the McGill undergraduate program other than what you can tell by the catalogue, which is not an awful lot, so I don’t like to say things are problems when they may in fact be in very good shape.

Trying to get ready to live is the point of undergraduate years, not just to get ready to study, which is one of the things you might do while you live. If we can’t do that, then we’re misleading a lot of peo­ ple. Which is why I like to sit at the back of classes and watch. It allows me to understand things better from a student’s point of view.

Both Shapiro and Johnston': interviews have been edited fo\ length, a completetranscript ofbotl interviews is available in the Trib une office, Shatner Building Room I B01A.

The McGill Tribune, January 11-17,1994

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P rin cip al Jo h n sto n look s fo rw ard to full tim e sch o la rsh ip Principal David Johnston bas beenMcGill'stopadministratorfor the past 15years. He will stepdown in the fall and resume his teaching and re­ searchdutiesasaprofessor in theFac­ ulty of Law. Tribune editors Michael Broadhurst, Benoit Jacqmotte, and Micol Zarb spoke toJohnston on De­ cember 2 regarding his role at the university and his predictions for McGill'sfutureasDr. BernardShapiro takes over the Principal's position in September.

Tribune: What do you feel is the most significant accomplishment of your tenure at McGill, and if you had to do it all over again, what are the three things you would change in your performance?

Johnston: The first is far too personal for me to answer, others are better judges of that. Secondly, I wouldn’t speak in terms of a perform­ ance, that sounds like an evaluation of a job description. If I were starting this great job again, I guess one thing I would do differently is I would insist on continuing to teach. I taught for the first two years, then we got mixed up in a major capital campaign and major negotiations with the government on funding, and it was simply impossible for me to maintain a regular teaching schedule....

I guess to answer your question a little more generally, I think where I am a little iisappointed is that we have not developed the international phi­ losophy of this university as much as I would have liked. At the present time, between one and two per cent of our students take a formal academic term or year abroad or elsewhere in Canada.

I'd like that to be 50 per cent of our students.

Tribune: I met students while I was on my year off who were doing an exchange in France, and their biggest criticism was that it was very difficult to get credit for their courses, so I don’t know if it's so much that people aren’t there, it’s just that this university doesn’t facilitate the administrative process.

Johnston: Most are that way, and that’s a problem. I think there are too many hurdles in the way of stu­ dents who want to have an academic experience at another institution, and rather than there being hurdles, there should be gateways and encourage­ ment, because educationally I think that's so important. I think 50 per cent of our students should have a formal academic experience at another uni­ versity. It really should be 100 per cent in my judgement, and preferably in a developed country and also in a less developed country.

Tribune: In terms of the ques­ tion of Quebec, where do you think McGill will stand within a potentially independent Quebec in the future?

Johnston: Well, first of all, you are assuming something is going to happen that may not. My own assess­ ment of the probability of that is rela­ tively low. 10 or 15 per cent chance of separation would be at the high end of the expectation scale.

McGill is a very strong institu­ tion and has developed the capacity to adjust to environments that are not necessarily as comfortable as environ­ ments of other institutions in North America. And maybe it has become stronger as a result, because it has had to focus on fundamental issues of how one does high quality teaching and research without the same resources as many other competitive institutions

have had available to them, and with­ out functioning in an environment that’s a totally comfortable one. There are lots of things about the Montreal environment that are very conducive to high quality teaching and research and a sense of respect and tolerance for difference....

Tribune: Over the past decade and a half, McGill has incurred a fairly significant institutional debt in the area of 75 million dollars. What was the philosophy behind incurring that debt7 Johnston: I’m always surprised there’s such confusion about it be­ cause it’s very simple. In 1984, we learned for the first time what the relative funding of each of the univer­ sities in Quebec was based on the 1981-1982 year. By applying the On­ tario formula to the Quebec system, which had not had a formula before then, McGill was anywhere from 15 to 25 million dollars a year relatively underfunded as against the average university in Quebec, based on about a 150 million dollar grant. So that was a 10 to 17 per cent relative underfunding. And through that dec­ ade of 10 years, we argued very strenu­ ously that we should be brought up to tha average by new money, not by taking it away from other allotted moneys....

We now have 50 million dollars a year more than we had in ’81-’82....

If we had done nothing from *81-’82 to ‘91-’92 when that money was made up, we would have had a 250 million dollar accumulated deficit. We have a 79 million dollar accumulated deficit, roughly one third of that shortfall.

Why? Because, for the other two-thirds of the shortfall, we simply absorbed it.

One, by using up about 42 million dollars of unre­ stricted endow­ ment. Two, by our faculty and stafftak­ ing 25 to 30 million dollars of salary sac­ rifices that nobody else did. Three, by cutting budgets and operating, call it more efficiently if you like, operating at less cost than our sister universities in Quebec. Now I say that’s a miracle.

What’s a miracle about it is that McGill’s quality has in fact increased year by year throughthat 10 year Love-hate with period....

The decisions always were what degree of budget cut you would take, and there would be some in the Min­ istry who would say, Well, take a 15 million dollar budget cut, or an 18 million dollar budget cut, so you bal­ ance your budget’.... We will not sim­ ply accept this treatment that some­ how McGill can be different and can make these budget cuts even when it is being relatively underfunded.

Tribune: An average funding number for libraries of doctoral and medical universities in North America is about 10 per cent of the operating budget, and I believe McGill’s library makes do with about 4.7 per cent of the budget. How does this affect librar­ ies?

Johnston: I think you are high with 10 per cent, but we are certainly below where we should be in terms of

portion of the operating budget going into the libraries, and that’s one of the consequences of 15 million dollars per year relative underfunding. It’s got to show up somewhere. In our case, we have not improved our library position as fast as I would like it. The reason we haven’t is we simply haven’t had the dollars to work with. And we have had very strict limits on tuition fees as well ! as government operating grants....

We are running a 200 million dollar capital campaign, a significant portion of which is going to the li­ brary.... The first large gift we re­ ceived, 5 million dollars, went for the automation project in the library. And that was to try to overcome some of those constraints. If you don’t have all of the books, at least try to make them as accessible as you can with a good search feature....

Tribune: McGill has introduced a lot of minor programs recently, the international development minor and the Latin American studies. In light of budgetary restraints, do you see these growing in the future?

Johnston: I think so, and I’m very attracted to that because I think that’s an appropriate responsiveness to what students not only want, but what students need. What I concern myself about as an educator is having so many options and so many varieties that there is no coherence in your program.... But I believe that there should be a high degree of flexibility around a basic coherence, and if I had my druthers, I would have more com­ bined degrees. I would have a com­ bined Arts and Science degree, for example....

The poorest thing we do in our educational system is our teaching of science and math­ ematics at the pri­ mary and second­ ary schools. But don’t ever allow it come from my mouth that I blame the pri­ mary and second­ ary schools. I blame university academic admin­ istrators. We have the faculties of g education, we o' educate the o* teachers who go —> . , ° « into those ® schools, and we « are not either at­ tracting the kind of people into our the media faculties of edu­ cation who go and teach science, or we are not equipping them. And what I would like to do is to have teachers emerge from McGill University who have a B.Ed/B.Sc. degree....

Tribune: How does the increase in financial contributions from the pri­ vate sector affect academic freedom and freedom of research at McGill? Is there a type of organization or indi­ vidual from which McGill University should not be accepting contributions?

