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B a s e m e n t - S c o tia T o w e r Sherbrooke W . 3 8 4 -5 3 5 6

DailySalad Bar & Hot Meals byWeight B a k e r y , P a s tr y , D e li A v i s i t is a M UST Y eghoyan n a b s to p jo b at S S M U Inter-Residence Coun­ cil President Sevag Yeghoyan celebrates his presidential victory last Friday night. Yet, several candidates have considered re­ questing a recount.

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In s id e T h is W e e k New s:

Election fever sweeps the Shatner Building.

See pag e 3 O p /E d : Students gave up the right to com­ plain in last week's elections.

S e e e d i t o r ia l , p a g e 6 F e a tu r e s :

Feminist activist and University of Ottawa professor Rozena Maart calls for white women to recog­ nize racism within the feminist movement.

S e e p a g e 11 E n t e r t a in m e n t :

The Pogues' Spider Stacy tells the Tribune their recipe for success.

S ee p a g e 15 S p o rts :

It’s that time of the year again—time for the Tribune's Athlete of the Year reader poll.

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d a y s , 7 :3 0 -1 0

Monique Shebbeare

Jack Sullivan

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Charles Thomas

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With a commanding 261 vote lead over her nearest Incumbent Pauljohnson was re-electedfor the position competitor, U3 biology student Jen Small won her bid for of Students’ Society (SSMU) VP Finance by a slimmargin over the position of Students’ Society (SSMU) VP University U2 Management Student Carol Zabbal. The official count Affairs. Small captured 802 of the 2,425 votes cast. favouredjohnson with 1,318votes, or 53percent of the votes Small attributed her success to the dedication of her cast for the position. Zabbal came up with 1,145 votes. supporters and her rigorous campaigning schedule.

“I’ve learned so much during the campaign—it was a Runner-up SalmanSyed, who finishedwith 541votes, building experience,” commented Zabbal following the an­ felt that equity concerns were deciding issues in the race. nouncement of the election results last Friday. She also stated “Sexual and racial harassment were the central is­ that she intends to remain involved in McGill activities such sues,” said Syed. “I think the race was won around the as publications, the McGill Christian Fellowship and the Arab whole issue of equity.”

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Chris Carter, who came in fourth with 340 votes, also “This [election] has been worth it and a confidence voiced support for Small. builder,” she commented.

“Obviously people weren’t ready for an openly gay Following the results, Johnson, a fourth year engineer­ candidate,” said Carter, political coordinator for Lesbians, ing student, remarked on his plans for next year.

Jen S m all Gays and Bisexuals of McGill (LBGM). “But I am happy to “I was ill during the campaign, but I had a strong P a u l Johnson work with a pro-gay candidate next year.” message. We’ll stay on schedule and in the next Some of the other candidates expressed budget try to better reflect our students’ priorities. disappointment, but said they were satisfied Of course, we have the same constraints as this year, A n e w k in g f o r S h a t n e r ’s p a la c e with the way in which they ran their cam­ and within that framework we’ll strive to work saidYeghoyan. “1can’twaitto get started.” paigns.

BY PATRICK FRUGHET better,” he noted.

Yeghoyan also indicated that he “I campaigned as hard as I possibly Some changes to the current financing for could,” said Steven Douglas, who finished Inter-Residence Council (IRC) Presi­ was surprised by the nastiness of the clubs will include electing or choosing finance with 241 votes. dent Sevag Yeghoyan has emerged as the campaign. commissioners to work closely with the growing “Politics, even in student govern­ With the victory announcement barely victor in the tightly contested race for number of McGill clubs. Another change planned ment, can get quite behind her, Small indicated there was only a Students’ Society (SSMU) for next year is a used textbook co-op. Johnson dirty,” he remarked.

President. Yeghoyan gar­ short lull before her responsibilities com­ described the planned co-op as “a kind of textbook Yeghoyan has menced. nered 21 per cent of the bank which students could sell their old books to succeeded with his bid “The first thing I’m going to do is to talk vote, beating out his near­ and get the money directly.” for the presidency with­ to all of the VP Academics from the under­ est rival, Arts Senator “We’ve got a fantastic teamfor next year, with out having sported a graduate societies,” said Small. “My first prior­ Richard Latour, by a mere a lot of ambition and tremendous potential,” pre­ pre-established pres­ 11 votes. ity before the summer starts is to make sure dictedJohnson. “I’mlooking forward to next year— ence in SSMU. Yeghoyan’s total of there is good communication between them we’re going to go far.”

His chief rival 595 votes represents just and the SSMU.” Latour ran on his expe­ over 3per cent of all eligi­ Lucy Georgakopoulos and Jose Saban rience in SSMU while ble voters—2,807 votes rounded out the field of candidates, and C o r n e ll c lo b b e r s Yeghoyan stressed his where cast in the Presi­ finished with 457 and 44 of the votes respec­ past role in the political dential election. tively. life of Residences.

Candidate Tracey c o m p e titio n Yeghoyan had noted in Solomon came in a close an earlier debate that third with 573 votes.

BY D A V ID KRUSE B e n e d ic t n ic k s while he had not been Howard Markowitz came actively involved in the in fourth place, only 36 As expected, Cornell Wright will be returning c o m p e titio n Society, he was the only votes behind the winner. as Students’ Society (SSMU) VP Internal next year. candidate who had Fadi Ei-Jaouni and Edward Sevag Yeghoyan

BY PAROMITA SHAH Wright captured 70 per cent of the 2,522 votes cast been president of a stu­ to defeat U2EngineeringstudentMatthew Paterson.

Saad rounded off the field dent organization.

In the bid for Students’ Society (SSMU) “We’ve upped the ante,” exclaimed Wright. with 253 and 243 votes respectively.

Latour complimented Yeghoyan VP External, Nick Benedict prevailed by cap­ Due to the close results, it is ex­ “We have the plan and now we will effect changé on hiscampaign, statingthat ifhe brought in a positive way.” turing 51 per cent of the 2,239votes castfor the pected that a recount will be requested. position. Distant runner-up David D’Andrea President-elect Yeghoyanexpressed such methods to bear at the Students’ Paterson said he will turn his focus to gradu­ garnered 30 per cent of the vote, with last ating next year but plans to remainactive in student his happiness with the results and indi­ Society he would be a good president. life.

“If he runs SSMUas well as he ran place candidate Eric Bondo receiving 19. cated that he had learned a lot from the “I plan to ask Cornell about which commit­ his campaign, things should not be that Benedict was elated and surprised with race. tees I could serve on,” he said his decisive victory.

“1learned quite a bit about SSMU,” bad,” said Latour.

Paterson also said that he might run again “I can’t believe that I’ve won. It’s so great next year. to see that McGill’s safety is seen as enough of An estimated 15 per cent of SSMU members cast ballots in the election. Paterson a priority to vote for me,” he said. expressed dismay concerning the apathy displayed by McGill students during the election.

When askedabout his immediate plans for implementation of the McGill Ghetto Safety “McGill students are apathetic. People are bored with politics,” he claimed.

Audit, he replied that it was his paramount concern.

Paterson also complained that the level of advertising for the election was not “There is so much work to do. But it’s my number one priority. I am going to have sufficient, a problem he attributed to Wright. the whole summer to prepare for this,” he claimed.

“It’s Cornell’s job to get people out to vote,” said Paterson.

Although D’Andrea was disappointed by the outcome, he voiced support for Benedict.

Wright agreed that the voter turn-out was low.

"Our platforms were similar. Hopefully he’ll pull it off.” D’Andrea maintained.

He felt his loss could be attributed to the limited time and constraints on the campaign.

“The campaign seemed a lot quieter this year. Nine­ teencandidates ran[for SSMUexecutive positions]. Some rat “Unfortunately, a lot of candidates work under the and some didn’t,” he stated. “I felt that the candidates did a same conditions. It’s really hard to go out and say some­ belter job last year getting around to see the students.” thing substantive in 15 words or less. But really there’s not Wright explained his own absence on the campaign much you can do to change it,” he lamented. trail by pointing to his prior commitments as the current VI’ The thirdcandidate, U1 student Eric Bondo, admitted Internal. that his campaign fell short of his personal expectations. He “I was busy fulfilling my obligations as incumbent,” he argued that the reticence of many anglophones to vote for noted. a francophone may have also played a role.

“I hoped that my election would be seen as an open­ U2 Political Science student Scott Mahaffy said he did not vote because he failed to observe any strong commit­ ing for francophones to get into office. I think people are ment to change in any of the candidates. a little afraidof francophones holding office,” he suggested.

“Most of the candidates are drowning in a sea of!

Bondo also expressed some reservations about conservatism. What we need is more radicalism, a little more Benedict’s platform regarding McGill’s involvement with militancy. People are modelling themselves after Brandon | the Fédération Etudiante Universitaire du Québec (FEUQ).

Walsh and not Tom Hayden,” he commented.

“I hope that he [Nick] won’t get into FEUQ too fast.

Wright felt that the people had spoken clearly.

He should really think about the pros and cons before “The message that students sent was—it wasn’t per­ getting in. 1know he wants to get McGill out of isolationbut fect, but we’ll extend his contract for 365 days.”

C ornell W right N ic k Benedict FEUQ is not the only solution.”

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are disallowed for a variety of but after a certain number of reasons,” Harman said Sunday. votes, Jane and I became suspi­ “It’s usually a mistake—they’re cious that something was wrong. ” Harman and Rhee contacted ballots that for several reasons The results of last week’s Students’ Society (SSMU) Presi­ haven’t been securely counted.” the Registrar’s office and deter­ “We can’t guarantee where mined that because of a fault in dential election prompted ques­ tions concerning the integrity of they came from,” Harman added. the program, medicine and law s tu d e n ts Sev­ the voting process. Inter-Resi­ were not reg­ dence Council (IRC) President eral candi­ istering as dates, in­ Sevag Yeghoyan won the elec­ “ A t firs t w e th o u g h t undergradu­ tion by a margin of only eleven d u d i n g ates. Officials th e y w e re ineligible for votes, the smallest margin of vic­ SSMUTran­ in the Regis­ sit Network tory in recent years. s o m e re a s o n , b u t a fte r trar’s office President Arts Senator Rich Latour, a c e rta in n u m b e r o f said that the who finished second, and Sci­ H o w a r d problemwas Markowitz, v o te s , Ja n e and i ence Undergraduate Society VP related to the lodged Finance Tracey Solomon, who b e c a m e s u s p ic io u s th a t fact that law complaints finished 22 votes behind s o m e th in g w a s w r o n g .” and medi­ Yeghoyan, are considering re­ during the - D a v e H a rm a n , C h ie f cine students questing recounts. SSMUCo-Chief voting pe­ pay student Returning Officer Dave Harman riod be­ R e tu rn in g O ffic e r fees to both cause stu­ said that no written request had SSMU and dents in the been received as of yesterday the Post faculties of morning. law and medicine initially were Graduate Students’ Society.

Among the controversial Harman said that a hearing aspects of the balloting was the refused voting rights despite be­ of the SSMUJudicial Board was a high number of both spoiled and ing members of SSMU. Harman distinct possibility. “void” ballots. Harman and Jane said the problem stemmed from “I personally don’t think a computer-verification program Rhee, the other Chief Returning that there’s grounds for it,” he provided by the Registrar’s of­ Officer, reported 170 spoiled bal­ said. “But it’s a possibility. Every fice. lots and 95 void ballots in the final “We use a program de­ student that is an interested party, election results. A void ballot is one which was not signed by the signed by the Registrar’s office,” that is a candidate, has the right he said. “At first we thought they to take this to Judicial Board." polling station clerk. were ineligible for some reason, Last year, VP External candidate “Void ballots are ballots that Alexander Boldizar contested election results and the Judicial Board, composed of five upper■ Transport Canada Transports Canada year law students, granted a sec­ | t | Aviation Aviation ond election.

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The Board of Governors and Senate The race for the student representative to the Board of Governors, McGill’s executive decision-making committee, was won by U2 Engi­ neering student Will Phillipson. Phillipson, also current president os ihe Engineering Undergraduate Society (EUS), was elected Friday night w ith 1,102 votes to Roy Shantanu’s 790.

Students also voted for representatives to McGill’s Senate. The Senate is McGill’s central body for the discussion of academic matters.

Successful Senate candidates representing three faculties were also announced last Friday night.

From the Faculty of Arts, Canadian Studies student Janet Bingley took one of the two Senate seats, while Arts Undergraduate Society (AUS) President Joe Wong procured the other.

Management will be sending student Stefan Hawes, who defeated a field of four other candidates, to Senate.

Science students Karen Kwok and Victoria Ahn will be represent­ ing their faculty.

Engineering Senators Rocco Varano and Zeina Hatem were acclaimed.

The Engineering Undergraduate Society The Engineering Undergraduate Society(EUS) recentlyannounced the results of its executive elections for next year. The positions of VP Services and VP Academic were both acclaimed, and will be held next year by U3 Mechanical Engineering student Mitch Ingham and U2 Electrical Engineering student Maurice Gibbs, respectively.

The race for president pitted current Civil Engineering Under­ graduate Society (CEUS) President Robin Petri and current EUS VP Academic Séverine De Wagheneire. Petri won by a margin of 55 votes.

Mechanical Engineering student Sylvain Grégoire succeeded to the seat of the EUS VP External, edging out Mechanical Engineering student Norman Spencer by 36 votes.

Current Mechanical Engineering VP External Cindy Lee will hold the position of VP Internal on EUS next year, having defeating U1 Civil Engineering student Mike Scott.

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The winners of the elections for the Arts Undergraduate Society (AUS) executive were also announced by Chief Returning Officers Dave Harman and Jane Rhee last Friday evening.

Three of the five positions on the AUS executive were acclaimed, with U2 Economics Rick Savone succeeding as VP Finance, U2 Political Science Nicole Gervais due to take over as VP Administration, and U2 Sociology Laila Brabander obtaining the position of VP Internal Affairs, The position for president was won by candidate U2 Political Science Leslie Ravenstein, who obtained 72 per cent of the students voting for the position.

U2 Political Science student Richard C. Latour won the race for VP Academic, defeating candidates U2 North American Studies Dan Furst and U2 North American Studies Danielle Bourgeois.

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a recommendation that anyone aspiring to the position of SSMU President must have a spoken r!i La Commission Franco­ profidency in both languages. It phone à McGill (CFM) has pre­ will be strongly advocated that pared a list of preliminary rec­ other executives should also be ommendations based on pro­ bilingual. posals raised during last month’s “They [President and VPs] nquiry into the status of should be bilingual because rancophones at McGill. Some McGill is an English university in of the proposed changes will be a French community,” Turcotte rated on by the Students’ Sodsaid. “If French students need sty of McGill (SSMU) as motions help, they should be able to get :o Coundl before the end of the service in French even at year. Students will vote on pro­ SSMU.” posed structural changes to the A major proposal put forth >SMU Constituby the CAF is :ibn by referen-i the elimination dtim next No­ of the position Commissioner Isabelle Turcotte vember. The'' of VP External.