Johnston: Are there benefac­ tors from whom one should refuse the benefaction? The answer, yes. I think one says one looks at the benefactor but one also looks at the source of the money and I think this university would not want to be taking money that is made from an illegal activity such as the drug trade. The reality is that this university was founded by profits from

furtrading, and cer­ tainly there was whiskey traded with the Indians.

James McGill is a very laudable man, but some people today would say that the fur trade 250 to 300 years ago was somewhat unattractive....

So one must always I suppose ask questions, and we have turned down gifts in the past, and I suppose we will in the fu­ ture. But not many.

Finally, do patrons compromise your academic freedom?

Yes, and through history they can and they have.... I think the important thing is that you understand whether there are any strings at­ tached to a particu­ P rincipal Johnston: a ca reer in hindsight lar gift and that you examine those strings very carefully to and different criteria being used. It is determine whether they impact on conceivable, although it would be hard academic freedom.... to persuade me, that McGill might not Tribune: Where do you envi­ find itself in the first position. I think sion social reform on issues such as Maclean's was right, quite frankly.... sexual and racial harassment develop­ Tribune: In your 15 years, have ing in the McGill community? you noticed a change with student Johnston: Our current sexual representation, here at the university harassment policy is almost eight years level, provincial level, and the national old. I think any policy of that kind level, and the role of student repre­ should be reviewed every five, six, sentatives with respect to university seven years. When you put a policy in students across the country? place you put it in for a certain set of Johnston: I think here the stu­ circumstances, and it may be right or dent representation and student in­ not right for those circumstances. But volvement has become somewhat more generally those circumstances change substantial than it was 15 years ago.... somewhat and one should review it, as I have been greatly impressed by the we’re doing. Even before then, al­ quality of OUr Student learWchio.

There’s a maxim in that for .me: If you though we didn’t have a policy we certamly had ways of dealing with that give the students responsibility, stu­ dents of responsible mind will come phenomenon. I don't think 10, 15 forward to take it.... years ago one, at least I, had a sense We, in myjudgement, have been that it was a problem as serious as it is, and it is a serious problem.... very well served by the quality of student at McGill who has sought and All must be directed towards been elected to student office, with a having us be civil to one another, not few exceptions. because there is a code that says, I have found the contributions Thou shalt do that*, or Thou shalt not that those students have made to the do that*, but that we simply have governance of the university very at­ respect for one another as human tractive, and I’m not alone in that view. beings. Whether it’s a respect of a man We have 30 governors of the univer­ to a woman or a woman to a man, and sity of the 47 who come from outside, I as a professor to you as a student or and they remark so often about how you as a student to me as a professor, impressed they are with our student basic sense of civility one to the other.

That’s what I think we have to work leaders. There’s a little confusion, be­ cause they say, ‘As I read the newspa­ on, so that one doesn’t, or only in the pers I have the impression that we are most extreme circumstance, need a code or a set of machinery for sexual going to have highly irresponsible harassment.... people in these positions. My experi­ ence has been just the opp>osite.'Thafs Tribune: What are your senti­ ments regarding the Maclean’s sur­ what they tell me.

Tribune: It is our mandate to vey? criticize our student leaders, or cou rse.

Johnston: Number one, there Johnston: Fair enough. You will be more. Number two, what I have occasionally criticized the princi­ have said with each of the three Maclean's issues: Isn’t it terrific that a pal. Quite unjustly I must say.

Tribune: Any words of advice national magazine spends 72 pages devoted to issues of higher education, for Dr. Shapiro?

Johnston: I wouldn’t dare. with the strengths and weakness of Tribune: What are your future journalism that one finds in a national magazine. May there be more issues plans?

Johnston: My plans are to be a with 72 pages devoted to questions of professor and to be a full time scholar higher education. Thirdly, it would and teacher once again, which I love, please me, of course, if McGill contin­ and I have been away from largely for ues to be top ranked in all those, but with different media being involved, 20 years.

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A w hole new Mr. M om The morality squad is up in arms again. The latest developm ent in the w orld of reproductive technology is the ability to extract the eggs o f aborted foetuses and im­ plant them in infertile w om en so that they are able to con­ ceive. This m eans that an unwanted child is the bio­ logical m other o f a baby.

Rather bizarre. Needless to say, there are som e people w ho aren’t too happy with the idea. They hold that<his is playing with nature, that w e have n o right, that it will lead to the exploitation of w om en, w ho will b e paid to produce foetuses only to b e aborted and scavenged from.

Then there is the case of the British w om an, 59years o f age, w ho gave birth to test tube twins on Christmas Day. Everyone is upset that sh e’ll b e dead before her children are fully grow n and say that w e should not allow such things to take place.

Those, o f course, are only two o f the developments that medical ethidsts are grap­ pling with. True to Canadian form, a Royal Commission has just been com pleted on re p ro d u c tiv e te ch n o lo g y .

Why a Royal Commission?

Because, of course, there are no d ear answers as to how to control the dissemination of new technology. Certainly Oppenheimer could not have imagined the implications of the A-bomb on the balance o f global pow er for the next 40 years. In the sam e w ay, it is impossible to predict what the ramifications of repro­ ductive technology will be before they have b een devel­ oped. Thus w e have all the know ledge to dramatically change the gene pool, to cre­ ate a so d ety of m en only, or a w orld full o f Luke Perrys and Jennie Garths. (Goody, goody.)

Dr. Jack Kevorkian and his suicide m achine have added to the confusion of the role o f sd en ce in life and death. Not only do sdentists have trouble with people giv­ ing birth through the weird and wonderful developments o f sd en ce, now they w on ’t let people use sd e n ce to kill themselves.

Certainly the issue is m ore com plicated than that, but the crux of the matter is

PRIVATE COWS

BY C H E R YL DEVOE that although people are argu­ ing that it is immoral to use sd e n ce to b e born and die, they generally support the use of m ed idn e and medical p roce­ dures to extend peop le’s lives.

W e even have a law which forces people to give treatment to their children against their religious beliefs.

It seem s people have not figured out that if there is to b e sdentific research, then there will be developm ents that som e people find morally reprehensi­ ble. It is impossible in a liberal society to say that som e are acceptable, and som e are not b ecause o f morals (although the protection o f individual liberty with respect to these issues is another m atter.)

The only way to really con­ trol the w ay that technology and sdentific discoveries are used is to let so d ety passively control itself. Take, for exam ple, one new avenue which would never take off, no matter how much certain parts o f the population support h.

Ask a few male friends if they would bear children if it w ere biologically possible. Trust m e, this question is m uch better at the proverbial cocktail party than are any tidbits you learned in introductory econom ics. I per­ sonally can count the number of positive responses on one hand.

The rest did not even think twice about the question before shiv­ ering and looking sheepishly at m e as they said no. The impor­ tant thing to note is that m en are not saying no because of the moral issues involved— very few mentioned the fact that this w as the extrem e in playing with na­ ture. Instead, most admitted that it w as really the pain involved which scared them off.

What this implies is that perhaps many new develop­ ments will b e controlled not by deliberations o f their moral cor­ rectness, but by their practical­ ity. It is improbable that substan­ tial numbers of w om en will start having babies at age 6 0 and up— it just doesn’t make sense for m ost people— babies are too tiring. Sooner or later, people must realise that the govern­ ment can ’t control everything— but old-fashioned human nature and com m on sense w on ’t do too bad of a job.

The McGill Tribune, January 11-17,1994

In France: fatty foods but fine figures B Y C A T H E R IN E PO RTER CatherinePorterisaMcGillstu­ dent studying in France.

completely for lunch. Nothing remains open, except restaurants and the odd boulangerie, as everyone returns home to delve into the day's main meal with unrestrained gusto. This means four or five courses and a few good bottles of inexpensive red wine, followed by coffee. The fashion in which meals are prepared would be labelled by the average dieting North American as overly decadent Skim milk is hard to find, sugar sweetener rare, and cholesterol-free

MONTPELLIER, FRANCE— When Peter Mayle stated in his book A YearinProvencethat “the two areas of endeavour in which France leads the world are bureaucracy and gas­ tronomy," he hit the nail on the head.

But while the nation’s preoccupation with red tape and paper work be­ comes immediately evident, its passion for food is slightly more discrete.

While hanging out in out­ door cafés and partaking in the fine art of people-watching, it is next to impossible not to notice how slim and trim the French are as a nation. Furthermore, sadly enough, their fine form cannot be pinned on exercise, as it is unheard of. Sweat is disdained and joggers are immediately la­ belled as foreigners. With this in mind, a mystery unravels con­ cerning how the typical southern French person manages to cam­ ouflage the effects of the glutton­ ous amounts of wine, bread and cheese that are put away daily.

In fact, it could be argued that the French day revolves around good eating. The con­ tents of the day's meals are pur­ chased each morning with a stroll through the fresh outdoor mar­ Gluttons without punishm ent ket where women and men bus­ oils unheard of. In fact, products with ily load their baskets with produce. calorie listings neatly posted on the Freezers are small and empty, microlabel for the typical health-conscious waves rare and supermarkets bare.

Canadian are sparse and avoided, as From noon until two o’clock the French scoop fresh butter into each day, the entire town shuts down

pans to stir up thick sauces and dressings.

As many foreigners- enjoy French cuisine in an attempt to expe­ rience the culture, they pinch their growing waists in astonishment at how the French manage to maintain their fine figures. I took to the streets to uncover various theories on the topic.

Amy Tomion, an American stu­ dent from Florida, echoed bewilder­ ment “Why are they so damn thin!

I was wondering that same thing tonight at dinner. I’d say that they don’t snack, and they drink a lot of water.’

John Spain, a British ex­ change student, disagreed.

“It’s all the vegetables and garlic they eat. They act as a laxa­ tive, so less fat is absorbed," he theorized.

Jurgen Erstein, from Fundsvall, Sweden, thought it all boiled down to the amount of smok­ ing the French do.

“Everyone smokes here. They even have smoke breaks during J5 classes! Without a doubt, it curbs their appetite," he explained.

J5 Sam Cranford, from Colo® rado State University, shared this <o opinion.

“It’s all the smoking that t ey * do," he commented.

While a scientific explana­ tion must exist for this phenom­ enon, the subject keeps foreigners perplexed. When an overweight per­ son is spotted, an endangered spe­ cies in this area, it is assumed that the specimen is a fanatic dieter and ath­ lete. Either that or a fellow “étranger."

Guide bashes Me Gill profs

BY C H E R Y L DEVOE On the heels of the annual

Maclean 'smagazine university issue, The Princeton Review, responsible for study guides for standardized undergraduate and graduate apti­ tude tests such as the Law School Admission Test, has published the second edition of its guide, The

Princeton ReviewAccess Guide- The Best 286 Colleges. The guide ranks colleges across the US, plus McGill, based on 70 multiple choice ques­ tions of 100 students from each of the ranked universities. The publication produces some surprising results, listing Deep Springs College, in Deep Springs, California, as the school with the best overall academics, and Hollins College, in Roanoke, Vir­ ginia, as the best school for profes­ sors bringing material to life.

One of the book’s authors, Tom Meltzer, emphasised that the purpose of the book was to provide a view of students’ satisfaction as consumers of higher education.

Other categories created from the survey included “Party school", 'Gay community accepted’ and “Dorms like dungeons". The book included a list of the top 20 schools in each category.

McGill, the only Canadian school included in the second edi­ tion, appeared on five lists: “Class discussions are rare" (first), “What election?” (first), “Professors make

themselves scarce” (seventeenth), “Professors suck all life from mate­ rial” (twentieth) and “Great college towns” (fifth).

In its two page profile, McGill was given an 86 for quality of life, 86 for academics and a 91 for competi­ tiveness in admissions.

The academics rating was de­ termined by considering students’ ratings on such things as instructor quality, how accessible professors were outside of class, how many hours students claimed they studied, how many classes were taught by full professors, and class size.

The competitiveness rating for the US schools was determined by using information such as average SAT scores, and percentage of appli­ cants accepted. According to Tom Meltzer, primary author of the book, none of that information for McGill was available to the authors. When asked how the rating was deter­ mined for McGill, Meltzer acknowl­ edged the numbers’ poor statistical basis.

“This is embarrassing. We never got numbers from McGill be­ cause our database didn’t do outside [of the US] schools. So we went to outside sources,” said Meltzer.

The figures which the Princeton Review authors claimed were unavailable included tuition and percentage of applicants ac­ cepted. Both of these figures are readily available to the public.

Meltzer explained that he looked at numbers from different sources, and if they differed, he aver­ aged the two. He explained that he also looked at comparable schools and considered their rating.

Although the book’s introduc­ tion States that the focus is on stu­ dents’ satisfaction with their own school, and not on their perceptions of how their school compares to others, Meltzer admitted that rankings such as best overall academics may be misleading.

“I don’t know how you solve that problem,” he said. “I don’t have a problem with it [ranking student perceptions] because ultimately that’s what it should boil down to.”

Dr. A.G. Shaver, chair of McGill’s chemistry department, ex­ pressed scepticism concerning the McGill ranking in the “Professors suck all life from material category”, pointing to the high approval given by students to professors in course evaluations.

“I would say that [the informa­ tion] is just not true,” said Shaver.

“That’s the sort of thing academics like to say of other academics to be provocative.”

Meltzer recognises the volatil­ ity of statistics in surveys such as that used in his book.

“Unfortunately," said Meltzer, “the number stuff is the sexiest. But it’s only part of the book. It’s not what the book is about.”

flic McGill Tribune, January 11-17,1994

P age 13

i n f e r f a lm m e n é

Joy, I don’t think we’re in Narnia anymore B Y JO H N S C A N L O N T o m ention C.S. Lewis is o instantly invoke Narnia, the m aginary w orld h e created and le v e lo p e d th rou g h his imn en sely p op u lar series o f chilIre n ’s stories. F org otten in the enchantm ent o f those b oo k s, lo w e v e r, are the m o re munla n e asp ects o f Lew is’ life: an established p ro fessor at O x ­ ford and author of “adult” books )f theology, the m ag ic o f his )w n creation w as restrained Frdm entering into his everylay w orld. In Shadow lands, we view h o w the sed ate shell x w is h ad created for him self is jpset b y his relationship with o y G resham , the A m erican )o e t h e b efriended and with whom h e eventually fell in love.