I#M plans on' A Commissaire phone, which would be com­ laving its final posed o f francophone or Francophone eport and list would fill the francophile student representa­ pf recommen­ gap caused by tives from each faculty. These dations com­ the office’s changes would promote French pleted within and facilitate communication be­ elim ination, wo weeks. acting as a bi­ tween francophone students, in­ S cien ce lingual counci­ dividual faculties, and the SSMU. ïep and Co“[In] everyone’s mind, VP lor responsible prdonnatricede for issues re­ External is a useless position... a Commisslated to the sta­ [since] we don’t belong to any pn Isabelle tus of franco­ [extra-university student] organi­ jirard, U3 Quephone students zations. We want to make sure pec Studies at McGill. He or someone has a mandate to fol­ ean-François she would also low regarding all French issues,” Jpuliot, Law VP E x te rn a l A ndrew Work chair the Cau­ said Tremblay. “We would like îep Marian to create something like the cus FrancoTremblay, U3 Management stu­ dent Isabelle Turcotte, and SSMU /P External Andrew Work are 3 9 0 0 , ST-LA U R EN T he commissioners involved with _ _ 2 8 £ 9 4 6 2 _ j f l | his project.

The intent of the prelimi­ nary report is to familiarize SSMU councillors with relevant issues and fadlitate communication be­ C O M E J O IN tween SSMU and the CAF so that further improvements to recom­ mendations can be made. Pro­ t^ p o o l tables, B e s t P r ic e s posals such as using a bilingual aarrè, .aby foot on SSMU logo (AEUM) and deter­ M ACHOS mining the preferred language BEER & BO O ZE with hot salsa sauce of each student for correspond­ every day and night on the Main! ence with the Administration office are both cost effident and easy to implement.

“The Commission wasn’t YOUR EVENING STARTS liming to create a revolution but :o change little and practical TW’V ' 0 WSITa H A GOOD M E A L ve som e m oney! ilings which can make a big difference,” said Work. “[For in­ B e e r S p e c ia l E very D ay stance] the frosh booklets are Filet Mignon......................................................................... $ 7 .9 5 pilingual. We can cut our mateMussels (large platter) (with fries or rice) . . . ........... $ 6 .9 5 ial costs by half if we know vhich language people prefer Chicken Leg Special (served with rice, fries & salad).. $ 5 .5 0 md still achieve the same objecives.”

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A number of administra­ tive changes have also been recommended by the CAF. One such proposal is for McGill to identify students’ proficiency in French on their diplomas.

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EDITORIAL Another year, another election. Another poor turn­ out. Until the vaunted Shatner referendum two years ago, twenty percent turnout at a Students’ Society (SSMU) gen­ eral election would have been cause for celebration around the house that Kirk built. But since that fateful Friday the 13th when the Union Build­ ing ceased to be and the stu­ dents of McGill uncloaked the William Shatner University Centre, twenty percent has become a regularity. You could, argue, as some have, that the past three elections have provided students with a real reason to come out and vote: in 1992 for the afore­ mentioned Shatner christen­ ing; in 1993 to oust incumbentjason Prince; and in 1994 to tell the world, surely to its surprise, that McGill does in­ deed like blood drives.

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BABBLEBN B Y K ATE GIBBS A ll history resolves its e lf quite easily in to the biography o f a fe w stout a n d earnestp e r­ sons.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson “Self-Reliance” Too abruptly the pro­ ductive careers of Randy Shilts and Derek Jarman have be­ come the objects of untimely retrospectives.

In life, Shilts became rec­ ognized as the first journalist to devote his news-beat en­ tirely to the international AIDS epidemic. His bestseller, A n d The B a n d Played On, an in­ vestigative catalogue of the unchecked spread of AIDS in America , characterized his devotion to informing the pub­ lic. Likewise, Jarman was rec­ ognized as an activist a n d the reigning king of the British arthouse set. His final film, Blue, a collage of candid interviews with AIDS patients riot only provided a foil to his eclectic costume dramas such as E dw ard II, but has been char­ acterized as his departure from the cinema. Like so many oth­ ers, these two creative person­ alities were forced to reconcile

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But the election results were fairly mundane overall: Cornell Wright and PaulJohnson won second terms as VPs Inter­ nal and Finance, respectively, and Science Rep Jen Small won a convincing victory for VP Uni­ versity Affairs. Add in the selec­ tion of Nick Benedict as VP Ex­ ternal to follow in the footsteps of Andrew Work, whose cam­ paign he managed last year, and you have a pretty nice looking executive to complement the new President. (Fias anyone noticed, incidentally, that Andrew Work managed the cam­ paign of last year’s VP External, Jeff Percival? Does that mean Benedict’s campaign guru Lisa Grushcow is headed for Exter­ nal? Tune in next year, same Tribune time, same Tribune channel.)

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association executive positions, a rarity at McGill. Several Senate positions were contested as well, indicating that maybe students are starting to realize that SSMU is not the only place that positive change can be effected.

What of President though?

Coming down to the wire, the Shatner “moles” that Inter-Resi­ dence Council (IRC) President Sevag Yeghoyan chastized so unnecessarily in his election cam­ paign could not call a winner.

Hopefully Yeghoyan realizes that to be a good President he will necessarily become the Shatner mole that he rode to victory. Ah, irony is the spice of life.

Unlike last year, when by the end of the campaign it was painfully obvious that Mark Luz would triumph, no one was sure this time. Yeghoyan. Latour. Solo­ mon. Markowitz. Four strong candidates with ample support on campus. Even so, the lack of

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their work only to be posthu­ mously applauded for their ‘elo­ quent exits.’

We are only comforting ourselves.

At Shilts’ San Francisco fu­ neral, mourners unable to fit in­ side the too-full service sat on the steps of the cathedral. There they were subjected to a carnival of defamation by Mid-western Jesus freaks who held up plac­ ards; the most confusing of which proclaimed, “FAG +GOD =RECTUM”. The demonstrators' insensitivity and new math left me angry an d confused.

It is rare that artists present their work to the public and receive the political response that the work demands. Despite their unfailing commitments to social mobilization, ultimately, the ef­ forts of Randy Shilts and Derek Jarman went unrewarded. Both men died of AIDS in February.

It disproves King Lear’s theory that nothing will come of nothing and it’s high time we dismissed the musings of a medi­ eval mad man. We did nothing and our loss appears to be everything. The lives of two com­ pletely productive artists, the bi­ ographies will show, could not motivate us to focus our priori­ ties. Our history will only be halfwritten if we continue to turn our backs from those who best per­ sonify our Zeitgeist.

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Students lingered in Gert’s for several hours waiting for re­ sults Friday night, and finally they came. Yeghoyan won, but beat Latour by only eleven votes, Solomon by 22, and Markowitz by 36. Never has a Presidential campaign been so close. So Y eghoyan won, despite corraling only 21.2 percent of the popular vote— that’s the way plurality systems work. What is alarming about Yeghoyan’s mandate, though, is that that 21.2 percent represents little over four per­ cent of all undergraduates. Look around your next conference or lab— probably only one person in that room cared enough to vote for the winner of this elec­ tion. That’s almost the same amount that voted for Latour or Markowitz or Solomon.

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It appears the belt was cinched too tight to allow a Best Picture nomination for P h iladelp hia, Jonathan Demme’s disease with a little name movie with extra lowest common denominator appeal and the taste of real but­ ter.

On Monday night, Steven Spielberg’s S chindler’s List will sweep the floor at L.A.’s Shriner Auditorium. As deserving of rec­ ognition as Spielberg is, this con­ summate story-teller never fails to deliver a happy ending. P h ila ­ delphia never had a chance because it was truly a movie without a conclusion. American film loves to champion the un­ derdog, right Clint? Had at P h ila ­ delphia's conclusion, Denzel Washington hired Tom Hanks as his underling intermediary and shunted the entire ward of AIDS patients to salvation in a boxcar, Demme might have made his­ tory and received official recog­ nition.

Little dreams aside. It was Steven Spielberg who once re­ marked, “Everybody loves a win­ ner but nobody loves a w inner” .

This may be at the root of the media’s portrayal of our AIDS massacre. Not too long ago, Kevin Costner was toasted by The Town for his portrayal of White Man Wolf Dancer who learns the sa­ cred ways of American Plains Indians. In comparison, Demme

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This is the Cocoon generation; Guttenberg funny,Jacksonguilty,

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enough support to mak Yeghoyan or anyone else rej resentative ofMcGill’s student The answer, unfortunately, yes. After the inevitable r< count, and a probable SSM Judicial Board hearing, ail c these people will go on wit their lives, one as President c SSMU, the others wonderin what they might have don differently to make up such small differential in suppoi The answer to that question nothing, because students hav indicated that they don’t can No amount of campaigning, seems, will change that.

So next time you feel lik whining about the way SSMl spends your money, or aboi how terrible Shatner moles ar< stop yourself. You don’t hav the right to complain. Only can do that.

Loren sexy. After all their aver age age is 64, their average so is male.

We must take it upor ourselves to recognize our hab its and know that it is never toe late to re-evaluate our immedi ate sexual and cultural behavioi especially when the cases o AIDS have increased, accord ing to the U.S. Center for Dis­ ease Control, by 111 per cent ir the last year. Let’s admire the courage of Shilts and Jarmar and thousands of others and recognize that we’re almost toe scared of living, we’re so scared of dying. It remains for uste write our own history.

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Inspired by International Women’s Week, I decided to x>k into women’s expressions if their spirituality. While the îminist movement has inspired xciting trends in many of the /orld’s more popular religions, wanted to see if there were any arms of spirituality particular to /omen, free of those traditions sually dominated by men. In rder to facilitate this quest, I rent down to the National Film oard and rented its video se­ es on women’sspirituality. The ïries consists of three films: roddess Rem em bered, The turning Times and F u ll Circle.

The first film, Goddess Relembered, traces the history of

worship through time to the iscoveries of the earliest known ïiigious artifacts. The first [>own sculpture of a human eing, dated at approximately 5,000 B.C., is of a woman’s gure. As well, of all carvings >undfrom the stone age which epict gender, images of males rgg significantly fewer in umber. In early temples the nage of the female was always Kind in the holy of holies, hile the male images were ilegated to the outside. In the lm, the idea is posited that the liritual journey of all peoples ïgan with worship of the godîSS. It is claimed that the earli>tcommunities were non-hierchical, made up of peaceful anderers who revered the earth irough the symbol of the di­ ne mother.

All this changed, however, ith the golden age of Greece id the advent of the Judeoiristian traditions. Man became e source of all things. ‘Athena nerged from Zeus’ brow and 'e was made from Adam’s rib.’ emale inferiority was forever tablished by the book of Genis.” The goddess Athena, origitlly associated with sensuality, :came the Goddess of War, us linking eroticism with war. ; one woman in the film said, think what we’ve had since e rise of militarism is societies at [are] warrior cults, they’re ally celebrating war."

In Goddess Remembered, ir is identified as being at the re of patriarchal dominance, is fear of the female and of ture which make it necessary establish male supremacy. iiswould seem to concur with e views of ecofeminism that lim that we cannot underind the oppression of women thout examining the destrucinof nature. Both are viewed being a result of the same triarchal system.

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VEDA MINUTE B Y J O N A T H A N S. persecution in the formof witch hunts. In the film it is claimed that Roman conquerors would integrate the different religious practices of the communities which they annexed. With the adoption of Christianity by Rome, however, these pagan traditions were seen as a threat and consequently suppressed.

In the film it is shown that much of the wisdom of these pagan practices were passed on by women. Thus women became a focal point of the campaign to quash these threatening practises.

One of the more widely known of these traditions was that of wicca, which is the source of the modern term ‘witch’. As Starhawk, a widely known wiccan priestess claims, “wicca” was an Ango-Saxon termmeaning to bend or shape, referring to the shaping of con­ sciousness and the cultivation of altered states. Yet in the Renaissance period, the tradi­ tional meanings and implica­ tions of the term were system­ atically transformed through artful propoganda. At the time, practitioners of wicca were identified as the source of all that was evil in the world. This conception of witches as evil still remains with us today.

This labelling of wiccans as the source of evil led to the period known as the witchcraze. It is estimated that ap­ proximately nine million women were killed over a three-hundred year period.

Any woman was in danger of being charged with witchcraft, especially those displaying any sign of independence. Those so charged would be stripped, fully shaven and publicly tor­ tured and killed. Whole vil­ lages were exterminated for charges of witchcraft. The witch-craze provided the sys­ tematic scapegoat for Chris­ tian churches. All that was wrong in society could be at­ tributed to the presence of witches.

Now, women and men around the world are attempt­ ing to revive their pagan roots.

The practice of wicca preaches respect for the planet and all sentient life. Its fundamental rule is simple, “do as you willharm none.” Some feel that it is the only hope for our people and our planet to rediscover those earth-centered traditions which have been systemati­ cally quashed by established patriarchy.

When it comes to the well­ being of students in Montreal, McGill’s Transit Network is a force for student safety.

Students who walk to school from residences or downtown apart­ ments count on for secu­ rity. But who’s been looking after the 10,000 McGill students who be­ fore , had no alternative to tak­ ing the bus and metro home from school at night?

We are the SSMU Transit Net­ work, and we’ve provided over 8500 rides to McGill students, teachers, and staff who agree that we the safest and fastest way of getting to school for transportation dol­ lar.

But why take word for it?

Sam Elkas, Quebec’s former Trans­ port Minister was so impressed with the Transit Network’s interview screening process, that he gave us a $9 000 provincial grant to develop our service for businesses and uni­ versities across Canada. Since then, our service has been investigated by CBC Newsworld, as a lead story on Pulse News, and on the cover of magazine, among others.

That’s why I’m troubled when Paul Johnson, SSMU’s VP Finance for eleven months now, suddenly tells the that the Transit Network is student safety because “ninety percent of sexual assault is acquaintance assault", and that car-pooling home with your friends and neighbours is more dan­ gerous than waiting alone at de­ serted bus stops. Following Mr. Johnson’s logic, you’re better off

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So while I regret that so much of last Friday’s [March 4th] Presiden­ tial debate time in the Alley was consumed by baseless personal at­ tacks on yours truly, I believe that everyone has the right to question their future student leaders, and I look forward to answering further questions at 398-2902.

Sincerely, Howard Markowitz Transit Network Co-Founder and President T o o m a n y b e e r s ...

The SSMU elections are now over and done with, but this does not take away from the fact that the covered the presidential debate in typical style. In particular, its coverage of the ex­ change between Paul Johnson and Howard Markowitz lacked any ba­ sis in reality. It seems that Mr. Fruchet writer) had one beer too many and was bedazzled by Mr. Johnson’s showmanship. As a re­ sult, his recollection of the facts is far from accurate.

Firstly (sic), Markowitz did not spark controversy by defending the Transit Network’s handling of safety concerns. In fact, Johnson asked a question which ignored the content of any discussions that SSMU has had with the Transit Network and Markowitz simply tried to straighten out the record.

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fu r th e r When examined closely, Finance Minister Paul Martin’s budget raises important ques­ tions for students and for all those concerned about educa­ tion. Martin says that in 1992-93 interest payments on the na­ tional public debt amounted to 39.4 billion dollars, or 24.3 per­ cent of total federal government spending. It is the largest single government expenditure. He predicts that in 1993-94 debt­ servicing will be 38.5 billion dollars, in 1994-95 it will in­ crease to 41 billion dollars and in 1995-96 up again to 42 billion dollars.