11 T h e p lo t o f R ic h a r d M tenborough’s film is unabash:dly m elod ram atic and often ju ite c o n v e n tio n a l. D e b ra Winger plays Jo y , w h o co m es o England with h er so n D ougas in o rd er to e sca p e h er ab u ­ sive h usband. O n ce there, sh e lè cid e s to lo o k u p “J a c k ” ^Lewis’ n ick n am e - h e hated h e , n a m e C live, an d w h o w ouldn’t), to w h o m sh e has ?een w riting letters. In stere­

otyp ical fashion, sh e sh ak es u p the s ta id e s t a b l is h ­ m en t o f J a c k ’s O x ­ ford existen ce, in­ jecting h er w ack y Am erican “vitality” into an en viron ­ m en t w hich is a caricatu re o f Brit­ ish reserve and d e­ coru m .

H ere Lewis, p la y e d by A nthony Hopkins, has b een in­ h a b it i n g th e “s h a d o w l a n d s ”, treating this w orld as m erely a pale im itation o f so m e b e tte r p la c e , w h ich c a n b e Narnia o r H eaven o r w h atev er you ch o o se to n am e it.

In J o y h e finds so m eo n e w h o can ch allenge an d e x ­ cite him; they have Go ahead, anim ated discus­ sions ab ou t the pain an d suf­ fering n ecessary for th e valida­ tion o f o n e ’s life.

This th em e o f suffering is rep eated so often and s o e x ­

cer, an d the slo w flour­ ishing o f love b etw een h e rse lf an d Lewis is p l a y e d o u t in th e “sh a d o w ” o f h er im­ p en d in g d eath.

As Ja c k , H opkins brings to th e film the sa m e highly m an n ered b ut brilliantly effective p re se n c e h e d e m o n ­ strated in H ow ards E n d and The R em ains o f the

D ay.

w rench tears from my eyes plicitly that th e m o v ie ’s ev e n ­ tual direction b e co m e s obvi­ ous, even to th e b on eh ead s that sat b eh in d us in th e th ea­ tre. J o y d evelo p s term inal ca n ­

W inger’s perform ­ a n ce is less consistent than h er co u n terp art’s, particularly in th e u n ­ con vin cin g N ew Y o rk a cce n t w hich sh e b ran ­ dishes and then seem s to forget in m om en ts o f strain. She d o es finally fall into Term s o f E n ­ d ea rm en tm o d e., a ro le into w hich sh e seem s to h ave b e e n typecast.

A b onus is seein g the snivelling little kn ow it-all from Ju ra ssic P ark d o a d e ce n t job as J o y ’s so n D ouglas. T h e rest o f the ca st is ro u nd ed o u t b y a b u m p ­ tious co llection o f m iddle-aged English “g en tlem an ”, w h o p ro ­ v id e m o st o f the film’s co m ic

m om en ts.

It is v e ry difficult to so m e ­ h o w o b je c tiv e ly e v a lu a te S h a d o w la n d s .

The film progresses through slow, grand, cin e m a tic m o m e n ts, re p le te w ith lush cin em ato g rap h y and an om n ip resen t string sectio n , all carefully d esign ed to inflict m assive d oses o f p ath o s o n the view er. It is so blatantly m a­ nipulative that o n e is left w o n ­ dering w h en th e n ext w a v e o f d esp air is g oin g to c o m e cra sh ­ ing d ow n . O n e sc e n e in p ar­ ticu la r, in v o lv in g J a c k an d D ouglas, em p loys an y an d all cliches to inspire em otional dis­ tress that o n e can think of; it is the final b lo w in an all-out fight to elicit o u r tears.

B y th e en d o f th e film ev ery bit o f d ialogu e is a gutw re n ch in g e x p e rie n c e , an d even the fact that W inger’s ch ar­ a cte r is n am ed J o y b e co m e s a horrible p ath etic fallacy. T h e theatre w as filled with a snif­ fling, th roat-clearin g m ass o f exh au sted w reck s; n o t even th e m ost h ard -h earted o f cy n ­ ics w e re sp ared . T h e strength o f th e film lies ,in th e fact that y ou k n o w y o u ’re b ein g m a­ nipulated an d y ou a re all-toh ap p y to su ccu m b .

The kind word on small-time band Grassho B Y H A R R IS N E W M A N . n In Toronto, the city that specializes in boredom and con­ trived complacency, it is hard for any band to make much of a dent in the local scene. Few have upset this attitude like Grasshop­ per, who need little more than a dozen vacuum tubes powering a pair of HiWatt and Ampeg am­ plifiers in order to suck this ho­ lier-than-thou at­ mosphere away.

Grasshopper by­ pass the subtle­ ties of gracefully taking the stage simply by plug­ ging in their guitars and letting things fly.

Grasshopper have done their best to combine the antics of early noisemongers such as Pussy Galore, the Melvins, and Mudhoney, and given it all a soulful limp, something like Tony Iommi, Mike Diamond, Sly Stone, Ween and Dr. Dre sharing a fresh batch of Northern Lights sensi.

On Neptune.

Amplifiers and ears have a few basic physical properties in common, the most obvious of which is that both can only take

so much punishment Grasshop­ per give both a good run from their money, spraying the audi­ ence with feedback that bounces back and forth between the walls until one is quite certain the amps are in only slightly less pain than the crowd.

The trio produces their own magic blend of low groovin ’, heavy p ow er chord sludge, all embellished with a h ead ­ twisting phunk that leaves the listener tom be­ tw e e n sla m ­ ming out their fin e st e a rly e i g h t i e s breakdancing moves centerstage or diving for the nearest doorway in search of cover.

Grasshopper don’t physi­ cally hurt the audience (unless shrapnel from shattered guitars, exploding tube amplifiers and the o cca sio n a l stray fo o t, head, dreadlock or globs of spit into the crowd count), they just quickly and economically crush them. The same cannot be said for the band members themselves, as demon­ strated by their bloodstained in­ struments and bodies flailing about in seizure-like contortions.

A bunch of guys hangin’ out and singing about the many ways in which the world sucks

Their live show cannot be properly described in words; it must be seen to be fully comprehended.

The music of Grasshopper is diffi­ cult to capture, but they’ve made a few fine attempts, best demonstrated by their new ‘Glasseater’ 7” (con­ veniently available at L’Oblique, Marie-Anne east of St. Denis.) The music isn’t contrived orpre-planned,

just the result of a bunch of guys with questionable instrumental prowess hangin’ out and singing about the many ways in which the world sucks, along with more pressing issues of life, well illus­ trated by their ballad‘Hashish makes the World go ‘round’, (especially designed for less receptive audi­ ences).

Grasshopper promise to stop by the fine city of Montreal early in the year in order to share their unique blend of masochistic musi­ cianship and poetic analysis of the world at large. Experience the Grasshopper way of the walk on their new 7”, and check them out when they come to town, earplugs in tow, G.

Entertainm ent

P age 14

The other side of the Platoon B Y C H R IS S H E R ID A N I k now w hat y ou ’re think­ ing. W hy doesn ’t Oliver Stone get o ver this Vietnam thing? But o f the hundreds o f m ainstream films m ade about the Vietnam W ar, n o m atter h ow critical, how m any have actually told the Vi­ etnam ese p eo p le’s story? T h at sim ple fact places Stone’s new ­ est film, H eaven a n d Earth, in the history b ook s. In that sense, the m ovie is m uch m ore sensi­ tive and objective than Stone’s previous tw o Vietnam flicks, Pla­ toon and B om on the Fourth o f

with the ‘golden land of plenty* soon turns sour as her husband’s struggle with his ow n violent past b eco m es overw helm ing.

Hayslip finds herself amidst an­ other war, this time without guns, but n o less painful.

Beautiful w ide-angle and

July.

The script is b ased on Le Ly Hayslip’s bcx>k, When Heaven

a n d E arth C h a n g ed P laces, about h er battle on three fronts during and after the w ar in Viet­ nam . As a young, naive peasant w o m a n in th e early 1 9 60s, Hayslip’s (played by n ew com er Hiep Thi Le) w orld is quickly turned inside out during the Vietnam W ar.

After being rap ed by m em ­ b ers o f the Viet Cong, tortured b y the South Vietnam ese and humiliated by her village, she m eets an American G.I. in Sai­ gon (Tom m y Lee Jo n es). They fall in love, marry and, w hen Saigon begins to fall to the Viet Cong, they leave for the United States.

Hayslip’s initial amazement

A t least it's not C harlie Sheen panning helicopter shots o f the Vietnam ese countryside, co m ­ bined with detailed attention to sharp colours, give the film an underlying spiritual tone.

H ow ever, Stone’s direction is problem atic at times. The first tw enty minutes is jam m ed with scen es and images from village life while Hayslip narrates h er story .The tightly-packed scen es make the audience feel as though

it is flipping through a cheesy p h oto album, bom barded with spiritual, em otional, and politi­ cal shots.

Stone sacrifices som e of the authenticity o f the story through linguistic inconsisten­ cies. O nce the Vietnamese move outside the village and begin to interact with Am erican soldiers, their previously perfect English abruptly b eco m es broken Eng­ lish. This is often confusing and hard to follow.

In addition, the use of Jo a n Chen, as Hayslip’s mother, is a bit w eak. H er acting tends to b e inhibited and insincere.

C h en ’s w eak acting is counterb alan ced by Hiep Thi L e ’s perform ance. Critics have knocked Stone’s previous films for their lack o f strong female ch a ra c te rs. In H eaven a n d Earth, Le gives a good per­ form ance in an extrem ely de­ m anding role.

Hayslip’s return to her country thirteen years after the w a r reveals the present-day struggle o f the Vietnamese p eo ­ ple with the m em ory of the Vietnam war.

H eaven a n d Earth is a reasonably g o o d historical and personal accou n t o f the war.

But do North Am ericans really w ant to se e another Vietnam film from Stone?. This is per­ haps the film’s biggest tragedy.

It is a powerful anti-w ar state­ m ent— som ething n eed ed in a continent obsessed with glori­ fying violent conflict. If you like films that make you think (which Stone film doesn ’t5) , you ’ll find this o n e interesting.

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P.E.T . p e e v e s o n CBC B Y BRENDON YO RKE On the next four successive Sundays, the CBC will air the remaining episodes o f the much anticipated five-part series Pierre Eliot Trudeau Memoirs , which began January 9th. Even before being publicly broadcast, how­ ev er, B ria n a n d T e r e n c e McKenna’s documentary has re­ ceived heavy criticism for its obvi­ ously favourable bias and its lack of tabloid-style information.

The directorial duo emerged victorious in a battle against ornery veterans and their senator sup­ porters over their controversial series The Valour a n d the Horror.

Still, CBC bigwigs, who hid their heads in the sand when faced with The Valour backlash, and w ho sunk public funds into the Trudeau series, obviously desired to avoid similar controversy— Memoirs is treated with sappy politeness.

Furthermore, there is no doubt that Trudeau’s input into the project was significant. He did, after all, base his autobiogra­ phy Memoirs (which maintains its top spot on the Globe a n d M ails best-seller list, just ah ead o f Seinlanguagé) on the series. But those o f us w ho were not around, or w ere too young to care, when all the good stuff happened (didn’t his ex-wife sleep with Aerosmith?) are left with a sanitized version of his political life.

In the first part, which cov­ ers his childhood and his rise to political fame, the glimpses of his early personal life— rough-hous­ ing with his father, clowning for the hom e movie projector— are, according to biographical con­

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Even w hen the docum en­ tary does dig up som e dirt, such as when Trudeau admits that during his round-the-world ca­ vort in his mid-20s, he “smoked a lot o f things”, the subject is immediately dropped. Has he ever been stoned in Parliament?

Does he sm oke “things” today?

W e want to know.

In Trudeau Memoirs, the line separating biography and ‘o b je c tiv e ’ d o c u m e n ta ry is crossed. Rather than Trudeau the Man, the series portrays the char­ ismatic, vision-driven, and he­ roic elder statesman. The man w ho has been among the most influential— and damn near the most interesting— public figure remains only thaL As the single parent, ex-husband, sex symbol, swinger, lover— all the things w e’ve heard about but don’t know— Trudeau remains a mys­ tery. :lt “i i s i •i« i i i : i >f « i i

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T asteless un-PC m o vie o f th e w eek : The A ir Up There . True to the Power o f One - Cry Freedom - esque genre of movie - making - racism (ie: let’s talk about an oppressed/Other/ foreign/different group of people through the eye s of One White Man who leads the masses). It stars Kevin "I have potential but avoid good scripts at all costs and dance like an 80s banshee” Bacon. PLOT: white guy goes to Africa to recruit basketball play­ ers, then ends up coaching in an inter-tribal game. Trust the short white guy to teach the blacks to play sports. Hmm ...Maybe he’ll teach them to read!

Q uote o f th e w eek : “I didn’t get a Ph.D. I just said, T don’t want to work at Pizza H ut I don’t want to join the navy. I guess I’ll have to go out and be awesome.’” - Henry Rollins U p a n d C om in g in 1 9 9 4 Arsenio Hall and Ralph Benmergui land jobs as corre­ spondents for Travel Travel.

Rosie Perez caughtspeaking proper Q ueen’s English.

Prince changes name to low gurgly farting sound.

E v a n D an d o fa cia lly scarred and forgotten.

In a backlash against fe­ male athlete maimings, Ameri­ can Gladiator amazons crush the skulls of innocent male spec­ tators.

Roseanne Barr reveals she used to be Belinda Carlisle.

Winona Ryder? I hardly know her.

J o h n B o b b itt is r e ­ membered, stiches and all, in FOX Dick-u-drama

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The audience isn’t listening B Y IAN G A R TER

B akersfield PD is a gentle

O n e night during th e holi­ days I w as w atching o n e o f the seem ingly endless n u m b er o f sitcom s o n TV w ith a g rou p o f friends. Suddenly ev ery o n e in th e ro om b egan to laugh but I h ad n ’t h eard the jok e. I turned to so m e o n e b esid e m e to ask w hat w as so funny b u t sh e m erely sm iled and replied, “I d o n ’t k n o w .”

“So w hy the hell are you laughing?”, I questioned.

“B ecau se the TV w as," sh e sh o t b ack.

My television set tends to laugh a lot m o re than I do.