However, Canada’s debt­ servicing can be even more costly because Martin bases his predic­ tions on a falling interest rate.

What will happen if the rates go up? Say, for arguments sake, that the rates stay the same as it is for the year ending 1993-94, that is 8.3 percent, rather than decrease as Martin is predicting. Then the interest payments for 1994-95 will not amount to 41 billion dollars as Martin would have us believe, but rather 42.4 billion

with many private and student or­ ganisations which deal in a similar business. We were so concerned that in September, we contacted the Sexual Assault Centre of McGill to run seminars with our members.

Unfortunately, they informed us that they had no suitable programs at that time.

Secondly, Markowitz did NOT use the argument that our members are “friendly neighbours” to “refute Johnson’s assertion that ‘90% of sexual assault is acquaintance as­ sault’”. Markowitz argued that the fact that our members know each other and that we keep record of all people involved in car-pool interac­ tions makes our members safer than someone waiting at a deserted bus stop in the dark. Johnson’s com­ ment came after the fact and Markowitz was advised- not to an­ swer due to the fact that Johnson’s statement was not posed as a ques­ tion.

Finally, although it may be true that 90% of assaults occur by someone we know the context in which Johnson used his argument implied that we should all leave home, quit school, and hide out on the street. Perhaps inJohnson’s mind, we’d all be safer that way. Next time, I advise Mr. Johnson to keep to the financial statements and Mr. Fruchet to listen more carefully.

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dollars. And in 1995-96 taxpayers would have to fork over 45.8 billion dollars instead of the pre­ dicted 42 billion dollars. If the interest rates increase, then these amounts will mushroom even more.

The reason that interest payments continue to rise even though interest rates fall is that the national public debt contin­ ues to grow. Martin predicts that the public debt will rise from 465.3 billion dollars in 1992-93, to 511 billion dollars in 1993-94, to 550.7 billion dollars in 1994-95 and to 583-4 billion dollars in 1995-96.

Even if Martin turns out to be right and the interest rates do decrease, one notices that the total proportion of government spending earmarked for interest payments still increases: from 24.2 percent in 1993-94 to 25.1 per­ cent in 1994-95 and to 25.5 per­ cent in 1995-96. The proportion spent on federal government pro­ grams such as education will be reduced accordingly.

Martin indicates that he in­ tends to spend 1.3 billion dollars

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less on programs than it takes in as revenue in 1994-95, and 9.3 billion dollars less on programs that it takes in as revenue in 1995-96. One can conclude that Martin is willing to deliver inter­ est payments to the moneylend­ ers regardless of what happens to programmes in education, health and welfare.

Taking all this into consid­ eration, should students and pro­ fessors not discuss different so­ lutions to Canada’s budgetary crisis? One such alternative in my view would be the need for the government to declare a moratorium on debt-servicing and on further borrowing. The funds thus saved could then be invested into such programmes such as education. In addition, would putting money into the economy in this manner not be of more benefit to the economy than taking huge sums out for debt-servicing?

Arnold August Special Student, Arts

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Ed.TheTribune standsbyMr. Fruchet'sstory. Whileyouhaveevery rightnottoagreewithMr. Fruchet's analysis, thelackofrespectyoudem­ onstrate by insinuating that Mr. Fruchet had "had one beer too many“isdemeaningandinsulting.

Betterluckformulatingadecentar­ gument next time.

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After having read the blurbs of the SSMU candidates, 1noticed that Sevag Yeghoyan, president nominee, made a grammatical er­ ror. I believe his attempt was to attract French students to vote for him by writing “Je vais prendre d’action”. Anyone with any French background will laugh at this pa­ thetic attempt at translation. My question for Mr. Yeghoyan is where did you learn to speak french (sic) or simply canyou speak french (sic) at all?

The point I would like to make is that there is a French departement (sic) with an abun­ dance of French speaking students

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(studying translation) who would have gladly translated Mr. Yeghoyan’s “line”.

When french (sic) speaking students see this type of mistake, they are not impressed at the at­ tempt, but rather insulted by the lack of respect. Hopefully, if Mr. Yeghoyan becomes president, il va passer à l’action but I doubt it.

Caroline Breton U2 Translation P.S. We are in Peterson Hall and we don’t bite.

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Re: Canadian Aid to Indone­ sia: Liberal hypocrisy Canada backed a United Na­ tions human rights committee mo­ tion in March (1993) censuring In­ donesia for its rights violations in East Timor. The record indicates that an estimated 200,000 East Timorese, about one-third of the population, have died from killings, disease and starvation as Indone­ sian troops razed entire villages, burned fields, slaughtered animals and murdered political activists in retaliationfor supporting independ­

ence and the right to observe a Christianfaith. This repression con­ tinues today.

What is Canada’s response to the dictatorial Indonesian regime?

We support it with millions of dol­ lars from Canadian taxpayers and permit human rights concerns to be overshadowed by an emphasis on promoting trade and investment.

An example of this hypocrisy in action is a project in Montreal financed by the Canadian Interna­ tional Development Agency and McGill University. Canadiantaxpay­ ers are paying the bill to bring Indonesian civil servants to Canada and provide them with free univer­ sity education, in Islamic Studies, at the Master’s and Doctorate level.

Even the professor had to be "im­ ported” for this special program at McGill. Our tax dollars are used to “educate” representatives of a re­ pressive regime and there isn’t a Liberal Minister or Member of Par­ liament with enough guts to stand up and call for an immediate end to the program.

As a parent with two sons in university, I am appalled that we must bear the financial burden for the education, transportation, and

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Sincerely, André Kscaravage C h e a te d a n d u p s e t..

On behalf of the members of the Commission sur le statut et l’avenir du français et de la popula­ tion francophone à McGill, we would like to clarify a misunder­ standing which was published in the Inreference to the front page of the March 8th issue, it was explicitly stated that Nick Benedict, the newly elected VP-Extemal of SSMU, was a founding member of the commission. This information was also printed inthe We do not know if the error origi­ nated from the or Nick Benedict himself but it is important to emphasize that the sole instigator of this honourable initiative was Andrew Work, current VP-Extemal.

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We can’t help but feei cheatedandupset. We investedoui time and energy in this venture anc no one can take away the recogni­ tion we deserve.

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BY STEVE SMITH Fewcritics believedthat afirst year student with no prior Students’ Society (SSMU) experience could pull off an election victory in the race for VP Internal. Yet U1 Arts student Cornell Wright defied the odds last year by obtaining 33 per cent of the votes cast. Wright cam­ paigned on a promise to improve communication between the office of Internal and students by keeping students better informed and en­ couraging their participation in the functioning of SSMU. Wright’sfirst terminoffice ran into difficulties early last September when his comments in an article that appeared in the Tribune prompted his two Welcome Week Co-Chairs Angie Scrannage and Joanne Thompson to resign. Wright

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ScrannageandThompsondisagreed with Wright’s handling of the issue and resigned. Wright maintains that the issue did not reflect poorly on Internal’s relations with Program­ ming, the body responsible for or­ ganizing SSMU events.

“My objectives for Program­ ming were different from some of those who were appointed before I took office. It’s not a communica­ tion problem, it’s a divergence of views,” he argued.

Wright explainedthat hiscriti­ cism of Welcome Week does not reflect on his manner of dealing with volunteers.

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Access to info challenged in senate Senator Sam Noumoff, professor of politi­ cal science, raised a question at last Wednesday’s Senate meeting of regarding the university’s right to access.

Noumoffs question revolved around a memorandum sent to him by McGill Legal Advi­ sor Raynald Mercille. The memo, which outlined the university’s rights, explained the university does, generally, have a right to access “not only office space or lab but also, mail, closed brief­ cases or similar containers.”

The memo also noted, however, that access was not merely a matter of an arbitrary decision by university administrators, outlining that “each right to access must be seen within its procedural context,” and that there exists a “test of a need to know...”

Noumoff expressed a desire for increased openness and communication regarding this issue.

“We should know they [the university ad­ ministration] have this right... which may be exercised responsibly, or may be exercised as a vendetta, because there’s no check.”

Noumoff also questioned the effect that exercising such rights would have.

“Do I have to install an electronic security camera to see who comes into my office? Let us install in every office a video camera similar to a dépanneur,” Noumoff told the Tribune.

Mercille emphasized that the memoran­ dum was merely an outline of the university’s legal rights.

“All of these discussions should take ac­ count of the fact that as a rule there should be minimal private use of university facilities,” he explained. “It is naive to deny that the law permits seizures, orders, injunctions, which re­ quire access if certain prerequisites have been

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“Maybe I deal with people in two different ways. I deal with the executive very differently fromhow I deal with the volunteer off the street. If a Welcome Week organ­ izer is getting $2,000, they should expect some criticism,” he asserted.

Wright’s Welcome Week dif­ ficulties were an anomaly in what has been a very low-key term in office. In contrast to last year’sactiv­ ity-oriented VP Internal Julie Dzerowicz, Wright has taken a new approach to his portfolio which has emphasized facilitating the use of the Shatner Building by clubs and other organizations.

“I’d much rather get clubs to put on events, they’re much better at doing them,” he said. “There’sthis mentality that we have to do every­ thing, 1don’t think we do. You have to streamline your organization.”

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Mercille also noted that the memo was meant to answer the question of the university’s legal rights, and differentiated between having the right and exercising it. “[The fact that we have the right to access] doesn’t mean we will do it,” he explained. “We’ll do it when we have to.”

Noumoff maintained that the issue war­ ranted concern.

“When it comes to unauthorized entry, once that power is there I have deep concerns over whether it would be exercised appropriately.”

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Wright’sbidto follow through on his promise to get students in­ volved in SSMU has been his great­ est preoccupation this year. Wright criticized Dzerowicz’s lack of effort in creating a solid volunteer basis.

“Last year apeople base didn’t exist. There was no volunteer list and a lack of consistent, permanent volunteer positions," he said. “Now we can call on a list of people and have created about five consistent volunteer jobs.”

Wright has asserted that the problem with Programming in the past has been its cliquish image. Yet Wright’s critics have accused himof reinforcing this image in Internal despite his campaign commitment to openness. Wright, however, re­ futed any notions of a clique oper­ ating in Internal.

“Anyone who says that ismis­ informed. One of the problems now is that you can’t recognize who’s involved because there are so many volunteers,” he stated.

When asked if he felt he was an accommodating person, Wright emphasized that his commitment to his agenda may foster an image of stubbornness.

“I’m not accommodating when it comes to my mission state­ ment but I’m accommodating on how we can achieve that. Perhaps those who complain question my mission statement. It’s much easier, however, to change the means of obtaining an objective than chang­ ing the objective itself.”

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Criticismhas surfaced with re­ gards to Wright’s methods of del­ egating the responsibility of organiz­ ing events. One volunteer organizer claimedthat though Wright has good ideas, his volunteers have little free­ dom.

“I found that he doesn’t know when to let the leash go,” the volun­ teersaid, preferring to remainanony­ mous.

Wright responded that his ap­ proach to delegation has been var­ ied this year.

“There’s always a more hands on approach where your priorities are. We’ve affected some serious changes to the agenda this year and the person responsible for these changes has to be more involved.”

Demonstration marks end ofRamadan Three hundred members of Montreal’s Pales­ tinian community turned out last Friday to demon­ strate against Israel’s possession of the Occupied Territories. The noisy afternoon demonstration started at Dominique Square and filed peacefully down Sherbrooke Street past McGill’s Roddick Gates to the American consulate on St. Alexandre Street.

The demonstration was in conjunction with an international day of protest to mark the last day of the month of Ramadan, a traditional Muslim holy month. According to Mustafa Roksefat, a graduate student in Religious Studies at McGill, the demonstration was designed to unite Mon­ treal’s Palestinian community.

“Our presence here is a manifestation of Muslim and Palestinian solidarity,” he said. “We are here to protest against the occupation of Jerusalem and to tell the Israeli government that they should abandon all the lands ofJerusalem.”

Despite its seemingly radical tone, there was no visible opposition to the march as it continued down Sherbrooke Street under police escort.

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BY S YLV IE BABARIK In her report to Students’ Soci­ ety (SSMU) council on March 3rd, VP University Affairs Ruth Promislow presented the recommendations of the Work Groupto Reviewthe Regu­ lations Concerning Complaints of Sexual Harassment.

The group consisted of seven representatives, one from each ma­ jor student association, andKatherine Young of the McGill Association of University Teachers (MAUT), Fran Langtonof the McGill UniversityNonAcademic Staff Association (MUNASA), sexual harassment as­ sessor Pat Wells, and chairperson Audrey Kobayashi. The year-long process began last March, following complaints about the existing policy.

When the Work Group began itsinvestigation, advertisementswere put out and a call was made for submissionsfromthe universitycom­ munityregardingMcGill’ssexual har­ assment policy, with considerable attention given tostudents’ opinions.

“There was a great amount of feedback from the student body.

This was important in guiding the committee’swork,” statedPromislow.

The recommendations of the

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Work Group included a number of those previously suggested in a re­ port by McGill student Fiona Deller.

Deller was spokesperson for the Walksafe Network last year.

The recent report calls for an expansion of the definition of sexual harassment to include “actionswhich have the effect of unreasonably in­ terfering with an employee’s work performance or astudent’sacademic performance, or create’s an intimi­ dating, hostile or offensive working, living or educational environment”.

A list of examples of abusive behav­ iour are included as a guide to iden­ tification.

Other new elements include a clause requiring that sexual harass­ ment complaints arising from a resi­ dence setting be referred to a sexual harassment advisor. Finally, the role of the advisor isclearly outlined, and will include an emphasis on educa­ tion through orientation sessions for staff and students. The job of the assessors is to be divided into two parts: that of advisor and that of investigator. The tasks would no longer be performed by the same individual.

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B Y J E N N IF E R STONE The results of the recent ref­ erendum question concerning the Canadian Red Cross (CRC) blood donor questionnaire were an­ nounced along with election re­ sults on Friday evening. McGill students voted overwhelmingly against withdrawing Students’ So­ ciety (SSMU) support of CRC blood drives. While only 412 students voted in favour of discontinuing support of the blood drives, 2,207 students voted in favour of con­ tinuing sponsorship. 118voters had no opinion on the question.

Question 12 on the CRC blood drive questionnaire, which reads: “The following activities put you at risk for AIDS:—if male, having sex with another male, even once—sharing needles or taking street drugs by needle—receiving regular treatment with blood or

Nicola Dourambeis suggested that the changes to the policy were not that extensive.

“It is not drastically different from what we had before, but the changeswe have made were needed.

I think we have improved it very basically. The whole philosophy we were taking was to try to make a policy that was as easy to go through with,” claimed Dourambeis.

The three main objectives of the new policy is education, clarity and accessibility.

To begin with, the role of the assessor would be expanded. The work group strongly supports the idea that a central sexual harassment office and telephone number be cre­ ated, as well as a number of admin­ istrative improvements. Anadditional task to be undertaken by the pro­ posed Sexual Harassment Office would be that of developing policy andprocedures for dealing with post­ harassment syndrome. Assessor Pat Wells expressed a strong desire for this particular measure. She argued that as it isnow, once acase has been resolved, the role of advisor is com­ pleted. In practice, however, an indi­ vidual may still need guidance.