Show s like Fam ily M atters and th e o n e w ith Suzanne Som ers exag gerate our differences. This seaso n , h ow ever, th e tables h av e turned thanks to F O X net­ w o rk ’s n ew series B akersfield

PD. T h e n ew half-hoursitcom , w ritten and p ro d u ced by Larry Levin (.It's G ary S h a n d lin g ’s Show ) has n o laugh track. It relies o n sh arp dialogue, e x ce l­ lent acting and su p erior p ro ­ duction values. B ut th e series m ay n ot even survive the sea­ so n . It finished in 99th position o f a possible 100 in th e Nielsen ratings in the fall.

but hilarious takeoff o n th e tw o Blues: H ill Street an d NYPD. T h e co p s in this sh o w e n co u n ­ ter a lot less action than their cou n terp arts in the h o u r long dram a land. W h en D etective W ad e P eterson (R on Eldard) com plains that h e d o e sn ’t have a large en ou g h assignm ent, the

Bakersfield PD is the

most interesting, hilarious piece of Americana to hit the small screen this year captain o f the p recin ct (B rian D oyle-M urray) su ggests letting a p risoner go. W ad e cou n ters, “C om e o n , y o u k n o w it takes him half a d ay to d o anything.”

It is the interplay b etw een the ch aracters that is th e k ey to the sh o w ’s su ccess. W h en Paul G igante (G iacarlo E sp osito), a v e te r a n C h ic a g o D e te c tiv e m oves to th e sm all tow n o f Bakersfield, W ad e is thrilled.,

“A B lack co p , this is just like TV." T h e tw o b e co m e partners but th e relationship is un easy at best. G igante is friendly but serious w hile W ad e is hyper­ se n s itiv e a n d id io sy n c ra tic .

W h e n W a d e ’s co lle ctio n o f E a rth , W ind a n d F ire an d D o n n a Som m ers re co rd s g o m issing, G ig an te relu ctan tly ag rees to help W ad e track them d ow n . H e then is forced to hold off W ad e as h e scream s at the street vend or, “I se e Sixties, I se e Eight­ ies. W h at’s m issing pal?”

Th e disgruntled vendor re­ plies, “Seventies. I’m tryin’ to m ak e a livin’ out h e re .”

T h e show ’s laid-back style, lack o f laugh-track, strange char­ acters an d racial co n ten t m ay b e off-putting to so m e, but B akersfield PD is the m ost in­ terestin g, hilarious p ie ce o f A m erican a to hit the sm all scre e n this year. D espite its initial p o o r ratings, F O X is co n ­ tinuing to plug th e sh ow . It m ay ju s t h a v e a c h a n c e . W h o w atch ed Seinfeld's first season?

A nd th e television w as laugh­ ing at that sh ow .

Bakersfield /© a p p e a r s on CFCF 12, W ed n esd ay nights at 7 :3 0 .

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P age 17

M a rtle t B -b a ll s ta g g e rs a w a y a s 1 9 9 4 M IT ch ai I I Lpions B Y K A S H IF ZA H O O R The battle-w eary McGill Martlets limped off the court at th e 1 5 th a n n u a l M a rtle t Invitational Tournament (MIT) last w eekend as cham pions for the second year in a row.

McGill opened the tourney by pounding the Q ueen’s Golden Gaels by 46 points, 96-50. Point guard Sandra Veillette scored 13 points in the first half, including three shots from dow ntow n.

McGill’s excellent ball m ovement and sharp shooting gave them a 51-22 lead at the half.

With the gam e for all pur­ poses already decided, the only real point of interest in the sec­ ond half w as if McGill could surpass the century mark.

C ontinuing from w here they left off before the intermis­ sion, the Martlets kept pouring on the points. Point guard Jennifer Stacey connected on four bas­ kets from three-point territory.

As usual, Vicki Tessier, had an­ other “average” gam e scoring a team high 24 points and cleaned the glass for ten boards.

In the second gam e o f the MIT, the Martlets had a date with th e ir cro s s-to w n rivals, the Concordia Stingers. After an early

against St. Francis-Xavier season lo s s to (S F X ).

SFX u p set Concordia, McGill had Concordia in the first beaten the Stingers 64round 79-61, and was 58 in Loyola in late No­ com ing off a 77-72 over­ vember, and Concordia tim e th r ille r over was looking to return Q ueen’s. the favour.

Xavier’s ferocious The s e v e n th lull court press left; McGill ranked Stingers looked a bit shaken and dazed like they w ere going to and forced the Martlets do just that in the open­ to m ake mental errors. ing four minutes o f the Th e turnover bug bit game. They pounced all McGill 15 times in the over sixth ranked McGill first half. The turnovers, 7-0. The Martlets fought missed free throws, and back with a 15-7 run, p oor shooting forced by an d to o k th e le a d th e d e fe n ce a llo w e d briefly, 1 5 -1 4 , o n a Xavier to take the early Tessier free throw with £ lead 26-20. In spite of all just under nine minutes | the errors, the Martlets le ft in th e h alf. £ trailed by only two at the Concordia took advan­ ■a half. tage of 16 McGill turno­ 2 McGill cam e back vers to regain the lead for the last half in per­ 25-23 at halftime. haps their gutsiest played The Martlets re­ 20 minutes o f the sea­ turned to the court in son. In a back and forth the second half a differ­ affair, the lead changed ent team . First they M artlet Josée Deloretto looks fo r the open teammate hands five times in the evened the score at 31, period.

T ou rn am en t MVP Vicki and then took control o f the SFX kept hammering and Tessier led all scorers with 27, gam e 43-35 at the ten minute harassing the McGill point guards while she and Jo sée Deloretto mark. McGill cruised to 60-53 all afternoon. Stacey and Veillette grabbed seven rebounds each. win, committing only two turno­ picked themselves off the ground The first tw o wins set the vers along the w ay in the secon d tim e after time. U n daunted, stage for the championship gam e session.

McGill kept com ing at the X W om en.

The Martlets regained the lead 28-26 in the early going, and seem ed to gain control 44-38 with just under nine minutes to play. Xavier, which battled back from 10+ point deficits on three occasions in the Q ueen’s game, w asn’t about to pack its bags. A 14-4 run with five minutes re­ maining gave the X-W om en a 50-48 edge. That’s w hen an ex­ hausted Martina Van der Vlist, w ho played in all but tw o min­ utes for the last two gam es, and Tessier d ecid ed enough w as enough. Van der Vlist nailed two key free throws with three and half minutes left, to give the Martlets the lead for good 51-50.

A Van der Vlist jumper from the baseline and a Tessier layup on a beautiful feed from Deloretto iced the gam e for McGill. Stacey prevented any ch an ce o f an SFX com eback by dribbling the clock away in the gam e’s final minute giving the Martlets the 55-51 win.

It w as McGill’s sixth straight win dating back to November 26th.

McGill resumes league play this Friday in Lennoxville against the hapless Bishop’s Gaiters.

McGill em barrassed the Gaiters 70-34 at h om e earlier this season.

Volleyball Martlets drop weekend set at Laval B Y D A V ID B E Z M O Z G IS The McGill Martlets vol­ leyball squad faced a tough o p ­ ponent in the Laval R ouge et Or last Saturday and Sunday. McGill, last in their division, w ere h op ­ ing to steal a win against an opponent that they had failed to beat all season. Unfortunately, the Martlets, despite fine efforts on both days, w ere defeated each day by 3-1 scores.

Saturday’s m atch p roved to be a very clo se affair. The Martlets played a solid gam e defensively, and w ere able to challenge the Rouge et O r in every gam e. After dropping the first tw o gam es by scores o f 1015 an d 1 2 -1 5 th e M artlets show ed a lot o f com p osu re by rebounding to win the third gam e by an impressive 15-7 count. N ew com er Sylvie Naud, w ho joined the squad this se­ m ester, had an impressive fif­ teen individual kills and eight b lock s in Saturday’s action .