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blood products—accepting money or drugs in exchange for sex— being the sexual partner of some­ one who has taken part in any of the above activities, who has con­ tracted AIDS or has tested positive for AIDS.” To some observers, the ref­ erendum was redundant after the Judicial Board declared the contro­ versial question was not contrary to Article 2, Section 2.3of the SSMU Constitution, which states: “All So­ ciety endeavours shall be under­ taken with full respect for human dignity and without discrimination on the basis of, but not limited to, gender, age, race, ethnic or na­ tional origin, religion, sexual ori­ entation, mental or physical dis­ ability, language or social class.”

This announcement of the referendumresults evoked anemo­ tional response from many mem­ bers of the McGill community.

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clude the preparation of a manual outlining the procedures to be fol­ lowed when a complaint of sexual harassment is made, as well as litera­ ture that clearly explains policies.

Promislow echoed this idea: "Too much was not written down. Policy should not simply be something used by the assessor to deal with complaints,” Promislow argued. “It ought to be accessible to individuals to read and be able, on that basis, to know whether they want to come forward and make a complaintFinally, measures are outlined to foster greater awareness of the issue of sexual harassment, particu­ larly for the sake of prevention. Edu­ cation programs would be under­ taken primarily by the central office and the assessors. A need for ongo­ ing training in the application of sexual harassment policy was ac­ knowledged in the document.

The fate of the recommenda­ tions is not yet determined. The report will be presentedtothe parent Committee on Regulation Concern­ ing Complaints of Sexual Harass­ ment on March 22nd for approval, after which it will go to Senate for final consideration.

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Mary-MargaretJones, one of the student initiators of the initial petition against CRC blood drives inNovember of lastyear, expressed her disappointment.

“I thinkthe referendumques­ tion should have been divided into two parts. Question 12 of the CRC questionnaire is indeed discrimi­ natory, but the referendum was concerned with ceasing sponsor­ ship of the blood drive explicitly,” said Jones. "Personally, I am very disappointed with the outcome, but not deadened. It was to be expected after the Judicial Board decided on Monday that the ques­ tion was not against the SSMU’s constitution. After that decision was made, itwas flogging adead horse.”

SSMU Arts Rep Corey Cook, who worked to bring the question to students, had mixed feelings.

“I would fully support any questionnaire that would not al­

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ienate or deny the right or any individual to give the gift of life.

However, to deny an individual the right of life and to combat a group that is not organized politi­ cally is the most blatant form of discrimination: death. There were no winners as a result of the refer­ endum vote,” he commented.

Some McGill students were disappointed, but realized the ne­ cessity of the result. U1 Arts stu­ dent Hilary Dunn was stunned.

“I don’t understand... it’s em­ barrassing,” she said.

Scott Mahaffy, a U2 political science student, suggested that the referendum result was indicative of a feeling among students that change in the CRC questionnaire was not imminent.

“People voted in favour of the Red Cross staying because they knew the questionnaire wouldn’t be changed,” he said.

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sault Centre of McGill’s Stu­ dents’ Society (SACOMSS) have been authorised by those reporting Incidents to release the following infor­ mation in order to raise awareness for perso» •al safety.

On February 27th, 1994 between 3:30 PM and 4:00 PM, in front o f tie Rutherford Physics Build­ ing, the two following inci­ dents occurred: W hile entering the building, a woman was stopped by a man in a grey car. After asking her if she spoke English, he then pro­ ceeded to tell her that he worked for the government and wanted to check her teeth. He had a scratch pad with him, but no other in­ struments. After refusing his request for her to enter his car, he stepped out oi c car, lungedat her lace, pryed open her mouth, and exam­ ined her teeth. During the course of the interaction, he insisted that she give him her phone number.

Another woman was approached by the same man, who once again asked her if she spoke English, then told her he was a den­ tist and wanted to see her teeth. He said he was look­ ing for patients and asked her the date o f her last dentalappointment He reached out o f the car for her, de­ manding to see her teeth.

He also showed her ripped out pages with pictures o f teeth.

The assailant is de­ scribed as being Caucasian (With dark skin), male, ap­ proximately between 30and 35 years of age, with a re­ ceding hairline, balding, and with a moustache, un­ shaven, medium height ap­ proximately 5*8”, and thin.

The vehicle is described as a big American model, blue or grey, Cadillac style.

On February 20th, 1994 at 1:00 AM, between Mont Royal and Rachel on Esplanade, awoman was fol­ lowed by a man in a car who asked many questions, in­ cluding whether he could have her phone number.

The woman felt that he was trying toget her into his car.

The man is described as Cam casian, with dark hair, in his thirties. At the time of the incident, the man was driving a boxy, small, dullcoloured car.

If anyone has any in­ formation or has witnessed similar incidents, please contact us at SACOMSS C3982700) or WSN (398-2498).

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B Y M O N IQ U E SHEBBEARE M id w ife ry is c u rre n tly not a legal profession in Quebec.

P ilo t projects are underw ay in the p ro v in c e th a t are hoped to lead to the eventua l re cognition o f m id w ife ry as a n independ­ ent, le g a lprofession. Leslie Ever­ est a n d L iz Z suffa are aspiring m idw ives presently w o rkin g as la b o u r assistants. They ta lke d to the Tribune a b o u t the ph iloso­ p h y a n d experience o f m id ­ w ifery.

Tribune: Could you de­ scribe midwifery and the phi­ losophy behind it? What are some of the differences between midwifery and the medical pro­ fession in terms of childbirth?

Everest: Midwifery is the oldest profession in the entire universe... It is really different from traditional care in that it concentrates on the whole woman: the mind, the body and the spirit... It gives you such a feeling of empowerment and that birth can be this really transcendent, wonderful thing, not something to be feared... At the birth, midwives are guard­ ians of the natural process. The obstetric attitude is that this is a risky dangerous thing and we have to be there, ready to enter you anytime something devi­ ates from what our textbooks tell us. A midwife understands that every woman is different...

It works [without problems] about 99 per cent of the time.

Zsuffa: When you boil it fight down, midwifery looks at a woman’s body from the per­ spective that it’s a healthy, well functioning organism. Allopathy has been founded on the ideas of Greek doctors who defined the male as the norm and the female as a deviation from the male... That is basically where the split is. It’s right at the roots.

Where midwifery looks at the process as healthy and good, obstetrics goes into a panic every time a woman has a contrac­ tion.

Tribune: What are some of the specific things that a midwife does, particularly at a birth?

Everest: A midwife has to have a really keen sense of intuition and observation to see what is working and what is not... In the hospital they don’t really have the time, even if they would really like to do it, to monitor the ambiance whereas a midwife does. If the

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energy seems a little low she will advise you to go out and go to the bathroom so that she can make the bed or put some flow­ ers out, to make things pretty and fresh. She might give her some teas or some foods that she thinks might be appropri­ ate, instead of an IV of glucose.

There is also a lot of holding and hugging and touching and allowing you just to be nude.

Tribune: There is quite a bit of controversy about home births. What are your perspec­ tives on that?

Everest: It really depends on the woman... I really believe through reading and experience that home care for people who are into it is really probably the safest. There is less risk of infec­ tion, less risk of iotrogenic care which means going in and hav­

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Tribune: Can midwives currently perform births in hos­ pitals in Quebec since they are not recognized as a legal pro­ fession?

Zsuffa: No, midwives are only allowed to do support.

They aren’t recognized as medi­ cal professionals so therefore they cannot do any medical acts. Since delivering a child is defined as a medical act, once they step into a hospital envi­ ronment they have no power whatsoever.

Everest: Most midwives are very uncomfortable with being in a hospital setting. When something does occur and a woman wants to go to a hospi­ tal or she needs to go to a hospital, they are not well re­ ceived at all. There really isn’t a

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ing one intervention by a hospi­ tal and then it leads to a whole bunch of other things because that intervention caused a prob­ lem... It’s a woman’s choice where she should give birth.

She should be educated, in­ formed and supported.

Zsuffa: I think one thing that is really out of the debate is that you cannot guarantee a perfect outcome for mother or baby no matter where you are...

There is risk at a hospital too; it is a different kind of risk but it is still a risk... Give us the choice, because in a vast majority of cases it is safe [at home]... We attended a birth in a hospital that was stuffed with technol­ ogy. They used every kind of intervention available and the baby died, due to intervention

very good relationship between doctors and midwives, which is the key thing really to helping when things come up, to help­ ing midwifery progress. The doctors completely refuse to work with them and respect them... This means there is no back up.

Zsuffa: I think that if the doctors are really serious about lowering risk and about safety, then they will put aside this ridiculous political stuff... Why get political about it? That’s re­ ally childish.

Tribune: What are some of the problems associated with hospital births?

Zsuffa: The first thing is lack of control. The woman goes into this institution and she is a guest so she has to

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accommodate herself to their routine and their schedules. It makes for inhibition... Hospi­ tals are for sick people. Not only do you get their germs, you get their philosophy in being treated as a sick person.

Hospital rules make the focus the medical personnel. They are the ones whose comfort is being attended to. They get to decide what position you are going to be in, whether you get food or drink or not, who is allowed to be in there with you, and how much noise you make.

They set boundaries on a lot of things.

Everest: They are really trying to change things... This institution has been going on for so long that it is very slow to change.

Zsuffa: I think that conti­

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tricians their due. They are highly skilled professionals who know what to do in an emer­ gency that a midwife would not be able to handle, but you don’t really need them around as much as you need midwives.

Midwives guard the natural la­ bour which is 95 per cent of the time... In the Netherlands al­ most all babies are caught by midwives and they have a re­ ally low infant mortality rate.

Here, where they say we have the best technology, funnily enough, the mortality rate is embarrassingly high.

Tribune: Do you believe there is a link between mid­ wifery and feminism?

Everest: I read some­ where that feminists had a real problem with midwives at one point... Now I think it is a lot different. Midwifery is a great comment on feminism because it gives birth back to women.

Zsuffa: I find it really in­ teresting that the doctors want to give drugs to a woman giving birth because she is in pain but you would not think of doing that to a marathon runner or a football player, but they feel pain as well. I experienced it as that kind of pain. It was the pain of incredible muscle work and pushing beyond your limits. It is not a damage kind of pain...

Let’s support women through this process of birth because it makes them strong, confident and healthy.

Tribune: The last ques­ ts tion is whether there is a link | between spirituality and midW wifery?

Everest: Birth is a spir­ itual experience but not a lot of women experience it as that still. It is really encouraged by nuity of care is something that midwives. Birth is a real ritual... helps the woman give birth You are encouraged to connect more than drugs or interven­ in your mind with all the other tions because she needs to feel women who are giving birth at safe. that moment. The midwife Tribune: What are some makes you realize that you are of the obstacles in Quebec to the most important person in becoming a midwife? the world at that moment be­ Everest: The doctors’ atti­ cause you are bringing forth tude is the biggest one... The life. What an experience! Mid­ demand for midwives is great. wives are spiritual guides. They Midwives are very busy. They are high priestesses of the will always be in demand. This time. is what women want. Women Zsuffa: ...It is a way of want to exercise their choice. looking at women as really pow­ Zsuffa: ...If they are say­ erful important people because ing that their care is so superior, a woman is a door to a new then why not open it to compe­ life. tition? If it’s true then they will Everest: In a hospital a have no problem... They know birthing woman is a patient. that there’s advantages but they With a midwife, whether at don’t want anyone else to know. home or at a hospital, a birthing Everest: Let’s give obste­ woman is a goddess.

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B Y P A R O M IT A S H A H A N D E T H A N SACKS When Native Friendship Centre staff member David Mohan takes visitors on a tour of the centre, he points out the cramped office he shares with a co-worker.

“Last year there were six people working out of this of­ fice,” he said.

Despite the lack of space and a small staff of 22, the Native Friendship Centre of Montreal (NFCM) managed to service 16,000 persons, both aboriginals and non-aboriginals, in 1993 alone. The NFCM, which was established in 1974 as a Native student drop-in centre, has evolved into a support centre for many of the 45,000 Natives who have migrated to Montreal.

According to Lisa Sullivan, an administrative assistant at the centre, moving to a large city can be disruptive for a person used to the sense of community on a reserve.

“The needs of Natives who live off the reserves are just as great if not greater than the needs of those on reserves,” she said.

“They don’t have the community support that Natives on reserves do.”

The centre offers a wide range of programs, from beadwork classes to job refer­ rals, reflecting the diversity of its clientele, which includes mem­

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bers of all eleven nations in Que­ bec. In fact, the Native Friend­ ship Centre, which is a non­ political and non-profit organiza­ tion, is currently offering fiftyfive programs. One such pro­ gram is the clothing bank, which provides used clothing for any member in need.

The NFCM also offers medi­ cal support services including a hospital liaison, who has visited 1,500 patients to date, and a part time AIDS counsellor.

“We had a gentleman in the last stages of AIDS who was near death,” recounted Sullivan. “We talked to his band council and arranged for him to die in his own community. That was apretty heavy time around here.”

For Thomas Martin, a mem­ ber of the MicMac nation who has been coming to the centre for the past ten years, the centre is a place where he feels like he be­ longs.

“If there was no centre, I would probably stay at home all the time,” he said. “Working in the kitchen or playing volleyball kills the boredom.”

The staff of the Native Friendship Centre is not content with the present scope of activi­ ties offered, but have been con­ strained by the size of the facili­ ties. Due to the ever increasing demand for their services, the centre is raising funds for a future relocation into a new 28,000 square foot building. In a larger

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facility, programs previously shelved, such as a Scouts Canada affiliated children’s group, could be implemented. Mohan ex­ plained that a self defence course was also postponed at the cur­ rent centre, because there was nowhere to move the furniture in the room where it was to be held.

“We do try and expand in every direction but it does take a lot of work,” said NFCM Commu­ nications Director Sherry Diabo.

“Sometimes it seems like there aren’t enough hours in the day to get everything done.”

In order to raise money for the proposed move, the centre will be holding a cultural festival called Mukushan on June 3rd.

The festival includes a menu of traditional food as well as enter­ tainment by native bands.

According to Mohan, one of the biggest misconceptions associated with the centre is that it is an English-only institution, a label that may have alienated French-speaking natives. In ad­ dition, the centre is also con­ cerned with bridging the cultural gap between native and non­ native peoples. Mohan and Diabo attend seminars and workshops to open and broaden lines of communication with people of different cultures.

Those who are interested in jo in in g the Native Friendship Cen­ tre o r attending the June 3 rd M ukushan, can c a ll937-5338.

Saviez-vous que.,.

Bonne nouvelle concernant le SIDA. Selon une récente étude franco-américaine, l'administration de la drogue AZT aux femmes enceintes séropositives réduirait de deux tiers le risque de transmission materno-fœtale du vin. Les résultats de cette étude pourraient avoir d’importantes conséquences en Afrique, où la proportion de femmes enceintes séropositives dans certaines grandes villes peut atteindre 40%.

Source: Le Monde, sélection hebdomadaire, le 3 mars 1994.

HISTORIQUE

A la fin du siècle dernier, Oscar Wilde a été condamné par les tribunaux londoniens à deux ans de travail forcé pour homosexualité. Quel crime! Les temps ont beaucoup changé depuis De nos jours les gais se font seulement arrêtés dans les descentes de bars!

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Après avoir emballé des immeubles et des ties, Christo, le fameux artiste, connu pour son ■excentrisme, souhaitemaintenantemballer le Reichstag, fédifice parlementaire Allemand, avec ^approbation des élus du Bundestag, malgré l’opposition du chancelier Kohl et d’un nombre de députés allemands.

Source; Le Canard Enchaîné, le 2 mars 1994.

FRANCOPHONIE

La commission de terminologie du Quai d'Orsay a fixé un nouvel usage des noms d’états et de capitales. Désormais, Une faudra plus dire ni écrire Llsboétes pour parler des habitants de Lisbonne, mais Lisbonnins et lisbonnines. L’Arabie-Sêoudite disparait au profit de l'Arabie Saoudite. Quand à l’Irak, on l’écrira maintenant â l’anglaise, Iraq. Attention aux anglicismes!

Source: le Canard Enchaîné, le 2 mars 1994.

CHINE Selon Asia Watch, 1993 a été la pire année en ce qui concerne les arrestations et procès politiques : en Chine. Cet organisme a rassemblé les preuves de 248 nouveDes arrestations et nouveaux procès, t ’annua ire précise le statut des quelques mille sept cent personnes emprisonnées pour avoir exprimé des convictions politiques ou religieuses jugées antigouvernementales. 80% de ces arrestations et procès ont eu lieu au Tibet où la répression anti-indépendantiste s’est renforcée. L’indépendance, oui, mais à quel

Source: U Monde, sélection hebdomadaire, te 3 mars 1994.

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So just picture it. You’ve got one foot in the grave, dy­ ing from some disease that we should damn well have a cure for by now, but has been pushed down on the list for funding because other diseases are more popular right now.

What do you do? Stand at the finish line to see which wins, the disease or the researchers looking for a cure? No, you put yourself into a giant freezer upside down in a super “sleep­ ing bag” with Fido and wait. It seems that some of the most bizarre ideas become reality, (thus we have alcohol-free beer) and cryogenics lives.

Never heard of such an animal, you say? Well, for 250.000 dollars, you can have yourself frozen, preserved with glycerol, with a thermometer inserted into your skull. That’s the price being charged for the service by the Alcor Life Exten­ sion Foundation, currently of Arizona. (The company just moved there from Southern California, fearing the possi­ bilities of having a “springthaw” as a result of an earthquake what a rude way to be awoken from a deep sleep.) According to a recent article in the Globe a n d M ail, however, it’s only 120.000 dollars if you just want your head preserved, or there’s the bargain price of 50,000 for just your brain to be made into a popsicle. Not only that, for a mere 20,000 dollars extra, take Fido with you (just make sure he’s a Husky).

Art Caplan, the head of University of Minnesota’s Center for Biomedical Ethics, dared call the whole idea bonkers, but I think it’s most excellent. The possibilities are endless. Right now, the service is only available to begin after a person has died of natural causes. The customer wears a steel bracelet which instructs anyone who finds the person dead to put him or her on ice and call the 1-800 number right away. But the logical exten­ sion of this idea is to freeze yourself before you’re dead, and have them thaw you when they have found a cure for your particular disease - that way you don’t have to worry about the effects of the disease on your body as it progresses.

Take the idea a little fur­ ther. You’re a little tired of the way the world is going right now. Unemployment is high, inflation is high, goodwill to­ wards men is low. So you go to the corner freezer and nap for five years until the economy picks up, and it’s December, the month during which you

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Better than that, even if you think the world is going just fine, and you’ve got the white picket fence and the 2.3 kids (and, of course, Fido) per­ haps you just want your chil­ dren to see a lot of the world in a time series sort of way. Just pack up the stationwagon every so often and sleep for ten years to experience a new stage of development.

Of course, innumerable things could go wrong with this whole scheme. Consider the people who were too stingy to get their whole body frozen and opted for the economy or coach class and had only their brain or head frozen. They find a cure for whatever dis­ ease they had when they died.

But the brain or head needs a new body. Alcor claims that by then we’ll have figured out how to generate a new body, not unlike a worm, which can grow a new body when you cut it in half. Worse than that, suppose instead that technol­ ogy merely allows us to insert the brain into the body of someone else who has died?

Whose body would that be? If the person’s body was okay, why wasn’t his body frozen until a future date?

Which brings to mind a second thought... would your body have a best before date on it’ And if that occurred after all your kin died, who would pay to deal with your body?

Would there be a funeral?

In case you haven’t fig­ ured it out yet, but have had the patience for me to get to the point, science will be pre­ senting us with some difficult questions in the not too distant future. The only way to deal with it all is to maintain a sense of humour. This whole world is a little messed up about death, about whether people have the right to exit from a world they never asked to en­ ter into, and more exactly, who your body belongs to - your­ self, or the state. I’m not too thrilled about the idea of be­ coming a human popsicle, (though if I had to, I’d be banana-flavoured), but I’m re­ ally tired of listening to this debate about when I can die.

Alcor gives me the ultimate control over when I die - where do I sign up?

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BY K A TH R YN F O L L IO T T Last Wednesday evening Rozena Maart, writer, activist, and professor at the University of Ottawa, spoke on “Feminism and the Politics of Resistance". Pre­ sented by Shakti Women of Col­ our Collective and the Women’s Union as the keynote speaker for Women’s Week, Maart took this opportunity to urge women to question the traditional defini­ tion of feminism which, in her view, is becoming increasingly narrow.

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This traditional take on femi­ nism, argues Maart, fails to en­ compass women’sdiversity. What we are left with, there­ fore, is “a notion of feminism as politics that uses a gen­ der neutral­ ity in very specific

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BY TED F R A N K E L The time has come to start trying to sublet for students who will be leaving their apartment vacant for the summer. The new Quebec Civil Code which came into effect on January 1st, 1994 stipulates that the choice between subletting or assigning the lease to a new tenant rests with the present tenant, rather than the landlord, as the Code had previously stated.

This distinction is important.

“A sublet is only to be used if you come back to the unit,” said Pauline Nesbitt, Coordinator of McGill Off-Campus Housing.

For students who will not be returning to their apartments in the fall, the best option is to assign the lease. Upon subletting, the tenant must serve as the middle person in ensuring payment to the landlord, while assigning the lease effec­ tively ends the financial obligation of the tenant, instead transferring it to the sub-tenant.

“When the lease is assigned, the [new tenant] has rights as though they were you," said Nesbitt. “[With subletting, how­ ever], if there is a problem of non­ payment, you're ultimately respon­ sible.”

In either scenario the tenant must independently seek out the prospective sub-tenant. For card carrying members of McGill, an easy way to do this is to utilize the services provided by Off-Campus Housing. Students may register their abode in one of several direc­ tories that potential sub-tenants (not necessarily from McGill) may

terms but does not in any way ac­ count for the differences in the expe­

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and have viable candidates to be­ come sub-tenants attempt to com­ plete the transfer, they should in­ form themselves of all the conven­ ient regulations and rights that make this seemingly simple task a complicated affair.

The Régie du logement, Quebec’s rental regulation board, advises that before seriously con­ sidering submitting a sub-tenant’s name to their landlord, they should carefully check references. This can be as minor as a phone call or as significant as paying a company to verify credit, a procedure which is subject to the approval of the

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riences that women have as indi­ can racial domination be broken you want to understand oppres­ down. She was critical of the sion... understand yourselves." viduals and collectives.”

In Maart’s eyes, the white Caucasian woman who refuses A native South African, Maart cited examples of wom­ to analyse her white mentality, consciousness is omnipresent.

Here at McGill, she ar­ en’s activism that are gued, accounts of colo­ often overlooked or “ I’m n o t i n t e r e s t e d in a p o l i t i c s nization thrive. marginalized by this “Not only do you o f g u il t . G u ilt h a s d o n e n o t h in g whitewashed view of not have black profes­ feminism. She asserted fo r p e o p le . It h a s n o t m o v e d sors and teachers and a that the women ofSouth t h e m fr o m t h e m o m e n t o f good black student popu­ Africa were engaged in lation [at McGill],” as­ protest prior to the nine­ e m o tio n a l o u tb u r s t t o t h e serted Maart, “you don’t teenth century, and that m o m e n t o f p o litic a l a c t io n ... a n d have what are known as in 1937 the first South t h a t ’s w h a t w e n e e d t o d o people of colour... so African march for Inter­ what you have is this national Women’s Day t o d a y .” idea of keeping the aca­ was held. demic learning separate By taking into ac­ — R o z e n a M a a r t , w r ite r , a c t i v i s t , from politics, when in count the diverse his­ fact it should never be tory of women’s activ­ a n d p r o fe s so r a t U o f O tta w a kept separate.” ism, Maart argued, the Rather than beg­ feminist movement will become stronger. In her view, asserting that this ignorance fuels ging pardon for their ignorance, women’s potential to bring about the oppression of women of col­ white women must work to quash racist attitudes. For Maart, the social change is “influenced and our.

“There’s absolutely no rea­ future of feminism lies in action, determined and enhanced by an understanding of where women... son why white women should not apologies.

“I’m not interested in a poli­ are located across the spec­ spend their time understanding | women of colour when they don’t tics of guilt. Guilt has done noth­ trum.”

Maart stressed that in order understand themselves,” said ing for people. It has not moved to combat racism, we must ex­ Maart. “White supremacy and them from the moment of emo­ plore the white consciousness. racism and white domination is tional outburst to the moment of political action... and that’s what Only by naming and claiming not enacted by women of colour. this consciousness, she stated, It is enacted by white women. If we need to do today.”

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peruse. Students can submit infor­ mation about their dwelling to the Off-Campus Housing offices, in the Powell Building on Peel Street.

Other ways of publicizing a unit include placing ads in newspapers or putting up signs around cam­ pus, although the effectiveness of the latter measure is often doubted.

Before students who are determined to sublet their unit,

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prospective sub-tenant. While the new Civil Code stipulates that a tenant is not responsible for any damage wrought by the sub-ten­ ant, if one plans to return to the apartment after the summer it is wise to be prudent withyourchoice of summer resident.

“One case I heard of is [the sub-tenants] had a pet, furniture was chewed, there was urine, t is that the stu­ vomit... The dent should in­ terview the po­ tential subletter very well,” said Rob Crampton, a staff member at Off-Campus Housing.

Once the potential night­ mares have been weeded out and an ap­ propriate sub­ tenant is cho­ sen, the Régie recommends the tenant submit to their landlord, inwriting, the infor­ mation about the person and re­ tain a copy of this information themselves. The landlord then has 15 days to either accept or refuse the potential sub-tenant. If a can­ didate is refused and a dispute ensues between the landlord and tenant over the merit of such an objection, the landlord mustjustify to the Régie why the subletter is not appropriate. As it is quite dif­ ficult for the landlord to prove such a case, careful consideration of the candidate beforehand will likely ensure good results.

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BY L IZ Z IE SAU ND ERSO N If vegetarianism is the reli­ gion of the 90s, then you may fall into one of three categories: highly religious (fervent herbivore), ag­ nostic (indecisive omnivore), or atheist (raving carnivore). Religious appetites aside, you might want to give these local veggie temples a try: Café Santropol, 3990 StUrbain Walk in and seat yourself - if you’re on a tight budget, it may be all you can afford to do. Santropol is warm, friendly, and accommo­ dating even to students accompa­ nied by the Gazette crossword. The food appears surreal (seasonedwith a myriad of ripe fruits) andthe main course is as adventurous as you want it to be. According to one of the waiters the highlights of the sandwich menu include the Sweet Root (coriander, nuts, mayo, rai­ sins, apples and grated carrots) and the Northern Lights (pecans, ol­ ives, cream and cottage cheese).

Both are priced at $6.50. Additional courses consist of vegetarian pies, seitan, millet, and tofu served hot with veggie salad. The special is recommended: halfasandwichwith soup. It’scost efficient andisserved from Monday-Friday until 5PM.

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Café Phoenix, 3907 StLaurent Destroyed by a fire in 1991, Café Efac hasbeen resurrectedfrom the ashes and re-christened accord­ ingly. Its atmosphere is as random and eclectic as a Sunday afternoon garage sale with the added bonus that if you break it you don’t ac­ quire immediate ownership. The food is satisfying, the company even better. It’s like hostelling at home, with the comic book menu as your Let’s Go ! The graphic manifesto not only reveals ex­ tremely low prices but its credo: “The insatiable hunger for artistic growth, creativity, cooperative man­ agement and vegetarian food drive us through yet another day...” The grunge-green-haired maitre d’ makes a convincing case for the Veggie Club, not to mention that there is indeed life after the Daily.

The Phoenix is amusing, eat there.

Freddy Z, 3640 St-Laurent Yes, it’s the place that fea­ tures the beany burger: no animal fat, no cholesterol, no chemicals.

Served with fries and salad at a reasonable $5.95, the burger is de­ licious and will give the meat-lover a run for her money. Like Walt Disney meets St. Laurent, this diner has got to be the friendliest place in town. The restaurant ispackedwith novelties: be sure and check out the kitchen which doubles as a

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runaway train, the talking parrot and surprise desserts such as the elusive dish of dirt. Its family at­ mosphere (and you will meet the family) has already produced a wide array of regulars and the ex­ pectation that they’ll announce you (NORM!) as you walk through the door. In addition to the burger, veggie lovers will enjoy the egg­ plant parmesan sub or pizza. While dining at Freddy’s, my companion, a regular, commented, “They treat you better than your best friend.”

Try Freddy Z’s, meet the family, make a friend.

Le Commensal, 1204 McGill College This place is a lot like the Shatner student caf except here you can eat while documenting the inventory at the neighbouring Gap. It’s busy, the crowd is assorted, the means is a buffet. Consisting of soups, tofu gingembre, veggie pate, pizzas, granola andsalads, this place is stacked! Unfortunately the buffet 'chaudet froid’ are charged accord­ ing to $1.40/100 grams; dessert is $1.50/100 grams. In short, the food is great but may cost you your month’s rent. Stay away from the pasta, it’s weighted with water choose your veggies carefully! The constant ringing of the cashregister provides a delightful ambiance.

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thing along the lines of a double de-caf. It’ll make him wince and is a guaranteed form of entertain­ ment for yourself! If you’re loaded ($$$) and not hung over, eat there.

Paradis au Végé, (Corner St-Dominique and Prince Arthur) It’s a buffet. It’s not too ex­ pensive, coming in at about ten dollars, plus beverages. It’s the res­ taurant equivalent of world beat music. It’s not perfect but it’s not bad. To quote a friend, “there are just too many flavours.” This seems to be the eternal dilemma of the buffet. You munch along, enjoying some varied flavours, with a smile growing on your face, and then boom - you hit a flavour you can’t deal with, and spend the next cou­ ple of platefuls trying to exorcise it from your mouth. No kidding though, the food is great if you have a broadly accepting palate, featuringaworld of different tastes.