Naud’s perform ance, along with that o f Jillian King, (w h o co n ­ tributed six kills an d th ree blocks) and six-foot-four Britta W eise, starting in h er first full gam e Saturday, w as integral in keeping the Martlets com peti­

they dropped the first gam e 9-15 w as not as com petitive as the tive throughout the day’s play. they evened the count by taking previou s d ay’s. Th e Martlets Sadly, the Martlets’ h op es o f a the next o ne 15-12. H ow ever, cam e out with a little m ore steam sp e c ta c u la r c o m e b a c k w e re the next tw o gam es b elon ged to in the early going, and although thwarted as Laval m anaged to the R ouge et Or, regroup and take the w h o lim ite d th e final gam e 9-15, and M a rtle ts t o te n the “W ” for their winpoints in the third, colum n. and only tw o in the McGill c o a c h , fo u rth a n d fin al Rachèle Béliveau, was gam e. quite pleased with her King led the team ’s perform ance, Martlets on Sunday, despite the outcom e. registering eleven Béliveau believed that kills and adding five d e f e n s iv e ly th e blocks. With eight M a rtle ts m a t c h e d kills and four blocks, Laval admirably, and Naud m anaged to it w as only McGill’s follow up h er solid inability to run a faster perform ance o f the offence that m ay have day before with an­ cost the Martlets the oth er stable effort. win. ® A c c o r d in g to “L a v a l a ls o x Béliveau, how ever, played good defence,” ^ her team ’s performsaid Béliveau, “b e ­ •s ance on this day w as cau se o f this there „ not nearly as good w ere too m any long § as the previous one. rallies.” These long ral­ rS Although the lies, although exciting H Martlets have lost all fo r th e s p e c ta to rs , o f th e ir g a m e s proved detrimental to against their divi­ a team attempting to sional rivals, they w ork rapidly in tran­ still have the o p p or­ sition and score the tunity o f advancing quick point.

L aval once again blocked M artlet aspirations into the playoffs. In Sunday’s contest

order to accom plish this the Martlets face tw o m ust-win co n ­ tests against the Concordia Sting­ ers in a hom e and h om e series com ing up Jan u ary 22 and 23.

W inning both gam es guaran­ tees the Martlets a playoff spot, a first in the three-year history o f w om en ’s volleyball at McGill, and w ould no doubt p rove a trem endous shot in the arm for the neophyte program .

“T here is a big rivalry b e ­ tw een us and C oncordia,” ad­ mitted King, “but w e have the talent and desire, and w e ’re g o ­ ing to give it our all,” she co n ­ cluded with genuine optimism.

Betw een n ow and the vital Concordia m atches McGill still has an invitational tournam ent in O ttawa next w eek. Beliveau believes that h er team has a solid ch an ce at finishing in the top three, if not in first place, against w hat sh e considers a w eaker field o f O ntario o p p o ­ nents. Although the Martlets o ccu p y the cellar in their divi­ sion, the level o f play by the O ntario sch ools is not exp ected to b e equivalent to that o f their d iv is io n a l r iv a ls - L a v a l, Sherbrooke and Université de Montréal, all ranked in the top ten nationally.

P age 18

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UQTR dow ns M artlets B Y D A N TE PA SG A LI After playing a string of uninspired gam es, the McGill w om en’s hockey team show ed a bit more mettle in a road game last Sunday against the Université du Q u é b e c à T rois-R ivières (UQTR). The Martlets played very well in a losing cause, falling by a final score of 6-2.

Although UQTR took the lead in the first period, the Martlets’ Heidi Bloomfield quickly evened up the score, showing a glim p se o f th at d esp erately needed offensive punch. Never­ theless, McGill w ent to the dress­ ing room down a goal due to a late tally by the Patriotes.

UQTR added two goals in the seco n d session, but the Martlets cam e back in the final period with Claire Sharpe man­ aging Ur put one past the UQTR goalie for McGill’s second of the gam e, to pull within two. It was too little too late, how ever, as the Patriotes put another one behind Martlet netm inder Septem ber Weir. The final goal w ent into an empty net.

H ead coach Geoff Phillip» w as pleased with the team ’s play.

“It was the best gam e of the year. A team effort where very

few mistakes w ere made. W e have a young and developing team with good talented rookies [and only four veterans] and w e are working towards next year,” said Phillips.

Although McGill only man­ aged two goals, it was promising to a team that has been suffering from a definite lack of offence. In their last eight games they have scored a total of six goals.

Bloomfield was happy with the performance.

“W e played really well.

W e’re improving as w e are prac­ tising hard and the team seem s to be coming together. There is an emphasis on shooting more which results in more opportunities. W e w ere able to cut the score down and are more competitive,” she said.

Weir was optimistic with the team's outlook.

“It was a pretty good game.

W e are coming together. W e were capable of beating [UQTR]. There is nowhere to go, but up," said Weir.

T h e M a rtle ts ’ r e c o r d dropped to 0-9 in league games, and they will face off against CEGEP St.-Laurent on Saturday, January 15th, at 6 :30 PM at the McConnell Arena.

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Notes & Quotes Redmen St. Germain honoured Val St. Germain, a standout offensive line stalwart for the Redmen throughout the last four years, has been selected to take part in the East-West Shrine game in Palo Alto, California this Saturday. St. Germain, a six-foot-four, 290-pound native of ottawa, O nt was one of the two Canadians annually chosen to take part in the game.

Redmen Head Coach Charlie Baillie was ecstatic about his player's selection.

“He’s so talented, and he has done so much for our team in the last four years, that he is truly deserving of this honour,” stated Baillie. “I am also confident that he will be able to hold his own against the competition at the game.”

St. Germain, in an interview with Senior Editor Earl Zukerman of The Currie Bugle, admitted that playing in the prestigious game had crossed his mind, “Going to the East-West Shrine game is something that I’ve thought about since grade 13 when I heard that Chris Gioskos of the Ottawa Gee-Gees had been selected.

St. Germain spends this week practising in Palo Alto, before the big game on Saturday, which will be televised nationally on ESPN. ”

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The McGill track team travelled to Hanover, New Hampshire, last weekend to take part in the Dartmouth Relays, their first meet of the season. Miler Rosie Mullins, the women’s 4x400m relay and the women’s medley relay all pulled off third place finishes. Other strong performers were Max Oates

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Last weekend at the Dalhousie Invitational Men’ Basketball tournament, in Halifax, McGill overcame twr losses to finally beat the University of Toronto (U of T the seventh-place game, The Redmen opened with a first round 85-65 rou at the hands of Saint Mary’s. Doug McMahon’s 12-poin and 10- rebound reply was the best any Redman couk muster.

In round two, on Saturday, the Red-and-Whit< was pounded 91-76 by Cape Breton despite having let file Capers 42-40 at the half.

McMahon, with 17 points, was once again the toj Redman, while Chad Wozney chalked up 15 and Todt McDougall netted 10.

Sunday’s game against U of T was only to be î face-saver with both teams trying to avoid occupying th< cellar of the eight-team tournament. The Redmen tool a first-half 38-25 lead before finishing off the Varsiq Blues 74-50. McDougall racked up a game high of 2; points. Ryan Schpenhals tallied 18 and Keith Driscol added 10 .