Nothing in particular is to be rec­ ommended, but there is guaran­ teed to be something for everyone.

If you find that dish, stick with it and get your money’s worth. P.S. It’s not just a restaurant, it’s a health philosophy. No alcohol inthe place.

Arahova’s, 256 St-Viateur Ouest (Comer Park) First entry into this den of Greek culinary decadence can be a bit confusing. To the left is the

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fancy-shmancy cloth napkin side and to the right is the formica table cheap-o area. Vegetarians shoulc turn right and prepare themselve: for a garlic-induced onslaught.

The prize item on the ment is the veggie souvlaki platter ai $7.25. Souvi enthusiasts get the best tzaziki and feta-filled pita ir the city, along with tzaziki, Greel salad, and fries on the side. This ii quite possibly the most divine veg­ etarian meal in the city, for those withagarlic penchant. A solo veggie souv, which may be ample foi many, runs three bucks. The res­ taurant also dishes up some good appetizers, including tiropita (cheese-filled filo dough) and spanakopita (substitute spinach foi the cheese), both at $3 75. Foi those insane enough to need an extragarlic infusion, the garlic salac called scordavia should satisfy.

The dessert menu offers sev­ eral choice items, but the balaklava, especially honey drenched and nutty, is a good bet at a meagre $1.50. And don’t forget to BYO wine. Several dépanneurs across the way cater to those who didn't.

Be forewarned. Do not bring a date unless both of you want to drown in a sea of garlic breath.

Those deps across the way are also stocked withanothervaluable com­ modity for après-Arahova: breath mints.

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L - 1double N.... HA! Not many which individuals you’re talking like that there were eight people about. in the band, plus at least another people know that.

Trib: Well, how about eight in the crew, and particu­ Trib: Is this the first time yourself? larly with regards to the beer, I you’re going there?

5.5. : For myself?

It’s a mil­ mean, considering that there are 5.5. : Yeah, but it’s not Rus­ sia, it’s Estonia. The Estonians lion miles away from anything a lot of people coming in after will go mad if they think I’m remotely resembling the truth. the show... it’s not like we drank saying that they’re in Russia. The others are a bunch of it all ourselves, you know. And After forty-five years they’ve fi­ swanks, but me, no. I’m a Sev­ that’s not a particularly big rider. I mean, there are a lot of nally managed to get out of enth Day Adventist.

Trib: You’re straight? bands... bloody Russia.

5.5. : Oh, of course, totally, Trib: Actually, Motorhead Trib: What will the mix of totally. just played here, and it was a bit tunes be like in the live show?

5.5. : We fully understand Trib: Really? Why don’t I out of control.

S.S.: Oh, well Motorhead the fact that a lot of people who believe that?

5.5. : I don’t know. Maybe are a little bit out of control, heh come to see us do want to hear a lot of the old stuff. I mean, you I’m lying. Yeah, I’m a total ani­ heh.

tin of peeled Italian tomato pureé.

Trib: Good thing I’m re­ Shameless. Some people cording this. would probably consider it an 5.5. :Again reduce that and act of shameless, irresponsible let it simmer for about five, six, journalism to allow two devoted, seven hours on the lowest pos­ long-time and unwavering sible heat. When that’s done Pogues fans to conduct an inter­ cook your spaghetti and there view with them. For those read­ you go! ers hoping to read an unbiased Trib: And how many does interview with the Pogues, we that serve? regret to inform you that such an 5.5. : You have to adjust event is about as likely as Mother the amounts accordingly, but Theresa getting arrested for as­ that should feed about four peo­ sault. Or, for that matter, about ple at one sitting (chuckle as likely as Shane MacGowan chuckle). That’s the recipe for gracing the Metropolis stage with the Pogues, so now you know his cantankerous presence. Ad­ what you’re getting. mittedly, we too would like to Trib: I would never have see Shane MacGowan snarling guessed. Where’s the St. Pad­ toothlessly into the mike tonight, dy’s day show happening this but he won’t be, so live with it year? and accept the fact the Pogues 5.5. : St. Paddy’s Day is in can get your blood pumping Toronto. with or without Shane. Grab a Trib: Aren’t they lucky! pint o’ whiskey, spew up and We’re having a pre-St. Paddy’s pass out, then give the Pogues’ Day thing here. We’ll have to tin whistle player-cum-singer compete to see who will have Spider Stacey a chance to prove the best blow-out. that you can still Shanelessly 5.5. : Yeah, that interests pogo to the Pogues. me. So you’re going to try to outdo them in, sort of, hospital­ Tribune: H ow ’s the ity? weather in England?

Trib: Sure.

Spider Stacey: Ack! You 5.5. : OK, fine. know, it’s a sad old country, but Trib: One last thing. Have I suppose it’ll get by one way or you hung up the tin whistle, or another. are you just too busy singing?

Trib: Are you looking for­ 5.5. : Well obviously it’s ward to coming to Montreal? impossible to sing and play the 5.5. : Of course, yeah. I like tin whistle at the same time. I do Montreal a lot. It’s an interesting play it on a few things. We have place to find in North America. a new guy in the band, James The European air about it is McNally who has taken over quite odd if you come from would be disappointed if you Trib: What is the recipe from James Feamley on accor­ mal, the rest of them are really Europe. I mean Quebec City is went to see the Rolling Stones well behaved. I ought to be for the Pogues, like for when dion, and he is an extremely in the wrong continent. and they didn’t play “Satisfac­ good tin whistle player, much you’re writing your songs? locked up for my own good.

Trib: How has the re­ tion”. better than I am.

5.5. : Well, you get a large Trib: I’ll see what we can sponse been to your new album Trib: How do you find Trib: OK, that’s about it. do about that. I’ve actually got red onion, you slice it finely, and ( W aiting fo r Herb)? singing, taking over from Shane 5.5. : Well, thank you for you soften it in butter and olive this cage at my house...

5.5. : It’s been very good.

I MacGowan? oil.IDon’t let it colour, just soften talking to me. Use that recipe 5.5. : Oh, that’s OK, fine. mean, the audiences seem to S.S: It was initially pretty appreciate it... just as long as it until the onion starts to taste well, and remember: you gotta love it. nerve-racking, as you can prob­ you feed me. sweet. Then chop up about four use fresh parmesan. Don’t buy it Trib: People were saying ably imagine, but I discovered I Trib: Occasionally, yeah... or five cloves of garlic, really at the fucking... yeah, you’ve got it was more laid back than old could actually hack it. I got a gruel. Um, I want to know what finely. Put them in, then some to get a block of it and grate it Pogues stuff... really good reaction from the celery and carrots. Stir it all yourself at home. And if you can a Pogues rider involves.

5.5. : I wouldn’t say it’s par­ audience. The band were really until the chopped celery get ahold of some dried mush­ 5.5. : Ah, now this is onearound of ticularly laid back. Some songs supportive as well. It has be­ the great myths about us, but it’s and carrots get covered in the rooms, like from any Italian deli, are obviously more laid back come a lot easier. pretty restrained. There was one butter, then, depending on how you know, and soak ’em before­ than others, but, I mean, so Trib: Was there a lot of time when we would have, say, many you are, put in say about hand. what? weight initially, like, feeling you Trib: Gotcha. like three or four cases of beer, a pound of ground steak...

Trib: This album seems to had some big shoes to fill?

5.5. : The crucial thing is Trib: So it's not a vegetar­ three bottles of tequila, um, a get back to the Celtic roots, 5.5. : Well of course— not you gotta cook it for as long as couple of bottles of wine, maybe ian thing. though there is the odd Russian only Shane MacGowan but (exyou can possibly wait, and it’s 5.5. : No. So you stir that a couple bottles of champagne influence.

Clash singer) Joe Strummer as for after the show. I like to feed around. Wait for the meat to even better if you cook it and 5.5. : I think so, but there well. Those are two pretty hard the tequila to people after the turn opaque. then warm it up the next day so are a few other bits and pieces in acts to follow.

Trib: Meat tu rn s opaque? all the flavours assimilate. show as well. Then, of course, there as well.

Trib: What I want to like mixers and soft drinks, um, 5.5. : Yeah. Then you pour Trib: Alright, thanks a lot.

Trib: So are you taking the know is how the Pogues in real 5.5. : OK, Cheers! in about, let me see now, well mineral v&fter... tour to Russia? life compare to the drunken The Pogues p la y to n ig h t a t you cover the food in the pan by Trib: Deli tray?

5.5. : Not to Russia, butdebauchery we of the lyrics and about an inch with medium dry M etropolis w ith Uisce Beatha 5.5. : Yeah yeah, the deli are going to be playing in Esto­ the myths, on an individual tray. We never asked for the deli white wine. Reduce it, then pour (m aybe) a n d R aw lins Cross. nia, in Tallinn, the capital. I level? tray, we just got one. But, con­ in milk and grated nutmeg. Re­ Tickets are 20$ a n d w orth every think it’s spelled T - A - double 5.5. : Heh heh, it depends sidering that when the rider was duce that again, then pour in a bloody cent.

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BY JO LAND A TU R LE Y Premeiring last week, Zero Patience: A Movie M usical About AIDS is a post-modern collage of music, dance, and drama dealing with the myths and truths facing gays living with AIDS. Written and directed byjohn Greyson, the film addresses those myths commonly touted as truths: that HIV is a mutated monkey virus, that a certain French-Canadian airline steward brought AIDS to North America and that HIV is incontestably the virus which causes AIDS. Set mainly at the Toronto Museum of Natural History, Zero Patience introduces us to Sir Richard Burton (John Robinson), a Victorian sexologist and taxider­ mist who has lived well beyond his years due to an “unfortunate incident with the Fountain of Youth”. He is working on an ex­ hibit about contagious diseases when a paper airplane flies onto the scene, showing a picture of Patient Zero, the airline attendant who allegedly brought AIDS to North America in the late 70s. It occurs to Sir Richard Burton (or Dick as his boss Dr. Placebo calls him) that his Hall of Contagion would simply be incomplete with­ out a display of the “Typhoid Mary of AIDS”.

Fortunately, however, the

Zero Patience has no patience fo r A ID S myths ghost of Patient Zero (Normand sequence of events, that Zero and Fauteaux) returns from the great the Monkey are simply scapegoats beyond to set the record straight. for an (as of yet) unexplained Dick jumps at the opportunity to phenomenon.

Meanwhile, the audience is place Zero right next to the African Green Monkey—another com­ introduced to George (Richardo monly cited 'source' of AIDS—in Keens-Douglas), one of Zero’s ex­ lovers, who is now struggling with the exhibit.

As the story progresses, Dick AIDS and slowly going blind due realizes that this epidemic cannot to infection with the cytomegalo be forced into a neat, empirical virus (CMV). George is involved

with Act-Up (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) and helps organ­ ize a demonstration against a phar­ maceutical companywhich charges $20,000 for a year’s supply of ZP0, a drug thought to slow down the effects of CMV. He is doubtful about his role in this demonstra­ tion since he himself is taking the drug. On the other hand, the drug is obviously unsuccessful and has

terrible side-effects.

The uncertainty surround­ ing the treatment, the outcome and the future of AIDS leaves George confused. A French teacher, he instructs his class to conjugate the verb 'savoir* (to know). Yet, nobody knows any­ thing.

At the end of Zero Pa­ tience, the audience is left with theoverwhelming realizationthat after a decade of intense, Nobel prize-winning research, we are still in the dark about many as­ pects of this dreadful disease Although the movie deals with serious issues, it does so in a very comical and original way.

After all, this is a musical com­ edy. The songs include a lesson about the etiquette of “popping a boner in the shower” and a discussion between two buttholes.

Perhaps,JohnGreyson has placed limits on his potential viewing audience with this campy, eclectic production. This film is informative but, unfortu­ nately, the targetedaudience won’t need as much education as the audience it just may exclude.

LBGM and the Concordia HIV/AIDS Advisory Committeepre­ sented the M ontreal Premiere o f Zero Patience last week. The film continue s through Thursday, M arch 17 a t Cinéma de Paris.

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3. There will be N O replacements to this meeting for the incoming STUDENT GOVERNOR if unable to attend.

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PLEASE BE REM INDED 1. Quorum for this meetirxj is fifty (50%) of the total number of organizations registered by 4:00 pm, March 24, 1994.

2. Organizations eligible are only those DIRECTLY recognized by the S.S.M.U. Students' Council.

3. Al delegates must have been active members of their respective clubs for at least two months prior to the meeting.

4. Al delegates must be members of the Students' Society (i.e. any McGill student except those registered in Continuing Education).

5. A delegate who is not the Chief Officer/Coordinator of a particular group must be approved as the official delegate by the organization he or she is representing.

6. Only registered delegates may be nominated as club representatives.

7. Only registered delegates may vote for club representatives.

8. Organizations NOT listed above which ARE eligible to send a delegate should contact Kathy Bowman at the Students' Society General Office as soon as possible.

9. Organizations not registered by the deadline will NOT be permitted to take part in the meeting.

10. Organizations which are recognized by one of the fifteen ( 15) faculty and school societies or through the Students' Athletics Council are NOT eligible to be represented.

1 1. Residence has its own representative to Students' Council and is, therefore NOT elgible to send o delegate to this meeting.

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To the “isn’t cynicism fun?” segment of today’s Generation Xer’s, Noam Chomsky, linguist, philosopher and radical activist, is somewhat akin to a modern day Jesus Christ.

Decked out in his environmentally-friendly organic wool lecture suit, Chomsky, as one radio ad puts it lovingly, “articu­ lates the very anarchistic, anti­ fascist vision of society that I have always cherished.”

Whether you agree with his searing probe into the media or despise his conspiratorial rantings, Chomsky has carved himself into our collective con­ sciousness. M a n u fa ctu rin g Con­ sent: Noam Chomsky a n d the M edia, is a film co-directed, co­

written and co-produced by Montreal-based Mark Achbar that deals with Chomsky’s concern over East Timor and his battle with conservative journalists (William F. Buckley threatened to smash him in the chops).

After an edited version of M a n u fa c tu rin g C onsent was aired on CBC Witness last week, Achbar sat down with the T rib­ une to discuss the making of the film, his relationship with Chomsky and the film’s subse­ quent success.

Tribune: I understand the film took five years to make and was shot in seven countries. Ob­ viously the subject must have been close to your heart. What made you decide to make the film?

Mark Achbar: I saw him speak at Concordia several years ago, and he really changed the way I looked at power politics.

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I mean you could find his books if you really looked, but he cer­ tainly wasn’t on television. So I thought I’d give him a hand.

Trib: How did you get in touch with him?

M.A.: I wrote to him and he replied immediately. It’s amaz­ ing. Most of my friends take three weeks to write back but Chomsky just fires his response back. He spends 20 or 30 hours a week solely responding to peo­ ple who write in with intelligent questions. I don’t want to adver­ tise for him though, and end up burying him in a pile of mail!

Anyways, basically he was very receptive to our idea.

Trib: You shot over 120 hours of material. How did you get all of it?

M.A.: Well, we traipsed around like flies on the wall. We sat in on his lectures and his interviews with other media but we also tried to include footage of other activists and people he dealt with. It’s funny because outside of the United States he’s so much bigger than he is there.

Trib; Thanks to you he’s now even more famous. How does he feel about that?

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However, he regrets the person­ alization of the issues, placing him at the centre of every­ thing.

Trib: A criticism of the film that I’ve heard argues that you use the same sound-bite tech­ niques that Chomsky dislikes.

How would you respond to this type of criticism?

M.A.: If people want to see just a lecture of Chomsky, there are videos they can order. If we did that type of thing we wouldn’t have had the number two gross­ ing film in San Francisco during it’s first week or won a truckload of awards. The film only has the appearance of sound bites, it’s actually an accumulation of ideas.

It cuts from Chomsky to Chomsky to Chomsky. If you want to read more about Chomsky’s ideas you can buy our new companion book to the film. It even comes with a series of all-star philoso­ pher trading cards for your own collection!

M a n u fa ctu rin g Consent in

its full-length version is available at your local video store. You may not agree with everything the outspoken Chomsky has to say, but the film is innovative and visually impressive.

C h o m s k y B y tes 1 . “T h e biggest international terrorist operations known are run out of Washington."

2 . “ If the Nuremberg Law s w ere applied* every post-war US president would be hanged."

3 . “ The Bible is the m ost genocidal book in our canon."

4 . “ Education is an imposed state of ignorance."

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Then, in a Hollywood ver­ journalistHenry), Glenn Close (his bitch of a boss), Marisa Tomei (his sion of 24 hours, Henry gets and paranoid and very pregnant wife), loses the job of his life, gets and Randy Quaid and Robert Duvall, almost loses the “good deed story” providing good acting for a rela­ of his life, and his pregnant wife tively unchallenging script. Dra­ hemorrhages and gives birth to an matic comedy with lots of scream­ appropriately beautiful baby. The ing. Coke instead of coffee. Loser Editor-in-Chief has prostate can­ cer and manages journalists instead to find his longof loser private in­ lost daughter. She vestigators. has an appropri­ The Paper is ately beautiful yet another Ron baby. Etc., etc.

Howard creation, The movie joining the ranks of suddenly tries to Splash and Parent­ be meaningful hood-touted as a twenty minutes typical “behindfromthe end, and the-lines look at Henry tries to re­ work, marriage, solve all of his life and other forms of problems. De­ combat. An every­ spite some wellday adventure.” done parallels in Very clever. the plot, the end­ Yet, the ing retches third movie and its char­ The jo u rn a lis tic life .

O hh! H ow rom antic grade poetic jus­ acters are too shal­ low and too Hollywood to be tice. Bitch achieves revelation and either realistically “everyday" or becomes non-bitch. Paranoid woman becomes happy mom. The revealingly “behind-the-scenes”.

While The Paper does ad­ marriage is saved. Innocent teens dress personal conflicts about love, are freed. Policeman, journalist and family, racial prejudice, career ad­ parking commissioner are forced vancement, inner-city violence, to look at the serious ramifications New York parking and ultimately, of their irresponsible and naughty journalistic integrity, it covers too behaviour. They live happily ever much too quickly to seriously ad­ after. dress any issue. But it’s not like it The Paper opens M arch 25th really claims to. at Famous Players Theatres.

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B Y D O T W O JAKO W SKI A N D M ARYM ARG ARETJO NES Uisce Beatha’s(lshka-baha) music is good old-fashioned rock—with a twist. The name of this Halifax-based Celtic rock band literally means “Whiskey-the blessed water of life”. Alan and John Glen started the band five years ago in their hometown London, Ontario, while just “hav­ ing a laugh”. They always had music in the house, and Celtic music in a Scottish family is par for the course. In 1991, the Glens met up with Doug Watt, Marty Coles, Paul Meadows and Damian Morrissey and released their first album The M ystic, o f the B aja in 1993.

This month, Uisce Beatha is releasing their second album The Voice o f the Voyager and currently they are in the middle of a 35-date cross-Canada tour.

The band will be in Montreal this Tuesday, possibly opening for the Pogues and Rawlins Cross at Metropolis. We caught up with Alan Glen, lead singer and lyri­ cist, resting before trekking up to Sault Ste. Marie as part of the COCA circuit.

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Alan Glen :The band origi­ Celtic music appeals to every­ really. We are not just a Celtic band—I’d say 99% of the stuff nally started in 1990, so it’s been one.

Trib: It may be a cliché we do is straight rock and roll. going for five years now. At first, my brother and I weren’t seri­ question, but what is the music We use Celtic instruments and some traditional melodies ous—just having a laugh. at times.

There has always been mmm I’d say our music is music in my house, since n “easy-drinking” music and we were three. We grew people always have a up with it. Most of us in “H ow m an y tim e s c a n you good time at our shows. If the band played in punk s e e th e W aw a g o o se we got drunk before we and rock and roll bands, played—well we never plus we were tired of all y ’k n o w ? E v e r y t i m e I s e e would have made it to the crap playing in the it, I tr y t o c lim b it. E v e r y where we are now. Any bars. I guess that’s why t i m e I c l i m b i t , I t h i n k I’m band who thinks they can we are here and still mak­ get “sauced” for a show ing music. g o in g t o g e t h u r t ...” are kidding themselves.

Trib: Why Celtic Sure, you drink after... music?

-A la n G le n o f Trib: Why did you A.G.: We had a re­ move from London to surgence in our Scottish U is c e B e a th a Halifax? roots. We got mental for A.G.: We got tired Scotland for a while. So of the scene in Ontario. we explored the music We are not really into the and its culture. Our guitar big business aspect. We run our player [Doug Watt] is from Scot­ writing process like for you?

A.G.: I’m a compulsive own affairs. I guess it was a land which kinda’ helps ...

For example, in “Maggie writer—I always have ideas run­ peace of mind thing. Everyone Coulter” on M ystic o f the B aja , ning around in my head. It seems was at the point that we had to the music is based on a tradi­ to just flow out—like there’s a move on, too. We were travel­ tional melody that I liked. Where little man inside my head. They ling back and forth acrossCanada. my family comes from, people come from experiences and re­ It makes sense to be at one end were not allowed to choose their flections. You have to maintain of the country.

Besides, Halifax has a great own love or their own partners. some of that full Celtic influence music scene although we are not in your song.

Sometimes, I write People I know have lost a lot of love because of the choices they for two weeks straight and write a “grunge” band. Its funny: in five to six songs at a time. Often London we were “Celtic pop only one or two are good, some­ monsters” and in Halifax we are “Celtic grunge”. Also, in London times all five are.

Trib: People seem to think it took a long time to build a that heavy drinking and Celtic following. But in Halifax, the music go hand-in-hand. Care to audience is really loyal and re­ ceptive. We kicked off the tour comment?

INSTRUCTIONAL COMMUNICATIONS CENTRE U n d e r R e v ie w

As part of the University's systematic review of administrative units, a Review Committee has been established to examine the role and workings of the Instructional Communications Centre. The members are: Professor David Harpp (Chair) Department of Chemistry

Ms. Brenda Parsons Admissions Office

Should the Government Declare a Moratorium on Debt-Servicing?

Come and Discuss this and Other Proposals at the: M cG ILL P U B L IC FO R U M O N CANAD A'S BU D E TA R Y A N D FISCAL PO LIC Y Main Speaker: Hardial Bains, naitional leader of CPC (ML) and author of the briefsubmittedto Finance Minister Paul Martinentitled: For a Progressive Social Policy, Against Retrogressive Pressure Wednesday, March 16 7 P.M . Shatner B-09

Ms. Carol Jackman Department of Art History

Dr. Larry Conochie Department of Orthopedics

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Ms. Laurie Lawson Treasury Department

uj As part of its review, the Committee would like to identify and hear from users of the services provided by the Unit. Members of the University community are urged to submit their comments to: Dr. Victoria Lees, Secretary of the Review Committee, Office of the Secretariat, Room 608,

James Administration Building.

The Review Committee is in the early stages of its review and will be conducting extensive interviews in an attempt to gather information. If you would like to meet with the committee, please contact Lucy St. James for an appointment at 398-3949.

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Trib: The COCA circuit is rather gruelling. Where are you touring next? Is there anything big in the works?

A.G.:Well, we are on tour now. I’d say 98% of the gigs are in universities. Sometimes, when there’s no advertising and the school has not lived up to their end of the deal—you just have to grin and bear it. Nine times out of ten, if they don’t know us, we get them going. It’s really opened up our audience. University shows shine above the bar shows.

We’ll probably go to Eu­ rope in the spring of 1995 to Scotland, England and Spain. The BBC told us they will give us radio and TV play. Besides we can’t tour Canada six times again this year. When we tour Canada we go from coast to coast, liter ally. How many times can you see the Wawa goose y’know?

Every time I see it, I try to climb it. Every time I climb it, I think I’m going to get hurt...

We’ve established our­ selves here and now we can work on ourselves and broader our market. We don’t want to become a strictly bar-touring band because the next thing you know, it’s just a hobby.

Trib: Rumour has it you are opening for the Pogues at Metropolis on the Ides of March Is it true?

A.G.: It’s not happening.

We might see if we can open because we know Rawlins Cross and there’s a chance we can do one set while we are in town.

Uisce Beatha is an original upbeat Celtic rock band in a era where similar bands forget that they can write their own music and be true to their roots. Moreo­ ver, their appeal is universal.

They have been reviewed across North America and their discs are being distributed in Canada, the U.S.A. and Latvia (!). They are more than worth a “listen to”: Uisce Beatha is a dynamic, humourous and original young band adding a new flavour to the canon of Canadian rock. [Their first album The M ystic o f the B aja is available at HMV and Sam the Record Man, distributed through Festival Records.

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PAR LAR A NAHAS Pendant quatre jours la semaine dernière, le McGill Con­ temporary Dance Ensemble (MCDE) a présenté une série de 17 pièces sur le thème du chaos.

C’est un assemblement de pièces . d’un style très différent l’un de l’autre, où il y avait de quoi satisfaire tous les goûts (même les plus éxigents).

Le thème du chaos se reflète bien dans la présentation des pièces, où l’on passe d’un style à l’autre sans transition.

Le MCDE existe déjà depuis plus de dix ans. La troupe est entièrement dirigée par les étudiants. Avec peu de ressources, la MCDE a réussi à avoir des costumes de grande variété, allant de jeans et de chemises de nuit aux habits en satin cousus sur mesure. En ce qui concerne le décors, le spec­ tacle en était judicieusement dépourvu, si ce n’était pour les banderoles qui pendaient du plafond. Ainsi la concentration se posait davantage sur les danseurs. L’emphase était également mise sur la musique dont le style variait autant que les costumes. On pouvait entendre du soul, du hard rock, du dance music, de 1’ instru­ mental, et du classique, sans

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(Roadrunner) This album’soriginal titlewas to have been Vagina Dentata, which is a good indication of what W ithdrawal Method is all about.

This is the stuff of nightmares; broken glass, blood, teeth, bones and steel blades are just a sampling of the unbroken flow of hellish imagery which seems to flow through the mind of vocalist Alice Cohen. Here’s one of her typically uplifting couplets, from the song “Vagina Dentata”: “vestal virgin im­ age will distract another victim/ carnival of bloodshed lies through bloodshot eyes.” I’m not exactly sure what this issupposed to mean, but what I am sure of is that this album is no fun. Cohen’s gothic grumblings are backed by dense, repetitive post-grunge/pseudometal riffs, achieving an agreeable sound only in “Bamuckle” and “Swallowed”. Die Monster Die will need more than a bad night’s sleep to keep us hooked.

—John Scanlon Green Day dookie

(Reprise) This Oakland trio have been around under one moniker or an­ other since 1983-when they were

LeMCDEdonnesoninterprétationdelastatuedelaLiberté Quelle grâce! Line des pièces, à la musique de Sting, a fait remarquer la souplesse et l’agilité des danseurs que l’on prend généralement pour acquis. De plus ils nous montrent des talents d’acteurs, car non contents d’uniquement bien danser, mesdemoiselles et messieurs veulent aussi excéler dans le théâtre.

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oublier le rythme des tamtams joués sur scène, qui donnaient à leur oeuvre un effet tribal et contribuaient à l’impression de chaos.

Deux danseuses, Lisa Benjamin et Sonja Perreten, se sont particulièrement distinguées par leur grâce. À les regarder, on aurait envie de sortir ses pointes de ballet, depuis longtemps rangées.

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X and movies like Reality Bites is that they take themselves way way way too seriously. So Beck kicks serious slacker ass precisely be­ cause his disillusioned fuck-you stance isso remorselessly funny. In the familiar “Loser”, Beck whines, “I’ma loser baby, so why don’tyou kill me.” While appropriated by capitalist industry pigs, this ain’t yer average earnest adolescent drivel. Beck’s demented wit cli­ maxes in “Nitemare Hippy Girl” when he embarks on asnide mock­ ery of Dead-head chicks with “tofu the size of Texas” and bogus po­ etry. Think Arts steps. (Beck, you’re a genius). The music itself is part Beastie Boys, part hard-core and part Stone Roses. Mellow Gold is catchy—but innovative—and silly.

A glorious addition to a humour­ less genre of carbon-copy bowlcut butt-heads who think its just Beck so darn hard to be young and Mellow Gold high.

(Geffen) —Catrin Morris The thing about grunge, Gen

eleven years old! Thankfully, over the course of a decade they haven’t decided to grow up. Listento Green Day’s latest release, and if itdoesn’t evoke some physical response, if it doesn’t get your body flailing in some manner, be it a turbo mosh or a satanically possessed session of air guitar, I’ll pick up an old toque off the street and put it on right away. Every song on dookie is a two and a half minute dose of in-your-face punk rock: no masturbatory guitar solos, no attempts at creating “atmosphere", not even the token smarmy mellow song to show the band’s more artistic side.

Thank God. Green Day just stick to doing what theydo best, and they111 be doing it live at Foufounes on March 23rd.

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d’humour, et nous révèle ce talent dans une parodie du bal­ let Le Lac des Sygnes de Tchaikovsky. Dans cette pièce on peut voir quatre ballerines vêtues de jeans et de “Nikes” faire de satiriques pas de chats qui rappelait le “Bad Ballet” de Saturday Night Live. L’humour a bien été transmis, la salle s’esclaffait.

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d’une musique ethnique sont émouvantes et puissantes. On a l’impression d’être transporté vers un monde harmonieux, sans doute grâce à une musique gaie inspirée d’une culture orientale. Les danseurs ont donné une excellente perform­ ance, parfois digne d’une troupe professionelle. À la choréographie, ils ont incorporé la danse contacte à plusieurs reprises, parfois à l’aide d’objets divers, ce qui donnait au spec­ tacle un effet presque surréaliste.

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p o r i s 1 9 9 3 - 1 9 9 4 T r i b u n e “A t h l e t e o f t h e Y e a r ” n o m i n e e s CAROL CHIANG, SW IM M ER

A N D R E W BOON, PLACE-KICKER/PUNTER

Despite her rookie status, Chiang has been perhaps the best swimmer to don McGill’s red and white colours this season.