On Wednesday, January 5th, the Redmen player a warm-up game at the University of Prince Edwart Island (UPEI). The Panthers crushed McGill 93-68. Douf McMahon and Jon Campbell had 13 and 11 point; respectively in the losing cause, McGill will next hit the courts on Friday ai Bishop’s University.

While many students were at home relaxing during their vaca­ tion, the McGill swim team spent most of their time preparing for the second half of their competitive season at a training camp at Freeport in the Bahamas between December 26th and January 9th.

The athletes had the weather on their side, fortunately, as they practised at Freeport High School’s

outdoor pool, having only about three days rain in total. These con­ ditions suited Carol Chiang, one of the 22 swimmers.

“It was a lot warmer than -40 degrees (in Montreal),” she said jokingly. “We got a lot of sun.”

Coach François Laurin had the swimmers woiking in the pool once a day for the first three days, then twice a day for the next three days. Eventually the training mounted to three times a day and

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Track team out o f the blocks early

with a fourth-place triple jump of 13.78 meters that wa; just 2 cm off the national standard and Ingrid Marchant whose 10.93 meter triple jump was good for fifth place

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was then cut back to twice a da and finally, once a day again.

Laurin went down to the Ba hamas with a couple of goals ii mind.

“One of [the objectives was to get the whole team togethe again and kind of recharge every thing for the new season,” he com mented. “Also, to get a good cul tural exchange with the peopk down there. They learn team spin and other things like that.”

Chiang agreed that the camf was a huge success.

“It was a great team bondir^ and we all got to know each othei really well,” she said enthusiasti­ cally. “There was a whole bunch 61 new things that we did.”

Some of these “new things’ were exercises to test the athletes reactions to waves, and plyometrics a series of exercises that work or the neuro-muscular system ant improve jumping skills.

Laurin believed that the at­ mosphere of the Bahamas was ja good change of pace.

“Everything was very differ­ ent from training in the gym. All ql a sudden you’re working very hard but you don’t notice because it’s sc nice,” he said.

The young men and women also got the chance to enjoy them­ selves and experience some of the culture of the Bahamas.

“We did a lot of things there/1 said Chiang. “Yesterday [January 8th] was one of the major festivals.

It’s just amazing.”

The swimmers will get their first chance to show off their tans on Saturday, January 15th at l’Université de Montréal.

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and Todd Hanrahan, the defensive squad has allowed an average of only 2.64 goals per game.

Despite sporting a 7-4 winOn Tuesday, the Redmen oss record in league play, the travel to Ottawa to face the Geetedmen hockey team is third in their Gees, who have been the other livision, with Concordia only one thorn in McGill’s side this season. All >oint behind. Their inability to beat four league losses this season have livisional rivals continued on Friday come at the hands of either Ottawa vith a 4-1 loss at Trois-Rivières to the or Trois-Rivières. In the 4-1 loss in atriotes.

Ottawa on December third, McGill’s Head coach Jean Pronovost play was anything but inspiring. A «is disappointed with the loss, but win against the Gee-Gees will how­ ejected the claim that the team ever pull the Redmen even >layed poorly. with Ottawa in the "We played well, but standings, and will prodo think we can play beter. On the other hand, I o vide a needed psychoJ2 logical boost. lon’t know if Trois-Rivières £ Coach Pronovost ould have played better han they did. They had an Jj believes that the team has £ the potential to start win­ xcellen t g a m e,” said 4» ning the crucial games ronovost. c 3 The game was a se-C against their divisional ri­ ies of unlucky breaks for 'E vals, and improve on their H division record. he Redmen. In the first peiod, Trois-Rivières had only “We have a system, ive shots, but two went but we must consistently >ast McGill netm inder execute it during the atrick Jeanson, the top U nsuccessful return from p ra iries fo r Redm en game. If we do that, and freshman Benoit Leroux, who suf­ ;oalie in the nation. The third goal capitalise on a few more of our iy the Patriotes really took the wind scoring chances, we won’t get as fered a stretched ligament injury frustrated with ourselves, like we are during the Saskatoon Christmas tour­ iut of McGill’s game. A high clearing hot from McGill’s blue line was lost doing now,” said Pronovost nament, and who will be out for n the air by everyone in the arena McGill’s next home game is three weeks. accept two Patriotes forwards who this Friday at 7:30 PM against the Despite the loss, McGill’s de­ vent in alone on Jeanson for the fence is the best in the nation, based Concordia Stingers. For this game 5oai. McGill spoiled the Trois-Rivières on goals allowed. Led by Jeanson, there will be a special admission ihut-out with only twelve seconds December’s Molson Cup Player of price of $1 for students and $3 for emaining in the game, on a goal by adults. the Month, and seniors David Huck team captain Marc Vigneault. *We didn't get the breaks, and we didn't seize the opportunities which we did get,” said Pronovost.

Power-play inconsistency con­ tinued to plague the Redmen of­ fence, as it has in past games with the Patriotes. They were able to convert only one opportunity out of nine that night, despite a 20 percent success rate in the season overall.

McGill’s offence will further be hurt with the loss of their top goal scorer,

B Y C H R IS T O P H E R R IG N E Y

The Saskatchewan game marked a milestone in the history of Canadian university hockey, as the Huskies dressed goaltender Monique Finnie. Despite seeing no action, Finnie was the first female player to dress for a men’s game in Canadian Interuniversity Athletic Union his­ tory. The University of Saskatch­ ewan does not have a women’s hockey team.

The highlight of the tourna­ ment for the Redmen was an eightgoal margin of victory over the Ohio State Buckeyes. With first-string netminder Patrick Jeanson back between the pipes, the Redmen buried the Buckeyes with a fivegoal third period. Third-year for­ ward Stacey McGregor was named the second star of the game, after notching a hat trick and an assist.

Superior performances were turned in by leading scorer Guy Boucher, who dished out four assists, while sophomore sniper Todd Marcell us scored two of McGill’s four power play goals. The power play con­ verted on four of its 13 chances.

With an opportunity to ad­ vance in the tournament, the Redmen took on the Regina Cougars two days later. McGill, however, was sent packing, as the Cougars scored five goals with the man advantage.

The lone bright spot for the Redmen was the play of rookie rearguard Martin Routhier, who tank'd his third goal of the season.

While most McGill students were at home on Boxing Day trying to decide which Christmas presents to keep and which to return, the men’s hockey team travelled to Saskatoon to take part in the Univer­ sity of Saskatchewan Winter Chillout.

The prairie tournament offered the Redmen a reprieve from the usual rivalries within the Ontario Univer­ sities Athletic Association, and a chance to face tough western teams against which they are not usually scheduled to play. Results for the Redmen were mixed, however, as McGill romped over the Ohio State Buckeyes by a 10-2 tally, while falling to the host Huskies and the University of Regina Cougars by scores of 3-2 and 6-1.

The Redmen opened their tournament play in a showdown against the Huskies, as McGill Head Coach Jean Pronovost opted to give backup rookie goaltender Richard Boscher the starting nod. After fall­ ing behind on an early Huskie goal, second-year forward Mike Buffone pulled the Redmen even with his fifth goal of the season.

Despite stopping 3 6 of the 3 9 shots which he faced, Boscheris cause was not aided by the sud­ denly anemic Redmen offense, which managed only one more goal in a 3-2 opening loss.

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