She was the team’s top performer at the CIAU championships last weekend, with a fifth-place 100m in the freestyle and a seventh-place in the 50m freestyle. She is the only McGill swimmer to win a gold medal at this year’s Quebec University Swimming League (QUSL) championships—a gold in the 50m freestyle. Chiang has won sixteen gold medals for McGill this year in the QUSL.

Boon snapped the McGill Redmen single season record for field goals with 18. When the Redmen offence seemed anemic at times, Boon’s leg carried the team. In the September 18thShrine Bowl game againstConcordia, Boon connected on field goals of 11, 30, 16, 42 and 45 yards, earning himOntarioQuebec Intercollegiate Football Conference(0-QIFC) Player of the Week honours. With a thirteen-point performance against Queen’s in the regular season finale, the Welland, Ont. native wrapped up the O-QIFC scoring title with 72 points on the season.

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Bom JULIA M AUGHAN, SOCCER FORWARD

C H R IS DRYSD ALE, SOCCER FULL BACK

This has arguably been the best of Maughan’s three years with the Martlets. With her fifteen goals in 18 games, the Kirkland, Quebec native has eclipsed the Martlets' single season scoring record. It is her third consecutive year as the team’s top scorer. She was named a CIAU second-team AllCanadian and grabbed Quebec University Soccer League (QUSL) all-star honours for the third time in as many years. She was also named to the CIAU championship all-tournament team.

The fourth-year electrical engineering student from Washington, DC, has capped one of the most glorious careers in Redmen soccer history. The 1992-93 Tribune Male Athlete of the Year, he was voted Quebec University Soccer League (QUSL) MVP this season for the third consecutive year. He has been a Canadian Interuniversity Athletic Union (CIAU) first team All-Canadian and a QUSL All-Star for the past three seasons.

GAYLE NOBLE, SOCCER FULLBACK

JE A N N IC O LA S DUVAL, X -C O U N T R Y & TRACK

Maughan Noble, last year’s Tribune Female Athlete of the Year, once again earns a nomination, as she led the team to a fourthplace at the Canadian Interuniversity Athletic Union (CIAU) soccer championships. In the five years that she has played for the Martlets, McGill has won the provincial championship every season. Noble was selected to the CIAU first-teamAll-Star squad for an impressive third time. Said Head Coach Tony Iachetta: “We’ve never had many goals scored against us, and she was the big reason for that.”

Duval was McGill’s best in cross country this season, taking two second-place finishes in league races and the bronze medal in the Quebec Student Sport Federation (QSSF) finals. His strong performances carried through to the CIAU championships, where he grabbed tenth-place. On the track, his 8:24 3000m time was best in Quebec, and at one point in the season ranked himfourth best in the country. At the QSSF championships, he won a gold medal in the 1500m final.

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Duval Clearly the most vital cog in the Martlets Basketball program, Tessier once again dominated Quebec University basketball play. The second-year forward’s season was cut short when she suffered anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) damage on February 5th. The Martlets were 7-0before the injury and 2-3 in the remaining games. “She’s our best player and we were not the same team without her,” Martlets Head Coach Chris Hunter said. Despite the injuries, she was selected as the league’s Most Valuable Player for the second consecutive season and a first-team All-Canadian.

Tessier

In her four years at McGill, Thyer has appeared in the top rankings of her sport more often than any athlete. The medical student won her third consecutive first-teamAll-Canadian status in track, and reached the same level in cross country for the fourth time. She finished second at the CIAU cross country championships and last weekend won gold in the 1500m and bronze in the 3000mat the CIAU track championships. She was a member of the Canadian distance relay teamfor races inChina andJapan. Thyer has won every Quebec Student Sport Federa­ tion (QSSF) cross country race she has entered.

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S e a s o n e n d s a t C o n c o r d ia 's h a n d s f o r R e d m e n h o o p s

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McGill’s lead soon disap­ peared as Concordia stepped up itsgame a notch, using theirspeed effectively to take control. The Redmen could not keep up with the Stingers’ running game and often succumbed to strong de­ fensive pressure by turning the ball over.

Friday night, the men’s bas­ ketball team played with a lot of heart in front of a sell-out crowd at the Currie Gym. After dropping the first game of the best-of-three final series of the Quebec Univer­ sity Basketball League (QUBL) three days before at Loyola cam­ pus, the Redmen played host to their cross-town rivals in game two.

On paper Concordia seemed the better of the two teams, having threeof their start­ ing five named to the QUBL All-Star first-team, while sporting an unde­ feated record against McGill this season. How­ ever, McGill played as if they were oblivious of McMahon monster slam that fact, taking the play Once thevisitorsestablished to their ‘superior’ rivals.

The Redmensprang quickly a ten-point lead, McGill played Dut of the blocks going on a 12- catch-upball. A big part of this ) run, taking a 19-15 lead. The was due to their inability to sink lome team seemed to surprise the outside shots. It got to the the opposition with the sudden point that if the Redmen could jurst, as Douglas McMahon not get the ball to the inside, they .cored the majority of his team’s would not score. Even so, they early points. He even nailed a went to the dressing room at half­ hree-pointer, one of two on the time only trailing by a score of 40light. The 6-foot-ll centre ex- 32.

The second half picked up ilained his unexpected outside .hooting.

“After watching the tape of :>ur last game, I was instructed to take those outside shots when I vas left uncovered. Even if I nissed, itwould create an oppor;unity,” said the towering for­

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The Redmen’s inability to score from the periphery continued as the ball seemed unwilling to sink for them. Despite this, McGill stepped up its defensive play and continued their strong inside game, pulling withinseven points with five minutes left to play. However, a 7-0 run by the visitors dashed ^ any hope of comeback _o and Concordia ended up winning by a score of .2 83-72. ® The Redmennever g gave up; and truly went Ë down fighting. Much of pi their success could be attributed to the inside game of the twin towers, Todd McDougall and McMahon, who each scored 24 points.

McDougall summarized the situation.

“The inside game was really on, but we lost it on the athletic side. [The Stingers] were very quick on the perimeter,” he said.

Poor outside shooting and turnovers were key to the out­ come. The Redmen ball-carriers, Rick Varisco, Ryan Schoenhals and Chris Emergui combined for

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18turnovers. Varisco commented on his team’s play.

“There were too many turnovers. Our outside shooting was poor due to long stretches without shooting the ball. We played really well and took it to them. It was frustrating though; we stepped up our game, but so did they. It’s as if we had to step up our game twice to have an effect,” he said.

Assistant coach Nevio Marzinotto reflected on the sea­ son as a whole.

“The maturity level is in­ credible as it takes a while to develop. It was a good year and 13 of the 15 guys will be back next year. The future looks good,” he affirmed.

As the number-one ranked Concordia Stingers move on to theCanadianchampionship tour­ nament in Halifax, the McGill Redmen can look back upon this year as a learning experience and will surely move on to bigger and brighter things in coming years.

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Swimmers 13th at CIAUs

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Having lost their best vet­ eran performers from last year’s 11th place finish, McGill swim­ mers were expected to bring a young team to this year’s Cana­ dian Interuniversity Athletic Un­ ion (CIAU) championships, last weekend in Victoria, British Co­ lumbia. Compensating for their lack of experience, the Red and White’s gung-ho youth propelled several team members to top placings. Triple finalist and rookie Carol Chiang led McGill to 13th overall.

“Most of these poeple were all rookies,” said head coach François Laurin of his athletes.

“Some of themwere in the [CIAU] championship for the first time, but it came out quite well.”

Laurin explained that McGill’s results brought bothsome cheers and tears from Red and White fans.

“Some swimmers on our teamhad a few personal bests, but there were other races where we weren’t that good,” said Laurin.

With the qualification meet for the Commonwealth games team held just a week earlier, competitors were in peak racing condition. The strong field put manyof the medals out of McGill’s reach. Chiang came closest, how­

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The rookie grabbed fifthplace in the 100mfreestyle final in a time of 58.44 seconds, and sev­ enth-place in the 50m freestyle in 27.18 seconds. Both races were personal bests for Chiang. She then teamed up with Dana McClymont, Meagan Smith-Windsor and Anna Leong in McGill’s fourth-place 4 x 100m freestyle relay team. The foursome’s time of 3:57 was seven seconds faster than its previous best this year.

Léo Grepin was the only other McGill swimmer to make it to an event final. His sixth-place time of 51.9 seconds in the 100m freestyle was pleasantly unex­ pected. Grepin also grabbed two consolation final fourth spots in the 200mand400mfreestyle races.

Leong, who disappointingly did not make the finals in her events, came back with strong performances in the consolation finals. She took second in the 400m Individual Medley and fifth in the 200m medley.

McClymont reachedthecon­ solation finals in the 50m, 100m and 200m breaststrokes.

Also competing were Craig Perfect, fourth inthe 50mfreestyle consolation, and Eric Potier, and Alyson Byrd who did not make it past the preliminary rounds.

U of Lethbridge takes hockey title While the McGill Redmen hockey teamis already a month into,, its off season, the Canadian Interuniversity Athletic Union (CIAU) hockey championship, the University Cup, was finally decided last weekend in Toronto. The University of Lethbridge Pronghorns were crowned Canadian Champions after defeating the Guelph University Gryphons, 5-2, in front of 7,314 fans at the Maple Leaf Gardens.

The Lethbridge hockey program came dangerously close to being cut at the end of last season when university officials were uncertainwhether the programwas worthfunding. Before thisseason, in the previous ten years of the program’s existence, no Pronghorn team had ever finished with a record over .500, or qualified for the CLAU playoffs.

The Pronghorns propelled themselves to the final with a 9-6win over last season’s national champion, the Acadia University Axemen, in a semifinal hosted by the University of Toronto.

It seemed fitting that the Pronghorns reach the championship after nearextinction, inagame playedat theUniversityofToronto. Last fall, the University of Toronto Varsity Blues won the Canadian University football championship, the Vanier Cup, after their program, was nearly axed due tolack of financial backing. Coming to the rescue of the Varsity Blues program were alumni, who provided the funds necessary to continue.

Source: Montreal Gazette

Winnipeg Wes(wo)men take top cage prize In action at the Canadian Interuniversity Athletic Union(CIAU) women’s basketball national championships, hosted by the University of Calgary, the Winnipeg Wesmen defeated the University of Toronto Varsity Blues, 90-76, to claim the nation’s top prize.

The Wesmen extended theirunbeaten streak to an astronomical 73 games, a North American university record, in winning the eightteam tournament.

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T h y e r w in s t r a c k g o ld S k i t e a m $Y C H A R L E S T H O M A S

Even on an off day, Linda îyer just doesn't allow herself to : beat. At last weekend’s Cana­ an Interuniversity Athletic Un>n (CLAU) track and field chamionships inEdmonton, Thyer led te 1500mrace fromthe sound of te starter’s pistol until about 100 îetres from the finish line. Up to tat point, nobody had pressed er pace, but she was not to go nchallenged. Biding her time, a ompetitor from the University of ritish Colombia (UBC) sprinted ast a stunned Thyer.

“She flew by me like I was anding still," said Thyer. “But tenI thought ‘you’re not going to o that to me’.”

Not to be outdone, Thyer nmediately picked up the pace, owly closing the gap on the UBC inner. Neck and neck theyraced, would come down to the tape, hyer leaned in just ahead by the ightest of margins. She won her old by one-hundreth of a sectid.

Despite the win, Thyer was ot satisfied with her performnce. Head coach Dennis Barrett ras at a loss to explain the leijrely pace of the race.

“It’s one of those weekends ou don’t know what happened. I on’t know myself,” he comîented. “It wasn’t only our runers, though. All distance runners ad some problems.”

Barrett explained that all >nger distance racers at the meet “corded sub-par performances, ven the usually consistent Thyer jffered in the 3000mrace. Comared to the 1500m event, she sually performs better in the X)0m race. She only managed a "onze medal this time around, hat was disappointing was not le third-place (any medal is well

appreciated), but the fact that the race was consideredslow by CIAU standards.

Barrett said that Thyer’s schedule has finally caught up to her.

“Shewasn’tas well prepared as she could have been because of her medical school [studies] and she was sick. She also just came back from China,” he said.

Jean Nicolas Duval, a 3000m runner, also suffered the long­ distance jinx. His eighth-place 8:51.24 was nearly 30 seconds slower thanhis best time thisyear, recorded barely three weeks ago.

Barrett suggested that Duval’s training choices had af­ fected his race-readiness. “[Duval] increased his mile­ age this year, so the speed he had last year wasn’t there this year.

You sacrifice something,” he said.

Duval and Thyer were the only members of McGill’s team with CIAU championship experi­ ence. The rookies were also not up to their regular season stand­ ards and may have suffered from big-meet jitters.

“A lot of times, when you go to a championship like this, it takes time to get into the game— especiallywhen itsyour firsttime,” said Barrett. “But one of the rea­ sons you want to bring [rookies] to the CIAUs, even thoughtheywon’t win a medal is that they get to see the atmosphere and see what they have todo toavoid finishing inthe same place next year.”

First-timers included shot putterSamirChahine, triplejumper Ingrid Marchand, 1500m runner Rosie Mullins and 1000m runner Melanie Bassett.

Windsor won the overall women’s tide, while McGill was 11th—Thyer accounted for all of those points. On the men’s side, Manitoba was the winner.

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A week after the McGill Al­ pine Skiing club re-established it­ self as a dominant force on the Quebec university ski circuit with an impressive performance at Rimouski, the team looked to condnue its successful ways at the season-endingmeetatMontOrford.

While neither the men’s nor the women’s teams took home cham­ pionship banners, McGill did enjoy manyfine individual performances, andshoweda great deal of promise for next season.

As with last week, all the compedng teams enjoyedfine condidons after a season full of treach­ erous weather and courses which were not able to hold up. Team Captain Sophie Marcoux ex­ plained.

“Itwas gorgeous, reallysunny and about minus tendegrees,”said Marcoux. “Despitebeingabitwindy on Friday, thecourse held up really well for the later skiers.”

The McGill women, who placed nine skiers inthe top fifteen at Rimouski, notched four skiers in the top fifteen in last Friday’s Giant Slalom(GS) with Marcoux sixth, Sandra Cole ninth, Martha McDougall 11thandJill Taylor fin­ ishing 15th.

A day later in Saturday’s sla­ lom event, the women once again finished strongly as Marcoux led the way, finishing third. Cole and McDougall also repeated their top fifteen performances, finshing sev­ enth and ninth, respecdvely, while Erica Panet finished 14th.

Aftera numberof disappoint­ ing showings earlier this season, the women’s squad has exhibited the dominance that earned it pro­ vincial championships the last two seasons.

“The last two weekends, we were back to the way that we were

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The following day, the men again fared well, as Schindler led theway once more, finishing sixth, while John Roitier finshed an impressive 13thoverall, and Louis PhillipeBerti took 18th place.

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In the combined totals, which in­ cluded both the men’s and the women’sscores, the Laval Rouge et Or took home the top Quebec prize.

With the men returning most of their top skiers, and the women graduating only Sandra Cole and Martha McDougall, next year’s squad looks to be quite strong.

“We finished on a good note, with our performances the last two weeks. The whole team is able to enjoythesuccess of anyteammem­ ber, and it brings the whole team together,” said Marcoux. “We look forwardtocoming backstrongnext year.”

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